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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1313 THE JOURNAL AN 1NPKPENDENT NEWSPAPER, T. JaokHON ,,.l'uhllhf -ry (,.indf OK.n.l"B at Th Journal Build in;. Brn(lwi.y mid Ynmhlll !.. I'urtlnnrt. "f. '"TuTer-d .1 poatofflc at l;f'rtl"nd! for irnmlKloii tbruugU lb nialU aecoua atl.U'HOXKS Main TITS; Horn. A-WM. All dPMrtwntf rrohil t- h- nu .T ih otKTittnr That i1iTrlnint to wain. tlKKItJX AI.VEKTISiNO llEl'BKBBNTATIVJI B-nJ-mln ft K-ntnor Co., UruMwI.k BMaint tZi llfth awim-. New Xofk;.31 . ftnlMIn-. ChlrKO. ' t ' tnhcrltloa Imn by mall or to to edilr In H). Lulled Bute or Uxlco ' ., r,. , DAILY Oo Tr.;.;V3.00 On mooti..; .' . SUNDAY On fear., $2.50 I On monlh .., DAILY ANDgSUNDAT nn r... 17. BO I Onnonlh, ........ .81 It Is hot work -that kills men; it . is worry, Work Is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But wor-' s ry Is rust "upon the blade. It la not movement that destroys the machinery, I, but friction.. Beecher. A CITIZENS' COMMITTEE ANY movement or organization of citizens that.' will;! nmi Jn the election of such officials as Portland ought to have is to he commended; - : ' ' ' But every mhvement doesn't do what Is, expected of, It. Organiza tions often fall of patriotic and beneficial results because seized and misdirected by schemers, ; ; The plan to have a committee of 100 aid in commending officials for selection 'will .be limited in Its use fulness by the .wisdom - or lack of " wl8dom7wUtt"wHIc"iracr,T:: ,. The action of the 'proposed com mittee . can -be such ; as- to "beat -all the candidates It' recommends. H can so perform . as : to furnish the best campaign material In the world for riff-raff, candidates. -. That is often the final outcome,, Politics is a subtle business. A large number of ; gentlemen who think themselves experts in1 human affairs " are stupid on "the point' of what makes and unmakes public sentiment. ; For what they think they know, . such are usually the easy prey of cheap politicians, an J that is why committees of 100 are mostly loaded. -'... At the present time, there Is ser vice that organizations -of citizens can render. They can arouse people to the Importance of taking part.ln the coming election. They can lead the movement for scrutinizing the past records of : candidates. They can Impress upon the people, that only five men are to hereafter gov ern" Portland, and ; that essentially they must be men of manhood stat ure and not two-by-four; politicians. It is aroused sentiment for good government that Is -needed. ' It is the enlistment of all citizens in a campaign fox ridding, government. of the unfits thata the crying need. It is light on the past and on the qualifications of candidates that the public most wants. Put all ' this before the people' In dependable form and, they will do the rest. A committee of, 100 that goes about its business with pru dence and discernment can render high service in this direction. It can place facts before the peo ple that will eliminate undesirables. If it undertakes to play the little father and select a certain ticket, it win botch the whole business. '.. . . The selecting Is the people's busi ness and they are very'Jealous. of the prerogative. ONLY PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATIVE ' MANAHAN of Minnesota says the. Under wood tariff , proposes to , put ''blinders on American ' farm ers ' and hobble skirts on our mill ers." It is a protest by a congress man who herded with the Progres sives and housed with the Repub licans against ' putting Our farmers and millers in competition with other wheat producing countries in the contest to supply Europe. The protest is picturesque, and little more, so far as Canada is con cerned, if the Montreal Sjtar and the Toronto Globe are correctly in formed. These papers, at wlde'varl- . ance when reciprocity was an Issue, are now agreed that a cut In the American duty on wheat will" not . make the fortunes . of . Canadian Iarniers.4tJQllaws that if Canadian wheat raisers are not to benefit by & lower American duty, the wheat growers this side the line will not be Injured. The proposition is axio matic. ' Canadian farmers are told their wheat will not flow this way because the T United States is producing too much surplus these days. America is a large exporter, and "with her new irrigation there are large wheat areas yet untouched. There is prom ise that she will be a large exporter for y many years to come." The time may arrive, when aspir ants to statesmanship will see the advisability of getting down to brass tacks. ' THE AUTO POLICE rrtHERE will be public curiosity I . if not public Interest. Jn the I 100 members of the automobile ; club, who are to be sworn In as special officers to aid in dealing with speed maniacs. ' ' r They are almost the last resort. Jhvr fiiZ.uC it Uiey''fallIg ,the 'de Iiirc. The reckoning may take the form of over drastic legislation. fho' drivers who malce the tr'ou Ut a?o p small minority. , They are liiitMi'j? 1 the streets unsafe. They a public menace.. They are pro- vldlng numerous eases o,f man slaughter. - 1 It is the crazy drivers of this small minority that are bringing odium on automobiling. They are creating sentiment against all auto Ms, sane and insane alike. They are a menace not only to the walk ing public but to sober and prudent autoists. They are smashing up their own as well as other people's machines and breaking their own as well as other people's limbs. They ought to bo saved froiij them selves. , .'