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i THfc JOUKNAL. 4 ' - in mncmDiirr sewsPAPEn. .:&. JACKSON .PnMtkr fabliau, every avmrtng. (eacapt Sooarl i every Sunday norals at Th Jmirnsl Baud. t Uc, Broadway aad Yamhill at.. Portland. Or. Katarad at ta paotof tie. at Portland, Ot.. tor , traaamlaaioa through th nalla aa aeeond . elaaa matter. .. :Ki.Ei'U0M4 Main THE; Home. A.WM.AU partoMot rvaefaa. r asbara. Tell tfc orator what dapaataaaot to. wast.- tbUlltiKADTKHTIIIMOKir BKSCN TATIV r. Baojaaat. Kaataor O.. Briu"c Bltl-. B4 fltlh Ae, New Xortj . 121 People'. Gae bfcjg.. Chlrtto. - ' Sobacrlptloa tarma l7 mall to an ad Sreaa la tna U.ttw ut ar Maxieoi . DAILY -Oaa raw...... 15.00 ipn moat - . tOba raar M-60 I One moots .1 DAILY AND 8UNlAY ' Oaa raar fT.CO I n month.. ..$ .63 When You Go Away Hare The Journal sent to your Summer address. It la a wise mtit who knows his own business; and Jt Is a wiser man who thoroughly attends to It. II. U Wayland. t T . if THE FIRST GREAT BATTLE HE first great battle m me European conflict is appar ently to be between Germany arid France. The stage is already set. Germany has apparently detor rsined that it should be so. Dur- 4 Ing the time Germany was nego ji. Uating with Russia as to the lat ter's course respecting Servla, i Germany was. in fact, massing her ; i ttussia as was supposed, but on France. In answer to inquiry as f to why the troops were mobilizing f near the French frontier, Ger noany's reply was that the army was to engage in the usual autumn I maneuvers hear Strasburg. f ' Under this pretext, large num t bers of troops were mobilized all B2ong the French and Belgium rronners. in consequence ui tueoo $ maneuvers of preparedness, Ger i manv An flrmv of a million I men assembled for an immediate i! oid supposedly lrresistiDie descent upon France, expecting tp repeat $ within a few weeks in 1914, the I Ktrategy with which Germany 1 bested franco in a few months in 1870. 2 Three German army corps are - already near the point of concen ' tration on the French border. A great co"Mnn is moving through j Belgium and Luxemburg toward the I point of Junction.- Another Ger- DR. WITHYCOMBE'S BAP ADVISERS : HE statement Is made that Dr. Withycombe will make no moro speeches. ' J . . His advisers don't want him to. They, claim he has lost heavily since his nomination as "a result of his talks. They In sist that he must not talk unless he uses-canned speeches which they prepare for him. . His Oregon City speech referring to the late Gorernor Pennoyer as a demagogue because Pennoyer led the agitation against Chinese labor is pointed to by them as one of the doctor's mistakes. They claim also that he made a mistake in declaring on the stump against the, single item veto. He said it was a "two-edged sword", and that it was "dangerpus". They think .Dr. Withy combe should reverse himself on the single , Item veto, and come out in favor of It. . It is unthinkable that they would give him such advice. He can not be against the single item veto part of-the campaign and in favor of it the rest of the campaign. If he flops from one position to an other on the issue, it will be unanswerable proof of weakness. To call the single item Teto "a two-edged sword" and "dangerous" one day and. come out for It the next day would make the whole state laugh. The flop would cost him more votes In the Indecision and in stability of purpose it would show than he could possibly lose by staying by, his position of hostility to the plan. Those who give such counsel advise Dr. Withycombe badly. There is no way to wipe out Dr. Withycombe's public utterances on the single item veto. At the Civic League luncheon, he said: .It (the. single item veto) would be a two-elged sword. In the hands of a trustworthy executive) of -fair and Impartial mind. It might work well: but it would give room for an executive of opposite political ten dency; to work political revenges that wduld prove dangerous. Five days later at the Pioneers. Picnic at Brownsville, Dr. Withy combe reiterated his opposition. Speaking of the single item veto, he said: Now. that looks splendid, but It looks to me like it would rive the governor power to do anything he Ukea, that any - tendency for spite would be greatly aided. It would afford a splendid chance for a man who had. a little spite to make it a sharp two-edged sword by which he could run - the legislature. I am very skeptical about this. There is no way for Dr. Withycombe to forget these words. They are his words. He uttered them before large audiences. The men who are trying to make him forget them either consciously or un consciously, would lead him into a course of embarrassment. They should not attempt to make a pawn of Dr. Withycombe, for them to move about at their pleasure. Dr. Witnycombe should not permit them to make a pawn of him, to take his own wordsBout of his mouth, and put their own words in his mouth. They should not ask him to "crawfish", because if he does enter upon a course of backing out and flopping around it will bring him nothing but disaster. claimed by the wife that the neck lace had been given her by a friend but It was proved at the trial that while a necklace had been sent by jewelers to Mrs. Cameron on ap proval it had been returned by .her and "that- she had proceeded to wear "a string of false pearls. As she had , never owned the , neck lace there had been no robbery. Mrs. Cameron's testimony was a network of false statements but