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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURIjAL, PORTLAND. V SUNDAY MORNING, j FEBRUARY 2, 1313. rrTTT" TKTtnT T. A IVDEPEKDEXT tWEWSPAPEB t. 6. JACKSON.,.. .....PobHahar f wuiikfced ' f tenia irirept SooJa7) and u-7 guDdit.ftomlnf at Ibe Journal Botl- tutored at h r.iatrrrtr at PurtllBd. PT. f r traimmiskkia throe the suite a aeeoud . matter. - 1 1 I Kl-iHi.NKH Vla T17S; Horn, A-OOSL Alt denrtmenU reached by tbr aamtwte. JH lb operdor what department roa wmi. ai'KilU.H AlVKaUSINU KEPHKSKNTATlVa i-"njnailn Kentnor Co., BrantwKk Balldlnf i.i I-inn arenae. New or. uu mM" - MulitMni. -Chteaso. . - . . bubsciipttoa Tenua tr diU or u ur anrtraaa lu ua bulled Bute or Maxleot. - 0n rear....,,3.0O t One month I . t ECMOAT ' Ooe jrea.,.,.,..J.80 I Ooa menta. ...... .25 DAILY AKO SUNDAY fine rear...:.,.. 17.60 I On month...,.,..! If you ware born to honor, show It now; : If put upon you, make the Judg-.- ' merit good : That thought you worthy of It - Shakespeare. WILL IT ACT? 7S THE legislature going to force the people of the state tojesort to the initiative for ; reform of court practice and procedure! Are the lawyers In the body to whom other members obviously look for Initiation of the reform going to defy public sentiment and permit the session to end without action? Do the lawyers not know jtbat If they fall to eliminate the follies and flapdoodle that the people will take the matter kf court reform into their own unskilled hands? Three weeks of the legislative ses sion have expired .But three weeks yet remain. All that has been done is the introduction of a, few popgun bills for Bo-called reform, which in reality mean nothing and do notn Ing. There has not even been Intro duction of bills to cover the very In adequate reforms proposed in the majority report of the Judicial com' mission. . - : " There Is wide complaint of over use of the initiative. : What can be .XAecteib.Bt.:j6Yef:MPttlJnltJaV- tive if the legislature ;m8tently re fuses to accede to the demands of pronounced public sentiment? What is to be expected but that. If the leg islature won't act, the people will? December 7, 1.909, President Tat, one -of the notable jurists of 'the country, said in a message to con gress: In my Judgment, a change in the Ju dicial procedure In both civil and crim inal cases, constitutes the rreatest need in our American institutions. I do not doubt for ' one moment, that much of the lawless violence and cruelty exhib ited in lynehlngs is directly due to the uncertainties, and Injustice grrowln- out of the delays. In trials, Judgments and the executions thereof by our covets. The late David J. Brewer, then a justice of the supreme court of the United States, said in an address: , There Is no duty more Imperative upon the bar and the toench than to do what they can to simplify matters and put technicalities out of the way and eee to: it that substantial Justice Is ad ministered. ,. Too many' appeals are granted when Justice does" not demand It. ! A ior simple way to put it Is to say that our courts trifle with Justice by permitting delay after delay upon mere technicalities. I advocate that the states shall -enact laws that will permit of but one appeal after the trial Judge. Andrew D. White, one of America's greatest diplomatists, said:. , ' One of the worst results of this de plorable condition is the growing opin ion which, we meet on all sides among the people at large that men with money can so easily defy Justice by every sort of chicanery that there Is virtual Im punity for the highest crime. Frederick N. Judson, a famous at torney of St Louis, said: Pome twenty-five years ago a search- ing - investigation was made of the causes of the delays In the administra tion of Justice, and it was found then that the average length of a civil suit in me umzea Mates vanea rrom a year a half to six years. The special tan'and Brooklyn are in the grip of the' white slave trust, which en gulfs by far the greater part of their miserable earnings. Or that regular auctions are . held at an - appointed place where these victims , change masters at high prices. This witness says that about ninety-five, per cent of the women in this life are "either abducted and foreed Into It or are lured Into It by false promises." Traffickers send women Into con grestedhopptng-eenters to meet Irls who are unaccompanied, make their acquaintance, and introduce them to the male agents of the nefarious trade. Others work In sweat shops and among the poorly paid factory girls, ; Many of the victims how many will never be known are for cibly abducted on the streets and In the parks of the city. - All this has long been known In general bat never till now has been forced to recognition by the con-; science of the people. It Is incredi ble that anything but Ignorance is responsible for the tolerance that commerclallied vice has met and that plea is now made Impossible. The English law just passed drastic. It adds for the male white slaver the' punishment of ; the lash It adds to the powers of the police for the instant pursuit and arrest