THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL,'. PORTLAND, THURSDAY EVENING. AUGUST 27. ' X4.
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WlTHQUT HESITATION
WHEN It gives Its "Ipse dixit"
on the effect of the tariff
the Oregonlan is not both
ered by such little things
as facts. For example it says:
The Oregonlan make, without hesi
tation' or reservation the statement
that the reduced tariff on ' butter
has already cost the - producer or
Oregon approximately , l,S00,000r
. As a base on which to make the
statement "without hesitation , or
reservation" ' our esteemed contem
porary says: 'Butter manufac
tured in Oregon during year end
ing August 3. 1914, was 50,000.
000 pounds.".
Bo far as the actual facts are
concerned the amount .might as
well have been placed at 100,000,-
Unfortunately for the .Qre
gonian's argument the greatest
output of butter in Oregon, has
been this season, and it is esti
mated that it will amount to only
23,000,000 pounds. Last year's
output was 18,000,000.
Another factor to be taken into
consideration in connection with
the price of butter this year is
the competition between the city
and . county creameries, which has
had an effect on the market.
Another thing to be considered
Is the fact that this oeason has
been the earliest known for many
years. For that reason butter com
peted severely with the California
product ' and was therefore much
lower in price that a year ago.
Likewise a year ago- the season
was unusually late and prices ruled
at an abnormal' height. '
Other reasons might be men-
il..ni1 V., 1 9 Vm nnn!.n'a Via a If
figures are so unreliable what is
the use of paying, any attention to
them.
If there were no such things as
facts anyone could make state
' ments "without hesitation or reservation."
of age.
Because of his sound doctrinal
views . Cardinal Caspaxri is - favored
by many. . He had a prominent
part in codifying the canon law 'of
the church. It is predicted- that
he would make another Leo XIII
and that Ferrata would be another
Pius X. ... ' .
Cardinal Lualdi is fixty-slx years
of age. Cardinal do Lai Is sixty
six. He is noted for bis executive
ability and his knowledge of all
branches of ecclesiastical govern
ment. '
: , During the reign of Plus X the
relations between the Holy See and
the Italian s government; were cor
dial and for reasons bound up with
the 4 question of - temporal power,
those who musi support the su
preme pontiff in guiding the af
fairs of the church wish these re
lations to continue and become
more favorable.
ItEX-TIGARDVILLE ROAD
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T IS announced by the pro
moters of the Rex-Tigardville
road improvement that - the
$20,000 fund for the Improve
ment has been finally raised. Of
the amount required the state
highway commission has appropri
ated 312,000 and the' county of
Washington $2000. The remain
ing $6000 has been raised by indi
vidual subscriptions.
Oregon needs good roads but an
unfortunate precedent .has been es
tablished in the method of secur
ing funds for this particular im
provement. "Most of the road Is
located in Washington county and
the burden should have been as
sumed by that county. Even if the
county bad been obliged to make a
special levy on the district affected,
the increase in the value of abut
ting property would have offset
the cost of the improvement many
times over. The act of the state
highway commission in extending
aid should not encourage other
counties to expect similar treat
ment, thus leading to a use of the
state fund that has never been
contemplated. Counties would be
slow to - improve their highways
and would look to the state and
private, persons to do work which
the counties themselves should do.
and permanent rehabilitation of and yet; they would be " powerless , said that it remind.
the American marine much wiu to prevent communication between , n,mw OTrn "Q
have been accomplished. jthe United States, .a neutral na-
. Whatever la dona in the emir I tion. and Oermanr; " r-
gehcy. congress cannot be absolved . This Js.the first great war since
from the obligation to revise our the wireless became an established
antiquated- shipping' laws so that institution. ; Novel questions have
we may gain and. hold the mastery arisen concerning duties of neu-
of the seas after the European war trality as opposed to alleged mili-
a over. I tary activities at Sayville and
Tuckerton. The Germans are de-
IF ,, . jmandlng equivalent supervision of
Submarine TnfKRn-fB Tint Cnn-nt- vnn
NLAND Is already mapping Bernatorff's recent statement is
out its campaign oi com-1 evidence that th. nr w4t,n..
Letters From the People
and, according to the London cor
respondent of the New York
World, who sava nlans are being
made to invade the markets of the Stt ZJS
world where Germany and Austria non onir one .ide of tba paper, .bonid at
have a footing while . Germany's "ani bTtb. ' n.o'S if m
navy is bottled up and her com- tTd STlM
merce swept from the ocean. 7,
A suKgestion is also thrown out irrSa8J?Vi EK! 5f v1fon?;
that America, too, may profit and S2waP?h!2.pl2-vof mR .tu MS,cmy ' M4
. , . , ' , . ioror them back on tbalr reaaopablenaaa. It
iS Welcome tO Share With England tbey har do reasoaablenaaa, it rnthleaaly
the benefits of the commercial re- SSAZ tl --woSSriw
adjustment. ' wuaoa.
Figures showing the extent of Challenges Bits ta Debate.
Germany's exports are being com- Portland, Aug. se. To the Editor of
piled and published in the London fce Journal JPresa dlspatchea from
nrPBH ' Topeka, Kan., a abort time ago In-
' . formrl na fhat nnn i . .
