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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. 1 SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 6 1912. i ! ! rpT tp t f -r TJ5 T A T J V W IXlixxi- C. . tCKSON. .PublliBe? FS2?UEZ '.Vkt 1 iBi7th sod Tiatffi. Portland or. Ent,i .t tn. Dctoffic tt Pc.rti.nd, or., for triB.miwion uruugb u coaa ! natier. iM,fcl-H0NF.8 M.hi T1T3-, Home. A-BOOU (umbers. All 0pirin)nti reacted By tnrao j th ofrtor whit department yon -nt. iouEiufi advertising HEPKESKNTATi ve. nenjmnln A Krutnor Co.. Brausmirk Buiurhf, 424 Flfln avenue. Sew Xors; 1218 People - Building. ( blcrn. -f SuBterlptloa terms bj mall or to u; addreaa la th United Bute or Mexico. h PAILY -Otttf er.... fj.no i on moora I -BO i 60NDAI. Om rer 12. .V) : On month f 23 DAILY AND SUNDAY. On rr..; $7.50 ' Out month f SS -a i I Avoid all singularity and af fectation. What la according to nature is best, while what is con trary to it is always distaste- ful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own. Collier. KILL THE LAW i t: HEY have found ifhe revolver with which Harry Barr, the chauffeur, was killed. There is a manufacturer's number on . V the weapon, and the new Portland revolver ordinance requires a record to be kept of such numbers and of the person to whom the weapon Is - sold. - - With such a record, there might have been a key to the myBtery of "who shot Earr. At least somebody would have to do some tall explaln tag" to escape responsibility for the Srirne. -; .' Cut Ihe revolver ordinance Is not operative. The courts have Issued a restraining order for the purpose of determining its validity. - As long as the restraining order remains in effect, It will help mur . derers who have done their work to escape fletection. As long as ordi nances; and laws regulating sale of revolver? are kept Inoperative, there will be protection," asylum and Im munity for the assassins. By all means, have the courts nul lify' the revolver ordinance. If It cannot be set aside on one techni cality, employ another. - ?$f,taing; must be done to Interfere with the unrestricted sale of revol vers. Nothing must be done to lessen the - profits of pistol sellers. Nothing 'must be done to check . the operations of gunmen. Nothing must be done to hamper . those who lie In wait and shoot peo - pie down on a lonely road. glnee the revolver Is only made for the purpose of killing people, we must not do anything to Interfere With Its usefulness. 'A MULTITUDE OF DOCTORS rfE' disease 'Is the Men" C03t of ouiicicio ojo me producer and the ultimate con sumer. As for the doctors their name Is legion. The most recent Is Hia Farmers' Society of Equity. The headquar ters Is fixed in Indianapolis. The remedy proposed Is a national mar keting system for farm crops. The proposition Is that all farm ers, everywhere in this nation, should enroll themselves in local associa tions, to be affiliated Into county as sociations, they into state associa tions. From the state associations the national association would be formed.. That all crop raisers should report to their local associations what they have for sale. That this Information should pass by the asso ciations named Into the national of fice and be there tabulated. That the Belling of the entire volume should be entrusted to the officers of this national body, buyers being produced by the natural attraction of there being so much to sell. It Is as sumed that prices would so adjust themselves that by a series of tele graphic messages from headquarters trt Indianapolis, reaching the local as sociations through the state, county and district bodies, sales would re sult and that grat savings to the farmer would be realized. Much Is being said and written about farmers' cooperation. It looks as if the Farmers' Society of Equity had taken this much abused word and bolted with it. RUSSIAN TROUBLES JI HE Russian nnvv 1ms of late yfrars been the storm center in that much governed and stern ly repressed empire. Ever since the Japanese war there were at tempts, more or less successful, on the part of the crew g of several war ships to capture and escape with their ships. Within the past few weeks martial law has been proclaimed both at Se vastopol and at Kronstadt, that is in the Black sea and the Baltic, on ac count of reported unrest In the navy. H Is said that both among tho sail ors and the soldiers revolutionary literature is nemg circulated, at the commercialized vice and criminality risk of men's lives. in whlch eminent men In tho com- RUBsian discipline has been al-1 m unity are secret partners by reason ways brutal, especially to tho rank I of the profits and- dividends thev and file, while the Japanese war dis-l take in rentals from the unlawful elbsed craft and theft running riot j business. These houses rented to among the commissaries and con- lawlessness by our foremost citizens tractors. ure places in which our daughters Frequent reports of strikes and la- are snared and our boys, in their bor