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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY EVENING, "APRIL 19, 1915. ! THE JOURNAL t AS INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. C. 8. JACKSON .. . . . Publisher. published every evening (except 8nndar) nl every Bandar morning at The Journal Build ing, Broadway ana itmoiu t-uruana, ur. Entered at the poetoffice at Portland, Or., for traiuuniasioa tbrougs to mails as aecond . claaa matter. TELEPHONES Main 7173: Home. A-05l. All department reached by iteie number. - Tell toe operator wnat department yvu want. JOKEION .ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Menjamm A Keutnor Co., Brunswick Blot;., 220 Fifth Are., New lor It; 1218 People Gas Bids;., Chicago. Subscription term by mail or to any ad- areas u me united btates or Mexico: DAILY. One year... (..95,00 I On mootI.....-$ .60 SUNDAY. One year $Z50 I On month .23 DAILY AND SUNDAY. One year. $7.50 t One month... ...t .65 If he could only see how mail a vacancy his death would leave,, the proud" man would, think lens of the place he occuplea in his life-time. Degouve. B- THE VERDICT AT BAKER THERE was eomething larger in the Baker damage suit than the personal fortunes of for mer Governor West. Tho issue was not a question of a man, but of the vindication of a principle. There was oh trial, not former Governor West, but the question of whether an official oath to enforce tho law Is an offi cial oath,, and whether or not a governor is to be penalized by the law for honest and sober endeavor to enforce the law. Nor was this all. Suspended in the balances in the Baker county court room was this issue: If local officials neglect or refuse to enforce the laws, must the law, for that reason, go uaenforced, or is it admissable for a governor to find means of restoring order and re-establishing the1 authority of lawful government. The Baker county Jury answered these vital Issues on the side of the law and returned a verdict for Governor West, There was pre sented to the jury the letters and other information on which the former governor acted at Copper field. There was offered no testi mony other than that on which . Governor West reached his conclu sions, and sitting in Judgment under the law and in the name of Justice, the Jury decided as Gov ernor West decided. The verdict was reached under all the forms- of law and in the county in which Copperfield is sit uated. It was the free finding -of those near the scene and in touch with the facts and condi tions. It was a conclusion reached ,in the heart of a city that has lwayB'been reported as antag onistic to Governor West, and yet that conclusion Is a vindication of overnor West and the lawt It Is a finding of enormous Value to the social life of Oregon. Gam bling was wide open at Copperfield. Minors were made drunk in the saloons The mayor and most of the councilmen were saloonkeep ers. Boys of 14 and upward were cold whiskey. The civil authorities, even in the court room, claimed there was no law by which they could protect Coppei field against this chaotic order. But Governor ,!West found a way, and a Jury of 'American citizens has justified his Action. It is' a victory for every .mother In Oregon. It Is a triumph for every fireside in Oregon. It is a Siew means of jrotection for every child in Oregon. It is a new safe guard for every family and every home in Oregon. - The verdict means that, with a governor of the right kind, a gov ernor uncompromised, purposeful and free, there need never be an other blot' like the former Copper field in this state. It means that la his own way .and against great odds, Governor West proved that If sheriffs and district attorneys fail in their duty, there is a higher Jpower that can be invoked to main tain the majesty and supremacy of the law. 1 The Journal has a personal and Justifiable pride in the verdict. It wag the only Portland newspaper that stood with Governor- West In the- Copperfield fight. All other 'newspapers In this cit? condemned, abused, misrepresented, ridiculed and opposed Governor West, and tdid all they could to embarrass and handicap him in the great principle for which he was strug gling. Their stand was with the Copperfield saloonmen and against a courageous governor in his brave fight for the homes and hearth Stones of Oregon. THIS IS WAR NEWS f rom- Europe is terribly depressing. For months re ports have been coming from . the front news of trenches lost : and taken again, of troops moved, of soldiers, "lost." But there is nothing in the . dispatches to Inspire thrills. It is all sordid, jobbing war of the glory it once was . supposed to have. Here is the way. one who has J been on the ground views the. conflict; ' It is "hard 'to' feel that war is any thing: but a miserable affair when we know of the spread , of virulent dis eases in armies ' of men ' whom bullets have not touched. Typhoid, small pox' and cholera are rife in the Kus ian and Serbian prisoners', camps in Austria. Soldiers are coming; back from the front by thousands un wound ed but with bodies wrecked by pneumonia and consumption. Soma of them -have had to lie" on the now a week at a time. Insufficiently clothed , and fed.. . Thay . have not Tougbt. i most of them. . Like the soldiers in France, they have stood or sat in trenches wet with slush and snow, ' firing from time to time at , an unseen enemy, and fairly rot tine In the process. ' They have not fought or even marched. "When a great engagement has been planned they have been mowed down by ar tillery. ' There is no necessity which per mits beasts to be treated like that in I ordinary times. A - man must take care