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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING- JANUARY 21, 1914.
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tune to the 'earnest man. This
is opportunity; and sooner or
later opportunity will come
to him who can make use of
It. David $tarr Jordan.
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THR NKW FREEDOM
!
a j
MnHE president's message
I- pledge of peace.
I It is I a kindly but
is
firm
program for cooperation be
tween the government and business
in making roetjiods square with pub
lic sentiment and the law. It pro
poses accommodation, and agree
ment on a basis of good will and
common interest instead of bluster
and braggadocio. It holds out the
olive branch to business but backs
it up with a cocked revolver in the
form , of dependable legislation.
- The message is like Lincoln's
in his second Inaugural. Through
out, it is permeated with the Lin
coln thought of "a just and lasting
peace among ourselves."
t The president proposes an end
to interlocking directorates, by
which .great New York bankers
hound together manufactures,
transportation, finance, commerce (
Insurance, express and other great
activities. t is a proposed fina h
step in cutting away the power of,
a small financial group to exercise ;
personal dominion over the indus- j
try and credit of the nation He ,
proposes prohibition of holding
companies, parent organizations ,
Him were tut? easy veuiiie iur
nvading the Sherman law and the
ready process for monopolizing an
Industry. He proposes a trade
iommission for initiating prosecu
tions for violation of the law and
carrying out decrees of the court
dissolving trusts. It will be an
arm of the court in the gathering
amd disseminating of information
respecting the big corporations
and In the enforcement of the
Sherman law.
Guilt is to be personal. The
punishment is to be on the trust
magnate or official
who trans-
fi esses public
ordinances. The
iu iiwiii m lumiB tne corporation ,
Instead of sending the official to ;
jail is to be reversed. In addition, ;
- the buoiness Or person injured by ;
1 .3 I B Z I it u
tne violation or tne law can re-
. cover from the corporation in a
suit for damages. There will
thus not only be a penalty for
transgressing i the law, but there j
will In addition be a reward of i
freedom fronii damage suits for
obeying the law. i
Great captains of finance are ;
to be stopped from plundering rail
roads by placing the issue of rail-
road securities under the control ,
of the Interstate Commerce Com- ',
mjssion. It iwill be a means of !
ending the 4ver"caPltallztlon by
which many (railroads have been 1
plundered and dishonest magnates !
enriched in the past. i
The gentleness, firmness and '
wisdom of the message are its J
dominant notes. Its purpose to
liberate legitimate business and
place it beyond the raids of the
parasite interests hich have
preyed upon jit in the past, Is a
marked feature, and a feature of;m time will have disappeared,
which the president is the author Prudence demands that it benade
and! original pro. onent. j use of now, to develop the la on
The program of the message is 'hieh it stands,
one more long step in ;the new J Columbia county should profit
birth of freedom into which Wood-j by the experience of Cowlitz coun
row' Wilson i conducting his coun-' tv across the river. The timber of
try and his j countrymen. It is j Its Washington neighbor is gone
one more gratifying expression of j and there are thousands of stump
noble statesmanship and one more ! covered acres that cannot be
pledge of perpetuity and perma- Reached because there are no roads,
nency for American free institu- While it is true the burden of
tions. taxation will be slightly increased
A PUBLIC DEFENDER
J
UDGE STEVENSON, at a recent
meeting of social service work-
ers. urgdd the necessity of a
public defender in Portland's
municipal court. His suggestion
was that a lawyer should be regu
larly In court t0 defend prisoners.
so that none need be without coun
sel .nor be required to employ a
lawyer. j
The . idea pf a public defender
as well es aj public prosecutor is
gaining ground. Los Angeles has
created the joffice, and the frst
, Incumbent wis selected afte a se
vere competitive examination to
test his knowledge of the criminal
laws Los Angeles expects to elim
inate a certain class of attorneys
who make their living by methods
which most lawyers say are un
ethical, ;
Minnesota's state- board of con
trol, 'wbiclf has charge of all the
penal and reformatory institutions,
has asked for the appointment of
an attorney whose duty it will be
to look after the Interests' of men
and women Vho are sent to the
penitentiary Unjustly. .
, In theory,!' a public prosecutor
fchould . also be a public defender,
but. In, practice the two functions
are : impossible oXl performance ,by
one man- The fact Is recognized
hy iaws governing higher1 courts,
for In practically all states a per
THE TANGO LOOK
D
EVOTEES of the tango are
confronted with what a dis
tinguished member of the
French Academy calls "the
tango look."
He is Maurice Dekobra, and
after studying the physical effects
of the tango he insists that the
unnatural position especially of
the woman wilj result in physical
i blemishes. He names them as two
complete sets of deep wrinkles
between the eyes, a double set of
wrinkles about the neck, a deep
tlrawn down expression of the
mouth, quick development of a
double . and sometimes a triple
coin, in-sioping ana unneaitny iook-
ing shoulders and loss of dietinc-
lion in the style of carrying the
head. Their position in the dance
oeing more nearly normal, tne
men. M. Dekobra says will be
slower in developing "the tango
look."
Much as Portland debates the
tango, agitation is. nothing here in
comparison with the convulsions
in "Europe over the new dance.
Queen Mary has banned it at all
official British balls. She defines
the. private sample of it she saw,
as "harmless but uninteresting."
The Kaiser has forbidden even
the German officers, whose moral
ity is not their strong point, fnrm
dancing it even at private parties.
