THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER-f ?0, '
TUT'lAl IDMAI the plans make no provision for dia
I rl t tJLJLJrvl Nrl continuing ' of the rental the led
iAi. independent NEwsPAPEB I eral government la foolishly and
V. MU.CKRON
pnbmhw profligately paying ont In this city.
I st a ii.. m nAn
t-alul .Tiin. itiMDt Soadarl aad It-egaruieoa ui iuo pmu ui rii-
r? soodr morning at Tb rani I master Myers, it is inexcusable pub'
mw, mn. for the. federa. KOVern
'Catered at tna poatoMce at Portland; Or, for I , while sncndine: larce sums
transmlaaioa through toe malls u aacond cUh I mens wmit). Gptuuing iart,e buiud
air, ! i ior reuerai property in una cu iv
lfcLUfHo.NBa Main Tits; Hom, a-som. ong continue payment of these rent
. All oapaKments rescued or mesa """" i,, Tr la a hnrrion thnt rin rn hfl
' Tall tna operator what dapartmaot yno want. al8. Jt IS, a DUraen mat nas 10 ne
FiniBaMWTATi vr I borne by the workers, because the
HanJamlB A Kautaor Co.. Brnuwlck Bnlldln. bjghbrOWS and hlgher-UpS Can al
nt nrto annua, mw orj -
ways protect themselves against the
Imrila f anrh whrIa hv rArnnnlnff
Subaerlerlon Turn, br nail It IV I " .
faaa- Building, Chicago.
la tha liultml Stalpa er Mexlcoi
DAILX
Vm yaar $3.00 Coa month
SUNDAY
One raar 93.60 I Ona month
DAILY AND SUN DAT
Ona rear ST .50 I On month SB
. .SB
A moral character Is attached
to autumnal scenes tha flowers
radios' like our hopes, the leaves
falling like our years, the clouds
fleeting- like our illusions, tha
light diminishing1 like our in
telligence, the sun growing- cold
er like our affections, the rivers
becoming frozen like our lives
all bear secret relations to
our destinies. Chateaubriand.
their losses from their weaker and
a an lc8S fortunate countrymen.
I nis vast puuuc waste 01 ou,difu
a year In Portland is probably the
rule in most of the large cities of
the country. It is as unbusiness
like as it is costly., The Wilson ad-
ministration should put tnis aDuse
on the list of great reforms It is
working out.
OUTSIDE THE LAW
IC
PASSED
T
OUNTY JUDGE BUSHEY of
Marlon county says the widow's
pension law is a "fool" law
and "he refuses to apply it in
ajj his county. He says:
jne law in useii is vicious. 11 in
vites laziness and carelessness among
families which formerly got along all
right. The law that has been In ef
fect all the time Is sufficient to cover
all cases of poverty that com under
our Jurisdiction.
Unquestionably the general prin
ciple of pensions tends to create in
from time to time as material for
politicians Is a coarse beBet with
great danger. For the lasting In
terest of both countries,, the pam
phlet says, such a thing must be
avoided. . It is necessary that the
question be settled once and for all
at the earliest possible moment.
If the pamphlet reflects lntolli
and Bhe has been especially neg
lected by the national- department
of agriculture." This statement was
made by a man closely In touch with
the agricultural and domestic needs
of the country
It is time that the farmer's wife
be considered. Heretofore chief con
cern has tyen shown the farmer.
gent Japanese opinion, It is evident Labor saving 'machinery has come
that Japan does not intend to let to assist him; there have been pub-
HE currency bill received
heavy Indorsement by Republi
cans In the house.
It received a heavy Indorse
ment by Progressives in the house.
It coes to the senate with 286 the weak a greater or less depend
Totes for It and only 84 against. In ence on government. Unquestlon
the votes in its favor are 14 house ably, it spreads abroad more or less
Progressives and 24 Republicans, of a feeling among the unthrifts
The Democratic support of the bill that government owes the indlvia
was almost solidly united. ual a living. Because of these ef
Not since the time of Jackson has fects, there is no more delicate pub-
a Democratic majority In congress 11c problem than that of deterraln-
been as compact in action and as Ing just where to begin and wnere
fffictive in legislating. Not since to end in legislating pensions
tha time of Jackson has there been But the Marion county Judge Is
In the White House a Democratic wholly outside the law. He is not
ionHor with ao resolute and definite the legislature. He is not the con
the California incident die. If the
controversy can be settled In no other
way, arbitration is suggested, and the
statement is made that another note
will be sent by Japan to the Wash
ington government.
Japan, It is said, has disregarded
the problem of emigration. More
attention must be paid to the gen
eral education and , training of the
people while at home, fitting them
to lead successful lives when they
go abroad. Japanese in America are
said to be thoroughly awakened to
the need of their own Improvement
In all directions.
