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There la a remembrance of
the dead, to which we turn
even from the charms of the
living. These we would not ex
change for the song; of pleas
ure or the burets of revelry.
Washington Irving;
MEMORIAL DAY
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T
TN EVERY city cemetery and in
every country burial plot,
I g raves, grabs-grown, are gar
nisbed with fl&wers today. A
busy nation has paused to listen to
the whispering voices of those who
fell asleep in the south land, in
the north land, on the seven seas
and on the coral strands of the
tropics; inspiring -voices telling
from generation to generation how
great is country and home and
how noble is the duty and sacri
fice for their preservation.
But their blood on which side they
fought. '
Remade the nation and progress
brought. -We
forge the woe,
For we live and Know
That the fighting and sighing.
The falling and dying.
Were Hit the steps toward the future.
the martyr's way,
Adown which the sons of the Blue
and Gray
Look with love and with pride, Dec
oration Pay.
It la now fortyrfive years since
: Memorial Day was first observed
officially. However, during the
Civil war the women ot the South
instituted a custom of placing
flowers on the graves of the sol
dier dead including in their great
motherhood those who wore the
blue as well aa the gray, those who
. were born under the shade-of the
pine as well as those who sprang
Into being under the shadow of the
palmetto.
It was not until four years after
the war that the custom was reg
ularly adopted by the Union vet
erans. Unfortunately there is no
record of the name of the man who
first suggested the idea. All that
is known of him is that he was
a private soldier from Cincinnati
who wrote to the adjutant general
of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic recommending that a day be
set apart in memory of the Union
dead, saying that in his native land
of Germany it Was a custom of the
people to strew flowers upon the
t graves of their dead.
The next to the last day in May
was selected for the reason that
May was the month when flowers
would be plenty in the northern
states. There is also a poetic sym
bolism. It is the season of new
life, when eyes are turned to the
future and not to the past, a sea
son when the seeds or the past
have budded into fragrance and
the harvest of the future is as
sured.
w hen Memorial Day was first
discussed some doubted the wisdom
or setting aside aA day for the
purpose on the ground that it
would keep alive sectional animos
ity that should be buried in for
getfulneas. But, the effect has
, been the opposite and every year
witnesses a closer reunion..
Are they dead that yet speak loud
er than wo can speak and a more uni
versal laitKuage? Are they dead that
yet act? Are they dead that yet move
upon society and Inspire the people
with nobler emotions and more he
roic patrlotlHm?
Till the mountains are worn out and
the rivers forget to flow. Till the
clouds ' are weary of replenishing
springs aniV the springs forget to
guslr and tyie rills to sing shall their
names be kept fresh with reverent
honors which arc Inscribed upon the
book of national remembrance.
SPLENDID NEWS FOR OREGON
HfcftK wai i splendid news for Oregon yesterday In The Journal's
"dispatches from Washington. . ,
The senate committee' on commerce Is making large, in
creases for Oregon io the items in the rivers and harbors bill
as sent' to the senate from the house. The Increases total several
millions, and will be of great additional value in forwarding im
provement of Oregon rivers and harbors. ' -
The provision for placing the north jetty, at the mouth- of the Co
lumbia on a continuing contract basis is s, premier change. As the
bill came from the house, jit carried an appropriation of $1,000,000
for the improvement- and maintenance of the mouth of the Colum
bia. As amended by the Commerce Committee of the senate the bill
carries provision for $4,100,000, and retains the $1,000,000. It is
an arrangement that will greatly hasten the completion of the Jetty,
and in the end, effect a saving of $300,000 in the cost.
'Another Increase made by the senate committee is $112,500 for
the Siuslaw. . As the bill came to the senate from ' the house, the
Sluslaw appropriation was $5000.
The appropriation for the improvement of the upper Willamette
and Yamhill is increased to $40,000. The house bill provided for
only $30,000.
The increases raise the appropriations to the largest total in the
history of the state. It Is an aggregate, according to the figures
from Washington yesterday, of $6,462,675. In addition, there is
promise by Senator Chamberlain that he will be able to Becure fur
ther .aid for Tillamook Bay and bar In the Sundry Civil bill.
There is every reason to believe that the additions made by the
senate committee will be accepted by the senate and agreed to by
the house. Senator Chamberlain is acting chairman of the sub com
mittee of the Senate Commerce Committee, which made the in
creases. He is also a memfJer of the Committee on Appropriations, and.
ranking member of the subcommittee which will have charge of the
Sundry Civil bill. The latter committee carries the continuing con
tract authorizations, and Senator Chamberlain should be able, in
the latter committee to exercise the same effective influence for for
warding these appropriations that he has exerted as the acting
chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Commerce which made the
changes.
Along with these splendid appropriations', there is provision for
a comprehensive plan for' canalizing the upper Columbia above
Celilo with a view to ultimate development of the stream for navi
gation, reclamation and power purposes.' Fully as important as any
other provision, this great plan of improving the Upper river visions
an empire in the making. Its creation of electric power, and its re
clamation of unproductive lands by the same projects with which it
improves navigation has a meaning for the Pacific Northwest that
is beyond estimate in the thousands of people for whom It will pro
vide homes and in the thousands to whom It will give profitable em
ployment. Oregon has never before faced a more favorable outlook re
sulting from-promised congressional legislation.
nine trunks, ten suit . cases'
plenty of fishing tackle.
