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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND; SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8. 1916.
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UFE EVKllliASTIXO
WILLIAM CULLEN BRY
ANT'S iovely lines, "To a
Waterfowl." aro more
Charming for their symbol
ism than for their pictures of visi
ble scenes. The waterfowl pursu
ing Its "Bolitary way far through
the rosy depths while glow the
heavens with the last steps of day"
is the soul of man. Like the lonely
bird of the sky the soul must
travel a long way from zone to
xone. There is a Power whose
care "teaches thy way along the
pathless coast" so that the voy
ager through the vast and haunted
dark, "lone wandering, Is not lost"
and the same Power, sings the
poet with triumphant faith, "will
lead my steps aright."
Bryant rises again to this glo
rious faith In his "Fringed Gen
tian." The little flower, "bluey
blue as if the sky let fall a flower
from Its cerulean wall," blossoms
late, when "the frosts and short
ening day portend the aged year
la near its end." It comes with a
message of hope in the universal
victory of death over life. And the
poet prays that hope, blossoming
within his heart "May look to
heaven as I depart." His' best
known poem, "Thanatopals," is not
so lively with hope. The only con
solation It offers upon the ap
proach of death is the recollection
that men, great and small, have
been dying since time began and
we shall lie down with'them in a
common grave, "the wise, the good,
fair forms and hoary seers of ages
past,-all in one mighty sepulchre."
, There Is no gleam of light from
beyond the veil. We are to "take
our chambers in the silent halls of
death," forever dark and forever
silent.
Even In his fine poem on "Life"
Bryant does not gain much insight
Into the eternal truths. He per
ceives the drama whose plot Is the
continual progression from life to
life, the old making way for the
new incarnation, but his vision
ends, not in a certainty, but In a
question. "When we descend to
dust again, where will the final
dwelling be, of thought and all Its
memories then, my love for thee
and thine for me?" And through
the whole poem we hear the mel
ancholy echo ofe Tennyson's icry
that love Is vain if not everlasting,
with no vision of its eternity.
, It is In "The Death of the Flow
ers" that Bryant's deep nihilism
finds Its most poignant expression.
To him the days of autumn are
( melancholy, t "the saddest of the
year, of walling winds and naked
woods and meadows brown and
'sere." The robin and the wren
are flown, and the flowers, "the
.fair young flowers?" Alas, "they
all are In their graves. The rain
Is falling where they He, but the
cold November rain calls not from
out the gloomy earth the lovely
. ones, again." From the sweet
flowers broken and lost his mind
passes on grievously to "one who
in her youthful beauty died." They
laid her In the cold, moist earth
Vwhen the forests cast the leaf,
and we wept that one so iovely
should have a life so brief." Not
a glimmer . here out of the void.
not a ray of hope;
, a uere ia a, initio nuie in Bryant s
lament over the death of the flow-
. air T-T vnnM bsva anne V t -
dear loss more ' truly had he re
membered his earlier vision of the
drama where life moves on from
scene to scene in an eternal page
ant, sweeping earth clear of old
forms and ever creating new ones.
Each. summer ; Is ; an -incarnation.
Each Autumn : the worn .rise is
broken . and the precious " wjne of
life- poured into a new one. ,
It Is not true that , "the cold No-
remWr rain calls not from out .the
gloomy - earth the ; lovely, ones
again." It does call them forth.
Dig "down where your, daffodil
bulbs lie waiting, not sleeping, and
you shall see the tender roots of
a new bloom in November's dark
est days. Cut a crevfee in the
bark of an apple tree in the mid
dle of winter and you come upon
green life ready to spring up into
leaves and flowers when -the sun
gives the word in April. Behind
every falling leaf there is a bud
from which a thousand generations
of leaves will be born. And if the
whole plant dies, blossom, stalk
and root, still the seed survives
in its glossy, Indurated shell where
the happy future lies safely shel
tered. Life never yields even out
wardly to death until It has set
the stage for the resurrection. The
new incarnation is nascent in the
old forever.
So autumn is not death. It is
a mild sunset looking onward to
another dawn. The seeds and buds
are not mere prophecies, they are
realizations of life everlasting.
Death has no sting. The grave
has no victory. For life flows on
beyondthe grasp of the grim mon
ster and .while he destroys the for
saken tenement the great Lord
builds a new palace to house his
splendor.
The girl who "died in youthful
beauty" and left the poet sorrow
ing as one not to be comforted
was not in the grave where he
shed tears. She had merged her
loveliness with the loveliness of
the golden millenniums and was
pinging joyous melodies that his
ear was not tuned to hear.
Perhaps it is all a matter of
tuning. The air is full of mag
netic vibrations, though ordinary
metal knows nothing of them.
They pass by and it is as If they
were not. But lay an instrument
.deftly attuned in their path and
the subtle vibrations are caught
on the wing like mysterious hom
ing pigedns and render up their
message. Shall we ever learn to
tune our ears to the waves from
paradise, the strange thrills in the
vibrant ether 60 that we shall hear
the songs of the happy dead in
their finer incarnation?
