The Oregon daily journal., June 13, 1913, Page 8, Image 8

THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND,
FRIDAY
EVENING, JUNE 13. IDE
-IEJOURNAL
.vtippNnicNT Kitwsparrn
Ja. ...VII PehlUhaf
t ynii-4 tf avrritna; (airapt Sunday! and
rr (mills morning at 1 J.mrnl Build
Ilrnailwir and Vmhlll I'nrilnnd. or.
Kutnrtd at lb Buamrtlo
i t tian.n.lxluu tlirougk U)
winner.
at 1'iirtUDd, or
mall a accraa
lower the goncral Rtandard of mor
als. Tho practice should bo sum
marily ended by the authorities who
are In nearly all cases fully cogni
zant that tho Inheritance tax law is
being violated.
ILLINOIS AM) WOMEX
1H Kl'liu.NK.l Mala TlTSi llnaia, A-mt.
il 6-nartianli ri hd bf tnoaa I1
jOH tin, wot tor wlrnt rtapartnont fwe at
KiMKlUN aDVBMTISINO KIPRENTtlV
' l''Jtn.ln V kanloor Co., Hruiuwl.li uxuninf
! 1.1 Hfth araniM. Nr I oral UK -pl
I . riull.Ilnr. Chli-aa.
ulcflr.ila Trrma by nail or f any al
la UM Gaiu4 Sutaa or Uftlcej
DULY
Dm rett ... (3.00 Ooa mmta, .81
CKPAX
Pne fair....... .13.00 I Oh aoaatB... .
, DAILT AMD SUMDAZ
Dim faf (T.M I Ox Boaa .1 .0
Wh th million applaud
you, seriously ask what harm
you have done; when they cen
sure you, what good. Colton,
r
NA3IK FIT MEN
II1E JOURNAL submits that. In
the new government of Port
land, no political hack, no old
time taxeater, no cheap .poli
tician, no discredited man, should bo
Ippolnted to office.
Tha new charter It to be 00 trial
Commission government Is to be on
rial. Tho mayor and commission-je'rs-clect
are to be on trial. '
No chief, of police should 1 be
iamed .'who is in the slightest de-
tree tainted or about whom there is
the slightest doubt as to compe
tency.
No municipal judge should be ap
pointed on whom there fa a. scar, a
Hernial, or taint - '
No city engineer, should be ap
pointed over whom there has passed
the sllgthest breath of suspicion,
v No city . attorney . should be ap
pointed on whom there la the , least
surmise of Incompetency or taint
No purchasing agent should be ap
pointed as a reward for political ser
LLINOIS women are to vote. The
legislature has admitted them to
the ballot In presidential and
municipal elections by a bill
which the governor will sign. It is
only a matter of time, after this
step Is alien, until they will be
given the elective franchise In state
elections. .
For so conservative state as Illi
nois to take such a step Is a far
change from the past status of wo
man. .The transformation in man's
estimate of woman as evinced In a
swiftly changing order Is omen of
an almost cortala spread of equal I
suffrage to nearly all the 's t a t e
'within a comparatively short time.
Until thirty years ago, women had
no right to burial In the family lot
in Massachusetts. It was .the law
that a widow could not remain
forty days In the husband's residence
after his death without paying rent
She may , have earned the money
which bought the house, but she had
to pay rent or go. '
It id only within 3. generation In
many of the states that a married
woman gained the right to own her
own clothes. Before that her cloth
lug was her husband's property.
in we united states, except in a
few western states, the child of a
married woman Is the property of
the husband. As late as 1888 there
were several .states In which women
could not control their own prop
erty, and there are a few states in
which that custom still obtains. In
some eastern states as late as thirty
years ago, the law held the wife
to be a perpetual minor, and held
that husband and wife were one
and that the one was the husband.
At that time, the husband was per
mitted, to punish the wife with a
v ra 1 nn in, - nt h a amnnila mrmn "
highest fitness for the position. J" "f J hd" "dreS8' ,She
sl n-w. A,.t. .in -w 4 .u.i could not rent a house, her earnings
owned all her real estate.
The change by which woman is
transferred from such a status to
equal voting power with man In ten
states is a mighty stepl So much of a
change within thirty years is augury
that within - another twenty, woman
I bo returned la full at tho 'end of
1 ten years.
Tho action of the legislature was
distinctly constructive, it was ex
perimental for a state to finance
such a projoct, but it is by experi
ment that all progress has como.
The many failures at irrigation
through other plana suggested that
the state might evolve a program of
reclaiming desert lands that would
be successful,
Such was the program when the
McMahan suit to have tho Columbia
Southern measure declared uncon
Btltutlonal was brought forward. It
has put a ston to tho oDeratlons that
were already well under way, and
through which watting settlers on
the project hoped to be given ulti
mate Justice and a means of Hvell
hood for their families.
