, TIJEs OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBEl? 4, 1913.
TLJ C 1AI IDM A I tlon Js given to the health of ahi-
I I L kJ J J lAl NTVl. waa; to tbo happlnear ot hu
ntwmprty. I man.;Tie ; Minnesota Aboard cues
. a, a(km ...i-nbiuhian instance.; A wealthy farmer, with
ureeagr oi oonea una rcgisiervu
hog-s. ,. At the time his fsnv was In
spected ha had seven, Imported Per
cherons in a : herd of about 25
horses. His hogs were among the
first in" the state. to .be given the
.buWriptkm Tar, by rn.il or t any w-jfir8t wife dM of tuberculosis, leav-
ta u United attr.r lltow-..-.--- .---- I , ' '.'vl'r ' un'j.ll , j
-Ut- Knnda- nornlna
I"-, 1 r..,1Mi tn4 Yamhill at.. Portland. Or,
" 1 ' !i1b iMMtatac at I'ortlnad. Or, (wr
itau.uiinla Hire toe mall m wcood elM(
?,it r.
...I LeiiOktH Main HUl Boata. A-Sual,
, A U d-part-mta r-aefcae br : tnaae munbara.
I tlror what d-partnmnt yon want.
1 I'UUtiN ADVKUXI81NU fcKVRKBliNTATlVS
n-tijini Keataor Co., Bruoawlct uuuaiof,
riAii.v
jlPJ ;:i:,;M and Wa second wife U had
;.. $2.00 I Oim month .
' at..! 'a-,.aa A n I ML.afk
1 wmw f jrai'1
oa --
Success In life la a matter not
ao much of talent aa of concen
. tratlon and ptntvirane e.
Charles W. Wendte,
THE MEXICAN ULTIMATUM
tri
thirteen , children. ' The family now
..a . 1 consists or ratner, mother and four
teen . children. 1 ; A daughter of the
-jB second wife died, last August of tu
berculosis. A son oi the first wife
has been ill with the same, disease
for at least two years. No precau
tions have been taken to prevent his
infecting others. .
The mother, with one newly-born
child and another too young to
walk, is responsible for the .care of
this family of fourteen children.
There is no medical care given the
son 111 with tuberculosis. - Not a
penny is spent to prevent the white
plague numbering this entire fam
ily of children among its victims,
but the hogs are given the benefit
of science's very latest discovery,
This farmer gives thought to the
breeding of, horses and the protec
tion of hogs from cholera. But he
falls to appreciate the danger of
tuberculosis and the need of , pro-
K ARE told that the Wash
ington government has not!
fled Huerta that be , must
renounce his headship or
ilexlcan affairs. "
' secretary Brvan denies mat an
lulHmflfiim haa HA-.fi' aant ' Wtiar avaf
itbe facts, it almost seems as if
sou such step is unavoidable.
There seems no other way, The
Jlexlcan despot is oblivious to every
thing, rational. He has gone on in
highhandedness until he has lost
11 sense of propriety and abandoned tectlnf; members of his own family
an me canons ci wvwaauon. Md oth(Sr. from thl- di.eiiaa
He nas virtually set up a tnronei The board of health finds that
at the Mexican capital, and there Minnesota's annual loss caused bv
is nouung ror tne uniiea iaten w the death of wage earners from tu
do but to pull It down, we were berculosis is about $12,000,000. The
the means by which Maximilian and estimated t number of developed
ais brier empire were oeatroyea xn eases In tho state is 10,000. There
lv7. . we can do no less now wtan jg no wonder, less drastic measures
we aw . then, except by ignoring havinar failed, that homes of the
'American precedents and abandon-1 criminally careless are to be pla
in? American traditions,
To ' permit Huerta to go on in
hl bloody enterprise, would be to
Invite other wad revolutionists to
emulate bis example. If we per
mit Huerta to lead armed men Into
'the palace, overthrow the const!
tutlonal administration, assassinate
carded.
A TACOMA SLANDER.
R
F. Radebaugh, of Tacoma, is
engaged in the highly import
ant work of publishing a book
to ' prove tnat Portland can
the constitutional president and vice nsvw become the Paclflo metropolis.