Baseball Is a. great factor In our
lives. When the home team Is
winning everything is the color -of
the rose and we are full, of opti
mism. When it is losing the world
is black and life Is not worth then
living.
CoB9Blanlttnna mmt in Tha Journal for
pcblfraUoa to thla department abould be writ
ten on only one aldo at tha inner abfinld not
exceed 800 Words in length anl moat be ac
companied by the nam and address et tbo
sender. If the writer doea not desir to
bave tb uame published, be aboeld so state.)
"Discaaaloa is tha rreatest of all re for
era. It rationalises everrtblnc It touches. It
roba principle of all false sanctity and
throw them back on their reasonableness. If
tbey bate no reasonableness. It' rntalesely
rruabea tbem out of exiatence sd sets up its
own conclusions 1b their ataad." Wood row
Wilson.
ness. That is purely economic.
There is no morality about It in
the strict sense.
Nor is drunkenness, as the wets
say, an issue of personal liberty.
If a drunken engineer forgets his
train orders and meets another
4 rain at full speed in a head on
.collision, it is folly to claim that
on grounds of "personal liberty"
be had a right to get drunk. If
a drunken chauffeur drives his
machine headlong through a
crowded street and kills several
people, it is. absurd to claim that
he had the right to get drunk.
Drunkenness is not liberty, but
license. It is not its so-called im
morality but its frightful human
waste that is its real indictment.
It is not the "personal liberty" ar
gument or the "immoral" argument
that is having weight in making
drinking and drunkenness a reg
nant and permeating issue. There
are deeper and more fundamental
issues in the controversy.
The wets, have better ground so
far as state wide prohibition is
concerned in questioning to what
extent the plan Is effective. The
drya have their strongest, position
in the economic phase, involving as
it does the waste of human life,
powers and efficiency and the vast
public cost that comes from drunk
enness and the results of drunkenness.
ertr in trust and' from the trust
fund goes toward the maintenance
of "general education and bridge
and road improvements. This
makes possible the statement that
the educational Institutions of Min
nesota are unique in presenting a
complete system of secularized
school instruction in which tuition
Ib absolutely free of charges, from
ABC to the doctorate of philoso
phy.
Minnesota took the view that
the Increment value that follows
growth of population should come
to the state and to the schools
rather than to the speculator. She
decided that if money was needed
Immediately it should be derived
from leases and rentals and not
from sales of her public lands. In
doing this she endowed her educa
tional Institutions, lessened the
burden of direct taxation and
avoided future repining over waste
of resources entrusted to her by
the general government.
wnat a splendid contrast on
Minnesota's side and what a mel
ancholy contrast on Oregon's Bide
In the loss to Oregon of her tide
and overflowed lands and their
passage ' into railroad and other
private ownership, notably exem
plified just now in the waterfront
of Portland!
EXTORTIONATE PEES
5
l)l?V AM) WETS
EOPLK never talk common
sense when they discuss
the liquor question." Such
was the declaration in
Portland Friday evening of Mrs.
Kate Richards O'Hare, editor of a
Socialist publication. She added:
The drys try to "make It a moral
question, and the ;wets talk about
personal liberty. Drunkenness isn't
a moral question, nor a question of
personal liberty. No one has a right
to do anything that will Injure any
one else. Tor an injury to one is an
injury to all, and if your getting
drunk injures me,' then you have no
right to gat drunk. I
It is rather sweeping to say that
people "never" talk common sense
when they discuss the liquor issue.
It Is more accurate to say that, on
that issue, people "do not always"
talk common sense.
..In a general way, there is much
in the discussion now prevalent
that... is foreign to the issue. As
Mrs.- O'Hare says, drunkenness is
not a moral question. It is more
of an economic question. The
railroads refuse longer to entrust
their trains to drunken or drinking
engineers because it means de
struction of property, loss of. life,
and a frightful ost - to the Jausl-
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OME of the fees which the
clerk of the United States
court in Portland has been
collecting as his personal com
pensation, were not legal.
Among these fees was 25 cents
a page for supervising the print
ing and indexing the record, on ap
peal. The work is usually done
by the printer and the attorneys
concerned. ' In a case certified from
the ninth district of which Oregon
is a part, the United States Su
preme Court held that the clerk
had no right to collect this fee.
Not only was this fee unlawfully
collected, but other fees lawfully
collected formed a total compel
sation that Is absurd. By the re
port of the attorney general of the
United States, the amount received
in net earnings, "not including his
fees in naturalization matters' by
the clerk of the federal district
court in Portland was for the year
ending last June, $12,465.16. The
sum is more than double that re
ceived by the Judge of the court in
which the clerk is a petty func
tionary. What is the spectacle,
wneu, m me eyes oi me law, as
indicated by their respective pay.
one clerk of a court is worth more
than two judges of the same court?
