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'i judicial joss V - a-VEN' the bolts and bars of gj prison cannot shut in a prln- 1 cfplo. : It Is not the Jailed news paper men that the country Is 'condemning at Boise. It is the Idaho . supreme court that is under almost universal censure. The whole United States has taken . note of the court's action, and scarce ly a voice Is" lifted In defense of the -Judges.. Everywhere it is belny said that the Jailing of the men without a trial by Jury and without right of appeal closely concerns the whole question of human freedom, and that Jt presents an Issue that must be speedily solved. The weapon used by the court is a hand-me-down. When the govern ment was organized, the contempt ..prerogative ' passed into vogue in .'American, courts from use in, the courts of the colonies. Its authority Is the English common law dating hack through centuries and made up mostly of Judicial declsloi.8. That the rcoart had the power to ftry its own case against the- news paper men, that It had the right to ' ' try them, without a Jury . and, deny .them the right Of appeal is not de nied. Exactly snch a power should 'be expected in a Jurisprudence de- - rived from such a so urea, a source in which kings claiming divine right of ten made the law and acted as super supreme courts. It is such a Judicial system, modified only by the New York revision 1848, and made worse in many ways by more Judge- raade precedents under which our lit igation is conducted. . ,. It is under such a system that our criminals are tried. It is such a sys tem on which our courts are founded. It Is such a system that many -of our : lawyers worship with the idolatry with which a heathen worships a .joes. It Is stfch a system that the majority reportof the Oregon Judici- , ary commission says needs but little change" " 1 i.'-.'i . . .-, The; . power that was exercised in Idaho can .be exercised in Oregon. One reason why it has not been ex ercised in Oregon in recent years is "that Oregon has saner judges. An other Is that the sequel in one case In which it was employed in Oregon stands as a popular protest and a ' powerful warning; The.inslstenca on. clinging to these old legal Josses is Bourbonlsm. It is a lawyer's standpatlsm. It Is refusal to move forward in step with prog ress. ' V" " "The two Idaho Judges In their action were the last word in judicial ' reaction. They are militant reactlon " erles, and like all rectlonaries, po litical "and otherwise, they become blinder the nearer they get to doom. THE POLICE OP LONDON THE police of London number 1$, 000 men, that is, one policeman te 470 people. Greater London, under the charge of the metro politan police, covers 69,942 square miles, or about 15 miles from head quarters in Scotland Yard to each lolnt of the compass. This small army is governed by Wo Chief of Police, five superin tendents and fifty inspectors. J .The divisions of the force bear jrach a letter of the alphabet. The jA division la of picked men. It guards the royal family and their lalaces... It protects the Houses of Farllament, ana bears the brunt of J he attacks of the militant suffra gettes. When the King goes to Wind sor Castle men of the A division Irfver on his train, tnd watch Ji gainst anarchists and ether crim inals. "A" division men are also on duly at the dockyards, and at the government offices. The , filling of vacancies In the force Is by selection only. Soldiers av ho have served their army time with credit, are given a certain pref erence.;. . Until quite recently the London police carried no arms except the oaken stafr or club, in the use of ivhica they are carefully drilled. The Jlome Secretary is their nominal'su perloofflcer, but the Chief of Police la not Interfered with in actual prac ;tictjf : "There fa a great pride In the "force" common to all Its members. Black- sheep - among 19,000 there must of necessity be. But scandalous telations between members of the police and the underworld of Lon don, If they exist, have nevef been made the subject of public inquiry or attack.. In tho' poorer districts of the great city the policeman on his beat J a very often called onm mediator i.' nd Judse in family differences. He t.lght of a dirty -Jlttle urchl.t tnuU-ns by the side of a stalwan i. ()!):" on his way to the station ami so to Ms parents la no rard cutlon, but actually esrupo ft verdict gets beti.r together us :.n entirety, night la AVhltechapel or llcthnal of gjillty on the count selected. Or, as one complex instrument, more re Ureen. ' '., ;he may actually plead guilty to uponslve vtltli each concert to the In the very roughest neighbor- charges that could lb advanced and beat of the conductor. A word of hoods, the .pollcoman stllla riots and be acquitted on that on which ho iSjapprocIaUon may bo allowed to the disturbances more by moral force prosecuted. , . musician who