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Tim 'OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, rOHTLAND, FRIDAY JANUARY r T T? TATTDXTAT' I Liu J KJ J IXiN AS ixpErcxPEXT yewspArgR 1 ......... Puwuhsr .-." JACK. SON. ft,rr Fumlar morning it Tha Journal- BulM '" 7th ui T.mbllf iii.TTwtan.-On T tmerd it ths postotfh t l"ortUnd, .. fnt uBmli;loa tlifouit tbs Us aa ""w ihl-Kl HoNES -Main T17Si Hon), . All SepsrtmMita reiehrf by- tbeas "IBb'- . Irll IB operator wan ngprimB i" . H-nj.mln K.ntoor Co., BruMWlck ln 8U. rifrk enue, KeW Xarkj 131 Fsopw ; liu Bulldlnr. Cblcmio. y , - '' ; Subscription Terms by mU or to anf aadrses jjB Ui Uulted States or Metlijoi 4 . '" .Witt- "0d u.....m.S.0O 1 One oentli........ -00 Ou 12.60 I Out Wontli. ,...,. -w in year... ...Itio l m nu. onor .travels in a strait bo nar row, . . -Where one but too abreast; keep then the oath. - Shakespeare. INJUSTICE IN IDAHO - f c -v ' JUSTICE was outraged in Idaho t, I yesterday. In sending the pub I Usher, editor and a stockholder of the Boise News to Jail under ti contempt'procecding, the Idaho su preme court delivered a heavyhlow, -not at the presB, but at the Judiciary. The act is almost a ca -trophe to the bench. It. Is the moot powerful argument ever put forth for the re call of Judges. " The offending of the newspaper vmea was. the- criticism, and the pub- plication of Theodore Roosevelt's crlt "llclsm, of the decision in which Eiose velt electors were denied a place on the election ballot Both were per fectly legitimate acts by the, news paper. The right to criticize a court decision Is sanctioned by the prece- IAftt ma tAtia' ib-n atifiAi1rv than IriA -Jate Abraham Lincoln. It is sanc tioned by the spirit of Iree Ameri can Institutions which remit of no . sacred tribunal, abovo ail men, above jLhe, earthf above ?,tho .right of dis cussion and above the power of the ; sovereign people. "' " y ; 'r; , w ; . .The aefc is equivalent to. a plea of guilty of all that was charged. The arbitrary act of the court In the con tempt proceeding Is presumption that It was arbitrary In the original de cision which the Boise .' newspaper , snd -Miv Roosevelt criticized.'. False 11 tne "thing, false in all, is a legal I .axlm.. ixi f ::r.;r-j;... . ' The ' defendants, go to jail tinder ah autocratic act of a tribunal sit ting In Judgment'on' Its own case. i 'hey are denied thai right of appeal. hey ; were -dented "a trial by Jury. They are Imprisoned through the ex ercise of a power as autocratic as that of any king who ever sat on a ' throne. .'?;V- . . .',, Even a ;capturd spy, is under the ale's of, war,' not' denied, the 'right . of appeal, to the f president;' He is tried by a cour martial, which is the equivalent" of a jury of officers. , But 4he two Idaho v justices who over ruled the . third member of the tri- , ; j.nal and' Jailed the newspaper men T "sum'ed an autocratic authority even e xceeding the Inexorable " rules of martial law, and do it In the came of Justice. There Jsjiq, defense, for their, act. If , they were libeled, they had re course nlider the libel law, In aprp ceeding in which a Jury would, have arbitrated between the court and Its critics.. Or. a civil suit for damage with a Jury to decide would have af forded a fair, constitutional and or derly settlement,, - The, very tin willingness of the , body to subm.lt the case to a jury is the equivalent of a plea of guilt, and a mighty indictment of its position. There .will be an end of such acts by courts. The bench is not by any consent of the American people an autocratic sovereignty above the law. above the bill of rights and beyond" accountability for its acts. vv are still under a Republican form of government and the United States Is Btill a democracy. SABOTAGE IX AMERICA HEN sabotage in name and in fact was invented and prac ticed 011 French railways only - . Iew years ago Americans Held tip hands of horror and rejoiced that we were not as other men are. ilie- essence of the prouram of ' saDotage was to gam industrial' cou trot by wrecking. To destroy the dc- 4 - 1Vte . tl. imnlm 1. - fv,i i'ouis, nc equipment, meant . inevitably, in the eye of tlio?e rcck .". Jess . men, to demonstrate that they , ,one inouia dictate the terms and the personnelunder which the envoi n- ment railroad should be run. Injury session of Parliament authorizing to the public .by stopping thc traffic their u;e in other English cities, of a large district, imposing loss and After nioro than a year's successful even ruin on the farmers, cutting off use the raiHess cars have made good, iron. 