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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. , SATURDAY - EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1914. :
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Y- JANUARY 1, there will
bare . been received in
Portland for wheat shipped
out of this port. $5,000,-
eoo.
- This was . the statement yester
day of A. L. Milla before thel Port
land Clearing. House Association,
i of which he is president.! He
added: ' -j
This money will be bandied through
Portland banksi much of It .will go
'to the growers In the Interior, but
not a little will be left here in re
fund for the advances made by Port
land banks to handle the crop. ; Need
lees to say, this amount of money
circulating; In Portland and the ter
ritory tributary to Portland means a
great deal to- all business, and forms
a very substantial basis of optimism
for improvement of local business
condition!. -.
. ' The days' news tells of the sales
of great numbers of Oregon horses
for use. in Europe, of the running
of Oregon woolen mills day and
night at full capacity to fill orders
for the world armies, of big sales
of barley and oats at fancy figures,
and of unlimited demand at sky
prices for- almoBt every product
this state has to sell.
In Europe 20,000,000 men are
under arms. Production is para
lyzed there, but consumption of
products goes on just the same.
The' granaries, warehouses and
mills of Oregon are 8000 miles
nearer than ever before to theBe
consuming hosts by reason of the !
- Panama canal. The governor of
Alaska told in Portland yesterday
.of the vast activities and develop
ment the Chamberlain railroad law
and the new leasing act Will im
mediately open In the North, mak
ing heavy demands on Oregon for
every product of field, orchard and
.mill. t
; Portland arid Oregon never faced
I a future that Beemed so freighted
, with demands on our . enterprise
and work, so full of promised re
wards for our endeavor.
'' ' PLAIN AS DAY
THIS is the way the Oregonlan
says the war taxes were made
necessary:
The deficit which made
emergency taxes necessary is esti
mated for ' the current fiscal year at
1100.000,000. The Democrats appro
priated for this year $103,000,000
more - than waa appropriated by; the
last Republican congress. Had they
saved that $103,000,000, there would
have been no deficit, and no emer
gency taxes would have been neces
sary. .- There you have it, plain as day.
Anybody that can't understand
that. Is no, mathematician.
The fool congress in passing ap
propriations should have known
' that there was going to be a world
war. Any congress that cannot
tell In advance that there is going
to be a world war ought to be re
called, or be shot
Now it congress had known, as
It should, that there was to be
such a war, and had appropriated
$103,000,000 less, there would
have been no deficit. It Is just as
plain as the facts about the dough
nut. Either the hole was punched
In the doughnut, or -the doughnut
was built around the hole, a fact
that the Oregonlan publisher chal
lenges anybody to successful
gainsay. ! "
THE RURAL SCHOOL
ILLUSTRATING the plight of
rural schools In many parts of
the country, the federal bureau
of education has published an
article by, W. F. Feagin, superin
tendent of education for Alabama.
' He says that a farmer with a cheap
automobile has more invested I in
one article than the average rural
. community as a whole has in its
. school" plant. j ;
Mr. ; Feagin contrasts a dilapi
dated school with a handsomely
constructed Jail in the same coun
ty, saying: j
This Jail has sanitary : drinking
fountains, shower baths, clean floors,
plenty Of good light, . good . ventila
tion and la otherwise attractive.
" Could a person from the district In
. which this school Is located be blamed
for preferring the jail to the school.
. Dr. Claxton, commissioner.- of
' education, says conditions found by
Mr. . Feagin are by no means pe
culiar to Alabama. It Is declared
they . can be duplicated anywhere.
'In Tennessee, it was found a few
' years ago; that in a majority of the
counties the average annual salary
of the teacher waa less than the
. cost of feeding a prisoner lit Jail.
.Such conditions do not exist in
Oregon, but ' the Alabama survey
is valuable even in this state In
calling attention to the necessity of
adequate .support for the .rural
schools. " Dr; Claxton say . that
until a community spends at least
SEATTLE'S CONTROL OF PORTLAND
T
HE deep sea Industry of Puget.
170,000,000 year. Portland's
Portland Is supplied mainly,
which much, la .taken along the
caught in Oregon waters, the catch Is taken to Seattle, - where the
choice fishes shipped to eastern markets, and. the poorer quality sold
in Seattle or sent , to Portland.
V. It Is altogether an extraordinary situation. The great staple
deep sea fish is halibut, of which there Is a bank off Yaquina Bay
that is one of the best in the world. This halibut is taken by Seat-!
tie fishing vessels, carried past the mouth of the Columbia to Seattle
and then, 1 shipped by rail to Portland at a rail cost of 35 cents
a hundred pounds.' The extra haul by sea and the extra railroad
haul Is added, of bourse, to the price of the fish to consumers, and
Is paid without realization of why they get their fish In such a round-:
about way. : -'.'r';'-' -.i - :
Fifteen Seattle vessels fished on the Newport banks, off Yaquina
Bay the past season. Their tonnage was 35 to 300 and they Invaria
bly filled to capacity In four days fishing. All of their catch was
taken past the mouth of the Columbia to Puget Sound and be
came a considerable factor in the $70,000,000 that the deep sea fish
ing industry of Seattle totaled last year. .- -si-
if the Puget Sound vessels that fished on the Newport banks this
year had marketed -their catch from Newport or Portland and fitted
out from either place, they would have distributed $30,000 a month
In wages alone.
