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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1916.
THE JOURNAL
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America aak nothing for ber
celi but what she has a right to
Uk for humanity Itself.
; WOOD ROW WILSON.
Down all the stretch of hell to
its laat gulf
There Is no shape more terri
ble than this
Mora tongues with censure of
tho world's blind greed
More filled with signs and
portents for the soul
More fraught with menace to
.the universe.
Edwin M.irkham.
THE MEXICAN OUTRAGE
'HERE Bhould be, and doubt
less will be, vigorous action
in bringing to justice the
Mexican bandits guilty of the
murder of 16 Americans.
Meanwhile, why did Potter Pal
mer, absentee owner of a rich mine
In Mexico, let his hunger for gain
harry these Americans Into a dis-
traded country to operate his mine
befcre a safe order had been es
tablished ?
Why play tho lives of men
against the perils of a demoralized
-people for profits of which this
wealthy Chlcagoan Is in no imme
diate need?
Why, In the face of repeated
warnings from Washington did he
Insist upon operating this mine in
Mexican territory under conditions
; that tend to drag the United States
: Jtto war with the distracted repub-
5 lie?
.i" For the loss of these American
s lives, there is universal regret and
aympathy. Their murderers should
; be brought to summary justice.
!But, in fixing the responsibility
for the outrage, there must ba
taken into account tho multi-mil-ltonaire
who demanded profi's
j from his mine in Mexico, and re
'Cused to wait for those profits
5intll a time hen his employes
I. could enter Mexico In safety. A
postponement of operations to a
later date would have answered a'l
bis purposes just as well and would
' h .vo spared the lives of the men
: yiho have been slain.
In this outrage and In the cir
fVmstances that put these Ameri
can lives In jeopardy, there is ex
; planation of the violent demands
"Jfof th . United States to make war
; upon Mexico.
. ' The American owners of Mexi
can mines want an American array
sent into Mexico to guarantee them
r. revenue and profits from their
. properties.
vi A Chicago Skye terrier mistak
ing the fur on her shoe top for a
rat, bit a young woman in the
ankle. Until he is better Informed
On the fashions, that uncivilized
canine should be kept tied up.
THE SMITH HILL
Il
WANT to keep tho project
alive and to do whatever
can be dono . toward actu-
any Fecunus money tor a,
of;. Idaho regarding a bill he has
- Introduced setting aside $50,000
tor a survey of the upper Columbia
and Snake rivers with a view to
-.their canalization.
J';It'l3 a project that ought to be
sept "live. Every congressman
from Orpgon and vorv can r,
; from Oregon ought to help keep it
' 'alive. Every congressman and
. Tery senator from Idaho and from
' Washington, and from Montana
. . ought to help keep it alive.
New and unexpected depths of
l the channel in the Columbia en
; trance rereal new possibilities for
commerce on that great waterway.
. The natural barrier there la going
i to disappear before the government
v work and the river become accessi
. Tote to any ship that floats, no mat-
ter how large. It-Is evidence' to
---Congress that money spent on the
Columbia is yielding results even
beyond the dreams of the most op
: timitic engineers.
, Congressman : Smith's bill for
canalization of the upper river and
tributaries is a great preparedness
treasure. It ispreparedness for a
, broader civilization nd for homes
' . for a race "of thrifty, people. It la
" preparedness for the coming of an
..empire; - :,. .' ','
. Canalization proposes utilization
of the hydro-electriS, energy- ' that
the flow of the ifrer can create.
Possibilities from that source In
making homes for men and in cre
ating profitable employment for
them are boundless. What greater
function baa modern, government
than . to aid In bringing resourced
Into a use that affords work and
abiding place for surplus popula
tion. Canalization proposes at the
same time to bring arid lands
under productivity for providing
land for the landless, it means
that along with these great activi
ties for creating products, naviga
bility will be provided for trans
porting products. It is enllghtenei
and scientific endeavor for govern
ment to thus develop national re
sources for human uses. It is
vision and it is constructive pur
pose for the Smith bill for a be
ginning on canalization of the
waterway to be adopted, and the
people of the Columbia basin from
Astoria to the British Columbia
border should demand that their
senators and congressmen do every
thing possible to advance the measure.
Perkins has gone home from the
Progressive committee meeting at
Chicago in the fuU belief that he
aa arranged to get the boys out
o! the trenches by Christmas.
MK. PERKINS PLAN
M
R. PERKINS, acting field
marshal of the Progressives,
has performed. The meet
ing at Chicago Is over, and
Mr. Perkins hasf left for home.
The convention is to meet on
the same day that the Republican
convention convenes, and Mr. Per
kins 6ays it is up to the Republi
cans as to whether or not there is
to be fusion on "the same standard
bearer and the same principles."
The "certain great principle" for
which Mr. Perkins is contending
is the desire to beat Woodrow Wil
son.' On that point fusion between
the Republican leaders and Mr.
Perkins will be easy. It may not
be bo easv with a great many
avowed. Wilson Republicans and
Wilson Progressives who believe
Mr. Wilson stands for "certain
great principles," like peace and
-broad social justice, that are of
inestimable value to this country.
