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To thine own self be true, and
It must follow as the night tne
day. thou canst not then b
false to any man. Shakespeare.
THREE YEARS AFTER
A'
S LONG ago as May 1, 1910, a
date three years, seven months
and 29 days bark in the past.
Portland was In the midst of
",an agitation for an auditorium, with
.a pronounced public sentiment in
favor of the plan.
, ' As Jong ago as June 5,. 1911, a
; Uttlt7 - WW - JCttl D, O LA UIVMI.UO UftlU W
days back in the past, the voters
. Ol JTUlvleUlU lUBUUtlcu puuiiu auuiii -
itles to build an auditorium and
made provision for funds for the
purpose.
As long ago as June 21, 1911, a
date two years, six months and nine
days back in the past, a commission
was named and given full authority
to proceed with the construction of
the auditorium.
' December 30, 1913, two years, six
. months and 25 days after construc
tion was ordered, the public audi
torium for Portland is still unbuilt,
the auditorium' commission that
Mayor Simon named is out of ex
istence, many silver threads have
.appeared among the gold, and we
stand in point of accomplishment
. . I . J . 1 1 n,.M
aDuUl wnere we swuu luu uay oaci
the election at which the auditorium
bonds were voted.
Few If any cities ever made a
ranpt In d nrrmnapri mimic wnrlr SO
A VVV U M w , '-'- '
Incoherent and so humiliating.
;Are we to understand from this
; record of failure, delay, postpone
ment and inaction that Portland
hasn't the constructive capacity to
build a public auditorium
In the new BDurt that the almost
defunct auditorium program is ex
hibiting, we shall, as to our com
petency, see what we shall see.
If - It" falls, we , should petition
, Poduntt or PoBsum.Gap to build an
auditorium.
RIVERS AXI RAILROADS
NO MORE convincing evidence
Of a year's progress In and
around Portland can be of
fered than the development of
transportation facilities. The entire
Columbia basin has responded to a
early opening of the Panama canal.
The year' record will be found in
another part of today's Journal.
, Portland has been the center of
activities having intimate relation
with the greater welfare of a vast
Inland empire. Railroad construc
tion was more than matched by river
and harbor improvements, and the
year has marked an advance in
highway improvement which means
much to the material development
of a country rich in natural re
sources, '
; Among the notable events of 1913
was the organization of a Ports of
Columbia committee, the avowed and
definite purpose of which is to es
tablish and maintain a 40 foot
channel to the sea. This commit
tee has been indorsed by individuals
and commercial organizations . of
..seven states, who insist that the Co
lumbia Bhall be, made the greatest
ifresh water harbor in the world.
' The entire inland empire is a unit
behind the project.
. During the year the south jetty
at the Columbia's mouth was com
pleted and work 6n the north jetty
was begun. There Is now a 28 foot
channel to the sea, and there is a
more insistent demand, for deeper
water. The Port of Portland has re
sponded to this demand, voting $475,
000 Of its own money to be used in
pushing work on the north jetty
pending further appropriations by
the federal government. Even de
lays in congress will not halt prog
ress. The Port of Portland did the larg
est amount of dredRlng in its his-
tory. Actual work was started on
.the first unit of Portland's public !
dock system.
Encouraging progress was made I
on the Celllo canal project.
That
artificial waterway Is nearing com
pletion. The time is c!ow at hand
when Its tremendous tnflu
upper river transportation win be
felt, when there will be unobstructed
water communication between the
Columbia's mouth and Priest Rapids
In Washington and Lewlston in Ida
ho,. When that time conies the Co
lumbia will serve its full, purpose
as the people's servant in carrying
their .freight and regulating rates.
Railroad development has kept
pace with pr'ogress on the river.
The year 1913 marked the comple
tion of the first unit of the Port-
land. Kugene & easterns program three routes of approach have been her photographs, one can hardly be
of construction of lines in the Wil- suggested both on the Oregon arid neVe it. '
lamette valley. The Oregon Elec- Washington side. It Is probable ' ' v - .
trio, baa Improved existing lines. A , that the advising engineer will have An evangelist says there are thir
n.wiatretch of, railroad Is under j a great deal to say in thia niatter teen-roads to hell. If so, says the
construction between Eugene and i of location and if emit a nrnnir : Mnw Orion no RtntA ' wa'11 hut. werv
Marehfield, for; giving the rich Coos
Day country lt!r-first rail connection
with the outside world.
In additlqa to all these prepara
tions for future traffic the Columbia
THE
basin's trade "has Increased. - Exnorts
of wheat, floun barley and lumber
showed -substanUal increases, In-
creases which - will multiply when
the present transportation program
)la completed.
