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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1914.
JOURNAL
AM llf DEPENDENT NEWSPAPER.
C. S. JACKSON
Pvbllabar.
i'abllfc4 awry aatof rxept 8ao4arJ 4
. rySaa4ar norslnf at Tb Journal Build
in. Broad war and Yamhill ta.. Portland. Or.
Itatarad at tba auatafflc at Portland. Or., for
traaamtoatod tkrovxli Balls ateond
cUas aiattar.
TfcUtPHdNES Main 7173: HoaM. A-eOft ail
' departments reached by tbcae nemtarra- TeU
tbaTTator what dtiartmht yoo 'want.
' ioHKlUN ADVEHTWIMO EEmKsBNTATl IV
Bmjamtn Kantaor Co., Bntnawlck BllC..
- rifti .. iu Kti,mi'PwU'i
Oaa BUlf ., C atearw. - -.
I
Ouoavrliitiaa farm by mail or to auj ad
frt la tba United State Meikt
DAILY. .
On rear. IS. 00 I On month I .60
SUNDAY, .
Ob r- 82.50 ! Or month
DAILY AND SUNDAY.
One rear.... . .87 0 I Oat month
63-
Thy friend hath f riend.
and thy friend' ; friend a
friend. Beware! I From the
French.
NO PEIUIi BUT,
IT
N THIS series of articles. The. Journal is quoting from public docu
ments to show why taxes are high. 4 1 ,
Oregon has a school fund of $6,000,000. j Heavy taxes have
been collected annually for support of schools.
It ought not to be so, Minnesota with an area of 83,365 square
miles has a school fund of $200,000000, while Oregon with an area
of 944560 square miles has but $6,000000 and the people have to
tax themselves heavily for . support -pt schools. I Minnesota's school
lands and public resources were not squandered. Oregon's were
wasted; stolen and pillaged. . ; , .
The school lands, were frittered away. " So were the swamp lands
and forest lands and other great resourced.
4 A toore glaring instance of a robbed state is rarely seen than
was the Cobs Bay wagon road land grant. Hundreds of thousands
of acres of the finest forest lands were given away by an Oregon
legislature for proposed construction of a wagon road through Doug
las county to Coos Bay.
As in the case of the Oregon & California land grant which one
federal court has already ordered forfeited to the government, the
terms of the Coos Bay grant were not complied with. Every cove
nant in the agreement was broken by the company.
ing system wilt - apply a funda
mental principle in banking. It
will afford relief in districts where
the pressure is greatest.
The people of the United States
are to be congratulated on the
early installation of. the federal 're
serve banking system. " It means
control under the law of banking
A FEW SMILES
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
The RagQme Musa '
The doctor told him .he needed car
bohydrates, proteids, and, above all,
something' nitrogen
eoua. The doctor
mentioned a long list
for him to eat. He
staggered out and
and currency by the people Instead wabbled into a Perm
of control outside the law by a av.eJlue restaurant,
small group of. Wall Street field Bt(?Z asked Cthe
i marshals of finance.
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waiter. "Is that ni-
trogeneous?" The waiterdidn't know
"Are fried potatoes rich in caroo-
I hydrates or not?"
The waiter couldn t pay.
"Well. Til fix it," declared the poor
"Bring me a large
Dr. Withycombe and Dr. Smith
chanced to be in Ashland the same
evening, and people there 'asked
I Dr. Withycombe to meet his op- roan n despair.
ponent in a joint discussion J But p e OI "
the answer was a flat refusal. Dr.
Withycombe Is
laundress of the village to xaie cnarge
SHALL CHANGE
i
Contrariness Is often mistaken for
tenacity. I
Diplomacy is the art of concealing
our dislikes.
King Cotton, at least, will lssu no
censorship order.
Every woman thinks she's worth
her weight in gold.
When a man tires of his own com
pany his case is hopeful.
Never blow your own horn in public
uniess you are a musician.
I The only thing some women lay up
w i aiiij uay 19 fell A. iiuijiei y .
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The Chronic
Last year, my 1
of the Pram.
Mining for platinum is to be on of a wDe'
the industries near Port Orford this An but he haJry cap
winter, the Tribune says. Experienced
beach tniners will carry on operation
Th Million Mrrunnnilont nf the I iJe blCSSlngS:
R.n7 Rull.t ,i I. '"H.mM faS. US paSSti
caught , a large beautiful lynx in
sealed orders which he Is not per-
mitted by the managing men to
disbbey. How unwise it would be
for a great state like Oreeon to
WHO U 1 A ll 'flliillvl.L i ... . ....
ti-oTrf.HrxT n, mkin, .rrtimonti with the colored . Lnrequitea love is one brand of
unui I -" ':, " . v- h heart failure.
But it's never fatal.
HE direct primary Is not in any
sort of peril. vregonma.
That sounds Ufce oia times.
It is what the Oregonian said
in the heat of Its great cam
'patgn for the assembly four years
' ago. It said then that it was a
great "friend" of the primary.
' it thinks that the assemblyites
i'are the true "friends" of the pri
i'roary system. In fact, all assem
f blyltes, Dr. Withycombe and Mr.
! Oeer included are fond "friends"
i'of the primary in campaign time,
j July 17, 1910, the Oregonian said:
j' Without assembly, the Republicans
ean hope for no success in Oregon.
i'Wlth It, they may expect to accom
plish purposes and policies in this
state.