The circumstances are such that
the courts and all concerned should
ford every facility for getting an
rly decision of the case. It Is the.
last place in the world in which do-;
lays and postponements should be
Introduced or tolerated.
many plaudits from the reviewing
thousands its the line passed tho
crowded streets.
PERTINENT' COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
A slx-yenr-old child died at Phila
delphia from inflammation of tho
stomach caused by nibbling the rub
ber core of a baseball that had been
knocked, over tho American league
fence. Portland children are appar
ently in no Immediate danger at
least, with the local tribe at bat
SMALL CUANGU
Miss Emma II. Qraves, ,84 years
old, has completed 50 years of serv
ice In the treasury department at
Washington. She has counted bil
lions of dollars without ever mak
ing a mistake.
... "Indiana has more paupers than
any other state; it also has more
authors," sneers an Ohio paper,
coldly disdainful of the traditionally
tender relations between literature hrl or
and poverty. ' , ' .. "
It Is a week of fraicrnnce and beauty,
a.
Uncle Sam la alwaya welcome In this
nrayujt,
'
Many people have tho beautiful facul
y ot belli happy and good, too.
Even the old folk fuel comparatively
young again then delicious days.
Even the mountain Known rania down
to ae and help along- the Festival.
,
Why so many young- people choose
dellKlitful Juna in which to marry Is no
myatery. ,
'
Much buslneaa muat ba done, of
coure, but play as much as poaalble
this week.
- a .
It will be much mora tha man M
summer ttwie when all the Illoa are ex-
Vraen truck don't worshln at the
OKEGOX SIDELIGHTS
enrlne of Queen Hose; the vegetables
rejoice In June wetneae. . "
.WILLAMETTE
0'
new government than is the naming
of fit men for these positions. No
.greater blunder can be committed
by the administration than by nam
ing doubtful men, or questionable
men, or uncertain, men for these
positions. '
IN WEST VIRGINIA
UT of Oregon visitors to the
festival should spend a day at
some point In the Willamette
valley before returning home.
Nowhere has nature clothed a re
gion in more gorgeons attire. The
pastures, meadows, fields and hills
are 'carpeted in an Incomparable
green. Every tree and every buBh
Is In its most brilliant foliage. .
Along the farm fences the wild
rose and the sweet briar give oft a
ravishing fragrance. . The country.
lanes are lined with blooming alslke
clover with a perfume to charm the
Gods.
Along the creeks, In the woods,
through the meadow paths and by
the orchards and country dooryards
nature Is In Its most delightful
modd, filling the visitor with dreams
of Elysium,
The great valley of the rWinam-
ette in hef June robes Is .nature in
her sweetest symphony.
Tin D.tljM ....... .i..r- '. . .
, . . 1 - a.Minmi, viaivs. inpir victory
Just a hint of acoulescence. And I won. ahould fail ant nA ruh,
any one 01 those dazzling maidens aoooy.
Bceu mo wuiiaenuiv iioam if iiu nMin... -.. ..h.
cquld
row.
become a J una bride tomor-
Portland, after awhile will have the die-
wuvuun ui Doing- an unDonaea city,
. e ...
uncle Edward Paveait watnn v.:
, ' - - , , fueea to act aa if in the aged class, and
Letters From the People 1' oo mifeahu tim"1' , but n,f
(Commanlratlon aant. to Tb'e Journal tot
pobllratltiD In Ibli drpartmaat abould ba writ
tan im only ob aid of tha paper, abould not
ttrrti 3110 wordt In Ita&a and nuit- be ac.
eompanled br tbe nama and addmaa of tha
Modrr. It the writer doaa not dnlfa to bare
ma oa ma puoiuoca. Da Iboald ao Ute.
Blarriage Club Story Denounced.
Portland, June 11. 1813. To the Ed
itor of The Journal May X be permit
tad to atate tho facts In the case of
the Wellesley girls, referred to Ju an pr bad are heard of again, and
e
The mayor-elect is politically a Pro
gressive, but that had little to do with
his" election. At last politlce Is pretty
well eliminated from city government
The younff man out of school who
iEjinn an ma ioiik vacation loaring or
sporting la not likely to be hoard of
later In life on account of his con
spicuous success.
"Whiskey and other intoxlcante or
Buuieuiing anegea to be just aa good,
E. IC IfiiulctH(in Iihh retired from the
management of the Hllver l-nke Leader
and U X, Cliarloa la now at the helm,
a a
Jtonurg grnngrs have now: held
two "market duya.'V and are entirely
BtttlHflOll with rCHIlllM.
a a
Cottage drove Joyously opmn the
Fourth of July fund campaign, witn
105 available left over from the farm
era' ulcnlu. which waa held laMt FlU
a a
The Buker Democrat announces that
native bunch gratia ia again allowing ita
nupreinacy on ttie duih or riaaer coun
ty, ana enys it le too bad there are not
more cattle to feed upon It.
a a
Henry Hamilton of Burns was 'as-Ifttlnu-
In tonsorlallalng a mule's mane
laet week, and the mule kicked him,
with ita head, so hard that when he
struck the earth, he sustained a badly
broken liln. The name of the inula Is
withheld by the Burns papers, .
