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8 THE OREGON. DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, -MAY 24. 1916.v THE JOURNAL " AN IKOHPENOEMT WBWSPAPKB. S. JACKSON Pobllntww I'ubll.bea.everr day, afternoon and morals exeent gaodly afternoon), at Tbe Journal Hulldias.i Broadway and XamniU sts.. port. - land. Ori . , Juiier4 at lUe pestofflee at rortland. Of., for traaaoWon through rlase mutter. tbe avails aa aeoanal IfcLi.l'HOallLat Mala T17S: Hoot. A-AOCl. All flepartaamta nuyri by tbeae Bomber. Tall A . u Uftnaior wnsf department you want. rUHklUM As,' KKTW1NU Ry.PKKfKNlA XI VB aMnjamta keutaor Co.. Unnawlck Bkl(.. 24 gifts Aa., Maw Xork. UU Peoplee Uaa BMg Chicago. Bubeerlptlos terms by mall or to any ad dress la tba 1'b1ui State or Mexico: DAILY (M0BN1NO OB APTKR-NOON) One ear.. . 13.00. One aaoata .SO . '. ' ION DAT. rao rr..! IS.S0 I Oca neonrh I .99 DAILX (1SOB1UNO OR AFTERNOON) AND - i.'.';;,,-'. 1 SUNDAY Oat ptar., ....... t7.M I Ona month I .68 ' Aasarlr aa nothing for heraalf bnt what SBS baa Vlgbt to aak (or humanity Itself. I W00DE0W WILSON. Millions for defense, bat not a wit for tribute. CHARLES C. PINCKNET. If tba naatar take no account of bla servants, they will maka amall account it )f him, and eare not what they spend, Wbo are nartr brought to an audit. . , KnllfT. THE BEER AMENDMENT. tlE ! proposed change In the prohibition amendment will, Of course, meet with bitter o: Dosltion. It will be charged 1 ,eW asl aak-eW ml aaaaaaaaaaaaam'mBaaW aaaauaaaaaaBKaaaaaaL aaaaaaaaaW t inkV it Is proposed too soon after th dry; law went into effect. ', f '. There will, on the other hand, be f ihoee w;ho will insist that if beer Is to bel Bold in Oregon-to Jregon buyers, it might as welt be brewed ! by Oregon manufacturers. As the I treasure is apparently to go on the ballot, we shall see later which Bid a . J!n tho majority. The majority for the idry amendment in the 1914 i election was 36,480. ipfbe proposed change would au J thorize Oregon breweries to mauu J facture beer with no greater than four per rjent of alcohol content for I shipment into other states In any J quantity. It would authorize them ! to, sell direct to customers in Ore- tgon the amount of beer permitted J under the state prohibition law, that la to say, 24 quarts in 28 days. ... ; ai to saies maae in uregon, mere Would hot be the publicity attend : tag aales that there is at present, unless by later act the legislature should so ordain. The legislature would jhave the right, lawyers say, to prescribe any restrictions desired v on the 'now plan of sale, or even to abolish. It altogether by legislative r-act. Under the change, an Oregon brewery could establish a supply depot for sale of its beer at any point or at numerous points in the state. The sales would be in origi nal packages, and could not be made by agents, but only by em ployes acting directly for the brew ery. To a slight extent, the proposed change would undoubtedly be a partial relaxation of the stringency of the prohibition regulations as to beer, and as a restilt.it may be ex pected 'that we shall soon be in the midst of another vigorous contro versy. ' The circuit court of appeals at -San Francisco has asked the eu- preme court at Washington, D. C, 2 .to instruct it whether Federal ; Judge I Wolverton of Portland has been able to correctly understand 1 th meaning of the Oregon-Callfor-nla land grant decision. The clerk ZrOt. the supreme court Bays that tribunal will not be able to answer liv time to give congress any light on tbo question. Is it possible that, -tbw decisions now having grown cold, the high court, like a stenog jrapher, can not make out its notes? A BAD IXT T HE New York Evening Post flatulently, takes it for grant ed that the Shields bill must be a good measure because ,",tb national conservation congress haa approved it. As a mat- ter of fact the national con aervatlon congress was captured "-and engineered by the water power Ttnonopollsts. It indorsed both the 8hlelds bill and the Myers bill , T aimed against the people's rights , and, as the New Republic well says, lt "failed to Indorse any measure '-looking to public control." The 'conservation congress, thus posi I 'tlvelyj hostile to the welfare of the country, can not have much influ ence upon the minds of honest men. The Shielda. bill gtvs to the monopolists all they have ever "tasked and a rood deal more than tbey themselves hoped to get. It binds, the hands of the government lfor fifty years and then gives it the : empty right to take back its own f waterfpowers at a valuation fixed ' by this monopolists. This iniquitous bill makes it just about Impossible for any city to take over water XPower rights for the public good. It effect is to ensJaVe the people to the big interests forever. . The Myers., bill is still more Jn : famous. It hands over to the mo- 7;nopolists every waterpower on theJ public domain. The Grand canyon -" of the Colorado is included In tne I grab. Every shredt of valuable ; : powerf property the : public has left is seized and donated' to the barons by this till.