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- THE OREGON DAILY. -JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY, OCTOBER .6, 19161 a u I AX IHOEPEN DENT NEWSPAPER, 'tO. . JACKSON .....Poallsbor t-jPltbllalMd every say, afternoon sad mersfaa - (except Sunday afternoon), at The Jooreal - BaiiiilDC, BroaAway . Mia xsamtu streets, I'octUod. Or. i-litrMt.at tb prmtoftlc at VortlxmO Or., tot - IranssaUaloa ibjoacb tbe taaile aa second r claaa matter. - f IrKT.Bf HONES M In 7173: Pom. A-SQS1. L,' -All otpartmeota reached bf taeae asnlbera. . aijitrawv woe. Lwut jini wm r'RRiaN ADTERTIBtNa BEPBKSBNTAT1VS L iBeolioriit Ksuiaot Co.. Brsoawlclr Bids., t! K!fl HB Ave.' Now.' Xorl. 1218 nW Ge HJtg., Chicago. Subscription terms by mall or to any sddreae . to tfaa United State or Mexico: DAILY (MORNING OB AfTEEHOOW) Sue year $3 Oil i On. auoetb.. S M SCNDAZ On year. . ". ?.& t On aaoota t DAILY (U0BMIKO OK AKTBENOOK) AMD SUNDAY 0a year I7.3n I Oa mncth f JtS Xmrrr iti nothing for aermetf bat west eke bss a right to ak for buniaaky Itself. WOOpBOW WLLSON. ( Minima for Wei. but not a cent tnt trlhtit. OlAni.KS C I'INCKNKT. Iei the farmer fnreermore be honored ta bla ratlins. for they who labor In the earth r I ho clwseii potile of (iud. Ttiomaa Jefferson. KXCOL'IUGIXGt CAPITAL T 1IKRR can hp no misunder standing as to why capital Is flowing so abundantly Into Oregon. Capital Is being encouraged by govej-nment as never before. For example, take the tariff cornmis- Jf "'on- For more than 100 years, wo have permuted politicians to fix tariff rates. How would a noil- I tician go about fixing railroad 1 rates? Nothing would be more ab- 1 surd. The highly technical busi f nesa of rate maktne- for raiirnmii requires expert knowledge. Vast study and research are necessary in fixing the blgjly delicate ad justments between Tevcnues, ex pense .operating Cost and the many other phases of railroad fi nance. rn 1 i , commission we have notable men t surrounded by the best trained and most highly skilled experts In rail roading In the world. We took no such precautions in making tariff rateB. Tariffs in voire every industry and -.were many times more technical and more difficult to adjust. The con sequences in good or evil were far greater than in making railroad rates. Expert Information was far minors necessary, but In tariff male lng we created no commission of notable men surrounded with the best experts in the world, such as we have provided in regulating - railroad rates. So we have gone on for more than a century permitting busy congressmen overwhelmed with all kinds of legislation and unassisted by trained experts to make tariff rates. Rates were often fixed on -the representations of men who "Were to be special beneficiaries of the tariff. It was a haphazard, belter skelter, ignorant way of flx lng tariff rates. "We did not take the same pre cautions with the farmers, with worklngtnen, with the small busi ness man, and with general indus try that we took with the rail roads by giving them a tariff com mission of experts as we gave the railroads a rate making commls ' sion of experts. All business and all Industry was constantly con ., fronted with changes in the tariff made on the outcome of partisan elections. It contributed to bus! ness and industrial unrest, because . of the constant uncertainty. The " great farming Industry was natur fci ally neglected, which is proven by Jithe fact that 37 per cent of the farmers of the country have come to be renters, and thousands upon , thousands of them, because their business has not paid, are mlgrat- .: tng to the cities. Bat we have changed all this. tWe have made provision for tariff commission and a t art ft (t; board will soon be appointed by if ; President Wilson. That settles !5 thtt tariff ntiaarlon Tt talraa thn Sr tariff Out of politics. It, assures i business and Industry that its tu- J-ture ia safe. It assures the long ? neglected farmer that he will hare K'a square deal. j-c it removes tnef uncertainty, ine ( tariff commission will do the most Impossible to help every American ili endeavor, will do the most to pro IrS mote permanent prosperity. If hia-ri tanrr wm Dest serve mat tma the eommiasion will apply a high fUariff. U It la a step that, is so full of common sense that the wonder is that-the- system was not applied generations ago. It is the steady V lng -and- stabilizing, effect of such 1 legislation that is encouraging cap !ital rto seek, investment, and la J'-causing capital to flow into Oregon. I, ' The 'registration books fort the III presidential H election dose toraor f ,"row night. With Mr. Hughes de- i. i'maTidiar fieeda. not worda," la oar foreign policy with he warring nations, and -with Mr. Roose velt clamoring forthia