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THE OREGON DAILY: JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1914.
t"Tl l r" i inM'Al ftiour recently they began to cough
J I Ht. J U U K IN AL loudly and a few f minutes later
an indepbndbnt newkpapkh. i ) roae irom tneir seats ana trampea
..Pobiiiw t out. in a body, . ;
The faculty, was greatly shocked
. 8. JACK BOM
I'Hlkllahj inlnv rfrMlt HriUtiS V Slid J
r wifflir Bmin a; ii 7' ana maae every inquiry to una
Kntererf
trftu
f.m matter
t tbs postnfflc t rortland. Or., for " . ' ' . . . .
iiMioa tbrooKb th miu teoond ; dents agreed with the faculty that
the asthmatic affliction of the con
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Atsrtmsuts rrhNt-oy tnee numnr. ( "
th otwTiitor what ifi"irtmnt yon wnt. iy irreverent act and aTdlscourteous
rMEisN advektisino bepbkskntati ve pjc9 0f premeditated Insolence to
SSr', JS?r3&i ward the University preacher and
0 JIM., f'hlmgo.
Mulcrlitkm term by niH or to any sa
drM to tba L'nltd Htalca or Mtsioor -
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Whene'er a noble deed . Is
i wrought,
Whene'er I spoken a noble
thought,
Our hearts, liii jglad surprise,
To higher levels flu.
Longfellow.
THE ALASKA DINNER
that it was a most conclusive dem
onatration of the much advanced
theory of undergraduate puerility.
f. On the other hand the act is
sought to be justified by other stu
dents on the ground that attend
ance at chapel is compulsory ohly
to the extent of one hour. s
GOVERNING FROM AMBUSH
M'
'F ONLY 30 or 40 or 50 young I
leaders would arise In Portland, i
what a splendid thing it would
be for the town!
What a helpful force it would
lie- for the community! What a
aplendid influence it .would be to
forward the community interests,
irhich means the promoting of the
welfare not only of the big man ;
ORE than the required num
ber of names has been se
cured for the Albee-Dieck-Brewster
recall.
The petitions have been put in
cold storage until candidates can
be secured to contest with present
encumbents in a recall election.
Any such candidate will have
many explanations to make. He
will be, from the beginning, on thJ
defensive: He will have no sound
excuse to offer for being in the
field.
For example, the new candidate
for mayor can make no charge of
I dishonesty against Albee. Nor any
charge of misfeasance in office.
of finance showed that a French-;
man with a salary of $800 pays an
income tax of 2 per cent, while an
other Frenchman with an income
of $60,000 pays a tax of less than
4 per cent. In England the $SC0
man pays no tax.jwhile the $60,000
man pays 10 per cent. M. Caillaux
Intimated that he would urge adop
tion of the British system.
The effect of militarism. Is shown
by the national debts of leading
nations. France and her colonies,
with a population of 93,850,000,
has a national debt of $6,343,208,
000, a per capita debt of $67.65.
Germany's debt per inhabitant U
$7-5.67; Japan, $18.60; the United
States, $10.81; Great Britain,
$8.01..
These figures show that three of
the nations maintaining great ar
maments have per capita debts far
in excess of that of the United
States, while Great Britain's figure
is small, only because the empire
has a population nearly five times
that of any other country.
France will. not get out of her
financial troubles, by increased
taxes on her people. Escape will
come only when the big leaks are
stopped.
tent as it had no legal connection
with this particular, case. I
That is to say the majority Jus
tices held that it fs the purpose of
the law to keep a part of the in
formation away from the jury.
The defendant's relations with oth
ers were corroborative of the tes
timony of Van Hulen. If not ad
mitted, how was corroborative tes
timony to be obtained?
It may be bad professional eth
ics for Judge Gatens to criticize
the majority opinion and commend
the dissenting opinion.
But it is excellent citizenship, j
Letters From the People
(Communications sent ta Tba Journal for
publication In this department should be writ
ten on only one side of tba paper, aba Id not
exceed 800 worda la length and mnat be ae
eompanled by tbe name and address ef tbe
sender. If. tbe writer coas not desire to
baTs tbe name published, be sbovld so state.)
"Discussion ta tbe greatest of an reform
ers. It rationalises everything it tootbe. it
robe principles of aU tslse sanctity and
throws tbea back on tbelr reasonableness. If
tbey hare no reasonableness. It ruthlessly
rrnsbes tbem oat o existence sr. J sets Bp Its
own conclusion la tbsir stead." Waedrew
Wilson.
AUTO-TRUCK LINES.
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HJUI VI Lilt" lii lir " v V.1 1J. m
tremendous power it would be fori . . . . .
starting t. i forces of general pros- i ,of,t,nn art. D tnrmnn
verity in motion!
t .... ,i niui biicu au eiecuuu wuuiu uieau.
1 Major Morrow toia tersely ana
with interest last night of tbe po- ;
The Journal did ' not help elect
Mr. Albee. But that is all the more
an r n niUir 4 a-" an V 4 m 4- a 1 A r A fl
promoting influence of government , chance make d
-ailroads. He mirrored the agri-,. o . .. . tl,., m
Cultural poss bllitles. showing how; &nd tQ &q
khey were fully equal in area and Tfae Journal would h&ye
in producing power to Norway and ; d()ne no rea8on
xsweaen. mis eiury oi ine uiiut-r-fcround
wealth In mineral deposits
rwas like a tale from the dream
Icrs, bo full was it with tremendous
potentiality.
