THE OREGON -DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND.- THURSDAY, rMARCH 23 1916.
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H i ?, WOODK0W WILSON.
' UlUIoDa for defense, tot not a cent for
tribute. CQARLE8 C. PINCKXET.
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Tba first steo to knowledge ta to
know that you are Ignorant. Cecil.
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MULCTING OREGON
N
OT content with taking about
- a a aasj
eleven' million dollars from ! is reported, we know not how tru
Oregon for general reclame- j ly, to have remarked at prayer
tlon and giving back but a I meeting one night that it is not
song, the sub-committee of the
house at Washington yesterday
voted to still further mulct Ore
gon for reclamation in other states
by taking 40 per cent of the grant
land surplus for general reclama-
v tlon.
:' It cut the allowance for Oregon's
Irreducible school fund to 10 per
cent, let the allowance for roads
in grant land counties stand at
i 40 per cent, and devoted 10 per
" cent to the federal government
tor administering the grant.
There could be no ranker injus
tice to this state. The federal
government's action in taking volumes ior tne wnueness or ms
money derived from sale of Ore-1 morals. No truly moral man can
gon lands for reclamation projects i stand the sight of a naked totem
in other stftes is already a nearPole- That in our opinion is the
crime. To cap the climax by tak- limit where every pure male who
; Ine 40 Der cent of the grant lands' values his manhood will faint away
for the same purpose is the limit
of injustice.
' ! The hope now is that the Cham
jberlain bill jmay prevail against
this move in the house, which is
only the work of a sub-committee.
If;' Oregon loses this fight for 40
per cent of the grant lands for
the state school fund and sees the
sum go instead to reclamation iu
' other states, it will have to be
.borne in mind that the people have
been lethargic, and that they have
I done very little in presenting their i
claimB at Washington. Though
under the 40 per cent proposed m
the Chamberlain bill, Multnomah
: county would get $256,902 every
lyear for support of the schools,
- the - Portland Chamber of Com
" merce has not lifted a finger in
7 aid of the measure.
Are the people of the state go-
ing to sit quietly and make no
protest against the program of the
. hduse sub-committee?
: The scene at Washington shifts.
It is proposedto take 40 per cent
, - of the grant land surplus and de
vote it to "general reclamation,"
which means use of the proceeds
. for reclamation on projects in
; other states if so desired. Has
Oregon not already contributed
enough to reclamation in other
S states?
A LIVELY CORPSE
OR several months Interested
persons have been shouting
to the country that unless
the La Follette seamen's act
iwere repealed or modified It would
drive American shipping from the
eas. The act secures fair treat
men! and decent wages for sailors.
- We were assured that , the vessels
of the United States could not hold
their own on the seas unless the
i sailors were fed on garbage and
paid Chinese wages. The La Fol
lette act .also requires ship owners
to keep 'boats enough on board to
' rescue' at least part of their pas
sengers In case of accident. This
-provision has been much decried.
If passengers are to be made safe
V: where do the owner's profits come
in? ." .
- Time has made ridiculous most
of the dismal predictions against
the La Follette Act. The New
.York Evening Post has just pub
lished some facts which show pret-
Uy clearly that American shipping
can. thrive without subjecting either
sailors or. passengers to inhuman
: conditions. The Pacific Mail has
....'just arranged to put on five ves
. v sels, three of them bought from
the i Dutch ; Westft ilndla ' company
and two built , new. . All will sail
S from San Francisco The Gaston,
I .Williams and wWigmbre Steamship
llompany of New: York will hence-
X forth use ; most of their eighteen
If fyessels In the Pacific service.
i San ' Francisco has enlarged her
. old ship yards and. built new ones
I "Stofmeet the "exigencies of this
I ' V growing .; trade."; The business of
' that . port ' with Australia I now
: Nfour and a half times as extensive
M " was eigDteen montns ago. its
business with China, Japan and
Siberia has Increased threefold in
the same time.
All this looks encouraging. Ap
parently it will be some little time
yet before the La Follette sea-
IQen S T, OI1T3S American Snipping
rom tao seas, , Perhaps, after all,
i.... n .,, ..LL-
wj tu laui milium nae uuiuan
lir.i an .till .V
oat
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of their labor.
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irt. Waahinirtrin count v ronrt
1De w asuingion. county court
aid not Join with other - counties
; in urging the Oregon delegation
to support the Chamberlain (bill,
county would get $152,161 for
roads, and would get every year
143,615 for public Echools. Most
people vould think that Washing
ton county would be very much
"affected" and "affected" benefi
cially by passage of the Chamber
lain bill. f
CLOTHING THE NAKED
J
OHN OSCAR DAVIS, collector
of customs at San Francisco,
has become our great defender
against those Insidiously im
pure thoughts which undermine
the spiritual strength of possible
Josephs and lay open their breasts
to the assaults of the adversary.
Collector Davis is a mighty
psychologist. He understands that
the enemy of souls gains his first
access through the senses. So he
uses his authority, to protect our
eyes from the witching vision1?
which seduce us into bye and for-
bidden paths.
