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TLiC iVSi-j'DKI A 1 " nfIn their salt but the men who
! rin. J V- vJ lA IN ML. make valuable things are working
THE OREGON v DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. 1 TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1913.
full time. It la' a good Indication.
. ..I'uhii.h.f ' The time was when nrosnerltv wan
i ".u."t V'.7 (ji.t B'iVlla?1! aued by Wall Street standards. It
'. M. JACKS'IN
Inf. Brwaaaraf and VamMII ata.. Portlaad Of, I IS possible the PeODiO have loamod
l.oir4 mt tu poatorric at Ponuad. f. i,! much needed lesson. One buav
factory Is worth more to the coun
try than one hundred Stock Ex
changes.
, triMifiiMjo lbroa- M sialla aa elaaa
Tt'l.U'ilOMiS Main 71741 Haul, A-euM.
All OriMrtnxot rrachMt or tBraa ""
. Ta tha ni-ati what department you want.
r VoitKlUN AbVKUTItSINU HKl'RHSBNTATI VB
t . rfn J, ml n a Kautoor Co., Bronawtri nuiiuma.
. ' ITS Fifth aranae. New Vorki III Paopla a
f a Bnllilln. ttfeairo. -
Sutcrltiuo laruu toy aiall ar to a or addrvaa
ta Is ballad States r Mfilco:
DAIL .
Oat faat J5.00 I Ona aaootb 80
6DNDAT .
Oaa aar $1.60 On month I -29
DAILY AND SUNDAY
Ona atar Ooa moot 83
lines ' already ' establishing agencies ; several years ago. " There was ; the
and contracting for terminal conneo-j towering skyplece of last year with
tions. Jt win be toe greatest force quarter decks, poop decks and the
over known made suddenly available i muzzle hat pin sweeping the horizon
for the rapid , and tremendous, de-,Or, there Is the smaller gear of this
velopment of a new trade field In; season with its poultry yard of
the far Pacific states. For reducing feathers taking up all the room In
MR. FILTO.VS KMAH1.VSSMIJNT
C
Aspire, break bounds! I say.
Kndeavor to be food, and bctii r
ft 1 1 1.
And bent'
Robert Browning.
-0
A tX)MMENIABLK STKP
iHE activity of the Portland
Chamber of , Commerce in be
half of an Alaska steamship
line is a high service to Port
land.
A, perruuneut special committee
from the body is to work among
. Portland business interests for sup
. port for the line. A campaign is on
to Induce Portland jobbers and man
ufacturers to send representatives
horth to do missionary work in
Southeastern Alaska and the Yukon
basin.
'-It is a splendid leadership. The
., weakest point about Portland has
been her lack of alertness In open
ing , new trade connections in dis
tant fields. Such connections are
not Qnly desirables but imperative in
jxrom'otiug local prosperity?
We cannot . , survive by . merely
.' swapping town lots. Nor can we
tnrich ourselves If everybody does
- hothing but collect Interest on loans.
- Nor can we promote prosperity by
having the: landlords raise rentals
higher and higher.---
-'-j 1 Something must be done that is
not K parasitical. Payrolls, said
James J. Hill, are the big basic
. fact" on which to build prosperity
, for a city. Distant trade connections
., for. Portland mills and manufacturing-establishments
will make In
s creased payrolls. v When the Port
land Chamber becomes active In aid-
'- Jng an Alaska steamship line, it ex
erelses the function of a real cham-
ber of commerce.
, Portland's trade possibilities in
'Alaska are almost boundless. Alas
"ka territory is an undeveloped trade
kingdom. . It is almost a continent
of resources.
The great coal deposits are not yet
opened. . The shipment of machin
ery for-the vast development of coal
mines has not yet started. It is as
If the surface of the great mineral
, empire of the North had only been
scratched. There is no question but
the figures of the future in that ter
ritory will pass into the one-hundred-million-dollar
notches.
An Alaska bill is now pending in
congress, and It is a bill which pro
poses the opening of the great coal
regions. It will be passed at the
present session, and it will mean
sudden and extraordinary activity.
It will mean railroad building
with Its consequent demand for sup
. plies, clothing,, blankets, machinery,
tools, and unlimited necessaries. It
will mean the opening of the coal
mines with further enormous de
mands for products and manufac
tures. . - The Portland-Alaska line is time-'
ly The Portland Chambers' efforts
w ill be more and more commendable
according as they are more and more
aggressive.
HARLKS VV. FULTON, former
senator, slated in the federal
court last Saturday that The
Journal had not Infrequently
Interfered with the trial of his cases
He said:
I have stood something of that In
llif past In ptc trial of cnsi-a In till
county coining; irom a certain Journal.
a certain newspaper of this city, anil 1
nave i-u that i nave violated my
(Inly many limes by not bringing It to
the nttciitlon of the court.
