THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND,
MONDAY EVENING. MARCH 22, 1915.
THE JOURNAL
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tto evil Is without its com
pensation. The less money,
the less trouble. ' The less favor,
the less envy. Even In those
cases which put us out, of our
wits. It is not the Ions itself,
but the estimate of the loss,
that troubles us. Seneca.
S8
PROSPERITY FACTS
T V T INTER crops in the United
W States were never before bo
promising. The certainty
of continued high prices in
a country that In average years
yields a ten ; billion dollar output
of farm products are factors for an
abounding prosperity.
. The crop areas, on account of
high prices, are at the maximum.
With prices nearly :double those of
an average year, the prdoteds will
be enormous. " , ..- .
With the approach of the harvest
season, the realization of what the
new crop means is impressing
Itself upon national .' business.
Banks sense It and industry feels it.
In agricultural centers, bank
clearings show heavy increases. At
St. Paul and Duluth, the increase
was four per cent; at Omaha, It
was 10 per -cent; at Minneapolis.
2 3-, 8 per cent, and at Kansas City
25.5 per cent.
In both the domestic and foreign
field there are enormous orders
for machinery. The steel I8 iron
business ' is active, and - steel and
equipment orders are placed more
freely for the transportation lines.
Steel mill operations averaged
around 69 per cent the past week.
The great activity in the ship
yards, the heavy foreign demand
fo auto trucks which is keeping
many . of the biggest factories at
the maximum capacity, and the
gradual extension of industry in
practically all lines, give a tone
to general business conditions farV
more promising than at any time
since the war began. !
The country Is quietly advancing
to that situation in whichto re
ceive the rich rewards of, a great
national policy or peace' and neu
trality. -.r - ;
TRADE WITH CANADA
OFFICIAL figures showing Can
ada's imports and exports for
1914 demonstrate that our
trade routes to the north are
j welt established. It was a year of
restricted world trade, and yet buy
j lng and selling between the United
I States and Canada increased nearly
J $10,000,000 over 1913.
Canada's summary for the calen
5 dar. year 1914 shows a total trade
; of $1,062,118,179, which was $85,-
535,064 I smaller than for. 1913.
t Trade between Canada and Great
Britain fell bff materially, while
I that with the United States In
creased, i I, - " - -
- Exports to the . mother country
decreased by a little over $40,000,
000, and imports by a little over
' $41,000,000. Imports from the
United States totaled $440,857,540,
! a decrease of about $500,000 as
'compared with 1913. Exports to
-the United States totaled $203,763,
. 3 0, an : increase of nearly $10,
' bOO, 000. !-
1' There are Sample transportation
I facilities betwieen the United States
j and Canada, ind this fact accounts
in large measure for the large vol
i time of : trade. '. This country Is
'lacking in commerce carriers with
; Latin America. That is why our J
.'trade to , the south lags. That is
' why the country should back up
; the president in his fight for a mer
i chant marine.
VVe can't have our share of trade
.with Southland Central America
: until we i have the ships.
V: RIVEltS AND RAILROADS
ST. PAUL, at the head of navi
gation on the ' Mississippi
river, is considering a propo
sition for developing its river
-traffic. : ,"
-Jo&n "H- Bernard of New Orleans
; Bome time ago demonstrated the
.feasibility of self-propelling barges
as .freight carriers. On . February
; 1. he submitted propositions to the
city council and shippers, of St.
Paul. He asked the city to accept
: a, dock -to be built by the Bernard
! company, and to lease it . to the
-barge line at a rental equal to the
'interest on bonds and. a sinking
' fund which would pay for the proj
:;ect when the, lease expired in
'twenty years. . '
He asked the shippers to guaran
tee 150,000 to 200,000. tons of
freight annually, Mr. Bernard
agreeing to guarantee that freight
rates shall at no time be more
than 7 - per cent of the. rail
charges.
.The council has not acted upon
: the -proposition submitted to it.
But the shippers have replied with
statistics showing the amount of
freight which would be obtainable
by any line substantially -, under
buying the railroads. The ship-
pers are not! ready to offer the
guaranty asked, but they say that
if the river service should prove
all that Is claimed for it there
would be no question about ton
nage. ;
St. Paul's position is of peculiar
interest" to ; Portland and to the
entire Columbia river basin.; A six
foot channel at all seasons i&. alt
that can be depended upon by boats
operating m and out of St. Paul
And yet with that shallow, water
way Mr. Bernard is willing to put
up his good money in competition
wflh the railroads and to guarar
tee that his freight charges shall
be- not more than three-quarters of
rail charges.
I If six: feet jot water in the Mis
slssippriias sach possibilities, what
cjo be expected of , the Columbia
apd Its tributaries, provided they,
are used? . Mr. -Bernard is bucking
against powerful railroad interests
ia : St. Paul, j If he succeeds in
establishing his barge line he will
overcome an obstacle that is hin
dering waterway development the
country over. . ,-
OUR IMPROVIDENCE
A
N Eagle Point correspondent
tells a Medford paper about
a Portland drummer selling'
pickles j In Eagle Point, and
adds: j ; ' t .-
What are the people of Jackson
cbunty doing that we have to -have
dfummere coming all the way from
Portland to supply us with' an article
that we can faise In abundance right
ift our dooryards, and with o little
work, for with a little exeiion one
c.n raise enough cucumber on four
square roas oi our iutte 'creeK Dot-
tom land to ; supply -a. small town
Hke this or Talent, Gold Hill or
Jjackaonville, and still we pay a for
eign company to ptft then up, a
nian to come out from Portland to
sen, tnem to our merchants and
then we pay him a large commission
t sell them i to .u Why?
