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THE IRON ' CHANCELLOR
F Bismarck, whose 100th birth
day is celebrated by Germans
"Uday, had lived in the time Of
1 tt -v,aM Uhat
&e Whole course of European his
tory would . have been changed,
f With Bismarck as an antagonist,
rjt is .improbable; that Napoleon
would have walked on eo many
hrones. , It is doubtful if there
would -ever have been a battle of
"fVaterloo. In "any. event, with the
Iron Chancellor to meet in ;diplo-
macy. in statecraft and in
ftapoieon would have had an ad
versary, oE different mold from
those he drove before his triumph
int legions for two bloody and
convulsive decades.
J: j Prince Bismarck was the coiji-!,'-i'mandlng
figure of continental
j, Europe duripg the latter half of
the . nineteenth century. . He was
without a peer in diplomacy, with
out rival in Etatecraft. and with -
oat. -an equal in the prophetic
Vision with which he looked out
upon the world apd men. .
' Better than any other man of
his time,' he knew how tp control
Eurdpean . chanceilerios, and he
controlled them;, Better than-ny
other, statesman of his - time, he
;new. how to. diVgct human affairs
Ul iub wwu. .uauuu an wcti a
as
othe're. aad he directed them.
VJth" the sagacity of a Solomon
! and the iron hand of a Caesar, he
IZr" f,"" r.r-" v
: and molds his clay.
s The group of
German states
had remained in separation for!
centuries. Napoleon had never
been able to weld them to his em
pire. In the year . that Napoleon
went to Waterloo and St. Helena,
the child " was born who was - to
seize these isolated countries and
seize cuese iBwiaieu couuiries auu 1
' fi,. i
dissoluble -union that is tday the :
nowerful German emDire. The !
child was Carl Otto Eduard Leo-1 viction that
POU vbn .. Eicmarck-Schonusen.!! KM " I
ft. , TV- .r i methods would be of the slightest
the future Prince Bismarck
Bismarck ordained ta. union of
the,'' Germanic peoples far in the
vista ' lone- hfora other statfesmpn !
--I." "a , U ; -
ui oauicu vi iy- j-tto mob. PL lJ LlL
accomplishing it was (he rehabili
trtion of the Prussian schools and
universal compulsory 'education.
So thorough was his work . that
- it f is related that ihe Prussiaji
soldiers ' on1 the march to the six
. weeks' war In which A.ustria was
whipped in 1866, amused, them
selves by translating their orders
. into various languages. That war
and the. FrancrPrussiai. war of
1870 were the flames with -which
Bismarck fired the peoples of the
Germanic states Into an ardor for I
i union and empire. j
' How the diplomacy of Bismarck
kept Italy out of the war with
Austria and both out of the war
wjth France, Is a story of statecraft-
seldom.; paralleled In the
pages of : history.. '
The rise of Germany was Bis
marck'a. handiwork. The. procla
mation at. the gates of Paris, of a
united German empire with Wil
helm -.1. as . its first emperor was
Bismarck's monument. i
" Bismarck was one of .tha. most
powerful i statesmen that conti
nental Eifrope :ever produced. If
his ruggedr figure loomed in the
midst . of German affairs today,
there ' would; undoubtedly be a
Bterner aspect for the allies. v
,A MERCHANT .JMLAJU-NK
a GROUP of practical steamship
A men, recognizing the need of
jH : 'some organized action in be-
. . half of gulf ports, j have or
ganized at New Orleans a society
for: the development of jAmerican
shipping. Their object is to spread
information concerning the present
shipping, situation and the forma
tion of a healthy public sentiment
in favor of the formation i of Amer
ican steamship service. ! "
1 The orgarflzatlon qf this, society
is important from an educational
standpoint. The men behind it are
described as - practical transporta
tion men. The president J. W
Corry of Gulf port, Mlsa., one of
the leaders In' the enterprise, is an
experienced . steamship operator.
He says that steamships Ncan be
Buccessfully operated under the
American"; flag.i and . that " boats
which '. the society may undertake
to promote "can be made profitable
investments when -operated for the
development of the nation's export
trade. . ' . ' .j .
The society will "devote ... its ef
frrts to promoting1" public-' Interest
In" a Jine 'of steamships' serving the
south and west; It is authorized
to assist 'In the promotion, organ
ization and operation of corpora
tions - for' building and operating
ships under the American flag. 'It
t is : expected to fnterest capital ,. in
. unuci loaiufe luak
! imate dividends on the: money In
VuDted.
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; FALSE?
T
TIB "Oregon Ian says:
1 Major . Bowlby 'may be given
full credit for honesty of pur
pose; but the assumption, - and
.indeed , the opett declaration. -of
hit sole journalistic supporter that
he has been rpmoyd because he .Is
an honest man, and because the road
contractors demanded it, is false.
False -There was the meeting
of 25 contractors in Senator Day's
office before ; the primaries, held
for the" iurpose of getting Bowlby
out and some other - engineer in.
Thefe was the . Utter written a
Grants Pass friend By H. G. New-
, port, who i had contracts under
Bowlby on the Hood River section
of the Col imbia Highway. He de
clared that the contractors were
about to get the "skid" underl
u'wiuy.: -.tere is ti-e letter:
What do i you know and think of
Major Bowlby and his methods? We
I contract for the highway work
Mn Hood River county and we are
getting the "'damdeat" deal ever mor
tal man experienced.- ,
. There Is ! general , revolt among
all the contractors engaged in this
work; land, we think we have the skid
under: him. ;
"False?" j Was the meeting ' fn
Senator Pay's office "false?"
