THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, MONDAY EVENING; AUGUST 25, . 1913. ..
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In our own natures frail; and
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Of -our. flesh, few are angels.
jri, Shakespeare.
ASTORIA'S RATE FIGHT
HE! importance of Astoria's suit
before .the Interstate Com
merce Commission for common-
point railroad rates on a par
with, Seattle and Tacoma need not
b 1 magnified. It Is not Astoria's
fight alone; it is the Columbia ba
sin's fight, and whatever advantages
Astoria ,roty secure through a favor
able decision, will be shared by Port
land and every other city, village
and farming community adjacent to
the Columbia river.
' ; ; - The "cost of haul" principle, long
Recognized by the commission,
' "should ' determine the suit In As
toria's favor. There Is no excuse
tor present discriminatory and pre
ferential rates given Puget Sound
k gainst the Columbia river. These
rates are justifiable neither in law
hor morals. They are relics of days
Jvhen railroads were allowed to build
Jjp one community at . the expense
of another. There is no more justi
fication -of discrimination- against a
city than against an individual, and
the commission has prohibited both
sorts of .discrimination in many in-
: stances . 1 ' ;'
J Portland never has received the
benefit of her natural advantages
Jn rates. , The ' Washington railroad
commission established rates to- Pu
get Sound based on the mountain
haul, which were lower than to
Portland : on a .,' water-level haul.
Hates to Portland were then fixed
on ' the same basis as Sound rates,
'Although' there were no mountains
Iq "Crosse . In other words, the moun
tain rate has controlled the Portland
rate. ' " '
; But, Astoria, with higher ratea and
' water-level grades, still was left at
. the mooth of the -Columbia practi
cally marooned 80 far as rail traf
fic ia concerned; "'
, I It is not. material now that these
"discriminatory rates r have long ex
isted. Bat it ia material that Port
land join with 'Astoria in her fight
for equitable rates. ' 'The past had
en obscured view of the problem;
the present must Bee it in its true
light Portland in former days de
hied Astoria's claim to equitable
J-ates, and while Portland was busy
bpposlng that city's demands Seattle
an! Tacoma f orgod ahead as ship
ping points. It were better had
Portland's energies been devoted to
securing just rates as compared with
Puget Sound. But that was an er
tot of the past; the present necessity
- 1b to secure -for the Columbia basin
Tights to which it Is entitled.
- Rates route traffic, and traffic
Guilds up cities and farming dis
tricts. Opening of the Panama ca
, jial will mean little to the Colum
bia Jiver if shippers are denied Use
of the nearest seaport. They aye
now denied use of the port of As-
- torla because of preferential rates.
They are denied ubo of the port of
Portland, because much traffic hits
been diverted to Puget Sound. It
is a wrong against, not otly Port-t
- iand, but the entire body of people
v frhose natural outlet to the sea is
felong the Columbia river.
. The railroads -may object to hav
ing their established-rate program
disturbed. But if they fight the
' present; suit they will fight their
pv-n interests, for it is not good
business for a railroad to haul heavy
loads over mountains when the loads
could be hauled along water grades.
The children's bureau' of the United
States department of .labor recently
issued a monograph- saying that
800,000 babies less than a year old
die in America each year. Over 42
per cent of them die within one
month of birth.
Filth in various phases and forms
la the direct cause of this army of
babies being carried outflLJittle
graves. Drunken fathers; diseased,
undernourished and devitalized
mothers; impure food, flies, dirt,
neglect, poverty, ignorance, squalor,
foul air, heat, cold, hunger and
other allies' of filth out-Herod Herod
in a slaughter of the innocents.
If a baby is worth having it
is worth saving. What can be said
of a city that kills Its babies?
And yet indifference to filth is kill
ing them. Portland has an enviable
reputation so far as baby slaughter
is concerned, but so long as even
one Portland child because of filth
adds to the sum total of the na
Uon's dead children, the local cam
paign must continue.
people do , expect soma immediate
benefit, and they , are certain ' that
benefits will be progressive. It may
take soma time for the country to
get back on a basis of fairness and
common honesty. Othe tariff laws
must ba enacted before the millen
lum Is reached,1 but the Underwood
bill is heading us In the right direc
tion. '
If the Galllngers and the Oronnas
were as frank on -tariff matters as
are the bill's sponsors, the reaction
aries would be less tiresome, and
perhaps less amusing.
PATRICK CALHOUN
THE CURRENCY BILL
P'
OLITICS makes strange bedfel
lows, and so does the currency
bill. The country Just tow Is
treated to the spectacle of fiat
money advocates fighting the pend
ing Mil on the ground that It ia a
bankers' measure, and at the same-
time bankers represented at the Chi
cago conference up in arms against
the same bill on the ground that it
does not meet their approval.
