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4 : - THE JOURNAL. IJfDEPKSDIXT lCSWSflPtB . C r"CK80.N. . rabnahar fubllatw4 ltfr evnlnf icpt Bnadajl and afj Suudir mornlns at Tha Jmirnal Build- In, TtB a 'id Tnmhi.l ata., Portland, Or, Mivnfl at la a poaromcv at rvuanu v., 'for IriiipmiMioa thruugk tt nolle M MNM wy 1 . - ' . - .1 I riaaa mutter. ' ' - TELEPHONES Mala flTI; Bom, A-OM. All aVpartmtftta raaebMl bf tbr aaajbera. Tall tha operator what atartmat yoo wnt. iOKLIaSM ADVBRT1B1NU KSPKEHENTATI VK Benjamin Kentaor Co.. Brnatwlrk Buildlnf 25 Hftb arena. Kctr Xorki 121S Ptople'e Gat Bnlldlnt. Chirac". ahwrlptloa Term by Bill ar a an addraaa ' 1 tHa Caltaa SUtrt Or Mtxlcei .t - dailt .. : On tir........f9.00 On BMnta I JM : Ose fMrf.4.i.i..M.60 I On aRta., . DAILY AKD 8DXDAT On rtf.:..:...(T.M I Ob month.... ....I .65 We can't afford to be morbid, We have to have cheerful hearts. 11 E. Rivers. , -THE CEL1LO PROJECT r N TUB committee intrusted with th duty of Investigating the de velopment of water power on the Columbia river, generally known as the CelHo project, rests a great responsibility. It Is to be remem ; bered, first of all, that the potential power of. the great river . mast be .utilized for the greatest good of the " greatest ' number, and that nothing should be done it the early stages through inefficiency or favoritism that will jeopardise the fullest and most competent Investigation of the ' entire subject V y : . Some friction has been caused at the beginning by the peculiar com position of the committee named by the legislature. It eo&itsti of Dan 3. Malarkey, president of the state senate.vand one state Senator to be named by him, and Speaker McAr , thur and one representative to be designated by the head of the house, and the state engineer. The state engineer, in whose hands the direction of such t n Inquiry : would naturally be placed, la subor dinated, and came hear being crowd ed,, off.';. iatbogther.':'.:. The gover bor has. no voice in It This commit- . tee has the expenditure of 1 1 6,0 0 0 for the preliminary work of deter- mining the scope of the project, mak ing borings, establishing feasibility, drawing plans and publishing a re port. ' The legislature never made clear why It was necessary to form the rominittee from Its own members, and the committee, thus constituted will have to show efficiency and Ap preciation of its obligations. It is . too big a project to be juggled In a political game. , j--- In a recent Issue of the Scandl- i bavian American Review is told the ; ktory of the development of the ni- i trate fertilizer industry in Norway by the harnesBlng of cheap water power. A plant that started with twenty-five j horsepower ten years ago hat grown : until is uses 200,000 horsepower ;- today. Small cities have been built t up' around Its two great establish- menta. . Agents of this compan.' have pro ; posed tentatively that they would ; take 240.000 horsepo-er at Celilo. ; It is too early to talk bf contracting ' Ir this wholesale fashion for unde veloped power. -But it gives an in . .teresting suggestion of how capital , from remotest parts of the earth 1 may' be interested in what Oregon ; will do at Celilo. 1 It may be that sufficient market can , be developed in the northwest , for a diversity of Industries and for public uses In comparatively small ' blocks to consume all the power that can be produced at Celilo. Or it may be that a large surplus will be left In disuse unless It is dlspci.d of in one large block. The latter course may be found almost neces sary to secure Immediate develop ment and Such objection! as natural ly suggest themselves to such a course, may be overcome by con tracts that will insure adequate pub lic return and safeguard the ulti- mate termination of such contracts when homo industries grow to meet '. the production. . ,, These are not immediate problems, but they are matters to be taken into consideration at the inception of the project so the scope of, investigation may be the widest and the great possibilities may be viewed from all angles of public interest. The peo ple of the state will triand a broad, . thorough, competent invertigat'on at Celilo, without any by-play of politics 'or personalities. INDIRECT BENE: ITS V THEN the British Insurance act ; 1 A 0,11119 ,nt operation It was ; Yy criticized as favoring cura tive medicine as against pre rcntlve medicine and hygiene. v Now that more than twelve million Insured persons are sharing In the ! IT . V, I 01 u 18 roun1 ubii luuiioL uuuuius doic to the In sured and to the doctors are makine .themselves felt. Large numbers of working men and women could not afford to be ' ai a a a . ... f Afar t M . -IJ. a a ua tua nemewiuie str.agth to - work lasted. They rlBkod- la these effort permanent debility,' or . com plete, break-down. . Tho risk, was .theirs, the 'ultimate loss from1 theJr incapacity was society's. They have disregarded all the early symptoms of serious Illness lest the weekly . wage shouldsuffer. . The insurants act has changed all this. The bread winner of the fam ily 'aq, longer dreads lying op as. a stoppage of earnings On one band, and the piling up of a load of debt to thftloctorJKlieiijlcia frit the stitch in time Is taken that will save 'Bine.'