The Oregon daily journal., May 21, 1913, Page 8, Image 8

TUi: OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY
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.jr (jmiilnjr morning at Tito Journal Build.
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haivrail, at Ilia pualofflr at I'ortUod. Of..
lea Aiaiia aa
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(a Itiillctlnv. ftiltn.
tnhacrtllnn lroi by mall or to lraa
lu Uio CnlUd Slat nr tlaxicoi
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BUND A I '
On remr....'....f-M I On month. .......1
. , .. , . DA1LV AND SUN DAI
millionaire maa or tno worn iruv.
The Bnn ko of . anarchy should 1
scotched, whether It ho the- anarchy
of poverty or tho anarchy of wealth.
by iho soap box apttators or by tho or roiiRostlon of tho streets with
ears. liven though a traction com
any s carnlngu aro Biifflclout to
warrant nioro frequent scrvlco, tho
Bervlco proposed for Chlcnjo would
bo undeslrablo. Multiply the num
ber of cars, and eorrio streets would
be as serviceable to ordinary traffic
ns roadbeds used bv cx Dress trains.
flclent to defeut the HuesiierA falr, pr0ponlori 0( po0plo must
franchise. ; ' . Jstnrid up.-
A the franchise was offered j n..t i. Whnr abuses rreen
Mr. Huesner by tho city council,' the ,n Tract)on companies care less for
compensation , to the city for the jtho romfort of passonKors than they
0
A HAD MK.ISIHH
NE fact alono should be Buf-
ichester, KiiRlnnd, to witness the burn
ing alive of a woman who bad
poisoned her husband. Could they
return to earth they would doubtless
regard our own poor pastimes as
lacking in warmth. and interest.
twenty-five years was to bo $81,000. Jdo for tn nlckei0 -Efficiency with
as propoiwn unucr mo iuiimu.D,.h(ini rn-ognrcd bv rece nts minus
after Mr. Huesnor refused the conn j ptM,ratin,g expenses,' ; It la cheaper
ell's franchise, the total compenBa-j0 pack people Into one car' than to
tlon to the city for the twenty-five; . them In two cars.
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CUANGIi
' A London woman, conducting hor own
milt for libel, talked 350..1OO words In 66
mmrs. bnn loat and paid 130,(100 cosm,
but who disproved the tradition that
tunc la cneap, .,
Mrs, Homer Lee predict tflat Japan
The Gorman kalsor drives a new
spike into the business' end of his
war club whenever he can wheedle
a 'fnw mnra ml 11 Inn a nut of tha rnlch Will conouor and kun Faolfia count
.. Th.rn Hr. fr Tin. ". w.inout wmon stat em-tit, maao
e- .U..IOIUIV vno v.- pUWK) nobociy but lior acquaintances
11a - that he Is seeking to establish would hav known that the lady was
cordial relations with England, are
not apt to bo received in the "tight!
little isle" with an unbounded de
gree of confidence.
f?om will always b abova
otKer. j Dextroy tha Inenuallty
today, and It will appear aain
tomorrow. Emorson..
THE START ASE
I
T IS on , the narrowest sort of a
Quibble that the Oregon supreme
court reversoB: the lower dourt In
tho Btnrt eauo. ; '
, , Thfe three Jusfices who Join In tho
majority, opinion hold that the court
below erred In n6t instructing the
jury to consider tho testimony of
Earl Van Hulen as that 0( an ac
complice. It holds, that the testi
mony of others who told of Start
committing ' similar offenses with
them was not competent as- it ha
no logical connection with this par
ticular offense. '
Is it the purpose oj the law; to
keep a part of the information away
from the JuryT The defendant re
lationa with others we.r corrobor
ative of the testimony of Van Hulen.
Ifnot to be admitted, how Is cor
roborative testimony tp be obtained?
Pyhaps as the majority opinion
holds, the testimony as to relations
of Start with others had no "logical
connection1 with this particular of-
frnBO." But they do have a most 11
lumlnating connection with this par
ticular, offense In that they show
the kind -of practlces-Jnv;,whlch the
defendant wfls engaged".
. Thje probable efctoftbe decis
ion la to permit aneient precedent
and unreasonable technicality to free
a criminal. If the Jury in the re
trial must consider Van Hulen's tea
years is-only $37,500, oajess than
one half tho'stun ri'qpitred by t
council.. , j:J...;.,- ..-v...
This alone anould 'beat the Hues
ner program. Vet It is only, one of
many siniilar changes Mi. Hueaner
has made In the franchise the coun
cil offered. Tho whole measure Is
full, of similar Jokers that It was
hoped would escape the eye of the
people. ' '
The city of Portland will faro faf
better if.it beats this, franchise and
iaayesjt to the mayor and comniis
sIonersIo arVangu; A" franchise for
H'here the people loee Is through
allure ' of city councils to enforce
reasonable regulations. . The trac
tion companies ' have been able to
depend upon indifference tp the peo
ple's rights. -
Hut cities are establishing real
standards of efficiency and fixing
responsibility. There is hope, that
rortlands streetcar problem may be
solved with fixed responsibility and
capable officials, under the new char
ter. . . "r"' -
mentally unbalanced
0.
