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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 19J3. r, ST lJ CT f f I.IDM A I 1 lit. U WWlAlNrAUp i.7wuVa ,rVr woin erot.saoy i'S! r"VWA-nSt t tUBttamityiricm mt Portland. Or. for KM.Mt TT7Ki.ii. v iiivicHf IsNii kKPBiiiiiiiMTATi vb li.nj.mlo Kcnloor Co., Broaiwlck BniW'nf. Fifth areoae. New Xprkl U1S People' Bnlmlm. Cnimito, fetjtMwrlnltan Term for" mail or tn a or adore in u.. united suu. Mwticw em rwr oj.w on. .M...I 0a yew .... W W) I od tnonth ......I buvi iioi;iiM - On rr .$TJ50 On month ... .00 i " The vision ol! thins to be ; done may come ,' long time ' before ; tha. way of doing them appears clear. Bat woe to him who distrusts the vision. Jfn- kln Lloyd Jones. VpTED. AGAINST CHANGE irOlE electorate gave a round ma IJority both for the repair fund and for the building fund tor H the 'State university. it Is ! the better way. The ; last thing in the world with which we should tinker. Is education. V No state that has established Its state university and agricultural col lege as separate institutions has' ever consolidated them. No state Is now agitating such a step except Oregon. uuuug guca a step except, uregou. Nothing, would be gained by the rhaiin .Tor.. umt t!S ftrtft ' ,! two years time ? investigating' the Question lof, nnlUng her anlverslty mended : thathey;be? continued as . .Thafis pracUcally what is meant Public official and Mr Teal as a by Oregon people. In thef vote last Pate ciUzen .re entitled to public Tuesday.- Consolidation was ln! real- rdlt1 beynd an meed of ac tty an issue in the' balloUng," as Is knowledgment due other persons ihnvn hv Mi .fft. that th ranuii-l c.,)..-! - 1-.. AtA the building ' appropriation. : We should- now, agree to ; main: tain, the two Oregon .Institutions as j own ' distinctive and ; typical field, We should "forego'-further effort at i tinkering, ,Und set, about to -''nplift I and tri-rt.hen-ach-' nhil 1 1 wtnrti aemana tnat eacn give oacic increas-1 i fngly effective servlce;: T DEMOCRATIC TREACHERY 1 II fUST the American senate" be asinine? ' ( After, a splendid performance of tariff reduction, the' Demo- fcrats.of that body fare at logger- ; heads over the currency bill. . Are .mey going iq. tau oi agreement, ana I thereby defeat Woodrow Wilson in 5 nis great struggle to aenver the American , people from the power or wau btreet oyer-banaing and .. -Democratic senators who are lin- tins up against "the "administration mistake ' the-mood of the "country The people know1. : that the 3 White House is trying, to free ths nation j from a panic-breeding banking and currency system , that is. a constant menace to prosperity,' and that keeps the business ' world in a perennial I state of unrest and solicitude, They know that Woodrow Wilson is try-1 lng to take the control of American vate ownership. The, ? oil conces credlt out of the hands of a coterie sions , to . the British financiers are of New York .and Chicago bankers and place it,, in, the hands of the American people, where it can never he used to oppress the average man. They will regard it as a betrayal of J the American masses into the hands It Is asserted that American capl ot, American plutocracy if Democrat- tallstp financed the Madera revolu- ic senators, by support of various i and ' divergent currency plans em- (barrass or weaken" the legislation for which the president is asking, I 1 Senators need not be disturbed by the hostility, or darkling predictions of, big bankers. The same predic-1 tions of disaster' were voiced by the railroads , when rate regulation was under, consideration. Now the rail- roads want more regulation. ' The same warnings were sounded during the late tariff debate. ' Hut the bill power of alien land, oil and mining is law and the country Is swinging magnates for directing Mexican pub along In the even. tenor of its way. lie affairs more In 'the interest of Only a few. years ago, the Interstate I Commerce Commission was regarded by affected Interests as a menace to republican institutions, bnt now it I is looked upon by them with ex- treme favor. Anyhow, Democratic senators who swerve from the course of. loyalty to the administration and enable the bankers to defeat cur- rency reform will be recognized In their Infamy and be held accountable for their treachery. , The-country has seen enough to know that Democratic senators who betray j Woodrow Wilson are also betraylng the American people. .r .V, THE WEST'S FUTURE A " r , . I . canal's possibilities has made Its repoit. ine results pre- SiA Uiv esa v. vivnvivu VI a lien traffic which will result in the eco- nomic conquest Of the Pacific and ' the exploitation of the natural rich ies of the western part .of the two j American continents ,.hy the capital jaod industry of eastern states." ' i William ;H.VAverjr,,for many years j negotiated with the late E. H. Har rimanand now manager of a large ; European? shipping -corporation, ex- plains in ihe London Times how this ! e onomlc conQuest Is to-be brought about v Mr.V Avery;-says American railroads " will suffer by penihg '''of jthe con al during a period of about five years,. but after that they will j i greatly;. henef ited." TMf': fc- V