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4 THE OREGON . SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND", SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER . 21, 1913. ' THEJOURNAL IN INDBPBNDSNT HEWSPAPEB O. ft. JACKSON .PablUkw ; ry Bandar amnios t The Journal Balld JKfTBrosdwar and jfamhUfta.. fortUnd. Or. Xatered it tba poatofflce t PortUnd. Or, ' -. tranaulaaloQ tbcouf a tS mall as aacona euaa mattr. IkXKfUUMKS Mill T178; Homa, Ail dprtmiil reaehad by ttaeae euoibera. tag tha epgfilor what department roo ant. OKEION ADVERTISING EKPBESKNTATl VK fcifl rlftb aaanua. Naw Xorsi ISJS 4"aoplea taaa Building. Chicago. Babacrlptloa Tenna br mall to any addraaa la Uia lsllad Butea or alaxleot DAILY Dm yaw f5.00 I Ona bobOi I 00 6UNDAT One raar tl.SO I Ona month DAILY AKU bUWUAi year IT .60 I Ona month I -SB live In deeds, not years; In thoughts, not breaths; feelings, not In figures on In a dial -a. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best Bailey. -a THE COLOXEL FORMER PRESIDENT ROOSE VELT attacks the Wilson ad ministration and the Republl ; can party in the current issue jof a leading magazine. He says: : J Mr. Wilson's "new freedom" con tains well phrased general statements. but no concrete proposals for definite jactlon. I doubt whether It has any (meaning- at all. It certainly can have t: no value If Its oolner will not trans- (late It out of the realm of magnilo quent rhetoric Into speclflo proposl Klons, i A tariff bill supported on final vote Yby Robert La Follette Is one Bpe 'clflc proposition which Woodrow iWllson has translated out of his '"new freedom." Does not Mr. '.Roosevelt think It an improvement over the Payne-AIdrich bill, which lt Is to supersede? A currency bill supported in the house by 14 Pro fgressives and 24 Republicans, and 'passed by a vote of 286 to 84 is another concrete proposition In Mr. Wilson's "new freedom" with the administration only six months old. Concerning the Republican party, :Mr. Roosevelt says: 5 A party wherein Penrose, La Fol ."Jette and Smoot stand as three broth tors of leadership, cannot possibly sup ' ;ply the need for efficient, cohesive grovernrnentai acuon as regaras vuai questions or tne day. Far be it from The Journal to take part in any controversy be tween the Colonel and the Repub lican party, but it Is a fact, that he Republican party was good ;enough for the Colonel in 1882 when he wanted membership In the New York assembly. j The Republican party was good -enough for the Colonel in 1884, when tens of thousands of indepen dent Republicans refused to sup port Blaine, though Mr. Roosevelt was not among them. : The Republican party was good .enough for the Colonel In 1886, when he became Its standard bear 'er for mayor to defeat Henry 'George. The Republican party was good enough for the Colonel In 1889, wnen ne wanted to do a civil ser vice commissioner, although Mat thew Quay was a national chairman. The Republican party was good enough for the Colonel In 1897. when he became assistant secretary of the navy through the favor of Mark Hanna, Boss Piatt and Boss Quay. The Republican party was good enough for the Colonel in 1898, "When he became Its nominee and Was elected governor of New York. The Republican party was good enough for the Colonel in 1900, 'when he was nominated by a Re publican convention for vice presl jdent, and elected. $ The Republican party was good (enough for the Colonel in 1904, when the organization nominated iand elected him to the highest of Iflce within the gift of the American (people. The Republican party was good Jenough for the Colonel in 1908, ("when it allowed him to name Wll jllam H. Taft as its candidate for (president v The Republican party was good enough, for the Colonel until June fi0, 1912, when the steam roller at Chicago brushed him off the track fthat the party had kept so well greased for him for more than thirty years. Withal, the Colonel, as his arti cle shows, is at war with Republi canism, and there is undoubted trouble ahead in the Colonel's fear lessness, his aggressiveness, his militancy and his malignity. - .With his whole soul and all his great power, the Colonel is still the active, living, sustaining force in the Progressjve party. A NEW OMEN A THROUGH rate via Portland on shipments between the Ori ent and points as far east as , . Chicago Is announced, and it fa refreshing. The arrangement is an accommo dation between the Hamburg-American and Royal Mail steamer lines on the ; one hand and the Oregon Washington Railway & Navigation company on the other. The North Bank and, other railroad lines aro expected to .enter the agreement. One reason why Puget Sound im ports and exports totaled $108,000,- 1 V. A A Mi L Mi. V vvv lor, uiwt uiuuiui euumg june, 11S, .while JPortland's were $15, 000,000,: . was because Puget Sound had through rates on Middle West business with the Orient while Portland had cot. The situation in ifhat respect was one of the many Incongruities and absurdities man! fest la the transportation arrange ments In this Northwest Pacific country. It was Indeed an extra ordinary spectacle for Puget Sound, reached by an over-mountain haul of approximately 3000 feet lift to have a through rate and Portland with a water grade haul to have no through arrangement. The change now announced Is, however, encouraging. It Is sign that the Columbia river region is passing out of the Rip Van Winkle sleep that has kept It Inactive and lethargic as to big things In trans portation and commerce for the pant decade and more. It Is omen of a rising popular purpose to claim for Portland thethings which are ruiuauu d, auu w uivuiauu iv .... w r-i . i r . . 