While the California incident Is
deplored, the prediction is made
that if it results in a better under
standing" the Japanese people, and
if the people of both Japan and the
United States strive more for bet
ter living and thinking, good will
come from the controversy.
Ho investigations on how to house
and feed stock, how to till acres,
how to select seed and how to
plant It'
Machinery hat helped solve the
farm labor problem, but little has
been done toward solving the farm
kitchen problem. Farmers' wives
find it almost Impossible to secure
competent he)p during the busy sea
son, largely because girls shrink,
not from the requirements of work,
Ktif frnm th. ilullnafla et form lffa
Secretary Houston expects the
50,000 women who receive his let-
tors to discuss the matter with
neighbors, so that the answers will
represent the opinion of fully half
a million women. Something should
be done to aid the farmer's wife.
She should be assisted in making
the farm a home, not a mere plant
for producing chickens, calves and
cream.
PERT1NENJ COMMENT AND NEWS UM BRIEF
nis WHINE
W
a purpose and eo compelling
power to secure prompt and decided
action. It is a leadership that in
" the passage of the tariff bill and
In the adoption of the currency bill
by the house has been quietly as
serted without threats, or intlmlda
tion, or' bluster, and without bribes
of patronage. It is a leadership
exercised by an unwavering appeal
to principle, fortified by an un
bounded faith In the wisdom of his
program and unlimited confidence
tn the honesty of his associates.
It means that a great program
of reform Is to be put into American
statute law, during the Wilson ad
ministration! It was the tariff yes-
- terday. - It is currency today. It
will be the trusts and other engines
of Injustice and special privilege
tomorrow.
- The senate - will,- possibly with
miner changes, duplicate the action
of the' house as to the currency bill,
as It ought to do. Our present sys
tem is a jumble. It would not. be
tolerated in any other civilized na
tion. We have many kinds of
money. ' We have government bonds
that are given fictitious values by
legislation. We have a reserve plan
which strips the country of money
needed for legitimate purpoBess-and
plies it up in Wall street to feed
the fires of speculation.
We have the most perfect ar
rangement for banking monopoly of
enterprise and credit that the world
ever saw. As has been said, Shy-
lock, John Lav, Jim Flake and Gen
eral Coxey in friendly conference
could not in a lifetime produce a
financial scheme more chaotic.
President Wilson is seeking to re
place this jumble with a ecientific
currency system. He is trying to re
place a system arranged in the
main for the profit of certain great
hanking interests with a system for
the benefit of the American people.
He is seeking to establish the prin
clple that it is not for the banks
but for the general business Inter
ests of the country that w.e are en
gaged in currency and banking re
form.
-He is Btrlvlng to make business
opportunity in this country open
and free by substituting public con-
' trol of credit for private control of
credit.
A COBTLV BUSINESS
THE government of the United
States annually pays out for
rentals in Portland as follows:
Forestry service, Beck build
Ing, $8549.
Geological survey, Couch bulld
. ing, $780.
: Biological survey, Yeon building,
1386.
Pure food laboratory, Worcester
. building, $1260.
Special agent federal department
. , of Justice, Wilcox building, $990.
Public health service, Medical
i .building, $750.
' i , Reclamation service, Central
building, $1224.
' ', United States engineers, Couch
1 building. , $3240.
V ' Land office, Worcester building,
. .'$828.
& Immigration service, Railway Ex
change building, $2028.
Recruiting office, navy, Worces
ter building, $900.
V, ' Recruiting -office, army, Railway
Exchange building, $732. v
f " Mailing division of pstofflce,
Fifth and GUsan, $8988. -
The total is $30,605, or nearly
$100 a day for every working day
in the year. All this great sum is
paid out In the face of the fact that
the government owns a block of
i ground and a federal building in the
heart of -the city. - An - additional
block of ground has been purchased
at a cost of $340,000, and it is pro
posed to put a postoffice building
,on at a cost ot $1,000,000, but
stltution. He is not the supreme
court. He Is not the government
of Oregon. He Is not the people
of Oregon.
He is only county Judge. He is
a mere functionary. He Is but one
little atom in a whole lot of atoms.
He has no more right to set aside
the widow's pension law than he has
to set aside the constitution of the
United States, and abolish congress.
' The widow's pension law is in
full force and effect. It has never
been repealed. It was not vetoed
by the governor. It was not refer-
ended by the people. It was not de
clared unconstitutional by the su
preme court. It has not been re
pealed by the legislature.
The only person who has attempt
ed to veto It, or to referend it, or to
set it aside, or to repeal it, is the
honorable Busheyv and v he is not
Governor West, not the referendum,
not the seven Justices of the su
preme court, and not Dan Malarkey
and Pat McArthur, who were largely
the last legislature.
What Judge Busheyought to do
is to go along and apply the law
in a peaceful, orderly and constitu
tional way. His course, followed
by a large number of people, would
be revolution. If not anarchy.
