r THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 8. 1915!
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proved materially in the last six
weeks. - The metal Industry has
been stimulated, clothing manufac
turers report Increasing medium
grade business, and ' funds for in
vestment are plentiful. "Improved
Entered at the -poatoffic at Portland. Or-, tor J A . . .,,
tranamlaaion Uuvoalj tbe mail a aecoudl uea Detterment IS the report from
J Richmond. :
The Atlanta district reports "In
crease)! activity of a sound ' and
conservative nature In all lines.
Chicago has been" handicapped by
labor troubles, but the district
shows a material gain. The de
mand, for general merchandise in
St. - Louis-, has improved. Sales
and ' collections show improvement
over the previous Quarter and a
yar ago. ; , ,
V The outlook in the Minneapolis
district Indicates betterment in all
business lines that axe 1 below nor
mal or dependent on agriculture.
Abundant crops "; are promised in
the Kansas City district, with agri
cultural i and ; horticultural condi
tions almost perfect. ; Steady? and
conservative increase for - retail
trade v is reported ; In the larger
cities of the Dallas district. .
On the Pacific coast agricultural
prospects are reported exception
ally good, i mercantile lines satis
factory, petroleum and lumber in
dustries depressed,, with indica
tions, however, of improvement in
lumber. . ',
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i. We neirer do evil so thor
oughly aind heartily as when
led to- it by an honest but
perverted; because mistaken,
conscience. Tryon Edwards. ; '
THE LUS1TANIA
T
iHB Lusitania horror is ithe
product of war. It Is what
they must, expect, vwho i de
mand war. !.
: Modern weaponry has brought;
an awful order. Yesterday's hor
ror staggers the earth. . !
; The Titanic was fate. It was
the course of nature. It appalled
the world. I It plunged two hemi
spheres into mourning. "j'
Here is 'another Titanic. The
loss of life is almost the same.
-There "are the same heartrending
scenes, the same scramble for) the
lifeboats the same struggle of men,
women and j children in the water,
the same never-to-be-forgotten and
" measureless! misery of the j en
trapped human atoms. It is mod
ern war. I i j
The world stopped, and stood still
at, the first j news from the Titanic,
r Itystopped and' stood still j yester--day.
It was stunned and staggered.
. It stood breathless and astounded,
" watting s for t the terrible news.! It
Is war. , : ':' ' I :'-H
The kindred on two continents
.clamor for information. They be
siege the newspaper and steamship
offices. The stark faces , of j the
dead loos: up sightless at the j sky
from the bosom of the sea. j An
army of the lost is searched! for
: and' gathered up for their cdffins.
.They bore no arms, wore no mar-
.' tial uniforms. ! They were an army
of peace, .put they are the sac
rifices of war. ; ' 1 j
There are no words to picture
the horror of it all. The masses
.of earth stand aghast before a
hideous actuality, ' and ark dumb
with amazement. If thiseould
happen, what other awful thing
may not happen. Bat such is war,
modern war with modern weaponry
and enginery, as carried on by na
tions of vast achievements in civil
ization. " Itj is the war for which
men are wont to clamor, - i
The world was never in such
' bitterness, j Nothing but an embit
tered and dehumanized mankind
could deliberately accomplish such
a horror. The sacrifice of helpless
women and children, the duplica
tion of the Titanic, not by accident,
but by design, could only be done
1 in a world in which reason is de
throned and ferocity let loose.
England has been struck a ter
rible blow, i But It is possible that
a greater blow has fallen on Ger-
. many in the' minds of the masses
of the earth, .who have not j yet
realized that -When all the world's
aflame with, inodern war nothing!
,1s too awful to be expected. r
OREGON STATESMANSHIP
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EPRESE3NTATIVE OtSON .of
Multnomah ; county . favored
the midnight resolution, but!
says he did not know it had
passed, n He says: , -
I see no reason why the supreme
court cannot ORDER A SPECIFIC
performance: of the land
GRANT CONTRACT, which would be
the best thing- for tbe state. If tlje
land should go. Into the hands of the
government we could kiss It goodbye
for another! 100 years.
For the i court to order "a spe
cific performance of - contract"
would be 4 to : give : the 2,300,000
acre3 of lands back to the railroad.
and -Mr. 6lson says that "would be
the best thing for the state.": '
If that "would be the best thing
for the state" why not also give
the Cascade forest reserve lands
to the railroad? ;-
Why not also rive what Is left
of the school lands to tte railroad?
Why not also give what is - left
of j the University . of Oreson lands
and the Agricultural College lands
to the railroad?- -
Why not also givo to. the rail
road Abert and Summerrlakes and
any other : of the public, domain
inai is lying around loose?. v
Why Is It not equally good to
give all these things to " tbe South'
ern Pacific if it is, as . Mr. Olson
1 says, "the best thing for the state
to give to the' Southern Pacific the
au.uuu.uvo worm or grant lanas
wiich Judge Wolverton declares
under- the : law to ; have been for
feited? - r . "
If Mr. Olson is right, and. if he
conscientiously believes he is right,
it is his duty to demand that the
federal and state governments give
a warranty deed to all public land
to the Southern Pacific and make
that railroad a general steward of
the public welfare.
large part of Latin America, has at-1 to the Southern -Pacific? It could war must believe, that after tbe end' '
tained national manhood with a hardly have been our local states- of the war. .trade will b carried on
sense of its responslbillues. it may s men tnat c Governor Withycombe by its inhabitants with less expend!
