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e THE JOURNAL TV- S tXVKV KNPKNT NEWWAi'gB C. - 8. ' J ACKS.ON ppblUnet I'ublUhed eerr evening except Sonde I nd . Sunday morntnc .t The Journal Bulla- ly- Broadway end Yn;:t t.. Portland. Or. a.uii-1-m ,v tlx jvtnffitr a: Portland. Or., 6ur E traoamlukm ttiruaeb .ba malia second , elaaa matter. 'I.l.EI'HONE--Malii Tl 73:, Home A -6051. All depart feen reached by tbes numbrrs. Tell the operator what 'eiartment ou want. tUKUlUN ADVfcU'l ISING BEP. ESICNTATIVB Benjamin Ksotrxir Co.. Brannwlck Bid?.. m Fifth ae.. New York. People-. Una Bldg., !h lea e.a. ttutM-rlntiurt terms "r uall or to any ad . tfrea in tb United ntatea or Mestco: DAILY One er $5.00 Or.e roontb .. .60 , SUNDAY One year S2.3U t One mouth SS 'v. DAILY AND SUNDAY Ooe fmr. ...... i One montb S3 -S3 I will chide no heathen in the world but myself, against ' whom I know most faults. Shakespeare. GIVE THKM CREDIT THE Portage Railway Commis sion of Oregon, composed of Joseph T. Peters, L. A. Lewis and William J. Mariner, have inea ineir nnai report. The members of this commission have served about eight years with out compensation of any kind. During that period they have op erated the Portage Railway, as well as constructed about three and a half miles of new trackage. They have always kept within their "appropriations and have done ex cellent service. The legislature of 1912 appropriated $25,000 for the maintenance and operation oi the railway for the years 1913 and 1914. During these years, owing to- the discontinuance of the Open River Transportation Company they entered into a contract . with the United States' Engineers' Depart ment to handle tthe work of the portage road with the result that on January 1, 1915, there re mained to the credit of the com mission the sum of $22,841.40. They not only handled the rail way with the' idea of facilitating the government work on the canal at Celilo, but also to maintain it for its chief purpose of trans- ierring ireignt. ine resun ui i..wir work has been unquestionably to expedite the completion of the Ce lilo canal as well as to diminish to some extent its cost. They are turning back to the 6tate rolling stock, buildings, track and other property which if prop erly handled ought to bring a con siderable sum of money. .They have, of course, served without pay and without any hope of reward other than that of ren dering the nublic a faithful ser vice. The construction of the Portage Railway was not only a dominant factor in bringing about the ap propriationb that led to the build ing of the Celilo Canal, but was an agency that measurably enabled proof to be made of what could be done on the river, and was a factor, and a very great one, in bringing ahout the lowering of rates, to a number of points in the Inland Empire. It was an expendi ture tb.ajj was a wise investment for the state, and is exactly the character of appropriation that may be often made in the public Interest when to some it appears the expenditure is not warranted. Mr. Peters, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Mariner of the Portage Railway Commission are entitled to the lasjting appreciation of the public for the high service they have ef ficiently and gratuitously rendered the state. Let them have the credit so often denied men who do such things. LODGE IN 1901 SENATOR LODGE is among the filibusters seeking by obstruc tive tactics recognized only in the United States senate to defeat the ship purchase bill. In 1901 Senator Lodge published an essay on "Parliamentary Minori ties" in which he said : If rules are not framed so as to give the majority power to act, the transaction of the public business, even on the most limited scale, is at an end. If, for example, unlimited debate Is to be allowed, then a mi nority has an absolute veto on all action. Lungs avid language are all that Is needed under this system to enable a handful of men to control the legislation of, a great nation. Fourteen years later Senator , Lodge, is found among the "lungs and language" contingent. When did the statesman talk? When tire essay was written or was it when the partisan became upper most? - Granting that men may differ on the question of government ownership of ocean transportation facilities, the American people will asrree that Senatnr Td?n wao -lo-b in;1901. The United States senate Claims reputation as a great deliber ative body that is preservinc the right of debate. But a filibuster is not a debate. It is a mob. DYNAMITIXtr PORTLAND IT IS about the season for the annual invasion of Portland by the agents t of San Francisco tailoring houses. ' -.They do a profitable business here. There are four firms that send - agents to this field, and one of them is known to have 75 to 100 Portland patrons. Generally speaking, the patrons are gentle men 1 of prosperity who give or ders for four or five suits at a clip.? Some of the "houses make no suits at less than $75. per. - Meanwhile, there is complaint In Portland - about business. We de- liberate and officiate and orate about - tSe' unemployed. Men of high degrree lament the situation, and give orders for clothing to be made by San Francisco tailors and New .York tailors, while Portland tailors are In the ranks of the un employed. It is one Tearful and wonderful way of being interested in our unemployed, and a glori ously fantastic way of building up Portland. Of