THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1915
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TOMORROW
THB arrival of a great modern
! liner at Astoria tomorrow as
beginning of a 26 hour
i steamship passenger service
to 3aa Francisco, should be an
Inspiring sight.
jRner is enough omeu in it to
Justify the big excursion pro
grammed from Portland for the
occasion. Th" great ship, the lat
est and best in modern marine
architecture, Is the confidence of
capital la the port of the Colum
bia, expressed in terms of Invest
mientl A great sum of money Is
represented by the Great Northern
and her twin ship. Thefr appear
ance! c n the Astoria-Baa Francisco
rxfn an epochal event in the his
tory of the Columbia river.
. I Both are .great pasgenrer liners.
They are in remarkable contrast
wjithjtbe, vessels of 16 and 17-foot
draught that formerly crawled in
and lout of the mouth of the Co
lumbia before the hand and brain
of man had applied improvements
to the entrance. The difference
between the ships of that time and
th huge ship the Portland excur
sion! is to meet tomorrow, is the
difference between the seaport as
It was and the seaport as it is. .
h There could be no more vivid
visualising of progress. There
fOuld be no more perfect presenta
tion! of" future possibilities than
'wiilj be seen in the recollection of
the icraft of the'former day ahd the
Sight of the Great Northern b she
steams out of the pacific into the
Columbia and proceeds to her dock,
v I The spectacle should inspire all
whof see It with hew streams ana
hew purpose, it should renew
And strengthen their faith in -the
Columbia river and - its potentiati
ve, r , - ,j
a IE James 3. Hill has faith enough
la, i,he fiver to invest inillidns in
ship's to ply it, why should men of
less!- vision and experience have
tioubta?
THE CITY PRACTICAL.
CiHICAQO has Inaugurated a
t movement to promote eultia
j tion of gardens. Through co
,.(.) operation of the park com
missioners, the school board and
othr lvie agencies, model demon
stration gardens will be planted in
Various parts of the city.
- j The" model gardens will be in
change of compete&t experts, who
wjlii advise novices. ,They will be
told how to garden and what to
plant, how to take care of a crop,
if it is ohly a row of lettuce, a
few; hills of potatoes and a half
dozen tomato plants, ana how to
keep their garden plots productive
audi pleasing to the eye. The twin
ideals of ''the city beautiful" ahd
"the city practical" are to be pfo
mbted for the benefit of Chicago's
people collectively and individually.
Promoters of the Chicago move
ment expect to strike a direct blow
at the high cost of living, at the
same time making -waste places pro
ductive, . the w city, more attractive,
ahd, its people more ' healthy
thrbuh wholesome out-of-dbor life.
Anybody who ever had a garden
knows that such a movement is
pt ..etical. A Journal correspondent
recently told of his three years' ex
perience in Portland He culti
vated a vacant lot, and he gained
In health, happiness, the esteem of
his neighbors, and, each year had
a surplus of vegetables to - carry
him! through the winter months.
WATER AND RAIL RATES
., .
. ?l E. ui Bicaiuuuai Hues uU
the Great Lakes are making
another effort, to advance
lake and rail rates to .the At
labile seaboard. A petition asking
approval bt Increases is pending
before the Interstate Commerce
Commission. u:
The : commission has twice re
fused this request on the ground
that existing rates furnish adequate
profit. It permitted a five per cent
Increase 6n, all-rail rates, but that
is f not entirely satisfactory to the
railroads. The boat lines between
Buffalo and western lake ports are
owned by the railroads, and they
wish to make lake rates high in
orer to - protect their, interests as
carriers by land routes. .
-.i The queutlon for the Interstate
Commerce Commission to decide is
whether the cheaper or the more
expensive haul shall fix rates. The
rt-Uroada insist that the more ex
pensive route should 'determine. If
it I does" not there is danger that
th roads will be unable to profit
by th five per cent increase re
cently granted therm .
There Is practically no competi
tion between' lake and rail car
riers because railroads own the
boats. But the . petition Just filed
shows the potential value of water
transportation. It demonstrates
what would happen were the boat
lines independently owned and in
competition, with he railroads for
traffic. Rates would drop to. the
water level and they would stay
there. : ' ;;-- r
There is I an important lesson in
this situation for every community
having access to a waterway. The
railroads will control it if they .can.
Ifthey cannot, they will meet its
competition. That is why the peo
ple should use, improve and defend
their waterways.
MEX WHO GO WRONG
M
USIC is to be taught, besides
shorthand, telegraphy, his
tory, mathematics, litera
ture and la.w in a night
school to - be established at Sing
Sing prison, New York.
When Warden Osborne proposed
that convicts under his charge have
a school he thought about fifty of
the men would want to study short
hand. More than 200 have already
applied fori admission to the clasB,
and the school has not yet started
The men's : eagerness to take ad
vantage of any opportunity for
raising them out of ignorance
and making them self reliant is
stimulating to renewed efforts the
committee of prominent men and
women .who are raising funds to
equip the night schooL
People , who say that a man once
gone wrong will always stay
wrong, will J probably disapprove of
this attempt to strengthen the.
characters of convicts and to equip
them for returning to the world
able to make their way honestly.
