THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, , PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1013.
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to live -with honor In the world
is to be In reality what we
would appear to be. -Socrates.
THE ORKWOX
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riHE shot that sinks (tie battle
hip Oregon In any proposed
target practice will sound the
knell of mounting armaments
fji ibis country.
J Happily the cold-blooded brutal-
fey of
jhe on
Iho pal
tbe naval bureaucrat is not
only American trait. Luckily,
patriotism of the United States
Soepn't depend for its vitality upon
(he Ideals of naval experts so-called
X The historic Oregon is not a mere
renting machine. She is a trophy,
. Plie is a monument. She is a mag
nificent representative of American
naval achievement. She is not a
mere ship with guns, decks, hull and
machinery. She is near human. She
Is a part of national history.
To fire at her at target practice
would be as brutal as shooting down
i battle scarred war steed. It would
tse as desecrating as to use a vet
eran fire horse for target practice.
t would be a shot at the patriotism
tj-igd the best sentiment of the coun-
ry.rf, .f."."-."-.''.''"y,- :,
The nation still shudders from
. 6e shooting up of the Texas. It
till never stop shuddering if the
Mercenaries of the navy department
Shoot up the bravest and best sea
fighter that ever flew the American
flag.
NATIONAL ASSASSINS
v j AGE reductions' and closed
'A hi factories as arguments
Iy V against the square deal In
tariff legislation may not be
popular after all. President Wil
son a few days ' ago directed- the
bureau of corporations to determine
Whether a conspiracy agreement
had been entered Into, and now
Senator Williams of Mississippi pro
poses penitentiary , terms for men
vho resort to such tactics.
J (Wage reductions lockouts, finan
cial panics,' .have been the last re
iqrt of money seeking to rob men.
f.n example was the visit of ; emis
Jaries of stel to the White .House
here," by a threat- of national dis
aster, a" president of the United
States was 'coerced into licensing the
Ibsorptlon of tbe Tennessee Coal &
jron Company by the steel trust.
J ;There has been nothing more serl
. fcus' in the life of the republic.
Slavery with its generations of con-Iroversy,-
withits angry attempts at
disunion and with its cruel. Civil
var as no m o r e deadly - as a
tnenace to self government than are
' these efforts of syndicated and con
Jentrated money id frighten and
Joerce the masses.
Some months ago while still presi
cent-elect, Woodrow Wilson used
trong language to the effect that
Jnen who conspire to start panics
hould be hanged. He irof the mind
nd temperament to deal merciless
ly with men who would sacrifice the
country for au argument against a
. Jlscal policy.
i He is now president of the United
States and can doubtless be relied
Jupon to deal effectively with na
tional business assassins.
MINN KSOTA LEGISLATION
MINNESOTA at the recent ses
sion of her legislature jumped
into the front rank of states
giving attention to present
May problems. The fact Is more re-
jmarkahle in view of recenU-donuir,
slnation by brewery, railrnarif and
t her special Interests. Minnesota
:. Shas at laBt listened to humanity's
. tall. - .
5ewlawa enacted Include cigarette
j-ogulation; reapportionment of legis
lative districts initiative and refer
endum; recall of state officers, in
cluding judges; workmen's .compen
sation; minimum wage for women
Jind chihJjen; mothers' pensions;
Jiew two-cent passenger rate; non
jiartisan primary, and local option
lor cities of the fourth class.
i Bills defeated Include restoration
5f capital punishment, woman suf
Irage, fixed hourtf labor for wo-
, inen ana cnncrren, semi-monthly pay
days, and a railway full crew bill.
.i LOcal option has been the one
v -'dominating issue in Minnesota for
jears, and passage of that law paved
Jbe way for other legislation. Brew
yrs' manipulation of legislatures at
yX proved ineffective. Reappor-ionmeht,-
appareptly of no Interest
to Oregon, had been denied through
running scheme's of the brewers in
'j'ittlng northern and southern sec
tions of the state against each other
fvon-partisan primaries were, fought
;wlth moss-backed prejudices pf par-
i TJie new two-cent passenger fare
' .'law has naltton! importance because
f the Minnesota ,ra?e cases pend
ing, in the United Etat,es supreme
x ourt. In those cases a Joined issue
affecting the power of a state to
regulate Jntra-state rales is up for
determination. . The railroads are
attempting to' enforce a theory that
state regulation of intra-stato rates
necessarily regulates Inter-state
rates, and is, therefore; prohibited
to the states.
. In refusing to return to capital
punishment, recently abolished,
Minnesota sends a message to Ore
gon Ja partial compensation for the
many messages Oregon ha9 sent
across the mountains. Hanging had
not stopped murder.