of his horse and his pig or, feel the heavy hand of righteous law. But war values humanity lower than the beast. Human life. the rights of coming generations, the sanctity of home and fireside, have no standing in war. It is a sordid, brutal and unheroic affair and the world is beginning to realize it. ' ""' '' WASHINGTON AMAZED : ... , WHEREAS, it Is of , vital Im portance to the development of the entire state of Oregon and the several counties in which said granted . lands are located, that such lands should not b withdrawn from taxation, bat that they should be disposed of for settle ment ' and development under the terms of the original arrant. Nearly two months aftyer the ad journment of the legislature, it is discovered that the foregoing mon strous section In a resolution in the interest of the Southern Pacific railroad in the land grant case, passed the Oregon state Senate, and that Senator Day and others attempted to drive it through the House. it was not allowed to go to the House until 11 o'clock Saturday night, the forty-first day of the legislative session, twenty-three hours after the time set by law for adjournment. There It was defeated through the efforts of Representative Huston, whereupon Senator Day and others went on the floor of the House and urged its I passage. The measure was brought before the House at an hour of intense tension, when other matters of grave moment were absorbing the attention of members. The con test was then on between the House and Senate over the Com pensation bill, the Moser spoils men's bill and other unusual leg-; islation. It was exactly such a time as is always selected for the passage of joker legislation. Members were worn out with the long sessions. Their thoughts were not on new and unexpected legislation, but upon bills that were being fought over and which were at the crit ical stage. It was a time when by. the slightest change of events, the favorite bills of members could fail or succeed, especially with adjournment liable to come at any moment. It was a fitting moment for the passage of the resolution in which Senator Day and his HeutenantB were interested. It was a psy chological moment for putting over a 4fob. At 3 o'clock, four hours after Representative Huston had defeated the objectionable res olution, Senator Day succeed ed In ha vine the measure passed with an amendment which lessens the deadly import of the original resolution as it passed the senate, but which still puts Uie Oregon legislature on record agaipst the government in the suit for, forfeiture of the Oregon & California land grant. So sterJthy was the work of the manager of the resolution, that even Attorney General Brown, who wan named in the measure as the official to carry out its provisions, did- not know of its passage until he met Senator Moser in Portland something like six weeks after the adjournment of the legislature. The resolution as it passed the Senate was a demand for the Southern Pacific railroad to retain the 2,300,000 acres of Oregon & California grant lands, and for that corporation to be allowed to cell the grant lands for its own benefit under the terms of the original grant. It was a request to the federal supreme court to decide the pend ing forfeiture suit against the peo ple and in favor of the Southern Pacific railroad. In spite of the fact that on April 24, 1911, and again on July 1, 1913, Judge Wolverton decided the suit in favor of the people by declaring the 2,300,000 acres of grant lands forfeited to the people, the resolution as it passed the Senate and as Senator Day tried to force it through the honest House, in i effect requested the supreme court to reverse Judge Wolverton and leave the grant lands in the hands of the Southern Pacific. Jt is doubtful if in the whole history of legislatures in the United States a more monstrous proceeding was ever attempted. Even as amended "the depart ment of . Justice is amazed," says a news dispatch from Washington, "at the resolution passed by the legislature," the resolution being "practically a request to the su preme court for defeat of the gov ernment in the Oregon-California land case." And indeed, the department of justice may well be "amazed." FLOODS OF BILLS DURING the three sessions of the last Congress a total of 30,053 bills and joint reso lutioOs were introduced in the Senate and House. That was at the rate of more than fifty for each day Congress was In session. In all, 700 laws were enacted during the two years, and tha sec retary; of the Senate says that of this total 417 can be classified as "public" ! and 283 as "private" measures. The former are put in a class by themselves because of 1 their public 'Importance i through appropriation of; money for gen era! purposes or their effect upon general law. The private laws are such as allowed claims of individ uals, affected pensions for individ uals, granted permission to con struct bridges over navigable Streams and similar objects. All bills which were introduced in the Sixty-third Congress and which did not become laws have failed. In order to have further consideration they must be intro duced anew when the new con gress convenes. It means that there will be another flood of bills and joint resolutions, only" a small percentage of which will survive. The figures indicate one reason for what many people call legislative Inefficiency. Congress spends much of its time considering bills that are not worthy of consideration. Many of them are Introduced for "trading" purposes; others reach legislative halls solely to please some constituent of senator or congressman, and it is never in tended that they shall pass. If