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..V THE OREGON DAILY- JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY' 15, 1914. . :-C. f THE JOURNAL ' AW ISDK,.K?tl)KWT IWKWSI'APKlt . JACKSON L.. . . . lub!lher fubllhl every vcnlng xcpt HaniTuyi nd ry Sunday moriilng at Tbt Journal Ruilcl tuc. Brodw and YamhiU t.. i'ortland.Or. fcotkred at tba imatnfflc at i'ortlaod. Or., (or J,. traDamlaalun lorouga th mill second ; claaa matter. ! TEUCl'HOXES Main T173J Hone, A-0O61. All departments reached by ubes number. Tell tba operator what department you want. lOHKhJN AI) V Kit T1SINO KEPKKSKNTATI VK 'v Benjamin A Kentnor to, Brunawlck BMg.. 25 Hftn lit., New Vork; 1218 Teople a liar Bide, Chk-ago. . ' e 1 1 Bubarrlptlou terma by mall or to an ad dreaa la ton United States or Mexico: DAILY. , Om year....... $5.00 I On month $ -50 HUNDAV ' Ou year (2.5(1 I On month 9 .23 DAILY AND HIIINDAY One year 7..KI ) On roontb t .35 . . ! - i " ... a If there ts anything that la a burden,' If there Is anything that 1 n obstacle. If there Is anything that i difficult fur a young man to overcome, it la an Income tlhat wll en able. Mm to live wlithout work. William H. Taft, ta- THK FALL OF TAMI'ICO THK fall of Tamplco will ex ercine a powerful influence on the negotiations v at Niagara Falls. It will weaken Ithe hands of Huerta's representatives. It will strengthen the United States be fore the mediators. It will make Hnerta's envoys lews contentious. It is unanswer able proof that they are repre senting a crumbling regime. It will take the enthusiasm out of their arguments and the power out of their claims. It will have an "exactly opposite effect on the American representa tives. They can point to the fall of Tampko as a sign of the swift disintegration of Huerta's power. They can establish before the medi ators that it is an omen of the approaching doom f the Iluerta dynaHty. The mediators themselves will tu lArerelv Influenci'd. The ac- ci Hiring by the constitutionalists of j a seaport will weigh heavily with j thein in making up a verdict. It will be used with telling effect by them in meeting the contentions of the Iluerta envoys. It places the constitutionalists on a footing in which they are entitled to recog nition, which will give them a new International aspect, a fact t hat the mediators will naturally em body in weighing the issues of the case. No victory of the lebels ic more important in solving the Mexican problem. It foreshadows other successes yet to follow speedily and Is a far step in ending the military despotism at the city of Mexico. It Is another vindication of the wisdom of President Wilson's Mexican policy. He is permitting the Mexican problem to be solved by Mexicans. lie is standing by and permitting the Mexican con stitutionalists to ris;ht the great wrong of the overtluQw of consti tutional government in "Mexico. He is giving Christendom a magnifi cent, example of the exalted mo tives and splendid humanism of the great republic. He Is writing a new and beau tiful chapter in the history of Christian civilization. A I'AYOKAHLE SHOWING A CHECK I NO up of the work done on the Columbia river highway in Multnomah coun ty by a dis'riterested en gineer shows a most satisfactory condition in respect to the prog ress and the tost of the work. A computation of what has al ready been done on the section be tween Thor's Heights and a point three-quarters of a mile east of Latourclle discloses that one-third of the grading is completed and that the net cost has been between 38 and 3! cents per cubic vard. Compared with similar work on railroads this is, a gratifying show ing. The average cost lor railroad woik is 4 8 cents per cubic yard. In some localities it has reached nearly fi7 cents. The cone' it ions that prevail on the section examined and the Mult nomah and Bridal Veil falls sec .wtioss are similar and the result found may be applied to the en tire Vork. On this basis it can .lie predicted that Hj.v September 1 the road may be (traveled as far " -as . Multnomah Falls and that the entire cost will fall far below the estimate. The results achieved demon strate what can lie expected when . road making is placed in the hands of men like lloadnuaster John B. Yeon and Consulting Engineer Samuel C. Lancaster and gives assurance that the taxpayers are recelviiiK a dollar's worth of road for every dollar expended. WAGES INCREASED THE average rate of wages per week in '4 0 of the lead ing cities of the United States for more than GO of the prin cipal industries was higher May 15, 1913. than on May 15, 1912, Uth the single exception of the mill work carpenters which showed no change, according to a state ment Issued by the.' bureau of labor statistics. The greatest average increase was for marble setters, which was 6.6 per cent. The highest scale per hour paid In May, 1913, was as follows: Bricklayers. S7 rents, in Dallas and San Francisco, carpenters, 65 eents. In Chicago; hod carriers, 50 cents, in Portland,, Salt Lake City and San Francisco; painters, 65 cents, In Chicago; plasterers, 87 cents, in. San FranciscQ; plumbers and gasf itters, 8 1 hi cents, in Se attle; Structural iron workers, 75 cents, in San Francisco; stone cut terB, 70 cents, in Portland; iron moulders, 50 cents, in San Fran cisco; compositors, day work, 75 cents in Seattle. The bureau reports that"1 34 trades showed a reduction of hours, 28 reported no change and one reported an increase. AVE OWN THE CANAL T HE New York World says: "Who owns the Canal," asks the Oregon Journal. This is an hon est question that many Amer icans have asked, and It de serves an honest answer. The. United States built and owns the canal, but It owns It subject to certain restrictions. These restric tions are embodied In