THE OREGON DAILY. JOURNAL; PORTLAND, FRIDAY : EVENING,; FEBRUARY 20, 19lC
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i j DAILY AND 8CNDAT
'One year $7. SO I One montfc.
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Zeal without knowledge is
like expedition to a man in
the dstrk. John Newton.
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THE WASTE SYSTEM
1 HE monthly billing- system in
volving an annual expense of
$50,000 or more Is an Inherit
ance of a former administration.
But It is maintained by Com-
mlssloner Daly. He is now respon
5 slble for It. Why does he not return
v to the former Inexpensive plan of no
jj bills rOregonian.
I When Daly tried to "return to
j an inexpensive plan" in collecting
I water rents, the Oregonlan bitterly
" objected. It Bet up a yell to
3 awaken the dead. It screamed and
I shrieked and kicked. 'It called
Daly names. It led the mobs that
I went to the city hall to bully the
f cpmmlsBlon into abandonment of a
I. . ' A f V
"i pian tnac wouia nave savea out-
000 to $100,000 a year. Shrieking J
i at Daly because he tries to reduce;
the cost of collecting water rents'
2 he doesnt reduce it, is wanton and
wllfal persecution of Mr. Daly.
J Why didn't the Oregonian . howl
at the mdhthly billing system when
Mr. -Wilcox and Mr. Ainsworth and
? Mr. Mackay were installing it?
2 Why didn't it scream itself sick 1 ticians and disappointed place
it when $5000 -was being paid for j hunters also have grudges against
4 the system and when a large num- ! hlm-
ber of clerks had to be employed "We have 8ot to &t rId of
for months in installing it? Ta It Gore,'? was the statement of one
j objection to the billing system or a
desire to "get" Daly that Inspires .j
5 the Oregonian's attack on meters?
S The Oregonlan thinks the old 1
I pipe line has nothing to do with
j)i tne meter discussion. The decay
of the old pipe line has already be
ll gun. Its life ought to have been
X forty years but at the end of twen
l ty, repair of it has already begun.
. The soil through which It passes
I' is unnsnallv WnMvA nf moral
J Twelve thousand dollars In repairs !
has to be put on this year and !
more will be necessary next.
The Oregonlan loses sight of the
j colossal cost of allowing millions
- Of gallons of water to run Into the
i tewers through waste by Its flat 1
rate plan while building more and
more pipe lines to keep- up the sup-
ply. A sounder system and a far
, more economic Bystem is to use
-'water but not waste it, and there
by have fewer pipe lines saving
i their great initial cost, the Interest
nn trtA inn4a and tViA lAIVx1n.4 n I
tUOt .
t of deterioration In their shortened!,
life in the soil through which the !
vportland lines pass
.T It is. however, not the decav of
urn um pipo une or tne certainty
A 1 A ,A1 .
that with general waste of water
. new ones win nave to De built that!
Is the rommnnflln r foot in tna '
meter discussion. What about the
distribution system? How can you
' put a 67,000,000 gallon supply,
which the Oregonlan talks about,
J through a 30,000,000 gallon dis
tributing system?
When It comes to considering
cost, what Is the cost of $400,000
1 worth of water meters compared to
the $5,600,000 that the rlistrlh.it.
, ing system of Portland cost?
With its policy of letting water
run unchecked through its flat
rate system, vJnto the tewers and
i then to the sea,how is the Ore
Jgonian going to 'deliver water o
i Portland consumers without doub
' ling the capacity of Portland wa
iter mains? Which will cost the
most, water meters for all con-
t Burners or a doubled distribution
.system?
One 24 Inch main in Portl.and
was found last year to be 50 to
" ,6a pCr .Cent ovloaded. As the
, uuuer tne pian
'Of letting water run promiscuously:
(J II I Ml rnTA n rra n cramnn, at
-Bvu,om miu me
sewers, how will thia ii,
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I. . . cannot- A 48 Inch or a
i Mr n m .
Mincn main win nave to be in -
stalled in its place. It is six m Ho,
TVI" tt Oregonlan kindly to receive a tonnage tax of two
j tell Its readers how much it will ' cents and an acreage tax of fifty
" :Sffn wH-f replaCe this one cents to 11 according to the length
main ith the larger one that will of the lease period. All funds de
have to be installed under its fa-; rived from the leasing system go
:mh eX,my;58tImA? a, . ! to the -erwritlng otgtoverf-
v- I 7 i, . wiecuon ior
'r ui rortiana under
the Oregonian's system of letting.
w 7 1 uumeasurea and un-! regarded as a sample of
checked into the sewers? By Wilson's New Freedom
actual measurement during th th.-tT.fnrm.n f .h
sprinkling season last vMr
. Consumption of water from I
reservoir Jumned , a
,ii!7 m 009'000
gallons to 13,000,000 gallons.
Everybody was using water at th
same time They havetn , ! i 6
ter a the same 5m fn, t
I-.,,. same time for lawn
sprinkling under the flat rate sys-
tern because, otherwise, the mains
would be empty the whl S
thrnmrh .d i thl,- Z. , ? day
r0Ugh'. a.nd the.re- WW be no
ure protection, as it Is. in mo,,
. places last year as stated in the
public press at the time, there were
; places where there was literally
no water pressure. At many hy-
. vuij Dcieu pounas
when there should have been fifty
What nrnxU A .
nrnriTBi rnprn wo rrti-rr .
What would Portland do if a gen-
f eral-fire Bhould etart nnder' aach
erIrfI re should start; under' such
circumstances, and how lucky It Is
aw. a - . a a. - ; J .
