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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. ' SUN DAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 7, 1013. :
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SUNDAY .
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DAILX AND SUNDAT
One year $730 I On month ( .!
ca
ts
- The power of applying- atten
tion, steady and undlsslpated.
to single object, Is the sure
mark of a superior genius.-
Chesterfield.
THE WAY TO EMPIRE 1
on , their way,, to Join. Montgomery
In an assault upon Quebec. ' Arnold
led his men through the wilderness
of Maine and Canada, and his cour-ae-e
wm unauestioned. This was
in the fall and winter of 175.' Ar
nold had assisted in the capture of
Fort Ticonderoga, and later be
fought at Saratoga, there losing' a
leg. Gates minlmlred Arnold's ef
forts, and a sensitive nature turned
traitor.
Arnold has a traitor's place In
American history, but he was not
always a traitor. What harm can
there be in erecting a monument to
the former Arnold? A just Judge
gave that unfortunate man full
credit, for all the good there was
in him. Why should not we do the
same thing? Besides, the Plttston
monument- commemorates the Valor
of 1100 men who did not turn
traitors.
free to run their own affairs. That
RIVAL FORCES
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IT IS -almost certain that, unless
the unexpected happens, there
will' be delays in the prosecution
. , of-the work on the north Jetty
at the mouth of the Columbia.
- The one thing that ought not to
happen now is any kind of post
ponement of work on the Jetty.
Water is to be turned into Culebra
cut in the Panama canal the fifth
of next month. The work on the
cut will be practically completed' on
' the fifteenth of this month.
It is of the utmost importance that
every agency that will deepen the
entrance to the river should be
' pushed with all possible dispatch
and all possible energy. The dif
- f erence between aggressiveness and
non-aggressiveness in prosecuting
the work will be perhaps a year's
delay in the final completion of the
north jetjy. A difference of a
. year In the completion of the Jetty
-. may mean in the opportunities over
looked, a loss of millions to Port-
Jand, to Astoria, to Vancouver and
to points all along the river.
When trade connections are once
established, they are difficult to
break up. "When trade routes are
' once mapped out, It requires time
and trouble ' to Change or divert
mem.
When the " great sea traf flc to
pour through ' the Panama canal
. first appears along the Pacific coast.
It will be tremendously disad
vantageous if the Columbia river is i maintain schools
N THE development of democracy
are manifest two great forces,
now contending in opposition,
now working in cooperation.
These rival forces may be desig
nated individualistic and collective.
In the early history of our society
the individualistic was - in the as
cendancy. As society has become
more complicated and its member
ship more interdependent, the col
lective has gradually become the
controlling force, through the , Ina
bility and Impotence of individual
effort. f. if;',;;
The battle of these two grea.t
forces Is most clearly seen on the
primary field of education. In Its
first manifestation education has
individualistic form but while de-(
voted to the Individual the chief ob
jective is the collective good.
Collective interest demands that
the individual units be educated for
every human occupation that gives
free play to each individual's pe
culiar power. - The best thing done
by American colleges the past fifty
years has been the widening of in
struction to meet the individual
needs of students in an ever increas
ing number of subjects, fitting them
as units to Initiate those works that
are for the common welfare.
Although the collective Interest
is in reality the Interest of every
Individual there Is an extraordinary
Interference with individual liberty.
State laws compel parents to send
their children to school and force
cities, towns and rural districts to
for a definite
day has. not been hastened by, for
mer administrations. ; : 1
Mr. Worcester's statement con
cerning'' slavery as ian institution
will .bear investigation. Judge
Tracey of the supreme court of the
Philippine; -Islands has refuted It.
He says proof of so-called slavery
was proof 'only of an Igorot custom
of parents binding out their chil
dren, often against the children's
will. Such . custom," according to
Judge Tracey, cannot be consid
ered Involuntary servitude, even
though it may be .condemned by ha
manltarians. .
What the United States wants is
the truth about the Philippines. An
effort is being made to exploit the
Filipinos under the excuse of pre
paring them for, freedom. We are
told they are not'flt to govern them
selves, that we are doing them much
good, that this sjpod will be lost If
we give them independence.
Moorfleld Storey In a recently is
sued pamphlet quotes former Presi
dent Eliot " of Harvard university
to the effect that "political freedom
means freedom to be feeble, foolish
and sinful in public affairs, as well
as freedom to be strong, wise and
good." The United States has made
its wayL to ' freedom through- folly,
bloodshed and civil war. and -errors
of the, past justify pur freedom, for
we have saved1 ourselves from error.
This much is Certain, the United
States must, not Mexicanize the
Philippines. The greedy American
dollar must not be ,given firm foot-
Bom tnere under,, tne guise oi.Deneil
cen$ government;'1
" ORAVTY MUST PREVAIL
there was twenty .feet ijlenth of chan
nel He said 5, that, in projecting a
new, line : ho. would, f ollow; .a fiver's ,
bankk becau,s, there he would avoid
heavy grades, expensive both' la con
struction " and operation.'';, He ; now
nas a water level grade to the tea
at "Astoria, his:- ship are being built,
and Astoria is ' providing the docks
and terminal. facilities, ,.' 4 ?
