THE : OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9. 1914.
THE JOURNAL;!-;
C. n. JACKSON
rub.uhe. -,tr eveuinc tetcvrt Vialujr n4 tiOn-Widef movement
to come under the compensation ; portune. : The insane should have than the average vaudeville num-
the best of care, but there fe no bers by professionals, and -were
,The casualty "companies can re- reason why our. immigration 'laws clean and delightful. Few quar-
. . pnuiwiw tard but they cannot
erj Bun-Mr morning l I jaorcai r.ann- . u,,.t? i.0
Rr..i..iw .ti vanmin t.. i"rrii.n.i.fr. ! quate .compensation laws
fcatared t tha o,tnf(lc at lortlujia. Or., f r ,
elrt' n.nf f-r.
lfcLKl'Mll.k: H:iln 7173! Hitna. A-4K&I. Alt
cprtDirnii renobeil by fhew number. Tall j
tha !irft.ir vhnt dfwtmr'nt T"H WHtlt.
OUr.Kkfe AUVKi!TtKINi UKWIKSKXTATIVK j
Beulmuin A.bleutour Co.. Hrunnwlrk Bid., I
Hfib A.. Ntw.yorfcs 1218 Paoplca I
I
stop .. the na- should continue ' making . America tets as good have been feard in
toward ade-i the melting; pot of the nations. If . Portland. If there had been real-
it Is just that the period during ; ization of the true ; worth of the
which 'an alien can be deported be; bill, there would, have been, in
kept at three years, it cannot be stead of the larlge audience, more
! Inst tn fnrr.p :hlt - nara iinnn nnA ' nonnto i n a f fori Hon r-a than t Vi ronm
T IS estimated- that the annual : state There should be a more ! could hold. ' .
roan expenditure ot me unitear thorough supervsion of the mental !
GETTING ' RESULTS
or to aar
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t: DAILY i
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A FEW SMILES
Man 1 the only; creature
endowed with the ! power of
laughter; Is he not: also the .
only one that deserves to be
laughed at? OrevlUe, (
TIIK CL'IlUICl'lA OKIJKll
States exceeds by some twenty- condition -lot all immigrants; more ; Swindlers are reported abroad in
four million dollars the amount resnOneihilitv should h nlaeed ' Oregon with Dicture nrooosltions in
'spent by England, France, Ger-j upoil the steamship companies. ' connection with the Panama exposi-
many, Italy, Russia, Norway. Swed- America lis experiencing diffi-, tion at San Francisco. 'Their plans
en and Spain combined. culty iQ assimilating the physically and methods were exposed in yes-
One hundred and fifty million . and mentally fit immigrants who terday's Sunday Journal. Many a
dollars was spent in, the United are pouring! into this country. We : scheme will be attempted by fakers
States last year, yet the results Rw0n id nor ha further hm-dpnpd bv i with the exnoaition as a basis, and
! we not commensurate with so tne unfit. 1 There are 31,624 in-' the wary will profit by a skeptical
n large an expenditure., only tnat sane in jew York's hospitals. Of non-participation in any schemes!
portion wmcn was spent ma ousi- 'these 13,728 are foreign born, and i of the kind that may be presented
( ; npsa Iflro artrl sc ?frtif fr av will o .1. . ti.tl utin 1 4. I t. , 11
, j , ui me iaui.er uuij ttsi are uaiui- 1 uj buiuulu BiraiiBBis.
1 v "--"t3 ."v..v. ; auzea. Ji,Yiaentiy, somem:ng is 1
j The prime need of the copnty radically wrong with immigration'
! or the state engaged iiji road build- jaws which! pernTft- the accumula- I
llllL 18 LI1H: StTVir Ul IHIFJIii: BUU'- Had vf K 1a.o-A miwiKAV -r
o ited and Skilled men wno win ai
Mm
DEW
Letters From the Pe
bple J
j rect the work upon lines of econ-
alien insane; In one state.
A
j - omy and permanency. When such;
RESOLUTION adopted . by 1 methods are general the United!
the Lian -County Council., of ' states will lead the world in qual-i
the Grange, Saturday, pro- uy as well as expenditure. The;
posed an initiative bill to cut ; funds now beine apnronriated for
out the duplication pf work and permanent highways ;are not ex
AN ANTIQUATED PLAN
A
CHANGE in the present tax
law whereby taxes may be
Communication sent to 1 The Journal for
publication In tbls department abonld be writ
ten on only one side of tbe paper, sbcnld not
exceed 800 words In length and must be ac
companied by the name and address of the
render. If the writer toes not desire to
have tbe name published, be should mo state.)
fix the fields of the; agricultural j cessive. Thev fall far' short of the ! the grange.
college ana state university.
j needs they are intended to meet.
"Discussion Is the .greatest of all reform
ers. It rationalizes pverv thtiiir it touches. It
paid quarterly, is favored by robs principles of all false sanctity and
1 11 rows mem obck on tneir reasouaoiuur". i
they have no' reasonableness. It ruthlessly
crushes them out of existence and sets up its
own conclusions in their stead.V Woodrow
Wilson.
Vhe Linn County Council of
The yearly plan of paying taxes
; Almost simultaneously, the state i The most important considera-1 was adopted in the days when
board of higher curricula issued Uion, above every other one in ex- store bills were settled but once a
.an orddr eliminating; the duplica- pending money for roads, is to ob--year, when the long credit system
tion anil perrrnanentlly fixing the tain a dollar's worth of road for j'was in full Career, and when wheat
iild pf tbe two1 inRtltiitlons. ' There ; every dollar spent. Such a road ' was almost Ithe only crop and set
Is transferred exclusively to the ' is a good, investment and will soon tlements wre impossible oftener
university necroe rotirKes In liberal ; nav for itself. I tnan-once in a tweivemontn
arts, j law, inedicine, architecture, 1
ftltlKln. c-ffr nrt Ice Tiitftlsal antAnnr I
higher connm-rce, Education and
the graduate Kcliool in all other
than j technical coursies. There is
given to the college exclusively, ag
riculture,, forestry and mechanical, '
j We put the plan in effect then,
Twenty Million Dollars.
