The Oregon daily journal., March 21, 1913, Page 8, Image 8

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XTJE TAINT OP LORfMERlSM
THE blight of Iiorlmer still rests
heavily upon the,6tate of Illi
nois, and 'the end is toot yet.
Even as the legislature pauois
,ia futile effort to elect his successor,
comes the news that, he: Is planning
' to elect one of .his ; henchmen as
.- - - -IVImama Xl'l'tK VlQf
much won. will seek " to reinstate
himself In the United, gtates senate.
. As to Lorlmer 's return to the sen
ate there need be little fear. United
States senators will Te .elected by
direct vote of the people hereafter,
and the people of Illinois will attend
to, Lorimer's case If he offers him
self as a candidate;;. But his per
niriAiia rnrtfrTonnd . influence, di
rected along the.byways of Chicago
and the state, v will prodhce turmoil
and disgrace Wherever it Is felt, V
Lorimer ;was a drag on the state
from the start, 4 He became a sen
ator' as the product of a deadlock,
and long before it was known that
bribery had produced hia election it
was evident that he would reflect
. no credit on the state. He was de
voted to the Interests of the meat
packers and "the special , interests
that had sent him to Washington, as
his first conception of public service.
The presence " In the ' legislature
of a group of his adherents, men
who supported him for senator and
since that time in the face of -proof
that they handled portions of the
slush funds "were unblushingly re
elected by unshamed constituencies,
Las been a loadstone on the election
of a senator. . -
It became, known' that a consia-
erable number of members ' were
willing to enter Into a combination
to elect the Republican primary
nominee to one of the vacant seats,
and a Progressive or, a Democrat
to the other seat, after they ob
tained the "consent of Lorlmer."
Without his consent they would not
enter Into such combination. ' r
Lorlmer as a Warwick, dominat
ing the election of his successor, is
just as dangerous as Lorlmer -as a
senator. Bo "far a compact body Of
conscientious Democrats, headed by
Governor Dunne, have kept the Lor-
imer taint from attaching to the
election of senators of that party.
and a compact body of Progressives,
' likewise kept It from ' attaching to
a ;Bepublican-progressIve . comblna
t!on.v This Is- the- one comforting
element in the ferment at Sprlng-
; field; . f y -;
Lorlmer Is not of the kind to
eliminate himself He will stay In
, the game as long as he is tolerated
. and one swift kick Is net enough.
He will come. back for another, and
fni.t. MH.dV JA av - jm -
Jt ,,MW4W W V Baataw V UMf tU
many times a necessary. ;
THE r. M, C. A, OF THE O. A. C.
XHE history" of the Y. M. C. A
.1 in the Oregon Agricultural Col-
lege began in 1890 with an
" active - membership of ' seven
and an associate membership of 11
In 1909 the membership, active and
associated, had risen to 121. Today
there are 300 members, and the
membership is being recruited all
the time from the student body of
nearly 1500.
and that proof is given in the fig
;ures quoted.
The Agricultural College is a dis
tinctly secular Institution. The re
llgious Influence bo essential for the
welfare of the large body of young
people; gathered there from every
"county in Oregon, with representa
tives from many states and from for
eign lands, is supplied by the Y. M.
C. A. - and the Y. W. C. A.
The work of these two associa
tions is centered In Shepard Hall,
a beautiful and adequate building,
constructed at a cost of $23,000 on
a site adjoining the college campus.
In, ? the. ; name is perpetuated the
memory of Clay Shepard, a col
lege student, , who started in 1904
the movement which led to the erec
tion of the, building, and who was
the first general secretary of the
Youna Men's Christian Association
of the Oregon " Agricultural College.
The main labor of organization, of
collecting the funds for the erection
of the building chiefly through the
enlistment, of those for whose bene
fit it was intended, and the burden
of financing the movement were os
- pumed by-ClayShepard. He was
one of those eager souls who under
take great' and worthy enterprises
without counting the personal cost.
Overwork : brought on the sickness
from Which Tift rttort f Ipnyfirj n
. ethers the completion of the enfer
rrlRe and 'the duty-of freeing it
from' the balance of "the 'debts in
curred in Its erection.
TW students rlodged nearly $10,-
000 of the $23,000 cost The fac-
ulty of the college and friends In
the state pledged the $13,000 bal-
ance, but" included In this sum was
a conditional - sabscripUon of $2 000. ;
To free Shepard Ilall from debt It i
was ; iouna a year, ago mat $8uuu
was needed, ' land towards it $5750
has been promised, provided 'that
the lhalance of $225 0 is raised by
June X , ' '
The students and the faculty have
done all they could, in addition to
supporting the current work of the
association with an average of
$1000 a year. Is it too much :o
hope that friends of the college ap
preciating the great work that it
is doing for the Btateill supply
the $2250, and that in time to bind
the conditional pledges' mentioned?