4 . ,. Columbia from Its source to its mouth, the things which are the Columbia's. There Is no nobler activity than to exalt this Columbia movement. It Is a great field In which to ren der service to all kinds of- "people. It is not for the effect on real es tate values or the building of a city, but for cheapened transporta tion and the bringing of the bless ings of a broader and more abound ing prosperity to multitudes of workers, lifters and gleaners that the endeavor for a greater Colum bia empire has Its most splendid aspect GAUD GIRLS! T HERE were two of them. One The was, perhaps, sixteen. other may have been nineteen. For twenty minutes they pa raded up and down in front of one of Portland's biggest hotels. They walked a few feet, then, they stopped ' and talked. Then, they walked a few more feet, and again, stopped to talk. The nineteen-year-old wore a black hat with dazzling blue feath ers. Her gown was blue and tight and well Bllt up on the left Of course, her stockings were- silk and her shoes low cut and set off with shining steel buckles. The blue gown that clung so snugly to her obvious figure was cut low at the neck, too low for the time, the place and the girl. Every part of her dress was a revelation of the phy sical feminine. Her features were so exaggerated by artifice that they were mere gauds. There was too much black about her eyes, too much red about her Hps, too much flame In her cheeks, and the perfume that floated in her wake was too heavy, too suggestive. Her talk was a little too loud, a little too much for effect. The whole tone of her was over done, over-exposed. Not a man passed whose eyes did not glue to the figure in blue. Not a woman went that way who did not turn round to more accurately fasten the picture in her mind. The nineteen-year-old saw the at tention she was attracting and liked it liked it too much. At the end of the twenty minute parade, she turned to her compan ion, "Mabelle," she nonchalantly re marked, "Let's go In and have a drink." And they disappeared Into the hotel. Inquiry was made. The nineteen-year-old Is the daughter of highly respected parents. She is said to be a perfectly good girl. And yet, she is a sorry thing, a poor thing. Any girl who makes herself too conspicuous is a sorry thing, a poor thing. Nobody plays fair with that kind of girl. She is not playing fair with- herself. The bid of her clothes and conduct is for insult. Hybrids are not successful in the long run. Those who flaunt sleek legs and undulating curves merely emphasize their limitations. They are the pieces of dry goods that,taln trade8 bllt 11 Included 2,500, stay on the shelf; they are the!000 Persons- There were com neaches that rot on th trfifls: thov I Plaints of feigned illness, but less are the women whose usual escape from tragedy of their existence is another drink. They are sad sights these would be girls of the underworld. Where, oh, father and mother, is your daughter! What does Bhe wear, where does she parade, and what does she drink? PORTLAND'S MILK SHOW P ORTLAND'S milk show this week is in the interest of ev erybody. It will be a great educational exhibit for the promotion of health and happiness. If Portland people make full use of the exhibit its economic value will be almost without price. There Is much to be learned about milk. The necessity for cleanliness and care in handling does not end with the dairyman. Milk should be safeguarded from the cow to the Infant's lips. If it is, illness will be minimized, the expense attached to sickness will be largely eliminated, babies will grow stronger and par ents will become richer. City and state health authorities are charged with the duty of en forcing proper regulations at the dairy. Cows must be free from tu berculosis, the dairy must he clean and sanitary, the milk must be above a fixed standard of outer fat. It must be delivered to the consumer clean and wholesome. The consumer cannot look alter these details, but he can give at tention to proper care of the milk after it is delivered at his bonier: Dairymen are often blamed for faults of the consumer. Milk placed in Insanitary surroundings cannot remain wholesome. It absorbs, lm- purities faster than any other ar ticle of food. Milk Is a chief food article for the young. It is therefore imperative that parents give it intelligent care. The exhibit will teach them how to keep milk pure and wholesome, and if that is