I iusi no calamity or. wio i &iuu uu .
yet befallen us! " -
in brief the Oretronian's ' plan
tS to Stop no leaks, to dose no faU-
cetg, to let the water I run
un
checked into the sewers. Thej-
"eier pian proposes 10
numbT tea j body all the water they want to , , x-oruana , unaer ine provis
,oo w.sfct on. ft ihflRla of navini, for ions of the eight hour law. For a i
basis of paying for-
so tne oromiscuous
Wha thov tret en ff,n T.rrTT.1sriir.nn
and nn-restrated flow !of water
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into the sewers will be stopped,
The Oregonian's plan means
more pipe lines, at a cost of mil
lions, and: a' doubled distributing
system at eight or ten times the
cost of the proposed meters.
The Oregonian's plan Is one of
trying to fill a water bucket, the
bottom of which Is full of holes.
THE GORE VERDICT
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T TOOK a jury but four minutes
to reach a verdict in j the -damage
suit against Senator Gore.
It required thirty minutes for :
the people In the court room to
finish their demonstration of pleas
ure at the verdict. j
The jury went out of Its way to
say in the verdict that ! "we find
the evidence submitted by the I
nlalntlff Pntlrplv Insufficient " that !
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"said evidence wholly exonerates
the defendant," and that if the
defendant i had Introduced no evi
dence "our verdict woiuld have
been the same."
Attempts to ruin incorruptible
men are often made by bringing a
woman into the case. The trick
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uiie iu neyuexii. use at wasn-
ington. Most instances are never
heard of, because, unlike Senator
Gore, the victim compromises and
The land pirates who were rob
bing, the Indian tribes of Okla
homa thirst for revenge on account
of the exposures made j of their
methods by Senator Gore two or
three years ago. Disgruntled poli-
politician as sworn to at j the trial, j
When advised to keep he hotel j
episode quiet, Mrs. Bond, the
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ness stand as having said, "the af
fair will be spread broadcast."
"We have other cards up our
sleeves and will get Gore syet," was
the boast of one Oklahoma poli-
ucian. une party to tne incident j
wrote uores mena tnati u "Gore j
wI11 appoint Thaddeus Robertson
flrst asslstan United States attor-
ney, for, tne Western District, he
ana i win see mat our part m the :
Gore-Bond affair never j will be j
pushed.
Other testimony of the
kind has !
f?nvnced4 hA6 oun' 1 dld
mo jui, utti iuo wiioie axiair waB
staged for ther political! destruc-
i tion of the Oklahoma senator. Its
J inglorious failure is due to the
undaunted courage with, which Sen
ator Gore met the Issue. !
- It is a courage phrased in hi"
own refusal to "treat or retreat
J . w- - ,
, a""rT courag0 tnat
, a Dima Doy " X1 a !
university graduate, a United i
ZT!t Bll&tT nat!n&l "5"
MAKING AXASKA FREE
HE adoption of the Chamber-
T
lain bill for an Alaska rail-
road by the house in a vote
of nparlv throo tn olc
prtiniv r,Tar0a oao
.;n0 .Turicreased, the Balance of trade in
.... AWA , .AXl5 BJTO-
tem of coal lands in Alaska.
The Chamberlain hill la mnrtoi
and will have to go to conference,
j but it is expected to reach the
President for signature next week, i
The companion bill was prepared
hv SfrrPtnrv T.ano w,n ! .nno.-
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day to explain its terms
its passage.
Under the leasing bill
and urge
a certain
generous portion of the coal lands
will
remain in tne possession Of
i . . , .
and he onpratPrl hv rh -A.r,f
for use of trovernmpnt ! mil
j for the navy and as an emergency
j check against possible monopoly if
it should develop' under the leasing
system. j
I AU coal lands are to be1 surveyed
1 at once, ana such as ate not in
the public reserve will bei
leased to
i a- m . i i
private inuIVlUUaiS anal COrpOra
. i y
uuus tur penoas not to exceed
rs, ai
, less than forty acres nor mo!3M go .
' nor more
! than 5120 acres
T7I.A.! -11 , I
mined hv
mem railways and Alaskan devel
opment I
The proposed legislation
may be
jWoodrow
it opens
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1a ,Th iT T! f; contrast-
6d 7" the U8Ual 6tatus of coal
Production confined entirely to Big
Business.
It l a sura io 1 a.
iJ JW plfn for Panting
5 oudIeS8 nat,urftl sources of
Alaska from passing -under control
of the selfish monoDoliats
were earlv on th 1a . X .
f?r thl sto but
rr the gnting of men of
whom Pinchot is a tyne and nwS -
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type, would have robbed the people
, of the United States of the JndVr-
ground empire of treasure In the
North. .. 1 tQe
The proposed Alaska legisla
tion means industrial freedom, lib
erated business, new opportunities
for the arerags mn, nd coal nn-!
vi iuuuuyuuti.
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THE EIGHT HOUR LAW
L
ABOR COMMISSIONER HOFP
went too far In trying to put
the firemen and police -of
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' .v . 1 a iv.-
,w s n OUr l8w. ror
PUDlIc .off tee like ; that of labor j
J,uu" .Oi-lO :iaai OI iaDOr
commissioner to besed In an ef-!
fnrt. tn s H rl mnro than 1 Artf! rtflrts
fortto add more than $1,000,000
to the cost of
paying the salaries ,
of firemen In
fensible.
