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1- V Mir THES:OREGQNsDAIIjyOURN f ' .'svi4:?n-U " x. .1- , : vJ J w rxINMLi Pk ixnferky'pgxT xRivst'KU f ; c. s JACKHOY , PubiiviMNt- rieef eiv omiir ; mk!" nnj nimnaj rniminiK ai i nr. minimal iimmj- -- Broadway ,n,i YambiH .. I'ortintHi.or Kiltere.l nt the iwwtoffl.-e at J'jirthua1, Or., for trFtiimlii.h (hfoufb mail tin cti) plmw wttf rer. ' TKI.Ki'ifO.V-ihilM 7J7t; RHne, .A-tti-'d. A IE apparnucntc reumm if tiiiw fimmiera. lew ': tlw operabtf w-hnl ile,nt'tna-nfc rrtn -yiint. j ','iltK'mN lVKKri8(J liU'llll Kf BVT-AT1V if Benjamin Keotuur Cw.- Bfttuwk'k BI!g. SW5 fifth., Ae.. Xevr York;-. J2i' VeJi in ni'te.. : ' ' I ! - XtilMicritlrl term- It? null or Ao any ad j 4rvt in. the' tutted State iur Meslco: j iis yeariv: .-. .f5.ou I One' jnomtv.'.':. . .$ .SO ' i 'i : r III'VIMV V. . ':- .. One ftu, -$'.u )oi- month;...... .25 v DAILY A0 liWMJiV.-r-'T -' ! j Y ( St- . ' Kr.w(man to be wise nnl at the same time womanly,: is to wtt'id .1 tremendous intiinoH, wlih.-ii majf le ft-it for sroorj in the live of Kt-nerations to conw. David Starr Jordan. UNACCUSTOMED QMEXS VTKW and strange omens are ll in the slcy Members of the firm ' of - 3. P. Morgan & Co have resigned as directors b about "ftYe TTf k 7 twenty railroad and ' industrial ; p".Bf ' ,T1?ey .e public verty, companies. , 6nJ. e ,be ng dIU8f The resignations themselves are . .iPoncr "art. ow3f 11 to tremendously . significant. Even ntm8f.f tof operate in an- Inquiry -ifio l , into the facts. Snch charges can- more significant is a statement by . , ,. ... , . . v, ,g , , . . 4, . 'not be lightly' made and as laun- niuof whir yi Vm forgo"eli No h,nt' much timent in reaard to directorships." 3 be1f,,1'ed t0 pa8s . 4 ., ., ,'i .j It isneven more important for Thfl aci i am a tiAno a r n u I ret i I r . ; I.!the engineers themselves to de . outward sign" of the collapse of i the secret money trust that has mr rriar YtaA arsraxr nvor path m oira tadirtrtrirliUon ana Tank- lg.- Testimony before the Pujo ,t ica i , i ( committee fras that 180 men hold I . - .. . I 746 directorships in 134 companies ti, . Ji(0ii,(i n, v.,- with a total capitalization of 2;.-i 325 000 000 ' tJ ' ,u . . . . . . , j It Was through these interlock-j ing directorates that the Morgan i and Rockefeller groups of New v,i, ovL,i over more than $39,000;,000,00O. On the witness stand before the Pujo committee, George F. Baker, president of the First Nationdl bank of New York, testified that every enterprise of $10,000,000 or upward in the past decade in this country has been floated by Mor gan and his associates, and that the "floating of the securities car ried control of the business." Mr. Baker also testified that this con centration of banking power would "if.it should pass into bad hands, imperil the-ountry." Doubtless the new currency bill with the transfer of credit from Wall Street control to public con trol had much to do with, the reBignatiohs. Doubtless a further ' factor -was Woodrow Wilson's pro posed legislation prohibiting In terlocking directorates In any event, the action of the ; Morgans is a new and strange phe- i -feomehon. M is of kind with sev eral other acts by big corporations ! within late weeks. Thus, five presidents of leading railroad com-j 191 but they were local in ex panies have notified the Interstate j tent and effect. Colorado's output Commerce Commission of their during the last quarter of the year approval of national supervision of waa reduced one half by labor dis- stock and bond issues. Five big industrial corporations recently, announced their purpose to consult the Washington govern-j ,..ment on the Issue of what the lat ter would consider a proper obedi- . ence to the Sherman law. . There j ' Was also the announcement, later denied, that the merger of the Western Union and American Tele phone was to be unmerged. ,, Never before in the history of the country was there so many signs that Big Business realizes that there is a new order at he na tional capital - an order which plays jio favorites and grants no epeciai license to captains of indus try to govern the government. CHEAP LIVES N 'EW YORK courts have ap proved settlements in nine salts for "the loss of lives in the Asch factory, fire. Ad ministrators of the estates of nine . victims have accepted cash at the rate of $75 a head, and the courts . permitted the acceptance of such a sum. t '.There is no pretense that $75 is --compensation for the loss of life. The.owner of the bui'dlhg is fight- j Ing, the charge of liability, and the j ' casualty company which carries his insurance has been allowed to fcuy financing operations. All the roads up these. claims so that it need have not replied to the commis not carry a heavy reserve against sion's inquiry as to their attitude . the' full liability. on enlarged government control, - Under a system of jurispru- , but all that have replied favor the ' df nee .which imposes heavyhandi--! plan. caps, p n litigants without money ; j It is said that the railroads the claimants have accepted $75! have been led to this by the en .each and abandoned their claims. ! actment in many states of rigid Families of the victims weae forced j public utility laws. These laws into the settlements, dimply be- differ and they are proving con cause v they have been tired, outitusing to the railroads,- Adjoining and .they have not the necessary : states have ruled in different ways resources" for tarrying on endless j and the railroads operating In such , litigation r They took what they ; states have difficulty in complying could get and quit depending upon with the requirements of each .Justice;'; V "'; : state and at the same time satis- - . Whether liability for these nlnej fylng the demands of the federal ' deattiB rested u pop the building's t commission. . . . owner is entirely beyond the ques-1 j This new attitude of the rail-tlon..