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FOUR YEARS HENCE '
JJ THE third -of a series of ar
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ticles, Frank A. Munsey, one oi
the ' consequential ;. men '. Of the
third narty. discusses the future
chances of an amalgamation of the
Republican and Progressive parties.
' lie. says:, .. ,
So, with the Republicans We jjow
have a body of men stubbornly op
vov to the Progressives. They have
B0ttuttresad themselves In their po
sition that they lean backward la their
prejudice against tba new party. :
On th other hand, the Progressives,
for the most part are even more open,
ly hostile to the Republicans than the
Republicans are to thorn. . A
There la Just about aa much chance
of the Progressives groin over to the
Republicans aa there Is that the Repub
licans will come ever to the Progres
slres. - And there Isn't the slightest
probability that the Progressives as a
body, or In any considerable number,
will ever return to the Republican
party. Indeed, If the Progressives
were to disband, . not more than 16
per cent of them would Join the ranks
of the Republicans. . ',..;, .'
Nothing Is so uncertain as the
question of what will be the status
of political parties in the United
States in 19 16. - After the great
Democratic split of. I860, there was
a far re ac h 1 n g realignment ot
parties and vast changes by Indi
viduals from one political organiza
tion to ' another. Unquestionably,
there are forces and elements for
similar realignments and changes
as sequel to the great' Republican
split of mt-f-, -a-'- :-. y-.rH; -' '
Mr. .Munsey eorrectly says many
; Progressives of . Republican antece
dents will never-' return to the Re
publican Tarty, jjNor is it likely that
the) Progressives wllL be able to re
cruit a ; great deal .more strength
from; Republicaii.i.sources unless the
Republican party actually goes out
of existence, an eventuation that
seems altogether unlikely. v v
Meanwhile, Woodrow Wilson and
the Democratic congress will have a
great deal to do with the disposal of
political strength in the next presi
dential conflict, - President Wilson
la undoubtedly an extraordinary
leader. . It is dqubtful if , a more
tactful or a clearer headed man has
ever occupied the j White House. It
is improbable that he wilt have dif
ferences with his congress. It Is
within the easy possibilities that
Woodrow Wilson's administration
will bring large prestige and greatly
augmented power to the Democratic
party, an eventuation that would
have very great effect in the party
alignments of 1916. f ..:
;Anywaythera never was a time
when party ties, rested so lightly on
the individual. The proof of this
l8iajthowithdrawal -Of -4,000,000
voters, nearly all from the Repub
lican organizationand their en
listment under the banner ot a new
political party.
In such a status, nobody can
prognosticate with certainty as to
-the probabilities-four-years-1ience.T
The condition that can , be surely
counted on, is that there will be
three -great parties, with Theodpre
Roosevelt once mor as a formidable
factor in the situation.
: IMPENDING CATASTROPHE
CONSTANTINOPLE is facing to
: day a more tremendous peril'
. than has hung over her since
the conquering 'Turks entered
tho city th-ough her battered gate
ways and over her ruined walls four
hundred and fifty years ago
. The danger today Is from the
muttaout arid-idlsorganlzed army of
a quarter or ' a million men that
holds the .Tchatalja forts and lines.
These men have been half starved.
and exposed to the rigors of a ' se
vere and long winter. There are !
distinct lines between the men of i
Old Turkey, recruited and officered
in Asia Minor, who are Moslems
one and' all, belonging to the old
school, and men controlled by the
young Turks and obeying Shefket
' Pasha, Klamll's successor. .
: When Shefket rose to power by
jihe engineering of the young Turks,
and over Nazim Pasha's dead body.
his declared object was " to savrf
Adrlanople. But wise, old, Kiamil,
varied it thus, "Better save Con
Etantinople,"!" and, having turned
the charge over to Shefket," Klamll
and his ministers. One and all. fled
from the city. ; ." ':
As soon as peace is ' signed the
young T u r k crowd, Enver Bey,
Talaat, Djavld,' and "the rest of the
' old committee will turn on $he pres-4
enit government, with, c rjes . of
"Traitors,, destroyer's of Turkey,"
. . . l . ... j 1 j. 1 m x :
The enemies of the committee will
try then to extirpate it, root and
' ranch. The tw parties are about
ly balanced. About the same
t?r cf troors will follow) each
of them, and that means over a hun
dred thousand men. Thert the
streets of the city will run blood
Revolution, counter revolution, and
counter-counter revolution will be
tried In turn, and the scenes In
Mexico City will be child's play
compared' to those appearing within
the next three weeks in the city , by
the Bosphorus. '.., '
The last efforts of Shefket's mln
istry will be to crowd every vessel
they can get hold of In the Golden
Horn 4 with, troops from Tchatalja,
and ship, them back to Aula Minor
whence they came. ; Without stores
of food, without a sign of commiS'
earlat, starvation impends over the
whole movement Rather than see
the soldiers die the European now-
ers may, very possibly come to their
aid,; and rations by the million be
shipped In. '
So will disappear, In all probabil
Ity, the last great Turkish army to
organize on European soil under the
green banner of Mohammed
COMMISSION GOVERNMENT
T
HE present status of the move
ment for commission govern
ment is reviewed by Clinton
Rogers Woodruff, secretary of
the National Municipal league. He
is behind the scenes of many cities,
being one of the experts most gen
erally consulted by t h o s e cities
which are- "lingering shivering on
the brink, and fear to launch away."