The fiat money people have little
claim for recognition, and the con
ference bankers are equally without
substantial ground upon which , to
stand. These bankers object to "po
litical" eontrol of the federal re
serve board through appointment of
Its members by the president. They
wish control lodged with the bank
ers. They also wish one great cen
tral reserve bank instead of twelve
regional banks as provided in the
bill. No populist convention ever
assembled engaged in more heated
debate than did the bankers in Chi
cago. - The president and friends of the
bill in congress are upholding the
cause of sound-banking in the face
of flat money heresies. They should
be supported, not harassed, by in
telligent bankers. The president's
firm stand against members of his
own party is evidence that the bank
ers' political control argument is
not Bound nor1 convincing. The issu
ance of money is a governmental
function, and it should never be
delegated to private individuals or
private capital. The federal reserve
board should be named by the pres
ident, even though he Is a political
officer, and the bankers' Insistence
for places on the board is not hacked
by sound doctrine. ' ,.
The demand for elimination of
the regional reserve banks Is out
of harmony with the whole purpose
of the bill. Our banking system
should not center In one city, New
York, as at present. Domination of
New York by speculation has in
times of stress dominated the entire
country by Wall street gamblers,
and legitimate business has been
prostrated while the stock market's
credit requirements were given first
consideration.
The Aldrich currency plan was
approved unqualifiedly by the Na
tional Bankers' convention of 1911,
and last September the national con
vention adopted a resolution to the
effect that the bankers' association
would cooperate with anybody and
everybody In devising a proper bank
ing system. Several of the pending
bill's provisions now objected to by
the bankers are identical with the
Aldrich plan, which they approved
unqualifiedly two years ago.
The Glass-Owens bill may not be
perfect in all details, but it em
bodies sound principles of banking
and statesmanship in ,. refusing to
place control of money issuance in
the hands of bankers. The insur
rectionists at Chicago must not be
allowed to secure a compromise on
this vital point, even though they
have wittingly or unwittingly allied
themselves with fiat money advo
cates In opposition to the bill.
I
T Is announced that the man
agement of the United Railroads
of San Francisco is to pass from
the hands of Patrick Calhoun
According to one report this fifty
minion aoiiar corporation witn us
two hundred and sixty odd miles
of street railway has come under the
control of the Flelschhacker syndi
cate which- is largely interested in
electric power In California and In
this state. This report is not con
firmed, but the change of manage
ment of the system is unquestioned
Coming on the eve of a special elec
tion on the proposition to . Issue
three and one half million dollars
worth of bonds to build up a mu
nicipal railway ayatem, the an
THE HEALTH CITY
THE TARIFF DEBATE
I
DR. MARCELLUS, city health of
ficer, Is ambitious that Port
land be known as the health
a,. city. 'Such ambition is com
mendable, for it looks toward hap
. plneasv nd happiness Is a city's
most prized -possession. In the
. Health Bulletin, the department's
monthly publication. Dr. Marcellus
calls attention to Portland's natural
Advantages of location, topography,
llmate and water supply. He says
everybody should Join In a cam
paign for cleanliness, which must
result n a lower death rate, Port
land's record already being very
close to the top. He says:
-.Filth In more dangerous than thugs
nd murderers in our midst. It kills
mora people In the world than all the
Wars combined. Therefore, the man
who harbors filth la a public menace
-tie more, so If he la a caterer to
public wants. -
; Portland's death rate is only 8.59
per one thousand inhabitants.
Among American, cities Portland is
jecond only to, Seattle, and Dr. Mar
rellus is not satisfied. He should
not be satisfied until Portland as a
health city is so far In advance of
Other cities that there will be no.
(lose comparison. - '
The health officer is right In say
lug that filth kills more people than
ars. He is right in Insisting ttpcfn
If anlineaa. , Think of the, defense
less babies that are killed by filth.
ft THE senate tariff debate were
pot so tiresome it would be mlld-
,ly amusing at Intervals. The
other day Senators Galllnger and
Gronna secured Democratic admis
sion that no claim is being made of
certain and definite cuts in the cost
of living through operation of the
law when It goes Into effect. There
fore, according to the Ga lingers and
the Oronnas, the Underwood bill
is admittedly a failure.
Wheq the English reform bill was
pending In parliament in 1882 Syd
ney Smith admitted that nobody
claimed the impossible for the act.
People who expected an Immediate
drop in the price of beer were
doomed to disappointment That
admission was used by opponents
of the bill, and now the Galllngers
and Gronnas are using similar Dem
ocratic admissions as an argument
for higher duties on butter and po
tatoes.
Suppose the cost of living does
not fall Immediately and materially.
Champions of the tariff bill have
been frank about its Inability to
accomplish the Impossible; they are
claiming nothing except what may
reasonably be anticipated. The pub
lic recognizes evils of the present
system of exorbitant tariffs, and the
obstructionists are creating little Im
pression upon the country in shout
ing about small results claimed for
the bill. ,
Nobody; expects, when the new
laW goes into effect, an immediate
halving of the - cost of livings But
nouncement of the passing of Cal
houn has a deep significance and
marks the closing of one of the
moat turbulent periods In the his
tory of the street railroads of the
Bay City.
