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. .'.. r . , . .'.'.,. .'. ..i ...... ; .'....'..."..... O'.i -SECTION FIVE J SOCIETY CLUBS MUSIO WOMAN'S REALM TEN PAGES ILLUSTRATED NEWS -llEVIEW , Writ it: , PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1913. JOHN ZIEGLER'S CAREER ; , LARGELY ONE OF PROTEST; 'Jl 1 - 1)11 John Brownlow Zlegler. By F. L. John Brownlow Zlegler la a typo. Professional politicians say he la a crank and should be suppressed.- Cer . tain ones who. are willing to take ad vantage cf public apathy to their own advantage say he is in agitator and should not be tolerated. Certain others who are too busy attending to their per atonal affairs to have time for the pub lic's interests say he is a nuisance. Here and there you will hear some .one eay lie is devoted to the publio interests and that he is one of Portland's most use ful and public spirited citizens. Being unable to harmonize these diverse views. I bunted Mr. Zlegler up and asked him to explain himself. "Tennessee is my native state," said Mr. Zlegler. "I was born in a. little town called Athens on March 29, 1K61, and I was named John Brownlow, after .Parson Brownlow,- the war governor of my native state. I chose medicine, for my life work. 'After being graduated I practiced medicine for a while, but gave It up. The prac tice of medicine had so many men In it - who were-- fakers that an- honest mail who wanted to be thorough had but little show against the fakers who were " good bluffers. --1- found no pleasure" In the practice cf medicine, and rather tian Dtnv with whit, had hnrnme rilfl- tasteful to me, I did the only honest thing I could do, which was to quit. Cornea to Oregon in 1892. "I was 31 years old .and I decided to come west . I came to Oregon in 1892, and went to ranching. I took up a place on Sileta bay. We needed a road from Newport to Slleti bay, but we were a mere handful without' political Influence, so the county court refused ' to recognize that we had any rl&hta We were voters, - home builders and American citizens, and to be ignored and sneered at aroused my indignation. That we were not taxpayers was the court's excuse. I began a campaign that resulted in the legal establishment oi the needed road. I laid out the road. Captain William R. Wakefield, one of the county commissioners, helped me and in spite of the adverse attitude of the other members of the county court, we won out. I soon had a good ranch on Schooner creek, but the children were getting to an age when they needed good schools, so I sold out and came to Portland. "When I came to Portland and bought a home, on Holladay avenue, 1 found that the' hard surfacing of that street was a pawn In the political game. The improvement of this street had be come a personal controversy between the Oregon Keal Estate company, who had nine blocks subject to assessment, ' and Herman Wittenberg. For two years the matter had dragged along. I took hold of it and within three months the public became aroused and the improve ment, of the street was ordered. There after the Oregon Real Estate company submitted to. the policy of street Im provement. rights Street Vacations. "Shortly thereafter the O. R. & N. company moved to have the ends of 14 east side streets vacated tpr terminal purposes J' saw that a. gross wrong to the public was to Te perpetrated -and that aa.one seemed willing to take up the flVt to protect the publio In Its Vested rvVhtspf having access to the river. Tmi-'Souncil under tho old char ter was', given the right to vacate a street oh application of two-thirds of the abutting 'property owners if such vacation were not prejudicial to the public Interests. The council had es tablished the doctrine that the street belonged to the abutting property own ers, thus Ignoring; the rights of the general public who. were the real own ers of the streets. I found the rights of the public throughout the city in all uch property were being ignored and a steady divestiture of public property along the' harbor had gone on since the ' organization of the . municipality, . J wrote what is known as the Ziegler amendment forbidding the vacation of - atreets-wlthtn 2000 feet of ..the harbor. I suggested putting this on the ballot To secure action I put a resolution be fore the East Side Business Men's club, asking them to authorise the appoint ment of committee, the securing of-an attorney ana we v uuiy lng of a petition, to have this placed 04 the ballot. The resolution was passed . and I was made chairman of the com mittee. There was some Question as io mt oiuo paying uiwu wuu iruu lated the petition so. I paid for this work out of my own pocket, the 'club later re imbursing, mm for one-half, the expense Incurred. The measure went on the B. eVN, company withdrew lt appllca- tion for the vacation of the streets and substituted a blanket franchise which would secure the same result. All franchises on commercial railroads un der the old charter were subject to the common user clause. This blanket fran chise would give them exclusive rights as a waiver was inserted which pro vided that the city waived the right of common use upon any part' of the track that passed over -their own property. This old dodge had worked In the past to defeat the common user clause. It was