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I Irresolution Is a wors vie
than rashness. Ha that shoots
' beat may- sometimes mis th
mark; but h that ahooU not
at all can nvr hit lt Flt
bam. THE EMPTY DINNER PAIL
n -
SPEAKING of the campaign for
Chamberlain in rOregen, the
Oregonian says: ., ;
, " Th empty dlnnr pall Is to
be Ignored. Th widespread Industrial
tarnation la to be termed a psycho
' logical creation of hJCtU -Imagination.
Tha Inveterate incompetency of
the Democratic party for public ad
ministration Is to be discreetly passed
over.
Vfhj the empty dinner pail as a
campaign issue in Oregon? The
only "empty dinner pails" are in
. Wall street. The only "industrial
stagnation",, la in the stock gam
bling in lower Manhattan.',-
They ae not stock Jobbing In
"Wall street on the grand scale that
they used to.. Morgan and Rocke
feller haven't another New Haven
to wreck., Business of that sort is
had r real ;alns." ' It has been
shocked by the prospect that future
enterprises of the sort will laid
somebody in the penitentiary. The
empty dinner palls are carried only
by the Napoleons ot finance, wno
wall calamity because they can no
longer, with safety, double capital
stock wun i no Biro so uj. a pen ujr
making half of it out of thin air;
who ran no longer plunder the
stockholders of one railroad and
. use the money to buy another rail
road for themselves, And whose
" ideas of the United States are that
tho sun rices over the Bowery and
sets at Trinity church.
Why have the empty dinner pail
- as an Isbuo in Oregon, where' the
dinner palls are full, where there
' Is more wool, and higher priced
wool, - than In years; Where the
mills are all running and. the lum
ber prospects better thann ;4 long
4 time;- where the fields are: groan-
f ing under the weight of crops, and
the orchards Btaggerlng under the
burden of fruit?
, Why have the calamity humbug
In the west, where Henry Ford, the
millionaire automobile manufactur
er, says,' "There is absolutely noth
ing wrong with business"?. He in
' aists that there is not even a psy
chological depression.
dinner pails in 'Oregon, when it is
only the stock - gamblers, the rail
road wreckers, the coupon clippers
and the lamb shearers in 'Wall and
William streets, Jew York, whose
; o inner pans nave mat aDsent reel
lng of the morning After?
A FIT FUNERAL
A
UNIQUE funeral was held
in Patereon, New Jersey, the
other day. While thousands
of people participated In the
ceremony there were no tears, no
expressions of regret, no crepe or
other signs of mourning.
.Instead it was an occasion ot
publie rejoicing and felicitation.
The bands played hosannas in
stead ot a dirge and. the;, funeral
orajUon was one" of thanksgiving.
There : was an utter disregard of
the old injunction to say nothing
of the dead except good. . '
' The dead bodies; three Via num
ber,' were laid in a common.: grave
and as the final clod was turned a
great shout went up. -
It was the funeral of three well
known characters,' Thomas Tight
wad. Charles Chronicknocker and
Peter Pessimist.
, A local minister said the other
day from his pulpit that the urgent
need of Portland was a few first
class funerals. Why ' not begin
with the Tightwad. Chronicknocker
and PeBslmlat families?
; THE REJECTED; HINDU
'"! ''-. M : 7
s-pTJB police authorities of1 Brit
i I ish Columbia are , confronted
;.J with a serious situation. A
'- ; ship load J of Hindu Immi
grants who ; were denied entrance
into the province have refused to
return to the Orient and they; are
holding the steamer on which they
came In Vancouver harbor.
i The immigrants arrived ' at Van
couver nearly two months ago arid
have been marooned on shipboard
ever since. : ' "
, Involved In "the" trouble MaVan
Imperial issue, that' is the relation
of the f British government with
Its colonial dependencies. v
Heretofore I Canada has 'excluded
the Hindus . by a , regulation de
barring , steamships -from landing
them: because they touchnd-at riort
between th original", port'-of de-
partiice where ; the Hindu passen
gers 'go on' board and "British Co-
Mumbla. To" overcome, this tech
nical - barrier Gurdit Singh, a
wealthy: Hindu merchant, sent the
present . ship . load direct. The
on ue ground that they were na-
Skilled laborers.
- Ar rn. buA nr tin - whnl rtir-
flculty Is the fact that East is not
West and that the Occident will
not fuse with the Orient.
If the rejected Hindus are com
pelled. t to return to their native
land '; the Incident . may add fuel
to the strained relationship be
tween Great Britain and its Indian
subjects. .
VNPAVED BROADWAY
r
N THE geographical center of
Portland, there is an unpaved
street. -
Though in the very center of
the map of a city of 250.Q09, it is
far rougher : than . most county
roads entering Portland. It Is so
rough that, though It leads to the
great Broadway viaduct, it is little
used j by vehicles. Every,, driver
takes some other route, if possible,
and the result is that the Broad
way bridge is little used except by
the streetcars.
The Broadway bridge cost $1,
686,921.90. It is nearly fifteen
months since it was thrown open
to the public. What a waste ot
public money to rear a great struc
ture for use in crossing the river.
and then, by failure to improve the
Btree,keep it largely out of use
except by the streetcars!
- Evidently, a mistake was made
in locating the bridge on Broad
way, A street should have been
selected on which the property
owners would have consented to
street paving. If another, bridge
is ever built across the Willamette
In Portland for the benefit 'of the
public, all the prelimlnaHes, In
cluding street improvements.
should be arranged, before a bridge
bond Is sold.
