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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SATURDAY EVENINQ, ; FEBRUARY, ; 8, 1913. THE JOURNAL s .isnrriixpayT KwmAreR . JAt'kSOK.'... . pnbilxlter I'Uliluliul .u.ln' i.lKIll SMllla'l uomitjiomlii SI Toe Jourr Boll. . Ilk and liuttull am.. J'ertUnS. nr. tciered rrnfef puatotfi fuctUod, nr.. tor trm.ailuQ tbcuuKO lb Bull aacouil ant Siatter. - -. - , ifci.l.i iillNKM Uiln III3: Uoma. All JenrtmenH r"cbeJ fc lbw omul letl (tw otwr.iur at depart royal ya vukkhm AiivKBTisi.Nu'MBKsri.sTAiivfc , KnjmiB hoK rn,"',, r ,", iXi rift avenue. ,Vrr ur tea Bulldliig. CMcag. Bjurinli. lernii by mull or u nj adilraM la ui Liulivd State i or . DAILY One ... (I. IK) I On month. f BDNDAf On Jeir, ...... .12.50 t on month. .t M ..$ .28 PAILV AKI SUNDAX n rr.... 7.M I One month This, above all. To thine own self be true; And It must follow, as th night the- day. Thou canst not then be falsa to any man. . . Shakespeare. REAL LEGISLATION' 1 T IS reported that there is opposi tion in the senate ways and means t'ommittee to the pesehutes survey, v What ia a legislature for? Does it convene and deliberate forty days merely to raise salaries and create, new Jobs for parasites? Here is a proposition that can be,"wv.w c, u 1pv"v"' ; made of untold benefit to Oregon It has horizon. It is a project for unKniM It fo trtfnrt tn rnnRtriirt. It contemplates the brining of soil i into cultivation and production. Tf ia a nrnrrnm fnr mnkfnir hnmPH for men who are without homes, jtj would make farms where there are no farms. It would make life and"""! vu- "in, u vm.u - - hnlldini fiitps prosperity where there is po life. It;ilc ":nhS,,? would, make the desert a place habitation, It would prepare the way for turning water powers to man's use. Water powers and efcetrical develop ment are to be an Inestimable bless ing to : mankind. We only know them now as monopolized not realize what they r 1 1 1 . a 1 jreea, Jiere is mc power project, which power ia . Portland at tit. The! rhanost rata now to hie railroad users of liydro-electrlcal energy is ; commissions, a4 they all go into the $S3, The rate to small consumers is : final total which the public Is forced hundreds of dollars. - What would it! to VWi a process that raises taxes mean to the homes all over Oregon; and puts new burdens on the small to have the blessings of water pow-,man. ers at tho rates which are possible. There should be a just protection It is - far-Beelng effort for these: of private property, but there should splendid results that is behind the 80 be a Just protection for the in- Doschnte survey. It is patriotic vis-; Ion In behalf of the citizenry of the; state,. It is broad purpose for state ; development. ! - ....... . '1 : xei nere is me iegiBiaiui soieinu- i Voiiwoiir, n.tr l.nia in nrvnr 1 . BUUh VTVI MVMVi.at--n dentlsta from advertising. ' 1 ls that for state development? It Is adding indices to tho supreme ponrf IndsTM to tho Multnomah' clr- COUn, JUOgeB 10 lUC iVlUlinOIUttll lir ..j. . 1-1 fnM cuii couri, iowius iwuniji uuufio i ton to a Circuit judgeship, raising'' balaries of every judge in the state, increasing the deputies and salaries j of deputies in the Portland consta ble's office when there are sheriffs; and - sheriff's deputies and police I and detectives galore to do the same work. Ts that state development? In the body are popgun bills andl ttnannt hllln hv tho hundred, bills j . . ' , - ; for more jobs, bills for higher pay, j bills to create more hangers on, and i bills, bills, bills. ,"ua,Ca. . w soil produce wealth for paying the , salaries, a bill for developing an em- " t.(A a IlIII tr criuA tnon u nhanra nn the land, a bill for real development I ul luc pmn. wv-uu.. ou. bill, is viewed by the senate ways and means committee with an un friendly eye. Can President Malarkey afford to have his administration as president of the senate go into history with such a record? ITTON'S EXPLANATION T HURSDAY when Representative ' - - - Massey, on the floor of the house, blamed the Multnomah delegation for passing the un savory assessor's bill. Upton of Mult nomah made the following remark able statement: ' The governor didn't save the people one .cent. He railed in Assessor Heed 'ItlS etl'l'' rTwldJ nad the same statement to the mem- bers of the Multnomah county deiega - tion. He explained that lie would not qulry' provided in the Kbox treaty is UZlZ St Vl"e. To Invoke it is not mounts Increased so the salaries could a matter of right. And either party ilfcrSd "S ,Vrk ",S fn0C)(an' ,f 8al t0 ,he COrami88ion i8 jncreasca. called for, have Its members select- WOPS UptOH Wflnt the legislature f1 .Ilk frnm nr nntuido Iho rgli to understand that Assessor Iteed as snred the members of the Mult nomah delegation that he would i keep the deputy allowance dow n to $33,620 a year, and that the Mult-1 nomah delegation thereupon passed : the assessor's bill carrying a deputy j allowance of $43,620 a year, or $10,- j 000 a yearmore than the assessor needed? p I Is Upton the authorized spokes-' man of the Multnomah delegation, . they hear of the Chinese people vot uAdL does the Multnomah