Warden Osborne is flying in the
face of, the teaching that -"convicts
are entitled to the treatment of
lower animals, and nothing more.
But the good, old world is pro
gressing. Ia the worst peniten
tiary of ..the country, where men
have to "double up" in cells, some
of whieh are less than four feet
wide, where the walls are so damp
that water can be scraped off with
the hand, wonderful progress has
been made since Mr. Osborne took
charge two months ago.
A convict republic has been set
up in this prison, W'hich once knew
only riots and repressive measures.
A committee of honor men form a
court to pass on all minor; infrac
tions of prison rules. The con
vlots are beginning to govern them
selves because there Is a w-arden
who says they are still men. .
What) is being done in Sing Sing
prison. has value not alofie because
of its effect upon the convicts. It
is demonstration that at iust the
greatest state in the Union has
awakened to Its obligations to men
committed to its care, ,
It is an adoption in the most
noted prison in the world of the
policies and principles applied to
prison life .by" Governor West in
Oregon.
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NEW YORK'S BREAD
S OME time ago New York's big
bakers increased the price of
bread from five to six cents
a loaf. They said the higher
price waS made necessary by the
increased cost flour.
The small bakers continued to
sell -at five cents a loaf, and one
of them, testifying beforo a com
mission named by Mayor Mitchel,
said there was fifty per cent profit
in bread at four cents a loaf. The
people refused to pay six cents, and
finally the big bakers, finding a
large part of their product unsale
able, surrendered and returned to
the fivecent price.
The fight in New York was in
teresting while It lasted, and now
that it is over the newspapers are
pointing Out the fact that big busi
ness, which claims the virtue Of
lessening coss of production, does
hot necessarily reduce prices to tho
consumers. It was the little bakers
anu newspaper publicity that kept
down the price of bread.
Nobody disputes the fact that
highly .capitalized baking com
panies are able to produce bread
at less cost than their small rivals.
Nobody should attempt to dispute
the fact that In New York it was
highly organized selfishness which
attempted to capitalise the war to
exploit the people. In spite of all
the efficiency experts may say
about economies effected by big
corporations, there Is much to be
said in favor of the small producer
who gets close to his customers.
A TAMMANY THREAT
RESIDENT WILSON recently
made three appointments to
important federal offices in
New York city. ; Boss Murphy
of Tammany Hall had candidates
for ; the places, but none"of them
was appointed.:
Because of this fact, Represent
ative John J. Fitagerald has de
clared war on the president. He
has called- to his support the entire
Tammany contingent in and out of
congress to make a fight on the
man in the White House, who re
fused to recognize Tammany's as
serted right to distribute govern
ment offices in New York. .
If the war extends into the next
congress,: Fitzgerald and his -followers
may , be able seriously to
embarrass the president. The Dem
ocrats will have a majority of only
30 f in the house, and that ma
jority will ' include the Tammany
members. By sticking together in
opposition to everything advocated
by the president they may be able
to prevent further legislation de
sired by President Wilson.
. The situation may work out be
fore the new congress assembles.
But if 4t' does not, the country as
a whole will not have two opinions
as to the issue. ; t - t A: f -
There was a show-down between
Tammany and the forces s behind
Woodrow Wilson at the Baltimore
convention, and everybody kn)ws
the result.
MRS. PETHICK LAWRENCE
f HEN you hear one of them
IA la an address, you are
YY .compelled to soften your
aforetime severe view of
th English suffragettes. This, at
least, is the effect of listening to
the poised, eloquent and delight
fullr nhrased speeches of Mrs.
Pethick Lawrence.
Few women who have spoken in
Portland have brought themselves
so close to those in the audience.
or : left Upon them an impression
so profound. Some who heard her,
instinctively recalled the compell
ing addresses of Mrs. BalUngton
Booth, formerly delivered in Port
land on another subject.
Explanation of the reasons for
militancy, as made by I Mrs. ; Law
rence, involve- a contrast of condi
tions in Great Britain as compared
wih conditions in the United
States. Thus, militancy was not
employed in England until after
1000 women petitioned the premier
for permission to be heard in the
House of , Commons In behalf of
the suffrage cause. The peremptory
refusal and the arrest of the peti
tioners at the entrances to the par
liament house were the overt act
that caused the women to Invoke
militancy. In striking contrast
with that occurrence was the re
cent address by Mrs. Lawrence be
fore the joint assembly of the Col
orado legislature, delivered at the
voluntary invitation of the legisla
tive body.
One divorce law and one mar
riage law for man and different
and discriminating laws in both
cases for women .in England,
are among the fundamentals plead
ed by Mrs. Lawrence as at
the bottom of the English suf
rage movement, and which drive
English women to radical lengths
in struggling for recognition.
Because of the war, militant
tactics are not in vogue in England
now, but the propaganda for suf
frage goes on " unabated. With
Mrs. Lawrence as a sample and de
fender of English militancy, it IS
possible to understand that differ
ences in national conditions 'may
make it possible for a method to
be essential in Great Britain that
would only bring disaster in the
United States.
THE PAROLED MAN
IT IS of consequence that the
state parole officer be fit.
