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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING,- DECEMBER 4, 1914.
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cars, i the Ideas of the great
majority of us are still trav
elinir by stage coach. Clifford
Howard. '
SKCItETARY LANK
REGON will not suffer at the
hands of Secretary Franklin
K. Lane.
He. is a just man. He ia
;out;of the West, and as such,
knowa the needs of the West".
jAbove all, he' has poise, vision and
constructive powers. 'The dispute
iover the" $450,000 appropriation
for I f cooperative reclamation in
Oregon " is, Undoubtedly the result
?,of a -misunderstanding somewhere.
i One . of the busiest: men in the
; United States is the secretary of
th "; interior. The administration
of his great office is Involved in
:ta myriad of labyrnthian responsi
"bili tl and complexities.
As Governor West well says, Sec
"Sretary Lane "has a great mass of
.detail to give attention to, in con-
; 1 nectlon with irrigation subjects
H which are thrust upon him, and it
;ls probable that the progress ot
Lithe' Tumalo work hag" not been
.".brought to his attention. The
if state having expended its $450,000,
j la ready to step down and out and!
I -let the federal government spend
?;a similar amount, which I am posl
j.ftive Secretary 'Lane will do when
h is informed of conditions."
It is entirely safe to assume that
ji' whatever was promised by Secre
tary Lane will be performed.
A NATIONAL AFFAIR
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G
OVERNOR AMMONS, testify
ing before the federal indus
trial relations commission, de
clared that the Colorado coat
v miner's strike was a national and
i,not a local affair. He said It 'was
a fight between" the United Mine
Workers of America, an organiza
Inn financed nutsfrln nf fYilnrnirln
and corporations financed in the
', President Wilson evidently takes
i somewhat the Bame view, for he
J has appointed a commission through.
J.whlch future differences between
operators and miners may be set
vtled., This commission will not
i deal with existing differences, for
the1 mine operators -rejected such
a plan, their principal objection
ha vine been the manner of naminer
. J I the commission.
. i i l ia cicar xaai u united states
1 ; f troops are necessary to preserve
' ; order in a'state, then the reason
: for sending them there is a na
: I tlonal affair. It is Impossible to
, " disassociate the duty of preserving
; : order j and .the causes which pro
' mote disorder.
'. In naming the new commission
I President Wilson said his purpose
$ is to create an instrumentality oy
1 which disputes may be amicably
'settled, in the "very earnest and
' sincere hope" that both parties
may see It to their own best in
terest ahd also a duty they owe to
t the nation to use such an Instru
mentality of peace. !
The time to settle a dispute, Is
before the fight begins. Both capi
t tal and labor must fn time recog
f.nlze that truth. Colorado's labor
t war as proved the utter useless
'ney of stubbornness. The presi-
dent has held out tho olive branch
P"to both miners and operators. It
'x will be up to them t accept or Te
rcet it. A proper regard for 'their
I own welfare and the prosperity of
j vue siaie lactates, mat aispntes
s such as have injured Colorado be,
I - settled early. -
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THE CHOLERA MENACE
W
RITING from Przemysl,
Austria, William G. Shep
herd confirms reports that
cholera has entered as a
new factor in the European war.
His diary of a day . with the Aus
i trlan; army, published' in The Jour-
nal's news columns, is first-hand
:; evidence that the horrors of war
f are to be multiplied by a devastat
d Ing epidemic which in times of
peace is hard to control.
1 . Weeks ago It was reported that
cholera had appeared In Galicia.
Again the dread disease was de
:' clared to be raging In Galicia and
i certain 'districts of Poland. Later
rthe report came that cholera had
appeared In East Prussia. Mow
recently; word came from Antwerp
, that eases had been found In that
j Mr, Shepherd's account of what
he saw near besieged Przemysl;
confirms reports which were dis
. counted because . they came from
sources unfriendly to Germany and
Austria, j Now, however, It is es
tablished- that Europe stands in
danger of pestilence, in every age
the mighty rival of the -god of
' The significance of Mr. Shep
herd's .story from Przemysl Pes
- In the fact that cholera is an actu-
, WHEN MEN ARE
T
HE- unemployed In Portland can
to listen to the counsels of I. W. W, agitators.
The agitators advise the Idle men to make demands that are
Impossible. Efforts that are making in Portland to get jobs
for men out of work are voluntary. These efforts proceed out or
the human kindness of people who feel an Interest in their fellow
man.' - '
The trouble with the average I. W. W. agitator is that he 'come
to this country from over seas and out of countries where speech is
not free, where government espionage haunts every man, where free
dom of action Is largely controlled by j- autocratic power, and where
liberty and freedom as we know them, are the Individual's dream, not
the monarch's purpose. V
The agitator thua comes to the United States with hereditary
prejudices against government and against all things that savor of
authority. He takes no trouble to find out the fundamentals, the
relations and the real liberties under the American system. An ap
plicant for citizenship in a . Portland court 'when asked under what
form of government we" lived,, replied, "under the prohibition form."