The situation presents amazing conditions. It is most extraordi
nary that the Portland fish supply is under control of Seattle deal
ers. It Is extraordinary that Portland consumers should be ; com
pelled to pay a tribute on food fish caught In Oregon waters to the
extent of an extra sea haul of 300 miles and a railroad haul from Seattle
to Portland. If the Seattle control compels Portlandefs to pay
these extra charges, what other tolls may not be" included in the
extortions? r There) are other Impressive facts In the situation that
The Journal will discuss in future articles.
Meanwhile there are 33 varieties of food fish in the waters off
the Oregon coast, of which 15 varieties exist In commercial quanti
ties. On the Newport banks there is, black cod of the best quality
and in unmeasured? abundance, and there are millions of pounds of
the finest sole-to be found In the seven seas.
The halibut on the same banks goes through Seattle to every Im
portant city In the United States, including Portland, and to Canada.
The Pacific Coast halibut, beginning with the end of the banks off
the Southern Oregon line, and extending at intervals aa far north as
the well known Alaska banks, -have the world for a market, some
of the choice Newport halibut 'going even to Europe.
What a field is jhere for a vast fishing Industry in Portland! It
can be made an industry of far greater value to this town than Is
the annual wheat. e-rop of the state.
Instead of complaining over a
vote our attention to a great fishing industry? Can we not, at
least, take our own fish out of our own waters and buy it of our
own people? i ,
as much for education as it does
for any one of the material neces
sities of life food, clothing and
shelter it la not doing Its full
duty. '. .
There should be" no slighting of
the rural schools. As much as
Oregon desires material prosperity,
no accumulation of dollar wealth
can compensate for 'lack of an
adequately educated generation of
boys and girls.
GASOLINE WJNS
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T
HE auto bus is proving not
only to be a strong competi
tor against the j interurban
electric lines in sections that
have good permanent roads, but it
is making Its way in; urban traffic
against the trolley line, i A dispatch
from Los Angeles says that several '
nunarea auiomoDiies in mat city
are engaged in carrying passen-
j gers in opposition to the traction
companies. ; . ,
Every important carline in the
city is being paralleled by them.
As a result there is a decrease in
the profits of the traction com
panies, who will probably be forced
to grant universal' transfers.
Not long since the , statement
came from. Seattle that: the auto
bus had severely crippled the in
terurban line between that city
arid Tacoma.
It is all in the line of modern
development which points to gaso
line as a keen competitor of elec
tricity and steam in the field of
local transportaton.
Nobody knows what changes the
new competition may work inNthe
great issue of municipal traction
enterprise, especially when progress
in the perfecting of the auto bus
is taken into account.
WHY ARMED?
C
LAD in pajamas and a rain
coat, George B., Perkins, a
Boston architect, approached
a group of persons xsn the
steamer Mohawk, en rOute from
New York to Charleston.' The cap-
j tain of the vessel explained to Per
kins that . he must; wear - more
clothes in going about the ship.
After Perkins had emptied his re
volver, F. W. Hinman, a. widely
known newspaper man of Jackson
ville, Florida, was dead' and the
captain and .a ' passenger danger
ously wounded. t
The handy revolver is ;a wonder
ful thing. It regularly! takes its
toll, to-wit, nearly 10,o4o lives a
year in the United States.
It is claimed Perkins j was men
tally Irresponsible. Then, if our
civilisation is an we boast It to
be, why was he permitted to go
about armed and in! waiting for
Victims? :."' . ,, : -::t
THE LOAN SHARK LAW
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RE GON has a law designed
to curb the loan sharks. It
provides that only bona fide
residents of Oregon , shall be
licensed, by the superintendent of
banks to make loans: in excess of
ten per cent per annum. Residents
duly licensed under thy law may
charge a maximum of three per
cent, a month. ' . ' : j ,
: The representative of a Wiscon
sin loan concern was! convicted in
Judge McGinn's court j of having
violated: the law. The convicted
man. says he will carry his case to
the' Oregon supreme court and to
the United States supreme court, if
necessary, , He maintains that the
law is unconstitutional-because it
discriminates against 1 residents of
other states. j . , ,-
me . i j enactment may . dis
crimiaate cl .een residents of Ore-
Sound, most of it Seattle's," totals
is nil.
by' Seattle, and with fish of
Oregon Coast, . After being
lost liquor Industry, why not de
gon and other states, but it is not
undue discrimination. Small loans
to people in distress must be regu
lated, but It would be Impossible
to make regulation effective where
the responsible person loaning the
money is not in Oregon and pos
sibly never will come to the state.
The law's purpose Is not to give
Oregon residents an advantage over
people of other states. Whatever
discrimination there may be is in
cidental to the 'necessity of a
statute which can be enforced. It
is not probable that the courts will
agree with the convicted man. It
Is unlikely that an enactment in
behalf of the man and woman in
financial distress will be upset.
THE NEED OF SHIPS
T
HE Holland-Americajn line op
erates the only neutral steam
ships plying regularly between
the United States and the
Netherlands. Holland has con
tracted with this company not to
accept consignments of contraband
or conditional contraband to pri
vate parties. It is announced that
wheat, flour and other, foodstuffs
may be sold and delivered to pri
vate firms in Holland, but the ship
ments must be carried ihAmerican
vessels.