There is po purpose here to dis
cuss Mr. Fulton. That Will be at
tended to after the pending trial
ends.
The purpose here is merely to say
that not in the article which Mr
Fulton excoriated nor in any other
Prticle ever published by The Jour
nal, did the paper seek to influence
the trial of bis case or any other
case. For that reason, when Mr.
Fulton tells a court in the presence
of a jury that he has many times
"been embarrassed in the trial oT
cases by this newspaper, he falsities
the facts.
The Journal has not only not
hampered Mr. Fulton In the practice
of his profession, but it has had no
desire to do so. Usually It is ut
terly oblivious to the cases that Mr.
Fulton has on trial, and in his im
aginings that The Journal seeks him
out for . embarrassment at the bar
he takes himself far too seriously.
The Journal has other alms and
other ideas, and has a far higher
function to perform than to be con-
and regulating freight rates, it will
be the most powerful commission
known to history, .
JANITOR CHAMBERLAIN
the elevators.
HERE is UOTthe Slightest "doubt j
as to what was CtammiKHloner
Brewster's purpose in re
moving Janitor Chamberlain.
There is not the slightest doubt that
Mr. Brewster did so In an effort to
promote efficiency
Nathan. Strauss is to retire from
business' to engage in philanthropy.
He is one millionaire whose wealth
was accumulated in open competi
tion, witnout trust or tariff favorit
ism, and his bestowals for that rea-
Bon, are highly commendable.
Speaking of lower salaries, Charles
o. Aienen, rormer president of the
New Haven railroad, said he would
A considerable storm has been i have worked Just as hard for s2K .
raised by the Incident. There has 000 a vear aa he AA tor 7R Ann i
been little or no showing on the
side of Mr. Brewster, and so far.
the whdle effect is a condemnation
of Mr. Brewster because of his en
deavor to make the public service
effective.
The Journal holds no brief for
Mr. Brewster. But the whole clamor
of the time, is for more efficient
government. The whole denuncla
tlon of the time Is largely directed
to the Inefficiency of public, officials
and public employes. This Ineffect
lveness is one of the great factors
In the high and swiftly mounting
cost of government.
We are paying more than a bil
lion a year for maintenance of the
national government. We are pay
ing more than two billions a year
for the support of state, county and
municipal government. We are pay
ing out more each year for being
governed than the value of all the
gold mined in the United States
from 1792 to 1909, inclusive, a
period., of. 118 years.
Not only should Commissioner
Brewster seek to lessen the cost
of government, but all other pub
lic officials should do the same.
he bad
known.
only-let the company
Huerta Bays the world Is watch
ing Mexico. John Lind is also
watching, but nobody knows what
he thinks about it.
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF THE ATLANTIC CABLE
Letters From the People
cerned with what is the law practice . Nnt nn, Bhnil(, Afr R.Bia,
oi one lawyer or oi a inousana law
yers.
MTREKTCAR REGULATIONS
is to be considered by the Civil SerV'
Ice Commission, and, without need
of continued hullabaloo, the episode
will certainly be adjusted in a way
just to old age and with credit to
the city,
T
THE "SPUGS"
HE Society for the Prevention
of Useless Giving,, members of
which are called "Spugs" for
short. Is backed by common
LEAX WALL, STREET DAVS
ESTERDAY 705,700 shares of
stock-were traded in on the
-New York -Stock - Exchange.
On the preceding Monday 58,-
.v t00 shares were turned over. It
was the dullest day the exchange has
known.
1 The business of the New York
Stock Exchange during November
was "bad." The first half of the
month scored trading of 200,000
: shares a day. The dally business
fell off in the third week to ap
proximately 100. 000 shares. The
last week did little better. Stock
"jobbing did well if it paid bare ex
penses during the month.
, Blue fog envelops Wall Street.
,The dog days of 1893 and 1895 are
.recalled. Approach of the end of
the year, refusal of the people to
speculate on Wall Street's terms, the
Mexican situation! and other inci-
'dents of the times are given by the
big brokerage houses as the reasons
their business has fallen off.
It is evident that the people are
not attracted by Wall Street
haps it is because they have lost
money there too often. Possibly the
-people are tired of contributing to
the 1100 listed members of the
Stock Exchange. There must be
aome such reason, for, unlike in
other years, lean days in Wall
, Street re not coincident with stag
nation elsewhere.
, V Exports of manufactures are in
creasing with leaps and bounds, it
Is estimated that the increase for
.1913 will be $100,000,000, of which
-amount $80,000,000 was scored In
the nine months for which figures
are available. Practically all the
important classes or manufactures
show larger exports In 1913 than in
any earlier year. All our exports
incept crude materials for use . in
nianufactulng have scored heavy in-creases,-:
.The figures demonstrate that fac
tories are busy even if Wall Street
is idle. t Speculators may not be
not be penalized for any reasonable
effort to promote public efficiency,
but no other public official should
be condemned for it.
