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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1914.
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No evil propensity of the
human heart is bo .powerful
that It may not be subdued
by discipline. Seneca.
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8EXMXG THE FLEET.
THERE Is a limit to human pa
' tlence. Faithfully, gently and
' with great forbearance, the
president has pursued' his
policy of trying to solve the Mex
ican problem with the Implements
of peace. , With sympathy and fore
thought for the welfare of the
Mexican nation, with a deep solici
tude for the boys in blue around
American firesides, and 1 with a
broad vision of the moral effect of
a peaceful solution of the" Mexican
situation upon the world, he has
adhered steadfastly to his exalted
purpose, regardless of the sneers,
the clamor and the attacks' of
those who disagreed.
There ould be no more splen
did exemplification of Just gov
ernment In a free land. There
could be no purer application of
the best traditions of this country
and Its origin. There could be no
broader invocation of the truer
spirit of the great republic,' and
no "more ideal display of what
should be the attitude of a great
peaceful commonwealth toward
.weaker nations and less fortunate
peoples.
But there is a limit to forbear
auce. That Is why the fleet is on
its way to Tamplco.
UNFIT
SIXTY-EIGHT undesirable aliens
. were shipped from New York
'the Other i day by the United
. 'States Immigration Service to
the land of their birth. They were
of all races and all creeds, old men
and women without friends or
relatives to care for them, diseased,
crippled, defective persons, white
slavers and their victims, a truly
mournful lot. .
In their march to the place of
deportation they, staggered along
with bundles, bags and packages
in .their hands and on their heads
or stooping shoulders. In the rear
of the procession was a woman
with two little children, hollow
eyed and gaunt, who walked slowly
along without murmur. It was a
pathetic spectacle. The sun shone
brightly and as it was reflected
from countless windows, it repre
sented derisively to the unfit ones
the fortune ambition had promised
lh the land of opportunity, the for
tune that was not to be theirs.
Gone was that spirit of expect
ancy when they first saw the statue
of liberty enlightening the world
and In Its stead was the spirit of
resignation and despair. They
were unfit and had been rejected.
It is ono of the scenes of pathos
" that should not be so often pre
sented. Their frequent occurrence
Is one of the almost daily recitals
' in the newspapers. There should
he an investigation at the point of
departure so that the unfortunates
would be spared the long Journey
across the sea, only to learn on ar
rival In the promised land that the
gates of the great " Republic Are
closed against them.
. Continuation of the present in
" human system, a system largely
-due to the steamship' companies, is
a crime against mankind.
CHEER VP
i VERY cloud has a silver Hn
lng. This la an old proverb.
old because it is a true one
Those who are downcast
under the dark cloud of taxation
need only look to the east and see
the rainbow of promise placed in
, ,th sky by the candidates for office
at the coming election. It heralds
the near approach of " the ' nifl-
- lenlum when there shall be no
.taxes. All commissions and use
less offices shall be abolished. The
poor shall stand on the same foot
ing with the rich before the law
There shall be a great solicitude
, for the farmer and .the laborer
; Monopoly shall be wiped out of
existence, restraint of trade be ban-
ished and dollars grow on goose
1 "berry bushes.- There will be no
favoritism, no nepotism, and no
'ancient maiden will ever again sigh
in vain for a responsive bachelor.
and a thatched cottage. The rights
' of every honest citizen shall be
"protected. Utopia will be no Idle
! dream but a realized fact. There
Will be good roads everywhere
, There will be economy in expense
, retrenchment and reform.
. Whatever candidate. . Republican
Democrat or Progressive, is elect
ed the taxpayer will have nothing
' to fear. For have they all sot
'.. promised these things?
' ; "Yea, I will reduce ypur taxes.
I will make the payment thereof
easy. - .If that sufficeth not I. will
v abolish taxes altogether.. I will
-sacrifice mx own- private interests
that I may be of some service to
my fellow."
Verily, the slogan of the candi
date hath an alluring sound. .. His
platform makes most pleasant read
ing and Inspires a hope of straw
berry shortcake and melons on
the vine..
THE START CASE AGAIN
T
HE notorious Start vice case
was an issue in the Oregon
supreme court again this
week.
A man was convicted by a jury
in Portland of attempt at a statu
tory offense with a four-year-old
girl. Evidence was introduced at
the trial showing that he had com
mitted the same offense with an
other four-year-oM child. The
testimony as to the second child
was offered as corroborative of the
first - charge. .
The lower court was reversed
by the supreme court, and it is
probable that the defendant will
escape punishment altogether. One
of the grounds of the reversal was
that the lower court erred -in ad
mitting testimony as to the second
child. Another ground was that
the court erred in permitting cross
examination of the defendant on
matter not? .brought out in the di
rect examination.
The higner court is headed
wrong in the decisions it is ren
dering in these vice cases. Justice
Charles L. McNary, member of the
present court, dissents strongly
from the view of his colleagues.
The higher court, it will be re
membered, employed the principle
In the case of Dr. Start, who was
convicted by a Jury in Portland,
of, an infamous offense growing
out of a nauseous vice scandar re
specting men and boys. Start
was, in effect, freed by the higher
court on the ground that the tes
timony .of Van Hulin, who swore
that Start was guiky of a similar
offense with him, could not be
used as corroborative. The ruling
was such that it became impossible
to punish any of the men involved
in the scandal.
