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A MESSAGE PARAMOUNT:;;
r CANNOT over emphasize the
importance of deep witer to
this port The economical ear-
riers by water are the great
rhipv and -they ars beiagmade
'arger and larger, and demands for
Ueep, safe channels are - growing
jmore insistent Portland does well
;;o take. heed." .
Such was the message to Port
Zanders through The Journal by W.
a. Sickel, vice director and manager
.:.f freight and operation of the
" I amburg-American . line, ' now ; in
Portland in the interest of his great
company. ..';''vYvt;.;"A'?;.'. -...
On this subject, ths message of
io - rnan can scarry - more weight
:;.lr. Sickel speak from the view
.point , of an expert V His '; corpora
:iioh embodies the ; last word la
riocean navigation : in - every problem
ttof water transportation, it has the
Jsnost modern and most authentic
information. The enormous tonnage
Und the vast system of ports and
routes used by its 'vessels are unal
terable proof that Mr. Sickel's com
pany speak with the full weight of
authority on every issue of mari
time transportation. "
. . Portlanders can accept Mr. Siclc
ls statement as to deep water to
Portland as inexorable laV. , They
van accept his statement . as to big
iehips as unchangeable fact Both
statements intimately " and deeply
tonccrn this city and this people.
On the point ol deep water on
She bar and up the river to Port
land, there can be but one mind.
,With a total of only fifteen miles of
thoal .places between Portland and
the sea, a channel of sufficient depth
for all vessels is no serious under
taking. Montreal., js, providing a , 35
loot channel to the sea and is dredg
ing nearly 90 miles of shoals to ob
tain it Hamburg:, the headquarters
of the great steamship line which
Mr. Sickel represents, is 93 miles
from the ocean, and its channel was
deepened the entire distance in order
;to reach . its present "depth. -'iAll:
Portland must ' not overlook or
; underestimate the - message to them
. from this international expert ' on
maritime i transportation. It is V- a
iriendly message. It is T the "wise
counsel of a well wisher. It is the
IGodspeed of a man whose great cor
poration is trying to build up Port
land. ' , ,' i , , " '
The port of 'Portland must put
l.rrery resource Into action on the
river channel. , -
The government and the people
ttiust apply every- constructive asset
the Columbia entrance. - . ....
i .VTNTER UNEMPLOYMENT
ONE .of t
lems Js
It confn
winter unemployment
confronts most cities, Port
land : among . them. Jobs for
:.H se non-existant in the winter
":;me, with the result that men walk
tlie streets, lounge in the saloons or
..'die at home, if they have a home,
; :ating up ; summer wages or going
hungry. .V '--;.',i.'-.V!' ':
' During , the winter months, men
thrown out of employment in the
voods, on the railroad embankments
und in various other activities flock
. . Portland. Many of them come
seeking work; some of them come
t dodge work, r.? . ' V t
; Last winter unemployed men were
rounded up and taken into municipal
emit on charges of vagrancy. Some
i f them went to the rockpile; most
f them were ordered out of town
mder threat of sentence to the rock
rile, and their reply was that they
id not know where to find work,
ioys claiming'that they'cams from
the country ' begged coin ' on : the
t treet A number of boys served
f erms imposed by the .? municipal
Judge because they had no homes,
r io money 'and , no work. ;i'xi;".
: : Many cities are ' attempting a-sc
tion of the problem. Ouluth is
mong them, and the Survey ; says
, hat city is squarely i meetin " the
r reposition that It is a public duty
to secure employment for men invol
untarily idle. Duluth has been oer-
fectinf her system since 1910? and
. ome of the features are ' said to be
superior to any system In. operttfon
ia England, ' Germany or Swltzer-
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; Duluth ; is the ' central point ', tot
'en who find summer employment
n the lakes and docks and ' with
onstruction gangs. . Work with pri-
ate concerns is not available in the
inter time? and so the , city , has
rovided a measure of public' em
'.oyment A rocky wall which would
i time bar the city's further growth
! Icing cut away. The work is
ne in winter, and the workmen
; men who have to other occu-
s D-i'uth is mble to offer the
J yr-ant a job, He raX
f HE
take it or not, but if he does not,
and has no adequate reason the fact
may be construed against him. The
men are paid wages, not the summer
schedule, but enough to tide them
over the winter months. They are
not treated as the recipients of char
ity; they are "told that the city wants
the ' work done and is willing' to
give ; work to men who cannot , find
better employment. .
Each" laborer , before' , he ; begins
working": is required .to . submit . a
scheme for returning to regular em
ployment, and it is understood that
his wages are simply to assist him
in executing this scheme.' Thus the
casual, laborer is eliminated for' the
benefit of the man who honestly
wants a regular Job. .
Duluth's public work stops dur
ing the summer; it begins again
with the hardships of winter. Port
land and many other cities main
tain free employment ' bureaus, , but
none go as far with the problem, a
does Duluth. . . , s ;
OCTOBER DAYS
O CTOBER days. V Tardily - they
come unheralded by the dawn.