He. bids them be of good comfort
He. tells them that the records of
iuubo uuev iiiiau iava 4i au (.nv V1!)
formly encouragingexcept Why
exceptions? Because of disappoint
ment In some cities in . the charac
ter of the commissioners elected.
Still there is hope even: there since
"the present character of officials in
commission - governed -cities Is - very
much higher than prevailed under
the older forms."
How clear it Is that the people,
not the law, is responsible for any
disappointment. The law excludes
no citizen from office. . Every one
really eligible, for commissioner, and
many who are hot eligible, may run.
But it is all but criminal to elect
all or any commissioners whose
characters and whose special quali
fications are not well known to the
electors. It should be a matter of
conscience to act' on the familiar
notice "No stranger need apply."
There should be no chance of a
mistake on character. About, that
there can be no disguise. What the
men may possibly not .know in this
respect the women will. As to qual
ifications there is, of course, room
for error. It is a pity there Is no
device for a kind of term, where a
failure could be quietly dropped
without a stain on his record.
The election of a commissioner,
much less of a mayor, should not
be" an experiment No man, how
ever ingratiating,, however agree
able and pleasing, should be chosen
without a history of proved' success
in at least one line that parallels
a city department. .
Every month city commission gov
ernment Is moved farther from the
plane of experiment
A week or two ago there were inrith oil, and burned. One thrifty
the United States 257 commission
governed cities. There are others in
a condition of incubation. And still
others, like St Paul, with 214;000
people, ready to begin January 1,
1914.
Which are the states that have
gone farthest? Kansas, with 24
cities, Iowa with 17, Illinois with
17, Oklahoma with 15; Texas with
16, and South Dakota with 11. Cal
ifornia treads on their heels with
nine, and Alabama with eight. The
rest are distributed In threes and
fours and so on.
Unless, the most unlikely happens
we shall soon have to try our hands
at electing in Portland. It is well
to be prepared. r ?
A HEAVY RESPONSffilUTY
S
CHOOL books to be selected in
June are to be used in the
Oregon schools the coming1 six
years. '
That fact lays a heavy responsi
bility on the text book commission.
Charges 'are made that Oregon is
paying too much for school books.
It is the commission's duty to go
to the bottom of these charges, and
If found true, to provide a remedy.
Oregon children should have books
at prices as low as In any other
state, and the text book commission
shduld -both know-that the prices
are as low. and that the books are
as good. If the commission cannot
do all this, Its members should re
sign. The authority"- they are to
exercise in behalf of the public is
very important. The selection of
the" books, the fixing of the prices,
and the determination of the terms
on which the changes are to be- in
troduced comprise an extraordinary
lunction. .
There are 175,000 nersona -ot
school age in' the state of Oregon.
mere are approximately 125.000
pupils in the elementary schools.
The. selection of books and the flx-
ipg of the prices of books for this
great army of children is a heavy
responsibility, a responsibility; to
call forth the serious reflection and
the best endeavors of everr member
of the text book commission. ' It is
a duty-that goes' far to involve the
welfare of the common school sys
tem ior a period, or six, years. -
Not only should ( the; books be
priced, at the lowest' hotch, but the
arrangements for Introduction t of
BW VoushTOTdeerfeqCTTEeT
is no use io permit an introductory
price Jr changed books that will
be an undue tat nn arhnni
I The figuregj in such cases should be
I cut to the bone, and new books go
!. 4V.A t,ii,,.nn r,n iiiti tipmi' Hin t
nn imrriiiin will ha wnrlinil on the
many honiea of poverty. " .
One of the most important prob -
Jems to "be worked out la Oregon
this j-ear, lies before the Oregon
Text' Book Commission
Oregon ex-
pects every member of that Import
ant' body to do full statured duty.
DR,l'RU:i).MAXN
G'
R A DUALLY Dr. Friedmann ap
pears to be making friends in
this country. Ho certainly has
not been allowed to come In
over the wall Into the medical sheep
fold. ; He has had to go round and
come in by tho door, Probably he
has alleviations, when the first criti
cisms. o( h I s operating , methods
gradually - give-place to admissions
that he knows his business and is
a distinctively skilled operator. .
