THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, .MONDAY, . MARCH, 27, 1916.
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WOODBOW WILSOX.
Millions for defense, but not a cent for
tribute CHARLES C. PINCKJSKY.
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul
sineere,
la action faithful, and In honor clear;
Who broke no promise, served bo prlTata
end.
Wle gained no title, and who lost no
friend;
Cnnoblcd by himself, by all approved
And praised, unenvled by tbe Muse, he
lovad. Pope.
NOTHING TO SAY!
, AN THE 17th day of February,
U Chairman Ferris oT the pub
lic lands committee of the ;
house at Washington, wired I
Governor Withycombe of Oregon I
notifying him that disposition of
tbe grant lands in Oregon was to
be the subject of hearing and in
viting him to make representations
or suggestions as to the wishes of
the state in legislation about to
be framed.
That was 39 days ago; but up
to this time nothing has been
heard by the committee from the
governor of Oregon.
On the great subject of saving
40 per cent of the grant lands for
the irreducible school fund of this
state, the governor has had noth
ing to say.
On the great subject of saving
40 per cent of the grant lands for
building roads in the grant land
counties, the governor has had
nothing to say.
, On the great subject of saving
any part of the grant lands for
; Oregon public Interests of any
kind, the governor has had noth
ing to say.
As governor of the state. Dr.
Withycombe was naturally looked
to by the Ferris committee as the
.custodian and representative of the
public lands of the state and, there
fore very fcroperly.the authority to
apply to for a statement of how
Oregon could best be served in the
pending grant land legislation.
' Few men would occupy the gov
ernor's office under such circum
stances without having decided and
wide open convictions as to the
disposition of these lands.
But Governor Withycombe has
had nothing to say.
. The Oregon grant lands are
worth, at the lowest estimate, $44,
000,000. On the terms of the
Chamberlain bill, they would cre
ate an irreducible school fund in
Oregon, fully four times the amount
of the present fund.
Instead of the present beggarly
six millions, it would give Oregon
a splendid public school endow
ment of approximately $25,000,000.
It would not only be a great per
petual and irreducible school fund
with which to educate the children
of Oregon down through the gen
erations, but it would be a great
Irreducible rural credits fund from
which to lend money on long time
at low interest for 'the improve
ment of farms. "
Though the securing of this great'
fund; for Oregon has been trem
bling in the balances for weeks at
Washington, and though the news-
papers have daily Informed him
that the cause might be lost, the
committee hearings ! have closed,
and Governor Withycombe has had
nothing to say.
5 Some of them taking their places
at 3 o'clock in, the afternoon, sev
eral dozen people lined up with
camp stools and lunches awaiting
the chance to get gallery seats and
standing room f or( j the opening
performance of the opera. There
must be Borne love of art in Port
land. -
STILL SOBBING
an HERB Is still sobbing in the
I senate over passage through
I ' that body of the armorplate
bin. ,; -,
. And no wonder. 4 The' Bethlehem
Steel company made a profit, of
scarcely 112 per cent on Its com
mon stock in 1915. s; -
It Is hard times when an armor
plate works ' can from- its ' earnings
double Its capital in a year and
have only 12 per cent in addition.
During the period, its business was
so bad that Its stock rose from $16
a share to only $600 a share.
-With the corporation thus strng
' gling along to. make ; ends meet It
was, Indeed, a shock to Penrose,
Oliver, Lodge and others standpat
brigadiers- to have an ungrateful
government propose to go Into the
business of making armorplate - In
a government-owned and operated
plant
These , loyal American patriots,
shaking their clenched fists at
President Wilson for what ther
call "his weak and impotent for-
elgn policy," felt keenly the sor
trows of the corporation and held
It to be no 'surrender of American
i rights for the Bethlehem Steel com
; pany to sell armorplate to Russia
at lower prices than they sell it to
the United States.
No wonder they sob.- What right
has a meddlesome Americanpres
Ideht to interfere with the colossal
profits a powerful group of mil-
ilionaires is making out of the peo
ple of the United States in extor
tionate charges for armorplate?
Oregon should thunder at Wash
ington until all members of her
congressional delegation get inline
for a $25,000,000 fund for the
school children of this state.
THE CRITICIZED CHAMBER
THERE Is much undeserved
criticism of the Portland
I Chamber of Commerce.
The body has made mis
takes. It made the original blun
der of permitting parts of it:, or-j
ganization to pass entirely under;
control of special interests. Some
of these interests are, aggressive
and unscrupulous. Whenever pos
sible, they use the great name and
prestige of the organization for
private and personal purposes. This
has done more than all else to
bring criticism upon the Chambea,
In the coming reorganization,
this is a condition that should be
avoided. No bureau or department
should have the privilege of taking
action that permits the public to
understand it to be the action of
the Chamber. To do otherwise is to
prepare the way for a continuation
of accusations and charges against
the Chamber that will lessen the
prestige, embarrass the endeavors
and hamper the work of the body.
There is a lot of Oregon outside
of Portland. There is a lot of Port
land outride of a few powerful and
private interests.