hen tbd "canal is " opened ' there win be a'great diversion of emigrant 1 riffle fWjm'EurOpe 'to the 'western t i. -t of North America, this will I mean ? that ' Immense V areas ii. now Prsely populated will become far now eh " -I more cioBeiy seuiea. :1; a , large r Kii,iie J way traffic - will gradually be . devel- 1 oped in western states between the interior and the seaboard, and also (between Interior points. The earlier wns ifj "P op. v, causing, .a I great exftttnlfb-n In trade. I TflO railroads Will Suffer on through traffic from coast to coast I hv mason Af ths chfiannr eea route through tbe canal. But later, as western states feel the effect of this jnew immigration, the roads will be I mnra than wnnnad ttiMomrl In. ! " " " 1-- leal traffic -Mr. Avery says this g I view of the, future Is now taken by the managements, of ail great trans continental lines. . , t Thla vision ' of - the new west strikes the imagination. There Is to be swiftly advancing prosperity. Farming regions will multiply, cities will thrive, trade within and without the west will grow amazingly. Mr. Avery" Is right In saying that rail roads will ultimately benefit. CHAMBERLAIN'S SERVICE N' O MAN In Oregon can take greater satisfaction Out of the , final approval of the West Umatilla project than can Sen ator Chamberlain. He was a pioneer advocate of the project. In his time as governor, he appointed J. N. Teal as a special 1 " . .. . Iu ----- ntatfr0' ur?e 1" II WUUIUSWB. iuruuBU- ?ut " ' "erxlng years, the KZv"ryu9J.;-l?1?- uoua . Por v;namoenain s longer service aorj' 01 cwunw, uvo uu iu the long and tedious fight. Gov- ernor West and Senator' Lane, each In his public life has been of large service. The great value of the final ap- proval of the West Umatilla ls tb i eems to be assurance that the orssnissd discrimination against Oregon in reclamation matters is vf umnuu v jthe first unit almost certainly means authorization later 01 tne second unit l . Nor will the work end with West Umatilla. With 'the state once on the reclamation man of the coun- try, there are other projects that in' tima will come in for annroval and completion. "; The fact that a coast mRn iB head of the department, andl particularly the fact that Secretary Lane has comprehension and convic- tions as to whaf reclamation in Oregon can be made to mean, seem to be augury that many arid acres lof. Oregon land will he turned. into prolific and profitable production. . Alien land holding ? ' NE bf.( the tragedies of Mexico Is the alien ownership of -land. Next to the widespread llliter- acy, It is perhaps the bane, of the country. Great tracts are in the . hands of American, syndicates, and other prl- example. The mines and: plants tions that have been given away or frittered away by the Mexican gov ernment are one of the disturbing factors of the country. tidn on account or the oil lands, it Is likewise insisted, that succeeding revolutions and counter revolutions are the outward expression of the battle 'between English and Amerl- can , concessionaires of .oil lands In the Mexican states. At ' all events, the presence of these 'alien owners1 makes it lmpos- slble for Mexico to1 be governed in the Interest of the Mexicans. The illiteracy of the people adds to the alien commercialism than in the interest of the men, women and children of Mexico, Not only is it destructive of Mex lean domestic welfare, but It adds to the embarrassment of the Amerl can government in seeking to solve the Mexican problem. The whoje power of the alien land owners of Mexico Is against a solution of the problem on a basis involving the up lift, emancipation and rehabilitation of the Mexican masses. The whole power of -'the concessionaires Is against an American policy of Mex- lco for Mexicans The melancholy spectacle south of the Rio Grande seriously suggests ltn InaiiA trtntti A AS n4' - t la Uound policy for any country to per- IUU 1DOUO Vi vt uvkUVt , VI UVv SV ess mit alien ownership of . land. It compels us to wonder it citi- i,ij - iditlon precedent to land holding. uiir..,uwu.u v. .. :-. ... ANOTHER HONOR OA1MP C ALIFORNIA now proposes to establish ' an honor camp . for convicts In that state's two penitentiaries. A . 2700 acre ranch in Napa county hv owned by the state, and the hoard of control is working out a plan for using this property as a place of employ ment for ' men Whose prison records warrant greater freedom. In .this camp there will be- no cells or locksno antiquated prison methods, ,6f 'abuse and repression which only sank convicts deeper in crime- and Increased their lack of responsibility to society, The honor camp will be a state farm, with theleourt woman drove 000 hogs, to convicts enjoying practically all ihe market "Wasn't that .hotter," he privileges of farm hands working In the fields. A few officials will be detailed at the -Camp to -direct the men,: but ) these officials will hi overseers, jnot guards. . All prisoners at' Folsom and San Quentin whose conduct demonstrates that they are worthy of trust wil DrflWerrW healthy outadorfllfer ' The" soil" bl the ranch is fertile." The men will plow, it, sow it, harvest the crops and haul them to town A world of opportunity . will