course, every man has a con stitutional right to go whither he wills for his trousers. Every man too, has a constitutional right to do what he pleases to Portland so long as ho doesn't resort to trea son or dynamite or other unlawful practices. But why force our own tailors into the ranks of the unemployed? They buy goods of the same houses and present fabrics of the same figures, designs and manufacture as do the San Francisco tailors. The , Portland-tailors are as good as any in the world and can attire even the proudest form among our Portland gentry in garb up to the minute and fit for the most im maculate. Since our friends who buy abroad feed upon Portland, why not help feed Portland? THK II HAL BKNEFICJ ARIES r N" PORTLAND yesterday, wheat rose to a price one and a half to three cents higher than the day before. One dollar fifty- Lseven was offered for March Blue- stem and $L.57Vj was asked. They are remarkable figures. What a happy incident, if once, with figures so hish, the farmers who produce t lie wheat could get the full usufruct from their en terprise. Unfortunately the farmers have profited but limitedly from the war prices. The men who are get ting the great profit out of it are men who never saw the wheat, who had nothing to do with its production, who have nothing in vested in farms and farm ma chinery, who till, no soil and who take no hazards on bad crop years. They are men who buy the wheat from the farmers and in turn sell it to other buyers, who again sell it to others perhaps, who then sell it as flour or bread to the ultimate consumer. One of these Portland buyers is believed, to have made more than a million dollars this year, and has indeed, boasted that his profits have ranged arounUhe passage of two bills at-the 1913 i two millions in the past few months. Meanwhile, the average net farm income in the United States is placed by high authority at $350 per year. Along with the middlemen who are profiting so heavily from this year's wheat, is the shipping trust which seems about to beat Presi dent Wilson's ship purchase, bill in the federal senate. The ship own ers have taken advantage of war conditions to advance freight rates to extortionate figures, and by the defeat of the shipping bill, will still take heavy tolls on the farmers next season, when opportunity to profit Beavily from their enter prise is offered the wheat pro ducers of the nation. Those who seek to blame farm ers for the great prices of food stuffs fail to understand the real processes. The consumers who are the victims of these prices must, in their complaints look elsewhere than on the men who plow and sow and reap and mow, and, by their industry and toil, feed and clothe an unappreciative world. IiltlTAIN ALARMED COUNSELOR BARCLAY of the British embassy is alarmed for the safety of British sub jects in Mexico. The London Times complains that the United States continues to watch the "whirlpool of massacre" below the Rio Grande with "unmoved coun tenance," saying: Our people have too much on their hands to spare even a thought for secondary issues, but we hope the foreign office will again draw the attention of the United States gov ernment to the magnitude of British interests in Mexico, to the extremely heavy damage they have sustained, and particularly to the fact that once more the persistent turmoil in a country which in a very special sense is within the American sphere of influence has resulted in the loss of British lives. England is at war, by her own profession, for the purpose of es tablishing the right of Belgian people to rule their own coun try. She entered the conflict, not to protect British interests, but to Insure to Belgians the right to rule themselves. That is right which .President Wilson insists Mexicans should' enjoy. It is a right su perior to the right of property. If England is victorious in her war she will presumably give Bel gium back to the Belgian people. Should the United States step 4nto Mexico and take possession, what would then be done? Rule the country in behalf of British inter ests, or give it back to the Mexi can people? STATE HIGHWAY AID IT HAS been decided by those in terested in good roads bills at Salem to reduce the amount ot the proposed state levy for highway purposes for the next two years to one half mill. This will make the amount available for state aid in 1916 and 1917 ap proximately $1,000,000, or $500, 000 each year. Of this amount $150,000 will be "set aside to be spent by the highway commission in any part of the state It may elect. The re- mainder. $350,ioO, Is to be ap- It failed utterly because, while portioned among the counties ap- more than half of the Progressive plying for aid, r m j vote went to Republican candidates, Of this fund no county can re-! the fraction which stayed loyal to ceive over 10 per cent. The largest ja cause was large enough to uomi sum that can be apportioned to ! nate results. It Is tho Progres any county is $35,000, the mini-jsives. of 191 rather than those of mum is one per cent, or $3500. 