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fens 'would reg,uire that the lonsj way connecting the cities ot Marsh
distance between tiose two places! field and North Bend, Coos" conn-
bo bridged br an establishment on ty, Oregon,' Similar expression
the Columbia. f Standing so near I has come, from Marsbfleld.
midway , of the coast line as it I f The Journal wishes td do Its
does, tie vessels stationed tnereipaft la the world' work. 1 It ex-
would bare free rang either to l tjt3 for service.'' j tries to be
the. north, or south as occasion Bomethlng more than. an. unrivaled
migni cai in time ot necessu j. - i purveyor, of new.
A logical presentation ' oi ... me
claims' and ; adyantages of the Co
lumbia rlTer base,; if. made to the
commission; when it. visits Oregon,
will. In all probability, Impress It
with their justice and good sense,
and result in ' ..a recommendation
farorable . to it. V i ' . j
prosperity - to every industry in
America, yir't'--: ' ' -
ThU. country In all its actirities
Is on a new course is la a new
era, and one of the great ' under
lying activities that is to. immense
ly profit from the change is the
lumber industry." " -
In other forma, It. has done a
great deal more for other locali
ties than the slight service ; f en-
dered the Coos county .communi
ties. The ' campaigns It has made
for ' popular ' rights ; and, equality
before 'the law la", Oregon were
an infinitely. greater " accomplish
ment. Its pure milk campaign In
letters From the people
tCoaatnanlcatloa east t Tba Joaraal far
pobUeattoa la tola department imu v wnt
teaj on only a aid of th paper, aboald V
exceed 800. wrda la lentb. and mat b ae
eampanied by- tba auw and addreaa er the
andar. It tb writer doea sot dealr to bar
tba wm fobUsliad Be aboojd ao ftata-i 4
"THmraaminm tm tha, areateat of all reformer.
Tt rationalise ewytbliia it toachea. It refca
priaelplea tt all falaa aaartlty aad throw tbem
back aa tbir reaaooableaeea. If tbey hare a
ne w eaiaer was rouKa, u'Wi pAHl.M'ma ttmiftTid-foM mor. I c5. " ,T"Ar "vi!."
Otnnan TJ boat laid tWO days ,n-.Tarit: k. . fn Af wronr nd I of etHteaea and aeta op fta w eoedttalooa la
to give lifeboats a smoother sea la iTZ r i-. it7.. Tnf t"-wadrowwii. r ;
which to carry those on board the
Columbia to safety before the ves
sel was torpedoed. . . Not an Ameri
can life was lost- It; is ."some evi
dence that Germany 1 is i trying to
keep her pledges to America In U
boat warfare. ' '
it 'Often meets and merits furious
opposition.
That lact makes the commenda
tion - from Coos l county a; most i
plea8ureable episode.
Coos . county Is a wonderful I
region. ;It is a" coming empire.
Its resources are almost unlimited. '
It is "destined to be one of the
r WAS a pretty phrase that the I most important localities ; in Ore-
president made in the course of igon.
SIXDS OF JTSTICI3
.- America aika sotblar tot baraalf traf what
U in rlfbl ta Mi for bomanltjtaelf t ,
-, ; -jwoouapw wiuox.v
Vlllfcaa ' far dtfena. but aot a cent -foe
trlbata CUAlO&S 0. PINCKNSX.
I' kop 1 bn always poaaeaa flrnmaaa
aad Tlrtoa anoafb to malauia what I
eanaldar tba moat enviable at aU tttla.
tba eaaraetar f aa booaat ma., . "
.: Waahlftftoak
j ' T0HT1AXD PAYEOLM
his remarks to the Federation
.- Va dWOAVA UVavAVwi
Mr. .Oompers and some chosen
men of ' his ' cohorts went to the
White House to felicitate the pres
ident on his reelection. ' Mr. Gom
pers dilated on the mission of the
labor unions, saying that they stood
for freedom and Justice for the
great; body ot tollers. President
1 Wilson, -caught at the word "Jus-
jtlce" and took it for a text.
I " There are two kinds of Justice,
he told the labor men. One is of
the sort Hamtet had In mind when
THIS SLATJGHTEB
F
EJ OJNTTNO out how to increase
payrolls In Portland, Fletcher
'pinn'. said last week In 'an
address:'
Better ;srorlty for lnyastora. Stand
aCK' OI r vua Uliaj. guipiuauvu wm-(
tnUsloner' and '.help him to see tnac
mar promotion scharoaa tt no ptace
here. v.. '"" ' ' '
There-could 4e no better advice
klHARMS, during the year
1815, caused more aeatns
than railroad accidents, more
than five times as many as
streetcar accidents, nearly as many
as railroad and streetcar acci
dents combined, and . more than
twice as many as automobile accidents.
The figures are from the cen
sus. They snow, that aeatns from
use of firearms numbered 7994.
he said' that if it were strictly ap- or nearly 12 persons in" every
piled none of us should escape 1 100,000. Of these deaths S08
were suicides, 2885 homicides and
1501 accidental. The figures are
for the registration area, and
cover but a part of the country.
