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THE OREGON DAILY. JOURNAL, PORTLAND,. "TUESDAY, NOVEMBER . 2, 1915. .1 sTHB JOURNAL AM INDEPENDENT NIWSPAPCE ZjB. 8. JACKSON... ...... .;.........PuMlb "ubllihed iwr evening (eteept Sunday) -an J rr Hand moraine- at The Journal Bolld. , Broadway and Yamhill ata., Portland. Or. T lot Entered at tti poatornce at Portland, Or., (of trinmlwV)D taruusa tne walls aa second elan matter. 3ELEPHONKS Via In 7178; Horn. A-6061. An j dapartmvuta reached by tb Bumlxra. Tall j the operator wbat department you want. FOREIGN ADVERTISING. RIPBESENTATIVB -Jtenjamln Ktntnor Co.. Brunswick Bldf., 1 206 Hfth Maw York; 1 Peoola'a J Uaa Bldg, Chicago. I "iubacriptlon terma br mail or to soy ad. tfreaa la U uniiea ntctea or Mexico; 1 DAILY Od year 9.00 Qua month t .BO j. " SUNDAY Bna year $2.50 One month f .21 DAILY AND sCNDAY (Ob year 17.60 I One fnonth t -65 America asks nothing for her Jftclf but what she lias a right to ask for humanity itself. WOODROW WILSON. In order to hav an wiemy one miiBt be Homebody. one must be a force before lie fan bo resisted by unfit her fore. A mullcloun enomv is bettor tjian a clumsy fib-nd. Mad. S wetchine. TO CHECK I'Sl'RY EXACTION of extortionale inter-out rates by some of the national banks of the coiin . i . .1.... try i.-t reci'i viiir, u ifin i ui from John SkHton Williams, comp troller of tho currency. In an addrpsa October R at Frankfort, Kentucky, he stated that in one state, l."l hanks re ported tljnt tliey charged a maxi mum rate of interest raiiKin.T from 15 to 21 per cent per annum, 67 banks exacted, a maximum rate of L'.l to f'.o per cut, -'2 hanks be tween 80 and I U0 per cent, IS be tween 100 and 200 per cent, and 8 banks between 200 and 2000 per scent. 9 Tha tiut clinwn (hnt thorn la a totaj of 120b' banks charging 12 per cent or more, of which nine aro in New York stato, nix in Pennsylvania, two in Maine, three in Massachusetts, five in Virginia, seven in West Virginia, six each in Florida and Louisiana, 66 in Geor gia, 52 in Alabama, 168 1 Texas, seven in Arkansas, 17 in Kentucky, 28 in Tennessee, four -in Ohio, weight lu Indiana, 40 in Illinois, seven in Iowa, 19 in Missouri, 69 in North Dakota. 4 8 in South ( Dakota, 21 in Kansas. 4 6 in Mon tana. 20 in Wyoming, 63 in C'olo ;rado, 33 in New Mexico, 2S7 iu '.Oklahoma, 25 in Washington, 40 I'in. California, 45 In Idaho, 18 in t Utah, eight "in Nevada, three each 5 ir? Oregon. North Carolina and Ari- 3 zona, two each in New Jersey, J District of Columbia. Nebraska, Minnesota and South Carolina. and one In, Maryland. 8 In a letter just sent all national I banks. Comptroller Williams says i that these exactions are a-, gross I violation of -United States Reviser1. I Statutes, section f197, against usury. i lie letter adds that you aro respectfully advised and ad monished that this provision of the national act shall be faithfully ob- . rarrea. i tie corapiruner requires that the letter shall be read at a w f .a . 1 i. i uieeuiig ui eacu uuaru ui uuim ui- rectors and that a list of such di rectors as may ba absent at the reading must be supplied the comp troller's office. It is almost past belief that the country should have waited so long lor an effort to check this exac tion of usury. It is amazing that administration after administration should have come into power and passed ou without making effort to stop the practice. It is astound ing that great financial institutions .that, by reason of their character. i 'aOuzht everywhere to . symbolize honor and a due respect for the law, should engage in hideous and criminal violations of the law. Meanwhile, what of the borrowers m r. n A ' t .- i. t n OI flvU, or ovu or avvv ur muie, ..at'ZO or 4 0 or iuu per cent mier- jfcest? In the hideous eamble with " ;a loan to keep starvation from the i door, how many borrowers went down under the burden, and how " many survived? CASH OB ENERGY S OME time ago eighteen Rus sians arrived In New York with money enough to carry them to Oregon. They were 'detained by immigration officials and threatened with deportation on the ground that they might be come public charges; , The federal supreme court has Just -ruled in this case that im migration' officials can-not deport ' newly arrived aliens inerely be cause they may hae trouble ln J- making a living. "' In the case of ' the Russians the court refused to accept a theory tha because those Immigrants would each the Pa cific eoaat with very, little cash ln hand they were likely to become a 1' burden upon the public. ' 1 . This decision calls attention to the fieed' of a thoroughgoing rer yisioft of .our, Immigration laws. immigration: . officials haver "..at- tempted too much legislation on 1 potentates. He is an American ' lty. It is argued that the country their own account. They are not, and the opposition of those whose gains so much by the rapid re the ones to make the laws; that, foreign sympathies are Irrepreesi- turn of wages to circulation that function belongs to congress, and ble is likely to help rather than it can well afford to pension brok the supreme court's ruling that ' injure him. . en down workers who have not Ellis Island is not the place where ! Sects as sects have occasionally Maid up a competence. The ques laws are made cannot be refuted. ; entered American politics but their I tion is not by any means one It la agreed by thinking men experience has not been such as to j sided. 