not learned there is little benefit to be derived from enforc ing sanitary regulations against dairymen. FIREMAN LAMBERT w ITH no relative near to mourn, William A. Lambert, a fireman In the old volun teer service, was laid away in Lone Fir cemetery last Thurs day. For twenty-seven years, he was a patient at St. Vincent's hospital. For twenty-seven helpless, hopeless years, he waited for the curtain to drop, waited for the lights to go out on a lire that was wrecKea Dy an injury while he waB yet a mere youth. At twenty-five, an Injury sus tained at a fire affected his spine. It caused him to be sent to the hos pital, and kept him there until his sun went down. For more than a decade, he spent his waiting hours In a wheel chair, and for the last few years of his life, he was almost helpless. It was the price a fire man paid for his efforts to save the property of others. It was at tremendous coBt to William A. Lambert, for at twenty-five it trans lated his buoyant, bubbling youth Into a living death in which each day was a weary wait for the tnl that required twenty-seven years in coming. There could be no more convinc ing proof of the splendid fortune of those who are in good health and in possession of all their faculties than Is the luckless experience of William A. Lambert The hospital was his world; the great outdoors is theirs. Helplessness was his por tion; strength, power and freedom are theirs. All he could do was to wait In patience and fortitude for six feet of earth; they can come and go and do and think to the ends of the earth. Remembering Fireman Lambert, how foolish for men and women in full possession of all mental and physical powers to mourn, or com plain, or whine! How rich, Indeed, they aro! A LABOR HANDICAP y jNEMPLOYMENT is labor's big Unandicap. For that reason much importance attaches to the London Board of Trade's report on the first year's operation of national compulsory insurance against unemployment When Lloyd George proposed his revolutionary plan, the , very foundations of Eng land trembled. Now the outstand ing fact is that the scheme -has worked. Even Tory organs confess that. During the past year every time an employer In Great Britain paid an employe his weekly wages the employer was obliged to paste In a book bearing the employe's name two stamps, each worth five cents. One stamp was deducted from the employe's wages and the other was a tax on the employer. In addition, there was a third stamp, worth two cents, the contribution of the na tional government. ' If the employe lost his Job he, together with his application for a new Job, deposited the book at one of 230 free public employment offi- ces, and If he was without work more than a week ho collected $1.75 a week while unemployed. The money came from a fund created by the stamps pasted In the books. But the employe could not draw this out-of-work allowance for more than fifteen weeks in twelve months. The insurance applied only to cer- than n,ne per cent of the claims presented were disallowed on lnves tlgation, and only forty-seven fraud ulent claims were discovered. The employment agencies make it their business to see that em ployes are not idle for long in tervals. Each manager of an office has telegraphic reports showing in what towns men are wanted. The manager also has a book showing the standard wages paid in various parts of the country. In ten min utes the applicant may be offered a choice of two or three Jobs. If the job selected requires a railroad Journey and the man has not the money for a ticket, the amount is advanced and later de ducted from his wages. If the man stays on the Jpb his book is sent to the new employer and stamp stick ing is resumed. In addition to bis unemployment insurance, the English workman has Insurance against sickness. This ap plied last year to all persons em ployed at manual labor, with few exceptions? whose yearly earnings did not exceed $800. In all, 15, 000,000 people are directly affected one third of the kingdom's popu lation. If an entploye was taken 111 while at work he had free medical atten tion as long as it was needed. If Illness laid him up his employer was required to stick enough addi tional stamps to pay the man $2.50 a week.r In England thirty per cent of the pauperism is said to be due to sickness. Now there is a safeguard against that, as well as old age pensions. Some of the provisions of the unemployment Insurance act are interesting. If an Idle workman Is offered a Job as a strike breaker he , can refuse It and continue to draw his unemployment benefit But he cannot draw thli. beneflt while on a strike. If he quits his job voluntarily or Is discharged for mis conduct he cannot draw any bene fit for the first six. weeks ' there after. .'