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THE OREGON 'DAILY; JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 3, 1914.
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TUB RECALL
i HERE is yet time ror inoso
who have filed the recall pe
titions to escape the conso
rt nances of th&r blunder.
n-r neglecting to file as candl-
i dates they can end the business.
That would be an easy way to
get out of an enterprise that, If
continued, will bring toothing but
' An overwhelming rebuke and last
ing odium upon lta promoters.
" ?- There Is no more chance for
the new candidates to succeed than
"if they were not candidates at alL
This town haa not gone mad.
The madness Is in those who
' ' have notions that this foolish re
call can be made to succeed.
'!'". It is not yet too late. Let Port
land be spared this wretched farce.
DOVT SLEEP AT THE. SWITCH
a N ATTEMPT is on in Oregon
A to revive the assembly.
The bill for that purpose
Is actually to be on the No
vember ballot. In the state pam
phlet which every registered voter
receives by mail, there are both
the bill and' the argument for Its
adoption. The argument Is a
vicious assault upon the Oregon
direct primary.
Of this bill, the Salem States
man has something to say. It
publishes a list of all the initiative
measures, with comment on each.
Of the bill for revival of the as
sembly, it says: "Not yet ready
for this."
. "Not yet ready for this" is lan
guage about which -there can be
no doubt. It means that we are
not ready for the assembly now,
but that we will be later. It la
a frank admission by the States
man that it is not against the as
sembly as such, but that it is con
vinced that the moment is not yet
favorable.
Of this same bill, the Oregonian
sayB it is "politically premature
, "Politically premature" means the
same as the Statesman's "not yet
ready for this." It- means that
the assembly bill was proposed too
soon. It . means that the pro-
. posers of the bill should have
awaited a more favorable oppor
tunity. It means that the bill
should have been kept in the back
ground until the time arrived for
putting it over.
The Journal submits to the sober
judgment of the people of this
state that the .same thing that is
in the mind of the big body of
men who proposed the assembly
bill is In the mind of the Ore
gonian. They differ only in this.
; A DANIEL1 COME TO JUDGMENT
IKE a new comet, T, TV? Geer baa biased athwart the sky s a
"friend" of the Oregon system. t . .,
In a speech In behalf of Dr. WIthytsombe and Mr. Booth,
Mr.' Geer said Senator Chamberlain is an enemy of the Oregon
system. ;
Ye gods, what next! If there Is anything the standpat machine,
now parading through Oregon in the stolen garb of the -party of Lin
coln, has not accused Chamberlain of, what is It? Are they next to
charge him with horse stealing? Or with wearing a corset? Or cruelty
to animals? .'.
In justice to history, it is no more than fair to say, that nothing
more fortunate for the Oregon system could have happened than1 that
George E. Chamberlain was governor of Oregon during the formative
period of that system. If a hostile governor had been in the execu
tive chairduring that period, it. is wholly probable that there would
now be no Oregon system.
For proof of Chamberlain's fidelity to the Oregon system. The
Journal points to public documents on file at the Oregon state house.
A single document will suffice In this case. The legislature of 1905
by use of the emergency clause on many bills was quietly preparing
to nullify the referendum.. The presence of that clause on a bill pre
vents the people from reaching the measure with the referendum."
On page 116 of the 1905 Senate Journal is a message to the legisla
ture by Governor Chamberlain, of which the following is a part:
Under the amendment to the constitution of the state of Oregon,
adopted June 2, 1902, the people reserved to them selves power at their
own option to approve or reject at the polls any act of the legislative
assembly My attention has been called to the fact that many, if
sot a majority of the bills which have been Introduced In both the House
.and Senate have an emergency clause declaring such bills to be for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety of the
people, thus, in effect, cutting off the right to have such laws referred to
the people. As a matter of fact, no law can have for Its object the Im
mediate preservation of the public peace unless It be to prevent invasion,
insurrection, or war; no law. can have for its object the immediate pres
ervation of the public health unless it be to prevent the Introduction of
some plague, or the spread of some contagious or Infectious disease, and
"no law can have for its object the immediate preservation of the public
safety unless it be to prevent riot or mob violence or something calcu
lated to bring about great destruction of life or property. T
I am. bound by the same oath of office as you and other officers of
the state to support the constitution in letter and in spirit as I under
stand it, and following the construction heretofore given by the courts
and the people to constitutional provisions like the one .under considera
tion, I shall feel it my duty tb refuse to give my assent to any act con
taining the emergency clause referred to unless it is clearly apparent that
the emergency is immediate within the letter and spirit of this amend-
ment to the constitution.
The people of the state should have the right to avail themselves of
the referendum clause la the constitution in all eases except those clearly
Intended to be embrace A within the exception quoted. George E. Cham
berlain, Governor.
The above language Is Quoted from a public document. It is
official. There is no room for dispute over its meaning. There are
more of the Bame kind.