. , The doctor encourages this policy, &ot only from his professional dt- : ..... -, . . t ',,; . sire for the early recovery of, tho patient, bat because short Illness rather than tons drawn out sickness Is the best for him. ' He Is paid the . . . - il m. . -j same fee whether the Insured per son is well and needs no help from him, or is 'sick and. takes up both time and attention. . . . The whole attitude of the doctors towards . their '' patients is being changed. Hitherto they have . not been called in until the necessity was acute and immediate help need ed and that often on a hurried and Imperfect diagnosis. But now they are each practically placed in charge of the health of a portion of the pub UcwThe doctot'jUualneasJlajreally: to prevent people from " getting" 1H. He allies himself naturally with the health officer, and traces- out the causes of disease in the employment and the home of the patient The. doctor has gained an assured, if moderate income, ini an indepen dence that Justifies bis active inter est la fighting all the ilia that at tack the well being ,0 his patients. Preventive, In comparison . with curative medicine, has regained its proper place. ";v -' A "DRY" WHITE , HOUSE -. ; 1 r P THE atory bo - confirmed that wine will not be served at White House banquets during President Wilson's term it will cause no as tonishment and will provoke no serious protest h Those who remember the excite ment when President Hayes took a similar stand will see in present con ditions proof of two things that people have learned to extend the rights of the same free action to the president who occupies the official mansion that would be accorded to him, or to any other man of social or official prbmlnenco. In his privatei capacity. And the other suggestion is that in this, as in a list of other ac tions that is growing fast, President Wilson will take his own course, and that' will be in the line of simple and unostentatious living. Friends of temperance will rejoice in evidence - that hospitality can be exercised and good cheer provided without the1 xld-time stimulus of wine. Corresponding action on the part of Secretary Bryan will cause small comment. His habits of life are well known, and he may be relied on. to follow them at all times and in all places. NEW JERSEY TRUSTS MaMaamaakMB-M 1 T HE bill Introduced la the Wash ington legislature by Senator Nichols for putting a stop . to inequalities of price in articles sold in that state by any trust, and passed by the senate on the 7th Instant, differs in many respects from the New Jersey trust bills fathered by President Wilson before he reft the governor's office. The New Jersey bill deals with future organizations only, and at taches penalties to all corporations, and to their Individual directors per sonally, for the bretch of Its provis ions such penalties being such as usually follow the commission of misdemeanors. It is a punitive law. Offenses forbidden are "limiting production or increasing prices" preventing competition In manufac turing, transporting or selling a com modity fixing prices so as to con trol the amounts paid by consumers andN the public forbidding corDor- ations to discriminate in prices as between different communities, "ex cept as made proper by cost of trans portation and similar charges." This last exception appears to meet a dif ficulty obvious In the Washington bill. Restriction of competition Is for bidden, when accomplished by agree ment, or even by secret cyal agree- ments. Then goodbye In Now Jfirv to "gentlemen's aKreemontB." with which Judge Gary and the late Mr. Harrlman made us familiar. . It is likely that similar restric tions will bo found in the bills which will be Introduced In congress, and will apply to Interstate Commerce. FEWER IMMIGRANTS C OLLIER'8 points out that the United States has delayed tak ing steps to restrain and regu late Immigration until political and economic causes are actively at work that will do this without any additional laws from Washington. The streams which have been flooding this country are drying up. Canada is getting the lion's share of British immigrants. This is part ly due to the growth of the imperial spirit, which induces Canada and the other British colonies to offer imperi al preference to the old country, and also stimulates the flow of capital on an immense scale from British Investors to poinniB.! investments Also Canada has In full operation the Bystem of selecting eligible immi grants, Influencing them to make the great move,, and welcoming them on arrival. She' sends "to British cities and to other Northern European cen ters qualified and competent agents to meet these Intending immirrsnt. at their homes. Conditions in Germany are vastly different today from those prevail ing when the great ships from Ham burg and Bremen for New York were filled with German folk. German in dustries have been so rapidly devel oped in the last ten years that the flow from country to town has not furnished all the workers wanted. Germany Is Importing, not exporting laborers on any extensive scale. ; The expansion of German Interests in Mesopotamia, that will . follow the close of the Balkan war will call for very many men. Th lUllaa people's national pride , : - . .. ,. .: : 1 4 