Emperor Francis Joseph declares
it "very charming," while the king
of Italy declined to prohibit it.
King Alfonso is noted as an
ardent performer himself of the
most Argentine variety. But, in
Madrid a nnnnlnr vn uHfvMlo nrtinr
WM arregted for danclng a tango
tnat ,eft nothl tQthe imaglna.
tjon The next d however( she
was released aud the Munlcipal
Sanl g d seQt to' dlslnfect
tne tneatTe
The Duches8 of Devonsnlre de
careg that thg ,g thJ ..d
moral wh Duche88
of Rutland likes nothing more than
to see her daughter dance it with
aji expert "partner. Maeterliak
thinks it ' "ungraceful and rather
silly," and Bernard Shaw cannot
understand why .there is so much
fuss about it upon any ground.
The Czar has forbidden it while
several grand dukes and duchesses
delight in it. The Pope, never
having seen it, trusts his bishops
and clergy will deal with it as it
deserves. Jean Richepin, member
of the French Academy, avers that
the taneo as danced in the French
saions js a f-harmine dance and
rQrH(n(.i Amatto orhhiChnn f
parg forbids It as a sin whjch
must be confe8Sed and for which
enance mu8t be done. He 8ay8
the dance ..Js indecent and offen.
sive to morals," and Christians
may not in conscience take part
therein.
PEXXY FOOLISH
C
OLUMBIA county is facing a
crisis in its commercial devel
opment. If it is to become a
large dairying, vegetable and
fruit growing country for which
it is naturally adapted it must
have a better system of roads. If
its acres of logged-off lands are
to re utilized and made productive
it must have better roads on which
to transport the produce from the
several districts to the market. The
old river route has served its time
and generation but it is not ade-
quate .to the demands of progress
To provide money for good roads
the county has a large resource in
its standing timber. It is, how
ever, not a permanent asset and
! by a bond issue there is economy
and a great saving in the end.
Under the present valuation of the
county the added tax during the
twenty year period of th honria
Iwill only average $1.58 per $1000
valuation. In one trln in tnvn
i the farmer will save this in wear
and tear on his wagon and team.
In addition he can make two trips
where he now makes one. The
small property owner in town will
gain a hundred fold in the in
creased valuation of his holding
and the non property owner will
reap the reduced cost of living.
Another element to be consid
ered is that the money raised by
the bonds will remain In the coun
ty, being expended for labor and
material in building up the roads.
Under its present system the
county is expending $52,700 yearly
on its two principal, roads, approxi
mately 85 miles in length. If
these roads are graded up by the
county with its money from bonds
they will be taken over by the
state, 'hard surfaced and main
tained. This, it is estimated, will
not exceed. $200 per mile, or $17,
000 each year.
Of this amount -Columbia county
will raise $10,500. Deducting this
from the amount the county is now
spending, leaves a profit of $42L
200 which is equal to an annual
levy of $2.35 on each 10)0- valua- the only child and support of 'a
tion. . widowed mother. , It is well, ln-
The building of a good system of deed, that the club women of Ore
roads will increase tbe valuation ( gon have declared war on the use
of the county, reducing the average , of cigarettes by minors.
yearly cost of the bonds to $1.20 ' ' -for
each $1000 valuation. Besides: At Corvallis, Leopold Cund, who
having good roads the county will ' claims to be a Socialist, threw a
make a net saving of $1.15 each stone through the heavy plate
var on everv 11000 valuation. ' glass window of the Benton Coun-
In twenty years this will amount
tov with interest, more than $600,-;
000. - I
Which is more economical, to '
make this saving by a pound wise j
policy or continue to waste by a !
penny foolish one!
HIS LEAKY PLATFORM
L
OST, strayed or stolen: $700,-
000 worth of plank out of
Attorney General Crawford's
platform in one week!
It happened this way: In his
platform, for governor, Mr. Craw
ford said:
The common school fund should be
sacredly euarded and It may not be
too late to save a portion of the
$750,000 worth of Indemnity school
lands which have, during the past
few years, been practically lost to
the state.
Declaring that selections have
been made to cover practically all
losses of school lands, Governor j
West challenged the attorney gejl-
eral's statement, as follows: j
The above statement is either ev-1
dence of the attorney Re.neral's gross
ls-norance of land matters In this
state, or it la evidence of a delib
erate attempt- to furnish a rotten
plank for a meaning-less platform.
The records of the State Land
Board will show that selections have
been made to cover practically all
losses In school sections in this state
and that such selections have either
ben approved or are now pending
before Congress or the departments
at Washington. The unsatisfied
losses amount to but 3000 acres.
Replying from Eugene, Mr. Craw
ford said:
Two or three years ago the state
land commissioners used up about
60,000 acres of what is called In
demnity school land base, being lands
to which the state was entitled, and
for which it might select Government
lands In lieu of lands lost to the
state or reconveyed to the United
States. The Land Commissioner se
lected in lieu of this base lands in
the vicinity of Abert and Summer
lakes. In Lake county.
Lands so selected were alkali lands,
worthless for any purpose whatever.
In reply, Governor West declared
that the school selections on Abert
and Summer lakes totaled only 591
acres, declared in addition that Mr.