Quickly,' they blend into the
' shadows of the evening and
fade into the darkness of the night
, October days, - How gentle, how
beautiful, how harmonious, how fruit
ful they are, how colorful in their
dress-Of orange, red, brown, yellow,
green and gold of gathered harvest
at the .Wedding of soft sunshine and
lengthening shadow. - ,
October days, .s How pensive of
spirit, how fugitive ; of v mood "they
are In the death-like lack of sound
over the field of stubble, in the hush
that preludes the song of winter.
October days. The chorus has
stopped. , The soloist is carrying the
air on and upward until it is lost in
spirit ' The . mute tongue answers
the : questioning of the souL , The
silence ; of healing and restoration
falls. ' . , . . ,
October days. The singing, the
loosing, the winning, the mating, the
care are over. The tilling and the
harvesting is done. The running of
the sap - has ceased. Life is at a
poise. The tide' has reached its
flood. The grip of the twig is loos
ening. " The leaf is floating in the
airr The seed is falling into its tomb
to rest until its resurrection morn.
The mother of all steeps and dreams.
October days. , From forest, wood
and stream sweet incense it wafted.
It is the essence of life, ripened per
fected life. '"(S-f: ii:Hy?&:??
Spring is birth, summer is growth,
October days ire, maturity, the in
termezzo in the .endless musical
drama of birth life and death. . . .
, , RELIGION AND ROADS j
T. FIRST thought there seems
no relation between religion
and : good roads,. disregarding
- the suggestion in lighter vein
that bad roads are conducive to ir-
religion. ) , , y ' u v j4 ,
Reflection, however, leads to the
realization that there' is r a strong
connection ; ' between ' religion and
good roads.'-k:ff--h vv';;
'.The decline of this country church
is a. subject of - serious thought ' in
the religious world . and many are
they i who are endeavoring to find
ways " and means to restore it to
In measure the' weakness of the
country church is due to overchurch
ing ; and to weak preachers, , the
strpng" ones being attracted to the
cities where better salaries are to
be .obtained and larger congrega
tions to be ministered to.
. With ' better roads , the farmer
could go a long distance to church
in the same length of time that it
now takes him to go a short dis
tance. .This would have the effect
of reducing the number of . churches
to a county and strengthening the
surviving ones. :;..v v:,j
With better; roads the farmer
would get more for his products and
consequently would be better able to
give f financial support towards the
maintenance of better preachers. ; '
' With better roads rural communi
ties '. would be in - more charitable
mood and more inclined to church
uutwu iuu lurucr solving me prOD-
lem of overchurching in country as
well as'ity.';.;;'r;; ' rp-
When you come to think about it
there appears a strong . relation be
tween religion and good roads.
rii,MILrrARY. 'PRISONS ' f
' vji. ,J' J 'y,L . ' ' eaWawaiaajaaMMay "' ' '" ' lV'L' ' -t I
EkRISON Ireiprm and more hu
'. mane treatment of prisohers is
1 : a movement founded ' on intel
ligenee, rather . than ; on senti
ment ; Intelligence ' is saying that
men are put in prison fbr their own
and society's good, that the prison
should become, . as nearly ', is pbs
sible, a man factory instead of a
crime factory.
Many people these days advocate
prison : reform, because they ' realize
that prisons v haye; been breeding
crime instead of curing it - The hew
idea has found lodgment in the war
department, resulting in an order Af
fecting military prisoners. , .i v
Heretofore i if ft soldier; did not
dbey all of the many rules of mili
tary discipline he was liable to im
prisonment with other soldiers who
had done criminal acts; If a" pri
vate ; overstayed t bis furlough ; and
another private broke into an offi
cer's house, there was one orison
for both, Now the army regula
tions will put the breakers of purely
riilitary rules into separate sections
of - theprisons and allow them to
continue their military training.;:"?!
The minor offenders will : be or
ganized in companies with regular
officers, and instead of wearing
prison garb they will have uniforms
without facings or stripes. They
will be equipped as Infantry, but the
firing pin , of their rifles will be re
moved. Half the day, will be spent
SUNDAY JOURNAL', rOP.TLAUD, CUI : DAY
in drilling and tactical work and the
other half in labor such as prisoners
are usually required to perform.
The effort will be to give the men
a chance to remove their discredits,
remain a usef ul part of the army and
not be placed in degradation where
they never belonged. J The new army
rule is an adaptation of the parole
and honor system. , It is ; evidence
that prison reform ideal are avail
able even in a military organization,
where everything is supposed to run
by rulef and caste. ,
THE WHITS . SLAVE LAW
BEE BAKER, on trial ' at Wich
ita, Kansas, on a charge of vio
lating the Mann white slave
law, was acquitted by a jury.