.,' The 100 autoists who are to be special officers can render a great public service, if they wilL By re straining the speed ; lunatics, they can be of great value to the public, They can rescue automobtUrig from Impending menace. They can pre vent over drastic legislation. , They . can sober up the speed drunkards that will B?.ve an occa sional human life. : ' , ONE STATESMAN G. CARPENTER, former Port I land detective, is a candidate Jv- tot city commissioner under the. new charter; He wants to bo one of five men who will gov ern Portland. Mr.. Carpenter resigned from the Portland p o 1 i c-e force because charges .were preferred against him. He retiredjunder fire rather than face an investigation, t ; .What' kind of a" man would Mr. Carpenter be for commissioner, of Public Saf ety, ' a position ' In -, which he would have full control and di rection of . the - police" department? Would not a - man - who- resigned under fire be a lollapaloosa as head of the department? TZzzrn?iTr Mr. Carpehter was a" member of the legislature at. the late session. He had .nia friend Jay Upton intro duce a bill appropriating to the- de tective, bureau" of which 'Carpenter Is the head,' the sum of - $1000 of public" money as a reward for 1 the capture of Humphrey brothers. ' It was probably the rawest of all the raw bills ever introduced In the Oregon legislature y It was so raw that even the housJ machine couldn't . stomach it. It was, however, changed slightly in its terms, and .passed. . . When a time came that each member of the house was permitted te-select one house bill for passage in the senate, Carpenter called up his $1000 appropriation, and had it passed. What a splendid conception of legislation for the public "welfare! ! What a noble example of a legisla tor's performance of duty to his constituency! If elected with four others to govern Portland, what would. fb Carpenter's notion of how and to whom to parcel out'the $12,000,000 the commissioners will annually dis burse? ; ' THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK ' THERE Is nothing In the finan cial outlook to occasion real uneasiness, says the Fourth National Bank of New York in its circular letter to customers. The letter of course takes a very con servative view of the situation, with a tariff bill pending, a currency re form bill not yet agreed upon by the leaders, and railroads facing de mands for increased wages and ob jections to increases In freight rates. The letter is to bankers and finan ciers, and for that reason Its con clusions need not be discounted. Better business generally is prom ised as. soon as the new tariff bill passes congress. It is conceded that a thorough going tariff revision must alter the selling basis for many classes of merchandise, causing mer chants and manufacturers" to revise their price lists arid readjust their business. But assurance is given that unsettlement has not gone far, and if the new. tariff law is enacted soon it will not go far.- ; Easier money conditions are prom ised In the fall. The Wall Street situation is said to be well in hand, with no disposition to overtrade oi to pverspeculate. So far as Wall Street is concerned, the letter says there has not been a spring season in recent years when the banks were asked to finance more meager demands from stock market bor rowers than they are today. A remarkable situation in view of the many ante-election predic tions. - SHIFTY LOGICIANS PEOPLE and papers who con stantly prate about saving na tional honor by imposing prac tically prohibitive Panama canal tolls on American coastwise vessels are becoming tiresome. It Is not necessary to ' attribute mo tives; the only thing needed Is the light of a little common sense. "We can, if we choose, declare the United States a pariah among) nations, and give warning that nonjjr or our lmernauonai agreements are to be kept if we Hnd it convenient," says the New York Evening Post. This is nonsense. Senator Root, at the head of . this 1 propaganda, says, "most favored nation" in the Hay-Pauncefote treaty includes the United States. 'Richard Olney, whose brain and conscience will probably weigh up and assay up with "Mr. Root's, says the term means "cus tomers" of the United Stales. Back of the language Is inten tion.' 