Two accounts of his progress have
recently appeared in the papers of
this coast ithe one from Dr. August
H. Kinney of Astoria," still in New
York and the other from Dr,
Charles H. Noble of- Seattle, who
has Just returned from his New
York visit,, where he went to gain
knowledge of Dr. Friedman'- and
Bis 'methods at first hand.;..
In the case of both doctors a to-
ceptive state 6f mind seems to have
been produced.. Both of them ap
pear to be looking for confirmation
of hope already produced by what
they have seen, of the patients who
had. received the vaccine treatment.
Dr. Noble says "it will take from
three to six. months to demonstrate
whether those who have-been treat
ed will become perfectly well 'again.
This much, however, Is absolutely
certain to me, that a great discov
ery has been made by him and that
t will greatly aid In the relief for
this . disease." This declaration may
well be taken as a corrective to the
'leaning over backwards" tone of
the Journal -of the American Med
ical Association. Probably that pro
fessional paper would now hesitate
to repeat what it said a week jpr two
ago, shortly after the arrival of Dr.
Friedmann In this country.
Its statements were to the effect
that no discovery had been made,
all facts cited as to immunizing by
inoculation being old that if Dr.
Friedmann had discovered anything
it is "only a culture which "possesses
unusual immunizing powers for hu
man beings.". Only?, If that and
nothing more .were verified tho roan
would: be onb of the greatest bene
factors, whose name would never be
forgotten.
The truth seems to be that, hope
may burn bright, since nothing has
been brought out to dim it. But
that it is no more reasonable now
than when Dr. Friedmann first made
his appearance here to assert as
fact "that which is still a matter to
be proved in Its entirety.
CHINESE IDOL v SMASHERS
I
N MANY and many a - temple.
writes a missionary from Nan
king, the Vgods" have been torn
from their seats and smashed
into bits with hammers. Some were
dragged into the streets, soaked
pnesi scrapea me goia iear rrom tne
idol which he had tended, and sold
it for eighteen dollars.
Some ot the popular temples held
hundreds of idols. The troops came
in, smashed the gods, turned - out
the sellers of Incense and . paper
money, and, having clea'ned out the
temple thoroughly, converted it into
barracks for the soldiers of the re
public. , : 7 "
Among the rubbish and debris
of . the old gods at . the famous tem
ple in Nanking called Ch'eng Hua
one little idol six inches high was
found, and given to the missionary
as the Bole visible relic of the idol
worship of the past.
The Chinese are evidently mak-ing-averr-complete
turning- rora
their religion of. the past What
they are turning to, in place of it,
is in serious doubt.
Among the many millions of China
a few thousand Christian mission
aries of many denominations are
giving their lives to prevailing on
the people to exchange their idols
for the worship of the one god that
the Christians preach. Not as Mo
hammed and his followers, by the
proffer at the sword's point, "be
lieve or die." But through the at
tractive and vivifying power of the
new faith believe and live.
In face of this tremendous task
the conversion ot a nation the mis
sionaries have found their strength
to lie, not in the mazes of an an
cient theology,; but ' in the sim
plicity of the gospel of Christ which
they proclaimed to those who had
abandoned ' the bid without yet
adopting a new religion.
To simplify, to reduce to the few
est possible dogmas, to cut down old
creeds to the bare statements of a
common faith, ; was the necessity
that reached first of all the mis
sionaries themselves. In the loyal
and , earnest endeavor to succeed
these teachers found 4 1 1 a t the
boundaries and shibboleths of their
own original . denominations prac
tically disappeared, or at least: were
retired to the background in their
own minds. And this was their
Common report to the great inis--
sionary conference at Edinburgh
two or three. years ago.:
The impression sunk deeply into
many mtads that if the basic 'faith
offered to the-Chinese was a saying
faith it was good enough and strong
ligious power in white, and brown,
and red men as well as In yellow
men. r '
The simplicity of the gospel has
been found to contain in it the es
sence of social as well as of e-
' 1 icrfnna hrnl horhfifiil. Anil this
thera Is little doubt, will be tho doc-
trine, that Id tlie teaching of the
j Christian citizenship conference to
meet in tnis cuy in a rew monms-
time
EVENING AMUSEMENTS
T
HE London County Coutfcll has
for several . years made great
efforts to provide "Evening
Continuation, Schools." Good
teachers and Interesting courses
were at first great attractions and
large numbers were enrolled. But
this last winter session' has shown
a sad falling off. Out of 13,500
classes opened 260.0 have had to
be closed for want of pupils: i . v
Only one third, ot the 125,000 stu
dents enrolled gave even 14-hours'
attendance in any one subject.
