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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
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(.. crt cy. , . "
j 'I i) Investigators of " tho' Rocke-
M'cr JsiEtltute prosecute ithcir long
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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 !
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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
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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. , . ' ,
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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. .
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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.
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ity. . v -i,.. - -
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