A city cannot afford to spend
Wl.586,921.80 on : a bridge and
then permit t to lie almost idle,
as has been theicase with the
Broadway bridgefer 453 days.
The city hes tried repeatedly to
pave this yqstretch of Broadway
street, but the property owners
have always killed "The plan.
VON STEUBEN MEMORIAL-
A"
N EVENT of national interest,
scheduled for the first week
in August, is the unveiling of
a monument to Baron Von
Steuben at Utica, New York.
Von Steuben was the drill mas
ter of the Revolution. Coming
from , the highly trained military
camp of Frederick the Great, he
introduced system -. and economy.
and welded out of the shivering
patriots of Valley. Forge an army
that astonished the world.
He had attained the rank of
lieutenant general in. the Prussian
army, and had won distinction in
the Seven Years war.
Living in retirement, he was per
suaded by colonial representatives
la Francelo come to the assistance
of the American people. He ten
dered his services to Congress in
1777, and was assigned to the main
army under Washington at Valley
Forge. His splendid discipline and
ability as an organizer were at once
recognized by Washington, who rec
ommended his appointment as in
spector general of the entire army,
He finally attained a place as-office
in the line, and as major gen
eral of the fprces at Yorktown re
ceived the first offer of capltula
tI6n from Cornwallis. Refusing to
be relieved by Lafayette, he Was
allowed to remain in the trenches
until the complete surrender of the
enemy.
At the close of the war he was
refused the pecuniary remuneration
whieh he had asked of the colonies
In the event of their success, but.
to recuperate his fortunes, aban
doned for, their cause, he was sub
sequently awarded several grants
or land, among them a township in
nortnern New York.
LAST WAR OF CONQUEST
L'
ORD BUXTON, who was ap
poimea governor general of
South Africa, succeeding Lord
Gladstone, delivored a snaech
in London the other day. .He de
clared the problems to be solved
in Britain's dearly-won possession
are more numerous and more com
piex man- anywhere else in the
world. - -'-
The blacks outnumber the whites
more than four to one, and the la
bor;" question is so acute that at
times it requires the entire military
force to maintain .order. - Lord
uiaastone retired worn out and on
successful, and all Lord Buxton
could suggest was :- that the South
African unlon.be allowed to work
oui;: Its own 'salvation in its own
way.. "They must run their v own
house and their own . household,"
he said. - "It they break their own
exockery, they must pick up their
own nits."
South Africa, "'conquered" at an
expenditure of a billion dollars, is
a iana or troubles for the British
Instead of getting interest on their
investment In that war, the Britons
are footing the bills themselves and
Wondering how the principal will Tjb
met. If Great Britain had done a
little real, thinking before she un
a er too it : to nbjugate the Boers
that nation would now be consider
ably, better off. ,
. " But the expeiience may be Worth
the price. , it is a ; pracUcal cer
tainty ... that England - will never
again enter upon a war of con
quest: Such wars are too expen
slve; they annex nothing but trou
ble.- " , ' . - - - -
Indeed, the great example of
peace and good .will among nations
set by Woodrow Wilson in his suc
cessful' management of the trouble
some and exacting problem in Mex
lso ; has, started new forces in mo
tion', and lifted ' new ideals and
standards Into being which will ex
ercise a powerful influence in lead
ing the crest, galaxy of govern
ments away from wars of conquest.
A COMING INQUIRY .
A
HEARING is to.be held to
Portland to determine wheth
er or. not the Spokane, Port
land & Seattle Railroad
Company . shall be permitted - to
continue operation of its parallel
steamboat line.
The hearing will " be conducted
by Commissioner Hall of the In
terstate Commerce Commission. ; ?
On- no less an authority than
the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion itself, the request of the rail
road ought not to be granted. That
body said: - -
Independent boats that were orig
inally built ' and fitted to engage : in
freight business are unable - to en-
sage m . - that business because de
fendants (the railroads,) controlled
the terminals' and wharves and re
fused to permit Independent boats
to load or unload thereat, and re
fused to receive packages from the
Independent boats.
The independent boat lines could
not operate because the .railroads
drove them out of business by any
and every, kind ' of device and a
favorite and frequent method wasi
the resort to steamboat lines which
were put into competition with .in
dependent .boat lines, as was done
by the Spokane, Portland & Seat-J
tie with the recent- independent
boat line on the upper Columbia.
The railroad-owned boats cut
rates below the point at which an
independent line could survive on
divided traffic, and the latter,
after a, cutthroat struggle. Is al
most invariably forced out of busi
ness. , The losses of the railroad-
owned line were, recouped from
the railroad earnings, and in the
end the public bad to pay.
It is all a sufficient reason for
the rule the Interstate Commerce
Commission promulgated, forbid
ding railroad-owned boats . to par
allel the company's railroad lines,
and there is no reason now for an
exception to be made.
9 ,
COOPERATION BY FARMERS
W
ALLIS NASH, in The Sun
day . Journal, . described
what cooperative . effort
Las done for the people of
NaBhvllle. They have a new com
munity clubhouse, wnich was dedi
cated July 4, free from debt and
full of promise for the future.