- r No .matter how tn- l-enfc In Marlon county Mrs. Mll Jurlous to the public any proposed dred Brooks, the , present county grab may be the Myers bill obliges recorder, has been renominated by the government officials to consent ! tiro Republicans; in Benton county to it." I Miss Ella Johnson has received the These two bills are monuments ' Democratic nomination for record of treachery to the - public. - Theyer. while In Yamhill county Miss rob the - people to '.enrich' inonopo-i Alice Adams haa been named by lists. - But they-hae' boft been in- renomination as the choice of the domed by the national conservation Republicans for county treasurer, congress. V The : committee which , Hood River county and other recommended the Indorsement was counties of the state have had controlled by representatives of the Utah Power company, the Georgia Ice in public positions. Miss Ma Power company, the General Elec- rlon Towne represented Jackson trie company, the Alabama Power county la the 1915 legislature with company and the Aluminum Com-. credit to herself and to the county; pany of America. From such a ! as did Senator Katherine Clark source what could be expected but from Douglas county. It used to plunder of the public? I The Oregonian says it is com- as his deputy and then start out to pletely dissatisfied with the elec- play politics during the remainder tlon returns as printed in The of the term, but no more. Now he Journal. It is a most discouraging has (to stay on the job for fear that task to try to conduct The Journal if he does not the capable deputy to please that paper. However, will go out and take the office there is the comforting thought away from him. that It is not so much the way The J . . Journal printed the election returns j Today there is to be held a meet as the way the voters made the Ing at Goldendale, Wash., at which election returns that accounts for ; there will be men from the whole the Oregonian'3 fury. j Yakima country, all clamoring for I direct railroad connections with TEMPTING DEATH ! Portland. A delegation of Port- ' ! lanrl KiTiafnaaa m C r tir.ll moor with T HOSE wED clean windows hanging on narrow while ledges at dizzy heights are entitled to a cnance ror tneir i lives. . Five of them have perished as a result of falls in Portland within a comparatively short period. There are safety appliances by application of which owners of High buildings can minimize this mortality. Though these appli ances are on most of them, strange ly enough there are a few high etructures that are without means of eafety for the men who con- stantly expose themselves to dan- j been paying tribute not only to the ger at great heights. ! Calcutta jute growers but- to the If, for lack of these appliances, speculative interests for their bags, a window cleaner should be dashd This season there has been con to death in a fa.' fall to the stony siderable agitation among grain pavement, it would seem as if the growers who wanted to utilize the owner of the building could never bulk system of handling grain, such divorce himself from a feeling that a.s is in vogue in most of the lead he was responsible for'tlie horror, ing grain producing centers of the , ; world. They wanted to use the One of the misfortunes of the bulk system not only because it primary election is the defeat of T. would save them the annual worry K. Campbell for railroad commis- and excessive cost of the sacks sioner. Xo man in public life has used under the present system, but been more devoted to his duties or the cost of sacking in the fields, more conscientious in their per- Besides, many a boy ha3 left the l'ormance. His experience and fine old farm because he has been corn knowledge of the technical require- pelled to lift these heavy sacks from ment of a commissionership can morning to night under the hot not be well spared , from the com-jrayB of the sun. ml88ion- i Most of the cereals of the world AMENDING THE LAW T HERE are too many laws," , -aid Justice Thomas A. j nnf rlav tvhpn r-nn- fronted with the construe-' tion of a newly enacted statute, i "II the legislature and the people." he continued, "were to repeal the constitution and all the atatutes. enact the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments and tell the su preme court to administer them the s.ato would have all the law it needs." Justice McBrlde was doubtless in a philosophical mood when he made his statement, but there is much of reason and common sense in the thought that comes from it. During the late campaign one of the candidates for the legislature confided that he had a plan for re- ! vamping our state government of boards and commissions and weld- ; ing the now heterogenous jumble into one harmonious whole. The 1 plan may have been good, but it, was builded on theory, for it is very probable that the candidate , had been inside few, if any, of the pie and courageous. It runs in this offices of the boards or commis wise: "The chief function of a Blons. j government is to protect its clt- The supreme court has been con- izens. Candidates for office should struing the corporation laws of the make their position clear in all state for 60 years and the books matters concerning American rights, are full of Judicial rules that bind Congressmen who delay prepared and circumscribe and make definite ness measures 6hould be held re the meaning of those statutes. Yet sponsible for it." . j there is a move on foot to splice j We see nothing in any of these them up with extracts here and planks which good citizens should there from-other statutes and other , reject. The first plank is partic jurisdictions. ularly acceptable to our way of The Oregon code is a legal crazy 1 thinking. "The chief function of a quilt, patched by each succeeding government Is to protect its clt legislature with new statutes izens." This is admirable. To .framed by Individuals who have In- protect them when they are sail dividual ends to accomplish and lng on the high seas and traveling without regard for or thought of in foreign lands? Yes, indeed. And ""i '" iuiwc. mu hit . or miss system is one reason ; why the dockets of the circuit courts are congested and the su-, preme court is a year behind in its decisions. If the laws are wrong, If they are weak, or indefinite, or ; ambiguous, they should be cor- j rected, or strengthened or made certain, but the legislature owes a duty to the people to tread