Portland, Feb. 7. To the Editor of.
The Journal Annually the churches
of America spend $20,000,000 in th
cause of .foreign missions. What ben
efits could be wrought with that
amount of money here at home! Jo
need would there -be for empty stock
ings at Christmastlde, nor for thou
sands of men to tramp through the
A young man who bad jast' been en
gaged as commercial traveler by an
important firm was warned that the
great fault of his
predecessor had been
want of tact. The
young man started
out, and, to the sur
prise of his employ
ers, orders began to
come in at. a quite
unprecedented rate.
The climax came when a big order
was sent In from a firm .with, whom
the wholesale house had a bitter quar
rel, ending In a total stoppage of buti
ness. ,
Th -traveller's employers sent for
him on his return and asked him how
he had managed that particular mir
acle. "I used tact, sir," was the reply, "as
you warned me to. When I got to Mr.
B.'s shop he came up and asked me
what firm I represented. Remember
ing the circumstances. I handed him
my card and said: 'Why, these bloom
ing idiots!' "
A. good for nothing fellow was asked
by his wife to keep awake long enough
one day to dig the potatoes In the gar-
den. He consented,
and after digging ,a
few , minutes he re
turned to the house
and said he had
found a coin. Ha
washed the dirt off
and it proved to be
a sixpence. He tut it
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHAXUK
that the "sun still
Xow we know
exists. -
The eplit Infinitive Is often found
in very good company,
The Red Cross has become' a very
big as well as a very good institution.
Many women would rather live short
and tortured lives than be in tbe least
unfashionable.
tTncle J. D. Rockefeller never can
understand why he should be expected
to pay any taxes.
Of eleven decisions of the state su
preme court, only eight were reversals
of the circuit courts.
a
Almost everywhere the liquor traffic
is being more and more restricted, if
not legally suppressed.
. 'Increase in the number of Judges
stems never to result in gaining on the
arrears of Judicial work.
This is the biennial season when
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Med ford' has a new aml-clgarette
ordinance, framed after the fashion
of the stale law, and it is being en
forced. Pr. Linklater of Hlllsboro. the
Argus s.ates. Is a-crocus fan, and "on
his cash book every year is a lltt".
entry, giving day and date, 'Crocus
blooms today.'
Baker policemen work' only
nours a day now
plenty of time hereafter for road
work and physical culture." says the
Democrat, "and the offender had bet
ter look out."
The town of Rorrue River is to have
a new railway depot. While workmeu
were clearing the old buildinar off th
site, telephone men were clearing the
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Lockley.
"What do my initials 'J, C stand
for, said- Mr. Moreland, clerk of the
supreme court. . VThf y stand for Julius
Caesar. I used t6 sign my name J. C
M. Moreland. the N.' standing foe
Nicholas, but I decided that three Ini
tials were too many, so I dropped tha
"N." I wu bom on! Jan. 10, 1844. in
Tennessee, about eight miles from the
town of Carthage. A am the youngest
?2r-Kk .on,Fii Jsbt of nine children. My parents were poor.
,,5J TJ- .2' Most of their neighbors were slave
owners, but being Ajawining and un
able to own slaves, and being unahla
to compete with slave labor, my fattier
decided to move to a free state, no ha.
moved to Illinois, lie built a riatboat
-pon which we floated down tbe Cum.
berland to Cairo, where we. look pas-
Argus says the unobstructed view
does certainly look good.
Eugene Guard: Eugene is1" tha only
city of its class on the Pacific coast
where the exhibit of paintings of the
16 leading painters of America will
bi Rhovn in t li t1 r n i tlut ti. innrla.
rupons are puDiisned that Kepresenta- j '" tne people or Eugene nave shown
street of the old poles and wire. The M" on a steamboat gfoine up the Ml
T
iiiTViVfi KPVtfTrAT, I KIVORS i and haven't had trie rjublic Droaresa
I 1 vet to realize that It ia .economical-1 nuuBry anu lu.
' ; . .... - I Surely "charity should begin
at
home," and should stay there until the
need of it has been eliminated. With a
population of 93,000,000 people, what
a field we have to work in the pris
ons, the insane asylums, our Indians
and negroes, the thousands of orphans
and widows! The hordes of Immigrants
1 HE AMERICAN ECONOMIST, ; Jy wr0ng to take from circulation
official organ of the high pro-; millions of money all at one time
tectionists, has published -a and store It up in banks for a
list of contributors to the whole year's use. Under our heavy
electrical, nilning. chemical, high-' fund for spreading the gospel of j taxation, we are robbing the chan-way-and
iirrigation engineering. j high tariff duties. These contribu- j nels of trade of so much money by
Civil engineering, hitherto given tors are termed defenders of the
rMrtfri ttiaHtnlWio Ur n-,t. CailEe. ' i
f. "'" uaa , . - - - - Um, .tnA nn.Mll.t In l.knr
been a main cause jof conflict, is, Among tne suy persons namea, effect on general business. . tne eningVf The Pama cknJ wiii
taken away rrom bk-h. thougn, to 2i1 are residents of New York,! The Linn, County grangers are j usher in, alone eliminates, the necessity
meet the groat activity in road 148 are Pennsylvanians, 59 live in right. The yearly system is anti-of establishing missions in "foreign
building and reclamation work in ' Massachusetts, 42 - in Connecticut, j uated. It is unbusinesslike. ' it Hands and most strenuous efforts are
the state, highway ein.cring and-i fVTV?? SIUbM t0 S WheP6 mt. IndstTops.