of suspected parties' of both sexes. It increases the term of hard labor sen-' fences for all those convicted. The male parasite is also punishable by the lash on a Becond conviction. Warnings have just been given by the British government to all opera- tors in telephone exchanges in order to put every employe on her guard against the wiles of the agents of the traffic. Specific instances are set forth in which false telegrams have been used, and women garbed as hospital nurses acted as decoys for unsuspicious girls. The white slavery campaign ; is taking an international scope. Every civilized nation is falling Into line. Murderers nowadays can hardly es cape .v their! doom by flight. The white slaver is still more the com mon enemy, and . every good . man's hand should be against him In every and. only Bees to his flock-on the grain men joined him, of the same stamp stubbles and on; the, clover - and as the. original Chinese Cambridge clnqfoln fields through the months: seven of fall and winter, but he Bets up and moves the hurdles, or moveable fences,', on the turnips and rape, by which ' the sheep acecompelled to clean up as they go on their winter and spring feed. At lambing time. in January and early February, the shepherd spends all his time with the ewes, sleeping In the field In a little cabin on low wheels, which la shifted from place to place Is THE ASSESSORS BILL r and committee reported that If It were nos sible to put into ten wons tne chief causes of the delays and uncertainty in our Judicial procedure, they would say: "Complex procedure. Inadequate Judici ary, procrastination, retrials, and un reasonable appeals." Mayor Gaynor of New York, a jurist of ' conspicuous distinction, safd: . : ' . The Judicial department of our gov ernment Is the least efficient of all departments. The technicalities and de lays would not be tolerated In any other department of the government. The way the higher courts of late years have been declaring statutes passed for the economlo and social welfare uncon stitutional and void is intolerable. It has got. to be stopped. If we do not stop It, other people will stop it over our heads, Here are expressions from the highest "authorities in America. To ' them could be added unlimited dec larations or the same purport. Even the American Bar association, that "eminent tody of ultra conservatism, vent on record in its Seattle meeting HE assessors' bill is a daring raid on Multnomah county tax payers. ' It creates new jobs. It adds new salaries. It makes places for more, tax eaters. It opens new ave nues for spending public money, Nobody ever introduces a bill to eliminate any of the Jobs. When a position Is once created It. seems to endure till the crack of doom. ' The cost of the national govern ment in 1798 was 11.34 per capita. In Cleveland's first administration. it was S3 per. capita. Sixteen years ago it was $6 per capita. It la now $12 per capita. In 1816, there waB on the federal pay rolls, one employe for every 1300 of population. Now there is one for every 180 of population. In all tranches of - government, federal, state and municipal, the rally of the officeholders goes on. Bills like that which has just passed both houses at Salem for the Mult nomah assessors office, is the expla nation of how it happens. This bill adds sixty to seventy-five per cent to. the number of permanent deputies in the assessor's office. After making these additions, it leaves to the county court the power to appoint more. It raises the num ber of permanent deputies from about twenty to thirty-five. It does this at a time when the exemption of household furniture from taxation relieves the office of one phase of its work, and lessens rather than increases the need for deputies. Deputies were formerly needed to make a house to house can vass in taxing household goods, but fthis duty is now eliminated. The law should have been allowed to remain unchanged. It waB within the authority of the county board to provide such deputies as are re quired. The county board is in the best position to know how many dep uties are heeded: To know how many deputies are needed is one duty of the county board. The leg islature, on the other hand, is not in position to know anything about it- The very character of the measure is its condemnation. The measure ties the hands of the county board as to limiting the number of deputies, but leaves it power to increase the number. Yet it is the county board that is in the best position to intel ligently exerclBe disinterested au thorlty on the subject. What folly, in the premises, for a legislature to When the . grain harvest is over the Eastern Counties farmer jour neys to the Irish cattle fairs, or to some of the Southern and Western English fairs in districts where young cattle are raised for sale.' There he buys "feeders" two or three year olds, ; to the number of 100 or 125 for such a farm as we are describing. When these young cattle arrive they are divided up into bunches of ten or fifteen and shut Into the yards and sheds surrounding the big barns on the homestead. Through the win ter months