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4'' J THE OREGON SUNDAY .JOURNAL, PORTLAND SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 18. 1914. I i THE JOURNAL AW tWBWENDEHT WBWSPAPEB C. S JACKSON .PnbUsaer t'ublUbee rx tb1ok (except feuBiy and tary Utdir aaornlnc at The Jonnul Bnlld- k . . . , 111 n. . i rk Enttree tt the enstotflce at Portland, Or tor transmission tferoasB tie .nails as mcoo4 eiass matter. ULKfUUNES klita TJ78: Home. A-S061, All 4 opart aiea ts rencbed br these somber. Tell ine aperstor wg. oepariiwin yog ...ny. OKElliM AUVBRTJ81NU UEFUE8ENTATIVB Benjamin Keotnor Co.. Brunswick Bide-. ffi Klftb Xew York WIS People's tta BldC. Cblesso. atabaorlptloa terms by- nail or to any ad Creaa la taa tnlted State or Ueilco: DAILY Om fear... ....83.ro j 0c month.......! .80 SUSDAY OM Ttar tZ.U) Ou month 9 -23 , DAILY AMD SU.NDA Oa year. ST.6Q I One month. $ .65 Be sure to lire en the sunny Ida. and ven then don't ex pect the world to look bright. If you habitually wear gray brown glasses. Charlea IX. Eliot. OUR EIGHT HOUR LAW PUBLIC sentiment will not back the Oregon eight hour law as at present construed and - administered. It Is doubtful if those who pre- sented the bill for passage expected It to go to present lengths. Thus. It Is not likely that they intended that; Portland should be compelled to employ 1095 firemen instead of 365, as Labor Commissioner Iloff is now endeavoring under the law to force the city to do. " Such a requirement is unreason able. It is a regulation for which there Is no warrant. There is no call for the placing of such a vo cation as the fire patrol on an eight hour basis. The firemen themselves have not expected nor asked such an extraordinary change In conditions, j Nor is there reason , in the re quirements as to attendants and laborers at the state institution). Thus, to meet the single require ment as to six days a week, an entire duplicate force will have to be employed for the seventh day In the week. It will . demoralize the entire system, and for the asy tum, will increase the labor cost at the Institution about $65,000 a year. ' . It is a surprise to the whole state that the eight hour law on the 1912 ballot carried such a provision. It is doubted if the framers of the measure expected It to go so far. Not until the late decision by the supreme court was there serious expectancy that such lengths of regulation of public employment were Involved. There Is no sound reason for making an aristocracy of those who have state Jobs. Already the clamor for public employment is overwhelming. Why make such places all the more sought and convert such positions more and more into sinecures by limiting hours and working days to a point for which there is no reasonable justification? No labor reform will be accom plished by that kind of legislation. IV the bill had confined its provis ions to labor through contractors or through the state itself in the building trades as nearly all peo ple thought it did, there was rea sonabe argument back of it. But when it creates an aristocracy of state salary drawers around public Institutions and vastly advances the cost of maintaining those in stitutions it will quickly and de servedly depopularize itself and bring unfriendly sentiment against Its backers. "When it compels a city like Portland or Salem to treble the amount of public taxes for sup port of a fire department, it will arouse hostile criticism and a very strong opposition. In a vote before the people of 112,586, the bill passed by a ma jority of only 16,430. The vote for was 64,508 and the vote against 48,078. The margin for the bill was not large. The possibilities are that In the light of recent develop ments, the measure, if re-submitted to a vote would be beaten by a far larger majority. Its ef fect is likely to set back future and more deserving efforts for regulation of the hours of labor. COOPERATIVE INDUSTRY THE recent placing of an au tomobile manufacturing com pany on a cooperative basis may be more or less prb- i.phetic of the coming industrial world. It may foretell the social orgaaizatiqn ' of ' the future, when profit sharing will enter widely Into the policy of every great In dustrial establishment, when op portunity will be given the work- i man to develop his initiative and , . latent talent for higher and het- i ter work. ' I ' Industrial cooperation is not so KJ. 