yesterday filled that andabsolute foarloBsftess than by usa la the-federal statutes there is a important post with fairness, decision of his truncheon. Ho resorts to physl- dlfforcnt provision. ,llatf a dozen and insight Into the beauties of the tal force only as tho last resource, counts may be advanced and the Jury i master works that he directed. - Last year the. London rollce :-mad 127,317, arrests. They restored-14,- 711 persons to their friends, identi - fled 6183 culprits by their, finger. prints, and put out 221 fires. AT EiJIiO T HE Pacific Northwest is Intense ly Interested In pending con gressional action respecting the The engineers - have, recommended a continuing appropriation by which $1,200,000 will be available March 4, and $600,000 the following March. . They report that with such sums available a caving of $100,000 J in the final cost would be effected and completion be expedited by at least six months. . ,. The recommendations ought to Impress 1 congress. They ought to stimulate, every member of the Ore gon delegation and every member of the Washington and Idaho delega tions to great activity. The $100,000 that can be saved ought especially to impress con gress. "The project must ultimately bo finished, and If there Is a way to complete it at a saving of $100,000, why not eave the money? Mere reasons of business and common sense should ImpceB any congress man with the. importance of follow ing the advice of tbe engineers. Nor should the six months' saving of time be less lmprecsire. The pro ject must be completed some time, or all the millions spent on it be lost. If. worth, completing at all, why not complete it six months earlier, es pecially if In doing so $100,000 of public money can be saved? . . A navigated Columbia river will serve the Btate of Washington with almoBt if not quite the same" effi ciency that it will 'serve Oregon;' Nor will Idaho be far behind In reaping the benefits. The great grain fields of all three states, the livestock Inter ests, the fruit and all the other In dustries will bo aided Into a- far greater prosperity by the lowered freight rates that transportation on the improved river will bring. No action that congress could take would do more to serve the-entire northwest than would a proper care of the interests of the Celilo project. No activity to which members o' the Oregon delegation could devote themselves would better serve the state of Oregon. - TBE LONDON CONFERENCE 0! ft DECEMBER; 13 the London i conference between Turkey and ' the allied states of the Balkans ' convened, to disc uss the terms of peace. . ; , : - On December -3 an armistice had been, signed, suspending . yse opera- ons or tne war, except as to Greece, which continued fighting. Turkey secured the armistice after being ad vised of the terms demanded by the allies, which Included in the cecslon of Turkish territory, the ancient city of Adrlanople and the Black sea coast already conquered ami then held by the Bulgarian armies, and which was essential to the develop ment of the hinterland about which there was no controversy. From December 13 to the present day the Turks have played the game of delay to the full, trusting to the chapter of accidents for incidents to break up the Balkan alliance, and to develop friction between the Eu ropean powers. In all their hopes the Turks have been disappointed, and they are now at the end of their diplomatic devices. . ... If the war is resumed the fall of both Adrlanople' and of Monastlr Is imminent, with the result of the free ing of the Bulgarian army of not less than 60,000 men from Adrlan ople and of Greek and Servian armies from Monastlr Of at least equal num bers. The capture of Turkish troops to an aggregate of nearly 100,000 men is iuvolvfed in these suc cesses of the allies. The only Turk- Ish army left in the field will be that but with a notable absence of friction at the Tchatalja lines, which will be I and with much consideration for cpnfronted by forces greatly Its su- others. perlor. Mr. Laldlaw gave much thought It Is reported that the life of the and effort to the charitable and phll aged Austrian Emperor Is drawing anthropic work coming to him by to a close. If he dies before peace I reason of his official nositlon. and is concluded a most serious danger will have to be met, not only by the Balkan kingdoms, but by all Europe, when his successor, imbued with the , Idea of overlordship of all European Czechs and slays, mounts the throne. At that point unity of purpose for peace between Germany and Britain will be put to its severest test CUT AWAY THE DEADWOOD G" OVERNOR WEST'S suggestion for a repeal of the dead laws is a good one. Every lawyer knows that the code ls burdened with antiquated statutes and, senile measures that have no proper place in the busy commonwealth of today; Many otters, enacted In a time of primi tive conditions, are