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Newspaper Page TextTHE ' OREGON DAILY. JOURNAL," , PORTLAND, THURSDAY, DECEMBER; 21, 1818. . AM ISTDIPEXOCRT KIWSPAPE ; ; o. . jacksok, ....... .. . .........mhHaSor fabllehed every say, afternoon and naoralnf (xeent Sunday etti . at TbS Jooraal HQIldlut, Bfi Portia a4. Or. Broad ud Xamhtil streets, Eatereg at (Da eoatofrioe a Portia d4, 0, for . lraoniUl tsroags the Bali m seeoud , elaas natter, .'. All 1pertroota reached by these aaobctv. . Tall ua operator what department yea want. FOREIGN ADTEimSINO KEPEEf ENTATITB Benjamin Ktotsor Co., Brsnewlck Blag., 2Zi rifts Ave., Nsr York. 121 People's . Uae Bid.. Chicago. gcbscrlptjoa tecma hy mall or to any sedrese la tea Oaltal States or Mexico) - PAJLX talOsNIHiJ OB ArTEBnoonv Om Jtar...... .83.00 I om moots...,...! .BO . ;r:r . i BUN DAT v . . ' an K.t u. e MK ipw year... .ew wuv nmiiK,,,! DAILY OR APTEESQOM) AMD , v ;- SUNDAY V .On yir.......T.BO t One mosta....?..! 43 Amarlra aks nothing for bereel' lint what ' aba baa a right to an for humanity Itself. A WOODKOW WILSON. Mllllona (or. defense, but not a fast tor trlboto CHARLE8 C. PINCKKKT. 1 am of :lnlon that, unless yon eould bray Christianity la a mortar, and mould tt Into a new paate, there la no poaal blllty of a holy war. Bacon. PEACE? 0' N ITS face, the Lloyd-George speech offers little hope of an early peace. The "complete restitution. run reparation ana eiiectuai guar antees" which he demands of Ger many are severe terms. Germany : would resist tbem as impossible .term- If adhered to by the allies. It would prolong tbe war to a point Of exhaustion. L The speech, . however. Is an ad- ;vodata's speech, it was uttered more for the people of England and the people of the world than for the commons. It Is a masterly presentation of the issues from the .allies' viewpelnt. r y Bargaining between chancelleries lis "as common as between horse Uraders. The fixing of terms in ;the settlement of a trillion-dollar war will begin with the prices ''marked up. "Complete restitution, full' reparation and effectual guar antees," tremendous as they are in terms, are an offer to do business. There will be a counter orrer from .Germany and her allies. A confer ence' Will probably result, to end possibly ' In agreement, perhaps In disagreement. " ' Horrible as is the cost, it Is not ; probable that the allies want the : war to end right after the blunder in Roumania. Or right after the jblunder in Greece. Or with Ger- man arms so well staged in the ' ,Balkans. Or with German troopB on the soil of every contiguous belligerent except Italy end Eng land. Or with the conflict in a status where, if It suddenly ended, Germany would certainly point to It as a German victory and an al lied, defeat, a contention to which an impartial world would almost assent. '. Lloyd-George's great speech roakes It clear that the entente "Towers have not bad the benefit of the highly . concentrated organiza- li. mnjw yiuyuucu w uiyiuy lu the .prosecution of the war. Con viction as to that and expectation of accentuated organization and : cooperation, will strongly hold the allied '. governments to demands that Germany will be slow to con- cede. . , .Peace or no peace will rest largely with the peoples of the en tente nations. If the governments can bold their peoples to further submission to the awful atresa of h Aftnfllxf h on fan tea wilt rttnr plete .restitution, :full reparation and effectual guarantef s." That U Ilia luitna imAn which neara ar war now rests. '! Meanwhile civilization can, If It will, draw from the peace propos als and replies the most ominous lesson "that history can present July 28. 1914. Just before war was declared, . Sir Edward Grey, then British secretary of state for for eign affairs, proposed to the Ger man foreign office that representa lives ' '."of Germany, France, ' Italy and Great Britain "meet here In conference Immediately for the pur pose of discovering an issue which would prevent complications. " It was. 4 proposal for k conference for the peaceful adjustment of, the trouble between Austria and Russia over the- Serbian Issue. - i i';--: , - ':' After nearly 29 months of ghaat- luii auii terror, a, coiuerencv is now suggested to do what It vu proposed to do in the July confer , ence of 19 14 which was not held, v. By the" official testimony of the fighting nations, these things have happened in the interim: i' Germany says in the peace pro posals handed ;the American repre sentative for transmission to . the entente- governments:.; ? : Tha spiritual and matartal pregreas which wera.tha prlda of Kuropo at 1 'ttiWH' .'. . the beginning of- th twentieth cen-1 fury , are threatened with ruin. Germany says in the peace fcote sent to tbe -Vatican: r Europe. which formerly wss devoted to the ,: propagation of religion and civilization, which, waa trying to fin aolutlon for social problem .and was the horn of aclenee end art and ail peaceful labor, now resembles an im mense war camp in, which the achieve ments and works of many decades ar doomed to annihilation. Austria says in the note handed the American representatlye for de livery by the United State, to the entente powers: Continuation of tbe murderous war In which th enemy can destroy much but cannot as the quadruple alliance la firmly confident alter fate, la ever more seen to be an act of Inhumanity justified by no necessity and a crime against civilization. If civilization ever had a warn ing 'against war and an appeal for agreement by negotiation, it has it now in the, proposal for a con ference that waa postponed July 26, 1914, until there could be a teat of arms. The forces are said to be gather ing for an assault in the legisla ture on the Oregon Workmen's Compensation law. Do they forget that on referendum, the measure carried every county in the state, some counties by a vote of four to one? Do they forget that the Oregon supreme court in an opin ion - declared it to ' be "twentieth