Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1915)
THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1915.' THE JOURNAL AX IXDCPESDtKT WEWSPAPEB C & JACKSON... Publisher J lBbUbed erery da, afternoon and morale f (except Sunday afteneoJ, at Tha .carnal - Boild!-. Broadway sad Yamhill a La., turt- . 1. a. ZW KatercS at tbe poetoftic at Portland. Or., for ululv, t .mi a h ,. n. a I la tPOul . J iwwn '1 - w ekaa cutter, department reached by tbe number. Tell j ! tba operator wbat department you want. VoEfclflN ADVERTISING REPBESEiiTATlVE ! Benjamin Kentoor Co., Bctumwic. Mia-., 222 Fifth Are., hear York: liiS a'eoui a - Ga Bldg.. Chicago Sobacriptkm term by mall or to an ad Area la th Cnlted State or Mexico: --" DAILY (liOBXIXO OB AFTEBXOOXI On rear 13.00 On month I XO 8USDAI -Oa u 2.CO On month $ .25 DAILY (MOUSING OR AFTEttNOON) AND Am ftar 17.50 I Ou month S A3 America asks nothing for her self but what she has a right to ask for humanity itself. WOODROW WILSON. r There Is none so great but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear, of the power and unkindiipfs, even . of the meanest of mor tals. Seneca. WHY "CONFEK:NCI:.S?', FURTHER so-called "confer ences" at Salem respecting the grant land3 would be ludi crous. The "conferences" that have been held are made ridiculous by Judge Wolverton's decision. A! toe meetings, ablegates nave urgea "compromise" with the railroad, when there is nothing to "compro mise." The railroad has an inter est. of $2.".0 per acre in the lands and no more, says the decision of the United States supremo court as interpreted by Judge Wolverton. -With this as th law, why holl meeting with which to give tho railroad more than bolongs to it? Would the eminent citizens hold meeting to "compromise" Jf the, claimant of the lands and the tim ber were a private individual in stead of a rich railroad corpora tion? f The whole shirit of the Jo-called "conferences" has been an obses sion by most of the delegates to guard the railroad. Why not also guard the public? The people have not violated the terms of the land grant. The pub lic is not the criminal. It was the .rsuroau tnai oroKe an tiie cove nants in the grant act. It sold thousands of acres at an averaee of $7.80 per acre which It was under agreement with coneress to sell at not to exceed $2.5 0 per acre. It sold lands in lots of thou sands of acres to big corporations VrllAtl tf -o i n . 1 a . a uvu w oa uuuci uKiceuieui 10 sell to actual settlers only and in lots not to exceed 160 acres. . What if a plain Oregon cltizpn had done that sort of thins? How many of them are now doing time in the Oregon penitentiary for yOffenaes not a hundredth part a3, ycious? After breaking all these pro visions of the law, the railroad goes to these so-called "confer ences" and. with its guilt upon the hands, makes a brazen claim not -only to Its $2.30 an acre, but to all the timber on the grant lands, and so-called representatives of the people at the "conferencea" actu ally proposed to sell the timber and divide the surplus between tha Btate and the railroad. Meanwhile a higher and safer power is dealing with the grant lands. The congress of the United . States has heforn It tha bill nf a. - -" - kj i I ator Chamberlain proposing to give the railroad its $2.50 an acre, and of the excess over $2.50 an acre to devote 20 per cent to the fed eral government, 40 per cent to the luauo ttuu DFiuges :n the land grant counties, and 40 per cent to the further and permanent "endowment of the irreducible r- school fund of the state of Oregon. Thft npnnlo'o tntaMatn . -.-.j 11 u uciu guarded in spite of the absurdities ; of farcical grant land "confer ences." LESCHETLZKY THE death of Leschetizky, the great teacher of the piano, is an event of international consequence. Paderewsky is his most famous pupil but he hai t" multitude of others who have "Won renown. He wa a man of xnoods who sometimes showed sun shine and sometimes etorm ta those around him but "he had qual- itles of mind and heart which en deared him to all who fell under bis Influence. ' 3 Leschetizky earned hla world wide reputation solely by his teach ing. ' He was not widely known aa a concert artist. He is said , lay those who understand music lo have carried on the worthy tra ; iltlong of Liszt In the piano world, , insisting - strongly . upon technique ;. Imt. fa more, strongly upon warmth and energy of feeling. To .'hear as, adept pupil ot LesciieUikj play the piano is a new and won derful experience. The Instrument Is ordinarily, as George Eliot put It, only moderately expressive, bat the master conveyed to his pupils soma secret which brines out un lmagined riches of thought and feeling. Part of Leschetlzky's art Is said to have been concerned with the management of the "sustaining pedal" which "gives added length" to notes on the piano. It does for that Instrument wbat Collins tells us "divine Cecilia" did for sacred music by inventing the or gan. By pedaling the power of the human hand to construct har monies ia, doubled and Leechetizkv taught his pupils to make full use of the expedient. His achievements pertained whol ly to peace. In the pride and glory of war he had no part, nor did his teachiug contribute to up build the military qualities. And yet there is reason to believe that when the great generals who now stride over Europe's bloody fields lie in forgotten graves Leschetizky will b remembered for the su preme beauty of the art he taught and loved. WASHINGTON HKIJJ UKY IT WOULD have been bad pub lic policy for the supreme court of tha state of Washington to