will demand the colonisation of Trip 'oil and, the other lands along the ' South Mediterranean coast.; Brazil and ' Argentina have' been sharing ' XI - I I I : 1 . . ti Italian Immigration with the United States, and offer greater advantages to a South European race than are opcoLhere.!. Greeks, Bulgars, Serbs, Montene- ''grins, and Albanians, will have vast ! spaces of farm lands In the Balkan peninsula to fill. -When the war is over European capital will, pour, in floods, to repairdamages and to open new industries on a great scale. The opening of the canal will di vert to the Pacific coast many of the immigrants that have been landing at New York and ether eastern ports, Thousands of tickets have, it Is said, been secured. But, allowing for this special incoming, the effect will be but temporary if the new facts .e ferred to are given their Cue weight IN PIONEER DAYS W E OF today, take as a mat ter of course- the fact that Oregon is becoming : recog nized as the center of stock Industry. Polk county's Angora goats are eagerly sought throughout the United States. Our thoroughbred sheep take prizes wherever exhibited. Oregon's Jersey and Guernsey cows are famous among dairymen. We rarely stop to think of Oregon's early days, when our bunch-grass plains were covered with herds of Indian ponies and our cattle, long-horn cat tle of California, were wild as deer. One of the tragic attemptc at the Introduction of thoroughbred stock into Oregon was made by Dr. W, H. -Gray, the assistant of Dr. Whitman," of Rev. Mr, Spauldlng and the other early missionaries. After he had re tired from' the mission work he bought a farm at Clatsop plains. Realizing one of the needs of Ore gon was a better grade of stock, he decided to go. east and secure some high grade sheep. In the fall of 1852 he mortgaged his ranch to se cure money tor the proposed ven ture. From Astoria he went to Ban Francisco and thence via the Isth mus of Panama to New York City and Washington, D. C From the Atlantic seaboard he went to Cincinnati, and St Louis and then traveled through Iowa, buying the best sheep. By spring of 1853, he bad selected a flock of four hundred sheep. He bought a. team and wagon and a shepherd dog and hiring three men he started on the first of May for Oregon. He drove the sheep slowly, grazing as they-went, eomifig by way of the Kansas river to the South Platte and thence to the valley of the North Platte, through the Fort Lara mie country and up the Sweetwa ter, thence by way of Green River to Fort Hall, over the Cascade moun tains and down the Umatilla river, thence down the Columbia river to The Dalles. At that point he put the sheep on a scow and took them to the; Cascades where a portage was made. Just below the Cascades he bought a scow, sixty feet long and sixteen wide. In the lone Journey across tha Dlains and over th mmmtaln he had only lost forty sheep and he had three hundred and sixty sheep in good condition aboard his scow. By the help of a sail and sweep oars they went down the Columbia to the mouth of the Willamette, where they waited for a steamer bound from portland -t0 A1"1 whIc& towed ment down to Astoria. At Astoria the sail was put up and in a few hours they arrived safely at Young's bay, their destination after their long and toilsome trip. Mr. Gray sent a row boat out with a rope, to attach to the shore but the ropo was too short. While attempting to land the 'BneeP a sudden squall came up and dr0Te tne BCW off-shore. The scow was blown across the river and near Chinook Point it filled with water and sank, not a single sheep being saved. The news of the raising of Com modore Perry's flagship, the Niagara, from Lake Erie shows how brief a life as agnation we have had and what great advances in naval war fare, as well as along other lines, we have made during the time. For a hundred years the Niagara has rested on the mud of Misery Bay, an arm of Lake Erie, and when the Ice was cut from the lake and the flagship was raised, It was found that the t-imbers were still in a good state of preservation and It will be an easy task to put it in repair. The flag ship of the commodore In the war of 1812 wasXJIO feet long. The flagship of the commodore of to day could wear Perry'B flagship for a watch charm. It Is an encouraging sign when the manufacturers of the state, gathered In annual meeting, applaud a speech such as was delivered bv J. II. man I ton on industrial efficiency. The whole tenor of his speech was the 'putting, of humanity above dollars. bringing the employer and employe Into closer touch and advocating the eight-hour day because a higher grade of work Is turned out . by cheerful, satisfied workmen than by those who feel aggrieved or are over worked. When labor and capital re alize that their interests are Identi cal and that what hnrts one la hurt ful to the other, a large cause of fric tion Is removed and the labor agi tator will find, a less fertile ffeld upon which to work when he desires to promote a strike. . Christy Matthewson, the famous faasebalryitcher ttddmHwd'argrotip of boys recently at Pittsburg. "Matty" is loked up to .by the. yauth of the country as a greater hero and a greater man than the governor ot r rrrrr-; ! their state or; the president of the United States. One of ttv things he said to them was that the two most Important qualities jot a good base- IX l . - - . 