'English courts make use of Intention ju passing upon acts of Parliament, nullifying unconstitu tional acts by saying it was not the Intention of Parliament tg do thus and- so,:, .. . .. Our own supreme court goes further in legal disputes affecting the entire American people by writ lng words Into the law that law malter3 never Intended should be there. Mr. Root has never ques tloned the supreme court's honor when it wrolo "unreasonable" do fore "restraint of' trade," There you are. This "national honor" outfit Is like the lawyer who argues the constitutionality of a law for one client and its unconstltu tionality for another. Both argu ments'are vapid. A SEKIOIS BUSINESS ft tO WAN should become a candl- date for office under the new I charter unless he , is prepared to submit his record to micro Brnnln InsriApHon. . - ) The acid test itf going to' be ap piled to every candidate. , The probe .will be inserted deep. The publicity will be pitiless. ; , . ',,- We : have changed. Instead of forty, odd officials, only five are to govern Portland. They are to di rect. : They are to control. ' They are to, legislate. The business they are to manage is enormous. It ' disbursed more than $12,00'0,000 Jast year... Its run nlng expenses were nearly $3,000, 000 in 1912. It Is the biggest' cor poration in ' Oregon. Its capital is four times as much as all the de posits In the Portland ' bankB. ; Its collections and disbursements in a single year are almost double the capital of all the Portland banks. Only five men are to handle this huge business. ' Only five men are to legislate for the 250,000 In Port land. . Only; five men are to hold the welfare and progress of this city in theliUfofl.';,;; yj; ;., What- five- "men in the army of candidates now overrunning the city hall' are fit to collect and disburse more than $12,000,000 a year of Portland' ' public money? What is the past of the clamorous gentlemen so anxious to handle all this money? What has each done to warrant his coming before , the ' people with the claim that he Is competent to con trol and direct the biggest business In the state? (. The new charter cannot yield good government with Coxey's army officials. ' Scum officeholders will prevent the best charter from ren dering good service. That is why every candidate must be prepared to submit his record to microscopic Inspection. Portland has too much at stake to consent to be governed by a commission of five incompetents. Portland cannot en trust the disbursement of more than $12,000,000 a year to five men who are failures in their ow.ni private business. Candidates whose records will not bear scrutiny should withdraw. This election is no boy's game. It is a business for serious men. It is a problem for sober judgment. It is an undertaking to fjJi. every; citizen with serious reflection: GERMANY'S SCANDAL GOVERNMENTS that feed patri otism upon war's alarms as a steady diet are apt to have serious trouble at home while avoiding it abroad. Germany's military establishment is Involved in scandal and the muck rakers are making the most of it. Formal charges have been brought in the Reichstag against the Krupps and other manufacturers of war equipment, accusing them of fos tering the war spirit by bribery of French newspapers and Frenchmen on the border. Daring neVspapers are going even farther, seeking by innuendo to cre ate the "impression that' the kaiser and prominent government officials are financial beneficiaries of the Krupp factories. :;:41'r,:i , . The situation was serious enough to demand an investigation by' the secretary of war, resulting In an ex planation, amounting to an apology, that bribery was traced only to un derlings In the Krupp factories. But the charges and apology have put a damper on the German war spirit. Germans resent being made fools of at home or abroad, The Socialists jUre taking advan tage of the dlscrtfeures by urging the government to do its own manufac turing. But sober second thought inclines to the opinion that if cor rupt officials cannot be trusted to buy, they cannot be trusted to man ufacture. ' ' Fine-spun theories of - socialism are not designed to correct corrup tion such ashas been uncovered In the fatherland in the manner sug gested. Direct responsibility of of ficials to the people who foot the bills Is the only solution of the. prob lem, and that is difficult of accom plishment In a monarchy. - Further, war talk is often a de vice for diverting nubile attention from enemies of government at home. America has had her experi ence. The present California situa tion may be in point. Some say there is a widespread belief that Portland's new charter will not work well. Choose the right sort of commissioners and makW" the belief-thlnspread. The " Dalles church women who are out to earn a dollar in an un usual way may furnish inspiration to men who find it difficult to earn a dollar . tn the usual way. South Norwalk, 'Connecticut, has tnade kissing in public a jail of fense, Sdvkissing in South Nor walk, will become a lost art In some families. . i Laura Jean Libbey says