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THE OREGON DAILY -JOURNAL, PORTLAND. ; SATURDAY .EVENING. JULY 25. ,1914. THE JOURNAL AS tSTKPK S DUHT KBWBPArEB. C 8. JACK8M. fublLbtrt every vtnff (except Sunday and s trttf Snoaay weniina t Ttie Journal all(V ln, Broad and YamliUlata.. Portland, Or. Watered at tb pmtoftlce at Portland. Or., lor transmlaahm tareus the mall M second elaaa aaattar. - ' - ' . . - ifcUCFHONKli Warn T178; Horn: all . eepertmeau reacted by these asmbera. TeU tha aptrator what department rum want. iOKKlUN ADVKUT1SING fcKPaiCBHNTATIVin , ftaojamln A Kentnor Co.. Bninawlck BId.. " t irn Kw Xork; 121S Paoplae Uaa iUdg.. CMrtto. w ' SobstripUe terse b anil or to J ! aVrau i. tba Catted States or ataxic : DAILY. - , ' toe year. .... .16.00 Oie BJontt. -SO . . SUNDAY - : rear Z.0 I one nmntn. - DAILY A8D bomuax : ... -s raar ST.60 t One popta.....-f .63 , fat fna When You Go Away Have The Journal aeat to your Bummer address. Genuine good taate consist In saying much in few words, In chooalng among our thoughts. In having order and arrangement in what w say, and in speaking with com posure. Fan aion. ' A GREAT BILL DID anybody ever ? notica how well the Columbia river has fared , in the present rivers and harbors Mil. . . The proposed appropriations for that river and the other Oregon projects total almost one twelfth the amount of the entire bill. Though we are given nearly one twelfth of the amount of the entire bill, we total only about one one- hundredth of the population of the country. How grateful Oregon ought to be! With the great world com merce of the Panama canal about bursting into view along the pa cific Coast waters, how thankful Oregon ought to be to Congress for the splendid allowances and the treat favor of a continuing contract for the north Jetty! It is a bill that puts Oregon el most In sight of forty feet of water on the Columbia bar and the certainty that any ship In the world can enter the great river The appropriation and authority for a continuing contract in the vending bill is as good as a guar antee backed by a security bond that there will be forty feet of water at the mouth of-the Column bla within three years, or at the very moment when great world . shipping companies are - mapping out their routes and schedules. Never did a state have so much cause to use every endeavor and summon every force to beat down the opposition and secure passage ,of a rivers and harbors bill. "Never did a state have' so much reason to be united and deter mined in striving to aid those who are struggling in Congress to pass the measure over the barriers set up by obstructionists. Every commercial body and every town council in the whole Oregon country ought to be on the firing Hue. If this bill is beaten, when and how will Oregon ever fare, so well In a future bill, and who, but Ore . gon people, will bear the losses to result from stagnated government work on all Oregon projects for a year or more to come? . lawyer saying to an opposing wit ness, "Madame. Z salute your grief. I have no other question to ask , you, or . to two witnesses wno hav made an entirely ; different statement pf a certain fact, "there can be no : question of v the good falthx of .bpth or you gentlemen, but Vour minds could rnot . have been -working the same way that day." A forest ; ranger reports from Estacada that a thirteen-year-old boy has been -wandering through the Clackamas forest the past two weeks. His clothing is tattered and torn and' he refuses to dis close his Identity. Probably he Is demonstrating that it is (possible to live In the woods as did the primitive man. Professor Waterman in his ob servations of the primitive man Knowies has discovered that he is very" Inventive, "ready witted and original," He says: "His power of imagination la evidenced by the fact, that he has written at least one story which has been published," Letters From the Peopla (Cpmrnnnktlona sent to The Journal for publication in taia department should be writ- t ? 25l7 one ,de of tb PP. should not exceed 800 words In length, and mnat be- ac companied by the name and sddrcas of the sender. If the writer does not desire to 1jt the name published, be should so state-) "pIwusaloB I the greatest of sll reform ers. It rationslises everything it touches. It robe principles f all falsa aaoctltr end tnrews them back on their reasonableness. If own conclusions in their atesd.' V 1A9U1 -Wood row . MR. BOOTH'S TIMBER ITH its pious soul quivering with emotion, the Oregonlan says: The Oregonlan haa. rarely seen a more inexcusable , airront toward a public man, or any one, than an article In the Albany Democrat. July 21, entitled "Senator Booth." Its quality may b - Judged from the . following: , "Senator Booth, where did you get it? This Is the question to which Millionaire Booth, Republican nominee for United States senator, should make a full and complete answer before the date of the general election. s "The Democrat will not attempt to answer th question. We will not attempt to explain how the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company acquired title to so much valuable timber land In Oregon, nor do we wish to be under stood as -making ha charge that the earns was acquired dishonestiy. we don't know, how It wi acquired. The public don't know, bub the voters are frankly interested In the very pertinent question, "Where did you set itf" - '. There la mora like it. -Aware that it had by innuendo mads an in famous charts asainst Mr. Booth, without tha sliahtest warrant, and without any evidence whatever . to support It, the Democrat lamely adds this sentence; , ' "But