But for Chamberlain's presence in the governor's office with all
the great influence of that office thrown on the side of Statement
One, there is little doubt but that system of electing senator through
the people's choice would have been broken down. The fact that
there was proposed such, a measure as the Infamous Bean-Brooke bill,
making It a crime to subscribe to Statement One, is a sample of
what was going on during the formative period of the Oregon system.
If the system in Oregon could have been broken down in those days.
the fact would have been used as an argument against such systems
in other states. Oregon would have been pointed to ' as disgusted
with the plan, and the great sentiment that was forming elsewhere
would have been dissipated. Even direct election of senator, as we
now have it, might have been long postponed if a man unfriendly
to the Oregon system had been in the governor's office.
Meanwhile, what is the record of Mr. Geer. who calls himself the
"friend" and Senator Chamberlain the "enemy' of the Oregon sys
tem? Here Is one tiny part of that record: When the constitution
of Arizona was before the people for adoption preliminary to admis-
Eion as a state, a great contest was on. The proposed constitution
comprised practically all of the Oregon system. The big interests of
Arizona, the reactionaries of Arizona, and the corporations of Ari
zona were fighting it bitterly on that account.
Mr. Cejer went down to Arizona and traveled up and ddwn the
state denouncing the Oregon system and calling upon the voters of
that territory to avoid, the Oregon system as they would the plague.
Let Lincoln Republicans mark the spectacle. In their sober
reflection, let them note the great farce the old standpat regime,
which ,has seized the ticket and is running the campaign, is enacting
iff this state in the honored name of republicanism.
quent, logical and powerful pul
piteer, and had in Portland a
church congregation ' notable for
its warmth, its consideration of
strangers and Its devotion' to
church Ideals.
His influence on the life of .the
community has been excellent and
wide.
A FEW SMILES
SAFETY FIRST
m
AYOR ALBEE has appointed
a public safety . commission.
The slogan should be safety
first, last and all the time.
In attracting, public attention to
the ralue of prevention ' of acci
dents a safety first campaign is
Justified from the material stand
point of economics. The growing
complexity of modern life, the in
troduction' of new machinery and
new, modes ;of conveyance render
It Imperative that "greater care
should bis' exercised in the conser
vation of olives.
4-Tha "path; of social progress runs
through the field of "safety first."
Prevention is better than cure.
. .. There had been a missionary ser
mon and ' collection at a certain
church and a little girl who accom
panied her -.father
to the service
seemed perplexed and
meditative.
When she reached
borne she asked her
mother whether the
natives of Africa
of . whom they had
heard, wore clothes.
"No," replied the mother, they
don't"
"Then," reto-ted the observant
young lady, "what Was the use of the
button that father gave to the collec
tion?"
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Letters From the People
Hiram "Haw! Haw! Haw! I
skinned one of them city fellers that
put the lightning rod on my house,
Silas "Ye did 7
How did you do art
Hiram "why.
when I made out the
check to pay him I
just signed my name
without specifying
the amount. . I'll bet
there will be some
body pretty mad when he goes to cash
it"
controversy by the great mentnc
the countries who are rknown !3to
Christendom now as thfe allies..
It Is by studying both Bidesas
well as past and current history
that a sound conclusion can be
reached in this greatest armed con
troversy in the history of man.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
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(OoaunnnicaUona aent to Tha Journal for
publication la this department ahoeld ba writ
tan on only one aide of tha paper, should sot
exceed 800 word la length and mast be ac
companied by the name sad addreae ot tbe
sender, if tbe writer does not deaira to
cave tee name published, be should no state.)
"Disc-nsafcm is the (res test ef an reform -era.
It rationalise everything it touches. It
robe principles of aU false sanctity and
throws them back on their reaaonablaoeaa. If
they bare no reaaonabliuiMa. It rnthlaaalr
crushes them oat of existence end aet op Its
own conclusions la their stead." Woodrow
The -Telephone Systems.
Portland, Oct. trTo the Editor of
The Journal Allow me to thank you
for information regarding telephone
conditions in this . city, as quoted on
page of The Journal of September
22, advising that. the Pacific company
has 64,000 and the Home company 15,
000 telephones in service. I under
stand that records at the citv hall
show that on December 31, 1918, the
Pacific company had 41,172 and the
Home company 13,861 telephones ' In
service at that time. Persons inter
ested in the telephone business in this
city have circulated a report to the
effect that when the Home company
secures lta 5000 new subscribers it
will have more subscribers than the
Pacific company. Evidently there is
an error In calculation.
Another report has been circulated
to the effect that the Pacific Tele
phone company Increased its rates for
service in Seattle since the consolida
tion of the two systems there. The
Pacific company increased Its rate
in 1910 when there was competition
and has not Increased Its rate since
the consolidation. By order No. 410,
of November 1, 1911, the public serv
ice commission of Washington allowed
an increase of 25 per cent to the Home
company in Seattle The systems have
consolidated since that date and since
the consolidation business firms save
$60 per annum, on B-l service. Port
land business men can save 372 or 375
per annum on the same class of serv
ice should the two local systems con
solidate. As information to citizens of Port
land. I Quote a clause in the regular
contract of each of the local telephone
companies, which reads as follows:
"This contract may be cancelled by
the subscriber at any time after three
months from ' date service commenced
by payment of fire dollars ($5.00) aa
a ' cancellation charge, provided all
sums due hereunder have been paid."
