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THE STATE PRINTING STEAL
i ALLY sheets recently printed
at the state printing omce
mat 1195.12. They would
have cost $1468.29 under the
old system. The saving by tne
change which abolished the old
fees and- put the printer on a flat
alary. Is $1273.17.
Under the former system, the
press work on the recently Issued
atate pamphlet would have cost
more than $7000. Under the new
system Its actual cost was $1249,
or a saving of about $6000.
Some of the rotten abuses of
the old system at the public print
ing office wero set forth in an ar
ticle byi rrd Locfeley in Thurs
day's Journal.
The actual cost of the public
printing for the quarter ending
June 30. last, was $9418.41. The
cost under the foVmer system
would have been $17,271.25. The
saving to the taxpayers was
t78R3! hi An instance of the
Ma-hwav rohherv under the old
WITH THE WORLD IN TROUBLE .:
N THESE stirring times is the senate of the United , States a
' vaudeville show? ( 1 - , - " -
The awful cataclysm oa the continent oi europe is iempwr
arllv disturbing everything in the world. Commerce.' la discon
nected, industry is dislocated, trade routes are paralyzed and the
movement of every thine on earth Is nnchanneled. As an-.unavoid-
irLable effect, there are industries in : the United States whose usual
markets are no longer markets, and lor . the time . consiaeraino ,
masses of men are to be thrown out of employment.
For ten years or more, thefe has been a world problem of unem
ployments Yet, at. the very moment when the government of the
United States 'should strain every nerve to keep every possible work
in operation, at the very moment when every public work - should,
for the sake of American workers, be kept aggressively active, a
small ' group of American senators are doing their utmost to para
lyze every river and harbor project in the ? United States. Under
the unpatriotic assault of these senators, half the projects of the
country are already, idle, andy thousands of men are out of employ
ment. As if the catastrophes of the war were not enough, an ex
cuseless fight is waged on the rivers andharbors bill which. It suc
cessful, will add heavily to the ranks of the unemployed and In
crease the distress among the nation's workers.
As a means of carrying forward this business of pauper-makirj
Senator Burton is still delivering a speech that he began the lattwk
part of last June.'. He occupied the time of the senate Thursday in
the delivery of a seven hours Installment of his ill-timed and Ill
advised address. It would be comic opera, were It not a crime
against the thousands of ; workingmen , that this more . than two
months' harangue has thrown out of ' employment, and whose wives
and children are ill provided for the necessities and rigors of ad
vancing winter.
The rivers and harbors provided for in the pending bill are going
to be Improved. If the work Is not provided for by this congress,
it will be provided for by another congress. In the, name of their
unemployed countrymen, cannot Senator Burton and - his fellow ob
structionists see, that of all times when the government should
keep men employed in the public work, it is In this calamitous year
when the world Is torn and bleeding with the most awful conflict
in the history of man?
What is $53,000,000, spent in everlasting improvements on the
nation's lmoerishable highways of commerce, to a nation that Is
spending more than a billion dollars a year, of which more than
seventy per cent is expended on wars past and. wars anticipated.
In the name of the men, and of the women, and of the children
Whom paralysed work on the national waterways is depriving" of the
means of support In a time already trying men's souls, is there no
appeal that will reach the hearts and stay the attack of Burton and
his cohorts on the rivers and. harbors bill?
If they cannot comprehend' the s6und economic reasons for pass
ing the bill, can they not, at least, hear the cry of humanity?
it
$1,930,087,006. These figures
represent the department's-; esti
mates ' of - values -:. on the farm,
There has been a substantial loss
in number and a material gain In
aggregate value.
It la predicted that this upward
A -FEW SMILES
"Why. wnii,f eaia the teacher,
"have you bees flehtina; again? Didn't
yon learn that; when
jron are struck on tbe
trn1 lnSrnln will mnflnn. Tf cheek, you rousht to
this proves to- be 'the case the
Oregon -? farmer who - goes into J
stockralslng will have a w rising
market before him.' In Any event
advice to farmers to pay more at
tention to an Industry which has
enriched other sections of the
country is sound, f
Letters From the People
WAR TAXES
T
i HERE are two viewpoints
from which to look at Presi
dent Wilson's special mes
sage to congress urging the
aystem wa8 in the setting of type levying of war taxes. One Is po-
!treULlY sheets. After the lorm "v- l2" : Z 7
....... i aneciai lsko iu . iucbi u
was once maae up. an mm 4u . welftomft(i
to be done m cnangmg m Woodrow Wilson knew this when
Reoublican to a uemocrauc uu
turn the other one to
the trikerr -
Yeain. agreed
WDlle, "but he hit
me on the nose' -and
I'vaj-. only got one."
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PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
(ComicaQlcatlona aent n Th Itmmml foe
WbUcafkm in tbia department aboold ba writ
tea oa only one tide of the paper, aboold Mt
exceed 300 worda iu lenftb and moat ba ae-
cvmpaBjeai oj mt same aod addreae or iaa
aeoder. If the writer doea uot deaire to
tave the aame publiabed. be abouiLaa atate,
Difeasaion la the a-reatMt af n reform
era. It rationalize eYerjrtbiDf it toacbea. It
robe prtneiplea of alt falae aanctlty and
tbrawa tbem back eo their reaaoablaDeaa. If
xuwj umwm no leaaoaaoiepaaa. ik rauiivwij
ercabea tbem oat of exiatenee and Beta up IU
own eoociaaiooa la their atead." Woodrow
WUaoa.
