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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY !E JOURNAL 1'KNligNT NEWSPArEB .Publisher -.--I e-ry !.lnt .ett Sunday) and -r f,:ixir nwtiin it Th Journal Build- t I ,t th piistomra mt Portland. Or., r t rj-tvl-shia' tbrougU tilt.. BMUlS eCOWl ; ! l.iMU.'KS MiB WS; Home, A-C051. i .1 U- partreit reatfbed by tnwte. nnmbera. lv:l tii niKTior ht department yon want. : u; adymuising bepreskntativi I -Mj.n.in Knlnur Co., Brenawlck FuUd ing ... Hiih BTemw, New XockJ 12i I'topla Building, (.bit-ago. ' ' . suhwrlotloa Term by mull er ear addreel it. tae Lulled Sutea tr Maxico: . DAILY ;- " One year........5-00 I Out mont.,...! .80 i , . srsDAT- f- i Out ye.....:..li I One month........! .23 , DAILY AND BCSDA , W ' ' One yer.. ...... S7.60 Oat moats, .8 . The fir you kindle, for your, "enemy often bums yourself mor than him. Chines Proverb. 5 .',''11 va- -iv'-'J : 'i '.. i..' i in' i. --II. p 1 1 " j -i. Ill'l "'C 'V l ""- ""II '"I LEGISLATIVE ROCKS -. ri-' 11 f ,l- filERB are many, excellent ! men I la the Oregon legislature. They are. men- who are giving .their endeavors' lonestly:- nd patri otically to the service of the state. -They are doing everything ltt their power to .forward legislative, work that will he of broad and-general lenef it, ; and : striving hard to beat bills which are mischievous. ' It is unfortunate for them and for the work they 'would otherwise be able to accomplish that the legislative eat endar is crowded into; hopeless eon fusion with nearly 1000 bills.' , The' consideration.' of stich a num ber of bill? In the. allotted period of the session la hopeless It li beyond the physical power of men to get a fair .understanding if even" a consid erable, percentage of the measures. A. minute" investigation Into all the details of all the -tills, all their, terms and all their provisions is absolutely cut of the question. . The result Is confusion, ; Trivial bills, peanut bills and popgun . bills clog and congest the calendar. Men wftb aieTW grind congest the Pf There Is a lot of good in a tot of men. But It is the habit for malevo lent Influences to swoop down on every state capital during legislative cessions. It happens, not only In Oregon, b in every state. : These influences beBct the city council in every, large, 'fryU 4 They get V control of . weak men They obtain leadership over credited nen. They do a great"deat,to de stroy the 1 efficiency of legislative bodies.' ' , ";,' - They And tha unfits who are elect ed to legislatures constitute a fun damental weakness in the legislative system. The unfits are those, who are -weak those who' are crooked, and those who, aee election, to .the body, not to represent the public in- terest, tut to represent private and personal interest' , ' : . -; It is a basic weakness clearly man Ifest at - tho present - session. The good men are almost powerless . In the wilderness of. bills. ' They are handicapped' and hedged about - by JfglDlilUYO BBUMIUKO. y Jl UCli; USUU9 are tied by the manner of organizing a cession, . ; . ' 'A- , If these better men could be given the right of. way, a great deal of good could yet be accomplished at this' session. If their counsel could be hooded, and the measures ' they would, push could be given Ceserved ctlon. even yet. with only fire more legislative days, enough .first class legislation- could be enacted to ju tif y the session. nJJnhapplly for such an end, . it . is - the legislative weak lings that always regard themselves ordained of heaven to. run things, and the chance or a commendable butcome of the session is only a bare . hope. . ,,.V:v;;;r:;;i- ' ';" , One of tho great blunders of this session was the hard and fast organ izatlon formed to fight the governor, It was a wrong start; It wan a mis hievou purpose; ' It was beneath tae dignity of .patriotic legislators v It Is one of the rocks on which the cession. . has been largely wrecked. ' OUR BLOOD ROLL f ILL the legislature refuse to do anything to reform the criminal code, refuia ta re. . . 'form the absurditiea of the couriB, ana reruse to pass tne revol Vtr Wilt , .- .1 io ine iauure or these reforms, - observers charge the blood roll " the United States. Since 1886, there uyuairjr, wjui ma extreme penalty of , tne jaw applied but 3000 times, In 1885, the number of murders wag 1808. In 1895. it had riHen to 10 00RoughIy speaking, 'Americans are now tilling one another at the rate or over S 000 a rear. In 27 years, murders and homi cides have multiplied five-fold. Than murder there are fer trimm mt whjch an American can mora safely ie guilty, jf he kills - fellow be ing, he Stands : but one r.hannA In .three of ever; being brought to trial, grid lint nut ptiini.. t v, fonvIctedrfjiJThcsft are offlciaL'stat- lEticB, and they pply to the country i8 a wnoie, ana to all its people. in no country is there such an un ftxampled failure to punish tbs- rim inal. The fault lies with, the courts. the Judffes,llfe criminal code and the Indiscriminate sale' ot pistols. The criminal procedure of . the f ountry is hopelessly entangled In tMhnicalities and Ineglects justice - 1 'f criTr.on8ftfisdcretasiraTlefan i i c U le infallibility, of reform, It - i lightest error Ja made, -no mat- ! Tow trivial., or how far removed f ;:v'!t or lanorccco of 'the '. or court ordcrs'a 7 VI W . 