Minnesota now claims to be ahead
of all states as to. the Initiative and
referendum, the recall and the non
partisan primary.. Bills initiated by
the people must. be referred to the
legislature for amendment and de-
bate. . The recall includes both elect
ive and appointive officers and pro
vides for election only on actual
recall of the official.
Election of Judges' and County' su
perintendents was already non-partisan,
and now,' under the, new law,
not only county officers but mem
bers of the legislature must stand
up before the voters as non-parti
sans.
Woman suffrage was defeated,
but Minnesota women may find lit
tle use for the ballot if Minnesota
men keep up the pace they have set.
JUSTICE CHADWICK
s
ENATOR POINDEXTER objects
. to the appointment of Justice
Stephen F. Chadwick to a fed
eral judgeship at Seattle. He
says Judge Chadwick should be
eliminated because of a former ad
dress In which he pointed out faults
in tbe initiative and referendum.
Must we make former attitude to
wards direct, legislation the test of
present fitness for office? " .It so,
how about the president of the
United States?
Whatever he may have been for
merly. Judge Chadwick waB clear and
definite in commending progressive
principle In a recent address in
Portland. He is moreover a judge
of commanding ability and splendid
probity.
The confidence of hla fellow citi
zens in Justice Chadwick has been
often attested. Though a Democrat.
he used to be re-elected superior
udge In Whitman county without
opposition by a constituency over
whelmingly Republican. Though a
Democrat, he was elected a Justice
of the supreme court, in a state
overwhelmingly Republican and In
contest in which he polled the
largest rote on the ticket and car
ried nearly every county in Wash
ington. By all the accepted tests Judge
Chadwick is a demonstrated eligible,"
and he should be so accepted by
Senator Poindexter and the Wash
ington authorities.
He has hundreds of old friends
In Oregon who would be flattered and
delighted with his elevation to the
federal bench.
JACK JOHNSON'S CONVICTION
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ATIS FACTION can be had in
Jack Johnson's conviction, not
bgcause he is a negro, nor even
because he ia a pugilist. But
because he represents a type of
men, white and black, and not all
prize ; fighters, who justify Jails.
Money spent. In building jails for
such men Is money saved.
But the incident has another side.
Jack Johnson, convicted, is no worse
than Jack Johnson, triumphant: no
worse than other Jack Johnsons of
fair skins a d polite manners.
Again, is Jack73hinson so very much
worse than pale skinned gentlemen
who do with Immunity exactly the
thing that Jack Johnson did at his
peril?
GRANT) OPKRA
I
S GRAND opera pure art on one
side tbe footlights and keen ap
preciation on the other, or is it
pure business on the stage, and
a nervous disease in the boxes?
Portland people have had sufficient
time to think it over. What is the'
answer?
Herr. Dippel has been eiven JB-
000 to keep out of grand opera for
three years, and this la said to be
only part of the sum he will receive
by secret agreement. Had Herr
l)ippe-uit!nued ith the Chicaco
and Opefc Company he would
earn S2r,()00 in three voar it
grand opera can pay Herr Dippel
.i,uu(i ror a three-year intermis
sion, where will the money come
from if grand opera is so poor as
to require the charity of guarantys
and $7 seat prices?
Grand opera seems to have dis
placed the charity ball, with grand
opera the sole beneficiary.
COMMKMOR.VTI NG GHENT
T IS proposed to accentuate the
treaty of Ghent by a celebration
of Its one hundredth anniversary
on December 24, 1913.
In reality, the proposal Is a move
ror a closer relation between the
United States and .Great Britain. It
is also a program for accentuation
Of universal peace.
The Treaty of Ghent was the
fteace agreement between England
ana tno united States respecting the
war of 1812. It was signed by" the
American and British delegates flf-tee-n
days before the battle of New
Orleans, in which, within twenty-five
minutes twenty-six hundred British,
Including four general, were killed
or wounded and left on the field by
lha fleeing, BraUeh-ttmy, t
; The, treaty -was a marvelous
achievement by American diplomacy.
At first the English envoys proposed
term's both odious and impossible.
They included the establishment of
a line that would have lost the entire
Northwest to tho United States, and
among other things proposed the
free navigation by tho British of
the Mississippi for trading with the
Indians.
The American negotiators were
John Qulncy Adams, James A. Bay
aid,. Henry tClay, Jonathan Russell
and Albert Gallatin. They "were men
with no superiors in tho world, in
ability, experience knowledge and
clearness of purpose, and three at
least, unsurpassed . in tenacity of
will., v-' .:.,(:" .-v.-.-v
America was never represented by
more brilliant diplomacy while Brit
aln, in her then contempt for Amer
ican statesmanship, sent third rate
negotiators. . The result was that
the United States emerged from a
most dangerous war into peace with
honor, Not one of the hard terms
demanded by Great Britain was con-
ceded, notwithstanding that the Na-
poleonanlc wars were then tempor
arily oVer and Britain In position to
throw an almost resistless army of
veterans into the United States.