As to fusing on the 6tandar1
bearer, the task of the leaders will
not be easy. Mr. Perkins, for in
stance, is for the Colonel. Rut
there Is Mr. Taft. who is old fash
ioned enough to think that a party
ought to have principles in defeat
as well as In victory, and that in
having principles it ought not to
sell out. Consequently, he is op
posed to letting Mr. Perkins and
the Colonel either frame the next
Republican platform or name the
next Republican candidate for pres
ident,. Thousands of other Repub
licans, like Mr. Taft, place princi
ples first and do not think the
principles ought to be changed and
the candidate he named by the
leaders who left the party and re
duced it to a remnant in 1912.
It Is generous of Mr. Perkins
to so schedule his convention thr.t
he can be on the ground in per
son to cover the Republican con
vention with a haio. It is more
than generous of him to extend
his good offices In helping that
party select a man of destiny for
its standard bearer. It i3 kind of
him to confer on that party a can
didate under whose nomination lib
erty may not crumble and govern
ment sink Into despotism.
Of course, it would be pleasing
to Mr. Perkins and pleasing to
the Colonel to be able to write the
Progressive platform and write the
Republican platform, and name
the Progressive candidate and
name the Republican candidate.
There are people who like to bo
"it." If guests at a weddnig, they
want to be the bride, and if at a
funeral, they would, barring cer
tain complications, desire to be the
corpse.
It is a beautiful vision to think
of the harmony that the Republi
cans can enter into by acceding to
the terms of the two great leaders
who recently wrecked their party.
Because the public has already
surrendered ownership in a great
many water power sites is no rea
son why it should give up' those
it still owns. They should be
leased under the terms of the Fer
ris bill.
A LITTLE HISTORY
MARK TWAIN'S knowledge of
theiast and present an the
Mississippi was personal and
Intimate, so tliat the ac
counts of river men and events
scattered "through his books are
fundamental sources for the his
torian. Mark Twain noticed a curi
ous fact about the Father of
Waters. Before the days of im
provement, he BayB, when the chan
nel was irregular and beset witn
snags and sawyers and when noth
ing had been done to fortify the
tanks against freshets, the great
river was the scene of a busy navi
gation. From St. Paul to New Or
leans the stream bore a numerous
fleet of steamers carrying on a
profitable traffic.
With the days of improvements
such as levees, lighthouses and a
rectified channel the navigation
has disappeared. The Mississippi
is now a solitude and has been for
many, many years. Nor do tho
government's efforts to revive the
eld time business thus far . lead to
anything encouraging. It Is ex
pected that thT Panama canal will
do something substantial to stimu
late traffic on the internal waters
of the West, bat Jnst how much Is
a question.
The first blow to river traffic
came from the railroads which car
ried freight and passengers under
conditions with which the steam
boats .could not Immediately com
pete. With the development of the
country and the improvement of
the river thlB difficulty would have
passed away but for another and
worse one which was added to it.
The railroad companies, with ad
mirable astuteness, got possession
of the old boat landings frbm St.
Paul to New Orleans and thus
stifled competition. The river
business is never likely to regain
its old importance until tho bank
are made public property so that
boats are free to land and handle
traffic.
Americans have been improvi
dent in. squandering their riparian
possessions as well as the shore3
of the ocean. The banks of navi
gable rivers, within city limits, and
the seashore everywhere
Should !
be the inalienable property of the
6tate, nation or city.
Our Doctor Coe would save the
Moose from extinction. Let us
nominate a candidate, says be, and(
pay no attention to the old parties.
A NEW TRIUMPH
ANEW YORK newspaper man
advertised for "one or two
small rooms with the privi
leges of cooking himself."
Household science has advanced
to a high state of perfection. It
has scored many triumphs and
o"one much to satisfy the longing!
of masculine gastronomy. But it i
has remained for the New York
newspaper man to add to Its 'tri
umphs the hitherto unrecorded
feat of "cooking himself."
Newspaper men have been known
to become "soaked." In the vicis
situdes and eventuations of time,
they have occasionally been
"stewed."
In the tumultuous and multitu
dinous pursuit of their dally rou
tine, newspaper men are frequent
ly "roasted" by an Indignant citi
zen. For lapses and shortcomings
in the course of their duty, they
are not infrequently "grilled." And
Irate women with fancied slights
in the society column have becom
ingly "panned" them.
But the New Yorker Is a land
mark and a milestone both as a
newspaper man and an expert in
domestic science in his proposal to
"cook himself."
President Wilson says he will
ask the people for counsel and ap
pTTiaaal as to his preparedness plan.
II,e evidences a fairly clear concep
tion as to what i? the true source
of povrcr In the United States.
ODIOUS COMPARISONS
M
RS. JOSEPHINE CORLISS
PRESTON views with
tifiable complacency ' th
contrast between the Wash-
inprton and Oregon school funds.
Washington's school fund yield a
i revenue of $10 annually for each
pupil in the tate. Oregon's fund
yields but $1.80. We take these
figures in the main from Mrs.
