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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 15. 1914. 1 THE JOURNAL! AW IWPK7ENDEWT WKWSr'aPER C. B. JACKSON . , Pabllnhar I fubftaSea averr evenlsa laif-apt Saadayt as vary Sanoay verntnf at Tba Journal Build lac. Broadway and YaroLiU ta.. PortlaBd.Or. at ah n nf tlo. at fnrtJmad. Or., let I tranamlaaloo taroag tbe . mall aa aacond i etaaa latter. llCUCPUUS.KaM.la T17; Hov x. A-06l. All ! w aerator what apafJt roa waau UWfc,Mi ADYKUT114 tUffKIWKNlATIVS Bsnjaana Kaotimr Co.. Brunawltfi Bids.. 12 rifts- a.. New Ywkt 181 PaupM Uaa Bide CbteafB. .-,- ' - ' SitWerlucloa ti fey Mil r to any trc la tba Cultad state a ataxloai Oa tw. $t.no i oaa Month.. .so J hqvdax '"O: I One aaar 12 JM I On amUi.. DAILY AND SCNDAX Oaa Mar. .IT. 60 On aaootk.. When You Go Away Hare The Journal sent to your Summer address. -a Avoid suspicion. rVhen walk ing through your neighbor's melon patch do not even atoop to tie yourshoe. Selected. ANOTHER HIGH DIVE THE Oregonlan is ballooning. It thinks it had something in Sunday's paper that The Jour nal did not have. It boasts of its news about a peasant uprising in Italy. The Journal had the story with all the fullness of detail that was required. The Oregonlan boasts of Its. story about the Butte rioters. The Jour nal 1 had every essential fact that any reader desired. The Oregonlan boasts of its story about the finding of the Kansas City III, the third of the missing balloons. By the accident that Mr. Fawcett, sporting editor of the Oregonlan. was a passenger In the balloon, the Oregonlan got the first story. The landing was in the remote fastnesses of the Cascade mountains,, where Mr. Fawcett found It easy to "bottle the story In its second edition The "Journal carried the facts with a sufficiency of detail. The Oregonlan got the Kansas City III story at four o'clock in the! afternoon, and after closing all ravor. ,.orty-tnree nepuDiicans means of communication, it held and all the Progressives but one it back, notwithstanding the fact joined the Democrats on the Clay thaftbe public was in , great' sua-, ton bill, the most inclusive of the pense over the .possible fate of the three. ' -aeronauts. Instead of boasting of It would alsorbe Indicated from its part in the Kansas City III story, the Oregonlan ought to be apologizing for It The Oregonlan boasts that it carried the first authentic -view with Captain Berry tf the wrecked balloon. Million Popula tion Club. That is a deliberate misrepresentation. The Journal's Mr. Bristol in the presence of two ..witnesses, Interviewed Captain "Berry at Oregon City Saturday, and the story appeared on-traee one ot The Journal's first edition that ternoon, nearly ten hours ahead of the Oregonlan and all other Competitors. The Oregonlan does not boast of She public statement Issued by the :Non-Partisan League against free ' I text books. The Journal nubllahed -Jt as news Sunday morning and the 'Oregonlan nrlnterl It an n nnld art. Vertlsement on Monday. Nor has the Oregonlan ever Roasted of Its celebrated high dive J iory in wmcn it scored tne great-1 jest newspaper " "beat" in modern I times, by representing with great amplitude of detail that a Port- land fireman had leaped from Broadway bridge, seized a man ,who was struggling in the water, beat him into insensibility to keep the -drowning individual from dragging him down, and then towed his helpless victim to the nore, wnere he dragged him to safety and a further period of -sojourn in this mundane sphere. I Oh, cut out that htfro stuff; If only did my duty," the brave fire-1 .man was made to say, and the liext day the Oregonlan declared eaitoriauy mat the reBcuer was I entitled to a Carnegie medal. '-. Thtt OroS'nnfan 1A nil T.i1. J I n thrills and electrical shocks of I admiration over the great rescue ana u was not until The Journal boundaries of Scandinavia. Al xposed the story as a fake, the ready there is talk of an alliance high dive as a myth and the fire- man as bogus that the town was undeceived. PROMPTNESS DEMANDED H TV,. IHE three measures constltut-haw ing the administration's trust legislation are now before the uouuo tuak i,uq oeuaia Latifl nrnmni .11 SS OJ vnu up UIBDOSea ZZ ;,,C'.lus "' w progress. uo tuiu purpose oi tne bins on when he said Jn his message message on the. subject: What we are DroDosinsr t da oi. 9 naraper or interfere with bust nes or in any sense to put U under tne pan. me antagonism between business and government Is over.. We are now about to give expression to tne Desi Business judgment of Amerl a, te what we know to be the bus! ness conscience and honor of the land. ni fovernment and business men business methods with both public opinion and the law. , That the bills "give expression to the best business . Judgment" is iuuicawa oy mo majoriues tney re- ceived in the House. There were oniy tweive votes against tne Kail - roan securities bill with three hun- .dred and twenty-five in its favor, ana - oniy nrty-rour-votes against trying to stop the N UP-STATE newspaper Bars A "hard times." How? Did the tariff which has untaxed the food and cloth ing of the masses bring "hard times?" Did the refusal of the president to send an army Into Mexico a cost" of $300,000,000 . to. the American people, cause "hard at times?" - Did the passage . of the Chamberlain bill for opening Alaska and giving cheap coal to the people of times?" rDid the passage of" a banking ad-pcontrol of credit