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THE3 QREGON SUNDAY . JOURNAL', PORTLAND, ' SUNDAY MORNING.- JULY 13. 1313.
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DAILY AND SUNDAT.
On year 7.B0 I One myith I .68
-53
I oft have heard him say how.
he admired
Men of your large profession,
that could speak
Te every cause, and thing mora
contraries,
Till they were hoarse again, yet
ell be law. Ben Jonson.
, , SPARE 18. .
xeAN we not bo spared In Port
' land the unpleasant spectacle
1 ; of a disagreement by public
, . authorities - with reference
the striker (Is the effectiveness in
' dealing with agitators, to be Ira
' paired by petty jealousies between
. public officials? "
, Nobody cares wtat official solves
the strike problem on the Bast Bide.
What' the nubllo wants is for the
. trouble to be ended. 'It is "results,
, not the exploitation of any particu
lar official that is desired.
, ,-- The Ideal condition for ending
' the ftrlke fa a wholesome and cor
t dial cooperation between the mayor
s and the governor. With the city
and the state authorities In har-
tnonlom accord and a demand from
; bota that yrerj law be observed,
; there would be Imposing notice to
agltatorn that peace and order must
; preralL There conld be no more
ilmpresslva Influence for ending pres-
fent condition - and ending them
' Anlcny than an harmonious . coop-
-eratlon between all authonues ex-
: tstlng under and standing as spon-
!aors. for the law.
- incidentally, the newspapers that
are trvtnr to create discord be-
Itween the city and state authorities
rare, even -though unconsciously, di
i
rectly aiding the i. vv. vv. agnators.
The. attacks " on' Governor West
'moec me purpose oi uou woo wiu
not work nor allow others to work
when they can prevent , It
-; These attacks encourage them to
resist the efforts of the governor
'to secure settlement by 'peaceful
compromise. In a sense, they In
cite the agitators to riot by helping
them In their attacks on the gover
nor, tyftjffy i U "h ' " ' ' :H : : "': : ' JV
There could be no better arrange
ment than ,,f or all authority. , both
, city and state, to let toe Industrial
v Commission decide the Issues. The
; commission was created by law for
exactly such a purpose. It. has al-
- ready established a minimum wage
, at the plants It Is In position to
i do Justice to both sides, and what
else - is It , that the great body of
people, want but Justice? '
How Infinitely preferable Is such
an adjustment by such a' commls-
slon to an adjustment by the X. W.
W. agitators! ;
What Is a better way than for
the commission to fix the terms and
then let the city and state power
carry out those terms and preserve
the peace? .
The governor of the state and
the mayor of the city are both
. splendid men, each trying loyally
to serve with fidelity and efficiency
: 'those who lifted them Into high po-
sltion. It Is meet that such men,
on such. an occasion, should be In
- accord, should defer to each other,
T, should counsel with each other and
should freely and heartily cooperate
THE FOURTH IN OREGON
R'
ETURKT to sanity, evidenced by
enjoyment of real pleasures,
marked Oregon's celebration
Of the Fourth. KewsnartAra
throughout the state reflect publle
opinion endorsing a rational Inde
pendence Day. The present ten
1 dency to discount excitement as the
; basis of pleasure or patriotism Is
a good omen. It Indicates that peo-
pie are relearnlng how to get the
most out of life, how to give more
; to the lives of others. j
"We are all going to remember
the day because of the privilege it
, gave ns to get together and become
' .better acquainted," says the Glacier
: of Hood River's celebration. At
s Newberg the children and young
; ' people gave a realistic presentation
pt Longfellow's H&watha In a
1 shaded wood set with wigwams and
; 1 Inhabited byN make-bolieve Indians.
1 The Graphic says the program was
an Inspiration to old and young.
' 1 At The Dalles was a baby and
, noil paraae, ronowed by a patriotic
..Program and a baseball game be
tween city and country. Hlllsbbro
had ak civic parade, athletic con
' tests and " a literary program.
Grants' .Pass celebrated .1 two days,
cf and the Courier says there was not
t an accident and no unseemly con
duet. "It was a Celebration of the
" safe and sane kind that was a thor
?ough success, and yet ltwaa not of
the moljycoddle order." .
Oresham' demonstrated the worth
of real pleasure. The Outlook says:
.' "We are not going to lose sight of
. the country In the enjoyment .ofcia-i
tloual sports, and we all fee (bet
ter after having been entertained by
others than when w .t',v'toenter
Uln ourselves," Men-'and women
of Highland la Yamhill county bad
a baseball came: and the - women
won.'- v -i-,;-'v-w v ,
ean Fourth of July '' means
more than saving lives and ;; prop
erty, ' When people learn they - can
enjoy themselves rationally, getting I
greater pleasure out of the homely J
things of life, they will be ready for
a long step . ahead. , The - modern
tendency has been toward ' excite-1
ment for entertainment This ten-l
.. , ..v i
thA eitlM'tiaa In th nntrv. hilt
-..iw. .h.
that they have been, traveling In the
wrong direction. An established
sane Fourth
sane days.
will establish other
THE DOLLAR VIEW
I PEAKING of the recent World's
V Citltenshlp Conference in Port-
a 1 land, the Tacoma Ledeer save:
It Is a sad. tad story irom tnotuui uuuer uriuuvviu,.Ar., : t
business point of view, for the $15,0001
was collected with no little d"'1
would nock to Portland. A return m
tho way. of hotel bills and in other
ways was expectea. xne mnuroeraoie
throm? of the worlds greatest and
most eloquent did not put In an ap
pearance. and Portland was left to
hold the bag.
