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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND,: THURSDAY EVENING. OCTOBER V 8, 1914,
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THE ASSEMBLY BILL
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HERE are honest people who
oppos the direct primary.
There are honest people who
nf.faf that aanemblv.
But they are wrong. They hare
forgotten the things that were.
. They;have forgotten the shotgun
politics, i
Theyhare forgotten conrentlon
Ism. They hare forgotten the cor
ruption.. Tli.v knu tnrirnttttn thai "115.-
000 of Bimon money and $20,000
of Lotan money" spent In a sin
, gle afternoon In Portland to con-
trol one county convention.
' They have forgotten the voters
"delivered In gangs of ten? who
' were taken to the polling places
and voted at $1.50 per.
Dr. Wlthycombe said In La
Grande last week that the direct
' primary costs too much In its
present application, but he did hot
say what the change should be.
No matter what the cost, no
? .matter what the price, we must
uphold the direct rlrlmary. Noth
ing would better satisfy-the poli
ticians and the field marshals of
privilege than a change that would
. scuttle the direct primary. ;
The assembly bill on the coming
4 ballot is an indirect movement to
. supersede the primary system with
an assembly system. It is based
- on the assumption that the people
.' need to be advised. It presumes
' that the people do not know a
fit candidate from a sorrel mule.
It Is the same old assembly of
four years ago. It is the same old
: endeavor to substitute ward poli
tics for people's politics and sinis
. ter control for people's control.
Even were there truth in Dr.
v Withycombe's charge that the di
rect primary costs too much, the
expenditure is a mighty small
price to pay for the privilege of
sen government.
GTtlEP BY TELEPHONE
KTER eleven years of effort
nnm. hBvbndr t,. norft.
A
A some busybody has perfect-
r d a device by which to lo-
cate the third party that takes
. down a receiver and listens to a
telephone conversation. The same
attachment is mean enough to
cruelly ring .off the gossipers at
the end of a fixed number of min
utes. Added horrors In new telephone
inventions Is a "seeing-by-wire" at
tachment which is reported to place
the parties in full view of each
. other. Where is the foolishness of
these Intrusive Invasions on the
privacy of the telephone to end?
' , Gwendolyn can no longer leap
out of bed when Alfonso rings her
up to engage In a "seeing-by-wire"
conversation.
Henrietta can no longer butt In
on Tommy's and Angelina's tele-
t phonic tete a tete. The old stall
with which hubby reports to wifey
that he is detained at the office
ty pressing business and cannot be
Lome until a late hour is to be-
. come a desperate, if not a doomed'
deceit, and the bewhlskered gag
of going to lodge when, in fact,
Willie dear is out for an evening
is apparently to hecome a fleeting
memory.
What grief seems in store for
those whose frolic and fun has
.been so accelerated these -many
years by the old fashioned tele
phone J
"DEFENSES, OF ANTWERP
I HE fortifications of Antwem
. are regarded as among the
most modern and most im
pregnable in the world, but
against- them are being brought' to
bear the latest product of the gun
: . maker's skill.
1.' If they fall before the siege
.mortars of the Germans, additional
support will be given to the theory
of some military writers that per
, manent fortifications as applied to
large cities and camps are of
doubtful value.
Antwerp has always been a
fortress ad Its history Is full of
r fighting and sieges.
; . Its fortifications of today were
. designed and built by General H.
Brlalmont. the Belgian engineer,
who planned and constructed the
defenses of Bucharest, Liege and
Namur.
The feature of the fortifications
is the peculiar turtle back turret
.forts, made of Gruson armor plate.
The dome-like shape of the fort
; prevents the shell of the enemy
from striking under an angle of
Impact greater than 45 degrees.
Instead . of striking on its point
the Bhell strikes on its side . and
, glances off, leaving the turret prac-
, tically uninjured.
. Major PiorkowBki, an" ordnance
expert, writing In the current Sci-
entific American, expresses the
opinion that it is cults "doubtful
whether the fortifications will
prove formidable and make the
siege a long one -for the reason
that modern gunnery and ordnance
have made great progress in the
last thirty years. The range and
power of penetration of cruns are
far greater than at the time whenj
Antwerp's ramparts and forts
were built.
SMITH AND CHAMBERLAIN
T
HROUGHOTJT George E.
Chamberlain's term as gov
ernor, there, was In the state
senate a man who was his
co-worker, ally and friend. That
man was Dr. C. J. Smith, and in
the struggles for enactment and
defense of the Oregon system; they
were Intimate and active associ
ates. Nobody is in better position
to tell of the life and work of Sen
ator Chamberlain advisedly, and
no man will tell it more accurate
ly than Dr. Smith.
Dr. Smith's testimony bears di
rectly on the assaults made on
Senator Chamberlain by the Geers,
the Hustons, the Oregonian and
their Satellites. In the absence of
Senator Chamberlain at his post
in Washington, Dr. Smith has
taken up the cudgel inhls behalf.
In an address last Friday night,
Dr. Smith said:
Let me speak a word In behalf of
tile man who honors m with his
friendship, and who 1b also a candi
date for your suffrage, George E.
Chamberlain, who is being subjected
to unjust attacks and he la not here
to defend himself.