Irrigation: engineeriig, which are Island a total of 590; out of Suu. went. With the churches working for our
the single annual tax collecting that come yearly to our shores, and the
nrnM that it has a hanVrnntive . tens f thousands of Slavic and Med-
ln his pocket and went back to work.
Presently he went to the house and
told his - wife he had found another
coin; this time it was a shilling.
Putting it in his pocket, he said: "1
have worked pretty hard; I'll take a
short nap." '
When . he awoke, he found that his
wife had dug all the Best of the pota
toes. But she found no coins. It then
dawned upon her that she had been
fooled.
prominent branchesT of civil en- ; 1 he' represent tne Dig manuiac-
gineering, are left if. the college ; turers of six eastern states. Their j
The action establishes the uni-' Proportion is 590 to ,100 000,000 j
verslty in unAisputied control of
liberal arts and all the educational
bjauuan; m.uiLijt;a iiit;iut:ii'. tu cL
great institution ' of cultural du-'
. cation. It estahlishres the college
mm vfiiruiir 1 lr in rnA iiai miinanni
education, which isi the field set
apart for it by acts of Congress by
which the .agricultural collages of
the UnUed States wipre founded. i
:The action of - the curricula
board anticipates tht initiative bill
proposed by the f Linn County :
grangers. The division" of courses
is on the liries advised by the state
grange at Hoseburg two years ago, j
when, after a year of investigation '
by a committee thatj body declared '
la favor of, dividing the courses;
between the two institutions on !
the same basis that has Just been
of the people of the United States
A remarkable thing about the j
Economist's list of defenders is the :
fact that such a small! number of
N
! own country, expending the $20,000,000
secured annually from our people, this
glorious United States would scintillate
with perfection. The people of this
awake ; to dangers attending , stone churcnes wltn arrays of automo
biles-in front of them, and throngs of
AUTOMOBILE KILLINGS
EW - YORK is thoroughly
Grouchy Voter I think congress
ought to quit sending out seeds to us
farmers.
-Congressman, (vis
iting in his district
Why, aren't the seeds
good?
Voter rOh, yes, the
seeds are all right,
but I think congress
ought to plant the
seeds and send us the
vegetables. Lippincotts.
tive Itywley is doing or is going to do
iuui ana su.
Champ Clark is such' a' rood man
for his high position that he can be
forg.ven for talking a little too much
and too loosely occasionally.
'
In the various wet vs. drv cases the
people's votes, and not mazy, muddy
n-Kii suutenuges ana technicalities,
won out; a right decision.
British-school teachers are on a
strike for a minimum salary of $500 a
year. In America that would hardly
suffice for vacation expenses.
There is no danger of speeding auto
mobi lists and motorcyclists being pun
ished too severely under the law. Any
of them at any time Is liable to kill a
child or other innocent person.
themselves equal to those of Los An
gels, San Francisco, Portland and
Seattle.
At the risk of Ineurrlnar 1 Vim rdlnm
that attaches to comparisons. ' the
sissippi river to St. Louis. I'rom there
we went by wajjon to Carlinvllle. III.,
where we arrtvt-d in April,
"Four years later, in the early spring
of 1852, we started for On-pon. There
were about 40 wagons lil our train, and -we
had 70 inen who were able to bear .
amis. Captain N. I. GHllim. who later
settled at Mt, Tabor 4n Tortland. where
he died, was In charRe of our train. Our
company held together until we cama
to the Grand Konde, where the train
broke up and each one shifted for fclm
self. I wan S years old at tbe time, and
CITY SALVATION AT ST. PAUL
V rnu-borll I a IMmA- V. . anr. t
often Wonder what the sensation ot J J remember verV distinctly coming to
me frooa neonie or Krnwnsviin -mr..i "! n.
iook us a ween to cross, uur oxen wero
so weak that we had to throw away
everything we could- possibly do with
out. One scene stands out particularly
strongly In my mind. We Jiad eaten
the. last of our hard tack and the 1
of our bacon, N were without pro
visions of any kind and we had no
monev with which to buy more. I whs
sitting on a rotten' log near the wagon.'
Motht-r was- sitting on the wagon
tongue. A colddrlzzllng rain was fall
lnir. We wers onM and ilMCOiraml. T
heard a noise from the west and with
be were they suddenly transplanted
rrom a contemplation or Main street
to the streets above, which we are
told are paved with gord."
Oregon Mining Journal: Greenhorn.
Baker county, Oregon where the
Mining Journal is printed is burlArt
baneath a midwinter covering of 77
inches of snow on the level. Mall Is
curried often by a man on skis. There
la a limited stage from Whitney, but
no one has any business here at thi3
time of year who can't travel on skis.
The altitude Is 6249.