Crawford knew that the total was
only 591 acres and in proof sub
mitted the following statement sent
last October from School Clerk
Brown to Mr. Crawford informing
him that the total was only 591
acres:
Honorable A. M. Crawford, Attor
ney General Dear Sir: Referring to
your request for information as to
certain indomnity selections made by
the state along the shores of Summer
and Abert lakes, wish to say that
these selection lists, when first filed,
covered 3373 acres, or such lands as
the company leasing the lakes from
the state thought would be neces
sary for the successful operation of
its plant.
Being informed that owing to a
change in its plans the bulk of these
lands would not bo needed by it, the
said selections were withdrawn with
the exception to two lists covering
2S9.05 acres along the shores of
Abert lake and 302.38 acres along the
shore of Summer lake. It is deemed
advisable to hold these lands in order
that the state will own at least a
few acres of shore lands and thus al
ways have a base of ooeratlon on thn
shore side of the meander line.
Yours very truly.
(Signed) G. G. BROWN,
Clerk State Land Board.
The Crawford platform started
off with $750,000 worth of lost
school lands, and the lands have al
ready dwindled to only 591 acres.
It is a loss of more than $700,000
worth of valuable platform in only
a week, and with the primaries
still four months off.
LEWISTON A SEAPORT
A'
LL-WATER excursions from
Lewiston, Idaho, to San
Francisco in 1915 have been
announced. River steamers
from Portland will take Lewiston
visitors to the Panama-Pacific 'ex
position down the Snake and Co
lumbia rivers, through the Celilo
canal, and connect with ocean
going ships using the Columbia as
their northern port.
The first excursions will be ar
ranged for the early summer sea
son next year, when high water
prevails on the upper Columbia
and Snake rivers. It is said that
steamers will be able to leave Lew
iston at 3 o'clock in the morning
and arrive in Portland during the
early evening of the same day.
The distance from Lewiston to
the mouth of the Columbia is .ap
proximately 400 tniles, and the
Idaho city is preparing to establish
the claim of being the farthest
inland seaport in the west after
the Celilo canal is opened and the
last obstruction to the ocean is
removed.
These all-water excursions, only
a little more than a year distant,
will have large significance to the
entire Columbia basin. They will
establish what has long been hoped
for, actual use of a great water
way for the purpose nature in
tended it. .
Plans now being made by Lewis
ton people should stimulate the
entire Columbia basin to greater
activity in making the Columbia
serve, its full purpose as a water
way. Sixteen-year-old Otto Stinger of
New Britain, Connecticut, used
cigarettes so continuously as lit
erally to have smoked himself to
death. After the boy's death In
the New Britain hospital. Dr. John
Purney stated that nicotine poison
ing from nse of cigarettes caused
degeneration of the heart. He "was
ty National bank. He says he did I
the deed as a protest against the.
American Industrial system. Me
is not a Socialist. He is a direct
action man. His plan is anarchy,
The thing to do with gentlemen
who destroy property is to put
them where they can't do it.
The light has begun for ter
minal rates -for Astoria. It is
not only Astoria's fight, but Port
land's fight. The gravity haul has
to be recognized, and Portland is
certain to profit from any form of
Its recognition.
Letters From tbe People
(Communications ent to Tbe Journal fur
publication in this department ahould be writ
ten on only one side of the pP'r- should not
exceed 300 words In length aud must be ac
companied by the name and addreaii of tbe
sender. If tbe writer Coos not desire to
have tbe name published, he should so state.)
' "DiHcussion is the greatest of all reform
ers. It rationalizes everything it tonehes. It
robs principles of all false sanctity and
throws them back on their reasonableness. If
thev have no reasonableness, it ruthlessly
crashes tbeui out of existence and scts up its
own rouclusions iu their stead." Woodrow
Wilson.
Inharmonious Tax Law.
Hood River. Or., Jan. 19. To tli.:
Kdlior of The Journal In the news
papers recently appeared some very
interesting and important articles,
both editorial and in letters from t'.:e
people, touching the new tax law, but
this particular phaso of it I have net
noticed in print. A day or two a?o
one of our county officials showed
me the following Items: "Laws relat
ing to assessment and taxation 1913,
Section 3G98: After the expiration of
four months from, the date of delin
quency, whin any property remains
on the tax rolls for which no certifi
cate of delinquency has been Issued,
the sheriff shall proceed to Issue cer
tificates of delinquency on said prop
erty to the county, and shall file said
certificates when completed with tha
county clerk."
There are several hundred more
words in this same section on the sub
ject of foreclosing "tax liens embraced
in such certificates, etc." but for want
of space and time I will jump to page
82 of "Assessment and Taxation Laws,
compiled by the state tax commission
for 1913. .s follows. "Four months
after the date when taxes charged
against real property are delinquent,
the tax collector shall cause to be
published once each week for four suc
cessive weeks in the newspaper or
newspapers, selected by the county
court to publish county court proceed
ings under the provisions of section
2902 of Lord's Oregon Laws, a notice
stating a description of the several
parcels of real property upon which
taxes are delinquent, the amount of
taxes and the name of the owner, if
shown upon the tax roll, and a state
ment that six months after such taxes
are delinquent a tax certificate of de
linquency will issue therein, as pro
vided by law."
There is more on this same page and
under the same head applying to post
ing "copies of the printed notice in his
county for four weeks, commencing
four months after the date when such
taxes become delinquent, and shall
file in the office of the county clerk
of his county a copy of such notice,
with a certificate indorsed thereon
setting forth that such notices had
been posted in four public places In
hiy; nounty," etc.