Mr. Titus pictured graphically
Ithe riches and the difficulties of
Jopened up "to Portland an enticing er,edun? every c"y
Jvlslon of the wealth that lies at with which some of us are not
Jthe doors of this citv if onlv the S"1"- '
Smen of the town will reach out; These foolish proceedings only
it more and more discourage desir-
-
But there were few of the big
figures of Portland present. With
one or two exceptions, the whole
salers were conspicuously absent.
tMcn of the type which Btand at the
ahead of great commercial and in- j
The Journal to want him recalled.
We cannot conduct government
if we. get up a recall movement
every time an official does some
thing which some of us do not ap
prove. Nor can we get anywhere
with government if we start a ref-
able men from entering public life
It is getting so in Oregon that the
moment a man assumes high pub
lic position all the malignity,, all
the malevolence and all the vials
; of abuse are uncorked and referen-
jdustrial institutions were missing '. d,ums- recal,a and ,flood3 of lnvec
ifrom the community roll Call.
tive turned upon him.
5 Not in anger, but in sorrow, The , Everybody knows that the mayor
f Journal noted that the men of and commissioners of this town
Ipower and possessions who will are trying to do their duty. They
profit most from Portland's in- j are struggling hard to give a prop
lyasion of the Arctic were not con. er, administration of public affairs.
Irerned enough In the business of How wronS U is, cutu " the1
jthe gathering to be present. Port- ; lf m , without giving them suffi
llanders with branch concerns in cent! lenth of time to show what
Seattle were nctably absent, be- they can do- ,
ause they apparently do not want ; ,Any candidate accepts a
4heir present connections disturbed , r,n agalnB,t, Pfnt of
iby the entry of Portland into coin- flcIa,a will have all these things to
tpetition for the business of Alaska. ! exrlain. There are thousands of
1 Once. Portland had men who . f"1 are saymg aoin
dared to venture) out for business.
'SThere was a romantic Portland
when pioneer fathers built ships
jand penetrated even to the Orient
ing, and who will resent the recall
on the grounds herein set forth.
They will be on the firing line if
the recall election is actually
fnr i!ialnORH Hnm est the rrinolv , brought.
i uc ueai luiug iu ub uuue Willi
the petitions is to throw them into
the river.
The threatened
iifortunes of this town were piled ;
Sup by those hardy pioneers whose i
spirit was that, of the broad uncon- j
Squerable West.
I Few Of the scions of these in-
officials were
elected by the people to conduct
the affairs of Portland.
The unknown and mysterious
persons who have financed this re
call were not elected to govern the
city.' But that is exactly what they
They are content in the
fenjoyment of the competence hand
ed down to them, and they af-
'.fftrrl mi lp:ir1piKhin in that KnlenHiri
advance that would come to Port- j are. tr'in to do-
iand if they were of the type and , And are trylnS to d
spirit of their fathers. from an3bueh-
f Thus, there arises the need of j
Ji oung leaders of business and in- i
SiuStry and' progress. Nothing :
'ould -do so much for Portland.
?The Journal would rejoice to wel- i
rome and help them forward in I
jpublic endeavor.
ANY townB and communities
in Oregon lament their lack
of railway transportation.
These have within their own
means an easy solution of their
transportation problem and the de
velopment of surrounding territory
through their own initiative in the
improvement of their highways and
the establishment of auto-truck
lines to carry their products to rail
and water connection and to local
markets.
By their own effort, they can- be
independent of railway exaction.
Take Baiter county, for example.
Two points in that county that
could be easily reached by auto
truck line are Eagle and Pine val
leys. Eagle valley being the nearer
could be first taken up and the line
be extended afterward into Pine
valley. This would open tip a
large stretch of fertile country and
bring its business to Baker.
In Umatilla county the town of
Hermiston can be easily connected
with Umatilla by an auto-truck
line, and the town of Holman with
Cold Spring. t The section of the
Central Oregon highway now being
constructed between Biggs and
Wasco will furnish an outlet for
Sherman county to the Columbia
river. Likewise auto-truck lines
radiating from The Dalles would
drain a large territory. On the
Washington side of the river there
are many natural outlets for the
back country, such as Columbus,
which opens into the rich Klickitat
valley.
It is not alone In Eastern Ore
gon that systems or auto-truck
lines will solve the transportation
problem, but in Western Oregon as
well.
Not only are auto-truck lines
feasible for points now remote
from the river, but they could be
made of great practical use by
points that already have railway
connection, for the reason that
they will serve as a natural check
in keeping down freight rates, and
be much more effective than the
Interposition of state regulation.
Especially will this be true when
the Willamette and upper Columbia
are fully opened to navigation and
the products of the great Inland
Empire brought to their banks by
auto-trucks.
A FEW SMILES
An old farmer who had driven into
the neighboring Tillage to make a few
purchases took hack
with j. him rather
more hard cider
than was consistent
with (careful driv
ing;. While going
down ! a steep hill
his horse stumbled,
fell flat In the road
and refused to get
up. The farmer
looked at him a
moment over the dashboard, then ex
claimed: "Git up, you Old foolt Qit
up, or 111 drive right over you!"
