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r1'' 8 THE OREGON DAILY . jUUfcNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY , EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, .1913. clothe the board .with such power ' whether or ; not it -Is exercised Ti 1 1 inMv i I to fnCL ULvJiAl would be constitutional. The law's against the people, is contrary to a : AJtaNfiKPrsnicNT n'kwsp4pib ! policy favors marriage and the i sound pub-lic policy, w. HrKH'jH v. ..,....ruhiiiihT birth of children, and Judge Sea- It should be contrary to law. It I'uiitu4wiw cvvdIds imm Similar) and.hurv known of no nrlneinla In law is not conceivable that th aviifem frr Btiuday ajoraliitf fll ine rfourntii iun' .... . , , . . . , A , jcreated is sanctioned by equity, by law, by justice, or by morality It is inconceivable that the .' . Bmailwar and Yamhill ta.. Portland Or. v - . ' ' .. L' 1 1. i A.uiri at .tbe poatoffire at Portland, Or., fir Iramniiaaioa tlirousb tba wall aa ateona ciaaa lliimar, ; - 1 . j;U.XEHHNfc(l aKflo Wa; Hum. A-M. All department realbad or ttaraa nowbara. T II . . muwamah, mil ra n f. or morals which sanctions the dis charge of a married teacher because of motherhood. The decision is rooted in sound sense. Motherhood is too noble an uitkm.v AtivnuriKi vi uicpkhsuntati vb . accouiDlishnient to be condemned bv H-njaniln 4t Kantoor Co., urun.wnit buuuiuk. ilia Hftb atauu.. New York J 1218 1'eople'a Qua milMlng. Chicago. I -uticri,iloi leriui tor mall or tu an addreu J a lb tolted State or Haxleoi L t DAILlf . . JDot r tar 15.00 I Ona nontb -80 , SCKDAZ .$2.50 I One month ...... a school board. A PINK TKA INDORSEMENT Do rear Jna yrir. . DAILY AND SUNDAY .$7X0 Ona uoou . .83 I In a world In which so many people wear the same clothes, live In the same house, eat the same dinner, and say the same things, blegsed are the Individ uals who arc not lost in the tnob who have their own thoughts, and live their own lives. Hamilton W. Mabie. t IN FULL RETREAT iHE fight in the National Con- " f I servation Congress at Waeh t I ington is not a fight over ua- tlonal or state control, but a . light between conservation and anti jbonservation. The advocacy of state control is Jiot in the interest of conservation . M public resources. No conserva- IioniBt Is an advocate of state con roL It is. the enemies of conservation ..; who are champions of state manage ment of public resources. Not one pf the ' men now fighting in the Inonservation Congress for state management against national man agement has ever been identified .: Swith. the . grand army of conserva - kfonlsts who are defending public Domain,; public forests, public water : bowers 'and other public resources Against' the freebooters, the bucca neers and the pirates who have , Committed the. mostly acts of spolia lion in the past. ' ft the, cry of state control is a Salse cry.- It is not a real isBue, , pui 'a bogus issue.. Behind state pontrol- is the plan of opening the jcafes by 'cunning and secret Inter ests for mora great grabs and more plundering of the public inheritance. "'; oteaHzing ; that there 1b no longer Slope' before public opinion by a Straight out advocacy of anti-con-ervatlon', tha anti-conservationists jire using the state control cry as -' f.:, decoy or as a blind to the great underlying purpose of a renewal of ithe old, wide-open policy of spolia- jUon. '.V v - , ... ; : Happily, Gifford Piachot is on the firing line. The great conservation-., - it is at his post, and the anti-con-: teetvationists, including our own Bill ilanley, rein full retreat. t It 1b well. . T HE State Bar Association voted for a non-partisan Judiciary. It could have been more wil ling. It would have looked far better for the vote to have been unanimous. But there were lawyers in the body who did not want it. There were lawyers who would prefer not only a partisan judiciary, but a judiciary selected in conventions In the good old corporation way. It was not that such lawyers want a crooked court, but because they think it unwise and vulgar for judges to owe their nominations to the plain people. The advocates had" to yield much to get their plan Indorsed. They had to give up the Reames resolu tions which provided strict instruc-, tions as to what the law should con tain. They had to surrender the program for an initiative bill and accept a plan to go before the leg islature. The surrenders make the action a sort of pink-tea indorsement. As little approval as possible was given. The selection of the legis lature as the means for passing the bill recalls that the bill to the same effect offered by the commission for reforming the courts was killed by the 1913 Oregon senate after the bouse had passed it. It would have been a blunder for the legal profession, for the asso ciation to have opposed the plan. That would have been a reaction ary step that the body could notj afford to take. Its vote against the plan would have given great im petus to an initiative measure for a non-partisan judiciary. , The bench is going to be re moved from politics. The