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.THE" OREGON DAILY. JOURNAL,' PORTLAND,, FRIDAY v EVENING, SEPTEMBER.-11, ,1914.
Tl r f rt' inKt A I .1 spreading:. In other, Southern cities.
' 1 Mb '' . I 11 IK1MMI Th nnrnnM It tn niirchaM ft AOA .
' Xv lynKVEsnKXT neWpapisb. 000 bales, store them -'and have the r
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k. jackwqn ,.,.,.,,. gammaer cotton j ready when. Europe gets
i-wMuhtti errrr rwniii . pt souy m i through fighting and resumes the
ar MrtaHa bjmUtflr f Tha Intirnil B 111 Id
j )ng, Brwlway d Yamhill f- Portland, Oe
r"Tl- i A . i a Sh . a 1 M afflM- ar aa
4 .. iranuiminn uuwif o in
f . elaa Biattrr, i-., ' -
?'jkij;ij
arts of . peace,
It is a large application 'of the
il m second J principle of cooperation. It will
"put: $400,000,000 In circulation, tn
rt7WJVr the South and '.are the cotton: in
it StMtM M MM f
fb prtnr what denartawat yoo rat..
tOKKlUX ADVKVTitflSO RE?K,KBNTAT1 VS
V B-nJimHi a Keotnor Ce... BfuiwM
TO Hflh A.. New Xott, 1218 People'
lijr mail or to n
Mexico:
HulMrriirtlon tetm
5 tfrea la ba
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i Ob ;nia,.,M Um ywath,.... .W
f On laar.,.. ..0 I ObV 'tnontk.'.-,...$ 5
t DAILY AMD 8UUDAY. V ' '
"4, Oae rar...'.7-i0 t One month. ...$ .Sa
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, Chance , is always v powerful.
Lat your hook bo always cast;
in the pool where you least '
expect it, titers will be a fish. -Ovid.
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dustry; from-niln. The South' de
eerves ? to:- progress when ,tt shows
such "evidence of self ' help. The
plan should ' appeal : to." residents of
Northern states, 'for a 'small' In
vestment in cotton will 'go -far to-
wara preventing financial depres
sion, "the effect' of "which" would be
felt both North . and" South. ' ''
financial- prestige' that! may -change -such ? a - newspaper and that : he
the "world's- money, center to Economist has made unsuccessful
America, ? ' i attempts to evade responsibility. -
question. The chances are that as Any Pomander, should .take a
soon as Europe knows that Ameri- pride in r holding -a membership
can gold is-available there will be wnicn aids m maintaining the vis
a greater demand for commodities, iting" Nurse "Association. . "Why
Europe wants the yellow metal hesitate to assist women who eeek
n6w because of the war scare. - But j the dark ; places of , life and light
WHIT BE AS ASS?
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A FEW SMILES
in,' a short , time - there will -be a
greater demand for American prod-nctsVj'.-The
plan. to pay our debts
should'lncrease our ocean trade..
. : , A WAY TO WEAITH
6
N THE November' ballot there
-,is a proposed eight-hour law.
It prescribes a universal
work iX t-eight hours for
everybody ln the , state. Failure
of an officer to enforce it results
in ' his dismissal ? from office (or
malfeasance. , It ought to be beaten."
f - If passed and enforced. It would
I destroy the agricultural Interests
of the state. It would either put
I farmers out of business or cause
them to rise In a body to overr
! throw the measure. .
4 Under its terms, no employe in
tany capacity can work more than
A eight hours a day. ; A dairy farmer
could iot run his business without
employing two sets of hands. That
would double the cost v of dairy
products or put the dairyman out
of business. In nine if not in ten
cases out of ten, It would drive the
dairyman either out of business or
out, of Oregon. v "1 ;.v . !
The same would be true of ( ir
rigation farmers. Their crops
misfht be burning up for ' need of
i water. But with the eight-hour
law in effect, the '-water would
have- to be shut off whether the
scrops were saved or not saved.
1 In the busy harvesting 'season,
f farmers, almost universally, work
'extremely long hours. The labor
apply and the limited number of Pr, of .butter- on account of that
l!
HE trouble: with the Oregonian
is that .it thinks the people
who live ;ln the country' or
In small "towns are suckers.
It thinks all the high-brows with
power to understand live in Port
land, and upon Portland Heights.
- It shrieks, about . Chinese . eggs,
New Zealand butter and' Australian
beef, expecting ! by - its screeches to
convince country people and small
town, people and all Portland peo
ple who don't live: on .Portland
Heights." that the price of. eggs,
buttery and beef! has gone to, smash.
I, Let The Journal remind, its es
teemed contemporary that nobody
knows7' the . price of -eggs . better
than does the average country
housewife, or ; small-town house
wife. Nobody knows the price of
butter better than -does "the aver
age country ! buyer or small town
buyer.; Nobody knows the price
of beef better than does the aver
age man on the farm or in Ibe
small town, and all the screeches
and - cartoons about Chinese eggs
and New Zealand butter and Aus
tralian beef are wasted flapdoodle. 4
Generally speaking, the only
people who do not know the ex
act price of all these products are
those who do know that the prices
of all are so high that they haven't
had any for weeks or months.
What the great country outside of
Portland thinks of things is J re
flected in a sample, expression by
the Newberg Enterprise, which
says: "
Newberg people, for example, have
failed to note : any reduction in th
REGON waters abound in in
exhaustible supplies of the
best - food fish in the ocean.