Before it adjourns the present
session, the congress of Mia TTntteri
States ougrft to put an end to this
fee extortion, which almost mounts
to the proportions 'of a scandal.
T
WHAT A CONTRAST!
B
Y HUSBANDING its income
from land sales and from
timber and iron ore royalties
the state of Minnesota has
accumulated a trust fund of $30,
000,000 to be used In the further
ance of educational and other pub
lic purposes.
This su.m exceeds, it Is said, the
combined funds of similar charac
ter in twenty out of the twenty-
Hve states east of the Mississippi
river.
One of Ihe restflts of the state's
policy in refusing to throw open
its resources to exploitation is its
ownership of public lands receive
from the national government
which brings an annual yield to
the state treasury of $1,200,000
All the income derived from prop-
SHIP GONE
HERE has been another great
tragedy of the sea
All day yesterday and last
night, .there was search for
f
and
Letters From the People
"Bur-reds is Iatillieht,, Mrs. Bran-
nigan observed, as she encountered her
friend. Mrs. O'Brian. "Ta can tache-
em annyt'ing. Me sis-
ter has wan as lives in
clock, an' whin It a
toimc to tell th tolmel
it cornea out an' says
cuckoo aa. manny
toitnes as th' tolme
'Dthot's wondher-
ful!" said Mrs;
O'Brian.
PY-ohibJtion Figures Reviewed.
Portland, May 29. To the Editor of
The Journal My attention has just
been called to a leaflet sent out from
the prohibition headquarters. This
leeflet attempts to sjiow, by using pro.
hibition Maine as a standard, the num
ber of additional men that Oregon
could employ in 21 different occupa
tions. They speak of their table as
startling," and it is all of that. It
"startled" me, because they seemed to
have left out of consideration the
greatest element of all, "efficiency.
It also startled me to learn that by
finding the number of fishermen or
dressmakers Maine had, one could tell
Just the number Oregon should have.
one of the grounds upon which the
prohibition advocate Justifies his as
saults on individual rights is his as
sertion that prohibition will Increase
the efficiency of the worker, whether
his labor be mental or physical.
This table in the prohibiton leaflet.
referring to the census reports for
1900, caused me to turn to those same
reports. The result looks mighty pad
for prohibition. I am taking prohi
bitionists' own authority for my com
parison. On page 312 of volume 8,
census reports for 1900, will bo found
a table showing a comparative sum
mary of the 10 leading industries of
Maine. On page 7Z3 of th ewme vol
ume will be found a table showing
a summary of the eight leading Indus
tries of Oregon. Six of the industries
are identical in both states, namely
isn, canning and preserving of; flour
ing and grist mill products; timber and
timber products; printing and publish
ing, newspapers and periodicals; ship
and boat building, wooden; woolen
goods. Using these six. industries for
the purpose of comparison, we find
that the wage earners in Oregon re
celve an average wag 34 per' cent
greater than do the men in prohibition
Maine. This fact developed, the ques
tion arises, what about the man who
furnished the capital to carry on these
industries in Oregon? The natural pre
sumption was, that when we paid
wages almost a third greater than did
the man in the same line in Maine,
his profits must be much smaller. The
fact is, however, that the Oregon man
ufacturer received 8 per cent more in
terest on the money invested than did
the capitalist in Maine. Wares
third higher in Oregon than in Maine,
and returns on the investment a third
greater in Oregon than in Maine, with
a common market for a great deal of
the output. How can this seemingly
contradictory condition be explained?
Just one explanation is possible
greater efficiency of both th Oregon
manager, business man and wage-earner.
A FEW SMILES
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
it -, S,
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1 BUALUf CHANGE
Clean up.
o
Ye't there are over 30 fifes.
The worm can'tnejp being a worm.
The brooks sln sweetest when low.
The Grants Pass Courier reiolces at
The gardens are part of th glories-f ,,ie excellent comradeship of town ana
of God.
Now ia the time when Ufa la m il v
It is, indade," said Mrs. Brannigan. j delicious.
Many things considered necessaries
are not so.
"An the wondherful par-rt ov it all is
It's only a wooden bur-red at thot!"
Judge.
"Why, my dear!" exclaimed the good
friend on finding Mrs. Newwed n
flo ods of tears. "What Is the mat
ter?"
The young wife
wiped her eyes and
tried to compose her
self and be inhuman
ly calm.
"Well." she began,
with folded hands,
"you known John is
away for a week."
"Yes, dear, ' helped the iaay rnena.
"Well, he writes to me regularly,
and in his his last letter he tells me
he gets my photo out and kisses it
every day."
But that Is nothing for you to cry
about!" exclaimed the good friend.
Yes, it,, is," cried Mrs. Newwed,
bursting into tears afresh, "bo-be-cause
I took my picture out of his ba-bag be
fore he started. Ju-Just for a jo-joice
and put one of mo-mo-mother's in its
place!"
A story is told of a sailor -who de
cided to walk from Newport to Car
diff. He met a cart .driver and asked:
"How far Is it from
Newport to Cardiff?"
'Twelve miles, mis
ter," was the reply.
"Thankee," said
Pat. "An how far is
it from Cardiff to
Newport?"