Everybody's Magazine, i
it
HIGHWAY ADORNMENT
F
I OR the same reason that a
new suit of clothes calls for
a new hat and new shoes a
new roadway demands better
houses. harna nnrl arinrlo t-rooa
The little man in Portland has The law is a natural one anrl its
jhad no leader for a generation, operation is seen in the meeting at
The great captains of capital in i Medford yesterday of the Women's
'Portland have had no concern in Club of that city at which was dis
Jhe activities that create industry i cussed the beautifying of the Pa
jlind employ labor. The command- 1 Cific Highway by planting shrub
Jcrs of wealth have looked more to bery, flowers and trees along the
irofits for themselves in real es- '. n
'ia.te.Hhah to the dividend paying ; While on this subject it might
Activities thftt give work to the ; be timely to suggest that in con
fworkers and forward the whole i nuMinn with th rnimKi ti.-.
u.'kvu vuv vuiuuiuin iv'YCl
community life. hiehwav stens should h taken tn
If only 30 or 40 or 50 young preserve the scenerv from defaee-
leaders could arise in Portland, ment by the advertising vandal.
Svhat a splendid thing it would be j Signs announcing cures for nil
THE GATENS STRICTURES
T
or the town!
Some time, they will be here.
nd the present brigadiers of
fwealth will be lost and forgotten
$n the music of the onward move-
(knent.
UNDERGRADUATE PUERILITY
diseases and where the best goods
can be obtained should not he al
lowed along the right of way.
THE BANKRUPTCY MENACE.
OW long should an University
preacher talk at chapel ex
ercises? This question led
At 1 1. . - A 1 111
k. y me oiuer uay 10 a Diner con
troversy at Princeton University.
it was almost as bitter as the one
tirred up by Aaron Burr nearly
ne hundred years ago when he
as caught playing marbles by his
rresbyterian tutors on Sunday.
It recorded of Queen Victoria
that she once listened patiently
fceveral hours to a preacher who
cCupied the pulpit at Windsor cas-
lie, but that on the following day
the sent him a finely wrought hour
Iflass whose sands ran out in pre
cisely thirteen minutes.
The undergraduates at Princeton
lo not possess the delicate cour
tesy and tact of the late queen.
iVhen the Reverend W. G. Thayer
t-an over the time limit of one
R
ECURRING deficits in French
budgets illustrate, Bays the
London Nation, the morass
into which militariasm has
driven 'that country. M. Caillaux,
minister of finance, la confronted
with the necessity of another gov
ernment bond issue to meet cur
rent expenses, for the deficit on
the 1914 budget will be $120,000,-
000, to which should be added
$30,000,000, which will be raised
by a short term loan..
Prance is approaching a financial
crisis, the worst that country has
faced since 1871, and militarism is
largely responsible for it. The
military establishment keeps about
700,000 able-bodied men from
gainful occupations, and requires
the actual workers to support this
vast army. M. Caillaux is seeking
new sources of revenue, and he
proposes, that the French system
of taxation be remodeled.
In a recent speech the minister
HERE has been criticism of
Judge Gatens for his strictures
at the Lents grange meeting
on the Oregon supreme court.
It is claimed that as a judge on
the bench he ought not to say
anything in derogation of the high
er court.
But who should say It? If a lay
man says it, the usual insistence
is that he doesn't know what he
is talking about. If a newspaper
says so, its motives will often be
questioned and its information
doubted.
A lawyer hesitates to criticize
because it may give offense to the
court and cause his cases trouble
whenever they reach the higher
tribunal. In view of all these con
siderations, if a judge cannot speak
his mind of a supreme court, who
can? If a court is too sacred for
its work to be questioned what
have we come to but idolatry?
Judge Gatens is not the only
judge who has criticized the vice
decisions. Three members of the
supreme court Itself signed the
critical dissenting opinion in the
case, written by Justice McNary.
They were Justices McNary, Mc
Bride and Eakin. The dissenting
opinion said:
Unless the principles laid down in
the Start case are overruled by the
court, they will remain a fruitful
source of embarrassment
In these words, Justice McNary
himself severely criticized the ma
jority opinion. H8 was right. The
majority justices by an indefensible
decision destroyed all chance" of
punishing the guilty participants in
the vice cases.
It was on the narrowest sort of
a quibble that the verdict of guilty
against Start was reversed in the
higher court. The majority opin
ion held that the trial judge erred
in not lnstrnctlng the jury to con
slder the testimony of Earl Van
Hulen as that of an accomplice, a
veritable quibble. It held that
the testimony of others who told
of Start committing similar of
fenses with them was not compe-
The Third Home Rule Bill
Portland, March 17. To the Editor
of The Journal For the third time in
27 years the English government has
tried to pay back a debt to the people
of Ireland, contracted through almost
tight centuries of misgovernment. And
for the first time it may be said a
bill has been drafted with a definite
purpose of doing Justice and giving fair
piay to Ireland.