- :t-, If a workman applies frequently for the benefit and the managers conclude that he lacks skirt they may test his abilities and give him technical Instruction at the ex pense of the unemployment fund. Many difficulties have attended the trf 1 English opinion seems td hold that It is a success. The fact that in six months claims exceeding $1,000.' ooo were pam proves that unem ployment is labor's big handicap THE DOUBLE STANDARD J UDGE CABANISS of San Fran cisco last week struck another blow at the double standard of morals. A husband sought dl vorce on the ground of his wife's confessed adultery, committed after a quarrel had ended seventeen years of faithful married life. The de cree was granted, but Judge Ca banlss gave the woman half the community property accumulated during those seventeen years, and he also gave her custody of her children. There can be no palliation of this woman's fall from grace, but the Judge's ruling is notable because he upset long-established tradition that women must be condemned for something that men are pardoned for. The California civil code says where adultery or extreme cruelty Is proved In divorce cases the Judge shall use his discretion in disposing of community property. No California Judge heretofore ac corded equality before the law to a woman guilty of adultery. She has been condemned- while men guilty of the same crime have been excused, If not exonerated. That has been the world's attitude, and it has been the court's decree. But Judge Cabanlss set a new precedent when he said: I do not feel that because a wife once erred, she Is therefore branded as a bad woman. On the contrary, I feel that a woman who has maintained her self and her child by hard labor, and whose conduct since has commanded the respect of all who have known her, Is entitled to the same considera tion as any other mother. California women have cause to congratulate themfielves, not be cause of an opportunity for greater freedom to 6in, but for the reason that purity is being recognized as a general, not a one-sex, require ment. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS T WENTY-FIVE years ago seems little farther back than yes terday, and yet wonderful things have happened In that short time. A St. Louis paper prints an Item in its "twenty-five years ago" column to the effect that an American aeronaut in .London claimed he could direct the move ment of a parachute. But in at tempting to prove his claim the man alighted on a house and was seriously injured. Those were the days when the story of Darius Green and his fly ing machine was standard literature, good enough for the Fourth Readers used by school children. Those days were even before Professor Langley was accounted a crank be cause he sought to demonstrate on the Potomac river near Washington, that gliding on the air was pos sible. People are not only flying in 1913, proving that Darius Green was not the fool which school books branded hlra, but they are flying upside down and landing safely. Aviation engages our attention because it is spectacular, but there are many other evidences of prog ress Just as convincing"! What photographer twenty-five years ago would not have argued himself black In the face that pho tographs could not be taken through solid substances? Today the X-Ray photo Is so common that it attracts no attention.' Wireless telegraphy was unknown; today boys hav It for a pastime. The telephone was u luxury; now it is a necessity. Time's march proves that many things we once thought complex are in reality simple. A quarter of a century's progress teaches that the venturesome man is the one who says anything is impossible. The weather man has cruelly punctured the tire of California's widely heralded reputation for de lightful climate, a reputation pro digiously promoted and coined Into unlimited dividends. A temperature of 105 to 112 in the shade and men committing suicide to escape the blistering heat aro in the record. Doing that big job at the mouth of the Columbia continuously spells tens, even hundreds, of millions in the near future benefits for the the Columbia river region and the coming greatest city on the coast Portland the New York of the Sundown shore. If everybody would contributo in proportion to wealth and benefits, the Chilcott steamship line between Portland and Atlantic ports would be easily underwritten. Though, former President Taft has lost eighty pounds in weight, it Is doubtful If he has lost any of the weight that made him run such a slow race. " The most overworked man in the country Is the curtain raiser In the Thaw case. WHY WAS I BORN? By Dr. Frank Crane. (Copyright, lilt, by Frank Crane.) There is one question upon the answer to which rests ths success or failure or ur. " It Is the questions "Why was born?" A Strang faot Is that nobody knows tno answer. The , purpose which the Creator had In mind when he made me has never been known, never will be Known. . Curious that the most fateful ot all problems should be . forever unanswer able! We may believe this or that to be the reason, why we were created; we cannot anow. '.'i Notwithstanding this fact the net re suit of my life depends upon the theory I rorm to answer this query. But how can I tell which theory is best when there Is no means of know ing which Is true? There Is a way to tell which