This move by the Netherlands
government is further demonstra
tion of the imperative need of an
American merchant marine. Flour
and grain men in this country ex
press the fear that Holland pro
poses to maintain a monopoly in
imported foodstuffs. Exporters de
clare that if other neutral coun
tries in Europe assume Holland's
attitude it will mean, a substantial
drop in prices. !
The movement for an American
merchant marine should be stimu
lated by this development. It
means that if the American .pro
ducer is' to' have free access to a
large part of the European, mar
kets there is need fpr American
ships to carry the grain and goods.
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY
T
WO Chicago aldermen sent to
Europe last summer, to study
vice conditions have reported
to Mayor Harrison. They
agree that Chicago's social evil
problem can be solved only by sup
pression.
Advocates of segregation, going
on the theory that vice must exist,
have cited some of the larger cities
of Europe in suDPort of ' their
claim. The Chicago aldermen say
these people cannot be conversant
with actual conditions, that segre
gation has not even promised solu
tion of the problem.
Chicago has abandoned the pbl
icy or. segregation ana - in- a re
cent address Mayor Harrison de
clared himself to be In hearty sym
pathy with the new policy. " He
said, that although the old "levee
districts are closed, thero is no
more vice in the outlying areas
than there was in the days when
a red light district was . tolerated
because It was said to be necessary
to the virtue of other sections ,of
tne city. . ; , . " V; : -- .
No city has given more study to
the vice problem than has Chicago.
The agitation . there has been con
stant and aggressive 'for several
years. 1 It was in Chicago that the
first important survey ; and report
was made by a vice - commission
i ne attitude of the .. authorities
there at the present time is illnmi
nating, although as a policy it will
he disputed by many. -
On one great factor; in vice, the,
wuoie country : has made progress.
U is agreed .almost .universally
now that the captains of the indus
try, not, the women are the power
that the public must cope with in
restricting vice. - The men : who
rent houses at , balloon figures tor j
immoral purposes, the other men
who directly and indirectly profit .
real power . that must be . over
thrown in approximating any solu
tion f the vice problem. .
As in all "things, in , Vice the
chief corrupting and debauching
influence is money, money, money.
BASIS FOR OPTttllSM
NOUNCEMENT is made that
the New York cotton ex
change, . which suspended at
the outbreak of the European
war, is to be reopened, for business
Monday. This means resumption
in trading and shipments of ah
important commodity and will tend
to still further swell the trade bal
ance infavor of the United States
It is exnected that the stock ei-1
changes will be reopened within
" . - 1
a short time as plans are being for
mulated for financing European
held American securities. .
With ocean commerce restored,
with an open market for securities
and a demand from Europe for our
products, American industry ! will
quickly pay off American debts In
the old world.
Letters From the Peopb
(Communications sent to The Journal for
publication In tills department should be writ
ten on only one aide of tbe paper, should -not
exceed SOO words in leogtb and must be ac
companied by the name and address of tbe
aender. If tbe writer does not desire to
bare the name pubUsbed, be abould so .state.)
i
"Discussion .is the greatest of all reform
erf: It rationalises everything it touches. It
robs principles of all false sanctity and
throws them back on their reasonableness. If
they ha Ye no reasonableness, it ruthlessly
crushes tbem out of existence and set up Its
own conclusions la their stead." Woodrow
wiison.
Farmer and Manufacturer.
McMinnville. Or.. Nov. 12. To the
Editor of The Journal A visit to the
Oregon Manufacturers' and Land
Products Show serves to furnish ah
inspiration for a short article. Since
the writer was a participant in the
land products exhibit at the state fair
and also in the Willamette valley feat
ure at the Portland show, I am in
clined to draw a line of demarkatiob
between the system of rural exploita
tion and developumeht, and that of
city development and its advantages
wnicn serve , a disadvantage to itself.
Our system of advertising Oregon Is
wrong. Our city and rural Interests
are unbalanced. One is striving Inde
pendently of the other, and the other
of the one. These two interests must
be merged to enjoy the fullness of
their purpose. If, through the cour
age and Industrial effort of approxi
mately one half of the population off
the state, a commercial center and me
tropolis containing nearly an eaual
number of people has been builded,
and this metropolis is dependent and
largely indebted, to the rural activities
or the state's citizenship, then what
great beneficial results would be at
tained .for the great outlying districts
If they should receive an equal amount
of comment and judicious advertising?
Who must do this advertising? That
is tbe question. Must the village com
mercial club strain its effort to pub
lish, extraordinary literature trying to
outdo its, neighbor and, in some In
stances aVA great and unnecessary
Cost to ltf5 few contributors, overdraw
It possibilities, merely in a spasm of
competition, or should ' the state reU
quire a correct and uniform system of
advertising, to be proof-read by the
proper authorities and passed upon for
correctness, as a means of attaining a
nign standard or representation?
i believe the Oregon Manufacturers'
and Land Products Show is thegreatr
est thing of its kind ever held in thijs
state, and Its management should be
encouraged for extraordinary effort
shown. Seventy-five-per cent of the
farmers throughout the state should
be there, studying the manufacturing
feature; an all the manufacturers
should be there to greet them. Tm
rarmer knows nothing of his business
relationship with the manufacturer,
neither has he learned his true value
as a donor to the commercial devel
opment of his state. He is housed
up, Isolated from an appreciable ide.
of his Importance as a citizen, won
dering how he may persuade some deV
spised real estate roan to believe hi
land is worth more than it really 1
and get him some sort of a deal.