The inline resulted in a reversal
in the McAllister case, after the
defendant had been found guilty
by a jury in a Portland court.
In the latter case Justice Mc
Nary wrote a dissenting opinion,
In which he was supported by Jus
tices McBride and Eakin. In the
dissenting opinion, Justice McNary
said:
Unless the principles laid down in
the Start case are overruled by the
court, they will remain a fruitful
source of embarrassment.
It is not sound policy or good
morals for the majority theory to
prevail. It is a lamentable condi
tion -when a jury, familiar with all
the . testimony, cohvicts in these
vice cases, only to meet with a re
versal on technical grounds , in the
higher courtf;l1 Everybody TtnowsJ
Dr. Start was guilty. But be es
caped punishment. Everybody
knows McAllister was guilty. But
he escaped punishment.
The jury in the case of the two
little girls unanimously agreed that
the defendant was guilty. But the
case is reversed, and, because of
the attitude of the majority of the
justices in the higher court, there
is little prospect that he will ever
be punished. ,
REPAIRING THE HEART
A
GAIN the marvel of surgery.
Before 200 European, Can
adian and American Surgeons
at the Congress of the Amer
ican Surgical Association in New
York a few days since. Dr. Alexis
Carrel, experimentative surgeon of
the Rockefeller Institute demon
strated how it is possible to per
form delicate operations on the
heart by holding the circulation
In check for the space of two or
three minutes. A dozen or more
of these operations have been per
formed on animals at the institute
with only two fatal results.
The circulation is arrested , by
clamping the pedicle of the heart
by means of large Doyen forceps,
the edges . of which are covered
with xubber,. When,, the technique
of the operation is further per
fected it is the Intention, to oper
ate on human beings. It is not
impossible that in a short time
surgeons will be able to cauter
lze the lesions of the valves of
the heart and repair them
easily as an automobile tire
repaired.
LUMBER EDUCATION
i . . .
A
NEW departure in the lum
ber industry is the estab
lishment .by the Harvard
Graduate School of Business
Administration, In cooperation with
the Harvard Forestry School, of
a two years course in the manu
facturing and marketing of lumber
Rising labor costs, couple'd with
decreasing labor efficiency, higher
prices for supplies and machln
ery have brought the industry, to
a crisis. The whole manufacturing
and marketing end of lumbering is
in great need of scientific study,
Manufacturing costs must be re
duced to compensate for increasing
labor, expense and this means the
rearranging of plants for the
greatest economy of operation, the
substitution of cheap mechanical
handling' for hand labor wherever
possible and the exclusion of all
material that will not pay a profit.
The lumber industry of the
United States is a heavy sufferer
from general condition's. Trans
portation counts heavily in the dis
tribution of lumber to consumers
It costs more, for instance, to shiD
a thousand feet of lumber to Salt
L?k'e City from Portland than to
manufacture It. In fact. It costs
as much to ship it to Salt Lake as
to Shanghai. - . v
There is the added handicap of
ncreaslng use in other building
materials. Notwithstanding the
huge increase in1 population, "the
use of lumber in the United States
has only increased ' 1 2 per cent In
10 years. The- use of cement in
the same period has increased 240
per cent. The American manufac
ture of cement arose to a high wa
ter mark of 93,000,000 barrels in
1913.
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THE MONDELLS
I
N THE : house' yesterday, . Con
gressman Mondell- charged that
President Wilson is sending the
fleet to Tampico to save Stand
ard Oil And Cowdray syndicate
oil tanks from being destroyed.
The insinuation is pusillanimous.
It is of kind with remarks by Con
gressman Humphrey and some
others.
Fitly enough, the house": listened
to the charges of Mondell in si
lence. The language was too con
temptible to evenbring forth re
ply. Democrats, Republicans and
Progressives in the body doubtless
looked upon the charge as coming
from a partisan ass. The house of
representatives should be above
peanut horseplay. The things done
there concern 100,000,000 'people.
The tfrpad thought and the Im
pelling motive in the proceedings
should be the republic, not a
party.
No president has been guided
by a keener desire to serve his
countrymen faithfully than Presi
dent Wilson. His whole course in
Mexico has proven his earnest de
sire to 6ave American boys in blue
rather than to save the property
of syndicates and alien exploiters
of Mexican resources. The para
mount policy throughout his ad
ministration has been the placing
of the man first and becoming con
cerned with . the dollar afterwards.
If President Wilson had been
running this government in the in
terest of Standard Oil and the mln
lng syndicates, he would have sent
an army Into Mexico months and
months ago. The great cry for
armed intervention was the clamor
of those in this country who want
American boys to go down there
for slaughter in order to raise the
value of American-owned mines or
the price of American-owned Mex
ican bonds.
Woodrow Wilson is far above
and beyond the pusillanimous chat
ter of the Mondells. Woodrow
Wilson is one of the great human
ists of the world.