country to set Into a "fight,-; as ho calls it, is It not Important for you to Teg ister and rote for a. president who wants America kept in honorable peace and the permanent prosper ity consequent to peaee? A LOXG, LONG WAR 0' KE ef the most significant ut terances of the war Is the interview, of . Lloyd-George. Its significance lies In the fact that it ie an-evident reasser- tion.of,the British determination to prosecute the war to the bitter i end. c The Interview Is a warning to neutrals and particularly to the United States that there must be no interference at this time to top the war. Evidently assum ing that the tide has turned against Germany, and that it will continue to go against Germany, It Is- the manifest purpose to prevent any suggestion from being made by any neutral nation looking to proposals for peace. It was a long way for the war minister to go. It Is the more significant because it goes so far away from the usual. ' The usual utterances on the sub set are made by ministers to a parliament, or by officials to news paper men, or by heads of a nation for the benefit of their home peo ple. All these utterances by the allies have teemed with the cus tomary assertion of a purpose to break up the German military party. But the Lloyd-George address is directed primarily to the neutral nations and to America In particu lar. It is 3 broad and deliberate hint that no interference looking to peace can be accepted by the British nation in other than an unfriendly spirit. It means that the end of the war is yet. a long way off. It may even mean that the frightful con flict is only well begun. Years may elapse before the advent of peace. , Some recent advantages have come to the allies. But their pro gress is laborious and slow. At the present rate of progress on any front it would require a decade to reach the environs of Berlin. The very character of modern war fare with its trench fighting makes progress difficult and tedious. Besides, the central powers are very far from tne end or tneir resources. The narrowing of their lines, if such a narrowing comes, makes their resistance . more com pact and strengthens their posi tions. with the allies fighting to ex terminate the German military power and Germany told by tne allies themselves that she is fight ing for national existence, the most terrible scenes of the Inferno are yet to come and the end is an eventuatlon almost certain to, be ong postponed. No presidential election since the Civil war has been as Import ant as that soon to take place. You cannot register after next Saturday. A MEDIEVAL LAW T HE man of modern mind ia startled now and then by some curious recrudescence of medievalism which looks strangely out of place among our automobiles, wireless telegraph and moving pictures. These witless revivals of a bygone age appear to grow more frequent from week to week. They are like an epl demlo disease which . breaks out every morning in unexpected quar ters of the city. The quaint censorships, domi ciliary searches , and seizures and other attempts to regulate every human act by statute are startling enough to an American, citizen of old-fashioned ideas, but Montgom ery, Alabama, should probably win the prise tor atavistic legislation. That city has enacted an ordi nance imposing a fine and imprls onment for the offense of "entic lng laborers from the city." The purpose of this enlightened act is, of course, to keep wages down. The more hungry stomachs there are bidding for the Montgomery Jobs the less employers must pay for labor. The capital of Alabama, delightful as it is in- many ways, seems a pretty good city tor labor to shun. One great reason why we have unparalleled prosperity in America is because the country has been kept out of war. If Mr. Hughes and Mr. Roosevelt have their way and get ub into what Mr. Roosevelt calls a "fight," both our peace and our prosperity will take wings and fly away. FROSTS AND DIKES F ARMERS along the Columbia flats have not been favored oy nature this season. The "high water" came 'very eariv and kept them off their pastures until midsummer or later. The crops which were then planted navg now. been killed by an tm seasonable frost The frost ex tended over the entire northwest sa a a . ' a. . out 11 was particularly severe along the flats. 'sTh obvious lesson from this patainf' experience la diking. With properly built dikes the Columbia bottom land farmers V would be secure from injury by high water. The fertility of their land would be Immensely increased and their dairying, capacity would certainly be doubled.