THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1918.
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WOODBOW WILSON.
- Million for defense, nt not a cent for
tribute. CHABLES C. I'lNCKNKY.
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Let tba aoldier be abroad If he will,
ha ean do nothing tn thla ace. There
la another personage, a personage leas
Imposing In the eyes of rum, per
fcaps Insignificant. Tba achoolmaater
la abroad, .and I trust to biro, armed
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tall military rry. Lorti Brougham.
JHR. SEXNOTT'S OPPORTUNITY
I ONGRESSMAN SINNOTT of
Oregon faces an extraordinary
opportunity. He has suddenly
como Into position in which
' he can render high service to his
state.
" Be has been named as one of
the five members of a subcommit
tee to report on the House grant
land bill. The work of the sub
committee will largely influence
. the action of the main committee.
. The action of the main committee
will largely control the action cf
. the House. Legislation at Wasb-
- ington is more by committees than
; by the two chambers.
As a member of the subcommit
tee, Mr. Sinnott has a position of
great strategic advantage. The is
sue beforo him is whether Oregon
Is to have 80 per cent or 40 pef
cent from sales of the grant lands
for roads and schools.
The claimants represented by
. Puter and others who have at
tempted a filing on the lands are
completely out of it. The court
, decision eliminated them. Xb.a
. principle it laid down made it ont
of the question for Congress to
consider their claims. Practically
no : attention has been paid by
, Congress to bills reflecting their
claims.
-On the committee with Con-
- - gressman Sinnott are congressmen
from neighboring states who should
naturally have sympathy with his
efforts. He can tell them and can
tell the main committee and tell
the House how Oregon has put
up nearly $11,000,000 for reclama
tion and got back only a song.
He can tell them how Congress
.long ago parted with the grant
.lands, and that it cannot now
reasonably set up a claim to take
.them back for federal purposes.
;He can tell them how re
fusal by the railroad to sell the
lands held back Oregon develop
ment and caused great loss to the
state, notably in the grant land
. counties.
He can tell them how the fed
eral government stood by and al
lowed the railroad to hold the
lands off the market, whereby
,. Cfeat injury was done Oreeon, and
' that devoting- SO per cent of the
lands now to roads and schools
would but partly compensate this
state for Its losses.
; It Is a situation to appeal to the
ambition and high endeavor of
Mr. Sinnott or any-other man. It
ia a chance to endow, the schools
of Oregon with a handsome inheri
tance lorall time, , It Is, an oppor
tunity to add a 'great 8um to the
Irreducible school fund and there
by Increase the effectiveness cf
that fund as system of rural
credits.
Never In his legislative career
will Mr. Sinnott have a fairer op
portunity to" render conspicuous
"service. It is a chance that comes
- but once in a lifetime.
. : Ad vices from The Journal's
Washington correspondent are that
the chance' of Oregon Bccufing 80
per cent of the grant lands is tn
grave doubt. Is Oregon going to
thunder. Its demand for 80 per
cent after' the se is lost, as it
dltl fin- the case of reclamation?
Are we going to wait 'until we lose
and then raise a useless wall?
AN UNSOLVED PROBLEM
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I HE federal trade commission
i i gives -facta 'i to the country
which indicate a pitifully small
"profit for the average retail
business. . The smaller the business
the less the" profit, as a rule.. ,The
icorner grocery in town and, coun
try suffers most of all perhaps. If
its ; owner comes out without a
deficit at-ibe end of the year he
is lucky. Indeed. The .failures In
this line r business are : f Iscour
aglngly numerous. The storekeep
ers themselves ascribe their decline
THROWING LINCOLN OVERBOARD
R. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER Is also warlike. He joins the
D
clamor to which the ultimate U armed mtervenwun a u.
i?i President Wilson ought to nave "acted three year ago. he
afA ft o Tnnfflnl 'ItitoTTrlaw.
Why did not President Taft act five years ago, was the reporter's
query. -1 . A. ' , .
Dr. Butler's reply la significant. "A mistake by the previous ad
ministration does not serve as an excuse for this administration, said
Dr. Butler.
And there you are. Mr. Taft'a policy has to be repudiated In order
to be able to criticize Mr. Wilson. Mr. Taft's resistance to jingo clamor
has to be condemned in order to condemn President Wilson's resist
ance to Jingo clamor, and that is exactly the length to which Dr.
Butler goes.
Abraham Lincoln also resisted Jingo clamor m nis ume, ana re
fused to make war on 'Mexico,, Just as did Mr. Taft and Just as has
Mr. Wilson, and to condemning Taft and Wilson, Dr. Butler is con
demning Abraham Lincoln.
And that brings us to a clear realization of what the stand pat
leaders are doing in their desire to "get" President Wilson. They
dare not attack Wilson's legislative program. The dinner pail is full,
and the tariff out of it. The president is for a tariff commission
to make the tariff scientific and take It out of politics.