Now, it seems to me and I am not
alone in thinking so that a lot of un
necessary, and worse than useless
work is put on the sheriff and other
county officials, dnd that thousands of
dollars may be wasted In trying out
this inharmonious tax law. I am open
to conviction, however.
J. M. BLOSSOM.
A Remarkable Letter.
Portland, Jan. 21. To the Editor of
The Journal In your editorial in
Monday's Journal you fcad an article,
"Why Portland?" Several suggestions
--not answers arise in my mind.
Why, indeed? I am a laboring man. I
do not belong to the unemployed, just
now, "but may become such any day.
I am not an I. W. W. nor a Socialist.
I do not believe in the methods of the
Coxey army or any unemployed march
ing army. In fact, I have little sym
pathy for any unemployed man. My
reason Is this: I am poor. I work
hard for a living. Why? In my case
it Is the saloon. I have been a cus
tomer of the bar for over B0 years. If
anyone asks me why I am poor, I point
to the saloon. This may not be every
poor "man's case, but it is mine. And
with my experience. If asked, "What
is the solution of the great problem of
the unemployed?" I would answer,
"Wipe out the saloon."
But this is only my opinion, after
50 years and upwards.
But to the point, "Why Portland?"
Is it possible that out of 100 men
there are none but hobos and tramps?
Are they all bums? The newspapers
of Portland are all saying, "There is
work in the country, but these men
don't want work." A hundred men
start from Portland Into the country.
Have they been met by farmers and
country townsmen with an invitation
or request to work? Did they meet
them and say, "We want 5, 18 or 15
men to grub and clear land?" or, "We
want 6, 10 or 15 men to make roads
at reasonable wages?"
I am not saying "$3 per day at eirht
hours," but "reasonable wages."
Not so you could notice it. I haven't
heard anything like that.
Out of 100 men marcblng to Salem,
oi 100 to McMinnville, could they not
thin out their ranks by one half, or at
least one third? Or must It be as
sumed that all are bums? Is that pos
sible or conceivable?
"Why to Portland?" At all events,
they can find companionship, a warm
saloon for part of the night, and a
possible chance of something to eat,
which is a little better than the cold
ground of the wayside, or a lodgement
in a county jail. JOHN BLAIR.
The "Farm Colony" Plan.
Salem, Or., Jan. 20. Tcr1 the Editor
of The Journal A large number of
unemployed men In all the cities of
the state are without food or shelter
and have no place to sleep, except aa
it is given to them temporarily.
Whether this conditionals a result of
the system of government or of the
ects of the persons themselves, does
not alter the fact. What is the rem
edy? We all know that society must,
in some way, support all of its mem
bers the deaf, dumb, blind and feeble
minded and the criminals, and all
those unable to take care, of them
selves. W have prisons, hospitals,
baby honies, reformatories and other
institutions; yet; there still la n army
of unemployed and hungry men in eur
A FEW SMILES
An old colored man had been in
trouble for stealing chickens, and was
convicted on clrcutn-'
stantlal evidence. ,
"W h a t's circum
stantial evidence?"
he was asked.
"Well," he said,
"as near as 1 kin
splaio it, Pm de way
it has been splained
to me, circumstantial evidence Is de
.feathers dat you leaves lyln' around
after you has done with de chicken."
Master Nod (to the Rev. Dr. Tre-
horn) Wished I'd been here last night
when you taptized th
company.
Rev. Dr.- Trehern-
vvliat uo you mean
my son? I did not
baptize anybody.
"No? Well, mam
ma said that wher
you came in lasi
iiight you threw cold water on every
body."
Lawyer You understand what you
are to do in court now, don't you?
Client Yes, I guess so.
Lawyer When the
court asks you
whether you are
guilty of manslaugh
ter or not, you say
"guilty."
Client But I can't
do that, my con
science wouldn't al
low it.
Lawyer Why?
Client Because it wasn't a man I
killed; it was a woman.
L'ncle George-
-What are you crying
about. Tommy?
Tommy Teacher whipped
me be-
cause I was the only
one able to answer a
question in school to
day. Uncle George (in
dignantly ) -! This 1s
an outrage, my boy.'
I'll see that teacher
myself. What was
the question?
Tommy (sobbing) Who put the tack
in teacher's chair?
A Jersey City amateur, who wrote
to the manager of the Madison Square
theatre to know if
there was an opening
on the stage there
for a young actor, re
ceived a reply that
there were several
opening In the stage
there, and if he would
come on he would
drop him through one of them with
great pleasure.
midst crying out for food and shelter.
Strange as it may appear, there are
no tramps in Switzerland. Why? Be
cause that little country has solved
the tramp problem by having what is
known as the farm colony plan. The
state-owns a large farm and if any
able bodied man Is found in want he
la given a chance to work and earn
his own living. If any refuse to work
they are compelled to do so if they
are able. This plan is known as the
"voluntary" and "involuntary" colony
farm plan.
I fully believe this plan could be
made very effective in Oregon. Let
our state buy 1000 acres, more or less,
of uncleared land that could be" tilled
when cleared, and gather in all the
able bodied men In the state who have
no visible means of support and put
them to work to clear and cultivate
it. The hungry would thus be fed.
and the value of the state's land would
be vastly increased.