Judiciary Is going to be liberated from every thing that tends to compromise it. There is no known reason why a Judge should be partisan. The test for his selection should be not hlB party brand, but his standing, his character ,and his capacity. The world moves. re cent instance of the destruction at Chicago of millions of dozens of storage eggs, a destruction sequel to the system of boosting egg prices, can have justification or defense in equity or in morals FOR A KINGDOM c ONORESS should, without de lay, provide funds for thebi dredge at the mouth, of the Columbia. The project is not a local project. It is not a pork barrel project. It is a national project. It is for deep ening the mouth of the second great est river in the United States. It is for improving a river that drains a great water shed compris ing 300,000 square miles. In the ments of the various lota and - par cels are certain. ' X ' There is wide disparity between assessments of property held by in dividuals in Portland. The result is that one man pays morev than his Just share of taxes, while another pays less. There is wide disparity between property assessments In dif ferent sections of -Portland. The PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE Carranza Is a great man in bis pic tures. a. a Vincent Aalor is one of the "haves.' all right. a' m Alleged private detective advertises result is that people living in one;th,t ' ' hrewd.". Couldn't the oity while people living in another neigh borhood do not pay what they should. What is worse, the present sys tem promotes a status destructive to morals by permitting tax prices to be one third to, one tenth the pur chase price when the law, in ef fect, requires them to be the same. Letters From the People (Cotumunleatfniia unt n Th Tm,..i n.,k llcatlon lu Ibli department ahmilrf k m-ri,,n nw only one aide of tba paper, aboulU not exceed 800 worda in length and muit be aerompanletl by tba nam and artdreaa of tba aender. If tba writer doea not dealre to bate tba uaaie pub llabed, b abould ao atate.) reaaonableneaa, It rutbletalr eruakea tbem out vi eauieiH-e maa aeia up ita own conclualuua la their atead." Woodrow Wllaou. FOR PORTLAND WORKERS A DIVORCE PROBLEM C I AN 'a woman be' granted a di vorce against her will? This .question is at issue in Seattle, where the superior court has It under Consideration. , A woman was sued by her hus band, the wife putting in a cross till for separate maintenance. At the trial it developed that the hus tmnd had transferred his affections io another woman, and the court decided he was not entitled to divorce. The evidence was euffi- . dent to establish the wife's right to a decree, and the court said the j' divorce would be granted to her. But the woman objected, Baying all did not want a divorce, that both her conscience and religion for bade it. : " f ue" Judge ' etpressed the opinion .. that under the circumstances it would be against morals and public poUcy to hold husband and .wife in marriage bonds, that the couple Bhduld be released from their vic- 1 at e3-Ton tfactio -ffiaTSew'omlfgtfc , ties might be formed if either so desfxed. . People will differ over whether or not the court was right. Obvi ously, there can be no fixed rule for such cases. Nor can there be : universal agreement on any point , .as . to- divorce. But since the divorce in this case was" forced upon the wife, there is net violation of her conscience or her religion. Meanwhile, she Is better off separated from a 'husband treacherous enough to prefer an other woman and vile enough to ' be denied a decree by a court that gave It to the wife. r MOTHERS AS TEACHERS : YUDGE SEABURY of the New I York supreme court has decided I' that married teachers in that J state, have, the right to bear children. New York City's school board has been ordered to reinstate Mrs.. Bridget C, Peixotto, discharged as a teacher on a charge of being "absent, without leave for the pur pose of bearing a child." Mrs. Pelxotto's caae attracted na- N ITS campaign for home indus tries, The Journal showed yes terday that 1100,000 is annually sent out of Portland for eastern biscuit. In bulk', i fa twenty-five carloads. If this money were spent at home by the purchase of biscuit made by one of the three Portland estab lishments, it would give employ ment in the industry to three hun dred additional workers. It would mean many additional thousands of dollars paid out for labor. It would mean use of many additional thou sand dollars worth of Oregon material. It is a . subject around which there is literally no room for con troversy. NObody would attempt to prove that it is better to send money out of the state for outside biscuit products than' to buy them at home. Spend your money for Portland made biscuits so Portland workers will get the benefit. area the steam railroads In opera- u"ab.,.,rtra. nun uave mi aggregate iracaage OI i p""--pi oi an taiae nctitjr and tbrowa them fto -m (too -- back on their reaaouubleneaa. If Ihey bare no The wheat production is 101,. 