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THE OREGON DAILY .'. JOURNAL; PORTLAND, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21. 1913 -r I i r " ' I S i 1 PJ'K 1 VI - .' krmoinnn . I'ni.itohr Ji.I KIHONKsi ..... ' k.a thvM number. i -'Hi Fifth Temn, New .Ici JitlS fop" ! ' am Building, OMeaso. , "' r ? SubKciltiik.n Term by mail or t Wim f m i V , r tiAi . ' Ar ? to the VnUtd. States ax.c: Ai ,. y;y;.;y V ; 0m: '-j-tar; ..is.oo on rmotK w.w iM 1 0a -year '-.t;;,'.ta I ohei,ii'f-' ?fln mi-:i.MM i Oaa uH .v.... ?:! fi&lntorv f people dPeia ; 'iasa upon wliat w aea in tbem lha ttpoat jWBM weji(.mM u ece in oorselre. Sarafc , Qrand. 3 ;:?;;:C tor; civiOZAtlON- N 1$12, the great sum of $683, 1 1 141,72 vaa . sent out or Oregon 1 1 s .premJama? oa j accident; Inanr- ance on Oregon ; workera. r Only J $414,226.28 came back In, losses I In 1911 the great sum ot $514. f 9S2 was sent out In premiuma and Jonly $283,014 came back In losses, ila the two yeara $1,198,133 was sent out, and only $6IT,Z40 , came I back. ;;4ThtJ balance s profit, com missions nnd expense : for the caa- !uaiiy companies w u,a. It Is an". Impressive fact that "of i the $ 1 ,19 8.13 3 paid ont In casualty I nremlums,', the workers nd . their i midowa received only an estimated 1I35O.000.: The balance went to the j casualty companies and the ambu- i lance-chaslng , lawyers. :, - . vvf It is amazing that we should per- fpetaate a mad aystent in which the J worker gets but $350,000 :t ? the i I1.1S8.133 nald oot by Oregon em I i ioyers lor casualty Insurance, It la nmazlng that we tolerate a., craty arrangement in' which for avery $3 Daid out under casualty Insurance, tha raaualtv, coranany and ambu lance lawyer , get $2 for every $1 that' goes to the injured' worker or his widow. .,.' " ' , ' The workmen's compensation act would cut. out the middlemen.' It dispenses with the necessity et law yers, y It settles the damages with out resort to; trial and court.'. ;t I The damages for injuries - are I classified and - the compensation t fixed, y Within few days after he U Injured.' tM -worker, begins , to J draw money from the general com- pensBvtlon fund.1 ' "x V 1 't No lawyer makes a' cent' but of 5 iLi3Q- casualty, agent drawn idown i a commission. .'No court is resorted J to., no trial la necessary, no . Jury I called in, no appeals to tho higher 'Ipourts have to' be. made.-j-.cyiJi Li The whole" arrangement .!a lauto tnatlci If the worker is tiUed; the 'Vjdow-'geta the-' comlsensatton money WithhVa;week.;; There1 1 no costly ilisaUoni 'There, is. noSlongrwalt Sot .atrial. There are no lingering ffiays;1, during , which - the family ' is Without monejr. v There is no heart ; treaking appeal, to the supreme j C6uH and two or three years ;, of jioBonement J - -, iff ; The whole process la simple. The compensation board . ascertains the t f acta, gives the beneficlariea a check, 4 and the whole thing is ended. -4 nobler measure was ever 'passed by- an, Oregon -legislature. Jt ' received almost ' the unanimous Tote; of both houses, It Is heartily ? commended by the governor. It h the unanimous approval of the press. It - is legislation for ; ciTlllsatlon ; dthe -people i ought to approve it overwhelmingly at the polls Novem- !r.".4Vote''68'''Ye. : ALDKICtt ON BAXKIXQ rELSON W. ALTJRICH. former senator from Rhode Island. Is I'i'-.V & Jt I . 1L. v lug iiyuv vuaueuiuiug iue a speech at. New York he denounced Jthe blll .aa Vn80undysocialistlc and , revoIationary.;lH t was especially : f vehement in, t his ; attack upon he ; ijprovlslon 'placing control of the re ' -serve banks with a federal board to be appointed by the- president. 1 Al- Jto retain control f of. currency and j credits in the United States. - j,; If the big eaatera 'banking ioatl Jtutlonfcvwere instramental in thrust iing Aldrlch to the front at this time jthey blundered. It was this same jAldrich who. more than any other 5 one man.; was responsible for a tariff haw which the people of the United j Statel repudiated.;? It was Aldrlch J Who framed a., currency bill . along ! the lines he now advocates, and J bothy, the ? bill y and Aldrlch were thrown Jnto;:the:;discard.?yy;';' "; ; President iVanderllp; of, UhV'Na ' tionai CUir banlc wishes control, of ! the federal? ; Reserve boari t placed with- banke'rs,but .In.contrast with I Mr. Aldrlch :he ls Vh6nest enough' to ; admit that ttnde?;the.1ti:oj).osed hahfc ; ing system a repetition of the panic of 1907', would be impossible,1 The i mica ; Biates s nap nad , three: great panics : under the " present vflational ! nnklng . system. . ,The ; underlying cause was always tne same. The panics of 1873, of 1893 and r f 1907 veto caused Uy centered re- rvoa in WU Streetwhere the peo ; .'o'a money was withheld from them ;-r use in great speculative cam- f jtis which brought dleasters upon ': country. ? MK',Vanderiip said the iding currency jblll-will make a tition of such panics impossible. n irlch says It is Mrvolutionary rnnct a law wnicn win give the-i ri.i'ui ry eveujus exM suouw - ' fment in favor; of., the ; pending , tU 1 Trr KBiMtor nwiil'l at The Jooraal ' , i v0lBs,n V Aldrlch v . ' tf J Ing. Pr.mrtw.y awl Yamhill t,. rortlnwl. Or. j WU 19 fteiSOtt W. AianCQ. .fi-.jW, rhT..r7.TTrTiv Ktff. at l'rtlnd. 'Or, far ',' . '' 'Ji:rKiZhii ' traiwmlNiMi tfiroogh the oatlaas awna etase, ITS '.-TTBAlkl'; WORK , ni...-,.. . . . .... - i .- ,. ) . ,, t., v, ft .J.