Is Newport's letter to. the Grants
Pass friend "false?" ' '
Whan .XTATsrtr 1 ,1 " 'r K
i general revolt among contractors en-
Kaged in this work, and we think
j we have the skid under him," was It
1 "fx !
A DRY BRITA1X
D
AVID i LLOYD-GEORGE says
Great Britain is fighting
three; allies -Germany Aus
tria, atiif Hrinlr' TVia- cr-naat-
lest, of this trio of deadly foes,
j acC0rding to the BriUsh chancellor
i of the exchcnnp , dr1t
. - T,T-.,
j England is up against an eco-
nomic problem the solution of
which is made more insistent by
war. Soldiers in the field can be
efficient only when Britons at
hOmt ftre !pfficlPnt Rnt a nnki-A-
tag to Lloyd-George, drink, is in-
fprferlnsr with cffini.r,. ti,
tain's industrial life
A deputaton of shipbuilding em'
plovers told him that despite the
that, work was. being carried
f ? 1 5al?n
i-viv irtcif., .mo iuuu aveiage quitt
ing time: in nearly all the British
shipyards was actually less , than
before the war and the average
productiveness had decreased. ,A
battleship coming In lior j repairs
was delayed, a whol day - through
the absen,capf riveters who were
jri,i. 4.ij
dnking atul carousjrig.
. .' ST
-?.v,w .
methods would be of the slightest
avail .in dealing with the drink
evil. It may mean that Great
1 r j t : 1 1 n -la r n - tVto TitTi Af v'b-f
. .YT
Proniouion an actuality, even .go
ing further than have Russia and
France, . . V ". - ' ..
A dry Britain during the war's
period would be strong argument
for 'the enemies of liquor. $It
would demonstrate on a large scale
that the economic loss caused by
excessive drinking, is something
that threatens a nation's very ex
istence. England is engaged rln -a
life and death struggle; she! can
not afford to ignore an enemy at
home while warring against ene-
mies abroad.
WHY CITIES SHOIjJLD: PAY
T
HERE is only an apparent in
justice that residents of cities
should be taxed for the 'im
provement of vcounty roads."
Most cities are essentially depend
ent upon the surrounding country
for their development. The im-
i j provement of market oads makes
netier marketing conditions in the
city. In Massachusetts the city of
Boston pays approximately '. forty
per cent of the total, state higtiwa'y
fund but not a cent of this money
fa spent within the city limits.. The
city of New York pays sixty per
cent of the state Toad tax but none
of this is applied to city streets.'
The development of suburban
property is dependent ' oh highway
improvement. Since the intro&uc
tion of motor traffic, county high
ways are used to an increasing
extent by city residents. In fact,
this , hall ed to the Increased cost
of maintaining county roads.
- Whatever tends, to give Improved
facilities. for doing country business
from;, city headquarters "is an im
portant factor . n the commercial
life of a community. : .
TRUE ECONOMY. '
: .(-. ,
0'
VSER! .a? million dollars has
been saved the government
by Secretary Daniels In the
purchase - of steel and other
structural material for the new
superdreadnoughts Arizona 1 and
California." This saving was made
as a direct ' result of competition,
something the secretary - of the
navy insists upon." " '
The California's structural ma
terial recently contracted . for will
weigh ,.9,9 4 7,0 00 pounds. ..If
purchased at J the price paid
for the New;; York's c t material,
when, there ' .was no v compe
tition, the California would have
run up. a biU.of $1,261,219, The
actual.; :cost .-of.v the 'naterial , was
2&itl74, showfng a reduction In
cost of $635,505. The saving on
the Arizona will be $378,261, mak
ing Jl, 013, 766 on the two vessels.
vnThoughit is'trueespnomy, it is
not the kind f economy that pol
itical contractors 1 want, and we
stall doubtless go on hearing from
Wall street "steel makers' and their
allies 'throughout the country that
the . Wilson - administration is : a
failure. "- i.- s,
THREATEXINQ PORTLAND
HERE is a' new aspect .for
" transportation' in the request
; of the railroads for lower
through rates from the East
to Spokane and similar interior
points. 'There is also a new prob
lem'' for the Interstate 'Commerce
commission. r ,
'.The lower rates asked for the
Spokane - zone Indicate that the
railroads intend to . do what they
can to build up interior distribut
ing centers. It Is their means of i
meeting Panama canal competi
tion.
Rates via . the canal are" so low
that heavy volumes of traffic are
taken from the roads. If the roads
can get a lowered rate to the
Spokane jsouq they can -hold, a
heavy eastern traffic .for distribu
tion through that zone because of
the, back haul which canal traffic
must pay from coast cities to the
interior. That is to say, the rail
road rate, for Instance, from Port
land to Pendleton added to the
canal rate, - will,, if tlie rates now
asked for ' Spokane 1 be granted.
place Spokane ln position tol bid
for Pendleton Easiness and -at the
same time hold the traffic for i the
railroads as ' against the canal
route.'