theory ia, if not true, at least approximately true. This way is suggested by what Is called pragmatism. That is to say: That answer to the question Is most likely to be true which wui work. We cannot answer the question, "Why was I born?" by Investigating causes, The secrets of life are beyond us. The Creater will not be interviewed. But we can select an answer by not ing results. For Instance: "I was made In order that I might get all pleasure possible out of life, This solution means wreckage. Its fallacy Is proved by insane hospitals, feeble minded asylums, and by those murders, adulteries and heartbreaks that constantly attend the end of the pleasure seeker. I was made In order that I might escape this' evil world and get safely Into a better one after death." Such an answer leads logically to the ascet icism that marked the dark ages and the hard morbidity that characterised Puritanism. I was born to labor for others,' means a race of slaves. I was born to live and to enjoy my self upon the fruits of others' labor,' means a clasa of snobs. The most satisfactory answer, in twentieth century terms. Is: "I was bom to express what forces my Creator planted in me; to develop my Instincts and talents under the guidance of rea son; to find permanent happiness by fostering the higher, more altruistic, and spirit Impulses and by subduing the violence of. the more brutal im pulses. I was born to find love and my own work, and through these liberty. In one word, the purpose of creating me was that I should be aa great as pos sible." Only by this answer, do we get strength w'thout cruelty, virtue with out narrowness, beauty without effeml- nancy. love without contamination, rev erence without superstition, Joy without excess. I do not know this answer Is correct I believe it bo be the most nearly cor rect for the simple reason that It worki. The Gideons' Good Work. From the Toronto 8tar. The Gideons, or more officially the Commercial Travelers' Christian asso ciation, are the peoplo who are respon sible for the Bible you find on your hotel bureau. Hotel bureaus do not urniRh anything better than that Gl.l- eon Bible, of a convenient size to read in bed, and of a print big enougn to rest tired eyea. There Is also a list or passages to look up, one of which Is pretty sure to fit your case. The Gideons know wnat it Is to be on the road, and Just what parts of the Bible will soothe mT homesick feeling. Through tne errorts of the Gideons the Bible more than FINANCIAL FACTORS From Journal of American Medical As sociation, In the hue and cry which is raised from time to time regarding the milk supplies of American municipalities, lit tle attentionj Is given to some or the economic factors which determine the situation. Milk may become a carrier of disease, and for this reason its purity musit be protected at any cost; but the quality of milk has an immediate inter est from a nutritive point of view aa well. Milk '.s indispensable in the mod ern Dractlce of Infant feeding, and to a certain extent in feeding the sick; aside from this, however, tho use of milK may be regulated In no slight degree by the same considerations that apply to other foods which enter widely into the daily diet of man. Friction between the consumer and the producer of milk is due to misun derstanding on both sides. We charge the farmer with stubbornness when re form measures are suggested for milk production," yet those who clamor for clean milk and pure food, who insist on sanitary canditions and rigorous in spertlon to enforce them, are often the first to resent a rise In the price of the commodity. There are economic laws in the milk business as in any other industry. The financial stimulus Is the strongest force which can be enlisted in the improve ment ot municipal milk supplies. Milk ia not likely to become better as long as the largest profit is attained by tho production of dirty milk. Attempts at improvement of milk supplies too fre quently have not taken into considera tion the financial magnitude of the busi ness Interests which they have under taken to control. The lack of familiar ity with the financial side of the milk business on the parf of the reformers is partly due to the fact that only a small part of the Investment is apparent to them and largely becaune detailed in formation on the subject has hitherto not been generully available. Harding and Brew found tkat in a small city with a population of 13,000 the dairy capitalization amounts to $36.42 per capita of the people supplied. The capitalization amounts to 1763 per cow, of which the producer furnishes $680 and the retailer 83. A financial analysis on this basis shows that the margin of average profit Is narrow, and it is tlilir meagreness of financial return that makes the dairy business respond promptly to any opportunity for Increased gain. Farmers are prepared to produce any grade of milk which the market desires. They will produce It as soon as the mar ket clearly states its wants and offers a price which will make the produc tion reasonably