have held the prohibition law of that state unconstitutional. Its decision handed down yes terday validates the law. A de clsion invalidating the act would necessarily have beeu on technical grounds. There is no mystery about pro hibition statutes. The people of Washington knew when they went to the polls exactly what they were voting for. In voting to make the state dry, it was a niajorlt of the citizens in their sovereign capacity that chose the policy, and tt was a deliberate choice. Invalidation of an act passed by the people- under such circum stances would have been a very grave step. On a simple Issue of whether or not saloons were to go or not to go, no constitutional question could be involved, other than matters of technical charac ter as to the different steps in the proceedings. Overthrow of tho dry act on such grounds would have added to the restlessness which people have over the nulli fication of laws by the courts on promiscuous and miscellaneous grounds. Such invalidations cause people to turn their thoughts on the sys tem of courts in Great Britain where there is no power In a court to set atide a legislative act. In Washington doom was writ ten over the saloons by a vote of the sovereign citizens at a regular election. As a partner of corrupt politicians and corrupt govern ment, the saloon wrote out its own death warrant. As an almost con stant violator of public laws, tho lower class saloons brought doom upon the whole traffic in Wash ington, Oregon and elsewhere. When the people voted a change they had a right to it, and no court could justifiably prevent it. IMIITYIjKSS prkiw redness THERE are signs that partisan ship may not enter into the discussions of measures for national defense. President Wilson has indicated a desire to avoid partyizing the proposed legislation. He has con ferred with Republican leaders ou the subject. Senator Gallinger. leader of the Republicans in the senate, has expressed it as his purpose to keep partisanship out of the discussion. These are unusual times. Big ger things than parties are now at stake. Civilization itself has been near the breakdown. Prob lems of the most serious character have been thrust, by the disloca tion of European civilization, up on America. Tho crises that have almost constantly beaten around tho American White House havo been most serious and complica ted. Nobody knows the inner secrets of the diplomacy or of the reports made by American consuls and ambassadors in the foreign ser vice. Only a few men at Wash ington Are Informed as to the facts that have led President Wil son, a man with the deepest con victions on peace, to urge upon his countrymen the importance of a moderate preparedness for na tional defense. What we do know is that eomething has occurred, and that it is a eomething of pro found importance, or Woodrow Wilson would not have suddenly proposed unusual measures for na tional preparedness. The proposal at such a time by the Republican leader of the sen ate that partisanship be not in troduced to complicate the plans of national defense, increases con fidence in American institutions. If the proposal is adhered to it will be a new victory for repre sentative government. When tho republic has enemies at home as well as enemies abroad, country is far above party and the divid ing lines of politics are broken down. PROTECTING PRODUCTION A SPLENDID efficiency has been shown by Secretary McAdoo In the management ui war risjs insurance. In fourteen months policies fcsve, been written to the amount ot 18.2,31502. Tie total net pre- mtum on the 1,283 policies wa planning to beat the Jitneys at 12,127,976.70, and the losses paid their own game, aggregate $744,128. Salvage of j His most promising device is to $48,143.68 was received reducing adopt three cent fares. Then he the net losses to $685,984.32. It will run clean care and keep them Is possible that further salvage ; warm all the time. What a joy remittances will be received. it will be to the sybaritic Jersey- The net losses paid, deducted ltes to ride in a clean, warm street from premiums, leaves a balance car, a Joy and a surprise as welL or profit of $1,431. 99?. 38. It Is We do ntrfTeee how any jitney, be a splendid showing, especially it ever bo Jitneyish, could outbid when taken in connection with the these attractions. We coyly sug fact that but $20,482.91 of the gest, however, that comfortable $100,000 appropriated by the gov- seats which do not compel passen ernment for expenses of the war j gers to Btare one another out of risk bureau has been expended. i countenance would somewhat en- The war risk Insurance was en-; hance the lure of the street car. gaged in by the administration to protect American commerce and American production against the hazards of the great war. Not knowing to what extent American cargoes and American ships might j Truw the iiew Tork Vo,t. be molested by raiders, the insur-fTfjO htoky is worthy of the child ance companies hesitated to issue rj which hia not stuff and art policies and for such as they did , enough in it to make it inter issue early in the war, very heavy esting- to the adult. It might not premiums were exacted. Rankers I difficult to show that those have hesitated to make advances on i received the best preparation for the bills of lading unless backed up by sreat and iaating delights of book a perfectly sound insurance policy, j ishness who passed their innocent Neither bankers nor insurance years in a library where no special managers could know but that war provision was made for thern at all deprecations on commerce