THE JOURNAL ; AH HmEPESPENT'UBWgrAPEB C 8. JACKSON Publisher tublished every teulog (eaeept SQudsrl and erery Sunday morning t The Jtmrnal HuUd tu. Breaeway aad yuhHI,t.. Portlanrt.Or, ... , fii ii .in. .ii ' n i . " sintered at the p&itofflee at Tort laud. Or., for ' transmlmrton through tbe mails second : elass mutter - - TKUCPfiOM.S Main 7173; Hoora. A-6051. All : depsrtaieats reached by these numbers. Tell toe operator -wnat oepartmenr yon wsdw OakUGM ADVERTISING KEPKKSEN'iATI VE - Benjamin 4 Kentaor Co.j Brnntwlcm Bids., 225 Klfth Ae., New York; 1218 People' ' ! BM.j Chicago. j . Subscription term by mall or to any ad treat la tt United State or Mexico:, t DAILY! 0s year,,,.... 15.00 One! moatb.. $ .SO SUNDAY pB year.......S.0 t One! month.. .....I .23 ; DAILY AND SUNDAY Oae year. . $7.50 I One1 sanatb. -..-.. .8 -E tS3 i ' Whenever conscience call a ''I halt, It is no place for reason f to debate the question.- Charles ' j Egbert Craddock,. i 4. COPPERFIELD BOYS of 14 to lb testified that they bought drinks as often as they wishejd, . on Sunday or on any other day, af the . saloon of the mayor .of Copper field.. ' . ; - Three members of the city gov--.ernment were connected with that saloon... They were: Mr. Stewart, one of ,, the partners, who was mayor,"; Mr. s Warner, the other s;jiartner, who was councilman, and the swamper in the establishment, who was also a councilman. . Harold Barns, a boy, testified that he had taken $2.50 from .his mother and had lost it in gam bling at the slot machine in the . mayor's saloon.. He also testified that he had become drunk in the - saloon conducted by Mayor Stew art and Councilman Warner, and . in : which the swamper was a coun ' dlman. - - At the saloon of Council man " Wiegand, whose "bartender was also a councilman, there was a vfrjrnfshings store in the rean It " Was the custom of the boys of Copperfield to go Into Councilman Wiegand's saloon and call for a pair of "shoes." After paying the price, the so-called j shoes, in the , shape of a bottle.' jo f beer or a j flask of whiskey, woiuld be waiting for thera on a certain shelf. With a city government so con- j ducted," and with the district at- j torney, of the county resorting to ; the old threadbare practice of sit- ting down in his office and ask- j ing for somebody to "bring in the; evidence," what wonder that Gov ernor West sent Colonel Lawson to deal with thejMtuafion? Under oath t6 enforce the law, ! Oovernor .West, after noting the bilities. Next to them are the Wil point blank! refusal! of the Baker j Iamette valley districts! Almost authorities, ' had either; to send ; before it is realized, the dairy out mtlitia or wink at gambling and . put of .the state will mount to drinking by boys of 14 and up-1 warns in the saloons of the mayor; and councilmen of Copperfield. MINUET TEAS T HE tango, like every other frenzy that has possessed hu man kind froth time Immem orial will pass in due season. Already from London come tidinga or returning sanity .through the ! preme court for "dissolving" the . medication of the stately and grace-; old combination. That much dis- f ul minuet of former centuries. cussed prosecution of a giant trust .At' 'a large restaurant in the J was a ghastly Joke, for when the West End of the English capital ' opportunity came to make compe- there has been lately given a series j tition real, the attorney general's of minnet- teas as well as tango department consented to a decree suppers for the purpose of giving the only practical effect of which 4 patrons opportunity to compare was to change the form of the and choose between the two dances, ; trust. - While begun as an experiment the; standard 0"il was "dissolved" in minuet, has provoked such entha-j the latter part of 1911. Prior to Blasm n;hat it has been decided to ; that time the parent company paid continue it j dividends of 40 per cent, distribut- . The modern slit skirt and syn-;n-g annuai profits of a little less copated "Too Much MiKjtard," thin than $40,000,000. In 1913 the 34 In sound and look,; vainly appeal segregated companies which con-- gainst the melody Of the old Eng-' stltuted the former unlawful trust, , lish' 'Dorothy" and- the powdered paid profits aggregating $67T000,- wjg, dibck paicu, pannier, rea heeled slipper, gow of pink bro " : cade, nndergown of rose 'satin, iicnu oi creamy lace, stomacner ana jewel fastened sleeve of our great grandmothers. . ; " ;That the tango should give way to the minuet is not surprising when the latter's beautiful accom paniment of music,! color, statell ness and grace are recalled. Hasten the day when jaded fashion turns from the tango and takes op the minuet with the old music and the old costume. ,,! Hasten the day, when Portland society discards the tango supper for something more dignified and Intelligent. FOR RURAL OREGON 6 OYS and girls clubs for rural advancement are to be intro- I.' duced In Oregon. . The movement met with .great success in the Southern : States. The boys corn clubs achieved results that amazed the nation; Various other clubs for forwarding country I life challenged universal interest pecause of the success attained. , The state agricultural college leads the movement! In Oregon, and - has the -cooperation of the state superintendent of public instruc tion. t An elaborate plan has been worked out. Involving no less than " ten classes of clubs'. Among them Vtll be corn clubs, vegetable clubs, And dairy testing clubs. " ; :Tbe j?lan Is far better than the mere, program of growing products