THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING, : APRIL 10. 1914.
THE JOURNAL
AM INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER"
8. JACKSON
.Publisher
Cabllabcd -t venln- (rvt Sniulsyl
ry Honrtr mornlnc t Tbs Joomal BolM-
Ins. Broadway and Tjblll sf .. Prtln. Or.
JCmersd at the postntflce at Portland. Or., tor
traaamtoaloa . Uiroasb . co
rlM natter.
lfcLXHONES-M.ts -7178; Boa. A51-!!
dpartnnts r-he4 by the" numbers. i
th fprii tor what diwirtmwTt wain.
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PfnJ.mln hsotnor Co.. Bninawlca. 'a;;
Kit ri(U Ara.. Nw Sorb; 121 Fsopls
' Us Bldif.. Chl-ro.
. Hubscrlptioa lirai by maU a t any
.trass la tba United Ststea Maxlco
On year..
On year..
One year..
nirt.v
.....13.00 One month. ... B0
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$2.60 I On njawKu...."' -a
DAILY AND SONDAT.
$7.60 I One month;... ....a
mart. It is here that presidential
influence ! and senatorial courtesy
wield their greatest power. If a
nominee is unfit his' unfitness
should - be a matter of free and
open debate Just' the same "as
though he were a candidate for an
elective office. If full publicity
were given, the appointing power
would hesitate 'to nominate other
than those who are of proved abil
ity, character and' experience. If
full . publicity were ,' given, ap-
I poln tees who do not possess these
qualifications, - would. . hesitate to
accept- a nomination that would
lead to' their exposure. If full pub
licity were, given, deserving-; men
would not be stabbed in the back.
Still In the rignt nana car.,
gentle peace,
TO silence envious tongue.
Be Just and fear not:
Let all the ends thou aim st
at be thy country's.
Thy God's, and truth's.
Shakespeare.
ANOTHER DARKLING PLOT
I
THE SHOPLIFTERS
N
N A Washington news ; dispatch
that seems a noble example of
Oregon-made goods, the, Tele
gram tells us Chamberlain,
Bourne and . West-: have entered
Into a political combination.
Isn't it awful, the way Bourne
and Chamberlain and West act?
Is there no rest for poor mor
tals? Just when Oregon people,
have a department of public health I kings, money kings and land kings )
on a par with those of the large t will soon be at hand
cities."
Tne cooperative wea is. gaining , " . . i Th. weaithv old ladvwa. verr in
grottnd. It is to be used in fl- wnn nign Bcnooi, tnis cuy. w-1 and -ent for -hep Uwyer to njke hr
A FEW SMILES
nancin the farmer; , it has proved! morrow night. He Is one of the,wnL
its worth In marketing his prod4 ewmpiea 01 me man Dora u
nets. Massachusetts Is now, dem-i wealth, but full of warm blooded
onstrating that cooperation is pos- impulse for the welfare of m&n-
sible In promoting public healthj kind In hlm there is wel"
and-in doing so is establishing the J v.uanty or. laeausm .wnere
fact that all progress depends upon 1 8tron commercialism might have
nnltd action hv neonl with the been expected. The meeting Is
same problems to solve. AlBO to be addressed by Judge Mc-
I
AN EXPLODED FALLACTf
Ginn, and it should be an evening
of mental pleasure.
T IS apparent that woolgrowers When Portlanders mortgage
. i. a - . i . i mi if i ir i v m.iiib i in v av i x ii i - t- afiii ran
are not to oe suimpeaea ,w ; u' JZ .X",' " Ta L I stood on ne foot, inclined his wooly
sacrifices in selling tneir output j- " ..v. v lIlea(j rar to on6 8lde
I wish to explain to you." she said
weakly. . "about dis-"
posing of my prop
erty." The lawyer was
sympathetic.
"There, there,, don't
worry about it," he
said soothingly, "Just
leave It to me."
"Oh. well." said
the old lady resignedly. "I suppose I
might as well. You'll get It anyway."
: Gus Miller, a traveling man, .paused
to watch a small colored youth who
thia vpr. Tho oll hncvl of I "u wlwn vuey see xne lax money ; ana pounded vigor
i.. thus paid denosited the day of Day-1 ously on I his skull
wool tariffs has lost its power. It
ment in a bank to He unused for
was a fake, as is thoroughly estab- nearly or even a year, does it not
occur to tnem tnat it would be a
good thing to adopt the plan long
advocated by The Journal of quar-
O KFFORT should be spared , the midst of a favorable 'seed
to completely uhcoyer tne;tlme ftre iooklng forward to' a
department store we bountiful harvest and a Season of
tviom Yxt failure 10
apply adequate penalties.
Shoplifting is a costly business
for which the public has ulti
mately to pay. The department
store must, of necessity charge it
up to the loss account.Mt Is known
- that the thefts often reach a large
sum in the course of a year. The
merchants cannot afford to pocket
the entire loss, and must, of neces
eity, take It into account as one
of the expenses to be met in the
natural course of business. '
Sometimes there is disposition to
be lenient with the practice. Sym
pathy is expressed because the
thefts are by women.
Why not also have some sym
pathy with the shop girl, at least,
with the honest shop girl, of
whom there are thousands? Every
peace, this nefarious plot falls over
the land. '
It 1b even a. more fearsome men
ace than is the Democratic plot in
the Republican game commission,
though the latter scheme is more
dire than Kansas grasshoppers,
twelve-yey loedfets, measles, or the
tango.