"The men who now with timid
hearts and quavering voices praise
Mr. Wilson for having kept us out
of war, are the actual heirs of the
tories of 1776," roared Mr. .Roose
velt in his Battlo Creek speech.
Where are we drifting to and what
is ahead of us when a public man
of Mr. Roosevelt's standing Is
styling as "tories" such American
men and women as do not want us
to have war with Germany and
1, exico? What is the state of
things when such a man ridicules
men and women who want peace
as persons with "timid hearts and
quavering voices?" '
UNDERMINING SUFFRAGE
"T
HE suffrage cause has lost
many of its best workers
because of the foolishness
of the Congressional Union
and the Woman's party in trying
to throw the Oregon women's vote
to Mr. Hughes."
Such is the statement of Mrs.
Emma Haley Frazelle of Portland
in reply to a letter from Mrs. O.
H. P. Belmont of New York's four
hundred, who wrote Mrs. Frazelle
soliciting money for the Hughes
fund. Other things said by Mrs.
Frazelle in her letter are: j
I was born a Republican and the
tariff question made me favor that
party for years. Now that the tariff
Is to be handled by a commission, I
roust decide for the best man 'In the
future.
YOU ARB DFFTNTTFT.V TTSTTTTTf.
ING THE CAUSE OF SUFFRAfm;
AMONG OREGON WOMEN. WE
WILL NEVER AGAIN WORK TO
GETHER AS WE DID BEFORE THIS
Hfll T. WH1UH YOU AND TOUR
FOLT.OWRTtS ItAVP vnTff-UTt i-dam
VS. YOU ARE CAUSING THE SAME
SPLIT IN OTHER STATES, AND
HAVE THEREFORE GIVEN SUF
FRAGE THE GREATEST SETBACK
THAT IT COULD BE GIVEN.
IT .WILL TAKE AT LEAST tttm
YEARS OF HARD WORK BY THE
haxnjck WOMJSN TO OVERCOME
THE BLjOW YOU HAVE GIVEN
SUFFRAGE IN TRYING TO FORCE
YOUR CANDIDATE FOR PRESI
DENT UPON US BY THE EXPEN-
ui ruKti OF CASH.
There has been no better sto fo
ment of inexorable facts. The
Belmonts and other New Yorir
meddlers are "definitely injuring
me cause or suffrage among Ore
gon women." They , are injuring
it in other states. The woman's
cause was formerly united, hnt
they have split its supporters into
tactions. They have given suf
frage a setback from which it wilj
take ten years to recover.
Suffrage in Oregon was gained
by votes from all political parties.
It will have to be irainerl in nnn.
suffrage states by votes from all
political parties.
Instead of wisely remaining In
position to appeal to voters in all
parties, a few militant and unwise
women of great wealth and little
knowledge of common folks r
seeking to use the suffrage cause
ror partisan purposes and are
thereby angering thousands of the
best friends of suffrage.
There are those who even doubt
whether the leaders of this unfor
tunate movement arenas much in
terested in suffrage as they are in
partisan ends. Anyway, their
movement to beat President Wil
son, an earnest advocate and
friend of suffrage, who journeyed
from Washington to New Jersey
to vote for suffrage, and to iet
a man who never voted for suf
frage In his life and' who con
fesses that until quite recently he
was opposed to suffrage, Is a most
ridiculous way of gaining strength
for the suffrage, cause. They pro
ceed on the theory that the way to
make friends is to fight the friends
you hare.
How are they to gain friends for
their cause in non-suffrage states
by fighting the friends who helped
them win the ballot in suffrage
states?
The total revenue of the Union
Pacific for the last fiscal year end
ing June 39 was 1104, 717, 00, an
Increase of 117,758,710. The sur
plus available for dividends and
improvement was $38,717,507.
With such munificent profits, is
there not something out of which
the company can squeeze a few
dollars to shorten hours or in
crease the pay of, not only its
trainmen, but- its office and shop
men?
LINCOLN REPUBLICANS
NOTHING so much releases a
Lincoln Republican from ob
ligation to support Mr.
Hughes as does the tariff
commission.
' The tariff is no longer an issue
between the big political parties.
The Democrats have at last learned
that a tariff commission is the
means to provide for tariff rates
the same as the Interstate Com
merce commission is the 'means to
regulate railroad rates. The Re
publican masses have exactly the
same view, though some reaction
ary leaders still want tariff made
by politicians and favored New
England interests.
The tariff has long held many
Lincoln Republicans to the idea
that they should vote for the pres
ident favoring a high tariff. They
are absolved from that idea be
cause the tariff commission, soon
to be appointed by the president
will stand for high tariffs, if high
tariffs are found to be best for
American prosperity. The func
tion of the tariff commission will
be to do all that can be done with
tariffs to help American business
and American agriculture and
American workingmen. And the
commission will do it, not on guess
work nor as a result of elections,
but on exhaustive investigation
and a full consideration of facts,
causes and conditions.
This is one 'powerful reason why
Lincoln Republicans are absolved
from supporting Mr. Hughes. Anr
other is that Mr. Hughes is daily
repudiating Abraham Lincoln in
campaign speeches.
