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Be ijot ashamed to confess
you have been in the wrong.
It Is but owning what yon need
not be ashamed of that you
now have more sense than you
had before, to see your error;
. more humility to acknowledge
Jt, more grace to correct it.
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AMERICA FIRST
N the same tone of sobering sad
ness with which Lincoln pleaded
for a united country In his pres
idency, Woodrow Wilson coun
selled with his countrymen Tues
day night, in an address at Wash
ington. The two men, each in his time,
!faced overwhelming issues. , Only
tin the inner, precincts of the White
,"House was there knowledge of the
tremendous problems that pressed
down upon Lincoln. Only in the
same Inscrutable chambers, is -there
knowledge of the momentous is
sues that now weigh down the
man who has succeeded to the
ifrlace of Lincoln.
With the world out of equilib
'rianl, with the clash of armed
Jiosts directly anc". indirectly laying
a blighting touch upon every nation
ton the planet. President Wilson
spoke in a vein remarkably like the
Jclosiug Inaugural of President Lin
coln. The words were different
-but the vision of this Republic and
Tits purpose was the same. He said:
No nation Is fit to sit in Judgment
upon any other nation. V I am
Jnot speaking in a selfish spirit when
I tsay that our whole duty for the
present, is summed up in this motto,
"Amcj'ira first. " Let us think of
America before wo think of Euvore
in order that America may be fit to
be Europe's friend when the day of
tested friendship comes. Test of
friendship is not now sympathy with
Jthe n .side or the other, but get
'tlrig ready to help ooth sides when
jthc Struggle is over.
2 These are words to appeal to the
-sober , judgment of every loyal
ncitizem It is not the part of the
LTnited States to sit in judgment
"over the. fearful conflict in Europe.
Ve are a people compounded of the
kLnsnieu of those who. are in the
Jtrenches on both sides, and our
rjtart is not to judge,but in deep
sympathy to be ready to help both
eides and to help all when the in
evitable hour Of exhaustion and
restoration comes. In that fright
ful hour all will need us and need
our aid, and as neutral Americans
' In . a ."neutral America,- we should
the, in position to have the abiding
confidence of all the stricken peo
Jples and thereby be powerful to
he of the greatest service to all.
; The vision that President Wilson
'has of the true policy in thesa
dark days of world conflict, is pic-
tured in his concluding words. They
'are:
So that wiiat I try to remind my
self of every day wlien I am almost
lovercojne by perplexities, what 1 try
to remember Is what the people at
, home, aro thinking about. I try out
- myself in . the place of the roan . who
does not know all the things mat
know and ask myself what he would
like thevpoliey of this country to be.
Not the talkative . man, not me par
'tls&n man. -not the. man that remem
bers irst that he is a Republican or
Democrat, or that his parents- were
German or English, but who remem
bers first that the whole destiny of
modern affairs centers largely upon
his being an American first of all. If
'.I permitted myself to be a partisan
fn this present struggle, I would be
unworthy to represent you. If I per
tnitted myself to forget the people
"Who are not partisans, I would be
unworthy1 to represent you. I am. not
saying that I am worthy to represent
you, but I do claim this degree of wor
thiness, that before everything else I
love America.
' The way to make America
worthy is to love her. If we do
not throw around our nation the
protecting care . of affection, how
can it stand?
. Like Lincoln and like Wilson,
we should cherish our country.
cherish it for the sake of our chil
dren whose country and protection
it is to be. If we do not, who
will? "-".
SHARING IN PROSPERITY
CONNECTICUT ja a nianufactur-
. ing state. For that reason a
- yV statement showing aggregate
resources and liabilities of
state banks and trust companies,
published in Commerce Reports, is
, interesting. Comparative figures
for March 1 and April 1 are given.
':i In one month general and sav
ings deposits in state banks and
trust companies increased $858,
.752; surplus Increased $121,765;
loans and discounts, $1,027,277-;
stocks . and securities, $164,254;
checks and cash items, $121,619.
.The net increase in assets and lia
bilities was $722,017, a gain of
' one per cent in a month.
. . An ; even - better showing was
; made by the savings .banks. De
posits Increased $616,410, and in
terest and profit , and loss, $ 3 2 5
007. These items were' partly off
set but " the savings - banks in a
- month Increased' their met liabilities-
that is, obligations to depos
itors $862,821, or 2 Y per cent.
Total deposits in savings banks
April 1, 1915, were $315,189,489,
compared with $311,831,989 for
April 1, 1914; or a gain of $3,
357,500. These figures are signifi
cant when taken in connection with
the March increase in deposits,
which! was at the rate of $f,396,
920 alear. Evidently the manu
facturing spates are sharing in pros
perity.; '' " ; '
THK
PAVING OFFER
S
ERIOUS interest is thrown
around road pavingJn Mult
nomah county by the offer of
R. S. Dulin and R. O. Mc-
Mullen to do the work at 60 cents
per yard, or under.
They say the seventy miles of
paving can be done at a total cost
of $493,520. including the $50,000
that would be required for a paving
plant to be provided by the county.
The sum is $393,520 less than the
estimated cost at the $1.20 per
yard under which the bonds were
voted. j
These are large figures. They
are presented by men who are re
puted to be experts in their line.