The proposal to celebrate the
treaty of Ghent is laudable. Any
thing to honorably draw closer re
lations with Great Britain or any
other power is" laudable. Every
thing that tends to promote Interna
tional amity and world peace is
laudable.
ONLY NINETEEN DAYS
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T IS but nineteen days to the city
election.
It is a very short time in
which to do a very important
work.
A Coxey's army of unfits is
clamoring for election as commis
sioner. A number of excellent men
are candidates. The problem is how
to elect four commissioners from
competents and beat the unde
sirables.
A commlsslonershlp is not a coun
cilman's job. The .difference is the
difference between $5000 a year
and $25 per month.
Each commissioner will be the
head of department. He will ;be
the executive officer and directing
force. In addition, he will be one
fifth, of the legislative power of the
city. In conjunction with four other
men, he will govern Portland.
More than $12,000,000 of the
people's money was disbursed by the
city government of Portland In
1912. Approximate sums will be
disbursed by the city hall in 1913,
and in other years to come.
It is too great a sum of money
for unfits to spend. It is too great
a trust fund for blatherskite poli
ticians to peddle out. It is too vast
an Inheritance for a bunch of
Coxey's to preside over.
It is a serious responsibility to
select men to handle all this money.
It is a responsibly that a private
corporation would act on only after
searching investigation . and ken
scrutiny of the applicants. ' Why
should it be different ' with Port
land voters in selecting the pen to
whom they will turn over the great
business of. this city?
But nineteen days remain
which to act.
in
ANOTHER DOCKS SUIT
A
SUIT is 'on to condemn ,370
feet of -water front for pub
lic dock purposes. It is the
property of the Star Sand
Company adjoiaing the site recently
condemned at a cost of $310,000.
The assessed valuation is $80,000
with an additional $10,550 for im
provements. The public will note with satis
faction this actiyjiy in behalf of pub
lic docks. There have been times
when the delays encountered by the
commission were almost distressing.
They are, however, to be condoned
Ifthe time taken for preparation has
produced an effective program.
From now on the building of the
docks should be pushed to the ut
most. It is scarcely more than to
morrow when the first ship will
pass through the Panama canal. It
is but a comparatively few months
until a world traffic will ba flowing
through the divided isthmus, It is
highly important-- for Portland to
be in readiness, and there can be
no readiness without completed pub
lic docks.
Several old battleships, including
the Oregon, are to be used as tar
gets. And about the time that
$i!0, 000,000 dreadnought is finished
ii will be useful as a target to test
the destructive value of the latest
wrinkles in submarine and airship
construction.
All ball to Bryan's new battle
ship "a ship of friendship!" May
It prove to be greater than a fleet
of dreadnoughts. May the thunder
of its- broadsides loosen the grip of
Mars upon the powers.
Each of tho 8 4V candidates for
commissioner is sufea"t5f one vote,
and of two if he has succeeded in
convincing hla wife, as well as him
self of his fitness.
And if they want to. those East
ern Oregon cattle barons can af
ford to herd their, stock in the flos
siest kind of hill-climbing automo
biles.
Trinity parish. New York, pays
taxes on, property valued at over
$15,000,000. . Good enough, if it
has been equally successful in lay
ing up treasure in heaven.
steamer have introduced the. snail
race as aj mld.-At.lantic sport . The
course lselghteen inches, with a
head of lettuce as the goal. It was
covered in three houcs by the cham
pion snail, which ought to quaiifv
as a pace maker for some of the
candidates for commissioner in the
coming Portland election. ,
We wouldn't intrude upon Mexico
for worlds. But perhaps there will
be no surprise if a coming news
itom states that Huerta has been
"shot while attempting to escape."
The Japanese are a cleanly race.
But iVwould be difficult to con
vince the, Calif ornlans that they are
in any immediate proximity to godli
ness,'.; .' x j
Letters From the People
(Communleatlnna tmt to Tb Journal for
publication la tfalt department should be writ
ten ud only on aid ot the uaner. ihould not
exceed 300 worda Id length and moat be ac
companied bf the name and add raw of the
tenderi If thj writer dura not dealre to hata
tbe name published, be should to state.) 1
cnaracter voting ts. rersonaj
- Voting. ,
Portland. May 12. To- the Edlter of
The Journal The preferential plan of
voting Ja Intended to do away with j
machine politics In city" elections. ButH
many persona believe that by voting
only one choice or "single shooting" an
it la called, they will give a candidate
a great advantage over his opponents.