Abraham Lincoln as a congress
man, opposed the war with Mexi
co. Mr. Hughes is daily condemn
ing President Wilson for not mak
ing war on Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln as president
was urged to undertake an armed
Intervention in Mexico to restore
that country to order. President
Wilson has been similarly urged
to undertake armed intervention
In Mexico, and Mr. Hughes is daily
condemning President Wilson for
not doing so.
President Wilson's policy in
T xi.o is exactly the same as was
President Lincoln's policy in Mex
ico, and every time Mr. Hughes
condemns President Wilson's Mex
ican policy he condemns Abraham
Lincoln's Mexican policy. Here is
what Abraham Lincoln as presi
dent said through Secretary Sew
ard in delivering instructions to a
newly appointed minister to Mex
ico: For a few years past, the condi
tion of Mexico has been so unsettled
as to raise the question on botn
sides of the Atlantic whether the time
has not come when some foreign
power ought, in the general interest
of society to intervene to establish
a protectorate or some other form of
government In that country and guar
antee its continuance there. You will
not fail to assure the government of
Mexico that the president (Abraham
Lincoln) NEITHER HAS, NOR CAN
EVER HAVE. ANY SYMPATHY
WITH SUCH DESIGNS IN WHAT
EVER QUARTER THEY MAY ARISE
OR WHATEVER CHARACTER THEY
MAY TAKE ON.
One after another the establish
ment of new and large industrial
plants are announced for Portland.
Capital never seemed to flow so
abundantly into this city. The new
constructive laws which congress
has passed are giving capital new
courage because they give capital
new guarantees of safety and pro
tection.
WHEN THE BAND BEGINS TO
PLAY
DOWN In San Francisco they
have a board of supervisors
which seems to correspond
in a more or less rude way
to our board of city commission
ers. At any rate, the San Fran
cisco supervisors have command
over a municipal band. When
they say unto it "Go," It goeth and
when they say "Come." it cometh.
The other day . the supervisors
said to the municipal band "Go
and play some tunes to the paupers
in the Relief home." So they
went there and the lame, the halt
and the blind came out in the sun
shine and listened to "I Wandered
Today to the Hills. Maggie," and
"Darling I Am Growing Old;"
and "Tipperary" and all the rest
of the dear songs old and new.
They crowded close up to the
band, close us they could get. The
Call newspaper sara some of them
whistled the tunes as the band
played. Perhaps their whistling
was a little flat, but who minded?
And some had that far-away look
In their eves that la . so sad and
sweet on old faces. It goes through
the veil into heaven and sees the
eyes of the lost and gone whom
they are going to meet again in a
little while.
It is good for us all to wander
to the hilla once in a while, the
dear hills of memory and walk the
old ways we walked "when you
and I were young." There are sil
ver threads among the gold now
on our heads, too many of them.
You, dear friend, haven't any gold
left. It is all silver but none the
less lovely for that, "To me
you're as fair as you were, Maggie,
when you and -I were youiLg."
Fairer, a thousand times faiiter,
for have we not traveled together
all these years on Jordan's road?
Let us have more music for the
poor. Die alte; boese Lieder and
other kinds of music too, for it
has been learned by those who
have made the experiment that
paupers and millionaires alike will
listen to great music when they
have the chance They will listen
when- it . is played greatly, whlfch
means lovingly.
The people have twice voted
heavily against any weakening of
civil service in Portland. The
votes of the people should be guid
ance for the city commissioners.
The latter's attention is called to
Mr. Caldwell's public charges.
SENSATIONAL SERMONS
awl IK Methodist church has a
1 custom of admitting a "class"
of young ministers at each
annual conference. The cere
mony Is performed by the presld
ing blshgp. Such a class was ad
mitted at Wheeling, West Virginia,
this fall by Bishop Franklin who
must, we think, partake of the
character of- the celebrated Benja
min Franklin. Perhaps the good
bishop may come of the lineage of
the revolutionary sage who erlpult
fulmen coelo sceptrumque tyrannls
We are led to ruminate on
Bishop Franklin's traits by what
he said to the young preachers. He
told them that it was their duty to
preach sensational sermons. "Every
Methodist minister should either
preach sensational sermons, and
thus arouse interest in his church
and community, or get out of tho
business." Those were his mar
velous words.
We have heard a great deal of
talk against sensational sermons.
It most commonly comes from
people who are afraid lest that
kind of sermons expose their sins
What they want is a , good, old
fashioned, "gospel sermon" iull of
ancient texts and trite righteous
ness, but It must fight shy of their
secret sins such as robbing widows
and renting slum houses to prosti
tutes. These lovers of "gospel
sermons" do not care how violently
the preacher assails dancing, card
playing, theatres and the devil, but
let him say one word against child
labor or in favor of the unions
and he is thrice damned for his
"sensationalism."
Well, good Bishop Franklin tells
his young preachers to sail in and
preach just that kind of sermons.
