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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1914. v IP THE JOURNAL C B. JACKSON . . Pohli,Jier. i'uhllafte w-tj crcnlnc (ejrrept SnoUr 4 ' Bandar SMrnln at The Innraal Build . his. Rmilwtf and Yamhill Pnrtland. Or kutrd at lh pua.tsffk: at Portias, or., tot tranaoilaaloa Uroaxfe t nalta M acoa iUh matter. ' lKt.bl'HoNKS-.Maln 7173! Host, -. AH department reached bjr the no no hem. TU the wrrwtne whn etiertmenf eon araitt. tcufciUN ADVKUTIIIIMi liKfatKMKNTATI VK Bowti A Keotnoe Co.. BmMwtck Bid.. 226 Ktft .. New Terk. ISIS Feoplea U Pldr j- rnt-eevv kubairU'llua term, by mail or to atajt reaa la to United Ktates Mtxleot DAILY. . . . fmo rar tS.no I One Booth..... J 40 Sunday. - - so rear...... i. 60 I One moxti I J BAIL" AND 8DNDAT. . . On rear . . JT HO ' One ronntfc He only Is rich who own the day; and no one owns ths day -Who allows it to be Invaded with worry and fret and anx iety. Emerson. IN PASSING IT IS worth while to note In passing that Mr. Roosevelt's late article assailing President. Wil son's policy of peace In Mexico was a commercial transaction. . 'The utterance was not given out on that high plane of disinterested discussion with which an ex-president would be expected to review current events. Mr. Roosevelt wrote it as a means of attracting cola of Che realm for his private treasury, tie put it on the bargain "counter, in that pure spirit of com mercialism with which a vendor markets his wares. In how far the utterances were made stunning In order to help along the cash register,, nobody knows. In any event, the production went on the literary market through a news syndicate, and in the process of sale was offered The Journal along with the average marketable matter that finds its way through the mails to newspa pers. In some offices it found buy ers, the same as coal and wood and fertilizer and other commodi ties find buyers. Regardless of Us: value as a help or hindrance to President Wilson In his 'splendid! endeavor to keep his country at peace with all the world, the ar ,ticle contributed handsomely to the thrift of the colonel, who uses his . prestige as an ex-president to turn many an honest penny. Now that It has been marketed and . the price paid, the thought naturally turns on the question of Whether Mr. Roosevelt or whether President 'Wilson, In- his respective Ideals of our duty and mission as a ' nation, Is to be congratulated and commended. Mr. Roosevelt got his money for his article, and President Wilson, like President Taft, saved his 'country, by refus ing to heed the clamor of oil barons and mining exploiters of the Mexican people's natural! re sources, and delivered his couintry from a clash at arms that would have cost thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars. As to The Journal, Its congratu latlons go to President Wilson and peace, and honor and Justice and liberty for the Mexicans in their struggle against usurpers and ex ploiters and other alien parasites. HEU FATAL DOSE THE sixteen-year-old girl who committed suicide as a result . of her trouble at the Multt nomah club lies under a new mound In a Portland cemetery. It may not have escaped public , attention -that the fatal dose she wallowed '.was carbolic acid. It may be worth while here to re mind the public that there is no law in Oregon to restrict or regu- late the sale" of that deadly drug. In California no carbolic aciid can be sold In a stronger solution than ten per cent, and even that must be in a mixture of glycerine ; and alcohol, both of which have antidotal effects. In Oregon, it can be sold 100 per cent pure and the only requirement is that it be sold by a registered pharmacist and that a record be kept of sale. Suicide Is often the result mf a hasty impulse, and Is often car ried out doubtless, by the ease with which the means of takins life is secured. If no handy drug naa Deen near, possibly the sober second thought of this girl in her , teens would have caused a change of purpose arfd saved a home from ' the shadow and sorrow that have fallen across It. Of course, no law can eliminate suicides. Many times. If one means be not available, another will be sought and found. v But If only one life can be saved by passing a carbolic-acid law J if Just one family can be cnari niin and bereavement, would it not be wen worth while to place a regu latlve act on the statute books? J PROSPERITY FACTS CjDWARD E. PRATT, chief l ot the bureau of foreign and 1 y domestic commerce, says that ,one year of war in Europe wui add. 1500,000,000 to this coun try s foreign trade. I Mr. Pratt .bases his figures on a stiidv nt the reports of American consuls ana ' commercial representatives abroad. . C .J. Maasel, special commercial agent! now en route to South America, visited virtnallv cron large manufacturing plant in the . United States and estimated that the machine tool manufacturing companies alone have $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 in new orders from European countries now on their . BOOKS. France is in the American mar kct for 80.000,000 busaels of wheat, and Holland wants 3 0,00 Q. 000 bushels. Our wheat exports have averaged 1,000,000 bushels a day since July 1 and will establish a new record. v- Oats, rye and bar ley exports have risen to high wa ter marks. : - Grain prices average 1 5 , to 25? cents Wgher than last year. '; x X .. A $12,000,000 order for provis ions and ,war materials has been filled by oney New York agency alone. Sweden has placed $5,000, 000 two-year six per cent treasury notes in this country, the money to be spent here. This loan Is the first to : be