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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL" PORTLAND, 'WEDNESDAY ' EVENING, ' JANUARY "S0, 1915.' G i. THE JOURNAL AM fXDKPEXDENT NEWSPAPER ,C. g.1 JACKSON i...........PuMlabr ;i'uhltibel every falng , jexrrpt Sundry) d ier Manila, morning t Tbe Journal Bolld- li r Broadway and YanblU ata., Portland, Oft 3.nirl at I ha poatufflcf at Portland. Or., (or uiDaiiHmi lorouga is niui 1 rla matter. '" . r JTi.T.ErHONEftMatn 7173; Hon A-aoou AI1 department reaebad toy theae aambera Tall 9 tne operator what :etarimaat yuo want. ioKtlGN AUVEBTISINO REPl.BSENTATI VK a B'nJaaMn it Kcntnnc Co., Brnnawlck Bids., 5 225 Fifth ae.. New York. 12i fcople'a liaa B !!.. Chicago. , . - i f Hubarrlptlon trrrna 1 .dell o any fcrtai la Ida Catted Mate or ataxic: DAILY ' i.; . " JOna year. ...... $5.oe ( One moats. .SO Jt SUNDAY i X'no ; tar . ,2.5o I One month 9 .29 " -.-DAILY AND RUN DAY , . M- fnna yar...,..-.A7.Di I On a tooth ..... 69 The shortest and surest way " to live with honor in the world In to be In . reality what we would appear, to' toe I all human : virtues increase and ' strength en themselves by the practice and experience of them.- Soc- 1 a . r. v vAc HE 'positiott of ne Journal in the controversy .;. over the rental Npf '. the Tipper deck of the railroad bridge' Is vindl- ated by thVact of the railroads hemselves. ' V;-T ' They : have accepted' from the ounty commissioners a rental ar angetnent abdiit $10,000 less than he sum they, originally .demanded, nd to whfch The Journal offered bjectlons. The original demand as a rental of over $67,000. This was subsequently modified , to a lat rental of $52,000, the comply o pay for operation and to get the ehtals from streetcars amounting o fl3r000. Under the" contract now agreed o, the ! county, la to pay a iiat ental.'of $43,200, is to pay for aintenance $5800, is io pay oper- UnK-cost $6500, and is to recc! e he rentals from trie streetcars $13,- gOOO. The approximate net cost to aihe county Is $42,000. .The com- rpany. is to . pay the taxes, about $5000. ' : .The railroad's original demand was tha ' the . heavy bridge rental be made a -fixed charge upon the people of Portland for a period of 35 years at a cost with Interest at five per cent, annually' compounded, of $4,297,518, and with total reve nues to-the company from use of the upper, deck for the period with interest j annually compounded of $5,371,897. , The contract under . the new agreement is to run for a period of one year. Recently, in its own columns, The Journal was strongly condemned by General Manager Farrejl for Its opposition to the railroad's, original .demand. The new agreement, made with Mr. FarreU'i full assent, with its rental lowered' about $10,000 a year, is ,rne journal s repiy to xart rarreu. DEBAUCHING THE BALLOT TIGHTT of 114 residents of L Terre Haute, Indiana, arrested I for, election frauds, have en aaaSI . . : in rM icreu pieajs oi gumy. some V1 them are expected to turn state's Across the state line, in Illinois, Jlhere Is! to. be an investigation of J-harges of election frauds, in three Jongresslonal districts. Indications rf gross irregularities at the No ' Jvember election have .been brought jro. light by the Chicago News. It fa , asserted that In "Uncle. Joe SJannon-ls district the buying and . Veiling - of votes .on election .- day rwent on with an openness that was ' V Remarkable. - People talked freely 3bout the, traffic and even dis- ussed the price received by indi lduals for selling their votes. ' ? Oregon has been styled "the fool f the .family." . The designation as made because this state inau earated ! changes in government; . jfhose .changes have been hooted ana naicuiea and condemned. 1 But no bribery investigations, are jienaing in uregon. There are -no - Recusations of the use of money for rruption. No citizens are plead Jag guilty of -fote buying.-, ; x Jim a state, where once legisla tures were debauched, where iXarry Sullivan ,; sat . In a window with shotgun and held ' voters ;at bay, ?whcre "$15,000 of Slmoii mnnov fend $20,000 of Lotan money" was Vpent in, carrying the prijiaries In jMaltnomah county, there s tran ' nullity, aT the. polling places, 5 peace 4n elections and the people rule. , f What wonders hath the despised Oregon system wrought! - A MUST PAY THE TOLL REVISED estimate ot dead ,nd injured as a result of the recent eartnquaxe ma Italy .places the number at 25.000 This via,, somewhat :ieasj than the eany estimates. - - ' Even at this the disturbance of the earth was, trvlce as destructive as that of . 185 7 when the total loss of killed and Injured was 12,300 It was hotj however, so destruc tive ks the one of December 28 1908,'. which wiped, out 'the towns of Messina and Regglo and killed T7.000. ' persons; ; j- '-,.'i ; ' Last week's disturbance was fol- lowed by the usual- phenomenon . a series of small shocks for several days indicating the unsettled con dition of the earth' crust.. V This was particularly noticed after the San Francloco earthquake of April 1306. The effect of this Is to keep 3 mind oj toe sufferers in a. con tlnuai state of apprehenstdn. Though a favored land In some respect. Italy must, from Its Io- ntion ln-thcarthquake zone, con JTL tlnue tov pay its toll of life and property to seismic instability. . , When it is to: be paid the Intel- ligence of man cannot foresee; neither can human ingenuity find means to escape . the tolL v ' . I BOY CRIME T. HE Portland police are looking f or a boy who drove . an auto in. mnnnfTinn wn n in me M.M . with the at- tempted burglary in which a seventeen-year-old ?boy was killed. There u in ctpmal harmonv j, J !. an eternal harmony be-f vJ,? ? 