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...J OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY LVLN1NG, AKUL s l IE JOURNAL AN t-"T'flKMF.NT NBWSPAfKtt K- J At KSON t..;. -a,-.! .ry wwlnit i.Pt ""J1 .r,y Mimlny 0.nlne lit The Jouri.l Bulld- i i T"; A HUNKS - limn 1m : Hm All dfLart DnM rr-he(J l)f ,hPt " ?T K.UKIUN -A0VE1ITIWNO . 5, iMlne . . . . f-1 1 n . Bulldlmr. Chloaeo. SsmwOTtptloa 'IVruit br t0 10 uu' In the UBiUtil 8UI or Meilco: One year.. ..,.,.$5.00 I On month ? 8UNDAY ' 1 . . On rear.,.. ....$2-50 ) One monlb.. ..... DAILY AND 8UNDAT On r... $T 50 I " There are but few proverbial WlnRB that aie not true, for they Bte au rwu num W - self, Which is the mother of all 7 pctences.-'-Cen antes. MR. AT EK'S LETTER Mil. AVER la right, . The revo lution a g a 1 n 8 1: Portland's present system of government is not new. It has heen in progress ever slhco 1907, when Mayor Lane appointed a committee of fifteen- to prepare a commission charter. ..- . ; ; . " Since that time, "every" m a o t while, in office has urged the aban donment of t h e present System. Lane did It "and declared that the city and its people lose $1,000,000 a year as a result of the Inefficiency of the- present eystem.v Mayor Simon tlj4 lUiaad Jiot cnlx Btged a change, but appointed a commission to pre pare a. charters Mayor Rushlight did It, and he has used his office to farther the commission plan by ap lilnting charter'' commissions and ipmmittees. v - There ' could be no higher testi mony of the need of a change than tr.o public attitude of these three irtayors. In their time, no less than slveto. charters have been prepared, most of them by commissions named )- one -or the other of these .may ors. The, seven charters, framed with , great patience and tiresome work, are seven powerful protests against retention of the present sys tem. With any independent citizen, wjhat higher proof could there b3 i'6r the need of a change? -----J After the seven charters have bien prepared during a period tf hU years of constant agitation, what i'$lly for , Mr, Lombard and ; Mrs. 1'uniway to propose the preparation of - another, charter? ' Why. prepare fljioiher, charter .when the pending charter carries the whole of the big principle of commission .government, njid when any other commission charier tbi t could be prepared would present only a trifling dif ference of minor details? The proposed charter is commis sion government, pure and simple It makes officials rigidly accouift- able. It fixes theta in their respon sibility, and gives them a chance to pet public credit If they! do Rood work and forces them to suffer, the consequences if they do bad work. It so places affairs In their hands tliat .the public can find out all about who is to blame for wrong doing and who is entitled- to credit for ood service. - . That Is the essence of commission government.- It. la. the paramount principle In every commission char ter. It Is the exact opposite of the present Portland system In which there are boards, councils, commis sions, committees and other slde Hhows In such numbers that respon sibility is distributed and no official accountable - to - anybody " for any- The attacks on the new charter w attacks on petty details. Many of them are attacks on provisions, like civil service for instance, that have been In -the present charter for years.- The. big principle of the new charter is, not under fire. Nobody dares attack a charter provision for holding,, officials accountable and for bringing government. Into the ; open where all people can know all -.attout it. Ihe whole attack is on peanut provisions t h at can ; be .jrhanged whenever proven undesirable. EJven the constitution of the United States had to be amended. After 121 years,; we are. still amending It. - M e can do the same thing with tlte., new charter..- . .SCTTAlll AND' AFTER w f ITU the capture of gcutarl by the Montenegrins, an nounced today, ' the Turkli army disappears as. a factor .( $ the settlement of results of the vf ;ir. Turkey started w i t h three great fortresses, all held by large irrisons, armed with modern artil lery, well supplied with food stores, fiid each under an experienced and competent general. Jahina , fell to if e Greeks, with over 32,000 Turk h)i tioldlers. Adrianople to the Bul garians, with probably over 40,000 Turks,' although the exact numbers have not yet, been given out., Scu tari was the hardest nut to crack, mainly by reason of its' rocky 'and exposed position ' which forbade' the iisiiat'aitack on.a fortified, city by tiemh, 'and gap, and piine, This lant was portioned out to the Monte negrins, whose, chief equipment was ret kless and desperate bravery. The besiegers' losses were terribly in rvtvipM by tho primitive And" scanty ' ).ot.uur b(7Vke.Tvoriebs "than Y5r mil) Killed, and as many woundet'. fhtlninted to be the losses of i! ..r littio t-oyntry by the siege, ' ii-e ttas the first operation ti'o ;ir, find has ouilasled 11 t ' i" t- The end. has coiuo by the item refusal, of Kins Nicholas and his l'poplo to heed the demand of the six powers that they retire lroni the siege, and leave, the city of Scu tari to become the capital city of a newly 'formed Albania. The- chances are that they will iincl their, prize to be but an apple of. Sodom which will turn to ashes iu the mouth. The powers have gone too Tar, and Ihe necessity .of holding the concert together by paci fying Austria, in getting some make weight for tbe sacrifices of ambition that she has submitted to, is too acute to allow them to withdraw their warships and, leave the ques tion Of future ownership of the city to the conference to be ' shortly called together, The gathering of Bulgarian and Greek armies Into the close neigh borhood of Salonika has an ominous sound. , .,n.?