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
an able assistant, of the : United
States in resisting foreign : aggres
sion, that this country will be aided
in Its responsibility la" 'maintaining
the Monroe doctrine. ' , '
' When President Wilson! Invited
Argentina, Brazil and Chile to join
in considering the Mexican' situa
tion a long step was taken toward
a better understanding between the
two , Americas. That attempt at
mediation between the : warring
factions resulted in ' nothing so far
as Mexico : was concerned, but it
demonstrated to ; Latin America
that tbfs cou,ntry desires' no dom
inance over its southern neighbors.
It cleared the atmosphere and es
tablished confluence, in' the. good
faith and disinterested . intention
of the American purpose. - -
v Since President, Wilson has all '
along, stood facing our southern
neighbors' not with the sword, hut
with the olive .branch in' his hand,
and because we are at peace with
Mexico instead of at war with Mex
ico, we are ellglbie to a cordiale en
tente with, all the nations 'on this
hemisphere. - For leadership in its
affairs,' we have Qualified, and are
swiftly 'approaching the time.' when
all the Americas will have a mu
tual understanding, a happy rela
tion, reciprocal trade and a com
mon interest. ' , . ' t
One of the most splendid mani
festations f of American statesman
ship .in its upbuild for the .future
on this ; hemisphere is Woodrow
Wilson's - Mexican policy, a policy
of honor and humanism and justice
and peace. - L; "fv' ' -
63IAIiIi CHAKGB
be that South America will become jhsd In mind when he remarked, j ture of effort than if the nation had
an a Vila aecfofoTit n Ilia TTnitpd 1 "Oh m v Mani1a rtarrv I, a naat I 1 "
state." ' . This is sthe day' of restricted and f -K,a, . , , ,
' r , . . . 'w. . . i Many a man 0 gems of thoug-bt are
. ... ."dldicu i auc cLiiu injfl war is ueiux
' A complete .set of autographsof wagred because some men want to
the signers ? of the Declaration ; of , have advantage in trade" over others.
Independence brought almost $10,-' either through lessening, of compara-
OUU . at an auction in New- York tive restrictions of trade or through
by piecemeal - sale. The - highest
price 12875, was paid for the sig
nature of Burton Gwinnett of
Georgia.
Now ' that talking about the
Celilo - canal Is coming to an end,
it is . time to talk about using it.
The canal will have little value
unless it is used. .The government
has done 'Its part; let the people
do theirs. -
AUTO ;' SLAUGHTER
B
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1e
THREE THOUSAND PER
t
HE Portland 0ty commission
nas postponed ior iurtner in
vestigation the purchase of a
$8000 automobile for use of
the commissioners. ' . j
It were better to bury the plan
for all time. The list of official
machines is j already too long. - It
would b mre appropriate to sell
than to Duy. .' -;v.:l- 1
As . president-elect, Thomas ! Jef
ferson declined an official carriage
and rode to the inauguration on a
"saddle horse which stood ' hitched
to a near-by fence while the chief
magistrate .was sworn in. -.
Jefferson's' name is. immortal.
Tlie Ideals of simplicity went hand
In -' band with ideals of human
righta then j and they run along the
same lines j still." If our, officials
- ride less In luxurious equipage,
"they will know more about the In
conveniences with which the aver
age man locomotes. 1 ;
Better still, they will ; be con
ducting' the public business In a
manner ; which the average man
can better lafford to pay for, ! and
, there is no jnaore creditable way for
public business to.be conducted.
The best; thing to do withj the
$3000 official automobile, is to
forget it. .
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THE 1 BUSINESS OUTLOOK
f- - T "N::.;
GENERAL improvement in busi
ness conditions, with returned
confidence, . has been i an
, ..nounced by the federal re
serve board. The announcement
was based on reports of agents In
the twelve Ireserve districts.
From the NewTorkj district,
general improvement, wlthM 0p-'
timism in New York city, was re
ported. Business directly affected
by the war has materially im
proved in the Boston district,' and
: Philadelphia : reported "some im
provement n the last few months,
although conditions are below nor
mal." -
General business conditions In
the s Cleveland district - have ; im-
NCE more Italy is reported
on the verge of war. It is
possible that there will be
another long battle front in
great world struggle. It
would stretch from a point where
Italy, Austria and Switzerland
meet : along the Italian border to
the rocks of Montenegro. Across
the gulf of Venice lies the rich
Austrian province of Istria. whose
olives, figs and grapes are culti
vated by a people 40 per cent of
whom are Serbo-Croat3 and 34 per
cent Italians.
j In its early history Istria was a
famous resort for pirates who were
brought under subjugation by the
Romans. ; .
;From the late middle ages until
tbe extinction of the Venetian em
pire in 1797, Venice ruled the
greater part of the peninsula, while
o41y the northeastern portion be
longed to Austria. Venetian pos
session is f the history of Italy's
present claim to the province which
isian Austrian crown land.
; Should Austria, and Italy go to
war the most interesting point on
the Adriatic Will be Pola. the chief
naval station of the dual monarchy.