century legislation"? Will the leg islators forget? MYRTLE WHITE RAGIC Is the story of Myrtle White. What can not passion do with human beings when they submit to its sway? There were no witnesses to her deed but tbe dead walla of the room in a Salem hotel where she fired the shots that killed her lover and then herself. But If the walls could speak they would strike ne A ii m Vv wrttpt a tola t r nnlnaaa and despair. Not wisely but too well the poor girl had loved. "We liave had our time," she wrote in her last letter. "There never was another like it." And then time ended for her and him. Poor children, may God forgive them. They set sail without a compass on the black ocean of pas sion and their boat was wrecked. So are all shipwrecked who voyage without guidance. When we read stories like' Myrtle ..White's we shudder and pray. For there seems to be no full protection from the demon that tempts and kills except in superhuman might. So often does the passion npon which life depends drag our children down to death. And yet there is hope. This passion, terrible as it appears, fatal as t may be, is not Inevitably evil. In that strange book. The Wandering Jew by Eugene Sue, there is a wonderful passage bear ing upon this matter. The author explains to his readers bow the Jesvflt potentate who plays a part in the story built up his power. It was by storing up tbe passions of bis body and directing their en ergy into new channels. It was not by the "suppression" of passion. ; bcience nas invented a Detter word for it. The secret of his master mind was the "sublimation" of pas sion. The passion which brought Myr tle White and her lover down to despairing graves might have been "sublimated" Into something rare and beautiful had the miracle worker been at hand In time. The energy that destroyed their youth was something precious. It should have been saved It should have oeen spent upon long lives for themselves and happiness for Others. But it was lost for want of "sublimating" equipment in the world. Who will provide ua with the social machinery that shall transform these deadly passions into conservators of life? The express companies of New York say their Christmas business Is the heaviest in history. The. courage by taking a second wife department 6tores in all the big j to his bosom. His first matrixoo cltles and the other places where. nlal adventure, as we understand. Christmas buyers shop, give eimi lar testimony. What a contrast with Christmas in Europe! We are amid tha blessings of a nation at peace. MUNICIPAL BOOTBLACKS e-e-iniu vregoman nas not come w m r i a I J?rK mufIclpal bootblack establishments exactly. Our wise contemporary merely in timates that a municipal bootblack ery Is as needful as a municipal light and power .plant. It is idle to dispute Over tastes. And Just about as Idle to dispute over the sense of values. If a big newspa- per ees no difference between the! 5,000,000 men Just now. Later, of value to the City of a bootblack course, they , will ask for a real establishment and a great publlo : army, say some ten or fifteen mil uymy. why it does not see any dlf- j lion troops. But for a makeshift f erence and there the matter ends. : until they get ' their real plans If a man la blind he is blind and j formulated three million will do. Quite frequently there Is ao cure fqr hira. The Oregenian's witty article on this subject reminds one ef the vil lage cut-up who thought It would be a great Joke to take his pet polecat to bis mother's funeral. It would give the xiourncra such a pleasant $urprlse. The hardships of the poor under monopoly grind ing may look funny to our wealthy contemporary. We have seen boys laugh at the antics of a kitten wMen : they were skinning alive. But the kitten was not even smil ing. . c'tH- For one brief moment the Ore- gonlan does' seem "to take the nb- Ject : of public utilities seriously. This hi when it saya that the city already enjoys the benefit of three competing light and power com panies. And why ask for more? Nobody would ask for more If the three companies effectively .com peted or conld be made to do so. Their "competition gives Portland 9 cent current while Cleveland, under municipal ownership gets the same service for 3 cents. At this time, The Journal Is not approving pr disapproving the pro posal for a municipal lighting sys tem. But it is worth while to say that if the Oregonlan really wishes to, argue this diverting theme,x it might begin by telling us of some city where municipal light and power costs the consumer more than monopoly light and power. Does it know of any such city? No annual gathering. Is given as much space in the newspapers as the meetings cf the National Edu cation association. For nation wide publicity the convention next July will be the biggest thing that ever, happened in. Portland. STORAGE ABUSES s OME day, the manipulation of cold storage will end in a rev olution. What is happening to tbe saloon should be a warning to those who coin dividends out of the abuses' of cold storage. The Chicagoan who boasted that he 'had 72,000.000 eggs in cold storage and tauntingly queried, "what are the people going to do about it?", caused thousands of people to ar rive at very definite conclusions. You can stealthily pluck people a long time, but when you openly boast to them that you are doing it, they will not long stand hitched. Many people of sound minds al ready believe cold storage plants fv. He regulation. Others believe they should be publicly owned and be conducted with only enough charge to cover the expense with the widest publicity, as to all opera tions. The latter argue that In no other way can speculators be pre vented from manipulating the prices of fruits, eggs, butter and other food products. One abuse of cold storage Is the practice of selling storage eggs as fresh eggs. That is a swindle on the consumer and a swindle on the producer. It puts eggs six months old in competition with fresh eggs, and is, fraud. The