The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, February 21, 1913, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextTin: o::i:con daily jou::iial, icalaai), JOURNAL I ' t I ''' N rKNT KEtVSPAPEtt ,put)IIhr nlng (M''t Biiiidny) end ulna- at Tbt Jmirnal Bulld- ,.tnr morning ll and Vnollllii ! I'ortiiiim, "r-' , it tli poatoffloe It Portland, Of.. ; y nniLio, inntliT. tliruutfb tu snail I U HdM.S Main T173; Jlurae, Ail 1l n.1rtij.cuU renehed by h-"H Humbert. I. II ii, .1 oprrator )at department yo want. UKI.JN ADVERTISING KKPRKSBN1 A W i ...lJn,ln K-ntnor Co.. Brnnewf Mfih irw Ke lock; J21S Peoples i.u Itulldlng, CbiigO. . ,. ' ,f -.1. s.ihso-lptton ivrme by matl er to any addreei i tiie Lnlled blatea r Mexico: ' UAIW ' ,R year. ..i. i. .$8 iOO l On teonlh..Ajtrl J59. - BONPAT 1" DO I One month. .... DAILY AND SUNDAY V ...i.tT-W 1 One ttwntli ... .M ni year.". A man may ery CharchJ Churcht. at every word With no more piety than other people-"" A daw's not reckoned a religious bird Because it keeps cawing from a steeple.; ' - Hood. THE .VIRUS, OF COMBINE , tira mctHanM mIm ftf th Home I Telephone company In Seattle I were ' 12.50. The Home com pany has been absorbed by the Hell interest and the residence .rates now are $3.50. '. ' 1 , The Home company's rate for bus ies phones was $4. The rate for business since the absorption of the Home system by the Bell Interests U $7.50., ; There could be too stronger proof it hat monopoly Is not the best policy for the public interest. Under mo nopoly in the telephone , system or f ny other system, Service deterior jtes. The rivalry for business under competition is the moBt powerful of fill Incentives for securing good ser vice. A monopoly knows that it has the business anyway, and patrons must take what they can get la the way of service. . J - , The possession of power is temp i atlon to use it. - Under monopoly, it U human nature to exercise the con trol that monopoly gives for raising,' j rofits to th maximum., It makes no difference who the men are that exercise control the traffic will be worked for all Ait can bear. The men who have sufficiently accumu lated to be at the head of gigantic business concerns are not philan thropists. ANor woulJ Apooi-, men, could they suddenly rise to the head ship of such establishments, be more i hllanthropic. Comparatively speak ing we are all alike.,,,. We are all af ter the dollar, and are all going to grasp it wherever and "whenever we ran, That 1b why monopoly means oppression, why monopoly means ag gression, and why monopoly means tyranny,' fc;-;A-;;':;'V ;; f A?AV j There are public, charges that the forces are gathering for driving the porth west long distance telephone system out of business in Oregon. It is publicly charged that ' .the fore closure, suit sow pending against the independent, company is a move by the Bell interests for absorbing the rival telephone system. t : It is a matter of serious public concern. It is fortunate thai there Is a federal Sherman law, AH is un fortunate that thero la not an Ore gon Sherman law. , ; ; Nor is it easy to understand why the Oregon, legislature,, when asked to do so, ref used to enact legislation for prohibiting combinations Jn , re straint of trade. ; It was a duty the body owed tho people of Oregon. . The state, by legislation r of ; Us own, should assist the national gov ernment, in' its effort ; td drive out monopoly.; i ust as New Jersey and other great progressive states . are doing. ' ' " h i HIGH 'F1NAXCH ON JANUARY 6 the United States Supreme Court issued aj , - merger suit of the Union and Central Pacific railroads, by which I the court .made it plain that nothing but a sale for cash of the $126,500, 000 worth of Southern Pacific stock in the Union Pacific treasury would enable the original decree of the court to be complied with. j ; Stockholders and Wall street alike stood wondering where and how such a gigantic sum in money could be raised, . . - - On JJonday. Tebruary 10, with At torney General Wlckersham's con sent, -the Union Paclflo announced the offer of $126,650,000 of stock pro rata to existing holders of Union Pacific Stock and of the Southern Pacific stock outside the block then offered for sale. The price named . was par, Jess l per cent accrued dividendsthe offer to le open between, - February 28 and March 21.' On Thursday, February 13, the Union Pacific announced that an un derwriting syndicate of some 500 participants,' including 200 banking firms, had agreed to take the hole sum, less that applied for by. the stockholders, at a net price of 96 loss , 2 per cent commission. This syndicate was; formed by Kuhn Loeb & Co, bankers for the Union Pacific. The Evening Post of. New York stated oil February IS ; that 40 per itit ' b foreign bankers. Jndgo Lovett rave evidence, on the 15th in San Francisco, before, the State Railroad Comrolsslon, that the ' syndicate, was com iod f-l'reuchhftBkrs In either case the amount upder- ilUen by foreign bankers was as- t MiltihinK, In view of 'the European . oi.ry stringency caused by the Bal ! : i war, : .. there raters .on this field a new, and apparent!;- unforeseen, fac tor, the Wetjtern Pacific, a Gould line. The attorney general haa (sanc tioned, as in conipllanco with 1 the Supreme Court decree, the Joint uho by the Union Pacific, with the South ern Pacific, of the line called the Dcnicia Short Line. The fwp roads claim their use of this link to Ve ex clusive.' '. . A-;--: :,'.