'Ua. , To those who expect a F complete and immediate trans ! I formation of the social order, in- - I dustrial. cooperation is not attrae 1 I tlve. It calls for too much patience J and economy. . It does not bring i puuueu wsuvu hiuiuui inuur. n I requires time to. cultivate the spirit ; of individual sacrifice for the gen eral good. . ; a Thus far. in the United States, T.t . , a a n l , j in oisiory ui cuuyerauve wnaus- i try, has been one of. many failures. ! A great deal of this may be at- rlbuted to the intense Individual- Im of the American . people. An- : other reason - has : been its connec tion with visionary objects. Com ;munlim, vegetarianism, pietism and feminism have used It In their Utopian reforms of society. Their fall has brought disrepute on the cooperative principle. y In-order to be successful Indus trial cooperation must be indepen dent of every ism and be permitted to devote its energy to a single accomplishment. It demands an Idealism, the realization of self in the common good and the adoption and execu tion of the motto of the immortal guardsmen of Dumas, "One for All and All for One." 'i ' THG BRIBE CHARGES THE Multnomah county grand jury should inquire into the recent charges of bribery made by Commissioner Hart and printed in all the newspapers. The district attorney's office can employ Its energies to no better advantage than in aiding the grand jury to sift the accusations to the bottom. ; Commissioner Hart occupies an Important'publlc position. He has repeatedly charged that he was approached by three different rep resentatives of engineers and of fered bribes for his vote on the award of the engineering contract for the inter-state bridge. It is due the people of Multnomah coun ty that they should know "all the facts in any alleged stealthy effort to corrupt one of their county com missioners. It Is also charged by Mr. Har rington that efforts were made to induce him to give a bribe. Mr. Harrington is also a prominent man. He is hardly the sort to make such an accusation at ran dom. These charges and counter charges immediately and vitally concern the public of two counties. They concern the inter-state bridge board. They concern a great pro fession that pf engineering. If any accusation has been jauntily made and cannot be substantiated, that Is all the more reason for in vestigation. If untrue, it is due those who have been attacked that the truthlessness be made pub lic and the odium fall where it belongs in such a case. Most of all, there should be rigid inquiry for the sake of the great enterprise In connection with which the charges are made.'. Let the grand Jury and district at torney's office thus early by their action impress upon all concerned that corruption In the construction of the great viaduct will be searched out and punished. ' With a county commissioner making charges and with the en gineer of the bridge making charges, there is a scandal at the very outset of the great undertak ing, and if these charges be ig nored it will be the equivalent of notice by authorities -that the pub lic cares little as to whether or not there is honesty and integrity in great public works. FATHER DUNCAN vT IS reported that William Dun I can, head of the Simpshean In I dian colony at Metlahkatla in Southern Alaska, is to retire J rrom the active management of the colony's affairs on account of age. In all the history of missionary endeavor Id the world there is no greater achievement than that of "Father" Duncan, who brought an Indian community out of the dark ness of savagery into the light of civilization under trials that would have wrecked lesser accomplish ments. Not only did he have to struggle against barbaric customs but he also had to contend against the "hellish" practices of depraved whites. What he did could only have been done by a man with an Iron will, rare executive capacity and complete consecration to a re tgious ideal. It is not the purpose at this time to attempt a panegyric of "Father" Duncan but only to point out the romance and the lesson taught in the story of the circum stances under which he under took his life work. A chaplain on a British man of war which visited the British Co lumbia and Alaska coast in the late fifties was so impressed with the benighted conditions that pre vailed among the Indians that on his return to England he preached a crusade. He came one day' to a small town and arranged wfth a local minister for a meeting in his chuTch at night. The nieht wan a stormy one and the minister tried to have it postponed. The chap lain declared that he had a God given mission and that he would tell his story even though he had no auditors. The hour for the meeting arrived and there was no one in the church exceDt the min ister and the chaplain. The storm grew in Intensity. A peal of thun der as though the heavens had col lapsed was followed by the open ing of the church door. There en tered a carpenter bearing his tools in a sack on his shoulder. The chaplain advanced, seized the car penter's hand and expressed his great pleasure that he had come to hear him on such a night. "I did not come to hear you but to ,take refuge from the storm," replied the carpenter. With the carpenter and the min