It is not that the educational ar:
rangements are at fault. The coun
ter attractions . of theatres, music-
halls', and last but not least, the
"movies," are responsible. ;
Not one but several remedies are
available on both sides of the At
lantic. The first Is. to restore, and
add to the attractiveness of the
-home. .If society in the home Is
encouraged, if the friends of the
girls and boys are welcomed as
guests, If the atmosphere is that
of friendliness and cheerfulness, if
amusements" are provided which are
both , lively and : modern, : then I the
vaudeville performance, and even
the moving pictures will not have
an unchallenged .pull. .:.," '''
Here there rises the.vlslon of, the
school house 1 as, the social I center.
The circle of friendliness is there
enlarged, there is a larger group of
possible entertainers, more variety
ot amusement can be devised, and to
find unexpected reserves of Interest
and amusement In acquaintances of
the '. streetcar, or. of ..the church . Is
no rare experience.
The specter of dullness at home
must be driven out if the boys and
girls can reasonably be expected to
forego the brightness of the theatre,
or moving picture show, and stay,
within the four walls of. their par
ents louse.
If it be objected that such plans
will lay more burdens on the houses
mother there are several answers.
There Is no more real pleasure to
tbgood mother than to gather her
children round her in" free and hap
py converse In her home. Her bright
eyes and genial smile tell the tale.
ir some otner motners cnna snares
the'piastlr ,.01 the evening, so
much. the better". ' Those who know
have told how the opening to them
of the door of the home in a strange
city meant keeping closed for them
other doors where spirits of evil
dwelt. ".
Returning for a moment to the
London County Council, we find
that 'Mr. Edison's great invention,
linking together sight and sound,
and the use of the. moving picture
in general, are being considered as
possible counter attractions in the
evening schools to . the theatre and
the music hall.
FIRE WORSE THAN FLOODS
w
HEN the news of the San
Francisco earthquake and
fire was flashed to New
York on April 18, 1906,
first the Stock Exchange rise in
prices" stopped, then occurred some
thing like a panic, with declines of
from five to fifteen points in stocks
before the week was over.
Nothing of the sort has been seen
during the past week. First, be
cause the pews of the ; Middle West
disasters came to New York at the
Bame time as reports of the proba
bly approaching end of the Balkan
war, and the release from lioard
ing of about five hundred million
dollars In France, Germany, Austria,
and other European countries, with
the consequent stoppage of the drain
of gold from- New-York whieh-hait
been In progress for many weeks.
Then the floods -took on at once
the a s p e c t of various disasters
rather than , of one great catastro
phe like that at San Francisco, and
the news of , the money losses were
discounted,, by New York financiers
as they came In from day to day.
The Evening Post of New York
notes the shrinking of the first es
timates of 'losses In Ohio and In
diana from $100,000,000,; first re
ported. That paper gives a series
of such incidents in recent; history,
such as the .Charleston earthquake
of 1886, the: Johnstown . flood of
1889, the Louisville cyclone of 1890,
the St. Louis cyclone of 1896, the
Galveston tidal wave of 1900, the
Baltimore fire of 1904,, and the Mis
sissippi valley floods of 1902. In
each Instance history repeated itself.
The San Francisco fire and earth
quake Is the single exception. The
revised losses In' the end are stated
at $500,000,000, though deaths
only numbered 500.
It will be many days before the
iron T and steel industry west of
Pittsburg regains- its normal output.
Nearly the whole of the iron and
steel plants of Ohio have been put
out of commission. In addition the
Shenango valley in Pennsylvania,
seyeral plants In, the:.Pitt6burg dis
trict, and la the Wheeling 'district
east of the Ohio river, have been
closed down. 'In all, It is said, that
thirty per cent of the iron and
steel producing- pov er of the .coun
try, which represents about 175,000
tons a week' of output, has .been
halted and seriously damaged.' All
the industrial railroads west of pitts
bnrg; are great" ' s u fftrers) ' ' '
... . .. . y ,. . ,, .
HermlBton Herald: Spring work Is at
Its lielght and every farmer Is busy.
Such la the demand just at thla tini
that It ia not beltevd Ibere la an Idle
nifcn pr team. There waa never a time
whtsn conditions a!?ourHettnlstOB looked
brighter thaa they aa right now.