primitive in their horizon and are a hindrance rather than a help in tbeprmotlofe of Jus tice and good ordeiC - Thus, we have in Oregon a statu tory requirement that a criminal can be prosecuted on only , one charge, and that the prosecutor must elect in the beginning on what accusation he will stand In conduct of the case ceejlg,,?lbe testimony may unfold -in Such a way as to febow the defendant guilty on other counts that , could have becn,made the basis of prose- return a verdict on any or aU."jArJ, ' Blehl, for Instance, was. convicted In i the United States court, Saturday in the Columbia River Orchards case on three of the foui counts on which he was Indicted. : In the etute Courts he could have, been convicted on but one, and It" would have been neces sary to select that one' before the prosecution began.- ;; y i T The pruning knife can bo used to advantage in cutting away the dead wood in the Oregon statutes. . HUGE ALMS GIVING S UNDAY'S JOURNAL gave the figures of American benevo lences for 1912 at $282,572,222. Andrew Carnegie led In the giv- lng with $135,Q60,000. The total does not include the J. P. Morgan art gift, which Increases the aggre gate to $3 2 7,0 0 0,0 0 0. - r ?-r Incidentally, all these philanthro pies are not real philanthropies.' Mr, Carnegie s, girts,, for instance, are nearly all In United States Bteel se curltlos, and it is' the people of the United States who are paying the dividends on steel stock and interest on steel bonds. In the endowments in perpetuity with these securities, a perpetual charge is laid against the toll and enterprise of the American people which they, not Mr. Carneglo, must pay over and above what they earn for their , own uses, and the great Carnegie philanthropy becomes, not a Carnegie philanthropy, by an Amer ican people's philanthropy, forced on them as a charge against tbelr en deavors whether they want It or not , It Is Indeed, not a genuine benevo lence but a sham benevolence. Thus, concerning the steel securities, of which Mr. Carnegie's bounties con sist, the commissioner of corpora tions 4n Mr. Taft's administration re ported that the capitalization of the Steel trust exceeded the. value of its tangible property by $720,846,817. That Is to say, the money collected In interest and profits on half the se curities In Mr. Carnegie's benevo lences is actual Interest' and profits on imaginary capital that never ex isted, that Is thin air, and that is not and never can be tangible wealth. Jt is a great interest and profit charge against the ' wages of bread winners, against the Income of sal aried men, creating Increased rentals for those who are tenants and In creased prices for those who buy meat, bread, Clothing and the other j necessities of life. j It is better not to have such benev olences. We shall probably soon see the end of such greatnational alms. ,The Carnegies andQth.e Rockefel lers and tbe Morgans are likely to be the last of the great alms givers. The late election returns are omen that the country has determined to prevent a perpetuation of vhese enor mous accumulations by individuals, and that the system of such accumu- j latlons will be put aside by the de struction of monopoly. The country needs such a change more than it needs these phllanthro-! pies of millions. JAMES LAIDLAW T HE death of James Laldlaw will be mourned by a large circle of personal friends and associ ates, gathered in a residence in Portland for .more than forty years, and by a larger circle of business acquaintances with whom his duties as the British consul brought him into contact.. From 1847 to 1913 the British consulate. has been under Mr. Laldr law's charge, for the first 20 years as vice consul, since then as full consul. In a maritime city of Portland's growing Importance, where bo much of the traffic ot the port is carried In British ships, the duties of the British consul are no sinecure. By Mr. Laldlaw such' duties were dls- charged, not only with faithfulness, there he will be much missed. In his personal character he was a faithful citizen of Portland, his home city. He was a member of the congregation of Trinity Episcopal church and an office bearer In the Vestry for many years. There his loss will be much felt. THE PORTLAND ORCHESTRA T THE third concert of this sea son the Portland Orchestra again won the appreciation of a large and a mixed audience , that nearly filled the Helllg Theatre. ! mainly from labor, and, besides, dis The program was admirably chosen. f-wd a lower strata, -Resting upon the it had throughout the classical tone, SifftuSg, Sof fttSr! but In several of the numbers com- meat, labor unionists, except possibly blned much charm, lightness and J one oiy, are woefully incompetent to grace with the essentials of music ' !?fS!-th52fiu?