Three young men led the move
ment, and hey found willing lead
ers. The ground was donated, the
building was designed,' superintend
ed and built by donated labor, and
sormuch of : the material "and" equip
ment as was not donated was paid
for out of $220- taken- in and col
lected on the Fourth." Thus, co
operation has given the farmers of
Nashville a convenient place to
meet and discuss everyday , prob
lems. '
jseymour, Indiana, was founded
by a farmer, -who became wealthy
as the town " grew, up. His de
scendants have decided to build a
925,000 clubhouse In the business
center of the city, to be main
tained for the 'families of farmers
who visit Seymour. There will be
nurseries for the care of children,
an assembly room for the holding
of meetings, and a room in which
basket lunches may be eaten.
Nashville had no wealthy found
er whose heirs saw an opportunity
to perpetuate bis memory by bene
fiting the community. - Nashville
built its own clubhouse, but there
is the same essential idea in both
enterprises. . The w interests of
everybody in a
identical; ! each can .profit by co
operating with- the others.
Farmers' clubhouses in " Oregon
are increasing in number, evi
dencing the fact that agriculture
lata realize they can prosper more"
fully by .working together, discuss-
ing problems and their solutions, I
and coming; to a full realization
that the success of all means the
advancement of each IndTviduaL
It is worthy of note thsfct Nash
ville built its clubhouse "without
months of- palaver ? and witless
talk." ;'
THE TRAGEDY OP A TOWN
HEN fire or flood ievAstates
a .town the. world's sym
pathy goes out to stricken
people. ' It - is. a tragedy
when .men, women and childreft
are -"deprived of Lomes '-. and a
means of livelihood.
- But no natural agency ever Im
posed v greater hardship upon a
community -Ithan the Canadian Pa
cific Railway . has brought upon'
Hosmer, until , a few,, days ago - a
thriving mining village in British
Columbia. - ."Without,- warning, the
railroad decided to close down its
mines.- . Following . the ' announce
ment, a wrecking crew arrived and
began to dismantle machinery and
to load rails and btber equipment
on flat cars.' - "
n Ten '-minutes r before" She order
was issued, property now worth
less, -was. valued at .thousands of
dollars. Hosmer came into - exist-'
ence eight years ago. a company
was formed and $55,000 worth of
real estate' was sold. . There was
a' boom and' many secured- homes
by paying all they had and giving
mortgages for, the balance.' , Now
everything . 13 lost; the villagers
most find"1 new- homes 'elsewhere;
TIT
w
Hosmer will soon be the home of
Indians.. " ' . j
One trouble with this - deserted '
town : was that it -depended upon
one Industry.: The other trouble
was - that 'the industry was ' con
trolled by a corporation with - no
apparent regard lor the human be
ings it employed. ; The burning of
Salem, Massachusetts, and the
flooding of Dayton, . Ohio, vwere
tragedies of fate. Hosmer is an
other kind of tragedy.
Letters From the People
(OommuDlcatlona aent to The Journal fo
Publication la this department should be writ
ten on only one tide of the paper, should sot
exceed 800 words la length and tnuat be ac
companied by the Dime and addresa ot the
aenilt. If the writer doea not desire ta
have the aam yublitfbed. be should so state.)
"Dlectwaton Is the greatest of all orn
era. It rationalises everything It touches. It
robs principles of aU fclue sanctity and
throws them back on their reasonableaesa.
they bars do reasonableness. It ruthlessly
cr&shes them sat of existeoce and sets ap its
own conclusions la their stead." Woodrow
Wilson. .... .
Considers Argument Conclusive. '
' Salem. Or., July 18. To. the Editor
of The Journal Since reading L J.
Brackett's article in The Journal of
July 8, I feel that the last word has
been said on this whole Question of
the saloon. Certainly Mrs. Dunlway
must recognize , the fact that women
have the same right to ' voice their
conviction by ballot as men have, and
she will not try to Induce them to vote
either for or against tho saloons. I
do not know how they will , vote. I
hop they will : vote against the sa
loons, and I believe the men of Ore-
f - onj expected them to do this when
v"j tv kuoiu ' w vaaAwb, u u i. ibv
ognize ' their privilege as a class to
vote their convictions, regarless of the
f a'ot that there are - those who would
like to control their vote in the In
terests of the saloon.
It is certainly amazing to hear the
argument advanced that If the women
of Oregon vote against the saloon It
will retard the cause of woman suf
frage in other states, especially In
Idaho, where all of the leading poll til
oal parties have declared for prohibi
tion. When la Iowa, I remember, one
of the arguments against woman suf
frage was that tho women of Colorado
and Wyoming had done nothing for
the temperance cause.""
I have an abiding faith In the right
eousness of our .cause, and that the
forces of unrighteousness will melt
away.. I am content to do my little
part and able the result. d
MRS. M. A. COOPER.
Trade for Home People.
Oswego, Or., July 17. To the Editor
of The Journal Permit me again to
thank you for your kindness In giving
me space in your paper. I have read
your article, entitled "Our Home Peo
ple," and I ask again that all com
mercial clubs, ad clubs, push clubs or
other clubs boost Oregon and Portland
and buy at home. I have stated before
that If the water board . would quit
fighting and reason together and give
Oregon her Just share of trade the
pipe mill of the Oregon Iron & Steel
company would j not have posted : the
notice, "Closed down Indefinitely,"
with Its yard stacked with pipe of all
kinds and all sizes. When contracts
are let, give th Oregon pipe mill a
chance and a square deal and let the
mill show what it can do, and the
Portland water board won't need to
have cars sidetracked at the North
Bank depot with eastern pipe, but Oregon-made
goods and. Oregon labor and
home Industries will do us good. .