967,000 bushels. The oats vleld Is 67,982,000, and barley 20,492,000. An Advocate of "Oregon Dry." The Standing timber in th rir!nn roruana, Nov. 17. To the Editor of served hv thn 12ftn miW Pf lhe Journal Shall an attempt be gable Columbia, totals 723,000,000.- mad t0, ve ,yegon dry ln 19147 The 000 feet, valued at $1,150,000,000. 7," ' I , ' ' p'oi- It is almost one third the Btanding "IT" ' T"u " ?",pt, . 80 timber in the United States. , " :. "n" nn -tuo7 oi uihi ueieai : b.cui iui serves an area The "home rule- .m.n,,. of such vast production, lw far and ence Darrow. with his .ohi-t away out of the class of local aardlna it. di projects. It amounts to the propor- the voters' eyes and Duiiinir th. nni tions of a nationalized waterway over the same eyes. "Home rulo" sound- system. It is not a State system but ed rand, no doubt, especially to many an interstate system. Its anneal is men or lrl8 uescet so it carried here. not the appeal of a community, but 1 1,4,1 no sympathy for Darrow when he the anneal of on aa a nrndnntlnn I wa caught in the meshes at tha iur and a people that rise almost to the fit hh,M.d,,y truble. us aK"ln ln tu importance of a continent. tU?.P lZ a ?tt Congress should have no hesl- we shall need the hearty stiDDort of allfh- tancy in approving an approprla- temperance rorces. The first move, then, tion for such a purpose. The ln- would b to u"'te them. We've got the fluence of the river extends far into mX.the0." ii. .. . ineir Amcin.au lULciiui. no cuiiuu- iimDs tne more, until finally they will ued development and improvement dh themselves to their death against bears intimately upon the welfare l" "ol,u rocK r public opinion. of an eltnpie of people. a ? brlefly review Oregon's past In what better wav can rnnrno S "",u"lu" "es, and that ju wiiai ueuer way can congress I may jn part be an nnnirain t expend national funds than in bet- 2. 184. Oregon's legislative committee tering toe laciiuies ior commerce or p"eu An act to prohibit the manufac a region whose expanse, products . a Baie or ardent spirits." The principal reason for so doine. as T im " - -'"6UUIUi derstand it was fear th ..-i " V dians might commit unlawful acts, in volving even bloodshed and murder of wnue settlers. As far as I am advised It Is being suppeeted at Washington that Huerta Is one of those people who van i iHe a mill. a If those Mexican senators don't man'. and obey, Huerta will -round then, up mm Brim inem iodine penitentiary. On man as been convicted of aj- veriising aii-wool rods that were lets man nan woot. one count him one. a a captain Robert Dollar knows, and ays, wnat nas destroyed the American merchant marine; fatuous laws through many years. a Fossibly in a generation or two Ta. coma newspapers will cease pubUshlns stale and silly falsehoods about the Co lumbia river. The Mexican combatants ex ecu U captured officers, at least. What would they do to CHptured Americans, if war should happen? It was only a little over five years ago that Hyde and Schneider, lan 1 frauders, were convicted, and already they are briefly In Jail. Quick work. Prominent doctors agree that thu wearing of tight corsets are very harm ful to women, are cause of serious dis eases. But Dame Fashion has eve. been a murderess. a a Men who persist ln stopping others from worklntr are fur mnr imitMirahln citizens than those who won't work themselves. For the latter, many of us may entertain a secret sympathy, a a How can the statisticians ascertain how many eggs are Drodm-ed In this country in any year? They assumt such knowledge, but it would be inter, cstlng to know how they obtain It. Merely meddlesome and mischief making I. I. Wn are not wanted any. where; yet they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, unless they commit some crline; then they should be handled lawfully. OREGON SIDELIGHTS' The Herald has, changed Its location IN EARLIER DAVg;: lit Frd Luckier. a When I was 1 ' ye'ara'old," said Cap- to quarters in the New . Mosonlo blosk tain William V. Gray of, Pasc,VL "our at Tillamook.. . ' ' j family moved to British Columbia. This A hosmiMt with well eoulDoed surgery. w" " S09- ws worKing wlth which can accommodate 10 to 12 pa- canoes and batteaux onltho l'razer river, tierits, has been establtliesdat Lake- j A good many people got drowned on the view, with the opeiiing of which, the F a . " stream, but father used to any that dan ger was alj Jn a day's workf and one must take what' comes. We ran from Hopo to Yale. Father was an exDert woodworker, having learned tha oab- inet maker's trader and I worked with Examiner says, "the town Is provided with a sanitorium of which the citizens may well feel proud." a a Lapine Intermountain: Floyd Llp- flncott hbs completed hauling 18.000 ret of lumber from the mill to lots .If, and SH. hlnrk 1!H in LaDine, The lumber Is for the bank which is to :o , nun in the building of sloops and river established here next spring by F. W. boats. , Tomes of DwtghNeb. . j .., Ul- Hurniner ef 1840 we croMad Willard Savage, who according to theitne mountains to the Somllkameen river Fossil Journal, "used to be Bill