Patrick Calhoun is a strong per
sonality and he has in his conduct
of the affairs of the United Rail
roads encountered the opposition of
individuals, labor unions and popu
lar sentiment for municipal rail
roads, fostered to a great extent by
the antagonism of the labor unions.
The system was organized in 1902
by the merging of several compa
nies. Among these were a number
of cable roads and it was sought
to electrify them. There was a
strong public feeling' against this
and authority to make the change
ould not be obtained, from the city
government. With the fire and
earthquake of 1906 came Calhoun's
opportunity. The city was In the
bands of Abraham Ruef and Eugene
Schmitz. Transportation was almost
destroyed. A franchise to electrify
the roads was obtained at a cost,
as brought out in the celebrated
graft trials, of a quarter of a mil
lion dollars, paid to Ruef, Schmitz
and supervisors.
In the exposure Calhoun was In
dicted among others, on the charge
of bribery, but the indictment was
afterwards quashed.
Shortly after the fire came a
strjke by the street railway em
ployes. After a long and bitter fight
this was broken by Calhoun and
for the past six years - the roads
have been operated on a non-union
basis. '
While the feeling engendered by
the strike was at its height of bit
terness, a movement sprang up to
make the Geary street line, whose
franchise had expired, a municipal
road. Calhoun fought to prevent
this, but was forced to yield to pub
llo sentiment
. The policy of Calhoun was .the
old policy of public service corpora
tions toward the public, a policy
that is fast passing away. His go
ing will be followed by a bitter feel
ing towards the United Railroads of
San Francisco by the residents of
that community. It
great Influence tomorrow In the re
sult of the bond election for munici
pal roads.
Washington that he' had "made"f.
Governor Johnson of California, and
the Japanese will "' now be able to
place the responsibility where it bo-
lengs. . ;:'
Becoming familiar and. almost at
ease with the critical aspect of the
Mexican, situation, we fear that if
it ceased to be I critical something
serious might happen to somebody
preferably Huerta.
The life of a Tacoman who rolled
over a cliff was saved by a stout
shoestring, but not without a period
of painful suspense.
One ot the'' best indorsements yet
heard of Mayor Gaynor. is that he
has been -deserted by Tammany.
PERTINENT .COMMENT AND, NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANGE
Th automobile is about as great a
iir, as- a war. . -
Thaw may not be lmian. hut be is a
fool for not biding' whlla. , '
Utters From the People
(Commnnltatiena ml ta Tha Inurnal for Dub,
llcatlon In this department should be written on
onlj one dot ot the paper, bould not exmed
800 words la lorif th, and nrait b aroompitDlPil
by tbe nam and addrm of tha lender. It tb
writer doe aot dealra to hare th nam pub
Uabed, he ihould o itate.) k
"Dlncowton la th areateat of all reformer.
It rationallMl Tory(blo It toucbea. It rob
principle of all fair aaootity and throw
them bank on their reaaonablantw. If they
hiT ao reuonableoeu It ruthlewlr crush
them out of xUtnee, and act up It own
conclusion la thalr atead." Woodrow Wtlaon.
In Criticism of Gompers.
Portland, Aug. 24.- To tha Editor of
Tha Journal .Tha contrast , of .Gom
pers' leadership of the labor movement
with that of th I. W. W. Is being very
much considered now by tha average
workman. Gompers has pulled down a
nice blar salary aa president of tha Fed
eration of Labor for over 25 years. For
most of that time ha had been a stand
pat Republican, and therefore not only
has stood .for all the false teachings
that implies, but ha has been very ac
ceptable, not merely to the clique which
has kept him in office, but to the very
opponents of labor. At last a new king
has come, for the present, in the form
of tbe I. W. W. movement.' Compere
aeea It. HI editorial in the American
Federationist proves It. Qompera is a
selfish conservative and unfit for true
leadership. Tha I. W. W., while It may
be born of the unwashed, has felt tha
branding: Iron of poverty, and It is cer
tainly more responsive to the awful in
justices of our economic conditions than
leaderahln which Uvea at the best hotels..
travel In Pullman coaches and hobnobs
with the Mark Hannaa of finance, etc
The Lawrence strike did some good. It
helped Mr. Wllaon In his election to the
presidency, and It will , help us to get
wool on the free list in the new tariff
law. The Journal can't object to that,
surely. There are no "Impossible Ideals"
in that.
Mr. Gompers very well describes the
conditions of the working people In his
editorial aa "undernourishment In spare
.
No currency reform can reform the
currency poverty ir some men s pockets.
A noted automobile racer has retired;
he wants to live years Instead of weeks
or monms. - , :. ,
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Alter an carping; ana caviling, a
great aeai or real retorm la all fields
is DcJng erteutea. -
a
FrobabIy.lt ) only the exceptional
person, and the fat on, who can safely
auai.it in nun, sauna tor weens.