-Whatever, his liability may' roads is significant. They are beViit was switched to the casualty attempting to get away from state company, and that company has , control. The various state rat used its advantage in the courts cases recently decided ,by the to- deprive the claimants of all! United States supreme court grew their legal rights. It la poof j out of a concerted-effort tp find law which- permits the strong to asylum n, the federal government. .th,us beat'dowir the weak. iThej large insurance companies bucn- moments as tnese bring, home to jhe public conscience what has. been permitted in the name of law.-;. The; nine New York claim . ants -wero -.without the benefit of tfcey- were at the mercy of a casu- alty cgmpany.j v ? 5 ; i - Settlements, like theee whieh have been authorized in New York w rt j j n. may . be defended., from the yiew- point of technical law, but they ere taunts in the faces of ordinary men and, women. THE IJRIIJK CHAOGES which is not necessary in efficient HERB should be , a rigid in-! operation. They i are admitting ' vestigation of the charges offthat proCeeds from stock and bond attempted bribery made by j iues should be applied only to County Commissioner Hart. thp rnad3 actual needs. T The district attorney's office can , 1 cm lyloy its enorgies to no better rpose. It is action due Com - ssioaer Hart himself. If eM pu ; forts have iteen made to corrupt J him, the facts should be exposed 'to the public view and suitable 1 penalty be applied, j The ; probe is likewise due as a i matter' of justice to the engineers, lover whom Commissioner Hart . Ihas cast a shadow by his indefi Hnite charges. It is true that he I hes mentioned a few names as not 1 f.ffccted hy his usations, but Ijtnere are a number who are still J 1 1- ' Statements -as . to .these charges mand a full and rigid investiga tion. They owe it not only to emselves but to their profession f a character of pro ession that deserves to be shielded from odium , . and scandal. 5 , . . .. , , But most of all, there should be . .. .. - .. an investigation on account of the great enterprise with which the directlv (,0' rn(,d t t . dirfctl ,t0ce.ed- Afl f18 ' incePt,0 , f inter" 8tate bridge any alleged irregu- the future of the bridge opera tions, be dealt with promptly and effectively. i COAL A KECORD RKAKKR E' STIMATES made by the geo logical survey place the 1913 coal output in the United States at between 565,000,- 000 and 7-5, 000,000 tons. It is an increase, over the record break ing production of 1912 of 30,000, 000 to 40,000,000 tons. The coal, mining industry lacked any spectacular features. The in crease was" normal and an index of general Industrial activities in America. Of the total increase 4,500.0po tons was in the produc tion of, anthracite and the rest in the output' of bituminous coil mines, i showing that fullv seven eight of the excess production of coal was demanded bv busier fac- tories and other industrial plants. There were a few Jabor disturb ! ances affecting the coal mines In affection, and in Ohio valley states I mining was seriously interfered j;Witn by floods, reducine the ont- Dut of that section 5.000.000 to 10,000,000 tons. The geological survey says the total otitout was further limited by a shortage of labor' in the east- era stales. me operators were unable to keep their mines wotk ing at' full capacity, and the state ment is made that except for a shortage of labor in the large- coal producing states the total output would have been materially in creased. Figures showing coal production J furnish reliable data as to Indus trial conditions throughout the country- For that reason the 1913 record is Illuminating. In spite of lack of labor, notwithstanding the increased use- of water power by American industries, coal pro duction established a new record. The total coal production in 1900 was 269,684,000 tons, less than one half what it was in. 1913. RAILROAD FINANCING S EVERAL of the larger rail roads of the country have expressed willingness for the Interstate Commerce CommiH. Uion to- assume control of th have been anxious tc go under na tional supervision to escape seme of the irritation frrwhcft ;ariov state laws subject them? Buv the insurance- companies nave failed Interstate .commerce as denned Dy the conrta. ; :X':;,y:f;---. The real signmeance oi an inis lies in the fact thaf railroadshave comedo the point.-pr conceUirg the necessity of governmental super vision, i They are now admitting that even in financing they should f not be allowed to contract indebt edness against their properties mpans that the railroad?: are accepting coutroi of rates, which t3iey are beginning to admit, must be j,ased on the actual value of ased railroad property, rather than in flated values- and the wildcat financing of the past. WOMAN'S FASHIONS I N A recent decision, an eastern judge declared that"there is nothing immoral in the slit skirt." He also said that "the women of today have only one idea in view dressing; in a man- ner that appeals to jpH." Thig judge may' e 'leafhed in the law. He may be profound in his knowledge of statutes, maxinic and constitutional provisions. Hut" he is an unskilled person in feminine psychology. Woman's least consideration; about her clothes is the effect they may have upon a mere man. No,jfigure of a person in bifurcated ftttire is on her vision when she Is planning a new gown. If it were the unesthetlc eyes of men only to be pleased there would be no sky pieces of several decks with flower garden and poultry yard adornments. If for men'only, woman's dress wouldn't be a wil derness of furbelows and flum mery today and a scarcity of ma terial tomorrow, but ; a simple suit of appropriate color and