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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1914. THE JOURNAL AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPKU C. 8, JACKHON ....Publisher Published every eveoloc eept Sunday) sod wttr Sunday morning- at Tba Journal Bntld ln, Broadway and Yam bill ata., Portland, Or. Entered at tba postoffic at Portland. Or., for tranamlaaloa through tba mails aa aecood claaa matter. TKI-EPHONKS Main 7173: Home. A-Ofl. All departments rescbsd by-'tnese numbers. Tell tba operator 'what depsrtment you want. 1 ORE1UN AltVKKTIHINa RKPKfcENTAT1 VK Ronjamln Kentnnr Co., BrunawirK Bins'., X Mftb Are., New Xors; izis reopie a fcss Bids.. ChU-mgn. HubMrtptlotr terma by mall or to any ad dreaa la tba TJolted Htstes or Mexico: DAILY One year $5.00 I One month t .50 81,'NDAY Ona year 12M) I one month $ .23 DAILY AND 8L.NDAY - ( Ona year . .$7.5 One month f ,)S Every man 1 dangerous who only cares for one thing. G. K. Chestrton. t THE RKCORD A, s PEAKING of Governor West, the Oregonian says: He has exerted none of his powers, to curtail extravagance. Ills lias been t.ie tnot extrava gant administration In the history of Oregon. February 2", 1913, Governor West Bent to both houses of the legislature, the following veto: I return herewith House Bill No. i 28 with rny veto. This bill carries 74 Items and a total appropriation. Qf tl.331.SK.90. Most of the items are ni.,(lf.,(A.iu , 1 ttt nr.rnnu inn t tierPHna rv for the rtrnnep conduct of I our state) government. there are other items and amounts, however, of riucstionable merit which have been Included In this bill and undoubtedly for the purpose of insuring tnelr pas sage, The practice of presenting blanket , appropriation bills Is wrong In prin- j ch,arriber Hple because It deprives the executive ' of his constitutional right to veto un- The suggestion for the change less he should take it Upon himself, originated from the charge by a as I have don.- in this instance, to fienator that the president had veto the bill as a whole and thus delay i. .,: i ...j.i r, i T3lf needed appropriations. Further, the bargained with Earl Grey for Brit measure carries an emergency clause ish approval of the American poV which deprives the people of this state icy in Mexico in exchange for re- of their constitutional rignt to invoke the referendum upon any part thereof. fiood business and the best interests of the taxpayers of this state demand that such appropriations as are cov ered by this bill be classified and pre sented in smaller units. I know of no greater service you can render to your state than that of presenting ; president had sent the fleet to these appropriations In the manner j Vera Cruz to prevent destruction here suggested and thereby set an ex- , f Rockefeller's and Lord Cow jajnple for future legislators. or "ocKeiener s ana Lora low I. therefore, am returning House Rill ! dray's oil properties, a charge that No. 28 with my disapproval, for fur- j all the "world knows to have been fher consideration, leaving it to you utterly without foundation. to act for the bast interests of ths aJ- . . , . - r, , . . ready oT.r-burd.n.d taxpayers of this1 Tne debates of Congress ought tat or to force tom thslr pockets, to be example to the nation. If by doubtful legislative methods, ones- , a president is fiuilty of the high tlonable, unjust and excssslve charges. or5me8 and misdemeanors that par This veto message is a sample of I tlsan members, by indirection, many sent by the governor to the ! snmptitT. 1n th(1 hpar nt 1913 session. It was laughed at. The bill, with its unworthy items. was promptly passed Over the veto. It is a part of the great sum on which people are paying taxes now. There is an open record of the 1913 session. It is a record the Oregonian cannot repeal. There ' is no room for debate with the people of Oregon over what trans pired at that session. They have not forgotten. There was a machine in the sen ate and a machine In the house. They were organized to "put the governor n a hole." It was great fun to pass appro priations over the vetoes then. The Oregonian simpered and felicitated and smiled every time a veto was j overridden. It chuckled and the ! legislative jnachine pirouetted at the smooth way in which the gov-! ernor was being "put in a h6le."' i But it wasn't the governor, but j the people who were put in a hole. i ney are trying to cumt out or the hole now In the payment of taxes. Some are borrowing money ' ana paying interest ror taxes. And j the Oregonian is trying to make it appear that Governor West did it. A governor cannot appropriate money. Governors cannot pass ap propriation bills. Governors do not legislate. Governors do not pass appropriation bills over executive vcToes. Only legislatures can ap - propriate money. It was the legis- latlve appropriations by the 1913 session that caused the sum of $6, S50.996.42 to be levied for pay ment during the current blennlum. It was members of the legislative machine that, in secret session, swore to each other that they would "put the governor in a hole and then came out on the floor of both houses andjauntily overrode tne vetoes. Then they cackled and chuckled and crowed st their success in passing swamp land billa. salary raises, appropri ation bills and every other kind of costly measure over the vetoes. In all, the governor vetoed some thing like seventy bills at the 1913 'session, and they would have made a heavy saving to the state if the vetoes had teen allowed to stand. He vetoed 64 bills at the 1911 Bes slon which cut down the legisla tive appropriations $613,874 for that session. . It is utterly futile for the Ore gonian to attempt to change his tory. The