A great Chamber of Commerce
of 4000 members, devoted to the
whole region, is a bold conception.
It is a magnificent vision, Jit la
a broad thought. It Is an organiza
tion of forces that, properly ap
plied, is almost without limit in its
power to accomplish. Many men
In the Portland Chamber have
this vision. Their view Is that the
body should function for all Ore
gon and all that great region, of
which Portland is the center.
Their thought is that to build the
country round about is to build
Portland.
Many of these men are giving
their time and their money in a
way that squares with this view.
They are soldiers in a splendid
army of .progress and prosperity.
Their service is a conspicuous serv
ice to this region and its people,
and it ought to have the com
mendation it abundantly merits.
The Chamber should be a great
harmonizing and co-ordinat i n g
body. Its greatestusefulness lies
in the peace and harmonious action
that it can bring about In state
and community forces to the end
that a,ll may work together in
united action. By the exercise of
that kind of power the Chamber
can be of the highest usefulness.
Ther are hundreds of men in the
body, who are guided in their con
duct by that view.
Yet, how that kind of service is
prevented by the power of bureaus
and departments to act independ
ently is evidenced by the Interven
tion of a small committee in the
recent hearing in Portland as to
lumber rates.
The hearing was an Issue be
tween Portland mills and Willam
ette valley mills. It was a local
fight. It was a contest in which
the Chamber had no interest.
But this Bmall committee in
tervened. It was a useless and
wasted effort; for the Interstate
commission does not base its ac
tion o n ' committee resolutions,
That body will act, not on a com
mittee's expression, but upon the
facts brought out Jy testimony.
And now the newspapers of
western Oregon from Portland to
the California line are full of de
nunciations of the Portland Cham'
ber of Commerce. They charge
Portland with being a hog. They
are full of rancour and bitterness.
.The injury to Portland Interests
is very great It Is done under the
name'of the Portland Chamber of
Commerce.
But it wasn't the work of the
Portland Chamber of Commerce at
all. That body, in its coming re
organization, should protect itself
against use of its prestige and
name by small committees and
one-sided action.
One understands how that Chi
cago minister can preach by wire
less; but he can't take up the col
lection that way.
MINISTERS' PENSIONS.
HE Episcopal church in the
United States has 4420 men
. in Its active service. Their"
average nay is $1200 a year
which Includes- an estimate tor
house rent where there is a oar
sonage. More than TOO Episcopal
ministers receive less than $1000
a year. Many of this unfortunate
class are old men who have been
In the work a long time. Their pay
Has diminished, rather than J
creased,; jWlth -age, : and now they
face the double problem f retire
ment and penury. Such Is their
reward for devoting themselves to
mankind, Instead "of their" . own
pockets. ' - ; "...
These Items are gleaned from
"Church Pension Progress," a little
paper published In Wall Street but
with a purpose quite alien to that
locality. It seeks to promote a pen
sion fund ,,-for retired: ministers,
"and that only.',' The purpose is
noble. Ministers give the public a
kind of service which most people
agree is Indispensable. They work
hard and, as a rule, are miserably
underpaid. They are expected to
have a good education, dress well,
associate with well-to-do families
and radiate Cheerfulness wherever
they go. And they must do it all
on a salary "which a competent
artisan would scorn.
All our professional classes are
poorly paid. There are big re
wards for the exceptionally suc
cessful or the few who have power
ful interests back of them. But the
average man must toil Incessantly
to earn a bare living. He can' not
lay by much for a rainy day. This
Is just as true of doctors and law
yers as of ministers, though for
other reasons.
The legal and medical profes
sions are overcrowded. The minis
try is not. Lawyers and doctors
depend upon general public favor
for their living. Ministers -must
appeal to a single congregation,
and congregations, we regret to
say, are usually stingy. Their
religion stops just short of their
bank accounts.
There should be a generous pen
sion fund for ministers in every
denomination. Most of them have
made a' beginning of this good work,
but none have carried It as far as
they should. The laborer in the
Lord's vineyard is still worthy of
his hire, as he was in the Savior's
day, but he seldom gets it
The name of the new army diri
gible is D-N, 1. It looks strikingly
like the word used by a long-suffering
man when his mother-in-law's
trunk arrives.
A CASE IN POINT
JUST before the revolutionary
war broke out a young, un
married man named Martin
sKalliak Joined a miUtla com
pany. At a little tavern where the
militiamen made their headquarters
there was a feeble-minded servant
girl, by whom Martin became the
father of a' feeble-minded son. Of
this son's descendants six genera
tions have now been bora, number
ing in all 480 persons. A diligent
social student has traced out their
family history from beginning to
end so that the reader may see the
whole of it
The Kalliak strain, beginning
with the feeble-minded girl at the
tavern, presents us with 143 feeble
minded persons, 36 illegitimate
children, 24 confirmed alcoholics,
3 epileptics, 82 deaths in. Infancy,
3 major criminals, and 8 keepers
of immoral houses. This is pretty
well for the consequences of a sin
gle sinful act. We call it sinful,
not only because it broke the
moral law, but because It broke the
law of eugenics, too.