I knew Senator Chamberlain Inti
mately when he was governor. As a
member of the state senate I was
honored with his r.onfid enre T Via-
lleve I know hia innermost feelings
on an questions affecting the public
interest,. As governor he was always
on the side of the people! His first
message to the leeisla-tiira rf 1902
contained stirring language defending
me ngnt or lanor to organize, . The
fight for popular government could
not have been won without him. He
is wise, strong and faithful to a cause
or a friend. He is truly representa
tive of Oregon, the Oregon spirit sad
the Oregon system.
1 have campaigned most of the
counties of the state and I am cer
tain that he will be reelected. He
ought to be reelected. He must be
reelected.
EXEMPTIONS
T
HE Oregonian continues to
slyly leave the Inference that
the $1500 exemption meas
ure on homes would double
or perhaps triple the taxes on
land. It does not give any figures,
and writes with a view of delib
erately deceiving the uninformed.
The measure does not exempt any
land, franchises, business build
ings and railroads, which values
On the asspssmort r-olla urlll OTin
'over 85 cents on the dollar, and
j in some counties over 90 cents on
the dollar
It is likely that the tax rate In
Multnomah county for 1915 will
Jmsn " tnis measure does
88- and Perhaps 27 if it
be 24 mills if this measure does
does. A rjoor widow; ,nr a rfr.Vi
v i IV u
one, for that matter, with a hare
lot assessed for $250 would pay
an Increased tax of 75 cents.
If
she put even $50 Improvements
upon it she would be, under pres
ent laws, fined (taxed) on a 24
mill basis $1,20.
It is not the noor widow the
Oregonian is In sympathy with, hut
the man with 1000 bare lots, or
one lot worth $250,000, practl
cally bare, who would have 175 (
more to pay, while workingmen
wun nttie nomes would pay less
man tney do jiow
CHICAGO WAKIJfG TJP
A'
N EFFORT la being made in
Chicago to prevent the mulct
ing, of the school board in
the v niirrhaqo rf olf
schools. A rule recently adopted
by the board provides that here
after no property will be bought
until -it has been reported upon
by two real estate experts as to
its value and by a building expert
as to the value of the improve
ments on the property.
In addition there must be con
sidered a list of the transfers in
the neighborhood for the past five
years and the last assessed valua
tion of the site offered for tax pur
poses. This is in line with what The
Journal has always advocated.
Why should not th BanA
methods be used in buying land
lor-puDiic use as are employed in
buying for private use?
Why should the public pay three
or four times as much as the as
sessed valuation?
LET CHAMBERLAIN COME
T
AKING advantage of his ab
sence of nearly two years at
Washington, denying to him
all credit for what
achieved, resorting to every means,
fair or foul, to misrepresent and
asperse him, the Oregonian con
tinues Its hounding of Senator
Chamberlain in behalf of its pri
vate candidate for senator.
This morning, it invents the fic
tion that Chamberlain should have
secured more reclamation for Ore
gon. But it doesn't attack Con
gressman Hawley, though, if Cham
berlain is at fault, which he is not.
Hawley Is equally at fault. The
mere unfairness of the Oregonian's
method will not escape public no
tice, and with the great Oregon
public which lores fair play, this
unfairness will not escape condem
nation,. Meanwhile, thn
nas never been accused of one dis
honest act, " thonsrh nn M.
he Juts risen in five years to as
uku a position of influence and
power at Washington as was ever
reached by any Oregon senator in
a far longer period, though his
work-at the capital is commended
in the highest terms by his own
colleagues and br the president of
the republic, not one word of
commendation has been given him
by the Oregonian, but on the other
hand, it and its clique are now cir
culating publicly and secretly every
kind of abuse and slander to which
they can" lay tongue or hand. . -Senator
Chamberlain ought to
take time, if necessary, .from his
public duty, to return to Oregon
and face his calumniators. There
is little left' for Congress now to
do, but complete the war revenue
measure which Is already agreed
upon. He can pair with a stand
pat senator, and in' answer to urg
ings of his friends as wejl as in
justice to himself he should come
to Oregon, and fling back into the
faces , of . his detractors their un
fair and unjust attacks.
LINCOLN REPUBLICANS
THERE are 65,000 to. 100,000
Republicans in Oregon who
believe as La Follette and his
type of men believe.
They are Lincoln Republicans.
They believe in popular govern
ment They helped establish State
ment One. They helped to enact
the direct primary. They helped
create the Oregon system.
They are not Taf t Republicans.
They are not Penrose Republicans.
They are against standpatism and
reaction wherever found.
Like Lincoln they are patriots
before partisans.
In his speech to the Progres
sives, Dr. Coe eulogized these great
forward forces. As proof of their
number he used the late candidacy
Of Charles Ackerson for national
committeeman. On Monday, Mr.
Ackerson was a registered Pro
gressive. On Tuesday, he was a
registered Republican. The next
day he announced his candidacy
for national committeeman.
Ackerson" was little known.
Every odd was against him. Over
200 newspapers were used in de
nouncing him as a renegade. The
standpat chieftains spent money
and vast energy to beat him. The
most the rank and file knew of
him was that he was a late Pro
gressive, and that he was opposed
by a standpatter. Mr. Williams.
In spite of all these- handicaps,
Mr. Ackerson received more than
32,500 votes, with but half the
Republicans of the state voting.