ister as his audience the chaplain told his story. . The next day the carpenter called on the minister and aaid he felt called upon to go to Brit ish Columbia and devote his life to the Indians. The minister tried to dissuade him, telling him that he - could : accomplish, nothing and that it would he a useless sacrifice. The carpenter like Saul of Tarsus, had a vision that would not vanish and unaided he followed Its beck oning hand to Fort Simpson. That carpenter was William Duncan. The colony of Metlahkatla is his vision realized. To the enthusiast this story car ries the lesson that no effort is in vain and among all the seeds that are sown under discouragement one will fall on fertile soil and ripen Into a harvest without bounds. A SLAYER AT FIVE LA. MARTIN is dead at Kuna, Idaho, from the effects -of a shot fired by the five-year-old son of Joseph Powell, a farmer of the vicinity. Martin was president of the Kuna Savings Bank and was at the Powell home : on business. While he waited, the child took a revolver from his father's coat, pointed It at Martin, and fired. The bullet penetrated the brain. The father tried to intervene, but was too late, and, as Martin sank to the floor, cried, "the child didn't mean it." The stricken man smiled and drifted into unconsciousness. It was a dreadful affair, but revolvers are made for dreadful affairs. The father can never blot from his memory the vision of that last smile of the stricken banker. He can never find for getfulness from the awful fact that his little five-year-old has killed a human being. He can never get away from the dreadful con viction that all this tragedy re sulted from his folly in carrying a loaded revolver around with him. The slain man was a useful citi zen. He was doubtless in the midst of health and happiness. He was cut off without warning through no folly of his own. He didn't drink himself to death. He didn't pass away in the last stages of a disease. He did not come to his fate through violent or vicious acts of his own. He is the very kind of valuable citizen that the revolver often gets. A great portion of the pis tol's victims are the innocent. It drives women7 into widowhood and orphanl zes children. In fact, that is what it is made for. It Is one of the scourges of so ciety. It Is a perennial pestilence. It murders about 10,000 persons in the United States every year. What a howl we would raise against any other scourge that killed so many people. We ought to exterminate the pistol. Its manufacture ought to be stopped. The existing supply ought to be thrown into the sea' or be converted into pruning hooks. The loaded revolver is a na tional scandal and the nation ought to proceed against it. MINISTERS IN MARYLAND THE voters of Cecil county, Maryland, elected Frank E. Williams to the state senate. But when Mr. Williams at tempted to take his seat in that state's legislative body the other day, Senator Benson raised the objection that Maryland's constitu tion bars ministers of the gospel as members of the legislature. Mr. Williams admitted that he once was a minister, but had abandoned the pulpit. The indictment has set Maryland wondering how the embargo got Into Its fundamental law. it ap peared in the present constitution in 1867, but nobody knows how It got there or why. There is an other provision prohibiting be quests to religious Institutions without special sanction of the leg islature, and nobody can account for the existence of this prohibi tion. The Baltimore Star says Mary land has cause to be ashamed of the narrow bigotry which mani fested itself in that state's consti tution. Present-day enlightenment does not tolerate such narrowness. The state for years had ignored the constitutional provisions, and would have continued to do so had not blind partisanship brought them to the front. Maryland need not feel too ashamed of herself, for the same sort of bigotry is displayed else where not in constitutions, but by people. It Is time that all sorts of intolerance be suppressed. The anti-church people should not be bigoted, and neither should the church people show that unlovely trait. Recently much the same sort of thing has been in evidence in Port land. There is a spirit of Intol erance, religious and anti-religious, abroad, which bodes no good for the city. Religion is an excellent thing, but one should be certain that an opinion is not based upon bigotry. , THE ECONOMIC INCENTIVE THE Kansas experiment station I is making use of the economic ; Incentive In educating boys i and girls for - farm work. That state has 300 acres of land In the arid section which can easily be irrigated with pumps at a small cost. The Omaha World-Herald says each male student ; will be given a plot of ground to cultivate under the i direction of professors, and the boys will nave all