When the war was over, Martin
Kalliak repented of his evil ways
and married a woman of good
sense and normal habits. From
this union there are again many
descendants, but they are all well
behaved, respectable 'people, no
Idiots or criminals among them,
no alcoholics and no epileptics. It
is fair, therefore, to ascribe the
undesirable qualities of Martin's
first line of offspring to the defects
of the girl at the tavern.
The lesson is that like produces
like in human kind as it does in
all other living creatures, """ii we
wish to rid the world of the idiot,
the epileptic, the congenital alco
holic, we must see to It that strains
carrying those traits do not per
petuate themselves. This is the
sum total of the eugenic doctrine
But we must also see to it that no
new non-eugenic strains are begun
For it would do little good to
eradicate the old as long as new
ones were constantly appearing.
one or tne principal causes oi
all this is poverty. Feeble-minded
ness, alcoholism, criminality and
the rest of the heritable ills of men
almost always originate in poverty,
The idiot, girl at the tavern prob
ably had a half-starved mother.
who was constantly overworked.
The solicitude of Seattle for the
mouth of the Columbia river is an
example of supreme altruism.
GRANGES AND FORESTS,
nNE still hears occasionally
from ' old-fashioned people
M, who never correct their mis
- takes, the false reports which
were formerly widely current about
the forest service. The forest serv
ice was hostile to homesteaders, - It
"bottled up" the timber and other
resources of the forest land. Tt
thought of nothing- but idle the
ories, scorning practical develop
ment And so on through a long
list of complaints, not ono of which
had much foundation.
The'exceilent conduct of the fed
eral forest service has silenced
most of these querulous grumblings
but, as we have said, one still
hears them now and then from per
sons who do not know better. The
state grange has a committee on
forestry, which has prepared an
interesting report It may- be read
in the recently published proceed
ings of the grange meeting at Til
lamook..:-- The r report - speaks out
honestly ;about ' the forest servic.
There is no evidence In 'lit of the
Ignorant prejudice which: clings to
old : error . and turns away , from
new truth. . " ; . "
The grange . committee .reminds
as that we no longer have ""forest
reserves." "They have been changed
by congress Into "national forests"
and the change goes deeper than
the mere name. The spirit of the
service - has become more liberal
and helpful 'to settlers and the
general public;- The report gives
specimen's of the national : : forest
helpfulness to homesteaders. "Any
one can get timber for his own use
free of costs from the national for
ests," and he can buy it for com
mercial use' as "cheaply as from
private owners." - c -
"The national forests," continues
this valuable report "are open at
all times to all our people for
camping, hunting, grazing, mining,
logging, beekeeping, summer ho
tels," and a thousand other legiti
mate purposes. This does not look
much like, "bottling up" our nat
ural resources. To an unprejudiced
eye it looks a good deal more like
opening and developing them. The
grange report conveys no new In
formation, but It presents some
that is old in an attractive form
and offers it to people who ought
to read it.
NOTHING THE MATTER
WITH PORTLAND
A trlnitr of excellent nredocta ere re
lented la toda.r'a Installment, No. 80. of Tbe
Journal's "Nothini tbe Matter With Port
land" srtictea. Adaptation, lnTention and
perception of opportunity united In tbe
foundations -of a solid and prosperous Port
land enterprise with which there is nothlna-
Khktever tbe matter.
I- xuu own an auto and its tires
are worn out we can tell you
If that old razor strop has lost its
usefulness, we know where you can
obtain a new one guaranteed to have
no superior on earth.
If your horse's neck Is subject to
gall, we can point you to the place
where is mado gall-cure horse collars.
And if there's anything else you
want to know, speak out and we'll
try to accommodate you.
W. II. McMonies & Co. began mak
ing harness and horse collars in
Portland about the time they were
digging the trench for the waters of
the Willamette river to flow in. He
continued in the business until sev
eral years after the beginning of the
reign of the automobile, when he
abandoned the harness end of his
vocation. Instead of declaring war
on the "horseless wagon" brigade,
however, the gentleman courted Us
favor and declared his willingness to
help the game along. StT he laid him
down on his rumination sofa and be
gan to think. After winding up his
brain wheels a few times he evolved
a scheme which hs has put in opera
tion, and today he is half-soling auto
tires, making the old ones almost as
good as the new, or something like
that '
WHAT MR. M'MONIES SATS.
He says: "Have them double-
treaded, or half-soled, by our new
method. Get from 2060 to 4000 more
miles of service Out of them. We are
saving others 60 per cent of their
tire expenses, why not youT It Is
fust as unnecessary, just as extrava
gant, to throw away tread worn tires
as It Is to throw away your shoes
because the original soles are worn
thin. Have your tires double treaded
before they go to pieces. Two old
tires are used lit making one double
tread tire. The carcass, or Inside,
tire must be free from rim cuts, and
have good side walls. From the
tread we remove all rubber and re
inforce weak places. The outside tire
must have rubber on the surface.