Letters From the People
1 K'onipiiiiilcatlona, aent te Th .lonrnal fnr
publication Id tlila dupartuient ahonlil he writ
ten on only ona alrfa of tin paper, ahuuld n 't
tlrard 3iH wurria la lngtb and DJtit ha ac
mmiaclel br tha nattia cud adilmt of tb
radar, if tha nrllcr Jo tint rtolro to barr
tlia uatnt publlabad, b abould aa atate.l -
IVescnt and 'Future. Fruit Crops,
Covn, Of.. April S.To the Editor of
The Journal Th6 fruit, crop of 191? is
driw,lng to a cIohc. and It la iiendlese
to nUy It has proved the, moKt disas
trous to the producer in the history of
commercial friirt growing: There must
be some strenuous efforts put forth
by the producer or fruit growing In
the future will be a-repltltlon of that
of the past. What we need Is a strong
organlratlon among all fruit growers,
ard sell direct tp the consumer ' when
ever, possible, so es to cut oat the mid
dleman. The only solution to the
congested fruit situation would be to
compel the retailer to sell on a fair
inargln of "profit;? and If , they ar un
willing tt do Jultlce to the producer
and consumer, let the fruit growers or
ganize and. establish distributing points
in all the ckles of any size and im
portance, and sell direct to the con
sumer at wholesale prices, and eliminate
the retailer. If the 1913 crop of ap
ples had ueen handled along these lines
there would not have been, an over-supply
of fruit thrown on the market; but
with one of the largest apple crops on
record,rand tlie retailers Belling for
practically the same prices aa they did
when apples , were scarce, no : wpnder
there waa an over supply.
Apples have been selling to the retail
trade from 60 cents to U per box, and
from 11.75 to $3.60 per barrel, and re
tailing from $10 to $18 per barrel. Of
course tho price had to" be regulated
according to the victim. With apples
retailing at such prices very few people
of the poorer classes could afford . to
use them.- They were bought only as
a luxury, and this witatnoaands jupon
thOusandsof bushels jof apples going
to" wast, and the grower not able to
realize enough from the proceeds of the
sales to pay freight and other expenses.
Wc will. look up tho commission man
and Jobber and see what part they are
taking to help the producer arid con
sumer. Of course, we have some hon
est retailers and jobbers as well as
honest commission men, but we are not
over-supplied. We will start with the
grower, or the man that produces the
fruit. The fruit Is packed and turned
over to the railroad company to be de-:
llvered to the commission man or. Job
ber, who will trv - ta sell the fruit as
cheap as he possibly can Instead of try
ing ta make a small margin for the
grower. Why does he not exert him
self for better sales? Is his heart In
the right place and Is be trying to buy
as cheap - us : possible to help out the
consumer, or has he some hidden mo
tive in view? We will try and Investi
gate and see if he is not bidding the
fruit in at about the cost of transpor
tation, and sometimes even lees, and
then reselling to the retailer, making
two commissions. C. A. SMITH.
Stephen Kennedy Not Accused.
Portland, April 6. To the Editor of
The Journal Will you please correct
an error in a. story published a few
weeks' ago in your paper about Stephen
Kennedy helping the St. Clair boy and
others to steal boats and oars. I am
Stephen's sister. ; I ata 13 years oltj.
Stephen Kennedy was not In it. He was
at the court house as a witness. He
knew absolutely nothing about it, -only
what the boys told him; so he waa sub-
penaed as a witness. I am often morti
fied when asked about Stephen and the
boat stealing. To make public ia bad
enough when one Is guilty; but he Is
Innocent of the stealing and does not
even keep company with those, boys.
Thank you In advance.
MARQAHET KENNEDY.
(The case referred to Jn the above let
ter was heard March 1 tn the juvenile
court. Stephen Kennedy was called as
witness. The Journal published two
stories about the case, on March 1 and
March 2. In neither story was any of
the boys- Implicated mentioned by
name. The story to Which reference Is
made must have been given out by the
policeman : who arrested the boys, at
the police station.) ,
Why a Mllijtant Suffragette la.
Portland, April 5. To the Editor of
The Journal The attitude of the Eng
lish suffragette is deplorable- The in
clination of her American sisters to
imitate her Is a matter of grave con
cern,, ,
; Love is the greatest power in the
universe, and woman is preeminently
fitted to use It. It is, in fact, the
only weapon she should ever use. Her
love for truth and rightousness on the
social and civio plana will prevail. That,
Is It will prevail in so far as jt is undi
vided, single In purpose, free from eel-
flsh or personal enas. woman's neia is
in the realm of causes; mans in the
world of effects. Let her desire right-
neaa with aligner mighton-whatever
plane, and man will work out her de
sire, sometimes with bloodshed, often
with force. The manner and the means
lie in man'a judgment.. This is his field.
and her invasion of it results Inevitably
In the topsyturvydom the British suf
fragette Is achieving. She breaks civil
and moral law in her fight for what she
deems a personal right, ana then re
treats to the cover of her sex. IJrom
that vantage ground ehe calls aloud to
the civilized' world to bebold man s in
humanity to woman. The odium of "the
spectacle : which ahe creates she en
deavors to throw tipon man, thus cqn
fuslng rlghtous publlo judgment. She
: (Copyright, 1913, by Frank Crane.)