1 . tnat immigration should be re- stricted. but those restrictions . should n4 be put on a cash basis. ' Ability and willingness to work at ; tasks needing workers ought to : be considered a qualification to en- ter the United States. In fact, many of our most successful men j arrived in this country with hard-; 1- - jh- i iu.i. .i,a( V,nt I loaded with ambition and energy. That is what we need more than cash in hand. OUK LEGAL WEALTH ORD READING'S parting fling at the exuberant abundance of our law reports has ex- cited interest among both L laymen and lawyers. The distln- guished Englishman said he could not understand how our attorneys ! manned tn read and Inwardly di- r-i -- - - Rest all tne volumes so mhuij pur a ,,recedent in Chicago city eiec vided for them. At present there tjons are. 8420 books of American law re- Tne iess0n is fairly obvious, ports with which practicing law-. Americans prefer to run their own yers must make themselves more j pontics without the Czar's help. or less familiar if they expect to rise to the top of their profession That is a goodly number but it is nothing to what we shall have in the course of time. We have forty-eight state supreme' courts and one at the federal capital, all busily engaged in making decisions and each decision must be prompt- ly rushed into print. .So matter ; SOurceful man? whether it merely rehearses some! what may not be the meaning trite principle old as the hills or ' cf the victory of the Oregon Agri announces some new and import- j cultural college , football eleven in ant advance in the law, it must be tne niatch against one of the best printed and despatched down to : posterity as a monument too pre- ; ciniis to he lost. Hut this is not all or the story, j Not by anv means. While our ( on rts are (nHn.itriniiclv nilinp iin ' ' ' - -' . - - - - I ' ' ' those treasured decisions, congress : and the State legislatures are just ' nu HiHrrptitH' nilinrr ifcT new laws .... . . . j-, v .. . . j -.. o --- . from which always flow a flood of I new lawsuits, irorn wnicn now again a llooa oi new necisions. Thus the wheel turns merrily ; round and round while the smiling populace pays for the giddy show. History does nothing but repeat Itself. There came a time when; the old Roman statutes and tlecis- ( ions had piled up mountain high. , even as ours have. 1 he Datievo lent despot Justinian went at the monstrous heap with pickaxe and! dynamite and finally blew most of it into the air. Heing nothing but. air to begin with, the rubbish went up easily. We have unhap- pily no henevoient despot to tacie , the multitudinous idiocy of our decisions and statutes. As long as the taxpayers are willing to stand the game very likely it will eon- j tinue to be played. But they may not always consent to stand it. ON T1IK SIDE OF SAFETY T WKNTY-TWO children lost their lives last Thursday when a schoolhouse at Pea . 1 . 1 ooayr r-ia-ss.. was Most of the bodies were found in j the vestibule, where tho children were tramped to death. The loss of life would have been greater had not a tardy pupil reported the fire. Last week thirteen persons lost their lives and eight others were a injurea wnen me tivsmiuu a sh(tt, herself Pittsburg factory building. Inade- As lt apf1ears on the record, tho quate fire escapes, according tojury.g verdict is. "killed by idle the state Inspector of .labor and in- gossjp dustry, accounted for the lives ' snuffed out. In July, 1913, over 50 girls lost their lives ln a factory fire at Binghamton. New York. They had no chance to save themselves, for their employers had not pro vided against the danger of fire. The Triangle shirt waist factory 1 their terrors. Old age is more or in New York was burned ln 1911 less adequately pensioned in Eng and 140 working girls perished, land, France, Germany, Italy and Not only were fire escapes inade- several other lands, including New quate, but doors leading to the Zealand, of course. It takes a exits were locked. The girls died smart nation to get ahead of New like rats in a trap. : Perhaps no human foresight could have, prevented the Moss of The idea of old-age pensions has life at Peabody. But what about even peered into the conservative the Pittsburg tragedy? What 1 domain of Massachusetts and met about the other crimes of care- with, a warm welcome. The Re lessness? ' publican and Democratic parties We have had controversy in have both given lt their endorse Portland in which the fire marshal ment. We may therefore reason- has been criticized for withhold-, ing his approval of the exit ar rangements in school and other buildings. From the ashes of countless fires, from the mounds in a thousand cemeteries little hands are lifted in appeal for safe ty and escape of those who assem- ble in buildings for study or work, Wherever and whenever there is dispute over the safety of lives, the error, if error is to be made, should be on the side of safety. A FAVOR TO MR. WILSON T HE Massachusetts German- American societies have in voluntarily done a great serv ice to President Wilson. They do not like him and have shown their dislike by resolving that "they are firmly ' opposed to the reelection of Woodrow Wilson as president of the United States." These societies are supposed to 1 on a OA A ft A , . . 