Another when asked who makes the laws, replied "Joe Simon." An
other, in answer to the question as
roent replied, "a king and he Is Roosevelt." . ,
Tn Oregon, human liberty exists in its highest form. We are a
complete democracy. The indivfUual is sovereign. There is not a
law that individuals, acting together, cannot repea.1. There is not a
measure that individuals acting together, cannot write on the statute
books. Here, human freedom has reached its most perfected form,
and whatever there Is to complain about, is not inj the system, but in
the weaknesses of the individual. j j : .
These are the facts that belle the foolish and Ignorant fulmina
tions of I. W. W.-ists. Their advice to men who have no employ
ment is a prejudiced, untrustworthy and, unreliable advice. Unem
ployment is a problem that men d.o not yet fully understand.
The American government is now engaged upon the most ex
haustive study of the issue that was ever undertaken. A commis
sion of nine men with $100, 0C0 in hand for employment of experts
and .conducting investi3ationg is directing its energies to this deep
rooted question of unemployment which " as baffled every civilized
country In the world. , t ' f
Three-years is being devoted to the investigation. When the'rer
port is finally made, it will probably present the most valuable Infor
mation that the world has yet obtained on the subject.
! The commission comprises three employers, three representatives
off organized labor and three independent citizens. It Is giving ex-,
haustive inquiry into the industrial relations and Is searching for the
causes that gave this country of almost inexhaustible natural re
sources an unemployed army of more than 3,500,000 under the cen
sus of 1890 and nearly 6,500,000 in 1900c
The commission has divided its work into t&ir principal fields.
These are the relations between unskilled labor and industry, be
tween private agencies and Industry, between industry and public
agencies, and finally a study of the courts in their relation to the la
bor, problem. The first field will include studies of the relations be
tween unskilled labor and industry, of unemployment, seasonal labor
and the I. W. W. The relations of unskilled labor will receive large
attention in the investigation, because it is among unskilled workers
that irregularity of unemployment reaches Its greatest percentage.
Where the skilled worker is reasonably certain of steady employment,
the unskilled laborer. drifts from job to Job, the market forhis ser
vices always indefinite and fluctuating, and he continually runs a
much greater danger of unemployment.
Thus, a great government has its forces a-field In an endeavor
to find', out and remedy the causes by which there seems always to
be in the country an army of men and women who want work but
cannot get it. Since the problem is one which the best and purest
sta'esmanship of the world has as yet been unable to solve, those
who are luckless enough to be without work, cannot i possibly have
their condition bettered ,by listening to the counsels of I. W. W. agi
tators who are themselves blindly prejudiced on all questions of
government and who, in the main, are hopelessly ignorant oi even
the most rudimentary principles of the American system. '
ality. in the ancient trodden path
way "of the plague. Under war
conditions the disease cannot be
confined to any one region. With
Europe engaged in the business
of killing It will be impossible to
establish 1 effective quarantines.
There is reason to fear that the
plague will spread devastatingly.
Even if it is possible" for disci
pline in camps to save the armies
from decimation, there will yet
be great danger : to people in the
rear. Is Europe able to protect
its reserve population? There is
to be a test of military efficiency.
Armies may be saved, but if their
existence results ia killng off large
numbers of the people upon whom
nations depend for existence, then
it will be established that Europe's
much' vaunted preparedness for
war was nothing more, than a head
long plunge to destruction.
DAYLIGHT LEGISLATION
T
HE approach of the legislative
season, is heralded by a gen
eral suggestion of reform in
legislative methods. Among
these are' the "recommendations of
the Legislative Voters' League of
Illinois which declares that "day
light legislation" can be brought
about by five changes in procedure.
The changes suggested by the
league are: A , constitutional ma
jority of each house should control
proceedings at all times, a daily
stenographic record of each house,
radical changes in the committee
system, better methods of handling
bills, efficient employes 'instead of
political favorites.
It is stated that the state Is
paying out for employes at each
session irom jsu.vuu to fu.uuy
more than necessary.
Legislators say the majority of
the standing committee clerts are
useless and should he rooted out.
It is a condition not peculiar to
Illinois. Clerks are employed not
for. service but In payment of po
litical; debts.
On"" changes in the committee
system the league thinks that the
sixty-seven! standing committees In
the house and the fifty-one tin the
senate should be reduced to fifteen
or twenty In each body. Undesira
ble and "by request" bills 'should
be eliminated and committees com
pelled to act on all bills within a
reasonable! time to prevent their
untimely death.
An extraordinary recommenda
tion i3 that a daily transcript be
nJkde of all speeches of legisla
tors at a cost of $15,000 a session.
A COUNTESS CURSE
K
ECENT cablegrams advise
that the health of Emperor
Francis Joseph of Austria Is
again precarious and that his
life may go out ln the sadness of
war. -
Ab viewed by ordinary mortals
the Ufa of the aged monarch has
been a long series of tragedies. He
has drunk deeply of the cup of
sorrow. There are those who
IDLE NO. 6 ;
make no"greater mistake than
to who is the head of the govern-;
find in the stgry of his life the
fulfillment of the imprecation, ut
tered by the Countess Karolyl
whose husband was a victim In
184 9 of Austrian ferocity In the
repression and absorption of Hun-
According to the tradition the
curse of this, grief stricken woman
was as follows: ; (
May Heaven blast his happiness!
May his family be exterminated!