Preston's address before the meet
ing of school officers and boards
at the Lincoln schoolhouse. Since
she is state superintendent of edu
cation iT Washington her statistics
are apt to be reliable.
Mrs. Preston must appreciate
the opportunities which come to
her state from the possession of
an ample school fund. The $11,
000,000 to which it now amounts,
is but a beginning, for the state
has large areas of valuable school
land which have not yet been soli.
They increase In value yearly and
the children get the benefit of K.
In Oregon there is a different
story to tell. The school land3
originally' turned over to the state
by the federal government were
ruthlessly plundered. Instead of
benefiting the children their pro
ceeds benefited favored interests.
Compliant legislatures and shady
land boards saw to It that the
school fund got hardly a penny in
the dollar of the real value of
these lands.
Washington stands with Minne
sota and Nebraska in the magni
tude of its school fund. What can
these states not do for their child
ren with the magnificent educa
tional endowments which they pos
sess? Minnesota's productive school
fund must foot'xjp $200,000,000
today with immense sums yet to
be realized. Oregon's thriftless
husbandry of the children's prop
erty is irretrievable. The milk is
spilt and there is but poor conso
lation In crying over it.
But by great and unexpected
good fortune the state now has an-
opportunity to" bring the school j
fund up to something like ade-1
quate proportions. The iallroad !
grant lands recently wrested from
corporate greed will. If the state
gets title to them and sells them
profitably, redeem the shameful
past. What better use coul " be
made of these land than to dedi
cate their proceeds to the school
fund He Is no friend to the
Btate or Its children who,
whatevei ostensible reason
plausible excuse, opposes this
of the railroad grant lands.
for
or
use
If the moving picture producers
are looking for real scenery they
could do no better than to come to
("Oregon.
Once more the state supreme
court has declared that the Work
mens' Compensation Act Is constitutional.
NOTHING THE MATTER
WITH PORTLAND
In a letter to tU publisher of The Journal.
Mr. K. L.. Tamnpaoo. manager of tba Port
land Woolen liilia has eipreseed hi a apprecia
tion of Tlie Journal'! serlea of articles on the
successful Industrie of Portland. To text of
Mr. Tbompaon'a lodoraenmit fullowa:
We ail need encouragement and kind word a, as
meat you and to offer inch encouragement a I
can for the promotion work 7m are doing In
upbuilding tt.e enterprises of th state. Your
srtlrieo on tlie sntJrct, 'What la the Matter
Wltb Portland.' ars certatuly Interesting. I
bsTe reed almost eTery one of Ihi-m with a
great deal of pleasure. Socb construct ire pub
licity work Is of greet benefit to tne city.
Ws all need nroursPtncnt and kind word, sa
the atrnfrKles have ben many, although tbera
seems nirw a ciiance for better bualneaa, and
by corerstion. effort and faith In our city,
we will not ooly encourage Uiie that are here
to go on with the deTelnpment work, btit will
rmninge nutltiers to Inref-t Uir money In
Oregun and her enterprise."
The Jiwriutl Inriies Its readers to erpresg
their flews on the bulues artlclea apiiearlng
In this col'iii.n. -Ml mast bare been aided to
a b'tter understanding of wtiat lire Portland
men are doing, and of what the city and etate
offer. Their ststetnents wlU redound to the
common gnud.
Meanw-hlle, let none fell to jK-ndr the his
tory of that pioneer establishment whlrh Is
the nuhject of the article for the day No. 16.
And l't atl follow Ita enthunlaiitic manager as
he dilates nnon the rower estieclallT tbe sea
power which mut be Portland a when Port
land men rue to Portland a potentialities. J
PORTLAND has the largest whole
fale dry- roods and furnishing
poods house west of the Missouri
river. Not from the Missouri river
westward to Portlund only, but in
all the region westward from the
Missouri to the western boundary o
the United States and to the south
ern boundary of California.
There Is a meanlna; to this, for If
there were a more favorable loca
tion and a better city from which to
operate, Portland would Tint be the
home of Fleiechner. Mayer & Co., nT
the distributing depot for the vai-t
amount of merchandise sold from Its
shelves to the merchants of the Pa
cific coast.
And this big firm oreratbg a larre
factory In which la made a full line
of shirts, overalls and mechanics"
clothlns;, known as the Mt. Hood
brand, as well as th University brand
of mackinaw coats and balmacaan
overcoate.
ESTABLISHED 50 TEAR9 AGO.
What foresight must have been
possessed by those who founded the
ML HckjJ clothing factory half a
century ago!
How tl.cy must have peered into
the future, for at that time there
were likely timber slashings where
the business district Is today, and
no doubt some towering; fir trees
around the public library location.
There wasn't so much a a "hoss"
car then, and oxen were the motive
pow.T for considerable of the over
land transportation. Jackrabbits and
rrous abounded In the vicinity of
the baseball grounds. and coyotes
could be found loitering; ".round the
district now known as Fulton Park.
That faith, however, which Induced
the investment of real money In tho
Mt. Hood factory was not misplaced.
It was a small affair, of course
nothing; to com-pare with the present
Institution at 133 Couch street, wtife
200 persons are employed where more
than 175 women, In a bright, cheerful.