It is aw extraordinary, change by
the roads from their former atti
tude. It is one ' of the revolu
tions worked by the Panama canal.
It apparently means that, for their
own protection, the roads must'
throw the weight of their influence
for the development of distributing
centers in "the interior.
Nor can they be seriously
blamed. They are driven. to it hy
the inexorable force of canal com
petition. It was to secure com
petition in transportation that the
canal was built, and the request of
the roads is -prima facie evidence of
1
now wen tne severed istnmus is
working out its .destiny. "It is
proof of how the canal not only
brings, lower rates to. terminals,,
hut opens up new and unexpected
competitive; forces -for the interior.
The situation is of serious inter
est to Portland. It changes the
face of things. The roads propose
a differential between Portland
and Spokane of only five cents on
various " . commodities on wmcn
Portland ..now has a rate 'advan
tage oi 11 to 28 cents. If granted,
the" proposed rates would place
Spokane; and ' kindred points : in
position to dispute-, aggressively for
business in a large territory in
which this city Is now almost with
out a rival.
The new development Is one
more accentuation of the appeal
The Journal makes year in and
year out for Portland to adopt the
Columbia river' as one of Its great
assets. That river can be made
the answejf "to such a change of
rates as is proposed. It is a high-r-ay
of commerce on which this
city can confidently stake its
future with full assurance that no
Interstate Commerce commission,
no railroad commission, no rail
road company can put rates into
effect that Portland cannot meet.
Portland will yet see. the day
when- to save herself, she will be
driven to fall back on the Colum
bia, and then, after all these years,
she will find in. that great avenue
of traffic the best reliance and the
most dependable resource she ever,
had. ' ' ' . ' ' . .
CULTIVATE THE BRAIN
HE -trouble- with our brains,
says Charlotte Perkins Oil
man,' is that we do not use
them. .
jOnly a very small portion of the
mind is ever cultivated. About
three-fifths' of it lies fallow.
When one stops to. think that the
two-fifths used is chiefly given
over to envy, fear, worry, hate and
remorse there is wonder that any
thing is ever accomplished.
. A well known essayist has said:
As you warder through your mental
pleasure grounds, whenever you come
upon an ugly intruder of a thought
which might blossom into poisonous
emotion there is only one way to treat
t. . Put! it up like a weed, drop it
on the .rubbish heap as if.lt were a
stinging nettle -and let some har
monious thoughjt grow in its place.
And it is true. -
A SWEET, COMEDY.
T
HERE , is much interest-' in a
social and dramatic way in
the . forthcoming presentation
of Shakespeare's Midsummer
Night's Dream by the . Portland
Shakespeare dub. " ,. ;? ;- j
Theseus, has said '1 wUi hear
that play for . never can anything
be amiss when simjileness and duty
tender it." ; . ''
In the Midsummer' ' Night's
Dream Shakispeare attempted to
represent "fairyland' and he gave
full-play to his poetic fancy. "As
Imagination bodies forth the forms
of things unknown the poet's pen
turns them to chapes and gives to
airy nothing a local habitation and
a name." . . ; . ,
'.He brings into " vivid contrast
the stupidity of Bottom and .' the
ethereality of Titania ,
Rich as the drama is in humor
pus effect," says Hamilton ; Mabiej
" V -i .. '. '
the essayist,- it V fs so essentially
lyric in spirit that it' stands ' alone
in English poetry; an exquisite ex
pansion of the masque or festival
poem into a drama of pure fancy
and daring Imagination.
, . While, the club Is preparing for
the presentation one can hear the
final instructions of Bottom to his
company:'
"Get your apparel together, good
strings to your beards, : new ; rib
bons to your pumps, meet presently
at; the palace, every man look
oven his part for the short j and
tong is our play is preferred. In
any case r let Thisby have clean
linen and let not him ' that plas
the lion's part pare his nails for
they' shall hang out for the lion's
claws.
And .more, dear actors, eat no
onions nor garlic for we are to
utter sweet breath and I do not
doubt but to hear them say it is a
sweet- comedy."
THE JOURNAL
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
THE AMERICAN JURY SYSTEM
By HON. WILLIAM BA.NSOM.
Justice of tile1 City Court of the City of New
jlotK.
ANT people are asking the ques
tion: What Is the matter with
the American Jury system?
Should It ' be abandoned, or . can it
be rehabilitated? Must . the exam
ination of Jurora be attended by the
self -exposure and emphasis .on' Igno-
&&Vtt3i.zem tncB vnu.mil loaaea
the average citi
zen strinK rrom
Jury service? r
. As. member of a
court of which
each Justice ! con-
rlurta. nrh month
mm zzy i
-filrv trlflla rhnn
, 1 any other Judl-
Judge Bansozn. United -States, I
am Increasingly of the opinion that
trial by Jury Is the best method the j
mind of man hs ever devised for the
determination of disputed' questions
of fact. I do not expect that an
acceptable .substitute for the Jury
system will ever be devised. Sub
stantial improvement in It is greatly
needed and also altogether probable.
but its abolition is unthinkable while
republican Institutions remain.
Many of its currently emphasised
"evlls" are superficial, far from typ-
- . jm t
Icai, and greatly ? exaggerated. In
some of the more sensational crim-
In'al trials, where the eyes of coun-
eel are more Intent on the columns
, 1. t Att v.
oZ the "la,-,t edition- than on the
trjiitions of the law, the jury sys-
tern is sometimes maun 10 appear a
'disgraceful and discredited Instru
mentality. For this the court and
counsel are more to .blame than the
jury system, but the fact remains.