But they are marketed
from Seattle and Tacoma. .-
Halibut .taken at the ' Newport
banks Is shipped .from Seattle to
New York. Mt snipped from
Pueet Sou nil tn ' Denver It IS can afford to snnnH nA r nAn
marketed from Puget Sound points j the expenditures within' that limit
to points throughout the West and jthe same as in private business."
even to the1. Atlantic seaboard. It This ts the contention of a certain
them up, who go to tne tenements
of the needy sick and throw them
life lines, who carry succor to .the
suffering and ministrations- to the
helpless?, There is" no nobler en
deavor, and it will be to the honor
of Portland If the - funds now
sought to render' the nurse ' or
ganization permanent are not only
raised but. more than, raised. . '
- "There is no reason . why state
business should not be conducted
nae " private business. It should
f irst -be ascertained what the state
m
If there is one thing- a commercial
traveler : dislikes more - than another
it is elaborate ceremony; and if the
spirit of - his profes
sion - la ; in him : he
generally finds some
wajr to let his preju
dices be known. One
evening a ' , traveling
salesman - from Cin
cinnati . happened to
sit down at a hotel
table : in company with half a dosen
state legislators, who talked with ex
cessive formality. It was, ."Will the
gentleman from Hardin .do thiar" and
"Does the gentleman from Franklin
want thatr the ordinary form, of
direct address being carefully es
chewed. For nearly 10 minutes the
commercial traveler suffered la si
lence. - Then he turned to the -waiter
and said In deep, oratorical tones:
Will the gentleman - from Ethiopa
please pass the butter T" The remedy
was effectual.
IPERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
; . ' SMALL CHANGE t ' : h ; OREGON SIDELIGHTS
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iharvesting machines make such
ihours necessary. Many a time the
work begins at ,five or six a. m.
land does not end until darkness,
especially in the threshing season.
J
There is always extreme haste in
'cutting, and threshing the grain
because of the ' peril from" early
fln. v , m
If the elght-houf law passes, it
would be a calamity to harvesters.
.The number-. "of . men,' would ..liave
:to be doubled by, placing : on two
;hlfts. ' There wouldn't Ve men
,There - wouldn't' be a . -farmer .tin,
Oregon who could, afford the added
expense' ' ' . , ' Vv'-
The law, would be ;awbrse pest
on Oregon farmers thaniwould the
.Hessian fly or weevil in the wheat.
A
Vote 821 no.
S Y u
NEW YORK BORROWS
COMPREHENSIVE plan for
taking care of New. York
, City's short term obligations
maturing abroad " between
trow and the first of next year has
been virtually arranged through
the proposal to raise a new $100,
000,000 loan. The issue will .bear,
.;per cent Interest and will be
backed by a strong syndicate and
V all 'of the banks In Greater New
. York. - t';--'-v
Under present conditions the
. banks dislike to reduce their cash
. reserves but . In order to preserve
the financial good name of the
city they will pay the city's obll
gatioha in London. This iwiir're-
quire the pnrchase of something
uzev 980,000,000 foreign exchange.
X Grain and other, exports will
provide A part- bthls but the baii
Snce will have to be met by send
f tng gold ;, to Ottawa ' there to .be
Credited to the bank at V.nvlanA
tt- Is expected that the L gold sent
; oui ; wui return; with - th autumb
:- s)xport movements ' Vv'... &'
C Some of the bankers believe that
foreign holders will be glad; to ex
tend loans through takine tWrtw
. notes, as they bear t per cent in
terest as against 4 per cent1 on
, tne oid notes.
tsrlff bin which the wicked Mr. Wy
eon, aided and abetted by those 'law
makers at Washington : who ' were
able to, take a, view of 'the United
States of America as a whole, nut
upon the statute books. -A few months
ago butter sold r here tt 29 cents; it
is now 40 cents. -
All the egg flapdoodle, amounts
to-Is that it shows what , an ass a
newspaper can make of itself.
' AN, ARMORY SITE
N ARMORY site is now avail
able at $10,000, instead-.ot
ihe $ S&;0 00. at which -oW of
the commissioners wanted
recently to make the purchase.
a , mtie publicity brought the
new off ef .Land Is always cheap
er ween it Js not bought behind
closed doors. A. great deal of mih-
lic money has been wasted by of
ficials thVough purchases of public
land before anybody has time or
opportunity to find out . an v thine
aDout it.
When the school board or the
board of commissioners or the city
commission or any other nublln
Doay wanu land, it can well af
iora to make the facts public. The
Journal will, without chares. aii
public attention at any time to
tne requirement as to sites, and
the "transaction can be had in the
open daylight with everybody who
so' desires,, as bidders. . Then if
the price is three or four times the
assessment figure, the buyer can
condemn, and let a jury say what
the' price shall be. ;
It. Is time ih; Multnomah eountv
to applybusiness principles' to pub
lic purchases. , 2 "
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PAYING AMERICAN. DEBTS ,
Is a strange sort of condition. -It
shows tack; of .Oregon enterprise
and abundance of Puget Sound en
terprise; " The- 8ound is handi
capped in " distance. . It is handi
capped that it has to haul the catch
by rail over 'a high mountain
range. .- Bufc. tt does the business.
Portland wltlt' all the advantages,
does none 'of the business. . New
port, with every advantage, does
none of the business. '
There is a similar status with
Nehalem' and Tillamook salmon.
It Is a product that could be
shipped fresh:- to Jthe East. In
stead, it goes begging to " the can-,
ners . at - a half cent to a cent .- a
pound to the fishermen. ' Shipped
fresh, say;' from" Portland, It ' could
be made to net .the fishermen a
great deal more, and In addition,
would aid in building up -a prof
itable industry in Portland.