The rural man needs him in i hia
business. Our .lands need settlers and
as a member of the Willamette valley
exposition Doarn l solicit the atten
tion of every organization in our great
Portland to its duty in furnishing a
creditaoie representation before the
world at the Panama - Pacific interna
tional exposition, where Oregon will
make its mark. A. O. SARFP.
Mr. Linscott's Forebodings,
Boring, Or., Nov. 12. To the Editor
of The Journal In The Journal of
November 10, Edwin A. Linscott
writes In a dismal tone regarding
Oregon's recent adoption of prohibi
tion and - thinks that result may be
chiefly attributed to the woman vote.
If so, let us all give, three cheers for
the women. -
Our friend wants to know 1 why. if
prohibition is right sjid good, a dozen
counties In Ohio, after being dry,
voted wet. Prohibition, like all other
reforms, has Its ebb and flow and
seems to lose at times in certain
places, but the loss is only temporary.
irooapiy tbe main explanation of
these counties going wet is that the
big breweries and associated inter
ests poured S 2,000,000 into Ohio In a
desperate effort to keep the whole
state from going dry.
Mr. Linscott should not feel too
pessimistic over the outlook in Ore
gon. We have lots of companynow,
several more states having 'just' been
added to the dry column. Some
changes and adjustments will have to
be made to the new and better ' order
of things, and business will boom'
right along. You can't keep Oregon
down.
-If the statements In Mr. Linscott's
articles were all as true as one there
could be little objection to his .re
marks. He says, "The prohibition of
the -liquor traffic reminds me of pok
ing a rattlesnake. The more We "poke
it the worse we get bitten. . Good!
"So say we all of us." No sane man
or woman would "poke" a rattlesnake.
The way to "poke" a, rattlesnake Is to
land on It with a club right between
the eyes. j. g. BROOKS. 1
War's "Glories and. Peace. .
Portland, Nov. 13. To the Editor of
The Journal I wish to offer a com.
ment on your article. "A Day- Will
Come., As long as we worship heroes,
glvejthem Iron crosses and the like
and send their names - ringing i down
through history, there . will be wars,'
The war lords of Europe of the pres
ent want tor something before they
die to place, their names in history.
We teach ouf1 children. In school, of
A: FEW SMILES
"XI hov." i.aid a nereeant to a iun-
lor member . of the
force, -you can't say
1 didn't earn them
by propping up street
corners or : loafing
about public houses."
"No," answered the
other, with a emile; "I know you
didn't get them that way or you d have
been a zebra by now."
A bucolic i individual paused the
other day before a newstand and to
the proprietor there
of put the following
questions: -
"Been in town
longT" '
'.'Quite a , while,'
eald . the vender of
news".
"Know 'a man
named Collina Joseph Collins?"
' "NO. ;
. "Surer . . .
"Say." Exclaimed the newsman.
testlly. "there are 3,000.000 people In
riklnB n Y- . . . a Vnnn.
every man 4n the city?"
"No," said the rural one, "but I
thought you might have sense enough
to know-one"
At a cafe in this town one of the
patrons, was much annoyed by the
vulgar manner In which his neighbor
at table ate. He
tried to take no no
tice of the offending
one, but after watch
ing him pick, a bone
in an extremely
primitive fashion he
could not control his
feelings any longer
and, leaning over, said :
"Pardon me, but don't you think
you'd be more comfortable If you took
that bone out on the mat?"
the glories won in battle, thus culti
vating a war spirit.
When ' the world - stops worshiping
false . gods wars will cease. We pray
for peace with a desire In our heart
that our Germany or our allies may
win. A, BERTLING.
The Conditions of Peace.
ReedvJlle, Or,, Nov. 12. To the Edi
tor of . The Journal Peace can be
brought about In this world only when
the demon of selfishness is torn from
the human heart; when we cease to
hold the dollar above human welfare;
when we cease to pray for all that is
good to ourselves and oifr fellowmen
on Sunday, and skin them the balance
of the week; when we cease to meddle
with the affairs of other nations; when
we cease to force our ideas and re
ligious beliefs upon a nation that has
deep rooted Ideas and religious be
liefs of its own. Is it for us to say
that our ideas and our religious beliefs
are the only ones worth having? As
long as our own people face starvation,
as long as our own business system la
imperfect,, and our social conditions
weak, what right have we to teach
other nations along these lines? We
hear the cfy of suffering Belgium and
are moved to pity and are preparing
to help them out. It is well. Yet our
ears have not heard the cry of distress
in our own country, that is going on
day after day. No! We do not bear
it above the roar of the machinery of
industry which daily is crushing its
thousands to build mansions for the
few. John D. Rockefeller bankrupts
Colorado to get "out of paying his
"slaves'" a living wage. We shudder
at the awful conditions that this war
ha brought on Europe. We stagger
at the stories of butcheries. Yet some
how our hearts fail to yield -to th
plea of the suffering ones at home.