THE PLUCKED PEOPLE
S HIS commission on the deal,
ferdinand E. Reed received
iore than $20,000 out of the
ublic fund used in the pur
chase of the Pacific-Milling-& -Ele-
vator property for a dock Bite.
ay Keeping irora me jury in me
.docks suij all testimony as to the
income oji the property, all testi-
mony as to the sale price of similar
i
property, and 'all evidence as to the
,$-250,000 the owner had offered bis
property for, a price of $310,000
was extorted from the city, of
which, in addition to the Reed com
mission of more than $20,000, At
torney Fulton received a fe of
$18,500.
Other , large fees and costs were
distributed around from the huge
price the city was forced to pay for
the property. It is money that in
the end must come out of taxpayers.
It is money that is made a. charge
against the public, and interest and
principal must be paid.
It adds to the cost of government
at a time when taxes are already a
heavy burden. It adds to the
mounting cost of living at a time
when the city is straining Itself to
meet the problem of the unem
ployed. Jauntily and airily, the Oregonian
dismisses The Journal's contention
about waterfront lands as "absurd."
In California, these lands "are held
by the state in its sovereign capacity
in trust for the people, and no legis
lature can alienate them from the
people. Is it "absurd" for The
Journal to claim that whatever is
true of submerged lands in Cali
fornia should be true of submerged
lands in Oregon?
The supreme court of the United
States says it is not "absurd." In
the St. Mary's River case recently
decided, speaking for the court, Jus
tice Lurton laid it down as the law
that in no navigable river accessible
from another state does fee title
exist in submerged lands. Speaking
of a former decision in a case in
which the government built a pier
cutting the riparian owner off from
access to deep water, Justice Lurton
said:
This court held that the government
had not "taken" any property which
was not primarily subject to the very
use to which It had been put. antVJ
therefore denied his claims. Touching
the nature and character of a riparian
owner in the submerged land in front
of his upland bounding upon a public
navigable river, such as the St. Marys,
this court said:
"The primary use of the waters and
the lands under them is for purposes
of navigation, and the erection, of
piars in them to Improve navigation
for. the. public, is .enUcely. CQiisifitent
with such use, and Infringes no right
of the. riparian twner. Whatever the
nature of the Interest of a riparian
owner In the submerged lands In front
of his upland bordering upon a public
navigable river, his title is not as full
and complete as his title to fast land
which has no connection with the
navigation of such waters.
"It is a qualified title, a bare tech
nical title, HOT AT B38 ABSOLUTE
DISPOSAL AS IS HIS UPLAWD, BUT
TO BB HELD AT AX.X. TIME BTBOK
DIITATB TO SUCH USE OF THE 8TTB
HBBOEO UXO AITS OF THE WA
TERS FXOWIirO OVER THEM AS
MAI BE CONSISTENT WITH OB
DEMANDED BT THE PUBLIC BIOHT
OF NAVIGATION."
The highest federal court thus
strips the upland owner of his fee
title, just as the California supreme
court strips him of it, rind just as
Chief ustlce Thayer and his col
leagues in the Oregon supreme court
stripped him of it in a decision
twenty-four years ago when they de
clared that an upland owner can
not, in a contest over submerged
lands, maintain "an action to re
cover the possession ' of real prop
erty." But in June, 1913, the Oregon su
preme court, comprising the then
five justices, held to the contrary,
and purported to give the upland
owner a title in fee simple to sub
merged lands down to low water
mark. - It is a decision that purports
to confirm In the railroads and
other private owners their cinch on
the Portland waterfront.
It is a status in which the sov
ereign rights of a people are taken
away from them, and then sold back
to them at about $800 per front
foot for purposes of commerce and
navigation in terms of harbor lands.
THE INTERSTATE BRIDGE
N'
OW that the commission has
chosen an engineer to plan
and supervise the construc
tion of the Interstate Riidee
across the Columbia river, the work
ought to go forward rapidly. It fs
the expressed wish of the commis-
sion and the engineer, chosen that
it do so and they have manifested
their desire by immediately arrang-
ing for the simultaneous survey of,
proposed sites and the securing of!
the authorization of the federal
government to span the river. It
ought not be difficult to secure this
authorization. 1
A detail that will require long
and careful consideration is the
choosing of a site and approaches ,
to the bridge. This will involve ln-i
dividual interests and their sacrifice
to the coller.HvA C-nnrl. Thun far
that he should. , "
tree, as he should be from ; local
influences, ho will be ln a ppsltion
after he has surveyed and made his
estimates to choose that location
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A I
GON , DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY
which will yield the greatest ro
turns In economy and service and
the greatest .. gpod.,Jt Is possible
after his study of the ground Ji
may find a route that has not yet
been suggested, one that best an
swers all requirements. In this
event hi .recommendation should
be adopted. In the matter of loca
tion and approach the common good
should be placed over private gain
Another matter yet to be decided
upon is the- type of bridge. Shall It
be
a swinging, a - lift or a bascule
span? This is another question
that must be determined Dy local
conditions and one in which the
advocates of the respective spans
mu8t make concessions.
