THE' OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1913.
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. . Prior.
REAL LEGISLATION
THE house committee "at Salem
has; passed favorably ou the
Deschutes survey. A Mult
. noraah senator stands In the
way of similar action in the senate
committee.
Every buMiiess organization in
Portland favors the project. ' It is
not possible to understand how any
; Multnomah, senator can oppose it
and properly represent Multnomah
county. ,
No measure before the legislature
is of broader horizon. It presents the
i simple issue of whether or not a
i groat natural resource shall be saved
! and developed for man's service," or
!' be gradually monopolized for man's
' oppression.
The water power at Oregon City
has passed under, private monopoly.
The water powers all around us are
! passing under private monopoly.
7 The water powers are capable of
rendering enormous service for the
w el fare prosperity and happiness of
man. That is what they will do If
kept under public authority and the
motive power they supply, be regu
lated for delivery at Jow rates. Such
is a part , of the program of the
Deschutes survey., 7:7
Another feature Is the proposed
use of the waters of the stream for
irrigation. The potentiality of the
Deschutes In this field is enormous.
Intelligently applied, it can' reclaim
enough arid lands to supply homes
and a living to a very large population.-
It can turn the desert Into vast
production. ' Properly i handled, It
can bring the landless man to the
m aniens land, . ... .
It is a program approved by the
federal government. Indeed, the fed
eral government offers to bear half
the cost of financing it. There could
bj' no stronger proof of the effi
cacy, purpose and importance of
the measure.
The Deschutes survey Is real leg
islation. It purposes the elimination
of speculators and speculation from
control of the water powers and In
cidental Irrigation along the river.
It plans the saving of the reclaimed
lands for the actual 6ettler. It is ef
fort for the small man gather than
for the big man. It is endeavor for
reals state upbuild on the lines of
equity and Justice. It is the kind of
legislation to give excuse for the
meetings and public cost of legis
latures. . . , ' ' "" ' :'-
Opposition to it is opposition to
progress and imposition tp the true
Interests of Oregon. , -
A LOST CONFIDENCE
"jtHERE '.t no trouble in finding
' I eXf nallJoaof e dff!at of he j
iiiiiiiwu uuuar ruuu issue lur
, Portland schools.
The public Is refusing to vote pub
lic money for the purchase of land
for public uses because of the huge
, difference In the tax lce and the
sale-price ofd.pure
the past.' The price of property as
valued for taxes in support of gov
ernment Is always so far below Its
price when such property is wanted lZlS. 7nTLZln DV";U ' I f . t V ttl"u,uul aius 'u
by Kovernment for- Dublic uses that th Btudy and conatruc"n. A na- lessening the burden o always over
. -: LTlJt H r'onal laboratory has been estab-1 taxed poverty. It is a plan for the
heir money on f hTr pur !
A law reouires the tax nrica tn l.o,
: .hi TlVTih! fihltanrPI,Ceb ?
verv instant in which th nwio i
h'll nil Via C arf rfk'ira nnnaxtTr 1
.mblic uses, the . nvL hn hZ
two to ten times the Tax price. The Df of conditions Accidents of all
.tMi.wn .rtf-,w ..w1--.ik,nd wm be reproduced and reme-1
fi deuce and to array the people
I against further public purchases.
There is no telling f what lengths
'this hostility will go. It was exhib
sited to a marked degree In the de
feat of every measure on the recent
, city ballot where expenditure of pub
lie money for pm rinse of lands fort"1 1 y 06 aer0"
public use was proposed. It had the
same effect In the defeat of lao pro
posed bond Issue Jn tit school elec-
tlon, aud la ".ikeiy to similarly oper
ate in futuro proposals. I
The' conditiogi-as attfa.ted-Jthe
notice of the 'governor of Orpgon,
who recommended in his message to
the legislature- the enactment of a i
law prohibiting the payment of more '
than double Jbe assessed value fori
any property purchased for public
nscsi The enactment of such a meas
ure based on the average assessed
-value for "a period of ' five years
vould have large effect in restoring
public confidence when, iudney is to
bo voted for purchase of lands for
public purposes. . -
It is no -fault of7 the people that
they aro bo longer willing to allow
huge margins and extortionate prof
IU to.pccuUUii-a..Yl;if.r..,thcy.iiav
n-cn iso much of thoir money paid
tnt on boom valuations tat are five
-r ten times the aIuatJons on which
."1 itre paid, Ibcfr nn willingness
mulcted Is .not sur
prising. . '
Thevlegislature could do much to
restore the lost confidence by enact
ment of such a measure as Governor
West has reconimenJed.
THE CAPTIVE SEA ATE V
r
T IS to be hoped that the provis
ions of the teachers' civil sonic )
bill had all been prepared "intel
ligently before 200 stunning cre
ations in pink cheeks and millinery
floated Into the senate lobby yester
day. Otherwise nobody knows what
kind of a law might Lave been given
us. . . - ;, .7 " ,-". : cS7' .
