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THE OREGON DAILY "JOURNAL PORTLAND, FRIDAY, DECEMBER. 3. 1915.
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r
When tiie press is th: echo
of sag-s and leformers. it
works w.-ll; when it is- the
echo of turbulent i vr.ii'. it
merely feeds political excite
ment. Ianiartino.
OIK NKYV RICH
HR Dupont Powder Company
baa declared a dividend of j
thirty per cent on its ne
common stock. The dividend
-embodies a disbursement of $17.
.756,268. I America is beholding the ad
vent of a new crop of millionaires.
-;They ar6 munition millionaires.
f Wars always contribute a ne'V
contingent to millionairedom. This
Is notably true of modern wars.
-Before the American Civil '.war
there were few swollen fortnnes
in the United States. What was j
a swollen fortune then would be
ibut a moderate competence now in
millionaire row. It was with the
;Clvil war that the new breed made
ti great start aud began to mul
tiply. J War is frenzy. It knows no
limitations. It must have powder
tand guns and projectiles and auto-
inobires and barbed wire and aTl
the other equipment for camp and
'campaign, and it ;3 desperately
reckless as to prices.
f Any- intelligent view of condi
tions absolutely suggests that
American munition kings should be
;made to bear a just proportion of
jthecost that a foreign war haslder at his wrath, for their sallies
tlaid upon America. For 1 6 months, i grow fiercer as the meeting time
jmany American industries have of Congress draws near and as
suffered heavily from the effect? their ferocity waxes their regard
iof the conflict. Today, in a time for truth diminishes. Apparently
;Of profound peace at home, Ameri
cans are taxed for creation of puh
jllc revenues to supply deficiencies
fthat the war . has brought upon
ithis country. It would be justice
jand sound economic policy for the
fcnen who are gathering princely j one paragraph we are assured by
profits from the war to pay pro- j thefr organs that American ship
portionately to replenish the public pjnfr will be swept from the' seas
-Vrevenues cut down by the war. j ov tho ia Follette law. In the
I 11 1S situation mat congress
'ehould' meet. The worker whose
jwage has been reduced by the
-war, must, .when he borrows $100
jat the bank to keep the family go
ring, pay a war tax on the loan.
What folly to have him pay
'proportionately in replenishing
'public revenues with the powder
'.maker cr the gun maker or the
.projectile maker, whom the war
'is lifting into the classic walks of
-our new rich.
I REVIVING 1UKAL CHURCHES
T
lit, commission on church and
country life has completed a
survey of the rural churches
in- Ohio. We are indebted to
the New York Evening Post fo
ran abstract of its interesting re
'port. It appears from this that
organized Christianity is losing
jTather than gaining ground In
'.Ohio, a fact which is singularly
discouraging in a state settled by
.the children of the Puritans and
hrell provided with schools, college?
and. newspapers. Two-thirds of
!the country churches in Ohio have
either ceased to grow or are ac
Jtuajly dying.
j - Only one-third of them have in
creased their membership in re-
v
cent vears. Manv of th r-hnrehoa
have only a little group of menil01 1L The eneiies of the La
;bers, hardly enough, one would
think, to undertake aggressive
;ChrIstian work in their communl-
Hbhl The smallest rf thom
only 25 members, or even fewer.
llElsh.ty-tb.ree per cent have les
than a hundred members, while
: only about one-fourth feel eaual
.to the support of a minister. In
Vitha ereat majority of the mri
jchuxches the minister divides his
Boitaxa auiuug iujcc, lour and
sometimes even six communities.
"Less than 40 'per cent of the
rural population are church mem
bers.
? :There is reason to believe that
:condltions in Ohio resemble .those
. iaiOtlier states. The comparative
ly few-fcountry churches which am
lshing condition to ministers who
zi6 exceptionally gifted with, com
mon sense and practical piety. . It
appalls one to think that so large
a part of tbe population of the
United States is living apart from
the direct influence of the churches.
If some of our fellow citizens
should lapse Into outright heathen
dom would it be astonishing?
The commission on church and
country life has undertaken a cam
paign to revive Ohio's rural
churches. The hope is that coun
try ministers can be made to see
that their preaching and "other
labors must be adapted to their
surroundings. A campaign will
be instituted to convert the
churches into genuine social cen
ters. The old denominational lines
are to be obliterated as much
possible and the old antagonisms
between religion and recreation
healed. With new usefulness it is
believed that the rural Christianity
will begin a new life.
THE BEK.MAX DISMISSAL
THERE is strong belief that
the dismissal of Chief Quar
antine Officer Beeman from
the city, service is not from
worthy motives.
There is no charge that he is
incompetent. On the other hand,
there Is much insistence that he is
one of the most competent em
ployes on the city payroll.
There is no charge that he is
inefficient. On the contrary there
is unqualified statement that he is
very efficient in all his work.
There is no charge that he is
neglectful of his duties. On the
contrary, there is reliable informa
tion to the effect that he is one
of, the most devoted and faithful
employes in the city service. Kc
night has been too dark or stormv,
no day's duties too strenuous to
deter him from responding prompt
ly and aggressively to every ca'i
for his services.
As a matter of fact, well iii
forraed peopie are of the opinion
that the Beeman dismissal is petty
thimblerigging, that' it reflects no
credit on those responsible for it,
and that it' should not have a plact
in commission covernmcnt.