Still- to prospect lor gold. We found gold on wen s assistant -village oiai'itsiuun ui,uie soutn fork. Father built two rock- muyvuie, nan mvcu lun iiikii t-voi vi living problem, to far as he is con cerned. He has Just served a term in the navy, and intends to reenlist, as "IHl a month with grub and other extras thrown in." beats anything elue that has come his way. The -Eugene Register thus Indicates the precinct that walked off wlth the record, at the recent elections: "Let not the city people boast -too much of their nroorresslveiiess. The little pru- clnct of Mound, lying In the timber at the headwaters of the Siuslaw river, was the onlv precinct in the state that gave a unanimous vote jn i.raypr or. tne uni versity appropriations. McMlnnvllle News Reporter: Rev. T. Ij Jones of Brownsville, one -Of the veteran preachers of the M. K. church. Is conducting evangelical services ut the M. E. church at Dayton. Mr. Jones is a preacher of the plain gospel and is effectual as a revival leader. He bus been in the state for 60 years, and is one of the old "circuit rider" preachers. He first preached ln Yamhill county in 1875. a Straight tip to poultry raisers or those contemplating poultry raising, in the Grunts Pass Courier: "The poultry in dustry Is a neglected opportunity. The Rogue valley offers year-round condi tions that are near Ideal. Soil of Just the right kind: summer and winter ell mate that makes the hen sing with Joy. It's not the hen's fault, and not the country's fault if the balance Is not on the right side of the ledger." AN ANCIENT TORY DOCTRINE OUR FOREIGN TRADE T THE PRICE OP EGGS r N THE Harvester trust dissolution suit Attorney General McReynoIds laid down the proposition that power to dictate prices is suf ficient ground for dissolution of a truBt uses its power to oppress the people. Redistribution of the trust's assets among independent and com peting companies, with no com munity of ownership, is asked. If the federal courts sustain the attorney general's plan for restoring competition In the manufacture and sale of agricultural implements, a long forward step will be taken to ward actual trust regulation. It will mean that no small bodv of men can seize upon power which may be used for oppressing the peo ple. The Harvester trust decision will have an Important bearing upon the entire problem of monopolies. If the attorney general's contention is upheld it may mean that our entire business structure must be rebuilt. At the present time the price of eggs is alarming. Eggs are soaring, in spite of the fact that enormous supplies are held in cold storage. Refrigeration has its legitimate pur pose in saving the products of fat seasons for consumption ln lean sea sons. But to make the warehous ing system an instrument for com bination and monopoly is a crime iion-wiae attention. The actual i in.t irmniHnri charge against her was not absence in the country, millions of dozens without leave, but the alleged of- of eggs are-in storage, waiting ad fense of becoming a mother during j vances in price, and, by their ab the period covered by her leave ofence from the market places, forc abeenc. -New York employs mar-,jng advances in price.. They have rled women as teachers, but the been withdrawn from market and i.u.ru Mi.euuwwn aeciarea it "bad I stored awav to- n rflrnlat th nn. ply that prices can be sustained at HE bureau of foreign and do- this law, which can be founrl in nni'a mestic commerce announces H,8t0rr of Oregon, pages 393-394. was figures showing the volume of i? , "5" ,aw 01 tne klna Passed in the I I I Till An krO tAai a o t .lj f 1 1 our export trade during the :o ri . .:T' .'y. ve"n? first nine months of 1913. Each state, antedating the Main. iw ciaos oi capons except cruae ma- biz years, unrortunately for Ore- terials for use in manufacturing "on- the "bove law, with its amendments " I 1 lAAAmAaa a 1 O tf . . wd,iiuci was repealed ana a I IpOn On lam Bnha(...J i-v 0m ""I""'-0 luwotuiu pur lit or 1846. Ortron ha tv.r an k.. . wholly manufactured amounted to grip of the body and soul destroying $236,794,628, as compared with 'iiur abomination. As a youth I wit- $219,786,310 in the first nine "es8ed debaBln nd blighting ef- Mftnnfnrriiroa fnr ' Oregon iiiy U88-4;. I learned ivianuiactures for n hate u fhn t it m . ... urther use in manufacturing ag- today, and for many vears hav h.n . j n..AAMAAA 1 ..... - - - gregaiea dut,z ,jb, compared I tne prohibition "firing line," though with 127$. 721. 233. MannfncturoH originally I was a Republican and voted finished ready for use jumped to Lincoln i860 and 1864. since we $589,966,S75 from $553,169,297. L"proh blUon Vt . d on thlt.T "? i uo loiai ou luese tnree Classes win stand until victory comes, or death Of exports for 1913 was $1,133,-1 In 1887 an attempt was made to vote 058,772, as compared with $1,052,- Oregon dry- It 'ai'ed, and why? it is 676,840 in 1912. r...i.ju umo. M,. n. Amos or rorx- ,-, , . , . vji., luu a, u.auuiauiurer s agent. umanouu ui uuiiun ana ex- we are told, made a trlD over certain port siauaucB on inese tnree classes portions of our state and found the sen shows a large balance of trade in timent decidedly for prohibition. This favor nf th United Stato. in., was about three weeks before the elec t.nrta nf fnoHofiiffp rortlo nr. -,1, uui again visil - " f-yj ' I lng some localities near election time he manufactured amounted to about found a decided chana-e . finm v.r $J53,000,0OOf .of manufactures for later "Mr. Amos, as chairman of our further urs in manufacturing. 