1 Wm.iu, v.wV ,,, wmcn; their purchasing power is cut off. is a formidable number and might ;bu8ineS8 withers Many sound urn me naiance in a 8laie -eiec- tion. But the chances are that Mr. Wilson would prefer to be by opposed rather than , endorsed 8s6ctations which -re formed, on the basis of allegiance to foreign encourage the repetition or tne venture. Now and then we have had political factions which op-. posed some particular religious body. Their experience has also been discouraging. The American voter has pretty firmly made up his mind that politics and sectarian feuds do not mix well. Tha affrtrt tn hitch our nolitiCS to the tail of the European Kite and make our elections turn on i Via favnr nv rllsitnvnr of ElirODean ' imonarchs is somewhat novel. But j 'to- be handed down from gen It he Massachusetts German societies I raon generation? nr not nnito ih first, to trv it. I " is the accentuation of train- Some Chicago experimentalists j tried it at the last election in that I ,.itJ - . They violently favored ono j rar,ia and violently onnosed I another on purely European j grounds. The candidate whom thev I npposed was elected by an enor-! a mi(nrifr a mainritv hevond 'tiiwurf luuj ui i j v - j or tne Kaiser's either. THE MEN OP THE WEST D O THE magnificent distances, the grandeur of landscape, the boldness of spirit and the freedom of the far West yield a stronger and more re- teams of the Middle West last Saturday ? The Oregon team was handi-lhi' rapped by the stress of a journey! .nf mrp than Twin miles and bv I .l- - j i a . o i .i the disadvantage of playing in n(mv mnntrv Tho Michigan wad flushed nnrl ronfidpnt ! r jfnof r ha. i iiuiii rt i.i unuiu icat, jl iiioi Rreat ppvPn produced by the vet- oran YoU of vast gridiron knowl- ocge an,j experience at Michigan ,,niversitv. The odds in favor of the Michigan men were heavy, hut the Oregon warriors worsted them i n.-,,u a t-,.,,r-o nf 911 tn n It has hcPn the wont for ath-j'he letjcs of the and or the setting Bun to be patronizingly contem- plated in the East and Middle West. Though coast men as in dividual players, always rise to prominence in eastern teams, the system of coast athletics has been looked down- upon as: inferior. Apparently, the judgment must he reviSPrl. Both in the strategy nn(1 in the power and brains and vlrility of the performers, the men of the far fi,ltlK "pacific coast seem to bo without superiors in the country. IX THE DAY'S .NEWS 1 ORE than a year ago, Mrs. 1 Ida Bodman with her hus-' band and little daughter moved to Western Springs, j Illinois, a small town whfrfl everv. hn(v knows PVfrvhnrlv i After the birth, three months later of a baby boy, Mrs. Bodman hegau to receive "poisoned" tele phone calls. Feeling that she could endure the village gossips no longer, she tucked her children in Jbed. kissed them good night, and OLD-AGE PENSIONS 0' LD-AGE pensions were fright ful things a few years ago. It made people's hair stand on end barely to mention them. Now they have lost some of Zealand in the matter of humani- tarian laws. ably hope that the Massachusetts ' legislature Will pass some measure i looking to the honorable relief of old age before a great while. ! The principal objection Offered : to old-age pensior S is that they ! will impair the spirit of thrift. ! People whose declining years are ; provided for will not lay up money i when they are young. So we are told. This objection would carry more weight if our wage earners actually had any money to lay up either in youth or age. The cold fact is that their average income falls below $600 a year. No man can decently rear a family on such an Income and save a penny. But apart from such con6idera - tions it is not entirely clear that too much "thrift" is beneficial to the country. Our most important purchasing- class consists of the wage-earners. When they buy abundantly business thrives and the country is prosperous. When economists urge the poor to spend iih.n. 'i happiness out of life at, the period when happiness is most probable. And they also contribute their proper share to business prosper-1 ffl XO PLACE FOR CITS T HE home -should be the place for daughters to be trained in domestic science. But What of the thousands of moth ers who are themselves unskilled in household economics? What of where poverty and toil have caused unskilled methods in domestic sci- ,ne ln household economics in Public education that has caused thousands of girls to see new ideals and haYe higher thoughts and a greater love for home, and what can we d. better than heighten the love of American daughters for homes in a republic whose ! safest mooring Is the home? The gentlemen of the Taxpayers league are wrong In pressing their demands for cutting domestic sci ence instruction ih the Portland public schools. There are other and better fields in which to achieve economies. IDEAS ON THEIR GRAND MARCH Conservatism. T TAKES a long time for a new I idpa to sink ln. Do you know that at one time the people looked on railroads as the "works of Satan?" Read this from N. A. Richardson's "Industrial Problems": "The school board at Lancaster, ln 182S- refused to permit the scnooinouse to ie used tor the dis cussion of the question as to whether railroads were practical or not, and the mattr was recently called to mln1 by an old document that reads as follows: 'You are welcome- to use the hoolhouse to debate all proper questions ln, but such tilings as rail roads and telegraphs are impossi- 1 bilitles and . rank infidelity. Thera is nothing in the word of God about them. If God had designed that h!s intelligent ( reaturrs showld travel at itui speed of 1 5 miles an hour, by steam, he would have clearly foretold it through his holy prophets. It Is a device of Patan to leal Im mortal souls down to hell,' " Can We Cooperate? William I., rhenerr in tli rhl-aeo Herald. The whole world now knows th.it Germany lias a wonderful capacity for cooperation. Sir Horace Plunkett. however, discovered the fact long be fore a great war had