Efficient public servants are too
difficult to retain, for their re
ward to bo dismissal. This thought
should commend itself to the
mayor, whose friendship for Dr.
Marcellus seems to have carried
him in this instance -into what
appears to be a clearly unjustifi-
able act.
Tlr. Marcellus lias no rijrht to
use his puhlic position as city
health officer as a private appurte
nance to be employed for gratify
ing his pcrsnoal likes and dislikes.
The position of health officer be
longs to Portland, cot to Dr. Mar
cellus or the mayor.
FOi:S Of' THE K-VIENS ACT
S
EN'ATOR LA POLL EJT T E
comes out in "lis personal
magazine with a sledge ham
mer attack on the enemies of
his shipping bill. We do not won-
the shipping trust magnates ball:
at no mendacity which may tena
to injure the prospects of the Sea
men's act
They do not deem consistency
necessary in their campaign. Ir
next it comes out that our shin-
yards were never so busy before.
"Commerce and Finance," a Wall
street paper, says in the issue for
November 24 that "merchant ship
building in the United States has
increased greatly." There is un
usual activity in shipyards of all
the nentral nations but "the in
crease," saysi'Lloyd's Register, "is
most marked in America where
there is at present under construc
tion and on order, for classification
in Lloyd's Register, the largest
amount of tonnage on record for
the country."
"The largest amount of tonnage
on record for tha country." Tha.
does not strike one as anything
like the disappearance of American
shipping from the seas. it looks
more like a new birth of the in
dustry. American shipping ha3
been in a bad way ever since tho
days of the Civil war when it
really was swept from the seas
by Confederate privateers, it has
never regained its old status be
cause it has been hampered bj
idiotic navigation laws and bar
baric tariff restrictions. The Eu
ropean war now offers an oppor
tunity for our shipping to recover
Its ancient prestige and the build-
era seem to be taking advantage
Folletto law could afford to pay
them something handsome to con
ceal their growing prosperity.
BUT A FEW MILLIONS LEFT
r
N CONNECTION with the recent
birthday of Andrew Carnegie
the statement waa made that he
had only a few more million
dollars left to give away in order
that he might die a poor man.
In the morality play of Every
man there is a scene in which
Wealth frantically clutches, hla
gold determined that he world
shall have no part or parcel in it.
une oi me most sincere regrets
of "the miserly soul in dying is
that it cannot take its money with
4 It but must leave it behind for
others to share. '
-.'It would aot be fair to place 'all
rich men In this class because we
cannot see them open their purses.
There are a few among them who
successfully resist the hardening
influence of great wealth and are
not ruled by It.
They keep it in a subordinate
place. In gaining the world they
do not lose their own souls.
WHILK VK WELT
A
NORWEGIAN ship "that re
cently left Portland for Na-j
pies receives $240,000 for
delivering her cargo of 10.-1
.. . , ..
000
ions oi nortnwest wueai. duc
is expected to make the run to
her destination in about 4 0 days.
In Portland, for supplies and
insurance and wages for her sail
ors and other expenses, her cap
tain paid out nearly $12,000. At
Naples, further disbursements of
about $8000 will be made on sim
ilar accounts, making a total ex
pense of about $20,000,. leaving a
profit of $220,000, which is ap
proximately the present value of
the ship.
In Portland we try to get rich
off of one another by buying and
selling town lots. We are trying
to pull ourselves up by our own
bootstraps, which cannot be done.
We have giant trees from which
to build ships and willing hands
to do the fashioning and almost
countless tons of wheat to be car
ried over seas.
But it is the Norwegians that
build the ships and carry our
grain, and set away with, the
bacon.
And we go on lending monev,
and swapping lots and wrestling
with the unemployed and sobbing
about tie times and weeping be
cause our ocean commerce doesn't
grow faster.
A CHALLENGE TO PORTLAND
IT IS a pleasure to read the
agreeable story of water front
arrangements at Davenport.
Iowa. The facts appear in an
article on this page.
Order, intelligence, beauty and
efficiency are among the charming
contemplation that the printed pic
ture of Davenport unfolds. It i
a picture to awaken both the ad
miration and the envy of any city.
It embodies the municipal progress
that has appeared in 6trongly de
veloped form in European cities,
notably in Germany, where effici
ency and enlightened advancement
have set example for the whole
world.
In the narration of details in
the Davenport situation, appears
this significant paragraph:
A community of exceptional seri
ousness of community purpose and
willingness to pay the price of com
munity advancement has found in
Norwood a man who understands
liow t') eliminate community friction
and make tbe efforts of men of dif
ferent capacities and ideas refnforje
igfetead of neutralizing each other.
Harmonious community purpose
was Davenport's way to an ad
vancement that makes her a chal
lenge to every American city, the
pleasing contemplation of every
American community. ,
It io another Davenport chal
lenge to Portland.
THE LITTLE TI1EATRH
THE Little Theatre, which opens
at the end of this week at
Twenty-third and Washington
streets, is an enterprise of
the Drama league. It3 primary
purpose is to give the league a
local habitation where it may per
form its functions with a feeling
of permanence. . The dramatic
readings will be heard at the Lit
tle Theatre this winter and the
regular meetings of the league
will be held there.