Mr. Dulin is a chemical engineer
of . 22; years' experience. For the
past five years he has been the
official chemist for paving in Port
land. ; Mr. McMullen has been for
13 years district engineer in the
paving department in Portland.
Last year he was engineer for
Roadmaster Yeon in the road work
In Multnomah county.
Paving interests say these fig
ures are impossible. But the
county commissioners are con
fronted with the offer, and they
cannot afford to Ignore it. Nor
can the paving men afford to
ignore it. To' let the contract at
higher figures without considering
the Dulin-McMullen proposition at
all would raise a public scandal
that would shake Multnomah coun
ty to its foundations and that
would not be forgotten in a decade
A LINCOLN STORV
ris. AMANDA KUHN died the
M'
other day in Philadelphia at
the age of 84. During 'the
Civil war her husband was
wounded and she went to Washing
ton with her only baby to nurse
him. !
Mr. Kuhn recovered, but his wife
stayed at the hospital to nurse
others. There Lincoln became im
pressed with the woman's devotion
to the intired. Her baby attracted
the martyred president, and be
cause it was a burden and anxiety
to the loyal nurse, Lincoln ar
ranged for the baby's care in the
White; House while the mother was
busy at the hospital.
Mrs. Kuhn's death, coincident L
with .the fiftieth anniversary of
Lincoln's death, is responsible for
the story at this time. It is but
another of the many that mark
Lincoln a big man big in ability,
but digger in heart, one of .the
biggest men the modern world has
known.
A I DESERVED REllt'KE
s
ECRETARY BRYAN has re
buked Admiral Peary for his
recent, speech in New York.
Whatever the admiral's per
sonal r views are, this is no time
for an officer of the United States
navy to say that our destiny points
o territorial aggrandizement, to
occupation of "the entire North
American world segment. I
The secretary of state was risht
whenj he said "The idea that a na
tion ?an grow only geographically
is as jun-American as it Is untrue."
But it was not because of Admiral
Peary's mistaken idea of national
growth that the rebuke was ad
ministered. It was because this is
po time for even the obscure citi
ten; much less an officer of the
navy,' to talk about an invasion of
the integrity of neighbor nations
on this hemisphere. There never
was a time when it was more im
portant for the United States to
present before the world an atti
tude of unselfish purpose and dig
nified neutrality.
It ;has been the steady policy of j
President Wilsou to convince all
the nations on this hemisphere that
it isj the unswerving purpose of
this nation not to seek extension of
territory. It was by that purpose
as manifested in his Mexican pol
icy and as expressed in his speech
at Mobile, that President Wilson
has (removed the ancient distrust
and created great confidence
among the nations of the two
AmeHcas in the complete disinter
estedness of the United States. It
is a policy to cement all America
into a close and mutual cooperation
for the welfare of all.
It is a public attitude of even
greater value in its effect upon
warring Europe. It is the faith of
Europe in our position of aloof
ness jand our expressed satisfaction
without territorial limits as they
Stand that strengthens and height
ens the confidence of the belliger
ents fin out good intention. It is
an example that the world never
needed so much as now, and it is
for such reasons that the utter
ances 0f Admiral Peary well de
Served the Bryan rebuke.
CITY AUTOS
w
ISELY and sanely, the city
commission declined to buy
a f new automobile yester
days - Commissioners Bige-
JotW j and Daly -were . out of sym
pathy with the new purchase,, and
possibly another member or two
jHuestioaed the plan." v Action was
postponed to .May 5. "
On May 5, the proposition should
be -rejected The commission
should ""call a halt in' automobile
buying. The city cannot afford
to maintain its officials in the mil
lionaire class. If it attempts to
rig out all its functionaries in the
livery and equipage of swelldom,
it will go bankrupt. ;
If, in private life, men who can
not afford it insist on speeding;
about the city in luxurious ma
chines, that is their business. But
when men in! the public service de
mand chauffeurs, mechanicians,
gasoline, tires and machines which
taxpayers cannot well afford, it. ia
the public's business, and in the
name of that public The Journal
advises a reasonable limitation of
expenditures.!
Government is partly for the av
erage man. j It is mostly for the
average man j because average men
are in the great majority. The
average man canjiot afford the lux
ury of an automobile for his own
use, and he cannot afford a multi
plicity of automobiles for the pub
lic use. If government is squared
more with the status of the average
man, there will be less restless
ness and fewer complaints , about
the cost. j
The fact is that public automo
biles in the very nature of things,
are much used for private purposes.
Public gasoline is, in the very na
ture of things, much burned for
private pleasure. There is so much
of this kind of abuse of public
automobiles that it is morally cer
tain that, in most cases where there
Is real necessity for -quick transit
by public officials, it would not
cost half as much to use machines
kept for hire.
PORTLAND'S FIRE LOSS
I
T is of consequence to the people
of Portland that Fire Marshal
Stevens declares that 50 per
cent of the fires in this city are
incendiary, i
It is of consequence to the people
of Portland that Fire Marshal
Stevens declares, that $1,500,000
worth of property in this city was
destroyed by; fire last year when,
unejer normal conditions, the de
struction should not have exceeded
$100,000.