Driver Didn't I tell
you how far it was from Newport to
Cardiff? Do you suppose it is any
farther the other way back?
Irishman Sure and ' I don't know.
I know it is a great deal farther from
New Year's day to Christmas than
from Christmas to New Year's day.
Time and history will Justify the
workers for peace.
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Worrying about weather is one of
the inexcusable follies.
It Is quite natural that Oeneral Fun
ston should ache to fight.
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It takes, almost Infinite patience to
umi property witn a nen.
Nobody has yet discovered how long
it taxes to gei to tieaven.
Wilson wouldn't stop Roosevelt po
litical activities tr ne coma.
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Home Rule) for Ireland seems to be
aimost accomplished at last.
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The chances are that the grouchy
man nasn t nan a good breakfast.
Maybe there is too much attempted
education in quantity and variety.
Always, probably, people who can't
will be trying to write poems about
Mount Hood.
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The little animal and insect life Is
again wonderfully and very interest
ingly active.
Of course J. P. Morgan would defend
his father, but people will not think
differently for that.
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By October, the Portland morning
newspaper will have made Wilson out
a pirate and Chamberlain a sheep thief.
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Ftfd! LocJUey.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Th Ruiotn 'ministerial, union will
give the annual picnic en the Willam
ettai mil vorU vr cam i,ua June 23. It is
the plan of the organisation to spena to jin the innumerable host Who have
nit: enure u&y uiiuer Hits v w
spacious lawn.
iM'uniry people in josepmne cuumji
which is evidenced bv the turnout oi
Grants Pass people at rural merry
makings and celebrations.
County division agitation Is once
more evident in northern Crook coun
ty. The Bend Bulletin says the 13
voting precincts of tlie north end are
to be included in the projected new
county, which is to be named Jeffer
son, if formed.
We know not the day nor the hour,;
but we know that, to all of us, some
day will come the inexorable summons
preceded us to the quiet city of the
dead.
To me there ia a certain calm pleas
use in visiting God's acre. As f walk,'
unhurriedly, through the grass-grown
lanes, I stop here and there br some '
weather-wbrn, moss-grown stoSs to '
read the brief record of the dead. Hare
where a Uttered flag waves is burled -a
soldier a mere boy. He was yet in
his teens when he gave all he had to
give his Ufa to his country, Cn
you look back through the swift-run-
"Few who make the trip to Mary's I nin, oi hi. nnth aha.
Peak realize." says the O. A, C. Ba- . .
rompter. "that they pass within half i neis who neari oowea auwn ana wim
mile of some of the most beautiful
falls in this country. These are the
Fred Dennett falls. In a distance of
50 feet the water drops over one hun
dred feet perpendicular with the main
falls sixty-five feet high."
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Quickness and coolness answered
every purpose of heroism In qualifying
Myrtle McCoy, of Irrlgon. for a medal.
The lrrigon correspondent of the Uma-
tuia rfew Kra descriDes tne aeea:
"Kdress Smith fell into water over ten
feet deep; Myrtle immediately broke
off a long willow branch and with it
succeeded in getting the child ashore.
No damiixe was done, except the duck
ing and a little scare."
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Gold Beach Globe: The recent pri
mary election day "is one long to be
remembered by those who attended in
Gold Beach. Instead of boose with all
its vices being in evidence, it was Just
the opposite. The ladies gave a
sumptuous picnic dinner for which
the men were charged 35 cents, the
proceeds to co towards buying the
fencing for the park. A more sociable
time was never had by a neighbor
hood; and no election waa ever con
ducted with better feeling among every
one. The proceeds from the dinner
amounted to S22.S0.
him, and now I blacklist him entirely.
Vote dry for lower taxes, better
homes and a full larder!
J. fa. BRACK-TT.
The HopgrowerV Damage.
Lents, May 28. To the Editor of
The Journal It is surely a lame ar
gument to bring up the plea that Pro
hibition would damage some hop grow
ers who inhabit a few counties. The
question is what would benefit the
whole state and the whole nation? It
is useless to Insult intelligent men and
women with arguments that to go dry
will injure the state's prosperity. We
have unanswerable arguments in the
states of Kansas, North Dakota and
others.
The physical reasons for the prohi
bition of the liquor business are unan
swerable, and are corroborated by phy
sicians, nurses, social workers very
one who Is interested In the well being
THE HISTORY OF MEMORIAL DAY
John FitzgibbOn in Detroit Tribune.
It is 45 years since the first Memo
rial Day; that is, the day when veter
ans of the great war for the first time
and In compliance with an order of
the then national commander in chief of
the G. A. R., General John A. Logan,
decorated with flowers the graves of
comrades.
There is an expression of regret in
the official records of the G. A. R.T
that the' name of the soldier who first
conceived the idea of flowers for.
soldiers' graves throughout the Union
on a specified day should have been
lost.
During the war period southern
women were already, once a year, put
ting flowers on the soldier dead of the.