emphasized it. lie saw that universal military train ing had taught the people of Europe to work with each other. He was op posed to a system of militarism. His problem therefore was to teach Irish- men to work together without the preliminary experience of service in the army. It took him years to prove his method but in the end he did it. George ITtissell, the famous Irish poet, and others went about the coun try organizing societies of farmers. Cooperative creameries were estab lished and the markets were or ganized. Prosperity came to the lmmemoriaily t poor farmers - and in general the country was enriched. Finally the Irish society spread to Kngiand and Scotland Then similar organizations were started in South Africa and in Finland. Meantime tho work had won the approval of parlia ment and Sir Horace Plunketfs or ganization became practically an of ficial body. Cooperation has grown rapidly in the United States during the last few years. XI the present time there are some 10,000 associations among farm ers. Not all of them, however, are strictly cooperative; probably not half of them could stand the Irish tent. Under the leadership of President Frank L. McVey of the Universityof North Dakota. Gifford Pinchot, Her bert Quick, Charles McCarthy and other Progressives, a cooperative con- frenee will be held in Chicago Be fore this body Sir Horace Plunkett will appear. The council is attempt ing to work out remedies for evils in the United States similar, to those which In England and Ireland were partly solved by the two generations including Gladstone, Lloyd-George and Sir Horace Plunkett. Tenant farmers, for exarnplp, have been ln- creasing in Illinois and elsewhere to a remarkable extent during the last few years. Tenant farming ruined Ireland. Must America also go to the end of the road before a change can be made ? That question must be faced. Again, vast fortunes in crops were wasted this season because they could not be harvested and marketed. Groups of farmers owning machinery ln common and selling as units would have avoided this. Ireland has learned. to eliminate such colossal waste. The United States may yet follow the old countries. j , ' One Clerical View of Suffrage. i The Rei Cyrus Townsend Brady, of New work, who is regarded by I novelists as a great preacher and j by preachers ae a great novelist, j wound up a two-column attack upon ! woman suffrage with tin following: "So I say deliberately that the so called woman movement is an at tempt to escape the function of wo man, a revolt against the feci that woman tr not a man, an attempt to enter the field of effort in ,which man's power are properly exercised. It Is rising against nature. It, is a revolt ' against God." Letters From the .People (Commanicatlnoa sent to The Journal for j publication in tUls dewrrment aboald be writ- . tea on onljr one aide of tba paper, should not t xii-1 30U words in lenetta aud muat be ac- ! 'wtnpanled bj the name and addresa o( the aendey. If the writer due not dealre to haa "Pl'uticHton la the icreateat of all raformera. It rutiimuilzea erer.TthiDe It tourbei. It robe prlnciplea of all false nanctlty and tbrtyira tbem ba-U on HipLt reaooableDest. If tliey hav no rvatwuableneait. It rutkleaaly crashea tbeu oat of existence and ts up its own coucloaiona lu tbeir atead." Woodrow WlUiou. "The Convertible-' Brewery." Portland, Oct. 28. To the Editor of The 'Journal I have read the comment gard to the "convertible brewery.' He! would like to know how any of the' breweries of Portland could be con- verteu into siroa lactones or pacxins , plants. He talks as though it were an utter impossibility. He sets forth no reasons why not, yet decries the very idea, when in fact it would be a simple matter and one tliat should appeal to any financier. One shoe factory housed in the main huilding of the Weinhard brewery would give employment to more labor, skilled and common, than all the breweries in Multnomah county, and .goodness knows how welcome this factory would be. Give us even one of such magnitude as those of St. Louis or of Brockton, Mass. Now the writer is not a teetotaler and has never voted for prohibition, but when sch arguments are mustered up in favor of breweries and liquor issues, lt is to laugh. There is no sound reason why we need breweries and saloons and there are a thousand reasons why we don't need them. The present slump in rentals and incomes of PortlaJid landlords is due more to saloons and breweries than any other cause. There is no branch of merchan dising except the liquor business that carries a large enough percentage of profit to subsist on the rentals that are exacted for such choice locations. Merchants have been forced to pay higher rentals than are justifiable, be cause next door was a saloon, and In most instances backed by a long term high rent lease controlled by some brewery. Dozens of. instances have oc curred in the past 18 months where clothing, dry goods and other mer chants have had to throw up their hands, whereas, had their rental obli gations not been so exorbitant, they could have continued despite the slack ened business conditions. I say clean the saloons out. let the fellow who expects to lose his brewery job go1 down to the Land Products .show and see what wonder ful sized ears of corn can be raised ln Oregon, and find how reasonably he can purchase a few aces of Oregon soil, and then go and buy, for a starter, a few mortgage lifters. We'll soon see him taking his pork to town and pos sibly marketing it at a big modern packing plant run by his old brewery boss. Who