Where., the offender.". W or has been
mil 3mt$i
it a .2&
SBBSBBsaAS;X;.;oa,Jb;
made, promln-ent, and "trial by news- Chinese to.wwel'i whaT a menace
paper" has preceded trial by court. I opium was to China: millions of peo
the utmost efforts are made by coun-J pie. vliOllow the course of our mis
eel to exclude from the jury room ! inaries. and you will find that in
, , their path follows the military Dower
influences which have been opera- j of th.icountry" from which they hail,
tlve in the public press. Under such I Generally this has led to a Drotecfo-
circumstances, the Ignorance and
aloofness of a talesman become
prime qualifications, and questions
are asked .nd challenges Interposed
v hich do violence, to the historic
conception of a Jury as a body of
men chosen from the vicinage because
of their familiarity with at least the
general setting of the matters under
dispute.
e
When the trial is approached from
the point of view of a gladiatorial
struggle between counsel, the desire
to appear effectively in the "head
lines" pf the first .day's proceedings
gives a temptation for display of
wits at the expense of a well in
tntloned talesman, and our ,whole
jury system is more or less accursed
with the published incidents of trials
of this character or lack of character.
In civil trials, I have never seen an
instance where a Juror has been em
barrassed or humiliated by manifest
efforts on the part of counsel to ex
clude men really qualified to pass
judgment oa the particular case. In
fact,, such efforts are -rarely made
before me and are readily discour
aged by a "kindly intimation from the
court, preferably out of the hearing
Of the panel. Counsel . usually con
form to the known views of the, trial
Judge upon such matters,' if he has
any. On the average, ten to twelve
minutes is used to select a twelve
man jury in my court. " The suc
cessful trial counsel -in civil cases
are the men who . seek a fair and
unprejudiced, but not an ignorant
Jury. '
The legislature and the trial Judges
share most of the responsibility, for
any . decadence of our Jury system,
and likewise for improving and ton
ing it up. The legislature sbould
abolish most 6t the disqualifications
and exemptions, which remove , from
Jury , duty , many Qf the persons best,
qualified. For example, in New, York
33 classes of persons are disqualified,
and 4? are exempt, . from all . jury
service. The legislature ought' also
to abolish the niggardly fee paid
Jurors feni; their 4 daily service -not
enough . to reimburse any whose serv
ice ; is 1 desirable, yet enough to at
tract the . idle,' incompetent and cof
ruptible." Jury " service; should bo
placed in the light - of a duty. ' a
solemn privilege which each citizen
owes his community, not-a means of
livelihood for undesirables. ' '
Bevisers of state constitutions
ought also, to .consider, the - adoption
of "ten-juror verdicts in civil cases.
Four out of seven judges may annul
a law which the people have deliber
ately enacted, but it takes unani
mous agreement of twelve jurors to
determine the value f a chattel or
the amount of compensatory damages.
"Jury unanimity Increases the corruption,"-
aid Jeremy Bentham, one
of the prof oundest minds of English
jurisprudence. The stock joke about
the foreman's order for "meals for
' eleven jurors and a bale of hay- for
the twelf th has a frequent founda
tion In fact' The compromises requi
site to procure th agreement of one
or two,j jurors work more - injustice
and' absurdity than any other phase
of the tjjury system, and "the retrial
due to! an obstinate juror are
burden jto taxpayers .and injuetica to
other litigants.
! . ' ,
After all, the primary responsibility
for the; right working' of the Jury
system is on the man chosen to pre
side over our .courts. The jury i
likely to do about the same kind of
work, and to approach Its task in
about the same - spirit, manifested
ty the; presiding justice. A trial
judge who takes the time to explain
to the jurors the nature and publlo
Importance of their duties, the es
sential reasonablenes of the rules of
law charged by the court In the
causes tried, and the need that they
as jurors should give to the parties
the same jusjtice which they would
expect were they at the counsel table
with their counsel and the parties
In the box as jurors, does not, -often
appeal' in vain to the sense ' of fair
play which is inherent In the heart
and mind of the average man.
- , ! Copyright. 1915.
Letters From the People
(Communications aent to The Journal for
publication in this department should be writ
ten on only one side of. tbe paper, sbould not
exceed 3 words iu length and must be ac
ooiiManled by the came and address of tbe
fender. II the writer does not .desire to bay
tbe name published, be should ao atate.)
"Discussion is the greatest of aU reform rs.
It rationalises eyerythlng It touches. It robs
princlptae of all false fanctlty and throws them
back on tbelr reasonableness. It they bare
no reasonableness, it ruthlessly crushes them
out of existence and eets up Its own conclusions
In their stead." Woodrow Wilson. -,
Christian Converts Abroad.