people know. They can not be humbugged. Governor West tried to stem the torrent of extrav agance and thimblerigging, but the legislative machine was crazy and nothing could stop its folly. Such is the record, and it will stand. SAVING HUMAN ' LIVES KANSAS has found that it can save human lives "at a cost of $25 each. That, state has spent $10,000 -a year for three years in a fight on tubercu losis and has cut down the number of deaths from this disease 412 .each year. What Is a human life worth? Five years ago Kansas was one of v ... the worst tuberculosis states In the country, not because the dis ease would thrive exceptionally well there, but because It was car ried into the state. Three great railroads running through the com monwealth from eastern crowded cities carried tuberculosis patients to the mountains, and these people spread the scourge. In 1909 the legislature was asked for an appropriation to carry on a preventive campaign. ine lawmakers were economical, and the only way the money could be secured was by the promise that a report to the next legislature would show that for each $100 of the money voted there would be one less death from tubercu losis. Five years ago deaths from tu berculosis in Kansas exceeded 1500. In 1913 the total deaths from all forms of this disease were I 1088. The preventive campaign had succeeded so well that instead of each threatened human life cost ing $100, it cost only $25. Kansas, once the calamity state, is now noted fpr wealth and prog ress, and no small part of that commonwealth's enviable . reputa tion is due to conservation of re sources,, both human and material. AROUSING A CZOLGOSZ I T IS proposed to amend the sen ate rules so as to prohibit sen ators from speaking in a cen sorious way of the president or v" e presiueni. It is urged for it, that the presi dent, by the character of his high office is unable to make reply in kind, and that there ought to be some limitation to violent pefr- sonal attack on the floor of the ,,, nf tells. Dpnlala both by Earl Grey arid President Wilson resulted in a retraction by the sen ator who made the charge. In the house, there were charges by Mondell of Wyoming that the debate , the charge should be backed up by proof and the assailant at once move articles of impeachment. But there ought not to be indis criminate charges. if members are not high-minded enough to re spect the man, they ougli to re spect the office. It is a position that... reflects the power, the liberty and the security of the American people and the perpetuity of their institutions. It ought not to be discussed In the coarse and vulgar Invective of a bully, a practice that fires the weak mentality of a Guitteau or a Czolgosz and speeds the fatal bul let on its errand of death. SAFKTY FIRST s I'RING 1913 not a child was I V killed or injured by a street- J car in Atlanta. The Georgia city attributes its good record to the Public Safety League, or ganized more than a year ago among teachers and pupils of the schools, and employes of the street- car company The children adopted the motto, "Don't Get Run Over," while oper ators of the trolley cars followed a "Safety First" rule. The idea of caution and alertness was empha sized in classrooms and homes Parents became more circumspect. and the children themselves were impressed with a sense of their in dividual responsibility. Older boys and girls were taught to watch over the younger ones, and to take pride in preventing accidents Atlanta's record for 1913 shows what can be accomplished in cities, where the hazards of the street, are J constantly increasing. The bureau or railway news ana statistics says mat more man tnree times as many people, in proportion to popu lation, were killed on the streets of Chicago in 1913 than were killed by all the railways of the United States, including passengers, employes, trespassers and others During the year there were 13 6 per sons killed on Chicago streets by automobiles alone, or within five of .the number of passengers killed by all the railways In accidents to trains. Chicago's killings by au tomobiles increased 38.8 per cent in one year; New York's Increased from 226 to 302, or 33.6 per cent. There is no real reason why the streets of a city should become a shambles HOME RULE FOR IRELAND P OSITIVE declaration that his government istends to pass the Irish home rule bill has been made by Premier As qulth in the house of .commons i o ail appearances he has the situ ation well in hand, and it Is not probable that such a statement would have been made without the almost certainty that home rule will become an actuality. Mr. Asquith has assumed person al control of the army. He isthe political head of the nation, the chief adviser of the king. -A ma Jority of the British people have placed him and his associates in positions ;' to say what ;the . laws shall be and how they shall be an-1 ministered. In any crisis he " will i be the inevitable head of the na tional police force.. It is to be hoped that passage of the home rule bill will not precipi tate disorder in Ulster, but If it does there is evidence hat the sit uation will be handled! firfcly. It may take all of Mr. Asquith's equipment of intellectual and moral power to preserve peace, but it is evidence of his statesmanship that he has decided, to follow the original course. Any other pro gram would mean worse disorder than has already been threatened, i The Irish question ought to be settled. Even Lord Derby, regard ed by many as the next Conserva tive premier, says that home rule is Inevitable, as it is now impos sible for the Unionists to go back to their old ground of opposition to it. Mr. Asquith is right in as suming thatlittle