Axtorta Budget: A large amount of
nulldlng la said to be in (progress at
THE EXTRAVAGANT DANK
CLERK
From the Omaliii World-Herald.
A notable exponent of the theory that
"there Im no connection between wages
and morality," a prominent Chicago
banker appeared the other day befoie
the Illinois vice commission. ; In tho
course of his Illuminative talk to the
commission ho mentioned, Incidentally,
that he had discharged an employe In
his bank, a young man In a clerical po
sition, .because he got married when his
salary waa only $60 a month, Tho
young man In getting married was liv
ing beyond his meaus, said the benevo
lent banker, and It Is living beyond tmu'a
means, and not low ware tnat eauaea
all- manner of immorality and crime.
Precisely. It la the desire to eat that
effuses a hungry man to steal when ho
has. not tha meana to huv a loaf n(
breadv It is a dangerous desire, be-
cause it leads him to a reprehenslbla
action but it Is a natural one. never-
theless. So with the dealre of a younjf
man, even a 150 bank clerk tn tak
unto himself a wife. ' To be married, to
nave a nomo, to raise a family of chli-
Beajldo and the work U being mailed dren, may be beyond his means but tor "
during the preaent fine weather in or- him to desire it Is the most natural
rial ti ha rnu.lv tnr i nn,n hi ftf 'thai .1.1 .. . """"'"'
" 7on. No onTrar. several iVo he " Sn-f "Vvk m " Va
fine business blocks In course of con- IaTft"! h J"" Whether the de-
structlon, but a large number of cot- nul .z Pvllege tends to make him
tages are being erected as weJl. moral or Immoral the esteemed bankor-
a a aoolologlst failed to make Quite clear.
County Recorder Maloner at McMInn- nl we think that It would nave been '
vllle laet week placed on record the interesting had he treated this Dhaea of
United Ktatea patent to the donation I the subject. It would have been deltght-
iui, indeed, had ho been able to de
molish the pernicious jtheory that the
fact that young men, and young women,
too, cannot afford to be married, because
it means "living "beyond their means"
makes for immorality through the es
tablishment of loose, irregular and fleet
ing relationships between the sexes.
We cannot help feeling a curiosity as
to the fate Of the discharged bank clerk.
Did he marry the girl of his dreams, hav
ing lost his Job, or did .he seek another
300 ana give up forever the pernicious
land claim of John Marble in West
Chehalem, issued 60 years ago. and
signed by President Abraham, Lincoln.
The Telephone Register nays the docu
ment had lain in the United States
land office for (0 years without being
recorded. , .
Baletn Statesman:" "Why not ' have
'RdvI Annes'?" This Question Is be
ing agitated among some or tne Doost
ers in Salem in connection with an or
aranlzntlon here similar to the Rosa.
rlane of Portland, and the Royal Oaks
of Oakland. Cl. It is stated by the
editorial paragraph In The Journal ofllkIv n'e1 lt1 "uppresalon, The real I In putting the annual cherry fair well
very j live ones that it would be Instrumental desire io llvs beyond his means by es-
last Sunday? The account of the for-
matlon of a. "Marriage qiub" at Welles
ley, members of which were pledged not
to marry for three years after gradua
tion, and not to marry any man on a
salary of less than $6000 a year, waa
muam
wet goods are bad enough.
(before the people of the state.
WHAT DAVID LUBIN STARTED
It
By Herbert Corey.
wasn't that David Lubln
dldn'
BUSTING A TRUST
H'
ITtlNG a trust's pocketbook
has been a difficult task.
Fines have not disturbed
trusts, for fines, however
large, have been charged back
against the people. In view of re-
, U1UBU j I, f iA . . J . . .
is almost certain to be a voter in 7: "lolurjr vcul pro'eBl goT
"e ui ajaiuoi, Aiiuiuey ucucral
f HE. sepate committee's Investi
gation of military rule in West
Ttfgfffa, taken In- connection
with Indictment of officers of
the United Mine Workers of Ameri
ca on charges Of conspiracy, : illus
trates now the law-abiding man is
often caught between two crushing
forces, each claiming right for its
motive. The ! West Virginia situa
tion la evidence that the ordinary
Individual must submit to .oppression
until the strong hand of Intelligent
government rescues him.
The labor , leaders are charged
with having conspired with Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
mine operators to precipitate trouble
tn West Virginia for no other pur
pose than to limit the output of West
Virginia's non-unionized mines and
Ijhus assist in maintaining high coal
prices. If conspiracy was entered
nto. It follows that the constitution
was, in effect, suspended by labor
leaders and mine operators before
he West Virginia trouble started.