' : ARTHUR McVTST.
" "For the Home Tax Exemption.
Portland, July 18. To the Editor of
The Journal Local Union, No. 125, of
the International Brotherhood of Eleo
trlcal. Workers, wishes to extend to
you their appreciation of your editorial
In Sunday's paper, July 12, In favor of
the $1500 taxi exemption amendment,
This measure should pass on its mer
its alone. This Is legislation for the
majority of th people and not for a
few. -
Local NO. 125 has 700-odd members;
87 per cent own their own homes or
are buying them. . They are raising
families, and of course are in favor
of progressive measures, that will ben
efit the working people of this city
and state. ;-.
We assure you that this will have
our- entlr support. - Thanking you
again for your efforts and wishing you
success, I remain, yours very truly,
ELECTRICAL WORKERS L. U, NO
125, I. B. E. W
k FRED L. BOTJRNE.
Business Manager.
The Campaign, of Education.
Portland, July 1. To the Editor of
The Journal In, his article In The
Journal of July IS, I O. Roark says
(the people are thinking- more, seriously
t of thA Ununr traffic and that "a cam.
community arelpaign of education where truth alon
Is used" will "cause unprejudiced peO'
nle to think. In both of these state
ments I fully agree with him.1 Had
tha election come off before this cam
paign of education and truth I believe
the drys would have won by a vote
of about three to two. But now, sine
th truth has been put to them and
they have had time to think, a recent
canvass of two Portland . precincts
-t.r. S llv nnltf atlllft f An A
in their favor.
" Tea, indeed! A campaign of educa
tion,, where truth only Is used, will
certainly have its effect on such a
business as that of th liquor traffic
" F. W. GRABEEL
Moving PictnTe Censorship.
Portland, Or., July tO. To th Edi
tor of Th Journal -I fear that many
Portland peopl mlss th purport of
th proposed censorship over moving
pictures, i A law determining th divid
ing lib of crime and order la on
thing. Appointing a dictator who shall
decide from day to day what h thinks
is th dividing line, Is another thing.
?' Censorship ris another .word for dic
tatorship; and dictatorship is un-American
and Illogical. As an individual.
Judge Stevenson has no power to sen
tence a wife-beater. It Is th law that
sentences, Th law knows that the
judge Is human. - It knows that when
he sees a delicate woman with black
ened eyes, he would Ilk to send the
brut up for life, perhaps. But If th
law says 30 days, the chief Justlc of
th United States cannot make it 31;
yet Portland would hand over to seven
strangers th authority it jealously
guard from th chief Justice. : . It
feels that the censors will be Just and
fair in. this newly arisen problem. No
doubt they will be, according to their
lights. , 1
Here are com of th lights that
occurred to civil servlc candidates for
the censor board In Chicago:
Stenographer Heroin rolls her
School teacher "Actors tabl man'
ners Improper."
Another ''Cut out hand holding
scene." - " ...
Another "Little girl must not chew
gum. . . .- i..:'-.
TFhe8e are far fetched examples, but
they speak volumes In showing that
Mrs. Jones cannot determine propriety
according to Mrs. Smrth'a lights. What
A FEW SMILES'
Joseph : Chamberlain was the guest j .
or . coDor m iui -
important el ty. Thai
mayor presiaeo, ana .
when coffee was be.
'j Ing served he leaned
Mr. Chamberlain,
saying:'-;
"shall we let the
ronlaai enlnT " thsinras
selves a little longer, or faadrwe better
have our speech -now t" 'y - .
Small Boy (who
has been playing
ball for six hours)
My legs ache.
Anxious Mamma
What have you
been doing?
Small Boy I dun
no. I .. did a . ex
ample on the
blackboard yeserday.,
There is an old gentleman In Phila
delphia approaching the ninety mark
who still finds much sest In life, and.
having retained an
ot his faculties, he
feels that a few' ot
the physical disabil
ities of age. are of
A -small account.
His nephew Is a
than of small tact,
a fact which has al
m sraustil tha
Ire of the) old man.
A few weeks before the old gent's
eighty-ninth birthday this - nephew,
who had been overweighted with busi
ness cares for years, started on a trip
to Europe that was to consume a, year.
"I have come, to sa.r .good-bye."
announced the nephew to the. old man. "
-I am starting abroad, to be gone a
yer - perhaps longer. I thought I
might never well,: you understand I
wanted to be sure to see you . once
more."
Whereupon , the A old , man leaned for
word, fixing his nephew with his
beadlike eyes. -
"Bill," . he said, Impressively, "do
you -mean to tell me the doctor doesn't
think you'll live to get backt
Is more, they show why th law does
not allow Judge Stevenson tb send a
wife-beater up for life.
The place to determine whether a
man is a criminal Is In court. The
place to try a criminal Is In court
Th place for the unscrupulous exhibi
tor is in court. The irritation resulting
from the unduly protracted mental la
bor of vlewingevery film that comes
to Portland wiMLnot cur him; neither
will it satisfy the spectator who pays
to see th film. Censorship is bound
to culminate in absurdities, Just as the
law would if th judges were permitted
to make It more or less elastic
WALTER W. BAKER.