As a rule the Pacific company can
cels this clause by accepting a $5 de
posit, returnable at expiration of one
year with 6 per cent Interest. As a
rule the Home company does not ac
cept a deposit but renders bill for the
A family moved from the city to a
suburban locality and were told that
they should get a watch dog to guard
tbe premises at
night. So they
bought the largest
dog ' that was for
sale In the kennels
of a neighboring
dog fancier, who
was a. German.
Shortlv afterward
the house was "entered by burglars.
who made a good haul, while the big
dog slept. The man went to the dog
fancier and told him about it.
"Veil, vat you need now," said the
dog merchant, "is a leedle dog, to vake
up the big dog."
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
BATTLllS ANTHEMS
I SMALL CHANGE
Soma men 'sure too nallts to troth-
tut i
Tbe thread of man a discourse is
merely a yarn.
Better Ona boll on that Man fhan
two on the neck.
Din ao ointment in lav aavea maji-r
a man from paying alimony.
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You Can't liuicr a. wnmsn'M Mwmmi-
tion by ner telephone voice.
After children arrow no fhlr t Ta
enia often prove a disappointment.
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Some women can't 1am tit mitnHl
look, even after they become widows.
IPs easier for a mun to shot nn a.
100-ton safe than a 100-pound wife.
The difference between a retreat and
a tactical maneuver depends on , the
side reporting it.
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The warring nations seem to have
appointed President Wilson a griev
ance committee ox ona
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Probably once" in about 4000 years
a man who is licked in a fair fight
oag no excuse to oxter.
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One can judge a woman's wardrobe
by the clothes she takes with her on
a two days' visit; they are the best
an naa.
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They can't sine for American dollar
this winter, but what's to hinder those
epera singers who have Joined their
regiments from getting up a concert
or ine powers?
The ancient motto. "What Is Home
Without a Mother?" has been relented
to the attic and a "Votes for Women"
pennant occupies its former place on
tne parior wauu
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Iowans. In and around Eusrene. will
hold their fifteenth annual picnic Octo
ber 8, at the fair grounds. v
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James Wlnslow. a farmer en the
Hermiston project, reports in the Her
miaton Herald the harvesting of a
watermelon that weighed 70 pounds,
even though handicapped by the fact
that It had been plugged before It
was ripe.
A very hisrh rate of inerea-SM in at
tendance in the schools of Baker coun
ty is reported by County Superintend
ent Smith. The Hereford district, in
the upper Burnt River country, la
first with an expansion to 42 from six
a few years ago.
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In the course of an editorial on the
business outlook the Klamath Falls
Herald observes that "everybody who
has visited the west, and the coast
especially, is impressed with the hope
fulness and the confidence that pos.
sesses everybody in this section."
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Business tip in Astoria Budget:
"Astoria offers a big opportunity for
a sight-seeing car to convey tourists
some aay somebody
TV,
Prom thf i Tacoma Ledger. ; '"-v"-,
Americans ' 1lil remember that at k
the time of thq ispanish-American war
our soldiers wnt into battle singing,
not "America" ;ibr "The Star Spangled
Banner," but "$ Hot Time in the Old "
Town Tonight The soldiers, mostly :
young men, buoyant of spirit and tak-,
ing much of tlte campaigning as thay
would a footbtij game, wanted no he
roics to marci ', and fight? by. There
was enough or? ; the latter ' when .they
left home, at ibe Inspections and. re- ,
views, and thtJI'rul J be moie of it
when thajerett;ned. In the meantime) '
nothrifserved1to keep spirits up more
than Che swln: !ing.popular melody of
"A Hot Tima'Hr
It Is not Surprising, therefore, to
find "Rule Biittanla" and "Qod Save
the King" lefjj behind with the dress
uniforms and jther formalities by the.
English soldiejs that locked with the
Germans in l.je desperate battles of
the Marne ' aid Alsne. The terrible
slaughter of these struggles could not
stop the flow Jaf the' Briton's song, but
from somewhere will start a touring ? Bon wf'ft hls natlon 0Uni-
car service in the city ana tne local vuurua rs xuw.im "--
autoists will say. 'Well, why didn't we j lng and fighting men, . f rom ; the
trenches and along the roads, ana
from the grojps of wounded return
think of that?' "
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editorial
In an editorial under the caption
"Keen Together" the Kast Oregonian
admonishes the people of Pendleton as
follows: "Let us keep the Round-Up
spirit ready all the time for use In
behalf of Pendleton. The most pro
nounced characteristics of the spirit in
which the Round-Up Is managed are
represented by the energy, enthusiasm,
unity and desire for efficiency shown
by those directly and indirectly con
nected with the how! Keep those
qualities in evidence in all that the
city undertakes and the results will
be phenomenal.