- It seems likely enough that the loss of this one season would have paid the Interest on diking bonds for 'many years with a good pro portion of the principal. The loss. before the frost, has been, roughly estimated at seventy thousand dol lars for . the Woodland neighbor hood sione. - Doubtless this is too low. A , hundred thousand would be nearer the mark. In hls'New York speech, Mr. Roosevelt made it clearer than ever' that he wants both German blood and ..Mexican blood. Mr. Hughes' and Mr. Roosevelt's plan of "deeds, not words," of "action," not .effective and peaceful diplo macy, ought to have a. sobering ef fect on the reflections of every man and" every woman In America as to what this campaign and the outcome of the approaching elev tion means. AID FOR FARMING T HE great interest in lime for agricultural uses which has arisen in Oregon seems like ly to produce results of last ing benefit to the state. Back in 1892 the Oregon Agri cultural college published a bulle tin. No. 21, which pointed out a deficiency of lime in the valley soils. In 1895 Professor Shaw of the college treated of lime as an Indirect fertilizer, demonstrating its iitrportance, and said he be lieved that Its use with proper drainage would greatly increase our available land. In 1898 Professor Shaw said in another bulletin that he believed the "soils of the Willamette val ley carried much less lime than those of southern and eastern Ore gon," a plain note of warning to our farmers, though it did not speak directly of applying lime to the soil. In 1905 Professor Knise ly made some Investigations of acid soils which were published in Bulletin No. 90. His tests were numerous and he found that of his samples .more than 16 per cent were "strongly acid," about 89 per ent "considerably acid," 85 per cent "slightly acid," while, only 10 per cent were neutral.' These showings led on to experiments with lime. "It was applied, under college su pervision, to beaver dam land, for Instance, using one, two and four tons to the acre In different fields. Tests made In May, 1906, showed much acid In beaver dam soils not limed. One ton to the acre left the son still in bad condition. Two tons had almost cured the acidity, while ' four tons to the acre had remedied It completely. In these experiments quicklime was used. At the same time the college had pointed out that the effect- of lime goes no deeper than Its con tact with the soil, so that to get the best results there must be deep tillage after It has been sown. And the farmers were warned that while acid is not ruinous to all crops, most of them thrive best in neutral soil. Bulletin No. 112, prepared by Professor Beckwith and published In 1914, recounts experiments with lime and states that "the soils of western Oregon w,ere favorably in fluenced by its application.' In Clatskanie, for example, lime In creased the nitrifying power of the soil bacteria fully 400 per cent. which of course points to a great increase in the clover and vetch crops. It goes without saying that these bulletins with their invaluable in formation have been distributed freely through the state, with many informative articles in newspapers and countless personal instructions t- individual farmers. We might mention also the demonstration trains and the short college courses which have conveyed knowledge to thousands more. So our farmers Bhould now be pretty well Informed about lime and its uses. , We can only refer too briefly to Professor Macpherson's efforts lri collaboration with the grange and farmers' union to promote the co operative working of lime quarries. We Infer that these useful Initial steps will now lead on to the much desired state manufactory. In his Battle Creek speech, Mr. Roosevelt argued for war. . In his New York speech, Mr. Roosevelt argued for war. In his letter to Secretary Lane, Mr. Roosevelt argued' for war. There Is no way to get away from the fact that Mr, a a . M s. Ttril tiugo.es auacas on rresiaent vii son's foreign policy and Mr. Rose velt's attacks on President Wilson's foreign policy lead straight -to war, Our prosperity Is the result of our peace. ARRESTED FOR DEBT T HE arrest of a Linn county farmer for debt again re minds us that much medie valism survives in modern institutions. The laws of Oregon allow a man to be arrested and imprisoned for debt when he Is supposed to he preparing4 to flee from the state or when he "is non-resident The Idea doubtless Is that when he is shut up hi jail a debtor will have greatly increased opportunities to earn- money to pay his creditors. , - . Under the laws of ancient Rome a creditor : enjoyed . the right hot only to arrest and imprison his debtor but he could sell him into slavery. ' If there, were several creditors they could, - If they wished, carve the debtor's body into portions proportional to their claims and pass them around. Dickens hag many pathetic chap ters on the debtors' prisons in Eng land. The