In the absence of proof to tha contrary. Senator Booth' friends have a rifht to assume that his Immense fortune was acquired by hon est toll." :;; . : " , They have. An so roust be the assumption of all others. What pos ibla Justifica'Uon, then, for the studied- Insinuation that the wealth of Senator Booth was not acquired honestly T r It is obvious," of course, that this vicious little paper at Albany has sought to poison tha general mind against Mr. Booth by phrasing, in the language of prejudice and Jealousy, an indictment against him for being a wealthy man. That is alt The Albany editor lacks the couraga and candor to eay that the fortune of Mr. Booth was procured improperlyr but be nevertheless seeks to provoke a" publia dlsoussion as to whether a man can be a "timber baron" and a good, citizen v It la low politics, How changed. When somebody mentions its private candidate for senator, how the Oregonlan squeals! When its personally nomi nated Mr. Booth Is askeli a quiet and not uncivil question by the Albany Democrat, how the Oregonlan froths at the mouth! - "The Oregonlan has rarer seen a more Inexcusable affront to ward a public man," it says. How about the 'Inexcusable affront" ten thousand times hurled at Governor West by the Oregonlan? How about the brutal pursuit of bim, the cruel misrepresentation and malignant abuse of him carried on by the Oregonlan ever since West entered office? How about the invective, the billingsgate and the . gutter sewage It has poured out on him without restraint, with out end, and -without cause for. more than three and one half years, culminating recently in a mad and truthless .charge that Governor . . r ii-l - . A 1 a, l .J J. WCB I was rcSpOUalUlS tur mt reveal . ijucuiug iu duci wuuuj . i Ij, k n mcir rcasonauienesa. ii How was that for an affront to a publia man? -If the Democrat's i eru?bef"'mroV query to Mr, Booth was, as the Oregonlan says, "low politics," was the damnable accusation that West caused the Baker county lynch ing, "high politics"? What the pubHo would like to know Is, why is it wicked for the Albany Democrat to even whisper the name of "Booth" but virtu ous for the Oregonlan to viilify West or any other man. Is there a special dispensation of Providence to tha effect that Mr. Booth is so godlike that it Is profane to ask him where the Booth-Kelly Com pany got its timber? Or is it a special ukase by which the Ore gonlan alone is licensed to hound and pursue and malign and mis represent and abuse and club and browbeat and viilify public men and private men regardless of the tears it makes flow or the hearts that bleed? "Rarely has the Oregonlan seen such an affront to a public man," and yet the Oregonlan, in the same issue, had this miserable stab at Dr. C. J, Smith: , The dog days approach, but Mr. U'Ren does his best to keep alive the public Interest in his doings and sayings. The Oregonlan gives space today to another epistolatory contribution to the one-sided U'Ken cor respondence with Dr. ,C J. Smith. Mr. U'Ren, tha Prohibition candidate for governor, wants to know where the Demooratio candidate stands on the question of prohibition. Up to the present time the Demooratio can didate has not answered. Perhaps he does not know.. Governor West has been absent for a whole month or more. ' When is "an affront to a public man" an affront to a public man? Why is it "high" politics and not an "affront" to Insultingly charge by indirection that Dr. Smith Is a controlled man but "In excusable", and "low politics" to ask Mr. Booth where the Booth Kelly Company got Its timber? Rarely has The-Journal seen the hypocrite more perfectly ex emplified than by the Oregonlan in its whimpering over the "af front" to Mr. Booth while inserting its dirk knife under the fifth rib of Dr. Smith; Its sobs over Mr, Booth's timber holdings and its pious indignation, over the fact that these holdings have been men tioned are a far cry from a paper that for forty years has lampooned and cartooned every public man who has not. done its bidding, a paper that for forty years has been a' newspaper thug, a paper that never sees good in anybody that it cannot control, a paper that is a butcher of reputations and an assassin of good names, a caper whose injustice and unfairness to all men except its own few favor ites, has been common talk in Oregon for a quarter of a century. Why whimper pver Mr. Booth when, as far back as a man can remember, the Oregonlan has been butchering good men's reputa tions, has been hounding decent citizens into their graves, has been cruelly, recklessly and ; mercilessly persecuting honorable men. - Why shouldn't Mr. Booth be asked about timber when the next senator to be elected from Oregon will, as a member ,of Congress, have something to say about what la to be done with the' millions of acres of timber lands in Oregon forfeited under the Oregon & California Railroad land grant? . . A4 FEW SMILES PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF ; "Ixtok here." said the indignant mw- j . tress of h to 5 the peddler of small wares, "do you call these safe ty matches? "Why. they won't light at all!" "WiU,' ma'am," a t d tha peddler suavely, "wot could you ave tnafd be aierr I if- m "Lis 1 1 KMAlilV CHANGE Robert W. Chambers recently tod this fish story: "A mother fish was swimming with three r four thou sand of her off spring when ' one of them swallowed a big. Julck worm and whisk shot up and disappeared. "The other little fishes had often wit nessed this phenomenon. Now one of them said: " 'Is it unhealthy to get caught, mammar "'Oh, no, my dear far from it. the mother fish cynically replied. 