president, suspend the constltation,He also, according to the Tacoma
atillniirn - and Hlnncra ' jvinamtaa fin it I Ledger, devotes space to Drove that
cend congressmen to the penlten- Fortiana is not, and cannot become
tltrr. supersede the suDreme . court! imporUnt seaport
with artillery and rule the, country Th Ledger says the book is ably
as a tyrant on his throne, we shall supported ny omciai racts. eotn
Invite other revolutionists to em-1 tne Ledger and the book would seem
property made by the state. The
result 'has been that reductions have
been maden which cause a saving
upon fiitrafetate business in Wiscon
sin Of upwarda of $3,000,000 a
year. Senator La Follette aays this has
been done with no Injustice to the
railroads; they; bare accepted; the
lower rates and admitted their rea
sonableness. ' ; ' r ' ,
Cblncldent with the Wisconsin
senator's ' statement comes jhe Aug
aaC -stateeat' tr'; tteT- SufeSm.; tst
Railway Economics.; This bureau is
maintained by the raflroads, and the
figures it publishes Indicate a great
er increase .in - operating expenses
than in operating revenues. :
During eight months of the calendar-
year,: operating revenue in
creased 7 per cent and operating ex
penses increased 9.3 per cent. : Net
operating revenue . , increased - 1.$
per cent, as comparea'with..2.5; per
cent for the first alt months of the
year, tsaatern roaas snowea 1 a ae
crease of 2 . 3 per ; cent for the el ght
months' period, while; southern roads
gained 3.4 and western roads gained
4.7 percent. U-fi-: "-f'f
The bureau's figures are intended
to show that Increased rates are
necessary in the east. ' Senator La
Follette insists that rates should not
be determined by comparing earn
ings of different periods, but by fix
ing the proper relation between
earnings and ' the actual value of
property used by the railroads.
quarters at Salem, away back in the
7(t's.' Her tragic passing will be,
a 1 shock to Salem and to friends 1
of the' family throughout Oregon.
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHAKGK
Governor j Cole Blease of South
Carolina. says: I want plenty of good
fc'ucces la the offspring of audacity.
horse racing, chicken - fighting and mcS2t,m. a . "1U" "
honest poker playing in my state." , .".
Why not also, have some good hon J Vava lookil , c
est pickpockets some really respect
able burglars, some clean but bloody
bW fibU-and a email--assortment
of gentlemanly - white slavers?
With the high cost of living on
the one side and the Income tax on
the ether, there is likely to be a
considerable shrinkage In the .num
ber of gentlemen in the $3,000 class. ,
la it Doaatbla tbat Mr a. Pankhurat la
'Whether a man la older or younger
than, he feela deoenda on how he lias
been treating mmaeir.
"It la a. boneless fool that tells all he
knowa, aaya a paragrapher. More hope
leaa the one who teiia roucn tnai ne
doean't know, and isn't ao. ,
There wasn't
much
surpriae In the
Xetters From the People
BOYS AND PENITENTIARIES
r
ploy the same means for the same
impossible purposes. wy ;f
If Huerta s reckless example be
permitted to stand unchallenged,
.there will be constant and perennial
Attempts by other Mexican .men of
to be gratified if they could dry
the Columbia river up altogether
and make the Columbia bar a range
of Impassable mountains.
But while Tacoma writers Indite
their statements that the water on
iresources i and ambition to repeat har Is. shallow, It remains the
the performance, and there will bo . marine greatest mmoer cargo
tno chance for stable, government ever taken", out or. any port in the
in Mexico within the next genera- world went out of Portland and
Hon ' ' - steamed to sea over the Columbia
President Wilstto can not welcome oarwiwou ncn.
Huerta as a fellow nreaident Ha BOtn xtaaeDaugn ana tne ueager
cannot auDDOrt a militarv desnotlam y the soath jetty has done little
' . I M M - A ml A w. ..I - t A-
Twitn tne rug ana armea forces Mr "V"-U1U w u
the United States. ' Every move that vessels arawing aoout ten reet more
Jtfadero's assassin makes is a vindi- 01 water can -come to Portland than
at!on of Woodrow Wilson's Mexican euld come before government and
(policy.' private improvements were begun,
tne iruiniumeas or me Tacoma writ-
A SALOON DECISION rs is truly wonderful.
Once It was difficult for a sMd
ISCONSIN has law, passed of 16 and 17 feet to reach thia
in 1911, limiting the num- city. The cruiser (Maryland, 601
W
ber of saloona in any city or feet long, 13,680 tone displacement
village to one for each 250 and drawing 26)4 feet steamed out
inhabitants. That state's supreme of Portland harbor nd reached the
court has Just decided that the law open sea In seven hours and 20
is constitutional, the court going minutea. The battleship Oregon
to .the, extent of saying that a aa- with still greater draft made the
Boonkeeper operating under an in same journey. Vessels of 27 feet
jvalid license can be punished for and more make the trip now with
elHog liquor without a license. greater ease than did vessels of 17
, Frank ; Zodrow, a Milwaukee sa- feet 20 years ago. ?
floonkeeper, was convicted of having Meanwhile, there Js not a reason
teold, liquor without a license. His in the world for Tacoma to publish
jdefenso was that he had been grant- these slanders. Slandering Portland
fed a license by the common, council, will not build Tacoma. While the
Jbat the state insisted that the li- writers write their mlsrepresenta
Jcenjse was invalid, as the council had tlons the big' ships come and go.