and money out of .people and which distributes money infe croP instead of keeping it in gamblers, cause "Hard times?" Does the administration bill which has passed the house for pre venting the trusts from controlling markets and fixing prices, or the bill which ; jails railroad magnates who water securities, or the bill which . send- to the penitentiary brigadiers of - industry who violate the laws cause "hard times?" Did the income tax, which makes swollen r wealth pay a . Just share of faxes,' instead of putting the ' main burden of government upon' the poor, cause 'hard times?" i Does the up-state paper, or any out standpat leaders, demand that President Wilson reverse his pol icy and reenact " the Payne-Aldrich tariff , restore control of money and credit to Wall street and repeal the income. tax? Speaking about "hard times,' ism, not real Republicanism, was Were those, good times? Then, employment in one great state, and were in the .bread lineand roaming soup houses and work. Was it- good .times then,, when when the banks, of the state had every day for months a banking holiday, and when depositors were forced to accept clearing house certificates instead of their money? Was lt good times when in that great nation-wide panic, real money was not to be had, and when all business was done with paper Issued! solely on faith in the crops and the stability of the banks. t - , The ''hard times" cry Is an attempt to discredit progressive legis lation in this nation. It Is an attempt to fool the Republican masses Into -becoming standpat masses. It Is a scheme to bourbon lze progressive Republicans. " - . I : rThe Wilsonadministration Is giving the country , what the Repub lican insurgents fought for. It is giving the country what demo cratic Democrats long demanded. It is translating Into' law the very measures that for years, the Republican masses and the Democratic masses have struggled for. . Keep your eye 6n the men and of those who by the "hard times" propaganda seek to have Presi dent Wilson stopped in his program of progressive legislation. the Clayton Omnibus Anti-Trust hill with two hundred and seventy- five supporting it. The Interstate Trade Commission bill passed with- out a vote being recoraea, so near- ly unanimous was the sentiment in this that the country wants speedy action by, the ' Senate. The sooner these bills' are made laws the bet' ter it will be for Industry and com- inter-Imerce and the people. WARLIKE EUROPE W Alt Is again raising its grim visaged front in Europe. Turkey and Greece are threatening to clash -over Ue Balkan provinces, lately won af-lDy ureece. Austrian military ex- Prt 8&y tnaf turkey lost tne last war because or mismanagement ana iacK OI ammunition ana sup- Ples. - Since tne war the army has been reorganized by Enver Bey and is nw said to be In a well fed Jill . 11 A 1.' 11 9 4. 1 A. t conmuon. it is preuiuiea mai viu- tory wiu Percb on tQe banners ot tne lum in me event oi anoiner war- Conditions in Albania are still unsettled. The government set up "f lue powera ia uunuie levy a tax on tne free mountaineer. Even tne Turkish government was un &ble to do this. It is probable that the powers will have to send n army but owing to their jeal- ousy of one another, it is difficult to determine wnicn one shall Bup- ply tne army. If either Italy or Austria would trust the other, or if Europe would trust either, these two na tlons could most easily attempt a military occupation of the country Again - if Austria should make the occupation, Montenegro and Servla would be aroused and if Italy should do It, Greece would be alarmed. In the north the Russian bear his lof Ills IilltamaMio. n , n and is looking towards the German land the Austrian frontiers and the between Norway, Sweden and Den mark for the purpose of checking his aggressions in their direction. " The bear haa called nn hlk oilv France, to increase her armv I strength by a three year service h,,t ninr t th. soii " iV;7k- inT" u a rtlniatrv 'cannot h fnrm., I n . . . Z S I tola aged Emperor, which In the nat- Mrfl.i opdP wtu Mma tulnn t t-i,- ttti v wm ti- Home Rule . All through Europe there are rumors of war. A SIGNIFICANT DECISION AN PPONENTS of the Wilson ad I li ministration's anti-trust bills I W pending in the Senate tnet an I imi3rnct.irl iUBnnTvnfntTnont u , . U a Supreme Court decision - handed down last week. It has been assert' ed . that Should the Clayton bill. er. 1 mpting labor unions from nrnaacti- I tlon under the ISherman h iw passed the Supreme court would surely declare it . unconaMtiitirtnai 1 because of this exemption. : Missouri ousted the IntrnatinBi 1 Harvester Company from that atat land fined it $50,000 under an 'aatl wilson program President Wilson has brought ' - , .the Pacific . coast, cause "hard and currency - bill which ..takes Wall street and gives it to the throughout the country for mov- New York for speculation by stock paper, or anybody but out-and- what about 1907, when standpat- in control of the government? half a million men were out of more than a million workers about the country in search of : banks were crashing In Portland, Governor Chamberlain declare look beneath for the motives trust statute which exempted labor unions from its operation. The Harvester Company charged that the laV was unduly discriminatory because It operated against vendors of commodities and discriminated in favor of vendors of labor. The Supreme Court of the United States declared that a state has the right to make classifications for the purpose of passing laws. Jus tice McKenna, who wrote the opin ion, said: The classification is not Invalid be cause of what is not included. It may be there is a restraint of com petition in a combination of laborers and in a combination of producers, but that does not demonstrate that legislation which does not Include either combination ia illegal. Wheth er it would have been better policy to nave made such a comprehensive clas eification it is not our province to decide."