MRS. PAXKHURST
A
GREAT deal of nonsense Is
being written about Mrs.
Pankhurst, the English mili
tant suffragette, who says she
is coming to America in October.
Why worry about her visit? Mrs.
Pankhurst cannot turn this country
topsy turvey, even should she try. .
But in a Paris interview Mrs.
Pankhurst said she is not coming
to the United States to teach mili
tancy. She will speak twice soon
after her arrival and again toward
the end of November. Her declared
purpose is to explain the position
and aim of the English militant
movement in order that American
women may understand it. She is
not coming even to ajd her Ameri
can slBters In their campaign for the
ballot,
Mrs. Pankhurst should be taken
at her word. She. has had a hard
time of it bucking the cat and
mouse law, and in spite of her rec
ord In England nothing will be lost
in accepting her statement that no
moral turpitude attaches to her.
Being a suffragist, Mrs. Pank
hurst, of course, will not object to
submitting to regulations affecting
her entry Into the United States
that ajjply to other people. She
should abk no special favors, and
probably will not.
It Is foolish to become alarmed
over the prospective visit of one
woman. It would be silly to prevent
her landing In this country unless
there is some good reason not yet
dinelosed.
RITING in Thursday's Jour
nal, George C. Mltty of Eola,
says:
City forces are raising a
great hue and cry for good roads for
farmers, yet it la a very signmeam
fact that such forces are not willing
to let the farming class select tha
roads to be Improved. The farming
class do not blame the wealthy, pleasure-seeking
class for striving to se
cure the building of scenio highways
for tourists, but they do blame tnem
for their unprincipled aham in pre
tending that the building ot such roads
is to the best interest of the farmers.
Why attempt misrepresentation and de
ception regarding trunk line highways
paralleling railroad and water trans
portation lines 7 a a a
Many people believe that wealthy
good roads advocates of our cities have
little regard for the farming class and
In their sham pretense are showing
small principle to gain their ends.
Happily, all Eola statesmen are not
like Mr. Mltty. Some folks In that
town do not look upon themselves
as the only honest persons in the
world.
Mltty sees nothing but evil in
people who live in the city. All
their designs are wicked designs.
All their plans are crooked plans.
All their pretensions are. sham pre
tensions. All their movements are
movements to skin the farmer.
That is the whole burden of his
ong, many times snng in The Jour
nal's column of letters from the
people.
What of the man who sees noth
ing but evil in others? What of
the inner heart of a man who thinks
everybody else sinister? What of
the mental make-up of a man who
publicly vaunts his own purity and
publicly accuses all others of hy
pocrisy and false pretense?
Good men see good In others.
Honest men see honesty in others.
Just men see justice in others. Sin
cere men see sincerity in others.
Men of good intentions see good In
tentions in others.
What if every man in the United
States was the suspicious, distrust
ing, growling, complaining spiteful
whlner that George C. Mltty is?.
Letters From the People
(Communlrillont aent to Tha Journal for pub
lication In thia department nhould be written on
only one alda ot the papvr, nbould not aaceed
Six) worda In length and munt b accompanied
by tha name and addreaa of tha aendor. If tha
writer doea not dealre to bare tha name pub
lished, he should so atata.)
"Dlacnaitlon la the greatest of aU reformers.
It rationales ercrythiiig It touchaa. It roba
tirlnclplea ot all false aanctitjr and throws them
ack on their reasonableness. If they hae no
reasonableneas it ruthlessly crashes them oat
ot existence and seta up Its own conclusions la
tbelr stead." Woodrow Wilson.
An Inequitable Lystem.
Portland, Sept. 15. To the Editor of
TheJournal This Is In comment of
your editorial of September 16 on "Un
paved Broadway." . Imprimis: I hold
no brief for the Broadway property
owner. I do not live on Broadway nor
own real estate on that thoroughfare.
I use the street frequently, however,
and every time I come down the Incline
on the east side in any sort of a ve
hicle I mentally violate whatever com
mandments there be against damning
the city fathers for allowing the scan
dalous character of the approach to per
sist two big holes, one on each side of
the car tracks, left there presumably to
break springs, strain wheels, ruin tires
and tempers. And as I go bumpety bump
up the ten blocks referred to in your
editorial I feel that "the rocky road to
Dublin" had nothing on East Broadway.
So much for that.
Now as to your , editorial. Tou very
properly remark that "the city has spent
more than $1,600,000 on the Broadway
bridge It Is a monumental
absurdity for so much of the people's
money to be spent on a public bridge
and then permit the greatest possibil
ities of the bridge to be impaired by
an Inefficient bridge approach."
Preliminary to this statement you re
count the various efforts to pave Broad
way which were killed by the protests
of the abutting property owners. They
counted the cost as being too high for
them.
