THE OREGON DAILY 1 JOURNAL; PORTLAND, SATURDAY MARCH 25, 1916.
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. . WOODKOW WILSON.
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rttwta. CHARLEt C. PINCKNEV.
' afad wara oatror in one rear the
irorka of mny jer of peace.
, . franklin..
BIUVGIXG ON A REVOLT
HERB are the Roots, the
Roosevelts, the Butlers
and the Penrose3 going to
land in their plan of mak
ing denunciation of Wilson's for
eign policy the bat'tlecry of the
campaign?
I ; Mr. Roosevelt started the pro
gram; He declared that the pres
ident Is too fond of peace.
; Dr. Butler charged that the
president resorts too much - to
Swords' and too little to "action."
I Senator Penrose shrieks for "a
diplomacy backed by force."
Senator Root denounced the
president for a "policy of threat
ening words without deeds." He
Esid "our diplomacy has lost its
authority and influence because
we have been brave In words and
irresolute in action."
The plain purpose of these de
nunciations Is to commit the Re
publican party to a policy of war.
All these manifestos are intended
to ibe a trumpet call to the Re
publiean party to mako Itself a
party, of war rather than a party
.of diplomacy and peace.
-It Is a program of disaster. It
maiy ?bring the Republican party
i to another split like that of 1912.
(It can lead only to party shlp-
wrec.i'.
' How such a leadership will
i divide and demoralize the party
was " recently evidenced in the
1 house at Washington. There was
; a vote in that house on the issue
i of supporting the president In his
i resolve 'not to permitvany foreign
nation to abridge American rights
at sea The question as presented
in the McLemore resolution was I
tether the president should be
vigorous in his foreign policy or !
be yielding. I
1 The country knows what hap-j
i pened. ' In the voting, 102 Re-!
i publican congressmen voted to be
yielding, voted to abridge Ameri
can rights at -sea. voted that the
president should not bo vigorous;
while only 93 voted for a more
i aggressive policy -:,
. The meaning of that voto is
! plain. If 102 Republican congresa-
men ran to the rear on the very
; policy that the Roots and Roose
i velts and Butlers and Penroses
I are denouncing as "cowardly and
! impotent," many more Republican
congressmen would, when brought
; face to face with the Issue, re-fuse
to follow these leaders in
their demand that the Republican
party. shall appear as a party of
war. ' .
The Republican masses want
'peace: Just as the Democratic
' masses want peace. It is a guar-
i antee : of the safety and prosper
I Ity of this republic that its masses
: in all parties oppose war.
It simply means that if the war
brigadiers insist on . making de
1 n.uneiaton of President Wilson's
! resistance -to the war spirit the
"battle cry of Republicanism, they
I will . drive thousands pf Repub
licans out of the party; and bring
i on one of the greatest revolts . the
party '-organization has ever faced.-
V An., exchange relates that Clar
lnda . couldn't understand why
everybody around the bridge, table
laughed when she declared that
she had been- Introduced to an
Englishman ' who wore a i "mono
lith" in. hia right eye:
- - HENRIETTA MTXDT
1
RSV HENRIETTA: n MUNDT
will be - mourned by count-
less friends. She taught
German - in . the Portland,
public, schools for so many years
that ; hundreds ' of . her : pupils are
now. men and; women and all of
them love - the memory : of their
teacher, Mrs. -Mundt had. a prtva!
Income besides, her., salary : as a
teacher and she' spent , almost the
.whole of :lt In good : works. But
her charities were never paraded.
Few - persons J '.'will, ever -.know , how
much she gave' or how wisely sho
bestowed It. - o ;-,
She was beginning to grow old
a ben she died but - her Intelll-
W
gence was as keen as ever and
her interest In human affairs bad
not r waned. She was a ' faithful
attendant at the manr, lecture
courses which have sprung np in
Portland of late years, -She never
missed a - good play or an opera.
If all our people were as devoted
10 . tbe fine , things - of life as Mrs.
Mundt was we should hare a bet-
.ftrM , ... ,
l" worm.,
gne wa8 c . German parentage.
as her name Indicates, and her
J,r.Mn.tnl wer with fhA. fntW.
w r
iana m tne European war.
.cut
she was a lover of the human race
and the woes of the bleeding
world weighed heavily upon her
spirit. Mrs. Mundt began to fall
from the first days of the war. To
all her friends it. was evident that
grief was preying upon her . and,
whatever the physicians may say,
it will be hard to convince them
that this sweet and beloved woman
was not another victim of the
great European horror. She had
no faith! in a future life. So her
waking on the shore where peace
Is everlasting and love supreme
must have been a Joyful surprise.
It is all right to claim that
children should be seen, not
heard. But you can't help hear
ing them when dad is working on
their southern exposures with his
number ten slipper.
WITHERIXG VILLA
N'
OW when it is almost too
late the country sees with
grief that the wrong men
have been sent to catch
Villa. The regular troops do
their best but they do- it with a
certain chilL They lack patriotic
fervor. They march and counter
march and obey orders just as
they would In pursuit of any other
cutthroat and bo they fail to catch
Villa. What is wanted in this
heroic task is a patriotism so hot
that it will send out vibrations
across the Mexican mountains and
deserts and wither Villa in his
tracks. It is vibrations of incan
descent patriotism that wo need
in this dire emergency, not mere
drums and trumpets and bayonets.