--"-----" ' -J The court declared - that classi fication may depend upon degrees of evil that are arbitrary or unrea sonable. The foundation of the decision is that the power of clas sification which a legislature may exercise demonstrates that some latitude must be allowed to the legislative judgment. Another important feature of the decision relates to ; "good" and 'bad" trusts. The Harvester Com pany had 'set up that combinations which benefit the public and re sult in no injury are not unlawful. Concerning this contention, Justice McKenna said: - It Is too late In the" day to assert against statutes which forbid combi nations of competing companies that the particular combination was in duced by good-' intentions and did have eorne good effect. Thus, in effect, the Supreme Court has given official sanction to the administration's anti-trust bill, even before it became a law, and also to Attorney General Mc Reynolds' contention In the gov ernment's suit against the Harves ter Trust. f POEMS FOR CHILDREN D R. CHARLES . W. ELIOT. president emeritus of Har vard, supplementing his fa mous five foot library, has selected three poems which he says every child should kndw. They are "The Village Blacksmith." by Longfellow; "Abou Ben Adhem," by Leigh Hunt, and "To a Water fowl" by William Cullen Brvant. Abou Ben Adhem," may his tribe increase, presents a series of pictures and a philosophy which tne tnind of a child can easily as similate. In Bryant's "Waterfowl" the child is taught that God will guide him Just as he guides the birds through tne pathless air. In "The Village Blacksmith" the best part -of human experience is expressed m the verse: He bears bis . daughter's voice. enigma? in ma village choir. And It makes his heart raioica 11 sounas w mm tUe . her . mother's voice. Singing- in Paradise, TEACHING GIRLS TO SELL F HI LADELPH I A S Board of Education has established s a course in v salesmanship - for girls in the .William Penn High school. , Students who have hid two years work in' the com mercial department are eligible tor the new: course. Tba managements of two large department - stores have '-promised cooperation v by offering employ ment in the afternoons to girls who take - the lessons in the morn ings. Instruction In school will cover the principles of salesman ship,' and experience in the stores will enable the girls to make prac- tlcal application of what they learn at school. The nation's public schools are making rapid strides in the facili ties they are offering girls. The time was when professional, train ing given them was restricted to a single career, that of teaching. The field became crowded, and many girls leaving ; the high - school had to turn to other lines, for which they were not fitted. As a matter of fact, - the public schools, so far as being instru ments for preparing youth for a struggle with the world! is con- MrnAd 1i9 hn l.rw Ar,wot'ytt aia enough, -you are 7:ni I, . . t3 msuiuuons. i ne Doy 8 IUture was i carefully considered but the girl's I was left to the chance of a ; happy marriage. . v. , There is ground for hope in the I new attitude which school authorl- i tis have assumed toward the girl. ifl rniiaaeipnia Doara oi eauca tlon has recognized the. fact that many girls must' become 'saleswo men. If they are destined to that occupation, the- y sehools 'should make them good saleswomen. Letters From the People (Communication nt to ' Th Jminut . re publication in this department should ba wrlt- yZii one aide of the paper, abold notl S22J2?-EU& L.?)? r; aender. If the writer doea sot. desire to I nTe tne name published., be snoold ao state.) I .tr.. , . ; era. It raUonalizea eTerrthlne it tourhe: Il robs principles of all fls ssnctitr- and 1 iiirows mem naox on tlietr reasons Ulent-as. if I tney hav no ressoniihl(.npfl. It rnthlMSlv cruahea them out of exiatence and Beta op tta own conclusion in their atead."-Woodrow Wilson. , ,- , ' ' On Enfranchisement's Objects. Portland, June 13. To the Editor of The Journal The most disappointing experience J. have encountered in my t or WW,, tV.i " th Tr'r,;I 11 ?"tWlh"v!fallU?! tT. In,;!