No city In
Portland was
t.ne uniiea states i
maintains firemen on an eights
hour basis. As held by the Ore
gon supreme qourt in Its sensible
decision Tuesday, firemen are not
laborers. They have little in com
mon with the men who perform
manual work. Jas the decision sayB,
"while the firemen must, at all
times be ready to respond to
alarms whenever given, they-are
not subject to actual toil eight
hours in anyj twenty-four except
in cases of emergency."
The effort ;to put the firemen
under the eight hour law was a
length to which the labor commis-
Blw"er snouia not nave gone, ine
nOD8ense Of the plan discredits his
office in the better services it has
to perform. It were better for the
cause of those who seek a general
eight hour day if the blunder had
not been made.
Scarcely less foolish is the in
sistence on an eight hour day and
six days a weiek for employes in
state institutions. The added cost
to a single Institution at the capi
tal is $65,000 a year, and at a time
when everybody Is groaning under
the burden of j taxes.
The inefficiency of average public
service Is notorious. What great
er folly than to make of such em
ployes a labor aristocracy with lim
ited hours! by laying a tax on real
workers in private employments
with longer hours! s
OUR FOREIGN TRADE
F
IGURES
furnished by the
department of commerce show
a wonderful growth In Amer
ica's foreign trade during the
calendar year! 1913. The total :
volume of Imports was slightly less
than in 1912, but exports scored a
substantial gain.
The trade balance in favor of
the United States was $691,271,-
4, compared with ?581, 144,928 j
the year before. It was a gain of
nearly 20 per cent, marking 1913
a record year. !
Europe Is far in the lead, both
in selling to us and buying from
us. Our imports from Eurore fell
of f $35,017,694, but our exports
to that grand division increased
$32 120 Tho halanra nt trorio
j.iiW.aza. ne Balance or trade
with Europe is strongly in favor I
of the United States and Increas-!
ing, amounting1 to $634,586,113 In 1
aa. v,v1U1,vu
890 in 1912. I
North . America is second in vol-
ume of trade, the balance In favor
of the United ! States having been
$211,524,983 in 1913, as compared
' ' W W- AVWA w
h $199,488,647 in 1912. Asia,
South America, Oceania and Af-
rica follow in the order named in
selling to us, and as buyers South
America ranks third, followed by
Asia, Oceania I and Africa. The
balance of trade with these four
tlJVt??l??l' b?L" Was
rI"': T, a 7 " ,
I MG'f.!t S?BiZtalned "3 pl"e
uul UCDt uuoiuuier, auu wane
.i"0111 imports i and exports de-
n. t-L,-
United States in
creased $24,785,049. Canada,
which was third in volume of
YeJn 191Jwas second the year
following. There were increases
. m V""" f , exP"3 ana a
both In imports and exports and an
,uwe,UIBU oaiance in iavor or
the United States.
Germany was third in the list,
In spite of a substantial increase,
and France continued In fourth
place. The year closed, with ex-
yvito cai;ccuiui: lmuoris in on -r ;
r .r
WJLU ttu! nions, ana witn
margins. !
MASSACHUSETTS US LIXE
ASSACHlfsETTS will sell $6,
325,000 of 4 per cent bonds
over the state treasurer's
counter.! Bids were received
M
- j lnst week frorri rlonlera trio .an li-,
.nr"1 weeJt irom aeaiers, the entire
issue
premium of
pur-
! chasers a.KRS r.i r
for the average man, and coal nn-
locked from the .greedy extortions
f a 1 ' - ". h
1,UiU! coai;iiut all bids were rejected and the
announcement was made that the
bonds will be disposed of at popu
lar sale, the price being fixed by
the rejected bids.
Bankers and! bond dealers com
plained that thy were used merely
to fix the price of the bonds, and
State Treasurer Mansfield replied
that he promised the people before
election that he would sell bonds
j directly to investors, large and
; small. The new issue is adanted
, lo PPuiar sale, for the bonds ma-
ture over a number of years.
The New York Sun, taking up
the cudeel for th rlioTnnvifnrnri
lSvI i, f ?f P
Banners, cnarges Mr. Mansfield
with bad faith! in asking for tids
when he had no intention of ac-
rentinc- thPm i n,0 BtlZ7
, attributes
demand for popular sales of
municipal securities to political agi,
tation, and asserts that no exnH-
l n?' 1:5 v f?1
" ween CUI1C1U-
sive. Much more experience will while on Thirty-seventh to Forty
be needed, says the Sun, before it i fourth street inclusive,' from Brazoe
can be determined whether a sound strcet to th Beaumont line, the council
mihii nnitoir vauuj ,Vi j has assessed thelcost of this altera
publlc policy is behind this de- j Uon ln full to the abutting property,
parture from established practice. 'making the cost to each inside lot
IMew York . recently sold $51,-
000,000 state bonds to dealers!
,v. , ja , a
who immediately disposed of them
at a .net profit of something like
9500,000. It Is probable that such
a large issue of - securities : would
not have been taken up Immedi
ately by .actual Investors, but the
frr tamalna ' that tSAA AnA wat4
tv. ,i7.j C mm.m-n
and there l8 thft further fact that
thl ,ftn(.a .mmt-iki. tmnA in
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price when placed on the market.
Various cities i hare proved the;
worth of DODUlar sales of municiDal
wnrft, f nnr,,,ln l,,, 0f rrmnlMnal
BecuriUes. finding markets with
. .
tne peopie for tJielr DOnds when
the ordinary mark-etji wr closed
lnde-jBond3 ultimately find their way
Into the hands of investors, sndnjoyea having
popular sales serve an excellent i
purpose in opening the way for
direct purchase'.by. all buyers.