2fiK - state Prohibition party, gave the reasom 800,000, and of finished manufac- ? cm wh,ich. was th.at ?ha lures, almost 3irw,uuo,ooo. t0,d th, R.DubiiCan nartv laH.ra In The United Kingdom, with sales Oregon that if they allowed the state to to the United States of over $201,- dry they would defeat that party's 500.000 and purchases of nearly Presidential candidate. The results t5fio nnn nnn iu fo in ft, ... eem t0 Justify that statement, for Ma v w w,v v v, v v v. ' inu aa -1- (VHlntv. malnlv Pannhlln n. ... Amaloo'a Knot l . ' a .uv,o m.wiuci, us some soo majority against prohibition ures snowing a traae Daiance in (and Salem now voted dry. Wonderful!) favor of this country of more than while Linn county, then decidedly Dem- 1 1 8 v to n ft ft ftft nan arl a s-nmo. Mv 1 'oeTatio--gaw ovei-aff morrty f or uro .ith bbIob nf t!l! OftO AAA anil nn ieinouraiio counties with sales or J9Z 000,000 and pur- feU lnt0 lln(S partlcularly Crook county( Chases Of $313,700,000, the balance then trongly Democratic, which gave a of trade exceeding $221,000,000. large vote for the measure. 1 voted in Germany 4s third with sales of Crook county, my home for 16 years. tne (inn nnn and niirmon nf ln i-roniouion voters largely blamed ttWonAfiAn ffr.n fnwh , the Oregonlan and Mrs. Duniway for " . " tne defeat, ana tne neonl of T.tnn ..nnn. the list, had exports of a little less ty, remembering, as it would seem, Mrs. than $100,000,000, and imports Dunlway's public utterances, time and sliKhtly in excess of $90,000,000. and again voted down woman suffrage, mi.. ,.,rinint a l"" ioay paper more man once de stration of America's enviable pq- jor)B-aB Mrs. Duniwav wna at th h.a,i sition among commercial nations. of the suffrage movement in Oregon. I am glad the paper was mistaken. Over 40 years ago I stood with Mrs. Duniway for woman suffrage, and took her aggressive paper'. The New Northwest. Full 40 years ago I stood beside hnr In tha milnlf nt one or tne Biggest problems the Congregational church at Forest Portland has to solve. For tbatlGrove and introduced her to the audl- From the New York Globe. The London Spectator, representing, as It does, a seml-clvillzation and half barbarism still strong In the wOrl.t, feels that It Is warranted in predicting that the annexation of Mexico by thii country would be the Inevitable con sequence of intervention. It dismisses as sentimental nonsense the declara tion by this government that under no circumstances will it acquire Mexican territory. The London Spectator, expressing the. Ideas of the . class for wliich it speaks, is unabla to conceive of any one really belftving in the principle that governments derive their Just pow ers from the consent of tne governeJ, It assumes that a strong people like ourselves, whatever we may profess, have In our hearts a desire to conquer and to Impose our dominion by fore as the Romans did. Professions to the contrary was -deemed hypocrisy a hy. pocrisy not particularly bad. because deceives no one. It Is not thought that any people, on the score of selfish policy as well as of morality, has or ever will emancipate itself from the no tion that it gains glory and advantage by placing Us heel on the neck of some other people. History seems sufficiently to provs that military conquests have nevtr paid the conqueror that the only con quests enduring or worth anything ara those based on consent and infiltration of a common population, and mutual economic advantages. Nevertheless, the spirit of feudalism Is still much alive among men and women prone to regard themselves as' superior: It has effected a firm lodgment on this side of the water. There is rejection of the consent-to-be-govemed theory as a sophomoric Idea of Thomas Jefferson and the United States, we are toli must do as the rest of the world has done. Let us rejoice, however, that there is not yet complete abondonment of the principles upon which this country was founded, and that whenever they aro pushed into the background some great American arises te revindicate and re establish them. For eighty years slav ery gave the He to American ideals and seemed to prove that wa were a na tion of hypocrites. Then came Abra ham Lincoln and the men who worked with him, with the simple doctrine thnt no man wa good enough to rule another man without the other man's consent. As a consequence of practical necessi ties following the war with Spain we held Cuba and Porto Rlcdand the Phil ippines In contempt of the letter nf the Declaration of Independence. TUo world cynically laughed and asked what had become of -our alleged virtu. But we got