NEW FOOD LAW
I
NCLUDED In the legislation
passed by the recent New York
legislature was a measure cre
ating a state department of
foods and markets. The bill pro
vldes for the appointment of a
commissioner to serve six years at
a yearly salary of $6000.
Among the powers given to this
commissioner are: To Investigate
the cost of food production; recom
mend reforms; assist in the or
ganization of. cooperative societies;
obtain ,- more direct business rela
tions; establish public markets
and supervise grading, packing,
handling and storage of all food
stuffs within the state.
Establishment of auction mar
kets where produce is to be sold
by licensed auctioneers is also pro
vided for. A daily bulletin con
taining ruling quotations in both
public and auction markets, lists
of available produce and sales of
domestic and foreign foodstuffs
will be published. x
In addition to its other dut'es
the department of foods and mar
kets shall investigate delays in
transportation and shall cause to
be initiated proceedings to prevent
restraint of trade or unlawful com
binations to yx prices.
THE LATE ELECTIONS
D
ETAILS brought by eastern
newspapers from the New
Jersey and other special
elections, show a crushing
defeat by the people of the pro
gram of repealing free tolls.
The case in New Jersey is -pro
nounced. O'Byrne, the-Democratic
candidate, was warmly indorsed by
the president, and was aided in his
campaign by Democrats pf national
reputation. He was beaten"by a
Republican who made the tariff
and opposition to the free tolls
repeal bill his campaign issues.
The "Washington Post says:
"O'Byrne did his best to evade
i;he canal tolls issue.' But, he was
smoked out before election day,
and he 'then announced that he
favored the repeal policy. The
Post says: "From the moment of
the Democratic nominee's declara
tion against free tolls, he was
marked for defeat." .
Meanwhile, the election in the:
Twelfth Massachusetts district pre-'
sented an exactly opposite result.
There, the Democratic candidate
favored free tolls and opposed, the
repeal bill, and ' lie was easily
elected. v There was no reversal
of Democratic supremacy in his
district as there was in Jhe New
Jersey district. .
The defeat of the repeal .Demo
crat in New Jersey and the elec
tion of the anti-repeal Democrat
In Massachusetts, followed .on the
heela of. the 'great triumph ; of Os
car Underwood in Alabama. The
principal campaign made by Mr.
Underwood for election was the
great fight he made in the house
against the repea bill, a fight that
was in Its i most f heated moments
when the Alabama election was
held, and the result was promotion
from the lower, house to the sen
ate of the United States.
- There is no way to misunder
stand these events. Nobody will
ever be. able' to , convince - the
American people that an act grant
ing free- tolls to-" American coast
wise ships passed py the American
congress and1 signed by an Ameri
can president in 1912, should be
repealed now merely because Great
Britain has '- requested . that certain
terms of the treaty be submitted to
arbitration. " ' s
It Is Idle for men to believe they
can" dam. up the flow of American
ism in . the American people. It
can no ' more . be stopped by argu
ments than the tide of the ocean
can be controlled. The voice of
John Hay, who ; acted for the
United Statesin framing the treaty,
will be' the ; Yolce of the "American
people. He said: . ; . : j
Tie whole theory- of the treaty . is
that the canal is to be an American
canaL The enormous cost of con
structing it is . .to be borne by . the
United States alone. When con
structed, it win be exclusively the
property of the United States, and is
to be managed, controlled and defended
by it.
Letters From the People
(Commiuiicitlan, un
publication In this, department abould be writ
tea 5 only one aide or the paper, abould not
exceed 800 worda In 4engUi and mnat -be ac
companied by the name and addreaa of the
sende. If the writer doea not deelra to
hare the name published, he abould ao aute.)
"Discussion to the rreatest of all reform
It rationalizes everything It tonches. It
robs principles of aU false sanctity and
throws them back on their reasonableness. If
they have no reasonableness, it ruthlessly
crushes them out of existence and sets up its
own conclusions in their stead." Woodrow
Wilson,
The Union Avenue Approach.
Portland, -April 15. To the Editor of
The Journal A recently published' in
terview from George M. Hyland, speak
ing for certain large landed Interests
on the Peninsula, and referring to the
decision locating upon Union avenue
the approach to the interstate bridge
calls for a specific reply. It is re
markable for its candor In openly sug
gesting that an appropriation of
1 1,260,000, voted for the bridge and its
approach, is legitimate spoil to be used
in exploiting an alleged railroad and
developing local Interests In Clarke
county and the Peninsula. The tax
payers are entitled to know the actual
facts underlying all that Is being done
to Introduce issues that ar entirely
foreign. r Union avenue has made her
whole fight In the open, and has nut
her whole case upon the table for pul
uioici-"u". ncr inenas asKea lor a
provision In, the bridge act providing
that the people should vote on the
matter of the approach. Had It been
allowed there would have been not ' a
shadow of doubt as to the result. A
demand is. now being made for a re
consideration of the commissioners
decision. It is a demand that will be
fought to the bitter end," through every
court, and by every known -instrumentality
of the law If insisted upon,
for it has no merit, and It cannot hope
to succeed except by Imperiling the
construction of the bridge.