We are the greatest man-killing
whipping. Portia was thinking of it
too in- that phrase-maklnc speech
of hers where she said that in
strict ' course of Justice none of us
snouia see salvation. it was
.mercy we were ail praying for, not nation in the world, and we do
Justice, said Portia. Mrs. Brown- the. killing mostly with concealed
ling bad; the same thought in mind firearms. We blustered and Aus
tin thOBe terrible" IlneS. "We TJraVltor1 rMnf1r ahnnf ttta UlTJncro
Promotion, schemes that collapsed ; together at the kirk for mercy, of
, . when put to the test and brought mercy solely, hands weary with the the sinking of the Lusitania. But
loss to anarenoiaers, cbto maae m- evil work we lift them to the we go oa constantly killing aa im
: vesiors arraia o nova w0uun , noiy.
and' Illegitimate enterprise .in It was another sort of Justice
which stock is sold. ' j that the president described to the
Too many investors have been, labor delegates. One can scarcely
puien. iue;Bse w wv uiauj aisunguisn it rrom rortia's mer-
corporatlons consisted mainly of a
desk,' an office chair, articles of In
corporation and a board of direc
tors, sometimes phony,
r Too many . corporations have
been organized in which the pro
moters got 15 per cent or 25 per
cy," which falleth like the gentle
dew from heaven upon the Just
and unjust. It is, he said, "justice
with a heart In It, Justice with
a puise in it, justice with eym-
pamy in it," m snort, it was
that species of Justice which Joins
cent as commission tor seiung men together Instead of driving
Stock and another zt per cent in them asunder in hateful factions.
a block of stock went as bonus Like Lincoln. President Wilson
for promotion or pay for some 1 yearns for national unity. A house
more or less worthless patent., divided against Itself can not stand.
There is plenty of local history And our national house will ever
mensely greater number with our
firearm! madness, and - scarcely
hear a protest over the slaughter.
If one-hundredth part of the
columns on columns ot newspaper
space devoted In the past six
months to partisan bluster about
the, protection1 of Americans
abroad were applied to protection
of Americans at home from the
pistoi slaughter, presently we
would throw the concealed weap
ons Into the sea and take another
step towards a real civilization.
in ms insistence tnat the peo
ple of the United States have eaten
(ha hltta, hrmaA n
M. TULM mUCh ? be dlVlded ftgaIn8t lt9elf as lon " Colonel does not specify whether
of the total proceeds of stock sales one class arrogates to Itself all the
went to the organizers, leaving the blessings of the world, leaving to
corporation oerore it eren Degan me other nothing but toil and pov-
buslness with half its capital ab-, erty. It la not Justice which thus
sorDea, its promoters immorally apportions the gifts of God.
enriched and the activity doomed
it was a Jitney loaf or loaves -at
15 per..
MAKING AKTIFICIAIi COAL
to failure at the very outset We
went through a wild orgy of this
j kind .pf dishonesty in' pastw years.
and-the sequel is that capital-is
A way tot Portland to get pay
rolls Is to give a quietus to bogus
corporations, organized, not for
useful activity but to enrich the
A
timid because burned fingers are , promoters who absorb big portions
of the assets as commissions for
Selling stock and as bonuses for
promoting the organization. There
afraid.
""More 'to the point, as soon as
legislation was enacted In an at-
. tempt to make stock enterprises Is a Blue Sky law and Its honest
honest,' the cry was Instantly set and Impartial enforcement would
. np - that ; legislation was driving
capital out of Oregon. That cry
also has its effect in making it
difficult for legitimate industry to
. attract investing capital. J
-7 MrLinn is sound in his -Insistence
V that "mere promotion
schemes" should get no place In
Oregon, and that the state corpora
tion, commissioner should apply and
be-upheld In all efforts -to apply;'
v-the- law made and . provided Ao
""lieep fake schemes and bogus cor-
poratlons out of this field. : 7
a. When the. Investing -public Is
once assured that the corporations
of j the state are safeguarded and
must be legitimate and honest, it
will be a simpler matter to increase
payrolls In Portland, 7
go far in encouraging capital
create Oregon payrolls.
to
ENNOBLING WAR
T
HERB la much to Justlff the
rumors that the resources ot
that WOYlf TO 1 ATYr1 VACS O Vam tfi ll
lng. Their energy has been tIon of all the waste from the pa-
something wonderful -and they hare
NORWEGIAN Inventor has
discovered a method, of con
verting the sulphite refuse of
paper muis into a "paper
coal" which, under exhaustive
tests is said to have made an ex
cellent showing with the best Eng
lish coaL
In the manufacture ot paper, ac
cording to this Inventor's experl
ments, only forty-five per cent by
weight of the wood used goes into
the finished product. The remain
lng fifty-flTe per cent passes
refuse with the sulphite lye, and
It Is from "this that the so-called
coal is made.
It Is estimated that the utiliza-
husbanded their means with a wis
dom that 'has often seemed super-
numan. nut no art can spin a
whole web out of a single thread.
A time must Inevitably come when
the embattled empires will begin
to show signs of exhaustion.
Pofislbly that time has come al
ready.; Many military observers say
that the reconstruction of the Polish
kingdom was a move to gain-new
recruits for the Prussian armies.
That may or may not be so. But
. A call for a contribution of $30.
000,000 for the needs of Colum-
, bla university has been Issued by . the new woes" inflicted npon Bel
rrcsiaent uutier. Further vital- alum, can mean but , onis thine.
Jzlng ' of the functions and exten-1 Germany Is runnlnz short of men.
elon of the research of the unlver- iTo eke out her supply she is driven
Bity. ia'the purpose for which the j to- deport the " Belgians .and set
-greai. contribution is asked. With them at work la her quarries.
w rou oi lo.ooo students and the fields and shops.
eervlce Columbia is rendering the
country, it is probable that Wealthy
xNew York,wiU find a way io" meet
the request; 7 i-:xt.-:-
TBCB 'TOMMITTKB COMINa
: r " " ":'7' -:
tarlR n mmmm i
m VI M
w.
of
comes ; from WaahInv
ton.tha the naval commis
sion appointed ".to Investi
gate) ths- possible ( location
In other words, the exigencies
of war have forced, the most mili
tary nation in the world back to
an extraordinary move, a move
direful to Germany in her stand
ing before the great bar of public
opinion. I -
i- How the federal government
under President " Wilson has co
operated with lumbermen 'In seek-
per mills of Norway In the manu
facture of the new fuel, would re
sult in a decrease of thirty per
cent la the coal imports to that
country.- '
More and more the world is
Beeklng to save its waste products.