Mr. Davis is particularly appro
' hensive of the effect of totem pole3
'on the morals of the young. He
ine saioon, me uauce nau or mo
afternoon tea which threatens the
character of the rising generation
so much as the satanic lure of the
totem pole.
Mr. Davis had never seen a to
tem pole in his life until one came
to the port of San Francisco from
India billed to a Portland minis
ter. Think of it, reader, ,to a
minister. And the polo was stark
naked.
We do not wonder that Mr.
Davis fainted with horror at the
shameless spectacle. The swoon
did him infinite credit. It speaks
if he has no other means of -escape.
Mr. Davis could not run away, so,
glory be, he fainted.
As he was regaining his senses
he ordered the assistants, who were
hardened to such sights, to put a
pair of trousers on the totem pole
so that he could remain in its
presence without Bwooning again.
It is said that the trousers will
stay on all the way to Portland
in the hope that the minister who
is to harbor the immoral monster
may take the hint and keep its
nakedness chastely clad. Happily,
Mr. Davis was not permanently in
jured by the shock the totem pole
gave him.
The Oregon school fund is in
fair way to lose the splendid sums
proposed for it under the Cham
berlain bill. The House sub-committee
proposes to cut the amount
to 10 per cent and give 40 per
cent to "general reclamation."
Oregon apathy is bearing fruit.
OUR BEST DEFENSE
T
HB officers of the army and
navy throw little light on the
question of preparedness.
"When they are allowed to
spealc publicly on- the subject the
views they express are as fantastic
as the wild whimsies of imaginative
children. One officer wants to
arm and drill the whole male pop
ulation of the country until each
person has become "an automatic
machine without will or purpose
of his own." This would be a
lovely mental condition (pr the
citizens of a free eountry who
have to vote occasionally and in
vestigate the questions upon which
votes aro to be cast.
Now comes Admiral Fletcher,
who has more common Bense than
some of his colleagues, and asks
us to spend a billion and half
right away building new dread
naughts and give $760,000,000
every year hereafter for their up
keep. When a comparatively sane
officer talks in this frenzied way
of course others are perfectly fran
tic They count money in billions
and ships by the hundred. The
fact that there is no necessity for
tl eir extravagant naval estimates
doc3 not disturb them at all. Their
notion of preparedness seems to be
tho spending of as much money as
possible without a thought of use
ful results.
The military and naval mind
hankers incurably, for vain shows.
These gentlemen will not be sat
isfied until we have a fleet and
army which can "whip all, crea
tion" and then of course the next
step will be to do the whipping.
If they were not restrained by a
cautious president and sane public
sentiment how lone would it be
before -they had the . country in
volved In a big war of conquest?
- xne unitea- states -; heeds an
army of moderate numbers and a
considerable - navy. . But it needs
neither of. any such size as to
threaten the rest of the world. We
want military preparation only fdr
defense and even tn that "particu-
lar our wants are comparatively
EllghJ. Our best . defense against
aggression is still that geographi
cal position upon which Washing
ton counted so much. If our for
tunate geography is backed by a
people who have reason to love
their country we scarcely need
fear outside enemies. Injustice at
home is a more' dangerous foe
than foreign armies.
The fishing season opens next
week. It Is in no spirit of ' cap
tious criticism that we venture to
remark that it is the time when
our fellow citizens -are wont to re-
urn late with empty baskets, a bad
temper and a sunburn.
THE DAY TEAM
A
CHIEF reason why good men
are slow about going to the
legislature from Multnomah
county is the thimblerigging
and rottenness into which the poli
ticians in the delegation attempt
to involve them.
For 30 years, the Oregonian has
been a part of the rottenness. It
has all along played the game
with the gangsters. It has backed
their schemes. lt has hefped con
coct their dirty work.
It is freely asserted by men
who have served at Salem that
the Oregonian always expects
something in'eturn for its sup
port of them for the legislature.
The Oregonian office is always a
meeting place for gangsters at
week ends during legislative ses
sions. That has been a corrupt
ing influence in the Oregon leg
islature. Being for years and years the
only newspaper, giving immunity
always to leglslatve crooks that
played its game, and backing up
the gangsters with which it op-
eiated, the Oregonialn gradually
introduced thimblerigging and cor
ruption as a part of the legislative
syBtem In Oregon. It used to be
worse in the old days of senatori
al elections at Salem, but the prac
tice is still in vogue
There hasn't been a sailor board
ing house keeper, or a bfg gambler
or a political crook of any kind
that at some time or another the
Oregonian hasn't been allied with,
There has not been a ward heeler
or petty political boss that it has
not been in collusion with.
It helped concoct the "midnight
resolution" slipped through the
legislature at the dead hour of
mianignt. That resolution was
passed while the grant Uand case
was pending in the supreme court
and was an effort to Influence the
court in favor of the railroad. The
court itself in its decision says of
the resolution that "it seems a
prayer against the government's j
contention." Dirty as was this
deal, the Oregonian publicly de
fended it, and defended the poli
ticians who slipped it through the
legislature., It is doubtful, ifa
similar case of legislative crook
edness was ever perpetrated.