- .They t00'- that has lasted or will last. And with music, as with books, that Is about the only real test. . The audience yesterday listened to the Beethoven symphony, which has te-j hind its beauties a life of nearly a (t "I century, but Is today as fresh and graceful and as satisfying as when first played by an orchestra' in which many musicians whose names are 4rohoudiol(lJsox'ia-were-prou4-44vtak part. Evidently the orchestra is grow ing In what ls sometimes raHed en semble", at other times team work. It Letters From tlie People (Communication . nt to Th Jonrnal for publication la tbl department ahould b writ tro on only otra ld ot tta paper, ahould not ncsed SOO Word iu If agio 1 sad rnuat b c eompaulad if th nam and adilraa of th aendcr. If tb writer doe not dcilr to bar Ui nam publlihad. b anould to aiat.) , The Problem of. Unemployment. : Klamath Falls, Qr., Jan. 2. To the Editor of The Journal-r Not long ago, there, appeared in The Journal, an article dealing with the number of people In Portland who would htve to depend on charity for their livelihood throughout the greater part of the coming year, It appears that all, or nearly . all, are sound in body. Nearly all are able to work. 'rM-..:;o,;jfAi;tl;' , Why is it that In: one of the most favored sections of the state" many peo ple able and willing to work are com pelled to depend on charity for a living? Ia It because there U not sufficient Evidently not. In Portland there is more capital In proportion to populatlqn than anywhere else , In the state, but mere are also more paupers. - It Is as difficult a problem to And profitable investment for capital as it Is to find work for the unemployed. Men with means are leaving- for Can ada before their money "Is all spent,! and worklngrnen who have saved a little are following their example. Of those who remain, the more skilled find It difficult to obtain employment, at wages but little in excess of their actual necessities, while the least skilled, al most wholly unemployed, are forced to depend for their existence upon the bounty, of the public. Is this condition due to population having exceeded the limits of subsist ence? If so, why induce more people to come? Why not steer possible settlers elsewhere or advise them to remain where they are? Of what use will it be to fix a minimum wage scale for wo men, If the land of Oregon will not produce enough to support Its people? Does anyone honestly believe that Oregon Is too barren to support its pres ent population? If not, then why 'are so many people able and willing to work and Inhabiting the most favored section of the state, compelled to depend on charity for a meager existence? Let The Journal answer: ' "In ten years, there has been an enormous growth and an enormous ad vance In land values In Portland. Whom has it helped, and whom burdened? In ten years, tenants have, through rise in land values, been compelled to pay a rent double, treble, or quadruple the former figure, or move out Higher rents increased the problems of business and made survival more difficult. They forced low salaries for employes and a more . slender margin of profits for the business man. "On the other hand, the owners of realty have had fortunes thrust on them almost unexpected and wholly without effort, risk or outlay. Some times affluence came over night as a free gift from a bountiful fate." It la a mathematical axiom, that If some obtain results without working, others must work without obtaining , results. Just so long as the owners of land ara permitted to absorb for their own enrichment the values which The Jour nal intimates have been "contributed heavily" by the Industry of others, just so long must this condition continue. This has been the history of every country in the world and is- the ruling condition today, except in those few places where a check has been put on unlimited speculation in land, and it will be the fate of Oregon unless the people see fit to change the constitution. But reforms come slowly, and it ls Just possible the people of Oregon will not permit a change in this respect until after many settlers who would otherwise come here have drifted across the line, into Canada. It is not custom ary to iock the stable until the horse haa gone. The remedy is no longer a theory; it is a fact. It will be found in the single tax, which is as effective as it ls simple. It requites no material change in our present machinery of government and will 'become operative Immediately the people say so. 1 But the people do not want it; they do not want, home rule; they do not want good roads; they do not want to abolish hanging. Perhaps In two years they may change . their minds. Let us hope so. f Let us hope tba the example set by western Canada ' will- prevail on the people of Oregon to act in the interest of justice and humanity before too many unfortunates and the good name of the fair state of Oregon have been sacrificed to selfishness and greed. FRED W. HTNDMAN. Boosting Business for 