These : figures are rather dis-1 employed in the dry campaign on the
A CASE OF HARD LUCK
P'
HOW PRICES GO UP
.OOR JOE KNOWLES. He has
emerged from the depths of
the forest where he spent his
herolo month : of solitude,
, broken only by newspaper repor
ters, moving picture men and sym
pathetic friends to-tell a waiting
and admiring world how he did
it. And the whole world is think
ing of nothing but the war. In
stead of being eager to know how
man may live alone'. It Is absorbed
In watching what he can accom
plish when massed in armies and
equipped with every resource civ
ilization can furnish.
As if this were not enough to
contend against, Just when he is
scheduled to arrive in Portland,
the circus comes to town. Results
showed that It would have been the
4 part of wisdom not to offer himself
as a counter attraction. - All these
untoward circumstances combined to
play the deuce with Joe's "chances
to appear in the headlines. Even
the Colonel has a slim show ' for
- the front page nowadays.
., Poor Joe! And he a perfectly
'good Adam, too.
PAPAL POSSIBILITIES
yT IS generally believed that the
Inert Pope will be an Italian.
Only a complete setting aside
of precedent will bring about
the election of one of another na
tlqnallty. .While the vtlme. would
appear opportune to hope for the
selection of an American such a
choice would be an Overturning of
the standards regulating the papal
succession.
" . 'A., canvass of the ' sixty-six car
dinals 'narrows the choice to the
following six Italians': Cajetan de
Lai, secretary of the conslstorlal
congregation ; Domenico Ferrata,
secretary of the congregation
of the holy office;' Pietro Mafft,
archbishop ' of Pisa; Cardinal di
Belmohte, the Neapolitan who was
raised to the Sacred College two
. years ago;' Allesandro Lualdi, arch
bishop of Palermo, and Pletro Gas
: parri. ?
. All of these men are regarded
as having " more',; than ordinary
ability, combining practical thought
with special - attainment in;, several
' branches of. learnings ' Ferrata is
in high favor, with- theologians. He
will be the 'choice ";of : many who
looked upon the late pontiff as. an
! Ideal head of the church. He Is
In .his sixty-fifth year 'and is"" one
of "the few surviving members of
the college raised to the cardinalate
by Leo XIII. '. -titv,
" Cardinal Maf fl was - at one time ) Then
REPORT received by the at
torney general's department
at Washington from the
United States district attor
ney for Arkansas throws light on
the increased price of sugar. It Is
evidence of a tangible character
that high sugar prices are the re
sult of combinations In restraint
of trade.
The Arkansas district attorney
says that prices of practically all
food products have had a pro
nounced increase since war started
In Europe: But in the opinion of
this official no proper reason ex
ists for the advance. The war sit
uatlon has been used by manufac
turers and wholesalers to make
undue profits.
Sugar has doubled in' price, not
withstanding the large crop and
the eagerness of refiners and
brokers only thirty days ago to
make contracts at almost any price.
The Arkansas district attorney re
ports that prices are. wired each
day from refineries to a Kansas
City broker, and he gives the quo
tations to local wholesale dealers,
who in turn make contracts ac
cordingly.
It Is evident that prices are not
fixed by the law of supply and de
mand; the producer does not bene
fit, as a rule, by war prices. The
consumer is required to pay what
ever greed, in control of distrlbu
tion, may decide to exact. Under
ordinary circumstances this toU is
heavy; In times such as the present
the consumer Is burdened far be
yond his ability to bear.
There must ultimately be a line
beyond which men in control of
distribution cannot pass. A recent
Chicago report shows that of the
$321,000,000 which the Chicago
consumer pays each year for his
food, the producer gets tl70,000.
000, the railroads $22,000,000, the
wholesaler and Jobber $32,000,-
000, and the retailer $96,000,000
The Chicago consumer pays nearly
as much for the opportunity to buy
as he does for the food he gets.
The cost ,. of .distribution is exces
sive. - . . ..
During peace times .distributors
of food levy a heavy tax on con-
suMer's. ' The trouble with our
system Is that it affords the dis
tributors and speculators oppor
tunity to boost prices, little of the
Increase going to the actual pro
ducers . of food. '
government control for oper-1 censorship la not - justified - by in-
ation of the fleet. The govern-1 ternational law nor the usages of
ment is to own fifty-one per cent j nations. It Is urged ..that If a
of 'the stock' of the corporation. I belligerent wishes q "stop cable
The ships will sail wherever there j communication It ls up to the el
s a demand for. transportation., u i tigerent to ; cut - tne. came,' tne
is? believed by President Wilson I means adopted by. the allies : to
that new trade routes will be de- Isolate Germany. ' : - "J j?! ;' -Jt
veloped and that the project will But 'with, wireless jthere are no
become ;a desirable one for private cables to cut. If the United States,
capital, to -engage in, .ultimately should permit the sending of nn-.
taking'over r the 1 government's in censored, messages K from ' Sayville 1 two or -three timea.1
terest.- " Jthere would be no opportunity for
;T The .situation. Is , urgent and if I the allies to cut the line of corn-
government participation at this munlcation. Great Britain, France
time can set ? In motion a , great and Russia might have a thousand
national movement for a genuine warships patrolling the Atlantic,
A FEW SMILES
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Brown Uvea in a community
noted for the cor
ruption of tta poli
tics. He drove into
town the other day
with -an-1 old. home.
fHellor . aaid bis
frtend: BHL That
horse of yours looka
old enough to vote."
