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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1914.
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Any man In any walk of life,
who puts Jealousy, hate and
fear behind him. ran make
himself distinguished. Elbert
Hubbard.
TRUE I'ATIUOTISM
A
NATION is pacing it tribute
of respect today to seventeen
American lives that went out
the other day at Vera Cruz.
At the Bropklyn navy yard a
grateful government through its
chief executive is voicing its meed
Of praise.
While the loss of tht-se seventeen-
Jives is deplorable they , will
not have died in vain if out of their
death shall come a new order in
Mexico.
"Ha has .come back home, asleep,
"With 'the flag above his face;
With the atarry fold to keep
Guard abdVe his resting place;
And beneath blue summer skies.
Where he dreams below the sod.
But a single rosebud lies
Now betwer-n his heart and God?"
It Is pertinent to recall the Just
rebuke administered by L. W.
Summerlin, a brother of one of
these heroes, Randolph Summer
lin, to those who are trying to
manufacture sentiment against the
national administration in its Mex
ican policy. $hen the names of
those who fell when the American
flag was planted at Vera Crus were
received In New York, the Hearst
yndicate sent its correspondent at
Willacooche, Georgia, tho follow
ing Instructions:
Please Interview Summerlin' fath
er on uselessness of sacrifice. If
United States Is now to accept medi
ation. Does he, not think It out
rageous to have to send boys to be
killed and then government decide
fighting is wrong?
To this Insulting request Mr.
Hearst received the answer of a
loyal and honorable American as
follows:
I beg to say my brother, Randolph
Rummerlln. was killed at Vera Cruz
In defense of the country's honor.
We favor President Wilson and the
Democratic administration, and Ran
dolph has four brothers and a farther
who are ready and willing to make
the sacrifice If railed upon.
What a striking, contrast be
tween this patriotic southern fam
ily and the Hearsts, the Otises and
their sympathizers who would force
the nation into a war. One knows
only loyalty, to duty and jealous
regard for national honor, the
other knows only political spite
and selfish property interest.
.
DISEASE IN MEXICO
T IS a truism that in war, dis
Iease kills more than bullets.
The possibility of a conflict in
Mexico leads to a survey of the
disease dangers which will confront
American soldiers in that country
and the present condition of pre
paredness of the army medical
' service.
In the past fifteen years this
strvlce has been practically reor
ganized and there has been great
Increase of scientific knowledge of
disease and Its prevention. Ex
perience has been gained in Cuba,
the Philippines and in China so
that the army today possesses a
corps of specialists trained in
camp sanitation. For these rea
sons it may be reasonably fore
casted that mortality from disease
will be materially lessened.
Discussing this subject the Jour
nal" of the , American Medical As
sociation says, aside from the or
dinary diseases which might pre
vail among any body of two or
thre hundred thousand men. there
are certain diseases to which sol
diers In camp and field are partic
ularly exposed.
These are especially, smallpox,
typhoid fever and dysentery. Small
pox may be disregarded, as any
troops sent Into Mexico will be
Immune from this disease through
vaccination. The appalling experi
ence of tho Spanish-American war
when there were 20,000 cases of
typhoid In the army in six months
can never be forgotten. Anti-typhoid
Inoculation has been subject
to rigorous tests on a large scale
In the army during the past two
years with the result that In 1913
out of &0.000 men at home and
aDroaa there was only a single
case of typhoid among the inocu
lated. It Is believed that the army
surgeon has now a weapon against
typhoid that will make the next
war unique In this regard.
. The dysenteries can be divided
, Into those due to bacterial In
vasion and those caused by pto
malaes Jn food. While the water
and ,food of the soldiersi will be
. mors carefully guarded than ever
-' before, a certain amount of intes
tinal disorder will be inevitable.
It can be . safely predicted that
there will be no repetition of the
embalmed beef scandal of 189.
Of the diseases peculiar to trop
ical and seml-clyillzed countries.
. yellow fever, malaria, bubonic
plague, cholera and -. typhus must
be considered. Malaria. -ajid sk
AFTER A DOSE OF
B
ECAUSE given a dose of Its own
the baby act. It whimpers and sobs because The Journal print
ed the criminal record of the gunman It- hired to also shoot
Dr. Smith in the back.
After forty years of cruel and merciless lampooning and cartoon
ing of every public man who has not done its bidding, it professes
that its sensitive feelings have been shocked. It tries to play the
sympathy dodge. It expresses great sorrow that Mr. McMannus'
criminal record was exposed by The Journal.
YVhat about the -attack Mr. McManus made on Dr. Smith? What
about McManus' false interview with
which Mayor Matlock promptly repudiated? What about McManus
denial that Dr. Smith, as mayor, attacked the Pendleton gamblers,
when McManus himself pleaded guilty to gambling under Dr. Smith's
administration, and was fined for it?