Woodland, Wash., March 30. To the
Editor ot The JournalThere ia al
ways a question as to the truth of the
stories of, Turkish barbarities: ; against
Christians. Such stories, coming just
ai me present iime, add strength to
the general belief that it Is agitation
pure and simDle to involve the TTnit.i
States In the present European war. If
tne reports are true, it only tends to
show the price Christian nations must
pay in forcing their religion and their
different ncti,HAn.
j who have a religion and who have
firmly established systems of their
,' own- How would we accept the teach-
j !"."! ntlrejy dl"P1t syiem
i government and an entirely differ-
j ent religion, in this country? Suppose
j China should send missionaries over
j t0 this country t and 'suppose they
jf bad "P byu,fficv.ient m111"
tary force. What would be the result?
The European war ousrht to comtvel
...BAwuviujija uiJuu a pevpia
;'us to Stop and ask ourselves frankly
whether, after all. the Christian na
tions would not; toe the better off by
patterning after poor old abused China,
which wouldn't have, any trouble at all
were it not for the greed of our so
called Christians nations. . Think of
Great Britain forcing helpless China
rate or; to absolute ownership of the
country. I am not opposed to spread
ing the doctrine of Jesus Christ
throughout th world, bui question
the right of nations to force their be
liefs upon a. people at the point of the
bayonet Behold heathen China seek
ing only peace. Let Christian nations
take the lesson to themselves.
! O. E. FRANK.
Christ's Assertions of Divinity.
Portland, March 31. To the Editor
of The Journal The gentleman who
writes jthat Jesus never claimed deity.
except in tne subordinate sense in
which jall men can claim it. could not
have .lately read the New. Testament
account. It is not written that he
said the exact words, "I am God," but
when Philip said, "Show us the Fa
ther," !he answered, '-'Have I been so
long time with you and hast thou not
known! me, Philip? He that hath seen
me hath seen the Father." And again,
"My Father and I are one." When
"asked, "Hast thou seen' Abraham?" he
replied! "Before Abraham was; I am."
At another time be speaks of the glory
that he had with the Father before
the world was. Are these claims that
man might make?
Again, he said to JbJs disciples, "Ye
call me Master and Lord, and ye say
well, for so I am," and the last word
he leaves with his disciples are,' "All
power is given unto me, in heaven and
in earth." He speaks everywhere with
absolute authority and tells them that
the dead shall bear his voice and come
forth, that the holy angels shall be at
his command and that before1 him shall
all nations be gathered "to be judged.
He .said, "I am the way, the truth and
the light," and to John, in the ""revela
tion, "J am Alpha and Omega, the be
ginning and the end. I am he ' that
liveth and was dead, and behold, I ani
alive" forevermore, and have., the keys
of hell and of death."
Everyone covets the name of Chris
tian, but we cannot bear tit. if we put
Christ: on a plane with Buddha, Con
fucius or other wise men, giving him
only our patronage and approval. He
must be Master and Lord, as he said,
and, the mediator between our souls
and the great Spirit-Father from whom
he came, and whom he' perfectly re
veals, i . -': . MRS. C. I PRATT.
An Opeitt' 'Letter on Western Lane.
Dr.aitn, Or., March 28,-To- the Ed
itor of The Journal. The undersigned
write this letter for the benefit of all
whom It may concern, and especially
men with families who are looking for
homes. We are all men with families,
living inear Drain. We have been work
ing for wages, paying rent and buying
wood land water, for a number of
years.; We had almost .given up hope
of ever' bettering "our condition.. Dur
ing the past two yeaf s we have read
many articles published In the Eugene
Register and the Oregon Journal, writ
ten .by Lorenzo E. ,Dole of Heceta,
Lane county, telling of the wonderful
resources and opportunities In west
ern Lane. We have also read many
articles written by members of the
forestry service, stating that there
was no agricultural land in -western
Lane, and also many written by knock
ers on - western - Lane, where there
seemed to be an unlimited supply ' of
such people.
We would suggest that If th cattle
men and sheepmen in the - more re
mote portions of our state want to rule
supreme" and- remain ' monarcha tbat
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
The meddlesome third party causes
many a divorce.
,. . . . ,
A cripple has running expenses the
same as other people. -
Bitter medicine, like bitter
ence, may be the. bent.
expert-
When r you expect ah opportunity it
usually misses the train. ;
' "!!
It Is never too late to blame your
mistakes on the other fellow.
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. A fool, woman, abuses her husband
to assert her independence.
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The easles t way for a girl to catch
a husband is by not trying.
If a man has' a wife he always
knows what -to do with his money.
steamer Yale, San Diego, 4:10 p. m.: Amert
Som women are truthful; all mir
rors are.
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How many people do you know In
cluding yourself who can repeat the
Ten Commandments? ,
. :: . .. . ,. .
Of course, your neighbor has his
faults, but you- should havrf enough
self-control not to mention them.
'The average . woman treats a new
acquaintance better than she does an
old friend so the old friend thinks.
When real troubles refuse to tome a
man's way he has the machine shops
in his mind to get busy and make him
some. ,
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It's a safe bet that th ' man who
barely escapes being- run over by an
automobile doesn't i call the -driver a
chauffeur. f
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One reason why people! are not in
terested in your ancestors ia because
the ancestors are not here to pay your
bills.
A boy with -his first pair of trousers
is almost as proud as a woman who is
a prospective mother-in-law for the
first time. ..