-. i !a the ubo of their own money (compelled to turnfeh th4 most ln 1 prevent .the recurrence of Wall terestlng patterns and, fabrics,; and t fsnics,: mis Mca or ioun4 ''r 3 Is aystem by which i piolteraandy gamblers can feed yotf It9 MODle'S idea. - '. eV Vt.''!: 1. 1 unere is no more ,iwwt;riui mt' HE.tOrg'ojnJanjaJi(4ju,ppn th gatlon t Washjagtott to do ; r "team. .. work": y i jf',v;4. j" t Why doesat it do teamv work''? War doesn't it; take the advice that Mj; so, Industriously ladles out? r Instead of doing V'teant t work with the1 Oregon members at Wash Ington, it has for year done all it could ,to pnll down the efforts of certain Oregon : members; It toma hawked Bourne throughout' his term It did all It could to discredit him at Washington; ; It used ; itaf ; col- umns in every known way to under mine his influeiica, with the depart; men ts and congress, . " t , rom the, day ne took his .seat. t ha done ; the same " thing ; with Chamberlain. f All x that $ abuse and misrepresentation' could ; do. to -ob struct his work at Washington haa been $ done. All that venom and backbiting could do to weaken him with his . colleagues -and congres sional committee has been done. ; ? The Oregonian has lIteTally done nothing to atrentghen either of .these men at Washington. It' has never found a thing. la the work of either to commend. It has refused ; to. do "team work" withv either, ; What is the use of itB" talk about "team ' work"- when i if is. always balky and'llalking? V ' y v '.':' How ludicrous for it to call for team work, when all Its services for Oregon - at .Washington have been dona with Its headlight on behind? THE GAME WARDEN'S JOB OBODT "will covet State Game Warden Finley'a job of mak ing " women aigrette "wearers obey tha law. ; But assurances are given -hat ' the law will be en forced, and thereis hope that in a short time another evidence of bar baric cruelty will be suppressed in Oregon. Congress has placed a ban on the importation ' of aigrettes; : and last winter the Oregon legislature passed a law forbidding i the wearing : 6t an . aigrette anywhere In the tate A woman has been aDoolnted a sue- cial game warden to watch and warn the aigrette wearers, some of whom are no doubt ignorant ot. the pro motion limiting their plumage. " v " This campaign against cruelty 11- histrates some of the difficulties of an efficient; stale, game warden,; s-A; peace; officer who prevents murder' has ; everybody's : backing . because everybody condemns murder. The officer who : brings punishment to the wife beater la; given' public ap proval- for ythe '-reason- that:v wifer beating is Conceded to be contr'ar v to law, and public- polled y -y;,yy;. yBut the game warden "is Charged with enforcing law too often' Unsup ported bv unanimous publlo opinion. The v few' women ; wh6 : insist 5. upon an ' alleged right - to bedeck 5; tkem sel ves with f eathera secured by kill- i ing the whita heron and leaving its young to starve In the nest, -place vanity above instincts, of humanity. It may be difficult to convince, them of the Justice of law which strikes at their love of. ornamentation. h , In the same way the game war den i encounters ; difficulty in enforc ing the law. against, hunters who kill out1 of season . or who hunt for - a large bag .' rather than for sports manship's sake.,. Most hunters agree that game laws are necessary, but too " many , h un'ters. approve law ! for the' other fellow; and bewail law for themselves. Too many Justify them selves' on the theory that; escape from the game wardens . condones lawbreak!ng.yt;,fv1';s;y'pyif Game .Warden Flnley should have publlo support as against', all law breakers, men or women. - y;; . - m ; r", 1 '," i':ii,;::': ,;' ? i; VALUE AND PRICES B' RADSTREET'8 dn a recent re view of "the woolen . industry laid the new tariff had forced y; American, y manufacturers to improve the quality'.of. their output. This fs being done, said Bradstreet's, because, makers' ot woolen goods In this country now find it necessary to meet foreign! competition, and the new policy is better goods and lower prices at the point of manufacture. The Dry Goods Reporter, organ of the trade ' In j. Chicago, holds out no strong hopes of an early reduc tion in prices to the consumer,- but says the consumer may hope for a better quality .of goods at the same prices. As a rule, says the Reporter, European manufacturers nave found it.hest to elt their" higher class mer chandise in : America and ;the im mdlate result ' will; he that Ameri can v manufacturers y will find r new competition tfo !iality yon ' their better grades of. merchandise. V - ; Heretofore the American, has had to compete only ; with his nel ghbor, On ; quality -V he 1 must now : compete not only with his neighbor but also with the i iorelgner,.'. ; Not? only . on quality must ; he , competo, but he must also. match up the new fabrics, new patterns,.' new 'styles and ; new inventions ?' that are being? brought out and developed , .by , the . 