Congress could devise some system by which these biennial floods of bills could be dammed at their source much would be gained. But such a system, desir able as it is, apparently is far in the future. There are too many congressmen attempting to make records for themselves by having their names attached to measures destined to clutter up the capitol and retard legislation. HIGHER-UP SYNDICALISM THE I. W. W.'s are not the only syndicalists. There are hlgher-up syn dicalists. Thus, a quantity of slightly damaged print paper was recently offered The Journal at a sum about $1,200 less than it was worth. A slight wetting of the edges made while the paper was in transit by rail gave the manufacturers excuse to refuse to receive the shipment and thereby throw the loss on the railroad. It also gave the paper establishment a market for an equal amount of paper to be supplied to the buyer for whom the original shipment was intended. Here was a willing proposal to victimize the railroad, to force loss upon it and without reason, for the paper makers with their appliances could easily trim away the wet portion and reduce the damage to a comparatively small sum. By such a process the car rier could have been saved a heavy sacrifice. But this was not the choice of the paper corporation. By forcing the railroad company to take the shipment, it was making a market for more of its paper, though at a heavy loss to the railroad line. It was a kind of syndicalism in high place. It was a willingness to make profit by beinj wantonly destructive of railroad values. HELPING THE "DRYS" JUDGE LANDIS of the United States district court in Chi cago, has jurisdiction of 89 saloons Involved in bank ruptcy and receivership proceed ings. These saloons are being op erated by officers appointed by the court. Recently Judge Landis took cognizance of the Illinois dram shop law and ordered that all sa loons under his jurisdiction be operated strictly according to the state law and cease to remain open Sundays. He has cited four saloonkeepers whose licenses are owned "by a brewing company now in the hands of a receiver to show cause why they should not be pun ished for contempt of court for keeping open Sunday in defiance of the court's order that the state law be obeyed. This action by Judge Landis has stimulated the "dry" forces in Chi cago to inaugurate a general Sun day closing campaign. They say that if a United States judge is convinced that state laws should be enforced there ought to be no difficulty with judges of state courts. The situation in Chicago has its lesson for the saloon men. In defiance of a. state law and a court order, they continued to keep open Sunday. . The result is a general campaign against saloons, good and bad. That has been the history of the anti-saloon fight.. It has been the I lawless saloon keepers who have furnished the "drys" with much Of their ammuni tion. A RAILROAD DEFENDER HOWARD ELLIOTT, president of the New j Haven railroad, urges the creation of a fed eral department of transpor tation, with its head a member of the president's cabinet. In a re cent speech at Norwich, Conn., he said: - Today the government recognizes some of the great commercial activ ities of its population by depart ments and cabinet : officers, such as the secretary of the treasury, secre tary of agriculture, . secretary of com merce and secretary of labor. The transportation business of the United States is next to agriculture in im portance, in volume, and in its rela tion to the welfare of the whole country, and it should have a de fender In the councils of the cabinet Mr. Elliott's suggestion, is not new, but It is significant, coming at a time iwhen 'some represent atives of business! say there is too much government ' regulation. . Mr. Elliott says the railroads should hava a "defends" in the presi dent's cabinet. The- secretary of agriculture Is not a mere de-jji fcy a truly great nation.- instead, fender of the farmer, and neither' such a ' man. woman or especially are the secretaries of . the treas4 j child, is in Imminent danger of los ury, commerce-or labor mere de-fj'hg the power of sustained attention fenders of classes of, people they icpicaeuu , farmers mo mwou rather than defended, by the secre-- tary of agriculture. Bankers are advised,' defended .and protected by the secretary Of , the treasury. If the railroads are given a rep resentative in the cabinet he would J not become their defender in wnat- ever they might do. He would not defend methods that almost ruined the New Haven railroad. He would not defend such stock job-f bing as has forced the Rock Island Into bankruptcy-! He would not; defend any of the high financier who have used railroads to fatten their own bank accounts at the ex-f pens of the railroad properties controlled by them retary of transportation In the president's cabinet. But his chief duties would be to teach railroad men, Just as the secretary of agri culture does farmers, and to defend the railroads against themselves, j It can well be added that. If all railroad manageru and owners were of the same type as Howard Elliott, and if all railroads were managed along the lines that How-j ard Elliott would direct them there would be less prejudice against the roads and more will- ingness to create a position of sec-jt retary of transportation. j Nor wou-d it be unreasonable to admit that a man of the Elliott type could be of value to the gov ernment and the country in such a position. j ARE THE MOVIES A MENACE? By WALTER PRICHARD EATON, j Dramatic Critic and Author. ' HOW far do we, as parents, aid or hinder the work of our schools by the sports and amusements we permit our children to indulge in? And how far do we, as adults. In our own amusements further or retard the powers Of attention in ourselves? The motion plc- ture is the great outstanding de?