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never hurt:
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not enthralled'.
Yea, pm'ii that which mischief
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Shall in the happy trial prove
. most glory, Milton.
THE TV VLASh
IN HIS speech at Enterprise, Dr.
Smith declared for the full- in
dependence of the governor.
He contended that a balance
wheel is needed in every business,
and that the veto power of the
governor is the balance wheel in
slate affairs. He said:
Pledge youroclf In advance of elec
tion in he 'harmonious with the legis
lature and th- balance wheel Is lost.
The veto power should hot be prom
ised or I rn if liked away. A veto powr
is ox n laed Iti every private busi
ness. If the. financial board of a
TN't private cdi.poration Were to
"permit without veto every expendi
ture a'l the department heads desired
to make, the huiiiieH would noon be
come IriholveuU The slate will go
on the financial rocks too, if a gov
ernor relaxes his supervision of its
frnam-lal affairs and permltB the
JudKment of the legislature to be
auit.Ktltuted for his itidBment as to
what -the Htate Hn afford.
There an' thone who think the
iTOvornor should not have the vetoJ
lower. Many insint that if he hav
it at all. he should use It but spar
ingly. Dr. Vith combe, before ho quit
dlfsruHHinK state issues, declared
repeatedly that the single item
teto Ib "a nharp two-edged sword"
and that It Is " dmi serous." He de
clared against frequent use of the
Teto, and In hU Hrowttsvlllc speech,
attacked Dr. Smith for favoring
lre! and independent use of the
TPtO.
In his Alliany ppeech and at
ofher liinoa, Dr. Withyconibe has
argued tiiat the governor aught
to be "harmonious" with the legis
lature. At Alhany he said:
Wliat Wi- want Is to have the logtrt
lative nnd executive Work In har
mony, and when wo do that we will
milvc this i'ieHtion of appropriations.
We will then g t down to Rood, sound
urwl sane businoHS, and there Will bn
no lotriiriiins in pollticm, feat it vlU
ltd cltan and harmonlouh.
A great many people will take
the view that Dr. Smith's plan is
a far safer one for the taxpayers
than is Dr. Wlthycombe's plan.
THH KTL'imS MADNESS
THE home of Mrs. Jessie Hardy
Stubbs is in Illinois.
But she is out In Oregon
to tell the women of this
state what should be done for
equal suffrage.
But have the women of Illinois
achieved the most for equal suf
frage, Or have the women of Ore
gon achieved the most for equal
suffrage?
In Oregon, women have equal
political rights with men. In Illi
nois, they have .not. Their rightB
in the latter state are abridged.
That Is to say, the women of
Oregon have managed their af
lairs rar better than the women
of Illinois have managed their af
fairs. Would It not he far better
then, Tor Mrs. Stubbs to sit at the
feet of Oregon women and learn
Of them how equal suffrage is to
be most certainly achieved than
for her to stand over them and in
struct them in what they should do
and should not for suffrage?
No women have ever managed
political questions better than have
the Oregon women. They played
the game admirably. They won.
They have the ballot.
And they did not get the ballot
hy lighting the men who were
fighting for them. They did not
go oht and pull down suffrage ad
vocates for advocating suffrage.
If Mrs. Stubbs makes a long and
"strong fight on Senator Chamber
lain for his efforts for suffrage,
and if the men of Illinois learn
the facts, it will be a mighty long
time before the women of Illinois
Bet the full ballot.
THE SLAV
I
N THE literature Of the present
war there are many references
to the Slavs.
According to their traditions
they are a branch of the Aryan
or Indo-European family They
teem to ha've appeared in Europe
as early as the Fourth century, b.
C It is related that they fought
under Caesar and built fortifica
tions for him.
Within a millenium they had
settled the immense stretches of
land between the Black sea and
from the Volga to the Elbe rivers
and ln the Balkan peninsula.
They make up three tenths Of the
population of Europe. Not all
speak the same language although
they must have done so originally.
jVThey are an agricultural people
and : physically big , and strong.
Borne - of them have light-4 hair,
some have dark. . In Slavish set
tlements the family is the unit and
the father has absolute power. The
WHYES ARE
T
HE people have a right to kno
oiincnit to una one. rrom puwic documents tub journal is
showing In thlg' serfes' of articles why taxes are high. ( r
It haa already been, shown how the governor vetoed a bill
carrying ,7 4 Items and a million and a quarter in appropriations in
order to force the legislature of 19 li to divide the measure up Into
single Items,' so the governor or the people could get at them, and
how" the legislative machine passed the measure over the veto,
it has- been shown how an appropriation of $1000 for .a man,
then a member of the House, was vetoed as without merit) and how
the veto Was smashed, 'the bill passed over the governor's protest and
the legislative member given his money out of the state treasury at
the taxpayer's expense.
The Journal, has shown from, the records how an attempt wai
made to increase the number of circuit judges from 20 to 31 at an
increased cost of $44,000 a year, how. increases in salaries and ex
penses for district attorneys were passed over the governor's veto,
and how there was passed over a veto an appropriation of $8000 for
a trout hatchery- in Klamath county, in spite of the fact that the
Game and Fish Commission had funds drawn from hunting licenses,
with which to establish the .hatchery.