Give the poor old devil a rest, ho
said In substance, and hurl a few
anathemas at the men who are
making this beautiful earth a hell
We love that bishop. We dare say
that if his Master were here on
earth today he would choose him
for one of his fishers of men.
The people of Portland are for
ward people. They are ready for
a drive for. a greater and more
active Portland. Who will lead
the way?
ABC
THE Ashland Tidings makes
the astonishing complaint that
children in our common
schools do not learn the al
phabet. At least some of them do
not. From this educational laDse
many Inconveniences flow, if we
may trust the report of the Tidines
Not knowing their A B C's, pupils
are bewildered when they try to
consult a dictionary or encyclope
dla. Telephone directories are puz
zles to them. Young people who
wish to learn telegraphy for their
vocation are obliged to beein with
the ordinary alphabet because it
has been overlooked in their school
days.
This is disconcerting. It shows
that there is a mingling, of evil in
what we suppose to be wholly
good sometimes. The alphabet fell
Into neglect when pupils took to
learning to read by the "word
method." The theory of this proc
ess is that our English words are
mere lawless "forms" rather than
phonetic symbols regularly built
up. Hence we read, not by spelling
out words, but by recognizing
forms just as the ancient Egyp
tians recognized truir hieroglyphics.
This theory is sound. Many ot
our words are mere hieroglyphics
to whose pronunciation ' the spell
ing gives no clew whatever. Such
a word; for example, is ''thorough,
which contains three silent letters
and one with an unaccustomed
sound. Another example Is
"phthisic," with a silent p and
two silent h's. Such words must
be acquired by the word method
or not at all.
Still, since the alphabet is un
deniably useful in many ways, as
the Tidings points out, and since
we have a few .words which are
really ..spelled, It should be taught
In : school. The spectacle of
grown citizen who does not know
his A B Cm Is too grotesque to be
i tolerated. ; .
Letters From the People
Communlcitlons sent to The Journal for
publication In tbis department abonld be wrlt-
uu vuij one aide of tna paper, eouani
eaceed 8u0 words In lnrt and must be ac
companied by tue nante and address of the
sender, ir toe writer does not desire to hare
lb name publiahed be should so state.
"Discussion la tb a-raatast Af all eafoi atarm.
It ratkmaUxea everything :t touches. It rob,
principles of ail faUa eanctlty and throw then
back on their reasonableness. If they baea na
reasonableness, it ruthlessly crushes them oat
af existence and aeta np Its own conclusions la
ibelr at ad." Woodrow Wilson.
Aiding Wilson.
fThe aublolned artlcl la -Hirvtdnre frDTO "the
Etigene (iuard. In which It aDoeared as an
addressed communication referring to matter
mat oaa previously appeurea in at tugeue
acgistcr.l
Eugene, Sept. 17. Your contempor
ary across the street seems to be
worgiajg ior Wilson now. If one may
JSgafrom the cartoon in last Friday's
Issue. Every one knows that when
the farmers prosper vne whole country
booms, and in that cartoon we se
everything the farmer raises going up
In price, whereas. It Is only a a short
time ago that this consistent sheet In
formed us that free trade would ruin
the farmer. What do tney mean? Is
free trade good or bad?
Lumber that cost $7 per thousand
four years ago now costs J15. Gee!!
what a come down under free trade
Wool that four years ago was sold for
11 cents to 14 cents under free trade
ia bringing from 25 cents to 32 cents.
Four years ago money was all hid
out. It was hard to get on gilt edge
security; today they are dropping cir
culars In our cars, sending them by
mail and offering any amount of
money to loan.
It Is not that the Democrats have
done anything wrong-, but the Repub
licans want their Jobs. It is very cold
outside. In his editorial "The Decid
ing Issue," he has to go back to Mc
Kinley's time to tell what the Repub
licans have done. -Why not tell or
the panic of 1907. when the Republl- hard labor. The nanageS of the Corn
cans had it all, the m panic we m w ul s. , ornr..nv of Granite
have been suffering from till these
good times for the tasmers have come
through Wilson.
Don't let anv one be fooled with
the idea that a slump
W llonn T.iimhpr lvi.- 47
came witn
thousand
when be took ornce and ir a govern-
mnt has any thing to Co with prices ,
and slumps, the wonderful Republican
party was to blame for conditions
when Wilson took office.
Look what Wilson has done took '
Wall Street by the throat and passed j
the federal banking law and prevented i
tnose vultures rrom ruin.ng tne company actually applies
try so they could prey on It; took the( v
senate by the ear and made them con- the rule In all Its dealings with work
firm Brandeis, the people's champion, i men in the pay envelope as well as
It took some man to do that. ! elsewhere. There Is no hypocrisy, no
Look what the federal land banks sidestepping, no pretense, and that is
are going to do for the farmer. When why It works out.
did the Republicans ever do anything ; It pays eo big that the managers of
except help the money Interests and large Industries everywhere are turn
big corporations to fleece the farmer, j ing to this company to ask how It does
We have had more constructive leg! : it. How does it run along for years,
latlon of a kind to benefit the "peopled . employing so many men, and have no
th maaaa nx onnosed to the classes. ! strikes or labor troubles? Why are
In Wilson" four years than lany 20
yearn the other party was In power.