1 , ' .. ' ' ..' . new trial "almost automatically. It is estimated that in, fifty per cent of the cases brought under, review,. new trials are ordered. The higher court' considers not whether the-verdict it la reviewing is a Just one on thefacts of the case, but whether a sine error of pro cedure was committed in reaching It Thus, In the,' regon, supreme! court, a retrial was ordered and a convicted criminal . escaped ;'. punish ment' because , the trial judge used "the" instead of "a"" in his instruc tions.: - : :r'':K:i .' :J' The legislature vpted dowp a plan for commission nto' reform - the courts. .It voted down a. conspiracy statute. It has passed no measure of relief. -A. bill to Indict and try a criminal on wore than one count has been Introduced, but H is not ikely to run the" gauntlet of the crowd of lawyers In the two .houses. The legislative answer to . the strong public demand for a change threaten, to be multiplied Judge, more courts, more salaries,' and a continuation of the national scandal of blood letting. ! j A SINISTER TLUEXCE IT is saia mat anotner state print er's, bill is " lying 4n;walt to be sprung on the session at Salem No doubt j Sate, printing has had a great deal to do with govern Ing Oregon for the past, quarter of century. State printing with Its enormous profits has been a secret and sinister influence that has exer cised large control over almost every legislative session. The state printing office find the most . powerful , committee In the house at the last session were a-close corporation. The intimate' relation between the state printer and Chair man Abbott of the house ways and means committee of 1911 is well known. e ' ,1' There is presented at this session the same control by the state print- ng, office over the committee that has its hand on the appropriations. The state printing office, through Chairman Abbott, is in position to. say to. members that they must line up for state printing or their appro priations Will be slashed. That Mr. Abbott, exercised the power of his position in a defense of the state Printing office at the 1911 session is common knowledge. With all ap propriations held lip "and only five legislative days remaining, what else s to be surmised than that the Btate printing combine 4s. getting things ready with its new bill, to perpetuate the power of the state printing office in 'this state,! -What else can be sur mised when there is not rily a close relation , netween tne state printing office and the ichalrman of the. ways and means committee of the house, hut a iclose tamlly relation between he state printing ofUce and the chairman of the ways and mean Committee or the' senate? " " Chairman Abbott Is also one -tf the 'pillars of the anti-West organ ization, which means that state print ing Is one of the pillars in the anti West organisation. Do the better men In the organization realize the nature of the company in which they are traveling? , . ; Can they afford, to commit their public records to history as allies and abettors of the state printing scan dal? SIXTEEN TO TWELVE HAS anybody noticed how often 'the result of a ballot' In the senate Is sixteen to twelve? . .. : Has anybody noticed that about the same riUP of gentlemen usually . composes the sixteen and that " another group of senators makes up the usual twelve? Has anybody noticed that when ever private interests are matched against the public interest that there are invariably sixteen votes on the side of private Interest? . Has anybody noticed that on all measures .ot rerorm mat corpora tions oppose, the vote against It Is usually an even sixteen? Has anybody noticed that every measure that, the sleek, well fed gen tlemen in the lobby oppose is usually killed by a vote Of about sixteen? 7 A study of the senate ballots by any discerning citizen would be an Illuminating f diversion, especially those ballots in which the vote is sixteen to twelve. THE NEXT ENGLISH REFORM THE next and most Urgent public reform to be taken up in Eng land by the Liberal government Is the remodeling of public edu cation. So much has now been an nounced by Lord Chancellor Hal- dane. in his speech it was declared to be a "tremendous question,' and also a costly question. , The aim of the proposed reform is to make public education Interesting, and to infuse It with vigor and life, it must be directed to Increasing the power of production of the nation In other words, practical i training, trade schools, and vocational teach ing are to be generally introduced. -- The English government has, still further aims. "In Scotland and Wales the universities are organised, ft is said, for the use o.f the democracy, as Is proved by the number , of the stu dents, their origin in Ijery clasp of the community, the economy of their spending on their way through their Course nd the ease with which they adapt themselves tft every and any -pursuit when they enter the warfare , ; Mr. William Hanley's objectioni to college bred boys its wage-earners do not apply to the Scotch and Welsh ttudents. Their higher standard of education helps, rather than handl- caps, thera in contesting for fTetf cs. Complaint is made in civil , service examinations that, when the univer sity graduate enters the lists he takes the best places, since there. is no equality of educational opportunity between him and the pupil tf the common schools. .The idol-smashing reformers pf the Liberal .government in England now have it in mind to carry their campaign .for equal - opportunities into the universities of England, and will n,ot stop until opportunities for higher education are equal for the son of the rich mamurd ;of;thtpoor man. . . ; ':.'zMs Ti.