The best celery in the world can
be grown In the sandy loam lands
along the cdast of Oregon, and
enough of it j could be produced to
supply the state. , But the markets
lh some of the coast; towns are
often supplied with celery shipped
from the interior. Many an Oregon
farmer with I unexampled possibili
ties for producing pork, boys bacon
at 20 cents a pound of the city
dealer. - :
Many a farm is littered with old
tn cans that were once the con
tainers of fresh corn, peas, peaches
aba pears put up in factories out
side the state. The last word In
Improvidence j is a farmer journey
ing homeward from town with a
basket of eggs bought of the city
dealer. ! - . .
We used to be more improvident
in these things than we are now;
Until recently, we imported live
hogs from Nebraska and poultry
products' from Kansas, and dairy
"products from Illinois, though we
vfer in better position to produce
Bjuch. things I than are the states
fi-om which we were buyers.
KEEPING HOPE ALIVE
NEW warden has been appointed-
for the federal
prison at Atlanta. " In making
the appointment Attorney
General Gregory Indicated that
there will be a change In policy.
He said: 1 -
"What we want to do is to . keep
alive in the "heart of every prisoner
a realization that he has a chance,
even if he be under life sentence, to
get out Into the" world .again on
parole -or as a citizen. ' We want to
keep before each man the fact that
hie has something; to hope for. !
Julian Hawthorne had much to
say about Atfenta prison after'
his f elease, but many people
thought the complaints were not
worth much attention. But it
seems that in Attorney General
Gregory's opinion there were sub-'
stantial grounds for criticism of
the prison ' management.
At any rate, plans are, already
tender way fr abolishing in great
measure whit Mr. Gregory calls
'the most terrible thing In prison
life- its lonjellness.'' New dor
mitories at Atlanta are to have
cells In whteh four mon will be
placed. Theso cells wil be occu
pied by men j who show themselves
worthy of lenient treatment," and
the occupants will be allowed
tables, lights, books and news
papers. .
The attorney general is to devote
niore attention "to th,e management
of federal penitentiaries -than did
bJs predecessors. He thinks it one
of his Important duties. He has
picked a nei? warden for Atlanta
and is establishing new regulations
with the purpose of keeping hope
alive in the hearts of convicts. Once
Mr. Gregory would have "een called
a sentimentalist. Today the jus
tice and sound sense of his new
policy, are Recognized by every
right thinking . person.
The United States is learning
prison ethics from Oregon.
STRONG
IXDORSED3NT
THEODORE -N; VAIL, president
of the i American Telephone
and Telegraph company, fa-
1 vors government regulation
of corporations. In his annual re
port to stockholders Mr. Vail says:
! Business Courts Judicially interpret
ing laws, not I enlarging them, acting
with absolute Independence of -and
With equity and business fairness
toward air interests, but not as advo
cates of any. one interest, supported
fcy the public; will soon bring order
and security out of the present un
certainty and i be a bulwark ; against
future economic disturbances,
i This is a strons i n rl nrsTTun f rf
the constructive policies of Presi-
dent VVIisonj The federal 'trade
commission has been provided for
that specific purpose. The commis
sion was created ; by congress at
the president's . request, . not to
harass legitimate business, big or
little, but i to "act with ' absolute
independence and with equity and
business fairness ' toward all inter
ests." j r" ;
It has been charged by some
that Prsldent Wilson waa making
vindictive' war on big business.
Jfothlng; could be' farther from the
facts. le Is demanding that busi
ness be? conducted on legitimate
lines, that fairness prevail, that
competition be maintained and that
every iijidivjdual, firm or corpora
tion -have an- opportunity to gain
the rewards of efficiency without
having to waste money and energy
fighting! unfair business methods.
Mr. Vail's report to stockholders
is evidence .that at least a portion
of big business approves tne presi
dent's policy. Far from being de
structive, it is, as Mi. ; Vail says,, a
bulwark against , future economic
disturbances, f The president's pur
pose is to bring business and gov
ernment into sympatbetic relations,
to end business uncertainty as to
awhat may and what may- not be
done.'- ' ' ' 'j :.;J '. . i
Stability is what business must
have. Stability is what it has not
had i for twenty-five years. Mr.
Vail is -Ight n saying that govern
ment regulation such, as Is now
proposeld should be supported by
(he people. -
COST OF BONDS
T
HE!
first question that Rat-
urally arises in tha consid
eration of the propf sed bond
isgue for the improvement of
the main roadsof the county is the
cost of the bonds , to the ; taxpayer.
It is! j proposed to Issue serial
bonds for $1,250,000. Beginning
five years after issue, or in. 1920,
the boijids will be) retired at the
rate of $125,000 per year. At the
end oft the fourteenth year after
issue. Or 1929, all will have been
retired.!
For I the first four years the
only cbiarge on the bonds will be
the interest charge. j
Based on the present assessment
roll of j the county, approximately
$336,000,000,! this charge -will be
18.6 coins per year on every $1000
of assessed property.
Beginning the fifth year when
the first onertenth installment is
taken lip and retired, the cost on
each $1000 of assessed property
will bei 55.80 cents. This is the
maximum. The figures are based
on the assumption that the bonds
will be sold at par, bearing 5 per
cent interest. ;
The cost the sixth year will be
53.94 cents for each $1000 of as-
essmerit!. From then on the cost
gradully decreases and at the
fourteeith or final year of the
bond period the cost will be 39.06.
iaverace cost per- $1000 jof
assessed ' property for the entire
bond prlod will be 39.2 cents per
annum.