! In the, state pamphlet, there is
a bill to revive the assembly in
( Oregon. It is the product of Ore
ilgonian teachings and Oregonian ap
peals. The bill is ou page 88 In
j'the pamphlet, where every citizen
i. can find it. The argument for it
Is on page 9 6 and that argument is
the same argument the Oregonian
i has always made for the assembly.
I Of this bill the Oregonian re
! cently ' said, it is "politically pre-
mature." "Politically premature"
j'meahs that it was proposed too
soon. It means that a more oppor
tune time should have been await-
. !d. It means that the bill should
("have been kept in the background
i until the psychological moment ar
' rived for putting it over.
' The leopard cannot change its
Bpots. . While the Oregonian seeks
to lull voters to sleep with its state
; ment that "the direct primary is
; not in any sort of peril" Mr. Booth,
hill at th 191 a BARsInn I A"r '
to rTpeTthe grant and provide for the distribution of the lauds. J HiT Torlfy l
vnottr. n iaCo th wii Wonco thn '"uiseii unaer me autnonty or
X n legislature wtv uuviiji uui'St'.iii 00 -
federal government had originally granted the lands to the state on
conditions which the . Wagon Road Company had in every respect
and take orders from managing
brigadiers!
Talk is cheap, yet some people have
a mania for trying to monopolize it.
violated.
Governor West urged passage of the bill in his message to both
nouses at the opening of the session. On page 517 of the 1913 Sen
ate Journal is this report from the Senate Judiciary Committee, head
ed by Gus C. Moser:
Tour committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate Bin No.
229, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report it back
with the recommendation that it do not pass.
There was a minority report. It urged the passage of the bill.
There was a strong debate. On the vote, the bill was beaten, 17 to
11, the line-up for the bill consisting almost entirely of members of
the regular Senate machine.
Governor West, in several messages, tried to resuscitate the bill.
Among other messages on the subject is the following:
gwine ter charge you double for vour
Properly enforce the traffic or- husband's shirts."
dinances and there will be fewer aJl, l: what'8 th reason for that.
automobile accidents, less maiming. WuSW
less mutilating and fewer killings mind washing for an ordinary man,
of men, women and children. By butt araws the line on circus tents,
m 1 , . . .1 sho do.
v.nivyi vixiciii., iy5 urivcrs auu
cnauffeurs to understand that a "Madame, do you think you can use
law IS a law. your mnuence with
your husband to in
of their washing for
the summer. Now,
the judge was pomp
ous and extremely i Every day brings new arguments
fat. He tipped the ' from the front for the Christmas
scales at some S00 1 Ship.
a a
..MiL.'i ,4,, thoL Appearances are oftetf deceptive.
- luxurious whiskers hide many an
vum, 11 viw j vi j ugiy mug,
wusning, dui 1 s
l-I a-
T,Q, r.V,H v,i v, ...k. UUW! 10 support
o iism, iu me in this cam
draw its own conclusions from the paign?"
things he omits saying and to ask T, "I don"t know, sir,
whv caves tv. o -o-t 1 ve never yet suc-
-J," "" "'cfeuuiau. xcu ceeded in inducing
""iu tou - tueji Res oui ot ut. I rum to support me.
ra- " ' " - I A7UhnAmV. X . 1
people for his official acts, I once more ask leave to call your attention '"wmmj ciwtjpi on a' a ureat-
to the fact that while you have appropriated many millions of dollars 1 er tjregon, even With a Corkscrew.
have created many useless ornces which wiu throw lurther huraens
Oh it was my hao
uenind a greipier to be,
ad. but he wasis a hairy c
No taller manAJme thinks, than roe.
5
Prince Albert andfthe queen, God wot,
fn the glorious pair!)
S I saw them not. '
I only saw "a yVp of hair.
TanLwiflhT.a un Tour orthodox fistorlan puts
The ansmal weighed about 66 pound. in foremost , rLik the soldier thus.
Baker Herald: Baker usually does iTS0,! VUrJiS02
anything it undertakes. Sometimes it . c' "Xf
does more. Take for Instance the auto 1 ''gi :
iVTi Sf-ke.r "i"," h.l He. puts him tn54 In foremost rank.
"vi "w " v -"v I You wnnrioa. at hla fan nf hair-
, , I You hear his sheer's cursed clank.
The faTT association prudenUy re-1 0"urs arj,ingng everywhere.
fused to appropriate $300 to hire a nQ to, T h ,
band for the Wallowa county fair, I Wh ..
and the lack of music was so keenly I nd all tlod s
ieu tnai a movement is on toot ai nia- 1 To .uc.
terprlse to revive the band organiza-1
Uon that lapsed a lew years ago. Tell me what f.
The motor car that Is to run over t m?L
the municipal line between Grants 1 nd vnow
eraL
yarn and his trade
id tp cringe and bend.
acerui people maae
tn subservient?
Pass and Wildervile Is now on tne
tracks. "Th car." says the Courier.
"Is resplendent in its coat of canary
yellow paint, and will not need to
blow the whistle to let people know
that it is coming.
a a
At the recent meeting of the TJma-
throats?
11 we to admire
i scarlet coats,
they load and fire.
lie art of cutting
William? Makepeace Thackeray.