benefits of storage should be for the Joy and service of the human atom and not for his op pression. Its potentialities are 8UC that the storage process 6hould not be a private snap but, a , public boon. ' Unless the abuses become less visible, private storage will go the way the saloon went. Under present arrangements', big profits are coined out of the feed ing of prisoners in Multnomah county. The county furnishes the accommodations, navn all exnenses. hlre, the BDlff and shoul(i re. v,a nrnfit. rvn tv.. inmm.ni Would a private enterprise turn all Its profits over to a paid em ploye? BURBANK'S WEDDING T HE country showers Luther Burbank with good wishes. At the venerable age of 65 he has embarXed once more on the perilous sea of matrimony. jMay he have fair sailing Into har- ' bor. Mr. Burbank has always j shown himself a man of courage. ' His Inveatiscatlons into nlant breed- ing were begun long before most of the world conceived such a thing to be practically possible. Like a bold pioneer he struck out on the trail into the unknown and brought back rare treasures of knowledge from tho wilds. Now he shows perhaps still more was prosperous. If Mr. Burbank were a timid man he would rest on his laurels and not tempt for tune again. But with admirable fortitude he stakes his life's hap piness a second time. May the fates be still propitious and make his winnings plentiful. He has don6 mnch to mr.ph thlk ttftrI . jWe pay him in the coin of happy hopes. MODERATE DEMANDS 0 UR war maniacs are surrjris- Ingly moderate in their de mands, considering that they are maniacs. They only want I They can not raise three million men without i conscription. But conscription Is part of the game as they wish to play it. When they have the lives and liberties of the entire population in their hands they will be' happy and not before. Militarism grows with what it feeds on, . Today three million men are wanted. Tomorrow they will want thirty million. No army is ever big enough to satisfy the demon , of militarism. They are shouting- now that the United States oould be "crushed" by Japan and ; England,- Yes, ft cduld per- haps. And tbe sky might fall and tbe moon turn to - green cheese. All these events are about equally likely to : happen. , Letters From the People (Ommntiloatlona aeot to The Joaraal - fnr publication la thla ttepartmrst ahooid bo writ tMi oa only ata aide of tb paper, rbootd not cs.ced 800 worda In les(tU and naat be af eoaipBaled by tbe name and addreaa at tbe aDder. If rbe writer duea eot deaire to kae tki una pabajbed tie afcoeld etf etate.) "DLaeatitan Is tbe ereataat ef aU refonnere. It rattoaliea ewytbUv It toochee.' It rob principle ef all falae aauetlty and throw tbem back oa their reeaoaabkovea. If ibey bar no rraaonabletwaa, it ru'.bleaai craahea tbeut oot of exiatrore and acta BP Its ot voncliuiona la tLetr atead." Woodrowr Wlleou. Transportation Comparison. Portland, Dec, 20. -To tha Editor of The Journal "Rob not tha poor, because ha is poor. Prov. 2S:22. "Ha that oppresseth tht, poor to in crease his gain, and he that gtveth to the rich shall come only to want" Prov. 22:16. It is Just that tha Portland Rail way, Light & Power company (in Philadelphia) receive protection. But not at the expense of any other legit imate business. If the whole of the above be not true, then let ua go back to tha old "stage coach," for. like the American Indian, the stage coach was first on jthe scene. When steam was utilised and the locomotive real ized, th stage coach was practically relegated to the rear. The baby car riage superseded the arm carriage, the bicycle the velocipede, the motorcycle and the automobile the bicycle, and the electric car the mule car, etc. We agree that these perfections have in a great degree added to the com fort of the general public. In the first Issue the big business monop olised transportation at the expense of the poor man. .This is well and good. Today automobiles are being built at prices to fit the average man's purse, and at that with a speed equal to and surpassing the speed of the Portland Railway. Light & Power company's cars. This is the present day issue: the poor man Is due to return to his primitive Job public transporta tion, and the Jitney due to supersede the streetcar. Justice: It would not be Just to force such regulations and terms, etc., upon the streetcar company as would make it impossible for them to make a legitimate profit for their labor, as long as the public good was 'not In jeopardy. And If this be true with reference to the streetcar company. Why not apply the same rule to the Jitney? We are convinced that the regulations and terms binding the Portland Railway, Light & Power com pany have been liberal enough to al low them to realize mfNions of dol lars at the expense of. the public and pay the rich stockholders (in Philadel phia) in heavy dividends,,. If the reg ulations and terms binding the street car company are such as to allow them to realise a profit from their business, then in 'the name of Justice we ask, have the mayor and city commissioners a right to bind the Jit ney men to such regulations and terms as will force them to quit running? Moral: If I am not mistaken the Portland Railway, Light V Power com pany has been putting out pamphlets headed "Watta Watt" written for self-flattery. Just a few nights ago I was riding in a Williams avenue car, and If I am to base my esteem upon the conductor and motorman of that car by a conversation they Indulged in at the end of the line, It would be expressed by the statement that the virtue of an v mother's srirl would not be safe alone In their presence. hls implies that the nature of the man working- for the streetcar com pany la tbe same as that of the man following any other occupation. And further, if the force of the pamphlet is intended as a silent rebuke to tbe character of tha Jitney driver, let them remember that if public light should be flashed upon the canvas of their hearts we might be seeing things. 