The citizens of Oregon can no longer
dodge their duty toward those who live
within the state and make their homes
here. "The world owes every man a
living," but let us remember that it
does not owe any man any other man's
living unless he is helpless. When
you toss a man a dollar you destroy
his manhood. The only way to really
help people is to help them to help
themselves; give them some kind of
uplifting work, with the proper com
pensation for their services. I believe
I have indicated In this letter a proper
solution for a large majority, if not
aH, of the unemployed men In our
state, during slack periods.
Let everyone do his duty; then there
will be no cry of want and despair In
our land of plenty a country of rich
agricultural resources, where timber,
water and minerals abound a
land
flowing with milk and honey.
J. w,
MORTON.
Replying to Mrs. Unruh.
Portland, Jan. 17. To the Editor of
the Journal I read with Interest the
article written bjfeAda Wallace Unruh,
but found only one complaint to make
there Is no chance for the man who
Is engaged in the liquor business.
There are at the present time thou
sands of men employed In the different
lines of business that are benefitted
directly and Indirectly by the manu
facture of alcoholic beverages. There
are also thousands of men employed in
the manufacture of alcoholic beverages.
What will these men do to gain a living
should prohibition win?
There are millions of dollars tied
up in fixtures and manufacturing
plants devoted to the production of
alcoholic beverages. Who would pay
for them? Or must the owners lose
all?
Your correspondent talks of students
real students scholars and scien
tists, and the lines they have marked
out to follow. So possibly we may
learn just what the plans are regard
ing the disposition of laborers and
owners of alcoholic beverage manufac
tories. ' , . .
A. reply from the above correspond
ent would be appreciated.
JACK THOMAS.
II : " '
Believes Dancing Utterly Evil.
Portland, Jan. 17. To the Editor of
The Journal 'It has been interesting
for me to read the letters that have
been appearing from time to time upon
the subject of dancing, and I hope I
may be permitted to say at the begin
ning of my letter that perhaps there
is no one else in the city who has
traveled so extensively or enjoyed so
large, social career in this country
and in the several social centres of
Europe and South America as the
writer has, and for years I attended
dances of many of the social events
of more than ordinary prominence;
and for these reasons I feel competent
to say a word relative to dancing and
to give that word from the inside. I
wish to state the clear conclusions my
experience has givea me.
No persons of rational intelligence
claim to be wholly pure, and, there
fore, no person should presume to con
tend that dancing is all right for those
who are pure- "
The best conducted, most formal,
dances ar destructive, as shown by
the. fact that the finer sensibilities are
broken down, familiarity between the
sexes Is engendered and the passions
played' upon to such an extent, even in
the- waits, that persons of real moral
fibre are forced to realise that tbe
danc is one of the most powerful
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PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
It Is presumed that those Imported
Chink eggs are also "strictly fresh."
Portland's commercial destiny is in
the hands of Portland men of today.
How many are buying Oregon made
products, and how much? How many
are patriotic?
That Is right: get busy in the anti
Iiy crusade now, and prevent the
breeding of the pests.
The dairy business in Oregon "pick-
en up considerably in 1U13; it should
grow lar more, in 1014.
Anybody, everybody, who tan get a
few nani.'M on a petition, can run for
the nomination for Rovernur.
Investigation would probably show
that there is occasionally a town in
which the mayor and council are not
in a continual ' row over the chie.f of
police.
Increase in limit weight of parcel
post packages to 100 pounds Is con
templated. Possibly if carriers have
to provide and keep four-horse teams,
their wages may be Increased a little.
Prominent wool growers now say
that their industry will not. b "ruin
ed," but that free wool will stimulate
them to adopt better methods and raine
better sheep and wool. They may
hurrah for free wool yet.
a
One wonderful thing has happened
already this year; three New York city
consulting engineers have ankd to
have their salaries reduced frrun $60iut
to S3U00. Let us not imagine thai
they really do sothing and scented dis-
missal.
THE RISE OF THE
From the Oakland Tribune.
By a perversion of the sfiirit of the
law district attorneys havo come to
be regarded primarily as prosecutors,
hence accused persons naturally look
upon the district attorney as being
hostile to them.
This should not be so. It Is as much
the duty of a. district attorney to pro
tect the innocent as to' prosecute the
guilty. His function is to promote the
ends of Justice, to vindicate the inno
cent and punish the guilty. There
fore he should never prosecute per
sons whom he believes to he innocent
nor procure indictments which he does
not believe can be sustained on trial.
But common practice has converted
the law officer of the community into
a prosecutor, who deems it his duty
to range himself in opposition to every
person accused of violating the law.
Too often he does not investigate with
a view to ascertaining the truth and
vindicating the right, but to find evi
dence of guilt. In some cases proof of
innocence has been deliberately sup
pressed or ignored in the eagerness
to make a case against a defendant.
Happily the district attorney's office
of Alameda county is conducted in
conformity with the spirit of the law.
During the periods when Judge Brown
and Judire Donahue -were at the head
of the office conscientious efforts
were made to restore the district at
torney to the position originally con
templated when our Judicial system
was established, and prosecutions were
directed solely at thone whom there
was good reason to believe guilty
under the law. Private prosecutions
were discouraged and looked upon with
scant favor. When people were un
justly accused or attempts made to
use the processes of the criminal code
to enforce the collection of debts or to
compel settlement of claims of doubt-
YOUR MONEY IN "COMMERCIAL PAPER"
By John M. Oskison.