negotiated here by any neutral European nation since the outbreak of the war. Arms and ammunition manufac turers are rushing work on new additions to their plants. Some of the industrial companies have declared extra dividends. Evea the copper industry is looking up. The Tonopah Extension Mining Company has declared not only Its usual quarterly dividend, but also an extra of 2 per cent and a special dividend of 2 per cent. These are a few prosperity facts. BITTER BIERCE A GREAT many readers in the United States will note the passing of Ambrose Bierce. They would ncte it with a deeper regret, had Mr. Bierce had a different outlook cn life. It was his boast that he never let his heart get into his head. Thus handicapped, he wrote and wrote and wrote a most brilliant and perfect English which Is all weighed down and doomed to ' ob livion because of the writer's ma lignity and pessimism. Had there been b.eart in his head, had his thoughts been pointed and mellowed like the thoughts of BurdeUe or Riley or Twain or other men of hope and gladness, his name would not now pass Into early obscurity. His pen was always directed to tearing down reputations and de molishing or blackening Institu tions. He held all men and "the-r dirty Institutions' as he called them in utter contempt. He wrote to sting and wound, and never to heal. Though an American and a major in the Civil war, he began his literary career in London, where his poignant shafts of ridi cule of men and institutions earned him the sobriquet of" "Bitter Bierce." In San Francisco, as a newspaper writer of pungent" para graphs, he attacked everybody, high and low, and the bitterness, satire and cynicism of his writings soon earned for him a reputation all over the West as the most vitriolic satirist of his day. It has been said of him that he had "the most brutal Imagina tion of any man of, the English speaking race." Bierce and Frank Pixley, editor of the San Francisco Argonaut, were often engaged in bitter con troversies. In a particularly vit riolic Philippic against Bierce, Pix ley suggested the following epitaph for Bierce s tombstone: "He quar reled with God, and could find nothing In his creations worthy of the commendation of Ambrose Bierce." A SUSPENDED ELECTION PENNSYLVANIA is furnishing illustration"' of how an elec tion by the people may be nunuiea py the courts. More than a year ago two Philadelphia doctors were opposing candidates for the city council. Dr. Bacon was declared elected and Dr. Moore contested the elec tion.; At the end of six months Dr. Moore obtained a recount, and in another month the examiner re ported that Dr. Moore had been elected. At the end of eight months the court of common pleas af firmed the report, and then Dr. Bacon appealed to the state su preme court. Now, thirteen months after the election, Dr. Moore is still barred from office and his opponent. whom the examiner and the lower court declared was defeated by the people, has acted for nearly-a year and is still acting as ' councilman Philadelphia people are wonder Ing whether the supreme court will proceed with the same leisure that ihas characterized the pro ceedings thus far. Court procedure has deprived Dr. Moore of office for nearly a year. Probably no rereat harm has been done, but the fact . remains that technicalities in the courts have nullified the sov ereign people's expressed wilL Some might say there is little nra- tlcal difference between ballot box stuffing and legal technicalities in such, a case. . FINANCING CHARITY HETHER charity-, work should be carried on by public or private agencies has been made an issue trr tne Cleveland "Foundation. This new organization has issued a re port declaring that poverty is community responsibility , and that iunas ror charity should be pro vided at public expense. This report is in share eonffir.t with numerous declarations by the sage foundation, .which has been m existence . several years. The older organization discourages the giving of relief by governmental agencies at the expense of the tax payers.1 The Sage Foundation takes the ground that relief work should be carried son by private agencies supported try voluntarv rontribn tions. ' Fear. of .wastage pf charity W .:-. ' ' ' ' . ' 4 f fr -'--:-.-.- vX-XX-':- '; vXi;V-'. X., -X- -:X X-; :.X? X' " - X"X X: X ;4XX-Xv XX' -: XX Xx X y.--V . - XV--:XX X:X-: X' " X ". X - :"X .XXX ..X-vX:; XxXXvX XX funds by politicians Is given as the main reason for this attitude. The Cleveland Foundation argues that poverty will never be properly dealt .with until the taxpayers as a whole are made to feel the bur den of necessary relief. The re port, which has the unanimous ap proval of trustees of- the founda tion, urges that Cleveland prepare to take full charge of the admin istration of relief funds in that city, and that all the money neces sary be raised by taxation. ,. A charge of paternalism will undoubtedly be brought against the Cleveland trustees. - But they have raised an interesting question. If charity is an obligation resting upon all people, the only point at Issjje is as to how it should be dis charged. The Cleveland people claim that if a city's unfortunates were made a direct charge upon the fortunate there would be more intelligent effort to prevent mis fortune. THE EDISON FIRE THERE will be world regret at the destruction of the Edison plant by fire, and world ad miration oi uie piuca. wiin with which the great inventor, at 67 begins aggressively the work pf rebuilding. The career of Edison is in a place by Itself. There has been nothing like It. There have been few careers that contributed so much to the comfort and