1 . ball player were a good physique and a good character. , A. statement of .this kind from "Matty" will do more good thali if delivered from the pul pit of the most eloquent 'preacher of the land. No boy who smokes cigar ettes can have a good physique- no boy can nake a good player who Is not willing to play fair and be clean in his sports and his work. The boy' who wins success at baseball or any other manly sport is apt to win suc cess in the equally strenuous game of life. - (Comroiinlnjlona - aaut to Tba Jonraar for publication la tiiia dapartmcat abould b writ, tan oa only oca aid of tba papar, ahoold aol excaad 8uO warda la lrngth and raoat ba ac companied bf tbaaoaaia &ud addreaa of tba aiulr. If tba wrltrr doca not dralra to bava tba uarna pobllabtd. b abould ao auta.) To Solve the Milk Problem, Portland, Ory March -S.-TO- the Ed itor of The- Journal I have read with much interest the editorial in 1 last Thursdays Journal relatlva to the waste In the present system of milk dletribu-tloa- In Portland. You mention W, W. Cotton's address at the Commercial club some time ago and the naming of the committee to investigate; also that the movement for correcting this waste never got any further. You express the conviction that : "some day the system of distribution will be more efficient and more economical," and suggest that "when all the. milk is brought to a fH standard, and when all the public will be convinced (hat the milk U all of fit standard,' It will be easy to work out efficient distribution and less costly milk." - - . -! In this connection I would like to call attention to one or two points. I Early in -February the dairymen who sell sweet milk to the Portland retailers were arbitrarily notified that the pries was cut from ft to 11.60 hundred. Notice, Uiat while no arrangement Seemed possible tor dividing up or dis tricting the city for the distribution of milk by the retailers, they had no trou ble in effecting a universal understanding- that reduced the price the dairy men received, - while they charge the consumer the same old price. This Is done every sprint-, but was commenced nearly a month earlier than usual this year. We all recognize the waste and ex pense of the present plan of distribu tion, but In view of the facts Just stated is It not Just possible that outside help Is needed to assist these retailers in eliminating this "watte" that Is adding to the high cost of living? I would like to change the proposi tion laid down In the sentence Quoted from your editorial. Just a little, and see If It will not help solve the prob lem: "When the dairyman is assured at all times a fair price, such as the consumer pays, less a fair differential for distribution, then there will be no trouble In bringing all Portland's milk, supply to a fit standard and then all the publio can be shown that it Is of a fit standard." In a letter to the committee of wom-1 en who are endeavoring to solve the high cost of living, I suggested that the milk question be the next one taken up. I called their attention to the wide dif ference between the price the dairy men receive and the price the consumer pays. I asked It they oould not help both the producer and consumer, but expressed the opinion that It would have to come through municipal dls-1 triDution. xnis was just at me oegin- nmg or the apple campaign, i wouia like to say now that there can be no "buying by the box" nor In large quan tities of milk. Milk la a necessity to many families that cannot afford ap pies;, n enters more imo our uaiiy iouu supply than any other product, and Its use Is more universal The city of Letters From, the People .I. I. man am , , i miai.t.ai iwiiiih Portland has done much to force dairy- him down with a nice new six-oylln-men to supply good milk, which Is dered car. right and proper: but it seems - to me j Mitnlck might have almost run down proper to Inquire If the city has not anyoM ,iM wlth lmpUnUy Kver an obligation to see that the Jketegnered .,., iaUot la eUstomed to being dairyman receives fair compsat ion, mout ron down b uixyUnitTti cm' commensurate with what the producer , Everyon, else Just does a sldewlse leap pays. 4 when a honk Is heard, and If the city bought the mint, only gooa , milk would be purchased. If the oity rti.rrthnt.rt th milk tha, wist, of many distributed the milk the waste of many wagons traversing the same neighbor hood would be eliminated and the con sumer would get a part of the benefit in cheaper as well as better milk, while the dairyman would get a port of the benefit In better prices. . Con the good women or anyone else propose a better solution of the question T HORACE ADDIS, Field Editor Rural Spirit The Parading Suffragettes. -Bpringfleld, Or., March S.To the Edi tor of The Journal The women of Washington, D. G. and those who flocked there to Join the ranks of tho suffrag ettes are putting up a great hue and cry about the reception they received from the crowds they attratced upon the streets. What !e could one expect of such a silly, n6nsenslcal and absurd performance, of making such ado over a few female tramps, who only showed their lack of good oommonsense in tramping from New