0 fndv t burfIar- The theft of. autos by boys is a! comxhon practice. It bas bfeen f thought. a Joke" when noys seized -a' parked auto, sped away for a Joy ride or for a drive into distant counties. r. , . 1 , , . - . ui ii was noi a .joKe. . u waH;riehts a , tragedy. f The (theft of the auto is a start on the down grade. I Burglary lies along the-same path. ! - The one is preparation of mind and motive for the other."' The bent of purpose that leads a boy to take, another's auto- in so-called fun is the same bent of purpose that! winds up - with a hold-up, a bur- glary, the' Jail, or may be. death, Society Is partly responsible ihle for the burglaries because It laughs and its authorities are lax when the boys steal automobiles. There is good in the boys : if. all society will' aid the- good instead of en couraging the bad. ' AN IMPORTANT REPORT T HE first annual report of the state' highway engineer is a complete review, of all the work, done the past year by the department together with a de tailed statement of engineering and construction , costs. It also con tains many plates- and much tech nical information making it valu able for reference purposes. ,? riJunng tne year the highway de partment has been' in operation much has been accomplished in inaugurating a new era in the public road and bridge business. Referring to the ODDosftlon to I the existence of a state hlehwav i commission Engineer Bowlby in his ' preface pertinently remarks that this opposition Is manifested by two classes; those who have not an un derstanding of its true -function in the road scheme of a state and those who feel that .they have lost something because of its existence. This is a covert allusion io those bridge companies who find it more profitable to themselves and more expensive to taxpayers to do busi ness withJndividual county courts than to ffea with the state .high way department. In his exposition of the great profit made on bridges in the past Mr. Bowlby has performed a valu able public serviee which should result in financial, benefit" as it brings . the ; conditions under the light of publicity. He makes a strong argument in favor of Dlac- Jng the designing and construction of bridges and culverts under the. supervision of the state highway de partment. During the past year some thirty bridges were thus su pervised and the saving to taxpay ers much more than paid the cost of the department. .;Then there is the grading con tractor who is always trying to get higher classifications for material removed. Because he is not fa vored by the engineer and -his prof Its not swelled, quite naturally he Is opposed to a state highway com mission. The report shows that there are 37,639 miles of road in Oregon. From tbe years 1903 to 19f'4, in clusive, the total amount expended by the counties of the state on roads and i bridges was - approxi mately $22,000,000.; Of this the suDVof $2,087,000 was spent on bridges. K;:i.;:' V :. :;; REVERSION T O MAKE up for the great loss of human Uvea In the prevail ing r European var a sugges tion has been made that the clock -of time be turned back and the ancient law of permitting po lygamy, be restored. , - f ! Thls us v another reminder of the brutaliilng effects of war on the same line with the encouragement that vis "now being given , by (he contending : governments to the marriage of the "young men before departing for: the battlefield. - . Why, foolish-women 1 Get' ye to your prayings. Paster yet breed ye and bring to the oirtnr . Glut your fond hearts in their laugh- . ter and playlngs, Splendidly: rear them to fatten the earth. . -r CONFISCATION . E' IGHT years ago John E, Schuy ler , was -convicted .of murder In New Jersey. The evidence against him was . circumstan tial. ; He was twice sentenced to be hanged and finally- the governor commuted the sentence to life Im prisonment. - Schuyler, from !' the time of his arrest, protested his in hocence. - .' .-. In November, 1912, another mart confessed f to- the . murder. ' The state .board of pardons, aftr ' two years delay, finally' became con vinced of Schuyler's Innocence, and he ; waa released- from prison three weeks ago. . The pardoned innocent ;man says he baa suffered a'financlal loss of $1 3 ,0 4 0 A 1 temiaed i as follows: Wages. Jost," $8640; r loss by fore closure of- mortgage on. home, 41400; savings ?; spent in " legal de fense,' $ 1 0 0 0 money, borrowed and spent In defense, $1050 V tools 'lost when he was arrested. $250; ex pense of obtaining release, 3700. His ; dependent blind mother died while he was in the penitentiary. and so did a sister dependent on biro. ' What - should New Jersey " do about it? It is written In, the fun damental Jaw . that' no man's, prop erty can be taken from him without compensation! And yet New J ersey has confiscated eight ' years of Schuyler's life; .caused him . to lose ? an , Ms - savines. maae ; nis . Dima . . . rtf haf. ,.' Ai with Krnfr-n . iflii., hearts and the state now seeks to Bettle the bm with.