her husband, against all legal and rriendly advice, instructed his so licitors that nothing was to . be said, in his defense which would throw any doubt on his wife's tes timony. Both were sentenced to three years at hard labor and the hus band was dismissed from the army. Months later they were pardoned. A petition signed by 4600 lead ers in the land, peers, judges, and admirals, was presented to the House jot Commons the other day asking that the case be reheard and that Cameron be restored to his place in the-varmy on the ground that his conduct was really that of a gallant and courageous gentleman. A FEW SMILES PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF Letters From the People Toung Man I have called, sir, to request the band or your daughter In marriage. Grum bells Has she accepted you? Toung Man Yes, sir. Grumbells Then what do you want to come round and bother ma with your trouble for? The poor tramp and the young cook form a combination that has afforded material for Jo.e writers the world over for genera-' tions. Here's one that Is like all the oth ers, and yet just a little dlfferent: "Are you the same man who ate my mince pie last week?" inquired the woman. "No, mum," mournfully responded the tramp; "th doctor says I'll never be th' . same man again." Lippin-cott's. about it, do they not find that they are subjecting the nation to great and almost irreparable loss and to an inexcusable and notorious waste, if they succeed In beating the rivers and harbors measure? T1IE RATE DECISION T man army is hurrying toward the , point where German, French and " Swiss frontiers join, a Opposing ' this movejuewt are French forces ! t4 About equal numbers, speeding fro aJl slfcrartions in France to resist the Geranaa invasion. The shock of this mighty and J horrible tragedy of battle cannot t be long delayed. ' It will be a bat- tie of stupendous destruction, per ' haps the most murderous in his t tory. It cannot be long postponed, - for the grim purpose of Germany - Is to strike bard and quick, and at 1e8t, after a few days of sklrmish- Ing, tw great nations will be locked in the deadly embrace of what might turn out to be one of i the world's decisive battles. HE Interstate Commerce Com mission has decided that east ern railroads are entitled to a small advance in rates. The commission finds that while the income of the railroads i3 smaller than demanded by public interest they have made no showing war ranting a general increase that his mother was unable to look after him. That was his "crime," the taking of a postage stamp by a fourteen-year-old boy is no theft at all. It was a trivial offense, calling for a spanking but not for imprisonment. tJkhJ?!? aSftlon ent to Tb Journal for publication lu tbla department ahould be writ one. ,lde of lhe PPer. should Jat words In length and must ba ac companied by the name and address ot tba tu.der- " the writer does not desire to have the name published, be afcouid ao state.) -J'01??18?0 U the a-rcatest of an reform ers. It rationalizes eTerything it touches. It roba principles ot all fals sanctity and throws i them back on their reasonableness. . If tney bare no reasonableness. It ruthlessly crushes them oat of existence and Bets up Its own conclusions In their stead." Wood row W uaon. THE AVIATOR'S HEROISM F ROB ABLY the most thrilling Incidents of the pending Eu ropean war will be those In which the air-man will par ticipate. Not only will the inter est be great in studying the effect iveness of the aeroplane as a new It is implement of warfare in scouting pointed out that real relief could and dropping explosives but the be had by a financial reorganlza- blood will be stirred by the lndl-i tion of the roads on a sound basis, vidual acts of heroism on the part Rather than raise rates It was of aviators. suggested that the railroads should There is already a foretaste of discontinue costly free service to tta Jn a paris dispatch telling of shippers and possibly Increase their Roland Garros' sacrifice of life passenger fares. jn bringing down a German dirigible In effect the decision of the just after it had crossed the commission is that the present French frontier. From a height financial condition of the railroads D 10oo feet Garros, in his aero- has not arisen from increased wage plane, swooped down on the dir- paymenis to employes or to lacs: 01 Hgible which was set on fire. With ecouumy m uyeratum aiLuseuier. the aeroplane entangled in its un me oiner nana it Old Parties and Platforms. Newport, Or., July 30. To the Kd ltor of The Journal I learn by The Journal of a scheme of the Anti-Saloon league's state chairman and leading candidates of the various parties, to gether with the "Oregon dry" commit tee of 100, to take the prohibition Is sue out of politics. I believe this is a clever scheme to throttle the pro hibition party, and more especially since learning of the double dealing of Mr. U'Ren. I am very triad he has Many years ago, in consequence of a commercial panlo, there was a se vere, run on a bank n South Wales, and the small farmers Jostled each other In crowds to draw out. thele. money. Things were rapid ly going from bad to wprse when the bank manager. In a fit of desperation, suddenly bethought him of an expedient. By his direc tions a clerk, having Heated some sov ereigns In a frying pan, paid them over the -counter to an anxious appll cant. "Why. they're quite hot I latter as he took them up. "Of course." was the reply; "what