United States Judge Pollock, who
sat in the case, ruled that the law
was intended to " apply only , where
women were taken from one state
to another for commercial purposes;
that it would be necessary to prove
Baker profited financially. . :
It was proved that Bakew took a
girl to Texas fbr. immoral purposes,
but the commercial feature was lack
ing. ; Diggs and Caminettl .com
mitted a similar offense, and Judge
Van Vleet's ; interpretation : of ' the
law was exactly opposite. A short
time ago Judge Foster' of the east
ern district of Louisiana interpreted
the law as did Judge Van Yleet, with
the result that a man is now serv
ing a term in the Atlanta, peniten
tiary. , i ' . . ,
. These two rulings as to the scope
of the law cannot both be right If
Diggs and Caminettl had. been tried
before Judge Pollock they ' would
have been acquitted under his in
structions to the juries. If tried be
fore Judge Van Vleet,. Baker . would
have been convicted on the state
ment of facts that acquitted him in
Wichita..'; .-rv f'
The necessity for a ruling by the
United States supreme court is ap
parent Such .a decision should ' be
obtained as soon as possible, or con
gress should amend the law so that
different Judges will not give it dif
ferent interpretations. It is mani
fest ; absurdity to acquit a - man in
one state and convict in another
state for the same act under, the
same law. ! ,vg, th f0KM ;
OUR HIGH SCHOOL WORKERS
ASHINGTON ; HIGH ; school
, boys; earned, $36,552 during
1 the last summer vacation.
U Of the ' 467 boys in school,
46S reported that they worked dur
ing vacation. sOf these 50 worked
at home and received no monetary
consideration,' . Hence, the - 415 : who
were - paid earned an -average of
$88.07. . These figures do not" in-clude-the-
earnings of -the : 54 boys
who graduated in February and, June,
whose earning, ability would be the
largest and dor include the, 125 first
term. boys, , whose earning ' capacity
is the smauest.'
'i'Thejvglrlaearnmgs'f aggregate! a
considerable ' total.. Two hundred
and ' seven, earned ; $7539.98, making
a total for the school of S44.rJ9I.98.
This, sum does not , include that
earned by the 109 girls in the Feb
ruary and June graduating classes.
Of the boys now in school 235 are
working. ' Ninety-six are doing more
than light chores at home for which
ttfey receive no pay. The remaining
139 receive a total of $4983 : per
month, an average of.$354.
Fifty-two girls receive a total of
$463.30 for work they are now doing
outside of school, an average of $9
per month.' This does not i include
the numerous girls who are earning
their, way through school by doing
housework for which they receive
only room and board. . ;
( The becupations iwhich the boys
followed during .vacation disprove
any suggestion that they .are afraid
of . manual labor.'.'' Seventy-six ear
ned papers, 48 clerked in stores, 11
were janitors, 42 worked in the' har
vest fields, 22 worked in garages and
ran auto liveries and ; trucks, 4 kept
time ; for ,' construction gangs, . 7
packed1 fruit, 17; delivered packageis,
5 worked in '.logging camps, 5 ran
donkey engines! 3 worked in -, nur
8eriesf 7 in ; surveying crews, 2 in
bakeries, 1 at ; plumbing, 6 cleared
land, 10 worked ; in factories, 3 in
orchards, 4 in : dairies, 13 in lumber
mills, i 14 in ;J theatres,4 2 ii in ; ware
houses," 6 at . electrical construction,
1 played in a band, 13 worked at car
pentry, 23 irt offices, 14 at hop Pick-
ingots at;1 tawing' and f putting in
wood,' 6 collecting,; 3 raising poultry,
6 in. machine ' shops,; 5 in -printing
houses, .1, m baggage ; rooms, 2, mm
ing,4: paging; in library, 4 in brick
yards,' 4 Salmon fishing, 7 in press
rooms of newspapers. 4 blacksmith
lng, 2 with telephone company," 1 in
ministry, .2 architectural drafting, 2
iron moulding, lz stone grindinar.
Others did various other work, most
ly manual. .
. The two classes thai were gradtt
ated last ;? year earned durinsr the
last year of their course, including
th previous summer -vacation, a to
tal bf; $1469.-; There were 54 boys
in the classes and 109 trirls; The
boy! earned an average?'of $212 and
the girls: of S $36.70. Considerably
more than half of each class intend
ed ' to enter college;fe;:"tiv',V';':Si'
1 .'Principal 11. Herdman k says
that instead of disinclination . to en
gage ; in manual, labor,' the ; reverse
was true, The. manual . training
course is one ot the most popular
offered, "and C is ', closely pressed
by the , cooking ' and dressmaking
courses. Air. Herdman has for
some time conducted an emDlov-
ment ' bureauzwhich ; has been '. of
great value in securing places for the
boys and girls who want work. ( Ap
plications now on , hand ' show - that
instead , ot avoiding work the ; stu
dents are anxious ' to get it, before
school, atter school, and during the
evening.
Of the 465 boys who did work pot
TIT
w
of school, 264 Intend togo to col
lege. Many girls also are saving
their money for that purpose. Oth
ers, who are not going to college
and whose earnings were high, are
entirely self-supporting; others have
to ' contribute to the family exche
quer. .Two boys are , the sole, sup
port of their , families, one . earning
$60 and the other $65 a month. ;
i Looked at from almost any angle,
the statistics show an inclination on
the 1 part of the students to assume
early in ! life the responsibility ! for
their own support , and . education.
Some do this by. assisting at home,
others by going abroad and turning
their ability into dollars and cents.
Stilt others by doing both. . Instead
of, considering self-support ' all irk
some task, they seem to regard it
as a welcome opportunity.; ; ; .
WILLIAM P. ZUBER .