such a -palpable fraud and such a worn out dodge that I laid siege to the committee revising the charter until I succeeded in securing the Insertion of a clause prohibiting the evasion of the spirit of the law. "The clause Inserted In the charter provided that a franchise for any track occupying streets wholly or in part shall be subject to the- confmon' User Wause throughout their full extent within the city limits. This spiked the guns of that dodge. Water Front Abuses. "In investigating publio easements on the, waterv front I found that the public rights had been more ruthlessly ab sorbed on the -foreshore than on the streets and that it constituted a great er' abuse. I began an agitation for the protection of the public rignts tnrougn the columns 'of The Journal. "In addition to the anti-street vaca tion amendment which I secured I also secured an amendment to the same, permitting street vacations for public purpose also , the curing of the 'de fect of the common user provision in the charter, the clause in the charter that requires committee meetings of the council to be public, as well as the meeting of the council Itself, the com mon . terminal amendment which has proved its merit by the fact that tho diverse Industrial Interests on North Front street have compelled the ap plication of this principle to North Front street as the only possible basis of agreement and under which the S. P. and S. Railroad and the N. P. Terminal companies are conceding the withdraw al of their main lines from the street Another of my measures passed In 1909 was the revision of the old charter curing the defect by which public util ity corporations evaded making quarter ly reports to the city auditor. "A good many business men eay I PRESIDEN T UN IS REGULAR, PATRON OF5 THEATRES; OF CAPITAL Hottest Days Do Not Deter Him; He -Likes Vaudeville - Shows, Too. 1 United Jrn teased Wire.) s Washington, Bept 20. President Wil son Is setting a new presidential record for theatre going. Moreover, he Isn't particular in his selections of the kind of .entertainment. He likes the 'legit' as well as the musical comedy, the vaudeville as well as the problem play i Just so they are clean shows. And he evidently Intends to bo a regular patron this season. All summer long the President has gone regularly to. see the two stock' companies hero. No matter how hot it was, he seemed to enjoy It And the other day,, when Keith opened his new vaudeville theatre, 'the President had his first taste of that kind of en tertainment. He had never seen i vaudeville show before. Folks who saw him that night say he enjoyed himself Immensely.' An old-fashioned slap-stick team of comedians tickled the Presidential rial billtles so much that he actually got red In the face from chortling his glee. Now, the theatre has placed a box at his disposal for the remainder of the season. The president goes to the theatre Just like common folks. Like as not. be will walk down from the White House, He always gets there early enough to hear the orchestral overture, and , in time to read his program and see who's who. - And he never leaves until the curtain goes down. There have been other presidents whose coming kept the theatre manage ment in a fever because they had to hold the curtain or thought they had- until the chief executive put in an ap pearance. President Wilson also dls dalns private entrances and exits from the theatre and walks In and out With the crowd through the main entrances Of course he ts surrounded by his usual secret service guard, but he will bow and smile at fellow theatre goers and enjoy himself Immensely. The President hasn t yet "dressed up for the theatre. He may put on a spike-tail" this winter, but he cer tainly didn't- inflict , that discomfort on himself during the hot weather. He came In his famous white suit - and looked cool and comfortable. Dr. Cary Grayson, naval aide at the White House, was his usual companion, with James Sloan, chief of the White House secret service guard and perhaps Secretary Tumulty as the third member. Also the president has taken In a couple of moving picture shows views of the Panama canal and the Capt Scott Antarctic movies. should attend to my own business, that I am a 'have not' and am attacking the haves.' I will tell you what I have observed. The big business man is usu ally the poorest man you can put in public office. He subordinates the pub lic interest to his own Interest and often through his lust for money or for power he Is led to betray those who have elected him to serve the Interests of all the public And another thing I have observed Is that a good man who is weak and who fails to be vigilant In the public defense is as bad as a vicious man, for in both cases the pub lic Interests are exploited. Men who are engaged in politics as a profession and who receive the rewards are not the ones who institute political reforms. They are opposed to reform lest it In terfere with their privileges or position. They are not Interested in the science of politics, but are Interested in the business of politics." Englishmen Want Channel Tunnel. London, Sept. 20. The Dover Cham ber of Commerce has unanimously ap proved a resolution in favor of the proposed channel tunnel. 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