hitherto carried on,' 'in that the arrangements include directions from and reports -to a bureau In Director Hetzel's department of ex tension at the college, which win .enormously heighten interest .and .disseminate instruction in see"d se- -.lection,, .'germination, cultivation tnrai -production, The' program has the cooperation of 'the federal government and will be assisted financially and other wise from Washington, j D. C. It is to be programmed on a basis even more promising pf success than were the clubs which achieved so wonderfully in the South, where boys In their teens ; doubled the corn record. '1 i Bulletins announcing the plan are nearly ready for distribution in editions of 65,000. As stimulus to the youngsters, therei is a long list of prizes, the capital .award being a trip with all expenses paid, for the ten principal winners, to the Panama Exposition. AN ADVANCING INDUSTRY 0 NE of the great i stories of prosperity told by I The Jour nal's year-end editions was the phenomenal advance in the dairy industry. j The value of the dairy output advanced to $21,440,000 compared with $16,090,000 in ;1912, and $10,158,000 in 1911. A great in crease in the number! of dairy cows accounts chiefly for the vast increase in the value of the pro duction. 1 It is beginning to be patent that the advance hag only begun. Farmers in the Willamette valley realise it better than do others. On nearly every farm there is, in process, the gradual enlargement of dairy operation and a steady transition from the old order into a new one wjth cows and hogs as the paramount issue. A well known and widely ob servant Polk county farmer re cently declared the whole Wil lamette valley is going to surren der to dairying. He iasists that the section will rival jWisconsin. He is convinced of the coming change by reason of the move ments of his neighbors ahd farmers generally, wherever observed. The open winters, the mild sum mers, the tter absence of extremes of temperature give. Western Ore gon an enormous advantage over Iowa, Wisconsin and the other great dairy states. While they are locked in the ice and ! snows, of -winter,- green grass is actually growing in the .Willamette valley, By use of kale, it is within the Oregon dairyman's easy! reach to have green feed for his herd all the year round, while ithe other great dairy states are under snow two or three months. The Coast counties of Oregon are unrivaled in their dairy possi- $100,000,000 a year and dairying become one of the masterful fac tors In the bank accounts of rural Oregon. OIL, TRUST PROFITS s TOCKHOLDERS of the Stand ard Oil system have reaBon to thank the federal government and the United States -su- COO, in addition to which the Standard Oil Company of New Jer sey, the, parent company, shorn of its subsidiaries, made a special payment of $40,000.00tr in a dis- tribution of accumulated assets. when the dissolution decree was I nntorerl In 1911 tVia irmniii ninl. tallzation of Standard Oil and con stituent companies was $277,015, 954. In 1912 the capitalization was increased by $66,233,993, and In 1913 there was another increase of $81,200000, so that Standard Oil grew in two years frotii an un lawful trust of $277,015,954 to a court-recognized capital strength of $424,449,947, upon which exces sive dividends were earned. These capital increases resulted in juicy "melons" for shareholders, as the new stock" was distributed in the form of stock dividends and offerings at par. Thus under the protection of a supreme- court de cree Standard Oil in two years in creased its capital stock nearly $150,000,000, upon which It now claims the right to earri dividends. In view of past efforts at trust busting, with results disclosed by Standard Oil figures there ia am ple reason for Attorney General McReynolds' insistence that the government- abandon empty forms In the dissolution of trusts.: . SAVINGS OF AMERICANS s AVINGS banks, find, their pa- irons, m large part, among the workers, the L people in ordinary circumstances, whose condition reflects general: . condi tions In the United . States." For that reason the report of the comp troller of the currency on savings bank deposits at the close Of "1913 Is a fair index of prosperity. Banks of the country; which han dle .savings - accounts had on - de- posit . at the end of. the year a 1 total of $6,972.09,2271! "'In-? Crease of more than i $476,000,000 j over the total for 1912, These de-i positors had to their credit more ' than twice the amount of all the money in circulation In the United States. ' ' An analysis of the figures is interesting. The country' savings deposited In the banks, if equally distributed would give every man, woman and child in the country a nest egg of $71. The savings for each person In the nation amount ed to $4 more than In 1912. The savings in New England were $7 per capita more than in 1912, and the per capita increase in the Pa cific states was a little more than $9. The figures are a convincing showing of thrift in thtf United States. The American people are taking on some of the characteris tics of European people who have learned that their future depends upon preparing for it The $476r 000,000 item is evidence that sav ing is possible to those who will save. t. . SIGN SIGNATURES are sought " throughout the state for an Initiative bill to prohibit the purchase of property for pub lic mes at more than double the assessed value. The present law requires prop erty assessed at its "true cash value." The proposed bill would be