'the. towns supplies of milk, I The overhead equipment of poles meat and other necessaries, throwing and wires in English cities has cost out of gear the daily life of thousands, between six and eight thousand dol counted as nothing to the devotees of lars a mile. The cars travel on sabotage as an organization and as; gradients of 1 Jn 15 and 1 in 22, re tuen. What was human life and the jspectlvely. in Leeds' and Bradford, structure, --of ;' humja, , society when Single decked cars, carrying 28;L pas weighed against success in their cam- sengers, cost 13406 complete. Dou paign? . bfe decked carB were recently au- ;i Tli trials in Los 1 Angeles and since thorlzed. in -Indianapolis have torn the veil' The cars run. in the - cities, ton from an American campaign based on 'etreets paved eithi-r with wood vor tne ssme principles. But science here . has supplied the means', and, sabotage, tinder the name of syndicalism, has found ready and reckless human agents -at its .disposal. Dynamite! wth its first cousin nk tro-glycerine, s tjow one of the chief products of modern, science," usd in k!J the great, works by. which -'man ccTJunicrs jiatnral obstacles Without tr-ra; Jroadsrwrnfcitptttrfct I'l'incd. harbors excavated, foundi iw ns laid--it has even been carried to v' - rrihard-s to plant trees. ' I t it lia deadly aswrll a? cfn- ;Wrucfivc cower In some forms high I j explosives, due to the chemist' art, till torpedoes, shells and mines, crow finals have not been slow to grasp the new weapon reaay to tneir uanw JH .nr,Vty peerless in trie face of this new danger? , Precautions have been devised and legally enforced re-j Sjtfietiniialn purchases of persons. Steps nave been begun, but unfortunately are not yet in general' tise, "by which the un authorized possession and use of the deadly revolver may be penalized; or at least' made difficult and dangerous. But dynamite and ' nitro-glycerine seem as easily procurable as a suit of clothes. Self-preservation surely demands that both the storage and the sale of these deadly-tools of the criminal should be restricted and placed under the control of law, . This is, of course, a minor matter. It deals with a symptom, not with the disease. The malady has deep roots in the body politic HIGHER THAN SPOILS T HE Democratic senators at Washington ought not. to en gage in a general hold-up of RepublicanappoIntments. , The Democrats of the country ought not to engage in an unseemly scramble for. office. They 6hould make the Democratic party stand for something else than spoils. There were tens of thousands of Republicans in the late election who voted the Democratic ticket in thB belief that it stands for some thing higher than spoils. There were thousands of such Republicans in Oregon, a fact conclusively proven by the great plurality of 10,2 6 9 by which Governor Wilson carried the state. ' There never was a time when the American people had so little re spect for spoils and spoilsmen. They are sick and tired of officeholders and office seekers.' They realize that all too often cabinets have been swayed, national . policies - been warped and the White House been controlled, more by desire for office and. the spoils of office than for broad considerations of the national welfare. v ; .- ' ;' " Patronage should be an episode, not an Institution.- That the -people so regard it is proven by the fact that' with all the 'power of federal patronage. President Taft was bare ly able to renominate himself at Chi cago, ,and: with all the power of fed eral patronage at his back, he was only able - to make himself a poor third in the race for president. The country is longing for prin ciples, not patronage.' Democratic Democrats should make it their bus iness to see that the, -Democratic party Is a party of principle, not of pelf. The, citizenry of this country has not thundered a revolutionary verdict at the ballot box In order tb get Jobs for a Coxey's army of hun gry politicians. As' the Democratic New York World says, "they did it in order to have great wrongs righted, to have abuses corrected, to have long heeded reforms Instituted.' One of the greatest reform Demo crats of all time was Samuel J. Til- den. He said in 1885: "I depended on ideas as a political force more lib erally and" leSsdh party" management than anybody else has done." Yet no. Democrat ever had more enthusiastic support from the Demo cratic masses than did Mr. Tllden. He was nominated and elected gov ernor of New York over the united opposition of 20,000 office holders. He was elected to the presidency of the United States over the united op position of the, whole power of 'he federal machine. What higher Democratic authority is there? , The true test of a party is prin ciple. The test for office should be service. The test for selection should be not the brand, but the man. RAILLESS ELECTRIC OARS I N FOUR consular reports between January 30, 1911, and December 26, 1912, accounts are given of the introduction, operation, and progress In Great Britain Of the new syBtem of rallless electric cars. The methods accepted, after long scrutiny and experiment, in the I cities of Leeds, Bradford, Kelghley, land Edlnboro, in Britain, have re- centlVbefin adonteri tn thr nt tfc mining towns of South Africa, with 1 populations of from 12,000 to 15, 000 people. Leeds and Bradford were the first large cities to Instal the new plans, Edinboro followed, and at least six bills wpt-p nassprt in th last granite blocks. In the suburbs ordi- nary macadam roads are found satis factory. The Edlnboro Investigating committee reported, after visiting Leeds and Bradford, that there was no discomfort from vibration, 'or from the starting or stopping ot the ;ar- '-."': -. --vf'-v,.'