Coal and oil fields will face ex
haustion In the face of the enor
mous demands being made upon
them. Just as the forests have dis
appeared and are ' disappearing
under, the drains put upon them.
And. while it may not appeal to
people la Oregon, surrounded by
forests and with resources practi
cally untouched the time is not
far distant when the American
people' will cease" to be the most
extravagant and welcome " every
opportunity for saving "and nslng
the enormous waste and by-products
of ' the far extended Indus
.Through, long years of commer
cial "activity and upright living,
Werner Breyman left his impress
oa the. life of the : Willamette val
ley. He snrvlved' to 'the j-lp;, old
rage of 8? and left, an honored
naihe to ,be ; woven Into" the "history
of Jt.Myah base ? or naval . bases ; tng to . build vpi thet industry was ot 'the commonwealth.,-npoa-i
the Pacific- coast' Is ta its teaW -tnlW: . '
way to California for ; the' com
mencement of Its investigations.
' Upoa the . recommendations ' ef
that commission will rest, in very
large parV the success or failure of
the effort being made by the -people
of Atorla to secure the place
ment of a submarine base oa the
: CdThmbia- ttrw,"-' r u::-.
7 It Is difficult for the "layman to
see what objection could be raised
. to the selection ot the lower Co
l lqmbla for snch' a base.'. ,Wlth the
provision already ' made ; at Puget
. sound on the north and -at San
Francisco on the south, it would
sem logical, to believe that the in
terests of "aa'4 adequate coast de-
at the various; functions given visit
ing lumbermen yesterday; It' would
have been .a'; graceful . acknowledg
ment it some of v the r things said
after election had been said by the
same mea berore election.
I
R
t ITS TOllGnT OTJTIiOOIC
T 13- doubtful If the lumber-In
dustry ever; presented so nope-
ful a -tone as now. r,x
la the meetings held la Tort-
land yesterday,' some - lumbermen
for .the first time realised1 to what
great - lengths vthe ' federal govern-
ESOITJTIONS tave been re-tment, through the trade commis
sion and otherwise,: has : gone to
aid-lumbering and lumber market
ing.-. For; the first time it was
brought . home to them that the
government -.Is ' now working oa a
Suggestions Regarding Cement.
Corvallls. Or- Nov: lt-To the Edir
tor of Tno Journal I have written two
lattftra for Th Journal on the question
ornme, and lime plaster. -1 thank you
for vour indulgence, and now asa space
ror a few woras on tne queiuon w
mnt Thea letters, trlth tfcoee writ
ten by other parties, have convinced
the pubuo or Oregon ot tne vaue pu
necessity of lime, lime plaster and ce
ment. Investigation has also- proved
that these necessities can he manufac
tured by proper methods at prices that
users can afford to pay for them. So
T feel tha.t this agitation la doine; some
good In awakenmg the public to tbeir
need and also to their privileges, in
my first letter I asked the question
hr 4t wu that lomit neoble that were
in authorltyVand hold positions, of
trust, and also some that were not so
favored were seemingly opposed to in
vestigation. I ask the same question
with regard to cement. I am of the
citV. mnA am now cuttlna in a word
for myself. Streets are needing to be
improved. Anything we could do to
lessen the expense (which we all Know
it rrut) would be wisdom on our part.
So I feel that city ana country snouia
work hand in hand. Will someone tell
me why the city should not also awake
to Its needs and privileges T Of all the
modes so far advanced for accomplish
ing results, nothing is said that savors
in tne lease oi a oonaea moeoiwuiM".
I ask myself If It Is possible that this
may be the reason of this aloofness
of some parties. I hope not. How
ever, we have the ideas aavancea ny
B. TT boon, which I feel are right
and proper. - If anyone has anything
better to offer, let him bring It out.
Let us discuss it. In the multitude or
counsel there is wisdom.
I like The Journal. X think It the
best dally on the coast
JOHN P. STRINQEK.
Arraigns England.
Reedville. Or., Nov. 20. To the Ed
itor of The Journal la the British
concern for the rights of weaker na
tionalities sincere? Judging from the
"wave of Indignation" sweeping Eng
land -over Germany's deportation of
Belgian working poeple, rendered idle
by Great Britain's ruthless policy of
prohibiting the importation of raw ma
terials Into Belgium, one would act
ually be led to think so, If It were
not for the if act that evidence to the
contrary la so voluminous as to sweep
away all shadow of doubt To employ
the idle Is the one big reason Germany
undertakes to send Belgian workers
into Germany. And also, Belgium is
a war area. Its industrial centers are
In the path of allied air raiders. Its
civilian population has not escaped
death- from the bombs of allied air
ships. Great Britain's thinly veiled
rypocrlsy comes glaringly to the sur
face, when we study the Irish ques
tion. In Ireland. Irish fathers, sons
and husbands have been torn from
their homes and lie In British prison
cells. ' Germany seeks only to give'
employment to Idle people outside the
danger sons ox war.' She believes la
lifting the Belgians outside the lim
its of charity, and she Is right The
allies are making a lot of anti-German
capital out of the situation, by appeal
ing to sentiment Let them seek for
the "beam In their own eye." They
will find It In Ireland. They will dis
cover it in Serbia and Greeoe. Serbia
Is today battling to recover a lost
country. Instead of lifting the bur
dens off the shoulders of the Serbian
army, the allies -manage aomehow to
hurl the remaining fragments of the
Serbian nation Into the very thickest
of the fighting. In this very "consid
erate way, what doe the "champion
ot small nations' think win remain of
the remnants of a lost cause T What
is poor Greece's plight today? She Is
absolutely squelched by the allies, who
control very nearly everything In that
unhappy country. While we are (bowl
ing for humanity, let us be American
enougn to maae our nowi ioud enougn
to cover all the ground. O. E. FRANK.