THE MEMOIR OF A BULLET
thrown out of employment, prices
are soaring and business is at a
standstill.
Reports come from China that
as a result of shutting down fac
tories operated by Europeans thou-
sands of natives have been thrown ; .cancellation charge if subscriber's
N AMENDMENT that should
be voted "yes" Is the one
abolishing the death penalty.
Is It any less a crime for the
that the men who proposed the state to murder a human being
assembly bill think now is the than , for an individual to murder
time, the Oregonian thinks sub- a human belne?
mission now Is "premature." And The death penalty has had no
me same tning tnat is In the mind deterrent effect on murder. On
of the proponents of the bill Is the other hand the example of
, In the mind of the Statesman, murder set by the state In its pub-
only the btatesman thinks we arc hie executions - has actually ln-
'not yet ready for this." creased murder. Revenge begets
Let the people of this state be I revenge. - Savagery begets sav-
warned. If they prize their nrlvl- agery. Legal butchery educates a
lege of going to the ballot box and brutal populace.
exercising direct Influence by their It Is generally accepted that the
votes on public affairs, they would objects of punishment are the re
better be on their guard. Many a formation of the criminal and the
criminal has -been hung on cir- protection of society. ,
Eumstantial evidence less convinc- How can you reform a man by
lng than is the circumstantial evi- breaking his neck?
dence now at hand to prove that Cannot society be protected by
there Is a widespread purpose, keeping him behind prison walls?
agreed to by many men to knife In 1885 there was one execution
the direct primary if not rthr for everv seventeen miirdera r-nm-
popular forms of government In mitted. In 1904 the ratio was one
,thls state. If any citizen has to seventy-three. Five statin in
doubt about It, let him turn to the Union have abolished capital
page 96 in the state pamphlet and punishment. These show a fewer
there read the argument in favor number of murders in proportion
or tne bill to revive the assembly. I to population than those states
Along witn that, . The Journal I where they hava tha hanrmm'a
will, from time to time, present noose and the electric! death chair,
further evidence for
. si deration. does not deter mnrdier whv per
petuate this relic of a barbaric
day?
out of work and many are starv
ing. Agitators have seized the oc
casion to fan the flame of rebel
lion and encourage the massacre
of foreigners. Riots are frequent.
It all goes to prove that modern
development has brought the peo
ples of the world in close relation
and made them mutually dependent.
T
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THE RUMINANTS
HE reformer Is not content
with the prohibition of smok
ing and chewing tobacco in
large offices but Is now try
to extend the taboo to the
chewing of gum.
In a Chicago railroad office the
louowms nouce nas oeen posted : Wonuma Relation to Prohibition.
llw January i, xvxn, mere will portiand, Oct. 3. To the Editor of
be no smoking, no tobacco chewing I The Journal As time goes on, and the
and no gum chewing while on battle for a Dry Oregon Is admitted by
contract is cancelled before expiration
of one year.
An application blank used by tbe
Home company . recently contains a
clause which reads in part as follows:
"(Subject to all' rules and regulations"
evidently referring to the J5 cancel
lation clause contained in tbe regular
contract.
By forcing the two telephone sys
tems to consolidate the citizens of
Portland can save annually nearly
$220,000. Since the public has estab
lished a guarantee of a fair income to
all public utilities and has not estab
lished a like guarantee to any, other
line of business, I see no cause why
we should support two telephone sys
tems at a double expense. '
We may not have so good a cause,
but we have. a better right to fight
the double telephone trust than we
have to fight the legalized saloon. .
ED WORD.
have this Gervai correspondent's ear
for a reasonable time, that I could
prove to her by indisputable evidence
"that alcoholism is a disease. I could
show It to her in the persons of her
friends and associates, noting Its. dif
ferent stages and the termination, un
less arrested through the good offices
of those whose work she is endeavoring
to nullify. EDWARD M'LENOK.
Wooden or Concrete Docks.
Portland. Oct. 3. To the Editor of
The Journal Much has been pub
lished during the paat two or three
years in the newspapers of the city
about the city's acauirlng title to wa
ter front for the purpose of building
municipal docks, and the impression
created some three years ago was that
the docks constructed of wood sup
ported by ordinary piling were to be
a thing of the past. Bond issues were
proposed the taxpayers and voters
approved tbe bonds at elections held
for the purpose, and a great hurrah
was raised over the fact that the
water front of the city of Portland
was to be-changed from a rat Infested
fire trap Into a concrete fireproof wa
ter front
The Question naturally arises there
fore as to what has been done in car
rying out the representations made to
the voters and taxpayers of this city.
On investigation we find that the same
old wooden, pile-supported, fire trap
docks have been constructed by the
city; another large one, completely of
wood. Is now In course of construction
on the east side, and now the South
era Pacific company has also com
menced the construction of a wooden
dock on the east side. According to
information at hand the only water
front within the city limits blessd
with a cement dock Is a small space
adjoining the Burnside bridge, owned
by a private person, and one at the
foot of Stark street, on which the city
has placed a so-called "municipal
dock," used and suitable only for the
landing of rowboata and particularly
designed as a pleasure station rather
than the handling of any commerce.