They dare not attack the currency bill which takes control of
money and credit out of Wall street and puts control in the hands of
the people.
They dare not attack the income tax which takes some of the bur
dens off the poor.
They dare not attack the president for saving the great mineral
deposits of Alaska to the people by stopping the grab game of the
Guggenhelms.
They dare not attack the president for using the money in the
treasury to finance crop movements and save farmers from being
squeezed.
They dare not attack the president for the movement to stop the
practice of usury by come of. the national banks. -
They dare not attack the president for establishing a trade com
mission to protect legitimate business against Illegitimate business.
They dare not attack the president for his great law which abol
ishes interlocking directorates and prevents one great corporation from
holding directorships in or unlaw! i lly absorbing a competitor.
They dare not attack the president on any of his other great pro
gressive measures, because he has
lation demanded for decades by the people than has been enacted in
a generation, and the people all know it.
Consequently, they are engaged in the "extraordinary business of
throwing Abraham Lincoln overboard
policy overboard in order to attack
It is an ungrateful thing, in the name of Republicanism, to thus
repudiate the teachings and insult the memory of Lincoln, and there
are hundreds of thousands of Lincoln Republicans who will bitterly
resent it. It is a kind of leadership that is so false that it will tear
the vitals out of the party.
Besides, in the splendid friendship which President Wilson has
created with the South and Central
that unites the hemisphere In close
millions of Americans accept and
policy in the benefits it will bring,
noblest results ever achieved by an
to the competition of department
stores and mail order houses. So
they declaim against the parcel
, post which makes mail orders feas
jibl.e The retail dealer loads the farm
produce he sells with an average
advance of 35 per cent on the cost
to him. It would seem as if this
should yield him a good living, but
it does not. The farmers who
imagine that the retail dealer is
amassing a big fortune at their ex
pense are far in the wrong.
The fact is that the small store
keeper should be grouped with the
wage earner and the small farmer
as., a member of the "exploited"
l class. A good deal of money passes
through his till in the course of
the year but precious little stays
here. -This is not the fault of the
department stores. It is the fault
of circumstances which, deplete his
till as fast as he can replenish it,
and often faster.
The small storekeeper is eaten
up by unnecessary expenses. He
must keep up a delivery outfit He
must pay tribute to the ready
made package firms. He must sell
many of 'his goods at prices fixed
in Boston and New York. So that
the margin he allows himself on
some goods is partly canceled by
the deficit on others. But hisi""5" v 61C" "Mllu wlBn "P
principal exploiter in the city isldown mt their own pockets to
his landlord. It is a common say- i Psion the civil service employes
ing that the small business man nobo,dvw 11 ect- T&e Parity
works for the landlord. Whatever would lvelv to loo upon and
T.nm mieht maka ia sunk in I would have the great merit of
rent.
, Either the small dealer performs
a useful function or he does not.
If he Is useful to society" conditions
should be made such that he can
do his task without ruining him
self. If he is useless he should be
eliminated. What form the dis
tribution of goods may ultimately
take nobody knows, but at present
we can hardly dispense with the
corner grocery. We should, there-
j fore try to devise some way to give
tne grocer a living income, n renr,
stands in the way of this consum
mation the sooner we get rid of
rent the better for the world.
Dr. Butler Baid in his speech at
the playhouse that we had as good
as solved our great economic prob
lems. A fairer statement would
.be that wo are just beginning to
find out what they are.
Now that there Is a strong pos
sibility that the proposed 80 per
cent of Oregon grant lands may be
cut to 40, strong sentiment is de
veloping in the state against tha
reduction. Let it be hoped that it
will not turn out to be a case of
closing the barn door after the
horse is stolen.
PENROSE AND PENSIONS
S'
ENATOR PENROSE'S bill for
pensioning retired government
employes will please the
thoughtless. The spectacle of
an aged civil service employe
turned out "to starve or beg" in
his decrepitude is not agreeable
The first shallow impulse of the
mind is to "give him a pension."
When we stop to think who must
pay the pension the impulse is apt
to be checked.
' If we pension retired government
employes , the money to foot -the
bill must be wrung from working
people. At any rate, it surely will
be wrung from them." .tTndet a
more equitable system Of taxation
perhaps the monied magnates might
pay their just share, but aa matters
stand thejr, do not and . will . not.
in three years, secured more legis
and throwing Mr. Taft's Mexican
Woodrow Wilson. x
American nations, a friendship
union, peace and understanding,
applaud the president's Mexican
as one of the most valuable and
American president.
Whatever pensions this government
awards its employes will come
mainly out of the wages of day la
borers and other wage earners. In
their old age, as a correspondent
of The Journal remarks, these
wage earners have no pension to
depend upon. They must be sup
ported by their relations or by
charity if they have not pinched
and starved themselves to lay up
a provision.'