Nobody, has challenged these
statements. They are from a
source that speaks with authority.
It is probable that every insur
ance man in the city of Portland
would back up the fire marshal's
asseverations,
With half of Portland's fires in
cendiary, what is our status?
When the torch is deliberately ap
plied to; property with the purpose
of lighting it into conflagration and
destruction, j what is our social
order? . When half the. fires that
destroyed $1,500,000 worth of
wealth in this city in a single year
are touched into the burning by
fire bugs, is it not somebody's busi
ness to set about in search of a
remedy? "
A million and a half of wealth
burned up is more than $6 for
every man, woman and child. A
more fearful loss are the 16 lives
that were sacrificed in the flames.
These j unreasonable sacrifices of
life and property are an indictment
of Portland ; that should impress
itself upon the conscience and the
judgment of every Portlander,
. If there is no other' way. for Port-
landers to grasp the meaning of
a year s property loss in this city,
let them note this deadly compari
'son:
n
101 0, in 13 of the largest
cities in Germany, the combined
fire loss for the year was only
$1,067,205. That is to say, the
fire loss in 13 of the chief cities
in Germany in that year was $433,
000 less than was the fire loss in
the single ity of Portland last
year.
Here, then, is the question: If
13 of the chief cities of Germany
have but a little more than two
thirds the fire loss of Portland
alone, how incompetent, how ineffi
cient, and how apftallingly reckless
we are in this city in the matter
of fires? .
: Is there not in this staggering
comparison, abundant reason for
an anti-fire movement in Portland?
Is there not a great work here
for the new Portland Chamber of
Commerce to lead?
Is there not a great opportunity
here for that great body to prove
the wisdom-of the men who have
banded together and brought it into
existence?
THE CHINOOK SALMON'
H
AROLD C. BRYANT, game ex
pert of the California -Fish
and Game commission, says
the Quinnat, Chinook or King
salmon is the largest and finest of
all the Pacific coast salmon. This
statement was made in connection
with a published statement as to
California's game resources, in
which, it .vyas said, the .Chinook is
most abundant in the Sacramento,
Columbia and Yukon rivers.
The Chinook, appropriately
called the King salmon, is found in
the Sacramento and Yukon, but
Mr. Bryant's statement would be
more illuminating had It declared
that the Chinook's real habitat is
the Columbia river furnished nearly
wnere it is lound in aDnncance and
of the finest quality.
In 1914, according to the Pacific
Fisherman,! the Sacramento river
pack of Chinooks totaled 17,315
one-pound icans. Compared with
this, the pack of Columbia river
Chinooks amounted to 181,619 one
pound' and 107,845 : eight-ounce
cans. . ) -r :- - i-' .
Figures concerning this ' best of
all food and game fish -are inter
esting.. In! 1914 the total Ameri
can pack of Chinooks in. one-pound
and eight-ounce cans amounted to
509,100 tins, and of this amount
the Colmubia river furnished nearly
three-fifths, or 289,464 cans. Alaska
made a better showing than did the
Sacramento river, with, a total of
48,165 cans; but no, other stream
or locality approached the Co -
lumbia river's record,
These figures are j proof that if
sportsmen wish to find the Chinook
where it is most abundant and of
superior quality they will not visit
the Sacramento river, nor Alaska,
but will 1 come to Portland, the
Chinook's home port.
INTERPRETATIONS OF
CHICAGO ELECTION
From the Literary Digest.
FTER a campaign iwhich the New.
A York World called a "Donny-
brook" and which! was described
i
by the Chicago Tribune on election
morning as "a triviality puffed with
wind and filled with sound," Chicago
elects William Hale Thompson mayor j
by a record-breaking plurality of some
139,000 votes. "It is :a woman's vic
tory," exclaims, the jhappy wife of
the mayor-elect. .It ijs a Republican
victory, say the equally jubilant Chi
cago Republicans,- which "means a
united party and a landslide for a
Republican president in 1916." It is
"a rebuke to efforts by partisans of
either side in the war to fight lt sim
ultaneously in this country," says the
New York Evening Post, recalling the
effort to rally the "German vote" for
the defeated Democratic candidate,
Mr. Robert M. Schweitzer. It means,
grimly observes the mayor-elect, that
"the crooks had better move out of
town before I am inaugurated." And
the Chicago Tribunej (Prog.), in a
hopeful but rather non-committal ed
itorial on so famous a victory, thus
points out the opportunity awaiting
the new chief magistrate of the
world's fourth city: j ' '
The election from which you came
a victor was without real issues, was
full of childish devices, and some that
were sinister. Nevertheless the city
is in a mood for better things, is
ready for building There Is vision
anions its citizens and devotion and
courageous hope. Th0 life of. the city
is strong and sound. 1 Rely upon that
and work. I
I
The campaign ending in the elec
tion of Mr. Thompson by a plurality
of 1S!,000, and a majority over all of
112,000, began in the;prlmary contest
last February. In the primaries, Mr.
Schweitzer, with thej supposed back
ing of Senator-elect (Roger Sullivan,
defeated Mayor Carter Harrison for
the Democratic nomination; and Mr.