open v to men whose ambition is to again; become useful members of society. The ranch was purchased, by Call- fornia as the site for a reformatory. But the legislature failed ' to appro priate money for ..buildings. . The 2700 acres ,hav been idle, but now they will be put to excellent use as soon as money is forthcoming , for equipment and repairs to buildings, The honor camp , idea is spreading with wonderful rwpldity. : Oregon was the first to recognize the poten tial worth of a convict t Washing-. ton, Illinois, Nevada and many other states have since adopted the Oregon method with variations. But every wnere tne oasio principle 01 priBon reform is the same. It Is recogni tion of the fact that, even a man in prison has latent . power for good which should be cultivated rather than suppressed; v '-iv;'' - vv' A GLEAM OF SANITY T WO years of useful life are lost to every American 1 under ex isting educational conditions, due to .the 'increased, fads and furbelows in the schools and made part of their compulsory curriculum. In effect. The 'Journal has so con tended for years. The same finding Is now made by a body of eminent educators, headed - by President James H. Baker of the University 6f Colorado, whose report was Is sued last week by the United States bureau of education. These edu cators say: ;. The treat mistake In our education Is to suppose that quantity and strain constitute education. Education Is a question of doing a. few essential thin- well and without overstrain. The col- legehas committed a grievous mistake In demandlnr ever more, in quantity than In Quality produced under con ditions of healthy normal development The report is the product of ten years of investigation and' observa tion. The educators would have the elementary education of the young occupy only six years Instead of eight They would have the student pass through high school and col lege1 so as to be prepared either to enter the world at the age of 20, or, if desired, take up a profession that will enable him to be equipped within two or four years later, , There could he no sounder con clusion. We have run wild on edu cational fads and furbelows. We have stuffed grammar - school courses, crammed high school courses and jammed college courses until the student has almost reached the age for Oslerizlng before he. Is able to enter active life. Eight years of grammar school, four years of high school, four years of college and four years for a pro fession are a mighty long education al journey, let-that is what we re quire, and to make it the more ex acting, we are dally jamming more and more frills, more and more fus tian into all the courses. It the sociologists keep cm narrowing down the time when men must retire from active life and the professional ed ucationalists continue to extend the period of 4 studentship, it will not be very long until the date of re tirement and time of final gradua tion into the world will overlap. . The new and strange note for shortening the period of studentship by rationalizing the courses Is as sane as it is welcome. MUNICIPAL MUSIC T OMORROW afternoon at Gipsy Smith tabernacle occurs the first of the municipal band fnncertH. . The uplifting power ofr music Is everywhere acknowledged. Munici palities widely separated are encour aging public concerts as an Influ ence for forwarding the welfare of the masses. The music of the heathen is the tomtom. ' ' The cannibal knowB noth ing of the exquisite inspiration of music. The Hottentot has never had hid soul freshened and humane Ized by the magic power of musical expression. By deduction, we can thus almost prove that the sweetening influence of music upon human lives is one of the factors of civilization. In common with other advancing cities, Portland Is to have municipal concerts. At first, they are to be experimental. : ,'; , '. It will be well, if. In the end, they are a fixture, and a feature. The spirit of the criticism of Sec retary Bryan on any and every oc casion is exemplified in the case of' GoverimraJ0hn8on of California. While1 governor, Mr. Johnson cam paigned all over the United States last year, but he is now criticizing Mr. Bryan for making a . campaign speech last week in New Jersey, , ,No man in all America fought harder or plugged longer for an inter-oceanic canal than did the late Senator , Morgan. It has been pro posed to perpetuate his name by giving it to one of1 the forts ; at Panama. ,The - famous ' senator's work entitled him to that or some other canal "recognition. . k , .' Arguing against equal suffrage, a .speaker "cited the .fact that.,allis exclaimed, "than lighting . and cla morlng for votes?"' lit depends -al together on the viewpoint. There Is not a really wide difference be tween driving one variety and coax ing the other. . "1 h:Jty$'&-:rfj. J 'A ' It the city commissioners should priations urged by, - the- cltlzea com mittees, the taxpayer , throughout next year will have to hold his. hand on his pocket book when he visits the city hall. "5'AVi;?' ' It will ndt make the slightest dif ference to the Thanksgiving turkey when the workmen's " compensation laW,goe8: into.