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THE OREGON DAILY TOUBNAt. PORTLAND. .THURSDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 7, 1912! t : i i THE JOURNAL '" -"" AM IXnEPKKDKNT KEWSrAPItn. ; 4r b. JACKKCN... .PuhlMM ....... Hauusri MJ" . .... - A S'MMIahml ery ewntng ...... u . Tlx Kri vi - ki, mid- in. 7th and Yamhill " J I . u i, . ii ib mw . . . r Hunilaj momma: fort laud tawtwt lit the pa.lffl St ff'ti?"dlji r UurolMduu tbrvuk the dmw IH.Kl'HOftKH w. Lln TITSl Hm, . All (V-iwrttutMi rch4 br tlwa 01"??! Tall l opwalor what department T" w""; aHiREUiN AHVKHT18IK( BK'REf'KkNIMh,!f' VSA rifik eno. New lor"! 1 Ua lltillilliHr. Mr-.o. atarliitoa Terms bf 0U Mr 4be VaitvA Utatee or aiuin. dailt; , OM tr......:.$VOO I One awnf. T ' SUNDAY."" t M rear., $2.60 On month. tT ' DAILY AND 8UNPAT, .1 .M .8 .45 . ,M :.'v 4n fnt. T.IK ( On month !. " 'Advice I Those who n It lcaet. John seldom welcome, eed lt most, like oliu.'ion. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT tIB' voters elected to retain the death penalty, and the con demned men at Salem are to 1a executed. Governor West 1 announces that he will carry out the j mandate of the ballot, and fpr that he Is tojw jippla,uded. "'"'Some other day. Oregon will abol 'Ibh hangings. It may be long years ( hence, but it Is a reform that will be adopted. California and Wisconsin have -' about, the same population. Cali- fornia has capital punishment, and 5VlseonsindoeiJDQt havfl lt... But In the three year period of 1908, 1909 ' and W10, California had six times as many murders as Wisconsin. More murders are committed In - capital - punishment states than in states that have abolished the death penalty. The percentage of Increase oftfiands of the legislature. We would .murders In capital punishment states Is greater er capita than in. states In which the death penalty has been abolished. , - In the four non-capltal-punUh- jnent states of Maine, Rhode Island, Michigan and Wisconsin in 1 9 1 0 the "ratio of murders was 66.1 per mll '.;. llort of population. The ratio, for ""capital punishment states for the same year was 145.2 per million. In; none of the states that have been without capital punishment for a considerable period could the ...... .death penalty be restored. The peo- pie are against It. They are con- vlnced that there is less murder TltEouTiriTianwfttt II. THeTtH ' i convinced by experience that it is Y" not hangings but convictions that "are effective in reducing homicides. ' Nobody wants hangings If they can be avoided. If lt can be demon- atrated, and lt. la being demon strated, that life Imprisonment is more effective than the deaLh pen alty, the vast majority of people will ultimately be tor abolishment of cap Jtal punishtoent. WO have 4usfc. re jected ; the ? reform because wj are not yet convinced. THE NORTHERN PACIFIC . FHERE seems to be general be lief that the railroads of the United States are preparing to present to the interstate com merce commission a strong request for permission to raise both fares -and freights. They will base their argument. on -the-dmMed -riseof -expenses of 'op- eratlon, on the demands of the op-1 rianvc. vu eeveiai roaus jur m- creased wages, on the public demand for Improved facilities and safe' guards for travel, and ,pn the re qnlrements for new roads or extcn- slon of existing roads, and, last ; remain under the new management. I uiar inspection, abatement of the .but LinwtJmPMonhe. Spiking in general terms it ls!8m0k4 nuisance, subways for rail diversion of capital which has been hardly a matter of Dubllc interest I.h. ...in. ...t- accustomed to Invest in railroad se curities into new and more profita ble fields. At this point the actual experi ences of a great railroad, traversing verai prosperous srates. manage ; " " T'i. i,, ""ur(Wendell Phillips- Garrison, Justin With Its mibhc. and handling an. m. i-r..... menso tonnage In freight and many . hundreds of thousands of passen gers. will be of marked Interest. ; The report of the Northern Pacific road for the year ending June 30, - 1912, Is just Issued. A Mileage operated Is slven as C031, a slight Increase over 1911. The ratio of operating expenses to total operating revenue was 60.16. show- lng a docrea?B of expenses over 1911 of 1.04 per cent. The earnings from freight carried were $43,793,521, nn increase of somewhat over 1 per cent. Passen ger faros, mails, express, excess bag gage and miscellaneous brought the revenue for persons and ! " , . " property carried on passenger trains . tn Ji79ft9is hinrr . . f v v, uv.nih U UUVI CUDD U L ! 