happiness of mankind. ' It began with Edison as a train boy on the Port Huron branch of the Grand Trunk Railway at 12. At 15, while still a train boy, he bought a small printing press and began publication of the Grand Trunk Herald with a circulation of 300 among employes of the road. He- rescued the son of a station agent, and was taught telegraphy by the grateful father.. He became a telegraph operator at Mount Clemens, but, though remarkably proficient, he lost several positions because of his fondness for books and time lost in giving play to his inventive genius. His career of Invention began at 17, when he evolved an auto matic telegraph repeater. Shortly afterward in Boston, he invented a commercial stock indicator which he sold to New York capitalists for $40.0p0. The money enabled him to es tablish a plant for the play of bis Inventive genius. The world soon began to read of the triumphs of the young inventor. It has since recognized him as the inventive wizard of the age. The French government made him a chevalier, and a commander of. the Legion of Honor, and .King Humbert bestowed on him the in signia of a grand officer of the Crown of Italy. He has received the Albert medal of the Society of Arts of Great Britain. More than three; hundred patents attest the fruitfulness of his genius in addition to the large number of minor devices on which he has sought no patent. Among his ma jor inventions are the incandescent light, long distance telephone trans mission, the phonograph, duplex, quadruplex and sextuplex telegra phy, the carbon telephone trans mitter, the aerophone, kinetgscope and a storage battery for street cars and automobiles. To a man who expressed the be lief that inventive genius was the product only of inspiration, Edison replied that "it is two per cent in spiration and 38 per cent per spiration." The truth of his epi gram is revealed in the fact that. In seeking the secret of a proposed inventipn or discovery, not one experiment, but hundreds and even thousands are sometimes applied in reaching a solution or admitting failure. Tireless perseverance and long hours of work are the secrets of his success. He works harder than a day laborer. He is at work in his laboratory at 7:30 in the morning, luncheon is sent him at midday, he goes home to dinner in the evening but returns to work at eight, at 11:30 at night his carriage calls for him, but often the coachman ha.: had to wait three or four hours for his passenger. The interruption by Wednesday's fire of this human dynamo at his work will awaken sympathy in mil Hons of people, whose daily life has been touched and facilitated by this ceaseless delver into the secrets of science. USE AND CONSERVATION BOTH use and conservation of the nation's natural resources are advocated by President ,f Wilson. In his message he urged the passage of two measures designed to unlock the resources of the national domain and to en courage the use of navigable wa ters for power purposes. These important bills have af ready passed the house of repre sentatives and are ready for im mediate action by the senate. One bill relates to the construction of dams in navigable waters and the erection of power sites on public lands, xne otner measure pro vides for the leasing of phosphate. oil and gas lands. Concerning these proposed laws the president said: . . . We owe the one measure not only to the people of that great westers country for whose free and systematic development, as It seems to ne, our legislation has don so little, but also to tne people ox tne nation as a whole; and we as clearly owe the other in fulfillment of ur repeated promises that the water power of the country should in fact, as weir as in name be put at the disposal of great In- dustrles which can make economical and profitable use of it, the rights of the public "toeing" adequately guarded the , while, and i monopoly in , thej use prevented, vi , y -i : -.- I ! . i The duty of congress is clear, Both measures have been hedged about with proper safeguards. IThe waterpower bill provides for jtif ty year leases, with an option of -pur chase by the eovernment after three years' notice. There are ade quate provisions for preventing' mo- nopoly. Full use of the waterpower sites is to be encouraged by regu- lation of prices charged or power. Tne president was right in say-! 1UK w saouia iurn our paCKS upon hesitation and makeshift and for- ; mulate a policy of use and ! con-1 servatlon, . in he best sense of tnose words. He was right in' say- Ing that to have begun such meas-' ures and not completed them would h tn ma ,-, j . VI WUgieoa. (Commnnlcmtlona sent tn Th Jnnraai f re publication la tbis department abould be writ ten on only one aid of the paper. : abonld not exceed 300 worda in length and muatibe ac companied bT the name and add rem iof the tender. It the writer does not i desire to are the. name published, be abonld aofitata) "Piacnantoa the greatest cf aU totorm a. It ratleoaUseai erervthln It nn4ia It robt principle, of all false aanetlty asrl throws them back on their reasonahlenens. If ther bare no reasonableness, it ruthless!? ernabea them oot of existence and' set un its wb conclusions in tbelc stead. Woodrow Wklsoa. - . . j In Praisje of Roosevelt. 1 -Portland, Or., Dee. 10. To! the Edi tor of The Journal A correspondent in last evening's Journal takes a fling at i Colonel Roosevelt, and designates him that "upstart," because Roose velt denounces the cruelty and shame less crimes visited upon unoffending and helpless, nuns and votaries of a religion other than creeds that many of us believe. Tho writer Is a Pro testant and. Mason; an adherent of the Episcopal church by birth, and ! a Ma son by election. I am a member of a family, one of whom offered up his life upon the gallows in defense of his native land; his memory Is kept green on the forth of every March by millions or men who hate! religious prejudice. . There is a class bf men in every age who can see no I virtue in their fellows unless they believe . in - - ; . 