Mr. Hill's insight into transports '
tion problems Is needed" just now.
The ' Columbia basin should not be
required to fight for equitable rates;'
it snouia ,ipi ne required to battle
ror an opportunity to; enrich tne
railroads by. routing trafflo along
water levdj grades. The Colombia
basin's ana the railroads'. Interests
are , common.1 ' One ' cannot prosper
without t .enrlchlngi-the!-other j. one
cannot stagnate without impoverish
ing the others ' v--
THE ABATEMENT LAW- .''V-
.REMBRANDT -
Hi ' i ' i ii
By Dr. Frank Crane. ,
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-not ready to receive and take care period during the year. This is an
of its portion. If big ships knock at
the door of the river and have no
facility for entering, the loss and
cost to Columbia, basin, to Columbia
, river points and to the shippers and
producers of the, whole Northwest
will be enormous. '
the section to nrovide-against Ae-
lays in compieung . yie noryi jetty.
The great commercial bodies of
' cities along the river should become
active. Half a .million dollars ought
. to be made available from private
pBources to supplement the work
when the appropriated government
. funds are exhausted. . No moment
of time should be permitted to elapse
between the ending of government
operations and the beginning of op
erations financed by the Northwest
communities. .
t Astoria should throw 'her re
sources into the balance. Portland
should come forward with a great
' contribution. Vancouver, The Dalles,
'Arlington, Kennewick, Lewlston,
Pasco, and every other point. along
Infringement, on individual rights
and demonstrates the domination of
collectivism.
Universities and colleges are
maintained by taxes on private
property.
Every taxpayer is forced to con
tribute to the support of higher edu
cation though he may have no child
to benefit or have no interest in the
subjects taught. As a matter of
fact only a small minority at any
one time makes use of the higher
schools, or are conscious of any per
sonal benefit from them.
Notwithstanding this, the state
legislature makes large appropria
tions for higher education on the
theory that It Is for the collective
the river should give heavily of
.moral if not material support. The
struction in all subjects. To do this
the legislature uses Its taxing power
to compel the taxpayer to contribute
to the support of college and uni
versity.
Again collectivism overrides In
dividualism for the purpose of lm-
j proving the individual and indirect-
OMMKRCH like) ' water, follows
ins 'line of least resistance, you
. ..cannot overcome gravity; In the
na it win prevail. James J.
, Hill.
'If railroad Interests seriously con
template fighting .Astoria's demand
for common point 'rates; on a par
with Seattle and Tacoma, those in
terests should fortify ' themselves
with some principle of railroading
which James J. Hill has not discov
ered, x " '
Mr: ' Hill says you cannot over
come gravity, that commerce fol
lows t$o line of least resistance
That is why he is a successful rail
road builder and an equally success
ful railroad operator. He knows
the utter Uselessness of attempting
to. overcomes natural laws. They
may be disregarded, but if they are,
the railroad and its patrons pay the
, x . . ...1. .jr
pouauy. nr. tun preacnes, in sea
'son and out of season, that In the
end gravity must prevaiL .
Applying Mr. Hill's railroad axi
oms to Astoria's case, the conclusion
ii Irresistible. Railroads cannot haul
the . Columbia basin's freight over
mountains to Puget Sound as cheap
ly as the same freight can be hauled
along water level grades to the
Columbia's month. Railroads can
not continue using two engines to
pull thirteen cars across mountain
ranges into Seattle and Tacoma,
while one engine will pull one hun
dred cars along the Columbia's bank
Into Portland and Astoria.
Why should the railroads insist
upon the . mora expensive haul?
They should not--and possibly they
Interest to maintain advanced in-rw111 not- tBut a11 ''JlrOad men have
, whole Columbia basin Bhould rally
around the slogan to rush the north
Jetty, and summon every available
force for promoting aggressive and
. continuous action at the Columbia
entrance.
It is no time for narrow vision.
There are tiny shipping points alopg
the Columbia that will be cities of
15,000 when the Columbia river
reaches its ultimate development,
v In that time, such cities as Vancou
ver should have a population of
100,000. Opening of territory by
roads connecting the interior with
the river will build up back country
' points as well as the river points.
The Whole Columbia basin fed by
the impetus of a deepened entrance
,'and great ocean trade routes would
be a throbbing empire of trade and
business life. Pnrtl.tnri In th
------ . ... laid
miast or sucn an empire would be
infinitely greater than the com
Tsratfvely puny thing she Is In
the midst of her present scantily
populated back country.
ueD r.mmuons tnat will age of the expert, who Is a highly
.come if the great .kingdom of jthe : Individualistic product, but a prod
.. Columbia seizes its opportunity and I net which an intelligent collectivism
ly the mass.