knows? W. A. CRANK. lludet Trimming. Poit'.and, Or., Nov. 1. To the Edi tor of The Journal In connection with the somewhat prolonged and heated discussion now going on in connection with the 1916 budget for the city 1 would like to mention sev eral points which seem to have been overlooked. Before I begin I desire to state that I beiieve I am right w hen 1 say " that the people are de cidedly ln favor of the strictest economy and all of my remarks are to be Judged on that assumption. The inclusion of an item of ap proximately $10,000 by Commissioner Baker in his proposed estimate for band concerts does not seem in har mony with his recent statement at a budget meeting, that he had trimmed his budget to the bone. It would seem that there were some pretty good pick ings stiil left 011 tht bone. lu giving my opinion that this en tire amount ought to be left out I am not at all to be understood as be ing opposed to concerts in our narks. btiause I love music and believe that tht pcorife should have lots of good and free music, but in the name of humanity I ask. It is right to spend a large sum of money for something we do not have to have and discharge a large number of laborers from the street cleaning or water departments who no doubt have families dependent on them and who at this time will probably be unable to obtain work : that the advantages in the country are Let us sacrifice the luxuries first. 1 i not sufficient to hold the men born, am not tso sure that if that 110,000 ! there. In Germany the landschaft has were cut out of the budget the people increased these opportunities in the will have to starve musically, either, j country. In has made it possible for for it is more, than probable that the police band and the firemen's band ' . could give concerts in the parks to synonymous hut not the same.. Surely their benefit and the public s, as well lh two-legged featherless animal that The charge made by Mayor AlbeelmaU an insult without signing his that there was a combination to ham- i nanie as none r lhe8e, ftttrlbte per him and Commissioner Uieck seems i Truth need not be concealed courage to me to be warranted ln view of the I fear" notllins' independence knows no fact that Commissioners Baker and i wrongs that may not be righted in the Bigelow get their estimates by with i 01en- A. . the statement that they are cut to But. as you say, the very scheme of the bone, when as a matter of fact 1 thin8 seems to have provided for the contain items for thought H. J. CHRISTIAN Speculations on Earth's Destiny, j St. Johns, Or., Oct. 30. To the Kdi- '. tor of The Journal Some of our citi zens seem to think prohibition will i deal a death blow to Portland. Whv : that miiat ha classed aa luxuries and extravagant 1 er- 18 ever w,lu ua ana Juase salaries (for example that of pur-1 he W- the streets and breathes chasing agent at 300 per month ) tlle same atmosphere with decent men. 1 trust tht frr,i.h but as yet I am not convinced that he - " 'li)lJ DWUIO J. is w v 1 so" True, if a man wants a drink he , Challenges Mr. LinM-ott. will have it regardless of cost, but; A(,hUn,, Or., Oct. SO.-To the Kdi what class of men frequent the saloon ! tor of T)le journal I would like Mr. or live in lt, as you might say? ; Llnscott to give his authority for sav -Wont the city of Portland be better : lng -oA created everything good an 1 without them? And with the saloons ; bad," and "Woe unto you that try to out of business, tbey will leave. 'destroy anything I have created." Some of our good Christian friends God did not create evil. Genesis are trying to convert tha world, but j 1-31. "God saw everything and it was does it look like a success? Look at i very good." He created all the ele the terrible war that is going on ln 1 ments that make the universe. Man Europe, which is the forerunner of the takes these and makes things to de closing of this age. Look at the mil- ' troy life. War and all Us concomlt lions our capitalists are hoarding up ants; alcohol and Its miseries, harlotry ty manufacture of death dealing ma-, and all it implies, high finance, and chinery and shells. How long will it . all its destructive elements all these take to convert the world? 1 come from man's brain. There are about 16,000.000,000 acres : His two statements quoted are not of habitable and tillable land on earth, iin the Bible. I want hie authority. Well, the present population must be AM09 DAHUFF. nearly 2,000,000,000. Now we have 1 just eight acres to each man, woman i The Corpse in the Alley, and child. At the present rate of ln-i r-M-r, rr ?s Tn th Fdi- r i'A9 ra. At th Anil nf 9nn 9,a ih. r,r.r.iti n.-r,iH v, 000,000,000, or one to each tillable ! Public is awaiting the result of a com acre. Will this present order of things : plete investigation of the finding of continue that long, or will the world ; a mans dead body in an alley at a be converted before then? I would i . .ki imagine there would be money for the :Baln " back door' ,n th" Clty re" employment agencies. , cently. This world will shortly be under a I ne of the newspaper accounts of king, not the king of England nor tne case referred to the man as an Kaiser Wilhelm ot Germany, but the ' "aed Inebriate." in its heading. It one that has the right to rule and afterwards explained that he was SI judge. ' OBSERVER earB which IT,av b "aKfctJ'" for " an inebriate, but seemaa very vls- The Anonymous Letter Writer.; Portland, Or.. Oct. 30. To the Edi tor of The Journal In your jeditoriaL "Why in the Dark," you ask if real manhood sends an Insulting letter through the mail without signing the naiuo 01 me responsible party. To tliia I would make tlight reply by stating as a positive fact that th. is not a half ounce of manhood ln all me anonymous letter writers ln tn world. Truth, courage, independence are tha three cardinal virtues of manhood, chief attributes of " godlike aouL PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE The tim is DDroai-hlnr o,hn Tr..i ; dent Wilson also will L held tn ".trirf (accountability." 