Thirty gay senatorial gazabos leg
islating pretty teachers Into life jobs
under the compelling glances of 200
pairs of approving eyes and before a
battery of 200 dazzling smiles is not
a situation conducive to great and
wise forethought. It is a safe bet
that every one of the 30 statesmen
made a little speech r cast his lit
tle vote with a weather eye on the
'living' picture in the lobby, and that
during the process, he did nqt know
the constitution from a koran or a
veto message from the multiplication
table.
J Anyway the ruies were suspended,
the regular order, thrown to the
winds and the bill, unanimously
parsed with a whoop and hurrah, all
quicker than scat Even bTmiek,
who mostly votes no, didn't venture
a negative In tnat presence, but
gulped the bill down as , though it
was something awfully g od. There
are men in the body who would walk
up to the cannon'- mouth or tackle
a grizzly bear, but not one of them
had the nerve to dot an or cross a
t in that bill.
Let us hope that the measure is
intelligent, and be fervently thank
fur if it Is. Heaven ' ws what It
might have been but for tho lower
house.
The bill has a serious side. The
teachers .deserve every encourage
ment. .. Theirs ig the noblest work.
They are under tremendous respon
sibility. -They are building the fu-j
tu re natlOli ' '
They should be protected in their
positions, - But the school i system
should also be protected against
fits, and the children should be pro
tected against inefficiency and
apathy.
We hope all thl3 is assured in the
bill. If not, it will be unfortunate.
Perhaps the governor will . take
judicial knowledge '.hat the bewil
dering glances, of the lobby literally
sandbagged the senate into a state of
hopeless unintelligence, and, on that
account, give the measure careful
attention.
THE INVASION OF THE AIR
A'
VIATION was born about the
beginning of 1909. The pub
lic, then entered the class of
experimenters. By the end of
that year the, licensed air pilots of
France; Germany, " Engiani and
America numbered 26. In 1910 thj
number expanded to 465, in 1911 to
1100, and, by the end of 1912 to
1980.
Licensed aviators in other coun
tries will probably increase the last
number by at least a third.
The aviators' paper forecasts fu
ture progress by the past,
The t
prophecies for the end of 1913 are,
in speed, miles per hour, an advance
of from 10$.5 to 137 duration of
longest stay in air from 13 h.urs 17
minutes to 17.75 hours distance
without stop up to 850 miles and
height of greatest, ascent rom 19,000
feet to 26,000 feet.
Naval aircraft is here to stay.
France had, built or building, 19 dlr-
llgible air ships and 260 aeroplanes,
at the end of last year
Germany at that date had 48 aeros
and not less than 20 dirigibles.
J Russia has been making great ad-
vances. She had five dirigibles and i
100 aeros at the close of 1912, and
others building.
lies and 28 aeroplanes.
Britain is a bad fourth in the race.
fiho Viae li n ucvnf lalran no oA.tni,nl,,
ISVr S0hb0Ut,. te!ht
mlleS f r0m London- Tbere all kinds
of apparatus have been installed, to I
,mitate artificially air currents and,
winds or varying torce and direction,
! and to exPBe the aeroplane to all
A full exhibit of both methods and
I results is to be made at the interna
tional exhibition this summer at
Ghent, Belgium.
It is an entirely wrong notion that f
there has been no great advance in
The aero is far safer than in its
early days. The ratio of fatal acci -
dents to successful flighti Is con
stantly decreasing.
THE I5EATEX TIll'ST 1HLL$
T
HE da.y after the Oregon legis
lature, killed two anti-trust
bills, the federal grand jury in
dicted a number of Portland
commission men for alleged viola
tion of the Sherman anti-trust law.
There may have been, bad prepara
tion of the rejected -. bills
principle of the Sherman law. ought
to be embodied in statute lawn Ore
gon.. This state should, do its duty
by passing a law forbidding conspir
acy inrestralnt of trade. ..
There may not be urgent need for
such a tew now. But the time will
wme.wfawt-Htwil.Mw; needed ,-trir
proven by the experieneti of New
Jersey,' Ohio, Indiana and 7 many
other states.
Other states ; are ' passing bucIi
to be further
measures. They owe a duty to the
nation and to the people of the na -
tion to use the state power to pre-!
vent destruction of legitimate busl-,
ness by the practices of illegitimate
business. , When a state refuses or
neglects to use Its authority for pre
venting combinations In restraint of
trade, Jt shirks a responsibility to the
peopie ana 10 tne nauon. . r
The very fact that few trusts have
appeared in'. Oregon is the veryt best
reason In the world for passing an
anti-trust law. It can be done now
with the least possible opposition
and with the least . possible detri
ment to existing interests, - i - . i
WHICH?