The government's civil service
employes receive at least twice
the pay of an average working
man. His pay does not exceed
600 a year. Theirs rarely falls
short of $1200. Their opportunity"
to lay up savings is at least twice
as great as his, and yet Senator
Penrose asks the wage earner to
contribute from his pittance to pay
pensions to the civil service em
ployes. This Is the kind of special
Justice we might reasonably expect
from the Pennsylvania boss. His
motto is scriptural, "To him that
hath shall be given and from him
that hath not shall be taken away,"
even the little that he has.
The civil service employes are a
numerous class and an astute boss
may see political advantage in
showering largess on them.
If Senator Penrose and other
proving that their sympathy is sin
cere and not made to order for
political effect.
The resolutions of the Salem
grant land "conference" so-called
were denounced by a special inves
tigator before the House commit
tee yesterday as not reflecting the
real sentiment of Oregon as to the
rant lands. The question is, why
vra the hocus pocus of Senator
Day and his allies ever permitted
to dominate such a gathering and
thereby misrepresent the state?
Instead of asking nothing for the
state, why did the "conference"
resolutions not demand 80 per cent
of the grant lands for Oregon
schools and roads? Such resolu
tions at Washington now would
help to defeat the proposal to cut
Oregon's allowance from 80 to 40
per cent for roads and schools.
, THOSE RESOLUTIONS
T
HE Central Labor Council
should beware. There is such
a crime as les majeste, which
being interpreted means im
pertinence to the Lord's anointed.
We do not say they have com
mitted this awful crime, but Aey
have come within an ace. of it.
Those resolutions impeaching the
wisdom, or perhaps the integrity.
of. our great and good governor.
make one shudder with horror and
amazement.
Governor Withy combe's attitude
on a certain matter "is stultifying
Jnd discreditable . to . himself and
provocative of grievous Injustice
to all Workers." Such were the
impious words of the Labor Coun
cil committee. And the surprisng
thing about it Is that the earth
did not yawn and .wallow them
up. We do not see how 4t man
aged not to. , Perhaps it will to
night or tomorrow night For the
earth, and those who 6wn It, feel
very ; tenderly ' toward Governor
Withycombe. They are not going
to see his sacred name blasphemed
without doing something about it
The good jpovernor was sent to
plead the cause of some working
women at an . employers' meeting ,
in the . Chamber of. Commerce, as
It appears. On the way, if we
understand the situation, he for
got what he "was sent to do and
when he sot there he did the exact
opposite. Instead of pleading for
bis poor clients he pleaded against
them. Well, what if he did?
How can a man as .'great and
magnificent . as the : governor of
Oregon be expected to keep such
a trifling matter-straight in his
mind? Wo rather believe that the
governor honestly thought those
women asked, him to plead against
them. Woman's nature is so mys
terious. The governor has a good
many things on his mind. He has
the interests of the water power
trust to look after. He must at
tend to the welfare of the railroad
in the land grant proceedings. He
must keep a general guard over
the rights and privileges of the
big monied magnates of the state.
How can he be expected to attend
to the interests of the people, es
pecially the working people? The
governor feels like a big man in a
big job and it is enough for him to
plead the cause of big business.
The poor can plead their own
cruse.
NOTHING THE MATTER
WITH PORTLAND
appetiztn; la every sens Is tba menu to
day set before these who shall read in
this column the testimony to the faet that
tbere ia "Nomina- tne Matter with Portland
This is No. 80 of tba series. Taw if any of
Its predecessors surpass it la either interest
or aiue. J
UT this in your pips and enjoy
J the aroma.
There is a concern In Portland
which pickles 1000 tons of cucum
bers a year.
It converts 1000 tons of apples into
cider and vinegar.
It makes sauer kraut out of 400
tons of cabbage.
It makes 2000 pails of pure food
Jelly.
It cans 12 tons of cauliflower.
It grinds up five tons of horse
radish and tucks it away in fancy
Jars. -
It uses up 26 tons of onions in
its pickle factory.
It places a ton and a quarter pf
peppers in its glass bottles.
It made 1600 gallons of apple but
ter last year.
It turned out 32 tons of mince
meat in 1915 and will make it 40
tons in 1916.
It put out 4000 barrels of vinegar
Just as if people were not sour
enough last year without employing
artificial means of creating wrinkles
on their faces and "scowls" on some
of their brows.
It keeps two mustard mills run
ning 313 days of the year and would
make it 865 if there were no Sundays.
It manufactures all kinds of Wor
cestershire and pepper sauces.
THE KNIGHT PACKING COMPANY.
The Knicht Packing company is
the name of the industry referred to.
It Is one of Portland's pioneers.
It started doing things 37 years
ago, when this city still was nursing,
and it is still on the Job.