10 authority to crant it under the Within three years, we are going
-state law limiting the proportionate to have 40 feet of water, on the
pnmber of saloona. It was also con- bar and a 35 foot channel from
fended on Zodrow's behalf that the Portland to the sea. We are swiftly
Jaw was unconstitutional. demonstrating that it will be so
; , In; Ma opinion Justice Vinje said by the progress we have made,
society has the inherent right to Meanwhile, what is the use for
protect Itself;, that the preservation Tacoma to deal In these mlsrepre
kf law end order is paramount to sentatlons? It requires a three
Jthe rights of Individuals or prop- thousand-foot climb to get from the
fcrty in manufacturing or selling In- interior to Tacoma., What is the
loxlcating liquors; that the sobriety, use of screaming about Tacoma's
health, peace, comfort and happi- harbor when you have to climb a
jhess of society demand ' reasonable tiah mountain chain to cet to Itf
N OREGON, a 'boy of alxteen can
no longer be sent to the reform
school. The only, place for of
fenders over that age la the jail
or penitentiary. .
The change was made by the 1913
legislature. The ' reason for it is
not known. In fact, it was known
to but a few that the change had
been jnafle until within the past
feW'days. ;
The new provision is an obscure
clause in a bill establishing the
state board of control. It is not!
mentioned in the title. It is prac
tically foreign to the legislation set
out in the title.
It is legislation for which there
is no defense. The penitentiary is
no place for a wayward boy of
only sixteen. Many a boy who Is
off color at sixteen is of high stand
ing at twenty-five and exemplary at
thirty-five!
But the boy of sixteen who, for
lack of another and better place, Is
fen t to the penitentiary leaves hope
behind. The stigma of graduation
from a penitentiary "haa unfortunate
ly a strong tendency to take all the
heart and all the ambition, out of
almost any mere boy of sixteen or
seventeen. It is not only a monu
mental absurdity, but a crime to
load mere boys down with the scan
dal and burden of a penitentiary rec
ord before they are out of their
teens.
Instead. of lowering the age limit
from eighteen to sixteen, it should,
it change is to be made at all, be
raised. There is always hope of
saving almost any boy who Is scarce
ly old enough to be In high school.
(Comnfaoleatlone tent to TH Jonraal for poK
Ilcatkm la tbla papartmant abould be wrlttaa sa
only ana-ia ei tne papar, sdoum aot etcaaa
BOO'weM la leaf lb and moat be aeoo-apaalad
b-'b aamt and addraa of tba udr. U tbe
write- doaa not daeire to bare tbe pa me pub
mora, oe eoouia a aiata.;
niacutalon la tbe treateat ( all reform".
It ratlonallBH e-rrthina It tnuchaa. It rob"
nrlncltilaa af aU falaa aauiitttr aail throw! tham
back on tbalr reaaooablenaaa. if thar bar uo
reaaonaDianaaa 11 rumiaaair - cruanc-r una out
ot exlatance and aeta op Ha wa aoaclualom la
utir ataaa.- woaaro-- wcoa. . . ,. .
Testimony From Dry Town.)
McMlnnvlUe, Or., Nov, LTo tbe ed
itor of The Journal It may be interest
ing- to many votara in cltiea wblcb will
vote on local option to know how "pro-
newa that Oreaon won XI rat prlae at the
dry farinina- ahow. Oreeon can win in
almoat any sort of a contest.
The oeoDle enraaed in the recent war
In Europe seem to have been all about
equally arutlty of cruel barbarities -a
lot of not and kottlea of about eaual
nue.
Whlla beef a-oea on. 'a. rich man'a cat
tle are etarvina by thousands In Call-
xornia irom neglect, aaya a report.
Near-starvation for him would be fit
punishment.
A Chicaco banker cries . out against
reaulatlori' "Interference." Bo the rail
road nrealdenta and attorneya used - to
do, now they submit cheerfully and as a
matter of course. - ;
The nedeatrian came "with llmblna
tep, ana oanoa-,ea nere ana mere, or-
lore tne juace, wno tne cuipru swept
with an accualnar glare. "Why did you
get in th auto's way? What did you
hibitlon has worked in on of the clt-on the street?" naked the Judre. Said
EFFECT OF THE CANAL
J
regulation, if not prohibition, of.
f.ne liquor traffic.
; ' The .Wisconsin decision says, in
effect, that no legal right to aell
liquor can come through the f or-
knallty of a license, even though the Columbia river to navigation.
irrantea oy the duly constituted 11-
Radebaugh'a book and the Ta
coma Lieager mignt mane more
headway by trying to dig away the
Cascade mountains so Tacoma can
be reached than by trying to close
Ipensing body, unless that body acts
Jwithin the law. This ruling will put
270 Milwaukee saloons out of buai
iiess, and the court suggested that
jbne drinking place to each 250
eople;l preaumably adequate fa
plllUes" for quenching all reasonable
blrsL,; :
e-iSSaj- necessity for such a law as
the Wisconsin supreme court holds
f alid . explains the growth of pro-
pibltlou sentiment.