FREE TOLLS AT PANAMA
A1
S THE discussion of free tolls
to American coastwise shipping
progresses, in congress and ' In
diplomacy, more and more at
tention is likely to be drawn to the
plan of operating a government line
of steamers through the cahal from
the -Atlantic to Pacific ports. '
This is being advanced on the
theory that it would regulate freight
rates and would achieve the same
result as the exemption of coast
trade" from toll payment, without be
ing subject to objection on the part
of any other nation. ,
' Congressman Stephens, who rep
resents the Los Angeles district in
congress, Is author of a bill to be
Introduced at the extra session of
congress to establish a government
freight line. It appropriates $10,
000,000 to be used In the purchase
of eight passenger and freight steam
ers, the operation of the line being
placed in the hands of the' Panama
railroad company, ,
, Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, San
Francisco, Los Angeles and San
Diego are named In " the ' bill as
points that must be made regular
ports of call on the Pacific coast
In the same way the principal gulf
and Atlantic ports from New Orleans
to New York are named. '
It is difficult tT tell Just which
way the controversy over the free
toll bill will turn.; Congress may be
Induced to repeat the provision. If
the United States Insists upon this
law, It!, possible the matter will
find Its way to arbitration, and that
the United States will be defeated
there. ' In either event, it is not to
be expected that the people ofthe
country, will rest when it Is done.
So the Stephens bill may become
a point of unusual Interest It will
not please 'the continental railways,
and It will be attacked as socialistic.
But. the United States has expended
great treasure in constructing a
canal Intended for the benefit, as
suredly, of the American people. It;
will have done something less than
Its duty It it permits those .benefits
to be filched by the railways, either
American or Canadian.
Rl SKIN COLLEGE
XFORD UNIVERSITY is housed
In twenty-seven colleges dotted
about the ancient city in the
heart , of Southern England.
There Is no more beautiful collection
of ancient architecture surviving to
this day . and filling modern uses
The history of about nine hundred
years la, written In these grey ston6
colleges and halls,
Among these ancient colleges, of
stone there stands one of red brick
that holds a hundred students. It
is but fourteen year's since" it was
founded in honor of John Ruskin,
one of the many famous men who
loved .Oxford; as their1 alina mater.
The founder was Walter Vrooman,
an American. - The- new buildings
just finished were opened on Wash
ington's last birthday. .V..:, ,,...
To haVe been graduated from Ox
ford university has. been the hall
mark of two hundred generations of
students, most of whom belong to
the aristocracy of England. Ruskin
college was built as "a message from
the people of America to the work
ing men of Great Britain." The
gift was accepted by and on behalf
of plain working men, who were
ready enough to give up four years
of their life for the higher learning
that was there opened to them.
They go, in and out, shoulder to
shoulder, with the sons of the aris
tocracy, meeting and companying
with them on terms of complete
equality, both of them so giving tes
timony to- the essential democracy
of the England of today.
Ruskin college receives from Its
students only fifty-two pounds ster
ling for the college year of forty
four weeks, and gives them board,
residence and education.
According to the deed of founda
tion the cpurse of study covers so
cial and economic subjects,' with his
tory, English composition, a n d
courses of lectures on current bo
cial and political questions. .
Many of the students have passed
examinations and have graduated In
the school of economics in the uni
versity. In the last three years, of
the 5Z men who entered examina-
Hons for the diploma 28 had been
students of Ruskin college. Twen
ty-elx passed successfully and 16 ob
tained distinction.
Dr. Slater is the principal. He Is,
as he should be," an enthusiast for
the training of working men on the
lines of Ruskin college. ' . The pro-
insure are recognuea autnormes on
ineir Beverai-suojeets, ana the edu
cation is thorough, from the ground
up.4- , . :v .
-W&ai.4wnH.ymrffl
Slater was asked,. VMany become
teachers or lecturers' at the various
working men educational institu
tions. Soma have written books nn
economic or social subjects and
THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY
made names and positions for them-
selves.: Many, however, go back to
their former work as mechanics and
bo on carrying the Inspiration ' of
higher ideals Jinto their old sur-
roundinga.".
CONCERT AMOXO
. GROWERS
FRUIT
D
IRECTORS of the North Pacific
fruit distributors, meeting- at
North Yakima, Washington,
today, may be able to accom
plish much for the fruit growers of
the Northwest, .To do so they must
act broadly and in mutual -conft
dence, though without surrendering
the advantages of name that any
district may have won by Its local
merit and effort. '-. l. .