If all had voted, his total would
have been 65,000. A change of
but 4000 votes would have elected
him.
The Ackerson vote was a great
vote of protest. It was the voice
of thousands opposing standpatism
and reaction. It is a great army
of Lincoln Republicans, and they
are against the old order, against
Penrpseism, against Bourbonlsm,
against conventlonism, against Inner-circle
government, against domi
nation by the brigadiers, against
corrupt politics, against legislative
machines, against the rule of the
many by the few, against the oft
recurring attempts to assemblylze
this state.
Unhappily for these men, the
ticket they are asked to support,
and the campaign for that, ticket
are in the hands of the field
marshals and generalissimos of
privilege ahd reaction.
There, for Instance, is Mr. Booth,
who voted in the State Senate
against the direct primary, there
Is Dr. Wlthycombe who says there
ought to be an assembly "to elimi
nate candidates," there is Pat Mc
Arthur who championed a bill In
the legislature to make the taking
of Statement One a crime, there is
Mr. Geer who went to .Arizona to
tell the Arizonans that the Oregon
system Is rotten, and there Is
Ralph Williams who voted for Mr.
Taft at Chicago when the vote of
the people instructed him to vote
for Mr. Roosevelt. Such is the
ticket, and such Its managing
brigadiers.
EAT APPLES
TUESDAY, October 20, is "Ap
ple Day."
To properly celebrate the
, day every man, woman and
child is expected to eat at least
one. If this is done a big pile
will be codsumed. An ordinary
person cannot eat more than four
or five large apples at a sitting,
be they baked, stewed or made
Into dumplings and pies. But if
made into cider the capacity of
mankind Is greatly extended. Ifj
every school district were provided
with a cider press, the consump
tion would be enormous. The sup
ply would not sufficiently meet the
home demand.
The apples should be ripe, how
ever. There is an old myth to the
effect , that the real cause of
Nlobe's weeping was the Btomach
ache that followed the eating of
unripe fruit. Then there is the
sour apple which is often referred
to, as the apple of discord. An
other kind of apple is the one the
young lover has in mind when he
refers to his difinity as "the apple
of his eye." . 1
Although the apple that
bloomed, budded and grew in the
garden of Eden brought a great
deal of woe' into the world Its de
scendants have since made full
reparation.
Apples are . more or less asso
ciated with weddings According
to an ancient .tradition when Zeus
met Hefra on Mount Ida in a golden
cloud fragrant floWers -. sprang up
around them. - ,
A tree bearing golden apples
grew up at" their s marriage feast
and streams of ambrosia flowed
past their couch in the happy isle.
It is asserted by some that the am
brosia of the gods was really
cider from apples.
Apple day is the revival of an
old festival in which Karpo, the
goddess of the harvest and fruit
appeared with a hasket of apples
and grapes in company with Po
mona who wore a wreath of grapes
on her head and carried In her
hand a cornucopia filled with ap
ples. The hour's danced ' before
a dish of golden apples.
There is a peculiar significance
attaching to the celebration of ap
ple day this year,"" They are plen
tiful, of good quality and cheap in
price. In consuming our share,
we will not only benefit the grow
er, but ourselves.
Letters From the People
m,K. ?anl.ct1?? to Tka Journal tor
publication in this department ahould be writ-
i'1? ot th abould not
"f,ed .800 word ia leagta and moat be ae
companied br tiie name and addrcaa of tna
sende. If the writer doea not deaire to
ue the ttama published. ia ahould ao atate.)
-J m??I!!sI10 ,D" rraateit of ail refortn
.L,et.lo,n1,1,e erythina; it toucbea. It
rjf.p?clpl? of u t1" sanctity and
throws i them back on their reaaouabteiiesa. If
tney naTe no reasonableness, it ruthlessly
ernebea them oat of existence and aet up its
7n.concluton te" stead." Waudrow
Taxing Equitably.
rvalli8' r- ct- 7- To the Editor
of The Journal Ever since St. Matthew
eat at, the seat of Custom and ex
tracted two doves out of ten for the
emperor, and according to his humor
or his necessity other doves for him
self, has the subject of taxation been
the one eternal question upon which no
two men could ever perfectly agree.
One man wants everything In eight
taxed; another wants to add things
not in sight, like money, notes and ac
counts, as our present day law has It
Another wants to exempt his house
hold goods, another his money, and
another class all personal property.
This last named class, for want of
a Better name, are called single tax
ers. There ought to be a golden mean In
the imposition of taxes, so that the
public burden will fall equally upon
all men. The burden does not fall
thus at this time. In every city there
is a class of citizens who pay no taxes,
and yet another class who pay much
less than other equally endowed citi
zena The man who rents his living
rooms and enjoys a salary, pays no
yet ne enjoys the Improved
street the electric lights, in Port
land, the sparkling, absolutely pure
snow water from th riiatonin. ...
of Mount Hood, the fine churches, the
louoiic iree. Dunlin n hriHua v
children the unrivaled schools, for his
outing a solid road bed under his car,
and many advantages and seductions
which the modem city afford him, and
yet he pays no tax. God did not fur
nish these advantages free. - Nature is
far from doing so, notwithstanding
there are many natirr wnM.tn..
Some one paid for the nHvii.o..