'All our tribe increase 80 or 90 per cent in weight on being landed.' " OTHERS THAN NEW HAVEN ANNOUNCEMENT is made that the Interstate Commerce Commission will delay until this fall Its Investigation of the financial methods of the Rock Island railroad. r It is alleged that In the manage ment of this road there was "do ing business with the devil" and 'bankers' finance" on the same lines revealed in the .New Haven road examination. When the gov ernment probers get to work on v the Rock Island it is , predicted . v they . will uncover the scheme by which a few on the inside, by in vesting $25,000,000 to get control of a. preferred stock Issue secured voting control "of $75,000,000 com mon stock and .manipulated securl ties up and down at will putting millions Into their pockets." While the Rock Island was be ing plundered the area it served was Increasing with rapidity In ' population and In quantity and value of products.: Yet half the , freight cars required to haul the , growing traffic are today, accord ling to an expert Inventory, tit only ; .for . the scrap heap. - - Service was, however, an inci i dental matter. The road was not . : conducted for that "purpose, in using It as an Instrument to "skin" 1 share holders and- widows and . or 'phans It made no difference , ' whether the equipment waa ade quate or not. . says he will be chosen senator from Ohio. Penrose is already nominated. There4s the cry "This is a Republican year," and the Old Guard is preparing to take advan tage of the prediction. The gray wolves expect to domi nate, in spite of the known pro- gresslvlsm of brigades and regi ments and battalions among Re publican masses. They expect to elbow the youngsters out of the way. . Two years ago there was much talk about purifying the organiza tion. Since then all effective ef forts have beeq with the object of crushing -the purifiers. Penrose Is a more powerful man In the or ganization than La Follette. For- aker sees the trend of events and aspires to his old position. Even old Cy Sulloway thlnka he has a chance to join the Old Guard in the saddle. The issue that Ms before the country is whether Cannon policies, Penrose machinery and Foraker practices shall be reinstalled. Is the country ready to welcome back the old gray wolves? i OLD GRAY .WOLVES YRTJS A. SULLOWAY of New LV Hampshire, . who represented . ' his district in Congress for eighteen years until he was defeated In 1912, thinks the time . Is opportune for him to come back, He : has announced his candidacy, and th announcement stirs the j New York Times to remark that ' Republican ghosts are - clambering out of their tombs. . v Uncle Joe Cannon Is prancing around the Danville district In 111! nols calling himself a wlnnerv Fire Alarm Foraker, who went out of , office in respdnse to a universal demand and never raised his voice J a ' a a. . . a . m . - . uunng me laic administration bridge across the Ohio river at Cairo,' Illinois. The Rock Island, Illinois Central and Chicago & Northwestern have begun rebuild ing. about 2000 cars. v Large orders havq been placed by many railroads for new cars and other equipment. The Pull man Company, the Inland Steel Company and other large manufao turing concerns are increasing their force. The Standard Steel Company at Richmond, Indiana, announces that the New York Cen tral bought more than 9000 freight SIGNS OF THE TIMES R cars, and that in June orders for 16,055 new freight cars were .re ceived, as against 8154 for May. seven railroads operating In Illi nois have bought 20,650 large new grain cars for delivery August 1. These roads are preparing to han- aie tne grain crop. Besides these new cars all the roads report that they are., reconstructing stock and other cars as available grain car riers. More than 120 new lorn- motives will be delivered to middle western railroads within a few days. AH railroad shops are work ing night and day. v LROAD officials and car manufacturers with head quarters in or near Chicago say that bumper crops are having great effect in stimulating business both in commercial - and industrial lines. Manufacturing concerns are putting back their men in their! old places, railroads are ordering - extra cars,; and In creasing their operating forces and the working . time of their ; plants. The Santa Fe'a traffic depart- ment'baa Issued a statement show ing that 106,627 freight cars were loaded on that system and received from other lines In June. In the same month last year but 102.791 were loaded.? Burlington officials report that June's i general mer chandise and miscellaneous freight business showed an v Increase of four: or five per cent over last yar. , . s Thie Chicago, Milwaukee" &- St Jf aui announces that It has in- creased the working time of 2000 men m its Milwaukee shoris. The Mobile & Ohio, according to Presi dent Taylor, will epend $1,122,000 for new equipment, in addition to spending $5,000,000 for a new He (reading paper) Here's a note about an accident at White's house. Tha servant lrl Put tome icunDOwder in fTuthe fire and she was blown through the roof. jm She (sympathet MHcally) Poor Mrs. M White has so much IJirouble with her girls! 