11111 Arizona now knows she la not alien enouxh to enforce any kind of an alien law she chooses to enact. The number of Oreg-on babies bcot ing near-perfect in eugenic contests in dicates that auper-perfect competition may be the next thing-. v Tammany Hall has declared for armed neutrality ln today s woman auf- irag-e ngnt in .New York. Tammanv " - 4"""""e. a5 po,ice ju(Jse , keepInf? a card Index of speeders brought before aif speed in ruling the cards will discourage speed on the street... Another record for the American ex port trade was made ln the week ended October -'3, which scored a favorable balance of 70,600,000. Officials sav it is the high water mark in the country's history, Lady Eglantine, a Pennsylvania hen. has laid 314 eggs in 363 days, beating the score of Lady MacDuff at oregoii Agricultural college. Lay on, Mac Duff, and condemned be she who first cries hold, enough! If you contemplate welcoming the O. A. C. football players by slapping then; on the back, protect your hand with something soft. Word comes from Michigan that Oregon's visitors are hard to beat. "With a doien of 15 states present ing favorite sons, anything is liable to happen." says Chairman Hllles of the Republican national committee. It's a good thing to have the country pre pared for the worst. RURAL CREDITS From the New York Times. David Lubin, who has been the rep resentative of the United States in the International Institute of Agriculture, which meets annually In Rome. Italy, since 1908, and who played a prominent part in the founding of that organiza tion, has a novel idea regarding the method by which universal peace will ultimately be attained. He has been In New York for the last few days and expects to go to Rome to attend the sessions of the institute early in 1916. "There are possibilities in the fight for ' rural credits in this and other countries which may not 6eem appar ent at first glance, " Mr. Lubin eald when seen at the Astor. "The system of rural credits in use in Germany is largely responsible for Germany's great power and for her ability to withstand vast pressure. Agitations for the adop tion of the same eystem, or variations of it, are being carried on in most of the u5 countries that are represented in the International Institute of Agri culture, and although these systems may not be adopted at once, it is in evitable that they will be put into effect in the hot very distant future. "Without gofcng again into the details of the German rural credit system, or landschaft, something of its political effect can be described. It is generally agreed, and experience with the land schaft has supported the belief, that the political conservatives are to be found among the farmers of every na tion the men who own and till their property. The radicals, the Socialists, Anarchists and others are to be found in the cities, principally among men and women who have no property to be protected by the government that they condemn. There la anotheV class, however, which is readily inoculated w,th tne erm ot radicalism. This is the class in the country which has no property and yet works at farming, the class of renters. "An unpleasant list of statistic that face us in the United States at the present time is the list showing the amazing increase in farm renting. 1 Something less tran 50 per cent of our farm land at the present time is worked by .renters, while the owners live in the cities, or the land is owned by com panies or commercial organizations. This is due partly to the fact that farmers' eons prefer to move to the cities and rent their land, or sell it to others who will rent it. The reason is creation of the anonymous letter writ- even resembles the two-legged feather less animal that Plato describes aa man, for truly I have never et set eyes upon anything in the form of a human being that had fallen so low is to admit sending an anonymous letter. KOBERT G. DUNCAN. i tor 'of The Journal -I suggest that the tt remains to be proved that no was an inebriate, but that his money was gone and be was thrown out the back door of the saloon was a fair and natural assumption. Such la the considerate custom In the "poor roan" clnba" In alien, eases. j If the saloon keeper or bartender . IrmMt It warn not rrjortd : i eviedntly the officers of the law felt delicate about broaching a dleagreable subject to one so entirely unconcerned In the matter, lest it might suggest suspicion as to the kindness ot his intentions, or of possible carelessness AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS "Copper is king one mor," says the Baker Democrat, "and U along the Snake river there is a revival ot min ing that looks hopeful." The Weston leader makes note thnt James Crane, a full-blooded Umatilla Indian, is one of the tar member this season of the Carlisle football team. . High school ground Improvement pluns at Pendleton will Include lawns, tennis courts and playgrounds, lt is estimated that the cost will be in the neighborhood of S2U0Q. The Standard reports a roteble scarcity of vacant houses at Stanfield every available house filled and a numier of families read.