No greater mistake can be made.
There are two kinds of voting, "Char
acter voting" and "Personal voting."
The character voter votes for certain
persona because of the principles he rep
resents, while the personal voter votes
for an Individual because of ft personal
liking or a personal advantage to the
voter, The last class are the ones who
'single shoot," while the first class are
tbe ones who vote the three choices.
Those who vote the three choices have
three votes each. They do not care
particularly which one of three candi
dates they vote for ia elected, because
all three represent the principles they
believe In. Suppose the class who be
lieve In strict regulation of publlo utili
ties or in municipal ownership or in
strict vice regulation, or In law ' en
forcement, were to concentrate their
votes on 12 men for commissioner.
Each voter casta three votes, a first,
second and third choice. It 1s apparent
that no "single shot" candidate would
Btand much show against such a vote.
It Is only in case the character voters.
or the voters for a principle, throw
away their advantage of three votes and
try to "single shoot" that a small con
centrating "single shooting' vote behind
a commissioner would be of any advant
age to him. i '
The preferential system Is devised to
aid the voter who votes for a principle
against the voter who votes for per
sonal advantage. By this method the
strength dde to a personality and per
sonal following of a candidate will be
reduced while the strength due to the
principles of a candidate will be In
creased. The great mass of voters are
conscientious and will try to carry out
the spirit of the system and .will vote
their full choices for men who will truly
represent them in the council. If char
acter voters do this, "single shooting"
will become obsolete.
VVM. C. BENBOW.
Proposed School Reforms.
Brownsville, Or., May 13. To the Edi
tor of The Journal I would like to pre
sent to the readers of . TJhe Journal a
resolution which I believe proposes one
of the greatest reforms along educa
tional lines conceived Within the past
few years. The resolution was adopted
by Ash Swale grange at its last regulaa
meeting. It reads thus: "Keeolved,
That the Ash Swale grange favors a
radical change In our public, schools.
We are In favor of the state furnishing
school text books free, free warm lunch
at noon, and also that the state furnish
free uniforms to all pupils of the public
scnoois, ana it to oe compulsory mai
mey wear mem auring scnoot nours.
Now, I would like to say just ft few
words in favor of this reform. I will
take up the free uniform proposition
first. We contend that our pupils ln
public schools under the present system
are spending too much time and money
on dress and thousands of pupils, are
Kept from school because their parents
cannot provide decent clothes for them,
while others dress ln the height of folly
or faehion. .
We believe that this is a Jefferson-
Ian, or democratic, principle. We are
taught that all men are created: free and
equal. Our constitution grants equal
rights to all. Under our present system
of education we are not equal. Our
schools are divided Into castes or cliques.
PupHs dressed ln latest styles look with
contempt and scorn upon those whose
dress is a little out of date or old fash
ioned. This would also tend to discour
age the changes ln styles and fashions
every year, which are offered to us by
a few people who live ln Paris.
Regarding the free lunch at noon and
text books, It Is well known that num
bers of our pupils are prevented from
attending our public schools for the rea
son that: their lunch baskets are not
half rilled, and they are ashamed for
other pupils to see their contents. We
also contend that if the text books were
provided free there would not be so
many changes in text books. A recent
educator who has been teaching for
years said that every tlne the text
books have been changed in recent
years it has been for the worse. There
i a graft going on all the time on the
text book proposition. This is a well
known fact. Therefore we offer this
polution for these evils, and we believe
that this is the only thing that will Im
prove conditions and bring our publlo
schools up to the highest standard.
FRED B. HARRISON.
Master Ash Swale Grange.
A Minister Criticised.
Portland, May 13. To. the Editor of
The Journal I am an easterner tour
ing the west Last Sunday I visited
one of your large central churches, and
want to say, if . this Is a sample of your
western pulpits, I shall thank heaven,
when I return home, that, though we
have occasional hot weather, we have
cool-headed ministers. My thoughts had
been turned heavenward by the beauti
ful music of the choir,, but I was sud
denly brought back to earth with a
clash, when the minister made the re
mark that ha was like some Reverend
Jones, somewhere, who had said he
wished his choir was in hell, and when
this Jones was asked what he meant
by Buch an assertion, replied that a
choir could break up a church, or any
thing on earth, and he hoped it might
break up hell. It seemed to me these
remarks were entirely uncalled for, and
certainly .very harsh language for a
minister to use, and from the many ex
pressions of disgust that I heard upon
leaving the church, I decided I was not
alone ln my opinion, and when the in
vitation to loin the church was given, I
wondered In my heart If anyone could
identify himself with a church whose
minister coold use such language. I
am not surprised when no one re-,
snonded. i . .