The Few Versus the Many. .
Portland. Nov. 20.-TO the Editor of
The Journal Dr. Boyd's sermon yes
terday was eloquent. He arraigned
education and the laws and customs
under which we live. He said the evil
could not be remedied by changing the
laws, hut maintained it could be done
only-by organized-effort to lift an
elect few above the sordid and selfish
standards In the ethics of education.
that maae xraud ana dlsnonesty- so
alarming and general, to a higher
spiritual standard. It will make char
acter building the object of education.
instead or the acquisition of wealth
and Power. The elect few will leaven
the whole mass.
The fundamental' error of ohqrch
and state is tne .assumption that a
few are good and the many are bad.
and account for the fact by the detect
in human nature. It la not true, hut
the belief makes class rule and special
privilege .universal and concentrates
wealth In the hands of the few and
dooms the many to poverty la the
midst, of superabundance for all.
All elemosynary activities tend to
aggravate Instead of cure the evils ot
poverty and unemployment : There la
no way . that charity can be dispensed
without doing violence to the self-re-
spect of both the dispenser aad the re
cipient Charity la twice curst it
hardens him - that gives and Softens
him that takes;-and until the defect in
political government that Is the cause
of poverty In the midst of superabund
ance is , removed bjr the' . perfect eco
nomic remedy t perfect money circula
lation) the universal " environment of
selfishness and' competition Mnust in
evitably continue-'to ' degenerate alt
types of .manhood. -Did not the great
Paul say he -was the vilest sinner ot
all? If Paul was s degenerate, we all
are. .-:.- .-- - :" - - . - V
There . 1 no evil in the world but
what -human law and custom are di
rectly responsible for.
give the rest of the world the impres
sion' that we have grown as large as
we care to be and have attained a de
gree of progresslveness that Is per
fectly satisfactory! ' ' - ' w ' '
Let's start sometblnr so startling
that it will startle the Silurians who
are forging ratters or conserva
tive, ' sUck-ln-the-mud ' do-nothingness
around this region, -Into turning up
their toes or running for their uvea
Let's blast their apathy wide open
with-an idea and let a ray of generous
optimism into their souls which win
banish their fear that someone eise
mav make m. dollar out of the business
prosperity "they would " create should
thev do somethlnr: an idea that will
engross their attention so completely
that : the 'natural1' march ot progress
and evolution will resume Its way sim
ply because they have got out of Its
Have you the ideal ' it must pe one
with no such limits as "Tour Portland
and Mine. It must not be of the f em
lnine sender, like Tor you .a rose
in Portland STowa.'..
Here Is a suggestion. Let s take tne
line that divides Oregon and Washing
ton, stretch It a bit tie one end or it
around Mount Baker at the summit
of the Cascade mountains at the Ca
nadian boundary, and run' It south
along the summits of the Cascades to
California. Tnis wm maae a siaie
runnine along the ' coast from Call
fornla to British Columbia, which will
be of a uniform nature, with identical
needs and alma. The development ana
utilisation of the Columbia river would
become the desire of a united people.
The logical capital of the new coast
state would be at Vancouver, vvaan.
East of the mountains would thus
be formed another new statequite un
iform In Its nature, needs, alms and
aspirations. - There would then be no
antagonism between eastern and west
ern Oregon, nor between eastern and
western Washington. The capital of
the Inland state should be at Umatilla,
Or. The two states could retain their
present names, their application to be
left to the choice of the whole people
by being placed on the ballot at the
next election, as also, or course, tne
matter of rearrangement
With the - present arrangement the
representatives Of the people of two
widely varying sections Of the country
meet in the capitals ot both states. In
many things there Is rivalry between
the eastern and western sections ' of
these states. The representatives of
the people west of the mountains have
a large voice 'in making laws to gov-
PEBTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHAXGE
The ouerv might be deemed Perti
nent. "What shall we 4o with Out
nlx-presldents?" v;' ??;-;-
Or. If the Colonel misses it aratn'ln
1120, there's 12. to say nothing of
1S2S. to inclusive., -H -jy,: -- H
There is one Mace where the high
eost gets a bat over the snoot That's
at the well known, stage banquet
Bevond Question, this Is the land ot
plenty, and when everything else -is
listed there are shortages a plenty.
This year, aa in all close years, your
opinion of the electoral, college - is
likely to depend upon who gets tne di
ploma u wui issue ana tne can it wiu
Ue, '-,'V,- - -
' - V - - SB . f'- .
When Mr ' Hughes mentioned the 100
ner cent candidate he was lust a cen
tury off. Mr. .Monroe was -the last In
that class. - s
An shortage In the 1111 alfalfa crop
could proneoiy oe maae gooa ny tne
gentlemen who, made a certain style of
eiecuon net.
German manufacturers, it is said.
have succeeded so well in Imitating
Chinese lade that oriental experts are
frequently t unable ? to determine "-The
real from the Imitation. In which case
it is ud to. tne sailed iaae to wince.
- The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, of
fered 'lor sale some time ago, is -suu
on tne market. And iiaeiy to stay
there. ' Many a man, especially in this
metalliferous west. 'has nut his rood
money Into bole In the ground. But
who wants e noie unaer tne grounai
Chlcaro has elected to go after the
professional bondsman, 'which worthy
lm consequently admlttlnar that he la
the same kind: or an eeiemosynary in
stitution that the loan shark always
loudly claims to be-whenever he sees
retribution aropping aown upon mm.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS i -y;
Pendleton is - to - have a - municipal
Christmas tree, and : a. committee; to
frame arrangements , is aireeay
Work.' - -v .:'!,H'V-';-'5,:5:';-
TK. ! li. Me Arnnlilnr a club la
Coquille tor the purpose ol studyingi
tne nistory or, Oregon, om oum i
states. -, .- )?i xi;''" 't:-i':!