His power for good or evil is
great. To him IS committed
the oversight of men paroled from
the 6tate prison. Their liberty is
practically in his keeping. ' Upon
his contact with them may depend
whether paroled men go straight or
g$ wrong.
The knowledge among them that
tr parole officer can send them
back to prison gives the parole of
ficer a club which he can use over
paroled men. If he wishes, he can
usi It for improper purposes. If ha
so desired, a parole .Officer could
use this power for private profit.
Many a paroled . man ultimately
becomes a good citizen. One, who
wai paroled in the early days of
Governor West's administration, has
become the mainstay of his par
ents. A recent letter from his
mother announced that he had Just
completed paying eff the mortgage
on the family home.
The parole period , is a critical
time in the Mfe of a aroledfohan.
The helping hand " eld out to' him,
the good counsels vouchsafed him,
the sympathetic interest in him by
a humane and whole-hearted parole
OfJICer may be his rock of safety.
The opposite kind of treatment can
easily check his progress to an
honest life and throw him back
Into wrongdoing. ; .
Henry Ford said before the Fed
eral Industrial commission that he
could reclaim every convict in Sing
Sing. Many ah ex-convict is a
loyal and honest worker in the
Ford establishment. Such testi
mony from a. practical man of the
World means that efforts at reform
of men who go wrong are not all
maudlin sentiment. It is indication
of the possibilities that are in the
hands of a state parole officer.
No average position . In the state
employ is more important. No
average appointive position has
larger powers for good Or evil. No
position calls as loudly for an hon
est, sincere, straight man of
humanistic sympathies and broad
intelligence. , j
Being himself an honest man,
Governor Withycombe may weigh
all these facts well in observing
the conduct of whatever man he
maintains as state parole officer.
WHICH IS ECONOMY?
HE present cost of maintaining
the main " trunk; macadam
roads of the county is approx
imately $1000 per mile. The
total expense of -the Upkeep , tft
the highway system last year was
one quarter of a million dollars.
By hardsurfacing seventy miles
this year a saving of $70,000 will
be made.
With a maintenance guarantee
for ten years the saving ' will
amount to $700,000. In addition,
the roads will be as good in winter
as In summer, At the end of the
ten-year ;! guaranteed f term "the
county will have a good- paved
road, the maintenance cost of which
will be slight for .. a number of
years. . " : ' ' ' t ; ; I
- It is not necessary- to oil paved
roads. The cost i or oiling ; the
present macadam roads 'last - year
was $18,000 At five per cent that
was. the interest on $360,000. The
Winter rkln '- washed the oil away
and there ! is nothing to Show for 'j
the expenditure. The aame amount
of money woma nave paw ror; a 1
mile or more of hard surface, or
paid the interest on twenty miles.
Whieh is the more economical, (Communication .eat to The Journal for
Continue tO pour money into mud- f publication In taU bepartment ahould be wrlt
. . v j ,, lr tea on only one aide of the paper, shtfuld not
holes Or lSSUe bonds and take tnem -eseeed 00 worda in lengtn and must be ar-
off the maintenance list? " Sole?, b.Z - dIs ,ofhISS
. 1 ii. . ! sender. If the writer doea not desire to have
i ne C08C OI me oouas win ub
$5.60 on each $1000 of assessment
for a period of ten years, or fifty
six cents! per year. ;
These figures are based on the
present assessed valuation of the
county. As the valuation Increases
they will be proportionately de
creased. Better roads will aid ma
terially In increasing valuation.
The cost of a bond Issue for $1,
250,000 will be $5.00 on each
$1000 of assessed valuation or 66
cents per year. . -
THE JOURNAL
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
CHILD LABOR AND CONGRESS
Ay EDWARD T. DBV1KB. :
Director of the Kew York School of Philan
thropy. THE passage . of the Palmer-Owe:
child labor bill, .by the national
house of representatives In Feb
ruary by a vote Of five to one, and Its
failure of final passage only because
In! the pressure -ot business it .could
not be brought to a vote In the sen
ate, leaves this
. favorable position
, -3 for action by ! the
next eongress.
Sentiment in favor
of the measure is
so emphatic that
s t when congress
V J: convenes a gal n
LV t" Arv"'? l"ePe snouid tie no
difficulty and lit-mwiw-.'-iai
- --.hmJ fie delay In bring-
Bdw. T. Uevtas. ing the biU to th.
White House for the president's sig
nature. The purpose of this measure m
merely to make national ahd uniform,
certain minimum standards of child
protection which Represent the. over-
wjhelmlng public opinion of the na
tion. It was hoped When, the' Na
tional Child Labor committee -- was
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Mswuni' iu 7..,iuai t WUU1U oe I
able to accomplish its purpose and go
ou. of business after ten years. ' We
are greatly disappointed that . it has
not. There are Still obstances to be
encountered. Especially, as Dr. Felix
Adler, who has been Chairman of the
committee from the beginning, says,
laws that now He c&ld In the statute
book as In a tomb are to be resur
rected into the life of enforcement."
' .
This Is the reply to those wh6 point
to the success of state campaigns,
largely Initiated and supported during
the past ten years by the national
committee, as an argument against
federal legislation. Thirty-six states
now have. It Is true, a fourteen-year
limit for factories; 34 prohibit night
Work under sixteen years of age: 18
require an eight-hour day between
fourteen . and sixteen, and 80 make
some provision for Inspection of fac
tories. But this is not enough.