McManus printed in the Oregonian a false statement as to the ex
cellent record of Dr. Smith, as mayor. The Journal printed a true ,
vn t v. ui . mviuauuBi m Laitcu ixuui iud iiai- ,
nai docket or Umatilla county, and the Oregonian admits that the
record is correct. Including the fact that McManus bought a revol
ver, followed Bob Estes Into the rear of a saloon and shot him in
the back. '
McManus was not the Oregonian's regular correspondent in Pen
dleton. It didn't use its regular correspondent, because It wanted
a dirty job done, and in McManus it found a willing tool, who served
hi mantar and o-nt hla wao-a
,
What is the soectacle when the
whimpers at the exposure of its hiring McManus to attack Dr. Smith?
It is a pretty newspaper to begin to cry because the criminal
record of its Mr. McManus was printed in The Journal. It revels in
such things, only it directs Its malignancy at deoent men.
It hounded poor old John H. Mitchell into his grave. He died
a pauper, almost forsaken and alone, a fact that proved that his
long service inthe senate could not have been crooked. His last days
on earth, when he was broken and deserted, were embittered by
the merciless onslaughts of thv Oregonian, which now sobs because
Mr. McManus' criminal recorfflias appeared in print.
In pure meanness and cruelty, the hounding of Jonathan Bourne
by the Oregonian is one of the tragedies of Oregon. Bourne was a
good senator. But everything that he ever did in the senate was
nonrepresented and the man calumniated.
Instead of helping to hold up his hands for the good of the state,
the Oregonian derided and obstructed. It sought to destroy hie
prestige in the senate by its attacks here, a course that militated so
far as the Oregonian's influence went, to destroy Oregon's prestige
at Washington. Why traduce, lampoon and villify Bourne, and
then sob over McManus?
There has seldom been a more vicious assault upon a public man
than the Oregonian's persecution of Harry Lane when he was mayor
of Portland, a course that it now pursues In his senatorship. It ob
structed his policies as mayor, backed up the council In Its opposi
tion, and did all it could to tie his hands in the fight he made to
resist the encroachments of the corporations upon the people of Port
land. It commended nothing but condemned everything. It assailed
Dr. Lane for the very thing for which it now assails Dr. Smith, to
wit, the opposition of each to an open town.
There never has been a more cruel and brutal vllllficatlon of a
man than by the Oregonian's abuse of Governor West- There is not
an impartial man in this state who does not believe In the perfect
good faith and earnest desire of Oswald West to do all he can for
the good of Oregon. There is not an impartial man or woman in
the state but believes Governor West Is honest, faithful and tre
mendously energetic in the discharge of the duties of his high
office.
But what has been the attitude of the Oregonian toward him
from the day he was inaugurated to the present? Where have its
sensitive feelings and great sympathy been as to West?
For more than three years, it has steadily vilified, persecuted,
misrepresented and hounded him. As an assassin of a good name,
the Oregonian's attitude toward West has been that of a highway
man. It has converted the liberty of the Dress into the errKRMt
license. , In vicious cartoons and
him almost daily throughout his
ciTnr.lv "UaA Ir." VS J J
,m,Vii ii. iu ui uiiu, uuu lUBieaa oi trying to nelp his admin
istration, it has. hindered, handicapped and misrepresented It. Wyhy
theJe sobs or $he Oregonian about its McManus, in the face of its
devilish attacks' and outrages on Governor West?
For forty years, the Oregonian has been a newspaper thug
Throughout his term as governor and ever since he was elected senator,-
Chamberlain has been belled and bedeviled by the Oregonian
As governor, Chamberlain did splendid service for the people, and
as senator he has secured passage of excellent legislation for' Ore
gon, the Alaska railroad bill included. All the time, he has been
clubbed, and bullied, and browbeaten and sandbagged by the Ore
gonian. It has never tried to add to his Influence in the senate as
any decent newspaper would do.
Its recent personal attacks on Commissioner Will Daly are an
other instance of its brutal policy. It has misrepresented him im
pugned his motives and assailed his best efforts for Portland.' It
has done all it could to obstruct his work and destroy his policies
It cartooned him, ridiculed him and bedeviled him.
These are but a few in the long list of the good names It has
tried to assassinate. It never sees good in anybody whom it can
not control. It is a butcher of reputations. Its unfairness and
injustice to men. except its own McManuses, is common talk in Ore
gon. Its persecution and hounding of men without reason or excuse
is of daily remark in this town. It has no sense of proportions re
lations or morals. Its assaults on Dr. Smith hav hn Jr,
be unqualifiedly false. Its cartooninar and lamnr,r.ninr n i, v
been wanton, cruel, and infamous,
t. 0.1. cauubc, uecaube ur. .smitn is a hlghmlnded clean
and honorable citizen whose only offense is that he seeks the Demo
menf0 nomination for Sovernor n a platform of rigid law enforce
A human life and a good name are of about ommi v,7
men would rather be shot In the
DUgned their nurnoaea Horl 9hn
pugnea. tneir purposes lied about
munity murdered.