Collectivism has also undertaken?
the Improvement of agricultural
methods and the dissemination of
increased knowledge among the
farmers. This is not done in the
interest of the individual farmer but
because of the collective, interest in
the intelligence of the farmer in
general. Collectivism demands that
all useful fields of endeavor be well
filled and to this end education is
desirable in the preparation for
every human occupation, especially
in that occupation on which the hu
man food supply depends. It does
not trust individualistic effort which
has proved to be Incompetent.
As a, result of collective pressure
cooperating with individualistic in
itiative, the enlargement of educa
tion in the United States has as
sumed vast proportions. This could
not have been accomplished had not
collective action overcome individual
right
All business, public and private,
must be directed by trained men
who are called experts. This is the
not Mr. Hill's vision. Many of
them are concerned more with pres
ent annoyances than they are with
future possibilities. They lack vis
ion, ability to see clearly into the
future. They lack an empire build
er's actual Interest in the territory
which gives them tonnage.
The Columbia basin's full devel
opment should be a chief concern of
the railroads. Mr. Hill saw clearly
in former days; he should see clear
ly today,. When timber was vainly
awaiting the woodsman because of
excess freight charges, appeal was
made to him. A lower rate was
asked, and he put in a still lower
rate. What was the result?
The stumpage .value of 725 bil
lion feet of timber advanced a dol
lar a thousand. Railroad rates
opened a way to market. Freight
cars ' that formerly went east empty
then, went back loaded. The east
bound traffic grew so rapidly that
empties soon began coming west.
Then, to load these cars,-Mr. Hill
put In rates that attracted cotton to
his railroad, and Great Northern
cars have been loaded ever since.
Railroad rates did it. They made
the Great Northern a certatn divi
dend payer because of traffic's bulk
not because of excess charges
REGON'S injunction: and Abate
ment Jawis, proving effective
In , suppressing commercialized
TV I A A' ' Ifl lAVf 1 O M A "w f hAn jtP
V 1VV U V Mfra jy' AiVAM ;Vi
prosecutions . undejf it nave secured
promises '.from" several .:roperty
owners ; thahouses will bo. longer
be used ror immoral purpose, Dis
trict Attorney Evans is t-uslng. the
law as an efficient-club '-to -beat
down vice in Its worst form.
The plan of ' the ' law . It4 slmplel
It holds the property,,, 6wner re
sponsible for the character and acts
of" bis tenants. He- receives pfo
tection?,to ,ma. property throagn po
lice and . fire , departments; courts
are maintained to enable him .to col
lect his rents; bis property's value
is enhanced . thi'ereAtlon . of
schools, churches and libraries.,-All
this is done for him by the, public,
which in turn has the right to ex
pect protection : from hint against
immoral or dangerous use of; his
property,' ; 4 ,
'i The laV- contemplates nly a
square deal between property;; owner
and the public. If he has .tenants
who abuse the privileges granted
him by sthe," people, they have a
means under this law by which they
can protect ' themselves by . depriv
ing him. ot - the right ' to use his
property for any purpose" unless he
guarantees; the public, with a prop
er bond, 'that he will discontinue its
wrongful' use. '.JPhat Is to say, a
property owner cannot accept privi
leges without assuming obligations.
The law provides that any citizen
can bring an action to abate a so
da evil .nuisance without action. by
the ponce authorities, Tne pur
pose of this provision is to make
the - public independent-nf-xorrupt
or Indifferent officials, If each ex
ist. It gives every good "citizen the
right, to invoke .the state's power
against people, who feed upon vice.
For further protection - of the
public, court procedure('.ls altered.
Under criminal laws a man acquitted
in "a lower court cannot again1 be
tried for the same offense, nor will
an appeal to a higher court affect
his acquittal: .; Under this' law an
acquittal, may be reviewed, '. by a
higher court and the penalties be
Imposed.
Neither officers nor witnesses can
demand fees in advance. If the
defendant is found guilty, the costs
are taxed against him, but'jf found
not guilty and the costs cannot be
collected from him, the state pays
them. This provision gives the .cltl
zen bringing the action; protection
that any officer of the law has "In
prosecuting1 criminals. ' if 1
. States have experimented with
drastic criminal laws in attempts to
suppress the social . evil, but these
attempts have been practical fail
ures. Iowa first, adopted an kit
junction and abatement law and it
has been effective In closing houses
of li I fame that existed for years In
spite of severe criminal penalties.
Nebraska tried a similar law, and,
it is "claimed that in a year every
public house of prostitution had dis
appeared front the state,
. Washington, South. Dakota, Utah,
Minnesota and Wisconsin have
adopted ' the law, and r California's
t legislature enacted it for that state.
What is known as . the ; Property
Owners' Protective , Association is
attempting to Invoke the referen
dum against the California law, and
It is significant that , the '.white
slave Interests of San Francisco are
behind the movement. V
Advocates . of. the vn . .do 'i not
claim that its enforcement . will
eradicate the social ,evil, but they
do . claim that It Is effective as a
weapon against commercialized "vice
(CopjTlght, 191. by Frank Crane.)
iK curious light' la thrown upoa the
money value" of human- genius or labor
tT the recent sale of ' Rembrandt's
"Bathsheba" far $200,000 or thereabouts.
