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TIIK CJUXMKX.
OCIKTY partly shares the guilt
s
of the New York gunmen ex
ecuted this morning.
The culpability of society
lies in the fact that It does little
to break down "the eBtcm" out of
which Dago Franks and Lefty
Louies arp developed. People are
absorbed in their own concerns
They are little Interested with pub
11; affairs. They, don't try te solve
the terrible problem of vice and
rcrlm.
A few study such Issues. But it
is only a few; and they invite
sneers. Those who delve in the
gutters for the causes are often re
garded as queer, or unusual, or "a
little off."
Most people let vice arid crime
go unchallenged. They allow "the
Bjstem" to spread its tentacles.
They allow relations to Bpring up
between the law and the lawless.
The public orricial goes unwatched
to the den of the crook to make
terms and draw dividends. Im
munity Is thrown on the bargain
counter. The law Is put up at auc
tion. The dollar governs. Society
sits smugly near and wails about
high taxes.
The gunman Is a product. He is
a natural outgrowth. He is the
fruit of the people's unconcern. He
la the result of the public lethargy
that lets the unspeakable jungle
grow. He is the effect yielded
through the evolution of "the sys
tem." The offense of the gunmen was
unpardonable. It was unspeakable.
It was incomparably vicious.
Yet the wretcued dead were soci
ety's own children. If people in
New York had long ago arisen and
crushed the commercialization of
vice and crime, there would have
been no Gyp the Blood, no Dago
Frank, no Lefty Louie, no Whitey
Lewis.
Far In the background, hidden
by the shadows, are the higher-ups,
who grow rich from this under
world traffic. They are the brains
of "the system." They are the arch-J
criminals. They help hold the law
In lrash by political influence ana
otherwise. They are far guiltier,
far more vicious than the Dago
Franks.
The gunmen were only tools.
They were used. They were pawns
that others moved.
They became bolder and bolder,
because the public was uncon
cerned. The people raised no fuss.
They slept while "the system' grew,
v They didn't vote for better things.
Many stayed at home election day.
O.hers never registered. Only a
few agitated against conditions,
and these other people looked upon
as wlldVeyed, long-haired and queer.
Gyp the Blood and his pals went
to the awful electric chair. Soci
ety that helped teach them to be
gunmen goes to its offices, its
counting room, its duties, and its
amusements, unwarned ty the trag
edy, and uncoacerned with its
cause.
THE AFTERNOON PAPER.
ATiUMiON is called again to
the ever-narrowing field of
the morning newspaper by
the absorption of the New
Orleans Picayune by a younger
rival. For over seventy years, the
Picayune was a household word
throughout Louisiana and a portion
of the South.
It is the third long established
morning paper to die within a few
months. There wasthe San Fran
cisco Call, which was consolidated
Into an afternoon paper; the Den
ver Republican, which was swal
lowed up by a competitor, and the
Chicago Inter-Ocean, which was
. thrown Into the hands of a re
ceiver. The fundamental cause of- the
passing of the morning newspaper
is the logical development of the
afternoon edition. in the early
days, when means of communica
tion were meager, the morning pa
per dominated the newspaper field.
The growth of the telephone and
telegraph and mechanical Invention
has given strength to the afternoon
paper, and enabled it to print the
worlds new while It is yet news.
The afternoon paper goes into
the home and shop when the day's
swork is ending, and when there is
time to read its contents. Thus it
becomes the more valuable medium
for the advertiser. With Increasing
prosperity the afternoon paper has
not only become a more perfect
mirror of the days news, but it has
added features that appeal to every
element of the family group.
Hence it is the afternoon paper
Is no longer tjie subordinate, but it
Is the superior factor in every city,
and when the newspaper limit of a
comma nit y is reached it Is the
morning paper that goes to ' the
wall.
IN 1912
W
RITING The Journal, J, W.
Crew argues against free
tolls as follows:
Free tolls i advocates pre
tend to believe that the canal is
an American wierwjr m
the same sense as any domestic wa
terway or river. certainty no
person can make that argument can
didly. The United States naa no ter
ritory across, tne lsmmus wuch .
started to build the canal, after the
treaty agreement with the world to
treat all nations alike. Purely do
mestic waterways are open to all
ships on the same basis, and the
canal should be the same, or tolls to
all ships. Ts a party plank more sa
cred than the country's honor, assum
ing !t to be at stake?
President ilson, no doubt, consid
himudf emrnsred in an effort to
prevent his country from entering
on a course of perfidy and dishonor,
and I believe that after the American
people have a little time to see
through it all, they will fully agree
with liim.
Before an audience of 2500
farmers at Washington Park, New
Jersey, in August. 1912, Woodrow
Wilson, then a candidate for presi
dent, said:
What interest have you in opening
the canal to the ships of the world?
We do not own the sliipa of the
world. One of the great objects in
cutting that great -ditch across the
I.stlunu of Panama is to allow farm
ers who are near the Atlantic to ship
to the Pacific by way of Atlantic ports,
to find an outlet at ports of the gulf
or porta of the Atlantic seaboard, anri
then have coastwise stealers carry
their products down around through
the canal and up the Pacific coast.