Please do not
Portland is not in
people'. In this city
with dollar marks.
sob, Neighbor;
tearsv . Not all
measure events
Only a limited
few estimate a citlsenshlp confer
ence by the hotel bills, the railroad
fares, a n d the consumption of
drinks and cigars.
Were life all for money, were hu
man hopes expressible only in terms
of cash, were faith and the future
of mankind dependent upon the
cash register, then there would be
some excuse for the Tacoma view of I
Portland and the conference. I
But 'there . Is something else on
earth besides bargain counters. The
15,000 people who stood on their
feet and applauded the ringing words
of a speaker In the last night of the
conference think little and care I
less about the price-tag view of the
conference. The thousands who
heard magnificent analysis of hu-
man life In brilliant addresses by
polished speakers from every cor-
ner of the earth, do not measure
the conference with a bargain-counter
yard stick.
The lowest, the meanest, the most
miserable thing in all the world la
a dollar. , it whines at thought oi
attention for the nobler things In
life. It is cowardly, craven and
corrupting. It la sodden, stolid and
vulgar. It walls when It thinks It
is cheated. It cannot look, no,
It
fats so conception of music,
art,
oratory, literature, philosophy and
the higher notes In the great 'sym-
phony of human life. -
Its horizon Is the cash
register
and the money till.
MELLENEZED RAILK0AD9
T
HU forced retirement of Presl-
dent Charles S. Mellen of the
new Haven raiiroaa irom tie
presidency of the Boston &
Maine road is significant, for It may
mean the early end of Melleniaed
and Morganlsed railroads in Amerl-
ca. Railroads have learned mnch
since 1903, when Mr. Mellen let!
the Northern Pacific to undertake
mo tasa ot suDjugaung jnow h-ng-
iana 10 a mercuess morgan monop-1
oly. The task was accomplished,
but the accomplishment is falling
of its own weight .
Mellen was the hired man. He
carried out orders and seized upon
New England's transportation fa
cilities, rail and water, including
lnterurban lines. The Morgans fur-
nlshed the money. They approved
the method and accomplishment I
The inevitable happened, for with
isew England subjugated to i
vicious transportation combination,
vicious operation oi transportation
facilities followed as a natural con-j J. A. McDonald, editor of the To
sequence. jronto Globe and a leading Christian
New England's recent railroad
history is a record of methods dif-
ferine in no essential particular
from the methods of a
high-
wayman. Mellen,' backed by the
Morgans, has flouted the -nubile
from the day he took control of the
New Haven road. Ha tn nf tho m
school type of railroad men ' the
VanderMlt "public-be-damned" type,
He has exploited New England for
the benefit, not of stockholders of
the New Haven road, but of the
men and interests in control of that
mad
The Mellen tvna hoMs th n.
''' ' I .
ruaua are tne personal property of
men In executive, control. Thaw
roncedfl tha nnhlln nn ip-,t. U
auate service and reasonable rit
except what the Mellens choose to
confer. They concede minority stock-
holders no rights In determining
policies. They always place blame
for Inefficient management upon
Trton hniHiiff -nn aav in ma I
The New Haven's long record of
fatal accidents precipitated the Issue
of Mellenism. It is significant that
Mellen retired from the Boston A
M"alne only after minority stock-
holders had forced an investigation,
The issue of Mellenism may drive
all Mellens out of railroad life. If
. tnere wxu. oe nope ror , a
tirrtvlrl v at iitiilAefevills ' VAm. 1
."rrr" Z? w " .n .
.nuruauB uu voe - puDuo. is
especially significant that the Mor-
gans are reaay to sacrifice the Mel-1
lens the moment-thatf danarer
threatens
The Interstate
Commerce Com-
mission has complained that Mel
lon has paid no , attention " to . sug
gestions and orders forJ better and
safer . . service '( the sNew ' Haven
road, nit ndw declares against- the
Mellen-Morgan policy of using rail
road earning 'i to monopolise ; rail
road traffic, . The, commission Says
the New Haven management must
act prudently and within the letter
and spirit of th law. not only
- prevent an oppressive" monppoly.' butlmand success unless All humanity Is
1o to tororo reasonable safety to
- M the traveling public.
