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THE OREGON BAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND", THURSDAYS EVENING. 1 NOVEMBER 27, 1913.
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BAJI.Y AND SLNPAY
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To be a strong hand 111 the
dark ,u another iii llio liiat of
lleud, l ls A cup ot stiirigth
to a liuiuu.ll in crisis of
weakness, Ik to know the glory
Of life Anonymous.
;i'K THANKS
GIVE thanks unto the Lord.
Forget not all his lienefits.
Give thanks for the miracle
- ' of harvest and motherhood.
(Jive thanks for home where love
.' and restful Maec abide, in whose
windows the mother's light to guide
the steps of the returning wander
ing child ever shines, for lipine
- where selfishness, envy ami discord
i do not dwell
(live thinks for joj fill reunion
Of children and children's children
-each forgetful of unrealized ambi
tion and desire in the joy and sue
.'otss of the other.
Give tluuiks for the blessed mem
ory of the old homestead, the never
i fading, never dying remonibrauce
' of tie greeting of grand parent at
the door, the old hallway, the old
parlor and ft walnut sofa and cen
ter table oii which rested the fam
lly Bible with its clasp of gold, the
fragrant scent of parlor and living
room, the old kitchen Ironi wnicn
:cme the rich savor of lurkey and
mince pie. the white 'damasked din
ing table heaped with the old ap
lu'tizliie iilatrs. tin- holy quiet as
grandfather invoked:
' Bo present nt our tablr, Lord:
Be in r- it k i-v.m v win yf ndoril.
VtfA un with hr.-Mil. ami itinnl (hut we
Hay fi'H.xt in panidls.' witli tliee."
f!ive tlianks for the memory of
the hour of family communion, the
singing of the old solids; the last
good bye, the wave of farewell at
the turn of the road to grandmother
standing In the door, shadiiiR her
dinv ees with her wasted hand.
Gire thanks for the opportunity
to work, to sow and to reaix, to re
pay to one another the debt of
benefit and mercies, merited and
unmerited.
- Gite thanks that we live In an
age : of . progress and rapid com
munication, in an age that acknowl
edge "I am my brother's keeper",
in an age that promotes the gener
al welfare, in an ago that is has
tening to a realization of the fath
erhood of God and the brotherhood
of man.
Give thanks that we live in con
stant sight of the mountains that
inspire to higher ideals and civic
and individual righteousness; that
we sense the odor of resinous pine
and fir: that we hear 'the music of
the waves breaking on the shore of
the sa. Give thanks that we live
in a land of bountiful harvest, in
t land where life may be full.
Gire thanks that "we hae meat
and can eat."
For all these things let us give
thanks to the Lord and forget not
All hls'benefits.
KliSTIXG A MKAT COMBINE
HOW a meat trust was beaten
at its own game at Nurem
berg, Germany, is recounted
in a consular report of No
vemlier 18.
. . Kaj y in j n 2 .the high prices .of.
meat caused the city council to en
courage the use of fish. The city
purchased Ik 1,879 pounds and re
tailed the fish at' actual cost. A
central market was maintained, and
later outlying markets were estab
lished. Free weekly courses in the
cooking of fish were established, a
fish cook book was distributed and
wives of worklngraen were especial
ly Invited to take advantage of the
Instruction. '
Meat prices had advanced from
32 to 44 cents a pound for a good
piece of beef, with other prices In
proportion. The city decided to
buy meat and sell it to the people
at cost, but at first deferred to the
butchers' guild by offering lo sell
through the regular dealers at
.prices fixed by the city.
. Moat prices suddenly dropped
from 20 to 4 0 per cent, even before
the first city meat appeared in the
butcher shops. City meat was of
fered at 4 M; t p 9 cents cheaper than
that of. the regular dealers, but the
butchers shoved it to the back
ground or treated it as second class.
After two months the city opened
its own retail shops which now
number is.'..
In. a year's time Nuremberg han
dled 1,931. 454 pounds of beer, veal
and pork, the aggregate purchase
price being 30M96. This supply
represented 14!8 cattle. 4r, calves
and C303 swine, the greater portion
of which was imported from Bel
gium, ilolland and Denmark.
Retail prices include all elements
of cost, ' such as freight, preserva
tion expense of handling, rent, fix
tures, and allowame to salesmen.
Beef-was retailed at a uniforjn aver-
SAVprit" of 1 g cents ' per pou nd ,
' veal and pork at 1 7 to rents.
K-!tfJIttlchm. maintained price
M t 6 W tents higher on ordinary
cuts and SVi to 11 rents higher on
choice cuts.
These differences in prices are
said to represent profits of the
butchers, tor the city mRrkets pay
all legitimate expenses. The mu
n id pal markets have been so sue
cessftil (hnt Nuremberg will con
tinne them indefinitely. The city
had a imputation in 1910 of 3:12,539.