-, V7- Z, the equalsof their friends, the men. In pursuit of economic freedom for the mother-sex In home, ; schooU chnrch. state and nation, has been the s aeal With Which ah aggressive - minority has seized the ballot with the avowed fers. to see the man on the Republican Intention of . using itas a whip .with ticket, elected to office. Again, a man which to rule the father-sex. ' Th- who has a fancy for the Republican husband of one of these women of one party platform may feel that the Re idea said to me one day "If you could publican candidate is not a fit man for Induce my wife to abandon her fanat- the office, and so oftentimes stays at ical efforts to make laws f on ruling I over men. she might stay at home once 1- in a while long enough -to prepare a j connected with politics could be cut i well cooked meal, so I . wouldn't have J ut to the .advantage of all who only to visit the ealoon for a stimulant totle8ire t0 ,"B 'the right man in the! enable m to digest her tough beef- steak and bold - potatoes." To this practical remark I coald not help re- plying that men. In press and Dulriit. had been originally responsible for this Innovation, for they had encouraged Women to vote and work for Prohibi tion with the evident Intention to di vert them from th need of . their own enfranchisement. If, now, instead of advocating ' tha I prohibition of a business in which men by tens of thousands are making their living in a thousand different avenuea of Industry, these agitators would con- tend for the recognition of" law to en- able women to manage thelc homes in accordance with the dictates of their wn financial understanding, they would not. aa now, be making progress I for -votes-for -women donbiv--hard in I dlanfrnKlui ..... . 1 -.-V --:?."" ".-',.. - ; 1 conditions were reversed, and men Were servants without salary and Wives sftnr rni.lr -...- 1 had attempt t -lif"' tlon to the destruction -of women's Bld 5""? ,s a -ttle song, clubs, a reaction would foUowwch as and,th c.horus 8 fi: the suc ls now menacing vnt I ?! ceedlng stanzaa, to those who have congress and everywhere. - a - nvuicil, tu ABIGAIL SCOTT . DUNJWAY. Things That Are "Free." Portland, June 13. To thm tr.rlitnr 1 of the Journal I have been a sub- I ov.nucr oi your paper lor a number of 1 years, and I take keen delight in read- lng the articles that appear in this coiumn, wnere one can gain much food for thought. I In last evening's Issue "Father f I Six" makes an appeal for free text- booka. It comes late In the day, giv- j ing the opposing side little or nn t.m to present a protest, but I hope those who might have been. Influenced by his cry will remember the -poor widow or perhaps some poor man. strugglina vu mn.iuLo.in o uumois nome and pay I the high taxes thev must iran- without adding to their burden by im- Dosine an nririitinn! .o I books; for, if it should nasa r.th.r of Six" might bring in an anneal for free hot lunches or free car tickets to and from school, in the near future Did man ever get enough, gratis? Why not be satisfied with, our splendid free puoiio school system, . with Its domes tic arts and manual draining depart- menta that will place the "Six" in a position to be self-malntainlne. m many boys and girls, are at an early age. - -, '. -r I pay taxes on a, home, and many ,1 r-r" , ' the landlord pay the taxes and become a renter. - WV." . ' I! a .1 . case in. the San Francisco hpspital. those needing, hospital care and .un-1 able to pay for It can get, the best of liquors. Cotton to the contrary not ate S'v.1- re8P.ect OKT clty lB withstanding. -I have before me state- v vuiwd p. i Ulatlon "MOTHER OF, THREE." -' ' ' "'" - ' The Growers Lioaa. ' McMinnvllle. tOT.. June 12. To the Editor of The Journal Ella M. Finney can use all the ciphers la the arlth- metio to estimate the loss occasioned by prohibition, but it, will not avail since we nave, laarnea mat tna arink traffic is the foe of all the best In-1 teresta for which our nation stands. Though the loas occasioned by "pro-I hibltion were a thousand times aa much a ehe represents,, the liquor - traffic constitution providing for local option, must go. that the purpose of our na- J The legislature met but refused to sub tloa as enunciated in "the preamble of j mit the local option proposition. the federal constitution may be better accomplished. . v " i C1 ' .All those who peak of the "great loss," however, taik as if prohibition .would sweep ail. the-broad acres now in hops or grapes' into Ihe pacific. In Editor ef The-Journal I am a new fact, the value off the-land ..will un- comer and know-very little about pollt doubtedly so tfiorease that no loss jCal affairs here. I am an Advance will be sustained, even from the ne- agent of Quite a number of people llv cessity of plowing up bops and grapes, jns in the east who have requested me if we include five years in the estl- to look over the aituaUon' in Oregon I"18-' ' ' with a view of finding homes for those Be that aa it may. The .enemy of .iKhina- tn httr ih-ir mninn i. - . - all the purposes of government must go, no maner wuai me cost ' - . " CTJRTIS P.- COE. - . .. : - i. ' voiere nu Uiutuatcs. tiooa ttiver,., or jun iz. tb - tne Editor Qf The Journal It seema the selection of candidates; is a. trying or- deal, not. only for the efficeseeker but for the voter,- .-There .being so -many men who-are seemingly fit for, office, in ail tne parties, toe oratnary cttUen is at a loss, and all the more so aa a A f EWISMILES At an eveniri? toarty- a very elderly lady wa dancing with, a young- part ner. A Erangfr "approached Douglas ' JerroW. who : waa " looking; on, and said: . 