'foreign ,manufacturerSrr;f.y;;';-M:;y;;yy;: ;;Tht,retalley.wtll?have;Va' greater opportunity yto ! find values in his merchandise, and this will in turn " be effected to the consumer In'bet- ter nroducts. ' Americans v VU1 be it the same time put Into their meri ex-Jchandiae the same or better material than ; do inost European ? manufac turers. ,';,-' ;;. :" . '.. -. -y ' . ' The merchant is the laBt man to pass, goods ' to ' the consumer; he must bear, the burden ot ; blame if hfs prices; are not' reduced. He may not have an '. asy time . explaining, but buyers yshould" not ? expect ? too muchlln too short a time. - If. qual ity, improves and prices remain sta- factored uced.'H?''', y ;;yyy for , the poor nHERE is pathos In the crowding of loan shark victims into , the temporary;- Quarters of j'the .Hi Portland Remedial Loan As sociation. - There could be no more convincing proof of .the need of a poor man's bank' than is this pre mature . assembling of the victims in the quest for deliverance from the usury that is eating np their slender earnings, One Portland 'man borrowed $200 and gave a treasured family diamond as security, . At the end ot a year the debt of $ 2 0 0 had become $450 He finally; wept to a reputable law yer and, on account of the public agitation about the Joan shark busi ness, a reasonable compromise ' ot the case was effected ". A' salaried ' man borrowed $50, and at the tlme$5. was deducted as fee." Five dollars a month was paid for 24 months. At the end of that times the borrower still , owed the shark $45.' Another borrower obtained a loan of $75, .and in two years, paid $100 Interest-;, He was' supporting a wife, father and mother on a wage of $2 per day. . He was sued, and a judg ment obtained for $126.' y A widow who has , tour children. borrowed ; $24. with j which to ; pay taxes. In return, she gave a . note for $32? or. $8 more than she actual ly received.1 4 8he paid interest ot $6.50 a month, tor seven months, when she was rescued by the Associ ated Charities; , : '( . There is a multitude: of similar eases of usury and .extortion. The great number, of, victims applying daily at the temporary office of the Loan Association ; shows that ' there is an army of the luckless in thlB town. . ' f ' '' i.J-V" i .: ? There is no ribbler activity than the proposed t - bank ,-f of tf$ poverty. There Is suy more creditable net that any man or women can do than to throw a Ufa line to the unfortunates by subscribing for stock in the new inatitution.y;yi.;i:nv'y.A-g;y''y-S;. Thirty-four ; such institutions are on : a paying oasis; in the unttea States,-and are returning a safe In terest to stockholders while, render ing succor to thousands : of near derelicts,' xryy.; ' THE ZIMAIERMAN BILL :Vi'. Si-. ' '',; ' .'v-iy ROM Information at hand, a re I ' liable opinion c a n n o t ? be , formed, -but in a general way ' V Senator Chamberlain's bill ; for the relief of George Zimmerman of Polk county belongs to a class of legislation that often constitutes abuse. - i; V. y. -"( -rr, y 1 w Mr. Zimmerman filed on .160 acres of land In the Grand Ronde reservation, and ' occupied it from November - 26, 1855, to November 23. 1&59. He failed to obtain title because, through an error of the de partment, the land. was patented to another person. It is now proposed to have the government reimburse Mr. Zimmerman by a special appro priation of $20,000. ; ( It Is perfectly true . that it ' has long been the practice to reimburse those who Buffer In any way through error y of the , government. There may be some reason for such a ' re imbursement ; in the present case, but ' certainly ; not in the sum of I2o,oo0.'s''y-r4-t,v,;;';; The claim Is for 160 acres of land on which Mr. Zimmerman had not lived the.: required ' time for homesteading in -1859. . He did not even have Jitle to it, and yet ; the proposition - ia for him to receive $ 1 2 5 an! cre. i i Doubtless; ey part ot the claim ; is' supposed to. represent Interest during the long fnterlmybut even sthat does v not . Justify the amount named in the bill. riUf, y Unless something other than that which : appears on . the; surface 3 is back of the measure, - the bill ought not to pass n its present form, l y ; THE , METHODIStS v - - . i i - . S i , 1 , i ' I, i i L ' .,,.-.1 '' ,V:''' -'J. T -. ... : i ;, : ... , ". "' -1 I"AR be it from The Journal to meddle in the regrettable status among the Methodists at Third ' and Twelfth; on TAyl6r,yport- lani-r:; : But it ought to be -remarked thus publicly,' that as quickly as possible, a more amicable .relation should be established. A better example ought to be set 'by those; who are professed followers of the lowly Nazarene. It is - due, because" the church should always be a beacon, lighting the way to that gentleness and amiability that are, and of right ought to be, the constant'' characteristics of the true ,Chrlstiany&y;y;;;'ssyt.y :' It ; is only1 in kindness and good will that these remarks are uttered. They ' are expressed in a hope that the present troubles are only clouds that - will quickly .: pass away,and leave" a radianceyof s sunshine Kand fraternity at the Taylor Street and Grace establishmentB.;y iVfyjP' ,, f.y v i u.,',;i,' ,'g ;-.;y---y ,.v;:-' if- . All ; the ; gentlemen . are:, positively convinced that the 1914 Rose Fes tival should be abundantly. financed, but the opinion. Is dangerously near unanimous' that ; the other fellow ought to put- up the money. J y y,''''-:'v.i,i'''''''-i1'1 ' ''" '' lg''ll ''"-''' .i'J.;.;iVK;lyJ.tj'.