One of the bills pending passed, I
believe, yesterday by the Senate as
it bad passed the House, provides
for free tolls for American ships
through that canal, and prohibits any
ship from passing through which Is
owned by any American railroad com
pany. You can see the object of
that, can t you? We don't want the
railroads to compete with themselves,
because wo understand that kind of
competition. We want water carriage
to compete with land carriage, so as
to be perfectly sure that you are go
ing to get better rates around the
c imal than you would across the con
tinent. President Wilson has never re
pudiated what he said that day to
the New Jersey farmers. He
thought it an "American water
way," though Mr. Crew declares
that it is hot.
Mr. Wilson was arguing that day
for free tolls and against railroad
owned ships through the canal,
though Mr.. Crew argues the other
way.
Mr. Wilson was not regarding
free tolls as "perfidy and dishon
or" then, but merrily contemplated
free tolls and the canal as assur
ing competitive freight rates by
water carriers for the products of
American farmers. Woodrow Wil
son has never withdrawn a single
statement made to the New Jersey
farmers, and he never will. He is
not that kind, of man.
THE LONELY GIRL.
T
HE. day of the lonely girl in
the city seems to be passing.
In New York there has been
established a Bureau of Board
ing Houses for Girls, which acts
as a clearing house in providing
homes for young women. If the
girls want to go to houses where
they will .be cared for and pro
tected, and where there is a family
atmosphere, the bureau will direct
them. If they want to go to a
boarding and rooming house where
there is no personal chaperonage,
such places are found by the bu
reau. If they want to go to clubs
or settlements, the bureau directs
them.
New "business women's boarding
houses" are being opened constant
ly. MoBt of them are wholly or
largely self-supporting.
The Bureau of Boarding Houses
for Girls is a non-sectarian organ
ization. Its first work is to find
homes for girls, but, after that, it
helps in various ways. It gives ad
dresses of girls' clubs, dancing
schools, and various kinds of
classes. It has lists of lunch clubs
and apartments. It meets the girls'
demand for amusement, as well as
for comfortable homes.
It acts as a social center, through
which girls alone can make friends.
If necessary, It even finds employ
ment, for its list of employment
agencies is as, exhaustive and care
ful as those of boarding houses and
clubs.
Through the bureau it is pos
sible for a girl to escape loneliness,
and to lead a normal, healthy life.
No longer is it necessary for her to
live in an uncomfortable hall bed
room and struggle against tempta
tion. A COMMUNITY" PROPOSITION.
T
HE opportunity to subscribe
for stock in the Alaska steam
ship line is now available to
those who have the true in
terests of Portland at heart. The
future of the city is tied up with
the line, and it 4s for the young
men to decide whether that future
shall be a rosy one or not. It has
already been demonstrated that the
line will pay, but to reach its full
development it must be "kept out of
the control of those who would in
vest in it only for the certainty of
great and selfish profits "and for
selfish ends. It is not a question
of today, but a question of the fu
ture. It should be a community
enterprise, run, not on jbl how-much-will-it-pay-now
basis, for
the benefit of the money bags, but
on a policy of how-much-will-it-pay-ln-the-future?
for the benefit
of the entire community.
To repeat, the line should be
made a community proposition, and
should have the support and co
operation or the clubs,the help of
r
the little man and woman, who are
often more public spirited than the
big ones. It. ought not to be sup
ported merely to make money, but
as a benefit and carrier of prestige
to Portland.
In its present undeveloped state,
the yearly business of Alaska
amounts to 1100,000,000. What
will It be when railroads are con
structed and the vast region is still
further opened to traffic. A steam
ship line to Alaska from Portland
will stimulate every other line of
business, not only in- Portland, but
throughout Oregon- and the Colum
bia river basin. An enterprise can
be created that will mean a rev
enue of $1,000,000 a month and
employment for 15,000 men.
DOROTHY" ARNOLD.
W
HAT was the " need of the
widespread statement that
Dorothy Arnold is dying in
her father's home from a
criminal operation?
After four years in that gloomy
home, what was the use of adding
to the grief and mourning ot the
Inmates by a cruel attempt to black
en the name of the missing girl?
Even had the statement been
true, it would have been better un
made. But since it is false, what
wonder that the mother of the ab
sent girl has fled to Europe to es
cape the dreadful publicity that
mingles the name of her long
mourned child with scandal?
There has scarcely been in America
a more pathetic episode than the
spectacle Saturday of the father of
Dorethy Arnold opening his home
to the reporters to prove to the
world the falsity ot the latest and
most brutal story of his daughter,
THE OILY WAY
T
HE 'old adage that all things
come to him who waits may
"be true In some respects but
it does not apply in a com
mercial age.
For instance it will not hold
good in the case of securing trade
in Alaska by Portland. If this
city wants business in Alaska it
will have to go after it. Trade
will not come of its own volition.
Not only will Portland have to
go after the business but It will
have to keep going after It. Lo
cal conditions will have to be
studied and goods will have to be
shipped to Buit the local taste. One
great secret of German success in
trade is the attention given to
meeting local demand In the pre
paration and shipment of goods.