Confederacy. But It was not until fouri
year 8 after the war that the custom
was officially adopted by the veterans
of the Union armies. In 1868 General
N. P. Chipman, an Iowa veteran, was
national adjutant of the Grand Army,
General Logan then being commander
in chief. General Chipman received a
letter from a veteran who had been a
private soldier in a Union regiment.
f and who, he thinks, wrote from Cm-
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-j. uu, awu ' xuo. ""v- ""idnmt! in which the writer referred
have so many people young and old ?'n" vi. L-,
who have inherited an appetite for al
cohol in some degree is a sufficient in
dictment of the whole business. To
turn these out to face an open sa
loon is nothing short of barbarous.
The state could better afford to buy
to the fact that his services had been
wholly as a humble private; that in
his native country, Germany, it was
the custom of the people in the spring
time to strew flowers upon the graves
of their dead. He suggested that the
the dead and missing among those
who sailed on the Empress of Ire
land, while two hemispheres waited
with anxiety for the terrible stat
istics of the lost.
A splendid ship that was able
to survive the fiercest storms of
the seven seas, that could ride the
roughest billows on the wildest
night and like a living thing,
steam majestically into port, could
not survive a collision with the
deep-laden collier. , When struck,
the great liner, almost human In
the throbbing pulsations of its
mechanism, staggered under "the
shock," settled slowly as the water
poured through the great wounds
In its hull, and with a final strug
gle sank into the sepulchre of the
sea.
"Ship gone" was the mournful
message flashed by Captain Ken
dall through the unwired ether to
the world just before the wounded
liner made its last convulsive list,
then heaved, quivered and sank.
Though the awful sequel was then
unknown to the intrepid wireless
operator, the "ship gone" that his
hand nervously sent through space,
was doom for human hundreds
who found, with the maimed ship
the waves for a winding sheet. ;
It is fate's malignant irony that
man can .buvld almost animate
ocean liners, can give them mar
velous powers for human service,
but he cannot foresee all the kinds
of perils that will beset them, and
that some time, somewhere, an aw
ful unexpected hand will come up
through the waters and drag them
todoom.
Meanwhile, what was the stress,
what the pressing hunger for divf-
dends that the deadly collier, in
the midst of a thick fog, should
have rushed recklessly ahead, to
ram the Empress of Ireland and f
her fated passengers into a ship-,
wreck whose shock is felt around
the world? !
Offering a Correction.
Portland, Or., May 29. To the Edi
tor of The Journal An article ap
peared .in Sunday's Journal under
tho heading "Audience Surprised by
the Performing of Deaf Mutes,"
which is very misleading and should
be corrected. I refer particularly to
this paragraph:
"Under leadership of Miss Tomp
kins, principal of the school, and Miss
Bean, one of her group of teachers,
a small class of pupils, consisting of
the little Misses Wilmett De Lash
mett, Ruth Eden and Dorothy Pils
worth and Master Leonard Ward,
came forward and, stone deaf and
mute, they astonished the audience,
not only by cellvering in articulate,
understandable speech, short poems
and declamations, but, what was if
anything even more wonderful, by fol
lowing the music of a piano in the
most complex and graceful of rhythmic
evolutions and art-dances.
"Even those to whom these things
were not news, received a stimulus of
quickened interest in the possibilities
of scientific twentieth-century educa
tion for the afflicted."
There is nothing in which the pub-
lie is so easily deceived as in the"
teaching of the deaf and some of the
statements made in the above para
graph" cast a reflection upon the
deaf in general, for none of us are
able to perform miracles even under
the most skilful teaching. It was
stated that the - children are stone
deaf. Now in every group of four or
five deaf children two or three of
them have partial hearing and by this
hearing are able to lead the others
in a fancy dance or drill. Two of the
children mentioned have so much, hear
ing that they can communicate with,
those with whom they are familiar
in the dark; which proves that they
do not depend upon lip-reading. The
loss of the sense of hearing strength
ens Hhe sense of sight so that the
children who are totally deaf follow
those who have some hearing so close
ly that it is Imperceptible to the pub
lic.
Rythmic evolutions and art dances
are not a product of the twentieth
century, for dancing to music has
been a favorite pastime df the deaf
for many years. ,
ONE OF THE DEAF.
every hophouse and distillery and put orana Army or tne epuoiic inua-
them to Rome beneficial use. thua rate buuii ai uuscivwivd m i.,c...vjr v-x
keeping this traffic within our bound
aries. The soil that will raise hops
will also grow potatoes, clover, kale,
or corn to feod fine cows and pigs that
no one doubts are a benefit to all. I
cannot imagine how a father or mother
who desires that their children have
at least a fair chance to grow up clean,
strong, upright men and women, could
vote Oregon wet PHEBE HAMMER.
Harry Thaw is still being kept
in close confinement in New Hamp
shire. In company with his sec
retary, the sheriff and one deputy
he left Concord for Gorham to
spend the summer. -The party had
Disputes Mr. YateSN Vjews.
Portland, May 29. To tT-Editor of
The Journal Replying to tsborne
Yates' letter in The Journal or" May
23. I would say, "Oh, Liberty, what
crimes are committed in thy name!