mOdeBt pretensions. The chief end of woman's dress is for its effect upon woman's own sex. On no other basis would all women bow to the tyranny of fashion. For no other reason would they make themselves ridi culous by chasing the absurd and often ludicrous: exactions of a few Paris or New York modistes. The direct purpose, , the all-com- pelling animus Of woman's clothes I is to excite the admiration or the envy, of other women. In his crass ignorance of the- dressmakers' art. it is not necessary to spend a small fortune on a gown to Impress the average man. In his ignorance, be is liable to think woman i dressed at her best when she has on only a shirt waist and a duck skirt. Ot course, there are exceptiona to all rules, and there are a few women w"ho dress for husbandly approval an approval however, rarely bought at the price of dol ing violence to the canons of a tyrannous and fantastic fashion. A 8PL.EXDID ISSUK T HE New Year's edition of the Med ford Mail-Tribune is most creditable. It is a compre hensive review of the prog ress made the past year in the development of Medford and the Rogue River valley. The edition is divided into six sections ' of six pages each con cisely telling the story of progress. Figures are given to show the stimulation of intensive farming and diversified production. Ap proximately 1200 cars of fruit were shipped as compared with 100 cars a few years-ago. Industrial development is mani fested in the construction of a big ement plant, deals for lumber mills and efforts to secure a rail- road to the sea, "Nowhere is better opportunity and never were prospects brighter than for this year of our Lord, 1914," concludes Editor Putnam. There is prophecy tas to the early beginning of a steamship service between Portland and Hon olulu. It is a far better activity for the welfare of Portland than lot swapping. It is, productive en; terprise while speculating in prop erty produces nothing. One is a yielder of earnings, the other an absorber of earnings. -Every POrt lander ean indirectly be self-helpful by creating an encouraging atmos phere in this town for steamship lines from Portland to trade with distant peoples. The juvenile court points out that youths should be kept off the streets at night. The mem bers of the police force have be fore them a strong ordinance on the subject. ' Why don't they en force it? What ordinance is there of, which the enforcement would render greater service to human kind? ' There is suggestion that the president of France visit America. Happily, It isn't the custom on this side for potentates and presi dents to kiss when they meet and, if the great Frenchman comes our Woodrow will not be . kept busy after the first meeting pulling the whiskers out of his teeth. Signatures are heing asked for initiating a law prohibiting pay ment of more than double the as sessed value for property required for public use. Because there is no such law, the public h as lost con fidence and WprsisteBtly jrefusef to authorize ihe further purchase j of land. There is great need for more land for ' parks, playgrounds anji other Ipublic uses, and the pro posed 4aw, ought j;!to; pass. - The initiative petitions ought to be signed. Wisconsin eugenl6ts are much perturbed. A new marriage law went into effect with the 'new yej.r. Lawyers declare it is use less and that marriages ma"y be contracted without the aid of li cense, priest or . physician. Phy-j sicjans refuse to make examination t for the $3 feo prescribed. Long and with many turns is the road to refbrm. ' . Mr. Taft thinks Mr. Root could be elected president. Mr. Taft thcught another eminent and ami able gentleman , coufd be . elected in 1012. Mr. Root thought so. too. The death list at Centralia has mounted to fifteen. Here are fif teen arguments for a pure water supply that nobody can aljswer. Thy are unanswerable. " (CVimmnulr.itluns suit U The Journal for puh!(ratiou in this (SepurtraenlT Khuulil tx- writ-t-u, hri unly one of tlit panpr. shonbd ut tx(ti jnls In lenttih nnd must f a-- rcmifHrned by tlio nnme mid aiWress of (hi fuilf'r. If the writer linm not (iesirt- t havel the name uulilisLed. be should so tate. 1 "rtiwrus!on is the greatest of all reform er. It rationalizes everythin? It -touches. It n.bsl i.rinoipics of BU false s iictitT fni throng thejn laek on their re isoimhleiiexs. If they! have no retis.'iialili-nes'i. it ruthlt-sl.v i-riwlkes them out of extsteiife and sets tip ltx iDuclusions in their Ktead. -Woodrow WU4)n Itailral Safety. Portland. Or., Dec. 31. To the Kd- itor1 of TIip Journal The eijitorlal appearing in your issue of December :;o. cid. use in reference to the disastrous ac tit.s that mitUrt result from the of telrpliony ipStead of telegraphy in train i.-ratching Is unjust and in- corner. About the financial management of tlie 1-risco system, there mav. of COUIff-- Ik; differences of opinion and ! no Idotibt t're officers of that roail I hav done things that they should not ; liav done, but to make them objects of Revere critit,sm because .they 'have seeri fit Jo substitute the telephone in- f titeald of tlie telegraph in the oj.er- I atioh of their trains, is absurd. There 1 are absolutt-l-y no statistics to prove' thatj telephone- operation of railroailt . It- any more dangerous than telegraph operation.' As a matter of fact, we i.:tV(j- in the northwest many examples f tflephor.e diapa tciiing. The tJre g on j Klecti'ic i.- a telepfione operated roaj. The O.