1 " "Pray, air, can you tell m who la . the . younf gentle-J man dancing with that elderly lady?" ,"Ona of tho Hu- man Rwitv T should ttunk,' replied J err old. i? ThJ"ft."W nothinj; like knowinc when cnargea," aid the magistrate. T'with '''Wns ; back to an rI8 i a iwrk. your honor," re euipnt. much alreddy- ' Edith, had been to a concert for the flrat time. -And what do you think Of it?" asked her mother. "I didn't' like the organ very well." "Why notr ! " 'Cause thrl wasn't any monkey with ltr; Harper's Magazine. A aehoolboy was given a lum to When it wa. done he took- It to " ta teacher, who looaed at It and laaid answer is wrong by 2 cents, go D&CK to your seat and do it correctly. ; . X r y.o u please. ' ma'am," said! the youngster, flshiag in his pocket. rather pay the ifference." Ifal-,fa7 votets d no?r m0 mu officeholder. In faot. in order to have U hand In 8electmgat primaries a man -may . register as having some "party amiIaUon.. he really stretches hl8 conscience to say so. and only does BJ a choice betwen two evils. As sometimes happens, a man is a Demo- erat on srTurl nrlnolnlB. anA vet nn. home. .. It seems to me a lot of the red tape "nt place, with no concern as to his Pary .affiliations. What the beat men, nd' women, desire, of course, is hon- as such a thing is possible. . J. M. BLOSSOM. National Songa Analyzed. Portland, June IS. To the Editor of The '.Journal The aong "America." most commonly known as our nation- at anthem, has several qualifications of .peculiar fitness for that honorable place, among a number of splendid pa- tridtic songs often and widely sung, We are not a warlike people, and while we have sometimes been drawn or rpea mto wir, it has been our ojt a tnai ot a Christian nation Bhould be, to forgive and forget wrongs and Hve at peace with all mankind: hence our national Atnm ilinnM nt --.-,.--.- .,., ZZZrJZ. ??f ? ?" r noldln" a bitter grudge against any- One. - ' The first stanza Of "The Star SDan read them thlnklngly. are too vlndic tive for anything but actual warfare. Our enemies' blood "has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution," for in stance. This Is not America's attitude toward a fallen tnm. nnr v.o l. r... to 0,3 perpetuated as an expression of national joy. The tune of "America" la German: that ef "The Star Spangled Banner: is an oia English drinking aong, "Anac reon in Heaven," and we think Eng nd chose a good tune for "God Save ! tno King," though 'some ever there are objecting, to its being a German tuna. "America" is well known from begin- nlnR to &Ba- Dy nearly the whole na- tlon old and yune- Is easily sing- able, dignified, and expressive of un- z V r . . Shelved as a national anthem till some AmerIcan comes forward with a bet ier one, ana in tne meantime the more ?.al"ul,c Bon, w ln lne oetter, lr wy, come rro".i?JaLll.art2: MRS. C. L. PRATT. The Maine Farmer's Cider. Newport, Or June 18. To the Ed itor of The Journal I notice the ar- rment of Sam J. Cotton on the liquor uuestion in Maine. He aays "Along 0out 188 there waa a feeling of dla content. . Tbe overthrow of the pro hibitory Jaw vaa Imminent. ; The pro hibitionists saw there was only one way of fixing the curse upon the state M - 'a . TV msy avhtxiiSj i iUtU constitution." ! Oh, the blessed "one" way! Again he says: "Cider is more carbolic acid to blue vitriol." I But no f.rmer jn Maine has the rie-h ta n anw vtnri of intnTituo mwits rrom la ex-governors of Maine. all eoeakimr of the law in hlzh terms. The legislature of 1905 passed a strin- gent enforcement act known as the Eturgla law. The legislature elected in 1910 repealed that and re-submitted the prohibitory amendment to a vote Of the people... The result f the re- submission was to retain the prohib- i iiory tuucimuwin oy . majunvy vi os. September 11, 1911. Governor Plaisted I then' called a special session of the legislature for the avowed purpose of I submitting another amendment to the . Maine Prohibitionist" are. genuine, ' B. w, bUBKEK ' On Ella M. Finney's Fisures. I xia Ti.r rti- in. ia t .w . 1 A-Awuu 1 t w . . v... w w . w. . V" L11V lyre. But after reading a letter wrtt- ten by Ella M. Finney In Thursday' I Journal, I am doing some thinking. I - If eonditiona here are like she savs. i j tolnk my peopie woul(1 De better off I to stay where they are. Her deduc tiens are of the most astonishing char. acter.V She aays, "Prohibition Is worse than war," and war is defined as "hell ia operation." Now If both statements are true, , I wonder why the war de- I partment of the United States, arne. daily the navy, adopted prohibition -id PERTINENT COMMENT 831ALJU CHANGE The wise man acts and lets others do the talking.. Let'a be sure of our foundation be fore trying to put up a bluff. Tb head of a wise woman U seldom thatched a with blondined tresses. a . . . 't, easier to drive om men to drink than It is to bold them back. 8ilence is golden when - applied to anyon who talks much and says little. . a . a Many a man has been bunkoed by a . woman's disposition by . her .warn smile. Every man's h6use Is his castle until he make an assignment then It's his wife s. The safest get-ricb-qulck scheme is to have a . wealthy relative die and leave you a fortune. . 1 A woman may not be! fond of fic tion because ehe listens painfully to the excuses of her husband. a a A maerasiri writer uv that VI. on. til forehead denotes reverence. We i.hkui yaaumt ft kiss on the ear de notes that the girl la .in artful dodger.. SONS OF THEIR FATHERS From the Chicago Post. London is ' talking about a new play that haa Just been published. It has not been seen on th stage, nor is it o atrlkingly good as to provide com ment, but the authorship, and the pref ace are extraordinary enough to set tongues wagging. The play is called "An Irishman's Home," and It is the collaborative work of two young Irishmen, one the son of Sir Edward Carson and the other the son of John Redmond. Queerer combination could not well be conceived under existing conditions. The fathers are glaring at each other, thejr followers are