A Witconln lurtgo lias decreed that
a wlfa la juatirted In beatlnsr another
woman who Invltea th attentlona of
lier husband.- Why not? Thla la an
of equal rlRhta, - Let the" -other
woman ret a beating- once In a whllo,
aa well aa the other man.
-Ourea etern -rou atn"a readvla(tt h at
William Wood has succeeded In
raising a bumper crop of trouble for ;
htmgplf nnrl 'bta "lnwpr rtntirn-ingnil
li-t. i it k t. tA.tA It worth a trip acroaa the continent
iates if it be true -as IS Indicated to see Mt, Hood. AlaJeatlo and aerene,
Lby, the evidence that he arranged 0f a bright aprinir day, he looms i-iear
for the planting of dynamite In ,.iothd in hia kinaiv robes of white.
order to throw suspicion upon ' the -I'urlty he typifies, and atrength. .
Lawrence textile Btrlkers. x . It wis ' " ,'l ' ' K ' . ':' ' '
' v-uit'HKu new epruiioiii iur deal
ing . with- vice 'the morals court may
help-M some' extent. One soul saved la
xet Hatan win continue to
THE TO WRITTEN. LAW.
I
Is
S THERE an unwritten law?
It for men and hot for women?
A Jury of men at Muncle In
diana,. has answered. Miss Doris
Underwood, a school teacher, was
tried for attempted murder. She
shof, but did not kill Ottis Fisher,
a drug clerk, the betrayer of her
use of the public streets is a thing
Of- great value, It' la a matter for
cool calculation. Millions of money
have been thrown away by cities in
bestowals of just such concessions
as Mr. Huener seeks. He hopes to
get the1estof the city $43,500 alono
In the lower compensation Uivler his
initiative measure.
The mayor and commission can ; younger sister.
make a far better arrangement than I Her apparent defense was lnsan
ia the franchise Mr- Hutwner basity. In reality, it was what the
fixed up to his own liking and tfub-j world calls the unwritten law that
mltted to the voters the lowering she relied upon for a favorable ,ver
of the compensation from $81,000 i diet. I
to $37,500 la one of the pleasing On the witness stand, Miss Under
benefits Mr. Huesner expects to de- wood sobbed bitterly as she told of
rive from his Initiative franchise the last hours of her dying mother,
which he submits after refusing the. of her promise to the mother to take
franchise offered hint by the city ! care of" the sister, and solemnly
council: i pledged her faith "to make her a
The Huesner program should bo; good girl and woman."
voted down. It U a proposal thej Bankers, newspaper men, mer
people cannot afford to accept It chants, city and county officers teB
is an arrangement Mr. Huesner hasrtlfled to the defendant's good char-
fixed up to suit himself, it Is a ne-'acter. The jury was out but a few
gotiation ior an extrem!y Taluable-t minutes. But one ballot was taken
concession In whlclTfhe reople have 'and the verdict, not guilty-There
not been represented. -- " was a big demonstration in the
If Mr, Huesner's proposed railroad 'court room when the verdict was
noxious seed.
t i. j il. a victory.
uuiu jiiuuu name aa iho nuine .nr tr hmm v,.n in ti.. inh .in.
Of 'poets, writers and Statesmen has and before, the days of Sodom and Go-
been defiled.. Through producing a n,Tttn'
rea aanaeuon, one Ol us cuuen nag -x dBtrlrt in "Which the demonstration
added insult to every lawn-owner a worn or the o. a. c. coum oe applied
with areftt advantaee 1" the J.ast Knd'"
iujurj. . 1 iif I'liiatitiH. cuuiiiv 'J'nere iiiev I'iuha
from 40 to 60 bunliels of wheat per acre,
but only set a biennial crop. The aoil
lfl ao productive and so inexhauatlble.
Lthat fieans, peas, potatoes or torn oould
be rained eacn alternate yen r-to nqvan
ftage and the output of the district more
Wian aouDiea. - ...
OIIEGOX SIDELIGHTS
Utters From the "People
. (Pomeiunlrtttxne irnt to The Journal for
publication in thla department ahoiild b writ
tea on only one aide of the paper, ahould not
exceed 800 worili tu length aud muit he ao.
ctimpanled br tho name and add rea of the
ernder. If the writer does not deatra to ba.Tr
uu name pubiu&ed, be should to atate.)
Ignorance and rorerty.
The Dalles, Or., May 19.To the Edi
tor of The Journal What a splendid
country we have! When w stop to
enumerate our natural assets - It be
comes almost unbelievable, An ordi
nary mind can hardly grasp Its magnl
The nrnwnsvllle, Times proposes for
Brownsville a municipal water yetein.
" V' . ...