They talk of extravagance but It
must be remembered that the money
voited will have good results to show
for u W shall have a navy and
some guns for an army, and some am- , more work in a day, and better work,
munition and not te left In the pltla- I in this plant? Why such a high ef
ble condition Wilson found things, ! ficlency? A monthly bulletin of the
with nothing hut a fountain pen to i American Iron and Steel Institute was
fight with, although the Republicans j wholly given up to answering these
had closed a billion dollar congress. questions.
I'll venture to say tne l-teisxers
cartoon will help roll uu a grand ma
jority of farmers for Wnson.
AN INDEPENDENT.
Discusses Present Day Judiciary-
Portland. Oct. 6. To the "Editor of
The Journal Often when the higher
courts annul a progressive law or re
verse a trial court In a case that has
erse a trial couri in U
met w th POPaf appruj-.
cnargea uo oems t.cu ....
ttnuarv r-lss nreiudlces. A deep rea
-a hAin rv xei 11 v it-. -
A d-en rea-
'
son is that judges, being lawyers for
merly were nourished by the common
l.- w, whose lndividualistlCKantl-social
spirit Is not in accord with th modern
spirit.
One f the problems of progress is
wiM tn rlo with Sir Edward Coke. Sir
William tJiacKsujue "" -
SSI? S.r ahteahas JsmteT to the pUce? satisfied" with"
thousands on her statute books, and it, and of most value to the company,
nad much to do with a case on the An efficiency record of every work
docket a few days ago. Not only is man Is kept. The individual workman
fhe reasoning which annuls a popular is the unit of efficiency in the plant
statute ten derived from them, and Each man is personally known and
thtir dogmas incorporated in our con-, rated. Special consideration Is given
stitutionl but it Is fairly axiomatic" to men who have been with the com
tlll : Statute in derogation of. the 1 pany eight or ten years. Ko man
common law is to be "construed strict- can be discharged without a due hear-
ly-hat Is, given as little effect by
the courts as possible. If my memory ie8Sen the accidents In this district,
serves me right (derived from his-, jiarquam guich is a suitable place
tory). Coke has been dead almost 300 ror a playground. The playground will
years. It is high time for a funeral. beautify the highway, and the land
The spirit of the common law is- not ! near the gulch will be of greater value,
the modern spirit Law, to be sure, is ; The land is a waste tract which is
always to some extent a government used by Junk and garbage men to
of the living bv the dead, but these 1 dump in the gulch what wares they
dead need not to be so "extremely j can not get rid of. You can see for
dead. ( yourself that this gulch is unsanitary
Once -in a while there Is a spasm of ; and a dtagrac. to the city
reform. There was one ir t Missouri
sorriA three years ago. which came
some three years ago;
practically to naugat, and now the
Missouri Bar association goe on rec
ord as favoring the elimination of
partisan politics from tho election of
Judges. Let Oregon awake and take a
"cue."
But any reform with a big "R" that
tends to remove the Judiciary from the
touch with the people now none too
Intimate no doubt would meet with
the approval of the Cokes and the
Blackstones of another race and an
other age. What is needed today Is a
bench which will interpret the law.
common and statute, in the light and
need of the hour, not tearing down one ! were saloons, as there Is no license
to build up another. , attached to them and they could have
Such men must be In contact with breweries la towns that never had a
the people. They should realize that saloon. There would be little brew
their commission is from all and their eries and big breweries, and breweries
responsibility to all the people. There- of every description, and no doubt
fore, non-partisan Judges so selected ' some of the men who atana sponsor
are most desirable, provided a means,
of procuring them, not in Itself par
tisan, can be devised.
GEORGE' R. MOKEL.
A Boy's Plea for a Playground.
Portland. Oct. 4. To the Editor
nt Th, Tnnrnal I am wrltlne to von
explaining our need of a playground, i amendment that reads 'In quantities
We children of South Portland have y and under regulations which may be
no place to spend our spare time. It j provided by law." Now we don't know
would make better children out of us. J what kind of changes our representtt
You heard abcMit the South Park boys , tives would make, and no doubt it
getting in trouble. Those boys had no I would be Just as bad or worse than the
place to spend their spare time, lf'ealoon used to be, for while some ef
they had a playground they would be J our representatives are good men, some
up there spending their time to a great
advantage.
The boys of Peninsula Park and
Setllwood Park and other parks have
playgrounds. We have none. Do you
think tHat is fair? I will tell you how
we boys of South Portland play,
we boys were piaying catch on the
street, and having a very good time.
The police came up and told us that
an ordinance was passed prohibiting
playing catch en the street. If we
had 'a park there would be a place
where we could play catch.
jAnotber incident occurred when we
bays were spinning tops on the street.
A lady came out and said. "If you boys
dont get away I will call the police.
We don't want to make her angry, so
we go to some other place.
- The children ekate and play on the
street; this is very dangerous. If we
had a park In South Portland, it would
THE STRAIGHT PATH
By George
1
SAID, "Let me walk In the field;"
He said. "Nay, walk in the town,'
I said, "There are no flowers there;"
He said, "No flowers, but a crown."