.; The highways departments do not claim any injury to the surface of tween vehicles, ahd was diverted by the driver from side to :,lde of the road in frequent turning motions. The attachment oil the oar to the overhead wire has a lateral play within"' a-limit of. firteen feet on either 6ide, and Bhowed no disposi tion to leave the- wire. : ; -' estimr.ted ; cost of operation wag ffevjence Bradford actual cost isabout-nine cents, per - car mile. 7here Is not the British cities. The, cost given isj based on ; electricity furnished by steam power. "The car was stopped at the side walks to take passengers on and let them off. , . - THE LIQUOR DEALERS' PLAN O REGON retail liquor dealers in sist that they are out for re . form. They asseverate- that they will emphasize 1913 by driving the "rough stuff out of their business, f They' declare that they will voluntarily do the follow ing things:- ; ; . '" . v , ' 1 Absolutely divorce vice from the liquor business. . z Strictly enforce Sunday closing-. S Stop sale of liquor to drunkards. 4 Put an end to the (ale of liquor to minors. , 5 Insist, on punishment of minors who He to bartenders about their age, 6 Make war on blind pigs. , 7 Aid in the passage ' and enforce ment of laws for effective regulation. ' It Is the sanest program by deal ers In the history of the liquor busi ness. If carried out as promised, It will - do more than all other influ ences to save the business from pos sible annihilation. There is little if any defense for drinking. Great . railroad corpora tions have ordered their employes not to drink while on duty. Some great industrial establishments have done the same thing. No great en terprise that must assume the re sponsibility for hazards to life any longer trusts a drinking man. There Is even demand by some high author ities for elimination of drinking among army officers. Those reforms are not from mo tives of sentiment, but from reasons of business. They are the cold, cal culating thought of business mqn. and are augury of further changes of the same kfnd -certain to appear. What the liquor dealers then are confronted with, is the moement In business, the movement In industry, the movement in morals, the move ment In education and the movement In the church against the., sale of liquors, and it is a most formidable phalanx Of hostility. It is an array of opposition that-may well drive dealers-to a realization that this is not a time to temporize but a time to reform. It is a moment for them to understand that the conflict that they face is not the old one of ragged regiments and disorganized masses but .-brilliantly captained brigades of tremendous forces. There must be reform or there will be. annihilation. The crooks and their deadfalls muBt be driven from the business.. The dives , must be pulled down and .the lawsbe restored to -absolute authority. ' f , Anything less will bring crucifix ion. A HEAVY PRICE F ORTLAND shipments of flour to the Orient for December totaled 9000 barrels. Puget Sound shipped 190,- 841, or more than twenty times the Portland shipments. It was not because of the alleged Inadequacy of Portland as a seaport that Portland cut such a 6orry fig ure in Oriental flour shipments; During the Bame month, Portland ex ported 2,124,869 bushels of wheat against 1,294,281 from Puget Sound. Once, Portland made all the flour shipments from the North Pacific coast. The loss of great slices of the business to Puget Sound was not a handicap of harbor but a handicap of men and measures. " Nine thousand barrels of flour from Portland against Puget Sound's 190,841 is not a seaport defect but the failure of Portland's business figures to contend aggressively for trade and the facilities of trade abroad. For supplying flour to the Orient Portland has natural advantages over all coast rivals. Portland is more accessible to the wheat fields and granaries. A car of wheat started from them will roll, almost on its own momentum, to the steamship doeks in Portland. The rule 1b true of the vast Columbia basin as far as Bend and as far north almost as the British Columbia border. No city ou earth has a geography so fit for becoming a great milling center. The ocean and the world are at one door and the wheat fields at the ether. Yet, Puget Sound, after dragging its wheat for milling pur poses over the Cascade mountains, shipped more than twenty tiroes as much wheat to the Orient during December as did Portland. It is the' price Portland pays for lack of aggressive men. It is the price Portland pays for permitting the rates on" a ' downhill haul to Portland and Astoria to be fixed by the over-mountain haul to Pugfet Sound. It is the price Portland pays for sleeping on her rights:' It is the price Portland pays for thinking more: about swapping town lots than of doing world business.