In theso and other lines of fish
in , Oregon ' waters, there Is oppor
tunity for a magnificent industry.
The construction of ample j cold
storage docks and - investment of
capital by men skilled in the fish
trade could establish a big enter
prise where there is none now.
Even the 'Portland market is not
supplied entirely by Portland fish-
mg interests.
man with the plain name of Smith,
who offers to give the people in
the office of governor' a business
administration ; by a business man.
Letters From the Peppla
tff "u,.r,tlon" Mt to Tse Josrsal foe
'i?.1" thl dp.rtment abosM b. writ.
JT.it .T?r.l" lenxta and ant b if
eaoipaoteo by ua aarna aal addnaa of tb
Kf!2 Tk it Jb wrter doea not dtflra ta
y? BBbtobad. se aHould ao atata.)
mD1ibJo to the srrateat of an raform-
,w n beck oo thrir raaaooabtoocaa. It
raaaoaablaDeaa. It rataleaalr
erefbea them oat ot extoteoea and aeta op Ite
WUoo?ne " Ui,lf te4." Wood raw
Hop Growers Protest.
EduCK1nXJLle",0r- Sept- 8. To the
fentemS B Journal Under date of
th- m bep,V w ""J an arUcla from
Pen.of Curtls c. 'rom our
community. Som. tfm VT
rtalngo
.uuj wnicn we overlooked.
' wusiani attacks upon the
hopgrowers of YamhUl county cannot
be overlooked any longer. We find
5" run? r office on the Pro
2 "Cke ln thim conimunity
with their wives and f amiUes,' up to
this i year. .could be found In our hop
yards. 'picking harder than the more
liberal minded Deoda of tht
raunity, to catch the. dollars dispensed
- His article rimmf la .
Much of the New- "The hop fields are acknowleda-ed hv
L i iL .1 f . Oil nrl.A . -
pon . nanuiu mat wa consurae is , e " experience therein
takenby Puget f Sound fishermen if w.?!lu peak -the truth about
and shipped by rail from Seattle
and Tacoma to' Portland for con
sumption. Often, the Sound sup
plies us with second or third rate
halibut from Alaska, reserving the
first class catch for Eastern cus
tomers.. :yS.
Is there not some way in which
Portland , enterprise ,can do some
thing 'to solve this Important Ore
gon problem of -marketing fish
from Oregon waters,, from, Oregon
Ports by Oregon men?
A 21'
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- THE SOTJnrS COTTON
OTTON Is the backbone of the
. touins prosperity. This
V-i ' year's i crop has been est!
. j, mated at 15,000.000 bales.
: and before jthe European ryrar,, be-
gan its value was placed "at 1900.
. 0 00,0 00. "But because of the war
the market has become ' demoral
lxed; Europe Is not buying Ameri
can cotton, i ' . - '
J It is" -critical" time,, for the
..South. - American mills can use
only a fraction of the "crop, and
, tiere Is, danger of financial ruin
for planters. A large section of
the country is Imperiled, for when
ever anything serious' happens to
;cpttonrthe Souths suffers v'-l
; ' The federal . government pro
poses to do what It can to relieve
the situation,, and the South i has
decided to ,do its part. -A- cam"
palgn has been started in Afanta
I for the ; purchase by Southerners
of -cotton to . be held t In ware
houses untli conditions abroad im
prove. . Each Southerner who has
$30 is urged to buy a bale of cot
ton at 10 cents a pound and thus
asiiet In preventing further demor
alization of prices. ,'. t . "" .'
ANKERS of the country pro
pose to raise $150,000,000 In
gold to pay American debts
in Europe. New JYork bank
ers have .united to come to - the
financial assistance of that" city.
The metropolis .owes in obligations
now; due or maturing In the near
future about v $100,000,000, of
which approximately $$0.0Qff.000
Is in short term notes, held mostly
in Europe and payable In gold be-
rore the end of the year. ;r
: America Is to ask' no mot-atort
um, and it is to the credit of the
banking interests that the coun
trys credit is to be protected; The
bankers are coming to - the assist
ance of "business. . . There Is every
prospect that the country's finan
cial interests working with the
federal reserve board, will devise
a plan whereby every gold dollar
due Europe will be paid on the
day it is due.
It is a tremendous' undertaking.
The wax has: so disrupted all or
dinary channels of foreign, . ex
change that payment becomes t
aouDie t hardship. ; ; if - it bad not
been for ; the j European conflict.
payment ; would . have .been made
in goods. But commerce has been
suspended, and business in- the
united states is in . the : difficult
position of having to meet Its bills
in the face . of delayed . payments
abroad and closed foreign markets
. But America's record of never
having repudiated a debt Is to be
maintained. Bankers and v mem
bers of the federal - reserve ' board
are to devise a means whereby the
United States can secure the neces
sary gold with the least possible
jar to our domestic , Interests. If
1 the plan succeeds, as :lt probably
, . A' FRENCH IDOIi- - '
i ;. t" . - 'Sf., ' .;
NE of the .leading characters
'in the European wat drama
is Genetal Pan, the one
armed veteran of 1870 - who
is leading a part of 'the French
army,.. He was about :: the -only.
French general that: was .' not in
volved Jn disaster; in .1870 and for
that reason he is a - popular idol.
A At the beginning, of the present
conflict he was sent to Lorraine to
retrieve the , niistakes.. of - General
Joffre. 'The presence of the white
haired . soldier, and the coincidence
that he was leading them over the
same, ground on which he had lost
an" arnti two : generations ago, ap
pealed to the French sense of the
dramatic and stimulated the troops
to greater activity. ,
Later when, he was transferred
to the defense of Paris" the boule
vards of the city were thrilled and
his name was on every , tongue.
