THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7. 1912. 4 THE JOURNAL v AN IN'OKf'KN'DKKT NEWSPAPER ..'. . JACkXOS. .tuhtlhor I'uliliclivd very arwrnlng (Mfept Sunday) nl e.-ry Kurnlnr morning it The Journal Build- luir, Till i4 l.ahlll ! , rortu.no, f. IChUjd . jrt the noatpfflre t Fwtland. Or.. f.ir itHDunUnluu Uirougli M) Walls ootrt , !UI iSriWStS Main Tl73 Boma, A.0M, Ail dppartiDnt reached bf " . ubr. 'JH lw orwo. bl dpnufrwnt ywi want. ItlltlClON ADVKKTI8J.N(J KfcPBKISICNl AllVfc )t.Juiln A kwitoor Co., Bruwwlr BW'"f . til nnti nm, Nw. Xotii Uu li . jUwi(Uluu Wiu I joilnr.la.iX Ifrfl1 In tue I mud butea r Utilcvi 0n yr. 13 oo Ont monib.., SUKPAX Out yrar... .12.00 I on mo"'" ,zo . DAILY SUNDAY t .- 0n raar..,i,...tT.M I On tmrnth I . - Thr ho will not be coun-, seled cannot be helped. If you do not" hear reason she wilt rap you on .the linucklee, Franklin. . A KOTAPUB OFFER SKNOCNCGMENT , from Wash, ington la that Secretary Fish er wilt set aside $50,000 of federal V funds - for survey of the Deschutes, provided the state of Oregon i will contribute an equal amount.' The data would he Inval uable for future reclamation proj ects and for securing to' the state the public use of the water powers in the river, . ' '''-' ' It is a plan of great possibilities. It is estimated in the report of the Oregon. Conservation Commission that 550,000 horse power can pe de veloped on the Deschutes by the con struction of fourteen dams. In. ad dition, there are several', hundred thousand 'horsepower that can be developed on the upper Deschutes In cidental to irrigation. ,r . . The horsepower In the stream 1b estimated to approximate if it does not equal the entire motive power now in use la the state and city of Now York, exclusive of that utilized in locomotives. The power going to waste in the Deschutes is capable of supplying electric lighting, ; electric power and traction to a huge popula tion in Oregon at a cost estimated as low as fS to $15 per horsepower per annum, .closely approximating the . cheap power of Norway and Sweden. It would impart unprecedented Im pulse to unprecedented development . The Deschutes has an average .runoff .ot about 5.000.000 acre feet of which It is eBtImate(rnethlrd can be ultimately utilized for irrt gatloo. It Is sufficient flow of water . to reclaim nearly 500,000 acres of arid land. The estimated cost of 'reclaiming the land is $30 to $60 per acre,' and to this land,, the water would s glv ;a i productive, value of $100 to $500 per acre. -J, T . ; The power of this river, klone to convert unoccupied soil, into thickly populated and"1 highly product areas is;.extraorainary. It glvtft the Btate an undeveloped resource of co lossal potentiality, i The Deschutes stores 'nearly : one third of .the unused water powers of Oregon,1 and the unused water powers of Oregon will produce an . electrical energy that would, require the burning of 36,000,000 tons of coal a year to duplicate, i Thus viewed, the Deschutes,-! the equivalent of the greatest coal field In the world. The coal fields become exhausted, but the Deschutes will flow on forever, It Is the whitepoal of the ages that will never lose its effectiveness, and that the pick and shovel of the miner can never ex- haust. - ; ;. The offer of. the federal ' govern- .. ment to Join . In accurately deter mining the possibilities of the river no that its potentialities can be util ized for1 the welfare of Oregon, is a notable act Its offer of assistance ' in bringing the stored powers of the Deschutes , into utilization should leave no question of what is to be Oregon's attitude In response! It la one of, the most notable proj ects that has been conceived in the whole history of Oregon. CARNEGIE'S BLUNDER R. CARNEGIE blundered when he proposed to pension ex presidents. The plan has en cedntered almost universal - resentment. . ! ' ' it would be better for Mr. . Car . negie to pension the poor. If hj spent all his great wealth in that be , . . half there would bUH be an Rrmy of poverty. He could succor the Kick. He could feed the hungry. .He could clothe the naked. He could supply , the destitute. Ho could relieve the Indigent old. Ho could give bread to the starving and asylum to the . , weary. . . There are millions who need more lhan do ex-presldents. There should .be no worry about presidents In re tirement.4 It is the glory of the re ; public .'that" one can rise up from the ' masses, rule for a period and return .' to democratic lire. It is a mark of liberty 'hcn the man who has been ; chief magistrate comes back to his , , kind and. Bis kindred. There Is no prouder distinction than to be a plain American citizen. This Is no country for badge or in eignla.' ; The 'history and traditions of the American ' Revolution and k what preceded it. make all ranks and? stations . look alike , in .these United States. It is not ex-presidenU, but our in digent old,, and - our down-and-outs, . JLhAtaeed