I said, "But the skies are black.
There is nothing but noise and din;"
But he wept as he sent me back.
"There is more," he Nsaid, "there is sin."
I said, "But the air is thick,
And fogs are veiling the sun;"
He answered "Yet, souls are sick.
And souls in the dark undone."
1 said, "I shall miss the light,
And friends will miss me, they say;!'
He answered, "Choose tonight.
If I am to miss you, or they."
I pleaded for time to be given;
He said, "Is it hard to decide?
It will not seem hard in heaven
To have followed the steps of your guide."
I cast one look on the field,
Then set my face to the town.
He said, "My child, do you yield?
Will you leave the flowers for a crown?"
Then into his hand went mine,
And into my heart came he,
And I walked in a light divine,
The path I had feared to see.
THE GOLDEN RULE IN A FACTORY
From the Kansas City Times.
The Golden Rule will work, even In a
steel mill where thousands of men do
City, I1L, have proved it. The Golden
I Rule, "Do unto others as you would
have them do unto you," Is the motto
of .this great company in an its oeai-
ingB -with Its workmen, and, after
trv., . fnr vears tho romnanv savs
P4,norf
" , t
"It Is a practical rule. It works out
It pays. It is simple; it is clear; It
is universally understood; it keeps
thines lust and eauitable with and be-
lween management and n!en."
the workmen In this plant so well sat
isfied? Why are the best workman
in other plants anxious to go over to
Jobs In the Commonwealth plant? Why
so few accidents there? Why do the
same number of workmen turn out
First, the workmen, all of them fore
men, wheelbarrow men, managers and
all are organized Into a "Fellowship
club," which has for its aim to take
the word "toil" out of the language
and substitute the word "service." The
company makes cast steel safety de
vices for railroads, and the men are
taught that in making things on which
human life depends, there should be
empioyed not only the very best work-
, - .
men and materlsls1, but the very great-
. . tT- V, ... r-r rvs n r. trlvnn trt
cot tare. Alio nui ivuicn . i a,'-1
understand that the company is sell
ing service instead of castings, and
every man has his part to do.
Men are not hired in a haphazard
way, picked out of a waiting crowd at
a trate: but the applicant Is studied
and physically examined and when a
- - - , th. hn
"'im
. wiinger oouieva. j
the worst thing they can find about
Portland, the miseraDie Marquam
gulch. Yours very truly.
EDWIN HARMS,
Shattuck School.
The Brewers' Amendment.
Beaverton, Or.. Oct. 6. To the Edi
tor of. The Journal The supporters of
the brewers' amendment try to make
the amendment appear good. I wonder
If the voters all think of how many
breweries there would be, if the amend
ment should carry. I think there
would be more breweries than there
to tne amenuiiiQui uiu u LBiiavnieu
of them. Some would be making beer
by cheap and Inferior recipes. I thisk
the way the law Is Row Is much bet
ter than It used to be, but if the pro
hibition amendment carries it will be
much better.
- Notice the clause In the brewers
of them aro not.
MAGGIE WILLIAMS.
The Vote on the Adarnson Bill.
Portland. Oct. 3. To the Editor of
The Journal Kindly publish the num
ber of Republicans and Democrats who
t voted for the recent eight-hour law in
congress, and also the number who
voted against it. C. S. SMITH.
The vote In the house, September
1, was: Yeas 239, nays 66. answered
present- S. not voting 132. Of those
voting for the bill J were Democrats
and 70 Republicans: of those voting
nay S4 were Republicans and two
Democrats. These - Democrat were
Steele of Pennsylvania and Black of
Texas. London. Socialist, of New Yoi k.
voted for the bilL - .
,The vote in the senate, September
S, was: Yeas 43, nays 28. not voting
21. La Falletle was the only Repub-
McDonald
Ing. This helps men overcome their
faults and become efficient.
.
"All men at heart want tb do right.
Even vlclousness Is but a phase of
Ignorance. If the picture of efficiency
and success and right thinking can be
wisely enough put before almost any
man, he can be led to have confidence
In himself and to give efficient, loyal
service to that company which Is
enough interested In him to help him
be successful," says this company.
There is a system of money rewards
for good work; a system of safety
devices; education that make acci
dents rare and a compensation system
that takes care of injured workmen
and pays them in full what they are
entitled to, without quibble. The com
pany has found there is a large value
in wholesome food for workmen: that
a man will not be nearly so efficient
after a cold luncheon out of a tin pall
as after a good warm meal, and it
feeds 1200 men each noon In Its res
taurant, 1 serving home-cooked foods;
roast pork, dressing, mashed potatoes
and gravy, and plenty of It, for 12
cents; a big plate of pork and beans, 5
cents; a lo-ounce mug of coffee, 3
cents, and so on.