WHICH TIME
B
OTH the chief of police and
Mayor Albee declare that they
believe the police, by coopera
tion with the water department.
can urb the waste and pre
vent the violation of sprinkling
laws. Oregonlan.
Before an audience at the First
Presbyterian church recently, May
or Albee declared .the city now
needs an additional fifty police
men. How can that statement be
reconciled with the statement here
attributed to the mayor and chief
by the Oregonlan?
If correctly quoted which time
was the mayor talking seriously?
(Communications sent to The 'Journal for
prblkatloD In thla department ahould be writ
ten en only one side of the paper, anoeld. not
exceed 300 words In length and must be ac
companied by tne naiue and address of tne
aender. - If tne writer 6oea not dealre to
bTa the name published, he should so state.)
"Discussion Is the greatest of aU reform
ers. It rationalises everything It toncbes. it
robs principles of aU false sanctity and
thrws them back on. their reasonableness. If
tbey . haye no reasons bleneis. It ruthlessly
crushes them oat of existence and sets up Its
own conclusions In their stead." Woodrow
Wilson.
The Heathen,
Portland. Feb, 19. To the Editor of
The Journal. "We of the churches"
canryn put the blame for the liquor
trafrio upon the "Fanny Harleya,"
They are in a very small minority.
There has been no time within the
past 50 years that "we of the ohurch
es" could not have put the liquor traf
fio out of business if we had wanted
to. Wherever the missionaries have
gone, the liquor traffic has followed.
Whether ciy lllzatlon follows the flag
"i viiQ uiiBBiuuaiieo, uim a la una iiuug.
Certain the liquor traffic follows the
missionaries! There was a story told
a good many years ago of a ship that
sailed from Boston for some point In
South Africa, On this ship there was
one missionary and a hundred barrels
of rum, to be unloaded at the sam
point. This Is an old story.
Here Is a clipping from the Balti
more Sun, of about 20 years ago, that
will Interest Fannie Harley, no doubt,
the author unknown:
CONVERT TOUR OWN HEJATHEN.
Convert your own heathen, let the pa
gan pray
10 1,18 acient laois m dis sclent way;
Wnat to you is sacred, hallowed is to
him; ,
Your God Is Jehvah, his are Elohim.
In you right the Bible, in your left the
sword.
. nrHltl,' tr. flKKMl .hll.
the cannons roared:
Priests are singing anthems, soldiers
The True, Faith, though planted, "has
not taken root.
Not the shell a-shrleking.
nor the
myriad slain, '
Nor the war-scarred heroes, nor the
martyr's pain, i
Add a jot to glory or a gain to Ood,
If you barter honor for an inch of
clod.
Why send missionaries to the aged
east?
Why seek to unbridle there the human
beast?
Worship in your temples, pagoda or
mosaue
Gleam alike resplendent in th darkest
dusk.
Tou revere the fathers of the early
cnurcn.
They the tomb" .; of ages diligently
searcn;
Where ancestors slumber they kneel at
the shrine
Of the dead whose solace no man can
resign.
In the sight of heaven all la pious
prayer.
Whether cross or orescent talismans
you wear.
Whether o'er the altar incense floats
or not. ,
Whether you be .Hebrew, Greek or
Hottentot.
Why this fevered freiwy human souls
to save? 4
God will never forfeit what in love he
gave
If your heart be holy and wnr nurnoia
fai, ' '
fair.
You may leave your spirit to your
' Maker's care!
Thrust not your religion on the heath
en host, i
Do not make a fetich of your cultured
boast;
Civilize the nations, teach them to re
frain From the lust of powers at the cost of
pain.
Do not crush the soul-life of the sav
age brave,
Do not drive the godless to a godless
grave.
Spare your human brother, though he
bestial be, .
Many hymns are sung to one celestial
key.
Convert your own heathen, let the
pagan pray
To his ancient idols in his ancient
way;
What to you is sacred, hallowed is to
him;
Your God is Jehovah, his are Elohim,
R. A. BARKER.
Rossmere Curb Assessments.
Portland, Feb. 18. To the Editor of
The Journal What is Justice? Does
the city council deal out equal justice.
to all citizens of Portland?
All TOhn a flmlliar with thA "ftnnm.
mere subdivision of the 'city of Port-
land know that the curbs on Forty-
' from Sandy boulevard to
th Beaumont line and the curbs on
Thirty-seventh street to Forty-fourth
street inclusive from Brazee Btreet to
the Beaumont line, were torn out, the
i iveway made wider and new curbs
constructed, when the district was
rp4ved laat summer.
The commission councU has dis-
i tributed the oost of this alteration on
t Forty-second street to the whole dis-
t trict.; which makes the assessment
, k int In th riiet-l,.
out $21:nd to each corner lot about
$32.
" aiio alien nun ul mo cuuui
f caiied to this matter before the
The attention of the council was
assess-
Letters From the People
A FEW SMILES
Teacher Who was It supported the
world , upon bis
shoulders T
Tommy Atlas,
sir. : -
-Teacher Woo
supported Atlas.
DOOK QOKl - any, im - -
)J but I guess his wife
did.
One day an Irishman entered a Tn
don butcher's shop and ordered a pig's
head. The butcher, a rather fleshy
.Individual, always
joke at the expense
o r an . Irishman.
Having papered - the
pig's head, he re
solved to frighten
Pat4 -by pretending
to commit suicide.
He turned the hack
of the knife and pretended to cut off
bis own fat head.
"Oh, no, ' thank you, sir," said Pat
"I don't want more than one pig's
head . at a time." .