that near ly every fellow who flirts with a girl ho does not know is either a pickpocket, a gambler or a married man. Gentlemen, have . you been classified? Tenants near the roof of New York's new flfty'-seven-story office building, built to house 10,000 peo pie, may not have f,ar to go to get to heaven; But think if they should start the other way w'thout taking the elevator, v A " Chicago theatre manager an nounces "remnant" sales, of tickets as a device for reducing the cost of living. The device may work if torn dresses and lacerated feelings are not reckoned In the cost. . A Minneapolis woman writes the Devil's Lake Commercial Club ask ing a Job in the fields. She Is tired of , housework. ; Housewives, beware of this back to the farm propaganda. It's catching. v . "Gold has fled from Mexico. This fact "is printed by way of warning to those who might otherwise be tempted to go there and" get some. Lead . is abundant, however and loose,. .' Scientists pronounce a Rhode Island girl the. most wonderful mind reader of the age.' Novf that's car rying woman's rights a bit too, far. No one can credit the motorcycle maniac with good intentions. Yet, nevertheless, the pathway to purga tory is paved for his ultimate whirl, Talk about hard luck!: Think of the devoted patriots who won nomi nations only to lose them. The " discreet "man - wiir take his overcoat along these bright, spring mornings. . - k Letters From the People (ComnanIctloo . Mat to Tb Innrntl tot publication In thU department (boold b writ, ttn on onlr on aid of tfa paper, ahould not ticced 800 word In length and'mnat b c eompanled br tb nam and ddra of tb tender. If tb writer doe not dealr to bar tb nam paUUa4, ka abould so (tat.) Worse .Than Speed Fiends. Baker, Or., May 6, To the Editor of The Journal Much has been said lately concerning the awful toll of death due to reckless and careless driving- and rid ing of the automobile and the motor. cycle; But what are the combined fa talities or the auto, the motorcycle and other death dealing macMnes, Including the revolver, compared with those due to the greater and more criminal care lessness of the man or woman, boy or girl, who constantly expectorates on the street Or sidewalk, In the back yard, or, worse yet, upon the office floor, and in the home? Why do the People look with such horror upon the few who are run down and fatally Injured or killed by the speed maniac, and sit idly by and see tens of thousands of people ex- i posed from matter expectorated by ig norant, low-bred, dirty human beings? Who knows but what this is the. problem to solve to check the awful spread of consumption? Who can say that the first start of the dread disease is not just this very thing? Who knows but what the deadly germ is already at work in the bodies of many little children who are seen every day playing in our back yards and on the sidewalks and streets? Yet there is no law to ,stpp nor even check the dangerous negligence on the part of these ignorant persons, who take offense If reminded of it. I only wish I had authority to arrest persons caught. In the act of expectorat ing on the streets, or in offices or back yards. I should do as the automobile club members of Portland have done. I should choose a hundred good, clean people to go out and arrest all persons found guilty of the crime, and deal, with them in a manner that they would re member, I would run In more murder ers than you ever saw before. Oh, for a rigid law to force dirty per sons to regard the health of others. It is these things that count in preserving health. Why worry so much about speeders, Impure' milk and water, , and the revolver, and overlook this, the most dangerous, and by far the most serious of all? I say, get to work and stop this practice. Educate and compel Ignorant persons to be decently clean and care ful. MRS. AGNES HOLST. The Expectoration Habit., Portland, May 6. To the Editor of The Journal I should like to put up a prote8t against the "spitting habit," and trust that my letter may create as much comment as did the "poor mouse" article. , I had observed the nauseous appear ance of the sldewa'ks.of mct cities of this "great andgtWous' union. I had hoped that Portlsrnd would prove an exception; but, alas! I have" lived here long enough to discover that It was the flushing of the rains and not the eleanlL ness of the citizens I should say malfe elthsens, for who ever heard of a wom an spitting on"lie sidewalk? If men must spit, let them spit in the street, where all filth belongs. Or, if they must spit where they walk, let them walk in the streets. .