! a boy's curiosity I went down the trail
to see what it was. . I
reckless automobile driving
The number of killings in i befeathered ladies and silk tiled gentle
men seeking their own selfish in- ' that city is startling especially so rLu. t " -rAf
terests were so long able to con-; in view of the fact that the people , Uver a vaudeviire sermon in baseball
trol the destinies of millions of , who ride in automobiles are a slang. Modern religion is nothing more
people But there is cause for con- i small minority of the total. nor less than civilization, a better un-
gratulkion that the Economist now , In January 28 people were dertandta, of tow to
classes ' as defenders these 590 ; killed. 1 he total number of kill- fo 1Jve pr(;perly Religion, then, should
eastern manufacturers. ' ings in 1913 was 302, which is ; be devoted to the masses who are not
Once they were the aggressors, more than double the record for j fortunate enough to be situated in a
But their relative position in the! 1911, In 1912 the total was 221,, o
fight changed when President "Wil-j as against jl42 in ,1911, an in- j nokee swamP an area of "officially"
son walkea into the White House, i. crease of more .than 50 per cent i unexplored territory of over 700 squaro
- Jin one year.1 I miles, is inhabited by a mixture of
T
SYNDICALISM FAILS
! 4
The enormous passenger traffic j whf5?s "se3t,irdi"fA JUI
m. , , . 'nothing of the outside world, and have
of New 'iorks trolley cars was 1 ,r,Hnr. r mmWr, riviiiatil-n.
HE recent collapse of syn- j carried witlv only 108 deaths in j The work required to bring these, the
dualism in New Zealand is 1913, as compared with 302 deaths I "Piney" of New Jersey, the Florida
explained by an Auckland cor-j aaused by automobiles. The com-! "Cra?kers-" the inhabitants of
rnnnrlent of th Snr1nfilrl Sl-.t, Z Ozark mountains, and numerous other
orrlprtxt hv tha ,,,ri,,i, ,,..-.....,, la a L1 1 lajtlMw uo io-"- , groups to tne ngnt or day, eievate
a Tit i t Clfrricuia Doara. ; Republican. He says that last Oc- , for more efficient regulation of the ' them to he sense of proper morals and
At, Albany, last year, the Btate tober's strike was really against ; motor car. There is to be a strong ! manner of living, and care for their
S'""! "J uiwiui uu, learruLKU ;, 1 ,1 'a fii-ct rnmnnknrv orhl. ; . ix' j nunareiis oi ueiecuves. jb n. wsi una
yuv uriiiiittuuu ui uie year nerore , tration act. ;
HI- limneuurK. r , Vo, 7r.alor.fi la ft off hv sp9U.i.!.. o K
- 1 i- v ....... v. . j , laniug ui uuumu inc.
-..Under the circumstances, it Is ; from . ready importation of work- The Evening Post says the great
likely that the .Linn County , men anci seeing their opportunity j er part of this automobile slaugh-
crangers win accent tne board's in this fact, English and Australian ter was caused bv neoDle driving !
action.' and that wtnrvwhwa tha ' v : i in-n ! . . . i gard
n. nri ..111 i ugiiaiurB, uesinuiiig ui xiv, u- Ior pleasure or 10 save a lew min- j posed amended homestead bill. I
new oruer win De approvea as a ganized a "federation of labor iirou nf Htnp1 In ppttlner from nuA tViinlr tha hill na nrintpd in Tha Jour-
permanent solution of the vexedwhich slowly induced almost all ' poirit to another. They have the al, will be a big help to the poorer
riroblem of higher j! education in j unions to withdraw their registra- j benefit of use of the streets . in i ass of homesteaders, and. most of
tion under the arbitration law. It a degree far i beyond what is just,
was argued that a general strike considering (heir number or the
would reduce New Zealand to sub- amount they contribute toward
teach his countrymen the truth regard
ing alcohol. His book, "Alcohol and
the Human Body," has had a wide cir
culation among English speaking peo
ple. What Sir Victor is doing in Eng
land Dr. Jacues Robfnovitch, a noted
nerve specialist, 1s doing in ranee.
At the request of the government ne
lectures on alcoholism in the French
universities. He has also given nu
merous lectures to the school children
and has organized them into temper
ance societies.
Von Moltke, the great German gen
eral, said years, ago: "Beer is a far
more dangerous enemy to Germany
than all the armies of France.
In times of illness, tiny cells of the
body called lencocytes, multiply in
order to defend the body against dis
ease germs. A noted French scientist.
Metchnlkoff, has proved that alcohol,
even in minute doses, paralyzes these
tiny- lencocytes fo they cannot carry
on their work of defense. Therefore.
not only in health but also in disease,
everyone is much better off to refuse
to take alcobol in any form, even on a
physician's prescription.
. J. M. M. (M. 13.)
eanarattnn nf ml RRlnTi 11 n e rfirmnt nr.
forcement, which will check this cornpl!sh fannie HARLET.
.
A Homesteader's Letter.
Albany, Or., Feb. 6. To the Editor
of The Journal I am writing In re-
i gard to Congressman Hawley's pro-
Oregon.
PKOTKCT TIIK I r K PE X IE NTS
UHINO the year ending June
1 30 last 4 5 employes in the
I J ! Ind
i w
their d
89,694 persons were the victims
; jection.
The strike was called by the syn-
I maintaining the streets.
them are poor.
I have applied for a homestead in
the Siuslaw forest reserve. The place
is 10 miles from a wagon road and
SO miles from a town or railroad. It
is covered with brush, stumps ar,d
Nobody objects to this, but there j logs, as 4t has all been burnt aver.
family. I
jse and
split- out
rn vrtrk
6ay8 the correspondent, nine-tenths of the people in dan-i out part of each year to raise money
"in which the doctrines of the syn- ger Automobiles should have rea-ffor supplies, and it will be almost an
rllSnlinTa A rHcinO rrm m lT 1 ft tf"T 1 1 - n nil M-n ah i T n r-r-i n VAIlTlir m O n THf t H 0
e , , Uitau.lO, v4.j.j.wia i'-tx IS OI) erLlOIl L li X L Mildll lU 1 11U1 ILT J1 J vu"a
uaillib J I iMilMSacnUSeiLS t -..i 1, . - - , wm T,-oV m hniM. wv lim
- dfa nnn pvph m r 1 1 1 1 1 wii-im nun wu h. v. hnnnnn tA Ma nAccoccan r r a " w
ere killed in the course of , '.7 - . "'" - . u" ""' "i1. . other buildings from boards
i ,,J 1 - it wouiu. oe nam iu luittgiuc a t.L-: luxury snouia be permiuea to put tTl ,anc, T rin hav
1 uaiivu,
dicalist could be reduced to prac- EOnab!e .se of the streets, but j Jp- LtVVgard" to 'hav!