8. L. MENDEL. The Negligence of the Railroads. Portland, Dee. 10. To the EJltor of The Journal In the Labor Press of November 25, In a double-column editorial, Scott Nearing asks many clear and cutting questions about the railroads. They should be an swered, and would be If Americans lived up to their reputation ef being ''free and independent But one question whieh he doesn't ask. will you kindly answer for your readers? What would we think: of a house wife who should be informed that she was to have 11 neop'e at dinner, but made provision for but six? Would we be content with her explanation that there was a "dinner shortage." The railroad managers, if they were ordinarily intelligent about their, wn business, must have known there 'was to be an' unprecedented call for freight cars this fall and winter. They are said to have made a billion in profits tbe past year. If they were really fit to manage so great a public utility as the railroad system of the United States, wouldn't they 5iave foreseen this need and provided against it. instead of cutting so many melons for themselves? Don t you think that we, the peo ple of the United States, should first squeeze the laat drop of water out of railroad valuations and then take over these public highways and run them for use and not for private profit? E. F. B. From a Friend of the Horse, Portland. Dec. 20. To the Editor of The Journal After reading J. Corson Miller's eulogy on "Blind Jim." a faith ful old truck horse that dropped dead on his Job, 1 wondered If there were anybody in Portland who loves the horse as much. The honest servant and benefactor Of the human race, unlike the coveted auto, will take his master home, drunk or sober. While life lasts he will help, without murmur, to feed and clothe the family. He dies in battle with his master, seldom if ever shirks a duty, and often carries him out of 'danger. And when the last requiem has died away, majestically draws his remains to their last resting place. Think of the colored soldier and his dying horse in Mexico. And yet we stand on the corner and listlessly see the heartless driver go by. Jerking the iron bit in the mouth of the patient horse every few seconds In addition to compelling him to draw a heavy load. Soon comes the double team with ton of freight, their beads drawn to one wide and they, toe, seem! to be friendless as well. Methinks if they were allowed one prayer to their mas-' ter It would be for better treatment. If there Is no adequate punishment for each treatment of the test friend humanity has on earth, civilisation is not all it should be. JOHN M. PATNE. Prohibition and Taxes. Oregon City. Or., -Dec. 18. To the Editor ail The Journal Prohibition has accomplished many things for which we should be truly thankful. U nas given us a mend in the Telegram. That, the entire nation wilt ultimate ly go dry. aa Representative Fitcger aid says it will. It would be well for all Interested to take cognizance of tha S2T,06fl.Q0 -liquor tax that somebody will have te pay towards the upkeep of the nation, since the amount will ba ao longer forthcoming from -the brew- era. Fitzgerald la "all rigbt In his declaration, but he didn't go ' far enough. He should have said, for the benefit of Oregon folks, that tbey would have to pay a goodly portion of this Immense sum over and above their present exorbitant - taxes. - The Telegram should be appointed to de vise ways and means and make col lection of the increased taxes within the state, it might start in first by, taxing the bachelor. That is, any man past the age of 25 years would of necessity consider himself eligible to bachelorship or some other Institu tion less respected. 8econd, it might do worse than tax all the men of opposite political faith, since anything freakish is likely to be propounded as sound logic and connon sense. Third, it might get permission from the city counell to use Alder street in any way it saw fit to attain its object. It could then invite the "Lady from the Washington ranch" (with all due apologies to tbe lady) to come and talk to these poor creatures who are so badly in need of enlighten ment that they must be told when it is time for them to marry. We, the people, then would be given the op portunity of seeing things accom accomplished that are undertaken by the paper which "says and does things." E. W. The Farmer7 Coat. Pdrtland, Or., Dec 17. To the Editor of The Journal We hear so many city people complaining about the farmers charging such high prices for. eggs, potatoes and other farm produce. Now, I want to say we farmers do not set the prices on eggs, potatoes and many other things we have to sell. Then why should any one blame us? Consumers are not paying this price to us farmers. We are not getting the high prices. They are not buying eggs, potatoes and other farm products from us, but from the markets, stores and com mission men. If they have any com plaint to make, let them complain to the man they buy from. They seem to think we farmers can get any price for our goods that we ask, but if they ever owned a farm they would soon think differently. When ever wo ship eggs, or whatever it may be, w have to abip to a com mission house and they set the price on our goods and pay us whatever they want to. Wo have to take what they give us, and consumers have to pay what they ask for goods. We get a low price and the consumers pay a high price for the same goods. But do fhey think It costs no more to produce eggs this year than it did three years ago? Three years ago chicken feed cost less than half as much as it does this year, and eggs are selling no higher this year than they did three years ago. Do they think that by boycotting the eggs they will help cut down the price on eggs? They may cut the price for a while Because many a poor man is trying to make a living In the poul try business and has to sell his eggs to make a living for himself and maybe a large family, but