Hargis was lying on the couch very
ill. , The servant in the next room
knocked down some dishes with a
tremendous clat
ter. Harris's
nerves were quite
unstrung and he
called out in , a
rage:
"I suppose you
have broken all
the plates V ,
"No," replied the
servant, meekly, "there
isn't one
broken." ,
"Well, then." growled the enraged
Invalid, "why did you make all that
noise for nothing?" Everybody's
Magazine.
The Manager I've got a new idea
for -a melodrama
that Ought to make
a hit.
The Writer
What Is It?
The Manager
The idea Is to in
troduce a cyclone
In the first act
that will . kill all
the actors.
merit was made, and It was made fa
miliar with the circumstances. These
are two paralled cases, with decisions
. nr.H tn v,- r.4i it. i
i mm
decision made, and the second case was I f n Interesting communication on whal
imn,i..w . . . i v- I ing to the National Geographic Society
20; minutes a decision altogether dif
ferent from the first, and on the same
kind of a question, Was rendered.
The curbs were well and substantial
ly built, were sufficient in every way
and were perfectly satisfactory to all
tne property owners, in fact, were ex
actly the same in every way as the
remaining curbs on the same streets
from Brazee street to Sandy boulevard.
How can the council harmonise these
two decisions? Is tthis justice to all
man $20 to 30, and his neighbor only
$2 to $3 for the same
le Work. If It la
just to assess one of these to the
Whole district, why should not the
other be disposed of In the same way?
R. E. GEHR.
Repeal of Free Tolls.
Martin's Bluff, Wash., Feb. 17.-
-To
the Editor. of Th, .To,.rT,alT .f,..!""- ",1'UU uul is enormous,
Information on the subject of Panama
fT,fnrmin nn
canal tolls, therefore I apply to. The
Journal. Kindly tell me how free
tolls on coastwise vessels are to help
thA Twrmi TrinHo- t.n o . v.
would likf.lv r..om. nf , v.. p,lnm.
canal if British and European shipping i " of an nn long- Ttle7 probably
were to- stay out of it? And if they i eVer. lah of any kind If other
kept out of it, would the tolls on ! food is t0 be had- and of th many
American shipping through the canal ; stomachs I have examined, never once
do more than pay for the lubricating i u1"1 anything but the little crustv
oiiin the working of it? ceans be found. From the stomach of
It was a giant undertaking so far one ,whle l Vancouver Island
well accomplished and a credit to our , me barreIS or shrimp were taken, and
nation. All this we must admit Yet. i il was by no mans lull,
can we afford to keep this as some- 'Probably no cetacean has such won
thlng grand to look at, and write ' derful strength as have the blue
about, or ar we to encourage foreign whales. When I saw a blue whale with
snipping?
In the solution of this. It la w11 to I
keep our situation in view. The farm
ers of Washington and Oregon are up
against it right now, and theyv have
only a taste of what they may expect.
t trXX 'tTiir t. Vl u- u
fn with th. ZZl ant hfhn! ha,nd'
and with the best part of thia country
cropped out. and being cropped out,
with the unreasonable taxes already
loading them . down, the cost of mate-
rial for Improvements and the host of
non-workers that prey on the hard
working farmer. I wish to remind you
that the cans'tnn hrm.r. oor. ,(.aii
that the Canadian farmers can tfutaeil
us now, and that our very nearest 1
market, Alaska, Is bound to play a j
great part in the way of supplies of
one kind and another. What about the
tirand Trunk -acixic. wnen It . runs
";, v,V" - V . -T.J JT " a-
vast country has a few years more to
develop? They have this market next
door.
If you deem this worthy of notice,
don't run away from ste?n realities!
Win.f ?VJdV.elopedan3:
e.V th- k. Vr.n w, u,usl made any protest to the state banking
tn h- leader,? C'.i" department, and then he said that his
6 U;.ieaie".t Jy "1 no lnibank had notified him that if his ac-
view, so far. Don't say I am a calam
ity howler, If I remind you where we
stand. FRED QTJARRIE.
One Way to Handle Patents.
Estacada, Or.. Feb. 17. To the
Editor of The Journal The article In
Saturday's Journal relative to a spring
motor recently patented is well worthy
of thought. If the invention proves
all that is claimed for it there will be
use for thousands and thousands ow
mem in tne united states. it was
stated that the "inventor was going
to New York to dispose of his Ameri
can right for seven figures." Now I
would propose that we Join in asking
our congressmen to try to interest
Uncle Sara in purchasing the patent
right, if it proves up to expectations.
and that the government then manu-
facture and sell the motors at cost, .which is for the betterment of human
Such a course would pay the inventor I ity i 'am- writing that you may
the largest sum that could be written I through the columns of your paper
with seven . figures, $9,999,999, at a f &lve warning to the people that love
cost of about 10 cents for every man, e0ber homes that there are so-called
woman and child In the United States j men women making a canvass of
and give the people the benefit of a i the city of Portland securing names,
useful invention. But if the patent
right is sold to Wall Street fiudsrlnsr
by past observations) the people will
have to pay about $100 apiece for what
thev could now buv fur in Mia a
j stitch in time saves more than nine
sometimes.
F, W. 'BATES.
The Valentine Custom.
Portland, Or Feb. 17. To the Editor
of -The Journal Someone Is writing
v.. a a. a , a .
uwe ma Kuua oia custom nr lAndim,
valentines is about to die out. It la
to be regretted if such is the case, for
their manufacture gives employment
to hundreds of persons, perhaps thou
sands. So far as the old custom, for
love's sake and an exchange of senti
ment, is concerned a great deal might
be changed, for there is but a very
little -of the old-time affection left
nowadays; but there ean atlll be an
exchange of friendship and sentiment.