Throughout this north world is tKa
feeling that, something wonderful U
about . to happen. VW feel it in our
bones, Men twist uneasily in their or
flee chairs Women are;.; discovered gaz
inr nnslvelv into space. Children are
restless. Something is coming. -
Something the most marvelous, the
most sweet conceivable, IS on the way,
It Is Spring, the annual miracle of life,
the recurrent angel that keeps the world
from going mad, from becoming hard
and cruel. -' 'V; ; '"i;; t ..- -- -U
In the lowef woodlands the skunk
cabbage is pushing its cowled head
through the . cold turf. Crocuses, the
boldest pioneers in flowerdom, are set
ting tnnir flaca of color In sunny snots.
i . -nhln tir anri ihmrm ! rennrtpri
v ...... . ,
i if means lire, ure. me : treasure oe-j
yulifi ait ircosuioQ, ma tvati u, fi,av
price for which the merchantman will
sell air that h has, the ens thing need-
fUl.-' f.','"''".;.. -rW' ':'-: -o:" ,.') ' ;
Life! The brown soil is full, of It.
Under the ground He In wait th myriad
rml,, nt tlttla recruits walflnir for th
signal to com out and conquer the
spring beauties, ... dog-tooth violets,
Woodroot; and bleeding hearts are. ready,
eager to start at the signal of the sun,
meir captain. - v
All treetips ar swelling. Budt most
adorabl Of nature's confection are
dotting -alult " branchew, " The " worldig
pregnBiw-wiin- a migniy ana uncon
querable joy. ,s N , !
Do you feel It? As' there a strange
hew hope in dt? Have you a premo
nltiori of adventure? Do you find your
self at tlmea during the day in the grip
of a dream, a fresh, foolish, wild dream?
Or la your dream dead? Hav cynicism
SPRING,
declares tlie .-aJU," destroy property and
euduHger IIIV, if licr liii'aiuln uro not
grunteil. Then, if sl'e he rcsUratncd islie
mHkes lneretrlcloiiH appeal for sympathy
to the whole world liy reKortlng to the
"Hturvutlon cure." This seems as child
lnh SH tho case of the three-year-old who
screams hiinstOf black iu the face when
the fie screen Is placed between him anj
and the flame. Not being a child, the
tliitlsh government would 'do wlwely to
treat her as a grown upl A 40-tlay rant
might even reHlorc to her a sanity which
would enable her to fcee that by power
fuly loving righteousness in any field,
she -an bring It to paws.
, MAUEL.W. PLOWMAN.
The Mouse and the Bumble ilec.
Salem. Or., April 3, 1013.- To the Edi
tor' of -The journal The young ' man
who dashed ou of the crowd on a
Portland street to stamp a, little mouse
to death may have been, as "Easterner"
says, nicely , dressed and intelligently
featured, ut lie 'will have to go wome
to acquire that sympathy of soul which,
to quote from Brand' Whltlock,, "more
than; anything else forms the hallmark
of truo culture," So will those' by
standcre who took pleasure In a cow
ard's act .
; The incident recalls an experience of
thy own, I was staying over, night at,
tne no me oi a minister, h very gouty
man, "much interested in foreign mis
sions, At family worship he prayed
moati earnestly for the .''stood Lord to
deliver him and his from hell fire, and
then,' as he rose from his knees he
picked up a young bumblebee, ; which
had somehow-got .Into the room, and
dropped it into the lighted lamp. The
lamp didn't explode, but I did. I gave
the reverend gentleman my opinion of
him. in terms mora forcible than polite,
pointing out that some of those heathen
he longed to convert not only would
have refrained from harming, so inof
fensive a little creature, but would
willingly take some trouble to "let.lt
live its little life." It took only about
a minute Then, ot course, I eame to
nyjenseajind apologlseoVJThemlnls
ter, having recovered from his aston
ishment, not only forgave nie,; but
thanked me for calling his attention to
a matter he had never thought of be
fore. And he and I arc still th pest of
friends. -.-': . ; . r
But isn't U strange how totally lack
ing in feeling for dumb things many
people can be, especially for little dumb
things! 7 - . ,
I shake hands with you. Easterner.
I'don't know your name and never heard
of you 'before, but Just the same, I
claim you for my near kin, though I
myself am a ., - WESTERNER.
( . Answer to Small Dealer.
Portland, April 4.To the Editor of
The Journal I have read with interest
and indignation letters from the mini
mum wage knockers that have appeared
In your paper recently. A man in one of
last week's papers stated that this min
imum wage law was just a scheme to
freeze out the small dealer. I assume
from his statements that he Is one of
the said "small dealers" (in more ways
than one) and for fear that this frees
Ing process may affect his process, he
voices his protest, preferring, it seems,
to see the working girl do the freezing.
Then he has more consideration for the
working girl than he. .How grateful they
must feel tn their hearts for his touch
ing sympathy!
Now we all know that the small dealer
does, no't hire so many clerks as - the
large dealer, and therefore his expenses
would be no greater In proportion than
tha latter's; and in any event, should
w sacrifice our working girls for the
sake of preventing some small dealer
from going out of business? Surely
this would not be granting "the greatest
good to the; greatest number."
