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1 ; i: 'i THE JOURNAL an JMii -.rrvnr.NT newbpapeb N. JAChSoN. . . I'ubll'hM lJ tvfir tmn uv mornlti ,.,(., t The journ.i nunu- tn r KrmKfMitjr una Jummu Portland. Or. tnlrl t the poKtofflea It Portlaaa. .. , f..r tmiMiirilralvB tbruujft tin Bwila '" rl tiinttl'r. ' 111 1 II i,Kl-Ht)Mi ll5 IHS; Home.- -? All dei.rtmt.t w.ehMl by (hew o""' T-11 th opwntor whiit 1-Tirtmt r lOKKJ.JN " AUVJiKTlSINU KI'HK8KNTA1VK K. njnn.ln A K..,toor Co., Br.rn.wtc Building SIT. rtfth , New lutkj I tin Htillilln. Chlm, Subscription Terma by mu or 10 v i Jn th United 8tt or Mexlcet DAILI . , One year. .... 15.00 I one wmt 107 ttvtjat ' On nu...d..ll M I One eoiif....... DAILY AND BUS DAT ! On r........f7.W I On moath It la Own a good divine that follows in8truotiori: I can easier teach twenty What worn good to b done, mint thnn he olio nf th twenty to follow ' own teaching.. The brain may devise laws for the blood: but A hot temper leaps o er a. cold decree, , , Shakespeare. tl- WHAT'S THE USE7 A SPEAKER at the antl-commls-eiJn government meeting &t the ; Armory Saturday, night clamored for the proposed charter to be voted down so another '; committee could be appointed to i; prepare another charter. - c i What la the use of preparing an ' other charter?. It could not be pre pared in a way to silence the oppo- sltion of the paving companies with ! out sacrificing provisions In the it "pending charter for protecting the people's Interests, , ; 1 - It could not silence the opposition of the public service corporations without sacrificing provisions in the pending " charter by which the peo ple's interests are conserved. . Another charter could not silence the - opposition of . the tax eaters without sacrificing , provisions pro tective of the taxpayers in the pend ing charter. ; ; ;f '.-":':.,', "''',' No charter can be prepared oa which taxpayers and taxeaters can agree. No charter can be prepared ;Mia vuica uuwe uuuuuio uu Iljompanies can harmonize. "No char JJer can be prepared on which, plain people and eublic aervico magnates IWran unite. If,e try to prepare such ; a charter we shall still be waiting ;!tfor commission government In Port ''.Jland when Gabriel 'blows his horn. ;! Cotnmlssion governments, la com :; mission government. . .The : pnding rchartcr Is 'commission government ; as ; distinguished 1 from the ; present 'hecks-and-balances system. V t' , The pending charter, has the big jj .central J principle embodied "In the J charter of Galveston,' ' Dea- Molne". 1; New . Orleans and the other 300 cities that have adopted the com ! mission plan. Its central Idea is I accountability, responsibility 'and 1 publicity as to all his acts by the .official, the short ballot, and com '! pleto simplicity in every govern- ' mental process. All this. Is faith fully preserved In the proposed Port ; land charter, a fact that makes it a ; widely different system to that now l in operation, a system of non-ac-countability for the official, of non l publicity for the ac'W of the official, t of non-responsibility for tho official, and a system of long ballots, com- ' plicated processes and random re it suits. JJ'-rrlf thousand "future" charters Wre ' prepared, they could not bo ; commission government without car laying all the jfeatures of the central ; idea in the proposed charter. If a thousand other charters were pr?- pared, not one would, if it retained i ihe commission idea , differ in the i fJlghtest in other than trivial mat tera from the presen(x;harter. Those who talk about naming another coir mittee to prepare -another charter, ! either do not want commission gov l ernmeut at all, or do not compre i hend what commission government ;.' Many of the gentlemen who pro ?! fess gi-eat concern about civil ee,r- .vice are not: at heart worried about 'I civil service at all, but are disturbed because the paving companies are ',1 disturbed. ; sVMost of the patriots who are agl ! tated about the direct 'primary , under J jthe proposed charter are not con corned at all, about tho direct prf- ; mary but are disturbed because the ? public" service corporations are dl turbed. ;v ' Most of those distressed by the so i called powers of the mayor are not :t worried "about those powers at all, but are'disturbed because those who u live by politics are distressed. CXRE FOK PNEUMONIA I HE public has learned to give credence to " announcements made by the scientists of. the Rockefeller institute, since in' formation has been customarily withheld until the institute author JUes have gained confidence la the results published. Consequently when we read in the New York dispatches , that scrum has been discovered for pneu wonla we take courage in believing mat one or tno most suddenly dau gerous and painful diseases has at last been mastered by human re search. . It Is noticeable that the composi tion of the newly discovered eerum ig being kept a secret, at present, )a.lhia rietisibn also the pub r'.ioorfully acquiesce, In full confi itencft that no commercial or Inter isted motive lies behind lhia veil of 1 (.. crt cy. , . " j 'I i) Investigators of " tho' Rocke- M'cr