It ia
fair to assume that the
total assessed " valuation, .of the
tounty will increase by reason of
the improvement of the highways
and that the cost of the bonds
wiil be (proportionately decreased
SERBIA'S PLIGHT
TWO members or tne KOCKeiei
ler Foundation, war relief
copimittee have returned to
bla. i"hey report that country
suffetlng from war, pestilence and
famine.
Typhus, or spotted fever, already
has caused the-, death of sixty na
tive doctors. The foreign Red
Cross units , have suffered great
losses, Tw6,' American hospitals
have been compelled to suspend
their , regular work because of
typhus. Of twelve American
nurses, nine have been stricken,
and three of six doctors sent from
this cquntry ,are down with the!
dread disease, 4
Typhus, typhoid fever cholera,
smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever
and recurrent i fever are prevalent
throughout the country. Physi
cians and sanitary experts are
needed badly, biit unless they are
fully equipped with, medicines and
furnishings for their living quar
ters it would be unwise for them
to go. to Serbia, as they would
probably fall vlstlms to disease.
Sir Thomas Lipton, whose yacht
is being used as a Serbian hospital
ship, has written a harrowing de
scription of conditions in Belgrade.
Major Robert Patterson of Wash
ington, who is in charge of Amer
ican" Red. Cross work in Europe,
says all relief funds for Serbia
should be spent in this country for
antiseptic medicines. What medi
cines Serbia has are of an inferior
quality.
Serbia s plight makes one
shudder to contemplate it. Not
only soldiers, but women, old men
and helpless children are paying
the 'toll of war. Crowned heads
disagreed' over ; who should own
the land, and the people are paying
the price. Their one great hope is
the United States, the country at.
peace, able and willing to lend as
sistance, not in causing more suf
fering, ibut In, relieving distress
A FAIR DIVISION
STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER
BOWLBY has recommended
tol the state highway commis
sion a most equitable appor
tionment of this year's highway
fund. Ilf adopted by the commis
sion those counties having first
claim for state aid will receive it
and the two main thoroughfares
of the state will be put in condi
tion to admit of through, travel
this season, returning an interest
on ' the! large investment already
made. ? : , "!-!,.
The apportionment recommended
by Engineer Bowlby is as follows:
Douglas county, $20,000; llooA
I River' county, $60,000; Clatsop
county, $40,000; Columbia county,
$60,000, and Jackson county,! $40,-
000. - -
The amount awarded Douglas
j county is to be expended In the
i Improvement of the Pacific j high
way near Glendale. This is
the
It
1 worst stretch on the highway
lis understood that the county! court
jof Douglas will make an additional
- appropriation for the work, llnsur-
i lng Its early completion
The amount awarded to Jackson
county is In line with the lgisla
tive enactment that 20 peri cent
of the fund should be expended in
that county to complete the pacific
Highway over the Siskiyou moun
tains.'; ". ... r , ,
The amounts awarded
River, Clatsop and" Columbia
Hood
coun-
ties will be expended on the Golum
bia Highway, giving a through
road from Hood River to t
sea
The apportionment recommended
by the state highway enjgineer
has been indorsed by the meiinbers
of the different county courjts af
fected and by a number of promi
nent men interested in highway
development. j
In view of the fact .that' the
counties interested have already
done their share through j bond
issues in carrying out the adopted
plan for a comprehensive road sys
tem, it se?ms that in all. justice
they should be the first to receive
state aid.
THE JOURNAL
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
HAVE
WE REPRESENTATIVE
i GOVERNMENT?
By LIEUTENANT O. P. SHAVP,
U. S. Nay, Retired ; Member of
Council
of American Proportional
Representation
League.
--AVE we ever had in the
lunlted
H States a truly representative
and democratic governmeiit?
An examination i of all election re
turns would probably compel ian an
swer, something like this: "Tes, but
only occasionally, and then by
accl-
dent." Why? Because of the
inher-
ent and Incurable defects of the single-member
district.
. Except for 30 representatives chosen
at large, all members of congress
are elected from eingle-membi;r dis
tricts. In each district, the voters of
the minority party are disfranchised,
since they are represented in congress
by a man whose election th ;y op
posed. In contests between three or
more parties, when the successful
candidate is elected by a mefe plu
rality, the majority of the voters are
disfranchised. Of course, It may hap
pen that injustice done to a party in
sortie districts may be partly bilanced
by Injustice to its opponents lri other
districts, and. the net result
may
approximate to fair
but two wrongs can
right
representation,
never make a
Since it is impossible that a)
ber can represent the conflicting
opinion of the groups Into which the
electors of his district are divided,
the only remedy for this evil of non-
representation Is found in enlarging
the district so that it may elept sev
eral members, to be divided lamong
the different groups in proportion
,to their numerical strength.
1
The . single-member district could
only be justified if it could be j shown
that the voters all thought alike on
the issues on which elections pf rep
resentatives -should turn. Yet It is
on national issues on which , the pop
ular vote Is divided and on Which
representatives should be elected; for
while the -vote Of a representative
affects the interest of his district, it
also affects all the other 44 dis
tricts within the continental area of
the United States, as well as oilr
territories and insular possessions.