With that fact established, every
thing that happened In West Vir
ginia followed as a natural conse
quence. The senate committee has already
incovjered a 'startling state of af
fairs. - Because of labor troubles
.'fihat a federal grand Jury says were
precipitated in behalf of robbing
coal prices, constitutional guaran
tees were set aside; men's liberty
was placed in the hands of drum
Head court martials, from which
tjiere was no appeal and little hope
df justice. .'";:...i
Never in darkest Russia 'waa'
greater power assumed by men selz- a
ing upon authority. Had an invad
ing, foreign army entered West Vir
ginia and put people to the sword,
the, plight of American institutions
most, if not all the ctates.
WHAT IS A LOBBY?
C
up
jMcReynolds proposal for regulating
the tobacco trust by imposing a
graded internal revenue tax, increas
ing with increased output, it may be
assumed that the plan, If attempted,
up vj m reporter on a Jsosion I knnv ,. ii. w. .1... k.
reached Welled indla
oV'UfdW.tCl
dnt fr h- - V. I u, 'o ie eg, now, swaiiow nis ton
... atvo. IIV UUI mJXJBWM Ul llUUllir III1L IT I M It A. I a. a
there wera anv foundatinn fni th-.Tn, """' auu wal1 unul n spoaen to.
ONVTNCINO testimony is of rec
ord that President Wilson
spoke the truth when he made 1 wuld prove reasonably efficient
his, "Iniquitous lobby" charge. Sponsors for the tobacco trust ln-
Apologlsts for the lobby hajfe not!8'sf it la now obeying the court's de-
been able to switch the charge. ' cree ordering dissolution. The at-
Senator Townsend retired behind i torney general Insists that the de
cree, from the start, was doomed to
failure The trust, apologists argue
m."lE-!A. rooCm.
v.. . c.uu waa tuny CSiaDllsneO, tne IIow r. voll Vina-r' M r TjiWi.
S?.owrot.VVh?Urr0n,mfhnt f-firth? -SSsST byMtheMVmal
Swer ...p L ,i t f right hand and shaking It heartily!
aiak Mm f f 4?S error wonder I didn't ask after all
rw'hfih" 4-n?ffr the little king,," Lubln said afterward.
Foilowina- la . .t.tTm.M IZIa yZ wlln a mmace. "Before I got through
present of thi IwSlll aS'nt ,a,UB 1 had P',ne1 the king that
ert a8aoc.at 1C"le5r Gov- j j couldn.t bu .ilk hat t fit me and
"Th. f, it,. ......... . "tt " orr mrougn.ine court
thm w . . ,." UH regulations by wearing a black slouch.
1 ia ur r." V ."r .fat I had perhaps the rottenest
". .Vr. ' nirea can m Rome."
thm whntKr"," Bt it made a hit with King Victor
aether Evarv arlri waa m.t nn w Emmanue1' He talked wlth this un-
W give wVntl
ft". SliSfo.. ThU.b-stuIdef,rb1odtDe,r ,f to thefront door,of llVllt
dUnt that .Jch ."epreiyn tat ion 0&nnduht00khhan
or wiiew ahAtiM v.. .Ja J - iS. m. . " oourt chamberlains
mnntpv oiffnt v , died In windrows. And as a direct re-
"MAHT WHEELER HUMPHREY.
"President Wellesley Student Govern
ment Association."
"senatorial courtesy"iWhen asked, to
name tbe senators he said were un
duly Influenced by "the president
What is a lobby? No baiter defini
tion than the New YorV World's
haa been given: . -j; - ' )
A-lobbyist is a person whoi for hir.lhave no acaualntance with right.
or hope of personal gain, secretly and There Is no questioning the fact' llolty Committee ot the Oregon Welles-
suit of that talk and the thought
which had inspired it the Intematial
Institute of Agriculture Is meeting in
Rome now. Every one admits that the
I. I. Of A. Is a big thing. Delegates
have been sent to it from every Euro
pean country, except those in which the
As the Wellesley press board Is mak
ing a special effort this year to furnish
reliable news for the Boston and Mow
York papers represented by its member., l1"1
that what is lawfni under a court's .SWi
order must necessarily be right The . naners thua recanted Ihk m v : . chiwHKi in. The
attorney eeheral answers that Mnrtm occurred. Anythlnr which vnu ran dn um.te?. BUtea lately paid the freight
uurruyu, . uy. orioory, lmimiaation, no-; that the tobacco trust waa ' rfla
luslon, persuasloa promises, or other-41"" "e l0Dacco WUBt was dls
wise, attempts either to defeat the win ; charged . from court practically un-
of the people as expressed at the polls , hurt. The court's decree gave no
fh.tL11?uJcVhe reJfenttives of 1 guarantee of free competition. The
the people to betray their trust. !,Dr, ....
ley Club,
If the word "lobby" haB ever had
any but a sinister meaning, the re
spectable scope of the term can
profitably be dropped. A short word
is - needed to characterize All secret
agencies retained by private Inter
ests to influence legislators. Neither
President Wilson, nor any other
maa who works honestly in the
open, Is" a lobbyist. President Wil
son is standing uncomDromlsineiv
for good faith and honest perform
ance. The present day lobby Is Insidious.