is to be gained by postponing the inevitable. AUTO THEFTS N O LESS than six automobiles were stolen on Friday and Saturday nights of last week in Portland. A 'seventh was added to the list of thefts on Sun day night. Most of the machines were re covered; but at last accounts some of the owners were still searching for their missing cars. It is coming to the point that no owner is sure when he leaves his machine on a street that it will be there when he returns. Not even the patent devices for lock ing the machine stand in the way of experts who dash away without leave, and who may abandon the car in some lonely spot, possibly wrecked, pfssibly not. There ought to be protection for the owners. The practice Is mount ing to proportions far beyond the public's or officialdom's compre hension Otherwise, judges would be more stern and penalties more severe The fact Is there Is a difference I between stealing a loaf of bread for starving children and stealing an auto for a joy ride or for the purpose of purloining its equip ment. There is far more reason for leniency in the one than in tv, r crinM f-m 0a- the other. One springs from neces sity, the other from unadulterated cussedness. THK WONDERFUL DANES D R. MAURICE F. EGAN. Amer . ican minister to- Denmark, says that if intensive 'tarm ing could be carried on in this country with half the scientific application of the Danes, the high cost of living problem would be solved. The per capita wealth of Den mark is greater than in any other country, and Dr. Egan attributes this to the tendency to cut large estates into small farms and work these intensively. He says that a family in Denmark can take a twenty ucre farm and make a com fortable living. Canada's royal commission on ndustrial training and technical education has called attention to Denhjark's agricultural schools. Theyt are all residential institu tions. The pupils live on farms. The principal is the managing farm er, and each school Is run at a profit. There are three such " - -" uum ; Der or pupils is constantly increas- ing. Necessity made the Danes inten sive farmers, and they are making a success of agriculture ln a coun try where the land is much higher in price and poorer in quality than in the United States. Unlimited acreage and great natural produc tivity may be a Berious handicap to agriculture in this country. But in recent years the fact has been brought home that there is real economy In making every, acre produce the maximum. Our agricultural colleges are assisting ln making this possible. Intensive farming is in its infancy in the United States, but there is evidence of sturdy growth. Each succeed ing year sees American farms worked more efficiently than the year before. THE CENSUS FIGURES E STIMATES on the population of American cities and states made by the federal census bureau contain proof of many facts. Important among these is the fact that the Pacific North west is outdistancing other sections of the country in the percentage of population increase. Tn four vpars ihp t i ro pnun tw 1nerparl U r,r.lQtt - cent. - In the same period Oregon's population increased 16 per cent, Washington's 15 per cent, and Cali fornia's 16 per cent. The rate of increase in Pacific coast states was more than double the entire coun try's rate. Among the cities, Portland's in crease was 25 per cent, Tacoma's 25, Spokane's 30, and Seattle's 32 per cent. Los Angeles gained 31 per cent, but San Francisco in creased only seven per cent. Com pared with these figures are esti mated Increases for representative eastern cities. Atlanta gained 16 perjcnt, Milwaukee 11. Chicago 10, afi'd Louisville 5 per cent. 'Oregon gained 110,474 in popu lation in four years, and 53,387 of this Increase Is credited to Portland. The figures 6how that the state's smaller cities and coun try districts are not growing as fast as Portland, but the tact re mains that more than one half tne increase was scored by the state ' as a whole outside its one large city. Washington gained 186,746 in the same period, but 126,765 are accounted for by the larger popu lations of Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma. In Oregon more than one half the increase was outside the state's large city, while In Wash ington less than one third was in the smaller communities and coun try districts. The figures are evidence that Oregon is growing symmetrically. The state's abundant resources of soil and climate are being utilized. The country back of Portland is being developed. It is a promise of a greater Portland and a richer Oregon. Letters From the People (Communications aent to The Journal for publication In this department should be writ ten on only one side of the paper, abould not exceed 800 words In length and must be ac companied by the name and addresa of the aender. If the writer doea not deslr to bare tbe name published, be abould so atate.) f ' ' rHfiiK !rr tm (tio ,n,tHt if all refrtrm era. It rationalizes everything It touches. It robs principles of all false sanctity and throws them back on their reasonableness. If tbey have uo reasonableness, . It ruthlessly crushes them out of existence and acts up Its own conclusions In their stead." Woodrow Wilson. Answer to Mr. Reichen. Portland, April 29. To the Kdltor of The Journal In The Journal of April 5 C. A, Reichen makes some statements, In the form of questions, that should be answered lest- your readers be misinformed. He asks: "Why do brewers' conventions have to pass resolutions declaring t.ieir business legitimate?" They don't have to. Nothing com pels them to. As long as they don't manufacture their product in "prohi bition" territory their business is le gitimate and-it is proper for them so to state. i "Why lias the T'nited States su preme court declared the sale of liquor unconstitutional?" i ? It never has so declared or decided. The sale of liquor is not. a constita tional question. The laws affecting the sale thereof may be. If Mr. Iteichen had read the two Cases he .