But these outrages on -the taxpayers are not even a beginning.
The story of the extravagances s a long one.
On page 1248 of the 1913 Hbuse Journal is another veto message
by the governor which throws light on what was going on In the
legislature. It says:
I herewith return House Bill No. 406 without approval. This bill
repeals1 the act of 1911 putting the state printer upon a flat salary. This
bill la surplusage for the reason that the flat salary law was repealed at
this session through the passage o House Bill No. 432,
Knould this bill be allowed to become a law and the referendum ba
invoked, on House Bill No. 422' by Selfish interests, we would be in the un
fortunate position of being' restored to the present costly system of doing
the state printing-, a system favored only by those who profit thereby,
and who, for that reason, are opposed to any reform therein.
1 therefore return said bill with my veto. Oswald Wast, Govarnor.
The vetoed bill was a deep Jaid scheme to perpetuate the state
printing steal, the plan of which was pointed out in the veto message.
The Houtse machinery promptly f passed the bill over the veto by a
vote of 45 to 9, but the Senate sustained the governor.
The veto was the final act in a terrific struggle that broke the
hold of the state printing graft, a power that had dominated Oregon
legislatures and the politics of the state for a quarter of a century,
and a' power that had invariably and unerringly broken down all of
the many attempts made by. honest men to overthrow it.
As (shown by a recent article by Fred Lockley in The Journal,
tally sheets recently printed at thevntate printing office cost $195.12.
Under the old system they would have cost $1468.29. The saving by
the change which abolished the old fees and put the state printer
on a flat salary was $123.17.
Under the "old system, the press work on the recently printed
state pamphlet would have cost more than $7000. Under the new
system, its actual cost was $1249, or a saving of about $6000 on
this single item.
The actual coat of the public printing for the quarter ending June
30, last, was. $9418, 4L The cost under the former system would
have been $17,271.25. ,
What might not have happened to the taxpayers if Governor West
had not used the veto?
one particular country which is
practically all Slav is Servia.
The Slavs accepted the Christian
reunion early. They are largely
adherents of the Greek church of
which the Czar of Russia is the
head.
Among . the most distinguished
Slavs was Nicholas Copernicus, who
restored the ' doctrine of Pytha
goras that the planets, including
the earth revolved around the sun.
CopernicuB w&sa native of Poland.
In recent years the spirit of na
tionalism has grown strong among
the Slavs and they aspire' to es
tablish a Pan-Slav empire in the
Balkans.
SHOULD 11K INVESTIGATED
0
NE of the most Vivid pictures
of a Bhipwreck ever drawn
was The Journal's story of
Alexander Farrell. one. of
the two survivors of the 74 souls
who went down to sea in the steam
schooner rVancls -H. Leggett,
lie dramatically portrayed the
fury or the waves, reinforced ; by
wind and rain, the creaking and
groaning of the stricken ship, the
coolness and heroism ot- crew and
passengers, the launching and
swamping of the lifeboats and
struggle of the passengers in the
contending billows, their blanched
faces and despairing cries, the
steady settling of the Vessel In the
water, its gradual turning bottom-
side up and disappearance under
the waves, Ahe clinging of men
and women to the floating ties for
a brief period, their resignation
an J drifting out of sight into the
darkness, his own thoughts ahd
struggle until he was saved.
It was a realistic tale of human
helplessness made more tragic by
the suggestion of human greed.
Referring to the embarkation Mr.
Farrell said:
When some of the passengers saw
the boat and saw her decks piled
high with ties and lumber they
wanted to back out. She Ead a Ca
pacity cargo aboard. They asked if
they could get their money back.
They couldn't, so they all decided
to go.
It was an unfortunate decision.
independent of the story of
Mr. Farrell there are in the after
math suggestions of human care
lessness, hints of improper loading
of cargo and failure to batten
down hatches. It will be hard to
determine whether these have any
foundation in fact owing to the
loss .of captain and crew but all
the circumstances would justify a
most searching Inquiry.
ItAlLHOAD RATES
T
HE Interstate Commerce Com
mission has decided to reopen
the eastern railroad rate case.
Hearings will begin October
19 in Washington,
The railroads askea for a re
hearing, not upon the showing they
made at the hearings prior td re
fusal of the commission to grant
increased rates east of Pittsburg,
but upon the showing 'for June,
which was not before the commis
sion, and the extraordinary bur
dens that have been imposed upon
them by the European War. Dil-
f Iculty , in getting new capital and
a falling off in export traffic are
Cited as the principal reasons why
the case should be reopened.
The country - is , not : adverse to
reopening of the railroads1 ease.
But the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, before granting increased
rates, should satisfy itself that the
HIGHN0. 4 ;
wliy taxes re ' high. It Is not
railroads have actually begun re
forms in their management which
were suggested by the commission.
As an illustration, the railroad
managers say they will prepare
tariffs making charges for all ser
vices which the commission said
had been performed without chrage.
The best interests of business dic
tate that railroad rates be meas
ured by efficiency in operation.
The railroad managers say it is
their purpose to conduct their
properties in the future with as
much regard for public as private i
interests, and to conduct them
without favoritism and with strict
honesty.