- ( ' . TIN HORN FINANCE 1 HE story of worthless securities, . swmuica men . ana ircnziea .linance, as told for several days - .1. . t .1 . . . . .w . hi me icacrai court in rorttana. shows how the promoters x the Co- l.tfb,i ducted business, -,- a ;v7 ? ii is not tne oniy soap puDDie corporation that has done business in thc Pacific northwest. There are men in Oregon today who are holding pa tiently the securities of defunct cor-. porations, all unconscious . that the concerns have gone out of business. They, still wait confidently for divi dends that never appear and for a rtturn of .thc.myestmentlihatisjQat. The - latest rccprd jhows that of 150Q -Jeonipantes that have applied only 85 have been licensed'to sell their securities ia Kansas.: v It gives a glimpse at the possible pro portion of merit among all the thou sands who pursue the investor for his money. There is no greater field for con structive legislation ,thari in the enact ment of a measure ; admitting fonly honest corporations to charter and permitting the sale only of stable se curities in this state. ' . , . The testimony in the Columbia Or chard cas'e shows how the financial soldiers of fortune swarnt after the real builders of prosperity. Letters From tKe People (OomtDanlrtUoni erat to Tb Joarml fnr publication In thU dtptrtment tboold bo writ tea on onlr on aid of the piper, (hoald not X4M4 800 words In length and miut lie e companies br -tha nam and address of tba aender. If the writer 4om not desire to bat tba nana published, he should to state.) , - Information for Women I ; Portland, Or.. Jan. 2. -To the Editor of The Journal fioma-of us, newly en franchised cltlzenofiiave been reading with unusual Interest of the purposes and plans of the Oregon Irrigation con gress, the . Oood Roads association and all the other efforts for the improve ment and upbuilding of bur beloved state and In view of our responsibili ties In regard to these affairs, we hoped that In thejr consideration we might be recognised as allies a reserve iorce 01 power and influence, which- could be depended upon. ' Irrigation of arid land means, to the thinking woman as well as man, more beautiful homes, fertile fields, prosper ity and affluence for our people. Oood' roads mean, contentment' in those homes, comfortable and delightful means of travel over our most beauti ful country.or better opportunity for education for the young people, and an encouragement to leave the .crowded cities and lead a saner life near to na ture's heart ' " ' Of course, we women are deeply In terested in all this, which is for the bet terment of our Inhabitants, yet here the men are planning great times for them selves In their coming congress, hut, like poor dory McQutaTi, not one ot us is "in 'em." We need to be "In 'ern." though, for we will have to vote on all the ques tions pertaining to these Improvements. The woman voter must bo taken into consideration as a factor In . our prog ress. It will not do to "excuse your selves, gentlemen, by saying: "Wo did notor do not, believe women would be Interested In these qustions or af fairs which hitherto have been dele gated wholly to man's domain." If there are women In Oregon who have never knoWn their trua relation to the things that surround them, you must encourage such women to believe In their personal responsibility. This will be for the higher development of Oregon also, for no nation, no state, can reach a higher status than that of Its women. I would not have you think from what' I have"" said, you men voters of Oregon, that you have given the ballot to an Ignorant, Irresponsible class; I only want to urge upon you the neces sity of helping to put away the lmag inery dividing Una which has separated the activities of men and women, to the detriment ot the higfivst Interests of both, and regard -us as your helpers, your partners, your comrades In our splendid march forward as one of the first states in the Union. M. I T. HIDDEN. Thinks Roads Not So Bad. Eola, Or., Dec. 30. To the Editor of The Journal I believe that a vast majority of the farming class will agree with me when I say that under present conditions the Improvement of the pub lic roads is keeping pace with the de velopment of the state in other ways; and that farmers are marketing their crops at present without any serious trouble regarding roads; as practically all crops are marketed before the rainy season commences. I realize that mudholes In our roads are not desirable: but they are only temporary, and are preferable to finan cial sinkholes that would last for years, and could be filled only, by additional taxation. If the automobile class would be sat isfied to go joy-riding during about seven or eight months of the year, and would travel by rail a few winter months there would not be- any serious complaint about tha present steady im provement of the public roads. In conclusion I will say that the farmers and producers generally, who conduct the sreater Part of the business traffic upon our roads, are In favor of Dpndine a larger proportion or an taxes upon the public roads; and paying for roads as we build and Improve them. And that the rpad question is '-snan the traffic hauler or the Joyrider ruler What should the answer be? CEO. q. M1TTT. . Soao-BoxIetoace -- - Glendale, Or., Jan. 1. To the Editor of The Journal Allow me to commend your editorial of December 13, wherein you state that the desire of the weak minded boy of 17. who, witn a loaaeu re volver. purposed to Tflll President-elect Wilson, was caused by me soap dox oratory and inflammatory newspaper articles which are now prevalent throughout the world. You are no doubt correct, as also In your further state ment that this Is the best country on earth, and you probably think the state ment that this Is the best government and that the condition of the people are the best