But this does not end the tale
of the Little Theatre's activities.
It is to present a series of plays,
some of which could not perhaps
be accessible to Portland people
in any other way. Very likely the
plays will be staged with the mod
ern improvements in theatrical art.
Some of these advances pertain to
lighting effects, which have been
particularly studied in Russia.
Others secure a wide background
and deep perspective by certain
modifications of the ordinary flat
scenery. The Little Theatre also
affords opportunity for that in
timacy between spectators and
actors which is supposed to be es
sential in much modern dramatic
work. Its fortunes will be fol
lowed with hopeful interest by the
intellectual public of Portland.
A COUNTRY'S YOUTH
1
ORE appalling than the de
struction of old cathedrals j
and ancient works of art is
the an nouncement thai,
France will call to arms the flower
of her youth. One half million
boys of 18, who in the ordinary
course, would not be subject to
military duty for a year or two,
are to be enlisted at once. It Is
promised that they will not be
placed in the trenches unless su
preme necessity should demand.
It is easy to realize that such a
Condition may arise.
Cathedrals and worgs of art
may be restored but the lives of
a country's y.outh when once de
stroyed are gone forever.
Weeding Their Own Patch.
From Collier's -Weekly.
We note that on a fair day In No
vember the Justices of the appellate
court of New York debarred IS ia-w-ytrs,
suspended aeven, from practice
for one year or more, ceYisured aix. and
referred charges against two others to
the official referee. If this keeps up
we'll think more of what Is left. of the
legal profession, and New York will
be a safer place.
THt POPULAR
BUG SONG
From .Commerce and Finance.
S a clever skit upon the present
fashion in'microbes and bacilli the J
following lines will be apprect- j
ated. They were composed by Roy At-i
well and are sung by him in "Alone at '
Last," now running at Shubert's ttua-
.
lre' '
J" these days of indigestion
It is ofentime a question
As to what to eiWt and what to leave
alone;
r'or each microbe and bacillus
Has M diffP,.nt wav , Uilf ..-
And in time they always cUiim ua '
for their own. .
There are eermii of everv klml
!, . w. . . 7 , , i to almost anyone tnai it win ikbl
Jn anv food that you can find , , , , , .v,
In the market or upon the bill of , rca1 more to haul i. curlpud or wheat
fare. to Puget Sound than it will to haul
Orinklnn water s just as risky ! to Portland; but on that account the
As the so calaed deadly whiskey. u -W will not pass up the business to I
And it s often a mistake to breathe , lts rivals lf tmU cark)ad la required ;
e alr' j to help make a cargo at Puget Sound. ,
Some little bug Is going to find you I Not by any means; that wheat will be I
some day. hauled 150 or more miles farther at
So,?ie s & wlu creei behind yolz;T
Ind'arrrthtrouole' j to haul commodities, aud
Some little hug 1.1 going to find you ' cre Kdng to meet each other on a com-
some day. ; petitive basis in order to get that i
The inviting ereen cucumber
Get h most everybody's number.
While t..e green corn has a system!""1 '" l"e se"e'" Bc'"r! , !
of its own'
Though a radish' seems nutritious
Its behavior Is unite vicious, 1
And a doctor will be coming to your j
home. i
if.l wSZSZlYZ?? '
.While an oyster sometimes has a lot
in iv
Put the clams we eat in chowder
Make the angels chant the louder.
Kr them HglTaway1 We'H
e ' "
Take a slice of nic fried onion
And you're fit for Or. Munyon,
Apple dumplings kill you quicker
fw 'MJhv'n.il.i.t -rabbit"
Aiid a grav you "ll soon inhabit
Ah. to eat at all is such a foolish
game.
r-atmg nucaieoerry pie ,
WF, K i, . r.r,
i f o,0 i.rJi,, i
When you eat banana fritters
Kverv unaertnKer litters,
And the casket makers nearly o In-!
eane.
Some little bug is going to find you
some day.
Some little bug will creep behind you
some day,
With a nervous little quiver
He'll give cirrhosis of tho liver:
Pome little bug is going to find
some day.
When cold storage vaults I visit
I can only say what is it
Makes poor mortals fill their s
terns with such stuff?
Now, for breakfast, prunes are dajid
If a stomach pump is handy
And your donor can be found quite
soon ennugrw
Kat a plate of fine pigs' knuckles .
And the head stone cutter chuckles, '
vv niie ine grave aigger mah.es a note ;
upon hl cuff.
Pal thnt lnvrlv red holneim
And you'll wear a wooden klmona, ! That is also a mistake, for one can
As your relatives start scrapping ! not be deprived of a rigiit, but merely
bout your stuff. !
Some little bug Is going to find you
some day
Some little bug' will creep behind you
some day.
Fating juicy sliced pineapple
Makes the sexton dust the chapel ;
soraedaT to fmd ou
All those crazy foodp thev mix
W ill float oa 'cross the River fttyx,
m'fkv way' cUmb'nK up the
And the'meals we eat In courses.
Mean a hearse and two black horses.
So before a meal bo me people always
r.fnLn..wH.
A vl the juke leads ?o wstrltl.
So there's only? Veat to greet us
either way;
And fried liver's nice. hut. mind you.
F AnMU
things to say.