A'
RE the fcwo houses at Salem the
Oregon legislature,-, or is As
sessor Reed the Oregon legislature?!.-'-
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The two houses passed an asses
sor's bill authorizing an annual dep
uty allowance, in the Multnomah
county assessor's office of (43,620 a
year. -
In order to ward off the gover
nor's veto, Assessor Reed convened
himself in extraordinary cession and
amended the bill reducing the dep
uty allowance to $33,620 a year.
His amendment is of public record
in the governor's office In the form
of a written pledge to use $10,000 a
year less of deputy allowance than
the two houses generously bestowed,
lnder the circu instances, are the
two houses the legislative body or
! is Assessor Reed the : legislative
body? 4
Is Assessor Reed's change of the
bill an ameudinent, a veto, an exer
cise of the power of eminent domain,
or a recall of a legislative decision?
Is Assessor Reed, when in extra
ordinary session, the third house, the
upper house,' or the whole works?
'POLITICIANS AS JUDGES
B'
ILLS at Salem propose a non
partisan judiciary for Oregon.
Whenever there is insistence
that judges shall be political,
! tueu nu -vuere me uvuuu ia rouutiu
'0' lt8 alleged sanctity. -The moment
j?11 urge d8e;must be par-
un-!ti8an ?ou insist that complete impar-
it M J, -J.1. . I.. j.',j j. 11 .J
iiaiity in me courts is uoi wanieu.
Nowadays, the-courts need every
thing possible to commend them to
public confidence. The bench should
be given every chance to hold the re
spect Of the people. All suggestion
of political influence or narrowed
horizon should be removed by mak
ing the judiciary strictly non-polit-
leal. I
Numerous other states have taken I
thnr RtPn and thpir evamnlR otitrhf I
mat step, ana tneir example ougnt j
to, be followed 1? Oregon. ,
In many way8, the DeODle haveicltles operating municipal reduction
shown their weariness of politicians
in office. How much more emphat
ic is their obvious wearinesB of poli
ticians 'as, judges!
THE INHERITANCE BILL
A
BILL b'' Senator Malarkey
, makes the county clerk ex-of-
ficio member of the board of
appraisers for all estates that
come within the provisions of the in
heritance tax law.
It ought to pass. If there is tiny
other safeguard that can be added
to make the law effective, it should
be incorporated in the measure.
The law is made farcical by the
under valuations of t. . raisers. The
low valuations are deliberately made
; for the purpose of ucaping paymi .t
of the inheritance tax. In t. big es
tate iu Portland recently, the ap
praisement was so low that the fig
ures are absurd.
Many such properties are built up
through U:creased land values by the
growth of population and the Indus
try of others. Often, the owner is
non-progressive, is extremely suc
cessful in evad'ng taxes, and it is not
until the time for collecting the in-
heritance tax comes along that there
In opportunity for - the state to get
Its" JusO ue7 "
The inheritance, tax Is a just tax.
It takes what is long overdue from
li,,.. ... n 1 4 V, . I. . -. . . i j ,
f nt of COnoni,c and 80cia
justice.
In whatever way the legislat. ..
can strengthen tho inheritance tax
law, the step should b. taken. It is
one field in which legislation is long
over dae
XEW DEPARTURES
A
NEW page is - turned in the
use of hydro-electric power
when one of the great trans
continental railroads proposes !
to run an trains over 4&u miles of
the road in its mountain division by
electricity.
As in all such matters a darluK
! Improvement has been tested out by
slow degrees and on a small scale.
It has filled those tests, and was as it Is drawn on these narrow lines
promoted to daily use in city ter-' lt is plain the Intent of the bill la to
minals and interurban lines. But in KPt mo,' W001 put into the goods , so
manv cases black coal waa stilt neoA'J ftli t0 ftreat6 a demand for wool, and not
r r? i u was sun need- t0 protcct tll(J gonerHl pub, - j thelr
ed to develop, by its consumption, 'purchases. Now, if Mr. Stewart wants
the necessary power. Meanwhile the ; bis bill to bo of some use to the con
transmission, of the hydro-electric 8Umer' t,,e uW,-'. why does he not
nower from its sonrcn in th hill maKC 11 include H things manufactured
power irotn its sources in the hills 6nd sold? We could then give hlnl our
oiiu uiuuuiaiuB srw umauijy year oy
year, from one mile to ten, then to
a hundred, and so Indefinitely on
ward. With each extension the do
main of white -coal grew. 7 7
i -Neither, the ;vast reserve of ; its
power nor Its limit of efficiency has
been reached in the Northwstern
states; while In the middle states the
force and greatness of the : rivers
make up in volume for their lesser
fall.'.' .""- '-hV i'.'" . ' m.'.!.,,
One great advantage of these un
developed mines of community and
national wealth isi that tjhey do not
deteriorate by non-use.