WISCONSLN'S Railroad Com- As t0 Jflnor Chamberlain, after
mission has had experts at 14 years ln Jhe Publ, service, there
work for a year investlgat- Bhou something better for him
ing Milwaukee's streetcar at 72 than dismissal. If he is not
service. It was found that some of pny8lra"y ame ,0 no Janr worn
the cars' were rarrvlnr more nenr.1 effectively, there are other positions
standing than seated. As a result ,n wnich he wou,d fit positions,
of the investigation the commission doubtle88, In which he could render
has issued an order regulating the valual,le service. The whole matter
number of cars which must be op
erated. The commission directs that dur
ing rush periods at least 67 seats
shall be furnished for every 100
passengers demanding transporta
tion. The maximum number of
seats during non-rush period need
not be more than 133 per 100 pa-
sen gers.
In order to facilitate the handling
of crowds, the commission desig
nates two hours, morning, noon and sense. The society's president out-
night, as rush periods, when a reg- lines its purpose.
ular number of cars is required. Collective giving, which is cus-
During rush hours, traffic officers, tomarv and almost comnnlar. r
with authority of trainmen, must be Christmas, is attacked. An assault
stationed at important transfer in- is being made on the exchange syB-
leiBecuuns ana at otner points wcere tem of giving, which has degener
necessary for the movement of ated into an abuse of Christmas and
traffic and the maintenance of has drifted to the level of the corn
schedules. mon BWaPi utterly devoid of the
Fare collectors are also to be sta- faintest trace of sentiment or men
tioned at important points. The tng.
front doors of prepayment cars are It Is unred that neonle irtv) in-
to be opened and fares collected at erously. but not from fear, not to
both ends. The dividing partitions further some ulterior motive, nor
on platforms must be removed. On even because it is a custom. Give
the front sides of cars must be dis- willingly for the pleasure or help
played route signs. To prevent you may bestow. Give for the love
overcrowding, the commission fixes and joy of giving,
the number of passengers each type There has been a woeful lack of
of car will be allowed to carry. 8anlty ln our Christmas giving. Too
The management is directed, dur- many presents are mere formalities,
ing holidays, to "use all reasonable too few are exnressinna nf th rai
iiwiw iu ouypiy tuco service as win Christmas spirit. Presents have
meet tne aemand specified for rush come to be. In lare mtnunr.
periods." medium of exehanca In a avatam
A complete analysis of the com- of barter. Giving implies receiving.
pany's finances shows that the im- and receiving imposes giving,
provements can be made Immediate- - The Spugs will not accomplish
ly without embarrassment. Hereaf- their entire purpose this Christmas,
ter, all cars, additional inspectors nor for a number of years. But the
and other people employed by the society is serving a good cause by
company to aid in handling the calline attention to nrMi iWnY,
traffic must have the commission's should be stopped. It is time that
approval. people quit giving useless gifts; it s
Suburban service within the city time that people ignore givers of
limits will not be subject to the useless gifts. A useless gift is one
standards announced by the com- bestowed without the love and joy
mission, unless operated as an in- of giving.
tegral part of the city schedules. it is suggested that we forget the
Street railways in Wisconsin are dog collar, the book no one will
under control of the state railroad read, the trash no one wants, the
(Comnjunlcatlona aaut to Tha Journal for pab.
.-.i.,u in ima arpanmem anotuti Da written on
oniy ona ame or iba paprr, ahould not axcacd
SOO worda In lenKtb and uuat t aecompanlod
by tba nama and addrau of tha aeoder. If (ba
wniax aoaa not daalre to luva tba nana pub
i.autru, um iuuuiq ao alata.
"Plantation la tha craataal of all rafornani.
It rationality erarytUlnf Lt tourura. It tuba
prmi'ipiea or all fait aaoctitj and tbrowa than
bark on their reaaonablenena. If the haa no
wavviiauieneaa- n ni h A.i t wuihm mem if
f xl"nr nd arta op Ha own coneliulona la
aieau. - wooarow wiiaon.
Advicates State Newspaper.
MrEwen. Or., Nov. 28. To the Editor
of The Journal I note in Charles H.
Carey'a address to tha association of
lawyer ln reference to the referendum,
In which he stated that he tbouffht It
unnecessary that all laws be referred to
me people, and giving a the reason
that there wag no chance for dlacuaslorf.
which is true. He also epoke of the
necessity or some medium or commis
sion as a sort of clearing house, which
Is a. good Idea. Now if prepared laws
are for the people, the people ahould
nave chance to vote and also to dl
cuss all those of any Import, The Peo
pie t present have no chance to make
their views known. Those - pamphlets
ent out to the voters by the state prior
to elections do not serve their proper
purpose. Let me suggest a remedy that
has been long delayed, and that is a
newspaper owned and published by the
state, to contain all the state and county
official business, reports, recommenda
tions, and the like; also two or three
pages to be given to letters from the
voters. The Idea of depending on pri
vately owned papers has been a failure.