Chicago"! Melting Pot.
From the Biilian
I I Tt 1a iSM .u-
o , ... - . . , 1 a ,v, mootinr tT tti I 'ma.-1 - - "" v&i. mc cnanECB in na-
duiiiu iucii ijiiiac a specially 01 ctJl- I i"7 ....w ... . .- -V . . I ,t 1 1 . . .
lecting paving material for the down-'tilla county library board 10 branch I uonaiity in theypopulation of Chicago
uoranes were reponou n.u nave ceen morerapld and varied than
and
upon the taxpayers of this state, you have failed to pass a single measure
framed with a view of producing revenue and offering relief.
There were before this legislature three measures, viz: The Netmer
Senate Bill to repeal the Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant, the" Kellaher Sub
merged Land Bill and the Gill House Bill to repeal the Thompson Swamp
Land Bill, which, had they received favorable consideration at your hands,
would have produced many hundred thousands of dollars in revenue for
the school fund. These measures, notwithstanding their meritorious na
ture, were quietly put to sleep.
Once more, in the name of the citizens and taxpayers of this state.
I ask you to give these measures that consideration which they merit
and insist that no adjournment should be taken until some favorable ac
tion is taken thereon. Oswald West, Governor.
What a loss this state has suffered through legislatures and legis-
Letters From the People
I
ward path.
One war writer translates "Helig
oland" as "Holyland." You can take
your choice.
Affinities may be all right in their
place, but they seldom make good in
the kitchen.
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Each of the belligerents wants not
only the good opinion of the United
States for itself, but its bad opinion
for the enemy.
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A young widow sometimes marries
an eligible bachelor merely to keep
Pome inexperienced girl from getting
the worst of it.
dale school. Fteewater. Hermlston,
Milton, Pilot Rock, Stanfieid, Tum-a-
lum school, Vincent school ana wes-
ln any city la
the world. Lei
,ie United States or in
S. than a quarter of a
ton. Including that of Pendleton, century ago th5f Germanic races re
circulation of 12,548 volumes, from I m. 4, 1
January 1 to September 1,
portea.
was re-
of 1862 was subtle legislation
that gave owners opportunity to
hold the lands without effort, while
the growth of Portland and the en
terprise and daily work of the peo
ple of Portland made the lands
more and more valuable.
Now, with the measures for sav
ing the remnant of these public
lands for the people on the ballot,
the railroad hurries hundreds of
men trt the waterfront for the first
who Is a privately-picked candidate Jtlme to wnarf-out to deep water
omy. The field is in eastern Oregon
for a well equipped normal " school
Why not let those people have it? The
measure which will reestablish the
(Communication. a, it,. r- -1 Weston normal is Number 316. and all
publication in this department ahoold be writ- I good citizens should vote yes.
-JUS ??ir "neJsl, ?f the PaP". abould not A, H. HARRIS.
v. ix "uiun in icu(ui ana moat oe ac
eomBanifid br thm nam -,1,4 n .
. j" . - -M"lC "1 ' M !11.1 f
euaef. 11 tee writer doe not desire to I ir. ouuui s vaer,es-
haTe the name pubusheq, ha aaould ao atate.) Ashland, Or.. Oct. 14. To the Editor
"Dlarusslon is the matm nf- ail 1 Of The Journal Aa a reader of The
throws them back on their rcaaonablenesa. If the different amendments to be voted
they have no reasonableness, it rnthleesly on this fall and the different discus
rnipnpa tnpm mi t nt ,Tint.nM an nn . . .
latlon! How Important to have a governor who will never be under ocoociaaion. u their atead.woodrow TserThe Jr ayS at the
the thumb of the legislative machine! - J1E00 exemption wUl be for the bene-
JJlrs. irunlway Defines Position. fit of the worker and producer. Let's
Portland, Oct. 15. To the Editor of see: ' A has a lot worth 11000; house.
The Journal WUl The Journal allow furniture, etc., and improvements as-
le space to teU its readers Just where f6831 750: total' 1750- B has a
A YEAR TO COOL DOWN
i tor senator, voted in the state sen
ate to kill the direct primary. Dr.
iWltbycombe, its candidate' for gov
j ernor. Bays the direct primary
i costs too much and he joins every
'assembly movement that comes
' along because, he says, "the as
sembly is needed to eliminate can-
didates." Its candidate for Con
; gress is Mr. McArthur, who cham
pioned a bill to make the taking
of Statement One a crime. Mr.
Huston, its hand-picked legislative
candidate, said the assembly is
necessary to make the direct pri
mary "workable" on the ground
that the people have to be advised.
Oh no, "the direct primary Ib
in no sort of peril," but
Read the state pamphlet, begin
ning at page 88.
under the terms of the legislative
act of 52 years ago.
It takes no mental effort to un
derstand what is meant by this
sudden building of wharves. All
the people of Portland have to do
is to ga on the Burnside bridge
and see how, after half a century,
what a sham is all this opposition
to the waterfront amendment.
man piles where, they fell, in the
stricken homes, the hungry land
and the little ones who cry f or j
sires who never return in all this
I stand on the temperance question?