supplemental to existing law and exercise some Influence in making assessments equitable. Governor Wot recently Bald that It is important "for the people to devote more Trtndy to taxation." They have the taxes to pay. They ought to cnow more about how taxes are collected, how they are assessed and how it fares with each taxpayer in contrast with all other taxpayers. Some people In this state are paying proportionately twice as much taxes as other people. Some are paying three times aa much proportionately - as others are paying. In most Instances, it is the very persons who can least afford it that are taxed at the heaviest rates, and that is because the strong . are always able to protect thernselves. That is why such a bill as the proposed initiative meas use should be encouraged. It is one more defense of the weak as against the strong. It Is one more protection of the poor, against the proud. Nobody should be more Interest ed than Oregon farmers In seeing that the bill gets a place on the ballot. Nobody, more than the farmer, is forced by the Inequities of taxation, to pay more than a just share. of taxes. Farmers should sign the peti tions and help get signatures for them. PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE THB New York Post says some thing like a propaganda against Philippine Indepen dence is now being carried on in the United States. The Post suggests that it Is pertinent to ask what interests are behind the movement and who are the people paying the bills? No one objects to fair argument, as suggested by the New York pa per. Philippine independence is In politics, and public, discussion of the administration's plans for the Filipinos is in order. Former Pres ident Taft holds that an indepen-. dent Filipino government short of a generation or two hence would be a mistake. His honesty is not questioned, but the disinterested ness of the organized movement designed to create public opinion advewe to turning the Philippines over to the Filipinos is questioned. There are unpleasant stories about development companies en gaged in exploiting the resources of the islands. Whether these re ports are based on facts will de velop later, but the history of American occupation of the Phil ippines' lends color to them. If the campaign for keeping the Phil ippines dependent is being financed in order that the islands may be bled by a few Americans, the shameless interests behind the movement should be brought into the open. Thus, the history of hemp in the Philippines is an Impeachment of America's good motives in the isl ands. Hemp growing is the chief industry there, and It, has been prostrated by congressional legisla tion. The United, States constitu tion prohibits export duties, and yet congress levied such taxes on Philippine exports. The law was later; amended y abollshingsuch duties on exports, except hemp, to the United States. An export duty on hemp con tinued' to be levied, but the duty was refunded upon a showing that the hemp was actually used in this country?" The result has been , that the hemp trust, in addition to beat ing down prices in the Philippines, collected lb rebates something like $4,000,000 in nine years. In 1910 this "rake off was four per cent of the total value of the Philip pines' hemp crop of that year, and it went to the hemp trust of the United States. Some of those on the waiting list to be governor of. Oregon, didn't know where, they stood on the interesting subject of Governor West and Copperfield.- :There was a straight out indorsement by for- raer State Senator 0. J. Smith. The Oregon City contingent came down strong for the '-West plan. One eminent Portland statesman was pronounced in his opposition. Tom Word approved and others had more difficulty in reaching an opinion than the Portland school board has in making up its mind about dancing. The patrons of the Heflig theatre complain that "much of the first act of Kismet, has been t lost to them by the practice of seating late comers during the performance! Those who reach the theatre after the curtain is up should be com pelled by the management to re main in' the foyer until the end of the scene. Sheriff Rand of Baker is. now co operating with the state executive in law enforcement at Copperfield. There is only one thing for any sheriff A to do, and that is to en force law as he finds it. It is not a sheriff, but the legislature that has power nnder the constitution to repeal a law. The paramount issue In the court proceedings at Baker Is whether the executive department orhe judiciary of the state is gov ernor. It Is an issue of whether the governor or a judge Is the executive department. Letters From the People (Communication sent to Hie Journal for publication la tbi department should be writ ten on only one side of the paper, should not exceed 300 words in length and must be ac companied by the name and address of the sender. If the writer doe not desire to hare the nume published, be should so state. "Discussion la the greatest of aH reform ers. It rationalizes CTerytblng it touches. It robs principle of aU false sanctity and throw them back on their reMonablenes.. If they hare no reasonableness, it ruthlessly e rushes them out of existence and set up its own conclusions in their stead." Woodrow Wilson. Janitor Chamberlain. Portland, Jan. 8. To the Editor of the Journal: A splendid display of the chivalry of American manhood has been shown In your columns in the defense of Mr. Chamberlain, janl t$r at the city hall, the old man who 1st