FIXING, RAILROAD RATES
S'
ENATOR LA FOLLETTE calla
attention in National Water
ways to the Important work
being undertaken by the In
terstate Commerce Commission in
determining the physical valuation"
of American railroads. He says
there, is evidence that the commis
sion will be thorough in its work,
When brewers Bnd b expresses the hope that the
tend idWUllers', come to full reaH.a. Public interest wm no safeguarded
lion of their proper relation to the The Problem, of the railroads is
fcttblle, then thinking oeoKle will h to make valuation as favorable as
Steady to discuss matters with them. Possible to their Interests. The high-
ANDIAL8 AND HUMANS
iHE Minnesota state board of
health has directed that prem
ises where tuberculosis exists
without proper precautions be
ing taken shall be placarded for the
tubUcVrinformatlon. .The board
took this action ndep' authority of
a recently enacted law, hoping to
rvercom ; Indifference, ; the! under
lying cause of the white plague, - -la
too msny homes more atten-
er tbe value, the hlgheV the rates,
and the lower the valuation, the
lower will be the level of rates which
the public will paf,.4:v;V:.-'-4 r'.;';i"-
Tbe Wisconsin senitor is right in
saying the publlo would not harm
the railroads If it could, because to
do Injustice to the roads would, be
to do Injustice to the whole country.
But with railroads demanding high
er rates, Wisconsin's experience with
physical valuation Is illuminating. ;
Intrastate rates In Wisconsin are
based "upon , valuations ' of railroad
UDGE LOVETT of the Union Pa
cific Railway system eald at Se
attle that the Panama canal will
not mean so much to the Pa
cific coast as many people have sup
posed. He predicted that railroad
rates will not be affected, that peo
ple and freight now traveling by
railroad will continue to do so and
that water traffic will still go by
water.
If Judge Lovett is a prophet, the
United States has wasted $400,000,
000 in building the canal. But peo
ple of the Pacific coast do not think
the money wasted. They confident
ly expect substantial benefits from
the canal, and they are looking
hopefully toward the future.
France, builder of the Suez canal
and first to begin work in Panama,
has followed American progress on
the Isthmus. The ministers of the
navy, of commerce and tbe colonies
appointed a commission ot four
members to Inquire Into the effect
of the canal's opening on French
shipping and trade In general.
The commission has just reported
that French commerce 'will not be
greatly affected by tbe- canal. Eng
land and Germany will be the prin
cipal .immediate beneficiaries, but
America will certainly take steps to
promote rapid growth of Its mer
cantile shipping.
One of the most Important con
sequences will be not merely to
provide facilities for ; existing com
merce, but to create a new traffic
which will result in the economic
conquest of the Pacific coast of two'
continents. The commission says
that when' the American ' manufac
turer : haa the same . advantages' in
respect to , transport that he now
has in the cost of production over
his European competitor the world's
mark'eta will be his.'
The United States, the French in
vestigators affirm, will obtain ah
incalculable .advantage from the
canal, and Europe may find her In
dustrial activity diminished. , ,
It is 'possible that Jndgei Lovett
was misquoted la his interview. It
seems hardly .probable that he sticks
to the opinion tbat water rates will
not regulate many, rail rates. That
is the . history of transportation,' In
stead of attempting to discount the
inevitable, the railroads should pre
pare for it.
) Jennie Gay Kyle, ' killed by, an
auto truck at Salem last night, 'was
a ' member , ot an old ' and highly
respectable family of. Salem .Her
father Was the pioneer manufac
turer of oil from flaxseed wljtb-h enti
les of the state which haa . tried It
longest. The remark Is often made by
the "wets" that a "dry" condition de
stroys business. Let tbe history of
McMlnnvlUe indicate how badly it "In
terferes" with development and prog
ress. I have been in McMlnnvlUe more
than five years, during all of whiea
time the city has been "dry." Aa u re-
ault a drunken man is very rarely sren,
even though autos have made the dis
tance to "wet - towns Inconsiderable.
Several new and expensive, buslneas
blocks have been erected and one other
la in process of construction now, and
all apace in them as well as in the
older buildings la used, almost to the
utmost, by of floes and mercantile es
tablishments. During this time tbe city
has purchased a fine city park, which
has been highly improved, and city
auditorium haa been erected. A goodly
"number of blocks of hard surfaced pave
ment have been laid, and thia past year
anout bv otner blocks would have been
laid but for an unfortunate mlsunder.
standing In the council with which the
liquor question had nothing to do. A
$40,000 high school building has been
erected, and already it Is filled to the
utmost capacity, on account of the in
flux of new families and the high plane
of life in the community. In cities hav
ing saloons the' percentage of high
school students to the youth of high
school age Is always far below the per
centage in -cry towns.
Many of the new families came to
Oregon because of the wide advertising
given the state, and for the excellent
advantages Oregon offers, but they
chose for a home, McMlnnvlUe, because
it is and has been a "dry" city. Among
taese families which would not nave
come here If this had been a "wet"
community, there are numbered some of
our most substantial citizens.
Our three banks have on deposit some
thing over 11,000,000. Business is good.
Progress is the watchword, schools are
excellent. McMlnnvlUe college has
gained in prestige and attendance more
than in any period of the same length
In her history, and among the reasons
for all this gain the fact that McMlnn
vlUe is and shall continue to be "dry"
is not-tne least -5 .
