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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
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