8' THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND," FRIDAY EVENING. ' JUNE 12, 1914. THE JOURNAL C JACKSON .n1lthe ru4)lhr4 rrrrf tiiIok teseept Sunday and rvsry Sunday tmwnlns at Tb Journal Bolld . Bm4ir and YamttH Portland. Or. , Kstarad at tbe rwmee at Portland. Or., for traasmtitaloa tbroufb tb uvills as second laaa scatter. M.H'U.hS Mais 1173; Boi . A-u3l. All " depsrtutanW rrirhad by visas Dumber. Tall tbe operator what dpsrtiest yos wot. VHfctUN aDVKKTISI.NU KtPKKK TATl V K mjatnln Ac Keifoor Co.. BrnrMwicfc Bide, - KA r-lftb A.. N York: 1J1S Pole BM.. Chicago. abarrlBTtoa urnia by nail o- to any ad Srsss la ta United Stat or fctxlco: DAILY Ous w..,.:.w t One month. I .50 ... invn aw 'One year,, I2.5& I Ona mortb. ......$ -25 DAILY AMI SUNDAY . w M (i-nv I un DOOU ." When . You Go Away ;: Hare The Journal sent to vour Summer address. Every rose i an autograph from the hand of God on this world about as. He has In scribed his thoughts tn these marvelous hieroglyphics which . sense and science have, these many thousand years, been seeking tov understand. Theo dore. Parker. ' 6 Till ROSEBUDS. I NEVER seed nothing that couia nor can Jest H all the good irom me heart of a man tJV th hands of a little child. John Hay. Nothing in the Rose Festival or In any festival ever surpasses in Rosebud Wade. No military pa geant with all its reflection of power bo stirs the emotions as did tbe thousands ot nine uuiuu buds in their childhood innocence as ' they moved and drilled and marched in yesterday's pageant. No crowds j of people could feel '. more .deeply the sense of ; pent emotion or be more completely lost in a sacred admiration of living beauty than were the tens of thou sands who looked on at yesterday's march of the children. The sight recalled the message of Him whose thought was Never shalt thou the heavens Save as a little child thou be. see, A HOPEFUL SIGN. T HE day of the battleship is about over, says Admiral Sir Percy Scott, a foremost Brit ish naval authority. The mon ster dreadnought that floats on the surface of the ocean must give way ' to the small submarine that swims under the water. "' Airships, aeroplanes and subma rines will constitute the fighting fleets of the future, in his opin ion, 'and he even goes so far as to say thattbe- English government js wasting money if it devotes an other penny to battleship construc tion. t Wlth the opinion of Sir Percy as a precedent it is probable that lesser lights in naval warfare will now , come forward and express themselves without fear of being considered disloyal to the theories of their- pro'feBslon There must' be a limit placed soon upon the size and cost of bat tleships and big guns. The two battleship lately provided for by congress are to cost no less than fourteen million dollars each. The Mississippi and Idaho, built six years ago at a cost of six million dollars each! are now so anti quated, according to the navy de partment, as to be unfit for , the first line of battle and they' are to be sold If a buyer can be found. tf th price of battleships has more than doubled in the past six years, what will it be six years hence? - .-, , ; A - It is a hopeful sign - when naval experts begin to raise doubts as to the- efficiency of dreadnoughts. It will hasten the passing of a sur vival of primitive ages and bring quicker relief to tho overburdened taxpayer.' PH1M1T1NK HOME RtTIE "P. EPRBSENTATlVe JONES, 1 v chairman of the committee on insular affairs, has prepared a bill looking toward home rule for the Philippines. It is said 1 to be an administration measure. ; President Wilson's second step to ; ward fulfillment of the pledge that the Filipinos will ultimately have . Independence. : The bill provides for a Filipino ! senate and house of representa Uves, to be elected by the natives, but over whose acts the American . governor general will have a power I of veto. The United States also re- tains, in full, treaty and tariff , making functions. If the measure ; becomes a law, local self-govern' j ment will be. virtually complete. , Washington dispatches are evl - dsnce that the Wilson administra . tion is moving cautiously. The 1 Jones bill sets no date for the be ; ginning of complete native sover efgnty in the islands. The Filip- - lnos are to be put upon att indefi nlte period of probation," during . which they are to be given every facility and encouragement to dem ; onstrate their capacity for self ' government. - i It is probable that another hue ' and enr" will be raised against this measure, just as there was strong 1 protest when President Wilson ; gave the natives a majority on the i Insular commission.;.' But capacity for sell government can be devel oped only . through experience, and the Jones bill proposes to give the v natives opportunity ' for acquiring the ability to govern, themselves. They must have - that opportunity unless the United States proposes to hold the islands as dependen cies Indefinitely. THE GREAT CONFLICT. T HERE is a new tyranny of the many over the few. Such was the declaration of a speaker yesterday at the New York state Bankers' Conven tion. He says there are too many faker-guided mobs, and too many demagogues marching through this sham-ridden land emitting cries "he has more money than you." It is the voice of reaction. It is the; warwhoop of the standpatter, it is the protest of bourbonism against the progressive legislation of the Wilson administration. Penrose rode into a new nomi nation on it in. Pennsylvania. For aker is preaching t In Ohio. Can non is giving vent to it in Illi nois. Standpat leaders are clamor ing along the same line in