"All government," said the great Ed
mund Burke, "indeed, every human
benefit and enjojrment. every virtue
and every prudent act, is founded on
compromise and barter." There is no
doubt that in the future flaws may be
round in the workings of the present
home rule bill, but it Is clear they will
arise rather from some difficulty of
the political situation than from an
honest desire to give the people of
Ireland an efficient method of govern
ing themselves. Premier Asqulth has
met grave difficulties in a manner that
is broad, sympathetic and statesman
like. A few days ago. with an Inno
cent looking concession the offer to
allow each county to reject or accept
the bill by a local option vote he
tore the mask off the northeast Ulster
reactionaries and exposed the very
weakness they tried to hide under a
gigantic bluff; for every intelligent
observer of the Irish problem knows
that Ulster, agriculturally, commercial
ly, industrially and financially, would
as soon cut itself away from the rest
of Ireland and isolate itself in a north
east corner under an unworkable sys- 1
tern of government, without precedent,
and a representation, say, of about
eight members in the imperial parlia
ment at Westminster, as against 69
members in an Irish parliament at
Dublin, 30 at least representing the
orange faction would as soon take
this step as to rise in rebellion, which
is threatened artd regarded as a Joke.
For it is well known that the true
voice of northeast Ulster is repressed
by the bullyragging tactics of a few
desperate Unionist agitators, powerful
in wealth and unprincipled In conduct,
who, in their heart of hearts, are fear
ful that their stupid fomenting of
racial and religious antipathies and
firebrand appeals, may bring along
something more serious than a few
street fights, and that the aim for the j
caste, prestige and retention of power
under Dublin Castle rule, that they are
trying to hold on to, may land them in
prison.
The cardinal principles of the govern
ment of Ireland bill are In brief"
Supreme authority of the imperial
parliament; confers on Ireland real au
tonomy in regard to Irish concerns;
an Irish parliament at Dublin, with a
senate and a house of commons, which
would have power to make laws for
the peace, order and good government
of Ireland; provisions to protect re
ligious equality; the Irish parliament
would not have the power to endow or
establish any religion, nor Impose any
disability on account of religion, nor
make any condition with regard to the
validity of any marriage; the, Irish
constabulary would be transferred to
the Irish parliament six years after
the passage of the act; the lord lieuten
ant of Ireland would have the power,
on behalf of the British executive or
parliament, to veto any Irish act that
was not In accordance with the terms
of the home rule bill; the Irish sen
ate to be composed of 40 members, in
the first instance to be nominated by
Britain, and as their positions became
vacant to be filled up by the Irish ex
ecutive; the Irish representative house
to be composed of 164 members, to be
elected by Irish constituencies, and
Ulster to have 69 members; provision
to be made for a Joint session between
the two houses " in case of disagree
ment; the lord lieutenant to be at the
hmd of the Irish executive; tne re
ligious disability as to the man selected
for the office to be removed and nis
annolntment to be set for a fixed term
of years; collection of all taxes to Te
retained as an imperial service, the
produce to be paid into the imperial
exchequer; an obligation on the Irish
parliament to pay the cost of the
Irish services for each year, but this
would be transferred from the imperial
to the Irish exchequer; a sum of 500,
000 pounds to be given to Ireland in
the first year, to be reduced to 200,000
pounds; the Irish parliament to have
power to impose Irish taxation on their
own; full power to devise taxation or
rates: customs and excise, in the first
Instance to remain with the Imperial
parliament, but power to be given to
the Irish parliament to vary the duties.
The Irish revenue, with the postof
flee receipts, was estimated at 7.700,-
000 pounds. The future representation
of Ireland under imperial control would
be 42 members, the government re
garding the retention of Irish repre
sentation in Westminster as essential
Under the government plan, Ireland
would have one member for every
100.000 of population. There would be
no University representation. . bx
eluded from the bill: The land pur
chase acts; old age pensions; postof
fice savings bank; publio loans made
before this act.
This, substantially, was the text of
the government of Ireland bill as In
troduced by Premier Asqulth at the
first reading.
During the past year. In his public
speeches, Mr. Asqulth baa repeatedly
declared that he will make no con
cessions involving the vital principles
of the bill. Threatening rebellion Is
an old game in Ulster politics. In
1827 the Orangemen conspired to de
pose William IV, to put the Duke of
Cumberland on the throne, and . to de
prive Princess Victoria-of her right 'of
succession; In 1869 they threatened
that If the church disestablishment act
were passed, to discrown the queen,
and kick her crown into the Boyoe.
In both cases they laid down when the
hoiir arrived to make good their
threats. J. HENNESSEY MURPHY.
Henry Cabot Lodge, , though his
family is one of the oldest in America,
has no sympathy- with those who
claim descent from
ana use the arms
of William the
C o n q u eror, Rich
ard Coeur de Lion,
Charlemagne, and
so forth. There are,
as everybody
knows, many such
persons.
At one of the
New England so-
clety dinners In New York a young
man. twirling the Hohensollern crest
upon his watch chain, said to Senator
Lodge:
"How far can your ancestry be
traced?"
"I'm tempted to answer you in the
words of Smythe," said Senator
Lodge. "Smythe, you know, when
this question was put to him, replied: ",f,K,
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
8lAXXi CHAXGK
Miss Sorinc la wearinc of the trccn.
all right.
Young Mrs. MeAdoo to be will have
to do a lot of stepmothering.