Indeed, it really Is a beautiful cus
tom and the valentines are so artistic
ln their makeup that It is more than
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHAXGE
Bom people
eleanaedby V baVusrnT eveS'TnS
water,
:
A large family of well-lri ' ittti.
wSi2 K!i bv Possible that all the
radV in thg.UrlnrgVr!al T
Is not J'!r"i,ke, wathr In February
mi.Btto predion.8111 ChMC Ior
UrlffbVu'May010510 P"8 the
'
The COSt Of t nncttnfh .At,, .
UP and will do so ariVnVa,onKu
on gains on production. consurop-
Tk. A. .
liUiLt5V.Jfi1J?." migration Com-
. iia .lit ri hi nun. n. 1 11 a . - & . .
vuuUtiu snouid resign.
Atenophe,: muat be. or should
ucated woerSi1nOD,i,v!y.intelUnt and ed
nhfied ..! Bh ould be
w wycu VUilWUy,
as
are ?r?itJ?ld,er Jld rreater states
lrT fesTu?-tiSi0TrKnBu Orson s example
iTJfifUi?U"Ktne hours of work and
v- wuiuen employes.
I triiid. ? w.f Up Jn tf'-y himself.
tfresjAent Wilson does not believe in
iitrY- immigrants; say
a aa, iwn pi vnaracier.
There is larare d,miui nl
, and lambs at good prices, in eastern
1 Oregon, says a news itom a .n"
. . .1 . . 1 - . . ... . miU I II IS
woo!r tariff, too!0"' frM
e
Thousands of women workers In
New ork city earn less than $ a
week, and of girls less than $5 a week;
yes, and thousands of sweatshop wo
"Im fnd gils, who work mor nours.
.ffnEl!g:1If,n M- p- has nen fined
I60.OOO because he voted on a bill In
which a firm of which he Is a member
woo uiiniitiauy lnierestea. we are
not bo particular about our congress-
U1CU cu
THE. WHALE AND THE COST OF LIVING
Bulletin of the Geographic Society.
"If the American and European peo
ple could be educated to the point of
eating the canned flesh of animal,
which individually yield as much as
80,000 pounds of meat,' what a wonder
ful food supply would be within reach
of the poor of our great cities," writes
Roy Chapman Andrews of New York In
iiAauuiuu, a. xxo yicuiuia IIIUI.
as a, result of the world-hunt for the
monarch of the seas, now going on in
full , blast, the commercial extinction
of the large whales, within a very few
decades, is inevitable Except in ' Ja
pan, he says, great portions of the
flesh of the animals, which Is pala
table and healthful, is now going to
waste or Is being used for fertilising
purposes.
"Few people realize thtthe blue,
n . . 1 . W . . 1 . . 1 . . . . .,
or 8U1Pnur poitom. w&aie found la all
aiih unijr mo misrai ani-
mal that ever existed on the earth
far as Is now known, the largest ani
mal that has evxer existed on the earth
or in its waters," writes Mr. Andrews.
"Specimens have been measured which
reached a length of 87 feet and In all
probability weighed as much as 75
Anna Al,UA..K. . 1 . - .
iTB enough in fact to permit 10 or 12
men to stand upright in It, the throat
measures only S inches in - diameter.
! t l:TJt
bone whales.
ese animals, like most of the 'whale-
usually feed on minute
I crustaceans, a shrimp about three quar
BANKS THAT SCORN
By John M. Oskison.
"When I want to build a house.'
ald a German banker who is visiting
' th United States. "I call in architects
j !,, ' .q, .
1"
n4.
L "e," fnth I"".
I " r.T. ,,,. " , '
i V. TT UBUail J a iBDUQ H41U aC Tf D J O-
ot by politic ana
"? not. oy politicians.
tem ought to be managed by bankers
Good logic was in Herr Rlesser's
talk, undoubtedly. But all the time
I was reading it I was troubled by
what was in a note that lay on my
desk. This note was from a small
,'. , ' -v.- -rk-iT -h yZa
; read an article of mine wrltfen after
one of the big banks of th city had
notified me that unless I kept as
T. i . 7m-
"f8 m l a m0nth t0 emny my aC"
My correspodent asked me 4f I had
count fell below $300 he would be
charged $2 a month to cover the cost
of carrying it. Well, I went back to
Herr Rlesser.
"The present wonderful prosperity of
a pleasure to possess them. There is
no need of the custom dying out. In
fact, 1 do not think it is dying.
There is also a comic side to the
custom, but is should never be indulged
in for theake of insult- A comic pic
ture is something to laugh at, and
that is a healthy pleasure.
OSBORNE YATES:
Petitioners for Oregon Wet.
Portland, Feb. 191 To the Editor of
The Journal Believing that you are
an advocate of morality and of that
as they term it, to have the town go
wet. 1 As I was walking on Third
street, ln front of the new pool hall,
there was a woman with pencil and
tablet getting names for the rum
traffic' A man entered the Albina fur
niture store on the same mission. I
am a believer in morality and clean
homes, and as there are those working
for the demon rum, the murderers of
H good and right, I would call
a - w .... a. all - lAvan n f
inrouKa yuur uawci, w ... .w . -
honest principles t'o awake, be up and
doing, come out like honest men and
women and slay tnis oeasi. mis
dragon, the destroyer of prosperity
and good homes.
DR. ELEAZER DE ROCHE.
Liocation of Certain Forest.
Newberg. Or, Feb. 16. To the Editor
of The Journal Please Inform me in
what counties the Paulina and Des
chutes forests are located.