Oregon. There is no way to disguise the facts. There is a wider gulf be tween opposing schools of thought in j this country. It is unbridg eable. It is a yawning gulf of abysmal depths. On one side is standpatlsm. Its purpose Is reflected In the utter ance of this man who says there is a new tyranny of the many over the few in this country. It is an tagonistic to the wave of insur gency that grew up in the Repub lican party. It hates the radical ism of the Progressive party. It is bitterly opposed to the progress- iveism of Woodrow Wilson's ad ministration. It despises what it calls the tyranny of the many over the few. It wants the few, as for merly, to go on governing the many. On the other side of this deep and wide gulf are the honest masses. They are the plain folk. They are the yeomanry of the na tion. They are the workers, the men and women who toil and spin They want equal privileges before the law. They oppose special fa vors by the government for the few. Woodrow Wilson's administra tion has given them an Income tax. It :1s a tax which the standpat crowd calls the "new tryanny of the many over the few.' The present administration has passed a tariff which untaxes the shelter, food and clothing of the masses, and takes away the special favors of government which the Tew long enjoyed. It is legisla tion denounced by the standpat regime as "the nw tyranny of the many over the few." The administration passed a cur rency bill which takes control of money and credit out of Wall street and gives it to the people. It is denounced as the "new tyr anny of the many over the few." -The administration . Is pushing bills to restrain trusts from plun dering the people, a bill to pre vent railroads from issuing wat ered stock, a bill to send trust magnates convicted of lawlessness to the penitentiary. These bills are also the "new tyranny of the many over the few." There is no way to misunder stand the issue. Standpatlsm is one thing and progressiveism Is another. They are Irreconcilable. The disputes between them is the one great overshadowing conflict in this nation. THE LJTTJ,E THINGS T HE Biblical injunction to the sluggard to consider the ant and her ways and be wise has been paraphrased by- Thomas A. Edison to read "Oo to the bee and learn to fly. Catching a bee one day In his garden, Edison was impressed with the rapid beating of its wings in Its effort to gain freedom. Making a calculataion he found that the bee can raise 7000 times nis own weignt by wing beats num-! bering more than 200 to a minute. This gave him an .idea towards the simplification of the flying machine. . He is now planning an electric battery of extreme lightness which will enable the wings of a machine to beat with incredible velocity. It Is from these little things that our utilization of the great forces of nature has come. Firrintv followed the flying of a kite, the locomotive emerged from tti kitchen kettle and the law of grav ity was evolved from the falline of an apple. The ordinary mind pays no at tention to . the apparently trivial things of daily life but the seeing eye and the thinking brain deducts from them great general laws. The successful man or woman is the one with capacity for observing and applying the little things around and about. THE CHALLENGER r F SIR THOMAS LIPTON does not carry away "America's Cup" this year it will not be because ne nas railed to build a good challenger. Yachting experts pronounce the Shamrock IV the hest racing yacht yet turned out In Great Britain. 4 With good luck she should give tne American defender a tussle for sailing honors. , In her preliminary try-onts she has shown ability to carry sail in good hard streaks of wind. In spite, of her tremendous rig she has much surplus power. It" Is thought her best hold will be In a ; breeze of ten knots or better with smooth water. The yacht's rig- Is very simple, Her deck. Is' a long, clear platform having no unnecessary structures. A tiny steering wheel in the little cockpit allows her skipper to con trol the vessel with ease as the position gives him a full view. In very light winds, it Is pre dicted ; that the - challenger will not be lively enough, to save her allowance. She will not shine as a drifter. May the forecast of the experts be realized in a worthy race for the cup, for Sir Thomas, In the par lance of the hour, is a "dead game sport." - RESISTING THE CHANGE S TRONG r competition is to be offered the workmen's com pensation system in Oregon by casualty companies. Naturally. In 1912 there -went out of Oregon' for casualty insur ance the j great sum of 1683,141.72. The figures are from the report of the state insurance -commissioner, j For the same year, the casualty companies paid back In Iobsos only $414,228.23. There was left to the companies a balance of Oregon money of $268,814.49. It went as commissions to agents," big salar ies for officials and profits to stock holders. ; Of the $414,226.23, an estima ted more than one-half went to lawyers as fees and in payment of the costs of litigation. That is to eay, the casualty companies and lawyers got over $475,000 of the money sent out of Oregon as pre miums - on casualty insurance in 1912. It was a rich prize. The system meant glittering profits and easy money. ! The companies and the lawyers got more than double the sum that the injured and maimed and slain workers got, In spite of the fact that it was on the injuries and death of the workers that the traffic was based. It was a thrifty business that the companies natu rally regret to lose. wnen, inererore, tnere is pre sented a simple system in which workmen's compensation becomes an issue