Every one who uses Broadway and
SMALL CHANGE
Thaw Is to get Into the "movies."
a
Summer's extended engagement is en
imiicuia.
Poor old Republican nartvt It's arot
j-iii.eny again.
a . m
It one believes in a mtraale hard
enougn, it Happens.
There's Lum Suev. aix vcarai in lail
ana to do nangea. . ..
Slides mav make dltrarina- tha Panama
canai a perpetual jod.
Many mourners wlah tha automohlla
naa never been invented.
,a
So far thiai season nobodv haa start
ed, a potato blight scare.
One Democratic candidate for s:overn
or has come out and he's a colonel.
oepiemoer is just as toveiy as June.
v
Sometimes a srirl or woman only
imagines mat sne is Deing "masnea."
Cold 'stbrjtie, once an excellent thing.
overdone until It has become a great
ru,
a
Progress in Venice, southern Califor
nia: a x. M. c A. is to supplant prize
fights. "
a
Only 50 delegates attended the open
ing of the I. W. W. national convention
at Chicago.
a a
Portland people should take a lively
Interest in their own county fair at
yresnam, ana visit it.
a a
A big, long pull altogether now will
surely make Portland the veritable "New
York of the Pacific coast."
a a . jv .
Can anybody depend at all 6. the re
sult of these Eugenlo baby '.contests,
wherein the judges figure out 99. per
oent for the winner?
a
' It Is unlikely that the Russian duchess
who Is visiting English royalty with
104 (Towns and other apparel In pro
portion ever haa a happy waking mo
ment. Mexico, celebrating the anniversary of
her independence under exlatinsr condi
tions, presents a rather ludicrous and
farolcal aspect to the world. Shouldn't'
she commemorate the dav with faatlna-
and prayer, in sackcloth and ashes T I
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Among the' students of the Central
roint nign school there is a sen-govern
merit sioRlntv. which has a formal or'
ganization and works under constitution
ana, oy-iaws. , , i
('At last." exclaims th Sutherlin gun.
"the Infamous Coquille Canyon road Is
to be made, passable: the . county. Is
going ip improve tins two mini , 01
rough, rOcky and ragged road at the
rate or sa,a par mue."
Qold Beach. CUobo: Ona only has to
refer to the assessment roll to be con
vinced that Currv countv contains many
valuable 'dogs as well as other personal
property. Tlio assessor has found dogs
111 v.urry iu uie value 01 iu,ovv.
The Creswell school board has ar
ranged to take the school text boolcs la
bulk and-will permit tha children in the
schools to use them, awaiting a decis
ion by the voters of the district as to
wnetner tne aistriot or tne pupws snuu
pay lor inem.
. The Lebanon Kx Dress will be changed
at once from a semi-weekly to a weekly.
The Express has enjoyed a prosperous
existence of nearly 27 years. The pub
lishers believe a bigger and more com
plete once-a-week edition will be better
ror uotn patron? ana proprietors.
Eueene Guard: The bulldlnir of tha
First National bank some time ago had
Its stona face washed with Kood soap
and water In the old-fashioned manner
and yesterday a coat of Daint waa ap
plied to the second story which now
leaves tne exterior with a very credit
able expression.
That Port Orford fs tha orleinal eat-
out-of-your-hand sportsman's paradise
is tne ciaim oi me xrioune, wnicn
prints a story of a buck that was sur
prised while eatlntr scraps in the early
morninr at tne DaoK aoor of a resi
dence hi town, and threatened to hook
anybody that tried to make him go
away before he finished his breakfast.
Will Hutchens of Brldara View Dairy
Farm, near McMinnville. In generous
acknowledgment of a recent sidelight
cast from this column upon his Justly
celebrated ihuskmelon crop, yesterday
expressed a crate of very choice speci
mens of Cucumls melo to the Sidelights
editor, who Immediately proceeded t or
ganize an Epicure club, enrolling aluand
singular his colleagues of The Jotf-nal
editorial and news foroe as charter
member. Mr. Hutchens has since bnn
unanimously eiectea to nonorary mein
bershlp in the club.
SIMPLIFIED STATE GOVERNMENT
From the Christian Science Monitor.
In the Institution of the American
scheme of government no less effort
was made to safeguard the people
against those who might by any means
attempt to deprive them of their rights
and privileges than was made to safe
guard them against their own Im
patience and emotion. Hence the entire
republican system is one of checks and
balances. The bicameral legislature in
nation and state carries with it pre
cisely the same idea of pause, extra con
sideration and review as that found in
the coordination powers of the legisla
tive, executive and Judicial authority
and in the veto. Representative gov
ernment Is necessarily government by
delegated authority, ,This being the
case, It was conviction of the fathers
that the greater the number of repre
sentatives, within certain limitations,
the greater assurance of the dominance
of popular will.