Mr. Yates and the defender of the
liquor traffic have yet to learn that
stern, unalterable facts arrayed against
sophistry must certainly be victorious
i i the. end. Mr. J'ates quotes the
Golden Rule. Well and good, but what
rational parent desires son or daugh
ter plitd1 with rum? It is easy to
tempt mankind to eternal degradation
and uplift is hard to accomplish. Let
roc inform Mr. Yates vthat a saloon
keeper's business is not catering to
moderate drinkers it is to get his vic
tim "stewed," as then said victim
spends his money freely "sets 'emaup'
for all who are in the barroom. New
crops of unwary young men are con
tinually needed. No saloonkeeper ever
yt pointed with pride to his finished
product. Cold, hard facts are conclu
sive evidence that rum will rob anyone
of manhood.womanhood and will power
and vitiate mental, moral and physical
being, and I . believe firmly that the
women of this great state will arise
and vote to emancipate the slaves of
alcohol. X find that In extending credit
to even the moderate drinker it costs
from 25 to 90 per cent to collect from
the Union dead.
Sarcasm Against Antis.
Portland, May 29. To the Editor of
The Journal I have been reading the
articles by Mrs. Finney, Mrs. Duniway,
Ursula Meister, Gertrude Regulo ana
Dora M. Crosby and Messrs. Addis,
Nlckerson, Engelke, Yates and others.
both in and out of thjs church, who
have so fearlessly stood up for drink.
This is a soul destroying, enticing
deceiving drink, as we all know, but
who can or will stop it? The Bible
says: "No drunkard shall Inherit the
kingdom of heaven;" but what do we
care, so long as we -can maitemoneyT
If men and women are such boobs as
to give us their hard earned money
for a drink that will make' fowls out of
them, or fiends, why should we worry?
Most of the blind churches and their
sleeping members are silent or are vot
ing for us; and the preachers are lo
coed and dare not say their thinks I
The fine lawyers and noble Judges are
on our side. Many of the Republicans
and Democrats are buncoed and are
afraid of losing their Jobs. There has
always been sin and a devil to tempt
and guide us, and always will be. So
if they close the saloon we shall run
blind pigs, as we always do, and the
government can not stop us ana never
will. So let us make all the money we
can while we have the chance. Then
long live the brewer, the saloonist and
their drink; away with dead churches
and the Bible and Kfbhlbition and give
us temperance, a wide open town, and
vote wet. H. C. IRVING.
.
A Fire Department Critic.
Portland. May 29. To the Editor of
The Journal The article in your issue
of May 26 in reference to the collision,
of the fire department chemical wagon
with a streetcar on East Morrison
street is undoubtedly tnfe, since Mr.
Taxpayer saw the accident, and Judg
ing from the very temperate tenor oi
his letter we make no question every
thing he states is exact fact, though
some ofus who know Chief Dowell
very well might be inclined to give him
a hearing before condemning him out
of hand. Particularly is this true when
wo call to mind the utter disregard for
public welfare shown by the street car
company employes wnen mere is any
question as to ngni or way oeiween
them and the fire department.
And right here it might be stated
Portland is the only city the writer
has ever been in where the fire depart
ment has not absolute right of way at
al'. times and under all circumstances.
when answering a call. What a fine
"public safety" we wouldTnave did the
fire department have to dance attend
ance to the street car company,
General Chipman thought th sug
gestlon most opportune, and at once
made a rough draft of a general or
der covering the subject, and laid it,
with the letter referred to, before Gen
eral Logan. The latter, In his capacity
of commander in chief, warmly ap
proved the order himself adding sever
al paragraphs. The date selected. May
30, was with the idea of using one of
the spring months because of their
poetic association, and also to make It
in the last spring month when flowers
would be plenty in th states in thu
farthest north belt of the nation. Gen
eral Logan issued the order designat
ing April 80 Memorial Day
of ceremony was laid down.
No form
There were many who, at the outset.
doubted the wisdom of instituting
such an observance. The argument
against the observance was that it
would unnecessarily keep alive mem
ories of the war and foster. animosities
that should be burled in obHvlon. Other
objections were made to the expense.
and that the money for music and
flowers could be more wisely apent on
living veterans In needy circumstances.
The G. A. R. has answered this latter
by increasing its benefaction each suc
ceeding "year. It has spent several
million dollars since the beginning to
help needy veterans. As to the first
objection, the force, if there was ever
eyes dim with unshed tears over the
new-made grave of her only son? Time
may heal her wound, but ever the scar
remains. Her hair is white and her
yes are dim today, but can a mother
ever forget the little head that of old
nestled softly agalnat her braast? Does
a mother ever forget the tiny arms
that clung about her neck? '
As we linger in the quiet city of the
dead, our cares and griefs and petty
vexations and perplexities are f orot "
ten. Here, where we must all com
at last, there Is no rank nor caste. The
pomp and pride and glory of man
have sunk into the all-einlraclife
earth; rich and poor, noble and ignoble,
lie down to their last irtajp in the
equality of death. We are so by
with t.'i things that mutter so little,
the getting of money or fame- or ap
plause, that we forget those who have
gone before and who, wrapped in the
silence of the grave, with the mellow
n.conlight lighting Up the sculptitrwl
Tnarble above them,- await us. It la Will
that we pause occasionally to giv our
thoughts to those who have gone be
fore.