Jus-Hveli ventilated, well heated bulldlnj
work with as many sewing machines,
I operated by electricity, and make at
least doublo the pay their elsters re-
I .. I . - in t V. . t chrtna ctt tha eAat-
ern cities.
The payroll of these workers aggre
gates, In round numbers, $100,000 a
year, and this money goes to make
Uvea brighter, homes more comfor
table and to bring cheer and happi
ness and sunshine and Joy Into exis
tences that without these eamingsJ
would likely be filled with gloom
and surrounded with want and misery.
And this $100,000 helps to make
Portland a better city, a richer city,
a more desirable habitation for others
than merely those who receive the
salaries.
One hundred such factories would
distribute 110.000,000 to employes an
nually, and there Is plenty of room
In Portland for that many more than
we have today. Not 100 more work
lngmen's clothing factories, but those
employing the native products of Or
egon Its Iron ore, its marble. Us
granite, its timber and hat pro
duced by Its soil.
MADE IN OREGON MATERIAL
USED.
Here is a factory that uses made-in-Oregon
material. The garments
It turns out are of the homespun
kind, only the thread and buttons bo
lng Imported, and the latter, at least,
could be manufactured In Portland
as well as anywhere. The Mt. Hood
people are sticklers for home produc
tion Their own factory teaches them
the Importance of spending their
money at home. They thoroughly be
lieve In th doctrine. It is continu
ally In their minds, nd they practice
wliat they preach.
"We have more than passing pride
in the consciousness that our garments
represent home production," said Na
than Strauss, member of the firm ijf
Flclschner, Mayer & Co. "We buy
rothlng abroad which can be ha.l
from the factories of our state, and
v.e find that It pays In at least two
way. First, U keeps Oregon monev
in Oregon, some of which Is bounl
' to return to ua through some channel
I or other, and, second, Oregon manu
facturers have pride In the quality
of their products. We get a better
class of material than la commonly
found upon the market, and this
makes a satisfied customer, and a
satisfied customer Is an unforgetful
friend. If we had no pride In our
home city and no one has greater
adoration for Portland If only for
selfish reasons, we would buy thooe
Oregon fabric to be made Info cloth
ing In our factories, and for the rea
son stated, for if w-e do not build
up our city and state with our own
capital we cannot expect strange
money to do It for us."
COVER A LARGE TERRITORY.
No matter where one travels In
this north west or In Alaska or the
western British possessions, he wlU
see men and youths wea ring MX
Hood factory product. They are de
tected by their attractive patterns,
belonging to the Scotch plaid famllv,
so to speak, and by the originality ol
their cut. In. rainy regions they turn
the wet, and in cold protect the body
from Its severity.
"We cover Oregon, Washington.
Idaho, California, Montana, Utali,
Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands,"
Mr. Strauss explained In speaking of
the market for his factory's products.
"It is a broad territory constantly in
creasing In population, and we an
keeping pace with it. We have be?n
doing a remarkably good buslneis
throughout all those so-called hard
times. W have not been affected
by the "pinch" to any appreciable ex
tent, and this gives encouragemint .o
the opinion that we are nearlng the
end of the business depression which
has overshadowed the entire country
for going on two years, and from
which the Pacific coast has suffered,
but In no greater proportion than th ?
eastern states. Oregon, I believe, has
passed through the cloud, and we are
out in the sunshine again."
NEED OF WATER TRANSPORTA
TION. Mr. Strauss is chairman of the
trade and commerce bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce, which Is
reaching out after steamship lines,
and he la optimistic as to this situ
ation. "We need better steamship service
between Portland! and the Oriental
markets and Alaskan points, and Into
the Interior," he declares, "and it
looks to me as if our object in this
direction Is nearlng attainment. De
tails are not, however, as yet availa
ble or at least can not be made pub
lic but I believe Portland will soon
achieve her object and we will have
direct communication with the over
seas markets and with Alaska, as we
ought to have had many years ago.
"We must now hsVe a generil
awakening of the people to this prime
necessity In the business advancement
of Portland. It will not be to de
pend upon the few, merely because
these are fortunately richer than tho
rest of us. We must all pull to
gether we must forget self, abandon
self ishness we must get into the
harness and pull! We must get to
work.
GREAT THINGS IN STORE.
"Efforts have 1 etofore been made
In the matter of securing additional
sUatnshlp service on the ocean. Mis
takes have been mnde and some
money has been lost. This has
caused some people to become timid.
It ought not to have this effect. The
mistakes of the past, though liberally
paid 'for, uhould serve as a guide to
the future, and -we ought to roll up
our sleeves and go at It again wltn
greater energy than ever. For a fact
it will not do for us to rest contented
with the present conditions, howevjr
cheering they may be and prosperous
we are. There Is more to be had.
There Is much more to be had. There
art great things In store for this
city, and they ar ours if we will
but reach out and pick the fruit. We
can reach It If we will. We
should go after It with a goad, if
necessary. Some men require goad
ing. They need a shock of some
energy to wake them up. Their am
bition is drowning in dread tf los-f.