But it is nothing compared to
this dreadful combination between
Chamberlain, West and Bourne. If
lished by the present market con
ditions. A market report in
Portland nanei- cava-
The wool market Is undeniably terl? collection of taxes?
strong. That the spirit is not wholly -
speculative is shown by the pressure In their disappointment over
of representatives of Eastern mills in their failure to elect a councilman
the field. At least three such agents -t rhi !-,,.- f, ,
are operating, in Oregdn, and they " , g Tuesday the women
are picking up every lot they can get. Politicians of Chicago may find
In the past few days, contracts consolation" In the. returns from
have been, made in Eastern Oregon f"" lDeif lsters neipea
at 15 cents. At points- along the
Columbia river In Washington,
sales have been made at 13 H to
16 'cents. In Idaho, buyers are
offering and paying 18 cents, while
in Montana growers are holding
for 20.
to elect reform tickets in Skag-
way and Ketchikan.
What
with the paint of his
right band.
"Jlell, kid!"
grinned the drum
mer, whose memory
was carried back to
his own boyhood
days by the familiar action,
are you doing?"
"Got watah in mah ear," announced
the boy.
"Dh-ho,T laughed the drummer.
know Just how that is. 1 often have
felt like that after being in swim
mlng."
. "Swimmin' nuffin'!" the youth, ex
claimed, disdainfully. "Ah been eatln1
watahmlllyun." Harper's Magazine.
Letters From the People
(Communication tent to The Journal for
publication, in thia department abould be writ
ten On Only one aids nf ho nanr ahnald nnt
It is a gOOd thing that the Old I eiceed SOO words In length and must be ac-
n. A . . t . i , VJ iue mb8 ana maareaa i toe
iniiauco auvut wuui uae uccu e-1 senaer . it the writer doea not desire to
Dloded by cractical demonstration. I hTe 0,9 Baine puwiahed, he abouid an autefi
z - - i
They were used by buyers to beat "Diacnasion u
tha srMtM ttt all rfAraa
down prices of the raw product. 'tH"tt'T,ii!L, 'L'JI
a combine of these three persons The story of the millions that have lb-row tnen b " their reasonableness, if
should be effected, icebergs might been taken, by the process, out of crusherhem ut 'i ei and aeu uTtS
walk through the alfalfa ilelds; po-1 tne pockets or producers will never S',mJr tMU Btea1- wooorow
tato blight fall unon the corn, the I be told
people be reduced to a fell and.dark- J Renorts from Eastern Oreeon In- Tne Hopyard Wage Earner.
ling servitude, and Maine go Dem- dieate that growers thoroughly un- L, ,Uand .Aprtl To th Editor of
ocratic. - derstand conditions and are not o- V' f Z??d
ing to make sacrifices in their who earns money in the hop yard has
the dreadful tidings may not be sales through fear of the reduced 10 spend a part of it for beer. There
true. Four vears aeol In the cam- tariff. They will hold their clln. are hundreds that earn the hop money
- new Instance of Bhopllfting tends ; p&lgB tne B&me publication made and insist on receiving full value amure&Tk
to get wrong ana cuaiuneu imyivB-
eions into the public mind. Though
wholly, unwarranted, it operates to
a certain extent to direot suspicion
to shop girls as a class, an impu
tation that, as a class, they do not
deserve.
It is a business that ought to
bo stopped. For the sake of the
public, the department stores and
the shop girls, every possible ex
pedient should be adopted that may
aid in breaking it up. The dis
trict attorney's office and all au
thorities concerned can render high
service in the present instance by
an effective application of the
probe and prosecution.
am sure, for T knnw tVnt tha rnnirut
the solemn announcement of a das- for it, which means a price much prohibitionists are very glad to get
tard combine of this pestiferous in advance - of the figures of laBt tnat money for the coming winter
trio. Chamberlain was to help year. J"- "h?'fi:1 a flor barrel
nr i nr j. i. . i . that otherwise would be empty. .
vvcai, yvcbi. wan iu uc.p ouuxiic, Th nrn),1hltlnnc. i.v.
West was to help Chamberlain, CAUSE -EFFECT the fanatical idea that hops are used
Chamberlain was to help Bourne, I i j for nothing but beer making. How
Bourne was to help West for all f T , mas.es nign taxes t in- aDout tne yeast, for bread making?
second term and so on and so on. 1A eiuciency, waste ana iacK , -XT' "71 i!
West didn't help Bourne, , but 7 BUPrYisiou. Many peo- I debilitated system than that made
supported Lane. Bourne isn't a Pie oeiieve tnat waste ex- from the hop. Take any country even
candidate now and is not sup- sa because of favoritism and where beer is used as a beverage, and
ported by West! West isn't backed aft. The truth Is that graft and I Jf threv
by Bourne.. West is not a candi- favoritism abound because waste 9 StSr iacklnVecauf;
is toieratea. waste is primary. I thev us the hotwxtrrt in pn,i.n.t
A certain congressman had - a dis
astrous experience in gold mine epecu
latlons. : One day a number of his
colleagues were dis
cussing the subject
of speculation when
one of them said to
this western mem
ber: 1
"Old chap, as an
expert, give us a
definition of the
term 'bonanza.' "
"A 'bonanza'," replied the western
man with emphasis. "Is a hole in the
ground owned by a champion liar!"