AT LAST
HE state of Oregon la to . be
congratulated on the fact that
there has "been . a final ap
proval of the West extension of
the TJmaUlla reclamation project,
W m3r think we taOW.What re-
clamatlon means,, but, we do not
KriT: Tt. .i
bilitles. ri Only In Italy and some of
the v older v countries where Irrlga-
I tlon has been perfectly; adjusted to
local soil and, climatld Venditions
Is there a full realization of 4 what
reclamation can do." 1';!vv
- In Oregon,- someare doubters as
tT Its "possibilities. . That is why
there are reclaimed -tracts that are
Nor s the doubting confined to
Oregon. It Is every where. " That
U why but one third "of the . great
reclamation areas of Idaho are. as
yet occupied" and - In " productivity,
It, Is why. in every reclamation dis
trict many tracts are neglected with
the water at hand and the world
calling for products and paying
enormous prices for. them.
In Oregon, we shall better appre
ciate Irrigation by and by. We shall
think' more and more of it as we
better understand lt.: There Is al
most no limit to the things It can
do when the scientific union; of
water, soil and plant life is ade-
quately developed.
in time, we shall bring recla-
matlon to Its ultimate. We shall
have accurate Information as to
when and how often to apply water,
We shall have dependable knowl-
edge as to what crops are ' best
adapted to given communities, and
what tillage and what methods
yield best results. On these points
we are yet nnlnstructed, because
the science of. agriculture under ir-
rlgatlon Is but now working out
But it Is a splendid fact that
Secretary Lane has finally approved
the West Umatilla extension. It
as well as every other properly dl-
rected reclamation district in the
state, means a great deal for the
future of Oregon.
It means products on lands that
ire sterile. It means lifs In re-
were
glons
that were dead. It means
men, women, children ana nomes
where only the coyote and. the Jack
rabbit habituated
Nobody has worked harder or
longer tor the result finally achieved
las to the West Umatilla extension
than has Senator Chamberlain. His
leadership went far In directing Sec -
retary Flsher attenUon to the proj-
ect. He was
. U. In an,,-l-.l
tovwi .u Julius i
a re-examinatlon of the district by
army engineers which resulted, in a
formal approval of the program In
1911.
Through all the dps and downs
of the project, Senator Chamberlain
hu ben its defender and tro-
motor. In this he was ably support-
Ud by Senator Lane after the lat-
ter's arrival in Washington, and
previous to that by Senator Bourne.
it fa to b horjed now that there
will be no more drawbacks, and that
the full development of the project
will go on unhampered and nn-
hindered.
PUTjPTI AlfD PRESS
S
PBAKINO at the Christian
En-
deavor convention in Los
An-
Angeles, Rev. Charles M. Shel
don said the press would be
greatly improved
by eliminating
stories of crime.
He urged that.
newspapers give more space to
church and religious news, and put-
usn on alternate aays so tnat
sational matter need not begiven
prominence.
Endeavorer of Canada, told the
delegates that In his . opinion the
church had become a "futile lnstru-
ment'" in the solution or problems
arising between capital ana laDor.
"From my point of view," he said,
"the churches of the Republic and!
the dominion have in the nast been
in danger of losing the national out-
look and becoming mere denomina-
tlons Of tne intellectual ana wen-1
to - do."
Pulpit and press pointing at each
other's faults must result in good.
i?iHotiiMv riuoflRatnn hARni nnon bon-
eat criticism does not mean conflict
Z ":iir
put ratner a step iuwuru ewwrcv
oneratlon. PulDlt and Drees should
- orir tnirthpp for their human
Ideals should match, even thoueh
methods of thought differ
Mr. Sheldon's criticism of the
preBs falls to recognize the fact that
a newspaper must succeed as a
business enterprise. ' More space
will ' Arl vavi f ht, -l HAWa If. thA'
church will furnish real news. , Aal"vw '""""r" - w"
an Illustration, ,J. discourse ontthe
trials of Job is not news, but an
appeal in behalf of modern man,
good or bad, Is news. it. Is news
because it appeals to the-average
person - and for. that reason ,r the
pulpit might well adopt the news
stanaara. . ,
rv.M. ' mm eiAires) V.A Slii vmA(f sia1 I
rrz.rr AV.r,,-:l
py suieioing iu . wum buouiu -uwi
be featured to satisfy morbid minds,
hut neither snouia it oe cioaxea to
satisfy tlmldmtads.,ThethnrCh
long ago excluded the Sunday school I
book that featured ; the abnormal
chUd and put forth another book
that tells f : the ; real Chd. The
moaern newspaper is jouowing tuo
same. poucy,-.wita -.grown, people.,,;,:,
Mr. " McDonald, ; both newspaper
man land : churchman, probably ' dls- j
counts the church j in.. i comparison i
with the press, r But -he has pointed
to a .danger In the church. f- Smug
worship Is not -numanlsthg,' and
to I neither church nor press can com"
uvea s isir cnance now ana in me
future. . . v ; . Jr1
But' there is no irrepressible con
filet between pulpit and press. - The
press is attempting Work it thinks
the pulpit has neglected. The pul
pit Is attempting r work the ; press
has v not undertaken.- .f There 1
Chance for efficient cooperation.
BOYS AND GIRLS AT PLAY
ew jyor,j?S recently look: an
"instantaneous ensus' 4 of
children on v the,, streets, v 'The
census was taken between the
I hours pf four and five 0'clock n
Saturday .afternoon, the purpose be
ing;. to v secure ; data ; on l children's
methods of 'ramusingthepselves,:
729 boys and glrU, of whom 27,604
were Idling and 1391 were watch
ing the others play. vThus approxi
mately three fifths of the children
were working off their energy: In
some manner, one fifth were Inter
ested spectators at the . time and
participants at other times, and an
other one fifth were loafers.