"Six engineers" have been found
who say an approach by way of Union
avenue will cost "$100,000 more than
one by way of Derby .street." No doubt
of it. There is never any lack of pro
fessional "experts" who are always
ready to submit "estimates' to dis
credit successful bidders. Mr. Har
rington's figures were to have been
"riddled" at the commissioners' meet.
ing last week, while he was away In
Kansas City, but Mr. Howard was
there to. answer every objection In de
tail and the "riddling" process was in
definitely deferred. Mr. Modjeskl was
quoted in the earlier campaign as fa
voring a fatton avenue approach be
cause It was "better and cheaper than
one by way of Union avenue, but h
specifically denied the charge, and ex-
pressed it as his Judgment that the
Union avenue " approach would be
cheaper. He declared -he Drenarnd
specifications for Patton aventie only
uecause -requested to do SO. Harrine-
ton and. Modjeskl are two bridge build,
ers of national reputation whose opin
ion of the Union avenue approach Is
certainly as good as that of several
less, experienced ' experts."
The Portland Railway, Light - 6
Power company is being used " as I
convenient "goat ,'V with which to dis
tract attention from the real Issue, We
are told , 1t owns an exclusive right
of way ver the Union avenu an-
proacK" and that "It is easy to see
that by connecting the Oreeron id.
proach with Union avenue the Portland.
xiau way, j-igni & ir'ower company will
be 1 a position to enloy the exclnsiv
us of the bridge." The facts are that
the approach recommended runs al
most wnouy west , of that railway's
right of way. and there Is not an ih-
leiiigem man in ALuitnomah county
who does not know that In this day
and age of the world no bridge or
roadway over this route can be
monopolized by any railway company.
Who is deceived by suggestions of this
Ulnar Multnomah and Clarke coun
ties are in aDsoiute control of the
question of franchises over the bridga
and its approaches and can bring any
railway to terms. If Mr. Hyland's
mass meetings are called to secure ab
solutely fair treatment for all rail
ways and are not Intended simply to
boost some favored railroad and to
raise the price of lots In some favored
section ne may count on the enthusi
astlc support of every man on Union
avenue. ' ' .
What is to be thought of th follow
ing flat suggestion that we use the
taxpayers' money as a railroad sub
sidy? "Interurban lines can connect
with the Union avenue approach by
Duiiaing a viaduct or their own, but
it would cost $100,000 and in these
days of diminishing railway earnings
that sum Is hard to get." Therefore
the bridge fund is legitimate Plunder.
What kind of a railroad Is It that can't
build its own approach, but is going to
cover the whole country with a whole
network of suburban lines? Is it a
paper railway seeking a franchise to
speculate upon? Again we are tohi
"there is grave danger of barring the
Clarke county interburban traffic from
Portland altogether." How? Who but
the people of Clarke and Multnomah
cc unties can keep Clarke county lines
off the bridge, and who will .submit to
such a thing as that? The existing
railway company ' is in Just as much
danger of being barred as any other.
Is any Intelligent citizen of Clarke
county deceived by all this absurd and
Irrelevant talk about a monopoly of
railway , service? And ': hew many
laborers down In the .stockyards dis
trict will have any money left with
which to buy Clarke, county propertx
after they have been loaded up with ch
town lots or the real estate corpora
tions on the Peninsula? This pre
tended bait Is nothing but a bar hook.
From the very beginning there have
been evidences of mysterious influences
at work Indicating that the bridge was
to be used If possible to exploit private
enterprises. J.nuustriai and real es
tate enterprises own several thousand
A FEW SMILES
Sylvia, supple and slender, and Aunt
Belle, bulky and benign, had returned !
irom a shopping tour. Jacn naa oeen
trying to buy a
ready ' made salt.
n. When j t h e y t re
tained home Sylvia
was asked what, suc
cess each bad in her
efforts to be: fitted.
fWell," said Sylvia,
!'I got?-along pretty
well, but Aunt Belle Is getting, so fat
that about all she can get ready made
IS an umbrella. j-Touth's ' Companion.
It says here: ' "One of the idols
most fevered by i the Coreans ' is the!
figure of a- womar
seated, - resting : her
chin in her hand.' '
said Mrs. Cbatterley,
reading f ro. m - the
newspaper. - : i , "
. "Which proves that
the Coreans. 'are
about . the wisest na
tion on earth. suggested ber husband.
how's that, Joshua?"
"Well, said Mr. 'Chatterley, with dis
tinct emphasis, "simply, because they
make a deity of: a woman who has
sense enough to give her chin a rest.'"
The. colonel of i a certain regiment,
who was very strict with his young
officers, was continually: Inspecting
meir rooms to see
if everything was
tidy. One day j he
inspected the room
of an officer , who
was noted .for ihis
wit. He had near
ly finished his I In
spection when I he
noticed a cobweb in one of the corners
and thought to himself: "Now I have
got him." i
"What does this mean?" asked the
colonel.
