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THE OSEGON DAILY JOURNAL,,: PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING,. - OCTOBER. 24, 1913... STEFFENS EXPLAINS HIS PLAN FOR REFOR?.! OFCIlYGOVERN?,iEHTS ' "ivoiea "mm Says ooper'sP i tinn Is kftvnntft! Means fnr 't finding What Is Best' fold. Hl history has been- that of a brilliant, courageous young fellow, who, placed In a position where the betrayal of hl trust would bring hhn an interne of from $50,000 to 1200,000 a yea, fell. ' , "" He will bt executed, lie will sacri fice his We as a result But what last, ins; rood will come from ItT asked the speaker, , Conditions - are not being changed. Somewhere, said MC Stef fens. there is a young roan who will some time be placed in a similar posi tion. He will yield, for the pressure win be too strong: and the tragedy will . . AU Vot Behind Uorement, . , ' "It Is especially' hard to remedy the aaUI .iMVMnltfDHnn tn all th fODle are not behind the movement," conUn i ahav w anaalrar Whan "(. ThftOdOrS RnnMv1t. ii nnlioe commissioner Of '" r I.a1. Of..... ' A... . a-"'.' : miuvviu. H,H.viiai iriiiaif aiuvvvaiv wa chooses to term "sick city governments, last night pointed "the way out to about ' TOO persons interested In the welfare of the -city. 'rThe lecture -was delivered at Library hall In the new Portland Public library. . , ' ' a , - Every socialistic belief and plan, from the recognised every" day plan that has neen in rorce in tms country ever since It started, through the plan of the So--. clallsts, the Industrial Workers of the woria, me anarciusts ana me syndical ists were ' discussed, and . the. good of each doctrine was mentioned . " ': arose Can Wta Alone, ' - ' "But," . deolared Steffens, "none can win single banded. .They must Incor porate all of the food things ana sacri ' flee the bad things.. Until that Is done the Dlan cannot be accomplished." ' "" The speaker was Introduced by Mayor Alboe and Rabbi Jonah B. Wise pre- v 'Plueu. ' Jiie SMCVtaus vnmm ;vuuu ua a. nnlr of the OrCaTOH Civic league. ' ' ,' The man with the social idea was d N scribed. ' - - . . - To illustrate the thought Steffens oe- scribed' the Milwaukee. Wis., Socialists, who could not be bought, he said, by a candidate for the United States senator. ship, when this candidate was promiscu ously buying up all the votes ne couiu from the other two standard parties. .- they were Socialists," he said.- "They were honest because they had the vision ah. a-.,. .u.lal tnrm at the future as well.as the present." AU ain : .- -a s 1 rt,ia ! m.Ua true of the single taxers, the Socialists; the anarchists, the Indus trial Workers of the World and the Christians. All are honest in that they have a conception of jta? best socialistic j way out." ft'i !' -ii.'v ' ' k t i The pl outlined by Steffens for the "way out" is uniaue. , His suggestion was to . organise a small commutes of two, three or four men known to have this social sense and who had the vision so that they would sacrifice to attain It These men, he said, must be men who would put more into the city than they cpuld ever . aspect to take out. - The original members of ,thls commit; a.. hai iuuteA to look around and find others who had this ... social v sense, and make tnem memoers , - Ascertain Those Doing Oooda r TVa mmm tue wouia " the city thoroughly and find out what t organisations were ,iwuj,,. .v.fnv. tn the city. The- commercial clubs, the religious organisations, the political organisations, me ' i...... mnA in fact every association of any kind would be canvassed to see what it was-doing- to promote the city's welfare. A list of thesa good things "would then be made out,;. .$r . Then from the big committee, small committee of the best men should be selected and thess sent throughout the 'United States. . All thq big eitle would i viniterf. end the iMt things Of those cities found out. as .the good thlngs. Of Portland had been found ouU - - , I Afterwards, he suggested that the committee go to Europe to una tne even more wonderful things that are, being accomplished in the European cities for their own betterment. Xalst All Oood Volats. Alt the pointers thus gleaned, accord ing to the speaker, were to oe piaceq on this Portland list. ' . Then the committee should cull the list, select the best, and with what is left, set about seeing inai tne separate Items were sut through, a Tott cannot expect to do this in a year," cautioned Steffens. "Portland will be here, 20 years hence, 100 years hence. 