May his children be brought to ruin!
May he perish miserably and broken
hearted.
When the imprecation was de
livered the Emperor was but nine
teen years of age tnd bad ascended
the throne but a, few months be
fore. There was nothing to mar
his happiness, but as the years sped
on they brought death, assassina
tion, Insanity and domestic infelici
ty to his famjtly.
Maxamlllan, his j brother, was
executed in Mexico. : Rudolph, his
son and j heir, committed suicide.
Elizabeth, his wife, was killed by
an assassin. I l ,
. Count Luflwlg de Tranl, a broth-er-in-lawr,
committed suicide. Lud
wig II of Bavaria, a cousin, com
mitted suicide. ' Countess d'Alen
con, a sister-in-law, was burned to
death. Otto of Bavaria, a cousin,
wentinsane. Princess Marie Char
lotte, a cousin, went insane. Arch
duke John, nephew and heir1, was
drowned at sea. Archduke Francis
Ferdinand, nephew and heir, was
recently assassinated.
Fate has dealt many blows
the white haired monarch.
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JUSTICE IN NEW YORK
H'
ENRY SIEGEL of New York
established a savings bank in
connection with a group of
department stores. Encour
aged by bJm, 15,000' wage earners
placed their savings, $2,550,333, in
the Slegel bank.
The Siegel stores tailed and It
was then discovered that money
paid into the bank was gone- A
receiver' was able to recover enough
cash to pay a dividend 6f three per
cent to, the men, women and girls
who deposited their savings In the
bank.
Siegel was. Indicted, but his at
torneys secured a change of venue
to Geneseo on the plea that " he
could not secure justice In New
York City. He waa tried at Geneseq
and found guilty byajury not of
a felony, but of a misdemeanor. The
judge sentenced him to pay a fine
of $1000 and to serve ten months
in jail. But the Jail sentence was
suspended and Siegel ,was given
until next June to return a "sub
stantial" part of the depositors'
money. If he does that he need
not serve, the jail sentence.
The district attorney's office In
New York City is considering tha
advisability ' of securing another in
dictment aerainst Siesrel in the hone
that he inky be tried by a court
and jury outside Geneseo. Not only
the 15,000 depositors, but New
York's newspapers arid leading cit-
lzens are protesting against the
miscarriage of Justice.
The eWorld says the Geneseo
Jurist's idea of justice causes that
paper to falter in its opposition to
the recall ot judges. The i Boston
Transcript says Henry j Slegel
should congratulate himself that
he did . not rteal a loaf of: bread.
(Communications ent to The Journal for
rabUcatlon in- tbi department nbould "be writ
es on on It one aide of tha niner. should' nof
exceed 300 word In length and must h ac
companUd by th nam and address of the
ender. It thm writer does not desire to
bavf tha nam published, he ahould iso state.)
"Dlscnasion - Is the greatest of all reform
er. It rationalises everything It tenches. It
robs principles of all false aanctltr anil
throws them back on their reasonableness. If
they bare no reatonablen-jsa. It ruthless."
crashes them out of existence and set no Its
own conclusions in thel stead. "-i-Woodrow
Wilton.
The Bankers and the Belgians.
Brooks, Or,, Dee. 1. To the Editor
or The Journal Several of The Jour
nal's correspondents have wondered
why those who advocated bringing
poor Belgians here to settle! on the
land preferred Belgians , to ! United
States citizens, f t
One reason the Belgians are better
than our own farmers is that they J
have been exploited a great while;
longer than the same class j in this
country, and- more can be made off
them by bankers who would i "stake"
them to land holdings and then fleece
them by means of cutthroat terms of
repayment T. H.
Landless Man Asks Chance.
Ridgefield. ; Wash., Dec. 2.4-To the
Editor of The Journal I have taken
quite an interest in the discussions in
your valuable paper in regard to get
ting back to the land. I would like to
Letters From the People
I
find out if there is any one; with land j tne house in the most casual manner
to spare who would be willing to put she couia assume and handed the en
an'honest man on some of it and give velope to thetman as 'she passed him.
him a chance to make goodj There j Nexi day the; same melancholy man
are plenty of people who would like j called at herlhouse and presented her
the chance to get on the land; by pay- with ten dollars. "It's funny," he
ing a small deposit down, if they could j aaia "you're he only one that backed
see some wav to make a livinir nd ! .u.' v. .0tA 'Vvnr Sav Die.'".
pay xor tne iana at tne same time.
We would like to hear from such peo
ple. LANDLESS j MAN.
Oregon's Sea Fisheries.