Personal Liberty,
Reedvllle, Or, July 20. To the
Editor of Th Journal Ther is not
now nor never was such a thing as
"personal liberty." Personal liberty
recognizes no authority over th acts
of an individual. It Is anarchy. Its
practice would lead to chaos. Wo are
not telling th drinking man that he
shall not drink his glass of liquor, but
we must insist upon our rights as a
social organization to bring th liquor
traffic to account for interfering with
th future of tha boy and tho girl.
The story ot lives wrecked and homes
destroyed through liquor Is no idle
dream. We are constantly reminded
in bo -pleasant way of th existence of
the liquor traffic , Th fruit of Its
labor Is nothing but sorrow and wrong.
Th Innocent child. of yesterday be
comes the sodden, miserable. drunxen
wretch of today, through th liquor
traffic - Did you over hear of one
human being that was benefited
through contact with the saloon? Was
eVer one worthy deed or noble, lofty
.inspiration
born in a saloon? Did
ever anyone express any pride : In
being connected In any way with the
iiqtrer trarricT
The saloon helps no one. Its in
fluence In the community is damning:.
It closes the hearts and th doors of
society against the miserable wretcft
who has fallen by Its withering biast.
Mankind owes nothing to this legalized
home destroyer. O. E. FRANK.
Workingman Indorsee ' Exemption,
Portland, Or, July 20. To th Edi
tor of Th Journal As a workingman,
I want to thank you very much for
your editorials In behalf of th $1500
exemption. It. is what we all want.
It means. 'employment at good wages,
building and fixing up homes. It
means less (axes for us who' have
little homes, and it means more homes
and better ones for all of us who want
a horn. Lots of men will not writ
you about it, but they ar glad you
are on our side, just the same.
MARK WILLIAM PETERSEN.
A Vlcksburg Siege Story.
" From the Chicago Herald.
July 4 marks th fifty-first annl-
T,flrr Af th mrrn1i. Af VIaV.Kmm
" .wwUS
recall with prld that General Logan's
division, which had advanced nearest
fto the enemies' : works, was honored
wjiii mo privilege o marcning into
and taking possession of tha' city;
captain w. a. Lo rimer of Aledo, 111.,
a member of Logan's division. In som
timely reminiscences of the memorable
siege, recalls the various devices used
to get near the forts surrounding the
city. But the most novel and amusing
war machine, he says, was Invented by
the engineer officer of Logan's di
vision. Captain Lo rimer's description
of the machine and of what happened
to It follows:- -j .--.i- .
Th engineer hftd constructed' four
large wooden wheels about three feat
in diameter and one foot thick These
were . connected with wooden axles
pierced so as to be propelled by wooden
crowbars. A platform was so arranged
that tb whole was surrounded by cot
ton bales, inside were armed men from
the division, besides the men to work
VI 17 UlTiSIVU. a5A v tAV UJTvU LO wv III as. - . . ' . m
th crowbars and propel th machin coant,l7 becoming so vast and
toward the fort. When all was fin- explicated that w- must hava new
I shed the new engine of war was .Ufur.11"1 institutions within these
ed toward Fort H1U after dark. - Tb
first movement ot it was notice to th
Confederates that something new was
coming. As th builders had forgot
ten to grease the axles, when . they
were turned the squeaking nols could
be heard for a mil and attracted the
attention of th whole division. -
- - "Every turn of th axles was a sig
nal for tho Confederates in the fort
to send torth a. shower of rifle balls
at the machine. As It got Closer they
began to realize that It might be some
thing mora dangerous- than anything
that had -yet com near, and their In
genuity was taxed to' stop its progress,
when one man suggested th throwing
of turpentine balls. Thes war balls
of cotton saturated -with turpentine,
set on fir and thrown at the machine.
When ' the gallant Union boys Inside
had propelled it to within 10 .feet of
the ditch in front of the fort, th tnr
pentln balls became evident, and . at
every- turn of the axles a- shower ot
bullets and turpentln balls met Its
progress. At last the cotton .around
th machine was ignited and the novel
engine of war was soon in flames,
PERTINENT COMMENT
BMALL CHANGE
Men without enemies have but few
ineuas.
Pood for thought Is found in empty
cupboards. - -
If friend pulls his watch o'n your
funny atory cut It short, v
. . .... '
: ,T.oa cn't flatter an honest man by
telling him that he's honest.
A New York woman carried $14,000
la her stocking, The Golden Calf.
. It is not necessarily a small mat
ter when woman puts ber best foot
forward.
. "V. ' - vr" - "
T?11 K Pessimist takes unto himself
btt.r half bis worst- fears may be
realised. . .
'. e .
tThe aquatlo tango ought to stimulate
the, trade In bathing suits for non
swimmers. ..
.
By covering up their tracks some
men get credit for walking In . the
uiiik xiu narrow pain.
- Let the X. XV. W. hsvs th1r 'tnr
urn if they will refrain from going
. Somo are born rich, some acquire
iiuuvb, suiu Bom gi into pontics anu
wrust rtcnes upon uiemseives.
Almost any young man will do any
thing a pretty sister asks that is, it
she happens to be -some other fellow's
sister.
The naval recruiting officer" who
bars juvenile culprits has nothing on
Secretary Daniels, who put th bar In
front of J. Barleycorn, .
THOUSANDS OF
From th Atlanta Journal.
