4 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1915. THE JOURNAL ' All I NtBiBNUiCNT fvKWSPAPgtt C 8. JACKiON Puhllher fablUhed ttwrj granitic (eicept BoodnTi sna , rrr auuaiif njorniug at Tne Journal Bulla Int. Broadwgy and if.mttlll eta.. Portland. Or, terl at tne uotnrnca at Portland. Or., toe trawHolaalun Uirougii Ue maila u eecond rlaaa matter. TKUtrttOKK Mala TIT; Horn. A-05f. All .departments reached tj the number. Tail ma operator wnt jeprtaut yog waai, rOKION ADVEETiai.NO ttEPRESKNTATI VB eeJ tola KeatBor .. Branewtc Bldf.. 226 rifth Ave, New fork; 12X8 Peoute'a Una Btily.. Chicago. . Subscription terma ir mall or to any ad fxaaa lu itia United Mtaii or alexlcot DAILY One year $3.00 On month I -BO BUND A I Om ratr $x.bO 1 On ornate I -33 DAILY AND SUNDAY On Tear fT.SO 1 One month I -3 America asks nothing for her self but what she has a right to auk for humanity itself. ivoonnow wtlson. Be not diverted from your duty by any Idle reflections the nilly world mity make up on you, for their censures are not In your power and should not be at all your concern. Kptctocus. DISCREDITKI) ORKGOX THE resolutions of the grant land couJercnco contain no request that Congress dedi cate the excess of value over the railroad's $.0 per acre In the lands to the building up of an Irreducible school fnnd in Oregon. They voice no request that the excess over the railroad's $2.50 per acre or any part of it go to the benefit of reclamation in Ore gon. They voice no request that the excess over the railroad's $2..".0 per acre or any part of it go to build ing good roads in Oregon. The gentlemen who controlled th conference manifested no con cern in such trivial things as lrre dllcjblo school funds, reclamation Sn.a good road. They had higher Jionghts, such, for instance, as the pecuniary welfare of the railroad Cud possible fine picking for tim ber syndicates and forest barons. The beat opportunity Oregon ill ever have to build ap a school flind has been thrown away. Con-ip-ess would never entrust (he ad ministration of lands for schocjl Jjurposes to a state that paRSes such Absolutions as those adopted at fiUlem. The resolutions are them fcJt'lveH prima facto evidence that the federal government could not safe ty entrust public lands to, a state oontrolled as Oregon is now con trolled. I An effect that the resolutions will have will he a warning to Congress to be on Its guard against the state of Oregon for the present. The "kept" agents and Other manipulators of the confer ence may be able to fool unalert delegates at Salem but they can not fool the Congiess at Wash ington. The resolution? protest against forest reserves. More than any thing else, the characte- of the resolutions is likely to cause Con gress to be more rtri-t and guard ed in applying the reserve policy. They so discredit the state by play In against the people and for the failroad and timber interests that tt would not be at all surprising If Congress does put some of the grant lands in the forest reserves. Aside from their warning as to Wie present status in Oregon, tie iesolutlons will be wholly without fffect on Congress. I. N. Day and lis crowd can slip "midnight reso fitions" through the legislature a&d ram "midnight resolutions" through a grant land conference, tut they cannot run the present tjrogrosslvo Congress. .They can play horse with Ore gon, but not with the nation. WITHOUT VISION MANY centuries ago King Sol onion said, "Where there is no vision the people perish." j These were perhaps the Wisest words of a very wise man. Failure to relate the fruits of pres ent acts to the woe of the' future accounts for war and the destruc tion of nations. Failure to sec portunity and! to act upon it ac- ounts ror tne decline of cities. The ancient epigram is a slgn sfr of warning along the great tghway of progress. Last week ii appeared in a good place, at the fad of the little publication cir ijlated by the Chamber of Corn- rerca among its members. It is lesson that Portland should $irn. j If we have vision no definite jjejrvlce will remain unperformed 0 advance the interests of the (owns and the country in the wide tea tributary to Portland. Jlf We have vision the Influence Portland will be strongly used rt securing to the mouth of the 'blumbia river railroad terminal ites that are on a parity with he Tates enjoyed by Puget sound. tlf 'we have vision the powers of this clt j definitely be directed In making the world know better ! remnant of the ungobbled timber the facts of our matchless re-. lands. The battle ahead is one sources in agriculture and scenery. I of the biggest that has ever been If we have vision the organiza-! fought in this state, and the peo tion to Dromote transportation on pie stand to lose, as they have al- the Columbia, the development of hydroelectric energy and the revi lamation of lands, will devote itself '. to constant rather than intermit-1 tent effort. If we have vision Portland will make her interests one with the broader concerns of the Columbia baBin and the Northwest. JOBS States. He wants them saved from is- o technical and intricate that the A COMMITTEE of the Chamber the horrors of a Christians' war average man in the street is hardly of Commerce has discovered and Turkish massacres. . to blame for being perplexed aa to that "employment in Port-; jcjr Morgenthau's plan may be Just what the controversy means, land is as chaotic as charity," impractical; the Armenians might ! Yet the questions at issue, in the and that there is no concert of ef-' not want to come to America, and J conference between the European fort or interchange of information ( this country might not want them, j commission and our own bankers, are between employment bureaus of But the suggestion calls attention J at bottom simple enough, charitable organizations where the to brutalities being practiced on a . 