-0 I glibly cites he would not be asking I too.lisn Questions. vny uo an sianoara magazines and hundreds of daily papers bar liquor ads?' " I They don't. Most popular maga- i same as abstaining from all physical zlnes carry the ad of a certain brand I exercise will create a physical weak of cocktails and most daily papers line. Does anvbodv believe that by carry the ad and testimonials of - a I certain brand or malt whiskey. Our : local papers carry brewery ads anJ are as clean and hih class as I dally Papers anywhere. However, I ! am not familh..- with "hundreds cf dally papers." neither' is Mr. Iieichen. I "Why do all life Insurance com- j panies prefer abstainers and even give j them a lower rate?' Tiiey do not, and they, positively, do not give abstainers a lower rate. I wonder where Mr. Reichen gets this lomniyroi. frobaoiy trom soma ..fA. Pr?n,D,"n weekly. i W hy do labor leaders denounce the i traffic and its patronage?" j I do not know that theyvdo. There j are many labor leaders. Which lead- Ld""L.h,ere and When have! "Why did Lincoln worse than slavery?" I don't know, that V phonounce it I ire did, and I wou!d .like to be shown the authority that Lincoln ever made such a stat ment. "What student of science or sociol ogy defends it?" Oh, piffle! Science and sociology have no concern with the liquor traf fic. "If blind piga are undesirable, wny don't the liquor men help to extermi nate them by voting, etc.?" "There are no "liquor men" in dis tricts where blind pigs are necessary. inat is wny: Now, I am going to ask Mr. Reic.ien a question: Why is the percentage ! of illiteracy, in population, 10 years j of age and over, so much greater m I "prohibition" states" than it is .in Or o- ' gon .' AlaDania has repealed Its pro hibition law Th. r, . l,u eracy in Oregon is 1.9, and in each aiKl every "prohibition state" it is as follows: Kansas, 2.2; North Carolina, 18.5; Arkansas, 12.6; Maine; 4.1; Geor gia, 20.7; North Dakota, 3,1; Tennes see, 13.6; West Virginia, 8.3. (Bureau of census, last report). Don't answer by ' saving it is on account .of the i large negro population of the south or the "green" foreign population of tne north, because the foreign popu lation of Oregon is greater than that of Maine and the negro population of Oregon is greater than that of North Dakota, . F J. R. Home Tax Exemption. Portland, April 29. To the Elitorof The Journal The J1E0O home tax ex emption measure is now on the ballot, nu auuui u.ouu signatures indorsing i alarm, or course, it Is perfectly un it. It is a live issue--now placed ' derstood that dogs are not the only squarely up to the electorate. It is : animals that are subject to the especially intended to exempt from scourge, but ln civilized and thiokly taxation the improvements and per-1 settled communities, where other anl- sonai property used as a home or to make a livelihood, up to the assessed value of $1500 for each taxpayer. What would be its effect?' To secure accurate figures would require more time and money than the league back oi ii nas or ever expects to have. We can only roughly estimate, allowing liberal percentages to the . opponents of the measure. In 1910 the average farmer of Clackamas county had less than $1000 ln assessed values In the shape of personal property and improvements. The indications are that this measure would not exempt over $750 to each farmer there. If the total exemp tions in Clackamas county reach 10 per cent of its present assessed val ues it will fall lightly on the home, i "a acres, Decause most county is held by speculators and corporations. Nearly one-third is corporation franchises and other property not exempt a cent, and ap parently nearly all the rest is land values, of which the tillable land is less than one-fifth of the totaUv"'.! of the county. The farmers cifTftotl own an of that. In Multnomah county a fair exami nation will indicate less than 10 per cent exempted. The point of it is that this 10 per cent largely belongs to the small fry, the struggling home owner, mortgaged, ill paid when at work and trying to be a good citizen. The measure will make, a demand for labor of all kinds and bring millions of dollars into Oregon for its develop ment, -,s ALFRED D CRIDGE. On the Removal of Temptation. Portland. April 29. In reading; the present discussion of prohibition one sees that some people have an idea that all the evils in this world can be cured by law, and also everybody re formed by law. Pretty soon we shall have to do everything by law. . We have so many laws that we finally don't know which is right or wrong. Each state in the union has more laws than' tho whole o. Europe, combined. A FEW SMILES A woman was listening to a "long shoreman aa he was delivering- him self of a perfect torrent of pictur esque language. "My man," she said, "where did you learn such awful language?" "Learn it, ma'am?" asked the man in surprise. "You don't learn It; it a a gift." A mother took her 4-year-old son to a restaurant for his first luncheon but side of the nursery at home. He be- raved with perfect propriety and watched the elaborate service with keen in terest. When the fin ger bowls were placed on the table he toticed . the square white mint on the plate at the side of the bowl, and ex claimed: "Oh, mother, look at the cunning little cakes of soap he brought us I" Harper's Magazine. Mrs. Emily P. Bishop, author of "Seventy Years Young," tells this