There promises to be a wood and
coal famine in Condon. the Times
says, if the shortage oa cars does not
let up -pretty soon. --.. .;..,... '-'-.';'";
Stantield. bv a vote of 'll to II. last
week decided to dimmish Its corpor
ate area. Something like a ' square
mile or territory has thus been put out
side the city limits. v . - . ,.'
Many of the men emnloved the vast
season on the Crater lake road work
have gone out for the winter, the Kla
math trails Herald reports, the snow
at thelake causing work to be dlacon-
unuea untu next year.
"Some cold .this week, with a record
of as much as 1 degrees below noth-lna-
renorted. i observes the Summer
American. "Nevertheless we are still
firmly ot the opinion that Sumpter Is
tne gem ox tne uiue mountains.
''plana for a reorganised Commercial
club are shaping up at Burns, and the
Tribune says that when- it becomes
generally known what the plans really
.-a f V. .Oluni o Rnana art 11 smh ft
; -
; RagTag an A Bobtail
IT tola eelana in n. iiw....t
aretoTltee to eootrlbata rlr1aal aw t tar la
tery, la verae ar to pBllaeopeleal abaerritlas'
atrlklnf eaotattuna, fraia ear aoaree.
.r .s V,.'rp k,Ml mV Paid
for, at tba ealtot'a aparalaal.1 ' , , -
Pe'd Been Heading the Cartoons.
BEN BiaLER .WALKER, e.ed t. son
of Oliver G. Walker ot the Flsk.
Car company, has a playmate of suit
able age and .else whose name is BUt
Ban became Interested in politics In
the .recent presidential campaign.'
' One day he rushed into his father's
presence In considerable excitement
"Oh.. Daddy," be exclaimed;' "Bill's
Democrat I"
f "Well,' inquired the punled parent'
rwhat if he Is t Nhy get excited about
that?" - - - j
Why because, Daddy, said Ben, "1
didn't know Democrats was human. X
thought : Democrats was donkeys
dressed up In folks elothea"
Mother Needed the Money,
An Alameda Park matron was re
joicing that she had been appointed a
clerk of election in her precinct. She
stands under rive feet, and friend hus
band stands over six feet
They took
tne citizens ox uuens wui gran it tne matter up or aforesaid friend hue-
quick and Burns will have one of the
finest commercial oiuoe-in tne coun-try.-
- v . '
f "If the ringing of the curfew bell at
o'clock has no other purpose to serve
than to apprise the publio ot the time,
inquires the Sheridan Sun, "why ring
It? If its tinging la a symbol of an
ordinance, why not enforce the ordi
nance? If the ordinance is not in
tended to be enforced, why not repeal
it? If the council cannot answer, who
lean?" -r
THE REAL ANSWER
From the New York Tribune (Republican),
HoremDer ut. .
On election night, when the re
turns from those states which have
hitherto . been : regarded as pivotal in
national campaigns Indicated a large
majority for Mr. Hughes, "the Tribune
editorially wrote of - the result that'
it was a repudiation of Mr. Wilson
and an answer to hi declarations of
policy and 'purpose. The returns
which have subsequently been redved
have demonstrated clearly that the
ern that part of the state which lies Tribune was mistaken " In its conclu
east of the divide, and vice versa. Can sions and that- far from a repudia-
such an arrangement possibly work as tien of Mr. Wilson, tne returns tnat
as would one whereby the people tare now at hand constitute the most
well as
east of the mountains ran their own
affairs to suit themselves, the same
thing applying on the coast?
Oregon Is said by some people to' be
the most slowly developing state west
of the ' Mississippi. If that Is true.
there must be a reason. The reason California and Minnesota fall to Mr.
must be hidden from our view. It Wilson or to Mr. Hughes. The very
cannot be found without doing some- fact that these great Republican
thing. Let's do something, and see If states have been In r doubt .to this
remarkable personal Indorsement that
has come to a - Dembcratlo president
sine the days of Andrew Jackson.
It is relatively a minor thing
whether the few hundred votes that
will decide the electoral votes of
we can find that reason.
ILIL
moment Indicates the extent of the
failure of the Republican candidate
and his party and not less clearly
the amazing triumph of . Mr. Wilson.
There is a tendency to overesti
mate the Influence of the west in
the decision and to Ignore -the verdict
of the east of ..New England In par-
Poor Sportsmanship.
IWn h Rnrheeter Herald.
Neither Mr, Hughes nor Mr. Wlllcox
could be Justly described as an expert
in popular sensibilities. The accumu
lation of crude and Clumsy blunders
in the leadership of the one and the timiiar. ,Tet the votes of Massachu
campaign management of the other is Bfctts and Maine, the almost unbellev-
no less than monumental. Republi- able figures from New Hampshire, ln-
cane who were hitherto supposed -to cx, that the same spirit which
be gifted with unusual skill In the me- wu abroad In Kansas and Minnesota
chanlcs of party management hut who waa to be felt and seen In New
were kept Idle and in tne oacKaTonna jwj.