(Copyright, 19TH, by J. G. Lloyd.)
Our new banking and currency law
creates a new form of available capi
tal by making It possible to Issue cur
rency against certain obligations of
business firms. That is its most im
portant function its vital feature.
This law is going to have one effect
which you as an investor will have to
consider later. It is going to call at
tention more widely than ever he
fore to a form of Investment now
familiar to banks, but which the pub
lic knows practically nothing about-
that Is, the purchase of "commercial
paper" Instead or stocks and bonds.
As the banks know it, "commercial
paper" consists of the notes given
by big merchants to secure the re
payment of short time loans. For ex
ample: A huge wholesale house wants
to borrow $2,000,000 for 60 days to
finance Its spring trade. That sum
can't be borrowed from one bank, so
the merchant goes to a note broker
agents of the destructive forces In
nature.
Dancing, being a destructive force,
cannot and will not be participated in
by any person who wants to live a
good, moral lire.
To teach dancing to another person
is a moral crime.
To say that the best people dance.
Is too untruthful to be considered;
because the best people do not dance,
nor even view a .lance in progress.
' Persons with strong desire for danc
ing are entitled to the sympathetic
pity of tho moral twople in every com
munity; because thoe who just ache,
for rlancine have become slaves to
their baser passions and are indeed
entitled to pity and help.
Persons who permit dancing in any
form in their community without
doing all in their power to stop it are
accessories to a moral crime, ana each
one will be held personally Tfvofium)""'-'' n" i
and to this statement I wish to call
the attention of all who are engaged
in church or social uplift work.
Hardened criminals often use pas
sages from the Bible to Justify their
actions, and moral evil-doers of every
description often attempt to do so also.
The people must be taught to be
strong morally.
Dainclng is the rfiost destructive ele
ment in the social' world today,
A. M. BROWN.
Prosperity of Vancouver, B. C.
Portland, Jan. 16. To the Kditor of
The Journal Is it possible to explain
the present plight -of the prosperity
of the city of Vancouver, B. "., hi any
manner that will make a favorable
argument for the "single tax" idea
J. P. SHALLCROSS.
To the question of Mr. Shallcross,
Alfred D. Cridge, being given the op
portunity, has made reply in the fol
lowing statement of the case from
the single tax standpoint:
"The 'plight' of Vancouver is com
mon to all, civilization. We have noth
ing to boast of in Portland. The
Puget Sound cities are certainly as
much In a plight as Vancouver.
"The single tax kieal is to take all
land values Into the public treasury
and to -abolish other taxes. This is
not done In British Columbia. Van
couver wisely and profitably exempted
from cal taxation the things which
she wsnted to come there and to stay
there, .'and she got them. A lot selling
at $1000 Is assessed at about $450 ln
Vancouver for local purposes, or about
$ Id tax- A lot is worth $1000 because
It will rent for $60 over th taxes; or
elseHt ia not worth that sum. The
sintfle tax ers would take the entire
1 i
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON 81 DELIGHTS
Twenty widywa in Washington coun
ty draw pensions , under the widows'
pension act. The total Is 34.0o per
month.
There are nearly 100 Michigan Wj
nle in Kusene. Kaciu summer they hpid
a picnic and now plans are ou foot
tor n midwinter banquet to be held this
last of this month.
The Condon ;ohc asserts that an
organized tire department is one of
Condon's iiteds. und admonishes tha
people of the town not to take past
Immunity bis a fuaiaiitee. for the fu
ture ,
The Forest tirove Press aerves notice
that in the coining o at: campaign it
is not going to le found balancing it
self "on the feiiee of indecision." It
i going to nay exactly what it thinks,
and opens It columns to its readers
tltdt they may do the same.
The Joy of living abounds at Irri-
gon, and the Jrritf.m correspondent of
nail l nr , i i rn ) mi run 1 1 o, .
V'tnalilla New Kra chronicled 1 1
the
following: "The young people of th"
town gathered one evening last week
and played Tun, sheep, run,' by moon
light. The citizens, most of whom wer
trying to nleep, wished from the bot
tom of their hearts that such a game
.lad never been invented.'"
.
Albany Iemocraf4! Rev. P. H. Leech,
pastor of the First Methodist church,
upheld the record established by hi-n
in lir, the hlggeat in the history if
the county, for lwrforniing the most
unrrinpcH of any'authorlaed to solemn
ize nuptial ti-s. aside from county
judges, during the year 1!J3. The Hev.
Leech performed 43 ceremonies dur
ing and the same number during
1913 forms a rare coincidence.
PUBLIC DEFENDER
ful legality, the district attorney has
Intervened for the protection of per
sons unjustly or maliciously assailed.
Since he has been district attorney,
Mr. liynes has pursued the same
policy.
Unfortunately this view of a district
attorney's functions is exceptional.
That it should occasion favorable re
mark indicates how exceptional it is.
The condition has caused the creation,
in Los Angeles, of the office of public
defender, whose duty is to see- that
nil persons accused of crime- obtain
all the protection guaranteed them by
law, that they are properly defended
when brought to trial, that all facts
having legitimate bearing on the case
at bar shall he fully brought out. and
that no advantage be taken of a de
fendant. This relegates the district
attorney to the role of prosecutor, hut
it supplies an antidote with an offi
cial who will keep the scales of justice
balanced. We presume that the public
defender will be notified of arrests,
will be given Immediate access to all
persona under arrest, and will be
present at all trials and preliminary
examinations. At least that should
be the rule.
