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THE OREGON . SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND", SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER . 21, 1913. '
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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
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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!
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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." ,
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