solely between the state, the employer and the employe, when it is so planned that settle ment for injuries shall be carried on without the intervention of cas u a 1 1 y companies, lawyers and courts. It is natural that there should he resistance to the change. But the new plan is the better. There is no way to repeal the facts The immense profits casualty com panies and lawyers got out of the old system were masterly in econ omy and unforgiveable waste. A COMING PROBUSM S PEAKING of the immigration to come to Oregon when the Panama eanal routes are in full operation. Dr. C. J. Smith. Democratic candidate for governor, said at Grants Pass: What are we to do with these people? What are we to do for them? We must tpanh th,m ftur K -... m j find them good schools, prepare them ror their part in our civiliration by giving them useful vocational train ing. We must provide them with church facilities, give them moral tone, inspire in them civic righteous ness and above ail, teach them the love of country and duties of citizen ship. The " inauguration of the new trade routes will bring new respon sibilities upon Oregon. To the questions of "what are we to do With these people, and what are we to do for them," there is no saner answer than that given by Dr. Smith. His emphasis of the common school as one great step in the problem is irrefutable doctrine. It comes from the fact that Dr. Smith has been, throughout his career, a devoted exponent of the common 6chools as the great factor in hu manizing mankind. His professional work brought him into intimate contact with all kinds of homes. By the firesides of those he professionally visited. he learned to know the innnr Hf of the race The needs of children and the hopes of men were laid bare In the family secrets. The confidences and" inner purposes of homes were given into his keeping. The neces sities, failures and the discourage ments of the human derelicts and the disappointments, and mistakes of the more fortunate were laid at hia feet. They are experiences that have given him the compelling knowl edge of the Important part com mon school training plays in the affairs of men, and that make him always and everywhere a pleader for adequate school facilities for the immigrant's child, the stranger's child and the poor man's child. "WHEN IT IS WORK' D R. CHARLES P. STEINMETZ, the electrical expert wast asked one dnv whnt W eita 1th Bible controversy was opened ex aSKea one flay What he di9- terisively by Mr. Speelmon, to which liked most jus answer, was "Work. He went on to say, however, that while he spent eighteeh hours in his laboratory every day, he gave only one hour to work. The re maining seventeen hours were only play. For seventeen hours' he did what he wanted to do and for one hour did that which was irksome. In this there is a soun'd philoso phy. It consists in finding the oc cupation which will give full, and free self expression. Tne work in doing that which you want to do Is only play. It is only work when you are "trying to put a right hand foot into a left hand shoe." It cost Senator Boies Penrose $14,640 In his recent contest fnr nomination by the Republicans of Pennsylvania. The principal item 1 $7191, was for advertising and printing. One would think he. Otierht 'Tinr tiava naado mnf ll arl.i vertisement. Anyhow, he probably got off cheaper than he did before i the days of the direct primary. One of the most nleasant fea-1 a tures of the Rose Festival is the center at Sixth and Yamhill streets. Here has been made a beautiful garden of roses and otherflowers - i r under a .canopy of festoons of evergreens. Different sections of the city have on competitive ex hibition their rarest plants. It Is a delight to the eye and an Inspira tion to the soul. The Benson McNary see-saw Is again in motion and today Benson ib uigu. j. uuiui iu w it. may ne o McNary. The discovery of an error In the Multnomah county figures leads to yie reflection -that some man in tne past may have served in office though not elected. After all is said and done, the human rosebud is the fairest rose bud of all. Letters From the People (Commnnlcattona unt Tho Jnnrnll for publication In thl department should be writ ten on only one elde of the paper, ahoold . not exceed SOU words in lonirth mil mnmt tm ac companied by the name and address of the sender. If the writer doea not dealre to hare the name published, he should so state.) i "Discussion is the teres test of all reform ers. It rationalizes everything it touches. It robs principles of all falae sanctltr and throws them back o their reasonableneaa. If they hare no reasonableness, it ruthlessly crushes them out of existence and sets ud its own conclusions la their stead." Weodrow W uaon. The American Woman. Portland, Or., June 12. To the Edi tor of The Journal An article ap peared In a recent Issue of The Journal in which Max Nordau. the , famous sociologist. Is credited with making some very disparaging criticisms of American women. What a pity that the class of American women who go abroad should make such an Impres sion upon the scholars of Europe, com pelling them to say with regard to them that they are "known chiefly by the fact that they buy clothes and pay for them, and that their qualities of mind create about them no atmos phere of culture, which attracts within its circle men who think." If this criticism is Just, It were bet ter for this privileged class to stay at home and cultivate its brains, mean while using its money to sen& over to the old world a few of the really repre sentative women of the country, the women whose work deals with the fun damental structure of