pensions, ..Ki-preaideaU tire full of honor, and, If necassary, iK'h in earning power. Mr. Taft is vot'th $200,000 and is an excellent lawyer, ' Mr. Roosevelt was -born in luvurv end has nfver known; what It uvitt to work for a living. Jet- ferson, Madison and Jackson in tbolr time gave us beautiful examples of chief magistrate back to democratic living. ' r v;- ' ' ' . V .v.: '." V ' -:' . :,: i ' Mr, Carnegie's pension schemes for ex-presidents and others are sug cestlve. Whyjlld he not share more freeljr of hisiifcpiflts with those who worked for bit when he was In ac Uve industry? Why did he not di vide more fairly with those whose toll made his wealth? ! Had be done that, he would not be so vexed now with problems of how to pension .away his surplus wealth. If all brigadiers or industry ma the same, the Republic would be less troubled with Issues of class, caste, plutocracy and privilege. FOUL CONSPIRACY IT HAT , painful thoughts must obtrude' themselves upon George W. Perkins," to be told that he is not wanted in the Bull Moose party! . Who are the wicked trouble makers In this radical Bull Moose Junta that insist that Mr. Perkins Is unfit, to fight in the Lord's army? Who but Mr.: Perkins dug up the "simoleons" for the war chests at Armageddon? Who lubricated the machinery and provided 1 everything needful in the commissary depart ment? Who but Mr, PorkJns went dowla in his Jeans for $122,500 to help finance the primary campaign, which ended in that infamous rob bery at Chicago? What base ingrat itude to take Mr. Perkins' hard earned money, money that was as welcome In the campaign as the flowers In May, and then kick htm out of the party? '.-';-r.T,, ''-v. Can this be the wicked work of Tim Woodruff? Is Dan Hapna or Frank Munsey behind this foul con spiracy ?" Is Bill Flinn back of this vile plot to hap contumely on the name of a tried and valorous Bull Mooser? .' Any man T.ho says George Perkins is unworthy is a malicious malefac tor, a malignant liar, a hypocrite, a mollycoddle, a highwayman, a pick pocket, a thief, a despoller of homes, a nature faker, a scoundrel and a Jackass. THE DIFFERENCE I N TEXAS, after seven trials, ex tending through eight years, a negro has -been ordered to the gallows for execution. There were six appeals in the case, hnosTrrf them on omissions or wrong use of words, a fact illustrating the formalism and legal verbosity of American Jurisprudence. In the Liv ing Church, Clinton Rogers Wood ruff gives a comparison of American and English legal forms in a breach of promise case. The American form runs thus: Date and place, etc. . "A. B. being thou aole and unmarried. In consideration that the plaintiff .(then also aole and unmarried) at the special insistence and request of the said de fendant that she would marry end take to husband the said defendant when thereunto requested; her the said de fendant then and there forthwith prom ised the said plaintiff that he would marry and take her to wife when there unto requested: and although the said plaintiff, confiding- in the aforesaid promise of the said defendant, hath al ways from thence hitherto refused to marry or contract matrimony with any other man whatsoever, and still remains sole and unmarried; and always from the time of making said promise was ready and willing and offered to marry and take to husband" the said defendant; vis., on ..at the said yet the said defendant not regarding his said promise but contriving to, de ceive and defraud the said plaintiff tn these particulars and totally to hinder her from the preferment and good for tune she would have met wllbby such marriage hath not taken her, the said plaintiff to wife, though the said de fendant afterwards, to wit on the....... and often before and after' that time hath been thereto requested by the said plaintiff. But the said defendant hath always hitherto refused so to do. To the damage of the plaintiff $$0,000 as paid in her writ of. Where fore she sues." The English fo:-m runs thus: Date, place, names of parties. "December 27, 190S, defendant verbal ly promised to marry plaintiff. Au gust 8. 1907, he married another woman. Plaintiff claims 1000 pounds damages." The English are famed for the ef ficiency of their legal processes. Their courts are marvels of celerity and effectiveness. The contrast be tween their legal forms and ours shows why they are efficient and our jurisprudence Inefficient. No wonder Governor Eberhard of Minnesota lias proposed the abolish ment of all courts of appeal. TRAIN WRECKS 0 NE of the less advertised func tions of the Interstate Com merce Commission is to thor oughly Investigate the causes of train accidents, and for this an expert staff of physicists and en gineers is maintained. Dr. Howard, the engineer physicist of the department of Commerce and Labor, reported, under the instruc tions of the Commission on the Hyde Park accident on the New York Central on March 13, last This ex pert of national reputation then