A woman' a few days later expressed
her opinion, her chief reason, It seems,
for not wishing to see the, working
girls get better wages was just because
she didn't get any more when she was
a girl. That same old, woe-begone, sel
fish tale! She neglected to mention the
change that has taken place in. the cost
of living" since that time. And because
"in her day" girls worked for starvation
wages and stayed at home with no other
ambition in life than to marry- the first
man who came along, probably does it
follow that all girls should have such a
fate meted out to them? -
If the working girl was paid, a fair
wage she would neither have to sell her
virtue nor marry Just for a home sure
ly neither choice .si very uplifting. Cer
tainly, we knowT there, are girls ' with
characteristics - strong enough to carry
them through almost any fight, and we
know, too, that some are not so for
tunately enddwed. Perhaps if the girls
In this woman's time had not been com
pelled to work so hard and could have
given .more time toward mind and body
culture some of our present day girls
might not have been such easy victims.
At any rate, the least we tan do is to
give them a chance to make an honest
living. 6CHOOLMARM.
The Case Against the Mouse.
Clackamas, Or.. April 4. To the-Ed
ltor.of The Journal I love those who
love their fellow men.. Human beings
sometimes are cruel to animals. But
give the animals power, and man soon
would not be able to live. To kill a
little mouse seems like a cruel thing.
But a little mouse might destroy some
great painting, or gnaw some lace gown
that took some hard working woman
half "her life to create. Human beings
are God's creatures. What do we owe
our fellow man? The little mouse
might get kite baby's milk and commit
many mother depredations. Love your
fellow men and women and children.
: VIOLA BURR.
and bitter knowledge triumphed and
made your heart a graveyard? "Ex
perience worketh hope," said -the seer;
buMn you has it worked only dullness,
drabness. ashes? Has the boy, the girl,
all died out-of you? , ;
For the greatest truth of truths is
the resurrection. It is not life, for
life wearies and goes out. It is not
death, for death is grim and silent. It
la resurrection, which means that life
sputtering in the socket shall gleam
lambent again', that hope, sick or mnr.
dared, will once more Uprise, that the
dea,d branches of your life will put forth
new blooms.
Again! ,.
The word ,1s th wine of life. Believ
it. Give yourself up to It. Listen to
the instinct of yoor deepest self re
sponding to the Spring. Again love
shall come, not as before, out more real,
more spirit like. Again the blue bird of
happiness shall eall at . your window.
Again courage Shall run in your blood.
Again success shall hall you.
-v-Nevermorl
. That Is the raven-word of hell. That's
the' blackest. thing your heart can say.
Never say. It. Even vver the grave
never say it. It Is the deepest lie ever
coined. All the universe denies It.
" Listen! There is a low hum every
where. It Is the sound of the green
things growing. It la new life for old.
It is love standing and singing upon
conquered death. 'i
ft is'jwutTectmn:'i'ThrTltarTTaesllOu'
Is not "Do you believe it?" but. "Do you
feel it?". , '.'
.Open your soul, receive the message
of earth, wluch.is the truth of heaven,
that vljfe and love are the Inextinguish
able facts, Though dead, yet shall they
live again. . Think It. Trust it. Say it.
Today, . ,
WHAT IS CONSTITUTIONAL?
From tho Detroit News Tribune.
- It doesn't'matter where jou take up
the debates od ongrcss, whether In the
year 1845, or 1865, or 1885, or 1913,
you will find a wholo phalanx of rep
resentatives and senators Insisting with ,
all their strength that reform measures ;
before the congress are ."unconstitu
tional." . ' . :
H is a little dlKterblng If you cpn
flno your reading to 1913. But if you
go back 50 or 6.0 years you will get the
true perspective, Turning from, the'ar
gumeitts of those years, you may look
upon the country and seo how many
"unconstitutional" matters are so Im
portant a part of qur national prlncl-
pies that to remove them would seem
like ft return to the iark ages. . And
yet you may read volume after volntn
of debates In which the strongest rolq'U
of the then congresses declared upon
their.-solemn belief that the proposals
were not only, '.'tirfcdnsiltutlonal," but
would result in the destruction of the
government. , ' . . ' :,:.,'.'. i; -'
It is a wholesome exercise, this read
ing of old -t(me questions, and )t Is '
heartily recoirilrifended to present day
legislators. What was once avowed with
so much legal reference and such stress
of eloquence appears so strange today'
that sometimes we must ooli at tha
Record to see If tf Were really, uttered '
In modern ' Unies., ' And ,Jt is Just ar .
likely that v10, ,20 or 30 years hence
curious, investigators- will study the
debate of the present day and see in
them the same tendency to atav.lsm that .
marks the earlier pages. - And for us of
today it yields the hope that, as tu
cry of "unconstutiopaiity" never yet
did destroy a leal rerorm,"so now the "
people of, sense of what is right and '
needful will triumph over all the ar
guments of the dry as dust legal lights.' ;
.Three things are noticeable all
through the history of congress. First;
that every proposed reform was de
clared, hot by little men, but by the
highest minds, to be unconstitutional."