mm
Sanitation, light workrooms, pure
air, the dUBt being drawn off by blow
ers; pure water, green grass and flow
er beds in the. open spaces; baths,
medical attention, needs of sick wives
and babies, cleanliness, all these things
are looked after, and "The Common
wealther," a monthly paper devoted to
fellowship, is Issued to tell all about It,
A school is maintained to teach Ig
norant workmen; not a night school
where men must go when tired, but
a day school, and any young man in
the plant not yet 22 attends a full
forenoon and a full afternoon each
week and his "pay goes on Just as If
he were working. There is also a
school for foreigners.
a
In summing up what the company Is
trying to do President Howard says:
"Efficiency comes from willing, skill
ful work. How can men be led to
give that? Here is the secret of it
all being willing and able to treat the
men as men. Man is the most wonder
ful thing in the world. In every man
are almost unlimited possibilities. We
look upon business aa truthful serv
ice, not only to the public, but of
each part of the business to every
other part. We feel that, as most of
our working hours and such a large
part of our lives are spent in busi
ness, the conditions surrounding busi
ness should be enjoyable and upbuilding-,
and that the making of character
is as important as the making of
castings."
A remarkable business creed, surely,
In this selfish, hurrying, grasping,
grinding old world. But, mind you, It
pays big dividends both to workmen
and owners.
llcarl voting for the bill. Clarke of
Arkansas and Hardwlck of Georgia
were' the only Democrats who voted
against it.
Perfect Acoustics Obtainable.
Portland, Oct. 3. To the Editor of
The Journal-aYour Issue of October 3
contains a letter signed "W. H. W."
in which the hope is expressed that
attention will be given to the mat
ter of acoustics In building the city
auditorium. To this we all say
"Amen!" An auditorium without, good
acoustics does nqt deserve the name
auditorium. ,
As a matter of fact, is due (I might
say paramount) attention being given
to the problem of acoustics in this
much discussed building?
You have only to go to Ann Arbor
for an example of what can be done
to obtain good acoustics. A musical
auditorium that will seat 5000 people
has been recently built there that has
perfect acoustic properties. Dr. Robert
M. Wenley quotes Paderewakl as say
ing that it is "'the finest musical
room In the world." The good results
were obtained by calling in Dr. Sabln
of Harvard, an expert in acoustics.
THOMAS V. WILLIAMS.
Don't Let the Fire Start.
From Leslie's.
The preventive fireman la not so
spectacular a figure as the old-fashioned
firefighter, but he is more use
ful to the community. Just as science
Is giving Itself to the task of prevent
ing sickness and plague, so the main
work Of a modern fire department
should be in removing the conditions
that make fires probable. New York
and . all other progressive American
cities already have the protection that
somes from the preventive fireman
whose dally inspection reduces the
fire hazard and who preaches the gos
pel of fire prevention wherever he
goes. As 90 per cent of our fires are
preventable, the field of. prevention is
practically unlimited.
The Safety First federation made
Its contribution to the movement a
year ago by setting aside October 9
as Fire Prevention day. Last year 2
governors issued proclamation call
ing attention to the terrific fire loss
of 3000 lives and $25,000,000 annually.
Thousands of ministers spoke of It
from their pulpits. Sunday. October
8, will be observed for the -same pur
pose this year. : We have many cele
brations of a sentimental value unly,
but here is a day of practical worth
In saving thousands of lives and mil
lions of dollars worth of - property.
Every church and Sunday school and
home sbould cooperate in calling to
the attention of tha people- adults as
well aa children, tb numberless little
ways in which fires may be avoided.
Rag Tag and Bobtail
St
onea from Everywhere
T thia column all reader of Tba Journal '
re Invited to contribute original mattsr-la
story, in eeree or in philosophical obaarTstlaa'
or striking quotations, from any source.
Contributions of exceptional merit wlU b paid "
tor4 tt tba adltor'a appraisal.) -'
Thought HeWas Maud.
WHEN Dr. Harry Lane, now United
States senator from Oregon, Was .
superintendent of the Oregon insane
asylum, the grand Jury paid the insti
tution a visit. During their tour of
inspection the foreman kept up a run
ning fire of criticism and acrimonious
comment. One of the other Jurors
drew Dr. Lane aside and said: "You
don'X want to pay any attention to
him he's a natural-born kicker."
.Dr. Lane's eyes twinkled as he lei
the way to one of the wards they ha l
not yet Inspected. "Why do you keep
that poor man hobbled and that hearvy
shackle on Ills leg?" asked the fore
man of the grand Jury. "There is no
excuse for Buch cruel and barbarous
methods,"
"Personally. I approve of what has
been done, but if you say so I will
have the attendant get you the key
and you can unlock his shackle and
release him." said Ir. linp.
The foreman said, "tlet me the key
at once." Tho key was brought ami
the foreman stooped down and took
the bobbles and sharkle off tho
man's feet. A moment later the fore
man uttered an anguished howl and
went head-first Into the corner. The
Insane man was braying excitedly and
kicking like a battering-ram.
Two of the attendants rushed up
and finally overcame the patient.
What shall wo do with him?" they
aBked of Dr. I.ane.
Dr. Lane nodded to the foreman of
the grand Jury and said. "He will tell'
you."