profitable. The former system of wholesale prices according to which milk was bought by weight or measure regardless of Its commercial quality practically compelled the pro. ductlon of the cheapest and dirtiest pos sible supply. At present prices the mar gin of profit In the production of milk is ao narrow that the farmers cannot afford to act tho part of philanthropists by the production of a higher grade of milk than the market demands and is willing to pay for. On the other hand. the farmers nave a business sense which quickly leads them to producekance, in the section providing for the the grade of product for which they can obtain the largest margin of profit The important tact which stands out plain ly in the present situation is thatwhlle the farmers are able and willing to produce a sanitary milk whenever its production is the .more profitable, they holds Us own against the competition of the news stand in the big hotels, and many a -Weary wanderer gets comfort out of If that he cannot find In the pop. ular magaslnes. Souls have betn caught j on the rebound just that way. After wading up to the ears In the muckrak ing weeklies and monthlies, it is sweet and becoming to lie at ease and learn about a better world. It seems a pity that the Gideons con. fine their aetivlttes to the big cities and towns. Sometimes a traveler, commer cial or otherwise, Is stalled in a country hotel. That is where the Gideon Bibles ought to be. The resources of the plaoe ar soon exhausted. ' The dally paper Is four days old, the bills advertising auc tion sales of live stock are strictly local in their Interest These cannot be read more than once with sustaining enjoy ment and thqn boredom yawns for the marooned guest He seeks the privacy of his room, only to find that the heat la off, and there are not enough clothes on the bed. Also, the window is nallel down and there is no transom over the door. To that man a Gideon Bible would bring many messages. Xt might not tell him just what to do under the clr cumstances, but It would hearten him In a general way and help him to bear his troubles. ' Life and Its Riddle. ' From the New r York Herald. The assertion of Sir Oliver Xodge of his belief In the persistence of person ality after death, made In hts inaugural address before the British association for the Advancement of Science, pro claims his force and courage. Life is a vale hemmed in by the walls of tradition and the mountains of dogma. If doctors of divinity have at times harshly assailed the searching materialism of science, there is none the less a need for those who would measure mortal existence by scale and rule to take heed lest they fall into the errors of arrogance. Very eminent sages were those who said there was no world beyond Gibraltar, yet In spite of them Columbus gave a new realm to Cast!!.) and. Leon. Certain venturesome souls like Sir Oliver Lodge may. for all we know, have touched foot uDon a arreat and yet unexplored continent One can scarcely agree with the blttor cynicism of Professor Hyslop, who la ments that psychical . research' Is not considered respectable. It is to be re gretted that false mediums and Impu dent charlatans have often misled In vestigators for a time, yet as long as such gifted and learned men as Blr Oliver Lodge, Camllle Flamroarion and Professor Hugo Munsterberg have given so much of their time and energy to th mysteries of another plane the great question of the ages, "Does death end 117". cannot be dismissed with a shrua of scientific shoulders. One of the strongest proofs Indeed of continuity of existence Is in this very iaun in a ruture life which, since lit tory began has brought strength to the WlH and solace to the soul. Americanizing the Old World. From the London Times. . The Americanization of Europe by re turned immigrants is getting to be an interesting study for sociologists. It is startling to be told of Austrian and Hungarian parliamentary candidates ad dressing in the English language con stituencies made up of voters who had spent some years In the United States. Italy is being transformed morally, poli tically and industrially by tens of thou sands of her sons who bring back with them American standards of living and American ideals of civic duty. And It Is too early yet to Judge what may be the effect unon conditions in the Balk. afUfB ttt& -.presence of the thousands of Greeks, Servians and Bulgarians who left their occupations In the new world to Join their colors during the recent wars, and concluded to remain "in. the old country. It is an International trans fusion of blood. IN MILK PROBLEM cannot he expected to continue such production whenever there is greater profit in the making of dirtier milk. There has been much discussion of late regarding the efforts made In var ious cities to improve the quality of the milk supply. A different aspect of the subject has been raised by the In vestigator In charge of the market milk investigations of the Bureau of Animai Industry. He remarks that it has been a too prevalent custom