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Goulcl ; there be" inorc impo r t ant news i 1 j inthe paper' than Is contained in the ; ; ... ''help wanted" ads? ; - ";- WEATULU Rain, or snow tonight & SH urdayj southA feautcrlT winds. Humidity 100. ! , VOL. XIII. NO. 245, Portland; 1 Oregon, fridAy , evening, December 19, iei3 twenty-four pages. PRICE TWO CENTS. w is am- aao vnrt TAjiw m dsn "IT'S A WISE CHILD," tcr. FINAL CURRENCY VOTE v'HAmQFF my feorj JT CARS RESENTED IT BY BY LiBE cAsun is FIRST. NOT SAFETY. SAYS COMMISSION 225.000 POUNDS 111 SENT FROM HERE YESTERDAY PUS FOR STEEL EXPECTED TON GH DEMOCRATIC Mi MAIORTY Interstate ; Commerce Com mission Report Says Rail roads Know Employes Dis regard Rules. EVEN AS AN ECONOMY MORE CARE WOULD PAY Standardization of Operating Rules by Federal Legisla tion Recommended. - Wot Always Carsful. "The auditing and checking systems uaed or detecting the dishonesty of employes are mar vela of Ingenuity and careful attention to detail, but means of determining whether trains are operated in accordance with re quirements of safety and in con formity with the rules are al most 'entirely Jacking." Report of Interstate Commerce Commis- slon. Washington, .Dec. 19. Railroads pay too much attention to the cosh register 01 too little to human safety. This was the conclusion, drawn today by the Interstate Commerce Commission In Its annual retort to congress. Laying upon human fallibility and negligence the blame for much of th-j railroad's death harvest, the Interstate Commerce Commission, nevertheless, took severely to task railroad managers, and underlings charged with train oper ation. Nearly 74 per cent of the total wrecks investigated by the commission were charged directly to employes' mistakes. The commission said: 'Either a great majority of these deplorable railroad disasters are .un avoidable or there exists a widespread lack of Intelligence and well directed effort to minimize the mistakes of em ployes in the operation of trains. It is not believed that all those uccidents wMch are causi-d by the mistakes of employes are unavoidable. It is quite true that man is prone to error and as long as absolute reliance is placed upon the human element in the operation of trains, accident are bound to occur, but untiHt can jbe jshown that all rea sonable 4nd proper, 'measures have been (Coutludml 01 .I'une fifteen. Oiluu.n Two) HETCH HETCHY BILL IS SIGNED BY PRESIDENT Statement Says He Thinks the Fears of Nature Lovers Not Well Founded, (Vnlted Pren Leased Wire.) Washington, Dec. 19. President Wil son signed the Hetch Ketchy water bill today. In signing the measure the president attached the following memor andum: "I have slgne this bill because it seems to sexve pressing public needs of the region concerned better than they 'could bo served in any other way, and yet does not impair the usefulness or materially detract from the beauty of the public domain. "The bill was opposed by so many public spirited men, thoughtful of the interests of the people and of fine con science In every matter of public con pern that I have naturally sought to scrutinize, it thoroughly. "I take the liberty of thinking that their fears and objections are not well founded. "I bclijtve the bill, on the whole, is in the public interest, and I am the less uncertain In that judgment because I find it concurred in by men whose best energies have been devoted to con servation, to safeguarding the people's interests and many of whom, besides, have had long experience in the public service, which has made them circum spect in forming opinions upon such matters." ' THE JOURNAL'S YEAR'S END NUMBER Illustrated Annual Review to be published in five parts, one part each week day for five successive days commencing Friday, December 26. These feature sections will interest your friends in the east and elsewhere. Let us mail the five issues for 15 cents, postage prepaid. Fiji out this Coupon today: JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. Inclosed find (stamps silver) to the amount of to pay for. sets of The Journal's Year's End Number to be sent to the following addresses: .