-It is my misfortune to pass the com mislon, house dint-let daily on my way to work. The public does not realize the unsanitary way in which our food is handled." Crates of cabbage, bags of potatoes and peas, and boxes of fruit are set out in rows in front of these places of business, scarcely leavvihg room for the pedestrian. The walks here are more filthy than anywhere ele in town, as they fere protected from the rains by a canopy. Consequently these footistutfs are' smeared across the dirt. One day I saw a Inan, whose overalls were a sickening color, drag an ppen crate of radishes for at least ten feet along the sidewalk, and another day I aw a man dump a Back of flour right down on a fresh Juicy spot the size of a dollar and a half. . If we must each eat our "peck of dlrt" before we die, i object to any more be ing added to my peck, for I want to liv to a good old age. Can't we reform the "spitting men," and abolish this nuiwance? . SANITARY ANN. . Anti-Alien Land Laws. . Portland, May . To the Editor of The Journal in The Journal of May 2 M. E. G. and 6, A.- Reade write on jhe subject of the Japanese and the, Cal fornia anti-alien land law. Japan cer tainly has nq rigbtto Interfere with law. making In any part of the United States, but no state has a right to discriminate against anybody when It comes to mak- Trrsldufil 1 Wllflrtfl nJ8 SMItM! '.fill 1(8-1 tomary thougntruiness, plain dealing and unyielding deterrrilnatlon without any resort to the. "big stick" method, and his attitude is exactly right. Any state may, and every slate might to, make It Impossible for any alien to own land. Illinois passed such a law to t rid of I,ord Scully ofIrelandi PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE - . There are -always battles of some kind to be fought. - " ,'' ''','. ' Perhnps nonei of the industries will bo "ruined'' alter all. The crops win grow Just the same, whoever or whatever is elected. ' Is it pAsslblo that most of those Mex icans have iiuieted down at lust? , Governor Johnson seems to think 'lie is "a bigger man than Uncle Sum." The California legislators seem to be lieve pretty strongly in state rights. jt ''.. Now let us give the new style of gov ernment a good, fair, prolonged trial. ' ;:': ' ,, .'' The Democrats In congress are show ing the courage of their convictions, in tariff reduction, at last. , '"(' . ' i Man supported two wives 'and seven children in two homes -on 112 a week. He mut be an economic genius fit the first order. - - ..-.. ... . . .... .1 . . . j v i. b i n n j a and altogether right,, but he Is evidently a mun tt firm uifiinu ami n twerved from what he believes to bo hi "It's tariff revolution," remarks the mornini paper. Well, the vices and wrongs of extreme protection were enough to cause a "revolution." ,.1 'If eni'firnmnt la raallv Imnnrltnt as many thlnk.l then it Is lamentable inai so smau a proportion or legal vot era exercise the right of suffrage. , NEW YORK By Herbert Corey. Socialism Is being given Its fflrst real test at Schenectday by Socialists. They are In complete control of the city ad ministration. ThoBe Socialist employes of the city who draw wages of $2.50 a day or less are earnestly In favor pf all. Socialistic, employes putting their wages Into a common pot to be drawn therefrom, share and share alike. Those Socialist employes who get salaries bit terly resent this proposition. "It's hardest on Mayor Lunn," said a man who knows the situation. "He gets the biggest salary $3600 a year. If he doesn't share that salary e will not be renominated. If ho does share it what's the use?" Of course, you'll remember the story Of the Irfsh Socialists. Pat .was de fining Socialism to Casey. "It means, said he, 'that I take wan of your two horses, and . wan of your cows and half your chickens.". "How about goats?" asked casey,, "It has nothin' to do with goats," said Pat. "You see I have a goat." Mrs. Kate Thimble Wool sey, one of the delegates named by Governor Sui ter on the American commission to re port upon agricultural conditions In Eu rope, has balked. She would not sail with the other commissioners on the Saxenla. "The commission has arranged that no woman shall make an address," said she. "No woman is to have a share in the official program. I felt that under the conditions it was my duty to with draw." Well of course every one for him self. But Mrs. Woolsey certainly Is missing one of the grandest little junk ets that ever shot athwart the startled map of Europe. The federal government and the various states have made ap propriations for the support, comfort, and sustenance of the 100 members of the commission on a taxlcab and truf fles basis. The members of the commis sion may net know the difference when they return between a rural redit and a bar-tab, but thfey will be equipped to talk eloquently on the menus, vintages, and decolletages. Tliora la a nlof for evervthlnir and th nlMPn for Gaillard Smith to StoD seems to be about here. Smith is the inventor or adapter of the aetectapnone. This is the little Jigr( which a de tective hides in your bureau drawer. Ana, tnen ne goes away, ,ana -ue. . stenographer to - the recover at "-. the other end of the wire and Jiy and by he has a complete record of youV con versation, Including the exact price for which you agree to deliver the Incrim inating