-effect . A French engineer says the Pan ama canal it too small. "It is a lot bigger than the one the French en gineers built ' ' : 'i .;ti..; s: Even Bulgarian buttermilk Is no guarantee of long life to a Mexican if he keeps oh being a. revolutionist -' (CommonlciitloM Mav t Tt Journal fiw pet. llottkm In thl dprtmeut hoald be written ee Mir ooe aid ot tne papr, oouia w nma tUO word la length -aud miut be rcoBpnla br the him ind ddrH of (ke wadvr. If Ue writer doM met desire-1 hare tbf, MM Uibid, be ehould state.) DtaenatloB K the mtet Of H feformere. tt MtiADllaa rvblD it toiichra. - It robe CUielplea of all falae aactltr and throw than ck ob thalr .KoobUDraK , If thy bare no rMaoaaDicBaaa it ruuieuiy ctiwib ui wi of cxlatoDC aad aots op It owo concluaktae la tour td." wooorow -on. ; " "Replies to His Critics. " '; Oreaon City. . OrH Nov. .4. To the ditor " of ' The - Journal It. Ms 1 n very bad , tale not to ay unprofea slooal? for . "Another Doctor" as be style himself to. atUdk anonyoiouely a. writer Who has the eouraere of his con vlctloos;' and el ana his name- and ad dress In full. . Judging from the style of his diatribe, he la evidently a doctor only la name and outside Ue pale of medical ethics. He stlgmatlsef the edu cated nnvslclan who sinoereiy aavocates the removal from ' the dang-er sone of all derelicts In the path of human up lift as a "Frankenstein." : "a , moral monster, and hysterically accuses him of belnc "devoid of human sympathy "the- most dangerous specimen of the human1 family" worse than -a "petty thief" '-who should have lived in the dark ages of thumbscrews and physical torture, ', and much more in tne same ludicrous) efierveaencet - T r Really, I have not reaa anyming quite so funny. In many a day I As the re spectable father of a lusty family, with nine robust grandchildren and prospects of areat-BTandchlldren : at no very dis tant day, it was comical to learn from Another Doctor-:, ? 1 1), that l "uiKiouot' edly stood at the -foot of the class and sadly need the -kindness and sympathy he denies to others." To lightly amend Tuck" motto: What fools cn mortals bef To bis profound -question: "Is the doctor prepared to take his own medl clnet I hasten to gleefully answer "Certainly provided I can be classed with the habitual criminals, moral de generates, and aezual perverts," speel fled In the Sterilization Act which hap pily I am not" . I trust that "Another Doctor" nas really no just cause to dread a law of which his unbridled language reveala his horror! If repairing hare-lip and other de formities' and waging relentless war upon flies, mosquitoes," and -rats, har boring minute forms- of life causing typhoid fever, yellow fever and bubonic plague, shows "a want of respect for the Infinite Hand, of whom, and in whom, and by whom all forms of life live and more and have their being. then I must plead guilty. I have always thought that It was the function of the real doctor to cor rect, modify or destroy the abnormali ties of nature. ' To another anonymous crttio on the same day K. E. 8.," whose -conscience"- he asserts is "fully as scien tific" as mine, whatever that may mean, have only this to say. that If he can not discover the connection between the breakfastless children, of Chicago and the wlndowleas bedrooms of Now York and my contention, he had better procure Malthus' "Principles of Popu lation," and "read, mark, learn and in wardly digest" the same. - , DR. W. C. SCHULTZE. Arleta's Social Center Work. . Oregon City, Or Nov. T. To the Edi tor of The Journal There are new things in Oregon that are worth Imitat ing, and one of these Is the Social Center work at Arista, Any progressiva school director or school- teacher who will call on Mrs.' Johnson,- secretary, or K. It Flagg.: .president. of , the Arleta 8oclal Center, I think will learn muohr that he could tell with profit to the people in nis own district,, as Mrs. Johnson ex presses it, they are seeking to occupy their schoolhouse as much as possible of every 24 hours, Instead of allowing the investment to Ue idle more than five sixths of tlie time ; . , - The Social Center workers nrovlde evening clashes for adults and. foreign ers In the elementary branches These are taught. by, volunteer teachers; they have a singing school, much like those ati.wh.lch our fathers learned to carry tuns, which la much more than most of us can dO now. They furnish hotf lunches to the school children at cost, and do 'Other things for the common goof, that are well worth while, and that could be done, in many other places with advantage to all the people. . .... : . . I learned about this work last Tues day evening at a meeting called by the Social Ceuter, at which Honorable John Manning and. myself were erroneously advertised to debate the single tax. - Mr. Manning' advocated his' plan to bond the state for, buying and clearing logged-off land for gale to farmers at cost and on low Interest . I talked for - the $1600 homes' tax exemption amendment, and for another to abolish tha stats senate. Theie people have no fear of the public discussion of politics, as was very evi dent at this' ..meeting. irt'f There was no joint discussion of the ngle tax and will not be in this cam- t-MLiirn. - It la not an issue. The homes' tax exemption amendment Will help the little home maker,, and thaf will be euf- :ient lor one campaign. . - , , Taxation a Sore Subject. . From the Vale Enterprise. 