A X K.IK mob
p
JUTLAND ought never to hold
another school -meeting like
that at the Armory.
It was not a deliberative as
sembly. It was mostly pandemoni
um. It was a meeting of estimable
gentlemen and ladies, but neverthe
less a mob.
1 here could be notbiiiK
more
Nor
of a
archaic. Nor more chaotic,
less deliberative. Nor more
travesty on sane government.
The proceedings were not a mat
ter of decorous discussion. No mo
tion was adopted aB a result of dig
nified debate. No decision reached
by the assemblage was consequent i
to information elicited In the course)
of tho meeting.
About every gentleman present
knew exactly what he wanted be
fore he went there. In a general
way almost everybody was intoler
ant of everybody else.
Ill calmer
moments most of those who shouted
and hissed when speakers were try
ins,' to he heard will be more or less
regreiful of the evening's perform -
am e.
Turbulence, passion and the wild
hurrahs of prolonged disorder are
an unusual place in which , to stage
the action that spends $2,250,000
of the people's money. It is not
often that so great a sum is levied
on the property of a community by
a near riot. The most extraordi
nary thing about It. Isa that a meet
ing in the interest of education
should bo so emphatically non-edu
cational.
llowevor. It was hardly the actors I
and actrrsses, but the system that
is at fault. The former are to be
commended for their Interest in ;
affairs educational. It is a splen-1
did sign when so many are con-'
cerned about the schools, it is
commendable spirit when they are of the bankers will he distinctly ob
so willing to spend money on i servable, and the actions of tlneir
schools. I allies on the floor will be seen by
But tho system is exactly thelall the co.intry. Though the bluff-
thijig to forward just such bedlam
is the Armory riot when, there is
vast, interest by the people. It
forces the citizens and citizenesses
to degenerate Into a showing of ;
mtniliers rather than a showing of
reason. That is the secret of why;
the Armory meeting was pande-f
monium.
It is an unanswerable reason for!
providing a better plan.
A PIA'CKKD KAlfJtOAl)
N AKLEGED tendency to leg
A
islate the property of liie
haves over to the have-nots
Is assigned by Judge Fenton !
as a reason why railroads have dif-'
ficulty in floating bonds. j
How about the plundering of tbe
St. Louis & San Francisco railroad?:
The looting of that system by tho'
officials and managers is more ef-
fective ia discouraging investments ' ica to Investigate the slaughtering
in American railroad securities than industry. This expert returned and
I.? all the regulative legislation of irt ported that Argentina meat is
all time. high grade, that its exportation to
The system was driven into hank-'the United States should he encour
rtiptcy by the plunderbund that aged.
controlled it. It appeared iB the! Hut the meat trust was busy in
testimony before the Interstate Com- j the meantime. Standing on the as
merce Commission that its officials titrtion that high prices were due
and their friends cleaned up profits entirely to limited supply of cattle,
of $7,000,000 by buying or building the trust contracted for all the re
connecting lines and selling them j frigerator space in -vessels plying
to the company. As individuals, i between North and South America,
the looters built and bought lines, j With these contracts signed, sealed
and as officers and directing heads and delivered, the trust again had
of the company bought the proper-; control of the meat situation. It
ties from tbomselves as individuals ; was announced that prices would
and made the company foot the mot fall, that the new tariff law
bills. As the company's officers v ould not result in a l6ver cost of
they bled the company to the tune : living. '
of $T,00O.O00. tor themselves as in- j :AUoriie,y' ''General McKeynOIds
dividuals. and as a result of these ( proposes to test, the trust's ability
and other dizzy transactions sent) under the law to corner, not only
the line into the bankrupt court. native meat, but also the entire
What, must lie the thoughts of .available supply in South America,
thp French investors who took $2S.-lHe has announced that the trust's
000,000 of the bonds of the com-' contracts with shipowners will be
pany shortly before the suspension? taken into the courts. He lays down
How long, after hearing of this ' the proposition that no monopoly:
exploit in American railroad finance,
will it be until these plucked
French. Investors will want more
American railroad securities?
If the railroads seek to know-
why there is regulation, and tight
money for railroad securities, they '
will find the answer in a long list
of bankrupt lines and exploited in-;
vestors, the last ease of which is
the wreck of the St. Louis "& San
Francisco.