Some little bug is going to find you
some day.
Some little bug will creep behind you
some day.
Kat some sauce, they call it chill.
On your breast thev'll place a lilv.
Some little bug is goin to find "you
some day f
V
People Belonv, to Corporations?
r'rr.ni I.a V'ollette's Magazine.
The Manufacturers News, which Is
always a staunch supporter of the :
claims of public utili(v corporations, , merely turn that wealth Into legiti- i idea that ins community was "'-i"
editorially comments on the recent ! mate channels. Money that goes into j on valuable rights and possibilities.
. ,,, ...... , i the coffers of the saloon millionaires Mr. Peteisen went to (.erman and
ruling of the public utilities commis- I go for ero,.erteH aml nothing studied the relations of towns to rivers
sion regard.iig Jitney buses, as follows: J and baj-.k accounts. The saloon is the i and river traffic. He paid special at
"The jitnev motor car vehicle was i greatest enemy the laboring man has. j ttr.tion to the financing of large river
definltelv and finally disposed of In 1 The woodsmen of the northwest will front improvements in the ; nlr3
Ulinols when the pubc utilities com- -ndmoc.hs Inth woodsy the , es
mission assumed Jurisdiction. The j to the clty niow n his earnings, and ' baric determined on two things: That
Jitney is no longer possessed of letter I when ha is broke the man behind the j Davenport should improve its river-
of marque to prev upon the legitimate
- ...
iu UEiri'.T, .11 I n i . i ' . i i- i i i n ii lulu n i inn
lines."
It will be noted that this amounts
practically to a declaration of owner-
ship of passengers, holding that thecal experience. P. S. WH1TCO.MB.
people belong to the "regular trans- !
portatlon lines" (which of course I
means the big public utility corpora- Tne journal Some time ago the Ore
tTons), in other words that the people J go n I an took courteous editorial issue
are the property of the corporations. I with the writer when he ventured to
That claim will be reversed some day
when the public utility corporations
will be taken over as the property of
the people.
Song of the Watchers.
Alice Puer Millet In New VurW Tribune.
They told us it was dangerous
For women at the polls;
They told us it would smirch, degrade
and coarsen women's souls.
We found it quite the opposite
And want to tell you now
That men are nicer people
Than the antis will allow.
Letters From the People
i 'Commnnleatknja ent to The jVirnal for
! Dublleatioo In ttala department ahuold be writ-
ten on only one side of the paper, abould not
exceed S'JO words in length aud must be ac-
companied by tbe name aDd addreaa of the
aenaer. If the writer doea Dot desire to hare
Uiw name published, he ahould ae staue)
r
"DIculon 1 the treateat of all reformer.
It rationalises CTerythlng It touches. It robs
principles of all false wioetlty and throw them
back on their reaaoniibleuesa. if they have Do
reaanableneas. It ruthlessly crushes them out
of eiiatenca and tet up lta own roucloaioDs
la thair atead." Woodruw Wllaon.
Portland's Kate Question.
Portland, Nov. 30. To the Editor of
The Journal Why la It that so mary
of our citizens are struggling under
what they think is a sort of Incubus
In the matter of the preferential re
quest of the Chamber of Commerce In
connection with the Astoria parity
rate as Indorsed by that body some
time ago?" To my mind there .fa no
,.:..-! frw mk mneh unh.la.n.
and import being attached to that re-
auest for a preferential rate for Port-
. , . . . l . , , . . .
land. X ne resoiuuuu muvrsei positive-
ly and unequivocally Aatoria's eon ten -
Hon for. an equality rate with Puget
Bound; the euppoaedly modifying re-
quest which follows later on in the
resolution, should be considered
of no
greater importance than
I? the wording gives It: . t -1
merely a request, and that is all. TU
Chamber could Just as well have aaaexi
for rates onfy one-half as great as the
terminal rates which it Indorses. nd
the railway company would be Justified
m treating such a request as It does
thousands of other requests made by
! hundreds of otlier cities throughout
llin TTnifeH Ktutou Tip fart Ol the
mutter Is that terminal rates cannot
be entirely equalized solely upon the
" haul. Place the maps of the J
four or flve riIroad8 of the Northwest
bttore you on the table ana taKe, ior ,
instance IVn.Urt,.,, as a starting point; I
common sense will tell you that a pre- !
ferenttal for Portland is not justified
by the logic of the situation. As I
i understand it. parity rates are riven f
! from competitive points, or territory. ;
to terminal cities, and a glance at the ,
,Ilap of the o.-V. will make It clear ;
. .. . .-., .
business. Competitive hauls may pay
i.uu ,fit ,,.,.nntitiv hauls '
..rfit thn nnn-comn-titlv. hauls
..... , . , !
..... .u- i .... .V,o .n,1
1 ousiiiess jcar mo iiimc (
'complemented by the latter, and the;
lower rates for the long" competitive
hauls are justified by the greater prof-
its on the non-competitive hauls. Port-
land will never get a preferential rate
against Puget Sound and Astoria j
(where l:itier citv secures its Dar- .
. ay rate with the sound) that is, not !