The Prohibition Debate.
Portland, Sept 4. To the Editor of
The Journal It la Interesting and dla-
gTiUn; to read dally the different
opinions expressed for and against pro.
nibition. It is interesting to read the
arguments in favor of It, because they
are sane, based upon years of careful
observation and in many oases obtained
through actual experience. It la dis
gusting to read the "hobby horse" ar
guments against prohibition, as they
mvuxiawy seem to me without a foot
F. C. Phillips in bis book. "My Va
ried Life." tells how the Ute Or
George Honeymsn, an Infamous writer.
sent down from the
bench to a friend of
his, a leading Q. C,
a little note. Not
abW to make head
nor tail pf tl, the bar
rister scribbled some
thing equally unde
cipherable upon a
half sheet of note paper, and passed
U up to the Judge. Sir George looked
annoved. and .when the court rose, said
to his friend: - "What do you mean by
this? I asked, you to come and dine
with me tonight,- "Yea." said the bar
rister, "and I replied that 1 snouia De
extremely glad to ao so.
Sir George Warrender, "who was once
obliged to put off a dinner party in
consequence of the
death of a relative,
and sat down to a
haunch of venison by
himself, said to the
butler while eating:
"John, this will make
capital - hash tomorrow.
"Yes, Sir George, replied the servant.
ii you leave off now."
I tllriltir f ft nSPIIfla OM aAa.A I 1
to stand on or a head with which to I thV . .Vl " """i"
.1 i I 7. .. ' "J ni m
uiwuooura, uray. th aam man wh
GMALIi CHANGE
: ' . . "-V.v. ..j- .;- v
Many . a large mantis a small eltlaen.
An ounce of' nreventlon Is better
than a pound of repentance. i
It's a case of all work and no play
with man a near dramatist, .
But manr a mah is unable te hold
an opportunity after grasping it. .
m
AW the Pleasure evaporates when a
woman has to suffer in silence. . .
Wild oat sown when the sun shines
art, usually harvested under a ciouo.
It's a slmnle nautical stunt. Just
get ths "stranded" Americans to sea.
Ouick. class! Who ia at war with
Whom, and how many wars ar there T
a a
Marriaera teache a' man that If a a
waste of time to argue with a woman.
There are occasional moments In the
life of a married man when he a Kiaa
of It,
a
One kind of a4 cereal story ia ' the
rice
and what
The woman who marries for money
usually gets what she went after
Due it s aurerent witn a man.
a
Every ' woman imagines that : ehe
shows up well in a deoollette gown
but not every woman can prove it.
WW
On the war map appears near Paris
a place named Noisy, but nobody can
teu what -It would sound like in
French.
l -
Men of strong character make
many enemies, but it doesn't follow
that all men who make many enemies
are the possessors of strong character.
sheet was to take out the word taxeg And wth aQ electlon
"Republican - ana pw in iu mu comlng on the outcome of which
"Democratic." Only about five
will maan much in tha 'WaRhiTier
minutes, of time was required to L admInlatratloilf the president
do this. ,yet lor tne cnauge put aaide political considerations
state printer, unuer w um "J- and Btood squarely on the propo
tem. got ior -ww Bition that America's best lnter-
utes' work, lie got anoiner -oMeBts mu8t be served. He takes kn
for Changing irom uemocranv; - I voUoH vlnw nt rho Amarinan r,n-
r-rogresBive taiiy sneets, uu ,u v. ple He baa confidence In their
For printing school warrants on ahintv tn understand and their de-
February 17. li4, unaer tne nw termination to be Just
system, the state paia ou.. p. Customs collections, on account
Under the old system, tne mate of the-war, fell off more than $10,
printer would nave Deen pam QOO.OOO during the month of
$673.50. August. A loss of between $60.
Under the old system. In charg- 000.000'and $100,000,000 is prob
ing for the work, tne printer able Ursine the remainder of the
printed sixteen of the warrants at Ffiscal yiear. The European war Is
a time, but charged the state for the reason. England, France, Ger?
printing one at a time. It was the many ak-e busy fighting each other
. A. A. J Jl I. . ...
printer s snort cui to suuuen instead of making things for ex-
wealth, and it explains why sev- port to the United States,
eral private .fortunes were maae The United States must have
off the taxpayers under the old sufficient revenue to run the gov-
system which, by the subterranean ernment. The president was right
processes of politics was perpetu- when he said the treasury surplus
ated In spite of many anj repeated should not be called In from na-
attempts to abolish lt.; ( (tional banks throughout the coun-
It was only by dint of extraor- try. The money on deposit is
dlnary effort that the Btate print- needed In business. He was right
lng graft was forced to .; loosen Its I when he said the expedient of bond
hold. For thirty years,,! It sucked Bales should not be resorted to.
at the state's resources. Forjoucn sales would create an unjus-
thirty years. It bled the taxpayers, unable demand upon money mar
One public printer after another kets, and they are unnecessary,
had his time upon the stage and The American people will ap
stepped out of office a rich man.lprove the president's program for
The office was used as a secret fv-Js as we go. a war tax may
trnaanrv from which to finance b welcomed, but It is a neces"
campaigns. The printer waa al- Blty caused by the calamitous con
lowed his monster extortions byfll? over Beas- Th( president's
the managing politicians, and then estimate oi me American charao
forced to contribute heavily for teP wiu b Justified by candid
lubricating the machine In election Pln"n concerning the proposed
time. The office waa perpetuated I iax
under the old system by politicians
for the aid it would be in electing
members of the "push" to office.