they are fattened, for market on beets, turnips, mangolds, and full rations of linseed oil cake, with all the oat straw and "cavlngs" as the oat husks from the thresh ing are there called that these cat tle can eat,: . They go to the London market in spring, and are expected to more than double their original cost The return from the quarter of the farm in wheat, oats and barley is large In Oregon eyes. . Such crops have often been matched here. But there, by means of etockfeeding and Its results, and of careful manuring the English farm sustains, or even Increases, Its yields year by year. Such farming depends on village labor. Not less than eight or ten men, and as many boys as have filled their minimum of school time, find -all the year employment on such a farm. Their weekly wages are Indeed low, but are helped out by a large increase for the six or eight weeks of harvest, by the privi lege of gleaning on the wheat fields which are left unraked after the grain has been carried, and by an "allotment", of an acre or more for each man1w.iacjihe..MiLllii.. family, cultivate tor their own use aftef the day's work is done, and toy the nomi nal rent of cottages, to which good gardens are attached. In a few weeks they are to sail. The tribeof savages ta whom they go are called the Nlam-NIams.. They number about a million and a half in - the ? Belgian Congo and several millions more in the French Soudan. '.They are a brave and hardy race the men are workers In iron and are great hunters, the women cul tivate the Boil. They have been classed ascanhlbils until lately but the spirit of the age has reached darkest Africa, and they have asked for teachers to be sent them. Now mark the' essentially British program Mr. Studd and his f riend3 will plant themselves on: the near est point of their ex-cann!bal friend's territory and learn the language, They will there build houses; and plow and sow and plant until their first settlement Is Belf-supportlnsr. The another station will be pushed forward and the process repeated, and then another.' They will be first civiuzers, then teachers, but mis sionaries all the time. They know no fear nor hesitation. In the sign of the Cross they have faith that they will conquer. This Is no invasion for territory, for trade, or for profit.- Their capital Is their lives, and those they willingly risk; Many on both sides of the Atlantic wilLkeep an eye on the new "Africa Inland Mission." AT SALEM T HE house at Salem Is to consider Monday the governor's veto of the bill which confirms title to several large tracts of swamp land acquired from the state on a certain land certificate. The veto insists that the question able title to the property is not one for the legislature to pass upon, but A VETERAN'S EVIDENCE B' ISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS, of the Methodist Episcopal church in Illinois, has been for fifty years in the forefront of prison and penitentiary, reform. For more than twenty-one years he has been president of the Board of Managers of the Illinois State Reformatory sys tem, and holds that position still, in spite of his seventy-eight years of active life. He has. had personal re lation to the paroling of 8000 pris oners. ;':. .;. -i ;;. Fifty years and more ago, when his services as a chaplain in the Civil war had ended and before he was elected bishop, he was a leading figure- In the- fight- that ended capital punishment in Wisconsin. That state then abolished the death penalty and has never even Wanted to go back to it. ; Bishop Fallows has been for two weeks or so in San Francisco. The question of prison reform, and the humane treatment' of prisoners is still an issue in California and the Bishop was interviewed on the sub jects' which have been the life work of his later years. On these things he spoke freely. Indeed enthusias tically. ' He learned that in California there were clergy still In favor of capital J enced a change of heart and kindly sug- Eugene. We await the answer from Eugene as to whether or not these dan gerous characters are wanted there. :The writer recalls that in 1895 men outV work and asking for H In Eugene were put on the streets with ball and chain fastened ; to thefr ankles.. Of course, under: ' Eepubllcan prosperity wai method would hardly be followed now, Men 6t this class would now probably be told to move on up the line and kept moving, by the various municipal police officers, until poor old A3hland waaL reached,-and- they- would rn y. b,' tftken care tempo rarily at least, as many of them were r.i. " ?y B0 0 mission, main tained largely bv a rhnroh -. one of the regular contributors to that '"i"' was a rormer saloonkeeper, who has a pretty good heart In his n,0,!