- - -Ye-aa,, drawled
Jim. H hag voted
Senator Morgan once "threw down a
magazine with a aneer. "Another na.
ture fake," 2 exclaimed.- "Why. these
things., are aa ab
surd as , And
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
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merclal conquest to follow its precedent to eupport their demand.
anticipated victory on sea ana
dress that he one
heard ' an ' absent
minded missionary
make. -In China,
dear . frlenda, said
th mis s 1 o n a r y.
"human life -la -regarded as of but
slight value. - Indeed. - If a wealthy
Chinaman la condemned - to death he
can easily hire another to die for him,
and I believe many poor fellows get
their living, by thus acting as aubatl
tutes." . , ." .- .
stories, and none higher; two It
stories high, three 10 stories, three
eight.
Oklahoma City fa a good city. Its
greatest era of prosperity was from
1904 to 1806, a licensed period, during
concerting to those who believed
low t-rreai uriiam was vats largesi, a0" i industries came; then a tat ah ood. aa
wftrlrt I . . ,
It was a local cricket match, and in
the Interval between-, one batsman's
dismissal and an
other's arrival Pat,
who had been piling
up a good score,
left the crease and
ambled to the pa
vilion for a drink.
Sauntering back to
the wicket. - he
passed an old gentleman.
the gentleman, "yon
without that, you
MM
"Pat." said
could have done
know. Look at that stream." soint
ing to where tba brook " croased the
meadow. "You should be- -"
"xea, air," Interrupted Pat. hastily,
"you're right, air. I am just Ilka that
stream. I can't run when Tm dry."
fin ALL. CHANGE t ..'.
; Love ts sugar; near lov la taffy,
; Happlnaas' is mostly a matter of the
Imagination.' . . . , ; . -;
"'A man is unknown p the company
be., can keep out of. :
.. .- .. .-- -.a a . .-x."
When some. men thinkl ther make a
r noiaa like a boiler shop. . i : .
, -f. . . . . a a . -
An exchange of compliments-is equal
to trading green goods.
Before going into polltica aquip
yourself with a mud guard.
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But short aiege of matrimony will
shatter any woman's tdeaL
- ; a a
' Often a breach of promise suit re
sulta from miss-placed confidence,
v a ; a
If a' man would pose as a woman
hater he must, .out out , the flattery
habit.
a a
- A man's deafness has reached the
limit when he can no longer hear a
noise like a skirt.
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Chances are a German cruiser would
have been a better snort than the New
Jork Yacht club.
When' you hear a man boast that
he never made a mistake he's either a
bachelor or a lair.
., a a ;
The ehap who geta locked up for
trains; full ia fortunate, if he has a
friend who will ballhlm out.
It would help some if these strange
war names were sent to ua over the
graphophone instead of .over" the Mer
ge n thaler.
a a
- It seems useless to try to Impress
upon our small boya the horrora of war
so- long as the dispatches continue to
mention the large number of school
teachers marooned in Europe.
IN EARLIER DAYS,
By Fred LockJey.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS .
Canby has now a- eurfew order af -fee
tin a- lawn sprinkling. Those oaugnt
prlnkjlnr out of houra will Da fined
a oonar per orrensa ana tne money
will be used, whenever there is enourh
of it. to buy another ' publio drinking I
louniain.
Gerald Volk, until last. April pub- i
last month purchased a ranch near 8a-1 1,0 c tracks. Tha men who trapped
lem. had. the misfortune to lose a ; beaver, fought Indiana, ran pack
prune, dryer by fire "?lday afternoon. ! trains-, rode the conr s and
entailing. a nnanciai W or . out ..a .k ..-V-"" LZZZ
sr rvvvu u uuauv w u yr w t gi w ej
"Our children will never see what
we have seen," aaid a pioneer to me
recently. "There la no mora frontier.
Tba last west la gone. : Joe Meek. Doo
Newell and Ebberta are no more. They .
hava taken the- long trail, the one way "
trail. whera the moccaam tracks are all
headed in on direction and there ata
covered by insurance of J 800.
a a
The Dallas Obiervar advlsea tour
lets that those who Intended to go to
Europe and are now among the "See
America First" class might narrow
mingled their dust with the dust of
th bunch grass covered kUla of their
well loved west. Her and there it Is
true you may still find an occasional
l1i.p-,L0ili5n owu w J?"1 soma? 8u.-rtvor 0f the era that 1 past. but.
, av va;v vsh mvucu HJV
plains with their sountleas numbers.
fine in many respecta as can be found
anjrwnere.
a a -. ;
Mrs. Jeaephlne Andrea of Mareola,
who for over a year had received from
the county a widow's pension of 113.60
a month, recently notified the proba
tion officer that aha believed she could
fat along without it and asked him
o request the court to discontinue the
allowance.
e "
Sixteen men answered to the call of
H. L. Ford, church building evangel
let, to take part in the second "work
ing bee" at th Christian church at
they,. too, will aoon be but a tradition
and a memory."