But, in view of the fact that it
has taken the railroads a long
time to glimpse the fact that they
exist by tmblio favor, the Inter
state Commerce Commisgiott should
be wary in granting favors which
cannot be withdrawn when occa
sion warrants.
THE DOG'S DAY
H1
HE long held popular belief
that some dogs are . more
valuable than othere has at
last been written into law by
a decision Of the state supreme
court. Hereafter a distinction is to
be made between mongrel, puppy,
whelp and hound and curs of low
degree.
Added significance Is given to
the question:
"I am his Highness dog at Kew,
Pray tell me, Sir, whose dog are
you?"
The question henceforth Is to
form the basis Of all litigation over
the Value ot a dead dog. In other
Words the Intelligence, usefulness
and companionship of a dog are to
be considered in the assessment of
damages.
This, however, opens up a vast
field and enlarges the responsibili
ties of Judge and Jury in deter
mining the value of a dog. As
Shakespeare puts it:
Between two dogs which hath the
deepest mouth. Between two girls
which hath the merriest eye. In these
nice, sharp quillets of the law, good
faith, I am no wiser than a daw.
The decision of the Court dis
closes that supreme Judges are
human after all and believe with
the poor Indian who "But thinks
admitted to that equal sky, his
faithful dog shall bear him com
pany."
A. F. Flegel is not a Btandpat
candidate for Congress. Mr. Mc-
Arthur is the stahdpat candidate.
Mr. Flegel never engineered s leg
islative .machine in the Oregon leg
islature. That was done by Mr.
McArthur. Mr. Flegel never ad
vocated ln the legislature a bill to
make it an indictable offense pun
ishable with heavy penalty , for a
candirlatA for tbe lpfrbslntrirA tn.
canaiaate ror tne legislature to
take Statement One. That was
done by McArthur. Mr. Flegel was;
not a pillar and brigadier In the
assembly movement for overturn
ing the direct primary four years
ago. Mr. McArthur was a pillar
and brigadier in that movement.
The Oregonian denounces the
11500 home tax exemption meas
ure because seome persons! might
own houses in two different coun
ties and , claim exemption in both
of them.- That, -class ot people are
few and far between and would be
liable to prosecution tor perjury It
they did so. The measure' applies
tO the State at large and i not to
counties. The. few who might get irar J wining, pr
k. IT.i" IT, w " Jtl ftly able, and only too eager for the
-nj ,v,m Viuf imuua uy. yur-
(jury and fraud would not equatjinj!
actual total exemptions the house
hold furniture now escaping tax
ation held by wealthy people now
amply able to pay.
-JThe Quest, edited by Edgar E
Piper, Is the student publication
at Reed College. It Is a bright,
newsy, five-column paper and re
flects credit on the Institution.
Letters From the People
Cotnmnnletkn sent to The Journal (or
rmbUcatkia In thla department ahould be writ
Ma on only one aide of the paper, should not
xceed KOu words In length and most ba ac
companied by the name aad address of the
sender. If the wetter does' not desire to
tare the name published, he should so state.)
"Discussion is the greatest of all reform
ers. It rationalizes everything it touches. It
robs principles of all false sanctity and
throws them back on their reasonableness. If
tber have no reasonableness. It ruthlessly
crufbss tfaem out or existence and set up its
own conclusions ia their stead." Wood row
Wilson.
Who for Governor?
Independence, kr.k Sept. 23.- To the
Editor of The journalThere seems
to be a diversity of opinion as. to the
single item veto power of the gov
ernor, and the election of governor
seems to hang largely on this vital
point. It seems quite clear to me that
there is but one side to the question,
and that is single Item veto. Each
county sends its representative to the
legislature to legislate on matters es
pecially vital to its particular inter
ests. Each legislator is ambitious and
desirous of making a showing for his
constituents and realizing that it ts
largely a matter of grab any way, he
thinks he might as well have some of
the good things while they ar being
passed around. He hurries to gat a
bill passed, that bis constituents may
write 'him letters of congratulation.
Of course when he gets his bill ready
he approaches his fellow lawmakers
and tells them what a fine bill he .has.
He finally gets his bill before the
house but cannot get it beyond second
reading. It dawns on him that It ia
being held up with many other bills,
some good and some rotten, all filed
away in one big bonch. The session
draws toward its close and the repre
sentative is getting anxious about his
measure. Realizing that something
has to be done, in his scramble to get
assistance from his co-laborers he
finds them in the same predicament.
By this time he Is becoming desperate
and also a little bit hardened. lie
realizes that he has to lay down ox
do the only thing left. The result is
the remaining bills, which are many,
are thrown into one big kettle as it
were and made into a common hash.
Many of those legislators were hon
est and wanted to do right, and no
doubt did what they believed was for
the best Under the circumstances.
And right there the people needed a
governor
and they had him that had ;
the backbone to veto the whole batch
until the legislature makes a law al
lowing the governor to separate the
Chaff from the wheat so that he may
veto any Item found not meritorious.
When such a law is passed and it j
can only be brought about by having !
a veto governor we will have done
a great deal in purifying our legisla
ture. The people should exact a
pledge frort each legislative Candidate
for' single item veto power for the
rie EES 7.. very !
governor, before election.
that we have a governor who is not
afraid to veto bills that are being rail
roaded. .