He ' is ' considered one ; of the
greatest, strategists . in the .French
army. .He does not believe in the
Napoleonic policy of striking "first,
in many places and often . There
has been some talk of giving him
the supreme - -command f of 5 the
French .forces., . Should; this, come
about and should victory perch on
the i French standard the story of
uenerai fau would nave no paral
lel, even in fiction.
Old John was sitting In his shirt
4leevs ona day. puf fine - like mad at
his pipe, and, never getting a puff of
smoke from it.; - -
As Smith drew
near, , John : struck
three . matches and
held them , to . the
bowl and . sucked tUl
his cheeks seemed to
to meet inside: still
never a ; puff of
smoke. .
And burnt matches lay aruond his
chair. There must have been a boxful
of them. '
Why. John, what on earth are you
doingr said Smith. .
rThat chump White's been trylnaj to
fob! me, 1 expect," said John, and he
took another ; futile , puff and put his
tiie down In dlSrust.
That chump White told me that xi
I smoked a. bit of glass 1: should see
the spots on the sun.,.
i i
She was a : widow and had burled.
three, husbands. 'Twas leap year, and
she went to Inspect the graves, of the,
departed witn tne
man who had paid
her marked -attention
in ' Tears gone by
A'Ptoi' pontamolatlnif
. . . - - . -
feTi ra them in mournful si
, J n L lence for a time she
' panion and sighed f
"Shur. Pat me OUld love. - TOU
mlaht have been In that row now If
we had only had a littia more cour
age.".,
The Ragtime Muse
Tbe fuggestlon is being acted
upon In Atlanta, and the idea islwi.ll, the United States will gain
the conditions there, to be one of the
Demoralizing influences in the
whole state." ' -
We deny this slanderous remark and
challenge Curtis P. Coe to nam one
single Instance of the debaucheries he
speaas or in our hop yards. We would
ask, does he speak from experience,
and if he does; what metamorphosis
of mind does he use to make the slan-
aerous remarks referred to?
We raise . 19.000 bales of hops In
this; county and distributed close'" to
7600,000 last year to help build up
this town and ; other towns in this
county; to- help build up commercial
strength through banklne institutions
and the free circulation of ur- earn
ings.; Hops are credited with, and
recognizee as. being th. leading' agri
cultural industry of Oregon, We are
producers; what does the Anti -Saloon
league produce? We would ask Curtis
P. Coe what our county would do
without producers? It could not pros
per if people with citizens like him
self, because hs is constantly asking
ror suDscriptions in our town and
county to keep up his school, and he
does not overlook the ? hopgrowers,
either. Our money Is all right when
we come through to support him and
others. .
Whether or not an Industry ' repre
sentative of an annual Income of
$6,000,000 is of sufficient Importance
to a county or state to cause voters
controlling the destiny of that county
or state to stop and think,1 la the only
question that we ask of. the voters of
Oregon. We have .invested our. prop
erty values in our faith in Oregon, and
we have brought some t63.194.700 Into
the state In the past 24 years, to help
build up -.' greater Oregon. Xabor
alone has ? received; $39,000,000" In this
time, .and;; many ,of our present day
Prohibitionists , have - pulled i through I
ine i.winierB wim our neip. we nop
men are being assailed in advertising
matter as lacking in morals by such
men as Curtis P. Coe and that vulture
of . business. , the Anti-Saloon : league,
wdth. the . paid : agitators from " wet
states, 16 of which, have kicked state
wide prohibition, lgnomlniously from
their statute books: They have- settled j
In Oregon for : a fight where . narrow
minded, unsuccessful men, some, no
doubt, inspired i with sincerity, are
trying to destroy our most enterpris
ing industry. -
All of Curtis P. Coe's remarks about
McMinnvllle are true. ,W have a nice,
clean city,- but -as ,-to our street pav
lng, public .buildings,. ; business build
ings, etc ; we f would tell 'him and
others that we have to dig up good.
hard cash to- pay-for It, and this city
being wet or dry was Immaterial. In
this respect we quote from Mayor W.
T. Vinton's message to the common
council of i the city of McMlnnville,
under date of ' December 2,1912. as
follows: - -
Tn looking over the expense list, I
observe that the city Is now-paying
$1800 aayear for police protection.
When the city had eight saloons we
paid less. than $600 for said protection,
and now, without, any saloons, it Is
costing HBOO."
.Tn fort at. the last aeneral election
1 1n lilO. this city- actually lioted wet
on state wide prommtion, tne majority
being some 84 votes. - . .
yAMHILI HOPGROWERS ASSOCIA
.TION. ,
- The) Detention - Home Site. ' '
Portland, , Sept. i. To the Editor of
The Journal I " fancy there are very
few people who know what a fine in
stitution the poor farm is. Or how ably
it Is managed. Most of the farm work
ta iua h tha derelicts whose xnlsfor-
tunes and bad habits have landed them
In this charitable institution, ana mucn
of the work in .the large hotel-like
building is also performed by the ln
tnates: - This means exceptionally good
"t"""1-'"' " vu ; sjonerB. and unusual executive ammy
high protectionist that. Lincoln said j on the jjart of the superintendent and
"When v. we ':-" buy manufactures farmer, and' especially on the parr of
abroad we get the oods and thet
foreigner gets the money but when-B0m8t ana re -addict ed to the bad bab
we buy,; manufactures at home we , its which in ar majority of Instances
s-pt hnth thn a-nnds and thA mnnv ' 1 hrourht them to this sad c condition.