JsiEtltute prosecute ithcir long 1 continued and delicate work In per fect reliance that no means will be wanting for their success which money can provide, and that, as the old saying goes, their bread and water ia sure. Hence they work on unwearledly and with entire pa tience to their end, having no per sonal aim save the purest ambition of all that of adding another re lief, another cure for human ills. A VICTIM'S COMPLAINT A' N up-state victim writes. The journal requesting that the public bo warned against , agents who sell suburban lots in Portland at prices far beyond their' value. Ho purchased a lot on representa tions of boom literature sent broad cast to all kinds of people." The lit erature contained gilded statements of glittering profits to be made by a purchase ' " : ; Tho purchase was made, apd af terward : an investigation. The in vestigation revealed that the lot was miles distant from thefcttjr and that It had ' been purchased at several times its true value. There is one rule that buyers 6houId adopt. First, they should bear in mind that Oregon has been passing through a period of infla tion and speculation, and that the process has brought on a vast crop of boomers with various plans of getting rich quick and easy by real estate manipulation. They are not: legitimate real es tate agents. There are rtlany realty; firms who are substantial, stable, and dependable. They do. a square business and patrons are perfectly safe in their hands. It Is the cormorants and camp followers of the business that must be, avoided.! They are - harmful to the business and, harmful to Port land., Their game in some instances Is nothing short of a confidence pro- Cess.;:: ' y- H'v' " There Is, however, one rule that will save buyers from'.; being vic timized. , They, should make it a rule never to buy a lot without firBt personally 'inspecting. It.' To buy without such inspection is to take a chance, a chance that has yielded many a victim.' ; ' THE NATION'S RAILROADS T' 0 ascertain the figures of the physical Valuation, of the rail roads of the country is a tre mendous work. The Interstate Commerce commission - has been charged with the duty and is al ready busy on the figures. ... , The mileage is 359,000 miles of which 114,940' miles are In second tracks and sidings. "The capital stock exceeds (8,500, 000,000, and the bonded debt nearly 111,000,000,000. In addition there are over, 1400,000.000 of unfunded debt, over $1,000,000,000 In current accounts, and in sinking and other funds over $230,000,000. In these great totals there is in cluded a vast amount of watered stock, for which, at the time of Issue, there was no visible value. It has been asserted, and In many Instances proved, by the railroads, that so much of, their earnings has been invested, continuously, In per manent betterments that the water has been absorbed and has disap peared. The facts on this score are to be ascertained by the commission. According to' figures filed by the railroads with the commission In their-annuat7teports the corpora tions have these outlays and assets to : showy Cost of - railroads and equipments nearly $16,000,000,000, other investments $4,500,000,000, sundry assets $1,000,000,000 and over $700,000,000 total over $22,- 600,000.000. r-r-r-.-'- To carry the traffic of the United States demands, in rolling stock, lo comotives now in use 65,310, pas senger coaches 40,430, and freight cars 2,354j682. The cost of this investigation will be enormous, the time needed will be counted by years. The difficulty will be to find trained experts in railroad vafuation in number suf ficient for the task, for mere ac countancy Is by no means all thit Is required. Judgment and experi ence are demanded. SUFFRAGETTE STRIKERS HOEVER suggested the hun ger strike for English suf fragettes in - Jail - showed shrewd knowledge of Eng lish human nature, both female and! male. .' " It takes a 'woman to resolve, In modern days, to go down to, or even through, death's doors for the sake of an idea in' which public, not self ish, interest is at stake. The hunger strike calls for de fiance of the most elementary need of human nature. Can one Im agine the male convicts In a peni tentiary punishing., themselves by starving to death in order to com pel the grant of a vote, say for argu ment s sake, for all boys between 20 and 21? If they went hungry all day and then plates of good roast beef and potatoes were set be fore them Is it imaginable they would turn aside and let the food go untasted? Yet the women havo done that and more. . . These women knew that by the hunger strike they would win.. They knew that Engli&h men would carry the forcible feeding Just so far and ture was reached It . would ; ptop. They alBO kew that English men would not doom their womankind to death bj; operation of a sentence of imprisonment!