- J Name. - Address. City. H State. - . . - - The Complete Year's v End Number in five issues sent anywhere in the United States for fSc. ; ARMY OF EMPLOYES COULD CONTROL THE NATION, SAYS BOURNE r Ex-Senator Says Government Ownership Means Downfall of the Republic. (Washington Bureau of The Journal.) Washington. Dec, 19. Ex-Senator Jonathan Bourne Jr. today criticised Postmaster General Burleson's declared advocacy of government ownership of telegraph and telephone lines, saying: "I have not a dollar's interest in any telephone or telegraph securities. I am theoretically in favor of government ownership of telegraph and . telephone linojL but practically, bitterly opposed to W Why? Because,' to my mind, it would bo tfio beginning of government ownership of national public utilities, eventuating in bureaucratic paternalism, dry rot and, inside of a century, govern mental dissolution. "I submit the following figures: February 24, 1912. number of government employes outside of army and navy 410,332 1912 Telephone employes..;..; 221,000 1912 Telegraph employes'.... 40,000 1911 Railway employes 1,669,000 1909 Electric employes . 209,729 1906 Water transportation 188,000 1907 ' 79,284 Total . .: 2,818,345 ."Under government ownership and operation there would soon be ' over 3,000,000 governmental employes. "Taking into consideration the fact that in the last 10 presidential elections the president has been elected by a plur ality varying from 7000 plurality to a little over. 2,600,000. the thought nat urally arises that 3,000,000 governmental employes can absolutely control the (Concluded on Pane Twenty-tbree, Column Four) (Signed) ' Name,... . . . L. Address ............ .V .. . L " OE COUNTY. FIFTH Fish and Game Commission in Session at Salem . Gets Governor's Ideas. Salem, Or., Dec. 19. C. H. Evans, a farmer and sportsman of Wallowa coun ty, has been appointed a member of the state fish and game commission, thus completing the personnel of the new commission. The commission Is in ses sion here today, taking up with Gov ernor West in detail his plan for re organizing the work of the commission, and" the" fish and game departments on a business-like basis. All the members are present except M. J. Kinney of Portland. Commissioner George Kelley of Port land said he doubted the wisdom of the governor's suggestion that the office of the commission should be established at the capitol. He thought if the commission maintained a perma nent office at all' it should be in Port land, whepe it would be in closer touch w(tti the office -of the game and fish wardens. He said he would favor the employment , of S" paid secretary if it could be shown that such action would Improve ; the work of the department, but he feared that within a few months tho secretary, either, would have noth ing to, do or. else would be "the whole cheese," - practically running the fish and game departments.. . Governor .West.,explalned his plans for economizing bV the elimination of duplication of work, and said the reor ganization as he has in mind can be ac complished without adding any- more expense for employes, but- on the other hand there should be a saving The o-overftor said he wanted to see the hatchery and propagation work of the fish and game departments separ ated from the police duties, and be han dled by different persons. Ame'rican and British Vessels Sent for by Fletcher and ; Craddock. (United PrtfRs Lraied Wlrt.t Vera Cruz, Mexico, Dec. 19. Admirals Fletcher and Craddock, American and English naval commanders at Tamplco, sent "hurry up 'calls", today for the United " States .'and British cruisers Chester and Suffolk to leave here for Tamplco, ; -.. -;.. ' , The summonses were interpreted as meaning that, the rebels were again ac tive in the vicinity.