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANG K ; -. '- ,
OldiBol Is the-great resurrectionist. '
Repalrlnr started in early oa the
Broadway bridge.
Huerta Is happy vet: Villa la still a
long way off.- ' r- -
Just think what low taxes there will
be hereafter. 1
The! old weatfier "normal' seems to
be out of data. ,
Make It really a Good Friday and
other (Fridays, too.
Beware the restaurants, if any. that
buy and serve those Chinese egg.
Can the state be saved only by a
unanimously Republican legislature?
One candidate has withdrawn: a good
example for some others to loilow.
! 1 1
Now. you fellows, don t beamong
the impecunious! unemployed next win
OKKGUN SIDELIGHTS
The first straw hats of the season
made their appearance In Baker last
Monday.
The Pendleton Est Oregonlan thinks
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred : LAckley.
"I can se how an Indian feels about'
treaties with the white race," said Cy
Mulke, an Oregon pioneer of IMS,
now Uvlng at Roseburg. "The white
I man wii; keep the treaty and not break
that -little old, snu.ouo snouia oe ao.jj his word as long as there is money In
10 erect a lainy iuiwdi iwr uu , lt for hlm .- But th41 minut. lt ,uit-
lng for the largest town of Its sis iu
tne world."
Eugene, has voted a half mill tax to
support a municipal band. It is esti
mated this should yield f 4500 a year.
for him.
the white man's convenience," or the'
moment it is profitable to break the '
treaty, he will do o. But the Indians
have a high sens of honor. They also ,
have the characteristic of wanting to
The fund will be available to and after j avenge an Insult,- to get veo on the
i ; 1 man wno has wronged than. . They
lr. In trlk.. . .. .1 k.lw.l n
Th spring tid of travel through .If " "w
If a Black foot kills en of another
ter.
1
The morning paper has turned pessi
mist again; a campaign is approach
ing. j . . . j -
Love may come and love may go.
but the installment collector is more
persistent. . i
-1 . i
Th preachers try to do people good;
encourage them by going to church
Sundays. ;
L r
A doctor says that there are only
1000 flies in Portland. He must have
overlooked a few.
I ;
Perhaps nothing disgusts a girl more
than to have a young man make a
bluff at kissing: her.
Salem, according to th Journal, iias
exceeded expectation; every Incoming
and outgoing car over the Oregon Klec
trie la filled to capacity.
Tencalla has voted charter amend
ments providing .for raising th city
debt HmitxXrom S1000 to $2000. for
biennial Instead of annual elections.
lor changing the election - eat irom
April to December, and for a method of
street improvement.
Postmaster Wise, of Astoria, has
temporarily established a parcel post
delivery in the- east end of the city
in order to determine what amount of
business the department can handle. It
th business Justifies a special service
win De maintainea.
The federal reclamation service has a
large force cleaning out canals and
doing necessary repairing In order to
be able to turn water into th main
canal or the Klamath project by May 1
The Adams ditch enlargement is near
ly completed, the Northwestern states.
and it will b possible to irrigate all
of the acreage under the ditch this
i season. .
THE HUMOROUS SIDE OF AN EARTHQUAKE
viaers, or of any others who engage In i
mental labor for the good of man, in
stead of physical labor.
It is good to not that In all the cen
sure, there la no criticism of Christ's
character and leadership. They all
believe in him, In part, at least. But
why only In part? If he teaches truth
about love for our neighbors, why not
when he puts first the love of God? If
It Is truth when he says, "Woe to the
hypocrites," is it not when he says.
Take up thy cross and follow me?"
If it la truth when he teaches of God
as our father; why not when he speaks
of the devil as our enemy? It ne
teaches truth about heaven, the reward
of the faithful disciple, what is lt
when he speaks of fiery punishment
and a great gulf fixed between the
good and the bad?
Those ! who try to follow Christ's
whole teachings awhile will be less
censorious of others who are trying to
KOTIIIN'G NEW
date. Chamberlain didn't help
Bourne, but stumped for Lane.
Since
called, didn't blight the crops or
obliterate the harvest, and since
the fell game commission hasn't
Graft and bad politics are second-1 Pur beer Is used as the great eystemJ
Duuaer, Dy medical authority, and I
T
THOSE who delve into the rec
ords of the past are continu
ally verifying the old saying
of Solomon that there is
nothing new under the -sun. Even
the modern skyscraper is an imi
tation of the tower of Babel, on
the authority of a London minu
ter, who holds up its fate as a
warning to tne present generation
of men. The Babylonians erected
this famous building with pride
and ambition in their hearts. It
was this that caused God to level
lt with the sands of the desert.
While it has not yet been found
that ancient civilizations had any
thing to compare with the Pana
ma canal, there was the genius who ; ent.
carved out the Sphinx. There was
also in Abraham's time an artificial
lake, one tenth the size of Lake
Erie. Around Jericho there were
triple lines of fortifications 30
feet In height, erected on a con
crete foundation. Of- the seven
great epochs of art -through whii?h
the human race has passed three
became history before Moses was
born. : i
Discovery was made recently
that when Nebuchadnezzer's king
dom departed from him and he
was driven from men and com
pelled to eat grass like an ox, he
fed on alfalfa during his period of
mental aberration.