troubles in many parts of the! teens dragged Into bad company and empire leak through the veil of een-.then Into court trials and the peni- wmiup. uui internal irouDies have , MTcr been allowed to stop the course Of Russian diplomacy. Tn spite of tho feeble opposltfon'of - ' tutttTW fwislsntvanf! with thrtSFPnt,"' If not the connivancy of he British roreiKO ornce, Russia is solidly es UWUhad. anorthera Persia. ,Rus- Uian financiers and their agents are pushing preparations for therall - j road which may land Russian armies on the Persian gulf and at the gate of India. " Russia la strong enoueh. wldJ the al4 of Japan, to '.block every attempt or the Chinese republic to j obtain unham!ered loans from non- 1 political banks, and to hold the - young republic in a constant condl- , tfon of snsnrns. and therefor, of , feebleness. Meanwhile the Russian ' srip on Manchuria and Mongolia is being lightened. The reason why may be Judged from that recent report of the Amer ican consul at Harbin that the fer tile lands of Manchuria, If properly settled and farmed, are wide enough and rich enough to raise grain to feed the world. WHY UK FOOLISH? T HE larger interest In the presi dential election will give the unfit legislative candidate his opportunity. Under the stress of more absorbing Issues he may be able to slip in unchallenged. The legislature of Oregon exercises very large powers. Its trusteeship for the people Is of enormous "con sequence. The body exercises the power of making laws f6r government 6f the people. The crudeness, and impo tehcy of many of our laws is example of how Inefficiently this trusteeship has been discharged. The legislature exercises the power of taxing $890,000,000 of Oregon property. It exercises the power of spending $5,000,000 and upwards of the people's money. Looking over the candidates In all the parties, how many . of .them In point of capacity, mentality and mor al standard, are flve-mlllion-dollar men? Looking Into their records, ""how many of them are there that a pru dent private citizen would want to entrust with the expenditure of $5, 000.000? .. How many of them are there, that a prudent business man would want to entrust with the expenditure of $1,000,000, or $100,000, or even $1000? We have long overlooked the Im portance of the legislature. We have fallen lto' tli Tiabit of, "cussing" It after thersesslon, only to elect the same kind of a gang to the next ses sion. In all our numerous public follies, one of our supremest faults is the Inattention and incompetency we have displayed in electing mem bers of the legislature. We should do differently. We should, not pay the slightest atten tion to a party brand. There is not the slightest occasion for politics In the legislature. Statement One made the Oregon legislature a non-partisan body so far as actual results are concerned. Wfl should not nnv th ftJI'htpnt nt- tehtion to the .-elltterine Dromifips iuul nil" yeHiiui iiuuuuiuu pruiiiui- gates when he becomes a legislative candidate. Such promises are not worth the paper on which they are written, they are only made to get in on. It is the public record and the pri vate record that counts. It Is com mon sense and the fitness as to hon esty and business capacity that should be made the acid test. Why elect a slx-bft man to a flve-mlllion-dollar job? Why continue to be foolish? MR. LOGAN'S SI'Emi J OHN F. LOO AN says the news papers misquoted him respect ing his vice speech. In explanation he say's: "You may say that I approve the efforts of Governor West to better conditions. I think he ought to keep Mr. Esterly in the field In Portland. I think, however, that the situation has been over stated to the governor. I do not think Portland is any worse as to vice and crime than is the average city of its slr.e, and I think it harm ful to the cily to exaggerate the facts before the world." Mr. Logan is entirely right in his Insistence that Portland is no worno than the average city. Many cities are very much worse. Some cities are a great deal better. Los Angeles Is far better regulated ns to tho liquor traffic. It has but 200 saloons In a population of more than 300,000. Its moral conditions are on a much higher level than Portland's. But San Francisco Is far worse than either. It has conditions beside which conditions In Portland nve comparatively clean. Yet Portland Is bad enough. Wo have seventeen-year-old boys in Jail for murder. We have a boy of eight een serving out a ten years' sentence in the penitentiary for being a mur derous highwayman. Wo have tho spectacle of a captain of police against whom various bawdy house keepers make the chargo that he used his official authority to extort monpy from them. Wo have an organized "system" of tentlary. As Mr. Logan says, and as tho I vice commission In its report savn Portland is not worse than th v. erflg rrrftnt-TroTtfieT-Ta-rf'-cTdSc" his eyes to the facj that Portland can be Improved. No father can deny the fact that no place can be made too wholesome ;asd ;lea.for his sons and daughters to be reared In. NOBODY KNOWS I F there were no other reason, com mission government should be adopted In Portland because it Is opposed by those who live by pol itics. If there were no other reason, It, should be adopted because it brings him accountable to the people for hia acts. . ; If there were no other reason. It should be adopted because It short ens the ballot and focuses the lime light effectively on those who ask for office. If there were no other reason, It should bo adopted because it would be deliverance from the present me nagerie government, and conditions could not possibly be made worse by the change. Any one of the foregoing reasons is sufficient to definitely convince any average citizen that the system should be put into effect in this city. Under the present system, nobody knows anything about what Is going dn behind the scenes. In the city council, one member frequently charges another with trea son to the interests of the -city. No body knows how many of these charges are true, or how many un true. 1 On the outside, citizens charge the city administration with inefficiency and others deny It. Nobody knows anything about how far the mayor, for Instance, Is responsible for con ditions, because his hands are more or less tied by the council, the coun cil Is more or less tied by boards, and all are tied by each other. Nobody knows where to fix the blame for Inefficiency. Nobody knows whom to hold accountable for Incapacity? Nobody knows anything. About all we know Is that we are governed, but we don't know how we 'are governed. We know that taxes are Inordinately high, but we don't know why they are high, or whom to blame for making them high. From It all, we ought to know that we cannot possibly blunder In mak ing a change. A CRIMINAL BUREAU T HE Organization of a bureau for the detection of criminals In Oregon, Washington and Brit ish Columbia Is proposed. It would keep an accurate record for identification of all criminals In the west. It would establish a bu reau at which thumb prints, photo graphs and descriptions wtfuld be al ways available. Why not? Why not card Index every crook and every Buspect so completely and make the relation be tween crook catchers so Intimate that the system of detection would be a daily and hourly dragnet? There Is a wide division line ' be tween tho underworld and the upper world of society. The crooks are only a comparatively small percent age. Decent people are In a huge majority, and the task of keeping surveillance over the indecent Is not very great. Germany knows the movements every day of every crook and every suspected man. So do other Eu ropean nations. A Btranger there Is regarded as doubtful and fit for ob serving until his respectability is established. A main trouble In the United States is that we don't catch the man killers. They do their work and get away. We sleuth around the mur- der scene, look wise at the tracks' and blood marks, but mostly let the I deed finally pans on as one of the unexplained mysteries. We have a Ions list of them here In Portland, and It ia a multiplying list. Remembering that we finally cap ture and convict less than one and one half per cent of our murderers, It seems time for a criminal bureau that will l) a criminal bureau. A HKiH CARD IN HHIPS A Sl'PKR - DKEADNAUGHT 700 feet Iouk, of 30.000 tons dis placement, 29 knots speed, armed with 11 Inch Runs, la tho last card that the British admi ralty plajs in the game with Ger many. Tho design of this monster ship has been accepted and construc tion la to begin in November. The fii nines are to be high power geared turbines. No doubt her decks will be spe cially strengthened to resist the at- uicKs ol me ,'ppinn war dirigibles, and she will be fitted with batteries of ions distance, and sky-rancinK now-I of tnrpurh hf-r ndvoranrfpa In tbo (. i T, . , ,.,, , , The old competition between guns ami armor plates will take a fresh start, under the hew conditions. In-1 Kcnuity and science in Germany and England will be sot to work without from fire. With an alley no unsightly ! k1'18 w,' ftr not th Products mod niiusH to devise new mpthnda nf otJniia ftf wood or anvthln alaa in f.nt rn scientific eurenb-s The kids wore -..j .!- .i.i-u . - i men mm uoiriRV nuun Hllgril iar better be devoted to constructive not destructive ends. The Issue Is fast approaching be-! tween the peoples and the military classes in each of them. UnlesB the peoples themselves, who are the uni versal snfforer, take a hand the mad race of armament will continue. DECLARING FOR FREEDOM T HE great political conflict with in the Democratic party to throw off Murphy domination In New York politic was born of the encouragement given pure pol itics by the triumphant. .leadership of Woodrow Wilson". -r'6Yorrorta!a;deihahd,-ing tho overthrow of Murphy and the nomination of a Democratic candi date for governor who will do for New York TShat Wilson has done in delivering r.