Is it because we have grown so used
to it? - Or is it bpcause our own people
are not worthy of consideration at our
hands?
They may talk pace; they may pray
for peace; but as long as human be
ings put the dollar above human wel
fare, there will be no peace.
O. E. FRANK.
TheJ Foot and Month Fight.
Ffom the Chicago Herald.
The. drastic measures adopted to
stamp put the lweatened epidemic of
the root and nyoutn disease are justi
fied by the situation. The disease is
reported from as far east as Massa
chusetts and as far south as. Missis
sippi. As It spreads with extreme
rapidity. It is evident that prompt ac
tion Is necessary to isolate foci of in
faction and so prevent transmission
to uninfected areas.
Here in Chicago the packers are co
operating in every way wlththe agent
of the department of agriculture. Sat
rday night the yards were shut for
nine days. During this period they
will be thoroughly disinfected. More
over, all cattle developing the disease
are being promptly disposed of. These
measures, 4n connection with further
steps to prevent the transfer of feed
ers through the yards, should effective
ly. settle 'the local situation.
As for the local meat and milk sup
ply, Chicago has testimony from un
impeachable sources that there is no
present occasion for uneasiness. Dr.
Bennett, Inspector for the department
of agriculture, declares there is no
trace of the disease In the dairy re
gions; It' is only found in herds o
stackers and feeders. "Milk is safe
meat Is safe to date," he says; "it i
reasonable to assume that It will con
tinue saf e."
Assurances' to the same , effect are
given by Dr. Young, the city health
officer. As an extra precaution the
city health department has 20 men in
the suspected fields turning back milk
from these districts. Furthermore,
over 82 per cent of the milk consumed
In Chicago is pasteurized. Dr. Young
advisee purchase from dealers guaran
teeing that the product la pasteurized.
It is pleasing to note that the meas
ures resorted -to in connection with
Chicago's great industry will be ac
companled with the least possible in
crease of unemployment, t It is stated
that a maojrity of tbe 40,000 employes
will be kept at work during the quar
antlne period. When it ends the pacx
ers will resume work and with full
forces. 1
A Day of Dedication.
From the Omaha World-Herald.
. ! Thanksgiving proclamations mea
more this year than usual. Hereto
fore they have been perfunctory re
citals of something that everybody be
lieved but, which nobody took time to
ponder over. This year they, reflect
the dominant sentiment Of a nation
and a state. r
j Historians can write sometime in
the future of the carnage that has
devastated' Europe and of the nations
that have gone down under the strokes
of tbe mighty. But to he Infinite fu
lure cannot be left the love and sym
Dathv of our country for the sick and
wounded and the home suffering that
accompanies this titanie disturbance
between.' nations. This, is present
feeling that: overcomes us as : we go
about our daily work, it is the mani
festation of the spirit that enthrall
all now and can never be told in after
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PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
Homemade charity hex ta ti,, 't,,,.
brand.
'
The woman arhn illa It all miAn
Claris to anow it all.
Every" man nti a lot of Wlrele
messages from bin wife.
Coal may be hi eh- but .after it in
once in the bin it soon gfta lower.
Have a llttl vmnurttv fn th i.v
who lets a famous woman-marry bun.
The man who eoes to law mv rt-
assured that his lawyer will get Jus-
The dnllnr anon hnaVlna V.
Will never lron tha , . u
door. i,v""
a
The true aentl man nav. fn, Vtia
wedding suit before ordering a di
vorce auit.
Some men m a nrmM r vh , v
do as others ar r uhut th. re.
avoid doing. .. "
A woman i sMnm ini.,..ti i
her husband's letters unless they are
A colored nhilosorjhr cava t V 4kA taa
less luck in a rabbit's foot than there
la in a chicken's foot providing tha
rest or-tne fowl is attached.
WW
Luckily statisticlann nr. n...
called upon to prov anything they
say. For instance, there is the statis
tician who says that nnlv fiv nut .t
every 10.0 marriages are happy mar
riages. WHAT SHALL BE
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
His detractors have hoped and his
clandestine admirers have feared that
in the great crisis Panco Villa would
be found wanting. Was 4he not a
brigand, a cutthroat, an outlaw? Is
he not an Illiterate peon, wholly un
versed in statecraft. Ignorant of his
tory, uninformed in the usages of civ
ilization? To be sure he was a successful gen
eral; something of a military genius.
But was he not fighting for Villa
rather than for Mexico? Would he
not show his true colors when the
spoils of war were to be divided?
Again and again Villa has amazed
all observers by his- failure to prove
himself either a scoundrel or a fool.
The first great surprise was when the
United States occupied Vera Cruz. The
fussy and pompous Carranza was all
for growling at Uncle Sam, and dis
playing the mailed fist. Villa had
sense enough' to understand that the
American occupation was advantage
ous to the constitutionalist cause, and
to trust to the honor and unselfish
ness of the American government.
Tactfully he apologized for Carranza,
and in . effect winked at the United
States and whispered that it was not
needful to give much weight to Car-
ranza's vaporings.
Then, time after time, Carranza hu
miliated and slighted the one man
who had made the constitutionalist
triumph possible. At each demonstra
tion of littleness it was expected that
Villa would go into rebellion to pun
ish the Ingratitude and folly of his
THE FAMILY PURSE
By John M. Oskison.