Is It not the fact that it was rep
resented to the voters and taxnavcrs
of this city at the time the elections
were held to vote bonds, that It was
the Intention to build flreoroof dorks
with the money "raised from the sale
of these bonds? FRANK, SCHLEGEL.
Arland D. Weeks in Chicago Herald.
I was not sure that X should hit
anybody, as the hands which held the
gun were none too steady when the
order came to fire. Ah, this1 was tbe
moment for which my leaden body was
mined, cast, and placed before powder!
Would I spatter apart on striking some
hard object, drop to the ground aa a
spent .ball, or would I get my man?
I speed! Delirium of velocity! Ages
of inaction followed by this ecstasy of
flight! Over the sunny grass and flow
era, between the trunks of fruit trees,
across a path. I go on my singing
course. Ranks of men. in disorder and
partial concealment, are ahead.
I move straight toward a glittering
mark, one of the toric lenses, the right
one, of a man's glasses. He is glancing
up a pale, intelligent race. 1 pierce
the lens which a specialist had fitted
with great care, for the man's wife had
insisted that no expense be spared.
There was a petty exploclon, and a
puff of glass dust in the air. Particles
entered the eyeball, ahead of me by an
infinitesimal timekeeping. The eye
was waiting for me retina, optic
nerve, crystalline lens, choroid and
sclerotic coats, aqueous and vitreous
humors, the ciliary muscles, and all
the delicate and infinitely Ingenious
mechanism of vision; it exploded in
a spray.
Wet, but unchecked, I went ort ray
course to the brain, leaving a sudsy
wake, annihilating cortical cells, up
heaving splintered flakes of skull.
sociatlon centers, trained In refine
ments of thought at a great university
and retaining In their miraculous filing
cabinets chromatic scenes of skies and
lakes and landscapes, I wallowed
through, puddling convolutions like a
beaten egg.
At the moment of pre-lmpact the
soldier's thoughts were lest he should
break his glasses it cost so much to
live his wife his baby girl, who
waved by-by as he left a a He
fell below my level, the bows of his
glasses bending sharply and the re
maining lens splintering on a stone;
his combed hair was thrust aside, ex
posing a bald spot which had been
the object of good-natured jests at
home, and upon which several sup
posed cures for baldness had been
tried.
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Battered, I buzzed on until gravity
brought me down. My career was
over, my speck of time, my moment
of thrilling trajectory. In the dark
ness of hidden ore industry found my
substance, and had shaped me to -uses
of mankind. Long I had waited to
serve, and what bullet could have don
better?
Yet there was service srtitL A lit
tle girl, whose mother, one of war's
widows, had not provided many toys,
found me, and, mingled with pebbles,
I was used to count up to ten on the
side of a big book which contained the
tear-stained . photograph of a man
whose hair was combed to coevr a bald
spot and who wore classes.
lng on transports to England was tbe
music hall f sprite, "It's a Long, Long
Way to Tlppef-y," 8o contagious has"
been the tune that It is said the Ger
man Drisonerln Ens-land are alDsrin fl
it as best thefi can.
One has only to look at the pictures
of Englishmen ton the way to the front
to understand; f why this snatch from
a music hall,. father than the sonoroua
anthems thakre designed to Inspire
men, has br?ome their battle song.
With young, handsome faces, appar
ently lndlffeifent as to what was be-
! foretthem, if; not actually eager to get
1 lA Va4fl thw A -twit Innlr: 11V,
the fellows ti take their music for
mally. i ". .
An Americiin, Bayard Taylor, In his
"Incident of I the Crimean War," has
given perhap' the most stirring pic
ture ot a hot's In camp that literature
holda It ira "Annie Laurie," so
Taylor had 1 4 that taught the Crimean
valleys "howVfcnglish love remembers."
His poem, wjh its immortal lines:
"The bravest are the tenderest,'
The loving are-the daring,"
nresenttr theiFnicture of erim fighters
softened by fnusic, -until "Something
on the soldlifs cheek washed off tbe
stains of po?ier."
But there is something even sadder
In tbe tho ;bt of laugning. jubilant
boys going their death against ma
chine guns iid bayonets with the lilt
of a roUicklU songpf pjeacelike-?!
a Long. Log Way to TiPPerary." on
their llpst : j .