might 'Hke Mary and Charles Lamb, "turn bankrupt the insurance business. I bled early, by accident or design. At this Juncture, Secretary Me-1 into' a sraeioua closet of good 014 Adoo. with the approval of the ! English reading." or like others who president, proposed that the gov-j were introduced to the wonderful eminent Issue insurance policies ; superworid of the imagination fcy on American cargoes of wheat and Pope and Defoe and Spenser, other products, and as seen by the above, the experiment has To make a test r current ju proven very profitable and been venile literature, take the most prom verv successful 1 lsiuZ specimen of Its class a vol- Hecause the whole financial ! unie attractive in appearance, writ power of the American government j te" b' an author of standing, and was behind the war risk insurance '' Polished by a house that lists so policies, confidence was given ex-i few children's hooks that any such porters in sending cargoes out ou 1 Ju'on bearing their imprint may the seas, with the result that com-! 1,0 umed to have undergone a merce was made freer and not a rl'l scrutiny. This is the sort of few cents added to the price of ! UllllK 0,18 "eta: American whea's HIS HAD HABIT HEXEVEK The Journal ' nrints anvthine that seems1 17 Lf .. ,.i. , , V f c,c" .i.v tQ fool at gume Uarn thlng every upon his administration, blessed day; we've not got around Governor Withycombe has a habit th traps for a week." of asserting that it is "for political I "W,hat .,lrr 'e ,.hav,en't?" Orofino re ,, , Joined. "I don t give a rip for the purposes. ; blamed old skins. I'm In thia for That is one of the governor's ' tI,e fun of 11 r'n for swim, and . 1 , , T.i v.. what's more I'm going to have ono. gravest blunders. It is a thought Do.t b- yeUow omJ- .. that leads him in wrong direction-. , , . and into bad positions. Even surosing that boys do actually Who gave him the best advice and habitually us the impoverishej respecting the grant lands The . language given them tn the ruck of Journal, or those Becret persons . books written for their special con from. whom he accepted guidance? sumption, and that their Ideal is the It was not The Journal that led ' ""angering athlete who adorns so him to advocate the giving to the many cover8, thia ft"r Justifica railroad, not only its $2.50 per tion for contracting their Intellect acre, but also a part Of the sur- j uaI outlook to these narrow bounds? plus over tho $2.50 an acre from ' A certaln degree of reAliam is nj sale of the lands and timber. It doubt necessary. The life portrayed was somebody else who induced must appear sufficiently close to the him to sponsor that plan, a plan facts t0 create the artistic illusion ot which all now know Is completely reality; the problem of juvenile llt out of harmony with the law as "are ' n different in thia re laid down by the decisions of the Bpect from that of adult literature, courts. j But lf tno language of the child's even remotely to reflect The Journal believes that the governor was honest in his advo- r.icv nf the nlan Rut he waa min- led. He was deceived and led far , afield by his advisers. He knows now that the guid ance he trusted and accepted was fal?e guidance. He knowg now that The Journal's advice to him was sound advice. He kirows tt was sound advice because it has Just been confirmed by the de- cree ot a court. He Knows fur- j jc purposes, and no power of selfex ther, by this time, that The Jour-; presslon. At c0nge you will sea ual's discussion of his position on ' i,)m in his club before a table spread the grant land issue was not foi . wltn an the cheap magazines, but "political purposes" but in defense JOU win be lucky if you ever see a of the rights of the people in the ; graut lands. The Journal belongs to no party. It has no "political" ends to sere. It is engaged in a struggle for the upbuilding of the Oregon country, for the forwarding of the nation and ior the wen ueing or man- kind. ; THE JITNEY THERE is no denying that the jitneys present a real prob lem to our street railway companies and city fathers. There aro two ways of dealing with it. The first is by suppression. We Kimnnsa that the old Ktaefl linpa and omnibuses would have been ! glad of suppressive legislation to ! keen them eoin when the steam I cars and Btreet railroads began j to devour their traffic. But au thorities were not so complaisant then as they have since become in some quarters and competition w?3 permitted to do its perfect work. Horse transportation expired and the present system came into be ing. But time devours his children. The same competition whlchybuilt up the street railways now threat- J ens to slay them. In competing with the alert and omnipresent Jitney they are under menace as the omnibus was in competing with rails. Unless the law steps in and helps they are obliged to stand by and see the nickels which provi dence undoubtedly designed for their benefit slip into the pocket of the Jitney drivers. At least most of the street rail way men have this idea but some view the dilemma otherwise. Judge C. L. Cole has not allowed the dif ficulty of the Jitney situation to paralyze his faculties. On the con trary be Is up and doing, asking no odds of legislatures or wmrts. He is himself a sort of court, be ing receiver for the Atlantic City and Shore line In New Jersey which has succumbed to the de vouring jitneys, but that does not seem to bare Impaired his mind. Ha can pUll think and act. He la B00KS FOR CHILDREN He sniffed luxuriously. 