Wa '-speak, of what "a man's work Is
worth,' say that Bo-and-So la not setting
as nftich money as be Ought, and wonder
whether any man can really earn a mil
lion -dollars. '. '
.The fact la that mnnav la Antlna-rllv.
aridjij the general run of affairs, an
aoceptea standard of values. But it Is
neither scientific, Just, nor perfect
uiten It Is legally paid ever tor noth
ing at all, as (when on dies and leaves
a shiftless son a fortunes and often
work of the- very highest , use to the
wojrld Is, pal for by no money or a
ridiculous pittance '- V'.ri? '
; jTow fantastic Is the money standard,
for Instance. In the case of Rambrajidt
Uarmenssoon van Rln, the world-master
In the use of light and shadow In
painting! .
HI greatest work la supposed to be
the picture called "The Nleht Watch."
which all visitors to the Kyks Museum
at Amsterdam -can never forget, aa the
wnue nana, or the central f laure seems
to reach out from tha canvas to greet
me oenoiaer. .
Enough money probably could not be
got together to purchase It .What It Is
fWorth" may . be conjectured by. the
mathematically inclined from the price
or tna -ijamaneba," which Is 68 by 7
centimetres. Th Night Watch" is
9.69 by 4.85 metres. Fiaura it out your-
self and let us know how much per
inumDnau square Kembrandt la worth.
The two paintings' are of about tha
same, period, 16M4S.
it would look as If a manwho could
produce stuff as valuable aa this must
nave, lived in Imperial Splendor and have
had goldfish for breakfast There was
no levelling democracy those days, butj
wr in siory 01 qoDie-Dorn magnuicent
onev.
The facts, are that la -years aftes
painting theae two ' masteroleces his
foods were sol at auction by the law
ecause he could not pay his debts. He
died poor, because ha could no more
find any one to sit for a portrait
v flrhe' "connoisseurs" ' of that time
thourht his work too aombrS. Th no.
pie with money in their jeans dropped
him, sa he waa no longer tharfad.
Rembrandt", save Kmlle Michel, "b.
longs to the bftaed of artists which can
have no posterity. His place is with
the Michael Angelos,' the Shakeepeares,
the Beethovens."
Yet after that auction, writea Walter
Armstrong, he was "stripped of all the
property he had accumulated in the
hlgtorio house In the Breestraat and
for the rest of his life was a sort of
nomad, shifting his lodgings with un
comfortable frequency, carrying with
him- nothing but tha materials of art."
All that men could aay of him when
he died Is found In the register of the
Werter-Kerk ef Amsterdam; "Tuesday,
October t, ?69; Rembrandt . an Rljn,
painter, on the Roosegraft opposite the
Doolhof. Leaves two children.".1 f
Now millionaires and governments are
bidding a thousand . dollars or so an
Inch for his caavaa; but what did the
IN EARLIER DAYS
- 13; VttA ' Lockley.
sad old tramp painter get out of, JJ?
Think "of that wben, you are -complaining
that you are not paid enough
for your work. ' j . t
Sam IliU and Good Roads. "c"
- ' From 1 Collier's. - " """j? There are a few men' In Oregon who
' Samuel HIU, "father of good roads in are known all over the- state and who
.mf.C rAtUrn" f rom FurPaB tour are at home wherever their bats are off. 1
persuaded that as many tourists-as; go fl h " "Bin" Hanlev T T or
to EMrope each summer Swould come to S"1 ""V " Z' vlJl?"'
this country front Kurope If tonly1 had v Chapman and J, B. N. Bell have a
haps he is right ' Certainly more Amer-l n the hotel register.' '
leans would tour at home. 7 But there is ( Recently I visited J. R. N. Bell at his
one more requis
ably backward,
tha citiea of the
they are the best. In the wprtd. With sls'sembly of the -Presbyterian church
good Inns arid ''good roads we should neJd at Atlanta Ga., and after the close
get the full value out of our fine seen, f the- general , assembly I visited the
ery and railways. But reads Cost money, southertf spates and came home by way
France will spend" $60,000,004 Jn.the ff NW Englsfadi Oh, nothat Isn't the
next 10 years Improving p00- miles of longesf trip 1 1 ever made. - Back of you
thoroughfares thai are not'uo to her On tne wall there is picture of my-
high standard.?. France s a-irugal na- ""i' and some others taken in front of
tion; be sure that this, expense vonld h Sphinx in Egypt There is a plo-
be. spared unless it Wff a paying Vln-Jllu' Ho( yself; and three other Ore
vestment . " , O . -j ;' i.!?.f' -;.iUJ sToniaas taken at the Fortress of An-
.1, I, , n .j I,,,;, i , -.,-ni ( , ., tomo in tne xempie -Area on Mount
NEWS FORECAST F0R7HEI -iASini
V riiiairt ktrr-tf 'v. ' .r Shr'ners Jr?m the Al Kader Oasis
.,i COMIlNG WEEK! ' J. E. Horn, - Baptist minister from
would tbur at home. But there Is -Recently I visited J. R. N. pen at his
ore requisite. America Is. lament- home at Corvallls, "1 have Just re-
ackwaml.,ln its hotels, vexoept in Wrnd !;from a 44 day trip,"; said Dr.
tea of the first magnitude whero Belt was delegate to the general
They made the ' Great Northern
rich and they enriched the Columbia !Deprlve the bawdy house of its
presses into tho struggli! the forces
that are within its easy command.