else could you expect? They are only Just out of the mold. We are coining them by hundreds as fast as we can." "Coining them!" thought the simple agriculturists; "then there Is no fear of the money dunning- shortl" With this their confidence revived, the pan to abated, and the bank was enabled to weather the Btorrrk fJMALL CHANGE , An heiress ought to make a capital wife. - Huerta get off the front page Just in time. Usually a laxy man Is a dead loss to himself. It's easy to' Ignore Insults aimed at someone else. a A wise man never poses as the hero of his own anecdotes. The meanest creature on earth Is man, when he's mean. The pessimist haj an Ingrowing grudge s gainst humanity in general and himself la Particular. No man has any business to aret married until he can listen to a crying baby without saying things that wouldn't look well in print. It Is said that In all things women have better tatse thah men. but we wish to say that men do not kiss each other when they meet on the street In Indiana a socletv of women meets weekly to pray for the elimination of tobacco, and in Kentucky the church people are praying for fain to save the tobacco crop endangered by a pro longed drought. Any danger of the two kinds getting tangled? OREGON SIDELIGHTS IIS EARLIER DAYS By Fred Lockle. hnti by the city engineer, and which also includes a new system ot air eat sauiwa. Silver Lake Leader: The candidate for commissioner who had In his plat form: "A bounty on rabbits," would have no place to stand by November if the present disease among the long eared gentry continues. There will be no rabbits to pay bounty on. a Sherwood people will not wait for Thanksgiving day, but next Saturday win hold a "big celebration 01 tne vea.ra hlir rrnri" to mint A from a dis play announcement in the Sherwood Journal. A barbecue is to be one of many entertainment features. a Editorial note in Cottage Grove Leader of August 1: "This number of the Leader Is the first effort of .the ladies of any Cottage Grove so ciety to edit a newspaper, and already the ladies of the Christian church are convinced that it isn't a. Job that 'any body can do." " a Notes like this, from the Tillamook Herald, are reappearing In the state press: "Over 400 pieces of advertising matter were mailed this week by Sec retary Worrall, descriptive of TUl.t mook county and city, and telling of our vast virgin opportunities to citi zens of other states who actually write Inquiring of Oregon with a view ot coming here." THE RACE-DREAD BENEATH EUROPE'S WAR manlty; therefore they who do not commits murder and suicide evidently do not have this love. To which class does Addle Steadman belong:? The shown up now instead of later on. As author's own epitaph must be: "I l see it, these leaders and' old tar- nave love in my heart and am a mur ties are over-worried about the policy derer, or I do not have love abiding of the Prohibition party. The cry now ln mv heart.' is neutrality." Are the old nurtiea -n. wnat a tangled web we weave. really neutral? Accordlnar to an Orn. whn first we practice to deceive." gon Democratic paper some time ago, 1 -A-nd 14 H occurs In an effort to de- tnere was talk of an independent tick- lena ln saioon. et by the wet forces, aa thev were I t'Tom what source do the normal not satisfied with our gubernatorial "euuments rererred to go wrong? If dry nominations. All at once the old "lo "Quor trairic and its influences parties are on their knees to the wets. not lne causes of sorrow and "Oh' don't nut nn n tlnlraf W TODg. the briehtest sunshine that n. at your service. We will play neutral vl"orte3 the beautiful valleys of our ana rool the drys. ' . "ui lom as ine DiacKest smoko But not long ago the American ev?r emj"ed from the most horrible Brewers' Review emphatically denied vultano- W. S. HOLLIS. alK neutrality. It said. 'Thw ran ba only two parties, prohibition and antl- 1 fsociallzatton. proniDition. ' Portland, Aug. 4. To the Editor of Now I say. these non-partisan s-en- The Journal Soma tim ern nrvri From the Philadelphia North Amer ican. This la the scene which confronts the race after 19. centuries of the gos pel of peace the great Christian na tions of the elder world, the exemplars of civilization and advanced humanity, flinging themselves into a devastating said the, war. National rivalries are to be settled by slaughter; half a continent Is to be drenched In blood to decide where Justice lies aa between clashing racial ambitions. The streets of the capitals are filled with shouting throngs. The only hero is the soldier. The nation which yes terday was a friend, or no-worse than a rival, today Is furiously denounced as "the enemy," for whose blood it is virtuous to thirst. Millions of armed troops are being mobilized for destruction, amid the cheers of war- mad citizens. We have heard much of the peace dream of Socialism a brotherhood that should know no borders and Should obliterate militarism but one blast of "the haggard trumpets" shat ters it. The abstract idea of a united humanity is submerged ln the rush of passions as crude aa those of the primitive savage. Swift as has seemed the develop ment of this situation of dread, the results of which one can hardly dare to contemplate. Its coming has been recognized as inevitable for a gener ation. Those tlfreadbare phrases, "the balance of power" and "the concert of Europe," had their source in condl tions which now threaten to shake the continent. What does It all mean? What re