- velopmcnt in the amusement world today. As an ex ample of its tre mendous hold on thar public, it is only necessary to state that in Kan sas City a recent W. V. Eaton. survey showed that twice the . entire population of the city go to the movies every week. Of the entire theatrical audi ences of San Francisco 6R.5 per cent are in movie theatres. In other cities! it runs as high as 73 or 74 per 'cent. The reasons for thH are many. First of all, the movies are cheap. ; Then the theatre are small and easily erected, so that they can be placed conveniently In each neighborhood. The films can also be shown at a profit in thou sands of small towns which decent theatrical companies never visit Finally, the pictorial appeal is al ways a strong one, especially to children, and the movies have to a vast extent increased the number of amusement patrons by "bringing the children into tho theatre Now, any wholesale attack on the movies would be unjust as well as foolish. . They have many elements of positive merit They are cheap, sometimes they are educational; for the most part they are clean. Cer tainly they are ivastly superior to the so-called "burlesque "Shows," and to a good deal of cheaper grade of vaudeville. The fact that the aver a.T mavie drama ;is, to the sophisti cated man, a naive and childish form of entertainment which bors him erceedingly is no valid re? son for ar guing that it is harmful to less edu cated mortals. But, the movie dramas have one element and it is inherent in their structure which is a gTave menace to society, and which demands the most careful consideration of every American parent and patriot. After you have once mastered and accepted the conventions of screen drama technique and children do master' them, almost instinctively it requires next to no effort of at tention to follow a film, and sustained attention,' any hint of intellectual strain, is positively unknown. Not only are the films always run off at a speed far exceeding- life for a realistic pace, it has been found, bores an audience but the scene almost never remains continuous for more than a few moments at a time. There is a phantasmagoric melting of scene into scene. .This is inevitable, be cause the movie . play, being word less", cannot carry an Intellectual idea, cannot make an appeal to the mind, and interest lrt mere action can only be sustained Just so long. In Other words, constant attendance at the movies, instead of developing the powers of .attention, weakens them. t Now, it is exactly as bad for the mind never to exercise itself and do some of its own playing as It is for the body.; The baseball fan who never throws a ball buji is forever, watch ing professionals play for him is not going to make the kind of a citizen k really athletic nation needs and de Sires. Similarly, .the man, woman or child who never attends the kind of play or reads! the kind of book, where sustained atteption is required of the apectatorj or reader, where the ' audience has 'to do some 'of the work, where the mind is called into action by the presentation : of intel lectual problems, !" Is not " going to make . the.: kind of citizen demanded ; ; M ; d becoming- a smatterer Instead. For ever nickel you give your chtld to go to th movie, you owe it as a ; duty both to your child and to your I country to see that you also provide and compel either ' some solider read' lng or some opportunity for creative play, where the . child itself is tho actor and has to work out the devel opment by its own powers of imagin ation. It is not on moral grounds that the movies are a menace, but on mental. They are sapping our pow ers of attention. Copyright 1815. Letters From the People (Communications lent to Tfie Journal for publication In tbis 'department should be writ- ... f-4 . -t. nuna, ahmiM luir exceed 800 words in length and must be ac- wui(siu.u u y nw Haul, .iiu nuiucm .uu sender. If the writer does not desire to have the name published, ha should so atate.) "Discussion la the greatest of all reformers. It rationallxes everything it touches. It robs principles of aU false sanctity and throws them back on their reasonableness. If tbey hare do reasonableness. It ruthlessly crushes them out of existence and sets up Its own conclusions in their stead." Woodrow Wilson. Opposes Movie Censorship. Portland, April 17. To the Editor of The Journal The people of Oregon fail to realize that we have an insti tution in Portland that is more arbi trary than any Institution In darkest Kussia. I refer to the board of cen sorship for moving picures. As I view the matter, the only reason anything should -be censored is that it is indecent and Immoral. If a moving picture is Indecent the law is suffi cient to deal with that evil. Here is an illustration: Two men in New York showed an obscene white slave picture. They were, tried before a Jury and found guilty of an indecent exhibition, and were punished accord ingly. The common law in any state will protect the people against any indecent exhibition. If moving pictures must be cen sored, then let us be logical. Let us censor our theatres, churches, gowns. cartoonists and, last of all but not least, the Dress. We do not want our theatres and churches censored, nor our gowns. ad certainly not our press. But if the people allow -s. few ,smoral, cranks to censor films, it will be the entering wedge to the abridging of the liberty of the press. Let the press take warn ing. The first thing we know we shall have a country like Russia. Russia has censorship of the press. It took 200 years to establish tho freedom of the press. John Milton was one of the first exponents who pointed out that censored printing was inconsistent and incompatible with the freedom of the people. The moving picture shows are pa tronised by hundreds of people; a great many of these patrons are husbands and wives and other grownups. Their patronage is all the censorship that is necessary. I believe the nation as a whole does not need censorship. But if it does. we are admitting that the people are not fit to Judge for themselves, but need a few intelligent moral cranks to Judge for them. C. I Mr. Murphy to Mr. Rrr.tton. Portland. April 19.