he will have to sell his chickens this spring and raise something else. Hundreds of small and large poultry men will be forced to quit the business this winter, and next winter consumers will be lucky if they get a taste of fresh egg. When eggs are selling at 60 cents per dozen to the consumer the farmer and poultryman are getting only 3jo per dosen. Let us figure on the cos: of a. sack of potatoes. If the farm is away from Portland and the pota toes have to be hauled about six miles to the railroad station, without count ing the cost of land and interest on the money invested in such land, tno taxes and the cost of plowing, cult! vatlng and harvesting the crop, it will cost 10 cents to dig and -sort each sack of potatoes. The sack costs from 12 to 15 centa The hauling to the depot cost 10 cents. The freiKht to Portland la 10 cents. The commis sion 6 cents, making one sack ef potatoes cost me about 60 cents with out counting other expenses, as stated above, and if potatoes are selling for m i-oruana tn0 rarmer will get only xu cents at the commission house. After cutting 0 cents from the price of 80 cents the farmer will get only 20 cents for a sack of potatoes. anJ the consumer is paying J1.26 for thes sam potatoes at the store. Apples are the same. We get only 40 cents for a box of apple that the consumer pays a dollar for. I think if some of these people that are boycotting the egg business would live on a farm a year and work for their living as we farmers do. they would cut out this boycotting and try to neip tne iarmera. FARMER JONES. Objects to Certain Banners, Portland, Dec. 16. To the Editor of The Journal A parade marched down Thjrd street at noon today car rylng banners in violation of the city traffic ordinance No. 32091, section 7, which reads as follows: No transparency or sign larger than 36 Inches shall be borne, carried or moved in the prohibited district.1 In the parade, were a dozen boys wearing Boy Scout uniforms, assisted by men who carried banners three by four and three by six. respectively. Why should this be permitted and the police look on and take no action? Owing to the fact that these boys wore the regular military regalia of the popular Boy Scouts, and owing to the fact that they were sons of sgl dlers advertising a certain theatre. Is no reason they (the theatre people) should openly ignore the law- Away with the system of govern ment that stands for favoritism as against democracy and fair play. The writer herewith vplces bis protest against such high handed partisanship, and the total indifference on the part of police officers who are sworn to enforce the traffic laws without fear pr favor. R. V. COVENTRY. The Crossing at Thirty-seventh. Portland, Dec. 19. To the Editor of The Journal Tour correspondent. A. B., uses a column of your space to give voice to his opposition to the. pro posed viaduct at the Junction of the O-W. R. N. tracks with the P. R. It. A P. company at East Thirty-sev enth street, urging, first, the great cost of the Improvement, and, second, the assumption that it is not really necessary. To the first, it is readily admitted that the cost of any undertaking is an objection. If it did not coat anything to do thousands of desirable things, then those thousands of things would be done without meeting with any special objection. But some things must be done, even with the fact star ing us in the face that it will take money. One of these is this very proposition to secure life against loss at the crossing of- these two railway tracks. "Eaflly obtainable figures demon strata that thousands of lives have been lost try Just such neglect as your correspondent suggests the neg lect to Insure safety where danger constantly lurks. This point at East Thirty-seventh street is just such nlaoe. It it a wise undertaking on the part ef the railway authorities and the city. That part of the proposition baa al ready been, settled. The need ef it is no - longer a debatable question. It has passed that stage. And it doean' pay. to postpone a matter of this character.- I read Just the other day in an eastern, magazine an Instance of a farmer , (he wrote the aeeeunt himself 7 : .r PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE Dollar- wheat now looks aa low to the farmer aa Itonce looked high. Perhaps the egg boyeottera are peo ple who did their Christmea- shopping early. Mr. Bryan's self-imposed task la the task of leading the nation to water to make it quit drinking. It will be mighty tough on our first con grass woman when she finds she must be content with "leave to print," For a nation so thoroughly "hated" as ours, the good old U. S. A. seems to be4 a good deal In the peace news, after all. 'Twlxt optimist and pessimist the difference is that between one man talking about the money won on elec tions and another man talking about the money lost. The Germans re'po rt that the British have seized 41,000 bags of mail. Bo that saves Uncle Sam and the other neutral the trouble of counting thero; Well, the world will stand for se cret, or even ultra-secret, diplomacy, if it takes that to end the war: but it wants no more of the secret diplo macy that starts wars. If tha minds of Europe's chancel lors could only be put In escrow It would hurrv Deace alonr Just as the related procedure in civil life hurries along the ordinary form of real, estate aeai. , THE STORAGE From tbe Rural New Yorker. Every year since cold storage, ware houses have been in use for the reser vation of food products from one sea son to another, dealers have gone through the western states from In diana to Oklahoma, and gathered up eggs in the spring season and nela them in storage until the, supply of fresh laid eggs became scarce in the fall. The prices paid the producer in Oklahoma have ranged from five cents a dozen up to 1G cents and II cents at different times and different places. The cost of storage. Including inter est and insurance, candling and loss, amounts to less than 4 cents