slstless force Is It that turns whole peoples Into war crazed mobs In an age when peaceful civilization Is, In theory, the animating spirit of the world? Even a casual traveler ln Europe is startled by the universal acceptance tlemen can't take the Question out. I again, a partisan newtmaner of Port The brewers won't let them. They land has referred to proportional rep tied the old parties hand and foot 40 resentation and its twin sister, the years ago and they have never been abolition of the state senate, as beintf and never will till they are dead. I demand for the socialization of in- of " ta6"Crl?af wL in wonder if they know what the 'Satur- dustry. If these two measures with nevlt.ae-l T-fJJi!?1 day Evening Post said about them, their powerful backing and indorse Here it la: "Before us He two mouldy ment-Tjy six different organized bodies. heaps of literary Junfc. One is labeled or .their officials, all of non-pollticaf the other 'Re- ""iauon, incline toward Socialls deep rooted racial antagonism be tween Teuton and Slav. All eastern Europe Is overshadowed by the huge bulk of Russia, whose power is literally measureless and steadily growing. Her vast popula tion and illimitable wealth make her invulnerable. Her defeat by Japan on the far-off Paciflo left hardly a mark upon her Imperial might. She can put 6,600,000 of stolid fighting men ln the field in a few months. And. Russia Is determined that Teu ton expansion toward the south and east shall not take place. Ties of race and religion, as well as considerations of politics, make her the supporter of the Slavic peoples whom Austria threatens. She yielded to Austria and Germany In 1909, when the former ab sorbed Bosnia and Herzegovina, but that makes It no more likely that she will permit the crushing of Servla. w brought about to great extent by itg twenty-five occupants, together block manipulation, inaeiensiDie re- with Garros, were killed uiBa.uia.wwuD, mo iBDuauwo i I A SPCnnrt rlisnnfr-h cava tious securities and the granting German alrsnip was destroye1 and V1 - j m w crew killed by a French avl- and enormous fees and commis- Dt oc,JL, . , ... . , j. . ator wno ascended to a great eions to financial syndicates. The i..,. . , . . - , , , . neignt and rained shots upon the necessity of making large annual rii..rn , Tv,n T , xu,, dirigible. While doing so he lost r" r.::rintrol ot his machine and fell to r ... . i.ltne earth, being Instantly killed. O.U&U1 UCU UIO 1BVBUUBB Ot IUB I T,-.-. ty,a . . , , . . raiirnario or the soldier on land and the ranrOdUS. I Rnilnr nn cm v. The commission says that deny- I,"" 'Z, ll " "rZ fighting .the trtth.-omall the soldier in the air has . Z M , v burden which has been permanently Il; talk. Jet them also think. Li- w vl abled railroad employe and stockholder by Improper financing in past -juemocrauc piairorm the other 'H- I "umuuii, incune towara Socialism has been 1 wreckage it fell to the around and i Publican platform.' Both parties talk and tn socialization of industry, the much of reforming various things. We People of Oregon are surely willing to wish they would reform themselves DO non-pouucany socialized. by leaving the rot out of their plat- Both of these measures have, firat forms." - " the indorsement of the Oregon State ,The statement Is made that the Federation of Labor, a most powerful Anti-Saloon .league is the leading force offensive and defensive non-political for Oregon dry. If true, how is it organization; second, of the Farmers that the Prohibition party got ao Society of Equity, which is of no mean manv mora Rimers to force th Irhua I influence: third. Of the Peonies' Power to vote with a party that won't cripple I non-political Influence in direct lesis- LET THEM THINK HILE those rivers and source when his machine no re is dis- the Issue, and that refuses to line up with the slums. E. W. DURKEE. muion in-uregoa wiin tries come two other very conservative organiza tions made up of the stability and backbone of the farming community tne oiricers or the State Grange and of the Farmers' Union, with the fur- Here Is something for them to think about: Take, for ' instance, the government work on . the north Jetty at the mouth of the Columbia. Seventy-five thon '. sand dollars was Bpent there In dredging a channel through which I to carry rock from the rivep north "Of -Sand Island to be deposited on - the Jetty. If no rivers and harbors: bill . . passes, work will cease within two weeks. The $500,900 contributed by, Portland and Astoria" to "keep . the work going will be exhausted. There will then be no funds 'until .congress can pass an appropriation bill next year. Meanwhile, the channel for reaching the north jetty will close up. If kept ln se by passing barges and tag, it would remain open. Otherwise, hatuTe wiH fill It up again long before the wlnty", DRUGS A XI) CHILDREN. years must unfortunately be large ly borne, but It is highly important to prevent similar financial prac tices in the future. That Is the I N Philadelphia the other dav a mother asked the police judge to send her boy to the house of correction to free him -l-i-i - M . . ... ...I. J uujwt OI penaing legislation wmcn from the drug habit. The boy is designed to protect investors. I h - I ...... . waw-aau w& 417 consumers and employes. LAW AND CHILDHOOD A wnicn he had no trouble ln se curing from trafficker ln habit- forming drugs. in New York, at about the same time, three men and a woman were arrested and charged with teirou woman demanded, a warrant for the arrest of (. . , . . . . . i wo arresieu ana cnargea WU11 a three-year-old child who y,ov, a . ... . ,, , . inavlng drugs ln-their possession had uprooted her pansy bed. I ji.