Herein is their mistake. We have
built up a great business here be
cause we have been fearless and forco
ful. We saw Oregon In Its bud and
knew It must some day put forth a
magnificent flower. It did, and we
picked It. It is ourg now. portland'j
bud will bloom If the stalk is nour
ished. Fertilised with a dollar now
It will soon hand back five. P.:it
nothing will comC Lack If nothing i3
put out. Our business men are un
dorstandng this. Tifey are seeing the
light. Our Chamber of Commerce 1
brushing the cobwebs away. It is
blazing a pathway In some men s
wilderness. It Is burnishing up some
men's understanding. It Is leading
them out Into a broad place. To the
right they see prosperity awaiting
their companionship. To the left they
perceive the beckoning finger of op1
portunlty. Behind them Is the dim.
dismal past, and before the golden
pathway of expanded happiness.
"Therefore I look to the future
with extreme satisfaction. I can se;
our factories multiplying. I can see
their products transported to the In
land Empire by river and rail; by
water to all oriental seaports and to
our own eastern coast via the Panama
canal to unlimited markets. I cui
red Portland a hive of Industry, be
cause its natural resources are being;
cultivated and its opportunities Im
proved and a great field surrounds it."
Letters From the People
((romanlratlon ent to TTie Journal for
publication la till department aboald be writ
tea on only one side of (be paper, should uot
exceed words lu lengib and muat be ac
cooipauled by tlie oauia and addreae of tha
tiWr. If the writer dim pot dralrs to base
the urn mm published, be should ao alats.i
r
"Mamtslon la the greatest of all reformers
It ratloiia liars errrytbiug It tnuehes. It rotta
principle of all fslae aauctlty and tbrows tbetn
Lack on tbeir reaaooat-ieneas. If they bare no
reaaonableiM-as, It rutiilessij cruafies tbiD out
of existence sod sets up ita owd cvDcluskoa
la tbeir atcad. " Woodrosr Wlleoo.
Pheasant Plaraage.
Kstacada. Or., Jan. 10. To the Kdl
tor of The Journal I have the plum
age of a China pheasant, which I want
to wear on my hat. The pheasant was
killed in the open season last fall. I
can prove who killed it, and I pre
pared the plumage myself. Can I law
fully wear it, to Portland
where?
or any-
The law provides only that chins
pheasant plumage may not be made a
matter of merchandise. The hunter,
however, can give the plunsage away,
and this owner may give it away
again, and so on indefinitely. Any
owner can, of course, lawfully wear it,
but no one is permitted to sell It. 1
Ue of Trade School founds.
Portland. Jan. 7. To the Editor ot
Th Journal la addition to what I
h&ve written In regard to teaching
trades in the public schools, and in
PERTINENT-COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
Wonder whether congress Intends to
worry or worry with the i resident?
The Columbia river bar having moved
put to sea, the obvious thing now Is for
Columbia river commerce to follow It.
.
Of course nobody is repaired to use
a model in writing next, weeks let
ter. The important tta-Jng la that
everybody write. -as
The Russians are still; struggling
with Czartoryslc and Cie Howttx. but
Americans gave them up long ago as
linguistic lu4ossibllltles. -
The murder of Americans In Mexico
stirs some people's Ire to -the point of
wanting somebody else 'o go down
there aud inflict adequate punishment.
s
Rear Admiral Fullam complains that
four out of five Americas can't sing
t lie national air, and beimight have
said that the one who can jught to tak
music lesBoiis. v
s
Indications are that wb n the time
comes for a world's chamt lonejilp -contest
the Pan-American league will have
a team of sluggers to represent the
three Americas
1
A Stockton Judge Is wondering wheth
er a parrots words can be admitted
an evidence In a divorce", suit. Why
not? Parrot talk Is at thj foundation
of many divorce actions.
Professor Iewls says Ifpld growth
of Oregon's loganberry Ji ce industry
depends upon keeping th product up
to the Oregon slaruLird. It's advice
that means m.llions in th packets of
manufacturers. t
THE WORLD'S
From the Bulletin of the PAn-American
Union.
Where is the deepest iilne In the
worl.i? That Is a questlt n very few
people In this country can answer cor
rectly. Even most mb.-fng experts
would probably make a wiong guess
unless they had made rather exhaus
tive Inquiries anent the subject for It
is located In a section ol the world
whero you would least exject to find
it. In the forests which cover the hills
that cluster about the mouth of the
mine wild monkeys are chattering and
Jumping about from limb to limb of
the graceful palms which afford them
food as well as shelter, Jhlle among
the brlght-hued flowers requisite or
chids display their beaut;'. Birds of
rare plumage flit in and ol t among the
shadows and the gorgeous red-blue-yellow
macaws add tlnlr raucous
voices to the medley of sounds, while
splendid butterflies wave their large
wings of Irrldescent blue ad green and
gold to enhance the rlot4 of color In
these tropic realms.
Tropic realms? Verily, for the deep
est mine gold or of any other metal
is located in Brazil. It is near a place
bearing the euphonious najno of Villa
Nova de Lima, In the state of Minas
Geraes, about 330 miles rth of Rio
tie Janeiro. It has been t orked, more
or less systematically, fo something
over 0 years, and yet t W of us In
the United States have er heard of
the pla.ee. much less of tha Jnlne, which
is known as the Morro Vlho and Is
owned and operated by -an English
company.