It is a vision of jiopnlation, growth,
power, wealth, arid activity that this
section can realize within a decade,
if we but force the Ihsuo.
There should be $500,000 of pri
vate money to supiihiTiifint govprn
ment work at tha Columbia en
trance when public money is tern
porarlly unavailable
to empire.
calls for, regulates and supports.
THE PHILIPPINE'S FUTURE
T
, A M5jfUMEM TO ARNOLD
' snpnEASON is an unforgivable sin,
and there is wender why Pitts
'J ton, Alaine, has erected a mon
, ument to Benedict Arnold and
men Commanded by him. Perhaps
a nation's Surprise is caused by the
" people's inability to distinguish be
i tween jgood and bad when, combined
in one individual.
The Plttston monument marks
'the spot where Arnold, then a colo
nel, ; directed the transfer of iloo
men under his command from tran..
jjorts to beteaux The troops were
HE appointment of Congress
man Harrison of New York as
governor general of the Phil
ippines has thrust the Insular
iesue to the front. The Baltimore
platform declared for Filipino in-
lt Is the way dependence, and the only statement
bo rar issued rrom the White House
is to the effect that Mr. Harrison
will carry out Democratic platform
pledges.
Governor General Forbes resigned
Immediately upon learning of Mr.
Harrison's appointment and the
prpblem was further complicated,
apparently, by . a statement from
Dean C. Worcester, insular e'ecre-i
tary of the interior, that peonage
and slavery stiir exist in the islands.
Independence for the' Filipinos
does not mean withdrawal of th
United States today or tomorrow,
Dut it does piaa that this govern
ment will hasten the day when the
people of (hose islands vwIU be Inland water competition unless.
basin, which now seeks opportunity
to further enrich the railroads as
well as itself. . ,
The Columbia basin must have
access to the sea, just as It once re
quired outlet for Its timber. In ask
ing, the railroads to remove the bar
of discriminatory rates, no, favor is
demanded. A million and a half
people now developing the resources
of a vast area wish to cooperate
with the railroads. They are not
"denying fair rateB to the roads, but
they are insisting that rates must
be based on the cost of easy haul.
Fulldevelopment of the Columbia
basin depends upon equitable' rail
road rates, and maximum prosperity
for the-railroads depends upon' full
development of the Columbia basin.
It cannot b that Mr. Hill now
lacks vision. He is already build
ing three fast coasters to ply from
San Francisco north, breaking bulk
at Astoria.' He saw possi bill tfes of
the future' when he acquired rail
entrance into Astoria. . He is pre
pared, to meet 'the Panama canal
competition. v :; ,"-Vr
Eight years ago in a public ad
dress at St. Paul Mrl Hlllsaid that
in building new lines he feared no
mqneytmaking power, and the bawdy
house will -disappear. There . is
good ground ,for standing on the
assertion ' that f the "respectable'
owner of a building, used-for im
moral purposes la as great menace
to "society as more openfdrms of
vice.
bo long as tne money continues
to pour out of the -Thaw coffers
there seems . to ,S be-fJiQ dearth ; of
technicalities In 'the. battle of wits
now being - waged oetween "leading
lawyers of the United' States and the
Dominion in - the new International
game of legal ping iong..v '
The reported offer pf a woman
juror- In Aberdeen to , wed one of
her male colleagues - if ;jh , would
change his vote on the case afj(sBue,
suggests that a ; mjstalte may ' have
been made in' tiaklng. single women
eligible for Jury service.,,
' n i ii i ' ')''- .! ' ';ir ..:
.J " la 4. j. V
Cannibals of German New j, Guinea
who are reported to have eaten four
American professors ' ses,t to ) study
the Paupan Malay tribes, may have,
in their, own primitive 7wayy; com
mitted the ,' act "In vthe interest of
science.''
By Herbert Corey.
"London," said Rhlnlander Waldo,
commissioner of New JTork'e police, "re
spects Its police; Berlin obeys; Paris
bate." ' Tjr
-"New 'York Is the fourth great city
of the world. Mr. Waldo didn't . dis
cuss New York's turn of mind toward
the force. What's the use of waking
sad echoesT tie has Just returned
from a atudlous trip to Europe.
"I found three great - policemen in
Henry Hennlon and Jagow," said
he, "In Scotland- Yard, Paris and Ber
lin. London's police and polloe methods
correspond most nearly to those In
vogue in the United States. The Paris
detective system Is being torn to pieces
and rebuilt Benin's police department
Is a highly efficient, humanised card-
.index. Its mala function la to keep
tab."