-.... ... r f'ww:tt yauoy ueu. . ,icMhl -i i -v. Th warrant waa rfi,s.r1 n-o- . ""5 ouuux vuu ! J " I ft rPTl Tha nniaAn n?o TmanA lie court officers, and the lady "' 't,Z7aa T, V yv7X was indignant 1 ' In quantities that could be sold was indignant. f - ( A Missouri boy went blackberry-1 ers are said to' have told detec- T "a miiKea tives what their purpose was. - 0 iuo These twn nfMono trla.ia. offense of people, who, for The Victim of Warfare. Reedville, Or., Aug. 3. To the Edi nn tha nraoini. nf a war nnTra ther Indorsement of the Proportional of which is hard to foresee. It seems Presentation bureau, whose activity hard to think that nations must, out m securing petitions has made the of selfishness, expose their people to initiative of Oregon.renowned for unl i hn-r-rs- r. n. . tv. . i I versal. unDaid. initiativA netltinninc ...0 .vi t o . T. U 1 . V1II1C lUUDbl ' , - J . ' ' come, and coma soon, when tha men The blaMfe, if any attaches, for this who in time of war Bare their breasts acknowledged tendency to sociaiiza to the bayonet and fight the battles tion, is the direct constitutional leg- of the ruling clan, the money class isiauon provuega or the people to and the aristocracy, will pause and mase ana unmatte laws. This prac think that after all they gain nothing, tical. modern piece of legislative ma never have gained anything and never j chinery, now either copied or being will, unless it Is an added burden of copied by all other progressive states. taxation and sorrow upon themselves I has disarmed partisan, political plu and their families. The poor man must I tocracy, once and forever. The yoke carry the torch ln time of war to lay I of legislative bondage is broken; the waste the home of a brother; he stops I people are free, and no chain is strong the bullets of the enemy upon the enough to rebind them to the chariot battlefield, while the man who has wheels of boss-ridden political plu me money and tna, power over him toCracy. C. W. BARZEE. sits in security and speculates over ternatlonal Intrigue, vast military preparations these are the unending subjects of discussion and speculation. The very waiters at the continental hotels will surprise- the tourist by their familiarity with these tremen dous questions. Everywhere, among all classes, the coming of the gigantic conflict Is regarded as a certainty. For this fatalistic acceptance of monstrous reversion to savagery there are two underlying causes. First Is the economic pressure which In creasing populations and lack oC natural resources have exerted for generations upon the nations of central Europe, to be overcome, they believe, only through expansion. Second is a tne results, jjo kings ana emperors and the moneyed class care for the ruined homes and the vacant chairs their wars cause? A war for terri Foreign Advocates. Portland,. Aug. 4. To the Editor of The Journal In your Issue of July 29, the wlnWir was proved that the lad "felon- "!.: "A,,'"' ends, and another 175,000 U Jiously" took the milk; he was con- m. 1." s- ,have to be spent ln opening ,It: It win be a loss of 75,000,orf ac count of fall a re of the rtrrs'and - harbors bill. .-5 ; The same kind of a loss will result from action of the teredo . on the 6000 feet of piling already f driven id the Jetty. A yeart'de-' lay will mean that before the jetty .is finally completed, much of this . piling will have to be replaced. .It will have to be driven through the rocks in the Jetty, Instead of ' through the sands as in the begin ning. Those obstructing the rivers and harbors bill can easily uAriM ZIZ luuul' more pitiful objects than a child H I Lmt ,m . , addicted to the use of drugs. There .A committee of Illinois resi- are no more despicable persons SnnShmBenUt SD th i rtem. f than man r WOI"an seeks ?Rarir, 5t f 8C "nancial profit through prostltu f Badensburg, Md found in that tion of childhood. af,vlen"yea"0li b,7 If trade ln these drugs is SlEfe ZeZlt?J??tenC6t t0T roughly organized, as was stated Si w hSTSSr Pf 6ta.mP; in Padelphla and New York, it 2Lif Jk!11 JM1 ?. 016 "hol is time that fathers and mothers a":r " . vf UOJ-or m behalf of their chn- r no pther reason. The arn tZrv T; ,: Z , use of ablt-formmg drugs is grow- f-?.iM thJaVeSU" in at an alarming rate, and the late childhood. The Detroit case traffir n ,1..'m.v," .2. " H They should ZTZtowrtZAZ . . . . , . 1 page 13, last column, I note another tory Is an unholy war. There should I i , ',.. ,,', .! be a united protest against such wars. f " n tT- i,-T T ii 1 The men who carry the gun, should V, "? .?a thth nd oc mis, viuu, oiiii, liot use them to further It is about time that the people rise manager of the Anti-Saloon league, de up and drive their aristocratic royal Clares it Is not a foreign organization Mitflt ir.tA nkiiinn r, tk.i. butting Into Oregon to destroy one of affairs. To any thinking man royalty our biggest industries, the hop busi-1 seems a useless, barbarous thine, a u"- wt ua,o piutureu nerslstent parasite upon the bodv of a miUion douars to pay traveling ex nations 'which ought to be done awav Pnses and salaries to their officers with. ' Mr. Hutton says ln his statement last Royalty, like the llauor traffic, ere- Sunday that the fight will begin all ates nothing and la a drain upon the over again next day after being beaten. country ln ' By John M. Oskison. 