with caution in the field of amendment, j The ever active East Side Busi-1 it is to be hoped that the Rist ness Men's club has elaborate plans man-Jennings murder may not turn for establishing and encouraging out to be another Hill murder or new industries. If all Portlanders Holzman murder or another green were as active in the public inter- j trunk mystery, est as are the members of that ! club, this would be a greater Port land. I WOD3N IX OFFICE a OMEN are coming more and W more into prominence as j the best cf reasons" and afterward office holders in Oregon, prosecuted for irregularites in con In Umatilla county Miss ' dnctine- m hnnir Grace Gilliam of Pilot Rock, has L defeated. g. w. Bradley in the con-i test for the Republican nomination aa, county treasurer. Mr. Bradley has held the office for a number of yea.rs, but he went down to over whelming defeat before the cam paign of the Pilot Rock miss. In Polk county Miss Almeda Fuller has been nominated for the posi tion or county school superintend women who havo given good serv- be that a county official could edge t into office, hire a capable woman 1UUU mj 14 " A AA .Oo A-1J AA "111 AAA w V. V "- tnem and a case wiil be made up to Dresent to railroad officials. It Ja an agitation that railroad people r-n f, Rfforfi fn ignore. WHEAT IN BULK C LOSE to $8,000,000 will be ab solutely wasted by Pacific northwest grain growers this season if they are compelled to again resort to the use of Cal cutta bags for the shipment of their cereals. For many years tfie grain grow ers of the Pacific oast 6tates have are shipped without the use of sacks and the system of bulk han dling has never been replaced by the bag system after being once tried out. Not only would farmers Gave money by adopting: the: bulk bytlm nanaiias grain nut ex- 1Qai wouia also ,pro,flt oth n the "me consumed lnAa 1 V?f 6lS EQd the CSt uf, handling at the pcts. All of iaia cohi is Dorne ny me h'acmc coast farmer because other sections use the cheaper method of han dling and competition determines the price that farmers receive for their grain. Many and divers are the-explana-tions of how it all happened. Gen erally speaking, however, the de pendable conclusion is that the de- feated candidate3 did not t votet enough TRLE AMKIUCAMSM A NEW society is forruinz in our larger cities to stand for the principleb of "true Amer icanism." Its platform is sim- io protect mem wnen they are working in mines and sawmills? Certainly, though this may not be the plan in mind. To Drotect the babies from poverty and disease and their mothers from killing toil? Most assuredly. ve think also that candidatps should declare themselves as to American rights, especially the right to receive a living wdge for an honest day's work. IAM.IMER REDUX 0 NE of ti e political oddities of the day is tho resurrection of William Lorimer. Ho was exnelled from thn sonatn tn-r j charge he ecraped conviction ajid hia ard pnt nrlmirfra trava him o i great reception when the officers of the law finally released him. it is now annnnt. th will ran for the senate again and, in spite of his record, he is likely enough to be elected. One of Lorimer 's most trusted henchmen is Mayor Thompson of I Chicago. This politician went into office ;with -a majority; of 150,009 n of AUskm. auaa Bell to .the- logging votes and tbe confidence of hia industries of ths northwest which use whole community.; HeJs now dls-;oil for fuel We supply' United States liked by most people. His grand : and Canadian railroads with water play for popularity was the Sunday i tanks, shipping- carloads of them closing Of the Chicago saloons. This knocked down to points east of the was done to befool the "pious ele- Mississippi. We ship, knocked down, ment" and it worked for a little to eastern cities tanks used In their while. But not for long. Thomp- sprinkling systems. We also manu son kept the saloons closed for a fature and - erect In place wood and Sunday or two and then gave out steex towers for Irrigation systems, word secretly that they might open long- known as "National Quality,'' and again. His popularity with the this brand Is now demanded by many "pious element" did not survive users. Lumber mills, acquainted with the trick. Thompson made the mis- the fact that we buy only the best take of his life when he took It for grades of their product, will have no granted that the ministers and their other kind. They have become the congregations were dunces. ! standard of the country where they Thompson is playing to reinstate are best known. Wo are equipped to Lorimer and get what ho can from furnish direct from our factory whole that statesman's return to the sen- cyanide plants and all kinds of mining ate. To accomplish this noble pur- tanks. The largest mining companies pose he stops at nothing. The of the country recognfte our products reader will remember hew he drove as the standard. There is pot a doubt Dr. Theodore B. Sachs out of the of this, and It may be, In part, oo Chicago tuberculosis hospital. Sachs casioned by the fact that we have founded the hospital and by his la- been so long at it and our output so bors made It a monument of use- large. fulness. Thompson crowded him j "We have In our service hydraulic out by thrusting in his own crea-: engineers and gladly furnish, free of tures. Dr. Sachs was bo wounded charge and without obligation on the by his expulsion that he committed part of the applicant, estimates for suicide. For this and like reasons anything In our line, and we design Chicago has revolted against Irrigation, water and sprinkling sys Thompson and all his works. He tema. mining plants, etc, absolutely is especially disliked by the teach- free of charge. We have all these ers whose federation he has