Mr. Waldo explained, the law-abiding
ways and love of system 'of the Ger
man people.
"Wherever you go." said he, "you
find placards, "Verboten.' 'That means
I-forbidden." No one ever thinks of
disobeying. They do not even question.
It a: mad wag were to slip Into Ger
many over night and change all those
'Verboten' placards he would auto
matically alter the habits of an en
tire people." ,
7. He permitted the inference that when
m-y German, after proper deliberation,
decides to commit a murder, he pro
ceeds according to Iron precedent It
Is probable that the victim voluntarily
holds his head over the blue and white
wash bo wL in order not to mess up the
place. - No German or Londoner ever
thinks of assaulting a oopper. In this
town one of the favored sports at the
weekly athletic meets of the Gas House
gang" or tha Gophers la to whang
brick oft a coppers cap. That's the
formality which always precedes a foot,
race. The Gophers, hold the record in
the Cod handicap. Their best sprinter
did four cross town blocks in eleven
seconds and an ambulance the other
day.- ., : , r:r
I asked a Scotland -Yard official."
said Air. Waldo. "If the Londoners
often assaulted his. bobbles.
" 'My dear fellow, 'no." aald ha It
simply isn't dona'" ".
Paris policemen are beavil armed
anavwaw Ttooan m ; pair. Mr. Waldo
did not care to go more deeply Into
this matter. He said that over In
Bfurope they "take the press seriously.
On a-athara- hovivw that Mta advan
tage of the arrangement la that there
is usually a survivor after the Apache
attack. A , sort or 60-60. split so to
Speak. He 'would not make a direct
comparison or the personnel of the
New York police force with that.of the
three other great cities.
"The police force of a great city Is
always fairly representative 6f the-cttt-sens
of that city' said he. "New York's
force has' the 'defects and the merits
that characterise New York's" people.
As tov honesty -whenever 11.000 abso
lutely honest, men can be gathered bi
a civil service examination, there ,wlf
do no neea lor ponce xorce."
It was suggested that the Ho'uns
ditch affair,1 Jai which London called
out a- regiment of Infantry to capture
a trio of anarchists,', and the movlna
picture oaiuea oetween tne Paris po
lice and the automobile bandits, would
be Inconceivable on ,tbts side of the
water .v " '
"That comas under 'the head of Vsus
toms of the eervioe'." . said New York's
police head. "We do things differently
ever here. That's all v . .' .
wamo commenaa tne ract that crime
news is not ' given the . Prominence
abroad that Is the rule here.
"A story should have something more
than just Diooa ana tears to get on the
first page said he. "If a murder la
committed in njurope the fact is chron.
icled In the briefest possible way, unless
It contain- other elements Of interest.
Our newspapers begin with the spot
marked 'X,' count the sobs of the worn,
an and end by a description of the kind.
faoed chaplain 'watching the condemned
eat his last ham and eggs." x r--.
New York is the only one of the four
Washincton. n. C Ht s.-Of inil terlan minister from Indsnendencei Pro-
taraa tn .Vi- nnlllnl.n. l . lbf i.M lessor . J. ' B. Hornnr ana nf tha taanh.
days special election In the Third coa-1 & the .fkregon .Agricultural college
gressional oUstrlct of Main to fill ' the w myseir are tne tour m . the group."
vacancy caused by th death of Rep-J rWhat does J. B. $1, stand tort Where
reaentative uooawin.. it is a three cor were you Dornr vnat have you doner'
nered contest v between the Democratid, I asked. ',. -. ,; -.. (.--
Republican am) Progressive candidates, "3. R, N. stands , fot John Richard
with each party predicting success. Newton Bell. I Was born January 25,
Wednesday will be the .one hundredth 1846, in Pulaski county. Virginia. , My
anniversary of Commodore Perry's vlq- people sent me to school to a Lutheran
tory-at the battle of Lake Erie., :The college in Wyrheville, Va. With moat
centennial will be observed with a great of. mv i-lannm).a t m.rrh.4 fmm h.
celebration at Putin-Bay, within sight school, room to the battlefield. All of
1 ',',iJhAattl',' Voufhr' ..BoI schools and colleges in the south
the United States and Canada wljljbe, before thai, war trained the boys in
represented. : President . Wilson,.' has mmtarv - t i
promised to attend if his otheij, engage- when I enlisted. On March 15, 1861. our
menta permit and ex-President -' Taft nhnAi -V
also will be among the speaker..: , SliVlc. of wlr TZTZ Z?Z
birth of Maior Generaf John Bedwlnk. r.lX.."'"' r coma
a distinguished soldier of the Indian, ?n tha, cvir t i
Mexican, and Civil wars, and one of tha wa. dlmi2 7-S22Ir 7! ln
ablsst oVticers of ' the Army of the Po- 7 waa TbT?h t W'!
tomao. General fiedgwick was bom at L?tl v?rlfw ,t,fpw'7 ; T.wentf:
Cornwall. Conn.. Bapt.mber 19, 1818. He S???