"A few years ago while making a
trip through eastern. Qregon on horse
back I ran across one of th typical
trail blasers and path makers. It was
aa though he had stepped out of the
pages of Washington Zrvinga 'Astoria
or Captain - Bonneville.' They call
me Uncla Jimmy, ha aaid in answer
t n tnv mt..Hn Tl, jtlA f ,t)iM Tim.
Foasll last Friday. Aa a result all i ,. "? , T.
the rafters were raleed and put in ! n" b,n Pretty good to me. I ve got
place. In the near future another call , about a much hair as X aver had and
will issue for workers to lay the floor,
ai .
Hood River News: They say Hood
River will be depopulated In the sultry
summer monthe if the homestead bill
la eassed and 10 aor tracts In the for
est reserve can be aeoured for aummer
home. Ther are woodland sites to
it'a just "beginning to show a bit gray.
My eyes can sea aa far and as much
as they ever could. I'va never worn
them out reading, for I've always lived
outdoora. It weara a person's ayea out
a heap quicker to pick out tiny little
blaek letters on a printed page than
rSwtfA " " it 1 to Pick out something a. big an .U
River which anv nature lover would
be delighted to acquire. . Here's hop
ing. A
cmcv....a v, icieiy or th Methodist Episcopal
It is shown that Germany s. exports I church. Prom the sronibltion nraas
have amounted to nearly $2,500,-1 w now learn that th regular annual
000,000 a year. England has X?"- Methodist conferences
been importing huge quanUUe. Yuiot
tvuva uvui uorutou; iu. vum lucai pagiora to continue their cam-
have been manufactured at home, paign work, in view of this political
A specially hard Jolt to the Eng- f""y .f clerical brethren, pre-
fieh nuhlin wait tha fact that Ger SJnlablT- ln th name of od an h
nsn puoiic was tne iaci wax uer- Bible. I wish to submit to Dr. Wilson.
many has been exporting twice as or any of his 700 campaigners, a chal-
much cutlery as England, which for !eng to debate the following quea-
years was predominant in this "?Dj ea Bjbia Teach or in Any
field Tha oTnoTi trvr - ti-oda I ""vywn iae rnmiDlUOn mnc -
field. The German toy trade, pler If a chanse o tha
which runs into millions, will be desired which will place me in the
attacked. It is also, suggested that affirmative. I will submit .the foilow-
Great Britain can .now grab the in?' von .wh.i?,b I ara willing to meet
bulk of Germany's American iTprecepV and Tnfp t
port trade, valued at $17 0,000,0 00, Justifies, but encourages the use of
as wen as tne Chinese export trade, j win Dd strong drink.
drawina; card, followed in 1907. and.
due to coal, oil, natural gaa and cheap
Indian and government lands, tha boom
continued until. 1908, by which time
pronioition nan got in its work.
George Hess of the Slmlra apart
ments was city clerk of Oklahoma
City for four years.
MODERN BIG GUN FIGHTING ON LAND
From the New Tork Evening Post.
August 6.
Captain Godfrey Lynet Cardan of the
United States revenue cutter service.
In giving a description of the defenses
at Liege, where th Belgian and Ger
man armies war reported to o ngnt
inr. said, today:
"The Belgian defense at Liege nas
been greatly assisted by armored cu
polas.: These cupola were built at the
Cockeriu Worka, located just ouisrae
of Ltiee.' Armored cupolas mounting
single-rapia ura a. una wiu m
command th approaches to many of
the principal bridge over th Mouse.
This form of defense is unknown In th
United States, but it follows the gen
eral method ln vogue in France of com
manding the principal avenues of ap
proach over the frontier by permanent
not permit of tranafer with troops ta
tha field.
Ask him to sell
you soma real estate for $3000 that i tiAtteriaa
once sold for $11,000; also some fori Captain Carden, who for several
$800 that Is assessed for taxes at two years was special agent in Europe for
wuig. Bum, turn the department or commerce at waan
how quickly you can mak a deal. Get
tne xacts as to. the real estate slump
and increase ln taxation and then pub
lish his statement as made. .
We might tell you that ln addition to
Oklahoma, some of us are familiar
with Kansas and the divorce evil of
that state as compared with license
Nebraska or Wisconsin, and are alao
familiar with th excesses of infamous
causes for divorce ln Kansas over 1
those of Nebraska, as ahown by the
Ammramanfa or-a Viainir m,ia fA I is anoill
era i i niiniiir u iin nau iviaia. iaxibiaw b,u a . .
. . I w 1 aa n V r Oil nm 1 V Wai hi -1 mm k
bring the manufacturers of great have accused m of using "fraudulent
Britain Into touch with former Im- statistics" in regard to th financial,
porters of German goods. educational and moral standing of
It is hoped that the huge losi 'IZTI ZVl-
of trade with Central Europe can ler to met m on the platform in a
more than be balanced by a de-( discussion or this question: "Can th
termined commercial invasion of ifaBJ8a,s'.fter 30 7rs pro"
"luiuuu iptuwuun, maKe a Dclcer
showing, financially, educationally or
There is another question, which 1 1 Unlted States cenuua reports, but we
wm aiscuss mis at some other time.
WOMAN'S LIBERAL. LEAGUE.
By Mrs. H. Melster.
the remainder of the world.
Of course this is all contingent I morally, than can be made by license
on the defeat of Germany.