Yet for forty years, the Oregonian has been butchering eoorl I
Z?yLTZheenb0nnAiug d6Cent CU,EenB into their 1
graves and has been cruelly, mercilessly and recklessly persecutine
honorable men. regardless of the tears it made flow In thfr fcJlt
-..n ...10 fsiici n launcu luuuvuoi
What a spectacle when such
pers Decause me criminal record of its McManus and lta hlrtno- e hav no desir to sting anyone. Pro
McManus to lie about Dr. Smith were exDosed nr. nR 01 j ilbitlonists and the Prohibition party
which the people of Oregon were
low fever can be controlled by
eradicating the breeding places of
mosquitoes. This can be done
easily where the men remain in
fixed, habitations but for men in
the field American ingenuity must
devise new methods. The exter
mination of rats will eliminate
bubonic plague. Personal cleanli
ness and purity of the water and
milk supplies will go far towards
the prevention of cholera.
Regarding typhus fever it is a
peculiar coincidence that the work
of Ricketts by which he demon
strated, at the loss of his own
life, that the body louse is the
Carrier of this disease, was done
at Mexico City, where he carried
on his Investigations among the
lower class Mexicans. This dis
ease, which in past centuries has
caused enormous loss of life, can
easily be prevented by avoiding
dirty dwellings and contact with
dirty people.
A FLAGRANT PRACTICE
T
HE Heppner Gazette says:
A Finnish girl, scarcely able
to speak or understand a word
of English, arrived in Heppner
saiuraay ana made known with
much difficulty that she had been
sent out from a Portland employment
agency to take a position as chamber
maid In a hotel here. Aa none at
j tho Jjgala had sent in tor such . an
ITS OWN MEDICINE
medicine, the Oregonian plays
Mayor Matlock about Dr. Smith j
I
Oreeonlan nlavs th hahv and i
villlfying editorials, It has assailed
term of office, and what for It
, . . . . . .
and what is far worse, without
back than have th.r mM.. TV
Vk t 7 , T motlves 'm-
and their standing In the com- I
women and children.
a paper with such t
fully entitled.
exposure to
emDlOVe tha foe. .
Plain graft M tkTZ oe one oi
Ployment agenta. wh had taken
poor eirl'H nniiti ,n ln'3
Poor girl's anniw , ,
her out to make the beVt T
Ti . "... 1 r Jt
" wcoi8 increaiDie that an
tablished agency would be eniltv!when rotten? Bread is the staff of
or a practice so vicious. Yet there
are constantly recurring statements
to the effect that such things
tttmaHy none.
There could scarcely be a more
sinister act than the sendine of
this girl hundreds of miles at large farct tAh'SSo is a ftnurTtn
expense to herself, among strange . Maine." Six of Maine's ex-governors
people who could not Speak hr tnat know more about it than he does
language nor she theirs, leaving t6J u dIere"y- "The law has been
hor rn ftr,A . Ke . ' i of: Immeasurable value In reducing the
her to find as best she could, on nqUor traffic, and has corresponding
arrival, that there was no employ- j ly increased the wealth of the state
ment for her. I fey increasing the sobriety of the peo-
. I' the girl has friends who know
or tne facts, can they not com-
municate with The Journal? With
authentic details in hand respect
ing any such cases this newspaper
can help right the wrongs of those
who are victimised.
NORDICA
T
HE voice of the singer is
atlllfld forvr h,.t rlw, Hn f
uoj luaguBiic pertioaouuy ana
the echo of her notes Will
linger long in the memory of mil -
Uons. She sained the musical hon-
ore of two continents but never
forgot - or was ashamed that she
was an American woman.
Lillian Nordica was an institu
tion,' one of the few famous sing
ers who was as well known to the
non-musical as to the musical.
The critic might stop to dis
course of the quality of her tones
or the nature of her art but the
ordinary listener did not pause to
analyze. He was content .to sit
and be borne on her chariot of
melody into the land of dreams.
She was one of the first Ameri
can singers to receive recognition
in the old world, but was never
weaned from the land of her birth.
She was deeply interested in
the development of music In the
United States and at one time cher-
icueu x project to establish an
American Bayreuth, but unhappily
her ambitious plan never matured.
She has left this to those who are
to take her place.
(Communications aeot to Tbe Journal for
pobiicatlun in thia itmarim.nt -hn,,i k.
uu yuij uoe siae or tne paper, should nor
exceed 300 words In length and most be ac
companied by the name and address of tbe
sender. If the writer does not deslra to
have the name published, be should no state.)
"Discussion Is the greatest of an reform
ers. It rationalises everything it touches. It
robs principles of all false ssnetlty and
throws them back on their reasons blenes. If
they have no reasonableness. It ruthlessly
crushes them out of existence ad aetr up lta
own conclusions in their stead." Woodrow
Wilson.
Who Is Esterly?
Portland, May 9. To the Kditor of
The Journal H. M. Esterly is candi
date for the office of Democratic na
tional committeeman. He Is a lawyer
an honest one; president of the
Juvenile Improvement association,
founded by the late Judge Frazer; was
special prosecutor for the juvenile
court; worked with a sincere heart for
the Oregon system; is on the execu
tive committees of the Oregon Civic
league and of the Oregon Municipal
association; believes in the plain neO'
pie and the right of children to be born
into a happier world; is a Democrat,
not only in name but by blood, and is
one of the few who understand that
no man can be a true Democrat and
not support the Democratic president.