York to Washing ton, when they oould have ridden In all comfort and ease and at less expense? It was entirely a silly and foolish per formance and naturally lnsited the fool ish outbreak of the crowd that gave way, for the moment to the ridiculous. The whole thing was a grand farce, and the audience entered into the spirit of the farce. Like produces like. Nothing is trurer than that piety will induce piety, sobriety Induce sobriety, tntem perence Induce lntemperence, and silli ness will Induce frivolity. If women wish to be considered seriously they must be sensible. If they wish to be respected they must confine their de portment to the social laws prescribed for women. Few men, no matter how vile, will ever Insult a woman so long as she deports herself strictly as a lady. Men will nearly always fight for her protection and honor, but let her aide step and she may forfeit this guard and protection. If women wish to Join the political rabble they .must expect to share the respect and treatment Of the rabble. It is true that there were a good many very respectable women in the proces sion In Washington, and who received treatment quite foreign to their previ ous experience. But they should re member that one is Judged by the com pany he keeps, and they should not com plain when they are given the some reception. The tramp from New York to Washington Illustrated nothing so much as the lack of proper mental bal ance, or what we. call good common sense,' and those who followed thai niotly band through the streets ot our capital city could demonstrate nothing so prominently as a weakness- In the same direction. In my opinion a very poor argument was made for woman suffrage. ., . K. ELLSWORTH. ' DntJ Towards Greed's Victims. 1'orUand, March 10. -To the Editor of The Journal Recognising the tragic delicacy of the situation, Edward Hlll-j man generously tendered the informa tion to the senate vice commission at Chicago that he was so busy, making PERTINENT' COMMENT SMALL CHANGS florae of the fair sex are most unfair. Habit and fashion make slaves of hu- inanity. - a ' a ........... 'pon't be too polite to grab an oppor- Every baby Is the finest and best, to Two years new work now for lawyers woman Is not always te. be Judged 1!?r,i comes to worst It's best to mmmm um nest or l- ..' . Sugar keeps sroing'downt hurrah-for tuv M.iciniwu democrats. . '. - . a .i Forecasts: Easter, rain; baseball. rln. I n no pessimist, either. a . . . If at first some women don't succeed they secure a divorce and try again. i?hhl'vr!!ota,lP "the, legislature be- peace? - " UB hv iA,0nl h breve-deserve the fair, hut lots of, timid men are landed, Jasi the same,. ... itt the average man half as long cooF the collar s U does to The ohtp who la an expert at making "never can drawviarge fee. fo? nf0," ehlldren, Uke their mother, SuesSone of tnbrrs'ng a .Many a glrr with, brains enough for wlUiout'an by marr'ina man ' . a ,""v What a long time .now Huerta has h!e2,.f"ldent, f Mexico- Sene llks he might even last another weelc or two. h.l C """"" so morougniy that he wouldn't marry again If he lived I to be as old as Methuselah. " " " NEW (YORK Jack Rose turned on his heel and watched the other man out of sight They had met nose to nose. Roto had a grin and an outstretched hand. The outer man jacked even a nod. van you beat nr asked Rose. "The last time I saw that sru t giionM him a two-spot and he knocked down two ow men tearing into a restaurant," The four informers in the Rosenthal murder case are feeling the pointed linger. They are Just as welcome among thelf former associates as a Diowing adder in the spare bed. Rose hung a button on the rattle of hta tin. popularity by becoming a "snitch" for an association that Is gathering facts about crime In New York. The other night "Brldgie" Weber dropped into Jack's. He indicated that he wanted to wine . associates "!md ? .nvt ,0Bt.. ?racl.,0.M!T . thoir """. ny natenea to nis ae fense of his i "squeal" with an eye on As soon as possible they the door. flted out Weber is supposed to have pienty 01 money left. But It Isn't likely that he will open a gambling house here for a long time to come. "The boys aren't apt to visit a place run by a stool pigeon," Is the way one puts It . Harry Vallon and Bammy fiohepps, the talkative valet, appear now and then. But they don't mix with thai old friends. . There Is always the pos- stoiuty tnat tneir feelings may be hurt Those daily walks of Mayor Gaynor have helped to moderate conditions In New fork. He never takes a body guard. He Just puts on his silk hat combs his gray beard to a spike, and opens the draft on his temper. The other day Bernard Mitnioic .imn.t ... ,eethlng Mayor Gavnor atond "m fhdna-tnlek w?th a Ia ""I'.!,5In with a hard gray eye and daring him to toot his hnrn. When Mitnlck finished the proceedings in court he is understood to have taken a vow not to honk hereafter at old gentlemen with gray beards. A favorite early morning sport de played by grocery clerks. The rules require then to turn their backs on the passing people, and sweep as long as they can hold their breaths In the cloud of'dust Hereafter old gentlemen with gray boards are to be considered exempt by the association. The rules were changed the day following the