striving to retain his position to earn a livelihood, and is compelled ia his declining years to strain every nerve in an effort beyond the scope of his years and far beyond the ex pectations of the people of Portland and all for what? Because Mr. Brewster, vested with power for a short time only, wants to Impress up on this wotthy old gentleman, . soldier and citizen, that "might is right" and especially so when It comes to hand ling a janitor at the city ball. Mr. Brewster I know nothing of. I Wish to rpftnpct him for thm rtnnttlnn htk ocramlpti arA fnr th firtnn. K. ' stowed upon him by the city. I look i upon his action, aa do all whom I meet, as lacking tact, which I wish to define as the lack of sufficient knowl edge of ' details necessary to form a judgment as to the most desirable course of action. Life is too short to be spent in nursing animosity or reg istering wrongs. But few of us ever get beyond the spanking age; when our parents stop, experience begins. As he holds the position of commis sioner, I desire to call his attention to the point of economy in the long j run. Impressing upon him that a little difference in the service rendered by an old man, long in the city's employ, is well repaid if only as an incentive to younger men, engendering loyalty and devotion to duty, they thus know ing their positions are theirs so long as they attend to business, Irrespec tive of age. It is just such an action as his that breeds discontent in the hearts of the masses. I hope Mr. Brewster will always prosper, but should the great wheel of chance in his declining years stop at the pitiful junction of want, I hope more kindly treatment will be accord ed him than he has shown so worthy an old gentleman. In all this I can count thousands ,wh voice my sentl if not fully earned, is more beneficial- j ly expended than much of the city's j money besides. "A bee can buzz its life away in a bottle Without getting . anywhere." Let ua get out of the bottle get into the open and be free of all vlndlctive ness. BIG. LIPMAN. A Statement Corrected. Portland, Or., Jan. 8; To -the Editor of The Journal In order to correct a misstatement In a recent issue of yeur paper in reference to the pro posals for engineering services in the interstate bridge matter, I wish to state that my associate in this mat ter ts an eastern engineer of unques tioned ability and integrity, and of the highest standing as a bridge ex pert. The statements In the proposal clearly Indicate this, and therefore the publication of the statement that W. B. Bell of this city is my asso ciate in this matter was entirely un warranted . I have been ready at any time to name my associate to the commissioners, and to verify all statements contained in the submit ted proposal. GEORGE RAE. Appeal for Pisgah Home. Lents, Or., Jan. 1. To the Editor of The Journal I saw the P'.sgah home mother yesterday and asked her about the needs of the home. They are needing help most urgently. They have more inmates than they have ever bad. Some of them are sick from exposure and neglect, v She said to put ihem into decent, sanitary con dition more sheet's were needed im mediately. Nourishing food is also needed for men who havle been fam ishing. Let us all help a worthy woman and a worthy work. PHEBE HAMMER. Mr. Billion Explains Charge. j Portland. Or., Jan. 9. To the Editor of The Journal If you will allow me the space in your valuable Columns I wish to make clear to your readers the .ground I had" for making the charge I did at Wednesday morning's Bess ion of our honorable .commission ers against W. H. Daly, Commissioner of public utilities. First, there Is an Xlle an overwhelming majority of freer holders and residents on Halsey and East Twenty-fourth streets who have remonstrated against the croBStown carllne being routed that way. Sec ond, there is on file a large majority of freeholders and residents on East Twenty-eighth- and Broadway who have petitioned for the line to be routed their way.? Third, Mr. Daly said to me some three or four weeks ago while he was reviewing-the dlf-r ferent routes, that he could see no reason why the Portland railway could not take the -Twenty-eighth and- Broad way routes and satisfy and serve the people who are-In need of car aervloe . A FEW SMILES ' Tourist Ton lose considerable, don't . you, by autos running down yonr chickens In the road? Villager Oh, they 1 are Insured. ! , Tnnrl T AiArSt ' know you could in- sure cmcaenB. Villager It's this way. When the au- i toists stop at my blacksmith ahop for repairs I always tack on a .little to cover any possible loss of poultry. i "This," said the asylum attendant, j pointing to the patient in a padded ceii wng was uoag , ing back and forth, . .! 