Portland, Dec. 3. To the Editor of
The Journal -I was very much inter
ested in readin- yoir article in
a recent issue on the ' sfea fish
supply in Portland. That Portland
has to rely on Seattle for her fish is
certainly a slur on the city, when the
Oregon coast teems with fish. But
there are several reasons why Seattle
gets the business and Portland does
not. The Seattle Fish company and
one or two other companies own their
- ;
own fleet of fishing sloops, which are ,
constantly coming in with fish, loading
up with ice, etc., and going out again, 1
the entrance to the Straits or uca al-
lowing vessels ingress and -egress at
almost any time, thus insuring a regu-
lar and continuous supply of fish,
which is a very important point. Now,
the conditions on the Oregon coast are
such that as soon as the sea roughs up
a bit, the bars are the first to get
lumpy, making it a risky business t'o
try to cross in. From San Francisco
to the straits there is .not a single
harbor of refuge, and if si boat gets
caught outside she has to stay there. ABSUre the farmer n a hundred an
Th, coast off Taquina has; as fine ; nuaily for potatoes, f. o. b. shipping
fishing grounds as any in the world, I point and tne next year one county
but the bar is the obstacle to making ln Oregon will produce enough pota
it a fishing port.. The government toes to SUDDiv tne entire northwest
spent some $800,000 at the .-mouth of
the river, built a jetty on the south
side and commenced a jetty on the
north side. Then, in 1891, the work
was suddenly abandoned; although the
bar was showing a much greater depth ;
of water, as the jetty was pusnea out. ; testified before a railroad commts
Portland fought the Taquina project, ; Bion in Washington that it cost frora.
fearing that if a good deep water chan- j 50 to 60 cents per bushel to grow and
hel was made she would suffer. Had ! market wheat in some of the best
the work been completed Taquina to- 1 grain growing counties of the stare,
day would, or at least could, be a home ' From this it can readily be seen how
port for a fishing fleet. . fast the farmers are growing rich.
Still, if a company were formed, well when the normal market is from 60
capitalized and properly managed, that to 75 cents per bushel.
mld hnild its own fleet and have a ! The man of the city who is not a
tender to take the catch,, it could come f
in direct bv the way of the Columbia. 1
But there would still be the difficulty !
in case of bad weather of the fishing
fleet finding a harbor of refuge. The
vessels would have to be of sufficient
size and strength to ride out a hard
blow. With a smooth bar at Taquina
and only a short railroad haul to Port
land, fish would arrive in Portland
fresh, and I think fish eaters would
appreciate that.1 '
If a company were formed it could
own its own retail market, and thus be
independent, of the Seattle companies,
but until some individual or company
takes up the matter Seattle will still
supply the Portland market.
In 18S8 the George H. Chance was
built, especially for fishing, I but the
company failed in its project, owing to
hard times. The steam schooner Mis
chief was running between i Taquina
qtii the various coast ' ports at
tne
time.-nd the writer was -member ot
ner crew. vuuiiv. .mtvu
quantities of both black and liS cod.
groupers, kelp, sea bass and other
fish by merely drifting over a kelp
reef and using nothing but a jigger,
and I presume the fish are just as
plentiful today as they were then.
If the federal government would take
steps as to building a harbor of refuge
the fishing industry would soon grow.
The Pacific may be called tranquil, but
she can kick ui as heavy a sea as any
of her sister oceans, ana 11 a cran geia
caught out she has to stay out, nolens
volens, or go to the bottom.
Farm Success and Failure.
Dufur, Or., Dec. 2. To the Editor
of The Journal For 40 years or more
I have been hearing of "Back t the
farm," Back to the land," "To the
country," "The landless man," etc. I
have always been an Interested stu
dent of psychology. I have followed
a prof essional " life for IT years and
Have been a tiller of the soil for many
more. I am confident that the wish
Is more often father of the thought
than otherwise.
One complains of having too much
land; one that he does hot have
enough; another that he has none at
ail. Do you think they would be bet
ter satisfied were they to exchange
places? I do not, as a rule.
If A makes a success in his occupa
tion and B makes a failure. 'is it dif
ficult to tell which will be -i dissatis
fied? Why shouia a farmer be dis
satisfied when he is prospering,
whether he owns "10 acres of a . thous
and? If he succeeds well on the 10
acres he surely can get more, s
Now I am not saying. that the lack
of success is always the fault of the
individual, but I do say lt is the first
cause of discontent. , !
, National : and state ! governments,
with all the agricultural colleges, both
rural and city papers, poets, artisans
and philosophers, have been, extolling
tha land and the farmer. I wonder
Why. However, almost any farmer
can Triake a safe guess. It Is primari
ly that an abundance of products of
crops.'will make living cheaper. , And
that, under normal conditions, (has al
ways Impelled partial or total failure
for all the tillers of the soil, expect a
favored few. ; There has 1 been . no
greater failure, from a financial stand-
1 . 1 '
A FEW SMILES
An. old couplsT emerged from the
Northwestern station and started up
Madison street. As they passed a
news stand' the old
gentleman stopped,
his eyes glued to the
great headlines ' of
the papers. His wife
pulled Insistently at
his sleeve in a- -aln
endeavor to lead him
on. Finally ha
tunitd luwaiU aer.
"Mary." he said excitedly, "the
papers say there's a big War going on
in Europe!'
"Well," she replied, "they're having
fine weather for it!"
The subaltern was being put through
an. examination in geography, fwherein
he proved himself astonishingly ignor
ant. - At last, arter
a failure on his part
of : unusual flag
ranee, the examiner
scowled at him and
thundered:
"Idiot, you want
to defend your coun
try, and you don't
know where : it is!"