the Clayton Bulwer treaty as amended In the Hay-I'aunr-efote treaty. Most suburban property i.s now sold, subject to cer tain building restrictions. The owner owns i he property. lie has a war ranty deed to it, but there are many things he cannot do with It. Any owner of a suburban home can ex plain to the Oregon Journal what a building restriction means. The United States government Is In the same position as the owner of a suburban home. It owns the canal subject to building restriction, and this restriction prohibits any discrim ination whatever In rates. The World is splendidly able, but its analogy is faulty. Building restrictions on suburban property are only fixed by the original own er. He must hold a warranty deed to it, or his restrictions will be futile. ' Great Britain has no hand in fix ing his building restrictions. Great Britain would have, how ever, if the World's analogy were sound. If the British right to fix building restrictions and traffic ar rangements at Panama is sound, then Great Britain has a right to establish building restrictions on suburban property at Kokomo. Great Britain held no warranty deed to Panama. She owned noth ing, contributed nothing, vouch safed nothing at Panama, because everything at Panama was as far beyond her reach as the judgment day. Our rights at Panama came from a $40,000,000 purchase of fran chises and finished excavations of the French, and rrom a solemn treaty with the republic of Panama, a treaty as sacred and binding as any treaty with Great Britain. Our dealings with the Panama republic gave ii3 sovereignty over the canal zone, and by that sovereignty it is the United States and not Great Britain that has the right to fix the building restrictions and traffic arrangements about the canal. We own the canal. We hold the title. SECRET OF LONGEVITY RS. ANNE POUDER of Bal nore celebrated her one hundred and seventh anni versary a few days ago. She has no living relatives that she knows of. She has outlived the friends of her youth, yet withal she is happy. The secret of her happiness is, as she expresses it, "to make the best of what comes." To her, life seven years past .the century mark is worth the living, She has no fad in diet or fixed mode of living. She says she has eaten and lived as she pleased all her life. As a flower of the field she has flourished, making the best of that which came. She did not borrow trouble of the tomorrow nor give herself up to fears of loss of health or un certainty of income. When that which happened had happened she went on to another battle, soothed and sustained by the thought that all is for the best. Why should she borrow trouble? How much does the wisest one know of what will happen tomor row or even twenty minutes hence? How long does it take a ship to strike a rock or the walls of a weak building to collapse? What a wise dispensation of Providence that it is not given to the work man to see the end of his work. From what profound disappoint ments is he saved! There is no Infallible prescrip tion pgainst the fear of sickness and the fear of poverty but Mrs. Pouder has read the book of life and death for.ward and backward and through it all has preserved her cheerfulness, "making the best of what comes." A NEEDED SOCIETY' w HY not organize a Society for the Suppression of Su perfluous Societies? While it is invidious to mention names there comes into Ireing every day some new society with a constitution and bylaws which has for its laudable purpose the removal of some human ill. Every day there is a personal visi tation or a letter in the mail ap pealing for a contribution. It would be an uncharitable thing to suggest that some of these societies are organized to give employment to a staff of ex ecutives or salaried secretaries, or for the vain purpose of giving notoriety seeking Individuals an opportunity to emblazon their names at the head of a letter sheet as, in csmeiu, vice presiaent or honorary director. No sooner does an active organ izer gather around him a band of fellow enthusiasts to form a League for the Non-Osculation of Infants than another equally enterprising reformer fathers a movement to teach the proper way. to. handle a spoon or to form a bridge club in the Fiji islands. There areso- cleties to promote and eocieties to , f rage is the contention that wo abolish everything under the sun. men do not want the ballot and Societies instructing how a postage will not use it If enfranchised, stamp should be put on, how to sit, It. is up to the women of Oregon how to walk, how to eat, what to ' today to overthrow that contention eat, bow to breathe, how to sleep ; by general use of the ballot. and how to snore, societies for' killing and societies for preserving pests. What is meat to one is poison to another. I All these manifold societies are a sign of the intellectual restless- nes. the emotional ferment Of the ; age. Reform is carried to excess. Why not reform the reformers? THE PUBLIC MARKET 0 VER one hundred farmers have signed agreements to be present with their prod ucts at the opening of the Portland public market tomorrow i me iarmers are one pnucipai . factor for the success of the plan The other is the buyer. The cooperation by both parties j to the program is absolutely neces- sary to complete success. For lack I of buyers, public markets have failed in some cities. For lack of farmers, they have failed in oth ers. In still others, there has been complete success by the smooth and -harmonious working together of producers and con sumers. There Is" every prospect that the housewives of the city will be on hand in large numbers with their market baskets. There is no doubt that this personal contact between the man who grows the products, and the ultimate