1 The present disturbance in Malheur county as well as In some Of the other counties, being somewhat more intense than la usual does not necessarily Indi cate, that the assessor Is - wholly (to blame, v There are . many . concrete : in. stances of a legitimate increase in -the property in the county. .. If we assume that .the 1013 valuation - was correct. Is it not true that there has been Im provement In the country? .. There Is more land In cultivation, a new- railroad has 75 miles Of road bed completed. .' It has been found-In many Instances that men have three or four-times the . land In cultivation over that of the previous roll. FhaU they not be punished for this? That Is tils' system now in vogue. PERTINENT COMMENT fc SMALL CHANGES t What the - people decide at - the polls mum pe rcisraea a u .nsnt.. PerhD--a rtauner hu t.ie. advantaa-a lnosjpsrmsj muwi1aoout..oeat,-. manylsm has ever been Tammanyia! courts. :".:':" ly:; 'Vv ii'.--'''. Even back east elections are not what they used to be; 'hot so inuoh partyisin It wasn't expected that the president of the National Woolgrowers' associa tion would like the new tariff. s. y: ' .v.-v'iiih - Castro," a news item says,' has been missing for three months, v Let nobody advertise a reward for his discovery; i.i.'.;-.,'j':,.f..--,,,",i;,''.,'a f.' v.. i Soma Deonla 'hat all doaa1 "btit' nulte frequently a dog, by prompt, intelligent mm neroiu svuon, saves a cnua uia. u .. '':' -M"; v' Recipients of Carnegie prises Snl medals for Jierotsm ,- doubtless deserve them, but no more- than others who get " A"' Mexico dlty paper-declares that the alleged ' votes for Huerta were "In fluenced," if npf manufactured.. The editor's -liberty, if not his life. Is prob ably precarious.: -i , ; j?i.y ' i COMMENT ON Mark SulUVan In Collier's Weekly. ' The foremost interest in Washington centers ; about the question- whether or not - a currency bill will be passed at the present session. Failure to pass it will be a severe indictment of the effi ciency of our present form of govern ment . If thtf speed of congress Is now limited to-two major measures a ses sion, it Is obvious something must be doho to take care of the constantly en larging field of federal ' legislation. Meantime . there Is plenty of evidence that. - although congress Isn't able to pass a currency measure, it Isn't very busy with anything else. These words were spoken In the eourse of the debate on the. currency bill' by Congressman Jeremiah Donovan of Connecticut: "It is nearly criminal. : Tou ought to have stated here, and let tt go Into the Record, that the leaders of both, sides have abandoned this bill and have put It In tha hands of new members and in experienced ones. Why did not you say that for months there has been barely a Quorum here, and that most of the time less than half a quorum has been doing business? Take a great state Ilka New Tork, with scarcely any of lt members present, and other great states, and there is a very small per centage, of them present" t One reason why congress Is resentful about being kept In Washington by President-Wilson to pass the. currency M1U Is rather sordid. If they are kept in Washington until ths last day of November, obviously they cannot ool lect . mileage. Some years ago. on an occasion when one session lasted until noon of the fourth of March, and Presi dent Roosevelt had called a new session for 1 o'clock the same day. ' congress Invented what they called a "construc tive recess." They formally passed a rseolutton giving themselves the mile age to which they would have been en titled if they bad gone to tneir nomes and returned. . Although this "armchair mileage" episode happened as far back as 1905, the memory of the public dis approval of It is still vivid, and no one wants to try that device again. The mileage Is a fairly . Important part of the compensation of many members. It is given at the rate of 20 cents a mile, and for some of the members runs over S'.ouo. .Reasonable neople do pox Be grudge the mileage to members of con gress. The - salary, . $7600 a year, is by no means too large, considering uu the terra Is but two years -long, ana that every second year" in most cases, thm tnamher must SDend a good deal of money even in the most modest and rigidly legitimate expense oi securm his. reelection. Moreover; many mem bers are compelled to maintain homos both in Washington and In their own districts. It would be better all around If the lower house, now numbering 436, were cut down more than half, to 200, and each then given a salary oi aiw.vuu year. . , ' ,. Many senators are honestly concerned A man comes into the country and lo cates on a piece of wild sagebrush land, clears It, digs a ditch, cultivates It, buys horses and cows and chickens, builds him a little home, and lot down comes the assessor and levies on mm at a rate that takes at least all of his prolts for several years, H6 has periormea the function praised by philosophers of all Axes: ."made two blades or grass grow where NONE grew before," trans formed a desert Into