..ii4gts, ana mat some one is the
man who has something in sight which
in the nature of things cannot escape
-.. Z. - - , . - ' -B-O JU
.oocsour h ooeervauon.
Would it be possible to find a "enid
en mean" in taxation h i
- HAUlBj Willi
the real property, including buildings,
and applying ttf each industry, busi
ness, vocation, etc., a municipal license,
and for the benefit of our extensive
class of people who pay no tax. who
uniform and. equal county income tax
and child alike, employing ta i.nih
or agents who ferret out every income
in the land, and take the income out at
i!,"1? fiervlce ls Paid? No man
could object to paying 1 per cent tax
on his income, He who earns $500 a
year ought to be willing to eonu-ibute
Jo to the public tax. and th ma
AOa (1tAA . 1 . 1-1
...a fiv wouia nardly miss 115.
J. H. "WTLSOn!
The Aeroplane as Lifesaver.
The Journal In regard to my recent
suggestion in the Journal relative to
c uniujmum oi aeroplanes in con
Junction with lia-htioiio
ng stations, I am in receipt of the fol
lowing from the register of the United
State, land office in one of our coast
i nave just read in The Journal
your suggestion that aeronlanBH k.
T t . . .
anm8etaaPons! ' llfes-ln Pnt at
certainly something worth
while. Concerted action should be di
rected to secure this addition to the
rJ Some three year" ae at Coos
Bay. the steamship- Csarina went
ashore and 21 men were lost One bv
one they dropped from the rigging into
Ll ?ea" .T-e lines Provid were too
enort to be fired over the vessel The
Z?eZ Wa2 flne and a aeroplane
could liave dropped a line Which at
tached to the shore apparatus, would
have saved them all.
"As one whose life has been spent
on the coast, I can recall many in
stances where the aeroplane would
have saved hundreds of lives and much
property.
"I shall be very pleased to aid in
any way to get your suggestion before
the proper department."
So it would seem that thre is som4
merit In the plan I offered. What is
the reason that Portland and The Jour
nal could not put this matter op to tha
proper people at Washington?
, O- Q- HUGHSON.
. The People's Trend. !
Sumpter, Or., Oct 5. To thA vuf
Of The Journal Kindly permit me to
offer some observations as to the trend
of events concerning at least two of
ma uuimuaies oexore the people Sen
ator Chamberlain, for reelection; to the
senate, and Dr. C. J, Smith,, fbr the
governorship -as it stands in thia
part of the state.
People are not paying much atten
tion to party Uses; in fact, one hardly
ever hears 'Democrat" or Repub
lican" mentioned. But nearly every
one who expresses himself at all and
many of them have, does so to the ef
fect that Chamberlain will be indorsed
at the polls by the greatest majority
he ever had, for the reason that he
has made good, that he has become a
national figure, and of commanding in
fluence among the big men of the sen
ate, and that to replace him with a
new and untried man who would at
the very best be without Influence fot
at least two years to come and per
haps during his whole term of office
of bIs years, is something that is not
going to be done, for sound business
reasons. .-
As to Dr. Wlthycombe, the position
he holds upon certain public matters
has eliminated his caances entirely.
He, has declared himself in favor of
cheap Chinese labor. He has declared
himself in favor of the old time cor
rupt assembly. He has declared him
self to be in harmony with extrava
gant legislative appropriations, and
against the veto power of, the govern-
A FEW SMILES
In some of the provincial theatres
the arrangements and construction
are absurdly old-fashioned, remarked
a conceited actor.
"Last week, for in
stance, I was play
ing "Hamlet" at Sea
port There was art
alarm of fire and it
took no less than 10
minutes for the audi
ence to rass through
the doors."
"The poor fellow was lame, I sup
pose, was the cruel comment
There is a certain younir man who
used to be notoriously egotistic Some
oi nis acquaintances were one day
speaiung of him be
fore an old . lady
who was not "up" in
the slang expressions
of the day.
The . next time she
met him she put out
a congratulatory hand.
"Oh, Mr. Smith-
she cried. "I am so glad yon are bet
ter! I heard last week that you had a
swelled head." Lippincott'a.
Pat Who Was stavinir for the nieht
in a common lodging house in Liver
pool, was told by some of his fellow
n vuo-i tuo
room he was about to
sleep in Was haunted.
Therefore he took the
precautionary met
sure of arming him
self with a revolver,
which he placed un
der his pillow. On re
tiring for the night he took off hia
shirt and hung it on the end of the
bed and went to sleep. Wakening up in
the middle of the night out of a dream
and seeing tha white figure at the
end of the bed,. Pat took out the re
volver and fired six times. On getting
up and seeing his shirt riddled with
bullets, he exclaimed:
"Begorra, wasn't it a good Job I
wasn't in it?"
or. He has declared himself in favor
of the Taft administration, which was
rebuked and turned down by the great
est majority ever given against an ex
president In fact Dr. Wlthycombe
seems to be against the people and in
favor of the system in about every
thing now demanded by the people,
while Drs Smith stands firmly ln his
defense of the people's rights and is
opposed to the abuses that Dr. Wlthy
combe seems determined to bring on
if he is elected, so we are just going
to leave Dr. Wlthycombe out of oon-
Lsideratlon as a suitable man to gov
ern, the state of Oregon.
GEO. K. ALLEN-
Home and Foreign Statistics.
