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THE .OREGON DAILY- JOURNAL; PORTLAND, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1913. THE JOURNAL -JACKSON 1 uin.a ffjt viilim tJki-Hi Sunday -r Snmlur nmralnx i Tha Itmmxl Hell i iiiiM. t lb (mah-rUce at INwilaaA.. iir.. hood The darkest page of modern, history deal with Chlna'B attempt to f her people from opium. , ' UNANSWERABLE I'KOOF M.a.ltiUUi .. Mala lltSi ttonw A--.T- . Alt A - . i. iiu. hii mtutf . ' - Ml t mopntnr .what HMrt-if ii.MU. Al(li.mlll,U lib HQ NE unanswerable argument JtMLlalojieahould be enough- iv uutj . ungw(a!TiQ ni an. the farm and a builder of .profits the federat court. Juries' are weary In the city, .''-4'. of trying caaes inf which unsuspect- It la probable that thero will be in g people are fooled by glittering no actual, gasoline famine In the literature and (i smooth - tongued near future, but constantly increas- agents Into purohaaaA of worthless ing prices give warning that some lands on fraudulent representations, other source of power may be an The late Jury, District Attorney economic necessity. Kerosene has Reames and the trial court are en- been sK?est.fiii8afcEUb8Utte, bjut .1 titled to the thanks of all honest .HKbu.xi.Uiff the Columbia dredge-the Dock ,fftaltg ttfed with Its gasoline of the testimony nothing else butt iT far' ...... W.00 I On month ..... I .M ; ;, 60NPAV . Ona rear. ... V..M.50 I Ono montS I ' DAltY ASO SUXDAt . , t)M year C-T-5" I Due lunula f -S3 Good Impulse and good In tention. do nut make action right or tafe. In the long run, action la tested hot by Its mo ttve. Hut by Its it-suits. David Starr - Jordan. HOIXUINU I'IBLIC MKV C OMPLAtNT Is often made that it Is difficult to get good men to run for office. No wonder. A man is hard- not more than 19 IS. It dlHciiBses the Mersey bar over which originally the depth of water was only n feet. By soundings taken la June, Just before the report was made, the depth of water , in the dredged cut up to Fonuby Lightship was not less than 33 feet for a width of 600 to 700 feet. There Is a center line of soundings of hot less than 35 feet. Eastward of the Fdrmby Light ship, there la a channel of not less than 32 feet over a great width. Oc casionally during the year small patches of soundings lu this part of the channel have shown a depth of 30 feet. In the PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF ' SMALL CHANGE Don't, usually far outnumber Do's. Swell the Christmas fund for th. poor ) recall of the recall may Be started a conviction, was possible. has even nies. It our gaso line supply should fall there will be something else to take its place. THK M KNACK In picture, map and story, The Journal s Year-End edition will re cord the progress ' of the Pacific Northwest during the year 1913. In particular, It will be an encyclo pedia of the state. It will be unique and especially pleasing In that, In T IS becoming manifest that a I stead" of one cod.v issued on one desire to handicap commission day, it will be five copies Issued on government figured wore or less I five days. It will be notably valu conspicuously in the heavy vote able to advertisers and a splendid against the measures in the special I holiday remembrance from one municipal election. friend to another. It has developed that many who fought commission government last spring voted against all the meas ures. It is learned also that sundry 1 Letters From the People ly in office until somebody wants to recall him. No matter how faithful .his service, no matter how tainstaklng and loyal his endeavors, the recall is nourished In his face. It has seemingly become- a popu lar fad to .bound public officials. The near mob that clubbed and strong armed t he .board of directors at-the recent school meeting is ex- '. ample. The-respectable ladles and gentlemen who : swooped down on the council chamber, not only once tut twice recently. an4: bullied thoi Crosby channel there have been times during the year when there was but 30 feet, but generully speaking the depth has been 32 to 33 feet. Dredging operations In a small way have shown the efficiency of dredge work on the Columbia. On the Mersey the dredges have deep ened the water from its original 11 feet to 30, 32 and even'-to 35 feet. Efecause of the Email amount of water in the MerBey,- no attempt has been made to scour away the sands mayor and commissioners ore other hy M,ean" of Jtues. dredges being relied upon as the only means of deepening the ship channel. What further reason can con gress require for making the appro priation sought in the Lane bill for a great dredge for the mouth of the Columbia? The dredging plan has the approval of the engineers. If it has been so tremendously ef feetlve on the Mersey bar. how can it fail to he of great efficiency pn the Columbia bar? The flow of water in the Coluni lit la Kn finn InoViaa tn 1 Rflll ftflfl jxaiurauy. mere aro oniciars wno IncheB per second. Beside the Co ills Inmh a the Mirev la rplr