1013. Tortland, Jan. 3. To the Editor of The Journal Old books closed, the new opened, "how's business?" reven more frequent, and some boosters down south stimulating, let us glance at conditions; we sometimes go abroad for what is closest. Too many business men In cline to think of themselves as some thing apart, to look upon good or "rot ten" business as an edict from over head. While manufacturers, Jobbers and retailers are vital society factors, they are not primary, they ar simply spe cialized, labor. Business, as service, must have coordinating parts; it must hav people to serve, and the more peo ple and the higher their prosperity, the better aVo for business. Is it not just possible that our leading boosters, to the neglect of those here, pay too much attention to bringing outsiders? True, tn favoring, rather feebly, bet ter paid union labor, this has been to an extent recognized; but It is so trifling; wages can never be more than profits, and an increase of nrofita would coma sighted. With no reason, beyond stu pldlty. why every mechanic shouldn't; iio ir sum, mey are too wen con tented with that Just better than a mere existence which provides daily itmnkA And wa1c1v troatra t.n Th.., gauge their welfare by the unemployed, Plainly the question of better conditions I i&. X- .it. 1 business a vocation, not an avocation. They must make labor watii more and show the way tOTull pockets to satisfy awakened desires.: It doesn't take a keen business eyato sethat Jhe 15. , '(TOJ,000'"4hnuaTly . going, unearned, .to local holders of the people's land would, la -hands of earners, produce vastly bet' ter results; that monopolized resources, unlocked by the single tax key, would permit the idle poor, and compel the idle COMMENT AND .v'-;,':- SMALL CHANGE But there's Jackson day this month, ivi xfeiuucrais. Now the dear old tariff will eome to the front again for. six. months or ..." '' ' :,V :' ' .,' "" '. ;'. J. It iDrobnblv would ha butter to lef about nine-tenths of the coming bills die incubating. ' "u Boms very rich men literally owe everybody, but thoy don't know it and can't see it, ' The government net that caught the convicted dynamite conspirators stretched far and wide, ,, , ',:.. - i . ";:. 'y',-:r'' ' Man whom an accident befell "broke two legs," narrates a dispatch. His other legs were not injured, O well. It's likely to be nice out-of-doors for the attendants on the Chris tian Citizenship conference, v. f ,-' r v ' .(;; " i' ' ' Is It batter to have been-"somebody" and fallen down and out than to have always been Just '"nobody''? ? i ;t , '' ; - -.' " 1 V'; .-vY. M;.t:. YS'-'Y'i'YYY'Y:; ' Back east people are anticipating the annual January thaw. Hereabouts, any frecze-up 1 a matter ot doubt. ' Did anybody make a New Tear reso lution to condemn less and commend more: to think mora of. rood dona than of evil alleged?.' tv; Rome express company managers' say they can cut under., the government's parcels post rates, very wn. men; but they wouldn't have reduced rates tin the year v lis except lor me narceis pdst or on other compulsion..- NEW LEADER OF By Louise Bice. The oldest son of William Booth and Catherine Mumford was always, looked upon as the logical successor to his father, though a distinct, statement to that effect was never made. . He has been called the Moltke of the Salva tion Army, because of bis tremendous grip upon the reins or us govemmoni; but for him,' the exact and wonderfully detailed organization might never have existed, but so quietly has he worked behind the scenes tnat tn general pun lie does not realise, as yet, how power ful a personality has come into the world S -limelight. " Bramwell, more than any of the Booth children, resembles his mother, even In manner, srech and expression. He has a softly rounded oval face, and a clean youthful skin, which is accentuated by Wis prematurely white hair. Hit plat form manrier is also that of his moth er's; the penetratingly sweet and com pelling, rather than the virile and. pow erful one of his father. It Is In personal intercourse, bow ever, that his greatest power lies. He is preeminently magnetic, when met eye to eye. ilia handclasp Is subtly tender and' warm, and his taotfulnesa is of that rare kind, which conceals itself behind an apparent reliance upon others to do that very' thing which he is, at the actual moment, effecting. His knowl edge of all army matters is nothing short of phenomenal. Consult him on the most important scheme the army has ever evolved, and he knows all about it; qustlon him concerning some technical detail, and be then and there draws you a diagram which fully ex plains it He knows an enormous num ber of people, in and out of the army, by their names. He remembers faces. is naturally 8cholariy and whlch ls stocked with the best or cngisn literature. As the son of an epoch-making fath er. Bramwell Booth ls a brilliant