It Is found that the children were
playing: 62 games, only four of
which i were1 bad for the players.
Gambling and fighting were chief
among the vicious diversions; ; Base
ball
fts mOBt popular with the boys
and Jumping the ? rope with the
girls. Of the 6 &, games, only three
were confined 'to one sex alone.
The girls .monopolised dancing and
sewing and the boys football. .There
was one lone boy -among 485 "ring
around a rosy" players.
The census takers found 8931 lit
tle mothers and ' 7 8 0 little fathers.
They' made note of 1618 at con
structive play and 1604 In gymnas
tic games.
They saw, 458 chopping
kindling wood and 14S burning bon- carelessly as society Itself, but others
rkn v, m. ma-nA oiAlara hactcninv the time of a better un-
rUZl ;.yAliMaMit. Buth men as Bandera, of
children were fighting and 749 lowt tmJlB ,-n,qu, only ft llttU while-
were gamDimg. ui me iigmers six
werA e-frla. And 1a-ht rlrla vara
found among the gamblers, all in
one district. ' ,.: .
Such a census illustrates the dif
ference between what children want
to do and what they have to do.
In the face of dangerous, unhealth
ful, Immoral conditions. New York
chllaren do their best to play dean.
halthfnl mes. Thi instantane -
healthful games. ' The lnstantane-
ons census is illuminating as to the
naABeln am tiAAAOdltv 4t-m niAO f tn SP I
.w.
spots snd playgrounds for the chil-
dren. Conditions In New York are
not much different from conditions
in congested district, of smaller
ciues. t
Children ask only a fair chance
. th, 0-1,1 Reformera have been I
rlk?ne 1 .laborate methods of
" 7 . - . ..... . I
nnnatrnrtivM enii riAnAriftiai niav rnr
city children. That is all right so
far as it goes. But what the chil
dren want Is a place to play In,'
rather than instruction on how, to
play.- City children are doing .their
t0 -apt tnelr parents' games
to modern conditions ' The child
knows how to play If it hat a play-
ground.
The Medford Mail -Tribune Is
hvnatlnir . rnnA.nl en tin sr . rimnilni.
and Bayg "there is no reason why
krfni hiM not b as famous
for its flower shows as Pasadena,
Santa Barbara and other California
cities." Portland's floral inslgnlfl-
cance, we presume, will spare It the
perils, of competition.
Colonel Roosevelt is now re
ported to be in communication With
Tokyo with a view to adjusting the
California mix-up. In. view ot last
November's returns, however, we
do not feel Justified in assuming
that the negotiations
are of sn
en-ioUCai character.
"How Is It possible to have har
mony in tne uemocrauo party as
long as there are not enough jobs
to go round?" asks the Los An-
gelea Times In doleful chagrin. It's
largely because the new concert ao-
companlment Is not supplied by Re-
publican organs.
An Ohio Judge suggests that sam-
Dies of their cooking be) demanded I
by prospective brides, before wed-
ding licenses are Issued. In this
event we xancy mas a despairing
Cupid would go out and break his
bow and arrow.
. r 1 '
Many paragrsphers have men-
tloned that President Wilson says
r.t,ln trnnf than Tnt tnf
- .
wnen no piays guu, ut po uo uoi
think the fact IS reven Worth, this
paragraph. Do you?
Miss .Grace - Brown of
Chicago
savs that American women are over-
AraatmA. It'a finnft of ftiir affair.
but we would adVlse her family f
call in an alienist before her lmagl-
AUiwBuawo BuwiawBiuaer oi
health arises to remark that every
man ought to wear a oeara ; and
mustache. : Does the Tbrew that
made Milwaukee' famous require a
Ihirsute sieve? rt-r-.':.
. - . rnat .Decomes of; the) -old BMdl
. . .
Cine Which nobody ever throws away
anj nobody ever' takesT'r Inquires
4 r'a c jn a ; t f Ib Vno scribbler.
ni....4 i,i. ;if,'- . i
fA"
.- uijJ? .
. v washinston iails its .lazv bna.
bands. but , the oresnmntlbn Is that
Its ; slattern Wives, Still , Spill-their
loose hair in the SOUP 'Without Tear
lot .law. IOf . MWfruWiWfrZX ifimrMg
a;; ,;,,'( i.-g w$mi
Insects cost -Uncle Sam - about
$00,000,000 a year, according to
the . ; department of. , agriculture.
They, really aren't 'worth it
IS "SEPTEMBER MORN"
OBSCENE?
T 1
VI :$ By Df. Vtank Crane." ' ''
Copyrlght. Hit. by Frank Crana.)