It is one of the finest harbors' of
Europe and is almost landlocked.
Venice and Genoa fought for its
possession, as it is the key to the
Adriatic - sea.- Destroyed by : the
Genoese In 1379, it continued tin
der the sovereignty of Venice until
1797, when it fell to Austria upon
the dismemberment of the Venetian
Btate. ;
' Besides ,its preeminence as a
naval station; Pola has a consider
able commerce. Its exports consist
of fish, timber and the quartz sand
which is used In the - manufacture
of Venetian glass.
A WELCOME MOVEMENT
B
RAZIL'S minister of . foreign
arrairs will visit the capitals
of Argentina, Chile and Uru
guay., i He will make official
calls t courtesy; but it is be
lieved bis visits will mark the be
ginning of an .effort to establish a
policy of . pan-Americanism by
which South. American republics
win a,ct . together In all. matters
pertaining to South American af
fairs. ;" -
Officials at Washington say thjs
new movement should be welcomed
by all thinking citizens of the
United. States, it is a. sign that a
LAME j for the two auto kill
ings? on the way to the auto
races, is placed by a coroner's
jury on the driver of the rac
ing car. J : ; - " 'i . .
,He Is only partly to blame. All
the city shares In the guilt,; You
and your neighbor and your neigh
bor's neighbor are partly blamable.
"; Part of the . fafilt lies in the
American way. 'The continent was
settled in a pioneer spirit that de
fied danger and tempted fate. The
republic Was created out of a man
hood that had contempt alike for
precedent? and for peril. Without
that, spirit, the Declaration of , Inde
pendence might never have been
promulgated, , the ., republic never
have- been launched. ' It is the
Spirit of taking a chance, the
proneness to invite a hazard. ,
.But it is time for the bent to
be checked. It is no fit trait to
apply , to ; automobiling. I A touring
car has too many of the qualities
of a cannon ball or : a submarine.
It can kill so easily that . American
contempt j for ? peril runs it amuck
and peoples the "cemeteries.4 "
We contribute to the killings by
remaining lethargic in the face of
such a periL We contribute to
the fatalities by permitting traffic
regulations to go unenforced. We
help-make the new graves by gen
erallr acquiescing in things as they
are, because It is somebody else's
child or parent or kinsman that Is
killed. ' " :
Tho driver of the racing machine
NO HOPE FOR PEACE
TILL COMMERCE FREE
y A B. du Pont in the Ground Hog.
a POOR, misguided man . killed a
pampered, j hereditary v crown
T. prince and his wife and' thereby
ignited a fuse, which, in burning, baa
caused the explosion of thousands Of
tons of ammunition, killing- and maim
ing' hundreds of thousands of-, men;
and the fuse still burns, and its burn
ing1 may ultimately cause the destruction-
of ; the lives of hundreds ' of
thousands of jother men. ' Nay! '- It
will cause the - destruction ' of '-the
lives of more ,than a t million men,
women and children. :.
Not one f these people who have
been killed or; who are going to be
killed, has desired hat any one of
his fellow men be killed.
What haa caused and Is -r causing
this destruction' of life? The fuse!
Why does not some one extinguish or
destroy it? Is it not because the ma
jority of men who live In the coun
tries now at War fear the ! burning of
the fuse less: than they fear Its ex
tinguishment? Why was the fuse con
structed and why Is It being extended?
Certainly it Is not for the purpose of j
killing t men, women and children. It :
must' be for some other ' purpose--!
some purpose that the majority of
men . believe will result in so great j
a benefit to them that they are will
ing- t" face the risk to their lives that
Is entailed by the construction and
the maintaining- of the fuse and all
the war . equipment connected there
with:" V -
There can be only one reason that
can justify men to carry on war, and
it Is that they believe : by meant of
it. life andy happiness in : the future
can be sustained by a lessening- ex-J
pendlture qt effort.. It Is, therefore,
pertipent . to Inquire what, efforts are
required of men to sustain life and
happiness, and whether ' there is not a
better . way. to permit these efforts
to be applied than through the ter
rible -i destruction of life and happiness
that Is occurring in Kurope.
- Life of man. is and always will be
sustained by the consumption of the
product jt the application of labor to
materials." directed fby. Intelligence;
and his happiness is wholly dependent
upon the extent that the gratification
of bis physical and mental appetites
exceeds , the burden to his body and
mind in obtaining the cause of the
gratification. - -
comparative advantage In the foster
ing of trade. .
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. - In other words, the people of each
nation at war are fighting for the
purpose of making the people of other
nations, to ' a greater or less extent,
trade slaves, and to obtain for them
selves the loot that they expect will
result, from this trade slavery.'
We are traveling upon the road to
freedom," fighting as we go. We first
fought to oljtain loot or prevent loot
ing'. We next fought" to obtain chat
tel slaves -or prevent chattel slavery.
Now ; we v' fight jf-td 'obtain advantage
or to abolish advantage In trade. .
When we fought for loot it was for
forced trade.
When we fought for slaves it was
not the men we wanted, but the power
to i force them , to trade tho . product
of their future labor.,
Now Europe Is fighting that men In
some countries - may have advantage
over men In other countries in future
trade, sp still the fight is for forced
"trade.