Men who years ago fought for a "wet"
town, now wilt use every influence and
every power to retain the present con
dition. It is doubtful if a single busi
ness man
man; "I can only say. I fora-ot streets
were not for feet." ''Ten dollars fine,
ana nereaiter Keep xrom crossing
streets: or. better, ao out and tend the
swine and sheep, and. come to town by
loner. ... . , .. .
OREGON fcUDMUGUTS
"Coos county," says the Coqullle Sen.
tlnel, "1 now the Maoca of many farm
seekers and we may expect hundreds ot
new settlers tas next year." - . '
The Klamath Chamber of 'Commerce
Is preparing, through its secretary, to
go bexore the county court with a re
quest for a levy to, provide, a county
farmxpert. . . .
- Evangelist , Samuel " Gregg, ' of - the
Christian church, baa. organised a body
of 60 believers at North Bend. A com
mittee has been authorised - to prepare
plans for S temporary bouse of
hip. -
Its "Waldport correspondent reports to
the Toledo Sentinel Oat -Waldport is
fast becoming the educational center of
southern UnooKn county, the advantages
of the superior schools there being ao
evident tbat many outside families seek
residence for the school year.
' Vancouver Columbian: ' The question,
"Can a newspaper man be a Christian?'1
was once quite widely discussed. A dis
cussion can now be opened of the ques
tion, "Can a Christian be a newspaper
man?" A minister has accepted a posi
tion as a reporter on a Dallas, Or., pi
per. , , , t , ' . , i - ' V k
.-'.. e '. -
Colonel Boyd of the Athena Press will
go Just, about so far. with this Italian
climate ot Oregon's and then he has to
be aiown, as appears from this item in
his paper; "Our Indian summer is due
to arrive In November. - This year it
may be Sioux Indian summer and there
fore may not be as suave as formerly."
Gold Beach Globe: A quiet home wed-
oing was solemnised at the home of Ye
Editor October sa, when Rev. , C. Ifl.
Bhort said the few solemn words that,
united for life's Journey our eldest
daughter, Miss Ruby, and James Gentry
Russell of Langlole. - for several years
Past Miss Hubjr has been our trusted
helper in the Globe office and her ab
sence lit the home and office causes 'a
loneliness that will take time to over
come. . . . , . .
IN EARLIER DAYS
'kQ; Dy I reu JLockley, .
THE CHILDREN.OF THE NATION.
From the Houston Chronicle.
The United States children's bureau,
under the direction of Julia C. Lathrop,
has Just issued its first volume of sta
tistics dealing with tbe nation's child
life.
Could the cold, unsentimental tables
be resolved into a picture of the prat
tling, laughing myriads they represent,
tnie nation wouia oe astonisnea at wnat
Its child life really is, not only as an
element of future growth and develop
ment, but aa a giant factor in the liv
ing, vibrating present ,
Of the 90.000,000 people In this coun
try, more than 40,000,000 are under 21
years of age, while nearly 30.000,000 are
under 15. Think of itl More than 45
per cent of the entire population has not
arrived at tbat stage where it can be
described as consisting of men and wo.
men, while nearly one third of the en
tire population either wears short trous
ers or goes with its hair In braids. V
One third of the nation Is yet brim
ming over with the Joys and irrespon
sible optimism of childhood's happy
days, but slowly rising from the misty
dawn of somewhere to put on the gar
ments of toil and worry and take the
future Into its young, strong hands.
The prattling myriads ot today will
presently resolve themselves into the
workers, tbe achievers and the molders
of tomorrow. Two decades more and
the present romping throngs will have
become th grave, hard featured parents
of another and a greater generation.
And what about these 80,000,000 chil
dren who will shortly take command Of
the nation's destiny T Are they virile,
strong and healthy, and are they grow
ing up as true disciples of American
ism? Are they the products of other
races and other climes, as some would
have us think, or ar they the sons and
daughters of this great republic, in the
truest and strictest sense of the world?
Will they bring into our declining years
the garble of strange tongues and the
advocacy of still stranger fancies, or
will they still cling to tne standards of
tne oia American ideals 7
Of the 10,000,000 under 15 years of
age, i.boo.OOO are of negro descent,
700,000 are foreign born and more than
T.QOO.OQO are born of forelsn rarent
age. In other words, of every 100 chil
dren In this country under It years of
age, la are negroes, I are foreign born,
26 are born of foreign parentage, while
o are sprung from native white stock.