tice with greater promise of sue- When, as in New York, these ma-!ln 20 acres under cultivation at the
of nft.n-fatal accidents
Figures compiled by the Massa-
P Vl 11 Cn 1 1 a In rliiutriol t rtni A
. . uu . i cess." , I chines kill almost three times as ! end of three years, as my only in
t il. ! victim.' nf fH But the situation was handled, ; many pe0ple a do the trolley cars, I cdme from ihe place for years to
killed, 362 victims of industry t ,, (i. ... n m,..npt tn the:..'...;;'..; come would be from stock, while if
V icouguum ruwucio a person is given credit for buildings.
In Auckland, w&ere asree that something should be fencing and slashing it would be a
struck, 1000 volunteers , (ione. pig help; for such things would have
went to work, and in a few hours: tv, r,mwPm i"n un to nntn-110 be on terore 1 coma begin to
left behind 770 wholly dependent "j'
persons and 103 who are partially ! , n nftft
dependent. The extent of depen
dency ; resulting from permanent '
disability among the 89,694 in-;
Jured workers was not given ! in !
the ' report. j
grub out' for cultivation. One man
cannot do the amount of clearing un.
.nrW, aZluX V .-r formed nder the arbitra- is this minority which should be
' nMS t,h' a?hd 2T 7eretiop act, and in three! weeks the ; reSulated or prohibited from driv-!
SrLimlf I lTnf?nSaTri0diP 'siTe was crushed without vio-;ing cars if efficient regulations i
proximately $3,000,000 in wages ,,.nrp. L.L. h. ;t.i
I
1800 farmers, representing a co- mobile owners themselves. The
operative association, ;rode into ' iarge majority of them exercise jer these conditions that the present
town and went to work on the ; rpsnnnhlf care. But there is a law calls for, and for a poor man to
,ir.UH Much tha. snmo thine han-' i .i n.i icor tha- hire labor on a homestead is out of
Of the total number killed. 290 j in elt!?8. "New unions "hti of otrVTn the Tt ith t-on; . OSGAR M. LEEPER
were insured under a workmen s '. WU ryA i,n4in tho Ar.iifra. .... v. u ... ... ,
tvv w.'- - la 1,1113 liiiiiwi iuj uuivu ouwuiu wvi x uc ouiius v inu ninurvri .
Portland, Feb. 7. To the Editor of
The Journal I was interested in the
was lost by injured workers, anlvi I Status of the Smoker." in the issue of
nnrllnn f u-h'nV, o , ' T : 1 ue nq.uuuvaU tuuuuu.uv , Februarys. It is not a matter to mar.
a II i . . 1 says- syndicalism ana, its metnoas j The Vashington supreme court I vel over that nicotine will destroy mi-
uuuw me tuiuptiisdiion law. . have been utterly discredited , in declares 99 vear and 45 veat ' crobes, when re know that the blood of
The Massachusetts law i8 similar; New Zealand. Itst advocates have J leases of land to aliens unconstl-i ' ifi"!
10 uw unwL act in tnat both ; g0ne back to Australia. tutional. Every constitution should strated. The smoker would not believe
option of coming under its pro-t
visions. The two acts differ in
the amount of compensation fixed j
by law and inducements offered
employers to continue using casu- j
any insurance. The Oregon law
is much more favorable to the
employe.
The Importance of the Massachu
setts figures lies in the' fact that
compensation to the dependents of
; 290 dead workmen was certain.
THE ALIEN INSANE
T
HE
deny leases of such duration to f it until the second leech fell off, dead,
either aliens or citizens. Such a as did the first one
1 , : . . , , . , , An old pnysician toia me once, in an
. .. . r- , IM utuuu uut i uusi- RW-P tn on(f-tionR. "Tea tbe s of tn.
State OI XNeW; lOrK nas .,,, mdoamf fmroaa trihnto nnt . 1 ... i, .v. v. 1 ,
--- k J . . , " - luAluailis puiquiis 111c inuuu luurc ur
9241 alien insane persons in. of tne iandlord, .takes toll out of less, but the most difficult cases we
her hospitals. During 1913 the tenant and in the end extorts have, to treat, are tobacco users. "Their
the federal government con- iw h ,vn blood is so loaded with nicotine poison
, tnat
tributed $8290 -toward the care lease 8tagBates improvements oi .t ontt- " ' " " ' '
and deportation of aliens, while tlie gite because the approaching The tobacco habit is so disgusting-
Newj York paid out 52,579,902. ' expiration of the lease forbids yea. sickening to many that it is in a
TZth?JZiaT?& improvements; Fifty millionaires K'STpS
u,ch ttutea trom tiower to nower m nent United states military offic
care of this large number of aliens Wn'mnoan cnitnia atta tha riaitl. ; nrArlictpd a. vear of two aero: .
while the dependents of 255 dead -is a national duty because of the firp arir1 drew lone-iense i r ' w. Hj W,
Workmen were reauired to take unfairness of the nresent immi- :i 1 , , ' S.
theii? Chances in collecting from -'WBtinn laws. A Rhtft M .nn!- Ti '.rr:!, :8.n . Alcohol ana Man's Bodr
1 . iD' " t -unnatural proiii wniie ienam.s.1 Tw.tloj tr,ay, 7 T tVl r,,t,n,
casualty companies. It is impera- right to require , mental .tests of : landlord8 and the public kept uj j Th jouiE-F
v . Mio-w i ic lur ms ue- auens euienqs it, aua ut?iLUer the property, paid the taxes, and plexed" who wished information on
imperative that he provide for 1 aliens,
their care after his untimely death.