Quite a little dust has been kicked up
over tht question -whether Paul Chabas'
picture, ."September Morn," Is obscene
or not It presentf to us a young ilrl
standing la the water, with no clothing,
except the morntiur base, '( y.'.-:
A. Comstock et ak have denounced the
picture as Indecent.. In this view the
honorable Bath House John, of Chioago,
eolnoldee, A"-.-,'.--': .V'-ti-'-tv "tl.'.-;-.'- '
- Artists and other omanclDated souls
are eaually emphmtlo in their declaration
that whoever obieots to seeln the snn
In the altogether is a prude and all sorts
of other undesirable things. '
wit may set both parties right to get
sjeis arise from a failure to' scree first
me matter clearly in mlna. All quar
on definitions.-- It la a ease -of the two
knights lighting ever the color of a
shield red on one aide and blue on the
- And in the: partloular subject at Is
sue ' it all depends upon whether the
young female Is Nude or Undressed.
A Nude person la one who- goes un
clothed from preference, and only wears
garments xor warmth's sake. - An un
dressed person Is one who always wears
clothes, lores them. and. expresses her.
self or himself by them, and who Is sur
prised garmentlessv f '' f-';
The Venus de Mlio m the jxuvre is
nude. , Lady : Oodlva, as she rode the
streets of Coventry, was ell undressed.
The Greeks were nude: Americans In a
Turkish hath are tossed.;: '?. .
Modern civilized conventional human
beings ean never be ; nude, - because,
clothes ' are a iart of their 'religion.
What they call morality has nothing un;
usually to do with any ethical force or
J virtue of self-expressiom but, Is merely
conrormuy to custom, oucn peopie vmu
never be nude; when they take of f their
clothes they are naked and naughty.
It Is not so bad as it used to be. in
SANDERS AND
py Richard Washburn Child.
TTntil lawa and courts and states eon-
oera themselves as much with the man
who comes out of prison as the man who
roes in. the wardens of the prisons bear
l.hlrked by society. Some bear there as
and they never .work in vain.
I
wnue xnis ruc i pouib wnuwi
long, lean, lank, sandy haired, sinewy
armed man, serving a life sentence for a
crime of violence, is in a room above
the dlnlna- hall of the Iowa etate pent'
tentiary at Fort Madison. He Is squint
ing a keen, critical, gray eye at the re
sult of his labors. The product he seeks
is a set of photographs which shall li
J ht1J l
?SL2!JlJa?ir. S22
the one personality toward which he has
learn to look for all that remains to
01711 OC 1110.
XhI prlMn receiVM the worst that
lron nand of th0 j0Wft jaW selects
from among evildoers; here -come the
vg. thbur,riJhA,nn";nltl,:
rSSU
day. . v
Five or six years agouhls Iowa pen
was .like most of our prisons. It was a
fif? ?li7 "7tr
" v" - ---- --
Af th. lrratrievaniv lose
It waa a fair sample of one of the im
portant institutions of our civilisation.
i and It represented a gooa aeai ox xne
brutality, the savagery, the Ignorance,
and the senselessness or the tning wmen
remains today as our barbaric penal sys
tem. It represented the conditions which
will not change permanently until public
opinion, legislatures, and courts take as
much interest n the man who comes
In. - Five years ago In Iowa they main
tained a piece of left-over miaaie ages
little more vulgar and cruel tnan
felony, a little more damaging to society
than crime. ,
bout that time they changed ward
ens In Iowa. Up In the western part of
the state was a school teacher a mgn
school nrlncloal. There are distinctions
among high school principals, and this
high school principal bad his dlstlnc-
ThM.,n,ut1rt.aeiN
cus; he had played professional baseball
and heen an umpire in one or tne west-
era leagues, and In many other ways he
had come close to human Ufa Bis face
was full of good nature and the eternal
spirit of boyhood: bis body was stocky;
if you looked for It you could find a
strong suggestion of will power some
where behind his bantering eyes and in
the lines about his mouth and In his
thick thumbed, powerful hands. That
waa J. C 8anders
He bad introduced new methods into
school teaching. He was not content to
teach and discipline for so many hours
a day. - He made boys and girls open
their lives to him; ha opened hla life to
them. The high sohool was "educating"
day and night Teachers In It had to
match their time asalnst the time of the
youngsters.
Hard Tickets," even In those days
were to Banders like difficult game to
the keen sportsman. The tough
bor and the. srlrl i going In the
wrong direction , were to Sanders
'J???
the better did this man like
them. When he had Janaea tno stun-
born youth in the not or his conriaence.
paYentTor - j unfair home life, or even
by the crooked deal of heredity. Banders'
snirit would throw Its head baok soma.
where inside or him anaerow . ua
rooster, eanaers waa naving uie- m
of his Ufa Salvage was Sanders', pro
fesslon and he loved It
Bang! Out of a clear sky eame the
stroke which notified him that the board
of control of the state penitentiary had
chosen him to be the custodian of the
restraint of half a thousand bad ones.
Mt. was a strange caii. wnere are am
l
thought ef BOO criminals the r hardest
most Illusive game In the profession of
man salvage! Furthermore,: there was
. eved.- atra.lht' mouthed wo-
man. Nowadays the prisoners who see
her walking alone Inside the Jail walls
point to her with respect and arrection
and say: "There' goes the Duchess."