It is doubtful if at any time In its
Whole history the United States could
show a more promising group of chil
dren so far as nativity is concerned, or
one which will grow np with a stronger
iove or tn nation and its ideals. It
must be remembered that this country
was conceived and born in foreign
lands; that :,lt has been built up from
tne post that Europe could contribute;
that it was first founded as a refuge
for the oppressed and the downtrodden.
and that it has grown great by absorb
ing tne elements that came into it from
aoroao. -
Sometimes we are inclined to shudder
as we think of tbe countless hordes
pouring in from certain foreign shores.
and are inclined to adopt stricter regu
lations wiu rererence to immigration;
uui woen u is rememnered that our
ancestors came the same way and for
the same purpose, and when we glanoe
at the 80,000,000 of our children who
are growing up strong In the maxima
and ideals of the past, we shall perhaps
be a. little more -optimistic as to the
future and a little more charitable as
to tne present.
ada publicly owned otiUtles are . operated
with success In a number of flourishing
cities. Alberta has an automatic tele-
In tVi. !, j.)., I AJUViat (lavs ku uivnisiigiUT-
,IhA.C"Ji I1?1" Phone sy.tn that extend. .11 over the
business, would f.vor a "wet" town.
CURTIS P. COB.
Sterilization Satirised.
Portland, Or., Nov. 3. To the Editor
of The Journal All hall the new sod,
Esculapius. The old gods pall; let us
have new gods. The administration is
attempting to dehorn the golden calf;
it is become too tame. Don the ghostly
robe, wave the glittering sealpel, fes
toon the march of "progress" with blood
red sponges, chant to the newer god,
tbe god Esculapius.
Wisconsin haa adopted practically the
same law as the Owens-Adalr bill. The
state board has chosen to apply the
new law to several hundred women
first. Now is the'millenlum come in
Wisconsin. Now will there be no more
monstrous crimes; ho more white Slav-
province and is operated for local service
and largely for long distance service
within tbe province, with satisfaction.
The proposal of the measure to issue
publio utility certificates to tbe sum of
a, OOO.ooo it necessary that win rest
upon the system snd not- on the tax
payers, commends it to many.
ALFRED D. CRIDQIS,
Military Prisoner's Complaint. '
Fort Stevens, Or;, Nov. 1 To the Edi
tor of The Journal I . was under the
Impression that when a man served
three years for Uncle Sam he Was then
entitled to be free, but it seem, the
fact is otherwise. Since it Is claimed
that I committed offenses while an en
listed man, X must be punished by serv
ing: two months' overtime. Six months'
ery, no more feeble minded, no moral confinement and 118 per month pay is
insane irt Wisconsin. Bow down to the I my sentence. For what? "For vloiat.
newest .sod. the bloodiest sod. Eacu. Inst the sixty-aeeona article oi war to
laplus. I the prejudice of good order snd military
In reading of the new Jail with Its l discipline.- wnat, were tne tarnoie
dark cells for women orlsoners and the deeds? That I am supposed to have
extensive and elaborate marble, porce
lain and nickel equipped surgical rooms,
one wonders what progress is. Long
ago prisoners were taken from the dun
geons and thrown to the lions and
tigers; now they are taken from, the
cells and sacrificed to the god Esculap
ius.
Will the soap .box orator be considered
a defective? Will one. who refuses to
aocept a certain religion as In Albania
be accounted mad? Join the sacri
ficial - procession, praise to the latest
god, the greatest god, Esculapius.
Sparta undertook to.destroy all . the
weaklings - and" deformed, - but Sparta
does not seem to be much in evidence
today. '
Let those physicians who advocate
said that "the destruction of life and
property was proper snd Just, or words
to that affect," snd that "the flag was
not. the emblem of freedom but- the
emblem of slavery, or words to that ef
fect." In fact, the charges were com
posed of the phrases "on or about and
"words to that effect." I . will : agree
with the ex-sergeant' of Portland who
advanced the idea that Christ was tried
by the sixty-Second artlole of war. If
this be true, no wonder no was round
guilty."'- 'v
My ease was simpiy aeciaeo on tne
theory that If I was not guilty I, ought
to have "been. They round me guilty
upon .the statement of one witness who
could remember distinctly the words but
could not remember anyone ise tnat
putting to death all who do not measure w.as present. Why? Because the con
up to their ideas of perfection but study versatlon never took place. Then, why
in the school of the Great Physician, all this persecution? Simply because I
tbe physician who never failed to heal have espoused principles I deem best for
the leper or the. Agnatic, and of whom it my ultimate welfare. Do these gentle
la recorded that "Great multitudes fol- men think for a moment that they can
lowed him, and he healed them all." '
KBADKR.
To Municipalize Utilities.
Portland, Nov. 8. To the Editor of
The Journal The. proposed amendment
to the Portland charter providing for
a municipal phone system gives - full
authority to the city -council to con
struct or lease in, whole or In part, to
change a man's belief. I have dared to
protest against military despotism; I
have dared to uphold my1 rights-as1, a
free-born American citizen; and because
of this I am expiating a term of six
months in a military bastlle.
But tbe Inspiring words of Fred D.