- 40 n?t know whether such a mission la maintained this winter or out ao Know that the Sunshine so ciety dispenses aid Judiciously among the needy, both transient and resident; and for the past two years there have been a goodly number of the latter cla fa well as plenty of the former. Evidently a society with true Chris- wan pnncipies is not wanted in Port land, though badly needed, particularly $Lonr Ahe cIty PoHcemen and . Judges. why aid not v thl8 klnd Judga 8Ugsest to these : vagrants ; fas I annnnia t, would term them) to go down to New York city and take the places of the striking waiters thereT ' , I wonder if nnonia Maitu r tlon of affairs generally on the coast? The writer knows of men who, having " mey naa in we rruit business here-(and there Is no work to be had now), picked up and scattered put to find employment to keep off starvation. Borne went to Eugene, which 1 doubt- ictjo overaone. Others wnt tn w.. ku. i : . .. w...vu nag now closed its mius on ao counts of the frost in the orange dls u luia. I have ho use- for th - Trnf.in.i tramp or loafer, but it seems high time Borpo oiner metnod of dealing with the unemployed should be found that will be more sensible than the present one of driving them from place to place by bulldozing bluecoata. That hell hole that burned out ' In Portland a few weeks ago was a refuge b mm ua iib patrons naa a few dimes to spend. The city allows it in mm along With others. "Whv not nrAiiair. a society that is trying to help, tempo rarily at least, In giving aid where It is nwsi neeaeai j m B. that It should be done by the State Land Board to the end that there may I punishment, against liberal parole, be a full investigation and the pu b- against what is termed "sentimental- 11c school fund be properly pro tected There Is not the slightest doubt but the governor is right. The leg islature of 1911, which passed the measure, had no dependable infor mation on which, to base its action. The issues in such a proceeding are a proper subject for careful Investi gation, even by a Judicial tribunal, if necessary. The legislature of 1913 is no bet ter informed. Members cannot defi nitely, or authoritatively say that the interests-of the public school fund are not sacrificed by the bill. The governor insists that the mat ter of these titles should be passed upon by the State Land Board, and he is right. The State Land Board is constituted for just such purposes. If the bill under consideration is in good faith, if there is no taint on the title to these tracts, if the school fund has no just claim on them, why should there be hesitation in leaving the matter with the State Land Board. But doubtless, numerous popgun statesmen in the house will fume and fret their hour upon the stage and pass the measure over the veto, re gardless of the Interests of the com mon schools. TO THE HEART OF AFRICA j T by a vote of 60 to 22 in favor of ! assume to know the reauiremnt nf changes for limiting appeals and re-! the assessor's office, and to fix the trials under the federal statutes. When ' the gentlemen of the Ore gon bar; resist change, they are standing la front of the wheels of the great Juggernaut of progress. As llayor Gaynor said, "If we do not Ft op It, other peopJe will stop It over our heads." ; , WHITE SLAVERY -HE deeper the probe into the I abomination of iniquity known 1 as White ' Slavery the more startling are:the disclosures . Nothing in the often cited report of the Chicago Vice Commission equals the horror of . the testimony Riven . before the Curran Committee In New York by Samuel H. London, the Rockefeller ' Investigator Into conditions in that great city and summarized , in an 'editorial in Fri day's Journal J;T-K. - The bare outline is enough. Who . ."iTrirthir-flaoniTieaera'; ; ,i that 36,500 women In ManJxat- limits of assistance therein on ir revocable lines. The bill has passed both houses and is now in the hands of the gov ernor. It ought to be vetoed. AN ENGLISH FARM I N VIEW of the lament in this country over the falling off of the meat supply from our farms and ranches, and the general appeal to our farmers to add to their pro duction, It may be interesting to re call the way In which the same prob lem has been met in the old country for many years. In. the central and eastern coun ties of England a farm of 650 acres Is not much over the average In size. On such a farm, a flock of 650 sheep one per acre Is kept up, a certain proportion ot older sheep and of the year's lambs being' fattened each winter and spring for market TnTbnsToTmrseT! in the profits. The shepherd not I to Cambridge for recruits, end three WENTY-SEVEN years ago C. T. Studd, a graduate of Cam bridge university, an all round athlete, a, cricket player of re nown and jynarked man in the uni versity, aSaonisbed his friends and admlreflU'y announcing that his life work was to be changed and that he had determined to become a mis sionary for Christ. Deeds followed words quickly. Six of Mr.' Studd's university friends threw in their lot with him. The .group was quickly known as "the Cambridge seven." They sailed for China very Boon, and began work as members of the "China Inland Mis sion." The name implies that they left the seaboard cities, and touch with European friends, and took their pilgrim way into the far in terior, where "foreign devils" was the epithet by which they would be known so long as their lives were spared. There Mr. Studd and his friends have labored from that day to this, contributing their unadvertlsed part to