adventure of a Brooklyn clerk, who scooped a broomtul of mud on Mayor Gaynor's newly pressed trousers. The best authorities hold that In the future when old gentlement with -gray beards approach the sweeper had best hide be hind the cracker barrel, Brooklyn bridge was not long ago Infested with the rough and clinging variety of panhandler. One of the sort entered Into debate with his honor one morning, the subject heing the owner ship of a small thin dime. The pan handler lost On his way to the Island he confided to the officer in charge that he had always noticed that the was unlucky with men who wear short gray beards with a tendency to bristle. Since then, too, the bridge approach has been fairly free of Impertinent beggars. The mayor walks across ths brldgd eaoh day. v James VT.leplgue aJnd wife returned from Europe the other day. Villeplgue money that he could not spare the- time to acquaint himself with the fact that money is made at the expense of the suffering and the destruotlon of the fair maidens of this "land of the bravo and the free," all of which has been long known to a weary, dreary world. . Mr. Hlllman'a information is belated, and is very stafe news. ,- Having placed the girls in the broad beam of the spotlight could we not profitably dirsot a ray upon the babes In mills, factories and sweat shops and bthold conditions still more gruesome? Can this nation atop admiring itself and patting Itself on tho back long enough to perform some self cleansing? Less self worship, more self cleansing, Is the need of the movement ' ' A, W. NBALK , .A Correction. Oregon City, Or., March I. To the Editor Of The Journal In your leading editorial yesterday ; you . credited the anti-lobby bill to Mr. JQIU. . This Was an oversight , House bill No. SB0 waa the only bill Introduced la the recent, ses sion of the legislature designed to In any way regulate or oontrol the lobby, and X had th honor of Introducing that ' ... .:, : ,.' . ' Under ordinary circumstances credit ing, this' bill to the wrong man might not be of much Importance to anyone. But so few of the members seem to have done anything at the recent session which met the approval of-the people AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Rogue Elver Argue, A farmer from tip the Applegate took two hogs to Grants Pass one- day last week and took home 171 lot: cash. Does It payT . Myrtle Point Enterprises A party of Marshfield men, who recently filed on homesteads In the Rock Creek country above Remote, passed through bare Tuesday. They have been out about two weeks putting up cabins. Condon Times: The ladles of Olex had a basket social this week for the benefit of their church at which they cleared $200. The young men -of Olex do not mind 'bidding as high as $20 for- a basket for a. good cause. The pupils of the Myrtle Creek scnoois on Lincoln's birthday wrote Lincoln biographies. The sketch writ ten by Eva Acket, 9 years old, was put Into type in the office of the Myrtle Creek Mail by Joe Rice, aged 7. . a ,-, ... .. -, . The Dalles Chronicle! With a. renew al of work on the Celilo canal, double vj. ... v..-.. a., oc auu iuo paving and sewer Improvements In The Palles this spring the business outlook for our merchants is cue best for some years. Union Republican: It is about time for somebody to begin figuring on a brickyard for Union. There . m 111 be some building this summer, and there is no good reason why the brick Should not he made In Union, Where Is the man for the place T Bandon Recorder: Volume' I. Mo." X, of the Klakahama, the official maga zine of the Bandon high school, was is sued today from this office. This' Is the first attempt of any high school In the county at. publishing paper. It is a 24 page magazine with cover. . ... a " , . Hermlston Herald: There is every reason to believe the repsent year will be the best yet seen on the project.-In addition to the Increase In the amount of small fruits there will be consider able fruit from the older orchards. We will" have a creamery, which of Itself. Is a bla thins-. There Is also a eenerai feeling among th farmers to get to gether on the crops to be grown. DAY BY DAY Is the owner of an inn down as 8heeps head Bay. He Is large, oordlal and full of conversation. He Is perhaps more full of conversation Just now than ever before In hi history. Its was unable to get rid of much ot it during his tour abroad. Tt Just happened," said he, "that I picked out a lot of cities to visit where they don't- speak anything . but dead languages. Tough, huhr He kept tab on his performances with the menu. Where clams and Chickens are concerned his batting average has been 1.000. In Europe he lived mostly on soup, because he knew where that came on the card. They kept shaking up the rest of the batting order bother, ing him..