"Votes for women" has nrlal air.
nlficance to tile women candidates.
s
No doubt Carranxa. takes h1mlf tn
be the world's greatest statesman.
s s
The express companies are doubt
less rich enough to retire comfortably,
s s
L W. W.'s can boast truly of being
quite successful in causing consider
able trouble.
This is the time of year when the
voters should get their seeds from
their faithful congressman.
Two daughters of a president mar
ried from the White House will break
all former precedents, but there may
oe inree yet.
From the primaries In April to th-?
election in xvovemoer manes a cam
paign so long as to amount to i
nuisance.
An all-women church has been
rounded in Liverpool: the members
it is supposed, . do not consider mere
men s souls worth saving.
Many people will be much obliged
to the N. P. railroad officials for
treir sensible ruling -of less noise by
ineir locomotive wnisties.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Friends of the Bandon publio 11-
IN EARLIER-DAYS
By "Fred Lock ley.
The Astorian asks if It is not about
time "to be thinking- of not only one
cleanup day In Astoria, but of several
Sherwood is soon to see Its post
office housed in separate quarter In
a new building, for which plans are
they had to have thj money, as they
were in a bad place tf'ehiselves, and tn
fact the bank itsets i failed shortly
Turning that 400,000 acres of land
unnecessarily included in a central
Oregon forest reserve over to settlors
so help Oregon some.
When my great - grandfather sud
denly resigned his position as casmer There is still som lustice for hut
in a Boston bank they traced him as bands in the land: a Judge reduced the
far as Borneo, but he got away." "
alimony to be paid by a henpecked man
rrom fi to one cent a week.
It was morning In Grassvllle. An
old citizen and a
young one met and
this conversation
took place:
"H o w'r e you
making out at the
opera house?"
"We turned
if
away last night."
"G'wan."
By Herbert Corey.
Colonel Goethals' photographs show
him wearing a smile. Those who do
r.ot know him usually feel that smile
'm i is a card-indexed affair as though
it was no use burnln1
house."
Goethals had reached one hand into
his mental file cala and Dulled out
"Fact. Sixteen of smile, and worn that smile con-
em. Manager said 8cientiously until it fell to pieces.
e. i .But tnose wno imnx ne nai nu
sense of humor are wrong," said a
young army officer. 'Quite, wrong. Ho
can smile when no one else can spread
a up."
The young army officer was a com-
"Just after the Civil war, mother
brary are planning to give a dramatic 10 acres of her ,,4 80 acre here
entertainment some time in the last on Council Crest to J; 't. Fort for $10
"teK ol April. I . CP- and took out all. 11600 In rr.
The YoncaUa Times has emerged ' Pnter work." said Mli Ella Talbot of
from an eclipse and is henceforth to be Portlahd. "Mr. Fort built a house for
puDusnea oy ueorge w. uraaiey Jr . mother In Portland da Second street,
who, pledge, himself "to stay on the tvn Madison and aferson street:
. . M.ik.. i a ,
MAviurr iiryi iter 4u avrss, uui it waa
quite a care to her. sf; when the Port
land cable road wasbiiilt she agreed
to take stock In it k'lid pay for the
stock in land. They valued her land so
low. however, that lihcj borrowed the
money on the land fta paid for her
stok In f-mh ThSrtifttA rnml
being made. The annual Income of the jto the hands of a receiver. The hard
office is H00. m timea Qf . and .jjjenn., and lney
The Business Men's club of Canby foreclosed on our placf-.l securing a dc
has taken up a large tree planting ' flclency Judgment ot ;$SOO0. Tou see
scheme, it is proposed to make canoy i the Dekum bank mfide the loan and
HIV? UCDV IWWIl, ftIUUIC4l, m cue vv it-
lamette valley.
Lakevlew Examiner: Snrlnr haa
came" and the fish are bitin. Quite after this. Before this mother had
a few of the speckled beauties are be- bonded 110 acres of Irier 220 acres for
ing brought to town from the creeks $200,000. but being Stable to raise a
on Slash, and it is reported that some ,,, Ja. k tw
trout are being caught from the 1 1"wun' of mo "V took the
streams on the west side. , whole place for a loap; which was not
a tithe of the v&lud jof the property.
Wheeler's rapid progress has carried Before this, however; -mother had sold
the town to a point that makes peril- j 10, now the heart of? fcpuncil Crest, to
nent this interrogatory, in the Re-1
porter: "How about that fire depart- j & ?.eal for 25 H? . .
ment in Wheeler? Wouldn't it be In j It ws he who nade the first im
order to start a movement to perfect . provement on Counci jCrest. He cleared
an organisation, of this kind at the j the timber on the te ;of the hill and
earliest- momentrj ! put out ,n orchard jji$d built a house,
Robert Templeton. Just three montM!",tl!n bought 20 res more, wnlch
less than 90 years old. is employed as j Include practically Jl. of the present
a farm hand on the ranch of Charles Council Crest park. ie.was very much
Crouch of Haynes Inlet, according to ! Interested in prohiltion. He mort
ie C?.B2y T,me8-.am! 1" M,d to,be gaged his 30 acres fotellOOO to put Into-
wan is such In the United States, i . PaE.er c"npd ff imperance Mar.