'That's a bully stink!" he said to his compan ; ion, with a boy's carelessness to adapt his language to the nature of his thought. "I'm for a dip right off "To Iieck with swimming!" was Orraondt's Irritable reply. "You want reading is not a little raised above his own dally habits, and psrhapa above tho level of his home, where Is he to ,earn to as enti" ladles were once, and really atlll are. 1 expected to talk? Ilia Latin and al ' gebra are not going to prevail against the vulgarizing influence of his plea? : ures. Ha will come to college, aa '' every Instructor in English tells u I our boys are coming, with a gro ' tesquely meagre vocabulary, with no sense of- style for practical or aesthet- book in his hands except for required reading; and he will leave college In about the same state of innocence, Thia whole practice of writing down to the supposed level of the child or youth Is mistaken. The fact Is thai boys an;1 girig, nke their parents, wm, if ief t to themselves, probably take the line of least resistance; In most cases they will, if the book that requires no effort is laid before them, read it, and let the volume that demands some tightening up of the. mind He unopened. But that la the very reason such books should, so far as possible, be kept out of their way. And, thia done, it la not M on mlght upp- dlfIcult "tlr thelr lnter8t ,n bc"er thiKJ; thpy are- in th'8 aeraKe. f kn to seize anu ui'i'iupiiaio any real idea, that Is presented to them in living form. If it is true that the vast bulk of the books published for children ar. feeble things written by persona with a certa'n touch of cleverness, but with little art or serious knowledge of the world, what shall the pros pective buyer ef presents, whether parent or aunt or sister or cousin. do at this season? Well, there are a few admirable and well-tried book for children the famous "Tom Brown." "Ronald Bannerman, Lamb's Tales," Miss Mulock'e "Fairy Tales." Miss Edgeworth'a storlea (old fash- loned, perhaps, and needing a little persuasion at the start, but essen tially sound and fine). Miss Alcott'i "Little Women" nd Its companions, and others, are known to everybody. The child who misses the4, aa bis age prepares him for one and the other, has been cheated of one of hi prescriptive rights. Unless one , haa certain knowledge of the quality of a particular book, one buys at a risk. If the good booka designed primar ily for children are few in number and soon read, so much the better. Then, with a little aacrlflce of time oat ti parent's part the boy or girl might be tempted by the great things written ' for men and women, the things ss ffat sod purs and com- preheaslve that the young reader will find himself, the better part of nim self. In them, as aurely aa will tb mature mind. And, if a child could , not be brought to enjoy the real 1 books, there would at least be a hun dred employments better for him tha-i the debauchery of foolish reading. Letters From the People (Communications aeot to Tbe Journal for publication In thia department ahoold b writ ten oa only on aide ot tha paper, abould not aceed SKA) words tn laogtb and nuat ba ac companied by the nam aofl addrem of the Ute name pobllabed, be abould as state.) "Dlacaealon is the greatest of all reformers. It rationalizes eTerythlna It tooche. It rotw grlkciplea ef all false aanctlt and throwa them ack 00 their reaaunableueas. If the hae no reaaoaablenesa. it ruthleaaly rruahea them out of existence and aeta up It owu conclualona in ueir aleaa. Mowlxuir Wilson. What Will the Railroad Do? Portland, Dec. 10. To the Editor of The Journal Now we shall eee how true a friend to Oregon's interests the Southern Pacific really Is. The form of the O. t C. decree entered by Judge Uolverton manes it possible to get decided within a few months, perhaps a few weeks. Just what the United States supreme court meant by "aJl the vaiue uie railroad owned In the grant, if the railroad wishes a speedy decision. The case has taken a turn anticipated by few. The government offered In its docne a specific declaration that the railroad only had the right to sell the timber with the land and at not to eatceed J2.5U per acre. Judge Wol verton lias signed that decree, whRa means that he construes the supreme court's opinion as holding to that ef fect. The railroad says the supreme court meant no such thing. What is the remedy? Apply to the supreme couit for a supplemental mandate correcting the error, if it is an error. This is a common practice after appeal. It is a procedure quickly and easily adopted. Will the railroad adopt it? It has all along decried any state or federal ac tion that would prolong the- litiga tion. Now, the shoe is on the other foot. lias it been sincere and honcut li. its protests that it wanted the legal questions all settled quickly and the lands settled no that It and it grantees might resume paying taxes thereon and the whole troublesome chapter of land grant agitation be closed? Or will the railroad attorneys re fuse to take the obvious and simple course, but adopt some other, more devious, long drawn out, of the kind the nxidern lawyer Is ofteu employed, to the shame of the profession, to de vise such, fur instance, as another appeal, or an independent BUlt. refus ing the decree Just entered as properly with the scope of the Issues in that case? , People of Oregon, watch the rail road and Its camp followers now! If it takes the long road to end the ques tion of ownership of timber it haa been hypocritical with you. Your wel fare. Insofar as It may be affected by further litigation over the grant lands, U in its bands. CLAUDB M'COLLOCH. In Honor of the "Old