Pence, local questions should be com
paratively negligible in congressional
elections, for if they controlled ' all
the elections, we would infallibly have
a Congress of mere log-rollers,
The
natural' evils of the
single-member
district are aggravated - by
gerry
mandering and by the possibility.
even the incentive, which they offer
to - bribery in close districts.
Under a system of proportional
representation, with the wholo state
as one district, most of the evils of
the single-member districts afe cor
rected. Gerrymandering is rendered
absolutely Impossible and pribery
practically so. The tendency jto log
rolling among members ,is minimized.
because each represents not a mere
physical locality but the opinions of
a group of voters who, while thinking
alike, may be scattered throughout
the state.
This type of Constituency, consist
ing of voters united, not in. residence.
but .in opinion, is the ony logical
constituency in a country whose gov
ernment i$ theoretically controlled by
public opinion, acting ' In accordance
with" tKe jfalrly ascertained Will of
the majority.
In a congress whose members ac
curately represent the varying
groups
into which public opinion Is divided,
the will of the majority can be as
truly ascertained as in . a popular
election. In thus attaining the ulti
mate end of congressional action, the
effectuation of the will ofV the ma
jority, the proportional system ac
complishes what is imponsiblej under
the method of election by jslngle
member districts. i , t
Another very great advantage! of the
statewide constituency lies in the fact
that the voters are free to select as
their representatives the meni most
eminently qualified for that position,
notwithstanding the fact that (several
of these men may reside inj what
was formerly a single-member dis
trict, . in which case, owineHo the
residence ; restriction, only one. i would
been eligible and the utat
have lost the benefit ot the
services of the others.
- Thisj
feature" of i proportional repre
sentation to a great extent frees
the representative from the Impor
tunities of office-seekers. It tends
inevitably to the A election of meni of
broudelr view, rather than to j that
held ..bjy mere local politicians. :
Proiiortlonal representation there
for? promotes stability, since the- real
leader of public opinion "' will con
tinue ko be' returned as long as "ley
command the votes of a, constituency.
It ij therefore,, conservative and
adaptdd to trie carrying out of a
wise Constructive, program extending
period of years. It stands
for justice, equality and efficiency.
Its adpption would go far toward In
suring! in the United States the i per
petuity of genuinely democratic j in-
stitutibns, thus crowning with success
the greatest experiment 'in popular
government the world has ever seen.
Copyright 1915.
(Communications sAnt to Th Journal for
publication in this fiepartment sbould be, wrtt-
ten on
bnly one side jof the paper, should not
exceed
vn) -woras in iiengtn ana must om
compan
en d.v tne name aud address or mt
ender.
II the writer does not desire to one
the name published, he should o atate.) i
"DtRffusslon ia he greatest of all reformer.
It rationalizes everj-tttinir it tom-hea. It rol
prlrnelpfes of all false tanctlty and throws them
oacK on tneir reasonanieness. ir tney nve
no reasonabh'neRs, It i ruthlessly crushes them
out of
existence and tieta up its owa conclusions
in the!
stead. vvoiarow Wilson.
To Get the Mole.
Car
ton, Or., March 17. To theiEdi-
tor OS
Th Journal Noticing In J yes-'
s Journal j the inquiry aa .to
terdajj
how to kill moles, i and your reply, augr
gestirig the use of fumes from carbon
bisulphide, I desire to state that! the
raethcjd mentioned is not alwaysi ef
fective, as the fumes fail to follow
the holes in all their courses up and
down
In the ground and-through by-
ways
and chambers of runways, also,
the hdles leak to the surface in places.
Besidia as soon as the mole discovers
a whiff of gas he; makes for the fresh
air, which takes hiim only a moment.
I Want to mention, if you will be
kind nough to pernit me, that a ( Citi
zen ojf tnis towri, A. Mlckelson.i has
invented a mole trap that he is begin
ning i to manufacture and market
Those! here who have tried this device
say if is superiqr to .any means or
methdd they ever- saw, to exterminate
molesi It is a very inexpensive con-
trivanjee and it would seem that this
is a jvery good opportunity for Ore-
goniaijis to demonstrate their loyalty
to Orfegon made goods and encourage
an Oregon inventor, especially since
the reSsults obtained would be theibest
and thie cost the least. F. G. OLSON, i'
Oni Oregon's Prohibition Law.
Albiny, Or., Marcb 19. To the -Edi
tor of- The Journal. I have read with
interest the criticisms of President
Gilmol-e of the Model License league
upon (pregon's prbhibition law, as given j
in la4t night's Journal. From my;
viewpoint, he had good grounds! for
much that he said, but rbquestiori his
motives. As a radical prohibitionist, I
wanted a law with no concession to
liquor users, and was sorry to $ead the
etatement given but before election,
that families would be allowed intoxi
cants for home use. 1
I would rather that Oregon had ione 1
"dry" by a much less majority tand '
had absolute prohibition. I kept ;
"mum during the: session of the legis
lature, as I felt that the above pledge
must be kept. If President 4Gil mare's
object via.s to so ihcrease Our disaffec
tion with the lawlas to favor a refer
endum, he won't 'fcatch" me, for be
lieve In giving tfie law a fair tjrlal,
and If after one lyear it proves inef
fectual the legislature of 1917'can
amend to meet the then larger demand
for absolute prohibition.
- . CYRUS H. WALKER.