2 needy apply first for work and I defenseless people that almost beg-j The first source of perplexity to then for clothing, food and money. : gar daecription. It Is said the ! many readers of the news is the The recommendation of the com- Turks intend to exterminate the , question, why abnormal rates of ex mittee is that all charitable or-! Armenians and then turn their at- change on London and Paris could ganizations turn over the giving or securing of eraploynjent to the Jews. There must be foundation municipal free employment bureau, for these reports, else the Ameri when reorganized. can ambassador would not propose The word "reorganized" has a the expenditure of American mil significant relation to the recom- lions in rescue work, mendation. It is conceded that 1 It jg gai(1 that Turkey has re under the present method the mu- ieaSej 30.OOO Mohammedan crimi- niclpal free employment bureau najs from the jails and formed ' pedient, the abnormally iar.ee amount is not an important factor in em- them into bands under the super-' ot drafts on London for purh pay ployment and fails in the service vj?jon ef military authorities, j ments would be to that extent re it should render. These bands are sent out to pit-! ducod. The problem If not of Eng Beforo winter comes the reor- iage ancj jjjn They are a part of j land's inability to obtain the neces ganlzation of the municipal free ne campaign of extermination, j sary money from loans raised in Eu employment bureau should be ac- : Thousands of Christians have been rope; that idea involves a total mis complished in accordance with 1 f0rcej 0y threat and torture to conception of the position of affairs, need and promise. It should be aCcept Mohammedanism, and ! But an American manufacturer, draw a strong influence in stimulating , thousands of Christian wives and ' ing on London against merchandise employment. It should be a clear- 1 daughters have been forced to j shipments of any sort, sells his draft lng house of Information as to em- ( marry Turkish husbands. to a banker for collection, and the ployment. It ought actually to be, Jt seemR impossible that in thls'Bum t0,al of such drafts has become finding Jobs for those who must 1 dfty &nd age guch cruellies could so enormous, under present condl have work. It Should be put on bfi pPrmtted ln a WOrld boasting "ons in the "war-order" market, that a basis where it can give the serv- . Rnt Amhnfiqp.Mr the rate of exchange allowed for ice it should give. JISTKE FOR THE JEWS R EV. RIELY SUNDAY appealed to the people of Omaha the other dav for recognition of the Jew. The World-Herald cava b a nlaa n-rm nrfinHpnllv da void of slang and almost free 4 . , , . ,. from tricks of oratory It was an eloquent tribute to the Jewish people, and yet Mr. Sunday's 1U .... audience responded not at all. The World-Herald comments as fol lows: When a his; crowd of representative Americans drawn from the middle west and from the middle claeses Fives but frmdini;, half-hearted ap- plaus to a plea like that of Billy Sunday. men and women looking askance at their neiphhors and smll- inif uncertainly as the speaker de- Clares his faitli in the Jewish rfopl". It dooKn't look encouraging for the' Jew., even In America. , Plans are being made for what is called a "strike" by Jewish workmen In the United States fol- lowing the opening of peace nego- tiations In Europe. It is to be a strike of only one day. and it is to be a mute appeal, not for better labor conditions, but for humanity and juutlce In behalf of an op- pressed and persecuted- people. Undoubtedly these Jewish work- men will have the sympathy of every American in their effort to of public resources by monopoliz brlng justice to the European Jew. ing private interests. There is probably not an Ameri- can who does not deplore Europe's ' treatment of the Hebrew race, who does. not realize that wherever the Jews have been they have pro- moted learning, morality, culture and development of the arts and sciences. - SETTING A PRECEDENT T UDOE CARPENTER of tne United States district court at I Chicago has set a precedent in S ueamiK un men wno-wrecK explorations. Arter worrying auoiu American securities thus 'tied up" railroads for their own profit. He him for more than a year and then 1 t.,,ul,i not be sold until the loan had has ordered receivers of the Rock having him turn up safe and sound, exI)ireil Island railroad to start legal ac- people will conclude that the ex- ! tion against present and former di- plorer. is quite competent to take We B,ia1 not at present attempt to rectors of the company to recover care f himself. If he gets lost ! di.uss t!lP arrangements as to term $6,000,000 the stockholders lost he may be lost a long time. j of thp oan rate of interest. and so through purchase and sale of the -- - ;on. practical considerations which Frisco system. j After noting the character of . m engage the mind9 of the con. The purchase and subsequent the resolutions passed by the grant ; fprrlnff bankers. it would presuma sale of the Frisco by the Rock land conference, the query be- My have to be made pavablei Interest Island was a stock-jobbing transac- comes, who put con in conference? ; prlnolpalf ,n American dollars, tlon pure and simple. It has no that done when Senator Hay ; amJ )t w0Ul(J cf.rta,nly have to he relation to legitimate railroading. was slipped