A benevolent and pious old lady in
one of the streets, which still retain
the red brick houses of old time New
York rooked out her
parlor window one
day and saw a man
walking up and
down the sidewalk
apparently in great
dejection. There was
something pathetic
and. appealing in
his manner, so she
raws:
1
took a dollar bill, put it in an en
velope, and wrote on - the envelope.
Never say die." She slipped out oj.
point, than agriculture in all .the ages,
and there has been no better or stur
dier class of citizens than the farm
ers. There is no better teacher than suc
cess, in any business. Give the rarmer
a good and constant market and you
may dispense with all those facilities
that are intended to help him produce
more crops anfl ym need not fear that
ahy will need to go without Dreaa.
Here is an example that will prove
Just how dull and stupid the farmer
is. War in Europe has produced an
abnormal condition in the price of
euiue i tl III piUUUl.lO, A ' ..J - - v.
tne greatest acreage of small grains
naa Deen a0wn this fall ever known
n tne history of our country, to which
some farm products; as a consequence
will be added -thousands of acres in
the spring.
With few exceptions the product of
the soil has always been greater than
the demand at remunerative prices.
Our government has testified that less
than 50 per cent of the farmers are
making wages, and those who are
making any considerable amount of
money are either large .farmers or
those living quits near the larger
cities.
The corn crop of 1912 was one-third
larger than, the year before with the
added expense of harvesting and mar
keting, and the farmer realized one-
third less for that crop than he did
for tno smaller one in 1914, It was
farmer and has never learned how to
rarm, but desires to heed the call,
"Back to the land," unless he has the
knowledge or sufficient means to hire.
some one who has that Jcnowledge,
snouia turn a aear ear to tha cry
and save himself the disappointment
sure to follow new adventure; for it is
only the favored few that are making
great success, and they have the
knowledge gained by study and years
of experience. More produce goes to
waste on the farms of Oregon for lack
of a paying market, in one year, than
would supply Portland with these pro-
aucts ror the same time.
This is not written to discourage
anyone who has the means and ability
to farm, but it is written by a farmer
wno nas succeeded in Oregon, and to
give actual conditions and evidence
irotr tne farmer's point of view, which
is seiuom seen ln the Dubllo Dress.
More farmers fail from want of re
munerative, markets than 'from lack
t agriCultural knowledge.
M. M. BURTNER.
Neutrality ad the Press.
Ridgefield, Wash., Dec. 2. To the
Editor of The Journal When English
ships stopped an American shio and
took therefrom copper and other goodd
that they were in need of, it appeared
to be all right with the American. press
(English speaking). It was said they
paid for everything they took. But
now the Germans take what they can
use from a ship, and a great howl
goes up from the same press. An
investigation is demanded. At pres
ent a ship lies loaded for someone in
San Francisco harbor. The authorities
are suspicious and refuse clearing pa
pers, fearing the ' load Is for some
German war vessel. But England and
France are ordering millions of dol
lars' . worth of trappings for their
army yes, even submarine boats and
it is lauded by our press as a very
good thing for our people. No inves
tigation; is asked. No fear is ex
pressed that we, being a neutral coun
try, might get into trouble.
W e can read a great deal about
German militarism, and. England feels
especially called upon to free the Ger
man people from this burden. Now,
if the German people like the military
what business is it of England? His
tory tells us that English militarism
has done far more harm to mankind
than the German. It seems to me that
the English speaking press; and that
includes The Journal, is far too for
getful,, as;- regards England. Just to
remind you was the Panama canal
tolls question any of England's busi
ness? FARMER PAUL.
A New Finland in Alaska.
From the New York Evening Post
Once American unfamiliarity with
Finland would lave impaired the force
of Governor Strong's comparison of
Alaska with that country, and of the
conclusion in his annual -report that
"everything done In Finland in popu
lation, wealth, material development
v is possible in1 Alaska on a
much . larger . scale." The prominence
Finland has gained from political trou
bles and the war should now give the
comparison -point. With a climate very
like that of Alaska, and with one
fourth Alaska's area, Finland supports
PERTINENT COMMENT
BMALL CHANGE
Ready-made advice seldom fits the
case. .
When a man has gone to seed It is
time to plant him.
When & bachelor tires of the sim
ple life he gets married.
There are times when -the tender
passion is a tough proposition.
,
Many a pracher exhausts his con
gregation before he does his subject.
Many a man fails because he would
rather make money quickly thn hon
estly. s
A man Always tells his wife he
doesn't care wHat the neighbors say
but he does.
As long as some men are able to
contract new debts they don't let tljeir
old ones worry theni.
s
No matter how low a dressmaker
cuts an opera gown, she gets the bill
high enough.
The clam has a larger mouth in pro
portion to his size than a man. yet
the clam never talks about his neighbors.-
.
Quite & number of persons saved
money by having meek turkey for
their Thanksgiving dinner.
a
It is a safe bet. that the lonely silk
handkerchief with his monogram in
one corner will lead the list of fath
er's Christmas prt-sents.
Among the other able bodied liars
we have met in the course of human
events was the man who said he liked
baked 'possum better than turkey for
his Christmas dinner.
Now is the time to take time bv the
forelock and do your Christmas shop
ping early. If you contemplate acting
as Santa Claus do not fail to purchase
a. set oi asoestos wmsKers as a matter
of safety. .