Second, that there were always supreme
judges enough to hold temporarily that
view. Third, that the, proposals were
constitutional, were adopted and remain
to this ,day" AC the very worst, we may
hope for the same procedure and event
ual success tpday.
' The net result; of tiiese decades of
argument is this: Whatever is right is
constitutional, Whatever is necessary
is constitutinal. If not in so many legal
phrases, then the people will easily sup
ply the legal phrases. -All down oul
history Jbig, men , have interposed thelf
Influence in the path of progress. Yet
their arguments, and In some cases their
very names, are forgotten, and the re
form they . fought ' is now an integral
part of our system. That is something
for the ,, obstructionists of today to
think about. Truth has a curious way
of making the big obstructionist appear
as a gnet-itr after years, and the weak
knight of reform a giant who Uvea in
the grateful memory of generations.
: It wasn't so many months ago that .
senators and representatives declared ..
that the white slave law was "uncon
stitutional." ' It wasn't sd many years "
ago that congressmen were proving by
constitution and Bible that black slavery
was the salvation of this nation. Today
senators and representatives are not
Wanting who protest with great ve
hemence and with whole pages oi legal
argument that It Is unconstitutional -for
this government to regulate the
traff lo In Intoxicants though , those
same men 'have no question whatever '
about the government's power to regu- -late
the use of opium. What is being
done today will read very strangely a
decade or two hence and many of the
things which are - held to be "uncon
stitutional" In eongress will be seen to
have been constitutional everywhere,
because they were parts of the unwrit
ten though eternal constitution of
Right.
NEWS. FORECAST FOR THE
COMING WEEK
Washington, D. C April 5,--Occupy-ing
first place on the calendar of events
for the week will be the assembling of .
congress in extraordinary session Mon
day. The revision of the tariff is the
purpose of the session, Radical Changes.
in some of' tha existing tariff schedules
are certain, though the multitude and
diversity of the interests affected will .
necessarily mak the task a difficult
one. ' . ..... ..... ....... ;',...
The possibility that the long expected
decisions, in the Minnesota and inter-
mountain rate cases may be handed
down will serve to attract publlo atten- . .
tion to the supreme court of the United
States, when that body reconvenes Mon-
day after a recess of two weeks. .
Michigan's election of minor, state of
ficials on Monday takes on added im
portance since the electors will vote at
the same time on several proposed con
stitutional amendments,, among; them
one giving women the right of suffrage
and another providing for the initiative,
referendunrand recall. Detroltwllt tss
upon a charter amendment involving the
principle of municipal ownership of. pub
lic utilities.
State authorities, farmers, bankers .
and railroad officials are to meet In
conference in Chicago Tuesday to devise
simplified methods for the marketing
and distributing of food products.- The
idea ia in line with the letter addressed
by President Taft to the governors-of
the different states' proposing a farm
credit system as a means for reducing .
the cost of production of food products
and resulting in ultimate relief to tha
consumer from the high cost of living.
Miss Jeesie Woodrow Wilson, daugh
ter of President Wilson, is to be a
speaker at the national convention of
the Young Women's Christian assocla
tion, which will meet In Richmond, Va.,
Wednesday for a session of four days.
- The Chinese assembly will convene
Monday. One of its first duties wiU.be
to proclaim a new president of the re- .
public. Much will depend upon the pro
ceedings of th assembly in regards to
early, recognition of the republic by th
nationa-of the world.'"1'' :. '.. '"".'" J,:-r.
The week will see the real beginning
of -he professional baseball season of
1913. The American 4 and National
leagues will start their championship
races Thursday, The Southern league,
American association and several other
of tha minor Organisations will get
under way the same day. .
Other events of the week will include
the meeting' of the National Drainage
congress In St. Louis, the convention of
the Navy league in Washington, the -cable
chess match between American
and English universities, and the dinner ,
of the Gridiron club, at which president
Woodrow, Wilson is to b the guest of -honor,
Pointed Paragraphs
Watch out; the plum" are about te
drop. . - . .
Honesty never looks better to a man
than when It comes home to roost. ; . ' ;
; .".y.sv.V' A''y".- jjV.viV,
-AKr,.,i. iwn thtitfa of th averaa-e man'i
laughter Is inspired by his own alleged
1 ftft' 4i
hraven are never 'used for the purpose
of lighting agamies. ... . , . .
a
r When you see a woman getting off s ,
atreeicar it's hard to beliae Bh is mors. .
graceful thsn a man.