called attention to the fact that there are no approved data to de termine the stress on rails and other track structures setup by the enor mously heavy modern locomotives and trains moving at high speed. It is not certainly known what margin of strength exists in the track to re sist tlw impact of the moving train. The weight and speed of trains have been enormously increased, without corresponding Increase in' resisting strength of rails, bridges, and other traek -gtmetuicB. " 1 Chief Inspector Belnap of the Commerce Commission, and Dr. Howard, have been detailed to In vestigate the causes of the wreck of the. Cincinnati express. on the Penn sylvania road at Glelt Loch, Penn- w Vlvania, two weeks ago,; when four persons were ( killed and ' fifty in Jured. They are instructed to re port whether or not, in theJr.opln: ion, any portion of the, track etruc- ture failed because of inherent weak ness, or If the accident resulted from over-strain caused by excessive speed of an enormously heavy locomotive and train. The number of serious and often fatal accidents recently occurring makes this Investigation of national importance. -Obviously, block sig nals, automatic stops, and perfectly nialrifalhea' tra'ckVand all "ojther usual precautions, avail toothing against In herent weakness of the, rails, or other track structures. It may well be that special tests of the steel from which the rails are made will be required In the near future so that a standard of strength ana" ten acity of material "may be maintained. LET THE MAlOIt LEAD WE ARE told that Mayor Rush light will lead in the submission In June of an- other commission govern ment rilan. v: ' . ! What fitter thing could the mayor do? He was nominated and elected mayor on-his pledge of loyalty to commission, government. ' After a year and a half of Mr. Rushlight at the city hall, we are still under pie nagerie government. . , It Is true that we had. a vote. But it was a vote on two charters. Whether so Intended or not, the two charters split the commission forces and beat both. As fruit, we had a majority of nearly 3000 for commis sion government but no commission government. In the campaign, Mayor RuBhlight made no speech, calling upon the people to support either of the char ters. He gave out no interview de claring for commission government With the prestige of his office to aid him, and with experience as mayor to back him, public support by the mayor of the official charter would probably have passed It. j But the mayor was not visible on the earthworks at fighting time. No brigadier, captain or even a Bword bearer in the official family of the city was one hundredth part as en thusiastic for commission govern ment as when asking office in the city campaign of 1911. Everybody was for commission government then. Every candidate avowed his longing for it. Some almost seemed to be dying for It. But ever Bince, they have all been as still as mice. In fact, it was by act of one who was then a candidate that two charters were submitted and commission gov ernment beaten. If Mayor Rushlight secures sub mission of a single charter during his term of office, he will convince his constituents that he was sincere when during his campaign for elec tion, he pledged himself to commis sion government, CALIFORNIA TO LEAD rALIFORNIA has one automobile for every 28 inhabitants. New Vj York has one for every 89. California has four fifths as many autos as has New York. New York has four times as many inhab itants as has California. ' Within a comparatively short time, Californlans will be using more autos than will the New Yorkers. The past year, forty per cent more new machines were registered in Cali fornia than In New York. New York now has more autos In use than has any other state, but It Isicertaln that she will have ultimately to yield the broom to the Californlans. California's record of one machine for every 28 inhabitants is remark able.' It is partly due to the fact that the state has excellent roads and that they are all-year-round roads. It is otherwise due to the further fact that California Is a state worth while. It is a commonwealth of progress, It has wldetwake peo ple. It is utilizing every resource, and It has many and most varied re sources. Its annual Output of pro duced wealth U very great Unlike New York, California has no armies of garment workers, blast furnace and steel-mill hands, coal miners, coke workers and kindred toilers, whose lives' are not a dream of automobiles but a problem of sur vival. ROBBING THE CRADLE CHILDREN of four work In New York canning factories, Wo men work there fifteen or six teen hours a day. Groups of women with young "children and with babies in carriages, go to work at 3 a. m. Sleepy, weeping children are beat en by their parents to keep them at their tasks. Some of the women work -119 hours a week. The em ploying cannerg say they cannot af ford to do business on a baais of nine or ten hours