Thn Instance. They Weie cases In which the attitude of the. delegations was to insulting hs' to make official life odious, if not onerous. Other examples of the hounding of public officials are soen in the at titude of some newspapers. An ex ample, is the Oregonlan's constant yillirication of v Wsst, Chamberlain and , Courne. A similarly odious and wanton misrepresentation of public men Is carried on in a little afternoon paper In Portland, 'pometlmes deserve criticism ' tress owes to the public the duty tf exposing abuses and evils In pub .lie place. But the Wanton persecu . t ion of officials as constantly seen In Oregon prevents many good men from v offering their services In a 4ublic--'capaclty, When men are called by the peo- tre jfrom private Into public walks, they are entitled to respect. They are ; the people's representatives. They are the people's instruments In conducting affairs, ' Their ele vation to position IB the people's Will, and, so long as the official -continues, worthy, bis hands should 1e strengthened and his policies be supported.. t ... An opposite course, o often and bo painfully manifeat, is one reason tvhy many good men shrink from . accepting public place. Public life . has come to mean threat of recall. It means that the official will be : : bullied. It means that he will be hounded by feudists. It too often tnens that he will be ku-kluxed by cousclenceleBs newspapers. The attempt, to . launch the Afbee recall, Is la evidence. v AJf opitJM MONOPOLY THK British government has de cided to monopolize and to ; control absolutely the raising, marketing and sale of opium In the crown colony of Hongkong, China. This la In addition to the '.long standing agreement which Great Britain maintains with the opium raisers of India, and, the Britiah opium monopoly in the Straits settlements. .The new plan becomes effective March 1. 19.14. It has been ordered In an attempt to counteract a deficit Id. the 1914 budget. The govern ment will take over the opium farm system, which, has been In opera . tloa "for years, in the expectation ; that profits, from opium will asBlst irt wiping out a dreaded slump in governmental revenues. . There has been caustic criticism of a plan. which will make govern ment Itself a trafficker for profit In a pernicious drug. These criti cisms have been answered by Hong kong .-officials, who contend that the! plan Is the best that could be devised ..under the circumstances. .'The., best, that oould be devised! Opium has kept China in rlopn darkness for generations. The Chl jneee are attempting to rid- them selves of a vicious habit. They have repeatedly appealed to Great Britain for assistance. Denied act ive cooperation, the Chinese have asked that they be allowed to work out thoir own salvation. But there Is $60,000,000 worth of opium stored In Chinese treaty ports. China Is protesting against this menace, pleading that it be allowed, o take on civilization, un hampered by a government that uses 4t power to enforce the de mands of greed. . Great Britain has aot yet given over the Idea of government in behalf of the almighty dollar, ir respective' of humanity's rights. The opium producers of India must be protected ln their so-called property rightav England has not advanced to tha point of declaring there cart be no such thing as property tights in a: urug wnicn ', flebases human ; kInd'r-;'l";iK'v: Now Hongkong pfficlale propose to "offset 4 ; governmental r deficit v(y by making government Itself a further . leech upon manhood and woman- ', . ' rj:- jr-.'.,-rvM?,.,MF- r .'jibfw.v- " ' ' .'V j'j , .":': ,.m '. . ; ,; 1 "'; r v ) .' ; ' : 1 ? : . :- entire length of the Mersey, Includ ing the estuary, is 55 to 60 miles It would only reach from Portland to a point a few miles beyond Salem. It would only reach a little more than half way to Portland from the mouth of the Columbia. Dredging has made the mouth of the Mersey one of the first seaports of the world. It is the port of Liverpool, known in every land and every tongue as one of the premier harbors of the., world. It 18 A port' at which the Inward and outward bound traffic during the year 1912 averaged 133.3 ves sels per day, not Including tenders, tugs and other smaller craft. In comparison, the Columbia has navigable length of 1200 miles It reaches back Into the Interior almost the length of a continent It touches four American states and is navigable into the British provinces. It serves a region that produced last year 101,967,000 bushels of wheat. It is a region with an oats production of 67,983,000 bushels Its standing timber is 723,000.000, 000 feet valued at 11,150,000,000 To this vast traffic through the Columbia is to be added the enor mous increase In production to come out of an empire in which producing haa barely begun. To it Is also to be added the enormous shipments of grain and other products that will yet he driven southward through the 'Columbia from the western British provinces. At the Columbia, congress