Mpre on Subject of Divinity, j
Saleim, Or., March 20. To the Editor
of Thje Journal. i-In Thursday's Jour
nal appeared two articles criticising a
Christian Science I lecturer f or saying,
"The j Scriptures contain no reference
wherein Jesus ever claimed to be God."
One ojf the writers quotes John 10: 30,
where the Jews accused Jesus of mak
ing hiins&lf God. But in answer Jesus
distinctly disavowed auch a meaning.
He claimed to be the "Son of God,"
and tj) be "sent of God.'. He was the
"Christ the Son of God," to be sure, but
that does not mean "Deity. He called
Goc. ijis, "Father, f which would not be
valid jlf he were God himself. He said,
"I anfl my Father are one,", also My
Fatheir is greater!- than ' I." Now why
did h say'VMy Father?" Simply be
cause! he recognized Deity above him
self. jMr. Shield is right. Jesus never
claimed to be Deity, except in that sub
ordinate sense in, which all men are
divine. r L. D. RATLIFF.
Advocates Road' Tax, Not Bonds.
Portland, March 22. To the Editor
of The Journal 1 wish to submit a
few Remarks fori the earnest eohsid
eratioin of the taxpayers of Multno
mah jcounty concerning the proposed
bond I issue- as advocated by Rbad
maste'r John B. Yeon for the purboae.
of building- roads, the bond issue to
be $4250,000. j :j ,i
Theise bonds n6 doubt will draw 6
per cent interest,; which means a 'loss
to th taxpayer jf $75,000 each year.
If the bonds run ten years that mean
we wjUl have to pay as interest dur
ing the ten years! $750,000, which, ad
ded ti the principal, makes $2,000,000.
We can not build roads with i? the
money paid out as interest, as this
$76,00i0 goes each year to the coupon
clippebr and does not lessen our bond
issue one cent, and Mr. Taxpayer has ,
nothing to show for this extra expendi
ture, as it is- lost to him forever.
From my point lof view it is very:poor
business policy: to vote our children
into bondage.
If Mr. Yeon would advocate a spe-
cial tax levy to
build roads no one
would object, as
all agree that good
roads 1 are essential to progress ami no
one " should object to that method of
raising funds for road building. When
he advocates a bond issue it appears
he Is- showing favor to the money
lender! rather than the tax payer.:,
, Let jus build roads, but not by: the
sweat! of our children's brows, 'who
will, have to dig up and py $750,000
or more for -the mistakes theirfathers
may have made.
Interest, taxes and death are aure,
or confiscation of property if the in
terest! is riot paidL We all know: this
to be ia fact. Them why vote bonds to
build ; road a and create a , demand for
Shyloek's gold. Let us save this- large
fortune of $750,000 by voting, a espe
cial tax- levy of from 6 to 7 mills,
whichj would be all the county could
use in! building roads in the road build
ing season each j year, and by this
method, -when -our roads are jrom-
pletedj. we shall :own them and will
have
would
Lejters From the People )
nave beaten tne money lender out or
the fortune he will have made under
the plan as proposed by Mr. Yeon.
I A. TAXPAYER.
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PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANGE
There's no harder wprk that doing
nothing. ' j
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whiskey drowns womfc troubles aind
floats a lot more. i . " f-
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We admire a good talker who knows
when to shut up. ;
1
It's nice- to live in i the . country
nice for your city relations. I
f
Don't ' overstep yourself in trying
to put your best foot 'forward. j
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If: you would flatter ia married man
telt him he doesn't look it. 1
. . i ' ' .1
" Fishing for. husbands ior fish ia much
the same. The big ones get away.
It's astonlsbing ; how quickly pbs
Bessioa will decrease the value Of a
thing, ' . '-' ' J
When a man begins) to go down
hill his neighbors usually get busy
and push. i !
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No matter how bad a man may be,
there is one woman who can -find some
good 'in him. i i
. f -:' ' -"
Why it flattens a woman to be told
that she looks like an actress is more
than a man can understand.
Unless a man can ape a slight, im
provement in himself it'a Impossible
to make -him believe the world i
growing better. -
It is easier for a married man to
say that he is free rmm worry tij an
it Is for him to prove jit to the satis
faction of other married men,
- Women are more liberal than men
in Borne respects. The wife who has
a mind of her own is
constantly giv-
ing her husband pieces
or ii.
It may not be so bad If rheumatism
does not attack a man until after
he
has lost his hearing then he doesn't
have to listen 'to everybody's cbre
for it.
MEXICO
' From the New York World.
' We have no doubt that the situation
In Mexico is very serious. We liUve
no doubt, either, that Ithe situation! In
Belgium is very serious, and in Poikn I
and in East Prussia and In northeast
ern France and in Palestine
In the field of active warfare the
situation 13 always serious, whether
the war be civil or international. Ni
combatants and. foreigners who find
themselvea trapped between the opera
tions of hostile armiies are sure to
suffer, whether in Mexico oe In Eurbpe
or ins.;Asia.
The Mexican war problem is mjich
less burdensome to the Untted States
than the European waj- problem. The
Kuropean war has cjjst us dollars
where the Mexican wjar has cost us
cents. If Mexico were as strong in
military resources as (Germany, there
would be no sentiment in favor of
American intervention.,' Even the most
enthusiastic jingo would be content to
let the warring factionjB determine the
fate of their unhappy country. II ia
because Mexico is weak that we are
supposed to have a great moral duty
to establish law and lorder south of
the Rio Grande. Onjy very string
nations nave a ngnt jio , meauxe wun
the peace of the world, and to sprjead
death and famine and pillage and dls
aster.