American soci etf. And these are found in the great middle class, who axe tolling and build ing quietly In the public schools, the Sunday schools and churches, the bus! ness houses, the literary clubs, the public welfare associations and the homes of the nation. Among this class are thousands of women who think for themselves and record the product of their thought In the trend of a social progress that ls world wide; and these women stand forever In opposition to the frivolities, the vulgarities and the reckless habits of a multitude of their sex, who thus misrepresent them in Europe and are known only by their wardrobes, their personal beauty and their lack or true culture. A TRAVELER. Remarks on Dry Salem. Salem, Or., June 11- To the Editor of The Journal Following the usual logic of the antis, why would not those "Fof Sale" signs In Portland be an argument against the saloons? Port land has so many of these Institutions that almost any general condition might be attributed' to them. I am sure if Portland were under prohibi tion and these conditions prevailed we should hear a general "calamity" cry. As( for Salem, we have here a few "For Sale" signs, but this is more than overbalanced by the building that is going on. I live in one of the out lying districts and never, since I cam a here, in March, has the sound of the hammer stopped in this district. There are nine new houses within a few blocks not shacks, but good, modern homes. If prohibition has cost Salem anything In dollars nd cents, It is worth It. When did we ever get some thing worth while for nothing? Our street lights and our paving are cost ly, but we would not go back to old conditions. How is prohibition Enforced T Just as well as any other law. We are not asking for the militia Just yet, aa we might If we had the saloons. Our po lice matron says conditions are very much better; that where she used often to pick up drunken girls, she does so no longer. There is not bo much prostitution. This ls the same police matron whom the saloon ele ment tried bo hard to get rid of a year ago. Some do send to Portland for their drinks, but not all. Many have found that, with the saloons removed, they can get along very well. 1 should not wonder If the grocers even Bold more coffee than before. 1 will close with the following quo tation from the Bible: "Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king ls a son of nobles ' and thy princes eat for strength and not for drunkenness. It ls not for kings. O Lemuel, it Is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes, strong drink; lest they drink and foraret the law, and pervert the ana pervert me Justice due to any that Is afflicted.' MRS. M. A. COOPER, The Bible Factor. Portland, June 12. To the Editor of The Journal rO. E. Frank complains because the opponents of Prohibition quote the scriptures and accuses them of "going through the Bible in searh of passages they can apply in defense of . the liquor traffic.:' . . If. he follows ' the letters n Tne Journal, he knows Mr. Qoldapp has partially replied and has shown that Mr. Speelmon's cita tions eoutd not be twisted into coni rnands favorable either to teetotallsm or to .Prohibition, J .The attempt was first made by the Prohibitionists to show that the Bible was favorable to their cause. ' The Opponents of Prohi bition, using their own texts, have shown that nothing In the Bible can be construed as commanding total absti nence or favoring the doctrine of Pro hibition. Unable to put up any defense to back "their original attempt to put the Bible o the side of Prohibition that would appeal, to any thinking per son, they now proceed to accuse their opponents or using the Bible In defense of what they are pleased to call "a criminal business," ignoring the fact that the opponents of Prohibition have only refuted their claims. . If Mr. Frank can take the Bible and show that it forbids the drinking of wine or strong drink, then he may have a right to. use the expression "a or ini tial business," but until he can show that lt Is either a tsln or a crime to A FEW SMILES " .tr r fnl .Thrrh a tuckv strike, set op a country noma Dear -xjenver, wnere i she lived in style. One day, while she was! snowing some or neriunui sne can arxora it. old time friends about the place, they came to the poultry yard. "W hat beautiful chickens!" the visi- "All prise fowl." the hostess. , haughtily explained Do they lay every day?" was the next question. i Oh, they could, of course, but In I our position it Is not necessary foj tnem to do so.' An admiring constituent gave Con gressman LfCarfl of Smith Parolln I 01 inose vest pocKet eaitvon nui- putian Mexican dogs to take home to the children. Ler ' gare pronounced. ', Leg-ree by the way was leading , the dog along by a cotton string ; when a Houth Caro ollna mountaineer stopped him. "Are it a regular dog?" the roan I asked. "Yes, it's a Ch Well, I can't pro nounce the name of it." said Legare, "but it's some kind of a Mexican do." "Just a pup," I reckon?" : "No,- it s full grown. "Well," opined the mountaineer, "that's the least dog I ever een at one time." "He ls the most tender hearted man I ever saw." "Kind to animals V "I should say so sisted on sleeping In the coal bin he Im mediately ordered a ton of soft coal." drink liquor, neither he nor anyone else has a right to say that Its manufac ture or sale ls "a criminal business." for if It is not a sin or crime to take a drink It certainly cannot be a sin or crime to sell a drink. I T. BEXEN. Owners of Dogs Aroused. Forest Grove, Or., June 11. To the Editor of The Journal One month ago the council of this city passed