It has not in these later years worked
out this way. Moreover, this conviction
obtained at a period long anterior to
the growth of another belief that has
EDISON'S VACATION
T
also become crystallized into a conviction
they are legion will agree -that it is in many quarters, namely, that the more
outrageous that it should remain un-jQrect and the less, roundabout the
paved. But Is it not equally outrageous .method of government, the more cer
that my Broadway neighbor should Be tain ar. the aroverned to maintain con-
oompelled to pave a street for my use Urol over their liberties and their at
whlle I escape scot free? If the Broad- falrs Tbe peopia were much farther
away from government, government was
paving the street, would it not be equal.
ly Just to tax him with the cost of the
brldger
much farther away from the people, 125
years ago than it is today. In fact, the
people of today are very much closet1 to
HOMAS A. EDISON will take
no more vacations If he fol
lows his doctor's advice. The
Inventor has long been noted
as one of the hardest workers in
the world. He .has kept long hours
In his laboratory, often forgetting
to eat and always, taking little sleep. I where property owners are wining to
pay ror tnem, dui wnere the public
wanted them. As matters now stand
VUA litlVA mllou nf hnfd nlmiiit In .1.1
cation.- He was 66 years old and1 nollnhJltl navemfint out In T.nnnonmo-
i"" u ,7 . I government and government is very
tor street improvements has resulted in fl , h fc
if m Z on. nno. i ii8 !'" . history of the republic. As
holdings of more than one poor Strug-. , ....., . ...
gling fellow who was trying to get a a consequence less authority is ind -homl
Is It not time that we recognized ! rect dlt. more authority is dl-
the fact that street Improvements are
for the benefit of all the people just as
a bridge or a viaduct or a. policeman or
a fireman are for the benefit of all the
people, and1 tax cost accordingly T
Let us hear from The Journal along
this line. If this plan were, adopted
property owners would not then block
the public Interest by protests. They
would clamor for improvements and im
provements would then be made, not
Recently, for the first time in
eight years, Mr. Edison took a va-
rectly employed; as another consequence,
there Is less occasion for complicated
forms of government, less use for large
and cumbersome and unwieldy legisla
tive bodies. On the other hand, there
Is more occasion for a simplification of
machinery that will enable the people
to get what they are manifestly desir
ous of obtaining, and what they are de
termined to obtain by the shortest cut
possible. y
The public lus been educating itself
along this llne for several years. Ele
mentary Instruction, reinforced by ob
ject lessons, has been made possible by
the lntrpduction and spread of the com
mission form of government In towns
and cities. On all sides common coun
cils and boards of aldermen have been
abolished. Ward representation has
been wiped out. Where from twenty to
seventy representatives met to pass
upon municipal business, five commis
sioners now do tha. work, do it more
quickly, do It better. Scores of additions
are being made annually to the list of
towns and cities under the commission
form. On the whole, the commission
system is working wonderfully well
There are few if any communities now
under it that would return to the old
method of local government.
Governor Hedges of Kansas believes
that the commission principle can be
successfully applied to state govern
ment. He favors the abolition of the
two-chamber legislative system in his
own state and the substitution for I'
of a commission of sixteen -members. He
does this on the ground that the two-
chamber system Is misrepresentative
rather than representative, that It de
feats rather than forwards the ends
sought by the people, that it stands for
inefficiency and dishonesty. Many
thinking people throughout the country
are in entire agreement with him. The
number and influence of these are very
likely to grow. Revolutionary changes
In governmental methods are not deslr
able, but there is, to say the least, some.
thing well worthy of the most serious
thought of the American people In the
proposal that state government be sim
plified.
IN EARLIER PAYS :
By Fred iaockley. '"'. f
charge from military service is some
thing to be treasured. M. M. M.
J
THE JAPANESE QUESTION
SPAN'S contention as to Call
fornia's alien land law is set
forth In a pamphlet Issued by
J. Soyeda and T. Kamlya, mem
bers of Tokyo's Chamber of Com
merce. These gentlemen were in
Portland last July, and their pam
phlet was Issued after a thorough
Investigation of the Japanese ques
tion on the Pacific coast. It Is
an appeal directly to the American
people.
No excessive claim of virtue for
the Japanese is made;- many faults
are admitted, and the statement Is
made that Japan must exert herself
to the utmost in elevating moral
and social standards. The com
plaint is that while Japs are discrimi
nated against, opportunity is not
denied other people of less intelli
gence and tractablllty.
The people of the United States
are told that to leave the California
problem unsolved and let' it appear
entitled to a few days of play. But
instead of getting fun out of his
vacation, Mr. Edison got sick. He
is etill ill, but is better. Under the
advice of his doctor, the Inventor
nurst-oy-tiie- lr-f oreats 'Where some
ambitious "real estater" is trying to seli
lots and where a rig a day means a
condition of frenzied activity, while on
Broadway where traffic policemen are
needed at both ends of the bridge and
will remain awav from hla lahnw. ' Union avenue as well on Broadway
we go uumjjeiy Dump, isn r. it a J0KO7
MALCOLM GEORGE O'M ALLEY
tory another week, and then return
to work without prospect of another
vacation.