Two courses are open to the United
States, and only two courses have been
open to the ; United States since the
day of Madero's assassination. One
HISTORY , OF TWO
By John M."
Oskison. , j
i A . savings account
and if you help your
its, power to help will
will help you;
isavinga account
be multiplied.
So far as I know,
the above sen
tence Isn't a quotatiojti from "poor
Rifhard' Almanac'
it is mv own
expression of a truth
thnt- wan hrtrnft
in upon me as I read
In a progresaive
Chit-gen bank's macaifne about two
savings accounts - oil that bank's
ledgers. . .. - - '' . - j -' '
About 1908 a depositor put Into (the
savings department 150; he has never
appeared at the bank Islnce; wheref e
is ancf- what his fortune the bank
does not know. He has done nothing
more than appear ami deposit siou
Today, ir ne snouia
hanlr - wnnlH hA .rftdv
mnr than t?nn fntArent ' RtpnrlilV
working, has added mre than a third
to the total of this
deposit.
Also, in 1906. a
man's. orignal
dressmaker . ap-
window and
pai o cv v v" ei"
deposited a small aurh; in that year
her deposits amounted to $20.0. The
next year they ran a. little hiher.
The Ragtime Muse
' Real Economy.
The women of the soith sea isleaj
Are not oouvious 10 leiyies;
Each for herself, eostumes of grass
They do not make these up In haste-
Their native skirts can boast no waist.
And ao they lavish all their care i
On the Bole garment -that they wear.
A bit f glass they use for shears
And Where a straggling wiap appears
They snip it off; for they condemn
Any divergence in the hem. 1
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For dress affairs. I'm! told that they
Weave here and there-among the hay
Bright flowers with t consummate
And yet they have nojflbrlet'B billj
No pumps for them; each damsel goea
With many ringa upon her toes, ;
And round each ankle clasps a chain
Or roayfo two, if ha is vain. j
Oh. how I wish that Isabel :
Could dresa eo cheaply and so well.
She needs a lot of gowns and. yet
If they were graaa I fear ehed fret.
LegtelaUve " Farce Was Expcnsixe.
From: the Salem! Journal- j
The late legislature j saved - the tax
payer but Httla mony over the ap
propriations of two yeara ago, and
that saving was of, a very question
able nature, it consisted of acaling
down arbitrarily the budget of head a
of departmenta and Institutions i re
gardless of their needs In order? to
make a showing for economy Some
of these cut were poOitively harmfdl
to effective work in the departmenta
affected. On the other hand money
was lavishly expended ion useless ses
sion expenses, the clerkship and sten
ographer abuse reaching a limit never
before attained, by thousand of dol
lars. ' Bills like that! providing :for
the payment of ; the i Alma D. Katz
claim for "investigating" the Tumalo
irrigation project before it waa taken
over by the state were lobbied through
withovt difficulty, and not lew than
seven useless circuit, judjreahlpa Were
created at $4000 a year each. i
The aession waa in reality a carni
val of lavish expenditure of public
funds, in which constructive legisla
tion was entirely lost isisht of in the
effort of the senate to work out cer
tain political nchemes 1 hatched up In
Portland. In the end $h lower house
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Mil II no, on the recently completed
Willamette Valley Southern, ia build
ing a new town hall. The housewarm
ing is dated 'March 27. I
Molalla is soon to enjoy: the luxury
of public electric; lighting.' The yn
tem, the pioneer says, "will he one of
the most modem on the coast.'? -
-.-. - (.: - - j
In the opinion of the I Ullsboro- In
dependent, the project of a monthly
market day In " Ilillaboro - "in one de
serving of the unanimous ; support of
Wie community.'
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It has rbeen reported to the Sun
that an excellent' Kite, on Bridge street
has been or will be offered tree to th
c-ity of Bheridah for the erection of
the new city hall, and that a purchaser
stands ready to take over the present
site at a reasonable compensation,
. . . .i
The name of G. K. Brooking now aji
pears an editor and publisher lof the
Canby Herald. He has been publish
ing the Hubbard Knterprise, and suc
ceeds o, I leonard. who, in the line
of filial duty,- will return to his old
home in South lkota. Mr. Leonard
has' made the Herald a good newa
paper, o high tone and of most excel
lent spirit. i
'.'." i "' -: Jt - ": ' ', " ' ''''.'":!
Salem Statesman: The manual
training clasa of the high school ir
at work on 63 lookers for: the ; use of
the class. Ali doors and: other mill
work are being made by the boys.
This class . has the distinction of being
the- only one in the school in which the
students have to be told to go home.
The interest in the work is so keen
that the boys frequently: stay until
after 6 o'clock. s i
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Ashland Tidings: Ashland's' . wagon
of progress in about to move, ilt still
has a few chunks under its wheel,
placed there -by those who have tha
wrong notion; Let every citizen as
sist in removing the obstacles and put
his full-' power behind the load and
surely as nigiht follows day, Ashland
will be a city of 20,000 and more in
two years.. . j. : - ... - . .
is to send an army Into Mexico and
conquer the inhabitants. The other ia
to keep our hands off, refuse to recog
nize any of the factions and let Mexico
fight it out. There are disadvantages
in this course, but to send an army
into Mexico undoubtedly means the
permanent occupation of the country.
It means the expenditure of hundreds
of millions of dollars In suppressing
guerilla warfare directed against our
troops. It means new race problems,
and a legacy of Latin-American hatred
which we, shall never lose.