The Antlers' club has assumed leader
ship In Fourth of July arrangements
at Lakevlew. A bnrbnmia la to be one
or tne principal features of tne ceie-
uraiion,
Baker Demoornt: Lower rates on
Bfilprnt-nta of cattle from Texas to eaet-
fXn Ort'Kon will be an Inducement -for
local cattle men tu reulenluh the Baker
county range. ,
WW
Tnnawama theatre at Burns Is to be
provided with a fine lot of new scen
ery ana tne management noias out
Hid prospect of attractions far . sur-
pasving any hitherto presented. .
... '
The M-Wt Ar Forester team-ol JJorth
Bon hea made arrangements to put on
an exhibition drill t I)nlon, May 31.
j'lie Jiaruor teetines that at xsortn
Hend and Marshfleld the work of this
team has caueed a . great deal of ad
miration. '.;',, . 1 ; .
Grants Paes Courier: Southern Ore-
Ron la alive to the Facirio Jiignway
altuatlon. and if the districts trav
ersed by that thoroughfare to the north
wlll'do their duty aa well as will this
section, there will be no more agita-
t on for tne changing or tne route to tne
east side of the Cascade mountains,, v
In Ha latiwt issue the Prlnevllle Re
view, reveals the ancient spiritual state
of Crook county's capital by reprinting
this ltm. Jiutiimtreft-on jurrs ,i lana;
Any place Having a onc-nors preacner,
or in fact any aina or a preacner tney
want to dlsjiose of or trade off, will do
well to confer' with Prlnevllle. We have
not any preacher at all and are willing
to bargain for almost any kind of a
divine rather than Jo, without entirely.""
MODERN FRANKENSTEIN SCARES CLUBMEN'
OFFICIAL LIGHT ON THE
STEEL TRUST
. By Herbert Corey
No fellow likes to have some other
fellow dig out his soul with the point of
a pin,
rerhaps that la why Dr. Jacques Loeb
was blackballed by the Century Asso
ciation. Loeb regards 'living ..organ
tude. It Is nlmost beyond the bounds of ims as chemical machines." It was
nener, mere is absolutely no excuse Unna.'.aaM of him -that he .con-
tstence
the
"" incro is aoBomieiy no excuse 0n6 said of Mm that no i
wrrMVerTiLr,e ignr?0' ,n,U th9 "''"d "the mystery of vital exist.
Is not a paper Tailroad, Portland read. The Judge and bailiffs were
timony as that of an accomplice and t 111 profit thousands upon thou-1 unable to silence the applause,
must not hear the ' testimony of ' sands of dollars by voting down the ! ' There was an unwritten law for
Start's relations of similar character proposed franchise and leaving the Miss Underwood. There have been
with others," there . Is illra show , of j matter to be negotiated on a bust-
convlctlon. " No wonder ex-President
Taft said: "The manner that we
have of prosecuting criminals, is a
disgrace."''"1' 7v
There is no doubt about the ter
rible reality of the vice scandal in
Portland. ' There Is no doubt In any
mind as to the guilt ot sundry per
sons. The one thing' that stands In
the. way of J proper punishment is
the" majority opinion of the Oregon
supreme court, and that opinion Is
.based orra narrow dnd highly tech
nical construction,
Moreover, It . Is opposed by the
dissenting opinion of Justices Mc
Bride and Eakln. They hold SUrt
to. have been lawfully, convldted.
Some day, there will b6 more Jus
tice and less prostration before me
dieval precedent In the courts of
Oregon.
EFFICIENCY IX VOTING
WHEN Governor Hodges sug-.
gee ted that the Kansas leg
islature take a long vacation
.: and allow Kansas to catch up
with laws he touched upon a vital
spot of popular government.
c No machinery for governing Is of
! practical. use wlthou efficient oper
ators. Efficient operators are se
cured only by careful selection. The
manufacturer b u y s an up-to-date
machltte; ; then hires men ' able to
artm It. ""If th manufacturer miiRr
lexperiment In. 'hiring, he brings to
his . assistance , generally accepted
tests ot ef f iclehcy. These tests In
clude ability as wen as willingness
to do an honest day's work.
; There- is something o Governor
HodgeB1; suggestion if Tfcansas pec
pie - have misled themselves. into
ness basis by the mayor and new
commission
THE INCOME TAX
P'
ItOTEST is going up from many
sources against the proposed
ineome tax. Collier's Is out
against the measure; the New"
York Chamber of Commerce sees
serious defects In the bill, and many
eastern newspapers express a fear
that constitutional guarantees ure in
danger. '".
As Is usually the case, the con
stitution Is Invoked as a weapon by
men who object to placing part of
the burden of taxation on shoulders
best able tp carry it. Incomes under
$4000 are to be exempt from the,
tax. The close-construction patriots
unwritten laws for others. But It
Is a slender thread on which to arm
oneself and go out to administer
personal justice, ..
Except In the, chivalrous South, a
as that at Muncle.