It is probable that alfalfa can
be traced back to the Garden, of
, Eden. At any rate it appears that
Its valae as a forage plant has
been known from the dawn of civ
ilization. The plant, it Is said, was
carried into Greece from Persia
in 490 B. C, Introduced into Rome
in 146 B. C. and taken Into France
and Spain a few years later, al
though some writers hold that
.Julius Caesar was responsible for
Its introduction, into those ooun
- tries. Spain carried it to Chile and
from Chile it was brought to Cali
fornia sixty years ago.
Today no single plant is pro-
ii. j m I a TV Wnstn 1 a rgnta flro ft 4m at.
tue iormer imnce, - " " " . .7 . . take the stand with Mr. ri,mw, .
teci. waste . is sou ana jjeea. Graft of the ablest writers Oeion ha. ever
Is fruit. The best way to abolish known, that lt is a wrong . idea to
Kraft is to eliminate waste. Tn vote out the saloon on those arrounds
yet bloodied the moon, may be ut the
there is still slender hope ahead away with waste is to breed an- stead of bringing him to lt.
for -the people.
WHAT HAS HE TO SELL?
HE march of the candidates
is on. They are . almost as where there la Inefficient.
otner grart, waste is the filth In . What prohibitionists should do is to
which graft lives, moves and hassee that w have clean kept saloons
its beine land see to 11 that nothing but pure.
. . . , . , B.UK1 oeer are sola,
Mosquitoes thrive where there as also liauors. Aithoueh i advoat
Is stagnant water. Gran flourishes I the sal8 ot whiskies, i wish it dis-
" "ncuy understood that pure, unadul-
do SO.
least one of the four gospels clear
through,
what he
they are
Also, critics should read at
so as to refresh themselves on
really taught, and know what
talking about. C. U F.
contemplate them is reminder of Istaenant water, fine v nt poisons, that can be carried tn th
vest, pocjtei zor tne matter of that.
Mr. Harris Writes Again.
Portland, April 10. To the Editor
of The Journal I read the article by
Ella M. Finney of March 31, in which
she says "Mrs. Abigail Scott Dunlway
Is a bright star, beyond their reach.
Governor West is a hopgrower. W
are the temperate people of Oregon,
without the word 'prohibit' Even th
saloonmen, as a rule, are temperate.
She further says. "Rev. Mr. Harris
classes us among the demons."
,. t,.oo t th. fng .n tha . v. Iterated liquors of every kind do not! Christ says, "To cannot serve God
n ,.vv i wo, ui exberminaunK iiies ana ,.i ,. ,. . ... , nnt
sanda on the seashore. To mosauitoes Is to remove tilth ami it in th nn,inTB . timhihitinn auroiv are
helping evil. They are woriang eitner
for or against God in thia protuoition
movement. If Mrs. Dunlway and Ella
M. Finney were to run for office every
brewer and saloonkeeper would vote
for them solid. And as for me.
would not get a single vote from this
crowd, for prohibition.
Ella M. Finney Quotes the Bible Just
about th same way that Satan did
when he was tempting Christ on th
mountain. If -the Bible were a cook
book no one would read lt In any such
wav. If I should make bread by
recipe read in ouch a slipshod way it
wouldn't be fit to eat.
I never heard of a saloonkeeper that
wasn't for temperance, but they are all
aarainst prohibition.
The Titanic disaster, railroad and
ioy ride accidents and the like, as well
as asylums. Jails, and poorhouses, are
the results of such temperance saloons
an we have in Ridgefield or even Fort-
land. All are to blame who did not
vote for prohibition or help it in .ny
way. i j REV. C. I. HAKK1B, c. u.
Louise Pond Jewell in Collier's Weekly, i
During a recent earthquake at Pan
ama,, the severest that has visited the
isthmus in 80 years, the onlooker pos
sessed of firm enough nerves or philo
sophic - enough ! disposition to forget
possible danger; and watch his fellow
human beings with a casual eye would
have! voted the! experience one of the
most! amusing of a lifetime. Bucn on
lookers are few and far between. .If
house burns there s the street to
run to; If a train fails over an em
bankment, there's the bottom of the
ditch finally to fall upon; even In an
accident at ea there's the buoyant
water to Intrust oneself to, as a last
resort, after th big ship has been
abandoned. But when the solid eartn
itself yawns beneath you "Where are
youf as one frightened-eyed young
woman said -witn a grapnic, wiae-
armed gesture.
For example, at Intervals along tne
line of the Panama railroad one sees
abandoned railroad box cars convertea
into dwellings for the switchmen ana
other employes: to be housed between
the rea-ular villages. When the earth
tremor first shook the isthmus on the
nia-ht of the first of October, a worn-
man occupying one of these improvised
dwellings, awakened rrom sieep oy tne
sudden Jar, thought some misguided
locomotive had lust coupiea onto nis
house by mistake and was about to
null it off down the track. Hastily
and liahting his student lamp,
h matted out of the house at full
speed, waving j the Improvised signal.
mad v back ana xortn in wm m
the vain effort to attract the atten
tion of the erring engineer ana get mm
to stop backing and filling in such an
unseemly manner. Needless to say,
tha big engineer took his own time
about obeying the signal; and when
hn became fully awake a half-clad man
found himself standing in the middle
what the word " candidate origin-1 terminatlnc praftni a on
ated from, and what was its an- business-Uke methods in the ad- S
wUv . i mimoiittuuu ot pudiic aiiairs. if'or I ers or tne users,
Like individuals words are ere- every dollar lost in graft, ten are
atea to perrorm some gooa nine-1 lost through inefficiency
uon in me dux are perveriea ana i waste,
corrupted in'dlvera ways. The idea
they convey is either lost or
changed into one entirely differ-
Like old coins that have
We know where waste can be
eliminated. Shall we do it?