-A Arid, they knew that when the force of : lmprisoti- mcnt had reached its limit nothing lay behind it that could, in England, bo inflicted on them. The best the government could do was to Invent a special ticket of leave for their benefit to lot then! loose when the hunger strike , had done Its worst, to allow them to re cover and then "lock them up again, to begin the found of hunger strike, get sick to death, go free,, be locked up again, and so on ad infinitum. They have succeeded admirably in making the government ridiculous, and they care not a whit that they make themselves ridiculous too. They have invented a new profes sion and a new name, hunger strik ers for they're surely good for nothing else. Are there many of them? . : , ' ' , THE RE.L BENEFICIARIES ONCE more The Journal submits to the Intelligence of the spe cial committee that the money for. the promotion department of the Commercial club should come from big realty owners. ' They are the people who reap tho great profit, There Is only one reason why a Portland lot that was formerly worth but a few hutidred dollars-now brings $200,000. That reason i growth. It is the multi plication of people In the commun ity, and the erection of great build ings In the vicinity. . But for the population of Port land, the Washington Btreet lot that brings several hundred thousand dollars in ihe market, would not be worth $100. 'Before the popula tion arrived, it was not worth $100. If the population should suddenly disappear,, it would not be wortfl $100. v :--'.v -s ' The only beneficiary of . these great increases in value is the lot owner. The tenant 'Is more penal ized than benefited bf the increase. His rent is raised until In soifle in stances he is driven off the street. In other cases he Is forced out of business altogether. In every in stance, he is put to Mb wit's end to make the profits of bis business meet the exorbitant rentals.. He should not be asked to pay the cost of promotion. It is a cost that should be borne by the wealthy owners of valuable realty. They are the real beneficiaries and the? ought to bear the expense of the publicity; '" . WOJLLN'S VOTE A FAVORITE anti-suffrage ar gument was that by entrance Into politics women ould lose their influence on men ami therefore on legislation. It was said that influence, not power, was their real stronghold. v It was answered that, contrari wise, the instincts of women would bind them into common action for the Welfare of the child, the pro tection of the home, for public ed ucation, for common health, for con structive rather , than punitive leg islation. Colorado women 'are" fair exam ples. Ellis Meredith cites various instances of their common action, when party designations have been absolutely ignored. An attempt was made, she says, to create a politi cal board to remove control of the state bureau of child and animal protection from , the non-political Colorado Humane society. Every federated Woman's club in the state besieged senators and rrcpresenta tlves -to vote against the bill. - The women vice-chairmen of the Demo cratic and Republican state central committees went together to mem bers "dr. the legislature to protest. Women of all parties Bought the same things. For them they worked in harmony. They wanted a pure ! ... ' food law, and got it. They desired civil service reform, and got it ap plied to officers of all state insti tutions. Colorado men understand that Jn opposing Women's demands they oppose all women, and that with. the women goes tho independ ent vote of the state. The general protest of women voters of all parties and nil over the United State's against the re moval of Miss Julia Lathrop from the headship of the children's bu reau Is the most recent instance. . So it will be. When' the womon unite in pursuit of any purpose w;lthin the lines of their natural province men will hesitate greatly before opposing them. The mascu line conscience presumes"" that In such' i matters the instinct " of ' the women works rightly to good ends. Napoleon, w hf r said that ' "an army fights 6u . its belly," tnust 6neer in his grave-over the parisomy of the German government. The German private gets only .$ 1,5(1 -per month", out of which he must partly feed himself, or starve. No com plaint 'on this" Bide of the pond, however. Tho United States will continue to welcome the young Ger man immigrant. 1 A' splendid outing is planned for the forestry students of the O. A. C, who will cruise and estimate 2&00 acres of timber. The college grows in practical usefulness and its stu dents are well. trained for their Ufe work when they leave it,s halls. -, An Oregonian Washington news dispatch Fays that, because he is an advocate of smaller navies and in ternational peace,, Secretary Bryan ia greatly Embarrassed by the belliger- nt ' at titudft 4f .Japatti ovoy 4.h Cal fornia land laws. Fudge! The sudden passing of A. V, Ilofer at Salem yesterday, iss a shock to his many friends throughout the Willamette valley. As secretary, of the Salem Board of Trade, as asso ciate with hi3 brother, Colonel H. Ilofer in the publication of the Cap ital Journal, and later as one of the figures in the Salem campaign for a greater . endowment for Willamette unlverHity, he contributed a full man's part for the upbuild of tho state. t- Mildly critical, and at times grac ious, toward the new administration, the Oregonian has begun to "see red." Wilson wields a club, he