Staid." Portland, Deo. 18. To the Editor of The Journal. I am unwilling to be lieve, although I was told, that Rev. Prank I Loveland recently said Ford was an "hysterical millionaire" and the young woman from Portland who called on the peace ship, "an old n.ald." Mr. Loveland says ao many fine things that I would like to be lieve he has been misquoted. But assuming that he hasn't: One millionaire, even hysterically anxious for peace, is more human than a dozen hysterically anxious to make millions from the sale of killing ma chines and "munitions" Perhaps tha teverend gentleman noted that stel stock Jumped several points after President Wilson delivered his addresa tc congress, indorsing "preparedness. " Which kind of hysteria does Mr. Love land prefer that of Ford or of the members of the steel trust who belong to the Army and Navy league, or something of that sort, working for war? One expects "men about town" to snear at "old maids. y but that a man of intelligence af this late day should fling the epithet at any woman, espe cially a young and attractive one, like our peace envoy, is incredible. He must know that single women, more than ever before, are serving humanity in numberless ways. Not all of them are as well known as Frances E. Wll lard and Susan B. Anthony were, rr aa Jane Addams la Thousands of them providing support for married wrecka dependent upon them, mothering tli children of over-prolific but Incompe tent relatives never will be heard of. Nevertheless, their nobility, patience and unselfishness enrich the worhL These are the women who suffer the taunt "old maid," though quite possi bly they received more "offers" than many of their married sisters. Such women, however, don't carry the scalps of conquest in their belts. The day will come when, more and more, women of brain and heart women fit to be the mothers of a free race will not accept motherhood. The tronger the love of children in the breast of such a woman, the stronger her resolve to be true to the children and keep them out of a world that can brew such conditions as now exist in Europe; or conditions that all the year round In our own country keep the weary procession of the unem ployed going from city to city; that fill our factories with little old men and women who Bhould be beautiful. Joyous children; that force half our city population, because of high rents, into unlivablo places to live; that, whenever our lords of finance choose to force a money famine, keep thou sands on the rack of mental torture because of "hard times." It is no world for children, not to pay grownups. It must Improve quickly, or children will not be permit ted to come Into It. All honor to the women who take the Initiative In such a movement. E. B. Sunday Laws and Freo Will. Portland. Dec. 9. To the Editor of The Journal Portland people are di- J vtded in opinion concerning Sabbath closing laws. Someone has dug from among the old statutes a primitive legislative enactment enforcing Sun day closing, but no records have been found which show that It was ever enforced; consequently It remains o be determined whether this old enact ment Is constitutional or not. Discussion la active as to whether tha Christian spirit la being advanced by too many man-made laws, and aa to biblical authority back of auch lawa. It la being stated by some that the law la a violation of the Christian spirit aa taught In the twelfth chapter of Matthew and In other places In the gospels. "The letter (or law) klll eth. but the Spirit glveth life," Is a statement that puts Christianity in the ascendancy over statutory laws, there by subordinating man's vindictive de sires for domination. The mission of Christ on earth was to raise mankind from law to grace, and from havte to love. The twelfth chapter of Matthew chows us how Christ modified the former rigid ob strvsMe of Sunday laws; and how he PERTINENT COMMENT SMAI.fi CHANGE Of course your bundle reached the Muts but if not, why not? In spite of his name. Ban Francisco ie acquiring a right smart cltiaeu in Mr. Addle man. Peace proposals In Europe seem to be hung up because one aide la afraid and the other dassent. Our earnest hope is that the presi dential wedding cake made by an Kver ett womau will be fully appreciated if it Is Everett. The University of Washington loat t36u0 on football, but the students probably regard that a small matter compared with losing a game. v Golden Goods. Jr.. ald for SlfOo at the stock show, and yet Mr. Shakea-p.-are tried to make people believe there was nothing in a name. After prohibition gets dun to busi ness In Portland, a movie film show ing snakes may be passed by the cen sors as having historic value to some people. Secretary Lansing having been asked to act as envoy in presenting Brazil's Klft to Mrs. Gait, we will now see whether he can speak softly as well as write forcibly. "More corn, more rows, more hogs, more dollars." has been demonstrated at the Failing building. Oregon farm ers anxioua about their hereafter can not afford to ignore this "gospel of corn." Henator Iane has promised some "plain talk" about people who value their property very low for taxing pur poses and very hlh when they want to sell it. If there is enough plain talk the time will come when some thing will be done about such people. ANOTHER SORT From the Detroit News. I This is indeed a day of alarms, end we must trust that many of them are false. But that many of them are genuine there can be, no doubt. The alarms of today consist almost entire ly In the danger of peaceable coun tries being invaded by nations whose