.The question of the hour la
rhere shall we find patriots hot
enough for the great occasion?
But really it is not a very dif
ficult Question. They are to be
seen all around us blazing like
pillars of fire. There Is one at
least in every jingo editorial sanc
tum. All we need do is to collect
these flame wrapt monuments and
give them a leader and the Villa
problem will be solved in two
jerks of a lamb's tail.
And need one ask who shall
lead this editorial band?
Who chould lead thembut our
greatest patriot?
We have one peerless star of
patriotism, and only one. He has
been secluded in a palmy island
away down south, but he is home
again. The Colonel is the man
who can cave us1 from the grue
some Villa.
Let us give the Colonel a gal
lant regiment of jingo editors and
send him and his heroes down to
Mexico. Somewhere In the sandy
desert the mighty Colonel will tako
bis stand at the head of his gifted
troop. He will wave his sword
and they will wave their pencils
and all of them will vibrate. The
waves of patriotism they emit
will catch up with the abhorrent
Villa wherever he may lurk and
scorch him to ashes as he fires
from Mount Pelee scorched the
Inhabitants of St. Pierre.
There is something withering
in the mere presence of a jingo
editor. Massed in solid array the
warrior journalists would wither
Villa in short order. The sooner
we send them the better, for sev
eral good reasons. For one thing.
Villa is a good shot.
Resumption of operations by the
Oregon Lumber company whose
mill at Hood River has a capacity
of 180,000 feet per day, is another
prosperity fact. There Is nothing
the matter with - Oregon.
THEY ALL GO
A'
RGUINO for a big army and
navy the Detroit Free Press
remarks that "Nations that
neglect the arts of war and
are not prepared to defend them
selves are sooner or later obliter
ated from the maps." This Is true.
There is not' a particle of doubt
about it. But.it Is only half the
truth. To cover the whole ground
the Free Press should have addod
J that "nations which do not neglect
tne arts or , war and which are
prepared to defend themselves are
sooner or later obliterated- from
the" maps." All nations -are ob
literated sooner or later. The
peaceable and the warlike go the
same road. "The paths of glory
lead x. but to the grave" t and Uho
paths of peace lead tkere-Just the
same, though not quite so quickly.
"The oldest nation in the world
Just now Is China, which the lin
goes are' Inclined to hold up ton
us "as a horrible example. " It has
never, been prepared to defend it
self And It Lhaa svstemattr-nnv
looted the arts of war but it has
not been obliterated yet, though
noubuess it , will be. sometime.
While China has - plodded her
lamblike wayj down the. centuries,
warlike Macedonia, . Persia and
Rome have risen and fallen.' She
has; witnessed Charlemagne's - em?
pire -bloom and fade. She has-seen
the , Ottomans, the militaristic
Huns, Tamerlane, ; Genghis Khan,
and .Napoleon grow great and sink
Into, insignificance.: Since China
became "a mollycoddle Venice has
sprang from the ; sea, ." gained 1m-
V
perial ;- power ' and lost it ' again.
We might' cite a thousand such
instances; t -
So far as the duration of a ' na
tion is concerned it , seems- to
make , very - little difference
whether It Is warlike or not. The
military s- spirit provokes enemies,
and therefore tends to shorten na
tional . life, but otherwise . the
course of social history, runs along
without much rererence to armies
udwari.v:V-::,;:.:
What really "obliterates" na-
tions is evil living. When a coun- lnto a consistent whole. The main
try forsakes the simple life and purpose should, be to build np an
plunges into luxury it begins; to efficient county organization recon
decay,. ciline; the opposing forces of dis-
Why the mighty silence in the
governor's office on .the rgrant
iV X f tZ iZ otne PubUc wn. abends upon
to save 40 per cent of the glands members of county courts. If
for tha Oreeon'i school fund? Ha.nl.. v . - .. . I
fJfS1'
anybody Imagine for a
goyeraor wuum mi uu iuiger m i
behalf of the Oregon school chll-
t
IN' A NUTSHELL
T
rtR rnnmnr of Alaska has
been In Portland. He de-
dares that Portland has as 1
good a chance to do business
with Alaska as any other city.
He said:
Of course, we cannot patronize
Portland so lon as there Is r.o
i.imihfn linn nnt nf Portland to I
Alaska R th future, so far as I
AlaSKS ine lure, BO M
our trade is concerned, rests largely
wltn ine people or -orxiana mem-1
selves I
. . ... ,, . . 1
1Q6 iraae OI Aiasna will pruD-i
fthlv ae'zreerata 5100.000.000 this
vear It was about lgO.000.000UwTHT a wocl wareh0UMT
lac vC,r
j 1
A well known expert on econ-
omic life has said: h
Transportation limits the territory
tributary to the trade of any city, j
Transportation determines the de-1
eommirmtv
All this la aiomatic. It -needs
nn nrnnr TV. tTd with AlftRba.
we must have steamship lines to
Alaska. The covernor of Alaska
himself confirms it. For Alaska lno approacn or me sneep sneanng
to exercise Influence In developing "eason ttaches apeclai interest to
tho. rnnrcM nf Portland terrl-
torv. there must be transportation
to Alaska. It is all so patent that
all that remains to be settled la.
does Portland want the benefits
to -come from a market whose
trade is 100 millions a year?