('. -i The Western Pacific alleges .that this exclusive ; user infringes the Sherman law, and threatens recourse to' the Supreme Court,- ---' Judge Lovett declares tbatrnon- compllance with any one of the con ditions upsets the syndicate unuer- writing-egreenient -and- make -the riflonPaciriC1iabl$-to-Taypef cent, or 1 1,2 6 0,0 00, to the syndicate as compensation. i A f AAA-: Here then la Another battle royal, with the syndicating bankers certain to emerge the winners, whoever shall be the losers in the fray. ; : BUT- T' HE,, workmen's compensation law . will greatly, reduce 1 litiga tion in Multnomah county, " . The reduction will about equal the work of one Judge. : An ex-judge who kept account of personal Injury eases for some time, thinks the reduc tion will eHminate one sixth of the present work of the five jjudges. .That the reduction will, abou equal the work of one Judge, is the estimate of Judge Gatens and Judge McGinn. . Nearly twelve' thousand cases of personal injury were automatically adjudicated, under the Washington workmen's compensation law during 1912. Of the number, only twenty one cases were appealed to the courts and two of these eases were dismissed. The removal of 6 these twelve thour sand instances of. personal injury from the courts and their settlement by the simple process of the auto matic law is evidence of the reduc tion of litigation to be expected in Oregon,; especially in Maltnomah county. A V :jS:Z::'J L'.-f.:,.! ' . A. ' . Though Jitigation is thus reduced the legislature is creating new judge ships,' new courts, and new salaries. It is converting Into a circuit judge the Honorable, TV J Cleeton whom the people elected county judge. At last accounts it was adding still an other Judgeship to tthe circuit court list, ' making seven in all. in Mult nomah county, all in spite of the fact that litigation Jtt Multnomah, county is to' be much reduced,' and In spite of the further fact that Judges Gatens and McGinn say there is no need of fddltlonal Judges. THE TURKS ON THIN ICE . ; ..".'.(' y, " rll crisis in Mexico has quite ob scured the general interest in : the Balkan war. Still history ; Is being made in Eastern Eu rope and issues are -pending, again which were thought to be settled. General Savoff and-King Ferdi nand at , Adrianople : seem to have weighed in the balance the destruc tion of the city by their heavy fce guns against the many lives of their soldiers that an assault would sacri fice, and to have agreed to destroy the tity but hold back the assaulting columns, as the lesser of the two evils. The lengthening out of the siege proves once more the power of a resolute and obstinate com mandant to hold a fortified city against all reason. On the Gallipoli peninsula winter Is fighting the badly fed and shel tered Turks harder than the Bul garian armies and the Greek ships. By all accounts the Turkish defend ers have failed to hold their own.; A It is safe ' to predict that each week will raise the demands of the allies when at last the Turkish ef forts are exhausted. The last hope of the Turks was that the Roumanian-Bulgarian quarrel woulc end in fighting. The groat powers have served the allies well in mediating between those two neighbors. Meanwhile - ominous mutterlngs are heard of German claims in Ana tolia that must be held sacred, of the revival of the old French inter est in Syria, of the Russian armies in preparation on the Armenian fron tier, and of British claims in Meso potamia and Arabia. Very soon the historic empire of the Caliphs will be but an empty shell, t.nd western order and discipline will be imposed on the many and mutually hostile races, scattered thinly over the vast region hitherto marked on the map as Turkey in Asia. A MERITORIOUS BULL I N AN effort to make the criminal code more effective, the Oregon house passed a bill permitting prosecutions on ' more - than one count, under certain restrictions. It is an excellent measure. It is embodied in a more drastic form in the federal laws, It is in use in the following states: California, New York, Alabama, Georgia, J ndia :. a, Mareachusetts, Minnesota, Mlssour 1, Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin. In Oregon now, a criminal can be prosecuted on but one count. - In the commission of one crime he may vio late half a dozen criminal statutes, but he can be indicted and tried on but one charge at a time . " It not .infrequently ' heppens in a trial that the evidence shows the de ToWanOufltH is doubtful on the one under which he Js on trial. He may even by his own testljnony admit guilt on other counts and" be acquitted on the jpunt ittth indtctmeat.. , . m, ,,..,-." The condition results in the ac quittal of men of known