carrying rifles and breathing - forth "threatening and slaughter" against each other, but their sons in amicable association are mingling wits to dramatize young Ireland's view of the problem that con fronts It More was not needed to complete the quaint picture, but more there is. 8ir Edward Carson's on is a member of the United Irish league, while the scion of John Redmond is actually en listed in the Ulster Volunteers. The young playwrights need not have gone outside their own political and family COmDlexltieS to fiml mnfprlal fnr o drama in which, the facts are stronger man xiction. . RECALL THE PAST; - - By John M. Oskiaon. If forewarned were realty fore armed, ' the thrift preachers might go out of business. - I am thinking of my own case. For ten years I have been paying premium on some life insurance poli cies. I know, that the premiums ate due on a certain October date,' and I know that I shall have to meet them. Yet in at leaat five years of the ten I have -scrambled madly after the money to pay during the 30 days im mediately preceding. Old Samuel Smiles wit right: "Thrift li not a natural instinct. It is an ac quired principle of conduct." X have talked with a good many persons who have been "stung" by a certain form of installment eon tract the sort that provides for a , . Mvm.nt- ,ylul1, vrhon lTZt--uZ- To. day that form of contract is generally regarded aa so unfair that no repu table seller will use it. ' To be able to plan the future in view of the-expedience of the past Is to put and threw booze overboard. She saya prohibition undermines the foundation of our existence. She enumerates near ly every product of the, state as used fo- liquor, and aays, "All goes : down beneath the prohibition hammer." In writing to my people in the east, and to the many Journals for whom I am press correspondent, I have Bet forth the many advantages here In the way of growing nearly all kinds of fruits, vegetables, grain, etc., and waa not aware that all this vast array of products were turned Into liquor and would be totally ruined If the manu facturing of liquor were -prohibited. I have informed my people that the grain, potatoes, loganberries, etc.. grown here were used for food. W hen they learn that the products of the farms and orchards of Oregon are be ing converted into liquor with which to destroy their children, and that un der prohibition life in Oregon would not be worth living, and that the farm ing industry as well as fruit growing would be dead, I doubt if any of them would care to make the change. Ella M. Finney says. "Our worlds production Is wisely balanced now." I would suggest one exception, the rnaji full of booze; he is a product that is not wisely balanced. The dry states vill never take a backward step In order to "be back in line." JOHN B. POLK. The Bible Facton Again. Reedville, Or., June IS, To the Ed itor of The Journal TJie making of liquor is not criminal. But if In the making of it and in the selling of It the laws of health and decency of the people are jeopardised, then it is a criminal business. For Mr. Beven's information I would say that tbe fight la not aimed at liquor so much as against the trafflo in liquor. The African slave would not have brought this country to civil war had it not been for the traffic in slaves. The mere manufacture and sale of liquor is not an offense, but it is only after the liquor traffio forces itself into the home and the official -life of the nation in a manner that Heaves a trail of sorrow and wrong In Its wake that it becomes -an offense against society. We don't need the Bible to tell us the wrong of the liquor traffic. Neither dare we treat seriously anyone who searches Its pages and quotes passages seemingly favorable to the liquor traf fic. It the liquor traffic were above reproach, t- Its champions would not need to resort to the Bible in its de fense. They have .placed the liquor traffic, as it Is today, in the 'same class, aa It were, with the liquor traf fic as it was during Christ's time. Elevated to thru height of purity, they quote scripture in its defense. There is nothing in the-. Bible commending the liquor traffic as we have It today. The only argument in favor of the liquor traffic is from a financial view point. What does thla ahow? Sim ply that in thia day we put the dollar above human welfare. - . . :: O. E. FRANK. . The Patrolman's Examination. Portland, June 13. To the Editor of The Journal I would like to say a few words In regard to the recent civil service examination for patrolmen. If anyone thinks this is just the raving of one of those wba failed to pass let him finish reading this before ludarlna-. . In the first place; the mere fact that AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Wlllamlna is to have a near sane Fourth. An ordinance has been passed to prohibit the use of firecrackers within 2$0 feet of any building. ' The Mood River Glacier, closing Its twenty-fifth year, "looks forward with optimism to the future progress of a community that draws visitors-- from all corners ef the world, not only be cause of the excellence of Us apples, but for the -unrivalled scenlo environ ment that is a part of it." Madras Pioneer: Hiss Helen Ovens was over from the Billiard Ridge country yesterday and made entry on a S20 sere homestead in that vicinity. Miss Ovens Is front Chicago and hav ing been in central Oregon only a couple of months, she says the climate certainly beats the et and