1912 who are a controlling force Exclusive of Multnomah county, in shaping national policies, which. It is understood, will not j Men with the country's welfare be an applicant for state aid, there, as their sole interest care ilttle are thirty-three counties in the ; whether it is brought about by Re state among which the fund is to j publicans. Progressives or Demo be divided. If more than ten of . crats. It is these men who will re them should apply in the same ' fuse to loss their identity in any year the maximum would be pro-' party controlled by men against portionately less than $35,000. jwhom they revolted in 1912. Another factor to be consid ered Is Xhe cost of engineering which must be borne by the fund. Before any county receives an al lotment the proposed Improvement must be specifically set forth and careful estimates of cost made. This preliminary and necessary work, although done with effici ency and economy, will eat deeply into the fund. Taking all these elements into consideration the proposed levy does not seem adequate to accom plish much in the way of real highway improvement and it is predicted that much dissatisfaction would exist at the end of the two year term. It would be more economical to make the levy one mill. IN PASSING T HE of JOURNAL is for economy, course, or pretends to be. j ocen iioocieu wnn regulative provi niousiv protests against ; sions in recent years, it is seldom, It waste and extravagance. But it ; ci-res ut iti anguisn wnen mo prm.ins hook is about to descend upon , some precious bill in which it I. in- , terestcd or in which its friends are , vcitaitu ui i i j Interested. Oregonian. i v,f Tua i,.nai it iuua " i is not conducted in a manner to suit the esteemed 'Oregonian. That is indeed, sad. , Yet, there is : the cohTpensating thought that, as j its competitor, The Journal is much pleased at the way the Ore gonian Is conducted. Yes, The Journal does protest against extravagance, such extrava gance for instance as the passage by the 1913 session of a bill rais ing the salary of an official in Clackamas county over the protest of Senator Dlniick of that county. Or against the passage by the 1913 legislature of bills raising in 21 counties salaries, or against the 1913 bill increasing the number or circuit judges from 22 to 31 at a ; cost of $40,000 a year. Or against ; ression increasing the salary oi j ricuiturai interests extending over a the same official in Columbia period of nearly two years. It re conntv ceived further consideration by the y" ., . New York state commission ap- Against that and other exfava- j pointed to revise the banking iaW) gant legislation The Journal did , and by a speciai committee appoint protest in 1913 and since. What ; ed to co-operate with the commis did the Oregonian do? ! sion. Probably a more unfortunate Tov,T.cV.nfi the issue at Salem is i time to initiate, this great undertak- the state of Oregon, its future, and its people's welfare. That is the thought uppermost in the minds of most of the legislators, and i they do not overlook the fact that an investment is not extravagance, they will, If they continue in their present mood, render Oregon a high service. WASTE ON THE FARM F RESIDENT WILSON says land , in tms couuny buuuiu more per acre , than it does , i now. It is necessa-y mat. there should not be an idle plow funds. With the various safeguards or spade for there is a world that will be thrown about their is shortage 'in food, and it will be j sue these bonds should, ultimately more serious in a few months ! . 7 I than it is now In connection with the presi dent's advice, a recent statement by J. C. Mohler. secretary of the Kansas state board of agriculture, is interesting. He says that care lessness cost wheat raisers of his state approximately $15,000,000 in 1914. Thirteen million bushels were literally thrown to the birds. It was wasted by being left 'on the harvest fields in uncut grain or spilled in the straw stacks by threshing crews. In that one state wasteful methods were responsible for the loss of enoaigh wheat, already grown and ready for the harvest ers, to make more than three mil lion barrels of flour, enough to keep six million Belgians from starving until the next crop is harvested. The c'ost of waste to Kansas farmers is shown by what an eighty-year-old man did. He fol lowed threshing crews about over Pawnee county gathering up spilled grain. He cleaned the dirt from the wheat and in four months cleared $637, making more than $150 a month. THE PROGRESSIVES E FFORTS by the reactionaries to crush the Progressive party as an organization are not meeting success. In a recent interview Senator Poindexter of Washington declared that the Pro gressives have a greater duty than amalgamation with any party, Re publican or Democratic. He said: There will be no amalgamation in "the sense of any surrender of the great principles of which the pro gressive movement and the. Progres sive party are incidents. There Is fundamentally a vital difference be tween liberals and reactionaries, whether In one party or the other Progressive, Democratic or Republi can, r I". This difference was pointed out by President WTilson in- his Indian apolis speech. Both the president and-! Senator Poindexter say It Us the natural political division, and eventually party division will taker place along i this line. - The November election demon strated that an effort to stampede tfye Progressives was unsuccessful. LAND BANK IN NEW YORK STATE Eugene Lamb Richards, State Su perintendent of Banks, State of New York, in The Nation's Business. THE organization certificate of the Land Bank of the State oi New York has been duly ex ecuted and approved by the New York state banking department, and it is expected that the land bank will soon be