A few years ago Portland did a
small business with Alaska but
trusting in the old adage it waited
until even this disappeared.
There is not only big business in
Alaska now but there is still big
ger business to come with its rail
road development.
Will Portland go after its share
or will it wait?
A PUBLIC WRONG.
O INITIATIVE measure of
fered the people has been
more popularly approved by
the ease with which signa
tures are obtained than the Tide
Land Amendment and ,its accom
panying bill.
More than 17,000 of the 22,000
names required have already been
secured at McMinnville, Astoria,
Salem, Oregon City and Milwau
kie. In spite of tne averseness of
many to sign petitions, the meas
ures were cordially received. In
Newberg but one man refused to
sign. At Oregon City but a hand
ful declined to give their names to
the petitions.
The popularity of the measure
flows from the desire of the people
to rebuke the methods by which
public lands have been wrested
from the people. There is wide
resentment against the plunder
processes by which lands are alien
ated from the people In Oregon, but
remain inalienable to the people in
California.
The Tide Land Amendment is an
effort to right a great public wrong.
THE YELLOW DOG.
HE day of party action in mu
nicipal elections is almost
over. A study of the results
of last Tuesday's aldermanic
election at Chicago discloses that
Important victories were won for
good government in various wards
by independent voters, who went
outside of party lines.
The influence of intelligent wom
en voters was strongly felt. While
many women voted as partisans,
many others exhibited the discrim
inating spirit of non-partisanship
to such an extent that here and
there party machines were forced
to combine for mutual protection.
The weaker party threw its ma
chine strength to the other party's
candidate.
When the rival machines are .com
pelled to unite against the inde
pendent voter, it it the beginning
of the end of yellow-dogism.
THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY.
T
HE revelations at Pittsburg as
to the ' house of mystery" are
appalling.
It was a place of secrecy
and silence. Many of the women
and girls who passed its portals
never returned to the world. The
grim story of their fate was re
vealed to ih,e officers in the assort
ed bits of clothing found in the
place.
It seems impossible that in a great
profession, which floes so much to
relieve the - suffering of mankind,
there could be exemplars ready to
do the things charged against Dr
Meredith. It seems incredible that
there eould be men In the practice
willing to send the victims to him.
When they asked, him. concerning
a patient, a wave of the hand sky
ward indicated that the grave, or
the furnace in the house of mvs-
tery, bad claimed another victim.
What profanity it is to call our
selves civilized! . 5
If there is a' way to do it, the
public should be spared the pur
chase of land for a proposed city
detention home. ' Commissioner
Holman claims the county can spare
enough unused land from the poor
farm for a site. As the city is 94
per cent of the county, it seems
like there should be a way td ad
Just thei mattef, especially as only
a part of the poor farm is in actual
use.
Seldom does a more cleverly pre
pared news story come over the
wires than was The Journal's Sun
day story of the New York gun
men, sent out by the United Press.
It carried all the essentials, pre
sented them perfectly, and from
the facts visioned the case in a
way highly creditable to the United
Press, and in strong comparison
with its competitor.
Letters From the People
(Comraonicationa sent to The Journal for
publication In this department should be writ
ten on only one side of Ibe paper, abould not
exceed 300 word In length and miiat be ac
companied by the name and address of the
Bender. If . the -writer doea not desire to
bt the name published, ha should so state.)
"Discussion is the greatest of all reform
ra. It rationalizes everything it touches. It
robs principles of all false sanctity and
throws them back on their reasonableneaa. If
they hare no reasonableneaa, It ruthlessly
crushes them out of existence and aeta up ita
own conclusions in their stead." Woodrow
Wilson.
J. Hennessy Made It Clear.
Maplewood, Or., .April 10. To the
Editor of The Journal I wish to thank
Mr. J. Hennessy Murphy for his lum
inous, although somewhat pyoacetic,
explanation of a certain feature of the
home rule situation in Ireland, con
tained in his letter to The Journal of
April S. Making due allowance for
an evident overcharge of feeling
against these so mean "prick eared
bunch of round heads," as he la pleased
to call them. I am to understand that
It is the narrow provincialism of the
Orange Ulstermen that makes them
oppose home rule. .Good. I am satis
fied to let it go at that without further
explanation, at least, until we hear
from the TJlsterman what he may say
in self defense. '
Coming now to the accusation that
I wanted to start a rough house by
asking these questions. I must plead
pure innocence, and a simple groping
after knowledge, with no more Idea of
touching off fireworks than a glow
worm; yet they say I "started some
thing." Yes, and by Its reflecting light
I think I now see why the editor of
The Journal didn't want to write an
editorial on why Ulster opposes home
rule. H. DKNLINGER.
Disagrees AVlth Ella M. Finney.
Shedds, Or., April 11. To the Editor
of The Journal I notice quite often
letters from Ella M. Finney boosting
for hops, beer and "wet" voters. In
one of her letters she rather boasts,
or at least compliments, herself on
paying one family $760- for picking
hops and probably', I inferred from
her writing, kept them from want.
Many persons who . pick hops an do
other work, too, would' not have to do
it if it were not for the product of
hops. I wonder how many 'families
are in want because of those hops of
hers. Let her tell, if she can. Neither
she nor any one else need plead right
ful use or abuse of liquor. That is
worn out.