I am opposed to the unchristian pn-
misery and desolation and debt and deavors of the Anti-Saloon leaeue.
devastation and death. lt thR I first and foremost because it proposes
- ... I tn lnfsrrp, with V.n lnoll.nnM. rf.K " BJ1 Kel
united btates, witn Dr. Jordan - " r 'ill ' V5 worth $1750, will pay as much taxes
4-V.nnl Almf ..Ul -l ,1 . 1 l -u ll 1 " " - v...
tjiauA. Aiuii6uijr uuu luai uy mo be a law unto himself.
lot worth $1000. house, furniture and
Improvements assessed at $1500. Total,
J2500. A is worth $1750. B is worth
$2500. A gets an exemption of $750.
B an exemption of $1500. A, being
wisdom and strength of Woodrow
Wilson, we too, are not at, war,
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I have thrown
44 years of the very best work of my
life into procuring for the mother
sex the economic liberty In the home
of the married mother that alone will
enable her to implant in her husband
and sons thn rs m decreA.Q nf mnnl
N THIS page, E. N. Smith of rectitude that they, no 'matter how de-
Ashland, presents queries re- based or drunken, now demand of her.
SIR. SMITH'S QUERIES
as B, who is worth $2500. A has
$2500 worth of land, B. $2500 worth
of livestock. A gets no exemption. B
gets $1500. A pays taxes on $2500. B
on $1000, which is favored.
E. N. SMITH.
Advocates. Word's He-Election.
Portland, Oct. 15. To the Editor of
specting -the $1500 exemption. L ??d " Ah ". f the 1 7' f ltZ,?L
In the first case-Of A and , lo ' dldacr for reelection. Mr. Word has
B. the man who has worked and who nmhihit, nn nnrmai inHivMnai shown himself to be an honest and
.Improved -his place by bringing it J from exercising the divinely ordained :"lel f"e.ej; f Z'
Into its highest usefulness gets f or seir government , wm . be- -ZTw m.
iwu6 vi. .igiii. -u every bouq aumtui r . - . , .
ART AND HU3L4X1TY
T
DELIVERING THE GOODS
H'
AS anybody noticed that the
Oregonian doesn't deny that
it entered into a political
combination with the News?
,J: Has anybody noticed that the
i News doesn't deny that it entered
Into a political alliance with the
i ! Oregonian?
They, don't deny it because they
.can't deny it except by . perjuring
.themselves.
Yesterday the News splattered
Its whole first page over with chat
tey about the charge but not in
, one sentence was there a denial.
It dodged the issue by evasion and
by 'hiding behind a lot of words
that mean nothing.
Not only was this combination
made, but the goods are being de
livered. The Pittock-Fleischacker-
. Kelly-Oregonian interests are ad
vertlsing heavily In the News. A
water and light company, purely
' local to Roseburg, and which hasn't
i light wire or a water pipe within
200 miles of Portland, is adver
tising heavily In the News.
What further proof is needed to
show that in an affectionate and
brotherly way. the Oregonian is
helping the News and that the
, :.News Is helping the Oregonian?
HE JOURNAL of the. American
Institute of Architects takes
a sane position on the de
struction of works of art in
war. It asks wny art snouia do
exempted, any more than the other
prized things of life, from the rav
ages of armed conflict between na
tions.
"Faced by millions of bereft
families, weeping women, father
less children, why mourn over one
cathedral or university library,
more or less?"
The question is pertinent. Stren
uous attempts have been made to
arouse world-wide indignation over
damage done to the cathedrals at
Louvain and Rheims. It is a
strange fact that reported destruc
tion of these centers of art caused
greater lamentation In the civil
ized world than reports of the
wounded and killed.
Why? When did a picture, or
a panel, or a carving, or an edifice
become more precious than even
one human life?
and hp mifi-ht to. That is hnw the I mnth., wvm rn.i I partment.
. . ,.tiu imJ m q ti rv,)n l.w. tji k 's ujjpuiieui. 13 an engineer oy pro-
fiul,ucu Ulcai5u"; "'"""" ..-v vi fMs1rn wllhnnt n.ri. In fit hln.
provement and use of the land It ' at no w fa for this important'offlce. and would
rewards the worker and producer. 'in Mv of th air iM.i.;mn
Case 2 is an unnatural and j now running rampant over the land.
wholly unlikely example In that a j which demands th destruction of the
1101, to nirw I right of self government by the many
have houses, or barns, or machinery JJaiT diSSiute and 4nebHated few w d wiU ?uS??Ii J" 3
I tit v,iv, 1- v,rv, I i" v. ..v.i . ir Bueriii.. a DuxoiDJCin.
LOUU Id. U M VJ 11 TV 111V.11 U.C7L LliVlUi I VLJyvaC (XI 1 CUtll UlCUJUUS UCCil. 11 SO
wniie me man wno nas oniy iana 1 -"y "I1J micti uuuj.ui.-i uu rri. it
fth no riwpllin- or haria or ma- equal rights for the mother sex and n J, , V i i I
wim no QweuinB, or Darns or ma- . I Portland Oct. 14. To the Editor of
chinery or livestock is manifestly fasten upon women such laws of their The Journal There has appeared from
holding his land out of use, lor own making as will withhold from um 10 "mo 111 ine puouc press 01 mis
speculation, which is unjust to so- fuch wives and mothers as are most "ln
From the Detroit News. '
What may be termed "The Ameri
can Idea in Diplomacy would have
been a most valuable preventive of
war had it only been in operation be
tween the cabinets of England, Ger
many : and Russia during recent
months. Already two nations of the
triple entente, namely England and
France, and one nation of the triple
alliance, namely Italy, have indorsed
the idea by making it a rule in diplo
matic action between themselves and
the United States. Besides these three
powers, 23 others have signed Includ
ing all the countries of the Americas
and aa a consequence there can never
break out between the United States
and another power or powers a war
that shall come with the swiftness
with which the European war was pre
cipitated upon the world.