Arresting persons without a warrant
and holding them Incommunicado and
"s-weatin!?" them to obtain confessions
incriminating others, if not them
selves, la all too common. The prac
tice is violative of the letter aa well as
the spirit of the law, and tho methods
reported to ln efforts to ohtaln con-N
feswions often savor of torture. The
public defender should atop all that.
He should hold prosecutions, as well
as defenses, within legitimate botinds.
arul give criminal process a clearer,
cleaner and fairer way, to the end that
Justice may he done and the purpose of
the law served without resort to Il
legal and unfair methods.
anJ aks him to find the money, and.
if the merchant offcra ample security,
the, broker gets the money from per
haps half a dozen banks.
I'p to this time note brokers have
dealt almost exclusively with banks,
and the rate of interest on such short
lime loans has been low, while the
hrokf-r's commission lm been very
small. f!ut frem this time on I pre
dict that the general investor will be
asked to consider such security by or
panizations which will attempt to ex
tend the market for "commercial
paper."
And certain dangers are going to
arise which the Investor will have to
learn to avoid. He will have offered
him notes of merchants and manu
facturers who cannot give such se
curity as will satisfy the banks, and
he will be asked to furnish more
such short time loans than the bor
rower. In the best Interests of hla own
business, ought to have.
$70. Vancouver took but $10. There
Is no talk or thought 1n Vancouver
of going back to barbarism and tax
ing buildings. With six-sevenths of
the rental values of land to speculate
with the real estate boom produced
Just what it did in cities of this coun
try an ultimate relapse.
"As Prltlh Columbia offers great
inducements to apital and to home
builders and has enormous resources
and the most promising future, as
soon as British money is Invested any
where it will be Invested there, and
Vancouver, as the metropolis of a rich
and fertile stale, will prosper again
las soon a8 the 'present , 'quiet times-
that now overspread civilization be
come a little noisier. Meanwhile. Van
couver will recover first, because it
offers lower taxe to Industry and its
' 1 . . . f . ............ ntirtli f i, a
I CL A , lil 1 I V i - rt "
Washington for the same values."
Supports I. W. W. Sponsorship.
Portland, Or.. Jan. 20.-To the Edi
tor of The Journal Is it not about
time people were getting wise to that
I. V. W. bunch? I believe they are
a master stroke of the big corporations-
to bluff the working class and
get corporation control of government
affairs. I notice they never try to
hurt the steel trust, the- Standard Oil,
etc., but only business people and
farmoVH. And then honest working
men are blamed for their villainy.
They have worked their scjieme fine,
so far. but let ua hope their dirty
work will be discovered soon. There
are several bums In town who never
work and yet they can dress up like
a banker, some days,- and others days
go in dirty rasts. There Is something
wrong. These days one has to be as
,harp eved as a lynx not to get fooled.
A READER
Sarcastic.
Portland. Jan. Jf, To the Bdltor of
The Journal Kindly put me In com
munication with your correspondent of
Saturday who signed himself "A
Laboring Man." Having visited all
the vaudeville houses last week I was
under tha impression that I had seen
almost everything worth while In the
comedy stuff, but evidently I have
failed to see the greatest of them all
the Human "Ox with the Capltsllstlc
Brain. I'd pay. the usual admission to
Fee this" most recent curioeity.
JAMKS CASET.
A vouog couple don't consider three
a crowd after the honeymoon.
IN EARLIER DAYS
lly Fwl Locklejr.
"I was-born on t'ritmas day li4:,
In Monroe county, ljjwa," said Willing
M. Ramsey. ji:stlci of the supreme
court. "I came to fEir'on while sti'l
a ; babe in rms initil7. My fatner's
name was Laviil tfpil my mother-
name was S.-.s.in. 'Bhey settled on a
denution land 1 in4 ! adjacent to New
bt r I had my first s hooting in a lo
cluol house in ar tfefj site of ;he pres
ent city of Newberjt. t remember tr.
teacher very dixttnefly for lie ge me
the only whipping ip ever received t
whool. The playgrrifwt n.i divided -one
Hide being for-the girlM.and ono
for the hoys. I de.d d to ;o o er o,t
the girls' side and pipy with the girl"
It seemed that iu, ddng so I totmnltt- I
some uiipardoiirtble rnne for 'len he
saw nit li i ailed ml in. mad" me hoM
out my hand and folding my finger
so 1 could not ilrjw f.iv hand bn
he used a ruler w ili force and effee.
tivf-tuKK on my open "hand.
"In the earlv NixfV I went to s hool
- ? .
ln Clackamas t outfly to T. J. Str.e
who hud Just eonuif f rom Missouri, lie
later became a lawyer, county - school
superintendent, county eh rK and' lin-n.-ber
of the leislat uf and was prlvaj
secretary to t;oerjur Thayer. I put
In two winters in tfce h school 'mu'e
at I 'avion. I pentth next two win
ters .It l.af.iye; te. :dng to school to
K F. ;iltner w I'.nsty s.iii, K. ". (Slltner.
is secretary "f il e t'hainlicr of Com
merce ul Port lainl.-
"I'rom ltrayettijj went to McMinn
ville whilu I attetiied the Baptist col
lege. Professor Joinf W. Johnson, after
wards Ho- ilrst rnk-hhi't of the Htai
I'niversity at Kogef p. w.i. at that tins
principal of to- c&n.R. Two of the
Judges now on t ae uni can- henrh wre
my schoolmates, 'ntf'tna A McHrlde
and tlent-Kc II. lUllnett I think It IS
rather sttnrifce that) we iluce. who were
schoolmates th, n -lj should he on th
supreme bench t.icether. Among my
ether fellow students were I ir. William
Laker of Astoria. ' M. J. Kinney, ons
of the members of; the state fisii com
mission and one of the best mathema
ticians I ever saf. He and Judge f.