Professor F. W. Taussig of ; Har
vard has proved that Lincoln never
said It at -all. The American Econ
omist' first quoted the saying in
1894 and attributed It to the How
ard (Illinois) " Independent. It
turns t out; that "'there never 'was
" An Aristocrat. ,
With respect ' let all men speak
Of the egg:
In Its presence be most meek, -That
I beg.
- Of the old Mayflower stock,.
, 'Tis the pride of Plymouth Rock,
Nay, I will not, do not mock,
. This here egg.
Surely 'tis a soltalre,
Is this egg;
Tet to buy it some would dare
By thei keg. : .
Its mamma was known to fame -,
As a prize colonial dame.
its papa was tmiy game
tail this egg l j
Now. with this high pedigree.
This same egg
Is the food of king, you .see, .
- Or of yegg..
All us poor but honest folk
Humbly bow beneath Us yolk :
Whls is quite a horrid joke
On egg-V. . , .
A man la llvfne- th dmnl. Ufa If
be has no kick coming.. ;, . .-
A dim In the hand Is better than
dollar mark on paper. '- -
lit takes a woman to love a. man-be
cause he doesn't deserve it. .
when Father Tlma tries to arir.
take a woman she friakes faces at him.
A tightwad Is a' man who- has more
money than friends and is glad of It.
Don't talk to a woman. All she ex
pects you to do 1 sit and listen.
Vm m nittn tt-hn a .
Snick yesterday is hunting a Job to
ay .-. -", . - i
!A woman can think an awful lot of
a; man for a few days after becoming
nis wiaow. . .. . . - -
-. e ..a,-
Many a speaker makes dents In the
table who can's even mass an im
pression on his audience. ,i
... ;
A woman who is popular with' men
is never a reigning favorite with othtr
lemaies or tne species.
As the canoe season Is drawing to
close, tne only excitement of sum
mr courtship soon will be the possl
bilty of matrimony. -
t IThe first time a man ts called upon
tot make an - after dinner ; speech ha
can't think of anything to say until
be has XiniBhed. , -
Amona the new dances biddlnc for
fiublic favor are the fox trot, the lu-u-fa'do,ta-to
and furlana. Yet some
people . wonder at the Increase of in
sanity. -, ; -.-i--"
i iThat new date line. "Petrograd.
now appearing In - the war; news, is
likely to make some readers think
that one of George Barr McCutcheon's
kingdoms has got into the fracas. ,.
' Wasco county has another newspa
per, the Maupln Times, published by ,
W. C. Wal ker. 1 1 is an eight page
paper giving promise of success.. . i
( a . - '
Bees ean again run at large In Al
bany, -i The council has repealed the '.
"bee" ' ordinance recently passed. It
was fought vigorously with . remon-,
s trance petitiona. .-. -; . j
Drl W. H. Davis, health officer of
Unn county, reports 80 births and. 14
deaths In August, t The birth recowl
w . hnoitMl It two nalrs of twins.
this making the ratio better than.- two
to one. -- f .
- --. r:;, ; a ! a .-. i;- h -t-.--,
A GranU Pass has celebrated the com
pletion of Its municipal . railroad to
Wilderville. - The Courier says pros
ecution of the work was attended by
many obstacles, but declares that the
city has biased tha way for other Or
egon municipalities. -. - -
j The Medfofd Ma-Trlbune says that
on account of the j new federal game
law mora ducka are resorted to- be
breeding In the .Klamath marshes i
than at any time I since ltie. - Many
into the Klamath ! country after the)
season opens, October 1.-
,:.,'.:; a I , f-1. .
' The Observer says that La Grande's
city government haa been run two
thirds of the year for one-half " the
budget allowance for 12 months.. If
the same -ratio is maintained through
out the year, tha expenses will be ap
proximately three-fourths of the bud
get allowance. What is saved will be
used next year to; reduce outstanding
indebtedness. i
a j a - - -
' The laPine Inter-Mountain records
the establishment of telephonic com
munication with Silver Lake, Fremont,
Fort Rock and other points. Monday
of last week, marked the first connec
tion by wire, and the Inter-Mountain
reminds easterners that, strange as
the fact may seem, central Oregon is
practically a new country.
"ON THE JOB"
From tha Omaha World - Herald.
The Democratic party needs no bet
ter campaign document this fall, than
the : letter of President WDson to
Chairman Doremus explaining-why he
cannot "go campaigning. t J ;
! fMy Job." says the president," can
be: done best only If I devote my whole
thought and attention to it and think
ofj nothing bat the duties of the hour.
I m not at liberty., and shall not be,
to ; turn away from those duties to un
dertake any kind of political canvass.
! Certainly this is a time when
America expects every man to do his
duty without thought of profit or ad
vantage to himself. ' America is great
er j than any party.' America cannot
properly be served' by . any man who
for a moment measures his Interest
against her advantage. : The time has
come for great things. - These are days
big with destiny for the-United States
asjfor the. other nations of the world.
. Parties will fare well enough
without nursing if the men who make
them up and the men who lead tnem
forget themselves to serve a cause and
set a great people forward on the path
'of liberty and. peace."