Newspapers generally print that which
Is of the most advantage to themselves,
and many a good article goes into the
waste basket. As an example of this
I note that the papers did not publish
the fact that President Wilson had or
dered the release of Coffm&n, the So
cialist soldier, from Fort Stevens; also
that the Appeal to Reason had received
a S5O.V00 donation.
Up to a short time ago our county
and state governments were conducted
Wy a few Interested Individuals, and the
reason for it lay in the fact that there
was no medium throVigh which the peo
ple could be heard. A READER
SMALL CHANGE
bar? Wf" Monhl. typical Hoyara.
.?!fr?h holidays might be the bet
wmiw ui swear oir,
a a
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KJm V fwmrm vi rurua,ll(l
m vyviai oi mum. anvaav
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I'liriAlmaa amnmanh.M l
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If you buv mora than unii l.A
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Tha bride Who desires' ta nmmlu tn
Obey" SUralv lavaa mnA t... .-......
Im , L , . ' ' . VVIU1UCI1WV
'u ua uiiucgroom.
As to needed achnnlhniiua' Ik. .
vmjwim Willi l nam mint anil natY tnm
vitc, uuuouess inf oetter policy.
fj'Cl V WBFK I nniav in naaatlnar a. mi,.
uiiujr Ulll a (la a in riia riliirrllt nf Km
T't -. - . . W " w
vuiiwraii,
Opinions entitled tn favnrahU ran.lil.
eratlon are that ths tango dance is de-
voiii. nu proper ir u is not abused.
Tht" i Jh- month when old Hlgh
h08 . Uv nf becomes more oppressive
uu iu njr. oiner montn or the year.
a a
If the "constitutionalists" taks Mex
ico City and capture Huerta, he won't
have much doubt as to. what they will
a
It Is not the president's fault that
congress was not thrnuarh with turn l.l
jobs tariff and currency and ready
to adjourn weeks ago; as it easily might
have been. '
a
In the southwestern nortlon of tha
country, where rain falls but seldom, it
conies In dofttrnrtlva tormnta wh It
does come, thought of which fact leads
to another, to-wlt: That people of the
Paciflo northwest do not sufficiently
appreciate the treat blesslnar of ita
slow, easy, prolonged rains.
OREGON SIDELJQ1IT8 .
From' the Salt Lake Telegram. :
An Interesting correspondence la go-
During the year ending September So, ing on In some eastern papers aa to
Gilllaiit county paid .out in bounties the real history of the preparations for
t this Smout tla4s"pa0id I5?t-ath" "n! tbe lftyln ' tn Atlantic
or this amount was Paid on coyotes. cab, , u fh fac lfJ cJ.ar tnat tQ
.Condon Globe: Edward Curran, for- Lieutenant M. K. Maury, who for ao
mnr editor of the Condon Times. many years had charge of the obsarva-
scheduled to -deliver an address before, torv at. Waahlnarton. la dua tha rr.i1il
tJoirifU".c,a" at tb university for its Inception. II first advocated
-j,', JP nw, ' ' I wnA V VwM-m VaVCtp S-7aa aj.r;,,41Dna;
The Medfor Sun's 'dons -i'sThaPtne I founaiand'-and Iteland would b' feumJ 1
man who married Jhh1 Wilson will I a Dlateau. Three sovernment vassal
always be known as Jessie's husband, were sent to make soundings, but ths
Sun UrLt.r nonr?Tn'rtn;,nlhad r8Ult WM unsntifactory until Lieu-
nun reels constrained to observe tat ,., tnim uAni. . ji...i..
fams does treat aome folks shabbily, ten"t ,of'n j,rooh- invented a device
. . . W W I T 1111.11 viwuicu , nut umf iiici IUA1U VI,
Wallowa county's dallnauent tar roll I the soundings, but brousht un ths ma- '
la the, smallest ln Vaara onlv 14112 I tarlnl at tha hntlnm. Thia u fim4
large measure to tne genial, persuasive I r: , '
methods of Deputy Collector Charles E. I the hottom of the ocean there, and con
Crow." ; , I eluded that a cable laid thero would rs-
main- in the . perpetual calm of those
, . . v . aw an ti.v. uuina, wuiiuui ai.ra.iii, iirraver, ..iia,.