a day. The statements were In the testi mony before the Factory Investigat ing Commission at Albany, New York. The revelations have shocked the country. .'"'"', . The state of New York cannot af ford to rob Its cradles. The repub lic of the United States cannot afford to have its babies of four, or five, or six or ten working in factories. The life conditions must not be such that whole families muBt toil unlimited hours In order to survive. We had the same thing In the mills arL-aOTcerMasaehtfBettx6Trar life standards equally low among the mill bands Mn the Steel works at Pittsburg. It is a descent on Ameri can soil to the pauper labor levels of Europe. For more than 100 years; we have been taxing ourselves on the theory that the , tariff benefited, American labor. . N.o greater myth ever so long deceived an enlightened people, Car negje" Is worried about , how to dis pose of the surplus weaith he wrung out of the toll of the degraded mill hands at Pittsburg. Why are the babies in the can nerles InNew York? i Why are whole families . tied to machines In the woolen and cotton mil's at Law rence? v Why are the mill hands in the ' Carnegie steel works ' toiling twelve hours a day seven days In the week the whole year through?; It c la sworn ; testimony that the Steel trust piled up profits or $1, 100,146,093 In only nine : years. What other explanation Is necesfary? It la the monumental fraud of his tory. It Is the gigantic myth of the age. The tariff as a supposed bene fit to American labor is the colossal hypocrisy of all time. ,;: ; ly.J't Woodrow Wilson Is right. . The people should be taken into the part nership. We Bhould no longer pil lage the home and rob the: cradle. (Oommunlntlntu tent - to . The Joonwl fflf publication in tbli deprtmmt nbould be writ ten on only dn !! of tb paper, ibould nut eiofd aoo word la length iud mutt be ae companieJ br the nrinie 'and ldres of tb wilder, if )h writer dor not dolrt to h Ui uatn published,, he should pa state.) ' Women Trained for Ci tlzenship. Portland, Dec. 6. To the Editor of The Journal Noting the universal com. ment, with its undercurrent of surprise, on the Intelligent end ready assump tion of the requirements of citlienshlp by the women of Oregon; I haye won dered if the masculine editors realUud that this high standard owed a greet deal of Its excellence to the long pre limlnary training the great body of women had secured through active par ticipation in fraternal benefit orders. Giving all due allowance of credit to the women's clubs and social orders, in fraternal benefit orders women, for the past 25 years, have had a training which has combined the purely theo rectlo and abstract training of the club, and the ornamental features of the purely social order, with a practical and business education in conducting and promoting the affairs of fratern al benefit orders, whoas financial transactions run Into millions of dol lars, and whose, philanthropic and fra ternal activities touch hundreds of thousands of homes of the common peo ple. And, In addition, these fraternal bene fit orders, being a miniature edition of our national representative government, with their legislative bodies. comnoseJ 'of representatives elected from the gen- rai memoersnip, have given hundredu ef women a training in practical poll tics, and legislative activity as thorough, on a small scale, as men have had in practical civil life. If it were possible to take a census, I believe it would be discovered th,.t the best posted, best equipped, best poised of our new citizens in Oregon, Washington, Idaho. Utah, California, Colorado and Wyoming were active members of one or more of the big fra ternal benefit orders for women, fcYaternal orders do not get into the newspapers as frequently and promi nently as clubs and social orders, with a display heed report of their activi ties and doings. But. unheralded, no less than 10.000 women in Portland and 60,000 In the state meet in fratern. al benefit orders week by week and dls. charge their duties as members of great yimttniuropio institutions, whose basic loea is tne protection of the home) uiiiigwB, noi eei resolutions, but ma terial assistance to tho needy, the jn- ioriunaio, tne unemployed practical assistance in an organised and system atic way to the promotion of good citizenship. C. C. VAN ORSDALU The Good Roods Problem. Oregon City, Or.. Dec 6. To th Edi tor of The JournalIn The Journal of November 12 D. C. Lewis Writes on good roads. I think he treta at th in about the way that will be satisfac tory to the majority of the people in the country. Let there be levied a direct state tax for road building, of 1 mill on all the assessed property in the state, and let this be divided among all the counties In accordance with the number of miies of regularly laid out county roads in each county, that are in use. iet most of the automobile li cense fees be put into the same fund, and distributed in the same