THE AGE BUGABOO
T
in
HAT no age limit beyond
which a man is incapable of
new r enterprise ;and success
7 can be fixed' Is demonstrated
the case of George Hewes of
Gray county, Kansas, c
This " is his story. - Four, years
ago he was seventy-two years of
age and heavily in debt. ' He in
duced some friends to : stake him
in renting 1600 acres of J raw
prairie land; -".That summer he
broke up 2 0 0 acres ' and sowed It
to- wheat. . In 1911 he sowed 480
acres - and last fall he sowed 1200
acres. . 1 -This summer he harvested
S0.000 bushels, of wheat and made
an Independent fortune. This fall
he is preparing to sow,, the entire
1600 acres. : ,-v. ... -
. It all goes to show that a man
is as old as , he feels and : that a
man has great possibilities as long
as he lives.- - - "
jt It all depends -on' the-man.
month past over 1400 pounds of vege
tables have been supplied to the.eoun
ty hospital every week, while some
3500 pounds weekly have been fur
nished for the farm.: Seven, hundred
Ihena supply unlimited eggs to the tu
bercular patienta . -'-;
The men . outnumber the women
about nine to one, which does not speak
well for the men. This presents a bad
complication , in the proposed .location t
of the "home'- for women of the under
world, either on the farm, which would
bring the two institutions mot over SO1
rods apart, or on the Campbell tract,
which would separate them by half a
mile. : Given a crowd of men of bad
habits without full, occupation, and a
"home" for women of the underworld
In jthe immediate Ticinity.' and what
can be expected? - Neither one is a
penal institution, and both are intended
to permit of a considerable degree of
personal freedoms 'There are not many
attendants - on tne zarm. and tne
"home" will; not deslre to pay- for
many police officers. Then the T. B.'s
are. notoriously hypersensitive-, sexual
ly, as physicians and : social workers
know. What chancsj is there for suc
cessful work In . either institution, to
say nothing of the risks of demoralised
authority and i scandal? -i t , i ;
Mr. Bolman and : Mayor- Albee are
highly v successful business' men, , and
their motives ar beyond question, but
1 oubt If they have considered the
strongest compelling Instinct which
rules humanity, especially the derelict
classes, when they proposed to put
two '.communities , of this character
practically together. Is there hot a
public - sentiment which will - correct
this error of Judgment? - : -
,-,.-'.--. GEORGE A, THATCHER.
P. :S.- If the county farm trst is
used, tha same railroad station will be
used for the detention home, and the
inmates will have to walk around the
poor farm buildings. ;, , ; G. A. T.
Mr. Booth's Timber. ''''
Portland, Sept. s. To the Editor of
The Journal Did Mr. Booth say In his
testimony in the federal court cases
against the Booth-Kelly1 Lumber com
pany that he bought the right of en
try, the" land and the timber from his
poor relatives for $100 each? 4 ,
. Did he have a brother In the Hose
burg land office at the time he assist
ed his relatives to $100 each? v - f
. 'v.-i'.;'. a W. CORBT.
f Mr. Booth testified to the payment
of ; , ; $100 , to the entrymen. . He
insisted ; that ? these: i payments
were ; merely f loans -'tor the en
trymen, and i ,tnat s tney took .v up
timber ; claims for themselves, . and
not for the Booth-Kelly company. The
United States court of appeals held, in
substance, : that Mr. Booth's testimony
was untrue: that the claims were
taken up for the Booth-Kelly company.
and that tha $100 paid to each entry-
man was the agreed consideration for
securing the timber. v;vii 1 v;. y
At the time,,, when; the five l. entry
men flled.upon the claims, J. H. Booth.
a brother of R. A. Booth, was receiver
of ! the ' United States land office at
Roseburg, and he was also secretary
of the Booth-Keiiy company. j 4,
' ilrs. Dnnlway ';.ErpIaIais. ;X??
: Portland, Ori Sept. . To. the Edi
tor of The Journal Will you... kindly
allow the writer1 to ; say to her un
known .critic, W. 8. Hollls, that ; Mrs.
Dunlway "Interest" Is not In the sa
loon, but in humanity,; which . Includes
all the people; and she does not pho
pose to try to limit v the personal lib
erties of the vast majority of mankind
in: the interest of a few self constitut
ed bosses, who are attempting? to
X Mr. Wilson Is leader f . the Demo
cratic party. But he is president of
th United States., The presidency, not
nartv leadership, is his Job. His first
duty Is not to 'promote- party advan
tages, but : to give his "whole, thought
and attention,? in days "big with des
tiniv."to aafeauard and protect his
country and to "set a great people for
ward on the path of liberty and peace,
.There are multitudes of Americans
not Democrats who are thanking their
God' these days that Woodrow Wilson
Is ion this "Job." They- are rejoicing
that their luckv-whlch was better than
their. Judgment, has decreed that at
this critical "time the .wise, firm and
serene Wilson ratherthan the Impetu
ous Roosevelt or the amiable Taft
should be president" of ; the United
States. They feel safer, with WllBOn
on the Job. They; feel that whatever
of foreign menace! and domestic diffi
culty may come as a result of .the
world war. will be handled with rare
intelligence, with patient statesman
ship and with Infinite tact. r - -
They are glad and proud that their
president is ready to let politics go
hang while . he devotes himself with
sole and fixed purpose to the steering
of the. ship of state through the dlffl
cult and perilous passage that it has
entered." ; They trust their pilot. Trust
ing him, they will not fail to see to it
that ' on the evening of election day
there Is borne to the wearied but In
domitable spirit la the White House
the message of thanks and good cheer
that he is so richly earning. It is not
essential to tha welfare of his party
for Mr. "Wilson to go barnstorming
over the country. ' -
As the president well says: 'The
record men make speaks for,,, itself.
The country cannot be deceived con
cerning It and will assess It justly."