delegation ing to elect their governors. The admit that it did so raw a thing as election took place on December 6, 'authorizing a deputy allowance of i the first ln the history of the people. $43,620 on the assessor's promise to Under the Chinese constitution the use but $33,620? process is peculiar to themselves. In ; Does the Multnomah delegation sJl the eighteen prdvinces delegates plead guilty to Upton's statement that lt doped outside delegations into passing a bill for $10,000 a year more deputy allowance than, the as sessor ' needed, but had a secret pledgo that the assessor wouldn't use it all? The Journal ls kinder to the Mult nomah delegation than is Upton. Assessor Reed made no Bitch pledge to aj! and probably not to any.rnem Th proof is la Mr. Reed's public defense of, his bill in an Interview in Monday's Oregonlan. A column of space was employed in explaining why he would need so many depu-. ties. Ha said: : If every deputy were paid the max!-'that mm Bmry proviueujM mo mi, O' running, me uuiw , T cladlnn If Will h nntir-pd 1 mprnv, ought not greatly to exceed $61,000, or in election, it will Da - Qoucea, . mere (booo. lest 'than the official esti- was by literate voters all -being ' Another sequel will be that Turkey mate. So far as the .number , able to read' and write. - iin Europe will be cut off from Tur- of deputies, is concerned. I can say' Tne votiDg was supposed to be J key in Asia. Not only will the Turk wlthout fear of contradiction that every ..... . . . n ... . , . . ' . ... , . ... on of tUe thlrty.flv( csln be kept con-1 stantly employed for the next four years, That was after the. bill was in the governor's hands. It was the day ; before Assessor Reed signed' a pledge ,ln the governor's office to lop off jl 0,000 a year of the deruty allow-. ance. . provinces similar trouble was re- It shows how the legislature was ported, jobbed, It shows that Upton's state-j Tne wno!e story gives further ment in answer to Massey is a ,,oint t0 tne qe8uon, "Why 1b Amer crooked statement. can recognition of the Chinese Re tt ny aoesn t tne legislature repeal this legislative monstrosRy! TO PROTECT THE rlTiUC A BILL by McCoJloch In the sen ate and another by Hagood in the house propose that in any purchase of property for pub lic niS; iLPi re than double the assessed value. mgre umu uuuuib me ussusscu vaiue. The provisions in each measure are!whi(.h public Interest is sacrificed the same. Ito It is a plan for safeguarding the, expenauure or puunc runas. it is . I V 7, u, I ' "an excess valuations when land is want ed for- playgrounds or sites for school buldinBs It is a safeguard that Is needed in the Purchase Of park Sites. It is a ' Protection that should be thrown I frouncl the purchase of sites for 1 - " . T,, l.nnfl nf 1 1, n Vvll i v v. huumv.. The public is literally without pro-. tection now It is helpless in the j face of greed and rapac y. Every timh it wants ft altA It fa la a v c.tlm - - " to marked nn values and whpn ir rnl-, J. . 1 " , ' by every speculator and every land bog. Great fees are extorted for terests or that public winch is ai o ui uiai inioiiL niinii is ai- way the victim, that pubi c whose business 1b always nobodj s business, f hat public which is always mulcted . .. . I- . 1 1 . c .1 I . i- i uvuo u. iU mmi 'commercialism of nrivato ranaeltr. : . . . 1 XllO MCUOllGCR antr MaROOCl ijillS 1 " are well worth the attention of Pres- ........ ... . .. . uient aiaiarKey ana speaner MCAr- . K- -tt - a.-- tnr. rney are measures, not in ttie . . . . m . . .a 'lniorast or onico noinfira. nan t ncif-. . -uu 8ei on, oui .u ir.e lQ- terest of all the peot: )pie. ARBITRATION REVIVED A' FTER the United States Senate had altered the Taft Arbitra tion Treaties with England and Prance in 1911, lest the traditional Jurisdiction of the Senate over treaty making should be tres passed on, those treaties were laid 11. . - 1 11 It.. , i on me uiieii in an tnree countries. It Is very noticeable now that Secretary Knox, in his reply to Sir ' ' , Edward Grey the other day, ex jiressed the" w rlllincnpss of thA i!nit,i ke these two treaties heir dusty iilaces and ; ,.. .i T.,. ,,... ...i,. we uo:'""' v.v o i long of ntrht to the whole neonle. i bloodshed and blood lust were rife. Thi will be when OOWn values. Tii.ieiiMfneih..ni.ni1in.m onH s pint has come up to us to this day, a Cclilo water I The public gets the worst or It in ; for contro, ln the public lnt;rest( j lt? iPVerv trnnKftrHnn. Tt la nrpvpd unnn ' .. . . .. . i . i-.uiion tmiiui. l.ngmnq ion nvuiu Utinu - , j .... npvpr tn 10 licrmanpn IV nnrt. Turn ahpi m llnr . r nina w tli li.wril.l iana iiiuui. i lit? jujui ai LjIirailOll ' ...o o"1-. ' i.viioibicih j treaty of 1908 will expire on June 13 l,assetl il finally with only two dis- though childlike ami wholly imprac of this year ot one of tho throo eenting votes. j i'1- bordering on the sublime. Ol UllS LUr. .NOl OUO Ol llie inree , . ........ Vlw.l frmn tha nhiWnnliloa fhor, countries would be satisfied to m ! . . ... J 1 left Without any arbitration reaty, , since they are one in their desire suico uiey Hre one m ineir desire to follow in any possible dispute the well tried course Of arbitration ' weii trieo course or arbitration It is pointed out by the Indepen- dent that the unratified treaty has many and strong advantages over the Root treaty of 1908. In the.can sau8,-v everyway, n tne sen - - Knox treaty reference Is not con . j . .1 r- x . . niieu 10 uie rermaiieiu nague court of Arbitration. Questions of honor , are not excluded. The vita inter-' ests which the Senate excluded are specified, are few , In number, and relate . mainly to questions that Delllle des,re r "''i'1 entertainthO-.-ideOf-flrbitratillg. , The Joint High Commission of ln- '.of 1b "nationals" nf Hip riisnntlnp- nations. For all these reasons it is desir able that' the new treaty be passed. CHINA VOTES c H1XA presses quietly on thel(v,r,i m Ai.hnd. u ,-annf atrA path Of reform. The Old chn fimnprm-a nnd fitntpaman 1 must turn in their graves If I were balloted for who will sit in the various provincial assemblies. They will there attend to the provincial business and also elect the officers of the national government. At the recent election there was no lack of voters, although it , waa their first experience. The voter, on entering the poll ing booth handed his certificate of identity to the . officers ln charge, later, and, ou finding it, handed to him a ballot. Vitb, this the voter retired to another room, wrote In the name bf his candidate, handed the ballot to the proper officer, who placed it in the ballot box, and all remained , was to count the baj- lots, ' , universal inrougnoui me nepuDiic. iJn anangna ana ianging we are told that all proceedings were prompt and regular. In Canton the previous registration had been so irregular that the voters could not be identified, and the confusion was great. In some of the most distant ublic withheld?" It has been com- ! pletely earned. FEXOXU rORTLAXI) HATEVER the outcomA may be, the fencing of a strip of street on Third, between W Glisan and Hoyt, is a con VCrSl0n f 1U,bliC Pr0perty by pri"IPed by all that have gone before vate iaterest. It is the process ivate interest. It is the process private interest. Under U)e term8 of the ordinauce of the 8treet wfls "vacated tor now and an time to come" tor approach to the railroad bridge. There was never right or reason in program for tne pro,)Brty to go to any railroad company or any ter- mlnal romranv for private use after Jf ppagod to form a nart of the hrldee approacn The f f , t interests now encloses a strip 12 feet wide by 260 eUl:' Be" a Blny iA 1 Kl W1U" Vy io"Uionate to lowness of scale In spiritual long, and the passing pedestrf-! development, bondage to older traditions, ians must take to the street. It ia a 8ma Btrjp( but as property goe8( lt la wortiv, thousands of dollars. Afi jnted out a week j T Jou Dillon ... rqvo in lila wnrtt An 1nn1iinii I nr ' Porations, "the Streets of a city be- cht npvpr in 1i wirmaiipntlv nnft. eJ with jn fuvor of a ,v' ,n terest whatever." Xo alienation, of public rights on i witchcraft. The fact that the prose- a street should ever lie granted ex-ioulor8 and executioners of the cent for limited nrrioila and on nrl- 1 "wltcnts" wer soalous avowed Chris it pi ior umiiea jicrious ana on peri- Uut)1 autlnB n conscience in dlsciiarge odical revaluations. Yet here is alof duty under command of Uod, carries strip in a public street vacated by ; with it its own commentary. c tv ord nance for 1111 nosn of an-' preach to a bridge, seized by a cof- poration lor private USO after it A . t . , l h " 1 The City authorities Should leave TlO Ktone unturned in an endeavor . . j. ,u ,t"lu,e UUB proin.riy 10 me -use . ni 1 to it ti 1 1 1 1 1 1 no iitrnni-n 1 rt t 1 ... ). 1U. rrl . . f""1"" vviiiuioum ..,.1J ...111 i 1 1 j ... a 1 1 i him 1. win hiuini in us own iigut au(t,,lul prupuci 10 preuici ;rmiiu wldo hnstHHv oirglnui Haolf V """' . , , , . , , . "w " " Inlar tv nf lirmwofl nr In Ihn Hlv 11 h nil iin itv u ii v i ui ri ii l iu i i rrwi- " "o - rounc.ll of 1S!)f. to rnh tb rltv of,(,fe ordering electrocuting machinery, fVl. .','.x . - t""" THE SENATE NEXT ! universally conceded- It Is therefore by the scisntlsts of America. ENATOH DAY ought not to solely a queutlon of mode, most effee- " Hut and here's the point for Com press his workmen's compensa-1 tlvs nnd af'. 'et ow and just misaioncr "VT.TarahnhP tion bill Tt is of Honhtfnl enn ! and ln ordum-e with the spirit of the m an ex-convlct. l-or 1 is frlmie the U011 bill. It IB or doubtful ton- tlmes TR)HC wh() advocate ,.a ta, u). assassination of C.ar Alesandnr III. he Stitutionallty, anyway. Ishment throuKh a stern sense of i.,.n,.. was sentenced in 1 877 to 22 years exile S The senate should accept the house1 and on principle, do so believing no at Saghalin. That wasn t enough ior measure. The credit that goes to the other adequate mode will answer. Were hlmjind in 1881 he was given an addl house for its intelligent action canit,K'se Jlgllt tlie nuestion would be set- bo phhIIv Rharnd bv thi sonatn I t,pd- The clailn lliat murderers must game. The fact that some succeed in It, be easm snared uy tne senate. . . .. . r in r,it of it. is no evidence of merit Al,.,,l l.,fll o. !, 1 va.c iios uccu pended ill the preparation of the pen' hoil iso measure. A commission of 'hree grange members three union ,,n and three employers M0lKe(l 011 u ror two years. rne homrp ronstnpriii lr ronr wppub und in minsiiPB la inn fruit nr innv . ..v . . .. . .v t..w ..m.v v.. ' " r l J I,.!,. i 1. 