has become a despot, weare approach ing the. dreadful days of "one man rule," etc , The OregonfaV is as nimble as a, flea, but after its hop-sklp-and-iump will .always scamper back to the partisan pillow. Baltimore has a bank 'on wheels which collects deposits at the doors or its patrons. :, Commonplace. What's really wanted is some kind of a device to generate deposits. ' Spokane ia after the speed mani acs. Shake, sensible sister. Carry the torch of sanity, and perhaps Portland may also see the light. . Letters From the'PeopIe (Coojmanleatlona wot to The Journal for publication la tab ntptrtnwnt bould be writ ten -on only on tide of th paper, bould o escort! SOO wordf In length nod moot be o compaclod br th annie and addita of the Mndar. It the writer doe not deelro to here the nam pubUahed, be abouM ao atato.) , The Preferential System. ' Portland, April 19. To the Editor of The Journal Recently Gay Lombard, while addressing; the Rossmere-Hancock Street Improvement league, defended the preferential system of voting and stated that It would save tho cost Of the pri mary election. Ire then was speaking to the writer In favor of commission form of, government. Of late 3 he ba been endeavoring to make a mare'a nst of that which he formerly favored, The preferential system of voting was a feature In the long charter submitted last .November to the voters and It has been under consideration by our charter board aver since. It may be a fact, but I never heard of Mr. Lombard's appear ing before that board and asking that the preferential system of voting con tained In the long charter be eliminated from the charter. Mr. Lombard has put himself before the public as an au- TjUhority on commission government. If lleknew of vicious features being con sidered ne was remiss in ms uuiy. iu say the. lea at, In not pointing the same out when the charter was in a forma tive state. At this lata date, after the charter has -been printed and tannot be changed, It 111 behooves any honest sup porter of commission government to as tail U because of features the same charter contained last November and to which Tie made no protest earlier in the game. I cannot but think Mr. Lombard has been ill advised by his political as sociates, or that his discernment is not keen if it has taken him all thla time to find out his fancied ills of prefer ential voting. But is It ah 111? It does "away with the cost of a primary' election about $1 5.000. It doea not enable a minority party choice to ride Into office on the party ticket through that minority choice, as Is mostly the fact now. That only office seekers fight It, Mr. Lom bard haa made much of a possible minority government under the prefer ential vote, but he falls to stale that we are governed now, under ' the primary system, mostly by a minority choice. Remember, that preferential voting does away with party lines. Each can didate must stand on his ability to dis cern' right from wrong, and on the rec ord he has made. It is not possible, as under the primary party system, to elect a minority choice, undesirable man through the party name and regularity whip, as happens at every election under the party primary system. Good gov ernment can never be had In, any city until party lines are eliminated, and that is what the preferential system of voting accomplishes. So, vote for the new charter and Its preferential system' of government Don't let' old . party bosses fool you, for their own Interests, to retain the old party primary system. As to the powers of the mayor In the proposed new charter, they are the same as those of the long charter voted on last November. To get results . an esecutlve must have Power. With the preferential y stem of voting a good man can -be elected mayor,- as he -must be the majority choice, and he cannot ride into power through the party name and whip, as under our present party Primary .eystem..- 8o, vote for the new li ii rl Jr - 1 tma v tint- Km v.. a, i. charter. It may not be perfect, but Its main featutres are as far above the old system as heaven Is above the tlL. And It caji be amended If need Jbe. - J. WALTER SKABERG. The English Suffragette. Salem, Or., April 19. -To the''-Editor of The Journal There has been unfa vorable comment In The Journal con cerning the militant suffragettes of Eng land, seemingly we forget that every great movement has its audaolous ad vocates. Before the Civil war our whole country was full of lawlessness. The yuakera were " running off the nesiro slaves by the wholesale. Levi Coffin told the writer that over 3309 passed through his hands on the underground railed to freedom. It was against the law, ot ceurbu. Then there was old John Brown, whose ''body lies a-inould- trtngr "til ..'the grave, but his soul goes marching . on.? Ha l now one of our national heroes. - A few years ago a vice president of the United States went to his old home to do honors. -Thea.lt should bo remembered that old John Bull is the world's great rob ber. - and without heart or conscience. Whether It be robbing the Boers of their diamond mines, forcing opium on, China, ruling India by a military despotism