coincidence: Tha father of tha anltnrl.on. r (... n .V. i
Of the. Newberg Criphlo -wail bofn in V" m- master on th- .taanTrr
aaatem Tannaua nuiTu ih. uni.it, I ctinT sailing master on 4 the ftearaar
Una line: the father of . the, editor of 'nois for one trip from New York to
ths Newberg Enterprise was born in I Aspinwall and return in 1852. Captain
western North Carolina near the Ten- Hartsteln being on board, but disabled
nessee line, ; , . j by a felon on one hand. Brooke was -
John Aldan Raahurva tr..tat-n n. mln" ocon commana oi ins juernmso
Mining -ournbirsnaVeo Hampton Beads and was a. handsoms ,
has now been rechrlstened the Eastern a tnan aa ever trod a ship's deck. When
Oregon Journal, "amplified in scope to I all was ready Cyrus J. Field went to
wvnr an - iiewa. ana amn miui in ni,i l ijnnnnn ann raiaan r
to coyer It Instead of three counties," I ey to lay the cabla.
in fiel i London and raised the necessary mon
t.. ..ill 7. . ww.Uv... i cjr ,v jajr mo lauio, JL A I ff 1C1U avm
f wumiup iu ciuiniM ui nun- I "Lieutenant Manrr furnlahiMl tha
..'. a I brams, England the money, and I did
Prosperity ttm that nuiu tn I the work." Maury also outlined what
Salem Statesman of November 28, 1888: the cable should be "a single- copper
"Th. . ... ai . I . . . - . .....
v wuuuuurn awrai io m win or lasnicie or wires, coated wun
having a small aised boom. Immlmnla I ,.. n.Mk. a
ars- coming J fvery day and great notTarier thin a ladv s f lnr -
many are locating on places close ty. Z.i , VK. . 1 ?er'
The nubile school in nrnanarn,.. V.. The cable was laid, but only one mes-
dltion and has an enrollment of 80 pu- I passed over it. It broke some.
Pi ' The nuri",,y there can jardly fill where ln the deep sea. But ths possl-
thZ X,. rue,vea T rees and an ninty or it was established. Now, if
business." "'"" we unaerscana it right, the cable is
COMMENT ON CONGRESS
tThe story of Coff man's release was
printed ln The Journal, The matter of
the donation to the Appeal to Reason
was never brought to the nbtlcs of The
Journal.
commission, and the order affecting junk no one can use, and give Bome-
the Milwaukee lines is the first im
portant order issued.
ANOTHER STEAMSHIP LINE
A'
NNOUNCEMENT was made yes
terday that another steamship
line is booked for Portjand
when the canal opens. Such
announcements have become famll
Per-! iar episodes. The new one proDosea
eignt steamships, to ply between
Boston and Pacific Coast points
Already eight European lines are
scheduled for the service through
the canal to Pacific Coast Doints.
Many great steamships are in pro
cess oi construction for this especial
trade. Nobody knows how many
great lines will, be established, nor
what routes and directions and con
nections they will make.
History has never known such a
trade dislocation as the canal will
bring. The elimination of Cape
Horn is a new birth of freedom for
ocean trade between the world and
the Western Hemisphere. It will
make of the western seaports of the
United States a new system of clearing-houses
for national and interna
tional business.
A condition that It will project
will be a competition for the carry
ing business. This is assured by
the many and powerful steamship
thing useful or heart-gladdening,
The ' Spugs have the essence of
Christmas ln their campaign. Why
not abandon the barter and ex
change system and give only to
make others glad? Give to those
who have hot, rather than to those
who have.
Attracted by a newspaper adver
tisement, an Oregon' school teacher,
after visiting a Walla Walla woman
since Thanksgiving is engaged, to
marry her in about three weeks. ' He
says she Is Intelligent, has a good
temper, and Is physically, a Venus,
Still, there will be time for a change
of mind and there is not certainty
that William's notion that Maris
is a Venus will, not sink into total
eclipse before six months.
The Interstate Bridge.
Orchards. Wash., Nov. 29. I am
pleased to note you allow the common
people a place in which to express their
opinions in regard to public subjects,
ln your valuable paper; so if you will
allow a Washington reader a little space
I wish to congratulate The Journal and
the people of Multnomah county on the
splendid work they have done for the
Pacific Highway bridge, one of the
most Important public propositions ever
placed before the people of both coun
ties and states which it will connect
When the great structure la completed
lt will connect not only the counties and
states which it Immediately binds to
gether, but also the people of other
states and foreign countries win pass
to and fro over It. Canada and Mexico
will feel the benefit of lt, tha same as
we will feel the benefit of the great
Panama canal when lt is opened.
The Pacific Highway and the bridge
which is only a link in this great public
Improvement that Is spreading over this
the most progressive part of the civil
ized world, are only the beginning of a
new era dawning on the enlightened and
civilized people of the western world.
Only a few years have passed since ths
pony express was the only rapid com
munication between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. How well many of us
remember the hard struggle the North
ern Pacific railroad had to start west
from St. Paul, and how slow the prog
ress was toward the cities on the coast.