ex ception to the usual nonentity. He is not a feeble Imitation of General Wil liam Booth, but a distinct and entirely different personality. Like every officer In the Salvation Army, th general's son, long before the actual army scheme had been worked out, had to begin at the be ginning, as now his own Children, in their turn, are doing. As be resem bled his mother in an almost morbid shrinking from publlctly, he has set to work, at first, among the children. By holding meetings, as a volunteer officer, in a slum cellar, he gathered around him quite a band of poor chil privileged, to create business. The sooner real business men realize that their Interest ls tightly bound up with that of labor, and start something, the quicker will come satisfactory condi tions. As patriotic citizens they muet lead in straightening out the industrial snarl. "Unearned wealth necessitates unde served want" B. T. S. When It Rained. Is it going to rain? No, not today". On, there may be a shower or two, For rain in Oregon, so they say. Is mostly In the form of dew. There are mett Still living arotind these parte. Who came here when it really rained. And who camped out with their oxen and carts, On places that seemed the best drained. And those good people say: "Oh. it's damp, But it ain't like it used to be In the days of the good old pioneer camp. When the rain was a sight to see." J. A, CLEMENSON. Subsidy va. Free Opportunity. In an article In one Of the January magazines, President David Starr Jordan writes on "Taxing the Cost of Living." He draws the following contrast be tween the theory of government as an Instrument "for the production of wealth and the theory of government as a guardian of equal opportunity for all citizens: "The fact ls plain. Wealth grows most rapidly when Its components are in the hands of those who know how to develop wealth. ' If the purpose of government is to ' increase national wealth by the quickest and surest way, the method of protection and subsidy is the surest. It does not increase In dividual wealth, for the struggling lit tle men must 'pay for the dominant big ones, but the method is sure and is receiving a brilliant trial in Germany. While we Investigate, harass, and dis solve our great industrial monopolies, Germany : renders every assistance that governmental alliance, protective tar iffs and eystems of rebate render pos sible. Every help that technical schools for managers, for experts and for Work men, can give, is also at their service. The value of this feature! to every ele ment in the Industrial world cannot be overestimated., , . ' .'5 '"This phape' of GGman administra tion is a model to the world, although in a democracy the theory and purpose of technical and industrial . education must ' be different. In Germany - the work ot the Individual is Intensified and encouraged in order thereby to exalt the state, Jri AtnericjtJ!e to the people and stilt exists for, their benefit, in .ng,iana, we two weas etju struggle fop mastery without complete victory of either. The primary bunlncfis of a democracy 1b Justice, neither to mnke money. far Itself ncr to help Its NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS The city council nf . Frit' rp Hse fins laUcii the flrut nU',t toward obtaininrf a Curncgie library. Ilermlston llorald: Considerable land Is be ng wold. It is but another evl' deneo of the fact that this section looks Kood to the nuui who ia looking for' a BHXO illVUBUUCUk. . . . Nehalem Enternrlse: The Bay City council is to bo commended tor voting a. iu miu special tax, tmir or wnicn is te be iMtd for street t Improvements and the balance for general purposes, : ; ;. .,., ; ; To lr.oreaso the town's water supply Ihe city council f Athena has lot a con tract for the drilling of a hundred-foot hole in the bottom of the excavation at the source of the city's gravity system. : .: v- ; r 'i'. ' '. ' '' Myrtle Creek Mall:. With walnuts selling in the local market , for about one-half cent each it would soem that walnut growers are "making money. Thc-y are making money, ana there 1 little? - prospect of the. Industry being overdone, s.,.i : .uw..-.. istoria iiBdeet: A 'carload of cran berry vines has arrived from Cameron, Wis., for tho Clatsop cranberry associa tion ana win De set out at once on wo association's holdings at West. It, Is expected that 50 acres will be ready for planting, between now and spring, r . Vnrv Wish- nimis U th; Medf ord Mai' Trlbui.es Now dear's Annual.'; It is not o large as some others or tne year, dm lack of mero size Is amply ctmpensated for In the Quality of matter tnd of ex?. i eutton. Th treatment' of topics is marked with - the comprehensiveness,: In etui led preference to minute detail anl l nitchaH in a hleh key. . The illustra tions are of more than ordinary beauty, A GREAT ARMY dren who tried to help their ' little comrades. '" Meanwhile, the army was growing rapidly, desperately in need of officers, and was beginning to find Itself fairly overwhelmed by the mass of detail work necessarily entailed by such a chem At that point, the general's oldest son stepped forward and began to system' atlze and organize until the office work or tne army oecame a moaei or us kind, and he showed the calibre of which he was made, when, with the late Wil liam Stead, he aided and abetted the struggle which the army began against what is now called the white slav traffic. '.