1 A. ia won we con sider a hopeless case.' "What's the mat ter with him?" In quired the visitor. "He thinks he Is continually dodalna automobiles and roller skates." Louise had made lound and repeated calls for more turkey 'at the Sunday dinner. After she had disposed of a liberal quantity she was told that too much turkey would make her a 1 c k. Poking wistfully at the fowl for. a mo nent, she said: Well, give me uiuzzer . piece an' send for the doc tor." Ladies' Home Journal. Mr. Jones See here! This horse you sold me runs up on the sidewalk even time he sees ai auto. Horse Dealer Well, you don't ex pect a 60 horse to run up a telegraph; pole or climb a tree, do you? "Following Prank Mayoa wonder ful success in "Davy Crockettf in this country, he took his play to London, where, because it dealt with rural characters of west ern America, it failed to succeed. After the first night performance in Lon don,. Mayo was ap proached by an E n g 1 1 sh theatrical man. " 'I say, old chap,' he began, you said something In the play about b'ar meat. In this country a bar is either made of wood or iron. What, may I ask, did you mean?" " The two wom were discussing theh fashions. "Did you say that your husband was fond of those cling gowns?" "Yes, Indeed; .he IIkes ne ? cling to m Jr abont f,ve in that locality, and at the same time satisfy the people on Halsey street who have ample car service and only a 28-foot street between curb and curb. Fourth, Mr. Daly at two different times made the assertion that he did not believe the railway company would ever Duiid UMs line. I said. "If this Is your opinion, why not recommend the Twent(-eighth and Broadway route in place of the Halsey and Twentv- fonrth street route? By so doing you will satisfy the people in that vicinity and still not interfere with the rail way people." . He said he would con sider the matter, but his report showed no change. He stated that he wished to quicken the time by the shortest route, whereas it ia less than 100 feot to be saved In distance and time, and but a small financial saving for the railway people. By observing the way the car tracks are laid on Twenty eighth street between therldge and Halsey street, one 'Would conclude that the route along Halsey had been chos en by the railway people before the matter of the crosstown line wan brought before the people in this sec LMrDalyasTvoHng 'Sy coE foS; 7, and on the impulse of the moment I could not resist the charge, -and I still feel that If the corporation is not being favored there possibly might be a little joker near East Twenty-eighth and Halsey streets. V. A. BILLION The Taft Myth Come True. ' From the Walla Walla Bulletin. President Wilson Is doing today ex actly what the country expected Presi dent Taft to do four years ago. but what he failed to do. Have you noticed this aspect of the administration? When Mr. Taft became a presiden tial candidate In 1907. many people believed that he was the one man In the country best fitted to carry them out to "flinch the Roosevelt policies." as he waa fond of saying. His ad herents recognized that he was tem peramentally different from President Roosevelt. But at that time it was a saying that Roosevelt had succeeded In the gigantic task of arousing public sentiment and that it would be the duty of Ms successor to crystallze this sentiment into legislation. The "country had had the prophet; how it was to have the lawgiver to put the teachings of the prophecies Into ef fect. It has the lawgiver, the clincher of sthe Roosevelt policies, at last, but only after four years' of delay. In the tariff revision. In the reform of the banking and currency system, in the proposed trust legislation. Mr. Wilson is following out precisely the course of action that the nation was looking for from Mr. Taft. His quiet, but effective methods, his sure hand ling of problems, his driving force ex ercised with the least possible appear ance of compulsion, are Just what peo ple supposed would be displayed under the Taft administration. The Taft myth has turned Into the Wilson actuality. . . , A Grandmother of Revolution. From the San 'Francisco Bulletin. There is a high note of Inspiration for all men, in whatever part of the world, who cherish an ideal- of human progress. In the life of Catherine Breshkovsky, "Grandmother of the Russian revolution," whose name .was recalled recently' when she made an unsuccessful attempt, , at nearly 70 years of age, to escape from her Siberian exile. ' Said Madame Breshkovsky, writing to a friend. In quaint Russianized phraseology: "One thing ia wonder ing me a little; it is your admiration of my character and patience to en dure my fate. Firstly. - X shall say that there are many and many, people with us. whiob proved not less If not more -courage" and grandeur of eoul mm I T- ,1 PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE Mass meeting send for the police. Market item says "eggs will break soon." Dropped or thrown? Yet 1914 will have its woes: already a special referendum election is talked of. Every winter some people Mem greatly surprised because some storms occur. Is it possible that the more things that are taught in the schools the less the pupils learn? Isn't shipping whiskey out of Cop perfield cruel and unusual punishment for some men up there? A person who belieres anything strongly enough can never be con vinced to the contrary. ' The witches must have had Mac beth In mind when they said, "Wa'U do, we'll do and we'll do." Though additional judges have been provided, the state supreme court is farther behind than ever. Too many appeals. Soon comes another, a rival .cat show. Whether the cats exhibited will be superior or Inferior to those of the former show depends on which cat club one Deiongs to. From the Los Angeles Express. The Pennsylvania society recently held a banquet at the 'Waldorf-Astoria In New York which was attended by Mr. Taft. Among the guests also was Henry P. Davidson of the business family of the house of Morgan. The New York Times reports th speeches of these two guests on the oc caslon named, from which It appears that Mr. Davidson's address Is full of the new vision shared these days by many men of keen business Insight and native conscience. The carefully prepared remarks of ex-President Taft. who was elected In 