! The Ragtime Muse
i j 2-i . '
STOCK MARKET AFTER EXCHANGE CLOSED
A DEFENSE OP GERMANY
E'
I MINE NT Germans will occunv
a page in tomorrow's Sunday
Journal, In a, discussion of
the causes and resnonsihimv
.fpr the world war. Among those
who are back of the discussion is
Prince von Buelow, Chairman Bal-
EFFECT WORLD WIDE
E
iVIDENCE that the influence
of the great European war is
felt In the uttermost parts of
the earth . is shown by re-
oorts reaching the PreshvtArf an
Hn of the board of directors of the General Mission Board
Hamburg-American line. Dr. Drech- A man from Tripoli writes: "1
sler, director of the American In- thought I had seen; the country
stltute, Berlin, and Dr. HeinekenJ restless before -hut never hn t
director or the North German- imagined anything like the pres
TJoyd. and. Franz von Mendelssohn, ent distress and hopelessness."
president of th Berlin Chamber Owing to the Ottoman mobilization
Of Commerce. Irenorta a missionary in Ttofrt
There .are many others in this city and .country are transffrr(i
'; formidable array of German states-1 from comparative regularity and
men and business and 1 professional quietness to confusion, fear nani.
.. men who nave, a pari in tne pre-land utter stagnation.'
sentation or the Qerman side of the In West Africa , and Persia the
duty,
It probably is only a question
of time nntil this order will be. a
universal one and be put on dis
play in every office where the
bookkeeper -and the typist are. as
sembled. ,
The click of the typewriter will
no longer synchronize with the
rhythm of the working jaw and the
under side of office chair and of
fice table be no longer dotted with
various sized cuds of gum.
In not making ' the order ef
fective immediately, the railroad
company has given time to its em-
pioyes, to DreaK inemseives or tne
habit ''Some will begin right away
to taper off, while others will wail
until the last day.N
It might be a good idea to ex
tend the prohibition to streetcars,
moving picture theatres and all
public meeting places if it is not
encroaching too - far. on personal
rights. ,
case. -, The Journal submits it to
the public with full realization that
- any such statement is bound to be
from the viewpoint of those who
make it, and that the conclusions
and even the facts are subject to
board announces that the sltua
tion Is critical.
Missionaries in Chili write that
the . big houses are closing down,
the saltpeter fields A have stonned
work, thousands of men are hieing
DR. TREMBLE
T
OMORROW, for the last time
in the present pastorate. Dr.
i Trimble will occupy the pul
pit "i of Centenary church
Portland. He has been - trans
f erred to the pastorate of the First
Methodist church, at Tacoma, and
leaves next week, after a residence
of four : years in this .city.
There are very many who re
gret to lose " the counsels and as
sociation: of Dr. Trimble.- No Port
land clergjfn has been more pro
gressive or aggressive In civic up
lift or more widely interested in
social betterment. He is an elo-
impartlal observers to be already won,
I desire In advance to compliment our
new citizens, the mothers, wives and
sweethearts, upon the victory which
without their aid could not and would
not. it this time at least, have perched
upon our banners.- It is true there are
a few of these, notable among whom
are Mrs. Duniway and Ella M. Finney,
who, for reasons that seem good to
themselves, remain outside the fold
and endeavor to attract the flock in
their , direction. Mrs. Duniway prides
herself, and justly too, that whither
she went the flock was bound to fol
low. She was right then, and the flock
knew it. She seems to be unable, how
ever to f orgetthat some time In the
long distant past, when Oregon ana other proof than the
Washington were still wrapped in
swaddling clothes, certain Prohibition
ists failed to see the suffrage question
from her advanced standppinL Now
she is unable or unwilling to see and
admit tbe advanced position taken by
the foes of the liquor traffic. The is
sues and arguments upon which it was
sought to kill the Demon Bum in those
days of which .the eminent suffrage
leader complains, are to those of the
present day as the bow and arrow
and flintlock to the repeating rifle.
Then, the preachers were the cap
tains and generals, la charge, and hell
fire was the chief punishment in store
for the tippler, who so often, alas, ends
his career aa a drunkard. Now, the
great captains Of industry, the rail
roads, the factories, the United States
navy and practically all employers of
labor are in league against the trlffic.
and discharge and black list the users
of alcohol. . - .
Ella M. Finney seems unable to see
how Oregon and the world In general
could flourish or even make a decent
living If the hop industry should fail.
I feel quite certain, however, that this
good lady would be perfectly recon
ciled to see the Loganberry supplant
the hop, could she but realise that the
liquor habit is a disease.- In all my
life I have never known a woman who
would knowingly or willingly ; expose
her own jr her neighbors' family to dis
easenot even the harmless "meas
les," And I am quite sure, could I
Accuses Hop Growers.
McMinnville, Or., Oct. 2. To the
Editor of The Journal After spend
ing nearly three weeks in the hop
yards near Independence,-have reached
the conclusion that there is a good
deal of error in the boasts of the hop
growers that they are such a boon to
tne poor people of the country. In the
yard where I picked, the pickers
fearned an average of about $15 each.
They spent about two weeks in earn
ing this $15. Now. after they paid
car fare and expenses, how much
would they have left?
Another thing I discovered was that
the hop-growers do not employ these
people 'simply to give them a pleasure
trip and an outing. The growers seem
to figure on getting back from the
pickers all they earn. In the large
yards the growers have their stores,
bakeries, butcher shops, restaurants,
icecream stands and, usually, a dance
hall. Tbey usually get about twice
as many pickers as they need, and
keep them as long as possible, work
ing about half the time, so the pick
ers will have to spend all the money
they make. Some of the growers are
said to have made their boast that
they have no use for a crowd that
does not spend all it makes while
there.