consumer, will result in reduced cost of the ar- tides of necessity that come from I the farm ' The United States Department of Agriculture has frequently given out figures to the effect that the farmer gets less than fifty per cent of what consumers pay for what he produces. It is the re sult of a system which places too many middlemen between the man 1 . . . , , 1 who grows things and the man j who consumes them. Too many high rents and expensive devices in , distribution add to the tolls on the i traffic- i ira ric. , There is the other deadly f act j that men make gentlemen's agree- I ments, and over-capitalize their - . . , , , 1L privilege of standing between the producer and the final buyer. ! We shall continue to have "mid- I dlemen. We shall continue to have wor-oH .rt n- v. I tinue to have gentlemen's agree ments.. .But there is going to be a change. The public market is evolution. It is the germ of trans formation. It is the American people work ing out a great problem. A SECOND DANIEL O THOSE who have achieved greatness in a single night T must he arMorl th YMnr 1 c, i .i tt w i. I fat. Aldwjn. From obscurity i he has risen to the highest power or statesmanship. He was one Of i thf rmo h 17 Ti rt rt o rwt f .. . . , hers in the British House of Lords that recently voted against the WO- i man suffrage bill. With an al most endless breadth of view he gave as his reason for so voting that the men were in the minority in the United Kingdom and if wo men were granted the parliament uic n. huuiu tesuiL in nana- i ing over to the female electorate : tne destinies of the empire. This would be a perilous step. The fact that the extension of the suf frage to women in the United States has been attended with good results is because the women are in a minority, says his lordship. The Viscount evidently has never read the history of his country. "It 1 Di.nl, o K-ii. v. i .v .o uanj uuic y Know, Old top." , Boadicea, the "Warrior dneen " it is true, was overcome in battle by a foreign conqueror, but the ; same fate overtook Kiner Harold. ; Uuder Elizabeth, England ex- i Mnd" and alk down the sluma and see ceeded a,l her previous power and ste 117' con prosperity. The reign of Anne was ciUions to which drink has dragged its attended with commerce and Cul-' countIeSS victims, among whom are ture. Taking the long rule of Vic-! thousands of innocent women andchil- t ; , 6 "l VJ- , dren, once as sweet, as good and as tnr n as an c-r-j m n a ,.u u ' s"u, una as ----- - - buuuiu ; the noble Lords" fear to hand the i aestinies of the empire over to the 1 female electorate? JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE T HE presence In Portland of leading officers of the Inde pendent Order of B'nai B'rith is a reminder that the Jews i are in the front rank in the United i States in social and Dhilanthronle 1 .nrl, ..,' , j ...e, jaii.n.iimi pa his aim pardonable pride in caring for their own people. They usually find a happy medium between mere svs-i tern and sentimentnlitv , . , , iU ' , , hi iieip me poor immigrant in his early struggles without mak- tng a pauper Of him is the main nrnhlom nr tl T,,t0K ,, . woik - er. t or this purpose special loan Organizations and selT respect funds are operated in connection With social work ,u . uutuci important prooiem is to keen bovs and eirls from lnlnr the ideals which have made the -r , , ... jewisn people wnat they are to - day. It is sought to Americanize them without, what may be termed deiudaizing them " uej. JUduius luein. Uwv..u.. occro j to tmpiant in tne young genera tion, either native born or immi grant, a mixture of American and Jewish ideals which will make for better manhood and better woman hood. r The women of Oregon owe it to the unenfranchised women of other states to vote today. The argument used with most telling effect by opponents of equal suf-. Letters From the Peopla (Communication aeot to The Journal for publication in this department abould be writ ten on only one aide vt tbe paper, should not exceed 3uo woriti in i... , t, -,wi eompanJed by Ut name .sad address cf tbe aenoer. if tbe writer due not deslra to bar tbe name published, be abould so aute.) "Discussion la tba greatest of all reform era. It rattonallsea everything it touches. It rob principles of aU false sanctity and throws tneui back on their reasonableness. If tbey have no reasonableness. It ruthlessly crushes them eat of existence and acts up Its own conclusions In their stead." Woodrur Wilson. From a Disgusted Fisherman. Pnrtlflnri f 1 r- Muir "12 TV. th. - ltor of Th'e JOurnalI have jU8l re. turned from a fishine trlD on the Co- lutnbia river sloughs, where I caught about 50 of those finest of all fish carP - 1 aIso caught some suckers, pike - - rfenlS. I had the pleasure of fishing In some of the finest bodies of water places where one should be able to get plenty of good fish but all you get la carp, chubs and suckers. I guess, though, that we who pay our little old dollar for the privilege of getting our hooks snagged are the biggest suckers of ail. I would like to ask The Journal a few Questions; How many dollars are paid Into the county clerk each year for fish licenses In Multnomah county? H6w much. If any, of this money Is used to stock the waters in and around Portland with fish that one can eat and still be on good terms with one's stomach? It seems to me that if we could catch a few good fish, we could enjoy a day's outing and cut down expenses at the same time. Here is one Item in the nlSh cost or living that could and snouid De remedied. It would not hurt those who are able to go after the trout If at least one-fourth of the money realized from the sale of fish licenses were put back into our own rivers, lakes and sloughs. It Is a crime to allow those waters to go unstocked. People tell me that when the fair closed here the fisheries people put a few croppies Into the river, and there V.A.. I n ;i . 