Men cannot trade freely so long
as; taxes are' collected upon the lives
of individuals' (poll tax) and upon
that part of the value of the product
of labor which is caused by the in
dividual performing the labor, j
Nor can men trade freely so long
as any of them possess the power to
collect, through trading of the product
of their labor, any value not created
by that labor..
. Wars and rebellions will continue' to
occur until trade is free and in order
for trade to be free, society must col
lect and use for social purposes, all
of the values created by it. '
Free man cannot exist until com
merce Is' free." '
naste.
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The average girl loves to. figure. In
an 'engagement.
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Tes, Aimee, divorce prolongs life
for many a poor lawyer.
. But the dove of . peace looks ' mors
like a bluebird this spring. .
The man who marriea' for money
never gets through hearing about It. -
Many a man who takes hfmself seri
ously is considered a jqlke by others. -
She is a wise girl who smilas at a
compliment-r-then pioda . to forget
i
The more flattery a man hands hrt
wife -the less pin money he will have
to dijr up.
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Probably a man never fully realizes
bow golden silence Is until he tries
to buy somo of it. -v i
A girl's Idea of a hopeless idiot is a
younar man who doesn't kiss her when
he haa an opportunity.
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Urease spots may : bo quickly 1 re
moved from clothing with the aid of
a small pair of scissors.
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It's a good thins for a man's peace
cf mind that - he doesn't know what
other people know about him.
But it doesn't matter If a pretty girl
isn't clever, for at least nine men out
of ten will neverknow the difference.
To hear the old boys tell it, thev
worked from, about 4 fn the morning
until 10 at night, and then studied un
til bedtime.
''-r-;.i-V'!.r:;rv.A-?jK?
When a young and Inexperienced
man i about to marry, his - father
should call him off and tell him never
to be stubborn and try ; to have his
own way about anytning.
OREGON SIDELIGUTS
The Beaverton board of trade has
merged with the - Commercial club,
under the ' .name of the Beaverton
Chamber of Commerce. t
"Salem," says tho Journal, 1 doing
?uite a respectable amount of building
or a quiet year. In fact, some of the
past good business years have not seen
so much activity in this respect."
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Speaking anticlpatively, last Wed
nesdays the .Eugene Regjater said:
"The Columbia will know ' what real
water Is like when that bottle of spark
ling McKenzie river water la broken
intO IC : .
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Canby Herald ; "The whole world
knows the Canby rose." IXe3 it? Not
quite. But a roue show, or a rose fes
tival. Is one thing Canbv could have
I next year without much effort or
expense. .. .
The ,dat for the. second -annual
gathering of tbe Baker County Pioneer
association ar Half way has been fixed
for August 14. The meeting thls year.
It Is promised, will be on a broader
scale . than -ever and invitations to
many 1 prominent men of the state to
attend have been sent out,
Pendleton Fast Oregonian: Council
man D. D. Phelps today received a
letter that indicates the fame of his
dog that rides upon the hood of his
auto. The latter was from a brass
manufacturing firm at Cleveland. Ohio.
and was addressed to Pendleton, Or J
jusi aoove me name 01 uie town was
pasted a picture of -the Phelp. dog,
taken while standing on the auto hood
with a little saddle on his back.
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Of the recent spelling . contest at
Hillsboro, the Argus says:; "The move
ment for better spelling has had its
' ; fiaaxY bats-
8y Tnd Lockltj. Spaoial Staff Writar
! - - - Tka JourmaJ. '
effect, and it was gratifying to eea
youngsters come 22 to 25 miles to ex
hibit their prowess. This branch of
study has" been neglected for years,
but if present effort in Washington
county is a criterion, we shall soon
have a race of spellers equal to the
days the three 'K's' were In vogue."
I BY-PRODUCTS OF CO-OPERATIVE PLANS
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4-
A FEW SMILES
"Hello, Snlggs! Hear you've got a
fine reel this weokJ"- J.
"That's what.'.' de
clared the proprietor
of the Nickelodeon.
"It's so good that
speculators have got
ten hold of my tick
ets are are selling
them for 7 cents " on
the sidewalk right
now." Puck.
Therefore, the problem of man Is to ! asked William
.William, like many another man be
fore him, had joined the army by way
of showing his devotion to his country.
He had not yet
learned the meaning;
of strict discipline,
and although he
wore the uniform of
his regiment, he fan
cied th?t he .was Just
as much his own
master in that as he
was in civilian
clothes.
When 'lights out" sounded he In
sisted on his comrades leaving the
light burning.
"Now, then." nut that Urht
shouted an officer on inspection
"Hm." retorted Wilful William.
And pray who are you?';
"I'm tbe officer of the day."
Then what the ' dickens are you
prowling about In the night time for''
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1 III aa
By John M. Oskison. v
Cooperative buying clubs : are grow
ing in number among groups of work
ers. It is a sensible way to make the
dollar reach farther; ,cooperative buy
ing Is a big factor of thrift.
In a certain railroad' shop the buy
ing s club recently took stock of its
accomplishments, and. this showing
was revealed: . .' -V; ' ; '; ,
Cost of " living- for all was reduced;
15 members have begun to buy homes;
11 members are paying for stock in
building . and loan - associations; 22
members have opened accounts in sav
ings banks; practically all members
follow the rule to pay a yob go,, live
within your Income, and try to plan
ahead. ' ' - : -
In this club the members found
themselves obliged to get over one
fear the fear of being thought stingy.