a dosen: and 3 cents to 4 cents a dozen Is a good wholesale profit; and 6 cents a dozen is a liberal profit for .the re tailer, so that cold storage eggs at re tail stores would give everybody a good profit and retail at S cents above the price to the producer. The custom Is, however, to sell these eggs as fresh eggs and under the disguise of fresh eggs. Cold storage eggs sell at four to five times the price paid the pro ducer for them. a e Fresh eggs at this time of the year are produced largely in New York and ether eastern atates; and In the mar ket the cold storage eggs are sold In competition with these fresh state eggs and sold at a price just a little under the price of the actual state eggs, with the result that the fresh eggs are discriminated sgsinst in the market. The demand for them Is les sened because the housewife is made to believe that the storage eggs are fresh and, of course, this trickery re duces the demand for the fresh eggs and ultimately discourages the pro duction of fresh state eggs, so that this swindle of the consumer becomes a fraud on the producer ea well. Laet season eggs Were bought from pro ducers at 15 cents to 18 cents a dosen and Put in cold storage. They could be wholesaled at 27 cents to 28 cents a dozen and retailed at 12 cents to S3 cents a dosen. They have recently been selling at 38 cents a dozen wholesale and from 60 cents to 60 cents retail.. One dealer in Chicago, by the name of Wets, bragged that he had 72.000,- 000 eggs in storage and that he was going to hold them for (0 cents a dosen wholesale. When the people com plained he asked what they were going to do about it. In response to this de fiance and monopoly the mayors of the te Illustrate how a delay may prove very expensive and foolish) who one day noticed a strap on his harness had worn very thin. But he was in a hurrv and did not stop to mend it at once. He would do that later, when he had more time. Bo it was postponed. A few days afterward, while he was busy cutting his wheat, that strap broke In two. He was a mile from the barn and sought to bore holes In each end of the strap and temporarily mend it with a string that he found in his pocket. But his knife was dull and It Shut od bis finger and severely cut it. He was then compelled to go to the barn, get a piece of leather ana tools, return and do a place of work that he could have aone in a iew min utes during some preceding morning or evening and without loss of time. As It was. he lost two nours time ana had a sore finger to nurse for a week. The point is that tnis worn at ii-ast Thirty-seventh street should be done as soon as the authorities can get st it. The loss of one life would be greater than the amount or the en tire expenditure If the person killed u member of mv family Or that of "A. S." And Individual members ef I other families are equally valuable to those families. ROSE CITY PARK. Wonders of the HeaTenju Pendleton. Or., Dec. 18. To the Editor of The Journal In regara to the strange "celestial phenomenon" which Eugene O. Brown of Cornelius writes about, I saw the yery same kind of flash In the heavens in Colo rado about 15 or 17 years ago. It was in the fall of the year, about 8 or t o'clock p. m. That flash was so awe-inspiring that I shall remember it all my life. It was a very clear night. If I remember right, there was not a cloud, in sight. The moon also was shining brightly. This flash of light was as bright as day and lasted three or four seconds. Where this flash came from was very high in tbe sky. After this flash I looked UP quickly and saw a srthUe-like streak. It looked like coals of fire without the flame quite bright at first and gradually getting dimmer and smaller. But the streak held its shape to the last. WILLIAM BCHMALINO. The Streetcar Conductors. By N. 8. Keaaey. Away where the curtains of sunset Are woven in crimson and gold. On the banks of a deep flowing river There's a city of beauty untold. The evergreen nllls encompass The homes in the valley below. While distant the mountains stand guard Ever clothed in their mantles ef . snow. it's not the wealth or the beauty. , That makes for the city Its praise. But ever the people we meet With kmdly and courteous ways. To the streetcar conductor I cite you As men truly helpful and kind; Wherever. you go we are certain Those fcetter you'll surely not find. And a "Thank you" is easily spoken Whenever assistance they give. And we trust that the ladies will say, 'Long, lopg may these gentlemen And we wish them a bountiful Christ mas, With ever a glad New Year. V Same aa Ever.. " rroza' $be flwHa Tlajea-tnlon. 'Norway 'baS ' put " an - embargo 'on th'e export of raw copper." , i "Oh, welL Ireland will continue to supply tha New York polieejforee." AND NEWS IN BRIEF: OREGON SIDELIGHTS Wheeler county. It is expected, will be on a cash baai by January 1. 1918, ail outstanding indebtedness amount ing to oniy aiHui uuo, wun re sources in sight to cancel it. The" American grants that Sumpter seems to be ' sole to get together to boost good roaos, ttowever hard It may b to get together in boosting a other proposition for the good of t'.in town." "The Coos Bay press la repeating tbe old story ef a railroad from the Interior of Douglas county over a mountain to Coos oaf," says the Oar- diner courier. Whenever there la a railroad butlt from tha Interior of Douglas county to the coast. It wi'l be down the I'mpqua river t Douglas county's own harbor, which In tlmo will be the best on the coast. Rail roads are not being built nowaday over mountains when they can be built on nearly a water level grade, and neither are standard wagon roads" In Its excellent and most beautiful Christmas number the Coos Bay Har bor thus predicts: "When the n provements which have been made dur ing the past year are summarised, a review made of tha advancement which is planned for the coming year and the expressions heard from men in all lines of business, it cannot be doubted that North Bend