THE BONIMNt. AMENDMENT
0
N ,11'I.Y 31 last a tolal of
$6 0S,94 0 had beep transferred
fro tn tho city's general fund
to the improvement bond in
terest fund. The greater portion of
mviir -o m-o.cu iu
tertj&l payments ' on improvement
bonds. I no city was obliged, that, five cents or twenty-five for one
Its credit mlht be saved, to pay; dollar, and requiring sale of tickets
Interest which delinquent property , by all conductors. It. is approxi
owners should have paid. , I niately the action in Portland, where
The Journal has printed articles
explaining the necessity of this
transfer of funds. Data-secured at
the auditor's office shows that de
linquents are confined largely to
land speculators. The a'verago
home owner and the average busi
ness man is not delinquent in bis
payments to the city.
The speculator uses thp city's
credit without attempting to- lultill
his obligation promptly.) lie bonds
property for . improvements, not
even paying interest 011 the bonds.
He, allows the city to carry tho en-
tire financial burden incident to
Improvements, trusting to his abll -
Ity to sell before the city;;: can en-
forte payment.
unaer tne present system tne
- j speculator pays no penalty for mis-'given him?
- 1 use or the city's credit. The nianj , -
- 1 w ho navs nromiitlv has no advan- Detecting a fox stealing into his
Itage over tho man who waits ten
years before paying a dollar on lm -
proveinents on which he has had
t lie benefit all that time. The syB -
1 1 in is wronc. it i.lncen a nremliim
on delinquency, and the premium Is
paid from the city treasury.
The proposed amendment will
remedy this defect. If the amend
ment is adopted tho speculator will
have the option of paying when pay
ments are duo or of having a pen
alty charced asainst him. He will
not be able, without cost, to have
the city lierpfinanee him a number
of yourB.
The present bonding system Is
defective in many ways, but no de
fect is so glaring as tho loophole
through which speculators escape
imvlnB- for whnr lhv apt whpn thev
KPt ((
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fun IJ.iXK KRS'- GAMK
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HERE is more than one way to
defeat banking and currency
reform.
The present plan is delay
and confusion. The big bankers
bluffed and bedeviled the senate
committee into disagreement. The
1 con fusion
so brought about is a
first step for defeat of currency re
form. The division In tho committee Is
a case of treachery to the public in
terest. The pursuit of the disa
greement on the floor of the senate
is equally sinister. It is exactly as
the phalanx of big bankers would
have it.
The opposition to the adminis
tration bill has been coquetting with
the central bauk idea. Not a mem
ber of congress who becomes prom-
inent in advocacy of that plan will
ever be re-elected. Xo present
'member of the body at Washington
was elected on that issue.
Hamulv. the fight has finally
reached the open floor of the sen-
a!ate. In that open forum the game
'mg and bulldozing representatives
(,t vVall Street did succeed in dead-
locking the committee, it cannot
lone deadlock the onen senate.
It lias been a mistake that the
senate did not act promptly as did
the house. It is disheartening that
there should be so much delay in
Informing a svstem that shelters so
many abuses. There is general
agreement that our crazy-quilt cur-
rency system is a great national
wrong, antj there is national disap
pointment when a senate committee
in its weakness is lured away from
its manifest duty.
SOl'TH AMEIUCAN MEAT
T
HE tariff was taken off meat
importations for the purpose
of making meat cheaper in the
United States. The govern
ment sent an expert to South Amer- i
has the right, legal or moral, to fix
prices arbitrarily.
It is time that trust methods be
tested in the courts. .Mr. Sic Roy-
noltls is probably right in saying ;
that tho meat trust's contracts wit I
shipowners are contrary to law. It
i not conceivable that law sanctions
power in the hands of a few men to
withhold food from the hungry. I
The attorney general's declara-:
tion for a fight to a finish with the:
meat trust is encouraging. The j
American people have long thought I
that laws were sufficient, if theyj
were only invoked.
Yesterday at Olympla, the Wash-1
ington Public Service Commission I
Ordered
the Seattle Electric Com-
ju-.jiaiiy in rsmuiiMi uu lis surei. rail-
: wavs. a rate of six fares for twenty-!
the city commission has ordered a lnl, en 'l 1',0fa,l'y general and
, . t . , . ! obtain nil the information possible on
six for p, quarter rate. There isjtne subject. '
threat- that the Portland company j' andkkw stu.TZ CHAMBERS.
will appeal the order to the. Oregon
Railway Commission, a plan that,
for Its standing in public sentiment,
the company would better abandon.