Compare this with the time used in
building later lines, and see how much
more proficient we have become in -the
art of construction. A man I was talk
ing with today throught it would taka,
years to construct this bridge, and when
I told him we expected to walk over the
bridge and eat our Christmas turkey in
Portland ln 1914, he thought ws were
wild. Am I badly off on the time?
There are nearly 100 Dally Journals
taken in this neighborhood, and the pa
per is highly appreciated for its enter
prise, for all these papers are deliv
ered by carrier on horseback. Clarke
county Is tributary to Portland.- Only
the Columbia rolls between, and it will
soon be spanned by one of the finest
bridges ln the world. Let Clarke and
Multnomah counties "shake" and be as
one. J. A. KEATON.
Mark Sullivan in Collier's.
At the beginning of the last week of
November, which was necessarily the
last week of the recent special session
of congress, it became apparent that
the currency bill could not be passed.
From this fact flow several Important
considerations: One is that the currency
bill, having failed to pass by the end
or tne special session, probably will not
pass for some months, for the frist
week of the regular session, according
to an agreement made in the senate long
ago, must be given to the discussion
of the Hetch Hetchy matter. The sec-
nd week, by the eame kind of agree
ment, must be rivn un tn tha Alaska
railroad bill. This Indicates that seri
ous debate on the currency bill probably
will not begin until after Christmas,
and that the bill, in all likelihood, will
not become a law until March. This
will mean that congress will have been
in session without interruption for one
year, from Aprl 1 until April 1, and
will have passed only two important i
measures. This Is an intolerable pros
pect. When so much work that was
formerly done by state legislatures, or
not at all, must now be done by the
government at Washington, and espe
cially when so many extremely impor
tant measures vitally affecting the
country fundamentally are waiting, lt
is impossible longer to deny that a ma
chinery so complicated as to turn out
only two pieces of major legislation In
a yearnust be renovated ln the direc
tion of efficiency.
will take one path and a large section of
nis party win take the other.
The failure of the senate to take up
the currency measure until the last
week Of the special sesion marks defi
nitely a lessening of the hold that
President Wilson has had over his party.
He was committed very strongly to
final action upon this bill during the
special session. He began to urge the
measure as early as last May. If Presi
dent Wilson is to lose the dominance
with which he drove congress so master
fully in the tariff matter, it will be,
ln its effect upon the future of political
about one and a half Inches in diameter.
and lt la not coated with srutta percha.
but is drawn through a gutta percha
tube. And the cables frequently break.
hut hv anma Aavlna Ihnaa In nhirn n
parties in this country, an event of high Newfoundland and Ireland can tell by
irnportanpe. 'Many persons believe that their instruments where the break Is.
the Deraoc ratio party is no more homo- Ships are ln attendance' at each end,
geneous today than',rne Republican Par- If the break is near ens anil, tha n.ar.
ty was two years agoland thai the time est ship goes out hauls up the two ends
Is bound to come when President Wilson I and splices them. Each company has
two or tnree cables. The Mackay cables
number three on the Atlantic.
It Is one of the marvels of the mod
em world. Aa Colonel Baker said ln
1858:
"From the dark unfathomed caves of
ocean the pearr that heaves upon - the
breast of beauty is dragged to the glare
of day. The unburled dead lie waiting
for the resurrection morning, while i
above them the winds wall their per-,
petual requiem; there the lost treasures
of India and Peru ars forever burled;
there the wrecks of the Armada and
Trafalgar are forever whelmed.
"But amid these scattered wrecks of
the burled past, over shell formed shores
and wave worn crags, ths teaming '
Thought darts its way; amid the mon
sters of the deep, and the sporting
myriads, and countless armies of tha
sea, the single link that unites two
worlds conveys the mandate of a king
or the message of a lover." .
The recent special session of congress
oegan on Apra i. During eight months
lt passed only one important measure
the tariff bill. (Meantime it is safe
to say tnat nlneteen-twentleths of the
time of the 435 members of the Invar
nouse was spent in inefficiency and idle
ness.) This is an impossible situation
The tariff bill has been asritated con.
tlnuously for more than four years. In
1909 congress and the senatn debated
ana passed a complete tariff bill. Asai
and again during the succeeding terms
important schedules, like cotton an
wool, . Iron and steel.- and atrricultural
Implements, were debated and passed
uy one or Doxn nouses, several montln
were given up to the discussion of reel
procity, which was In itself, of course,
an education on tariff matters. It Is
not too much to say that almost all of
me active time or congress for four
years was given to discussion of the
tariff. Practically all. the personnel of
both houses were intimately familiar
wun those discussions. Leader Under
wood of the house and Leader Simmons
or the senate both had participated in
an tnes discussions. There was noth
ing more to learn, and there was no
excuse for delay. A system which lends
itself to such Incapacity and procrasti
nation will have to be mended. There
Is no corruption left ln congress and
very little undue deference to special
interests. There is practically nothlnff
left Of the conditions which caused the
overthrow of Cannon and Aldrlch, and
an tne political revolution of the past
four years. There is, however, appalling
incapacity, due chiefly to the archaio
system, and in only a minor degree
to spots of individual low efficiency
wnere there ought to b intelligent and
energetic leadership.