.until ships quit coming up the river
I lor t:arS- In that case Portland would j
be entitled to a lower rate as an inland '
(city. It is not possible that she will !
allow herself to be so classified in :
rejlU.; the,efoi.. she will have to bo :
satisfied soon or later with the ter -,
jmiral rates established, by Pcget Sound ,
and Astoria, regardless of what the .
j tiiiiispoi tatlon bureau of the Cham- i
Utr of Commerce tries to effect to tlie
contrary. That a.lded rtuuebt in ti.e
"
resolution is mer
another artificial
! hindrance flung into the rate case to
I try to stav the hand of rate a little
try to stay tiic nana hi rate a June:
longer. The old Portland spint dle8 .
rA nvxM tiim lun-v,!. i
, j .,::. ,t
Liii-cott s Opinions.
Reviews Mr.
C.ladstoiie,
Or., Nov. :!0. To the
iEditor of The Journal 1 was intr- ; enp0rt, on the upper Mississippi,
csted ill reading K. A. Linsc ott's :ir- j
you tide' in the interest of the saloon Davenport is a trim and beautiful
(Also, as a young man of 23, I am in-; town of 50,CK'0 people. In two Import
It crested in scraping t!e barnacles off ant particulars it closely resembles
, the shio of state. Mr. L,inscott de- i St. Louis. At the foundation of the
i scribes prohibition as hell, aJid hell as
'a place of physical torment, a place
i where you can't get a- drink. This is
m.staKe. lor i am inclined to accept
nis aesenpuon or nen as wnere ui
soul is in a Ftate of torment." Also.
l,e describes it as hell "where one
cIa8s deprives the other of lhe right
to partake of the fruits of the earth."
0f the exercise of that right
Rights
,
j He exclaims that "when one class
I puts another in a Etate of torment it
'brings a halt to the advance of civili -
zatlon (of mankind) and creates class
hatred . . . an,i finally will lead
' to one of the bloodiest conflicts the
i world ever saw." Perhaps that Is the
key to the present troubles of the
I t,oJv oolitic torment dus to the
' barnacle, the saloon.
i Prohibition comes under the right of
' eminent domain, that the good of tHe
rnajority must be the first considera-
Ition. and incidentally the good of the
! majority is In the long run the good
of the minority.
; Mr. Linscott says further that when
w trv t0 octroy the creations of
roying our industrial
I and commercial life. Industrialism
arc inalienable.
und commercialism are truly tne lire! -ii siones 01 -oo. m u.., ..
of the world. 1 personal history at the bottom. This
Again I m ist disagree. Industry is rro exception. Davenport has a busi
and commerce are truly the life of , nofs community of exceptional quality,
the world bi t industrialism and com- I but that quality would not have
mercialism are as truly the blight of evt ntuated in the river and harbor
tho world. Industry and commerce ! works now taking shape there, had
have nothing in common with the i net two men of exceptional endow
saloon bum and loafer. Neither does , n.. nt stood in pluces of strategic op
the saloon create wealth. It is the j portunity.
parasite, living off the wealth created The fir.-t is a merchant of German
bv other industries. Its removal birth but American reanns-W. l
would not destroy wealth, but would Petersen. Becoming possessed of the
i bar says, "I know you not,"end there
, i wnUintr and imashine of teeth. If
- .
any une minns iu aaiuuu ia mc .,rn.
of mankind, let him ask the man who
has blown in his summer's wages in
riotous living. He can tell, from ac-
Censorship.
Portland Dec. 1. To the Kditor of
Fay that ceusoiyiiip ioi newyuueia
would be as fair as it is for moving
pictures. Said the editorial: "fuhllc
opinion has made censorship of news
papers unnecessary." The word should
ll.... w. ...,h-Jiki - f- .v,,f (U
the proper American synonym for
censorship of any kind, whether the
object of it be the overgrown motion
picture baby, or the battle scarred
newspaper.
The exhibitors of the motion pic-
tutes did not as the Oregonian said
want censorship. It was thrust upon
them by the howling reformers (who
whisper only into the city councils
('HI aiLU COC, IOC t-VlitUiiul f-i, .m;v,
il hopefully because many decent
minded people allowed themselves to
be convinced that it was the only way
j of curing prurient pictures and nior-
Kiai, In, lln,.,l natrons llcnrlv ha
, nnn,. manufacturer and exhibitor
t,ie honest manuiaciurer ana exniDitor
paid for his moment of indecision, for
1 he has learned that the censor is just
as unqualified to know the public
mind, or his troubles, as old Mother
Grundy is to dress my little girl.
And now Portland proposes a form
of censorship that will allow a hun
dred dollar a month clerk o arbitrar
ily decide the fate of productions by
reputable producers productions that
acarreaate In any one week of exhibi
tion hundreds of thousands of dollars
of cost, and with absolutely no other,
uppeal from her decisions than to her
coworkers on a socalled board of cen
sor! that representsneither the taste
nor the wishes of the public.
No supreme Judgeof the land is In
vested with such pxwer as this ordi-
' nance proposes, and why In the name
of common sense. Und even Siberian
4 A m,a 1 ' should it hA intrTlsteH t n
! lone reformer operating from the tail
' end of a police patrol wagon?
If XXf I,
t .
!
Federal Employe.