It employs 60 to 60 men and women
in the busy season, and about half
the number all the year.
More than half Its help is female.
yet its payroll aggregates $45,000 an
nually. It buys all its canning and packing
stock except olives, in the region trib
utary to Portland.
It contracts with farmers for years
ahead for the products it consumes,
agreeing to take that grown upon
given number of acres, so that the
aiTlculturist may not fear to plant
lest there be no market for his crop.
Its seven salesmen cover all the
territory from Ashland, Or., south
ward, to Bellingbom, Wash., to the
north, and to Helena and Butte, Mont.,
and Pocatello, Idaho, eastward. Every
town in this district is a patron of
the institution.
It has 76 immense pickling and
vinegar tanks in its 100x200 four
story building at 474 East Alder
street, many of them so large that
they hold SO tons of cucumbers each
at one filling.
F. I Knight, the corporation's
manager and chief stockholder, buys
all the grapes he can get his hands
on, to be converted Into go-ape Juice,
and hopes to secure 100 tons of them
this year.
IT'S A BIG INSTITUTION.
The Knight Packing company is one
of the solid, substantial Industries jt
Portland. It does a net cash busi
ness, and this method may have a
voice la making it such. It is a
principle which gladdens the heart
of the producer who sells the products
of his soil to the manufacturer. Only
two of Its numerous productions are
put up in tin, nearly all' the rett be
ing placed In glass Jars, of which
it consumes about two carloads
monthly. Large quantities of Its
horseradish are put up in Stone Jars,
and Its pickles and vinegar are, of
course, put up in wooden packages
and glass. Thousands of barrels made
in Portland, are used each year. On
the advent of prohibition Mr. Knight
bought up all empty whiskey barrels
offered, but these will run but a
short distance 4nto his yearly output.
The company packs . and barrels
eider vinegar, distilled vinegar, amber
vinegar, dill, sour and sweet pickles,
chow chow, plcalUll. India relish,
Onions, sauerkraut, prepared mustard,
horseradish, pepper sauce, Worcester
shire saucs, sweet, and boiled cider,
apple butter, mines. meat. Jellies, man
tanllla, queen, stuffed and ripe Olives,
Alive oil. ialad en, tomato . eatsnp,
bluing .and ammonia, U.
"Every product of this factory,"
says ; Mr. Knight, ; "dOttf dfm strictly
to the pure-food, laws.: There is not
an' impurity In anything we1 sell. We
elm to; make the best in", the world.
and mean it. too, and It makes no
difference whera tha other factory is
locaUcd . r - who runa it. The excel
lence of these Oregon soil products
help us to- accomplish this. The land
backs rja up, and with our own de
termination wo positively accomplish
that which we determine to do. Con
sumers In Portland, as well as
thousands scattered all througrh the
territory we supply, will testify to
the truth of these statements.
FINEST CAULIFLOWER GROWN.
"I would no go so far as to de
clare that Oregon cucumbers are the
best in the world, but I do believe
this of Oregon cauliflower. I feel
confident Its equal Is not to be had
apywhere else on earth. Look at and
feel those heads, and see and know
how large and solid they are. These
lands surrounding; Portland, on either
side of the Willamette river, south
ward for more than 100 miles, are
perfection for growing vegetables ' of
any kind, and cauliflower especially.
Tears ago, when our plant was much
smaller than at present, there was a
market for a greater quantity of cu
cumber pickles than we had capacity
to put up, and we1 would import a
few carloads from Michigan and Wis
consin. I found those very nearly
the equal In size and flavor . of those
grown here, but nowhere have I ever
seen cauliflower quite as fine as that
grown in tha Willamette valley. It
is simply the best in the world, and
it is fast acquiring a national repu
tation' for Its superiority.
"We have sold many carloads of
cucumber pickles to the government
for use at its forts, and unstinted
praise bas been bestowed upon the
product. Last season a lot of these
were shipped to the Philippines, and
tho same kind words came back con
cernlng them. We found, however.
those cucumbers grown south of Ore
gon not so good.
A GREAT COUNTRT FOR PACKERS
"This is really a splendid part uf
the country for our line of work. It
is splendidly well adapted to the pro
duction of fruits and vegetables, and
by working these into marketable
products here, right on the ground.
as it were, a lucrative market is af
forded those who engage in this class
of farming:."
The Journal representative spent
more than two hours coursing around
and through the Knight Packing com
pany's big plant. There are long al
ieways here and there, with so many
branches that one unacquainted with
the place would easily lose his way.
and there are barrels and boxes of
goods ready for shipment on every
hand. Th Immense vinegar tanks
must be 30 to 40 feet high. Wooden
pipes connect them, and the manu
facture of that article Is consura
mated without its ever coming in
contact with metal of any kind. Mr.
Knight explained that If it did. the
metal would Injure Its color and fla
vor.