Some ' members of the leglsla
ture honestly tried to cut out the
graft. But there was always a
secret and sinister
exacts of the human race. A
scientist who won the noble prize
In 1912 for experiments in isolat
Ing the germ of infantile paralysis
and the prolongation of life In
organs removed from the body nas
been separated from hls labora
tory., His task now " Is to combat
man's assaults upon man to save
what he can from the wrecks
caused by human savagery.
Science has made a notable con
tribution to war. Dr. Carroll's la
boratory Work In Paris Is at a
standstill. Plans he may have
made for saving human life by
meeting the attack of diseases of
peace must wait while he binds
up the wounds made by men and
does what he can to prevent typi
cal camp diseases, the allies of
war. . '
There Is no questioning Dr. Car
rel's high motive In enlisting In
his country's service. But tha fact
that he Is at Lyons instead of at
the Rockefeller Institute Is sad
evidence of the price which, the
world pays for war.
FARCEIi POST MARKETING
LIKE PRIVATE BUSINESS
D
R. SMITH'S Words rang true
In his : address Wednesday
evening at Dufur. He said:
When I sneak of the bur
force that den of taxation, I speak with per
blocked every attempt. Senator sonal knowledge. I am a farmer
Mulkey of Polk onoe sarcastically w year ligheT 2U hUT
charged on the floor, of the senate many of you, have found it lncreas
that measures for reform of state lingly difficult to mans rarming pay
R
" printing always seemed to get lost
, in thegreat light well on the way
, between the two houses of the
- legislature.
Bill, after bill was scuttled. Un
, til The Journal came on the scene,
there . was no newspaper agitation
for reforming the office. It was
-a case of .all Btand In and pluck
the taxpayers. One newspaper got
a monumental sum of $53,000 for
- publication of a Multnomah county
delinquent tax lfst, and., of course,
. with such a graft for Itself, was
not raising any trouble about the
state printing graft, ,
To Oswald West more than anv
other man Is due the fact that the
cinch 'was broken. The bll of
; "Miller of Linn for reforming the
; office had . passed the senile In
' 1911. It "was beaten one after
noon in the house. In a ringing
message, ; West exposed the house
' to - tbe state, . and that .body , re
versed t its action, passed the I bill,
'.and the jofflce ;ls reformed.
Attemnt waa mad a at tha 191 it
, M8slon to side , track - the Miller
-law and perpetuate. the graft, but
.-.- Governor West, Printing Expert
' Harris, and .. a number of strong
', I legislative members beat the
I scheme,' and tha state ia now rid
i f a. graft that,, was, for thirty
'years & public scandal. ;
The soil may be fertile, the crop '
abundant, the market good, but the
tax toll Is too heavy. I know what
It means to the farmers of this state
to have a business administration
of the state's affairs and to have
protection from legislative' extrava
gance through frequent and fear
lees use of the veto, aa I promise
to give them.
Dr. Smith has also said that
"there Is no known reason why
public business should not be con
ducted like private business." He
has also Bald "In state affairs
there should first be ascertained
what the state can afford to spend
and then keep expenditures within
that limit, the same as tn' private
affairs." It Is a thought that is
In tha minds of thousands of Ore
gon taxpayers who realize, that It
is Important - to have a business
administration by a business man
EPORTS received by the post
master general from tha
postmasters of the ten cities'
especially designated last
March for tria of the parcel post
as a vehicle of direct exchange
between farm producers and city
consumers are of a favorable na
ture.
In the opinion of the postmaster
general they demonstrate that the
service has .come to stay. There
are many defects in the plan that
win nave -to be remedied. Re
frigeration facilities and contain
ers for shipments are needed. A
chief cause of complaint Is damage
to snipments due largely to im
proper packing.
In most of the ten cities the
shipment by. post of perishable ar
ticles, such as butter and dressed
poultry, fell off " daring the mid
summer months Owing to the ex
treme heat. It is practically cer
tain that the obstacles to hot'
weather shipments will be bvercoma
by next summer. Cheap contain
ers are appearing n the, market.
They are - devised on the' thermos
bottle principle and . It Is believed
they will meet postal require
ments. In the. larger "postofflces
Ice boxes are being installed in
waicn o store perishable ship
ments over night.
The service was used lens" hv h.
small cities than the large ones
in proportion ' to population. An
explanation of this is found in the
iact mat tne people of tha small
centers are in closer touch with
tu producers. .
It doea not seem possible that think
ing men and women who really feel the
slightest responsibility for the welfare'
of humanity, will uplif t their voices :
in defense of the saloon or liquor busi
ness, if it can be called a business.