stealthily into the reso- j of the income Ux which the The Reid-Moore crowd used their lntions committee by a joker mo-jJ)rljsli government wrongfully and control of the Rock Island for gam- tion? unwisely, we have always believed bling purposes nre and simple,! - hgL heretofore been accustomed to and in that one affair they made' Mme- Tiernhardt says she post-; r)m jnterest t, on lt8 the Rock Island's stockholders $6,-, Poned her American tour because nmde to fQrclpn 000,000 poorer. , her actors have entered the army. ; Probablv, any Buch loan Judge Carpenter takes the ny.n . t.ot . . . ground that the nine directors who sanctioned the deal should be held , responsible for the loss, that the j T , " 11 them and turned back into the " company s treasury lor the bene- ,.. , fit of stockholders. , L , The outcome of this attempt to : do partial justice will be watched1 with interest. There will bc nine defendants .charged with appropri- Having beheld the one. we shall ' ever- which have more or less puz atlng other people's money. If it 1 have no trouble in analyzing the S!lpi the r'ublic mind. First, will our Is recovered the way may be other. people be able to buy so enormous a opened for curbing reckless disre-1 single issue of new securities? Sec- gard of other people's property Fire Losses in America. ond. dues not the making of such a rights, by men who acquire con- i From Sconce. loan to belligerent powers depart trol of railroads for purposes of The totar fire loss in the t nited from the rule of strict neutrality or shady speculation rather than le- ' States and Canada, including forest iginally set fortli by President Wil gitimate operation. ;fites. has averacej J531.OOO.000 a year . son? As to the first ', question, the - : tor the last five years Since the be- : abnormal plethora of money in this As never before, the interests Sinning of this century we have lost , rountr- s banking institutions ren are ln the saddle in Oregon. Their more thftn --o.oo worth ofjdpra undPrwriting even of so great a control Of the grant land confer- rroperty. The per capita fire loss in j ,oan an w possibility, and. as for ence, a body called by the execu- ! wut McVtn VrancranO ! PHvat, investor, one notable resu.t live or tne state, is One proof, There will be another proof after action is taken by the water power conference if advanced predictions by those running it, come true. Hungry eyes are riveted on the wa- ter powers of the State which are worth hundreds nf mlllinn nf rtnl. i lars, and are also fixed on the J ways lost before when public main and public resources were the stake. THE ARMENIANS A CONSTANTINOPLE dispatch j says Ambassador Morgenthau . has proposed that a huge J fund be raised for bringing i Armenians in Turkey to the United tentlon to massacres of Greeks and j Morgenthau'8 representations are in the record. j .. Nikola Tesla 'has given out a ! list of scientific wonders shortly! to be realized in the electrical wor,d- It includes airships guided irom me eartn oy wireies, eieciric , , ,, J , . ts own ce, .nnnihi ation of fogs ' and photography of human ' it ' ' ' V' t inn isrnrs. es a as iuti KieaL un , promises pnci snort on periorm- ances, but in viow of what others have done, it may be that he is a ; prophet. Commissioner Baker says he finds it hard to please everybody. Some people write him complain-, j f municipai extravagance and ! y ... Others objecting to a rigidly eco- nomical program. Perhaps it would j y,e j,lst aR well not to attempt to p1ease everybody, but to go on ! the theory that the people will , approve intelligence, efficiency and : honesty applied to city affairs. The conservation policy of the j 0ur own banks and government al- Wilson administration means therpady possess more gold than ever opening up and developme-nt of the before in their history. There would West by properly supervised iie'aiwRys remain the much-talked-of of the water powers and other pub- expedient of the English and French lie resources. It does not mean investors selling outripht. to ' our the locking up of public resources OWn markets, the one or two thou- but the preventing of a great theft . With Russia threatened by ternal troubles because the reac- tionaries object to enlarging the poople's powers and England facing possible civil war if conscription is adopted, the Teutons must be hearing good news these days. Great Britain and Russia have taken a poor time to settle Wieir squabbles at home. . . - 1 Stefansson proposes to spend : two more years pursuing his Arctic j ... . , , will be more than one wooden leg .w . . ' J It cost a Pittsburg man $17.40 to telephone his wife that he had , , ,1.0 arrived safelv in S:m 1-rancisco. tu Of course the presumption is he .. was worth it. After the grant land conference rnmes the water nower conferpnet. cents in Germany. In 19H the 11 b.rgest fires in chemical industries showed a property loss of j7.500.000. :As result this ttu' imll'strial chem- o1 ni.es in order that he .mty remove the. source, if possible, and he is study- inS such materials as rubber-lined fire hose- ' BO that- after a f're has once conducted more efficiently. THE QUESTION OF A LOAN TO EUROPE do-!FroH1 ho New Ywk Evening rt Sept. 13 w ITU the arrival of the commis sion of eminent London and Paris financiers, representing , their respective government and banks In conferences on the foreign exchange situation, the question of a large loan, to be made by our markets to those of Europe, has come definitely to the front. The machinery of international exchange be corrected by a $500,000,000 loan, raised by those markets in America. The answer la that the raising of fuch a loan would enable the English and French governments to draw on the proceeds, when making payment for their purchases of American ma terials and supplies. By this ex- th" tn American money by the New Yr,rk nnkfr. as lately depreciated 7 per cent from the normal parity of exehanae. Such a condition is bound to hurt both the Kuropean and the American markets. English importers of Amert- an gw'us wn nt.vo nU... bill in dollars at New . , , . . "rk (win liirh is the rase with most of the "war orders") have to pay 5 t r i'r v-cul - j... mana tee reiimbiw ""-oiau moo.