Ijfisi yenr two young professors of
geolopy, benjamin Le Ro Miller, of
Ix-hlgh university, and Josh T. Slnge
wald Jr , of Johns Hopklnay struck out
for foreign parts and winded their
way even Into the hidden-recesses of
South America with the v ew of find
ing out something In regard to the
mineral resources of the Western hem
isphere. They In vestlgate) almost all
of the known mining districts Of the
southern continent and brought back
with them a vast store of -information
rtlatlve to the mineral wealth of the
various countries visited, iand It was
in l;rail that they found Ahis unusual
uml lu some respects unrivalled gold
mine
The Morrd' Velho mins U located in
the poid belt of Brazil, whre the Por
tuguese were first lnducjd to settle
by the discovery of the yllow metal.
The first gold was dlscovtxed In 1699
n. ar the present clty of 'uro Preto.
Tho gold was coated with ylack sub
connection with your srtrtles on the
cost of supplies, I call nttention to
the following figures fr the year
1 0 1 4 -1 ? I r, :
Cooking instruction salaried.! 21.99POS
Cooking H'.hool supplies..-. 3,631.02
Manual training instruction
salaries f. 62.B3.44
Manual trxinmg supplies . 11.3-'9.6i
Stwlns school instruction
salaries 41.413.20
Sewing school supplies..... 3.145.34
Total for these three iterniH44.261.S2
This la apportioned aa f4ows: $70.-
248.71 for the glrla and 4,013.11 for
the boys.
This splits it fairly 4 fen on sex
lines, but perhaps the eqi'tMy would
not be ko apparent on an economical
division. "
But assuming that the 'tity Is gel
ting value received for r money ex
pended on cooking, sewini, plumbing,
electric work, carpentry, etc., all of
which have to do with the most com
mon walks of life, then what valid
argument is there against having an
instructor to teach thobe' desiring it
how to properly write short stories
for magazines, or scenarios for moving
pictures, or how to becom a profes
sional photographer, or builders' ex
change secretary, or, in connection with
our "safety first" courne.i teach al't.o
a first aid course In medicine and sur
gery. May there not be, to tP boy or girl
medically inclined, as mu':h or more
value in knowing the therapeutic value
of catnip, as in learning, the thera
peutics of s potato? May there not tc
a greater return to the boy who has a
natural aptitude for 'takUng the old
clock apart to see what makes the
u-i ...i- c, In teachlne hlfh tha rudi
ments of surgery?
Why notaa teacher to te.Vh banking
front the banker's standpoint Instead
of the depositor'e? Why n-t a teacher
to teach, in a clean, practical way,
how to lit one's self for public office.
Low to get the public position and bow
to hold It?
If the city has $150,000 to put inu
practical things for our bo$s and glrl-i,
wl.y not employ some rtally wortn
while men and women to .'teach thern
some of these really worth while
things?
If the moving picture J people can
employ the very best talent in ail
lines in all the world to .make a 10
cent moving picture film tT amuse the
ptopie, why would It be s preposter
ous to make it an object !"or some of
this talent to impress upo adolescent
.... Ik. Mint.,., 1 . M -
mentalities some wt ; -
sons experience and training have
brought to them? A puouc scuooyi
Chautauqua course of lectsires by th
world's best men ana women in mi
practical lmes why not? '
This $144,261.82 is quite m bunch of
money, and if spent elsewhere than In
the public schools would require a
very careful checking up-of ths re
sults of its expenditure bfrfore filing
away the report. O. G. HCOHSON.
"Through the Tele'icope.'
Castlerock, Wash., Jan' 10. To
the Editor of The Journal In a re
cent issue of Tb Journal t read with.
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
lVrs
OREGON SIDELIG
Baker Elks have decided to remodel
their club quarters and work will be
gin soon.
a a
The making and laying of 11 miles
of cement pipe this year, the Herald is
glad to state, will give work to many
men at Baker. Docal labor and sup
piles from the vicinity are to be given
the preference.
a a
Reorganization of the Pendleton Com.
merciai association along mors sub
stantial lines Is proposed, and the cem
horsnlp committee has been Instructed
t present some definite plan at the
f' cbruary meeting. Thli committee,
the tast Oregonlan says, has seriously,
dlacusaed the feaaib ilty of acquiring
a permanent home for the club.
Appetizing description. In the Moro
Observer, oi the rabbit hunters' feast
spread recently by the Moro Rod and,
Gun club: "The lunch, consisting of
oyster cocktails, cider, coffee, cheese
and ham sandwiches, apples, etc., was
put up by Joe Hendrlx and his effi
cient corps of waiters. The coffee
was exceptionally good and the cheese
and ham hard to beau"
a
In the Interest of civic loveliness the
Forest Grove News-Times tiles this
pretest: "Another of the 'artlstiu' sign
boards has been erected on Pac.fic
avenue. Just off Main, for the Joy and
edification of the people of Forest
Grove. Thus Is the stamp or 'art' being
Imprinted on our brow, and wltlitn a
short time the body material of beau
tiful Forest Groe will be not unlike
a man with artistic soul who Is suf
fering with a malignant case of spot
ted fever."