1O.40 per cent from the previous f iJ'T'uul i year To operate this vast system 1416 locomotives, 1 1-6 1 passenger cars -WJ, 43,220 freight cars of air de nominations were required. Addi tions to rolling stock to be delivered this autumn consist" of io locomo tives, 13 'passenger refrigerator cars and 3520 freight cars. On new equipment $1,189,74 has boon apent this year, and in additions and. betterments $3,509,930.. . The story of new bridges and om- bankments, ot heavier rails, of from each state go to the countries double tracking, of new station which have made practical progress, buildings, of increased facilities ofito visit farmers In their homes, to all kinds, shows a never stopping j see the conditions of life and work volume of disbursements taken care of from the earnings of the system., The fall .of passenger, earnings of -4 1 .aS.WisttrtbtttetHo corapetlHon of the Chicago, Milwau kee it 'Bt. raui to Jlba equalising of the traffic between Portland, Taeo' ma and Seattle wltll the Great Northern and "th-O.-W, R. & N..! company. anJ to the crowing. itM.'ot;lai;nortWWlbanki.whIcl?:rt4U the automobile. ' ' . I lend money to the Ifarmera t But 1845,090 . was saved In cotit interest and for long1 terrna on mort of transporting s freight by the In-1 gage of their land. The loan money crease of the average tralnload from . In tJta case Is to be procured, by tho 461.45 tens to 510.54. ' 1 banks from the general public by la- Freight earnings were increased bythe transportation of 21,639 more cars of grain this year than last. Dividends on stock havo been maintained at the figure of the pre vious year. The outlook for business in the now current year is" excellent. Crops have nevor been hotter, and lumber and manufactured articles show marked increase of movement. BliATK.V T HE "majority rule" amendment is beaten. The returns are in complete, but there la no doubt that an overwhelming protest against tho measure has been mndo by the voters. It Is a fortunate thing, for the peo ple of Oregon that they resisted this stealthy attempt, to deprive them of the initiative. At one time there was grave danger that tho effort would succeed. tL It was p-oposed at the moment! when there Was an extraordinary number of measuros on the ballot, many of them complicated. This created dissatisfaction and led many voters to seriously favor the "ma jority rulo" measure. There was the additional peril that the title was deceptive. It pur ported to provide for "majority rule," and "majority rule" Is every where accepted as tho basis of self government. But, In reality, lt pro vided for minority rule, as the citi zens of Orogtn would have quickly ascertained If the program, had been adopted. If the measure had passed, we should have been once more In the have been forced to accept In law- making only what that body would I have been willing to concede to us, ' and all old time residents of Oregon know what that would, have meant. The Journal has been able to se cure a list of the members of the Majority Rule League. No list of be. ontlbutors of theg rca t sums of money spent In the campaign for the measure has been obtainable. Nor will lt be. That Is one of the secrets of the latest great campaign to destroy the initiative, and the I managers will see that it remains a secret. The list of members of the league Includes the agent of one of lhobTggesl; and "best known" corpor atlons In the United States. Meanwhile, there will bo other at tempts to deprive the people of the ppwer to make laws. The system is hated by powerful interests and pow erful men who Insist that all legis lation should be by proxy and that tho people are Incompetent. It will be a long time before the fight for the defense of the initiative will be finally won. KEW YORK INDEPENDENT r HE Independent announces this week that the well known weekly has changed owners, but not policy. The paper has a bistory of 64B m-esiding officer. years. It was founded in 1848 by:one department under Henry t.. uowen. e aiea in is7. ; The control passed then Into the i hands of his son, Clarence W. Bow - en- He now retires in favor of Hamilton TT611, a grandson of tire founder, who for tho past 10 years nas, Deen tne managing editor. Dr. William Hayes Ward, who has been 1 the masaalnn for years, continues in the position. The othet -members -of-tJte-editoHal laf t '. when a weekly paper in tula country changes hands. But tho Independent has a long list of distinguished men j who have served it during the 64 years now closed. ThOBe most fa- miliar are Henry Ward Beecher ,j McCarthy, Washington Gladden, I Maurice Thompson and Bliss Car - man. Many of the greatest writers and politicians of America bavo found In its columns expression for their thought. The tone of the political I discussions in the Independent hasjment, which Includes not only su ;been uniformly dignified and sane, i pervislon of the food of the city, and i iha viowa nf tha nnnni nn a vhnla .-fn-n.n.nnf .... . n.i-v,. . . 7"" " "hZI " During the campaign Just ended, the Independent has upheld the cause of President Taft, but Its ad- vocaey has never been acrimonious or bitter against either Colonel Uoos- evelt or Governor Wilson. .. L, (lv t ,,' .., ent, nveeK y weeit, to iore gr '....,, nrlMBh 0'iti especially to uruisn poatus, have ! kept its readers thoroughly Informed. ; t. j 7 , . its sober and serious columns havo been lightened every now and then by charming fiction, and well told tales of travel. HKLP1XG T1IK FARMERS HOW best to help the farmers to;rate of taxation was $2.54 In 190S; obtain the money they need to ,n the three years of eornmlssion gov put Into practice the lessons ;ernment the rate has been as fol- on jmproeu lunn.ng was the late Issue urged by President Taft. President TBft proposes that a visiting committee of two farmers under which they live. They are to get at the Inside working, of crod- lt societies and farmers' cooperative JkB, .