The fact must not be lost sight
of that although the bridge is to
be for the use of the public it must
be constructed on strict business
'principles with a view to economy
land durability of service and above
all that
future.
It is to be built for the
A PERILOUS PLAN
T
KLEPHONES and telephone op
erators are substituted for tele
graphs and telegraphers in op-eratinhUe--train8
on the St.
Louis and San Francisco railroad.
It is a perilous substitution and
will probably result in train acci
dents and a loss of human life and
limb. The change is made in order
to avoid a raise of wages asked by
the telegraphers, and over which
the railroad managers and repre
sentatives of the telegraphers were
to have met In conference yesterday.
Testimony before the Interstate
Commerce Commission in recent
weeks explains why the Frisco road
doesn't pay its employes a sufficient
v.age. Seldom has there been a
ranker instance of the deliberate
wrecking of a railroad.
It appeared In the evidence that
the officials of the Frisco system
and their friends cleaned up profits
of, at least, $7,000,000 by buying
or building connecting lines and
selling them to the company. ,Thls
was additional to enormous profits
made by bankers who had a mo
nopoly of the road's new issues of
stocks and bonds.
As individuals the managers of
the road made Investments In side
lines and as officials compelled the
company to buy them in at exor
bitant prices. In many of the sales
to the road of branch lines, the offi
cials made profits of 75 to 100 per
cent, and in. one case made a big
sum by selling to the company land
that had been donated for the build
ing of a branch line. After the road
had been finally brought to the
verge of insolvency the officials
managed to palm off a bond issue
of $28,000,000 on French investors.
It is because of such operations
that the road is now in a receiver
ship, and its managers engaged in
a 'foolish" program of operating the
system by telephone, Instead of the
far safer plan of telegraphy. It
cannot properly pay its employes
because wrecked and despoiled by
its managers.
By an ineffective system of dis
patching trains by telephone, it will
almost certainly lay'k heavy toll on
human life now as a result of ac
cidents. '
Senator Chamberlain seeks a con
ference of all members from public
land states to agree on an amend
ment to the three year homestead
law lessening the amount of im
provements required of settlers. If
limited to actual settlers who go on
the land and occupy it, the burden
as to improvements can hard
ly be made too light. The
aim of a homestead law in these
days of landless men should be to
secure homes to the homeless and
enable them to survive in their
homes.
Among the "For Sale" advertise
ments of St. Louis newspapers
Stephen Godo, a cattle slaughterer,
says: "I, the undersigned, Stephen
Godo, will sell my daughter, Mar
garet, six years old, for $2000, and
mv artrt QfonliAn Tr 4crVtr VMra r 1 (
for $1000, to any person who will
eiVe them a good home." Godo
earns $10 a week. Not many stories
approach in pathos the tale told of
two little ones in this "for sale" an
nouncement. While they slept, Robert Ma
roney of Cincinnati shot and killed
his wife and little daughter. As ex
cuse for the deed, he explained that
his wife "had the devil in her eye."
Why, alas! will society persist in
making pistols and putting them in
the hands of , such men?
The New Year's eve conviviallstB
are to have until 1:15 a. m. to tank
up. Not one of them should utter
a whlmnpr at the new order. If
he cannot become sufficiently soused
ln that tlme, ifS no fault of the
government,
a physician in Austria has been
granted a patent for transplanting
jiving hair upon bald heads. After
these many disappointments, the
shiny tops will not immediately
cabie their orders for a spring
planting,
it is claimed that Gaby Deslys
spends $70,000 a year for clothes.
trion mHn r rhn larlr nt rlnthoa In
'one of them is choked with Joy
riders
One authority declares that wo
men will soon be members of con-
gress. If we think we have trouble
now 'about- the padded, Congres
sional Record, how would It fare
with us then? ' , "
;'A-bill for, which signatures are
asked proposes that not more than
double the assessed value shall be
paid for property ... purchased ror
public uses. It is a measure that
ought to pass. Lack of such a
safeguard is a chief reason why peo
ple are. refusing to vote bonds ror
the purchase - of - lands for public
uses in Portland. ' '
Paper Is now . made from corn
stalks. Tomorrow, by converting
the finished product back into the
raw materials, we may be feeding
the cattle on yesterday's newspapers.