The Oregonian was hand and
glove with the Day gangsters at
the late session. It helped con
coct the notorious spoilsmen's bill
which has wrecked the Withy
combe administration. It defended
the men who passed it and de
fended the law after It went into
operation.
Senator I. N. Day is the Ore
gonian's type of legislator. His
work is its work and its work is
Day's work. Day's game is its
game, and its game is Day's game.
The pair are two of a kind, and
though they do not know it, both
are equally discredited in the eyes
of good people.
A lot of good men went to the
house from Multnomah county at
the last session and because they
would not play Day's game, the
Oregonian was furious.
The Oregonian's part in de
bauching the Multnomah delega
tion and in debauching the iegis
lature through the Multnomah
( delegation is chiefly responsible for
the division and rancour in
Republican party in Oregon.
the
It has always played the boss
and it still attempts a domination
that keeps the party split and
sends Democrats to the United
States senate.
It is the crooked purposes, dom
ineering tyranny and known re
quirements that the Oregonian im
poses updn Multnomah county leg
islators that causes good men to
hesitate to become candidates.
Oregon people have the choice
now of making a fight for 40 per
cent of tbe grant lands for the
state irreducible school Tund or
seeing that allowance go to recla
Tation in other states. That is the
now phase of the fight at Wash
ington.
THE SENATE'S ANSWER
T
HE answer of the United States
senate to the Penrose threat
that armorplate manufactur
ers would raise their prices
$200 per ton and ultimately go
out of-business if the Tillman bill
for government manufacture -of
armor plate should be passed, is a
voto of 58 to 23 in favor of "the
Lb 111, which passed the senate Tues
day.
It Is notice to - Senator Penross
and the armorplate makers that
the senate Is free, that the United
States government has been eman
cipated from the domination of the
armorplate combine, and that here
after this country will get armor
plate for the construction of bat
tleships at something near the true
value . of the product. It is ex-
nected that the measure will
quickly pass the house.- -
-- Axmorplata rnaVoTa admitted, be-
fore the senate ' committee that
they.: are selling . their product to
Russia at lower prices than to the
United -; States. An Investigating
committee once reported to Con
gress that the government was pay'
Ing , over ? 2 0 Q ton more for
armor, plate than fC was worth.
With the government making ita
own armor plate In its own plant,
the makers of armor plate will be
less clamorous for a big navy, it:
is munition makers, powder makers, j
oema Tn a V on1 Afliav- mfltrAra vhfll
profit OUt Of armies, fleets anu pactum (n this department sbonld be wrlt
wars that are the chief makers of Jteoj oiae oxhe
the sentiment that assails Fresl-1 eompanled hr tbe name and address of tba
dent Wilson for his policy of peace.
If one city salary be raised, ap-
plications will be made for raising ,
Others. Since the City budget was
adopted .on a basis of present al-,
aries. is it sound "policy to begin)
advancing salaries here and there?
NOTHING THE MATTER
WITH PORTLAND
An exemplification of all tba coapels of
"settios on In tbe world" is afforded In to-
day'a installment. No. 85, of tbe "Nothing
tne Matter With Portland" series. Tba prouo-
aition la sustained that for the wage-earner
ss weu sa ior the capitalist, fortlana is
teeming with opportunities, and that saecess
U to be won here on terms aa easy as tbe
bis round world affords it to anybody, any
where. THREE active young men served
their apprenticeships and worked
as "jours" for many years as
mattress and horse collar pad makers.
After a while they had accumulated
$1000 among them, and with this
meager capital established a mattreas
and pad factory of their own at 427
Hancock street, between East Sixth
and Seventh streets. This was only
two and a half yearsj ago, and today
they own, free of 'incumbrance, a
business lot 60x100, a two-story and
basement building SOxlOO feet in size,
a J400Q stock of material and $2000
worth of made-up mattresses and
pads on hand. Last year the output
of the factory was $30,000, with every
Indication that it will go to $50,000
this year. The young men, all Rus
sians, consider their property worth
$20,000 at this time, and all but the
original $1000 has been acquired in
two and one-half years. The building
is perfectly appointed for the pur
poses for which it is used. The top
story is the work room with windows
on all sides, the first story the show
and salesroom and the basement the
stockroom. It is a partnership con
cern, with Milton D. Tarlow manager
and Charles Z. Edelson and James
H. Achrow his partners, under the
name "The United Mattress and Pad
company."
EACH A PRACTICAL WORKMAN.
"This is the only mattress and pad
factory on the coast headed by prac
tical mattress and pad makers," Mr.
Tarlow says. "We are all mattre3s
makers by trade. We know the
business thoroughly. It has been our
life work. We began our apprentice
ship when boys, and have stuck to it,
intending to make it our life occupa
tion, or until such time as we need
no longer to labor.
Our mattresses, and pads, too, for
that matter, are made on honor, and
guaranteed to be exactly as represent
ed. We Invite our customers to cut
their mattresses open occasionally
and inspect the inside. If it should
be found that any mattress ' bearing
our label is not exactly as represent
ed, we- will refund the money paid
therefor without growl or quibble. We
do not fear to make this offer for
the reason that we help to make, and
carefully supervise the making of,
everything which leaves our factory.