. Edison's case is not typical, but
it has general significance. Now
that he is ill, work will not cure
him; but, once well, work will keep
him from getting ill. Edison's con
stitution and temperament are such
that hard work, work that would
kill most men, is necessary to his
health.
The inventor has preached the'
virtue of work; he has glorlfed It
in theory and practice. He has said
that people eat too much and sleep
too much. He is undoubtedly right
about eating; he may be right about
sleeping. At any rate, he has proved
his theory as to himself.
Edison's illness and his physician's
prescription for avoiding future ill
nesses have general significance in
one respect, at least. All men can
not stand the high geared and con
stant strain, but few men accus
tomed to work can stand idleness.
If It does not make them 111 phy
sically, 1$.. makes them sick mentally.
Edison haij, again demonstrated that
work Is not a hardship; it is the
maker of health and happiness.
S
THE FARMER'S -WIFE
-I r
ECRETARY HOUSTON of the
department of agriculture will
ask 50.000 farmers' wives how
the department can best serve
their needs. The letters will be
sent to wives of official crop cor
respondents and by them distributed
in tbelr districts. '
The inquiry results from a letter
to tbe department which said: "The
farm woman has been the most neg
lected factor Id the rural problem,
The National Giiflrd.
Portland, Sept. 14. To the Editor of
The Journal The accomplishments and
efficiency of the National Guard are
looked upon too lightly by the millions
of our country who would be dependent
upon it for defense should our nation
De plunged into war with a. foreign
power. The first call to arms would
undoubtedly include many of our Na
tional Guard organizations. Officered
by citizen officers who have provon
their military ability In difficult maneu
vers with the regular army, the Na
tional Guard is conceded by military
experts the world over as an organiza
tion that would prove a formidable line
of defense In time of war. Men in all
walks of life make up the complements
of the various arms of the service tha
Infantry, the field artillery, the cavalry,
the engineer corps, the hospital corps,
the signal corps and other branohe.
combining a varied knowledge and ex
perience that make up an efficient
army. The mechanic and bank clerk
alike tender their services unselfishly,
patriotically. They M?k no reward other
than an honorable discharge. It Is theirs
for faithful service after their enlist
ment has expired. It is the aacred duty
of every able-bodied young man to serv$
at loast due enlistment In the National
uuara to d a unit of our military
forces, for national defense.
The Oregon National Guard ranks
well above ths standard In efficiency
nndr equipment.- From the time of Its
organization up to the present It haa
maintained this standing in time ot
peace and In actual warfare. It has
much to teach the young man who is
willing to dovote ona night each week
to military instruction. It demands
young men of good standing, and of in
telligence. It is no place (or the lag
gard. Its training and the knowledge
It offers can be acquired only in mili
tary oolleges and Institutions and this
through an expensive tuition. It Is
mlnd-broadenlng and body-building. Let
every young man Investigate the op
portunities' that our National Guard or
ganizations right at home offer to him.
There Is a whole lot to gain and nothing
to lose. It Is an honor to have served
and served well, whether in time of
peace or of war. Th honorabls di,.
Streetcar Safety Provision.
Portland, Sept 20, 1913. To the Edi
tor of The Journal I notice, In connec
tion with the fatal accident Involving
the death of Mr. Gevurta recently, when
alighting from a street car and attempt
ing to cross the adjoining tracks, thut
various methods are being discussed
whereby accidezits similar In character
may be prevented, among which is the
suggestion that when cars are discharg
ing passengers at a street crossing the
conductor warn such passengers to look
out for cars approaching on the other
track. It seems to me hat a little
thought will convince any one that such
an arrangement would be wholly Inade
quate, because conductors could not at
all times be depended upon to make
such announcements, and even could
they be so depended upon the notice
would be absolutely disregarded by a
large percentage of the people who pat
ronize the cars; furthermore, In the
event of a subsequent accident or acci
dents there would be invariably dis
putes as to whether the announcement
was or was notrmade.
Now, why don't the managers of thu
street car system take steps to ascer
tain whether or not their system of op
eration is deficient in some particu
YOUR MONEY
By John M. Osklson.
By John M. Osklson.
It Is a very practical suggestion which
was made by Harvey Blodgett of St
Paul to the Oregon bankers not long ago.
He said:
"Pick up a current newspaper or mag
azine and you will find pages teeming
with advertisements designed to induce
people to spend their money. The newly
weds are urged to furnish their home
and put on the finishing touch with an
Installment plan. No stress Is laid, In
these seductive advertisements, on the
fact that the added burden of Interest
on defeVred payments decreases buying
power when goods are bought In this
way, and, alack! It did not occur to Mr.