DEEPEST MINE
stance and hence was called "ouro
preto" black gold. The city which
they founded was long called Villa
Rlcs de Ouro Preto the Rich City of
Black Gold a name which was some
what cumbersome even for the Portu
guese, so they finally shortened It to
Just Ouro Preto, the name by which
it la known today. Once upon a time
it was about the most Important city
In Brazil, gold working surrounding It
and the valuable metal being obtained
from the gravel of almost every stream
In the region. Not only the stream
gravels yielded gold, but many gold
bearing quartz veins were worked.
Just when the Morro Velho mine
was first opened Is not known, but it
was being operated toward the close
of the eighteenth century, and con
siderable work had been done when the
present company obtained control of it
In 1S34. The ore body consists of a
great vein of unusual persistence and
regularity that dips Into the earth at
an angle of about 4 5 degrees. It may
be likened to a gigantic knife blade,
held vertically and thrust Into the
earth at this ancle with the point still
lower than the present deerest work
ings. And it is these workings that make
the mine remarkable. The combined
depths of the connected slkafts give s
total of ifc2 4 feet. In other words,
here Is a gold mine that is being
worked at a depth of more than a mile
below tHe surface of the earth. Now
be it remembered ti.at the rock tem
peratures Increase as the earth's crust
is penetrated, in some regions the in
crease being as much as one degree
Fahrenheit for each 50 to 60 feet in
crease in depth. At this rate the
temperature at the bottom of this
mine would be over 100 per cent
higher than at the surface, and
fried ham and eggs might be pre
pared for the miners without any other
heating apparatus than the loose rocks
lying about. Incidentally the miners
would be going through the frying pro
cess too. Fortunately, however. In this
mine the rate of Increase of tempera
ture Is only 1 degrees for every 100 to
120 feet, giving the rocks a tempera
ture. Is only 1 degree for every 100 to
cooled air down into the mine by means
of fans the temperature Is lowered to
a little less than 100 degrees. Even at
that It Is rather snug, and the miners
usually wear only shoes, donning trous
ers when company Is expected. Still,
the mine has produced a total of about
$55,000,000 worth of gold, and la being
worked now at a profit of somethiig
over (700,000 annually.
much Interest yonr editorial article
under the caption, "Througli the Tele
scope." While I admit your Ideas are
In accord with our leading astronomers
and philosophers. pleae permit me to
call your attention to some seeming
inconsistencies, or errors.
You Kay: "In the moon the tele
scope reveals the future state of Our
earth, while Mars proves to be a
planet more or lesa In a terrestial con
dition." Let me a.'k: If the earth, svelitusily,
la to be like the moon, barren and
llfeleaa, why not Mara, or any other
planet? In my opinion, all will be
barren and lifeless eventually, but not
like the moon nor from the same
causes that make the moon barren.
Again, you say: "On account of its
enormous bulk the sun has not yet
advanced so far in Its evolution as
have the other members of the solar
system. Il la still in a gaseoua con
dition." Now If the sun Is In a gaseous con
dition, surrounded by such heat and
flame. It seems to me It would nat
urally Ignite the gas and almost In
stantly transform the whole man Into
heat and light and distribute It through
space.
I do not doubt that the sun is aur
rounded by the heat and flame you
mention. But the fact that it does not
explode Is conclusive evidence, to me.
that It Is not gas. hut a solid body,
the oldest member of our solar sys
tem, whose motion, imparted to the
solar ether, carries the planets around
It In their respective order, each planet
Imparting simi;ar motion, carrying Ita
moons (If any), around It.
I am of opinion, also, that without
Jthe union of atoms there could be
I nothing but atoms; and if atoms unite.
aggregations ui munn v uivwi whi
ets. planets) may and do unite. It Is,
probably, the way they grow and pos
siMy become suns themselves event
ually. J E- THOMPSON.
An Appreciation.
Portland, Or., Jan. 10. To the Editor
of Th Journal I hav. been waiting
sometime for someone better qualified
to take up the pen and give The Jour
nal full credit for Its unbiased, free
and fearless course in publishing s pa
per In the Interest of all the people,
regardless of creeds, cliques, clans or
political wires. I know of no other
paper on. the Pacific coast at this time
doing this. The Journal, seemingly
slow aometimes, to some people. In
leaking up an opinion, when it Is made
up puonsnes it to the world and lets
the chips fly where they will, always
having good reason for and proof of
Its position, when wsnted, and does
not hav to apologize for that position
afterwards, nor get on two or three
sides of the same question. In as many
weeks or months, an some other papera
I know of do. In my opinion the
straightforward, levelheaded, right
thinking people, regardless of party,
will stand by The Journal la this
course. And I am not a Democrat
either strictly speaking.
c J. Jarzjunr.