They dreaded hearing the epithet of
"piker." "tightwad." "plncher" applied
to themselves, and for a time It wasn't
considered good form to talk about
saving anything out of the week's ijay.
The club's primary purpose was to
buy cheaper not -1 save. But after
the minds of the members had run on
economical buying for a time. It wan
a short step to discussion of methods
of saving and-Ways of Investing what
was saved. . '-"'
The time has. come, in this cooper
ative club, as it has in many other cir
cles, 'when two or more men in com
pany may with propriety pass a saloon
without some one proposing to go in
and have a drink, there Is no par
ticular discussion of drinking, and no
member is less cordially, received If
he does drink; but the men are find
ing out that their money can buy
more satisfaction than oornes with
drink." - ' :. '
So sobrietyi better' health and a
greater content come - as by-products
to the cooperative buying club. It
Is a matter of course that employers
are backing such clubs the . worker
whp begins to study the buying; power
of money wisely used 'la the most
valuable worker.
Pulling together Is a mighty stim
ulus to right thrift practice..
is blamed bv tbe nornnar's rina ;a: way. to-satisry.as nearly as
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with killing two. Bufwe had our
share, and by our attitude are en
couraging still other drivers to kill
two more, and. two more; and two
more, and ;
WOE THE POOR ) JUROR
A
CASE was recently tried in
the : California court of ap
peals, wbere the trial Judge's
instructions to the Jury com
prised "; 100 j printed pages. -
An Oregon Judge last year in
submitting S a personal in J ury case
took two and a half hours to tell
the Jury what the law . applicable
to the case was. Even 12 lawyers,
gathered at random from their of
fices and (called to the jury box.
could ; no 'make heads : or tails of
such voluminous instructions. "
What, then, can be expected of
the . butcher, i the ; baker and the
candlestick -maker, when called to
perform this ; particular phase of
citizenship.! The wonder Is that the
jury system does so welL . ,
General - Gorgas declares that
General Goethals Interfered1 "with
the "work of sanitarians on the
canal zone, thus preventing the ex
tinction of diseases characteristic
of the tropics. Perhaps he did.
bu. it is unforunate that J at this
lat i date the opportunity for a con
troversy beween two such men as
Goethals s and . Gorgas - should be
found. . " . .
possible, his 5 appetites with the ex
penditure of the Jeast possible effort.
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Human experience has proved that
the least effort is required of men
towards satisfying- . their appetites
when the labor; of ' some is applied
to produce one kind of product and
of others to produce other kinds, and
these products are exchanged.
How then, is it possible .that' men
will cause the destruction of po
tential labor and-imaterials by war?
Is it for the reason that their appe
tites are satisfied? No!
Is it for the reason that there Is
not material enough npon.or In the
earth to' which potential labor , can
be applied In order to create prod
ucts that would tend to satisfy their.
appetes? NoT :
Therefore, it must be that man has
not enough Intelligence, or does not ;
Use It sufficiently.
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It
was a concert Th .ininn.
pianist wa8 embarked upon an am
bitious classical program. The alnjrle
individual n r e a nt
who had paid f oi his I w-'
ticket turned .tdhis
right hand neighbor,
obviously by his
boaed and superior
air a person whose
business it was to
attend concerts a
musical critic. "Beg
pardon," said the Individ na.1, "but Isn't
that something of Chopin's that last
number T'" "It is," replied the critic
morosely, "when somebody els plays , Will he kindly permit me to note an
paid the unemployed to work on the
roads? .. It . seems to me we would hav9
better roads to that amount, and
would not interfere with men who ara
supporting- families with their labor at
established wood yards. '
The'-loss' on city wood is not all in
yet. There are shrinkage, insurance,
rehandling and delivery to . contend
with.'-- '.
, Considerable has been said lately
about the price of wood. Some of us
would like to know how much cheapeT
the city covernment is being run now
than formerly. -
It seems to me the city 'wood bust
ness Is something like this: Tbe tax
payers cough up the money. The
council takes said money, pays labor
off with 5 cent meal tickets, "starts
city wood yard, l throws men out of
employment who have been waking
their living working at established
wood yards and have families, to sup
port, loses more than S10.000 or tax
payers' money, puts a lot of bum
wood on the market, and boast: about
how cheap wood is on account of tb
city wood. -.. . . - -. ; i . ',
Let taxpayers stop a momett and
see how cheap it is when they come
to pay their taxes. -
C. R. ATL.S WORTH.
The Duty of Those Naturalized.
Oregon City, Or., May 4. To the
Editor of The Journal Tour McMinn
ville correspondent, George B. ! Todd,
labors under the delusion that "every
one Of the 14,000,009 German citizens
of the United States" agrees with him.
it.'
Letters From the People
Commanicatlona aent to He Journal for
publication in tbia department should be writ
ten on only one aid of the paper, should not
exceed 800 words in length and most ba ae-
comp&niea dj tne same and address of tbe
sender. If the writer does not desire to bare
tbe nam published, he sbbnld so state.)
"Discussion' Is the greatest of aU reformers.