Blowouts or surface ctfts can be re
paired. From this tire we cut the
beads, taper the sides, cement and
sew to the carcass, Joining them per
manently Into one big, strong, puncture-proof
tire. This is en Insurance
against blowouts. There is the strength
of two old tires in one 'new method'
double-treaded tire. Should you have
no old tires, or only one, we can
furnish either inside, outside or dou
ble-treaded tires."
Then be proceeds to quote prices
which range from S2.25 to $8 when
customer furnishes both tires j $2.75
to $10.50 when customed furnishes
tire for tread: $3 to $11 when cu
tomer furnishes tire for carcass, and
$4.50 to $15 when he (McMonies) fur-4
nlshes both tires.
CONTINUES COLLAR MAKING.
"We have had to add a lot of new
machinery for this tire business," Mr.
McMonies says, "and now we are
equipped and have one of the most
up-to-date enterprises of this kind in
the country. And it is ..wonderful
what this machinery and accompany
ing tools - can accomplish. Human
genius must have been greatly taxed
in their invention. But they prolong
the life of an original investment by
almost half, and now that rubber has
gone sailing to the clouds, this new
occupation will be a great relief to
many an owner of a car. """T
"We continue, however, the making
of horse collars the gall-cure brand
which we claim are not only per
fection in construction but a boon "to
the horse. Instead of stuffing them
With long, hard straw, as It comes
from the field, we have machines to
Chop or w6or It up into a soft,
pliable mass, so that the collar imme
diately adjusts Itself to the shape
of the animal's neck. , There are. col
lars stiff as a log, and these wear
upon the high -places of the ajhouldef,
soon creating a sore and Ultimately
an ulcer. Our brand never is 'guilty'
of this offense, and 1 Imagine If the
horse could talk he would thank his
master for his consideration in pro
viding, his beasts of burden 1 with so
comfortable a collar In. which to dis
charge his duties..
We have a factory capacity of 10
to 15 dozen collars a day, .and sell
them all along , the coast from San
Diego to the Rocky mountains. We
sell to 'dealers In . many places, hive
a number of traveling men handling
them as, a aids line, and two of our
own . force " constantly a the -road. We
- . : .
i', - -
employ SO men' in this department J
and they are always busy-i"
MAKES RAZOR STROPS ALSO. ;
, When J. Canby Morgan was a boy,
he migrated from Portland to - New
York, not realizing; what a foolian
trick that was. During his pilgrim
age to manhood he was engared In
various pursuits, among them learn
ing the trade of rasor strop manu
facturing, and he did his work so
well that in time be was elected pres
ident of the Nev-a-hone razor strop
corporation.. He stretched Its arms
from ocean to ocean and soon It was theTr adverlit? UM wetted. "
so formidable an opponent of another
concern at It VInrt that h "othT Talking about finish fights, what
concern or us ama mat tn otner are the ryim ia tne cp t,e-
one bought It and Mr. Morgan was tween calendared thermometer?
without" employment Then came a C0unty.8 'JX also u ,mpty
yearning for another sight of his Looks like utilization of JailB is com
"Old Willamette Home," and he en- j",,.0 b on9 of Olson's big prob
gaged a temporary abode in a Pull-1 , ... ' t
man. After "Visiting among relatives ' A"p1IiB5, candidates might Just as
rival In . Portland, he happened to
meet his "old college chum". In ths
person of W. H. McMonies. In the
course of their little visit the Idea
of a razor strop factory in Portland
Popped Into Mr. McMonies head. For
getting details of how it happened,
suffice it to say that the factory is
in operation, four sersons are em-
- w. .w-
its existence It has a clientele j
stretching out from Los Angeles to '
Helena and Butte, Mont., and to Den
ver In the Rockies. .
IT'S A BIG BUSINESS. '
On first thought one is liable to
look upon a razor strop factory as a
small kind of an occupation. It isn't.
It's a big one. It never will be any
thing else, for the reason that every
day boys are becoming men and ex
changing the downy lip for the be
whlskered chin. This is an anxious
period In their lives, too. About 89
per cent of the youth of our sex want
to appear as men, and are anxious
to assist nature in the growth of a
beard. If there were a mustache fer
tilizer or a whisker grower on the
market, they'd mortgage their pay
check to make a first installment
payment on an ounce, and the record
or every maie oirtn is tne recora or eral questions asked of counsel, ap
a candidate for a razor stropor two peared to be particularly interested
or three. There is, therefore, an end
less demand for this factory produc
tion, and it never will cease so long
as males are being born.
"We are making 100 kinds of
strops," Mr. Morgan says, "from the
inexpensive 50 per cent grade o
those which sell at $2.60 and $3. I
know this business thoroughly, and
that our goods must be the equal of
any or our enterprise would fail. Our
leather is specially tanned, these ma
chines you see are the latest con
structed end my two chief helpers
have served years In the work. Our
strops are not outclassed In the
world. They are as good as made,
and we have put a price upon them
which will exclude eastern .made
strops from this territory when pres
ent stocks are disposed of."