an ordi nance prohibiting owners from permit- ting dog. to be at large except on a leash, and making the owners chain dogs in their yards. curing tne past momn many oogs have been caught and killed, as many i n wJ 'u- ?2Y'f7Xrr JLf i the family cat lu-lh, owners could not afford to chain their whether lt ha declined or not; In pets, as the council voted to make the wnat way( lt ftas cnanged; whether it fine from $5 to $50. ia of any real effect in "mouldis pub- Several dog owners started a petition He opinion; these questions are de asking the council to annul the ordl- bated without arriving at any clear nance and put a muzzling ordinance result. Granting that the press doea in its place, for the summer months not always initiate, it has at least a only. Tuesday 'night this ordinance wonderful function in passing on the was submitted to the council, with over ideas and aspirations which find lodg 200 names, and was laid on the table ment In the minds of the men and wo in the least possible time. The dog men about lt. This fact was noted as owners are conferring on what to do far back as De Tocqueville. who said r.ext. The legality of the ordinance of the American newt-papers of his may be tested. day: "When many organs of the press Boycotting the business men on the adopt the same line of conduct, their council has been proposed, and the 1 influence. In the long run. Becomes ir recall has been discussed. I resistible; and public opinion, power The dog owners also find lt neces sary to go after the inhuman way In which dogs that are caught are treated and disposed of. Many of the women who own dogs have sworn that they will igladly take the two ys in jail rather than pay the fine of to $50 C. F. RICHARDSON. Appeals to the Law of Love. Portland. June 12. To the Kditor of The Journal 1 seriously doubt If speech, let me say that Mr. Williams anyone, except possibly the heir to ought to know whereof he speaks. In the habit, ever took a glass of liquor 1886 he became a member of the old without boasting. In "his own mind at banking firm of John L. Williams A least, of the power to "take lt or leave Sons of Richmond, Va. He organized it alone." Some have succeeded In the Seaboard Air Line railway, and maintaining the habit of "moderate" was president of the Bank of Rich drinking, only to leave to their chil- mond, as well as of the Georgia and dren the heritage of a thirst for booze Fiorina Roadway, beside, he has had arid, a drunken end to their miserable share In the direction -of various existence. Others have fallen as vie- imis or me naDii aiong wim ineir cnii- dren, while still others have died in their debauchery before someone was unfortunate enough to become the de scendant of a drunkard. Granted that the Bible is technically silent on Prohibition or other current issues, every man from Cain to the present moment Is constituted his "brother's keeper," and the law of love, which is the law of the Bible, demands that he shall remove from him such aids to self destruction as Is the liquor traffic. Suppose It has remained for the present generation to perform this Job; it ls not. to the credit of the pre ceding geueratioiis that they did not do lt. There is no excuse for Its ex istence; so why tolerate It! - . R. M. BPEELMON. Not Suffering, Thank You. From the Weston Leader. We have no "hard times" at Wes - ton. psychological or otherwise. The community moves along serenely, well knowlne- that It will continue to be elotherl nnfl fWl rAirnrrllesa nf th metaphorical wolves that howl In the city slums. This ls one distinct advantage of country life. While the brilliance snd gaiety of the metropolis are not for us. neither is its gaunt destitution. We know of no household In the' Weston community where there is any un- certainty as te whether another meal will be set ujoon-the table. Growls llke the following rrom the Sunday i nrnnlArk nnni', nn tnAonln. tKo "Tne workman who ' can get no work; the merchant who can sell no goods; the farmer who can eke out el bare living, or even less, ' from the products of the soil and of his own hard toil; the professional man who cannot collect his bills; the proprietor who finds his rents cut In two; all these will find it difficult to believe that the empty dinner pall and the empty pocketbook are purely psychol ogical assumptions." Our farmers have practically every thing they want including automo biles. They do not depend upon po litical conditions for a livelihood, but upon their broad acres and the tatter never .fall. Our merchants and pro fessional men are making no com plaints. In fact, some of Weston's leading establishments are doing a re markable volume of business. Another bumper crop will soon be ripening un der a summer sun, and stream gold will flow into local circulation, i Times may be hard elsewhere. But they will not be made any easier by the mournful tones Of -the Republican organs, some of which would doubt- less prefer a panto to another Demo- cratia victory. . However, the Oregonlan Is not hope- lessly pessimistic. It cheers up in a later Issue. Its editorial stafT having possibly recovered from a fit of indl- gestlon. . Weare glad to peruse such cheerful remarks as the following, and to know that the Joys are chasing the Glooms from out of the Tall Tower: "There is every prospect that next PERTINENT COMMENT SiLlLL CHANGE Good Judgment usually shows un thj aay alter. A woman should never get married A rich father Is o'ten a young man's excuse for being worthless. We feej sorry for the average man who gets what be deserves. If & man amounts to anything, he doesn't have to boast of his ancestors. Economy is the name of a Pennsyl vania town but it is not a summer re sort. If a man expects to convince his wife that he is,a genius, he must get hllKV rilirlnv th nnurtahin Many a woman has got her husband Into a bad scrape by using his razor to sharpen a lead pencil. Whenever a widow and a widower begin to discuss matrimony. the chances are that the argument will re sult in a tie. It sometimes happens that a woman marries a man to reform, him If she ls unable to get a man who doesn't na rciurnung. JACOB RIIS, From New York Evening Post In most of the obituary and appre ciative articles about the late Jacob Riis, his long connection with news paper work is given but slight men tion. 