Is not dealing with a local project, it is not a Portland project. It Is not an Oregon project. It Is a Wash ington project, an Idaho project, a Montana project It is an Inter state project and an international project. It doesn't have to do merely with narrow and cramped districts. It la. a project of a far-flung expanse, a region continental In -Its length and breadth. In the presence of so splendid an undertaking, how can congress hesi tate about appropriating a sufficient sum for the proposed dredge? W A GASOLINE FAMINE K' EROSENE may come back into general use, though not as an illuminant. This is the de duction from an article in the Outlook calling attention to the fact that awards of $110,000 await the man who dlecovers a substi tute for gasoline. The substitute must be available for use by exist ing gasoline engines, cheaper than that fluid and readily procurable. It is stated that the world faces a gasoline famine at a time when this fluid has become one of the neces sities of life. A decrease last year of 6,000.000 barrela in the refinery oils from which gasoline is ob tained made it necessary to with draw nearly IBTOOO.000 barrels from storage. The United States furnishes, nearly 70 per cent of the total world' output, and Europe is depending upon this country for its supply of power producing fluid. If the Outlook writer had all the facts at bis command there may be occasion for concern as to the fu ture. "Gasoline has supplanted steam in many industries. . It male the modern automobile possible; It is the ppwer behind , the flyillg machine. Gasoline now furnishes a convenient power to many small in dustries. It is a labor saver on tCom&iUall'BtloUB wilt In Tha Smlrnal fria nilh. persons who opposed the adoption or commiHHion government auviseu uu oraa m length uui wutt tw aecumuauiaii .,t n tlx mua- "" nu au.u uc ina aauaer. ir Cbt viut;ia iu iuio "'-" I writer aoca nut desire ba lb oaiae VU- ures. Jt has been ascertained, too, . a iuuuiu M iuhc.j that nersons hostile to the initiative and referendum passed the word U.'SLlln..!''!';-.!LS5-J.1 aKS I the prOpOSitfonS. bark on thrlr reaaonablaue. If tntr bate ra jutiiiy iieiBuiia Yuicu s"k i oi exikiance una uta tin. lti awn mnciuaioua lu the amendments without taking the .g. ucurow wtwoo. trouble to study them. A number All Thla Hullabaloo. In one family voted against all the Portland, De. U. To the Ktiitor of o monmont. t..n ii u i ha v thnnorht tt I Journal The covernment la a farce. was the city commissioners thitr";"','? tixea me scnooi levy bi i.u inuis. l-eoaii to keep them straight, everything While the friends of commission " tn brand of Denmark and offends I file titt ft 1 o U 1 rnvornnmnt romnlnprl Bt hnillB. "..."'"' ",,u ",e vuuiiny .ma Sonc : to tue dowwowh, mere was a wen aennea rac-veniem Over In merrv Kneinnrl n nr. tt by its enemies to deliver a blow I solid publicists moans over t;ie fact that at commission government. While M?tllcr Parliaments is ruled by the friend, of good wrmZ'- slept at the switch, those Who love Militant woman hen thrown a reign of the old menagerie svstem with its terror into the speidea. in pants. Loyal stealth, and cunning and masked V 9t0ern 'r"",oh tli9.a?i wl.th . .? .. o-i-o-o-d, bloody b-l-o-o-d, "but In spite government were at the polls and on aU u.mptation8 to foIlow other pnk. a gumshoe hunt for tne scaip Ot tlons, they remain good HingllBlinien, the commission system. .v Impulsive French friends may The wreck In the election should " ZTJVr. no a wariuuB. miioiiD hi uc una conatitutlonul shindy. When the made to denonulame commission colonel' visited Rome he let out Wintnn onHonvnro screech because the Dope wouldn't meet ,.n n rf(acrDfUt th ,. hfm t the foot of the back sttaira. where norjoay could see them, alt Latin Eu- mlHBioners. Deliberate attempts ropo has the constitutional tango, and will be made to belittle tneir ubsut wen, Kussia. what fell! nchlBVPinpntR. Everv onoortunitv . TnrM years t the Juckson club .... - .. . - - - nann i.r ka m. -i 1 1 . . . . win ub ttieu itiun iv uco.iw.v-u llon tnat wa(1 - oration Hfl piUli bedevil their endeavors. attention to the fat that the great fnK tha nort viar or two. re- Lord Coke had stated that In all hin mainlng away from the poll, by Its buf ZllLrL. friends will be a Berlous menace 10 been settled by the simple rules of the commission government. common law without interposition of special legislation, and in the opinion of A MP RICA 4NI) WAR . elot'ueBl speaker there was no 111 r,,,D .i . cld be speedily adjusted with justice tiiwur-irv no all, tlia rich and the poor, tha high be a woria s navai nonaay and the low, were we ot today to follow the rule of political conduct observe.! 