If the saloon is so Important a fac
tor, especially from a business stand
Point, if it is such a necessity to run
our cities and keep them from utter
ruin, if it gives employment to so
many people, if it enriches our cities
as well as our country then why
in the name of common sense do we
limit their number, make them pay
high license, and revoke their licenses
occasionally? If or average saloon is
such a clean, well regulated place into
which we all should gladly see our
fathers, husbands and sons enter, then
why cannot our mothers, wives and
daughters enter and enjoy the same
privilege?
If this were- the case would not
everybody, including all the wet agita
tors and saloonkeepers, look down upon
and question any woman's character
who would enter either, the front or
side door of the saloon?
A woman may enter any other place
of business, such as a hardware, gro
cery, drug store, etc., but let her enter
this, ao hard fought for, well-known
place called saloon then what?
Why are not the engineers on rail
roads or any other person holding very
responsible positions permitted to
drink. Not one- of those who uphold.
sell or manufacture liquor would feel
safe and rest easy In a. railway coach
if he knew that the engineer was
drunk. .
Why cannot a minor enter a saloon?
Why are the saloon windows draped
with heavy curtains, screens, etc? Are
the there for ornaments?
Why are the class of pictures and
"mottoes" displayed on their walls?
Are they there to be admired by the
drunk and the moderate drinker from
the standpoint of art. If prohibition
will cause iiard , times, what caused
tbem before, when this city was as
"wet" as it could be? If taxes will be
higher, why have they not been reduced
in the last- few years as the saloons
increased? WILLIAM NEUBAUER.
ed the teleautograph, was the Inventor
of the telephone, but that Alexander
Graham Bell, unfairly aiinronrla.tml h1
laea, getting the patents Into his
name Instead of that of Gray the
real inventor. Gray, the story eoes
sued Bell, but could not command
means enough to cod with him. and
was z mail y oeatan. but he aald. aa a
parting shot "I will show tha world
tnat i did invent the telephone." He
men went into retirement and a. few
years later he perfected "Gray'a Tele.
autograph.
WILLIAM H. WOODRUFF.
Blind Pigs.
Portland, Sept 3. To the Editor of
The Journal I would Inform S. J. Cot
ton that ths churches fighting the li
quor business are total abstainers. He
may have reference to the two churches
tnat do use fermented wine, but they
j. Deueve, are not in the fight for pro
niDixion. xnererore Mr. Cotton will
have to find another argument. And
let none worry about the blind pig and
us poisonous drugs, it won t be near
ly so likely to see our boys as the sa
loon, which they can see. They will
not go sneaking around to get a drink
to quench a burning throat caused by
tn open saloon, because there won't
have been any open .saloon where the
boys have acquired that deadly taste.
A boy or man doesn't acquire the habit
tn a drink or two. It takes a little
time, I believe. When we get a dry
Oregon and loyal dry officials you
won't need to worry about the blind
pig. - '
It Is the fear of Mr. Cotton and the
rest of the wets that prohibition will
prohibit that bothers them, and not
the fear that It might not
With the elimination of the saloon
ur taxes would be- greatly reduced, as
the income derived from the. saloon Is1
absolutely Inadequate to maintain our
asylums, detention homes, reform
schools, jails, heavy police forces and
other things the direct result of the
saloon. . MARGARET E. WfLSON.
IN EARLIER DAYS
OREGON ' SIDELIGHTS -
u - ... -aaaaaaaasMBaajaBaaBW
The United States." saya tha Salem
Statesman, "is ths white hope he
white hope of peace." . u .
imnnr the maatarlv strateaists ot
these troublous times the Baker Her
ald liats as preeminent "the farmer
who l raises almost everything he
needs." ' ' ' .
Th Rne-ena Rearlster Brofesse to
believe that the war correspondents at
the front ought to nave a gooa oppor
tunity to Improve their pinochle play
ing, anyway.
WnrV In tha Btreet SanaT. the East
Oree-onian reports, is ' proving ef fica-
cloua.in lessening the number of petty
offenders in renaieton ana is aiao giv
ing that city a black eye witn tne
vagrant class.
i . .
"And the La Grande Observer ex
presses the opinion that "if those Ma
samas touring Mt. Rainier were com
pelled to follow a plow twice around
a Grande Ronde field, they would be
come awfully discouraged with social
conditions."
i. . 1 1 - T. V . 1 . a n. A. wtH
thrown after-the departing bridl the arenuine thrift of Astoriana that
bat she married. ! "f their city figures so splendidly Jin the
postal savings reports ox me ituerm
(ovcramcnL This Deoole are not only
workers, but saveTs; and their savings
go right back into the homes and busi
nesses or tne city wnence tney ansa.
In i an article on county fairs the
Grants Pass Courier admits tthat 'It is
well that Murphy and Holland have
coma to tha rescue." but declares fur-
then "What Josephine needs is some
thing more permanent than a fair on
wheels. It needs permanent grounds
and adequate buildings erected ror rait
purposes. Then the directors can
build, with a definite object in view,
and the fair will be given a perman
ency and a character now lacaung."
By Fred Ijockley.