cuilt. ; ' It causes hang' juries and retrials. It multiplies prosecutions and adds to criminal business in tie courts It weakens prosecutions and gives greater immunity frpm ruuvlctlon to guilty criminals. ; ' It is one contributing cause t the increase of crime, an increase', that ,is making tho criminal record of the I United States notorious among the 1 nations. - v.' ,- ;.' , The house bill for correcting this defect has been held up in the sen ate. It ought to be passed. . When a criminal is on trial, why withhold a part .of.., the truth from the Jury. . '::'''.' A; -A JL Why-have-xourta,: ltahey.are :Q try a man, hot on all of his crime but only on part of it?.., ,A,t .AA A t,f,""V.VvS 1 -sti ; A1 1 PERSONAL POLITICS At VOMMENTiNGiwii how "Portland r ta alleged to be suffering for tA lack of a postmaster, '.he Ore gonian : says;,'; A AAA''AAa ? , It. la a situation without local prece dent and wholly Without excuti. The reason fa personal politic. The od gtacle In the way of an adjustment of the poatofflce tangle Is Senator Cham berlain.'' ::'i:V. v,' : Si The late I Postmaster A Merrick passed away August 22, 1H2. Sep tember came and went and bo did October, ; November; passed and the autumn leaves fell, "with no appoint ment of a successor by President Taft. Was it Senator. Chamberlain that kept President Taft from nam ing' a postmaster? AA 'M ;: Why didn't Mr; Taft make cn ap pointment in September? Why not In October? ' Why not in November? ' December came with ; its - winter storms and so did January, All this time Portland was without a post master and subject to all ; the ills over; which the Oregonlan how la ments. Why didn't the Oregonlan In September, in October, in Novem ber, in December, or in January, let loose Its fulminatlons? It Ralph Williams, president Taft and Senator Bourne had not been deeply engaged in "personal politics" the postmastershlp would have been filled six months ago, and the Ore gonlan knows It. There was not a reason In public policy or public or der for this appointment not io have been made last September, an 1 the Oregonlan knows it. Tho failure to da so was wholly ant entirely due to the. squabble .between Senator Bourne, President Taft and the Re publican .boss of Oregon. To' the same undignified and indefensible factional bickering is due the fact that a dozen federal cf flees in Ore gon are, and have for a year or mere beep, under temporary Incumbents, wi'.h many of them now likely to be filled with Democrats. ; President Taft sent Mr. McCus- ker's name to the senate January 14, 1913, nearly five months afte? the office ' became vacant, Wlwn the Oregonlan charges the condition It complains of to Senator Chamberlain it is ludicrous. W'hy, not attribute to Chamberlain reeponsibility for the 1912 split in the, Republican party, responsibility tor the third party, and resporaibil- lty for all the fighting at Armaged don? ": IT WOULD BE USELESS T IS useless for the house to sub mit its proposed amendment for increasing legislative pay and lengthening the session to fifty i days. A The measure might as well be torn up. The people would not approve It. The legislative body must do something to increase public confi dence in its work before it can ask with chance of success for more pay and a longer session. To propose a house plan nov would merely burden the ballot for nothing. The senate plan for a divided ses sion of "forty days is far better. It would be quickly approved, because based on common sense. The interim between the opening and closing halves of the session would give the public opportunity to find out what bills had been intro duced. It would give the people a chance to protest against bad bills. It would give them a chance to make known their approval of good bills. It would make the legirlative body more representative by bringing members in touch with their con stituents during the interim. It would give members opportunity to learn the public's opinion'of pending bills. It would put an end to the intro duction of bills in the last days of the session. It would "equlre the last half of the forty days to be de voted exclusively to the considera tion and enactment of legislation. It would' go far to bring order out of chaos, and to bring system out of disorder. If the senate plan is put on the next ballot, It will be approved. If the house plan be submitted, it will be rejected. , OSLERISM REJECTED THE Civil Service Commission, in Its decision that a man aged , J 64 is not by age alone barred from service under the Water Board, has given fresh life to many a worth yjjltlzeB.. . , ' . , What can 'be more soul-deadening than the sense of Inevitable displace' ment from satisfactory service by the lapse of months as the age limit ap- proacnesr raitmui work, mastery over details, success in. oversight or in operation of a difficult enterprise, sense of unimpaired efficiency, con tinuing conviction that pay is ' being honestly earned and full value for it given, pride in important "functions well filled must all this go for and summer spring, and the dreaded day of retirement