Warren give some relief : Persecution,
where Is thy string? oppression, wnere
is thy power? It is a historical fact
issue publio certificates to pay for It, that out of persecution and oppression
and to extend it outside of the city if
necessary or advisable.- The measure
fixes the maximum rate for business
phone at $4 a month and for a resi
dence phone at $1.50 a month. This Is
already , the fate In both larger- and
smaller cities in the United States and
Is ample to secure the operation of a
first class telephone service " in , Port-
land.-':'-'- .;'.(!.?. .':'- ." ".:'-' "(:".': . ;'.?
The measure has been carefully drawn
and examined by a number of legal ex
perts, and It will enable the people -to
hake oft the local telephone trust.. The
Home telephone franchise provides for
Its purchase by the city at any time, and
If this measure passes It , will in all
probability be taken -over, ;c- v ;'-- ji ?
. There is nothing rabid, revolutionary
or anarchistic about it There is a gen
eral sentiment throughout the country
in favor of . municipal ownership of
publio utilities, and Oregon cities might
wall lead the ways ,: San -Francisco is
taking over in a gradual but positive
and- successful manner its street car
lines. Hundreds of cities are 'operating
have grown civilisation's - brightest
flowers. We do not fear thee. We know
that ' the glorious tomorrow, with its
crlmson-hued promise of brotherhood
belongs to ' us snd to our children.
(Warren at Newcastle, Fa Juiy i,
1910.);,;,;,'-';;:.CHARl-K8',W; KERTZ.
News." ,
'Public.
On "Covering .the
. From The
Lincoln Stef fens in 'Harper's Weekly
for October 11 has a few words to
say 'to newspapers - and their : readers
and other Americans. Failure of the
press to ''cover" the news IS the text
of this very lively and timely sermon,
For illustration there are Tim BulU.
van's .death and W. J. Bryan's political
life., Big - Tim, a man whose "face
and figure wore known tp more people
and more newspaper men than any
other man in New York" lay lost in
the 'morgue for thirteen days! - ,'
f "'What did thetup-to-dato.' editors do?
$yjt '4-'Tney -itepeVied all, that, tlm'y
were told by the police, relatives.
friends and - guards of the search for
Tim. f - They simply don't like
themselves to cover anything. They
will take news given them even from
the morgue. As ons of them naively,
honestly, but shamelessly reported,
when the "policeman who happened to
look at the body recognised Tim' (from
his pictures), ho 'ran and toldthe re
porters. Tneq tney ran and told us
the news, the news about Tim, and
the news about themselves that Tim
Sullivan had lain thirteen days in three
morgues while the police, his friends
and not the .newspapers had been
looking for hlnv I am not complain
ing of this; I am only laughing at It
I like that line of news: 'The police
man ran and told the reporters.'"
But the question Mr. Steffens asks
in 'all earnestness is, "Are we getting
tse new-rasnionea news which the old
xasnionea journalism never saw or
heard of I mean the news you- can't
see with the eye and picture with the
p-mcn: tne news in ideas?" "The New
Freedom which President Wilson is
putting into ma legislation . and , his
policies," for example. "It's the big
news or tne aay out-the newspapers
don't report-it; they don't, even hear
it over the telephone not with un
derstsndlng." Their reports and their
comments on Bryan's lecturing are
a case in point Says Mr. Stefflns:
"The secretary himself has noted and
exclaimed that the reporters seem never
to nave .'covered' .a Chautauqua enter
tainment.! have. The Chautauqua and
lecture lyceum represent the New Free
dom - that President Wilson represents.
They, are one of the chief sources of
tnat v spirit;,: tney-v maae both Wilson
and Bryan possible. They, "are great
seasonal ' gatherings , of .the , common
people -for rest, -for fun for 'common
thinking. ; ' And., mors effective think.
Ing has , been done ' there than in all
the editorial rooms . of all the news
papers-put togetner. And more "news'
is published there and more 'news'
Is made. - there: new news I mmn
Ideas; new-fashioned news. . There is
freedom there; free thought; free
speech, and some day there .may be
a frea people there. Mr. . Bryan knows
all this."::-'-;'--';,'' - v - '' :
The remainder of Mr. Steffens ar.
mon should be quoted only in full and
read only by : the whole American
people. They would be less the dupe,
of a stupid and subservient Journal
ism.
M I . .1 I I i
Pointed Paragraphs
And eowardlce makes liars of us all
or nearly all. - ! ; t - ,
' v ... ; ; s, ; ! v.: . v.-- ,; .
K welt bred child never reproves its
parents in public. ' '
- a .-
Just because a man doesn't drink is
no sign he Isn't thirsty, ,
People who talk the most dissemi
nate the least wisdom.
Occasionally we meet neonls who are
almost as smart as we are. ..-.'.
The greater the cost of living, the
cheaper it is to -remain slngla .
Lore will push a msn Into matri
mony, but it takes a lawyer to pull him
out. ' .
ir:W,'..W.v
Rcarcely any man's vrraolty Is unlm.
pnachable after he acquires the fiBhing
habit j . ' ' ,
. t
Some marlred men would be . only
too glad' to settle down if their wlvks
would quit stirring, thorn up. ; . .