LAHuiaTxinng, this in. tnautopi
may do ome good, and that after I
am gone .this minister may rise above
such things ena ne a man.
ANT EASTTrnvirn
ASi JLASlEiKrupK.
77 - , turned the salutation cordially without
Ictor Muraock s Dotible. . I betrayln the fact that he did not place
From the Seattle Poet Intelligencer. the man. They chatted about Mie wea
Albert Johnson, Republican congress.' Jir no thavr thin, and the'etrangc r,
PERTINENT COMMENT
6MALI CHANGE
Festival f0rKet aU 'l,out U ln th9 Rol,a
wMh!lp" W11"" will outdo Taft as a
world peacemaker.
rMi1i!,birth 0f 1y ,rnPrtant rieW thing
causes pangs and throes.
ultimo' J".bl? nA th turmoil
ultimate) good will be evolved.
' . . . .
ni.Srfft? ueston ' fitness far self
government constantly arises even yet.
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Mexico Is to have another election.
As soon as It is over the order of the
day will revert to revolutions.
i,InTa '2?n.tn th Pacific coast of
the United States and Europe will be
much closer . together an, Important
fact. .
Doubtless Lawyer Dunlway could
ma,k.eil Prolonged fight to show that the
H?.te? sttLts constitution was uncon
stitutional.. '" ,. '
In a professional sense '.and along
Some . lines tf na.inlriniTa . n.Hli..
Portland wishes that a, certain lawyer
oould'be Dunlway with. -
itA lawyer is preparing to argue that
there Is no charter, there were no prim
aries, thre will toe no election; there
is no sun, no earth, no anything.
A contemporary, y editorially that
mutton is only oh-TSurth thn price of
beef, at retail. iMdently the writer
hasn't personally bought any spring
annul iniei.
However mni demand there may be
for laborand it is unlimited there
Is always a horde of men around the
free employment office and employ
ment offices not free.
An occasional lawyer makes a special
ty and hobby of technical fighting ln
courts against all progress: Is obsessed
with the Idea that every change or at
tempt at betterment is "unconstitution
al," or otherwise Illegal and Invalid.
But of course he gets fees.
NEW YORK
By Herbert Corey. .
"Theatrical managers," said one of
them the other day, "are Just as wise
as a tree full of owls dead owls."
He was pawing through a desk drawer
filled with receipts.
"I've been in this business 10 years,"
said he. "And not until this spring did
I discover there's a leak ln my meter.
It's a wonder I haven't been run down
some time by a baby carriage."
Each' year he has made from one
to ten productions. Each production
cost him from 16000 to $15,000 before
the curtain went up.
"We all did the same," said he. "No
manager can read ft play and tell
whether It's good. He can't hear one
read and tell whether It's good. He
has to see It produced before an audi
ence and then he tells by watching
the audience. He doesn't know wy
it's good. He don't know why the
people like It. He's content to know
that they do."
Now managers do it differently.
There are scattered over this country
several good stock companies, filled
with capable he and she actors, with
plenty of costumes and scenery In the
cellar, and . managed by people who
know the difference between an owl
lunch and a stage brace. 8o the man
ager gives the 'script of Ms play and
$600 or 700 to the boss, and the stock
company puts his new play on for him,
before ft real audience. It costs about
one tenth of the old plan.
That." said the manager, "Is why I
init 'that we managers have heads
1)ke hammers. Why didn't we think of
hat before?"
Kurt Sternberg has a factory over
in Jersey. He Is a cousin of Speck
von Sternberg, who for ages was the
German ambassador at Washington,
and is related to every von ln the
Fatherland. Just because he has a
family Wee that is all cluttered up
with grandfathers, he doesn't care for
them. Long ago he dropped tbe "von"
and the "baron." He has become posi
tively passionate In his democracy.
"Mrs. Sternberg Is Just aa determ
ined in her Americanisms," said C. 8.
Huntley, president of the German Pub
lication society. "Not long ago one of
the. younger Prince Zu Eulenburgs came
over here and there Is no heftier fam
ily in Germany1 than the Zu Eulenburgs
and naturally called on Sternberg. It
happened that Mrs. Sternberg herself
answered the door. Zu Eulenburg
clicked his heels together.
" 'The Prince Zu Eulenburg,' he an
nounced, 'to sea the Herr Baron von
Sternberg.'
"'Wrong address,' said Mrs. Fjry
berg, sweetly. "No baron lives ere.'
And she closed the door. Therince
Zu Eulenburg went away dazed,, and
thought It out. By and by he won Il
lumination and ranr at the door again.