-W. It. & X. is operated by te'ephnne between I'ortlund and Th(; I'illes. The Great Northern has longi str tch" of telephone operated tracks, and the Northern Pacific is tel etlhpno operated practically .from one end! to tlie other. There are many others in the east. I think it would f. - , V '."V g k tion t assert that accidents on the r0ada mentioned have been any more frequent since tlie telephone svstem was put in than they were before. As i matter of fact, I do not believe The Journal can finil a single instance of 3 disastrous steam train' wreck dur ing the last five years in the whole Unitied States, where the trouble or iginated in the faulty transmission of a triln order either by telephone or by telegraph. Iflyou have ever had occasion to be in aj train dispatcher's" office where the telephone is used, I think the ad vantage of tlie new system will be quita apparent. I can give you no betM r example of this than the condl- tion that now prevails in the office of ttye Northern Pacific Railway eom- at Pasco. Instead of hubbub and 1 ice confusion in'the dispatcher's of- there is peace- and tranquility. Trains are handled more safely and nu-d efficiently than ever before and c-erta inly with no greater risk. L.EWIS A. M'ARTHUR. 4 "Jim Hill Highway" Plan. Orlley, Jan. 2. To the Editor of The Jourjial The following might be of in terest as proposing one way to ob tain funds for the haiilding of the "Jim Hill Highway:" , I f m situated where I overlook the Columbia river, in plain view of Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens, with the towns of Rowena, Lyle, The Dalles and Fall Bridge seemingly at rriy feet, and with the vast rolling wheajt belt stretching away for miles south and east of The Dalles, tint only inviting but compelling one's eyes to look, j These features make up one of the grandest views that nature has given man to gaze upon. Is it any wonder that I am an ardent advocate of the construction of the. Columbia river I interstate highway? , Onf; way to Obtain funds for this pro posed! wonder roa would be. first, to arouse the people's patriotism by lay ing before them the road's great com mercial advantages'. its marvelous soenid- grandeur and its possibilities in bringing the people of two great em pires.! as It were, east of the Cascades and West of tlie Cascades, together in a socJiaMe, pleasurable, financial way thel Jim Hill way. "all for the road and the road for all.' At the same time let there br or ganized the "Jim Hill Road league." with h membership of $1 entitling the member to a nice little badge with any FUitalile words inscribed thereon, for instance: "Let the Jim Hill Road Be Built.t' The secretary-' of the Com mercial club or any good road booster in earth town-along the line of survey could act as-distributors, forwarding the money. This lesgue should become a national affair so that not only our own people who are so vitally con cerned in the construction of this high way could participate, but the people of the middle and eastern states as well. v Such an appeal as the vital need of this treat highway should further speed matters by sidetracking a lot of boneheaded red tape opposition that at this time seems to be interfering with' any forward movement. J y STANLEY T. WALL. Plsgah Mother Writes Thanks. Pisgah Home, Lents, Jan. 3. To the Editor of The Journal I want to thank ycu for your Christmas offering lo tiie Pisgah work. I assure yfu it waa most thoroughly appreciated in every department of our work, our "Little Bethany" getting its share, its provi dence la'so reaching to, a number of families in the neighborhood enabling all to i have a joyous CnrhJtmas ai.d happy New Year day. I ani looking forward to a year of good Work, and we feel that everything looks up. These Kind acts pt encour agement that are constantly coming in from The Journal and friends give us confidence- and strength and we assure you they will be "handed on" to the best of our judsment and ability, to those who are in need. PISGAii MUTliiUK. Phone Tabor 292. n-l Letters From the Peopis A FEW-SMILES "Ales!" .confessed the prisoner. ?'In a moment ol w ti neas 1 i stole the piano."'; - ,v.s,'-' "In 1 a " moment I of weakness!" exc!aimcM the judge. "''GooJnefre,' man!. . What . would you have taken; if von hsuf viftlded' In a - ucu uu felt strong?" When a traveling street fair recently left Albany, 0a., a loral merchant was left'vith a supply n confetti on his hand? As the fair, was "play 4ng" a nearby town, hi thought of a friens there who was Inter ested In one of t'h concessions and sen him the following tti egram : "Shipping you today 100 pounds of confetti to sell at fair." In a day or two he had a reply. "Stuff here," read the telegram; "how' do you cook it?" Everybody's Magazine. Department Clerk (at aRhington) The president will soon dispose of the highest office in his gift. Crowd of Corre spondents (eagerly) Which is that? "The postmaster tsUip at Mineral Point, Colo. 12.000 feet above the level of In a town in western Kansas the dry weather was being diseupsed by two travel! :.g men. IJttle nuffs of whit clouds were rolling by and one of the mer t'. j remarked: "That looks like rain." "No chance," the other replied; "those are Just empties com- trig back from Iowa." Kvery uody's Ma: zine. ' , t An old negro was recently brought f"r' ioHtS'- in Mobile. It seemed -J that Uncle Mose had rauen raui oi a duii dog while in the act of entering the hen house of the dog's owner. "Look here, I'ncle Mose," the justicesald informally, "didn't I ' give you 10 days last month for this same tnlng? It was the same henhouse you yere trying to get into. What have you got to say for yourself?" Uncle Mose scratched his head. "Mars Willyum, yo' sent me ter de chain gang fer tryin' ter steal sdme chickens, didn't ye?" "Yes; that was the charge." "An' don't de law say yo' can't be charged twice wid de same 'fense?" "That no man shall be twice placed in jeopardy for the Identical act, yes." "Den, sah, yo' des hab ter let me go, rah. Ah war after de same chickens, sun-!" What Cheer For 1914? By John M. Oskison. Certain truths are self-evident in the business and financial world. For