We talk about dolna- awav with tha
T.alhop industry, and at the present wrlt-
O - .ut, WUt VjCUipiUV
ment. It is only a matter of time
when the fruit industry will be far
in excess of the demand and there
will be nothing to take its place or
the hop industry.
OSBORNE YATES.
I
N AN address before the state
Counsel to Church Critics.
agricultural society of Wiscon- Unl "f', I, ?.tne EdItor of
air, Cnntomh.. on -tern . . I " " - ncouiag me many com-
sm, September 30, 1859, Abra- ments on and criticisms of the church.
T,TVmT.VB DDnmrrrnr
uutu iu vntuiauuu a 1VU5 uuict
images stamped upon them become
obliterated in their indiscrimi
nate use.
xu wuru tauuiuaie la uenveu ham Lincoln saldr that In.tltnHnn .1 . '
from the Latin "candidatus." Its Population must increase rapidly. exist for the PurPose for which some
original meaning is a person more rapidly than, in former times, tbink wives were given to men to lay
Clothed !' In white When PnmA I and ere long the most valuani nf an I things to. It la blamed for th dov-
was young those'who offered them-1 tfi11 ,th" art of ShrST. Vtf, J?!?"1 Z
j selves for office or honors clothed sou. No community whose every refuse its ministrations, as well as its
tnemseives In a white toga. This member possesses this art can ever! own shortcomings; it is criticised for
was to signify that he who out b5 tne vlctlm ot oppression in any being unbusinesslike and . unpopular,
on the White tOea wa lite the ,-,Us orKl8- Sucfl community will and still more strongly censured for
vestal virgin, pure in thought and kings, money kings and land kings. Many people's idea of a church is that
aeea. un nis lire there was no -ixrh ha1 ..I or an association of millionaires band-
stain. He was snoken of as the W.en. Llncoln utr.e . these e together to increase their wealth
"white man" woras tnere were 3l,UU0,U00 peo- by passing the plate for pennies and
pie in tne unitea oiaies. xnow 1 "wss uuowiiuuua 10 missions. jte
there are nearlv 7.nnft ftnn In Ueve TOo. there are easier ways to
the interval the total area
It seems timely to restore the
word to its high estate by giving
a close scrutiny into the lives of
those who offer themselves as as-
of an empty track, waving a lighted
student lamp excitedly back and forth
at vacancy.
A little lady living at Culebra. where
the slides Into the cut have been most
numerous, waking suddenly, clutched
her husband's arm and cried:
"We're sliding into the cut! We are
on the edge! I can fe th house
slipping down!" -
Alert, he waited an Instant, then re
assured her:
"No - it isn't a slide; lrs only an
earthquake."
"Only an earthquake!" she cried in
dignantly, and with th utmost con
tempt that he should presume to pass
upon lt: "How do you know? I tell
you it's a slide; and we're In It;
know!"
Another practical young matron in
the earn town exclaimed despairingly
a she felt her house rock and away
"Oh, I shall die, I know I shall! We
shall all die! And there Isn't a drop
of whisky in th houae!"
Still another, hearing some one
stumbling and fall In th upstairs
apartment, gasped:
"Oh, hear them all falling and dying
all round us!"
The Tivoli Hotel, at the Panama end
of the line, gave many funny pictures
funny afterward, mind you! There
were fearful and wonderful costumes
in the broad, staid lobby that midnight
hour, and at least on case of hyster
ics; and there were very whtt-eyed
Jamaica negtoes, who probably, if
the truth were known, suffered most
of all.
It's funny when It's all over. But
in a real earthquake there are. lt la
safe to say, very few who do not at
the time echo the quake inside. For.
as the girl said: "If th earth goes
back on you where are youT" .
LAWMAKERS' NOTION OF "BIG BUSINESS"
By John M. Osklson. j
Investors in i the stocks and bonds
of big corporations have certainly been
worried about the attitude of state leg
islatures and the general government
toward the companies whose securities
they hold. They have jot been able
to decide whether the; average legisla
tor wants merely to '.regulate the big
corporation's activity or to destroy it
Slowly the states are making their
attitude clearer. In New Jersey, the
other day, the commission charged
with carrying out the provisions of
the anti-trust bills passed In the days
when Woodrow Wilson was gover
nor, refused to allow the combination
of two companies and the main rea
son given was that the assets of the
combined companies did not Justify
the Issuance of the amount of capital
stock proposed. ...
Here, from the angle of vision of
the investor, is constructive regula
tion. May such bludgeonings of
"Big Business" aa this increase!
California has taken a forward step
in writing Into her laws a provision
that no agreement or combination
among business corporations shall be
considered unlawful if t, the combina
tion shows that Its operations are to
be conducted at a reasonable profit.