She says, "For law enforcement,
order and temperance, vote wet." Let
her tell us when, where and by whom
under a "wet" systrh this occurred or
is occurring. If voting "wet" brings
law enforcement, order and temper
ance, then is sin more comely than
righteousness; truth is falsehood, and
falsehood Is truth. C M. F.
The Orange and the Green.
Portland, April 11. To the Editor of
the Journal I think I know what I
am talking about when I say that the
premier organization, the great An
clent Order of Hibernians, does not be
lieve in abusing Orangemen. Their
catholic motto is "Friendship, Unity
and True Christian Charity." Orange'
men are often converted by this mot'
to. This is the principle of the great
Ancient Order of Hibernians, who be
lieve the orange and the green will be
brought together by friendship, unity
and Christian charity. Love those that
hate you and try to reason with them,
Is the best way.
I have also heard It said that Eng
lish Catholics are not In favor of home
rule, but I have read a lot of history
which does not say anything of the
kind. The wealthy English Ctaholics
are the best friends of Rome and al
ways stood by the Eternal City.
T. J. M.
Property of Insane Persons.
Gaston, Or., April 10. To the Edi
tor of The Journal Please Inform me,
through The Journal, where a wife is
Incurably insane and has been for
years, and is in an asylum, can a man
get a divorce so he can hold land in
his own name and transfer, the same?
A SUBSCRIBER.
Insanity Is not a cause of divorce
In Oregon, according to Lord's Oregon
Laws. However, a way Is provided
by which property may be handled.
This is by the appointment of
guardian, who then acts for the insane
person.
Says Liquor Illegally Sold.
Newberg. Or.. April 9. To the ' Ed
itor of The Journal Could you advise
us, through The Journal, how to pro
ceed to get rid of the illegal sale of
whiskey and other Intoxicants, such
sale leading, by ' common belief, to
some of our drug stores? We have
raised In the past -sums of money to
get evidence, but have failed every
time more money on the other side.
It is a shame to p$y taxes to enjoy a
government, and then pay again to
have laws enforced. Publish this, If
you see fit, but help Us if you know
any way. JOHN ILLEG.
From a Hopgrowers' Wife.
To the Editor of The Journal Ella
M. Finney is again defending the hop
Industry with a very lame argument.
She says Jesus was not a prohibition
ist. I am afraid she knows very. little
about Jesus, or she would not use His
name to defend the saloons.
. My husband has a hop yard, but I
cannot defend the -saloon on that ac
count. I could not see -one soul lout,
for all the hops raised In Oregon. :1
have lived in Oregon since 1885 ami
I have watched the hop business slne-i
then. Several years ago almost every
one was bankrupt trying to raise hops.
I think it was In 190ft, 1907 and 1903
:u.;.Ki-':;--.:'.
A FEW SMILES
Senator Stone of Missouri Is a lover
of coffee, and unless It is both strong
and good the waiter at restaurant or
hotel . soon bears
front him. Recent
ly be took a little
trip; to Baton
Rouge and went
for dinner. On rais
ing ibis cup to bis
lips i he made a wry
facej and tben beck
oned to the proprie
tor, i
"What do you call this atuftr he
asked.
"Coffee," meekly replied the man,
somewhat surprised.
"Coffee!" repeated Stone, with
scorn. "I could put a coffee bean Into
my mouth, dive Into the Mississippi
river from the end of this street, swim
way up to Vickburg, and I'll guarantee
that any one could bail up much better
coffee than this over the entire route!"
Abner Silas is the darndest man I
ever saw to try to put on a front to
sail under false colors, so to speak.
Hiram What's
he been doln'?
Abner Why, ev
erybody knows that
he never saw the
time when he was
makln' mor e'n
enough to buy his
clothes and toback
er, and yet he stands
around -town every day and talks till
he s red in the face denouncln' the
income tax. Judae.
A learned professor was discussing
the boy athlete, and announced that
he is prone to set athletics too far
above English,
mathematics, and
history. In conclu
sion, he told of a
conversation he had
had with x a young
nephew of his a few
days previous.
"William," said I,
"I'm glad to hear of
your success on the : school, baseball
team; but you must remember that
there are other things in life besides
baseball."
Yes, Uncle -Will," he answered.
gravely, "but, hang it all. I'm afraid
I m too light for football or rowing."
Harper's Magazine.
we lost three crops. W had one of
them picked, and heldait for. nearly a
year, and then sold at 2 cents. T ie
other two crops were not picked,- as
they would not pay for the picking.
There was then little dry territory.
to what there Is now, and now they
are offering 15 cents on contract:
Now, why is it? I am, told that they
are making dyes of them in Europe.
I hope they have found a better usn
for them t.ian making beer.