papers. - "Now, says Mr. Smith, I m going a bit farther. I'm at work on the detec tascope. By means of this instrument It will be possible to see what Is going on in the room under observation. With Iia detftctascoDe before you, and the earpiece of the detecta- scope clamped over your caput, you mtfi-ht iiiHt as well be in the room, so far as observation goes." The detectascope as a iupe inirteen Inches long and three-eighths of an ir,.h in diamntur. It Is inserted in a hole bored at a convenient point; In one .. . . . i .. rr t . .. end OI me tuue IS a Iiuneye ionn. iuo h nltpred so that the faces of those passing money ' or writing checks may be oDserveo. as h eianu. it is a modification ef the cystoseope, by which medical men have long been accustomed to peer into our most sacred works. . . "But when I get through with this Mr, Smith pauses in .his profane rap. r it mav h assumed that when he gets through with it the practise of leg islative bribery and aldermanic pur chase may come to a dead stop. Texas paSsed such, a law to get rid of English snd Scotch syndicates that owned millions of acres of land 1,030,- 000 acres in one tract, besides smaner tracts. The Texans went at it rignt, Just as President Wilson wanted Cali fornia to go at It. The Texans legislature passed a bill excluding all aliens and foreign syndicates rrom iana owning Texas. If Governor Johnson was as eager to serve the pedple of California as to play politics, he would nave ravoreu ue u-u-iii kin with tho words' "Ineligible to citizenship" left out -That is the milk in the cocoanut ana tnertfts no anoiner real question involved. California should pass an antl-alien land law as complete as the Texas law. Anything short of that is "illogical and unjust to Uaelf W. H.- ADDIS. The Real Canal Issue. From the Salt Lake' Herald Republican. Many opponents of the tolls provision of the Panama canal act. are arguing from a false premise. They object to the remission of tolls to American coastwise veBselS on the theory that It partakes of the nature of an unneces sary and Indefensible subsidy, a gift to a special interest that neither deserves nbr needs It. Their allegations may be as irrefutable as the fundamental pre cepts advanced by Plato, but they are not to the point. , The elemental equltableness . of the MiM...alnn a thA nnauiwittm linn tlintf ho argued later; Just now the UniteJ States is confronted witn me question wnetner it shall re permutes to manage ana op- JiFSTA 'ITS1 MWt!1 '111 flffl SB 'it ll-'iCfS.' Oii'ie that precedent Is established, as It nuut be, we can fight with amiable enthu PiHsni among ourselves, coining to an ultimate decision concerning Just what we desire to Jo. , , v 'Great Britain is not quarreling with us about the Justice or injustice of a disguised subsidy to the coastwise AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Plans for a now Presbyterian church st Hums iiav been prepared and the ftrst asHesHrnent of the pledged building fund haa been culled. ' ....,; The Paramount issue at Gold Beach Is the iiitition of incorporating. The In-J curporuijoniKis are sturdily cnampioneu by the UolU Httuch Globe. , Mrs. Nellie G. Nelll has been a teacher In the La Grande schools for more tnan 20 years. It is thought she will he made fii'incipul at the new North tilde build ng, - With the' return of warm weather business in Medford has picked up to such an etxent that, acordlng to the Mail Tribune, Haturday'a sales at the stores were heavier, than for any day, except in Christmas season, in the past 18 months. The Douglas County Game Protective association now has a third branch, or ganized at Riddle, with a charter mem bership of 28. Officers are: Lemuel Kminerson. president; Harry Williams, vice president; C. A. Kiddle, secretary treasurer, Assessor Thrift of Coos countv re ports that the tax,, rolls show 70,000' town lots laia out in me various town sites of the county. In some cases the tax barely pays for the clerical work Involved in carrying the lots on the bOOkS. ' . "; i .- ','.' . . . . ; The new Methodist church at Wend llng was dedicated Sunday. Dr. K. M. Todd, vice president of Willamette unit versity. delivered the dedicatory sermon. The church starts out In a flourishing condition, with all debts paid and money In the treasury. DAY BY DAY "The next time," said a bribed coun cilman to W. J. Burns on one occasion, "that I take any money I'll be In my bathing suitand we'll be swimming out to sea." One of Frank Stockbrldge'a occupa tions used to be city boosting. He'd take a pale, wan municipality and shoot mental dope into It, , and pretty soon It would .be hammering on its chest and hollering. "But one must be careful," said Stock bridge. "It's easy to make mistakes." He told of the speech that the best lawyer of a flourishing upstate town made to a convention thai the town desired to attract for Us next meeting. The various town boosters were i&cW given ten minutes In which to present their