I saw women at the yard who did
not make enough money to pay the
expense of the trip, and they worked
hard, too.
If the friends of booze have no
hop industry.
By ohJn M. Okison. i
He who thinks that the New York
stock exchange is an evil device for
taking money from the unsuspecting
ought to bear some of the. stories told
of the private operations after the ex
change closed. One goes ahout this
way:
An English agent representing Eng
lish owners of 35,000 shares of a
standard dividend paying American
stock, arrived two days after tbe stock
exchange closed. He had brought with
blm the actual certificates, expecting
to make a quick sale and take gold
back to England. Of course, when he
sailed from the other side eur market
was open about the only real market
left.
Arriving to find the market closed,
the English agent was advised to try
to sell his stock to one of tbe big
banks; he got a letter to one of the
high officials of a big bank and called.
"How much will you give me for
this stock?" the Englishman asked. On
the closing day of the exchange It was
quoted at slightly over $100 a share,
which was far below its price, in nor
mal times.
"Don't want Itr' said the banker.
! they had better join the prohibitionists
ana help make the vote for a dry
Oregon unanimous. D. A. MILLER.
And Still More About Blaine.
McilinnviUe. Or.. Oct. 2. To the
Editor of The Journal Here is more
from the report of Dr. John Koren of
Boston on prohibition Portland. Maine.
under the auspices of the committee
of fifty:
"Not only" In Portland were condl
tlons bad, but the results were com
paratively as bad in the country towns,
although they were far removed-from
the temptation of a great city and
with a strong prohibition sentiment
prevailing. Following is the unsavory
record of Farmington, In Oxford coun
ty, with a population of native stock:
Five United States special liquor taxes
paid, for by, residents in 1894. Two
hotels dispensed both malt and dis
tilled liquors to their guests and oth
era. One of tne three drug stores
made a business of selling booze.
Three other retail places made illicit
sales. From one to six packages ar
rived every day by .express. Persons
walked the street under the influence
of patent medicine preparations.
' "This certainly was an exceedingly
bad showing for prohibition in a pop
ulation of little over SOOO, In a large
agricultural community. , And prohi
bition nas no setter record to exhibit
for Portland at the present time; in
I fact. It is worse. From the. United
"Make me an offer rve got to sell!"
begged the agent. "Will you take it
at. $95 a share?"
"No, I don't want it the bank
couldn't touch the transaction." And
the banker made the same answer as
the Englishman reduced the price to
$75 a share. At last, as the English
man persisted, the banker glanced at
the celling and spoke as if an lnsplra-
tion had Just come to him: '
"Why not try Jones over at the X j
bank? Maybe he could take care of
this stock. Tell him I sent you."
Away to see Jones went the agent.
As soon as be was clear of the door
the first banker telephoned to Jones
to take the stock at the lowest price
he could get and promised to split on
the profit
Jones got the 35,000 shares at $70 a
share; and to secure the money to pay
for them pledged the stock with his
own and his friend's bank for $90 a
share.
It's a cinch that Jones and his friend
cleaned up at least $700,000. Were their
banks stung? No, the stock Is worth
more than $90 a share any day. When
you've got to sell, and are an alien
, well, ask that Englishman!
' Jf j October.
All clad in'3 scarlet arid in brown.
With statjy pace and sober mien
And medlta.ive eyes cast down.
October crimes, the autumn's queen. ,
Foreguardel by the herald winds
That chai!t""hr praises as they go.
Her radiani empire sttll she finds
With ancjrehf loyalty- aglow.
The russet fiaves that, whirling, fly
Along thfjreeze now growing chill.
Wear her bfave colors as they die;
The sumao flames upon the hill,
The sedge gr&ss and the cattails tall.
The woodbine leaves of scarlet hue
Are fai rests just before they fall;
They waig to see October through.
We, too, befpved wife Of mine,
Should tosihis quen our tribute pay;
Arid don ott autumn raiment fine;
Vor our October comes this way.
Bui what vith fripperies and what
With rouL-;. you look like May, my
dear;1! . .
Ah, well, yea seem like what you're not
But I'll &)oy my time o' year!
V
in 1907, we learn that In the former
year Portland, Maine, with 64,330 pop
ulation, had 1525 arrests ror arunaen-
ness and 89 arreSts for disturbing the
peace. That means an average or
2806.9 arrests for drunkenness and
163.8 arrests for disturbing the peace
per 10,000 of population."
w. J. cisnur.
States census report of 1905, published tion. What a pity that a lot of good
Predicts Liquor Traffic's End.
Portland, Or. Oct 3. To the Edltot
Of The Journal The Journal in an
editorial of September SO, says in
part: "An automobile cannot be run
by the aid of booze." The Journal is
right; boose is a menace in any ot
life's vocations. Witness its daily
grist in Portland murder, arson, sui
cide, assault divorce, unemployment
poverty and wretchedness generally.