'We are. told of his books, filled with a fine humanity ' and inspiring nationl sentiment as they are; we are reminded of his wide activity as a lec- tuw and organizer; but the fact that r , ,,. slurred over. Tet it was his work in that capacity which not only meant to him bread and butter, but gave him his first insight into those human needs, and those civic and social wrongs, upon which he was so fruit- fully to spend his life's energy. More over, it was as a writer for a dally newspaper that' he first got the ear of the public: and by means of faith ful and moving accounts of the things which he Baw in slums and tenements that he aroused sympathy and won aid In the movements in which his large and warm heart was enlisted. Mr. Riis' life thus suggests an as pect of the Influence of the press, and andon7,t worte'r. In 'the Held of newspaper reporting, which Is seldom dwelt upon, but which ls well worth considering. There are endless dis ..,,. .Knnt th nnwer of the nress.' A PICTURE OF By John M. Osklson. tt tne bankers of North Carolina John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the currency, made a speech recently. It was devoted largely to the picturing of New York as the country's citadel of the money power." Before quoting anything from nis nther railways, banks and trust com- I nanles Well Mr. Williams said or New York: "It Is the walled city from which the barons have levied tribute on a territory and population vaster than any lord or king of the middle sge dreamed of. yt sometimes using methods ruthless and savage as those of the fiercest of the robber nobles." He illustrated his meaning by polnt- fall nature with her abundant crops will set the ball of business rolling. When she does, everybody will give it nush. Then the difficulty win De. not to keep It rolling, but to prevent It from rolling too fast" Uprising Against Pastorira. From Reedy s Mirror. The Houston system of taxation, In- 1 ...mrated bT Tax Commissioner Pas tor, under whJoh land ls assessed , - ... lu. tmorovements r - --- j- -;- . - , I J5 Per Cent and no account taken of household furniture. Jewels, paintings, pianos and money on deposit, has aroused a few land speculators. These have formed an organization of some I6 or 30 members, who are giving an exhibition of that old moving picture lne tajj wagging the dog. Despite the opposition of the. few BpeCUators. more than 10.000 Houston taxpayers have signed their 114 a- mont at an increased value on their land, and have thus expressed themselves as satisfied that their land ls valued at a fair price, their Im provements 8MK only 25 rents on the dollar, while their household furni ture and cash in bank are exempt from tax. And the Houston tax rate Is ll.sr.. Thus, the rebellion against "Pas torlza taxation." as the Houston spec ulators call It, Is not likely to call for interference by the Texas militia. Houston is a better city In which to live and do business than It was when men were taxed heavily for making improvements. tVial for Tour Thousand Years. A. T. Shurick. in Engineering. The- I'nite'd States geological survey is authority for the statement that Our rlglnal -onl reserve contained over S07 billion Short tons 20ou pounds of coal, about one-third of which Is nfleff doubtful value, due either to the character or the seems or to their I a-reat denth from the surface. To the first of the current yar it is estl- mated that the gross extraction has trifle less than three billion tons. The United Htetes ls now producing coal at the rate of half a billion tons per annum, having rirst crossed that figure in 1910; although the output for the year following failed to reach this record by some four million tons, th return for ISIS showed that we have passed it so completely that nothing but severest depression will ever cause the production to fall below It again. The most significant. In fart AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHT Lane county's health officer report 40 births in the county In May, and 11 deaths. The Corvallis library which opened May 28. the Oasette Times an nounces, has about 1200 books avail able. Work Is now In progress on Klamath Falls" new city hall, which is to cost 136.600 and is to bo completed by Jan nary 1. next. Hood River's council has Invested in a road oiling machine, believing a large saving can thus be mads as compared with the same work under the contract system. The. Kucrene Register observes that thousrh the weather man seems to be hankering for a little more winter, even at that, heavy underwear ls pref- I erable to cyclones. Salem Statesman: The Salem Cher rians deserve a daily vote of thanks from the people or tne capnat city Here are a lot of fine young fellows largely leading business men, who are continually giving up tneir time ror the good of the whole city; not that alone, but each one spending a good deal of money, for uniforms, traveling expenses, etc. Every Salem roan who ls not a