A burglar at an irvlngton home
. . - . tt
got away with a dozen eggs, ne
was evidently after some specially
nri7ur Christmas presents ror a
dozen of, his dearest frienas.
Letters From the people
7"
i Cnm ninnlil Mnnji unt lii Th Carnal for poh-
llratlon Id this department ataoold b written on
onlr ooe ld of tba paper, abould not
300 words ID lengta ana mm """VZ 111
br th nam and addreaa ot tht aender. If tM
writer does not dealn to bar the nam pob-
liabed, be abould ao aUte.)
"DIcuslon in the reteat of "r?V;
It ratlonatlaes ererjtElns t toocbej. It rob.
principle of all false sanctity "d.ilir!,w" Ahe
bark on their reasonableness. If hJr,.b",??
reasonableness. It rutbleasly eruabea them oat
of eilatence and sets up Its own cuucu.iuu .
their stead." Woodrow Wilson.
Ti.o Skvlnrk in Oregon.
; Portland, Dec. 29. To the Editor of
The Journal The statement in Satur
day's Journal that a second Importa
tion of German skylarks to Oregon is
about to be made Is. or should be, to
all bird lovers, of great interest.
statement In the same paragraph, how
h hie- lmDortatlon of these
songsters some 15 years ago, failed be-
cause no new Diooa w ."
not accurate.
Having done considerable worK, as
observer In ornithology, in the last 35
years, for the Smithsonian Institution,
1 took special Interest, at the time.
In our skylarks, several pairs of them
making their . home ' In Ladd's field,
then a cow pasture, between East
Twelfth and East Twentieth streets.
Just south of Hawthorne avenue, and
In the William tract, adjoining Ladd a
field on the east. The locality was an
ideal home for the skylarks. Here they
built their nests in the grass, on
the ground, from which the Joyous
male rose high, singing continuously
as if his heart would burst
What became of these birds? What
happened? Here is the truth of the
matter: The skylarks were destroyed
by cats, bird dogs and hawks. Certain
gentlemen of the city who owned
finely bred bird dogs were in the habit
of going In the cool of the evening
with these dogs (no guns) in Ladd's
field to train their pointers or setters,
the latter ranging about, catching the
scent of the nesting mother skylark
and thrusting his nose Into the nest
of eggs., or of young birds, as the case
happened to be.
In addition, prowling cats, which de
stroy more song birds In Oregon than
all else besides, habitually roamed the
locality, having many a feast on the
mother skylark or the young she
was brooding, and sometimes on both.
Nor was that all. A slim, long
tafcled brown hawk, commonly Jknown
as the sparrow hawk, appeared. When
a skylark rose from the grass to
sing, one of these murderous" hawks,
like a bullet, struck In mid-air the
poor little songster, and all was over.
If we are to have skylarks In Ore
gon and I hope wt shall, hunting
birds of any kind with dogs must be
prohibited by law, a thing attempted in
the last legislature but, defeated by
sportsmen who; keep dogs for hunting
China pheasants.
i Second, do away, epeedlngly and '.ef
fectually, with the countless miserable,
disease-breeding cats, and pay a
bounty for dead sparrow hawks.
C. E. CLINE.
The Merry Makers' Opportunity.
Portland. Dec. 3(1. To the Editor of
The Journal Will you kindly take
notice of the following idea, give it
some thought and. If your Judgment ap
proves, some notice in your papers
Would it be possible to Interest the
New Year's eve merrymakers in the dear
old people of Portland, who are In need
of our love and, care T
When a man has cared for himself
and family for some three score and 10
years, surely he Is entitled to a rest.
with a pension from his city and state.
1 here are men (some with wives) who
have filled different positions, ln life.
all now feeble and needing care. Rome
are sick; many have had to use all of
their hoarded savings and now need
help. They have no pleasures, few
comforts, not even necessaries; but all
have the shadow of that living death at
the poor farm hanging over them.
Surely something should be done to
allow a man and wife to finish life to
gether, without unnecessary suffering.
There are widows who never had a
child to love, or draw a pension for, or
to care tor mem ln tneir old age.
If the merrymakers would give 5 ner
cent of what they will spend New Year's
eve. It would start a fund, and other
help would come. 1 will gladly give
$2.50. ANNE WILSON.
Pard O' Mine.
By Flora G. Haskell.
So you sorter think o' quittin',
Pard o' mine?
krtred of the deal you're gettln
aii tne time?