We are confident the only- sure foun
dation upon which to construct any
business is that of actual honesty and
truthfulness.
"Of course, we have eastern com
petition, and keen, competition, at
home, and this is the greater reason
why we should win and keep our cus
tomers' confidence."
MAKE ALL KINDS OF MAT
TRESSES. The factory manufactures all kinds
of mattresses except hair, and Mr.
Tarlow says that of late years - so
many objections havearisen to this
material, in which it is declared un-H
sanitary, that there is poor sale for
this class of mattresses in these
times. He says it is difficult to ren
ovate them, and that disease germs
find lodgment in them more readily
than in other makes. The company,
however, covers the balance of the
ground pretty thoroughly in plain ex
celsior mattresses, cotton top on ex
celsior, combination cotton felt (cot
ton top and bottom), plain edge (10
pounds felted cotton top and bottom.
35 pounds fine dry excelsior in cen
ter), roll edge (same body), gilt roll
edge (20 pounds felt batts ' on top,
bottom and sides, 25 pounds excelsior
in center), cotton linten, 35 and 40
pound cotton ltnter, cotton felt, 40
and 45-pound cotton felt 'imperial,
50-pound cotton felt, imperial roll
edges, 60 pounds best white staple
cotton, pure silk floss Imperial roll
edges, 25 and SO-pound pure silk floss.
10-pound flossoline, mixed fibss mat
tresses; couch pads, davenport mat
tresses, slab mattresses in 17 grades.
27 styles of crib mattresses, six
styles of pure silk, silk floss and;
sllkoline mixed cushions, in addition
to all kinds of horse collar pads.
LARGEST IN NORTHWEST.
' The company claims to be the larg
est exclusive mattress making com
pany .in the northwest, its Warep be?
ing found In - all leading furniture
and department stores on the North
Pacific qpast.
The foregoing will show what may
be accomplished by practical men not
afraid to launch out alone in ft busi
ness in which there is strong, com
petition from eastern manufacturers.
It discloses the truth, too, that Port
land, is ' an. ideal, manufacturing loca-
ttoiu C Wneri else could such 'results
ba attained in so ahprt a time?
Messrs. Edelson and Achrow, of the
firm, may bp found at any time, their
coats off and at -work among: the
men ! In the factory. ;. Mr. v Tarlow-1
busy lookina; af ter the business ? end.
Eleven men are , amployed their pay
averaging from $8 per week for ap
prentices 'to $21.50 for "Journeymen.
Letters From the People
sender. If tbe writer doea not deelre to Hate
tbe same pubuibed, be snoald o state.
"Dim-nan ton Is trie greatest of aU reformers.
It rationalizes eTerytuiuif It toucbesi It robs
CTTtuVT udZlT
reasonableness, it ratblessly emsbea them out
l"i0Vwi3. COQCln4loM
Calumniatory of Lincoln.
Portland, U&rch 20. To the Editor
of The Journal Attempting: to quote
Democratic annals, the grandfather of
distortion confuses copperheads with
Civil war Democrats, which is false
and unjust, almost an. insult to its
Intelligent readers; and goes on to say:
"Dragging in the revered name of Lin
coln to fortify the feeble policies of
a stumbling administration is a favor
ite decree of present day demagogy.
It is the legitimate sequel of that Civil
war copperheadism which maligned,
traduced and opposed Lincoln during
all tho weary days of his heart-breaking
career as president, and now of
fers his memory the Judas kiss of a
spurious respect and devotion."
The Republican party was composed
largely of old line "Whigs, with whom
the Democrats did not affiliate save
upon a vigorous prosecution of the
war. Many of these Democrats en
tered the army and fought for the
Union cause. "Other Democrats, with
discontented Whigs, opposed the metn
ods adopted by the union party, and
were called copperheads. The union
party was not a Republican party,
by considerable, which is shown by
the returns of the votes cast for Gen-
eral McClellan, the Democratic nomi-
nee for president,
Who stood by Lincoln unflinchingly?
Democrats and old line Whigs, not
the leaders of his party.
Who maligned and traduced hi.n
during his heart-breaking term, re
ferred to above?
The members of his own political
household.
Lamon's biography of Lincoln has
never been questioned, for no man was
closer to Lincoln during his presidency
than Lamon. Mr. Lamon says, 'The
high men in the Republican party
sneered and jeered at Lincoln; Stanton
called him a great gorilla. He was
often referred to as 'that hideous ba
boon at the other end of the avenue.' "
Hapgood (page 164) refers to Stan
ton's brutal absence of decent treat
ment toward Mr. Lincoln: "'I found
him,' says Stanton, 'a low, cunning,
clown.' "
Chase's feeling toward him was one
of "benevolent contempt." Wendell
Phillips in a speech made In Boston
said he had been to Washington to see
the president, and found him "a sec
ond rate man." Wade, Washburn, Win
ter Davis, Phillips, Chase and Stan
ton, who ought to have been his
staunchest supporters, were his bit
terest enemies, arid at one time the
foremost, men of his party formed a
conspiracy to remove Lincoln from the
presidency and establish a dictator as
ruler.