&llc affairs from boss domination In New Jersey. The World declares that' unless a Demo crat who measures up to the Wilson standard of progresslTlsm Is . nomi nated, it will oppose the state Demo cratic ticket in ths election. The action of the Baltimore con vention was a new declaration of po- t nal Tl 1 I- M I hope and everywhere made active the force8 of clean -government. Letter From the People (('ommutUcntlun -ttnt to The Journal for publlci tion In thii department ibould b written on , only one M of th paper, otild not Mced rfliio wardi In length n mint I eoompinied by th nam .-tm iddreM of -tb ender. it the writer duel not detlro to hire the nam publlibed, ha tbould to itatu. Graduated Tax. Portland, dr., Sept. 19. To the Ed itor of The Journal Opponents of Jus tice in. taxation criticise the graduated land value tax measure because they assure us that its provisions, can be evaded. Thn they proceed to show Its iniquity and unfairness and the awful havoc It will produce among the small home owners In city and country, All of which, as Alphonse says. Is much to laugh, yes. One way they assure us it can be evaded Is to split up a holding worth half a million by deeding to relatives, who will kindly hold the same until the time comes to make a bona fide sale. How many men with a holding In Port land worth $500,000, will trust 50 rela tives with 1 10,000 each?. Imagine the result! The measure prohibits the orig inal owner going .into court and making claim that the deeds were merely ''wash gales" to evade payment of taxes.' He would far better sell half and put the resulting capital Into Improvements that would not be taxed at all, and thus avoid any altercations wfth. nephews and nieces and half cousins over any little Indiscretions. And that Is what he would do. Another objection that Is solemnly produced Is that the big corporations would Immediately proceed to sell off their vast acreage In small holdings By all means let them. The sooner, the quicker Oregon will come Into her own. That Is Just what the measure Is pro- I posed for. That Is Just what the Cana dian Pacific In British Columbia Is do inggoing out of the land business. Let the S. P. do the aame. A good, strong hint to the wise like this exemption of improvements and a graduated tax on land values over $10,000 assessed to any one owner, is sufficient. The measure proposed also confis cates for the benefit of the school fund any lands deeded to a corporation for the purpose of evading the tax. This will effectually prevent the formation of fictitious companies to deed land to. None ot our tax dodging families and estates love our sohoois as well as that. Another loop hole that will be tight squeezing for Old Man Tight Wad Intent aZtoinfuMMto ih nn,,n?v e ?Ald 'i0.'0-? '".eACtrUntyJn h?l and specific tax. Imagine a man with a quarter block of shacks on Washlng- ton street assessed at 1320,000 for the land values alone, selling the same and , n. ,.,,.. -. i ,., . gallvantlng over Oregon looking for in- ..n.tnn.. i.. hi.. i..j . i vosiijiciua ill luia lauu uui w CAcetru and Just to equal 110,000 in each coun ty, keeping track of them, paying taxes on them, selling part or all of each whenever the assessor raised the valua tion on any one above $10,000. It would worry some of our Tight Wad family in sane to dodge taxes that hard. It would bo far cheaper and. would evade more taxr a - and lots of trouble -sidestepped Just to put up a good building Instead of the shacks and live happily ever after. No money to do it with? Well, friend, with taxes off all forms of im provements there will be plenty of money seeking investments. There is plenty In British Columbia. Might sell half and Improve the other half, and that Is Just what Is being done where Improvements are exempted from tax ation. ALFRED D. CRIDQH. The Political Parties. Vancouver, Wash., Sept. 20. To the Editor of The Journal I wish to cor rect an error about the third party which I notice every day. First there is the Republican party, which Is repre sented by an elephant with a long snout which Is often stuck in other people's affairs. Second comes the Democratic party, represented by a mule, which In noted as a chronic kicker. Third comes the Prohibition party, not represented by an anlmal- but clean. thoughtful mrn auu wiMiieii. ii in a pnriy ui mow but healthy growth and to be reckoned with In the coming election. Fourth comes thn Socialists. This is a party working for the Interests of the have nots and seems to grow fast with plen ty of opposition. Fifth comes Teddy, with a party represented by a Bull Moose. There doesn't seem to be any need for this fifth party only Teddy couldn't get a third term any other way. It's lucky ho took an animal that Is used to the cold, as It will not have the shelter of the White House. WILLIAM FRANKLIN. . Alleys in Cities. Portland, Sept. 20 To the Editor of The Journal The one great mistake the city fathers make Is In granting ad ditions to tho city, blocked off without "alleys." It Is Just as easy to keep an alley