ready to engage in ac- tive business. The institution will iegin business with a minimum cap ital of $100,000. At present 40 sav ings ana loan associations ot tuc state, with resources totaling over $16,000,000. have become members of the bank, while several other as sociations expect to join the bank this month. uri.M- ..... i i t . , vic our mjiuic duuns nave I believe, that a more important piece ot creative legislation lias been eJ)acled than the provisions embodicd jn thc bankjng iaw au . . . J . , , thonzinjx the creation ot the land , , . , . . bank of .New ork by local saving and loan associations. While based to a large extent upon the European systems of co- operative finance, this legislation is essentially American, and is also based upon the experience of thc lo cal savings and loan associations of the state of New York during thc last 35 years. If the benefits derived from the present law of New York state rela tive to savings and loan associations can be -extended to strictly agricul tural districts, and the land bank of the state of New York realizes the expectations of its advocates, the problem of rural credits in New York state at least will have been almost entirely solved. The law in its present form is the reSult of the ioint labors of reore sentatives of the savings and loan associations of the state and of ag J"S cou!d not h,avf bcen iound'. or the savings and loan associations, as well as the other financial insti tutions of New York state have been, to some extent, affected by conditions created by the" European war. It is expected that there will be a very considerable increase in its capital as soon as an improvement in general financial conditions war rants the issuing of bonds at a low rate of interest. It is hoped that sUte my become mernbers of this central institution, and that its bonds may become legal invest- ments for savings banks and trust ."F"" "' rt3 municipal bonds, and, possibiv. upon the same basis as bonds of national governments. Numerous inquiries have been re ceived from other states with refer ence to its plans nad the principles upon which it is based. If it can be made as beneficial to the people of New York state as seems probable, it will undoubtedly serve as a model for similar institutions in other states, and possibly for a still great er institution of national scope. With the operation of the lancrJ bank the farmers of New York state will be able to change their present mortgages into a land barfk loan. The difference between the ordi nary mortgages and the land bank loan is in the method of paying off the principal. In the ordinary mort gage the borrower pays 6 per cent interest each year, and his principal at the end of his loan. Under ttic land bank system the borrower pays part of his principal each year, in addition to his interest. By paying this small additional sum the bor rower, gets compound interest each year on part of his principal, instead of permitting the entire principal to draw interest for the loaner. In 1913 the New York legislature authorized the superintendent of banking to appoint a commission to revise the banking laws. A com mission was appointed accordingly, made a report, and the legislature enacted a new codification on April 16, 1914. Since it covers all the state laws on banking, 'it is rather elaborate. An interesting point is the repeal, perhaps inadvertently, of the New York law of 1838, on which the national bank act of the Unit ed States was, in many ways, mod eled In revising the state laws, the commission apparently kept in mind the new federal reserve act, for it made the law of New (York in re gard to state banks ana trust com panies harmonize, in a. number of respects, with the new federal statute. For example, the new law makes provisions or foreign branches. A brief outline of the new law re garding the land bank is as follows: A savings and loan association may begin business when the incor porators have subscribed for shares to the amount of $25,000. It may issue . "installment . shares" the standard sort which are payable in installments and which participate in all dividends of the association. "savings share s," "accumulative shares," "juvenile shares" and "in- , come shares," the last being fully paid in the beginning. An association may lend its funds to share holders to the amount paid on their shares, taking the shares as pledges and also requiring a first mortgage on real estate which is situated within a radius of 50 miles. The appraised value of the real es tate is to be shown by a certificate of two or more appraisers appointed by the board of directors of the as sociation, and the loan secured can not exceed 50 per cent of this ap praised value in case the real estate is vacant or 00 per cent in case it is improved; in no event! can all liens against the real estate, includ ing the lien of the association, ex ceed 75 per cent of the appraised value. Ten or more of these associations, with aggregate resources of $5,000, 000, may form the Land Bank of the State of New York, subscribing to its shares.. There are to be nine di rectors of the land bank. Corpor ate existence of the land bank be gins when the superintendent of banking gives his approval and when subscriptions to the Sum of $100,000 have been paid in cash. Thc land bank has the general powers of a corporation tinder New l ork iaws. furthermore, it may re ccive as