1 A certain bank in the east publishes an excellent monthly summary of busi ness conditions. In Its July issue was this: "In these reports a year ago we rer ferred to the then general complaint about business and called attention to the unusually large bank clearings, high record for exports, the small num ber of Idle freight cars, the increase ln railroad gross earnings, and many oth er factors which showed that the month of May, 1913. was in reality a remarkably good month of business. "Complaints were general at that time, and without real reason. A-year of this kind-of complaining has con tinued to increase the business de pression, and now, when we compare the past month of May with May of last year, we realize that business has, in reality, been smaller in volume than for some time past." Another big banker said in a recent talk to other bankers: "We are told that the trouble of business is psychological. In a sense. I believe that the statement Is cor rect. I believe that the lack of en- , Safety Valve. When stranger meets with stranger, when Of nrdi they've spoken eight or ten, which Its tentacles are Of course It will, if people will be fool-; Or be they women folks or men. The Ragtime Muse Mv.ti umu suiciuu!u( j -u3 auuuus vi uiaujr people, x U6 j gtroy children . Kineero vue ucavy cost wui u&ry woman assumed mat wnat- result from this j phase of the -delay, v' . J Similar loss will inure from de terioration of plant and from the , considerable over-head expense on all government work. And all over ; the United States, to a greater or less extent, losses !! and waste will i be exactly the same la kind as those to be brought on at the ruoath of the Calumblr., if the ,riverc and harbors bill does not I pass at this session. , Senators and 1 newspapers ' who vare fighting the bin claim- they are doing so In the: name of "econ omy". When they come to sthlnk ever was done to the baby-offend er must be done by proper author ity outside the home. She also assumed, wbat was not a fact, that the child's act was in the nature of a crime. CHIVALRY NOT BEAD T HE f amous necklace story of Maupassant Is recalled by a real incident in English life in which a chivalrous hus- The Missouri boy, who Is" serv-1 band was the central fiacre. ing a jail sentence for milking Three years ago the ' British a cow and drinking the milk, Is Islands were stirred by the $30,000 the victim of a wrong conception Pearl Necklace fraud. Lieutenant of law. Enforcement of. such law i Cameron, an efficient officer ir th would have sent many first .class English army, and his wife were citizens to, Jail when they were J arrested for an attempt to defraud boys. I Lloyds of the sum of S3 2.000 in- The Maryland boy sent to a I demnlty for a necklace which the reform school for stealing a two- J wlfedalmed had been snatched off cent , stamp . was unfortunate . In her. neck In the street. Tt. wan planted. Nothing but the apathy of I ish enough to give hard earned money the masses allows such unnatural con- to distract the public's mind from more ditions to exist ln this day and age. vital issues demanding attention. Mr. O. E. FRANK. . Russell says in the last paragraph of ) his statement that Main is now dry A Report from Astoria. for the first time In years, which again Astoria, Ot', Aug. 1. To the Editor shows misstatements and contradict or Tbe Journal While here in this lnK other statements by the Anti section I hav had a good opportunity Saloon league, which has been adver to learn something about the com- Using Maine dry for 60 years. Ing election to be held in November. Mr. Russell says the league Is con There are 52 saloons in this place, ducting the campaign regardless of po and certainly the question of liauor Utical or religious orders. Still, Mr. traffic is paramount, insofar as those Hutton ln his statement says. "The people are concerned; but outside of trustees representing the various re- the licensed district the country, gen- llgious organisations of America,- and erally speaking, will stand uhequtv- mentions dozens of ministers' names, ocally for closing saloons. On the Everybody knows the Prohibition party question of igovernor there seems to I has stooa up to aeieat ror 60 years. be only one person whom the voters consider seriously Dr. C J. Smith and they quite all agree on his elec tion to office. F. I. GANNON. W. J. BISHOP. Referring, to Mr. ITRen. From the Salem Weekly Visitor. The Cottage Grove Sentinel thinks that. Mr. U'Ren shows bad faith In "his Love .and Murder, Portland, Aug. .3. To the Editor of statement that if he la elected gover The journal in your issue or Aug. linor no win arop single. tax for a Addle Steadman has a letter contain-1 period of four years. , The Sentinel Ing the following statement: . "If It Interpret It as an offer to bribe the were not for man's love for woman I voters, and expresses a doubt as to the and woman's love for man there would I quality ot Mr. TJ Ren's Ideals because be no rejected love and no jealousy. I be "agrees ln advance to cease to ad hence no murder and suicide caused 1 vocate that to which he has dedicated by these normal sentiments gone (his life -and that which be believes wrong." I absolutely necessary to the happiness The analysis of such philosophy is I of the poor and downtrodden. The that murder and suicide come from! point Is well taken. Mr. U'Ren has love, which this same writer states I harped so strenuously upon "old fash God implanted in the heart of bu-lioned political methods," that he has Thou tn tret together They dare not touch on politics Or any otner oag ot uic On harmony their minds they fix And talk aoout me wnmir. When any situation's tense And men have sputtered arguments Till friends become Deiwgerenis, Their passions one may tether And spare them all a world of pain. And give them chances to explain If herll remark: "It looks like rain I Or somewhat on the weather. That topic's full of soothing balm. It keeps the conversation calm; So in its praise I make this psalm Writ with the peace dove's feather. Perhaps it may assist mankind Relief from, every woe to find To talk on and to keep in mind Just that one theme, the weather! Cantaln . . . . 