Newlywed five years ago to begin pay
ing his Instalments then Into tha sav
ings bank, and have the Item of Inter
est coming his way."
Mr. Blodgett believes that It Is pos
sible to make the Idea of saving about
as attractive to the average citizen as
the storekeepers have made the idea of
spending.
Advertise thrift, advises Mr. Blodgett,
l.r. on whether bv adorjtlnir nm. b1. I 'r."7 """"" "
.T.r I," - - "I,?, openo money in noing it; maKe a sus-
UaklVliest v vwa vi,j.wgfc uu.a va-
such accidents could be prevented.
1
think If they Investigate they will find
that on important eastern street car
systems there is a rule covering this
particular phase of operation. The
writer is familiar with the methods of
such operation on the Twin City Rapid
Transit company's lines, and they have
an 'inflexible rule that when any car Is
standing at a street crossing receiving
or discharging passengers, a car ap
proaching and moving in the opposite
direction on the opposite track must
come to a full stop before. passing the
rear end of the car, and so standing
must sound a oeu before proceeding.
Under this rule, rigidly enforced, it
would be ractically impossible for an
accident like the above to occur and It
would work no' hardship In any way and
la entirely practicable,
M. M. FOWLER.
Wheat and Floor.
Neah Bay, Wash., Sept 18 To the
Editor of The Journal How much
wheat does it take to make SO pounds
of flour? H..W. -C
(It takes 2K bushels of wheat to
make the average 60 pound sack of pat
ent flour. The remainder of the wheat
fcoes to make what Is commonly called
export flour,' bran and shorts. '
Va Minnesota Inventor's electrical
sounding device consists of a hollow
weight. which tips over when it strikes
tha bottom of ths water, permitting s
pendulum which it contains - t strike
one side, completing an electrlo circuit '
tained campaign with the definite rur
pose in mind of convincing people that
It Is worth while being thrifty.
Already, according to the estimate of
Mr. Blodgett, the banks are spenJlng
between, seven and a half And ten mil
lion dollars a year in publicity of some
sort. Why not divert a very large part
of that to a campaign of education?
Teach thrift In the workmanlike way
used by the department stores Ao edu
cate the public Into the belief that they
are worthy of patronage,
Agnate ror tne observance of a
"thrift Sunday;" teach Ik In tha schools,
In soma practical way; preach It from
every platform which can be gained.
At best, bringing the people bock to any
general willingness to be thrifty will be
a long job. Begin by advertising thrift
as if it were something no family could
afford to be withotw
Poor Substitutes for Home.
Prom Suburban Llfei
It is a sad fact but one which cannot
be disputed, that ths modern city parent
has relegated the secular education of
bis children entirely to the public school
and their' religious instruction to the
churcb. Both of these institutions are
struggling to meet the requirements
forced upon them by the Indifference of
parents. There Is no Institution on earth
which can take the place of the good
home, and those children who are thrust
upon stranger to learn the most norH
duties of Mifs'ar defrauded of their
birthright -.
"I came to Oregon 60 years ago; land
ing, .at St. Helens oh November 25,
1853," said V. W. Craig at his home in
Balem. "From my home In Springfield,
Illinois, J bad. been appointed .to a po
sition In the Department of the Inter
iors! Washington,-D. C. In those days
the theory was firmly established that
to the victor belong the spoils' When.
President Fillmore was succeeded : by
President Pierce, I as well as moatof
the other government employee, Ws
let out.. - j '-',.- . . ,-. ;-
"I started for the Pacific coast When
I struck the Isthmus, they wanted S13
for the hire of a mule to cross tha Isth
mus to the Pacitlo side. I was rather
short of money anyway and 1 saw no
better way of earning 118 than walking
across the lathama.; The Panama rail--road
was bum from Asplnwall to the
Chaf res river, a distance of about eight
miles. They were Just building stone
piers for a bridge across the rtVer when
I was there. A small settlement had
sprung up at tha bridge called Oorgona.
the settlement consisting mostly of
rmmooo houses occupied by natives.
From Gorgona two natives poled me up
In a boat to Barbocoaa. At BarboooaS,
I changed to a still smaller boat and
was poled up to Cruces. On each side
of a dug-out a narrow plank was
fastened. A native on each side of the
boat walked from bow to stern poling
the boat upstream. From Cruces, the
head of navigation, I walked across tha
divide to Panama, a distance of about
25 miles. When I got to Panama. I
found that the lowest fare to San' Fran.
Cisco, which was in the steerage, was
1150. $160 was more than I had so my
only show was to get work on the Isth
mus until I earned enough to pay my
fare. A man named Mlddleton from
Mobile, and another man named Boyd
were owners of the Panama Daily Star.