way. Then let the counties add their respective shares of the fund so created, to their own road funds each year and divide the amount received from the state each year In accordance with the numberof miles or regularly laia out county roads in each district, Tne matter would thus be simplified and 1 think would be satisfactory to a large majority of the people in the jrtate. Then these trunk nnes wouia come in ror tneir regular share of the state road fund every year by laying out tnese trunk roads as reg ular county roads, in every countt through which they passed. Each coun ty would thug attend to Its own part of tills trunk road and draw its regular share or the state rood rund. I think it would be more satisfactory to let each county court employ a competent engineer, whenever on? was needed. than to try to have one engineer look after the interests or every county in the state. Almost every county has local talent sufficient for every emer gency and a large proportion of our roads do not need any costly engineers to build them. A good many of our supervisors have become so experienced in road work that nil they need is the money and materials and they can gel the men and machinery and build a road good enough for any purpose. Th country people are naturally averse to having kid glove men bossing them. We want men that know how to do the work and are right there on the Job to overuome every difficulty. If our legislature would pass a law along these lines, I don't think the people would make any kick. GEORGE JHCINBOTHAM. A Wisconsin Woman's Testimony, Tortland, Or., Dec. 6.To the Edlior of The Journal December 1 is my birthday, and also my wedding anni versary, and I spent ,a few momants reading "letters from the people" In The Journal, as 1 get a great deal ot benefit from somo of. them. But after reading the article from Lucurgus,. I thought we should judge differently when we get beyond the "alphabet," I am glad I do not feel that way toward my fellow man, nor toward teed'a-Crea-tures, put here for our use. , v I read the article, by a woman, "Hang ing Called Belf-Defense." How any woman could reason that way is beyond shalt not kill." It Is a command, not a request. How can we make laws not in conformity with divine , law I Human justice, and divine justice ar very far apart : . If we all got our exact dues there would not be rope enough for the hangings, nor any one to pull the ropes. yniy as we are lorgiven py, our iieayen Letters From tlie People COMMENTmND SMALlCHANGB , ' ' Lucille Cameren "Johnson 'will deserve her coming woe. 'A cat club has been formed. Many a man has wished to caress a night court ing cat with a ulub. 'Attending Farmers' VTeek at the O. A. C would be a good investment of its cost for thousands of farmers. , .. . V. - -. -7 . ' : "'-' A rest station U to be established, but It Is not supposed . to be espec ally fpr the b0neflthobi?es or. i WPn'V Werk,- et'S, X,,.U..r..T f,..- .i,,r;,..-V.r,.i. ....... Piecemeal annual messages tnav be an lmprovtmicntt more people are likely to read them, or. some parts of some of them. . . ' 1 , The overwhelming dereai : 01 .tne woman candidate for mayor In Oregon may .give pause to -other k women . who The overwhelming defeat of the first d begun to. nurse a simua.miwoii. mc V , i I , V' Aiftr(.ii''i,fit.i l satisned witn ciear, crisp ana sun The decision, of the JJnited, States I ! llnv wather. with now; and ' then a fpr Interstate Commerce Commissioner Franklin K.' Lane., . i s v. ' t ' , U Frenchman srUy increabf.iv aa-id rvn an ei mnrnvan ina T in vnr nr iiir . lilln VUUUU J , HiJEB TTUIU Mia V V"w lien-ljving too high. : --.j, .;:!':''., ;i A nranhet who predicted the coming of Christ ono day last month explains that the program was irustraiea py ins devil. The old horned and tailed fellow seems to tlU .win pretty of ten.. in Ahrrrifn minister had a lot and lumber for a house given to him as a result or, prayer ror mm, w ji hlM nravnrs .would avail 8H Well for other people, he could get a big salary and, buy everything ha needs. , ! For one cold blooded, cowardly mur der. J. B. Bneed has been acquitted, ana there isn't much chance that luctlce win cet a. look-in at his trial for an other dastardly murder. Yet many a less euiltv man nae oeen nangcu vt electrocuted.-.