It has not the brazen Impudence of
Credit Mobiller days, when Sam
Ward openly made his headquarters
in rooms of the appropriation com
mittees. The Pacific Mail subsidy
investigation
have made many things lawful which ZlX
will be greatly appreciated by the Pu S t' ZVl Mai2.wi0..
fa, aauu aavb atitxiajr 9JjJj9j
are paying any attention to Lubln. He
only invented the Institute, and bully
ragged kings and potentates into ac
cepting it, and patted its plans into
shape. Then he let others have the spot
light - .
The I. I. of A. will be a clearlnf
house for every sort of information
Its accurate crop sta-
taMlsWng a home? If he established
the honie. In spite of Dhilanthronlsta and
sociologists, what then? Perhaps tbe
testimony of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young,
superintendent of the , Chicago city
schools, before that same vice oommis-
rlan credit system of Europe. Lubln's slon a day or two later, will serve to
Investigations published by the I, L of I shed light on the mystery. Mrs. Young
A. and Other organisations have at-1 had the audacity to fly Jn the face of
tracted world-wide attention among the Wealthiest authorities by declaring
thinkers. Chairman Yoakum of, the that too low wages make for a weakened
Frisco system recently reported that the moral and mental caliber; that human
American dollar cannot buy as much as
the European dollar until the American
farmer can borrow money upon the
terms possible to his downtrodden
brother of Europe. Ambassador Her-
rick in Paris and Minister Egan in I
Denmark and a host of others have
agreed with him. Half a dosen members
beings Insufficiently nourished and
poorly clad cannot be expected to make
a winning fight And she added:
"Thousands of children go to school
hungry in Chicago every day. Poor
wages for the father 'and others con
tributing to the support of the family
mean underfed bodies. And they can't
of the United states senate are trying I do with an underfed body what they
to devise a plan by which the American
farmer especially the farmer of tha
granary states of the south and west
can borrow money at the rate offered
to a bankrupt merchant with a stock of
pasteboard boxes filled with laat year's
shirtwaists and potential arson. Lubln
started all this. He saw it first
Lubln waa born In Poland of Jewish
parents in 1849. As a youngster, his
mother who had remarried after his
father's death came to New York.
Young Lubin was given a Job dipping
watch chain links la a plating aolution.
in two weeks he had Invented a ma
chine which did that loathsomely mo
notonous Job better than he could, In
three weeks he had lost his Job, and
the other fellow had patented the ma
chine. He hoboed to California, and
landed In Sacramento, because there
was.no one at the railroad yards to keep
him out. By and by he had enough
could If their bodies were nourished so
as to be' efficient supporters of the.
brain. If their mental capacity is weak
ened or dwarfed, so is their moral fiber,
their physical capacity and their possi
bility of great attainment when at ma
turity. I believe that the Inadequacy
of wages thus lias a primary effect in
weakening the moral capacity of girls,
and boys aa Well."
It may be heresy and unsound, but it
aounua reasonaoie. Ana it gives us ii
notion that If the discharged .bank clerk
failed to marry, he lived In a state of
highly moral celibacy for the rest of bin
dreary days perhaps. If, on the other
hand, he did marry, Mrs. Young's testi
mony prophesies a picture of his under,
fed children going hungry to school,
their moral. fiber weakened and mental
capacity dwarfed by reason of the un
reasonable demands made upon their
MYRTLE HUNT TRAVIS,
Chairman.
But there may be serious question
whether the McReynolds plan should
be adopted.' Shall the government's
taxing power be used for any pur.
pose other than raising revenue?'
The attorney general is making
the trusts squirm under the heel of
their own boot. Trusts have been
built up under exorbitant tariff
schedules. There Is no authoriza
tion for taxing AmerlcanaHto pro
tect trusts. But lt--ha been done
on the plea thaf exorbitant tariff
schedules could be enacted, under
the taxing power of congress.
Now the attorney general pro
poses to tear down trusts, using the
same taxing power as a. lever. If
the trust argument in behalf of ex-
To People Oregon's Lands.
Prairie City, Or., June 8 To the Ed
itor of The Journal Oregon will ha
settled by leaps and bounds durinr the about the farm.
present and the two or three succeeding tlstlcs will It is hoped put an end to
bwuub uuicbb bu signs ran and ran gamming in rood rutures. Its periodical
continuously. The above remark Is reports will infrom those interested of
called forth by the receipt of a letter the conditions of the agricultural labor
this evening from the middle west The market crop conditions, crop diseases
letter begins: and curea, freight , costs, farm machln-
"There are some 80 to 90 families of ery, Intensive farming anythlnr which
us who have entered into the organlza- Jmay seve farmer or merchant. Especial
small group of brokers took
vuargo vi aiiairs. in i87 ex-sen-
ator4 had entered the .buainess in
such numbers that Senator Hale
BOnehf in errlnAa frnm h.lvtf.,.. .
would have been no worse. Liber- the floor all ex-aeniteV vhn
ty'a danger woul(J have been less, interested in any legislation pending
for danger from without is not to I before congress.
cill'ulffT fr? .Wlthlh- Th9 lobby,8t h a ' aWrated.