--w --Ts Mail j "" L ' 'WL f f W '. Koucler loaning system in France, There are two suggested plans. One is that favorably considered by the American. Banker' association. That involves the csUblie'amcnt of suing Donas or aeDentures, to nave behlnd them the farm mortgagos and the collateral strength of the bank itself. ' A bank- of this kind ! In opera tion at Jollet,' Illinois, and appears to be a success. . ' It Is objected to this jplan that the Individual farmer will be at the mercy of the bank 'as to terms and conditions -of the loan. In the Ger man "A6rtculturai;"credItT)anks" the farmers In t certain district collect lvely compose the bank, they put the credit of their own farms behind the securities Issued and careful audit and inspection guarantees" honesty and care in the conduct of the busi ness., And, what profits are made belong to the shareholders In the bank. , ; 7" "7 .' .. The best way to help farmers Is to make this country free by throw ing off tho yoke of monopoly placed on them by trusts. It Is not money, but unbossed markets and free op portunity to buy agricultural neces saries at competitive prices that will render greatest service to the farm ers. The loan system may be a good thing in Its way, but It is only an in cident. Forcing farmers to sell In a free market and buy In an "owned" market is a moral and an economic crime. rni:-ELECTioN estimates T HE claims of rival candidates often shrivel under the wither ing influence of . the ballot. Pre-election estimates of strength, especially when made by candidates themselves, have a con firmed hr.blt of dwindling under the decimating exigencies of the polling booth, listen Most candidates refuse to to the advice of friends who tell them the naked truth. They prefer to listen to the siren voice of an imaginary popularity that fre quently fails to materialize. Portland has bad one example of sanity in the withdrawal of candi dates who listened to the representa tions of friends and retired from the race for the public welfare. That was the instance of two withdrawals In the Republican primaries last 'spring for the district attorneyship. llf the plan were more. frequently employed. occasjoiialbigattODabla' candidates who profit from a dl vtded opposition would fall of elec tion. OXE COMMISSION CITY P ORTLAND asks for .commission government, but doesn't get It, Memphis, with a population of 131,000, has just closed its third year under the commission plan. The commissioners have is sued the first number vt a mohthly report, which they expect to make a publication of great Interest to the taxpayers. From it the following facts are gathered. - There are -five commissioners of whom the mayor is one. He serves Each man has his special charge, but the responsibility of the commission is Joint In handling the 'affairg 0f the city. j The first. jiointmade la-tha.ln ; orauM nctivitv nt nil mninvu t.h 'the spirit of devotion to duty in'each denartment In specific progress of the past 4ygarrthe commission cites, reduced telephone charges and better -ser - tcg; 'TJferBtfe'elffaflefvlcenaTeg" ;wuh the -Chicago, Rock Island & ' Pacific railroad for a hew brldea across the Mississippi river, by which the city secured $50,000 in cash and free nassage for redestrlans and vehicle traffic, municipal baths, or- namental lighting of the chief streets, . .. . . cettitve rid of noles and wires in the 1 streets. j To tho foregoing may be added a , new garbage crematory handling fifty tons dily, and plans for a .second In the eastern part of the city. Also a vigorous health depart- "II"1"1. Tl children in matters of health .and hyglene and regular Inspection of the city echools and attention to : sickly children. Special care has jbcen given to the city hospitals also, and the immunizing of more than 3 0,000 by typhoid vaccination when an epidemic was threatened by the overflow of the great river, is re- ported. i wiiutiui niciii lulling ucvaiiB uu luo police force, the fire department, 4 . . I . I J.t.ll. . 1 and a new system of collecting taxes which Is reducing the previous cost of $18,000 a year to $7600, the ul timate financial result to the city of (nmmlnaion eovernment la this: Th low8( $1.75, -$1.D9, and this ,.car ji.sg; " r last OPTIMISM IV USANCE w HAT the country needs,," said Henry Clews, three days before election, is a gradual downward revis ion " of the tariff ' in a "manner rangement. ' . Again, "important chagges are unquestionably; coming in our political make-up, 'but they are likely to be gradual changes ' and not revolutionary upheavals." ; Further, "our own motxey market Is firm;. and likely to remain ao for soma, tlmoto come.",. 