- . - ;..:'' Brigadier General Bliss deplores the 1 tendency to Jeaeh - and preacn peace among the nations as a prune ueniur- MwroushlV warHkf snlrU constantly expect hJJ forV s-reat wars. But he Is a mm AW whose 'ocuiStlm gone if there were to be no more wars, YOUNG FARMER'S In the current issue of Farm and Fire side Herbert Quick, the editor of that periodical, writes an .interesting no torial showing how progress piaces great strain on people. He tells the following story: "I know a young man who lived In a city until ho had graduated from an ag ricultural oollege. He worked on farms in vacations, and be did everything that a city man can do to learn farming practically as well as theoretically. But he had not had the advantage the farm boy possesses of driving a team -year after year and listening to the discus sion of farm problems about the hearth In a farm home while a child. He went on a largo farm as tenant Three hun dred acres of land to be plowed, put into crops, tended and harvested. I visited him about the first of July of his first summer. Things looked badly. He had made a lot of mistakes' that an old farmer would never have made. " 'I thought,' said he when I talked to him of the situation, 'that. I. know a great deal mere about farming than the neighbors about here, but ;l'm making up my mind that I would be hundreds of dollars better off this year If I knew as much as the 18-year-old boys of the neighborhood. It'll take me years to ly Father, who knows the hearts of men and their motive, can "any of us stand. I am afraid many have had murder in their hearts. I was reared in Wisconsin, where thev do not take people's lives for crime. Anyone who ever lived there knows the stability or tne iaw. u life is taken, how can his friends help feeling revengeful? The punUtujwsnt comes on them, as it Is a reproach to the family, and the stigma lasts. The worst criminals are not caught and God knows Who they are. How mufit the other prisoners feel, hearing the prepar ations for the slaughter? Let God deal with them. Let us keep them confined to prevent any more crime, and let them build roads. I hope Governor West will do as he said and permit no more hangings while he is governor not for the prisoners sake, but to keep such a blot off Ore gon's name. People hesitate' about leaving states where Justice and fccgard for human life and liberty ara so much greater, and come to a state where they are struggling with problems settled In their old homes years ago. Forgiveness for sins all must have, or we are all lost, and cultured and refined thought make better environment and fewer criminals. Those men only a few short years ago were Innocent ba bies In fond mothers' arms. For their saka and because we are now usurping God's responsibility, let them live and -orlc. MRS. JENKS., Capital Punishment. Boring, Or., Dec. B.To the Editor of The Journal What shall be done with five men to be hung? What right have we to take the life Of a sinner? Trying to reform the world by means ot capital punishment is shutting out the life of the soul. The" sixth com mandment saya: "Thou shall do no murder." Those who are model pris oners and truly repentant should be al lowed to go at a given ume. the loved ones be comfortably ictt,; the money should go to some poor mother who is striving so hard to keep her children together. There are manyin need and many a man Is sent into eternity by the law who could live to newness of life, live and love, and who could earn enough to provide for the needy, The law of a life for a life was ful filled, when Christ gave himself a ran som for all. God is love, and we are under the law of love. L,., . v- MAT GILTNER. Voters Beginning to Think, Th Dalles. Or.. Dec. 5. 1912. To the VAitA nt The Journal. The campaign of 1913 has closed and Judging by the election returns.' it 18 evident the voters are beginning td think, at least some of them are. With the high cost of living eternally staring them in the face, is It any' wonder? They have been following one political Moses after another for many year. They have voted for high tariff and low tariff. But : now, they are really beginning to think. They are getting tired of believing, and they are going to try the governing ; business themselves. This is surely encourag inir for .it means more happiness. It VnTlTand "in the endTK means political and Industrial democracy, which Is soclal- During the past B0 years we have in creased our capacity to produce wealth fiftyfold. But with all- this advance In the industrial field, we ar 'stilt -try ing to reconcile an obsolete system of distribution,, and exchangajthat, outgrew NEWS IN BRIEF ORLGON SIDELIGHTS ", , r.,i .r The Curry County Commercial club has been orfanled by citisens of Gold Beach and Weddtirburn, with 2t char ter members.. ' , ' Kornvllle Correspondence 'Toledo Leader!" Our rallroiwl surveyors have disappeared. We doa't know how tmioh land they found thut they think belona to. them. They left lots of stakes on land deeded by the government to dif ferent ones. , :;.;:,.:.'