For one thing, the cost of main
taining the organization must be
held down so . that the margin be
tween being on the Inside and on
the outside will not be attractive to
the' outsider. Fruit associations
have gone on the rocks1 in the past
because those who, in all good faith
and honesty, have entered ' the . or
ganization have found themselves
undersold and out-generaled by a
selfish minority remaining on the
outside. k
( Another mistake easy to make is
to try to ' do too much at the out
set - Successful organizations of this
sort are a growth, demonstrating by
degrees that they are able to accom
plish results. Advertising, storage.
common selling agencies and dis
tributing offices present complexi
ties, - , ;
There is no Question that the pro -
ducers are entitled to conserve fort r,
themselves all possible " advantages
in uniting their efforts to secure an
equitable distribution of their goods!
Other; lines of business go to the
limit of the law and sometimes; far
beyond the law In establishing
"spheres ' of action." A combina
tion that will . eliminate wasteful
methods of marketing is what is de
sired, not a monopoly or trust.
It Is said : that no idea of price-
fixing is entertained. That would
be, in all probability, a hazardous
experiment. The apples of the
Northwest have demonstrated abil
ity to meet competition from any
part of the world, and to outsell.
No one can object to a defensive
combination of growers, so they
meet for mutual advice, and the
adoption of common selling agendas
by which the .may avoid the mis
take .of destroying each other by
dumping carloads from .different
districts into the same market on
the same, day, when some' other
market is depleted.
This is only common sense! Yaki
ma,: Wenatchee, Lewiston, Hood
River, Rogue River and all the
other districts must recognize that
they cabnot constantly afford to foul
each other in the eastern , markets.
Modern business methods must be
applied, and-it Is to be hoped that
the growers will find in the new
organization a means of .solving
their common problem.
THE LATEST HOAX
T
HERE was a sound at night in
Britain of German airships
hovering high in air over cit
ies and forts and dock yards.
Lights were seen.. The throb of the.
engine was heard. The body of the
ship was dimly Been. It had three
wheels, one on each side and one
in front.
Whereupon one of the chief panic
mongers in the Tory press wrote as
follows:
It Is now established beyond all
question that tho airships of gome for
eig-n power, prenumabiy Germany, are
making regular and systematic! flights
over this country. That an airship did
pass -over Selby Abbey on Friday night,
making Us way for tho east coast. Is
undoubted.
Were It not - for the reviving
friendship between Germany and
England the people would certainly
have lost their heads.
-At the critical point the mysterl
ous visitors from across the North
sea were identified with a' big fire
balloon set afloat on- one of tho
Yorkshire moors, and a game keeper
who revealed the secret became the
hero of the hour. Then England
laughed, and the midnight airship
was nevermore seen or heard.
The serious side of such folly is
that every, device is used to drive
the governments of the nations into
enormous Increases, of military ex
pehditures. In both Germany and
France they have succeeded. The
most effective agents are newspapers
in both countries professing them
solves patriot in all their efforts.
STEADYING AEROPLANES
I
N THE consular report of March
IS is printed an announcement
made at a banquet given to Pre8rwhen tn edltor '-th Oregonlan and
ident Poincare. The president
of the French National Aerial league.
M. Qulnton, was the speaker.
He said that "an automatic means
for steadying aeroplanes can be con
sldered as discovered." . : i:
The apparatus has been Invented
by A. M. Moreau, who has flown
with a passenger for thirty-five min
utes, controlling the machine with
only the levers for ascending and de
scending. The wind on that day
blew at the rate of twenty-three feet
a second
The principle used is that Of the
pendulum. The machlrioia a mono
plane In type. The engine, gasoline
tank and wings form , a compact
mass. The seats for pilot and pas
sengeri hanging beneath, act as t
pendulum. If the machine leann tn
right " thretghrr'TTiOnat
j warps the left wing to maintaining
equilibrium. When , the " machine
pitches, the seats, hung swingwise,
act upon the tail,, and adjust the
aeroplane. When oscillations are too
great, owing to eddies or air-holes, f
a means is provided to stop the pen
dulum. Made In this official form, and
under full responsibility, by. the
president of the French national so
ciety, it may be assumed that prac
tical experience had been added to
laboratory experiments ; before the
announcement of the invention was
published. ' '
Should the means have been at r
last discovered whereby the stability
v i j m
ana iae causes oi uuuureus ui iaisti ,
accidents obviated, it will add an
other to a long list of Bimllar re
sponses to a universal demand. We
shall hear nvt that other inventors
have been ' running -on. the same
trail, and have all but simultaneous
ly struck the same lead, and ques
tions of priority will have to be ad-
Justed. 1
Letters From the People
(Commonleatlona lent to Tk Journal tor
publication In this department aboold be writ,
tea on only one aid of the oaiier. ehould not
exceed EOt word to length, and tuuat b ac
companled b the nam and address of th
wilder. If the writer doe not desire to bare
U Sam publlabtd, b should a Ct.) , ;;:
'; How About Twelve Week.