THE SIMPLE LIFE
0
states V
Here is an opportunity for someone ! be general community
to do good work by exDosin- mv 1 Answering another: Ladlea with
"fraudulent statistics." It is an easy ' drunken husbands should put them on
' , Ella M. Finney's ' Comment.
Gervals, Or., Aug. 26. To th Edi
tor of Th Journal Answering Mr.
Harcourt and others, let m aay:
Liquor mean - produetion; liquor
production makes prosperity; prosper
ity adds to . th happiness of father.
r: ,TLV?- . U?rrt"tn ' guna of auch weight and caliber as do
higher Ideal of himself and benefits i
in it ton. reported at length on the
Cockerlll Work a at Liege. He says
that tha Belgian cupolas must not be
confounded with the Gruson turrets of
the German a The latter, he says, are
built up of chilled cast iron and ar
designed largely for heavy guna. The
Gruson turreta vary ln thickness from
four to five feet, and have proven im
pregnable to a point-blank attack of
110 ton guna The Gruson turrets are
Intended mora especially for coast de
fense. "The Gruson turret Idea undoubtedly
gave rie."- Captain Carden says, "to
the cupola, and in a way th land cu
polas may be regarded as mlnlatur
Grusoif turrets, tm announcement in
th dlapatche that th cupolaa - were
impregnable to the German field gun
firs at Liege might nave been dis
counted ln advance. Tha cupolas can
not be demolished except by th very
heaviest gun fire, that is to aay, by
The Belgian cupolas lie very close teJ
th ground, and show not more than
three or four feet above the surface.
They ar almost Invisible. Th cupola
gun position comprises an excavation
for a gun mount and magasine, with
the cupola covering the whole like the
iron lid of a pot. The only opening la
a port just large enough for the chase
of the gun, and the piece ia trained. by
the revolving of th cupola. There ia
generally an all around fir.
"The military engineers ln Belgium
have made careful selection for these
cupolas of positions which would abso
lutely command tha .approach to the
principal onoges over tne ueuse. in
addition the practice has been followed
of locating the cupolaa so aa to afford
a cross fire over important highway
approaches. The same thing haa been
done on the French frontier, but on a
more elaborate scale, great fortresses
and concealed batteries giving cross
fir control over every road leading ln
from th frontier.
or a buffalo, and a buffalo shows up a
heap plainer on a hillaide than a letter
does on a page. Tell 'you about th .
early days. I'll tell you. son. You got
to be ln the mood for it and to have
the right kind of surroundings to talk
about the old days. Tou take a few
days off and go hunting with me and "
of an evening we'll sit In front of the
carepflre. and I'll tell you mor than
you can believe or even remember.
"Sitting ln front of a good fir with
the camp work cleared away and a
man's slse portion of deer meat, fried
onions, coffee and bacon under your
belt and your Missouri meerschaum
drawing well, you can think clearer
and remember better than where th ,
country ia all cluttered up with rail
road trains, . barb wire fences and
rural free delivery routes. How do X
spell my name? Well, sir. it'a a
French name. We spell 'It big B and
little e-l-l-e-u. No, I wasn't born in
Franca My people's people were
Royalists. When my great uncle lost
his head on the block my grandfather
and his brothers saw that to keep their
Leads on their shoulders they would
have to take their heads out of France,
so they caught a ship tor French
America, as the country around New
Orleans was called in thoae daya.
From there they scattered northward,
settling in Tennessee and Kentucky.
Our branch of the family has always
had a great restlessness in our blood
that kept us making trails so the rest
could follow. In the winter of 4
with my Uncle Gilliam I came out ta
Council Bluffs. He wintered there
but I went on to Bcott's Bluffs, not
The Belgians, either from a matter
of economy or for expediency, have
not indulged In extensive fortification
work beyond the protecting of th
larger cities. The cupola have been
counted on to hold the brldrea at the I r.r from the nreeent cltv of Laramie.
Meuae frontier, and it Is the fire from ! My Uncle Neal Gilliam, or Corneltir
these eupolaa which Is proving so ef-I Gilliam, as he is usually spoken or.
fectlve In the defense of Liege.
"The cupolaa can be operated by not
more than 10 men. Th guns mounted
within them are for tha most part
Cockerlll rapid fir weapons, capable
of firing from 35 to 80 shots par min
ute. Tha cupola ar open to capture
only when turned or Isolated. They
can doubtless be destroyed by nigh ex
plosives if properly placed, but they
are proof against th 76 millimetre
standard German field gun projectile.
NE of the greatest legacies
I matter for the clerical campaigner to
"get away" with almost anything.
left to the world by the late I standing as they do with the protection
Pope Pius X wag his exam- OI Hieir ulP" retreats, it is an easy
pie of ; simple, : living. This
matter, through the columns of their
party press, to charge a man with dla-
the black list; to give better protec
tion to the liquor dealer, tattoo tho
hand, then punish -him, if h gives
them drink.
Edward McLernon say drunkenness
is a disease. The law must protect th
drunkard. If he can't uplift himself
be must get no more to drink.
was epitomized in his, last will and I honest methods. It is altogether an
testament which was drawn no in I other matter for them to meet a man
the midst of the pomp and cere- tb.5 P1"0 wUn "ve break.-I Mr .Pratt doea not understand th
mony of a great ecclesiastical maie good tnelr cialmB. t reason of continual overproduction,
court. After requesting the Holy EDWARD ADAMS CANTRELL. I the price of the product goes so low.