50 years ago, by conKantly keeping In niiml the fundamental prlnelplrs of that Incomparable Instrument, the constitu tion of the United States, the like of which the world never before enunciated for the happiness of mankind and tested by the experience of the centuries by insisting through and by our votes that principles and not men, are our guiding star and that most of the legislation nowadays tiut is passed for popular eon sumption and promised by suave poli ticians for ulterior purposes were car ried out to the letter, this country of ours would find itself in the throes ot class warfare, that would bring us down to the level of that faction-torn repub lic, Mexico. A normal man seeking a safe investment will consult and tru.t his banker. If his liberty is at stake he will consult his lawyer, and if his life is in danger, his physician. But there Is no science banking, law and medicine Included comparable with the science of government, where thewel fare of millions- la at stake: and tn tmi ftlie average man and tne writer Is on mat ne, already distracted with his finny occupation and the care of his family. Is competent to pass upon con stitutional amendments and economic legislation and all those confusing Issues racy of the times, is the veriest buncombe, a humbug amply proven al ready ana not oenevea by very many of those who preach it. There are as good and true men that nve toaay as have lived In any age. If we have not sens enough to select these men and to trust them as our representatives under that system of government laid down by the constitu tion and which has carried this country mrougn many a crisis, then you may be sure that we cannot follow the voracity of our self-constituted reformers and leather-lunged saviors. In the bewil dering panaceas that come so easy to mem. cant 10 me constitution is the need of the hour that constitution whose principles appeal to our self-sacrificing patriotism and that says "So far, and no more," in the defense of our ngnis. witnin its ample provisions. now as yesterday, our Ufe, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are aafnB-uarii. ed. Demogpgues ;dislike it bedause It docs not square with their trade, nor can they fool the people, once the people study it and revere it as their fathara did. It will bring to us not the unrest and those conditions where everv man' hand is raised against his neighbor, but decent, orderly and true representative government, in brief, cut out freak government, freak agitators and dis honest and scheming politicians. Red" Phelan, our secretary. Sent that speech to the then President Taft, to prove to him that Democrats had more wisdom than Republicans. Th nreal. dent showed It to some of hia cronies. and now comes the gay and gallant Colonel Harvey, who In his eolectio and tony magazine this month practically publishes that "oration almost word for worn ana has the nerve to say that It comes from the pen of one of the "first Americans.. what do you think cf that? it'svraw enough, to steal th gooa political jobs from the members of the faithful Jackson Club, but to swipe our oratory Is pure buccaneering. But th. writer i not ashamed of his eclectic eloquence, and desires to let It stand. This business of passing the buck up to the people every tlma vnur modern statesman makes -a blunder l played out Some of our administrators and lawmakers ought to make amend by tackling a Job such as driving a mHnurjr wagon. 3 HENNFjSSY MURPKT. comes meat waakt ..ttimr i nim.p-kf1 ""tier J'Just a. good' as Nearly everybody can be. a Santa Cbiu. to foine; llttlf extant. Will th. Mexicans repeat on Christ ma"L. Jrac. on earth, good will toward men?' , The suffragists found President Wil son to be a man with a backbone1 and ''nerve. ' . . - It Is only the comnarnttv.lv f.w tt.at Kct into the news columns on account of a tola. a 't may bt poor people's fault In most cases, that they are poor; but help them out, anyhow. , a Help make Portland as nearly sorrow less a city as possible on Christmas and afterward. a a I It should be one of the best means of self-happiness to make the destitute and despondent happy. - Why shouldn't President Wilson ho successfully diplomatic with women? I here have bren four women In bis fam ily a long time. a benator MeCumber wants protection for the farmers -most of his constitu ents being farmers. Class legislation again, is unequal, Inequitable, immoral and Iniquitous. INtARLIER, DAYS Uf Fred . !ocktey , Cy Mulkey of Roseburg is probably .lira insi survivur ui k uiksh iiu l. uiiiTJiiitai t OREGON SIDELIGHTS .1 - If a propOBfid amendment of the by ! 1 a H ir.l.rl 1U. varlll Kak akH crlltlA wo ' sm jy .va. muica v ..D..-, - , . . v ra mat m napsriiii in rna 'itti ii s -! i 11 11 , 1111111 uu w nn rwm a mi. ran uwn i im tm.m IV IIIVIIIU.IBHiy a.U VVIIK"VI wa ------ - ' . - . . at Lapln. ' ciflc coast from Lo. Angeles to Nam. i, . 4 , . , , '. , 1 better than many men know their own ."W.yJ"-""ur" backyards. He has prospected, run pack t.iT,"ti i a tt,- 1. 1.,.-j na.iTTirRTrw.'Tlynetred-Tcatt Jer--iHHlr, -trunir purposes to nine mnis. :. The Salem Htateaman hoDeS the pro- posed Coffee club has not got lost In L th shuffle, and says the lub should be running right now.