1 .1 iUTUBU',ttuu" uuo lUB lawB duu ex - perience or other states. It is prob- i'.--"' .v 1 jiuu- a,)'y ,no tuat Pre8eUt human ex- fperience is able to evolve. u does not satlBry certain em- Plo.vers. It does not suit certain Rroups ol union labor. No measure i i. ii , i ate attempts to harmonize all, its ; imnmliora Al-ill it 1 ti I n itn r fn '"c""u, graves, with the debate still on and 11,0 Jb uulliiished. T1,e senate's duty is not to groups1 or classes, but to mankind and to , uregou. tftere are thousands of ein- ,,l0-e9 Wh d "0t Sl,are in furious opposition Of one union la-j 1,or faction, and they are entitled to consideration. Representative Hall truly represented them when he said: ' l,av'- wo''k,,d ,(, y,arf 1" log- 'mevuii'Slr1 f'.'".- irmtlr ieKs cut off. who didn't receive one cent ir coninenHHllon. We want nrntfWInn lor s 11 1,1 n' as uiey men who .are. "viniiii, nil I'J nt'ivo iitsuiH H liny whether the members of the Portland labor council want the bill or nut. j The people of Oregon want this : legislation. The Oregon sonate, af ter the excellent work of the house, ; cannot afford to juggle it, cannot af- Man-!,ioiw n ' , STRIKING AT Til E IIEAKT LL' students Of the Balkan war A whr. hnvn Admiral MabWo us that tho natives or that country the essential raw materials are aoso wno uavo auui lai Aiaaan s n u tne Clle8tiai Kmpre. jt )B gald iuteiy necessary, and the cheaper they classic book on bea Power, that a lumberman at Eureka, California, can be secured and prepared, the less m their memories, have been I expecting what ls now occurring. The Turkish empire has but one really vulnerable point. In Constan-x tlnople is its heart. Protected by the German planned forts on the Tchatalja lines from successful land attack, except at heavy cost of life, the great city was guarded from the Aegean sea by the Gallipoli penin sula and the castle, forts and bat teries. An Inferior "Turkish fleet oould lie in safety under the shelter of the fort's great guns. But "a heavy southern extremity of the Gallipoli peninsula, under protection of the Greek fleet which Is mistress of the Aegean, and supported by- the ship's artillery, would Jake the Turkish forts in turn. The forts once taken I the Sea of Marmora will be open to tne neet ana Constantinople at xts ;isn army ai lcnataijaDe jsoiatea in ironi ana rear, out reinforcements in men and supplies of provisions which have been reaching that army from the Asia side, will be instantly stopped. The occupation by the al lies of the GalHpoli forts spells ruin to the Turks. The next few days will see the most desperate fighting of the whole war. Now we see what command of the sea will mean to the allies. For these days the Greeks have been buying and building their ships, trainhig and drilling their crews, practicing with their guns, great and little, spending money like water, and are ready to send their seamen to death or victory. They are a race of sailors, with a sea history of over two thousand years. Their present part in this great war haa bcien -pre L:ttcrs From the People il'vuimunlctttnna sent to V)i Joiirusl for imbllcmluu lu tlili department nlwuld l writ tiM. on only une nlde u( tho paper, nhoulrt nut exceed HOO wjrdi lu Inngtb and mint ha ciiuipuuled by the muie iiid mldreHS of tba endir. If tba writer doei tint delr to Into Itm nam publlsked. b should to itate. ) Life's Sacredncss Violated. Portland, Feb. 6. To the Editor of The Joufnal Disregard for tha sacred ness of human life, a brutal deuire to destroy, a blood lust, are marked char acteristics of earth's peoples, propor- customs, supersltions and dogmas, the darker strains of blood admixturlng, and further removal from Aryan root strain. The eya for an eye and tooth for a tooth doctrine lias dominated our actions and furfushed excuse for atrocious tor- I turc, shedding bloud and taking lives, a . . " doctrine borrowed mmi peoplea or ;i time when brutal savagery, revenge. ' 0 : mutilations of the body, or by death. New Knglaud but a sliurt time a(jo burned women. to death for allcEed ""s """snea wuu rr 1 scribed penalties for minor crimes. On the question of suitable and bewt nun- ishment for murder the people of Ore- on cib,mMec. While a majority of the voters at our last election uffirmcd tho 1 iu h linni) Iv fin iiiiinlai'u If fa ol.. .. fuct that women Rallied at that election a ''ght to vote, and inasmuch as wonrin surrrage seems to keep pace with abolishment of cnnitai tnin'shmenf " . u-iimuuHiumi our union, u will pcrnapa .... 4. t 1 . - I. ..if ..I.-a 1 . v, '. 