"Put his hobbles back and get two
shackles In place of one," said the
foreman of the Jury, as he rubbed his
bruises.
"What did he want to do that for?"
he said, In an aggrieved voice, to Dr.
Lane.
"He thinks he Is a mule and that
his name is Maud," explained Dr. Lane.
"When he is hobblmi, he is perfectly
quiet, and, asldo from his delusion, he
is quite Intelligent."
The report of the grand Jury was
very brief, and there was no complaint
of barbarous methods In controlling
the patients.
And He Proved It, Too.
From the Philadelphia ledger.
During the recitation of a college
class In natural philosophy, the pro
fessor observed a tall, lanky youthln
a rear seat, his head flrooplntf. his body
relaxed, his eyes half cloned and his
legs encumbering nn adjacent elsle.
"Mr. Frazer,"' said tho professor.
The freshman opened his eyes slow
ly, but did not change his pose.
"Mr. Fraier. what Is work?"
"Everything Is work," was the
drawling reply.
"Sir," exclaimed the professor, "do
you mean to tell me that Is a reason
able answer to my question'"
"Yes, sir."
"Then I take It 4hat you would .Ilka'
me and the class to believe thaf this
desk is work?"
"Yes, sir," replied the youth, wear
ily; "It Is woodwork."
Who Caret Which?
From Louisville Courier-Journal.
The price of bread is rl.ilng, rlsln.r
every diiy. Hoon the burs will sell Ilia
pretzel and give the beer awny. -
Couldn't Find a Thlfg That Fit.
From the Roseburg Relew.
A porcupine may be a good adver
tisement, hut it Is a very disagreeable
animal to Inhabit your business estab
lishment, according to Henry Harth,
proprietor of Harth's Toggery. Mr.
Hurth secured a porcupine last Satur
day, and the animal was luter exhib
ited In the show windows of his es
tablishment. Some time during the
night the porcupine became loose, find
then trouble begun. In addition to
disarranging the goods In the show
windcAv, the animal vlnited the shelves
of the store anil many articles were
thrown to the floor. Kven the papers,
which hud been left on Mr. Harth's
desk were scattered about tha floor,
and other damage resulted -from the
activities of the animal. Mr. Harth
passed some time Sunday rearranging
his stock and taking the frightened
animal Into captivity. f
Tho Wonders of Science.
From Fort Worth Star-Tylogram.
Synthetic- chemists are iiuinufacr.il
Ing a great deal of paper on pa pi. r
these days.
Uncle Jeff Know Hays:
Passln' the hat for wide era of men
killed in sawmills and plres in out of
style now. We pay the wldder a pen- .
slon. help educate her kids, and find It
cheaper 'n better all around. The milk
of human Justice has 100 per cent mors
butterfat In It than the milk of humanT
kindness we call charity.
The Better Way.
By John Irwin.
In Finmpe pence and plonly lay
Peace to work and peace to play:
But man to man In combat lay.
Lord, belp us abow another way.
Man wills tba world's peace to oeatroy.
While waya of peace hlrh lords decry;
Trnncenoe tbfy sink beneath tba sea
With boasted culture. How can this bat
Poea man Invent bat t destroy.
While mother sigh and children cry 7
The hn! of slq In Europe roam
To make a 'thousand thousand (mil.
Ten tbonxand shell-torn victims err.
Mlth glassy eyes tnrned to the aky.
Their namra will fill each nation's tome.
While loved onea aorrvw still at borne.
If man learns wisdom from the past.
Then why abonld all this horror last?
Fach nation fights for home and tiod
By dyeing red all l?urnpe'a sod!
F.ch tiatVm Imirs to hold world's away;
And so tbey flcht from dsy to day.
All lone ' show their po"r and inhjbt;
liLCh fi-ela that It a Ion a is right,
Now here's a bad. a glorlmi land;
We kins for peace on every band; .
Al! know the name aa V. S. A.
IjutA. teach ua how to lead tbe way.
We try to do the nations good; ,
Our actions seem not understood; .
But in their srrogsne and pride
Lacb thluka we're on tba other aid.
All know their landa are filled with shame.
And on the other caat tbe hlm;
So escb of ns must work and pray
To Bhow the world that better way.
That Which Ahlrloa
From the Philadelphia Le!gr.
The only things we can keep with u
surely to the end of days are the
things that never had a market vain.
n is not me wooa ana stone or trie
nouses maae -witn nsnda. nr of the
monoliths and pyramids, that endure.
who corne after us a creed of klndll-
reus and charity, a sense of honor, a
delicate regard for the Individuality of
S a- a. A . i . . .
friendship, a serene and modest self- '
-.' mwf mm a siSA.llUMlQ SV.VMIlw 111'-'
reliance. These are not to die when
a i last me irame tnt nuias tnem shall
mingie wiin tne oust, lnese shall
outlive the evanescent phenomena that
ruled our little day on earth bet wean
the morning star and eventideV - These
hall hrtns I mi. th A rum mm wh... i
flliment was denied us. and these shall
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lb tbe heritage on whioh time ha no :
I power. ' - j