-;..,;:Tr-T ' ? UnleHS ; some : other solution ; con be found than handing Salonika over to either one of the claimants the outlook is dangerous in the ex treme. The conversion of Salonika into a neutral city like the Hanse- atlc towns, Hamburg, Bremen, and Lubeck still seems the .best and most permanent ending of the trou ble between the two allies. A THKKAIM1AUE KCHEMK HY carry Into the courts, tho act for the special referen dum election to be he-Id next November? , The effort by the dentists in that behalf can only be based on some technicality,, .ltwiu bo an attempt to have the courts set aside the leg islative act on ... a -"quibble, - whlck Is becoming a very old and a very tire some process.;- ,- ; Nobody has doubt as-to the mean ing of the legislature iu passing tha measure. Nobody-has doubt as to the right of the , legislature to pro vide for such an election; Notwith standing the extra cost, -there are several sound reasons to be offered in favor of the plan. It is useless for the dentists to plead the presence of the emergency clause as a reason for the court to set the measure aside. That body has already passed on the issue by declaring that the legislature is sole Judge of ' whether and when an emergency, exists. The only end to be served by the proposed 'suit will be one more ex ample of trying to use the courts for legislative or veto purposes. It is a practice of which we have al ready had over 'much In this coun try. The dentists ought to drop their, plan of carrying the proposed election into the courts. There is more thanone virtue in the program of using the referen dum for getting a quick verdict from the people instead of using it for securing a couple of years' delay on legislative acts. 5 AT SACRAMENTO G' OVERNOR JOHNSON andT the Cajtforjtia legislature have be haved admirably.: The invita tion lot cooperation ; between California and - the federal govern ment through Secretary Bryan in fashioning an alien land tenure bill is as patriotic as.lt is prudential, i It is a . splendid , response to the splendid suggestion of President Wilson. The telegrams of the White House to Sacramento have been models of tact and masterpieces of patriotism. Up to the present, the whole In cident presents a delightful phase of broad gauge politics that is highly creditable to the White House-and highly creditable to the governor arid legislature of California. If the episode; can, finally close, on terms aa commendable to Washington and Sacramento it would be a delightful end to a friendly controversy fraught with boundless possibilities in the disagreeable. There is reasm to expect such a denouement. Both " President Wil son and Secretary Bryan give full weight to the doctrine of ..state rights, and : their course at Sacra mento will be charted by"dIplomary and not by coercion. It Is an atti tude lhat has eo far appealed power fully to the Callfornians, and there is no reason to expect that t;wUl not continue, to promote . the; favorable action which tho Washington gov ernment' seeks in preserring our long standing amjtyvwlth Toklo. . parent rrriLs I N THE rooms provided in the courthouse, through the united) efforts of the Oregon Congress of ..Mothers and the Parent-Teach ers . Association - Headquarters are provided wherein a new - fashioned school is opened. Schools and classes there are in plenty where young wrmen and girls are Instructed Jn matters of their personal health, as well as In caring in a general way for the wel fare of the household. The new school Is' to enlighten present or prospective , mothers where knowl edge Js of the first consequence to mother and to offspring. Much has been heard lately of eugenics. In the new Bchool this study Is the natural beginning of instruction. The right of the child to be well born, to start right In tho battle of life.'not to, be handk;apped by defects, inherited from -either father or mother - and especially where such inheritance of defects can be almost cerfal n ly fore't6ld- t his science has claliTieJ ' aTTenTfori never thought of untyl in recent years,' and has'iuany deeply inter ested students. It i even yet in Its infancy.,, ' , - ... Tho next sta4 in eugenics if the cai'Cj jind. Jlio jossiblei'tIicfj) the newly born. The necessary knowl- edge has been, until lately, well nigh confined to tho doctor and the trained ' nurse. The ignorance of mothers in these matters has far too often laden on' the weak shoul ders of their infants burdens from which' they have suffered"terrlbly in after years. THOMAS MILTON GATCH E DUCATION has had no nobler exponent than 'was Dr. Thomas M. Gatch, whose passing at Se attle was announced yester- day, 1 - ' - No