Bhe was bis wife, and when he was of
fered the new chance, she nodded. San
ders tOOk the JOB'.,:.v''.v;yV.;''.1".;j,
Plenty were the arrangements, : the
rules and regulaUons,' and the manners
and customs that -the i. new warden
WMta t0 chn" wha he came to live
mt jp.niwpuir, meM- wwt
taiist wanted to turn inside out w w
yirt all, he could not see any rea-
f1. VVSZ nT"l "!
of keeping with "civilised manners! and
customs, rurtnermore, orueuy ana in
suits neither added, to nor subtracted
from the punishment Sanders beUeves
the most punishment a man gets Is the
punishment of the trilnd, which is made
to see mere clearly, day by day, Its own
wasted or. perverted , history, its lost
chanoes. . ,
Nor could the high school principal
a preceding generation nothing had legs
but pianos and tables; ladles had limbs;
and the whole region from the collar to
the waistlines was known as the stom
ach, for the simple old English .term
belly was for' some inscrutable ( reason
believed to .be isoeueate, 'i v. nvrf
V' There Is even a legend of a young
preacher who announced to his . nock
that he was aoout to dlsoourse upon
"Jonah, who. as you all know."' spent
three days 4n the : whale's umhm
that Is to say. three days In the whale's
hm-HKclety." ; .
The painting ty Chabas la not or
something naked, the girl Is hot ,un-
dressed. 8he never had any clothes 'on
In her life. ; She Is not thinking clothes.
8he has steered dryad-llke out of the
woods where she lives with other, bod
ied fancies, with thought-beings that
never wore anything hut beauty.
fine is nude. And she Is as pure as
the deity-fingers that made bodies, and
purer than the human fingers that fix
and button ud clothes.
She never wore anything, never 'will
Wear anything,- - it she put anything on, .
she would be indecent.
So It's all as you take It. Most of us
never rcome to ourselves.'' except by
undressing, i As soon as we are born
the layette' la ready, all our lives, we
wear uniforms, when we He In our cof
fins we are still dressed up, and wnen
we get to heaven and fly around, with
the angels, we shall all have on beauti
ful' white nightgowns..- '''.''' i
So let us be thankful that there re
mains one realm where the nude, human
form, the most beautiful .thing Qod ever
made, cen still - walk' In-innocence and
free from all the stifling pseudo-moral
ities clothes lmDly -the realm of art.
When Mile. .Ada , vmany was neo
00 francs for dancing nude upon the
stave at Paris, her - defense waa that
when she removed her clothing it was
to express her soul. Bhe was mistaken.
The body does not express the souL -un
less It has always been unclothed. It Is
not the absence of clothing that Is !nde
cent; n s tne removal 91 cioimng.
HIS CRIMINALS,
believe that the state gained anything
by depriving a. man of bis right to
neaitn. "ASiae xrom common aeceucy, -
said Banders to me, "let us loox at tnese
men as 600 machines which turn out
product for the state. X can show you
on paper that there la money In giving
them proper air, -clothes. Sleep, food and
euueauon. ; - - r
rinaUy, Sander could not for bis nfe
see why soo ot the population, even
oerter men rawer ibmb won men. o
vage was his procession ana saia ne to
me; "Why not try to graduate a netxer
nianr-rrr-tT'!":
go , SLheaa 1 ana ; ens weiy ou wne ne-
lleve in our present penal eystem.
r found Sanders on a hot efternoon in
June standing near the front porch of
the warden's residence, eoUarless, bap-
py end five men who .were about him
looked up as I came.' . '
They had all been eiseussing a earv -
lchad , TTh. taw fo?
Ing on a piece of . repaired furniture
the finish to Ory tne waraen ana xne
five men who looked like those whe sit
across tne aisie irom you on tne train
or come to repair the leak In the roof, .
The .warden was in his joy.
"I've started a new department," eaid
he., looking over bis eyeglasses. "We
are salvaging lurniture. wome mra my
cellar and 1 11 show you a chair which
one of my men pulled out of a scrap
heap with a rake I've found a lot of
the boys can be used on this work.
mere goes ti now to aeuver an up -
bolstered Jon to Mrs. m aown mi
Fort Madison. We ere charging a little J
more tnan union prices tor au ouusiaeime oia sort or consolation, but it can
work of . any kind. This repair work I diminish the need of consolation or re.
has been a great hit"
."These men are prisoners f
"Of course. ' ,
"And that manf-
Thati C - He's been here years
already for manslaughter. He's a lifer.
He goes out every afternoon Into the
oountry to drive In my cow. Hal Too
look surprised. Well, this afternoon
over iso men are outside the prison
walls. They're all around. Some arel
painting barns for the fanners eight
miies oui m mo country, some era arag -
glng roads, I've got a lot helping unload
coal down there by that siding, some are
delivering stuff oh! all kinds Of work,
Guards? Let's, see. . There are Just
three guards out today, and not one of
them carries a weapon." :
Many fair men believe, furthermore.
mat, navmg aepnvea tne convict ox nisiiuiea to numan neeas. .
liberty. It Is unfair to deprive him of And the business of prophecy Is be
the results Of his labor. They believe it
Is bad enough to send a single man out
oeneve it is almost a roDoerr or tne
Innocent for the state to appropriate the
earnings of convicts upon whose support
women and children have been and are
dependent
The first large accomplishment ef the
warden was inducing the board Of con
trol to buy a too acre farm, a few miles
from the penitentiary. Tea," says
prisoner, "the warden and the boys pull
off quite a rural sketch. They've spilled
over now, and have to rent a lot of land
or go shares on" crops raised on other
land. Must be working over 600 new
acres, and cows and pigs and chickens.