It rationaUzes ererything it toucbe. It rob
principles of all false sanctity and throws them
back on their reasonableness. If tber have no
Dr. W. J. MaVo, noted surgeon
of Rochester, Minn. tells men that
belts .cause 'appendicitis and that
suspenders are physiologically pref
erable. - Thus the man - who has
stuck to galluses even when he had
to . discard :. coat and vest, , is vin
dicated. ' 1 ? - . - ; . ' -
Is it not absurd that almost all of I reasonableness, it ruthlessly crushes tbem out
or existence ana -sets op its own conclusions
It was explained that because
Progressives and -Republicans
fused," . . Mayor Thompson - was
elected In Chicago. Now he refuses
to recognise tho Progressives - for
important appointments, and the
people who thought they had fused
find themselves re-fused. f
Representative Olson of Multno
mah says that if the land grant
suit were so decided that the grant
lands would tro to, the Southern Pa
cific, "it. would be th& best thing
for the state." Why, then, Would
it not be . "the best .thing for the
state" to give all the public lands
the Inhabitants of Kurope are divided
Into twov' great factions, both striving:
to .- tjielr .utmost ' to - destroy not onVy
the products of labor that they could
exchange, but to destroyjlife (poten
tial; labor), i the product use of which
coald .be I exchanged and thereby also
help- satisfy the appetites of the' con
tenders? : -
There can be only one explanation
for' this folly, and It is that the con
tenders believe that if. they had not
started, the war, or if they : now stop
it, they would have less 'chance of
having- their appetites satisfied than
by the war continuing1
Manifestly there can be only two
., . . . i , - '
of the nations now at war' to engage
In It and these are -that each nation
believed either that it would gain ad
vantage to its . inhabitants at the ex
pense, of the inhabitants of other na
tions, or t that an existing1 advantage
that its Inhabitants enjoyed : would
be taken rrom them.
- - '
What is it that the inhabitants of
on country want that belongs to tbe
inhabitants of another country?
It is not the possession of persons.
The day of chattel slavery has passed.
It is not the possession of the prod
uct of labor or the land. The day
of piracy Is over. It can only be the
right to trade, witb thej inhabitants
of other countries, by the expenditure
of.;-1 effort, for ; tho possession of
tho products .. of labor ' and the privi
lege of using land. - "
Therefore, , each ot the nations at,
to their stead." Woodrow Wilson.
The City and the Wood Yards.
Portland, May 7.To the Editor of
The Journal "I noticed " in" your issue
of "All Fools day" that the city-commissioners
are making ararngements
to go Into the wood businessbecause
the "fool" dealers refuse to pay them
more for their wood than It is worth.
In this: same artlclo It saysfAt cer
tain times this wood sells for as much
as 6 a cord." v But It does not' say
the 8 wood is that whlch has been
hauled out of the woods and piled in
order that Itdry. for winter and spring,
when the days are short and weather
stormy. " -
An article in your issue of May 3 is
misleading, 'as it says: .. "The price of
first class ' cordwood . formerly ranged
from 15.50 to $6. 50. ' Todav the- crice
1is 14.50 a cord." It does not say that
tnat mgner, prices, were xor ary wood
in winter,; when dry wstod was scarce.
weather stormy and mud hub deep In.
the country,-where It was loaded on
cars. ; v . - -. ' .' -' i r-'- "
Aecbrdlngjtto an article to your Issue
of May 4, it seems the commissioners
think the wood dealers are fighting
the city" Jn, this business. The wood
dealers are not fighting the city. That
would be foolish. .They aould make a
fair profit selling at prices the city
would have to sell' for to break- even.
A private concern would "last quick"
If Its business were - handle . no
better than the business has been for
th city. -' . "
In your issu of May 6, prices of
cutting, etc., are given, which show
plainly to anyone that knows anything
about the wood business that the au
thorities In charge of .,thar city's, .wood -
deal knew -very little about th bUsi- j
ness tnwhich "they were.'squanderlng
the 'taxpayers' 'money. .'.!v'-;'f-":
Would it not have been much better V
If part of the money lost in thus wood I
business (say $10,009 of lO - had been J at
exception, and I am. very far from
being the only one. by some hundreds
cf thousands. : When 1 took out my
naturalization papers I declared on
oath that 'I would support the consti
tution of the United States,- and did
absolutely and entirely renounce and
abjure forever all alleglence and
fidelity to every foreign prince, xoten
tate. - state or sovereignty whatso
ever," and in addition I furthermore
swore that I "was . attached to the
principles of the "-constitution of the
United States and well disposed to the
good order and happiness -of the
same." "Thereupon the court ad
mitted me, to become a. citizen of the
United States,' t not as a .German or
any other kind of citizen.
. If George B. Todd has done the
same, he is guilty now of forswearing
that - allegiance and , fidelity."; If he
has not. It displays -someThing more
than mere, effrontery to criticize the
overwhelming majority of Us, who do
not regard our pledge as a mere ' scrap
of paper," but as a solemn declaration
that it was our "bona ride intention,
as our oath puts It, to "faithfully
abide by and perform the same.