'in tit makes the fourth that s left her without giving notice! r : Bank tellers know more thaa they telL - . . - . - A lucky chap Is always out when trouble calls. f i ' . A wise man declines to take a drink betwaen drinks. - a Unless a man has faith in himself, there isn't must hope for him. , . Marriage isn't necessarily a failure. One always baa a fighting chance. Unless a man Is willing to admit his Ignorance, be-will never be In a posi tion to learn. e. This is a land of liberty for every body except married men and people wno ara in Jan. - Life la full of many daisy but the poor man never has to stop three hours to cnange urea. . x a . Occasionally a man loses his lob be cause he doesn't know enough" or else Because as anows too mucn, a Some men we know are so lazy th; they coin plain because a wind doesn't spring up and blow the foam off their beer. . But it costs at least ten times as much to live accordina to the Jictates of fashion as it does to live according to me aemanas or nature. a If the millennium doesn't show up until a mother admits that her own children are naughty and those next aoor ara angeia. it wiu never arrive. "The nation's hope is In tha school." said the president of the N. E. A. in his St. Paul address. But was heT Ask I of the waves which far around beheld mm in the old awimmin hole. OREGON SIDELIGHTS Plana for Aehland's rold-summer IN EARLIER DAYS ByFred Lockley. "Wecame to Oregon in 147." said carnival, to te BHd for ftve days. , !L "L al ereon of thia. City, commencing nest Tuesday, under the j 1 w 00 on May 17. 1140, 1 Pike upicr ot.ine iaaiea viie improve- j mr f momer s ; majaen mnv duo, ace maturing rapiaiy, wua "ame waa Mary Jory. everything propitious for a great suc cess. Testiraony on Oregon's Ideal sum mer climate, . given by the .Woodburn inuepeuaent: "mt w earner is laeai ror harvesting. JaH weeK it was i h halnna-a to the wall-known Jory family who have lived In South Salem and in the liberty Hills district lor the past 9 years or more. , 'Mr . father. John Fenn, wss an Eng lishman. Father and ninth- v.m- laxnette valley.' -' - i Hooif Ttivrr Nmti: ; Boms da ftmul Klver will be the chosen retreat for the vacationist. At present. It la true, we hear little except of the beaches as tha stamping ground of those seek ing rest ana recreation, uregon is as yet lacking In easily accessible moun tain resorts. This, too, despite the fact 'that few regions so abound with Ideal spots for' camping, fishing, boat ing and kindred recreations. . A ehinook salmon 38 ?i inches long id welKhina; 2t nounds. was cauaht In the east branch of Dairy creek, one and weighing 2 pounds, was caught mile north of Roy, In Washington county, 'Dy wiinam vanoer ;&anaen last fcViday. ''This Is the first salmon ever caught in Dairy creek." says the Forest Grove News-Times, "and is of special Interest to fishermen, as It snows the possibility of salmon run ning up these stream a." . Lebanon Express recipe for making the beat of it in tha vacation season: "This is a busy world, and the day's work leaves us tired, but these summer nights are splendid. Take a look at the heavens when night comes on and enjoy the beauty of It. We may not find it convenient lo go to the pea shore, so let everyPna make the best of our many natural advantages In Lebanon." Opposes $1500 Exemption. McMinnville, Or ' July 24. To the Editor of The Journal I think the 11900 exemption says all kind of per sonal property, either for profit or Pleasure. Will thia Include tha auto mobile? If this measure become- law, tha town and city home owner will b a mere benefited than tha country pro ducing class, for a 60x100 lot will not feel the effect of the additional tax that will be placed on land to fill the deficiency (hat it will exempt On of tne promoters of this measure says it will only exempt $36,000,000 of taxable values In Multnomah county. How much will be exempt for the state T X should say 1150,000,000 would be a low estimate. This, exemption, if carried, no doubt would bt an incentive for cities and towns to improve, far in advance of the country, for taxes must be levied more heavily on landed homes. And I say right here, don't cripple tha pro ducer any mora with carrying tha In creased burden this measure will put upon the farms: The farming Industry will go to the wall and peopla will flock to the cities, where more favor is Shown the working olasa. There is a spirit -of unrest already looming up in tha country over those exemption laws. The farming class must either organise or quit producing. In either event, produce will become m scarce . that the city laboring class whom this measure is to favor will' find the tax exemption a light load in comparison with the higher price they will pay for necessities of life, for tho farmers are sure to organize. Again, this measure will be partial, favoring people who are amply able to pay their share of taxes, many of whom live in idleness, and placing tba tax load on the producing class. . There are . far too many now who wish to dodge paving taxes, and it is this class who will vote for this io-tax law. Instead of more exemptions, there should be a repeal of the household furniture exemption law. now in force, and the exemption should be placed at 3300, which is enough for the frugal family, and far too much for tho higher-ups or the rich. The more ex emption the more Indolent people. Letters in The journal or July zo tn- 1904). No later report can bo ob tained by anyone, and it is preposter ous to contend that in nine years Kan sas has overcome a billion and a half lead, and gone ahead 3800,000,000. This same party claims Kansas has AVERAGE INDIVIDUAL AS TYPHOID CARRIER From Current Literature. Nothing could be mora unscientific $110 per capita, as against Missouri's I than the wonder inspired by.the case of $40. Per canita-what. the clipping a young woman whom the sanitary au- does not say, but Judging from other t con ties have imprisoned as a spreader statements it means per capita banit, i or typhoid rover. The truth 13, accord ing resources. The truth is that on t ing to that careful investigator of