0 .1 . .. i. .. . Have UCtll 1111IJ11M13 Ul Llieili LtLfVCIl UUl since then- Now why can-t we 8tock our waterways with croppies, catfish and pike; also there are sunfish, ring perch and many other fish that shouli tnrive here, and why should not some of our own license money be used for our benefit? We can't all spare the time or money to go to southern Ore- gon, to fish for trout' and there i6nt a place near Portland where vou can catch trout unless you can afford to pay about four times what they are worth m carfare. TT-NT' e hf ve heard plenty about I. rlu,uuul omer Durning questions, out l believe there are a great many people In Portland who like to take the family and picnic on the river or sloughs, and also fish; but let's stock those streams, so we may get fish we are not ashamed to bring horns CHARLES E. KUSSKLU Opium and Liquor, Portland, May 13. To the Kditor of The Journal I have been following the arguments for and against prohi bition for some time In your valuable paper, and have yet to see given the one reason in Its favor, that should overcome all arguments to the con- ulu' wuuia e io illustrate my mint with n r,i,.t,. wv,v, not identical in every particular with tne Wiuor question, will serve my pur- jpOSe. been forcing China to buv and use an Indian product, which for eenerations has been a great curse, to the nation i ne ninese government has remon strated, pleaded and fought to be freed from the Importation of opium, but to no purpose. Americans to a man are shocked at Kngland's conduct, and their indignation apd pity do them honor. Now turn from this to a con- anion of even greater mieerv and degradation, right here among our own countrymen. Forget, while we look, ihe people who can drink with modera tion; forget ourselves who maybe arc able to withstand the constant tempta tion to nave another," and who doubt less maintain our families in comfort; think only of the lost multitudes! sunken to such deplorable depths by a ; commodity manutactured for Droflt We all know that drink Is not re- I sponsible for all the wrongs and pov uie person ever ercy in tne worm maintained it is, but we all know in our heart of hearts that it is one of tlle bi8Kest curses of the nation, if fortable home; forget your well spread uinner table; leave your motor car he- renned as your own mother and sister be you clerk or millionaire et us foreet our own selfish liking ur liquor, and regard this question in Wie same altruistic spirit with which we viewed and condemned the opium curse. l he Chinese are a foreign people with totally different ideas, and yet we thought their slavery horrible; how much more ought we to ignore the petty and selfish obstacles raised by the ones who are makin? mnnov the traffic m our determination to I"1!!. "r Dne and "ter from leniptati-on tney inemselves cannot re- bisi. hakki P. BLOXHAM j ! Oregon Women and Prohibition Portlan3' May 13 To tne Editor of l he Journal In your editorial de auctions on the result of the I!Hnoi3 : elections, you seem to have lost sigh cf several factors that win make , :f.ry mawnal Ultrerence between the Illinois elections and the coming con 'test in Oregon, so far as the women's vote is concerned. First. In Illinois the elections were I J1.6'? undf,r ,the local option laws, and U 8 Wel1 known iat many persons iwnl vote dry lcaHy who are opposed 10 state wide prohibition. The 1111 ' nois elections simply eliminated nW sal?onV t!!f fT'lf camPaJ&n m . Oregon Is intended bv the nmhthitm,,- : ists to wipe out one large Industry and seriously cripple another. The I Iailures of statewide prohibition are much better understood than the new scheme of prohibition by local option. a uere are aiso many wno will vote ury locaiiy mat win vote against statewide proniDltlon for the reason that they believe in home rule, and uoiuiiiii; me evii results sure to follow If the present trend toward the centralization of power Is not cnecKea. The women of Oregon are more In teuigent tnan the women of Illinois iney nave traveled more; their ex perience is broader so are the minds. The women of Oregon can not be browbeaten, boycotted, Ostra- cized or intimidated as easily as their sisters in Illinois. The pioneer strain A FEW SMILES Hem Is RavenyeTp much of an actor? Haw Nothing out of the ordinary. Hem But he is always boasting about his long runs. Haw That" s prob able, because he takes a p'romlnent part In the chase films for a big mo tion picture com pany. "Where's ray umbrella?" demanded the wife of a member of congress. "I'm afraid I've forgoten It, my dear,' meekly an nounced her hus band. "It must be In the train." "In the train?" snorted the lady. And to think that the affairs of the nation are entrusted to a man who does not know enough to take care of a woman's umbrella!" In the old days of hand composition printer known from New York to San Francisco as "Pilerim" Hazlett wandered into a Pennsylvania town and asked the editor of the weekly for a "sit." "Well." said the editor, "I can put you to work, but I'm afraid I can't pay you much money. "Make me an offer," said the Pilgrim. 