-aiisaUy,eii graved license to be at liberty. . . , ' J? thtXl Si!?"Ifi AM"?! ,"7 TTprope Vs no us V&iUOV fcUU K.VUA40Vb.WU WJi uwm.uu OUR MINCE PIES i HE ferocity of alcohol - in its - deep-laid plots against. "may ors and their aides, has always 'been vaguely suspected. ; But not' until the : fortunate discovery of vast stores" of the wicked stuff cunningly concealed in mince pie 1 was it known bow really immiMt is the peril to which our . men Of 1 prominence are exposed. , In this hour, it Is indeed pleas- j ing to remember that we have a,1 health department "whose function-1 aries can investigate the wicked j which convicts you, and may the pie, crammed full as it is with fell sheriff then hold and hang you? liquid, and served, by restaurant f Yes, say the Georgia courts and so keepers , for the nefarious purpose says the' United States District of putting - the mayor's office . to Judge . Inr Georgia. . Says the su sleep. The policed and the detec- preme court of the United StatesY- tives-and the department of con- stables and all the sheriffs and dep uties should I be put '". on , the case, and no 'stone be "left' unturned to punish the guilty perpetrators : and protect the mince meat'rfrom fur ther vile dilutions. How in these - piping times the , restaurant keepers can afford to be so lavish with " expensive in- ' gredients is past finding out, espe-. i cially when house wiyeSican -scarcely. afford a little lder in the mixture, ; Dut know .that the deadly pie has already got one victim, and our administration has reason to be as aroused over what may next hap- old courtroom, its windows levej pen as is London over the prospect with the broad highways and by of . a .Zeppelin raid. -"v j ways, holds judge and jury, officers -Anyhow, there - should be no of the law, crowding ranks of spec shirking of duty by anybody. The tators filling benches, 'with chairs uproarous and cantankerous pies i crowded . into ' the open spaces should be sternly dealt with. Jaround court and jury. Outside MODERN SURGERY i'i.-; -, i.. -" R ESULTS achieved by modern sufgery are shown by a re port to the army commission made by the director of the French medical department. The wounded cared for ' by the French between September 15 and Novem ber 30 numbered approximately 500,000. ' ; s : : Ti - - . The report says that : 54 per cent4; of ; them ; returned; direct to- r-fM "rIn Hne, 2 4 . per, cent were: r8ent out, on furlough during con Talescence and 'have since returned to the front, and 17. per cent are still in hospitals to complete their recovery. Only 2 . per. cent died from the effects of their injuries, and -1 per cent are unfit for fur ther -service." i : ' "One must bless' the name : of Pasteur and the name of Lister," says Dr. Rochard, director of the department. He declares that the mortality would , probably fall as low as one per cent if the Wounded could be received from the battle lines with;less delay and if there were enough professional surgeons to treat. them alL vv-.i ; 1rhe lemarkable progress -.made by surgery has-been demonstrated In time, of peace, , and the figures furnished . by the French ' medical department demonstrate ' that mod ern methods have not broken down under a ' tremendous load. It Is fortunate for the human race that the army surgeon .has kept pace with the makers; of " biff cannon and rapid-fire guns.-' - WAR ATROCITIES NPREJUDICED people have Ger- discredited reports of man, atrocities In Belgium. Now comes' the news from London that Kate; Hume, a Dum fries girl, - has been convicted In the high court ; at s Edinburgh ? of having caused 'to be published let ters saying that her -sister, a nurse in Belgium,,; had been mutilated and killed by the Germans. -V Prosecution of the young woman was caused by a ; letter printed in" a Dumfries newspaper last Septem ber - The, letter; was supposed to have come from Miss; Hume's sis ter,, who' had gone tothe front : as a - nurse. - It said she was dying after .suffering ' horrible cruelties at .the hands of German, soldiers. The , British ' public was- Incensed, accepting publication of the letter as positive proof that charges of I German atrocities .were founded in fact. Later " the nurse turned up alive and well; She disclaimed all knowledge of the letter. -. The sis ter, who remained ' at,- home, was arrested on a charge of writing it and forging ' the signature. : After three ' months , ia prison - she con fessed, pleading . that 6th er, stories of atrocities had worked on .. her imagination. , . , . " The jury that .found Miss Hume guilty recommended mercy,' and she was released on probation, -but not before Lord Strathclyde, the judge, had denounced her conduct as a deliberate attempt to . alarm and Trejudice thepublic. . ; v The ..incident has, value in'illus trating what is already known. "A large proportion of the stories ' of atrocities are fabrications pure' and simple. ' England ' has served a good purpose -by furnishing con- crete evidence of the fact. . . -- would It not strengthen the case ' stltudbiu' 'If would seem, ' there of the women-Jurors bill; f no ex-' fore,; that 'the supreme court must emption rrom service were . pro-; vided? ' And.why not eliminate the exemption? When . men veniremen have - legitimate excuses, " they, are relieved from service. - Women who have real reasons for not serving -j on' a jury could easily, get: excused, THE JOURNAL1 A NATIONAL EDITORiAL Tlie Frank Cause Celebre By . WAIJOO C. MORSE - Councillor, , American Academy of Jurisprudence. - .J" ' JValdo Grant Morses lawyer, Is "one of the founders of, a councillor in and treasurer! ot the ; American Academy of Jurisprudence,', an. association of eminent Jurists formed to codify the statuteaJiOf .the; .several states. l; Mr.1lai Morse, as j New York : Palisades com misstQner.: isi cTeneraliy credited with having; saved the famous ; palisades of ; the.; Hudson ' from -destruction. through Ma-New Tork and New jer- fey and conirressionai .legislation.. e coneVva"tior and iretr0Z conservation and scenic preservation. copyright; social legislation and work-' men's compensation Jaws. II If AY a mob and a court scare Y away your lawyers, a sheriff lock ou away from the jury r we will near arguments as to that,' and in the meantime defer the hanging.'" Let us consider for a moment the quiet and judicial air under the dome of the capitol at Washngton. and let the stillness and . decorum there presented sink Into our minds; then: the jail in Atlanta where Frank will be set free, either in this world or in the next. Nowfor a moment live through the recent scenes in that same city, An old and dilapidated courthouse about to be abandoned, and a new one almost completed. The dingy ; are v the . multitudes, a mob, no standing room and a great 'com munity stirred as never .. before. The' Frank cause celebre is closing and hardly can order "be ; main tained within, while- outsiue the mob hoots, or cheers, or curses as the proceedings are. signaled to them. ;';:c" "; " - ' ' 'J :-.