WILLIAM P. ZUBER, last sur
vivor ; of the Texans whb
fought with Sam Houston at
.. . .San Jacinto, is dead. The
Houston Chronicle says of him: -
He waa readr tor th final roll call,
u toe was always raadr to respond to
his country's ' call. In, every rotation
of Ufa. ho did well a man's part : Ho
met faithfully ovory obligation of eltt
senshlp. Ho belonsed to that ancient
order of manhood which loved Us coun
try, f eared God and kept bis com
mandment. Aa modest a he was
bravo and as faithful as bo was mod
est, th old man won tha respect be
richly deBorvod. ,
We who depend on books for un
derstanding of ' the impulse which
drove William Zuber against the
Mexicans Apri) 21,-1836, have small
conception of the event . He was
one of the 7.43 Texans who achieved
the independence of a vast territory.
He was the last of those Texans to
repeat the words of their command
er, "I was a member of the army of
San 'Jacinto." v;-- V. ;-.'
A San Jacinto, to Texans, hss . even
greater significance than Yorktown;
they say ft., was more . momentous
than Waterloo. It followed the fall
of the Alamo and the massacre of
Goliad. Santa Anna, ' the Mexican
butcher, was made a prisoner; 620 of
his men were killed, ; 208 wounded,
and 730 were capturei An i entire
army was wiped out, and only six
Texans were killed and 25 wounded,
4ButkTexas was made free, Mexico
was. driven back of the Rio Grande.
There were many points of similarity
between that short campaign J7
years ago and the.present campaign
in Mexico. The chief point ' of dif
ference is that Huerta is opposed by
men of his own kind, while Santa
Anna was opposed by rugged Ameri
cans, 'smaller in number but - each
American counting, for several Mexi
cans in courage, - resource , and in
domitable will '.. ' '
j Texan call the Alamo their cradle
of liberty. It is, in that the Alamo
typifies the early' Texan's defiance
of death. $ The handful of men who
defended that stone church': against
Santa,. Anna's army; had opportuni
ties to escspe, but they scorned th
idea ojf1 retreating; before Mexicans.
There they died, overwhelmed by
numbers, fighting to the last There
die4 Colonel Travis, David Crockett,
James Bowie, but for every ? dead
Texan there . were ' many dead ; Mex
icans, . ,v -.1$ ;.;;
Confident of his strength, Santa
Anna made the mistake of matching
wits with Sam Houston., The Mex
ican divided his forces and his main
command was caught at Saa Jacinto.
Hemmed in by a morass on one
side, denied retreat across a ' river
because Texans r had ; destroyed the
Sridge, 1600 Mexicans were Set upon
by less than half that, number of
Texans. , .
"Remember Alamo" was the bat
tle cry.; The Texans took awful re
venge while the fight lasted, but the
prisoners' lives rwere spared, 4 and
Santa Anna wis returned to Mexico
after he had signed the treaty which
madeTexas free, (tji.-:,
The Mexican character has Im
proved little since that time, w Santa
Anna was no more ; cruel than is
Huerta. ? The massacre of Goliad
was the forerunner of the' assassina
tion of Madero." But in 1836 Santa
Anna was opposed by Americans
commanded by Sam Houston; That
fact aecounts for Texas today.
' WHY THE DISCREPANCY
y.'-rz vrrir-
IT IS said that jts owners demand
$1000 an acre f6r SwanIsland,
for public dock usesT ' ' ' '
It was assessed in 1913 at $219
an acre, or less than one fourth the
asking price; in 1903 at $151 per
acre, or less , than ., one ninth the
present asking price; in 1903 at $23
an acre or l-44th the present asking
price.A..;e;;
It was ithe growth v of ' Portland
that made ', the increased value, and
if so, why should there be so great
a .discrepancy between the asking
price and tax price, especially , when
the law ordains that property shall
be assessed at .its- "true cash, value?"
; Not .- more than double ' the as
sessed valuation should ever be paid
for property for public, uses.-
'V:' ' tvM. . .'n iii '
y.;:.1..: i.:' . I,. ' i,. ' . ii
;Unless ; accotnpanied X by an t adult
person other than a hired-chauffeur,
minors of opposite sex, brothers and
sisters; excepted," cannot go automo
bile riding in ; Kansas City1; between
9 p. m. and 6 a. m. If there is doubt,
police; will have the machine driven
to the girl's home for confirmation.
The. maximum fine is $500. -
'
. The observation of an exchange
is that the ; automobile driver who
depends on" --luck to ; bring "him
through ; sooner or later ' gets the
steering .wheel jammed through hit
wishbone. '.' ;.-.' ,,:,
After, eight days' ; fmprisonmentj,
Thomas Toshesky was rescued from
a Pennsylvania coal mine Saturday.
A man with, a name like that is
liable to become entangled any time
he. ventures. Into. mine,
HORNING. C
life's r,::.:;iMUM
By Dr. Fr; Crane. -
Copyright, Wl. by Frank Crane..
How can I set th moat out of llfet
How can I keep from having that
ansa of dissatisfaction from coming to
bed with moflf nlghtsT . ' '.;.