Ideals have not yet approached tw -n-t:eth century standards, and theao alarms have as their consequences a feverish desire for military prepara tion against uch possible invasions. The program of preparation Is met on one hand- by opposition from those' who believe that to have a big stick In one's hand is an Incentive to wield It: and Is supported on the other hand by those who hold that the military arm is potent for peace when it be longs to a nation holding Amerhiar. Ideals. And thua the controversy swings, from one extreme to another, v.lth perhaps a constant center of cool prudence which dictates that every na tion should do what is best to prevent war and also what is best to rests: war should it come. The entire question as it immediate ly concerns the United States, rests upon that of which none of us can speak authoritatively, namely, whether the close of the European war is going to behold such a colossal exhaustion ss shall make war Impossible for an other half century or so, or whether, as some prophets have It, the United States Is to be in imminent danger so soon as the troubles overseas are settled. It must be said that many thoughtful minds are to be found on either side. It is a mistake to con sider the advocate of peace as a eow ard. Juat as It Is to consider the ad vocate of preparedness as bloodthirsty. The fact Is that the overwhelming majority of the American people per haps of the people of all nations are for peace. Some of the nation now engaged In war were for peace to the very end, but It availed them not Great injustice, therefore, is done those who plead for sufficient arma ment by concluding that because they want protection they want war. just as great injustice Is done in accusing pacifists of cowardice and disloyalty. And because of this misunderstanding and injustice there has grown up tn this country a distinct and unlovely antipathy between those who are called "pacifists" and those who are called "preparatlonists." It Is a grat pity that this is no. It may be said then, that the entire Invested tbe Individual with the privi lege of doing what he believes reason ably should be done, regardless of the Sabbath day. He endeavors to lead Us Into the optimism of trusting In the honor and the integrity of each other, as to the good purpose of our Sunday doings. The gospels are full of words and deeds intended to lead mankind Into trust and forbearance, and to over come their former propensitiea to the use of force. But, although good character is the bulwark of good citizenship, legisla ture cannot enact laws to compel character building. When people id venture too far Into the law-making business for the restriction of civil rights they are casting the shadows of their authority over God's own Idea of man's free will agency. The tlrst law enacted in favor of a certain class paves the way for more rigid onejs, until the God-given free wiil of man is overshadowed. CHARLES BAKNETT. Rules for Safety. Portland, Dec. 7. To the Editor of The Journal There are so many reo ple getting hurt or killed by stepping In front of automobiles and cars, i thought I might help them by giving a few almple rules. Rule 1 la, never go across a busy crossing diagonally; because, in so do ing you have four lines of traffic to watch at one time. ' Rule 2 is. go straight across on the crosa walk. When you approach the street to cross, look carefully to your left, always; when you have reached the center of the street, then look to your right until you are out of traf fic's way. .When you start across the street, the traffic is to your left until you reach the middle of the street, then it ia to your right until you are on the curb. If pedestrians will observe these rules it will reduce their hazards at least 75 per cent. CHARLES BARNETT. Criticises a Pastor's Utterance. Portland, Dec. 8. To the Editor of The Journal. I had the pleasure of hearing an address last Sunday eve ning by the pastor of one of Porv land's prominent churches, on the com munity's social problems of poverty end unemployment. He tried to make his hearers understand that the an nual activities of the various chari ty organiaatlortfl would never solvo the problem nor get at the root of the trouble: that these efforts, noble as they are, are but mere palliatives; that the people mut wake up, look beyond charity for the remedy, and see If It is not eaused by the violation of Ood's laws; unless they do. It will never be solved. But I was surprised at a remark made by the pastor which will tend to prejudice the minds of his bearers against giving consideration to or in vestigating one of the rfioQt prolific AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS To the military attache of the Ku gene Register the war news these days "sounds strangely like the dope I hat Issues front the training camps of rival prize fighters." Lebanon women, members of the Civic club, have undertaken the task k. of fashioning 2400 feet of cedar fes tooning, besides numerous garlands, for street decorations in tho holiduy sea son. 'The splendid dlsulava of holiday , goods shown by Baker merchants and the liberal disposition on the part of J And they got In and Mr. Alder the trade," says the Democrat, "In- ; man jerked some lever, dicates a reciprocal feeling that tends' . . . to better buMnes conditions gener-! and when he jerked them again ally." i 'e were at the B--non Polytechnic I school at Fourteenth and Morrison. .,2 ot out-and were joined says: "The San Diego fair will be a ' b wiHard fchaverwho also wore peg on which to hang railroad excur- lean and hungry look sioti rates during I'Jlb. and this coast will have another year of the siKht- least a long as the war lasts.' Very good fign. noted bv the lled ford Mail Tribune; "The demand for cottages In this city Is somewhat un- UKuai at tins liint) or the year. The modern cottage i the popular dwell- I Inn IiIul'k irennriillv vlrl TV, kiii.. i ply in that line is unfortunately Unv lied. People from outside communi ties and !' recently from distant states are the applicants." A carload of evergreens from the mountains about M.