' Portland; March 1$. To the , Editor
.of .The f Journal -There- is much talk
about Increasing women's wages. Every.
one would like to see v them get mors
money for their work, They are en
titled to It. They help produce the
wealth, and are entltledvto a fair dis
tributioa of it 'I was Impressed with
the article entitled, "A Working
"Woman's Views,", in The Journal ; of
March 13.
It. was good., But the was:
proposition has other serioua question
conneoted t- with It than those that
writer mentioned, V The average wage
of the average man la less than $15 per
week.! A family consisting of a man.
his wife and three children, the oldest
a girl Of. 15, is not unusual. If it is
necessary for the woman to get 1S per
week,: how much la It necessary for the
man with the wife and three children
to get? For the good of the child and
the good of the state, the children
should go through high school;, posi
tively they must go through the com
mon schools. To this state's shame, it
means buying books for three. They
should learn something of music That
takes money. Then there are groceries
for five, rent for five, shoes and stock
ings for five, hats for five, dental
bills for five, coats, dresses, under
wear, etc etc.
I wonder how it would affect socie
ty if the father of these young girls
received sufficient wages so tha't'they
could be kept In a sheltered home un
til they get strong enough and wise
enough to face the world, instead of
sending them out. tn their, weakness
and ignorance amog vice and tempta
tion at l 14 and 15 years old to work.
Another thing"! would like to know;
If the Women that are receiving $13 per
week have a hard time of it how about
the woman that is mother of the three
Children and wife ot the man that
gets less than $15 pe"r week?
INQUIRER...
The Webb Bill.
Ilwaco, Wash., March 17. To th
Editor of The Journal Is U correct
that the "Webb blll," prohlbitng- the
shipment of liquors from one state Into
dry" territory of another state, does
not take effect until July 81 neXtl
' ILWACO. ,
United States Attorney E. A. John
son gave the following statement:
''The bill as passed by congress does
not by its own terms provide that it
shall become effective at any particu
lar ana neuco Decani a law irom
the data of th passage thereof over
the president's veto. The bill carries no
penalty, and any Interstate shipment of
liquor therein prohibited is not made
aa-ffSJMfs' Cgainst the federal gov
ernment. The purpose of the bill was
to enable the various states having
statutes prohibiting the sale of liquor
in dry territory to enforce their laws.
Heretofore in the many attempts to en
force laws designed to regulate traffio
in intoxicating liquors by the different
states and state jurisdictions, the fact
that such liquors had been shipped In
the question of the Jurisdiction of thJ0r"1women were recruited by profes
. . .1 . . i-Tslonal slave catchers." cnld on man.
state was raised to tne ena or aeieat-
Ing prosecution.
"This bill Is designed to divest Intox
icating liquors of their interstate char-
acter in certain cases, and thereby to
circumvent a longTlne of decisions in
which the jurisdiction of the state in
the enforcement of Its prohibitory stat
utes has been denied. If there Is noth
lng in the statutes of Oregon or Wash
ington to the contrary, It is not unlaw
ful for any person to ship liquors from
Portland to Ilwaco, or some other
Washington point for private consump
tion."-' ,
Secretary Bryan's Personal Rights.
Portland, March 19. To the Editor
of The Journal In its anxiety to take
a poke at Honorable William J.Bryan,
and Incidentally to stir up trouble In
President Wilson's cabinet, the Ore-
gonian takes sides with British Tory
publications which resent Mr. Bryan's
Individual opinion, and, for that mat
ter, the fundamental principles of the
American people on the right of self-
government.
Did the Oregonlan expect the mouth,
pieces of Britain's Jiouse of lords to
pat Mr. Bryan on the back for his per
sonal opinion on home rule as expressed
while a guest of the Irish Fellowship
club of Chicago on March 17?
I suppose when Mr. Bryan entered
the "Wilson cabinet as secretary of
etate he left behind him his rights as
an-American citizen to think and speak
as he chose, as an individual outside
the state department, I also suppose
his sub-editors speak at publlo.Jtunci
Hons, which they frequently do, they
Bbeak the policy of the Oregonlan news
paper? Not .much! If anybody should
attempt to restrict the rights of th
Oregonlan editors to express their per
sonal views as citizen at publio gath
erings, . what a devil of a roar would
come out of the throats of these accom
plished scribes. But after all, perhaps
president -WUson nR4lo a mistake in
not selecting some bushy haired ink
jammer with a scrappy pen for his seo
retary of state. " ' v FAIRPLAY.