draws on? -A, Dr. Osier did the active Vbrld bad turn when he announced the ab surd dictum that every" man is aged at ; CO, and, by consequence, must leave th f,tc;;i however mucii Lc may adorn it. There ere no two men to whom the year of their life spells out the same meaning In vital lty. Is the man who, by care, clean living, exerciBe, and constant activity, has conserved his vital stores to have no advantage over his brother, a spendthrift of his powers of mind and body? "Let each tub stand on Its own bottom." Let every man have . the chance- to make good so long as he bas..tbe power, In weighing up his fitness for longer service let expert' ence, stability, and the mastery that pave come oy years or responsive work carry their full quota of marks. The age limit is an artificial, not a natural test. ;--.'A' A"'-'' : AS. PORTLAND SUPERINTEND- T its saia mat me roraana ruD I lie School Board . is . considering I State Superintendent Alderman as a, possible successor to Super intendent Rlgler. . ; AAvi 'A,A It is doubtful if a better selection could be made. " Mr. Alderman is mpdernlzed. . He Is abreast of prog ress. , He (a Jn touch with the heart of Oregon activities, ; -' . A What more does the hoard want? (Communication tent ' to "The Joarnal for publication in tblt deparlmeot ahoold be Writ ten oo only one aide ot tb paper, ahould Bot xeeed Suo worda in length and nuat be ac companied bf tbe . name and addreae ef the tender. If the writer doe not deaire to (are tbe name pabUabed, be anouia ao ptaie.j A The "Anti-Vice Crusade.' 4r Portland, Or., Feb. 20. To 'the Editor of The Journal During- the past few weeks I have been attending- the meet ings of investigating coranoltteoa one, that of tbe Consumer' league) the other, a crime Investigation committee. The first report was a harrowing tale of girls working from II to 14 hours, glad of being too tired to eat at night be cause they bad not the price ot a sup per. These girls were being criticised for their tnefflcency because they had not the necessary nourishment to sus tain them, and very likely their fathers and mothers before them had not the neceusary vitality, to enable them to do efficient service. The other report Was given, In part by President' Foster -of Reed college. He told of the crime condition pre vailing In our city and the disease re sulting from crime, which is a menaoa to this country. The race, he said, was threatened. It was a question If Anglo- Baxpn civilisation could continue.- He conbluded that It would depend on our United., efforts. to cope, with this crime and the disease attending It, which was more , menacing than smallpox, white plague or cholera. .' And now' comes a modest young man from Bandon, Or., a Mr. Ktlllwell, with an' equally harrowing tale. It seems that White slavery has reached the re motest rural districts and is infeoting our country homes and Small towns, and the farmers and townsmen are aroused to the fact that something must be done to protect their yng people. Mr. Stlllwell, who Is an earnest worker for the betterment of conditions, tells of a girl of 17, who was decoyed into a slave trap by a motneriy tooKing woman who visited at the beach city and In duced the girl to go with nor to Sacra mento, where she was to secure a food position for her. : After. waiting for three months to hear from their dauglu pf thpr- townn neool became -alarmed and searched the city and found the young girl with two men who were en gaged tirtne white, slave traffic. She was being subjected to the 'greatest cruelty and was entirely under their control. itow mild,, indeed, was negro slavery compared with our white slavery. Mr. Stlllwell is now organising the country districts and towns, throughout the state to protect the girls and boys of Oregon against the vloe traps set by the nation wide white slave organ ization. It Is needless to say that this vice crusade organization, which comes to Portland, promoted by J. R. Stlllwell, will find ready financial support and intelligent cooperation in our city. . . . : . . , ". C. H. Reflections on liquor Traffic. ' Bend. Or.. Feb. IT. -Td the Editor of The' journal The other night about 11:30 my husband and I were awakened by someone crying "fire, fire, fire, fire," on the street, as we supposed. Going U the window and seeing no signs of a connagrauon, yei tuu nearing. tne voice, I - began to Investigate and soon located it as coming from the Isolated wooden building known as the lockup. I went tack to bed, but hot to sleep. The crary drunk for nearly three hours kept up such a racket. My husband is a patient man, but after an hour or so he murmured, "Oh, fpr a stone to break that fellow's Jaw." "O. well." I replied, "the man is crazy with liquor, and Is not so much to blame as the fellow that filled him up. If there's any throwing of stones, I'd shy one at hlro." , "Crazy , nothing," said my husband, "he's Just mean. I'll bet anything he's a mean dlspositloned fellow." I replied by saying, 'He's lost his judgment; that's all. And that's all that alls the insane. Drunk or crazy, they're both