In the past to lay all of the blame for dirty milk on the shoulders of the milk producer. While this may be an easy and conven ient way, to shift the burden of re sponsibility from city to countrv. it Is apt not only to hurt the dairy Indus-:a,l try unfairly, but to close the evea ofiaa wun mem ana see mem orr on reformers and health authorities to questions that lie nearer home. Milk inspection, to be complete, must apply to the places and modes of delivery asiy18'1" while the men helped with the well as to the farm and ite environ- , 'Jrri.tt . , Ior "l r journey. nient I In Mr. Morrison's cabin they hung up Precisely as systems of "scoring" I ba"ket8 mke lr rooln1.8 for. the dairy farms have been planned and are v""tors- Martha the daughter of the . i .,7 , "' man I was working for, and the ona fni 1.M S M 8eH;'1 had determined was to be my wife, Ing graded milk so It is now proposed waB ,n one of thPB6 improVsed rooms ZttZ It VC,T r' 'nspe?tlon and1 ! with a girl chum of hers! I heard them method of control for the stores and whiSperinK together. They had gone to distributing plants concerned in the bad but 80me of tne 0dcr olk8 wfire milk industry. There Is the widest varl- gltting up talking. Mr. Morrison said. I , , . i .nu ii mo in a.icq nun Kicva em n. yur American cities, in some mere is rriE rigorous control exercised by efficient health authorities under whom a "11- cense' or a "permit" carries with it an assurance of reliable supervision. In other places there are dead-letter regu-; latlons or no laws whatever. There 'aro ! communities In which the sale of milk In bulk is forbidden; elsewhere it is freely tolerated. The conditions essential for the pres sanltary condition are now well known In a professional way. It Is perhaps not too early, tBerefore, to bring prex-jof the organization and R. W; Morrl sure to bear at every point at which son, William Shaw, Elijah liunton and a violation of the necessary provisions ! Richard Woodcock were the captains, spells failure. To attempt to "standard- We had a wet spring. The streams were lze" stores handling milk and to rate all high and the ground was soft so them In the public eye along the lines we made slow progress. Provisions be- whlch are followed by the Inspectors who safeguard the sources of supply of cities like New York, may be pre mature In 1913. But high ideals are worth striving for. It Is not difficult to educate an interested publio by a system of propaganda. Drastic ordln ances cause unnecessary harshlps and Daniel Clark, Sam Crocket -and myself friction. The fortunate community is were "elected , to go forward as pro one that succeeds In securing coopera- visions were very short and It was felt tlon at every step, first by inculcation and then by liberal enforcement Of rea sonable measures. The light of a city to demand the tuberculin testing of cows from which Its milk-supply -cntnes, and to establish such other regulations as will insure rout T vnnwn h.. h- ,,.. m milk may be known, has been upheld by the United States supreme court In i a decision sustaining the Milwaukee milk ordinance. The court holds with the state court that the ordinance Is not discriminatory, that it Is a reason able requirement, and that the couft cannot question the purpose and the necessity for It. The police power of the state tnust be declared adequate to such a desired purpose: and the city ordin- destruction of milk not conforming to its requirements, is not an arbitrary and unreasonable deprivation of prop erty in a wholesome food, but a regula tion having the purpose of and found to b necessary for' the protection of ths publio health. IN EARLIER DAYS By Fred LOckley. , John Minto is one , or tne. empire builders of the west. Neitt year will mark the seventieth anniversary of his arrival in Oregon.. The psalmist says that a man's span of life is three score ryears and ten. John Mlnto has spent three score years and ten 4n Oregon and he was of age when he came here. H was born in Northumberland at Wylam on the Tyne, October ia, 123. He came from England to the United States in 1840. He secured work as a coal miner at Pittsburg' Pa. In 1844 he went to the western frontier of lowa. He discovered that wnuo lowa, was the far west from Pennsylvania there was a still further west to which the residents of Iowa were eagerly looking. I visited Mr. Mlnto recently at the home of his son and daughter-in-law at Salem. His daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mln to said to me: "Mr. Mlnto is eating supper but will be in in a few minutes." "Tell me," I asked, "how Mr. Minto ntseps -HO jBiFViigy - titu-"ri5tT7UB-ivt uia age of 91 years." Mrs. Minto smiled and said, "I will give you his recipe. Possibly if you follow it you also can live as long as he has. Mr. Mlnto has had no teeth tor the past 30 years or so. He will not wear store teeth. Under such cir cumstances people usually eat soft foods. I will tell you what he eats. He ' likes best of all, pork and ham, sausage, doughnuts and mince pies. He is very fonoV-of hot