Portland's loss of the $300,000
extension of the American Can
business with .a payroll of 400
employes, brought about because
roruana naa no Aiassa steamsmp
line, ought to be sufficient an-
swer to the question.
1 nere is sun an occasional sam-
pie specimen of the genus homo
who, when he does not agree with
what the newspaper says, declares
It Is "glttln' a sub-Biddy" from
somebody. , . , I
SAMPLE PREPAREDNESS
T
3E heart glows with sublime
emotions as one reads of the
efforts congressmen and sen-
atora are making to get the
country into a state of prepared
ness. Some gentlemen are more
zealous than others but to an ob
servant eye it is pretty clear that
all of them.
Their patriotism takes a not
unusual American form. It Is
fat and greasy.
If the Washington delegation
has its will that state will have
four schools for training officers
Senator Jones modestly asks for
both a military and naval acad
emy, while Mr. Humphrey wants
a naval academy and. Mr. Johnson
a military academy. Mr, Raker,
of California, -wants a "military
and aviation academy." Mr.
Stephens of California wants both
a military and a naval academy.
We suppose he would not object
to taking pupils in aviation also
at one of his institutions.
Lewis, of Illinois, wants a naval
academy on the paradisaical
shores of Lake Michigan "in the
city of Chicago." Williams, of j
Illinois wants a military academy
at some point in the state."
Hayes, of California, wants an-1
other naval and aviation academy.
Howell, of Utah, asks for both a
military and an aviation academy.
Overman, of North Carolina, wants
an aviation school. Nelson, off
Minnesota, wants a military acad-1
emy at Fort Snelling. And so It
goes. When we are fully pre- not revealed. ' He . is told that 'your
pared we shall evidently have wool is above the average In quality,'
both naval and aviation schools and this Js the reason, and not the
in every hamlet and, a military condition of the -market, which' war
academy In every rural district, rants a rise of four cents above the
Whatever else our statesmen may figure ' paid to Smith. . Smith . may
iacK tneir scene ior ports is al -
ways keen. : - . ;
A Mexican- paper has been tern-j
poraruy suppresses Dy government
authorities for , sedlMoim nttov.l
- tj W ' I 1
ances. But . the , government ial
less tjartlcnlftr: nn th -wv:
ROAD LAW REVISION
MOVEMEKT has at; last been
" launched In the direction of
leiioiug. mo iuau itiam oi
.Oregoni, It.' has .long -leen
reanzea xnat our; roaa coae ls mi
.X. - ' . . .
need of correction. In many cases
there are j points "of. conflict' and
confusion, notably in the procedure
for'" laying Out :ana locating. . V "
There is alBO ar' growlng SentI -
menv ia , ivur oi. .wins away wiiu
the supervisor system and multl-
riHcitv - of ' road districts trn -'--the
a . - tf, A
many-bosses there are, inefficiency
and. waste and a lack Of standard-
Iz'ed work: .- i . " ..';.."..'; ..--rv.:
. It is contended that it would be
J more Jn accord, with business prin-
ciples' to centralize road work. in! per ton per month storage-and six per
av roadmaster, who should be "' a n b money advanced until the
practical man. not necessarily aobUgatio had been discharged- -trained
engineer but one capable 'Tbls advantage taken of .Smith
of planning and carrying out a
comprehensive plan' of county Im
provement. ,' . ' . . - , '
. Thfirft la a rarifoa.1 element which
Is disposed to adopt an altogether
-nA iom . - thA i
more conservative ones are Inclined
to tte ; Tlew thaf our present code j
Iran h rtlnAd . amootned ont, at I
the broken iointa and dovetailed
trlct ti1 tnn-ntTr InterMtt.
smi ft .iv'f..MM .ni Ann.
hlghway ; improvement like aU
they are Wposed of practical men !
who uninfluenced by local politics j
w . . rtJ, Aart. k had
I the'y are meii
i or aurerent cnaracter ine nest pi
laws will' yield bad roads,
So In the last analysis the re-
sponsibllity rests upon the tax
payer .o " choose a businesslike
county court.
NOTHING THE MATTER
WITH PORTLAND
lit ever there waa a lone- felt want with
8tnrt& 71110101118, it waa that of the wool
.ibIk In Portland, to aerre the wool
jrowera of Oretron. No more lntereetlnc ar-
ucie naa traced Tha Journal'a " Nothing the
Matter With Portland" aeriea than No. 87.
"uicu ifui miw ueureranca irom a oara aii-
nation uu been brought to paaa.
Wl What niche In the wool wortd
11 . .
ws woo warenouse iiut
i"ero lwo in ruruinG- oes
tneir estaDiisnment here benefit the
country wool grower?
if thev Ao in what vf
The foregoing interrogatories were
addressed to W. u. Crowe, vice presi
t 3 A J m -
inanager 01 ine i-oruana
n"B" company, wun 01
flce".ln the stock Exchange building,
11118 suect at tnis time, singular as
" mfty aPPer. though there are 40.
00.000 pounds of wool accessible to
PortIand. was not until a
commercial organization In this city
Prepared to advance the flockmaster
funds on his shipments of wool, or
t0 llde mm over an emergency. He
couia not s1 money until he had sold
ni W001 oumht-
wool, grower mulcted.
you ask wherein the wool grower
iB benefited by the establishment of
wooi warehouses V Mr. Crowe replied
to the Questioner.