His slogan, "I'm for Wilson," means
more than all the campaign thunder
put together. "President Wilson Is the
first president who has clearly seen
the evil of a divided executive and
legislature. He has sought to give us
responsible government the president
and his party In control of congress
working as one. Our system, because
of our written constitution, does not
give us that unity and cohesion be
tween executive and ' legislative en
joyed by the English republic and by
France. Sometimes we have a presi
dent and a congress of opposite par
ties, the congressional majority with
magnificent patriotism trying to put
the executive in a hole. Sometimes
we have a president and a congres
sional majority nominally of the same
party, but each member of congress
playing his own poor little local fid
dle, and destroying the president's ca
pacity to respond to the will of the
whole people. Wilson Is the first man
m the president's chair to point out
mn evu aim 10 seen a remeay. tie
asks a loyal party support that he may
give the people a responsible govern
ment. It is not personal to Wilson. It Is a
great national epoch. If we can es
tablish - it, we have gone a long way
toward a government so responsible
to the people that it will redeem Its
pledges on all vital Issues. . It is the
most Important thought in this cam
paign, and no matter how he labels
himself, no candidate for any office
ought to receive . the votes of Demo
crats unless he sow fearlessly and
loyally proclaims
"I'm for Wilson."
C. E. S. WOOD.
Challenges Liquor Apologists
Newport, Or., May 7. To the Editor
of Tie Journal Ella M. Finney
claims by the able assistance of a
Portland writer to bave "captured the
Bible." If true, she surely got a
treasure, and ought to be happy. "I
have already taken the judges, and am
going for the doctors," she says.
With all these, and a hop farm, what
more? Does she want the earth?
But away along down In her com
munication she seems to be a little
more rational. She says: "Q. A.
Cobb, candidate for the Democratic
nomination, and George C. Brownell,
candidate for the Republican, stand
for prohibition." That's good. They
are to be honored for having the
nerve and the manhood to do it. But
again, she says: "Why don't they
get into the Prohibition party, then?"
Now that question is quite rational
and Hg,lt t0 th polnt- Why don
they? But, that Is their buslnes
However, it is only a matter of tin,
when they and all other good peon
Why don't
s.
time
when they and all other good people
Vl set there- Mrs- Flnley letter"
A, Llnscott makes us all laugh,
"Tha Tonibltionists remind me of a
nest of hornets. They all try to
are the true friends of humanity
everywhere. The liquor traffic is ha
I inanity's greatest enemy. We intend
to sting it to death.
1 "Prohibitionists say liquo is un
mid
i Is made
is maae or tne game Kind or articles
! tnat we eat-" sy Wr- Linscott. True.
iA sound potato Is wholesome, healthy
es-fand nutritious, but who would eat
! t r- xt f- I
ucLicid num uie reopie
it
i that liquor 1. made of but iow wou d
i 14 do made from this same material
wrJSJTA-'aA prepared
There is no end of the proof that
Wquor is unwholesome and that the
trarnc is disgraceful and criminal.
j ?y!2T JrF&5?mbrr''
i e. w DURkFE.
Hawley's Record as to Labor.
Roseburg, Or., May 9. To the Edl
tor of The Journal On May 4
wired the secretary of the American
Federation of Labor at Washington.
D. C, for information in regard to
Mr. Hawley s record, and especially
ln regard to popular election of United
States senators. I have today re-
( t-clvc? l"IB TOra "n rma lnM "
- corroooraies me record given in my
j open letter to the compilers of Mr.
Hawley's Information in the voters'
i pamphlet- Accompanying this infor-
,e w lclier' Tucn
"Washington D, C, May 4, 1914.
A FEW SMILES
It la the duty of everyone to make
at least one person happy during the
week,' said & Sunday
school teacher. "Now.
have you done so,
Johnny?"
"Yes," said Johnny,
promptly.
"That's right. What
did you dor
"I went to see my
aunt, and she was happy when I went
home.
First Company Promoter Darned in
sult, I call it!
Second Ditto
What's wrong?
First Company Pro
moter See what the
old 'scoundrel did!
Carefully counted each
of his fingers after
I shook hands with
him!
"My dear," remarked Jones, who had
Just finished reading a book on "The
Wonders of Nature," "this really Is a
remarkable work. Na
ture la marvellous!
Stupendous! When I
read a work like this
it makes me think
how puerile, how in
significant la man."
"Huh!" sniffed his
better half. "A wom
an doesn't have to wade through 400
page to find out the same thing."
Judge.
"If you don't mind.
ir," said the
new convict, address
ing the warden. "I
should like to be put
at my own trade."
"That might be a
good Idea," said the
warden; "what may
your trade be?"
"I'm an aviator,"
said the new arrival.
Mr. S. W. Starmer, Roseburg, Or.
Dear Sir: RepTylng to your telegram
of May 2, I inoSbse herein the record
of the , Oregon delegation on measures
of Interest to labor that have come
to a record vote. Tou will find Mr.
Hawleys record Included therein.
"You will note that out of 22 op
portunities to vote he voted efght
times favorably, five times, unfavor
ably, eight times he Is recorded aa
not voting,' and once he Is recorded
as answering present.