1 Letters From the people their creed and hold the same political workers working, and we good Ameri views. This old world at times grows ! cans born and bred- are on the outside tired of admiring, and delights itself looking inside, for instance, here in in limiting its admiration, i Napoleon. Corvallis, on the railways and other traveling through Switzerland, was i joba It seems to me he is of seme greeted with enthusiasm everywhere; i use to the controllers of our economic Dournenne saia 10 mm, it must oe delightful to be greeted with such de monstrations of enthusiastic admira tion." "Bah," replied the ihero that brought a legion of kings! and em perors to their knees; "this! same un thinking crowd,' under the i slight change of circumstances, would follow me' just as eagerly to the i scaffold." Thoughtful men know that such men as the correspondent referred to, who today would deafen youjwith their cheers, are capable of throwing stones at you tomorrow. . Theodore Roosevelt needs no eulogy from any man to give him an enduring place in the heart and mind: of the the ! American people. . I i i The man is dull indeed who would I deny the name of Roosevelt ; a first and most enduring position: in Amer- j lean file a name that . stands by the I almost unanimous consent of the civi lized world as the greatest) American living. There are some' political char- J latans in this country trying, td fright- j en the American people with the name i of .Theodore Roosevelt. AS well at-1 tempt to frighten the Christian with the cross or the children of liberty with the name of George Washington as to attempt to make millions, of right thinking, honest Americans shudder at the career of Roosevelt. They cannot deceive the people of this country for any great length of time; the poor peo ple of Pennsylvania whom ne round starving during the coal I strike, to whose pale lips he brought food in stead of empty phrases, will i build a monument to him. He is a: high caste American who has cast his fortune end his great talents in behalf of the people of this country; talents more versatile than those of any other liv ing man; so admitted by the almost universal consensus of the enlightened opinion of mankind. He has measured and fought all his lire against injus tice and wrong; he is hajled as no other living American as one of the greatest benefactors of this world. You can find his position Upon a pub lic question as easily as you can trace the Rocky mountain range in Oregon. Religious hate and prejudice is a mon ster to his universal mind. I He won tha Nobel Peace prize of $40,000 for his efforts in j concluding a great war, and ,then donated the money to ease the 'pain and suffer ing of his fellows. I i There is no double dealing about him; every one with eyes to see and ears to hear, can see and know where and what he stands for. ! And they know that he stands uprightly. EMMKTT CALLAHAN. Criticises Portland jWay. Corvallis, Or.. Dec. 9. To! the Ed itor of The Journal I wish to take issue with the manner of the city commissioners' handling of the unem ployed in your city. I claim; that the commission Is presuming jtbiat every worker unemployed Is physically able to chop wood. They are reducing the standard of living of thpse workers who are employed " under them, and forcing them into pauper labor. They are placing the product of this pauper labor in competition with what, for want of a better 'expression, I - will call free labor. I will be safe in saying that the workers In those camps will not he able to work up an average of 1V4 cords per I day. Even the very best of them, in that line will not average that in uncalled tim ber where the worker can' pick his wood, and there is very little, if any, unculled timber dose to Portland. In my childhood, back) in Ohio, I was taught that no pauper labor ex isted in this land of the free, etc, but we find that wage-earners whoso only crime is having a desire to ; toil at a living wage even are forced; with the threat of arrest, to cut cord wood at a reduced rate and not only reduce their own standard of living and Wages but assist in reducing the earnings of other wage-earners who' make a business of cutting, wood; for recently ia great many in this vicinity have reduced the price they will pay from f 1 and fl.25 per cord to 80 cents and 1 1, taking the standard of pay from the rate the commissioners are paying; i 76 cents per cord, as a criterion, j I have no doubt, green as a great many of these men will be. that thr will; not only cut wood, but also be clearing the brush off the land for these land own ers. If the city commissioners wanted to be consistent in their) mode why didn't they, instead oi paying 11 per cord, insist on a reduction of the tumpage fee and pay at I' least what was the common rate for cutting the wood? . I i ' ;. It is even very hard for me to un derstand where really they are rellev- A VFEW SMILES I , , -mw n. pkJh,. tt manv chickens you ; stole, what an J A '". w VUl ear tlm you i had getting tnem, - now good they' tasted, and all that" No, sun, Jedge. I don't -brag about my chicken stealin", at least not when der and cops around." - " ' ' ! .. 