Now. as to the hop-pickers: They
have from two to three weeks' work,
and If they work hard from early to
late they can average from $2.50 to $3
a day. but the large yards get all the
li Q JV 1
. .. , ,' "" aont Montagues son Inoculated for small-
a full days work in them. I don t pox-; May 14, "Vaccination first tried,
Know anything about Mrs. Finney's 1796; June- 27. "Dr. Carroll submit
yard, but most of the large yards have I ted to yeiiow fever experiment," etc.
o ?, anw torfs an4a "ome ! Opposite each monthly table Is a page
.t uJti1!!? saloons in taem.;of , paffrapn8 on 80me specific
"V. "ey ck-i disease problem. January, for Instance,
ers have left to take home, while many
a gin baa lost her health by picking
ground.
Wao was It that confiscated the hop'
oXT "cent? t:he6ncin r'vr
horfa. wVtool r.!! V
io put
them In the bale? It must have been
the brewers.
The wets have no argument with
which to defend the saloon. The more
Is written against prohibition the more
dry votes they make.
It Is sad for a woman to defend the
saloon, when so many of our 6isters
have suffered by it. Who shall recom
pense the poor mother whose sons
have filled drunkards' graves?
A HOP GROWER'S WIFE.
Care of Young Ducks.
Green Court, Alia., April 1. To the
Editor of The Journal) I am a reader
of The Journal and ijrould be obliged
if you would tell mei the best thing
4 M - - M - . .
hj iwo young; uucaa me nrst two
TFeed duckling . Wt,,r r t.
iniras wneai Dran ana one-tnird corn
meal, wet to a crumbly mass with
milk. Feed on a- board covered with
sand. Keep water before them night
and day in a fountain so they cannot
get wet. Keep warrri and feed several
times a day. When ' two weeks old
make the mash 45 per cent bran,' 46
per cent meal and 10 per cent beef
scraps. Keep before the laying hens
plenty of grit and oyster Bhell and you
will have no trouble with soft-shell
eggs.
Farmers' Telephone Lines.
Wapinitia, Or., April 11. To the
Editor of The Journal I would liko
for you to answer through your paper
if farmers can build a telephone line
and have It incorporated and make
rules of their own, or must they go
by the state rules?
GEORGE CLAYMIER.
The people In 1912 approved a law
passed by the 1911 legislature which
gives control of public utilities not i tfly hd can administer an oath. It
municipally owned, to the state rail- ; ems a me It would avoid much ex
road commission, and by the terms j penBe and Inconvenience, and, also In-
ui icicyuvuc vutiipauicB m-i e i"-
eluded in the list of public utility
companies. The law provides for the
control whether the utility is . owned
and operated by a corporation, an as
sociation or an individual.
Editorial Endorsed.
Portland, April 11. To the Editor of
The Journal I desire most sincerely
to thank you for the editorial pub
lished In Thursday's Journal, entitled,
"Who. Governs the United 8tates?" No
better editorial was ever published or
one more . truthful, and should Wil
son's crime be successful, you cer
tainly can tell the party, including
Senator Lane, "I told you so." For
no party (much less an individual of
fice seeker) will be successful when
the American citizen fully understands
that the flag, with all it stands for.
Is hauled down; Again I thank you.
W. M. KILLINGS WORTH.
Is Not tinder the Rale.
Portland, April 10. To the Editor of
The Journal In The Journal of April
6 I saw an article in Which It was stat
ed that no one was allowed to work
more than 60 hours a week. Would
you kindly tell me If housework comes
under that head? I j work 72 hours,
and sometimes longer,
MARY SMITH.
Liquor and Accidents.
Portland, April 13. To the Editor
of The Journal-! Can you give the real
cause of the Titanich. disaster? The
Rev. C I. Harris, C. ! D.. in your col
umns, says saloons were the cause of
it, and asserts! that railroad accidents
are due to the same cause. There are
exceptions to every , rule, of course,
but I think he errs when he says liquor
la the causa of all railroad disasters
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANUU
Sure; ! go to church.
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Weeds or; vegetables T
Meanwhile, plow, plant, nourish.
A ball bat is good; spade and hoe are
e'en better.
"Bathhouse John" is as solid as ever
In the First ward of Chicago..
Prohibition 'under the localT option
law is gaining ground again.
If the; amount of blooms is anv sin.
there will be a record breaking fruit
crop.
Mightn't It be made constitutional
to tax or fine eligible voters who won t
register?
Villa ; is like Homer and Kinllnr:
whatever he sees that he desires he
goes ana takes.
ir two more regional banks are
granted, the demand will grow for
more ana more.
Every candidate loves the farmer
and the laboring man especially, and
everyDouy eise, too.
l rJntVttW knnwx vet what In hnllaln.
! Jab the Oregonlan would have had the
! president do in or In regard to Mexico.
The prize is to be awarded on the
size of the pile of flies, not on their
number.; Moral: Kids, catch the big
flies.
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Appeals for party "harmony" are al
ready being made. Why, old General
Harmony is dead and deeply burled,
long ago.
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Will Uncle Sam have to feed and
lodge some thousands of Spanibh-Mex-ican
refugees also? O, well, it's a free
country for some.
It is reported that a lawyer Is to be
disciplined for the alleged offense of
charging a man accused of a petty mis
demeanor $760 for representing him in
police court. This is strange; 10.000
lawyers can be brought tp swear that
the fee; was very reasonable.
HEALTH
From the Journal of the American
: Medical Association.