"You will particularly note that
Representative Hawley is recorded aa
'not voting on the occasion when the
initiative, referendum and recall was
voted upon for the constitution of Ari
zona, on May 23, 1911, and on May 13,
1912, when the popular election of
United States senators amendment to
the constitution was before the house,
he Is again recorded as 'not voting.'
Fraternally yours.
FRANK MORRISON.
"Secretary A. F. of L.."
Yours truly, S. W. STARMER.
The News From Colorado.
Hood River, Or., May 8. To the
Editor of The Journal I am a reader
of the Portland papers. I consider
The Journal by far the best of them
all: It prints all the news. I was
talking to a man at Odell yesterday
about the "slaughter of innocents" ln
Colorado. He looked at me ln amaze
ment. He had never heard of the kill
ing of women and babies and piling
them up and burning them with coal
oil. Yet he Is Intelligent and reads
the Portland papers. I informed him
that be bad been reading the wrong
papers, that The Journal was the only
paper I had seen that presented both
sides of the question, with a strong
leaning to the side of right against
might, the side of the down trodden
class that is being opposed on all sides
by big business assisted by a lot of
lick spittle papers whose chief stock
in trade consists in lying cartoons cal
culated to reflect on an administration
that has done more to break the back
of combined capital than any that has
occupied that position for many years,
I did not vote for Mr. Wilson, bu
lots of mighty good men did, and since
he was elected to be our president I
propose to be loyal to him. Ever since
I can remember every president upon
takinsr his seat was informed that he
must adjust his administration to the
requirements) of the great combines.
but Mr. Wilson boldly informed the
great combines that they would be re
quired to adjust their business to his
administration, hence the kick. The
question is, which side are you 011
Mr". Wilson Is badly handicapped,. witli
two wars on his bands, and the people
are getting wise as to the cause. Again,
which aids are you on is the question,
Concluding, allow me, to offer a word
of advice to the poor down trodden
class. Let them read the papers that
are ln sympathy with their cause, be
loyal to the government, and vote fo
their own class. JOHN B. POLK.
Mexico and Water Rights.
Portland, May 9. To the Editor of
The Journal Pancho Villa Is the true
leader. Had he listened to Carranza
60,000 constitutionalists would be
fighting us today. But Villa said "No
Americans are our friends. I believe
Wilson honest. We can trust him
Villa was thefirst to see that to take
up arms against the United States
would lose all the cause had gained.
Must the United States go to war
with Mexico for southern Texas
selfishness? In our treaty over the
boundary Hoe Mexico got the best
of us ln the waters for Irrigation.
Texas is determined to annex northern
Mexico for these same waters. Un
less we keep a large force on the
frontier there will be trouble. Who is
this for? A few speculators who wan
the water.
Hold Vera Cruz and take out all
refugees who demand axlt. aive Villa
a chance to get ln ammunition. In
three months the war will be over and
Mexico at peace. Send ln Instructors
to give the peons enlightenment. Our
forefathers caused the trouble for
Texas. When the boundary line waa
surveyed they paid no attention to the
water rights. Why should they? Th
best of whiskey was only 17 cents per
gallon. Their sons have found the
value of water. If Texans cross the
border and tlr up Villa, then all
Mexico will unite, and the United
States will have to put a half million
men into the field, at the cost of mil
Hons of dollars, and the same for pen
Blone, of which the Civil war is an ex
ample, and all this besides the sacrl
fice of life. EXPERIENCED.
Laboring Man Indorses Brown,
Portland, May 9. To the Editor o
The Journal As a laboring man I wish
to say a few words in behalf of the
candidacy of Ueorge M. Brown for at
torney general. I have known Mr,
Brown for many yearn and am familiar
with his early struggles as well as his
career as a public official. He has al
ways been in sympathy with the la
boring man. because "he has gone over
the same road himself. Born on a
farm near Roseburg, he earned his
bread by the sweat of his brow, and
by hard and earnest toll - has reached
the position he occupies today
During the It years that he has hehlju my duty as a laborln-rxnan to In
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
One of the easiest things on earth
is prophecy. p
v
Murderer Huerta wins no victories.
Lucky marines, in Vera Cruz: they
can go to a bull fight every Sunday.
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Most preachers dodge all around tbe
real reason people don't go to church.
Villa must have a pretty good pen
cil wielder to write his announcements.
Since all the candidates are equally
strong for great improvements and
no taxes, what's the difference?
Two White House weddings within
a few months. One more chance, gen
tlemen.
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Hello. Washington weather
man.
Where's our "know?"
Wheat crop in the Paclflo north
west 10,000,000 bushels more than ever
before. Hurrah for the Democratic
administration.
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TJo until November the Oregonian
will daily insist that the country has
gone to the devil.
The rumor that Dr. C. J. Smith was
paying the Oregonian is not so
tnotlgh if legitimate it would be to
his advantage to do so.
Be natlent: the time will arrive when
this huUaballoo about the Interstate
bridge approach will also be over.
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Why. the very lambs are bleating
merrily and skipping joyfully this
spring over free wool.
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Man Is 91 years old. In good health
and vigorous and haDDV. drinks heavilv
of Bull Run water. That's the right.
reguiar, frequent, drink, young man.
GEN. WOOD TO WATCH THE BORDER
By Herbert Corey. 1
It's a queer thing, this army game.