He lifted his hat politely, f
" 'Please.' said he, 'tell Mr. Stern
berg that Mr. Eulenburg has come. "
There are other ways of making a
strike breaker quit work than by
bouncing rectangular dornicks off his
bald spot. One of the new ways is in
use over In Paterson where almost
every other sort of way, including the
time-tried half brick Is already ln use.
They call the new scheme "the silence."
"I saw 'em use It the other day,"
said a New York newspaper man. "A
gang of thick wrlsted foreigners were
doing some work outside one of the
silk mills against which a strike had
been ordered. They were shoveling
and nickeling along heartily, when the
strikers came. Perhaps there were
five hundred strikers, men, women and
many little boys and girls.' They hung
their heads over the picket fence and
man from the second district of this
glorious state of Washington, is quit
at home at the national capital, whfcfe
years ago he was engaged in newspaper
work, and Is already en rapport with
his colleagues, regulars, irregulars and
Democrats alike. ' " i:
He is assured of good committee as
signments and as be "knows the ropes"
and by nature Is eternally busy the pre
diction may safely be mad that he will
become one of the most useful repre
sentatives the Evergreen state bas ver
sent to congress. . ' "
Johnson and Victor Murdock are as
much alike as average twins. The re
semblance is so striking that It would
not be surprising when Johnson rises
to make hie maiden speech if the epeak
er should recognize him as" "the gentle
man from Kansas."
Both are pronounced . blondes,; with
clan-cut, actor-like countenances, and
are Counterparts, also, as to personal
mannerisms.
it 1 vr '" ee1 ire J eritiewii ""wi
rldln In ft street car to the capitol whim
fniinnr nnmspriffor took' ft seat beside
h,m and greeted Wm cordially, j Always
l..i,i - h Wnnulum statesman re-
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The dog poisoner tins started upon bis
snnuul sluing circuit of the .towns of
Oregon,
President ckerman of the' Mottmouth
normal school will deliver the address to
the Bukcr high school graduating class.
The Mollalla Pioneer expresses the
opinion that "fujn i it saloonless town,
boose is aitogether'too accessible in Mo
lalla." ) ,.
y '.- a ,
Forest Grove how has a speed ordi
nance . holdlne; autos and motorcycles
down to 16 miles an hour within the
city limits,
Five business firms at Oervals, enter
intf an agreement with business men of
Mount Angel, will hereafter close their
establishments on rjuriday. ; . ,
ood judges of roads say that the best
piece of road for Its length In Lane
county is located ln the Cottage Grove
country, between the Currtn bridge and.
the steel bridge in the .Row river road
district. - ...
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' Twenty-seven new members- were
added to the roll of the Congregational
church at The Dalles ln the year end
ing with April. A reception In their
honor was given at the church last
Wednesday night.
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Marshfleld Heoord; There Is no small
city In Oregon that is growing as fast
as Marshfleld ln a steady, healthy way,
mid-while we have only about 6000 peo
ple ln Marshfleld proper today, It will
not be latr than Christmas time before
we will have twice that many.
Wesion Leader: On through Weston
with a fine-tooth comb and you will be
unable to find, ft man or woman who is
not working with might and main to
make the coming -pioneers' reunion the
best that has ever beon nut un. Every
body has got the bug.
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Juntura, 65 miles weRt of Vale Ch the
Una of the new railroad being built
west of Vale through the Malheur can
yon. Is experiencing a building boom,
Several business buildings, all of stone,
are projected, Including a 39 room hotel,
a hardware store, a drug store and a
combination store, bank and postofflce.
DAY BY DAY
watched the workers-Inside ln per
fect silence.
"After 10 minutes It became nerve
breaking. You can't Imagine the ten
sion. By and by one of the workers r
a big two-fisted chap straightened his
back and shook his fist at the starers.
" 'Come on, he dared them. 'Do
something.'
"No one said a word. ' Five minutes
later the workers were quitting. They
couldn't stand that silent pressure."
One of the Important books of the
year la Henry T. Fink's "Food and
Flavor." In It he calls attention to
the manner In which the United States
Is neglecting the edible oportunitles
on every side. He places especial stress
on the number of food fishes that are
being wasted now because of some fool
ish prejudice.
"We might almost double our con
sumption of fish," said Hugh Smith,
the new head of the fisheries bureau,
shortly before he wae named to that
post. "There are scores of varieties of
fish that never reach th market now.
No one knows why, exactly."
Mr. T3mlth instanced the dogfish. This
is simply a young shark, and ft con
firmed and habitual pest to professional
fishermen. It is never eaten, and of
course never put on the market.