The dependents of a poor work
man who is killed must, as a rule,
be cared, for by society at large
they" often become objects of char
ity, i Many working families are
always within a few dollars of the
end of their resources. For that
reason the workman should make
his family independent of charity,
and this can be done by electing
Under the federal laws, it takes
five years for an alien to. become
a citizen. When three years have
elapsed, after which the immigra
tion laws forbid deportation, an
alien may become insane and es
cape, being sent back to his mother"
country. - He becomes a charge
upon the state to which he owes
no allegiance. i
Governor Glynn's message is op-
rinr u;ara (nnrlcto ( wniSKey,; permit me iu say inai lit,
their European pleasures,
leases blight a city. .
Long"
The wholesomeness of j well di
rected college life was ' visualized
by the Oregon Agricultural College
Glee club in its Portland entertain
ment Saturda night. Tbe quartet,
the troubadours, the violin solos,
the vocal solos, the choruses, the
division of the American army," says
regarding alcohol: "It causes sick
ness, impairs health and usefulness,
adds greatly to the non-efficiency of
both officers and mer adds a great
burden and cost to the medical depart
meat, deprives the government of
otherwise valuable officers and en
listed men, and forces them to be re
tired at i a much earlier period than
they should be.
The most eminent of English brain
George Creel In Everybody's. . 1
Now comes the Minnesota city of
St. Paul, proudly ' claiming to have
found a broads safe way out of munici
pal' "money troubles" and an equally
infallible method for sinking the spur
of self Interest into the flank of a
lethargic citizenship.
"Ten dollar bonds" is the answer.
Sold every day in the week, except
Sunday, over the broad counter in the
treasurer's office at the city hall! No
favorites!? First come, first served!
Satisfaction guaranteed or money re
funded! Since July 20, J913, when the great
idea blossomed, over $1,000,000 worth
of the $1C slips have been sold to the
people. The real people! Newsboys,
rlerks, day laborers, struggling profes
sional men all. that vast- .army of
workers that lives in fear of a rainy
day make up the daily stream that
flows In and out the doors of Treas
urer Farnsworth's "store."
Th "Doll Ilaby" Article.
Portland, Feb. 7. To the Kditor of
Tfhe Journal An editorial that ap
peared la a morning paper of recent
date wasi sucly a gross libel upon the
character ol( southern women as to
make one think it rrom the pen or an
ill bred, ignorant person whose nar
row mind was hard put to find some
thing to say to discredit President
Wilson. On the other hand, it has
been widely commented upon as be
ing beneath noti.ee, even by friends
of the aforesaid newspaper. The edi
torial said in part that President "Wil
son did not believe in the ability of
women, as he had Imbibed the "doll
baby" liea Of womankind with his
mother's milk. There Is not much Of
the "doll" type in his own family,
each of his daughters representing
the highest type of American woman
hood, born of a southern family and
a . southern grandmother, and are all
fine examples Of the southern women.
There- was not much of the "doll
baby,", as everyone of Intelligence
knows,' to the president's mother, nor
has he by word or act intimated ha
bad no belief in women's ability.
There were not many of the "doll"
type among the southern women at
the siege of Vicksburg, nor during
the dafys of reconstruction, but th
finest examples of noble, helpful
womanly women, whom no one ha."
ever discredited in any part of Amer
ica, But the morning journal of
table politics is ignorant of many
things. Its assumptions of "know it
all" to the contrary.
CENIH JUNE.
t
A Workingman Helped.
Portland. Or., Feb. 6. To the Editor
of The Journal If ou will kindly
grant me space I would like ,to state
the fact that about a month ago I
found myself out of employment and
out of Inoney. so decided to write a
letter to The Journal asking for work
in order to keep my family from
want. Of all the thousands who read
the letters, including the charitable
institutions in the city, only one re
sponded to my call for help. That was
one -Sister Mary Theresa of Oak Grove,
a suburb of Portland, who responded
very quickly and substantially, and
God bless her for It. She, being of
a different faith, was the last one
whom I would have expected to answer
my call for help. I- know it for a
fact that sue is doing a great and good
work, in a quiet way, and that there
are a great many people in this city
who bav reasons for .being thankful
to her. .
I am an American and have resided
in . Portland for several years.
A WORKINGMAN.
The thing Is simplicity Itself. Any
one ableo read print can understand
it. The "bonds." in reality, are par
ticipating certificates representing a
$10 interest in a bond. They bear' 4
per cent interest, payable on the second
day of January and July each year, and
can be bought or cashed In any month
or any minute. Over the counter
hangs a great chart that shows to a
penny Just what a certificate Is worth
each day. A buyer puts down his $10
and as many cents as the accrued.' In
terest demands. When hejsells he "col
lects his principal and Interest to date.
The chart kills the mystery of book
keeping absolutely.
It is difficult to tell which party t
the arrangement is more delighted
the people or St. Paul. The city, for
came running.
back and said. 'Here comes a man on
instance. Is no longer forced to .cool its are pulling his wagon.' -When be drove,
heels in the ante-chambers of tha bond uj my father spoke Xo him and mad
dealers or to sell securities below par. ; a sign tl.at I did not then understand.