- through a draft on a London bank. v.ut American e.portern to whom tay- ment is made in pounds sterling las is the 1 ase with our grea. staple mar kets) must equally submit to a T or 6 per cent deduction from the pro- reeds of the sale, in order to turn them into American money, . . Neither market wishes that state of thinKS to continue. Conceivably, er.oigh more gold might be sent from Europe to restore equilibrium. But London and raris need vhat gold they have to protect the soundness of their paper currencies; whereas sand millions of American securities stni held by them. But, Waiving the question whether the Individual own ers of such stocks and bonds are de in-jstrtnll, of selling, the prospect or j BUcn enormous pressure on our in- ; Vf,Ktment markets, with its presum- , ablc effect 0n prices at the stock j excharipe is niU( h disliked in Ameri- j onn financial circles. The eompro- , ,njse plan for a i0:in of $t00. 000,000 ' or nlore. appears to contemplate, in ' ad,lulon to -fhe Kiiropean govern- ontR- jruarantee, the pledge of these veiv securities as couaicriii. im. ,f effecte(Ji WOTJid obviously avert the predCted overwhelming liquidation would be made to rurf for somethinj , ,. like five years, and it would pre would be made to run1 for something sumably be issued in a form admit ting of its distribution among pri vate investors. Even the sum total of the loan is still in question; the amount proposed may conceivably exceed the commonly named figure of $500,000,000. . . Two other questions remain, how- ! of the war to date, with the attend ant conditions in home trade, has been the Immense decrease In supply of new investment securities offered fin our markets. a The objection of neutrality hardly fits the case. The loan. In the finst place, would be raised solely to pay for. purchase of merchandise In America, 'and the propriety of that sort of operation has already been recognised, as in the smaller govern ment loan placed here by France. But apart from this consideration, a very noteworthy precedent, all things con sidered, was tLe offering and public advertising, last spring, of some thing like $10,000,000 German govern ment notes through American bank ing houses, and their sale to invest ors in this country. Letters From the People (Comoiunlcatioua aest to Tbe Journal for publication id tals department aiiould be writ, tea oh out one aide of tha paper, abould not exceed 8uu words lu leogtb and uiut be ac cum,itaied bj tat name and addreu of toe aeuder. It tee write doea pot deaire to have ibe came pubUnued, ha ihould ao atate.) Dlaraaaloa is the crreteet of all reformer. It rattonaliaea evertklus it toaobea. It rob Erlncipata of all false aaoetity and throw them ack on their reaaooableDeu. It the; bare do reaeonableneaa, it ruthlessly crushes them out of exiateuce and aeta up Its owu eouciuaioiu la Ueir stead." Wood row Wliaoo. In Reply to William Whistler. Portland, Sept. 18. To the Editor of The Journal When William Whis tler says: "If the Grocers' association had Its Just deserts, they would have been prosecuted under the Sherman law," he reveals a colossal Ignorance. This association has never attempted to fix prices and there is not a day goes by but some' member sells goods for less than cost of production and 'listribution. Even if we attempted such a thing as fixing prices, we could not control the 2 0.0 city grocers who are not members o the association. Arid as for Mr. Whistler buying "flour for $1.35 per suck at a time when the grocer said be could sell i: for J1.15 and make a profit, but the assoclatioa would not allow him t do it," we disprove any such inci dent by citing the fact that there has r.ot been a time in the last 10 years when best patent flour could be purchased wholesale for J1.15 per sack. tWhenwe say sack we mean 49 pounds.) Third grade flour is wholesaling now for $1.174 per sack. Best patent costs $1.40 per sack. Who wants to handle It at a loss? A search of the telephone and city directories fails to give tiie name or a.ldress of William Whistler and this leads us to suspect that he is a non resident beneficiary of the public mar ket fcheds. His letter has all the rhyme and reason of a ne'er do well small farmer, who is not above accept ors charity in the form of subsidy from the taxpayers while sending his surplus dimes to eastern mail order houses as a means of building up Ore gon. If he needs must write for pub lication, why not give his business ad dress? If he hopes to convert any one to his way of reasoning why not confine himself to the facts and dis pense with socialistic fiction? The wr.ter wll pay J50 if he can substan tiate his assertions The Portland Grocers' & Merchants' association makes no effort to fix prices, but we do advocate taking a pross profit that will cover rent, lijrht, taxes, depreciation, delivery, derent wages to our help, and leave something for the man who invests his money and gives credit to working men when they are out of work and sickness has over taken the family. None of these expenses are to be met ln the public market. It sells for ash, makes no deliveries, pays no taxes, rent or liRht bills, and, it Is this spe cial privilege iven to a non-taxpay-ing class of incompetent middle men that places our members at a disad vantage at their own expense. 