Three; years ago the Virginia state
board of health issued its first "Health
Almanac." New editions have been is
sued every year since. Several other
states have followed, the same plan.
The almanacs for Virginia and North
Carolina for 1914 are particularly at
tractive.: In the Virginia calendar the
familiar monthly tables, giving the
days of i the week and the month, the
time of rising and setting of the sun
and moon, and the moon's changes,
contain 'important dates in which, so
far as possible, items of scientific in
terest have been substituted for the
hackneyed entries in the old-time al
manac. ' Fpr instance, under January
26, is the entry, "Edward Jenner, born
1823"; February 12, "Charles Darwin
born, 1809"; February 13, "John Hun
ter born, 1728"; March .43, "Joseph
priestly born. 1733"; March 18, "Lady
l is devoted to smallpox, February to
i pneumonia, March to typhoid fever,
April to malaria. May to infantile mor-
1 ,.11... T .. . n 1 f Y..T.. . .
Tlll'lS t"'" if. 1 T'
srVr io Txszt.
and wbooping cough; Novem-
bep t0 coijfli and December to tuber-
culosis. ' Additional pages contain di-
WIDENING AMERICAN
. By John M. Qsklson.
A writer on financial subjects spoke
recently) of three specific companies
which are mining iron and copper In
Chill and said that they would benefit
from the opening of the Panama canal.
They are branches of big corporations
organized in the United States, whose
stocks are held by American Investors.
They account for most of the total
of $250,000,000 Invested by Americans
on the west coast of South America.
1 Hill IB. Ul tUUlOV. UU1J fc UWUI'i'llB.
', th WMt COast of
stimulate very greawy i..e ..on..
and south traffic between , the two
Americas. All sorts of enterprises wlil
be undertaken on both coasts of South
America into which capital from the
United States will be invited to enter.
This means that you and I who earn
$1500 to $10,000 a year and manage
to save some of it for investment, will
be asked to extend the horizon of our
and car accidents, for Instance. It ts
the extreme always, with the oppo
nents of the liquor traffic. If com
mon horse sense were used in dealing
with the question. Instead of fanati
cism, the result would be more favor
able for both sides.
OSBORNE x YATES.
Assessors to Register Voters. "
Portland, April 13. To the" Editor
of The Journal Why not arrange so
that the assessor could register people
when he calls to taae tne assessments.
vi has the description of real prop-
urease ane registration.
DORA N. CROSBY.
Enlarging the Suez Canal.
From the Atlanta Journal.
In order to meet the keen competi
tion of the rapidly completing Panama
canal, the Sues canal company is plan
ning extensive improvemtnta, and
stands ready to spend $30,000,000 on
work which will be completed In 191S
1919. ,
When i the Suez canal was first
opened in 1869, the width was 72 fet
and the depth was 26.2 feet, and the
maximum permissible draft of shipi
passing through was 24.4 feet. Dredg
ing hasi gone on steadily. In 1893
ships of, 25.4 draft could go through,
and for the. past 24 years the Increase
has been at the rate of one foot every
six years. Today ships of 29 feet draft
can pass, through wlti little difficulty.
vt ftarkWAWAv Vi t A will
flv RO fast that the old waterway
won't know itself. For instance, at
i present the width of the canal for 35
miles is 147 feet and 6 inches, and 32S
feet fori the remaining 20 miles. But
when the improvements now contem
plated are finished four or five years
hence the canal will be 40 feet dee?,
and thus for its entire length of 105
miles it i will be deeper than any sea
port In the far east, except Sydney. At
no point will the width be less than 196
feet 8 inches.
To do this work 24 powerful dredges
will be used, having 16,000 horse pow
er, and extracting 8000 cubic meters :f
! dirt an hour.
Borne of the dredges will
work at a depth of 50 feet. In connec
tion with the" Suez enlargements the
west breakwater at Port aid is belnj
extended by 2700 yards at an 'expendi
ture of $3,000,000.
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Trricat the Umatilla reservation
and Ptndleton's supremacy in eastern
Oregon will be secure," is an admonl-
tton and a pledge utterea oy m .casi
Oregonlan.
Klnet v-thrr-B vears and eight months
i tha av of A. George, the oldest
voter ai Baker so far registered. Next
to him m age is William r. neraman.
a year younger.
The Madras Pioneer, discussing the
revived county division project, iavors
"Jefferson" as the name, and argues
financial feasibility from the example
of Sherman county.
Game Warden Thomas of Coos coun
ty caught a gang of railway right of
way workmen throwing slashings into
a lake and forced the contractor to
promise to snake all the brush and
logs out again and burn them.
That the money will be ready to be
used for construction of Klamath
Falls' new city hall by April 25, was
the announcement made at the last,
meeting of the city council, by a repre
sentative of the bond buyers. The
issue is of $50,000.
Publisher Howard Bhutt of Lostine.
whose Dauer. the Reporter, was burned
out of house and home last Tuesday
night, will resume publication as soon
as the necessary printing material can
be obtained, which will likely be In a
couple of weeks.