-''T"-" If proof were wanting here Is an other instance where the ocean Is no barrier between the movements of the time In both the nations of the Anglo-Saxon race. v:',''.'; ';-vi."'-- When the call for reform In one is sounded it reaches and ls'responded to by both. v . v ' TOB MULTNOMAH SOLQXS HOUGH the Spencer Port t Of Portland Commission bill has been withdrawn, it is stated that the Multnomah delegation wlUjesum'e consideration of the sub ject next Monday, i Hasn't the Multnomah delegation already undertaken about all ltf can handle in the way of legislating on the great paramount- Issue- of jopil and Job-holders! With the assess sor's bill as a starter, -hadn't the del egation proven Its title to ' states manship with job and salary changes until it has about swamped the leg islature? Do not the really sane and substantial members of the, delega tion think that at least one land mark in .Portland's. ..official family ought to be left to tell the tale of things that were? Of course, it wonld be accommo dating to Son Spencer for the dele gation to legislate somebody else out and legislate Father Spencer into ft position. But is it for the accommo dation of any particular family that the port of Portland was created? Does that splendid activity exist to be made the football of polities' and family ambltldns, and that by a body of men sent to Saerft on their glitter ing promises to render service to Multnomah county and the state? That mere are piuitnoman mem bers at Salem- who wonld sacrifice the Port of Portland, or sacrifice any tblntf else, there 1b no doubt. But there are members from Multnomah in the senate and members from Multnomah in the house whq will certainly see to it that the ffresent splendidly efficient commission is left undisturbed. A SPEEDY HARVEST- O SOONER has the great insur ance act begun, in London, Its full work than - two results com Immediately .to the front. One is that the doctors', opposition ls-fast crumbling away, the British Medical Association having given them their release from the pledge of opposition. The "panels" of doc tors under the. act are well filled A fine feature is that many who hold the highest English degree of "Mas ter In Surgery" have sent in their names for service among the poor. The second point Is the letter, in the London Dally Chronicle, from one of the doctors telling that now, for the first time, he had -been able to order for his po6r patients those remedies heretofore hopelessly out of their, and his, reach. The act had provided opportunity of reHt, special medical and surgical treatment, and sanatorium benefits to sufferers from tuberculosa, influenza or grippe, anaemia or exhaustion. . Thus, said Lloyd-George, "the em pire Is now able to go the rounds of the slums with benefits in its hands." One of the tragedies of practice in those slums, to both doctors and1 still more to their, poverty stricken pa tients, has been from time immem orial that unattainable help, which was but added Buffering to those ex cluded by poverty from reaching it. MUNICIPAL KXriiltTS T HE Otitloolc endorses a sugges tion by a prominent citizen of New York for the creation of a "New York Chamber of Busi ness Administration.". The basic principle advocated is -the manage ment of the business of the city of New York upon business principles, by heads of departments who are ex perts, and by a chief executive who is a man of business efficiency and character. This head executive is to ! be free from the domination of any political organization. is the Outlook fearful of the name and title "Commission Govern ment"? The plan Is that and noth ing. else. It is no wonder that good cltluens of New York should revolt from an existing system wherein Tammany is a force' that must be reckoned with, ,to say the least,, and where the, pressing question of the day is whether the police scandals are natural or artificial outgrowths -whether they are curable or hope less. The substitution of Commis sion Government would be nothing less for them than a revolution,7 and no revolutionary general Is in eight, nor any party of reform strong enough to impose its principles and will on. a majority of the voters. It is probably the fact thaMf New York were a German city the ; Ger man .method qt segregation of . de partments, each under expert man agement, - would be found, practical. As things are the Inhabitants may beTthanWui iOronfthe revulsion against present methods' there ' la evolved even a slow reform; ,; ! ;' Los Angeles has" discountenanced the Introduction