"Let me state a condition which has
heretofore obtained.
"Wool buyers must be, first of all,
wool experts. And they must be
more than this. I will not saV thev
must he conscienceless, as the asser
tion would tend to place an unjust
stigma upon them. Let it go at al
leglng they are supposed to, procure
the fleeces at the lowest price it Is
TmaMiVtl tfl AhtAln th.m fnr "Mftmt n t
them thft , terr;t0ry year
after year and becom6 famlllar wlth
the financial conditions of the grow
ers. If they have not this informa
tion, the landlord of the ' hotel or
Lelgnbor9 wlll readiiy supply itT
"Well, here is a grower shearing.
say, 6000 pounds of wool. He Is with
out funds to pay his shearers and to
meet other necessary expenses. Per
haps a creditor may be pressing him
and he is in great perplexity. The
wool buyer has been fnformed of the
gentleman's distress, and he Is the
one the representative of the eastern
wool merchant or manufacturer picks
out for a victim. The fleece may be
actually worth, say, 21 cents a pound,
bat he Is told that it Is inferior and
not worth more than 16 or 17 cents.
He Is crest-fallen and hesitates. The
buyer tarta to walk away, but be
fore . he is out of hearing the sheep-
h""1 accepU Ms offer and thft deal
THE PRICE IS ESTABLISHED.
"The wool buyer is now fortified
with a fact. Smith has sold his wool
for 17 cents a pound. Smith was the
weak man of .the neighborhood. He
was forced to sell at whatever price
was-offered, but this fact is not dis-
I closed. Thus the price f wool in
that community la 17 cents a pound,
I Tha actual market value cuts no fig-
J ure. t, perchance, a grower is found
with funds sufficient to carry him
through, and he is paid 21 cents a
pound for .his wool crop, that fad !s
1 squirm and frown and .wonder how it
haonens that his neighbor Jones' wool
Is superior to his own, arid you may
depend tipon it the buyer has a cargo
1 of reasons always on tap.
. ' v -
WAREHOUSE BENEFITS
1 ' "Here, then, is where the wool
, h t. .
grower Is benefited by the -existence.
of a wool; warehouse company,, to
which he, may ship his produet. -As!
stated. ; Smith must have money at
meet emergencies, H sign, an agree-J
i mem .to uniy ms crop o ul ior ex-
ample, and ton his 86000 worth of wooll
I " . "
we will advance mm. if he needs Jt,
tsooo or'$3500r '"W have not: bought
his wool It is simply consigned to
our .warehouse1 to be sold: far . him at
j any time, he -directs when," of course,
j the. market is tnoat 'favorable.- For
tne . caan .accommooanon ne . paya ; oa
I six per cent interest and 25 cents per!
I ton nV month - fo its- atora.tr until
t .1.1- fci v. i..
corded jSmith befors : his-.. wool ilwaa1! "1ae .i:
sold, he would have . received $80 ' .a gtne. Shall commence business when
tonjnore for his rop'than was paid pt has - 2000 members' wih paid in
him; by the eastern, buyer, nd from "hares of 825. ehharejto drawlj
J this ,he would have paid us 25 cents
could not,r of course, be taken of all
sheepmen, , but suppose - half of them
were caught In Mr. Smith's financial
condition. If this should happen the
growers of the 40.000,000 pounds of
wool accessible to this city- would be
jout - $$oo.ooo on one year's crop! This
mony instead or remaining oa tne
coast, would be transferred; to the
pockets' of the wool merchants and
woolen mill men of Boston and else
where. " ' . i".;.-'.; -
"It was this condition which brought
wool warehouses In Portland Into ex
istence. .
X; $40,000 SCOURINO PLANT. .
"How about the seouring plant you
ar. t0 establish in Pc
e have secured a
.
Portland r
site at Linn-
procured th. .machinery, and will
have it running-in about 90 days
"What will this plant cost your
"Approximately $40,000. It may be
a trifle above or. below this figure.''
"What will be Its capacity?"
"About lO.OOtt pounds per' day." -
' What will be the charge?"
lt will cost the grower one cent a
pound for scouring, a quarter of a
cent a pound for sorting and three
cents a pound for carbonizing, where
this is necessary." -
"Wherein will carbonizing be neces
sary?" "Scoured wool with burrs or other
substances riot eliminated by the
scouring process will require carbon
izing. In this process the wool passes
through great' heat and between roll
ers which crush into powder the solid
matter. This Is blown from out the
wool by a bellows proposition, which
leaves it clean and free from objec
tionable adulterants. Suppose there
were 1000 pounds of scoured wool on
the floor. The sorter may pick from
this mass 100 pounds requiring car
bonizing. For the 1000 pounds the
wool grower will pay one cent per
pound for scouring, a quarter of a
cent per pound for sorting, and three
cents a pound for carbonizing the 100
pounds, the 900 pounds not requiring
the carbonizing process.
"In shipping wool to the east there
is an Immense saving in freight on
that which has been sooured. Eastern
Oregon - wool, for example, in the
grease, will - average about two-thirds
dirt. The sheep range among burrs
and sagebrush in a region of drifting
sand and their fleeces are saturated
with these obnoxious ingredients. Wil
lamette valley wool will show about
SO per cent dirt. Freight from Port
land to Boston is $1 per 100 pounds,
so that wool reduced In weight one
half will save half the freight bills.