revered Mr. Pickwick, it will be remembered, was thrown nto Jail by Dodson and Fogg be cause he refused to settle wiin Mrs. Bardell and then Mrs. Bardell was jailed because she did not set tle with Dodson and Fogg. Letters From the People rCnmmnnlcarJona sent tA The Journal for publication la thia department aboold be writ ten on only one aide of ttie paper, should not exceed 3U0 worda In length, and maat be ae cotb piloted by tne name and addreaa of tbe ender. If tbe writer doea not dealre to bare tbe same publiabed be should ao atate.j 'Dlecnasioa ta tb arreateat of all reformers It rationalize everything It toncbea. It robs principle of all false eauetlty and throws them ha-lc on their reasonableneaa. If they bare Do reaaonableaeaa. It ruthlessly eruabee them oat of existence and acta op ita own conclusions Id tbelr ated." wooflrow wiuob. A Working Man's Testimony. Prlnevllle, Or.. Oct. 8. To the Edi tor of Tha journal The evening Telegram has evidently forgotten all about the hard tlmea under Taft's ad ministration. I am a laboring- man. and aa far as good times go or bad time go for the laboring man, 1 have never seen more distress at any time than during the years Taft ruled. There was no worli anywhere, ana what little there was was dons by la borers from tha orient, who would work, for lea than standard American wages. Protection is a bugaboo. It does not protect the laboring man. If does, why employ cheap labor rrom foreign countries T The factories in the United States enjoying protection em ploy th cheapest labor hey can get fiom Europe, the very labor teat pro tection" prohibits from competition. Tbre nver was a panio In this coun try but was -forced by the machina tions of standpatters. They hav been la power nearly all the time elnce'Lln coln and I hav never known them to voluntarily do anything beneficial fo tbe laboring man. True, like Hughes, they make promises, but that ends it. Wilson has proved that h la willing to legislate in our behalf, and he Is go ing to poll th bigge3t labor vote ever polled. A few years more like those under Taft, and Roosevolt would bring disaster to this country. At one sta tion on a railroad near Boise, Idaho, In July, 1912, I counted 260 idle men wtfo had mad a wild goose chase to the Arrowrock dam In search of work. The track was lined from coast to coast and at every station from two to two dozen men could ba seen and hundreds lying In the shad of fence corners taking a nap after a night rid on a brakebeam. The Jap, the Greek and tb Mexican war at work at less than a dollar a day. Men wlrn families were beating It from one end of th country to the other looking for Jobs which nln out of ten did not get. A. B. SMITH. When the Worker Is Well Paid. Hills boro. Or, Oct, 5. To th Edl tor of Th Journal Excus m for saying mor about th new trainmen's and yardmen's alght hour law, but Mr, Hughes says that Is th main Issue of th campaign. So I would call atten tion to the fact that giving our rail road employes .a greater shar of th enormous profits of the railroads would benefit not only the men work ing -for the road, but also everyone else In Oregon. Instead of this sur plus being spent is. foreign lands to open new fields for exploitation or In dulse th families of those who own the roads In luxury. It would be spent by these employes at horns. Whil working at the building trad In Portland I hav been employed on a dozen houses owned by railway work ers. They us tne products or our lumber mills. They patroniz our barbers and bakers, our tailors and our doctors, the retail stores and the publlo markets. Like ail workers, they buy In proportion to what tiney receive. All our natlvs grown produots ar used by them. Now we build no homes for th eastern or foreign capitalists who own our roads. Neither do they patronise our local tradesmen. It wer better If every cent stayed here. THOMAS H. BROWN. Thwarted the Money Power. Falrvlew, Or., Sept. 30. To the Edl tor of Th Journal I spent th best part of my school days fighting that th people of our country mlg-ht cast a free ballot. I voted first for Lincoln, then twice for Grant. If I llv until November 7, I will vote for Woodrow Wilson, for the reason that h has dons mors for th people in three years than all th presidents sinco Lincoln. All others sine Lincoln considered first th big interests. I have paid 14 per cent, compounding every 10 days. Bom of my neighbors paid as high as 60 per cent. In 1913, when the-money power scared the life out of every industry In tha country and was getting ready to make a big killing. President Wilson nipped It in the bud and put the money power out of business. Did any other president ever do such a thlngT GEORGE W. DOWNING. The Trusts as Campaigners. Portland, Oct, 4. To the