1908 on progressive pledges and lost his oportunity when he betrayed hie trust, were slavishly conservative, nar rowly and blindly reactionary and deep tinged with bitter sarcasm. Here follows an excerpt from the statement of the representative of the house of Morgan Mr. Davidson pre sumably plutocratic by association: "For some years past this country, in common with other nations, has been feeling the movement of the new forces, new utterances strivings on the part of all citizens for larger op- TAFT OUT-MORGANS THE MORGAN MEN portunity, ror a more active snare injto help other people, and that this ir the conduct o.i government and busi ness. In accordance with the expres sion of this desire we are witnessing daily changes In the aspect of our po litical parties and of our commercial worlds Whether a man be radical or conservative, whether he be sympathetic or otherwise, he most unless he closes his eyes completely recognize the changes that have taken place and are taking place. And If In any degree he is to serve his day aa generation he must take cognisance vt this new order, he must try to possess himself of the spirit that permeates IS YOUR MONEY SAVED OR WASTED? By John M. O ski son. In a letter dealing with some of our financial problems a man who haa been concerned In the framing of the new currency and banking legislation made this statement: "Per capita, we are the biggest eat ers, the biggest squanderers, and the smallest savers of money in the whole civilized world." To convict us of Improvidence, this man quoted a report that only 99 our of every 1000 of our population are depositors In savings banks, while Germany has 817, France 346, and Switzerland 654; Italy can show 220 savers to each 1000, Japan 270 and England 802. Now that looks bad on its face. How about another sort of comparison, however? The latest official reports I can find tell me that in this country We have over 10,000.000 of savings bank depositors; they have nearly four and a half billions of dollars to their credit or an average bank balance of $445. I don't find as great a total of sav ings credited to the people of any Other nation. Germany comes nearest us in the during all their life and so many young people that died aa heroes. Secondly, we Russians are a people of religion, and the worshiping of the beloved Idea is our national trait. This capacity to appreciate the wor shiped Idea above all the rest of the material world makes us strong and willing to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of It This my conviction makes me bashful and confused when hear ing or reading beautiful words about my person. I would think it is so easy and comfortable to serve a caue chosen by ourselves." The "ease and comfort" of her sac rifice has meant for Madame Brsb kovsky years in prison and years more of guarded exile in an unfriend ly climate, cut off from all the genial influences of the outer world. Yet she has survived to write cheer fully, at the age of nearly 70 years. "1 think my age Is not at all so high as to throw me out of life and the life Is growing more and more inter esting. I wish to witness it." The plains of Siberia are a long way from San Francisco but the struggle for human liberty and for human progress has no time or place. And even now and here one may find on Russian Hill, in .the Potrero. men and women who have sacrificed all they possessed and gone into exile in a foreign land for the sake of an Intangible, unasaayable Idea. Surely they rebuke the hard materialism of a country which measures success by the number of dollars a man controls, and prosperity by the clearing lists of its banks. Cyclone" Davis Not a Joke. From the Tacoma Tribune. "Cyclone" Davis has announced him self as a candidate for governor of Texas and the New York Sun says "that would be a huge" Joke." There are many "who. remembering the polit ical history of the last JO years, will refuse to look upon "Cyclone" Da via as anything like, a Joke. Some of his methods may smack of the humorous but those who have opposed him have quit looking upon him as a Joke. "Cy clone" Davis began chasing the money devil more than 10 years ago and haa never let up. He walloped John Bar leycorn In 110 counties in Texas and asaisted in defeating Bryan for presi dent in 186 Just as he had assisted In defeating President Harrison in .18921 He calls himself a Wilson progressive today, but be fought the. Democratic party for 25 years. He is at work bow. Separating, the sheep from the goats and driving the old guarders out of the Democratic party. He is a humorist at heart, bnt he Is far from being, a Joke. f t - AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS W. Q. Ritchey of Nampa. Idaho, is revisiting his old home town, Eugene, after an absence of ID years. He says Skinner's Butte hasn't changed much. Kor the benefit of boys between the ages of IS and 21, the school board of Klamath Falls has decided to estab lish a night manual training course. -The La Grande Observer perspica- ciously remarks that if this warm weather continues Congressman Sln nott can prepare for heavy garden seed requisitions. And the Pendleton East Oregonian keeps It going by saying that i "if the now prevailing brand of climate con tinues Pendleton will have a prema ture epidemic offspring fever." This is the Baker Democrat's "We should worry" in relation to Copper field's troubles: "After all. there are matters of bigger Import to Baker than the Copperfield muddle our splendid winter climate, for instance." Under