Thompson, accused of a one-time inti
macy with William Lorimer, defeated
Judge Olsen, a fusion Progressive-Re; w
publican candidate. It is asserted in
the Chicago news dispatches that dis
appointment on the part of support- !
ers of the defeated candidates was re
sponsible . for the small Schweitzer
vote and the lukewarm newspaper at
titude toward the 'Thompson can
didacy Besides various local ques
tions, confusing international politics
and religious prejudices were import
ant factors. "All the leading Ger-
J A !
...o-uo i BBja . wiii-afcu j
dispatch to the JO W York Times, I
"signed a circu
; I
cular urging the voters
of German, Austrian and Hungarian
descent to vote the Schweitzer ticket
as an indorsement of the yfar poli
cies of Kkisor Wilhelm. Thi circular
was adorned with photographs . of
Kaiser Wilhelm and Emperor Francis
Joseph.
An intense wave of resentment I
arose. The young Americans from j
the Indiana border-of Chisago to the '
northern borders of Chicago at Lake
Forest turned out in force and voted
down the Schweitzer j German-Austrian
ticket."
Even larger and; more ominous,
though . less conspicuous, than the
question of race was the question of
religion, says the- New York Evening
Post editorially. "Men and women
were urged to vote, for Schweitzer
because he tras a! Catholic; other
men and women were urged to vote
for Thompson because he was not a
Catholic." !
4
William Hale Thompson was not
only elected mayor of Chicago by an
unprecedented plurality, but he is also
the first mayor t be elected by
women's votes. Both parties, said the
Tribune the day bejfore the election,
laid their greatest hopes on the wom
an vote, and did their most effective
work in appealing to it. As a result,
perhaps, more women voted. In Chi
cago than In any previous election
since they won the franchise. -According
to Tribune figures, 243,217 women
voted, 86 per cent of their registra
tion, asj against 426092 men, 88 per
cent of the male - registration. Mr.
Thompson had wih him approxi
mately 63 per cent 0f the women and
60 per cent of the men. This shows,
according to the New York Times,
a pronounced opponent of equal suf
frage, "that the women voters merely
enlarged the vote and did not deter
mine or even influence itn resiiita"
But their numbers
impress even the
Times. And, as the
New York World
in a great American city women have i
conclusively shown hat If they really I
do not want to
vote." they are
bravely able to con
quer inclination."
The outpouring of Chicago women to
the polls, says a
"should put an end,
.suffrage , leader;
once and for all.
to the Cry of the
ntis that women
are not interested in the exercise of
the franchise."
While all observers admit the part
played by local issues In the Chicago
election,' the determining factor, de-1
Clares the New York Evening Sun, i
was the national issue. " William Hale
Thompson "pleaded th cause of good !
business and the fui dinner pall, and
his opponent had no chance. The
election sis highly suggestive." Taken!
1 1n connection with Republican vie
torles last fall, it assures this inde
pen-dent New York ; dally that "If the
j presidential election were to be held
now, or even in November of this
year, there would be no hope what
ever for the present administration or
s for the party which it represents."
And an independent Chicago news-
paper; the Daily News, thus explains
why the election is a "significant
j Republican victory," particularly as
; torching reunion with the Progres-
sives:
Bad times, regarded as Democratic
by non-Democratic voters, assisted
materially in cementing the fracture
of three years ago and firmly unit
ing the two parties under the Repub
lican banner. . . . Eagerness to
combine the opposition to the Demo
cratlc party was manifest every
where. .
The desired absorption of the third
party has now come about. Because
I the result of yesterday s voting In
i J-'h,,caf affords cvin,clnf p,roo f
; litis jiuyui tctiiL puinitai ucriupiiicnv
- lt , f extraordl nrv interest throusrh-
out the United States.
A FEW SMILES
"I want you to understand,"
said
Young Spender,
"that I got my
money by hard
! work."
"Why, I thought it
-was left to you by
your rich uncle."
"So it was; but I
had hard work get- I
ting it away from the '
lawyers." '
At the time when concrete beds for
guns were being found according, at
least, to rumor all over the allies'
territory, an A merl
in Paris went up
policeman and
mysteriously:
Are you look
ing for German
spies?" "Mais oui!"
said the policeman,
taking from under
liis coat .his notebook
and pencil. "Then." said the Ameri
can, "go to the Hotel de Blanc and
arrest the proprietor. He's put up at
least two concrete beds there. I know,
because my wife and I slept in 'em
last night."
Thirty years and more have passed
since, the incandescent light was first
exhibited as a curiosity, and we do
not know anything
more, practically,
about what elec
tricity Is than we
did then.
"What Is electric
ity?" once asked a"
professor of his
class.
Several hands were
held up. "Well, Mr. Brown, you can
tell us what electricity is."
Mr. Brown hesitated and then ex
plained. "I knew once, but just at
this moment I have forgotten."
"What a pity that the only man in
the world who ever knew what elec
tricity is should have forgotten!''
mused the professor.
Letters From the People
. ilommunirations sent to Th Journal for
i.uuiK-uij.iu in mis department should lie -wrlt-
iko on oniy one Biae or tiie paper, should not
-xceed 3O0 words iu length and must be ac
companied by the name and address of the
sender, if the writer does not dpire to have
mo uk me punuBneu, tie tthouiu so state.)