- So here we have even Portland
made razor strops, and every young
man in town and in the Oregon coun
try ought to register a vow he never
will buy an eastern made razor strop,
no matter how olly-tongued the sales
man. Letters From the People
Commanioatlons tent to Tbe Journal for
publication In this department should be writ
ten on only one side of the paper, should not
exceed 800 words In length and mnat be ac
companied t)f tbe name and address of the
sender. If tbe writer does not desire to have
tbe name published, he should so state.
'"Discussion is tbe area teat of all reformers.
It rationalizes everything it touches. It robs
principles of all false sanctity and throws them
back on their reasonableness. If they hare no
reasonableness, it ruthlessly crushes them out
of existence and sets up its own conclusions
in their stead." Woodrow Wilson.
Birth Control and Capitalism,
""Portland,-Or.T March 26.--To the Edi
tor of The Journal We live in an age
that is uncovering evils, and we gasp.
It is said birth control is a menace to
militarism and capitalism. Unprotected
families suffer in the midst of our
civilization. They live and die on
the starving line in this broad land.
The children of large families of the
working man become the soldiers in
times of war and in times of peace the
slaves of a strong industrialism. The
children of the poor are exploited by
the big capitalists. M. A. BUCKLEY.
A Correction.
Portland, Or., March 24. To the Edi
tor of The Journal Permit me to cor
rect a misstatement appearing in The
Journal of February 22 regarding
school inspection In Portland by wom
en physicians.
The first women physicians to act
In this capacity were Dr. Edna D.
Timms who was killed in October,
1910, and who inspected Ladd school
and myself. My particular charge was
the health of Creston school. We
served without pay from 1907 to 1908.
JESSIE M. M'GAVIN, M. D.
A Rebounding Criticism.
Bend, Or March 23. To the Editor
of The Journal The Oregonlan's lat
est' lambasting of Josephus Daniels in
the Issue of yesterday is a wonder,
but when you consider the caliber of
country editors, what can one expect?
Just Imagine what the result would be
if the poor "boob" that sits in the
swivel chair in the brick building on
Sixth street were given the oppor
tunity. He is a country editor.
Can't you boost a "dollar day" or
something like that to keep him busy?
He might do some good, but certainly
he can't do any harm in a thing of
that kind. Ia his attack on Mr. Dan
iels be states that the navy is short
60,000 men on a war basis. Have the
happenings of the last three years
anything to do with that shortage?
JWhy was not such condition taken
Ware of while the Democratic party
was out and the "Grand Old Party"
was in power?
Such an outbreak serves to show
how Impotent a country editor Is to
Judge conditions from an office chair.
The truth of the matter Is that the
conditions produced by those whom
"ye- ancient scribe", of Sixth street
worships - are such that the "dear
peepul," of whom so much is expected,
have no- respect for anything or any
one that wears a uniform.
, . t L. W. CLINE.
Self Control Enjoined.
' Portland, March 24. To the Editor
of. The Journal Birth control Is the
next . hobby In the world's program.
If X could think of a devil, I would
surely hold him responsible for such
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
Why not get in atyls this
atyls
ween oy registering!
News from up that way Indicates
that Pendleton is planning a great rail
road roundup.
e e
Southern Pacific's largely increased
earnings is another prosperity fact
nete at home.
a
If suarar ken &tlnar tin in nrl r
interested in the plow as in the politi
cal pot. -
A man with the blues complains that
people continue to talk about civiliza
tion as though it were a fact Instead
of a remote idea.
Speaking of Mexicans, count in Jose
Pereyra. Carranza consul at Columbus,
N. M., who died trying to save Ameri
can women from Villa bandits.
Great Britain has put a ban -on im-
i portatlon of soap, classing it a luxury,
It.B proDably aiffiCUit to convince the
small boy over there that war has no
compensations,
THE OREGON WATER CODE DEFENDED
Washington, March 27. (WASH
INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOUR
NAL) The attack' on the Oregon
water code before the United States
supreme court, as developed in the
argument of the case of the Pacific
Livestock company against the state
water board, rests upon the contention
that the board performs judicial as
well as administrative functions, and
may deprive appropriators of water of
'w. " "
Attorney General Brown, Water
Commissioner Cochran and Will R.
King, representing the water board,
denied this, and pointed out various
provisions of the Oregon law authoriz
ing Judicial review of the board's find
ings. A RJtnrtAt .TumHi, In
in the provision of law that makes
the findings of the board prima facia
correct In court. Cochran explained
that this is necessary for the purpose
of establishing a conclusive finding
where the parties in Interest do not
pursue the matter in court. He de
clared it does not extend further than
a dilemma. But the woman Is the
head nowadays, and sympathizes with
her own unfortunate sisters who have
so many babies. The woman needs
control and power over her own body,
and that she will have from her hus
band, providing he practices self-control,
for which there is no substitute.