Editor of Th Journal Every voter - In Oregon should realize the thorough and sys tematic campaign that la being mad by the plutocrats and privileged classes to again cecure control of the govern ment through the election of Mr. Hughes. To illustrate, a few days ago a traveling salesman for th rubber trust received a letter from his firm, enclosing a Hughes button, which h was asked to wear. This In itself was certainly bad enough, but they went further and not only solicited his vote for Hughes but asked him to make a contribution of $10 from his salary to restore the tariff, barons again to power, so that th rubber trust could push th price of automobile tires ,to ISO apiece as they did under th Payne- Aldrtch tariff law. It should be re membered that after tho pasaag of th Payne-Aid rich tariff bill tt devel oped that there wero several Jokers In the rubber schedule, the reason for which was found In the fact that Mr. Aldrich and his son were heavily in terested In rubber mills in Connecticut. The rubber trust, no doubt, will be one of the heavy contributors to Mr. Hughes campaign fund, and, should he be elected, they will have thir say in writing th tariff schedule on rubber goods, which, of course, will be -col lected through Increased prices to every user of rubber gods. ,NATHAN ll PIERCE. Tariff Inconsistencies. Portland, Oct, B. fo the Editor of The Journal The Evening Telegram In an editorial neaded "Bringing Horn to Ourselves," quotes figures showing the' value of Imports under th stand pat and th Underwood tariff schedules and -aaes worda of comment similar to the Oregonlan, At tne same time tne Telegram publishes market quotations of wool. 12 to 35 cents: cat tle. SS.60 to 16jg; eggs. 40 cents, cheesa WORKING BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET ' ; 19 to 21 cents and butter 3S oents. Hogs, fish, hay and other products, of the northwest ar equally high and not far above th average quoted dur ing the last six years. Perhaps th Tele gram editor had th consumer In mind when he headed his editorial "Bring ing It Home to Ourselves." Do the editors of these representative stand pat papers hold that we need a higher tariff on these commodities "to pro tect the American workmen, when common as they are, he cannot afford the best of them? At the same time that standpat organs are trying to make the pro ducer believe he is being ruined by the underwood tariff, Mr. Hughes Is declaring from th platform that this same Underwood tariff has failed to reduce th cost of living. If on is right th ether Is wrong. Which Is which? Recently a campaign speaker went through Oregon's timber belt telling his hearers that reducing th tariff on lumber had let In Canadian lumber and closed their sawmills, wfaen tie knew that not on dollar's Worth of lumber had been imported from Can- aaa In th last 10 years another blunder that was promptly eorreoted by our collector of customs and re sulted in making votes for Wilson. A few months prior to his death, James J. Hill said th only excuse for further discussion of the tariff was that th Republican leaders saw In It a chanc to elect on more presi dent. They are weLcom to that last slim chance. The present congress has provided for a non-partisan commis sion to Investigate the tariff question and propose a schedule founded on scientific research. Th opposition have promised the same thing. Tie only difference lies In th fact that when President Wilson finds capable and suitable men to appoint, th oom. mission will be at work, while th promise of th standpat leaders will remain an expression of th lor held by Penros. Smoot, Crane and others for th American workman a met promise from that element of the party whose popularity four years ago en abled them to carry the states of Utah and Vermont. QUESTIONER. The People Csjvdidnte. Portland, Oct. 4. To th Editor of Th Journal Two very .lmprssslv cartoons appared In the October num ber of a leading Americas psrlodlosi. to-wit; a Dig man, labeled "War. Hughes, 100 Per Cant Wall Street Can didate"! the other, three attractive la dles on a stump, labeled "Pao. Pros perity, Progress," all of the latter rep resenting . th past aonlavcments of Woodrow Wilson. This sums op the whole matter in a nutshell to vot for war and Wall street, or peso and plenty under Mr. Wilson. On November 7 several millions ef grim, determined wage-workers are going to speak lri such a manner that will startle plutocracy ail over th world. Labor has been hoodwinked too often by th Wail street bunch, and they now know that th coming battle Is to be waged between plutoc racy and democracy, and if each and every wage-earner will east his ballot for Mr. Wilson, the death grip of th plutocrats will be broken for rood and all. Her is to