to be found on earth, also cor rect In reply to your query. "Who taught this boy to believe this is not a fit country for him to live In?" will ask you to read on the editorial page of The Journal of December 7, the article en titled "The Methods of Quacks," , and on the same page of December 13 that on "The Slavery of Childhood." An other good article for you to read is your editorial Of December ? on "Rob bing the Cradle." While the Incidents cited are probably facts, or you would not have given them space, on your editorial page, It is the reading of these facta that causes people of weak minds, whether men, women or children. In pos session of no power but brute force and I a loaded gun, to use such power as they have In an attempt to clean out, In their misguided way, the corruption that the ruling powers are stirring, in a futile effort to purify. One person may hear- from the soap box where probably 1000 wilt read In The Journal. . When . you make the I on earth, where the people are In the statement on your editorial page that best condition, with the best govern ment on earth, there are 100,000 chil dren, some of them not more than 8 years of age, without a moment for play, compelled to Cot .out of bed at COMMENT AND ' . SMALL CHANGE -Now the-elty- eandida tea may-come out. . .. ' Thirty holldayless days hath Janu- Maybe that last storm was th pre dicted hard winter. . Among those always mistaken are end-of-the-worlders. ; , Among the Impossibilities are good roads without lare eost Most of ' those recently freely-fed people are again as hungry as ever, Peema like there were less holiday time disasters and crimes than usual. . This will be a fine year to be born in; the living should make it a fit year to dlo in. . - . a Isn't It hla-h time that if rnbherv must be done Paul should begin repay- c . ..'.'.-' Men mar be heroes In flolnr onlv their necessary duty as in thecase of a lifesavlng crew. j, ' The secretaryflhln of the interior appears to be more in demand than all uiw uiner cauinei pusujons. - . A university mav tain s, little nrestlira by having an ex-president ot the Unit ed States as a member of its faculty. e e Aonarentl? the Turk will have to be driven back to the sea beach before he w11 talk real business reasonably. The general verdict will be that the dynamite conspirators received no more punishment than was properly coming to them. Nobody doubts Colonel Roosevelt's statement that If this country should have a war he would be in it. He would feel more bully than ever. e Perhana tha neonla lnslda tha rates thought it was they rather than those out at Tenth and Stark streets who were having a sane New Year's eve. mm It Is nearly time for the deadlocks of legislatures on election of United States senators, but there will be none In Ore gon or otner states wnere in people practically elect. W. D. Havwood thinks that In the dynamite conspiracy-case the govern ment was "subornea by tne steel trust. Would he have anybody, suppose that the steel trust did all the dvnamltin Jobs and wrote all the incriminating letters? NEW YORK By Herbert Corey. George W. Perkins told why he left the Morgan firm at the time he left it. But Wail street didn't believe htm. Wall street thinks that a sane man never tells the truth unless he Is so very smart that he tells the truth because he can fool folk better that way In which case Wall street wonders if he doesn't think that Wall Street will figure that he will tell the truth with Intent to de ceive, and therefore doesn't tell the truth at all. So that Wall street is for the most part wandering In a meta physical maze. "But there's a big clock- in tne nan of Terkin's house up the river," said a friend, "that has a bearing on the story. That Perkins home, by the way, la as big as a poorhouse and as com fortable as a barroom." Perkins always begins the story by the explanation that he, is not and never was a banker. "I was taken Into the Morgan firm because I had a name as an organiser," said lie. "I stayed longer than I ex pected to. By and by the need for my services was at an end, and I retired with more money than I had ever dreamed of." He made his name as an organizer when he was with the New York Life Insurance company. The other com panies were - knocking the Life's head against the wall every now and then. The situation in Denver was especially bad. The LI fa couldn't keep a solicitor there with savvy enough to scatter salt to sheep. So Perkins was sent out to hold tho fort. , His - instructions were to kill or maim any solicitor he caught trying to get away. !