My walk across the Isthmus had made
my feet so blistered and swollen that
I had to cut my boots off, bo putting
on slippers I went early next morning
and asked them for a Job setting .type.
I told them I had just come from Wash
ington, D. C, via New Orleans and
was on my way to San Francisco. Mld
dleton asked me when I could go to
work. I told him t once. He took
me back Into the composing room ami
introduced me to a Jamaica negro
named Simon who was the foreman of
the office. He was an English subject
and was an excellent printer.' Before
leaving, Mr. Mlddleton turned 'to me
and said, 'I suppose you are Interested
in what wages you will get. I can pay
you 18 a Week In gold.' As I had
been used to getting five or six dollors
week I told him that J18 would be
satisfactory for the present. After a
week's work Mr. Mlddleton said to me.
'From now on you are to be the fore
man and take charge of the editorial
end of the paper. Your wages will be
$20 a week.'
"Every week the boat would jiome in
from New York and New Orleans bring
ing four -or five hundred people who
would stop at Panama several days
waiting for a boat to Saa Francisco.
There was no shortage of news. Tha
mail was sent across the Isthmus -on
the backs of mules, two heavy sacks
of mall being put on each pack mule.
Sometimes there would be from 100 to
150 sacks of mail. It was an interest
ing sight to see anywhere from 60 to 75
mules come trotting in to town with
the mall. It cost 20 cents a pound for
the baggage to be brought across the
Isthmus and the charge for a passen
ger for the .25 mile trip from the I ail
of navigation to Panama was $1S
"Boyd, one of the printers of ,tlie '
per, married a beautiful native wonitlh.
Only a few years ago I noticed that
Federico Boyd was one of the provision
al governors of the Republic of Pana
ma. I wrote to him and he told me
that he was the son of my old employer
and that he was one of 11 children.
"After I had been on the Isthmus for
a few months they offered, me an in
terest In the paper if I would, agrea ta
stay. I was anxious, however, to go
north and I refused to stay. Several
steamers coming In at the same time
created a rate war and I was. able to
buy a ticket to San Francisco for. $50.
At San Francisco I met a former
acquaintance. Dr. Oalland, who came
from near my former home at HaniM-
bal. Mo. Though his name waa Gal-
land, he was always called Garland. He
it was who sold his place across from
Hannibal. In Illinois, to Joe Smith and
on the farm of Dr. Galland which Joe
Smith had purchased, they started the
Mormon city of Nauvoo. Dr. Galland
told me that he was promoting a city
which waa called Petaluma and lie
urged me to come with him and lie.
would give me an Interest In the enter
prise. I was too anxious however, to
go on so I refused.
I bought my ticket Tor St. Helens,
which was the terminus at that time
of the steamship company. They were
trying to make St Helens the principal
seaport of Oregon In opposition to Port.
land. H. W. Corbett of Portland, oc
cupied the stateroom with me from Bsn
Francisco to St. Helens. At San Fran
cisco Dr. Galland had Introduced me
to a printer named Wylie. I told him
I was planning to go to Olympla on 11-
get Sound. He advised me to go to
Salem to see the state printer, Mr.
Ashael Bush whom he said wanted
printers. Mr. Wylle told me that a
printer In Salem named Vic Trevltt was
going into partnership wun mm at
Olympla. He asked me to have Trevltt
get all of the printer's sucks he couia
In Salem and Portland to take tip to
Olympla with him as there were none
In San Franolscl.
I arrived at Salem on the second of
December and saw Vic Trevltt. who
was working for Mr. Bush on the
Statesman. He told me that he had
changed his mind and was not going
to Olympla, Vic Trevltt was anerwaras
elected to the legislature. Finally lie
settled near The Dalles where lie ran
a ferry, living with an Indian . woman,
and when he died was buried at Mem-
aloose Island in the uoiumoia river, it
s his monument you ee as you pass
Memaloose Island. There Is one thing
n' connection with Vic Trevltt that very
few people know. He was president of
the Oregon Senate once. J. N.' Polph's
position as senator was In danger. Via
Trevltt was put in as temporary presi
dent and he put the necessary slate
through appointing the committees and
organizing the senate In Dolph's Interest."
Pointed Paragraphs
Many . a Rood sermon has been
preached Jn silence.
' as
. Some men never borrow trouble; they
buy it outright
It lsnatural , for ' woman to talk,
but silence must bs acquired.
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Love Is apt ' to blockade the .side
walk; thus making the world go round;
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Wo can't help feeling sorry for a
woman with an Impediment In her
speeoh. .r , . ....
a .a , - .
He is a poor salesman who couldn't
sell Ice cream. soda in a female ieni-
toary town. .
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It's easier to follow ths crowd than
It Is to. get well in front and 'heiu
raise the dust. , .
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