"Discussion Is the greatest of all reformers
it raiioimlizea everything lt touches. It rohs
,.. .... .j.n Ill tome HUCK-UIV StlU TUTOWS tUPlll
ruelc on their reasonableness. If they have no
"'"'""i't""-"'- " ruin;essiy crushes them out
. -i-n-u. aim wis up jts own conclusions
in their stead." Woodrow Wilson.
Rejoices in West's Vindication.
KeeUville, Or., April 21. To the Edi
tor of The Journal The verdict in the
t opperfield case is a victory for
decency. Kx-Governor West stands
vindicated. The Oregonian, which has
been for years snapping like a yellow
cur at his heels, must fall Into a
gloomy, sickly silence. We need men
like 'n office, because they are
not afraid to do what stands for the
betterment of the community. The
Oregonian has hounded West in vain.
The courts have upheld West's actions
at Copperfield, and now let his enemies
hide their shamed faces in silence.
O. E. FRANK.
Wood Block Paving.
Portland, April 20. To the Editor of
The Journal We wish to acknowledge
receipt of clipping from your paper of
April 7 regarding use of Oregon wood
block paving. Your move Is for the
betterment of our industry and of the
northwest and deserves every encour
agement. It surely is tim that we
learned that the 'failure of wood block
paving is not due to wood blocks, but
to the method of laying them, and
i that we learn from the cities of the
east and of London, Berlin and Paris
that there is no better paving than that
which grows- in our own forests. Yours
very truly, ;
BRIDAL. VEIL, LUMBERING CO.,
By Ben H. Hazen.
Mr. H rat ton Writes Again.
Portland. April 20.-To the Editor
of The Journal Now we are beginning
to understand the true meaning of
bigotry with reference to the recent
Chicago election. J. Hennessey Mur
phy says his personal definition of
the word "bigotry" is unprintable. io
we may assume that his personal
opinion of the large majority of the
voters of Chicago is unprintable. J
would ask Mr. Murphy if there is not
likely to be two or more kinds of
bigots. Bee some of the circulars cir
culated by the minority of the afore
said voters to prevent the renomi na
tion of Mayor Harrison. Now, per
sonally, I have no unprintable opin
ion of cither the majority or the
minority of the aforesaid voters. That's
all, with thanks to Mr. Mufphy for
his frankness. R. R. BRATTON.
The Ragtime Muse
No Luck at All.
I know, although I can't say why.
That I'm a most unlucky guy;
The cinders blow into my. eye.
The streetcars always pass me by.
The eggs I have to eat are stale.
Each -day brings ."dope cures" in my
mail.
I buy. tomorrow there's a sale.
And so I lose a bunch of kale!
In stores, the elevator gate
Is slammed, while 1, impatient, wait
To keep a most important date.
And sx I'm bound to be too late!
My dog is shot. 'while others run
Quite unmolested in the sun;
And wicked boys steal, just for fun.
,My choice exotics, one Dy one.
If I in any way could know
That later on I'll have a show.
That on my head a crown will glow.
Then I could stand it here below
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PERTINENTXOMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMAJLI CHANGE
. Better self-love than self-neglect.
Matrimony may cure love blind
ness. Art at best turns out a poor coun
terfeit of nature.
All men are born ignorant and -some
never get over it. '
About the only satisfacory substi
tute for wisdom is silence.
The quickest way to do things is to
do but one thing at atime.
In order to enjoy life a man must
be a little miserable occasionally.
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After celebratlnar the twenty-fifth
anniversary of her birth a girl begins.
to nope something will happen to the
Bible containing the family records.
In the old times people worried
about what they owed, but we of this
day have outgrown such childishness.
We worry only over what is due and
past due.
After all, one person has about as
much pleasure as another. Even those
of us who never get to go fishing can
rejoice when' the more fortunate get
caught in a rain.
No matter how well a fellow is sit
uated he Is not contented. Now," most
of us feel that if we had no more work
to do than a baby we wouldn't spend
so much time cryinpr.
When a bov eets to be three or four
years old his mother can keep him and
his clothes clean without a great deal
of ; trouble- provided she has tsomeone
else to look after the balance of the.
family and do the housework.
1N THE PRESIDENTIAL RUNNING
By Oakes.
Another native son candidate for the
presidency has come to the surface in
Pennsylvania, Three guesses. , No,
not Connie Mack. This candidate is
none . other than Senator Boies Pen
rose. Pennslyvania already has one seri
ously minded candidate in Governor
Brumbaugh and friends of Philander
S. Knox, one time attorney general and
United States senator, are itching to
thrust his name to the fore, but Knox
realizes sadly, lt is said, that it can
not be.
And now, like the old time bolt out
of a clear sky, comes the announce
ment that Penrose is willing to be
president himself.
Some months ago a Pennsylvania pa
per, the Blairsville Courier, adopted
as a slogan, "For President in 1916,
Boles Penrose." Its home-made boom
or boost (it was hardly a boom) was
not taken seriously but the story is
now going the rounds in the east that
Penrose has -said privately that he is
not adverse to taking the nomination
if he can get it. And he is also cred
ited with expressing the opinion that
his years of service in the senate aa a
Republican leader entitle him to con
sideration at the hands of the nomi
nating committee.