of .the German sys teiiTof government Jby experts from the outside,", and ' turned ' down the new municipal charter which pro vided for it Were the citizens afraid of the novelty," or. were. there Inter ests at work, scenting private loss In the new system and strong enough to defeat it? " ''-.".;"":" It "is" stated without contradiction' that no considerable city which has given commission government a, rea sonable trial ' has discarded it. ' It is surely In harmony with the pre vailing demand for efficient and ex clusive service. ' . '. ' - (Communications seat to . The " Journ.l for poblicetion la tbli department should be writ, ten on only one side of tbe paper, aboulA set xcead 800 words la length and mutt be ac com pa nled by tbe nam and eddreat of tbe coder. If tnt writer dota not deaire to kave tbe name published, bttbuuld ao tute.) ,, ; . - A Woman Writes . of Workingmea. La Grande, Or'Fob. 12. To the Ed itor of The Journal I would like to say a few words In regard to tha general unrest In' the Vftrld todayJ;f Why la Itt Why are people not contented nd aatis fled with their lotT The working- class have nothing, to do but work all those. I may aay,;,whq can find work ana those who can't find work nave nothing to do but loaf with their hands in their pockets, Those. ; who do work have nothing to d but get up at 6:80 a. m.. eat 4 nice, light breakfast so light ltt is all digested by I o'clock. Then the worker has nothing to do but eat an other Ught.meal, to do heavy work on. Then, at quitting time, he baa nothing to do but eat a still lighter meal and go to bed and dream of goodies tie can get. When pay day cornea he has noth, ing to ao but draw his check, provided his grocery, man hasn't drawn It for him and saved the rascal of a working man the trouble. Then 'he. has n.oth!ng to do but go back'to the same old place In the same old way and knock out f 2.16 per again another day. pleasant, Isn't u '-; .v ,.w. .. ,.:,-;,::,,.,v The working man has nothing to do but work with a hungry stomach and a thinly clad back, and the man out of work has nothing to do but eeek after these. Tbe wage earner earns an other check. He goes up town. He pays little hers,, a little there, qn what he owes, for his cheap . ituff bought at high prices. ' Then ha goes back to work and performs high priced work for cheap -wages. v-' Now you'va got it, and let me say to' you, grocery man, clothing, man, , shoe, man, capitalist or anybody alse: 'This ts the cause for the unrest' today,; The working people are not the foots they are taken to be, and the sooner you stop hounding this famished and run down animal the better. He Is about ready to fight I am- no Socialist but a plain Democrat. People do not have to be Socialists, I. W. W.'n or an-, archists to be wise to your tricks. In my opinion; If it were net fo such men as Governor West and Woodrow Wilson and other good men who are doing all . they can for the people, Mr. Oppressor of the Poer,- you would get It where the chicken got tho ax, and. that soon. And the working man that never was broke and the laundry wom an who lovea to work nine hours par day, are just alike, only different one Is a man, the other la a woman. Borne folks could not be run Into, heaven If the gates were wide open. I am. going to give my correct name ajnd address, for publication, ao it any one thinks I can t or am afraid, to stand by what I say. seek me out " ' ' : . La Grande, Oregon. Corner Fourth and Lake streets. . 'Saloon Licenses. 7 Portland. Or.. Feb. It To- the Editor ' of The Journal I enloved Tenr much .. . . "i tetters From the People the talk last night by City Councilman pointed out In reference to Aatorla. Were Daly on the subject, "How Portland Is : the same remarks that . Mr. Teal de Governed." But there Is one feature of ' livered uttered regarding almost any his talk, or one condition of the city's ' other place In Oregon, I feel pretty safe affairs, which It seems to me deserves , In saying the Portland papers would more than passing notice. have been full of boom notice. Mr. Daly stated that he la a member As Governor Lister ot Washington re- of the liquor license committee, and that under tbe present city charter no new or additional liquor licenses can be Issued in Portland until the popula tion has Increased, as the number of licenses is based on the population. The license committee, or the council, treats living if that city has only 400,000 peo every liquor license now In existence as pie in a whole state to support it. Let a vested property right, ana allows it t6 be sold,, transferred and renewed, at the pleasure and request of the holder. The result of this is that licenses are sold tor a great deal more than the city gets for them bringing sometimes as much as $3000 and even stooo each. But tbe oity sells them for $800 dollars each. According to Mr. Daly about 9Q i per cent of the liquor licenses are either owned or controlled by the brew-1 erlee and their employes, and he seemed , to consider this a very undesirable con-, dltlon of affairs. ,. If such a, condition exists it ean very easily be remedied by the city council, if the council so desires, . And if the council does not