clean as the street in front of the residences, and much mure con venient In every way. Take the city of Kellwood for Instance, beautifully laid I out In blooks, fairly wide streets, but 1 no alloys. Land was oheap when the I city was mapped out and alleys should ' hnva been the one ereat essential for 1 convenience. Now, you will see stacks nf eordwood'plled In front of the houses : snd weything has to be unloaded onto j the sidewalks In front. Cnrdwnnd haa ! to be cut In the streets, making a mess and nuisance in tne rront or the dwell lings. With an alley there Is less danger , ,re too. as the house, cannot "butr I up against each other as they are built now- The raot lB- n0 lot "hould be less ! iha" 60 .by 100' a?d mor9 JC PS8lble' n.ii.i ). hr to mar th. (,,,,. i The grasp for wealth to make the most of an acre Is the cause of such Inconvenience, and tho laws of the state, In fact, should forbid It, Oregon is not so small but that It could afford alleys in all her towns and cities and the sanitary conditions would be Just as good as they are now. It j would be more to the credit of the courts 10 see inai sugn was the case in platting off an addition to any place and wide streets should be one great essential. Again we have avenues In plenty, but where aro tha trees on either side to give its full meaning? it ia no avenue without the trees; Just as well call it "stroet," or "lane." OB8KUVEIL Cap! till Punishment. Klamath Falls, 8pt. l.To the Ertl- ,tor.of The Journal Please let me ex-1 nluln why I think w how "ought in abolish capital punishment. At the various stages of human devel opment, various methods are necessary to raatr.irj tb ' lxuttlnot. Tha COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGS "Beware of experts," warns Dr. son. He's onto them. wn Most roadhouses seem determined to do as evil as oossible. For an Infant party, the Moosers are naving mucn trouble. '!.' Some men Who want tn tutV Inner loud and often are first to interfere with oiners tauc The W17 to rediioa tha tariff durU Is not to anpoint a powerless board, but Another thing for Portland to be proud of. Its Y. M. C. A. has the largest membership of any In the country. Free speech Is a sacred right, of course, but some street spouters make nuisances of themselves In exercising In the late Progressive party conven tion more than half the delegates were from Portland., an about iialf the coun ties were unrepresented. Assuming that the Democrats and Roosevelters are enemies, the former may cheefrully comply with the com mand, "Love your enemies." . Some one professes to have discovered that women's understanding Is increas ing; that Is, their feet , are growing larger. But some of them, even if this be true, won't buy larger shoes. Thousands of Oregon people were pleased to read that Mrs. Abigail Scott Dual way was able to attend and take an active part In a suffragist meeting and luncheon the other day. May she live to vote often. . . Many "old" maids and bachelors are so because of lack of ouDortunltv to be come acquainted; they are reserved, dlf- uaent, conventional and strangers to agreeable marriageable people, of the other sex. so drift Into confirmed bach elorhood. Why don't some of the many reformers advocate a publlo acquaint ance bureau for such peoplet SEVEN CLEVER BOOKS "La Rochefoucauld Maxims." Many of us are familiar with the 'maxims'' of La Rochefoucauld, jwhlle we know little of his life and the ex periences from which he drew his de ductions regarding the relations of life and the mind. He belonged to one of the proud old families of France and lived during parts of the reign of Louis XIII and of Louis XIV. The world was the school in which he was educated. He knew Cardinal Richelieu and watched the struggle for mastery between htm and Anne of Austria. He also knew Cardinal Mazarln and saw his policy after the death of Richelieu. When the political party called the fronde which waa the parliamentary t ......... JH ........ . .. . 1 . - "urt- L Rochefoucauld took up the cause of the fronde and drew Into It l the Duchess de Longuevllle, with whom he was In love. This movement of the 1 ,. V . n n n . ......... i fn ...... A U , ... . ry ,,' ,,,,, , . i k, ,-.,.,,. could only be written in burlesque , , verses. The ending of the struggle that this party made saw the end of the infatua tion the duchess had for La Rochefou cauld, in one ot the battles he was wounded In one eye and for a time lost his sight.. By the time he had recov ered this the duchess was lost to him, and he retired to his country estates for a period; In the rebound of his affections he met Mme. de le Fayette, a very bril liant literary woman, and they became deeply attached. For 20 years they en- method which Is most efficient for such ' purpose at ono stage became a draw back and hindrance to Justice at an other stage. Capital punishment has now in most of tha civilized countries , outlived Its usefulness and tends from j now on niore to protect and breed crlm I lnailty