A SPECIAL mrVTLEGE
But man Is more willing; to believe some
rotten old He than to exercise his Ood
given power to reason and think. And
this Is a crime for which humanity has
always paid dearly. The penalty is pov
erty. .
We have been taught to regard doubt
ers with suspicion, and believe as the
eons of God. Wa are large on prejudice
and small on knowledge, because our
ignoranee has always been a' source of
profit to thow who, on the pretense of
divine right, call themselves our mas
ters. The sole purpose of government
beating of the heart, the action of the
nerves, even the thoughts, may be rep
resented as the result of known chem
ical reactions." Ho disposed of the
long cherished theory that animals are
.guided by Instinct by sluwvmg mat in
etlnct was Just another chemical reac
tion. Following that line he delved
Into the nature of the will and the
function of memory and almost the
secret of the soul. He represents love
by a formula and fear by figures. .He
believes that the time is not far dis
tant when life may be artlfteally pro
duced and death may be indefinitely
rriviTeg'ed dass skins 'tl, Go" wherl Phoned He --
you will, and you cannot find a govern- wnlch bo best PrSSd ln
ment any better than tho applied Intel- his own woras.
ligence of the people have compelled it wnt nllandJ "fne " u'd
to be. This is a fact that cannot be 0 hcr chem ca TlwJ, u it
successfully disputed. toP "r-udy -It. direct it at
Then it naturally follows that ln order mywlu-. .... . , . , 1ftft
to raise the standard of living we tnutit
first raise the standard of our intelli
gence. And in. this sense knowledge,
truth and justice have a greater signifl
jury may .not always be as. .lenient icanee than any other three words ln
T
HERE Is not the, slightest
chance tor any commissioner
to be elected on. first choice
1 UlCD,
To be elected, he must receive
more than half, or a majority of
such votes. With so many candi
dates afield, there Is no probability
whatever that any candidate will re
ceive a majority.
The second choice vote then will
enter into the decision, and prob-
insist that thlB exemption is a vitf ably the third choice. It means that
lation of the provision that taxation j even if the voter fail to get his first
8 hall be uniform throughout the; choice candidate, he has -a chance
states. They assert that five per! to get his second cnoice or third
cent of the people will be taxed for choice. Therefore, second choice
thinlting that laws, however good, as
abstract propositions, are of any
earthly - u s e. unless administered.
iLettin'g Kansas catch Up with Kan-
fsas law, Is another way of saying
that efficiency in government de
pends upon efficient officials, that
efficient officials are employed by ef
ficient voters. '
Portland h a s a n up - to - date
maehtm in - her new charter. The
demand now is for efficient oper
ators, and efficiency always Includes
honesty, It Is up to the efficient
voter., - .
OTC'H THe1v.
the benefit of 95 per cent, because
not more than five per cent have in
comes of $4000 or more.
If the constitution is not a deadly
weapon these days, it at least is a
handy bne. Railroads pick It up to
fight reasonable rates; trusts use it.
to perpetuate themselves, and big
business misuses it to oppress the
people,
tk the constitution available only
our dictionary.
Then let us throw our foolish preju
dices aside. Let us exploit knowledge
more and belief less. Let us weigh,
measure and analyze. Let us investigate
the causes of poverty. It us be think
ers, and not followers. We have brains;
let u ufle them. Our greatest obligation
is to ourselves. And our only hope of
betterment can be. realised by self -development.
WILLIAM H. TAYLOR.
Power of Tublio Opinion.
From the Hartford Post.
Ex-Judge Alton B. Parker, once Demo
cratic MJididate ror tne, presidency, in
nice old gentleman of the Century As-,
soclation, sitting in their pleasant club
house at 7 West Forty-third street,
looked with something of distaste upon
this Frankenstein of science this man
who would deprive future generations
of fathers and mothers and sweet sen
timent and immortality und undertak
ers. An untutored populace perhaps
regards some of the associates as being
chiefly valuable as backdrops for whis
kers. But others are among the most
eminent men of the nation, and they
can hardly be blamed for shying at a
man who would not regard them (as
human 'beings at all who would men
tally classify them as 40 cents' worth
Of chemicals,
Loeb showed that plants turn toward
the light bevause of the chemical nature
of light upon their structure. From
that it was but'a" step to show that
animals respond similarly. He demon
strated . that moths . flutter toward
flame not because they are attracted, at
that word Is ordinarily used, but be
cause the' Ugh sets up a chemical ac
Hon which automatically impels them
committee which met in New York Mon
day to arrange for the celebration to
commemorate 100 years of peace be
tween the United' States and England
declared his belief that the time Is at
hand when? war-will be prohibited by
Dublin. oDlnion.