8,000,000 years hence, according to the geologists unless some unfore seen catastrophe happens. We muet not only build for today, but; for. the fu ture," ,- . - . ' And that, in brief, was Steffens plan for "the way out." peaks at Bee College. That political corruption Is not the result of evil in men, but of evil in herent In our present social and , eco nomic system; and that the cure Is to . be effected : not by teaching dishonest men to be good, but by removing the causes of dishonesty, was the burden of the address delivered by Mr ' Steffens yesterday before the assembly at Reed college. ' - "There are no bad men or women in the world." he said. "They do evil be cause It is foroed upon them. The cause must ba removed. We must de liver ourselves from temptation." This conoept was greatly enrfched by incidents from , Mr. Steffens own atxnerlence. Of the men In Wall street. Mr. Steffens said; They are not great, men. Environment made thm. Their power-lies In their betraying the trust put in them by the American "people. This is the sin of sins, but it is the secret of success. All the leaders of the people are betraying the'publlo, not only In business, , but In politics and labor." , " v,'. Awakening Xnat Preoede " ef orm. Before ' any effective reform can be secured it Is 'the speaker's belief that a unified awakening of the publlo con sciousness, combined with a genuine de slr for social betterment, must be ' VirniiD-ht hnlt. Tinder tha nranant Kim. ditlons, things will not be bettered, he said," 'i i - 1 1 '! 'V X ' ' , 'V ama s i ,aauik,oi aav iq,ibu ,u . uibu tenant Charles Becker, now In the death cell In Sing Sing, awaiting , exeoutlon. New , York, . attempted to enforce the J . ,. .. .... n.i.i. mUaJI e laws, he was Immediately visited., by individuals v and v committees composed of the so-cauea nest people oi vie ir who protested against his . course. , It 1VeW I1 0 iiiawiv" w sissj ,we!-f-j ., . . MA, Steffens ' estimated the annual police graft In New lorn m do ai $3,000,000 to 4.O00,0O0, Another- in terestlng statement was that the Mc Namara plot was only a misguided ef fort to betlerthe "very conditions which caused it Victor Berger was spoken of as the Socialist boss. ' a ' , . v Mr. Steffens summed up his beliefs and his hopes, thus: -J.no- numnn rmv is divided into two parts, the seeing and the blind. The secret of life is this: Seek and see for yourself; without rev erence, without respect, but always with mercy." '' " 4 ""' ' .' - V ' 1 - Steffens spent today making a num ber of personal cans, ana win wave w night for,Tacoma, where he is sched uled to speak early next week. ,j t 4 K.wi1" .. " ' '.''. .hj1 rlinnr AT VAIIMA ' I KUDU lj H I . I Mm mn ." , . ; WITH - BIG INTERESTS V - if'"'"' ' .J---'' II iiiiiH' I r 'R'-"'V '4 '."NTnrth Taklma.' Wash.. Oct -14. Ac companied by representatives of British and American capital, Guy W. Talbot of Portland," president , "of the Pacific Power. ' Xlgbt . company, arrived here today from the Columbia river,' coming overland by automobile. Tho party has K.-n Lnanawrlnar thai Priest raOidS COUn- try and comes here, says Mr. Talbof In order that the financiers, wno purcnaae the company's bonds,? may sea the de veloped Irrigated tustnci . aooui norm Taklma and understand the possibilities of land as yet undeveloped. , . ma ha a. nnrtv of Milwaukee railroad officials was recently Inspect ing the power site at Priest Rapids and that - several other parties have toured that section jaieiy gives vimm w oeToit menf talk. It is said that the much de ivawf Amm t PrlMt ranlda is to be con structed by the power company with the assistance or. tne aunwauae ruu to the end that the latter company may have . electricity for operating ; Its tralna President Talbot- denies the truth of this report' ' HOMEOPATHIC SOCIETY i ELECTS1 NEW OFFICERS t " , ; ' iff .Ir. John P. Worcester ' Of Portland was elected president of the Oregon State Homeopathic' Medical society ' at the closing: session Of the society's thirty-seventh annual convention, held yes terday. Dr., Worcester's paper on "Vital SUtistics," o attacking the state board of health V and -accusing On Calvin S. White of incompetency, was the sensa tion.' of the- meeting. tfi:S" !":t 2 Other officers elected were: . Dr. "J. H. Blshon- of Forest . Grove, first vice president; Dr. D&vld Breuer, second vice president: w uyron n..: Miner, seore- Urr. and Dr. t" N. Palmer, treasurer. The convention closed with a banquet at the .Oregon hotel last .night, im portant papers on various medical sub jects were read. At the afternoon ses sion yesterday Dr. J. Chris 0"Day gave an illustrated lecture on "Leprosy in Hawaii." t . SARA, WASHINGTON, IN LINE WITH PROGRESSIVES . Ridgefleld. Wash., Oct 14. -The citi zens of Sara. Wash., a rural communl ty near here, have organised a Parent Teachers association. The object of this associaUon is to create a better Un derstandlng , between the schools and the patrons of the schools In that com munity, and to aid the teaok-era in their work, and also as an aid