Now and then one hears an army of
ficer crying earnestly for rotation in
office. And then the officer gets the
rotation and cries louder than ever.
Thus 10 years ago one heard protests
of this sort:
"It's a shame that Leonard Wood
has been made chief of staff. Why,
he's nothing but a doctor."'
And now Wood is no longer chief of
staff, but has been gazetted ln com
mand of the army on the Mexican
border. And the very same people who
once sobbed at the thought of a mere
pill roller bossing a beautifully orna
mented military force now deprecate
the mistake that has been made.
"You'll notice," they say. "that
they're Btill keeping Wood in Wash
ington even if he wasn't good enough
far chief of staff."
Most of which, on both sides, Is non
sense, vv ood became major general
and chief of staff because he was pre
eminently the best man in the army.
Most of the army will admit that now.
The administration prefers another
man aa chief of staff or wants Wood
on the border and the change is ef
fected. Wherever he may be. Wood
will be doing a day's work. And ln a
service that is crammed with plctur
esque figures. Wood stands out like
a city hall in a park. ,
To begin with, he never was a mere
pill-roller, as the men .who used to
be his detractors before they got bet
ter acquainted with him used to say.
The formula of his make-up has run
something after this fashion: Fighting
man, 70 per cent; politician, 28 per
cent; society man. 9 Per cent; medi
cal man, a trace.
He is six feet something tall, with
the shoulders of a piano mover and
the waist of a tango dancer. He has
the thick, beak-like nose of the man
of force, and a pair of odd knobs
over the eyebrows, which old fash
ioned phrenologists used to say were
Indications of great powers of ob
servation. Also, he was born without
the capacity for getting tired. H1b
father was a New England country
doctor, who returned home invalided
from the Civil war. Naturally, that
made the son want to be a soloier.
He passed an examination for mil
itary surgeon brilliantly ln 1885, and
then jumped at a chance to go west
as a contract surgeon with the army
at $100 a month. He joined General
Lawton's command when that soldier
waa just getting ready to run down
Geronimo.and his Apaches.
"What the hell do you want out
here?" Lawton asked.
"I hope to be transferred to the
line," said Wood. "I want to be a
fighting man."
During that campaign Wood actual
ly "walked down" Apache warriors
through their own hills. One day h
tramped 25 miles to a wounded sol
dier, rode 73 miles with a message and
then marched 34 miles with the troops.
"That night," said Lawton, "he
wanted to play pinochle."
Lawton paid him the highest com
pliment in his power for his services
in that first campaign. For 10 years
Wood staid out there, chasing bad
Indians and physicking soldiers. He
made a good reputation aa a doctor.
HOW WILL YOU LEND TO THE FARMER?
By John M. Osklson.
Some sort of new banking arrange
ment in the interest of the American
farmer will be written into the law
before long. Loans will be made easier
for hjm to get, and the interest rate
will be lowered on his loans.
Yoit who make and control the sur
plus money of the country will have
to supply the funds for the borrowing
farmer. It Is up to you, before con
gress passes some form of legislation,
to express to your congressman your
opinion of the best form of legislation.
Roughly, there are three theories
concerning the establishment of credit
at a low cost for the farmer. The first
is for tho farmers, through cooperative
organizations to lend to each other.
The second (contained ln a deflnte bill
known as the Bathr'ck-Norris bill) is
that the government Itself ought to
lend money directly to the farmers at
4 per cent Interest, payable semi-annually,
no loan to be more than $2000;
loans to run fo. not less than 10 years;
at the end of five years one fifth of the
loan to become due. and one fifth
each year thereafter. While tbe farm
er is to pay 4 per cent the government
is to raise the money to lend the
farmer by selling ZM per cent bonds.
Theory number three is that the gov
ernment ought to sanction the estab-
the office of district attorney in south
ern Oregon he has never failed to give
the toiler a square deal. He ha en
forced the laws with Justice to the
weak and the atrong, the poor and the
irlch, regardless of class or creed. While
he has prosecuted crime relentlessly,
he has always done so with a spirit
of mercy and has tempered the wind
to the shorn lamb. ,
He has pursued a course of conduct
while in office which w'as ln strict
conformity with his oath of office and
has . never been identified with any
grasping interests inimical to the in
terests of the people at. large. I feel
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Work on Sherwood's new postofftce
building has commenewl It will be
f brick, one story high and cost '
. . J
The council of Amity has passed the
ordinance granting a franchise to J.
. ..mil 13 iu yui in a aysiem or
niti wuriss.
Hood River's council has decreed
a semi-monthly payroll for city em-
viujreu. anu tnai tne nnance commit
tee, instead of the council as a whole. 1
may o. K. tbe thing and be done with
11.
Fair warning, lBsued by the Banks
Herald: "The politicians are all pass
lner un Hnnki th,a. itav.
regarding u as of little or "no lmuort- 1
ante. But just wait. Not many more
will hs nnii tr,iVr H,rrr. "'"S
give Banks people the glad hand.
Klamath Falls Northwestern: Word
has reached this city that war talk l8
all the go among the young Indians
on the Klamath reservation. It in
fttntPri trxat (inmnif ... V... t.1 . .