The American idea is this: "The
High Contracting Parties agree' that
all disputes between them ... to
the settlement of which previous ar
bitration treaties or agreements do
not apply . . . shall, when diplo
matic methods of adjustment have
failed, be referred for investigation
and report to a permanent interna
tional commission . . . AND THEY
AGREE NOT TO DECLARE WAR
OR BEGIN HOSTILITIES DURING
SUCH INVESTIGATION AND BE
FORE THE REPORT IS SUBMIT
TED ... The report of the com
mittee shall be completed within ONE
YEAR after the date on which it shall
declare its Investigation to have be
gun, unless the High Contracting Par
ties shall limit or extend the time
by mutual consent-"
dominated greafe- in the foreign born
pupuiauon. TOtfay the Slav races out- .
" " 1 StrlO all Othersi timorl
A number of students registered in . . ' , . "
the school of architecture at the state x;i,LaBO in a recent re-
university have organized an Archl- port says: j
tecturai ciud wnicn wm Decome a "The majoritr f the Immigrants ar
memDer or me .raciric iOMi Arem- hmj i.,v.iv . . t , .
tecturai association and will have as unskilled laboiia and it Is this class
its object the securing of prominent of cheap labor fjikt fills the great num-
architects who will speak at their be of industrf,i worW- thi .on- '
meetings. A $1000 scholarship wm ,X ' . Z
J luo 1 111111 yfi H.11 U 1 1 UUI wuuucuuu
Europe the Rjaian Jew, the Russian
and Austrian J'&e, the Bohemian and
the Italian co "aijes here for no other
purpose than .'jo seek employment at
be styled "the telegraphio war." It uvlag wages ajHfl. the standard of 11 v
was brought on with the speed of j ing which the gall ve American and the
ugntmng. z.ea we wnit papers n8uaI pv of t immigrant from the
of the British and German ravcrn-1 .."..
united lungaorrv wouia consiaer insui-
also be open.
of the British and German govern
merits, and they are filled with tele
grams. "Do this or I do this," wires
kaiser to czar. Til not do it," wires
back the czar in an hour. "If that is
done, we shall do this," wires England
to Berlin. "Do it and be damned,'
comes back the flash. And almost be-
flcient."
Alxsut Persons,
J. D. Herllh Rafter 37 years of serv
ice, has quit the' New York police force
poor.
J. B. Ford. Goshen, N. Y.. fell heir
fore anyone knew what was transplr- I the other day to, $6, 000,000 by the death
Ine thousands of tlr trranhie orders I of a brother. , i
were flying to army and naval een- James rvrgu is dead in Bt. Paul
ters, to forts abroad and ships at sea, ter 30 T P eervice as depot mu-
ordering them to attack the enemy terf V" eon- .
.kJ r. .k- . I3r. Elisha-gjflagg. of Boston, has
"Tha telegraphic war." 1 uwam. iaxe Je jenersun nuz-
o .v.- t, v- , I rards Bay horns, "Crows Neat, from
wer bound together, as 2 naUons are X"" r f; I . , ,
i.v. .1 tt-i a E. L. Mckkiey, arrested in Roan
not to hHn l war nntli hirh-mlndd ke, Va, is aa 4 to have married three
mmnptotit no niRintrMt m.n 1 women wlthoA-. bothering to divorce or
should compose themselves into a com- I bury any.
mission to study the whole airricuity
involved, and report If there is any
loophole of solution that diplomacy
or plain ill-temper have overlooked.
be obliged to depend upon his subordi
nates for the practical knowledge nec
essary to properly perform a sheriff's
duties.
It is to be hoped that all lovers of
ONE WAY TO STOP WAR
D
VERY PLAIN PROOF
A'
LONG the waterfront, Port-
landers can get a perfect ob
ject lesson of what two meas
ures on the coming ballot
mean. They should all go and
take a look, and let the facts sink
Into their' sober Judgment
Hundreds of men are at work
on the east side along the river
from the Burnside bridge north
ward, exercising the wharfing-out
privilege granted by the legislature
in 1862. It Is the effort of one
of the railroad companies to save
the submerged lands from passing
. under the provisions of the pending
Waterfront and Docks Amendment
and Municipal Docks Bill. '
, That la. to say, for 52 long years
this wharfing-out privilege, has not
been exercised: For more than
half a century, the privileges under
the - wharf -nout act . have . been a
sham, a . farce, a humbug at . that
point . on the river, because the
AVID STARR JORDAN ad
dressed the Commonwealth
Club at San Francisco Satur
day. Dr. Jordan had just
returned from Europe and the bur
den of his talk was that war once
started cannot be stopped until the
misery of the people on the one
side or the other cannot be en
dured longer. '
The outcome of war, according
to Dr. Jordan, Is a people so ex
hausted they can fight no more,
ana rinauy tnese people con
demned, they and their children
and children's children, to financial
slavery for the payment of an in
demnity.