tried facilities, and cheerfully extend the to break up In the interest of tax i service to anyone contemplating en- dodging corporations. He a n d ( Lorimer should have full opportun ity to admire each other in private life. NOTHING THE MATTER WITH PORTLAND An establlibtnent that makea large ua of name wooda and whose output bia uncvirotm-a-j applicability to the rcglona moat nearly djn cnt, bestows a double act of blessing be sldea thoae which it htow upon itaelf and upon the workera on Ha payroll. No. 141 of The Journal's 'Nothing th Matter With Portland" aeries la an artlcla that miy well I attract -particular attention. J T HE National Tank & Pine' com pany is wholly a Portland enter prise. It formerly was the Pacife Tank & Pipe company, with allied affiliations, but was divorced from these and its name changed. It owns 12 acres of Portland prop erty, the west side fronting on the railroad and the east on the navigable water of the Columbia. It lias the largest woodem pipe and woodt-n tank fartory in the World. Its products are shipped to alljparts three men most prominently before the of the United States. Central Agier- people of these United States for the ica, South America Mexico Canada, ! Position of president. To my mind. Alaska Hawaiian and Phiiippine isl- ands. W ithin two years this corpora, the three can best subserve the wel tlon has shipped $200,000 worth of fare of our ration as a whole as a piping and tanks to New York i model . for the other nations of the Tt r,,itr,nt v,o rt 1 .v I world, upholding all principles of right Its output has done more for the and against those of wrong. an uplift uevelopment of the arid regions of factor of the world, appealing to all the west than any other single fac- the best impulses of humanity for hu- tor. ' inanity's sake. Wo should vote for a Tho ,..: ... M i man who would do unto other nations The fine irrigation systems of the as we would have lnem do unto us government in parts of Oregon. Wash- ; w.n0 is looking toward the future as Ington, Arizona, California. New Mex- I rrruch or more than to the present, and ico, Colorado, Utah, Montana and Ne braska would, not have been con- structed, or at least would have been greatly curtailed, had It not been pos- siblo to secure this inexpensive Port land product. ' As this pipe can be shipped, knocked down and assembled wherever needed, an important saving in freight charges is effected and great convenience ac crued by its use. LONGER LIVED THAN BLACK IRON. Inexperienced or uninformed per sons may dispute the claim of the makers"of this wooden pipe that, when properly made, as it is at this fac- 1 liberally by the old standpat faction of torv by the company's modern ma-!tne Republican party. The fact that ohinery, and laid under pood engineer- : !,he. old ring stand his sponsors is suf , ' . , 6 ficient to discredit him for the prey ing practice, its life will compare fa- ideticy in the eyes of many, who firmly vorably with cast iron and outlast - believe that if the bosses and their black steel pipe, as the water pre- . 'newspaper organs want him in Uie of- serves the wood. And tho invest-; fice' 11 ia, because they know him to . . mveai. ( be of a pastjc nature and easily han- lng In the material would likely see , toward any ends that they may to it that It would be properly placed ! in position. This would be only busi ness. Twelve-Inch black steel pipe costs, at this time, $2.60 a foot. Twelve-Inch wooden Pip sells at 40 cents a font Wooden pipe, therefore, is about on- 1 mnl'y' Besides Mr. Hughes toe, long , . J has been confined to the narrow limits tixth as expensive as black steel pipe, i of the bench, and his attitude toward Big corporations, as the Northwest- i mankind confined ( simply to that pre ern Electric company, the Colorado ' scribed by law, with the milk of Fuel & Iron cpmpany (itself a manu- i un klndns eliminated is out , . ..look upon world questions, and that of facturer of steel), the city of Butte. ; the nation, would have to be ripened Mont.; Denver, Colo., and many of by sad experience, and I am certain the railroads are now using wooden tnat hl conscience would not always pip. on account of Its .nexpen.iveneS, , 'ulMlnk ""President W.l and lasting qualities. And when ex- ; son we oav) had raised up for us by posed to the elements in frigid regions the Almighty Hand a man who will it is preferred, for tho reason that faithfully look out for our nation's the water In-the pipes will not freeze a"d ts, People's Interests, no matter . , . , , iirj.o What the occasion that may arise, and burst them. A coating of lee will During his term of office he has fol form inside, and there the freering lowed out a program of construction of stops. For this reason this kind of material and lasting benefit to the na- plpe is chosen In Irrigation projects, "on an? her Pep1"' and v,the law' , v J has had enacted have shown us by as it requires no winter attention. In dally usage that they are of unexam case of earthquake, also. It is less ' riled value. He has been charged with liable to injury. i CULVERTS AND FLUMES. i This company makes a special ere- ' osoted culvert and flume. Some of these have been in use for 20 years and are yet intact. These are like- wlse knocked down, are erected in i tst motives conceivable to mankind, place, and cost about one-tenth of the his every act has been that of a man price of other culverts. of wisdom tending toward the safety i, ,,,,, . of America and her citizens first, and It manufactures steam pipe casing fe object haJ been for thft bMer. which is shipped to all parts of the m(.nt of mankind as a whole. country, also big cargoes going to To me, Woodrow Wilson is the only frigid Alaska. This is made of cedar candidate in whom