to the parents in understanding the work that is being done in the School. ' The following i officers were elected President, Mrs. Howard Bellinger; vice president Mrs. J. M. Custard; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. A. & Luster. "-The next meeting of the olub will be held in the sehoolhouse at Sara Friday, Octo ber Si, at 1:30 p. m. ? AT POINT OF ARREST : GIRL SHOOTS SELF , ; , Tacoma, Wash-,; Oct i. -Helen Ber nard, a. Seattle .girl St years old, shot and j probably' - fatally wounded Peter John, proprietor or a oreelc restaurant hers, and when about to be arrested by the polios turned the gun on herself and Inflicted a dangerous wound In her head, at a Faclfle avenue hotel early to day. II . " M , 1 , ( , John was shot below the heart and an artery was severed. The girl Is at the county hospital and physicians say she will recover, - The Bernard glrL who neighbors say. has been living as the wife of John for the last four weeks, told the police she shot In self defense. John had v no weapon when searched. MRS. CHARLES W. ' , FAIRBANKS IS DEAD I- y -a i i 'I, i ihTii ,c ' . Indianapolis, Ind.. Oct 24. , Mrs, rjnaries W. Fairbanks, wife, of the for mer vlc president of the United States, died, at her horns here at 7:25 o'clock this i morning. - Mrs. Fairbanks was stricken with pneumonia October 16. ,' Journal Want Ads bring results. : OIL: a O-Lfi JwJiKmj- A ' tifi ' bj f linn inimnnnn II o! rood beer is not temoorarv Choice hnnu. . ' fijl selected barleypurest water, and above aU 1 J hmtUf A r '.a1.a t Z , fa way v.. &viilg , UIUS ' 't WMMMk ' i ' i III ' i' " the preferred beer during' : the- long ' winter v , ' months--It's nourishing and stimulating. Or- i der from your grocer or,, , Porllana Bpewing Co. mm mm luTftR m SOT ii Gravity.Plaht Will Cost $134, , OOO.And WilLBe Built .f ' ' ' (Spvctal to The Jownat) ' ' ; Centralis, Wash.. Oct, 14 The Cen tralis city commission yesterday an nounced that it had closed a deal with the WeyerhaOser Timber -company for an intake site and right of way for the proposed gravity 'Water system to -be built by the city from the headwaters of the-Newoukum. The city paid SJO for Its privileges, but It is agreed that the city of Chehalls be allowed to use the samel right of way wherever Jt is desired. The new intake is located 1000 feet below the original Intake, for the possession of which a suit between the cities of .Centralia end Chehalls is now pending lfl the stats supreme court The new site comprises five acres., The commission did not waive Its Claim to the old site., but secured the , new one in case the suit is decided against the city, t f n- i - '- a - ,' J. t. Stannard, a consulting engineer of Portland, has Just gone over the pro posed, route of the pipeline and checked up the figures of City Engineer Ma comber, .which : he found to be correct except is a few minor cases. , Accord ing to' Stannard there is enough water at the-new Intake to supply a city of 40,000 population. He went over the government . records and found that the lowest stage of water at this point was in 1910,. when there was a flow of v 000,000 - gallons every 24 hours. It" is expected that the commission will let the contract for building the plant - some time - in December. . The pipeline wilt foe 14 miles long. The en ure system win cost about iiM.ooo, bonds, for which were voted a year ago. STRONG BOX AWAITS , . UNKNOWN CHINA BOY A 14-year-old . boy In China' whose name Is unknown will receive the con tents of a strong box ' in the safety deposit vault of the Commerce Safe Deposit ft Mortgage Co. if he la found. He is the son and only heir of Lee Fook. a Chinaman, Who died October 18, at the age of 65 years. - The contents of the box are : unknown. Lee Heu. Man Poo and Charley Fong, members of the On Tick; Benevolent society, of which Lee Fook was also a member, petitioned that Charley Fong, assistant secretary of the organisation, be named admin istrator of the estate. . INDUSTRIAL PARADE IS FEATURE AT PORTOLA San Franclsoo, Oct 14 The big fea ture of the Portola Festival was staged here today when" 18,000 persons marched In a great industrial parade. It was es timated that not less than 800,900 per sons - ware ; banked along the line of march. ' . .'.!' u:. '- ':''' suiting at 10 o'clock from the Ferry building, it required exactly four hours for the marchers and floats to. pass a given point The parade was composed of 15 divisions, .each' with its special features of historic or present day ln-i terest ' '- ' . Diirino- tn morninir ana aiieruvuii. some of the world's best golf -players, Including Ray and: Vardon,. the Engliei. champions, played at the San Francisco Golf and Country Club tournament Warships sssembled 1 in tne narDor ware onennd to nubile Inspection throughout the afternoon, . of Immigration end naturalization, was proposed in a resolution- introduced in the house ' by Representative Ba ker of California. , , , , Steel Trust Not Cutting Force. 