The Democratic record of 17 months.
as made by the president and by the
congress, is a record of service with
out precedent since the administra
tion of Abraham Lincoln. . The coun
try, will not be fooled. Public opinion
has already apprised that record at
its full worth. . And It is already de
cided as to the desirability of contin
uing that service, not merely unham
pered but strengthened, for the com
ing two years years "big with destiny
for the United States."
President Wllsori rneed not worry
and he, does sot worry because he is
kept on. the-Job. in Washington, - Demo.
cratlo. repressntaives . sad senators
need, not he concerned because - their
duties hold them away from their con
stltuendes as the day of reckoning ap
proaches. 'Now, aS throughout a 17
months' session oft congress, they are
looking after the Interests of the peo
ple. The people may. . be trusted to
reciprocate and show an Intelligent ap
preciation . of loyal ; service on election
- i y , . : - -
TH E NEW LABEL, "MADE IN AM ERICA"
B-r John M. bskison.
Two Tears aaa as the story Is being
told amona- the manufacturers ef this
country, a. German toy maker- brought
a force of expert workers rrom nis
native land and set up a small factory
In j Philadelphia. .He began to make
toys in competition with, the Imported
articles. . . : " . .
j But he couldn't sell 'them; whole
salers. Jobbers, and retailers said that
American'' toy buyers had to-have the
German label on what they -bought,
forj It had been drilled Into their minds
that all good toys come from Ger
many. So the German's Philadelphia
factory languished until he had the
inspiration to paste utoeis printed in;
German on his . output- These labels,
said In German, that his toys were
being made in Philadelphia; m and he
added some other-advertising matter;
also In German. It was enough; they
were German flavored and . his toys
were- readily sold. .- . ,- i "
f Of necessity - we - are - going to he
forced to make ourselves familiar
with a new, label--"Made In Amer
ica." Of our mineral resources, Cee
retary Lane of the interior department
said' the other day: - ,
Tt is entirely posslDle to so utilise
these resources and. expand our indus
tries that the label 'Made in Ameri
ca will become familiar to our own
and foreign market." ; ;
This European war is of such a ter
ribly f-?traglo. and j sudden character
that It has brought squarely home to
us to you and to me who buy from
and finance manufacturing plants, as
well as our representatives In eon
gress he problem of making eur
seJves Independent of other countries.
we shall, feel this heed very keenly
until ' the war is over, until shibornc
ts fully reestablished,; and until , Eu
ropean factories are again ' in opera
tion. Then, of, course, the countries
which have been, sending to us nearly
sz.000,000,000 a year, of merchandise
(and taking from fus $JO,000.000.000
more) will seek to recover this trade.
It Is a war time, and after, problem.
What we can and must do In the be
ginning is to supply out of our fac
tories, labelled "Made ; In America."
what we have been importing. We
must discover our own resourcesnot
alone for our own use,.but when the
war is over for the, use of. Europe. :
THE PROGRESS OF f
THE WJVR IS TOLD ;
IN PICTURE FORM
Fonr.'mr! it rthotoo-rsnha
just received from the European
war ,. zone . constitute - a most
compelling ' feature of THE
6UHUA1 JUUKNAL Maga-
stne tor next Sunday. ( 4
Esoeclal srtentiftn is railed tt
the photographs from the Bel
gian battleground, which show
the fighting forces and places in-
voivea in tne raiser s rustonc
invasion. , . -. . -
No better understanding of
the colossal -. conflict can , be
gained through actual photo
graphs in the publication" of
which THE JOURNAJV excels
all other papers in its territory.
Pictorial presentation "of the
story of the war ends not with
the magazine. The news sec
tions of THE SUNDAY. JOUR
NAL for next Sunday also will
contain some . striking . photo
graphs from the war son.
" MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Two illustrated - articles of
especial merit, set forth two in
teresting phases of the j Euro
pean problem. .
In an -exhaustive interview
with Edward MsrshalL Count
von ' Bernstorf f . ' the - Kaiser's
ambassador to the United Sutes
discusses the German point of,
view which commands respect
because of the frank expression
of opinion contained therein.
"Aircraft as a Factor in Eu
rope's Great Cpnflict Is the
title of an interesting article
that explains the air strength
of the several combatants and
recounts - the rules regarding
operations in the air as far as
they are regulated -from The
Hague. : .; , v-:'y ''
FICTION ' FEATURE
Another, installment of Louis
Joseph Vance's thrilling ; narra
tive, The Trey .-O' Htuta," will
be a . magazine ; feature next
Sunday. A . competent synop
, sis enables : one who: has not
read the preceding installments
to pick up the story; with full
understanding and to get a
larger measure of eiriovment
from - the motion picture - reels
illustrating each installment
which are offered simultane-
: OUSly.
' The telegraphic news service
of THE SUNDAY JOURNAL
enables its readers to keep in
closest . touch with develop
ments at home and abroad. '
V, Its weekly review and fea
ture sections cover a wide range
of interesting topics, edited for
, the information and entertain
ment of a discriminating clien
" tele.
' Complete in five news sections.-
magazine and tectorial
supplement and comic sectioiv
Pnce 5 cents the copy every
where. - ,
The Sunday Journal
HOO'S H00
By John W.' Carey.