-" ... Days have passed, with cheers that have, encouraged the prosecu tion, and angry threats that' have terrorized the defense; lor surety the c?owd la. Caucasian and the Af ricaiL and Semitic sympathizers are hard to, find and harder to be rec onciled, one with the other. ' The court, overborne by fear of vio lence, calls two of Frank's counsel and tells them acquittal "would mean lynching. Will they consent J to a verdict . with their client safe I behind the bars? And the lawyers, overborne by terror, consent, 4 s So Frank remained In the jail. The jury rose. Little need to fear acquittal and violence. "Guilty", said the jury, and. a mighty cheer and ; cry for vengeance iwent up from the crowd outside. " Was this due process ' of law? What, shall the supreme court of the United "States declare? May we be spared any . impotent ruling that tie court must - dismiss this question because of some technical failure on : the . part - of counsel for the condemned man. One failure of counsel la enough! A great question is presented. Shall a man be deprived of his life without due process of law? . No says the con stitution of the United States. -Shall a man charged with an In famous crime be faced by a s' jury of. 12 men, each, one ready to an nounce -their verdict- of his guilt? May, lie - ask each .man! of the 12 whether the verdict be his? Yes, has Answered the common .law for centuries.: The accused- may not even waive or abandon this right. . The public as such must protect innocence everywhere. ; . So great judges have ruled. . But, be that as it "may," we hope no court ever again can declare the possibility of a conviction 'when the defendant forcibly "and without choice is de tained and given no opportunity to object. . ' -.'., - ; This - is no mere question of a single life, but one for every man. Shall . you be put on trial for yonr life or your liberty and shall timid or careless lawyers lose or dishon est lawyers barter your rights? -. We wish for. the honor of the bar and the dignity of the court that . the lawyers had stood their ground and had - braved the mob and that their client had joined itrl the defiance, inquiring from every j to get a seat on . the cars to and from juror," face to face, : whether the Work. The Jitneys have filled a great verdict of guilty was the verdict t nfed n the ioe-toitown f runs. The nrw.i n.F fi,v - la 1 street car company, as a result of its of that individual juror. Such "i retrenchment policy, has so cut down due process Of .law. , a street car service, that It is difficult Might not " the result have been 1 at any time of the day to obtain a' seat. different? Jurors have been known to change their verdict when facing the, accused.;' We - hope that tha court may declare that no man and no state can leave the Issue nf Ufa an a baeatelle to he nlaved ot llle as aDagaieue io De piayea for, arranged about and jeopardized by court and counsel in the ab - sence of the man who may suffer. -:'--:";'1v:- :,,-, i':i;'l-5t';;V 2- And If the conviction - be , void, and the sentence a nullity. because I of the errors or the court and counJ sel. what . then? - No man shall" j twice be put in. Jeopardy for he . :same crime." So EDeaks the con-i determine whether the defendant. Frank, - has been properly . convicted and must suffer under the sentence pronounced; or on the other h and , has been denied due Drocess Of.law: and is entitled to go thence and never - again be called -in 'question for the murder of ' Mary Phagan. " .'. Copyright." ISIS. Letters From the People , (Commnaleatfona. aeat to The' Journal for pvblleatkm in tbla oepartment aboold be writ ten on only one tide tbe paper, 'abould not exceed 300 worda a lenctta aud moat be ac companied - by tbe - name tnd addreaa ot the Bender. -.. If , tbe. . writer doea- not dettre to have tbe same puhliabed. Le ahoald so state.) 'Dlaeusslon la the sreateat ef alt reforibera. It ratlooallzea eerTthlne it toncbea. - It robs princlplea ot all fate aajictlty and throws them back en their . reasonabiPceaa. . If tbey bare bo reaaoiiabl9ea, it rotblesaly eraahea them out of existence and seta up ita oa a cotrclilaiona t ti'-Woo ; The Milkman's Lost Bottles. ? ' Portland, Jan;-'1. -To the Editor of The Journal A ?ew -years .ago 'The Journal engaged vigorously for some time .in making ' war- on 1 unsanitary milk. Much has been ! accomplished, ho doubt, and the number of bacteria In mllk destroyed, by ,, that war would probably r be beyond human , computa tion, j But Portland - is now ?, said to have ; a very- good quality of "milk, while, the'milk men who are. furnish ing it ; have? been 1 put to ; much ex pense 'in doing so.; 54 We seldom hear any of them complaining, but there Is one burden they have borne, mostly in silence, and if the. consumer would j try half as hard to assist to bring ;a. 1 remedy for it a milkmen have tried i to bring wholesome milk, to these con