We boys gets pork, milk, fruit and veg-
etables and butter enot a day offn thelr.nr from -a xvn. - Z,.L7L-
frxti. vnsxurei 1 stnylxow arott lilce. tJx.x-ej-siJ
a profit. . ;.', ;, : "-;:;.'' ,
.uu. w. uiu me. ii n, immc,
resource of the penitentiary and of the
convicts made larger, .
Greater earning capacity of the orison
helps to make possible the plans, that
this persistent direct thinking, direct
.uuub; iuu.iui.il, yi viomuou otui pinyer,
umpire and high school principal has In
his mind or has carried out already.
One of these Ideas IS that the state
gains little when It snatches from a man
his last shreds or self resoeot hv cut-1
ting him Into prison stripes. If nuniah-
ment means breaklnr a min'i enlrit ifland raze on her eharrVia." ? An .v,. '
the purpose of a penitentiary Js to take
a orlmtnal and with malice aforethought
go about making, him worse by such
inaignities as ciotnea which are 111 fit-
ting, ridiculous, or bizarre, then ganders
Is wrong, because Sanders believes that
the sparks .of decency should be kept
allv and if possible made to flame un
Into new manhood. No man who comes
to the Fort Madison . prison is put In
stripes unless It is because he refuses
to obey the rules., ? Than ha ttA
checks for a while Another breach of
tne ruies ana ne goes into the - old
Stripes the uniform which Is a rHc
of the hysterical pains taken by society
w prevent n escape. ,. , .
e1i.: ..nl.'n.llAw . ,
mystery of Sanders' power over hie nn
the mystery of their keeping faith, j
nee in mt lui mii mi men ne picks I
out as fitted , to', "go outside" are. con-1
vlcts but are not criminals.
That is the
answer to the mystery. . ;
snrprisea uetv h l $ r.
From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
The stout party had been In the boot
shop, for over an hour and the patient
shop assistant had had half the ahon
down for her Inspection. - She found
fault with them all. until his natiene
became quite exhausted. - :w,-:
"These should suit von." he nil tnlr.
m auvtuer yair-.aown as a last re
source,.
rce'Sik
mi the -lady- Was not' satisfied..!
"t like this ;i sort.-,-, she- saldi "they
T.A'"???.0 to el wider when they
HI11
don
nave a tenaency to get wider when they I
are a bit eld, V:.-T-.--Nip': rr.-',ti--(f;-
ated assistant, politely, "didn't your
. r . v . ... . M"Pr- 1
PROPHECY SWIFTLY
FULFILLED; Y
From the Philadelphia North American
It Is not Vet four years slnoe . Da
Charles W, i Eliot, former 1 president ol
Harvard, startled and displeased th
I world of orthodox religion by an addresi j:
Ion -Th R.iivinn.nf h ir,inM
I k .u..-v. .u. .
r''":-",r V""" "
Y7TZJ s V; .
I .vwm.uisw h ww ne soia wbj
printed In the newspapers pt July. l
1 1909, and at once storm elouds of crttl.
clsm began to gather, -'On the Bundaj
following many a pulpit throughout : thli
country and England 'thundered against
the venerable, educator's statements
which, summed up ii. his ..f.ews; words .
I described the Vcomlntr religion of man-
kind as one that would be In' harmony ;.
'with the great secular' movements ' ol
modern society democracy..- individual-'
ism, .social idealism, the leal for educa
tion, the , spirit of research, the modern
tendency to welcome the new, the f rest
powers of preventive medicine, and th.
recent advances In business and Indus-.
trial 'ethlce.',sv:;'5'':,j''-! tf ;ss
The tempest Of outspoken Opposltlof
to such a doctrine raged for- some time.
Then It was lost In the press of other
progressive developments which had u
be attacked by the -conservators ol '
creeds and customs. '. H
And when Doctor Eliot lately wai
I urgred by President WlUon to acenpt thi r
Important post of ambassador to Eng
land not a voice was raised in protest
because of his "heretical" statementi .
made so recently.' This was not becaust 1
men had forgotten what he said, bu)
because of he unparalleled swlftnesi
with which Ideals now are shifting t-
blgber levels. . . ( , . -. v
Indeed, there probably has never bees
a period la world history when moral
consclousnesa hu advanced . with such
vast strides as within the last flvi
years. - Nothing could more fully evb
denee this remarkable awakenlnr thai
the present widespread acoeptanoe el
Doctor Eliot's "Religion of the Future"
the best possible religion tor th
present - Tor who today would ear U
tempt publle ridicule by proclalnrfni
1 aralnst such ft statement as
the tol.
lowing?