-To the Editor of The Journal. Saturday last in-The Journal. R. R. Bratton asks me what is meant by "bigotry." in the sense used by Chicago papers and the Ore- gonlan. and the News of this city, in discussing the recent Chicago election. J The word "bigot" is of innocent origin, but it fell from grace, as did its guardian ad litem, the Republican party. "Bigan," is Anglo-Saxon; "bigot" is German; both mean "to worship." As to the Oregonian and News, what do I know of what gets into their editorial heads between editions? AU that I know is that a churchless editor never makes a mistake that can be shown to be a mistake under the ethics of his profession. If he tells you that a cow is the symbol of men tal agility, he can prove it as easily as he does that the Democrats brought on hard times and are withholding the grub from the workingman's dinner pail. I assume that Mr. Bratton desires my personal definition tf bigotry. I regret to say that it Is unprintable. I would request Thfi Journal to reprint that resume of the Issues in the recent Chicago election from the Literary Di gest of April 17, last page, S63, did I not know its aversion to gutter pol itics. If Mr. Bratton is curious he can find much to surprise him in the Digest's review. J. HENNESSEY MURPHY. The Meaning of Appomattox. From tho New Republic. We celebrate this year something more significant than the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox. We cele brate the wiping out of a terrible pos sibility the erection of a national frontier through the heart of this country. It is the anniversary of an escape. Had the north failed, we now might well be living on a continent divided Into armed camps, separated by bristling boundaries, across which angry cultures and petty nationalisms could hurl defiances at each other. We have escaped that. On a territory vaster than that of Europe, with re sources as varied and with people of the same stocks, we have organised an Internal peace. We hava quarreled, we shall quarrel. But we shaH not fight We have solved these questions of access to the sea, of strategic fron tiers, of churches and of races. No doubt fortune has been uncommonly good to us, and by the standards of what was possible we have no ground whatever for complacency. Amidst overflowing plenty we have permitted hideous poverty and absurd riches to live side by side; we have Indulged in a scramble for wealth which has yielded much ugliness, much barren ness, and large stretches of medioc rity. We have had little prevision our soil, our forests, our mines and our human stock have been ruthlessly exploited. But we have organized a peace in which better things can be made to grow; we ' have federated states and nationalities on a scale never before successfully attempted; we have estab lished more liberty and more oppor tunity than .aver existed on so great a section of the earth's surfaoe. If there is an American tradition, that is what it is. When the War Bogle Calls. From the Manchester Guardian. A very young bugler of the new British army has been confiding to a friend his difficulties with his "budle" and the large number of calls a mili tary "budler" has to learn. (I find over 60 in one collection.) Certain words are associated with these calls, which help to fix them Jn the soldier's mind. : Most people know the first and second 'men's dinner" calls "Com to the cookhouse door, boysl" and "Pick It up, pick It up, hot potatoes!" But It was amusing- to learn that the sharp, PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE Woman's favorite word Is the last If a man- has plenty of nerve he'll get the coin. A man is never too old to learn if he knows it all. I If you are shy of enemies. forgive a few of your friends. If a man is intoxicated with love, matrimony may sober hlnv. . For each bis; man at the top there are a million small ones at the bot tom. The man who has noear for music may have one that he uses for a pen rack. He's a wise political orator who can say things that sound well and mean nothing. It's easier to land a husband than to keep him landed. Most women suspect there is some miachJef brewing every time their hus bands smile. If a son doesn't take after his father it is usually because the old man left nothing to take. ' ' Some wives spend a lot of time re gretting the fact that they are so much better than their husbands. A man never knows what a woman really thinkn of him until after he has been married to her for at least two weeks. MULTNOMAH'S PElfDLETON EAST 03EQOITIAN: By a vote of three to one the people of Multnomah county yesterday in dorsed the proposition for a bond Is sue of $1,250,000 for hard surface of roads.. It was a great victory for good roads and the people of Portland are entitled to congratulations. The victory is tha greater because it was won in the face of opposition from certain people who should 'have sup ported the cause. When, the subject is submitted to the