For a fact, what is there to be
desired in life which Oreeon does not
possess? This whole region is gar
landed in beauty provided by nature,
and Its soil is of garden richness.
There would be few unemployed tn
Portland if everybody would restrict
their purchases strictly to those
products produced here. Factories all
along the lirte would have to be so
greatly enlarged as to provide em
ployment for thousands of workers
at home, Instead of doing that same
thing for eastern communities. Port
land and Oregon country money keep
thousands of men and women busy
in factories beyond the Rocky moun
tains.
This ought not to be.
Letters From the People
ronmmniilrstton sent to Th Journal for
publication in thla department should be 'crlt-
teu on only one aide or tn paper, snoaia noi
exceed 800 words in leaf tb and mast be ac
companied by the name and addresa of die
sccdsr. It tbe writer does not desire to hare
tb name pubuaneo, be snoaia so siaia.j
"TH m as Inn is tne rreatett ef all reformer.
Tf ratlonalizea eterrthln it touches. It robs
prlnclpes of aU false sanctity and throws the in
back on their reasonableness. If they bsre no
reasonableness, it rnuueasir crusnas imb oni
ot existence and sets up Ita own. conclusions
la their stead." wewirow rr uson.
The Civil Pension.
Portland, March 17. (To the Editor
of The Journal) In an editorial in
last Sunday's Oregonlan, for obvious
reasons, that paper went on record in
favor of the Penrose civil pension bill
for federal employes. In yesterday's
Oregonlan a Mr. Mlsenhamer. as sec
retary of the local union of federal
employes, commends the stand of the
Oregonlan. Of course a postal clerk
holding a life Job like Mr. Misen
haraar. Is red hot for a pension, re
gardless of us fellows digging in the
sewers, who pay tne bins, in I860
this nation had 82,000,000 Population
and It cost 104,000,000 to run the gov
em men t. or t2 per capita. For several
years it has been costing mors than
one billion dollars to run the govern
ment, or more than $10 per capita.
The pension bill now pending before
congress appropriates mors than three
times as much money as Jt cost to run
the entire government in 1880
Now eomes the Oregonlan for very
obvious - reasons advocating civil
pensions, which in a few years
will run into hundreds of v mil
lions of dollars more. On the
waiting, or eligible, list there are
twice as many ready to take the Jobs
of any civil service employes who are
not satisfied with the lot, or with the
wages whleh they are now receiving.
It Is not fair to further burden tha
ten, million wage earners in these
United States, who actually produce
the wealth of the nation, who are not
under civil service, who receive no va
cations with full pay, the majority of
whom are taken care Of in their old
age by charity or their relatives.
- The civil service employe today is
receiving more than a square deal and
should b satisfied, or soma of these
days the ' workers of the nation will
organise and overthrew the whole
civil service system.
A MAN' IN THE DITCH.
Argues Piparedenss Cmm.
Vancouver. Wash,, March 14. To
the Editor Of The Journal I am s
firm believer In preparedfieaa protec
tiva preparedness and not aggressive.
preparedness, if 1 may state It thU.
I do not quite understand the at
titude of the man who is not fn fa
vor of being prepared for any great
crisis that is. to say the least, a poe
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
BaaBSBwSS .... -.'V-.,-
Deadman's hill, near Verdun, is
rightly named, whoever occupies it.
Secretary of State Olcott says nick
names can't appear on the ballot
and a lot of them shouldn't.
a "
Reopening of the Panama canal
April 15 is promised unless those pesky
slides play an April tool Joke. '
a
Two Oreeon candidates for deleratea
to the Republican national convention
don't want to be bound by instruc
tions irom tne voters.
Now comes the suggestion that a
woman be made secretary of the navy.
She could keep up with the rapid
changes in sty la among navies of the
woria. ,
a i-
Just whan tha European a-enrranhV
class is ready to pass final examina
tion, along comes a new course on
Mexico. And this, too. when the fish
are beginning to bite! .
There is something- to be said for
those Mexican bandits, after all. Thev
were obliging enough not to wait until
midsummer in the hot tamale belt be
fore Inviting our soldiers down there.
Those 15.000 Santa, Fe railway em
ployes who were surprised by a 10 per
cent wapre Increase that came like a
boit out of a clear sky should have ex
pected something of the sort with
prosperity storming the country.
WHEN THE SPECIAL
From the Spokane Spokesman-Review
(Republican).
With such vital problems as na
tional preparedness up for solution
President Wilson is pleading with con
gress to speed up its progress. After
Speaker Clark and Democratic House
Leader Kltchln returned from a con
ference at the White House on Monday
they held a conference with other
house leaders, and it was the consen
sus of opinion that under the greatest
pressure the president's program could
not be disposed of before fall.jtspeaicer
Clark thought the house might clear
the decks by September, but Republi
can Leader Mann said it would take
until December.