'Tis this dims legislation that we are fighting as being unfair and we intend to keep up the fight until it is detrrmmed whether property owners have the right to a square deal from the govern ment they sustain. Within the next few days we will apply for an injunction aainM the continuance of the public market as now conducted. If it Ls not granted in the district court we will go to the federal conirt under the provisions of the fourteenth amendment. There we'll see if a man's property may be taken away without due process of law, and failing ln that we will compel a cer tain citycommissioner to face the re call early in January on a public mar ket platform, as a sort of midwinter di version. This association i not a namby pamby tail to a common user kite. It is a militant organization composed of business men whose investments mount Into millions. If need be it is the largest political factor tn the city and county; we have seen the fallacy of taking something from nothing; we ore fighting for our own, for a right to take a living profit, live decently, pay our help living; wages, and the men who stand in the way of our reason able demands will find opposition, both legal and political. ROBERT T'UNl.'AX. Manager Portland Grocers' ,t Mer chants' Association. The Speeding Police Officer. , Portland. Sept. 1R. To the Kditor of The Journal. Comment has been made regarding special privileges for main taining excessive epeed by officers who may be in quest cf Speed maniacs. We have recently had a tragic exa'mple of what this practice in the hands of our officers means. I will not complain about tie fire men running at excessive spfe,; when there is no real necessity for it, 1101 of the police patrol under similar con ditions, nor of the ambulance that may be shaking the life out of som- poor, mangled creature in getting him to the hospital, orly to wait ten. fifteen or more minutes while attendants are as certaining whether it will be pri per ' admit him. If he is uncons. Sous and unable to give hU xmnie. use and an. tecedents. Taking from the officers this Special privilege of conducting a spectacular display would be liU.s cut ting off their brass button and reduc ing them(to the level of an ordinary citizen, i't can't be done! It does, however, appear to the writer that if we could inspire some of the latent engineering ingenuitv and knowledge resident in our public engi neers about the city hall and thj court house, they might devise some means of Ascertaining the speeds of vehicles, similar to that us d by the navy. By a very simple device and hy ilie use of inexpensive instruments, it is pos sible to atcuratcly ascertain the speed o' moving djeet mi s dietant. Why, then, cannot prop'-r office's take up positions remote from the highway or street, ascertain the speed of all ve hicles suspected of being aboe the proper speed, and by means of a teles rope or suitable optical instrument, take the number of the vehicle. The transgressor would later be haled Into court, and it would have a most whole some influence, as the. speeders would never know when the eye of the law was upon them. This would apply at night as well as in the day time. The writer has personally seen Mr. White, who was the county officer ln the tragic accident two weeks ago, over hauling vehicles on Sandy road. To say that he was running recklessly puts it mild. Th tirtrnn ohlecf of llmitlne the J speed of vehicles is to promote safety. PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE San Francisco Call: The AuStrian minister will still allow waiters to serve us Hurgarian goulash. Atlanta Journal: When It comes to bountiful harvests, tols country is al ways in a state of preparedness. Baltimore Star: American hens 'lay 80,000.000.000 eggs a year. Put, alas, eggs as ammunition are of little value now, even in the theatres. Los Angeles Times: Novo Georglevsk has been taken, but Lltovsk, Lvlnsk, Etaoln, Meshchovsk, Mzconow. Pros kurov and Shrdlu are all right eo far. a- Detroit News: Procrastination is a vice which asserts itself early in life. One hundred infants tried to get in the baby show after the entries wc, closed. Fort Worth Star Telegram: Old Prosperity ls on the way back and hi advance agents are buying new auto mobiles ln which to fare forth and meet him. New York American: It is ?.1d that the delegates to the constitutional con vention must weep with Root, m they nan always get square by laugh ing at Barnes. a e Chicago Herald: Robbers blew open Mi safe at Bedford. Ind , the other day, but the authorities will probably tak no action until they learn definitely whether it was done with a torpedo or a mine. Oklahoman: Ever hear of a Repub lican president who deliberately asked his home state not to indorse him for fear tt might be thought he wa taking advantage of a serious situation to play 'cheap polities? Cleveland Plain Dealer: Cp in Battle Creek. Mich., one of the best adver tised towns on earth, the chief of po lice declares that bay rum is causing more drunkenness than whiskey. He wants the drug stores raided, but says nothing about the barber shops. THE CLEVELAND IMMIGRATION LEAGUE From the Christian Science Mrwittor. Although the people of the T'nlted States are probably still ln need of an Increasing sense of responsibility toward