THE GHASTLY SWINDLE"
Gorge Creel in Harper's Weekly, i
The last quarter of a century has
been a time of keen and hostile ques
tioning. The antiquity of a lie la no
longer Its Justification. This wholesale
slaughter may be counted upon to
sweep away the last wisps ot super
stition and prejudice that have floated
between the people and exact compre
hension. Even now a score of vicious philos
ophies are already breaking down. The
crash of the "preparedness" lie is not
more loud than that of the "blood and
iron" buncombe, that preposterous claim
that war breeds national virtues and Is
essential to national life. Take that
which has been said only recently and
view 'it in the red light that streams
from those battlefields where the men
Ue:
"Storm purifies "the air and destroys
the frail trees, leaving the sturdy oaks
standing. The state in which there is
much that is rotten may vegetate for
a while in peace, but in war its weak
ness is revealed." Baron von Stengel.
"We must play a great part in the
World, and especially . . . perform
those deeds of blood, of valor, which
above everything else bring national
renown. By war alone can we ac
quire those virile qualties necessary
to win in the stern strife of actual
life. - In this world the nation that is
trained to a career of unwarlike and
isolated ease is bound to go down In
the end before other nations which
have not lost th manly and adven
turous qualities." Theodore Roosevelt
"War is one of the elements of or
der in the world established by God.
The noblest virtues of men are de
veloped therein. Without war the
world would degenerate and disappear
in a morass of materialism." Field
Marshal von Moltke. .
DR. ALEXIS CARREL
D
R. ALEXIS CARREL, whose
work, m peace has con
tributed so much to -human
happiness, is in charge of
the French military - hospitals at
Lyons. The famous surgeon and
experimentalist of athe Rockefeller
Institute is a volunteer surgeon in
the French service.
The ; employment . of Dr. Carrel
at his present occupation Is illus
tration of the tribute which war
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VONISJb Vf CATTLE.
wiwn farmers have thi
opportunity pointed ont tn
.them by a writer in Farm
ana jrireside. WThat -nrmM..
tunity lies In BtockM raisin
. rmt . ... -;- .',
i.ne aepanment of airricultnrA
reports that the number of meat
came m tne United States d-
creasea from 41,178,000 in 1810
to O.o&&,000 in 19IC This is an
annual decrease of about "3.3 per
cent, and while the number of anl-
mais was; diminishing, the numh
of people to be 'led was steadily
increasing. .-
When War Shall Be No More.
Eagle Creek. Or., Sept S. To the Ed
ltor of The Journal A people who de
pend upon the natural products of the
earth for subsistence will devote their
entire energies to the. waging of wars
whenever the food supply runs short
A people who depend wholly upon their
industry for subsistence will refuse
to war except in self-defense, since
any Interruption of Industry brings
starvation. The fact that hundreds
ef times as many people can live by
Industry, as can procure food from the
natural products of the earth, deter
mines that savagery must perish, and
wars cease.
The Old Testament accounts of the
Israelites being commanded to destroy
the inhabitants of the conquered terri
tory, and to use none of the "spoils,"
but to destroy all the goods and chat
tels of the people, is the clearest pic
ture of the middle period between
savagery and civilization, which we
have. If the Israelites had kept the
spoils, they would haVe been led Into
wars of conquest which would have
been a revision to savagery, and they
as well as their enemies would have
been Impoverished thereby.
The present European war will dem
onstrate to the entire world the futil
ity, of wars of agression between in
dustrial nations. We have passed the
Intermediate stage, when it is expedi
ent tq war for territory; but not for
goods, as In Old Testament times, and
tne starvation or the peoples will show
them that the prophecies of the He
brew poets are true. There will be a
time when wars will be no more. I
commend to those . of opposite opinion
a carerui observation or the net debits
and credits of the present 'destruction
of the European nations at war.
. . f ; C. I,. CHAMBERS. .
- Sloser'g Plan. -
Portland, Sept B. -To tha Editor of
The Journal I see that ex-Governor
Geer baa announced himself in favor
of the plan suggested by Qua C. Moser.
that the seven defeated candidates for
the Republican nomination for govern
or get together and -organise for t.
purpose of aiding in the election of Dr.
Wlthycombe. The Very Suggestion of
such a move is an acknowledgment ot
weakness and a lack of confidence, in
their own party If this is the strong
est, and most Influential combination
the. Republicans can produce to work
in the ' interest of their candidates,
they might Just as well throw up the
sponge. T; T..Geer is a has-been, and
Qua C Moser is a would-be, but never
has been, and in my judgment never
wiU be. governor of Oregon. If Mr.
Geer cannot control more votes in the
interest of Dr., Wlthycombe than he
himself received at our last primary
election, he had better remain out of
frihe combination Dr. "vf ithycombe, Mr.
I Booth, and C N. McArthur are stand
patters of the Republican party. So
are all their most., ardent supporters.
To elect any one of the candidates
the disappearance ef Rome and Greece
and Sparta was due to war's persistent
drain upon the national Supply of
virile, hardy men.
The "noblest virtues' Indeed! There
has not been a decade without Its
'army scandal." and the ohtet en
deavor . of military authorities the
world over has been to prevent the rot
ting out of their forces by disease and
degeneracies. To what standards of
honor can soldiers repair when prac
tically every European war has had
greed and bulldoxing as Its controlling
impulses T
How can the theory of .the warlike
spirit a a wellsprlng of bravery and
hardihood be squared with the fact that
the shopkeepers and manufacturers ot
Belgium outfought and outgamed vast
ly superior forces of Germans in whom
the manly and adventurous qualities
had been conserved by years of drilling
and parades? Or with that earlier time
when the Netherlands wrested lnde
pendence In fair tight from the seem
ingly invincible armies of Spain?