intends to stick. - a Astorlan: Astoria, with Its bounti ful rains, its fresh westerly winds, and its general freedom from dirt-Creating agencies, ought never to need the or der of a mayor to "clean up." It ought to be the cleanest, vwholesomest and healthiest and rrunt desirable piece in which to live on this whole coast; end it s Just that, in spite of the few signs of disorder prevalent. But we'll clea;; up anyway; it woa't bother us much. Following the example of Bernard Shaw, they have written a preface for their play which must make Interest ing reading for their farthers. Sir Ed ward Carson is told that he la a -"military dynamitard, whose example would turn every disputed election into a civil war," while John Redmond is Uleecribed aa "the political syndicalist. bent on keeping the balance of power." The young men manifest all the pro found seriousness of youth. They be lieve in granting Ireland full local con trol of local affairs, but In maintaining that measure of subjection to 'West minster which is essential to the Idea of imperialism. Young Carson em phasizes the folly of Ulster's attempt ing to separate herself from the rest of Ireland, and young Redmond stresses the Injustice of trying to force upon the northern province a measure of home rule that la repug nant to her. In other words, we have the unusual situation of youth pleading for mod eratism and conciliation, while age In dulges in the blind and futile hysteria or extremism. If these sons of fighting fathers are typical of young Ireland, then It is time the fathers subsided and gave young Ireland a chance to shape Its destiny. FORSEETHE FUTURE Into practice the highest development of thrift. In my own case I know that once a year I must pay a fairly large sum to keep alive my Insurance. I know that the policies are worth keeping allvw. If I could be thrifty in the right way I'd set aside every week a small aura to be held and used ex clusively to pay the premiums on my policies. When the day for paying them came around I should have no worry. I confess myself to be unthrifty Id the best sense; I am in splendid com pany, however. That's why I do not make a more strenuous effort to re form my system. I Imagine that reform will be forced upon me; I foresee a time in the not distant future when the average American will adopt thrift practice with the same enthusiasm he has al- ...... .1 . oitnntAH fh. 4 Y. a .- . . 1 Via T I. air la rltftirablo. Whm that tlm- comes I shall fall In line. Try mapping the future for a year in view of the teaching of the past year. I'm sure you'll find it interest ing. only It out of 194 applicants passed, taking into consideration the fact they appeared to be above the average lot, physically and perhaps mentally, la enough to show that at least part of the examination was just a farce. . I believe up to the last part, the oral ex amination, . It was fair enough. The first question they asked me, after taking name, residence, etc.. waa, "How many members are there on the civil service board T' I heard someone saj there were five, so told him aa I w-as On trial before Mr. Caldwell. Queatlon 2, "Are any of them present? I aaid. "Mr. Carter and Mr. Caldwell." He then asked me what their duties were; how long they served on the board, and what salary they got. I didn't know their salary, but now believe if they get any it is too much. Only a very small percentage of the questions had any bearing on the qual ifications of a police officer, and I don't suppose one officer in fifty on duty could, or would, answer them. They called this the test of personal fitness, and it counted 0 per cent, or as much as all the rest put together. That part of the examination was never held heretofore, and if they didn't ask the others different ques tions I fall to see any sense or Justice in the way it was conducted. Ill guarantee the assertion, that if tbe came examination had been held be fore Chief of Police Clark, or any other competent official, more than one hundred of the 194 would have passed. AN APPLICANT, Question of Highway Cost. Hood River, Or.. June 12. To the Editor of The Journal Much haa been said with regard to the Columbia river highway and Mr, Benson's guarantee that 176,000 will construct a 24 foot graded highway, at no place to exceed a grade ot 5 per cent through Hood River county. It is the opinion of most people in Hood River county that such a road would cost from $260,000 to $300,000. I would like to know If Mr. Benson would take the contract to build this road for $75,000, ALLEN HART. Poifrted Paragraphs The best in all things la simplicity. Spring lambs are now being slaugh teredon the stock exchange. When a society girl marries, she Imagines that the world is eclipsed by trer honeymoon. Automobiles are a good deal like men. The less character they have, the more noise they make. Many a man's honesty Is due to the fact that he doesn't know how to man ipulate the gas merer. If w had to live life over again, tbe chances are we would make a different kind of fools of ourselves. Occasionally a woman marries a man to reform him but did yeu ever hear ef a man marrying a woman to reform her? No, Cordelia, it doesn't necessarily mean that a young man means busi ness because he calls every Sunday night. Perhaps the lid is .en ia youi town, and be has nowhere else to loaf. IN EARLIER DAYS By Fred Lockley. Tea. I come of a long-lived race," -aaid Dr. Owens-Adair of Warrenton, a pioneer of 194J. -jiy grandmother, Sarah Owens, was 10 when she died. She lived to see all 12 of her children :" -do well and prosper and to count, a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. My grandfather was 94 whea he died and my mother lived to be . over 90. "In tbe old days the children were taught to be self-reliant and resource ful. I have often heard my mother tell about her girlhood days. In ltt her parents moved from Kentucky te -Illinois. They were so homesick for Kentucky that they decided to go back. At the Ohio river both of my mother's " parents took tbe milk sickness. The oldest child waa a boy 12 years old. -while my mother was 10 years old. and the ages of the other four children ranged down to the baby. in ttiose days orphan children were hound out and became scattered. 