"They say It is better to be a has-been
than a never-waser. vUmpqua county
once was, but is no more. Fulton coun
ty never was. and thereby hangs a tale.
said J. a Eddy, , . .
;-In US?, the people resident In that
part "of Waco county, now embraced
within, tbe limits- of Storniaa' countyi
COAClUded that t)lv want .
county organization, and , commissioned
!W. J. Peddtcord, then principal of the
public schools at Moro, . their' special
representative before the legislature to
bring about this result The "bin;;' as
originally introduced, provided ' (or the
creation j of the county of Fulton, - in
honor of Colonel . John Fulton, a pioneer
resident of tnat section. ; When the bill
was on Its second reading in the' house.
J. W. Maxwell, then .member from Til
lamook county, called attention to the
fact that, on the occasion of the visit
of , President Hays and General Sher-
man to the state of Oregon, in 1877. he
at that time being av member from Baker
count Colonel Fulton, speaking to a
resolution . granting the distinguished
Visitors the freedom' of f the common-'
wealth, took occasion to attack General
Sherman. Mr. Maxwell read from the
Journal the record of the proceedings.
and, at the conclusion of his, reading
said:, -Mr. Speaker. I move that wher
ever the word. Fulton appears in this
Din, it be stricken out and the ward
Sherman Inserted.' This was dona So
that the territory that 'started out to be
the county of Fulton finished as the
county of Sherman.
s "Oregon come within an ac of having
a Bay county alsq Tht people' around
Newport and Toledp decided that Cor-
vams was too lar away to transact tne
county business arising around yaquina
bay, so C. B. Crosno, who was a senator
from Benton county In 1831, and who
lived at Toledo, in4:he extreme western '
part of what was then Benton county,
was Instructed by his constituents to
work for the. creation of a new county,"
of which Toledo should be the eounty
seat A bill was Introduced cutting
off the western part of Benton county
to form a new county bearing the title
of Bay eounty. When this bill reached
ri. hAna-. nhlAAflA-, .-jraa wnmAm tA.. iha .
title of the county, and the name of the
proposed eounty was changed-from Bay
county to Wygant county, to perpetuate
the memory of a pioneer resident of that
locality, and the bill passed the house In
that shape. When it came over to the
senate and was on a second reading, C.
A. Cogswell, then a-state senator-from
Crook, Klamath and Lake counties, stat
ed be thought it was about time that Ore
gon had a Lincoln county. C B. Crosno.
senator from Benton, residing in . that
part of the eounty which proposed to set
up In business for Itself, made no ob
jection to the proposed change, saying
he was satisfied what his people desired
was a county organisation, and cared
not so mucn. for tne name, providing it -
was a aooa one. mo out passea mo
senate creating the county of Lincoln.
The change was concurred In by the
house, the bill became a law, and so -what
started to be Bay county finally
corns out as Lincoln county."
YOUR MONEY
By John U Oaklson. -
Exeept for; a woman's savings Th
Scarlet Letter" probably would never
have bean written.. ,
Nathaniel ' Hawthrons was living, at
Salem. Mass., holding a Job tn the cus
tom house at that place. Along came
a change of administration and the Job.
he held was taken away. While he was 1
In the Custom House he bad had a cer
tain amount of leisure, and he tried his
hand at Writing. - Some of his short
productions he had sold, at a very low
price, but he knew that he eould not
depend upon them to support his fam
ily, -v - '- ."'
"I shall have to go out and get a
Job now," be sighed when he received
word of his dismissal from the custom
service. He sighed because he had
sketched out in bis own mind the story
of "The Scarlet Letter," and he had
hoped to write it aeon. He was already
past middle life and time seemed pre
cious. ' v.
Tben Hawthorne's wire spoke:
"No. don't get a Job Just yet You,
must write that book."
But how about living meanwhile?"
he asked.'
'Don't worry about that for a year,"
she replied. And she went to a biding
place beside the chimney of the Haw
thorne house and dug up nearly 1100
which she bad saved. . . , -.
'We can live on that for a year," she
said. "Now get to work on your book!-'
From that time forward the books and
short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne
became an assured fact and the world's
stock of literature was enriched. .
Women will go on doing this sort'
of thing to the end of time. In their
way they, are the greatest, financiers
on earth. For the amount of good U
will do, the boarding of a woman who '
is interested in the worldly suooess of '
her family Is the biggest Item tn this
nation's tremendous capital account"
In the Great Temple.
bv m." a. w -
With head uncovered, saored and silent, '
L stood where the giant boulders steep - .
Ifted up their rugged stately shapes
And holdlv loat themselves on ton
The crest of pale and misty skies. ' .
Twixt soaring crags not iar apart
ed o i
A tiny brook flowe
i'er a host of rocks.
Bearing a murmuring message from
Whitened snows above to distant seas.
For ages mist and sun .-battling,,
Mut na In tart varied hues oa mossy sides. -
While ever and anon the rushing waters
Lulled the dreamy senses into voioeiess
prayer.
The Woman's Page
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