How: can. I have, for my visitor' at
the closo ot day, that feeling of con
tent,' that tho gono twenty-four hours
wr worth while t
Tell me that. Tell mo a cure for my
disguit of self, for that ah-taste of
elf-coneoloueness, for . that irritation
in reflection, for that perpetual turn
ing to tomorrow tn order to. drown the.
bitterness of today, a a fool turns
to his eups to forget his life-weariness.
; Well, this bint may help: Tho se
cret or permanent pleasure lies In cut
Uvatlng ever higher forms 6f pleasure.
( The savage eats raw flesh, tho civ
ilised man wants It cooked, the more
civilised man likes it well cooked
i The value of culture Is the refine
ment of wants. ' :;,. '.-,;.
Ia a dumb, silly .way the world per
celvea thia, and tries to show superi
ority In forms of pleaaupre that are
unusual, expensive, and exclusive. It
dines In Uwdry hotels, wears costly
Jewels, preens Itself in fine clothes and
wraps ttself la rich furs.
This is the twisted, perverted notion
of what Is a great truth. t .
All luxury and extravagance soon be
come coarse and degrading to real souls.
The Upper Tea get around to tho crass
nens of life of the Submerged Tenth.
, They are victims of the great delusion.
, The great delusion la that It is com
plexity that Indicates higher life;
whereas It Is simplicity, developing Into
ver- greater fineness (refinement).
The roads to mora permanent pleas
ures are these: Religion, philosophy,
love, art. oraftmanshlp and nature.
' By religion I mean a reverent babit
of mind, a sens of wonder and mys
tery a realization that we live in a
world of spiritual meanings. Unless
you can attain to this your Ufa must
always be mean and hard. Of course,
I refer to "no religious institution, but
to that religious feeling that has al
ways marked great lives.
By philosophy I mean that you must
have - some sort of program for your
life. So long aa events to you era but
a disordered mess of "happenings" you
will be miserable: the football of fate.
You must have certain foundation, prin
ciples, soma settled theory of life that
will bring order out of chaos. ;
' By love I mean that you must have
the power to Idealise your crude in
stincts. Lust . sates, sickens, wearies,
Lore, which is the Idealisation ot pas
sion, is eternal, ever fresh.
Bv art I mean the axnreKslnn of the
highest powers of the mind in creating
Deauuim ininga. ' wnen you learn io
love a Greek temple more than the gin
gerbread house ot a New York million.
aire, a painting, by Israels of - Millet
more than a chromo, ; the wit of Charles
iamb more than 1 that ef Joe Miller.
the charm of Michael Anrelo's ''Moses,"
mors tnan the huge parlor-clock mon
omenta In some of our parks, a Bee
thoven quartet more than cabaret music,
a story by Hawthorn mors than one
of the modern ' sex-soaked : or ad
venture - cnoked ' romances, ' sucn ' a
play as Barrio's "The Admirable
Crichtoa" more than a cheap and loud
melodrama -and. In general, all things
that have the quietness of power, the
self-restraint of genius and the subtlety
of Intellectual - vision, then, yea - have
come considerably toward ' the point
where your pleasures are more perma.
nnt and have less nauseating dregs.
Br craftsmanship X mean that skill
that transforms work from drudgery to
enohantment .
And by the love ot nature I mean that
patient study of., and eventual delight
in, the marvelous design, s perfection
and handicraft exhibited by everything
uiai grows,, oy everymuig ins vreaior
has mado...'Si'.fc-'-''-if';'' (-.'-.v'i:--f i'-ci4'-
The secret ef permanent pleasure will
be, found by anyone who will make It
nis lit business to sees us satisfac
tion in these six sources. ' , -. .
Thus -you may come to that rational
delight tn your own thoughts, such as
Robert - Bridges, the new laureate , ot
England expresses: .
"My thoughts swim ilk a ship, that
with the weight
Of her rich burden sleeps ea the lnfl
. nit seas
Beealm'd and , cannot stir her f golden
. .The' World We Uve In. .
Harry Emerson Fosdlck, irt the Atlantic
v- Men become obsessed by the practical
method ot the sciences. They regard
the abstracted aspect of existence; th
physical and psychical facts and laws
as th atir world ot reality, and even
ttiSARE WE LOSING
. ' From the Detroit New Tribune
V Commissioner pillesple's announced
Inclination to close the theatres on gun
day is a straw upon the stream, a sign
cf - the time, v It touches a problem
bigger than' theatres, - the problem of
th Sunday . Itself. ' And th problem of
the Sunday is knit up with th prob
lem of -community decency and effici
ency. -.- 'r?:.:.K:::;.-:'i -
But. th discussion of It Is almost
hopeless, of results. ' People can r see
only what they can see; all the argu
ment In the worjd. will pot supply a
vision of Sunday as th day of rest
and higher , refreshment, a a day , de
voted to man's real business-la. this
world. The law 'itself has not been
sufficient ' to retain the unlet " Sunday
Of our fathers. If th laws of Detroit
and Michigan were enforced, we ehould
be a model community on Sundays, but
all our saloons publlo gambling . at
"pleasur piers,? shrieking sideshows,
trashy film shows and th blggens and
lesser theatres running full blast. Sun
day Is tbe hardest, busiest day of our
clvlo week. As a Japanese remarked of
us, we were never less Christian than
On our Christian day. We are never
more restless than on our day of rest
Sunday as a day of rest has all but
vanished amongst ths populace. In
great secUons. ofthls city Sunday Is
often a day ot drunkenness and fight
ing, rough sport and murders. The
plea that people must hav som rec
reation faily Utterly .here, tor it Is
not . recreation but inoredssd , destruc
tion that takes place amongst, many Of
our eitlsens. if you dorft believe It,
ask any contractor; h will tell you
that h never expects 'a f ull foro on
Monday morning Sunday has been too
"bard' a day. Ask any factory super
intendent, and he will tell you they
always look for vacancies Monday
morning Sunday has been too "hard"'
a day. It you don't believe It, look
at tbe street cars Sunday night; look St
the police court Monday : morning. As
a day of rest, Sunday ha all but van
lahed. - .'.....; . -.m v-
The nation Used to comfort Itself
with this stat of affairs by" saying
that w bad imported "th continental
Sunday" a wide-open day of pleasure
seeking supposed to reign In Europe.