Cherrlan himself should make it a point to personally thank every Cherrlan he meets for being so un- selish ana public spirited. REPORTER fully assailed from the same side, eventually yields to the attack." The point ls as seen In the case of men like Jacob Riis, that this kind of newspaper iteration along moral lines, and in matters of social reform. Insen sibly produces a great effect. And the opening thus given to a man anxious to put the Tacts before his fellows, and to win their aid in bettering conditions that haunt him In hia sleep, ls. obvi ously most attractive. It ls easily conceivable that the unknown reporter. day by day getting before the readers of his paper the remediable Ills of the "other half." may quietly accomplish more for his kind than all the edito rial writing that can be done. We do not know whether Mr. Riis In his later years thought of himself as a newspaper man. He had so many out side calls upon his pen and his time that lt would 4spt be strange If he felt himself drawn apart from active Jour nalism, even before his health began to fail. But lt Is certain that he would have agreed with anybody who magni fied the office of a reporter, as he him self had exemplified Its possibilities. He would not have kicked down the ladder by which he rose. There are many other newspaper workers today who labor In his spirit. They welcome the chance which the columns of the press give tnem to disseminate tne facts, as appeallngly a they can. In regard to persistent wrongs. Industrial or social, and to bring about a com mon sentiment in favor of reform by law. Jacob Riis was, of course, an ex ceptional man. A vigorous mind went with his kind heart. He bad great In dustry, marked tenacity, and a pen that could strongly express what he strongly felt. But he was, after all. a newspaper reporter; and his career shows what may be made of a calling often held up to ridicule, on the stage and In novels, often caused to appear unworthy and dishonorable, but really capable of honest and telling work for a man's day and generation. NEW YORK lng out that most of the railways of the south are controlled by New York. Through this control the vast collec tions of the roads from the shippers and oassensrers are sent to the great city and "when North Carolina needs money to move his cotton crop her banks must call on New York for money which should be In their vaults" 1 All over the country similar com- plaint arises. iS'early all the Insurance business ls centered in New York; more railway mileage is controlled bv " ' ' 7 . r ... .i N k.7 JJT.J ror. control combined; more and I more t""' Of the pub le Utility mni; (through holding comranies) Is lng from lal groups of capital the New York bank controlled groups. Mr. Williams sees in the new bank- lng law. which establishes 12 reserve banking centers, the beginning of movement to free the country from the grip of the New York money be- rons. If their powar has" been so great and so ruthlessly exerted as he nay and Mr. Williams ought to know the average man win do giaa to bus It broken. almost alarming, feature about our production statistics ls the enormous rapidity at which the output is In creasing. Based on the production a half a ceatury ago. the coal tonnage las doubled each decade, up to and Including 1910. The Ragtime Muse Inspiration. When Mary Jane refused him Young Harry went to war ; With courage lt Infused him For deeds mild men abhor. So he bui-ame a hero; The reason thus is plain: In patriotism, sero. He would "show Mary Janet" He wan a mollycoddle: He knew she knew that same. And so he strove to toddle lp lofty heights of fame. He did not care for glory. He did not care for gain. He braved the battle gory Just to "show Mary 'Jane. So when men of achievement Tell why they are worth walla, I think of one bereavement And smile a knowing smile. The truth they are denying, Itut they deny In vain; I know they have been trying To "show" some Mary Jsee! Peace Without Honor. From the Louisville Times. Merit O'Nall says that while diplo mats are exercising, their "good of fices" In the Mexican Imbroglio, while the department of state la pondering as tot whether it is to be peace of war, while the debating society and the pul pit and the corner grocery are offer ing advice, Uncle Epb. for 'many years doorkeeper at the Louisville r hotel, comes forward with a suggestion of ai way out- wun nonor ana without war. T'mla'Eph was a bit puxsled a few days ato. He sought Information from "de boss." "Kunnel," he began, "what's all dls talk 'bout wahT Is we gwine to hab a wah? Home of dese here bellboys been guying me shout de wan, but I don't believe dem." The colonef replied: "Yes. Uncle Eph, It looks like we are going to have war with Mexico." "What fer. Kunnel T' "Wen, Uncle Eph. they have In sulted our flag." "Is dat all?" "Yes, that's all. but -"Well. Kunnel. why don't w erlt an nudder flag?" IN EARLIER DAYS 17 Fred Lockley. Mrs. j. w. Munson of Warrenton, near Astoria, Is a survivor of the Whitman massacre. Recently we eat in her sitting room, and while the rain ' pattered on the roof she told me of her girlhood days in Clatsop county. "My maiden name was Sarah Sophia Kimball." said Mrs. Munson. "X was born ia La, Porte county, Indiana, on March 25. 1841, My father was a New Torker, while my mother was born In Vermont' Tbey , went from Vermont to Michigan and from there to In diana. 