j-, .v.. Mnant Mmn&is-n. are now i - .m-
" , ..tirv franki-r f It Is possible to debate the ques-
the grotesque foUies of the candidate tlon aa to whether the larger partTof
and Ms pofitlcal IruUer. the lwlt wa due to Mr. Hughes
' Thi. ..timATi. rrhanai not alto- personal failure as a candidate and
imnartiai ajiii disinterested, and I his resolute refusal to .meet the
might not be entirely convincing were great questions -of" the campaign
it nn that eaDdldate and manager fairly and bravely, or ' to a general
persisted In offering corroborative and enthusiasm . tor t Mr. Wilson, andfor
continuing "proof of their ineptitude.- - hii 'Ipollclesi But such' a disousslon
The finishing touch, that is needed is In - the main academlo. However
to establish all that the Republican much importance one may attach to
whihoria are savins: of the candl- Mr. Hughes' . failure, ' only deliberate
ttA ajd tha. manager is furnished by land Intentional Injustice could 6b-
tha accused themselves. The most un-1 score the extent ot the personal trl
popular thing in th world, of politics, lumph of Mr. Wilson. He' has done
as of sport is a poor loser, to neaten i wnat none out ma xnena ana paru
candldate who grudges the simple. J sans believed he could do, and he has
manly acknowledgment of his defeat
is 'rated everywhere along with . the
owner of a losing entry who tries to
get the winning horse .disqualified on
soma cicayune technicality. Naturally
this parallel is one tnat wouja not oc
cur to Mr: Hughes, but it U one tnat
is occurring with increasing frequency
to persons who voted for him a week
ago, and now wish they hadn't ' The
reluctance or Air. uugnes to sena tne
customary telegram to President Wil
son admitting defeat and expressing
good will Is. perhaps, more revealing
ef his measure than the precipitous
haste with which he dispatched that
other telegram accepting the nomina
tion because of ' a "grave national
emergency,"- that he later f orebore to
discuss -or mention.
Some Other Missing HamTshakes.
From the Detroit News.
Had Candidate Charles E. Hughes
made no other campaign blunder than
to tail -to shake hands with the domi
nant Hiram Johnson when he visited
California, he would still have been
guilty of a tactical mistake tnat wui
live long In political history.- But that
omission wast only the surface indl
cation of a general course of conduct
which Progressives suspiciously viewed
aa unsympathetic
sticking to the tanxx. ana tne unin
spiring Wllson-appointed-eueraoerat-to-ef
r lee Issues, he - failed to - elasp
hand, with the liberal feeling of the I po"ts them to their fcomee and buys
day. . ' J blev -noh of their portable possessions
. xlm vwictw " ww .M-i'.uy i ,,- mav nave acauireu in u w
Mmt PASSEVQ
ceiyed in which the city
council of Nortb. Bend ex
presses appreciation because.
at its own expense,: The T Journal
"recently and unsollcitedly t sent
to our community- an- eminent I broad Plan of using the national
highway- engineer,' Samuel C Lan- J power as far as posslbleto ' bring
caster, to lay out
a" scenic high-1 helpful conditions and a permanent I to k
iy:'-v- ,. . v. . . . . . ' -
Proposed as m Radical Remedy.
r PorUandT Nov, .SO. To the Edltbr of
The Journal Is Portland "Tour Port
land and MinaT Is it .your pol ic
that nearly every time 'a representa
tive of eastern capital comes here to
investigate the feasibility of locating
a rectory In this : city, . conditions aa
presented cause him to return' whence
he came a sadder and a wiser man? Is
it agreeable to you that we remain
bottled up and" submerged ' under the
waves of ignorance caused by a pe
culiar disease locally known as the
Oregonlan? . Do- you and I really want
to keep Portland all to ourselves and
won an indorsement in portions or
the nation which have , never before
given a similar tribute to a Demo
cratic Candidate for the presidency.
save in years of Republican factional
strife.
Long before election day there
ceased to be any question about an
affirmative vote for Mr. Hughes.
Long ago the single question of the
canvass became that of the rejec
tion or Indorsement of Mr. Wilson.
On election day the real problem
was not whether Mr. Hughes or Mr.
Wilson would.be elected,-but whether
the public would accept or reject Mr.
Wilson. In the first hours ot the
count when Mr. Wilson's defeat was
conceded by the newspapers which
had supported blm most loyally and
was written In all the returns then
available, the Tribune said that Mr.
Wilson had been rejected and his
policies repudiated. In all this the
Tribune was mistaken, and it does
not believe that any such conclusion
can now be drawn from the election.
even If Mr. Hughes succeeds Mr. Wil
son by virtue of the turn of a few
hundred votes In two disputed states.
Such personal satisfaction as can
be drawn, from the result belongs to
Mr. Wilson; he is entitled to It The
Tribune hoped - there would be e
straight out Issue - between Mr. Wil
son's policies and those that it be
lieved were braver and better.
such issue was raised because Mr.
Hughes steadfastly declined ' to raise
it ' Had' such an issue been fairly
raised " the Tribune believes that a
different answer - might have been
had. But even this la open to chal
lenge and permits no proof.
Whether Mr. Wilson now wins or
loses the count the real honors of
the election are his. Because the
Tribune has opposed him most bit
terly, it feels that it should recog
nise this fact, most frankly. If Mr.
Wilson finally loses the present elec
tion he will remain the strongest
man politically in - the nation, as
much stronger than his party as Mr.
Hughes was weaker than his, a man
to be reckoned with politically be
cause of his bold upon popular im
agination and publio approval.
band took It up, to be more to the
point and su treated that , the. . two
children might need mothtr, as their.
nousemaid was "greenr - Y ' " -
-very well," stated the mother . of
the small flock, "you are probably
right, but 1 want to earn that money. .
Somehow I feel that Is. X have? a ;
hunch that it is going to be a two
or three days' Job this year, and, to
come straight to the point straight
from the shoulder, sir what am I of-
fered to retire from, we will say, three
days' well-paid work?"
Nine dollars good, big, silver ones
were accordingly collected fully three
uays Derore tne election. I N.
Just as Well Tell a Big One.
. Dr. Horace Brown of Milwaukee, a
much traveled man. once found him
self in Livingston, an Atlantic port ot
Guatemala. There were only throe
other white men in town who were not
Central Americans. One was also .
from Milwaukee, another was an Eng
lishman and the third a German;
Somebody suggested a game of cards,
says the Chicago Herald, and a can
vass of the place brought out a venera
ble deck. The German dealt four
whist hands, and Dr. Brown, first to
lead, picked up IS spades. - Each player
bad a complete suit.