sumers, thia burden might soon be." re moved. . That is the awfu) loss and' annoyance; in the failure , to return milk bottles. , - .' It Is estimated " that "the, milk pro ducers and dealers of Portland lost in the year 1914 ' as much as S60.000 on bottles, the most of which loss was on account of consumers falling to return daily to the milk deliverer the bottle left the previous trip. I would estimate that five out Of six consumers , return their bottles regularly, daily, .but the sixth one does not do so. It is no doubt -more through thoughtlessness and lack of system that the daily putting out of the bottle Is neglected. Customers do not realize the great Inconvenience caused dairymen, especially on days following Sundays and holidays. Th milkman himself has, as a rule, no holidays, but he. sometimes tries to get home In time for a little extra rest, " perhaps at dinner time. But generally he gives that comfort up, when he has been in. the business some time, on account of the delays caused by standing at doors knocking and pushing buttons in order to cause a bottle to appear. The milk deliverer often goes on the run. All have often observed this, no doubt. He gets up on time, starts the trip ou time, ; rain or shine, and by all possi ble means tries to keep on time clear, around. - But these awful waits! : No bottle, out here. He knocks. , He waits. Waits more, then starts ! for the street. Someone now calls from the house. He goes to the back door. A voice inside says, "Just a moment Got to empty your -yesterday's bottle first' He waits again. He hears the bottle. emptied and the water pouring into it to rinse it. He says, "Never mind washing it. Til do that." Oh,' I don't want to give you a dirty bot tle." Finally be gets that bottle, but has lost more time than the bottle is worth, for he Is still further behind schedule and he sees in -his mind - a oozen DiocKa ahead of him a woman who is waiting to ask him what In the of milk. So you lose time lose your bottle, perhaps, next place, for you are too late now, and I might say too much, disgusted, to stop and try to get it. People generally ; enjoy holidays, of course. The milk man "hates 'em." for he not only ; does his work as u'sual on such days, but it Is much harder . for him, for .reasons above stated. .' - - ".- Many Of the bottles that cannot e gathered regularly are not gathered at alL. The mUk man cannot well keep an account of them-'-darkhess. rain, limited time, all are against him in this. , He has to keep moving, bot tles or no bottles, and, also keep buy ing bottles. Hence this enermou loss of $60,000. -. , Put out the milk bottle today, Mrs. Consumer, and tomorrow. Get tbe babit. Get systematic It will ! all come easy oon, and your milkman will thank you from the bottom of his heart. A. L. HAilPTON. Daly's ; Employment Ordinance. t Portland, Jan. J8.--To; the-Editor of The Journal--Referring to Daly's em ployment ordinance, limiting aliens on public works, it strikes me as being one of the best and c fairest measures that has come up. We all know that It is no more than right that Amer icans should have the. preference, and especially citizens of Portland. Whether it would be constitutional or not I could not say,, but It seems to me that -a man that has to pay for many, city' improvements and . taxes ought to have some priority when It comes to employment.' I am - not .op posed to foreign labor. X would be glad to see -everybody working. Al though : I have been out of work alt winter, I know a great many are worse i off r than myself, especially those who . have Jost tfteir homes. 1 think It is up to the Head officials to do something for American labor in this line. If we had a few more Will H. Palys in power it would help some. . . F. JOHNSON, From a Jitney Patron. Portland, Jan. 19 TO the Editor of The Journal President Franklin T. Griffith's plea for publicity in yester day's Journal demands a reply. As neither . a Jitney bus . owner -; nor an active opponent of the street cars, but simply as at. Jitney user, let me answer I live between -the Rose City and Bast Ankeny ' car lines. -I ,; come - to -'' work between 9 and 1 i m. patrpnjze toth lines Impartially, "as th -spirit moves me." Only on two occasions since November 6 have X been able i to ODt4in a twhere -l-board tha 8treet car at JSast Twentyrftrst street, j -when we reach1 the west side there jare usually from 19 ,to ; 20 . persons t standing or almost -enough to fill an. i other car. - It Is these "standees" who 'intend to use 'the jitney all the time. so long as tney give seats. - . - . . - I may say that jitney competition PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE XArge hopes from small Ideas arrow. , A bachelor commands; a married man. takes orders. a k k ' ' Not all women-appreciate men -who aet like gentlemen. ... - . ,?ett?F mect nin today', than - the -Many a woman. has a. fine-carriage who never owned a horse.,,;...- ' .( j. a : -. . '-. An rx-ullst os-iinn i slghtedness of, a. selfish man. i Few people to" whom you aiW Intro duced really care to know you.- - " f'&'-ery-married -woman knows a lot or stingy stories on her husband.' - 'Il-'8 tne lron ?rtP ot Poverty that makes. a man's clothes look rusty. Just about the" time a. man succeeds In developing a theory it explodes. It takes a homely girl 'to . look ner - One 'advantage in being' a bachelor Is the-collection of relatlves-in-law he need not -stand for. ; - -- - A, woman's Indifference . has reached the. limit if i she ho-longer listens, when her husband talks iij his sleep.."