alike." "Nothing of the kind," responded my husband. "He knows better, but he doesn't care." We kept on thus for some time, but finally came a lull arid we dropped off to Bleep, only to awake In the morning cross and heavy-eyed from lack of sleep. We got to arguing again, but as neither had changed original opinions during sleep, we soon changed the subject. We are all tarred 'With - the same stick. from Adam down. We blame this con dition and that, this individual and that, put, to be honest, we ourselves are the most blameworthy.. We are not half awake. Who will awake us from our sleep and move us to rise un in our might and dtIve the liquor imonster from our land, before we' become a nation ot drunkards, so lost to our con dition as to be past saving? -( MRS. F. R. K. Wants to Trace Marked Eggs. Cglton, Or., Feb, 18.---TO the Editor of The Journal I thought of a scheme a few days ago,, and to 'carry It , out I caused' six dozen eggs to be dated at gathering - time, so as to be," sure hey were as fresh as could be.A I took them W our local pierqhant.A He. advised me not to date any more, for when they got to market and the date would show, they were two weeks-old, he, saidr some Would kick and say they were etalo eggs. Mow,,l want . ta oduceAgga-Xoca living and want to get them to market while they are fresh. I would like to know how long-it will be before they will be used. If the user who see the matks on the eggs will drop me card it may be to Ms or her advantage as well as , my own. They .were marked Letters From'the People -. B 'i. i i W ,M 'M iaaM PERTINENT COMMENT. SMALL CHANGE After all, considerable good work In blll-kllllng haa been done lately, Still be cheerful; Instead of the lesls lature, we wlU have baseball before long.',,, " .; - , The world may be growing better, but it is quite a distance off from perfec tion, yet.' ,..."; ,:',; . ' j . - ,;4 'V. .;,.; ; Now who-all are coin to "make the race?" , it i a. thousand, every. one will use this pharse. , The woman behind the man Is often a more potent factor i in the tragedy than tbe man belUnd the gun. Judarins- th future hv the naat. It Is unlikely that -the people will give the leglslatore ft paydays, at $8 per. Emlllo Vasauez domes has nror.lalmed himself oreeldent of Mexico, hut a cor or so of other generals and chronic reb els are uiteiy to io tne same. -: - Soma Klamath vallev finonla seem to be very proudvof Cain as their ancestor. Abel didn't have any chance to start a town mere ana grow up witn tne eouo- try.:.'i,'w o;, ..-j-'-.u ' .ir--:'i-:-i-'-r'S,'.'-li- Next, possibly, the people will adopt a constitutional amendment forbidding the legislature, under any circumstances, to remain, In session over 49 days, or adjourn . and .reconvene,,;,,! -x,n4 .;: ? ' What a great amount of veretablo foodstuffs could be raised within the city limits where . weeds, tin- cans .and tomcat Songs are raised now; and this witn worit conducive to health, morals and, happlnese. f ,--'-. r,,';..v; Vv.::- i ,..., cm ,.,v,iv , i- III I man. colossal ' swindler and mil lionaire,, attributes his' release from u federal penitentiary, after serving a small fraction of a tto-llght sentence, to prayer. This Is ingratitude to Taft, ana to Uitlman'e inlliloijs,n &-f,s-,j Mav Joaauln Miller's adventurous and poetic soul have entered upon a broadet and brighter existence. In a land even more emerald, more golden, more boun tiful and beautiful than this one that he loved so much and sang about ao veil .... :'.''..,i:jivi;..,: At last some tail sentences have been Imposed on people operating criminal triiMts. and doubtless the victims If really confined and treated as criminal prisoners, will with one accord become terriDiy ill. is woman i ao io ev m sick rich robber la prison. , , NEW YORK ii- - By Herhert Corey. That's a stern set of moralists UP at Albany, One of these days they're go ing to enact a statute declaring wife murder a crime. The latest legislative proposition is that by Governor Sulzer, in which he proposes to forbid "shad ing" tho prices by a broker. "Shading" is either grand or petty larceny. i is never anything else. Larceny has been outlawed ever since Moses left the mount.'- "To shad means the same a to scalp," said the man on the euro. "That Is, th broker reports to his customer that he paid an eighth more for the customer's stock than he really did, or that he sold the . stock for an eighth less than he received. An eighth of a point Is I1J.60 on 100 shares oi stock. Suppose- that a floor broker scalps an eighth on. 1000 shares of stock a day and What a cinch It is for him to buy an 18000 automobils with wire wheels. During a lively mantel that is very easily done.' It was represented to the curb man that if the customer had the Intellec tual eautpment of a moen lurue r would sooner or later catch on. "Nix." Said the curb man. in tne first place how's the customer to know? Prices often vary an eighth between sales. In the second place, If the cus tomer wins he's happy, attd he doesn't worry. If he loses he thinks the pen dant might as well go with.the pelt' ie