'operation." Should blind prejudice and
unworthy sentiment be set aside and
this be done the opposition would
quickly pass away.
Every one may know that all the
mere examinations ln the world and
the cutting off of marriage licenses
would not stop the crime. And the "re
proach and disgrace" is upon a com
munity holding such "barbarous" senti
ments as to prefer the horrors of a poi
soned humanity to the merciful curb
ing of the. liberty of lust oh the patr of
moral and physical pestilence breeders.
CHARLES ITCH.
seem to possess the capabilities for
conserving such life of body and mind
as we nave, it seems unlikely at pres
ent that there are other worlds much
resembling this and Inhabited by be
ings at all analogous to men. There
appears considerable reason for sup
posing tnat the late Alfred Russell Wal
lace, a scientist of wonderful range of
anowieaga, may not have been at fault
In his theory that our pinpoint of mat
ter is the center of intelligence ln the
universe.
The rejection of commission gov
ernment by Pendleton yesterday by
a vote of 18 - is reminder that ln
Portland under the commission plan
everybody knows exactly what is go
ing on at the city hall, and for the
first time in history, knows exactly
whom to hold accountable for short
comings or reward for good service.
Jane Addams ; is said ', to have
asked, "what Jla sillier than a derby
hat"? Several things. : , There was
the low, expansive pancake lid of
Sterilization ts. Pestilence.
Portland, Pec. 1. To the Editor of
The Journal It must be that at pres
ent, a majority of those in the state
who exercise the right of suffrage are
either only half informed or not In
formed at all as to the real operation
contemplated ln the sterilization act
passed by our last legislature. I judge
the person writing ln your issue of
November 29 to belong to one or the
other of these classes. But it surely
is to be a law In Oregon at -no ; very
distant day, for it is not the character
of Oregon people to cherish Ignorance
and prejudice on such vital matters,
nor will they cling to the addled senti
ment that has so thickly surrounded
tha subject It mar be known that it
is as much of a kindness to carry out"
the provisions oz tnis act on tne indi
vidual as would be the. curing of an
aching tooth. The writer would make
the plea that before a person claiming
to have a spark of pity for the thou
sand of helpless intgnts brought into
the world physically damned destined
to a life of suffering and who would
lift a finger- to prevent Such a curse
prevailing, opposes this truly , huipani
tartan movement, he take steps to - be
come really acquainted with the subject
and ths actual nature of the so called
i- ' ! -t " 7T '.Y.v ji '.iV" .'X--v-' "
Free Text Book Question.
Portland, Dec. 1. To the Editor of
The Journal Having noticed this head
line In The Journal of November 24,
Methodists Oppose Tee jjooks lor
Public Schools," I wish to protest
against such misleading statements.
am not a Methodist nor a member of.
any cnurcn, out i pnow mat tne great
body of Methodists are too patriotic,
loyal and liberty loving to turn a hand
against our great national institution
the public school, wnat tney were op
posing was free books tor every paro
chial school and private seminary ln
the district, which, under the law. If
passed as It is, would benefit. They
were fighting the encroachment upon
our taxpayers permitted oy tne law
passed by our last legislature, which
had a joker ln it to foist free books
for all schools upon us.
I think ft is right that the people
should be .put wise to the Jaw before
they vote on it at tne scnooi election,
next June. JOH BL.ISS,
Other Inhabited Worlds.
From the Spokane Spokesman-Review.
Scientific speculation likes to guess
en the possibilities of other worlds than
ours . being Inhabited by intelligences
not unlike ourselves. The discoveries
of Schlaparelll and Lowell as to Mars,
which seem to be gaining confirmation
and acceptance with other astronomers,
have aroused popular interest in the
possibility of the habltableness of some
stars or planets for beings akin to the
human race. Arrhenius, the distin
guished astronomer of Sweden, claims
to have proved that life germs traverse
space. If this voyage of Ufa be a fact,
what should prevent lt from developing
on the right kind of a star much as it
has dona on earth?
The first consideration in attempting
to answer such an Inquiry is that the
conditions of physical existence are com
plex. They comprise a solid world with
an atmosphere containing the - proper
proportion of oxygen, such an - amount
of land that gravity is not materially
lessened or the air unduly rarefied, such
distance from a sun that water, remains
a liquid to sustain life, such revolution
on the axis -as to maintain endurable
changes of temperature and matter to
support vegetables and animals.
Suoh a combination of conditions Is
an equation with many unknown quan
tities. Ths doctrine . of probabilities
renders it improbable.-": prlarL'A. that
the', combination of all the necessary
factors frequently occurs. " Experience
of life on our, own planet' and observa
tion or the physical constitution of
other planets and. stars have thus far
revealed, very few bodies ln space that
About All for Sine Sing.