Now. see here: don't be so gloomy.
This old world is big an' roomy.
Jes' sit down and listen to me,
Pard o" mlnel
Life's one great big marathon,
l)on't you know?
Every fellow's got to tun
Fust or slow!
Yes, I know you've run and fell
And I know it hurts like well.
Get right up and never tell.
Let 'er go!
Stop, and look around a bit
At the land.
Ere Life's last long trail you hit,
Pard, old man!
Though your heart and brain seem numb
Soon your "second wind" will come
Then get up and make tilings hum!
Cause you can! -
Make a New Year's resolution,
Pardner, do. i
'Taint the time for dissolution
Yet, for you.
There's a place for you to fill;
This old planet needs you still;
Grit your eeth, and climb the hill.
See 'er through 1
For a Revival of Poor Richard.
From the Chicago News.
Good coupsel was given a spendthrift
nation the other day by Arthur E. Chllds
of Boston, president of a life insurance
company, at the annual convention of
life Insurance presidents. Indicating
that this country contains "probably the
most extravagant public ln this most
extravagant age," he called attention to
the fact that borrowing on life insurance
policies has Increased from 3 1-8 per
cent of the reserve funds in 1888 to (
per cent In 1912. . Thus it Comes about
that of the I3.fi00.000.000 ln the reserve
, vxrvKirrsr. ntrrirMRPw art mis ; . .
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS INf BRIEF
SMALL CHANGE
A post-Christmas rift mar b Just km
A little winter now Ind then ! rel-
isnea even Dy eiaeriy men.
Necessities as Christmas rifts to the
destitute don't jast an winter.
The happiest persona are those who
nave neipea otners tne most,
Mayn't' we ' expect less than half-cost
prices at the Jahuarybargaln, a!esT -
Perhaps this season Will eo down la
meteorological hlstorr as ths Foggy
Fall. v . ,
If one doesn't like the green year-end.
he needn't travel very far to find the
white one.
.
It is to be hoped that it won't take aa
long to build the auditorium as it la
taking to select a site.
9
By the way, those postbffice employes
are well deserving of nice gifts, all
around, from the public.
It is a good time during the next
week to hunt around and see If any
suffering people were missed, or not
sufficiently supplied.
If that Chilian professor-and states
man who disagreed with Roosevelt isn't
careful, he will become a .charter mem
ber or a south American Ananias club.
The big trusts and combinations are
"laving down" to the Wilson admin
istration as they' would not during the
two preceding administrations. Pos
sibly they thought-Roosevelt a bluffer
and Taf t a quitter; but they are "onto" i
Wilson. I
A NEW KIND
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
There has just been completed and
opened in the city of Portland, Maine,
a new city hail to replace the one de
stroyed by lire in 1908. In some re
spects it Is an Innovation In municipal
building. It has been designed not only
to house Portland's city officials, but
also that portion of the city's popula
tion which Is interested in civic and
social betterment.
The city of Portland has but 38,000
population, a small number as cities
are reckoned. But It has, If one may
so put it, a big senBe of civic respon
sibility. In the basement and the two
wings of the new city hall there are
rooms for the municipal officers. In
the central portion is a large audito
rium with a seating capacity of 3051.
This auditorium Is of peculiar interest-to
Phlladelphians. ' It was specially
designed to accommodate a splendid
municipal organ, the second in size in
America and the fourth largest In the
world, the gift of Cyrus K. Curtis of
this city, who Is a native of Portland.
The organ is a memorial to his friend.
Professor Hermann Kttischmar, who,
Mr. Curtis says, "did something to
make us better men and women and to
appreciate that indefinite something;
that is an expression of the same.'
In this spacious auditorium every
afternoon Is given an organ recital by
an organist engaged by the city. Here,
also, will meet gatherings of citizens to
funds of the nation's life Insurance com
panies at the end of last year, $560,000,
000 had been lent to policy holders.
Here Is a fair Index of the prodigality
of the times. Abandoning the purpose
for which the life insurance was taken,
many policy holders "allow their selfish
desires for temporary enjoyment to out
weigh tlftlr appreciation of the neces
sity, for providing- for the future. " ,:
Buch Indications of unwise expend!
tures lead one to suspect that while fru
gality is perhaps not a lost art it kas
been mislaid. In these restless days
devoted so largely to processes of get
ting money and spending it or spend
Ing money with no special regard for
the acquisitive attribute one might
properly -suggest that there should be
a general revival of the; crabbed phllos
ophy of Poor Richard..;. "He that goes
a-borrowing . goes a-srrowing," says
Poor Richard. -r And he says again
"What maintains one vice would bring
uo two children." Also Poor Richard
gives this stern rule of conduct: "Rath
er go , to bed supperless than rise ln
debt."