rue Temperance Blair; set, of It railed
to rise, or It was eclipsed, or something
happened to it. 'so iat Mr. Beal lost
V. I irtAn . 1 K . . .
closed. He lost his M acres on the top
' of Council Crest. Hj !. was away at the
are the more completely useless they ""Vne morl"Ke lorecioaeo. una
arebetween Coney Islands aeasons. j he always claimed tf at the transaction
Thomas W. Lawson ha8 a herd of was Illegal, as ths topers were never
bulldogs playing the Big Time on tha served on him. Hqver. he and all
Canine Circuit. Any one of them ha the re8t of hls famgyjbut two grand
cost as much as a nice farm. They i children are dead ad ! gone, so I sup
have been eugeniaed Into Idiocy. Turnl pose nothing will eer be done about
nn rf- th,B hAnrh.UrrM ihnvol. t It. ;
Jawed Jokes into the street and he'd
wages as such in the United States
He has saved nis money and is finan
cially independent.
WHEN GOETHALS LAUGHED OUT LOUD
tides have appeared in the papers of
this city discussing the question
whether or not the Hay-Pauncefote panion of Goethal's son, "Bunny." at
treaty guarantees the same privileges West Point. But he was a year ahea-I
to all nations on an equal footing wtth of Bunny, and therefore obligated to
the United States In the use of the harry the plebe at all times. He was
Panama canal. I have read and re- on uard at the gate one night when
read that treaty, and it seems to me
that in the game of diplomacy the
British got the best of us in that deal.
Now comes the question: Shall we as
a nation live up to the provisions of I H'rup!"
"Bunny" appeared, all dressed up like
a first tenor.
"Hah," said the future army offi
cer, unpleasantly. "Our evening suit?
Well. well. And our white gloves?
that treaty, or take advantage of a
technicality and repudiate our Just ob
ligation. Of course some will say we
built the canal with our own money
and In our own territory and we should
run it to suit ourselves, which is ex
actly what the writer stands for, but
can we as a great nation afford to
break that treaty and thereby give the
die in a week. Four dollars' worth
of hide, $2 worth of wrinkles, and a
quarter's worth of dog make a blool
'In the foreclosurf? f our mortgage
there was a strip 3 00 feet long, 64
feet wide at one end! and 65 feet wide
at the other that 2as not Included
So that Plebe Goethals h'ruped dili
gently for 15 minutes. When his tl
had slipped over his ears and his col
lar was a wet, yellow rag, he was per- I
mitted to salute and depart. Outside
the gate a gray-haired man who had
been watching proceedings, said:
Lo, son. i
"Lo, dad," said Plebe Goethals, un
smiling. Inside the gate the future
hound. His virtue is that he realizes in the land mortgaged.; The house was
this fact That'a why he suffers from J on this strip and tl we were going
chronic melancholia. to retain. Leland aed Burrage. the old
The Bealyham terrier was originally J surveyors, had survjf ed this place, and
a grand little dog. He is being bred there had never bceqj'ahy dispute about
by rule into a cripple. The modern ! our title to it. Th people who fore
st. Bernard is Just a splay-footed, ! closed the mortgageflasked my mother
flabby flea garage. He's only fit to ! to sign a paper to straighten the
be killed for beef. And the toy dogs, j boundary line so thps) title to her land
with their little pink tongues for- would be more seourA a well as theirs,
ever lolling out of their little dripping j She did so, and then Hie surveyor moved
mouths, and their little women for- I the old boundary stJaa under the claim
ever wiping their little snouts with ! that the first surveyor was wrong, and
their lace-edged handkerchiefs Lord, my mother found t&M she had signed
preserve us!
Why doesn't someone start a mutt
circuit, and s'-iow some real dogs?
nations of the world an opportunity t army officer enjoyed a vista of him
attack the Monroe Doctrine? I self walking back to his corn' field
I believe we are In honor bound to I home, carrying his shoes between
live up to conditions called for in that towns. He had smashed a regulation
treaty till its time expires. Wilson I Goethels In a martinet. This hideous
and Bryan are the two men In tho plebe was Goethals' beloved son. The
lght place and the honor of the nation chain of thought Was slckeningly easy
may be safely left in their keeping, I to follow. Colonel Goethals looked
not only in the matter of the Panama j from Plebe Goethals, warm and red.
canal, but also of the many momen- I to the future army officer, red and
tous questions of the day. For :t I cold. And then he laughed and
must be understood this government is laughed and laughed
called upon to solve greater problem I "The best." he gasped, "the very
than existed a decade ago and It re-1 best I aver saw or listened to."
quires wise and careful statesmen to I So Goethels went away. The fu-
guide the ship of state to a safe haven, f ture army officer remained on guard
For many years politics, and corrupt I at gate, listening to the ice breaking
at tnai, reigned supreme, but a better I up in nis circulation.
era has dawned and the common peo
ple of the United States will have to
be shown before the friendship of Eng
land and America can be broken by
little controversy concerning the Pan
ama canaL International affairs re
quire wise statesmanship and Wilson
and Bryan are the men for the Job.
JAMBS SALMON.
1
. Thinks Wilson Bight on Tolls.'