The' waters
.pass ceaselessly b;-. waiting always
' for the hafness of dam and lock to.
be placed upon them. But from an-
other point of view the public is a
continual loser while Industry delays
for the means of profitable develop
ment. , The lesson of Keokuk must be
studied by these states of the North
west. The bigness of the undertak
ing, the overwhelming forces of the
Mississippi In flood-time, the, huge
Bcale on which. ..the dam must be con
structed, the ny vsslty of keeping
the great river open for boat traf
fic, and the uncertainty whether so
great an addition to the power neces
sities of the. city and district cov
ered would be usedr-all these togeth
er might have Beared away the con
tractor and the investor. But they
did not, and the power provided for
both present and future needs' met a
great and rising demand.. So has It
always been In this age.- Consump
tion ever rises with supply at least
of that power which Js the founda
tion of successful manufacture.
Letters From trie People
(ConiuniulPatlont tent to Xb Journal ft
publication tu tola deportment ihould to writ-ti-u
ou only one side ot the paper, should not
t-iiftl 3H words ill length aud muat b 10
compauled by tb name, and address of ttia
sondi-r. It tha writer does not desire to bare
Uio name imtilUbed, be should so. state.)
1 Incinerator Tlans.
V'l'ortland, Or., Keh. 4. -To tlio Editor
Of The Journal Noticing In the i-ity pa
pers that the council is proposing to
builU another incinerator for the dis
posal of the city's garbage, I want to
enter a protest, in behalf of Portland's
newspapers, against all half-way meas
ures for the cleansing of our city. Too
much lime .and money have been ex
pended upon this business, or, rather
wasted In the building we now have,
which has been a thorn in the flesh of
every thinking man and woman. The
whole system as now managed is filthy,
unsanitary and many more things which
lt might not be polite to say.
Portland ia laying the foundations of
a great city. Why not be progressive,
and plan and build for the future in
the best possible manner? We have
all the world for an object lesson, and
our teacher.
The disposal -of -garbage by the re
duction method" wag first introduced
In the United States at Buffalo, N. Y.,
In 1886. Since that time reduction
plants have 4 been constructed In the
majority of our larger ciWes. The re
duction of garbage consists in the break
ing down of the material by means of
heat and the recovery; of the by-products
which have a- market value. In
utilizing garbage, all the solids in the
form of grease and tankage can be re
covered at an economical cost. The
grease Is usually refined into several
by-products, such aa glycerine, stearin,
stearic acid, red oil, candle tar and soap
fats, and there has been an increased
demand for these by-products. From
the 25 reduction nlants in th TTnitarl
States there is produced annually, an-
proximately, 60,000,00d pounds of grease
and 150'00,) tons of tankage, having an
avera(fe. market value Jf ,3500 300
Cleveland and Columbus are the only
plants. During the year 1911 the Co
lumbus plant reduced 17,534 tons of
garbage, the total cost of disposal be
ing $2.81 per ton. The receipts from
sale of by-products amounted to 13.35
per ton, showing an earning of 64 cents
per ton over and above all charges. ; 1
might give further statistics In regard
to results of garbage reduction in other
cities.
There is no question as to the. success
of these garbage plants, financially and
every way. In Columbus the garbage i
is collected free of charge, twice each I
week from . May 1 to November 1, and I
once each
May 1.
week from November to
Think what such a system as this
would mean to those who cannot afford
to pay 00 cents per month, as,, we have
to here in Portland, and what it would
mean from a sanitary standpoint. The
unsightly condition of back yards, al
leys, and vacant lots would be elimin
ated. I appeal to the women of this city,
no can now uo mora-man pieaa with : closing out sales unless they are Dona
our city fathers, to consider their re- fide sales, and are actually selling val
sponsibllity in connection with this vital ues they represent they are selling. If
question. j Mr stewait will frame a bill on -these
For the sake of the children of ourjunes he will have the hearty support
cjty, for tho sake of the fecblo and the , of $5 per cent of the people of Oregon,
poor who must breathe the foul odors and Jt will be an easy matter to tell
through the summer season, because i
unable to leave the city, let us say that
a proper up-to-date garbage plant must
bo built for Portland. If Itoss island
could be obtained at a reasonable price
it would make an ideal place for tho
necessary buildings. We women should
bestir ourselves in regard to this and
all the other questions relating to the
buildtng up of our clty.uuch as parks
ftfWi - n tlVflTftrrftB rinUB.rtrf-ii4
and-playgrounds, boulevards and good
8'.',il,a" J"d!Lstrial m where
poor, unrortunata men may be taken
and cared for and trained to work. We
ought to prevent misery and vice and
crime and not spend too much money
taking care of the products of our li
censed saloons and their accompanying
evils. To help solve these questions re
lating to the uplifting of humanity la
our great privilege.
MARIA L. T. HIDDEN.