- As a -nri' woman -spends- a.' part of jher life, nipklnar a. hnW band and the rest, ef it picking on him. Today the boy who Isasslng mother will grow up and marry a woman who will, npt stand for any.pert talk. , i '!,-; : ' y - - 0 ; A man whn hl(vna alt W el low "man tells him is likely to Invest 1 an automobile that is' even; worse than s smelL U.f v '' GROWTH OfrTYPICAL By -John ,M. Oskison. ; - The J other day T read that Herman Frasch left more than 15,000,000 when he died last May. Some $860,000 cash In bank, $700,000 in stock of the Stand ard Oil company of New Jersey, more than $1,250,000 of stock In the Union Sulphur company, etc.. so the news papers reported his wealth. ' ,' I was Interested, for I had written for a magazine the story of Mr. Frasch'a achievements as an indus trial chemist, and bad learned a good deal about how he acquired his fortune.- I , -- . He "was one of the young intellec tual Immigrants from Germany, com ing over to America to find, better op portunities, as a' pharmacist at the age of 17. He went into a Philadelphia laboratory, where he worked for a few years. ' Then he saw the possi bilities In . industrial chemistry. He began to experiment with materials used in. manufacture; he got his first patent on a process for utilizing tin scrap. He uncovered a rich field. Soon ! he was working for the pio neer oil companies, solving their diffi cult refining problems, and ' taking on the Rose. City line has resulted in a faster schedule. . I agree .with Mr. Griffith that the Jitney should ; be regulated and li censed, j They won't object, if they ere- wise; for- then people will have no hesitancy - about patronizing - them. . . Jf Mr; Griffith ever rdde about Port land in one of his own street cars, if he ever used any other means of trans portation than an automobile, be. would understand why all Portland has hailed th lltnev with, enthusiasm,- In our ' most prosperous times- oirV street car ; heads have made promisesand never I fulfilled them. Now they will have land in their own street cars, and less in automobiles. Just so soon will ' the street car service improve to the ex tent that we shall prefer to patronize tt to the nimble Jitneys. -But street par company officials nev er will they know too well what trav eling in a street oar In these days of Lad service means. F. L. H. ."flie Jitney's Nickels. ' Portland. Jan.. 18. To the Editor of The" Journal In patronizing the Jit ney .bus I feel that our money stays in Oregon,' ho eastern stockhold ers drawing big dividends. Influence of Sixth street .property holders, with the Portland Railway, Light and FoW. er .company has changed the geog raphy of the city so that Third street holders, have : lost considerably by the constant ; changing : of" routes. , All street car men are easterners and the men who are running buses could not get a job with the railroad and now the mighty -railroad says they should not live. I hope to see all buses owned by private Individuals. . - JOHN DONALDSON. , Women's Work. : Portland. Jan. 18. To' the Editor of The Journal 1 ; was glad to see the letters. In ; the paper against women working unnecessarily!; It Is a subject of grave r importance to my mind. Think of . the famlliea without food, shelter or clothing because the head of -the house cannot find employment, On. the -other hand, picture a home where husband and wife '- Doth earn large salaries. I, for one, believe that a - woman's ' work is in her own home and caring for her home and children, and only urgent necessity should drive her to seek outside employment. . . A WOMAN READER-: '- -T 7 i i " " -" . W . is. i r "A Petition. ' - By Edith J. Pernot. On Mother Europe's troubled breast " Her babes lie' brused and torn. -By war's fierce strife and tumult rent, By earthquake's, fearful ravage bent. , She bow ber . bead to mourn. :' V - . -- . But not alone "her grief 'she bears For far o'er ocean's blue , - HeV loyat ' sister . country's heart - V r Throbs Wita affection true, America has heard ihe call. . . - Of need and dire distress. And from her rich and boundless store She seeks to aid those-children dear. Li The prey of war's duress. Her daughters fair, both , young aid - Old. - ;.:;.-.'.- Now pl the needles bright And - weave, with s-v many a tender thought. f - . The garments, t by those stitches wrought, . ' ; To comfortin the fight. - ' - Iler prayers -are for -those ones bereft or husbands. lathers dear.- . And brothers, too O cruel war! Today as merciless as of yore, ; .' We pray thy. end be r.ear. , : And. on that devastated waste - May.-homes anew arise, . . ' . -Where love and peace and 'harmony 4 Mar asauaa this fell celamity. -- And dreadful -Facrifice. - , ' : PortlantJJanuary 16, 1915. a i imrrvr in' tne xace-and see Its -faults . 1 - pirs' ocmwi. a acnoon v . . , , program is to be given in tbe morning, ! The average woman gets off a troK I an ld fashioned picnic dinner at noon ; leyjcar and Z loke in the saiman. athletic contestsjn the afternoon. - . . ... . v " I AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Judged by the water pipe standard. Wallowa has this -winter achieved a new low temperature record. " A cor respondent reports that mains have been frosen up for the first time. . - - . . . , - Burns News: The winter baa been art ideal one so far. There is plenty of hay for stock and plenty of snow j ; whole stretch of country to the south that will Insure' another good crop, ward, clear to Crescent City, CaU The With spring and summer conditions at J whole country wa unknown -a wilder all favorable, Harney county. wlU see ness of timber and brush and the 1815 f ' y ro"Perou .. mountains were foil of game 'of all ' f , a . Iklnds. deer, bear andbest and most Hopefully the