11 wa" "Washington's birthday.' and 'ir T" :S?j.i.T- was. She concluded by asking all the that would like 117x1 all held up thel hand but on- "Wouldn't you like to be a ec- jn j R,nrn W aMnirtrm fnmmvT" sh asked. - "Too late now," said Tammy. "I have told too many lies." Aunt Maria had been a cook In both boarding houses and private families, and . she had often commented on how much more , common quarrels, harsh words and scraps : were In the families .than in withe boarding bouses. in a private family, where peac reigned. One day she said to her mistress: --"Missus, is all dese yo' familyT" "Yes. Maria," said her . mistress. "Why do yoi askT" "Well, nobody would had thought It,' was the reply, "Dey act so nice to each odder dat you would think dey was perfect strangers." ing the unemployed situation, as these men who are now la the camps are only taking the places, at a reduced rate, of others who either were there or would be there; for no' one has ever heard of a shortage of wood in Portland or vicinity. Now, Mr. Kditor, In your editorial of Friday you tell us not to pay any attention to the I. W. W. agitators, etc, as they are foreigners who have very Uttle knowledge of our free in stitutions. I am not interested .in the T TO KI Kn, T w-.ii 1 A 1v . ..l. l. . . " .... " v uft, it oa& - way it Is that tverrwhera I fnriim Interests. . Just a word in conclusion. I am at present unemployed, but I have not lost my understanding that 1 have in terests in common with all workers, bound together not by sentiment nor sympathy,, but by cold, material facts. J. B. S. Keplying to "Landless Man." Lewiston, Idaho," Dec S. To the Editor of The Journal In your lssuj of December 4 appears a letter, dated Rldgefield. Wash., and signed "Land less Man," in which occurs this pas- sage: - I would like to find out if there is anyone with land to spare who would be willing to put an .honest man on some of it and give him a chance to make good. There are plenty of people who would like the chance to get on the land by paying a small deposit down, if they could see some way to make a living and pay for the land at the same time. We would like to hear from such people." . Does not the following meet the de mand expressed in the letter of "Land less Man'; If not, I would like to know what is lacking: The Lewiston Land & Water Co. ia looking for good, industrious men to occupy its small irrigated farms. The company rents them for a portion of the crop. If the tenant raises onions, potatoes, carrots, etc, the rental is one fifth of the crop. If he grws com the rental is one fourth of the crop. If he rents a bearing orchard, the rental is one half of the crop. No cash payments are required- : Water for irrigation and domestic purposes is rurnished, free. The living conditions here are ex ceptionally good. The winters are mild, and the climatic conditions as a whole both pleasant for living and ad vantageous for good crops. There are schools, churches and good roads. It is necessary for a tenant to have a team and not less than (250 with which to buy his tools and seed and carry himself to the period of his crop return. He should also, have a few hogs and some chickens. ' In all cases references are required. If the tenant is satisfactory, he may acquire his farm by the payment of interest for the first three years, and thereafter have 10 years for pay ing his principal. If he la industrious and competent, he may on this basis ultimately own his land. If he lacks In either of these essentials, he must remain V tenant or drop out altogeth er. The quantity of the various crops that may be grown in this district is HQ longer an experiment, for all of them have been grown successfully for many years. In fact, a great many families make good livings from five acres of land. The yields are from 300 to 600 bushels per acre of onions, 20 tons of carrots and upward per acre. 160 and upward sacks of potatoes per acre, etc, while the apple yields ar large and of the finest quality, bring ing large returns in good years. H. Ia. POWERS. Remarks on Charity. Portland, Deo. 10. To the Editor of The Journal There are mighty good people here in th states, and In re gard to charity they are good, f re givers, and many a home Is made happy by their kind acta but I wish to make some remarks in behalf of myself and many -more in the same circumstances as 'myself. There has been published by leading newspapers of Portland the story of two men mak ing a donation of $6000, besides other provisions from others, for: foreign people, while our own sufferers have a donation of J1200 and provisions. I am too proud to ask charity from the Muts for myself and .family, but if ther could be some kind of an institu tion started through charity, to give th unemployed work I would be glad of the chance to get employment and earn bread for my family. I have searched this city for employment, and ' so have many . others I,- meet in the same circumstances, and , cannot find work. . I look for work earnestly, and. travel, by walking, 12 to 15 miles a day. . The answer I get from nearly all Is practically the same: . "We do not need any men; we are"" laying off some we now have." "I have a good trade, but tt la not doing me any good. I will . take work of any kind, and am very handy at any work, but they all say they do not need any more help. ' I am not greedy and selfish, and wish to . keep all the money her in th f1W my PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE Ones In- office, always seeker. an office The strongest man is weak If he lacks confidence in himself. It takes a lot of lovo to make home happy if the wife is a bad cook. Man wants but little here below and it's bis privilege to keep right on