Blind Piss in License Towns.
Portland. Sept S. To the Editor of
The Journal Mr. Cotton Of Nehalem.
in common with all wet writers, talks
as if the blind pig were Indigenous to
ary territory, and there only abounded.
This has already been touched upon bv
writers in your columns, who show
that In Denver there are more than
twice as many government licenses In
that city as city licenses.
I will make this assertion without
fear of successful contradiction: In
Portland ' at this time, with her 386
saloons, there are more blind pigs per
1000 people than In any dry city in
the state.
Concerning the benefits of prohibi
tion to schools and communities let
me give the following: Yamhill county
has been dry about 12 years. Many of
the business men fought the drys at
the first and second election, but six
years ago, the president of one of the
McMinnville banks received a letter
asking his opinion about the dry con
dition. He took the letter to the most
rabid prohibitionist of that day and
said to him, "You know that I fought
local option, but I have changed my
mind. You take this letter,and answer,
it $ay anything you please, bring it
to me, and I will sign it" "
Three years ago McMinnville built a
high school that was supposed to be
suitable for 10 years at least This
year We are building another high
school building adjacent to the first
that has as large class room capacity
as the other. CURTIS P. COB.
. The Saloon and Prosperity.
Clackamas, Or., Sept 4. To the Ed
itor of Tbe Journal In discussing the
saloon question from all points of
view, there is much to be said on both
sides. First we have no rlght'what-
ever to rob any man of bis right tr
take a drink, even if he doea not allow
women to enter tbe saloon.. We all
know it would debase any woman to
patronize' saloons. Men are our fa
thers. Any drunken creature with his
muscles and brain injured by drink
would not be in a condition to give
his children the inheritance, either
tmysically. . mentally, morally or fi
nancially, which they have a right to
demand of a parent.
Are tbe saloons going to live off
you, or are you going to live off the
saloons, is a question that every voter
must decide for himself. If every
Htimkard would sperd his money for
groceries for his family he would live
batter, his family would be "better
fed and more comfortable, and maybe
the grocer, would not be so apt to fail
In business. Ana x aia sure ine ituriw
er would have a better market
At every point In history these crude
brutalities of the swashbuckling type
are given the lie direct The fact Is
obvious that war makes demand upon
the young, the strong and the brave,
and their death turns over the task of
race perpetuation to the weaker ariO
less fit physically. The Napoleonic
wars, by striking down the flower of
England and the continent sent the
height and weight standard down
alarmingly; and Seeck points out that
In no wise are the militarists bound
by the facts of history. Germany
defeat of France In 1870, Instead of
being followed by the marvelous pros
perlty that militarism presupposes.
gave way to a vast depression that
brought the nation to the grave's edge.
Families left the country by thousands
Socialism grew from a whisper to
mighy clamor, and in 1879 Bismarck,
sick with -disillusion, cnea aloud, "Ger
many is bleeding to death." Only
sudden and remarkable emphasis upon
Industrialism saved the country from
utter disaster.
Spain, brought to ruin by the war
like spirit has known nothing but
prosperity and success since the war
wijh tbe United States administered
the quietus to her dream of martial
grandeur. Who can say-that the Swiss
are an abject people lacking all the
virile qualities?
It took the war In South Africa to
destroy Kipling and KJpllnglam. Out
of the slaughterhouse of Europe may
come the lesson that will teach the
United States the true viciousness of
the military agitation that has been
carried on for years by the armor plate
trust and strengthened by cruel foola
whose sole conception of manhood Is
, tbe ability to kiu.
LENDING MONEY ON RANCH CORPORATIONS
By John M. Osklson.
Two banking firms In the northwest
are offering $100,000 of 8 per cent
bonds secused by 2210 acres of dairy
farm land near one of the cities of
Oregon.
In Its selling arguments, the farm
corporation says that everything to
be covered by tbe bonds represents a
cash investment of $220,000, and the
bnildings. etc.. at over $300,000. The
corporation wants to borrow the $100.
000 to clear off its debts. Increase its
dairy herd, and make such other im
provements, including draining sdoui
280 acres, as will Increase Its earning
power.
This . Is. a new sort or opportunity
for the average Investor. I believe,
however, that many other similar
chances will come his way if this is
sue is sold successfully. This partic
ular Issue Is obtainable tn $500 and
$1000 pieces.
From the side of the borrowing cor
poration this" Is a new way of getting
money on farm mortgage. Probably
the money will cost about 1 per cent
In the same period the nnmbr
of sheep decreased from 52.448
annually. The jaumber of swine f T? WUUAJST h taWn back"
.i. Wine ward step. This Is a progressive age
rentained practically stationary. As
a whole, these three classes of
meat stock, decreased -from 151,
812,000 to 144,507,000.
. But the .values of the animals
have Increased so rapidly that
whereas the entire supply in 1910
waa worth only $1,534,600,000, by
1914 its ; value had risen to
and Oregon is a progressive state.
1 G. E. HUDSON.
Rival Inventors.
Portland. SeDt 4.To the Editor -of
The Journal In Sunday's Journal i the
statement Is made in answer to ""a
query front Hlllsboro, that "Alexander
Graham Bell Invented the telephone.'