To let Mexico alone requires" much
self control and considerable! annoy
ance, but it is' much wiser to keep out
of trouble than to get into trouble,
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President Wilson has made every
effort short of wajr to end the!. deplor
able conditions in Mexico, and: he has
even made war in a way. Thus far
all his hopes have been frustrated by
the folljr of Mexicans. The president
.would-undoubtedly be more popular aH
home if he had been- leas patient. Pres
ident McKinley was abused like a pick
pocket because he so'ught . o-avpld war
v.ith Spain, and recovered his popular
ity only after war became inevitable.
It is as easy to criticise Mr. Wilson's
temporising policy as it was o criti
cise Mr. McKtnley's temporizing policy,
but one thing ought to b$ plain to
every sensible citizen. Intervention in
Mexico woulj be a calamity to the
United Statesj and is not to be under
taken except as a last desperate resort.
Bad as the situation may be, we have
not yet" reached that stage. .
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
and each year thereafter the amount
increased. To the bank she Is hardly
more of a personality than the man
who came but . once. Yet the bank's
ledgers show that this dressmaker
has more than $4000 to her credit-
an ample f insurance against hafd
times, hard luck, age.
How much- of the dressmaker's
$4000 is represented by interest earn
ings? I doij't know, and the , bank
overlooked a good advertising i point
in failing to say. Suppose her average
yearly deposits in the eight-year per
iod were $300, that would mean $.2400
of principal saved and $1600 of, Inter
est earned; ' V.- -."
In either" case you" can see that a
savings account Is a live helper, tak
ing no vacations, sticking to r the job j
24 hours a day and 365 days a 'year. !
So well are our savlnga . banka reg-:
ulated that losses are all but un-
known. The iwages'paid your money
when it is put in -the saving bank
are not : high but they 'are sure. in
any case 'they will help you, and If
you help them to. Increase while you
can,- they ' will amply repay your ef
fort. '. ' i . :
was forced to give up its apparently
honest efforts to do aomething worth
while in t the interest of the state, and
abjectly surrendered to the political
bosses in the closing hours of the leg
islative farcer
Must Get Off Somewliere, ,
From the Lents Herald.
Not that the Herald has any claims
on Major Bowlby, or that he ha any
claims on us, but it looks as though
there was something queer in the line
up that is trying to oust him. Per
haps the major was a little indiscreet
in , the showing up of peculiarities in
the steel bridge business. About the
best good road , boosters- we havein
the country are the . f eUows who "sell
road machinery and construction ma
terial. The corrugated culvert people
are ndt expected to love a man who
shows that their prices depend upon
the perspicuity of the board of super
visors who make the contract.: Whose
business is it If prices vary 25 to 60
per cent? It cost-, more to: deliver
steel irK some counties - than : others.
Bowlby ought to have taken this into!
consideration when he was lamming )
the steel combine. The fact that Itj
costs Lane county half as much mora
to build a bridge than it did Multno
mah 'county Is a matter for the dealers
and the county officers to adjust. The
officers have to get something out
of it. The dealers pay out hundred
of slmoleana? each year entertaining
the commissioner's association, They
have to get even some time. :
Marked Men. i
From the Woodburn Independent.
Central Oreaon was itensely Inter
ested in having the lease of the . salt j
lakes ratiflecL Senators Thompson,
Bingham and pay will be remembered
by this section as men who fought so
hard against ithe welfare of central
and eastern Oregon. The Lapine Inter
mountain say' "Every objection of
fered by Thompson and his steam roll
er gang bears' the stamp of insincerity,
and leaves the impression that the
men were not drying to serve the-best
interests of the state. The gang had
an entirely 'different motive, and
Worked like demons for it,"
The Wife' Training.
From thai Washington Star.
"My wife's dog has a habit of bark-
"IS JEA&LY PAYS"
By Frad Lockler. .Bpaolal BtiXf Vritar at
Xha Journal.
. "For years after the masaaore of Dr.
Whitman and Mrs. Vhitnian I um-.l to
wake up at night cold -'with terror
from '! iik Mitt In my ilrt;un tluj
drefcdful srencs," H.ltd AIih. W. F.
Helm, one of the few remaining sur
vivors. of the Whitimi.n iiiHHuaere,
"After Tamahan ami Tiloukaikt
left, aftor Tlloukatkt liad tomahawltrd
1M. Whitman, Mm. Whllinan ami Mix.
Hall brougjit lr. Win titian into ;".Z
living room. Win. Whitman .trot a
towel and went Into the parlor to fc'iit
some ashes to put on the wowmtn to'
stop their bleeding. : Hiie went to tiio
sofa and got a -pillow to -put under liiu
head.' As she started Into tint putlur,
1 stood at the tsash duor looking out;
and -aaid: 'Oh mothev, ..the'' Indiana are
killing Mr. Saund;r!' Stio started to
i-otne to where 1 was standing to une,
when nn Indian, natued . Frank, wnu'
"was standing on the', front KtrpB of
the school room, shot at Iter. Kliet-ll
down beside inev My wtBter Katie fan
to -her, but Mrs. Whitman motioned'
her away and aid: 'You can't do 'any
thing for me, Kathcrine. Tuke caresuf
the sick children.' She wt:s shot
through the left shoulder and Wan
bleeding profusely. She began - pray
ing. She prayed for her mother and
for us ehilddeiK . " ' i
"I was terror etrii keit to see .'Dr.