The Englishman- immediately wrote
an account of the deal to the London
Times, the Oerman apprised the Lokal
Anselger and Dr. Brown communicated
with the Police Gasette.
The doctor has been getting away
with this story for years, because he
has a blue-black beard of ferocious
curl, and cutting off a leg has been a
pastime with him.
Cruel and Unusual.
Orlie Chase and Dewey lnman, while
up the creek last Sunday, encountered
a flock of wild geese, says the Dallas
itemiser, and -succeeded in killing one -by
throwing rocks at it The young
men and a number of their friends en
Joyed a feast from the wild fowl Mon-
No ' day evening at the home of Marshal
prison colony which la self-supporting,
and which sends a man out after his
term of servioe. a better cit&en than
when" he entered. At present there at
1400 colonists located on 100.000 acres.
Rv.rr nrlsoner with more than a year
to serve must learn a trade. Prison
ers enter the colony tnrougn ineir
good behavior in tne otner- prisons
on the Islands, and are ranged In four
classes, entering as a member or the
fourth class and earning the right to
advancement When a prisoner bas
been a year In the colony, he may
send for his runny or mar
If,4 in the choice of trades, he elects
the study of agriculture, he is given
12 acres, and the government fur
nishes a work animal.' implements,
seeds builds a house ror aim, na
t.'.n inatructor to teach him. There
Is a cooperative store at which he can
trade, and he snares wnn me Bvtc.u--n
half until It Is reim
bursed for the goods furnished him.
There is a market for au me prouuc
he can raise. If he has children old
enough to learn a trade they are ad
mitted to the trade schools of the col
ony. ' Fifteen per cent of the Prison
ers stay on at the colony after they
have-served their terms, continuing to
workon the farms, and those who
leave receive additional good conduct
allowances, and the government trans-
mass of Progressives of 1012.
He withheld a merited recognition of
the really remarkable ' legislative rec
ord' of a Demoeratlo congress under
Mr. Wilson and gained nothing thereby
save the reputation ot an un construc
tive critic. ; ; i
ony. The colony Is governed under the
honor system, and thefts are rare; All
the business or me coiouy
by the colonists, wno "i""""
lighting and water systems. Those
who do not work the land, work, In
the power nouse, ana m m w
.hnni?- There is 'work for alV'work
Im atat as where half the. Republican 1 MMna better ' efficiency v and
party was struggling for freedom from j greater earning power when a sentence
the hoped-for message that would have o tne prison does not cling to the
turned the scales toward the forces of prisoners when they return to their
publio service, maintaining Instead a homes, and that the prison is -"really
cold ana teennica noainunj. lan open door to. nonest enuearor, ouu-
Beeklng to conciliate uou- Branches i cation and thrift A majority or. tne
of his party, he merely Impressed reg
ulars as a man hard , to handle, and
Progressives as a pale memory of the
Hughes or Js. - . . ' '
Where, asked rrogressivee and in
dependents, , was the courageous -leader
unafraid to 'offend party bosses In
the public Interest? Where tha brave
determination to risa party ana per
sonal advantage for publio good?
Where the- crusader for broader pop-
niar rights.- for puouo' morality,- ror
dean,' free-handed government?
mitnttti of the Prison are self-re
specting cltlsens from the day of their
discharge; for they have Jeaxned how
to live honestly. . v-'-' - V..
Cooperative 'Buying Clnbs. i
Tram the Spokane Spokeaman Review.
Thirty months -ago ' American coop
erative clubs of consumers who pur
chased food directly from producers or
large wholesalers were a negligible
fluantityr' Today,; according to 'John
t rvvit.r toe such clubs flourish at
Puzzled, they waited long for, one j Chicago, 100 more at Philadelphia and
word of recognition ana sympathr.
ona handclasp of 'welcome and greet
ing, remembering the Inspired leader
of l08. Like the greeting that should
have been Johnson's, it was restrained
In ' the supposed Interests of c party
solidarity.'' Distrustful - of- the-Old
Guard, "apparently in control,. PrOgres-
over tOO at New York, while the larger
cities east of the Mississippi have
thousands of them, ' - ' "
The cooperative : buying club - has
eaad to be an experiment in the
United States.. -Scores of thousands of
housewivea'- lactory nanus ana em
ployes -of banks.4 department stores
slves and 'independents east one more and business firms buy through these
vote of protest'
K
, ' A Prison College.
1 rram the Cbriatlra Harald.
According to Dr. Waller H. Dade,
director of the bureau of. prisons in
the Philippines, - this bureau is con
ducting "at Iwahlg, - near Paiowan, a
I clubs every week. Their -savings aver
age 20 per cent wmcn is no small
amount at ' any - time and is a large.
amount in these times.
The eastern club buys eggs by the
hundred 'dozen from producers as far
I west as Iowa. Its butter comes from
the creameries of Ohio or Indiana. It
obtains beef, lamb, poultry or pork In
lots of CO or 100 pounds from western
packers. It purchases fruit honey,
nuts, vegetable and a dozen other
products of farm or orchard la bulk.
It eliminates whatever middlemen are
superfluous. In effect It 1 long dis
tance marketing and covers virtually
the entire country.
Mr. Colter gives twe factors as the
causes ot the purchasing club and its
growth. One consists of the express
companies Unking county producers
and city consumers in order to gain
business to replace' that taken by the
parcel post The other Is the sudden
eagerness of great producers of foods
to sell - directly to retail customers.
The carriers have published quotations
of prices, details of quality and pack
ing and other essentials of successful
direct marketing. Reputable farmers
and large wholesalers have been de
sirous of tapping new" markets. The
ultimate consumer has ,r been 'de
termined to break the back of the ever
rising cost of living. - The' result of
these forces bas been the first-really
cooperative movement, la the , United
States on th part ot consumers.