Some argue that the governor is no
more honest than the average legis
lator. That Is not true, as our past
history Will prove. Often men are put
up and elected to the legislature for
the sole purpose of (slipping something
over the people, and quite frequently
such bills are passed.
The election of governor is on an
entirely different plan. He is chosen
and elected by the majority of the
voters of the state. His mission is to
safeguard the interests of the whole !
state, to keep down sectionalism and j
to allow no legislation- to be enacted
and become a law that Is not for tha
general good and welfare of all.
We now have two honorable and
estimable gentlemen running for go v-
ernor Mr. Withycombe and Mr,
smith. I believe either one that id
elected governor will perform the
functions of that office to the best of
his ability as his lights shall dictate.
Mr. Withycombe says he does not
believe In single item veto power,
which if It means anything means
that he does not believe that the gov
ernor should have the veto power at
all. He gives as hts reason that
should he have the power he might
some time use It against the legisla
ture and interfere with its harmony.
He seems awed by the magnitude of
the position he is aspiring to, and
wants to be relieved of all the respon
sibilities possible.
Mr. Smith believes . In single veto
power if necessary to defeat a fraud.
He also believes in administering the
affairs Of the state ln a businesslike
manner, harmony or BO harmony, but
harmony if possible.
We now have a broad gauge, single
veto power governor. Let us have an
other one. P. M. K.
Mr. Livesley's Position.
Salem, Or, sept. 21. To the Editor
of The Joufn&L The article by Mr.
Lockley in The Oregon Sunday Jour
nal under date Of September 20, was
very interesting, but he misquoted me,
undoubtedly misunderstanding my re
marks, I refer to this paragraph:
k " Suppose the state goes dry. What
effect will that, have oh your busi
ness? 1 inquired. 'Naturally, I don't
want tbe state to go dry,' said Mr.
Llvefcley. 'It will be a bad example
for Oregon, a hop growing state, to
go dry, but as far as it hurting me
no, it won't hurt me in the least,
since only 2 per cent of the hops raised
in Oregon are used in this state. Ninety-eight
per cent of all Oregon grown
hops find a market outside of the
state. A large part Of our hops are
sold in Liverpool.'
It certainly will "hurt" me and all
the growers in the state if the state
should go dry, as the brewers would
: discriminate against our hops.
This
wou,a nalu1Jr maae our nops sen
cheaper than hops growrl m other
states, and other hop growing states
would take advantage of this and ln-
would naturally make our hops sell
crease their acreage, eventually forc
ing us out of the business.
T R. LIVESLET.i
The Eight-Hour Law. i
Arlington. Or.. Sept. 21.--To the Edi
tor of The Journal Please permit me
the space to ask Mrs. Abigail Scott
Duniway one question: ;
If you are net lined up with Jthe
liquor interests in your strenuous
fight against the prohibition amend
ment, and your heart ts truly burdened
for the people and : their- personal lib
erty, why do you- not direct some of
your effort against the eight-hour
law? - - . .1,
If there ever was a menace to "per
sonal liberty,'? ;.lt certainly is the igbt-
S hour law. r Many a strong, husky man
j opportunity to work a few extra hours
I
I
A FEW SMILES
"Walter Jones, said a teacher
ternly, "you are not attending to the
lesson. Did you
hear Jessie Smith's
description of 'Horn
lnyr "Yesm," r p 1 i ed
the. email boy.
"All rigrhc then.
Give me a sentence
in which you brine
in the word correctlj
A
' To which the answer was:
marbles have you?
Hominy
The tall blonde has Mrs. Malaprop
backed off the map when it comes
to reckless handling
of the king's Eng
lish. "My cousin, Ig
natz, has joined the
navy," she confided
to her friend.
"Is he a regular
sailor V asked the
short brunette.
"Not yet: replied tbe tall blonde.
"He is Just a submarine, I guess."
Becently a woman paid her first
visit to the ocean and as she stood
on the beach g axing at the great ex
panse or water a
friend happened
along.
"They tell me,
Mrs. Jones," said the
friend, "that you
never saw the ocean
before. Is that
true"
"Yes." answered Mrs. Jones. "Most
of my life has been spent in the mid
dle west, you know."
Think of the wonderful treat you
had!" eagerly exclaimed the Other.
"How did it impress you?"
"Well." thoughtfully answered Mrs
Jones, "when I looked at the amount
of water they have down around here
it struck me that fish might be a
little bit cheaper."
to earn his $i or $5 a day in harvest.
If that law passes, he will be forced
to work eight hours for $1.50 or $2.50
a day and sit around tbe rest of the
time or ride to town to a saloon to
take advantage of his personal liberty
denied him by the eight-hour law.
E. FLURIBUS UNUM.
Anti-Democratic Campaign.
Portland, Sept. 32. To the Editor of
Tbe Journal May I tell the readers of
The Journal the reason I believe Mrs.
Jessie Hardy Stubbs, of Chicago, who
has come to Oregon to "instruct" the
good ladies how to vote in the congres
sional campaign now On in this state,
is sailing under false colors and is an
altogether deceptive person?