while making, the Indians pay for it. it all shows he is not the kind that Is moved by 'weet reasonableness." , - ,rne militant sunrageues are me tuickening thorn in the side of the hardened old despot. Before they be KHrf operations even Lloyd-George was asleep. Let us do -Justice to women wh3 are willing to sacrifice all comfort for a eau&e. L.. V. KATLIFF. Red Flag in the Window Portland, Or.. April 17. To the Editor ot The Journal An cast side merchant has a red flag flying in his window. Why does not President Wilson call out the national guard, : the navy and tho army of Job hunters and annihilate this awful thing before the foundations or our government are overthrown and this union becomes a discard on tne scrap heap of nations? Is Governor West sleeping, that he doea not order out the state militia,' the forest rangers and the boy scouts to march in solid phalanx upon this fed flag and tear It from Us staff? Shall -Oregon be named as a state that" permjts the flaunting of the emblem of universal brothernooaT rer- has he -not ecn does, he not know that Liberty is reeling puvlwr pedestal fltii! that Civilization in tottring to its fall, while the red flag files in Pori im.il? lo"es not the Q. A. ,R. know that if the world adopts the red flag i.f unrversal brotherhood, there will be no ore war? Have they forgotten that im PERTINENT COMMENT 6MALL CHANGE The best way to swat the fly is to prevent her birth. . Foor teaches and pupils; no Vacation throughout ihe baseball caun. The wool growers think the sheep is being made the goat b the Democrat. This time Mr. Charles R. Crane ex pectanot to be called back before he gets there. Portland Is growing very fast,, but cant grow as fast as taxes, under the present system, ; Noither will there ever be ft tariff pill .that will suit everybody, nor, per haps", a majority. . , Perhaps tho protest of other countries beside Japan will cause the California legislators to pause. ' ...;'." . Weather Bureau Chief Moore haa been discharged but not for guessing the weather, Wrong half the time, ' ' (' ,;. Anybody could hava predicted it; no sooner In one cross-town carllne as sured than another one Is called for., Is H possible that Jack , Johnson is comparatively behaving- himself, that he hasn't been mentioned for several daya? Though only vice president, Mr. Mar shall is talking some, and saying some very good things, worthy especially of consideration by big corporations , and very rich men. , . ' , .- - . ; V '" . ' : I. . '' ' Everybody knows that Portland's sys tem of government Is bad exceedingly wasteful for one thing; but no oppon ent of the commission charter proposes anything better. NEW YORK ", , . By Herbert Corey. ; John Craig Hammond, who steered publicity for Wilson during the cam paign, has just returned from the flood district of the west Mr. Hammond Is about as heavy set as a hairpin. Any time that he can get properly startled he caU sink the Intercollegiate sprint ing record on a route of grpund. . "One .day,"': avers Mr. Hammond, I walked through a street in Columbus, Ohio. Ahead of me I spied a man hob uilng painfully on two crutches. Sud denly I heard the cry: 'Dam'g ... busted!1: .. Run : for . your lives!' " ; "So 1 ran for-my life. On ahead I could see the cripple getting over the ground like a giant swing. By and by I caught up to him. In natural compassion I sought to aid him, but he shook me off. , . . ' " 'You carry these crutches. Mister, a!d the unfortunate, 'and give a crip ple a chance.'" ' Mr. .Hammond further alleges that It was almost an hour later before he finally succeeded In running down the cripple in the uplands of Columbus and returning his crutches. Gouveneur Morris recently published an imaginative bit of New York fiction, in which the leading figure commanded an army of bandits. Each bandit main tained himself In his own way by driving a taxicab, or waiting on table, or shoi'tchanglng college students on sociological expeditions, or what-not but when the signal came all were pre pared to join the army. 'We will explode a bomb In every publlo building In New York on the stroke of 12," said the leader. "While the police and firemen are thus engaged, we will sack the banks and jewelry stores. In three hours we can loot New York." - -" That's Very pretty Imagining, of course. Here s what a. high police om cer said the other day: "In that district of Harlem lying be tween One Hundreth and One Hundred and. Twenty-sixth street, and running east from Fifth avenue to the river, half a dozen distinct feuds between as many distinct bands of Camorra are now In progress. These bands are re-? sponsible for the 60 bombs that havtj been exploded for1 blackmailing pur poses in the first 100 days of 1913, and for the Innumerable other bombs that have not exploded, or have not been reported by the police. . Within the past two years fully 150 feud murders have been commuted 1n that district. Not one satisfactory witness has been found In the 150 cases. .It U perfectly under stood that blood will be had for blood. No oneat least, no policeman knows how . many Italian : women have been stolen Into (slavery, or how many bam binos kidnaped, or how much money has been extorted by blackmail in tnat district In that period. 