Some time ago I passed on to my
readers certain questions concerning
the financing problems of the family
in which children are growing up.
From the "replies I have had I am
going to quote what seems to me to
be the opinion of the average parent
who lives in the city, and who feels
the pressure of living costs.
Parents should not expect a healthy
child of 12 to earn money there's no
disagreement on that point. Between
14 and 16. If the earnings of the boy
are needed, American parents who live
in cities say that it's all. right for tne
boy to go to work. Of course, in the
country, long before they reach the
age of 16, boys do a great deal or
work. But there's this difference:
When the boy starts to work in the
city it means an end to school, while,
in the country school terms are usual
ly arranged so that children can help
on the farm until they get through
school.
Parents believe that boys who work
and live at home should not pay
board: they should turn over their
earnings to the parents, who should
give them an allowance. One of the
best answers emphasizes the oppor
tunity of teaching the growing boy
that home Is worth making sacrifices
for. Until the boy is 21, or the girl
years save by those to whose souls it
has penetrated.
Great as Is Europe's present need its
needs following this conflict will be
greater. The time will come when
every nation will turn its eyes to
ward this country and from us must
come the aid and succor that, will be
ministration unto them In their dark
est hour. The president or congress
cannot do all. There must be back
of them ninety millions of people wil
ling and ready to lend their hands 1o
the work of restoration, and their
hearts to the duty of comforting those
who mourn.
It is a future which we must face
unflinchingly as a nation a future
for which we must begin preparation
at once. Our Thanksgiving day this
year, must be a day of consecration
to that work, a day when before our
Master we must pledge something of
our substance and something of our
love for that time when they will be
drawn upon by sorrowing, suffering
Europe.
As God gives us opportunity to ob
serve Thanksgiving this year In a
land of peace and plenty let us thank
Him also that we are fitted to become
the principal factor in the solution of
the world's problems of tbe immediate
future. Let us .thank Him that
through our own peace, and our tears
of sympathy for torn and bleeding
fatherlands, we can dedicate our fu
ture to the labor which He has meted
out for ua.
Why "Tipperary" Is Popular.
From the Montreal Star.
Professor Sir A,- Quiller Couch. In a
lecture : at . Cambridge university re
cently,, referred .humorously to the
contempt of the average Englishman
for sentiment at such a crisis as the
present. His subject was "Patriotism
In English Literature,' and he : told
his audience that the cheerful Irony
of the English private now at the
front "played with patriotism Just be
cause he was at home with that holy
spirit, so much at home that he might
be called at any hour of the day or
night to die for it. - Precisely because
he lived in that intimacy he was shy
of revealing it, and from shy turned
to scornful when the glib uninitiate
would vulgarize the tnystery they had
not plumbed."
. On platform after platform he had
sat since August, an seen the ardor
of young men chilled by exhortation
from Intellectual speakerswbo lacked
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Weatern Union linemen expect to
have the telegraph line along the Wil
lamette Pacific railroad ' completed
from Eugene to Mapleton by Novem
ber 20. .ys
- a a - "
And we havenH heard, exclaims
the Amity Standard, "even an old
timer claim that in the sixties, seven
ties or any other old time we had a
season just like this, one." , ;
The Sumpter American thus ratifies
one of the principal results of the
eieouon: "Many a man will soon learn
that the stuff flowing through the
mountain gulches, canyons and val
leys in an emergency can be used for
drinking purposes."
a '
Coos Bay Harbor: North Bend may
well feel proud of the big vote polled.
Nothing shows up quite1 so well as
votes. It being a solid representation
of population. North Bend haa a vot
ing population of 1018 and Marspfield
has 1506; therefore we are two-thirds
the size of our sister city.. -
a'.
Tribute to October, in Enterprise
Record Chieftain: "Now that Wal
lowa county has had such a long and
delightful autumn, no one will regret
the coming of winter which cannot
hold off much later, All through Oc
tober the weather haa remained de
lightful. Time and again a storm has
threatened; the wind has shifted Into
the northwest and has blown violent
iu uui m w v ttuu nmm- utvwu tiviviii
ly for a short while. Then It would j
shift to the south or would die down,
and all would be lovely once more. Oc
tober did. not have one rough or-old
day."
SAID OF VILLA?
leader. And each time the ex-bandit,
apparently placing the welfare of hla
country above his own pride, swal
lowed the Insult and continued to giv
loyal service.
Then came the constitutionalist tri
umph, the flight of Huerta, and Car
ranza's unwarranted proclamation, of
himself as head of the provisional gov
ernment and candidate for the consti
tutional presidency. .It was then that
Villa, having brought the constitu
tional cause to complete vlctoTy, re
belled against permitting the "first
chief" to dash down the principles for
which the patriots had fought.
Villa finally took up arms against
the nation's nuisance. Now, said the
old friends of the clentlflcos, the ban
dit will show his true colors.
If he has shown his true, colors he
is a true patriot, and a man strangely
enlightened beyond his opportunities.