BISMARCK'S
German-Americans celebrate today
the. hundredth , anniversary .of the
birth of Carl Otto Eduard Leopold von
Bismarck-Schonhausen, prince and
duke of Lauenburg. While the deeds
of the builder of the great German
empire are swallowed up" by the roar
pf more guns than Bismarck ever
dreamed of, and while the nation It
self gives up its great celebration that
had been planned for the more simple
rites of decorating his grave, the mil
lions of Germans in America are hold
ing their greatest holiday.
The year 1815 saw the downfall of
Napoleon, the world's f oremosST man.
It also saw the birth of the boy who
was to become Europe's foremost man
in the nineteenth century. It is a
striking coincidence of fate that the
empire which Bismarck' raised should
be battling for the perpetuation of his
principles on the centenary of his
birth. Another coincidence utrlkes the
student ' of history, who learns that
Belgium had planned impressive cere
monies for next June In memory Lof
the unknown dead who x ell on the
field of Waterloo in 1816 The whole
land Is now the stage for a struggle
even more momentous than that which
sent Napoleon to St 'Helena. By still
another- trick of fate, the great Tripre
Alliance formed by Bismarck is bro
ken at its supreme test, and on the
centenary of his birth Italy bristles as
an enemy, ' . ,
History was the favorite study of
the boy Bismarck. He acquired fa
miliarity with English arid French his
tory sufficiently to- surprise both Na
poleon 'and Beaconafield. His fondness
for boyhood sports built up a rugged
ness thit was truly marvelous. , At
17 he 4ntered Gottingen, where he
fought 28 duels, in all of which he
drew blood from his opponents, while
in only one did he receive a wound
the one which scarred his left cheek.
After completing his education at
the University of Berlin he retired to
his estate for the J.ife of a -country
squire.' He was elected to the house
of burgesses, but his influence was not
felt until he entered the Qermaii diet
in 1847. He Was sent as ambassador
tq St. Petersburg, and later went to
France to study government.- On his
return to Prussia he accepted the port
WHY BANKERS WEAR
By John M. Osklson.
Between the investor who wants 10
per cent, at least, on hi money and
the investor who ' becomes panicky
when the price of his gilt-edge bond
drops a few points, , the banker Who
strives to please has a- hair-graying
life. It's no wonder he grows cynical!
The other day a letter came to me
that will illustrate. . It was from a
woman who at one tima had the good
sens to put her money into the bond
of a very sound and well managed
steel company. After ' naming the
bond she owns, she wrote: "
"1 feel hat I would have shown
good judgment -had I' sold it" a .year
ago. "rThis -bond, falls due: in 1939,
which is a long wa from1915. From,
present Indications, ! judge that the
steel business is operating lf at all)
at a tremendous loss, and It may take
years for it to recuperate."
This la certainly an extraordinary
conclusion to have arrived- at! still
more extraordinary in view of what
sho wrote next:
T have visited the bank from which
I purchased the bond several times
since the outbreak of the war, al
ways' with the intention of having the
bankers sell it for me; but they have
they end to western Lane and get a
supply of those knockers.
In a reeent issue of the Sluslaw
Pilot, published at Florence, appeared
an article to the effect that there were
no good agricultural lands in town
ship 16 south, range 11, west W." M.,
and that Lorenzo E. Dole was not 4
reliable- man and not a fit man to
write to concerning agricultural lands.
-Now, we have just returned from a
visit to western Lajie. We stayed sev
eral days at the Eye Opener
farm,: the home of: Mr. Dole.
We rode on horseback for many
the alder, vine maple and salmonberry
brush Was so thick we could not tide,
we went on. foot. ,We thoroughly ex
amined a good deal of this land. We
found ; the soil wonderfully fertile.
There is plenty of -running water and
little or no. timber. It Is our honest
opinion that in this special township
16 .and we might also say townships
17 and 15 If the homeseeker is al
lowed to take land it will soon be
come one of the greatest dairying. sec
tions of our state. -
Now, as American citizens u and
homeseekers, we -.believe it to be our
duty to make a plalrf statement of fact
in regard to this land, described by
Mr. Dole In The Journal and the Eu
gene Register from time to time. - To
say that we found the land Just . as
described by Mr. Dole save that It
was far better in every way than we
expected to find, would, be a very mild
AND NEWS IN BRIER
OREGON SIDELIGHTS .
"The pulpit.' says the' Misfits man
of the Albany Democrat, "has become
a great advertising agency. -Recently
an Albany minister made eight an
nouncements at one service."
The Stanfield standard is publish
ing a series of success . stories, the
characters toeing people of Stanfield
and .vicinity. The first story is of An
drew Kopacz8, who was a hired man
five years ago. and who now has , an
improved 10-aere irrigated tracts that
nets him hundreds of dollars already,
with. a fine orchard coming on fast,
jm -. ' -. ;'-
The Baker Democrat Inquires:
"Why can't some local genius achieve
las tins: fame by inventing the auto
plane -a. .car that will glide swiftly
along smooth roads and rise grace
fully in the air when approaching' the
bumps or taking a hill? Buck up, fel
lows It's your. Inning." , .- ,
Weather report in Gardiner Courier
of March 27:- "This Section of the
state is having some very warm
weather at the present time, the therm
ometer, for the past four days having
registered between 86 and 80- degrees,
which Is considered uncommonly warm
for this time' of the year, in fact, for
any time of the iyear. " i ' !.