And if the air isn't fresh enough In
the country for children who live there.
i coy micni oe sent to roruana,
. v
Of course, Bryrfn might : reduce his
church and cjiarity expenses, but no one
is going to advise him, to do so.
.-' .;.
How th cost of living will tumbl
when cne can rid on th streetcars six
times Instead ot five for 25 cents.
' ,. V ''
All Tfimmany's many and long con
tinued Inequities, are not a feather's
weight of defense for Bulser, . if what
he is charged with be true.y
. '
It would be a brave ' higher eourt in
a certain sons that, on a trivial tech
nicality, would reverse the juet verdict
and judgment in. tha Dlggs case.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
IN EARLIER PAYS ';
" '-;-;-.;. By Fred Lockloy. 1
"Every one in a while I run across a
For a sloaran good enoua-fo for thn new I
and lust municipality of Molalla the sraphio account of th fight with Indiana
editor of the Fjoneer offers a year's t Table Rock. In Southern Oregon,"
subscription . . , said Judge WllUam M. Colvlg of Med
With a school of whale off hor and tot?' ot th accounts, whiU mor
plenty of summer girls on the beach, s interesting, have one fatal defect,
th Signal says, Newport ia managing and that Is they are' lies. The.r wasn't
to keen on th. map as, an attractive any fight at Table Rock. ; v
resort. ' V -I -;; .'There-are not many people How alive
Among articles sealed up la th cor- wo nave first hand knowledge ot th
nerstona of the new Masonla bulldlna fact, thou arh n r n.cimm .Tntrann.
at Tillamook were a package of local vllle. myself and one or two other are
picture po.t cards and aom ourrent the B7, T UJJ
booster literature. . , only onea I know, of who possess
.... . personal knowledge of th matter, V '
Alhorr Masrara of Ralnm. who fr-a "I came to Orernn A3 vpura am. I
dosen yeara ha traveled In-summer was born in Ray county, Missouri, on,
iay,?hath September .,18, not fur from, the
coition ainow.y " V - birthplace of-Jessr Jmer-W are al-"
. WOt of an age. H was about a year
Baker Herald: While the people back old when Z was bom. Jesse James earn .
In bleeding Kansas hav, been closing of an excellent family. 7 Hi atep-fathr
their places of business on account of aiid my father nraetiMiii mwttotn L th
in heat, people in Baker county wr '5 t , medicine in the
getting out their winter underwear. m? wn and thir offlcea wer al-
Sjn a m mt tm aW 1 a '
. i ...uv Kjua dj aiae. .
The Htuvtnn Mall has renorta of a I "We started for Oreeon on K.
number, of surveyors at work on both 1161, We had 2 wagons. The one with
nonlwTh
men belong, but It presumes their ; " " n.
presence mean another railroad in family traveled had two yoke. W ar
Stayton, ' I rived In Oregon with the light wagon
To make La Grande the best Ha-htedl?? a ?8t."v .f 'ur
city in th north we.t, to insure con- lo naon me neavy.
struetion of the Second street subway I wagon on the plains. ,
at a coat of considerably over 130,000, "Ther wer fiv children in our fam-
5n.lAlAru',h, th9 construction of a Jjlg tly who cam across th plains. My
1,260,000 gallon reservoir were improve- brother Judra Volnav rnM m., w
ment , transaction of th city council rV ,JU?;" yoiny Colvig, Myea hr
i uranila- at it lest regular es w tocmwiy county
sit
on.
OREGON'S JUNIOR SENATOR
Sam G. Blyth. In Saturday Evening
Post.
The gentleman who first enunciated
that sterling axiom: "Many men, many
minds," surely had th congress of the
United States for his Inspiration, and
concretely must have considered the
senate thereof as th real, underlying,
baslo plot for th pronouncement.
Hurdling gracefully over th obtrusive
thought that mind, aa ojbserved in fre
quent congressional instances, i purely
a relatlv trm. has t ever occurred to
you that the greatest mushroom expert
of th northwest now Inhabit tha sen
ate, wearing one of th two togas al'
lotted to Oregon and bearing th neat
little name of Harry Lane not Henry
Lane, or Hank Lane or Heinle Lane,
but Harry? Feasibly not, but such Is
th fact. Harry Lane Is the greatest
mushroom expert of the northwest, and
a dashing daredevil of a mushroom ex
pert at that, for h often traces to their
fungusy lair in the giaaea aeout rot
land mushrooms that many another
might think were not mushroom at
all, and eats 'em, thus taking his life
in his fungus, so to apeak and ao far
h has eacaped.
So far he ha escaped: On many a
.w av .nff Af I Tf am T in. hm rm rlc (H
Domes, me airmncu, ijuiigiy i back to town things that were the veri
est caricatures of mushrooms, and
stewed them, and smacked his Hp over
them, while th neighbors stood poised
ready to hustle for th ambulance, the
stomach pump, the undertaker and the
reporters to tell what a useful and ef
ficient putdlo citlsen he was was do
you get that? But on each occasion
Harry ha had the laugh on them and
the mushrooms in him, and for this rea
son he has com to be known aa U
greatest mushroom expert in the north
west.
those who "live In dark, squalid and
fetid rooms called homes."