out of Cuba, Porto Rico has been granted almost complete self government, and a majority of both houses of the Philippine legislature arj Filipinos, and there is an implied prom ise that the Filipinos shall not long be denied their independence if they want it and furnish reasonable assurances of their ability to carry on a civilized state. The flag has been gloriously run up in foreign lands. With equal or greater glory it has been pulled down. No one knows what the future has ln store, and error may temporarily gain tho ascendancy. But there Is no reason for rearing, as long a9 Woodrow Wiison (of strong will and definite convic tions) is president, any departure from the principles recently re-emphasizcd by him. No 'Dumb" Children. Portland, Or., Nov, 19. To the Editor of The Journal I have noted the article in The Journal regarding the Oregon Association ' for the Education of the Deaf and appreciate the same, but your reporter made one serious mistake, which has hurt the children of the reason every property owner every ence as tn Peaker for th evening. 1 1 school very much. He used the word ..i,w 4nrrar.rf In PnHi.Jm "y that in latr 1 we came to . "dumb." Now, we believe there U no such thing as dumbness, if the child is I EQUITABLE ASSESSMENTS NEQUITABLB assessments of property for . taxing purposes is get committee were misquoted ln two items. The first refers to the method of payment for water meters. My con tention was that the cost should be paid out 0 receipts from water rents, and net by gen'eraf taxation, as the budget contemplates. The second' Item was, that if meters are to be generally installed to keep up the pressures tn certain districts, which Commissioner Daly stated to be neces sary, it would be wiser and more effec tive to apply the cost of metering towird.euiing the defects ln the distrib uting system responsible for the low pressure by enlargement of mains in such districts, rather than by the indi rect and objectionable method of cur tailing the consumption by metering him4M-JeatrJjart.j.the.jivatlabiel supply is wasted at tne-apmwaya-anar."' ?""'" through sewers. w nui unaersiana, nowever, that any nucule wiucu a. giaie can issue win serve as a guarantee against loss. There win always be an element of Another argument against universal metering is that because of the result ant reduced consumption and the $75,000 yearly cost added by the meters, a con siderable Increase In rates will be re quired to maintain the necessary re ceipts. To make sure that these arguments were 'Unassailable, eminent authorities were consulted, and found to be in exact accord. Anyone Interested mjy loo't up IthlHT. part of the company which sold the se curities to my firm, and that there would be none in my dealings with you. "Before you pay any money to my firm, I want you to write to the secre tary of state, at the capital, and ask whether or not I am licensed to sell securities fhcre, and find out Just what my license covers." In those future days you will be able to hold liable for any violation of the laws every indivldual connected witn the sale. The salesman who sold you the shares of stock, the bond or the mortgage, will be liable for misrepre sentation; that salesman's firm will be liable for any deception; and, finally,' the individual or corporation which put out the securities will have to answer to tne - raw- promp tly speculation in the great majority of se curitios offered to, the public; If there were not, and If the return of interest or dividends were attractive, the public would not be invited to buy they would be taken by the capitalists. Any state O. K. on a selling organ, izatlon or an Individual peddler of Be- the subject at the central lnrltleB would net suffice to guarantee GEORGE RAH. yu against gettmgr-watered" stock, for u is recognizea mat investors who know policy- t,o aiiow inese women to become mothers. :r The board w as heading toward a policy which would : barwiveav as . public 6chool teachers. : " " ; The court .decided ttfat l such a ru 1 - regulating employment ; of teachers is illegal in th nliwrn' nt ,f xpresg authority front' the:- legisla te highest notch the traffic will bear. ... . U i admittedly in the power-of cold storage companies to control the general level of prices since cold storage came into rogue leaves 1 110 doubt nlinnt thn ovcrrl oa ' r t that) t ore Thcrf Im doubt, sald Judsej power.. As Mr. McRoynolds' said in ''""U "Mviuter ;. a taw atiempting ,tne fiarvoat&r 'suit, the price of eggs, and the change in to a minimum. City hlocks are treated as a whole, All sources of reliable Information as to values are utilized, and when true values for such . power, . " the "parting of the ways" on temper greater prosperity, should study the ance. and It pained me to learn that she Somers unit system Of land valua- lately advised the women of The Dalles tlon. Walter W. Pollock of Cleve- to vote against prohibition; at least, land Is in Portland' to explain the ao the papers informed us. She knows avstpm and he should hav weu as i uo nie ravages vnai strong