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Hillsboro Independent!: ' Logging op
erations in . Hillsboro have been
rather unusual in late years, but
the .removal, of- unnecessary poles
by' the telephone company prac
tically amounts to that. Installa
tion of the cable has made it possible
to dispense with many poles and they
have been cut down,, greatly to the
benefit of " the .appearance of the
streets. In the business section cross
arms are being removed where not
needed. ' , " "--,
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Medford Mail-Tribune: During, the
bright sunshine; of the last week It be
came the custom of boys to go in swimming-in
Bear-creek, though by so do
vimi thev defied the laws of health and
irrvnri cpnaa nnri the r 1 1 v ordl najicea
covering bathing. People could see
them from their homes, and complaint
was filed with the police. The water is
ice cold at this season, but this did not
deter the boys, who would plunge In
the creek and run back to a warm fire
they built on the bana. ?
CENTENARY-
folio of foreign affairs and became
the president of the cabinet.
. '
Austria arfd. Pf-ussla were dissent
ing over the occupation of the duchies
of iSchleswtg-Holsteln, and Bismarck
saw that a treat opportunity had been
presented to enlist the sympathies of
the whole empire for the cause, r Ac
cordingly, when Prussia defeated the
Austrians in 1868, military supremacy
had been gained, and Bismarck -was
universally recognized as the head p
the movement. - '
The result of this war was disas
trous to the! relationship - between
France and Prussia. Bismarck saw in
evltable strife, and he strove to weld
the new German empire, with the king
of Prussia at its head. The title of
prince was givej to Bismarck, and he
proved he was a prince of diplomacy
when be dictated at the signing of the
treaty of oeace i at Frankfort, that
Alsace-Lorraine should be ceded to Ger
many. He thereby incurred the
enmitv of France and opened a wound
which has never healed. - -
Prince Bismarck then entered upon
what was the most .remarkable part of
his career. He saw that the progress
of Germany - demanded the develop
ment of the nation's resources. Un
der his encouraging aid, Germany
blossomed into one of the greatest In
dustrial nations.
Believing" that . the "sentiment ' Of
France was such that Germany must
face another war, he planned the triple
alliance. With Austria and Italy
bound with them, the Germans held a
commanding position in thV world. He
caused the army to be strengthened.
the border defenses to be made mas
Rive, foreseeing the possibility of l
hostile alliance between France and
Russia. The vwonderful efficiency ot
th German fighters of today Is at
tributed to te , foundation which
Bismarck laid. ...
His prestige as the foremost cttisen
of Germany continued until wuoeim
it ascended the throne. It became ap
parent that he and Bismarck were not
harmonious. So in istt. in prncs
sent his resignation to the kaiser. His
death came eight years later, on July
31, 1898,; -; '
THAT WORRIED LOOK
always spoken well of the financial
condition of th company and "of the
fact that if I sold I wouldhavs to
sell at a loss and I have changed my
mind about selling. ...
"Now, the bank is roost reliable,
yet it Is to Its Interest to give ms only
such information as Will keep me from
selling: and perhaps there are many
others besides myself who want to do-j
likewise." r
In her original purchase, this wom
an v showed wisdom she bought her
bond from. a good bank that bad fa
cilities for finding out about bonds.
In watching-the market- price of her.
bond she1 showed intelligent curiosity.
And in making her first-visit to the
Bbank after seeing ' that its market
price wa aecunins, ws
eisteht. i ''. ".' Vv
It Is in clinging to her fear that
this woman is in danger of doing an
unwise and expensive thing. The bond
she owns must naturally be affected
is marketprice' by war conditions and
the depression in the steel trade. But
in deciding whether to sell jorOiold the
bond the bank's advice ought to be
followed without hesitation. ''
The good bank has no interest in
advising bond owners to hold on when
it is time- to sell. - :'
assertion. The deep black soil we
found everywhere we .went It looked
better to us '. than anything we bad
ever seen elsewhere, 'The fruit trees,
berty vine and shrubbery .growing on
Mr. Dole's farm was a sight we will
never forget, as we did not expect such
a growth In a mountain country. We
round the land and hills covered either
With grass or with green vegetation.
What this country wants Is the cross
cut saw, and the ax. "'
W expect to return, to occupy, lands
in western Lane, in th near future,
and eiake that country our home. Any
one looking for a homestead or wlshr
ing any reliable information in regard
to the rich soil of western Lane will
make, no mistak In writing! to Lo
renzo E. Dole for isuch Information.
. Whoever call on Mr. Dole. we guar
antee ,wUl be treated K with all cour
tvyv We further guarantee that he
will entertain visitors at his borne and
show . thenrthe land free of charge.
We .are all farmers and men with
families, and in our opinion we know
good land when we see It.
JOE BROOKHARDT.
GEORGE HALLODAT.
. I. B. HALLODAT.
i GEORGE E. HALLODAT.
. - ANDREW C. LAKE. -
- His Choice.
"Unlucky at cards, lucky In love.
"Humph,"- sneered th cynic, "I'd,
rather .be lucky at cards.'
UrsaI.Y AT"
ty 1-ra Lockley, SpMlaJ Staff Write f
Tbe Journal.
If you will turn back to the old files
of the Oregon papers published during
the sixties you will see a heading. "The
Money Market" Under this heading
you will see such items as this: "San
Francisco legal tender notes, 72 V4:
New York gold quotations,' 138 and
13Vi." -i- ; . !