odd what a tender lot polar explorers are when thoy are In civilization. Ad miral Peary thought be needed a bit of bracing the otner aay. ana icn nut bedroom window open. ' He's . down with pleurisy. Sir Ernest Shackleton wheesed furiously on his return from his lecture tour. It seems the Bleeping car accommodations were frightful. Some one left a ventilator open. And this was a man who had been used to sleeping on the cold side of a dogi Dr. Cook and don't forget that while the Doo waa the Original Brie as a pole finder, as plain explorer he won. brack ets used to go around with a red and bulbous ttOB every time the wind shift ed to ; the - east, i , Captain Amundsen tried to walk up Broadway without an overcoat, and next day his eyes looked like Mexican peppers. The gallant cap tain's combination of Norwegian, ng- Mrs. G. E. R., Colton," with tho date of each day's gathering. MRS. U. JS. KUUJiatB. The Fostmaiitershlp. Portland. Or.. Feb. 20. To the Editor of The Journal 1 notice In a local paper a criticism over the fact that rortiana h been so long without a postmaster and that political differences cause this condition. - I bear to ask why the assistant post master is not promoted to the position? The assistant postmaster is Dette acquainted with the work than anyone else, he is the logical man, aireci line for promotion, und-from the stand point of efficiency and logic, should be appointed.- -...,.,'...'..'".-'.- - . It is both amusing ana aisgusung io rend and hear the wails of our times against graft, , inefficiency,; favoritism, and yet the only plain, simple and logi cal thing to ao, standing neiore tne eyes of the public to do, is not done, and we hunt around and around for some cer tain, politically acceptable person and place an insurmountable barrier in the path qf faithful American citizens serv ing for f years in ; the civil service of their country. JOHN M'NULTY. Is a Friend of the Hen. Portland. Feb. 21. To the Editor of The Journal -I want a word with the man who is so easily annoyed that tne song-of -he-worrUa-rhlnu. Has- he ever stopped to think how.the cost of eggs would : rise if : all - poultry were taken from the city? I believe th peo ple of Portland coum mucn oeiier spu the kicker than tne cnienens. , mere are many Sections , of our city where my hen hater can retire Into a restricted district, and perhaps his present neigh bors will welcome his absence. one oi.ine oeauim i,ur.vujr, the wardens of vegetables, email pout try flocks and the home life which they r rent A. - i lt other friends of the hen cpme for ward, and here's thanking, xne journal fotLthe many good poultry items so re cently printed In Its columns. A. SWADDLER, ' . ,, And Proudrof It - TheRecalL Astoria',' Or., Feb. 20. To the Editor ef3rThe-"Jwral Wei-eauavei used on any pObllc official ia Portland, or elsewhere la the stateT ', , - A CONSTANT READER. A. councilman was recalled in Port land. Id eeveTal or the sirianer towns of the state the recall has been invoked against local officials. AND NEWS IN BRIEF OKLtJON SIDELIGHTS Canyon City' Kaglo: The riaker Iron and BuppJy t:oinpuny sncured the con, tract for the machinery fur the el trio powur plant and mill that Is to be bunt in place oi ine one weuuy uu stroyed by fire. MaVshflold Record: Property is com mencing to move In North Bend and there are many stranger In that, city inquiring for homes, and for. bumlncas property. icals are pending ana thore Is a fiieral fueling of good times In North Bend. " , ' ; . ' i..- :, ,: ' ''- - " , Baker Democrat; - This year will note an Increased movement In mlnln in Baker and adjoining counties. 'I here may be no-tiom, but things - are no shaping that fully-ft-dozen of the old properties will be t in operation before the year closes. ;-...,., y,;,,---.v..; . .- . . .v.,;,,- Lakevlew Examiner; The most effeo Uve slaughter of rabbits ever made Jn the history of the country was at the drive Sunday west of town, showing the enormous total of about H.000. . The total estimated number of rabbit killed during the winter is 32,000, , . ' Pendleton - ' East ' Oregonlan: Dave Roberts reports that the pheasants Jib erated Utwn th reservation game re serve last fall have come through the winter in fine shape and are now mat ing. Let alone, he believes thev will in crease and thrive so -that in a few years jiiey will be plentlfu enough to hunt., : Eugene' Register: For a long- i time the gravel bars and sand banks along the Willamette river In this vicinity have been considered wajite land and there Is a great deal of it. Just now there is quite a demand for this kind of land near the dty to euppty the demand for street paving, ballasting railroad tracks and building, operations, , -.c Grants Pass Courier! II. A. Corliss Came in from the Gallce crek mine with 1J ounces of the yellow metal that returned lis per ounce, the result of a short run in the Corliss & Dean' placer mine. Three men working with pick and shovel In this mine reoently took out $400 worth of nuggets and dust from the sluice boxes in 1ft days. -. ".