The - Spelling Book. "
Salem, Or., March 17. To the Editor
of The Jounial-rln your issue of yes-
terday is a discussion of spelling books
now used in schoois, showing that they
mles the mark they were intended to hit
A, similar teBt .applied to most ot the
books used in our publio schools would
reveal like results. : .
' Most .of the school books are written
by men of manyyears of professional
werto .elong-hlghesn Unas theMe-arw-pwr
sued, or even understood, by 'ordinary
people and pit is but natural that their
books do not meet the needs of th
pupils who study them.
A recent" test of an eighth grade class
ot about 19 pupils revealed the -fact
tuat of the ti worda in th spelling lea-
EVENIHu, MAKyli XI, ma.
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE '
' r 1
Don't b( grouchy: best outlook ever
for crops, is the report, v
The new bat never can be sure what
weather an Easter Sunday will bring
forth.
Many male critics of faster bonnets
do worse thing than wear or pay for
them., 1 -
, . v - ; .. -. ,,
But wouldn't the Democrats have still
more trouble it Jliu Ham Lewis weie
elected?
"Wonderful, " Strange man-Presldent
Wilson; he went quietly to church on
Sunday, and spent the evening with his
family. ' .
Another reason why young children
are admirable and loveable Is that what
ever else they , want they never howl
for an office or a pension.
"Exact and equal justice" ts only a
theoretical, not a real condition, In this
world; but ' everyone can make It a
goal toward which to strive.
Commission government won't usher
In the municipal millenium, but it will
very likely be a considerable improve
ment over the. present very imperfect
system. j, . ,
1 ....
A email news story alludes to a vig
orous, hard hut happily working woman
of 66 as one of "extreme age." - It was
probably written hy a very young man
who Is yet willy.
British Tory papers criticise Bryan
for his speeches in support if Irish
home rule and against 'the house of
lords; but they should remember that
it was tt. ratricK s aa.y, ana mai Bry
an's ancestors were Irish. - , ,
A Cincinnati 1 member of the Ohio
legislature ' should be unanimously
awarded first priss for proposed freak
damphoolisbness in proposed legislation;
he wants a commission to regulate wom
en's dress, so that toor, defenseless
males will not be tempted by femininity,
at least by means of their more or less
apparel. That men with such minds as
his get Into legislatures is less a won
der than It should be. "
By Herbert Corey.
! Last month Mary Carsonwhich Isn't
her name was at work In a factory in
a Jersey ; town; Shs is IT years old.
Sha knew by, the. first name every jndn,
woman and kid In the little town back
In the interior Where sha had always
lived. 1 In the faptory town Mary knew
no one. At night she had her choice
between sitting in .a dingy- bedroom
or wandering with the other girls from
the factory up and down the dirty
streets. She was child enough to crave
companionship perhaps to" ask a little
happiness.
Yon all knew what happened to Mary
Carson. . . .... - . , ,
Last week the man brought her to
New York city. When she refused to
go upon the streets he struck her.
Broken hearted, weeping, she begged
him for mercy.' And when he struck
her again she got down upon her knees
and beseeched him to let her go home.
She wanted to see her mother, she cried.
The tears streamed down.. Ehe was only
a little girl, and so 'lonesome and for
lorn. . The man struck her again.
""You haven't any home now, said
he' "You're my woman. If you ever
try to get away from ma, I'll. go to
your home and tell your mother. It
would break her heart."
Then Mary stabbed him.
' This week an officer of the law com
pounded two or three felonies. He
helped Mary to get hack to her mother
and he kept her secret and he scared
the man out ot two or three years of
slimy growth by his promisee of what
would happen If Mary were bothered.
His fellow officers must be a worthless
lot. They bought him drinks until the
officer of the. law went home fairly
fuddled.
Now and then some One tilts , the lid
of hell and we look beneath. Mary
Carson's case was not an exceptional
one. Except that she is of American
parentage, it is almost -typical one. The
agents of the . department of Justice
who have been investigating the white
slave traffic, and the skilled investiga
tors of antl-vlce societies uptown, think
that a large proportion of the sad re
cruits are gained in just such fashion.
"I believe that fully 60 per cent
pernaps 76 per cent of the foreign
siona siave catcnera," said one 'man.
"More than that" this statement will
bear thinking Over -"considered simply
as a business, white slavery is suffer,
ing Irom over-production. Too many
girls have been set upon the hopeless
path by. those money hungry devils in
the last few years.