The young officer coolly replied:
"We always "keen one in case a man
cuts his finger."
acres on the peninsula. They have a
perfect right to work for an approach
over their lands if it Is consistent with
tne interest of the taxpayers who are
building it, but not -otherwise. Their
keen interest is natural and their In
fluence is powerful. Who influenced
Mr. Modjeskl to 1 prepare i the Patton
avenue plans? What influences se
cured an endorsement of a western
approach by a vote of 28 out of 30
from the Vancouver Comercial club,
which has a membership of 300. We
are not impugning motives, but was
all of this done in the Interest of tne
great pody of the taxpayers whoso
money Is building1 the bridge? We are
told that the taxpayers of; Clarke and
Multnomah counties are to hold two
mass meetings in the interest of re
consideration, is this a spontaneous
movement, or is 4t being engineered?
Clarke county's 'commissioners have
shown a disposition to deal fairly and
squarely In conceding the right of
Oregon's commissioners to locate their
own approach. How many intellisrent
and fair minded taxpayers of Clarke
county will permit anyone to exploit
them In any "mass meeting" In an
attempt to dictate to the taxpayers of
aiuiinoman county how ! they shall
spend their money for their own ap
proach for which they alone have to
pay? Hew many Multnomah county
taxpayers, outside of those having in
terests In the immediate neighbor
hood of Derby street, are asking for
a "mass meeting?" Where in this
mass meeting" to be held? Who are
the taxpayers of i Portland,! and whers
ao tney. live? Where is
Portland!
What about the 240.000 neonle on both
the east and west sides whom a Derby
street approach would compel to travel
an extra distance, on every round trip
to Vancouver, of, from over one. mile
to nearly two miles? This extra travel
is of itself an enormous tax, which
would more .than counterbalance the
saving of $100,000 by adopting the
Derby street route if that ridiculous
pretense were true. : i
No one has dared to dispute Mr.
Harrington's table of distances. They
show that for anyone on. the west side
making , round trip to Vancouver over
the Broadway bridge the distance
would be a mile and 308 feet farther
going by way of Derby street, than by
way of Union avenue, and one mile and
1584 feet farther if going over the
Harriman bridge, and one mile and
4184 feet farther If going by way of
the three south bridges. The tens of
thousands coming from Clarke county
would be subjected to the same extra
travel, and all of the east side liv
ing ast of- union avenue, and they
constitute 80 jer. cent of; the east
side, would have one mile and 4184
feet of unnecessary travel forced upon
them by the Derby street route. This
mean 8 that 240,000 of the people of
Portland must travel at least one mile.
ana tne majority of them nearly two
miles farther, going by way of Derby
street man would be necessary in
going by way of Union avenue. And
what for7 To boom proDertv. and
to assist a projected railroad down on
the peninsula, and to accommoiata
less than. 15 per cent of the people of
Multnomah county, whose money .s
building the approach.
Mr. Hyland In giving 6820 feet as
the excess distance by way of Union
avenue over the Derby street route de
liberately Includes 3000 feet between
Bryant street and Columbia boulevard
on account of which he knows not a
cent is to be paid out of the bridge
fund as the- improvement of this por
tion of Union avenue is a charge
against the property owners.
Why does he conceal the fact that
having thus reached the end of the
Derby street approach at Argyle street
he Is one mile and a quarter farther
west and three quarters of a mils far
ther north than he la at TThinn vsm,a
kna "Bryant streets?
No plainer proposition was ever be
fore presented to the taxpayers o
Multnomah county and no decision
was ever rendered by the commission,
ers more clearly In the interest of th
taxpayer and more thoroughly justi
fied by every consideration Of justice
and fair play.
Very truly yours,
BRUCE C. CURRY.
The Ragtime Muse
, In Praise of Toil.,
Let others loaf ; I do not wish
To waste my time in catching fish!.
Be mine, the rows of. corn to till.
To hoe the broad potato hill.
To liv a dream of sweet romance
A-setting out the cabbage plants 1
I would not idly roam the Wood,
,Or whip the trout stream, if I .could!
I love to rive the sodden log
To make a fence Against the hog.
And with an adze chop off a toe
That fills me with delight, you know!
What Joy it is to milk the cow.' ;
To stroke her bland and foolish brow.
To scrape the mud from off the horse
That for Its deeds knows no remorse.
And to. apply the golden rule
By kicking not the genial mule!
I love to hunt the turky hen '
That would escape all human ken.
To nail, I think, is simply great!
A leather hinge upon the gate! -Yes.
in thes joys I find delight
When fancy takes a giddy flight
PERTINENT COMMENT
v -i SHALL CHANGE .
y-'--:-r '
'Wanted ! ihnnt in AAA
women In; Multnomah county to reg-
later.
1 ' - -
Won't-workers are Idle in spring and
summer, as well as in winter, from
choice. : j
L Occasionally Huerta doea or ' sav
sometning tnat indicates that he la atl
least partially civilized.
That rain-for-seven - Sundays-after-Easter
is Just as silly as the six-weeks-winter-
after - the - groundhosr-sees-his.
hador- 1 , . , ?
People who depended n the weather
bureau prediction for Easter Sunday
were more disappointed than those
who did not. ' . .
- 1 .
How it? does bother the -Portland
morning newspaper to see wool selling
rapidly at much higher price than ob
tained under a high tariff!
Some newly dry towns In Illinois
have discharged their police forces and
other salaried officials. They may dis
cover that they can get along Just as
well without , them, v,
A man .with 16 wives has been sen
tenced to prison for 10 years. .Won't
he be 16 times more lonesome than the
average prisoner? Or maybe he will
feel a sense of great relief.