No one was better Informed of these
intrigues than Mr. Lincoln, who was,
so outraged by the obloquy and so
stung by disparagement of -his own
party that his existence was rendered
so unhappy that life became almost a
burden to, him, and at one time he
jumped up and declared he would
rather be dead than to be thus "abused
in the house of my friends."
In 1864 Wendell Phillips made a
tremendous speech in Cooper Insti
tute, New York city, opposing Lin
coln's renoraination for president, on
the ground that Mr. Lincoln had
trampled under foot all constitutional
rights, and Judge Curtis wrote in
1862: "The president has made him
self a legislator; he has enacted penal
laws to govern the citizens of the
United States: he has established a
military despotism.
Fremont joined Phillips and many
other high Republicans in opposing
his nomination in 1864. Then, after
Booth's bullet, these very men who
had exhausted all Ingenuity and skill
in venomous detraction of him while
living, executed the ceremony of Lin
coln's apotheosis, spurred, it was
thought by many, through fear of the
people, who had come to love Lincoln,
wnose jue tney naa tormented.
Republican impulses are unchanred.
The few who think lead the horde to
believe their falsehoods by the audac
ity oi vulgar criticism.
O. C. NEWBERRT.
Birth Control and Capital.
Vancouver, Wash., March 18. To
the Editor of The Journal It is esti
mated that in order to afford employ
ment to all wage earners of the United
States, throughout the entire union
the work day would need to be . re
duced to six hours. If this estimate
be i correct it proves that at present
fully two-fifths of our working people
are unemployed. This condition is
with us to stay. We may prepare to
meet it as best we can.
The cold fact is that modern ma
chinery has put labor out of business.
ine laDorer is no longer needed in
such numbers as he was in years past.
ijaDor is vastly in excess of demand.
It will be observed that the advo
cates of birth control confine their ef
forts to those who cannot afford to
raise children the working class. Such
effort naturally meets the approval of
the captains of industry. To the em
ployer the advantage of workmen with
out children, even without wives.
would be great financially. Unmarried
man can exist on less than half the
wage that men of families must have.
Therefore, if for the present senti
ment can be cultivated which will
ostracise the wage earner who raises
a family, later and by degrees this
sentiment can De extended and ex
panded so that it will apply to the
toiler Who takes a wife.
The proletarian has outlived his use
fulness. He Is no longer needed. His
own inventions have taken away his
.means of support. Therefore nothing
1 remains for him other than starvation
J. HAROLD.
An Ingenious Day Finder.
Portland, Or March 17. To the Edi
tor of The Journal Your issue of
March 18 .contains an inquiry asking
on what day of the week certain dates
fall in the years 1872 and 3879.
By the use of the following rule I
believe it is possible to determine tbe
day of the week on ' whicb any date
falls prior to- the beginning of this
century: For example, take March 31,
1879:? --":- -- . -
Take the year, disregarding the cen
tury (79); to this add one-fourth of
said year, disregarding fractions 19V;
to this add tbe day of the month (31);
to this again add thai one of the fol
lowing figures which corresponds to
tn month in question: 3-Januaxy, f-
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF TTPnce (Der
SMALL CHANGE
,PShaj58,tn weather is trying to get
all the rain out of itr system before
style week.
, v ' -Those
declarations ' of war against
Portugal, instead of being scraps of
paper, are paper scraps.
While Dr. Suzzallo remains Its res
ident, the University of Washington
need not lack a college yell.
.
Silverton, having been assured a
$400,000 sawmill employing 300 men,
will soon know something about silver
by the ton. .
The Southern Pacific's - tips to fish
ermen should Include some excuses for
a few days off that will be acceptable
to the boss.
(.However, those undeserving candi
dates need not lose hope. Failing to
get into office, they will still nave a
chance to break into jail. ,
Edison, who promises to convert
Henry Ford to preparedness, up to the
present time has a fairly good record
in overcoming the impossible.
- .
A new world's wonder: Excavation
for Portland's auditorium is about
completed and work on the structure
will soon begin.
The man who has not registered at
the courthouse can't find much fault
with his neighbor who hasn't reg
istered at the recruiting station.
Brander Matthews defines a high
brow is a person who is educated be
yond his intelligence. But-there are a
lot of imitation highbrows who lack
even the education.
Cummins carried the Minnesota and
La Follette the North Dakota. Re
publican primary, but there is a strong
suspicion that delegates elected by the
people will not do the nominating at
Chicago next June.
SOME PUBLIC BUILDINGS COMPARISONS
Washington. March 23. (WASH
INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOUR
NAL.) An omnibus public buildings
bill is scheduled to make its appear
ance in the house in two or three
weeks, according to Chairman Frank
Clark of the house committee.
Healings on public building bills,
which are stacked high, are to be
hastened by subcommittees, eachstat
being given a day. Then the sub
committees will report, the full com
mittee will put on speed, and the fight
will be thrown on the floor of the
house.