example: Tariff legislation hurts business more during the time it is being agi tated than after it is passed, i Currency reform must work for the improvement of the credit situation in this country, for it cant make it worse. In respect to anti-trust legislation and the railroad rate agitation, it is darkest just before dawn. In. the 12 months of 1914 the rail roads of the country will have to raise some 400 millions of capital to pay off bonds and short term notes which will fall due. One road, for example, has an issue of 25 millions of notes falling due In June, and on, the day this is written you could buy these notes in the market for 97. Tlfat is. you could buy a thousand dollar mortgage on that road for $970, hold It until next June, and then be paid its face value $1000. You would get 7 per cent on your money In six months unless th road is thrown into bankruptcy. It is the time for the- optimist to go to market, and he will find that some of the best bargains are to be found in the railway bonds. He will also find some good stock which Is worth buying at a very low price. He "will find the bonds - and preferred stocks of some of the public utility companies street railway, gas, elec tric light and power, and power com-' pa'hies -worth looking over. too. It is a fairly safe prediction that in 3 914 the railroads will be granted ma terial Increases in rates. It may he predicted that they will have more business than ever before to handle, and you do nat hear any ominous threats on the part of labor against the management of the roads. All this means that the year, is likely to be a prosperous one for the roads. Ahd when it is generally understood that the roads are prosperous, tlie prices of their securities will go up. So much is elementary logic. Any- f body can see it. The hitch comes, of course, in believing some one of the prophecies, and after that In over coming the natural human tendency to stay away from a thing about which peopfe have been pessimistic. . For the wise buyer of railway se curities, 1914 will offer exceptional opportunities. . Illinois' Iron Constitution. From the New York Evening Post. Illinois is again' underg-oing agitation for amendment of Its peculiarly rigi 1 constitution. By this it is bound against submitting amendments to more than ,one article at a time. Yel the provision was not inserted in the Illinois constitution through carelesp less. In the thirties, the state was sharing the mania for Internal im provements that afflicted Its neigh bors. In 1837 the legislature autho.--iaed appropriations of $10,000,000 for this purpose. With a population of 500,000, it accumulated debt of $14. 000,000. Email wonder, then, that the constitutional' convention of 18 iH sought to tie thfe legislature hand and foot. When the .convention of 3 870 as sembled, the legislature aad been run ning wild in another direction. It passed private laws by. the thousand. Some one said of it: "The legislature meets la Ignorance, sits in corruption, and dissolves in disgrace." Again the framers of the constitution did not feel like entrusting it with too much pow er. The-result has been that, as last year, advocates of rival amendments have blocked one anothr, and the con stitution has steadily become antiquat ed. A nw convention is Urged. T'.t simplest move- would be to amend tin over-rigid article, and thus permit the r 1 I u.o sea." 11 PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHAXGE i Now the would-be ..candidates will get busy.: Th New Year was enthusiastically Welcomed. But there's luck of both kinds In wen numbers; ' too. It is better td do better than to r. Solve to Uo better. , " . It must be ubout time tor farranm and Villa to fall out. I Unfortunately. swearine rff in- cireases lie appetite. - i A bad lieginriing of a1 year doesn't Ulcate-a good ending. Real winter Ik iirnhnhlv half over htre; not sc "bar east." I Here's hoping all Oregon will grow as fast as Portland this Bear. . j ') ' .! This is a fine month jn which to buy. 1914 Christmas presents. i i Some erops were short in 1913, but not the amounts received for them. ! It Is never too late, nor too early. to make t sincerely good resolution. I ' ! Perhap we shall soon see that many hens made agood New Year resolution. i To be a first rate bridge architect beats beitig an average lawyer or doc tor., ! i I Why not move to the Hogue River valley? Eggs 30 cents there; 45 -cents here. ! Thousands of Mexicans, of Bulgar inns, are : starving; one of the results of war. If the -rebels" keep on winning vic tories. Hoerta will soon he hiking oui of Movie REPUBLICANS AND PROGRESSIVES Mark Sallivan in Collier's Weekly. Of course the talk about amalgama tion betwt-en the Progressive and It' publican parties was never taken seri ously by ' thoughtful students of poli tics, nor by persons who knew the real temper of the rank and file of the iTo .gres.Mves. But umo'ng thoe. who d'-l take this, talk seriously the idea of getting together probnbly reached Us zenith just before the recent meeting of the Republican national committee. .Since that meeting, amalgamation, to usf tile "Holding party'' terminology in wl ich it Was first put out, lias 1e -n falling rapidly from par toward zero. It is not likely that amalgamation will ever agaia seem a likely event. Th amalgamation talk never came from below the surface anyhow. It all cam .rtv 1 .