- I up horse thieves, frulghttd artd fought Indians all over th. 'west. He came to Oregon Oft years ago, - i "I put In six months at school .once. learning about 'Bee the cat eat the rat.' , 'See the dog run the cow,' and all those Weston, also, needs a dentist. The little three lettered animals i that I Leader says he "must be a man of skill couldn't take much Interest In, so I :"u .'. rV'. 'ra.Tnh:, "topped. I was in Lafayette county, fie,-. "- . I Missouri, on February 26, 1832. In 1S3S a J my father moved to Johnson county, Professor J. F. GfUbbs, of . the Norm where he could have more elbow room. in Johnson county in those days neigh Bend high school, has organised an em. ployinent agency fur the benem or tne boys and girls who desire to work, and for the' accommodation of th. people. . Burna'-Tlmes Herald: Thl. I. the t maaof year fer the interior newspapers to tmud railroads and some of them are aoing pretty wen at it. -tm rimes HeraldMs going to wait a little and try to build a good one when It starts. Niwbera Or'aphlc: A Thirty Years In Oregon" club was formed at Amity re cently, when a big feast was spread and an Interesting program was given, Not many years hence thoset who are nniv eligible for membership In clubs of this character will be th. pioneers of Oregon. -a a Th Kent rnrresnondeht of the (Brass Valley Journal sends In the following soologlcal item: "W. FGuyton shipped a pair of young possum, to U. H. Walton from Ohio, and they were quite a curi osity to some as they were sitting in Irby's store, and to others they were old acquaintances." A POOR SHOW OF PATRIOTISM From the Ban Francisco Call and Post Probably the most regrettable feature of th. whole Mexican controversy, in- soiar as tn. united States is concerned nas been the open hostility of tho Americans resident there to the course pursued by President Wilson. They not only have subjected the president to outer public criticism In pamphlets and Interviews, but they have caused to be circulated In Mexico City false reports as to the attitude of the American pub lie, -thereby encouraging the Mexicans to deeper resentment toward Washing ton. The stand of the Americans In Mex lco can ony be explained on the ground that their pocket interests are affected, but this does not excuse their miserable lack of patriotism. When they should have joined their valuable Influence with that of th. president in his effort to bring peace and order out of the chaos, they turned against their own country and tried by every means to discredit Its authority. They may still retain their citisenshlp at home; but they have sloughed off their American ism and forfeited their rights to a respectful audience at home. In the near future, th United States house of rep resentatives has declared unmls takably for the plan. The resolu tlon calling upon President WllBon to promote Winston Churchill's sug gestion in every possible way was passed bya vote of 817 to 111. The wonder is that there were 111 negative votes. They are evl dence that even America, a peace loving nation, needs to bo edu rated not only on the cost of war Itself, but also on the tremendous burdens imposed by preparations for possible wars. It may take a long time to bring about International agreement lim lttng expenditures on armaments but there is no nation so favorably located for promoting the Idea as is the United States. Our detached relation to other nations makes the United States the logical champion of such a cause. There is every . . . a i reason, aomesuc ana xoreign, wny America should favor an Interna tlonal conference. In a recent speech Premier As qulth said that pressure from below from the masses, the wage earners the over-worked citizens, is the only means of forcing such an agree ment. Such pressure should be brought to bear upon governments for armaments are mill stones around the people's necks. Why should a nation be proud of a great fleet of destroyers of life and property? Why should the United States Bpend more on Its army and navy than it spends for ivil lmrDOses? We need and the world needs sweeping social reforms rather than fighting ships. There is a greater demand for common sense and honesty In government and diplomacy than there Is for bluffs by big guns. The greater part of the world's sad history was due to magnifying the war spirit. There may have been holy wars, but against these are chargeable many unholy strug cles brought on for the sole pur pose of blinding the people's eyes to inliiRtlcea of government. For every good purpose that war has served there have been many evil results. His many friends in Portland and the Northwest regret the retirement of Joseph Young from the headship of the North Bank, the Oregon Elec tric and, other Hill lines. His pleas ing personality, his tine business ability and many charming traits of character, have' won him a high place during his business career ta this aection. The expanding busi ness of the Hill lines during hia administration .are evidences of his capacity and intelligence. .. Many warm friendships will follow him into whatever field of. Usefulness he may be called. .' ;. . . Guilty ; on t every .ope 9f the five counts was''' the ., verdict of twelve men in the case of the United States against the managers of the Oregon Inland Development Company, on trial for ' .the past three weeka in Chief among the unpatriotic Ameri cans Is Major Cassius K. Gillette, a former army officer, whose antagon ism to President Wilson is a disgrace to the service. Major Oillette has lived in Mexico for six years, and claims to know all about the country.