the immigrant, certain dis tinct advanceS are being made, and one of these is connected with the ex cellent work being accomplished In the city of Cleveland through the leadership of the Cleveland Immigra tion league, which has been the means of bringing into being a municipal Immigration bureau as a part of the division of employment ln the depart ment of public welfare. The Immigration league of Cleve land is composed of the boaiM of edu cation, public libraries, head workers of settlement houses, superintendents of various city missionary societies, and secretaries of the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian associ ations. There are also associated with the league the officers of foreign societies, judges and clerks of the courts of naturalization, and profes sors ln the local universities. The motto of the society is "To assist the immigrant to solve his own prob lem." a When the league came 'Into being it found various agencies doing good work, but with no general or definite program for the entire city. Its ef forts have been successful in increas ing by 2a't per cent the attendance in the citizenship classes of the "coming American" in that city, where 34.8 per cent of the population are native of other countries. In 1 ft 1 3 the mu nicipal Immigration bureau was formed and joined with the league 1n various activities of depot work, in employment, in a department of Information and complaints, and espe cially In matters of education, by which there has been a gain of 44 per cent in the number of elementary public night schools. Not the least important is the course on Immigra tion methods held every week In the offices of the immigration bureau, where social workers, together with Have the public officials r.r Portland and Multnomah county demonstrated that they can run at high speed with more safety, to the public than other individuals? Pinco when did two wrongs make a right, even though one wrong is committed by an officer of the law? It seems strange, indeed, that four or five children must tie crushed to death in automatic elevators before the example is horribl enough to demonstrate that openings in elevator shafts lould just as well be flush as r...t flush: or that we must kill a few men in their daily walks cr life before the absurdity of reckless speed ing bv officers is questioned. C. A. THOMAS. Denies Land Grant's Validity. Portland, Sept. 18. To the Lditor of The Journal. I see in the Oregonian of last Thursday t)U F. P. Dunne, the Southern Pacific attorney, claims that the Southern Pacjfic owns all the tim ber, minerals and equity of 2 50 per acre on and In the grant lards. Now. why all this confab? Is it not true that the Southern Pacific has not and never had any valid title to the lands, as the people who own the land never ,-rtt " an 1 ,Aril m .n I an,, . rnon I ' election giving congress the power to give the Southern Pacific thci-e lands.' Is it then a valid transaction for congress to vote to give the people's land away without the consent of the people? I say no. Is any transaction valid without a money consederation or some value received? I claim that congress had no right to grant the land to the Southern Pacific or any other railroad without the consent of the people. AN. AMERICAN CITIZEN. The Great Problem. From Collier's. In this freer world that ls now be ginning people m!;st like what they have to do. In the country, for in- INDEX OF ADVANCING TIDE OF PROSPERITY From the New York Times. t T I ne n No check to the favorable busi ness conditions hitherto noted oc- rred during the week Just ended. What tread there was Indicated further improvement. Crop pros pects were a little better than be fore, the iron and steel mills were showing a larger output and In creasing orders, and exports are still of a record-breaking char aVcter. Preparation in different mercantile lines, not Only for tha fall and winter bwt for next sprfng and aummer, are based on a belief in a large amount of do mestic biiyirrg to come. In the foreign field the purchasers from tliis country are by no means con lined to articles intended lor war purposes, but a considerable, in crease is shown on goods for ci v ill lan uses. AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Baker merchants declare that the fall business starts off exceedingly good. "The children of L'nlon county." says the La Grande Observer, "are to b a big factor in the lair next month and where the kiddies have anything tc do with a proposition. It ls a suc cess." Preparations are being made for the dedication of the new Kilts' home at Medford next Thursday. Elks from all parts of Oregon, California and Wash ington 'are expected to participate In the festivities. a e Baker Democrat: The work of lay ing nw water mains on Campbell street west of the city limits Is get ting well along and the new service when Inaugurated will be much ppre dated by residents of that portion of the city hitherto unserved. La Grande Observer: Installation ol better road aigns in the valley and city were discussed at a meeting of the Commercial club directors. A com mittee was appointed to wait on Coun ty Judge 'Phy for cooperation ,ln .1 campaign to give tourists, and even home people, better sign boards, espe cially on the main trunk roads'. . a David "Wood of Iiebanon Informs the Rxpress that there ls a mountain of Iron ore in the western part of Benton county, about three miles northwest of Philomath, on Wood's creek. It is easy of access, about a mile and a half from the railroad, with plenty of wood Hnd water nearby, and Mr. Wood won ders why someone is nut