There is certainly no place where
"Blessed are the pure in heart," ap
plies, if It is not to purity of thought
and action in the relation the sexes
lbear to each other. A chaste life is
j Inspired by a true knowledge of the
purposes and uses of sex, and tho
Inward desire to so live as to bring
forth best results for society in gen
eral, and one's self in the end. Thou
ands are wrecked yearly on the rocks
of Ignorance or slothful disregard of
results. Others Indulge the mere ani
mallammof mere nature. They burn
up the goodness and purity and
strength of both soul and body, and
are left at last with the ashes of their
dead best selves.
Sexual Instinct is not Impure, un
less perverted from the natural work
assigned to it in the plan of life. But
it becomes bestially low when it does
fall, because there is so great a dis
tance from its lofty purpose.' That
which falls farthest falls heaviest and
deepest.
Chastity will purify the marriage
relation, as it will elevate civilization
if given full play. Then will come
the happy era of happy people under
standing their true positions toward
each other. II. W. KOCH.
Brighten Convicts Lives.
San Quentln, Cal., March 19. To
the Editor of The Journal Do you
remember the convict? A letter may
break that strain, that ruinous strain.
Someone remembers; someone cares:
someone really wants him to be
worthy of freedom. His heart
changes; it is worth while to seek out
his better nature and to try to live
I by it, perhaps to win back his place
In the world, because someone cares.
Write to him! Do you know of any-
one locked in a penitentiary who, to
the best of your knowledge and belief
never received a letter from you or a
friend? Send him such a letter, and
it wouldn't hurt to put in a hand
kerchief, or a few stamps to show
good faith just to prove that it is
not a case of Jolly.
The growing movement for prison
reform should find quick recognition
in kind hearted Portland people, where
Christianity is practical. Write a
letter to the man who Is buried, but
not dead. This article only asks that
there be given to these fallen a help
ful word of encouragement and sym
pathy. These men have slipped In the
bewildering path of life; they are sick
and weak of soul and heart, sometimes
of understanding, and they are al
ready punished, being Imprisoned.
Tour right word, personally addressed,
may arouse an Impulse In him to re
pentance. It will cost you no more
than an occasional hour of writing
and a postage stamp.
Imagine a convict. Think of him
alone, with morbid retrospections that
torture. How can he keep from hat
ing, from despairing from growing
desperate under the feeling that he
has been put aside, cursed of God and
man.
Once more I say, write to him.
This letter Is from one who has had
the bitter experience, sufferedS un
justly. JACK DAILY.
Discusses Rotwl Maintenance.
Marcola, Or.. March 19. To the
Editor of The Journal I agree with
N. Blair of BuelL Or., in regard to
first getting a good broad foundation
of rock, in road building before apply
the top dressing of fine gravel or
crushed rock. But In the outlying dis
tricts we often find places where it is
Impossible to find any gravel suitable
for finishing a road, while here ia our
district our county commissioners seem
reluctant to let a county rock crusher
go to one of these outlying districts,
even though it Is standing ide and
each district in the county paying its
percentage of the running expense.
We - also pay our percentage of the
bridge tax. but for 10 years we have
been trying to get a bridge across
MIU "creek and get lots of promises but
no : bridge, and a great deal of the
time in winter the ford is not safe
to cross. : 1 say this to show that it
Is not all the road supervisor's fault
If we have poor roads. Our trouble
with the supervisor here in Lane
county is that they usually change for
a new man every, year and It always
takes the new supervisor about all his
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The county court of Tillamook coun
ty has ordered, that all offenders sen
tenced to Jail terms shall be put to
work on the county roads.
"The Albert pasture east of the
Church street bridge," is nominated
by the Salem Statesman "as a fine site
for summer playgrounds."
-Several -residences planned, public
hitching sheds to be built and more
cement walks than In any previous
year, are items on Estacada's improve
ment program for 1916.
.
"The biggest Main street crowd, out
side of a special event day in years,
last Saturday, proves," says the Baker
Herald, "what good, weather and re
turning prosperity vdll do lor a city
and its business."
J
The Lostine .Reporter, which was
burned out two years ago, lives again,
with Howard w. Stout t as publisher
and editor. In his salutatory he says:
"Believing that Lostine la on the eve
of a prosperous future we decided to
come back and affiliate ourselves with
the movement of building up this fa
vored section."
e
The Newberg Enterprise, In noting
a recent newspaper change, says: "L.
E, Howard has sold the Yamhill Record
to K. W. VanWormer, who has been
connected with the paper for some
time. The new proprietor's salutatory
is a model. He does not use a lot of
type in telling what he proposes to do
with the paper but contents himself
with: 'By their works ye shall know
them. "
to throw upon the claimant the neces
sity of producing evidence to the con
trary, thus enabling the board to go
ahead with its work, and compared
this provision with like provisions in
the Interstate Commerce act.
King, contended that the provision
concerning the taking of testimony
by the water board is akin to the fa
miliar proceeding of appointing a
court referee.