'I do not pretend to know how many banditti are operating mere, nut sup nose that the ' half dozen bands of thieves and blackmailers who are now flehtinz each other -were to unite to Plunder the city? Itemembrr that they do-not value llf. and that they operate under a crude but effective discipline. Suppose that a great leader should be their chief duty is to protect the na tional flag?: Let them look to their laurels, or too late they may learn' that a new idea hag been born and that one flat' flies over the entire world the red flag of universal peace. And wheroi -on-where,' are the militia of JcHUB'and the Religious Men s For ward Movement the twin brothf-rs tif th a militant branch of the organization which claims for Us chief the Prince of Peace? They should be ainKlng, "On ward, Christian Soldiers, Marching as to War "With -the -God of Battles-Goln On Before." The God of battles will find his occupation gone when the red flag of peace enfolds the world. :,, ' - And where is the proteatant branch of ithe Catholic church, which, on May 29 or thereabouts is to take another step towards the outstretched armaf the mother church? Are its members so busy that they will do nothing to save us from the corrupting Influence of this emblem ot a world's peace? Why are they not shouting that the purity Of the home Is being desecrated, that tho doors of civilization have been un hinged, that unless the red flag4je torn down Christianity will become a hissing and a byword among .the heathen they hope to save. , "-; Rouse, ye citizens!1 Waken, yet sleep ers! Blow the bugle! Beat the drum! Crv aloud and spare not, or the firvt thing anybody knows aoine upterrlfUd west side merchant will bo-whistling tho Maraelllaise. ' .. I am so scared! Brethren, ain t it awful? JOHN FARAD Y, Sr., The Conditions of Purity. . Portland, Or., April 19-To the Editor of The Journal The timely editorial on Pestilential Woman" . in Thursday night's Journal is, In my opinion, well meant, but too mild. I was stirred to great Indignation recently over tha acts of the hypocritical prudes who objected tn th. nrfictlv decent "New Life Beer" hriUise. 1 had reail, Juki pi--nuuoijf iu that brilliant exhibition of false modes ty and geody-goodineas, about the Ohio Bolon who had Introduced ft bill prohib iting women from wearing dresses cut lower, than two and a half inches below the chin, and I wan. .congratulating my- sclf that such .things- didn't happen Jn AND NEWS IN BRIEF OHEGOX SIDELIGHTS The hotel at Elk Creek, .Clatsop coun ty that whs iuiniPil reiwntly, i to be replaced. with one that will cost $10,000. The Curry county court lias appointed Fra.nk CniiKliell county treaaurer to am;. oed hla father, a pioneer, who died recently.- . : A branch of the Oregon Retail Mer chants' BBHociatUm has been orKanlzod at VVoodburn, with a charter member ship of 13. .... . a o Hitching racks nnd feeding, grounds for animals will henceforth be pro vided by the city council at Pendleton for the convenience of farmers resort ing to that city for trade. The county court of Klamath county has forwarded to Mr. Carnegrle the evi dence necesaary to show that provision hus been made for maintaining the ex pected 120,000 Carnegie library. . During Its '30 days of existence the Eugene Coffee club has found Jobs for 148 men and 11 women, and has pro vided for working people a free reading room and good food at low prices. . .; ' v.-,. o : O '. ;. . :: ..- Banker Schmltt of Albany has estab lished a prize of $25 to be awarded an nually to that pupil in the Albany schools who makes the best showing in a "rarieral Information" teat prescribed by the donor, . . - i . . ' a 1 :i " - Cottage Grove' Sentinel: The largest shipment of poles ever to leave this station will be-made when the Burk? holder-Wooda company makes shipment of an order received this week from California. The order is for 40 double loads. 80 cars being required in handling the shipment. The poles are to be 130 to 140 feet In longth, thus taking two cars for each load DAY BY DAY found a gonlua of war and then guess at what might be" the result." , The flshlnir season has fairly opened along Long Island, -and each evening gentlemen covered with scales and ex uding an atmosphere of pinch bottle Scotch and complete content may be seen traveling homeward In ,the sub way. Because they carry baskets and rods and a certain out-of-door, defiance they are given a, wide berth -by the slaves of the tube. The true born clerk cannot understand wherein is the hap piness of getting very dirty abd grubby and wet and odorous and generally un comfortable, Just to, catch '40 cents' worth of fish. - - - ' ' ' One of the scaly brotherhood returned from The Raunt with a story th other day. He left Instructions with his boatman to call him at S o'clock In the morning. Long before it waa light he beard a hammering at the door, "That you. John?" he called sleepily. The German man of all work at the lit tle hostelry answered. - ' . "Hoo." said he. "John an hour ago iss already half an