desire to remedy it the people ought to know the reason why. ' In the first place, If a liquor license in the city of Portland. Is worth 13000 or $4000, why should not the city get the money Instead of allowing- others to get it? Why sell every year more than 400 liquor licenses at $800 each, when the market price of those licenses is from two to four times as muoh? Is the city so rich that It does not want the money? Paragraph 21 o section 7$ of the city charter provides that the council shall- have the power and authority "to grant licenses with the object of rail ing revenue, or of regulation, or both, for any and all lawful acts, things or purposes, and to fix by ordinance the amount to be paia tnerpror, and to pro vide for the revoking, of the same. No license sliall be granted to continue, for a longer period than one year from thi date thereof, etc t -u . ( It seems that (he council Is granting these licenses in perpetuity. If X am mistaken in any facts or conclusions as above mentioned, I shall be glad to be corrected, HENRY L. LYONS. . Astorlan Rebukes Portland reople, Astoria, Or., Feb. 12- To the- Editor of Tbe Journal t have failed to notice any comment in your paper on the ad dress made by Mr. Joseph N. Teal, de livered at the Portland Chamber of Commerce about a month or six weeks ago, pointing out the advantages that were bound to ensue with the comple tion of the Panama canal and forcibly calling the attention of said Chamber of Commerce to the fact 'that the time was now at hand to make preparations for that greaj event, and that the right place to look to lay right at their door, which was .Astoria, and that:' Portland was losing considerable of her shipping to Puget sound and for no. good rea son .except that Astoria, a great and natural harbor, was being handicapped, etc.,. etc. (and knocked , by almost every man In .Portland). ' . s " 1 T r .- The writer has frequently pointed out what Mr. Teal , urges jjuat it - Was a ,f great tnlstake-w-taelr-tae4.4a-aetlng as "they were in handicapping every movement that would build un this natural . harbor,; as whatever ' benefits resulted, Portland would surely be the greater gainer. There l no. necessity for my going Into the details of Mr. Teal's splendid and truthful remark, aa if - ! J PERTINENT COMMEfsT AND NEWS IN BRIEF jj v. - - SJLLLL CHANGS Of course the Rose Festival th! year must be much bigger an4 better than ever. .. . . . ... . . u-..ti .. .V .. Amundsen and Scott present very difi ferent faces to the world from Peary and Cook. - V. . t. -. ' U It potSlbl that this It ttf be the year when Portland will get a commis sion form of eovcrnmeotT -; - .'.'.'- t l - There ouxht to be "ej ''law that the request ( public ffloial, or pf any one on his behalf, for a higrher ialary, should of lUelf operateJLS forfeiture of tha office... . .- . . . i.. -. . f " f i i' . Why ret a "coioralislon," and regu lation, and licenses, and fees, and more or leas favoritism, and monopoly: for every occupation bootblacks, bartend ers, horse cleaners, chimney weept, and all 4he rent? -'. i . (...: -' f ...-',; va; : t ; ..'. However early the rtRlstra-tlon books are opened, most voters will neglect to register until It is nearly time for them to be closed unlets tne new voters, women, should be different In this re spect crom men, By Irvtn Flsbtr, Professor of Tale : rjnlversity, President of the Commlt- tea '-ot; Ona, Hundred on' ; National Health, Century MagaalneJ. The Owen bill never contemplated any restriction of medical freedom, and Sen ator Owen, taking his opponents at their word,' changed his bill ao as to remove any possibility of such misconstruction, eveh to tha extent of inserting explicit provisos that medical freedom : should not be Interfered with. Nevertheless, the opponents of the original bill con tinue to oppose the amended bill. Tney admit that they have uo( constructive program to take Ha place, They would oppose any bill : to create national health servioe. , They opposed tho bill which has finally passed to change the nam of the Marine Hospital Service to the Public Health Service, and their spokesman in the senate, Senator Works, finally acoepted this bill merely because he hoped it would prevent the passage of other health legislation in the Owen bllL The Owen bill merely unites the pure food bureau, the marine hospital service, bureau (now the ."public health service"), and the vital statistics service of the census Into a larger health ser vice, and makes it Independent of the existing departments of the government; in other words, frees It from the com mercial Interests which have hampered Dr. Wiley and the other health bureaus in the past . The unwillingness of the men whom Mr. Flower represents to favor and help in seouring any effective health legis lation has shown them in their true light and baa discredited ' them wit n many who originally were misled by their protestations. A great metropol itan dally newspapeV which had first lent its columns to the league has with drawn its support Tfta homeopathlsta, whom .they claimed as allien, have for mally supported the proposal for a na tional, health service. They have met similar defeat In the recent meeting in San Francisco of the National Federa tion of Women's clubs despite the strong effort of many Christian Scientist, and they war foiled in their ; attempts to prevent the insertion' ot health planks yon undoubtedly have them before you. Every time Astoria Is mentioned In Portland It Is met with knocks. WhyT How (lo 'yott expect to build up this great state of Oregon, with its entire population of about. 