Attorney General Brown's argument
was largely directed toward showing
the public policy involved, and the
neoessity of adjudicating, water rights
before development can be had. Re
ferrlng to the prima facie evidence
clause, he compared it with the in
dictment returned by a grand jury
where the defendant is not repre
sented by counsel. This caused Chief
Justice White to interject:
"I thought that in the case of an In
dictment the defendant is presumed to
be Innocent."
Brown hastened to explain that he
meant his illustration to apply only to
the question of securing bail for the
defendant, in which situation the de
fendant will not be heard to attack the
indictment
first year to learn just what he ought
to do and how to do it. And again
I have seen supervisors using the
road grader for a drag, which does
not look good to me. And the idea of,
using two teams and two men to run
a road drag does not look good to me.
Surely one man ought to be able to
drive two teams. And again I havo
known them to drag an otherwise good
road full of cobbler rock and Just leave
them for the traveling public to ride
over. Last fall our county commis
sioners agreed to get the people to vote
and choose the man they wanted ap
pointed as supervisors in the several
district, but before the time ca.m t rt
rote they drew a line between the real
property Holder and the poor man, giv
ing th power ail to the few holders
and refusing the poor man the right
to vote, although he can pay taxes.
This seems to me to be unjust
THOMAS A, DICKINSON.
Thomas Carlyle on War.
What, speaking in quite Unofficial
language. Is the net purport and up
shot of war? To my own knowledge,
for example, there, dwell and toil in
the British village of Dumdrudge us
ually some 600 souls. From these, by
certain "natural enemies" of the
French, there are successively se
lected, during the French war, say
so aoio Doaied men. Dumdrudge, at
her own expense, has suckled and
nursed them; she has, not without dif
ficulty and sorrow, fed them up to
manhood, and even trained them to
crafts, so that one can weave, another
build, another hammer, and the weak
est can stiid under 30 stone avoirdu
pois. Nevertheless, amid much weep
ing and swearing, they are selected; all
dressed in red; and shipped away at
the public charges, some 2000 miles, or
say only to the south of Spain, and
fed there till wanted.
And flow to that same spot, in the
south of Spain, are 30 similar French
artisans, from a French Dumdrudge,
in like manner wending; till at length,
after infinite effort, the two parties
come into actual Juxtaposition; and 30
stands fronting 80, each with gun In
his hand. Straightway the word
"Fire!" Is given; and they blow the
souls out of one another; and in place
of 60 brisk, useful craftsmen the world
has 60 dead carcasses, which it must,!
oury, and anew sned tears ror.
Had these men any quarrel? Busy
as tho devil is, not the smallest! They
lived far enough apart; were the en
tlrest strangers; nay, In so wide a un
iverse, there was evon, unconsciously,
by commerce, some mutual helpful
ness between them How, then? Sim
pleton! Their governors had fallen out;
and, instead of shooting one another,
had the cunning to make these poor
blockheads shoot.
Oregon's Bid for Tourists.
From , Bradstreet's.
"See America first" used to be a
plea of patriotio citizens when Europe
was ready for American visitors. To
day Europe is virtually closed, and be
cause of this fact numerous boards of
trade In excellently situated cities of
the United States are praising tbe
natural and scenic attributes of their
communities. Portland, Or., is one
such city, and the Chamber of Com
merce there is circulating literature
dealing with the attractions of Ore
gon. Merited word-painting is per
xnissble when attempting to describe
the natural beauties of Oregon, with
Its unsurpassed towering peaks, fertile
valleys and picturesque seashore. There
Is the Columbia river, the second larg
est river on the Pacific coast, and a
rapid stream that traverses a moun
tainous region of remarkable charm.
By means of the Columbia river high
way, extending 210 miles from the
Pacific ocean eastward, the river's
scenery Is easily accswsible. Oregon
ians are proud of their hospitable
spirit, their
snowcapped mountain
range in the interior, the Rood River
section. Crater lake and the Klamath
ccuntry. The people are bidding a cor
dial welcome to all who seek to spend
a. pleasant vacation amid attractive
scenes, and in order tb lure the tour
ist the leadtag city is making profit
able use of the phrase, "For You a
Rose 4n Portland Grows."
And What Do You Think?
From tbe Milwaukee Journal.
Wonder what the man really thinks
who tells you a story you heard In the
nursery as a recent personal exper
ience of his own.
TKPnce Ger
FtSy T i AMPMA Kl
ijP COURSKthere' hasn't been
time to get an answer to my
letter to the Honorable Champ,
Clark speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives at Washington, D. C -
concerning his remark thai rW
lumbla river salmon king of all food
fish is. almost as good as Missouri
river catfish.
f But ol' Missouri is represented in
Portland.
J And the mud-nosing catfish has ft
defender.
JAnd he or she has written me
a letter.
In which the catfish is lifted
from the mud.
and so
pedestal.
to speak set upon a
U And this champion of the channel
cat aristocrat among catfish doesn't
go so far as to propose a national -catfish
day.
like we have every year for the
lordly Balmon.
fBut I do.
JAnd after that is done we'll let
the nation decide which is finer
Columbia river salmon. '
or Missouri river catfish.