La Grande Observer "numerous of all, elk, that roamed in halls a prospective local commercial .'hands of hundreds over the country, recrudescence in this language: "Sure, j Port Orford was an open roadstead. It turn out andhelpthe Commercial clubfhad a small store, poa toff tee and; sa-1- pi 1a Vis ynln- it has noon and a detail of Unlted States -vv awais B,muiV DIHyrj tllVlTJ W fJLg AI J thing doing with the Old club. Lets reorganize and breathe new life in the game once more. , . . . a . . ' A novel community gathering' that Is expected, to bring together 1000 In habitant of ihe Applegate valley, Jackson county, is planned for a date fn May by W. O. Wheeler, principal In his enthusiasm for the sugar beet 1 project now being boosted at Medford. a market man of that citv has offered to pay 9200 for the first beef animal fattened from a sugar beet factory in Jackson county. And that is not by way of - betting there won't be any such animal, . but that there - will be, and that it will be well worth the money. . .-' a -.-' '';.;! . ," . Grants Pass Courier:. W.' A. Hood has spent his spare hours during the winter In building a rocking chair In the mission style from Josephine coun ty woods, the timber being gleaned from his wood pile. The chair" is made from quarter sawed oak, lausel and manzanita. the grain and the finish being especially good. The piece of furniture will be sent to the Panama Pacific exposition. . AMERICAN FORTUNE stock In part payment stock that grew tremendously In value Just be cause of his work.- ' - From oil this inquiring mind' turn ed to- SUlnhur. With vnnitarfnl A- oosits of sulnhur . under th iit i certain, sections of ., our country, we -were importing the sulphur we used. We had given up the difficult Job of getting sulphur to the top of tbe ground In America. - Here was a problem to interest Frasch; Jt was a man-size Job. With persistence, patience,, scientific logic, and a capacity for constructive Im agination that placed him among the commercial poets of the last genera tion in America, this chemist' tackled the sulphur . problem. He solved it by a process wholly new and immense ly appealing. He was one ' of our constructive millionaires. He created wealth in the mvm iiiera.1 interpretation. ills for tune was fairly won. v In spite of many irritating excep tions, I think of Herman Frasch's for. tune as. a typical American - fortune. And he won't be the last in this coun try to win by brains applied construct lvely. - 4- . . A FEW SMILES "Ton say," said tha attorney for the defense, "that, though the night was . very dark, you saw Rastus Johnson leaving T " n t . hncoop ; at midnight from your bedroom window?" "Tea, s!r.'v replied the plaintiff. "How could - you distinguish him . m thai tilaclrnoa. r .v... oignt oemanded the attorney. ' tJ "Why er." said the plal ntlf f,s-th darkness' got so much blacker all of a sudden that Rastus's presence there was obvious. No other human being could cast such a shadow on anything already so dark as that night already was." Judge. r Charles Ogle was . leaving the Imp aaafMaaaaMBBaasBBBBaaaal rBiBji va. . a,air siuaio tne otner aay when a pretty young girl approached htm. "I beg pardon," she said, timid like, "but would you care to help the News boys Home?" Charley looked at her kindly, "Sure, "where are they?" answered, "Do you find that set of books yoj bought interestingr s "wot. very, : con fessed the man who tries to improve him self. , - , "Do you regret your bargain?" , "A little, rd feel better abou t It If .the m an .whA a m. m around to collect the cash was as good at telling a funny yarn as tha one who sold me .the books." Simplified Belgian Names. Front the London Outlook. I spent' the night sleeping better than at home on straw in a water surrounded post looking across to Dix? mude, which our own soldiers aptly speak of as "Thiektnud." , It Is - true that our men are rather strangers this way. They have their bands full over at Tpres, which they call,' as a matter of course, "Wipers." There is, -If you remember, a Tpres toirer on the old walls of Rye, at home In Sussex, which has been given the same pronounciation. The British, Tommy does not commonly carry maps, and consequently the pe- culiar, half-humorous twists he glve ta place -names have a tendency to be come permanent. . There Is, for ex ample, a place near Poperlnghe called Matou, which has quite veasily become "What-O:" Just as ; Wytschaete has changed with celerity to s"Whltesheet," and Fleurbalx to: "Flower Box," -wbile CroIx-an-Bols Impossible for a British tongue to circumvent has become "Crossboya." . . . The War's Snrprtee. From the New Tork Herald. At the beginning of the war It was said that every one of the nations bad surprises in store for Jtheir enemies and the world., There were wonderful military and naval: Inventions that bad been kept i inviolably : secret' and . that were to be . sprung . on the foe when least expected. Five "months' Of war have now passed a mf . the jooe . au preme surprise, for the world tsMhat highly civilized nations do not perh to have realized ' the awful loss of: Wen '- that would . be involved. ; The - ,42-cehtl-meter gun 'that reduces forts thought almost impregnable In a. few daya is as nothing compared to the loss ot more- than 8,000,000 of men io killed, wounded 'and missing, which, accord ing to apparently conservative esti mates, the Germans and Austrians bava suffered up to this time. . WW ' he 7yg OREGON COUNTRrtX "IK EAKXY CATS" t By Trad LwdOay. SpeoU! gtaT Writac ef " Tka Jaaraai. -- ' C . "When I first went to Port Orford, In 1852." said William Packwood of Baker, "there was not a permanent settler, so far as I know, in the Co- Iqulllo or Coos Bay country, nor In th arMHery, under command of Lleuteiw" ant Wyman, and our company, Com pany C, First United 8tates Dragoons. ""As soon as we were back from "a Rogue River trip, ail hands were put I to work building quarters for the post at Port Orford. We made our build ings out of heavy logs, .which. -could, if occasion demanded, be used as forts against Indiana. 