3 t5 ? th. water YUoTlrTTZ ' . . . . T . I llimhla mnA IL'tn .. "uiaraeiie rivers develop from the days of keelboats. batteaux end barges to the fleet of steamboats ay. . "I started on the river on July J5. 1860." said Captain Pease re cently We were sitting in his room " at hi. horn, at 784 Pettyyrov. .treet. rU .tb tAbl hl leather case, in vfhicb were arranged hi. Vr ?!T y,?.r ba " When . Hnu. , v log of n dally doings. In these old diaries is ma terial for a hundred atorles. A. I glanced over the page, of the jour nals written more than So y,Ws ago. Captain Peaae told m. peraonal .nd lntimat. incident, about M m friends. Captain John H. Couch. Jacob Kamm. Captain Ain.wortb, John Wolff and other, of the early mariner. Captain Pease Is 94 years old. lie wa. born in New York afar. ir. ism He is a forty-niner, having come to California when he wai 19 years old. A company of about SO adventurous young nien bought the bark Monsan end came around the Horn to Cali fornia. They reached Son Francisco In September. He put ln the winter of ' and the spring of '50 in th. gold digging., and ln the spring of 1850 took passage with Captain Baker, aboard th. brig Anna E. Maine, for Astoria. Astoria, on account of the gold discovery In California, had become a point of importance. Cap tain Richard Hoyt with hi. bark, John W. Cater, was plying between Port land and San Francisco, and Portland and Victoria. Captain John H. Couch had brought the bark Madonna to - Portland to engage In coast bu.ine.a, and J. C. Flander. had been promoted from mate to master and given com mand of her. That .turdr Scotchman. William Irving, with hi. bark. Bucceaa, was engaged In th. coast trade. On Christmas day, 1849, th.. Mary Tay lor, the first pilot schooner to ply on the bar at the mouth ot th. Co lumbia, tame up from San Francisco, :n charge of Captain J. O. Hu.tler .nd Captain Corneliu. Whit.. Th. schoon er Starling and tba bark. Keoka. Anita, Carib and Ocean Bird, were also plying between Portland and San Francisco, so Astoria had become . busy ceaporC ah vue summer OI isv in. question of the supremacy of Portland or Mil waukle was yet unsettled. It wat felt by many that Portland wa. too close to Mllwaukie to ever make much of a town. Captain Peaae picked Mll waukie for th. winner and' went there. He started what was destined to become hi. life work by running a boat between Mllw.ukl. and Oregon City. "Th. boat I started, my career on the river with was owned by a man named Cosgrove," aald Captain Peace. "It carried four or flv. tons of freight. it wa. really nothing more than a big akiff. After operat ing this boat for a while I got work at my trade. 1 had worked with my father at hi. trade of carpenter and Joiner tor several years, and I ex pected to follow th.t work. Mr. Hood at Oregon City hired me to build a housd for him. That fall I bought a couple of boats, a keel boat and a batteau. The keel boat was 7i feet long with 10" foot beam, and was op erated by a crew of seven Indians. I operated tle keel boat between Port land and Oregon City and the batteau from above the falls at Oregon City to lafayette. John Clemmen ran the batteau for me. I charged 820 a ton for freight from Portland to Oregon City, and 835 a ton from Ore gon City to Iafayette, or 155 a ton chipped through from Portland to La fayette. Indians were good boatmen If you knew how to handle them. I paid them by the trip. Their wage, averaged around a dollar a day, and tn addition I furnished them their board, consisting of flour and beef. "In March, 1051, the water was high and Clemmens got cold fet. He wa afraid to go through the rapids In the Rock Island channel. He had th. Indians take the boat through whit, he got out and walked. I fired him for this and took charge of byth tlic I keel boat and the batteau myaeif. Th. 1 Kock IsUnd channel was dangerous If yuu didn't handle your boat With. care. what made ciemmena scared waa that a boat had turned over at Marr"s point at th. foot of Rock is land, and all five of the men in It had been drowned. Clemmens should have remembered that It wa. no moi dangerous for1 him than It was for his Indian crew, so I let him go. I ran my keel boat up to Corvallis, an occasionally, when a good load of freight was offered me, I went up t Eugene. "In 1S51, several .mall steamboats were brought here for th. run on th. Willamette river. Among them was the Kooeiar and th. Washington which Captain Alexander Sinclai Murray brought up from San Fran Cisco aboard th. bark Succaas. Cap tain Irving, the master of th. barM Success, also brought the Multnomah in the knoekdown from the Atla.itia coast, and it .ectlons were put to gether