!::. ' Port Orford Tribune: v Following the success of the cooperative' Cheese fhc tory at Langlols, tle dairymen on Sixes river will build and equip one at. the bridge in the spring. ; It i claimed that dairymen make more money end make it easier in cheese than In butter, v Albany Democrat f While' the - east and t' ara exp(,rlenclng a severe cold I" aceoinoaniid by a?' heavy snow !. . '"f"! aUnftSna?eeDeonle of r ,nd Linn county are forced to . Sft,emf gtatesman: !An Albany rirl daw claims the honor of betas the first b . . . a, on t iat day, Two Salem young,, ladles per tinned the same service In the city election here,' ' " "' ' i Ba'ndon Recorder; The. Reeordor-is constantly sending out nample copies to outside people who ere inquiring into the conditions here and we ere thus advertising the town and adjacent eoun. try all the. time. Wo know of a number of people who 'have come here as a result- of reading the Recorder and there will be still more to follow. i Eugene 'Ouard: Eugene as a com nunlty has ample cause for thankful, negs. - The rapid material development t the state has emphasised this city's ceoerachtcal location s a commercial and railroad center. No town in the northwest jias maae greater inv8rcp during the past year, or has brighter prospects for the coming year. Baker Herald! K. It Martin of port. tnd and R. E. Close of I Orande are i Baksnln tne interest 01 tne auoimi I dsilon is to' establish lun on Protestant Sunday schools in. the different parts of the state regardless Of the sect, and V ,oolt ,fter them' S:rni.C0Unty there are seven of these schools. nion sunoay ocnooi aiigatuun. moir i PLENDID FIGHT learn the things that are second nature to them." "Did he fall? By no means. He stuck to the farm, and is now successful. He caught up in his knack of doing things Gradually he pulled ahead of his neigh bors. .After a while the art of doing things began to cooperate with the sci entific truths he had mastered, and money began to come into his till, and recognition from his neighbors as the best farmer of them all was no small part of his reward. "Now suppose that one of those old farmers - had -been his - father -and the owner of the,farm. The strain of prog ress would have been still more severe. My young friend had the right to make his mistake and suffer by them, but Dad might have refused him that free dom. "The man with a son who is a col lege graduate should let the young man put his ideas into effect, even though It seems to him that the new methods are not so good as the old. Thus be will relieve the strain of progress. It is for the old to give way to the young when it- comes to the new knowledge,' The young may not know the how so well, but they have a better acquaintance with the why. And in the long run the why is most Important" Its usefulness when the hand method of production passed out A juet rela tionship between the producer and his product should be the chief aim of any government,' but in our case the mom they skinned jus the better they liked it. But in this they hastened the end cf misrule. The lords of pomp and arrogance are of course opposed to this, and their hireling press will scream as in the past. They will tell ua that it will break up the home; that the bread win. ncr will smash the furniture because he Is getting a decent living: that it would mean free love, and the husband Would run off with his neighbor's hired girl because he i's getting about 80 per cent more for his work, than he Is getting now: - WM. H. TAYLOR. Grateful for The Journal's Aid. Portland. Or., Dec. To the Editor of The Journal The returns upon the equal suffrage amendment are now in. The secretary of state has canvassed the same and officially reports that the majority In It favor Is 4161. The gov ernor has signed the proclamation. I now wish, in the name of Abigail Scott Dunlway and the Oregon Htate Equal Suffrage association, to thank you for all you did for the causa dur ing the lata campaign. The press of the state was with us and gave us space worth thousands of dollars. This in cluded notices, reports, advertisements and splendid convincing editorials. You helped to make this grand chapter of Oregon history. MRS. HENRY WALDO COB, . Acting State President. Horse Shot for Coyote Bait. Ontario Democrat: Frank Lacha and Pablo Bengorchea, two Banco sheep, herders, who were arrested on the charge, of shooting a horse belonging to Randall Sage near McDermltt and using the animal for coyote bait, had a preliminary hearing, waived examina tion ana were Bound over in the sum of J500 each to await tho action of the grand Jury. .:', Shopping Headquarters For Thousands of H THE JOURNAL has come to be the market place for thou sands of homes because it features the most important merchan dise news of Portland's leading stores.1 Thousands and thousands of THE r JOURNAL'S readers have acquired the habit of reading the advertisements in THE JOURNAL closely and constantly every day. They know this is the best way to keep abreast of the times. They know that it is the only way to get the greatest value for every dollar they spend. They know that it pays the advertiser to advertise, and it pays them to have him do so. -It-willTarTWI f ollovrth ' NAL. y You will then be well informed. You will save both time and money by knowing What to Buy and Where to Buy the things you need most economically. , i . , (Copyrighted, by J. J. Fallon,) Tne Method q( QuacW From the Omaha WorldVHeral)! The ew York state factory