they can make on the land. A canning fac tory will ba established, and the girls will take the tomatoes and fruits raised ty the hoys, paying the market price. The - girls are to have all theycan make canning and preserving the boys' products under the supervision of the do mestic economy department. Professor Lewis says that great expectations are . based upon use of the economic Incentive. He expects a production of $500 per acre under a system of intensive 'fanning, and if this result Is even approximated the experiment will be of great value to Kansas farmers. He urges that the stu dents will profit, not only by what they make on land and In canning factory, but also through the ac quirement of a vocation which they can follow profitably. Parents who have tried it know that the economic incentive can be of great assistance in teaching in dustry to and stimulating initiative In their children. It places a child upon his own resources; it teaches him that he should earn whatever he gets. It is primarily a system of opening opportunity's door to the child, showing him the way and trusting to his ambition to lead him on. Kansas, by adopting this prin ciple at its agricultural college, is attempting 'something now in pub lic education. But good results should follow the placing of stu dents at work with a certainty of reward in proportion to their skill and industry. President Reynolds, who is head of the biggest bank west of New York and president of the Ameri can Bankers' Association, says pan ics will be impossible under the new currency law. If so, what a gift Woodrow Wilson and his ad ministration have been to the American people! How wonder fully reassuring to sit under one's own v'lne and fig tree and know that -1907, 1893 and 1873, one Democratic and two Republican panics, are never to be repeated! Columbia county is shortly to vote on a bond issue for road building. It Is a county peculiarly to be benefited by a system of modern highways. Nothing could do more to- bring its logged off lands under cultivation and 'more vastly Increase the total of the county's taxable property than would such highawys as the bond issue will build. Petitions are in circulation for submission of a measure prohib iting payment of more than double the assessed value for property for public purposes. The purpose of the bill is to render aid in equalizing taxation by making val uations more uniform. The peti tions ought to be signed. In an oven In which his wire baked biscuits a short time after, an Ohio, man hid $300 in currency. In almost any old way he could have gotten more of a frolic out of $300, if bent on burning his money. According to a ruling by the United States treasury, a man's home is where his wife lives. Many eminent but 6elf-effacing gentlemen perfectly understand that without any treasury ruling. In the midst of the wide com mendation of the fumigation of Copperfield, the hostile criticism of the Oregonian and Soul Mate Moser sound like an E Minor on a cornstalk fiddle. Letters From the People (Communlcatlona Bent to The Journal tor prbll cation In thia department ebould be writ ten on only one aide of the paper, should not exceed 30O word in length and mast be ac companied by the name and address of the sender. If the writer does not desire to nave the name published, he should so state.) "Discussion ia the greatest of all reform ers. It rationalises eTerfthlng it touches. It robs principles of all fulse sanctity and throws them back on their reasonableness. If they bare no reasonableness, it ruthlessly crushes them out of existence and sets op Its own conclusions in their stead." Woodrow Wilson. Blames the Liquor Traffic. Portland. Jan. 17. To the Editor of the Journal Please permit me space to express some of my disgust for that word "unemployed." Everyone is giving the cause of unemployment and proposing a remedy for it. I would be ashamed to call myself a business man and have the nerve to expose my ig norance of the cause, as our county, state and city officials do. Any school I boy knows the cause. Tou hear them say, Ob, we need the saloon license to help pay the city's expenses." Will they admit that they license a set of men to rob poor Ignorant working men, then, when he is broke appropriate funds to support him? There is not one intelligent man but will say liquor doea no one any good. Then why let it be sold? I know and all know, it Is just because that saloon men dabble in politics. They are. very particular about the pure food law, the meat we eat, the milk we drink, and everything else. But the liquor? Oh, Just swal low any old stuff, and get crazy drunk. Get fined. Any old way to get the laborer's money. But when he is broke all winter, they claim not to know what Is the reason.