Ws used to read editorials, and books,
and sermons on "the continental Sun
day," and practice resignation to: Its
preseno here. . .
But to use "that 'explanation today
Is to b behind tbe times. "Th con
tinental Sunday" ' Is tired of Its Sun
day. Th worklngmen ot the conti
nent ar trying to kick out a Sunday
that Is no Sunday for them. Paris Is
flo-hHna- tlKHnnratal V hard . to recover
jtha JSunday bee long years of folly.
postul.-.ta ,,:.,,.. vi;ons, which fit the
isolated inuu-rim of some special scl
enoe, as an adequate philosophy f We.
But neither li the material of the sci
ences the whole of realfty, nor is sci
ence's explanation of that material all
of truth. - Aftnr science1 has measured
and weighed any group of facts, ascer
tained their quantitative aspects and
determined the law of their sequence,
we insist on discerning Qualitative a1
peote everywhere. Appreciations, and
preferences, woven tmo the factural
warp, make, the real texture of our ex
perience, By as much as a. living men,
lured by Ideals, mastered by purposes,
pleased by hopes, exalted by love, dif
fers from the manimn m the medical
school, with his painted nerves and
wooden ' muscles, by so much does Ah
real world of Ufa differ from tn aai
inltlons of science. All that produces
civilisation and art springs from this
over-world of value-Judgments and
worth-estimates. All satbedrals and
paintings, all poetry, romance, music
and religion are their children. This
world of insight and purpose, of value
and Ideal, is the only world in which
man actually lives. The attitude of sci
ence, drawing off the sens of worth
from life and Isolating the remainder, is
an artlflc convenient, but not compre
hensive. No scientist lives Up to it
when, he leaves bis laboratory and goes
bom. .1, ,
. , , ,
Letters From the Peopla
(OnmnnnlcctloM sent to The Journal for fenb.
licaUos In this depirtmcnt saould be wrtttea oo
only one (Ida of the paper, mould Dot sxcmd
Boo word Id lengtl) and unit be ccomi)nled
br the name and addreaa the aandar. If the
writer does sot dcalre to bat tbe sane pub
Uabcd, fee Should so sUte.) . '
. "Dliimlon Is tne creatMt of all refnrmers.
It rationalises eTrrthlDg It touch a. It robe
principle of aU fle aauctlty and throws tbem
back on their maoBablanma, If thtr have bo
rvasonablaueaa It ruthteaiilr crubaa thorn eat
ot oxUtance and set no tas own, ooaclualuoa la
Uielr staad." Woodrow Wilson. ......
Water Supply From the Clackamas.
, Milwaukie, Or, Oct. 4. To the Editor
of The Journal In view of, the Interest
being taken In the future water supply
of Oregon City, I would like to , make
a few suggestions. First, la tbe upper
Clackamas river available for a water
supply In this county and If It Is avail
able, Is there any reason why Oregon
City with Us surrounding territory, all
ot the north side of the Clackamas river
and all th west side of the Willamette
river in Clackamas county, could not be
bonded to build a pipe line T It Seems
to me that an independent water supply
would be much better than; depending
on th Bull Run System Ti;
Th .upper Clackamas river water Is
Just aa good as that of Bull Run and
a pipe - Un from that " source would
supply all the Intervening country. In
cluding Sstaoada, Sunnyslde, Milwaukie,
Clackamas station and several - other
small town that hav to depend en city
wells at present, Oswego and Willamette
City could be supplied by such a sys
tem, and the' ultimata cost of such a
system would not cost any more, than
the Bull Run water; would tn the end.
when.th rents and water meter rates
would hav to be paid for by the people
receiving It, 'w' V a HARLOW.
f Better Than Weeda
Portland. Oct. To th Editor of
Th Journal In a number of WJHam
ettevallejr: towns" th - hare t. aurfee
etreeU hav left wide boulevard plot
In front ot the resident lots and blocks;
Som of these plos are II feet wide,
others six or eight feeM' TJhe-thtlfty
householder has .In many, instances
planted th democraUo tuoer known as
th "spud- in thes boulevsxd ; plots j
and in others ths cabbage and the kale
hav flourished and provided man and
beast with suoculent meals. The plant
ing of thes and other useful,, garden
vegetation strikes th visitor, as pe
culiar, but th valu of ; th products
seem to b satisfactory. Bald a Dallas
pioneer when asked as to tbe garden In
front of his bumble home: "Spuds grow
well and are bettern weeds, end that
kale helps out our eow feed, too. W
ought to raise rosea, hut th potato
till the pot better." v -j A R a
yl -:a'A'- Comprehensive SholV:-f ;
Old Eambo's young hopeful, Rastus,
wits all swelled up about bis school work
In arithmetic - N
His dad said: "Rastus! If sebea erows
set on de fence, aa' 1 shoot one, how
many teftT- ' . "
Rastus painfully manipulated his fin
ger, then replied confidently! "Six."