1 a i . al -ommfc, cieecions l wuiiunB viw-iiuiib a reversal, x lie until itm t9 iiur.ltnl niiolalimant h V. V m w vn w v- j' .u A IMIIlinillllCllli 10 UICI l ... ... ... , . . . . V ",J mns seuiea in uregn, ana nur Hl.lr.nH .it Sali,. ,uv ... ...... ,.., lent they provide for thcuiselvea costlr nna useless junK. Need of remedy und punishment for all crimes proportionate to gravity Is vv. u. c-im)(lue pardoning bega the question, Great rride is taken because of thU being a Christian nation. The lady of southern Oregon who wrote our gover. eThersT, 1 Zged'ln 0 Uie condemned murderers for the r..t,.,,.. .i,. o ,.,.i t .. - - sophic and others, all of man's potencies nnd powers, latent or active, are not necessarily attributes of an immortal uraBsaiiiji uiniuunn ui an noniuiini 1 soul; and yet these when fully liberated !"':1 pxprt wondrous Influance ln the cm til, spent Xhou,nt, even aro ,. ., tlling8 with potency and influ- ellce, what potencies and powers, im- pregnatcd and poisoned with murderous i ..MM 1.1 .....-i.l.i e, w M "':''BI7(H 7 " ' U Ul HI UlTI CI l ICfcUl 1 J UIIUKCVI I" death? A (Jod spark is innate in every mIman being, be be never so vile. All force or potency is good or evil accoid- ins to its use. Evil may be transmitted ?" ? J1 . . f kUUllK evil ls worfie than folly, for It but multiplies evil. Governor West ls right in his vice 'crusade and his abhorrence of capital pimishineiit. A strong, sane and healthy public sentiment stands back al)le ,)a(, been aciulred, much develop-' of him. lie ls to be loved for the ene- nen't work c0uli i)0 dono by state and mies he has made in his fearless, con- t.ountv prisoners, under conditions that sclentious discharge of public duty. Let WOuld make their management and eon machlne iiolitlcians and fnterest servers trol more feasible than when doing other take notice accordingly. iroad work. Capital punishment is a relic of bar-! ah rouds require drainage; hence, to brisin, a blood red spot on our elviliza- tion and u standing reproach on so called, Christianity. p: o. chilstuom. The Hnrnside Brigade. Pnr'tl ind I-Vb 6 To the Editor 0 Tirl ifiin'nni- i'ieasi nermi ne th L..i...i.'.o -! r..n.i.mQ h lean alwuvs irot a Job. whose letter an- Ueared In Saturday's Journal. in TIiihkIb thern fire, nani.la who run ! always get a Job, and some who aro Iverv rich and prosperous: so also ln 'Turkey, and in China times art so glor-1 once advertised for 60 men "as strong as bulls and aB ignorant as rauw. That was an honest and plain-speaking. Dy combining the work of making road man. lie knew what kind of men were material available, with the work of best adapted to the Tilnd of work he deepening tho channels bf our rivers, had. to offer. Bpt oven these do not T cons1der such a plan not only of the last long A few years of that kind of utmost importance to the present gen work, will qualify many of them for cratlon; lt lg also a polley of congerTa- Thwmy V wrecks annSellcS'tf a tlon' U 18 a,S a P'an Upn h,ch " mLWrC,!nid"eJ fl? o all Should be able to agree and the car- who uphold that system are ln part re sponsible for Its presence, These are the victims offered on the altars of Mammon. If the sacrifice does not smell sweet, so much the worse for the worship that produces such an Incense. Many people succeed "in gambling. QUniituccec(l ..tactile profwsloa-cf prlxe fighting. The capitalist game of exploitation .is worse than any other COMMENT AND SMALL CHANOE Uesulls would be about the same if ibj" wue u, , or sui cay, Sometimes it ukes admirable moral couraso to vote "No" In v legislature. . a . . Would it be treasonable or acrlliKloua not to observe those February holidays. As a rule, the more that laws are fixed, the more tbey need fixing next time. Figuratively speaking, reform of Judi cial procedure will come after awhile by means of an ax. . .. '. .Instead of grumbling at a little In clemency of, th weather, read how much worse, it Is "elsewhere. After the bill introducing .time limit has passed, memburs will think of bcores more "very Important" bills. In its own mind, Turkey's principal trouble Is the sumc us that of many Individuals, can't borrow any-pioney. T It may be that British women .ought to vote, but many of them aeem to be iluinx their utmost to prove that they should not. Carnegie tries, or pretPtHls to try to let go of bis money, and can't, but Uncle John p. Rockefeller has no audi trouble; be never "Rets too much. Tba Missouri, legislator who intro duced a bill prohibiting women from wearing dresses that button up the back unless tho buttons ure as big; as dollars is of course a married man. a a The private secretary of Governor Wilson, who will also be the, private secretary of President Vilson, may be a very quiet, eerene man, but his nam Tumulty somehow has an ominous sound. . A- Instances ar constantly' arising tend ing to furnish excuse for thube who complain- that there Js too much govetn mnnt, too many attempts to control in dividual action, Some authorities are now prescribing not only bow people shall not dance, hut precisely how they shall dance, which, many will think, is carrying government to an absurd ex treme, and tends to promote the very evil it seeks to prevent. NEW YORK By Herbert Corey. There's another neat little problem on its way to that most discourteous and efficient chief of Ellis Island, Commissioner Williams. To thoroughly ... . ,n unoersianu ine quamy or me nut u- Hams will be asked to crack, the Castro