preparing the Chinese for the rev olution In life and religion which is in progress. ' But this . man has the spirit of a religious , pioneer. His English friends were startled a few months ago by the news that he was coming home, not to remain, but to start a new missionary work. As soon as he arrived in London Mr. Studd announced that he was going, as soon as he could get off, to open a mission in the heart of the Belgian Congo, in the center of Hewenl lty" in the treatment, of prisoners. He replies that "sentimentality" whenever carried into effect has meant a great, a tangible, a practical Improvement in men and conditions -rthat it Is not only Chrlstlanltjr but the best of "business." These are his conclusions, which carry weight by reason of his earnest study and his long experience. But how does he sustain them? Half a dozen years ago In Illinois one of the largest Chicago papers, month aftef month, day after day, hammered away with the charge that the city was under a reign of terror directly caused by the fool ishness of the Bishop's prison board over the criminals. Thereupon the Bishop took a trip to every prison in the United States, including San Quentln. He compiled exhaustive statistics without end. He secured figures about the paroled. He obtained .percentages of second offender criminals, - comparing pa roled with discharged men. He got statistics of murders where capital punishment was. maintained and where abolished.' The result was published In the Chicago papers on his return. Criticism stopped. The figures, he says, were incontroverti ble. The lesson of facts could not be denied. The World's Work, published the result of the Bishop's journey, and thousands of copies were then cir culated in America and In England. New copies, he says, will be obtained shortly. Since then the Illinois Prison Board has gone on its way rejoicing. It bases Its whole policy on the inde terminate sentence. No Judge can decide on the length of sentence. The Prison Board arrives at its de cision on applications for parole after full personal" examination of each case, with detailed reports from the prison officers. Every prisoner, ex cept the life-timer, is entitled to present his petition for parole when a year of imprisonment has expired. Bishop Fallows believes that char acter is formed, nine tenths by en vironment, one tenth by heredity. With these views we can understand his urgency that such environment as contributes to crime must be reformed. The Law Against Profanity. Portland, Or. Feb. L To the Editor or The journal It seems to me that the time is ripe to have law enforcement brought out f rom the Junk heap and-put into operation. We have a. fine set of laws, many of which evidently are not known to the average man or woman, or legislator, for that matter. For in stance, there Is a new law being put through the present 'legislature to for bid profanity outside of i Incorporated towns. What Is the mattpr with forcing the law we already haveT It is good. Bead It. Here It is, as It ap pears tinder the title, "Obscenity Pro fanity and Indecency": ' "Section 1870. Provides that any per son who shall Import, print, publish, sell, lend, give away, distribute or show, or have In his possession with that Intent, any obscene or Indecent book, paper, picture, or anv artirio m instrument of Indecent or immoral usa. v. nu onuii inni or puDiisn any such book, paper or picture, or who shall ad. vertlse the same, or shall sell, lend, give or show to any minor child, any publi cation principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime, or who Bhall exhibit Jn any public or other place which may be in the view of any minor child, any of the publications or articles nereinoerore mentioned, or who shall use or employ any minor child to distribute any of the publications or articles hereinbefore mentioned, upon cuuvicuon wereor, snail be punished by Imprisonment in' the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than three years, or by a fine not less thun fiw. hundred nor more than fifteen hundred aouars. - "Section 1871. Provides that any per son who shall be guilty of any violent, riotous, or disorderly conduct, or who shall use any profane, abusive or ob scene language upon any grounds used or kept as a watering place, or place of public resort, outside of any Incorpo rated city, or who shall be guilty of such Violent, riotous or disorderly con duct, or use any profane, abusive or obsoene language in any house or build ing upon such grounds, shall, upon con viction thereof, before any justice of the peace of the county, be punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars. "Section 1897. -Provides that If any person shall willfully and wronr full v commit any act which grossly injures the person or property of another, or which grossly disturbs the public peace or health, or which openly outrages the public decency, and la Injurious to pub- nc morais, sucn person, upon convic tion thereof, shall be punished by Im prisonment in the county Jail not less than one-nor more than six months, or by fine not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars. "Section 1908. Provides that any person convicted of disorderly conduct or of using obscene language before la-1 dies, shaH be fined not less than fle nor more than twenty-five dollars." Now, then, if' Incorporated towns will duplicate it and have a like law as city ordinance, then enforce both, , it might do some goxL I also desire to call attention to other parts of this state law. What about the relation of Impure literature to the pres ent t vice conditions? What about our news stands exhibiting papers that in culcate Immorality! Is it done? Go and see. ..