and Coos Bay in general win enter upon the year 117 with the brightest prospects the community- has had for a long time past." EGG SWINDLE different cities of this state and other states organised a boycott on the stor age eggs, until the price was reduced to a reasonable level; and the depart ment of foods and markets issued an order compelling the dealers to mark the cold storage product with the words "cold storage." This will stop the fraud and discrimination against fresh eggs. The housewife that wants storage eggs will get them at a rea sonable profit and will use more of them, and by Increasing the demand Increase the price at the storage sea son in the spring. At the same time, the housewife who wants fresh eggs will be able to get them. The supply will be small and the increased de mand will increase the price of fresh eggs to a reasonable profit for the producer and it will stimulate and in crease production. e The speculators in cold storage eggs have raised a howl about this order, claiming that It would increase the cost of handling. On actual test, how ever, one-tenth of a cent Is the cost of marking. Ten dozens can be marked for a cent. The only cause for the complaint Is that It will stop the rraud of selling cold storage egga, which cost the dealer 15 cents a dosen, in competition with fresh eggs, which may cost the producer from 60 cents to 76 eents a dozen. e Any boycott Is uneconomlo and dan gerous. Its ultimate effect is an in Jury to everyone concerned. Any war is destructive and a boycott Is war. It discourages production and makes eggs subsequently dear to the con sumer. If effective, It reduces the profit of the dealer. If Ua effect, however, is to stop a fraudulent cus tom, it may be worth aU that it cost, e e Angered by the prospect of losing their monopoly, the dealers are trying to convince the publlo that the depart ment of foods and markets organized the boycott on eggs, and caused a re ductlon in the. price of fresh eggs. The truth Is the department had no part in organizing or promoting the boycott and does net believe in the boycott aa a principle. Its order to mark cold storage eggs will have the effect. If maintained, of Increasing the price and consumption of fresh eggs. One of the complaints first Issued by the dealers was that such an order, if en- I forced, would drive the price of fresh eggs to i. &o a dozen. .Lloyd-George. Protn tbe New York World. Imagine William Jennings Bryan as the political idol of Wall street. Ima'gine all the financiers and bank presidents and corporation managers and captains of Industry hailing him as the savior of the republic. Imagine all the forces of organised property and reactionary Republicanism rally ing to his support. Then we should have a situation, parallel to the situa tion In Great Britain, where Lloyd George Is engaged in organising a new war cabinet Three years ago David Lloyd -Oeorsre wss easily the best-hated man in the British empire. He had been the ben hated man for half a decade. He was the ringleader of British rsdlcnllsm. and while excuses might be found for other radlcala, he was beyond the pair Financial England detested lilm bk enthusiastically as the dukes detest p'l him. There was hardly a day when the British empire was not supposed to be rocking upon Its foundations be cause of something that this con temptible little Welsh attorney" was doing or preventing. The worst that Wall street said about Bryan in the campaign or l ' was flattering in comparison with H'p least that Conservative England .".! about Lloyd-George for five years, ami yet he is the man to whom Conserva tive England has turned as tbe head of a new government. It is beyond belief that the Tory Intrigue against the Asqulth ministry ever had for Its object the making of Lloyd-Oeorge prime mlnlaier of Oreat Britain. Yet that Is its inevitable consequence, for there are only two men who can meet the exigencies of that effiee. One of them Is the prime minister who has been forced to resign and the other is the "contemptible lit tle Welsh attorney" who has been the great driving force of the govern ment since the beginning of the war. No member of the former opposition measures up to the work, ar Bonar Law practically admitted when he re. fused to undertake the formation of a ministry. What the Unionist leader In parliament could not do, no ether Tory can do. The qualities that make a great chancellor of the exchequer with revo lutionary measures of social justice, or a great minister of munitions pr a great secretary of state for war, are not necessarily the qualities that make a successful prime minister. Lloyd George has proved that be could use the Asqulth government te mighty purposes. He has yet to prove that be can creafe a government ef hie en and use it for still mightier purposes. BuMhere ran be no doubt that with the Asqulth ministry overthrown Lloyd George is the one statesman to whom the average Englishman, regardless of partisanship or casts, would immedi ately took for leadership. He baa proved himself the - most vital ladU vldual force in the empire. - That this radical of radical demo crats should be called upon at this time to organise a government is one of the most significant political events in British history. In a war that has been prolific in paradoxes, there has been no other such paradox as this. - Kut lt Can Be-, pone, i - ,. -: , fren.. Judge. -, V ,: ''. It takes a let of money te make a homely poor girl a pretty rich one. Ra Tag and Boltail Stories From Everywhere "" -'.... '!' '. i IT tUla eiBe all redra ef Tbe Joarnal are iuriu-U to cuutrlbiit erlcfMl mattrr ! atury, lu Vera ur In .biloaopblcal obaerTatloa ur atrlklug queUUeua. rrtia any aourre. Ustribetluna at riraikMial ewrit alii ee patj fw, at Ui editor a -i,.pralaal. - Runts Is Runts. ANTHONY EUWEH, the well known . rhymer, artist and speaker, whose book, 'Rhymes. df Our Valley," la be-, ing read with much Interest, tells m good story on himself or