846 Multnomah Street the tanners must - mortgage their
See to grant small pensions to his
c1 atoT-a arA vo 1 Af ha aaM . "T voa
horn a rorr fnan. Hv,l v. mr, Perverted Impulses.
and wish to die a' poor man." This EdnoMr. caStrkes much X
i3 the life Of the ideal Churchman. In hi aversion to my statement re
Like Marcus Aurelius, the noblest sarding Addi Steadman' lnterpreta-
of the Roman emperors, the late "on f Yl" I7
mh 'nAn.MLi ... and Mr. Cantreil produced no fact,
pontiff demonstrated that even ln neither advanced a theory, to disprove
a palace life may be lived nobly. my statement. Ha states that many
One Of the conditions Of the aim- L11 come to man caused from eating.
nl Ufa. fa ino' t 1 eTre frankly, but must strongly as-
plellfe Is sincerity. It demands sert they com from abnormal eating,
that a man be his natural self, and not from the normal. He says
The poor man Should not pretend according to Dr. Freud, a large per-
to be rich and try to Vie with his centege of nervoua disorders arise
WM,th .alvW , " , from perverted sex impulses. I agree,
wealthy neighbor In social dis- deny that they come from healthy
Play.- The rich man Should not normal impulses,. and I am charitable
pretend to be poor and live below I enough with Mr. Cantreil to believe
the standard that M -aortal tort- th-t h & hardly so abstruse aa not
A MERCHANT 3IARTPfH
- ' ". . y" ; '' " - -
- w fl in m a . a . a .....
ri nrj aamimstrauon - pin pro-
viaing tor the formation of a
1 corporation to buy and oper
. . ate ocean steamers under gov
ernment control Is purely an emer
gency measure. While other emer
gency legislation permitting Amerl
can: registry has been enacted and
a - .bin providing for Insurance
against the risks of war is pend
ing, private capital seems unwil
ling to take a chance. It Is there
fore incumbent upon the admin
istration to take . steps to relieve
the ' growing necessity of restoring
over-tne-8eas transportation.
.The proposed bill provides for
the creation of a shipping board
consisting , of the president, post
master ' general, secretary of the
treasury and secretary of com
to agree with his own philosophy, that
if the causa creating the. abnormal 1
ffmriftlAn wu T-a m nvf lha mfl1fnrm. '
tion would not exist.
Biology and science have told" us
Haw airtnlinllSTn narvarta a.nA rnuaaa
To live the ideal life, there must ahnormalitipa In the nhvsical and ln-
be harmony between character and tallectual organism of man. Sociology
conduct, between nrofeasion and I has clearly: pointed out th polluted
ing and good taste require. The
scholar should not pretend ' to Ig
norance nor - the unlearned pre
tend to knowledge.-
performance.
WIRELESS AND CABLES
OTJNT VON BERNSTORFF,
i , German ambassador, says he
wants " to get first-hand in
formation concerning Ameri
can censorship of German'wireless
stations. One is located at Say
ville, New York. - and there is an
other at Tuckerton, New Jersey,
which has not been licensed by the
government,
The cables to England remain
condition of society caused by the sa
loon; therefore, to eliminate the evil
we must remove th cause, for society
haa the right to say, that that which
renders or causes a burden to fall
upon society shall not exist. When
gout and gluttony, rheumatism and
auch disorders cause a man to dis
turb the peace and enjoyment of the
community and society, then will the
cause for . sucn aisoraers near tne
same pronouncement that is ringing
so loudly In the ears of John Barley,
corn. W. S. IjTOLLIS.
farms. Finally they fall. There is no
money to handle the crop. Throw all
liquor products Into what Is already
too much of other products, and you
destroy, the farmer, who must feed all.
Overproduction, Instead of making
plenty causes starvation. It don't
seem reasonable,; but It is true. Money
Is the great necessity; money to han
dle th crop and buy food. Without It
w have a panic Hops make money.
Liquor production Is so great that It
swings th pendulum that runs the
world. I will give you another ex
ample: The United States has billion
of money, yet many have no money to
buy bread. There is plenty in both
cases: both are controlled by rules
beyond our reach.
. Mr. King la right. Many prohibition
agitators are money loaners and bank
ers, who would destroy the hopgrowers,
then take their mortgaged farm.
Our Mr. Bishop ia aplendid, and our
Mr. Ruth is hard to beat. His defense
of young ladies stamped him a chival
rous gentleman.
The production of hops in the United
State will b about 270.000 bales. The
requirementa for home consumption
are 255.00Q bales. Who darea aay pro
hibition would not injure Oregon and
th United States? See the thousands
of people ' coming to the hop yarda
That means wet voters. Yot .wet to
sav the hop Industry. .
ELLA M. FINNEY.
THEY WHO DUG AND FOUND GREATTREASURE
By John M. Osklson.
It probably happened on a farm
somewhere near th city in which yon
live. This la th story: '
- An old farmer was about to die.
He called his three Idle sons to his
bedside and said:
. "My boys, there is a great treasure
hid on this farm; I roust leave it to
you, though you haven't shown any
desire to help me guard it." The old
man had only a few breathe left.