- v There Is another law that seems to be non-enforclble, according , to the action of police officials. I have reference to the law prohibiting owners of build' lngsfromTentlng them for any Im moral purpose. ' Why Is that law a dead letter T If enforced, how could there be any "red light"' section In WJ city? Why not have a bill In the legislature that In soma way will compel enforce ment of the law? What Is the use of passing ' three or four hundred laws. more or less, at each legislative sea nlon, and then putting them all on the shelf and struggling on with bad con. ditions. Ignoring the fact that law en forcement would go far toward clean ing up things? These and many other questions arise and will not down. OBSERVER. . Road Legislation. ' Oregon City, Or., Jan. 30. To the Editor of The Journal It looks to me like this hitch and controversy 1n the legislature over the road . bills might be easily settled so that It would be satisfactory to a great majority of the people In the state, by Just fixing It so as to levy a direct tax, each year,. on all the property In the state, of H mill (or I think, one mill would be much better), for a state road fund, and then create a vehicle tax and add that to the state road fund, and then - divide this state road fund up among all the counties in the state In accordance with the number of miles of publlo road la each county, giving, the Paciflo High Way Its regular proportion along with the rest of the roads In the state. Then require each county to divide its share of the state road fund un with all the different road districts In the county, In aocordance with the number of miles of publlo road In each road district, and let the road districts put their share of the state road fund along wit w their share of the county road fund, ana with any special tax they wish to levy, and use it anywnere in tneir district, and in any way, that a majority of the vot ers, at a regular road meeting, may di rect. . Then . fix things so that every road district can elect its own super visors, and have the supervisors de pendent on the people of their district ior tneir position, instead of on the county court, and then the people will see that there Is no waste of the monev. andL-they. will Je satisfied and the con dition of the roads will be improved as fast as the people are able to improve them, and the work of building the roaas, ana tne-roaa funds will be dis tributed all over the counties, Just where it should be, and there will be general prosperity all over the state. Give us a satisiactory road law. GEORGE HIEINBOTHAM. Twenty Million for Roadi . From the Seattle Times, u The most ambitious project placed be fore ; the state legislature at this ses sion is that embodied In house bill No. 88, which contemplates the designation of a system of state highways and the Issuance, of bonds in the sum of 120, 000,000 to pay for the work. , . The entire project, should it be an. proved by the legislature,' is to be sub- iniueu to vot of the people of the State as the general election In 1914 ' The question of the amount to h -T. pended on this work Is one to be deter mined by experienced road builders and the representativea of the several coun ties oi tne state. - - s : House bill No. 68 which , outline a system of highways reaching through out the commonwealth, undoubtedly of fers but the groundwork for the solons. It will be modified to suit the idea of the majority In either house. . Of the need for bettor rnaAa In Wash. ingion, however, there can be no ques tion. No issue before the people l more .Important or more vital to their oest interests. , i. Washington lacks ihoroushfaraa Min. nectlng the various Important communis ties Within Its borders. ,, Th t. large, so young and so newly come into the possession of these road conven iences , that . have been . developed through long years in others, that only by systematic efforts an llhn prlatlona can it enter the most advanoed American commonwealths In this respect. ;.; - ; Throughout the countrr thr f. . general demand for organised develop ment work of this nature. The old sys tem of county appropriation and con struction is being vigorously attacked by men who have attained widespread recognition as leader in tht ti endeavor. ' Coordination of roadu within ---. and of tha thoroughfares of adjoining states so as to form continuous paved highways Is declared to be the great If publlo moneys appropriated to thla use are properly safeguarded. If the operations are kept out of politics as far as possible and If competent engin eers are employed to carry the work to completion, a good roads movement in- augurated by the present legislature on a broad scale would redound to the ben- T u.f lverjr COUIty and every city In Washington. , . News Forecast of tne Coming Week The Eight Hour Law. Portland. Jan. 28.