Woodrow Wilson, tne people s candidate! A. J. MARTIN. Standpat Thrillers. Portland, Oct, 4. To the Editor of Th Journal Perhaps brief mention might be mad In your paper In relation to an old serial story now , running In installments in th standpat papers. The story is th revised 191S edition. The author ar hoping the publlo will be Impressed, as the stylo is Intended to be appealing to the average voter, especially so to the thousands and thousands of newly made Wilson Re publican and Progressive voters. This ts a story in which the inter est holds the reader attention chiefly by its ludicrous situations. Th read er is carried along while being told to vote stand-pat because, or If, his fath er voted that ticket alone In the '80s He Is advised that he should, at the coming election, vote stand-pat In case .his parent voted otherwise years aso that the change will be beneficial. Just how or why is not stated. Per haps no reason was adduoible. Each installment has th material all worked over, and thus the reader is presumed to pass along with rapt interest. Some of the contents of the chapters, after reduction processes have been applied, ar found to sug gest the following subtitles: "How and Why to Vote," "Why Wall Street and the Money Power Should Rat Over TourDestlales." "The Tariff avsd How to Solve the Pigs-ln-Oover Pus- tie,- "Watchful Waiting," 'Roller skating." ."Th. Mexican Muddle." "Hughes in a . Puddle," "What U Do When In Doubt About Voting. Shortly after November 7 the final chapters will appear - A. H. O'CONNELU PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE Uncle Sam la soon to bring off a trio of coin of new design at his justly celebrated mint. There Is al ways a new and cruel Joke for each new coin. Now you're warned; be wary,. Th Chicago Herald states that th "present local crop of candidates for the Illinois legislature Is said to show marked improvement in quality over former years." The peopl of Oregon have il days yet. to chclr. up on their crop. Prices mounting, mounting, and yet "nobody makes any money out of th aUvasos." Well, there's a place peo pl go who tell fibs, and that will set tle the question. Though, of course. It will be too late then for th knowledge to do anybody any good. An observing exchange published in aa Atlantlo seaboard city notes that "as yet the high price of eggs and the talk at A.n Incresss In tha uric of milk haven't bed any effect on the price of ice cream," with that tip. the ice cream laboratories hav doubtless cor rected their blunder by una um. Dnsa tne DlebLa.n Lit of this (fener ation make th same special point of licking the boy who rides to school in an automobU as he of a previous ra did of licking th boy who wore a patchless suit of clothes 7 Or has sub servience to wealth at length corrupted van th boy whose name is BliiT A. murderer in New Hampshire bound his victim, strangled, slugged ana snot ner suia mcu ki urs m house, The body fell through the charred floor Into a pool of water and was preserved with all its marks of violence, writers) on law nave ir pointed oni mat tne onimnsi is i Ol iver foredoomed to detection because th fool thinks n can pro via ioi everything. MR. HUGHES' REBUTTAL From ths New Republic Mr Vfua-riea made a comprehensive attack ort the eight-hour law at Spring field, 111. His argument fell under three heads: (1) that the blU raises hut Aam not reduce hour. (2) that no bill should hav been passed without investigation, voj uwt wjs president knew for a year that the crisis was coming, and should hav prepared for It. Let he analys th arguments in oraer. It Is not tru that ths act simply ln- ... ... .u What It does la to of fer the railroads th alternative of re ceiving lght nourr worn xor ten hours' pay or of doing ten hours' work in eight hours. If the railroads wish to save th extra, pay tney can oo so by ir.creaslng the speed of certain fris-rtf trains The law applies a di rect economic Incentive to greater pro ductivity, ana is ror tnat reason a in- n!n hnurs bill. Th incentive Balsht have been strengthened had congress retained time-and-a-half for overtime as the brotherhoods originally asked; but then congress wouia nave oeen so miB nf increasing- waces by 17 hi per cent Instead of 26 per cent. It is a wage bill only ix tne roads no not ap ply the :ght-hour principle, and in that case th Increase of wages is pu nitive. The wages principle Is an in strument for enforcing the intention of th law. Th brotherhoods point out that the eight-hour day is already in operation on parts of our railway system, .Loco-r motive engineer have it on 65 per cent of through freight service, and firemen on 20 per cent of railway mile age in the south. West of th Missis sippi engineers have an eight-hour day on