BELGIUM, LAND
By Samuel G. Bl'ythe.
The following story of ths sad plight of
the Belgians was sent by Mr. Blythe to ths
Ked (Jrogs for the purpose of bringinc; home
to Americana the urgent need for Belgian
relief.
Did you ever look into the eyes of a
frightened dog, or' see terror in the
eyes of a horse? If you have, you
know the expression in, the eyes of
those Belgians who were being taken
to England. If you have, you know I
what dumb horror means. There were
almost 600 refugees on that ship, and
there had been thousands before theni;
arid were thousands after them. '
Tbeyall had the same story. They
all told it stolidly, unemotionally. With
dull precision all except the children,'
who hung close to their mothers.
equally horror-stricken, equally tired
and travel Btaiaed, but not knowing
what had happpied. Nor, indeed, did
many of these Tubmen or the men know
what had happened. They were living
their usual lives in their villages and
on their farms. Suddenly strange men
appeared. There was shooting. Sol
diers rushed back and forth through
their streets. Houses crumbled be
fore artillery fire and burned) Neign
bors were killed. They, were told to
hurry away. They took what they
could of their poor belongings, tied
them in towels or in sheets, and left.
They walked and walked. They slept
In the hedgerows and in the fields.
They were drenched by rain. They had
little food. Finally, tired and hungry,
they reached other men in uniforms
who were kind to them, and now they
were on this boat, going somewhere;
they did not know where. They knew
noththg, save that a sudden flame of
death and destruction had swept over
their homes, and that, after much suf
fering and much pain, they were herd
ed on the decks, of a ship, on their way
to a foreign land.
"What have I doner' a woman asked.
a woman wun rive cniiaren, one dui
a few months old. She sat on a Ijftin-
dle tied in a sheet She was thin-pid
pale, but she was unemotional, as jf
she had been a wooden woman. r
That is the universal questiqn ln
Belgium. There are many thousand
refugees from that harried land in
England, and many more are coming.
Mostly they are women ana cniiaren.
although men come, too men who
might, it seems, be in the army. There
are old men and boys. There are old
women and young women, and hun
dreds,, thousands of children. They are
mostly of the peasant class. They
have nothing left save the bundles
they carry.
It happened that I went over to Ant
werp along late in September, and on
the boat returning to England there
were 600 or 600 refugees, principally
from the former villages near Ant
werp. ,t-said former villages, for al
most &fry village in this vicinity, 01,
indeed, an practically every part of
Belgium, is a former village.
Less than two months before my
visit this was a peaceful and prosper
ous country, so thickly populated that
LET STOCKS ALONE;
By John M. O ski son. .
On the day this is written it seemed
probable that the London market for
stocks would soon be reopened under
these oonditions:
Banks which have loaned on the se
curity of stock collateral would not
press for repayment' of the loans for
one year; the British government
would arrange with the Bank of
England to advance to Stock - Ex
change members 60 per cent of th
value of stocks as shown by the
prices of July 29 last, at a rate 1 per
cent higher than the current bank
rate, and when prices 'again reach the
July 29 level, lenders Will have the
right to call their loans.
Probably tb New York exchange
would not remain closed long after
the London market opened; it, too.
would have to be -hedged round by
conditions that would prevent .he call
ing of loans and the demoralization
of prices.
BuVfor a long time the-average in
vestor will be in no position to Judge
of the real market price of stocks.
For even the best stocks quotations
will b artificial, and they can be
bought only . in disregard of price
fluctuations and after a close study
of their intrinsic value.
2,750,000 people; she. has over 8,000,000
head of livestock; she produces an
nually some 900,000 tons' of grain and
legumes. This development is In part
a result of good roads, of which she
Khas nearly 30,000 .miles, and of her
railways, aggregating , nearly 2500
miles. It is also partly traceable,,
though Governor Strong dots not
mention this, to a huge canal system
Impossible of duplication in Alaska,
and to the fact that Helsjngf ors and
the central part of lower Finland, are
less than 300 miles by rail from u
Petersburg. On the other hand, min
eral and fishing opportunities in Alas
ka, and the area of available farming
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OBKGOX SIDELIGHTS
The Pendleton East Oregonlan rays
Oie people pretend to be be f sar-
fuiiy scared by the war tax. but they
are not. I
.
Pupils of the Lincoln school at Eu-J
gene have undertaken the raising of ,
a $500 fond-to build a play shed, (0
by 100. feet
The Salerh Statesman reports that
a fund-that ia beinsr raised for the
"lueport of the county agriculturist i
work in Marion county for the remain- U
der of the year, is rapidly assuming
s.uostantial proportions.
" ft '
Much enthusiasm is being, manifest
ed at Astoria, according to the As
toria 11, over the proposed night school
to be started ln the near future. At a
taxpayers' meeting a levy of three
tenths of 1 mill was voted, which will
raise $1650.
Eugene Register: George M. Miller
has ordered a large number of young
eucalyptus tres to set out on his
property at Fit rence. He has a photo
graph of a tree of that variety that
was set out th re five years ago. The
picture shows :hat in five years it has
grown, to a height above a two story
residence on the lot.