S. D. RICHARDSON.
fThe Deschutes reserve lies In an
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
-OREGON SIDELIGHTS
An electrlo light and power company
that has an operating, plant at Keno
is prospecting Klamath Falls with the
view of - extending into" the city and
supplying competition.
The position of music supervisor of
schools has been created at Junction
City and Miss Josie Moor head has
neen elected to the position, sacn
class will receive Instruction twice a
week.
Reports from over the state, the
Gazette-Times savs. indicate that O.
A. -C alumni and ex-students to the
numDer or at least 1000 will assemble
for the grand reunion to be held at
corvauis, June 8.
Organisation- of industrial clubs is
in active progress in the sehools of
urani8 l-ass and Josephine county In
general, county superintendent Bav
age and State Field Worker Harrlng
rton are conducting' the campaign.
A big lot of cheap coal sent Into Ia
Grande in the time of greatest aamand
nas ro beared the wood market that,
the Observer says, most of the wood
yards- have in the neighborhood of 100
cords of wood on hand that was bought
m ins top oi me year s prices.
.
The Commercial club of Eugene had
printed placards bearing this inscrip.
tion: "This home favors the new high
school bonds." The placards have been
distributed about the city, says the
Guard, and a majority of the residents
have placed them in their windows.
-
S. W. Boyd, Shelby Teeter, W. S.
Keyes and Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Miller
are Cottage Grove citizens who attest
the helpfuln ess of the hen. Mr. Boyd
has a record of $380 a year from 12
hens, In eggs alone. All are building
additional poultry houses,
J. B. Starr, a dairyman from Iowa,
is looking over the Cottage Grove
section with a view to changing his
location. The Leader, says Mr. Starr
has about 250 fine Holstein milch
cows in his dairy, 1900 head of stock
in all, and therefore could not get
along with less than about 1600 to
200O acres of good farm and pasture
land.
a harpoon between the shoulders drag
a ship, with engines at full speed
astern,, through the water almost as
though it had been a rowboat. I began
to listen to the stories of their in
credible strength with more respect.
The finback, closely related to the
blue Whale, has been called the 'grey
hound of the sea,' for Its long, slender
body Is built on the lines of the racing
yaeht and the animal can equal the
speed of the fastest steamship.
"All the large whales show great
affection for their young, and the cows
and oalyes will seldom leave each other
when pursued by a ship. I remember
at one time in Alaska we sighted a
female finback with a young one about
40 feet long beside her. As the old
whale rose to spout, the gunner fired,
killing her almost instantly. The cair.
although badly frightened, continued
to swim In a circle about the ship, and
finally, when Its dead mother had been
hoisted to th surface, the little fel
low came alongside so close that I
could have struck him with a stone.
During the time that the carcass wai
being inflated and the gun reloaded,
the calf was constantly within fw
fathoms of the ship, swimming around!
ana arouna, sometimes rubbing itself
against the body of Its dead mother.
Finally a harpoon was sent crashing
into Us side, and It sank without a
struggle.
In the upper portion of the bead of
the sperm wlfale is an immense oiltank
in which th valuable 'spermaceti' is
found in a liquid condition and from
which it may be dipped with a bucket
when an Incision la made. From
sperm whale 60 feet in length, whicn
was sent from Japan, 20 barrels of
spermaceti were .taken out of the 'case'
and the surrounding fat. The sperm
whale Is the animal which yields am
tergris, the valuably substance used so
extensively in-the manufacture of our
best perfumes.
SMALL ACCOUNTS
German Industry Is to a very high
degree due to the faithful support
which it has at all times received
at the hands of banks and bankers."
No. doubt, no doubtl I wondered If
it would be possible to find a com
mercial bank in Germany which would
put up the bars against the small
business man in the way this New
York bank is allowed to do in the case
of the man who wrote to me.
Personally I should as soon trust
the average politician to manage the
banks in my Interest as I would the
sort of banker who will slap on a
charge of )2 a month for carrying
the small man's account, and I feel
sure that the great majority of the
people of our country feel the same
way about it..
It la this sort of banking (practiced
by bankers whose surpluses roll up
and up and the stocks of whose banks
mount higher and higher in prioe)
which has created dislike and distrust
of bankers in this country. By prac
tices as short-sighted as this, they
have succeeded in sawing off the limb
on which they have climbed. In the
reorganization which th banking sys
tem is facing I cannot see that the
bankers have any reason to complain.
Ta" shape, mainly along the western
boundary of Crook county and some
what along the southern boundary, but
entirely within Crook. The Paulina re
serve lies mainly In Klamath county,
extending into Lake county..
Knockers.
Portland. Or., Feb. 20. To the ' Ed
itor of The Journal Please give me a
little space that I may give my-view
of the knocker. I have been In many
of the large eastern cities and have
also been up and down this Pacific
coast. I have never been ln a city
where the home people knock their
own town like they do tn Portland.
Nine out of every 10 give It a knock in
stead of a boost, and that celebrated
pioneer press which calls Itself the Or
egonlan, happens to be the leader.
SINOOK E. CHURCHES.
Our Governor.
I like a man who has
The grace and grit
To stoon from his high place
To help the weak;
Who has the heart to make
A lever of his scepter.
Not a whip. v
Where others scourge and scar.
His hand uplifts.
Who. In his dace of power.
Shows at the test
Not only brawn of brain.
But heart and soul.
Ah I great Indeed is he
Who In life's stress.
Hard pressed, opposed, can keep
His poise of soul.
Let those who love the truth
Hold up his hands:
And as you pray for light
Upon the earth
' Give thanks to God who gave
To-Oregon this man.