-To ;th Kdltnr nt i he Journal.--! see In this evenings journal mat our representatives at Salem are going to make eight hours a working day for women. I wonder tf they ara sure we all want It. I am a working woman and work in the laun. dry, on piece work, having nlne'hdurs work, and am satisfied with my pay aao-my nours. i aon't see why I should 8 ivrueu iu ions ieBs oi eitner to sat isfy somebody else, and all of m fi. low workers in this department fi the same way. I have been in the tun piace ror several years, and am at my place at 7 every morning and ready to go to work when the bell rings at 7;30 a. m. i oon i see now a law couia he con stitutional to keep people from working as long as they like. I doubt If these people who are mak ing such a fuss about the poor work ing gins would be "willing u pay any mum lur iuib wuik. The stores may need less hours. don't know. The telephone girls Ijave naa eignt nours ior a long time. It will taxe almost a days work from us every wee wmcu we cannot arrora to lose. A LAUNDRY WOMAN. license Exemption for Veterans. Portland, Jan. 27To'the Editor of ine journal xou have my approval, as a whole, of a list of bills submitted by you to the assembly; but there are others, one of which I will submit to the governor and assembly, to-wit: That any old comrade of the Civil war, re gardless of the fish or game laws Of Oregon, ao long as it Is not done for market, and the G. A. R. button prop erly worn, shall be the only license requirea. this would be taking no money out of the treasury. It would be giving the old boys recognition, in advance of other states, and would be appreciated by them. I have lived in Oregon four years. I have had two fishing and two hunt ing licenses, and have hot caught five pounds of fish or killed anything larr than a rabbit; still I have the Inclina tion, juast year I felt too poverty stricken to procure license; and there are others. PHA TEFFT. Formerly of Co. G, Seventh Kansas Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. " ' ADVENTURE I Letters From tne People Conmunlctions mt to The Journal for publication in tbU department boo Id b writ, ten on onlr one aids of tba paper, ahould not exceed 8UO worda in lonctb and moat be ac companied by tbe name and addreaa of tba aender. It the writer doet not dmlre to have tba name pubUabed, be ahould ao ttata.) Police Justice Criticised. Medford, Or., Jan. SO. To" the Editor of The Journal I notice in. The Journal of January. 26 reference to the whole sale arrest of men. found at a refuge which seems to be .kept up by a society of humanitarians. I did - not .see the news Item, but Infer from the communi cation that' the. Portland sleuths had discovered a gang of murderers, anarch- toropio juage, woo, arter threatening them with rocltplle sentences, experl- By Dr. Frank Crane. A hundred and sixty thousand strik ers marching the streets, including 30, 000 girls. What is the cause? Low wages and long hours and the like? No: those constitute the occasion. There is a difference between the oc casion of a thing and its cause. For instance, the moonlight, the garden gate, the spring air, and the fact that nobody was looking, were the occasion of the kiss; the cause of it was the youth-bubbles in two healthy young people. So while the occasion of the strike Is upsatlsfactory work conditions, the cause Is the spirit of adventure. Political economists, legislators, and learned theoriiors on sociology seem to take account of almost everything else in human nature except the fact that people every now and then simply have to "huet loose." The appetite for adventure is as nor mal and constant in the human spirit as the appetite for food Is In the human body. - ' . i The man who can keep books in a bank alt day and then go to bed. and do thlB every day in the year, is not a man, be is an automaton. . The little girl who asked her mother if, when she got to Heaven, she might not go down to the . other place once in a while and play, expressed a racial craving. ; When girls tit all day stitching shirt waists ; . t'Beam and gusset and band, Band and gusset and seam. Till over , the buttons they fall asleep And saw them on In a dream, or when they tap the typewriter hour after hour, or watch the loom, or fold paper boxes,, the youth-stream in their hearts is rising and threatening th. dam-ef -propria yr the- t-f adrerrttird is growiua aeen 10 tne point of mad ness, Who can blame them If they seise upon the strike as the occasion of desperate frolic? . h??