., Vrong,' said Sambo "When I shoot
one. de'y alt left" - ' " ' 1
OUR SUNDAY?
took from her. Germany Is reachln g
into the old motives for a quiet day In
seven the -Sunday. All over Europe
the old-time Sunday Is being sought as
a blessing for man's physical and
spiritual nature. . . ;:'' -:-
Why Is Europe so tired of her wide
open Sunday? Because It was the
hardest - day of the week. As In De
troit, too many men appeared for work
after their -"rest," In - worse condition
than'. they left their work Saturday
noon 'or night '' ,rff.-;Si i;.
But that Isn't the Only reason. When
you make Sunday the' day ot entertain
ment, of wild pleasure-seeking, do you
know what you do? Tou rob thou
sands of their Sunday. The carmen,
waiters, bartenders, actors, engineers,
ticket sellers, film " showmen, makers
of sweet and creams,- drivers f de
livery wagons storekeepers, who shall
classify th thousands whose own rest
must b sacrificed to make this day of
rest a riotous holiday? ,
y ,it :.j , a .'fr' H ji' V.;..,
Well,' all this .happened In Europe.
But It was only, th prelude to some
thing . still .' mors oppressive. i Simply
destroy th Idea ot Sunday, any way
you like, and you are on the etfalght
road to a seven-day Week. That had
already come In Europe and It cam
down the road of pleasure. At one end
of that road were the theatres and the
pleasure parks and all gayety, but at
th farther end were the foundries and
th factories. Labor saw its Sunday
going, and now It Is reaching out to
recover It. A v. .;.; -.1.'". 'vyf'-i.
Is that ths way we are taking In
America? Some of us may live 'to see
the day when American labor will have
td strike for Its old-fashioned Sunday,
which so many now, sneer at Then
they will realise the ; significance of
Sabbath cblU and the value " of
th religion that has always stood for
on day of rest ' Then they will agree
with Emerson, who was under no re
ligious obsession, that "the Sunday is
the cor of our civilisation, dedicated to
thought .and reverence. It invites to
th noblest solitude and. the noblest so
ciety, to whatever means and aids of
spiritual refreshment" . ;
If Sunday is worth keeping, w shall
have to keep it by keeping it If It
is to be lost, w shall need only to con
tinue as w are doing.
If there is anyone' who ought to "keep
th Sunday" la the wholesome, old
fashioned sense, It I the worklngman,
for on his head will fall the whole
brunt of losing It And we are swing
ing thoughtlessly down the way of lo
lnir it ..
It's time to stop, and to think, and to
PS culet, .
1H EARLIER DiV0
..-.. 'liy. Fred lo.U;j. ,
Jasper V. Crawford lives at Iloppner.
1 am 74 years old," said Mr. Crawford.
"Sixty-two of my 74 years I have spent
In Oregon. v
; "P." V. Crawford, my father, with my
mother and their five children, of whom .
I was one, started from Madison, Ind,
In the early spring of '81 for Oregon.
We cam down th Ohio river by boat
to th. MlsslPP1- thenc on the Mis
sissippi to th mouth of the Missouri,
and up the Missouri to St Joe, where
we secured teams, wagons and supplies
fer the trip across the plains.
'I was It years old and I remember
ths trip as one of the brightest spots
in my life. We had plenty of grass and
killed all ot- the buffaloes, deer and
antelopo we needed. W all had good
health and I look back with the fondt
memories to that half year of my Ufa.
"As a matter ot fact I cannot egre
with th pioneers who talk of the hard
ships of th early day a It la true w
had ox teama Instead of automobiles but
w didn't bav to worry about th price
of gasoline nor figure what to mort
gage to secure a new model. The old
pralrl schooner, th old sunbonnet and
ths gingham dress were permanent mod- .
els In those days. W didn't miss th
luxuries ot today . because we didn't
know w needed them or wanted them. -
"If w ' needed a meal the streams
wr full of fieh, th lakes and river 4
were covered with wild gees and ducks,
and ydu could get a deer within a tew
minutes' walk of your cabin., W had
mor tlm In those days to be friendly.
W knew each other better, CHoepltallty .
waa universal. Today w ar so busy
w hav no friends. The people of today t r
do not know what naspiiauiy meano.
When we got to North Tamhlll In
the fall of '61 everybody made us wel
come. . There wer no sets nor cliques.
W were all one big family and w wer ,
mor Ilk klnfolk than nwoomers and ,
strangers, W used to boll wheat tor
mush or tak it to Harrison's mill near
where Hillsboro now is to have It ground .