easa must ba considered briefly. For some reason, some one-narrre and ad dress not yet made p.ubllc wished Castro kept out of the United States. Commissioner Williams found him guilty of the murder oiono 1'aredes ln Venezuela, through urpT' verdict of one of the commissioner's "boards." It, is true that Venezuela bad had the flrsl crack at Castro, and bad not con victed bun. Hut what's that between friends? Castro was refused admission to the United States. His appeal is now pending in a United States court. Now it Is related that Dr. Luknsch' wiU may vtsl the United 8tutej? from Itussla, possibly before Com missioner Williams is relieved from his Ellis Island duty. Lukaschewitz Is one of the great scientists of the world, though hig name is little known hcre- abouts. lie was recently 'granted the lamous Auumaiuw prize i ma i. relersburs: Academy of Sciences, roi - - , " i" uuiuurinii vi a. wuiiv uimiinun; it lli' 11 . ....... IiIl' 1'lult 1 . ....11.. t.iu. .. . 1 . triu um- ue i"d uiuwn otuivs y i"u !,. t. tirUtnli aaA 1m will t th IjUI VfIC, 1 1 n t v. i - . v. , , . . , .. .. m ..i .... .... guest oi me great icaoei s i. .....!,. nf tha nrlnHnul HC.inn- , ... , ........ tlflc bodice, if be comes to the comes to the United states and no one puts in an anony- mous knruck with Commission- r Wii- linrns it mav be assumed that the highest honors will be offered him ... .-. or virtue Those wno ran may uoi ue any less disreputable than those who succeed. Of course tho world to the .successful ones Is a celestial empire, but to those who nre vanquished and crushed it is not such a heavenly place. J. Li. JUNKS. Sfate Aid for Public I loud. Eola, Or.. Feb. 6. To tho Kdltor of Tho Journal To my mind, first stale nld for nubile roads should not concern tno actual construction work upon such roads but should be confined to gain w public ownership and control of ing public ownership aim couuui u ibose natural resources of raw material: absolutely necessary for future use ii road congtruction. The carrying out o SUCh a policy throughout the Willamett s in f ..nllnu tlirnilirhiliit the V llhtmctte valley would consist of acquiring state, or state and county, ownership or avail- . . i i .. ..a1 1.. i. unnn lliu WlllnilUitto r.TihLr,n S '....., "... j; i"ahr Z Jiip p" . , ftlturi pi . - , nton bluffs udoii streams, where it would require 'tho least quarry work, could be crushed by water power when fe.-isible. and then be transported by Wiilcr grade and possibly water trans portation. The raw materials available nnd necessary throughout the stiite would vary In different localities, but such a state aid plan should be broad enough to meet local conditions, Afioi- tha nubile ownership and con- . , f , naturai .sources, yet avail- niv mind, where gravel Is available, tho state and counties should mane concrete drainage pipe, using prison labor when ever possible, thereby reducing road cost and loss from prison keep, and increas ing results. Such a plan could bo de i 3 t..4 n Aifai rim r f 1 m m lines rnli1A veiupmi inw ""'- not only to the state and counties, but also to the cities, by reducing the cost of constructing sewer systems street paving, public docks, and in , tact, all public construction worn reiiuiung coii- crete material. And no matter who may have charge, or what may be the plan of procedure in doing future road work, future roadwork will cost. Federal aid could probably be secured duce harmony for further action. Is it wisdom to continue wrangling about construction procedure, while others, seeking private gain, are gobbling the ownership of construction material? Jjei us have state ownership of -the ma fcrUIMne,! Jef 9CftJheiXJJ!ueli)iEfMe enormously above present values. 4 " CEDRGE C. MITTT NLWS IN BRIEF , ; OREGON SIDELIGHT? 1' --' Eugena Guard: This light rain haa shown, up the mud that bus accumulat ed on the pavement during the past week of dry weather. The need of a trctt flushef It more apparent than ev-r. - Coquille Herald: Facorles and a pay. roll make a prosperous city. Coquille offjrs a profitable field for nnnv and varied Industries, to . whom its people ar ready to render every enoourage mtnt '. .. Seaside Signal: Salt water fishing has been quit popular during the past few weoka and fried sea trout, rock cod and oorgles have allied themselves with clams and crabs to defeat the "high coBt of living" in Seaside homes, Astorisn: '0. V Spicer recently re ceived a nine pound -package .by parcel -oat from Dillon, Ma, Opening It. he found -haielnuts and black walnuts, grown In the section of the country where hi former! resided The charge on nine pounds from Dillon to Astoria was $1.02. ' Medford Mall-Tribune: Eagle Point has launched a campaign to secure a mil and a half of improved streets, High grade, scientific macadam, is to be laid, and will be paid for bya bond issue, which Is to be voted on soon by the city, tiuch Is the proposal made by Mayor Von Uer Hellen and Councilman Brown, Grants Tass Courier: The Southern Paotflo is improving- the driveway at the rear of the freight depot by the addi tion of several carloads of lava and ushes from tho Mount Shasta country, which