lit tle storyjoillust rate the fact that it I is as easy to do as to wish to do. A little g I r Is brother set a trap to catch birds. The little girl knew that it was wrong, cruel. asraint the laws of kindness, and alto gether inexcusable. She wept at first, then her mother noticed that she be came cheerful again, and she was asked the cause. "I prayed for my brother to be a better boy. "What else?" inquired her mother. "I prayed that the trap would not catch am- little birds." "What" else?" "Then I went out and kicked the old trap all to pieces." and yet we arethe most lawless nation in the civilized world. I myself am no friend of the sa loons; neither am I a prohibitionist. If noboriv would natronize the saloons mnr 1 1 : m n t t ( oil wnn 11 Knnn CO Out of business Yet T do not believe nro- (hibition will solve the problem of in- temperance and the drinking evil. By rpmnvlnp '- 1 1 t omnti t inn f mm a rtArson we will create a moral weakling the abolishing the saloons all those men) that hang around on Burnside street will be reformed? Or does anybody be- Heve by removing , all temptations from our children we shall make per- f,.t m f n n r r w o m f n rf thfitll? Char- acters are formed by the practice of seif restraint and self sacrifice, by overcoming obstacles and temptations. "By removing all discipline and temp- IMF- tation frorrj our children y deny tm anythi from taki Chine ln Bnort. the very things that build up ' char hand to running railroad trains, build ter. A grea percentage of our south brldf,es, and conning a man of row up without due moral training. without regard to respect for age. law or religion; and when they are grown lntend b . one stroke of the pen make good and ,aw abiding citizens t of tn Some of the prohibitionists show by ineir very paiicihc xiia.nv. , r rt in. ' temperate themselves. They overbal- sea e n ea on lar more o the other. Th They are just like the most . want to reform everybody of us: we except ourselves. True reform starts at home. It is neither at tne Daiiot box nor in the legislature that the world is reformed. Th foundation for a good citizenship is laid at the cradle, home and school room. . J. H. Expressing Appreciation. Portland, April 29. To the"" Editor of The Journal The splendid success of the "go to church" campaign was due principally to the cooperation or the Portland newspapers, We wish -you to accept our hearty appreciation and thanks for your part In making this an event not to be forgotten Cordially yours, THE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION. Certain Way to End Rabies. From the-Philadelphia Public Ledger. It has been demonstrated that there is one and only one certain way of preventing the spread of rabief, with its train of terrible consequences to human beings, and that is the muz zling of all dogs allowed to run at large. Hydrophobia was at one time practically banished from England by the rigid enforcement of this regula tion, and it was only when it was re laxed that the disease reappeared. Our own health authorities are entirely logical ln recommending that a like j precaution be taken here, where recent j cases of rabies have Justly created . mals are less numerous, the dog is the source of infection chiefly to be feared. Therefore, precautions enfo reed against "man's first friend" are the ' obvious ones which suggest themselves j to the prudent guardian of the publio ., health. j There are admitted difficulties In 1 the way. Dog lovers are naturally- re- luctant to impose restrictions upon their pets, the dogs themselves do not like to'be muzzled or kept indoors, and the task of enforcing such a rule would be a formidable one. If past ex perience shall be repeated, the ill-kept and ill-fed curs would be allowed to run at large, while upon the dogs of higher breed would be imposed thefrk- ome handicaps of muzzle or leash j Just as the dogcatchers almost in variably ignore the stray and worth less curs and collect' the valuable ani mals, so those dogs from which the greatest danger is to be feared would be left free to roam. It does not fol low that the stray cur Is more liable to rabies than the well bred dog, but his liberty exposes the former to the greater peril, and unless such a regu lation as Is contemplated Is enforced with relentless impartiality it will be utterly worthless as a health precau tion. The Passing of "Rnbe" Waddell. From the Philadelphia Telegraph. Of all great games baseball is the greatest. Of all things in baseball pitching Is the greatest. Of all great pitchers Waddell was the greatest. George Edward Waddell waa for a few brief years the idol of frenzied worshippers. As a baseball "god" he merited their homage. He stood alone, master of the mightiest batsman, the next thing to omnipotence on the twirler's mound. -And all his rich possessions he threw away. The whip of steel men called his arm, the clear head which trapped his opponents at play, his every cause and secret of success; his health, his prestige, his Income all these things "Rube" .Waddell .gave up PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANG U In cas of war, all can't be offi cers,. . , Th trouble of the recall ers i. they can't elect anybody. Possibly O'Shaughnessy will be gov. ernor of Mexico yet, ' If it isn't war, it ia a pretty good miniature imitation of war. Good roads are coming surely, and not so slowly as heretofore. Another indication that summer Is near at hand allegations of an ice trust. The abler a person is to pay taxes, the more he complains about them, as a rule. Those boya and girls are beginning to take proper pride, in those gar dens now. . If Americans feed hungry Mexicans, the invaders will be secretly