'For our horses and mules we had canvas covered sheds. The steamer- from San Francisco ; to ?r"ana ca"? . Pul vone There was at this time in Port Orford. J. CI.-. Pranklin anil a Mr Twl.i- . Thav had a little sawmill near the lagoon. I was never at the. mill and do not think they were ever able o do- much of anything., Franklin' afterward went1 up to the Umatilla country and located near where Athena now is, Tyler . was an old sailor, and Is no doubt 'over the river long since. .Two other men II remember well were James M. Gamble, wso afterward became a prominent man, connected with telegraph' com-; panies. The other man was the , fa meus Oakland multi-millionaire, 'K. M. Smith, the railroad man, well known as the 'borax king.r All were then as poor as 'Job's turkey. Spanish Mary kept a little store. Later she married a Mr. - Sutton.: an -engineer, and. 'the last time I , saw them was In Portland. S j They were charitable and liberal, and no one deserving ever failed to receive help from them. I do not know, but I believe that both of them, are now, 'over the river.'; -;: - - :" -v,' "These are about all the old timers, i except Jake Summers, Charley Foster, Ktm-1 Unlcan, Simon Lundry. Randolph Tlchnor, who were all at Port Orford In that early day, 1 '--,-'- -.c ' "Back of Port Orford was the finest body ef cedar timber I ever saw. I went out with one or two others of ourgl ill 7 1 1 BUIIlu a, VilUll. 1 L WU. Ml uhsurveyed, so ' all , we could do. was to post a notice and do some -work.. Soon after doing so a Captain Munson came to see me at our quarters and said that Nephas and Tlchnor, In look ing around for a location for a mill. had found a spring of water on my claim and wanted it. -1 told him to tall them to . go ahead. I could not hold the claim. He said they would . pay for it. I told him whatever they did was satisfactory to me. That evening he came back and gave me $125 in coin, and on that, claim Nephas and Tlchnor put up the first sawmill, for cutting white cedar, ever built in Ore gon. This was in .1852. I have no idea how long they- ran their mill.' It was in the sixties that a fire broke out and came near burning Port Orford;: and ; the whole country. In the 'i early days one or two cuts were alii I that was taken from a tree. Captain, Tlchnor took up a claim and had his family there at the time. Later on be I married a second time, and now lles buried on the hill north of whereTour soldiers' quarters jWere, with his.two wives, one on each side, of him,' , The Ragtime Muss " Points of View ' In the rooming of life we are careless and gay - ; And always we manage to make ' Mere play of our work, and hard work of our play; . , . In the midst of It all we're awake - To the curious pleasure of lookiiiJE ahead , . To the not yet experienced new; And we're given to boasting, since truth must be said. - . Of the wonderful things we shall do. In the noontime of life we are chock full of vim, . - ! And push and alertness and go But we're made a bit i cautious - by visions as dim As when first We pursued them, .you snow; ( - - -- , So we hurry and worry and toil with ' the rest, - , Our chosen chimeras pursuing. Meanwhile we are sure with particular . rest - -;-..''-: - ',v J, ' I To boast of the things we are doing.. : In the evening of life we arrive at thw level , . ' ' s Where our vision too clear is and. We sethat the blue bird has hatched - a blue devil . To lurk at the back of our brain. . , To keep us comparing the things we. - have found . ''."-''. With, the things we have missed Is -, his fun; . r . . ' 80 lest somebody guess that he m dog- v, King us round We boast.of the things we have done, ; A Contest for the Boobyshlp. From the Chicago Post. The Wall Street Journal takes cx caption to the opinion of an exchange that Massachusetts has "the worst' system of taxation in the country." It declares "Ohio runs her close, and ; New Tork has specisltles that chal- v lenge competition." But the Evening Wisconsin of Milwaukee refuses to let : the booby prize go to any of these states. It loudly asserts the taxation.-: system of - Wisconsin is "positively Wicked" and the state income tar an "atrocity." If there Is to-be a con test for badness we hasten to enter , Illinois in the race. We have a few choice specimens- of Iniquity in . the' ; matter of taxation that will- make the exhibits of any other state look vir tuous by comparison. ; "Confiscatory' Is the term most often applied In Illi nois," with emphasising adjectives. ?;. - Prosperity. , -. From, the Woodhurn Independent, - "We all talk, prosperity; .. Now .let us act It." Oregonlanv - ; - Right. Stop giving 'so much Space to free souphouse news and don't take such a pessimistic - political view of ; the situation. - Why, m have got it . into their craniuras that there will be nothing doing until Wilson is out of the presidential chair, the Idea "put there by professional politicians and , political organs. - The Sunday Journal Tb Great' Home Newspaper, ' : consUts of ; ' " Four- news sections replete with - ... illustrated features. .' k. - Illustrated magazine of quality. ' Woman's page of me mtfit. ' Pictorial news" 'supplement v1 Superb comle' section. x 1 'X 7' S Cents the'Copy "" J V .,1