Before Gomper led th lbor move
ment things could not have been worse.
Why doesn't Gomper atop thiT Th
I. W. W. propose an economic change.
Gompers 1 satisfied with his job, and
tha salary. He talk qf the working
people "having their sense of justice
inflamed." For a labor leader, wouldn't
that Jar you? Doesn't he know that
the return to labor, In productive em
ployments. Is but one-fifth of the pro
duct? How can you Inflame their sense
a 4uaH wVian It la aivatr Inflamed bv
such an enormous wrong-T A" Harry Lane I a doctor, too, thus
Gomper talks of constructive leader- impinging on on of Old Doc Galllnger
Rhlr. imnlvlne- that ha la of that tvrj. claim to lam as n onty pnyaician in
Let u test that by the faot. Som th senate. h wlU handy to hav
years ago the dock laborers of th port j round whenvr on of th tariff or
of New York and New Jersey were un- i ator 1 overcome by th heat, or aom
organised, and consequently their right , fiend In human form put something
were abused. Frequently the boss steve-. besides egg and milk in th egg and
dor compelled their men to work from milk he take for refreshment and I
30 minute to two hours overtime dally carried gasping from tb room. Mor-
without any compensation, and at thai over. Harry Lao has been superintend
same time th state of New York had ! nt of an Insan asylum, but there la
on It statute book an eight hour law.
Those conditions remained until on day
an unknown Irishman from Liverpool,
England, named Edward McHugh, cam
to America to organise the International
Dock Laborers' union.
no need to dwell upon that end of it,
for few man are responsible for thlr
actions and thought when th tempera
ture I 106 In Washington, and they ars
talking about a chemical schedule or a
corrupt plan for rediscountlng commer-
Under 'the most difficult conditions j clej paper at a regional reserv bank
without th impairment of the national
credit.
Anyhow, Harry Lan stttled all that.
imaginable, by th method of street
peaking from barrel and boxes, and
though very often arrested by th po-
may have a!,lce' he .ueceeded In organising 60,000 few aay, ,np h- Ma e0tn9 0f
. . J.. T2A ;w I th enat h observed: "Huh. I know
!La8" .;rae,i "LV"t !all about those fellow In there. I ustd
mem- ptua uvm ,i,v in gw inn , K an nvlnm vnu IrnAW
alone. When McHugh had all th dirty L1.19?" "1"! .Uw,f.W:
ETHICS IN SCHOOLS
I
N HIS "Education of Tomorrow,"
Arland D. Week urges the teach
ing of broad morals in public
schools. He would not confine
ethical instruction within narrow
limits. Indicated by general under
standing of the term morals, hut
would have children taught the prin
ciples of production and distribu
tion, making economics a part of
the child's technical training, of
course not forgetting the academic
fundamentals.
There ia virtue in Mr. Week's sug
gestion that boys and girls be told
early in life it is Immoral to be a
parasite. Production is a necessary
antecedent to consumption, and
there is established ground for
claiming it is socially Immoral for
a person to consume what another
produces without giving in return
one's own product in equal value.
This type of Immorality is respon
sible for most of the political and
industrial troubles how worrying
people.
There is great need for .advanc
ing the cause of morals. President
Wilson has undertaken the task In
legislation. Much of the opposition
he encounters is because men along
In years do not learn readily. They
should have been taught ethics early
In life and thus prevented, in later
years, from becoming stumbling
blocks in the way of- Justice.,
But our understanding of morals
is broadening. A few years have re
corded wonderful advancement in
the ability and disposition to Care
fully distinguish between right and
wrong--not merely between some
forms of right and some formi of
wrong. America is advancing because
the country Is becoming educated
ethically. Mr. Week's suggestion
that tSls education start In the pub
lic schools Is worth a trial.
As John Llnd is still very much
alive, the reports of his death at the
hands of an assassin were presum
bjyvexaggerated. , ..'.
',' -; , -vJ,'.
Rudolph Sprockets announced be
fore a. senatorial 7: commission . at
,v- '.:..',-' ' :r " ':.-:,
work done Gompers Jumped In and stole
the organization. This is evidently what
he mean by "constructive leadership."
JAS. R. BROWN.
But
I that is neither here nor there; and may.
hap he didn't say It, as perchance he
did. What boots It?
A Widow Asks Questions.
Portland, Aug. 2S, 1918. To th Ed
itor of The Journal On the subject of
paying the water bills three months in
advance T would like to have a word. I
am a widow and my son gets very small
wages; so low I can't pay three months
in advance, even If I wanted to do sor
for I am also a renter and for more rea
son than on a person will sometimes
have to move. If one ha paid that far
in advance, what could one do? I don't
believe one could get the money back:
anyway, not without a great deal of
time and trouble. Do you think in law
they could compel one to pay that way?