Scappoose, Or., Oct 6. To the Edi
tor of The Journal How much more
of that Dr. John Koren report of the
committee of fifty on conditions in
Maine is W. J. Bishop of McMinnvilie
going to give us? What is Mr. Bishop
trying to show us, anyway? If it is
that prohibition does not prohibit and
that there is equally as much if not
more liquor sold ln dry territory than
in wet then he and the liquor people
in general should help us make the
vote In Oregon practically unanimous.
For liquor dealers, like other dealers,
like to do business where they can sell
the most goods. The logical conclu
sion from Mr. Bishop's and other wet
writers' arguments is that it behooves
them to get upon our prohibition
wagon.
By the way, as to this Dr. John
Koren: I have the names of this fa
mous committee of fifty before me,
published in the- September Every
body's, on page S44, and his name does
hot appear in the list But what have
this investigation and this report,
made 10 or . 15 years ago, got to do
with present day heeds of Oregon? If
Mr. Bishop is so anxious to enlighten
the Oregon voters, let him go to the
transportation agents in Salem, Albany,
Eugene or any other city ln Oregon,
and get the amount of liquor shipped
in during this present year of 1914,
and also the figures for the same time
for any year prior to the city's going
dry. That will give us. something right
up to date and something that will
count These statistics from Maine
and Kansas are too far away, most of
them too stale, and as presented, too
uncertain. C L. HATFIELD, M. D.
IJqnor Evidencee.
Portland, Or, Oct 7. To the Editor
of The Journal Those who are crying
about the eastern agitators attempting
to deprive Oregon cititens of their
'personal liberty" should realise they
are wasting their powder. Most of
us have never heard these "agitators,"
but we read the daily papers, and con
sequently are very conversant with
the fact that the saloon is a menace.
All the "paid advertisements" and ex
pensive bill posters cannot make us
forget the things we read and ob
serve. The daiiv papers of Oresron are do
ing more, by publishing the causes ofl
suicides, deaths, divorces, robberies,
murders, etc., for the cause of Oregon
dry, than the many acres of bill
boards throughout our city can coun
teract We see the evil effects of
whiskey With our own eyes every day,
and what we don't see, we read about
In conclusion, the attention of voters
is called to the interview given by
Warden Lawson of the Oregon peni
tentiary, in The Sunday Journal of
September 17.
MRS. D. C. QRISWOLD.
People Not to He Deceived.
Portland, Oct 8. To the Editor of
The Journal The Oregonian of Octo
ber 6. ln its praise of R. A. Booth,
says many things which it can never
succeed in inducing the 'voters of Ore
gon to receive as true. A reasonable
amount of flattery is all right but
when It comes to elopping over, as the
Oregonian has done ln the case of
Mr. Booth, It turns people against him
and causes some to vote against him
who otherwise might have voted for
him. The people ' know what Mr.
Booth is and are , familiar with his
methods, and are opposed to sending
such men as he to the United States
senate. This will be proved and set
tled very decisively at the polls' the
third day of November. O. L C
No Belief in Prayer.
Portland, Oct 7. Stop th great
war by prayer? Didn't the whole
Christian or civilised world try to
save the lives of Grant and Garfield
by prayer? "And did they dq It? And
didn't all the fathers and mothers and
churches try to pray the Civil war
to a standstill? And did they succeed?
Not a bit or not until Lee concluded
to quit I iffl an old man and have
Watched this prayer business closely,
and I am satisfied there is nothing
to it The way to stop it Is to catch
a- lot of crowned heads and decapi
tate them. And about bow soon may
we expect the Lord to act in the mat
ter? My experience is ,that He is
about as slow as some of bur so-called
courts of justice, at least when we
pray for rain. Bat let as proceed.
B, R, 'BRAXTON- '
PERTINENT tOMMENT
SaiALLi CHANGE -
Greatness that ls thrust upon men
soon evaporates. .
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Even a deadbeat is always willing
to pay an old grudge.
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Some .women put on airs and some
ethers try to whistle them.
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Brain food was invented for men
Who iik to feed their vanity.
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But a man's friends seldom work
overtime on the friendship. job.
Yesterday was a fact today a
reality, but tomorrow Is visionary.
But a roan never goes around look
ing for trouble in the guise of a credi
tor. a' a
Say, did you ever meet a man who
was rich: enough to enjoy payin
taxes?
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Moat women have 'a mania for the
kind - of garments that ere more
ornamental than useful.
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If onlv sensible women were per
mitted to marry there would probably
be more old bachelors in the world.
With all Its herrors, football, at all
events, isn't niaved in trench
feet deep ln cold and muddy rain-1
water. ,
A girl may tell the truth when she
says she has never kissed a man but
that has nothing to do with the num
ber of men who have kissed her.
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A distinguished example Of race sui
cide is reported from a southern city.
Where Mr. Stork in a mood of despond
ency ended his life with a revolver.
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It need surprise no one to read al
most any da v that tha r.rnwnoj n.n-
eral EtaiOn had gained great additional
distinction for masterly Btratetrv at
the battle of Shrdlu.