"There are perhaps 8000 "macks' In
New York city, whose only Income Is
from the women they control. They
have lately taken to sending their wo
men through the country, in search of
better profits. Some of them de
mand a weekly remittance. Others
smart enough to evade the Interstate
commerce law-tell the poor creatures
to save their money. Then, when they
have JS00 or $400 gathered,' they get
on the train and bring the harvest in
to their masters." - r.,:.
Few of the investigators think that
the establishment of a1 minimum wage
scale will more than lessen the evil. But
they hope to see laws enforced against
son Just studied nftt one member of the
class knew, the .meaning of half the
words. Of course, it was a difficult les
son and was entirely out of place, rfi,
If eome of our leading figures in
educational affairs would adopt a system
leading to- the use of an alphabet having
a simple, quickly , made character . for
each one of elementary sounds In our
language, in which the characters were
never used silently nor as substitutes,
then they might talk about a new edu
cation; but so long as they merely sug
gest the dropping of a few words from
a spelling boon ana tne inserting of
others In their places they are wasting
time. 1 -
A living, growing .language of more
than 200,000 words needs a system of
live wires" for a basis Instead of an
antiquated system so nearly fossilized
as to be wholly absurd.
Q. W, GOD WARD.
t i. .-; vC': -;::i'-f':;:-!.: ';
Can Give Clear Title.
Woofiburn, Or., March 16. Tt tfi
Editor of The Journal can a man eeu
his "property and make a clear title
without his children signing the deed'
The mother and father owned the prop.
erty jointly that is, both their names
are in the deed, but the mother is dead
and the children all of agfcWBVC.
Yes, there i no impediment to rnak
Ing a deed. Upon the death of the wife
the title becamevested entirely in th
husband, and he do not need consent
of the children in mamng a aeea.
- Suffragettes and Snffragista.
t Portland. Or.. March 11. To the Ed.
ltor of The Journal Please tell me the
ijTtrfCTrfrrrtietwsw he-BwgH
CLtCS anu 111 AUIVIUHU nwmail buiuak"
ists. . . A SUBSCKIBUJK.
IThelr purpose is , the same but the
English suffragettes have resortod to
violent methods which are condomned
by the majority of American, suffragists.
- - v NEW YORK DAY BY DAY
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
t A taxlrab livery Is the latest" Innova
tion at Klamath Falls. Two taxis have
been put in commission as a starter. '
Albany Democrat: Albany ts quite a
pipe organ-hub, now having three good
ones, fine addition to the music of -a
city.
- - - - - -
The Medford council has decreed
an Increase in pay of fire department
men of $5 a month all around. The
chief will henceforth receive 90, the
assistant chief $S5 and firemen $80. - .
v-. . ' v
Burns Times-Herald; 'i The wild birds
are not such "geeses", after all. - Today
the closed season began, and this' morn,
lng a flock of wild geese flew right
over the main street of Burns.. ; They
know when they're safe,
'ir'i "':-k-. .k -C:?n J:L:2,:'';
Baker Democrat; The "Webfoot"
weather we are having Is just the thing
to be desired for the good of the coun
try Frost is fast being drawn from the
ground and Mother Earth ts absorbing
a dampness that Insures good crops and
dollars for everyone. . .
Coquille. Sentinel: Furniture of al
most - every description, woodenware,
cooperage, veneering, willowware, buggy
boxes, baskets and a thousand and one
other articles of every day use might
be profitably ' made" lr Coquille and
shipped to every section of the country.
Grants Pass Ceurier:. A great stream
of inquiries regarding the Grants Pass
district continues to pour into the office
of the secretary of the Commercial club.
They come from all points of the com
pass, and indicate-that thousands of
people are looking about for a more
congenial climate or for a locality where
they can better their condition.
v i ,
Eugene Register: The big Notl tun
nel on which Twohy Brothers have- been
working for so long is now mors than
two thirds completed. As soon as the
west slope of the mountain through
which It Is being bored gets a little
drier, work on th other end will be
commenced, and the rate of cutting will
be more than doubled, as they will not
have so far to haul out the refuse.
the men who trade in women. In Lon
don the "macks" are getting 80 lashes
on the bare back now. That has helped.
New York might try the same.;';
'. "They : use ; every stratagem t get
control of - their, women." said vntt in
vestigator. . "Sometimes it. is marriage
sometimes drugs sometimes what the
poor, work-weary, Ignorant girf thinks
is love. Then the 'mack has but one
plan to drive her on the street, It is
always for a little; while only' until
he gets a Job, or saves money enough
to go into business. If she will not go
he beats her or else he threatens to
tell her people thel wretohed truth. That
is the worst threat of alL You'd never
believe how many of these poor drabs
are sustained by the belief that the
truth is not known at home."