On the other hand some are inclined
to believe that mention of Penrose's
name is made for the purpose of lulling
anv hnnm for Brnn-ihauirh to sleeD.
! Brumbaugh is inclined to be indepen
dent and to do what he thinks is for
the public weal rather than for - the
party's- solidarity, and encouragement
of other native sons for the Republican
nomination may be. to use a trite
phrase, to nip his boom in the bud.
Knox, toe,- has been seriously men
tioned In some quarters but it is
pointed out that his chances are not
of the best because -of his close rela
tionship with the Taft administration
as secretary of state.
The real wiseacres in the Republican
party,' however, do not believe that
Pennsylvania will be called upon to
furnish a candidate. There is no geo
graphical advantage to be obtained lh
putting up a man from the Keystone
state, they say, when Pennsylvanians
will go to the polls strong for any ac
ceptable candidate on the tariff issue.
Pick out a candidate, they advise,
where the native son and geographical
equation will really make votes.
Charles D. Hillcs, national chairman
of the Republican party, says the rea
son for the evolution of ihe Progres
sive party was that the Progressives
forgot that progress to endure must be
built, on carefully, laid foundations and
they became infected with the speed
mania. His reasoning, however, seems
to have the effect of rubbing the fur
the wrong way on the Bull Moosers.
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There are three vacancies on the
Democratic national committee. Judge
Martin H. Wade of Iowa has become
United States district Judge In the
Haw key state; ex-Representative Pal
mer of Pennsylvania has been appoint
ed to the court of claims bench; Joseph
E. uavies or Wisconsin becomes . a
member of the new federal trades
commission These vacancies will, be
filled in the states mentioned but the
national committee as a whole must
select a successor to Mr. Palmer as
head of the executive committee and
to Mr. Davies as secretary. It is not
thought probable that a meeting will
be called In the near future, as Thomas
J. Pence, a former Washington cor
respondent, has been doing the secre
tarial work for some months past and
would probably be chosen as the new
secretary.
As the result of the Republican vic
tory in the recent Chicago mayoralty
election things are beginning to hum
in the Illinois G. O. P. Frank O. Ixw
den, former member of congress froih
that state, prominent attorney and a
director "of the Pullman company, is
expected to announce his candidacy
for governor any day and a tentative
slate has already been picked . for
other offices. Senator L. Y. Sherman
and Minority Leader James R. Mann
LIFE INSURANCE COST
By John M. Oskison.
A bill of peculiar interest to "man
millions of policy-holders in our lift
insurance companies has lately been
under discussion in, the New York leg
islature it is one to permit certain
companies recently changed from stock
to mutual form to continue writing in
surance at their old rates.
Stock companies, which are going out
of fashion, ordinarily write policies
called "non-participating" that is, th
policy-holders do not share any of the J
profits. In stock companies the sav
ing between what is paid in by policy
holders and what it costs to run tht
business goes to the stockholders who
own the company.
The mutual companies, by contrast,
hold to ths credit of policy-holders all
savings between receipts and expenses.
Their policy has been to charge a high
er rate of premium than the stoik com
panies atid return in "dividends" what
is saved. They have figured that the
net cost to the insured Is at 'low, or
lower, than If i.m- had bought a non
participating policy . in a stock com
pany. .
On adopting the mutual form, two of
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
O. A. C. faculty members will form
exclusively the cast of .a minstrel show
at Corvallis tomorrow" evening, to be
given as a benefit for the students'
loan fund. (
'Freight from Portland by the all
river route is beinir tried out." says
the Hermiston Herald. "In all in
stances It has proven as quick aa by
rail and very much cheaper."
The Port Orford Tribune believes the
time has come for Curry county to un
dertake an annual county fair.' and it
urges that action be taken to hold a
lair this year, by way or making the
start. . . i
Coouilie Sentinal: The new Chamber
of Commerce at Portland ia going to
send a representative down here to
snow our local Commercial club how
to make its work more effective. The
mg city organization proposes to co
operate In every possible way with
the local organizations allover the
state. v ,- - -
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Evidence of the value of advertising
presented By the Med ford Kun:i. "Offl
ters of the Baptist church believe that
it pays a church to advertise the same
as any business house or professional
man and will give it a. trial. They have
an aa in inis paper, unurcnes iik the
east and middle west advertise and
often
ads."
run one third and half
Page
The Vancouver Columbian pavs this
tribute to one. of Oregon's most pro
gressive towns: "Cottage Grove. Or.,
aims to abate by ordinance spitting on
the sidewalk; accumulation of rubbish,
laxity in handling; garbage and the dog
nuisance. A' town that will pass and
enforce such an ordinance will become
a desirable nlace to reside, as the fllthv
will either reform or move out. leav
ing the town to those who want to be
aecentlv clean."
are favoriteon candidates for '--the
presidency and Representatives Martin
B. Madden and William B. McKinley
are being talked of as candidates to
succeed J. Ham Lewis In the senate In
1919.