to put our trust. He lumber. Other pipes, however are 8lOW" US Wh4t hCan a"f U1 vo do and lf ever a man thoroughly de made of Oregon fir. and. as lnstruc- serVed a second term, he is the man. tlve of the quantity used, it may be At this stage, with the wide world yet interesting to know that last month's receipts of material used totaled 94 cars. A "baby" enterprise would not consume so much. TANKS FOR MANX PURPOSES. "We supply all tanks used by the Alaska and Columbia river salmon packing Industry," said II. P. Sackett, manager at the factory at Kenton. "We manufacture all, we believe, of the tanks used by the pickling fac tories of the northwest. We supply the meat packers with their wooden tan is, cooking vats and salting- vats for steam or cold water. We make a patent wooden oil tank which we ship Jin large number, to th. salmon Pack- gaging in any of these enterprises." So here we have an institution whose commercial arteries reach out from Portland to all points of the compass and to institutions requiring Its servico In all parts of the world. It is a live representative of a mighty live metropolis. There is nothing wrong with It, as there is "nothing tlie matter with Portland." Letters From the People (Communication! aont to The Journal for publication In this department should be writ ten on only one aide of the paper, ahuuld not exceed 30O words Id length, and moat b ac companied by the name and addresa of thj render. If the writer doea not desire to nara the nr. me published be should so state. 'Discussion is the ereatest of all reformers. It rationalizes everything It touches. It robs principles of all false sanctity and throws tbem bick on their reasonableness. If they bava no reasonableness. It ruthlessly crushes them out of existence and sets up its own conclusion in tLeir stead." Woodrow Wilson. The Tliree Contrasted. Dallas, Or., May 23. To the Editor of The Journal I sometimes wonder if the voters of Oregon ever , stop, in the mad whirl of lauding their party candidates, to analyse and contrast the niiMlificatintis nnd achievements of the whose aim Is a perpetual and real brotherhood of man. Ex-President Roosevelt looms In the public eye, chiefly because of his won derful gift of making a big noise. He is good at calling names, bat do we elect presidents to call those who do not agree with his views by the pet terms for which he has become noted? Truly, he would uphold our national honor, if a continual chip on the shoulder attitude means such, but thf aftermath of that upholding would be fearful to contemplate by those who have had a great sufficiency of, this wholesale slaughter of mankind. No; under existing circumstances, "Roose velt would not be my choice. Charles E. Hughes is being; boosted desire. Personally. I believe Mr. Hughes to be a good man, ad good men go in this life, and a man who would endeavor to do right, were he not bound by the invisible yet iron Mark Hanna bands that will be forged upon mm out so but so were Harrison and Mc- being dilatory. The successful, brainy man is always dilatory until certain of when and how to strike to be sure of his ends, while the man who goes off half-corked is never certain of any thing except that he Is resenting some thing. President Wilson's entire of ficial life haa been irnirlerl h v the hieh- wrapped in hate, turmoil, and battle, it would seem a most foolish procedure to turn our government over, and maybe in a few months bring about what we have been trying to avoid for the last two years. With a Roose veltto war on Germany, or the trusts and Hughes to go after poor old Mex ico. it seems that Wilson and continued peace and prosperity would be much preferable. CONTRASTER. Millionaires anl Common Men. Portland, May 20. TcaVthe Editor of The Journal Inspired millionaires was the theme of a recent sermon by pr. Boyd. It was eloquent and emotional. It was delivered with consummate ar tistic skill to flatter the millionaire 1 parishioners and satisfy the victims of J orlyf thVcdngrigationr He de- PERTINENT COMMENT SUALL CHANGE Is it to be a two-ring circus in Chi cago, or two one-ring rival circuses? Keep the dates fixed in your mind June 7, 8, 9 Portland's Rose Festival. Suggested solution for the trust problem: "Corporation" plus "o" equals "cooperation.''' Tonight's banquet for the Clean-Up committee will be a clean-up affair if the banqueters run true to form. Justice Hughes may not be a "dark horse," but where he stands on vital issues is being kept very much in the dark. America has not officially adopted the additional hour of daylight plan, but the sun seems to be taking care of the matter. Those defeated candidates should be given a place of honor in the prepared ness parade as a terrible example of unpreparedness. Unless the Jennlnga-Rlstman mur der is solved pretty soon, some news paper should assign a cub reporter to get the facts In the case. In spite of persistent reports that it Is imminent, tnere seems to be a strong possibility that the North Sea battle will be postponed until the next war. That man who acquired distinction by crossing the continent walking backward went about his task a good deal Uko a lot of other people who try to stt ahead. There Is a rumor that fashion Is about to decree socks to be worn with short skirts, and mere man is wonder ing whether it will be the style to have both ends meet. JOURNAL 23---A Week at the Columbia River's Mouth A week might well be spent at the mouth of the CoIumbiariver and near by points. Romantic history and present Indus trial ImpoAance, with a setting of great scenic worth, add to the attract iveness of the region. The roast resorts are more easily accessible than any others reached from Portland. Gearhart and Seaside both have good beaches