1 , ," .7 :. Mr., Clewa also says: . The most significant feature In our Industrial situation Is the continued ex traordinary activity of lrm and steel, the production of whtah la breaking all reoorda,. The railroad, 'continue tne principal buyers, having ' placed heavy ordere .for, rails and equipment, This demand . IS alrtoat certain to continue for aome time to eonif and many plants already: hve nrdora en hand whloh will keep them fully employed through out lSll. . , ' Lents has voted to become a part of the city family of Portland. - It Is an Increase of 8000 to 10,000 In the population of the city. Thej; district hoBIOWeHlccor'dedraii tha con veniences and advantages that were held out as a reason for annexation. Iowa and Kansas have Joined the Wilson column and Illinois ts . In doubt. But for the foreign-born yotera of. Chicago, niinoia would have been a Wilson state from the beginning.: , , The Mother. 7 . Prom the New York Globe. Jack Johnson has arrived, He was a auoeeaa In tbta eueceae worabipplng age. He had whipped the beet man the white race could pet up airainat him ind had become the world's champion. Fame took him to her ST"- Money poured Into his pockete. crowda lined the atreete to aee him pass by, in his fine now motor, as If he were president. He married a white woman and toured through Eu rope, lie bought a house and filled lt with furniture 1 luxe from the depart ment store. He fitted un a gorgeous saloon and called it tne Cafe de Cham pion. Ills muscles were strong. His name was great. His Influence power ful. He reigned after the manner of feudal barons In our strangely feudal civilisation. Then came a woman. Just a weak, unknown woman, with no bard muscles, no money and' no political pull. And she went out to meet this Goliath, She was a mother. The conflict was brief. In a few days the giant lay stunned, bleeding, wonder, lng what had struck him. His glory was departed. For he had encouraged a power more terrible than the whirl wind, fiercer than the volcano, more consuming than fire. He had encoun tered a mother. An outraged mother Is a thunderbolt. Of all the forces of nature hers is the most Irresistible. Bhe can drive a king from iilsllinna 8e can.-cut-th' dlan knot of graft and political in trigue. No institution can stand before her. The powers of this world, the dy. nasties of darknees, the gates of hell cannot prevail against her. She la the primeval force. The stare In their fight for her. She ia not afraid of ar mies, wild beasts nor prisons. In all the stirring events that are un rolled in the pages of the dally press none is more dramatic than this dul batbet-nmn-aiid.-tha LUtla Mother. Death of Vice Presidents. From the New York World. In the history of this country aeven vice presidents have died In office and only five presidents, of whom three fell at the hands of assassins. The fate that was Mr. Sherman's was that of Clinton, Gerry, King, Wilson, Hendricks and Ho bart. On the other hand, while Mr. Roose velt Is the only living ex-president, four ex-vlce presidents, including Mr. Roose velt, are still living. Levi P. Morton, who served with Harrison, Is 88. Adlal B. Stevenson, who served with Cleve land during his second term, is 77. Mr. Rooaevelt has just celebrated his fifty-fourth birthday. Charles W. Fair banks, Mr. Sherman's predecessor, Is SO. Mr. Sherman died relatively young, younger than any of the other vice presidents before him who died In office. Thomas A. Hendricks was 66 at the time of hia death, and Garret A. Hobart 6t. Clinton lived to be 73, Gerry to be 70, King to be (7 and Wilson to be 3. - The "Newer Education. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The available figures still show that about 90 per cent of the pupils of gram mar schools either never onter upon a high achool course, or, If they do, they fall to complete It. Yet primary In- Verr weU-Thapea:;-16wafa intrahbrin high achool. The fact that so few grad uates of grammar schools take up and finish the high school course Is, more to be regretted than the fact that' much less than one half of the high achool graduates elect to take aJ college; course. A high achool of good rank can educate any person to a point where the per son will be entirely capable of pro ceeding with his or her own education, except In some technical llnea which a great university should teach In prac tical ways. The Nation. From the Chicago Newe. Keeping the people of a great city in a relatively healthy condition Is not the simplest and easiest thing In the world. Although tha laws and rules of hygiene and sanitation require certain things to be done or not to ba done, they are commonly disregarded in com munities that do not take proper means to enforce them. That is why a de partment of health Is such a necessary part of tha municipal administration. Thnra seams to be no very satisfactory explanation, however, why so Important a branch of tho city government is near ly always hard up for funds, why so muoh difficulty Is experienced by public health officers In obtaining sufficient money to enforce rules of sanitation. Looking After the Interest. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The United States haa juet paid a Kansas man $3.10 due htm as a soldier since 1886. No Interest was paid on the money which the government haa been retaining for nearly half a cen tury. When wail eireei neipa me gov ernment in any way lt alwaye aafe guarda Itself bettert Shooting an Aviator.. From the New York World. Doubtless the most spectacular 'event in the history of aviation was the shpot lng of the airman Popoff by the Turks and the disablement of hla machine wlilla aloft over Adrlanople acouting for the Bulgarian forcea. But lb winging of the giant bird In mid air waa something mora than a spectacle.. It waa tha flrat practical demonstration': in actual war of the possibilities of defense against aero plane attack and aa such bears ao Im portant relation to tha development of military aviation. Army aquada have han trained In firing: at kites and other aertaMrtsrw"tw-Snghmd aj speila! gtxn haa been Invented for usa-m'this kind jof defense. Yet it waa by shrapnel from an ordi nary field cannon thai, the demolition df the Bulgarian aeroplane waa accom plished. 'The fai;t gives a hint of what may b don In rtpe'iring scouting and ' COMMEfJT 'AND 6ilALL CHANG B Roma day South Portland will get a bridge. -, : . . . -e" e ,'... t .j'Vi...,. Too many bond propositions, aay the p,;7,,-,; -.;;..l7:,,;77'7 77: Now lens polities' anl more buelneaa and improvement. , , s - ' ;:',). : Tha country la stltl afa, and as sane SS oould bo, expected, i .. f t i...... e.: a i Evidently tha people won't trust tha council, to. fix-salaries. ; v . , t ..; iy. ... Whan . Turkey Is whipped, tha war may ba only Just begun. ' i Why "Bulgara" Instead of "Bulga rlans"T But "Bulgars" la ahorter. . ,.;. ' e t ' The Greater Portland plans were In dorsed; now go ahead Vtth them, " . Some Of Ha professed friends are fha worst enemies of tha Oregon system. . v.- ' ' Representative Itawley haa long been the beneficiary, politically, of good luck. ' Tha Conservative oarty won lh Cuba. but Isn't that name a misnomer there f Too great and not sufficiently award ed municipal txpendltures, aay the vot ers. Tha three aeta of chairman claimed everything, of course, until tha polla closed. ; Among tha millions of apparently In telligent "auckers" are patrons of vsult clubs." The man who didn't vote haa no li cense to complain of what Is or is not done by officials. A laraa malorlty of Portland naonle doqbtlosa desire a commission form of government, yet lt seems that they can't-get' lt. -, Wa Americans are by no means per fect nolltloally. but it lan't Pharisa ical to ba thankful that wa are not as aome other peopie art. t The riverfront atreet amendment to the charter, adopted Saturday may .be cited as an instance proving that Ithe voters know a good thing whan they aea lt on a ballot, WONDERFUL WINGED VEHICLE The past summer has been tha reltia- tlon In France, after a lonir series of Kn entirely new system of mechanical traction, writes C. F. Bartellt In Les lie's. For some time attempts have been made to aolva the problem, of 'Wl.1 tralon," as It la .lediincallK. called, by which vehicles aro moved not by forco applied to turning tha wheels, but by a propeiior wormng in xne air, which puahea or pUIla the vehicles as In an aeroplane. These experiments .A n Yinthlnir lt belnv found that tha force generated was Insufficient to pro pel a solidly nunt auiomoDiie, ior m stance, at anything like a satisfactory rat a. hlu tha croDellor Itself was so large as to form a serious incumbrance. Things were at this stage wnen iu. FniippirrTrencrwvenwr, wnoTiai -no- iintaH foe ra tr t h atudv of aeronautics In general, came to the eoncluslmthatT exlstlng theories on tne action "i neu cal propellora were nU wrong and per fected what he calls his "rotative wing," which, although worked In the aame manner aa an ordinary propeller, is con bomb dropping aircraft with rifled guns of longer range specially adapted to the purpose. Gun Toting in Canada. From the Montreal Star. The wholesale confiscation of Illicit weapons in Montreal l a good begin nn. hut only a beginning, In a refor mation urgently needed. It is not enough to deprive tha potential muraerer occa sionally of his instrument of crime; there must be effective means to pre vent him from continually and easily renewing hla supply. The Toronto police have been conducting a vigorous cam paign against the carrying of offensive weapons by foreigners, and they claim that fewer weapons are now carried by the foreignera of the ueen uuy tnan wna tha case a year ago, been" assisted In'T&eTr campaign by "a new law passed by the Ontario legisla ture against the sale of offensive weapon, and by an enforcement of the requirement that a license must be ae cured for the carrying of a revolver. Crimea of violence have by no means ceased among the foreigners, but they tw8CTCT credit to these two Influences. ' Japan's Women's University. From tha Japanese-American Commer cial Weekly. President Naruse of the Japan Women's university of Toklo is now In America on