Governor Hatfield now claims ex- Once a highwayman, he is now a
. '. eif beC&HM he petty thlef' He 18 now- nd ays
. inherited mi tary rule and a sus- was iniquitous. For once, President
nenrferl tnnnMtiiHAn f. j. ... " . 'eniuem
wul ulB yreue-i vnson ,usea an unnecessary word
Why say iniquitous lobby? Whv
cessor.-: jne right of " InheHtDn
does not Impose the duty of accept
ance except aa to what is constitu
tional. Governor Hatfield Is not
blanfeless.
The West .Virginia. Investigation
is serving an excellent purpose. It
will destroy a vicious precedent; it
should teach labor that labor leaders
are not always to be trusted; it
should teach capital that constitu
tional g uarantees tlll exist.
OUR INHERITANCE TAX LAW
not say lobby?
T
PROGRESS is slow In securing a
proper valuation of property in
estates for the purposes of In
heritance tax. At last ac
counts, the ridiculously low valua
tion In a certain great Portland es
tate still stood unchanged.
All over1 Oregon the under valu
tloni nave been practiced ever since
the Inheritance tax law went into
fffect Appraisers In . hundreds of
instances have knowingly valued
properties-at absurdly low figures'
jor we sole purpose of evading a
Just payment of the Inheritance tar.
'JXfSLSUmSmJkKlm tha rn'nral-lawlari
appear in- every Instance of under
valuation: , 1 The state la' cheated
of its Just dues; 2 Appraisers tes
tify falsely as to values and .thereby
WHILE SETTLERS WAIT
HERE is prospect that the Mc
Mahan case against the Colum
bia Southern irrigation project
may be argued before Jndee,
Galloway at Salem June J.8.
The legal moves in this suit should
follow each other with all Dossible
ceieruy. mere was in fact no cry
ing need for the suit to have been
Drought. Now that it is on the
docket, the Issues should be pre
sented to the supreme court Jor a
final determination at the earliest
possible moment. '
The legislature felt that U was
worth while for the state to fender
aid in financing the Columbia South
ern project. Like many others, as
a private project it dismally faiiri.
Many of the settlers who depended
upon getting water on, their lands
through its ditches, were victimized.
The.. project with its ;ich lands
and COntlgUOUS Water flnura'T,,
sented possibilities for converting a
largo-ar- unprodiietiyg tmnnttTVmtr& iw vrrsrTT'tr.r
nnudiln. i . . .wuu iiiBiucu.
,.w-vu6 vciiuuij,, ii was in such
an emergency that the legislature
voted to back the project on terms
under wh!chj.he state's outlay would
General MCKeynolds' argument is
sound. If the trusts are to have
protection, the people, also,, should
have protection.
"f r iBhould say no improper at
leiujns were maue 10 innuence me,
remarked Senator Hughes of New
Jersey concerning the insidious lob
byists; "One left a piece of soap,
pne a safety razor, another a hat
that fits me." On the contrary! we
would say that it was highly im
proper to thus subtly suggest that
the distinguished gentleman - from
New Jersey needed a wash, a shave
and a new hat.
The New York boaiH of aldermen
has passed an ordinance regulating
taxicab fares. The fee for two pas
sengers for half a mile is thirty
cents, and for three or more pas
sengers, forty cents. Hotels are
prohibited from exacting charges Of
taxicabs for the privilege of occupy
ing stands on abutting .. streets, f
privilege for which New York taxi-
cabs have been paying $400,000 to
$500,000 a year,
The daughter of Secretary Wilson
says, that she would rather be back
at her work as a stenographer than
to be active la Washington society,
bna nasour commiseration. Most
all of us would rather be where we
aren't; to be doing what we don't:
to have a chance to go sleighing In
summer and picnicking In winter
time. It's a mental habit.
. One of the best features In yes
terday a parade was- the showlne
uimhuii 1 ire men. - Many
thought their decorations the best
In the marching line. In any event,
their great Horses, their band and
their decorateji ; apparatus brought
tion of a colonization plan to settle in
some one of your Oregon valleys where
we can do mixed farming on small
farms of about 100 acres to tha fam
ily."
This is only one of a numher nf annh
Instances. The middle west Is restless
since the ugly storms of the present
season. For a half centurr ftr mora it
has been demonstrated that destructive
storms are of annual occurrence over
the wide stretches of the great prairie
states. It is only a question of where
they will hit and what isolated section
of a few counties will be wiped off the
map, for the season at least, so for as
crops and buildings are concerned. The
fact that Oregon is free from destruc
tive storms is proving an amazingly at-
iiaciive ieaiure to tne denizens of the
plains states, and throughout their ter
ritory the people are 'organizing into
little colonies with the purpose of trans
planting their homes to a land that Is
wholly immune from the devastating
sweep ul me lornaao.
attention is being paid to the agra-
money to rent a store room-on credit "n by thel' clamorln ""le
VlVIIIMl'iiSe r .