- to move there if they could find places. The Astoria Chamber of Commerce is pushing n rose planting movement, with reference to the rorp contest to be held next year. "Kveivbody plant one." is a free translation of the slogan. Although tier in not a poverry problem tti Iteml. according to the Bulletin, tlie I'arent-Tt aclieis associa tion has decided to take care of the few cases where :i certain augmenta Fmenta ill. No tion of resources may be need only will noilnny tihunoance be pro vided, but plenty at all times is to be insured. The men who are ten. Mng sr)irol In Tillamook countv have organized themselves ln a School Master's club, whii li will have for Its put pose "the promotion of cooperation among Hie schools of the couctv in efficient meth ods of teaching, and in securing al ls and lectures from outside of the coun ty, as well as the profit accruing from occasional meetings for study and so cial problems." AND CLASS POWER the farmer to make money, to borrow without Inconvenience and without jeopardizing his property unneresnur- ily, and it has brought the, farmers to gether with a mutual interest ln the government. This ban created a thing that is unknown ln this country a powerful agrarian pol.tUnl party, which keeps close watch on all gov ernment matters Rnd exerts itself to see t'.iiit the Interests of tho farming class are protected. "As a consequence of this system one hear.s in normal times in Germany the complaint from tho big financial In terests of the cities that 'that awful Agrarian Party Is devouring us'.' lt is a healthy complaint from the na tional point of view. In America the complaint is reversed. The cry one hears Is from the farmers, and it is that 'Wall street Is devouring us.' "What a nation needs is a perfect balance of the different interests, so that neither party can 'devour" the other. With every party fighting for its lights, there i progress, and all of the parties advance together. The ef fect of a class that is "satisfied" Ir to be found in Morpcco; the members of the "satisfied" class wear gunnnacks for clothing and never register any concerted complaint against the gov ernment. "When scientific methods of financ ing the farmer and giving him equal opportunities generally with the man who moves to the city are adopted In this and other eountrles, the effect will be the ?-anie that it has been tn Germany, and powerful anrarlnn. or land partieB will spring up as political factions, offsetting tho effeet of the radicals of the nation, whoso efforts, when properly balanced w-ith the ef forts of other parties, also make for genuine progress. This will have the effect. I believe, of etabllizlng the gov ernment. "The labor parties have already found it nd vantageous to cooperate with tl"' labor parties of other "Coun tries. The agrarian parties will find a similar advantage. The, third big party, composed of business interests, will, I believe, find similar advantage. Chambers of commerce already are demonstrating the effectiveness of International cooperation in many mat ters. In my belief, the ultimate inter national Working together of these three parties will have more to do with prbcuring univ-ersal peace, among sU civilized nations at least, than any measures of disarmament or super armament or International police or peace conference treaties that could be devised by nil the coming generations." in handling his patron afttr he was done with him. It would seem that the saloon's pro prietor ought to be at least as re sponsible In such a cane- an the Jitney driver who injures a man by careless driving, or as the man who accident ally killed a forest ranger for a bear. It la to be hoped that steps are ln progress to fix responsibility for the death of this man, even if he was only a poor booze-soaked by-product of the liquor "Industry," and thoughtful peo ple will again congratulate themselves that the man-traps, whera weak ones are taken in, squeezed dry and throwu out, well soon be no more. C L. P. In Jteply to Mr. Pye, Portland, Oct. 27. To the Editor of The Journal Mr. C. B. I'ye has un dertaken to answer several questions of Mr.'O. E. Frank, but lacks knowl edge and Impartiality. Germany to-o.-.y. although surrounded by foes, can carry on the war against half of the world because her people, from kaiser down to humble peasant, are one, be cause Germany, situated an ahu is. had t i prepare and was prepared with that inimitable German efficiency that foreseen things and does things aa they should ba done, because Germany fights for home and hearth, for the "fotherland," for 'civilization," "kul ture," freedom of the seas, for peace ful expansion and an evrlastlng hon orable )eace. To harp at the pres ent tinc, Just when England and her allies have ravaged the neutrality of "pcor little Greece" on "poor little Belgium," is preposterous. To say that Qterman-Americans were respon sible for explosions on ships, etc., Is an Insult. German-Americana are Americans first. However, they have a right to sympathise with the coun try they have sprung from. To say Germany glorifies war war for conquest, shows Ignorance, for Germany has kept peace for 40 long years, while other countries, includ ing England, did not. As far as protection Is concerned, other nations. Including our own United States, seem to be waking up and re member that protection, or better pre paration for protection, ln time of peace insures success when war really knocks at their doors. We, too, should be prepared, and be well prepared, for the time will come when TJncle Bam will have to