Woodrow - Wilson : Is the constitu
tional guardian and interpreter of the
RAPID THINNING OF
; UNEMPLOYED RANKS
Newsfork..May 1 An index to"
tho ; rapid .decrease- of unemploy-
y ment in this city was given tc
uay i-iiv rp:urua ui uie iittrxijr
Organization society.- In Febru-
i ary the United States department
of labor and the city autnorities
found" about.; 400.000 unemployed
in New York. The society was t
then rearing for 1286 families
whose heads were jobless and 217
families whose earnings were In
sufficient. - .
; In March ''applications for help
because - of unemployment de
creased 26 per cent.
The April figures are expected
to show a great drop. They may
show , that unemployment has de
creased 60 per cent , over March.
This would Indicate -that the
400,000 unemployed here of last
February dropped to about 800,000 1
m .Biarci) ana decreased - to per
haps as few as 150,000 in the
month Just ended. - ;-
constitution of the Unltd States, and
it is the solemn duty of every citizen
of the United States , to uphold his
hands during the. fearful ordeal which
the European war has imposed upon
him. In such-a .crisis as is threaten
ing our beloved country, to listen to
the "call of the blood." or th wild
ebullitions of chauvinism is Inexcus
able, pernicious In tbe extreme, and to
b condemned. Only tho most skillful
hand on our helm can save our "ehlr
of state" from going on the rocks.
WILHELM q. SCHULTZEV
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A Stranger's Inquiry'.
Portland, May 5. To the Editor of
The, Journal Is my experience differ
ent, - or are there others? A few
months ago I came to the coast for
climate, and so far am well pleased,
enjoying the very, best of health; but
now is a man, nearly o, to get ac
quainted with i men congenial, com
panionable fellows Who are free to
spend an afternoon or evening In read
ing or doing the thing which would be
of interest to one another? I am not
la business, owing to the depression,
nor in club nor church activities. I
meet men. . Yes, but rio to become
well acquainted. I have never had an
invitation: to join a club or to mix in
in any
way
think,'
l Captain J, T, Apperson of ForkpUce,
near Oregon City, is one of, the few
surviving Portlanders who went to th
California gold mines in 1849. Forty
niners are getting few and far between
nowadays. Many of the Oregonians
were really forty-elghtera. as they :
left In the fall" of 1S48 for the gold!
fields. One of the best equipped par
ties to go to California consisted of
over 160 men, who left Oregon City
lau in the fall of 1848. Peter Burnett
was. elected captain and Tom 'McKay
was chosen as guide.
They took 60 Wagons and plenty of
strong young oxen, as they know they
would have to mke the road aj they
went and would need Plenty of motive
power. By Christmas. 1848," most of
t-he men - wUo could Kt away from
Portland were gone. Early next spring
saw the departure of most of tjioaa
who could not get away the preceding:
fall. Among hundreds of well known
Oregon ians the following who went
from Portland and other Willamette
valley points to California are best
known: . j
A. I Lovejoy and F. W. Tettygrove,
th founders of Portland: Peter Hur
nett, who became California's first
governor; Joel Palmer, later Indian
commissioner for Oregon: Walter Ujin.s
telth. the founder of: Albai.y: J. W.j
Nesmlth, later to becoma Orenon's1
United States senator; Kalph - Wilcox,!
Portland's first BohooJ teacher; VV. II.
Gray, pioneer nilssloinary and later
pioneer riverman. historian and shho-
elate of Whitman: M. M. McOarver,
Robert Henderson, William Cari-enter,
Cy Mulkey, James McHrlfle, Barton
Iee W. W. BrlstowJ W. L. Adams, .
Chris Taylor, lloracej Burnett, John
R. Itoss, P. H. Cornwall, A. A. Skinner.
Fred Ramsey, Will I Dement, Peter
Crawford. William FNlows. J, Mn
theny, Jeorge Gay. T. ill. Hill, William
Pyrd nnd John, Ellslia and Wtlltsm
Hydi Jr.; Stephen Ktatts, lien Wom,
John Inyai-d, Hen Burcli, William H.
Itector, Hamilton i tow Campbell,
Robert Newell, William Fhaw, Colum
bia Li. Pool. W. l. Cnnfleld. Milton
Apperson and Rtchurdj Johnson.
- Captain Apperson stayed, in Cali
fornia from the spring of 1849 till tin
summer of 1855. "Conditions such aa
existed 60 years ago cAu never return,"
said Captain Apperson, as we talked
of -his experiences In Oregon and . Cali
fornia in the forties.) ,'I was a boy
among boys and youig men- in Cali
fornia. I was only 21 when I 'returned
to Oregon, after spending flv years
there. I was more of less foot-loose,
lor my father- died
.crossing the plains in
married Robert Moorni
December 18, 1851, so from the time
I was 15 I was thrown on rr.y own
resources. ' My stepfather, P.obert
Moore, was quite an old man, having
been married the first tlm in 1805,
nearly 60 years before he married my
mother. He died at j Linn City, Just
across from Oregon City, in 1837, while
my 'mother died at the age of 49 at
Linn City In 1859.
' "A young fellow named Llnd ay and
I came up from California together.
We each had our saddle horse, and we
had one packhorse toi carry our. cook
ing outfit and blankets. . A small
amount of flour, 'salt, sugar, coffee
and , bacon would enable a pe-sori to
go on a long trip', for in those days
you lived by your gun. We could, get
a deer almost always by going a 10
minute walk back frpm th trail.