The national committee has not
gone impatiently and prematurely to
the national legislature In a fit Of
discouragement, or in a sectional
spirit. Representative Palmer of
Pennsylvania, whose name will remain
associated with this legislation, al
though he is not to be in congress
next session "when it should be en
acted, comes from the state in which
at present the largest number of
children of fourteen and fifteen are
employed at wages. It is Upon, that
state that the most solicitous atten
tion -of the friends of child welfare
is fixed this yeaf, partly because no
other state north or south has so
many children of this 'critical ado
lescent age at work, and partly be
cause the new governor of that state,
Martin G. Brumbaugh, himself a
schoolmaster of long experience,
knows the needs of school children,
and has announced in his inaugural
messaga the Sound principle that no
child under sixteen should work In
Industry.
At fourteen the bony, structure of
the body Is still plastic and. yielding.
Important physiological functions are
in process of establishment." " The
cost of the pitiful wages earned at
this age i high In disease, rin acci
dents, in juvenile crime, in Inefficient
tnaturity. In demoralised, topsy-turvy
relations . of parents and children.
Boys and girls who work In mills
have about twice as high death
rate as other boys ahd girls. . Ma
chinery bites off children's fingers
when they ?--re inattentive, as children
sometimes are, leaving them "no good
for work i any more." Children who
work are apt to be undersized and
anaemic. , They are found in Juvenile
courts out of all proportion to .their
numbers, are' more inclined, to the
serious offenses, and Very mufeli more
apt to , become habitual delinquents.
Children who go to work at fourteen
are earning less at eighteen than
those Wh - begin wo years later, and
there la reason to 'believe tnat their
wages ahd the steadiness of their em
ployment compare even more unfav
orably at thirty and forty when they
hive children of their, own. -v?
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'j A "hundred and thirty years ago.
in the midst of the , industrial , revo
lution, speaking of chhdren under ten,
an English physician deplored the
protracted labor - of the; day, Whltjh
not only Impaired he strength and
destroyed the v4tal stamina of the
hi
rising; generation, but too . often g-avo
encouragement to; idleness in the par
ente. who, "contrary to tha order
nature,: subsist by the oppression of
Weir of fsprlns - These words are
pertinent today of children under
teen, every where.. coP,right.!
Letters From the People
. we name puWUbad, he ahuaid aa tUU.)
"Diaeuaaion la the g-reateat of all reformere.
It ratlonallaea everythina: It tou.-he. It robs
principle ot ail false sanctity and throws them
back on their reasonableness. If they bare
no reasonableness, it ruthlessly causae them
out of existence and sets up Its own conolusiuna
In their stead,' Woodrow Wilson.
On Ships . Endangered.
Arlington, or., March 12. -To the
Editor of The Journal 1 am a con
stant reader of The Journal; have been
so for ; a long time, X read Of the
European war and consequently take
much interest in it, as other cltiaens
of America do.
(What I am going to speak about la
America's commerce with England and
Germany and other ooun tries In Eu
rope, since Germany has declared that
close around the British isles is a "war
sone." , ,,
I wonder now what the United States
j rn tends to do, since the Germans did
tflem such a kind act as to sink an
American ship for them? England
hasn't done half so bad an act just to
use the American flag when in dangsr
of having their big liner, the Lusitania,
destroyed, as Germany has, just done.
Why does the United States persist
in sending vessels laden with food
stuffs and manufactures to ' idurppe,
when they are at the risk of being
blown up by mines or s.eized at any
time When they are near the war zone?
Why do not England, Germany and
Other countries in Europe send their
merchant vessels over to the-? United
States to take on cargoes, instead of
th United States Vessels being endan
gered by delivering the goods to them?
If America's goods are not worth their
while to come for,- they are not. worth
having. If the European vessels came
here to take on their cargoes, they
wouldn't run the risk of being tor
pedoed or blown up by mines, as our
American boats do, until they got back
to their own waters. Then If. any of
the boats were destroyed or captured
by any opponents, the United States
wouldn't be out anything.
MRS. MAMIE LAMORBAUX.
Relating to Peace rtnd War.
McMlnnville, Or., March IS. To the
Editor of The Journal Kindly iflfdrm
tne through your paper what govern
ments have signed the peace treaties
that Mr. Bryan has been advocating.
In Case of war how. many men can
this government equip for service,
with the present equipment?
What Is our' rating in naval
strength? G. W. MANNING,1
Treaties - have been signed with'
Salvador. Guatemala. Panama, Hon
ilvs
auras, Nicaragua, The Netherlands, Bo-
liVia, Portugal, Persia, Denmark,
Switzerland, Costa Rica, the Domini
can Republic, Venezuela, Italy. Nor
way,' Peru, Uruguay, Argentina; Bra
zil, Chile, Paraguay, Great Britain,
France, Spain, China, Russia, Ecuador,
Greece and Sweden.