California has also exempted such as
sociations from prosecution, and In
this Colorado has followed Califor
nia's lead.
So the trend is distinctly toward
regulation; investors should be reas
sured. If investors can be sure of ef
fective regulation, the value of their
holdings will Increase. That result
has followed in the states where the
public service -companies have come
under the closest supervision by state
commissions, and the corporations
would not willingly give up the pres
tige they have gained by passing the
state's scrutiny. 1
Let the lawmakers and the investors
get together certainly they represent
the real parties at Interest and swap
views.
B-ro-ft
Of I The true Church la tha whnl hnriv
arable land has not kept pace with I of believers in Christ, and Is. accord-
11 1 .3 1 A l(n A Kn.AVt. 1 a. A.
nlrnntg fnr nffiu Tf , . . we rapia .wiureaBe in population. 1 " "a yure wneat, dui
Plrants for office. It Is not enough Th gk , Uo dd d mixed with tares, which must all grow
that a man should be willing nrJ .ir n ..'aae..Bfy together till the harvest. The tores
nt t t Z., erai muwon acres, tne avauaDie ew mihty thick in the, dark . of
productive area today is .935,000,- J history, and threatened to crowd out
000 acres, of which less than half " wheat by persecution. But the
competent to perform the duties
of the office he seeks. Is he
iftihite4h"de 2? to being worked. With'this TOtK-S
. mum to nia rec
ord? What has he to sell?
1 . COOPERATIVE HEALTH
agricultural asset we -are face to l8tratlon. He who refuses to brnum
face With a food problem. bered with the wheat because of the
It was recently asserted by Sec-?iy do eo at reat los8 to
retary of Agriculture Houston that to 25 years of church life m two
'ORLD'S WORK saysthatlwe have practically reached the I Protestant denominations, I have never
Non-Religrous Prohibitionists.
Amity, Or., April 8. To the Editor
of The; Journal Most of the writers
of letters on Prohibition now appear
ing in The Journal refer to the Bible
to make their arguments more weighty.
Th Christian people seem to think
they should not attempt to do anything
without calling on God, through
prayer, to help them. Some writers
seem to " try to make out, that Chris
tian people are the only people In
favor of Prohibition, and they are call
ing on the Christians to all make a
stand for It Now if there Is anything
In the Bible that seems to sanction the
booze traffic, let us discard that part
of It, and all pull for a better world
and put down the traffic forever.
The Bandon party makes the plea to
let the saloons alone, and they will let
other people alone. Now, who ever
heard of the liquor element letting the
rest of the people aioneT 1 never aia,
himself for this office. He has con
victed 40 murderers, sent hundreds of
lesser criminals to prison and tried
thousands of citil suits. 'He Is a man
Of magnetic personality, who sways a
court room audience from smiles to
tears and from anger to dellgnt, at
ill. He has made a wonaerrui recora.
for a farmer's son born on the banks
of the TJmpqua river. Alone and un
aided he has worked to the head of
the profession of the bar or Oregon.
X . ai. xo..
W ' seven towns in Massachu- stage where we are becoming de- known a member discontinued for fall- I never heard of a place so good that
aett nnw .nnM.,i. nendent on forelen countries for lng to contribute, although at on the boose element didn't sneak In their
setts now cooperate in se- pendent on loreign countries for tIme when one of my fmm collected boose and try to corrupt It. There isn't
curing an efficient health the necessaries of life. Despite for the church, it was record that n ; nv e-ood in boose. There isn't any-
duclng so much wealth yet it is service which ho one of them could an increasing total of production I the church's expenses practically were 1 body that can produce an argument
not new and ith..,K v afford bv Itself. . Welleslev Farm- our planted acreage Der 1000 In- Pd by a third of the members. No i that booze Is of any benefit to a per-
Iet us put aown noose rorever,
the antidote for the madness of
tne King ofsBabylonla.
EXECUTIVE SESSIONS
does not so state, probably it wa8 i- Weston. Needham, Melrose, habitants has for ten years , been XweuS "id
1 Winchester and Canton have aban- aecreasing. in otner worus we then are. expected to have monev on
doned all or -part of their medical I are trying to ; maintain an eco-ihand to assist any needy who appeal
inspection and put their work ? in nomic s balance between increasing them. . - . j
the , hands of a central organic- consumption ana ' aecreasing pro-1 pir Vef erring . art
"On. IdUCtlOn. . Icastically to the roll of carriaarea. th
This organization Is responsible) A different condition is found in rustle of silk and the flash of dla-
for all public health work, in Germany where the fullest use 0f monas n tn,at cnurcn, and berating us
some of the towns and for milk In- every available acre of : tillable hftd 7i,i AriAapned; our u"
spectioi only In -others. The cen- land is maoe. , witn a total area dies' aid had paid the poor woman's
tral office and laboratory are at of less than one seventh of our rent for eight months, besides giving
Wellesley, but stations are main- arable land and a soil that has ot?frJ,1ip.. A. 4 .
tained for the distribution ot an- been .worked for centuries, Ger- preacner8 who do not visit nor make
R
ECENTjl developments in he
United, States Senate indi-
. cate a coming reform In the
method of considering presi
dential nominations. A motion to
abolish executive sessions except
when Relations with foreign na
tions are concerned lacked only a
single vote of adoption last Wed
nesday. While there are doubtless good
reasons' for ' preserving secrecy in
the discussion of foreign affairs
of a delicate nature there seems
no valid excuse for going behind
closed doors to take action on the
confirmation of an appointment by
the president. The executive ses
sion is a great political trading
son.
and the rest of the people's bad habits
can be easily managed.
jam ins AlAHUUIJ.