, -ttt H
There is not the slightest, doulit
of Commissioner Brewster's purpose "p ,"v.""7lt "t-trer" In
,. it, ,i. ,.n i 4i. .L....ilrton- 1,le latest to make the claim
mj ueufi ov -tu- -wouiiopai j
of Janitor Chamberlain. The'(!.hnge
to cohimission government was to
secure efficiency. . But, in toe ease
of this man who has been In the
position fourteen years, the city
j cannot well afford to turn its back
on him at 72. If Me la not strong
(enough to be a janitor, is there hot
a less chiiuhs itB mi -
I poultry yard, a Vermont farmer
took careful aim at the intruaer
and fired. He was pained, when
the smoke cleared away, to" find
that he had missed the maiauaer
and killed his best rooster; He was
not unlike tho Wisconsin hunter
who fired at what he thought was
a deer and hit a passing trolley car.
rtrtl,, fi, tin,.,. olnna 1fiSH hflft
!WU1 IVMJ1 IIURO nniv.
the Portland school levy been above
six mius. xNever oeiore in iubiuij
has It been 7.5 mills. The nearest
was 6.6 In 1905, when property was
assessed at a much lower level
than now. It cannot be denied that
we are becoming riotously uproar
ious in our support of schools.
A shot fired point blank at a col
ored gentleman's body failed to
draw blood, it was found that he
had pn, one overcoat, one under
coat', one vest, one dress shirt and
three undershirts. Here Is an ad
vantage In wearing one's whole
trousseau.
If you are at a loss what Christ
mas remembrance to give her, and
if you want It to be both highly ac
ceptable and expensive, give her an
egg.
Letters From the People
(Comiuaniritlnnt tent to Tb Joarml for pub.
Ilmtlon lu this deimrtnient nhonld Ix written on
only otie ulile of the puper. nbould not exceed
.100 words In lonRth mid must be eeoinpnled
br (be name and addreM of the lender. If tn
writer does not Jt-alre to bare Uie HOM pub
lished, he thould no stute.)
"PIscimKlmi U the srtU't of all reformer.
It rationality evervtbhS It touctaea. It roha
principle of all fnlno aanetlty and tbrowt them
back no their reuauuablrumH. If tbey bar no
reasonable:!!'. It nithle!T eruabea them out
of exigence uini cu tin its own conclusions In
their atead." Woodruw Wilson.
An Advocate of "Oregon Iry".
Now-port, Or., Nov. :l. To the Kdi
tor of The Journal With interest I
have read Mr. Walker's letter in
The Journal. I. Ike him, I witnessed
tae debusing and damning Influence
of rum in my youth. I hated it
then. Later on, when I saw Its
terrible destruction among my brave
comrades, 1 hated it more Intensely
than ever. My hatred continues to
increase. Like Mr. Walker, 1 was a
Republican and voted in 1860 and
18G4 for Lincoln. For that, my pride
is still unbounded. For nearly 50
years we have mourned the death of
our most beloved president, murdered
by a drink-crazed villain.
Tho reason why Oregou failed to
go dry In 1S8T. as given by 1. H.
Amos, namely, that the National Liq
uor Dealers' organisation told the Re
publican leaders in Oregon that if
they allowed the state to go dry they
would defeat that party's presidential
candidate, is, no doubt, the truth. But
I Wish to add a little early history,
showing bow that party became the
tool of the traffic. The liquor dealers
planned to entrap the Kepubllcan
party in the '60s. When the Repub
lican party called its national con
vention to meet in Philadelphia, June
fi, 1S72, the liciuor dealers arranged
for their annuaJ convention In New
York, on the same date, near enough,
you notice, to he in touch, yet distant
enough to avoid suspicion. Those liq
ual dealers wrote a plank for the
Kepubllcan platform, which became the
sixteenth and known as the Raster
resolution.
Herman Raster wrote it
and took it to Philadelphia and It
was presented to the platform com
mittee by the dealers' attorney, Sena
tor Quay. In explanation of It, Ras
ter soon after said: "I wrote the
sixteenth plank of the Philadelphia
platform, and it was adopted by the
platform committee with the full and
explicit understanding that the pur
pose was the discountenancing of all
so-called temperance and Sunday laws,
and that Sunday, the day- on which
rhristiatis hold their prayer meetings,
is no better than any other day."
Here was a solemn pledge made by
the great national Republican party in
exchange for the liquor vote. Noto a
few results: In November that year,
1S72, Horace Greely was defeated for
president by 76.1,000 votes and died
broken hearted in 20 days. His dis
astrous defeat was in perfect harmony
with the party 8 pledge snd In payment
for the Raster resolution. Four years
later the Democratic: party, having
grown wise to tho power of the liq
uor vote, adopted1, b-lr "no- snmptnary
law" plank and nominated Samuel j.
Tilden. acceptable to the liquor deal
ers. Neither General nor Mrs. Hayes
was acceptable to them. The result
was that the great Republican ma
jority of 76.'!, 000 against Oroely in 1872
was turned into a Democrat le maiority
for Tlldon of :.M.H5, though Hayes
was counted in by an electoral com
mission. K. W. DURKEE.
I-'or Free Text Books.
Lents. Nov. ST. -To the Kditor of
The Journal Though I have no school
children of my own, I am Interested in
lhe.ii- education and I concur with S. S.
shoemaker, that the public schools
should really be free schools.