Very few are confined to the hospital
ward." and it is the aim of the authori
ties to keep them, on the premises
iu-iign police power is not Invoked to
do it. Moral suasion Is relied upon to
control nearly 300 people and the suc
cess -' is remarkable, as. witness the
products of -the farm, and the. general . lawif to control everybody else
air or comiorx in iui vi. 1 or - a j but themselves. - The little pamphlet
which he speaks of Is a garbled re
port of an-impromptu address given
byi myself at a political banquet,' which
I attended as an Invited guest; and.
being called upon to speak without
previous notice, I unhesitatingly spoke
the truth,- without thought that
what I said would get Into print I
admit that Z winced when I first saw
the ' pamphlet, -which was published
without my knowledge or consent, and
came to me, at first, in letters from
New York, Illinois and Texas. - But,
after overlooking its typographical In
accuracies. 1 decided to make no ef
fort to control its circulation, because
1 knew the common sense of its. argu
ment would appeal to the better Judg
ment of .every well- balanced mind,
although : it is easy for men of one
fixed Idea to misrepresent and. abuse
any v fact they cannot comprehend.
When one set of people set themselves
upi In Judgment "over an the people,
I shall continue, as la the past, to do
what 1 can to uphold the principle of
personal -liberty. In bumble ". obedience
to he Declaration of Independence and
constitution of the United States 4 It
is 'not the "saloon" that Is on trlja.1.
The right ef self . government . is in
rABlOAIL SCOTT DUNIWAT.
' :f s ? ' ' 'v '''' ' 1 5r
VnrM.nji. ent. S. To the Editor 01
The Journal WIU you kindly, inform
me through your paper Just when and
fc . R.Mnm tn4 Luxemburg became
neutral; territory j .Did .they declare
themselves neutral when the present
war- started, or waJt there an agreement
In i effect between France, Germsny.
nrtar to the breaking out of the
ar that Belgiam and ' Luxemburg
i tTh. WeutraMtv of both Belgium and
Luxemburg was - guaranteed by the
irutv nf Tendon. March 11., 1$L- At
the beginning 01 w ;rr..:nv -rr-" profit by the changes to-be made in
war in 1870-England beta mr aTartned ,Ur national plans in the near future.
over Belgium's .neutrality and declared
her mteption of' maintaining the in
tegrity of Belgium.! Great Britain in
duced France- and Prussia to sign
treaties to that effect
Chamberlain Makes Good.
- From the' Dallas .Xtemiser. ' f
.In spite of - th criticism; recently
hurled at Senator bhamberlaln In an
endeavor to defeat r him, ; notice that
when some public Improvement Is
needed. Chamberlain is - the one re
Quested to secure ;ic Why : are not
the services of RepresenUUve Haw
ley asked for once 1 in 'a while? sim
ply for the good and sufficient reason
that Chamberlain is known as a man
who will deliver the goods. , if . tt is
possible' for any one to do so, while
It is also weU - known that Hawiey
has no Influence- and cannot bring
anything of a publlo good to success
ful Issue for the benefit ot tho9 in.
terested... .. . : ; iv u--si:v
s The greatest folly that our section
could commit : Just now would be to
sena an inexperienced.: untrained and
unacquainted man to - take George
Chamberlain's place In Washington. He
is recognised as me of Oregon's most
prominent men; he has made for him
self a national, fame and has achieved
for , Oreg on - spd the'; northwest more
than' any Mother one j senator. For the
work he has done he has been honored
exceptionally by : the 1 senate, toy na
tional bodies and i by many, big east
ern states and civic; societies. - -:
In Justice for wba.t he has. done for
us, he should be returned by an over
whelming majority, showing that Ore
gon recognizes and appreciates good
work; well done and is not blind and
dominated by party! rule to such an
extent as to refuse! to. further profit
by the same. With ' Chamberlain once
more a senator and a; good, pushing
man In llawleys seat, Oregon 'will
- Who heads the. German hosts today
ss Uncle did of old, and leads them
on to battle oyer mountain height and
wold? V: .:' - ;
Who came to know as music, while
a babe in Mother's arms, the. clash of
steel, the roar of gun end all of war's
alarms? . " j"?';Ut--
Who feasted as a youngster; at ' lm
mortal Uncle's knee on ' curdling tales
of shot and shell and valiant soldiery? ,
Who calls the Fatherland to arms '
and dopes the plan of war when Kaiser
Bill decides to rid the world of king
and csar? ' ' - : .- - ".
Who only, hopes that he rosy make
those French to look ss sad as Uncle
did some year's ago? That .Count voa
Moltke lad.,r ': J'v, :y : '
Famous German Truism. -From,
the St. Paul Dispatch.'
The famous German-historian. Ran
ks, ia his great work,. "History of the
Popes,1 gives expression to . a- thought
which, at, this time,' seems pregnant
with wisdom. Referring to a situation
over' 00 years ago, he said:
"But t whenever any principle ' or
power, be u ; What , it", may.-.alros at
unlimited supremacy In Europe, some
vigorous resistance to. it,; having its
origin in the deepeat springs of human
nature, invariably , arises" iK; -
. This vras no less true at the end of
the ' seventeenth , century than at the
beginning of . the twentieth. - The his- :
torlan was referring to Philip II of
Spain . and the - great armada he had.
launched as the first step toward the
conquest of Europe. . But' the utterance
of the German writer loses none of. Its
force through time.; Application ef the
truism may differ, Just now, but that
Is an,- Ranks might have added: "And
Invariably-succeeds." a --u- vyy ss. -
' ' ,"
S'MjA' Jolly TWSler.ui "
I know a Jolly fiddler,. v:.fe?;;7w '
He fiddles all. the day. i
He sings and plays end Jumps around,
- All happy,: sprightly, gay. 1', -
He doesn't make much noise at that,'
He simply plays his part.
For that is-what I use hira'for
My -palpitating heart.. '
. . ' Warren Frederick,