Portland. Or, Not,- 23. To the Edi-
j tor of The Journal The article and.
editorial in Tbe Journal referring to
'the condition among the federal em-
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
Jupiter Ptuvius Is a jronerous pro
vider of juice for electrical week,
a
Remember rwtnnla W ho helD the
Muti In their good work are not uecea-
sarily inuts-
jeopIe of few words ought to be
well .pp for entering the Rose
Festival slogan contest.
Tliere is to be no Portland auto
- r' "B --
Sr.eak.insr as a us veholorist. not as
a phophet. Professor Munsterburg says
the war will end in the spring, thus 1
Putting peace prophecy on a scientific .
basis.
m
. .
"t rifle Joe " Cannon showed his
prytiess by dodging a Washington
auto. His agility in getting out of
.atit'er may come In handy when the
hand wagon starts next November.
Oregon and Washington are uncer-
tain about their boundary line, bo are
eome of the Kuropean nations, but
,
Sheriff Hurlburt says cows should
be taught not to loiter in the center of
y. v yw uu.j i y
Montesorri or the . roebel system of
"lon.,eBorr or me r roeoei system 01
"" "."! '
ifwwng, unless the tienri nas at
Vlsert omethln better,
A CHALLENGE
Uavenport, Iowa. Correspondence, 5t.
Louis Republic.
While other Mississippi river com-
munities always and honorably ex-
cepting New Orleans have merely
tliiked river terminals and waterfront
improvement iJavenport has acted.
T, , Q,id , prosper0UB Iowa com-
, " , . ,
nuinlty has actually, worked out and
partially complete a comprehensive
plan for realising the utmost from the
waterfront, both along the lines of
utility and beauty, end has done It
in such a way as to make it put money
h, tha oitv trdimin' InkfPBfl C T t a W Tl tT
' o
it out. i
When asked: "Where is there
,,,,.,(
typical example of the utilization of
a n v.rfront by a city for large com-
munity ends?'' the traveled American
! bus answered at random: "At Ius-
.... . ... n,1VL.
: ans,vp, with Derfect truth: "AtDav-
; commercial and social structure is a
large north German element. And the
! city has had the forethought and -ood
i i " "".";,
. mi uum an ."-
of the river and its possibilities. St.
Louis people, may view Iiavenport's
achievements as those of a town with
the same sort of a riverfront as ours,
and the same sort of people living be
hind it- A third point of resemblance
! Is its financial stability. Uaveiiport
Ihonw. hv t'tn. 000.000 of decor-its. and
,..,rr more than 40 000 accounts
carry more tnan u,uuu ao ouiiim.
I Built on limestone bluffs where the
1 interior uplands of Iowa break sharp-
lv down to the edge of the river, Dav-
enport stand, at the foot of the up-
per rapids of the Mississippi. Its street
cars are run from the water power
furnished by the government dam. and
! the smoke of the factories of larger
I community Of 110,000 people mingle
, in the upper air. Tor Slollne ana kock
Island He Just across the stream. nv
years ago Davenport was beautiful,
pretty much everywhere except along
! the riverfront. There there were refuse
dumps and uncomely riats. winch
looked like the universal scrap-heap
of creation.
; ,
i rrcnt, ana mat u.iwl o.,
1 ray for these improvements,
but
should make them pay for themselves.
ployes strikes tbe nail on the head.
Some weeks ago the writer had busi
ness at the custom house and Inad
vertently entered the wrong room.
There were five federal employes
lounging around, and although it was
in mid-afternoon, two had their feet
on the desk, while the others jweje
draped nonchalantly over the rest of
the furniture. Cigar smoke was waft
ing gently upwards and a jolly story
was in progress. "With an Indifferent
(.Tnd unabashed) wave or the nana tne
i writer was directed to tbe proper room.
On another occasjon the writer waa
present at the. custom house when four
small tables were needed Now eacn
of the tables was about three reet by
one and a half feet In dlmens ions and
weighed about 10 pounds. One man
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,,,taTTT- - -
T" .-.nnAinn
4 NULAUr AU VAINLrl 1 1 V3 J
V
TIDE OF PROSPERITY
,
From the New York Times. t
After Thanksgiving day the re- a
tail trade of the country tuma to
the holiday business and this has
new begun in all the large centers.
t The auspices under whicn tniai naa
T started are brighter than for many
I years. Aside from the generally
prosperous conditions whleh pre-
vail and which are usually coti
t trolling, the business has been
T heljed very much this fall by
I ideal weather that brought with it
seasonable purchases before the
t time came fo
tne nouoay uuue
to begin. The character and ex-
T -tent of these purchases nave oeen
so satisfactory that an equally a
-gratifying amount of holiday buy-
ing is expected. Large stocks of
1 goods have been accumulated to t
1 meet the demand and they are, as J
' a rule, of higher grade than his I
been customary in recent year.
tv.Iw 1 in deference to the chanaed
J k aspect that has been brought about J
.' by the quickening of ac tivity In -
.. . , 1 . . (t.fii.tr.. v.h I
l pravcucaii jr 5cij ".
! ! the accompaniment of Increased
wages and greater employment.
t And these things merely supple-
( J ment the riches drawn from fields, I
j ! far-ma .and mine.
iaaaaaaaTTTTr-TT -f
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
"Shop early and ship early," Is the
Bend Bulletin's iender.it of the fa
miliar Christmas textT
The Baker Herald admonishes its
readers to do their Christmas wishing
early and ask Santa flaus to briuf
cluster lights to Baker."