- He says that If he had been in Huerta's place he also would have shot Madero and assumed control. . Then he decmlms against -the sav agery of the constitutionalists, who line their prisoners up against a wall at sunrise, with the death squad stand ing by. According to the major a savage Is a person who does not ap prove of the secret murder of a duly elected, constitutional president by a military commander, who then seises the vacant place. Presumably Major Oillette thinks himself a clvillxod man; he approves of everything Huerta has done. If Aaron Burr had assassinated President Wilson and had seized the capital, -ily the savage. Indian, would have objected to the proceedings. Can the majupreully think so? In contrast with the extraordinary view, of most of the Americans in Mexico City we have the expressions voiced a few days ago by Senor Cov arubbias, formerly Mexican minister to Russia. He mig ht 'be expected to know as muoh about Mexico as Major Gil lette, and he says that It Is Impossible for a despot tp rule Mexico; that Por flrio Diaz clearly saw this and vacated the presidency because be realized con ditions had changed. ' The wisdom of Diaz Is not shared by Huerta, or he, too, would realize that the game is worked out. Conditions have changed In Mexico and all over the world. Persia, Turkey and China hav. overthrown their despots and rejected that theory of gov ernment. It Is no mystery that Mex lco has followed In the same way. Th. Americana In Mexico who have tnken sides with Huerta deserve to suf fer the fate of th. Man Without a Country. They are out- of sympathy with their own flag and they detest any government of Mexico that would not bp-controlled by a few rich families who can deal with them In a business way. They have rejected the ideals for which their fathers fought and have dropped back from the twentieth cen tury to the seventeenth. Their testi' mony in th. present situation-la worth less. Mr. Krutschnitt spoke of a hard and fast rule, not to take on men over If he wanted pick and shovel men, that might do, but a machinist at 46 is right in bis prime; in fact, just getting sure of himself.' Any man who is healthy and has taken car. of himself, is hale and strohg. at 60, while many are wrecks at 30 or 40. So, why an age limit? Khali a man be denied thn right to earn his dally bread, simply because he has passed a certain age? Will not bis qualifications count for anything after that? The writer is" over 60, and is still emnloved bv a corporation that does not consider the age limit. Many of this corporation's men have seen long service and are still wanted. Compe tency we must have, but efficiency can not be judged by age alone. WILLIAM FRANKLIN. A Plural Marriage Question. Portland, Deo. 15. To the Editor of The Journal I have iad this question, "Are marriage laws the same In all states?" put to me of late and have discussed it with several persons, and .11 differ. Th. question at issu. was over a man who, beard, is living' in Utah and was married there. Tb. woman whom he married found out that he already had a wife and two children living- in New York. His second wife left him as soon as she found this out and Is working for her own living In another state. Is her marriage legal, or absolutely void? One answer to this was, that so long as they were married in Utah, the 'laws of that state ac knowledge plural marriages now a. in former days; that If he left that state to follow her. she could have him ar rested on the charge of bigamy. An other answer was that th. laws of Utah are the same as all other states, that the second marriage is void, and if she so desired she could marry again with out bringing legal proceedings against him. " . What are the laws on this? X. Y. Z. The general law of domestic rela tion, provides that where there has been a marriage, the same can be an nulled only by death or by tho law. This rule obtains without exception throughout the United States. As for It Is even , claimed that th magazine o( a, battleship may b. exploded from shore stations in this way, a feat which, if possible, means nothing less than the driving of heavy battleship, from the sea. Magazine, of fort, would alio be exploded. One writer, but he la a Socialist, claims that all these uses of wireless hav been trlt-d out by th. military authorities nd found practical, and they are kept secret because if they were made