- For the love of little hungry chil dren, and of mothers and wives, let us" be honest to them and ourselves. Ban ish the saloon. Help to raise men. not paupers. . Q. W. GREEN. Manager of Saloon Protests. Portland, Jan. 17.- To the Editor of The Journal -One man's rights com mence where another's cease, and it ia a privilege to know your paper al lows every man an opportunity to state his case. All the money I have is Invested in my business. As the general man ager and one of the owners of Erlck son'a saloon. I have provided a lawful place of amusement for the worklngmen In and around Portland. They come to my place and enjoy themselves in a way suitable to themselves and in much the same way as other men. This privilege of theirs baa been ser iously threatened by Sheriff Word, for reasons best known to himself, by re peated raids under the pretense thai gambling la going on. We maintain card room as open to the publlo m any FORD By Dr. Frank Crane. (Copyright. 1914, by Frank Crane.) The Amalgamated Order of Paaal. mlsta received aa It war a hinw n th Pit of thair stomach with a baseball oai we oiner flay when the Ford Mo tor company announced that $10,000, 00 of the profit of the 1914 business would be turned over to the workers who helped make the money. nenry oril aald: w v v w.mv uii uiviaiuu of our earnings between capital and labor is unequal, we have sought a plan of relief suitable for our business. We uo uwi leei sure tnat it Is the best, but we have felt impelled to make a start, and maJcA it nn- . agree with those employers who de- uia a recent writer In a magazine In excusing himself for not practising what he preached, that movement toward the bettering of so ciety must be universal." We think that one concern can make a start and create an example for other employers. This Is our chief object "No man will be discharged if we can help it, except for unfaithfulness or inefficiency. He is tried repeatedly In other work, until we find the job he Is suited for, provided be Is hon estly trying to render good service." Mr. Ford givea strong symptoms of being a human being. Of course he has got rich, but he evidently intends to squeeze through that needle's eye If It scrapes off large patches of cuticle. It will pain many esteemed rooters for the revolution to observe these signs of social conscience on the part of a capitalist, and doubtless many a guerilla in the economio war will take a shot at Ford, and accuse him of every sinister motive from self advertising to arson; but the plain in ference seems to be that the man has a heart; and hearts are still trumps in the great game of living and working. The eventual Just distribution of the profits of labor and brains In the busi ness world is not going to he brought about either by the benevolence of capital or the demands of labor. It will be the joint work of both parties. The err eat aarent in nrnrtuolna- th. coming golden age, when every man auoai get, ma i ik in pay, ana wnen me world-old toll to stupid and idle privi lege shall be abolished, is public opin ion. Steadily, surely, resistlessly, that opinion is pushing toward the reign of altruism and making the shame of selfishness more and more unbear able to the successful. Let us sincerely hope that Mr. Ford's experiment will pay him, not only In generous emotion, but also in dollars and cents. So much cussedness and grasping have been made to yield profit in this crooked world, that we should like to see a fine and splendid move or tnis sort produce a liberal usufruct. My private view is that these mil lions turned back to the workers will do more good than if they had been used 1 to build cathedrals, or endow schools, libraries, churches, or any thing else eleemosynary. An ounce of solid social justice is worth a ton of "benevolence." hotel lobby, where card and checker games are played by worklngmen, and where gambling is absolutely prohibit ed and does not exist. None the less, we have been raided and arrested sev enteen times; had fifteen trials before Judges Jones, Bell and Dayton; two be fore the grand Jury by our own re quest and all were dismissed. Mr. Word's deputies admitted no evidence et the time of arrests, but stated they were under strict orders to bring In all card players in the place. In all 328 worklngmen have been arrested, and the prohibitive ball of $50 to 1100 each demanded and $200 for myself, sometimes, late at night, which showed personal animus on the sher iff's part, as repeatedly the several judges stated that the alleged gamb ling charge being only a possible mis demeanor and warranting only $10 ball, so made It Now the point is this: If the work lngmen of this town have any rights, they have the right to amusement within the law. It is the only kind this place provides, and many prom inent men, Judge Bell included, have commended us on the