If reports of the early days -f the
telephone that. I have bad the oppor-
, Wetness in Dry Towns.
Nehalem, Or., Sept 8. E. T. Luther
says I produced no facts; neither
does he. But if he wants some.
will a-ive him a few clippings from
Oregon papers from sections that 'a re
or have been dry, showing the prohib
it orv blind pig experience. ? I am sor
ry the limit is so small, but If he
wants more, a win na mm a parrei
of the same from Oregon. My own
county. Tillamook, tried the prohibt
tory cure, voted the regulated saloon
back: In again and this fall will turn
in such a solid wet vote that a pro
hibitionist will not feel at home. The
blind pig did it ' - -; - -
. He speaks about "dry" Eugene. Lis
ten to this from one of Its' .papers
"During , recent fraternal blow-out In
Eugene, one of the-visitors, a travel
less under this plan than If the corpor
ation borrowed the money in the old
way.
A feature of Interest and advantage
to the borrower ia the plan of repay
ment; $8000 of the sum will be repaid
July 1, 1917; a similar sum on each
July 1 up to 12X. when $10,000 will
become due; next July 1, $20,000 will
be repaid, and the same amount next
year, and on July 1, 1924. the remain
ing $80,000 Is due. On any of these i
-I hadn't been home but-a little
while from the Mexican war-whan the
Whitman massacre occurred," said
James Belleu, an Oregon pioneer of -1844.
"My uncle. Cornelius Gilliam,
was appointed colonel of tbe regiment ,
of troops raised to punish the Cayuse
Indians and capture the murderers.
About COO men responded to the call
for volunteers In Polk county and on
French Prairie, Howell's Prairie and
around Salem and Oregon City. I was
mustered In as a private and though
attached to Tom Burch's company my
duties were principally as courier and
dispatch carrier for my uncle, Colonel
Gilliam. I was young and light, a good
rider, knew the country , and had a
good horse so 'I was mostly on de
tached duty such as scouting and car
rying dispatches. I carried a Colts'
rifle. Its barrel was cut off "to 18
Inches. It had a cylinder with seven
shots and when those were all fired
had an extra cylinder with seven
more loads that I could insert In the
breech.
We struck the Indians first at Jim
Daniel's-place Juat below . the Oliver
ranch west of Pendleton, we recap
tured some stolen emigrant stock. We
followed the Indians and struck them
again between the Tum-a-lura and
Walla Walla rivers. Our army was
an army without a sack ot flour at
times. It didn't worry us much thovush v
for we ate boiled wheat deer ' meat
cattle or horse meat.
In June. 1848, I was mustered out
When 'I got home to Polk county late
In June, John Cox wanted me to go
to the headwaters of the Athabasca
river in Canada to help him bring out
some furs. We packed them to the
Jasper house at Boat encampment on
the headwaters of the Columbia in
the British northwest territory. The
American Fur company had a post at
Boat encampment We had eight
bateaux, six oars to. each' bateau.
We came down the river to
Wallula where we left our small boats
and loaded the furs in four large ba
teaux. They were 60 foot bateaux with
eight foot beam and having eight oars
to the boat Bealde the Indians we
liad 12 French voyagers. To come over
the rapids and bad places usually ona
man stayed in the boat with a pole to
push the bateau off the rocks and
the others lined it through. We brought
the furs to .Vancouver where a vessel
was waiting to take them to China.
We had martins, beaver; fisher and
silver gray fox skins. The cross fox
skins were worth $60 each: -
"Captain Koeh, of the Brig Henry In
the coastwise trade, had brought word
to my folks of the discovery of goli
at Sutter's Mill so my uncle Neal Gil
liam and a party had gone down there.
Jt waa late in the fall of 1848 when
I got back from helping to bring the
furs down from Jasper House. I struck
out at once to Join my uncle's party
In California. John Cox and I went
down together. I mined for awhile but
stooping down all day In the 'ice cold
water handling dirt seemed an awful
lot like work so I decided to make
money with less labor. All through
the Sacramento valley were herds of
half wild Spanish cattle.' I roped and
butchered these Spanish cattle and
sold the meat to the miners. I made
good money.
"We came back in August 150,
Uncle Neal and his party brought back
a little over 76 pounds of gold dust to
show for their year's work. Gold ran
from $44 to $16 an ounce or about
$260 a-pound avoirdupois weight so
they hod about $18,000 in dust.
"In 1861 a few of us gathered a.
herd of beef cattle and drove them
down to northern California, tn 1852
I took a band of cattle to Jackson
creek In southern Oregon. During the
winter of '62-'52 I camped at the mouth
of Looking Glass creek where it emptier
Into the Umpqua. My mother died In
1848 so I had no relatives now except
my uncle, Neal Gilliam's family. They
came down to the Umpqua country. I
remember a funny thing that hap
pened to us in 1852 when we were
taking 'cattle down to northern Cali
fornia. Sol Tetherow dug a hole on
Jackson creek nearly to bed rock to play
a Joke on Burns. Burns came along
i and bit He got quite excited and
Mid Thla lnoki Ilka a-ood nlacer
ground. Some miner, has dug a pros
pect here and probably been run off by
the Indians.' Sol Tetherow and the reat
of us had hard work to keep straight
faces. Bums dug down a little fur
ther and picked up a big nugget. He
saw us wink at each other so he
thought Sol Tetherow had salted the
hole Just for a Joke. But he said:
'I bit. The Joke is on me but I am
going to see if there is any more here.'