100 young reds who are anxious T to I
take up arms for the 8tars and
Stripes and go to war against the
alfflcuYty mustered without !
Among the objects of the "Tllla-
moon County
y Boosters Band are
these: "For the future buslnes. and
social development of the whole of
Tillamook county; to disseminate such
information as will advance the best
intPFACt nf thin nnnntir' tV.A n I
. . "- v.y--J, mo I
ment or our musical knowledge and !
to the end that our future may be
made more pleasant and profitable."
Musicians of Tillamook, Wheeler. Bay
City, Cloverdale and Nehalem are In
cluded in the personnel. A San Fran
cisco fair tour is on the program.
but he also became known as a thor
oughly good fellow and a good soldier.
He was transferred to the White
House as the attending surgeon under
President McKinley. and there bemt.
very chummy with Theodore Roose
velt, assistant secretary of the navy.
Roosevelt used to like to take good
fellows out on long, ardent tramps,
and walk them into a state of physical
decay.
Every one thought Jthat funny ex
cept the decayed one. When he took
Wood out, that Apache-walking thor
oughbred cams in on the chin strap,
with the assistant secretary flogging
himself desperalely ln the effort to
keep up. They boxed and wrestled
and argued loudly together. So that
when the Spanish war broke out and
Roosevelt determined to get into It he
made Wood a partner ln that ambi
tion. "You can have a colonel's commis
sion," said Secretary Alger to him.
"Give it to Wood," said Roosevelt.
"He knows how to organize and yHjulp
a regiment, I don't
Wood's service in Cuba will be re -
membered by most. He cleaned the
yellow fever out and reorganized the
municipal government of Havana and
ultimately became governor general or
Cuba. He made enemies lots of
them. He has retained a great many
of them. But such an Impartial Judge
of delivering the goods as Lord Cro -
mer was quoted as regretting that he,
could not have such an administrator
to Bucceed him in Egypt. Business
men appreciated Wood. too. He had
an offer of $40,000 a year cash, with
prospects of more, if he would leavu
the service. Instead, he went to Ma
nila, and there first licked the hostlleB
and then pacified them. The men of
the army who hast been fighting out in
the Philippine swamps at first wer
sullen.
"lies a blue mass specialist," they
called him. "A White House pet.
What does he know about war?"
They found out. Wood got up
, X . 7.f th.T or.hli
F Z. y,. 1
rther lived on less, and dM it more
eerfully. He was uniformly bu:-
ea
far
cheerfully,
cessiu. oc-ue v ". '""":.'"
for his tasks One visitor to -his office,
cessful. because he prepared himself
. S Z V- w th i7onk-
of the room were ' covered with , books.
over and over. They have helped me
a lot."
60 that when Wood was made chief
nt the fiehtlne force the army nad
learned to respect him. Not all of th
Pui .... - -"' ".""J' j
orders, and expects them to be obeyed.
He is admittedly arbitrary, "tocr-tlc
and "v. V" th
two presidents Jumped Wm over the
hSad o,frt "eve? f'orL've But he,
promoted ever be forgiven. But the ,
very men who dislike him admit his 1
complete efficiency. His career ? haa I
been a meteoric one. bait little of his I
success has been due to luck. Most of j
It can be attributed to natural qualifl-;
catlons and tbe friends he has made, i
. . , . .
lishment; of banks whose principal
business shall be the handling of long-
time loans to farmers. The bill which
is being prepared by Senator Fletcher
is an example of this type or proposed 1
legislation. ,
Senator Fletcher studied farm loans t
abroad. As a result he thinks that !
the federal banks handling the long
time loans to farmers ought to be
allowed to run with a capitalization
as low as $10,000; the loans ought to
run for 35 years; the money ought to
be raised by selling to Investors (you,
my thrifty brethren and sisters) tax
exempt debentures.
Senator Fletcher thinks th farmer
ought not to pay more than 1 per
cent above the rate at which the de
benture bond is sold to the Investor;
under the Fletcher plan the- bank of
$10,000 capital could sell $160,000 of
debenture bonds.
Obviously, under the third plan, the
buyer of debenture bonds, would want
to know how the appraisement of
property which lay behind the whole
output of a bank's bonds was made.
Proper government inspection is a
necessary element of the plan.
As for the second plan, are you
ready to buy government 3 per cent,
bonds secured by farm mortgages up
to 60 per cent of the farm's value?
form those of my fellow toilers who
are not acquainted with George M.
Brown that he is. In my opinion, the
logical candidate for the office of at
torney general and that they will make
no mistake in casting their ballots in
his favor. I am not a paid politician
and this may not be a letter composed
of the purest of the King's English,
but the above few lines represent my
sentiments. SAM STARMER.
Two Illinois Inventors have patented
a trip which attracts Insects within
it by a lighted lamp so that they come
into contact with electrically ehaxged
wires and are killed.
IN EARLIER DAYS
by Fred Lockley.