"But It Is not expedient to scour
all wool sheared. It cannot he graded
after scouring, so (0 to 75 per cent
must be shipped in the grease. This
for the reason that one manufacturer
desires one quality of wool from
which to spin and weave a certain
cloth which has attained popularity,
and another' still another grade of his
own origination for the same cause.
"Now our wool warehouse has re
moved the weak places from the wool
growing districts by supplying money
to the sheep owner at a time when
he needs it most, and our scour lag
plant will afford better prices for
clean wool in the saving of more than
half the freight" v '
Letters From the People
tCotnmanleraUona aent to The Journal for
publication in thia department abonld be wrlt
ten on oolj one aids of the paper, abould not
exceed 300 worde in length and moat be ac
companied Br toe name and addreaa of he
Bender. It the writer doea not desire to have
tha name published, be abould ao state.
"Diacnaaton la the greatest of aU reformers.
It rationalize everything It tonebea. It rob
principles M all.talae sanctity and throwa them
back on their reaaonableneaa. If they hare no
reasonableness, it ruthlessly crushes tbem out
of existence and sets up ita own eoncluslona
In their atead." Woodrow Wilson.
The Uneven Apportionment.
Portland, March 2i. To the Editor
of The Journal Never In the history
of mankind have we been so - in need
of safety. Is It to be safety for the
multitude, or for the favored few?
Pick up most any periodical, and we
see something about higher education
for women, the average birth-rate for
college graduates, and the like topics.
The question is asked, "Does - the
higher and finer life pay? Education
la Questioned as beting the cause of
the decreasing birth rate. How many
are familiar with the statistics of
the schools of Portland?
Do your know Just how small a per
centage of our grammar school pupils
ever enter high school, much less col
lege? Why? ,
It is not lack of desire or ambl
tion. only In minor cases, and .they
stand as a living testimony for lack
of pre-educatlon. . There Is only one
answer, dollars and cents. What be
comes of this vast army of beings.
the majority of the whole? We. see
them all arounH-vus today .-clamoring
for work that they may live honestly.
free human beings. - If - more time
should be given by deep thinkers to
the cause rather than the effect.
Begin at the root of the tree, and
the branches will take care of them
selves, i
I am - the . mother of two children.
If conditions were right I should like
a houseful (not a small house either)
But-we mothers love our little ones
too much and too deeply to call them
too numerously into existence. It is
only a selfish love that thinks not
of the morrow. We want for our
litUe ones their birthright. All the
good and ntij things are made
for u8 am They should be for. all
not Just for the few with the dollars.
Honest men are, walking' the -streets,
kelpnthfamiwTrom
charity in tnis .our great a iana . oi
- plenty. I trust: the time- will, come
.tj. aVW a. ' wAvjrT - ri TV' VT1 1 1 ; VtrtT
when tha word "charity" will not
stand for dollars and cents plus old
clothes, but for love rjust love for
our fellowman. A Mother. .
i ; ; J A Cooperaave Ya&.
McEwen. Or March 21 To the Ed
itor of The Journal We have beard
conalderable , talk of cooperation by
farmers and others, but no planstated
I as to how to proceed, v So here
re is the
I clan, and result at ' the- year's end.
J mrnbers and others at reuu prices.
PERTINENT. COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
Looks as' though there is no occa
sion for slnglnc Rescue the Perishing.
Af any rate. Uncle Sara has not at
tempted to punish Villa by indictment.
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Furthermore, don't raise your boy
to 'be a war correspondent. ' It would
be 'impossible for him to make good.
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Czernowltz, bavlag ? again changed
hands, may be useful' to Russians and
Teutons principally as a medium of
exchange. . - . ...
President Wilson has found It neces
sary to consult an eye specialist.
Watching for submarines Is bard on
the eyes. : , -
The Wlllard-Moran affairs at New
York tonight should illustrate, in a
small way, what the movie-star la
often up againsu
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Secretary Redfield tells people to
carefully save waste paper and rags:
Fire Marshal Stevens advice Is to be
careful In saving them.
The senate is having some 'trouble
in attachlnar Maxim silencers to a few
of its-members, but, all things con-
siaerea, 11 is aomg xirst rate.
The Youne- Men's ReDUbllcan club
has fixed the age limit at 60 years.
Now let the young women organise and
see 11 uiey can agTee on a umiu v
A Kansas hog rooted up $300 In gold
on its owner's farm, and now the
boast comes from back there that the
Kansas plow can do even better than
mat. .- , - - - ,
' - k. .
Those newly weds who are walking
800 miles from Walla Walla to their
homestead in Utah may be taking pre
liminary training for wedded life's long
journey. - "
This nation's otilyjwar of conquest
was waged against Mexico, but the
annexationists can't get Uncle Bam to
repeat the offense while Woodrow Wil
son in at the White House.
WHERE FUNSTON
From the Christian Science Monitor.
Ohio is the native state of Major
General Frederick Funston? but, up to
the time of the Spanish-American war,
he was identified -with Kansas, to which
state his parents .moved when he was a
child. In Kansas he received his aca
demic education; which was finished in
the university of that state in 1886.