educator ever typified . in his own career more completely the spir it and purpose of education. No educator ever rose more completely out of the mere person into an im personal exemplar of the purity . and sublimity or human knowledge, f ?The toucnT'iorPr.' Gatch is in the mental and moral life of thousands in the great .Northwest.,' Men and women int middle life, and far be yond, have' lived their careers under the impress of his. pure personality jn their , youth, book in hand, be led them up the" paths arid through the byways to the height of knbwl-j edge. Like the historic, educators of the past, he mellowed the genlui of his endeavor with the purity of his purpose and laid on the lives of those witlh whom he walked the Im pulso. lor noble ends. -. ' . . ; Miny a man in the Northwest 'to day acknowledges that the test of : his choice between good and bad purppse has been the determining Is sue of what Dr. Gatch would think about it. Manyia -gray i head of either sex in the North westJtreely attributes to this ' eminent educator the awakened -conscience that has led them constantly and steadily on ward an-d upward Inject vie useful ness - and la mental a-n d moral health.-1 Y:;o--;.; His life was the pure flow "of the crystal atrea m. It was without taint, without scar, without even a shadow. It was a gloriouB period of plodding toil among books with the youth of the land, leading them, guiding them, helping them, uplift ing them. ' It is said that 200 of the gradu ates of tlje Oregon Agricultural col lege are men arid women whose par ents were former pupils of Dr. Gatch. The fathers and mothers who, In their youth, were tinder his tutelage, sent their, sons and daugh ,ters to pass under the same influ ence. There could be' no more splendid testimonial to the life and work of any man than the act of these old students In committing th-5 education of their children to their former instructor and guide "A great multitude, made kin by a common thought . will bow low in tribute to the distinguished dead. The best argument for an eternal future is the simple Uife record of such a man '. A modern Rip Van Winkle awakened from a sleep of twenty years, would have had a fussy time Tuesday in Portland in dodging au tomobiles after the Broadway bridge parade. One may mentally picture his wonder at that glorious covey of screeching buzz wagons. Poor old; Rip would have gone back to the hills for more "schnapps" and an other nap. , Dr. Robert Mr Green of Harvard declai'es that the surgeon of the fu ture wilt rivet wounds instead of sewing them; Immense possibilities here. Perhaps we poor mortals may in time be enabled to soothe our rebellious stomachs with a neatly riveted copper lining, and eat, drink and be merry with no further fear of the "morning after." The German student who lost hit; nose in a duel, and carried it in his mouth to the surgeon for suc cessful readjustment, exhibited rare caution. Suppose he had stumbled and swallowed his nose? It could never have become reconciled to the sauer kraut, beer and limburger in terior of a German stomach. To acquire a home anywhere shows commendable thrift. And to acquire one in Oregon' shows tho best of good Judgment. Life in an Oregon home means freedom from all of the climatic' evils that harass our unfortunate eastea-n cousins.' - Eve "Cleopatra Helen - of Troy; Lifcretia Borgia and a host of other beautiful women -have brought strong men to grief. Had he prof ited by the, lessons bf history, Lord Winston Churchill would still be in possession of his naval secrets and his peace of mind. A Polk county rancher is reported to plant 16 acres of potatoes daily with a power machine and a single man. Why not use a married man, and double the output? "Silent contempt la responsible for many an unblackened eye," says the Atlanta Journal. Yes; and un spoken love for a happy. bachelor. It's a wonder modern woman doesn't get the D. T.'s her skirts are such a "tight' fit." All is not lost ' until the under taker screws down the UJ. If you've wasted half yoqr life, try to con serve the remainder. ' The Chinese tongs seem to hav a Doay-scibsors grip on -the ban Francisco police. ' ' , , A Texarkana court U said to have sentenced two littla negi'o hoys to tbe rock-pile, for making a nlckle bet. PQuhtleHB the presiding judge himself would s-it in a "quieV--gam of draw" without feeling that the majesty of the law had been be smirched. The small-minded shyster in a large judicial office reminds one of a pea In a gourd. Letters From. the People (Commonleatloni tent to Thn Jonrntt fof publication In thta rteprtBieDi boutd b writ ten on only due tide of tb paper, abould not exceed 3(K word! In lenth nod niut l eompanled br tba nam and addreaa of tbt lender. If the writer dort not denim to Bate tbe aama oubUahed, be abould no atate. " In Defense of Japanese. Portland, April 23. To the Editor of The Journal As one who has had Blight experiences as an employer of tht Japane,Be, who has associated with theBe peopla in their native country, and Mho has met them In various parts of tho world, I wish to reply tt6-the unfair and prejudiced statements of Dr. C, E. Clins made before tbe Methodist Ministers' as sociation, as reported in Monday's