100,000 people, when nearly half of them live within a radius of about 10 miles of your great paper, unless you lend every aid to outside development particularly, as Mr. Teal cently stated, "Cut out a' lot of the hot air, and put that time and money Into outside development, and we will be better off." ' Three, hundred thousand people living in one city cannot legitimately make a Portland cititens broaden their views, so that when the great canal is completed he will be prepared to meee-the. great rU8h 0f settlers that will develop thia state, and from which Portland will be the main gainer. Let us have fair play. , Unless this place as. a natural harbor receives .the support ir-rTgHtfutiy should have, you cannot , convince any 'fair minded person that Oregon la going to get tbe benefits of the canal that it ex pects, but : that great volume of - trade and rush of colonists will he diverted to the sound and points lrv California. S. E. WERTHE1MER. Auditorium Requisites. Portland. Or., Feb. IS. To the Editor of The Journal The Musicians' assocj atlon deserves credit for taking an Sc tlve Interest In the construction of the auditorium. The building should ' be adaoted for the " greatest and best sr vice to the largest number of people. To accomplish this It must.be an audi torlum, which means a place to hear, We have two theatres and a court house in which the laws of aflrasttee were not followed, for some reason. This mistake should not be repeated in $600,000 building paid for out of taxes levied on the people, Tho auditorium must be so constructed that a whisper can be he'ai"U from the stage to' the re motest corner. r.The, view from every seat must be unobstructed. -Primarily this reaulrcs. au inclined floor. The stare should be large, providea witu .'win mirtain and faeitltlaa for Arranee L - .t 0t ecerierV. 'The-PUbliA ia entitled ; . ,,. Am()iate that grand ooera and spectacular plays may , be put on it When desired, '8pend the' money to se-: cure good acoustic-properties. . a first Class stage and comfortable seating- ar rangements. The- interior, decorative scheme, to begin with, may be very sim ple, yet sufficient to relieve the eye By avoiding expense In this . direction, money can be saved for the other more essential feature., The people want the auditorium for great popular muato- al entertainments, not for horse shows or expositions. -Xet ' the tatter take it as they find It and.be subseryientto the other things. -'.- '- c - ROBERT. C WIUGHT. Approves Alternate; Stops. Portland. Feb, 11, 1918.WT0 the Edi tor of i The Journal Relative to : the discussion of. the alternate car ttops. new -in force on Several, of the . line Jn our city,' 1 wish to answer some of those dissatisfied: witn tne experiment. This system 1 to cut down the present running time on the, lines, ana, accora lug to the companrs- utament, - will save five minutes each way,' citing tho Montavllla line tor example. Its run. ring time being $7 minutes each way, having 'Tilne-Tiurar" runsv-ttsrng-tilwe cars, will increase the seating capacity over 9$ per cent, all of which we should thankfully receive. The city of port land has about the shortest blocks of any city of 'Its slae in the country 200 feet If some of our dissatisfied citizens .' would acquaint themselves V . ; THE OWEN. BILL, : : : OREGON SIDELIGHTS The loe-anberry Industry la to receive, a great Impetus thia yar at Cottape Qrove. It is indicated that dryers will be stablishd to prepare the output ot the propoBd new and extensive plant Inga for market. The Dalles Chronicle: Miss Oorrlna Mtta, now In charge of the Van Wert, county -library In ; Ohio, has been se lected aa .librarian for the Carnegie in stitution In The Dalles. , Sh will com mence her work here March 1. : Eugene Guard: The Oregon Electric ralhvav uas received a' fine new ob servation car from the east to take the place ot the one, partially destroyed by the kxploelon of the hat"water boiler several weeks-ago.- The car'is now n -one- of the limited trains and bears the pld name, "Sacajawea." ;.f. ? jv: r Corvallla Gaiette-Tlmea; There Is In this city a first claea bandmaster. The Oregon national guard of this a city wants to organise" a band, and J 5 men have already . signed .up on condition that the director la secured. - Those interested in this laudable , wove have been given the Commercial club a In dorsement. In all three of the national party plat forms Health planks were adopted In all three, and extremely strong one In tbe Progressive and - Democratic i platforms,- which virtually indorsed-the Owen bill. . v';-. '!:$:. . It Is hard to understand how any' One can oppose the Owen bill because of any supposed. , Interference , with - medical freedom except on -the ssumptlonrtnat he Is opposing the