-..wlkivu ii.l tt 1'liult,,lilru eh saw in it the onlv means of defeat in:: the Democrats and keeping their own grip on public life, ' The real, future of political parties in J this country is being shaped by cur- ' rents an-jong the voters, curren' which are not char yet, which w.llj only be determined by future events, j and which: the leadars and offieehoM- ; ers do not and cannot control. Of course now, as in 191 2. a majority of the Republican voters not the leaders would like to see KooseweU president. If Mr. Wilson's plan for presidential primaries is adopted, thes -Republican voters, being able to ex press themselves regardless of their leaders, may spontaneously nominate Roosevelt In addition to the nomination the Progressives will he sure fo giv- him. That is the Only kind of amalga - mation which Will ever take place t will be amalgamation by the Pro- gressive party swallowing the voters tf the Republican 'party, for if Roose velt is ever elected president it will be upoii a Progressive party -;platform. The trutii is. the Republican parly organization, dominated by the self perpetuatirig leadership which met at Vashington fa leadership which tu. Voters of tlie party cannot shake off), deserves to die, and it is- the duty of good citizens to lielp earnestly to de stroy it. -What the Republican na tional committee did. at Washington ;Was essentially treason to the public iwelfare. This was natural enough. iThree men dominated that meeting oij 'the committee. One of these was de- ;scribed by .an ttavestigating committee; las "the chief beneficiary of municipal ' trraft" In t?it eitCr of whii-h he is t'.l ' i iboss, the most sordidly governed cl.y! ilr. i ' n i t . H Htulnw Another of th..:-;.- imen was besmirched by a senatorial iihvestigatirig committee as a pa'd lobbyist, otM) of those sec-re l agents- of the invisible government who moved back and forth between the corrupt j elected next fall Htid that this will be art of big business and the powerful : the turn in the tide of their gettlne br.es of tiie Republican parly. Th-.- hack into power. The proposition is jthird was ejtposed a year ago as having j one of the most monstrous and brazen isolicittd ami received a secret contri-i that has ever bjen presented to Amcrl iiution of $25,000 from the Standard j can voters. Men whd seek political Pil Company. It was with such m n I power witd s'ncli tfioughts in thenr its tliese tihat Rorah, . lladley, an.lj minds, who are willing to create and Cummins, the self-styled Progressive i use such means to accomplish their Republicans, Joined in a call to come I ends, ought to and must be driven back to tha good nld party. f rom public life, and a political ' party i These progressive Republicans, a:; j that yields lo such men can have no they wish to be called, declined to join ! future. There Is no language too (the Progressives when the split came; I strong to use in condemning the tW -jthey stayed, w&ji the Iepublican party: tics they have used, are sil using, hecause they suul they could reform ! and propose to us;. There ls.no hope it. It is clear now that they cannot. I -whatever of d'eent ju-ople. who: :iae jo far as their hold upon the good j any regard for the perpetuation of the opinion of the public is of c oncern to j free institutions of this country, for hem, they 'are in ion. a precarious posi- Wide distribution, and permanent record ought to be given to the formal statement made shortly after the. He- iiiblican national committee meeting y Ceorge T'- i'erkins. It was on of he more aide of t'i public utt. ran' eu homing out from time to time wai )i sue a bearing on our present politlcui Situation, and it came fsem the offi cial head of the rrogressive party. f "The great big fact that stands oi;t bromiivntly in -connection with the meeting of tlie K.-pnbli.-an national eemmittee ii Wasiiiniton this week is that it form? H y and deliberately con fesse,l its slJis; and if tl.ere was any where in th United states'a lingering I the Kepubilcan orgainzauon cannot f Coubt as to who broke up C.ie Refwb- i f.-.mX party. ' iicn party tiiat a.-Hon of th.-s.? gt ntl.'-j "Opposition t the Democratic party." tnenin Washington this week mi'-.tj the Woidd says, 'is desirable, but no: dispel any such doubt. Whatever else ' cutthroat opposition. tCvery rnajori'y their action, amounts to. it confesses j is benefited hy Intellig. rit 'criticism. hat tlieir positin at the; convention j but not by the knives of assassins cr t 1J12 was wrong. j the bludgeons of bullies. High-minded t "The first thing that the Republican j as wv belisve President Wilson to !-. national committee did w hen it met In , his public servb-t- may be improved w-ao--.iiii7inn' this we.-k was to set up i by antagonism that is bawd in con- the calamity howl and talk at length ahout the degression in business, th ntimbtr of nuen who are being thrown submission of a group of amendments a the'same ime. if necessary. 1 At the "Honor linnch." From 'the Spokane Spokesman Rtview. iStatements as to the results at talned ajthe eennty's wood farm, otperwTseknown as "the honor ranch," ari of encouraging tenor and bear oat Superintendent Redding's Idea that th only men the .county should send tbera sr men of family- he county commissioners recjttire that the inmates of the farm be com peted to learn to work and to gHsy th value honest work. Several of the beneficiaries have appreciated the setvic thus -done to them by Superin- AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON' SIDELIGHTS : "Start the new year right by eating round eeak and see if it will do you just as.weU as porterhouse," .is the m. Grande Observer's Nw Year's anti-high-cost contribution, - j m Grants Pass Courier; Grants Pass tins no great kick coming at old 1913. There has been neither calamity nor disaster, and tiiere hs been a reason- j able measure "f prosperity. No driinkettness, no fighting, no robbery, no arrests, nothing but happi. and cheer and go d fell" shtp. That's i record. the (Wif t te-Tlnies says, of which Corvallls may well be proud. Medford Sun-: The Southern Pacific's. ; southern California tour lacks class, j Due of the Pullmans in the train lias a name, that s pronounceable. Wlio i wants to sleep in a