7 In those days there was a great deal of malaria In Indiana on ac count of the stagnant water. Later they drained the swamps; and now It Is a fine corn district, and there Is but . little sickness. Mother used to be glv- ' lng calomel or quinine to the children, and taking It heJelf. a good part of ' the time. Father used to say the -reason the hogs didn't get -fat In that county was because they shook all their fat off. They ud to stand around and shake with the chills. just like people. "My parents finally derided to ro to a country where It wouldn't take all they could make to pay for quinine and calomel; so father sold the farm " for $1500. and we started for Oregon. We had two wagons and three yoke of ? oxer to each wagon. My two brothers roue on horseback and drove the cows. A week after starting one of our cows naa a cair. We carried It In the back of the wagon for awhile. We had fresh milk and fresh butter, as well aa buttermilk, all the way across the plains. Mother had an old style dash churn, which she'f avtened In the back end of the wagon. She would pour the milk in before we started in Hie morn ing, and that evening when we made camp we would have fresh butter. "There were seven of us children when we started. My oldest brother. Owen, was 14 years old. He drove one -of the teams. He swam the Snake river with the loose stock and stood around in his wet clothes. He died a few days later. Mother and Nathan, my younger brother, took turns drlv- lng his wagon after his death. Father dug a grave by th side of the road and; burled him. His coffin was a blanket. "My'slster Clarissa died on the Sweetwater. - We had passed lore of graves where the wolves had dug the graves open, and the bones were scat tered about. We had also seen graves that had been opened by the Indians to get the clothes worn by the dead. So to prevent the wolves or the In dians from disturbing my sister's' body, father dug a grave in the middle ! of the road and, In the absence of rocks, he put poles all over the body . to keep the wolves from scratching open the grave. He corralled the oxen . over the grave, so It would be all j tramped solid, and there would be no '" if?n earm to snow tne In dians the grave. "We stopped at Dr. Marcus Whit man's misMlon near Walla Walla. Dr. Whitman hired my father tn do some canientr and mill work; so ire de cided to spond the winter with them. A few days later, on Nov. 29. 1847. the Indians, made frantic by the fact thst so many of their children were dying from the measles and dysentery, and being- told bv Jor LpwIs. a half-breed, Indian, that Dr. Whitman was polaon lng them to get their land, the Indians killed most of the white people of the mission. My father was xhot through the arm. but he stayed hidden until I the evening of the following day. At dusk he aturled to crawl from. Mill 'Creek to the house where the survivois , of the massacre were gathered. Aa lie ' 'trawled over the fence an Indian saw ! him. phot at him, and my fattier fell j outside the f enee dead. Before ftsrtlnc on our ttlp father ; had fhanned the lltO he had retelved : for the farm, into $5 gold pieces. He I made three leather money belts. sn j put $500 in each belt. He. rny mother I "id my oldest slrter aeb wore one' of I these heltnw lille crossing the plains. j 1 burled the money when we ilded to stay with Pr. Whitman all winter. The Indians. ho h-.l heard ot our money, ram to mother and said they had fmind uo money on tlhf body, and demanded that she produce the money. She told them all J the money was on father when he was K1,,ed n(i tat some of the Indians haVB KMIjred It. They tried, w,, hut p,.rrB fo f,r1 w,1ch Indian ; ,1JU, v ook w)(h u- wnn w j wer rBt.u,d ani purchased from the Indians ly the Hudson Bay company, . XVe w,.,lt u. ,,1 to Oregon City, i jnn .tewett. a widower lth seven t r,Ulren. came ud from flatsop county ( to Oregon City to marry one of the j, lows of the Whitman massacre. He met my mother. She had five chil dren, the youngest. M.lna. being only three months old. Mr. Jewett and my mother ere married at once, and mother and us children came dowa to Clatsop county. My etep-father had some land near Seaside and (40 seres on Clatsop Plains. Jos I ah West bought the 640 acre farm after Mr. Jewett's death for $2500. or a little less than $4 an arre. Mr. West still lives on the old plarr. "On March IT. 1I5, Jut a week be fore my eighteenth birthday. I Was married to faptaln J. W. Munson St Oystervllle," Wash. Joel, my husband, was 40 years old st -that time. He Was bom on Christmas Pay, lilt. In New York state. lie owned and operated oyster beds on ' Phoalwater Bay for some yeais. tn 1SC5 he was appointed llshthouae keeper at the Cape Hancock light, .now called Fort Can by. We were there for 13 years. He rescued 23 persons from drowning white we were at Cape Hancock. He saved 11 of tho passengers and crew from the wreck of the bark W. B. Hcranton. For three years after he resigned as lighthouse keeper we lived at Astoria. In 1M0 he was appointed lighthouse keeper at the Point Adams light, where we stayed for the next 1 years. He resigned In October, 11ft. and the station was discontinued two months later. "I have lived near the mouth of the Columbia since IMS. over years-. It is wonderful the change thst has -occurred " Oregon. In Astoria and In shipping in that time." He Will Rfwlgn. Chicago Tribune. "If uaglii. didn't you tell me you were going to resign your Job as trav eling man for H pot cash Co. nxt JsnuaryT" "I think I did. Hnoodie. tut I've just had a confidential talk with the bo.s -himself and I find er I'm going to i r"n " MlurM'r- The Sunday Journal Th Great Horns Newspaper, consists of Five news sections replete wlttt Illustrated feature. Illustrated magazine of quality. Woman's section of lire merit, Pictorial news supplement. Superb comic section. " 5 Cents the. Copy