Jour-' nal. When Dr. Cline Bays, "There i no room in thjs country for the Asiatic there Is no use for him,'' It Is ussumed t-hat he ln'ores the Japanene 'inetchants, the scholars and jrofesslonal men that he overiooKS these atieiuinni penems from the Japanese, and refers to the ever popular lubor agitation. Had he snent an entire day Jn the em ployment office, districts of Portland, endeavoring to secure men for ranch work at Wa-of $2 per day with board, and had been unable to hire even one laborer from amons; 100 idle men, He would not be so sure that "there is no room for tbe Asiatic." "The Asiatic rannot help the Anglo- Saxon." he continues. Certainly not, doctor, if w maintain toward them th attitude of "won t be helped. ;. But were the doctor more familiar with the ac complishments of the people he ma- llrns, h might express himseir airrer ently. For the Japanese are not ashamed of their record. Their art treasures are the admiration of the world. Their his. tory-furnishes even Ttnore striking ex amples of patriotism and sacrifice than does ous. They have their own litera ture ana their own mythology, richer and more extensive than that of the Creeks or Romans. Possibly Dr. Cline does not know that every high school boy In Japan today must learn the Eng lish language, and frequently German and Chinese In addition to the Japanese language; possibly he la, not aware that the Imperial university at Toklo la one of the leading educational institutions of the world. He forgets that at the' tlmo Marconi applied for wireless telegraph patents he was refused because the Japanese already had Improved the sys- tejn; and that at the time or. the Ban Francisco disaster our government sent to Japan for an earthquake expert It Is also true that the discovery of the wonderful blood purifier known as 606, for which the German people popularly receive all credit, was accomplished by a. German and Japanese scientist Work ing together. These are the people who Dr. Cline says "cannot help the Anglo Saxon." - It he had associated wtth the Japanese in their native country, and experienced the kindness which Is accorded tho American visitor ! Japan, he might not bej soirabiU.. . Almost Invariably the Japanese are friendly to Americans. They refer to the United States and England as their two greatest bene factors. Talk of war between the United States and Japan is unheard of among them; it exists in this country as a result of agitutWm fostered by selfish and unworthy interests. "What is the reason," I have beer, asked, repeatedly by Japanese in for eign jrountries, "that ' our. countrymen are so frequently insulted In the United States?" And these were the only .oc casions when I have felt It necessary to apologise for my people.,. With; fewer agitators like Dr. (Jiine no apology would be needed. CHARLES B. BEERY. New Charter and the Police, Portland, April 23. To the Editor of The Journal. I understand that the em ployes of the city, and especially the po lice department, wage a -regular cam. paign against the adoption of the pro posed new charter, or the commission form of government. I, myself, was ap proached by a sergeant of poice who as serted that civil service would be done away with under the proposed commis sion form of government Since then I have read the proposed charter, end find thai civil service Is to be retained. Now, what is the object that these men should fight the proposed form of commission government-and of these misrepresenta tions? I)o they fear.; that they would have to do their duty? The people in the last election showed that they wanted civil service retained, But civil service should jiot be conduct ed in such a way an to form a refuge for those who are unfit or unwilling to per form their duty. The rules of civil serv ice should be so that these unfits could be whipped out- The very fact that these men, although under civil service, are allowed, or are able without .forfeiting their positions, to wage such . a campaign In politics shows the necessity for stricter rules and their enforcement. If the police de partment would be half as active in per forming its duty as in politics. It surely Mould make a record for itself. In the last two or three years, there have heen a number of the most atrocious crimes committed in and around Portland. Did the police catch any of the criminals No, not that I know of; although they are paid to do this, and not for playing pontics. .; It Is really astonishing that the neo pie of Portland have submitted to the present form of administration as long as mey nave, au mat we taxpayers are required to do Is to pay. pay, pay. After we pny we never know what becomes, of tne money, i never saw an itemized r, port of the city administration at the end of each year. I would like to know if such. a thing is done. ir the proposed commission form of (government simplifies matters, and -ere men urini uiienig ami noids tne oeDfirt ment heads responsible, and accountable for their departments, as It is done in biff business, it surely is? to .be recom mended. If anything goes wrong, then we know whom we can blame for it. J. H, New Charter Is the Tiling. Tort land, April 23. To the Kditor o The Jouf-nal. .Allow me to state