Whitman lying there breathing loudly -and
paying nothing, while the bluod
from hi head ran on the floor, and
to see Mother Whitman lying on the
floor with the big red utain on the
front of-her dies: getting larger, and'
larger. : . ...
"The Indians began smasHing the
windows in on the west side" of Urn
house. Mr. Itogers said: 'We' iiiiit
go -.-upstairs.' - He helped Mrs.. Whit
man to her feet. Lorlnda Bewley was
In the upstairs room sick In bed. When
she heard the shooting ehe got up,
dressed, and came .downstairs. Hha
helped -Mr. Rogers support-Mrs. Whit
man as they wtjnt upstairs. Jut be
fore the Indians had come to kill. Dr.
Whitman, my sister heard the doctor
say to Mrs. WIUtnmn: When you get
time, wife, yclt had better go up and
see Lorlnda; she Is crying and fec-lt
very badly. As they were taking Alia.
Whitman upstairs, my stster Katie
cried: 'The sick children! Oh, the eicit
children I Mr. Itogers hurried uowk
stairs and got the sick children from
the front room. Everyone seemed to
have forgotten me, and i didn't know
what to do. I was standing by th
sash dobr. When Mr. Itogers tame
through the room, I said; 'Air. -Jtogers,
what will we do now? , le said; "Wii
can't do anything except trust in Uoil.'
I thouglM. we had better get the guns
and klW the ' Indians and trust UoU
some time when things were more
peaceful and there was not so mux-u
danger around; but I didn't like to
tell him. He told me to run upstairs;
I did bo, and he followed me. When
we got up, he pulled the door at .the
bead of the stairs shut.
' "There were two beds In this robin.
It was the children's bed room. Mrs.
Whitman lay across one of the beds.
The sick children were on the other
bed; they were delirious and kept call
ing 'Mother! Mother!' Mis. Whitman
said: "Oh, the poor little" things!
"Mr. Kimball had gone upstairs ami
was lying on the floor groaning. In
that room there were Mr. Kogers and
Mra. Whitman, Mr, Kimball, Mrs. Hall.
Mrs. Htfys, Lorlnda Bewley, the three
sick children, Mary Ann Brldger, my
sister Katie- and myself. "
"We heard omeone 'moving a.p-oyw-'
In the room, below. Presently we rl--'
ogniived old Tamsueky's voice at the
foot of the stairs. He Was eulllng
Mr. Rogers. Mrs. Whitman said: .'There
la an old gun barrel in the corner. C-t
t n ,wi mi it nut over the stalra. It
J will keep the Indians from coming up.'
Mr. Rogers opened the door and poked
the gun barrel,out or trie aoor. inm
sucky called upr "Take the gun away.
I am friendly. iCoroe down; the young
men are going to burn the house.'
"The grown people .consulted for a
moment and then Mr. Rogers took thu
gun away and told Tamaucky to coma
upstairs. Ho came." up' slowly and fin
ally stepped tlirAugh, the door. Mrs.
Whitman said: 'We mMt get ready to
go down.' My sister Katie wrapped
up the baby, Henrietta, and handed it
to Tamaucky, He indignantly. -pushed
ifawayi He said: 'The rent all stay;
just Mrs. Whitman and Mr. Rogers
come.' Mrs. Whitman ald: 'We had
better all go. Miss Bewley and Mr.
Rogers helped Mrs. -Whitman down the
stales. As Mrs. Whitman was going
through the door, she looked ba( k and
said: 'Elisabeth, "you come with me."
I went downstairs just back of her.
Miss- ilewley and Mr. Rogers laid Mm.
Whitman on the couch., Mrs. nan
went to -the clothes dresser a-rid be
gan getting Mrs. Whitman's best,
dresse. She threw "five drwsi-s into
my arniN, among them Mrs. Whitman's
greatest treasure- her wedding dressi.
A number of young Indians came into
the room. Mr. Rogers, although shot
through the wrist, took one end of the
sofa ami Je Lewis took the other
end Mrs. Whitman looked around for
me.' and seeing me, sid 'Stay close
to me. Elisabeth.'" -They carried, her
through the dining room into the
kitehen and then outdoors. Just f
thev stepped out on the square plat
form lni front of the kitchen doorf
Lewis dropped his end of the sofa and
grabbed up his gun, vsjileh was nearby.
As Mrs. Whitman raised her head, an
Indlan fired, and the ' bullet went
through her face. Mr, Rogers said:
Oh my God!' Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Hays
and' Lorinda Bewley had walked on
ahead of the. others. The moment the
shot was fired at Mrs. Whitman, the
Indians began firing at them." .
A FEW 'SMILES'-
"Native "There are the .oidboy'
twins. They are y
years old. '
Stranser "To
what- do they credit
their long lives?"
Native "O n e
enum! he used ter
b a f c e r and Onn
eauae he never uued
it."
mm
At a duel the parties discharged
their pistols with
out effect, where
upon- one Of the
seconds -1 n t e r p o s
ed and oroposed
that the combatants
Hhotild shake hands
To' this the other sec
ond objected a ub
nr-AHfirv.
"Their hands," said he. "'have been
shaking for half an hour."
Amerlean (answer
ing phone) Hello!
Englishman (on
other end of llnej -As
you thah?
American T e s,
old chap, but how
the deuce 'did' you
RUOKS'lt?
ing at me every time I come home,"
said one husband. ,
"Vou're lucky," replied the other.
"Mine doesn't notice me that much."
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