Dr. Jordan had exceptional op
portunities for watching the trend
of events. He sees no ray of light
In the present European conflict
only a lesson which Europe may
yet be forced to learn.
, In the opinion of Dr. Jordan,
after a canvass of the world "in' all
continents, nothing can be done
to prevent war except to stop pre
paring for it. He advocates the
abolition of gun factories and of
dreadnaughts, severely penalizing
the construction of machines capa
ble of sailing under water or doing
injury from the air, and above all,
th abolition of compulsory : mill
tary service in time of peace.
' Dr." Jordan is not a vain dream
er. In the bleak and bloody fields,
In the exhausted resources, in the
armies of cripples, in the bivouack
cietv and he is accordinelv taxed in need of economic rights within tha way me meanire on we oiricaai oauoi
Ciety, ana ne is accordingly taxea nnnnrhmitio. for ir numbered 530 should not become a law.
more heavily for it, as he ought ernment aa will enable them to rise Tn measure in question. "Municipal
to be. above the man made laws that create Wharves and Docks Bill." is only a
' This sunnosed man with $2500 onr charitable and penal institutions, measure of justice to the com-
TOV 7,171!,! 'or which free and independent moth- mn PePlf- Perhaps the measure does
worth of land with no improve- erg of a race of nnborn chndren will ? ough; still it Is in
ments on it is a speculator in land, ultimately have no need, because such right erection,
a gambler with the land that is mothers will inspire such a spirit of K1T?,,ripfrlan .wnr,of lan.8 recelveJ
for men's use, and not a producer -elf respect and self control in their- 'ff TtTtel IrZV,
t offspring as will expand their moral ment. or the United btates by metes
or worker. w it. -.., a and bounds from the meander line of
It cannot be denied that the principle of natural growth from with- the riveJ M J101?? on authentic sur
$1500 ; exempUon favors workers
and producers, and penalizes spec- Ji, STLZ makes a claim to the foreshore he
ulation and gambling in land, while human law which Cf itself will incite a". ta,to. trublft-1
under the present exempUon, the a determination to rebel, openly if It V8 claie0ibTr,pa1an ners that
reverse Is the case. A tax on va- can and secretly If It must. From ZZwers MU wharvet lut I nd
cant and idle land drives it Into - 1
use, its best use, the use for which bomP ona day, when I saw a man the law of 1862. The state of Oregon
Uoa Almighty intended it. It de- break through an enclosure and under- Ul""r Bia"V f ' "s"' "
creases the speculative value of take to hasten their blooming by ar- tZW
land and increases productivity. bitrarUy opening some of the sel f ex-
and congress restricted this power sub-
On the other hand, a tax on food I .n . t, iw f to rights of commerce and naviga-
animals increases the cost to the man must be when applied to human tiJn: . . , . .
consumer lessens the earninea of nature from the outside, when God . . Th rights of commerce and naviga-
consumer, lessens tne earnings or tn.t th moral and spiritual tlon 8X6 enjoyed by aU the people of
the meat producers, and increases 0afvld?al an coTleluve this nation. It therefore follow, that
the COSt of living. L must be inspired by the freedom foreshore and the submerged lands
If Mr. Smith is a worker or nro- of the mother-sex, whom man has co- Llo".' .r n"
I -a jHavA ,wa aaK(tFOr-v laws npiiiiiui owner. -L itijs is in aucuruatiiuc
ducer. it is to his interest to vote eed into poverty by arbitrary laws I ith ripariaQ law Qf aU natlona The
ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY.
If this agreement had been in ef
fect between the present belligerents,
and they had respected it as the
growing public opinion of the world
would almost have compelled them to
do the international commission
would only bs assembling by this time,
and the war passions of the nations
would have yet a whole year in which
to return to calm and to counting the
cost.
It is different for a citizen soldier
to answer the mobilization tocsin at
midnight, without opportunity or right
to ask why or where, and for that
same citizen soldier to hear the matter
debated for a year, and to use his own
mind as to "whether vthe question is
worth his life or not. . Nations do
things in a day that they would not
do with a year to think it over In
which trait nations are very like In
dividuals, which in turn is not at all
strange or novel, seeing that nations
are composed of nothing but Individu
als.
The present war in Europe should
Suppose that this commission, sift
ing the matter thoroughly, should take
six months or a year to make their
report. Suppose that during this time
the sane publicists, the calm states
men, of the Involved nations should
discuss the matter as befitted their
dignity and influence. Suppose, also.
that during this interval the whole
gathering peace sentiment of the
world should enter tactfully but in
sistently to mollify prejudice, and un
tangle misunderstandings, and find
common grounds of' honorable adjust
ment and good feeling. Suppose this to
be the case could this European war
have occurred? Do not Europe's
statesmen already regret they had not
a year in which to prevent it? Does
not Europe's soldiery wish that there
had been a year In which to say the
last word? Why, if this year of wait
ing, this year of search for an under
standing, this year of calm contem
plation should come to be the diplo
matic habit of the nations, it would be
"the year of Jubilee," and all the
trumpets of history would proclaim it
as a triumph of humanity's Intelligent
patience.
"Is this your last word?" asked the
Japanese minister of Secretary Bryan
about the California question.