- a chance t0 d0 8ne- thing wild, different, primeval It is a rebellion against the humdrum and commonplace. But it Is a sad evidence of the bitter playfulness of the Amer- lean people. - .' The oppressive feature of thee great city Is Its stupid earnestness. Day after day it grinds on. like a huge fac J', "rlnd,nS human creatures in and grinding money out There are no car nivals, no street shows, no sitting at lit tle tables on the sidewalk basking no congregating In great gardens to sip beer and hear muslo and chat, as In con tinental Europe, s , . . Our so-called amusements are pathet ic. The theatre Is expensive and ror you go there and sit straight up for two hours as if vnu . class in school. Our concerts are all given under the same oppressive condi. tions. 'America, the youngest of na tions, does not know how to have fun. ' Adventure! The children at .least have a right to It Risk, danger; de prive your child of this and you cruelly wrong him.' . ; - . . Adventure! It lg the worklngman's right also. The most drab feature of his Ufa la net his wages or work condi tions; It Is that he has no time to play and does sot know how to play even If he had the time. . , ; , . Why do men get drunk? It Is for that little spot of adventure, even If a poison spot. Why do weak women go wrong? Often through no criminal lm pulse, but only because of that starved wish for adventure. : . . ' , i So when, I see the parading strikers I always want to Join, I don't care what it's all , about At least it means the human creatures are not machines, can not bo priced, controlled, and managed as machines, but are flames of divine ffrflTr etlv1ng''bern pr-wtierttre-enrr to kick over any law fences or custom fences set up to herd them Ilka cattle. - . ZZ1 . 1 ' ,eD i- xne sec ond trial of the criminal anti-trust suit against the "Bath Tub Trust" will be lVn. th8 Un'ted States district court at Detroit Monday. At the first trial of tne case tbe Jury disagreed. The gov ernment delayed the retrial until tbe su preme court decided the civil case against the trust That decision, re centy rendered, compels the dissolution Ia .C0.,mb,lnat,,m of 18 corpora tlona and 84 Individuals engaged In tha man ufacture of enameled ironware. Utilisation of the parcel post and the taking of steps which will enable the retailers to meet the competition of the big mall order houses will be discussed at a convention of retail dry goods and general merchants of the entire West which will meet In Chicago Monday for a session of four days. Other important conventions of the week will Include the meetings of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, to Indianapolis.- the National Association of Ladles', Tailors and Dressmakers, in New York city; the Hardwood Manufacturers' as sociation of the United States, In Cin cinnati, and the International Associ ation of Master House Paintra n Decorators, in Denver. Preceding the beginning of Lent the first two days of tha week will be de voted to the annual Mardl Gra cele brations In New Orleans and In several other cities of the south. The season of social functions at 4ha English Court Will be ushered in Tu... day with the holding of the first levee at St. James' Palace. Three davs later the first diplomatic and official court reception will take Place at Bucking ham Palace. Two notable weddlnaa of , an Interna tlonal character are scheduled for tha week. The first will take pface In Paris on Monday, when Miss Helena Btallo, who Inherited half of the Immense for tune left bx her grandfather, the late Alexander McDonald of Cincinnati and New York, will become tha bride of Prince Mlcbet Alurat. a nephew of the ex-Empress Eugenie. 1 The second wedding will be that of MIbs Eleanor Douglas Wise, daua-htur of Mrs. Frederick May Wise of Balti more, and tha Duo de Richelieu, whose mother, now the wife of Prince Albert of Monaco, was Miss Alice lTln nt New Orleans. The wedding ceremony 4 will be performed Saturday noon In they I rmuiniore cainearaj, cardinal Gibbons officiating. Pointed Paragraphs The man who Is busy never gets lone some. -,It's the interior of a man's head that counts. He's ' a poor physician who doesn't treat his wife well. e Don't expect your ship to come in when the tide is out. ;. Sooner or later a crook is apt to find himself In straits. Few of us are perfectly happy; and few of us deserve to be. You won't be forced to eat your word if you pay compliments. Too often the charity that begins at home isn't worthy of mention. a, ' A woman seldom finds any gooj In her husband by the detective method. A good way to respect people is not to be Intimately acquainted with the A Happy Outlook. . . From the London Saturday Journal. . ' He made a great dear of money, but : was always, In debt because of his extravagance. Not long ago, however, he wooed and, won a young woman of great -wealth, and Immediately things took on a' roseate hue. ' During the honeymoon the bride ven tured to ask hubby whether the fact, that she had money made any differ ence to him. ' ' , "To be sure it does, my love," was the unexpected response. ' Whereupon wlfey was a bit alarmed. "What difference?" she asked.. J'Why. darling," continued 'the bus-' band, "it is such a comfort to know that if I should die you'd be provided for."' r: ,-: , . , ... " ..... .... "And If I should die?" asked tha PTtdt. in , "Then, darling," was the reply. Tfl brprovlded for." ; . '