a home, a wilder ness into a farm; and he must be pun lsbed for it. He receives philosophical encomiums while his pocket is being picked. - -' More, still more, does he do for which he receives neither pay nor praise: He has increased the value of adjoining land for every purpose but taxation, mi,, .ninniativa owner raises his price w,.vv. , : , v , . . - and at the same time goes wivn in his eyes to the oflfce of ye tax equaliser, and says: ' -pon. mr. i. gee no revenue xrom r wi una therefore pay you - no Uxes, tfx this man who by his labor has mads his land pay an incorfle and perhaps some man will buy mine and makeolt pay lhter? The law or the present system imnoaea a tax on ' personal property. The. or "a", railroad company has 1800,- VUV null u vvv- on which they Srs willing to pay taxes at "the usual valuation; they hav, tl, 000,000. of the same material uua on thir news-road and desire, if not ' de- mana, tnat ne They give as a reason mac ins roaa income, that the personal property has been transformed, by- the process of labor. Into ' realty which ahould be exempt . Yet the fruit grower who . haa a rear old orchard and can derive no income for five years must not be- exempt Ior tn same reason, - The railroad states through its officers that ttlie cost of material has nothing to do with the value. . Therefore when tha rails are figured at their cost In the pile they must not be figured . at their cost on the roadbed. ; WhyT wf -H The farmer's tools are assessed, horses and . wagons - and harness, year after year,- and the cost is the. basis of the valuation, - no. question is made that the revenue that ne derives has anything , to "dd with the taxation. . He may be fivs years paying taxes on his tools before he derives any return on the work he has been doing With them. He cannot succeed Inutile same argu ment as the .railroad man, WhyT There are two men, one has f 1.000 (on Which he SHOULD 'pay taxes) another has a lot assessed at $1,000. The latter borrowg the $1,000 and builds a house and Is assessed at $$,000, The note hold er objeots to being assessed at all, claiming that it would be double tax ation,' Bo it is, but It Is the man that Improved the property that is doubly assessed. - , t If h is valued at tS.OOO and, the nots AND NEWS IN BRIEF ! V-fORlCCON. SIDKLIOUTH ' The Wbodbiirii ludependent chides one of, Its exchanges not naming It which "comes to us week after week and year after year without a line of editorial," Th TridnnaiiilMnt mavm thla "aeema to US wjfWtty Uke jh.M)n rKSJjUm,dealtlyte .'Wheeler Reporter: Operationsare being resumed . at the . Necarney rClty oil well with a. view to determine with out any question -whether there Is oil to be found In the valleyi A new hole will be started as soon as the standard drilling outfit arrives. ' ' 'M there is any state In the union that -should observe Apple Day in- the fullness ot tha spirit of the occasion. It Is Oregon," says the Grants,; Pass Courier. "This is the premier 'apple state when quality la considered, and in quantity of production if will be found in tha varv .front rank When the great-acreage now planted comes into euaring, y j -fi -v . -W-w-y. - Rebuke of the voter of the delinquent or non-voting variety in Newberg Oraph Inr 'Tlauda Lewis who la a medical student in- Portland came home Tues day to vote, while some fellows who were in. easy walking distance of the voting places did not manifest enough Interest to go and cast their ballots. But' probably It Is Just - as well for people of this class to stay at home." CONGRESS about the domination which President Wllsen has established over congress. With them it is not a matter of re senting his ascendancy they sincerely believe that if such a situation grows there will arise a real danger to the constitution or the government or some thing. They forget that this aseendancy rests wholly on the popular approval of the legislation which the president Is urging. ; Let the president urge some thing the people do not approve and his so-called domination will disappear la a day. j How the public generally feels about It has been well expressed la the Newark (N. J.) Evening News:' : : "The president of the United States Is the national administrator. The sooner that Is understood and acknowledged tha more direct and prompt will be national reform. - It is to the president that the people look for the vindication of their judgment He is their ehbsen leader and they expect him to lead. ' It follows neces sarily that the people expect their pres ident to have a free hand. He has been entrusted with pledges and must be al lowed to redeem . them untrammeled. ' Vor the national welfare he Is as nearly responsible in person sS a single man by any possibility could be." There is a strong point In the argu ment that the president represents national Interests, while senators and members of congress represent local in terests: ' "The people have practically ceased to look to congress for leadership. They expect of their representatives in the national legislature the harmony and efficiency of action that will enable the administrator, the president, to make real the hopes In respect of which he was elected. Sectional