This belief la probably no Illusion of
the dreamer because public opinion is a
and third choice voting Is a special ! ert&t accomplisher ol things, it moulds
Loeb'a iclentlfio standing Is as high
Im WiTta mm If Im 1n tha TTnlreA Ntntfltf.
addresJifig the international conference Wher h is popularly known as the
the destiny not only of men but of na
tions it not only shapes the careers
of men, but of states; It not only de
velops character, but it also shapes In
stitutions. And because it is so great In
its power and its Influence. It Will not
be strange if in time puouo opinion
wipes away war as one. of the menaces
of civilization.
..... . . 1 1 AnUIA- - . W
Any voter ho goes to the polls tha ,ntert of any movement and the
and votes only his first choice, de- end is not hard to figure out. It took
privilege which the voter has. In
Btedd of one vote for each positional
he has three. In fact, it is alto
gether probable that hia second or
third choice Is likely to have more
to do with the final selection than,
will his first choice.
libf rately throws away two thirds
to five per cent of Americans, and i of his voting privilege. He not only
SC'
fAKE
E'
MMA 'GOLDMAN and -DoYtor
-Reltman, her manager, two
leading anarchists of America,
wer arrested . upon their - ar-
rival in Ban Dlegc yesterday morn-
lug arid escorted,': under guard, out
f the,.'clty. They were not wanted
in San Diego. ; i:. - : ,
Patrick Quinlan, organizer for the"
Industrial Workers 'of tins World,
j was locked up ; In a Paterson, New
Jersey, Jail, hating been, found-guilty
of Inciting silk will strikers' to riot.
It was proved that he urged force
;ti a meajis'for furthering his par
, ticular Ideas of socialism,
j William W. . Wood, millionaire
j head of the woolen trust, Is on trial
; In Boston on a charge of conspiring
i to plant dynamite as a means for
i winnihg the Lawrence textile ejrtke
Oast year. Wood was required to tts-
1 1. ndcerrfflonrTipnrnsrrhTfi
-fellow-defendant who turned state's
icvileace.
I Thus, toclety la learning to haxa
- HU patieucw wRh"anachy,v whether
withheld from 95 per cent?
The New York Chamber of Com
merce protests against methods for
collecting the tax. "This system of
deduction at source Is bound to
cause confusion, delay and dispute,
as well, as disclosures of personal
income- to persons- other than gov
ernment officials," is the argument
Congress is asked to maKe the tax
collectible directly from individuals,
with heavy penalties for evasions.
The history of personal property
taxation in this country demon
strates the absolute futility of this
proposal. No Inquisition has yet
been devised that 'will uncover all
buried .property. Personal taxes
have produced, a race of perjurers;
Ameriea has become Immoral in at
tempting to levy such taxes.
What better results could be ex
pected If dependence is made entire
ly on Individual honesty ln collecting
an income tax? If the income tax
proposed Iff wrong in every .other
particular, it is .right ln going to
the source of Incpmesr-
throws away two thirds of his voting
rights, but' throws away that very
portion of his privilege which may
turn out to be the most important.
Those who are advising that only
first choice votes be cast are trying
to rob voters of their rights. It Is
tnT"ieTfisTTad vice' of candidates who
place their own ambition above the
voter's rights and above the city's
welfare.
Any voter who, at the behest of
some politician, gives up his second
and third choice votes will exercise
but one third the voting rights' that
will be exercised by other and wiser
voters.
ADEQUATE CAR SERVICT3
C
George Swltzer began a thirty
year sentence in the penitentiary at
Fort Madison, Iowa, within forty
hour after slashing the throat .of
tho chief of police. He was care
less ln Tils slashing. Had he utilized
the throat of an ordinary citizen
there would jjulte likely have been
about forty months of legal sparring.
Other cities may have their ro
deos, their stampedes and .their' wild
west shows. But the Pendleton
Round-Up will be apt to hold Its
H1CAG0 will try the experiment
of attempting, to v secure seats i supremacy as the classiest demon-
iur aw sireeicar patrons, me gtration of them alt. Pr.nle do not
council. , by unanimous vote.
passed an ordinance forbidding trac
tion companies - from admitting to
cars more passengers than can be
seated. Comfort and adequate serr
vice, are involved iu enforcement; of
the ordinance. There Is complaint
about car service in Portland, and
with the city's narrow streets com
plaints are certain;t6 multiply with
Increasing population. -Adequate car
service wllr of necessity, be an ever
present problem. -j ----- v
But there 1g n.ttTe to fecommo
iicagos method of solution. Peo-
plo who live in cities must accept
some city inconveniences. Enforce
ment of the -ordinance-will picaa
Uherlo8gaiUpa .street corner
travel ' from --the other : coast- yes.
and from Europe -to see the more
or less feeble Imitations of this stir
ring and picturesque event. ,
A girl student in "Missouri had
her Jaw fractured with 'a baseball
while playing the national game,
and a female-Raffles was lately ar
rested at Long' Beach, California,
with her arms full of burglaretl
plunder. The Job of chimney sweep
will soon b'about the only-male
of aspiring womanhood.