at Oregon City. This boat, called the "bairel boat,' wa. mad. oC Jersey oak, and wa. 100 feet long, and was one of the fastest side wheel ers on the river. Her tlm. of on. rour and 20 minut. for tha run from Portland to Vancouv.r wa. th. reoord fur years. Such men a. Richard Hoyt, who later was her owner; John H. Couch, H. L. Hoyt, John McNully. William Moltrop and Captain Fauntla- l'oy were at aiiierem times in com mand of her. Th. Black H.wk, an iron propeller, wa. brought up from Sacramento In a .ailing vessel ownrt by Abernathy. Th Canemah also went on th. river at .bout thl. time. Btm was built at Canemah by Captain A. F Hedges, Captain Charle. Bennett, Captain John McClosky. who had seen rervice on the Mississippi, and two well-to-do member, of th. Methodist mission party, Alan.on Beer, and Hamilton Campbell, or 'Cow Camp bell, as he was usually called." The Hoosler wa. the first steam boat to be operated above the fails at Oregon City. Captain Peaae wa. given the dual po.ltlon of pilot .nd purser, and thus became the flr.t pilot to ply on the upper Willamette on a steam boat. The Hoosler was not much for fclze. a. .h. was a reconstructed ship's longboat. Her motive power was th. engine .nd boiler of a pU. drlrw. Sh. operated between Canemah ad Corvalll. All these cross currents of racial and political antagonism are a. fa miliar to the people, of Europe a. the simplest fact, of existence. From childhood they breathe the atmosphere of International Intrigue and look up on the vast preparation, of militarism a. the most important function of civi lisation. The people of this country, fortu nate In their "splendid isolation ' and the peaceful Intermingling of differ ent bJoods, look with wonder and al most contempt upon the patient sub jection of European nations to th. in credible burdens of vast armaments. But the victim, have been taught that that Is the price they must pay for national existence. To them, there is no middle ground between Teutonic and Slavic supremacy; one race or the other must succumb. Tp a rgeat extent, therefore, mili tarism Is regarded by them as natural, even admirable. The spirit of na tional pride and warlike preparednet. Is kept alive by every possible device and by earnest conviction. Thus, while the huge armament, and uni versal conscription are, tn a sense, promoters of peace. In another aspect they ar. provocatives of war. But tfcer. could be no greater .et- back to human progress than general acquiescence ln such a view. Uni versal peace Is still an Iridescent dream and Its realization seemingly remote. Measured by some conditions, Chris tianity itself Is a failure; yet it has been the greatest single force ln the development of humanity, for the rea son that it ha. Inspired men to strive for Impossible perfection. Peace, on the contrary. Is attainable; and the struggle toward It Is the worthiest employment of the race. Buiness Troubles; Psychological Theory tluislasm about the future, the state of pessimism that surrounds many phase, of business, the disposition to ward extreme conservatism, the lack of new plan, for capital expenditures for railway Improvement and exten sion, for new Industrial conquest, all have their root, in a state of mind, rather than ln th. statistics of actual business data." President Wilson has givn wide cir culation to the theory which has been known a long time ln Wall street, where the minds of trader, and in vestors ar. peculiarly susceptible to psychological influence.. If enough people want to think of anything as bad, and will continue long enough to carl it bad, there', nothing on earth to save it from being regarded as bad. Whether It's a question of bonds, business, of your private mor als, the result will be the same. Likewise, a. soon a. enough people begin to talk hopefully about business, bonds, or morals, nothing can stop the resultant flow of belief in the goodness of things. If lnve.tor. will reraero bV that our psychology rules us, they will find it to their interest. HOO'S H00 By John W. Carey. aroused a suspicion ln the mind, of a good many people that he is not entirely sincer. .nd will bear watch ing. Certainly It would not b. nlc. for him to desert bis .ingle tax child. What assurance would th. dry ladle, and gentlemen who vote for him hav. that he would not desert th. new baby after he had gained tha offic. h. yearns fort Mr. U'Ren. remind, us ef th. merchant who advertised: "Don't go to oth.rs to be humbugged; com. here." V""V. . At the national convention of den tists teeth were pulled to demonstrate the latest methods, At Mm. other conventions they pull hair. HALL of FAriLj . pnAKES s " - rm.BR. peo. ' f MOe. Who early carved himself a nam. among Rhode Island's great and did hi. .bar. up on the map to keep that tiny state? y Who ruled the Mm. at 29 It. "baby governor" .nd ehone at three-and-thirty as its United States senator? Who lived a life enwrapped ln turn in travail and romance, and hobnobbed j at the Whit. Houae with th. Lincoln and th. Grant. 7 1 Who laugh, at Father Tim. today ; at 88 or so and a a link th. present bind, to day. of long ago? ' Who .urely in our Hall of Fame ha. title to jl peg the last of wartime gov ernors? Shake bands with : Willias The Sunday Journal The Great Home Newspaper, consists of Five news sections replete wlta illustrated f.aturea. Illustrated macaxlne of quality. Woman's section of tare merit. Pictorial news supplement. Superb ccmlc section. 5 Cents ttie Copy ; "r I I