public it would cause an Instant cessation of the building of warships. He calims that Wireless telegraphy is the greatest humanitarian Invention of all the ages. It has already, saved thousands of lives by calling help at sea and that it later applications will make war impossible. But Socialists are always dreaming dreams. Perhaps he only dreamed about this .military secret, although there have been hints of that kind of thing in th. European papers for some . time. YOUR MONEY By John BI. Oskison. polygamy or bigamy, no state,' Utah inJ P"h .ome temporary-end which to them If you are working for a salary or wages and doing the thing you Ilk. to do, read this. ' You will get oh well; you will re ceive regular increases of salary; you may be fortunate enough to secure an interest in th. business (under aom. modern profit sharing plan), and you will llv. well within your income. As a consequence, ypu will be sav ing a little money each year. It la up to you to put that saved money to work for you. But you are too busy with your own job to attend to managing your surplus. You must Intrust it to someone else. , You get around quit, a bit among your friends, belong to athletic clubs, lodges and political organization. ; you go to dance, ana concert, ana ball! games which are . promoted by your friends.' All around, you men ar. us ing capital lh emalPamounts to accom bora wer. six or Seven miles apart "In those day's boys had to work and by th. time I was 13 year, old I could do a man's work at plowing, teaming or handling- stock. Johnson county be gan settling- up, so my father moved to what was then called Van Buren county. W. built a cabin, fenced the farm and worked hard for two years, when father took the Oregon fever. My father waa a Campbelllte preacher. In spit, of hia being a preacher, he had a great fondness for good horse.. He had -the best bred and speediest horses In the whole country. I followed his love of horse, more closely than I did his lov. of preaching. We finally compromised on this basis that .very othei Sunday I would go to church and th. Sundays netween I could do a. I plea.ed. "About three mile.' from our ranch there wa. a meadow called, th. Big Creek Bottom. The fishing was good, th. swimming couldn't be beat, and there waa a straight away level turf for about a quarter of a mile. On my Sundays I used to take on. of our best horses down there and the boy. from all over th. neighborhood would come with their best horses and we would rac. our horses. I cleaned the btfys out of pocket knives, baseball, and marblei. Mon.y w. .didn't have In those days. I1 kept this up for a couple of years and my father never found It out. About that time a man named Armlsted Mlll ner came there from Kentucky. H. brought with Wm a thoroughbred Ken-' tucky horse that he said could beat any thing in -th whole country. Our nearest neighbor was a man named Adams, who lived four mile. away. His boy, Hugh ey, was two year, older than I. I had outrun all of his father's horses and all of the horses he oould get hold of. Hughey borrowed' the new Kentucky horse and w. arranged a race. By rak ing and .craping from every possible source we each raised 11.10 In monev.. we acrnea to- tins all of th. pocket knives, marble, and every other treasure, we had and we finally bet our hats also. We ran the race and I crowded th. Kentucky horse out by a nose. A. bad fuck would have It, Just as the horse, were coming In so close together you could cover them with a blanket, a neighbor of ojirs, who was hunting for a lost cow, came by and saw the close of tlie race. I felt aura he would tell my fattier. My father had what was, at that tlme.ta very peculiar notion, and that was not to whip his boys. If we did anything wrong he would talk to us for an hour or two and I would rather have taken half a dozen lickings than a lecture from my father. "A few days after the race, instead of calling me Cy, my father said, 'Mr. Mulkey, won't you set up and have somo dinner with us?' My father wan scrupulously polite I could hardly choke down my dinner. -After dinner he Said, 'If you will accompany me to the orchard, my .pn. I would like to have a talk with you.' For a while he talked to me as If I were a perfect stranger, making me feel dreadfully un comfortable. Finally he said, 'My son, how long hav. you been engaged in the business of racing horses?" I said, 'Two years.' He said, 'How do you like that business?' I thought I might aa well tell him the truth so I told him I liked it flnej that I thought It was a great business. He started to tell ma how every criminal who had ever landed in tha penitentiary or was hanged had started doing something Just for fun. Ilk. horse racing or gambling, and had finally got Into the habit of It. After about an hour's talk I begged him to whip me and let me go, but he wouldn't do It. H. said, 'I am going to make one, request of you that I hope you will grant, and that Is that you will never mnumer nurse as long as I