Interests, it Is true, result in returning to congress al ways a proportion of men who register countercurrents of national thought and desire. a And yet the mal contents In., congress take the attitude that the- president is guilty of usurpa tion If he seeks to hold even his party In cqngress." ' The real trouble is that the people are expecting ministerial authority and re sponsibility in a form of , government , Which Is not ministerial: "Congressional usurpation Is what the people of the nation have to fear. They understand this weir; and they will understand It better and better. Sooner or later, unless the signs are deceptive. the people's attitude on this question Is certain to be made clear by trans forming the national government trao tlcally into a parliamentary government, In which the administration, perhaps through what will amount to a ministry, shall be 1 held clearly responsible for each and every national policy. , Until then, the president individually Is the accepted national leader ft his majority in congress, and whatever seeks to take this function from him, whether it be congress or any other Influence or In terest will be disregarded and con demned by the people as usurping." holder at $1,000 what kind of assess ment should this be denominated? If, as will certainly be done, the tax Is passed on to the house owner from the noteholder we find a man that, had a $1,000 lot adding Improvements amounting ' to $1,000 taxed on $3,000; $2,000 by the assessor' and $1,000 from the noteholder. .v-'-.-vr . Certainly-there are brains enough In the country to get rid of this outrage ous system and evolve an equitable one. The real trouble Is that tha brains lie with the men that Vants to avoid his share ef the burden. Yet if a fair sys tem were once In operation the wealthy man would take more interest in expen diture of funds and the saving would reduce taxes In. so great a degree there would be less occasion j for. complaint YOUR MONEY By John M. Osklsoa. " I . have said that I believe the real investor Is he -who thinks more of the return he is going to get on his money while it Is being employed by someone else, than he does of the chalice of the thing into which his money goes , In creasing In value. At any rate, I have the backing of much European opinion and practice ' in this. a;v :;y ffi-r- This tas brought clearly to my mind not long ago When I heard ot the invest ment "experiences ot a large number of Hollanders. t; Very - thrifty - and very cautious, as a rule, are the Dutch. They are the sort 'of. ? purchasers Who are 'Content with - a . low rate vof return on their money if they can be assured that the money Itself Is safe. Working on that theory, the Dutch, ' for a good many years, have taken aoores of millions cf our bonds of the "savings bank" grade. Those bonds the, Dutch took at about the . highest .. prices they . have ever brought ,. Quotations have dropped steadily,: year by year, until if the av erage Dutch bondholder should be com pelled to sell out he., would find that bis. loss would average between i and 3 -per cent a year during, the time he held the bonds. And, since the Interest rate paid is probably but , slightly above 4 per 'tent, he would find himself getting an . actual return on his Invested money of between 1 and 2 per cent. In some cases the Dutch have been tempted to exchange, their long , time, low interest : bearing -and safe bonds for certain other sorts which pay. a higher rate. These exchanges have tak. en place within the last five or six years, and in that time the prices of the new bonds, ha re fallen even, more rap idly than the - others. ;.;. f ;-:.;-.-.; i... But most Dutch investors pay no at tention to the price changes of the bonds they hold, What they want Is the reg ular Interest and the assurance that when" the bond matures it will be paid. The. Dutch are real Investors. JN EARLIER DAYS rs Vf Fred IxjcUey. )t ' They call him -, 'Big-Hearted fiUK though William Shearer Is the name he signs to his checks. , lie lives at .Top penlsh. Wash. He has a 1700 acre farm Hn alfalfa . ' .. V; : Bhearer, "when T?Z' was? rtt trtWX? old, by getting a Job as a messenger boy with the Burlington at f& a month. I stayed with the Burlington for a-good. . many years and finally went 'over to ' the Northern Pacific and worked for 14 i years for them; r. 1 came to Toppenlah . when the only building here was a Water., .' tank.. - The land was Indian land at that : " time. I was appointed postmaster and : for IB years was postmaster .here. A few years ago, Arc'.ile McDonald came S to me with a proposition to go In with him in a big way In raising alfalfa t 'V had saved about I1U100. . We leased a 1 j lot of Indian land on a five year lease ' and we bought some heirship land. , It was all in sagebrush when we got It. L We planted li00 acres to alfalfa and 600 acres to timothy and clover.-1 be- ' Have ; it Is the largest bay ranch In Oregon or , Washington.. ,j . -v . i ', "We cut three times during the sea- - son and pasture after the third cutting. We get from 6 to 1 tons to the acre. ' We have-cut this season so Jar, ' 6000 . tons of alfalfa. 