Th report of th-Interstate Com
merce Commission on th Issuance of
free passes by certain railroads Is a
timely revelation to th public, and a
sharp warning to-th offending car
riera. It appears that in the course of
a single year, ISIS, two railroads dis
tributed more than 34,000 passes, rep
resentng 11,000,000 miles of travel, and
valud at soma $340,000, passes given
to officials of th stat and th na
tional government for th evident pur
pose of gaining special privileges, and
of influencing legislation.
How regrtabl It is that thes rail
roads have not yet learned their lesson,
but still refuse to square their conduct
with public conscience and "th law!
Persistence In such. methods will bring
certain and speedy retribution. : It was
the free pass vll more, perhaps, than
any other circumstance, that started
the sweeping campaign for railroad re
form throughout the country. Th
memory of .those days Is still vivid. In
this, as in other states, tb unrestrict
ed and virtually unlimited issuance of
freer passes had mad government a
synonym for railroad domination of
public affairs. It was inevitable that
the people should revolt against such
conditions. .They did revolt, and they
Baw to it tnat needed reforms were
carried unflinchingly into effect.
The railroads, wo fancy, aro not
eager for a renewal of that experience.
Most , of them. It 1 gratifying to ob
serve have learned that the publio
respects them as railroads but abhors
them as political tyrants, and they
have shaped their policies accordingly.
But those that Ignore th spirit of .the
times, and persist in defiance ot -if
cent opinion must be , and will . be,
taught the lesson anew.
. Publio thought and public conscience
have gone too far. In the United States
ever again to tolerate the free pass
evil. Everyone knows that whn a
railroad gives a pass to an official of
the stat or th national government
It does so with . a purpose, and that
when such an official accepts a pass
from a railroad he obligates himself to
do favors. Th purpose is clear, and
th favor Is generaly returned. The
words of th Interstate. Commerce
Commission's report are peculiarly ap
posite In this regard:
DIVIDING RISK IN
By John M. Oskison.
Suppose you ar on of 20 thrifty
persons living In your Immediate neigh
borhood who are 'able to lay aside
$300 a year for some sort of invest
ment. If you ar fairly Intelligent you
will ask two or three sound Investment
bankers to keep you posted on oppor
tunities to buy securities that pay a
fair return and show a possibility of
increasing In value. Probably you'll
keep your eyes open, too, for real
estate (unimproved lots) bargains.
Going it alone, you will make about
on investment a year; perhaps a week
after you've mad it, you will hear of
a better opportunity.
- . But suppose you help to bring those
20 thrifty persons In your neighbor
hood Into an organization. Month by
month, each of you contributes Ills
savings to th organization's treasury
ther will b SS00 a month to invest.
One a month you and your neighbors
get together and talk over th specific
opportunities then befor you for' the
Investment of . th 600; then choose
th best. - , " f
Tou see, during the year, you are
which was notice to those Insider to
make a hasty retreat for our lines.
This they did, with the defenders of
the fort sending a shoWer ot lead after
them.' - .- : :
- Overwork in the Senate.
Mark Sullivan In Collier's Weekly. '
, Senator Root raised a broader and
mora pressing question of publio mo
ment than is commonly suspected when
he asked In the senate:
"Whether our methods of transact
ing publio business are not- breaking
down; whether our arrangement for
th' dlscharg of our duties (In the
senate) does not imperatively demand
tevlslon; whether the-business ot the
bodies of congress for the performance
cf our duty?". - . ..
Senator Chamberlain immediately ex
pressed his entir accord with th sen
timent, fit has been almost a physi
cal Impossibility, he told the senate,
"to get the publio lands committee to
gether. - It Is a very large committee.
and' we never hav a full committee
meoting. Senator Fall said: .! can
say th same thing of other committees
ot th senate, and I can say th same
thing of the committee on mines and
minlngl-' Senator .-Smith bore -testimony:
, "Senators have to serve on too
many committees. Her is the whole
folly of th present organization. I
am a member-of six or, seven comrhit
Ues, and two of the most Important
meet on th same day," Senator Clapp
thought the vie lay In tb Inordinate
size of committees .and .the growing
tendency to accommodate senators by
constantly Increasing th membership.
Senator Lane thought th present
method "sucis that it; would bankrupt
a barber, shop. He compared th ven
eration and respect tb senate 'feels
for Us commltte system to th sacred,
AND NEWS. IN BRIEF
PRECOX SIDELIGHTS
The' raving I to 1 tie dons -at -Forest
Grove this summer will carry tha city's
total up no &0 blocks. .
a . .' o . ' .
Th Cottage Grove cornet band has
been reorganised with It pieces and
will proceed to make its prsaenpa in
the city known and appreciated
. .-. . -- ' .
"Such dry land grain crops as are
growing in Baker county." says tho
Baker Democrat, "were never before
dreamed of and offer every encourage
ment tor vacant hill land, to be lo
cated." :
- -' - - ".. - t : ; '
Fort Rock Times: Hole for tele
phone poles have been dug from Stiver
lake north to some distance past Fort
Rock, It may be that we'll soon be
able to say -ilello. Bend! Hello. Lake
vie wl" ;. . .
Roseburg Review: " Trainmen arriv
ing hero from Glendal on yesterday
morning's cow creek -ouiiet" report
seeing 20 deer on either side of the
tracks. At th tlm the animals were
grazing' contentedly along th moun
tain side, and appeared to pay little
If any attention to the moving train.