wanting. No, Alonzo, a girl who Is interested in pyrography isn't necessarily fond of pie. A ragtime philosopher says a sol dier is a man who makes a living by dying for his country. Beauty is only skin deep, but some times the display rack' doesn't show it up to a good advantage. Names that parents Inflict upon their children are enough to cause them to break into jail in after years. When a man does anything he is the least bit ashamed of he attributes it to the human nature in his makeup. When a married man boasts that he has no secrets from his wife his bach elor friends fail to put him next to a lot of good things. French perfume is all right in its way, but you probably have met some people who convinced you that it is a poor suDeutute ror a much needed bath. ' One of the leaders of the movement says: "It is only a question of time when the women suffragists of this country will be up in arms."' Doubtr less that is where the dear creatures would. like to be. MR. ROOSEVELT ON MEXICO From the New Tork Times. December . Ex-President Roosevelt's contribu tion to the magazine section today Is notable for the intensity of the writ er's feeling and the insufficiency of his argument. He would have the American people believe that by with holding recognition from Huerta and giving some possible encouragement to Carranza and Villa, President Wilson and Secretary Bryan became respon sible for the killing of a good many Mexican men and women and the mal treating of others by the Insurgent banda Mr. Roosevelt's attempt to at tach this responsibility to the presi dent and to the secretary of state fails altogether. It carries no convic tion, it defeats Itself. The statements and affidavits of Mexican atrocities committed by the followers of Carranza and Villa which Mr. Roosevelt produces or refers to are quite Irrelevant unless he can pro duce his evidence that the bloody deeds of the insurgents, were due to something our government did , or did not do. There his argument - breaks down, it collapses. It is not enough to point to the president's refusal to rec ognize Huerta. It is not enough to put in as exhibits In the case the personal envoys sent by the president to Inves tigate Mexican affairs and confer with the chiefs of both parties,' or the ship ping of arms across the border and the taking of Vera Cruz. Mr. Roosevelt contends that the administration's coldness toward Huerta and its sym pathy with Carranza and Villa deter mined the Issue, drove out Huerta, and put the Insurgents in the saddle; therefore, as the atrocities were com mitted by the insurgents, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan, as the backers of the rebel chiefs, must be responsible for them. The argument . rests on as sumptions, all dangerous, some con trary to fact- There is not enough evidence to pro duce even a reasonable belief that if we had recognized Huerta and had had no communication with the in surgents, and had kept out of Vera Cruz, the atrocities would have been prevented or the result would have been different, Mr. Roosevelt's foun dation assumption is that if we had recognized Huerta he would have been able to put. down Carranza and Villa and so have cut short their career of PROPHETS ON FINANCIAL FUTURE By John M- Oskison. Bald a modern Jeremiah, whose ser mons are given wide-publicity, a few weeks ago: , "Apparently our financial 'house : of cards' is trembling and about to fall. Various expediences are being tried by the governments and the ablest finan ciers of the world. We might hope that their skill would accomplish the end they desire and save the present institutions financial from being 'shaken' to pieces. But if we are right' In our understanding of the scriptures, then we may be sure that all human effort will, fail, and that the greatest of all crashes of a finan cial kind that have ever ' happened Will take place." This preacher says that America can't meet her debts abroad, can't find the gold to pay interest even. Our banks are loaded with securities that are unsalable, and when liquidation is forced many of them will be wrecked and for this Impending disaster the de monetization of silver is responsible! On the same day that this modern Jeremiah's sermon was ' printed Sir George Paish. the English economist and financier who was then in the United States, said: states; nor do I wish some one to -donate me a thousand dollars, but I do wish some one would give me employ ment of some kind. I am not" destitute through liquor; It is by failure and sickness in my family. If the readers of this letter chance to bo people freely giving to foreign people, pray it will not offend them, but I do wish they could realize how many of our home people are suffering from the want of work who are really deserving. C. BROWN, Care of Men's Resort, Burnside St. Oregon Officials. Vancouver, Wash., Dec To the Editor of The Journal Please answer: 1. Who are the, senators and repre sentatives of Oregon now in office; also those elected, at th recent elec tion? 2. When was the charter of Portland granted? . ' 3. Who are entitled to vote at the city elections? 4. How many wards in Portland? 6. When was the state constitution of Oregon adopted? 