his way to Europe. He Is a pioneer in tha field ot higher educa tlon for glrla In Japan. - ln-ltT&, the year In which-the-Smith college and Wellesley college were founded, a Japanese young man of 17 years of age spent a night at a hotel In Kobe. It happened that there was a party of men in the earns hotel spending the night In rlotoua orgiea with sake and gelaha girls. A verse of acripture, "Who can find a virtuous woman?" flashed upon hia mind and led him to make the great decision of his life. Ha said to himself: "Such debauchery and immorality must be the result of women's Ignorance, In efficiency and inability to perform their duties. As long as women connive at such abominable customs, how can this nation become great and this people happyT" These thoughts led him to re allaa tha Importance of women'e educa tion more forcibly than ever. He made up his mind o obey what seemed to him a heavenly call and devote himself to the higher education of women. That young man waa no other than Jlnza Naruse, now president of the Japan Women's university. The Puritan Sunday. From the Omaha World-Herald. The Puritan gunday was based upon the following passage or soripiura irom tha ten commandments: "Remember the Sabbath day to keep It holy. SI days ahalt thou labor and An all thv work.1 There have been tens of thousands of sermons preached on the first part of the command, but whoever heard a sermon 'preached' on the second part? If : tha text Is read In the same way that a statement is read in ivny othyr book, it will be seen that the greater emnliasla should be laid upon the lat ter nart. In the flret part It is said "remember," but In the latter part thi command ia "thou shalt." That being fha case, will 'It ba denied. that an un prejudiced reading of it would lead to tho belief that the emphasis ehould be ntred there? I -What would happen-lf thelmintster in soma fashionable church should take for his text the latter part, or tne com mandment and preach from the ; word: p'to-aVaafc diet eternal punishment , for everyone who. did not, Just aa they preach eternal punishment for those who do not "ret member the Kabbath day to keep it hOlyr1 ?-"VvirA-..:,,rV It Is the dividing up Of acripture and insisting on some' part while Ignoring tha tt of sentence or paragraph NEWS IN BRIEF y OltEGO.V SIDEUGIlTtt ' "'j; '"'' mmmmm.t y a'' j .; '''i Condon Tlmess . John MoIIargue raised 600 sacks of potatoes on a couple of acres of laud near Condon and sold tha crop thta waek .for $800, , . 7,.'" ii'i .,, V'i ;; ;., 1 Cottage' Grova Scntinolt George Bal ton bus made another record with a five pound carrot. He says ha could easily pick out 29 that would, aggregate (0 pouuda. -', 7 . . . . . .. e .;':' X-.:.. 'Ifcrmlaton Herald: There are many rumo,re afloat rrtrardlng tha west ex tensluu and the signing up of big hold ings. The only news that the people here want Is that construction haa bean ordered started at once. Puma News: In tha matter of land entries the past two weeks at the local land office, Catlow valley leads any other section of the district. And a fine olans of settlers It la getting. , The News-wishes thorn all succesa. . Kugene neglster: The postofflea In Kngene shows a marked increase In re ceipts for October ovr laat year's Octo ber. Tha pain has been about ,(3 per cent. LAat year tha reeelpta were 3tfis,09. and this year were . $4228.45, showing a. ,nt gain ot.,1$?7.0.-. s , e !. '' Coos Bay Harbor: A number of the Fubllc spirited people of Florence have orrr.ed a lieague of aociat" 1 lyglena, with a mambershlD fee of $6, The league will also devote Its attention to securing a lecture course and provid ing other educational features 1 for the, general publlo, . Lakf view Examiner: Oregon will aoon be producing large quaiitltiea of salt Development work on Hummer and Abert Jukes has been started and it Is expected to produce 400,000 tons per year of salt, potash and noda. There are said to ba 40,000,000 tons of salts in these lakea and a 40 yaar lease, has beau secured. ..V. Li.. Kilver Lake Leader: Georga Parker raised a lot of fine potatoes en bis ranch wist of t'own thla season. It has been claimed that potatoes would not f:row here, the contrary being eatab iahed. Nearly everyone has a fine gar den and all the grain be Tieeda, and some to tll. In all probability, some one will aoon discover that various klnda of troes wil grow and thrive In the valley If properly planted and cared tor. structed on entirely different principles, and with which, lt la claimed, the prob lem of aerial traction Is finally solved, it can ba applied, it appears, to the traction of any vehlcle those of the automobile type, sledges, bargee ami other rivt-r craft, vebiclca of a special 4wU4-4o travel -ovw the-desert-in re. glons where no system of transport has yet been possible, and with extra ordinary advantages over the present methods In every Inatance. The absolute practicability of the "rotative wing" aa regards automobile traction was conclusively demonstrated by a trial run, In July last, from Paris to Lyons distance of S48 