It Is said that deer are mors plentiful
in the canyon this year than for many
seasons past. - , , r . , :
Speed fiend solution proposed by
tne Amity Htanaara: "vver aon't ravor
any more state commissioners, but we
believe there Is a sanity board already
in existence, and, it might be a wise
thing to enact a law whereby anyone
caught driving an automobile at ex
cessive speed, unless It could bs proved
that, such speed was necessary, oould
be taken before ths sanity board and
dealt with the same as people who
are crazy on any other subject."
FREE PASSES
This carriers hav dipped Into
practically, overy domain ot publio and
private Ufa-through th instrumental
ity of th f re pass. Thar Is scarcely
a walk of llf which la not repre
sented In this prooesslon of recipients
ot passes, from th federal bench, to
th local politician and th sheriff
who summons th Jury, Th threads
represented by thes passes tl thou
sands - ef citJsns to th carrier
through improper relations. Th lack
Ot morality reflected by th facts her
compiled is a menac to th institu
tions of a f re people. These citizens
who sell their . influence, quit as
much as though they accepted money
bribes, seem to be as willing, to b
tied as th carriers ar ready to tie
them. Men pledge their Influence
In tb , professions. In business, In
city councils : and administration
boards. In courts of Justice, in execu
tive nails ana at the polls."
.Th fact Is, th fre pass la the
most Insidious means by which a rail
road corporation can exert political
influence and - befoul th affairs of
government. It stands condemned cy
every consideration of justio and
simple honesty; and th railroad that
dares employ It does so at th peril
of its peace and well-being.
.Our country has entered a new era
In which th blttar antagonism or.ee
encountered by th railroads (and
realy created by. their unwise policies)
has given plac to a Just and generous ! didn't Ilk Oregon; it was so differ
desir that they may prosper and ent from Illinois. So he went bark.
move freely forward In their great!
field of publio Service. But with this
desir goes a firm demand that- the
railroads respect publio rights, that
they confln their activities to legltl-j
mat business, and never again seek
to dominate the affairs of stat. or
nation for selfish ends. ,; ;;
r.Th majority: of the railroads- sesm
well satisfied with thjs wholesome
condition and ar making tru. service
their Ideal; but th . Investigation of
th Interstate Commero. Commission
Indicates that some of them ar linger
ing among th fala Ideas and- th
sordid practices ot an outworn ra.
Such railroads had as well understand
that their outlawry will not b con
doned, and. If continued, will . prove
disastrous. - -.
GROUP INVESTMENT
gettlag 12 chances to pick a winning
investment instead of one. - Tou are
dividing by 12 the risk . of choosing
badly. You ar using th principles
which th insurance companies hav
tosted and found to be sound th prin
ciple of th division of risk.
Recently a real estat company
which specializes in property In new
and growing towns along th lines of
ew railroads has developed this Idea
successfully In .their sales campaign.
Their' latest proposal Is to sell's one
fiftieth Interest In 60 lots in IS towns
and cities. Th buyer's ecrti Cleat of
ownership entitles him to one-fiftieth
of all profits arising from th future
sal of any or all ot th SO lots. Mean
while h pays an annual assessment
qua! to one-fiftieth of th taxes and
oct of- carrying th lot.
For investments In Which there Is
som element of speculation. I do not
know of a better plan for th investor
of ' modest means. It Is a devic for
making cooperation' desirable and
simple. The .baaio principle Is sound;
division of risks and multiplication of
chances of profit, -
bulls 4t India, Srhlch go about eating
up all th cabbages of th poor people,
and it ought ; to b knocked on the
cos and Jarred loose." . . Th truth Im
that both the senat and tb lower
nous ar swamped , with th amount
of work they hav to do. Practically
every senator is conscientious in fidel
ity to work -and publle.duty indeed,
several deaths that hav occurred in
th senat during recent years ar
generally attributed to overwork. Con
gress has been In session a longer time
during th past four years than in any
similar period of history. . ;
T
The Ragtime Muse
Something Different Wanted.
Is thr ho, bairn in GUeadT '
- Is there no refugo wher
Tho roast beef with brown' gravy
- Does not forever pair?,'
I long for7 tables bum&i ,
Wher set rules do not teas'.
Wher young spring lamb and mint
- -sauc , . -
Do not consort with peasl -
Of slccant duek with Jelly "
And pork and apple sauc,
I . am dying. Egypt, dying! . '
I am a total loss! ' -
Th leg of var-with dressing.
The appl pie with cheese, '
Have: made my llf a burden.- -
- And quit dvoid Of eas.
AvaUnt corned beef and cabbage! -
Aroint, thee, pork and beans!
Resilient Sunday chicken, : ,
Get the behind th acenesl
All food mill institutions, , !
Back upl Oat, out! - Retreat' -
"Oive me throe grains of-corn. mother,"
- Or -something new. to eat! . . ,
In the Spotlight.-;
Mrs. Grammercy I thought your di
vorce cas was coming up this month?