The individual Investor supplies an In. ; The man went toi his wagon and
satiable market, and, best of all; the j brought mother several loaves of light
Interest that used to go far. far away j bread, as well as some boiled beef, cold
now stays at home. boiled )kotatoes and raw onions. I never
; remember eating a better meal in my
-As for the people's end of H, each ! life. I fan remember yet how de
certiflcate is a first mortgage on every : licious those onionM tasted. I asked
building, park, and street in the city, my father what matte the man give tia
and a first lien on taxps. What bank the food. He snid. "My boy, I Kave him
can offer such security? ; the sign of distress of a Master Mason.'
There Is also the Inducement that ! K'Snt th" 1 decided to become' a
the certificates can be cashed in at any Mason.
time without a second's warning, i "w reached t first farm house in
Savings banks, as every one known, i regon. that of Mr. Reveneu. on the
have a way of demanding 30 or CO 61,1 of October, where wo had our first
days' notice of withdrawal In times , fl"sh vegetable, aside fro'hi the lunch
of stress oisrtanlc. brst when fh Riven lis hy Mr. Klrer," that e hud had
tated depositor Is most in need of his
money. They likewise persist In
figuring Interest on six month periods
only, so that a dollar banked in Sep-
for fix months. ' Next-day we drove on
to E.-igle Creek, where we camped at
Joseph Young's ranch for a we-k, to
rest our rattle. From there we went
tember does not commence to draw In- 1 a ranch on Butte Creek pwned by
terest until the following January. The , A,V.. . , ... i
4 per cent Interest on the "$10 bond," 'ext "'j? ,7,c mcZ 1? ? 8,nan '
starts with the purchase and continues 7" on tt "m J51"0" 8 ffllrm- t"r
until the very minute of ale i f,a?lly J5m VUno"t. "an" f anv, V"'
,No red tape! Money on demand! John Klllm. a t.nRhbor. tuoagl.t us
a'k..i... V- , Y . . . pome provision. A few days Inter,
Absolute security! No lost interest! - ther took up Halm ix.m;l,s north:
-n . , . . , -v 7i ui tt ui.nui i Jiiii'it i mi in iuui wum
Excited and fired by auceess. St. i ,,,. wa- itu'ft(.t Ther
was neither plonk, snlr.glp. niitl, orii-K
ir.e csianiisnca norizon. vvitn eacu ... ,.t i., t nr.r r
Paul has thrown off Its nbbles and is
earnestly endeavoring to kick holes In
new bond' issue, cut up fhto nice. In
-viting little $10 slices, absorbed by
local purchase, what's to prevent the
gradual acquisition of all outstanding
securities, so that eventually the en-
waa
puncheons, the rofiWns covered with
boards rlv-d oi;t l"i oin ct clar bolts. Tbe
chimney whs nia-le it hi t sticks anl
mud. HtlcH oaul t'd iwit.h mud nerved
10 chink the spaces between -t lie- lojjs.
tire Donaea indeDieaness or, the city we lived in tills log cabin, for four
win db ownea oy me, citizen t r or st. years.
raui louay is paying almost iHi,uut
annual Interest on bonds owned in
Wall street.
YOUR MONEY IN A SAVINGS FUND
The Ragtime Muse -
By John M. Oskison.
A young woman who works In an
office in New (Tork city said to me
the other day: ,
TVe read a good many of your ar
ticles about saving end Investing
money. Now. what would you advise
me to do with my little pile?"
'How much It Is?" I asked. She
drew her purse from a desk drawer
and opened it. She showed me $43.
"It's all I've got!" she said with a
laugh which meant that she never ex
pected to get more.
"Why isn't It in a savings bank?" I
asked. ..
"That!Why, they wouldn't take it!"
And she told me what her idea of a
savings bank was a place where only
the prosperous were welcomed..
"Try one and see how quickly , the
man at the window will take your
$40!" Then I told her what I'd heard
the controller of the biggest savings
bank in the country say oncer that his
bank's greatest trouble was to tkeep
the prosperous depositors from put
ting in ' too much and inducing, the
other kind to start accounts.
"It's Just your kind that the sav
ings banks are looking for." I told
her. "In New York, $5 Is enough to
start an account In other cities,
where perfectly sound savings banks
are operating. $1 will open an account.
With your $43 you would class with
the most desirable of depositors. Adj
$2 a week regularly to that, and pretty
Such Is Fame,
i What If the enl of fame? - Heboid the
j fate , I
I Of the "smart Aleck" whrA was once
I 'called "greHt!"
And surgery the inigptv Caesar's name
; Tugs to a process aiid preserves to
. fame.
chap,
i Survives in "dunce" and eke the
"dunce's cap."
Fty "J.ouis XIV." most folk understand
A styie of furnlture oh, monarch;
grand:
soon the bank's officials would be "The first Napoleon's known ' b-st by his
odf
The third by whiskers now tio more the
mode.
Marshals Jacqueminot anl Niel dis
close Their warlike records, each within a
rose!
pointing you put to others as a model
of thrift."
You see. It Is that first step toward
starting the savings fund which is bard
to make; and the fear that the man at
the Window will feel a contempt for
the small amount you have tr offer Fair Josephine, who lost -her lord and
keeps many a worker away from a ; . crown.
savings bank. And the fact that these a. yr f
banks house themselves In fine build- The " X.rS shoes" K f
ings serves also to help keep many gnow how great names posterity !may
humble minded persons away. use. '
It is a matter of psychology. If: Lord Derby Is a hat and -Cardigan
you can learn to think that a dollar A jacket, and Prince- Albert coats a
Is as-Important trf a bank as to you, ,, mflti. i.,., .