Fruit Inspector.
Portland. April 9. To the Editor of
The Journal Kindly publish in your
valuable paper the address and number
Of telephone of fruit Inspector, tf there
Is one in this city. UNmuiKtt
r There seems to be no city official
or employe under the exact title of
fruit Inspector. There are market In
spectoral and there is fruit Inspection
street.- information as to
nn Front
thH ran 'be obtained on calling upon
titoxin for the treatment' of diph-J many with a population of 66,000,- acquaintance, for in the churches 1 1 the city; hall, telephone Main 4100, and
therla and virus for use in vacci-1000 Is rapidly outclassing us In nave attenaea tne pastors made a bee-j asking to oe conneciea win me cny
natlnn TM jll.i . ..A..n.l. .itmillKa tn on atr 1 UUO lor UIO HOOf alter i PreaCBlnK It IlWIin OUTWU. wuwiwuiKui,
J l.MD "
mhuuDCD VI UlUULUClia. 1 CVUWU.. . u v . 1 a rt .
scarlet fever and other Infectious ground she raises 83.4 bushels of Steady to call and glr
diseases are reported -by telephone, wheat while we only harvest 15.8. any help they can at any time. While
The plan has been in operation Germany's potato crop runs 222.4 one clasa of outsiders la sneering at
W Tt6 tOWnS haVB hll l l WWle n 18 ni.c& iSetr' Si
55,000 people, and the total cost 112.8 bushels. calling enough: and so on and on.
Is 6300 a year, or 12 cents a If we do "not take heed of the They are human, but they do the best
person. - For this expenditure the example of the Germans and apply to fulfill their high mission,
village dwellers have the services their- methods of conservation, the StffS'JS'-.SS
of, highly trained, experts; they day of our dependence on crowned you are sick, or of your legal ad-
B. 8tansberry,at the Henry building.
should b consulted.! .
Indorsing George M. Brown.
Deer j Creek, Or., April . To the
Editor of The Journal If the state
of Oregon had raised and trained a
man to fill the office or attorney gen
era! the state could not accomplish any
mora than George M. Brown has done
by his -own, efforts when he , trained
Open Letter to City Commissioners
Portland, April io. to tne honor
able Mayor and commissioners ox
the ! City of Portland - uentie
men: I suggest that th city use
the credit of th city and build or
lease Industrial homes, where th un
employed citizens may worn at rea
sonable wages, producing the neces
saries of life food, shelter and clott
ing.1 Let the elty sell these products
to the citizens at cost.
This plan will not raise the taxes,
ani the income from sales will pay all
expenses. It will do away witn cnar-
Ity ,' which is a aisgrace to our city
and state, the way it Is now. and Is
also a great annoyance and trouble for
mavor and commissioners ana omer
officials.
This plan will be indorsed by all the
onnwnnn and working people. I do
hope that th honorable mayor and
commissioners will ask the city -attorney
to draft a bill and give Skid
worthy people relief.
I J. LANDIGAN.
406 Vancouver avenue.
! Recent Branding Act.
Nugget. Or April 7. To th Editor
of The Journal Please inform me
7K.t the law was that was passed last
year In regard "to brands and branding
cattle. CHARLES POTTER.
(Following is the act passed by the
,.Minn of 1913. amending section S526
of chapter 6 of title 89 of Lord's Ore
gon's laws: "When a brand has been
recorded In any county no other person,
company er corporation can record the
same brand or brand similar thereto,
except with the written consent of
the i owner of the brand so recorded,
which written consent shall be record
ed with the county clerk; and it shall
h. th duty of all persons, - firms or
r-oroorations now having brands upon
record . to renew the same by oral or
written request by the orrtier of record
nf aaid brand to the county clerk witn
in one year from the passage ot this
amendment. The county clerk shall
make a memorandum of said renewal
with the date thereor on the margin of
the record of said brand. All brands,
the record of which shall not be re
newed as above provided, shall be can.
celled and may be appropriated and re
corded by the first person applying
therefor.'-
trree. tney kin a Blackfoot. If a
Klickitat steals a horse, going outside
his tribe, those Indians will steal a
hors from a member of th Klickitat .
tribe.' If a white man kills an Indian, ,
the Indians kill a white man, even -though
the one they kill had nothing .
to do with the other white man's
crime. ' .
I brought the'ohlef of th Plutee
with several ot tils fellows, to my camp
at Granite Creek in early days for a
peace talk. I suggested to him that-
he and I would go on to my Deep Hoi te
station to have a talk with : the
freighters and travelers who were
there. He, with two of his under
chiefs, rode with me. while the other
Indians stayed at Granite Creek ata- :
tion. We arrived at Deep Hole station
at noon. There were nearly 60 wagons
camped at the station and at least "S
White men were in camp. As w passed
near the freighters they saw me com
ing with the three Indians, and In
stantly they all caught up their guns, "
aylng, There's some Indians; kill -them.'