material makes a good roadway, The company is using tills material for ballast In muuy sections. It resembles a mixture of red ashes and clinkers. Nehalem Enterprise: The frogs are already taking voice culture to get their. voices in condition for singing the new sprintr sung which will soon be heard on all sides. Ragtime music is under the ban, so far as these leaping amphibian "songsters are concerned, and it is therefore almost a certainty that we will be favored with the old and familiar ( trains that have stood the test of tin e since the dawn of creation. DAY BY DAY tional sentence of seven years at hard labor because he htlped some poor dev ils of convicts to escape Siberia. lut bis ethnological and anthropological studies were considered of such value that the Husslan government gave him a permit to visit Europe for scientific purposes. Several of his published works are of the first order of merit. in lie visited Nvw York, on his return from Kurope to the eonviot set tlement at Saglmlin, and while here wns the gvest of l'r. Paul g. Kaplan, the secretary of tho Uussian revolution ary organization here. Now, if . rx-l'onvict and Scientist I.uVaschowitz tries to enter New York ".vlll Williams pour the sauce on his Runder that he has dabbed ail over the Castro b'ooso? Castro's experience at Ellis Island ls of value fur one thing, lt has called attention to the savage lack of cour tesy with which immigrants are treated there. This isn't a criticism of the "Williams efficiency. The present commissioner has hirptly reduced gra(t,.and has Im proved the sanitation of the island, and litis aided in protecting the arriving immigrant Ironi those wlio would ex ploit him. l'.ut tho standard of courtesy on the Island lias gone down like pearl bundled knife to a bucket of hot soup. Williams is autocratic. Some few of bis subordinates have patterned or. him. The? take a bully's dellRht In blni as rude to visitors as they are to immigrants. Neil her unfortunate has any effective way of "getting back." Coiisidor tho manner in which Castro was treated. The l.'nlted States was at poioc with Veiicauela during Castro's time as president. Castro was never found Hiiilly of a felony until ho faced the Williams board at Ellis Island, when he was convicted of murder, lie was In good health .Aid hud plenty of money. Whether ho were worthy of .'MinilsRlon or not. It was unworthy of the Ellis Island administration not to treat him with proper courtesy. This for tha sake of the position he onee held and considering Venezuelan sus ccptibllilii s--and the Interests of our merchants In South America, If one must be sordid and most of all be caun the Cnlted States is too big a nation lo treat the ex-president of a smaller republic except with considera tion and dignity. This Is what happened: lie was ludgodln a small, ill venti lated room. It had neither ward robe nor toilet. One of the chairs waB broken. He protested that he could not etit the food. Visitors wer ad mitted to him on the decision of brass buttoned underlings. When bo was called before the board remember the Lincoln definition of a board as "some thing long, hard and narrow?" the ex prcsident of Venezuela was not given u ch.-lr. The gentlemanly members of the bourd were seated, of course. His attorneys met with obstacles ln their efforts to call upon him. Williams' at titude! throughout was that Castro was a 'prisoner convicted of some foul offense, and whs not entitled to cither courtesy or consideration. . "I visited Trills. Island," said a man of poslUon and high reputation; "to aid a poor devil of an Immigrant woman. She had lost the address of, her hus band and I had heard of her case. 1 had been able to locate her husband nnd went to the Island to reassure her. The 'truss buttoned officers' there treat ed me ns though I had no business on the inland. It was not that they laejted courtesy, "out that they seem to go out of their way to be insulting. 1 oould imagine a high spirited Immigrant, after undergoing that treatment, hoping for a chajice to trumplo on the Stars and Ktrlpes. But maybe I was merely un fortunate. After all, the woman hld been well fed and well bedded and kept clean. What more could she ask?" It Makes All the Dif ference in the Vorld That's 'what you say when you tell your friends about your shopping expeditions. , It may b the principles of the store,' the service it offers or the quality of the goods it sells that you-are discussing. But the difference to you means your satisfaction or disappointment. You will find when you deal with the merchants who adver tise in THE JOURNAL that the difference stands always for satisfaction. Each store values its reputation too much to risk disappointing you. Each wants yoyr good will. So they direct every effort toerve you best and give you the best values. By reading the advertisements in THE JOURNAL .closely" and constantly every night you will become acquainted with the reliable stores which are worthy of your patronage. 