pledges from member associations, according to circum stances, 25 v? 100 per cent of their bonds and mortgages, issuing against this collateral debenture oonas on Dcnait ot tne memDer as sociations to the extent of 80 oer cent of the collateral and in series of not less than $50,000. The total indebtedness of the land bank i! not to exceed 20 times its capital ana ootids winch it issues lor a member may not exceed 20 times tlie member's capital. Letters From the People (CoDiiminlirations r nt to The. Journal for publication in this deimrtmeut should be writ ten on only one side of the paper, should not exceed sot) words in icneth and mtifit te ac companied by the name and address of th Render. If the writer doe not denire to Luve Ib name published, he sbjuld so state.) "Discussion Is the greatest of all reformer. It rationalizes everything it 'touches. It robs prim-lpies or nil false ranctiry and throws tuem hues' on their reasouabienes. If they hare no tci.milili'nps. It ruthlessly crushes them out of existence and seta up its owu conclusions iu their stead. Woodrow lisun. Jitney Regulation. Portland, Feb. 3. To the Editor of The. Journal Expensive legislation for jitney regulation is not necessary if the public will consider its own best interest instead of spending so much time in trying: to get "even'' or "ahead" of the streetcar company by patronizing- the jitney. The way! to regnlate the jitney is to refuse to patronize it, and let it die a natural death. By patronizing1 the jitney, we reduce the streetcar company's income, thereby creating a condition which may justify the railroad commission in per mitting an increase of charge for car service to Council Crest and other parts of the city, where the jitney will not accommodate the public for 5 cents. Our united support of the streetcar system may create a condition where by the railroad commission may have an opportunity to change its custom and reduce the charge for publio util ity service once, We should not forget the 6 per cent increase of freight rate allowed east ern railroads by the interstate com merce commission. We should not for get the 100 per cent increase of passen ger rate on the United Ralwaya be tween Portland and Llnnton. We should not forget the increase of charge for telephone service in Union county, enforced by our railroad com mission. We should not forget the In crease of charge for Home telephone service in Seattle, by order of the Washington public service commission. When "blessed' competition ruied the telephone business in that city. We should remember that sompetl tion in the public utility business means a duplicated investment, divided revenue and an inci-ease of charge for service whenever conditions Justify. We should remember that the inter state commerce commission and tha state railroad commission will do their duty by permitting an increase of charge for service where and whenever conditions justify, as provided by law. We should not get caught the third time by falling for so-called or imag inary competition in the public utility business. Competition In other lines of business is real, and of some value to the public. I do not own any stock in the street car system, nor am I employed by the streetcar company. I am merely writ ing in the interest of citizens of this city, including myself. 2D WORD: Oregon's Land Credit Need9.; Medford, Or., Jan. 30. To the Kdiior of The Journal In your issue of Jan uary 29, I read with interest the tlk of A. L. Mills to the Realty Board n the subject, "What Oregon Needs," and fully agree with him that two of. the great needs to get the settler here and make him contented after he is located are good roads and some system of loans that will enable him to improve his farmWe have already started the good roads movement, which will re duce the cost of transportation of the products of the farm to the market, and also make church and amusements in the city almost as accessible as to residents in the suburbs. I also think his suggestion to the commercial 'clubs throughout the state to start a revolv ing loan fund is a good one, as far as it goes, but it seems to me he did not go far enough. The revolving loan fund that could be started by the com mercial clubs would be only a drop in the bucket, and these would necessar ily be short term loans. Why not go farther and ask congress to pass the rural credit bill that was recommended by the' commission that was sent to Germany and other countries to study rural credit systems? Its report, under the heading, "Agricultural Credit," doc ument No. 380, was made to the senato January 29, 1914, and referred to trw committee on banking and currency. It suggested a bill for a national farm land bank system, and I think If the farmers and realty men will look it up carefully they will agree with m that that system will fill the great ned of Oregon. W. T. YORK. : The Competing 'Auto Bus. 7 Portland; Of.," JPeb. 2. To the Editor of The Journal The Portland Rail way, Light: & Power company has en joyed a monopoly so long that instead of doing like any. other, business that meets with opposition and taking: Its medicine and giving the people what they want, it rushes for help. The company threatens the public that it will make no extensions. Pray tell us when have they mads extensions? Have not trie people always made them, and the car company has capit alized them, for the dear people