The present law limits the enlisted
strength of the army to 100,000; it 1
actually a little under 86,000. Nom
inaily, equipment should be, lri time
of peace, under our system, only com
mensurate with the legal standard of
enlisted strength."- In ease "-of war,
consequently, any considerable Increase
in enlistment would call for the im
mediate production Of a correspond
ing additional equipment. However,
the nature of the case precludes any
definitive answer to the question.
The United States ranks third be
ing surpassed only by Great Britain
and Germany.
Civil Service Refinements Ridiculed
Portland, March 13. To the Editor
of The Journal Anent the announce
ment made in th press that the civil
service examination board intends to
add to the already multitudinous
and may I not say nonsensical -requirements
for clerks, stenographers
and laborers. It is proposed that the
physical examination shall be , made
to Include the condition of the i heart
of the stenographer.
In order that this"shivtl service" be
not made a bigger joke than it is, es
pecially the way It Is administered in
this community, I make the suggestion
that civil service, as it was intended,
should be made to Include the heads
of. departments, who in very many
cases are the most inefficient and over
paid. I can give names, dates and
places of quite a few of these incom
petent depart mental heads.
How can a non-educated and physi
cally deficient departmental head pass
judgment upon an educated and trained
person? CHAS. J. SCHNABEL.
Testimonial to the Christie Home.
Portland, March 13. To the Editor
of The Jourhal.-i-I hope every reader
of 'The Journal will buy a shamrock,
March 17, for the benefit of the Chris
tie Orphans home.
- All should take time It's worth
whils to visit the Christie home. It
lies well up on the west bank of the
Willamette river, about one f mile south
of Oswego. The way the orphans and
children are handled and treated there
makes one wish he were an orphan
Those interested In the welfare of
children will be delighted and pleased
to see this home; everything for their
comfort, education and pleasure is so
nicely arranged. Playgrounds, narks,
spacious and well ventilated halls and
rooms, clean and neat clothing, bed
ding and equipment all these assure
one that the little ones coming under
Its guardianship will do well and be
a credit to the school and . this com
munity.; ISAAC E. STAPLES.
Who Pays Water Rent?
Portland, March 13. To the Editor
of The Journal Please give me in
formation In regard to the water rent
Does the tenant have to pay the rent,
or the property owner? Also, what was
the election for? MRS. A. FOX.
tThe bill for water ia sent direct to
the premises served. It makes no dif
ference to the water bureau, whether
th tenant or the landlord pays, but
the bill has to be paid by one or the
other or the? water Is shut off. In
most cases arrangements are made be
tween the landlord and the tenant
whereby the tenant pays the bill.
STh election was to decide Vhether
bills should be handled quarterly, in
stead of monthly, as had been, the
usage, and whether bills should be
sent to premises served, ' Instead of to
th tenant. The voters, decided for
the quarterly system and billing to
the premises. ' ,
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, Know. This Train?
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.,
Stranger (at station) What train is
this?--'- i .
Station Master-Tftat's the 4:53 last
Monday afternoon. ' You'll get to Po
rt unk at half past three the day' be
fore yesterday, according to the time
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Ambition is all right if a man has
energy to back it up.
As soon as a sick shoemaker Is able
to work he's on the mend.
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A self-made man is often the only
one satisfied with the Job.
Blessed be the -little flat In which
there is no room- for trouble. .
It takes a nervous woman to demon
strate what nerve force really is.
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The mantle of charity covers a lot
of amateur theatrical performances.
Blessed are the meek, for they are
never expected to rise to the occasion.
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When a girl is told she's as pretty
as a picture comic valentines, don't
count. ..'.-'...
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Fewer flowers to the dead and more
flour to. the needy living might help
some.
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After a lively race for- a husband
many-an heiress marries a run-down
nobleman. 8
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One-half the ' world imagines- that
the other half couldn't possibly worry
along without it.
It requires long years : of practice
to enable a man to fall 'in love and
light on his feet
It is no pleasure for a man to do as
he pleases until after he gets mar
ried and then he can't.
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The man who doesu't secure the
services of that great teacher, expe
ience, may live to a green old age.
A man argues with a woman not be
cause it does any particular good, but
feeaause of the pleasure it affords her.
GOVERNMENT FIGURES ON YEARyS CROPS
By John M. Osklson. 1
In February the department of agri
culture put out some figures that are
of great importance to business men
and Investors. '
Of the-six principal crops, five were
Worth more than a year before and
one Was worth less. At February
prices, wheat Was worth $530,000,000
more than a year before, corn was
worth $273,000,000 more, oats' $141,
000,000 more, barley $29,000,000 mors
and rye $17,000,000 more. By contrast,
cotton was worth $231,540,000 less
than than In February, 191i.
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riere is a net gain or over u,ou,-
000. Since the department's figures
were published cotton has risen in
price, and on the day this is written
stands a cent 'a pound higher than it
sold for. 10 years ago. It is certain
thai the price will go still higher, and
so the value of crops In the United
States Will be greater than the Feb'
ruary figures indicate.
: Here is a tremendous gain in spend
ing power that the investor has to"
consider. Experts are already busy
predicting a rise in the price of stand
ard high-grade securities, and they
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'We're With You.Uncle Sam!'
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Tat O'Connor of Seward, .Alaska. In
New York World.
.While all Europe is a shambles
And the whole worUi is at war.