claima. ' This lawyer rose lalm, masterful, self-possessed. "I will briefly recite," said he, "some of the reasons why you should come to Punkvllle. I will tell you the In teresting features of our town. We have the two most gloriously beautiful ceme tcrloP " It was believed by those who watched that he' went on talking for quite a while after that. But no one heard what he said. One of our town's heavyweight poli ticians breezed, up to a turkey roost after the hour of one the other morn ing. He would go in and trot for a time. The policeman at the door inter fered, i - "I'll get your buttons," said the pol itician, furiously. "Tomorrer, do you hear? Tomorrer." The next day he told his tale to Com missioner Waldo. Waldo listened atten tively. Then he reached over and shook hands with .the politician. "Thanks," said Waldo. "I've been watching that man. I'll take his buttons tomorrow." "Fine," aaid the politician. yes," said Waldo, "I'll do as Inspector Dyer has asked. I'll, put him In plain clothes. If Miss Alberta Hill had not worn a Dutch neck and had not twisted her hair into a golden Grecian band she would not now be receiving assurances at Washington that she'a going to get one fine place. . s r "Perhaps pot Just the place you ask, you know," they tell her. "But a very good place. Indeed." . There's little doubt about it. Miss Hill kept the card index during the cam paign which preceded the nomination of Woodrow Wilson. In fact, she in vented the system. It was so useful that Miss Hill was asked to care for it during the campaign. She did not at all dis tracted by the fact that she Is extreme ly pretty, and that men would ramble into frivolous conversation If they were given the chance. But back to that Dutch neck: ' ... "She was formerly secretary of one of the great suffrage organizations," her friends recall. ".nd she was Just as good looking then as she la now. And every time the newspaper snapShooters wanted a suffrage picture they would pass right by the dowagers who had fought and you might say died for the cause. Tltey'd ask Miss Hill to klnda cant her head a little on one side, so's to get that enchanting ahedow under the eyes. And then they'd go away poor boys perfectly happy. They didn't know they had rolled the apple of dis cord through a fine suffrage organtsa tlon. Because by and by it was hinted to, Miss Hill that Dutch necks Were never worn by really strong leaders of the cause and that Grecian bands looked like thunder on a first page and that, after all, she might be hap pier If she worked somewhere else. She picked the wllsorj bureau. Hence. that Washington Job," steamship combine. The great nation challenges our right to treat the Amer. lean marine any differently than we do the vessels of England or Germany or France; it declares that when we open an office to sell sailing permits through the canal we must charge ourselves Just what we do them. This impudent de mand is so contrary to the fundamental principles of sustained ownership tint it would only inspire amusement were It not that a certain provision of the Hay Pauncefote treaty can, by a liberal use of the imagination, be tfonsfrued" to 'mean just that. Were we to admit that John Hay was an unsophisticated yokel when he ap proved the treaty, and the members of the United States senate admirable can didates for the psycopathio ward whin they endorsed it,, we might accept the English reading. But aince neither was the case, we are constrained to-jhelleve that the phrase 'all nations" means all nations except that which, bought the canal territory, planned the waterway, constructed it. and means to maintain it, an eternal testimony to the-'Character of Yankee brains,, intelligence, and en ergy. . Pointed Paragraphs Of two evils choose something else. Many things are well done that are hot worth doing. ' . iV--:-"-:: In after years 'some society buds be come wall flowers. You can 'blind some men by throwing gold dust in their eyes. A cyclic may-be one who has 'discov ered the bitterness in stolen sweets. The min'wlii) is only as honest as he has to be Is as dishonest as he cam be. THE WORKINGMAN IN THE CABINET M. MlchelHon In Collier'a Weekly. WUllum B. Wilson, after three days f in a Maryland Jail, emerged with a point of view that will help to shape the policies of the United States during the next four years. . ' You see, William. B. Wilson. Is secrer tary of labor In President Wilson's cabi net: But in 1894 be was a leader of the striking miners In Maryland. In th language of the mine owners, he wks something even more reprehensible than that, lie was an "agitator,", "trouble maker," a fellow sent In from the out side to manufacture discontent and to stir up strife in a body of peaceable, happy , worklngmen. As a, matter of fact, Secretary Wilspn doesn't mind be ing referred to as an "agitator," He re alizes that the outsider has little chance to stir up discontent among , working men unless there Is something funda mentally