Meanwhile this was what was going
forward in the senate, where for weeks
the water power bills have practically
blocked progress. All day the senate
debated not the water, power question,
but on whether it should continue its
long wrangling over that legislation.
After five and a half hours discussion
It finally voted. SO to 28, to make the
water power bill the unfinished busi
ness.
The conduct of the senate majority
on this issue is becoming a national
scandal. As Senator Norris of Ne
braska told the senate the other day.
the people of the United States are not
thinking of water power now, and in
that lack of public attention the grab
bers see an inviting opportunity to
press their program.
ot raw tn v wav every right the
people possess," declared Senator Nor
ris, "and they will not nna it out, lor
a long time, wnne may n csku
to watch, the special interests will
steal the platter clean. Thla bill (the
Shields measure) gives them an op
portunity to do It; and tf we pass this
bill without amendment. In my humble
Judgment we will find that these val
uable rights belonging to posterity will
have frittered away ior a ioui, sui
the song not sung."
9 m
aiffnrii Pinchnt ia making a gallant
fla-h tn imnat tha Country, but What
is one voice in 100,000,0007 In an open
letter to the president, of January 29,
Mr. Pinchot said:
"Th KMelfla hill arives the USa Of
enormously valuable property to the
water power mieresis wimuui
it.nsitlnn. Ostennihlv it nrOVides for
a method of restoring its own prop
erty to the public at tne ena ci ou
Aa rruttr nf fact it haa been
so drawn as to make It practically im
possible ror in peopie to ran mcir
own water powers back into their
haa Thl, it roa bv onaning tbe
way for indefinite litigation, and by
the uae of language -unaer wnicn mo
United States might be required to
take over and pay for the whole elec
tric lighting system of cities or the
asittinmont nf manufacturing
plants in order to get possession again
of water powers ownea -oy mo peopie.
When Mr. Pinchot sounded that
n. r Via mihrs ridiculed it: said
It was trumping up imaginary evils;
that it falsified tne-true intern i me
maMi T3nt when that Phase of the
question was run down in the senate
debate by tne inenas or. conervwon,
Mr. Pinchot's charge was substantiated
so fully that the supporters of the
grab were forced to acquiesce . in
silence.
siblllty. We all prepare for the so
called "rainy day." We lay up money
for our children. We buy property
to get the benefit of the raise n
price. Why not prepare ourselves
as a nation to resist the attack of
any foreign power that might be
pleased to attack us?
t honor any man or woman who
declares against war and its hor
rors and does all that is possible to
prevent It, but if the time should
come that we would be attacked what
would become of us in our present
state of unpreparednessT
Some argue that If we prepare to
fight It will be an incentive to try
the game. This mighjt be true, in
some cases, but with the people at
large I do not accept this view. , One
thing, however, is quite sure, that if
we are prepared to resist at a mo
ment's notice it will cause any nation,
however strong, to hesitate before
throwing down the gauntlet.
It is very, true that we could get
any number of volunteers at the first
intimation of trouble, but past ex
perience has shown us that the vol
unteer, although filled 'with patriot
ism and courage, is no match for the
trained soldier.
I will gladly pay a little more -tax
to support a well trained army. I
believe our youth should be taught
the horrors of war, but at the same
time the importance of being prepared
for any emergency.
- There Is, to my mind. Just one care
for war. When every nation on earth
shall recognise the supremacy of
Christ and follow his teachings we
shall not have to prepare for war.
But as long as the opposite condi
tion exists, no matter now much we
may long for universal peace, war
will be a possibility.
LEB R. PATNjs.
The Case or David tagarv
Portland, March 16. To the Editor
of The Journal X read in today's Jour
nal of how the tables are being turned
In the ass of the Toungtown riot
Please allow me te tell another story
of Toungstown. 'V
On January I. David Iftgar, an em
. ploy of - the Yeuftgstown Sheet A
Tubs company, having worked ; night
shift the previous night, came to work
at p. m. He then. learned about tbe
walkout that had occurred in the morn
ing. The bosses tried to induce him
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
ORKQON BlUKUOUTS
- Work is in progress on the club
house of the Roseburg Oun club at
Winchester. .
a-
Tha number of contests in tha local
land office Indicates to the La Grande '
Observer, a very strong aesire on tne
part of some to getjback to the soil.
The Medford Dostoffice will be
moved into the new federal building
this month and will officially open ,
April 1, six weeks ahead of contract
ume. 0
Baker's met'ropolltanism is to be en
hanced by the elimination of the use
less noises that auto engines are cap
able of making. Chief of Police Jack
son has so ordered.
a .
"With the grain elevator nearing
completion at the port dock and Uma
tilla county proposing hard surfaced
roads to the Columbia, a port owned
boat and barge line will be very much
In order," says the Astorian.