Like many others who later, rose to dis
tinction, Frederick Funston began as
a newTSpaper reporter. After devoting
a year to news gathering-, be was ap
pointed botanist to. a southwestern ex
pedition under the auspices of the
United States government, and later
was employed by the department of
agriculture to assist In the exploration
of Alaska and to report upon its flora.
In the winter of 1898 he camped In the
Klondike country, and, with the return
of spring, floated down the Tukon
alone in a canoe.
Always adventurous,' he Joined, short
ly afterward, the Cuban Insurgents,
serving for 18- months and winning
first the rank of captain, then of ma
jor, and finally of lieutenant-colonel in
the revolutionary army. We next hear
of him as a coloned commanding the
Twentieth Kansas Volunteer Infantry
in the Spanish-American war. Soon,
with his regiment, he was ordered to
the Philippines to Join with other Uni
ted States forces la the pursuit and
suppression of Agulnaldo. From this
point dates the beginning of that part
of his career ,which may properly be
described as famous.
Bmllio Agurnaldo Was the Francisco
Villa of the Philippines, although this
comparison can hardly be made with
out some apologies to the Filipino In-
surrecto. He was a Chinese mestizo.
of Chinese and Tagalog parentage, a
young man of considerable education,
and the protege of a priest. As a boy,
he bad been sent to Hongkong, where
he studied the English- French and
Chinese languages. Eight years after
bis return his native talents, schooling
and 'general shrewdness' and popular
ity marked him as a leader, and he be
came prominent in the outbreak against
Spanish authority In the islands In
1896. He was at the head of the diplo
matic corn mission, appointed by the in
surrectionists, which exacted a large
payment of money from the Spanish
government in consideration of a
pledge on the part of the leaders to
lay down their arms. The agreement
was signed in Hongkong, but almost
before the ink was dry Agulnaldo quar
reled ytth his brother commissioners
over the division of the money, left
them and sought refuge in Singapore.
At the beginning"; of the Spanish
American war representatives of Ad
miral Dewey found him at that port.
Each member baa. one vote. Only one
organisation in each county. - Operated
by two. trustees and a manager, all
bonded to the .limit. At the end of
each year : overhead expenses to " be
determined and paid. Then each mem
ber shall receive his percentage on
that which he has purchased during
the year. Capital shall be increased
through the addition of members.
Result: Two thousand members with
paid up shares of 825 each, 850,000.
Each member supposed to purchase
$200 worth of goods each year, $400,
000. Profit, 20 per ; cent $80,000.
Overhead charges for one year, $13,
450 or 8Vs percent on the business.
Balance of profit, $67,000, making a
comeback to each member who pur
chased $200 worth of goods Of 83 1-3
per cent and 8 per cent on his stock,
being ,$20. Total profit. $69. Do fig
ures lie, or other folk? -:
3. U EDMISTON.
. Burglars Do "Not Advertise. i
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
This is .a nugget -from Herbert
Kauffman's business logic: "Stores
arfd factories that do not advertise are
like strangers in a strange town -they'd
be far more careful it they were
better known." ; - ":
. Very true. "Not only would the
stores and factories be more careful,
but the consumers of their products
would be better protected. . : A thief
avoids the lighted corner.' An honest
man doesn't baveto walk In the dark.
Moreover, the non-advertiser ,1s a stran
ger in his own town, and he ie little
known outside of it; whereas judicious
publicity gives a store or factory, a
good, and clean introduction. Printer's
Ink la a written guarantee, or can be
made one, that the user of It Is a re
liable merchant.- a i -" .;
When a-vender , of any . particular
product puts his name to it so that the
people can read, he takes on a larger
responsibility for the quality of that
product. It is like introducing stran
gers to his own children. It is the fel
low who sells in secret that "need not
be . overscrupulous in what her sells.
He can the better dodge responsibility
for defects. Short weight, short meas
ure and .short quality are commodities
tkfe secret operator can handle to his
advantage. That Is Vby the merchant
who Is better known - must be more
careful why bis customers enjoy , this
larger freedom from swindling and de
ception. . . '
'- Plenty ' of rogues " have employed
I g
printer's ink to fill their pockets with
gold, but- many more have not. The
AND NEVVS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS -
tf.nnlatAti iwlnlAM In Its newly
granted 12-hour telephone service .on
Sundays.
.......
Klamath Falls' voters on Mar 1 will
act on-the question of purchasing up-
to-date lirengnung apparatus. - .
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MeUlnnTllla'a water and llrbt com
mission has a welt driller at work ex
plorlna for a -water supply sufficient
for the city's consumption,
"What is needed In Astoria," says
the Budget s a fire- code. , limiUns
the business portion of the city - to
class A buildings. Astoria has too
many shacks for a growing city with
such brilliant prospects." . . ,
A E. Adams, who has for two years
been one of the publishers and editors
of the ; Woodburn . Independent, has
severed relations, to engage in other
business. H... Ottl will continue the
business, as publisher and editor.
Building note in Medford Sun: "Ac
(mrilliir to tha architect's Plans the
business block belnjr built on the cor
ner of Fir and Main streets, will t
completed ready for occupancy by
July In The work of tearing; down the
top story 01 ine moors nvm hobou
Tuesday.1 , --j?:.' f'r.i
': Th ronri-f ul birds Of th Upper
Hood river vaUey. the Hood River
Glacier says, during the cold weatner
of the past winter, when the earth was
nnw oAT-rrf tit a-t . a-rlt . f or their
craws, picked the concrete ana mua
chinking from upper vauey-io
dences.