(. , Sulser has accepted the Progres sive ; nomination for ', aesemblyman. It njay yet come to pass that the de- posed : governor . will, return to Al bany to the great regret of the hon orable , Mnrphy.!1 "i' f:? y.;iy ; ; While, all the fans are eloquent over Christy Majlhewaon, Home Run Baker, ;. Chief Bender and the' other great and near great, . what; ia the matter with the batting averago of in worvauis nan .. y ii j mil - . . Who wouldn't be a ooy apain ter reading about the Ohio ladwho dreamed that he was stealing sec ond in ; the world's series and 'fell down stairs? -''-'m'.' . ' ' ,.s ; " ?! lAftef keeping, the immigration of ficials : shivering with apprehension for - three days. Emmeline stepped ashore yesterday wthout.causng the country to Up on edge. Letters From. the People, Comm4nlcttons acnl 1 Tft Joara! ft ! Illattno in thU LnarlmMit Mliould ba WrtttB OB oniy one line 01 uia ptptr, aoouui wu too wotdi la lenitk and uuat la accompanied br thm ntrao ia and addreM or tB aeauac,. -t ua writer due not druir to haa tha oama, pub. lMhaV-a. abanld fa atata.) i?v-!fWt? "Dlxmnilnn ta tha hhUiI tit l efocmr It ratlonillaea ttr;tulng It toucnei. It robs principles of aU fatao aaocttty and throw them back on Uielr Manbluema. ; If ther bava M rtaMnablmaaa It rmhleenl . ,ruahea u oui ot eztetenca and ita up Ua owa oalvtoB iair itaatt." woourow wiiaoa. i Home Rule and Rome Rule." lEfctacada. Or Oct: 19. To tha Editor of The Journal To tha Ulster Oranga mea homo rule means Roma rule. iua thru rthnlM nrovlncaa- ara trylna to work themselvea eut from tne poaiuon of under dog In a Protestant parliament at Lionaon. Ulster rears uu ana mm.j find, hafaelf In tha position of under? dog in a . Catholic parliament at Dub lin., Both' parties ara slcicjera. It ia a pity they don't understand ona anoliier better, Their poutics and religion Arc badly, i mixed. - , It ia said that 100.000 Orangemen ara armed and drilled to resist home rule. If this la true, tha prospects ara not pleasant -Tha British government must be tacitly consenting. Its poBltlon is very embarrassing. The Catholics have not been permitted to arnL Tbey have not been- considered loyal enough to ba trusted. Loyalty la tha great aaaet of tha Orangemen. An Oranga flag is adorned with the picture of King w Ham crossing tha Eoyne and the letters "I O. U," which Signify Loyal Orange' Lodge. . It . la ! a kind or , rrotestast bloody shirt ' It la not aa emblem of peace or brotharrood. Tha trouble oould ba ended- jy a gen- ulna application of home rule.. The Cain olio provlncea should have home rule. Ulster should have a leglalatura Of il own. or be attached to tha noma gov eminent Ilka Wales. Then they would all have home rule. But : they ara ao bemuddled about Roma rule that they can't ae8 a hole In a ladder.: ; Any foreign domination that restricta home rule la really Rome rule. It i tha method of tha old Roman emmt e that ruled the world before Christianity came, whea tha Roman, empire fell to pieces; the mantle of universal relig. lous dominion deacended on tha Roman Catholic church, which abused lta pow er so grossly that the. Catholics them selves revolted, k Frotestanta Were orig inally Catholics who protested against abuse ot power and ware, expelled or withdrew from the mother church and organised dissenting sects. It you pro nounce tha '' word protaatant with - the accent on tha second syllable you will Set tha -:r ;:;; Tna xorm or maionty ruie oy ma chine government that wa have' in tula country la a phase-of popery In poll tioa. The rebellion of tha insurgenta and progressives against tha Old Repub lican machine! is just the same kind of a revolt as that against tna Komiun acclesiffBtlcal machine la Europe in tie sixteenth century;.: To : n ;?. But now in Ireland we have the spes- tacla of Roman Catholics demanding home rule and thua opposing a -cardinal principle of popery, while tha Brltiah government, nominally Protestant op poses home rule and thus proves Itself popish at heart The essence of pop ery is imparlallsiri, absolutism, denial of individual and minority ngnts, macntna government; ; ;. 'y-..'r '.c " i.' Tha aupporters of the old machine. either political or religious, then are "loyalists," while tha Protestant or pro. graasivea are insurrectoa and traltOTS, Justly to be punished by having the r beada clipped ore , , This is the usual method of detaching a patriot from the pie counter.. In politics killing la , no murder. It is Just ine aaraa as killing man en a chess board. The dead coma to life at the next election. Bryan and Roosevelt have mora lives than a cat This Is , what makes tha gams of poil-1 tics so spectacular. Borne men won't Stay dead and other won't stay bought. Tna vatnonca or Ireland have raailv become Protestant and progressiva In standing for home rule and proteating against . Imperialism, ; while ' our loyal Oranga brethren have got round on the other side of tha Boyna. where tha Pap- sts rormeriy cainpea. as i 'have said before, it is a battle among blind men at midnight in tha dark of the moon. The secret or tha matter Is that aver UtUe kingdom that rose out of the wrack ana rum oz tna aarx ages, established a hew tyranny of tha earns , pattern as that of the Holy Roman Empire and ax tended Us powes.ae far as it was abla And every little Sect that broke awjy front tha Church' of Roma . set up a' new popery which It extended to the limits of its powef. ' . J. 1 JONffS. '. Replying- to. Mrs. Fulliam. - Of The Journal I would like to reply to Maria Pulham's letter In Friday's Journal, iI am surprised that a woman Who has reared a family should Volco such vlewa She seems to have forgot ten that when her husband earned $1.65 per day produce, rant and clothing were in , proportion.