Portland, March 17. To the Edlto:
of The Journal- For several weeks ar
Most New York funerals are in
human affairs. Tbey are too scien
tifically efficient and big-cltlfled. The
deceased either rolls to his last home
in an automobile hearse the chauffeur
away all rights, anj the lawyers tell
me that the statutepf limitations has
run against It.Qb I fon't know whether
I can ever have mjg' property restored
or not. It may be feicorrect legal pro
ceeding, but it certfiniy lo not correct
from a moral standgplnt. ,r
"I was one of th first students to
attend St. Helens FEall- I was there
the opening day. Thiers were 60 of us
hitting all the bumps, the minister i
praying, the quartet singing, the wifjI-hAn St Helens Hail bDened its door
weeping, and the four friends on the I The first boardingihsludent was Ella
last seat wondering what Is happening chadwlck. Here tny old National
to tne market or else ae Jinguj Vifh Reader To& isee it is dated
No doubt the science of eugenics is
a line tning. Hut just as you have
convinced yourself that babies ahpuld
be bred to measure you visit the New
York or Boston or Philadelphia dog
shows and see what practical eugenics
have accomplished. Then you g)
briskly along the avenue ahead of one
carriage, in which the Janitor and
three friends are getting the air. But
during the snow blockade of the last
few weeks a weird and unusual note
has been struck.
On the upper west side the cross
streets slant down toward the North
river at a lively grade, which usually
prompts one-o'clock-ln-the-mornlng
motorists to cut out the muffler. It
September 6, 1868. jC suppose 'that was
the day St. Helen' i Hall opened. I
was 15 years old a. that time.
"I never have Uvea In a rented house
but four months 6j imy life, and I
don't want to start snow. I have lived
in this house everVejnce it has been
built. This house tiaed to be covered
with Ivy. When JoBOin Miller visited
us he said it was isore like some old-
world. Ivy-covered c&stle than an Amer-
move
""..,""r . xu""..l "8iican house, but thy- made me
And people thoughtlessly went on dy- j tne hohu" f'ftm ' th?i h d
'S'nu .lm... " nSHr
day one might see a hearse stranded I wasj P 'Xl Jo?
at the Broadway crossing. And then. Mt. Hood and the J
if one were sufficiently curious or they have been lic&M that I have en-
sufflciently heartless to wait on watch Joyed all of my lle
Dollar and a Half a Day.
Portland, March 17. To the Editor
of The Journal In last Friday's Jour
nal there was an article on the unem
ployed at the Gipsy Smith auditorium,
stating that the men there don't want
work. Now, to any fair minded em
ployer, does $1.60 per day seem rea
sonable when they have to pay 26 cents
per meal, which amounts to $5.25 for
one week, leaving them $3.75 for one
week's work, out of which they have
to buy clothes, shoes and sundry ar
ticles and save a little for living ex-1
penses when they are out of work? I ti
Tt fa ansh TL- a tr &m that ficcrtnnt fA
the large number of men that cannot hooting out and throw a rock through
tr,r- m nio-ht'-. inriHnr when ths I some laboratory window.
ar out of work. If emmovers would Most men remember some Cheery,
only take into consideration the Honest, niPPr "ttle mutt smart
amount of mnnew it ensta fnr their wn enOUgh tO take Care Of himself, Wlll-
living expenses and compare it with n to hunt anything from a rabbit
th wao-ea th.v wurit tn nav th wnrir to a tramp, and with a mania for
ing man. they would soon see that a ?nolnS a wet nfse i" nls masters
man cannot live In this country at the "w"3- Th eugenics dogs aren't that
low rat. of nav thev offer even thousrh 601-1 at all. They wTieexe and slobber
4
ISA
The Ragtime Muse
and enarl. The more highly bred they
one would see a melancholy little
party come stumbling and slipping up
the Ice-covered pavement. Sometimes
the janitor was called on to help the
Little Potty' Pom.
romn!ce.
Sometimes when iti a rainy day
, And I can t go ou"4 play
I like to make belWve that I m
A princess like in olden time
That's locked up 1; a lofty tower
I And I will sit thereby the hour
I And ring my handstand look around
I To see if I can har a sound
i Like some bold hero's charger's feet
Come prancing nearer aown tne street.
And often times when I have spied
A cat or something else outside
I make believe that Jt Is he
The prince that coines to rescue me.
And then I lift thj: window high
And lean out from'fhe sill and cry
"Hist! hist!" and make up talk to say
Ami nlan how I shall get away.
It s lots oi run ana yet anow
city-muscled pallbearers carry the j U't V?1 I
By John M. Osklson.
(Copyright. 1914, by J. G. Lloyd.)
I read the other day this Incident of
a man couia De empioyea tne year
round. It is a hard thing for all men
to find steady employment and it is
such small pay as H. P. Cunningham
offered that makes men think they
would sooner starve loafing than
starve working, and he said he would
not go to the auditorium again looking
M 1-
ior wurnors. i . . . . s - .