hour up downstairs yet" -.: Walter Hlnes Page, the newly named ambassador to the oourt of 8t James', Uvea at Garden City. U I. .Tears ago Garden City waa founded by A, T. Stewart, the' great merchant ; Mr. Stewart hoped to make It a center of religiously Inclined persons. To that end the first building erected was a great cathedral. "Then," aald Mr, Pages rnena, -Mr. Stewart had built 12 big, hip roofed, high cellinged, wide floored, ugly, old faahloned houses. No houses could be more comfortable, provided their occu pants do not unduly worship beauty. Garden City promptly named these the Twelve Apostles. Then Mr. Stewart built 12S ot:.er houses on a lesser plan. Thev are known as the Minor Prophets." Mr. Page lives In one of. the Twelve A pott ties. "His friends used to know It as St. James," said the informer. "But last winter the furnace blew out, the pipes were frozen and the-roof sprung a leak. Whereupon it was rechristened Judas Iscarlot" , - M. Jacques Worth, the man dress maker of Paris, has been entertaining tha ladies of New "York by his -disquisitions upon dress. M. Worth holds that the slash to the knee 1 not artis tic, that the Old balldon' skirt and tho Ick-o' -mutton sleeve will never return, and many other things of interest to those they Interest,- Between timesMr. Worth is at times quite candid. .. 'That" said an acquaintance. Indi cating a young woman passing, "is a beautiful costume." - - "La. la." said Mr. Worth. "The drress ee beautiful, trrue. But eet eoa the lady who wears eet that makes eet so. Anyone can design beautiful cos tumes for ladles that are young and divinely slim. Ah, eet ees ?o grreat a pleas-urex to do so." Then M. Jacques Worth struck his forehead. - - - 'I2et es the young, slim ladiees that make the grreat name of the designer," said he, with pathos., "Then alas the elder ladies that are no longer elim de mand that he make them , beautiful, too. : '-- . the west, when- my feelings were jolted by the "beer sign" episode, and follow Ing that, the announcement that some dear souls were subjected to the horrible spectacle of Y. M. C. A. boys coursing the Ktreets In running costume. Ladiesi! It you never see. nor have ever seen any worse night than the cleau-cut limbs of some young athlete, you are indeed fortunate, for if you will look in thn window of -any art Stores you will find things which are much closer In nature than either the beer signs or the Y. M, C. A. boys, and iu tha win dow oi' most postcard sliopa things are thrust under your notice which are.lu finitely more obscene. Tho California bill prohibiting the showing of pictures which depict glrla whose skirta ar blowing in the wind showfe- great intelligence and breadth ot mind hnd should gain for Its author the notoriety, he. undoubtedly seeks. To the gentleman from Ohio who sees nothing but evil in tho beautiful contour of a woman s neck, to his friend in call fornia who cannot gaze upon the ac cldental blowing aside of a girl's skirt without feeding (or thinking) evil, and to the prudes of our city who have seen fit to cendemn tnings wnicn are piame Icbb while passing over things which are execrable,' I would say: "To the nure all things are puro," etc., and sug' gett that they occupy their time cleans ing tieir own- minus msicaa oi oe smirchlng thcie of others. C. F. B. A Lonely Boy's Appeal. Scappoose. Or., April 19: To the Kdl tor of The Journal I am a poor, lonely littla country boy, and, in fact, most of ua are lonely down here We have so many boys here that we can't even get a girl to take to church, and at our dances we have" to stand around and sit out nearly all the dances because we haven't enough girls to go round. We are all good dancers, but we can't dance alone, so please oh, please send us down some girls, and I and, In fact all 'off lil,"v!!l T erriPmber yw In oui1 prayers. .;':...- :;.:' ' a. c. A chicken hawk or any large bird floating overhead the coast near the mouth pt the Columbia .Qtfjd be taken bv noma imaginative people for. an ob- serving balloon of some hostile nation. BELGIUM'S PEACEFUL STRIKE ' From the New York Glohe. Belgium, In 'proportion to population, Is the inohit Industrial of nations. It is one huge factory. It. has ft email mid dle . class,, ana the remainder . of its swaVmlng people are Industrious wasc worklng proletarians. Its Institutions, for the moHt part, are democratic, and the country has traveled far along the rood of state Booiulism. But a few political privileges have re mained with the governing clasnes. Be sides the king and a soraewhut make believe aristocracy (tolerated if not pop ular) there Is plural, voting. livery mule citizen over 25 years of ae, married or widower, who has legitimate issue ana pays as much as five francs a year house tax, has an extra vote. An extra vote also goes to landowners and to those who have an Income of at lcuwt 100 francs a year from Invested funds. Two extra votes are given to male citi zens who have received a diploma-of higher education, or a certificate of higher secondary instruction, or who -hava filled offices or., who are members of a learned profession. 