than to prevent and cure It. It ! makes the conviction of murderers much 1 more expensive than necessary and also more uncertain. The reason for this is the growing sentiment agalnBt capital pur.lshment. This sentiment Is a religion which will continue to grow, making it more and more difficult to select Jurors and also In many other ways more and more difficult to detect and convict the murderer as long as capital punishment ia the law. Nothing shows more conclusively the unfitness of capital punishment at this stage than the small percentage of mur derers sent to the gallows In those stat p.s wtilh still retuln It. Therefore it seems to me It Is now high time we adjust our law so It can be enforced with greater certainty. A life sentence to hard labor or to solitary confinement is a much greater punlsh rnent for the murderer. It Is more In accord with our present stage of con sciousness and therefore a better rem. . edy agait.st crime, i PAUL C. PAULSON. Odd Talcs Vouched for by Oregon Newspapers China Cuts Off Owa Bead. Btayton Mall; A very peculiar ac cident happened at the woolen mill Sat urday when a full grown China phens lint hen flew directly through a win dow pane, cutting off her head on the JaggC'l K'a and 'ailing on the inside of tho building several feet from the window, One of the workmen picked her up and searched for the pheasant's head and finally found it outside the building. The only way we can acoount for tne circumstance- is, that probably tha bird hart be. n making her net In the disused building and had come horn- to roost It will, be no roosting place for chickens from now'on as Mr. Wil bur will soon hava the machinery hum ming. Jtlds See rair ana Make Mouey. Sulem Capital Journal: It tni. s )',,',; county kids to break all recuiMs for enterprise, and they are ha.id-ralsei ot the common kind of which, thank God, there are still a great many, and their mother, who was pickings hops for a living at Kola, sunt them to the state fair. The oldest was 8 and the little girl was 6, with a bdy between the two. They wer given a free, ridi on tha rail road, got free admission to the fair, because they had not a cent of money betweon them. They picked up their own lunch about the fair grounds, and saw the whole show, took In the races from the top of tho fence and in the ?fternon mod some money on tho side, he oldest boy got a nickel for holding a man's horse. The man waa so pleased he bought the children admission to one of the side shows. Tho show was so rotten that the kids went out disgusted i and told the woman at the door that i they wanted tlielr money backu Khe I trave them SO cents, after some racelne. In which the noy neia nis own fiv crits abend thev atartP.i' tn ih tha &:3J train for Lola, when the Jour- uai eouor pieaea mom up in his motof- car and gave them a fra0 ride-to West Haleni, after pumping the story out of them. Who can match the thre kids from EolaT OREGON SIDELIGHTS for the past two years pastor of the i, neiens m. m. cnurcn, will go to cni cago, where he will enter the North' western University theological school tor a iw.p years course. a Terrebonne Oregonian: A warehouse for Terrebonne Is the next move in the development of this thriving .little Durg. The Farmers' union has taken the matter up and a committee Is now out soliciting stock subscriptions. - Union itepubHeanf joeepbr-Yorgason, who recently arrived from Bl-Horn, Wyoming, ha plans for the erection of an opera house. Union is sadly deficient in this respect, and a good building would encourage a better class or snows. Joseph Herald: Bill Scott, eight miles east of town, has a 10 acre field of rye on a dry hill that looks like a world beater. It will go more than four tons of hay to the acre, and most of it stands seven feet and four Inches high. Bandon Recorder: Work Is proceeding right along on the new Presbyterian church, and with a few weeks of good weather the building will be Inclosed and then it can be finished up with little difficulty,' even though the rainy season does set in. Gold Hill News: An experiment In Dpanut growing attemuted the present season by Charles Erlweln, has resulted so successfully (thRt he will plant an extensive patent next year to demon strate yet another, possibility of the Rogue river valley.. Mr. Erlweln cul tivated a single row this season, the planta oroduclnir peanuts of large size and excellent quality. ' a . Nehalem Enterprise: A log measur ing seven feet four Inches in diameter and 32 feet in length, scaling 10,000 board measure, was cut up at the Wheeler mill arid required nearly two days to dispose of, figuring In the breakdowns that resulted in handling the log owing to its great weight. It Is estimated that the weight was over 40.000 pounds. Joyed a high minded friendship and af faction.... ; Madame de la Fayette was guided by good principles. La Rochefoucauld had strong Intellectual force and much wisdom. She once said in regard to their mutual friendship: "He gave me mind and I reformed his