-It was a hard fight," said he. "After a few months I heard that my force of solicitors would desert me in a body. Just as I was trying to make my chin sit still after these tidings, I was called home by phone. My solicitors were all out there, and insisted on seeing me on a matter, of important business. - This,' I said to myself, 'is the finish for George Washington P." I've failed 4,-5 and 6 o'clock in the morning and work till 8, 9 or 10 o'clock and even 11 o'clock at night, that they may be al lOwed to live; and when, you also In form' the weak minds with loaded guns that like conditions prevail throughout the manufacturing centers of this coun try and cite the Lawrence, Mass., Inci dent which is fresh In the minds of all; and when you take your readers to the steel mills of Pittsburg, where whole families, from bablea to grandparents, are compelled to work 12 hours per day for a very meager existence while their labors produce such wealth that it wor ries Carnegie to find ways to spend the surplus millions that lie confiscates from the babies who live under what you say Is the bent government on earth but which permits the steel trust in nine years to pile up more" than a bil lion dollars of .profits Jthe. stolen . pro ducts of their starving slaves. ' We must have writers for the great dallies, the moulders-of public, senti ment, with the courage to stand by their conviction and not shift the re sponsibility tor the result of their writ ings to the soapbox orator. Will we be men and right these wrong conditions by removing the cause, orhaU,we hope for reform through ' the medium-of a weak mindSdJHoy - of- 17, shooting at tne ciiect oi our system: ; ' F. C. LADD. The Vice Problem. From Life.' ; Some things might be done if there were fit 'people available to. do them, There ought at least to be drastic pun ishment, ' including, -perhaps, corporal punishment," for' the female promoters ot this traffic, and a sharp reckoning with men who profit by it in any way. Pros tltutlon may, be a necessary evil, and part of the price paid for the kind of monogamous civilization that we en Joy, but surely the promotion of pros titution by men, and the use' of it to afford revenue to members of the po lice- force or to the city, ia not a nec essary evil and might be cured. .The street walker's are a part of the same human lump as the rest of us, -and it does not beoorae us to flout them too, 8cort)tully nor abandon them to the tormentors. Neither Is It even safe to do so,- for their powers of retaliation on a society that misuses or neglects them are enormous and operative au tomatically ini direct proportion to the mistreatment and- neglect. The. petalls of . any-r-fegulatlon': ef prostitinl6nare hard to Work ouj,be ca,use"i 'is ac8uTatlonwhaX"is unP versally recpgnized - as sin. But any law or plan may do some good If, ad ministered by just snd humahe people, ni- and any law or - plan: will ' make bad worse If left to be operated by lascals and bullies, NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Ten convlets from-the penitentiary are clearing land on the tract that is to be used as a county poor tarm.in Clat sop county. ... Bandon Record: " No stranger can find his way In Bandon by street and number.- The city should -prepare for free delivery of mail and one thing neces sary, It would aeem, is the renaming and. renumbering of atreets. - . The Asloria Budget closed the old year properly, w'lh an issue of 12. pages filled with news, of cellent and aoDron ;ws, ot progress, wun tx- approprlate illustrations, The edition Is headlined, "Fourteenth Annual Number." The special breathes optimism and future greatness In every Dallas Observer: The little city of Sheridan Is feeling the Impetus of prog ress and Is preparing to hard surface Us principal streets.-.--There are evidences that Dallas will take one of tha, import ant forward steps in her career the com ing summer in the Permanent Improver ment of her principal business streets.. . '.;-'':'.' ,, ".'.iy'Vi', Paisley Press: ' Bright days are so common her that every one feels that be rtally has something about which to complain If a cloudy, stormy day ap pears. In most localities every one Is grateful for the unshlne, but here we receive so much of It that we are In clined to believe It should come as reg ular as the days. - Eugene Guard; ? Eugene is beginning the installation Of a splendid cluster lighting system, which should b ex tended to cover the Whole central part of - the city. Eugene should allow no other Oregon city to outdo her in the matter' of street lighting, and especially so since ythe municipal plant furnishes ngnt rar eeiow tne rates paia oy otne, 3the cities. Albany Democrat: The best hotel In the state outside of J&rtland,? the best banking building, the best, filtration plant, 60 blocks of pavement, the ar rival of the great Oregon Electric, be tween 60 and 100 new residences, new school building, several bricks and many other Improvements make the year one that has attracted wide attention,- giving Albany a reputation unsurpassed by any of the smaller cities of the sfltte. v. Few if any of the daily papers of Ore gon outside or .rortiana nave ever equalled the Eugene Register's New Year's Annual. It 1 is or SO pages, in eight sections, and covers completely the fields of Eugene, Lane county, and the State university, to the latter of which one entire section is given. Ex haustive information and Vivid illustra tion characterize the Register Annual, to say nothing ot the high spirit of pride and confidence that is everywhere mani fest., DAY BY DAY on the first big -job ever given me to do.' "And the boys didn't make it any easier by reciting a doleful story of un fair competition. My eyes must have looked like blue and white saucers of a wavery pattern during this speech. "'But,' said the spokesman, bursting lnt6 a giggle, "we have our futures to