77o person has more than three votes, and failure to vote is a punishable misdemeanor. The Socialist party (with greater ac- curacy it couldnbe called the Democratic or Progressive party) lias long objected to-tne, way the electoral dice liave been loaded against lt t Their program has; demanded one man. one vote. .But .the landed, the learned,' and the wealthy have, combined against them. It has been impossible for the majority of the Belgian people to secure political con trol over the popular branch of the leg islature. ' ' , ' .' , In olden days, when Intolerable polit ical abuses existed and the rulers denied relief, It was customary to rebel and fitfht for - the reform. Philosophers arose who were able to justify what waa called the right of revolution, But. th reformers of Belgium think there is a better way to secure redress of grievances than to appeal to force. They have 'called a peaceable strike., They ask their fellow workers to stand idle for a few days in the hope that the min istry will be led to reconsider Us de cision to prevent the abolition of plural. voting, u is belfeved that without the effusion of a single drop of blood, or the raising of even a hand In menace, the asked for change can be secured. in Belgium was first raised the ban ner whose Inscription implied that lh people had a right to rule and that pub llo officers were servants and not mas ters. This was in Bruges, when a stout-hearted burgomaster rallied hla fellow burgesses. - It was in Belgium ' that - the burghers f or- the first time dared oppose the feudal knlshts and wmppea mem. it is thus appropriate that Belgium should be the first to try the experiment of using the machinery and the methods of trades unionism to effect political action. Here is a policy antipodal to the so-called syndicalism. witn us aavice to tne worker to abstain from political action, , , Pointed Paragraphs An egotist is a man who thinks he Is better than you are. A platonle lover is usually a autet chap who eaves' his money. When a young man thinks a girl's piano practice Is music that is love. . , There's room at the top, but the ex perienced traveler prefers the lower berth. :; '."!'; .;. "' .''. ',:- .; -.' When a man lives a double life he may have to do two men's work, so what's the use? - -t A married woman thinks she is being neglected unless her husband lets her buy bis socks and ties. : . : ' : y The fickleness of fortune Is generally equal to the faithfulness of misfortune. But the wise man hustles for himself. Where the Church Has Failed. - (From the Christian Herald,) ' It Is a good saying, and -believed by many, that the day is properly divided Into three parts eight hours for toil, eight hours for rest, eight hours for meals, recreation and refreshment. What Is good for one Is good for another, and if that be, as most asume it to be, a good standard, then surety we should strive for It for the laboring man. And precisely here Is the point at which the church has failed the work jngnian. , Instead pf laboring to secure for hi in a higher wage, shorter hours of ' labor, an assured day of rest and recrca tfoiv it has devoted Ua attention rather to providing crumbs for Lazaru.t, lying at the gate. Let us give his children a summer outing, poor man! Let us civ him nun old clothes to keen him warm, poor man! and make a Christmas tree for his children, poor fellowl Let us build a hospital Iu which we may put that boy of his who Is a cripple, or a sauitarlnm to which we may send that girl of his who- has broken down rrom overwork! - Now, all those things are good In. themselves, but the workman has said: "What I need is more than that. Help me to get. shorter hours of labor; help me to get a wage that will let ma buy for myelf those things that I need." And the church has been Inclined to. say: "Ah! but, my man. those are co- iiomlc questions. You must settle those for yourself. We are concerned with the eleenioKynary side, -we . are concerned . with charity. Charity is s beautiful thing. Wo will give you all the charity that.yoti want, but when it comes to the economic question that is put of our; province." " - We drove these men to organize labor unions In order to secure these things. becaiiHO we siooa so rar aioor irom inn whole business. The result has been -tiiat an the labor unions grew uu and grew stronger and took In more and more workmen, they alienated the work man from the church, becoming to him church and lodge, religion and society. A Society for the ; Conservation of t '-,.:. i '.' : : Incomes. - ) The Society for the Connor- . vatlon of Incomes includes. in Us memherHliip the advertisers in THE JOURNAL. Thfte ad- vertixere offer .you assured qualities, reasonable 'prlcei, and enable you to select the place, the time, and the man-. ; ner in which you may purchase to best advantage. , Without this society you would pay more for -; your 4, schooling . in shopping tnan.,. your learning wns'Horth. You ... would buy with your eyM closed to both -price and qual ity. . v -i,.. - - Head the .advert Isrments oT" this society. in TMF5 JOLRiVAL: toilny and every day. 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