lawful manner in which our place is conducted. We. ourselves, know how careful we must be and have not allowed, nor do we in tend to allow, any Infraction of the law that we can control. With these things considered, should we not be allowed to continue a man's business unmolested and, free from personal animus, grand stand play, and flagrant persecution by Sheriff Word? Will you let our voice be heard, that the people may Judge. J. J. RUSSELL. A Word to Mothers. Portland, Jan. 17. To the Editor of The Journal At the all day prayer and fast service held by the W. C T. U. in the Congregational church only a small company of praying men and women gathered. I want to admonish the women of the churches to get busy. Don't they realise a mighty battle is now on between the liquor forces and so-called reformers? This fight will not be won by half hearted measures. The liquor people have al ready Sent word to all their people to see that every woman whether wife, mother or sister In the family is reg istered. Now a word to the wise is sufficient. Let us go and do likewise. Possibly there are mothers whd "do not think a woman should vote." If so, I wish they might have heard Captain Stanley's opinion of such: "If a mother can go down to the gates of death to bring a child Into the world, and then will not go to the polls to safeguard its interests, she la not worthy to be a mother." A tiger In a Jungle will fight for her young. Let all mothers follow their example, and not let the devil of liquor fool them. MRS. CULPRIT. Right to Canvass for Votes. Dundee. Or., Jan. 16. To the Editor of The Journal Please Inform me if it is legal to canvass for votes Mem bers of the W. C. T. U. are going from house to house asking people to ote for prohibition. As a voter, I told them it was Illegal; so I wish to know. MRS. A. L. H. - There Is nothing in the laws of Oregon to prevent the soliciting of the support of voters, in any manner not otherwise and in itself unlawful; save that all manner of canvassing is for bidden on election days,- not only at or near polling places but at all places on that day. He Is Eligible. Portland, Jan. 17. To the Editor of The Journal Kindly answer in your paper the following question: Can a man become president of the United States who was born abroad while his father was representing the United States as an ambassador ? d. M. Thanks The JournaL Pigeon Springs, Wash, Jan. 14. To the Editor of The Journal I wish to express to you my greatest apprecia tion, and to thank you very much, for the ' Christmas present a pair of aboe - H, A. P. WHEN THE FIRST BgpSBis " . - . ., .. . ' f t3i2S NORTHWEST'S REGIONAL BANK CLAIMS From the Spokane Spokesman-Review. In the closing days of the senate debate on . the currency law two con flicting ideas came into clash. One advocated four great regional banks; the other 8 to- 12. The discussion brought out the fact that both plans presented advantages and disadvan tages. The four bank advocates argued that the fundamental object of cur rency reform was to. provide the maxi mum of mobility for the bank reserves of the United States, and that would be better attained with four strong banks than a dozen smaller ones. The administration forces contended that the dangers of centralisation of financial control would be greater with four banks. It is generally t under stood that President Wilson favors 12 banks. If the four bank idea had prevailed, the great reserve banks would have gone to New York, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco. Notwithstanding the defeat of that plan In congress. New York and San Francisco cling tenaciously to the spirit of it. New York bankers have urged upon Secretaries McAdoo and Houston the formation of a district around New York city that will be sufficiently large to concentrate into the New York reserve bank 40 per oent of the total capitalization of all the federal reserve banks and corre spondingly 40 per cent or more of the bank reserves of the United States. San Francisco is asking for a dis trict that will include the whole Pa cific slope from Canada to Mexico, and that will even go further east than the summit of the Rocky mountains. Tt seems probable, from the well known views of the administration NEWS FORECAST FOR THE COMING WEEK An important meeting of the execu tive council of the American Federa tion of Labor will be held In Waahins ton Monday. It has been reported that the executive council may dis cuss the proposal for a general nation wide strike In support of the Calu met strike, but it is generally believed that it will confine its action to levy ing an assessment upon the labor unions throughout the country to aid the copper miners, r Monday, the anniversary of the birth of General Robert K. Lee, will be observed as a hotiday in Missis sippi. Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina. South Carolina, Vir ginia and Alabama. The legislature of Ohio will assem ble in extraordinary session Monday in response to the recent call Issued by Governor Cox. Most important of the subjects scheduled for consider ation are amendments to safeguard and protect the Initiative and referen dum, the repeal of the 1$14 appropri ation bill for the purpose of effect ing economies In the expenses of the state government, the revision of the banking laws waich will enable state tanks to adjust themselves to ths provisions of the new currency law. a provision conveying the right' of municipalities to issue bonds to ac quire public utilities, and amendments which will provide for the direct se lection at the primary of candidates for United States senator, and for fill ing senatorial vacancies. The sub-committee of the house Ju diciary committee is expected to go to Macon the first of the week to be gin its official Inquiry into th charges made against Judge Emory Speer, of the United States district court of Southern Georgia. The inauguration of James F. FlelJ er as governor of New Jersey will take place Tuesday In Trenton, and will be accompanied by the ceremonies which custom -has prescribed for the occasion. Forest fire wardens and their as sociates Jn eight eastern states, will begin a three days' conference In Bon ton on. Tuesday. Cooperation in re porting fires and railroad fire protec tion are the principal subjects to be discussed. . Other gatherings of the week of more or less interest and importance will be the twenty-Ciird annual meet ing of the Tuskegee Negro Conference, the annual meeting of the Hardwood Manufacturers' association, - in Mem phis, the national convention of the United Mine Workers of America, in Indianapolis, and the annual conven PATIENT IS SUCCESSFULLY TREATED and remarks dropped by the two mem bers of the organization committee at the New York hearing, that the wishes of New York and San Francisco will be denied.. They ought to be. Their plan would be an evasion of the spirit of the law and equivalent to an over riding of the will of oongress. a four bank system, with the reserves evenly divided, would have merit. But an 8. 10 or 12 bank system, with 40 per cent of the reserves in the New York bank and the whole Pacific slope and Transrocky mountain country attached to San Francisco, would be over balanced. It seems more probable that the organization committee will adhere to the 10 or 12 bank idea, the system that was clearly In favor with the house, the popular .branch of oongress, and that Is understood to have the approval of President Wilson's admin istration. In that event the four northwestern state Montana. Idaho, Washington and Oregon will have excellent pros pects for securing a federal reserve district. Their commercial, industrial and financial relations are with each other and the Mississippi valley rather than with San Francisco and Cali fornia. Our transportation lines bind these four states together and link them, with the middle west. Rail com munication with San Francisco is limited to a single road, and that a branch line of one of the transcon tinental systems. In point of travel time the four northwestern states are nearer to the Twin Cities, or even to Chicago, than to San Francisco. These weighty facts cannot fall to Impress the members of the organiza tion committee. tion and exhibition of the National American Live Stock association, in Denver. On Friday night the eyes of the sporting world will be focused on San Francisco, where Willie Ritchie and Tommy Murphy are scheduled to come together in a twenty round boxing contest. The fight will involve the lightweight ""championship, title to which is now in the possession of Ritchie. Seen by Slloam. From the Los Angeles Express. Wonderful Indeed are the changes that have been witnessed by the pool ef Siloam. Cut In the rock of the conduit lead ing thereto is the oldest Hebrew in scription extant. Nehemlah makes mention of the pool, and in the book of John is told the wonderful tale of the healing of the blind man. "As Jesus passed by he saw a blind man which was blind from his birth." Having spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle, he anointed the eyes of the blind man therewith. Jesus said to him: "Go wash In the pool of Siloam." It Is related: "He went his way therefore and washed and came, 1 seeing." The incredulity of those who had known the blind man could hardly be reconciled to acceptance of that heal ing. This man that had been blind was brought before the Pharisees, and. being questioned, told them simply: "He put clay upon my eyes and. I washed .nd do see." That healing had been achieved upon the Sabbath day. The Pharisees laid bold of the fact to accuse Christ, saying: "This man Is not of God because he keepeth not the Sabbath day." So runs the story of the Testament. On the first day of the new year there came a dispatch from Jerusalem that reads as follows: "Francois Xavier Bonnier, a French aviator, making the flight from Paris to Cairo, landed near the pool of Si loam on New Year's eve. The arrival of the first aeroplane ever seen by the inhabitants of the holy city created great excitfement." As of old, if. was said; "Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind." so now. after the lapse of 19 centuries, that same pool becomes the witness of another if a lesser miracle. The application of the change less law achieves again the seeming impossible whether in mechanics or physiology, whether in lt relation to man or insentient things. When a preacher tells bis congrega tion that he has a call from another church, it may be a roundabout way of asking for an increase la salary, IN EARLIER DAYS By Fred Lockley. Robert Eakln, justice of the supreme court, was boru 'in Elgin. 111., on March 15, 1848. He was educated at Bloom now known'as Chicago Heights. After two years apent in a ' private academy, Mr. Eakin's father, 8. B. Eakln, decided to'yome to Oregon. In 186S S. B. Kakin, with his wife and 11 children, came t to Eugene. "In 18(0 I camel up to Salem to at tend the state university," said Judge Eakln. "President; Rounds- was In charge of the university when I came but he was succeeded the following year by President; IT. M. Gatch. After four years work in the university, I was graduated lnf the class of 1873. Among my schoolmates were Jennie E. Kellogg, who later; became Mrs. Miller, Tereace Holdermoa, : who later married Dr. W. H. Byrd, ,f Salem. LaDrew Royal, Emelie Shattuck, a daughter of Judge E. D. Shatteck, Sally Chamber lain who married tC. B. Moores, now of Portland, LydU Chamberlain, who later became MrsJ Crockett, and Jim Imbrle. "After graduating from Willamette university, I went to Eugene, where I studied law with Oeorge B. Dorrls. While reading law-I was made county surveyor, holdlng'the office for two years. I was admitted to the bar in October, 1874, and In March. 1876, I went to Union, InJ eastern Oregon. On Jane 21, 17(, I was married in Eu gene by Rev. D.h B. Gray and Dr. Geary to Miss Mary Walker. "I was elected s city recorder of Union. In 1904 I moved to La Grande as the county seat of Union county . had been moved to La Grande. Governor-William P. J; Lord appointed me circuit Judge in March. 1892, the dis trict embracing Bakrr, Union and Wal lowa counties. After my appointment I was twice reelected to the position of circuit judge. In June, 1908, I was elected justice of ithe supreme court, and In 1912 I was' reelected for a rlx year term. My son Robert 8. Eakln Is now practicing in !La Grande, my old home, while my other two children . are In school. "One of the thfia that helped me most In my profession was a rule I made early in life to never take a eaae unless I was on the right side. This meant missing some good cases, but it made me wonderfully strong wlthoth . the judge and the )ury, for they knew that unless I thought I had Justice on the side of my. client I would not take his case. Many ycjung lawyers defeat their best interest by making every effort to win a case whether their', client has the right on bis side or not. Instead of taking a case of this kind Into court, the matter should be -settled out of court. :He should show his client that Justice would be defeated If he should win hm case, but many young attorneys lack the moral fiber to do this. Personally I would never handle criminal cases. Too many crim inal lawyers lose the distinction be tween what is right and what Is wrong and in winning a case,! when the ends of Justice are defeated, the lawyer hurts himself more than anyone else. "A great deal of litigation is pro moted through misunderstanding and through Imperfect laws, for. example, in the past there has been much litigation over water rights because our laws on this subject were defective. Bute Engineer John H, "Lewis has done won derful work for the state In working for the adoption of our present code of water laws. The ownership of water is now determined by a com mission and the supreme court Is not bothered with numerous cases arising from litigation as to water rights. The adoption of the Worklngmen's Com pensation law shouM .also help to clear our calendar of much unnecessary lit igation. '-( "Every move made toward making our laws clearer and simpler Is a move In the right .direction." The Woman's Page The Journal each evening pre vents a number of stidklna: features. Many ef them are of exclusive 'Interest to wo men; others are of general ; appeal. Thy all are; , worth while. 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