- Uneasiness concerning- the safety of foreigner at the port was believed to account for the admiral's anxiety for Deed. . , EVANS WALLOWA MAN SPORTING BOARD CRUISERS ATTAMPICO INJURED MAN CRAWLS TO OPEN FIELDS FOR AID Hurt While Pulling Stump, Farmer Manages to. Sum mon Help, After Delay. Comnelled to choose between an al- most sure and plow death In the heart of untrodden woods) or the agony of dragging his broken body through the forest by his arms, Charles Andrews, a farmer: residing near Honeyman, be tween Portland and St. Helens, chose the latter and won. With the bones of both legs snap ped in two below his knee, caused by being struck by the sweep of a stump puller which had got beyond his con trol, Andrews, who is 69 years old, draged himself for half a mile over (Concluded on I'rnce Six Column One) EX-CHIEF WAPPENSTEIN PARDONED BY LISTER Ranch Back of Lake Washing to Must Be Home of For- mer Seattle Official. (United. rrei. Leased Wli.1 OlyniRia, Wash., Dec. 19. Charles W. Wappensteln, ex-pollce chief of Seattle, today was granted a conditional pardon by Governor Lister, with' the under standing that Wappensteln . shall not live In Seattle, but on his ranch back of Lake Washington. Conditional pardons were also issued to Harold Barr, convicted of. extortion in'' King county in 1912; W. L .Davis, convicted of murder in Chelan county in 1907; Henry Valentine, convicted in Takima county of manslaughter, in 1911, and -Fred Morrow, convicted in Spokane of grand larceny. .. . Governor Lister, said he pardoned Wappensteln because of old age and his family. Charles W. Wappensteln. former chief of police of Seattle, was found guilty July S, 1911, of accepting a por tion of the proceeds of a gambling house run here by Gideon Tupper, how of Chi cago, and Clarence J. Gerald,' now in the restaurant business in this city, while he was acting as chief of police. He was sentenced to imprisonment for three years at Walla Walla, but it was not until May, 1912, that he was taken to the penitentiary. - Wappensteln served as chief of po lice for two years under the adminis tration of William Hickman Moore and after a two years' absence from office was reappointed by Mayor Hiram C. QUI Under Moore's administration with the town "closed." Wappensteln'a Administration of police affairs was not criticised. When Mayor Gill "opened the city, gambling houses were run with the approval of the mayor and Wappen steln was later Indicted on the specific .charge of accepting a bribe of 11000, upon which charge he was convicted. THROUGH WOODS Union Pacific's Proposed Plan of Building 5000 Boxcars Arouses West Coast Man ufacturers, in Session. DEPARTURE VIEWED AS MENACE TO INDUSTRY Protest Made and Intimation of Boycott Rife Among Lumber Makers. Lumber manufacturers of Oregon and Washington have received with great disfavor the announcement that the Union Pacific railway has. Invited bld3 for the construction of 5000 steel box cars. They believe that It will prove a serious blow to the lumber Industry, and that the step will react against the railroad and that the cars will be no im provement over the wooden cars now In use. It is estimated that 25,000,000 feet of fir lumber would enter Into the con struction of these 6000 cars. The news was received here a couple of days ago, and this morning, the West Coast Lumber Manufacturers' associa tion In regular monthly meeting in the Tyrolean room at the Hotel Oregon, adopted a resolution urging the rull roiul to reconsider its action and there by aid the railroad itself which drawb a heavy traffic from the lumber mills of this section. While the resolution doeB not state so In so many words, the Intimation is apparent that if the Union Pacific in sists on substituting steel for wood in the manufacture of its freight cars, the lumber manufacturers will, as far as possible, retaliate by shipping over com peting lines into the Union Pacific ter ritory. It is pointed out that lumber forms one of the heaviest articles of freight from the northwest over the Union Pa cific lines and any step taken In the nature of a boycott may be felt quite seriously by the railroad. While one lot of 5000 cars would not mean much to the lumber industry, it is (Concluded on Page Slxtoen, Column Tol TO BE TE BY LOCAL Benefit Entertainment Will Be Held 'at First Presbyterian Church. For the de4ight of Portland people and the cheer of the needy at this Christmas time, the professional musi cians of Portland have arranged a bene fit concert at