The Portland uas company, l near.
bas warned Its employes that dis
charge awaits tbe man of weak and
reedy nerve caused by boose. All
business houses give the. same advice
to their employes.
Theodore Roosevelt said in an ad
dress at Toledo,' Ohio, September 29:
"Do you want to let the liquor Inter
ests dominate your parties, your pub
lic health aad llfe, and your govern
ment V
George Washington's state, old Vir
ginia, has given 30.000 dry majority.
The writing is on the wall: "Booze"
must go!
Vote dry, for Mollie. home and the
babies! A, J. MARTIN.
MOO'S H00
By? John W. Carey.
folks have not seen this most essential
phase of the movement before.
But our voters are consistent and
wise. C. A. REICH EN.
' In the Shadow of Glory.
From the Detroit News.
Tbe glories of war are a false bca- j
con for humanity. A Japanese proverb I
says: "A lighthouse Is very dark at i
the bottom." And the bottom of tha
military "lighthouse" which beams so ,
scintillantly with glory aloft is ruined
homes and cities and dead men and
widows and orphaned children.
The dogged pertinacity of the in
fantryman, climbing over bodies of
fellows slain that he may meet the
shot of foe half-way and tumble down
$dirv
e.
Who's
and gran
tar-torn
? i high
France's premier
rilnlnmaf- the man
that keeps, ita president wised up to
where he's,? at?
Who hajjlene other man's nlzed Job
more difficult In 'a 1( wi. to stick
around ani hold the cabinet intact? ,
Whrv-dois so heavyweight a stunt
the comnfjm folks bow low as did
they, oscaao RIchHi' u 300 years ago?
Who pljes up document of state,
that iouni mellifluous hut in between
the lines :sre wont to make the kaisef
cuss? LO ; . ' 1
WhnR. rtame susrirefsts an H-tWO-O
upon the heap; the sacrificial service tnat makfit the morning glad with
To Insure Law Enforcement.
Portland, Oct. 3. To the Editor of
The Journal In your columns on Sep
tember 28, E. T. Johnson calls atten
tion to the danger of the opponents of
prohibition doing everything in their
power to discredit the dry policy after
it haa been adopted by popular vote. J
will be thankful if I may by the same
channel offer the one sure remedy
within easy reach to ward off, par
tially, all plots of the booze and vice
ring. The simple remedy is to vote
for officials all down the line who are
known to be emphatically for prohibi
tion, and, not merely for regulation,
like Lincoln, who, in a prohlbitior
speech in Illinois in January, 1853,
said: "There must be no more at
tempts made to regulate the cancer;
it must be eradicated." If we shake
our prejudice and hypocrisy and vote
for humanity and principle instead of
mere party, we will overcome the only
substantial objection against . prohibl-
of the sharpshooter who volunteers for , nrkline f effervescence, wot? 'That
the post oi cerxaxn ueam inai ne may vivianl la,t
retard the progress and the vengeance -jU-
of the victor all these are glorious. Merchant -Marine Attainable. ;
and they are war They shine resplen- FLonTReedy's Mirror,
dently from the top of the lighthouse. hakle over our government
But civilization is too wise, too keen thK German merchant marine?
of vision this day and age to be blind- dn t"?uy it if at all. from the
ed. Through the glare of glory It pr- i (.prman non, but from German citi
celves but too well the darkness at . Ien(j w V d a merchant marine
the bottom. now. to fesC stricken-Europe and sup-
, " J piy the wfirld erstwhile supplied from ;
The Land We live By. there. He Is no time to wait The
'From Collier's Weekly. crisis wilt( excuse what looks like but
To own a piece of land Is almost js not a subsidy. Government can do
everyone's desire. To realize this one . what private" capital, no; paralyzed,
need only read, the advertisements In ! cannot dtu j And government owner
city newspapers. To encourage this ! hip of merchant ships will keep pri
craving for'land ownership is the best vately owjied merchant shipping rates
form of statesmanship. But we don't j down to i reasonable basis. This Is
encourage it A study of these same j our opportunity to ' get ready made
real estate advertisements and of what we, ave lacked for 40 years. It
what goes on behind them, will show i good btlnen.f It is even altruism,
that we let swindlers and exploiters fCr the wrld neetls what we produce
capitalize man's universal instinct for needs it tfiore than we need the money
th land.' They play upon it and lure the worHfjwlll pay for it
their victims to loss and discourage
ment Juat at this time, would it not
be both humane and wise for men
with the gift of leadership and the
capacity for bearing up responsibili
ties to organize systems, making the
ownership of land as easy as possible
and as widely diffused?
. in Deep Water.
From Judge.
The cultured young woman from
Boston was trying to make conversa
tion. "Do you care for Crabbe's Tales?"
she asked.
1 never ate any," replied the breezy
girl from Chicago; "but I'm just dead
Stuck on lobsters!"
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