John Alden Seabury, founder of
many newspapers, in Oregon and else
where, has now established the Cath
lamet (Wash. ) Criterion. In his salu
tatory he admits there is room for
but one paper in the town, and cheer
fully assumes the hazard that the
other one may remain the one.
Newberg Enterprise: William Mc
Guire. son of Henry McGuire, is a
genius with tools, lie has Just fin
ished a violin made from wood taken
from the farm and worked out with a
pocket knife and an old Bowie knife,
of which the point was bent to serve
as a sort ot gouge. Mr. McGuire says
the son inherited his genius from his
mother. c
ALMANACS
rectlons for the care and feeding of
infants, information regarding typhoid
vaccine and typhus antitoxin, and birth
and death registration. The North
Carolina state board of health almanac
follows the same general plan, but
contains Interspersed proverbs, admo
nitions and suggestions. Some of
these "healthgrams" are deserving of
mention. "Ventilate don't hibernate."
"An open window is better than an
open grave." "Sunshine is God's best
germ - destroyer." "Most colds are
catchlng." '"Fresh air, rest and good
food are the only cures for consump
tion." "The only bad night air is last
night's air." "'Cures' for consump
tion guarantee only one thing death."
"A city's most valuable asset Is whole
some water." "A good iron pump costs
less than a case of typhoid." "God
bless the man who first Invented
screens!" "The only good fly Is a dead
fly." "Preventable diseases are born
of Ignorance." "Don't take medicine
for sleeplessness take a bath." The
alternating pages are filled with short
forceful paragraphs on a multitude of
different subjects. The value of the
almanac as an educational agent Is
evident. Frequently referred to In every
household and preserved throughout
the year, the educational matter In It
has a much better opportunity to sink
into the minds of the people than it
would have if contained In a regular
bulletin or a health pamphlet. The
health almanac offers an admirable op.
porfunity to state boards of health to
preach their gospel every day.
INVESTORS' HORIZON
investment field to Include Brazil, the
Argentine, Chill, Peru, and that por
tion of the interior of Souht Amer
ica which can send something out to
the world which the world needs.
We shall have to get acquainted
with investment conditions below the
canal; we shall have to take a leaf
out of the British investors' book, for
they have long been accustomed to
weigh the merits of . Investments in
Canada, Australia, India, South Af
rica, Mexico, the Argentine, and
Japan, as coolly and shrewdly as they
estimate the value of "home rails."
If you want to do something prac
tical as a preliminary training In un
derstanding South American Invest
ments, you may write to the state de
partment at Washington and ask for
whatever Information they have. In
your letter say frankly that you ex
pect to become Interested In Invest
ments down there, and that you want
help In the work of judging what Is
promising and what Is not.
The Ragtime Muse
Tropical Pursuit.
There, adrift below the line.
Near the fair manana land.
In a ship with sails that shine.
Products of banana land.
X behold the idle crew.
By no need'' of labor vexed.
Wondering what they can do
Next!
In that gorgeous, tropic clime
Food in plenty grows on trees.
One need scarcely spend a dime
For clothes if one does not please.
What to do then? One may dance,
Gamble, aing, to seek delight
But one's fortune to advance 7
Fight!
Well, a revolution then!
Let us beat back to the shore
And acquit ourselves like men
Doing nothing's such a bore!
Hark, the singing bugle's call!
From the fight let no man shirk!
We will not, whate'er befall.
Work!
Both Had Machine.
From Philadelphia Telegraph.
Here la one that was told by Con
gressman Frank B. Smith, of Ohio,
when reference was made to the prone
ness of some 6f the sweet sex to boast
regardlessof facts.
Some time since Mrs. Brown met
Mrs. Green at an afternoon angel cake
seance, and just aa soon as they got
the wire to themselves the talk turned
to their earthly possessions.
"Speaking of motoring," enthusias
tically exclaimed Mrs. Brown, "I sim
ply adore it. I couldn't do without
our darling little machine. it Is
six cylinder Hill Hiker, you know,
with improved clutches, a self starter
and things like that. I should think
you would get one." .
"We have got one," answered Mrs.
Green,- with a happy little smile. "We
have had it for some time." -
"You don't really mean it! returned
Mrs. Brown, just a trifle Jealously.
"What make is it?"
"It is a light-running lockstitch,"
answered Mrs. Green, "with a hemmer,
tucker and buttonhole attachment."
Ahem!
From the New York American.
When Dean Virginia C. Glldersleeve
of Barnard approves the tango, hesita
tion should vanish.
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Lockley.
r rora Montana I went witn colonel
"Whipple and his party to Los An- ,..
geles." said Cyrenius Mulkey. one of
the early pioneers of Oregon. "We ar- '
rivea in Los Angeles December 23,
l6i. There had hn nlnntv tit rain;
and the grass was a foot high. The
weather was as warm as In summer.
There were less than 100 voters In I.-"
Angeles county then, as the popula
tion n i t ai.v.An. t . , -
lpan T ' . . . . . . i . . I j j
.iC luuiiuf - was aiviucu v -into
large tracts or grants, aa they
call them. You could buy land at front
25 cents to $10 an acre, and $10 laivl
lay close to Los Angrles.