"There is no better fish for table
use," said Mr. Smith. 'The flesh is
sweet, tender and delicate far better
than some of our recognized food fishes
because of its method of feeding and
yet it Is scorned. In ten more years we
will be eating full-sized sharks, and
scores of other fishes that we shudder
at now. The fish are all right. We
don't know they are good. That's all.
That most Incomparable of grand
mothers, Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, thinks
that America Is one fine place. All ex
cept the scof fings. If she had to live
on American food, she fears her diges
tion would be Just a. mess of wrinkles.
"This Isn't rlg'.it," said the serious
gastronomer. "Mme. Sarah Bernhardt
doubtless never ate a real American
meal. It Isn't likely now that she ever
will."
He pointed out that not ln all New
Tork is there a hotel or restaurant ln
which real American dishes, cooked In
the real American way, are served ex
clusively, "Think of terrapin." he said. "Not
four hotel cooks in town could do it
Justice. New York dopes beans with
sugar and Italian paste and blames
.Boston with 'em. The mince pie you
ger nowadays would ruin a dog. What
has become of the crisp, flaky, delic
ious rich doughnut of yesterday? These
Roggy automobile wheels dipped in oil
and sprinkled In sugar were never In
vented In New England. Where can
you get chicken gumbo of the sort that
bred fighting men and pretty women?
Ham Ham!
"Once they cured ham in the, amok
of a hickory fire and anointed it yitli
honey, and let It ripen for three years
under the blackened rafters before the
J cook touched it with his gray biadti.
nu iv is Biiiua-iuipu uy an unaenaKer
and fried by an assassin. Ever try to
break into a turkey -varnished and pet
rifled a la Versailles and then think
of 'the big, tender, toothsome bird, that
usd to be put down before grand
father et nonn of Christmas Hay? Won
der if Mme. Sarah ever tasted hoe cake
the real hoe cake "
The gastronomer thought that in sev
en hours, and with about twelve fnlle
of taxi fares, he could give Mme Sarah'
a real A5Moan dinner. But it would
Involve vlsmng nine different New
-York eating hduses for the varloui
courses.
"Think Vr It," he mourned. "A town
of 6,000,000 people and not ft dozen
American cooks!"
turning to polities, finally inquired:
. "Do you think the Progressive party
Is making progress?" ' ,
"Oh, no," said Johnson, lightly, "the
movement is only a flash in the pan."
"A flash in the pan! Why, I am
amazed. You really think our new
party "Cimnot survive?" v
"There's nothing left Of it now." said
Johnson. "It has had ltsflay. History
Is repeating Itself. Do you not recall
the rise and fall of the Populists, the
Greenbackers and the Free Silverites?
It 4s the old story over again. There
is room for only two parties ln this
country." X
Tito stranger's lewer Jaw dropped.
He looked aghast. "I am amazed .at
what you say, Mr. Murdock," he man
aged to utter., "I felt that we could
rely upon you to carry omucauas for
ward triumphantly."
"It's only a flash ln the pan," re
peated Johnson, and he bade the stran
ger, adieu and got off the car, teo- con
vulsed for further conversation.
Vletef Murdeek,1" a if evry b.idy 1 Kuw
is'-the aggressive leader "of the Pro
gresslve forces, in the house. Johnson
told' him of thfl epl-sode and the Kansa'n
lauded-aboiri'itfiit promised to even
thw score the j-next time he was mis
takeln for Johnson by declaring tha'Re-
-publlcan party dead i m! "N-jnj hope
nf resurrect!''".
WILSON WILL CALL
ANY BLUFFER
From the Detroit News. . .
"We will not accept at par the state
ments of the Interests themselves as to
the effects of the tariff bill, but will
make a thorough Investigation, through
the bureau of domestic and foreign com- .
merce. We, w,ant to see whether the
changes In business, particularly those
that affect wages, are directly necessary' '
In: the Industries' affected, or whether1
some business men are Just bluffing.".
Secretary of Commerce Redfield. '
President Wilson's warning that any '
financial group that 'wLulA attempt to
bring about industrial Br financial de
pression artificially, Juat to spite hie
administration, would be "hung as hi(Ch '
as Haman's gallows," finds its echo here '
in Secretary Redflold'a promise to Call
any manufacturer's bluff In case wage
cutting and factory closing should in
any given instance follow a, tut, or a,
threatened cut In the tariff. '
Certainly Secretary Redfield does hot
assume that no industry Is going to be
adversely affected by the tariff changes. '
The only tariff chango that can be made
without readjustment Is an increase in
tbe tariff, land even then there would' ;
have to bo readjustments in order to
prepare to harvest the extra crop I of
profits. Certain hardships will undoubt
edly follow In Isolated Instances. But
the whole country has already discount
ed most of the effect. The readjust
ment will be accomplished with normal
ease.