the June 4. IBIS. Kansas had $148.83 per 1 fever, Dr. L. O. Howard, in a bulletin capita banking resources, and Missouri issued by the united states department had $350.79 per capita; or, if the peri of Agriculture, that human carriers of capita individual bank deposits were i typhoid fever are numerous. If It be what was meant, then Kansas had I Just to incarcerate one young rwoman ioo.3 as against Missouri's iv.7t as a. source of tho disease, it would be per capita. (Last report, of the comp- j right to imprison half the population troller of the currency, pages 47 to 60). I of the country for tho same offense. If the prohibitionists persist in using Because the connection between one the figures about Kansas that they lease of tho fever and another is mis have used in the past, they must con- understood, there exists in manv carta vlct themselves of deliberate false- of tha land something very like a ty nooa. Jtiotn dooks tnai nave reierreo. phold fever erase." This la due, in to can be had by anyone in the Port- part, to a sudden awakening to the'lm- land public library. Thirty-one states portance of the ordinary houae fly, are richer per capita, both in banking Which should bo known in the future, resources and individual deposits, than n the nnlntnn f Tlr VtnmrrA. "th- Kansas. and only the thirteen southern typhoid fly," for it is tha source of states, ioaiio, bw the fever epidemics. The true con noma, are poorer. nectlen of the so-called house flv with This same ellDC-ln SSVS "he ChlW-1 tvnhotd fever ri(f-ha true anlenttfiA ren of Kansas are the best educated I evidence reaardinrtha nart it nlava as and rank highest in morality." The I . erriar f that Haee-. h en r per captia of illiteracy is less in Ore- centiy been worked out that all sorts of son than in Kansas, and Oregon has I nt..niwun tinm atm nrwu Tan vn only 1S.3 1 Juvenile, delinquents to each hlv- Bot pWed since Doctor Howard iuw.ouw oi popuiawu". Ari 1 from whose bulletin, laued by tho gov- zt. 10 eaca ivu.vvu. a. b. vu, i ernment. we take these n articular s . I began the study of the typhoid ' or women WHO uppose iToaimuon, house fly under both city and country Portland. July 34. To the Editor of conditions. Ha made a rather thoro The Journal I am ' more than inter-1 study of tha insect fauna of human ested In reading the communications I excrement and a further investigation in your valuable paper for ana against I of the species of Insects that are at- the liquor traffic and am giaa mere is tr acted to food supplies in houses. He one paper in the city that la wuung soon demonstrated that tba housefly, to print tha various ideas - of the while breeding most numerously in people on this, which X consider the I horse stables. Is also attracted to most interesting subject before the human excrement and will bread in- this voters of the state today. I substance. It was shown that in I am very much surprised at the towns where the box privy is still in stand taken for the liquor element toy 1 existence the house fly la attracted two women in particular. I am not f to the excrement, as also in the filthy surprised to see people who are direct-1 regions of a city where sanitary su ly interested in the liquor business pervislon is lax and whera In low alleys take a stand against Prohibition,-but ana corners and in vacant lots excre for women to take the view that thai ment is deposited by unclean people. state is better with than without the saloon, is beyond my comprehension. 1 Tow, when we consider the preval I do not believe any woman who is enca of typhoid fever and that virulent the mother of sons and daurhters will I typhoid bacilli mar occur in the excrei attempt to show wherein the saloon I m-ent of an individual, for some time contributed in any small degree to- oeioro tne aisease is recognised in him. ward their moral welfare, and while and that the same virulent germs may thev nerhaDs have had no trouble be found in the excrement for a long dorslngthe exemption show there are ! along that line, being fortunate, there m after, the apparent recovery, of manv who wish to have no taxes to i is no doubt that they have witnessed patient, the wonder Is not that typhoid the ruination of some of their neigh- o prevalent, put mat it aoes not bors' children from the effects of the prevail to a much greater extent- Box r,"a.L,fnl . be termed warm ror this , gun making their plans to coma to again th, old pFea-Vt "weather that """hTU W.,ni!.r f ' inaxea lire worth living in tno.WU-J. ZT 1? rway i,m,ti,v.i.. i o start, my mother took iiib iik , malarial fever. The attack waa not a severe one but tne doctor who was called belonged to the old school that -believed In giving big doses of strong drugs. He killed the fever all tight, also ray mother. Before aha died h , (called my father to her bedside and said, Tou can't go to Oregon with four motherless children. 