-aehain has been brought into ivndltou. to be distrib uted along the busine.'.M streets to give them a holiday dress that will be kept : up during the entire innnili. The busi ness men of the city uie defraying tho expense. I neandes. . nt lights will also be strung alon t he fct r-ets. ti I lighting company furnishing free cur- I rent. 1 Of PREPAREDNESS people of the I'nited States, regard- i less of their opinion as to the Inten tions of other nations, ate lor pea e. ! Even those who believe that our j wealth, the feeling which has been raised against us, and our military ' condition make us a great temptat ! mi to military powers even they beli.-vo in peace, in that they do not want war. So, while the "preparationitts" am saying that the preparedness they de sire is against war, and while certa.n branches of the "pacifists" are Hay.n that all military preparedness a ts aj an inducement to war. It mib'-'t La will to consider that preparedness in the proper sense tides not consist aloi In arms, but also In preparation of the nation's mind. e It may be aid without hesitation and with the greatest possible empha sis, that such alarms and suspicions and prejudices as are bving so assid uously cultivated In the United States today are tantamount' to a national mental preparation for war. and not for peace. We are a numerous nation with reasonably high ideals, but we aro suffering them to become Inoculated with all sorts of low compromises, and deflected by all sorts of ephemeral considerations. Wj have yet to think deeply and nationally of so high in honor and worthiness that even mili tarism Itself would cbnnk from at tacking it. We have jet to think so conscientiously upon our national con duct that our morality shall become more than national, shall become In ternational, so that wo should be no more subject to attack than the Ser mon on the Mount is. This is a high price, but it Is one of the most chal lenging of facts that the price of true peace is always higher than the price o' war that Is why the nations have chosen "the easier way" of war. It Is easier to drill an army in military tactics than it is to drill a nation to biglier thinking in international ethics. Every agency that centers the thought of the people on the kind of national conduct that induces peace, is contributing to that desirable event toward which the world la moving. The thought of peace, and of the inundations of peace, and of the cost of peace ought to be constantly with us in some form or other, aa an anti dote for that war fever which seems so viciously contagious. For aa a na tion thinketh, so is it. And the na tions are thinking many errors now. causes of economic Injustice and antl I'hristianlty. Remarking that the so cialists are working at ono end of these problems and the anarchists at the other, he said, "And the single taxera are playing both ends again t the middle." It Is because of Just such remarks by these men. whom the majority of the church let do their thinking for them, that the real cause of injustice and poverty are not given a moment's notice; and It Is that the church goes on from one election to another ne glecting, if not refuiiig, to "give Christianity a fair (hance." I chal lenge the pastor, who is the Hev. FTapk I.. Loveland, to show that the henry George single taxers are anar chistic or that they approve of the socialists' way of solving economio injustice. These Klhgle taxers do not claim that single tax is a cure-ail, either; but tiny claim that it will re move the cause that propagates other causes of crime. It will not make all men honest, but make it ea.sfer to be so. CALVIN A. M EEMOKE. London and Now York. Portland, Dec. v To tbe Editor of The Journal Pleas state through the columns of your valuable paper which Is the -largest city. New York or London? WILLIAM WlIISLlill The population of New York city, Including all boroughs, on July 1, 1314 according to a census bulletin, was C, 233. 537. According to a board of , health bullet. n of the same date. It was S,53,871, and tho estimated popu- lation of Greater New York, Including: Westchef.er and New Jersey suburbs, was 7,J00,t00. The populaLen of the administrative county of London in i 1911 was 4.622,564, and with metro- pclltan and city police districts, i 7,2C:,963. These figures are from the I World Almanao for 1816.J Appreciate Joe Hardy. Portland, Dec. 8. To the Editor of The Journal. I feel like saying "sec ond the motion" to the proposal of "Oitlzen," in Monday's Journal, which refers to Joe Hardy, the news agent at Broadway and Washington streets. While It might not be Just appropri ate that he head the proceasion. I lo feel that he should be greatly honored in some way by the citizens whom he inspires by his daily example of light headedness under most twying cir cumstances. I have talked with him many times and watched him more frequently, and I know be is a real man. His service to humanity is more Indirect perhaps than others endowed mere bountifully, but It is a service which be little appreciates. So I say, let