If one had paid In advance a month and
still offered to do so, could they shut
the water off if one rafuued to pay any
farther In advance?
Now for another question: Why does
the pure food lawr'allow butrhera and
other dealers to sell fowls with the en
trails and crop still In? When the
law was passed in Idaho they were all
warned not to sell fowls In that condi
tion, and after several were fined they
uuit It We had a good health officer
There, I not the pure food law the
same all over the United States? There
certainly Is nothing pure or healthful
In a fowl In the condition described.
Besides, the crop or craw TVelgha from
three-quarters of a Pound to on rtAiinft
and the entrails another half pound so
that is throwing money into the garbage
pall with a vengeance. We did not have
to pay as much a pound for chicken
" 'W" n laano as we do her,
either. . a SUBSCRIBER,
Multnomah's Game of Bridge.
Portland, Or., Aug. 23. To the Editor
of Th Journal When a new tax or
bond Issue Is proposed, w naturally
ak: Can we afford tt7 On the pro
portion of a bond issue of 12,000.000 for
a bridge over the Columbia, we may
have to face the problem of paying our
shar of 6 per cent on that amount. We
can hardly assume that the bridge tolls
will yield that amount th first year It
is opened to traffic. It can be as
sumed that even the flret year the tolls
will amount to 11 00.000 abov expenses
That would be 6 per cent.
Our Clark county (Wahlngton)
friends estimated this from th profits
of tb Vanoouver ferry. I hav watched
th development of traffic across the
Columbia for 27 years. From my ob.
srvntlon, I am confident that only
about half of tht traffic passed over
tne ferry. . Much' come by river and
railroad that would com by wagon or
trolley, which would come by bridge
if It wer made convenient and reason
ably cheap. ,In a few year the "tax
payers of Multnomah county Will not
only be relieved from paying" Interest on
tbe brldg bonds, but in less than a fen.
Lane is a native Oregotolan. The first
lime he appeared before th public was
in 1S87, when he wa mad superintend
ent of th stats hospital for the nsan
at Salem. Lane was and is a Democrat,
and he was selected for hW post by Gov
ernor Pennoyer, also a Democrat, whose
greatest claim to fame is that upon anj
oocasion nevremarKea narsniy io in
late Grover Cleveland, .at the moment
president of the United States, that if
Mr. Clvland would mind bis own busi
ness he, Pennoyer, would do the same.'
Lane didn't hold himself aloof at the
asylum. He visited all the patients and
found out about them. He discovered
a man, quite craxy on various matter,
but Ban on th matter of sustenance,
who told him a lot of things about the
food famished by th state for the pa
tients. This man became th food ex
pert for tha musnroom expert twin
souls, so to speak.
The result of It was that Lane made
so vociferous a protest - that he and
Governor Pennoyer had a most eXclama.
tory warfare about th matter, and
Lanequit and Went back to th practice
of medicin. ,:' "
This was in 1901. Along In 1905 they
sort of '.wished- the nomination for
mayor of Portland on Lane.. H didn't
particularly-want it, being concerned
Judge of Josephfn county. ' Another
brother, Judg George W, Colvig, lives
In Grants Pas. My nistr, Mrs. A. -A,
Emery, lives in Ashland. I Uv in Mad
ford, and my other brother, John Lewis
with hi Inve.tlgation. of mushrooms ? bjr h IndUnJ!; '
and other scientific subjeots, but h got cnlff ' scouts. There wer five In
it, ano ne aratea tne patriarcnat
Georg H. Williams, who had bn at th Indian, four- of th party wr
torny general in on of the Grant eabt- killed.
net and was the grand old man of Ore "We arrived In Portland oh October 6,
gon. Tb city oounoil was Republican 1561.
and Lan had his troubles. He wanted "My father was born In eesburr,
to quit at th end of his term, but the Va. His father was born in Paris.' When
Democrats renominated him and he waa my grandfather cam from Franc he
reelecfsd. Th third Urn they tried-It Anglaslsed our nam. It had been Col-
h flatly refused. Vlgne, so he dropped th W -when h
He waa an lntereating mayor. Tbe cam to Virginia. My mother was bom
municipal government of Portland never , Htf0rd. Conn. My father and
lacked for excitement while h was in mother met ln 0n, wh.ra moth
O n ft I SWA aVaT afe fAII Vnff SMl Wn 9 M affa Mr aa Mm hai"ll
-v O X V a lit, 14 X tvJ mr I rQ aa tannhfnat aa at I. a 1 Taa.1 r T
of the executive boards, and raoit of eadv .d mv father rVtSli
them reatgnd. H had th town stlrr.d ?!.'. " 7 th r&iM1 bs
lift all Ik il-rte Da(w -.ntHMi 1. f rtf-tlr I w .