welcomed by many. Aa ever girls are "stuck on" a mili tary uniform, especially if it has epaulettes. . Ex-Bandit Villa seems to have much more common sense than First Chief Carranza. Latin America is always on the watch for an excuse to feed its enmity toward the United States. Among the military shipments to Vera Cruz were many mules, animals that have helped win many a glorious victory. The government cannot complain of any lack of men who desire to organ ize companies, regiments, brigades and armies. . If Mexican General Maas has ex ecuted any Americans, and values his own life, he snould be very careful to avoid capture. MAN WHO LED MARINES AT VERA CRUZ By Herbert Corey. Most abrupt person, this Major Smedley Darlington Butler. At times fairly snappish. Snarled' at a wound ed comrade once. "Shut up," he said to the wounded comrade. "Keep your fool head shut, or I'll put you under arrest." Sounds heartless, doesn't It? Prob ably was heartless. Except that be fore one passes Judgment on a high tempered person who Is handling a man who has just been painfully shot In the hip one should know all the circumstances. Then, perhaps, one would not say unkind things about him. Butler is the man who commands the marines who landed in Vera Cruz and took part in the first engagement of the second Mexican war. Before further 'discussing Butler it may be mentioned that Secretary of War Gar rison said these marines are the finest troops he has ever seen and they are not in his department at all. Which inclines one to the belief that he meant what he said. They can do war through a swash channel. They have been on duty in the zone and the things that are not expected of a marine in the canal zone have not yet been thought of by any inventor. And the marines have always made good. Very well, then. Let us get back to Major Butler. He was one of those present on that international hurdle through China , to Pekin ln 1900. One day Butler and hla men wlge of and Captain Harding like the Marine Corps and his men joined a detachment of Russians on the march toward Tlen-Tsin. When they were about three miles away from the walled city a lot of strange Chinamen rose with noises and new rifles from behind some mud walls and began shooting. The Americans and the Russians were outnumbered some hundreds to one. A retreat was ordered. It was an orderly retreat- orderly to a fare-you-well but it was not conducted on the low gear. Sud denly Butler missed one of his ser geants. He looked back and saw the sergeant sitting up on the ground, watching the chasing Chinamen. Ob viously he had been too badly wounded to go on retreating. So that Butler ordered his men to go to a place of safety. And Harding ordered his men to go on to a place of safety. And the pair went back after the wounded -sergeant. He was a large, solid sergeant, this wounded one was The two officers found him a dead weight to carry. Every now and then they would have to place him on the ground while they tried for the out door panting record of middle China The unincumbered, shouting, rifle shooting Chinamen kept getting near er. The wounded sergeant tried to salute. SAVINGS DEPARTMENTS UNDER NEW LAW By John M. Oskison. The new federal reserve law, which is a complete reorganization of our banking system so far as the banks under federal authority are concerned, has very wisely paid attention to the demand for an extension Qf the sav ings fe4ture. As I understand it, the new law permits the national banks to set aside a sum equal to 20 per cent of capital and surplus, but not less than $15,000. to conduct a savings depart ment. Practically the savings departments of national banks will be distinct banks; their assets will be kept sep arate, and against savings deposits the banks will be required to keep a re serve of 6 per cent. Just how important to a boom In thrift this new law is likely to be i' shown by the fact that as members of the new reserve organization 7475 national banks were enlisted at the beginning. Practically every national bank in the country, therefore, will soon be authorized to start a savings department. How many of the 7475 national banks will take advantage of the new law's permission to compete with the because he wanted something else more. The other thing he wanted was dissipation. It is written in the un alterable law of life that no man shall for long be dissolute, and successful. Waddell chose to be not successful. On Wednesday this supreme base bal pitcher for a fleeting spell diid in Texas. He had gone there to retard the ravages of tuberculosis. It was too late. It had been too late ever sinco that hour some years ago when the passion for unwholesome living defin itely conquered Waddell's store of common sense. The professional rise, decline and fall of "Rube" Wadaell should furnish an impressive warning to millions of boys and young men in America. The love of athletics and the temptation to live loosely are twin characteristic of youth. Waddell tried to combine thu two. He failed. Others who tried it failed. All who may try it in fu ture wiU falL AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Eggs were quoted at 12 cents a dozen at Burns last week, the lqwest ever known in that market A Tillamook county band is an in stitution that W. C. Trombley, of-Bay City, is organizing. -. The band ia to make the &'an Francisco fair tour as representative of TlUamook county. Showing the long distance interest in the Pendleton Round-up, the Kast Oregonian notes that a Philadelphian has already made & reservation at a leading hotel, of a suite of rooms for the entire week. J. H. Austin is editor and proprie tor of the Port L'mpqua Courier, the first issue of which came