"Baron, there is no last word be
tween friends," said th American sec
retary of state.
With a year in which to say the last
word, that word is almost certain to
be one of peace.
for" the $1500 exemption; if not a
worker ; or producer, or if he is a I
speculator in land, he should vote
against! it.
owners did, nothing to meet the J of the new dead hurriedly buried
A - a IV. M t-1 'wm. - - - Alt. - ' .' - . -
ivruia ui. iuo iraucuise. xuo aciiu scant graves, or burned m hu-
AN AMERICAN EPOCH
T
The Education Measures.
Portland, Oct. 15. To the Editor of
The Journal While a great deal of
dicussion among the people has been
occasioned by the presence on the state
state of Oregon exceeded its authority
when it granted certain privileges to
riparian owners, and these are there
fore revocable-
Why has this matter never been
taken to the supreme court of the
United States? The answer is obvious.
The common people's rights have never
been seriously considered by our politi
FIRST MOVE TO INVADE SOUTH AMERICA
By John M. Oskison.
A rumor flew down from Chicago to
New Orleans the other day that a two
and a half million dollar company was
being formed to enter the South Amer
ican trade. According to the lumor,
the company was to own and. operate
ships. Later It would probably extend
its efforts to selling merchandise down
there.
Now, as soon as that rumor got well
itno New Orleans that city's Associa
tion of Commerce called a meeting of
the manufacturers and merchants' bu
reau and named a committee, to go to
Chicago and get in touch with Chica
go's Association of Commerce.
It was said that business men In
New Orleans wanted to subscribe to
the stock of the new company If it
seemed to promise well. The commit
tee of business men would report on
that.
So far as I know, Chicago has made
the first definite move to take advan
tage of the new opportunities opened
to American enterprises by the Euro
pean war.
It's the German trade (which in the
ballot of a number of taxation meas
ures, but little attention has been paid 1 parties. Any person who was in
Oregon between the sixties and eighties
HE Philadelphia Ledger is
rieht. " All the machinery Is I to the two measures having to do
roartv fnr ntittino- tho foH0rl I With the, educational work in the state, I
" 1 T- -nmmo.. m i hod ntv.i. 1
rorvA hank fivstpm in m. r"" rz " ?" " . 7 . could be pushed through our venal leg
reserve Dana system in mo- th ht to the very important subject I ,,. , . v. .,.,
tibn. j There is a new epoch In realties the need of trained teachers in Vu 'Tn Tlle act!
American banking. the schools, not only m the city justiceJHughes of the supreme court
The' first epoch was the crea- f "Ji"1 ""SlTL' '"LZZ! IT .VI I f the United States has placed him
wn "u" " Doy ana gin is """ whol. ononis to waterfront la Bunerior
the original United States bank. Teachers cannot train themselves to tetany riparian owner. There-
The next epoch was the. destruction ror their most emcient wora. ormii f voters should vote to sustain this
by Andrew Jackson of the Second e8 &tSJ2 m GEORGE pope.
United- States bank. The third was ures have to do with the normal school tt... . - y- rY
the founding of our present nation- U. At least one or the meas-
al bank fifty-one years ago. The J ur?d pass. journal if orohibiUon
fourth : and present epoch makes j western Oregons, save in the essential I such a good thing and so great a
thpKfl ; hanka available for oromot-lfaet that , tba neoole are Oreeonians. I moral upllfter as is being con-
last 10 years increased more than 80
per cent) that the live ones will go
afteT. Already the British are being
told by their boards of trade just
where their opportunities lie, and In
what arteries of commerce. They
know that Germany did a foreign busi
ness In 1913 of about $5,000,Oeo,00,
only about a quarter of a billion less
than Great Britain.
The point I make here is this: Com
panies formed to go Into the South
American trade (where the big chances
of profit lie) ought to be Joint crea
tions of business men of experience
and bankers of sound Judgment. Later
on, you and I will be asked to Invest
money In the stock of many Qf these
trading companies. When that time
comes, let us not forget the example of
the men In New Orleans, who used the
Association of Commerce to find out
whether or not the Chicago plan was
worth supporting. If It's business a
company la formed to transact, let ns
get a successful business man's est!
mate of the company before we buy Its
stock!
Ing American prosperity.
I The distance to western Oregon is I tended, why does it not brin? peace
a r r To, ' " ' I great, the climatic differences are such 1 to the home and love to the fireside?
After a lapse of nearly three I ,mtlaam f&md m this countrv. Here are some facts and figures fcr
generations, our country returns and the conditions of life are very dis- tbe prohibitionists to study. They
tQ - a modern banking system, similar. With these facts clearly in r taken from United States census
rpfc-l--'wilt ht tWolvfi TTnlt'firl fitaton mind, is it any wonder that teachers bulletin "No.. 96. table 7, at page 42:
There wIRo twelve umtea btates frQi Oregon do not attend Kansas, the leading prohibition state,
banks instead Of one, .but their normai school at Monmouth? Is being in one division, and Maine, th
final j control Will be lodged with it any wonder that the Tittle ed Nestor prohibition state, as classified
one board of seven directors. schoolhouse" floes not 'offer the best by the United State census,? hr an
n tint thft tmmnRP linrtpr thk service ? S , it any wonder that the other, we have selected these two
Is IS not inft purpose, unaer tnis in the country seeks "the lights of divisions for comparison. Hre are
new epoch, to create a vast amount tne City? - the United States . census f lgures:
ot new money to reduce interest Eastern Oregon asks for Justice in Kansas, , 236 divorces to 100,000 mar
rates The purpose Will be to the reestablishment of v-chool at ried populaticn: Nebraska. 2 2S to
v. r.u. t,,t,A Weston, a school which was success- 100,000; Missouri, 281; Wisconsin, 180;
f!eU.? Jlt .BUPP S g110" fully operated for many rears and Minnesota, 161; Illinois, 267; Ohio. Mil
theunited States. 1 he new bans- which was- throttled in a fit of econ- The above states are all wet except
Kansas. Yet Kansas courts grant
more divorces to the 100,000 of mar
ried population than her sister wet
states.