Prospects of an omnibus bill are
not considered encouraging, because
congress has so many important fish
to fry anh because the prepaVedness
program calls for so much money. On
the other hand, there is real pressure
for new buildings in many districts,
and the committee is going to- turn
loose the whole subject for the house
to ponder upon.
m m
It is admitted that many requests
for new public buildings have merit,
and good business requires construc
tion at a not distant date. Tbere are
scores of other cases where it can be
demonstrated that mere cost of main
taining a government ' building would
far exceed the rentals now paid. Local
pride and a longing on the part of
some congressman to bring nome tne
bacon" Just aj campaign time comes
on are their only Justification.
An omnibus measure is almost cer
tain to be sprinkled through with
items of "pork" and thus bring about
defeat or a prolonged filibuster. Not
ror tnree years nas an omniDus duuu
ing bill gone through and some nota
ble filibusters have centered around
these measures.
Senator Gallinger recently had
printed as a senate document a state
ment showing buildings erected, their
cost, and population of the city or
town. Casual inspection of this list is
enough to show some of the 'abusas
that have been practiced, and how cer
tain States have "played the hog."
Buildings have been built by the
government in 16 towns of less than
1500 population, and even in this class
there have been rank inequalities. The
list is instructive:
Popula
Town. tion.
Abington. Va 1.192
Basin. Wyo 763
Buffalo. Wyo 1.381
Building
and site.
$ 86.810
50.00)
69.500
60,000
60,000
54.500
100,000
65,000
. 50,000
55,000
lOO.OO
121.044
105,00t
62,000
75,000
57,300
Chamberlain. S. D... 1.390
Chapel Hill. N.
C.
1.163
1,132
1,152
741
1,170
1,484
1.354
Cody. Wyo
Cordova. Alaska...
Fallon, Nev . . :
Fort Royal, Va
Oilman. Texas
Jarkson. Kv
Lander. Wyo 1.398
London. Ky 1.447
Warrenton. Va.. 1,427
Willows. Cal 1.211
Winchester. Tenn. ..1.351
Site donated.
It may be noted that four of these
February, 6-March, 2-April, 4-May, 0
June, 2-July, 5-August, 1-September, 3
October, 6-November, 1-December;
then add figure corresponding to
March (6). The total is 135.
Divide this by 7, and the result is
19 with a remainder of 2, which indi
cates the eetfond day of the week, or
Monday. Should there be no remainder,
the date falls on Saturday.
Try this on your birthday, and you
will be convinced that it works.
Now will some of our Portland
mathematicians explain the principles
underlying this rule and how you can
get accurate results in every case
when you discard fractions which vary
from one-fourth to three-fourths?
GEO. C. HOWARD.
A Correction by Mr. Himes.
Portland, March 15. To the Editor
of The Journal. I note that you say
in your paper of yesterday that John
Dowd, aged 104 years, came to Ore
Con "in 1840 as a regular soldier, and
was stationed at Vancouver." Kindly
permit mo to say, that there Is an er
ror in this statement, because it is a
matter of record that the first "regu
lar soldiers", did not come to Oregon
by sea or across the plains until 1849.
For proof you are cited to executive
documents printed by order of the
senate of the United States, being the
second session of the Thirty-first con
gress, beginning December 2. 1850, and
printed in 1851. This being so, he
could not . have been . present at the
Champoeg meeting on May 2, 1843.
GEORGE H. HIMES.
He Does Not.
Portland, Or March 15. To the Edi
tor of The Journal Kindly answer the
following question, which came up in
a recent game of crlbbage: A, B and
C are playing a three handed game of
cribbage. A plays the five, B the
even and C the three, making 15-2. B
plays next and covers bis seven with
a four. Does B get a run of three
(4-6-S)? ! RAYMOND CHAPMAN.
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Ten Million Dollars Is Nothing.
From the Pendleton East Oregonian.
According to The Oregon - Journal
there is -new from Washington that
the : matter of; giving 'Oregon 80,:per
cent of the land grant money is in
doubt and . congress seems disposed to
give this atale only 40 per cent. Mean
OKfcttON SIDELIGHTS
With the fhcreajsa of redUests for
turning on new taps reported by the
Medio! d water department, assurance
is taken, according to the Sun, of an
increase in the population and the re
turn or many former residents or. aaea-
ford. .
First Sunday school picnlo of the;
season, reported in The Dalles Chron
icle of last Monday: "Fifty-three little
people gathered on the lawn of the par
sonage of the Congregational church
Saturday afternoon to enjoy a picnic.
Games and races furnished amusement.
Quentiu Davis furnished music on his
graphophone during the supper hour."
a a
"With two large vessels being con
structedi and inquiries coming in from
other prospective purchasers," says tbe
Coos Bay Harbor, 'ship building has
been revived in North Bend and given
an Impetus which means much in a
financial way. Shipping men say that
there never was a time when a greater
demand existed for ail classes of along
shore craft."
Operation of the automobile as a
squirrel killer, as described in Klam
ath Falls Herald; "Ed Pope is success
fully using his machine for the exter
mination of ground squirrels near the
Lost River dam. By attaching about
100 feet of hose he uses the exhaust
from the engine in killing the squir
rels in their holes. He says it is eas
ier and more successful than poison."