miles In a single day, with 6nly hasty atopa for fresh petrol, made by Count Bertrand de Lesseps, on a machine designe!Lby,hlm-. self and fitted with the naw apparatus. Tha run was a brilliant success and toe time taken nine hours would have been far less but for the fact that by an oversight a very small petrol reser voir had been provided, which necessi tated an undue number of stops. The average speed was 80 miles an hour. that haa caused the numeroua aecta that are in existence, but that has only been half of the evil that has resulted. If aome minister in Omaha should an nounce that he was going topreach on that part of the text that declares "alx days shalt thou labor." , be would un doubtedly have a house full If th fact were generally advertised. The Rent Canker. From the New York World. An Investigation made by the Asso ciation for Improving the Condition of the Poor, into the clrcumstancea of 6780 dependent families, discloses that In 40 per cent of the cases the depends enee Is due to slcknesa, In 37 per cent to unemployment and In only 5 per cent to lnteiriPeranct LTha report la striking bftcauaa an minv Mfitrm... TVL ilY.?lmanystudanU of poverty and or-rlme insist that the larger part of poverty and nearly all of crime are due to the cause here held responsible for so small a percentage. One of the chief burdens of life for the poor In this city lsrentIhacaU culation of experts on sociological aub Jy.iliMLBgUnojra.lhan.10 per cant of income ahould ba apent for that pur. pose, nut it appeara that to obtain fair ly gooa living quarters ln New York the averag-workerhag-to payKouTTWffrwaa 1BtoW"al tbeatern of the 33 pes cent of his Income. This condi tlon of affairs impels the poor to over crowd their tenements and as a conse quence they violate sanitary lawa and Buffer through sickness mora than they gain by tha economy on rent Standards of living vary with the races. - Some of our Immigrant popula tion find comparative comfort in homes that to' one American born would ap pear destitute. It la therefore Impos sible to determine what income Is re quired to provide a healthful and well supplied living for a family. It Is clear, however, that in too many cases the earn ings of even the most Industrious and saving do not always equal It. ' . The Colonel and Hiram. From, the San Francisco Post That there will be open war and a merry one between tha Bull Moose and the Moose Calf Immediately after No vember 5 Is freely predicted by those who know the strained relations between the pair and. the facts are. at hand to back the prediction. It will be re membered that when : Hiram Johnaon visited Roosevelt In the hospital short ly after the colonel was wounded and Insisted that'he would carry out the campaign in place of the head of the ticket Rooaevelt roared in protest. Johnson's local Boswell who has been following him on the stumping tour re lates an Incident of the Madison Square Garden meeting which ahows that the Bull Moose la becortilng more and more irritated at the "butting ; in' of the Moose Calf. ' ' -, Thu3 speaka the Boa well: : . . "As Roosevelt stood, minute after mlnute.'bowlng to1 the crowd and signal ing In vain for silence, Johnson "fehouted" in his ear, aaking him to sit down untU the--tumuH-ceaed-- . . 'Sir,' Roosevelt shouted, "I'm not a dead, one yet!' " s Perhaps- Johnson cast a downward look at tha colonel's shoes as he gave this admonition and the longing in his glanca aerved 'to rouse the Ira of the coJonal. At any rata he gave Johnson about es strong a rebuff as was pos sible under . the circumstances. There have been many Incidents which indi cate that .the affection which exists be tween, Roosevelt and JohnsonHs ..not any stronger, ifc any rate, than that which, existed between Damon and When the final smash-up of the Ar mageddon campaign J announced both Johnson ajid Roosevelt .will find aome solace In saying, just exactly w,hat they think "rot i. each ther. Already there have been plMy of ktnta that each la prepared to blame tha defeat of tha Progressiva party upon tha other. 7 A Prediction Fulfilled Editorial In Tha Oregon Dally Journal, July 2S, 19H.- It la aa certain as things mortal can be that WoodroW . Wllaon will he the next president of the Vntted States. If there were no other reason, the same kind of a party split that put Lincoln Into tha White House In I860 will elect Wllaon in 1912. 1 77777.:.