'All right. I can give you two meals a day at my house, you can sleep here in the office on this lounge, and 1 11 take care of your laundry. Then If you need tobacco get it across the street at the grocery. They run an account with us. And up at that brewery you can get a can of beer whenever you like. Besides. I'll pay you $4 a week. Is that satisfactory?" "Gosh," said tiie Pilgrim, after repeating the offer to get it straight in his mind, "if I get all that what do I want with Ihe $4?" has not yet been submerged In this tide of late arrivals from Kansas who come here to tell us of tje beauties of prohibition when thty couldn't stand it themselves. Yes, the intimidation and browbeating will be tried in Oregon; in fact, is now being tried, and will continue to be tried to the end of the campaign, but it won't work with our women fur ther than to seal the lips of many in order to avoid argument with those dear sisters and brothers who profess to rollow Him who said, "Love ye one another,'' and yet are more ven omous toward any who hold views contrary to theirs than a coiled rat tlesnake. In witness whereof, read the numerous caustic letters addressed to "Mrs. Duniway and Klla M. Fin ney by the embittered but perfect ladies of both sexes. No, there won't be any 64 per cent of the women of Oregon vote dry, r.or even 60 per cent; for, in addition to reasons already assigned, the women of Oregon know that no prohibition state in the Union can show a better soberer class of men than Oregon. and they know further that they have grown to woman.iood here iust ns clean-minded and virtuous as th women- of Kansas or any other pro hibition state. The women of Oregon understand the fallacies of nrohihi- tion as well as do the men, and they are not going to vote to throw thousands of men out of employment hamper the hop industry, cripple trade and ruin many of their neigh bors, simply to encourage the sale of various prohibition tiDDlea that a drunk producers have the liquors sold unuer license DacKed off the boards. A. S. RUTH. Party Labels. Portland. May 15. To the FViitf r The Journal The comment .,F Th Journal regarding lack of interest in elections as shown by small registra tion, needs further discussion. The Journal is an Independent paper and inereiore is best able to open and keen open the discussion on this subject. I have made considerable inquiry among men of standing throughout the state, especially men who refuse to register' The objection is to the party system! Men who are really able thinkers and conscientious about matters of princi ple, repeatedly tell me they refuse to ie laoeied with a party label. There fore there Is no particular use- in their registering ,at all. l can find no one to uphold the nartv system except those who profit by of- ii co noiuiiig. jien win places on the ticket because they are stronc- mo,i They are elected because of their per sonality and not because of the;r partj a. ii iiu. nuii. governor west is not gov ernor because he is a Democrat but is governor of a Republican sta'e in spite of the fact that he Is a IBemo. crat. It is not -necessary tn n.ntin. further instances. All the argument for partv rule vo.iy uppusiuun, etc... is utter rot, anj i use ine journals independent stnH The Journal can do a great service for the state of Oregon by helping to K.UUCK. out party names on the ticket Tha 1 ... rl ...... . . v. ; , ... v iniimer wants to go to the polls and vote for men inde- uenacni or party affiliation. We want a state ticket like our city ticket, no lany name on it whatever. M. A. RION. The Journal's Monday Kditions x-oruanu, (jr.. May 13. To the Edi tor oi 1 ne Journal Please state ) , . r. V. 1. 1 ..... ....f,,, luiuiinis or vnur nanr whether or not during the past four montns l ne journal has printed as a regular edition as many as three 12- page papers on Monday evenings. INQUIRER. f L'l.... T .. . m, . i"' i"""y i i ne journal on rive Mondays has been of 12 naees All 1, 1 . .. i . . wi-,a unic ien oi ii pages or more. However. The Journal's pag.-s are oi eignt columns, compared with i-iu.uiHu p.!' w u tne other cany papers published in Portland. 1 The Personal JLiberty Plea Portland. May 15. To the Editor of The Journal The president and secre tary of the Women's Liberal league, in their letter of May 11, make some very egotistic assertions as to the sphere of high-mindedness occupied by them selves. In face of their claim I shall be glad for them to discuss the sa loon question frankly, freely and wHth out vilification. Let them tell us three things: What are the merits of the saloon according to the principles of altruism? What Is the economic value of the saloon to the human race? From an ethical basis, of what value is the saloon to man or woman, phs-sicslly mentally or morally? Let them not dodge the questions by pleas of "liberty." I have an in herent right to say that a parasite shall rfbt contaminate society, to the detriment of my boy's or my girl's welfare, either mentally, physically or morally. I quite agree that the home, home life and wealth of & person are in violable so long as they do not conflict with the welfare of society. There Is no principle of a democratic govern- I ernment that will permit the individual to jeopardize the welfare of the pubUc; PERTINENT COMMENT 8MALJL. CHANGE An unlucky Friday for many. The wise candidate is slow to pre dict results. Young chickens are also pretty good fly swatters. But are the men who win the nomi nations the lucky- ones? Again the time of year is near when picnic excursions are being planned. The Chinese government has a sure cure for the opium habit; kills its vic tims. Goodbye you southern strawberries; now people can get berries as is ber ries. "Federals retreated from Tamplco." Perhaps the rebels Tired a-, guu or two at them. ' Apparently some men who think themselves fit for judges are greatly mistaken. Campaign expenses are not an abso lutely indispensable part of the high cost of living. Strangely, Gompers and Morrison lived long enough to get a final de cision in their favor. The highways and byways will still be indefinitely ornamented with the pictures of the defeated. Anyway, law enforcement In west ern towns was a rare if not an un known thing 16 years