The auditorium architect apparently
thought it incumbent on him to pro
vide plans for a far more elaborate
and expensive auditorium than was
stipulated. As for the $250,000 or
$300,000 additional cost what's that
to a New York architect?
DIAGNOSING WITH PATIENTS 1500 YEARS OLD
From the Journal of the American
Medical Association.
This is an age of specialism. Some
doctors limit -their practice to babies,
some to old persons, some to a single
class of disease. 1 Only recently has
any doctor attempted to specialize on
the diseases of mummies. ' In the work
a large number of recently' discovered
mummies in Egypt, the conditions of
custom and climate which have pre
served the mummies of old Egypt
make it possible to compare the defects
produced by disease with the mani
festations; of diseases of the present
day. Such investigations have already
unfolded many facts of interest in
respect to the existence aof disease in
bygone , times, and have contributed
Important facts to the history of medi
cine. .
The perfect preservation of many of
the bodies which have become avail
able in Egypt Is remarkable. The
peculiarities of real mummies are
widely known. Coptic bodies which
have recently been examined by Ruffer
belong to a somewhat different class.
They came from Antlnoe In Upper
Egypt; and dated from the fifth to
sixth century. They were therefore
from about 1400 to 1600 years old.
They had undergone no artificial fproc
ess except that, at one time, they had
been covered with salt. The real pre
servative had been the dry Egyptian
sand in which they had originally been
burled enclosed In wooden coffins.
Never haying been disturbed by the
embalmer, the-organs were all in posi
tion, and the bodies contained no resin,
gum or any materials such as mud,
sand, rags, etc., generally used in old
Egypt for packing the body after re
moval of the organs. In our environ
ment.' where special precautions are
necessary "to preserve the body from
decay, It Is surprising to hear Of micro
scopic sections from these bodies made
1600 years after death show the minute
structures of glands in a remarkably
SAVINGS AND LOAN
By John M. Osklson.
A perfectly simple idea is behind
the savings and loan association. It
is this:
A, B and C get a number of their
neighbors to cooperate in the saving
of, regular monthly sums of money;
and a committee from among them
undertake to put these monthly saved
Bums to work bo that they will earn a
decent Income. By preference, the
money collected is loaned to those in
the association who can use it to ad
vantage. The expense of, running the
association is kept down to the very
least limit most of the work is done
by unpaid committees which change
frequently.
Properly managed and supervised by
the banking department of the state,
these associations make around 6 per
cent on the savings of their members,
and do it without imperilling - the
money. They are strictly cooperative
all profits belong to the members.
So the savings and loan association
is a fine neighborhood Institution, a
sane encourager of thrift. -
Pointed Paragraphs
Silence Is golden, yet some people
won't shut up!
Cats and candidates love to roost on
the fence. : -
A homely girl can say that pretty
things are useless, and mean It.
The more the big fellows want the
less we little-chaps seem to get
There is no demand for gold bricks,
yet they always find a market.
The morning after Is an occasion
many a man would be glad to dlsre
member. A man doesn't worry because he
isn't clever, provided he knows that
he's good looking.
Now a Scientist comes forward with
the theory that red hair keeps a wom
an's temper hot. Old stuff!
A woman's new hat brings more
lsfaction to her milliner than to her
own husband.
You can't always tell. Occasionally
the toughest boy in the neighborhood
grows up and becomes a minister.
It would surprise, the late lamented
If he could hear his widow telling her
second husband what a noble, kind,
and generous man the first was.
Canning the Wild West.
From the Nebraska State Journal.
Col. W. F. Cody has never performed
a more important service for the gov
ernment than in the supervision of
making a large collection of films pie
turipg the early history of the western
plains. He: has been engage since his
wild west show, closed In Denver In
making moving pictures of battle
scenes and historical incidents in
various parts of the plains and the
Rocky mountain region. In this work
he has been provided with an abun
dance of help and has been able there
fore to reproduce with Indians, sol
diers and cowboys the most stirring
"It",
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The Rusty Hinge Glee club, with a
membership of IS, has bee.n organized
within the Medford Commercial club,
as an auxiliary of which great result
are expected.
'
Union county's fair has been dated
for September 22 to 24 inclusive. J.
A. Russell has been reelected presi
dent of the association and Albert
Hunter temporary secretary.
Josephine county's commissioners
have taken steps toward consolidating
the offices of county fruit inspector
and farm expert, and providing a fund
sufficient to obtain the entire services
of such official.
General satisfaction, it Is reported
In the Klamath Falls Herald, has fol
lowed official denial of a rumor that
the school board had in contemplation
a contract clause forbidding teachers
in the public schools to attend dances.
Gresham Outlook: The First State
bank sold last week to J. M. Conklin
the bank fixtures with which It opened
the first bank in Multnomah cofcnty
outside the city of Portland, nearly a
decade ago. Mr. Conklin will use these
fixtures in a bank which he Is organ
izing at Maupin, Or.
The following changes and additions
have been made affecting the Rose
burg high school staff: F. B. Hamlin,
principal of the Benson school, elected
city superintendent to succeed J. W.