Such harsh words are repellent to a
feneration that Is not given to deny
ing Itself anything within reach and
that blithely goes in debt on the slight
est provocation. But they ajre as true
now as they were when the wise and
whimsical Ban Franklin addressed them
to his fellow Americans.
Clothes to Be Cheaper.
From the Kansas City Star.
Many of the cuts which have been
made in the schedules which deal with
clothing, dry goods, etCj, have Deen se
vere even drastic. Cotton handker
chiefs have been reduced 34 per cent,
ready made cotton clothing 20 per cent,
cotton stockings 15 to 6 per cent.
On woolen goods the reductions have
been greater as, for instance, tne reduc
tion on woolen stocks Is 74 per cent;
women's and children's dress goods 64
per cent Reductions have also been
made on a long and varied list of arti
cles, such as thread, laoe, window Hol
lands, waterproof cotton cloth, shirts.
collars and enffs, etc.
The reduction on woolens Is not ef
fective until January 1, 1914, but al
ready some of the mills have announced
their intention of reducing prices.
When the new rates go Into effect a
material reduction may be looked for
greater, perhaps, on woolen cloth than
on fully manufactured goods, such as
ready made clothing. The reduction ln
the cost of material in a suit otf clothes
costing at retail say $36, will be about
83.50, and while it is the opinion of deal
ers that there will be some reduction, it
will not be as great as on other articles.
The -reductions of duty on silk and
silk goods were small insufficient to
warrant more than a, slight reduction
of retail price if anyf
The Decline of the Speed God.
From the Cincinnti Timer Star.
To Howard Elliott, the new head of
the New Haven system, has been en
trusted one of the great' tasks of modern
railroading. He had been asked not only
to restore the stock of the New Haven
system to its former dividend paying
basis, but to bring back to that railroad
lost public confidence. His views, there
fore, are those of a railroad man, not
only versed in the practical knowledge
of transportation, but endowed with the
Imagination that distinguishes the com
petent executive.
In outlining his policy as head of. the
New Haven system, -Mr. Elliott has de
clared his purpose to be the furnishing
of "safe, clean, comfortable and regular
trains." He Intentionally omitted the
word "fast" "The country Is wrong on
this general question of speed," he con
tinued. "Good business methods and
regularity of service will do more good
than high speed trains, whether passen
ger, mall, express or freight"
. Mr. Elliott's interview reflects a. rad
ical change in the policy of our rail
roads. For the past year there has been
a general relaxation ln railroad sched
ules from the quest of speed, which not
so long ago seemed1 to be the dominant
purpose ot h great trunk lines. . Half
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
' Astoria la on Of the latest town to
feel the Impulse toward establishing a
coffee club, being moved thereto by
the brilliant, example furnished by the
ciuo ai Eugene. , . - ...: .
' Prinevllle' Review's 1 8-y ear-ago Nsol-
umn: Bob Harnett threshing crowd is
about as high-toned as any In the coun
ty. While threshing near town this
week they put up at the hotel and fed
their norses at a, livery stable. .
Thus does, the Condon Times Jolly
the railroad boys: ' "There was a change
or engineers on the local Monday
Smoke McCune was called to Portland
on legal business.- Nick Carter, the
great detective, took his place at the
inroiua." 3 . -
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Drewsey Is the little town that keepa
the prices down. The News says: "The
Drewsey merchants are surely making
good in their line of business. We no
ticed parties from Juntura, Riverside
. if ... , .a i . I 1 -i with
goods purchased from the Drewsey mer
chants."
Christmas at Shaniko, as covered by
the Star: "Shaniko was a wide open
town Christmas. The dance ran all
night and the saloons were given the
privilege to keep open all night, but
that did not make much difference, as
there was not much booze sold during
the night."
Baker Democrat: Baker merchants
report larger business In Christmas
traae man a year ago, wnicn indicates
nrosDerous condition of our people.
Tne traaing-at-nome spirit was mani
fest more this year than ever, too
which speaks well for the loyalty ol
Baker people to home Institutions.
OF CITY HALL
discuss subjects of Interest to them
selves and their community. . Thus, the
new, city hall will be not merely
center of delegated authority, Isolated
and thus exposed to all the tempta
tions of that indifferent isolation which
tends to make a city government
prey to greed and graft. It will be a
center where the city's electorate may
bring its support or, in case of neces
slty, the power of publlo opinion to bear
upon its officials and promote or pre
vent such legislation as It may either
approve or disapprove.