1 trh?rr - - Mi,aI TKc 16tK Amendment r V Chicago Tost.' "' Delaware "got uheud of New Mexico, Wyoming and New Jersey yesterday anil, by Its unexpected, ratification of the in come tax amendment, seised the honor of nailing t slxtenth amendment to tba constitution of the United States. One house in jfew Mexico and one Pi New Jersey had ratified tha amendment Saturday, and public attention at Wash lngton was focused upon those states to, see which one, by priority ln legisla tive action, would seize the distinction of being the Stt and final, state whose vote ' would automatically bring the amendment Into existence. To every one's surprise, however, Delaware nosed ln ahead of everybody. , Now all tho textbooks on American history and gov. eminent must be revised in order to add to the constitution of the United States tha following sixteenth amend ment; ' i Congress shall have' the power to lay ever' source deflved without apportion- Jr ment along the several slates mid wltlK out regard to any census or enumeration. t This ls, of course, a mere "enabling act." It remains for congress to draft and adopt an income .tax law on what ever lines it pleases, subject to the re striction always reserved that tliu scheme shall not Jjo so unfair as to ho confiscatory. ' This now brings us up to the third at tempt which the federal government has made to impose a direct tax upon io incomes of its cltlsens. The first at tempt was begun in 1861, under the pres. iure of Civil war needs and excitement and lasted, with some modification, un til 1872. The law of 1S64 Was pretty stiff. It taxed incomes of over 15000 a year at 10 per cent and those be tween $5000 and f S000 per year at E p.r cent. Those beloW $600 per year were free. Three years after the war this tax was raising about $4,000,000 per annum, or about ope fourth of the en tire revenne of the government. The United States supreme court affirmed its constitutionality In 1(68 and again" ln 1880, but from sheer unpopularity the tax was abandoned in 1872, Tho second attempt, as everyone knows, brought the income tax upon the rocks of unconstitutionality. The Wil son tariff act of 1894, in order to taka care of the deficit In the treasury an ticipated from the proposed cut in flm tariff rates, provided -for the re-introduction of the Income tax. Incomes over $4000 per annum wcre to be taxed at the rato of 2 per cent. lint It so happens that there ls a provision In the constitution which serts that no "direct tax" shall be laid except In such a way that the Income raised by it from the various states shall be in proportion to tho population of those states. The tax must ba pr raiiKed so that the state with a popu lation of 4,000,000 people Would con tribute only one half as much as the state with a population of 8,000,000. -It was quite obvious that If the in come tax could be brought Into tho category of "direct taxes" described in this particular clause It would become Instantly unworkable. That is to say, blind obedience to this clause woui-1 require the federal government to so adjust tho rate that tho farming state', for example, would have to strain and struggle, to raise tho same amount as the enormously wealthy slate across the iKirder with tho population of the same sitfe made up of retired investor.". . This would be so inequitable ns prac tidily. If not actually, to force the abandonment of such a" law. The fight, then, beforo the United States supreme court in 1891 raged over the question us to whether or not the . proposed Income tax came under tbe class of "capitation or other direct tax." Most of tho authorities nsleo that the constitutional convention hud no very very clear notion of what it was talking about at the lime It drafted that clause. Alexander Hamilton thought that lt meant "cnpltatlou taxes, taxes on land and general taxes on all of the property of Individuals." A majority of ' the supreme court ln 1S!3 decided that taxes upon real estate or the Income from rpal estate, and the taxes upon personal property or the Income from personal property, were "direct taxes'' wltliln the meaning of the constitution and were therefore to be apportioned among the states on the basis of popu lation. This led to the abandonment of the law. Since that time the movement has grown steadily to pass a constitutional amendment expressly exempting taxes upon income from the category des cribed elsewhere In the constitution. Mr. Taft brought the thing to a head In 19011 and in a remarkably short space of time the necessary amendment was drafted, adopted by congress nnd now is ratified by the necessary three fourths of tho states. Jointed Paragraph Sidestep the man and says little. who talks much (sympathy Jias never taken thv place of a square meal. Xervous women kite their Hps; nerv ous girls chow gum. Ills sa tunic majesty may love a hypo crite like a brother. , It scarcely pays to associate with people who inako you foci cheap. girl's Uea of a tightwad Is a Small j young man who carries his change In, a purse. Tho things that don't concern women Bin usually the tilings that give them tho most concern. a Women like to attend a social func tion in order that they may be able to crltlse it properly.- A woman would be' more inclined to gossip than evor If she had to wait her turn in a barber shop. - T