am alive. When I am dead, you can do as you pleas..' I promised him, and what's more, , I kept my promise. "It was only a short time after that that we got ready for our trip to Ore gon. W. took two wagons, each on. with four yoke of oxen, and in addition ' w. took with us 48 head of cattle, fiv. wall bred horses and 1E0 head Of sheep. We Started in April, 1847, My father and Johnson Mulkey, Vho Is the grand father of Fred Mulk.y of Portland, brought the first sheep to Oregon that aver crossed the Rocky mountains. W. had something over 300 head when w. started and we got to the Willamette' valley -with 823. W. lo.t all but seven' of our 43 head of oattle. Th. Indians' stol. all of our horse, and we lost om. of our oxen on the way aoross. It took us six months and It day. to make th. trip." :' The Age Limit, -' Fisher'. Wash.. Deo. 16-Tn lh. ft. Itor of The Journal. Much has naan said about Russell Chamberlain of Port land, city hall Janitor. His case is like many ofn.rs, ' .vcept that h. possibly hod a better Job than many, others. In the rural route, mall eervic. there 1 an ag. limit that keep, ant many compe tent, deserving men, while within 'the limit ar. numberless incompetent.. In the recent . railroad machinists'- strike, 1 eluded, recognize, either as a defense in plural marriage, no matter what may be the religious convictions of a. por tion of tn. inhabitants or tha state. In tho case stated by the inquirer, the first marriage is aim in rorce and the sec ond marriage constitutes the crime of bigamy, on the part of th. husband. " Pool Room Gambling. Portland. Dec. 18.-!-To the Editor of The Journal Kindly Inform m. if there 1. a law prohibiting people who. patron ize pool room, from playing for money, or gambling. I think thla should b. looked into, and more attention paid to such place, about 12 or 1 o'clock a. m. , - A VOTER, f A' stringent anti-gambling law cov er, all form, and degrees of gaming in Oregon. Thl. law la uf f iolent, if -j invoiced! to clean up any place that per mit, game, of hazard ef. any sort . Wireless .Secrets, v , . From the Omaha World-Herald. : Wireless secrets are said to be held by the military .authorities of at least four nations England, Germany. France and th. United States for use in- time of war. It Is, however, probable that they ar ail- one and the same secret. It IS claimed that each of thes.. nations holds a sfor.t oonoarnln. a wireless1 flash that will explode mine, buried in -th. sea. Torpedoes will be guided to their mark by wireless control from saf. shelter, on shore ot 'from th. dock, of, ships, being successful where torpedo boat, would b. destroyed seems well worth doing, Here is your chance. Study the ones who are making good along these lines, and make on. of them your friend. Try to work out with him a plan by which he can us. your surplus money, and the surplus money of others, to your mutual profit. Try to work out some thing which will enlist hi. enthusiasm. Be his promoter, in short. - Do this, and if your Judgment has been sound you will get for. your spare capital not only a fair return a. pay for it. use, but you will r.ap besides the legltimat. promoter', profit. Keep your eye. open for such a pos sible human huggej.; i j I recall a case. A young fellow who belonged to a fraternal order which held a good many smoker, and dance, through th. winter was designated to Advance, Wet India From th. New York World. Among the more Important bv-nrod- uct. Of th. Panama canal w.,ar. likely to see the development of another self governing dominion Or Commonwealth within the British empire. This will consist or the West Indian islands, and perhaps also the continentsl sions of the British crown in Central and South America. The., various colonle. ar. collectively much larger, Jn popula tion, commerce and wealth, than is New foundland or .van New Zealand. Yet " they hav. no voice in imperial affairs and little Influenei because ef their lack of unity. Of course, their geographical distribution makes it less easy-for them ? to be administered under a common government than a single compact coun try; less easy, bat not impossible nor even gravely difficult. , Fe a' score of year, the question of federation ha. been intermittently con sldered. Now the impending opening oi ' the. Panama canal and the prospect of profound changes in commercial rela tionship, have given to the movement a new-Impetus and. have made it. re alization seem all but essential. ; Even a mind reader couldn't hold his head to suit the barber when he Is set. rurnisn -rerresnment.. h. handled, his, una ms nair put. - t . Job in a way; in rieiiffht vryhny.,v - , felt It a privilege to b. allowed to pay your share of the cost of the "feeds." After a time a group of this young fellow', lodg. brothers got him estab lishedon their capitalIn th. catering business; and you'd find It hard to credit the amount of profit they havoj mad. out of their investment. 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