a ' H Vw v va , w ww
an ax one day and went out and knocked x?m " m roruana s eeny
a hoi In the wall of the old Marquam rnsrehsnt. and my father cam from
Grand theatre, then Portland's leading the same part of Virginia, so when w
playhouse. It wa so easy he chopped m to Oregon Tom Carter met u at
various other hole In tha walls and Csscad Rapids and brought our family
floors of thla temple of Thspis, and down to Portland on th steamer Lot
finally" ordered the place closed aa un- Whltcomb. My father cam with th
safe, much to the disgust of many lead-- thre oxen and the 'wagon over th
ing eitlsens. Also he secured a couple mountain trail,
of sharp pointed ateel rods, and he had "Mr. Carter took us to bia horn. I
a way of Journeying out along newly remember h took all of us children to
paved treet and jabbing holes her nli ,tor, and gay, each of ui hat an(1
and titer Just to see If th pavements a mi, et shoes
tEI'iinS ? tnMHl0"'. tirst chW I attended was her
this lin of investigation incensed the . ..,.. , IV ,. , ,., T, "
navin.- . wi.k k... ,B Portland, In th fall of 61. It wa
it secured a lot of good pavements for " bT a man named Stephen Out
Portlands house.
we moved Into the hous ext to
At th end of Lan's second term aa Tom Dwyer. He had his newspaper of-
mayor the people said of him: "H's rlc 111 hi hous. .My brother and
eocentrlo. but h'a honest." and Lane frank i,all bad the job once a week of
grinned and began practicing medicin I running the hand press to print th
again. He wa a doctor from 1901 until I Oregonlan. If I remember correctly
1912, when he went Into th prlmarl Urfy ran off 200 or S00 copies each week.
as a candidate for senator. As our best "In th spring of "63 father took th
classical author would nvr say, h gold f,vr, and with on light wagon
had a cinch. Ther were running for and oxen we startd for th mtnss of
fndan'Jt0 n!"n,f,UUr " southern Oregon. About il mil, .outh
i?vePdn? .nUabhnt"nA Pror: of Ros.burg th. oxn pUy4 out and th
h,m on rasa laaax stas
Thu. wa. th. greate.t mu.hroom ex- hlm Titl tor e,a,m- At ny rat
pert of the northwest nrolaeted in in tha father went ahead and proved, up on it.
senate, and he 1. there now, just a 11 wta near Cany on vt 11. There waa a
curious a. in his earlier day. when h Indian village, on on comer of the
inquired into th Oregon brand of Piace, so w children soon learned Cht-
fungu. and punched the hole, in tha nook.
Portland paving. "i think it wa. on th tenth of Oc-
somsbody told him one that thara tober. 18KS. that mv brother and I came
wa. considerable jobbery In Indian af. ln from hunting th cow and saw a
rairs down at tb capital, and when th whit hors covered with blood stand-
;.'.ll.-lfP.1lOPtvtton. bU1 cmm up ,op " hy th front door ef our log cabin,
repassage in the extra ses.lon of con- w hurried Into th hous to see what
Jrlalna? bin ?Jn. it.li VV.ld th5 w" the matter. W. found father with
Sssertiin. ;oVo'th ll'J1' .nd i kntf working on a man lying on
S?ens who wa. in cha? of Sf. bm'Jo th ',oor' wnU thw WM uTln our
when it seamed If Senator flton. WM B,U RU8,ll and ha nafl bu!-
would take off one of "hi. .111. 1st wound. He told ua that th In-
nd hurl it at Harry. Which would aIn naiJ hrokn out and killed Weaver,
hav been a bldeou. hurl, and not at all nl PrtD,r. and a lot of other .ettlers
in accordance with the tradition. between Canyonvlll and Jacksonville.
conventions of the greatest deliberative and around Grant Pas. Russell stayed
legislative lorum in the world. I all winter witn us. ratner patcned him
up, and he got well and ia alive t He
One during a Japanese fen Asm nn tV. I IIvab at Anhliinfl
coast Harry came to bat with the in- "My father and J. C Fullertcn. th
lll, Jl: t0r . ,enel of oon- father of Judge Fullwton of R9seburg.
IVrtJP t.Vtl:e?'1,jr of the war ae- anothr settler.' eomblned te hire a
K mm f fc'Jt "L" were taoner' Th.y built a log sehoolhouse
pSftUnS" wlthWVirwWtok" LS !.mr and Y? Sam Strong as leacher.
when the yellow narll ah.n .;,. LTI Anay Pul nlm unaer oonas nor. to get
the City of Roses' It is not ranort-.i 5runlc durlnK tM rour mong school,
what th senator desired ?o do about Ha mnX eUh,r' thouKh ,atsr a,e'1
this alarming state of affair, but it la of al,r,uni tremens. Our next teacher
quite probable he had a plan for wel. wa" a mllA an1 ,noffen8lva.'Httl Jw.
coming the yellow narll hn.r,t.hi ..1 named Isldor Choyn.kl. 'W boya
feeding It toadstool. In.tead of mush- knocked him out in two months. He
room., to the consequent discomfort and was a tlrald mt,e 'allow. He w.i the
death of the Invaders. And Harry Is the 'ather of Fighting Jo Choynsklj th
-?t,y-WJ10 know.' tn Ptrreroua fungi pfix. fighter,
when he .ee. there. Doublet that glide "Our next
by you
eratlon the great bridge will Bay for
itself.