Boost, for newspaper pubUcty, in
Gardiner Courier: "Not a day passeB
but the Courier receives a request front
some one who lives at a distance ask
ing for a sample copy of the Courier,
and two or three such requests some
times in each mail. In air cases we
send the paper. What is the reason
for this? Simply that the one who
asks for the copy is seeking informa
tion concerning this section of the
country, and they can get it by no
other means so satisfactory."
INTERESTS FORAGE
. Senator Norris was speaking and
this question was put to him by Sen
ator Kenyon: "Was the senator in the
chamber yesterday when the senator
from Washington (Mr. Jones) who fa
vors this bill, admitted that this meant
practically perpetual franchises?''
Mr. Norris I was not in the cham
ber, but I understand he made that ad
mission. Mr. Kenyon He did make that ad
mission, and I think the senator wlU
agree that that is true under this bill.
Mr. Norris I think so.
Mr. Konyon It would be Just as
well to say so as tojurround it with
this kind of language which means the
same thing."
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Mr. Pinchot has been ridiculed from
Maine to California for warning the
nation that it was drifting into in
creasing monopolization of water
power. fincnoi was cnier loresier
under Roosevelt. Read now .what Chief
Forester H. L. Graves of the Wilson
administration said on that subject In
a recent report to the senate:
"If inquiry is made into the control
by certain corporations it Is found that
85 public service corporations, through
ownership of properties, majority own
ership of stock, lease, or direct man
agement, control 88.6 per cent of the
total public service power in the
United States. Thirty-five of these
85 control one-half of the total; 16
control one-third, and 10 control one-
fourth. Of these 85 corporations, 59
have waterpower developments, "and of
these 59, 18 control 2,356,621 water
horsepower, or more than one-half of
the total water power used in public
service operations in the United States.
Of these 18 corporations, nine control
more than one-third of the total, and
six more than one-fourth."
s
The grabbers are pressing their op
portunity with great shrewdness and
persistence. As Senator Norris said:
"The entire country is worked up about
military preparedness, and, like the
senate of the United States, the peo
ple are not paying much attention to
water' power development. I am talk
ing now to practically empty seats.
Senators have no Interest in it; the
people have not any interest in it; and
that is the kind of a time when the
unseen government gets in its work."
While the people sleep the big inter
ests forage. We can not better close
this article than with the following ex
tract from a recent number of the Wall
Sftreet Journal:
"Those who seek James B. Duke do
not find him now in the offices of the
tobacco Industry which is identified
by his name, but usually in the office
of a corporation which is occupied in
developing water power so that it may
be converted into electric energy.
"Several years ago Mr. Duke, with
others who are associated with htm,
made a prolonged excursion through
many parts of the far west Reports
were circulated soon after his return
which told of his investment of capital
in large amount in water power privi
leges in the far west. He is believed
to have 1 ad an eye to the future, ap
parently not having any faith In a
statement made recently by a man of
some authority that the reason there
is not larger development of water
power for electric energy is to ba
found in the lack of profit."
to work, but he refused and Joined a
group of strikers who had congregated
on the street and were dlseusaing the
strike. Shortly afterwards a bunch of
uniformed and armed guards, without
any provocation, fired directly into the
crowd. The Toungstown Vindicator,
in a special edition appearing at 6:80
p. m., January 7, states that between
76 and 100 shots were fired Into the
crowd on Bioad atreet. In that article
the Vindicator lists David In gar at
the city hospital with a bullet wound
In his leg.
David Ingar, like the rest of the
crowd, started to run away when, the
shooting began Two bullets hit him,
one in the shoulder and one In the
mall ef the back. A policeman brought
him to the mayor's office. From there
he was taken to the city hospital,
David Ingar was at .the city hospital
fully three hours before the rioting
began.
The following day. in his still weak
ened condition, he was taken to the
county Jail,, charged with rioting, and
held for 11600 bail.
I don't know what the charge against
Judge. Gary is, or what the Toungs
town courts will do with him, but of
one thing 1 feel certain that Judge
Qary will never be sentenced to as
long a term of imprisonment as David
Ingar has already served for that
"rioting" he is supposed to have done
while he was flat on his back in tha
hospital. And David Ingar is still to
be tried and probably sentenced.
' B. E. NILS80N.
As to tho Humane Society.
Portland, March 13. To the Editor
of The Journal I have noticed that
our city commissioners have found an
other easy method to give out the tax
payers, money and don't control its
expenditure. The Oregon Humane so
city is to havi a loan from the city
as well as receive 80 per cent of the
dog, money collected, so tbey can op
erate from a palatial knnel properly
constructed, heated, aired and lighted.
Now please state wherein the city
charter; gives the right to our commis
sioners to lend this money and by what
authority they band out of the city
treasury 80 per cent of dog collection
money. Please quote the section of
the charter. 1 - P. KELLT.