-Someone told him that the way to keep from being cheated by the foreign hsckmon was to hold out a handful of change. "Old Mister Cabbie will jicS out ih right sum every time, Jim," said this friend. "He can't cheat you, you see, because when he gets the right, sum his face will change. All you have to do is to watch his features." Villeplgue was unfortunate. ' The hackmen he employed had unchanging features. They kept on picking, at his small change like a hen at corn. Now and then they gave him some tin money, Just to keep him contented. The only time he got a good bit of sliver In Italy was once when he yawned. The hack man thought he woe preparing to bite It But the worst was the total lack ot conversational facilities. Not once in three weeks could he fine an American. . "So my wife and I talked to each other criss-cross over Europe," said he. "I don't suppose there's anything In the world thai we didn't talk about -And, ay.fshe certainly did give me sv lot of good Ideas." One of the best things that New York does Is to fool Itself. Just now there's a terrible pow wow over the use of the -rod In the publio schools. It has been forbidden for years, but a recent report of the pedagoglo expert recommends that It be used hereafter with discretion. "We all pretend that we've handled these kids by moral suasion only," said a principal ot years' experience. "But the cold truth Is that most of us have used the gad right after moral suasion began to peter out And the best schools are the ones in which Giuseppe and Mike and Isaac know what will happen when they begin to cut capers." Not long ago a slender girl was as signed to teach oho of the most dis orderly rooms, In a certain downtown school. The principal was frankly Apologitlc. "Get along the best way you eah," he said, "until I can send a, stronger teoober to that room, Just avoid trou ble.' Other teachers had been driven out by the little hoodlums. A cross section of the room during any lesson hour would look like a culture teat of a Mex ican revolution, and sound like the soo at feeding time. Today Giuseppe and Mike love their teacher. They festoon themselves upon her desk and bring her presents of red apples and bananas, You could hear a pin drop and the pupils are making unprecedented prog ress in their studies. The slender lit tle teacher Is the wonder of the build ing. Her principal . brings in distin guished visitors and beams upon her, "One of these days, she said wear ily, "they'll find out that the reason why my reom Is the banner one of the building Is that I have broken the no gad rule. Then I will be transferred perhaps suspended and my poor little Oiuseppes and Mikes will beoome ruf fians again." generally,' that no one of us can afford to miss any commendation to which he Is Justly entitled. I trust therefore you will correct the error. C. 8CHUEBEI - Going After Pabllo Nuisance. From the Cincinnati Times Star. More power to the women's organiza tions In various cities which are going after the man who insists upon Carrying a lighted cigar into a street car and there permitting it to die a lingering death! All non-smokers and most : smokers agree that this. fellow should' be sup pressed, but no one has yet been able to suppress him. When rules are formu lated with that intention he calmly ig nores them. Few street car conductors seem to have the mora courage to suggest that the "sleeper" la offensive, and the passengers themselves usually prefer to suffer In silence rather than make a scene, i ."' The cigar toter is an economist and a conservationist He does not believe In waste. When he pays as much as a a I fa-k I ' . to ZZirr T'EKI! .-Twr-r.r" 7. .v-... . , "v... ,11 anuuiiiuiuun to me aiscrimi . iimuua; tu.ar smaller; out tne Cla-ar totarl I. j, . ... . .. . I wuivuva, . f , - - . . I Th man who tells the truth, ' the whole truth, and nothing but-the truth at all times can never tope to be pop. ular la human sooletfa America's Next Epochal" ' : Change . ; . From Collier's Weekly. 'V . It must be clear to every mas who . has vision that the Inauguration of. a Democratic president, supported by - Democratlo house and senate, Is-much i more than a change of political dynas ties. Certain definite results will flow from the Democratlo regime, notably the reversal bf tho country's dominating . economio principle of protection and the undoing of much of that concentration Into large units which, has been the most Important -phenomenon of Industrial America during the past 20 years. But much more is about to haDDen. Soma of the phenomena of the near future re reiateq . xo .wnat is unique- la Mr, . Wilson's political dogma; but many of them are merely "in the womb of tjme" --they are bound to happen regardless of politics or party. v - , ' Congress, within the past few weeks,"; got around to passing a bill restrict ing immigration. Just at the time when immigration. In the quantities In whloh we have been acoustomed to it is about to cease. There are several reasons for ; this: Most of the nations of western Europe, from which we have received- tne bulk of our immigration in the past have ceased to be overflowing countries. l We no longer receive immigrants In any quantity from England, Ireland, Sweden, ' Norway, Denmark, France or Spain. Germany Is still a nation In which the birth rate exceeds the capacity of the. country to absorb the Surplus popula tion; but Germany keeps directing hand on its emigrants and no longer sends them to the United States they " go to German colonies in Africa or to points In South America where their racial solidarity la maintained. ;s Italy, from which we have received more im migrants than from any other country during the past few years, is Just about to cease to be