"I settled in Linn; City, where T
worked as a carpenter on the mill of
Holmes, Pendleton & Abernathy. For
the next-year or so $ had charge of
tlxeir wheat warehouse. In 1858 I
bought stock in the Rival, omned by
Dement Brothers, and I became her
captain. The Rival was built at Ore
gon City by Captain George Pease, and
I . bought out his interest. We ran
from Qregon City to Portland, with
occasional trips to Vancouver. We
carried butter and eggs, apples, bacon.
chickens, bales of furs,' wheat and
general, merchandise, as well as pas
sengers. Later, when the RIvfI was
bought by the Peoplefs .Transportation
company. Captain K. W. Baughman
was her master. j
"I bought an interest in the Clinton
and the Union. I ran from Caiiemah
to Dayton and Lafayette, and wl.tn tlis
water was high as far up the Yamhill
as McMlnnviHe. .
"The Oregon Steamj Navigation com
pany had things their! own way till the
! People's Transportation company came
while We were
1847. My mother
at Linn City on
LW.a?' There 18 n TnnJnK nto the field. David McCulIy and
that. I can see, except "jusf don't hll! brother Asa had I come across the
,'? and of course I do not ask for I , ar. uJa
, . . . l "BMio UVa HSIla BhChCU BlVIO
n inviiauon, , ,-.. - ; , Harrigburg. Their freight had to
I have my apartment In an apart- be hauled by wagonj from Albany or
down town to the Theatre to th3ihav u come by water. The Enter-
" , orlse could: an as : far as Harrlahtira-.
and on other little side trips- Now we
have the Y, M, C. A. for young men, a
fine institution, but why not a place
for- older' men, where we can become j
acquainted ana cuunme inai ac-
cualntance of the man who appeals to
us. Now I believe there are many men
in Portland who live alone who would
enjoy congenial companionship but
who- are not acquainted , and do not
know just how to bring about the ac
quaintance of the people whom they
would like to know. In a strange city.
What is the suggestion?
A STRANGER IN A STRANGE CITY.
Our Mother Oregon
j " ' By VV. t. Lyman.
Where is the land of rivers and foun-
i tains.
Of deep-shadowed valley and sky-scal
ing mountains f .
'Tis Oregon, our Oregon.
Where is the home of; the apple and
: rose, -Where
the wild currant breathes and
tne nazet-nut grower .
'Tis Ortgon, sweet Oregon.
Where are the crags whence tbe gla
ciers flow.
And-the forests of fir where the south
winds blow? -
Oregon, grand Oregon. '
Where sleep the old heroes who liberty
.. sought. ' ' . . .i- -
And where live tho free sons whonl
they liberty taught7
In Oregon, free Oregon.
What is the lure of this far western
. land. '-.
When she beckons to all with her wel
coming nana? -It
is the hand of Oregon.
Oh, Oregon, blest Oregon,
Dear mother of the "heart.
At touch of tnee all troubles flee
, And tears of gladness start.
Take thou thy . children, to ' thy
breast, .
True Keeper of our ways;
And. let thy starry eyes still shine
On all our coming days, ,
Our Mother Oregon.
but refused to do soj so the MoCully
bought an interest lit the James Clin
ton, and their goods' thereafter cam
all the wav by water. Finally th,v
(organized a steamboat company called
the People's Transportation company,
which consisted of David and Asa Mc
CulIy, E.N. Cooke, Captain E. W.
Baughman, Stephen Coffin, J. D. Biles
and S. T. Church. . To secure the busi
ness of all the merchants along the
river, they took in 60 or more of them
as stockholders. They - bought the
James Clinton, the Relief and the En
terprise. They invaded the Columbia
river, operating the E. D Baker, the
Iris and the Klyus. The arrogant O.
S. N, Co., which had ignored them,
finally had to come to terms and agree
to take all their boats off the Willam
ette if the P. T. Co. would withdraw
from the Columbia. The O. S. N. Co.,
turned over the Onward, Rival and
Surprise on the Willamette and 810,000
In exchange for the Iris and Klyus and
the promise of the P. T. Co. to tay off
the Columbia.
"The P. T. Co. built the canal at
Oregon City and soon became a power
ful and profitable organization. Cap
tain Joseph Kellogg joined the P. T.
Co., bringing his steamer Senator In
with him. Presently the Willamette
Locks tk. Transportation Co. built the
locks at Oregon City, and built tho
Willamette Chief, the Governor Orover
and the Beaver, and there-was a. lively
rate war. The P, T. Co. sold out to
Ben Holladay, I worked for HMlad.iy
for some time, but he was very arbi
trary and would brook no opposition
or allow anyone else to have any oJ-w
ion. so lrt 1872 I retired from th
river." -
In Onr Set. rs
. From the Philadelphia Ledger
She sighed audibly. . . , , I ;
"I'm terribly discouraged," she re
plied to our questioning eyebrows.
Politely, as is our wont, wo sent a
telepathic .query.
I can't, . she explained, "make fa
ther stop calling. dinner 'supper."
J I - inus do tne sorrows of. our mun
I dane sphere weigh heavily upon the
ju ' select. . . ... '
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