Halfway has voted the largest spe
cial levy of any community in Bakr
county for school purposes, 11 mills.
"Some." says the Baker Herald,; "voted
no levy at all and will get through on
the ccunty and state per capita allow
ance of approximately $9.85, while the
.majority voted special levies enough
to provide adequate funds."
Marshfield Record: The Port Or
ford Commercial club hps been flour
ishing for the past eix" years, and Is
still a lively organization, while sev
eral not so vary far away from the
toast have disbanded; it in said the
continuity of the Port Orford club and
its good work is due largely to the
ladies, who are .members of the or
ganization. OF DESOLATION
it was almost all one village, with
a people .who had not the slightest
idea of what was in store for them.
Tsday it is a desolated region, where
a burned or cannon crumbled hamlet
excites no remark, and where dead men
are so common and so numerous that
death seems an incident of every min
ute of every hour. If the few remaip
ing noncombatants chance on a killed
German, or a killed Belgian, or a
killed civilian, there is no speculation
as to how he died, no inquest, no in
quiry. If spades are at hand the
peasants dig a Shallow grave, or a
trench if there are many of the dead
men, push te body or the bodies in.j
throw the earth over them, and takei
it all as a part of ths cir cum stances;
of war, .
, In seven weeks this happy country
was brutalized beyond conception. Itj
isn t a civilized state now. It Is ,
place where there Is no law save tha
law of the sword, ft place where hu-j
man life counts for nothing, where hu-j ;
man misery finds no sympathy, wherd ',
humanity is staggering under terrors) ;
that ar too horrible for description"
and where desolation, destruction and 1
death havs ravaged, a whole people S
There were about 7.500,000 people iri
Belgium, llvirfg in a country somewhat
smaller than the state of Maryland! j
The population of Maryland in 191Jj j
was less than 1,600,000. mm tne
American view, Maryland Is rather a
thickly settled state. Crowd into Mary
land 6,000,000 more of people, and yoruj
will have an idea of the congested eon-j
ditlon of that kingdom when the wait
began. j
Belgium did not want war. Whaj
Belgium wanted was peace, and an op4 j
portunity to pile up francs one by onej ,
It was a prosperous country. The peo-
pie are abnormally thrirty. They savq
In every possible way. But Belgium!
got war; got war 'that, before it lsj
over, will devastate the whole terri-
tory of Belgium and that has already
killed thousands of her young men anj
driven thousands upon thousands of
"1
J
iurrj
her people to ioreign eountries
refuge.
Since European wars began Belgi
has been fought over. Armies have
marched back and forth across het
ferttls fields and drenched the street s
of her peaceful villages with
The little kingdom has been the sport
of Mars... But now, ln this war, Bel
ium faces destruction' except thq
elimination of her s.ctua ground.
The land will be left, probably, but
If the war continues for a long time
ttiat is about all that will be left Or
if Germany should win the war, then.
Belgium will probably continue to b
an independent kingdom, or. will bej.
come a Oermanizea principality wui
. ntinM nf Independence, but is
realitv in German control; If the al'r
lies win, the first demand will-be fof
payment ' to Belgium for her loase4
v... . en' nmirh monev Ln the
wAriri t mv Bele-ium for what Belt
glum has suffered and will surrer. if "". . " """"u wf""
Is the most luckless little country oi I ployed in' America. New flints should
the face of the glob.
BUY GOOD BONDS
Bat the ess f good bonds is dif
ferent. Already, in thl countrjj,
trading Jntthetn has been resumed an
carried to a point where market vaij
ues have been fairly established. j
Of course, the problem of settling
bond prices is easier of solution than
that of establishing stock values.
What is borrowed .money worth? is
the question the bond buyer must
have answered, while the stock buyer
must fac the problem of estimating
the future business prosperity, of the
country as it will affect the earnings
of the industries whose stoctt he is
considering,
investor would do well to fix in his
mind that if he buys bonds he bee
comes a creditor with enforcabls ! In 1884 Oeorge Wniianj jpurtis was
claims against th company sarfrt delegate to the Republican national
the bonds, while as a buyer of stock convention. A resolution SW ifttro
he can claim only & general partner's ' duced during the session preliminary
share in the prbfits; if there are no to th presidential nomin&ion. which
profits he gets nothing. - :"ead: . j
We have ceased to fear that this I "Resolved. As the sense J this con
war will hit us so hard that we shali ventlon that every memb- of it Is
have to repudiate our debts; the e-
cepuons among tne weaJc organizai
tions are not numerous. The course
of bond prices ln recent days has been
upward; but they are still cheap.
Good . bonds are an attractive Invest
ment. .
land, are mucfy greater. The new gov
ernment railway, and the wagon roads
building in Yukon and British Colum
bia, should also diminish one sever
handicap as compared with the older
country. One fact in support ef Gov
ernor Strong's comparison is the state
ment that Alaska now has nearly E0
ooo reinaeer, .
Not by Any Means, f
From the Sioux City Tribune.