- , I, too, can ; remember those cays, wnen a z& cent boll of nine fat beef, would feed a family for two meaia, ana now it wiu red a family of two ona meal. ' She admonishes "'Mr. Laborer" to bo content with ti.ZS car day. Yea, be content while the poor are getting poorer and tha rich richer all tha time. I wonder if aha knows that only 4 par cent of tha people own the bulk ot tna ; weaitn , or theet United States? f :':;.!:;.('!; "V.:-i. J-y Her husband worked from 7 a'elnnv l the morning until . T and S at night Happy thought, Indeed l What pleasure nas na -unaer. sucn conaitionsr I cer tainly would pity my husband If ha ha to struggle that way; for his family's susteBanee.-'y- Hi' " '-i Y.n-"-l-4.- M huaband works ten houraf M aone from home Just ones around h. clock each day, and I call that a pretty long am ior me privilege to live.- ; ,;; v A IMUOK1NO MAN g WI JTBL Hood River's Bnt!,'ConrC'W;'- Hood River, Or., Oct. 20 To tha tra itor of The Journal Of late :- thara 1s a wood - deal of stuff, much of It unsigned and some of It- mallcloua. apparently, appearing in the newspa. pen in resiru w ma county court vf Hood River, Now, "I, of my 'own fro will, and 'without fear or compulsion from any one,'' aa tha old form tmtn. wish to say a few word. Although I don't think I ; voted for our present PERTlHENBCOTO small: changk y Etonomy ami material progresai seam 'Tha farther Portland ia from Em- maline'a iandln- plape tha better. 1 ;. r.-j;.i;r-;v-:-' L . rmpinoi re nut in ir mv Ona of' the prise babies lives in a city apartment house. -There, nowr . ' The Portland team either played fine ball, or else tha other leliows uian t . . .v"...,. ;,.'!., .f: 'S-o",.:,; I-, a. ;,.;;..' j.:;y. ? i- -''i' " Tha world tolerates an excebtional fool only a little whiief then ba would potter ijae:J;..'r."' - y A better system" ot. taxation would yield enough revenue, and taxes would ua mora euy ptuu, " it becomes Increasingly certain "that tha appointment of Lane as secretary Of the Interior was a good one, .. C yC:r-y : ' a .a ,.r, -rj,,'- Yet Colonel Roosevelt has not ven tured to declare what he would do with regard to Mexico If he were president la John Mitchell tha onlv worthy "labor leader," that' ha-anly should al ways be honored and honorably:, men tioned? i , ,f .:i'V.'. v .'' Considerlnsr how sane ' and sensible cremation - of human bodies is, this method of their disposal makes slow progress. ;,V-.4.-V ; '-v Tha nawariattara that' recantlr criti cised President Wilson severely for not recognising Asnaasin Huerta are not talking that why now. , Man. 76.-and wife.. 68. ara to : ba divorced because they ouarrelod over- a fame of oheckera. This is a worse case han that, of "Betav and t Ara Out ? They were old enough long ago to know oetter tnan to waste time that might ba enioyed nlavinff chackAra. But. tha result might have been as bad if It naa oen j)eany-ants poker. . ?;" : HOW OIL SOOTHES AN ANGRY SEA From the Philadelphia Bulletin Tha word picture which survivors. and witnesses of the Yolturno-disaster are painting, a raging sea suddenly" calmed and tamed by tha use of oil Is thrilling and. dramatic enough, but It Is far from being an accurate picture of what really happens when Seamen are forced to this last resort AU tha oil in tha world wouldn't: atop a north Atlantic gala In its stride nor would It stilt the motion of the sea. But navigators everywhere know that oil may always be depended on to "lay" tha slant eombers that rise from a sea auch aa tha Voiturno was horned in. and which quickly capsise small craft launched within thelrVeaoh, What the Carmanla and other vessels found whenJ they .reached, the burning ship was a aea from, which small moun tains of water Tosa , until their peaks. were bent over and sent, flying by the rushing wind. It la when thla tumbling, flail-like i body ; of water hlt a small boat that the craft Is crushed or turned over, unless th water falls Into It from overhead, whan its doom is even a little more certain. Oil in thla case served merely to give tha giant waves a smooth, unbroken eurface upon which tha life boats, under skilled handling might ride With comparative safety?' There la a magical aspect to tha use ot oil even- under such circumstances. nevertheless. : Spread from a snip it may ba na thicker on the surface of the wa ter than- tha film of a soap buSfcle. yet it instantly .lubricates the surface of the water and breaks tnr rncxioa netwaea the water and tha air. ) Each wave, when it reaches its ultimate 'height' aettles evenly again, because tha chasing wind can not grip Its apex and .turn It nto a deadly comber. -cxXp it. Admiral Austin M.' Knight, V. 8. ' M commanding tha : North Atlantic, Squad ron and now stationed at League Island, 4n the flagship -Wisconsin, consented 16 give a brief description ortpa uses-ana i Judge, yet I can aay he makes' as good a luJga, so far as I tas sea, as either of our other two Judges - who: preceded him, none, of course, oeing periect; ana no Judge ever will be perfect until the millennium, which aeema -quite a long wava off. aometlmea. If we recall our present court I am afraid we will Jump from tne zrymg pan into ins ra, u no, lika our iuatlce ot the peace and our .eir. cult Judge, aeems to me as good as the average Justice" and Judge In other lo calities. If not better; so It may be Wise t let well enough alone. "I am not In favor of recalling Castner as Judge, but if he is recalled I hope soma of our goon, aensioie women wui try for the office.