Years ago I copied, as a law student.
the contracts for th first brldg over
the Ohio, river at Cincinnati. Th sub
scribers for-th stock ln that enter,
prla then thought they war .Inking
their money for . the public good. Now
you .will have to pay a premium for the
stock in anyi of the Ohio bridges. And
so It will b her. . -
It 1. financial faith which movta
mountains, THOMAS M. ANDERSON.-
A Working Woman's View.
jportland, Aug. 28. 1913. To the Ed
itor of Th Journal I see muoh In
your paper concerning woman's work
ing hours and wages. I am a working
woman and am proud of It. and I, think
if wa could be let alone we would be
better off. How ar you going to bet
ter conditions for aom without mak
ing It worse for othersT We ar liable
to b driven into whit slavery by too
little rathr than by too much work.
I am making my 12 a day. If the hour
are cut down my pay will be cut too,
or I Will have to go altogether. If I
want to work nobody has a .right h say
1 shan't. , -, ' . ;..:",
And Saturday evening Is i the1 only
time a working person has to shop and
enjoy the beSutiful . things displayed
In th store. Let the store, open later,
if necesssrv, Saturday morning. ' ,
A WORKING WOMAN.1
YOUft MONEY
By John M. Osklson.
glide "Our next teacher was a young' east
erner, who had com out Wst to die
of consumption, but who had become
cured In crossing the plains. HI. name
was Rufu. Mailory. later destined to
mak hi. mark ln Oregon, politic. Ho
was succeeded by a young German, Bin
ger Hermann, who also cat a wide
swath in politics. Blnger Hermann had
Pointed Paragraphs
One of th oldest and most widely a wonderfully persuasive w.y With us,
experienced dealers in bonds In this and w wer soon his firm friends.
country mad this statement recently: "A 1,ttlfl after thftt 1 enlatid n Com-
"Ovr a period of years money safely Pany C, First Oregon cavalry, but that
Invested has. not produced an in,,... la another and a lonarer story." -
Inftm- r.l,.
.-.w-.-.v .v.m... nnfifuoic tiviLi mm nign
as may bs obtained at present," And
then this paragraph wa added:
"It therefore teems logical to advise
the investing nubile to tair. .v.nt...
of these favorable rates for a. r,rin,t I Not even a woman ever liked' all her
of years rather than to seek perhaps a relatives.
susnwy mgner return for a shorter
tlm." ' Most of a man's illusion, eora out
Among borrower. thr la strong com- w,to hJ ha'r- t ;
petition just now. In one group you . ' ..'
will find corporation, f railroad an in. If you ar looking for m light Job
dustrial) offering short term notes SFPty t the gas works. ,. $ a
yielding better than 6 per cent. Tn th. I . 1
other group you ar beginning- to find I Mal,y a man puts his footiin lt when
corporations principally railroaded nf. I h attempt to stand on -hlsi dignity. .
farina- hla. Ic.u.i 1st , . s . ... I '
and mor) bonds oh a yield basis of
very close to 6 per cent.
For the Investor, who seek saf.tv
along with hi. reasonably good return,
in- question remains .jo. flecldaj Can I
make more by buying the notes which
will b nald 1st from on. tn fiv v.a
or by taking on-,th long term bond many a family tree springs (therefrom,
wnich yieias close to s per cent, and la I j; .
likely to hav ,a considerable Increase I Wrt know some men who seem to
or price wmm credit condition ar know everytnmg inat isn i wprtn Know
easier?. ;.. - . I lng. ... i -,-
It la put up to him to judge whether ' ,'.',
or not-the market for; the- long term I And' it might ba well U remember
Issue, ha. reached the botonw if it I tha,t ino man 1. any better than you
has. hla decision will not ho hj n I aimuM he. " -- ' '
4 . h-- k
Honesty may be th best .policy, but
there ar a lot of men from Missouri.
"'.-'. i' l
' H Is a smart man who only makes
mistakes at the other fellow's expense.
-: , ' 5 -f .
Money Is the root of alj evil and
has, hi. decision will not be hard to .bould be.
maxe ne win tax tn jong term Issues.
If hs thinks that t will take another
yea,, or. two,. or three; to reach bottom,
be, can ' get better "pay for the use of
his moneyvfroni the issuer, of the short
term notes, and when they mature hla
money can then h hlftd. V ; ,
personally. I should look Into th lona
trm bonds. .
Whn a bachelor makes up bis mtnd
to get married all ha ha. to do is , to
stop dodging. ' .; ;;; ,
z 1 ""' ''' ' ".' '.' ''' ' '
'"Young' people used to set ".out tor a ':.
life's Journey' on th sea of matrimony'
now many of them are satisfied wlta
a abort excursion trip.
J
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