,. w-t .u- ' Hawardeii s lives in a "Gladstone
J l nil! l.i. j ,,u ll inaac hit; b WB
the road to the savings bank. .
i But now. dyspeptic mue. the Yankee's
and undermines manly dignity. It
has always been a shameful . exped
ient, especially when opportunity to
labor is withlicld. '
It seems plain, to me that our irrt
rr.ediate future action will have to be
along this line of state employment
in order to give labor, an opportunity
to work and a Just .compensation for
service. I believe we ought to estab
lish a state industrial institution hav
ing various branches of indu$f y, of
which I shall have more to any fn
another article. In fact, wer shall be
compelled to establish some such in
stitution In order to take care of out
overcrowded labor market In the near
future. W. 11. BLACK.
Charity vs. Opportunity.'
Portland, Fb. 7. To the Editor of
The Journal The people of this
world have always been long on char
ity, and short on justice. If our .good
people who really have kind hearts
and all kinds of good intentions
would give as ' much thought to se
curing justice and providing oppor
tunity for the working people as they
do to charitable undertakings there
would be very little need for charity.
For instance, if te money and time
that have been all but wasted In the
past rew years oy tne cnaritaoie in -1 a . .rii.i.. recentlv nun
stitutions of this city had been used J ijsned In The Journal regarding -woman
Appreciation of The Journal.
Paxton Station, Crook County, Or.
Feb. 6. To the Editor of . Th Journal
We think : your paper is fair to alt
classes. We think it is soon to become
the leading paper of the northwest. If
It is not already that. We think that
by its spirit of fairness It- is ac
complishing more than all othej1 papers
on the Pacific coast for th general
good. We think It has beett instru
mental in defeating corrupt candidates
for office and electing decent candi
dates to office. We think it has ren
dered great service by striving to keep
the courts clean.
But we differ .widely from-you on
the good roads proposition, and on
the navy. Jonathan. Bourne Jr., haa a
better plan" for roads, and he should
haye been returned to the United States j
senate. Ijei us have at least one more
first class fighting diip each year
than .does Japan, and If a national vote
was to be taken, the result would more
than prove my statement. Youra, for
The Journal. G. L. PAXTON.
nag:
defeated 10 to 1. That great oratory,
work and fuss that was made by the
women who were leaders of the suf
fragist' movement, I think, would com
pare with the single coyote that I ueJ
to hear on the Kansas prairies, that
made enough noise for a hundred.
' . . ' M. C.
! "John Hancock" Is th. slung for lgna
; - t u re ;
McClellan? That's a saddletree why
nure' -
Burnsbii 1m whiskers of a certain
- style
And ki men pawn into the after while!
. The livlriK berf' thank their lucky
utare
'. If they 1:Bve named for them five-cent
' ci?ars
Pointed Paragraphs'
The Steamer Bear. . ; r-
Pendleton. Or.. Feb. 4. To 'the Kditor '
of i The Journal Kindly publish the I
dimensions," gross weight and capacity, ,'4
of the ateamtrr Bear, owned by the! Too of f the hero worf kipper is his
Portland & San Francisco Steamship j own hero.
Co. A- SUBSCRIBER. 'I '
ILength 257.5 feet, breadth .47 feet, j The average woman hater can give
e'epth 2U feet, gross tonnage 4507, no sattufactory reason
net tonnage 2779. J ' 1 .
i : For the man wi:h a -hlp on his
j shoulder get an "axe.
Single Tax Progress.
From Harper's Weeklv
The single tax means everything on """ tirnf' single blessedness is a
anything, from the full demands urged greater failure than nnarrlagc
by Henry George in "Progrens and; ... ...
Poverty," down to the shortest prac- Th at-mudm man . credits himself
ticable step in the direction of ti,e with the boosts giver him by others.
demands. George agitated the social
ization, not of land as la sometimes
said, but the annual values of land-
In order to secure that result -lie iro- -
posea tnat an taxes on personal prop
erty and real estate Improvements be
Scoffs at Suffragist.
Portland, Feb. 7. To the Edifcr : of
The Journal With Interest I hav
reading, and tbe splendid oerform-
ssell were - better I and is cfvin freeiv of i si t-l
ances of Mr. Russell
to build up an industrial state insti
tution to furnish work for thef people,
thus enabling them to help them
selves, it would have been far better
for both tha state and the nee,dy people.--
I consider charity positively
nischievous in-that it 'weakens char
acter by destroying initiative .in th
' ne receiving it, lessens Belf respect
suffrage. It seems to be a mystery
why women do not register and vote
with the same enthusiasm and energy
which theyused in order to obtain the
adoption of woman suffrage. From
talking with my friends and associates,
I believe that if only women had been
allowed to -vote upon th. adoption of
woman' suffrage it- would hava been
Every woman is a go'-! housekeeper
or, at least, it Is wisdom to. tell her
You will frtid many of leaven's -syb-
abolished and that, public revenues be urbs on earth if you:care to iook for
aenvea exclusively rrom a tax meat- mem.
ured by land values. In order to tarry
out that program he proposed to begin
by abolishing all taxes except on land
values. . In practice, frequent propos
als have beea made to start at points
still farther away from the goal pro
posed by George, than the immediate
abolition of rail taxes on land values.
This is the reason that any movement
for -the abolition in any degree of taxes
on improvements is called the single
tax. . It is the reason, for Instance, that ,
-movement like those In New York for !
reducing taxes on Improvements with-!
out reducing 'those on land values are,
called single tax movements. Of this
kind was the proposal adopted last :
month in Jueblo, Colo. Tha referen-!
dura proposed to exempt Improvements'!
beginning with .1914 to the extent of)
50 per cent of their valuation, and In j
1915 to the extent of 99 per cent. I
whereas land; is to continue to h val. l
ued for taxation at 100 per cent of Ita
true value. - This is equivalent sub
stantially to abolishing for local pur
poses all taxes except on land values.
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