"I bouaht J0 acres adjoining th
city and decided to spend the rest. of -my
days there. I put up a good houe
and fenced It. and started a stock
farm. The next year there was a se- -vere
drouth. Just enough rain fell f
start the vegetation. The following
spring there was no feed in the coun-i "
try whatever, and the stock whs dying1 1
every where from starvation. You coull -buy
good horses for 12.50 a head, -cattle
for $3 and slicep for 25 cent.
There was no way to get the stock out
of the country, nor any way to get
feed.
x ins was ioo iraicn lor me, so I
abandoned my intention of maklTii?
Los Angelas my homo, and started
back to Montana. 1 went by the wes
tern route, going through the Owen
river country in Inyo county. There
had been a rich gold strike in the sec
tion -u!ld Sici ra. Gorda, on the past
ern side of the Owens Itiver valley.
I had the misfortune to erippl one of
my most valuable horses, and as jl
didn't want to abandon it 1 stopped
for awhile at a little town called Ionjj
Pine. Willie stopping there and look
ing around. I discovered that the liv
ery business would be rather profit- .
ble, so I bought a livery stable, and
also a little ranch adjoining the town.
"Whenever a new mining camp was
discovered, the rough characters from
all the other mining camps' would
come there; so we soon bad more than
our share of desperadoes and bad mert.
As t.icre wore no railroad or telegraph
lines within many hundred miles, a
new mining camp was a pretty safe
place for a desperado. Things got mi
bad that no one would take the offlco
of sheriff. Those who tried it weri
unable to handle the rough class, and
they noon resigned. Without any soli
citation on my ,art the cltUens elected
m sheriff. I knew that I would haVe
tfl 4 . n n I 1. I n .......... .-.1. . .
v uu n-'iiic-iimig eytrvii:uiHr lo einorce
i '" authority or clse I would have lo
quit.
"Shortly after I was elected I had
to arrest one of the biKgest bullies aitd
desperadoes in tap camp. Instead
pulling my gun and having a gtn
fight, I walked right up to him, whifli
seemed to paralyze the man with as
tonishment. I grabbed his gun out if
...a .n.lu itnu ut-ai. in in over me nCSU
with it until 1 had almost killed him. -That
made :he rougher element doubt
ful as to whether they could run ni.
At any rate, they gave me the benefit
of the doubt, and I had mighty good
luck after that in making arrests, i I
made It a. matter of pride lo serve
every warrant placed in my haiidn
during t lie Mme I served a Klieriff of
Inyo county.. 1 wan re-elected aft r
two terms only failed to serve twu
watrants."
Who Owns Mexico?
From the Seattle Kun.
Who owns Mexico? The question '.,
suggested by a table Which appears ill
the March is.sue of the American lie
view of Keviews. The table, prepared
from apparently reliable data, purport
10 snow tne amount of foreign capital
invested in .Mexican securities and u
terprlses, as weli as the amount t
Mexican capital invested in these se
curities and enterprises.
The securities and enterprises In
cluded in the classification are rallwuy
stocks and bonds, bank stocks and de
posits, national bonds, mines and smel
ters, timber lanls, ranches, farms an-.l
livestock, houses and personal prou
erty, mills and factories, electric rail
roads and power plants, stores, oil In
dustry, rubber Industry, professional
outfits. Insurance, theatres, hotels and
various institutions.
American, English and French in
vestments in these securities and en
terprises reach a total of $1,5:3.523.800,
as against a Mexican total of $793.
187,242. Moreover, other countries
have investments In Mexico amounting
to $118,535,380, which brings the total
outside investments up to $1,641,055,
180, , which is $847,871,938. or more
than three-quarters of a billion dollars.
In excess of the total of Mexican in
vestments. American capital Invested In Mex
ico is $1,057,775,000. English capital
is involved to the extent of $321,30.',
800. French capital to the extent .f
$143,336,000. The American financial
interest in Mexico, the largest Invest
ment, $644,390,000, being In railway
stocks and bonds, and the second larg
est. $249,500,000, being in mines and
ameiters, is, therefore, larger than that
of all other countries combined.
From these figures It would saimi
that the Mexicans are fighting ovr
something which, does not really be
long to them.
Chinese Most Thrifty Farmers.
"In the utilization of every square
foot of soli and every leaf or root that
Is grown thereon, the patient, hard
working farmers of China could give
points even to the thrifty rural popu
lation of France," says the Philadel
phia Public Record. "Land la never
wasted. There are no such pasture
and meadow lands as we know here. If
a traveler wants to pitch a tent any
where in the settled provinces of
China he must drive the -stakes In a
bean patch or a rice field or amid po
tato hills. ' The native would receive
with scornfuL amazement a suggestion
of a public pleasure ground. The only
'parks' are the groves about the tem
ples. "To the tops of the hills the terrace
climb, holding their tiny plots of
wheat and corn, sometimes at a house
roof angle of 45 degrees. Inhabitants
of craxy huts and cave dwellers barely
making room for themselves to sleep
and cook at the intersections of the
vast checkerboard, climb out of -their
notes ana novem m uawn line prairie
dogs or rabbits In a warren, and fight
the soil till dark for a meager living."
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