consider. And sa we're all going to stand by you, because you've given us a chance to make good. And here's a little something for you.' "He took the sheet off the elock and I swallowed a football. I knew I had made good and you know all the rest of the story. And, wherever I go, that clock, goes with me. I wouldn't trade it for a railroad." s Some of the Investigators for the national child labor committee have a suspicion that Americans, as a race, grade about as high on the intellectual scale as a strikingly Intelligent Boston DU11. "We have Just sense enough.1 said one, "not to overwork a colt, or to un derfeed a pig, or to keep hens in un sanitary houses. But we haven't gump tion enough to see that It doesn't pay to work a half-starved child long hours In dark and mouldy rooms. And we don't realize that other little children may be asked to pay the price." He pointed to the photograph of a smiling baby clutching a doll to its breast. "That doll," said he. "was made In a tenement home. The father and mother and four children of the family all made dolls from the time they awoke in the morning untU they simply could not keep their tlrfed eyes open longer. The father and two of the children had been In the hospital for treatment for a peculiarly virulent type of tuberculosis. Every member of the family had con tracted the disease. The mother, worn, racked by a cough, tired, and-discouraged, smiled as she looked at her bnby playing with one of -the newly made dolls. It's so lucky that we make dolls,' said she, 'because when the children are sick they can take them to bed and play with them. - "By and by these same-dolls will go Into the hands of perfectly healthy chil drenwho In turn will kiss and mother them.," And If any one thinks he can tell a story of a more unusual literary Mara thon than this let him sail. In. Except that a condition of the competition Is that the tale must be true. This one la. It was on January 13, and Matthew White, editor of a well-known fiction magazine, was smitten of a desire to be acutely funny. So that he dropped Into the grill of the Algonquin, where In those days persons who made their living, by practising the arts of the pen made their headquarters. Mr. White made outcry" that he wanted a western serial at once. Had any present one in stock? Those present shook their heads gloomily at Mr. White, "Then." said Mr. White, "I will- pay one cent a word for a western serial of 60,000 words or more, to be delivered to me January 16. Harry Durant commented on the de llciously nutty flavor of Mr. White's Intellect. "This Is the. thirteenth of January." said he. "Who do you think could write a 60,000 word story In 8 hours?" "No one," said Mr. White, cheerily. !'Ha, ha. That puts 'em on you. A lemon squish for mine." M. Durant said that he had no mind to be blackmailed Into the purchase of lemon squishes for persons who had forgotten their straltjackets when they left home. He said that he would con tract to deliver the serial at the time appointed. Thereupon, lapping, up one final dishful, he engaged a suite In the Algonquin, installed four stenographers, and went to IV lie dictated in turn and turn about for 24 hours, without sleeD. or nourishment of a solid and Slowing quality; On January 14 he delivered 10 Mr. White on serial. 83,000 words In length, napped lightly In Mr. .White's outer of flee while that gentleman read it, and took his check for $620 and went away.-"- - w.ti-"' ,. '.'"V-- ' -f "That Is not only a fact, but it's a record," Mr.' White . declares. "Also it was a good . story; - in proof of which tact it was worth noting- that It was our organization which took Mr. Durant out of the writing neid and made him an editor a little later.": Oscar Hammersteln, according to. tra rtltlon wrote a 'cornier ooera In ton hour l how conn or now opera not stated, And Van Rensselaer De used to turn out a 86,000-word Nick Carter weekly for 20 years.. But for one sustained sprint over the Marathon course Mr. Durant now has all the medals, buttons, nnd other plated war extant, r- e ! Clark and Bryan From, the New York World. If Mr. Bryan 'should become a, mem- j bsr of-MrAVUlson's cabinet,- and-r- I If Champ Clark should find that hfS personal resentment is such that he fan have no political or social relations with, Mr. Bryan, and--r r , . If It should appear that Mr. Clark's attitude threatens ;to . embarrass -the president; 7T K : ? ' - Then the World respectfully suggests that the Democrats of the house of rep resentatives proceed to select a speaker who'can work in harmony with the ad ministration.' :)";:.'