A. Moore both haye a wonderful gift
for mathematics, j
"I quit school isr.t; and is-vii 1
a Job teaching scfiool on t'hehale-n
mountain near the present Ity of New
berg. 1 i c ei i di f 1 a , month an 1
boarded around. (' was a young fel
low' With a rull-f ijft'd a petite and of
tentimes wllCle It-Moulded II Seemed
as if 1 could eat 'l taere was on the
table though it hi to go .around f.r
a family of five or six. As I look h k
at it now It seeijued as If 1 was I,
a continual state of sem i-sta rv a t io:i.
While teaehiiiK 1 Jend law. Krutii fhe-
naiein .Mountain ii set ured u pla' i
where I taught seftoo for sin months
in the Brutch' r rjeighborhood. After
teaching a, si x-nnifit as' lirm there. I
taught for sit mriths In 'hehalem.
My next school wjas in Tyah Valley.
I walked out from -The l ailes to mv
school, a 1 ista a.-, of about MO ir.il it,
I next taught -- fciol In lafayette.
"I was admit t '-dj to the bar when I
was 1 yearn ohlp'hts was In Sep
tember IMS. Aiming those whu wer
admitt.d wit.i m,:vcr. K- H Watson
Of Portland, Ja m.-sL M a in of McMlmi
ville and N. I.. IJuter of I ndepeiiden, e -I
started my law jpra' fice in the full
or 1KH. A I the ij,e of : I bc.-anv!
county juilKe uf iamlnll. bcln ele.-t-l
In June 1X70. ami by the by - I wit
the first I " ray elected to office in
Yamhill county since the i'il War
1 ran against HavUi Smith, w .nw -i.
Milton W. Smith,' Is an attorney in
Portland, politics ia-erc vei'y tropical
in ihosc timet aril I Won out b j.
majority of two l--s.
"In 1S7; I ran (igiilnsl Ceorge II.
Burnett for dist! i'j I nt(..i nc , in t.
third Judh iul district, including the
ccuntles f Manure I. inn, polk unl
Tillamook. 1 was ieaten by a narrow
maruln. I curried Lien. polk, and TUl
mook eounHes huf in Mai ion l ountj.
which was t.ie (JJhraltar of republi
canism. Burnett 4"1 ej'iougli vote to
overcome n:y h ni In the other three
counties. Me won Join over me by less
than 100 votes.
"In lH I ran agiinst Judge F. A.
Moore for Justice rf the supreme court.
1 headed :h' I tempera t h- ticket In th
number oi vmnj-, receded but th
Ixmocrats w. i e fjf the minority. In
any event. JudKef i?rore secured the
most vrjten Kor Ifliree years I prac
ticed my prof-sshsti In Pendleton anJ
fcr nine years infrTnlon. Before that,
I used to be a re(fijetit of h'alem, llv
tng t'.iere for 12 jr 1 4 years, ln 1SS7
I was elected myj)r of Salem. I was
also mayor of MjfMlnnville and ii
the f'rst dean of rbe college of law of
the Willamette I'plverslty, when th
law department wits organized.
"On June 3. 13f3, I was appointed
justiee of the supreme court and I am
frank to eay that I like the work.
Heme men's "work work to them,
they do other thjnga for recreation,
but my work is nj$- recreation. Every
morning you will jtlnd me here in my
oirke at 0:30. I wiork until 7.30 when
I go to breakfast. Coming back. I
take an hour off - for luncheon and
work until 6 o'clock and coming back
after supper, I work until 9 o'clock.
T'.ie eight-hour iafr doesn't apply to
me for It Is a rare day that 1 do not
get in 12 hours of eork."
J
Pointed Paragraphs
Better a sweetheart thn sour wife.
S
Uneasy lies lheihead that wears a
frown.
The girl who dojn t paint Isn't nec
essarily artlesH. i
.
Minimize scandal ln the home of
your neighbor and ipulverlz 1t ln your
own. i
i
We would be stirpriard If w knw
what our neighbci-s think of us :f
they ever give us a. thought.
Borne women hl embonpoint of
their own and rogue acquire it with
the assistance of dressmaker.
Many a girl manage to strangle
her actions because she has discovered
that weeping makes her nose red.
When a young widow la wise and a
bachelor Is otherwise, , It's- up to the
parson.
It's awfully hard to be a atlafac
tory guest. Most people should cul
tivate the habit of remaining "at borce
mora, ;
SUNDAY iFEATflRES
The Sunday JotirnaJ Magazine
offers these!! compelling fea
tures for ivomen readers
each Sundayr-
Patterns for the home dress
maker. t j
Suggestions for the needle
woman. ;U,
Hints on home economy.
Talks on health and beanty.
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