cakes. "For many years he has not had the use of his right eye. This bothers him a little In getting around as he is so active. A week or two ago he tore a ragged wound in his eyebrow. He tore the margin from a piece of newspaper after the wound had stopped bleeding, put the paper on and let It stay on until the wound healed. We of today would think that was a sure way to get blood poison or get germs In the wound but the pioneers had no time to believe in germs and other hygienic ideas of that kind and apparently the germs never bothered them. "The worst ailment Mr. Mlnto has had for years is a corn on hts little toe that isn't counting being gored by a bull when he was about 80 and falling off the roof and breaking several ribs a few years ago or having the barn door fall on him and breaking some more ribs. He always takes accidents of that kind very philosophically. He must have started out In life with won derful vitality to be able to go through all he has and keep so well physically and so serene mentally." When Mr. Minto came In I told him what I wanted. He shook hands and said, "Come on to my room where w can talk and not be disturbed. We have a long evening before us and I love ta talk over the old times. If It's Just the same to you, I am going to tell you my story In my own way so you needn't ask me any questions. I'll tell you about mv trln to Oreeon. I am eettinc nrettv well along in years I am over 90, but I am still as full of romance as when I was a boy. As a boy I loved ad venture and was fond of poetry. I knew most of the old songs of Northumber land. The old ballads and Tom Moore's songs are my favorites. "When I had moved to Iowa, I heard people talking about the Willumette val ley. With a young comrade I went to see Michael T. Simmons. I heard he was organizing a party to go to Ore gon. He told me he had heard R. W. Morrison wanted someone to drive a team across the plains. My comrade and I hurried out; to Morrison's place. I asked him if he had work for us. He asked us a few questions and told us he would employ us. Going to the house he said to hts wife, 'Nancy, these two young men are going to help us. Can you get them some breakfast?' "Next day Mr. Morrison told me to make a reach for the wagon out of a tough young oak tree. As I was work- in tr nn it with a riraw kntfp nhflnlne i! . a young girl passed down the trail with a bucket on her arm, to get soma water. She had a sunbonnet on so I could not see her face but the lithe way she carried herself and the spring in her walk made me stop my work and look up at her. 1 said to myself, 'John Minto, there goes your wife to be.' I didn't see her face for several days but I was a young lad, not quite "-, and I looked at the world In those days through rose colored glasses. I was Just us confident the moment I huw her that she was to be my wife as I could be confident of anything and a few years later she became Mrs. Minto. "Mr. Morrison and his family worn greatly liked in that neighborhood and their relatives and friends came from over the country to spend the last their trip. Most of them brought pres ents of wild turkeys and wild honey and the women kept busy cooking and 'r.n'. b WO IIUVQ I11UOJV or some singing?' One of tho visitors had brought his violin and he played. Then . thev asked mn in nine. I snriir nno e,f the old English ballads, a farewell son, and then, with my heart full of thoughts of Martha, I sang one of Tom Moore's love songs. Tho company all applauded the song. They didn't know I was singing it for only one of the party. "We were soon ready to start. Cor nelius Gilliam was elected the leader of the company with the title of gen- eral. Mr. Simmons was made colonel rft"an running short at Fort Brldger. Some of the younger men left their wagons and went forward on horse back. At Fort Hall there was. a letter to the captain of the train from Petor Burnett, asking how the emigrants were coming on and If they needed provisions. " :,",, ... , word to the Willamette valley of the need of the emigrants for provisions. We had a hard trip. 1 had a gross of I fish hooks which I - traded to the In dians for enmas and dried salmon and near Fort Hall an Indian gave me a ' ride on his pony and an Indian slave girl cave me some blackberries. We ! finally got to the Willamette valley ond ,'. , tha tv,.. secured supplies for the emigrants. The emigrants of '44 suffered very severely as they had been delayed so long in the early spring that they did not get through until after the winter rains had started. My clothing was almost worn from my back when I went to Vancouver to get the supplies. We met Dr. McLaughlin, who -was wonderfully kind and courteous to us. He told us he was about to send an express east end that if we wished to write some letters he would see that they went" We had no paper or pens but he sent us to the bachelors' ball and furnished us with pons, Ink and paper end I wrote a letter to my father an December 8, 1844. I received his answer to this 1st. Iter on July 15, 1847." , ., A. I-