the First Presbyterian church next Monday evening at 8 o'clock. It will be different from any benefit concert ever given in the city. Abso lutely no admission will be charged There will not be a cent of cost. The use of the church, warmed and lighted, will be donated. The singers, the best known of the city, will contribute their (Concluded on l'ee Eleven. Column Two) 2 TEAMSTER STRIKERS SHOT IN SEATTLE RIOT Trouble Started Four Months Ago Breaks Out in Lively Fashion Today. (United Irei Leaaed Wire.) Seattle. Wash.. Dec. 19. Two strik ing teamsters were shot here today in a clash with nonunion drivers, in which a volley of shots were exchanged. No fatalities were reported. Striking teamsters met nonunion driv ers of the Seattle Drayage & Storage Co. here this morning in the warehouse section of the city in a pitched battle In which a fusillade of shots were fired and missiles thrown. One striker was shot through the leg, another grazed on the neck by a flying bullet, and a third shot through the sleeve of his coat. The strike situation, which started four months ago, when teamsters de manded recognition from team owners and transfer" men, was intensified to day when men from the Ayers Transfer company Joined the idle group on the streets. . Shop Early There was a glri in our town, And she was wondrous wise. She got her shopping all done up With splendid enterprise; And when the rush down street began She looked serene and bright; "I did mine long ago, You see that I was right." . CHRISTMAS CONCERT NDERED FREE MUSICIANS Senator Lane' Supports Re publicans in Voting on Civil Service Amendment. (United Trea Lenied Wire.) Washington, Dec. 19. An eleventh hour fight by Senator Newlands of Ne vada for another Democratic caucus to consider his amendments, to the cur rency bill seemed likely late this after noon to delay a final vote on the meas ure until late tonight. Democratic lead ers, however, believed the bill would reach a final ballot by midnight, if not before. Final efforts by Senator Burton to place employes of the central reserve board on the civil service list were de feated by a vote of 43 to 40. The outstanding features of the bill, as It Is expected to pass the senate, ara as follows: From eight to 12 regional banks. Each reserve bank to be governed by nine directors, consisting of three rep resentatives of member batiks, three se lected by member banks who are not bankers and three selected by the fed eral reserve board. A federal reserve board to Include the (Concluded on I'Hge Two. Column Twol Largest Financial Institutions in Capital Are Facing Ruin as a Result. Mexico City, Dec. 19. A determined run was In progress today oft the Bank of London and Mexico, the largest local financial institution. Money conditions were worse than at any tlme in Mexico's recent history. The biggest banks' official reports, on file with the government, show hold ings 10 to 20 per cent lower than the' legal requirement. LAWYER PATRICK LOSES LONG-FAITHFUL WIFE Tulwa. Okla., Dec. 19. Mrs. Albert T. Patrick, wife of the New York lawyer pardoned from Slngt gins a. year ago after 'mertttsgt--alotig term and narrow ly escaping the electric chair, follow ing his conviction on a charge of murt derlng William Marsh Rice, died in -a hospital here last night. RUNS CONTINUE ON MEXICAN BANKS WORKING WOMAN HARE WITH NEEDY ONES WHO ARE LESS FORTUNATE Spirit of Self-Denial and Charity Prompts Giver to Help -in Bringing Christmas Cheer to the Poor and Afflicted; ..... "Stocking" Fund Growing. Christmas Stocking rand. Previously acknowl edged by Journal 489.50 Previously received by Visiting Nurse associ ation, Portland Com mons, Volunteers of America, People's In stitute 2,297.25 Krist Gudnason 1.00 A man LOO George Meredith 6.00 B. H. Jenkins 5.00 Merchants Natl. Bank. . 6.00 Waller M. Cook 6.00 Reed by Pisgah Home.. 16.00 Mrs. Mary Llghty 6.00 F. W. Mulkey 6.00 Arnold 8. Roth well 16.00 George W. Hoyt 6.00 Richard Koehler 5.00 W. B. Mackay 5.00 F. S. Stanley 5.00 Dr. Andrew C. Smith... 6.00 R. Fulton Rlsellng. . .. . 