The Christmas slopan has been one
irto rhyrue by the Salem Statesman,
thus: "Don't be stingy, sad or surly.
Husband, wife or buy or girlie, do your
Christmus shopping early."
Speaking of the apple crop the .ood
River News says: "The over-produc-
tier, bugaboo is beginning- to fade into
thin air a "Ptre which ha, lrisht-
The Gardiner Courier reports that
tho corn shows recently held in Mr sh
fleld, Coquille and Myrtle Point have
vastly increased the Interest in that
pioouct. Soine of the finest coin
grown in Iouglas county vas grown
tl.is year in the lower L'mpqua valley
along Smith river.
Reserved tribute paid a neighbor
town by the Pendleton Kast Oregonian;
"The people of Hermtston have ;ir
ratiged for a tax of one and a third
mills for library purposes. That ac
tion is a badge of honor for "lermiston
and typifies the progress! veness of
west etid people and their desire to pro
vide the best advantages for their
young men and women.."
TO PORTLAND
and then return a steady income to
the city in perpetuity.
The second man is Irving C. NbrV
wood, the secretary of Davenport, The
title has not been conferred on Mr.
Norwood officially, but here is a man
who is secretary of the Davenport
Commercial club, the greater Daven
port committee, the Davenport Retail
Merchants association and the Daven
port Manufacturers' association, and
has all of thes organizations housed
under .a--t.gle roof and working in
harmony, lilfe the Arab team that Ben
Ilur drove to the chario;. If he Is
not the secretary of Davenport, we
should like to ask what !.; is A
community of exceptional seriousness
of community purpose and willingness
to pay the price of community ad
vancement has found in Norwood a
man who understands bow to elimi
nate community friction and nmke the
efforts of men of different capacities
arid ideas retnforce Instead of neu
tralize each other.
uavenport raises more than 1 per
capita per year for municipal promo
tion. First, Davenport got the Inited
Slates engineers to establish harbor
1'tns, out tVw.'iirh the town might fil!
in the river flits. Then a sea wall was
started, two feet above tile record
flood, and three miles long, a mile of
which is now completed. The con
struction of this sea wall, and the fill
behind it, reclaims 140 acres of land
of the most valuable character. It is
characteristic of this community that
the first part of the plan to be com
pleted was a lovely riverside park,
t.ine acres In extent. And the business
sense of Davenport takes honest pride
In the fact that a park worth at cur
rent prices $L'70.000 cost Just (51.000.
Above th riverside park there is a
break in the limestone sea wall, which
fcwr.eps back In graceful curves at
either end of a. space perhaps 12uo
feet long. A eloping levee of the fa
miliar typ gives ferryboats and pack
ets a chance to land and receive pas
sengers in the traditional way.
Just north of this levee Is the site
of the municipal terminal. Here will
rtand a municipal warehouse, with
electric cranes, aUitch tracks, space
for wagons. eb Here all sorts of
packet freight may be inexpensively
handled.
Beyond the municipal terminal Is
the industrial terminal, with the sea
wall on one side, and switch tracks on
the other. This is divided into tracts
of approximately 10.000 square feet,
which are to be leased at low rentals
perhaps $600 annually each. The fill
ing is not completed here, and but a
small fraction of the space is leased
in conxequence, but every dollar of in
terest on the cost of the project thu
far has been paid out of rentals, and
$7000 worth of lionds have been re
tired beside, lielow the riverside n.irk
a much larger tract will be similaily
treated. s
a '
The completion of lhe 8 foot water
way forming the link between the
Chicago drainage canal and the Henne
pin canal will give Davenport a water
route to Chicago of about the same
length as the Rock Island railroad.
The imminent revival of traffic on
the Mississippi will find at least one
community ready to harvest its bene
fits. could have carried all four tablea: but
true to all the, sacred traditions of fed
eral employes, the bead Janitor was
first summoned; he. In turn, marshalled
hio forces, and, in due course of time,
four colored assistants and second as
sistants Janitors, each proudly bearing
a diminutive table, proceeded slowly
and solemnly down the hall.
Some years ago a certain incumbent
of one of the higher appointive offlcea
at the custom house, was an enthusi
astic stud horse fancier. The writer
had occasion to spend several days in
his outer office; during that time there
was a continuous stream of smelly
horse fanciers and traders going in
and out of the private office, which
had been converted into headquarters
for loud discussions upon the merits
of various studs, fillies, mares, etc.
Horse trades were engineered and con
summated there and the general at
mosphere was more like that of a
Front street livery stable than thai
of a, government office.
To tiie writer's mind, most of this
waste ai,d inefficiency in government
office would be eliminated lf the
higher, bst paid offices were taken
out of tiiW realm of politics. What
li.ducement is there for a capable, am
bitious young man to enter any fed
eral department when he knows he can
not advance to the better positions?
Whenever a law 1h passed whereby the
higher federal positions are filled by
promotion, based on merit, it will auto
matically result in a better class of
men entering the subordinate positions,
and the J5000 positions wllWbe filled
by $S00u men. II. E. CASTELL.
The Tenant am Taxpayer.