system, ana ne snouia nave eager Urink has made, nationally and iti our listeners. love Orefrnn. to which ah- nama In It has been demonstrated at 1882, an account of which she gave in Clnveland. at Dnnver. at. fJnTvoarnn her book. "Captain Gray's Company: or. and at many other cities that real Comulng to Oregon." a valued book in n .o0,a .ni..iiMn P1 home, but , was lost. . God grant her a " ..v .wwuiiwu,. mot peaceful Journey toward life's set The .general tendency throughout ting sun, to which time is rapidly bear the United States is away from the ins both of us, and may she throw her hit-or-miss method of determining influence for what we consider the high--,..f' i,. tinno 1 et ideals of civic righteousness. To V a lu her I would say:- "We need you, sister, found that true values can be de- rm. wim and we win ,i i,.J termined -with a reasonable degree good." Thus, all acting together as of certainty, and the Somers system one, though divided politically, along! made the demonstrations possible other lines, we wm win a glorious vie ; r 1 trw fnr trnri-JinrA nna tha will al rilKM. mI niAikn la i a . .1 1 vv J - . v...,-. . " 1 ' ""wu ib vwou uu bucks- fr1fv th- n.tl0n and heir. ml-hMl i work, influenced too often by po put our rightly named "Peerless , Ore liticalj pull or personal friendship, gon," latid of our birth, or to many that The hew system- eliminates these of adoption jnly. uBpn the highest jln-' factors, or reduces .their influence "acleJ.?L, cmn,n'eUh. th ia.ltu vi. jgm j -anu.jiuuf , iu CTRUS II. WALKER, Oregon Native Son taken early and taught to speak; and every child who swung the clubs at the entertainment is a speaking child. We use the oral method entirely in the school, and there are no signs used. Therefore,0 yoi- will see that it was a serious mistake to say "-Deaf and Dumb school." We 'are trying to educate the people that there need be no dumb chil dren, and regret this error very much. May I kindly ask you to rectify this mistake, by making mention of the same. In your papert . MRS. S. C. LEO, a ............... . what they are doing have a right to be lieve that the future will make good a security which is not good now. On this point,, however, the state's function ought to be very definite. A "watered" security ought not to be de scribed as anything else, and the price at which It Is offered to the public ought to be a fair one aftbr the chance of Its rise ln value has been properly discounted. Is this unreasonable, this demand for the O. K.' of the state? Long ago wo came to believe thoroughly In the prac tice of the states ln demanding the ex amination of our doctors and dentists, our lawyers and all those who flel with the public. We may reasonably demand that such men be reputable; and,rwhen we aro assured of that, we may deal with them ln a spirit of mutual confi dence. , - YOUR. MONEY By John M. Oaklsaa. Mr. Hae'a, Position , on Meters. , one-foot strips in Wie center ot caCh .l!ortU"d- Nov 19,-To the Editor .. j li I " . i i w a uui Jin., - 4.11 j ne luuriiHj or ISO are found, equitable, assess- .,.,,(,: o m -,.. -w u.t block In the future you who have money to Invest may expect to be approached by a salesman of securities who will say to you:.-- "I am a 'licensed dealer in stocks, bonds, mortgages and all kinds of loans, Before I was permitted to go out and selUhem to- investors. I had to satisfy the officials of your own state that what I had to sell Is sound. I - had Kindness to Express Conipunies. From the Tacoma Tribune. When the Interstate Commerce, com mission lsBued an, order reducing the ex press rates throughout the country -on October 1, the companies Insisted' thnt they could not readjust their rate sheets by that time and asked that 'the. date ot the change be extended to December 1, The request Was granted and now the express companies have made another plea, which the commission has granted, extending . the time for the reduction until February 1. J Certainly Jhe- erst white "arrogant" ox press companies can not, complain of any lack of consideration on the part of throTmnlSstoTii-Thacompanteif never needed much time when they wanted to ers, and for the next two months we"" kept busy. At the end of that time our supplies were rmining Very short. ,1 was 13 years old, and father decided I was old enough "'to assume responsibil ity, eo he sent me to Fort Hope to se cure supplies. There was no trail, but I knew . the general direction. I had to ford streams and cross rivers, but I had learned to swim when I wai 8 year old, so that didn't bother me. As W were short of provisions, j only toolc two sandwiches, thinking that I could .' make the HO miles within two days. I had a good riding horse, and I was go ing to ride from daylight to dark. I had not gone over 20 miles when a rath er hard character ln that country called uig Jim' met me in the trail. He stopped me and said, 'Have you got any thing to eat?' I told him I only had two sandwiches. He said. 'I haven't had anything to eat for two days. Hand me those sandwiches.' 