from the press at Gardiner last Saturday. The paper is a seven column, four page weekly more than ordinarily well filled with live local news, and extremely well printed withal. "Back to the j soil, 'thou sluggard: Consider the prune and be wise.'" Ik the slogan that General Volk says he has adopted. As a first step he has soia tne uauas observer, arter sis months' ownership. Lew A. Cates, an Oregon publisher, with years of ex perience, is the purchaser. ' The. residents of Alsea valley are ar ranging for a celebration during the week of June S to 13. for the purpose of bringing the resourecs of that sec tion to the attention of t'.ie people of the state. Governor West has prom ised to be with them and help the cause along, if it is possible fur him to attend the meet. ! Mose Durkheimcr, of Prairie City, is sain to noia the long distance busi ness men's record for Grant county. He has been at the old stand as a mer chant, for 25 years. However, A. Hup prich, of Canyon City, a shoemaker, has him beaten li years, and th. name of J. ". Oliver, now Interested In banking, lias been Continuously in the Kagle's advertising columns for 30 years. "It's no good, sir," said lie, respect fully. "You can't make it. Please leave me and go on. There's no sense in your getting killed, too." So Butler hot tempered person, is Butler, very Butler looked at him sharply and shook his head. And the wounded sergeant, who was losing a great deal of blood and was In pain, persisted. And then Butler snapped at hlin: "Shut up," said Butler. "Keep your fool head shut or I'll put you under arrest." Well, of course, there was noth ing for a well disciplined marine to do under such circumstanc.es but per mit his superior officer to have his way. And Butler and Harding saved his life. It was a little later in that same campaign that Butler and Captain Lemley figured in one of the serio comic incidents that sometimes lighten the horrors of war. They were under the walls of Tien-Tsin, fighting cheer ily, when the Chinamen managed" to hit them both. Butler got a bullet through his right leg. Lemley was shot through his left leg. There were no ambulances or stretchers or ro mantic nurses handy. ' ' "This," said Lemley and Butler simultaneously, "is a fine business." So they took out their bandana handkerchiefs and tied their crippled legs together Butler's right leg to Lemley's left leg r and threw their arms around each other's shoulders, and came oTf the field ln that fashion. It's no easy thing to do. If you've ever tried It, even without the added handicap of bulletholes. But they did it and were furiously peeved because they had to leave the fighting Just as the fighting was getting good. That's the sort of a man who led that first landing f rce ln the war with Mexico. It isn't much wonder that the ma rines who fight under him are classed as considerable warriors. He was ad vanced In rank after that China cam paign for "eminent and conspicuous conduct ln battle.' Butler Is 3 4 years old and was ap pointed to the Marine Corps In 18119 from civil life. His father is a mem ber of congress from Pennsylvania and a Quaker by birth, conviction and practice. But he Isn't the sort of Quaker that anyone says anything cruel to in the heat of debate, because he may be an advocate of peace and a foe of belligerence and all that sort of thing but he conducts a debate after the fashion of a bulldog chasing a tramp. He Is one of the most savage and indomitable Quakers that ever spoke his mind In meeting. Perhaps it Is because he is this sort of Quaker that he. Is the senior member on the committee on naval affairs, the most warlike of the house committees. On the whole, conceding that one of the two Butlers Is a Quaker, the fight ing record of the family is still close. savings Institutions? Not a very large proportion at first, but with tlitf growth of the state and private sav ings Institutions the national banks will exercise their privilege. The more the better! In nearly every town and city Included In the 13 districts into which the country b divided there is an opportunity for some young man Just entering Jhe banking business to convince a board of directors that a savings depaitment will pay, and then to gt busy edu cating the people to understand the importance of persistent and syste matic saving. The new law has attempted to put the national banks in a position where they can meet all the banking needs of a community. Jhls is a far step ahead. In the. mind of the thrifty saver, there will be creatfd a new confidence if he knows that his savings hanks arc subject to the ame thorough, regular inspection as given the national banks. Get the bank habit! And get the national bank habit; also find out from your national bank what "the prospect is for, the. establishment of a savings department. Try to hurry It along " It will lie good for you and for your community. Pointed Paragraphs It's up to the man who would live long to live slowly. The history of humanity is an Im mense volume of mistakes. Even the changeable' woman never seems to have sufficient change. Perhaps women talk more than men. but they don't always say the most. The hardest task many a man has is trying to keep his dead past burled. Occasionally time waits for a man if he has the ticket for his watch In hock. Men are hard to satisfy, yet what is more unsatisfactory than a satisfied man? IN EARLIER DAYS By Fred Lockley. "On our way to -the Orofina mlnea -we stoped at "Whitman, station," said !r. C. H. Rafferty, pioneer physician. ! of East Portland. "This was formerly called Whitman mission and the bodies or ur. Whitman and his wife and those of the otheT victims were burled there. "When Tom and I