us not overlook htm when we have a chance to honor him. He Is not seek in 5 charity and we do not want to make him accept charity, but when we have an opportunity to show our rec ognition for services rendered, X hope ws will not fall to do no. WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD. onceoven y-ESTERDAT at 12:15 Btells a. Walker Durham m came in ana asked me If I was ready and I said I was and we ran down stairs and she pointed across the street. JAnd there was Superintendent Al derman in his big car. JAnd we went across and got i, ami waited for Don Sterling and VelLa Winner J And Don beat V'clla across by .v.,.,,, . r.i,,,nn JAnd as we started up the steps Alderman said A h.i.died and wo to the top. JAnd I didn't know wl.at lie meant. but I started to count - automat ically. C"" , " " " """ l","u rlour where we were golhg lu eat l had counted 10'J steps. JAnd e were Him guestn of Hn, A. Alexander principal of tlo&hool -and MIhs Groves- and her girls ol the cooking class J And w e ate. - and 1 don t know about t!.e rest but I ate so niueli that my shoe hurt. and I couldn't looien thm stoop over to J And besides I d.du't know whether it would be exactly gooe form or not. V And Lilian Tlngle-and Mlsi I Casey came In Just before the salad. - and after that it was a whola lot easier for the rest of us. J We could confine our energies to straightaway eating. while Lilian did the talking. JAnd afterward that la after quit eating we were shown around. JAnd I wanted to telephone In to the esteemed city editor. - and tell him 1 w as all right. JAnd I nad to walk down nearlf all those 102 fcteps-to the first flooi - -to the 'phono. J And then I had to walk up again - -to tell . trj body--w hut a good timi I nad had. J And it h an outrage. -.aid if the school hoard had to d: It in the condition I ji in they wouldn't heslta:-- -at all to put 3 'phono on the third floor. JAnd I don't know what to da about it. but I think maybe I ought t write the school board a letter. - nd tell them what they ough! to do. And of tuurm ti.ty wouldn't do It but 1J LISTEN I think they would it 1 they could oily sufter as 1 did yes terday. Another Dog Zdx "Pup." Friend Lamprqan: I have just fin ished reading the Once Over, and am reminded of a little poem I had tucked away. froin the Chicago Neus. 1 thought you might like to read it. F. I.. HAHFOItU. Corvallis. Or., Dec. 8. Little Dog. Yon ain't Tery much to W-k at. you aln t: M hen louka mere dtl rltu-il you Were wit cba-lu a rat or eUe cuaklij' a plaint To the njoon with a " It m v" ' You ore all kind" of a 0's ;ou are u-helmed and HiK And eoill atid tHiildotf .m,t Skyf. And aTJtinurid aiid terrier !mi . Meaa yowl old nil! You ar guod t'JT a botne Ull j m d. From yocr hammer in tall to your ucly v'.d ZMM9 Yon're -an optlmiat. -.urp a run hr' It wu Only lait nlcbt 5 "it umwied all tha tarclied rlotliea And ctwed root her' a rut ii', a tro.; Bat bleKi y.tl. It wa-iu t f'rr o-innnf, ) klmrw. It Juat yo-i were full to Hie brim Of aplrltai and nilM-hie' nt,.l Kit u-,i and jo, And the guulu-M ; Jlrl.V. ni Jnu' Uttl d'. It a tho thought that ju feel whal I feel' You wre" Ilt'le Jlin'a irrinT. kept rlona al hi- heel. Your bark a!ya foil-. wed Ma l. nut . Th atrlni that Ij ti ti on mr neck la aUl) there. like the atrln-r Lhut ! lied n my heartr You wer bandjaouap Ur hluj with your raggedi hatf And your funny hoar leca far apart. And so, thnugb your teeth are aU turned (rot of loora.' Ana yoo're mr from b'ziai.Utg tt end. J like yos around t,-n I tn dot:,' the chores, Aj1 you shan't nocr wnrit f'-r a friend. Our littl- old partner In Mcr oternllc, Curkry-heaile'l. Ire(.ted and k'hcl. Alnf aitl) ua o n-re and there aln t no mora m tot tuja dar, nor no kia tor Ida dad. Unci Jeff Know Kay: "T heard a preacher t'other day tell in' what an awful wicked thing buyin' and sellln' burnana was. lis was tre mendous bold about it. Dut he .didn't squeak about things Just as wicked froin' on now, for the same reason, I reckon, that fellers like him didn't mention chattel slavery 80 years ago." Mother's Way. THE woman wears a tan rain coal and a little tight-fitting fur cap in all weather, for wb.i knows when a rain coat will not be tifenwl If one ia out of doors all afternoon? She atanda near the drinking foun tain on the corner o-f Tenth and Wash ington, With a bundle of copies of The Joo -nal, held tinder her oat If it la raining. If it 1 raining very hard sh moves to the .en.i-shcltcr afforded by the entrance of the corner Rtore. Sometimes a little boy stands with her on the corner. He Is her son, about lght vwrti old, and sometimes pesscrsby are grieved to hear him "sass" bis JiioUicr. She chides him, asking him to b quiet, at the same time trying to cry her papers, but the other night hla petulant complainings could br.ve been heard a hundred feet away. The boy doesn't seem to understand that his mother sells papers each af ternoon so that he may have some thing to eat and a place to sleep. That seems to be the way with boys. They don't underatand sometimes nol until after it la too late. When they grow up and have clUldren of theif own, they appreciate the worth et fathers and mothers. Of course by this time their own parents may be gone. It's one of life's several com mon tragedies. But back to our street corner. The woman with tbe tan coat see mi to have become used to the conduct of her son. It's sTwsy mothers have, to become used to complainings and In gratitude, and accept them i-m part el the burtens they bear so patiently. She jest goes on selling her papara It's avwsy mothers aavs