ago. There is no doubt about the righte ous service of those engaged in war upon disease and their causes. At least the Americans will stay long enough in Mexico to make a few spots of it cleaner and healthier. THE SECOND FALL OF VERA CRUZ Arthur Ruhtf in Collier's Weekly. No novelist or stage carnenter ever devised a scene more curious and the atrical than that presented in the old plaza of Vera Cruz this mornine. Fri day, April 24, when I saw it three days aner trie marines and sailors took the city. The sun blazed down. The air was filled with waltzes and musical- comedy songs pounded out by a band from an American battleship under the palms on the plaza benches. Mexicans listened languidly, a trifle bewildered. ratner pleased, puffing their cigarettes under arcades about the plaza; and the little cafe tables in front of the mir rors shattered by Wednesday's rifle fire were crowded with American ref ugees from the interior excitedly tell ing how they had got away, hum ming the band tunes; with business men who had left behind them the work of years, not knowing whether they could ever return; with their wives and children; with adventurers and soldiers of fortune. The same lazy, sun-drenched air that carried the band music was crack ling with radios from Tampico, Te hauntepec, and Pacific coast towns telling of hundreds fleeing. &s they thought, for their lives; and of the 5000 troops preparing to embark at Galves ton. Above the palms in the old cathedral belfry, on roofs, on the sand hills outside the town, sailors were in cessantly wigwagging, s-ending an(j an. swering messages from the battleships In the harbor; and past the same tables went a steady procession of field guns. rapid-tire automatics, and comman deered wagons filled with tents and supplies, with guards, rifles in hand, watching the roofs, and companies of sailors in service uniforms of rusty yellow, and marines. Everything showed there had been a battle. No one could tell what would hap pen next, and yet this was not war. The Mexican flag was still floating from the old fort of San Juan de Ulloa in the harbor scarcely 200 yards from the Prairie, whose fire against the naval academy was so accurate on Wednesday morning. From the deck of the Prairie, scarcely a stone s throw to the old prison, the commandante was warned that at the first sign of activ ity San Juan would be fired on. Yet as this Is not war the two lie quietly side by side; and the commandante, who flies his flag in face of the fleet that could blow him out of the water, punctiliously dips the ensign when a launch carrying American dead passes by. . Peacefully to take a custom house and to continue civil government among a people accustomed to accept rules of conduct developed by highly civilized nations may be simple enough. but it is another thing among people EGG BASKETS OF By John M. Oskison. Three years ago last January D. O. Mills, one of the last of the rich Cali fornia pioneers, died In San Francisco; A good while ago he had become a citi zen of New Y'ork, and his estate was appraised under the inheritance tax laws of New York. After three years and a quarter the appraisal was com pleted and made public in April. Mr. Mills left a total estate valued at over $36,000,000; of that only 1,- 366,460 consisted of cash In banks; the rest consisted of a very wide va riety of holdings. From the appraiser's report It would Mppear that Mr. Mills did not believe in putting all his eggs in one basket; Indeed, the reader finds that at the time of his death he was using at least 108 baskets! Out.of that number I pany, a transfer concern in Chicago, 23 held worthless eggs." j the -New York concern that gives Mr. Mills evidently did not believe I grand opera, a hotel company, a break in real estate as an investment, for j fast food company, a grain elevator the only items listed were a ranch in i oompany and a steamship company. California valued at less than $22,000, town property In California of about equal value, and one office building In nelther will any principle of justice permit one individual to interfere with the welfare of another Individual so long as the latter individual complies with the laws of right and Justice. Tin, plea of "personal liberty" is a collosal absurdity when applied to the present saloon conditions. W. S. MOLLIS. The Mexican Press. From the Omaha World-Herald James Creelman took the precaution of getting out of Mexico before his articles concerning the personal hab its of Iluerta were published. It is al together probable that he never would have got out if the papers contain ing them had arrived in Mexico before he left the country. It is said that' Huerta was furious over the matter and he appealed to the "constitution" as authority for the drastic action he took against foreign correspondents and the press generally. Some of the refugees say that no paper in Mexico has yet printed the fact that Torreon has been captured by the constitution alists. The only statement that has been made concerning that affair that has so far been printed within Huerta's lines, is that the federals at Torreon had executed a strategic move in oc cupying a position that dominated the city and there the government forces only waited reinforcements in order to envelope the Insurgents." When the American people rrow AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS A steel bridge with a 120 foot span is to be built by am hill county at Carlton across the North Yamhill river. The 11 girls of the La Grande high school graduating class have agreed to observe a $5 limit regarding cost of graduating gowns. The First State bank of Seaside has I oeen incorporated with a capital of agel cash: J25.00O. The incorporators lll om nwl.ln. . - 1 T . ier. and A. F. Poley. vice president. i ... I II. CSIlirilt . 