Nor wait until death cornea
To say how true.
Gertrude Bryan Helm, Agnes a. Qr.
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Lockley.
a iooi ouiiuiuc iieimpoau 10 mu
ing violins la quite a : change," said
W. McCord of Portland. "In. the
earlv Anvm thv AA Ttnt hiva rr , -
factories such as they now bare for -
wAuiMnviuro ia lujtiiLUiD. c u I
nlture making was earned on In a
small way In every conim unity, hence
tV. A AA...A.II.. -M ...I . 1
uauuu ui caujixiari. uiucr ws,
a common one. I learned the trade of
cabinet maker and Joiner before com-,
ing to Portland in llSOj After work
ng at carpenter work .for a year or
more I got work on the steamer
Wallamet dong the finer cabinet work
on her cabins fehe wa a aldewheeler
and was intended to ply on the up
per Willamette. She . was 150 feet
long and . 23 feet beam-and registered
272 tons. She was built at Canamah.
The next summer she -was lined over
the .Falls at Oregon City and -put on1:
me Asioria run. t , i, , .
"Captain John McCrosky was. In
charge of the bulldin jr h. w.iin.
m M T7 a ..a- v.
a.w w i . avi UM'ucjr if Vy L ! 1 Q
hands upon one occasion and the mon
ey was sent to him hi the form of
rirty dollar gold slugs. He had to
have smaller change so he sent one
of the men up to Mollalla Prairie wllh
the fifty dollar slugs .to an old. Ger-
man farmer named -Sweerl who was
well to do and who atcd as his own
banker. ;
"Our man brought! back a small
sack of five and t?n dollar gold
pieces. They were imostly beaver
coins or Oregon motity. They wera
very yellow a.id quit, soft. A few
years later th.y practically disap
peared, having been withdrawn from
circulation by the banks and sent to
the Ran Francisco mint.
"My next Job was building a Cum
berland Presbyterian church at Ablqua
for Sam Allen. j :
"The following year I turned from
church building to Indian flghtjng. I
enlisted at Oregon CI fly under James
K. Kelly In 1855. and ent to Yakima,
where I spent three inonths hunting
Indians. You mustn't; believe all of
the Indian stories yot hear. For In
stance, I remember petng out with
five of thevnjther soldiers' and an In
dian scout called Crooked Mouth John.
We ran across an Indian and gave
chase to him. Crooked Mouth John
rode up to him, put his gun against
him and fired. You - could see the
8 woke come out from the opposite
side of the Indian. SCrooked Mouth
John cut off the Indian's scalp lock
and 'one of the other soldiers got down -
and cut off all the rest of the In-
dan's scalp, making" fljve small scalps,
orone for each of us, fso- when we got
into camp that nigrtt, - we had mi
scalps to show for the six Indians
we had killed. ;
'Sin going up to tlf Indian coun
try Joe Meek went With us. We all
knew that Captain Kelly would prob
ably be appointed cqtonel, ' so" Meek
went along expecting; to be "elected
captain. WTien Captain JCelly re
ceived his promotion!; we 'talked it
over and most of te fellows were
against electing Meek as captain.
They said! Meek was an old mountain
man and ' had fought Indians all his
life and Would certainly get us In
rtmA mlrtitv hard Iftirtlttnfr Wa
thought we had better elect some
one else so we elected Captnln Staf
ford. This was Company C, First
Regiment, Oregon Mounted Volun
teers." f
A 1 1
Prosperity helps eorh men to forget
their friends. . t w
'
As a matter of fact,' anecessary evil
is unnecessary.
To live long and ;prosper let the
other fellow worry.
Men are never criticized for what
they do If they never do anything.
To blame is human and to blame it
on the other fellow is still more so.
j
Even in the good ld summer time
one encounters a lot of cheap .skates.
'H
The man who wants ithe earth is apt
to get his share If the mud throwers
are on the Job. :
;.
Thanks to a shiftlesjaj husband, many
a woman has developed into an able
financier. i!
!;'
Every man ought toikrrbw at least as
much about his own; business as he
does about the other ; fellow's.
And many a girl wastes her time try
ing to cultivate her vocal range, when
a cooking range would; be more in her
Une' . J
Every time a spinster looks at a
man who has Just beea;.led to the altar
by & widow she says i herself: "How
easily you poor men ate fooled !?
i
The Gatilng gun was Invented by a
physician not necessarily because be
despaired of depopulating the world
with sugar pills, either.
i :
The Ragtime Muse
Paupers.
I once was a captain of high finance,
Who now am a pauper mean;
And you, tn this ejime poorhouse, by
chance.
Once reigned as a social queen.
But I misjudged the times, my dear,
And might I mistook for right.
For gone is the day of the buccaneer
And dominant parasite!
You once were secure In your beauty's
sway
You wakened to find it fled!
Your fickla subjects 'would not stay
And tnother reigned - in your stead.
So now we meet, we two. at last.
Who played for life's highest stakes;
Are we sad sinners, whose chance -has
passed,
Or two of the world's mistakes?
Well, be It ours, mistake or c.rlme.
Or the world'-the result is bad.
But oh! the delights of our day and
time, - k
And the fun that we two have bad I
They cannot rob us of .that, my queen.
And let us laugh loud and deep
They've taken our sceptre- and regal
mien. if
But they ve got to pay for our keep!
SUNDAY FEATURES
The Sunday Journal Magazine .
offers these compelling fea
tures for women - readers
each.. Sunday: jl
Patterns for . the jiome dress
maker. Y-
Suggestions for the needle
woman. jl .
Hint on .home economy.
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