available as a supply for nw population for the United States.' Thiss for two reasons: The emigration that has already taken place from Italy, has so reduced Its labor supply that wages for labor In the United States and Italy now approach parity, consider-1 ing the difference in the coat of living, ' In the second place, Italy's recent ag grandisements In Africa have opened op territory Into which the national -spirit will want 10 direct, for colonisation, . whatever emigrants ore available. The Slav remains; but there are good rea sons why we shall receive fewer immi grants from southeastern Europe In the future., The cessation of Turkish rule In a large territory has opened up for development what Is the equivalent of a new country. Finally, la the event . that Russia should happen to' get an acceptable and reasonably democratlo government there, will open up right " at the doorsteps ot what sources of im migration we have left a country much nearer, much more virgin, and, for many reasons, much more. tempting to these emigrants. The period of great imiul- ' raiion to the United States Is over. There will continue to be. for some time at least, a fluid labor supply which -finis It iwy.M the present era of fast ships, to goback and forth according as business In this country la aotlve or depressed. Apparently,- Ellis Island will continue to be busy; but substan tially a ploturesque and Important epooh In American history has passed forever. Consider the value of. an immi grant who comes to this country at an age anywhere between ten and thir ty: AH the expense of his birth and' of nurture through the period of help, letsness has been borne by another na tion. He comes to us a productive la borer. If we appraise him as wo would , appraise cattle, or on the basis that slaves were appraised before the war. he Is worth at least a thousand dollars. A million Immigrants a year have been worth a thousand milliondollars too ths country. The Immigrant crop has been the basis of our enrichment "Wltn its cessation we must accustom our- . selves to a slower and more tedious ' rate of increase in our national wealth. And for the labor that we need we shall have to depend on our native birth rate. Happily, other factors about to come into operation will probably cause -this native birth rate to be larger In the near future than It has been in the past The most wholesome of the Impend ing economio changes In the United -States will be the reversal ot the drift of population from the country to the city. The reason for our present con-; 1 dltlon has been, of course, that the pro- ' tectlve tariff has made manufacturing excessively profitable. And, In order that the city factory owner might be come rich, the country has been drained ' of its youth to work for htm. Not only did they come as factory workers but to supply all those varied demands whloh the growth of the city brought The reduction of the tariff will with- . draw this premium from manufactur ing. There will follow a real back-to , the-Und movement ot large proportions and most healthy significance, "Back-to-the-farm," so long as It remains , . what It has been, merely a sentimental slogan, amounts to nothing. The bulk of human nature is such that It will leave the city for the country only ; through severe economio pressure. The results which will follow from , this drift of population back te the land will be complex, but In the aggregate , they will constitute probably the most i beneficent phenomenon of a generation. Business generally the ordinary lines of manufacture and e . commerce will profit greatly, for there la no purchas er so satisfactory as the prosperous farmer. And his numbers will Inevlt- 1 ably Increase. Very soon, of course,--there will be a large Increase in the production of farm commodities, and ' this will he the beginning of a lpng- ' awaited, much-needed tendency tho" reduction of the high ooet of living. - -CI ty property ow ners may very ; well suffer. (This refers only to those east-, ern cities whose growth has been based '' . on nrntartort maniirantnrtnir. ana not ' to the western cities whose growth has been a wholesome and normal re sponse to the living needs and rising prosperity of the people.) Tie property owner In the eastern city has been profiting by Increases in prloe Which -have been based on nothing more than the fatuous expectation that these cltlen would go on growing forever. Dur-' in the last ten yea there has been a net reduction of London's population ; of 869,000 people, and Its taxable value : has fallen $1,600,000. Mommsen has figured out from the water-tax re ceipts that Rome 'In the time of Had rlan had a population of 1,6.009. To day It Is under 600,000. What happened in Bome Is what would have happened In the United States If our present ;? tendency had gone on: the cost of liv ing, including rent and taxation, Ini . creased to a point . where the taxpayer 'c abandoned his property and moved to the country. Only the mi who I. a failure sneer. at sucoess. - e - a h..i. k. -t i- .i w.i- a. v. -J"B mo I"" w WW" , , , v . a The palmist Is ever ready to grasp the hand of fortune. " , . ...... .,. , . c . ... - A la-y man's feet leave their imprint on the path of least resistance, - Pointed Paragraphs