1200 tons of timothy. and 600 tons of cloVer. We cut contin-' uously from June 1 to October 1, em- ploying about 76 men to -do the cutting kbuu iwtu, - uur.iruraoun nuius aooui 1 1006 tons of hay but of course, we keen- -.' our hay , pretty well shipped out We have already shipped 2000 tons of al- " ! falfa hay this season, most of it going l! to Portland. We get $1160 a ton laid ' down in Portland. - That brings us, less '. the freight about s.60 a ton. ,We have , . aliady made our third cutting so we ; have 4000 head of sheep pasturing on the alfalfa now. We get a double bene- - fit from this. ; The profit on the" sheep 4if ana tne enrionment or tn tana, we keep 6 head of .horses at work most of the tune. - . f '-x'."--.'." ; J-'. "When . the hay Is out we let It dry for a couple of days and then rake It Into wlnrows. In place of hauling It -on sleds, as most ranchers do, ev use' s rake to rake the wlnrows Into hay cooks. We leave the haycocks one on two days, depending on the weather and . then with a buckrake we take it to the stack. The' rakes are driven across big slingg which elevate the hay to the top of the stack. v n -should Slay In then stack for at least 10 days to let it sweat f before being baled, - .. f ,v ' "Farming on a big scale as we do costs about 9 a ton to raise the hay " and put it in the stack . If you figure . In your interest on the money invested in the land or for the rent, as well as the cost of cutting baling, hauling andi delivery at the depot, you will find it v costs you about $ a ton. This leaves a net profit of from $10 to $16 per acre . per year. . ,'v,ft; "The best way for you to appreciate what the hay industry means to Top penlsh Is to go out with me In my machine and see for yourself r Fred Wiggins and Charles Atwood of . ' the Toppenlsh nursery. Mc Robert John son, Mr. Shearer and myself, went aut in Mr. Shearer's automobile, and visited the Toppenlsh -district From the crest ot a rolling hill we 1 counted 47 haystacks. "Most of this land." said Mr. Shearer, "Is in the In dian reservation and Is leased by white men. The leases weually run for five . years. The renter pays, from three to five dollars an acre a year. Over 60,000 . tons or alfalfa is tributary to Toppen lsh, while over 100,000 tons of , alfalfa Is raised in this district' Much of the owned, land that Is the heirship lands purchased by the whites '., hae been planted to orchards but there ' is approximately 20,000 acres of alfalfa, grown in the vicinity of Toppenlsh. A ' good deal of the alfalfa is sold In the - stack to stockmen who drive cattle and ' sheep in here to be finished for the ' market We have shipped out something over 2000 cars to outside points. We' have jtound the most suocessf ul way of ' raising alfalfa Is to level the land with a'Fresno scraper and sow eight pounds of seed to the acre. Some sow as high as 10 or 12 pounds to the acre. We dlso the ground until it is as fine as flour. When the alfalfa has been planted we run a SO foot leveler over it to fllVln low places. The seed should not be -drilled in deeper than a quarter of an inch. Some of the farmers here use the ditch system, plowing irrigation chan ; nels two and a half feet between the rows, while others use the check sy tern. Personally, I prefer the check system. "I usually plant alfalfa some time between June and August though It can be planted at any time between March ' and ; October. -New land is thirsty so you have to put more water on than when the alfalfa has been grown for several years. When the alfalfa is up about en inch we irrigate It again and after the third year we go over the field with a dlso harrow or spring tooth har- row. It looks as if all the alfalfa would be plowed up but of course tt does not Injure it any. It lets the air la to the roots and Increases the fertility of the -land.' . " -: -": :. ' - ?. "As the years go by. more and more of the Indian land is being purchased by tne whites ana while the Toppenlsh . district is already rich and productive. it win be one or tne richest sections of Washington In the next few years ' when all of our young orchards have come into bearing and more of the In- dlan land has passed into the hands of whites." , y:- x-J f :i ...-. .'',5':-j Pointed Paragraphs ; Love is responsible for most ef the. happiness and unhapplness in the world. About the chespest brand of amuse ment is watching a pretty woman eat- ' log . corn off the cob. V , ?; :r.:.K' Every ' properly constructed mother thinks children were a lot more obedient' when she was a glrUv' -.r '-5. Help Those Who ; ' Help YOU,' . Mr.. DEALER ' There Is no copyright on the ' Golden Rule, snd It is not opn to Improvement. It woiks mighty well "In' business works for your pocketbook. , : - The manufacturer who goes ' : Into your newspapers like Tho Journal . with his . advertise- --. mrnts of Roods . on your ; Shelves Is trying to help fju. The least you can do 1s to help him by showing his goods and pushing them. (If they were not worthy ' of It you , wouldn't' have them In stock:, I would you7 r , .-Just make this one of the golden rules in your business . ' to help the manufacturer who helps you. - - You t will -' be surprised to : find ontshow it will work for - good all around. ' M