Invest! gating committee, which recently found such harrowing conditions in the har vester, trust binding factory t Auburn, is continuing Its researches. It is now studying the labor situation In ', the great canneries of the state,' with the usual result. ' It finds, among other things, that children tit 10 vun-uim, nt them even youngorbegln working In tlunsj canrierier. attfro'tydcxrin "the moriHtfg , and work until late at night, . , v And so, of course, ah outcry Is raised for laws that will protect these children from -uch long hours of labor, 1 And, as usual, publig sympathy and indignation is pursuing a course which In the end can only demonstrate futility and impotence..! -- -' : If a man litts a boll on the end of his ( pose, and a sympathetic neighbor rushes up and snips it off With a rusty pair of f scissors, what will be the benefit to the succored?-.'-. ".. ':",;; ..V.-V" :':'v If a hundred thousand family ''cup-v boards are bare! if .there is no coal on the 1 hearth; If the , chilled bones ot mothers and children are covered only , With rags,' what, is there amazing and ; unnatural In the fact that the mothers and children join the fathers in manual labor I n mlne& sweatshops, factories and, ' canneries? ,-X-. ;,, ,:"'., :'.-, vx Would husbands drive their wives to work, would mothers lead their babies i to work, If fjunger and cold did not . impel? '..' . What is the good of setting up end buttressing - an industrial and social system that hiakes It Impossible for men to marry and support their fami lies In decency by their own hard and honest labor, and then, by "be It en acted" process attacking child labor, the social evil and other evils that are the natural and unavoidable fruits ot such ' a system. What wonder that women, driven Into the Industrial field themselves, forced even to harness the tender bodies of their little chlldrren td the machinery of -wealth" Troductlonr should be found demanding the ballot as a weapon, ho ever strange to their bands, of self de fense? '; v'::'-";-' .. '." ';"-,' It is a farce we are making of phil anthropic, a joke of our social amellors. tlon and welfare movements. . It is the , triple distilled essence of absurdity to make impossible the decent support of a "' family by the head of the family and -. then try to prevent the rest of the family going to work. Even babies will work rather than starve. It Is just as much an absurdity to call the man the head of the.famlly, the home the "unit of society," when that head is unable to provide for his own and when that "unit" is broken up by the wolf of poverty a wolf with Iron teeth and chilled steel Jaws. , There is wealth produced in our coun try sufficient for the needs of all lits ) peoplefor the needs of those., who work quite as 'much' as "for the needs of those who Invest and those who direct But that wealth, during every day and year of Us production, Is so Inequitably distributed that a few hundred thou--- sands are wrapped In unearned arid un- .1 deserved luxury while several millions are kept constantly on the deadline ot destitution a deadline which they can avoid crossing only by such expedients as female labor, child labor, and other alternatives still more dreadful. And then we cry out against alternatives of. starvation alternatives that society it self has forced and seek te prohibit . them by law! . " It is on this horrible folly that angry discontent feeds, and that socialism " thrives; it is out Of it that the demand , for equal suffrage has grown mighty; it la from this womb that sabotlsm end , . anarcjiy are born. And if we In free America would preserve the institutions bullded on the ideals of democracy and Individualism that the-fathers revered It v la high time we began paying Intelligent. ' prayerful and diligent attention to the f removal of causes and abandon the quack method of doctoring the symp tom and effects. Al Good H way ro umor SQUARING- THE BILL. - ' The bright little surgery at the reer of the doctor's house was occupied oy two the medical man and a patient, who was being attended to for the last time, seeing that he had got over his lllneMH. "Yes. yes." said the doeter; "you're all right now. You needn't com here again." ' " ' ' " "But, sir," remarked the patient, "rot aboot der bill?" I ain't got much money, "Vlll you dake der bill out in trade?" The sawbones looked the man up and down. 1 . "Well, I might do no," he replied. "What Is your business?" , "I urn der leader of der liddle Char man band, salr, ve vlll blay In front of, your house month." every evening for voJf Common sense Is merely uncommon sense. ' '. e . . vy;,;, It doesn't take a very strong woman to break a man, .'-',' 4'; .4 Distance never lends enchantment t the office seeker's view. v -'.,-; ' Relatives of a newly married couple, never Interfere If they haven't any. -- '''''.:Vi.',' Many a man fools himself when he thinks that he is fooling his wife. omes Pointed Paratfrapai hi i '"