- 8ome people may think a womai would ba unfit and yet we had a woman governeas ot tha state of Oregon for a short time during Ben son's administration,-so the newspapers told us. I think aha gave satisfaction ana believe It would Da as easy to hu.uij position "satisfactorily" as a juagv. as it would be as a governor. y v : .Anyhow, why , not : give soma woman a practical demonstration of what wo mean when we sajr we admire her men tat and "moral oualitles.' . Many years ago a ruler said his wife bossed him and the baby, nossea nia wiie, so ui indirectly his baby waa the ml or - Th 'Duties of Citizenship. .'. Portland; Oct 40. 'To. the Editor, of The Journal--There nas oeen a great deal said lately about the duties of clt laanahin'.' There : seam to be two dif ferent and fairly definite Ideas regard ing these duties. The older and more firmly fixed la that ona should follow the instructions of soma leader and re frain as tnuch as possiDia irom using his own intellect in acUng on any ques tlnn. TinlltlaaL- rallKious. social or eth- icdL' The other, more modern, and one that Is growing "stronger, every aay, ia that every one- fails in his duties oi cltiaenshlp who does not; make use. ot every avaliabla source or mioTOuon to acquire, as correct unaersiauuuiB problems that confront hln as a-cltl-sen. Accordlnr to this latter idea, to eradicate an evil one muat analyse It. determine its cause j and- be able to vaaoh an intniUcent decision regarding methods of accompliahing1 the desired result -Nothing can Ta or greater a slstance In this than a knowledge of history., a mental grasp of the forces that have brought the world, to be what It la today, ,;,f '' '-:..'"':?:: zi! frt&i- The people of Portland have a good library and may get In touch with these ldeaa that will prepare them for, better citizenship and a broader life by mak ing uae of It In addition to this, t'.ie library association provides lectures for tha very purpose of helping In this di rection." At these lectures one may take advantage of the yeare that have been spent by the lecture in ' collecting dats and receive In a few evenings what would otherwlae take many months to acquire. ; The rererencea tor zurtner study are also Invaluable, r ' vy 1 . : Af course or . sucn lectures, .anniiej "Evolution of Liberty." by Dr. Charle H. Chapman, is now in progress. T.i' first of the aeries waa delivered Wed nesday evening, October 16, and they will continue each Wednesday evening till December IT. They are gives in the lecture hall of the new library build ing and cost nothing but' the time It ; -OREGON SIDE1JGHTS ' y Now ia the season when the frost Is on the 'sidewalk and icecream is on tha' bum. as the Condon Times puts it. '' 'ml '"iwl c.ii.i u.i-Im It rtnun't Itlaka y any difference whether the John lay country haa oal.or not: " lias the warm hearted aople that do not peea Cost-of-living note In Vale Enterprise! "MrsW. R tinwrenca waa in town Bat- urday. procuring butter paper. Mrs. Lawrence sutes that LLTa SSm au.,11111 hnn nn' thair tilaca and hope eventually to change over from dairying to pork.'y;;:;.., yyy'-yyyyyy.";-; ' what m.nrxK tit phurch workers View is blessed with, la shown by this item in tho Examiner: -"The ladles of h. I'r.uhv, .rion . Aid last 'Tuesday sacked, about 600 buHhela of potatoea on the O'Neill & unlap ranch afew miles west of town, receiving for tbohr labors about -ixo." . .. , y, ;-.' -s -r ... . -.. ; a , a v ; '.v.-' - Tha ; finont "nurnri two Of the most urgent of Union's long-felt wants, say ing, among, other, things: "All that la needed -is a few factories, - There -la plenty of capital if It could only be In terested., vVtth the addition of a ood hotel we would claim a modern city. Tha next tew years wiu ten tna story. Tna'anh '. H.raM' Hurl ' Aklna Was ill An,n u Aavm airn alth a. remedy fer sore: eyes m the snaps ox a doiuo v gold . nuggeta, taken from the Imnaha placer mines, owned by Harl and Tom Aklna, Charley Rica and Albert Wurs weiler. Many of the nuggeta ware worth $a.60 eaoh, and tha ground being worked averages about 3-to tha yard. "Tf ail th 'Whaalef county 'farmers who are talking of it go to raialng hoara tha Voasil Journal aaya. "the rail road will have steady , work shipping them i when- It cornea. - w itn III ncn grain and alfalfa lands; and its count leaai springs, Wheeler eounty is made to order for hogs, and wttk proper- trans portation facilitiea, there would hardly be a limit to tha bacon and lard It would produce. .-. - .' , -., value of oil under circumstances Such a attended the end of tha Vol turn. -. Ad mlral Knight! la tha author of "Modern Seamanship," a volume which has been adopted as an official textbook at tha United States Naval academy, and in his long axparlenca haa mat tha sea la Us very mood and has bad more than one opportunity to know: what olt.will do W tlma Of nertlr - --:.