Tt,e0nce Over
- ar tj.x lampiian
THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW whlci
laid Its velvet blanket upon us
Just when we were getting rfatfy tl
writs letters back east telling- aboul
our climate has very little to d
with this story.
which la similar to other torlea
J If Job hadn't had bolls for In
stance we would never have heard
Of Mm and his hard luck story.
J And this story la about Adeltna
il. Alvord whose mother is a mar
velous cook.
and who teaches dramatle art it
the Ellera building.
where a lot of other things llkt
singing and the violin and th
piano and Dew thought ars als
t-ught.
so that in the hallways--some-times
It sounds like Congress and
the Symphony orchestra were Lot I
In session.
and both In violent disorder.
J And the other day Adeline call as
up Vella Winner of The Journal.
and asked her to have a atudli
luncheon with her.
1 And Veils had visions of frle4
chicken and salt rising bread sn4
home crown salad and strawberrj
preserves und chocolate cake.
and things like those.
U And she said sure she d com.
J And she went yesterday.
with her mouth all fixed.
TAnd when she came in Ade!ln
smiled sadly.
and said "I've got nothing foi
you.
J And Vella asked why.
J And Adellna said she started owl
all right Id the morning.
with the lurtkheon In a basket.
and her husband breaking trail.
And they went to take a car sJ
Sixtieth and Hawthorne.
aj And aa she went to get on ei
handed the basket to the conduoton
and told him to be careful be.
causa her dinner was In it,
J And he said "Do you mean U
say kind lady that there's some
thing to eat In this basket?"
ar And Adeline said there was.
J And the conductor told her how
he and the motorman had been work
ing for hours in the show to gel
t-e car running.
without anything to eat
J And Adeline was so sorry foi
them.
and she said they could eat It.
ejAnd they did.
and gave her back the basket.
J And of course If It hadn't anows4
this never would have happened.
5 And Adeline 1st Veils, look In tht
basket.
J And they went across the street
and had a Swiss cheese sandwlcl
and a chocolate malted mllk-e-apleci
for 40 cents and then
J LISTEN They went outside and
ste a nice clean snowball for dessert.
Somebody Tnunp This One.
Sir: Despite recent aventa we aren't
yet convinced that "The Battle Cry ol
Peace" la the blast of a Jitney horn.
D. T.
Melancholy m&yme Which, YerUs
Seems to Arrive Mo TImo:
Le grippe has corns and wet our nose.
Our joint all ache from tip to toea
Unto the Doc we teil our woes.
Until the cold snap goes
And like the girls of Holy Writ
Who lacked the oil and had to git.
Of booze we have not e'en a bit
And It anows, snows, snowsl
Jess So.
The I'rrf cct Grooch.
Sir: Bill Hanley told me on tlm4
that he knew an Indian In early- dayl
who was named Young-Man-Who-Fromed-at-Hlmself.
How could ha
do it, I ask, unless he was well ac
quainted with himself?
C. L.
Tree Tip to the O. O. 9,
The Progressives, t!e paperg say,
sre holding out the olive branch. . I ook
again. It msy conceal the Big Htlrk.
Howrver.
The eold anap moves L D. to write
this kollum and make a suggestion.
Hs says he doesn't m!s Ms eold
bottle nearly so much as he thought
he would.
"A hot bottle Is a pretty good aub
itltute these nights," he Bays.
s
It Isn't such a change, after alL
He has fired the fire-water bottla,
a
And filled the hot-water bottle.
Send Your Bills to General 1iit.
WHEN the rifle team of the Ore
gon National Ousfd was on Its
way to Florida to participate In the
guardsmen's national shoot, several
weeks ago, George A. White, adjutant
general of. the O. N. O., and Dr. M. B.
Marcellua, major In the hospital divi
sion, had an argument as to the sblMty
of the local rifle shots.
"I think that If they make better
than tenth place they'll be doing well."
said Dr. Marcellus.
"I'll bet you that they take better
than tenth place," said General Whits.
With some misgivings, each bet the
other a dollar.
After the sHoot was finished. White
received a message that the ' Oregon
team was in the fifteenth place. He
telephoned Dr. Marcellus and said.
"Well, we'll have that dinner now "
"What dinner?" asked Ir. Marcellus.
"Don't you remember betting me a
dinner on tha outcome of the national
ahootr asked White
"I bet you a dollar, not a dinner,"
Marcellus told him, "and I'll collect
the next time I see you."
Shortly after thla conversation an
other message was received, this time
officially. Instead of being fifteenth,
Oregon's team was fifth.
Needless to say. General White col
lected ths bet Instead of paying It.
He Is a very good bill collector.
' i
Wonder If They Talk In Their
Sleep.
T" id y0u ever notice," said an aid
U time reporter, V'now- many per
sona walk down the street talking. to
themselves? I Imagine they must lbs
saying to themselves things like this:
- 'By george. If I sell Blank. a S1,000
policy 1 11 take a trip to California.'
Now. what in samhill can I; tell
Mr. Banker when I ask him to renew
that note for 90 days?
'I really believe that I look the
best In that ultra-marine blue bat With
the pink oetrlch plumes.'
"They must be saying soBathigg
Will soma on kindly arias aad 'tal
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