The authority was given the com
mission by vote of the people on an
amendment to the Portland charter at
the last city election. .
! lho)nce 0er
1 I SV WBVtMPMm
BEFORE WE START IN today
for our little ramble down the
kollum I want to toss my oompli- f
nienia across tne roouignts to ' Man ..
ager Myrick of the Columbia the- .
atre. f
J Because I suggested in this Hav
en of Hopefulness day before yester
day that Billie Burke be billed
thereafter as- "Sunshine of the
Screen." y
J For that's what Billi is abso
lutely.. ' -w
J And yesterday he billed her that
way.
J And I'm glad he agrees with me. -
because there isn't anything that
I know of that's mors agreeable
than to be agreed with. . f ,
J It gives you the same good opin
ion of the other fellow.
that you have of yourself. -
J However our personally conduct
ed tour for today Is otherwhere. '.
as Bill Bristol would say when
presenting an alibi.
for an innocent client.
J And the particular otherwhere
to which I refer is the First National
bank.
where I went yesterday to pay
a social call to Arthur Jones the
assistant cashier.
which of course is all I eould
have paid.
J And he dismissed a millionaire.
who wanted to borrow $200.
and turned to me.
and took me in a cage.
and showed me $76,000 In green
backs.
J And Arthur and H. Sprague Bur
din the teller tossed It around
carelessly.
like I would three or four hun
dred. if somebody would let me.
J And then Arthur took me through
a barbed wire entanglement.
and past a beautiful stenographer '
named miss Smith.
only iie stopped at Miss Smith.
which shows that history repeats
Itself.
J And Miss Smith smiled and said
she liked the Once Over.
and I said I liked stenographers.
or something like that.
? Anyway I tried to be nice and
like it was nothing for me to
be. wandering around wide awake
where there was so much money.
J And I stumbled on as Jack Lon-
wn wuuiq j in my oeunum, i.
J And we went into a steel cave.
J And Arthur said It was the re
serve vault.
J And the other man twirled a hob
and then twirled another nob.
and opened a hole In the wall
about as big as the oven of our range
out at Oak Grove.
tf And he said there was 8400,000
in gold in the canvas sacks In that
hole.
J And when he told me to lift a
sack his voice sounded far away.
VAnd I lifted it and it was 110,
000 and weighed 37 pounds.
J And ha opened other doors and
showed me more gold and silver
and paper.
f And I noticed that 12000 In goM
fives was Just as big as a nickel's
worth of peanuts.
with which I am familiar.
TAnd while we were in there
I saw 11,347,600.
according to my flgureC
.whlh mov tint a r. wltH trio
bank's.
J And altogether I saw $1,998,000
and a few cents. '
ajTbat Is I saw it all except
about 384,000.
that the boys at the windows
were using to make change.
J And there was a hank examiner
working at the same time I was.
and his figures may not agree
with mine either.
j And after I got out everything
looked hazy and I felt queer.
tf And upstairs there were a lot of
girls.
J And they all looked like the girl
on the dollar.
except that they had rainbows
around their heads.
Just like A. 1j. Mills the presi
dent had around his down stairs.
j And I was afraid to ask Arthur
If h could see the same thing.
and I wanted to get out in the
r and see if the people outside
looked the same way because
f LISTEN One of the things that .
Arthur told me as w went around
was about ths large percentage of
people who come into banks when
they get ready to go crasy.
Dangerous Days.
Today is "orange day." Yesterday
was St. Patrick's day. ' Almost to
close for comfort.
The Difference.
E. Roscu Pershln of Portland, is
a nephew of General Pershing, Amer
ican commander In Mexico.
The orthographic variance in Ros
eoe's and the general's names Is ex
plained by this morning's Oregonlan
as follows:
"The difference in the spelling ot
the name is caused by the different
spelling adopted by different members
of the family after coming to this
country."
There you have It, Wherever
there's a difference there's a differ
ence. Hence the difference.
Get the idea?
' Prom Picture to Pumps.
ORTON S. GOODWIN, the Dumas of
Portland press agents, haa gone
to Los Angeles to introduce to the peo
ple of southern California a valveless
pump. Goodwin has recently been
touring the northwest with moving
picture films. He usually press agents
at the Oaks in the summer. Query;
What will John Cordray do without
himT Who will get beautiful chorus
ladies to fail from balloons? Who
will have country visitors diving in
tanks to rescue drowning maidens?
When the Street and Town reporter
broke the sad news of Goodwin's de
parture to the esteemed city editor,
the latter was no sadder than usual
and merely said:
"All I hope is that John Cordray
won't try to save money and write his :
own press dope himself." .
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Inventor Weals Green '.Tie.- f
C? MORTON COHN appeared today
k7 at 'he Strand corner wearing a ,
handsome green nee tie. .Mr. conn IS
the inventor of photoville., .o-v
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