And half the land the sun shines on
is "drenched in human gore.
When every nation counts, the men
It knows are tried and true.
We send this, message to you, Sam:
"Alaska stands with youi"
You've never treated us quite right;
You've grabbed away our coal
And reserved all 'our firewood.
And what we used we've stole;
You soaked us on our cable tolls.
But- we don't give a damn .
Even at twehty-eight cents per word.
We're with you. Unci am!
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We're quite unused - to luxuries.
We've, always played -alone:
When we asked for help to build our
trails
You handed us a stone;
Yoa four-flushed us on the railroad.
But we dont' give a damn -If
'they monkey with the Eagle,
We're with you. Uncle Sam! T
You gave us leave to make some laws.
Then tied our hands behind;, -This
gift to us was just the same
As pictures to the blind.
Your laws all have some joker
Made to, catch some sourdough,
And it's hard to beat your game, Sa-m,
When it's teamed yp down Oelow.
We've always been the dumping
ground For your political misfits
But, Sam. if you're in trouble
We're willing to cry quits. ,
We've never had an even break.
But we don',t give a damn
If tire Lion growls, remember this:
We're with you. Uncle Sam!
We're used to meeting troubles.
And if you but us to the test
You'll find Alaska loves you, Sam,
Far better than the rest.
But, Sam, when this is trver.
As the morning follows night.
Pray give Us some attention
And get some matters- rights
We need some decent cable rates.
We, need some decent mails.
We need some decent coast lights.
We need some decent trails. -You've
given these to all the rest.
But we don't give a damn
If it's grown men you're needing.
We're with you. Uncle' Sam! .
Our Public Schools.
From the Jewish Tribune.
The public schools of our city be
came a blessing to our children, since
Mr. L R. Alderman became th super
intendent. The many Innovations made
bV Mr. Alderman have been praised by
such authorities as Mr. A. E. Winship,
in his Journal of Education. He
praises the industrial and commercial j
plants instituted by Mr. Alderman. The i
high school work he round "peculiarly
efficient," Mri WinBhlp admires Mr.
Alderman for his "many notions that
work out delightfully."
The American. School of Milwaukee,
Wis., one of the leading journals on
education, places Mr. Alderman among
the "educational originators" of the
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'Surely Portland should consider fit
self partlcularly fortunate to have Mr.
Alderman at th head of ' Its schools.
And It does.
Vne sincerely trust that every mem
ber of Ihe board Will lay aside personal
prejudice and unanimously reelect Mr.
Alderman for the ultimate good of our
public schools.
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The Call of the Balmy Breeze to a
Wanderer. . '
" By Warren Frederick' Lewis.
There's a sighin' sort o' cryin
Of the wind that shakes the trees;
An' there's no mistakin' of it
It'a a tender, blmy: breeze
That's inyitin me to travel.
For the weather's glttin' warm
Ah' a change of board an' climate
Ain't a-goin to do no harm.
For I'm tired of the city 1
An each narrow, high-walled street
That will soon bt hot an' sizzlin'
In th Bummer's dusty heat.
So I'll pack my bag and-beat It " .
Au rif llve a life of ease.
Just a-trampin' 'long the highways,
With a balmy, scented breexe.
Portlaod. Mafth 12, 1913.
They Sorely Would.
- Front th Milwaukee' Sentinel.
Societies that shut out reporters and
refuse to give - out news the public
wants would be awful mad if the press
wet to let them severely alone. .
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OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Corvallis' . litnev a v stem has hnon
s jttn
further improved, and a 10 passenger
ous is now in service o
Klamath Falls new city hall Is so
near completion that the officials have
been authorised to move Into their new
olfices at their "own convenience.
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Street grading at Redmond, the
Spokesman reports, goes merrily on.
Several new streets are being opened
and it is said "Chat many new houses
are to be. built, there being no empty
houses there jat present. : C3
"Baker's new street flusherr" says
the Democrat; "win be the first in the
state to be mounted on an auto truck,
according to 1 Mayor ! Palmer. He be
lieves that this feature will prove a
big money saver to (the city."
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Showing what a hold 8utherlin has
upon him, the editor of the Sun states
that within a month past he has had
three responsible inquiries one of
them a good Offer concerning his pa
per, and he has turned them all down.
Ashland Tidings: The best thing a
city can undertake is something that
appear to many to border- on the im-
nnMMlhlA. Bvi-th tlm & nnmmutiltv
has actually"" accomplished three or
rour lmposainie objects, it has earned
the confidence that spells success ami
at last discovers that all things are
possible to those, who persist and set
their pegs high. -
Woodburn Independent: The man
on the Willamette valley farm who 1
dissatisfied with his . occupation, and
station in Mfei is possessed of too much
imagination ahd has little Idea of con
ditions on th0' outside. He may yearn
to be elsewhere, probably In some big
city, but 1s riot aware that he is en
vied by thousands who are now where
he has a desire to go. ,-?
base their arguments on precedent and
pretty sound reasoning.
Much money (so . their argument
ruins) that inj normal times would go
into new development, into factory
enlargement . and business expansion,
is keeping out of these fields, on ac
count of the junsettlement of world
trade conditions due. to the great' war.