'The new reTlaton wrtB not W.nirt
I reconcile men and women to present fjl
k onnlma of 'fntnre Mmiimm
either for themselves or for others. Suo
i promises nave done innnite miaoblef is
the world, by Inducing men te be patient
under sufferings or deprivations againsl
struggiea, The advewt or a just rreedoi
(or the mass of mankind has been di
llayed for centuries br Just this effi
.,- b
churches. .s-n-r;-v v;
rrhe reUgfon of the future wtri em
preach the whole subject of evil from
another sidethat of resistance and pre
ventlon. The Breton sailor whe had hl
arm poisoned bye dirty fishhook whlci
had entered his finger made s votrvi
1 effertng at the ehrlne of the Vlrsrni
I Mary and prayed for a ours. The WorkM
mnyVhVV ui erWb .
i rough or fllrtv instrument roes to s
surgeon, who spdUm an antlsentlo dream
in to the wound and prevents the pole
I onlng. That surgeon Is one of the tola
listers er the new religion.
'When dwellers In a slum suffer the
familiar evils caused by everorowdlns)
i impure rooas ana cheerless labor, th
I modern true believers contend aratnsl
I the sources of such misery by providing
Ipubllo baths, playgrounds, ; wider and
I cleaner streets, better dwellings and
1 more errecuve senoois; mat is, they at
tack the sources of physical and moral
evil. The new religion cannot supply
duoe the number of occasions for con.
eolation." w. . ; - . . ,v r... ,, ,.,
Wore It not for the Identification al
ready given, this vivid portrayal of a
new order might easily be attributed to
some progressive leader, some soclologi.
cat expert or some keen, able student of
economics. Yet the portion of Doctot
Eliofs address here quoted was one oi
I those selected for attack by many well
meaning clergymen and professors of
theology,- as well as eminent laymen.
iiess man tour years ago.
I Today it seems rather mild as a com
ment on present needs. .Today It Is pos
slble to muster reams of preachments
far more progressive, whloh have drawn
no pulpit fires, chiefly because the
pulpit is slowly wheeling Into line. So
swiftly is the old order chanrlna- thai
creeds, like everything elsa are halna
ooming too risky to appeal to thrift
souls, for fulfillment Seems to have got
I corners
Letters From the People
pebUeetloa la this department tbeold be writ,
tes en only me alda f th n.n aiumia m
enwed .BOO words la bngtb and nasi be ae.
enapaaltd br tb aame and aadraas f the
radar. If the writer ooee net aeelre to kee
ue uaie Baeuaaeo. ae Sbooia SO IUta
A Man Advises Women,
Portland. 1 July . It lllt-To the
Editor of The Journal I - noticed a
the. little freedom that women havi in
1the matter of dmaa. . She. ivAMtn
more . tioerty in areas, -, and seems
to think women should dress more Hkt
"Eve.- I begin to think modesty is s
thins of the nt o,,n
seem to think that th. mnr th
poso 'their charms" the mora the men .
win oouce in era ano uus IS true, Zei
a young lady pass you on the street
dressed la late style, very low neck,
short dress, hobble skirt lace stook
Inge, and with a rlrdle around - the
middle to show everr line nf hi rnrm.
and most "assuredly all men win tan
wished them to do so. .But What decani
man will Tnarry such a. being. No,
ladles, when you see a man staring al
"uun " "Bllu" yu may oe sure it is
Only. with disgust and ridicule,' Then,
?ajr as why will they, persist Is
a0,na" so? All good men respect a raod
!tl?r dressed woman, and they are. the
Klwx 70ung men are looking for -t
ratVy'it e,rj?i " ' UP to 70 Dress
" JheLfl9 If you wish, but If you
want to catch s,. good man, dress as a
woni?n nou
A MAN,
Saw Prince - Edward's Bride.
Gaston. Or- Julv 8. to the. v.Atnt i
The Journal- Seeing an account in The if
Journal Of June 27 Of the landlne-
CI..1..4 lM . - . . . '.- itt
princess Who Is now the oilcan mn4h, -
Alexandra, I wondered if there was any ,
"e in runnna ai tne present time that '
w the grand procession as it cam
luruuau uiiwBBonu, A.ngiano.'? Mr Dili
oana ana myeen arose at I
O'alock on
that morning and walked seven milei
to see It pass through. - Seeing the storj '
In Te Journal brought It all before m v
mind, and It there Is anyone la Port
land that was there to. see It X should J
like-to hear from such person. '
rvv. v. k- MRS. HANNAH , BEST, ? " ?
, box, zd, oaston. or, v w :':.: ' .'
ip:lp&mr From Judge.
.tTrusijw - fe.urglaf: er?4 murdeWf' u
'? New, Awivsl-Cter-fAW
iMfr-1 ' " ' rflf.
-i; Salem's postal receipts inorsased neaiv
? Salem's nosUl recolnts innree.t
llv '13 .ner .-'cent In .thT fiaoei e i
oioeea, rising .irom ' 0,1D1.77 to B7I..-
1 m.9t.
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