THE SUBMARINE IN ACTION
From the London Morning Post
S.o much has been written concern
ing what the submarine, by a flight of
imagination, may achieve, that most
people are somewhat uncertain as to
what the submarine actually is and
does. To begin , with, she is shaped
like a cigar and she carries a tower
on her back.' Inelde the tubular steel
hall, valves and tubes and pipes line
the walls; aft in a apace so low that
the engineers can hardly stand up
right are the internal combustion en
gines and the electric motors which
drive the vessel when she is under
water. Below the floor or deck of the
Inside of the hull, are petrol and
stores. Forward are the torpedo tubea
Amidships there projects downwards
from the ceiling a thick brass column
ending in a brass cross piece. This is
the base of the periscope. When the
boat Is submerged and the officer de
sires to see what is going on above,
he sets a hand on each arm of the
cross-piece, which ls level with his
face, and rotates the column, while
he looks into the mirror.
In the mirror, he beholds an image
little and bright, of a section of the
sea and horiton. and by swinging it
round he can scan the whole circle, re
flected in the periscope above, which
is the eye of the steel fish. Alone-
side the periscope is the upright steel
ladder leading through two hatches to
the deck of the conning tower, which
is raised five or six feet above the
top of the hull. It is about four feet
ln diameter and is protected by a
breast-high rail lined with canvas.
Here is the wheel and here, when the
vessel ls running awash, stand the
captain - and the quartermaster. In
fine weather those "of the crew who
are not required below, are grouped on
the little half -deck below the conning
tower, just above the steel hull itself.
Officers and men are dressed ln sea
boots, sweaters and rough clothing.
The submarine running awash
forges sullenly onwards with a heavy
grinding noise, the water lifting and
dripping from the gills which project
on either side of her snout Below,
the hull is filled with the crashing of
the furious engines cramped into the
narrow tube of steel. The engineers
squat placidly among the racing rods
and pistons, in the thick atmosphere
talned with fumes. Should the sea
water enter the hull and mix with pe
trol gas, the fatal chlorine gas ls
formed and the crew are suffocated.
The method of the submarine is to
cruise, at economical speed, 10 knots
or less on the surface, until she sights
a hostile vessel. As she ls so small
she can see another vessel before the
other vessel can see her. Then she
sinks. The captain and the crew go
PRACTICAL WORK BY
By John M. OskisOn.
Thrift ls going to be taught ln the
public schools of New York city.
In Chicago a citizens' thrift com
mittee has probably leen formed by
this time.
Milwaukee and Houston have al
ready completed the makeup of thrift
committees from their active citizens.
Pittsburg, St. Louis and Spokane
are going to have similar committees
just aa soon as the thrift boosters
can get them, together.
What to do in the way of practical
work after the committees are formed
ls '"the question which must be met
now. In Chicago the American Society
for Thrift, which has been behind the
movement to form committees ln the
various cities, has been cooperating
with the city's new municipal markets
to popularize them and make them
known to as many housewives as pos
sible. This society advises housewives to
buy food supclies which will keep in
large quantities, and so get - them
The Ragtime Musa
Method and Matter.
Turn the hose on "mbornfuimumhers,'
Calling life an "empty dream."
Dismal thought the mind encumbers.
Blanketing its every gleam.
If you have a message solemn,
Tell it in a manner gay.
Never use a solid column
When three lines will say your say.
If you have a song or sermon.
Or a great uplifting thought
That to publish you determine.
Heed advice with wisdom fraught;
Seek ye fame or seek ye money,
Or reward of any sort
Make your lucubration funny.
At the same time, cut it ahort!
If you're conscious of your virtue.
If you've learn in' in your clutch.
Do not look ss though it hurt you.
"Be not righteous overmuch."
Then the world may heed your preach
ing If it be at all worth while.
And may profit from your teaching
Sugar coated with a smile.
"Thorough the Watchword.
"Girard,-ln Philadelphia Ledger.
A fortnight after that great English
man died, Thackeray said of him: Mac
au lay would read 20 books to write one
sentence, and. he would travel 100 tnilta
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The Democrat reports a 11 per cent
increase in Baker's high school en
rollment this year.
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"..The mayor of The Dalles has pro
claimed tomorrow a publio holiday in
that city, so that everybody may auit
business and go to the Sherman county
fair, at Moro.
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That Indian summer weather ln Ore
gon is as near paradise on earth as
anyone needs to get is the incontro
vertible view of he matter taken by
the Eugene Register.
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British . agents have placed orders
for 10,000 of the mules that Missouri
has made famous. And now, how
about orders for a fw hundred team
sters who can speak the Mlasourl lan
guage? a a
"Pendleton ia atlll suffering from a
dearth ef houses," says the East Ore
gonian. , "and is losing people regu
larly because they can find no places
in which to live here. What will we
do when the freight terminal is estab
lished V
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The Wingville correspondent of the
Baiter Herald reports as a notable
event- that Krank LAndreth, a young
Question of the visibility of Mt Hood
as it relates to the Elkhorn range.
.mmcr ui rucauoniu, nas eeitiea me
Blaine, saw ML Hood plainly, without
a glass.