Stewart's Wool BiU Criticised.
Portland, Or,, Feb. 8. To the Editor
of The Journal In an article In The
Journal from your staff correspondent
at Salem, dated January 31, he gives a
synopsis of a bill Introduced by Senator
mewan.w. urgni county to make it
iniMdemeanor to advertise or mark goods ! Pration law, and the work isunf lu
containing wool other than as they are ished. '
i uo not ooiidi the senator s sincerity
In introducing the bill in the form he
did, but simply will point out the urin-
'vll,iil BMWl 4 note in most bills Intro-
duced in the legislature and In congress
by practically all of -our "statesmen."
Mr. Stewart's bill is evidently intro
duced in Its present form to assist the
woolgrowers in some way, and not to
protect the general public; and should
j nearty support, and he would give us
something of benefit to- humanity in
stoad of to a handful of sheepmen. His
bill, as quoted in The Journal, would not
even protect the sfnglo industry of wool
production, to any considerable extent,
Unless enlarged upon. Does Mr. Stewart
care anything about the price charged
lor tne gooaty DoesTna care whether
the value is misrepresented or not? In
fat, docs he care about 'anything but
an artificial stimulation of the wool
business? If he docs, there. Is no Indi
cation to 'that effect in his hill
yesterday and npticea a sillt of clothes
supposedly marked down from J26 to
$12,25.' The suit was not- worth over
$10., The advertisement mods no allu-
Jslon to ttie material". used -in Its con-
COMMENT AND
. SMALL CHANGE '
Now . a We bill, as well a a bull bllL
Next, a bat bill, and a buUfrog bill,,;
Some monitors aeeni to think -they are
Bulkanttes and the governor the Turk,
-After all, Castro has probably enjoyed
the rumpus: it was better than no no
toriety at U. I. . -: ' .;
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- The people want b'tis iBwinR fol-de-rol,
rather than more courts -and court
officers. .. ,. . .
Kvldehtly. the people of Portland
think the limit of bonded indebtedness
has been reached.-
t . , 't a ".a ' : ... '. '
If the employes' compensation bill
gets 'past ail those legislative lawyers,
it will be a surprise. ' '.,
.v..'. ',? '--fj !(,- .';..' , a ..' .' v :-.V:'.';';v
Nowhere else on-, earth is it a finer
thing to be young than in Oregon now;
big things are just beginning to- happen.
Even the hobo convention HcaVe in
two, and ended in a-row, Those-fellows
neem to be quite civilised and pro
gressive, .y : . ,
. -a j.,
The more editors that are sent to jail
for reasonable and needed criticism of
courts, the sooner will the judicial revo
lution come. .,
If . the foundci-8 of Portland " could
have foreseen the future city,,', they
would -have laid out larger blocks and
wider streets in tho wilderness of that
time.. , ...'..
'
A New York, banker', has been sen
tenced to five years' ifnnrisoninent. lils
doctors are already making out affida
vits that he will die almost right tiff If
not let out.- ,
. i 1 1, 1
Occasionally a collt4"' professor, ap
parently for the sake of notoriety, seems
to try to appear to be crazier than any
of the -other professorial lunatics, real
or affected.
An eastern archaeologist savs North
America was the original land of Nod.
It was a pretty big stretch of country,
even then, and Cain and. his family had
plenty of room In which to grow up
with it.
EUGENICS
By Dr. Frank Crane.
Eugenics Is the name of that science,
which seeks to improve the human race
by intelligent breeding.
It only needs to be stated, proof is
unnecessary, it is so self-evident, that
there Is no science so important as
this," ' 'v" -
,We are making a great to-lo thesa
days about the rights of the children,
their right to be freed from hard la
bor, their right to schooling and to do
cent food; but their most mandatory
right is their right to be well born. A
child damned into the world With scrot
ula, Byphilis, lunacy or some other in
fernal handicap, may well cry out to
heaven against the criminal negligenoo
of the society that, for its own indif
ference er selfish pleasure, loaded htm
with the cross of life.
Our sympathy with unfortunate ones,
our building of hospitals for their pro
tection, shows itself to be but maudlin,
when we dare not sternly remove the
cause which produces them.
Marriage and the intimacies thereof
we hold to be sacred. The creation of
human beings we screen behind the-seven
veils of sentiment. We still act upon
the old-world lie that innocence and
ignorance mean the same thing.
To be very sure, we shall never en
dure that the mysteries of lov shall
be made Common and trampled under
foot, nor that the high divinity of mar
riage be coarsened into calculating ma
terialism, pui why can we not ee that
reverence is not necessarily stupidity?
Ignorance is not the mother of devotion.
A well Informed,"lnteHigent,. clearhead
ed woman can be lust as pure and as
capable of exalted emotion as an empty.
pated fool. ,
Tho very first duty of the state is to
instruct youth in the knowledge or tneir
own bodies. They find out the facts
structlon, whether it was silk, woo", cot
ton or hemp. How would Mr. Stewart's
bill tend to correct this and kindred
evils?