to pay dividends on. They will cut down the service ajid lay off men. The people PERTIN ENT COMMENT SMALL. CHANGE Bachelor atways cjtll a baby "it." No man is so Ignorant he cannot give advice. . The law of gravity is never to laugh at jour own jokes. All's well .that ends accordfng ' to your diagram of the finish. Iove may be blind, but It can usual ly locate the almighty dollar. When a woman marries for wealth she sells herself to the highest bidder. An old bachelor is a man whom no widow has made a strenuous" effort to marry, Nations are referred to as" feminine because they are always starting a lot of trouble. The firBt child rules the roost, but the tenthhasn't much more authority than, father himself. Many a man has lost his vitality' by drinking too often to . the good health of his friends. The conversation of most peopli Is so unimportant that when they stoo talking you wake up. If men made it a rule) never to speak until they hal something to srv, inanv of us might forgr-t how to talk. Some men ari so busv trying to re form everything in general that they lifcvch't time- to reform themselves. Look at th gas meter, .. thou slug gard. If you will work as hard as It does you will, soon accumulate a fortune. ONE MONTH'S EMBEZZLEMENT RECORD By John M. Oskipon. If last November's record of em bezzlements was no higher than the average for the year, trusted employes in the United States in 1914 stole some $7,500,000 from their employers; the sum stolen in November was $624,608. ' t Of this November total bank an:l trust company employes Rot away with $428,610; from beneficial asso ciations waj stolen $50,500; from court and private tVust funds $54,120 was stolen; the rest was made up of defalcations and embezzlements from money belonging to public service companies, insurance companies, transportation companies, general business concerns, and "miscellane ous." The banks are always hit harder than any other business, and for two reasons: Banks must keep a great deal of cash constantly moving from place to place, and the employes of banks are peculiarly subject to temp tation because of their low pay and their generally high standard of liv ing. I don't want to discuss here the underpayment of bank workers. Em have asked for service and many other things at the hands of the car com pany, but have always been diploma tically turned down. The citizens ask for a City Beauti ful. How will they have it with street car tracks, a forest of denuded poles on every street and a network of dead ly wires- hanging over the streets. Even with the threatened competi tion of the Jitney auto bus the com pany Instead of rising to the emer gency and giving the people service, comfortable cars and six rides for 25 cents, must needs run to get help, fear- fiil of th dire things to happen. '1 he longer thev dilly-dally the quicker will the auto bus become an established, responsible business concern, with rules and regulations and discipline and responsibility, the same as any other business, for its own protection and not because of the car company or any single individual. Then it will be a boon to the city and all subur ban communities. ANTHONY VALUNA. Offers Definition of "Regulate.' Portland, Feb. 3. To the Editor of The Journal "Regulating" simply means putting the Jitney out of busi ness 'K emulation" means keeping th little fellow down to allow the big cor noratlon to live on in luxury. The streetcar company never tried to "reg ulate" the taxlcabs, because the taxi cabs never interfered with their busi ness, but now that the littla fellow, with his few, hundred dollars invested In a machine, is trying to make an honest living, the big fellow wants to "regulate" him, and even the Chamber of Commerce is so Interested in the welfare of the dear public that it is going to ask the city- council to "regu late" the Jitney. Is it possible that the streetcar company (which means eastern capital) can control the Cham ber or Commerce? Many owners of Jitneys are sons of Oregon pioneers. Their fathers helped make this city what it is. Must they be forced out of business in the city they have helped build? I am not a Socialist and have never been In sympathy with Socialistic ideas, but if the big fellow is allowed to stand much longer on the little fe'. low's neck, I will no longer believe that X live in a free country. I am not a Jitney owner. CHAS. FAIRCHILD. Old Soldier On Army Life. Newport, Or.. Jan. 30. To the Ed itor of The Journal' When I read P. A, Linscott's letter of recent date to The Journal I looked upon it as an insult to our government and its mil itary forces. Having served as a pri vate soldier more than four years. In camp, on the march, on the battlefield, on guard, on special duty, in hospital and later in the invalid corps doing guard duty minus a leg. I think I ought to know something of military llfe. I was always treated well and with all due respect. I never knew a good soldier to be treated otherwise. I wish to thank Comrade Albertson for giving us a history of Linscott's army life. E. W. DTJRKEE. The "Hnined" Sugar Industry. From the Salem Journal. F. S. JBramwell. one of the Mormon sugar .magnates of Utah, tells the Portland Evening Telegram that his Mimnmtinti the Utah-Idaho -company. will build three beet sugar factories ley, another probably near Eugene and noar Tndenendence or Salem. We do not doubt this gentleman's state ments, but