-- "j--"-- - Mrs. Bramwell Booth war the daugh ter of a well to do physician, who sent her to London to a fashionable finish ing school, to see something of the gaieties of the town and to prepare herself for sooiety. One evening through a mishap, a theatre party came to nothing, and the head mistress, pitying the disappoint ment of the young grl.l took her to a Salvation Army meeting to which she herself was going. ' Mrs. Booth, the "mother" of the army, was one of the speakers at the meeting, and her im passioned appeal found an instant re sponse in the noble heart of the young gin, who almost tmmedatlely . began to look forward to joining the new re ligious organisation. She went to France with 'one of. the general's daughters, who is called the Marechale, battling through, the first troubled years ef the campaign in that country, and, at the feof 21, she became the wife of M.r. Bramwell Bootn. She threw herself with especial fervor Into the rescue work for women, Vhlch was then Just In its Infancy, and be came the leader in a branch of the army's work which lias spread to an al most unbelieveable extent. The first rescue home - was in a tumble down house off the - White Chapel road, and there were only young Mrs. Booth and a few women helper This was less than 25 years ago. To day there are rescue homes In every large center of Christendom and the workers in that particular branch era numbered by thousands. Mrs. Bramwell Booth, was a blue- eyed, golden-haired gtrl, with a blush rose complexion and an expression of mingled sweetness and firmness. . She Is a woman of rare social charm, still deeply blue of eye, and incredibly blush rose complexion, despite the constant pressure upon her, and her faith and ardor for the women to whom she has devoted her life are just as keen.' citizens to make it, but to see that all have an equally fair chance to do so. In this sense 'America means opportun ity,' and nothing more: Old age pen sions, enforced Insurance and the like at the most make slight amends for lost opportunity." . Always in Good Humor ' ' ' HALV AND HALF,'":,f From Tit-Bits. ' She 8oraetimes you appear really manly and sometimes you -are effemi nate, :. J :' ' ,.- I 2' .---' He X suppose It Is heredity; Half of my ancestors '.ere men and the other half women. ONE BETTER. A dear old lady had been presented with a parrot from the Congo, and she was showing it to her old gardener. Tou know, Horace, that this parrot comes from the Congo, and Congo par rots are so intelligent that they are al most human. This bird whistles 'Home Sweet Home' so beautifully that the teare run down its beak."- "Yes, mum," quoth Horaoe, "I knew them parrots from the Congo. I used ter ave one, and It whistled The Vil lage Blacksmith' so bewtiful that the sparks used ter fly. from its blooming tall." , . ,' . '..,..;: "That will do, Horace, you may go." 1P What $ in Sometimes We could print a book full of names, which, linked with cer tain essentials, have made fortunes. The essentials, are, first, an idea; second, quality; third, nation-wide publicity. . You know what made Milwaukee famous.: When you think of Minnesota you think of flour. The very mention of certain names makes you think of biscuits, breakfast foods, talcum pow der, chocolate, soaps, and numerous other things. '. - . ,: ' Each name stands for a product o! sterling worth and hon est price. - i ' - t . ' : '; ;.' ': Yr Y: .;vYY '.""'.' 'Y: : f-, ;Y Y'-YY''. ' 'XY ''''. i 'L V Y "w, The force which, impresses these names upon your memory -and makes the goodness and merit of these products known to you It ADVERTISING. ' ,f .-.'.--..i. ;''.4''.;!'.'-rV-.'sfc''" V-'i'I'-.-f !lJ '',v :;: '.'V, .v'-V. ;'., 'i',. f . Read the advertisements in THE JOURNAL closely and constantly every day, and you will always be familiar with the' .best Jhinga injif e Allhe.iiaxi:csjofU?roducU-tluteeaUy--a-guarantee of quality, ' ; (Copyrighted, 1912. by J. I. DynasaitinJ.Not Safe , . From the Chicago Vwt, , , There were exjn'eNsed 'yesterday con cerning the result of the UynmnHoiV trial at Indianapolis two opinions tint have especial public importance.' The firnt was 'that of tiarnuo! Com pere, president ofthe : American Kedcru tion p. Labor; the second thut of Jud Anderson as be pronounced sentence upon the 88 convicted defendants. ' . j Mr. Oompers, as he ls reported from New York, devoted himself to a dulense of the principles of unlonlmm, "The con dition of the workers," lie said, "jf there was no cohenslon, no unity, no union, would be too frightful to contemplate." Which remark, in these days, Is about as Important and as apropos as the nUto ment that it would be lnconven.ent for the public If there were no street cars. . 