At the ciose of a day in earlv sum
mer some years ago, I vaulored ;
through the silent streets of the city
of the nation's noble dead Arlington
. :i -try. To the eastward ilia J'liot
ami peaceful Potomac flowed tcaward.
Beyond the Potomac, like some fair
city of one's dreams, glorified by the
lust long level rays of the setting sun.
! the national capltol.
on all sides were the grim reminders
of war's fearful harvest. ,By squads,
and by companies, by regiments, and
by brigades, the dead were assembled.
Over 18,000 of the flower of the north
ern and southern mRnliond are gathered
there from-many a hard fought field.
Broken cannon, and sculptured granite,
bronze tablets and memorial arches
murk the last resting place of those
who are bivoacked on fame's eternal
camping ground.
There where the well kept lawns of
General Robert E. Lo elope gently to
the Potomac's tree-t-lad shore now rest
nnr n,.. ti It Inntr oars iHunfiuriiH
The surviving veterans of the Confed- ! h n,'n wn, wor th Bl"e an'1 U,elr
,r.,v h. M.mnrl.l Tw f thir brothers, who wore the Gray.
own, and observe it as generally, and I tvei looking the rometery is an old
ln the same spirit, that Union veterans ! "ty'e Southern mansion, the home of
observe theirs.
Rob rt E. Lee. There In 131 h.- vtfas
Tn rh .rll, vm the wo a-rna - , marrieu. ana tncre on April it), in-u, ne
ing a tendency at variance with the ' w '" his resignation hh n officer In
rnnt th.t in,nr.irti, Memorial Tinv th United States army. He lett the
This was the reason why, at the na
tional encampment at Providence, 1878,
the then commander In chief. General
John C. Robinson, issued an order
which in part was:
"The commander in chief expresses
his regret that it Is necessary to re
mind some of the comrades that
(Memorial) day is sacred to the mom
ory of -our heroic dead, and that it is
not in any sense a time for pleasure,
excursions or merry-making of any
kind."
Several years after the humble pri
vate suggested in his letter to Adju
iiext day tlie home of his early jnaat
hoocl, never to return.
"The old Lee mansion Wan used dur
ing the Civil War as a hospital, and
the first sololer to be buried In the Ar
lington National cemetery was a nol
dier who wore the Gray, a private of
the Twenty-third North Carolina In
lantry, who died May 13, 1X6 4.
As you walk with reverent tread patst
the simple, yat beautiful, Temple of
Fuine, you come to a massive block of
granite, that marks !ie grave of the
unknown dead- Of the IfinS unknown
dead' in this oemett-ry nearly one-half
are buried in this common grave. n
tant General Cbipmatt the idea of J U1 granite slab are chiseled th e
strewing flowers once a year on sol
diers' graves, it was proposed in the
national councils of the G. A. R. to
honor him by some official recognition
in the records. But his record had
been mislaid or lost The adju
tant general could not recall his
name, or anything about the let
ter except the suggestion in it,
and the fact that It came from
Cincinnati. Th identity of the humble
private remains to this day undiscovered.
i THE STOCK EXCHANGE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
1 1 .. i .
By John M. Oskison.
Under fire from a committee of
congress,, threatened with legislation
which would compel it to incorporate
or deprive it of the use of the mails
and telegraph, the New York stock
exchange has published its counsel s
argument against the proposed law.
Mr. Milburn's brief is the exchange's
official explanation of itself. It is of
ral Interest.
Bo far as the exchange buys and
sells securities for investment, no
complaint Is made. Mr. Mllburn says
that any statement of the proportion
of this kind of business to th whole
volume of transactions would be only
a worthless guess. My guess would
be that the proportion is very small.
There remain two classes of trans
actions speculative buying and sell
ing and the trading between members
on the floor of the exchange. An
expert's guess is that one third of the
total transactions are between traders
on the floor and have no direct inter
est for the public.
It is on the question of furthering
speculation that opinion concerning
tlie stock exchange splits. Those who
back tlie proposed bill In congress be
lieve that speculation Is bad. It Is a
widely held view. Against this theory
Mr. Milburn says:
" 'Wholesome,' speculation w take
to be speculation by persons who have
the means or credit to carry their
transactions through, and who buy and
sell intelligently in the expectation of
a rise in price in the one case or a fall
in the other.
"Eliminate speculation and th con
servatism of investment would arreat
the development of the country."
So the stock exchange believes that
it is a real help in the development of
the country! It says. In effect, to
owners of money:
"A lot of people want to start busi
nesses, build trolley and railroad lines
Hnd promote cities. W don't know
(can't find out, in fact) whether or
not they'll make good; but come andj
taKe a chance, anyway, iou may win.
Even if you lose, you see something
has been done."
On its own Bhowlng the stock ex
change is a good thing to leave alone
if you are a real Investor.
words:
"Beneath this stone repose the boiifS
of 2111 unknown HoluTerx. gathered
after tho war from the. fiehls of Bull
Run, and the route to the Rappahan
ock. Their remain could not be iden
tified, but their names and deaths are'
recorded in the archives of their coun
try: and, ita grateful citizens honor
them as of their noble army of mar
tyrs. May they rest In peace."