' The question of sufficient wages may
have nothing; to do with it morality
may be something independent of the
body and Its needs; the richer people
solemnly assure us it Is so and yet we
wonder.
and buy a case of overalls also on
credit That waa all he needed. - In
a few years he was a rloh man,.' Most of
his trade were farmers, and Lubln was
disgusted with the hopelessly unbusi
nesslike methods of the average farmer.
'if buys in tne highest market and sells
In the lowest 80 Lubln went to Eu
rope, to study the practical workings
of the cooperative societies there and
In England.
When he returned, he organized the
uaurornia Fruit Growers' association,
which now maintains an exchange in
San Francisco, Every other-cooperative
fruit growing association in the
west and there are'bodles of them
is modeled on the plan he devised. Then
It occurred td him that the farmera
of ther world could profitably cooperate,
if the' farmers of a community rnnM
He worked out a plan for such coopera
tion, which la largely an exchange of in-
Pointed Paragraphs
Tw Strawberries taste the best
True love talks little and acta fool.
l&n.
e e
Wise men do as they please their
wives.
e e
Taking advice is
than giving lt,-"
sometimes worse
often to others. But the law does not
state that a woman should submit to
this examination and why not 7 Don't
statistics show that ( out of 32 women
are unfit to marry, and that 8 out .of
40 men are unfit? Now, why not apply
the same law to men and women alike?
How can. we better mankind with only
half the law used which was enacted
to help future generations? Character
and health are essential to true happi
ness of mind and body. In married life
a husband Is generally tbe architect of
his own misfortunes. A proper know!
edge of sexual law Is an absolute pre
requisite to marriage. Without it it
will lead to a legalized destruction of
home happiness.
Now; to the side where this law will
be commercialized where money can
buy a certificate. You know as well as
I that money could buy this .certifi
cate and it would not matter how unfit
If the state immigration board. th hi- th8. a.rty would be. Why not let the
11 . . . . 0 1 aTATA navA an nrricn wnn a. unvsician
lauwuys ana Dig iana corporations
wouia send reliable and capable men
into certain sections of the great prairie
states, men who are familiar with the
practical details of ranching in Ore
gon, men who would frankly and can
didly set forth to prospective coloni.
ers the exact facta, good and bad, as to
i.na ana ciimaie, products, market anrl
all othej features essential to establish
ing a home in this state, men of. exe
cutive and organizing- abilities, unrh
men could brine- thousands nf tha mn.i
aesiraDie class of settlers to become
successful factors in the tremendous
work or developing this state. Litera
ture and show trains are eood advanr-A
agents, Dut tbey wlH never do mors
than bring an occasional man tn this
country, it requires the personal con
state have an office with a physician
in charge to be elected by the people,
who make this law. and let the state
receive the 82.60. If this physician vio
lates his oath of office, recall him.
You state the Oregon law was enacted
for the interest of brides. I say not.
The law was enacted for both, to better
mankind. Adlseased woman is danger
ous as well as a man. E. C. R. -
Woman on School Board.
Portland, June 13, 1813. To the Ed
itor of The Journal The school elec
tion to be held next Monday has been
so pushed aside by the many" absorbing
events taking place in our city that I
venture to say few have given the mat
Ilvlnv ....UM.. ...
formation, and In 1904 beiran trW-flinJri.i " w
with his Idea. a
The meat trust makes the lover of
establishments, but lt-floea not ' suffer Pork cn0P" bristle with indignation.
in vuuipariBun.wiin tne incomes or sue- . .
PMMfiii m.rt T Z, u Dl3 yu ver t nervous prostration
cessful men In other professions which from try,nr to maK6 otner, p , No?
depend upon the individual's personal a
effort without office force, factory, or Either take things aa they come or
shop. Not counting the Income from turn your back and let them go,
serialization of the books In magazines, .. . . ,' .
or their sale in renrmt dittnn. Vhi The lnnst woman in tha world
or ineir saie m reprint editions, the -h. -.ho hasn't anv old ni.i..
n a ttniluv ' " . ' ' w
" 'w to nrooa over.
author of a novel that
ter any close attention. TJiis, however,
tact of men who are big and competent ls an important election, and the fact
to Induce communities to mlerate
And above all. It requires time. Aennta
representing the state as above sug
gested should remain fox years in aom
central and likely section, with offices
open to an inquirers.
X here is a bright new town ami .
tlement community InOreaon todav that
came bodily from a' certain commtinltv
ui mo imuaie west, inis town and com
munity has a fine new school .building,
fine stores and a bank and la navoirm.
ing an ideal fruit growing section, .with
dairy farms as adluncts. Tha onmmnn-
ity referred to is not yet. over three
years old. The community-is the result
Of the personal efforts of one man whn
opened n office and kept it open for
year. 1 ALBERT O. OWEN.