ana facilities for bathing. Cannon Beach Is but ten miles south by stage or automobile. Astoria, the metropolis of the Co lumbia estuary, is the oldest, yet one of the livest communities in the state. It is built upon the promotory that projects between the basin and Gray's bay. It has many charming homes; Telegraph hill and other viewpoints give a wide outlook. Recently Astoria built public docks which are an ob ject lesson In efficiency and service. Across the bay at Flavel are the ter minals of the Hill steamship line ply ing between the Columbia river and Saa Francisco. A large part of the distance between Astoria and Seaside: is by hard sur face roadway and the drive is charm ing, especially when the Scotch broom is blooming. At the mouth of the river is Fort Stevens, and opposite It, on the Wash ington side. Fort Columbia, the two commanding the harbor entrance. At Fort Stevens Is found the land extremity of the south jetty, upon which the government sent many millions of dollars in the successful effort to narrow the outflow of the river at Its mouth so that the chan nel might be deepened. The north Jetty Is under construction from North Head on the Washington shore and the scribed the millionaire as a genius. specially endowed by God. He be lieved In the Presbyterian theory of the elect. God chooses the elect and endows them with special faculties for His work. There are only about onj In every 4000 or 6000 that God en dows with ability to become million aires. He warned them that they must cor secrate the wealth God has given them to the service of God or the peo ple will rise In their wrath and strip all their wealth from them. Jesus Christ was the ideal millionaire and the greatest genius of all the million aires. Dr. Boyd predicted the mil lennium would arrive when the great millionaires were inspired with Christ's spirit to consecrate their wealth to God's service; and the happiness of the people would be complete when the millionaires quit the greedy policy of usins their genius only for profit and making money, and t'ive generous ly from their superabundance enougii to keep the people from all poverty and want; and eloquently pictured the. millennium that would be realized through the charitable acts of the millionaires. It Is astounding that the ablest ora tors are willing to earn their salaries as religious teachers by serving the powers who employ them, and preach superstition. Instead of the truth that every cltlsen of Intelligence knows from the common knowledge science has given to the world. Sustenance Is abundant as air; but the power exercised by the Inspired millionaires, who dictate thi laws and customs of every political government. has given the title and possession of all the bounty of nature to a favored few. and the great mass of mankind are doomed to poverty and the race to degeneration. If all men, were given free access to the superabundant bounty of nature, the perfectly normal development of every man would as inevitably take place as it does during the period of gestation. Every normal man would labor regularly, selecting a vocation best fitted for his own mental and physical development, with the inevit able result that the moat beneficial activity would become an Instinctive and irresistible habit, as it is found in the lower animal species. Performance and service would inspire every thought and action, Instead of greed and selfishness, under the profit sys tem. E. L. McCLURE. Willamette Boulevard. Portland. May 19. To the Editor of The Journal In a Portland newspaper a writer sustains my con tention in his opening sentence, "Dreams of a picturesque continuance of Willamette boulevard." etc. I havt contended at all times that the only intention of the promoters was for an extension of Willamette boulevard for a scenic highway, and It has been pro moted under the heading of "Exten sion of Greeley street," only to bUnd the people as to the ultimate use for which it was intended, and I think If we could only get at the Inside facts It would show that the originators had no intention of using this exten sion for any other purpose than as a driveway for autos. There has been nothing since my residence in the city that has so stirred up so large a section as this has done, and the more the situation has been investigated the more oppo sition has developed. Many of the original signers of the petition have signed the protest. I understand that many have gone to the city hall to take their names off the original pe tition for Improvement, saying that the facts were misrepresented, la or der to get them to ign, but were re fused permission to do so. This, how ever, is only hearsay on my part, as I . did not see the original petition. But the fact that there were only about 660 signers . On the , petition. AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS The date for the annual rose festi val at Cirants Pass has been changed from June 2 to June IS, thus bringing It a week after the closing of the Chautauqua, it is also believed that the roses will be then at their best. In view of Grants Pass' success in securing a beet sugar factory, the Sutherlin Sun asserts that "by show ing a disposition to cooperate, there is no reason why Sutherlin valley should not secure a sugar factory next year." "Take a man with'llo.OJO," says the Woodburn Independent. "if he can get 8 ner cent Interest he prt-ters to loan it out to buying a farm. He claims that he would not make 8 r cent interest on his Investment. -Yet there are men around Woodburn who are making more than thai; but th--y know how to farm." Summing up Us review of the year's record of the Wheeler county h.'i school, the Fossil Journal says: "Ail of these things cost money, but viewed in the light