five per cent of the mileage, and firemen three per cent. Th problem is: Is It technically feasible to extend the eight-hour day? and the A dam son law puts the railroads under th pres sure of Increased Wages to make the experiment. That this Is th real question at is sue is confirmed by a report of a meeting of the railway executives' ad visory commute held in New York on September 20. These gentlemen did not fly off the handle, but very calmly requested the national conference com mittee of railways "to complete statis tics showing how much it would cost In actual operation, whether trains could be speeded up to make present ttn-hour runs in less time, and other details of the application of the eight hour day." Thes responsible railroad men are not acting on Mr. Hughes' as sumption that they must complacently pay more wage and let it go at that. , Star Boarders. ; From the Columbus, Ohio, Journal. ' Smce that unfortunate Toungstown man who fasted TO days and nights died ef It, our wife's relatives hav decided in their cautious, conservative way never: to miss a mealjv - . - i New Tor World AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Baker's September building permits iwuueu iii,t, ins neraid siates. "When the Oregon state fair falls to oring on rain, old J. fluvlue surely naa determined to taice a long vaca uon, says tne Vancouver njoiumDiavn, Safety First regulation at Marsh field of recent date include on tha forbids getting on or off moving trains, wnne tne question of dimmers on out os is under consideration. Th roads between Pendleton and Echo, th Pendleton East Oregonian for various but obvious reasons re grets to state, contribute to the safety ux tne aucas m in wast ana ot to county. A Burne dtv council haa An.rmA that all autos and teams rafust keep to tne ngnt ana mane turns on tr.t square, and ha also provided a penalty ior running over tne lire nose wneti it is on the street. The school board at Tha Dallea ha decided to permit teachers to use the high school building and facllttles at night for the instruction of foreigners. Tbe regular high school faculty wll take charge of th work for th pros- ,nt- a . Mining not in Gold Beach Reporter: "Another bunch of gold In a bottle, the produot of liver panning In tha vicinity of Agness, was brought down by th mall carrUr Saturday. Whil no big finds ar being made, there ts solid evidence of the fact, that gold is In th country." Th Pin Valley Herald thu warns men who have money that they might use, but do not, to build houses: 'There Is a great demand for housea In Halfway and unless there are more houses built here the next year, the tent and awning manufacturers will grow fat on th sales from this place" Since the application of th eight hour day Is a complex technical ques tion, what Is th best method of seek ing a solution? Mr. Hughes wished to "Investigate first" Well, for over a year "experts" on be Lb, sides hav been "Investigating." A stupendous guessing contest has been in progress. A board of arbitration could only have don some mor guasaing. Th Adam son law turns ths matter around, and puts it on a genuinely sciantlfie basis. It say si Instead ef dduclng a priori th probable results of the sight-hour day, let us have an lnduotiv experi ment on the basis of six months trial. At th end of that time a commission will hav data Instead of guesses on which to report. It is a true investiga tion, as any one acquainted with scien tific method will readily admit. It is as if two men wer arguing whether it Is possible to walk at the rate of four miles an hour. Each of them employs physiologists to prove that it can or cannot be done, and the physiologists prove It both ways. At last the two men are about to come to blows and ar in imminent danger of wrecking- everything in slghU What does th by-stander do under these circumstances? Does he say, let me hear th physiologists, let me guess too; or does h say, let's walk th four miles together and find out? What Mr. Hughes calls investigation before legislation would be guesswork before legislation. What the president has cieated Is experiment as th basis of investigation, as th basis of a recon sideration of the whole question. The fact that t!ie Adamson bill was forced at th last moment 1 Indeed a disquieting fact, A wis measure was enacted under pressure. ' But thst doesn't alter the fact that It was the wisest measure in the circumstances. It would have looked better bad the Adamson bill been enacted two or three months before the crisis. Wheth er the president could hav achieved the law except under pressure w doubt very seriously. Had he gone to the. country before a strike had been visualized in the publlo mind ws lm-4 agine that the publlo would have said: "Who is he to meddle in this business and borrow trouble?" Perhaps he should have done it any way, though such forehandedness' has 'Sever yet been characteristic of American pub lic life. The point to bear in mind is, however, that had there been no threat, had the whole business pro ceeded with the "utmost deliberation, the method of th Adamson bill would still have been th wise and scientific procedure. 