a few facts that every taxpayer or good citi, zen should investigate in regard to the commission form of government, I all the speeches and lectures no one has given one reason why, we should not adopt the commision form., Tt charter Is not perfect,' neither' can a. thousand men make one perfect, because they and the people do not Just yet know what Is needed. In a year r fo we will know what we want and not before, AH its faults nd defects can be eliminated at the next election. Even if the new charter was not -half so good as It Is, It Is ten times better than the rotten char ter we are now governed under. It doesn't suit anyone, but the grafters, because they can control and run the city nndar tha present charter, and rob t TTlU JIPOplB'Wf TrlH!tfHS HS' lllf J1 flAVfi llp-p-ft doing for years. They have been get ting something for nothing;-.-. But. under tho new. charter they will have to pay for all. 'they get, Under the present charter only . two of ficlals are under bonds. ' There are 4 of them. They all do uh. lhy lik, and all those tinder thqinda tlio jiaiiKyKu una is 4vpon- PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE What's boooine Of Cipriano Castro lately? , : Hi, "there! Get that garden growing now. right away. Only aiiReltt can construct a satisfac tory city charter and tht-y never try. .... . .-. It is a, lm id crnd world; some of us can't go to the ball game every day, .. Before- any European nation or Japan goes to war it must get the consent of its owners the bankers. - The supply of women with some money and Jewelry, whom oily tongued men can fool and rob, is inexhaustible. The Rhododendron carnival commit tee at Florence will soon iM8uethe pro gram of that unique) and otherwise not able annual event, - , . There seems to tie danger of tills na tional administration actually operating on the terrible theory that the very rich should take care of themselves, without government ald.. V. -.P' v;. ; .,v,V,''-,.jl It Is easy to express a word; a name. a phrase, an epithet, with" the view of thereby covering a. false impression. If Ping the nations or .urope in -going bankrupt and enslaving the people through taxation to maintain great ar mies and navies is the-only way to make us big Americans, then let us be time Americans." . . , , ' NEW YORK "DAY BY DAY By Herbert Corey. ' , l "It wishing won't get the apples." says Irving T. Bush, "shake the tree," That's how he built the Busjh Ter minals in South Brooklyn. The. story Is worth noting for two reasons. First, he made bankers and railroad men and. steamship- -owners- balance -;- the Bush biscuit on reluctant noses. ; Then the Bush Terminals furnish, perhaps, the most instructive example of w er- cantlle cooperation In the country. Else where merchants have combined to cut down the high cost of operation. Bush furnishes them with shipping clerks and dock wallopers and everything else. About all a merchant needs to do is to sell the goods. Bush, he does the rest. Bush began life as a wealthy young man," said a man wno knows mm. xnen John D, Rockefeller discovered that his father was In the oir business.'; So that when hi father died in 1890 he left the 20-year-old boy two blocks of South Brooklyn land that a monkey couldn't walk over, and, an unfinished pier in Brooklyn, and a Job with the Standard Oil company. Young jtwsn mado up his mind right away to relin quish that Job. He knew there Is a lot of money in the oil business, but it seemed to be billed through and. he was stuck at a waypoint. Besides, he planned a great . cooperative manufacturing and warehousing center for tho-mpty lots. It wag a perfectly good idea. He liked it even after he had talked to several bankers.. By and by it became difficult to get near enough -t a banker to shake salt on him. The rapid Interchange of intftigence under our modern system Is a frightful handicap to aspiring young men. ... " . So this is what he did. He sold bonds In. half portions to pen. pie who had so little money that they didn't idolize a dollar and built a ware-bouse.- When the steamship people said, they couldn't find the Bush Terminals be chartered a pair of pup steamboats and set them to baying back and forth between his dock and Jamaica. It cost him $10,000 which was all the money fin the world but the steamship man agers learned the lesson." Then he foui-d the railway bosses Were all xrp-stage. '' Go," said Centurion Bush to a sol dier, "and beat it up to Michigan and buy me a horrible lot of hay. Hay is the bulkiest stuTf there is. And 8snd.lt to me-in 10-ton lots," .; ; Railroad men still shudder when thoy remember the bay plague. The first shipment reached Bush by way of Asht- vllle N. C Every freight agent east of Catfish Centre, Miss., had stabbed a -ien-cil on those lots of hay before trt'-y got to the Terminals. Nowadays railroad men can wake tip out of a sound sleep and tell the midnight burglar where to find. Mr. Bush's Terminal. They're afraid that if they forget he may begin again to haunt them with 10-ton lot of hay. billed via the Chines Wall and the Burlington Arcade, London. It is a mete detail that Buph made a profit out of that Dionaitanda of fodder. 'Now Bush ha 200 manufacturing plants In full operation in bis prope.