-.. ! Myrtle Creek Mall: Some varieties ot eorn grown here last year ripened by September 1, and the yield was above that of the average yield for the state of Oklahoma. Other varieties were grown that never ripened at alL By selecting the right varieties and select, ing the best seed, the com Industry can be built up in this section to one oi importance and profit. i ii i - .I, . , . DAY BY J3AY lish and sniffles was unique. It was the next day that he bought him a," new benny, with a ' perceptible plaid in it Stefanason ran his brand on tho white Eskimos, and lived on his oho laces, and colled up in toe banks, and was never anything but hungry during his stay In Alaska. II came back to New York, and a common cold ran into chills and sneezes..'....-. "' ,. What a tough bunch the rest of us must be who live here all the time! . One of the particularly Moo things about dear old '. New York is the spraddly way In which it falls. Give Father Knickerbocker a chance to place his feet carefully in front of himself and then trip over them, and he'll do It every time. Also, tbe first thing that touohes ground will be the back of his neok. , ; ' ; ; ; "' For proof thereof, witness Andre de Fouquieres, Paris' Prince of Pants. No doubt Andre Is the real class oyer in Paris. He landed over her with more trousers than anyone else, in the world exeept Moe, the One-Price Man; letters of Introduction to various personages In society, a bunch of magio lantern slides in colors, and a vocabulary that could travel any pace from a running walk to a hand canter, Then first thing Andre did was to tell us that oh, well, that we are all right, you know; , nice lot of geezers, but that we certainly did lack class. 1 That Andre began td give his magic lantern shows, and lots of folks bought tickets, and he gave an Arabian Nights ball at Madison Square , Garden, at which the entertainment was furnished by hired trotters, and to which a lot more folks bought tickets; and he has been bo doggoned personal about New York's clothes that some of us. are afraid to take off our gloves when we eat And his success ' has etlrred tip other masters of the wardrobe ana Counts of the Goose until one -unconsciously assimilates advice about how often to change collars every time one picks up a paper. And Andre has tilled acres of Sunday pages, with his pants theme, and hiswalstcoat topics and bis Bcarf sovetas. V ", Meanwhile. Henri Bergson, a great philosopher, now and then gets honor able mention next to the cold, meats' column. ; ;, Friend of mine got back from a tour through the south the other day Just in time to observe that Irvln Cobb, tbe short-story writer, had been peeved. It appears that Mr. Cobb had been asked to unshackle his humor at the annual dinner of an organization, of advertis ing men 'here. Just by accident Mr. Cobb discovered the day before the din ner was to take place,': that it had been advertised as a "Southern Dinner." "They, were going to have terrapin," said the aggrieved author, "and Vir ginia ham, and corn pone. The Intellec tual needs of the diners were to be served by a colored quartet and my self. Sort of black and tan, you know." Bo Mr. Cobb put in that night perhaps the roost determined evening at home In his recollection. , The story recalled an incident to my friend's mind. The Other day he visited a small town ' in Kentucky, and there he called upon the editor of a smalt paper And after the editor had wiped Off his glasses and filled his pipe they began to talk. The conversation got around to Cobb. "Irvln used to work. fob. me," said the editor. "Yes, sulk -1 was ve'y well satisfied with his work,' too.v Yes, suh, I've always thought Irvln made a pow. ehf fll mistake when he left me to go to New York.''. " Make Out Your Shop ping List Tonight Read the advertisements in' THE JOURNAL carefully to- 1 ' - night. See what the manufacturers and merchants are offering -you. Make k list xf jthe things you need. - Many of these items , are advertised at special prices,' All are quality goods. The mak ) : " ers and sellers' pamea are your guarantees, ' ': A -a; A v ' v ,'VV'A ;,;.AA:j- , , You will save time and strength by selecting everything you buy from the advertising columns of THE JOURNAL. You will find more pleasure in shopping iwhen you know where to ,A find the hest qualities at the lowest prices.' - .7 it The advertiser in THE JOURNAL are the most reliable. ,. merchants of this city.' When their names are en your shopping , 7" list you'will te'certain'or scrtngthftmosratlsf actorjrmerf chandlse t the most reasonable prices. Read their advertise.. , menta in THE JOURNAL closely and constantly everyday, v j , (Copyright, 1913. by J. P. Fallon.) I LA i ,! From the Nw York News Dicpakli, I ii Selecting.' Joaeph v, Tumulty f JeiHey C'lty B8 secretary to tho presi dent after March 4, Mr, .Wilson Judged tho ypung man's ability to give the publlo the desired first hand Impres sions of a president's official thoughts and actions by Ills succens as secretary to the governor, In helping to launch Mr. WUhoh's career as a utatcBinan. The names of many mon of wide national ac quaintanee were ort Mr. Wilson's list, but he joyously struck them all off, pinning his faith' en Mr. Tumulty, whose experience In things political has been limited to New Jersey, because of his abiding faith In the young man's common sense, integrity Slid good Judg ment, and his devotion to the new pro gressive doctrines. Besides, the prenl-deht-elect and his family have a genuine liking for him. .