1 . ,'MKMI I 14 K 1 1 . ! Klamath Falls' latest bond Issue, iL'91.43 . for the sewer system, has I'trand'mi erUradteln,ser6 per cent. An eastern house bought. . ! Seven young men' and women will be i rum me reiruiar aepart- ivY. I kL.-. B ...Sr . f- in the evangelistic singing course. , J ratner was a Presbyterian min The nineteenth annual commencement lsleri and so they usually laid over and has been announced for the week be- rested on Sundays. My uncle, Isaac ginning Sunday. May 17. j Harrell, was a natural frontiersman An interesting- exhibit in a Penrile- t'hlle 't'w th "V"" 1S46- ton store window, described bv the , n"e ttu-v w 11 e preparing for the start E.:st Oregonlan. consists of baskets 1,1 tne coming Hpring, he made a gun o'' all shapes and sla.es made by pa- ! ln his blacksmith tihop. It was a good tents in the industrial department of cne, for he did the huntiuu for the Vtfe SeTs rT-perfe pS "" "h e'V.n. handiwork, several of the patients ' f ke1 tn,'m weU "Applied with ante being skilled weavers. Thev are made lope arul Buffalo. He lived to be 98 of white ash shipped from Hoboken. j years old. He died here In Portland N J- , , ai v.an buried at Hlllnboro. o. . , . . ,1 "William II. Canrielcl, who laid out years ago the Corvallis residence sec- ' , ner faTnll's in our party from Oaka tlon could not boast of a single f ull t 100Ka. decided to winter with Dr. Mar block of concrete sidewalk, and street ! cus Whitman at Walilatnu Tim Whlt- Lpaving was scarcely looked upon as a pos.siDiiuy. today tne concrete walk Sr7 wiyiffW: tn er before in the history of the citv. And today the principal streets of Corval- lis are paved with hard surface paving." who owe office to favor of a dictator j couples. They called him the. marry-'' they fear to offend, and to not a few of Ing parson because he officiated at so whom Red Cross flags are mere red j many marriage cremonlea. He was a marks on white cloth and nothing j Presbyterian. My mother was. a G r-rnore- ' I man and a money saver. I am a hop- ., . I grower and don't belong to any church While the great 12-inch guns of the or socletv. They say 1 look exactly fleet merely frowned in silence the like my father, but I inherited my 2a27, w" BUfff"nK l0ses mftn' time j mother1 German thrift. 1 have lived crtiL . sustained In all the j most, of my life on the original don.'- Prh land claim father settled on in " ' ' ' " 1 " 1 ' 1 1 l OSUUIO 111 1 1 1 11.1 111 Ihrm.irl. . . . . . . ixivsufen chip. uueeis iu meet a aeatu that took them unawares; while mobs j were marching through the streets of i the Mexican capital and Americans were crowding the refugee trains, the Mexican transport Progreso, crowded with reinforcements, steamed into the I harbor under the very guns of the i ui ciiuiiougnis. una tnen. trns not being war, was told not to anchor, and left to wander rather crestfallen out to sea. Surely not often in international relations has a situation arisen so ex - traordinary as this. It Is often eald by Americans living in Mexico that the unexpected always happens, and the longer you know Mexico the less you ( pretend to understand It. Ab this is ; being written no one can tell what will ' have happened before It is printed, or how, having stepped into Mexico in this strange and tragic fashion, we may get out again. It is one of the i grim and inevitable ironies of the ' whole mixed up business that those who fired from ambush on men who had no intention of firing on them should be regarded by Mexicans as patriots defending their homes from an invader anonymous heroes, as "La Opinion" called them yesterday. Anon- i ymous they were. I The very behavior of our own men was admirable throughout, forbearing under great difficulties. They went from their ships to the most discon certing sort of land fighting reso lute and undismayed. While salutes were thudding out to a British cruiser this morning and radios pouring In from all four points of the compass from Washington to the west coast, in the midst of orders In official language came a message from the flagship, stiffly introduced like the rest "Following telegram," it said, and then quoted a sentence from parents in the far-off states to their son, a blue- jacket on' the Florida: "All our thoughts and sympathies are with you. Earnest prayers for your speedy recov- try." There was no hint of address. It ran merely come out or tne air, a nu- man word faltering strangely across the spaces into this sternly beautiful company of great gray fighting ships. There has been war for them at any rate. A VERY RICH MAN New York valued at $4,225,000; his bond holdings were appraised at $3,- 733.111. and something like $25 000.000 was in stocks. The appraiser showed a list of 52 stocks owned by Mr. Mills. Nine of the blocks of bonds held by Mr Mills were railroad bonds and 12 blocks of his stocks were railroad .i . wi i , , , . stocks. Jwo blocks each of the bonds and stocks of street railway compa- nies were among nis Holdings. Gas, electric and power companies had Bold their bonds and stocks to him. A steel company, a mining company, a paper company and a drydock company had sold him bonds; he owned stock In nine banks, eiht public utility compa nies, eight iron, coal and gold mining companies, and an even dozen items of stock were distributed among such In- dustrial holdings as the i'uilrnaii coin- In the variety of his interests Mr. j Mills was typical of the successful American money maker and investor. Justly Indignant over the mobs in the ! city of Mexico, the overthrowing of the statue of Washington, the stoning of the consulate and worse things that have happened or may happen, they must take Into consideration the In