Portland, Nov. 29. To the Kditor of
The Journal As The Journal has al
ways contended that the renter, or ten
aru), pays his proportion of the taxes, I
heartily agree with it. The average
renter knows that high taxes cause us
to pay more rent, more for clothing,
more for food and other necessaries.
Therefore we are capable of using the
ballot for our own interest. The land
lord who struts up to the courthouse to
pay the taxes is not so much of a tax
payer as the tenant who occupies the
premises. We' should all have a vote
on the school directors, aa this would
have a tendency to the selection cf Im
partial instructors.
- J. O. HANtEY.
Tt,eOncG0ver
SINCE LAST SATURDAY when I
printed the verses about Henry
Kxrd and his pear shlr there has
been a flock of letters.
JAnd the first ones whose writers ,
misunderstood were very bitter
against mt v
for writing what they thought
was blasphemy.
51 But since Tuesday when I tried
to make it clear j-j.st what the verse
meant the otl.r kind of letters
have been coming
JAnd one received this morning
says I made the Sainn mUtake in
the Ford v erses- -
as I attributed to Henry him
self in trying to d something
for mankinds bei.efit.
J"Vou dared to write something;"
he says which caused a niomefit'e
reflection a pause f.,r meditation."
JAnd tl.en he goes on to tell me
that this is a mistake.
a And he says to make my stuff
acceptable to everybody -1 should
keep it so to f-peak in tune with
the times
aj"You sh"'!,i adiust your writ
ings to the ideals of the people"
he says.
and then goes on and gives an
example of What the IMblic Wants
as follows:
"Picture tl:r. dashing young hero
with a maiden embraced in one arm
and an out. Mi etched hand In which
is clutched a icvlver sending It
deadly 1 ead into an army of eome
'fhree or fo.ir hundred, w'hid he I
holding at hay sihgle-hniided "
aj And when I r.-ad it -I half ex
pected that the nevt lire would be:
JUST A Mti.MK.NT. FI.KASK,
for a cmamik
of ki:kls.
J But It wasn't
and the letier cloe with best
wishes.
JAnd tliere rnav be souicMnpg in
what my fri nl wi o wiote ti e let
ter says.
But I think h-'s a little too se
vere on us
and by "is" 1 mean t lie Ameri
can people ell of us.
J And T believe ti nt most -,f u
are really vrv imi. Ii In earnest
about seeing j'jstii done.
)f curse -I l,iinlv We nte mis
led -- snrretiTnc - p.-:iiaps often by
false lights
- and that we seem to be touched
.'ust now with a little 0f the mad
n'fi tl.a has ir.arie Ilurope a aliam
bles 7 It it 1 '. cli-e that the cause of
hniy.-it: ' rt i i our keeping.
and that we must cherish Its sa
cred fire
and vplift ls l.cht to the world.
JAnd whete; it is a city ordi
nance or a lull before congress Wt
should o.p It or approv.. it Re
cording '. wl'-thn r no it Is for
the gr.-at s; goo-l--of- t:,, wl ole peo
ple .... . i ,l . . ... . . . - . . , . w hi.
" we can uu i:.i.-t i . j-.-i-m, .i vj
letter or telephone or te'r-grapb.
r And as to Henry F- rd --
he may not end t! e war or eve'i
get a hearing- but--
r 1.1STI'N-Hf has taken stand
for W'.-it he l,el!eve to right -
aiid thiitV an i nspira t Ion to nil of ur
Common Sense Talks
By Lillian Russell
A new illustrated page that
will apr-car in The Sunday Jour
nal Magazine every Sunday, he
g: nil in;; December 5.
!"or the mt part Miss Rus
sell confines herself b sugges
tions concerning health and
beauty, but her scope ii not lim
ited to a discussion ol these sub
jects. Anything pertinent to bodily
well-beinr is within her field,
which vhe covers in a sensible
wav that azures her a wide audi
ence. This Sunday page will supple
ment lhe daily beauty chits by
Miss Fussell which are appearing
on the woman's page of The
Journal.
An Alphabet 3
For the Needlewoman
This is the season of the year
when milady's needle stitches ast
in anticipation of Christmas.
That her needs may be met in
part, a complete alphabet of old
English letters, Suitable for em
broidering on. towels, sheets,
dresser covers, etc., will be
found in .Section Four of The
Sunday Journal, December 5.
Celebrated Writers
Discuss the War
Included in next Sunday's
Journal will be the following
articles: ,
THE DEPARTURE OF THE
TRAWLERS By RUDYAPS
KIPLING.
POLAND'S DESPERATE
PLIGHT By HENRYK
SIENJC1EWTCZ.
IN THE TRENCHES By
GOUVENEUR MORRIS.
In the Magazine
The Sun stands Still for Mars
The army searchlight.
Why the War Will Make Us
Live Longer Progress in bac
teriology. Jhe Peroxomaniac Novelette
by Jack Lait.
Science and Near-Science Up-
to-Date.
The Housekeeper Council
Table By Dorothy Dolan.
Cartoona'grams 8y Charles A.
Ogden.
The Legend of Saint Nicholas
By Georgene Faulkner.
The Sunday Journal
Cofnplete in four news "sec
tions, magazine and comic sec
tion. Five cents the copy every
where. Next Sunday " .
"The Biggest Fnre Cents'
Worth in Type"