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Ex-President Roosevelt is credited
with having declared, to a friend re
cently that he was willing to support
any Republican candidate for presi
dent in 1916 save former President
Taft or ex-Governor Herberr Hadley
of Missouri. - He Is said to have ad
mitted that the nomination of a Pro
gressive candidate would mean an
other Democratic victory. The Colo
nel's attitude toward Taft- is too well
known to merit explanation but his
coldness toward Hadley gees back to
the 1912 convention, when Hadley, as
nominal Roosevelt floor leader, was
accused of trying to get the nomina
tion himself. Hadley recently an
nounced his candidacy for the senate
in 1916 but It Is safe-to say Roose
velt will not go to Missouri to cam
paign for him.
Governor Whitman of New York
seems to have got in bad with the
leaders of the "dry" forces in the Em
pire state. An open letter was recent
ly addressed to him by William H. An
derson, state superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League of New- York, call
ing upon hirri to make it plain to the
legislative leaders of his state that
the liquor traffic Is not a special in
terest and that the people are entitled
to vote at a referendum statewide
prohibition election if they so desire.
Whitman is blamed for his silence on
the pigeonholing of 'an optional local
prohibition bill and is told In no uncer
tain terms that it he fails to champion
the rights of the people he will be
classed as being opposed to moral
Issues.. In the letter he is notified
that any attempt by his party to Im
pose further restrictions' on the liquor
traffic for revenue purposes only and
not as a moral restriction will be bit
terly resented.
Robert Leo Henry, member of eon
gress from Waco, Texas, and chairman
of the house committee on rules dur
ing the last congress; has announced
his candidacy for the United States
senate to succeed Senator Culberson.
The primaries will be held in July,
1916. Mr. Henry Is a Democrat.
William Hale Thompson, mayor-elect
of Chicago, has announced that he will
make it a policy to add a playground to
the Windy City's pwssesnlons every
time he has a -chance.
Senator Norrls of Nebraska Is an
other who has seen the light. In I
recent statement he expressed the
opinion that the Republican party must
be progressive to win In 1816, anl
commends five Republicans for the
presidential nomination. His list in
cludes Senators Borah, Cummins, Bur
ton and Weeks and Governor Whit
man. Some surprise was occasioned
by his choice of Weeks and Burton.
The former he terms a man of great
ability, and conscientiousness who has
the courage of his convictions and
who had broadened since going to con
gress, though called by some a reac
tionary. The latter he praises for his
honesty and Independence. He does not
believe Roosevelt will be a candidate.
and Taft. he says, has no chance of
being nominated.
Indianians are already beginning to
look forward to the 1916 . senatorial
race, Judge Walter Olds of Fort Wayne
and Arthur R. Robinson having an
nounced their candidacies for the Re
publican nomination. Senator Kern
will probably be a candidate to succeed
himself. Judge Olds was formerly a
member'-of the Indiana supreme court
and Robinson led the Republicans in
the last state senate.
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Having no favorite son. Kansas will
probably send an unlnstructed delega
tion to the 3916 Republicaa convention,
according to Senator Curtis of that
state.. Sentiment Is strong in Kansas,
says Curtis, for the "open convention"
idea.
the biggest stock companies find them
selves Obliged either to raise their
rates to correspond with the rates of
the other mutual companies or get a
law passed permitting them to main
tain their old rates. They're trying to
get the law.
In substance, the opposition tonthem
says: It is better to stick to Ilia high
er rate of premium payment and rely
upon voluntary "dividends" to reduce
the cost than to make lower rates,
which mJght conceivably turn out tin
case the earning power of money was
much reduced or war broke out to in
crease unexpectedly the mortality
among policy-holders, for Instance) to
be too low to Insure financial stability.
.Which is right? The controversy is
not new as between the stock and mu
tual companies, but as between mutual
companies It marks the beginning of
fight that is apt to be long continued.
Would, the average "life Insurance
buyer rather have a policy at a lower
first cost than to bind himself to pay
more and t rely upon uncertain "divi- :
dends" during the life of his policy to
cut down its total cost? That im the
question at issue. - .
gRECQN COUNTRY
"IX XABLT DATS"
By rrad LoekUy. Bpacial Stiff Wrltar f
' Ike Journal.
Ex-Governor Miles C. Moore of
Washing ton, one of the pioneer resi
dents of Walla Walla, was among tin
first to go to the new strike in Alder
Gulch, at that time a part of Idaho,
now a part of Montana.
"When our party decided' to go ta
Oregon, we looked around to learn who
else was going westward." said
Moore., "We were told that Lloyd Ma
gruder. an experienced packer, was'
going to Lewlston. We decided to go
with him and take the boat from Lew
lston. When e learned that Ma
gruder would not leave for nearly two
weeks, we decided not to wait, which
was certainly fortunate for is, as Ma
gruder was killed by some of the other
members of his party in a. peculiarly
brutal way. - .
"We went to Walla Wulhi in plac
of Lewlston, and within a few days, of
our arrival in Walla Walla. I started
out with Captain John Mullen on a
prospecting trip. As we came down
the hill towards Lewlston, wo taw ;
number ..of people waiting for us on
the bank of- the Clearwater river. Wc
crossed over to the Lewlston aid--.
They seemed disappointed at seeing
us, and one of the number said, 'W-j
thought you were the Magruder party;
he Is long overdue.'