-ty. and 200 filled warehouses ana seven uig sible to any one. That means, the tax payers are grafted out of not less than $1,000,000 per year. Under the new charter the five commissioners will be under big bonds and subject to recall. They will' be compelled -to be honest; if not, we will recall the whole bunch and the bondsmen will have to make irood. We will have a sane, businesslike government, strictly nonpartisan, the same as all other coiporatlomr are run. The taxpayers will he over $1,000,JO ahead for all the year? that are to come. Most of tho? apposing the new charter hope to defeat it so ithey can continue to get something for nothing. They have already in the last 40 years got not less than $500,000,000 out of the people. '-.. - A. J. SM1THSON. ' Heroes of Every-Day Life. From the " Philadelphia Bulletin. Every person of feeling must have been thrilled by the story of the man who sacrificed bis life yesteijday in or der to save a number of school children from death. A runaway tem wns dash ing along the streets of-West Philadel phia when the. fearless fellow ran in front of the frightened horses and caught the reins. He diverted their course, but was. trampled upon by the animals n, crushed ; to death . under the wheels of 'the wagon. A dispatch from Baltimore which described how a-- trolley car In that city had. gone through the' railings of - a bridge also told of the bravery of some of those who ware In the accident Tbe conductor of the ill fated car swam to the rescue of the imprisoned passengers.- Although he had bn bis winter uniform and ran the risk of losing bis own life, he stopped long enough to break two windows and to assist In .pulling seven victims to safety. Another passenger who was bleeding freely from a deep gash in the head, and whose left arm was disabled, used his Uninjured hand in drawing! several women to a place of safety.- Neither of . these men thought they were doing anything' un usual and would never dream Of being looked upon as beroes.' On the very same day Of the Balti more accident two students 'of a New Hampshire college, who were at home on a vaauon, jumped into, tne icy waters of Green" "bay to the rescued of a farm foreman who had fallen overboard from an overturned skiff. 1 They noted the accident, from the shore and rowed out to where the unfortunate hum was sTFOggTm g-TfTtTi e'flTrrrimthgTrf ff-tO' his assisiance-'pucceeded in saving him just as he was going under the third tlrn. On tstill the- same day, the secretary of (ha navy publicly - commended Ernest Nagy, n seaman on nftaid the North Da kota, for "his nromnt mid irfillunt r-on- duct tn jumping; jVBrboard-4urth9 rescue AND NEWS IN BRIEF OKEGON SIDELIGHTS cafeteria lias' been opened at" Cot tage Grove. Two men own and man age it. ' , The annual plcnle of Umatilla county farmers wJU be held at i'llot Rock on May il. 9 '. Two of the "movie'' "shows at Eugene have dropped from 10 cents admission to 6 cents. :-. Tests, now in progress, of various limestone deposits will , detrmlne whether Gold Hill or some other point is to have a cement plant that is to cost 1600,000, ' V The Statesman calls on the commer cial organizaticiii of Salem to go after the Southern Pacific car shops, - for which Springfield and other towna are so vigorously bidding. ' 'i. - ''"'.' . John Munsinger of Nehalem has returned- from bis old borne in Kansas, where he attended a family reunion in honor of his father on his hundredth blrthdav.- There were present at .the re union 136 descendants of the centena rian, v The -Malheur Mining News, weekly, eight page, half home print, published at Malheur, has reached its second Issue with John Alden Seabury founder. and editor. Mr Seabury claims for : the News an exclusive field 162 miles east and west'and 80 miles north and south. piers, and a 25-mlle freight road ard a two-cent fare carllne, and a block of model tenements; Ho is H years old, reaches tlmberllne at 6 feet, has a slight outcurve at the waist, and parts bis hair In the middle. His one motto has to do with the virtue of perseverance. .. "Know why a flea Is successful?" he asks. "It never leaves a dog." - This is a sort of story you thintc hap pens only In novels. , A large, black-haired, smirking young man offered bis seat to a young woman In the Brooklyn express. He had too much braid on his coat. ' Hia eyes wire too aggressive. Pretty eoon she bounced out of her seat, - "Oh,1' she gasped, -"You beast!" ' . He grinned at her a fat faced, sugary insult 'Pretty soon he whispered some thing. She looked about helplessly. A slender, middle aged man nearby tapped the smlrker on the arm. "Don't do tiat again,", said ' he. "Please." . ' The young man with the braided coat swore. Then he started an old fashioned, round artn awing right from the grass roots.