a headline of its own, "Ap propriate in Salem," the Medford Sun reprints this, from the Salem Journal: "Professor Charles H. Edmondaon took an audience back 25,000.000 years in an illustrated lecture on 'Prehistoric America.' Which use of the Item Is so ill-natured that the conductor of ! this column refuses to reproduce it. It; he must try. to the extent that hi: Intelligence permits, to work for It, not against it." " What waa the attitude of Republi can Mr. Taft? Let his own words an swer. This is, In parr, what he said: "The truth Is we have arrived at time In our social development and our freedom of thought, when we know everything, and know It hard, and among other things we know that peo ple who preceded ua In this life, ant especially in this last 100 years, die not know anything. .We are able t suspend the law of gravitation or any of the economlo laws that have been thought heretofore to work with as much certainty as physical laws, and by their suspension we are going to make everybody happy without indi vidual effort. We are going to make the rich moderately poor and the pool moderately rich. We are going to ar range by legislation that those who don't make any effort are not going tc be oondemned by loss of Just reward for merely living. We are going to re arrange human nature in such; a way that men will strain their minds an muscles to the point of nerselratlon not going to be confined to the few, but It la to Include everybody. We ex- pect to exclude the word 'demagogue' from the language, to drive out of business politicians, and to have statesmen who, with complete power over legislation, will make good the promises of every eloquent period that la calculated to win rotes." Mr. Taft Is a convert to the theory that the average American Is as unfit for self-government aa a Filipino, and like all new converts, he preaches his new-found theory with reckless enthus- lum. amount her people have saved, and keeper. He wouldn't come out from she Is nearly 1772.000.000 behind, behind the bar ar4 when I reached for though the number of her savers rises him be stuck hls.evolver against my above the 20,000,000 mark. The aver- ' stomach, but before he could pull the age deposit of the German saver is J trigger I caught. him by the hand and 1180. turned the revolvir to one side. Tou see. we have hardly begun as! "When they started the mounted yet to Interest the sort of people who police. Chief Hunt was looking) for give body to the statistics of saving men who could 3 ride. Quinton and in Europe. A mere beginning has Shane, two of the policemen, told him been made by the postal savings about me, so I ws appointed mounted banks. At a recent reckoning, given policeman. Six years ago I waa made out by the postmaster general, the de- sergeant. Some years ago I was ap posltors In the United States postal pointed officer for t.ie Oregon Humane banks have Increased to .10.00& In . society. My duties are to see that am number) their deposits have grown tojrnals are not abused. Frequently nearly $14,000,000; and their average ' horses with very .ore shoulders ate deposit is $102. Of such are the huge worked or horse are overloaded. I army of savers In the Older oountrles. j visit the various- grading camps and We make much, we eat much, we 1 examina the hortex also the commla. live extravagantly and when our, mind is turned toward saving we save more per capita than any other peo ple in the world. And, do you know that there is un der way In this country a wide-reaching movement toward making thrift ropular? Personally, I believe that this campaign will be successful and then watch the figures as to our sav ings accounts! A Product of Endurance. Agnes Reppller In Atlantic Monthly. Drf Keate. the terrible head-master of Eton, encountered one winter morn ing a small boy crying miserably, and asked him what was the matter. The cblld replied that he waa cold. "Cold!" I oared Keate. "You must put up with cold, sir! You are not at a girls' school." It ia a horrid anecdote, and I am kind hearted enough to wish that Dr. Keate, who was not without his genial moods, had taken the lad to some gen erous fire (presuming such a thing was tc be found), and had warmed his frozen hands and feet But it so chanced that In that little sniveling boy there lurked a spark of pride and a spark of fun, and both ignited at the rough touch of the master. He probably stopped crying, and ' he cer tainly remembered the sharp sppeal to manhood; for 1$ years later, with the Third dragoons, he charged at the strongly entrenched Sikhs (80,000 of the best fighting men of the Khalsa). cn the curving banks of the SutleJ. And as the word was given, he turned to his superior officer, a fellow Eton Ian, who was scanning the stout walla and the belching guns. "As old Keate would say, this Is no girls' school." he chuckled: and rode to his death on the battlefield of Sobraon, which gave La. Isore to England. "Make Good, Fellows" From The Survey. The "honor system" of using con victs for work on roads, successfully begun by Colorado, extensively adopt ed by Oregon and recently tried In Washington state, has Just had Its first test farther east In Illinois one day in September 45 prisoner, includ ing murderers, forgers, holdup men. thieves and, other varieties of offend ers, went out from Jollet penitentiary. By day they work "like human beings" under a superintendent; at night they live practically unguarded in a camp over which flies a banner with 'the sig nlficant name, "Camp