. -rV' We say this without prejudice toward Mr Clark, for whom the World has only sentiments of friendship. But Mr. Clark's individual 'grievances are much less important than a successful gov ernment of the United States. .: Mr, Clark is warranted Jn holding Mr. Bryan responsible for his defeat - in t lit Baltimore, convention. But if iMr,-Clarlc had been nominated he Wetrtd have bee beaten at tha polls, and the. country would have had .Theodore Roosevelt for president Mr. Clark's candidacy could never have Withstood such a campaign against boss-rule as Mr. Roosevelt made last fall, a-A Democratic candidate for president nominated by the Influence of Murphy and Jim Smith and Tom Tag- gart and Jim' Guf fey and Roger Sullivan,..1 and Thomas Fv Ryan and August Bof -mont would i havs , contested - with M Taft for the dubious honor of flnlshlf third, - Jt Mr. Bryan beat Mrt Clar ter and the country from a Roosevelt third term. . f'Siyirsi;;:; As it was, Mr, Wilson, polled fewer votes than did Mr.. Bryan in liH or in 1900 or in 1908. The Democratlo party was saved only because If had, a candi date -whose political Independence- was beyond question, whose quarrel with boss government was a matter of rec ord and whose nomination represented the undoubted will of the progressive Democratlo. elements. In such, a crisis as 1912, Champ Clark would have been another Alton B. Parker. . - r t All this may not assuage Mr. Clark's disappointment, but facta are facts. It Is practically the unanimous opinion of Democrats that Ut Clark should re- oelve the consolation of another term as speaker. In the circumstances It is Mr. Clark's duty to meet his party half- way and suppress all evidence of an ant., moslty that can reflect no credit upon himself and is pregnant with possibili ties of Democratic discord. . ; Mr. Bryan is making no 'war upon Mr. Clark, and If Mr. Clark Is deter nunea 10 muo war upun air, jjryaa "V1 hnuld tint ha riArmlttaif to itn It 11 1 speaker of the house of representatives, 'i Always in Good Humor COULDN'T BE BLAMED. From Mother's- Magazine. 1 An old couple in Michigan, who had " never before been away from their ja Uve village, went to California, it proved a memorable" trip In mors ways than one, as was illustrated by an in cident on their return home. -I A neighbor, asking the old lady If she had seen an earthquake while In Frisco, received the following reply: "Indeed, I did. I saw It and heard It and enjoyed it." The neighbor, aghast with astonish ment, asked why she enjoyed the earth quake. The old lady replied: - ' "Because It is the first thing that: has happened since John and I were married 30 years ego that be hasn't.. oiamea me ior. n - "' " NOT GUILTY! r ' From ths Chicago Record-WeraldV-"You are charged," said the court. with malice aforethought appropriated to your own use tmd behoof a certain article, towlt: A vehicle said vehlole cle. to wit: A vehicle said . vehicle having been wrongfully and feloniously - abstracted by you from the premises of John Doe on or about the lith day of August, Anno .Domini 1907, contrary- to the statute In such cases made and pro-' vtded, and against the peace and dignity of the people of. the state of Illinois. What say you?" "I'm not guilty, Jedge," protested the prisoner.) "All I done was to Steal a buggy." ' Pointed Paragrapni The seeker after truth has a lifetime- Job, o The successful man Is one who Is on the Job when the main chance comes along. .., .... vy .i . If the average man did the right thing' he would pray that his friends might ' be delivered from him. . , . , . , The girl who dreams of eloping al- lows her imagination to run away wlth her. . --.'! The bright baby its mother tells f about usually has an off day when you meet it, , y e It's the easiest thing in the world for a pretty woman to manage a man If . she Isn't married to him. When a man gets engaged to a girl- H all the other fair maids of his acquaint ance begin, to talk about his poor taste. e Fame lsierefy-Sit elevation "bri which the victim is placed in order to give people a better chance to throw mud at him. ' '" , . The Next Cities That Will Burn. There" Is not a city in the United states that does not dally escape de Biruction oy lire, says Walter S. Wat lna startling article in the World Work for January. So fully is thlftf" snown to tne insurance companies which have the largest stake in-tha3 danger, that they can tell you exactll th "conflagration center" of every in j)ortant clty--can put their f lngef on th meU of every one of the ?40 princlppf cities and; say; "Here, at this spot, -UK,. All lv.n 1.. ..... -rf . .1..LI,,,.. j .. fire will start that ad man cait master, y that will sweep your city and do to Jt y what fire has already done to Chicago,' to San Francisco, to Baltimore.";; 1 -t, The national fcoard of fire underwrite ers is the organization that has caused a nation-wide study -of ifire :haard t -w be made, and the..reporta of its firs en glneers members of 'n vw ;and , valu. able profession give a remarkable pic. ture of the danger ttiat confronts all American cities - This! orgaajzatlohr is composed of representatives of all the principal fire insurance companies, anil r its business is to study, the science of hrtre risks, and to take, preventive meas- j i ores to decrease them; George W. Babw t of"- Ntw ; York is tUt" president, txiM Clarence E. Porter of Philadelphia is cnairman or. its committee on statistics. -Mr. Porter's committee knows that the 1 J cities which In all probability will bum next are the following, named ' Jhe orderpf thelrjtoe bazard,J,b,J, greatest risk named iirst; xew Orleans, Seattle, Boston, -Cincinnati, Philadel phia,- Chicago, New York,1 Str- Louis, Kansas ,Clty,. Mobile, Richmond ; (Va.), v IJartford and Lawrence Mass.) Many ' others have a fire hazard ..that? ranks'-j them only a little below these f r yy: 'C'-i 1-!' , - i