What the administration does mean is
that it will challenge "each .considerable
Instance-of wage reduction, or factory
closure and "prove it to be cither false
or genuine. This Is reassuring. Most
of tile tariff cries are bluffs. A brief
examination punctures the bluff. The
Wllson-Redfieid promise will have ft
wholesome Influence.
For that matffer, why should the tar
iff beneficiaries of state paternalism ob.
jeci to state examination of their claims
for protection, and their crlea for pro
tection? The first protective tariff was
wholly paternalistic. Its fostering of
monopolies, leading to state regulation
and state monopoly Opened up the path
to general paternalism. The last per
son ln the world who can object to state
examination of his wage account and of
his profits is the man who has been pro
tected by a paternal tariff against do
mes tio buyers off foreign competitors
on the plea that his wage account ftnd
his profit account demanded.it.
It Is quite Impossible to determine
how much protection an Industry needs
without an examination of the aooounta
of that industry. It is impossible to"
say whether an industry needs any pro
tection without an examination- of Its
accounts. President Wilson proposes
to personally examine the books of any
Individual who says he needs & paternal
tariff to help along his particular busi
ness. Don't all speak at once,
From the Chicago Record Herald.
The country has not. yet learned to
say "That's Just like Wilson," ae.lt used
to say "That's Just like Roosevelt," or
"That's Just like taft." Neither has
Washington. Woodrow Wilson's way is
not yet generally understood.
One of the most simple analyses of
the way ln which the president works la
contributed by- Mr. Charles . Willis
Thompson to the New York Times. Mr.
Thompson believe that Mr. Wilson's
method Is thfs:
"First, to leave his mind entirely open
and to get all the information and ell the
opinions he can from everybody, from
the cabinet member to therni5ln the
street,, but to give no opinion himself
and to form none until he has got every
scrap of Information obtainable.
"Second, having mads bp his -mind, to
stick to what le has resolved upon; one
of the most striking features of his
character is his perfect openness to
conviction until he reaches a, decision
ftnd his utter impregnability to argu
ment when he has reached It.
"Third, to act upon his decision with
out loss of time.
"Fourth, if his decision is opposed, to
meet his adversaries not with wire
rulling oi log rolling, but with direct ,s
action the Hughes way, modified or
amended by the differences in temper
ament between Hughes and Wilson.
"Fifth, to make his decisions himself;
by which is meant that while he always
seeks find acts upon information, ho
never acts upon advice. He is fairly,
thirsty for information, and he ponder
sifts end arranges It until out of tbe
mass before hlni there emerges a" de
cision; but it Is bis decision, not built
upon the advice of any one, end ence It
lsrmade, argument is useless. 'Threats
merely anger him, and to warnings of
political danger he is deaf."
The "direct action" method is the
name which this habit of procedure la
winning for Itself ln Washington. It
is apparently so simple and above board
tlat eld line politicians can never trust
It. Congress may not really comprehend
It even after four years' constant ex
perience with It. But If the results
are commensurate with the present
prospects, this misunderstanding ' will
not matter in the least.
From the St. Paul Dispatch,
Grover Cleveland was a good fighter,
but he waited until his party in con
gress had betrayed him and then tried
to make a forlorn hope battle. Wood
row Wilson evidently Intends to profit
by th&t example. He will not sit by
and watch his schemes slaughtered anil
then point a finger at his betrayers and
say, "Naughty, naughty."
He has quietly tipped it off that he
will wander over into the congressional
balls w.kenever congress shows sigjs
of laughing at his demands, andwill
get up before the members and call out
in ft very personal way; "Congressman
Jones, what are your reasons for ob
structing the wishes of your constitu
ent ?"
Of course this Is very Irregular and
'loff form," and shocks the dignity of
congress, which dignity is a moss
grown thing.
But the people do not much mind In
formality when it is on their side, and
If President Wilson asks congress em
barrassing questions not for his per
ianal satisfaction, but on behalf of the
recplshe has pledged himself to serve,
rloesanybo.dy doubt which party to the
controversy will receive the support of
the people? . '
' The bottom, of ft hill Is the easier to
reach. '
Courage Is the thing that makes peo
ple forget they are afraid.
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It's fairly safe for a pretty girl to be
nice to a married man ln a. crowd.
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A noble failure Is better than Ignoble
success, althcmJjvriot , in 80 great de
mand.' Kind words oie more than coronets,
but sometimes a judicious kick Is mere
beneficial.
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When a woman says, "I don't care
.what the neighbors say," she doesn't
say It loudly.
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A poor man Is always seylng he would
like to be rich becausey of the great '
amount of good he could do with the
money.
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