car christened; Grand Rapids'' A Christmas carol written hy Miss Gertrude Porter of Hats-y wstsi a num ber in the Christmas P.ve program at tlie Methmlist church at Halsey. The music was composed by Mrs. Percy K. Keliv of Albanv. With unquenchable optimism ti.e Baker Democrat admonishes all good Hakerites in this- fashion: '-(iet ready for-the advent of the new year, which .has much of .promise in store for tins section of the country especially au industries are full of buoyancy pros pective of good times in 1914." The Kugene Register, at the proper date, proposed a list of New Year's resolutions for the city, closing with iKia- -Inst hut not least, this list of pood resolutions should include tbe adoption of a modern, efficient and workable charter for the city. A com mission Is now engaged in draltiiig a new charter, and it is probable ttiat its work will be given to the public within a reasonable length of time, it should be given careful consideration." out of work, and- the general sa l straita to which the country, in th. ir j ludimtent. hn.-f been reduced, indus- I trially speak lng- the whole idea being that t'.iis is because the Democrat h1 party is in power. If we are facing ah i Itidutrial shut-down, if we are facing soup houses and bread lines, and. i ' tiiese gentlemen are right in saying that it is because the Democratic pnr'.y is in power, then, in view of their ".' fession at Washington this week, tluv and they alone: arc directly responsild.' for Placiiig the Demo'-ratlo party .m power. J lie Ilieeiiow Ol L.ie nri'uinii .in n - tional committee was very much 1W - me . ooit-i .-in nei.iii r w tew days ago. Everything was post- poned: something-Is going to he don I ii I a.tm time in fotnre nr. i v ii 1 ( I - '- - - - v , something else is done meanwhile. is vry much UK.- i oionei Carters pr i- misfiry note, which read something as follows: 'As soon as possible after date I promise to pay to my beloved niece as much as 1 can afford, for value received.' ."After tae Chicago convention, whir the Progressive party was organized the Progressives were roundly blamed I -for not remaining within tlie ranks ..f the Republican party and reforming it from within. Dots any open-minded jnan now believe that anything at all could have been accomplished by fol lowing any such course? The members of the national committee of the it -publican party are only making the i motions tliey are now making bicaii:-" nr tile hardest sort of hammering from ; Progressives all over the eountr.. I They are making them for no other ; reason ; they do not believe in what they are doing; they do not intend to carry out their program in good fait .1 ii i:ie can p..ssioi.v hiuhi n. ui' ;at.,. xiiev w . i e : ; i ef.-rrcl to Thoiniis d.iven't the slightest possible sympa- , ,,rv,.r of' I 'Ister , u,l' Vo:U thy with the program from baginnirij; ,,., ,,,. t(, Kr,1(.,.;(. ,i to end. ... ; ! r-tarr a .iap. r. Il.-i bi ought with hyn as t'nder such conditions as these bow,,a.Kl l i(n, t.,j, n,. Vvas induced can it be conceivable to any man who j (l t 1J i'.,i (j;,:,, -i-j,.. j, type enres a raptor his country or Its fr-, '',, r teiill ' was shi,,p.'-l 'on instiiu.tl.ms that tncre can be any g. . .-.,,: ... i.,,, . i, ,i ..,.a .... together movement between the K publican paity. so-called, and tlie Pro gtessive party? . . . Forms and symbols are not interesting the Amerl- e'ui voter today. He is after some- j thing that is real and tangible. He iri interested, in principles, as not in forms and. phrases. such, and "Thes-mep who have met at Wash - tngton are hoping and trusting tha- I lie r-nnntru iw i?fnir to pn from bud I i worse; that men by the thousands w'l! j V.. rf mnlnvniftnt- Ihyf thplr wl-... I ! and mothers and children will be hiiri- Bry and cold thi. coming winter. Th y : believe that if tliis condition comet; j about a Republican congress will be j better (onditions for the working pe. f,l'- and our in-orde as a whole, ever af filiating with these men anain. j The light th;t is being made must con tinue and continue more vigorously rather than less vigorously." With due r. reunltion of whet "las b. en done by' many able journals, i is probably saf' to Say that the sorvj.-e which has been given to Woodrow Wilson since he cjmie into . public lif. by the New York World has not be. n excelled in forcefiilnens or effect! v.. ne.sVi by any other publication. Hut the World's support is intelligent, not pai tlsan. It recocrlKrs that the country would be better for an anti-admini-ttalioii parly. Dut ir is certain thai sciAnce, priruiple and patriotism, but not by antagonism having its roots in grt-ed and revenge." tendent Vcrbeck throucrii his enforc ing the commissioners instructions. The men have thanked the commls ; .loners l-for their opportunity.- Kvl oently Mr. Verlfk Ls doln-g good work. The Fe' vice rendt-red to thee meu j rr aches beyond them, to the com-!, munity. It is enrR-hed and strength-! ened by. the rewue of men from idle-j nens. hif tlessnessnd tlie temptations to vice. The men are made useful . orkerfi, put in t!i Wy Of acqulrim; el" licit ncy anl regaining self, respect j snd shown how and assisted to become i prod-uctfve me'mljers of tsociety. The i farm is tna.de a temple -oiAbor and the 1 gospel of toil is proved tc be a bless ing for. worthy works-- IN EARLIER DAYS I?jr Fml Lockley. Tha first printing press to "h et up in the. Northwest Is now on exhibi tion at tbe rooms of "the Oregon His torical society. In 1819' the board of foreign missions sent from Boston.. to th? Sandwich Islands, a small Itamag printing press with ink balls, tvot. I cnases ami other necessary materlah j 11 was used there for ninny years, iu print religious tract and hookJets. in the Hawaiian lanL-tiace W'Vie ihn j foreign ' missionary board decided to KrllJ missionaries" to the Indians in , , r,,nn teri " I ll,t Jri tetrlmrj. . At rai,gemen,ts ;' made to liav.