I was clerk and trustee of school dis
trict No. 56 of .Spokane county, Wash
ington, from ISO! to 1300, and from 1S02
to 11107. The laws of that state permit
ted pehool districts to vole for or against
free tex tbooks, a t general elections, and
of course most districts took advan
tage of it. Then the state supplied the
hooks, such as the teachers called for,
free of cost. I believe textbooks can
lie purchased from a district's general
fund, by petition or "by a SDecial tax
election called for that purpose. Home-
i times my board called special elections
to vote and levy extra taxes upon the
property of the district to replenish the
jsiinni lunu inn) ntii munpv was
: urgently needed from the general' fund
ror immediate use. Technical!)- speak
im. - H ' not difficult to carry out.
l believe the state oueht to Himnlv
textbooks to the schools, and there may
lie some state, laws that would be help
ful to districts. I won). suggest writ
ing to the county and state school miper-
K. A Matthieu, Constable.
Portland, Or., Nov. 25. To the Editor
of The Journal The undersigned has
bi-en watching tho papers recently with
kooiI ileal of mterohl as one person
fter another has assorted his claim
-M Tr.c!e i- rank
Nichols of l.airtlnw
Crook jounty, Vtyolwas elected sheriff
of Polk county the first Monday In
Jun, 184. He will have, to take a
.second place, however, and give the
honor to Francois Xavler Matthieu, who
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CH AA'GK
To pet soaked invent in watered tock.
Beauty that rubs off Isn't even akin
deep.
Muri'laR HomotlmeH opens the eyes of
blind people.
Wore thltiKu come to those, who do
n vaii rr inem.
It takea the better
half to see tho
worst tide of a man.
And occasionally thexxtoctor Is more
dangerous than the disease.
AVork hv anv other name, wouldn't
make a hit with lazy people.
. . .
It Is never too lute to blame the
other fellow for your mistakes.
But the man with money to burn
may not love, tho Killed of smoke.
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but
it's a smooth one just the name.
Only the man who has more dollars
than sense can afford to be sarcastic,
Green la a popular color at present,
but no girl should be green with envy.
A uli'l with a fare as pretty as a
picture may be spoiled by an ugly frame
of ml lid.
He's an unusual man who doesn't love
hlmnclf any more than lie loves his
neighbor.
A girl as apt to marry a man too old
for her uh a widow is to marry one too
young for her.
A man who knows how to do one
IhlnK rlht may try to prove It by
doing something rlwe wrong.
Kvery time you ee a woman headed
downtown ehe in either going to t dry
goods store or to the dentist.
Many a woman who owns a dozen
ultra-fHKhionable skirts hasn't one that
la fit to wear on the streets.
THE MAN WHO DAMMED THE MISSISSIPPI
From the. American Magazine.
Twenty years or more ago an ambi
tious youth walked Into the private of
fice of George Horton, a western struc
tural engineer. He was fresh from high
school, where his boyish thoughts had
been full ef bridges, engineering plants
und power dams. This had developed In
him a passion for mathematics and blue
prints. He told Horton in Just about
to many words that be wauled a Job.
Kvon that was mure a formality than
anything else, for the boy bad gone into
the office firmly convinced that he was
going to get it. Horton told him that
buiflness was light, and that if any
changes were made In the force he
woarld lay off men rather than take
them on
"Now, Mr. Horton," was the answer,
"I came here to go to work for you.
Where shall I hang my hat?"
Horton decided that, dull as business
had been, he could afford to give a boy
of that caliber aa opportunity.
It was confidence and determination
that won for Hugh Lincoln Cooper in
Horton a office, and lt has been these
same factors that have enabled him.
while still in his forties, to harness the
Mississippi river at Keokuk. Iowa, and
by means of a $27,000,000 power devel
opment dam, a concrete monolith from
the Illinois to the Iowa shore, to de
velop' iOO.OOO horsepower, 0 per cent of
which is furnishing tho current for the
public utilities Of St Louis, 143 miles
to the south.
Hugh L, Cooper did not need, a tech
nical school to prepare him for his work.
And the manner in which ho-., financed
the Keokuk project Is the best illustra
tion of the dogged perseverance that
has won for him success throughout. He
had Jm;t completed' unusual ' power
plants In the east when he heard of
Keokuk. One of tliem was at Niagara,
where Lord Kxlvln and other British
scientists laughed when be spoke of
driving a tunnel under the center of the
Horseshoe falls. Cooper Ignored their
protests, went ahead and 'carried his
blue print plan to complete success.