In-1705,10,000 of our sporWov
ihgf ncestors assembled la in an
cient Roman amphitheatre at Dor-
public opinion to wipe out human slav
ery In this country. True, the wiping
out came through a costly war, but it
would never have been accomplished
had it not been for the- sentiment Set
afoot against slavery.
In recent years there has been an In
telligent - and persistent propaganda
against war. The people of the entire
world, have been educated to the horrors
of war and the needless waste of life
-Hmd-wealth. Bo thorfluglrtia8thateda-'
cation been that today there is a grow
ing' repugnance .against what once. was
thought to be an expression of patrlotlo
sentiment and national glorification. In
brief, through a well laid propaganda
and an adequate system Of education a
publlo opinion against war has been
formed. Today it is beginning "to bear
fruit. In 20 years the harvest will be
more plentiful. In time, it is probable
that war as an arbitration 'of dispute
between nations or peoples will have
ended and tha nation that persists in
going to war, looked upon as not only
eruet but too densely ignorant to be
brought into close unity with other na
tions whose swords have been wrought
into plowshares. In other words, be
fore many years any nation that per
sists in going to war will be ostracised
by the rest of the world. ,
. Next Great Reform.
. From the Omaha World Herald.
what the people of Nebraska, need
above all things is an efficient legis
lature, the members of which can
withstand the assaults, the deceptions,
the arguments, the pleadings, and the
legal pressure that is brought to bear
upon them by the lobby that special
interests sena to .uinooin ana to oo
it without being bolstered up by con
stant pressure . from the' newspapers
and ''letUrs from home." The next
great reform that the people under
take should be in tha direction.
The legislator with all the bills be
fore him and nothing else to do, should
..be able to understand what the Inter
ests of .the people demand', or what the
corporations Remand. There Is a cer-"
tain Una of legislation that every mem
ber of the legislature must know Is
almond universally demanded by the
people and yet it seems Impossible to
get such measures through the legisla
ture without "little- Jokers'?- being In-I
corporated that will destroy the. very
purpose that it is . proposed to accom
plish. - . r -
mot enonBTi ifjoft nfl wrnrrfrnT
ran be Induced to run. for legislative
positions, and this ha been the trouble
in the past, they should be drafted, un
der as drautlo a law as for service ta
tht army Jattmes jot danger to the
country. -
central figure ln that remarkable group
of investigators at the Rockefeller In
stitute. He la ranked as one of the
three or four greatest biologists. Loeb
was the first experimenter to retain life
in axctsed tissue. Dr. Alexis . Carrel,
his associate at the Rockefeller Insti
tute carried that experiment further.
Because of- his success in' not merely
retaining life, but in actually growing
tissue, Carrel won the Nobel prize last
last year. ' Loeb has pointed to the pos
sibility that some time we may sidestep
death. Nine years ago he was quoted
as eaylng: . . - . k ' ..
"Death Is no. longer an Inevitable
decree of nature. The Indefinite pro
longation of life merely depends upon
the skilful management of substances
that possess the property of accelerat
ing processes which would otherwise
proceed slowly. .
Within the past few months he has
reiterated his conviction that life will
some time be artificially produced. It
only remains to solve the technique ot
the process. He has already shown
that he can get along, without one par.
ent ln certain organisms. His success
in the artifical fertilization of the egg
of the sea urchin created a sensation
eight jrears ago. Perhaps hisjrtiemlcal
enrfaheTTnT6IIie ""Held, of psychology
Is of equal importance, if lacking in
the sensational qualities of life-making
by process and the postponement of
death. He destroyed the commonly held
theory of- Instinct, and through the gap
thus made attacked the subtllltles of
thought and memory and affection. ,
Light strikes a young Caterpillar and
he reacts to it. He therefore, climbs
tree and at the end of tm slender
branches he finds food. When the in
ftnlteeimal void which was his stomach
is filled anot er, reaction sets In and
he starts downward in search of. protec
tlohirom the light which now repel
him. He didn't climb because he was
hungry, or because he was guided by
instinct Nature had merely touched a
button. He would have climbed a steel
lamppost as untntelllgently - and - Joy
ously as he did a juicy elm. Loeb ap
plies the same theory w'(h modifies
tions to suit to Tiigner organisms.
boy in love an old man getting red
faced over the tariff a pretty suffra
gette wearing a slit skirt are. to Loeb
merely "living organisms responding to
known chemical reactions." No wonder
some of the more susceptible of the
Century associates shivered. Imagine a
fellow club member who would have a
chemical reaction at the sight of a fat
old rich man having a chemical' reaction
over the Income tax, and begin to talk
socialism. . . ;
That happens - to h one of Loeb's
own reactions, some of the century
associates said that Loeb Is not always
tolerant of the opinions of Others in
debate. Very few really big men are,
perhaps. The 1,100 members of the
Century associates are - by the terms
of the association "authors, artists, and
amateurs of letters and the fine arts.