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Marshficld Record: As the Record
predicted, the big street paving con
y.ctB, r6 .going to be completed this
fall. The Myrtle Arms ls almost ready,
the Noble theatre ia rapidly, searing
completion, the Smith terminal docks
have been finished for some weeks, the
new Times building ls getting the last
touches of the contractor, the Carnegie
library is seeing its rounding into a
..nuioiii, irom me summit or Alt.
uoiiuBuiiio eauice, ana scores na
scores of residences and smaller build
ings have been built.
below; the hatches are closed; and the
captain, swinging his weight upon the
Cross-piece from the periscope, bis eye
upon the mirror, gives his orders. The
crew are lying along the sides, ready
to turn valves on or off. The Internal
combustion engines are stopped and
the propeller shaft ls connected up to
the electric motors. Thsrs is a sud
den silence.
The process of submerging is a pro
cess in the brain of the captain. He
has a mental picture of what each
tank contains and how much weight
ia driven out forward or aft at each
order, and what will be the effect upon
the vessel. He communicates this pro
cess to the vessel itself. He must first
dip her bows slightly, then her stern,
then bows again, and so on. If he
makes a mistake the submarine may
dive down and then all is done. The
process is reflected ln the brain of
his lieutenant, who stands near by the
captain. In ordinary vessels, if an of
ficer faints or makes a mistake, there
are a doien people at hand who osn
put it right because they know what
ought to be done.-
Not so in the submarine. The only
person besides the captain who knowa
what is going on is his lieutenant; but
the consequences of a mistake would
iouow so quickly that the lieutenant
cotld-not rectify it Nar would he
know ih all probability that a mis
take had been mads until the conse
quences began. The men lying beside
the valves know nothing except how
to da what thy are told. Nor is there
any sensation of motion as the bolt
sinks. It seems to be as still as a
drawing room on shore.
The periscope, which Is about the
else of a saucer, remains about 18
inches above the surface, and. viewed
from the deck of a ship, all that is
seen is a flitting pennant of white
spray as it cuts the waves like a sea
bird's wing. In any ripple it would
be almost imperceptible at two or
three hundred yards. Upon approach
ing to attack, the submarine sinks
lower and submerges her periscope, so
mat ner captain, looking ln the mirror,
sees nis little and bright picture
washed out in. green the green of the
W,af" nd from bov nothing is
visible at an.
The submarine is now blind. She
CfltlTlftt aa thfAlltrti thA W..A -
can steer a course. Her captain has
made his Calculations before he sub
merged his periscope. And the range
of a German torpedo is about 3000
yards at ii or 30 knots. The subma
rine can fire her torpedoes, go about
presently rising until her periscope ia
above water, then herself continue be
neath the surface until It Is safe to
rise, and like a whale, to breathe sgaln.
THRIFT BOOSTERS
cheaper; if possible, buy enough ef
the keeping vegetables in the fall to
last all winter.
That is mighty practical advice. To
to back to that plan would be a long
step toward establishing the family
on a basis where the pinch of high
living costs would not be felt To
adopt such a plan would be to lift
the financing of a family, in repect to
its food ' expenditures at least to a
level with the most successful of the
great manufacturing plants, where the
practice of buying supplies In quantity
when they are cheap and holding them
for use when they sto dear Is so well
established that no one doubts Its
wisdom.
Take this matter of eutt!ng,the cost
of food supplies for the family and
figures out for yourself how the prin
ciple can be. extended in your own
family. Will it apply to clothes? Can
you save mney by making payments
on a home of your own rather than
pay rent?
.Any farther suggestions?
to write one "line of description ln his
history.
But literature is not the only thing
enriched or benefited by complete
, A'"rol engineer who
didn't knowjqulte all the details of his
Jos' stopped hi. train a few days age
In a tunnel, and by so doing sacrificed
his own and his conductor's life.
A miner not thoroughly equipped Ig
nltedgas and snuffed out a dozen Uvea
As the result of haphazard navigation
a ship went down in the St Lawrence
with over 1000 people.
"Ready is my best general, said the
great Frederick. Goodness knows how
much ons or the other army now In
f war has lost for lack of generals
who are ready.
Ja?!dMp- rePftion brings home in
Athletic uniform another baseball pen
nant At a luncheon on board ship I heard
Henry Irving ones tell aa amusing
S!tr cf I1 haJVl wh was sud
denly called to play the part of a serv
ant who spoke only one word.
r."made hlm wa,k out on h stage
5 times, before he did it perfectly -said
Sir Henry. "
But, if reading 20 books to make a
sentence, or walking 60 times across
the stage, pays In literary and dra
matic art, equal care in ordinary af
fairs of life should' also "cod the
dough."
TiT"
IN EARNER DAYS
By Frets IjLocsJey.
As tht life hlstng of the tbrea-toed
horse, the camel ikjd other forms of
life long extinct be read by.ths
geologist in the fs'&ilsed bones found
la the John Day eds.in eastern Ore
gon, so the histora can read the his
tory of old Oregon? 1 the names of our
rivers and streafiMjj our valleys and
mountains. . In tg same way the
names of our tont and counties ar
rich in the history of the early days
of Oregon. jiR
Bak' county perpetuates the mem
y.of ,reon' Mnt aoldler. United
States Senator E p.. Baker, who fell
?o -, he&d ot oliti 8lent ln October.
1M1. Baker coji&ty was organised
September 2i, lf:i!jthe long vanished
mining town ot Ay hum being its coun
ty seat. 1 1 jjj.