"Lewlston in those days was a typ
ical mining camp, the stores being
either tents or log huts with fals
fronts. I returned to Walla Wall!, In
tending to go to the Willamette valley
but I' found that the friend with, whom
I had left my money, amounting t
$200, had borrowed it. and the proba
bility was that he would not be abla
to return it for a long time to come.
"To be perfectly frank, I was home
sick. I was broke, or I would hava
gone back to Wisconsin. As I wo
walking along the main utreet f
Walla Walla, a merchant, named Ky
ger, stepped out of his torc and said..
'Boy, where are you from,-and when
are you going? I told him I- wa
from Alder Gulch, anil was-on my way
to the Willamette valley. He said,
'You do not want to go to the Wil
lamette valley; I came from there my
self; you are in the very best part
of the whole western country rlRht
now I told him I had to have work.
He said, 'Go to one of the stores and
say, I haye got to go to work," and
they wilt give you a Job.' He met mn
a few days later and asked mo where I
was working. 1 told him I wasn't
working anywhere, that I didn't have
the nerve to tackle anyone for a Job.
He said, 'Bring your blankets up to my
store; I will give you a Job. If you"
suit me you can .stay until you art.
gray headed; if you don't cult me I
will fire you after tho first two
weeks.' When I went there his part
ner remonstrated with him about liir-
ln(5 me, but he nald. 'He'll make good.
all right. I never yet naw a. boy with
a big nose that couldn't well goods.' I.
slept in the utore at flrt. I soon felt
very much at homo.
After working for Kyger for a year.
I started for tho Kootenai mines.
Storms overtook me on the way up, ko
I had to store my goods at Heml-Yack-a-Teen,
' where the Kootenai trail
crosnes the rend d Oreille, not fajr
from the British Columbia border, il
came out with an Indian. Tho flr
night out I froze my feet. Thetlndhtp
pulled off my hoots my toes were ajl
swollen up and perfectly numb. H'.-t
rubbed my feet with " snow and worked
with me uptll he had restored the cir
culation. SI had 900 In gold dust In
my belt. That Spokane Indian, whom
I had never met until a day or two
before, not only saved the loss of mv
feet, but he saved my life. No, t
never naw him again.
"I came out in January, 1865,' 'leav
ing my goods stored there. I went
back the next spring and sold tho
goods. I put in the summer of J 805
selling supplies to the mlnerx, who
were coming and going on the Ko
tenat trail. I had one hard and fft
rule, and that whs; io add 100 per cent
to the cost of the good. I figured bv
doing this I could come out safe anl
make a reasonable profit.
"When the mlncK were discovered
in western Montana, the "miners In
British Columbia stampeded to th
new district. The new mines wern
located about 35' miles from Peer
I-odge. I stampeded there with th
rest of the miners. I .hired Robert
Kennedy, who n now living hero in
Walla Walla, to pack my goods to
Hlackfoot City for $300 a ton.
"Ophir Gulch was very rich, and
miners were making big money. I
made many friends there, with whom
I have kept in touch ever since. Anion;;
them were W. A. Clark, latr United
States senator from Montana, and his
brother. Joe Clark. Joe ran a pack
train and peddled goods throughout
all of the surrodnding- gulches. Jo
used to buy goods from me. W. A.
Clark opened a store on Bear gulch.
Among other customers were Frank
I-owden, who ran a pack train from
Wallula to the Montana ii)lnvs. . Frank
lives near walla alia h ha .4
farm at Lowden station. I tow hlru
On the street 'Just the other day.
T spent a year In Hlackfoot City.
While my goodx were being unloaded
In front of my atore. a man who tohf
me Mils narne wan Major J iiitchlnaon.
asked me what I would take for a 4
ound box of light pressed .'plug to
bacco. I told him it was not for al
by the box, that I was going to retail
It at $4.50 per pound. He said. 'AH
right; I win take the whole box M
the retail price,' and h. paid me $!
in gold uuBt for the box of tobacco.
My'ftore was located in the A. .T.
Oliver Express company's office. II
had a board floor, and a pole and dirt
roof. I made good money In that
store. I had a large stock of. boot &
ana i soia mem ror z -a pair. For
my tea I received $5 a pound, and for'
pair of pants I got SIX. Drinking
stagnant water gave me what they
called In that day 'mountain fever.' I
had no bed in my store, no I laid on
my blankets On th board floor. Th.
heat from the stove melted the snow
on the roof, and the muddy Water ra'
down on my blankets and over my
face. There was no doctor in tho
camp, and I had no friends or ac
quaintances. I took In a partner, who
ran the store and looked .fler me.
After I had gotten on my- feet, but
was still pretty ohaky the man
charge of the express and stage office
said to me, 'You had better buy youi
partner out. lie and John Barleycorn
have been steady partners since you
were sick.' I told him I intended to
as soon as I got money enough. - Ho
said, 'I have $1500 here that J hav
saved; you can use It as long as yci
want it. f borrowed the money an-i
bought - my partner cut. Within a
month or two I was able to repay-the
loan." .
Wer Amused.
-From the New York Times.
Was it a merry party?" akcd one
who had not been invited.
Oh. yes," said one who had, "ther
was many a Jest over the wine and
cigars." .
After the gueKta left the. hous. 1
presume," reraaik.4 the other.?