Mrs.- Park I bad my lawyers get
postponement btcaus my new cowna
wouldn't b finished in lima
IN EARLIER'DAYS
By Fred Lockley.-
"My people were abolitionists," said
P. L. Willis, au attorney in th Teoa ,
building, and a pioneer of 1ISJ.. "Elijah
Parish Lov joy, a noted abolitionist,
was killed at Alton. Hi.-I was named
for him Parish Lovejoy Willi, r "My
brother Owen wti named Owen 'Lov- -Joy
Willlaafter th brother of Elijah
Parish Lovejoy, who was a neighbor
of ours. You can see from that ray
lather felt pretty strongly on th sub
ject. In fact, h was connected with
th underground railway that hlpd
runaway slaves escap to Canada.
was born In Putnam county, IllU
nola. onNov. 6, 1IJ3: My first school
ing was in a new fram schoolhous
painted white. . It had replaced th
old log schoolhous used during th
sos and early MOs. Whenever I think
of my early-boyhood horn In Illinois
I think of th whit schoolhous and
th old brick Presbyterian church that
I attended I'll not say so willingly,
but so faithfully as a boy.
"My father's health was not good,
at least, he thought so; what really
ailed him was the Oregon fever, and
for that ther was no cur but th
long journey across th plains.
"Father didn't' want to bring th
family out west unless 'h was sur
h would Ilk It, so. leaving th rest
of th family and taking me along for
company, ho started ror Oregon' In
1852 by ox team. Two neighbors, Hen.
ry Purdy and Zaro McClung, cam.
With us. We drove about 300 miles to
Council- Bluffs, where we waited till
th. grass was further alvanced on
the plains.
"On th Platte river ther wa som
talk of Indian trouble, so w Joined
a company of 20 wasons. but ther
was mor talk than troubl. so In a
week our wagon and one other owned
by Mr. Churoh, a neighbor of ours,
struck out ahead, and w kept ahead
of th entlr emigration all th way
across th plains. W were Just Tlv
months coming across, and w arrived
at Foster's on Aug. 29, a month or
six weeks earlier than most of th em
igrants. M was a boy of 14 when I crossed
tb plains, and I remember th Inci
dents of that trip mor clearly than
things of much mor impbrtanc thai
have happened since. -
"I can remember yet how the roll
ing bills ustd .to be dark with buf
falo, and also how the buffalo used
to eome across the Platte in aBlnle
or double lin till ther would b a
deep channel cut back from, th river
for SO or 100 feet, a regular back
water channel, as sharply cut a -though
it had been made with a spaJ.
We came on the south aide of th
Snake river and from Council Bluffs
to Foster's w did not see a bouse.
Today it is -almost a continuous set
tlement, and the towns ' ar strunt;
swvu luu oio emigrant trail lilts beads
on a string. We passed to the aouth
of Th Dalles, going by way of Tygh
ley by way of the Barlow road.
"Henry Purdy, who came with us.
settled near Roseburir. vtrt'lun.
My father, Stephen D. Willis, too
up a donation land claim four miles
northwest of Corvallis. in Benton
county.
"I started to school to Jam H.
Slater, who afterwards became United
States senator. 1
"Father liked Oregon so wU b
sent back word for the family' to com
out. In the spring of 18"iS mother
and my oldest brother went to New,
York city, where they, took p&anair
for San' Francisco by way of the Isth
mus, of Panama. From San Francisco
they cam by water to Portland. Two
of my sisters were married, so they,
with their husbands arid my tw-
younger sisters and two unmarried
brothers, came by ox team.
."Of thes six brothei and sisters
only on is yet alive my brother
Owen, who is a farmer la. Douglas
county.
"The next summer father started
back on th old Oregon trail with pro
visions to meet the part of our family
who were coming overland, lie knew
they had started, but he didn't know
whether 'they were coming by th
northern or southern route, so he had
to wait where the two roads cam,
together on the Malheur, instead of.
getting there by the middle of Au
gust, it was the middl of October'
befor they reached the Malheur, so
my father spent as long a rim in
meeting them as it took us to com
across th plains.
"All the way back as he retraced
the trail he cam across grim evi
dences of th scourge of cholera that
had been so fatal the year we cam'
out, in '52. 'At his camp on Willow1
creek, in Morrow county, he counted
62 graves made by emigrants the pre
ceding fall.
Wnen our family was one mor.
reunited we decided to go to southern
Oregon. We settled la th Umpqva
valley. Not far from us Harrison
Rloe, - on of my brothers-in-law,
found a place, anJ Alexander QUI-,
land, the other brothcr-ln-law, set
tled a mil or two away. Harrison
Rlc Is th father of former County'
3nAr Ttlr nt thia rounlv. and Kirs'
Rice, one of his daughters, has been
a- teacher her in Portland for over'
30 years. Two of GUlaland's daugo
ters live in Portland, too.
"In 1357 I attended th' Umpqua
academy at Wilbur. Fletchw Royal
was th president. Ed Lathrop wits'
his assistant and Mrs. Royal 'aught
anm At th Tnunmr Tiuolla. Will TI-
H later became surveyor general of
Oregon and h lives In Salem now.- -1
Joined a debating- club In the acad-
miiij man siso me if t
young folks nsed to hav pretty good
times going to singing school, literary
mnr'to t . mnA ffA fwrjilnnal dsn,,!. - An
Her brother, Riley B. Stratton, was
tiDreme Judge. Befor I left th .ld'
TJmpqua academy Irene had promised
to' change her nam from Stratton
to Willis." .
Unconscious Response. "
Baltimore American. ' ' .
He My dear, all th baggag and
parcels ar always thrust on m as
though I were a porter. I tell you.
I am sick of it! ,
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