waa killed near Snottsylvanl& w court ?mb.erJ! ' .company I there Were but
House, Va.. May ., im." V, .,' ,, , Ji ?-0"m1ttt out 0B nl
At th invitation of th ' -Swiss Ped-1"' .1. -0 regimeut, seemed always
... i fAM.n .i..t.. - - .v. I to be able to find the olace whera thai
principal industrial countries of the ajting wss goed.-- i was in M battles
world will assemble Jn Berne to con- fr Vf oean't include Innumerable
elder the drafting of an international hi,lmJshe ' ' ' .
asrreement rnhlhlt that annlnvmant JTrom the 19th Of BeDtember. In 1S84.
of children; below-specified ages and to J 1,tn October, we fought every
nx a maximum. AO hour day for work- " -u" yu wouia go to work
era within certain other ages. Other every , day that Includes the time be
events ofthe Week abroad will Include twen Winchester to Cedar Creek, where
the annual grand maneuvers of the Ger- Sheridan made his famous ride. Our
man army, which will take plaoe in 81- company was nearly wiped out at
lesla, and the anneal meeting of the Cedar Creek. At Cold Harbor we re
British Association for "the Advance- slsted the rush of tho federals with
ment of Science, in Birmingham.- clubbed muskets.' I got a Yankee bayo
Among the Important meetings and net through .my shoulder. E. B. Mc
conventions of the week will be those Elroy, one of my good friends In later '
of the American Publio Health assocla- years and for several times superln
tlon, at Colorado Springs; the American tendent of publio Instruction In Oregon.
Fisheries Society, at Boston; the Amert- was not over 20 feet from me at Cold
can Association of Passenger Agents, at Harbor, only he wore a blue uniform
St Paul; the American Chemical Boci- and mine was gray. We visited the bat
ety, at Rochester: the Union Veteran tlefteid fna-a.th.r v. .,..,
fLegion, at Zanesvllle, Ohio; the GeiM "After the war I went home. I was
ere,! council or tne Kvangeiical Luther- It' years old. I worked that summer
an church, at Toledo, and the Canadian I an i. ,. .u t . v.I.. L r
at0W,nniCDe0f "d Corr6CtlM Md- tookup my literary coursI was
at Winnipeg. graduated with tha d.a... a t
the riextw--years tauarht achoni in
Bland and Giles counties, Virginia.
"In 1868 I married Margaret S. Kirk.
Wa have had 10 children, alv of whnm
form of government Here therefore. Jara .'n"- I came to Oregon In 1874,
and in all other cities similarly gov- -etulnS at Ashland. I had been 11
erned, the police become an Item in censed to preach. In the M. EL chupch
the political situation. . south In Virginia, and for four years in
"While I waa In Paris." lie said, AsWand I preached and was the presld
brlgadier and six men were fired for ,Bfr1(Iur ,n tnat churcn- '
grafting. That would have; been a . In faU ot I moved to Rose
political scandal here. There. It was ?Tg-X 1 wa8 the dltor and owner of
dismissed with a line. But, not long njR8eburg Review for five years,
ago a young man connected with the- " 1 j11"! b?n led a Lutheran, so I
Paris department wished to-place a Jmen the Presbyterian church, but it
young woman friend In opera. He ap- not ju 1886 that I became a pas
proached a director. . - tor of a Preabyterlan cHurch,
s:v. . "For some time I owned and ran four
" 1 will be glad to give the young at once. I went to Independence
lady an engagement' said .the di- wnere I bought the Weat Side. I bought
rector, 'but in the meantime I would the Monmouth Democrat which I later
like the ribbon of the Legion of Honr' consolidated with the West Bide, and 1
and my chief of orchestra and my boss founded the Oregon School Journal,
stage hand would like the ribbon. Year- Pour papers was too busy a Job, so I
So the ribbons of the Legion were sold the Roseburg Review. While I
secured for the operatio politicians was 4 Roseburg Governor Pennoyer
and then they didn't deliver the goods appointed me clerk of the railroad Corn
to the young woman. So that her mission, which had just been organ
young, man. probably oroddad bv th lsed. I was its first dark
ambitious songstress and having sore! "From Independence I went to Bekar
spots In his own feelings, said en-'iClty, where I was pastor of the Preeby
tirely too much In the wrona- nlaca. I terlan church for 14 ve&ra. Pram h.