6. Who is governor of Oregon, and for how long a term is he-elected? What is his salary? P. H. L Senators George E. Chamber lain and Dr. Harry Lane. . Representa tives First district, Willis C. Hawley; Second district. Nicholas J. Sinnott; Third district. A W. Laf f erty. . Re elected in November, Senator Chamber lain and Representatives Sinnott and Hawley; C N. McArthur elected tq succeed Laf f erty; Senator Lane has served less than two years of his term of six year. J. Th present commission charter AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS The trustees of the public school at St. Paul have decided to remodel the old school building for an athletic hall and move it to the rear of the new school building. Manager Gano of the Eugene Cofree club says that as soon as the rain stops a number of the men at present unemployed. will be able t find work digging potatoes. About half the crop is still in the ground. Hood River' News:1 Hood River church women are nothing if not en ous bazaars this year all' encourage the terprising and energetic. The numer trade at home" policy, and are de serving of the generous patronage which is being accorded them. Carnation is flie name by which that part of the community' of ForeBt Grove, formerly designated by the rail- roaa company ana tne government or the United States as South Forest Grove, will hereafter officially be known. a ' Organization of the Woman's Civic Improvement club 04 Tillamook has been completed, with 40 charter mem- Ders. its object, as stated in the constitution. Is the civic improvement of the city and county of TillamooK. All women of Tillamook county are eligible to membership. Woodburn Independent: It is going the rounds of the state press that the Woodburn water works system, own;d and operated by this city, is self sup porting. Not only is it paying ex penses and meeting Interest on bonds, but it Is building up -a sinking fund that will-meet those bonds when due, after which water rates will be low ered. blood. That is contrary to the belief and testimony of competent American observers In the city of Mexico. Huerta was a shrewd old Indian with a monstrous thirst for brandy. He was grossly Incapable as a ruler, and the theory that if we had recognized him he would have been able to re store order has no basis. If we had recognized him and then turned our backs on Mexico there is very great probability that the. struggle would have been just as bloody, just as re volting In its incidental cruelties, and more prolonged. Our direct aid to tiro Insurgents was not significant or de termining. Our taking of Vera Cruz doubtless did shorten the career of Huerta. If so, it hastened the tri umph of the rebels and shortened the conflict. To Mr. Roosevelt's file of affidavits there would probably have been added a great mass of new mate rial if the strife had continued. - There is no moral or political issue against the administration in the Mexican mesa Much as Mr, Roose velt may deplore the fact, there is In the hearts of the American people a profound feeling of gratitude to the president for keeping us out of Mex ico. Vera Cru was an expedition, not a war. The president might have committed us to war, we might at this moment be waging war there with 100.000 troops, with daily bulletins from the front telling of slaughter and waste, and with the end not yet in sight. We have more than enough of that from the scene of the European conflict, , The big dominating fact, the thought uppermost In the minds of the American people, is that Mr.' Wilson did not get us into a war with Mexico, To Mr. Roosevelt's reoital of evil do- ings the average American will reply that these things would have happened anyway. Probably they would have happened. Certainly, the responsibility is: not ours. 'Mistakes the president may have made, everybody believes he made some, but men do not agree as to what they were. So far as we are concerned, the results of his policy are approved. What good or ill fortune Is in store for Mexico is another mat ter. Mr. Roosevelt would be more profitably, occupied In formulating policies for the future than in criti cising those of the past. "The United States is about the. only important country in the world to day that is making money. Your peo ple are rapidly accumulating a big sum for investment. It is only a ques tion of when this investment fund will be large enough to absorb such for eign securities as may be thrown upon the market. "At the rate at which money is piling up it should not be a long time before the exchanges can be reopened without fear of the buyers being 1 swamped by the offerings." He point- ! ed out that our debt abroad is being rapidly diminished by our exports; the 1290,000,000 we had to pay before January 1, 1915, ought very largely to be furnished in this way. . Sir George is one of those able fi nanciers of the world referred to by the preacher; he has been in consulta tion with our government and banking authoritlea There's nothing pessimistic about his talk! ' Take your choice! These two are typical -of the prophet who are fore casting our financial future. If you ask me. I should say that I'd far rather listen to a financial expert's opinion on financial subjects than to the direful prophecies of a preacher who still believes in bimetallism." was adopted by vote of th people In May, 1913. 3. All citizens, native born or fully naturalized, of 21 years of age and up wards, women included. 4. Division In wards Is abolished, un der the commission charter. 