Make the profession of the maque
reaux more dangerous to follow than
that of the burglar, and the white slave
problem Is one-half solved. -
This isn't a pleasant topio. ' But the
skilled Investigators almost unanimous
ly favor "rigid segregation. , ;
"The trouble is," said one " agent,
"this is a moral problem. And then It
turns to a very practical problem. And
good but pitifully ignorant ministers
lnBist upon regarding it only on Its
moral side and blinding their eyes to
the practical aspect.' '
Atlantic City offers perhaps the
strongest argument for 'the advocates
of segregation. : The one business of
the city Is catering to amusement hunt
ers. Its population shifts almost from
day to day. A million men and women
may be on the board walk' today, and
one tenth that many tomorrow. . If the
vice problem were handled in Atlantic
City as It Is in New York city where
It is not handled at all, except as some
pitiful harlot Is picked up after mid
night, by a plain clothes man, or a
raid is made upon some .resort which
has not paid its - monthly protection
money conditions-would be unbearable.
New York . city has refused to admit
that ; a vice problem exists. - Atlantic
City has frankly admitted that It is
there and has taken charge of . the
situation. , ' : "7 ,; .
"The segregated district is a compara
tively small one In Atlantic City," say
the agents who have made a careful
inquiry into conditions there. "Perhaps
the women of the outlawed class who
live within the pale do , not average
more than IB 0, One week with another.
They are made, to atay within the dead
line. They are permitted . to go
abroad for their necessary purchases,
of course, but if they are seen talking
to a man no matter upon a harmless
matir they are arrested ; and 1 fined.
Therefore, they do not accost mep, al
though that great boardwalk is jammed
with strangers daily. The woman who
seems flirtatious upon the boardwalk IS
a stranger in the town.
"Chief of Police Woodruff may not
be within th law In assuming full com
mand over the 'district but he has full
command, anyhow. Of fleer Herbert Is
in Immediate supervision. Every wom
an is obliged to register her name with
Herbert upon arrival. Then he takes
her story Ml full, and if necessary veri
fies It. The fpollsh girl who has been
bewildered by the false glamour of the
life Is saved before she has gone too far.
Not a month passes by, perhaps, that
the Atlantic City authorities do "not
send some young woman home, or find
a position for her out of town, where
she has a chance to save herself. Not
In one case In ten is the new recruit
permitted to stay; ' -,--.
"No -woman is allowed to stay 4n the
district if she Is" iKlscovered sending
money to a 'mack' and as for the
'macks themselves wild horses couldn't
drag them In where Woodruff or Her
bert could get hold ot them. A careful
medical ; Inspection is insisted upon
weekly, and there Isn't a dollar of
graft IJn sure of that Half a dosen
cross-checking 7 Safeguards have been
arranged, -so that the woman who pays
graft pays it knowing that payment is
needless, and that the grafter would
be punished If she spoke. 7? Violation
of any one of the dozen or so rules laid
down for : the inhabitants of the dis
trict means prompt deportation and
deportation that deports. Sometime u
Is preceded bj; fine and imprisonment
I Will venture to say that when the
character of theown and the transient
population is considered the restricted
district Is more orderly than in any
other city in the United States." :
There you have the two remedies for
the appalling degradation that v exists
in every large city, as proposed by
skilled and somewhat unsentimental in-
Jivestigators destruction of the profes
sion- of the maquereaux and rigid
segregation. These agents,itaken as a
class, do not even profess Interest In th
moral aspect : They jcandidly da not be
lieve that many women can be saved by
an appeal to the Soul " But, they would
lessen the danger to the young and
foolish and ignorant girl, and, after that
m-memoer-of -the oMfti
profession they would frankly treat her
as a center-pestilence, and shut her-up
in a lazarhouse. They are not sentiment
al, but perhaps they are even more in
earnest than the sentimentalists.
"The ministers don't know this
world's filth," they say, "We dol"
"THE CONSECRATED '
' ' ' COLORS"
From the Christian Science Monitor.
The sun of the. armor barons has not
yet set. It Is true that Grand Admiral
von Tlrplta has smlld in th direction'
of Downing street, and that Downing
street has returned the greeting. StllV
dockyards are not the only places where -an
armorer may set up an anvil, and.
wfiat is likely to be lost, If there is a
slump In dreadnoughts, may very easily
be offset by a rise in shrapneL " Austria-Hungary
and Russia have a million
men out on the frontiers of Servla and
Gallqia, a million men well supplied
with ball cartridges and quick firers.