The price of money In those days
rose and fell just as the prlce'of wheat
Or pork does today.
la looking through the report of the
secretary of state for 1866 1 ran across
In the appendix the following interest,
ing letter from J. O. Campbell relative
to the operation of Oregon first and
only mint It is dated August.' 4, 1866,
and reads as follows:
,"Sir In reply to yours of 17th ult.,
requesting a history of the mint estab
lished in 1849. 1 give you a brief ac
count. Upon the discovery of the gold
mines qnd the consequent rush of
miners, for nearly every man that went
to California at that time became a
miner, and the great demand for sup
plies to clothe and feed them, Oregon
very naturally sent a great number of
her population, together" with all the
supplies that she could spare fcom her
Immediate wants, receiving in turn a
large amount of gold dust of the
most superior quality taken from the
Feather and Yuba rivers , principally.
: "Nearly every man brought gold. -dust
with him on his return' to Ore
gon, and. finding that great annoyance
and waste accompanied the -payments
of small sums In dust, , was naturally
anxious to dlBpose of sufficiency of
dust, for coin to meet their demands.
There being but little coin in the coun- -try
at that time caused atv Influx f rom
the nearest ports where it Coud be ob
tained, vis: South America; anctas the
debasement of the currency of nearly
all of. the South American, state was
great and notorious, so much so, in
fact, that upon my . return from the
Atlantic side In the -latter part of 1847.
before the gold 'mines were discovered,
they did not hesitate ta "give me, dur
ing my stay in Panama 25 of their
nominal quarters -of a dollar in ex
change for a United States half eagle
coin and when you take into consld
eratlon that a very large amount of
gold dust, the Intrinsic value of which
wu Deiween jib ana iis.per ounce.
was belng daily exchanged 'at the rate
of 111 per ounce, payabletn this de
based 8outh American c&n at the rate
of four of these nominal quarters of a
dollar to the dollar, you will see at
once the enormous loss Oregon Was
suffering the double discount on - the
gold and the coin. :
"A small party of gentlemen met at
the counting room of Campbell &
Smith to take the ' foregoing matter
Into consideration, - and concluded, for
the general benefit-of. the country, to
form a company for --the ; purpose . Jf
coining the dust into aCphape thut
would be fit par value at' any place
Where gold coin was used. ,
vThe names of the parties that paid
for the machinery, dies, etc.? and that
Incurred . the whole expenses' of the
transaction- were Kilborne, Magrudcr,
Taylor,' Rector, Campbell and Smith,
."The design of the dies was draw.n
by myself at the first meeting of the
.company, and Immediately adopted as
being appropriate. The' tariff on goods
exchanged by the Hudson ;Bay company"
for furs (of which beaver, money was
the main item In Oregon) being mufh
less" than for coin, beaver orders on
the "Hudson Bav.cortiDanv were consid
ered the best money in the country.
: "As soon as we commenced maklnir '
the coin,, gold dust rose- to $16 per
ounce, at which rate we exchanged our '
dust for coin, when so requested.
"Affer having issued some 110,000,
and broken both our crucibles (we ha t
with much trouble only been able to
procure two); and having effected our-
, object, viz: Raised the price of gold
dust and stopped the influx of South
American currency, and every piece
that we coined being at the expense of
the company, weconcluded to cease
operations, and did so.
"I send you an assay made fjr me at
the United States mint at Philadelphia
in : 1860; the first mentioned on the
memorandum was ins cuppings or the
last coining, and the contents of our
last crucible when It broke, together
with some very fine Yuba dust; the
second Is our Oregon beaver coin, and '
I assure you that every coin in this
assay was so abraded, that the 'design -'
was almost undistineTulshable, from the
wear by contact with alloyed, afiJ, of
course,, harder coin, I also send ! you
th dies, which, If you see proper, I.
would like to have deposited with the
$10 piece you alluded to. They were
made by W. H. Rector and Hamilton
Campbell In Oregon." .
The Ragtime Muse
Home Beautiful.
Z have a wife whose fad Is art
And she applies it in our home:
It quite upsets my apple cart
Ana x a nopeiess nomaa roam : .
Comfort has fled. My Morris chair
Is relegated to the attic. '
A bench replaces it: I ewear
its very lootc makes me rheumatic.
Within my room she's placed a bed
JSome ancient pirate may have slept.
S : on
rshe w
Dt about tire. things I ssfd
And antique rug Is what . she wept
She wheedles me; , she smiles and begs
Another check to buy a highboy.
Then get some trap, with spindle
Jegsr ' .- ' s .
Ahf I will stop It! I'm a sly boy!
Ill clear th house of things antique.
Uneasy chairs, that bed infernal
While she's away from home this week
Ana iisi mem in ner; xavorlte Journal.
I'll show her that the worm will turn;
With her I shall be most emphatic, ,-
My Morris chair, as she will learn.
iias got to com down rrom tne
; attict "r . .-. . , .. .
All Hints Wasted. ;
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Mother:- , Why dn't you, yawn when
ho stays too long? He'll take the hint
and. so. .
Daughter: I did. and he .told me
what beautiful teeth I had.
, That' One Consolation. -From
the London Mail.
She:,, My husband sen to be wan?
dering in his mind, , ' c
He: Well, be can't stray far. "
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