Here are some comparisons In the
North 'Atlantic division: Maine, 282
toi 100,000 married population; New
Hampshire, 272; Connecticut, 130; New
YOrk, 60; New Jersey, 60; Pennsyl
vania, 98.
lis It not strange that Maine, a pro
hibition state for To, these many
many years," should grant more di
vorces than Pennsylvania, a state full
of factories and large cities? We
think extremes are always detrimental
to healthy conditions. Possibly Kan
ana has too much alkali water. But
how about Maine? Maine is dry; the
balance wet.
THE WOMEN'S LIBERAL. LEAGUE
OF OREGON.
pollute our beautiful city with his
presence.
We want only respectable citizens in
Oregon. KU5IE.
Dishonest Employment Agents.
Portland. Oct. 14. To the Editor of
The Journal Is there no law in Port
land to touch an agent who deliberate
ly sends men out to find employment,
doing It Just to get their fees? It Is
Well for the mayor to make him return
It, but that does not go far enough;
they have also lost their railroad fare.
If there U no other redress, a com
mittee of respectable citizens should
Wait on the man and Invite him not to
Dr. Withycombo's Citizenship.
Portland, Oct. 14. To the Editor of
The Journal. The charge is being
made by a great many people that Dr.
James Withycombe, Republican can
didate for governor, voted for IS
years before he became a citizen.
I feel It Is unfair to Dr. Withy
combe to make such a charge, and
agreed to leave it to your paper for
the truth of the matter.
, K. E. JOHNSON.
Dr. Withycombe was born in Eng
land in 1854, and came to Oregon In
1871. Investigation of the federal
court records in Portland sbows that
Dr. Withycombe was admitted to final
citizenship and naturalization certifi
cate Issued, before Judge Deady In
1888. . L. A. Garnett appears aa one
of the witnesses. At that time, under
oath. Dr. Withycombe renounoed al
legiance to Queen Victoria.!
Statistical Xotes.
Uganda's 1912 imports were valued
at $3,039,309.
Seville in 1913 exported 403.000 gal
lons or ouve oil
Peru In 1913 produced 27,000 tons of
copper.
30-FQtfT CHANNEL
FROiVi PORTLAND
TCVfTHE SEA
The dream of commerce is
realized. The Port of Portland
and the XJj S. Engineers have
cooperate Jin the work of ren
dering th1 Columbia and Wil
lamette sif? to the shipping of
the worlds What has been ac
complished and how will be
told in h illustrated article
next Sunday.
Read wlk Erich Marcks. dis
tinguished. German historian,
says of H pjprmany's position in
the war; cji the editorial page
next Surttiy.
IN THfe MAGAZINE
(Sbtober 18 .
The Spirit of Apple Day
A cover aesign in color that ex
presses tfrfjs significance of Apple
Day in arc. artistic fashion.
- -All rfjfl King Apple" is the
title of 4. article in which Hy
man HUj Cohen sets forth the
history fcf the fruit that has
made Oregon famous.
Four $&ges of war pictures
convey jgjraphic impressions of
what t going on in the war
zone. ; 1 1
TheseJ photographs are of the
same h$$i order as the others
which i jhave been printed in
THE j SUNDAY JOURNAL
Magazine during previous weeks
and coititute a feature that
surpasss all others in timeli
ness angi general interest.
Man j people are preserving
these ybotographs each week.
In thelend they will have a
pictoriql history of the war that
cannotl&e replaced. If you have
not dofii so. begin now. Yon
and ytnjr children will appre
ciate tHf effort in the years to
come, il
Art treasures ever have been
the lo& of war. In the present
conflict they are not immune.
An illustrated article relates
steps tSken to preserve the pic-
ttures tn? Europe today and reS
calls me seizure of priceless
painting in days gone.
Another installment of The
Trey uO Hearts, by Louis
Joseph Vance, will be read with
interest by the many who are
following this serial of romance
and a&nture in THE JOUR
NAL !.as they are witnessing
each emode tn photo-play form
at thefpovies..
A pEJie of cartoons and short
stories provides interesting ma
terial for the leisurely reader.
m :
TW : SUNDAY JOUR
NA1 V-Complete in five news
sectns, magazine and pic
torial) supplement and comic
sectpn -5 cents the copy
everywhere. :
Pfeks for Portland's and
Oregon's contribution to the
Chritsmas Ship are fast be
tngjxecuted, and shipment
will? ie made 'from Portland.
October 23. THE SUNDAY
JOTRNAL next Sunday will
tell fin detail what is- being
don'
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