6. September 18, 1857. . Oswald West. The gubernatorial term Is four years. Dr. James Withy combe, governor-elect, will take office January 11, 1915, the second Monday oft the month. Tne governors salary is $5000 a year. The Ragtime Muse Winter Cheerfully Considered. Hurrah! That cause of doubt and fear And heavy hearta old winters here! Tha worst is come, so why be sad? The whole year's worst is not half bad. Tis true that living's cost is high. But it costs somewhat more to die; In spite of poverty and war There's much that is worth living for. What though the piercing north wind blows. And roads are deep with driven snos; These make it hard beyond a doubt For creditors to get about! Besides, as bitter grows the wind. Contrary people grow more kind.. And when, the weather is most vile One gets full value from a amil! Its trials i make the whole world kin, So every man become your twin When all are prosperous and good i Folks don't love others as they should. Then weldome storm and now and Ice, And even 'frostbites once or twice. Gooseflesh upon men's outer rind. , IN EARLIER (. By Fred Locklek e- ST Colonel John Adair cam & to Astoria when there were- , only tf fee houses there. He is now Astoria longest time resident. I spent j 1 Some hours with Colonel Adair recetr y, . and he told me of the early day a iof Astoria. "I was born on July fe, 1839, at Whitehall, my grandfatBir's estate near Frankfort. Ky, SMd Colonel Adair. "My father was aigatural bora: politician'. Being southerner, he naturally an old tim Democrat. When we movd from v n-tnf Ut, iFort Harrison, my fath f told my iirsjro mammy. Aunt C nnie, that, there were no slaves lnndlana, so' he could not take her. ' j She said,i Don't talk any such fo! Jlshness to move I am tnini in i V iw w nl .Vk itny worth- " ruiiinions, ana ne wln b your servant wio. I have been in this family too liir for vou to try to get along wlthtSit.me now. bo Aunt Connie went a)ng with us,1 and raised myself and fee rest of my- brothers and sisters. "My mother had 18 oldren. She ialway8 sala tnat 1 '- harder to 12 put to- iiiaua.su man au me oina gether. President Polk appoint jd my fath-". er collector of customs hiat Astoria. This was In 1848. Wn I'ptt vnr-t ti.- ; rison on a steamboat golfri: to Louls jvllle, Kentucky. There . V S were held up for a while, and fin! ; got an. other steamboat for New; brfeaha At New Orleans "we took th iFalcon for the Isthmus. When we go. to Chagres, cholera broke out, and e were de tained In quarantine. f1ather went across the isthmus to i when the steamer California wouldjarrlve. She had to come around tha lvrn Voth... riraTl I . . e . . . k ' I .an, Sla ' ZZlnl aZ the Chagres river to OMuces. This was in January - 1849. ri "We had first heard ofiihe gold ex citement in California h New Or leans, but since coming.- the Isth mus, we heard little els!but talk of the gold fields of Caliiornla. Th trails were almost wnisf j deep with mud. At Cruces fatjiejf hired pole carriers to take iis acrs the Isth mus. From each pole ting "a ham mock and four men werB assigned to each hammock. They w(lked in mud almost waist deep. Thej-.iiO mile trip took us three days. . ) At. Panama we had-1 j wait three fn. tViA hitut . .1 f J-1. V. 1 .1 weeks for the boat, and U'hen the old f he . dock, it California came e up to was crowded with PerrnMan- miners on their way to the tn Francisco gold fields. There weret; between 400 and 600 Americans walling to take the boat. ; The boat wal equipped to carry 200 passengers. . blt It finally sanea ror Ban Franclw p with over a thousand. The captafh' hired car penters, who put In fa third deck, where all of the Peruvian gold miners wei placed. They haii to sleep as thick as sardines on IK deck. Sen ator Q winn. who latrf'j represented California in congress, llth his wife and daughter, were anng the pas sengers. Lucy Gwinn rlater became Mrs. W. T. Coleman. mI Gaines, who later became governor o Oregon, was also aboard. tj "San Francisco in March, 1S49, was nothing, but a-' succession of sand hllln tnt, and nrnrlA jihai'll. Almost everyone was bound far the Sacra mento river, and at airiours of the day and night you ecu hi see men with packs on their ticks striking j out for the gold fiel.4. fter six weeks we secured paswife aboard the brig Valladora. CaptaiR Nat Crosby and Captain Flanders w re aboard. It took us four weeks '.to' cVme from San Francisco to .Astoria" $ COLONEL HARVEY ANALYZESlTHE ELECTION By special arrangement The Sunday Journal is t le to offer its readers an anal; tical study of the November ections by Colonel George Ifa-yey.' editor of the. North American Review. Ever a clear thinker ind a force ful writer. Colonel Harvey makes this treatise cf '.more than ordinary interest. T Kreisler Wounded x Kreisler, the wjprld-famous violinist, offered hisservices to the country when :t9 war be gan. He was sent f the front, where he soon wa,i wounded.; Although not serioui iy hurt, the musician was declared unfit for further military duty.and has re turned to America, xljs story of his experiences is. Well worth reading. i War Stops Literature William D. Howejls. dean of American literary; men, dis cusses in his usujfl charming fashion the relation between war and literature, ii His ideas are clearly, stated'n a frank fashion that courts . popular ap proval. M ' Radium As a Sjrt tnulatit ' The lay mind has jttle knowl edge of the practi :al uses to which radium is pi; j,' His sole concern is its pro, ibitive cost. However, some un iue expert-, ments have been mr je as to the ' effect of radium o i plant life which is of interest to alL No Toy Faming The war has brought to"smind the fact that America has a toy town of. her own. Inhere Santa Claus can outfit himself for his joyous tour on Christmas eve." The account of this wonderful place is timely and pleasant reading. ' . ;- A Village chili r V ; f A short story by j jennette Lee that holds an appeal to all lov ers of good fiction.?! F- War Photograj Two pages of staking photo graphs just .recev a from the war gone .convey tew impres sions of goings oy among the mt lines. ' f These arex someSof the good things that will af bear in The Sunday Journal H igazine. NEXT SUNDAY