1 looked at him and concluded that it was safest to give hlin the sandwiches. He bolt.i hm down, and grumbled' because I had no more. He was on his way out to Fort Hope, but his horse wag almost, worn out. I wanted to go by, but he wouldn't let me. He said, 'Oh, no you don't we will Btay together for company. Tour horse is a good deal fresher than mine, and I may need him." Aswe made our way across a high cliff, his horse lost Its balance and fell, striking the rocks more than 200 feet below. He made me get off my horse and mounted mine. We rode and tied from there on in to Fort Hope. It took us four and a half days, and all we had to eat during that time was a foolhen that he knocked down. My clothes were almost torn to shreds. When I got home. I went ln the back door. JJy mother aaw me. She raised her hands above her head and said, -Oh, Willie, what has happened to your father?' I told her my father was all right, but I was nearly starved. I seeured two horses and loaded them . with baron and beans, rice and other supplies, and started, back for our camp. When some prospectors ln town learned that we were making $10 a day to the man. they followed me to our camp. .. "When I returned father thought fiat he, could strike richer diggings, so he left a man and myself to work with the rockers while he went down to Rock creek, now the site of Roslyn, B. C. I averaged $8 a day while father was gone. The bedrock was a white clay. We threw the clay out on the tailings. A few years later some Chinamen tame to our old abandoned diggings and made 15 to $20 a day apiece from our old clay tailings. The clay had rolled back and forth in our rockers and the gold had stuck to It. When It had weath ered and disintegrated the gold was re leased and the clay washed away in the Chinamen's sluice boxes. "While father was on his trip he looked over the country, and decided to locate on Asooyoa lake, at the head of the Okanogan river, across the British Columbia border in American territory. Me went back to Fort Hope, and. secur ing riding horses and pack horses, my father and mother, my two sisters and two brothers and myself started for our new home. This was in October, and winter' had begun. We traveled day after day through the rain or snow. camping at night, usually ln the snow. Timber was scarce where father had se lected his ranch, - bo we hauled logs down from the mountains, split them and built our cabin by. standing the split logs on end. We chinked the cracks with moss and mud. After looking over the ranch more carefully, father found that It was not as good as he had, thought, so he decided to build a boat, go down the Okanogan and Columbia river to Deschutes Falls, now called Celllo. and bring supplies up the rive" for the miners. We had practically na tools, and of course no nails, Wa went into the mountains, whlpsawed out the lumber, hauled It down to the water. and father, with the help of we boys, built a boat, fastening It together with trunnels or wooden pegs. We could, .ha,y .secured ...natls possibly, utthe .frelkhOromlFoHlB'ar-waOf a "pound". and father decided that the wooden pegs would do equally welL We built a boat 91 feet long with 13 feet beam, drawing empty 12 Inches of water. The next thing was caulking her, but I never saw my father stumped yet. He hunted around and found a big patch of wild flax. He had the children pick this and break It to use as oakum to caulk the cracks in the boat. We also hunted all through the timber and found cum ln the trees, which we melted up for pitch ' to be used tn the caulking. Ho had no canvas for sails, so he made some large sweeps. Father christened her the Sarah F. Gray, for my mother. He launched her on May 2, 1861,' and started on his trip down'the rlvef on May 10. "To give you an Idea of the determi nation of my father, he aent that boat, without machinery, satla or other equip ment except the sweepa, through the Rock Island rapids and through the Priest rapids, both of which he negoti ated successfully. He arrived on the Deschutes on May . 23. He left me to bring tho family down, and I certainly had a very-exciting time doing so." . . :Z.r V. Yor" no lraua advance their rates. They shou d jiow in, the formation of the company which K0 t0 WOrk like little men and get every' put out these stocks w bonds or inert- thing ready for -February 1. Their har gages. -! had to satisfy them that therej xst on. the Christmas 'holiday traffic has been n- misrepresentation Ort the w ill be QA'er by that, lime., , , Sending Hubby Shopping, That dear old Joke about wlfey sending hubby on a shopping expedition is, losing its point. In these modern days hubby" finds it no trouble 'to get what wifey wants. ,3 Ho uses the advertising"' in live dully papers like THE JOURNAL for his guide and . goes to the right spot without - loss of time. . Perhaps he . merely telephones . and tha ,store tends- It.-. Modern merchandising serv.n Ice has relegated this dear old "'-Mm-mot" .of our forefather to the, "Old Jokes' Home." ' And advertising - la on ot Jlic. most potent aims in this new service. , '. .. ; -..