of results it is doubtful if any expenditure pays as good k turns, both, in immediate results an i later dividends, as does a first clafs system of education, and this county is surely fortunate In having such u school." Celebrating Pendleton's latest vic tory, the Kast Oregonian says:"Differ as they will on local questions. Pen dleton and Umatilla county peoplo stand together when they face the out side world, and this was shown in the election of a Pendleton girl a tjueen of the Portland Rose Festival It is an honor worth having and the city has been true to its reputation as a community that does things" JOURNEYS building of this great work to con trol the current and tidal flow of the continent's second largest river is of the greatest interest. North of the mouth of the Colum bia are a number of ocean resorts on Long Beach. There arc two indust ries at Astoria that invite study. The alinon indus try may be followed from the catch ing of the fish in the estuary or out side the bar, through the cannery, jvhere the fish. In a series of dextroun operations, are cleaned. cooked and cut into sections, then by machino packed in rans to he sent Into all markets. The royal eh.nnoU is the best of all food fishes. The other industry, carried on ex tensively in Astoria, 1m the manufac ture of lumber. Knormous Ioks may be seen as they a:e handled by ma chinery of seemingly human intelli gence and passed through the various processes necessary in reducing the giants of the forests to prosaic boards to be used in structural enterprises wherever on the earth's surface high class lumber is needed. Captain Robert (Iray discovered and sailed in at the mouth of the Colum bia river In 179.:. Lewis and Clark came to this region itf' 1805. It was the terminus of the Astor expedition In 1811. The whole community teems with the reminiscences of these events which have had such important rela tion to the subsequent development of the Oregon country. Astoria, the mouth of the river and coast resortr. are reached by S., P. 4c S. trains and O.-W. R. & N. boats. Individual places will undoubtedly be told more about in subsequent arti cles. while the protest carries over 3300, Including not only the small property owners but corporations like the Port land Gas company and the Portland Flour Mill company, and when It Is considered that the district Is about four miles long and the owners are scattered from Alaska to Florida and with only a limited time in' which to secure protests the number of sign ers certainly shows hard work on the part of circulators and great Interest on the part of the people, as over HO per cent signed who were approached and probably many more will come in on later malls. But the time has expired, and It Is now up to the council. Some of these 8300 signers are possibly duplicates, and the various sizes of lota, when re duced to standard size, may still cut down the number. And there are pos sibly various ways in which the "pow ers that be" can further reduce the amount if they so wish. But the peo ple of that district are up in arms over the matter arid will have a large representation at the meeting on which this is to be considered. And In case there should be such a thing as the council's overriding the protest, the matter will probably be taken into tho courts In eomeehape or other. I would like to see the papers take up the decision of the city attorney on the sales under the bonding act. It seems that under the new law prop erty must be bonded Inside of 20 days, and if not. or if any default is made In payment of interest or prin cipal, the property is to be sold, and the city attorney says the buyer can take possession at once and by eject ment proceedings turn thn owner out of the house. If this is so, the papers should raise such a protest that tho council would be compelled to change Its rulings, also its refusal to accept the interest on bonded Improvements. The city has no use whatever for the principal until the bonds are due, and in these times, when people have a hard time to meet their grocery bills, for th city to Insist on payment of the principal, only to store it In the banks, does not seem riRht. I would like to see the papers take this up and If possible conslraln the council to make a change. C. H. BEARD. The Property Qualification. Portland. May 13. To the Kdltor of The Journal I wish to call tho attention of your readers to an in justice in the laws governing school elections. The law permits none but tax payers to vote at school election, but does not require property qualifi cations at general elections. The only argument advanced In defense of this law is that the school directors are trusted witsuch a large amount of public property. This reason is Inade quate, because officials elected at the general election are intrusted with vastly more property than Is managed by school boards. If one is qualified to vote for state and national officers, is he not qualified to vota for officers of school boards? A neighbor of mine who has taught school for seven years and wears the "little bronze button" of the G. A. R. and has owned con siderable property during -his life, is now disqualified from voting at school elections, because he has no property In his own name at the present time. Should not this law be changed? A. T. BLAC1ILT. a Mr. McCormick Benders Acknowl- edginentM. , Gresbam, Or., May 22. To the Ed itor of The Journal 1 wish to thank The Journal for Its fairness towards me and my cause In the recent primary campaign. I hope The Journal will In the future as In the past, glvtnuch attention to our school affairs I also wish to express my thanks to your many readers who honored me by voting for me on May 19. -. v ELMER 8. AI'CORMTCK. VESTERDAT AFTERNOON