He has made of the cumbersome Car
ranza an avowed rebel, but he has not
advanced his personal cause In : any
way. He has merely brought about,
through the Aguascalientes convention,
a constitutional program for the estab
lishment of constitutionalism. And
there is nothing in his attitude to in
dicate that he has endeavored, to ac
complish -anything except the rehabil
itation of Mexico and the throwing off
of an incubus that had become Intol
erable. What shall be said of Villa? The
tale is not yet told. He may yet show
himself as black as his antecedents
would Indicate. But his present val
uation must be that of a great fighter,'
a diplomat and patriot. ra
AND THE CHILDREN
18, they should not be allowed to be
come boarders in their homes.
It la not desirable. If the answers
to my questions are taken as a guide,
to encourage children to become self
supporting too early. Keep the child
as a child; after he reaches the age
of 14 you can begin to Impress upon
him the need for considering the re
sponsibilities of life. But do this
gradually. Don't -drop burdens too
soon on young shoulders. .
Even though children art paying
their way In the home, the parents
ought to supervise their spending.
They should be encouraged to open
an account in a savings bank,, and
they should be kept away from pool
rooms and saloons. Parental author
ity is a reality; it should be wisely
used.
In our cities the most of living Is
forcing children out of the schools
too soon In order to help support the
family. ' The fight to keep them loyal
to parents and the home under then
conditions grows harder; but it is a
fight worth making.
After h xeatra Mrner -haa eon-
. - , " . 1 r.
tributed bis share toward running the
nun,?, " .......
left as he chooses? No; the home i
the first and sole consideration., learn
ings are family property they should
be spent for the benefit of the fam
ily. understanding, by middle aged people,
sentimental or patronizing, who
schooled their heafers in what they
ought to feel.
For a mildly amusing instance, a
clergyman in the west, deeming "Tip
perary" inadequate to the spirit that
should animate a soldier in this war,
sat down and composed to tbe tune of
It a lyric better calculated ' to brace
the moral fibre. Here Were two pre
cious lines of it:
Good-bye, self-indulgence.
Farewell, the soft, arm-chair;
to which the British Infantry man
responds: -"Have a banana."
And, truly, when on came to think,
it was hard to find, in a few words,
a better anwer.
Send for the boys of the girls brigade
To set old England free;
Send for my mother and my 8i'r and
my brother. .
But for goodness sake don't send
me! , . i
That was "Merry England."
The Ragtime Muss
Ballad of Consolation.
Admit the vxorld is out of plumb
That White is Oft condemned as
black,
That many speak who should be dumb
And justice groans upon the rack:
Admit, that on all aides the clack
ff?k.e,rs spreads a false alarm;
Behold, althdugb the times are slack.
Life still has many things that charm.
Though 'on all sides the folks look
glum
Andt "lonr to have the old days
natjr"
Though prophet pile opprobrium
- Upon the future bulging pack:
Though all . the chartered fools at
tack . .. . -
The present .madly, what's the harm?
, There's Christmas in the almanac!
Life still ha many things that charm.
Tls more than easy to become '
A social hypochondriac.
To let our souls grow stiff and numb;
Ho. why not try, whate'er we' lack,
To travel 'in the cheerful track.
And lend a firm supporting arm
, To those who've had from fate a
thwack? .. - . -
Life still .has many things that charui.
L'ENVQI.
Prince, though we feed .upon a ' snack
Today, a turkey, from the farm
Awaits us in tomorrow's sack---' . -.
Life still has many thingsX that
., charm! .
IN EARLIER! DAYS
By Fred Locfey.
I have lived ln Oreg? for over 70
Tears," said Mrs. Jamey Hembree of
Lafayette, "f was no (blte 12 years
old when we came acros-jhe plaln& 'In -Peter
Burnett's, train ln243. p.
"As I think back tof the old days -when
we were, crossing;' the plalntifc
I ean remember very p lately many of
the meals we 'had. Supper waa our t
best meal. We usually! had 'soup of 1
some Kind. . with ' burfaia ; or antelope
steak fried with bacon. Then we had .
bread and stewed, fruit Usually dried
peaches or dried applesIJ lOccasionally
we had fried fish. Tbimen caught
fish in the Piatt. I thfbk they called
them catfish. i
The Hembrees andl'rour family :
irveiea logetner. une day Joei, roy;
husband's brother. whoS was t years
old. tried to climb out lot the wagon ;
wnue it was going. HfSfell off the
wagon tongue, and before they could v
stop, the front wheals tfjd run ove&,
him and ktllf 1.1m . . -.1 .
they made a box to burjf film in. On
. viia iiivn tv en l uses $Jvg orougnt
stone that he had noticed along the
way, and another nith t who was
handy with the chisel ihtVeled Joel's'
name on the stone and 1 nut it at th
hrad of the grave. Another time w
stopped on the Platte all -day this H
waa tAvM tha last nf lulu fc-Mt..
..... - . . j .. n. a .