formation on whirh, the mob acted. If the real factHA had been known, prob ably nothing Af the kind would have occurred. They may have been told that the most horrid crimes had been committed by the Americans In Vera Cruz. The papers there print Just , what Huerta tells them to print. It j is not the poor, ignorant people that! are to blame, it is the infamous ty- I rants and dictators who keep them In j ignorance who are the malefactors upon whom punishment should be in flicted. Mexico has one of the best consti tutions ever written, but the dictators and generals have defied it ever since It was promulgated and Huerta has been one of the most defiant traitors of the constitution that ever reigned in that country; yet when he wants to do some infamous thing he appeals to the constitution. If the people of Mexico City had the Information that every common laborer in this country has. it would not take long to settle the present difficulty". When Jefferso provided for a free press he laid the foundation for liberty In this country. There can never be liberty In any country without it. IN EARLIER DAYS Hjr ItmI l ock ley. WUlium B. Jolly is a pioneer of 1847. I was born on May 2ti, 1843, in Illi nois." said iIr jl)Uy ,.My pttrenta started from Illinois for Oregon in the sPflng of 1840. They went by way of Oskalooa, Iowa, to visit my father's sister, Mrs. Isaac Hai relt. "Mr Harrell was u blacksmith. He took the Oregon lev.r n.i . come along with my i,r,.nts. but he COUld noj of bis busing , .,gnt ,. r' "e Persuaded my father to btuy l"ere untu tne next spring, when ho with about 20 of his neighbors would be ready to come west My folks llZT J VT " 25 ramllle started for St. Joa. At t. Joe they were Joined by others. 80 that when they organized and crossed the Missouri there re were wKon in the train. man massacre occurred a short' time after their arrival Cunfleld was shot ednr V't es"aPed and made his way to I-apwal. ' Wnere H, H. Spalding and family wertj i living among the Nez Perces. "My father settled north of Hllla- boro. He traveled from Astoria to as j far south as Kugene preaching. In the , late forties and early fifties he was a very popular minister with vounc . -11. lOl 4'fn 1865 I married Harriet R. Grif fin, daughter of Rev. J. S. Griffin. th missionary. My father-in-law was a great scholar. He was a very severe man and a very peculiar man. "He and another preacher. Asahel Munger, were sent out from Connecti cut as missionaries. At St. Louix, on i lne wav oul- flIr- Cirirrin met. roll in love with and married u young woman. j who came out with him. They tiavch-d ' with the American Fur company to westport. Mr. and Mm. Griffin spent the winter of 1839-40 with the family of Rev. H. H. SpaldiiiK "t -1-apwa'.. while Mr. Munger anil wife wintered with the Whitmans at Walilatpu. Mr. Munger spent some time in the Mpring of 1840 at Fort Boise an a guest of Fayette, the trapper and mountain m.ui who gave his name to the Payette riv er. He spent the winter of 1H40 as a guest at Fort Vancouver and in 1841 lie took up a farm on the Tualatin plains. Mr. Munger secured work as a carpenter at the mission at Salem, and. becoming deranged on religion, dt -elded to perforin a miracle. He nailed himself by the5 hand above a fire, and was burned to death. "I remember." continued Mr. Jolly, "how angry Mr. Griffin used to be come when the Indians would pick up trifles on his place. He built a log Jail and he used to catch the Indian and lock them up, feeding them bread and water to try to break them of stealing. They stole more from him than from any one else, largely. I be lieve, because it annoyed him so. "Mr. Griffin secured the printing tress now owned by the Historical so- riety and published a paper on his ! farm. The press was Fent from thn Sandwich islands to H. H. Spalding in ; Lapwai. It was the first press ever ; used in the northwest. Mr. Griffin published a monthly religious journal, I hiring a printer. But his publication ; rjldn't live very long: Oregon couldn't j SUr,port a magazine 60 years ago. jr Griffin's last wify was a young I She thouirht he wouldn't llvn long, but he certainly fooled her. lived to be 96 years old." Ho The Ragtime Muse Xuture Htudy. The sky, preposterously blue; Is that its customary hue? 1 notice, now, your eyts are too A fact I had not known before; And, as I live, the grass is green, "'reV than a, " , ,jke you maT(. an,i more, How strange to see the breer.es blow The apple blossoms to and fro! Now. tell me. is it really so That May s always like tniH. a k?l()W lhllt brds rol,id s!nK Sl, maI1y kinds of songs to spring. Meanwhile I would give anytning For Just one tiny kiss! Here's something I can't understand I tremble when I touch your land; To hold it say. that would be grand. Much jov must therein lurk. Whoe'er so happy was as I? PrVre. in mv bliss I'd sit and sigh, But then, perhaps e d better try To find the license clerk: Pointed Paragraph- A good cook may be tends church regularly. one W'ho at- S'me fool men try to gain a wo man's sympathy by whining. Misery may love company, but tho company tS'-I iom i eriprocates. The best thing to be said in favor ! women Is they are different from II. s men. A man usually makes an ex b lb : t i of liirnrelf when he Ftarts out to s! people. The girl who is alwavs lring t aj thJ 1 tract attention usually attraf ts wrong kind. A Joke Isn't nerefM-arily new because it has never appeared in prmt. It may have been on tap before the art of printing discovered The Woman's Page The Journal each evening pre sents a number of striking features. Many of them are of exclusive interest to wom en; others are of general appeal. They all are worth while. Cul tivate this daily feature page; you will find it profitable.