-' When It was half way up, the elder man stepped inside and put a stiff armed Jolt on the other's jaw: The young man was still breathing from the basement when, the subway express reached Flatbush 'avenue. Curious per sons who- rolled back his lids found that his eyes were'ljnrrldly white. : The middle-aged man breathed bitterly on his knuckles.' ' .'"' "Doggone it." said he, "they bruise easily nowadays. He was John F. Mumford. Once he Was the amateur lightweight .champion of the world. Three small things ' of significance were-developed lately. One Holahan. a contractor, complained to the district attorney that since, January 1 goods to the value,, of 15,000 bad been saved from bankruptcy only by the fact that bis clients offered to let him make good on the installment plan for these thefts, "Of course I told the police," said he, tBuil never heard from therh." One Tancredl, proprietor of the "Lit tle Venice" on I6th street, testified that be objected to paying a monthly $75 to the police.', , - r ? 'Nix on th - conversation,".: said tha collector Impatiently. "Every one has to kick in. Why, even tliia little shirt store guy has to come through with a ten-spot every month. He knows what'll happen the day he forgets." . - "At the Princess theatre a one-act play has been presented, of which the two principal' characters are a policeman and a woman of the strcetsrTThe Woman talked about paying the policeman bis "bit," in the original version, . The Princess theatre had trouble while these lines stood. A $6000 steel and glass awning was ordered down. Wherever Hie management turned they ran Into a pester. Then 'the offending i lines were cat out... The Princess , irg.medlately ceased having trouble. Write your own moraL ,., ' of a shipmate who had fallen overboard from a stage over the side on which he was working." A strong "current was running at the time and there is no doubt that Nagy saved hts friend's life by bis Quick and gallant action. t ' .The examples cited are by no' means exceptional and they are certainly not rare. ,. Readers of the newspapers must have noted them time and time again, and the best feature of it all la that they are taken in-such a matter of fact way, We hear a great deal about, the.selflsh nes of human nature, and undoubtedly there are Instances of tfaisthat make us blush for rtnr" kind,' but fortunately they are more than offset by the self-sacrl flees and the bravery of the heroes of evcry-day life. The liand .of Opportunity, From the San -Francisco Post. A writer in the Saturday Evening Post disposes of the theory that the east la more conservative and thriftier than the west because it has more money in savings banks and investments1' in bonds and mortgages,-an idea, he says, that, "harks back to 'the pre-Adamlte theory that money and negotiable se curitles constitute the only really im portant forms of wealth. While two- thirds of the $6,800,000,000 in the sev ings banks belong east Of the AHeghe nles and north of the Potomac, "the westerner puts his spare monev into land, cattle, orchards or manufacturing enterprises at home," and "in this re spect the absence of savings, deposits is a sign oi prosperity This explanation of the relative dis crepancy between eastern and western savings deposits Is probably the correc one, and indicates that , the west has nmny more avenues for Investment and opportunities for money making than can be found in the east, where people bourd small sums because there Is noth ing else to do with the money. In New England, where savings deposits i are largest In proportion to the population, land is poor and dear, , and ; there are few business chances, for small capital. The, west la still the place for the young, the ambitious and the enterpris ing. Nothing is farther from the truth tlisn the idea that ' opportunity went with the placer gold.- The pioneers had only two chances,, mining and merchan dising, while, today, we have a thou- , EpH , Tnft -line population, may,ba,py bad as too little. jCertainly- the east is becoming more and more like the con gested parts of Europe, where only genius or exceptional uck lifts a man out of the ruck. The average man stays where bo wad born, nr perhaps drops a peg. -.California and' us -neigni)onnf 'tatos are llie-land-of ojpLrt unity today. COMMENT ON THE PENDING TARIFF BILL From the Chicago Record. Herald. While there la nothing unexpected hi the notion of the Democratic caucus on the tariff schedules so far dealt with approval of the bill in all its major fen-' tures , having been accepted as a fore gun! conclusion by all Washington ob- " servers the emphatic decision Jn favor of free raw wool Is not without signifi cance. The wool and. sngar provisions have been called "the bloody angle" of tile tariff fight, and the pVesldent him self, in an informal .talk to newspaper men, .admitted that, there were honest -arguments against the total removal of the wool and sugar duties-that were worthy of serious consideration., . However, the president indicated that he' would not change his position, and we now learn from Mr. Underwopd that free wool and free sugar were the only two important suggestions that came from the executive in the process of evolving the bit; now before the party Mr, Wilson is satisfied thnf witl the interests directlv nffecfp 111 M V , continue to complain and threaten the closing of factories, the' people as a whole regard the hill as moderate, fair and reasonable. He apprehends no busi ness disturbance except, as' he said, here and there "for effect" and for a very short time.' . .,.:)-.., . We directed attention the lother dav to the many stramr 'critidnma