JAnd I propose that Speaker Clark
and I be paired.
and not voting.
because wed Just kill each oth
er's votes.
f But here's the letter:
J "Mr. Rex Lamp man with The
Oregon Journal Portland Oregon.
"Dear Rex: I notice in the Once
Over of March 24 a criticism of
Champ Clark's preference for Mis
souri river catfish.
"over Columbia river salmon.
J"And of course I don't know.
"but that little criticism would
seem to indicate that you have never .
partaken of the savorjs cat (real
fish). . i
"else there had been none of
this heated condemnation of the
Honorable Champ's preference.
f'Now I must admit that the
catfish does make his home In the
mud as accused. '
but when ifr comes to richness
of flavor
"he's there with the goods.
"Not too fishy not too flat-i
Ours the noble channel cat.
Tf "Pardon the burst of song.
J "And of course Rex I don't
know your previous history.
"or your birthplace.
"but it's a safe bet It wasn't
Missouri.
"or you'd appreciate more the
merits of her products.
ff "And by the way Rex this
'foamy waters' 'golden glow of sun
set' stuff makes mighty good read
ing. "as poetical prose.
J"But when it comes to eating it -
in fish it can't be did.
"And you can't blame Champ
now can you? -for getting the facta.
"Instead of the scenery.
"when he ate the salmon.
f'And Rex all this little spiel
is written because 1 like you and
your Once Over.
J"And because Ihate to see you
so misguided and
J "LISTEN Rex I'm very anxious
that you soften your opinion of '
Missouri and her products such as, J
fish and apples and statesmen and
things. "I. Protest." V
xafe's Xaxlzdte Variety.
When you see a beautiful maid sailing along
the street with bead in the air, seeing noth
ing and hearing less, it's a safe bat she 1
wandering what sort of a sensation she Is
creating, and if sLe really knew it's another
ssfe bet she'd com down out of th chraiis.
Condon Globe.
c
B. K. Snyder, who 11cb on s ranch out on
the side at Cbefaaleia mountain, has been bav
in,; all kinds of "boss" troubles of lats. Ftrat
tbe old faithful bncksklu tbut be had driven
to town for the psst 2S jenri laid down and
died, and a few days later yoaug thrse-year-old
went by tbe same route. This left
him only one and some days sgo wbsn going
Into tbe stable with a bncket of feed bo
stubbed his toe snd fell st the heels of the.
animal, and ia the sudden fright lr kicked
bira, nearly breaking bis arm. Nawberg
Graphic
When you leave the room don't slam the
door just tsar It down, for 'twill show bet
ter breeding of tbe two. Some people "cloa'
the door at though they were leaving tbe
d d place forever. Silver Lake Leader.
If Ed. Nash matures his plans he will prob
ably want to hlr two or three promising
young men to herd skunks. Mr. Nanh lives
on tbe old Bess place near Prairie City and
while here this week saia mat ne was mnca
interested la skunks and It is bis intention
t raise them on his farm for the market.
TV, do well, according to Kaeb. In the ntrpe
end of tbe John Day valley. This winter
Boy Aze baa trapped more man a aunarvq
dollars' worth of tie furs. The furs are worth
from $3 up. Mr. Nasb has written to W. L.
fin ley of the game commisnlon for Informs
tkm regarding skunks snd If he receives no
discouragement from those wuo hare been Is
hui.u. ta wilt emhark in the snUrnris
of skunk culture. The Eagle surtests that If
any of Mr. Nash's neighbors desire to re
taliate they might ruiance a siauanur anumw
A groe factory ia UlS mom vjcuuij.
yon wty ssgie.
Stories q
Flnda Sermons in Squirrels,
HARRY I
B HER WOOD,
the new British
consul in Port- -land,
was in con-,
versatlon with a:
rellglo u s 1 y in
clined friend.
"Where do -you
worship on 8un
day,?" lnqu 1 r a d
the friend.
"Oh, on Port
land Heights," re
sponded the
consul with excellent British Intona
tion.
The friend in vain tried to remem
ber if there was a church on Portland
Heights.
"Perhaps you mean Willamette
Heights?" he questioned finally.
"NO, no,, no." repeated Mr. Sherwood.
"I go to church on Portland Heights,
in the woods, you know. I watch th
squirrels. I'd much rather look at a
squirrel than a parson."
Spurned, B'gosh.
A DEMURS' little maiden served a
demure little luncheon, a mer
chant's luncheon, be it known, sold on
-Broadway street for 25 cents, to Claude
McColloch and Dr. Eior neaiuna. ins
jjuncheon was remarkably good and the
service all that could Be aesirea; so
on finishing each slipped a little coin
under his plate. They had reached the
cashier's counter when a timid but de
termined voice hailed them.
"You forgot these," she said. Jing
ling their two dime tips. The tipperr
looked in astonishment at the fire la .
ber eye and the little red spots en
her checks,
"Those are for you, they cried, In
chorus,
"No, thank you, sirs," she answered
Icily, "I don't care to be under any ob
ligations." '