mining it a Tn praise of Benton county In re - t speet of Its county fair record, the 01- vallis Gazette Ttinen says: i;.n' e, county has the farm prodne's, v I, a" the livestock, it has the enterpriv : n farmers and the combination has rvn Benton county the 1 1 T 1 of 'T' e I'd ie Ribbon County of On gjon." The t!M has been justly eurncd in manv a in 1 e straining contest against the best in the state and we are going to keep It." those interested ln Immigration, speak and make reports, and where mutters are discussed in connection wit a pub licity. e e It Is such agencies to assist on n large scale thu Immigrant to under stand the country to Which he ban joined his Allegiance that hne helped to change conditions in a numl r of the lar-rer American elites reior'lv The pirsent war and its subsequent results in n national and social mo bllity of the nations brings these matters to the grave attention of the T'nlted States at this time. What Ideals does the country really bold relative to the 10,n00.0u0 and more Im migrants who have, landed on its r.hores since the opening of the twentieth century'' What shall be the futurn attitude with regard to the vast flood of alien power ond pos sibilities? It has been estimated that four out of every five Immigrants have no trade, and that more than 7,nno,000 people of Slav. Latin and Asiatic a peoples are pressed Into crowded Industrial enters. Here tra ditional ideals of other lands in manv csses the antithesis of those of the t'nlted States, are left to wield their Influence almost untouched, save by labor organization propaganda. The enormity of the task of Amerl canlzlnir these members of something like fifty-six nationalities as they ar rive can only be hinted at. It In olvos education, the safeguarding of individuals, respect for and obedience to lnw. ni'turnlization and citizenship, exclusion by government, and 11 scoie of service and betterment theories that as a whole are lacking In na tional coherence and in, unity tuwurd a common foal. Nothing less than li e arousal of the entire nation, col 'ectivelv end individually, would si in tc be sufficient adeuatel v in fulfill the duties and responsibilities nf the T'nlted States with regard to tie strangers within Its aratvs and wltli respect to those who yet may come. stance, we must not only get the bet terments of science actively ln use on the farms, but we must educate cbll (iron eo that they will become pleas antly aware of the Interests, realities, and satisfactions of farm life. Hctjbcit Quick has made CiIb point everlaM ingly clear in his new book. "The Brown Mouse." It ought to be read rind pondered over by most of tho'-e who bnve anything to do with rural education. 1 1 is idle to cry "back to the soil" to those who have been steadily trained away from it during eight or ten )ars of schooling. Note, too, that the farmer can ruin himself by doing a good job. If the wheat growers all took this sage advice about getting a Luropean yield from each American acre, the prbej would probably go to 60 cents a bushel. The world-old war between the city dweller's cheap food and the farmer's profitable crops must be brought to mwe sort of a fair set tlement. This problem has been wran gled over from either end, but It has not been clearly elated for solution. It will bo necutisary not only to have the farmers doing their most effective work lor the regt of us. but also to make suro that in doing It they nre not In danger of getting a less reward than like servic would gain In othT Industries. The present market con trolled prices do not Insure this res'.lt. Whatever ls necessary In the way of joint action, government rep ula 1 1011. etc., will some day have to b under taken, and the generation which com bines this statesmanship with proper rural education will very nearly settle the farming question. Printer's Ink as a Life SaveT. From the Chicago Herald. Printer's ink has long been recog nized as an effective disinfeetant. As an instrument of publicity it has be, n potent ln clearlntr up and denning out a lot of bad conditions, political, financial. Industrial and moral. It has not often been credited with service as a physical life-saver. Edward A. Moore of the New York State Charities Aid association. In an address before the American Pub lic Health association at Rochester on Thursday, added that horror to the laurel wreath of printer's ink. lie declared ft to be "saving more llvoa than any other single agency of mod ern health workers." As a case In point Mr. Moore 'ited "one of the most important cities of this state," which for a whole year endured an Increasing smallpox epidemic. Then the statp health department an nounced that "Its policy In dealing with local ,-pidemica would be state wide publicity." As a result the som nolent community awakened with re markable rapidity. At a local theatre amusing Illus trations have been given of thst tru ism of the capable business man, "It Pays to Advertise." The business in stincts of the community in o'lestlon promptly realized that there nre situ ations whl'-h It ls highly undesirable to have advertised. And thus print tr ink becane a life saving purga tive whose administration was highly beneficial to the whole country in general and Ut that community In particular. TeOnceOVerl CAPTAIN T J. MACGKNN-1 mas ter of the steamer Breakwater- ami takes her over the Columbia river bar when other steamers ttay nut sldtv and wait for better 'weather. J And Captain Macgenn as every one knows la a poet. Ilis friends call him "the poet of the Pacific." And he has a dictaphone right w;ih hiin'j on the bridge of the I" ik water. - and when he gats an i n.