people pt this county and properly explained they too will vote for good roads. SALEM STATESMAN: Hurrah for Multnomah! . Multnomah county leads the way. Paved roads in Multnomah county means that the movement-will spread to the other counties, to the lasting good and credit of the whole state. LEBANON EXPRESS: The largo majority given the road bond issue In Multnomah county Wednesday was a happy surprise ' to those who have managed the campaign. This will in sure the building of 70 miles of hard surface roads in the vicinity of Port land and will give employment to 3000 men. The people of Oregon are begin ning to realize the advantages to be derived from good roads, and in due time other portions of the state will follow the example of Multnomah county. Washington state has led Oregon in the matter of good roads and has gotten results with its splendid system of road building. There will come a time when Oregon's magnifi cent scenery will be made a valuable asset by the building of good roads, which will attract tourist travel. BBOWNSTXLLB TIMES: The fact that bonds were voted in Multnomah county Wednesday for paved roads indicates that the movement will spread eventually over the main roads of the entire state. When that time comes Oregon will become the greatest state in the union. HTLLSBOKO ABQTJS: Tho election at Portland yesterday resulted in Multnomah county voting bonds in the sum of $1,250,000 for hard surfaced road improvement. The vote was two to one for the improvement and labor will be employed this summer to utl lze every dollar. This will mean a big expenditure and will have its ef fect. Common labor will receive not less than $.60 for eight hours pretty fair compensation, anyway. HOW FINANCIAL GIANTS HANDLE DOLLARS R,r .Tnrifi T Osklson. In a recent excellent brief state ment one of the big life Insurance companies tells about the work done bv the dollars paid in as premiums by policy holders. In its home office the company says, "Is a steel safe about the size of a hHrnnm This safe has in it about $300,000,000, represented by stocks ana oonas. in omer- sam nearby are another $300,000,000 or more, represented by real estate mort gages and titles to property and so on. "TV, .Inllnro therrmelVM are not in these safes; they are all out at work. Each safe might be regaraea as a ....... n9 rlnflVrnnfn. -wHfA t h dollars leave their hats and coats and then go out to work. Each of these dol lars we regard as a little slave work ing hard every day without taking n hnilrlfl vu- without taklnir anv .va cations, and each one earning about four and a nair cents a year ror uie company." Pnlifir holders npnd in tn this com pany money at the rate of $400 a minute for 300 working days of the stirring bugle call, which the other night in a moment emptied some 15,000 troops into the street out or picture palaces. Institutes, billets, beds (and even bath in one case) as if some giant hand had suddenly disturbed a nest or brown ants, is not associated with rousing words like "Up, guards, and at 'em! of "Germans on the door mat!" but with nothing: more warlike than 'Eeny, meeny, mlny mo. A Future Rockefeller. . From the St Louis Globe-Democrat. "Trusts, monopolies, have had their day. They did more harm than good. Hence they must go. But, all the same, we must admire the long-head-edness of the men who created these vast enterprises." The speaker was Senator La uoi- l.o. u-. went nn - "The trust cre ator reminds me of a little boy who entered the farmer s truck paten ana said, touching a handsome cucumber on a vine: "How much for thlsr "Ten cents, the farmer answered. " -i irtn't want to pay more than about two cents, said tho boy. . "'Well, here's one for that price, said the farmer, and he lifted up a very small cucumber tnat grew Be side the bag one. v All-Tight. Ill take her.' said the boy. 'But don't cut her off now. I'll call for her again in two weeks' time. - Profit of War. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. The president of the biggest Ameri man powder company being reported to have sold out for $20,000,000, is to be credited as having retired with all the profits of war, whatever may be' said of the honors. f i . OREGON SIDELIGHTS Ashland Tidings: Portland Commer cial club gained -over. 4000 members in four days. How, by folding hands and saying; "ean't"? Nope. They Just went to and did it. That's the way Ashland's club will get her 1200. And it will be done quickly when the steam is turned on.: . Fruit sellers who work the trains at Grants Pass are to bo regulated. There it to be no more crying of wares along side the coaches. Hotel runners also are to be restrained of most of their ancient liberties. Hood River is making excellent pro gress with the projected swimming pool for bovs. It is estimated that it will cost $1500. e . Marshfield Record: What did more for Marshfield than any other one thing was the fine hardaurface streets which greet the eye of the newcomer. North Bend has done nobly in the mat ter of street improvements within the past year more than' almost any city in OreKon. but at no ttrne will she be sorry for it. ! : Under the direction of Miss Gal loway the Albany High School Humane society has been organized, with the following officers: Francil Howard, president: ' Vernon Henderson, vice president; Robert Boetticher, secretary treasurer. r The lianas-Observer now appears in a new dress, and the Sliver -Lake Lrsrt or rtan ordered one. thouch In both cases the old gowns were really quite becoming and still in style. ROAD BONDS EUGENE REGISTER: The voters of Multnomah county, by a majority of more than. two to one, have author ixed a bond Issue