Benton county i one erf our older
counties, havTng fblen created on De
cember 23 184751 jit was-named for
feenator Thomas J$.jtenton of Missouri,
one of Oregon's jwrliest and best
friends. It origisagy embraced all the
country west oF the Willamette river
. in. coast arsassrrom Polk county
south to CMiforftsi Maryawiie. now .
called Corval Utopia a, original coun
ty seat . p ,
C1"kama . coiy was named for
kamas ,r;u ' Indians, whose
.fVTf,9 not "rielow the Willam
i ? u iHs one Of the four
original district,:. a the counties were
then termed, into ;which original Ore
gon was divided fMStfie legislative com
rnittee of the pfoaialonai government
tv prtgoni qity, .founded by Dr.
John McLoughlSntt in 1812. -aa its
first county sea. Hi .
a.C,4.l?op couBM aB established June
144, In an$r to the request of
the pioneer mlsifijnary, J. I.. Parrlah.
It is named aftrtthe Clatsop tribe of
Indians. Astorlkjits county seat. Is
more than a huhjdged years old, having
been founded bjf iAstor in 1811.
Columbia coutitqj was out off from
Washington-jCoM:y on January ;3,
1864. St HelehsfIs th ebunty aest,
and When it wife founded by H. M.
Knighton in lfj It was called Ply
mouth Rock, jtei name waa changed
to St. Helens srirt Mt was a serious com
mercial rival offJPortland in those
days. if !i
On December g3, 1853, portloss of
Umpqua and jfokson countlew wers .
combined to tthpv Coda county. It Is
named for thejftirilbe of Indians who
made their hohr;on coon Bay. Em
pire City, nowifi&t a memory, was its
first county seatjiS
Crook countyfwaa taken from aouth
ern Wasco coujtjf on October .-lS82.
It waa named? after Generaf George
Crook, who fUtht Indians all over
that district irri he early days. Bar
ney Prine's Maeksmith shop, saloon
and stage statfohi grew into the town
of Prinevllle ejid became the county
seat j;f
Curry countjf,!:jWhich was organized
December 18, was named In honor
of Governor George I,. Curry. Ita flrat
county aeat, rhoen ln 1858, waa El
lensburg. ; f,:;
Douglas couM? takes us back to the
Lincoln-Doug', debate and the days
when StephenjjXi Douglas had a large
and ehthuslasrlai following. The coun-
ty was taken'fitpm Umpqua county on
January I, isKZii umpqua lost its isl
seres ln'1864and now exists only jin
the maps of .hedf a century ago. jin
1851 Aaron Roll's place. later called
Roseburg, on r creek, where It emp
ties into thj Houth Umpqua. was
Chosen as theunty seat.
Gilliam conftty was carved from
Wasco and Umatilla In 1885. Its first
county seat fAis Alkali, now oillM
Arlington. lfi named for Colonel
Cornellua Olilltvw of Tolk county.
Grant countv- waa carved from"
Waaco and Urotilla counttes October
14, 18S4, end vjtis named for the na
tion's hero, U, . Grant. Canyon City,
a typical weefefn mining camp, was
Its first county seat and one of Its
first county judges was Joaquin Mil
ler, afterward famous as the Poet of
the Sierras. ;
Jackson county was named for
President Andrew Jackson. It was cre
ated on Jaaary 12. 1 8r,2. Jsrkaon-
.' ville was established as the county
j sent on January 8. 1853.
Josephine oiihty was taken from
Jackson fcouiVH 'January 22. 18SB. It
I .: ,
was named af4er Joephlne Rollins, the
popular dauglfter of the discoverer of
gold on Jossphjne creek. Klrbyvtlle,
a prosperous jnlhtng- camp In 185!, but
long since pl" over to the squirrels,
the blue JaysTstid the cotton-tail rab
bits, was Itd ffft county seajt. Klrby
ville's name qrjwi chanced to Napoleot
by the leglljfre In 158. but the new
name wouldn't ake, so two years later
the leglslatiirHJhad to change it bark
to Ktrbyvills if'
Klamath cojifitv takes Ita name from
the Klamath! Indians, whose home la
In that dlstrSrf,. It waa cut out from
western LatoeJ icounty on Oc tober 7
1882. Llnkifite waa Us first
county sealii: It can trace It
lineage bajcij' to nat mother ol
counties. Was- county. Originailj
what Is nowjjKiamath county waa part
of Wasco canity. The southern part
of Wasco bapie Jackson, which In
turn was cut iip to form Lake county,
which lost part, of Its territory to form
Klamath coiuHy, so that without mov
Ing his cabtSafome pioneer may havs
lived In wis$p. Jackson, Lake and
Klamath counties.
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HOP'S H00
BjfjJohn W. Carey.
Who carps, to Philadelphia some 14
seasons back and sought a chance to
show bis Ifpa of curves to Connie'
Mack? .3
Who everince the faUful day a
fancy gams has twirled and still Is
called" the 'marvel of the ChAmpeens
of ths world?
Who sees 'em come and shine a
while and duly get the hook, while
he goes rui forever like the poet's well
known br$6k?2
Whose mjiKic southpaw seems to
hold morenfyatery today , than e'er It
held in day) of yore when he was
young and1 gay?
Who evvn itoys with Father Tim
and handsj.him out a blank as with
his scythe i he comes to bat? Eternal
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Byfyfhn W. Carey.
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