- ' ' v": A ' - Mr. Tumulty has been In' tho ; elate limelight since , the .beginning of J907, but he has been "In politics" since he was scnooiBoyj when he began mak mg campaign speeches for Democrat! "regulars." He is now In ht thlrte third year; He served four'venr in the assembly, hewing an independent course., defeating the political J bosses on several occasions. '; He attracted the attention of the , president-elect, then president of Princeton university, and retired to ''private life'' in 1910, at the same time that' Mr, Wilson was nomt-" nated for governor. AThey did not be come acquainted until after the cam peign got under jway,. and they ' have beesnciose fTIBnda eVer siriue,', v A i Mr. Tumulty was appointed secretary to th governor in January, lll, and continued in that office, giving Mr, Wil son the benefit of his knowledge about tho ways of New Jersey politicians, even after He was made clerk, of the New J ei-sey supreme court In November, Hi!. That in brief is the political history of the man , who will be the next presi dent's "buffer" at the White House. Mr; Tumulty has always lived in the Fifth ward ef Jersey City, a neighbor hood of flats and tenements with an un sightly Little Italy stretching along the ragged edge of the ward. It ws here that Joe Tumulty; later did much mis sionary work as a Democratic progres sive," which, helped Governor Wilson to make Unpopular , the tactic . of the Democratlo bosses, -V,',. -.vj ,;:'; ': . Mr. Tumulty's boyhood days were spent In an atmosphere of politics. His father, Philip Tumulty, the father ot 1$ children, was a politician before him. AH his neighbors talked politics in the old Fifth for lack of other diversions, and young .Tumulty caught the spirit or tne ward early. . wuu he was s a pupil at St. Peter's college in Grand street, Jersey sCty, conducted , by ths Jesuit fathers,' he decided lie would bs k statesman. As a small boy attending 8t Bridget's parochial school, Tumulty had a very boy like. Idea that when he got to be a man he would be a first class car penter. His former playmates from the flats and the tenements tell stories about Joe io the effect that his oft ex pressed desire to be a carpenter was largely based on his - liking for little Mary, Catherine Byrne, whose father, Patrick Byrne, a church carpenter and builder, lived a short distance from the Tun-ulty home. - Joe spent much of his time among the shavings and saw horses in Mr. Byrne's shop, and he dally saw little Mary. , Thoy - attended the parochial school together,, and frequently walked horrte together, with Mary's books tucked urtder his arm. In J90S they were married. The union was a success In every particular, Mr. Tumulty de clare, and he ought to know, as he is the father of bIx fine children, four girls and two boys. " ' i "'' ; Mr. Tumulty studied Jaw after his graduation from St Peter's, and wae ad mitted to, the bar as an attorney In 1902., His practice was confined to ths trial of small cases. A, ' It was not until after his election as governor that Mr. Wilson learned that Bob Davis, the Hudson county boss, and former United States Senator James Smith of Essex county, did not take se riously Mr. Wilson's determination that James E. Martins, tbe . farmer orator, who had received a plurality at the first New Jersey preferential, primary for United States senator, was entitled to election by the. state legislature. Mr. Tumulty was -the first Hudson county Democrat of prominence to vol unteer his services to Mr. Wilson to carry on the fight to bring the bosses to time. Mr. Wilson won his fight and Martins was elected senator. - It is admitted that Jo Tumulty is a natural born fighter In politics. The Tumulty family has long prided Itself on its "tumultuousness" and po litically Joe Tumulty, like his distin guished chief, has been progressively tumultuous. That Is one of the princi pal reasons why he is going to Wash ington. . . Pointed paragraphs Usually a man Js what he suspects' others ef being. . . . . The best of men are sometimes worstedand that's o yarn. A'iA ;- ' vKAA l?i'-'',s: ' Silly people are usually :" happy, but not all happy people are silly. No Inventor has been able to produce a noiseless flat wheel as yet , , . I ..;5:v:;(A?A ".f-'vif tnless 'a man masters ,Wi',buslnesB,. his business will master' him.: . ' 'e e i ' It's the easiest thing in" the 'world to Instruct another how to do things, , ' , ,.,, ,, ' Many a slow maa develops into- a sprinter when he has, a chance. to. run j Into debt. " ' , ' .' :, v'M V-- A,- 7 .;-: Somehow the average woman's heart aches a good deal more for the poor heathen abroad than it does for the dirty children in the next block.