maybe it Is on the woman or the third party in question, this is the story: Mr. Euwer was giving a drawing room rnadlng of his rhymes last win ter in the salon of a prominent New York women. Mis audience was made up of typical easterners the big city variety. They heard the dram alio story of the orchardlst in "The Blood in the Apple," and were fanned by the wind.ff old Mount Ho.rt in the eloquent recital by the author of "The Soul of the Average Wan." Then they were dropped from the sublime to the ridiculous In the pitiful story of "The Little Runt," son of "Old Sophie, our sow." After the guests had n dispersed the hostess frowned slightly on ier artist. "Your readings," she said, "were most interesting, sir; so different. But that one about the pigs 'the runt,' I be lieve you called him wss that not a bit Intelegant?" "Madame," - replied the accused author, "I hevo yet to meet an 'ele gant' runt." The Bpielless Public Market, W. W. Lunger, a farmer of Lafay ette, Yamiilll county, who wss re cently elected a representative in the legislature, was telling about his ex periences with tho Portland publlo market. "It was three years sgn," he mused. "My wife raised some turkeys, fed 'em well and fattened em, and 1 brought 'em to Portland. Down on Front street they eaM I could have II cents a pound, which didn't suit me, so, srranglng, to stay a couple of days, I rentod a booth In the public market. Well, sir, in four hours I had sold out at 25 rents a pound. The next year, naturally, I came back to the ptihlic market, only I brought more turkeys. As people went by and looked at the turkeys I told how my wife had raised ni and I had brought Vtn to market. Pretty soon n policeman tnpped me on the shoulder end told me I couldn't say anything about my turkeys. I could put up signs, but I Onubln't hut I'm going to tell m.' I went rislit up to the city hall Rrfd talked to Commissioner lllgelow, and he con firmed what the policeman said. Then I went to see Mayor Albee, mid he said the law forbade using sahHinnn shlp. By then I had my riumh-r tip. I said, 'I'm going right buck to my booth and I'm going to sell my tur keys. I'm not going to shout. 1 m law abiding. I never whs Hiresti'd, but I'm gonlg to tell 'cm.' I went back and pretty soon who lo Jtoii think ehowed up7 It was the city at torney. I had some black walnuts on the stand snd ho lookd; it Vm. 'There,' 6ald I, 'are black walnuts like the ones you used to pound out of their shells when you were a hoy. They're sound and swjset.' "What do you think he did? In stead of making a complaint agafiiHt rue he went anil bought two pounds of walnuts." Tis the Voice of (lie Smoker. ''I don't enjoy smoking a pipe," nairf a friend of this column. "When f am using my own tobacco I meditate constantly on the high cost of living and the shortness of the smoke. When 1 borrow the tobacco my pipe Is packed so tight II Jn't draw." "Aw, Shucks'." Lou Kennedy, the sport writer. I an avid reader of detective stories and he knows all tho best authors from Dave Hazen to Wllkie Collins snd Eniile Oaborlau, Some lime hro Kennedy purchase,) s nicely hound volume of "The (-Secret I'lny." Inid It on a shelf at home and In tended to read It when he got the time, which was several weeks later. When Kennedy took down the book and opened It at the first chapter, he discovered that It was a football story written for boys of 13 years. Making It an Object. At a certain church It is the In variable custom of the clergyman te kUs the bride after the ceremony. A young woman who wa about to be married In this church did not relish the prospect, ssys Titbits, and In structed her prospective husband to tell tie clergyman that She did not wlxh him to Kiss her. The bride groom olxyod the Instructions given. Weil, Marry," said the young wo man when he appeared, "did you tell th,. minister that I did not wish htm to kiss me?" "Yes." "And what did hs say?" "He said that, in that case, he would charge only half the usual fee." Tom Sawyer la Oregon. There Is a 12 year old youngster In Corvallls who should be able to prosper when he grows older. His parents had built for him a toboggan slide In the back yard. In payment for which he was to put several cords of wood into the basement. That pile of sawed wood looked bigger than the toboggan to the boy. Many wesry hours of work would be necessary be fore, he eould enjoy the slide. Ho he used his bead to hustle things. When his playmates came he Issued an edlet that no boy should be permitted to shine his trousers on the slide until he had wheeled In one full wheelbar row load Of wood, and that for each load be would be permitted five slides. In one day every stick of wood was taken to the basement and the con tractor did nor wheel a load of It He states that not only did the other boys , do all the work for him but they polished the slide so It "works just dandy." The Item That Father Handed In. It Is the little things that cannot get into the pipers that Instill lit tle Joy into the lives ef tha reporters, writes the Emporia Ossette's editor, ror Instance, it was a father sitting collarless and in bis sock feet; father smoking a eofe pipe and scrsplng hla finger nails with a Jaeknlfe; father, who works IS hours a day like a horse, who turned In ths item that his tw daughters, who had pot done anything to mike them tired within tha last . five years, were going sway for a long rest and expected to tske a maid wltk them.. . . - ',.,.' Unci Jeff Hnon fcajsi ; ' Old Henry Miller ence told me that If he had snowed as much when he wag 21aa be knowed when he was tt, he would have owned ail of Cali fornia and half of Oregon. I see, hie estate la to stand a tax ef IS per cent, 'cordin' to the lawyers. Henry won't need the other SO, nohow, and 1' he ' not kep back by some new rule and regulation he will gradually own all of where be baa gone to,: no matter which wav- that is. . I ain't judgln him, for Henry had ' his good points, even If be was some land hog.