Then he looked to the Mississippi.
was elected constable at Champoeg for
the entire Oregon territory on May J,
1843. Besides, he made good on his Job.
A "blind pigger" set up a still In Cham
poeg. Marlon county, and made "blue
ruin," as H was called, out of Hudson
Bay company's molasses. Mr. Matthieu
caught the man, destroyed his plant
and warned him not to attempt to man
ufacture the vile, stuff again. A lew
months later the fellow started another
still. Matthieu put him out of business
a second time, and as a parting Injunc
tion said: "Now, you get out of this
country to stay. If you are caught set
ting up a still again, I will hang you!"
That was the last of the miscreant.
GEORGK H. HIMKS.
Slovenly Reading.
From the Cincinnati Times Star.
"There is too much slovenly reading
matter," remarks Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler of New York, who thinks modem
literary taste and appreciation atrophied.
The president of Columbia points to the
famous old lawyers of the colonial per
iod as examples of fine minds nourished
and developed on a few good books.
These scholarly Americans, the doc
tor says, had .only a limited number
of volumes at their command, but each
volume was a masterpiece in Its clads
and left a deep Influence upon the
reader.
Dr. Butler ia quite right, but he over
looks the fact that these famous old
colonial lawyers lived in an epoch when
leisure and the opportunity to rumlnato
lovingly over a classic line or a poetu
simile, were more in evidence than tbey
are in 1913- Today wo take a running
iurnn at our library shelves und fee'
ourselves fortunate if we are able to
liang on for a scant hour or two. We
have only time to partially absorb tn
purity and beauty of style of the old
writers. Wc do not reflect, we cram.
We carry the quick lunch habit Into oi'r
arm chairs, mu uie ieun.ims ueen
the deterioration of both taste and ca
paeltv for the finer flavors. Dickens,
Thackeray, Balzac, Meredith, Lamb,
Eliot, the simple historians like Wceins,
are pushed aside as we grab hurriedly
for Rex Beach, R, II. Davis and other
chroniclers of the frantic present. We
do not even read Mark Twain a truly
terrlble sir, of omission..
The multiplication of mere books tJ
day is not ' encouraging. 'It Is destroy
ing the incentive to tj)W, careful read
ing. The new movement for "fewer an.l
better new books" is all right so far as
It goes, but it should not be allowed to
hide the fact that the grand old writers
are still standing light at our indiffer
ent finger tips.
A Warning to Lawyers,
From The, New York Globe.
Tho appellate division of the supreme
court,, after careful consideration of tlve
case of Charles H. Herbst, an attorney
up on charges -uf professional miscon
duct, has ilectded that youth and Inex
perience will not hereafter be accepted
as an xcuse when a lawyer appropri
ates , to. his owti" use trioley belonging
to a client But the court apparently
does nut, think It right to . give tlfts
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The'Medford Sun admonishes those
who are, probing the hiali cost of eggs
to oe catena ana not uroaa any vi me
precious things.
Baker -county's commlsKioners ara
considering a propoHltlon for Joint ac
tion on the nurt of Baker and Grant
counties .tor employing a farm expert
KohmII Journal: James McKay of
Trail fork Is preparing to take a trio
back home to hoinl WCotland. on which
he la to start about December 1. with
the expectation of returning Via the
Panama canal about April 1.
Tillamook Herald: Howard Casey, at
one time county treasurer of this coun
tyr in iu tho city viuUing at the home of
hi sister. Mrs. Henry W oolfe. Mr.
Casey is at present engaged ua light
house keeper at l'olnt No Point, Wash.
it ha been fight years since he was
In Tillamook.
Viewing the attempt of the State Bar
asHociation to get the court fees re
duced in the United States district court
for Oregon, tho Dallas Observer Is
pleased to conceive a great hope, whence
It exclaims: "TIUnK of It lawyers lin
ing up to reduce fees. Who will say
that this crld is not getting better?"
The University of Oregon sopho
mores, st ine r uanct to tin sriven ue-
iwmtw H, wRl drink punch from sani
tary cups. "Tins,- says tne feugene
Register, "ia a death blow to the. 'bugs'
that in the past have lurked on the
odge of the drinking cup ready to Jump
onto the lips of the fair sex. Paraffin
cupa will be furnished for all those tak
ing punch, and they will he contained in
attractive nickel holders."
At Astoria 30 years ago Hunday, ns
iiPIM-nis mini the Astorlan s reminis
cence column, it waa rumored that a
newspaper waa to he published in an
offii ithovu Krank Parker's grocery.
the 'chamber of commerce had voted a
memorial asking the forfeiture of the
Astoria land grant, and a company was
being incorporated to hnlld a narrow
irnuce railroad from linker a bay to
Grays Harbor by Shoalwater bay.
An article In an engineering publica
tion bad attracted his attention and he
decided to go to Keokuk to investigate.