Hope." ' "Make good,, fellows." called the 1400 who re mained behind; "for God's sake make good and help us to get out Into the sunshine again!" Work for Humanity. From the Condon Globe, The Oregon Journal did a great work for humanity in collecting money for Christmas gifts for the poor, and needy.. Towns like Condon have little idea or the poverty and want of th cities and but for such philanthrope work, thousands of children- woult have watched and waited, and dreamrt of Santa, Claus in vain. - IN EARLIER DAYS By Frtj Lockley. If you see a fta.ll. slender, gray hatred police serieaft on horseback, sitting his hornet as though he and . the horse had b4jn cast at the same time and in the m mold, it Is Ed ward Crate. Cereant Crate was ap pointed patrolman In the Portland po lice department In f9r. I met Ser geant Crate a few days ago as he was saddling "Blaze." his hore. to go on duty. ;' "Tell me all about yourself and about your wortt a officer for th Humane society,"' I aid. Sergeant Crate's face lit up with a smile as he said: "IfI tell you all about myself, that'll take me back quite a ways more than sixty years.'' - "You ride your: horse as If you had been born In the: saddle," I Baid. "Well. I oughtjto ride by this tim I have been In the saddle most of my life. I was bWn at 4 o'clock lo the morning of July 4, between Uma tilla and The Dalles, in -the early fifties. At 8 o'clock that morning my mother and I werjjjj on the road to The Dalles. Most mothers, nowadays, don't start on a Journey four hours after their baby 1s botyti but in those day they did. They jftxed up some polt-s or one of t.ie ptjnles nnd she and I rode in that forythe first few da instead of on hortj'back. 'My father eaiirfc to Oregon In 183$ He was a Hudson fe Bay man. He had charge of the bapteaux for the chief factor. Dr. McLovrghlin. at Vancouver. My father worked for many year under Prter Kkeh Ogden. He worked for the Hudson Bay company for about ten years, j ' In 1S49 he took up a ranch t.uee mifs -below The Dal If at what ia known;n Crate's Point. Hp bought thrt-e latlaux from the Hud son's Bay company good Btz-1 ones that you can ha3il about three tons in. S "From 1S50 for.'freveral year, he was kept busy each fall bringing immi grants down theflver to Vancouver, Portland or Oregon City. A good many of them would hasre no money, so they would give him 4 lame ox or a thin cow or sometimes a horae. for bringing (hem down. Sometimes they wars very poor, 8o he would bring them down with the1 understanding they would pay him later If they got the money. i; "At the time of the Whitman mas sacre, my father, with another French man, brought H. l. Spalding, the mis sionary, down toThe Dalles. All of w boys were practically born In tlia saddle and raisedln the saddle. When I was 15 I caroled tnall from The Dalles lo Walld Walla. For eight years I was a rovboy. Later I worked for Joe Teal s faher, who was lit th cattle business. ijAfter that I drove cattle fOr ("On mil' I unent arma ra 1 In the Cariboo costit'ry mining From the Cariboo I went up to the Peae River country, bt I didn't like three I feet of snow in the' middle of July, o j I bought, a canoe! and came down the j Frazer river, alotie. .as far as the -Big j Rapids, where I Jiiad to abitntlop my cnoe and go the? rest of the way ou I foot. For the neat few years I drove ! ta8a out of Carjfooo. After . running '; R butcher shop lifiThe Dalles for some tlme 1 came to fortland in the same bulne- doing (slaughtering for the ! Amf r . " D.res"e MeRt company, ( In 1892 I waaappolnted patrolman I on the police foriM. My beat was In the nqrth end. Sometimes they were pretty ugly dowrt there. I remember one time while 1 was under Chief of Police Parrlsh. I had to arrest a bar- slon houses and stockyards, to see that conditions are sanitary and that the turkeys, geese and chickens are not overcrowded or abused. All reports of cruelty to animals, such as working horses hard and keeping them out through bad weather, starving them, as well as abusing them, are referred to me for Investigation. There Is much leas cruelty to animals thin there was some jeara ago, when leas attention was pajd to the matter." 5 Pointed paragraphs It keeps a poorl workman busy look ing for a Job. f t A fit of blues will bring out a man's yellow streak. Do- the best yu can at all times and let the other fellow, worry. ' ' I The average man Includes his cigar bills in the hlgg cost of living. 4 . A good cook lordly ever gets hers through a correspondence school. t If you want to hear powerful lan guage ask a bavber what he thinks of a safety razor. The man who l always boasting of his xmartness or greatness never mentions his unpopularity. When the avrrpge woman buys her husband a bargain counter necktie she usutilly selects one that Is loud enough to start af riot at a funeral. I'nccin verted. I've lived In the north. In the blizzard zone. -Overalls frost so stiff They would? stand alone. I've lived In -the east In the monjh of Jiihe And heard tfie cyclone Hum its mirry tup. I've lived In, the south. Where In balmy springs. Mosquitoes iote grindstones Under their! wings. At last I cam west Hoping to gain. Still 1 m up against It -Installments, taxes and rain. By Forney B. Austin. SUNDAY FEATURES The Sanday Journal Magavine offers these compelling fea tures for. women readers each Sunday: ? Patterns for the home dress, maker. ' Suggestions for tlie needle woman. ' ' . Hints on home economy. - Talks on health and beanty. Sunday Journal Magazine, - t- I- - rV