1 want you to take my sister Elizabeth along to . take care of the children,' Father '. agreed to do so. My . mother's sister was about 2$ years old at that time. "James Jory and his wife started with us. While we were waiting at tha Missouri river for other emigrants to gather, Mr. Jory's oxen were stolen. In consequence he could not go with ' our company. Arter spending several weeks in trying to recover his stock, he finally had to buy more. "In our company that went to tha rendeivous, was my uncle, James Jory, and his wife Sarah. John Garrett and his family, the Hubbard family, ana some others. We had agreed to wait for ray grand father and his family. Ilia name waa James Jory. the same aa my uncle's. i e waited a week for bim but the company was impatient to get started, so we had to start with, out them. "Joel Palmer was elected captain of i our train. I waa only seven years old and while some Incidents stand out vividly In my memory, many of my recollections of thia trip, I know, must have come from hearing my parents and the others talk of it. One thing I do. however, remember distinctly, is stopping at the Whitman Mission. The Indians had stolen some things from tha preceding train of emigrants. Dr. WTiltman had found out which ofthe Indians had taken the things. He made them bring the stolen goods into our camp. The Indians were very sulky about turning them over to ua. Dr. Whitman asked our party to take them on to the Willamette Valley and return them to the emlgranta from whom they had been atolen. Our team was in pretty good shape and he aaked my father to take a cheat of goods that had been stolen from some emigrants and when he arrived at Ore gon City, to find out the- owner and return it to him. -- "We reached The Dalles on Septem ber 23 and as bo many emigrant's were already there waiting to be taken down the river In boats. Csptaln Palm er and the others decided to try to cross the mountains with their wag ons. "On October 1 Palmer with 23 wa& ona started from The Dalles to Join Barlow Who had gone ahead in an at tempt to cross the Cascades. He over, took .Barlow's company within a few days and they continued westward to ward the mountains. Tou probably have read something about the diffi culties experienced on this trip. They had to pick out the most feasible road and then slash and burn the alder thickets and wind-fallen timber. The emigrants after all sorts tf difficulty, finally reached Samuel McS wain's place, later known as Foatefs. -on account oi -- ' cattle became poor and the mountains wera so steep we had to throw away everything we could possibly do with out. Father -left by the side of the road the chest of goods that had been entrusted to him by Dr. Whitman We never besrd of it again, ana wupm. privies should be abolished in every community. Th deposltingof excre ment in tha open within town or city limits should be considered a punish able misdemeanor in - communities which have not already such regula tions, and it should bo enforced more rigorously in towns in which it is al ready a rule. Such offenses are gener ally committed after dark, and it is often difficult or even impossible to traoo the offender: therefore, the reg ulation should be carried even further and require tha first responsible per son who notices the deposit to Immedi ately Inform th police, so that it may be removed or covered up. Dead ani mals are so reported; but human excre ment is much more dangerous. Boards of health In all communities should look after the proper treatment or dis posal of horse manure, primarily In order to reduce the number of house flies to a minimum, and all regulations regarding the disposal of garbage and foul matter should be made more strin gent and should be more stringently enforced." cars in June, that the Illinois Cen- .vhiv must 'uia then tral ordered 5000 all-steel box inn lute, aa will cower has been so many who wish to have no taxes to pay. Tet those men expect to ne pro tected by the laws, and let other bear all public expenses. Every cltisen should b loyal enough to bear his share, let it be little or much. W. J. QARRISON. Self Control and Liberty. Portland, Or.,. July 24. To the Editor of The Journal Replying to W. J. Bishop as to the value of self control. I will say: Every young man taking his first glass of beer or whiskey firmly believes he has suffi cient aelf-control never to become a vitiated as to be powerless. from, Oregon's beloved, poet: I quote Doctor Howard specially calls at tention to tho activity of bacilli in ex creta passed by Individuals after ap parent recovery from typhoid. Much attention has lately been cencentrated upon this point by scientific Investiga tors with tha result of establishing that individuals who are chronic spreaders of typhoid fever are not rarities at all. Indeed. In the light of Doctor Howard's investigations, sup ported by the evidence collected in various laboratories, it must hence forth be assumed that the average in dividual is a far more efficacious source of contagion than th attention given to "typhoid Mary" would lead one to suppose. Dramatic to be sure, are the circumstances surrounding the discovery by Doctor George A. Soper of the cook successively employed in different New York families, whose in- open saloon. I notice the antls persist in calling the saloon license a tax, when in real ity it is npthlng more nor leas than a pre-assessed fine for the privilege of breaking the laws, and operating what is legally termed an illegitimate busl- UNTERMYER'S AIDS TO STOCKHOLDERS By John M. Osklson. Every effort to insure better ren- ness .and is only tolerated. We have lr Wtr 7 ehiTV seen recently here in the city where K-lht t h v- ttt.ft P t." I tions ought to have attention. In some of the proprietors of these sa loons have gone too far in the law this country the small .stockholders i tJZJtr stantly growing. mits taken from them. . MRS. CARRIE M.. PERRY. "There is -death in the dew of the roses-- That bloom, in the blushes of wine; There is danger where pleasure re. noses. . Though we? call her a goddess divine. "For I lingered too long her caresses .Enslaved me, I could not departs And the shimmering gold of her tresses Entangled my spirit and heart. T THE. RULE OF REASON HE- ? long - established legal principle That the title of a . land owner extended to the center of the earth and to the sky Above is .undergoing modifi cation through the development of aviation. A French court has lately de cided that airmen in France may riy over private land with impunity so long as taey do not go below tne tops of trees or mora f houses. In other words, a man's title In the sky Is being limited to that portion of It he can use. This is applying the "'rule ot reason" to purposes that, could the facts have been, suddenly un folded before them, would have dumfounded the people of 100 years ago. L'Affalro Caillaux. with its dark tragedy illuminated by flashes of comedy, makes interesting reading, "fhere is the retort courteous .when fitnesses confront each ot'her and the retort recriminatory. There Is lso the extreme politeness of the lawyers. . Imagine an American "To the gorge of Avernus. a valley OT lilies and violets leaas, - Where the doomed, that are garlanded ,111'V .Beguiled by the ' nymphs of the meads." Th fact is that to perpetuate th liquor traffic means the offering up on its altar, a yearly sacrifice of the very best among our boys and young men. There are two types of men safe, the miser, and tha total ab stainer. It Is only begging the ques tion to speak about self-control and personal liberty. W live in an age of progress, and the liquor traxric is doomed! , Vote dry, for Mollie, home and the babies'. A. J. MARTIN. Samuel Untermeyer is widely known as the lawyer who is trying to re A MHMn ,4am TKtt nmmn TTnnnilrM I . - ... ? -t ri i rnncernM witn nnance. one r Portland. July zr. to the Editor ot v.!- theories Is that many of the abuses Tha journal With sucn eloquent ai- and much miamanaaement of the cor. lies as Mrs. Duniway, Ella. M. Finney, portions are due to the fact that mi- Air. suiuvan, usDorne xaies ana Emma Goldman, with their slogan of personal liberty, the Oregon wets I u. a-eera Should take a new lease Of Ufa, even Xht vnttnsr hv nrn-rv he ahnllshcul. though a drink-erased boy of 16 years J w would have the names of ndi. of age in Oakland, CaU did attempt to dates fdr director, and a statement of Kin nis yaumiiu sweemeari. aaa.iau- specif ic measures to be considered ing in this, took his own. life. (From Serlt tO Stockholders who could vote xna auunmi u . , a arn OB them bv mall. sure h penevea in -persona iinerty: i Thin ii,va hfn n annnai m..t. to drink what he liked, and do aa he h. wn.,rt h.v. the oimtuui mall UKea. I t all . stockholders a. detailed renort ter aua Bwnf n pany assets and liabilities, salary 1 " . 1 11 8 copies of resolutions proposed to ucr jjiviuiunuu, w i be submitted, etc for Mrs. Finney, when your wage- earner stops buying the wretched brew j many millions spent toy the govern or said hops. I ment in the attempt to develop inlanS Oregon hop pickers Know only too I navieatlon. The expenditure of eov. well th long hours of labor In bop Urmnent funds for tho improvement of yards for a miserable pittance, ndl . . all should know what most hop yards J -- v" , - 7 !, ' , are, and that for every cent earned In j w J cuiumeoowi. sr' uregon nop yarns- oy picaers, a it is I youra. . expended on the brew made from these I ' CHARLES WHITING BAKER, hops. ' I Editor In Chief Engineering News. own iuquiu voi orj, 10 regenerate nocent propagation of the typhoid In fectlon has won her world wide aotor-) ' fL ,--u nr. Whitman, his wlte. A- ewata a' avtant T axn ! Ual i " " . t I and the rest of those at nis jnii had been killed. My grandfather. James Jory. brought a heavy chest of tools with him. He had to abandon this cheat of tools with many Other things that he waa bringing to Oregon. "At the recent pioneer reunion my -sister and I met a man named Gar rett. He lives at Woodhum.. It waa the flrat time we had seen him sine . we came out 7 years ago. He said. I seo you came across the plains in 1847. the same year I did. What is your name and whose company were you Inr W told him and he aaid, I know both of you. Yurj;fm8J" a a lax Trl ItlMl fl " Nancy "Jan ana K" Ann. I was 10 years old when crossed and w. used to frequently play together of an evening beside the camp fire. ' . -We camped for a while a v.. milM Inll reached tne vanay 'A lety even to the' extent of satirical verses in London Punch. The young women Is not a scientific wonder, however, in spite of the sensation she creates in th newspapers. In a paper by Drs. Davids and Walker, Just read before the Royal Sanitary Institute of London, the history Is given of four personal carriers of typhoid who had communicated the disease to numbers of people. Investigation confirms the deduction that the average ' man Is as guilty as "typhoid Mary." He would have the stockholders fix all salaries and other eonmpensatlon of officers of the companies. He would have compulsory cumu lative voting a means of securing for minority stockholders such representa- :r zc: z.z:zk '.xizzr.zz?'