Tn th ntrtiat nf flood conservation.
the Baker Herald arrues thus: "The
wasting '-of the 80,000 acre feet of
water tn tne fowaer river ini; year
nrt th ttnstlnr of 40.000 acre feet in
each of the nine previous years is the
loss of water wealth that should be
stopped. ' It -is attain a good time to
talk of the Sumpter valley reservoir to
conserve, until It is neeaea. ine raowv
ure that brings dollars to crops.
WON HIS SPURS
and undertook to win over his lnflu
ence. abd, with it. the friendship of the
revolutionary natives; bUjt nothing came
of this.. From the first, in raot, Agui
naldo was opposed to occupation of the
archipelago by the United States-. In
the summer' of 1898 he organized a
so-called Filipino republic, claiming
the presidency for himself. . Soon aft
erward discovery was made of the .act
that he had planned, and all but con
summated, a general massacre in Ma-
. - v . a a saa I a. . a.
nua. in ieenruary, ms uouy" ai
tacked the American forces In the sub
urbs of Manila. From this time on a
determined "campaign was waged
against him, such a campaign, indeed,
as that now planned with relation to
Villa in Mexico.
Agulnaldo offered' very stubborn re
sistance, and the American forces from
time to time suffered deplorable -surprises
and reverses. For more rban
two years fighting was continued, by
dispersed fragments of his army, over
a wide range of exceedingly -difficult
country. The operations in the Philip
pines, at no time receiving unanimous
approval at home, were costly and in
the main disappointing, when the
"Kansas Colonel," as Funston was
called, executed a stratagem at Cast
gulran, province of Isabella, Luzon, on
March 23, '1901, which changed the en
tire outlook.
After fighting a number of battles
and getting Agulnaldo and his partlcu
lar command into what military men
call a "tight" position, Funston per
sonally crossed the Rio Grande river
at Calumplt, on a small bamboo raft,
under A heavy fire, and - here estab
lished a rope ferry, which enabled his
troops also to cross, surprise and de
cisively defeat the enemy. For this
act of heroism, and In consideration of
bis gallant services generally, Funston
waa made a brigadier-general of Uni
ted States volunteers, and was award
ed a medal of honor. In February of
the next year he organized the expedi
tion which resulted in the capture of
Agulnaldo, the ..restoration of peace
and the establishment of practically
unquestioned American authority in
tho Philippines. Since then he has
been promoted to a brigadier-generalship'
and a major-generalship in the
regular army, and now Is in command
of all punitive operations in Mexico.
Funston is a man of no more com
manding appearance than was Grant
or Sheridan, or, for that matter, than
waa Nopoleon Bonaparte or General
Roberts, affectionately called "Bobs."
He is not what descriptive writers
like to call an heroic figure, but he is
of a caliber that entitles him to rank
with some of the biggest little soldiers
of modern times,
ordinary rog-ue deals In circular letters
and personal calls. His product cannot
stand- the limelight of a newspaper or
magazine page. The burglar keeps his
jimmy hidden and never by any chance
puts a card in the papers saying he
carries one.
"Where Am I At?"
From the Chicago Post.
' The house of, representatives, after
tightening; up many of the abuses of
the Congressional Record, has relaxed
a little. .By consent of the speaker it
was declared permissible for any mem
ber who wished to revise his remarks
in the Record "to correct any little de
fect in grammar or the form of ex
pression.-" '
It's too bad to let this ancient fal
sification of the record prolong Its ex
istence. "Defects in grammar or forms
of 'expression" are too often the salt
with Which the whole debate is fla
vored. How great, for Instance, would
have been tbe loss to the American
language and the gayety of nations
had "revision" suppressed the immor
tal query, "Where am I at!"
Overworked Adjectives.
From Philadelphia Ledger.
-Miss Elsie Ferguson objects to the
expression, "Isn't it lovely." She de
fines, it as "a pet phrase used with
equal emphasis about a baby, a new
hat, a box of candy, a magnificent
view or a beefsteak." She might have
added "a play or an actress," for no
where is one ' privileged to hear more
that is trite and silly than tn the foyer
of a theatre. : The "An tl-Ain't Society."
which, like many other admirable
things, comes to us from the suffrage
west, would do well to correct ' the
lovely but Insipid habit that is play
ing havoc alike with matrondom and
flapperdom. The "Antl-Ain'ts" might
try to suppress the expressive and In
discriminate use of "wonderful", and
"grand1 HI "Peaches; and "pippins,"
"some class" and "good night" are ex
pressions that seem to have died a
popular 'death brought on by overwork.
Not ao with the superlatives. They
linger, possibly to label, for the . con
venience of these, who care for the
English language, those who are too
lazy or shallow to apeak better than
they think. '","'
A Sign of Age.
- From tbe Atchison Globe.
- A. man Is aging a little when he be
gins to point with, pride to a good
nlghfs sleep.
TK4Pnce Oer
ONflfe UPON A TIME not ao very .
long ago the telegraph messen
ger boy who pulled your message
out of his bat where he kept It safe '
and dry- was regarded as a likely re
cruit for the grand army of crim-,
inals. n -
J But the old order changeth.
and the new mesaensrer boy ha ,:
arrived. - .-.