Prom the New Tork Evening Post
The Prison association is wholly jus
tified in opposing the plan of rebuild
ing the cell blocks at Sing Sing, and
generally rehabilitating that disgraceful
prison. This la urged simply and solely
on the ground of economy. But the
-state "Of New Tork -is really- too poor
to tinner wun a prison which has been
condemned from every point of view, be.
cause that would be merely temporizing
wun ana rooairying tne evil conditions,
instead of abolishing them outright
Moreover, th whole theory of punish
ment upon which Sing Sing was based
is antiquated and has been discarded.
Every up-to-date state is looking to
the establishment of prison industrial
rarms; New Jersey, Washington and
Ohio are three that are workina- in thia
direction. To targe that New York must
continue to huddle its prisoners to
gether in that contracted Space ln Sing
Ding, or in tne prison in tha middla nt
Auburn, is false economy. For one thing,
it lays the entire stress on caging the
prisoners and not upon treating them
so that they will have at least a fair
cnance or reentering society as ' re
formed citizens. On the ground of the
pnysicai neaitn of the prisoners alone,
oing oing must go.
The Principal Issue.
From Harper's Wekiv
The reason the : reactionary lntria
wished Huerta recognized was that they
cvuia count on nim zor obedience and
therefore for the furthering of their
Mexican Investments. But they had
another reason for being glad to have
the Washington administration embar
rassed in its Mexican policy, and that
was their hope that the situation would
remain complicated and unsatisfactory
so that the currency bill might have
less prospect of passing. If they could
beat It now they thought the accidents
of the immediate future might ward off
legislation altogether, or make possible
legislation that should really work for
concentration of credit still more than
it la concentrated now. Mr. Brandies
series shows that a number of results
Outside of .the present currency bill will
be needed before we can have "the new
freedom" ln the business world, but let
lt not be forgotten for a moment that
any one of these expected bills will
have a better chance of passing after
tne o wen-Glass bill la passed, and in.
deed would have but poor prospect for
the present if that measure were de-
featedV;.. ,ri--i"i a-,i.' ,
Pointed Paragraphs
Bread is the staff of lif- and flat.
tery is tie butter. '
a a
Most children are dissatisfied with
the behavior of their parents.
a
And many a man who has ' tha
cheek to raise whiskers doesn't even
try it -
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She's a bright girl who can dnatch
an eligible man from a daia-nina-
widow.
a a
Nearly all men are too laxv avai tn.
think for themselves. Thinking Is
hard work.
a
A woman always has faith tn ls
Judgment of any man who asks her
to marry him.
But when the millanlum aian. i
business the man behind tha
rake will be out of a Job.
Any man can make t -vnmin iiiir-
but only a diplomat can make her say
what he wants, her to say.
If a homely girl has nientv nt
money it's an easy matter to-meet a
wise man who will trv tn Ai.in.
her she is a prise beauty.
Xo Welcome for ThJsC Prod.
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Those pessimists who insist that ro
mance is dying out of .the world will
find something to confirm their belief
In the recent experiences of .Tama.
Ridgway, of Paterson, K J. Thirty
eight years ago, as, the result of a
quarrel with his wife, hi deserted his.
noma ana his wire and child. During
all of the time since then he has wan
dered over the country, 4 broken -and
unhappy man, but his -pride has re
strained hint from .seeking his home
and forgiveness for his bad tempered
outbreak. v .V.
This year, however, the approach of
the holiday season led to softened
thoughts on his part He made up his
mind to forget' the past, to pocket his
pride, return to his wife, make up the
ancient quarrel and forget the ancient
grudge. v
With these tender thoughts ln his
mind, he turned hi wandering foot
steps back to the old home, and, after
a toilsome Journey, reached it. He
found his son, whom he had left an in.
fant in arms, grown to a stalwart and
well-to-do man. His wife showed not
the full results of the passing years,
but remained a handsome and whole
some woman.
Was he Welcomed with tears Of Joy,
by this wife and son? Not so that you
could notice. All traditions were thrown
to the winds. Instead of falling upon
his neck they coldly called the nearest
policeman, who carted him off to jail
as a vagrant. The following day, de
spite his pleas that he might be per
mitted to spend his declining days in
peace, supported by his loving wife and
eon, the magistrate before whom ha was '
brought directed his attention to the
fine system of good roads which' had '
been recently installed, leading out of
the city, and gave him but the option .
which one he would take Inside of the
next five minutes. His wanderings .
have resumed, but it Is to be feared that
the last of his illusions has been shat
tered. ' ; v - :
. Suffrage In Mexico. ...
Equal suffrage prevails In Mexico to
a large extent , The women are not per
mltted teTvote and ths men are afraid to.
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