-"rjrr: -id. 0t orea-on cny. My .. i ...i.i..ii . i mr aunt Elizabeth w Mr. Garrett's tent. number and stockholdings juatlfy. In every company having aa many as 1000 stockholders hev would have rere married In look after the interests of the minor. ity stockholders. ' It Is undoubtedly true-that the pres. ent . system of corporation control makes It Impossible for the small stockholders to take any part In the actual conduct of the company. . Jt is the usual thing, too., that they can get no clear idea of the financial con dltlon of the company., , Perhaps soma of us know a way to reform this condition , better way than Mr. Untermeyer's. . I'd be glad to hear of one, Kansas ami Oregon Portland. July 33. To th Editor Y The Journal Prohibition is either . a great moral or political question, de pending on the point or view, i isinety five per cent of Oregon's citixens sin cerely desire to vote ior tne oesi in terests of the state, both morally and materially. Tha . man or woman, whether prohibitionist or anti-prohibitionist, who makea erroneous state ments, either mallcioualy or through Ignorance, deserves omy scorn. j.ne CervaUia Oaxette-Tlmes ofi July ? It quotes .a very prominent worker for prohibition a aaying mat Missouri la 8800.000.000 poorer than Kan uaa." This, statement Is absolutely Inexcus able. In 1904, the data of the last United States report on wealth, debt and taxation. Missouri bad over a bil lion and a half mora wealth than Kan sas, instead of $ 800,000.000 less, a dif ference of $2,300,000,000 between the prohibition statement and the truth. (Page 42, United States i Census Re port on Wealth, Debt and Taxation. the wage-earner; to pay of f the mort gage on the little ' home: to protect sons and daughters from inebriety; to purge our fair state of tha unspeakable J Th Journal I have often tried to and abominable rum and beer traffic! j think, as have many others I know. MRS. GEO. H..AYERS. , J wby ur new auto fire apparatus must 1 " Ikeen niranaroinr In the middle of the Intention to Criticise Disclaimed. I night, especially in the residence 'dls- New -York. July 20, ,1914. To the tricte. For instance, Saturday about Editor of The Journal My attention 8:39 a. m. a fire occurred on East has Just been called to your issue of Sixth street and I am sure that every. Sunday, July 12, in which you erlti- body from Union avenue to East Twen- cise the traffic figures quoted in our tleth street knew about It, the appsr- editoiial of July 2 on tha rivers and atug having the air en going -a good harbors bill. You have been misled pace - and having to go about eight by an - unfortunate typographical er- blocks. Th traffic I not very heavy ror in our editorial, by which the at this time In tha morning, so why the word -"above" was printed "about. noise? . " . 1 - Our reference was to th traffio on ; I have lived in tha largest cities iu th Columbia river above Portland, th country, and have had fires occur thus excluding the ocean traffic of in th same block, the people not be the Port of Portland. . v. , - ing awakened at all. Why should it 1 shall be very pleased if you will bo different here? ' - make publicity of this correction in J I am a good Portland booster, and justice not only to our ' own Journal but to Senator Burton, whose f lgurea I know were taken from the official reports of the government engineers. His criticism and our own were as to the meager results obtained from the my AUDI Jilizaoei" r. Garrett s tent. "We went to Oregon City " formed a "protective committee." Itlf' v father father went to hlrq, would be the creation of the holders , emyhls advice end help. Dr. Mc of stock; it would ba made up of thosj ; "win furnished him the necesaar who will forego tho lur of election f?JH!2-!iVi-i him to go down to nority stockholder, don't get atten- mouth of .the Columbia where tion at the meetings of the companiea ."r Zr" It.uJL there was some gooo . Father hired a are There were four Indians eaXside! and one did the -teertng -Father rented a pl on Plains where we staid until the Yall rnext year. My stepmother Elisa- Jothw V.Vyton whheV Ter hWcormVcros. the PU'" the fall oi aown me nr " w haAheard at Oregon wi7'","" iZT,A Mmewbere on Ciataop phh Tou can imagine bow deligntea my ItenmMher was to bear that hjr.par--. ents and the rest of her peoin bad en" 1.-1 Z.mmm .falv and wcr lo- arrivea in vr cated at Salem.- - ; uncles, nin - - - 5!2fjr "my fac ied move" ere. We hired , In canoe to take us to from there we went to Salem by wag- , n Mr father left joy stepmother 2nd we four children with the Jory s : - . . m r'aiirornia wan inr while ne w,v - ... uncles, James and Tbmas, and Wll- Ham Jory. brings "to ,Ud'lncidt, Three of my uncles. James. i;f"'" . marnta inrce '-' ....... and Sarah, and Mary Budd. "When; my father and ?J?,V' reached the gold. .-'SX nla they met a r. - - Painter, from Salem. As they were all Salemites. Boone and Painter showed my father and hi. J-rUj a good claim was. claim all spHng and ommer. ayerag inVover two ounces of gold dust each day apiece." - l-m-nnr of WisCOnaln. . CandidaUs now in the field for the . . . .n-m,tlnn fnv rnvamne at -ltePUDll.n iiwu.i.- D ' Wisconsin are VV. T. Utman of Mud son, Henry Roethe of Fnnlmore. Wj IL Hatton, a former state senator. Andrew IL Dahl. former state trees urer, and Martin Hull, who was speak er of the lower house of the legisla ture last session. . . - . Fire Apparatus. Portland, July 24. To the Editor of am heartily in favor of our modem' a p. paratua. but not the noise, which we did not have: when we had horses. " There are many easterners In ' the city, and this catches their notice at once, or rtftber their ears. Why not eliminate the .noise and put out thr fire Just as well? , A PORTLAND BOOSTER. PoptUar Science. A plant to extract nitrogen from the air for fertilization purposes Is being built in Iceland. ; In the British house of commons there are only seven members, between 21 and 20. only three between $0 and SO and only one more than 90. -In many of tha Buddhist monasteries of Tibet .and Siberia tho process of printing mad us of before tha days of Gutenburg la still followed. Each page is a carved block and no movabl types ar used. The Sunday Journal The Great ' Home Newspaper, consists' of; : 'Fin news sections replete wltn illustrated featurei. : - Illustrated magaxln of quality. Woman's section of tore merit. ' Pictorial news supplement. Superb comic section. 5 Cents the Copy f (