Why not make it a misdemeanor to
misrepresent goods in the above man
ner, or in any manner, as to that? iWhy
not enlarge his bill to cover all fake
oh v-prtuinif Hiu h as fake fire sales and
vim iiiu other & per cent are.
h. F. RESINQ.
Tlie Judge's nours Per Day,
St, Johns, Or., Feb. 6. To the Editor
of The Journal In the Journal of tnh.
ruary 5 appeared an editorial of which
the following is a part:
Leot)le of the state to resort to the
- Vf5? V. - -.a, - -'-Alh.-i
" inititttlve for reform "or court practice
irprwuref ' 7- ' ; .
Are the lawyers In the body to wnoni
other members obviously look for initia
tion of the reform going to defy public
sentiment and permit the session to end
without action?
"Do the lawyers not know that If they
fail to eliminata the follies and flap
doodle that the people will take tha mat
ter of court reform into their own un
skilled hands?" ; V
It is to be hoped, for the good Of tn
reform desired, that no such radical
course as suggested will be resorted to.
Care, time, energy and ability should b
elements in the directing forces in tho
reform procedure movement. The Amer
ican Bar association has already worked
more than three years on a Teform cor-
orty aays tn
legislative body to frame and properly
'consider a reform procedure act, unless
the work has been previously outlined
bv a comiietent enthusiastic body. New
Jersey appointed a committee that la
bored severap years on a reform, pro
ceure act; then, on trial, found numeri
oua defects, ' :-. -''-. v." '
A compromise measure providing for
the creation of a working committee, to
report to the next legislature, might be
productive of - good results, the com
mittee. to work without compensation.
But alt delays are not due to the pres.
ent procedure act ,( no matter bow de
fective it may be,
, laboring men ara up at five, the flrs
ar kindled and breakfast is over at' C,
and the men are In harness by 7 and S
o'clock. Fewer Judges, and mors time
spent on the 'woolsack, would not be a
bud reform.-: - . s. D. o. LEWIS.
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Tricks of Certain JSmployers. .'
Siiverton, Or. Feb. 4. To the Editor
of The Journal When" 64 .men were
arrested at the Men's Resort In .Port
land and it was found they bad only
70 cents, Uie judge advised them to go
to Eugene, where they might find work.
How did he expect, them to get there-
walk, or beat theirway? NNot.tha lat
ter way, I presumej for a Judge would
hardly advise a mart to brealt the law.
arrested as ' vagrants anywhere along
the, line. If they were arrestod and
served a jail sentence, they would bo us
likely to arreti, tho minutes they were
released, on the iame charge ets before.
NLWS IN BRIEF
, OREGON SIDELIGHTS
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Vrov.-S, A. Douglas, formerly of Ash
land, hus accepted the pastorate of tho
first Baptist church, at Grants Pass,
succeeding pev. i C. Lovett..
Fossil Journal: '' . Beautiful weather,
with muddy roadu, describes, the past
week's weather. Most of the rangers
bare of fiiow, and much livestock has
forsaken the haystacks for the pastures.
Klamath IlcVald: William L. Albright,
prominent tin plate manufacturer of Cin
cinnati, has signed the conveyance, of
right of way to the government for the
Nuss take laterals. Mr. Albright has In
vested more than $50,000 in the Klamath
country, and has great confidence in the
future, ,
. Nehalem KnterpriseJ: Local water,
front owners are getting. busy these days
acquiring possession of tha tidelands
abutting on their lots, to make sure that
they have a clear title to the property.
If this precaution had been taken years
ago. it would have . saved a lot of un
necessary trouble.. 1 .
The Antlers club, of Lakevlew. has
perfected organisation. The officers
are: F. P Cronemiller. president: Dr. K.
H. Smith, vice-president; A. L. Thornton,!
secretary-treasurer, xne ciun is purely
social. It will occupy ample and ele
gantly furnished quarters In the fina
new lieryford building.. v ; f;;..;. ,!;
Qold Hill News:-1 The Willow Springs
grange has Inaugurated a, ruthless cam
paign against the digger squirrel, and
plans to eliminate that bold little pest
in a tract of land comprising 6000 acres
lying between Bear creek and the west
ern foothills and extending from Central
Point to Tolo. A wagon load of poisoned
grain will be spread at the proper sea
son. . ; . : ; ' '
Corvallis Oaautte-Tinies: Work ft
dismantling the front of the north 26
feet of the old Fisher block, corner of
Second and Monroe streets, is now un
der way. The buildings, reconstructed,
willibe occupied by tho recently organ
ised Corvallis State bank. . The old
building has been an eye-sor. for sev
eral years. The front will be made thor
oughly modern and attractive in appear
ance. - , '.. '. ' . " - , :
in any evetit, and often at how terrible
a price! h They should be taught the
facts,.; by competent adults, under cir
cumstances devoid of the glamor of sin
and secrecy, -' ' ,.' --t -
Physicians now are glad to give some
of their time gratis to charitable hos
pital work. Why. could they not give
some of their time to teaching the youth
of tha public schools tit j fundamental
laws Of their being? -
Once a, week children are brought to
Sunday-school to learn of Moses and
the prophets, which is a good thing to
do; but would it not be an infinitely
better , thing to do to instruct them
once a week in that'matter which Bpein
life or deahv happiness or tragedy, to
humankind .