got there we founfl Rev. dishing Kt-ils. ohe of the early " missionary associates t,f Dr. Whitman, on the farm. His wheat cropwae ready to be harvested, but he was un able to secure any help, as all of the farm hands had gone to the newly dls- -covered Idaho mines. nrvaiiIui a us to stay for a few days and heln hint harvest his crop. I never sa a more precise man In my life. It used to " amuse me to hear him. while driving his oxen. Buck and Ben, say: 'Haw there. Buck, and you also, Ben. Haw there about fnnt I maybe IS inches.' "Ills intense scrhmsuess s'nd hta great exactness made him the butt of all of the ungodly young fellows whe " used to mock him. If h? didn't have much sense of humor he had unfail ing chrltHlan charity and fortitude and he took their fun in good part, never changing i,R alr of serious dignity In the least. The news from the Oroflno mines was rather discouraging. Re- turning gol.l s-ekcr told us the mlnea were not as rich us reported and alBO that all the rlaims were staked out. "Tom was pretty homexick, or, to be ' more rxa. t. lovesick. He was afraid Mary might find someone enn during' hl.s absence wliuiu slw cared for mora than him. so we parted company at ...... i,,., iin.bhiii, in. ueeiae.a iu re turn to Mary ii the Willamette val- -ley, while I continued on t Orofintf. i'ushins Nells paid me 36 for my work and Tom and I divided our outfits and supplies. He insisted that 1 keep th v larger part. On the way to Walla . Walla I Ml In with a man from tha " Willamette valley named Mulkey. We decided to become partners. He was a - mighty good man.- I was Just a thin slice pf a boy. He was middle aged and very fat. He had a largo mule, on which he rnde. When he got on h i would 1 i rt his abdomen and let it rest n the horn of his saddle. This al ways looked funny to me. As he wit too large to get aroutid well, 1 tooK ritre Of tlio Ikii'ho irnt tH. rira and diil the running around while ho did the cooking. ln the evenings w) would talk over plans, - We would d chie to-gn into the butcher buslne; we would work the whole thing out and figure out our profits till we felt rich and then w (would remember we did " not have enough money to start a shop, let alone buying a single steer. "Next night we would plan how w could build a toll road and put In a ferryboat across the Clearwater river and make a mint of money. About the tlme-we-had figured ourselves rich we would fiave to give ip the plan, as we didn'thave the money to build th boat. W certainly thoti-ght up a flna lot of phnn and any of them Wbuld have workVd If we had had the money; hut that was the one tiling we were short of. - "Am we approached H. II. Spalding's oh! mission at Lapwal we met many Nez Perce Indians who were anxious) to hear the news about the Civil war and how it was coming out. Many of the Nez Perce Indians spoke good Eng. -lish. We met two very pretty Indian . Kirls on horseback one day. . I said to my partner. Mr. Mulkey: 'My, there are two mighty handsome Indian girls One of thtin with a mlscheivous look. . said: "Tlmt may be so. but It won't do you any good." . "We stopped at .Spalding's mission, where we found what 'Was probably', one of the oldest apple trees in the Pa cific northwest. It was about 40 feet high, very large and loaded with fruit. ' We niade but a brief stay at Lewlstea . and hurried on to Oroflno. . "I will never forget our first even ing st Oroflno. We arrived In the aft, ernoon and sent our horses out to pus ture. We registered at the hotet. Meals were $1 each and each person had to furnish his own blankets. In the evening we took In the town. Every saloon was crowded and all the spacg not immediately in front of the bsr was utilized by the gamblers to run tneir games, roner me lavonig game and I knew by the size of tUa stacks of gold coin and gold dust In buckskin sacks that Oroflno was a rich camp. Uanclng was very popular. For. r.n cents a man and his partner had a dririi apiece and one dance. As wo men were scarce. In noma places the dancers were all men, though ' these places were not s popular as wherS one or more women 'were at hand. "Kvery person had a pistol and a knife in his belt. I had never seen a mining camp before and here I was Bering one ln lull swing. rue souna of Die rattling poker fhlps, the tramp of the dancers' feet, the fiddle as It played 'Money Musk,' 'Rye Straw . 'Leather Breeches' and 'Arkansas Trav eler,' the click of glasses on the bar, the loud voices, the laughter of the j painted women anu tne meuiey oi owier have never forgotten." The Ragtime Muse Wise Clorinda. Clorinda's been through college. ; - t'iorinda's studied law. And she has a world of knowledge That fills my soul with aws. Her store of economic Erudition gives her rbym. But her hats are truly comic And I view her with alarm. She Is sourtd upon the tariff And knows that it s a tax, That consumers pay a share if Not all, and kindred fact. Her theory of money Is, ln the main, iuite right. But her clothes-are simply funny And she fills my breast with fright. Clorinda Is a beauty And certainly is good; She knows her civic duty And acts Just as she should; But I am sadly puzzled. And fear, I must confess. That Clorinda should be muzzled Till she learns how she should dress I Reducing the Tax. From Judge. Manufacturer What we roust do now. my boy, in find some way of re ducing the tax on silk stockings. '. His son and heir I have it. father! Give a bottle, of anti-fat with each pair. The Sunday Journal The Great Home Newspaper, consists of ' Five news sections replete with ' illustrated features. Illustrated magazine of quality. . Woman's section of rare merit. Pictorial news supplement. Superb comic section. 5 Cents the Copy