1 An Excellent Old Custom, -From the Pittsburg-daiett Times. The eld-tlm custom of dropping In cm the town editor with a bushel of potatoes, the best ef the apple or a gallon of maple syrup had Its advan tages after alL Rag Tag and Bottail Stories From Everywhere (To tbia column all raadera ef Tha Imm.l ar lavlted to eootribeta orla-tnat tnattar i. story. Is vera or In philosophical ebaarratloa v ainaing quoiaimn, trots any soars. Oantrjbatloaa of exceptional merit WU1 be paid jot, ai ibo ninr a appraisal. No Ear at Alf for Music 4 MO. TOU can't have a drum. Don't sale ma inv mors." said Ttnhw mother. Bobby went off muttering. Calling him back his mother said. What did you sayr I said you ar always telling people you like music," said Bobby, "and then you won't even let me have & drum." The Fish Thst Sore Got Away. Krom the Hood River Glacier. When Dr. J. M. Waugh. and his daughter, Miss Martha, were fishing on the lower Hood River near the City Friday afternoon. Dr. Waugh hooked a nuge Chinook salmon, and . a thre hour fight to land the leviathan en- t sued. Dr. Waugh hooked ths fish at ' 4:80. After playing with the monster for a time he sent his daurhter for aid. A number of spectators from town quickly gathered. The big sal mon, estimated at a length of four feet and said to be more than a foot im thick, at 9:30 was tired out sufficient ly to be brought in to the bank. No one had a gaff-hook, but a bystander endeavored to kill the fish with, a large pocket knife. As it floundered -in the shallow water the first blow truck it in the tail. The next blow, aimed at the head, severed th leader by which the salmon was held, and It escaped. The Ounce of Prevention. From the Philadelphia Ledger. Doctor Brown was a phlegmatic man who usually took his own time at An swering even urgent calls.. but one day ho bustled around In a great hurry Mrs. Weawr haa sent for me to come and see her boy and I must g at once." he said. "What is the matter with the boy? asked the doctor's wife. I don't know," he said, "but Mrs. Weaver has a book on 'What to Do He- fore the Doctor Comes," nn.l 1 must, hurry up before she doon it.'' Kloped With the Village Hell. From the Belllngham American. It coats money to pllfor a villas "Liberty bell." Jake- Cameron, who pleaded guilty to a charge of petit lar ceny yesterday, wan fined $100 and costs by Judge Henry C. Beach. Cam eron didn't have the money and will be in the city jail 34 days. Cameron was arrested by City Detective Nesl Blue aa he alighted from the Acme stage Monday morning. He carried th "Liberty bell" in a gunny saok. It weighed 60 pounds. Of course the bell is not the famous Liberty bell', but owing to a peculiar triangular crack on one side of it, the police gave tt this name. It was used on one of the old locomotives in tb Bolcom- -Vanderhof logging ramp. Facing Destitution. From Fort Worth Star Telegram. We don't enjoy a meal unless tit -children are at-home. It seems that someone ought to be here to look pvi the table and say: "Mamma, Is that all there is?" Uncle Jeff Know Says: Lew Manners 'lows he is non-part 1- an and absolutely neutral in- thH rreslder.tinl content, and ho. don't car who is 'lected Just o'h the next presi dent elims his name with :n "W" both fore find aft. I feel pretty thst way myself. , ! TAFT AND MEXICO President Wilson inher ited the Mexican problem from his predecessor. Serious disorder pre vailed in Mexico for more than one half of President Taft's term. President Taft adhered to wtiat he pleased to call fiis p6!icy of "patient non intervention" in the face of the loss of American; lives and the destruction of American property in Mexico. A chronological state ment of evqjjita in Mexico during the Taft adminis tration and its views thereon will be published in The SUNDAY JOUR NAL net Sunday. This record is of especial inter est in view of the frantic efforts of certain Repub licans to discredit Presi dent Wilson for his deal ings with Mexico. FICTION MAGAZINE Short stories of rare merit for next Sunday include the following: ONE MAN'S LOVE By Emily Calvin Blake SAILING ORDERS-l-By Arthur James Hayei. MR. BTMSHER'S TREASURE By H G. Wells. THE CURVE OF THE CATENARY Seria! story by Mary Robert j Rinehart. ' COMIC SECTION Four "pages of fun that will do you good. THE SUNDAY . ; JOURNAL. , Five Cents the Copy V"i Everywhere ... t sJ'; NEXT .SUNDAYS