He made the trip, saw, and was con
vinced. The waters of the Mississippi
held the power, running unchecked
toward the gull', and Keokuk felt that
in Cooper it had found the man to carry
out the hopes of many years past. But
tho most difficult problem of all re
mained unsolved how to get the money.
Cooper's lowest estimate was $0,000,000.
To finance It as a local proposition was
out of the question, and Cooper could
not handle it alone, although he did
spend before the work was under way
over $100,000 of his own money. It is
even said that when actual construction
work began he was $500 in debt-
Cooper went east, and before he re
ceived one favorable answer be, had
been shown out of the offices of 68 capi
talists. The strange part of It Is that
when he found men who would listen.
they were not Americans, and when the
project finally had been financed, 65
per cent of the stock was held by foreign
era. Cue man was In doubt whether
the power could be sold as a paying
proposition after It had been developed.
Cooper waa positive that St. Louis alone
would give contracts large enough to
warrant the undertaking. The financier
still was skeptical. In order to settle
the argument Cooper went to St. Louis,
mid before one bucket of concrete had
gone Into the work he had contracted
for the sale of 60,000 horsepower to the
Mound City. At that point the engi
neers who bad studied th situation
begun to shako their heads. They told
their chief that a turbine whoeL could
no i te found that would prove success
ful under conditions at Keokuk.
It tl.ero isn t a turbine wheel on
the market that we can use," was Coop
er'a answer, "wo will build, one to fit
our needs. You men come Into my
office and we'll work this out together.
They diifc. ,-and today 39 of these
wheel'!, of entirely new design, "built to
meet the peculiar conditions in the river
at ICeokuk, are developing tremendous
horsepower under conditions that are
the wonder of the engineering world.
rule what may be called ex post facto
effect. So it does not disbar Herbst, who
misappropriated merely suspends for
two years his right to practice law.
That it may not be said that the
honorable court Is being misrepresented
we quote from its decision aa follows:
'Under tho circumstances of this case
we have concluded that instead of the
extreme penalty of disbarment we will
suspend the respondent from practice
for two years, with the distinct inti
mation, however, that tne excuse of
youth and inexperience will not be re
ceived in the future as an excuse for
misappropriation of moneys received
by an attorney to be held by him for
the uso of his client."
... Let all lawxerstaka notice.. Hereafter
they -cannot steal the moneys nf thetr
client and hope to get off by pleading
you tli and inexperience. The court gives
warning that in the future it will as
sume that a man who Is able to pass
a bar examination knows enough about
the law to be aware that larceny is a
e rime.
There is no suggestion that the appel
late division intended to be humorous
in the utterance quoted above. It ad
moniKhes in the most solemn manner.
Yet "lot in a long time has literature of
legal humor been more enriched.
Mileage and Discontent.
From the Tacoma Tribune.
Discontent is claiming the house of
congress for its own. The members are
grumbling over the senate's delay of
the currency bill and are finding fault
with each other. They want to go
home. Congressman Fowler of Illinois.
dlscusNing tho situation in a speech the
other day, said:
"Mr. Speaker, we have stayed here
until the leader of thi majority, Mr.
I'nderwood, lias become afflicted with
senatorialltis, and he cannot be here.
We have stayed here until the minority
leader on thel'rogressive side, Mr. Mur
dock. Is seriously afflicted with a fever
ish attack of chautauqualogis, and he
does -not want to bo here. Wo have
stayed here until the minority leader on
the Republican side, Mr. Mann, has be
come afflicted itli a lingering type of
that dreadful disease, filibusteroids,
and be is anxious to leave for treatment.
In fact, Mr. Speaker, the entire member
ship of this house is now suffering with
an attack of prolongtermltls."
Congressman Thomas . of Kentucky
was more frank about it. "I want my
mileage," he declared, "and so do, my
creditors. I am from a Kepubllcaii dis
trict and it takes money to get people
to vote right in my district."
Congress allows each member 20 cents
a mile each way, to and from his home,
for every session. That perquisite runs
into a nice lot of easy money for,mem
bers w.ho live a considerable distance
from the "national capital. ..President -Jlj
wuson nas Feiuseu to sancuon wn b
Journmeht Of the special session and, the
senate committee has agreed to let tne
special session run Into the regular. Der
camber session.' v That means the mettle
bers will lose their, mileage. It's enough
to make a thrifty congressman discon
tented and peevish. .
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Lot-idey. .;
"our family moved from Portland to
The Dalles In the fall of 1862," said
Captain William P; Gray, one of the
pioneer steamboat men ot the Columbia
river. "We lived In , The Dalle that
winter Father launched hlj steamboat,
the Caseadllla, in December, 1862.' Next
spring we took the Caseadllla up to
Lewlston, plying on the Clearwater and
the Snake rivers. We carried wood
from Lapwal and lumber from Asotin
to Lewlston.