Reading a newspaper ln the lobby of
a large California hotel a few days ago
I overheard a conversation carried on
between two seemingly important gen
tlemen of whlon the following
is a
synopsis
"At all hasards and at any cost," re
marked one of the speakers, "the Dem
ocratic party, so far as the national
government is concerned, must be de
stroyed, and I believe we have per
fected an organization that will ac
complish that much desired result- We
have left no stone unturned. We have
organised the large employers of labor,
and beginning a month prior to the
election these ate to either close their
works entirely or out down the hours
of their employes so they will be re
duced to almost a starving condition,
and the cause la to be attributed to'the
dominance of the Democratic party in
the affairs of the nation. We have fin
anced a campaign to be conducted
under the auspices of those suffraget
tes who were turned down by President
Wilaon when he declared that equal
suffrage was a question for the states
to decide, and they have consented to
send their workers into all doubtful
states 'represented by Democrats in
house or senate, to Wage a bitter cam
paign against that party's nominees
and to. If possible, accomplish their
defeat. These workers will be liberally
compensated and supplied with all ne-
cesaary funds to caf ry on their work.'
"Who are the backers of this laud
able enterprise?" the second gentleman
Inquired.
rile interests, was tne response.
l"r$ must show Washington that It
must aeep its nanos on our axrairs.
When we have defeated the Democrats
we can turn to the Republicans and
warn the party ot its doom if it dares
to interfere. But that party has not
disturbed the trusts and corporations
to any great damaging extent in the
past. It has made a show, of course,
but that eoon died and the financiers
of the country were permitted to go
on their way unmolested for long per
iods or time, but tn& Democratic ad
ministration under Wilson has Clipped
our wings until we can no longer fly.
Now we must have hard times. We
must have them good and hard. The
factories, the mills and the railroads
have combined to bring this about, and
you may be sure that we will starve
the voters into the belief that the Dem.
ocratic party Is responsible tor theif
misery, no matter if it costs us mil
lions." Now the mills of Washington have
advertised that they are to close. The
railroads centering in Portland, and I
expect elsewhere, have cut their men
ln their shops to five days a week, Mrs.
Stubbs has arrived and the program
seems to be ln a fair way ot being car
ried out to the letter. TRAVKI.BR.
Kansas Statistics.
Portland, Sept. II. To the Editor of
The Journal Here are soma state
ments from "Facts, Not Fancies," by
Lillian M. Mitchner, president of the
W. C. T. U. of Kansas, and indorsed
by its governor, George H. Hodges:
Kansas' wealth, per capita, $1750; Mis
souri, $300; to help eastern banks dur
ing the panto of 1907, Kansas, $50,
000,000; Missouri, nothing; Kansas
saloon, none; Missouri, $400; bank de
posits, per capita, Kansas, $100; Mis
souri, $20; autos owned by farmers,
Kansas, one to every five; Missouri,
one to 100; weekly wages of laborers,
Kansas, $14; Missouri, 8; money oaid
annually for booze. Missouri, $80,000,-
ouv; K.anas 11 nave not tne amount):
us of boose, pr capita, Kansas-, .
gallons in 1913; Missouri, per capita.
28 gallons in mis. ivansas has 108
counties, of which 84 have no Insane,
51 no feeble-minded, 96 no inebriates,
2 poor farms have no Inmates, only
one pauper to every 8000 Inhabitants.
The report of July, nil, says:
"Fifty-three county jails la Kansas
empty; In $5 counties no prisoners
serving sentence. There were724 con
victs In penitentiary when the prohibi
tory law was passed; since that time
our population has Increased nearly
100 per cent, and the number of con
victs has increased enly 3 per cent.
An open saloon ia any part tf Kansas
is unknown; the dive is almost im.
possible to find, and we have not one
rfedUght .district in the state.'
! These statements are authentic;
their truth, is vouched ror. by the gov
ernor. Let all good Oregon citizens go
to -the polls on Ndvember and make
Oregon dry-
I Figures of IMS giving the relative
assessments Of three states,! follow:
Washington, - 3( mills; Oregon, :
mills; Kansas, ; 10 mills. ; Two facts
account, for the above 'figures in
crease f . values la Kansas, which
PERTINENT COMMENT
- SMALL CHANGE ,
It takes a Woman to settle a man
who Is made of dust.
It often Daws to let the. other fellow
talk while you act.
A few audiences arW aa unreason.
slv as are many congregations.
Did you ever know rich Tonne
woman to marry f. poor old man?
Occasionally a drl rrmilna a. mtu
because she Is unable to make a hit.
The universal ncm-a rnno-reaa moot
ing has been postponed. Wet grounds.
How scornfullv a woman ah mor.
Iy powders can look at one who
paints!
Do the elevators In a department
store come under the bead of shop
lifter? The German right wing evidently
believes one good turn deserves tn
other. Many a fool man goes lama trying
to work a rabbit's foot instead of his
own hands.
e
"When will the war end?" Is real
ly a less vital question than "Whom
will the war end?"
JJon t wait until you are past three
score and ten before beginning to
rx-aKe up ror lost time.
A married man very seldom pays
any attention to rumors of war; h
is used to the, real thing.
The first mornine h fnrrpt tn Irian
her goodby when starting down town
me noneymoon sends out the a, O. S
call.
uermans are accused of destroy
ing some Belgian paintings. Mili
tarism, than, is only-a little brother
10 militancy.