wrong In the conditions of their labor. ' ; , ' The fate of that Maryland strike, as the fate of every strike, depended upon the quality of Its leader. "Always get your able leader out of the way and his discouraged followers will beg peace on any terms." The Maryland mine , owners had played the , game often enough to know this rule, Ho one fine May morning Mr. Wilson was Invited into the coach of a railroad train as the tram etood waiting at the station at Lonaconlng. When the train' got under way, the future secretary of labor was placed under arrest and later thrown Into Jail at Cumberland. He was charged . With the conveniently indefinite crime of conspiracy, and it was several days be '' fore his friends learned what had be-" come of him. In the meantime a report was circulated among the miners that he had sold out and left the state. Of course, Secretary of Labor Wilson understands why Strike Leader Wilson was thrown into jail. For the same rea son, he understands why his old com panion in arms, Mother Jones, was held " as a military prisoner in West Virginia, And he takes great pains to see that President Wilson and the members of his cabinet understand, too, so that, in official Washington, "conspiracy," 'In- citing to riot," and "unlawful aisem- -blage" are no longer the red rags they one were. This means that at last American labor has Its official spokesman at the council table of the president That was, Just what Mr. Wilson ; Intended . When, as congressman from the Fif teenth Pennsylvania district, he drew the bill creating the office of secretary of labor. ' 1 As I walked into Secretary Wilson's office, the full meaning of this revolu- ' tlon burst upon me. It was as though a skillful cartoonist had visualized the atory for me. I had come to Washing ton fresh from the Paint Creek coal field of West Virginia, where I hal . stayed with one of the miner's families. Now I looked at the serious, gray eyed man who sat behind the big mahogany ' desk. His Jaw was strong; bis face at once delicate and determined. The black string tie and the white expanse Of shirt front showed the simple taste of..', the workingman rather than the breezy affectation of the Washington politi cian. And when Mr. Wilson went to con gress from Blossburg he was recognized , as one man who never took the floor in debate unless he was well fortified with facts and could' not be tripped up. The great strike at Arnot. 1899-1900, V Started Mr, Wilson upon his political,., ;"' career. . .-, . - ... . . "It was the final contest to put ma out -of the labor movement," said Mr, Wilson. "If it had succeeded It would have discredited me forever with the , miners. "And lit had a mighty good chance to succeed; too. We were not strong as a union. We had very UUle outside help. 1 In fact, our chief source of supply was the farmers who used to send us in what produce they could spare. "We won by peaceful methods. I sent for Mother Jones to help me. -She or ganized the women and did wonderful work in keeping up the spirit of the men." Secretary Wilson does not tell all the story. Instinctively he shrinks from self glorification. But others have given me the story, and I have set it down here, '..'.. Mr. Wilson was offered a bribe of $1500 to desertpthe miners' cause. The proposition was not thus bluntly put to v him. He was told that It would be a' act of human kindness to terminate the long, bitter struggle. All he had to do was to leave the state on urgent busi ness; let events take their own course. The mine owners, yWB see, were fol lowing the old rulertovget rid of the , able leader. Only the metXjjd of getting rid of him was different Fifteen hundred dollars! That was ; a great deal of money. There was a mortgage of Just $1600 on the Wilson farm. Fifteen hundred dollars, that was equal to the year's salary which he received as president Of his union and which he was Just then turning Into the fund of the striking miners. It would ' have gone far to provide for his wife . and 10 children, who were living on brown bread and coffee and who were Wearing gunnysacks Instead of shoes. . . It IS needless to add that Mr. Wilson did not accept the offer. Instead he took tn the families of four striking miners and shared ; what he . had with ' , them.That is the reason the elghteentu of June is called "Wilson day". In Arnot, , and celebrated as a public holiday by the miners. It is also the reason why he was returned three times to congress in a district that each time went heavily for. the Republican president And It Is the reason why he is now secretary of labor. .' . For the Blood Is : the Life This complete short story by F. Marion Crawford is one . of the many quality features included in THE SUNDAY JOURNAL magazine for next Sunday. THE YOUNG MOTH- ER'S AWAKENING is a strong picture reproduced in " color and interpreted in story form. ' :':.' -. ... ; '-' - -:, : ;.;vv" Usual strong array of artt- women readers. Next Sunday. . ,