J. L. Johnson, of this city, a pioneer
of 1851, in speaking of the character
of thoe who came to Oregon ln tbe
early days said:
"Though they came from Illinois,
Missouri and the other middle western
states, most of them originally cams
from Kentucky, Tennessee. Virginia,
and the Carolina. I waa born No
vember IS, 1830, in Illinois, but my
father came from North Carolina,
where he waa born In 1802, while my
mother was born in Kentucky in 1106.
"I was 21 years old when my parents
decided to come to Oregon. There, were
12 ,n our family, five boys, five girls
aid my mother and father. On April
i. e "Urted from Kt, Joe. Mo.
Ifvjt hadn't been for the herds of buf
tejj"" the plains our flour and bacon
em dried apples would have played
out before we got to Oregon. Yes,
they killed lots of antelope and buf-
fal' but 1 diAn'1 kiU 1 m
band at hunting or ffcJhlng; I am more
of a student. I bave always had lo
work hard hut wnen j nave any tlm,
to myself my recreation la reading.
not KU1,nS animals -or catching fish
When we cot to Oregon we settled -
at a place called Bell Passl, located
on our homestead. No. it didn't make
a town, though they used to think it '
would. It was four miles from Hub-
K a- ,1 11 -
' " "" ummn.
I was married at Bell Pass), December
26. 1856, to May Vloletta Kennedy, by
Rev. J. Hines. I bad JtiBt come back
from the Indian war. The volunteers
were pretty popular with the girls,
while the young fellows wlw bad re
fused to enlist were heavily bandl-
' capped.
j "In the spring of 1856 I enllsUd In
ayiain r rancm xviarion noil a com
pany, which was raised around Oervals
and Bell Passl. We went to The Dalles
and from there Into the Klickitat coun
try and thence to Walla Walla. Two
of our men were killed and several
were wounded. Our company shortly
after being organised went to Olympla
to guard the mall route between Van
couver and Puget sound. Later ad
ditional volunteers were called for and
I enlisted. 1 enlisted in Portland and
we were quartered for a while in East
Portland.
"When Lieutenant Colonel William
Craig sent word from Lapwal that the
friendly Nez Pearce were in danger of
being killed by the hostile Indians and
that they were without ammunition
ana rooa, captain uorr s company went
as an escort to a pack train with sup
plies to Walla Walla. The Oregon
volunteers were disbanded during the
Bummer of. 1856.
"After my marriage I went buck to
farming near Our old homestead near .
the present town of Woodburn. ln
1862 we moved east of the mountain,
settling in the Grand Ronde valley.
I raised vegetables, which I hauled to
; the mines at Auburn near the present
J city of Baker. I also hauled garden
1 truck to the mines in the Mormon
basin. I got big prices I uned to
' come back with a pretty heavy bag f
j gold dust from my trips, as the minern
j were hungry for green things as well
j as for butter and egsa "
1 .
$4.54 Against 9-1(1..
From th- Journal of l he American
Medical Association.
Cottage cheese Is sold at- most of
the grocery stores in Rochester. Af
ter the cream has been or para ted
In fact, after the fat has been taken
out of the milk the curd remaining
Js called cottage cheese, whicil Is the
same as casein. Cottage cheese '.
not only very palatable, but it ha a
certain heat -producing value a a
food. It Is most Inexpensive.
One of the funniest stunts that has
been pulled off In this country has
beer th h!h r advertising, with
beautiful drawings and a crackerjatk
a f a f or mtfait
,w,, . ..i,...
whichever you ' like to call' It, that
sells for $1.90 a bottle. The price of
ffjod pn a iitv Mti n
Produces 382 calories of energy for
$, Common cnM-e c0t 16iynt,
food and a tonic, but the extreme
advance in price over common cheese
and milk and eggs Is making the pub-
; ITX ?" ill
:,.. ., .,'"" "".'r
of Johns Hopkins university states.
Tpr.eAaM T tr T - . L . .
lays "Cow's milk contains 3. per
4 f ",n7.;o.
JaW with 7o. U
absurd to think that thi.P casein art"
prer,pltat)on from tft- mk h
reat'r nutrltlv. value than It ha. in
, , condition."
" T t
Hard Coal and Millions.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Some one has estimated, after a ser-
lee of scientific experlmenta, that it
took nature about s, 000,000 years to
produce anthracite. Curiously enough.
, that seems to be just about the length
of time that will be required, at the
j present rate of progress, to force ths
j K,a(51nK railway and other carriers to
, rMuC0 thelr charges on this same coaL
1 Anthracite Just naturally runs into
millions.
The Ragtime Muse
Primitive Instinct,
Every year about this 'time
People think they want to move,
Marry, fish, or write ln ryhme .
What I wonder, does this prove?
'Tin a primal overhang.
Instinct of an earlier day,
When the cave man fought of sang;
Loved or freely moved away.
Yes, he did as he saw fit
What he pleased and also when,
Brue he was, of meager wit.
Quite unlike lo modern men! .
Our emotions we restrain.
Meekly do as we are bid;
We are tempted but refrain
We don't yield as cave men dldl
Now we have our houses, books.
Engines, aches and telephones.
Microbes, airships, booze and cooks
Listen to our Joyous groans!
Ab. the Cave man, had not these,
Ab had. no steam heated flat;
He had but himself to please
Poor wretch! Only think of that!
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