It is looking, Instead, for saf Invest
ment in securities. :
Of course, jwhen hundreds of mil
lions of dollars seek the investment
market, prices of the securities most
in demand ate bound to rise. It is
safe to say that as soon as the money
for the crops passes into the hands
of those who) can invest it. this rise
will be rapid. "
Not only will savings available for
Investment increase remarkably be
cause of the new impulses for econ
omy which the European war has
started, but our fuller puts of crop
nioneywill bi drawn upon to buy safe
securities. ' '
The one urtcertarn factor Is the
amount of our securities Europe will
want to sell to us when the prices be
gin to rise. R
' The preacher was a young man. and
nervous but! -interesting. He was
making an eloquent plea for the home
life, and was des
canting eloquently
on the evils of the
elllb trtlllnflr tkia tf.nti.
gregatlon that mar Pfe.
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rled men In partiou- V
lar .- should!' spend
their evenings at
home . with their
wives and , o hlldren
"TiilnK, myi nearer, said he, ' at a
poor, neglected wife, all alone In the
great dreary house, rocking the cradle
of her sleeping babe with one foot and
wiping away th tears, with -the
other!" I
Mistress (getting
ready for reception)
Low does my
new gown look In
the' back. Norah?"
Maid Beautiful,
mum. Sure, they'll
all be delighted
when you lav the
A clergymain tells an amusing' story,
as . reported -in a London paper,, of a
Worthy vicar rift , a rural parish Who
had waxed eloquent
in " the interest ' of
foreign missions ne
Sunday and was sur
prised qn entering
the village shop dur
ing i the weekj to he
greeted with marked
coldness 'by the Old
dame ' who i kept
On asking the cause, th good Worn
an proaucea-ia nair crown irom a
drawer and, throwing It down before
him, said:
"I marked that ' coin and put It In
the plate last Sunday, and her It la
tinck In my shop. I knowed well them
poor Africans
never got th money"
The
agtfme Muse
Wonder Tales.
Girls are awful scary!
One time Bessi Hunt
Said her mother seen a rat
Big'a a elephunt,
If I seen one big as that
I'd jest 'take a dagger,
N'en I'd chase It up a tree ,
Like I -would a tagger.
Huh! we got a old gray cat
Betcha would a' et that tat,
In our blst'ry lesson
One day j Thomas Sweet
Ever don wuz s a king,
Ridin' down the street.
Composition's whut it wus,
An' If all my father
Ever done wus see a king.
Gee! I wouldn't bother.
But my father Ilk I wrote
. '8 got a real Prlnc Albert coat!
Onct & thousan' robins
i . 'Lighted in our yard,
'N'en I went and counted 'em
It Wus awful hard!
Thouean's more'n ten, j ruens
That's whut W'illyunt Heather
Counted oni the way to fcchool-r-Bet
he didn't, either!
Pr'aps twus only three, 'r four.
- Wlsht I'd seen a thousan' mors! .
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Is that the Road to the Senate?
From the Pendleton i East Oregonlan.
Mr. Piper, editor of th Portland
Oregonian, I reported to b a candi
date for the United States senatdrshlp
and is said to
be bujiding his fences
With- a vfew id securing the next Re
publican nomination for that office.
Is this, why Ithe Oregonlan editorial
department evince symptoms of fable
every time the)" subject of Mexico is
mentioned? Is! this why the Portland
paper today brands th East Oregonlan
as "cold hearted" and "duty ignoring"
because We have commended Watchful
waiting as a tsise policy with reference
to Mexico and the rest of the world?
I Are we not yet out of the ston age?
Can a politician still get away with
the "bloody shirt" stunt? Do people
think any man Is a patriot who howls
for war?. Lx they have no apprecla-
A FEW SMILES
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room."
gAKLY SATS'
By Ires Leakier. tMeial Stiff Wrltar f
The J surtaX
Better far than the dry-as-duat
pages of history are the stories, of the
pioneers. The history they tvr is
vivid, and vital. It is a flesh and
blood history. Recently I visited Mrs.
W. F-j. Helm at her home in Fat-krone
and she told me many intimate and
unrecorded incidents of the life of her
foster parents. Dr. and Mrs, Marcus
Whitman.
"My mother died onth plains with
in, a month of the death of my father,"
said Mrs. Helm. "We had io relatives
among th emigrants uird you. can
imagine we felt pretty lonely as we
saw our mother lowered into a hastily
dug grave, near Pilgrim Springs.
- "Catherine, my oldest Bister, was
still very lame from having broken her
leg a few weeks before, Henrietta, the
four -months old baby, was a problem.
Before mother died Mrs. Perkins, who
had a baby of about. the same age, had
let Henrietta nurse, but she whs
afraid her own baby was not getting
enough nourishment, so our baby sister
had to be put on cow's milk. Feed
was ho scarce that the cows gave but
little milk and that of poor quality,
as they had to keep traveling all day.
John, the oldest In our family, was
14 years old, so he became the heaa of
the family.
"Our tattle were worn out with the
long trip across the plains and could
no longer pull our heavy Tennessee
wagon and keep up with the. others.