Those who are convinced upon this
subject do not advocate any law, tor
in the present darkness of the general
mind a law would be useless. They urge
Intelligent, tactful agitation until the
public shall come to see the vital need
of eugenics. ,' ::
"Cupid has proved in the past a sad
bungler," says Scott Nearlng, . "whose
mistakes and failures grimace from
every page of our divorce court rec
ords." For all that, he is a dear god
to the human heart, and it U not pro
posed -to banish him, but to. take the
bandage from his eyes and to havo
Mm, while being as active" as ever, do
better work. . - v ,
Scientific formulae will never take
the place of holding hands in the moon,
light as a modo of mating, and the
Superlative idiocy of lovers will be al
way blessed; but while the idiocy that
is the enthusiasm of a healthy mind
is divine, that idiocy that cannot steer
away from the bringing of defective
offspring into the world is a far-reaching
curse, and a crime worse than mur
der. Let me tell a few facts about Eugene.
At present, the only work in Eugene is
on the construction of the Portland, Eu
gene & Eastern railway. There is a
strike oh there.
For years this system which I am
about to explain has been going on be
tween the employment agencies and the
contractors. Bay a contractor employs
50 muckers. Every month they are
fired to give way to 50 new muckers,
who, tho same as the first, gave $1
apleca for the Job. The foreman, of
course gets so much per head for the
orders he sends in. As winter comes on,
the wages are reduced 25 cents a day,
every succeeding month.
The 54 men might get work in Oak
Ridge, 50 miles from Eugene. Two
men woraea mere until tney had a
trifle Over $40 coming from the com
pany. They were fired, and paid off
with time checks cashable at the main
office of the Utah Construction com
pany.' They had been working on the
Klamath Falls cutoff. They Were told
they could7 cash these' time checks at
Oak Ridge poatoffice. There they were
told that a -discount of 10 cents on the
dollar was made for cashing time
checks. They went elsewhere, but could
find no one who would cash these
checks for less than 10 cents on the
dollar. Being broke, they realized that
they must put up with this fraud or
walk to the main office. Being raoh of
spirit, they walked.
The bunk tents, or houses, as a. rule,
leak. The beds are piles of vermin in
fested straw. - As for tho food, the cooks
they employ are drunks. In Eugene.
16 men applied to the police for shelter
over 'night in the police station. They
wero refused that privilege. Any state
ment I-have made in this letter I can
prove. AUSTIN PEARL LINSCOTT,
More Honrs, or More' Pay."
Hammond, Or., Feb. 4. To the Editor
of Tho Journal-tThe plaintive , protest
from the laundry woman . In Sunday
morning's- paper, in which she remon
strated against; the eight hour law be
cause it is against her economic inter
est, was a typical representation of the
- Do You. '.Really Know
: What You Are Buying? .
"I am a judge of cresses," said the peasantwhen he was eat
ing hemlock.' Many of us would be apt to eat hemlock under the
impression that it was cress if we relied upon our own judgment.
In the same way your . self-reliance may" cause you to buy '
poor values in the belief that you recognize high quality.. Blind
buying is jthe germ of dissatisfaction.; "It may also be one of the
many reasons for the increased cost of living. : - v :
ik You can avoiddissatisfaction,
ot living, ana gain, a truer xamuianty witii tne' vaiuea ot the .
things you purchase by relying on the word of the man who ia
not in business' for a .day the .merchant Vho advertises in
THE JOURNAL. ' '. jj
"""""it wilPrepay .you to readTthc advertisements' in THTeT'
JOURNAL closely and constantly every day.
(Copyright, 191.1, by J. P.FallonJ ' 1
Bais Wuk Teetli
- Bpokane Spokcsmau-Bevicw.
. Woodrow Wilson's last six weeks ai
governor of - flow . Jersey are closely
watched by the country. Congressional '
leaders 7 also scrutinise his work stilt
more closely.- To a degree he ia giving,
the nation a new measure of himself.
His measures for tho reform of his
state's dealings with trusts indicate
the spirit with which he wilt approach
the problem of the 'nation's relations
with them.