heart" In the letters of Madame de Sevlgne, he speaks often of La Rochefoucauld and always with an Indorsement of his goodness, courage and sense. She said also that he had a tender heart. Mollere submitted his comedies to La Rochefoucauld for his approval of them; and among his other friends were the preachers Boileau and Bossuet, and the dramatlo poet Racine. He died In Bos suet's arms, after suffering 10 years with gout. Madame Sevlgne gave. In her letters, all the minute details of his Illness and death, His "Maxims and Moral Reflections" were written after he had seen and studied life. Voltaire said that this work had but one truth running through it, which was that self love is the mo tlve for everything. Dean Smith said, however, that there are two kinds of self love. One. that ot some men, which induces them to please others; that of some other men, which induces them to please them selves. There Is a worldly wisdom, a wit and a fund, of good sense In these maxims that make them good dally reading. They have also been largely drawn upon by prose writers and poetsl Next week Seven Imaginary Beings. Always in Good H umor GUIDING HER THROW ARIGHT, A man who, with his wife, is em ployed on a farm In Shropshire, says London Answers, recently found him self In a bad predicament when. In at tempting to evade the onslaughts of a savage dog, assistance came in the shape of bis wife. When the woman came up the dog fastened his teeth In the calf of her husband s leg and was holding on for dear life. Seizing a stone in the road, the wife was about to hurl It, when the husband, with wonderful presence of mind, shouted: "Mary Mary I Don't throw the stone at the dog. Throw It at me!" TOWN IMPROVEMENT. From Chappie's News Letter. "Kind sir," remurkod the husky hobo as he npproaehpd the leading citizen, "you have very likely heard of and are undoubtedly Interested In this wonder ful new plan for tho municipal beautify ing of cities but would you manifest your Interest In a substantial way?" "As how?" Inquired the leading citl ztn. "Would you, for Instance, contribute directly to the causer "I don't quite get you," was the re sponse. "Well, a dollar would buy me a ticket out Of town," responded the frowsy one. The Holy Men and the Hobble Skirt. Portland, 8opt. 19. To the Editor of Tho. Journal One preacher in a north western city has taken snap-srtots of exhibits on the streets and will illus trate lectures and sermons on modesty and morals. Another minister has voiced tha pro test of the woolen trade the hobble skirt has monopolized the space close round about and injured the market for other wear. A Catholic clergyman has entered his protest, and gone into detail somewhat upon what is safe and modeUt and proper for women to wear. Hut bless his holy soul, he Is not supposed to be looking at the women. A great governor of a great state has oflcially (?) Informed another great gov ernor that it is woman's dress that Inys the deuce with thn nnn' intentions. All of which is Interesting; however. It Is to be hoped that tha little short aniri win persist, ana thut our mothers and sisters and duughters and sweet hearts w'U refuse to go back to the bur den of yards and yards of superfluous wear. The hobble is pretty and sensible, let us pray that It persevere. The main prudes will become accustomed to It, then all danger will have parsed. It ia custom that regulutes our sense of mod esty and morals. Slmllla slmlllbus "rtifl ranier. L. D. R. The Crops. Don't get discouraged at soma losses, uiniimi ofcHUMQ or sin: Don t worry about bears, bulls Or bosse-- See the-cHp a-comlng lnl There'll always be same sorrow and trouble, But banish fear and doubt: Most evil Is but a colored bubble- See the crops a-turning out! Don't tntrid -tri Trtrrrt(rts a-sptetlnr, 4 ior iiurnor envy ana naie; - But Join Mother Earth In generous feel- ing Ths 'crops wers tievsr if . s"itt 3. P 'GovernmeotRegulation Is No t Freedom Says AVoodrow Wilson Columbus, Ohio, Sept 21. Memorial Hall would not hold all the people who wanted to bear Governor Wilson last night and he addressed ' an overflow meeting outside, afterward. Governor Harmon presided. Governor Wilson said in part: "Leaders of the. Republican party and of the third party have astonished the country by practically abandoning any serious attempt to meet the main Issues of tha campaign. The leaders of the third party at the outset declared that the real issue of the present con test was the high cost of living, but they have laid less and less emphasis upon that because they have seen they cannot seriously attack the question without attacking the question of tha tariff and trusts in a very different way from that In which tbey are ao tually approaching them. ...... frices have risen all over tne world. but much faster and very much higher in high-tariff countries, where monop oly was protected, than in low-tariff countries, where competition excluded monopoly. And the .chief cause ot high living in America is that the mar