We decided to throw away everything
we could do without. Mother hail mart
40 yards of rag carpet to take to Ore
gon and, she had, by plnnhing and sav
ing, bought a set of, dishes. We, tar
ried the- dishes out to one nldeof the
road and put the roll of rag carpet
by them and -drove on. Still our gaunt
oxen lagged, so the men helped cut
Our wagon In two. They made a two
wheeled: cart of It an.l With th hind
wheels and , heavy c body we abandoned
mother's treasured , camphor wood
chest and everything but our provi
sions, t n '
"In our party was a German," a uni
versity graduate. He took us under
his wing we could not pronounce his
hftme, so we called him 'the good Dr.
lagen.' I remember the first time he
got in our cart he climbed in from the
back. His weight overbalanced the
cart, the tongue flew bp in the air
ahd over went the carl. Dr. Dagen
crawled out and cussed the cart- elo
C ientlyi in both German and English.
His tongue Was rough, his manner wits
gruff, but his heart was soft and wo
loved him Sincerely.
Our train stopped on tho Urnntilla
river near the present site of reiulie
ton for the tattle to rest and feed for
a few days. While we were camped
there Captain Khavv went to Dr. Whit
man's mission at Walllatpu to tell lr.
Whitman that; our parents had willed
their seven children to him.
"Dr. Whitman and his wife were
.teal missionaries and real ChrisUans.
They accepted the trust without a
murmur, Nowadays If some total
Stranger tame up . to .you snd said
someone you Iih.1 never he ml of. hud
died and lert you seven children' you
wouldn't be altogether grateful and
resigned. .
"Captain Shaw ram back and told
Us..it was all light: we were to go to
Dr: Whitman's. Of the journey from
th Umatilla river to Walllatpu I re-
moroberjbut little. remember on-thn
way Brother Frank traded one; nf
mother's good table cloths to a niiaw
for a big rake of ca mas-root breail.
"W arrived at the mission in the
afternoon. We found a. low . plate In
the ditch, to drive through and as we
approached the jouse ITsaw a. llttln
glrl whom I later learned was Mary
Ann Brldger, throwing out a pan of
dishwater, i
-"Captain fihaw went to -the hoiif-e to
tell Dr. Whitman of our arrival. In
a moment Mrs, Whitman came out
and walked quickly toward our curt.
Brother John was having all lie could
do to keep our tired oxen from lying
down., Mrs. Whitman had by the hand
a little. girl of about six or ueven years
of age. We children were ragged and
dirty -and sunburned and this little
girl looked as if she had Just stepped
out of a bandbox. She had a green
dress and a whit apron und a sun
bonnet the sunbonnet was. pushed
back and I thought. the Httlo girl wa
the prettiest, flalntlestrcreature I had
ever seen in rny life. Her eyes were
bright "and - full of fun, her. hair was
glossy bltck and t soon, learned lier ,
name was Helen Mar Meek and that
her father, Joe Meek, was a mountain
man and hef mother a Nez Perce In
dian woman. Mrs. Whitman was tall
and seemed large. She was very
blonde. Her eyes Were blue and she
had a great mass of auburn hair.
8ornetlmes.it looked like gold and at
other times had a-copper tinge... She
came to the cart and said: 'So the
are my new children. Conic to th
house and we will get. acquainted.'
Katie Was still quite lame, sp fche-tok
her by iha arm to help her end took
Louisa, who was about two year old,,
by the hand arid we girls started for
the house.
"Captain Bhaw told her the baby wan
with Mrs. Perkins and would be along
in a day or two. .,
"VV all filed into th. house and ahe
told Us to jdt down, fih said to the
llttl girl Who had come out to the
cart with hers 'Heleri, go out to the
mill and tell Doctor to come In and
e his new children.' In a moment
or two we heard a quick, firm step
In th hall and a tall, solid looking
man with dark hair ahd deep set blue
eyes under heavy eyebrows came Into
tne room. t
""Dr. Whitman said: 'Well, motb.
where are the boys? If. you are V
have the girls I must have th boys.'
Mrs. Whitman said: The bSys went
over to the mansion house.' Dr. Whit
man turned to Helen and said: 'Helen,
run over to the mansion noun and
bring the boys over.' When tny broth
ers, John and Frank, came in rather
bashfully Dr. Whitman said; 'Well,
boys, how about it, don't you want to
stay here and be my boys? They
nodded their heads ahd said 'yes.'
"We spent that afternOn getting ac
quainted. Dr. Whitman had a nephew
then, Perrin Whitman, who was Just
about my brother John's age, 14. Mary
Ann Brldger told us she had been
there for two or three years and that
her father, Jim Brldger, kept Brldger'a
fort. We were taken by Dr. and Mrs.
Whitman In the fall -'of 1844 and no
father and mother could have been
better to us than they were, TJur le
gal adoption papers were all made out
when Dr. : and Mrs. Whitman Were
killed by th Indians in November.
1847." .
tion of the -fact the president's . firnt
and most, sacred duty Is to his own
country and his own countrymen?
Don't they know that if We should go
to Mexico on the basis our fanatics
desire no one could tell where the war
march would end. what entanglements
we would get Into or how much urfer
Ing and sorrow would come to Ameri
can homes?
Is the mad dog trail th road to th
United States senate?
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