of $1,260,000 for road improvement, and the money will be spent in paving 70 ) miles of trunk highways. Wher Vhen the work is -com pleted nearly-every part of the county will be within a reasonably short dls tance of a paved road leading into Portland. There is no doubt that the Investment will prove to be a wise one. for greatly increased development is sure to follow In the wake of road Im provement on so large a scale. The burden .that will be Imposed will not b heavy, for Multnomah is a small countv with a . very large assessed .valuation. . Seventy miles of trunk highways leading out from the edges of Portland s paved district will serv practically every part of the county, so the turdn of taxation will be dis tributed with fair, equality according to the benefits received, a WTXtLAMJNA TZMEt: Thera is no better time for puoilc improvements than now. Wages are low and labor is plenty. There never was better op portunity for road construction along sane lines for the building or roads, and the floating of bonds would have a wonderfully stimulating effect, and the people would be getting value re celved every day. LEWISTON TRIBUNE 1 On Wednes day Multnomah county. Or., voted three to one In favor of the issuance of $1,250,000 bonds for the purpose of making 70 miles of permanent roads. The rural precincts usually voted heavily for the bonds.- One strong argument in favor of ths proposition was the profitable employment thus opened to labor. And that Is some thing that should not be overlooked by Ne Perco county in its decision on the question. Practically all the cost in Nez Prce county will be for labor. teams, overseeing and tcngineer ing. There is no reason why the bulk nf tivA mnnev to be expended in each district should not be left in that district in ths shape of earn ines. It can be so, if the project la organized with forethought, whereby the work would come at a time wnen the farmers cn spare labor and teams for this employment NEWBEBO ENTEBFRrSEl Insult nomah county yesterday the voters measured up to the needs or me oc caslon by giving a two to one verdict in favor of a bond issue xor roaa im provement. ' : I year nearly $5,000,000 a month, more than $58,000,000 a year. Of actual cash, the company prob ably does not keep at hand more than comes in in 10 days. Very promptly money is put to work, ( At what?' "As soon as it comes in," the com pany says, "the money is set to work building railroads, making locomo tives and railroad cars, erecting of fice buildings, and business houses, and performing a great service to so ciety all over the land. "In other words, it is immediately invested in railroad and municipal bonds, and real estate mortgages," Of course, what tills money earns adds to the" fund held to pay the claims of policy holders. Last year, for instance, : this company paid out $118 for every $100 received from poli cy holders a record probably equaled by every sound old company, and made possible by the policy of keep ing money constantly and safely era ployed. It is well worth while to get and study the financial statements of the big insurance Companies. They are among the bJggest and most success ful investors. The Ragtime Muse In a Garden. Each day I have to smile at Jones When I behold him picking stones Out of his garden, so the plants He hopes to gjrow can have a chance. He kneels1 and pats the earth as though He could aroufce th And put an end to In pushing upward Sometimes I watch Green shoots until And then he scans Whether they had e seeds below. their delay through the clay. him stoop and pull his hands are full, their roots to know begun to grow. The lettuce that he's sowed! Great Scott! i It fills a third of all his lot; His wife and he will have to brows Upon it, like a herd of cows. Jones boasts of hla artistlo eye It's what he plants his garden by! Hut, better far than any boast, Would be asparagus on total! I can't suggest, in playful mood. That art be sacrificed to food; I'd rouse his anger with rty views And radtshea and rhubartiosel Pride Attends Vm Still. From Judge. Mrs; Crawford How do you like your new apartment? Mrs. Crabshaw It isnO, as nice as the one we left but the neighbors will never know that our car la merely the eld one repainted. " Th Iconoclast Speaks. v "From the Philadelphia. Ledger. There may be room at the top, imt it's darned sight more sociable at tte bottom. - - i . . : V-j fL COUNTRY "IM AAaLY HAYS' By. Fred Xoeaisy. SpesiaJ Stiif Writer r The Journal. . Lewis McMorris has lived In WutU Walla for the pant Ea years. I viallej him recently at his home ' in VVuUa Walla and he told ine of Walla Walla's early days. "I was born in Ohio" on August 12. 1831, so you see I am in my eighty fourth year," said Mr. McMorris. in the fall of 183 we moved to Shtlo county, Illinois. 1 was past -0 when 1 started lor Oregon in April, ltoZ. James Craig, who was about my father's age, having been born--in lS'J'i. was my partner. My father fitted ine out lor the nip. We hud a ko.u wagon and five yok of oxen. We crossed the Missouri ' at ' Kt. Joe on May day. 1 'ha.i the cholera but I pulled tiirouati. Tlure was a heap ot folks who didn't. We saw new graves at every camping place. We leachud Ftmltr on tSepitMuhcr 10. "We came down into Cliick.wuun county. On the Molallu we -stopped at Howard's flour and trlst mill ana sold our outfit to old muu llowaid. We bought six cayusea and slurU-d for the southern Oregon mines. N mined for a spoil at-Sailor tigliiKS, Just beyond Althouse - creek, . not J'ur lrom Keibyville. From Sailor I'Ik gings we went to Sucker neck. Next year my partner. Air. CiHitt, went lo Crescent City, on the California, cuut.t, and took up a ranch. 