-plration - 1 ailed a hunclT - h pi ,.ss agents- - - ond J porting editors - and deiectlves --and 01 ner vulgar persons. sJBut aa I was saying when the captain g.'.s a liiin.h--he walks right ovar- and talk u into his dictaphone. and then he m.iii.s the machine the other wav and hears how it listens. - and tills must l. wim s meant by the revel sc lanlh. J And Munictun. s : the hunch Is good -other c.iptams i:l ,,.,lr ,-np. tain Maegenn 'hauling mt,, i,t dic tuptiot.c -for iiHlcs down the wind. JAnd Captain MacClcnn has com posed, a song in this manner civile "Wln'n Oregon Goes Dry." --in which he proposes when It happens to migrate to California. J Whi. h w,. all know--Is only poetic lie. rifo beiatUSC 1,0, Won't. II Ard the other day- the captain w l!iiig no about his Font tt ' " ! inad. a hit in the grills lua.-ie Mores. - "d he l' I I me th.,t his mu-ioal 1 1 11 1! lug - had been ratte r limited. j ' When 1 was a hoy of 4 ,n Glasgow - - Scot .and - said Captain M v genu ' 1 heloiu-.ed to the Band of Hope. "and w, had a baud -called SU Mmys Flute hand. - "and i didn't leai 11 to play very rapidly. J "But finally 1 learned three tunes- in 14 da j s-f-afur the bandmas ter had threat, ned to tako away tny uniform. - "and J went to sea- the next week. - 'and have never Mudied music Site ' a l that was ipiit,. ;l while a" - e . .plan, has b. en weai-!'-' a a... -1. , ':. uuifoiiii with distliic t'"1 I " 1 1 ' 1 juub- and - T "' .-l the yen .s -s-lnee he ell 1.,.1-gou i.e say- ho never had no.. i.. in., 1 1 1 ti m c u 11 1 1 1 he Mai iiii in ;o v 1 1 1 e 1 an sung. POEMS YOU MAT HAVE LIKED II A Sunn Di'iikm racy. Let 11. e .! u tun 1m:.s ,,,, i,jt, fir 1 i ) . ' g. And Can . m 11 1 lie ii.m , is epin. All.i jo, 11 11 la. , iii;,K , , . And laugh v i- 1. in. ..oigh i.oiuc-. in. Let 11 it- inn w.th the slim t nun ai.u tail lorn. With li'.i.n in. n and biawu nu n I": free. And kicking loievir that a. I men .We good elioal. ), io.vn. Ilk,, me. Lit rn. mix witu these go.,), enoiig'li 1 el I ui 1 hi , M I c I eh from t h" pole to . I le- P 01 , And 1... "11. 1 an I the l.iounh and the ;. ell .v x A 1 1 1 , ly while 11, the go u I '1 leelgl; ; II,. II HI. hete til, ill ome I ; I e I . .'lt d men are v n 1 than some. '1 he In. II 1 1 11 1 . 111 I 1 1 1 .1 , liny In 1 lime As I : "p. i ,i.i lie 1 1 .-1, r v e 1. 1 ow 1 i,a ! In b eome. pel feet and dirt of tho r M.i! .-i.ov f:,aa t . I i r ; 1 I . An,; I . Son.. For 1! v gr.n t ' .I'M h'-r hop per I I, II' III I I.e I limp. l- 1 el I. .is a kl. a II of ad- a m : 1 g Tis i.e hi ' .1 'is l.iibtt I o burst , Thoaiih tin- in.-, 1 si, ail he last, 'tis 1 n 1 1 ale : int To lii.ow that the Ja.st shall be"first. I.. we know Unit 'tvvlxt here and Alls- U .1 lia Ale piojni-, 10 is U'lll.i not a few. Bat pole who , mole oT a failure, , lid Pol: e h' I ' 1 bet I II that! V OH Ai.,i vv. i-u. w that tn iM here and Ni-W ,'11 Are -:,,', 1 1 '. ' 1 I la;, W I i! en, low 1 nd high, ,h mole of a 11 1 1. 11 y 10- mole oi a v.ni.er than 1. So I mix with the good and the bad 11,01, TVIui ale ma. b Die same fellows m I, And 1 l ltid liu'ii: al e glad men ;u,d ; ad men. But men it is good to get nigh. Let me cry when there's no drip for crying And dan f when the dancei.w spin, And join 111 the selling and having And laugh WI..11 III.- laugh conies 111. Ham Waller 1 1 is s. Filgbert vis. Ijiw and fhxler. S. Noiton Co bo. editor and pub lisher of tho Stanflold 1 Or ) Klandnrd, gives i'sge ''ne to the following di verting episode of life In the Irriga tion belt: "Tb flmm Mrx.rn In O" rprlne; and t hi- l.ule i.i.iU Hi ihk. !i.-' mid attain ': "' I" m.n.t n. n singling li;i, tia Ml l,H lulls for II, I- I.,. Ill ' gU.7.lTjr" v la-re In- iiil.lixl e. j,l..ilf to bin already p. .n ..i,,i r ll j.u.l 1.1.1! i-t. Ill nam 1,. I :. Ij. ' 1 i.enil.l lloi-defer ; where ha Ida-. 1 r I in mi otn- Uni-w hilt blluelf, and t,,. w;iv w'.ikiiiK t.M tini'ij nt being a ia-.,.i. .i iK-ii tHT" to give anything p a ik aig-i.i. I hi tiied wlla tba liquid r., utile uid.'li )i (lUiieuaeil at Uiltir'e J.iln'. uiitil hi iltllu jilie Of etrnilattnf ie,.. I en lui.l liemi transferred t Ui reiolj lid of tin" "hoiimii uirlor" an1 la hnil been ejected lrih tc cold cruel v .rid. forced to ae. k further hllnrlijr v. ith vWi,.t M'eani wna Wt la liln bohem. Thin proved 10 nnjplii ual he ' "" tinned " to rour Id g-intl hoiik ..f p-s,ig-11U lit !! Mreeta lllitll well t.,v. hoN idiiK. nhi'ii bin uii' d .ti'iiig'"! Kiel I." Ii.krt Into the finet ejliiliMien "f plon aii1 fHi.ey profit 11 la' t .'d..i I' lm . v.-r been the JiriTiloji! of Stnli'1'1'1 P. I:tell. K.Ig'iierl blerold w.i proa..: : pile h-'l mat thrown into the (1tki-i uln i.g-.i. iu tlia eliy "Harftlie" wl.iif I," reim lied until the net rimming. I 11 . ' hmiled b.-rore Judge Willi, 'r ! ' or given the IterntlT of 1,11 sir I'i da In the count v Jull. . i-pi-1 ihe alterna tive, having left ll la- n-.ldn alwekele In the jwh of our rotu.id little friend Ullejr. From nil of uh,, n it may be In ferred that Kugb. 1 1 was drunk and dia orderi. with t e usual result. However, it would seem that Jude W'liiis viol thuiugh an unnccesatv formality when he Imposed a fine of J.-i on Kdguert. a a He should hav known belter. B 'k in North Dakota, where I used to live, the town marshal used to search em before he br ught 'cm be ll. Ie the Judge. a So the judge always km-w whether a fine would be advisable. He and the marshal were working the efficiency racket long before It beiame the craze that it now Is. m m They were saving time in the a,4 ministration of Justice. : ;