Now I haven't seen the men there. Dln imance as prac.cea in. a smau
but I think almost all of them would Kansas town:
go to work If they were offered rea-1 A man wanted a ticket to Kansas
sonable pay, so that they could put a I City and had only a $2 bill, while the
little aside for such an emergency as fare ia $2.25. It was 15 minutes before
they nave just passeo . inrougn. I trai tlma -na . m-n hustled over
TTT1T T T . . . 1 l TTT ti. I -
vv v Luxuu. I . n.ornaKnn- inA "antkixl" that IS
1.111 1 cn Than ha UI A a friend
Crown of Thorns and Panama. and 4 'the pawn ticket for another
Portland, March 17. To the Editor I i .so. Then, of course, he had $3; the
of The Journal Since the Panama ca- I money lender had the $Z bill as secur
nal represents such a stupendous piece ity for $1.50 loan, and the friend
of labor, why not interview secretary
Bryan on the feasibility of "pressing Well, the first time I read that ac-
the crown or thorns upon tne brow 01 1 count of the Kansas man s venture m
labor," In the present crisis? 1 high finance, I couldn't see how any
A kisauek. cna 0e the three was stung. I had
to sav over to myself that you can t
ODDoses Statewide ifomniuon. 1 S3 for $: unless some one gets
Twtianrt March 17. To the Editor stung then I ngurea it out siowiy
of The Journal Statewide prohibition 1 that it would be the friend who was
in Oregon at the present time would I stung wnen no came to reaeem u
be a calamity. It would cause morel $2 bill.
trouble than it would cure. To send If you are an investor wrawn i
c.ti.i4 rin w vnt-ea from Tamhill I noasess money which isn't working.
ta r-m nmti would b bout mm 1 vou are KOing to be approached with
sensible as If It were sent dry by votes I financial propoiun
rrom lowa ana niorui uaaoia. i wma --
The license system Is wrong ffom
ton to bottom, but as we have local l mnt" as the leading plank of a can
option and unaer Jt every community i aldate'g platform is an Insult to tbe
may -go ary. it w. up ro tnose wno .nlne. of th. voters and -the
t their community ary to eaneaie i , - , . . ..,..
11 n their standard. Tne flrv sen LI- 1 it is an wu"
ment of one community cannot enforce j In of Ifce do not try to enforce the
nrohlhltion In another community I laws and an implication mat an oiners
where the sentiment is strongly aniv-i seeKing oxiice ao nut mienu t vuey
nrohlbltion. . I or enforce the laws.
"Law enforcement" has been adopted I Every candidate .wno is in mat seu-
as the slogan of a large number of I righteous holier-than-thou frame of
individuals who are eager to sacrifice I mind should be repudiated! in the prt-
themselvea for tbe good of the state. I marles by the voters of each party.
The puttlnrf forward of law enforce-1 w. H. ADDIS
the casket came a relative or two and
a friend or two. And kneedeep in the
snow, eyes and mouths open, gaped
the inevitable gathering vultures
waiting to pounce on grief.
A CERTAIN FORM OF HIGH FINANCE
so
To b a Drincess la-: a tower
And have to sit the;ey the hour
And ring my fair; white hands ana
grieve ?J S
Z much prefer to make believe
(Copyright. 1914 by. T. A. Daly)
of second mortgage bonds, collateral
trust bonds, or debentures securities
which follow first mortgage bonds. In
every issue of this sort lies the pos
sibility of Just the sort of high fi
nancing practiced by the Kansas man.
As a matter of fact, the friend could
have loaned the owner of the pawn
ticket safely Just the difference be
tween what he would have to pay the
pawnshop man and the $2 perhaps, 49
cents.
In the same way, the Inventor who
is asked to lend money on tbe se
curity of a second mortgage or any
security which follows after the first
claim upon it is asked to find out
what exactly would be left to satis
fy his claim after the claim of the first
lender Is satisfied.
In certain of our great corporations
notably in the case of certain rail
roads this very principle of selling
Pointed R&ragraphs
Of eourse It Is hfss trouble to make
enemies than frlenaj but friends are
worth the trouble.' i
When a woman ,Vnslder8 her hus
band a necessary teVil marriage is a
failure.
114
Some people seep t think a philan
thropist merely arj-Jeasy mark.
3-! .
more
Often a womanf ; silence is
significant than a;Jbian's words,
ii! 1
The open seasoifilfior office hunting
Is 12 months long.f.j .
What tha wlaeat 'iif us anv la of far
less Importance tfjin What we leave
unsaid. j:i i
- y
If it is true thai there are no mar
riages ill heaven, HJie old bachelors
Oppose Dr. Harris' Views.
Salem, Or., March IS. To the Editor
of The Journal Dr. May Harris tells
the hopgrowers what to do with their
hop fields, as the first step toward
persecution by these religious fanatic.
She says the breweries can be con
verted into horse stables. Oliver
Cromwell converted churches Into
stables.
Prohibition is neither temperancs
nor liberty. ' JXME8 FARRIER.
Tf
SJE ITI U thy get tbercH-won't be able to
value "oV th7 VnuiVv' nV:;enr ha! ow over the oth fellows.
been brazenly followed. You Investors j
have fallen for the game Just as the j
Kansas man fell for it. !
It Is absolutely necessary to analyse
Into Its simple elements every invest
ment offered.
SUNDAY jEATURES
Tbe Sunday Jcmal Magazine
offers these Idmpellins; fea
tures for somen readers
each Sundaj f
Patterns for teLhome dress
maker. jj
Suggestions for-; the needle
woman. 4 i
Hints on home ' economy.
Talks on health and beauty.
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