fip-ht. MAXIMILIAN LUCKE. A Ileal Attraction. From the New York Sun. Now Bulgaria is going into the pub lishing business. Why doesn't Cra r Ferdinand show genuine originality nd gt out his Green Book with a girl on the- front cove' : , , Tneonce Oven Y RtX UeVMPMAT RAIN IN OREGON ' I 'HE rain has come to Oregon, the A centle itrumminr rtin i It has set the shingles sinjinf to its oldentime refrain; The ditches leap with music and the grass springs glad again . Beneath the fairy footsteps of the lightly marching rain. The sweetly-singing'raln is here, the soft, susurrant rain, Tucking in as would a mother with cloud-coverlets the plain; Crooninv; lullabies at night-time, humming songs a'l through the day, Making hearts light with its singing, calling children forth to play. The hills are misty-mantled that but now were rich to see In gold and regal purple, autumn's splendid panoply; Their summits, In the sunshine stand ing like a strong man proud, Jiave been taken for a campground by the cohorts of the cloud. The rain has come to Oregon, the silver-shrouded rain Its peaceful, petting patter Is upon our roofs again, A subdued, subduing symphony, a soothing tender strain The rain has come to Oregon; the sweet-voieed singing rain. Joys and Borrows of an Oregron Coun try Editor. FYom the .Kilter I.nkc Ternler. Recent news from several of our friends Is to the effect that someone is saying the Lender is the poorest news shet It has been for yearn, etc., etc., etc , rt'"., ete., etc., etc, etc., etc., j etc., etc. ete., etc., and that a good paper should b started etc., etc., etc , etc., etc., world without end. amen tho same old lingo one. hears from certain element In any c-ninnyjnity where a newspaper Is published It sounds llk the criticisms of tHe schoolboy on the I'eMoss opera, "f didn't like the way those boys sang while they were talk ing, " mid in effei 1 the same kind of knowledge. It all pises u. the, feeling of the university lovs who nre vic torious in a football a ramble "rnh, "rah, whoop, wham, ham, tattle smash. Jam, 'rah. 'rah, whoop! The difference between the men who don't know and educate. 1 minds who do, Is well illustrated in a letter which we lust received from the department of Journalism. University of Oregon, Eugene. Wo quote as follows: Killtor of lender. Sllrer Lake. Or.-Oedr Sir: The tnnrkeil rnpv uf ttie !'n1er rrlel the ether dm. iind I urn willing to tell yon. If ru don't nlremly Wii"W It. whnt (rw1 li'okhiK pii,er it i 1 ililnk v,i he 1mi wnmlT" wben one ..,iiiJfr thn .iinnciiru ef pnptilHlUm tn reur fieltt. I i.rlrtrnt My, we ery appreciative uf the kindly nolle of tht rentier. I,et n have a !eriiitl letter from you if yon ever get time at Intereatei In your dlxlrlit and won lit like to know bnw jon ar uuiklng It. Klneereljr yon. (ill. IN ". DYMKNT. The prattle which resulted in bring ing our fiienda to this office wlth'tim news is not worth the mention, hut we t(k tills method for on e and for oil of teiliiiLT that that for their talk wn do not care one little- d--n. Hut a bouquet from a man like M . 1'yment we thoroughly appreciate, l ncle Jeff Know Say: "Lots of smart men can peddle hot rlr. and pet away with It; but the worst of- lt is, It flllus gets to be habit. I'd rather he a New Jersey mosquito than a Serbian bulldog right about now." Why Does He Do It? Norton Hobo Is the editor, pub- Usher and bill gon Optimist, field. ollector of the 're published at S'lan- And he's an optimist, nil right. I know he I', bemuse If he wasn't he wouldn't dure arranga his nam the way he does. It seems to trie (hat It would b better to spell out his f J r t tinrao, whatever It is. And thus dissolve the fatal affinity that the Initial "P" hus for his ec ond nmue. And of course. I don't know what he would do to improve his laat name But, anyway, K. Norton Bobo hat a lot of trouble which ho hnl brought on htBiKeir with peopla whu think his name offers a peerless op portunity for playful punning. He tells about It ln th last lasut of his paper: IF YOTT happen to be named B. Nor ton nobo AND YOU WKRK over thirty year Old AND for thirty years EVERY village wit you met AND were Introduced to ORINNKU like a di!a cat AND" SWELLED X'P like, a pnu'ei pigeon AND said OH! Pnortan Hobo, eh? AND THEN looked like h ha1 pulled THE SMARTEST original Joke in history AND IF you had heard this sam Joke ALL YOUR life or some 8,000,001 times wnnLPN'T YOU commit murder THE VERY next time It was"sprune ornyou? f NOW wouldn't you' INDEX OF ADVANCING TIDE OF PROSPERITY From the New York Times. t Taken by ltnelf, there would not be- much significance in the fact J that for the week ended October Id I the exports footed up the smastng I total of 173,694,600, tha greateat I ln the country's history. But I this is only single circumstance I among many showing the pros- persous trend of conditions. In t many lines of manufacturing nn. I wise connected with the making I of war materials orders for goods i are declined because producing ra- f J paclty has Been reached. Th I transportation facilities are being overtaxed In the movement of freight. Wages in many kinds of occupation are being raised,, and, in quite a number, the jobs ere beginning to seek the men. ,.Tho abundance of the harvests "baa been demonstrated, and has led to the enlargement of purchasing to such an extent that hurry.or 9er have come to the central mar kets from retailers tn nearly every section- Tho who foresaw 'the quickening of activity and. pro vided for it In advance will oe larsra gainers becauaa - of thatr f foreslgh'.' . -; - ;..v.,:.s,'-Y,.r.V. ,