THE OREGON DAILY .'. JOURNAL; PORTLAND, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21. 1913
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?:! 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;; .
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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
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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. '" . . .
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