If everybody acted on advlc the
early shoppingf rush would be about as
hard on the poor clerks as th late
shopping rush used to be. Bat every
body dojpsn t. I
THE SUNDAY
JOURNAL
Complete in five nev's sec
tions, magazinei and pictorial
supplement and 1 comic Election,
all superbly illustrated,
In the Magazine
Here are some of th! good
tmngs tor next Sunday
A Artie ! A LJ
rtn MillSl in AlllVVC fi
wuiiam A. Sherwo
; an
American artist, hidin
1 cellar -
until the city hall Jell ai id -then
escaped with his paint" jigs to
the United States. His 'recital
of his experiences in J'W be
sieged city claims the attention
and invites the sympahy of
every red-blooded Amerkan.
if -' -I
Aid for the Wound fd
Young American ar Jiitects, '
business, men and docts an
swered the war's calf from
Paris by becoming carpenters
and masons to .complete -an un
finished building that il might
be put in readiness to k-nre for
the men wounded and i fjiaimcd
on the battlefield. The; litory of
their work is an sfccount'of un
selfish devotion to stiff erin
humanity.
-4
Treitschke s Famous Essay
Henrich von Treitschl'te, the"
Prussian professor of politics.
has been called the Mac liavelli I
ui vuc iiuicicciiui vcuiuiy. aiiu
his teaching are considered by
some as having resulted iin the
war. 'Therefore his esajy et
ting forth his theories cj inter,
national conduct is. well;' worth
reading. fl
Jacob Schiff on the nar
That America shoutfl and
might exercise a powerful In
fluence toward the ending pi
the war and the creation of a
, real and permanent peace is the
opinion of Jacob H. Sfhiff bi
New York, whose ideas Ore con
cretely expressed in an Exhaus
tive jntArview reported $y Ed
ward Marshall. ; J
With the Photographers
Two pages will be devoted to
the reproduction in large size of
four of the mtjst interesting
photographs from the war zone
received during the weelc-Those .
having to do with the strange
appearance and manners of the
East Indian troops engaged, in
the war are especially interest-
in' - ! I
On the Lighter Sifie
Twenty minutes' wttrth of
short stories are include-I in the
hope that they may; yaise a
smile or two in mint" made
serious by the perusal of the -war
articles. H '
Reproductions of fhj? most
pertinent cartoons of recent,
weeks are offered f of ;the en
tertainment of all whf(! follow
current events. I'
"His Wife; a shorU tory. is
a fiction feature of rare 'merit.
The SUNDAY JOtWAL
6. CERTS THB COTT, fTTEBT-
WHBIv J'
What's the Use Hantdrj? Back?
From the Philadelphia ledger.
The new currency syslJ'Si Is ln op
eration. The war has cotracted pro
ductive Industry in liuropi to the van
ishing point, and by so dolnr has prae-'
ticallv established a protective) sy-
tern fqr the United fUatek-' We have
no real comDeution ai nom, ana iiius
elsewhere in the world.-life and ws
only are the makers of fjealth, the
people who are convertihy raw ma
terial into the finished 'prjducta that
civilized heings must haVo; Our own
markets have been open'ejjatjto US and
with them the markets 4.tris entire
world. We are granary fthfj workshop,
middleman and retailer ffl f thes, earth.
The coming era casts bettaje .it Shad-
; ows of prosperity lncompasrr. pi greater
! than any which we hae heretofore
enjoyed. There is a whltr of it tn
th-. hiifra order which 1 5 uroDS has
placed here within the lastew weeks.
! It is a time for buildlnfend prepa
-i ' ha&imer should be In oldifo'jes getting
reHay lor me eipamiinii -ircn im Bur
to come. u nere is no reason to e
timid; there is every reason to b
energetic, optimistic and j jld. Th
trade of the world Is offerjef on ft plat
ter and we most take pel. We are
going to take It, every bllof It that
we can handle, and we mi(1t b ready
to handle the vast bulk jfilt
Only a bland man cojuQl fall to
grasp the significance j Sf passing
events. " They, all of tbnj, point to
inevitable "prosperity. Ani lithe largest
part of it.. will be gathered!; up by th
men who have vision $ud courage
enough now not to hesltt-), th men
who push ahead with thy prepara
tions and seize th prs4n?s period f
twilight before the dawa1 to hsva
everything In readiness. S :
i Georgw William Curtis (farted Itv
From th Sioux City l BbuB.
boun5 m hO"r to support; is nominee.
whoever that nominee may fie. and that
no man should hold a sea. here who
is not ready to so agree." . t - -
It was at this juncture' aiat George
William Curtis mounted a i vhair and
announced that he had 'entesd the con
ventloi a free man and "b the grace
of Go4" he would leave Iti if free mas.
"I am a Republica n who-car ies his sov
ereignty under his" own hattj exclaimed
Curtis and- thus was boirjT the inde
pendent movement of thaif campaign
which resulted in the f irstsSeteetlon of
Cleveland, a movement wltoe support
ers were derisively known as, "mu
wumpa." -. , V Vf:V'-
Political Independence las moved
forward several marches st ice 1884. It
no longer is a sign of - opwobriura to
carry one's sovereignty ' uftder f one's
own. hat. In fact, the oppfobrtam la
now attached to the man .;to lets a
political boss and a polI. mftchfn
do his thinking and his votui. The ln
dependent voter today is' In, the ma'
jority.
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