Latin may be a dead tongue, but
trie Latla-AmArinan 1 . o o i B
foreign business are worth the trouble
vi acquiring.
wnen a would-be friend says Jm
would do anything in the world for
you, don't Jolt the friendship by ask-
ug mm iv loan you a quarter.
AIR CRAFT
From the Cincinnati Times Star.
Before the outbreak of the great
war, the reading public was surfeited
with accounts of the terrible work of
destruction to be done by aircraft in
the armed ooAflictB of the future.
Dirigibles and aeroplanes were pic
tured destioylng fortresses and fleets
in the twinkling of an eye. The great
est battleship was to lie helpless be
low the warriors of the air, and whole
armies were to be wiped out by bombs
dropped from aircraft.
There has been active, warfare in
Europe for considerably more than a
month. The nations which have taken
the lead In the development of mili
tary aeronautics have been engaged
and have used their air fleets persist
ently. For many weeks there has
not been a day that the air of Bel
gium and northern France has not
carried Its burden of aeroplanes and
dirigibles.
It Is an Interesting feature ofhe
great war that, so far as their more
spectacular 'task or dealing direct
blows against opposing military forces
is concerned, neither the aeroplane
nor the dirigible has accomplished any
thing worthy of serious consideration.
True, German aircraft have dropped
bombs in Antwerp ana Paris. The ef
fect of these Operations from a mill-.
tary standpoint, however, has been Of
absolutely no importance. As a mat
ter of fact, it would probably have
been better for the derm an cause If
the-bombs had never been thrown, as
while no military advantage has en
sued, it is possible that public opinion
in the neutral nations has been influ
enced to some extent against Ger
many as a result.
Whiie neither aeroplanes nor dirt
-x.By John M. Oskison.
Lately a magaalne writer asked for
letters from many thousands of wom
en readers as to their conception of
father and his place In the borne. A
great many answers Were received
and some extracts were used.
Said one woman:
"The time his passed when the man
is head of the house. Father is al
ways the wage earner. Many a man
is incapable of guiding hla family.
What is his position? isn't it that of
an elder brother who turns his wages
over to a capable mother? Such a
man Is an ideal companion and makes
a Successful husband and father."
Another writer said that "father
seems to be around merely to make
the money and to be used as a threat
on the children."
Still another writer suggests that
the father must use strategy to gain
any sort of real place of Importance
in the home. Moat of the writers
agreed that father has very little to
say about the home and its problems.
means material prosperity; and the
small need to tax wealth to defray the
expense of crime caused by alcohol.
Another significant fact is that out of
395.000 families in Kansas SSS.000
have homes ot their own. In Spite of
her drouths, sand storms and hot
winds Kansas has raised 1,250,000,000
bushels of wheat in the past 20 years.
J. II. LEI PER.
The Hop Industry;
Portland, Sept. 2S. To the Editor of
The Journal I would like to ask all
the wets, especially those using the
hop industry as a weapon again pro
hibition, to read an article in last Sun
day's Journal which tells how success
fully hops can now he picked with a
machine. The liquor element has tried
and is constantly trying to juggle
things before the eyes of the voters,
using such arguments as the hop In
dustry, high taxes, blind pig, etc.
But this -hop argumenc holds ne
water, as you will see after you have
read the article referred to above. The
writer of -that article is one of the
iargeet hopgrowsr in Oregon. I will
quote a few sentences. He says: "The
FATHER BREADWINNER FOR FAMILY NOW?
hopplcking machine has proved to be
very successful, and hoppicking by
hand will soon be an exception, as one
machine will do tha work of $00 pick
ers. ; Our yard had only 300 pickers
this year, as . against 900 last year.
Next year we will not need any."
How about this? Hop industry agi
tators plead for the families in say
ing that many earn enough in the hop
field to carry ttrem over winter. Is
not such argument folly?
The article also refers to the rules
of .the hopfield. The most Important
are as follows: "No liquor allowed,"
"No boose fighters need apply. and
It further states that these rules are
"strictly enforced to' Insure good order
and good work." - This sounds lik
real prohibition, does It not? This
hopgrower knows very well what kind
of people he needs for his laborers,
and la order to-ineure-good work and
good Order boose must be. prohibited.
If this ean ba applied to a hopfield,
factory, railroad, etc, and works well,
" ' -" - - - . '
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The registration on Mondav at the
Oregon Agricultural college had
reached 1116. in cnmsatiinn with lads
on the same date last year.
-
The Woodburn Indenenrlent rt1tv
it will be "only a matter of a short
while before we have a full merchant
marine bringing to Oregon certain raw
products from South America and tak
ing uacK wregon manufactured goods."
Estacada Progress: The members of '
th rimrir CArnm.pfiai aiai iw .
are working overtime on the erection
oi ineir new club house. The founda-
tlo,nB. arJ already up and the building
will be finished in time for their com-
munity fair. September 18.
.
Promoting an Interest In eugenics
will be one of the purposes of a eu-
genics contest to be held in the Pres-
bytertan church at Albany under the
auspices of the ladies of the church
on October 6, 6, 7 and 8. Professor
Beckwith and Miss Thayer, of the O.