- -' '"If the accounts which I . have read are true," said Admiral Knight, "and if the gala was as ' severe as tha passengers report It th arrival of -the tanker war- ragansett with an unlimited quantity of oil is tha only : thing that saved tne passengers of tha burning vessel, : -"In ordinarily severe weather tha oth er vessels might have had sufficient oil aboard to amooth tha water temporarily, but In a gala such as attended the Vol- turno'S end hundreds of gallons might be required, t and a steady application might ba necessary. It seems to ma that the wireless call for a tanker was a re markable exhibition of presence of mind on the part of Captain Barr. , "Oil may be applied to the sea in a hundred, waya. In emergencies it may ba pumped overboad. It may be emptied through the scuppers, jnrougn tne snip s drains or br means ot her pumps. Waera spreads the Slapping, tumoung motion of the water -ceases,-tnougn tna swell of the sea of course, continues. Naviira tors for centuries have found oil of great value in "preventing great In rushes of water that aweep vessels is a rai "With tha combers reduced the vessel ' will rtde the swell. Instead ot running danger, of being swamped be neath n."iT:: '."'i: i:--: '? "Therefore, . AdmlralKnlghl contin ued, "it la idle-to suppose that the ad vent' of the tanker made tha , Work of raaaua an easy matter. It merely re moved one element of deadly peril, and until the gale subsided in part, the life boats that rode the ; tremendous swells were manned by very brave and compe tent aeajnenVr, ,;-;-; "-'.?,; :; ft:'.' takes to hear them. No one who wlabeS to bet a sood cltlxerf or who has any in. tereat in human welfare can afford to miss this opportunity,. .--. P. JROLLA BUSK. . Prof. Seligman on Single Tax, ' From the NewvYork Evening Poet f To the Editor of the Evening Post; Sir In the Evening Post ot October 10 Mias Anne Hersman says: "If a knowl edge of the working, of economlo laws could 1 be diffused among Americans, hone" would cherish the delusion thai he did not pay an income tax, or the single tax.' If that should ever prevail." - Against this fluent phrase let me clt the chief opponent , of the single tax. Professor E. R. A. Seligmaa, who dt votes a ohapter of 92 pages fn tha eighth edition of his admirable "Esaays in Tax ation" to an argument against our doc trines. The princes and proletariat, of privilege reply to u a only with abuse. It la refreshing to be confronted .by a man of, learning and intelligence. All ha says, deserves our respectful consid eration. On tha point made by Mtat Hersman he says: "There is a substan tial consensus Of Opinion among econ omists that Mr. George is Correct' From the time of Rlcardo it haa been, well nigh universally confessed- that a .tax on land value, i. . e a tax on economlo rent; will fall wholly on the wner." : 'In this passage Professor fleltgman Speaks only of Mr. Oeorge's doctrine that the single tax could not ba passed on by land-owners to land-users. Of the general doctrine of Mr. George he is a disbeliever., But he believes in the abolition ' of ,tha personal property tax. So' do we. ', Bo. docs every nation' In Christendom except our own dear stupid country. And - Professor , - Sellgman, speaking of tha present land-tax system, says: By enforcing the tax laws aa they exist today, by extending the law of special assessments to. all the cases which are properly referable to tha prin ciple of benefits, by levying a special tax .upon unbuilt city lots, and by adding to the existing code of taxation some form of inorament-value . land taxes, we ahall in all probability do aa much as -is under existing conditions either practicable or equitable." Wa would be dellgjited to have this suggestion of Profeeuor (Seligtnan made law today. j Tomorrow " we would ask for more, for we believe that the single tax, put into force without - Confiscation, would abolish Involuntary poverty and make thla grayyworld a glad one. .v . ' ALFRED BISHOP UA0. ' president Manhattan 8lngla Tax Club. . , New York,- 'October-' 1 L".'f ,i.v . yf -. -i - , .... ; vj y ' Had Nothing on the Tluntcr. , From the Newberg Enterprise. ' ; Mrs. J. C. Porter tella this story: "A game warden over on the coast met a man equipped for hunting during the cloned season and aaked him if he bad had any luck: The man said he had killed three deer. 'You don't know who i am do you?' said the warden and When tha man told him hadld not he said he was the game warden. , Then the man' -said; Tfou don't know who I am do you?' The warden said he did not and the man saldr 'Well I'm the blggeat liar in Tillamook county.'" j UN EARLIER DAYS v liy Fred Lotkloy. Thomas Q. Hendricks, president of the First National bank of Eugene, haa been a resident of Oregon for 65 years. "f V ..Qtlll.flla, IlMMoW ' U.lalnw cams ta nreirnn la 1114ft." aM Mr Hon drlcks. "He- settled at Pleasant Hill, - where ha built the firBt cabin in Lana 00unty jl( . organised school . district the county. W,-,W. Bristow, a son of Elijah Brlatow, waa the first : teacher 1 and i vas no of the first students. , i Grandfather Bristow belonged, to the Christian , church and organized Lane county's first church organisation. At first' there was no regular preacher. xney neia prayer meetings every week, JAmes Fisher waa our first preacher and later John Rigdon, a relative of the famous Sidney Rigdon of tha Mormon . churoh.r'-i'.yiv,:-V''r-''i''"';-:v'.sUv'';Wr-.- i " "My. father, J. M. Hendricks, and my ; mother, whose maiden name waa Eliza beth Bristow, and who waa a daughter of Elijah Bristow, left Henderson coun ty, Illinois, in March. 