'My mother's parents, believing they would not live, called the two oldest children to their bedside and told them to stick together and travel on back to tneir relatives in Kentucky. Moses, the oldest, took chara-e of the team and my mother did the cooking for the ix enworen. it took them a month to get back to their old Kentucky home, but they reached there safely. There are mighty few families of six chil dren today of that age that could atart out tnrough wild country and travel for a month by team. When they got back to Kentucky the children ware divided out among various relatives, my mother being taken by her moth er's mother, who was 80 years old. "When she was IS she married Tom Owens, my father, who was then sher iff of Pike county, Kentucky. . Their farm was in the forks of the Big Sandy, not far from Pike ton. There the first daughter waa born. A couple of years later father built a flatboat, went down the Sandy to the Ohio, up the Ohio to Cincinnati and from there . he went to Missouri, where I was born, very shortly thereafter. "As mother had to help father with the work, and as she had two babies, I being but a few months old, father fixed a boxchalr on the plow in which my oldest sister rode as he plowed, while mother, carrying me. walked back of the plow and dropped the corn. The baby who rode on the plow is the mother of Ada Fulton, wife of C. W. Fulton, ex-United States senator. "After fencing and breaking this place they decided to move to tho 'Platte purchase,' where It was said th ague was not so had. Here their oldest boy was born. W. F. Owen, who later became prominent in Doug las county, Oregon. "In the spring of 1843 they started for Oregon. Dr, Whitman acted as guide for this party. They atayed for three weeks at his mission, rest ing up the oxen. My father left his wagon at Whitman's, as did Jesse Ap plegate and the others. They started for Vancouver In Indian canoes. There were many dangerous places in thi river and in attempting to run the rap Ids Jexse Applegatc'a canoe hit a rocic and his son and hired man wove drowned. At Vancouver Dr. McLough Un took u In as if we were relatives. "We stayed there' while my father, with Mr. HobKon, Holly and Hilnroons. went down the Columbia In a cano to look for a home. Father took up a section where (.'urnatiun station Is now located. He came hack lo Vancouver, got us, and we returned, landing at what is now Flavel on Chrlstmaa da'. We were met by the ouiy white men living on Clatsop Pining who lia'i white wives Rev. J. L. Tarrlsh, Mr. Trattk and Mr. Terry. Wc went to the Trask f8rm, "where Mrs. Trask rnaile us welcome. In spite of the fact that twins had arrived a few days before. "We took up a claim next to the Trasks, IT. McLoughlln -as kind ness itself to us. He traded four fat steers for father's thin oxen and b. furnished us provisions on very liberal terms. Father msde rails ror llev. Mr. Parrlsh in exchange for provi sions. He split 800 rails for him for a small pig. He also recured wheat, which mother parched and ground; for bread. Father killed lots of elk and tanned their hides. Soon we were fairly comfortable. . We lived ,on tha country, subrjlutlng on berries, salmon, deer and elk meat. Wt had very llttlj money, but we had what 'as more im portant, happiness.'" The Ragtime Muss Tale With a Purpose. Oh, fatal, facile pen! To Hfes bold state Something of glamour would 7"u freely lend And ordinarv facts that you relate You would embellish Ilka a generoui friend. My soul ascetic spunm your genial aid; Plainly 1 speak of pain and woe and strife By such stuff is my bread and butter made; I write the fiction men call "true to life." Ah. that I might record one pleasant fact! My fancv yearn to dwell on beau teous things, But this grim role I rnuat forever act Because the seamy side the lucre brings. . About me folk go smiling all day long; - Outside, the world seems very good and glad. But I must dig Inside, find something wrong And show life up as always sad and bad! A novel to be "strong" must lay quite bare The inner aspect and the hidden works; For pleasant talea folk do not aeem to care, Fo in a Joyous varn disaster lurks. Therefore I still must do my stint ot woe. And go on telling of inhuman acts . Until at last I may believe them so Oreaf Scott! What if my gripping "facta" were facts! War and Peace. From the Kanxas City Journal. "An army' bride always cuts the cake with her husband s aaber." "A pretty custom. . What about It7 "But the present sabers are too heavy for brides." ThAt's bad. We'll petition- the sec retary of war to have saber made lighter." 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