dowft on Washington street lust below Third there was a man and a woman 'f who seemed to be stranger-In -Portland. because Ihey had grips and suit' cases. . and didn't seem to be sure wTiere they were going. JAnd a man came around the cor; ner who by his assured step and' genel bcarltag seemed to belong here, ;f JAnd the stranger saw him and his face lighted up. y aThat lsjthe stranger's. fe af And he drSpped his suitcases. and shoutqd "Hello Jim!" and grabbed the Portland man almost throwing his arms about him. J And the Portland man seemed pleased too. H And he said "Hello Frank! how i.ic you aijyway?" JAnd thn stranger said he hadn't sen j. in for 15 years. - slur,; the day of his mother's funeral. J.r,.l Jim Maid yes he remembered. ajAr.i ii ,. sirantcr Introduced his Wife t.i .11 m ,i.,.. TJ loii know--dear -this fs Jim tha' you've h'Tird m speak of SO often. J"Ye were bns together." - J And Jim sh'M.k hands with M; Frank and said he was clad to meet her. JAnd anyone could see that Frank was bursting with things that he wanted to talk about with Jim. J Ho wanted to have a good old "remember when" party. J Perhaps he wanted to ask Jim if lie remembered the time when they went to steal water-melons. and Frank got caught in the barbeaVwire fence. --and Old Man Johnson rams run ning across the field and found him mere. j and used his Mn'ksnak on him. before he could get loosa. JAnd then when they got their plunder down in the woods by tht "crick" they found they had stolen cit rons. JAnd there were a lot of things, like that that you could see Frank wantid to talk about with Jim. U But Jim fidgeted as Frank talked. JAnd Frank was so happy at find inrr his friend that he hever noticed that Jim seemed nervous. J And Jim looked at his watch .t)d; locked up the street and down the street nnd across tho street. and made short answers. but Frank kept on talking for getful of everything. except that he had found his friend. j JAnd finally Jim looked at his watch again. and said he was very busy. and he'd have to be getting up to the office. JAnd he told them where It was. and asked how long they'd bo In1 town. and said he hoped If they had time they'd drop in and see him be fore they left. J And he diin't ask where they were going nor If they had any chil dren nor the namo of the girl he married. 'si not anything like that. JAnd ho shook hands with ttaera. and .urried up the street. JAnd Frank stood looking after him a few moments. as though there was something he wouldn't understand. JAnd he picked tip the suitcases and then ft LISTEN-w-He turned to his wife and said they might as well take tht 4 o'clock Instead of staying over's day. Putting the Pill on the Old City Zdnks There's nothing more pleasant thar putting the pill, than putting the pill on the old city links. It. sends through your heart most enjoyable thrills TC know that you're putting the pill otj the nnnK. You're filling the soul of the coun cil with glee; you're bidding the mayec to weep nevermore. You're hangln new wreathes on your family tree when you're swatting the ball on tht old city links. That man is a hindrance and huri to his town, a brake on the wheels I his own neighborhood, who vlewsti; this golf with a withering frown, ani faileth to put while the putting if? good. You're making 1h wheels of Ih world go around, you're aiding some one to sell some more ground; anc you'll smile to think of the bill of th store, when you've tmsted the bal from its do-funny core. Gough Bail. In the House of System. The Tl.ltrvr was ttelna; uliown nhfwit by th' head of the up tn-dnta tiiar)aa hnuae, aeeordj leg to till New York KTrnlnir Mail. I "Who la Hint dnpprr ;nilh at tba flaal wlien aeaa r ue a&Keo. ' i "Ttiat Is the auperlntendnt ef tba faril In flex a.vatam. He keeps an Index showing wbf( "Wbo 1, tli- yrnina; man with tti gray gssT tera an! the efficient mm?" 1 He ker an lnde bolnt the length, ct time It taken to lmiefthe Indexes." , f Wbo la tha girl with the aoldaa balrr "She rfeelaea under what (nrip an ln4 4 the lodax of the filing cabluat shall fcf Disced- "And who Is tha grsr haired man at ttf dlscrdered desk In tha purser V" "Oh. that's Old J'ir- Ha doesn't fit li Terr well with the raf of the efftea. but J iiate to kee him arouu'l. Flo's tbe only an pkiye who can find Important papen When ! want thm In a hurry." g Triead Solan's Generosity. T lrlMim'n were aluenaaiug the death nt I frknd. according to a sturj- Teller In KrarjJ said Malsrbl: "Hbnra, Dlan waa a goe-.l fell"-." f, "11k waa that.:" aaaentad Mlkn. "A go 'i! felk . iKilan." 1 "And a eueerfol man was Polsn, COOflsl rj'l Jlalaehl. -: "A cheerful mnj waa f'!sn, tlia cheerfules t rt knaw," echoed Mike. - "tvan whs a glnei-oua hub, too,' Sal ( Malaehl. ,- J '(rinerons, did ya ev? Well, r itoo't knr d an n-.nrh about that. Did Iolan aar Btijr ye i ait? 1'iing , . "Well, near!.'' snhl Malarbl. aeratebJn hl head In thought. "B'ffl day be come ini fl Caney a barroom, where tne and ma friaiHi was drink In' . and he .aid lo na: Wall, what ara a goUi? to Iit tala or uuowV'' , Too Oood. ' It thi well knmrn in stacfferlng high a 1 eiatT, relates iweryixwy a, mai tne Dwastir lMir Bo-HMnary had sever .been klaaod bafar and aa, after a long, languoroua embrace, tl( atmeuc young nuke oc noanniore riesaa . bolu. :. t'at.-d aesrcblDgljr lalo bia toweW eyea and questioned: "And do Hie Door lndulire In thla waT" "Quite rreuueull, Uttia pet." auewered t hlch personage. "Well. well, well! And do they ernarieavi the pain sentaiions as we Oo, oeaxr "Abwolatoly." "Pear, dear! Why, It's much tee gM4 ft tba woramg eiaaaea! Brief Ballad of a Kold-Orae OsaiUssT. A. L. BAB BUR. I wasn't born- an auditor. But an auditor i am: And I'U alwaya be an sodttaa If it tringa me. aome tne