1948. - There were 23 wagons in the train. Bollver Walker, who had been out to Oregon and had returned, waa elected captain. Bollver Walkers brother also came along. ' Then there 'were the Purvlnee, who,,settled near Salem, aoma-of them -taking; up places In Spring- valley in Polk county. The Coffees settled near,, 811verton, so did the Blackerby family. ' Robert Callison,' a son-in-law of Elijah Bristow, waa alao in the -party. The Shelloya and our families took up do- ' nation land claims near Pleasant Hill, not far from Eugene fiklnner's claim, near th site of Eugene, Al Holcomb -aettled In Oregon City -and later . be- . oam aheriff of Clackamas eounty. .1 waa 10 years old when we came ' aorosa the plains. My chum, Tom Black. ' erby, and myself had the Job of. driving the loose cattle. One of the principal ' things .to look out for waa to sea the cattle didn't drink out of the alkali br ; poison springs. The emigrants who had gone that. way in 'it and '47 bad put ' nouoea on most of the poison springe : warning those who Hcame after, them against tha danger. , ' . . , , . "My grandfather was One of the old type ot frontiersmen.. ,He was a Kan tucklan and a natural leader.- The In- , dlans would slse up.a group of men of which my grandfather a was - one and would walk over to grandfather and call him chief and do their talking with - him. He, Ilka most of tha pioneers,. A came to Oregon with an Idea ot finding a place where he could get free land. " free timber, free water and free grata ana be free from slckneis. The old timers usually got the poorest claims, as they picked the -claims in the foot- hills where there was timber. "- ,' ) ' The old days were good old days. ; I can remember when I waa a boy 18 'or 17 yeara,, old, father would say, 'Boys.. Z want you to turn out early In the morn V, Ing: we are nearly out of meat and wa need a deer.'. When we first came father traded a lean ox to Father Coryell of '- Coryell Point for a bulL We killed the bull and pickled it and for a while boiled wheat and bull beef was our ateady diet -wnen I sad been aere a while the pioneers built Cascade academy on Bear creek at Cloverdaleabout ll miles from What is now Eugene. Martin Blending, a college graduate, was employed as the first teacher. - Many of our pioneers owe their education to hla capable methods y of instruction. ' When we came to Eu- -gene I want to school at the Episcopal ;, . academy taught by Father Cornelius. About 1867 I started clerking for Mr. Brtatow. ,. abater i Dougnt mm out and in ' 84 I aurted the bank here. Fifty-six years la business on ona corner la being somewhat of a stayer." , ., , . YOUR MONEY : By John aL'PaklsoQ,, ry It was a shrewd mart who saldr " "There are three kinds of neonle In the world the Cant's, the Wont s, and the Wills The first fall at everything; the second oppose everything; the third succeed at everything." - Another man of long experience In dealing with busi ness . men added ; a fourth group-tbe Don't Trys. - :-: . : ' " ' ' it me nere suggest to tna person who has in -mind to -b v. lid a savings account that there are lust two classes for him to anterthe 1 WUI. Trys snd the I WUia -H-z f:, :' ':' The first is the freshman clasa when he enrolls in it he frankly, confesses that ha doesn't knoW much about sav ing, but he ia willing to learn. Under the ' spur of his new enthusiasm and after a talk, with tho interested pro fessor tusually some savings bank offi cial) ha aails along for a few days making-regular deposits la hla saving fund.; Then comes a week whea there la an insistent demand for every cent of sis earnings. ;: Ha. meets" the demand, ..and next week he finds it hard to put aside that little share into the savings bank. If ha could only have another talk with tha professor Just newt. But, unfortu- tunateiy. the professor is nusy instruct ing a lot of new savers who are entering the freshman class (why. don t savings banks follow up their depositors In some way?) and the saver becomes convlncod ' that saving is all right for those who don't have to spend ss much as ba does to live, but it is not for him. , 6oi ha quits the class.-'" 1- - ;':.t'- t ;-.' But if he sticks ror a year to . the class of I Will Trys, be will then be about ready to graduate into the I WH clasa the senior class in tha college of ' saving.1,:-. ;'-:;'rf:.;!.vv';'':; .'.-- .:, . - When he has got Into this. Clasa he" knows that he cannot depend upon tha professor to -keep him up to. scratch from week to week, . He knowa that ha . must. hold to hla purpose becauaa of a. firm conviction that saving la a, good thing for him and for his family. Also . he knows that the professor is always ' ready to give him help pn specific problem. . : ' ; A-,--K,'. - '.(. -'A ? Resolve to ssva , be 4 willing ; to be--shown how ,;,to .' savet and you will aucceecu..- - -;:,.; Ignorance Is tha mother of fool argu-' menta.,.', ,',? evv. v'f't 'fV.f; Much that passes for enthusiasm Is nothing -but gush.-'-;ZyrMi''i. ';!.I;i;.1M;:Vi';';J.';",f..-.; '-ii W.Jiij'i i'SC'-Usi Iff, But Occasionally it is easier to bear it than it la. to grln.-y -,:"T'ly :''y ,.., ;.:.-;-.. , a- 'i-ii:'"" "!-,' It takes a stage-atruck girl to waah dishes with a traglo air.; - - y - :i:;:fi "ii: ':f v J A woman frequently " changes her mind, but' the quantity remain - much the same. ; ;.-' -''. . " ... . The Woman's Page ' The Journal each evening pre. . : sonta a number of striking faturi. Many of (fhcra are . of exclusive Interest to wo. men .others are of general ' ' sppcal. ,'ii; ; They all are worth while. Cultivate'' this lally feature .;, pn:e; you will find it prof itable roadlnjf. '" . . . y y Pointed Paragraphs . ' " ' i ' " " '"' i" ' ' Hi