Groves, who had held that position
three years; Lloyd Marquam, of Al
bany, elected principal of the hifrh
school: F. C, Fitapatrick. elected prin
cipal of the Benson school. Ira F. Hat
field has been re-elected principal of
the Rose school.
fine state of preservation, or to learn
that the lobes of the brain and some
of the convolutions were recognizable
and that the fibers and valves of the
heart could be made out.
Ruffer points out the occurrence of
tubercular disease of the spine among
ancient Copts as one more proof that
the disease has existed from the re- j
motest times and is independent of
Climate. It has been found in bodies
buried close to the Mediterranean
shores, in bodies from Upper Egypt
and Nubia, and even in a skeleton
buried in the tropics at Merawi, one of
the hottest and dryest places in the
world. Judging from twb cases of en
larged spleen which were found in
Coptic bodies, Ruffer ventures the sug
gestion that these people suffered from
malaria.
Pyorrhea appears to be as old as
the human race. Evidence of such,
disease has been found In prehistoric
skulls and in the specimens from al
most all nationalities. Ruffer has
found nothing to suggest that the
Copts knew anything about dentistry.
The long recognized bad state of the
teeth of ancient Egyptians Is again
emphasized In the Coptic bodies. Al
most every skull has some serious den
tal defect. It is suggested that this
may. perhaps be accounted for by the
fact that very li,le car of the teeth
appears to have been taken. The thick
Incrustations of tartar are sufficient
evidence that the Copts did not clean
their teeth at all. In many peoples
and animals the absence of the tooth
brush is compensated for by the fact
that the food is hard, fibrous and raw,
requiring a good deal of chewing,
which mechanically cleans the teeth.
In ancient Coptic times this does not
appear to have been the cas. Ruffer
concludes that the Copts of Antlnoe
lived chiefly on cooked soft . food,
chewed without effort. Decay fcf the
teeth was extremely common and was
possibly due to the nature of the food
consumed.
GROWTH IN NEW YORK
In his last report the superintendent
of banks of New York state .says of
the savings and loan associations:
"For years effort has been made so
to perfect the system under which
such associations have been organized
and developed in this state as to place
the movement on a broad and- perma
nent foundation, to afford all the peo
ple of the state an ideal system of
saving, and, at the same time to enable
the associations to make loans upon
real estate security upon such terms
as would encourage home building."
For the first time in 16 years the
number of associations Increased dur
ing the year, and the year's increase
in their resources was satisfactory.
Evidently, then. New York state has
arrived at the point in handling the
savings and loan association where
people are willing to go Into them
more than ever before. Here is your
chance to help along the development
of a good idea in your community! As
a first step, find out from the super
intendent of banks at Albany, N. Y.,
how the savings and loan associations
of that stats are run and regulated.
events of past years In their correct
historical setting. Colonel Cody has
now taken the complete films to Wash
ington for delivery to the government.
After being" shown to a select company
of people in one of the theaters, they
will be filed In the archives of the
war and interior departments for the
benefit of posterity. The moving pic
ture firms would pay handsomely for
these films, but they are not for sals.
They constitute an accurate record of
the development of the west, and es
pecially of the advance of the Indian
from his savage state to his present
near approacn to citizenship.
Goethals Now Governor.
From the Los Angeles Express.
On the first day of April. Colonel
George W. Goethals, chief builder of
the Panama canal, became governor
of the canal zone. Characteristic of
the man was his request that he be
permitted quietly and without osten
tation to take up at once the duties
of the office.
The people of the canal zone woufd
gladly have grasped the opportunity
to show Goethals especial honor on
this occasion They would have eager,
ly expressed their appreciation and
made It a tribute long to be remem
bered. His associates would gladly
have led in doing th man honor.
Instead of assuming office amid the
huzzas which would have been musis
to one more susceptible of personal
adulation, this resoluts engineer and
plain-soldier citizen simply proceeded
to the work before him as an assign
ment to duty.
Such a man Is rare enough to be re
freshing. It is men of the Goethals
mold who make history. Calm, un
perturbed, resolute, modest aAd ca
pable. Colonel Goethals, in his fine In
tegrity and high sense of civic duty Is
a conspicuous example of the very best
type of American citizenship.
Goethals has proven to the nation
and to the world that a masterful and
resourceful man can, if the politicians
are kept from interfering, carry to
completion "a vast public project with
as great economy and efficiency as
private enterprise could accomplish It
All honor to the modest, capable, pa
triotic citizen-soldier Colonel George
W. Goethals. . ' ;
IN EARLIER DAYS
by ed Ixckley.
Mrs. John K. Waite, of Portland, has
lived in Oregon since 1849. Her
father was the first school teacher at
Milwaukie, and she herself was one of
Oregon's early teachers.'
"My maiden name was Ella Camp- ,
bell." said Mrs. Waite. "In 1846 Will
and Sam, my brothers, cam out to
Oregon to spy out the land. Bams
health was not good, sa he spent the
winter with Dr. and Mrs. Whitman at
their , mission. When thev wersi killed
the next fall by the Indians, Sara felt
o uam, s ii n naa lost his own km
folks. My brothers urae back to our
home at Chester, Mass., next spring;
that is, they started in the spring of
1847. but it was October before they
arrived.