we cannot unaerstana wny the big corporation is going- ahead put ting millions into the beet sugar in dustry when it is supposed to be dead killed off by the Underwood tariff law. That is what the Oregonian and Telegram told us before the last state election. . and of course everybody be- HavaiI it n it f tfllrirto 11 rtthcr un expected tuna to see that the Indus try s not oniy anve out enjoying a healthy growth, last year's output of ? beet sugar factories amounting, to 14.000,000 sacks, worth $79,000,000. And there is evidently a demand for mora. ..' " AND N EWS IN BR! EF OKEGON SIDELIGHTS The total valuation of Lincoln coun ty is J10.1S7.236. The total 1916 tax to be collected is $203,598.01. or about 2 D6r cent. .. . The.1 brewsey Pioneer Sun reports the horse market steadily growing better. Horses that brought from $30 to $9 a few months ago are selllntf from J60 to $80. "Snow is piling up In the moun tains." say the Baker Democrat, "and Baker county farmers are assured of the usual moisture, for rrops. It Is a saying as old as the hills that crops never fail in Baker county.". One of Grants Pass' leading-industries at present is the soliciting of beet sugar acreage. The Courier report a dozen auto loads of business men out last Tuesday, signing up the lsrmei s. , . The Times acknowledges, for Con don and Gilliam county, receipt of war money as follows: "The Frenchmen left 10,000 tn Condon for horses this week basides what they paid for teed and wages. It is an ill wind, etc." Salem Statesman: Here Is William H. Hornibrook of Albany appointed minister of Siam. Hornibrook la the owner and editor of the Albany Demo crat. He la a good newspaper man, and of course will make a good min ister to Siam. Pendleton East Oregonian: Unless present plans are changed the Coffee club, maintained in the second etory of the Hendricks building under the auspices of the Civic club for the Past two months, will be closed March 1. This is in accord with the original plans of the committee, which set out to operate the club for three months' time. bezzlement of money cannot be -cused on any-Bround; the'best that -.tn be said for embezxlers la that they succumb Jn many cases only when the pressure of living costs be? ponies acute. - . As Kociety is conducted, it la up to the Individual to live Within his Ifl come. No other course is even safe; certainly no other course Is wise. Whatever opinion you may have con. cerning the world's obligation to pay you a living wage or salary, it Is Bquarely up to you to get it and 'to get It by lawful means. ' . Not alone is -the money earner in volved in the crime of embeulement; the extravagant wife, the over-dressed daughter, and the spendthrift son have their share in such wreckings of family organizations. This is the dark side of indifference to thrift teaching. Money stolen is usually recovered, so the thief gets little actual use of it, but it-is seldom that a family 'shattered by such a tragedy can be reassembled and con tinue to form a desirable unit of a community. It is absolutely essential to live within one's income. A FEW SMILES Marie And at the place where 1 etayea this Bummer a green young- hired hand tried to kiss me. He told me he'd never kissed a girl in his life, and- ' Gwendy And what did you iell hirn? , Alalia I told him that, I wu no agricultural experiment station. i . "Canvases?" said the artist, flat tered by the presence of the millionaire in his studio. "Yes, sir, I shall be rppy to enow you my best canvases. Something allegori cal? Or do you pre fer a landscape?" "What I want," said Mr. NeWrich, the eminent contractor, with decision, "is something about a yard and a half long and a yard wide, to cover aomt cracks in the frescoin'." The arithmetic lesson that day had been hard and trying- and now, at the closing hour. Tommy stood before the teacher, waiting to hear results. "Your last prob lem is wrong," was the verdict. "You will have to stay after school and do It again." Tommy looked at the clock. "Tell me, please, how much a am ouir ne asked. "Your answer is two cents ahort," Tommy's hand dived into the pocket where his most treasured possessions wero stored. Swiftly he separated two pennies from a bunch of shoe strings, a" penknife and" some marbles and pieces of chalk. "I'm in a hurry, please," he said; jf you don't mind, I'll pay the differ ence." The Ragtime Muse Domestic Strategy. I. The winter morn has found her wide awake, " For in last evening's paper she es pied , Advertisements of sales. She doth for. sake Her easeful couch then throws the tvindjw Wide, And takes deep breaths to fit her for the fray. . . She reaches for her silken stockings: sighs, , "How soon they wear!" She'll buy six pairs today A little larger yes, that would be wise. And father needs some, too, warm ones of wool, . And shirts and handkerchlefsper haps a tie. She muses, dressing. Now her list Is full. The1 children's heeds she'll think Of by and by. She smooths her eyebrows, draws her girdle straight The maid's not down and breakfast Will be late I II. ' At length the meal is reatly; buck wheat cakes And fragrant bacon of a tender brown , Which father lovee. Unusual pains she takes . To serve him" well; for she la going down . . To ask for money and she knows It's j best To satisfy his hunarer. Yeaterdav He paid her tailor -and , he might pro- He reads the news. Sh asks, In ao- cents gay, How goen the war? Is business picking v ,up? . i He folds the page and winks at his . small son j She takes alarm and begs! to fill his V U l L . And wonders if her work Is all un - ' done, . . ; , She helps him with his coat and tell him then, . "I'm coming to the office, dear, at , - ten." yjjf tEQRECQDf COUNTR "IH iAltY 1JAY8' 9p f red Locklry. Spvcial Staff Vmar at Tha Journal. Mrs,. Frances Kllen Hare,, of. As toria, is 104 years old today. I re cently bad a very interesting talk with her at the home of her daughter at Astoria. Her maiden nnrne wa pran ces Kllen pavennort and ishe was born on February . 