Mining activity tn Baker county is
reflected in the Baker Democrat's tnin
ine notes as follows: "The big oper
ator is now In the field for Baker
county's gold and copper. That s what
is causing a bie stir in mining circles.
A concentrator of 150 tons capacity
has been ordered and will be built at
the Iron Dyke mine as early as possi
ble.' Big thinprs are happening In the
Snake river copper belt and the big
eastern copper companies are the
forces -behind the movement."
16 building's, one fourth, are in
Wyoming. This is not a mere coinci
dence. Senators Warren and Clark of
that state are two of the oldest mem
bers in point of service, having en
tered the senate in 1895, and they have
not been bashful in hunting postoffice
game. During the years of Republican
ascendancy Warren was chairman of
the appropriations committee, and
senators from other states who wanted
appropriations for this and that con
sidered it poor policy to cross the ap
propriations chairman in matters that
are dear to his heart.
Pursuing the inquiry a little further,
Wyoming is found to have other pub
lic buildings as follows:
Popula- Building
Town. tion.- and site.
Casper 2,305 $ 64,000
Cheyenne ,....12.828 337,746
Douglas 1,959 73,000
Evanston 2,205. 181,802
Laramie 8.213 99,60:1
Rawlins 3,510 78,928
Rock Springs 5.510 90,100
Sheridan 5,777 157,000
Using Oregon as another western
state for purposes of comparison, the
senate document shows no town of
less than 4000 people has been awarded
a postoffice building. Oregon has If
1 public buildings all told, and Wyoming
has 12. At the census of 1910 Oregon
had a population of 672,765. Wyomiag
had 145,965. The area of the states is
almost equal, Oregon having 96,699
square miles and Wyoming 97,914
Here is tlie Oregon list of public
buildings, the population in all cases
being taken from the report at the
time the building was authorized. If
present population figures were used
the comparison would be still more
striking:
Town Population Building
and Site
Albany 4,061
Baker City 6.709
75,000
69.934
70,000
64,706
110,000
130,000
1,600,000
110,000
100,000
104,000
Eugene 6,790
La Grande 4,490
Medford 9,226
Pendleton - 4,4 50
Portland 242,650
Roaeburg 5,626
Salem 4,258
The Dalles 4,906
Senator Chamberlain recently wrote
to the biological survey with refer
ence to appeals from Harney county,
Or., for assistance in the extermina
tion of coyotes afflicted with rabies.
H. W. Henshaw, chief of the bureau,
says an organization of trappers is
being perfected, an emergency appro
priation of 175,000 having recently
been provided for this work in the
west, and plans are being made to
make thi3 money count as much as
possible in destroying predatory
animals.
Mail service is to be increased from
three to six times a week on the route
between Marshfield and Sumner, Or.,
a distance of 10 miles, beginning
April 1. Representative Hawley has
had the matter up with the department
for some time.
while Oregon is in the midst of
"great silence" on the subject.
What a situation when the disposi
tion of this matter means millions of
dollars to the school fund of the state.
If we can get 40 per cent for the school
fund it Will mean approximately $10,-
000,000 more for our schools than if
we get only 20 per cent.
Yet the only newspaper support for
the public in this matter has been by
a few independent papers like the East
Oregonian and The Oregon Journal.
Most of the Oregon press has been si
lent or openly contending for the side
of the railroad and the timber grab
bers.
Most of the state's political briga
diers have been striving valiantly to
prevent the state from getting any
share of this property. Their idea was
to give it to the railroad company in
spite of the supreme court's decree.
The action of Senator Chamberlain
and other reputable men in congress
has blocked that game and it is now a
question whether our school fund shall
get approximately 810.000.000 from the
grant or approximately $20,000,000.
It is a large sum that is at stake.
Oregon should be more awake. The
state could afford to send a train load
Of boosters to Washington to aid Sen
ator Chamberlain la his fight. In
stead of such action' there is "great
silence" and the Pendleton school
board devotes its attention to a policy
of economy that threatens tbe effi
ciency of our school system.
Michigan's Favorite Sons,
j From the Detroit News.
Among the aspirants for the presl
deney are two Michigan men William
G. Simpson Of Detroit, a draftsman.
whose public career consists of four
years' service with the National Guard,
and "William Alden Smith of Grand
Rapids, who has rendered the Grand
rivef navigable for light draft canoes
over part of its course part of the
year. ' - .',
What Has Become of Them? .
From the Janes ville (Wis.) Gazette.
Some one asks what has become of
the people who could formerly -be en
tertained for hours by asking and an
s.srerlng conundrums. WelL. thy( are
too aged ttf .get out much- now and
their children find eating Welch rare
bits less fatiguing to their overstrained
intellect.
THE OTHER DAT when peopl
were talking about the baby-
that was found on the porch at I
Tberkelsen's out Jn Irvington the
esteemed city editor turned to me.
IT And fixed me with bis glitterinf
eye. ,
H And X wondered what waa coming.
for the ways of city editors are ?
past understanding.
TAnd he told me to go out to Irv
ington and interview that baby. '
J "You've interviewed the devil
and St. Patrick and Arthur Jones."
he said "so you shouldn't have
any trouble getilng this baby to
talk."