A. C, will serve as judges.
Cost of living at Corvallis Is illus-
trated by a list In the Gazette Times.
Forty-six householders have board and
ranging from $5 to $1S a month, and
25 have board alone, ranging from
13.50 to $22.50 a month, and $4.26 to
$5 a week.
a
Astorian: Walter B. Scott of Sea
side, and Miss Km ma Thompson of
Astoria were quietly married In As
toria on Friday, September 11. The
happy event was kept a secret for sev
eral days. The bride is a nurse at St
Mary's hospital. The groom has been
a resident of Seaside for a number of
years and is connected with E. N.
Hurd in the publication of the Signal.
Hood River Glacier: A new religious
sect, of the militant order, and known
as God's Army has been in the otty.
having fnmA with Ih, atm.t ..mlu.l
having come with the street carnival.
The members of the Army, who seem
to be also the members of a large fam
ily, are garbed somewhat similar to
the Salvation Army workers. They
have a drum and other musical instru
ments and attract a crowd with their
music
IN WAR
gibles have accomplished much in tho
direct work of destruction. It is diffi
cult to exaggerate the influence of
aircraft ih. . e .K.
.. ... .. . v .. mo
great campaign in northern and east -
ern France. Under the old conditions.
th tremjndous German onslaught of
tbe last week of August would almost
surely have resulted in the isolation
and capture of one or more part of 'was born on the Isle of Man. My hus
the allied line. But for the coming band was a tanner, so we hnutfnt tn
of the aeroplane and the dirigible.
Generals Joffre and FTench would
have had to depand for their infor
mation on tho imperfect means of
surface, communication. The aero
planes have given constant accurate
and up-to-the-mlnvite information as
to the location and movement of the
warring forces. They have gone up
every day and in all sorts of weathet "
If it had not been for the aeroplane.
It is highly probable that those five
German army corp. which were drlv-
ng sr. hard at the British on the
twenty-slxth of August would have
.w.,.., ii.TT,r .rn mnu
either captured or annihilated them.
It may be that before the war ts
over the Zeppelins will play a con-
siaeraoie part in operations against 'the .Marion JIoumc Jesse V. iionne had
the British fleet. In fact, it Is about 'started his ferry then. C. A". Heed sold
time for news of some sort along wagons nnd paints. A. IJukJi wus run
that line to coma from the North sea. i ning the Stttesman. John C. BfiH was
But Up to tha present time none of j proprietor of the Old Rrlck atore. A
tho various types . of aircraft have j man named Fish ran a grocery store,
made good the lurid prophecies ef a i Phillips and Starr had n hardware
few years ago. They have not de- . store. John G. Wright, who Mill Uvea
stroyed fleets and armies but while
as a military arm they have not ac
complished much, as an eye for the
armies In the field they have rendered
a service which justifies their exist
ence a hundred tiroes over.
It is not surprising. But in another .
generation conditions are likely to '
be very different. For one thing, the I
home is changing. In the city the 1
old idea of home is being given up for
the flat idea. When that change is
made father usually ceases to be the'
sole breadwinner for the family; at j
eighteen, or earlier, daughter goes to j
work. too. Her wages are added to i
father's in most cases, as well as
those of the growing sons who work
Under the new system the family 1
becomes a sort of business institution.
Is the father Still the business head?
He is if he shows himself Capable
of manglng the finances of the fam
ily. If he isn't capable mother is
likely to take over the job, for it Is
the mother who has the greater influ
ence over the children.
The family in our average city Is a
cooperative profit making concern.
Some member must learn the duties
of treasurer; In the coming days the
one who fills such a post acceptably
is going to hold a mighty Important
position.
then why not welcome it and use it
in our cities and states?
A correspondent said recently that
a "little" beer, wine and whiskey has
saved many lives. She did not say
now many lives "mucn beer, wine and
whiskey claims for Its victims. Al -
cohol will preserve dead bodies and
kill live ones.
WILLIAM NEUBAUER.
There Is No Organization.
Puikles, Or, Sept. 21. To tbe Edl
tor of The Journal. Can you give,
through The Journal or by letter, the
name of any organisation Ln Portland
that is handling supplies of clothing,
etc., for shipment to tbe poor sufferers
made destitute by tbe devastating war
raging1 ln Europe?
Or would The Journal handle such
supplies together with the toys it pro
poses to ship for Christmas? 6. T.
The Ragtime Muse
It's Different Now.
The autumn winds chant soft and
low
Of ripening nuts upon the hilL
Time was I'd take my bag and go
And gather nuts that bag to fill.
But now I seek no woodlands brown,
1 don't go nutting any more.
But take things easy here in town,
And' purchase stale nuts at the
store.
When Bob Whit from
called.
the
meadow
And raboits scurried through
the
Drusn,
I'd take mr gun and, unappalled.
Wade after game 'mid thorn aad
slush.
My own game to the larder I
With pride m my achievement
brought;
But now, sucn articles I buy
Believe me, they are easier bought
In past years that my thoughts en
gage I have pursued the antlered buck,
But now tbe "bucks" that make my
wage
, . Alone I seek with awful luckt '
I hunt no more- 'tis cruel sport. "
I live upon a nobler plan;
I spend my time In shop aad court
-A-hunting of my fellow maul
IN EARLIER DAYS
Uy Fred Lockley.