"Where la.it hid 7" ', demanded the
three sons at "once.
"I am about to tell you," replied the
old man, gasping. "Tou will have to
dig for But be couldn't say any
thing mor before he died.
, Well, those Idle sons set to work
with shovel and mattocks to dig up
th farm in search of the burled treas
ure. They dug and dug until every
squax foot of th field waa explored.
No treasure!
"Well." said on of the son, X sup
pose we might as well put in the
crops, now that we've dug up th
placet" And that labor was compara
tively light, for they had become used
to working. Alao, properly cultivating
the crops proved no big job.
Then such crops aa they harvested!
By their digging they had unearthed a
treasure ao real that they understood
at last what was in their father's
mind when he died.
Have you ever heard it said that
thrift is 'not a natural instinct? Tou
may take my word for it (aa well aa
the experience of the three idle sons)
that it Is so. Some time ln your life.
If you ar to become a thrift practi
tioner, you will have to learn the value
of digging and of so using what re
sults from your labor that It will in
crease your total store of wealth.
"To know th future Is a virtue."
said old Samuel Smiles. fervent
preacher of thrift, "but It fsthe great
;st of virtues to prepare for 1C" I
irish that everybody might have it
ilustrated so dramatically as the
arroer showed it to his Idle) sons.
was a man better educated m aeeaa
than in books. He had served In the
Black Hawk war, and was captain of
a company in the Seminole war. He
had preached for a while and he .was
very pursuaslve'tnan. ao much mo that
he found no trouble in being elcti
sheriff in Missouri, nor being chosen
the leader of the emigrant train. Hla
train started for Oregon ln the spring
of 1844. There were 4 famlllea In th
train". They had 72 wagons and of tha
more than 300 people more than 100
were men, most of them being young
men.
-I spent the winter of 1843 and the
spring of 1844 with a palfbreed French
trapper named Jo Robidoux. His
father's name was also Joe Robidoux.
His father was born ln the old French
city of St. Louis. He had become a
voyageur and trapper, as did most of
the adventurous young -men born at
the frontier trading camps like St.
Louis. In 1826 be aetUed at Black
snake Hills end started a trading post,
calling it after hlmaelf and prefixing
the first name of hla native city of
Saint Louis, so its name became Saiat
Joseph, but it was usually called Saint
Joe. In the fall of 1888 the govern
ment made a treaty with th Indiana
buying a tract of land called th
Platte Purchase, so Robidoux" s trad
ing post being at the jumping off
place, became quite a settlement and
la 1848 was Incorporated as a city."
men f the very thing that he would
have bitterly resented in -his own case.
I am not going to tell Mr. Harcourt
that drunkenness will do any of the
good things that personal prohibition
haa don for him. I am neither an
advocate nor a defender of drunken
ness; that is why I fight attempts
to make men do by law what they will
only do from conviction, aa did Mr.
Harcourt.
As long as men love liberty and pre
serve their mental Independence they
will eat. drink and think as they
pleaae regardless of all the prohibit
ory, law that can be written from
now until doomsday. A. S. RUTH.
uncensored, and Count von Bern- J Oregon to wage war on a condition
Rtnrff sv that rsniwaantiitiiroa nf 1 Oreeonians themselves had established.
. . .. . i M nnl th, trath would be
ureat Britain in this country are toIdT "Has it been t Let us see. c A
- Personal Prohibition.
Portland. Aug. 26. To the Editor
of The Journal I had understood that
the prohibition . doctrine under dis
cussion in these columns waa prohi
bition by law. or force; but it aeeroa
eh T Kava Itaaatv tn 1 at f a 1r shTt aa 1 avn ea t
Oklahoma and Prohibition. j Mr. Harcourt 'now wanta to beg the j tor torr tn orbltant taxes
romana, auk. w me wiwi ; .-' -j - . - . . -i. t .... HTTRcr"TTTJTrT
l'ne JOUmi nnw nr v. ,.r. a" " "M , Tl ),. m.IU, ... r.,-lt,.4 n mn
from Ohio and Kansas were invading itiarcourt cannot ger into an argument ----;--- .:1'J.
with m on mat score. x tm now
and always , have been a strong b
Wants Assessment Reduced.
Portland, Aug. 26. To th Editor of
The Journal I own a piece of land
which ha no marketable timber on it.
This year's assessment will be at
land value only. But last year it was
assessed as timber land, having over
4,000,000 feet. on it. Ia there any way
I can have this error corrected without i
suit? I am a widow and can ill af-
at liberty: to forward to their gov
ernment information concerning
the movements of German warships,-
or any other Information
that might be deemed advisable
short time ago ther ' appeared an
article In The Journal announcing the
coming of a Mr. Johnson, a dry work
er. The article gave him ;feredi t for
fighting bootleggers in Oklahoma and
for convicting over 4000 persons for
The German ambassador in his illegally introducing liquor. A ther
New York interview said he had "JtL.tJSE
. . , , . , . conviction, Mr.' Johnson ; must ,; nave
formed no opinion on the subject prosecuted o-er 12,000 persona, and a
and .wanted to be fully informed each prosecution cost about $100, Mr.
Johnson had alone piled up cost Jot
law- abiding people - to f pay of over
$1,200,000. To' these speculations W.