The city of Portland is setting an
example of enlightened civic adminis
trative government that Is worthy of
careful consideration. And it is doing
so without assuming any of the "holier-
than-thou" attitude so common to the
professional reformer. The average
city hall, whether tenanted by so called
"reformers" or so called "gangsters," is
in too many cases merely an isolated
spot on the city map to which only the
selfishly interested betake themselves
with axes to grind for their own benefit.
or to wield upon some one else.
In Portland the Idea seems to be to
make the city hall a mecca for the dis
interested citlien. This new departure
will be watched with deep Interest by
other municipalities. If It succeeds it
will be the demonstration of a new
method of municipal administration ln
which the true friends of self govern
ment may find encouragement and in
spiration. hours and hours were chopped off the
time of fast trains until the public be
gan to speculate on what would be the
eventual minimum. Gradually some of
those half hours, at least, have been
restored until now the passenger to New
York has quite the sensation of taking
his way ln a comparatively lelsurly
manner.
The truth is that the strain was too
great, not only on the meehanlcal equip
ment, or railroads, but upon tne human
element that enters after-all so largely
into the realizing' schedules. Ralls sud
denly spread; engineers, In their desire
to meet the demands of their superiors
for speed, passed signals carelessly or
gambled consciously with- their human
freight Virtually impossible schedules
meant that ' when a' single unit failed
the entire mecbaniBra of the railroad
was thrown out of place. At last it was
appreciated that a minimum of hours
and a maximum of speed were not the
desideratum. The effort today is to
find that mean between absolute safety
and speed which accomplishes the high
est degree of service.
The attitude of the public toward
speed on land and sea has changed. The
Atlantic liner now foels Its way through
fog. The business man is -not so intent
on closing his desk ln Cincinnati in the
afternoon and greeting a New Yorker
the next morning as the latter arrives at
his office. An hour or two that formerly
was thought wasted is now regarded as
the best kind of insurance.
That Thumpin' Feelln'.
By Warren Frederick Lewis.
Did yer ever have a feelln'
Hort o' thumpin' rdun' her heart T
A funny sort o feelln
Thet jlst kind o'. made yer start.
An' commence right In -t singln'
Of a happy bit o' song.
Till th very echoes, ringln',
Seemed t' help yer work alongT
Oh, th' day don't need be sunny,
Nor it needn't beIn June,
Fer t' get' that sort o' funny
Feelln' make yer. hum a tuna
It kin be th' blackest weather,
Ralnln , windy, bleak an' dark,
But th' feelln' 'ponds on whether
You've got sunshine, in yer heart
Pointed Paragraphs
It's better to wear out than rust out
A woman sighs with regret - A man
sighs with relief.
It's easier to fly into a rage than to
succeed as an aviator.
s
Any man's credit is apt to be good
as lorlg as his money lasts.
However, the 1914 water wagon will
not be an alcohol auto truck.
s
Most young stepmothers step too
high.
Any woman likes to see a well
dressed woman if she la the woman.
Being able to not sing is often a
great relief to the company present
' '
A great deal' of what passes for dig
nity is nothing but genuine laslness.
When a woman asks a man how old
he thinks she is. It's up to htm to lie
like a a-entleman. :
A young man can sow his own .wild
oats, but his father usually has to pay
for the harvesting.,
The ideas of a young man are apt to
undergo a radical change after trotting
a couple of months in double harness.
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Any man who would stand well with
the female of the species can give up
his seat to her in a crowded car.
. .
You may be able to fool yourself,
but yon can't-fool your wife into be
lieving that she ought to do the family
'.washing.. . ,.,... !..
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Loclder.
In February, 1851J Joined a, party of
87 men who were starting for Scott's'
river in northern California," said Cy
Mulkey, an Oregon pioneer of 1847, now
living at Roseburg.,' "We passed wlth
Out trouble, through the Rogue River-1
Indians' country, withwhom'! General
Lane had made aTtreaty the year before.
When we came to the" Big Shasta rver.
la. Shasta valley, we found the snow In -the
mountains so deep we couldn't get
Over the. range. We had to camp until
the snow went out , ,
"On St. Patrick's day there was a heavy '
thunder shower. After the rain was
over one of our party want down to a
little well which we had sunk to supply
our camp with water. The rain bad '
beaten on the earth we had thrown out
of the well, and one of the party noticed
a small piece of gold ln the gravel. He
went back to Camp, got his pick and
shovel and sunk a hole to bedrock, which
was about four feet The first pan gave
him between 83 and 4, and every pan
he washed showed rich, dirt We stayed
right there and christened, the camp
Yreka. The discovers wn a.' mm
dent, as the country did not look at all
like a mining country, it was a com.
paratlvely level country, and looked
more like good farming land than'' a
mining country.'