Into flour. We didn't know It but w .
wr strictly modern, for nowadays th
health faddists hav you eaf whole -wheat
bread, only you pay 2S cents f or ,
a little 'dab of It put up In a fanoy ,
paper box. If w had hardships w
didn't recognise them, as such and sn
Juyed them. - ' ' .
. "In th winter or iin ""
school near wher North Timhill now
la Among my schoolmates were Levi i
Rowland, afterwards known as Dr. I .
U Rowland,- superintendent of publla
lnetrucUon and also superintendent of
the v Oregon insaa ' asylum; Oeorg
Woods, who later became governor of
Oregon John R. MoBrlde, who later
served two terms Jn congress and be- ,
cam chief justice of Utah. His younger
brother, George W, MoBrlde, was secre
tary of sUte for Oregon and becam
United State senator from Oregon. Th
McBrid family Is on of -the most In
teresting, of our pioneer families. Dr. .
James MoBrlde,. whose sons hav taken'
so prominent a part in Oregon's political ,
history, was a minister of the Christian
church. H and William U Adams trav
eled all - over th Willamette " Valley
preaching and organising churches. In
those days th preachers did not preach .
for money. They.preached for the love
of it , They were farmers, carpenters,
teachers and blacksmiths. Adams- was
a teacher and started an academy which
turned eut Some of Oregon's stt dis '
tlngulshed men, 1
Dr. James - MoBrlde - come by his
preaching - honestly, as ' his father, ,
Thomas W, or '"Orandpa" MoBrlde, as .
he was always called, was one of th '
oldest of Oregon's early Christian-ministers.
He was from Kentucky, but had -gone
to Missouri in 181. When he was .
76 years old, h bought a mule and rod
it across th plains to Oregon. -
f lived, first, at North Tamhlll,
then father took up 130. aces on th
Tualatin, at Scholia Ferry." lie sold this
and took up nis traae as a muiwngni.
W boys, under my mother's .direction.
ran the farm. Whn father sold hi
place on the Tualatin, w moved to tirv "
county, settling where Halsey now is.
From there we moved, in 1854. li miles
est of Brownsville, wher father, la
partnership with Mr. Johns, built a saw
mill on th Calapoola. : Father soon sold -his
-Interest in th mill and went to
Wher Shedds is now located and built '
a grist milt called the 'Boston Mills,'
whloh is still In operation. Ia ' he T
sold the Boston mills and founded th .
town of Crawfordsville. X was the first 4 .
postmaster, and received a salary of $13
a year. I became a minister in th .
Christian church, and during week days ; .
worked at carpentry and house-painting
to keep my family in groceries and sho
leather. Among th pioneer Christian
ministers that I remeMDer, best were .
Grandpa McBrlde and his son, Dr. Jam ,
MoBrlde, A. R, Elder, Olenn O. Burnett,
whos son, Elder Peter R. Burnett now - -live
at McMinnvllI; John and Alfred
Powell who preached in Linn county; Dr ,
John N. Perkins, who preached in Llr.n r
and Benton counties; Elder John Rl
don, who had preached with Thomas snd
Alexander Campbell, the founders ot th
Christian church. . ,-. ': v
'"W didn't conduct th elaborate re-X'
Vlvals then they do now-a-days, but w '
preached Christ and converted men to '
liva better on this oarth In
fbr th life, to comaT-?, .
NEWS FORECAST FOR THE
. ' COMING WEEK, ",
' Washington, D. C, Oct 4. Foremost
in importance among the events of the
week , win b th dynamiting of : th
Oamboa dike at Panama. Th destruc
tion of 'this dike will-permit Gatun laka
to flood Culebra out,' thereby practi
cally connecting th Atlantic and Pa
clf io ocean and marking th completion 1
of. the real work of digging th great
canal across the isthmus. - ;v ;
A new turn may b given to the Im
peachment proceedings against Gover
nor Sulzer when the ' Albany eetmty
grand Jury assemble on Monday. It is
reported that plans have been made to
submit evidence looking to the Indict
ment of ths governor by the grand jury.
e Former President William li. Taft will
visit Boston Thursday to officiate at
th laying of th corner ton of th
new bom of the Boston City club.
' The week will be particularly notabl
for Its large number of important re
ligious gatherings... Foremost on- th
list the great triennial general conven
tion ot the Protestant Episcopal church
of th United States, which will be for
mally opened la New York City on
Wednesday. The general conference of
Unitarian and Other Liberal Christian
churches, will meet in Buffalo and th
general board of missions. of the Meth
odist churches In Canada will- hold its
annual session in Amherst NT S.
, Th American - Banker' association
will hold it annual convention In Bos
ton, th American Prison association in
Indianapolis, ths Fire Marshals' asso
ciation of North America in Philadelphia,
and tne National Guard association of
the United States In Chicago.
Other events of th week will lnclud
th New Tork-Philadelphia series of
games for the world's baseball cham
pionship, th annual Veiled Prophet fes
tival in Et Louis, the Canadian Land
and Apple show in Winnlpecr, and the
inauguration of George L. Dmwake as
president Of Urjtlnu Collose, at Coil ' -