And I went and Mrs. Therkelaea
let me in.
after I told her I waa a reporter.
Vi And the baby who came to The.
kelsen's with only a note asking to
be taken care of was lvine- In at
basket.
with a bottle of barley water.
J"No" she said befoj-e I could'
say anything "I don't know what
my name is and I don't crv much
and I like Portland and the climnta -l
and everything."
TAnd her little red Hps felt
around and then closed again over
the nipple of the nursing bottle.
-as though the interview were
over.
TBut I apologized for disturbing
her and asked if she wouldn't talk
a little about things in general.
J And she hiccoughed twice and
gave me a real baby stare.
as if to express annoyance.
like most fine ladles don't when
they're being interviewed.
aj And then she talked.
if "I'm Just a human being" she
said "and I don't see why there is
so much fuss over me.
"because thousands of babies are
born and die of neglect in the
United States evpry year without
anyone getting excited."
TAnd she said it fairly made hep
squirm (I wondered why she was
doing it) to lie there in her nice
clean basket.
and to think that there are other
babies whose mothers haven't even
a basket in which to put them.
and no warm clothes in which
to dress them.
f'And being a baby myself" she
went on grasping a handful of air
with one wee red hand "perhaps I
am a little prejudiced In favor of
babies.
J "It's only natural I guess.
"and I can't see why so many
people good, sensible folks forget so- 4
soon that they ever were babies."
JAnd she said it must be because
they get the notion somehow that
there are things more Important In
th world than babies.
JAnd of course we all know
when we stop to think that there'
aren't.
JAnd the young woman I call hsr
that because she talked so sensibly
said she wasn't going to worry
who her parents were.
and she was glad as long as
she had to be left on a porch that
she had been left on so nice a porch
as Therkelsen's.
J"And -if I haven't any brothers''!
and sisters" she said "that's 311
right too because '
""LISTEN Mr. Reporter that
leaves me free doesn't It? to claim
all the other babies In the whole
world for ray brothers and sisters."
JAnd then she had her bath.
EFFICIENCY
One of the clever contributors to
Tom Daly's kollnm of the Philadelphia
Pnblio Xiedger submits that "a busi
ness man is only as strong as hie.
weakest stenographer."
Another Myth Exploded. -
rrom the Jewish Trllmm .
The so called Jewish vote la a myth.
and we warn candidates against thotte
alleging to control It.
Weather Observation In Cambridge,
Kassachusatta.
From a postal card reoplred by a Portland man.
"There's some snow, but its lent: ,
Winter's went! Winter's went!
It's still cold, but all the same.
Spring has came! Spring has came."
Our Own Oregon Board of Strategy
Villa might do weli to follow Hnerta'a pol
icy and head toward the coast. 1'i'Dillf to
East Oregonian.
Isn't it about time Carranza ordrd tba 17.
S. troop out of bla domain ) Medford San.
Look out. Villa, General Pernhlna: la only 30.
40, 60 or 100 miles away, according to which
pma aarrtoa you are reading. La Grand
Observer.
General Perahinr would do wll to kp a
sharp eye on bin pretended Meilcan alliea
wnlia xouowing inaa iraii. ruura
gonlan.
Hot no the trail of Villa promise to be tba
program for sererfU weeks. Albany Democrat.
Caranxa'e commander refuses permission foe
Americana to march throoa-h tb stres-U of
Caaaa Orandes. The Impression peratsta that
ther la a valuable crop or iory jusi boot
Camata'a tbouldsri. Bugene ueguner.
The Tale of the Dongoo.
HEBE is the tale of tbe dongoo
most dreaded of submarine mon
sters. Its life history was studied out
by Master Mason Trowbridge, who 1
now 6 years old and well verged in the
mysterious lore of the deep. Master
Trowbridge lives in New Haven, Conn.,
but he im so much interested in the
welfare of his uncle, George M. Trow
bridge, who is recovering from a seri
ous operation at St. Vincent s hospital.
Portland, that he dictated the tory of
the dohgoo and sent it to rh.cr him
up in the days of con valr scent e.
Tou aee. Mason thought that., how
ever discouraged hia uncle might be
because of his long Bojourn at the
hospital, he Just naturally would have
to feel better in the knowledge that
there, at least, no dongoo could gat
him. C
Here is the history, vouched for by
Mason himself:
"The dongoo lives in the deep sea.
There's a big fish that Uvea there, as
big a a rhinoceros, but the 'dongoo
has such sharp teeth that he can crack
the flan. ,
"The dongoo has hair like a monkey,
but yon can't shoot him, because hi
akin is so thick. lie roars like a bull
and jump through the water like A
kangaroo. Sometimes he can kill a
whale. He can kill sharks or any fish
except that horrible flah that,, ho
cracks. That dies in a .month.. ,
"The dongoo swims under water
backwards (meaning on hie back). He
Uvea y life and drinks water, Home
times he swims to land and swallows
a lion or giraffe, snakes, horeet cows,
boars or anything that bites,, except
that horrible fish- He swallows tin.
Ink, emoke, fire and fruit. Dongooa
all live in a straight line in little
bouses." . , .