Single -Standard Health Certificates.
Portland. June lO-To tha Riiitn. nf
The Journal Allow me to cpmmenfon
me "unonai under the title 'Udvfce to
mines." ! earmmrgWeWTm-y6uir
full, or to call the Oregon law Just to
men, I believe that a bridegroom ought
to submit to an examination- as' to his
health in general, also that he may ba
sexually fit to be married, and his off
spring npt be a burden tv himself and
that the ' two candidates before the
voters are apparently considered equally
well qualified renders the choice more
difficult, for many voters may feel that
it malies , no .difference which of the
two shall be chosen.
But . there is another phase to the
matter which must not be lost siitht of.
namely; Is it not for the best that
the school board have at least one
woman member? It is obvious to every
one tnat in tne wora 01 tne board there
must frequently arise questions which
need the advice or a woman and a
woman's viewpoint and that It la most
desirable to have this advice from the
first hand. For this reason should we
not reelect the,- only woman now on
the school board, Mrs. KerrT -In
order that this question may have
due consideration of the voters, f writ.
mis letter ana request. you to discuss"
tne. matter in your paper for th hn.
fit of your readers. T. J. GEISLER.
Popular Novelists' Incomes, ' '
Arthur W. Page In World's Work.
The financial reward of writ'inr one
of. these far-selling books is' not ao
great as the earnings of the manareri
of great commercial and manufacturing
copies receives in royalties from that
sale 125,000. The retail price of these
books ranges from 31 for a small book
like "Molly Make-Believe" to 81.60 for a
large novel such as Winston Church-1
Ill's "A Modern Chronicle." Author's
royalties usually very from 10 to 20
Per cent of the retail price of the book.
Naturally the successful authors de
mand the highest royalties. The mini
mum money return from the writing' of
a novel of a 100,000 sale is about 326,
000, and occasionally there comes along
a book with a larger sale on which the
royalties amount to as much as 375.000.
nvr a, jvu.uuu saie or tne average
iiuvei, lor winun tne autnor receives an,
proximately 325,000, the public nava
about 3135,000. The retail bookseller
taaes aDout 142,500 ror his service in
getting the book Into the hands of th
puDuc ,xne publisher-pends - another
zs,ooo getting the books into th
hands of the bookseller, and in creat
ing a demand ror tnem by advertising.
inai leaves to tne puDiisner, for the
expenses of manufauture and for hfs
profit, about 342,500. Tn other words,
when a reader pays 31.35 for a novel he
pays Just half the price for the pub
lisher's and booksellers effort In mak
ing him buy it
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The average man thinks he Is doing
well if he stays on the water wagon
between drinks,
a
The ancients believed that the world
was square but that was before doI-
itics was discovered. v
Some people think It queer that we
have no female after-dinner speakers,
but there is nothing queer about it
Women tell all they know before dlmwr
is half over.
Always In Good Humor
A BETTER CROP. ,
From the Kansas City Journal.
.fWhy, don't you raise something on
that -vacant lot potatoes, for instance,
or beans?".
"I am raising good citizens." said the
owner. "Don't you see those boys play
ing ball?"
REVERSES. "
From the Florida Times-Union.
Men were born Mo command, but
some of them marry suffragettes.
and a
CONVERSATION.
From Life.
MT ha A a. nnat nn nna aM
mfllionalre on the other."
"What did you talk about?",
"I talked to-' the poet about monev
and to the millionaire about the Intel-
lectual life."
A LOGICAL, CURE. 7 ,
'From the Washington Post. '
The venom' of bees Is now employed
a cure for ophthalmia. Nothing really
Opens a fellow's eyts Ilka being -well
stung. 1 , ' -; 1 . .
The Rapid Spread
of Advertising News
Many of the household art!
,. cles in daily use in our homed, -many
of the perfected ideas in
wearing apparel, and much of
the advanced thought in livjng
today would not now be bene
fiting humanity .were it not
for the advertising . in news
papers like THE JOURNAL.
As a concrete example much
to the point a prominent
manufacturer and distributor
of a foot-form shoe for chil
dren a shoe of special con- '
Btructloh and down-tothe-date
features recently - advertised
in twenty of- the principal
cities east of the Mississippi
river-for a 'period, of four
---weeks, . .....'.
At the end of that time he
experienced such a demand for
this shoe that he has been un-
able to fill his orders on time
for many weeks.
The public who read his ad- .
vertlsements in an tuoredibJv
short time learned, to it's
profit, about Something that
benefited it. something that
filled a real need, end re- ,
sponded by practically dou
bling the manufacturer's busi
ness. -.' - - -
fJT "?,ment" 7th Producer,
the retailer and the consumer -
.?-e,? Thl8 U "
like It .hundreds
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