"We planned to come to Oregon the
next year. But father thought ths
long, hard trip across the plains would
be too much for mother, so he decided
to go by water. By the time we were
ready to start news tame of the dis
covery of gold in California, and there
was such' a. rush from all over the east
that the boats raised their price of
tickets. So father concluded we had
Deuer come overland after all. We
spent the fall and winter of 1848 pre
paiSng for the Journey, having wagons
built for the purpose.
"My father. Hector Campbell, was 66
years old when we started, and mother
was the same age. Wo shipped all
our household goods around the Horn,
and took only our bedding, provisions
and some Indian trading goods with
u. From our home in Chester we
went to Weston, N. y., by train and
from there we took the stage to the
Ohio river. We went down the Ohio
by boat and on to St. Louis, and from
there we went up the Missouri to t?t.
Joe. We bought our supplle and
oxen at St. Joe and went on to what
is now Omaha, where we found hund
reds of other camped, waiting to make
up an emigrant train.
"As both my brothers had been
across the plains, they took charge of
tiie party. Wedld not Join with the
larger train, but invited a few con
genial families to come with us. As
I look back at It now, it seemed as if
the whole world was moving. As far
as you could s-e there wcrn camp fire
and In the morning in all directions
you could ste the canvHs covers of the
prairie schooners, while at night the
camp fires were reflected from hund
reds of tents. The experiences of
those days are gone forever and the
generation of to&ay can know nothing
about thf-m: hut those who hv, nm
over the deep 'worn emigrant trail
and have stopped their wagons to let
counties thousands of buffalo paa
by. who have eaten antelope meat and
buffalo hump cooked over sagebrush
t'lres or over a fire of buffalo chips,
will never forget it.
"We if pent the Fourth of July on
Bear river. We had been joined "by a
considerable party from Nashville,
Tenn., people who were on their way
to the California gold mines. One of
their party killed an antelope. We
furnished the milk, and getting some
snow from a snow bank nearby, w
had a regular 'feast, including roast
antelope and ice cream.
"We started with some milk cows,
but before we got through our oxen
died, so we had to hitch our cows to
the wagon. Some of the emigrants,
particularly those for California,
started with more provisions than
they needed. When they lost a span
of oxen they would have to lighten
their load. I have seen sacks of beans
and stacks of baoon put by the side f
the road and left there. We started
out with plenty of dried fruit, bacon,
flour, corn meal, rice, tea, coffee and
a keg of syrup. The trip across the
plains brought out the best and the
worst in the people going across. The
worry sometimes made men who
seemed kind at home, become cruel and
overbearing.
."My father took up a donation land
claim near Milwaukie. My sister mar
ried Alfred dueling. Ho had driven the
wagon for his father with the famous
traveling nursery that furnished -the
first grafted fruit trees to the Willam
ette valley. When we settled at Mil
waukte in the winter of 1840, It was
larger than Portland. Lot Whitcomb,
the town proprietor, named it for the
town he came from In the cast.
Opium Traffic Dies Hard- -From
the Vancouver World.
A remarkable development of the
opium question is reported from Shang
hai, as a result of the decision- of the
British government that, ul though no
more opium is to be exported from
India to China, nothing oaa oe done to
alleviate the evils caused b the accu
mulation of stocks at S.nngbai and
other treaty ports. It Is jeclared that
what Is now happening Is that ths traf-'
fio in opium, rigorously Suppressed
in Cliina itself. Is being carried on In
the British and other foreign conces
sions at Hankow, Foochow and else
where, amj. more particularly under the
protection of the Shanghai municipal
council, on which the majority of mem
bers are British.
"Whilst the municipal council has
reluctantly tolerated the slow extinc
tion of the opium Sens," writes the
National Review (Shanghai), "it now
stands idly by and watches the number
of shops for the retail- sale of 'foreign
muck' increasing enormously. ' In the
fashionable district of Shanghai, the
Foochow road and its purlieus, new
'foreign muck' signs are going up every
day, and within a furlong of the muni
cipal council buildings there are dozens
of places where opium may be bought
retail for consumption off the prem-
lises; the hotels also are reported to be
doing a thriving business by letting
rooms to confirmed smokers from the
country, most of them wealthy people
who have come to Shanghai simply and
solefy to enjoy the vicious luxury of
smoking opium in places where they
will not be disturbed by the visits of
the Chinese government opium Inspec
tors. ' f
"Within the past few days we have
heard of wealthy men. with magnifi
cent houaes la the large cities of ths
interior, coming to Shanghai Simply in
order that they may smoke opium. Ths
result Is that rents are going up, and
all concerned hotelkeepers. retailers
and wholesale merchants and impor
ters are doing a roaring trade. The
columns of the Chinese dally papers
are new full of scores of advertise
ments of retail opium dealers, nest
names being added every day..
The Sunday Journal
The Great Home Newspaper.
consists of ..
. Five news sections replete with
'Illustrated feature).;
Illustrated magazine of quality.
Woman's section of rare merit,
Pictorial news supplement.
Superb comic section. . -'-
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