1 ' Chicago, Oct 84. Chairman Gray ot the United States Steel corporation di rectors' ' board, denied that men were opinion today of Attorney Oop-.'I 1 Webb. ' Webb's opinion was glvt-n lici f " he had been told of a repent tiuu attack on Wallace's position mU-'n i made as the result of th illn-s t actlns governor of California so lonf confines him to a hospital at I'smnl'i as he retains eonsclousness and doen I Wallace is said to be gaining sirens-, not leave the state, according to the (rapidly, , , being laid oft , preparatory i to . closing several ml)ls. . . i ' ; , Wallace Beniains Actiaff Governor. Los Angeles. Cel., Oct, 84. Lieuten ant Governor A. J. Wallace will remain MONMOUTH HIGH HAS ;NEWXLASS OFFICERS , Monmouth, ' Or.. . Oct " 14. WUh . a splendid spirit" the students of the high school In this city met -and elected officers for this term yesterday' after noon. They used the Australian bal I lot system. There was keen competi tion . between ! the 1 freshman .class and the other classes. The seniors, Junior and sophomores combined against : the freshman,' and made -themselves known as the "incorporated classes. Lacking three, the freshman class contains more members than all the other classes to gether. The "beginners" challenged the rest of the school to a "gams of toot ball on ' the high school grounds, and won. S to l.s The election resulted in one member from each class bolng chos en as officers, as follows: . president, Clarence Daniel,' sophomore; vice presi dent Robert Thompson, senior; secre tary, Delmer Helghton, fresnman; treas urer, Ida Strong, Junior, . -' . LONESOME PRISONER WILL HAVE TO STAY IN. ; WHEELER COUNTY JAIL! 4 ' - One lone prisoner under a 50 e , day sentence in the Wheeler county Jail must remain An that i 4 jail. District Attorney J. M. Starr, of the dlstrlot including. 4! Wheeler county, wrote to the 4l y Multnomah county commission-'; s I srs asking that if possible the ,e: man bs given work on ths Mult s) - nomah county highways. A let ; 1 ' ter was written to Mr. Starr yes 4 terday declining the offer e- cause Multnomah county Is not prepared to handle prisoners on , the- roads yet , : : DISCIPLE OF HAZZARD DIES OF STARVATION fleattl. Weah. dot 91 r-nn-- T T Mason is conducting a post mortem ex amlnation today on the body of Fred -ww,u.u m- a.V of 4T days Andrew Larson Is held by me ponce, xarson admits baying guld- ca taie .patient aunng nis rant, but de nies bavin twnittviMt am nav a He says he followed the book written oy ur, 4-,maa ts, Haszard. the fast cure specialist who is under penitentiary sentence ior mansiaugnier. Chehalls Is Headquarters. Chehalls, WaShu, Oct 84. This city Is to be construction headquarters for the P, 8. & W. A. railroad, the Milwaukee's extension to Wlllapa Harbor. Guthrie. McDougall ft Co. have the contract for 48 miles and the big work will be in the Chehalls valley west of this place - The engineering" headquarters have been lo cated . In ths city hall building with ueorgs w. usgood in charge. ; ' .1 To Abandon JUcatrax. ' Washington, Oct 84. Abandonment! of the present military prison on Alca- tras Island, in, San Francisco bay, and) the use of the- buildings for , a bureau Superb, Double- Service, All - Weather THE HOME OF COATS : Owing to the Continued Wtnn Weather, We Are SOMEWHAT OVERSTOCKED ' TT1EREFORE VOU HAVE A Splendid Raincoat Opportunity FOR SATURDAY ONLY v English Gaberclines, English Slip-ons, Etc Superb Double-Service, All-Weather Coats At a Net Saving of 25 to 40. 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THE FREE PRIZES The first priae la a beautiful $400 Jesse French Piano for the largest hat of words, the second prize to be credit certificate of $150 and a gentleman's gold watch, the third price a credit certificate of $150 and a ladles gold watch, the fourth prize to be a credit certificate of $150, the fifth prize to be a credit certificate of $135; for the next five best answers a credit certificate of $125 each will be given, to the next ten a credit certificate of $122.50 will be given, and then following these in groups, of twenty-five the next best lists will re ceive credit certificates of $2 JO less than the previous group, until 25 have been awarded at $50. All other answers will receive credit cer tificates of not less than $25 each. These credit certificates are good for the amount stated toward the purchase of any new Piano or Player Piano at the regular price. Time of certificate la limited and is not good on any purchase made prior, to its date. 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