onward march vof medical knowledge. This is really what la meant when Mr. Flower flays: , "We oppose the general distribution l; the expense of ps taxpayers of disputed theories of the dominant medical School, We oppose compulsion when the old school seeks to inject poisonous ser. urns or dangerous vaccines into the blood of. those who rebel against' this experimental treatment r They - know that the Owen bill does- not have the slightest reference to such. compulsion, but they prejudge that serums and vac cines are Injurious and , that the infor mation which would be distributed by the national health service would be er roneouft .They are not willing to sub mit their case to the test of scientific Investigation, They know that only those educated In sanitation would be put In charge or the health service, and they disagree in advance with the sci entific -conclusions - which would be reached. This U Intolerance masquerad- lng under the banner of toleration."-'-? If we should listen to etlch appeals fop "medical freedom,' we should limit the possibility of modieal progress such has been made by the great government laboratories in Europe tbe Pasteur in stitute, the KOch Laboratory in Ger many, and In this country the Rockefel ler Institute and the war department, in , Investigating and eliminating yellow fever, typhoid fever (by vaccination), . and the hook-worm disease la Porto JRleo, - ,. . - . - ' fuller InfOrmatlen can be had front tho memorial prepared under my direc tion for Senator Owen on the "Conserva tloa of Human Life" (Senate Document No, 49S.) and from the reference given In this statement, Including particularly the investigations of the league In "Col lier's Weekly." with Bait Lake City, or a city, with blocks of similar, sixe, they, certainly would have little or jio kick, on the al ternate car stops in Portland. One who resides tn the suburbs and is compelled to use the cars twice daily, would under the eld schedule average 74 minutes per day, or over eight and a halt hours per week, or 18 days per year. Under the new schedule he would saVe 10 minutes per trip, or 70 minutes per week, or two and one half days per year, not mention. Ing the convenience which, at its best, is very poor on our side-seating, nickel- graoDing refrigerators.' ' A- 8. PETIT. A Charter Rocommendatloti, ? 1 Ashland, Or., Feb. 12. Te the Editor of The Journal In your paper of Feb- ruary 11, under the title "Another Char- ter Vote," commenting on a commission form of government you say It Is de sirable, apd for no other reason it must be good because politicians oppose it Good. If you really want to get rid of politics and the .'politicians, have the charter , read: "The municipality now existing, known as Portland, Oregon, Is and shall be a body: Industrial and cor porate," in stead of, a it how . reads, "a body politic ahd- corporate.": " Then, in your bill of rights, give the city au thorlty to acquire, oWta and manage any or all industrial property, 1. e., all col lectively used productive and - distribu tive property that the city may need for use or benefit of Its citizen. J Do this, und provide forth coranMssioners and their duties; then you will have an ..in dustrial city, and the politician, "will be no more in your midst, so far as Port land is concerned.-. -, f D. M. BROWER, M. D. Seeking Light. Hi'Hsdale. Or., Feb. S. To, the Editor of The Journat-rNow tfiat.the men of Oregon have given tne women ,tnelght to vote, how are we to learn bow to vote toi the best? To look at Novem ber, 1912. ballot one would have to be instructed pretty well on the laws of Oregon beforehand to know what they hum va( Ina. .for. -rL". V-..-'v:''-. ?-.'..;(-. . . la there not some. hook or' pamphlet hat one can et t help them, I have asked several tnenr but they ffd liot seem to know anv more than I do about if. I imve never paid much -attention to politics, -but think as we have , been ivn the rlarht by the men itis Up to us'- to triake good.,;! W should consider i a duty to he! n wake the laws, alad io JuiQ what kind of laws we are mate TT "r1 -.r-7-.J ' tjrri ing. (" '.-v it." ; e ' Honest Manufacturers Wei-. -. ; come' Your Investigation. ' j : ; t ,i. ,,,..!;,.... i i, ... , , , .,. .i.:i,: :,; v"i.,W t1 When you read the advertisements, about some well-known product you dften find that it contains the announcement, "our factories are open or-your Inspection. ' ' ' The manufacturers who make such statements are absolutely sure of the quality of their goods and the, conditions under which they are made. They know their methods will stand the most . careful inspection. " , y .. ' " ; . Every advertisement you rtad in THE JOURNAL la' the v expression of a merchant or manufacturer whose' merchandise and methods are honest' Satisfy yourself by going to the stores'; and seeing that every value ia as represented it may be even;-, better. "- Keep in touch with the news of these stores by realmgtne advertisements in THE JOURNAL closely and constantly every.: night I -' 'Co pyrlght 1913, W J P, What Is tho Truth About Oil? . From the Christian Science Monitor. Another advance has brought Pennsyl vania, crude oil UP 10 12-60 a barrel.' There are other, and cheaper grades of petroleum, bjrt all are lncreasingv in price. Some of the least desirable' are nowwhere the .standard grade was a short time ago. Why Is oil advancing? - BO far as recorded statistics go, us pro duction showed a phenomenal increase down to a late date. Between . 