The ' clubs "range In . membership
from 10; to S00 members. One club's
order ' for Thanksgiving - turkeys ex-
oeeas ; too pounds. . sa Chicago- club
spends nearly. $1000 weekly and" saves
25. per cent on retail-prices.' The 40
clubs at Port. Wayne one day ordered
a ton of fish, 100 dozens of -eggs and
large consignments ot California dried
fruits, honey, smoked ham and strips
of bacon.
; V 1 saasMMesMHBMMMiaaaMMM
And This, Too, Is - War.
frea the Popular Science Monthly.
The soldiers who fight with least
recognition In the battles at sea are
the -stokers ot the destroyers running
at full speed. Eight men work under
the command of stoker petty of
ficer. In a space so narrow that move
ment ot any kind seems impossible. 1
There Is a furnace in front and one
in the back. Sanwlched In between
lr a maze of levers, pipes, pumps and
gear. Tet within these close quar
ters the stokers find space to per
form their heart-breaking toil in. aa
atmosphere almost too hot to breathe.
When the men are at their posts,
the iron batch is closed down and the
air sucked In through a' ventilator
bas to pass through the furnace before
its gets' to 'them.'-.-
So long as - the pumps work well
and the evaporated water1 Is displaced
with automatic regularity by fresh,
neither the tubes nor the boiler casing
can get dangerously hot ; "But 'some
times : without apparent cause,', the
water 'slowly descends' below the
level. 'Sometimes the cause of mis
chief is a leakage a pipe broken or
a joint strained that allows th water
to escape. If It can be remedied. Well
and good. Bat If not arid the water
continues to drop steadily,- th stoker
petty officer has but one duty to per
formto keep the hatchway from be
ing opened by the 'frenzied stokers.
thus allowing the flames to escape and
destroy the entire vessel. ' The ; her
oes who perish In the stokeholds Uk
iso many rats caacnt in fiery trap
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mmf MV mf wSrtm ' - - - r
O. P. Chase.
Toning the Flag's Gorgeous Dyes.
An American flag with pink stars
and otherwise peouliarly picturesque
in appearance hung from a pole 1n
front ot the consulate in London. A
laundress hired to wash and Iron the
consulate's flags had boiled them,
says the Chicago Tribune, causing the
colors to run.
George Washington. Consul General
Skinner's colored messenger and who
formerly saw service la 'the Tenth
cavalry during the Spanish war, up
braided the laundress. She replied that
she even had thought of putting
starch in the flags, to which Washing
ton indignantly replied:
"Madame that's one flag doesn't
need any starch in it" "
The consulate now is appealing to
Washington for new flags. Soot and
fog make it necessary to use about six
flags yearly.
An Election Outrage. .
C, W. Dent, rancher of Warner Val
ley, arrived in Lake view yesterday.
Mr. Dent ' Warren Laird and some
otner party are accused of pilfering a
goose which waa being prepared as
lunph for the election board, says the
LakevJew Examiner, The ' bird had
been placed in a barbecue pit about 10
o'clock on the morning of election day
and about 11 o'clock the same evening
the three miscreants made away' with
the bird. J. J, Van Keulen, of the
store at that place, came to get the
bird for the election board and when
he found It missing he went on a still
hunt for the mauraders. He saw sparks
shooting from the chimney of Frank
Roggers' house and immediately went
there and knocked at the door and n a
subdued tone of voice asked to be let lu.
Upon getting ho answer he profanely
stated that If the door wasn't unlocked
in a mighty short time he would break
it In. He got in and assisted in tne
eating ot the goose. What the election
board had for lunch has not been
learned. '
The Janitor's Alibi.
The big smoke on Tuesday after
noon was caused by janitor waixer
burning the leaves on the Congrega
tional church square, says tne sorest
Grove News Times, and was not
caused In celebration or wnion vic
tory, ti Mr. Walker is a staunch Re
publican. ' ' 4 '
Bat Couldn't the Hen OackleT
With a wild sweep the wind tore
round a corner and removed the hat
from the head of a respectable. and
near-sighted citizen who happened '. to
be passing. ,- .--- V r.
Peering wildly around., the .man
thought he saw his bat in a yard, be
hind a high fence.. "Hastily climbing
over, . be startea - to ' cnase it says -Titbits,,
but each time be thought be
had caught it it got another' move on.
Then a woman's angry voice broke on -
Iris ears..-;. ,V-ta'. - .'
'What are yon ; doing . there V she
demanded, shrilly. '
He ' explained mildly that tie was
only - trying to ' retrieve ' his bat
Whereupon the woman said, tin won
der: ;.-,.. jV- .
"Tour hat? . Welt I don't ' know
where It is. but that's our Utile black .
hen you're cbaslngT --r- ' '
v ;iuggeBUDg m C3uag9.
- Willie Is six years old andwhen'hls -mother
punished him -recently he 'did
not resent it but decided to have It
out with ber H " if-- '' '
It' hurts you to whip me doesn't It
motberr'ha said.'
H "Tea dear,"; said his mother; ; "It
hurts me' very much," : t ' '
t"And yoa wnly do it .to' .make" e
goodr. . -- v-H'-, ,-"".v4 f -::
-' s Tes,' dear." fi7 hk V V -V
; WelI, mothr, forget It iext time
and' It wPl make me gooderyf
i-$iwteU Jeff Bnow Savt?- , -J
Over ' Iri Europe ' the.' soldiers are
slaughtetin one another Just 'alt they
liked it; but all the same I b'leve all
of 'em would like to have somebody
come along and make 'era quit Trouble
: is there ain't no police, tor raid tb
Joint i;-',m ; ;, . '-