H And be looks clean and decent
sell-respecting.
J And he ia.
J And the comic paner iokea ahnnt
him are obsolete. .-
J And , the reason I know la be
causethe other day I went down
to see W. A. Robb Portland man
ager of the Western Union in the
Worcester building, ;
J Hi friends call him Billy. v
and they have watched him for
years trying to better the condition
of the boys who deliver the mes
sages. JAnd I told Billv I wante.1 to
know about messenger boys and
what becomes of them.
nd if they really snend their
time or most of it reading blood -and-thunder
novels.
JAnd Billy took me back through
a room full of young men the of
fice staff.
JAnd as we went he told ma thnt
those , alert clear-eyed fellows were
all graduates from the messenger
service.
JAnd at the back of the office
he showed me a rest room for thj
boys.
with a little branch library the
real thing with books ilka "Tom
Sawyer" and the Alger books.
and others like them that a boy
can read without getting an am
bition to become a bandit.
or shoot out tha lights.
or be a Jesse James.
or anything like that.
JAnd there was a reat room.
and a shower bath.
f And -Billy told me that the boys
who wished could take a course of
study so as to fit them for any
line of work.
after they leave the messenger
service.
JAnd he told me that he hai
found good books and shower baths
the best antidotes for cigarettes.
J-And I asked him about the boys
and their work.
JAnd I found that they're gettlnjr
to be sort of big brothers to a good
many people.
J For Instance there's one woman
who calls up and has a boy come
to her apartments and wipe thu
dishes.
every few days.
J And there's another woman who
has a boy, sent out to mind the
baby while she's shopping.
J And he told me how closely the
boys share the joys and sorrows nf
the community.
because the messages which
they see opened and read have so
much to do with those Joys and sor
rows. JAnd I realized how important' a
messenger boy really la.
JAnd perhaps we all undervalue
our Jobs. i
and under-estlmate their import
ance. from a standpoint of human
value.
JAnd of course I don't know but
anyway . ,
T LISTEN It seems to me that
civilization is making progress -
when messenger boys are made san
itary.
THE HOHX-OEOWN MUSE.
' Spring Sonnat.
ChiDOofc'a bold baud pUjrs wltb tbe UirobMnsr
breasts
Of mother earth. Their spark line rubes f
white.
By bla warm amorous kiss nf mapir might.
Are soon tranaformed to laucbliif rills. KsrU
reata
Kot night nor dar UU, with tbelr rirb be
quests, Ther reach the thirst rale. Touched J tba
llfht
Of. quickening brestb, tba flowers from'
tbolr nlpbt
Of alep arise. Tbe brooding birds theljL
nests ar
BeclD to build, while faithful lovers sine
Inspiring; aonrs of hope. Tt rerdant bills,
Tbelr labor pslna now feel. Tba forest rlad
In living jrr-en oumas forth. Tha tIdc,
with thrills
Of their pubeacenca mora. All things are
triad.
BctcIUis God's Ufa-clrlng lore In anrln.
F. W. Parker.
Here's the Champion Walker.
HARRY LEWIS is six feet six and
a half Inches tall. He weighs
206 pounds. He leads the life of
banker, and Is virtually in the banking
business. That la, be spends two hours
daily at his office. He is of robust
construction, and sleeps well, retiring
at 10:05 p. m. and arising at 5:10 p. in.
He eats two meals a day. Otherwise
he is quite normal.
But the thing that distinguishes
Harry Lewis Trom all the other Lew
ises, and from nearly everyone, is his ',
peripatetic propensity.
Harry Lewis is a great walker. He
is a great be fore-break fast walker. He -is
an equally -great after-luncheon
walker. Perhaps he is greatest as an
after-dinner walker. Anyway, when
others talk, he walks.
In fact, Mr. Lewis' friends say he
is the champion long-distance track
walker of the Pacific northwest.
At ordinary, straightaway walking,
without regard to when, whence or
where, Mr. Lewis' average is said to ,
be 39 miles on Saturdays and 19 miles
on week days.
Last Saturday night Mr. Lewis;
walked along the Columbia river high
way . to - Mrs. Henderson's chalet at
Crown JPoint. . Here he ate copiously
and retired early. On the way, soon
after be' passed, a huge fir-tree slid
down the mountainside, dragging tons
of rock and earth,, and lay across the
highway. It took 20 men to remove
the slide. -H:
;. "Suppose the slide had come down
as Mr. Lewis was passing," said one of
the workmen. ' '
- "It wouldn't," said another. "It came
down because he passed." .. 3;
;i Mr. Lewis was up with the chickens. H
well known for their habit of early -rising,
' and left Crown Point at H i ' a.
m amid storm of cheers, as when ax
steamer sails. '. -..
Hitting the tie's vigorously, and
stepping aside ever and anon, to "allow .
a train to pass, Mr. Lewis continued
sturdily to Hood River, $1 miles away. -;
Naws of his approach had preceded
him, and be was met by a delegation
of citizens .wfth' hot coffee and a
stretcher. -
Scorning both, he . swung into the
depot, bought a ticket for Portland,
and came home on the cushions, thus
disappointing many of bis friends.
They thought he would turn around
and walk right back. ' ;
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