5, 1811, at Winchester, Va. , .' Probably no other state has bo many old people as Oregon. People 65 and 70 years of age )come here from other states to die, renew their youth and live for 20 yeais more. During the past year or two I have met and in terviewed a larje number of pioneers who have celebrated their 90th birth day and I have: met several who were more than 100 years old. Not long ago I visited O, WV Altera at Koseburg, who is 104 years old. Recently 1 visited Michael Darr.p hoffer. at Vancouver, who was a vet eran of the French army and also of the Indian wars and the Civil war. He was 100 years old on January 12. A few days ago I spent an afternoon with Mrs. Rosemond Emery of Tort land, who recently . celebrated her 101st birthday.- About a year ago I visited Mrs, Todd at Eugene, who at that time was 103 years old. From Eugene she went to Walla Walla, where she recently died. If you call the roll, of the pioneers you will be' surprised to find how many there are who are 90 years old or more. Among those whose names will occur most readily, to the mind are: Mrs. Lucretla McKonnon at Union, who is 95 years old; It. C. Leonard, a pioneer of Portland, who celebrated his 92nd birthday on January 31; US. C. McClain, of Albany, Is another 90-year-old pio neer, having been born- In 1825. J. A. Paulaeli, .who lives here in Portland, is 99. years old, having been born in 1816; Mris. Julia Wilcox, the widow of Portland's first school teacher and a ploneejf rCsfdnt of- Portland, wnn bofn In 1823 and will soon celebrate her 92nd birthday; Mrs. R: J. Barger, another, old tfmti - Portland resident, is also 90 years bt age; Charles Bolds, who Uvea in Laurelhuret, is still hale and hearty at the-'age of 93; IC. W. Conyers of-Clatskanle is also 90 years old. Another pioneer living In Portland who will celebrate his 90th birthday shortly, is James Qoakley; A; L. Gates, at present visiting outside of the state but an old time Oregonian, is 94 years old; John Minto. of Balem, who first passed through Portland in 1844, was. can still tell most interesting stories of the early days;. William Morton of Portland is now 92 years old. Another old timer. Captain Thomas Mountain, is still with us at the age of 93. after a most adventurous and active life, Probably Oregon's oldest resident was Mrs. Mary Ranuey Lemons Woods, the manager ; of Hlllsbnro's first hotel. She was , born In Knox ville, Tenn.. on May 20, 1787. Khe was married to Jacob Lemons Jn 134. Jn 1837 she moved to Alabama and a year later to Georgia. Her husband died In 1839.. . In 1849 she went to Missouri and three years later at the age of 66 she rode horseback arros the plains to Orecon.' In' the fall of 1862 she settled in Washington coun ty, where, oh. May 28, .1854, she mar ried John Wood. Her father cntne from- the Carolina and built the first brick house In Knoxyille, Tenn. ller mother died at the age of 110. being strong and. vigorous up. to the tim of her death and having walked five miles thc day she died. Mrs. Mary Ramsey Lemons Wood lived at Hlils boro for more than 5 years, dying there on January 1, 1908, at the-age of more, than 120 years. '. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1 The front page of The Sun- . day Journal Magazine for next Sunday will contain the repro duction of. an actual photo-v graph of Abraham - Lincoln' which shows the face of thef martyr president with all its rugged features. OLD LETTERS TELL OF LINCOLN Interesting 'correspondence , has been brought to light con cerning Lincoln's candidacy for the commissionership of the general land office which ap pointment he lost. The let ters make most Interesting reading. HOW LINCOLN SAVED THE INDIAN For the Lincoln's birthday number of The Sunday Jour nal Magazine, Georglni Faulk ner, "The j Story Lady," con tributes a story about Lincoln for the little folks. LINCOLN CARTOON A GRAMS Charles A. Ogden, "The Car toonagram Man," has caught the spirit of the day, and pre t sents a series of pictures for boys and girls from events-of Lincoln's life. THE ALASKAN COAST A compelling article tells why It Is known among mar iners as ''The Graveyard of the Pacific." WIRELESS AROUND THE WORLD It Is now possible to send a wireless communication around the world; an absorbing ar ticle tells how and why. SCIENCE AND NEAR SCIENCE A new page lof miscellane ous matter that (is bound to in terest, as does the page of car toons, short stories, article about far places and Fred C." 'Kelly's breezy anecdotes enti tled "Statesmen, Real and Near." ' NEWEST WAR ' PHOTOGRAPHS Two more pages of photo graphs Just received from th"5 war zone depict conditions as : hey are. THE SUNDAY JOURNAL MAGAZINE The Sunday Journal, com plete in four news sections, magazine and pictorial supple ment and comic section, 6 cents the copy everywhere. f