Mrs. Hembree gave Birtht to a llttlv4
giri oaoy. in en christened her. Nancy
Jane. ... 'J; f
"In the, spring of 184 the Burnetts
and ourselves' . moved to Tualatin j
plains. My father todkfun 4 acres 'g
adjoining Lafayette. Hf tiillt a cabin,;
left an open place in the" Joof for the?
smoke to go out, -put jir some pole f
beds, and with my brother Andrew,!
he went up to Fort W9.Ua Walla 'to?
get the cattle we had ef there the,
preceding fall, while w ..moved lnt
the unfinished cabin. jj "-is "
"Peter Burnett's place was not far (
from oura. Our other neighbors were
John Baker, Uncle Bill; .'ewby, and
Captain Absolom HembVe. x maK
named Gilbert started a? school abour
two and a half miles frwrf Lafayette,!
where most of the smaller children s
went to achool. iJ J f ? 1
"My aunt had brought a:.splndle anl i
a .wheel head from MissftuH with he?,
and Andrew Hembree ffxefTup a spin
ning wheel. I put in. all if my para,
time carding and spinning wool, whkn ,
mother knitted into socks She-got r
dollar a pair for all,sr&; gcould knit.
There were a good, majibi? unmarried
young men, so there was plenty of dv.-
mand for her output. .fOe of my
plainest memories Is o: ;my mother
sitting In front of the Ififfeplce, the
fire light .flashing on ner. long steel
needles as she sat on a liome made
stool knitting socks. The flick of her
needles and .the hum of ta spinning
wheel, with the singing At the iron
kettle and the tatmBiss of lta lid
mingled to make a sorm 0iat I have
never forgotten. a il -
In those days everyofle worked.
My father kept busy al uty. splitting
runs ana nuuaing ienceiu ana later
plowing the .meadow lahdlund broad !
casting his wheat.by hand, j They of ten 1
narrowed it in by cutting down a
srtiall oak grub tree, arid araggtng it;
over the soil until the . fcloda were -broken
up and the whe"ati thorouahlv
covered. We threshed stbj wheat by
iramptng n. om wun liars, ana men
they ran it through a liaijd fanning
mill. We used to haujj tlii wheat to
the McLoughjiln mill at Oregon City.
When the water was high&hey swam
the horses and floated the. mi a eon over.
or sometimes they, wpu-1 take' tha ;
log across the stream., eart.t the gratn
over on their shoulders, ajid put the
wagon together on thr tfther' side.
Nowadays all youhvef toj do to gejiv
a saca 01 iiour is to go w the teiw
phone: but then It was inoj so simple
a matter, even if life waif. Supposed to
be more simple in the earEr days."
Memories or Zanzibar.
From the Philadelphia 'Jvedger.
Zanzibar! The name Kllrg memor!rt
It reminds some of usjtht we ont
knew what Zanzibar is; J'or a mo-1
ment or two we are 1?ujteleJ to decide
whether it is a comic operas 'or an 11
land. Anyway, it docs hotsseem very
important. . , r 'A
The other day a amaIlioViexclaImed:
"What's the use of .-"stsjly tjg geogra- .
phy? It's all going tof be changed I"
But the enterprising busneai man who ;
; This Is the very time wliejrih should
,tu(y geography geogaapyy -In Its
commercial aspects.. ; n
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Kens nurviui nan a uu irfrm viewpoint
I nu m, mier an, ni jar
I portant Zanzibar wilt ike largeV
; quaniiun 01 American-! goaas IT we
ourselves do something ifbout It. There
are many Zanzlbars. Ther- is Sierra -Leone,
for instance; and liberie, and
even Togoland. American 'j! hardware, :
building materials,, cotton oods and
food stuffs are wanted, now that Euro- .
pean sources of supply ijiari been ut
off. True, we have maiieti In South
America, In the Orlent,j3ln jurope It
self; but let ua riot dep1e the Zanxi
bars of commercial oppoHuiTity. r
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Also art Interpretation. .' :
From the, Springfield !'-Rtiblican. . i
As. spokesman for thei peile of thW
United States, It is adrrt jtted that . ;
Woodrow Wilson measuresHup- to the
need. His gift of expre-gsioL is admlr- ,
ably exhibited In the jMtfiksglving ?
proclamation. Every citzej1 ought to
read It forits poise and suggestion of -the
- part which lhe pnitsd States
should play in this crlhle :.; vfclch has
Europe fn the throes f Misfortune.
We. shall keep tbe peaeel: arfiwe shall
help those who need. as4tstaiice. There
is much of moral educatlcm-in that
through , which this .nation fn' passing,
and it is well to have ths sjide of'our. -experieru-e
set forth o- that all who' "
read can: understand. 'Thlsiproclama-.
tion ts also an Interpretation.
The Santa Claas'KHiD. .
From ,th rrnH:''NiiA - - vWJ
It seems necessary but' to "Couch the
heart strings of Americans produce
a melody or sweetest sentiment, " .
Sympathy for the war': --distressed
takes varied form in thisiCoutitry.- ranr-
jlng from utterance . to cargoes, of food i
ana cioimng.. out or in.iiey inn wm t
vail iivim inmv . ciiv. M, ; uy iiivre
blessed or possessed of wlcjer appeal
than, the Santa Claus lihlp .thtS "boat
that will bear presents tf thi children
of the war. ' , .. -Ji : .-r -
The cheering of the Ufarts of chil
dren over seas Is a manifestation that
the Good Fellows who hjave .gladdened
the hearts of so many chlldrjenn De
troit and other titles, have fciecome in
ternatiohat. -A j; . r-
The Sunday Journal
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Five news sections, r'epleje with
illustrated featured ' ;
Illustrated magazine : of uality.
Woman's pages of ' rare? merit
-Pictorial news snorrien-ienfL Ot
Superb cdmic section.
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