S. HcJlia, who, we understand, is alao
from Ohio, took exceptions and on Au
gust 1 asked: ."If prohibition causes
depreciation of property, why la it that
Oklahoma City haa built more 20 story
before, even taking up the censor
ship question.
This issue of - censorship is
something new. The Commercial
Cable Company, answering the Ger
man protest, insists that a ; sub
marine Cable diffftra In ft VGrV Im.ihutMlnra th aiiv rltv nf tba avam
IUU- wuu win nave i cnarge or portant way from wireless teleg-1 in the united etatesr- Mark the
tUTlnff nnd outfitting i- thtt eita ! , mvi. I heleht 20 stories. ,.
. . r - wmj.j W..UM.1UO , o it... i,iv. nvi.ii. nit.
proposed to organize ( that it i not) th: duty; of: t, ; neu-1 i 1 Zi
it -is
. .
II : -ri n a:J. IS... I
lievor in-personal prohibition, the kind
each man makes for himself, the kind
Mr. Harcourt made for himself when
he awoke to th fact that he waa a
drunkard. The kind . that X would
practice should I ever find myself in
that category, th kind that X have al
ways recommended to every man who .:
cannot us liquor without abusing it.
Mr. Harcourt did exactly right when he
became a prohibitionist for; himself
If he could not ua liquor without
abusing it, and I honor him for It; but
h should remember that it waa bis
own conviction that cuced him and
not th Uv. .. .
One of th most surprising thing
to me l to find a reformed drunkard
advocating, prohibition by; force; be
cause here, at least. Is a man . who
know trom experience that the law
did - not cure him, yet ; he know he
1 cured. And he know too that he
would not have permitted force
through law to have cured him; nev
ertheless he advocate doing to other
equalization there Is no way it can be
reopened sav by a suit, which, how
ever, might not be excessively expen
sive. Th suit, of course, would have to
be brought ln th county in which th
land la situated, and th collector ln
that county should be able to inform
you regarding the status of the affair,
and might be willing to furnish advlc
of valu regarding step to be taken
Kansas Jails and .Asylums. -
v. Scappooee, Orf. Aug 26. To the
Editor of Th Journal Mere statistics,
while always - reliable as to what
they state, do not always tell the
whol truth. Other - facts must be
taken with them. For example, Cali
fornia ha a very high death rate, due
to the fact that many consumptive
go there simply to die; and yet sh 1
considered on of our very healthiest
states. Kansas, .on of A. S. Ruth's
group of prohibition states, ha & fair
ly large number of Inaan la it asy
lums and a very large number of
larger than one would naturally ex
pect to find after 83 years of prohibi
tion, the last 10 of which It has been
pretty rigidly enforced. This showing
is rather startling unltl we get the
Illuminating fact that Kansas for
years has had but little use for her
asylums and penal institutions, so
farms them out to ber sister states,
whose own institutions are overcrowd
ed, and the further fact that the
government has a large and full peni
tentiary at Fort Leavenworth.
Now, ln 1910, when the last census
which Mr. "Ruth so exultantly cites a
th on and only source of Informa
tion to be had. wa taken. Uncle Sam's
boys just enumerated every one they
found and credited him up where he
was found.
I visited Kansas two years ago, and
having in mind this or a similar array
cf statistics used in our last cam
paign for state-wide prohibition, I
inquired concerning these things and
found them to be true, and further.
that In most of the counties th Jails
and poor nouses were empty.
C. L. HATFIELD. M. D.
HOO'S H00
By John W. Carey.
Human Nature,
I- 7Ut,Zl 5Wn would not
hat you and I - belong to, 1 . .
a righteous cause 'twill brav dis- t"? 'or r- . a
This
That
For
' And It wftl suffer wrong, too;
But in the affairs of privet life
A man win adopt Strang ruses.
In making a bet or taking a wife
He first stores op bis excuses.
And then if his plan goes much astray
This man he a friend and broth-
. er
The blame for the same will calmly lay
With speed at the door of another!
11' be takes th leap and la badly
bumped , - '
Or he wins, to those who loved him
He will say (in th latter ease) that
h Jumped; , ,
If he loses som on shoved bin!
Tea,' auch Is th way of Adam's sons.
And 'tis himself each bleasea.
The flame for failure each on shuns.
Takes credit for hi success.
But tf even tin in the chem of thing.
And to be fair wiin eacn numan.
By John W. Carey, '
Who stands at Armaaeddon as a nat
tier for th Lord and calls on bead of
u 1 1 as a iruais lur vpauiau auu iwvrui
Who boosts R-B-K-O-R-M Of vry
kind and sort and finds in b. m. poli
ties a. most anraalnr -aoort? ' "-
Who mad a page on not long ago
k umMli.l' nMnaAtv atia-aaatlnar tj
(O. Perkins that he quit the B.' M. P.?
I Who got a Jolt when one T.' R.' hi
o. K-, hut gave in-
loue nip-hip-hooray?.
Who's made" it plain, at any' rate.
that Brother Giff. by gad. is not th
whole darned family? That Amos PJn
chot lad. - . . VP:
,uj.. n m jy Y" numoer oi jjj storf) of failure each man brings i
criminals in its penitentUrle-mucn And l lays at the feet of ajromanf r
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