These proposed laws would effectual- '
ly undo the work that made New Jersey
the prolific and scandalous' mother of
trusts. ,-The'y were drafted by the Btate s
highest Judicial officer and by A former,
Justice of its supreme court. They hay
teeth, and these teeth' are sharp and
long and of iron. .
The purpose Is tho prohibition ant
punishment of monopolies of every kind.
Combinations to limit production, stifle
competition, or fix prices are fqrtJldden, s
money only. When an issue of securi-Jr J
ties reolacea another, the amount mtm I
be the-same. One vorporfttion may no-
buy into another to establish a 100110- ,
poly or-"festraTTi trade, - Holding' com-
panlea cannot vote Unlawfully held se.
curitiesV. Mergers are. permitted only
on approval from the utilities comro is
Slon. , ' - .' ": ' T,-.--
One of theso seven bills is the mailed -fist
for the other; It says: "Quilt !s
personal." v It makes ' officers and di
rectors of corporations personally re- s
sponsible for violations of taws. It
sets their punishment upon conviction
at imprisonment or a fine. It brings
(Itelr misdemeanor under criminal. law,-
Publicists and Jurists and economists
throughout i the country generally In
dorse these bills as far as they go.
They do not pretend -to cure tho trust
problem. . They mostly merely repeal
disgraceful ; arrangements' in a : single
state. But they recognize that it is
the people's business What capitalization
a corporation has. The statement of ths '
conditions on which a corporation may -buy
out a rival blazes a new trail in an
untrodden wilderness of economics.
The bills do what biff business has ;
desired.. They specify what Is permis
sible and what is prohibited. But they
suffer from We sama difficulty of defi
nition that hf taxed the United States
supreme court ever since it began to
Interpret the Sherman law. Xcaxs of '
litigation will ensue, ''
' The main importance of these atata
bills to the nation is that they suggest
the spirit and method of President-elect
Wilson in dealing with economlo affairs.
nhnn l nnaila nvnert. aanlBtance. he WlU
go to experts. He will lean on mcJj
their Judgment. He will not run auck.
l-omtcd Pararaplii
The lazy man finds 4t easier to uy
than do. ,
a
In the spring a married man baa to
fall for Easter bonnets.
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It's simply impossible for any one
to keep his happiness to himself.
.
The strength of a woman lies In tha
proper display of her weakness. ' .. ...
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We liever heard
of a father being
worried because
his son worked too
hard. , ' ;
a -
Many an apparently straight man Is
Crooked enough to hide behind U cork
screw. a ,
A married woman's description" r her'., .
ideal man Isn't anything like the onu , ,
she'" got.' , '"' , 7"'. .'
Your neighbors may know that you
have money, but what they may hot ;
know is how you got it
injustice of the sweatshop and piec
work methods now In use in many in
dustrial institutions. Ponder over tha
wrong3 of a system that makes some of
our women protest agu.lnot- shorter
hours. Hho thinks It Is Injustice tu
tako away tho "privilege" of working
that extra hour each day. Does one
not wonder that ho does not see the
other side and ask why It Is so nearly
impossible for hur to make sufficient
wages to keep her in food, shelter aud
clothing, by working eight hours?
Think of a woman in this rich statu
crying for longer hours for no other
reuson than to make a living. What
she noeds aud ought to have Is mora
money. Almost everyone realizes this;
therefore our miulmum waga agitation,
Minimum wages cannot bo made too
great, neither can hours be made too
short, if enough labor has been ex
pended to supply our wants.
Were wo put upon this earth to work,
work, work? Did a good and omnipotent
creator (If there be one) intend to nmko'
this world a workhouse? I don t think,.
so. Benjamin Franklin once said: "Foul
hours labor eaoh day are ample to pro
duce all of the necessities and luxuries
of life, if properly distributed.".,! won
der if this hard worklnr lawnlry woman f-
would feel1 more oppressed 1 a kind,
legislature compelled 'her to work but .
four hours instead of her now "blessed". ,
eight, compelling the employer at tha
same time to keep up the standard of ' .7.
Wages and do away with, tho heart- f.
breaking piece work. She would actual, i
ly'have time to enjoy life. Wonidn't
that be terrible? It is either a criminal
act or unforgivable incompetency, if '
the laundries, now compelled to give,
more humane hours, are allowed to take
away the few pennies from their em
ployes that this woman says the - law
will permit them to do. Isn't there somu ;
remedy that will give the toilers of our '
nation an opportunity to enjoy tho vV
fruits Of their energies? It tho ones
who perform ail of our labor are not
entitled to the best there Is in life. -who,
ly the name -of providence, should - -enloy
the fruits of their toil? Let tha
unfortunate laundry women make their
protests to tne employers who aro ex
ploiting them and not to a body of meu
who are trying their utmost (apparent
ly) to remedy their condition. Will toe
laundry woman please consider? V
WALDO II. COFFMAN.
lower to some extent your cost '