For the most part they have both
money -and social position. They are
believed by the public to be as naturally
conservative as Loeb is naturally icon
oclastic. One member said that those
Who objected to Loeb as a fellow mem
ber did so because in debate:
"He regards the man who disagrees
with him a either having been asleep
in the Catskllla for twenty years, or as
a biological freak."
Loeb is a Jew, but the racial Issue
was not raised by the objecting mem
bers of the Century Association'. Not
only are sevnal of. the more prominent
members Jews, b'ut some of . these are
said to have figured in the opposition.
Loeb is now fifty-four years old. He
Is quiet,- mutter of fact, businesslike,
and busy. He is of medium height,
dark complexion, and Is slightly
stooped. . He walks slowly, as though
In reflection; his eyes are brown and
shrewd, and ho talks little and then to
the point. Various unfortunate experi
ences have Influenced him to avoid
publicity. He never indicates the na
ture of his experiments until they are
completed. Then he publishes a brief
and Illuminative bulletin. He was born
in Germany, cams to the United States
to Join the faculty of Bryn Mawr, and
later served with - the University of
Chicago and the University of Cali
fornia before accepting the position of
fered him with the Rockefeller Insti
tute. -He has become an American citi
zen, and married an American wife.
However, he once said that;
"If I had been born -in America 1 1 ,
should never have taken up scientific
work. Here the rewards are too slight,
the pay too small, the contempt for
science too great. America does not
honor its men of intellect."
Loeb didn't eyen have a chemical re
action when the Century Association
turned him down.
MR, BRYAN AND THE WINE DRINKERS ;
By Dr. Frank Crane. -
- (Copyright, 1D13, byFrank Crane.)
It's a queer world, and one of the
queerest spectacles in it is that of a
group of folks who, lor one reason or
anotherbluff, bully, and browbeat the
timid majority.
Tho most intolerant of these self-
constituted tyrants are those of fashion,
those whose opinions, accent, and man
ners are "the thing." '
One of the statutes on the books of
these "correct" people is that. in jrder
to be real uppity one must serve wine
at any dinner where men and worrt-en
"of the world" are invited. Beer, whis
key, or cocktails will not do; It muBt be
wine. i. -'-.- - r
The reason is that this Is tha custom
in Europe. Everybody there drinks wine
even the office boy must have a wine
allowance ln addition to his wages. The
usual boose is red ink called vrn ordi
naire, a watery, red stomach-pickle sup
posed to be xtracted from the grape.
When there, is a wedding,.' or a ban
quet, or any sort- of' hlgh-JInks, there
must be champagne, .which is the best
morning-after headache maker yet dis
covered. ' " '.
This Is not a temperance oration. I
am in favor of letting any one consume
wine. ; or oriisslo acid. If he is so dis
posed, and have no .Sympathy with the
temperance wild man who insists mat
becauss-4a?- hr ar-water-drinlterihereC
fore there- should be. no more cakes
and ale. : ,.- ; '-" ' ;
But the majority of the better (I mean
mTn&rrvnettmranffmemgwtT-rwrt-
of American people do not regularly
drink alcohojjo liquors. The great body
or proressioijar men, capaoje- Dusinesa
men, and almost the entire number of
women in these United States ao not
have a wtns bottie on the dinner table
as a -usual thing. The most of the crowd
that cluster about saloon bars are sec
ond class and on down,. The. typical
American drinks water, and perhaps
takes something stronger only occasionally,-.:.-.
: :-, v .. .- ;,-, , . , ,. . -..
Consequently it is with feelings of
distinct satisfaction that we read that
Secretary , of State- Bryan, at a recent
dinner he gave in honor of Ambassador
wames uryce- or England, had no wines
served,- and stated that he was a' tee
totaller, his parents were before htm,
that he proposed to omit. 'Intoxicants
from, all entertainments given by him,
and that he was sure that all foreigners
of common sense would respect his right
to do as he pleased at his own board.
Our hats are off to Mr. Bryan, In
this matter he is playing the man. With
out making an offensive display of his
Virtue' he Is acting at Washington Just
as he has been used to acting among
his neighbors at Lincoln, Neb., and that
Is what American peopi,like.4o see. ,
"There is nothing s i'a.: the modern
world," says Mrs. John-Lane, "so ab
solutely real and convincing as pretense.
It has set Itself a Standard of living
which can best be described as the
Champagne Standard."- Again she says:
"The backbone of the American republic
W Ms ice water drinking class."
T do not desire to 'criticise the drink
ing customs of. Europe, yet when a cer-
-tain class of snobs presume-1 - Indi
cate that a president of the United
States or other high -official must de
part from the almost universal custom
erTTmrceomry8;nd
his table whenever he has . "quality"
folk, to "dine, .they-should be "reminded
that the first principle of good breeding
Is to conform to the habits of .the host
so long as you partake of his hospi
tality. ' :
From the Oakland Tribune.