1903 and im it Jumped from ns.uou.uuo to sua. 000.000 barrels, in the latter year the output was In. excess of, ' tho jsormal J demand. A compiler of a 19U reference, book says: "As the production has gone . up- the average price has gone down .- from SI a barrel In 1900 to -61 cents a barrel In 18 10." This was a lltUe mora than two years ago, - f " -In the meantime, sew oil fields have been opened and developed. The cause, Jr at tha. a-raar. Incrauta In nrnductlrtn xett I rerrea to was tne development or xoor great new fields in the Westtho gulf field in Texas and -JUuislana, the mid- , continent field In Kansas and Oklahoma, and tha Illinois and; California fields. Independent , companies - sprang up and -multiplied In many sections. Newspapers were kept supplied with stories of gushers. Statements for 1909 and 1910 how Increased production even in some, of the older fields, Gradually lass and lesa-wae said about oil field develop. -ment, but pending th. decision of the supreme court la th Standard OU case, ' no less a, person than John -D. Racke- feller was quoted with seeming author- -tty as saying; "i ascribe the success of , the Standard to Us ; consistent policy to make the volume of its business large through the merits and cheapness of its products," Thia could pot b fairly said today. either of the Standard's petroleum of of its by-products, Moreover, in the article which used this quotation,. and ' whlch-apparently was prepared advised ly, promise was held out for greater and cheaper production and wider use of . petroleum In the future. k , No observant person need be told that the demand for the crude oil and Its by-products has been greatly ,n-' creased In the last two years, oil is now more extensively used than xever before as - a substitute for coal; the growth of the automobile industry has , multiplied tbe demand for gasoline. But this does not explain tha alleged .short age In supply or Justify tho great In crease in prices. There has been no ' Intimation oi any falling off in the - available supply in the oil fields. MU I that is known definitely Is that alncifa: the so-called dissolution of the stand ard Oil company, the so-called" 'Inde- ' pendente" have been quieter.,, In fact, iii moat casta they seem to have been hashed completely. The question arises, la nrodiictlon checked to lower the sun- ply and to advance prices? If so,' this can hardly be accomplished unless by an arrangement as clearly in restraint ' of trade as any that has been met or threatened by the Sherman law. News to the effect that any of the great sources of oil supply were giving outnews that would Justify suspicion of their exhaustion could not be kept from the public.-There, is no such news. There have, been ' no" rumors to aty such effect, Tet oil IS advancing to a point that menaces other Industries as essential to national, prosperity at this Juncture as oil Itself, what Is the truth about tt? Is not tbe government able to find out? : Always in Good Humor 80LITAIRB IN t?OLTJMBtJ9. r. , ; From Popular Magaslne. ,, i Not long ago the, police of Columbus raided a tailor shon and arrested nine knights ef the needle and goose, whom they charged with playing poker.:. The prisoner were taken before Samuel ( Osborn, the police cadi of the city.' 'Dismissed," was the decree ef the court "There is no law against playing solitaire." But there were nine of them playing Itktfther,? protested the prosecutor. "BUl,-taes-in tauors o max Mi'iJ-fln - kiinn1amntn.1 - rallnar. man,"jws tn - supplemental - ruung. "And one man can't play foker." , THE WRONO PARTY. N - From an Exchange. Uncle R4raui" roared Colonel Whit, who had been aroused in the middle or tha night by a suspicious noise In his poultry house. "Is that you in there, you black th'letT" "No, aah," humbly replied "a frightened vole. "Die is mah cousin' dat looks so , much like me, and ieala ererythlnr he cah lay hi wicked nan's on. Ah' at home dls minute, sah sleepln d sleep ; pb de Jest" Pointed Paragraphs A man may not -be honest, although he refuses to tare a hint -.- :..''.- ! '!.-;., t Success comes from good work often er than it does from good luck. Our neighbors; seem to - believe that , one good turn deserves tea others. Flirt and the world flirts with Tout marry-and you eft at home. -.,'-' , '',. ' ' - ,;. ' -' ' ." " , A girl who has been engaged three er four time may look as hopeless as a woman who Js married. - - " . '.. ' ' .t ' ' ' ' ' ' It may. b that women dislike cigar because they are always arrayed in . common, everyday wrappers. After a married man begins to run around at night, it Is only a matter of -time until he exceeds the speed limit, .,.,,.,.,. ,- j ....;,:-,.-. jj; i: ; ,.,'.. .;; ... :,"Sf -. - v .n'-.i";! If every young man could see the grl he 1 in love with eating Jher -dinner . when nobody Is watching her, the crop , of old bachelors would increase. ' - Fallon.)