kets are controlled. "jno wonder, therefore, that the lead ers of the Republican and Progressiva parties are saying' less about high prices. They dare not, or will not, go straight at the issue of high prices. Government regulation will Bhleld mo nopoly as well as guide It and regu lation Is not freedom. Democrats Btlok to Guns. "The net result Is that both these parties have, to all Intents and pur poses, abandoned the central issues of the campaign. The Democrats alone are noia enougn ana rar-Bigntea enough to see that they must tackls frankly and directly this questlpn. They see as clearly as anyone else that business must In our day be done upon a great scale, but tbey know that there Is a size which Is natural and a stis which Is unnatual In business. "Monopoly Is always in tha lbnf run weak and Inefficient and the leaders of the Democratic party know perfeot ly well they are serving the business Interests of the country better, much more Intelligently, than the leaders of either of the other parties, - because they mean so to regulate competition and free the conditions of business in this country as to substitute the effi cient for the merely powerful. It Is futile to stand for the causes of our present wrongs and weakly propose to control and moderate the results, and yet that is all our opponents suggest. Backbone of the Vatlon. 'I wonder what regulation Is to ac complish for the workingmen through the instrumentality of those who havs been their most successful opponents. For. after all, the attitude of the gov ernment towards labor lies at the heart of almost everything that concerns us a n nation A rtftftnn mnv ha aaM tn consist of those who do its dally labor, and .America has always boasted that she was the home of free labor, that all were welcome to come to her shores nd partake of her unbounded oppor tunities. 'Shall we substitute for this dream and ambition of ours a regime under which great 'regulated monopolies shall 'be forever the chief patrons of labor? Shall we not, on the contrary, assist to set the laboring men free by placing them In a field of varied en terprise, controlled by no set of men, by no government, where they can look about for opportunity and find It, where an economic democracy will make them feel that they have a vital part in everything that affects the en terprise and the hope of the success of the nation?" Opposes Tariff Board. Before several hundred business men nt the Chamber of Cemmercs Governor Wilson said: "One of the most amazing fictions of our politics Is that the Democratlo party Is not Interested In the business ife of the United States. When you reflect that the Democrats of the United States comprise about half the popular tion. it Is Interesting 'hat half th population should 'be suspected of the desire to oommit commercial hara- karl." He opposed tha proposal of a board of experts to handle the tariff question. 'Conditions are constantly changing with the tariff, sometimes as often as every 24 hours," said the governor. "You cannot touch one tariff, sched ule without having incalculable results In other schedules. I suppose that when you deal with the woolen schedule for example, you supposed that was nil the woolen men wers Interested In. But the woolen men, If I may o red It what 1 have read In their reports, are almost as much interested in th chem- cal as in the woolen schedule. Bodies of experts to guide legislation have al ways bewn the machinery of one thing, and that Is delay." Po&terl Paragraphs Nailing a He won't always keep it down. livery man Is tha architect of his own misfortune. a In planning for the futura don't over look the present. A shoemaker's wife never thinks he Is too good to last. a a Give a man string enough and he'll construct his own tangle. a If a woman Is really fond of vooal muslo she seldom tries to sing. Let a famous doctor name a new dis ease ana it will soon uacoms iasn- lonablft. The absent are not always to blame. They may have had sense, enough to remain away. Ono of the things a woman can never understand Is why her hard-working usband is not enthusiastic about spend ing ills vacation with her folks. Varrnng to the Voters of Oregon The proposed amendment to the state constitution which will appear on the official ballot in November as "Nos. 308-9," If It carries,' will take away from thn people the right to govern them selves In taxation matters and return to the legislature and predatory ani private Interests the power to "regu late" -ami "arrange" taxation measures, the Inference tielng that the people aro not intellectually competent to pass upon such thlogs at the polls. Every voter who believes the people should rule and who believes "unequal taxation is robbery," and who further believes that the people at the ballot box should have the right to pass upon taxation messures before they become effectlvo, SilOUlU wifl .'v. wvw ..v, mm kIMIB yrV- vent the amendment from becoming tha "law. of Ors'on." C. 8. JACKSON. Portland, sept, jo, mi. V