I started my horse on a run and
yelled to the Indians to com quick.
We rode up to my door, when I told'
th Indians to huatl into the house, '
the white men coming on a run. I "
Jumped off, stood in th doorway, and
with my gun ready to shoot, I told the
rreighters to stop. They told me that
It wouldn't do any good, that th In- -dlans
had killed some of their men.
and they were going to kill these In-r
dlans. I told them if they would wait -a
few minutes we could 'discuss th ".
killing later. I informed them of the
arrangement I had made with the
Indians, and told them if they were
not satisfied all I asked was to permit .
me to keep ray promise, take th In
dlans back to where I got them, and
hostilities could be renewed. But I
strongly urged the freighters to make
a peace treaty, as the Indians were
willing to have hostilities cease. I also 1
told th freighter that if these three
Indians were killed, the tribe would at
one get together and kill every V
freighter they caught on th road, as
well as destroy all of my own prop-,
erty.
"Th freighters finally drew off and
held a meeting, at last coming back
with the statement that they would
ratify the agreement I had mad with ;
th Indians. After I bad given the
three redskins their dinner, I asked
th chief how many days before he
would bring back my horses. He held
up three fingers and bent down the .
first finger half way. Sure enough,
three and a half days later the Indians
came back bringing my stolen horses
with them. I turned the horses Into .
the corral, and gave each of the three -Indians
a sack of flour, a side of
bacon, 10 pounds of sugar, two pounds
of tea, a plug of tobacco and a hand-
ful of matches. I also made out an
order, which I gave to the chlf. In
structing my foreman at Granite
Creek to return their arms to the
Indians.
'1 IJved at Deep llole two years after
this and never had any trouble t
any kind with the Pi u tea. I hired
them at haying time, and they made
excellent hands. No matter how far
my cattle or horses strayed away, the
chief had his young men go out. look
them up and bring them back without (
any cost to me-
"These Indians were renegades, ami
the white men said they were wlthou'.
honor or decency, but I did not find
It so. Their chief was Smoke Cret-k
Sam. I have i.aver known of a body of
Indians more uniformly brave than
these. Prior to the treaty 13 Indians
attacked 11 white men, killing one or
them and wounding two of th others..
"Two years later 1 sold out and
moved away. The white men began
aggressions against the Indians and
the latter became dissatisfied. They
cafhe into Deep Hole and asked for
me They could get no satisfaction
abo-t when I would return, and final
ly, after a particularly aggravating
case of aggression on the part Of the
white men, the Indians went on th"
war path, killing the station keepers
at Deep Hole and Granite Creek and
burning all the road houses for 25
miles." . 1
The Ragtime Muse
Chicago Society.
Portland, April 10. To the Editor
of The Journal Kindly Inform me
through The Journal If there is a Chi
cago society in Portland. I was a res
ident of Chicago from 187J to 1909,
when I came to Portland to live. There
are societies, I believe, of nearly all
states, also a New York city society.
From the number of Chicago people
who are now living here, I feel that,
as old residents of that city, we ought
to be as well represented as New Tork
city is. I would like to hear from
Chicago friends on the subject.
a K. B..
There is an Illinois society, but so
far as known there is no Chicago so
ciety, though it Is said persons inter
ested have recently discussed the ques
tion of organizing on.
Buffalo BUl's Residence.
Harrlsburg, Or., April S- To the
Editor of The Journal Please tell me,
through your paper, where Buffalo
Bill OV. F. Cody) lives at th present
(The latest available authority gives
Colonel Cody's home address aa Cody,
Big Horn county, Wyo.J
Night.
By A. D. Banks.
I love the night. Its star gemmed sky,
The moon as lt floats through Its
realm on high.
The planets that move with stately
grace
And never swerve from their hom In
space.
Jupiter, Venus and the fiery Mars,
Saturn. Uranus and Mercury; stars
Of a magnitude given as first.
Follow In orbits like rhythm in era.
Blessed be the hand that has given
them birth
Lent as a token from Heaven to earth,
Stars of the morning and evening sky.
Growing in beauty as night draw
nigh.
What has the day to give Ilk theae
Wonders of Heaven, the earth and th
8C"i'ght! Night! Night!
Night with its golden sky.
Let me gaze upon thy beauteous orbs
Till the dawn of day draws nigh. ,. -Baltimore,
Mr.', March 10, 1914.
Nothing to Do.
Little Alexanders.
Sit we down and weep:
No more worlds to conquer.
No more watch to keep;
We nave not a quarrel.
Everybody's moral.
All the world Is goalless.
All th flock are sheep! .
Everybody's moral.
"We must do what right.
We must love our neighbors.
Keep our morals bright!".
Everybody's willing
His place to be filling;.
There Is not a alnner v
With whom one may fight!
Satan's sorely swatted, -Over
sin we gloat. ? ;
Bad men have repented, :
And on virtue dote.
Is our eyesight failing?
It Is unavailing. . .
Since we got. the beam out.
To seek a brother's mote!
Pointed Paragraphs
- I,
of thought are
thought
often only
Gems
paste.
If a wife is unable to refgn she
is likely to storm. . -
Some girls have trouble 'in getting
husbands and nothing: but trouble
after they get them.
This Is a suspicious world. A man
c&n't always borrow money upon his
grandfather's reputation' for honesty.
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