He staked the claim and took out over
as e a . A aL.t I tlf elaxattfl
.VSiUs"u tLb"r'f cAn ? ?-?!Lc.a ' figured the joke really was on Sol."
-w . w-m A -" . WW til, lUVCtl 1 .
ment
To my mind, this Issue ought to
serve as a standard. If you are ap
pealed to by sellers of bonds based on
farm corporation buildings I think you
would be wise to require approximately
the same conditions of securities and
the same sort of arrangement for re
payment Another item worth keeping in mind:
Tbts Issue of bonds is baaed on a
"closed mortgage" that is, no other
loan can be negotiated with a claim as
strong aa this one.
ing evangelist, was asked to havs a
drink, four times. To find the place
where It is to be had. you have to
shut one eye when looking at the
right place. That people are getting
tired of this 'dry farce is evidenced
by a change of sentiment"
Here is one irom roue county line
editor of the paper said he was a pro
hibitionist) : "Taking eur town (Dal
las) for example, it is no mistake
that there is more liquor here than
there ever waa before, and Instead
of a few places being the repository
for such, it can be round most any
place places where you would least
expect, too." - ,
Josephine county; . unaer promo
tion minors obtain Intoxicants with
out difficulty. Prohibition maes
criminals and does no good, for those
who want stimulants can easily get
them.
: Malheur county: "Is this thing of
young men, shamefully , intoxicated,
loitering about' our streets, never go
lag to cease?" It was dry at that
time.
Roseburg: "In spite of the efforts
of the officials, whiskey is sold in
the city and men and boys drink 1
and get drunr." b. j. ugrruw.
t Property Owner Protests.
Portland. Sept S To the Editor of
The Journal With a mind benumbed
by sleepless nights and almost hopeless
worry, X feel that I must make spme
kind of an appeal to the publio and
our city commissioners to have some
mercy on tbe suburban property own
ers In the matter or street and sewer
Improvements. The owner of a house
and lot has for some time past felt the
value he put into it slip like dry sand
through bis fingers. Now come street
and sewer improvements, proposed or
under way, that will in some cases
amount to double the selling value of
the grounds. . They are Initiated by
minority, who perhaps feel able to meet
the expenses, but who nave no consi-
The Ragtime Musa I j
- ' 1 1 a
HOO'S" H00
By John W. Carey.
deration whatever for the many who
don't know where the money is to come
irom to make the payments. Some
have been told that if -they can't stand
the expense they ought to sell out and
move. But at present they can neither
sen nor norrow money. Those who
have made improvements are worse
off than those who have not
It may be a good thing to provide '
work for contractors and their help,'
but why should hundreds, be ruined
to pay for ItT (
If the projects could be nostnonad
for a year or two, in some ef the dis-
uiuia wow viuea are tow, times
might be better, and we could pull
through without losing everything. ;
JOHN BARNES.
.1
Ideal Occupation.
1 ?Lncw 14 nust be great and fine - 4
.To be a teacher in a school
WUh.1?ft.jr.t"'ow n1 benign, t
Maintaining discipline and rule.
And then what Joy It Is to teach !
ine cnuoren in your own sweet way
And have ruler within reach i
To make them heed the things you
j say. . .
AhA think of the vacations, tool !
ion, long months of ceaseless
Joy, ' -
With not a single thing to do i
To backward girl or stubborn boy,;
But Just to teach, as round you roam.
Those that you casually meet
The stranger or the folks at hornet
For-teaching la delight most sweet.
That teaching is a noble task ' !
Is something no one may refute. ?
To teach grown-ups is all I'd ask, i
If my right they would not dispute.
But oh. how fortune I would thank w
If I could teach some folks X know
And have the privilege to spank
- Them well because they're dull and
i ' SlOWl . -rw-:
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A woman always - wants another
woman to help ber keep a sevet, .
''i .-.
HO To RUN Wt PAiUtCAMJ
REGULATION OP
HEIGHT AflO -
By John W. Carey.
Who sits In atate as chairman of
the V, B. L C. C and wises all the
railroads how to run their b-l-st
Who says if rates of freight are high
or not quite high enough and fixes
fares for passengers and all that sort
of stuff? .
Who gets it from the magnates all
that times are elck and sore, and rail
roads have to hump to keep the wolf
outside the door T
Wbo has It on the other band, from
Louis Brandeis boy the choo-cboo lines
are holding up the well-known hoi
pollol? ? .
Wbo has to be some Sol for sure, or
else a modem Dan, to figure out tbe
simple trub.T That Jamas S, Harlan
man.
Around the World. , .
v Greater London, England, now has a
population exceeding 7,000,000 and aa
area of 700 square- miles. ;
Barcelona, Spain, does a large bust- :
ness In . the manufacture of paper ,
drinking cups. '. j.'
Glasgow now forbids the opening of
saloons earlier than 10 a. m.
Austria now regulates by law retail
prices of drugs. 4'
Chinese are rapidly , adopting Euro
pean clothing styles. .
-There Is one telephone- to every 15
persons in Canada. . f
Peruvians are Importing sheep from
England.
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