Germany, just to be readyor eventuall-
ma nvsnij v ttUU BUinS OU,VO,UU
raavks to her annual military estimates;
whilst France, though convinced, as she-."
explains, that Germany Is not thinking '
of Alsace-Lorraine, conclude .'that It
may be wise to arrange a credit bf "some
575,000,000 francs In case of any un
toward incident - It is the twentieth',
century of the Christian era. 7 i.
The- British secretary of state for
war, speaking only the other day on the
question of . reserves, alluded, several
times to the consecrated . colors. The
incongruity of the phrase .never seems
to have even struck film. The conse
crated colors are thick along the fron
tiers of eastern Europe today; and it la,
certainly not too soon that Norman An- .
gell.jtuta set out for the Conversion of
Germany.: Ten thousand copies of hU
now famous book were sold within a
week of his first lecture, at Heidelberg,
and it is to be hoped that there are
many more to follow. Mr. Angell in.,
bringing home to the Teutonic mind '
something he has partially brought home
to tne Anglo-Saxon mind, namely, that
Germany is the greatest buyer In the
Wfljld of British goods, whilst the Unit
ed Kingdom is the richest market that .
the German 4 enters. The -k t utllHy ot
killing the goose that lays the golden
eggs should ba apparent even to a chau
vinist "-"Vr'.'Y.'' -Nt '.
Herr von Jagow strove recently t
impress upon the relchstag the wonder,
ful diplomatio discovery that Germany
and the United Kingdom' have Identioal ;
Interests, -There Is apparently stilll
some hope for diplomacy.. He said he
was not a prophet, but that, 0 the
ground of common Interest, the most
fruitful In politics, the two countries
might reap a rich harvest The business
centers of th two countries have , long
been aware of the fact which th for
eign offices seem only to have begun to .
perceive. Those business centers know.
flndeed, much more than this. , They
know that the collapse of -a commercial
nation in war does not add- te the flnan.
cial stamina of its rivals. A war In
eastern "Europe "-- in which,' Germany
drained her resources would simply be
the temporary destruction of the richest
of English? markets, and would be Of no
benefit at all to the United Kingdom.
The some truism would apply, probably
even in a greater degree, to a contest
f rem ' which thai United ' Kingdom
emerged exhausted. ;" England did, not
gain in any way by the exhaustion ot
France after 17I. She gained Just In
proportion as Frane recovered her rco
norato equilibrium. It is the armor
baron and his- allied - industries who'
make what profit Is made out of war.'
It may se'4, that at such moments -the
fullness Ot the earth is theirs. On
the whole, the substitution of the con-
secreted flag for the Roman eagle la not
a very great advance In twenty, cen
turies. " N
Pointed Paragraphs'
A crank who makes a success Is a
genius. . - .
"': r "'ft
Many' a man who weighs his woiMe
uses crooked scales." ' - ,
Women mar look rood without being
accused of good looks. - 1
There's nothing platonlo , about ' a
man's love tor himself,
. v. .... ; ; . .,;, ,i.:7;.7';. ;..-:7 M'-77;
, What some of our youths need is more
education and less experience.
It is easy for a pretty girl to manage
a husband during courtship. .
The wife of a shiftless man exouses
him on the ground that he means welL
.
7 When you. feel Uke calling a man. a
liar go to the telephone and then change
your mind. 7 . ,
.. .What a woman doesn't know about,:
a neighbor is Just what She wants to
find out. ' ,." : , ,. ; ' ,
,' ''.'"
Any bachelor could land a wife if he
hustled half as hard as a widow dees
for a second chance. ".
-"",7". :" -7---
Instead of taking advantage of their
opportunities some men take advantage
of other people's necessities. -
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MAGAZINE . v
Easter Features
Full page Jn color' of, in
teresting American' women, y
by Paul Helleu, the cele- .:
brated French etcher.
THE RASTER VIOLETS, ,
one of Charles Dana Gib- -Bon's
most famous drawings,
reproduced in half page size, :
mS EASTKil LILY By
Jessie Wilcox Smith, timely
- picture in color : occupyinff
fujl page.
Other Good Things.'
- ' Two magazine pages are
. devoted to miscellaneous
subjects of general interest.
A. wide variety of appeal-'
. ing features." strikingly II-;
lustrated are offered. k
V i'. '"r ! 'A-vt, .7,1.';; ..,7.,7'L,'!,! n"X
For Women
Readers
Lady Duff Gordon's new
esf : fashion h l n t"S front '
Paris; Mrs. Henry Symes'
chat on health and beauty
topic s ; Adelaide Byrd'j '
-eedlevorlrrTajsJa:TrJ:lho
weekly department devoted
to domestic science.
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