Virginia saw tire crimson ebb and
flow of tho tide of war, and in Vir
ginia there are located 17 of our &3
national cemeteries.
I have visited many of the battle
fields of the Civil War, from Harper's
Kerry to Lookout Mountain, and one
cannot visit thene now peaceful sites
without realizing the price that was
paid In blood ami agony for the cJt
Izenshin which we sometimes so lieht-
burled in our national cemeteries.
The custom of decorating th graves
of our soldier dead began In the south.
It was the scattering of flowers on th
graves of the dead of both armies in
1867 by the women of Columbus, Mis
sissippi, that Inspired Francis M. Finch
to write the beautiful poein,' "The Blu
and the Gray." In May, 1888. General
John A. Logan, the commander-ln-oWet
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
issued an order that on May 80 every
post of the Grand Army Hhould dec
orate the graves of the soldier dead.
In a few years taps will have sound
ed for the last of the boys in Blue and
the boys In Gray. Each y ar more and
more are answering the roll call of th
Great Commander, and Joining th
ranks of their comrades who have ral
lied to the colors on the further shore.
is. It is a safe venture, too, that in
all Mr. Taxpayer's long experience in
state affairs he never was the cause
of an accident But, as In so many
other cases, we always find perfection
where it is of little use. E. J. H.
Regarding Work on Roads.
Rainier, Ot., May 29. To the Editor
of The Journal This is from a com
mon working man. There has been
quite a bit of talk about road work
her and at different places along the
line. Now, I have had a very hungry
trip between Portland and Astoria,
looking for that much talked of work,
and have Tailed to find it. I saw a
few tents at different places what
they call camps; but it they are camps,
I never saw one before. They employ
a very few men in each of these camps
but not enough to give one-third of
the men Jobs that 1 have seen wan
dering up and down the pike looking
or i for work.
anyone else, when on their way to a I Of course, the object is to get the
fire. . Under these, conditions anyone i men ner;,tnat is tne way tne con-
expecting the fire boys to do the dear
Alfonso act is apt to meet up with
bad luck.
It Is safe to say, Judging the class,
that If. Mr. Taxpayer's house was on
fire he would not care If the fire de
partment smashed, to particles the
whole streetcar system, so his property
was saved. But if the property of an
other is concerned f-well, that is dif
ferent. Of course, the firemen don't know
anything about their own business.
That is why they are where they are.
And, of course. Mr.; Taxpayer does
know all about fire department busi
ness, and that Is why he is where he
tractors look at it. They don't care
whether the men go hungry or not, as
th more hungry they get the cheaper
they will work until they get the
wrinkles out, but then there Is always
a new batch to take their places.
But as there Is no work, they come
and stop her a day or so, and then
leave, and th most of them carry the
wrinkles away with them. . 8o I would
advise all men that are looking for
work to stay away from here, for a
few weeks at least.
FRED G. BURKE.
Th early widow doesn't
catch th eligible son.
always
Memorial Day.
By J. A. Andersen.
Garland not with laurel, nor with bay,
Not with yew, nor cypress as of olden;
Rather bring th offspring of the
May
Blossoms red, and white, and blu, and
golden.
Bring a wreath for every hero brave;
Let our soldiers know they're not for
gotten; On this day when silent walks are
trodden,
Plant a statry flag on every grave.
Never mor shall roar of cannon's
mouth.
Nor shall musket rattling break their
slumber;
There's no more a north, no more a
south.
Blue and gray are one In rank and
mamber.
May no sound of discord ever rend
the air;
May the sod in pe"ace grow green above
them;
May their country ever honor, love
them.
And with blossoms keep their memory
fair.
Garland not with laurel, nor With bay,
Not with yew, nor cypress as of olden;
Rather bring the offspring of the
May
Blossoms red, and white, and blue, and
golden.
Memory's muse through gentler eyes
now sees;
Now she lifts the branches of th
willow.
Lays for blue and gray a floral pillow,
bmiles through tears, and bids them
sleep in peace.
Tillamook, Or., May 20. 1914.
Occasionally a girl knowiSaWly mar
ries th wrong man rather than ru
. the risk of not getting married at alL
The Ragtime Muse
Consider the Cow.
All hail the cow, the wondrous cowl
Hang chaplets on her placid brow
Ana in her presence humbly bow,
She is a wonder. "lurLiy'
She gives the milk so coldly blu.
The butter of the orange hue.
h gives th black anJ rueset shoe.
She lives uprightly, purely!
From her we get the buttons white.
And blaTc and red and dull and bright.
And vellow cheeses that delight,
I'pnolsterinKs brown and glossy;
And many Jellies, rainbow dyed.
And many othe things beside;
Her usefulness Is deep and wiJ'j
As. erat)le is bossy!
An artist she. I know It must
Inspire her with deep disgust ""i
To be th basis of a trust 1
And put her out of humor.
T know that left to hr device.
She would not raise a single prlc
But would be ever kind and nice
To' the meek eyed consumer!
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