- th- press and typo .seat to t.te nevUy opened foreign mls- I sion field in i ii-oiron it o,i...i , l,:tpwal in charge uf K' t) Hall tU-al Mini, r fiatn th'.. Ssn.u 1;ullI(. ' ,' ,.9 &diid ' . - J.'"! Ilrst work done on. th a prac- wicli 1s- he nresa in Its new field ,.. tb a It! page l-oiklet live by six inches'" I in siz-. It was printed In tli Flat- ' ioi;gie and. eoutaii-.ed an alpha j bet. primer, spelling 'hook- and six i P"cs of Hihle st.rl..s. In lUt the pf.ss was i.io.-ed t HiUsboro. where Lev. j. h. Gritfij! used it, to print a i leligious t eriiJtih'Hl. . entitled, "The ' American and. Kvangelistical l. lIMtlUSt. i The lust newcp.-ipel- t o Am pu bllshed ! in.- mi me coast was Issued from j the ;iess f ti,,. Oregon Printing as- ""-u'"" n uiygi.n t.itv on February 5. 1S4. The o!l, ..r- -,r I ? . 1 "'"leers of the Oregon , 'rlnl'HK associaijon were W. G I vault. r,r sid. i,t : j. -. Nesmith , r- .-v 1. 1 , j:jiin i-. jsiouks, secre--aiy; tjeorge AWnatliv. treasurer, .md the directi'H were John H. Couch, John K. Long and Robert New--eli. Mofu of theisi- men. with W. H. 'Jr.iy ami a few cithers, were the same on.-s who had Ik-.-,, instrumental In the f'.rniiuirtn of : the provisional gov ernment 'an 1 in starting the Mult- niaii circulating library. The preamble ,,f the constitution of -the Oregon 1'iirtfi fit? 1 -IHM' lutlrin v3u st as follows: "In: order t,i ,.,. cii rice. temp, rink e. morality. Ceneml lilt, IliL'ern-.. w n.l . .1.1 1. -T fc ,1E ni , " ' ....?.,., ' i n u ii 1 1 1 1 1 i r 1 1 , vfmi. monthly or ue'kily paper In Oregon, rii.- indei-bU-i.cd.ldo associate them "U. s into a body to be governed by :--ivh rules and regulations as shall. I Weill t'.nie to tli,e 1... ndr.i.tH K . majority nf the !.sto-k holders of this i oitil'.o-t, ;n a regularly called and propi -y notified rilel litig." On.- article, ,wHhy 'of fipeclal note, it! I heir by-law. reads as follows: Th. pr. ss uwiiwl by or in connection witli lids uhso. ii t ion sturll never . i l t J ,,.!. 1 by anv Part- for tliennrt.u- nf i I "I -a K-i 1 1 1 1 -4 S-t!!ail principles ,;,,-, ,,.v r f, ,,,. ,1iS(.UKlo'r ! excluj-i v ,. n-.rfv r4. . i , . i , . or of w ..i.-. i . i . i ' v - . " j H' task was not; an easy on.-, as cer tain ot the 'nan. leaders wer. !d. ' . i ' am: Ak:it rne rirt i nn lonniM i,i in,. Hudson's Pay regime. Otto-is w.'-re str.iJiL- partisan of he M'thodist mi?i.viaries, while still otlo ts h. id w:th tl,.. Catholic ehiireh. AV II. dr.iy, i:r s iklriK of Oregon's lir.-'t e.'ler s.ifi, "He professed to l ,ie !.,.! ri an 1 ! "T i of a paper In Ark-.ns.'.s. sti.lh-d lll" the toad in ;.. lalih and ii:i:.d l(ke a puppy "'Ii' '1 h ave ,al-.i rtorv in the ' ift I, n i! f h i of f ... ,.. at,;-." flora. j- A lr y I,., was elected to i-ic . . . d .Mi T'Vai'P I!, ; i.-ted un- I tl- lo.lf t. el. tic - l'-, hf-! Ue v. as :- -i- T.iitor b 1 , i ' '. eerth ir.im- .i in. . ! i t ort and f.c i , , ! ! a venr. i.iih;- A. K. Willi .:. I -if his d - lien I. Vi:l, ;i r. I, i'iu t y ; ' tit li. d h.' e.'ild: i iny y 1 1 . . 1 ; : ' 111 the lal- r ,.";r! i I li.i tuna ti a I Ii of . ! W. W V. t'orbelt, wiio on, business., paper for ' I'ort - ; il s ,1) j-, : , , . ,(, , h-eij s, c:ir. ' -. Ii.ienitiei ,, l ffi-s I ii s pap.r, con- I' lit. of four i six -oittniliH, was is:-i..-d ! In 'Ms.-u.-sing , ti' .-:irl -. lavs of ,t : j .i pel s a nd j i i i 1 1 1 : n c. it is inter first work the I'll! led . in at t'ati'i- stiii, to note that' the I'lliPli III .W'li.'lt -is I'NIV S. ate-, Wlis p-.'blished In 1 j h :(, (.' p. ,,,, i Ma.fs. I took. It was call.l the P.ay I u i t (l.' first print-. ing ' pri ss was ; eslaldl."hed in- the Aiinri -hi- colony south of Boston. It ! " . I no in NtlKlnia. It was 1m- iMviv sii;ipt( us. d by the governor of. Virginia, h:s luvtriiff being approved by tl .- king, who, '.sent . word tlltat no iirinting press shtoild' t- allowed In I Virginia. The firft printing press In Pennsvlvanla was installed in IfifcR by Wi.liam Iliadfijrd, an almanac be ing the first wtrk to Ik- published:' The .r.-t .news;iper published In America was is? (p d in Roston on September .':., I:i0! It was called Pub lic Occurrences. Immediately after its first Jssue. it was suppressed by the legislature; Xn attempt was made to f-lart ahother paper until tie t wen t v-foi.r th . ft April, 110-1. when the Moston N'ew s-J.etter was Issued. It -appeared weekly and consisted Of .'. lie he.t 1-XX in.'ies. The first liierai-y journal, the pre-dcc.-si.-fir of our re'writ-tlay maga-z.iii-).. was pubiisriei' In Philadelprla by Ib.-ri.tMiiin Franklin in 1741, It was ailed ti c lien, ral ?Magailic and His torical Cbroriidc. Th. f.ist dajly, newspaper to bs nubl'shc.i in America . was the Penn v tva.iia Pic k.-t af.d O. neral Adver-1,-r. pnl.lish'c! ini Philadelphia In I ; -. t. The first sti-reot y tl ng to be don.- in AinHiiii was by Mr. Rruce In I hi:: ill New Voile city. The first ho k to le.- issued-, bv stereotype . lints in lh- I 'piled States, was a at -. ),! sin by Mr. -Watts. The first i er mill in America was . estab- li:--n Pill d in l.'Jtt lj hia.. by Wm. Rradford at pointed Paragraphs (.nlus, is -a crajnk who gathers In iKtiy i ;;iy of :oln. K-w pe .i-le npufp their icnorance !v keeping their f,",s closed. i An ounce of k4, hair bejrets more respect, tha n a Ioun0 of bald head. - " A rheumatic sufoj-rer kn'w a. sura 'lire . for everybody! else's aobes and ruins. t ' ' " - ' -i. SUNDAY FEATURES The Sunday Joifrnal Magazine offers these cjotnpelling fea tures for women readers aoh Sunday: . Patterns for the home dreea-' maker. i SaKKestions fori tlie. needle woman. . - ' 3 HI Ms on home feohomy." Talks on health and beanty. ' ; Sundayogrnal Magazine ti'- Hi 'HI n J