- Wilson has back of him .a party that la mors compact and united than ltliay been since 189. Opposed to blm Mr Taft with the Republican jmmliia tlon and Mr. Roosevelt with a third par ty nomination, ' 7 :i.,u .:.:7V':A:77; Nobody - knows In What ! proportion Taft and Roosevelt will dlvlda up. tlia Republican 'V6le'In"tha"Tarl6usBtafes, Neither will draw perceptibly from tha Democrats. -."" .'; On tha other hand, the fight between Taft and Rooaavalt haa disgusted thou sands of Republicans whQ.. will, turn X Wilson out of sheer contempt for tho situation. Other thousands . of La FoN letta Rcpubllcana will turn to - Wilson because he Is the only La Follette pro gressive .candidate, A ehanga of only 6 per cent of Taft.'s vote to Bryan In 1908 would hav given Ohio to tha Nebraakan. With Taft and Rooaevelt dividing tha ' Republican strength of thatBtataprobably into halves, Wilson la certain to carry Ohio, ' A change of only one-seventh, of one per cent of Tftft's vote to Bryan In Indiana In 1908 would' have, lost that state to Taft At the head of but a faction of the Republican party, there la not the slightest chance for .'either Taft or Roosevelt to carry Indiana ' Even In New York, where Bryan.. Js always weak, a change to him of only 11 per cent of tha Taft vote would have given him the electoral vote of tha Km plreatate In 1908, With Taft and Rooae velt both appealing for a halved Repub lican vote, "and with .Wilson certain to secure the principal portion of the great detachable vote, Wilson's victory,; io New York la already won. - A change to Mr. Bryan of 15 per cent of the Taft vote of Naw Jersey In 1901 would have thrown tha atata to the Ne, braakan. ' With the Tgft vote of 1901 spilt In tha middle, la 1912, nobody has any doubt that tha man who carried It for governor In 1910 will carry it againat a divided, dlarupted and denatf alliad ODDositlon nst Novtmhar. Fiii ! tha vote of: the four states of Ohio, Indiana, New York and New Jersey, in addition to tha states carried by Bryan In 1908, will give Wilson more than tha 261 electoral votes necessary for hfs election. ' y- Taft carried Missouri in 1908. A loss of one twenty-fifth of one per cent of tha Taft vote of that year will give the atate to Wilson in 1912. Nor Is it-at ail unlikely that Wilson wilt carry most of the great states that are ordinarily overwhelmingly Republican. 1 Tha change from the Taft vote neces sary to throw the electoral vote to Wilson In sOoh states Is surprisingly small. In Delaware lt is only ntne-hundredths of ona per cent, and In Illinois 14 per cent. In Iowa a change of 13 per cent Will throw tha atate to Wllaon, In Kan. jai 0 per ctDL in Alalne. 23. lQ-Manaa. chusetts 21, In Michigan 24, in Minne sota 22. In. Naw Hampuhlre 18, in North Dakota. 21, In Oregon 19, in California 20, In Connecticut 20, and in Idaho 15. Tha presidential primaries demon strated that Mr. Taft is a weak candi date. Even tha spectacular speaking Campaign Of a president and an. ax president, with the most dramatic stage settings ever seen, failed to bring out mora than half the Republican vote In the primaries, a fact demonstrating that neither- Taft nor Roosevelt was strong. Rooaevolt's bolt from the Chicago con vention, his refusat td allow hla dele-" gates to nominate anybody but himself, his rejection of tha plan of naming Hadley or any other compromise candi date, and his final withdrawal from tha Republican party, have' enormously weakened the hold of the Bull Moose candidate. on Republicans. There Is not the slightest chance to defeat Woodrow Wilson. .. Always iivGoodH umor BAILED RIGHT BY IT. Dark was the night, save for tha light tn atare; and the wa ran wtldr j The skipper stood on his bridge, and besldea him waa the boy (Note-Not the boy on the burning deck, but a other.) " "Here, my lad," a!dthe skipper, 'yoa iakaah-wheel.. I'll b 'back In a few minutes. Just you steer by that a tax ufl- there and you'll 4 11 -right. The boy did ao, and for a few mlnutea all waa well. Then, of course, he mud- I died thlnai. and Dfeeentlv the appointed boat Inatead of ahead. Then the lad raised his youthful voice and ahouted excitedly: "I say, sir, come and give ma another star. I've passed that one!" A FABULOUS AGE! From the Ladles' Home Journal. Spratta -Mlsa Elder is much older than I thought Hunker Impossible I Spratta Well, I asked her If aha J read Aesop's Fablea, and ahe eaUV'she read them when they first came out. DISCOURAGING. From Chicago Record-Herald. "What reason have you to thing, my daughter loves you?" t "She aays she is willing to make any sacrifice for ma." ' "That'a no algna aha loves .you," "What is lt, then?" . ''An Indication that she' rasy,- ----- HE GOT HER. From the Boston Transcript. Ardent Suitor I lay my fortune at your feet. u Fair Lady Your fortune! I didn't know you had one. Ardent SultorWell, It Isn't much of a fortune' hut it MlOook. large bealda those tiny feet. Pointed Paragraph Query: Is a bride self-poascssed after her father gives her away . ' . ' i-'i'i The more a man practices economy the less popular he will be. . j .' 7! GtVa us contentment and we care not whe invent perpetual ffi5Moni. The first time a young man falls in' lovalia doesn't Taoid on hia feet. ' ; ' When a man does talk sense at least half tho people don't recognise Jt. . . It's the same old story, leap year never did live UP to Its prospectus.!, A man who Is always complimenting a woman is an awful liar, and she kntfws It. BU11, aha believes him. When a woman finds herself the heaVj of the house the' first thing aha does Is to lnvest in a new hat for tha head. 1 ' V-,7'' 7 , Probably there la method In av laay man's madness. He may not" cars , to take chances of Injuring hia health by working between meal. iff- I'