which ih income tax nrononnla of thn Mil m. provoking e en in, quarters that indorsn it in principle. It Is but Just to state ' that the tariff changes proper are meet ing with surprisingly little adverse crit icism. Even leading' opposition 1 papers find much to praise in the bill and little to challenge. . The -New York Tribune, for example, says that the bill "hews to tbe line of good faith" and' carries out the, promises on Which the : Democrats were placed In nower. It even adds, that the bill reflects tho views, of many who are not Democrat?. Inde pendent and Democratic papers through out the country have- commented very - mvoraoiy on tne measure. Represent-' lives of the steel, mining, plate srl and other Industries have admitted In interviews that they feel no concern " over tbe reductions and rather expect good results from them in the long run. , i!.vtn those who are not as optimistic as the commentators must rejoice that the tarirr bill has aroused so little bit-' terr.ess and la certain of a -fair trial. The effect cf legislation on business Is largely "psychological." - The-- tariff ttnnAilnlAd - 1 1 ........1.4 ercd and honestly criticised by tlutae who see defects in the bill. But sobri-" ety and confidence In the good faith of-' the administration will go far to facili tate . the readjustmenftjnf industry and -business to the new conditions. . From the Omaha World-lleraid. The election In the Thirteenth Mas- ssnchusetta district Ih a lesson that should be considered by all aa an Indi cation that the people are behind Wilson and Intend to support him- and that any man wno opposes ' the common Rpnso policies that he has instituted Will i down in the fight Governor Foss baa been-a Very popular man tn Massachu-.' setts,' but in the heart of tha protection districtof tlie UnlUd States Die people refused to listen to him. There never. was a fiercer fight: made in any dis trict over the tariff question. Wenator Weeks devoted his utmost energies to carry the district. Senator Lodge pub lished -an open letter in which he de clared that many Industrie "would be seriously and In many-cases disastrous. ly affected' by the Democratic tariff.. Senator. Weeks was supposed "to have a strung hold on his old district which kept hbn so many years Ji congresM, but when it came to fiirlitlne the Wilson tariff policies tiie wage workers would. not listen to.. him. . The "ProgressiveH," among whom. Were men of commanding ability and--fervid eloquence, sucl as Charles S.' Bird and Joseph Walker of the utate and-t4everal from outside of the state, among them ex-Governor Stublm,. did all they could, but tbe wago workers of the district stood, not ao much for the candidate running on the Democratic ticket, as for the Wilson policies. Their argument wns; "We have stood for protection for a generation almost sol idly, but we find that in ail of the pro- . tected industries there are lower wages - paid than in the unprotected, tn the textile Industries, In steel, Hn shoes, In' all-of them, there are no such wages" .. i .. . i. - .... . i .. .. u . the niachinists and many others in the unprotected industries receive," From the Taeoma Tribune. - . "President Wilson has Klmply walked through the schedules,: kicking out of his way such rates as did not please . him. There has been no sufficient In formation gathered to make certain hi conclusion, or those of the ways and mean committee, Minneapolis Jour nal.... j--v. ,,,,,., .;:.,,. ,,,,-,,,,,,-. v.-i.,,; That argument is very familiar... It has been used for years by the stand patters whenever there was dHiiger of : a reduction of the schedules. More In formation has been wanted,, and usu ally the high protectionist-1 have tuc-;-ceedod in having a comniiasion appoint- ra a invcijsaie, niui une tcbuii oi ue- laying action for few years. , The fact remains thaall of the data, on the tariff question that has been se cured after years Of study and Investi gation is at th disposal of President Wilson and the leaders Jn congress. : There Is no need of any further com missions or investigations.' '"The4 ap"-,-: pointment of such would mean nothing.' but delay at a time when action la de manded. . ; '. (J A permanent tariff commission:, may he ef great service in tlt -future, -tout-there .la no. occasion now-for any Xii-i ther time killing investigations. .' 4-. i ' Karly Safety Dcvkc. , r, ? k From the New York Sun.- ' Jonah emerged from tbe whale. " ' , !'I shall patent the scheme for a mov-v lng cyclone cellar,'' he declared, - ,t , The Importance of ' -Keeping Posted ;.!; . W'asted Opportunities! ; . "How"'mHpy things we" hsve' proposed -1 do, how many , planned, ytj how we loiter in our.nobleHt Purposes! You mar " be always KMccessful If you d but st out well 'and lnt-yoqi' thoughts &nd practices proceed upoir right method' You have often inad up your mind to buy aomethlnir for the person' or the homo, tint ha v. put off doing so from time 'tu time. Then one day you pick up a. week-old paper and dis cover tome especially worth- . while-offer of- the very, thing ..jou needed, TlUaeni pli'a i I iea tTTeTm ivrTrt- ' ance of keeping posted on when snd how to buy to advantage. 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