"That Spring father had trouble with
A. Klmmell; his -purser. He found out
that the purser was not turning! in all
the money. Father put him off the
boanTnd told Tlm what he thought of
men who were crooked. What he told
him was plenty. Shortly after thu
purser had been put ashore, we were laid
up cleaning the boilers. The Casca
ding was a half deck boat. Father was
lying on hla back on a pile of cordwood
repairing the steering wheel ropes. I
was in the cabin aft and looking out I
saw Klmmell take an axe from the wood
block and start towards father, whose
head was toward him. Father had both
hands in the air Bpliclng a rope. Klm
mell drew bauk the axe and aa he
brought it down to split father's head
open, I Jumped for him. I had no timer
to do anything but to launch myself at
him. I struck him like a battering rain
in the back and shoulders. The axe's
blow waa deflected and the axe missed
father's head. It also overbalanced
Klmmell and he fell overboard. Klm
mell, wild with anger, clambered ashore,
pulled a pistol from hfe pocket and be
gan shooting at us. The first shot he
fired struck me in the hand, cutting the
flesh on my third and fourth fingers.
The second shot struck me In the foot.
I did the only thing possible under the
circumstances. I ran down the gang
plank and etopplng, I plckfd up several
rocks and threw them at him as I closed
In on him. By good fortune I hit him
with one of the rocks, In the stomach.
and knocked him breathless. He grabbed;
his stomach with both hands. I closed
in on him nd hit him in the chin. The
blow knocked him down and I took fhe
pistol away. Some of the crew came
ashore, tied him up and turned him
over to the authorities at The Dallea.
"father was always a peaceful man
when It came to the law. He said he:
was able to settle his own troubles. In
fact, he never had a lawsuit in his life.
When the trial. came, father refused to
appear against him, so he was turned
loose.
"Klmmell bought a sailboat. It got
loose from the bank at Celtlo and went
over the falls. Klmmell could hav
readily got ashore but he had money
in the cabin and while trying to recover
the money the boat went over the falls
and Klmmell was drowned.
"Father sold the Caseadllla in the
ummer of 1863."
YOUR MONEY
By John M. Osklson.
I have a friend, a retired preacjier
of 74, a fine, sane, enthusiastic old man
who loves to get out Into the rough,
open places as well as I do. He and
I were riding, Indian file, across the
rocky, hills of Arizona when 1 asked
him this question:
"Doctor, did you ever work' out a
plan for setting aside a part of your
salary while you were active in the
ministry?"
Ho whipped up hie tired horse, and
when he was close enough to make
me hear, he told me of the method he
had worked out to" insure himself
against going to a retired ministers'
home to end his daysT I wish I could
repeat here all of what he said it
was fco sound and .sane a discourse on
the functions of saving; but there Is
not room.
Briefly, the preachers plan was
this: At the time his first child was
born, he went to, the treasurer of his
church and had a talk about endow
ment insurance. It was decided be
tween tliem that the preacher should
take out a policy maturing In SO years,
the premium on which would amount
to $50 a year. Knowing that he could
not save the amount (for the demands
on the purse of a generous man on a
small salary would never leave a sur
plus), the preacher stipulated that the
treasurer should provide the IBO for tho
premium on the policy every year.
Ten years later the preacher was
transferred to a bigger church In an
other city. By this time his family
had Increased In site and he concluded
he ought to have more Insurance. So
be had a conference with the treasurer
of the new church and arranged to.
double the amount of endowment In
surance he carried. The total premium
payment then amounted, to $110 a year.'
Year after year tnls Insurance waa
carried. Premium payments ceased
long before the preacher retired, at the
lifio TV,- T,ncir xiwt ximrarnTni'inB
preacher had sufficient income from tho
endowment policies to ljve comfortably
in his own home and go out and see
some of the world. His simple plan had
served hiin well.
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Pointed Paragraphs
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Be sure you are wrong then don't
do It.
Most men who. talk well talk too
much.
The easiest
way
to catch a flirt Is
not tn -try.
A man Is known by his lawyer and
woman is known by her doctor.
It's always surprising how much
deeper a bolef of rtcbt is after one gets
into it.
If you have to walk, distance doesn't
lend enchantment to the view-
After a man has expressed his views
he may wish he had patronized a slow
freight. '
It take! a 'woman w ho can afford to
dress as if she. had a fine figure to
imagine that Bhe has.
While placing hirtvself In the hands
of his friends, the candidate should
place his pocketbook there also If ha
expects to come under the wire first.
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each Sunday:
Patterns for the homo dress
maker.
Suggestions for the needle
woman. tjl
Hints on honie economy. -Talks
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