10.00 Cash 6.00 Franklin T. Griffith 6.00 J. P. O'Brien 6.00 Cash 6.00 Cash 5 00 W. W. McCredle 6.00 H. Banfield 6.00 Charles Gatchet 40.00 M. E. Harmsen 2.50 G. E. ST. 3.00 A friend 100 G. G. Peeke, Wauna, Or. 2.50 H. E. Noble 6.00 Mrs. F. T. Caplin 1.00 J. A. B 100 Brady & Oliver 6.00 A. B. C. . - 100 E. 8 4.00 L. B. Smith 25.00 Total , $3,011.75 "Please find enclosed J5 for the Christmas stocking fund. I am a working woman. I am so thankful I have a place to work and tho health to do ft. I wish I could do more, but I have five little grandchildren of my own to remember." . . - This is one of tho letters The Journal has received. A woman who works and is thankful for work; who has little ones of her own blood .looking' to- h'er, but whose heart is big enough to, take in tho strangers In want and who gives all that she has. . ' - There are many' in Portland anxious that on ChrUtmas the hungry shall be fed, that clothing and fuel shall drive away cold.; und that a friendly touch shall banish loneliness. - Help was asked yesterday ; for the Portland Postoffice Has Rec ord Breaking Day Which Bids Fair to Be Exceeded' by Shipments Made .Today.; CHRISTMAS GIFTS MUST ,G0 EAST BY SATURDAY Preparations Are Made to. Furnish Prompt ; Delivery " of Incoming Packages. Over 112 tons, 225,000 pounds to be ' correct, of mall, mostly parcel post matter, left Portland yesterday. Alt previous records were totally eclipsed by the .tremendous tide of Christmas parcels, that passing through the hands of the army of Portland postal clerks, are destined to points all over the con tinent to give Christmas cheer. Altogether 3000 mall sacks packed full, and averaging between 75 and 100 pounds in weight were handled, all out bound. Among these were the sacks containing 175,000 letters, the usual daily outgoing run of first-class mail. Prospects were that the big mar yesterday woul be passed by today' business. Since the first of the weeir the lobby of the postoffice building has ben packed with people, all of whow (Concluded on Page Sixteen, Column Ore) PARCEL POST CANT Postmaster General Burleson Says It Is So Swamped Two Thirds to Be Late. Washington, Dec. 19.- With the parcel post department swamped everywhere, . Postmaster General Burleson Intimated today that the government probably ; would be unabla to deliver more'than a third of the Christmas post packages; next week. Postof flees . everywhere were- demanding additional -clerks, " ' Burleson considered - today! sending , postcards to addresses notifying them that there were parcels waiting for them at the postoffice which, could not be delivered promptly. , j 1913 DECEMBER 1913 UN SON ITUS. WS THU- SAT I 20 27 21 8 22 29 2 30 woman whose little cottage sits in an orchard, and who Is alone and with- -out fuel. A woman whose husband 'is an O.-W. R. & N. Inspector went out to see her yesterday evening, arranged that she should be provided with cloth ing, noticed that her house was cold, ' and went outside and with her .own hands broke up pieces of wood to sup' ply her until more could be gotten her. The condition of the little mother whose husband left her, and who bore to that deserter a child -for whom she had not a single tiny garment, has brought many offers of help. Mrs. 8 (Concluded on Page Eleven, Column Two) JPIain Men, a Fur Farmer" and a "Cos-1 turner for Fresh Eggs" ; There was a time when ' the rhyme, "Rich man, poor man, beggarman thief, doctor, lawyer, . Indian chief," covered the occu pations of men, but today thresr new ones came to light "Plain men" can obtain room and board at low rates, but all .relative of Adonis are barred a farmer is wanted but not the regular kind; this man must be a "fur farmer" capable of raising mhik furs on rats then "comes a new occupa tion probably induced by the agl tatlon against "September. Morn": a "costumer for fresa eggs"; Is wanted, r... , - , : v i In" addition to these a "ltv wire"' nespaper seeks location In a country town a five room flat la offered for 20 a month, else tricity, telephone, aad water in cluded a' bull trrl-r and fra ternity pin are mining and one flrmiseeks sulpsmpn f r ev-n!n -work. Keep up i" the tim4 by" reading Journal w . rt Aii. DELIVER PACKAGES LENDER EARNINGS 24prI26