That fall gold was stru6kon Scott's
river, Scott's Bar being partlcularlyrich.
There was a big stampede to the new-
camp. General Lane, who had sold hi
cattle in California, wintered on Scott's
river, as soon as the snow had gone off
the range he came over to our camn t
Yreka. This was the first time we had
met since the time I acted as his inter
preter in making the treaty with the
Rogue River Indians. General Lane
was a very cordial man. He had the
faculty of making friends. A few d&va
after his arrival he said to me, 'Cy, I
am going home to Oregon to run for
congress. I am going to start address
vulsella in mo umpuua vauev.
and wind up at Oregon City. I want
you to go on ahead of me as my ad.
vance guard and tell the people at each
point the date I will be there to speak.
Here are some papers that I want you to
deliver to Colonel Ford, Mr. Marion, Mr.
Goff, Mr. Owens, Mr. Henry and Mr.
Nesmith.'
"I thought so much of General Lane
I hated to see him beaten, as I knew he
would be, so I said, 'General, you are
making a mistake. There isn't a man
on the Pacific coast who can beat Mr.
Thurston for congress. He got the do
nation land claim bill through congress.
and he is well known and well liked.'
General Lane said, 'You go ahead, get
the men I spoke of together and deliver
the papers to them. I can beat Thurs
ton, all right' I told him that the In
dians had broken the treaty and were
vorv Vinat 1 1 n rwl ft wmiM Via a Han..,.
ous trip and I didn't care to make it
General Lane said, 'I know it Is a dan
gerous trip, and that is the very reason -why
I want you to go. You understand
the Indians, and you can go where Oth
ers can't
"Well, of course, when he put it In
that way, I told him I would go. I made
the journey all alone, doing my travel
ing at night, and never taking any
chances to make a regular camp. Mr.
Thurston, who waa on his way home by
way of the Isthmus of Panama route
to make the canvass, died at Acapulco
and was buried at sea, so General Lane
was elected.
"After finishing my errand for Gen
eral Lane, I bought some pack mules
and pack saddles, loaded them with
bacon, flour, butter and green apples.
and went back to Yreka. I made a good
cleanup on everything I took down. I
didn't get so much for my apples as I
expected, but I got 82.50 a pound for
them, so I really had no complaint com
Ing.
"From Yreka I went to Scott's bar.
where I bought a claim from Judges
Snelllng for 81u00. I took in Abel
George as my partner in the claim. We
worked all summer and until late that
fall. It was 20 feet to bedrock. We had
to move all the dirt back, but we knew
that when we got to bedrock we would
be paid for all our trouble. We got to
bedrock, 'after several months hard
work, but we didn't get' a color, so wa
had our summer's work for nothing." -
YOUR MONEY
By John M. Oeklsoa.
At this regular session of congress, a
urogram has been laid out and 89 sub
jects are on it In theory, all of them
will be discussed and disposed of. Actu
ally, perhaps, a third of them may be
crystallized Into laws or amendments.
Of the 29 subjects scheduled for dis
cussion, the Investor and the banker.
and those responsible for the financing;
of business are directly, concerned ln 10.
These are the currency, anti-trust legis
lation, the proposal to prohibit Inter
locking directors ln corporations, gov
ernment ownership of the Alaskan rail
ways, the Transatlantic shipping trust.
the federal regulation of dealings in
'cotton futures," further legislation
concerning employers' liability, rural
credits, consideration of the Pujo
'money trust" findings, and the regula
tion by the federal government of rail
road rates and stock Issues.
You and I are hearing a great deal Of
high pitched protest these days against
the government for meddling with such
matters. We listen for a minute and
try to find out who starts the walling.
and then we cease to bo troubled. We
don't blame anybody for crying out
against having his particular prop
knocked from under him, as the cur
rency and banking bill is likely to do ln
the case of certain banks and bankers.
But we don't believe It will hurt us;
perhaps, indeed, it will help us average
fellows.
There Is nothing (so far as I know)
ln the minds of the members of con
gress except to do the best for the aver
age man who has to handle money.
Certainly, the legislation which Is likely
to pasB on the 10 subjects I have men
tioned won't be hostile to the average -
business man or to the average investor.
Why not think these 10 subjects over?
Find out as much as you can. about
them (from your banker, your lawyer,
your grocer anybody who is ln a posi
tion to know i ; then ask your repre
sentative ln congress to tell you how he
stands on them, and why. I believe it -would
be good for you to do something;
like this.
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