10,1 "1 find but few persons in
yrgon who have lived for half a ten
tury- in the same house. Becently I
spent an evening with Mrs." Nancy
Clark at Balera. who for more than 65
years has occupied th same house on
the corner of Fourteenth and Che
meketa streets.
"I will be HO years old In a day or
so," said Mrs. ClarJcX "I was born
on September S 1824 In 1C srVt nrk V
v t ?h anC!
latner had three sons and a daush.
wnen he married by mother, who
w"s a wiaow. also with three sons and
daughter. Thin cave them a family
of eight to start housekeeping with
; They had 10 children morei o I am
lon of a family of 18 children. I am
the last of the tribe. Pres and Ben
and Bailey and Ace and Mark and
Qabrlell ami Ln t? 111 J?n-
: Mot of mv iti M L BL
! JL m brother" were blacksmith,
j 8udlera or coopers, though two of
the" . were lawyers. My brother Ben
i was one of Oregon's early lawyers.
and Georgo H. Williams Senator
Nesmlth. Judge Boise. Judge Bonham.
I Judge Kelsay and Delason (Smith used
! to practice in the Willamette vallev
, l"11 l LoU ln. ,l olk county.- He
IT. y ucc"Bful as a trial lawyer.
" coum usually give the other law-
ers as good as he got and rosvbe a
little better. He was Bpeaker of the
house of representatives tn 1870. Ben
certainly was a good talker. His boy
Sam was alxo good lawyer. Ben
fought in the early Indian wars and
Clel and Will, two of his hoys, were
In the Second Oregon regiment in the
Philippines.
"My people moved to Illinois when
I was yet a girl and there at the
little village of Milton, in pike county,
in April, ii42, 1 was married to Sam
I year on Septembers, 143. My brother
i i.--. . ' " J
say nusnaua a ea the nnt
Ben and some of the other boys cima
out to the California mines In 1I4,
but they came back ln a year or so.
W all, that la, the moat of us, came
out to Oregon ln 152. We did not
all com la the same train, however.
Father came out with my' brothers
Bailey. Mark and Llenry, my sister
and myself with my little girl. Father
was 71 years old. He rode on horse
back across the plains. I drove five
yoke of oxen all the way across. My
little girl Mary, who was 9 years old.
died on the way. We buried her be-
Mlda Ih. Mnib. x-- ..... j
! . . . ' 1 " "cmea in
x'oia nouniv.
From thorn wa want tn
I the ITmpqua valley and when the In-
uiuns got to pestering us we moved
up to Salem, where 1 have lived ever
since.
"I was married January 25. UBS. to
mv aeran1 hmhant . -i.. . t.
ana one hair acres of land east of
, Salem. Wo put up thin house in 1158.
I My brother-in-law, Klljah J. Col bath,
j built the house for us. Here 1 have
lived for the pant 56 years and here I
: have had my sewn children. TIiIh Is
j little Nancy, named for m. fine Is
I my granddaughter's little girl. Ye:
k'Vi ," mV r?" nannmotner.
! It JJilVi hi' .Z1
! n'r mo?her t0Petnpr.- 1 bought up
j ..,n .89 wh,n wc , h
lprn wa8 R v, ThPr(, nH
timber between our place and town B
j M. Iu Belle hd a mill here then where
ne turnea out mncued and grooved
lumber. Dr. A. M. Brit and Henry
Stlpp ran a drug store. Captain I,. K.
Pratt was running a woolen mill in
North Salem. It. M. May was running
here, wa a partner of Churls 1'iwfor-
age In the Salem bakery. People kept
; coming and going hut these were some
i of the principal ones In business In
i Salem In 1C."
HOO'S H00
y John W. Carey.
'
By John W. Carey.
Who wears a No. 7 crown and rules
in majeoty, though Montenegro passes
as the Midget Monarchy?
Who figures in the headlines on
the sound of war's alarm, d
iptte the
j fMCt hla realm would fit Inside a Kan-
' rarm r
j Who can't. without a microscope,
lmP u-,on tne mD- n1 Vt
jonnpy-on-tne-spot at sugntest sign
of scrap?
Who's lined up now with Servia
and hopes to u. K. D. a thing or two.
to Austria and likewise Germany?
Who long lies had to fight to make
those Turks keep off hla
so at w?r is right at 1
grass, and
home? His
1 Nobs King
Nichols
Europe's Highest Dam.
From the engineering Record.
What Is said to be the highest dam
In Ku rope lias just been completed
j across the Htver liober, near Hlrevch
brg. It Is 204 feet high, M4 feet wide
at the baae. and 24 feet at the top, with
a curved pHan. cowav to downstream,
of a radiua 810 feet. It contains
about t.000,409 ctxje feet of stone ma-
I aonry and camnit.Nhera are a spill
way liV) reel wia and two outlaws at
the base four feet 11 inches in diam
eter. The dam was erected for the
double object of flood prevention and
power. The power house is provided
with four turbine-driven generating
set), each developing 1504 horse power
as a minimum. The coat was $1,41$,
270. . j
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