The telegraphic summary of the re
port of the bureau of corporations on ,
the stool imluHtry, which was delivered
to the .president Thursday by Acting
CoinmlHKloner t'ranrls Wulker, gives.au
lnnlglil into the workings of the United
Stqol trust. Hut the light thrown on
the trust's methods, of manipulating its
accounts to conceal its' real profits and
the sources thereof In illuminating. In '
these accounts, a wide margin of dlf- '
ferenre exists between the "book coiU"
and the actual "not costs" of manufac
tured steel products. The bureau re- -port
produces figures to show that the
big corporation's system of bookkeeping
InciuJed in the statements of the cost .
of production transfers of large profits
to subsidiary oro and transportation
com pa n lesr-i-T hese- su bsid lap y eonoer ns
are, of course, all wholly owned 'or, at
least, controlled by the trust. Thus,
whatever share of tho profit of the man
ufacturing plants was paid totheae sub
sidiary . corporations . was - merely a "
transfer of money from one pocket of the -
controlling interests to the other, pocket
a Plain juggling of funds and figures
to conceal the enormous profits which
those interests actually derive from toe"
mining. of raw material to the tnarkett
Ing of the manufactured product. For '
example: The bureau report shows that .
the average "boofc x'osts" of thaproduc.
tlon bf Bessemer ste'ol by the manufac
turing plants of tu ttust wai:i.ea.
while the actual ,int cfafreitctudlng the '
Intercompany profit o tht raw mate
rial from- the MWwib and other vast'
iron ore deposits, of. which the trust ha
an absolute monopoly, and that allowed
on transportation from the iron mines
to the manufacturing plants, the rail
roads being1 also the property of tho
trusts was only 11. 67, '
The report further shows that - the
average Investment of the steel corpora
tion In the ore reserves from which a .
30 years' supply of raw material has
been drawn amounts to about 14.47 per
ton, agalnBt. which the corporation
charged a profit of $1.30 per ton or the
equivalent of 2 per cent. .
Similar conditions are shown to hav
existed in the operation of the two rail
roads owned by the steel corporation,
which are employed almost exclusively -ln
carrying iron ore from the corpora
tion mine to the corporation manu
facturing; plants gays the bureau re
port: . ' -,
"On the basis of the total Investment,
Including the net Working Capital, and
the total net earnings reported by these
twb railroads, the rates of profit in
1)10 were f or -Ux Iiuluih-Mlssnbe &
Northern railway about 23 per cent, and
for the Duhith and Iron Range railroad
about 17 H per cent."
Evidently the steel corporation has
been managing Its business on the seme
system as the Standard Oil and Coal .,
trusts controlling the sources of sup--
ply, the transportation sorvlce..the man
ufacturing plants and the market
both ends and the middle of the business
and bleeding the consumer at the
nose to provide enormous profits to th
stockholders, wholly out of proportion - x.
with tha amount of the Investment, the
cost of production and the minimum
risk of operation of the various plants.
Always In Good Humor
ALWAYS' TOO LATE
From the Chlcagtr Tribune, : -
""Old chap, didn't your better Judg
ment tell you not to make that Invest
ment?" -
"No; my better judgment never tells
me anything until after I've gone and
made a fool of myself." ;. ... ,..
"'" ' V
WHEN EVEKTTHINO GIVES WAT.
From me mtsburg Post,
The most terrible .enmittes among
women are . forgotten - when another
dam Is needed to . play, bridge.
HOPE.
From the Washington Star.'
"Tou have been condemned to be shot
at sunrise," said the friendly guard.
"Well," replied the Mexican prisoner.
"I'm willing to tako a chance on formal
marksmanship, but don't let anybody
send a rescue party for me," j
Pointed Paragraphs
Tears are the crying need of women,
e .
For every sticker there are a dozen
quitters, .
When money talks the? mere men and
women listen.
A scrap of information sometimes
ends in a war of words.
If woman thinks before she speaks
she. can economize on talk.
Somehow a woman never has much
faith-in, another woman who keeps
secrets. -..
Every husband hears a good deal
about the saintly actions of other bus-
bands, . .:,
if every man was as fierce In action
as-he-is-n-thoughtr-all the Jalls-oald-be
full.
The powers that' be too frequently sit
down on evil as gingerly as If It wers
an inverted tack.
Quests nearly always get more enjoy
ment out of the entertainment provided
than the host
.. ..... ... ...... . - - - . .-
Listeners don't,' expect to hear any
good of themselves; It's the -bad of
others they are after.
A ' woman enn " love her enemies tf
they will only give her a chance to say
horrid' things abont, them. v
A seat in a crowded car Is a conUn
rum that a gallant man always gives
up if the, girl is pretty.
A Whole Season's
Comfort
- During the delightful month,
of May make your plans for
the hot summer months of
June, July and August
W'hptlipr you stay'itt home or
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-to think about. -Comfortable
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tion plans, week-end excur
slonsT the pleasant prospect off
visits-among friends. - All of "
: these are made more enjoyable
if your purchases are ontod;
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While stocks are fresh-..-'
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not become sluggish, from tne
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