'The point at iamie at Indianapolis whs not the continued existence of the In ternational Association of Bridge ; and Structural Steel Workers, or of the prln, ciple of ' unionism, It was simply whether or not citizens of this country, whether labor leaders or not, were to be allowed to go about dynamiting bridges and buildings, destroying property and human lives at their own will, ' i;Y Y .",,!;' It is true -that the Steel i Workers' union has been a Gompers' union. In its rank and file it has been a conser- atfia, hriltf ' la AA . nnt hnlnnaitA fha I. W, , W. or ''extreme, v "direct actlon-V, qlass." Therefore Mr. Gompers may M j permitted to defend it, as much as he will, without criticism. : But, when ; a series of shocking and deliberate Crimes stretching oVer a period of five years is discovered and brought home to the union leaders, the most Important thing that Mr; Gompers could do for Ameri can labor would- be to, repudiate such. action and such leadership. lie, owes this to . the decent unionism ' that the country has come to respect ' i . ' . .. Contrast ' this narrow , partisanship with the measured Justice with which Judge Anderson weighed and adminis tered the sentences of the individual de. fendants. With hatred of the crime that was more Impressive because of the re straint exercised In respect to the crimi nals, the Judge said: . ; ; ; The evidence shows some of these defendants to be guilty of murder,- but they are not charged "here with that crime; this court . cannot punish them for It, nor should It be Influenced by such consideration in fixing the meas-. ure of punishment for. the crimes charged. ' ,. ' :'.. ; .. " . -'' '"-'" "The certainty of punishment, not Its severity, is. the important, consideration !; in the administration , of criminal jus tice. Such punishment should be meted out as shall warn others that even it they desire to accomplish lawful ends, they must not violate the law in the Kempt iu rcujjio mem. , ' t I.anfr, r tliaia rrtn dUam Holla in AW the court must repress that Indignation which every law abiding citizen natur ally feels at the crimes wlhch the evi dence In this case discloses-in addition to those for which the defendants have been found guilty, and, as near as may be possible, confine the punishment within its proper scope." In these sternly just words the opin ion of the country upon the trial and its punishment is, we believe, expressed with great accuracy. There Was a gen eral disposition, even among those whose sympathies are "liberal" and prolabor, to voice a demand for the extreme pun ishment possible under the cumulative Interpretation of the law. Those Whose sympathies are on the other side of the great conflict between capital and labor have not hesitated to say that the proper punishment fqr murder ls hang ing. ., .. . ..-1' '' Yet, when the passion of the moment haa subsided, it is our Judgment that public opinion will come to recognise the wisdom, of the - scrupulously graded prison sentences which Judge Anderson passed. There can be' no back cry of "persecution" In the verdict and its in terpretation. There can be no real as sertion that innocent men were unjustly punished. "The certainty of punishment, net its severity, Is the important consideration In the administration of criminal jus tice," said Judge Anderson, The long arm of the law has at last fallen upon the men who dodged It and sneered at It day in and day out, for year after year. This cold f aot ought to bring to an abrupt end one of th moat disgrace ful phases that our Industrial history has known, " Pointed Paragrapkj Patience may be a virtue, or it may be simply laziness. ;; '" ' A woman's intuition can beat a man's loglo to a conclusion, . Some men expect a receipt tn full when they pay a debt with promises. People who throw bouquets at them-' selves are not necessarily ford of flow era. - ., . , .-.. ;. .. In after yeara it rosy come te pus that a spendthrift hasn't the cents he was born with. Probably a man never appreciates his wife so clearly as when he wants t use her as an excuse for not going to war. The minister who feels sad when he reflects on the sorrow of humanity ls apt to feel sadder still when he re-Y llecta on the amusements. The mere fact - that a man doesn't laugh at his own jokes it ls no indi cation that he doesn't think them funny. After a girl has tried every other way to get a proposal and failed, she takes to standing at the side door with her . sleeves Tolled up and an apron on. a Name? a Fortune. Fallon.) V --.- ' .v..