1 mined at Vreka, Scott's Bur and other eiuupH Until the summer ofl!.")5. 1 t tailed with B. F. Dowell's pack truin lor Dallas, in Polk county. Dowell was a good packer and a xoud man to l with. His -son la t'he lire -chief la Portland, they tell me. "1 came from Jacksonville to )fUUa with Duwell. Wilt; n wi (iut to DhII.ih the government lured Dowell nml in pack train lo transport supplies fur the soldiers. Colonel JMesmltli Wiin In command of the troops.. Dowell, War ren, Smith anil myself were hired as packers. We went to The Dalles and from there to the Yakima country. The soldiers had some skirmishes with the Indians ort this trip. We were ordered to go back to Tho Dalles and take sup piles to Colonel Kelly's command in the Umatilla country. We went trmn Umatilla to Wallula and from there we went with the troops Into the Touchet country. We had a rutinlnir fight with the CayiiHu Indians on the Touchet. Pt'o-poo-mox-mox came In with a white flng so they took him prisoner, lie had four .or flvi CuyiiHe Indians with him and a 'Nea 'Perco hoy. Our skirmish turned Into a luittlu. Wounded man were being brought back to the rear where 1'eo-peo-nnix-niox and tha oilier Indian ' prisoners wer. Orders came to scud part of the guard iu me iruni. i ne BHiidieiH irieu - to. 1 1 the india-ns. They resisted being tlvl, so the soldiers killed all of them hut the Nob Perce hoy, I whs . standing quite close tn Ihm when It happened. I was unpacking the mule that had the surgeon's Instruments In Its pajK. 1 stopped and watched the. killing of Peo-peo-mox-mojc and the others. It only took two or threw minutes, thn I went on with my unpneking ami rot the surgical instruments Bud the hos pital steward's supplies.. When I hsd unpacked the inula there didn't em to be anything elae to do ho 1 picked up a gun that one of the wound-d soldiers had brought, hack with Mm and went to the front, where tlieie was something doing. I (Stayed on the firing line; all d-y. 'They brought Captain Bennett's body out of, th brush, near whero I was. M wrm from Kalem. lie had b'eeii killed eh.'irKin sorno Indians sheltered in a settler' cabin. "After tha fight was ovr they or dered us to go to The Dalles for more supplies. We returned vlth the sup pllfs and were ;theri ordered to mo to Fort Henrietta Keho It is now cnllfd on the Umatilla- river. On iVIId Horse creek, about where Athena now is, the Indians attacked tin and stam peded our horses and. pack mules. We only had one pony loft. . One of tho ttien rode back to the volunteers' enrnp on Mill creek. about six miles above the present city of 'Walla W'alln, and told the officer in command. He sent down some horses and nn escort and we took th supplies on to their camp. The Indians had put us out of a Job by stealing our pack outfit, so we went to The Dalles. The government atd DowH for his stolen animals and t lilrAd nut tn tliA 11 n;irt ernits t el 'a department of the regular army. "I was .assigned to Colonel Wright's command as a pucker. In the sum mer of 1866 I was sent to The Dalles to fit out a wai?on train for Walla Walla. I was assigned to Colonel Steptoe's command. That fall we built a block house here at' Walla Walla for a fort and a number of cabins as temporary quarters. The cabins were built of logs with pole and dirt roofs. Some of the soldiers ktrew how to thatch the roofs and no the officers' cabins had thatched roofs. "I spent the winter of '6fl-57 herd ing our mules. In the spring of &7 I helped get out and haul the lo to build the permanent o. tinners iie the fort. I was marts assistant wason master and had 2t whkoiis In my charge. We hauled supplies fromvU h Dalles and used to bring In recruits from there also. "In the fall of '67 I went to the Willamette valley intending to t&KO up a farm between Rilverton and H.t- lem. Captain Friedman arid "Neal lie Glechey secured an Indian trader's license and hired me to haul their goods to Walla Walla, where they es tablished a store. I did their freight, ing from Wallula to Walla Walla. The goods -were brought from The Dalles to Wallula In batteaux. "I built the first house south of Main street, in Walla Wall.-t, It wns on the corner of Third and Ms in streets. This was in the spring of I freighted, ran a pack train to Boise and also to the Iduho mines, and later ran a stage from Dayton to Dewlston. No. I never took time to look around and find a wife; .somehow I never ot around to it, and by the time th country got settled arid women ware plenty I had got over the notion of marrying. I have been in Walla Walla q jltiu nave seen me piuc jrrow from one or two log ctiUins to a city Of 25,000 people." Pity the .RoyhoorSie&s Roy. From the Dayton News. The papers carried a story the other day about John Nicholas Brown, a 14- year-oio lad who reached California after a pleasant trip from the cast in a private car, accompanied by enough servants and attends nts to form a company of soldiers. The little fellow is nearly dead, and has been rent out there to. regain his health if It is possible. "America's richest boy," worth twen ty or thirty millions, has never been a boy that's the trouble with him now. Hehas had no chance. Always there has" been some one looking aft'-r-hlm. His play was arranged for him by experts. His food was always ster ilised and predlgested, lie did not even have to think for himself, and it is doubtful if he could tte a knot in a string. It's not his fault; if It were, he would not get his name in the paper at this time. It is the fault oX his parents and pf the. money he In herited from his hard hearted old father. No kid can carry such a load and get away with it