The whole matter got Into the papers I came here where I have been pastor of
and kept In. You can't blame 'em?' the Presbyterian church for the past six
xar. waiao nas never Deen superstl- years,
tlous about the powers of the "I am school director an
police dog. So that he was mildly for the past five years. I was school
pleased to observe that the jthree other director for 11. years In jBakef City and
great cities are doing just what New for four years at Independence. For 10
York is doing experimenting with a years I was one of the regents of the
handful of kl-yla. There Is nothing O. A. C, and I taught physics and Eng-
new In the actence of criminal ldentlfi- Hh literature In the collea-a tar nm
cation, although M. Bertillon, the daddy time. I have' done considerable lectur
of it, has drawn a series of maps show- lng all over ' the V state, usually on
Ing from which department Of France Shakespeare. I helped lay the corner-
ine largest noses come ana wnere the Bo oi vuiara hail at the State unt
shortest ears are raised. Mr. Waldo verelty and , also of the administration
regards this as Interesting, but ho building of . the Oregon Agricultural col
more. BertHlon has also invented a. lege. I Lave known Intimately all the
camera which shows the ground plan presidents of the O. A. C. W A. Flnley
of the room in which a crime has was. the first Dresldant. than An, o T
been committed when the plate is dn- Arnold, who was president for 81 years:
veloped. Waldo commented on the semi- then President Bloss of Topeka. Kan
Judicial pewera with which Berlin's then Henry, Miller for one year then
SHKE-UP AMONG POLICE OF PARIS
commissioned officers are Invested.
If Herr Patrolman Schmidt reports
to Herr Lieutenant Jaeger that
Herr Householder Huckleberry's e-ar-
bage can was on the ' pavement after
the prescribed hour," said he, "the
lieutenant fines the householder, The
first that unfortunate knows of It -Is
when the herr patrolman cornea around
with a nice snappy salute, andapapor
requiring tne payment or. two marks.
Can you faintly Imagine what. New
York's criticism of .that system would
sound nicer'
Berlin's commlsslsoned officers' are
SU college graduates, and promotion
is xainy rapid, Deing dependent ofl
merit , plus examination. A somewhat
similar plan is in vogue in London,
wnere promotion rrom- one, grade to
anomer is not at an a matter of lona-th
of service, but wholly of efficiency.s
shown by the service, record and The
periodical examinations. Commianinna,r
vvaiao recently recommended that a like
-...... V. B ' . t
iuuuuuvqq nere. , ;.
Hennlon. who succeeded tha hmnm
Leplne as chief of Paris, was -not a
all aatlsf led ; with' the bureaucratic de
tective bureau. He Js rebulldlng.lt
on the plan In use In Scotland Yard
and New York. Hennlon Is but 40 years
old, looks like an American, has the
energy oi a aynamo, and-Is a gfeat d-
leuijYo. , jio is coniunt T-On tha ank
out for improvements, ,,t
unaer me Oldnian- evarvthin
,T o"rai , omce in Paris,"
said Waldo. , "Hennlon is doing away
with that and holding Ala -dlvlnlnn
chiefs respdnslble for what goes on in.
iiu la 'tne plan
we took from Scotland Yard two
years ago. Berlin is the only one of
the .world's four great ; bitiaa . hih
still operates Its nolloe denrm.na
under the old plan. . The morning line
up" and round-up Of ; detectives has
been done away with. . r- .T .
xne humorous Dart t .m. k.
added, "is the absolute horm.' ,,..
which the. 'old policemen regard these
Innovations, No polios force can -ha
thoroughly efficient without Its sherW
ef - young , blood today. The conser
vatism of age la desirable but . too
much- conservatism u deadening."
Professor T. M. Gatch. and th.n a
present president W. J Kerr.'
X?1 5m ault, loAs mAtu I m the
oldest grand Chaplain of th Masonlo
order in the United States. I have been
grand chaplain for 88 consecutive years
in Oregon. I am a member of the
Masons, the, Odd Fellows,- the Knights
l vLtbtM the Woodmen,- the Red- Men.
I16? and 1 m charter member
of the Baker City lodge of Elks.
"Some time age I was given u AM.
degree by the affiliated colleges of Ore
gon and the D. I. degree by the Philo
math college. My chief claim to dis
tinction, however. Is that I am the only
private Confederate soldier who sur
vived the war. All the rest are oninnai.
or majors --or captains. I went in a nn. .
vate, -served over four years as pri
vate, came out a private, and am .nu
a private. The passingyears have Pro
moted all of my fellow soldier, to I be
officers."
Vast Pastures Await Action
flf0!-.!;-..1?; Ansreldei Examiner. , '
Invthe past 10 years tha nnn..i.
L?n,ed State" has Increased 18-k
000,000. The number at h. i '
decreased 6,000.000. If the lncreas. .V,,V
decrease keep up the same ratio, the
Will be aa 40 to 100; Ten vm n .
proportion was as 67 to 76. The nrlce
ti nhihmr" 0lnthln8- done, will;
be prohibitive, except to the very well.
MllUonS Of acres n Ala.lr. ...a
ed to raising cattle of the hardy breeds,
such as the Scotch v;JliV.'
raise. . These acres are good for nothing
else and never, will be good 'for any- '
thing else. If ; congress would ensct
range laws for Alaska.) ao that ati..
.men could put herds n' these vast pas-
""'us, ww oeer zamine would be
adjourned to a much later date than is
We glean this bit of philosophy from -The
Dalles .Optimist; "Knowledge i.
never gained, nor.. is strone- th.tlZ
developed ' by drifting with the our
rent It Is by stemming the stream
that advancement Is made and We eav
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