, -- .... .-.f- T-limfiiirt-rt ii , , r V. .,.1 . - ' - . : :..,,..-.. v. -. 4.. PAGE FOUR DAILY EAST OREGOXIAy, PKXDLETOy, OREGON,' FRIDAY, FEBIUTAKY 2, 1912. ' EIGHT PAGES 7 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSl'ATEit rubllshed Dally and S-ml Yekly at Pen dleton, Oregon, by the EAST OKEliONlAN PfbLISHlNd CO. 81T.SCKUTIOX RATES. Dally, one ye'' by ma" 13.00 Dally, lx months, by mail 2 50 Dally, tUree moniha, by mall ....... 1.-3 Dally, ono month, by mall .60 Dally, one yar, by carrier 7.50 Dally, ox months, by carrier 8.7S Dally, hrc months, oy carrier i.5 Daily, oDe month, by carrier .S Hemf Weekly, one year, by mall. 1.60 teml-Weekiy, six months, by mall .... .75 Iteml-Weekly, four months, by mall... .50 The Dally East OreRonlan la kept on sale t the Oregon News Co., 3I Morrison Street. Portland. Oregon. Northwest News Co., Portland, Oregon. Chicago bureau. Security Butldlug. Washington. D. C, Bureau, 501 fcour teenth wreeU S. W. Entered at the postofflce at Pendleton, Oregon, u eecond-clasa mall matter. Member United Presa Association. telephone Main 1 Official City and County Paper. several weeks or until the affair was exposed tn this publication. Maybe too the "antls" elucidated to members of the board why their newspaper or gans denounce the members of the board (when they are not around) in very seurri'.ous terms and trv to make honest farmers believe the reclamation service Is filled with pinheads, martinets and thieves. A DIFFICULT PROBLEM. THE DAILY OCCURRENCE. It sometimes happens when we scan The newsy morning papers That not a South American Republic's cutting capers. But this may always be looked for "When one takes up one's jour nal, That somewhere some new gov i ernor v Is lined up for the Colonel. It doesn't happen every day That people sadly mutter Because they are compelled to pay A higher trice for butter; Conditions down in Mexico Are sometimes not infernal; The governors keep busy, though, In calling for the Colonel. The war scares oft are shoved aside, We do not need them daily; Sometimes the rich man's show girl bride Refrains from acting gayly; But one thing we may always see. Its flashing is diurnal; Some governor reports that he Is lined up for the Colonel. E. L. Kiser. A duty for tomorrow go and register. The Ground Hog did not see his shadow. Too bad the visiting board cannot hear the Warner trial. In yesterday's issue of the East Ore gonian some Information was given concerning the electric trust and the workings of that rart of the octipus that ramifies the northwest. It is not a pleasing state of affairs that is re vealed, by any means. What frightens people though is not so much the existence of Individual trusts as the growing belief that the country is becoming beset with "com binations of combinations." Gover nor Woodrow Wilson describes it as "private control of business." In a speech at the Jackson Day banquet in Washington a few weeks ago he criticised private control of politics and then spoke in this way: "Xow, the other hing that has been privately controlled in this country is the business of the country. I do not mean'that each man's particular busi ness ought not to be privately con trolled, but I mean that the great bus iness transactions" of this country are privately controlled by gentlemen whom I can name and whom I will name, if it is desired; men of great dignity of character; men, as I believe, of great purity of purpose, but men who have concentrated. In their own hands, transactions which they are not willing to have the rest of the country interfere with. "Xow, the real difficulty in the United States, gentlemen, it seems to me, is not the existence of great in dividual combinations that is dan gerous enough in all countries but the real danger Is the combination of the combinations, the real danger is that the same group of men control chains of banks, systems of railways, whole manufacturing enterprises, great mining projects, great enter prises for the developing of the nat ural water power of this country, and that threaded together in the person nel of a series of boards of directors U a community of interest more for midable than any conceivable com bination in the United States." Other public men are pointing out the same problem and are discussing how to handle it. Some congressmen think they can accomplish good by in- ..t.A I- . 1 I ,,r9iiaiiii nnai wiey ciuas as liic money trust. Others lay all trouble to the tariff. Some think the solu tion lies In regulation by the govern ment of the prices charged by trusts. Others favor the gradual acquisition by the government of public utilities and the improvement of the public service with a view to greater and greater participation by the govern ment in the industrial and business life of the country. Whatever people may think as to the proper course to pursue it must be admitted by all that the people have a problem to solve that is fully as dif ficult if not more perplexing than anything that ever tiefore arose in the history of the country. WHAT IS A SPOKT? Councilmen should "line up" the electric trust; not allow it to get them into line. When the new high school is open ed it will be sadly deficient in a very important way if it does not offer a course in domestic science. With over seven inches of rain thus far this season the prospects fo: a good crop are rosy. Umatilla coun ty has the soil and when it gets a satisfactory rainfall, as it usually does the wheat crop is worth hauling in. In many respects the coming prim ary election will be the most interest ing in Oregon's history. It will be the first time voters have had a chance to use the presidential preference pri mary law. Register now and get ready for the fray. At the time the McN'amara's admit ted their guilt there was a very gen eral suspicion that "something had slipped." It is not customary even for guilty men to plead guilty unless the state in some manner gets the "drop" on them. THE OREGON' JONAH. The Portland Oregonian is enlisted in the equal suffrage campaign that is to be carried on again this year. If the suffrage leaders desire success it might be well for them to "Harveyf ize" that support. The Oregonian has been such a persistent foe of everything that stood for the political or educational advancement of the state that some people may look upon its advocacy of suffrage as a sign there is something wrong with the move. But perhaps the trend tow ards equal suffrage is so strong that the amendment can te carried this fall regardless of the handicap. MUCH TO EXPLAIN. It Is to be hoped that in submitting information to the members of the visiting fcoard of engineers Mr. Bur gess made it clear regarding the un fortunate "accident" which caused the anti-extenslonists to make use of the corporate name of the Umatilla Wa ter Users' association In fighting the Extension. Also we presume be tes tified as has Mr. Hurd that they were warned about that infringement early in December. Perhaps too he ex plained why it was no correction was ever made and why the unfair letter to President Taft was not recalled. If he did he should have told also why it iras the answer to Secretary Fish er'e letter of intjulry was delayed for By the will of a wealthy citizen who left .200,600 to the National League for the Promotion of Physical Cul ture, the French courts and the French Academy have been confront ed by a perplexing problem. The bequest was made for the purpose of encouraging "sport." In the French dictionary there is no such work. The term is well enough understood by thi? public, but has no meaning in law or literature. Hence arises a diffi culty In construing the will. It is believed that the academy will adopt the word and define It as mean ing: "A combination of muscular ef forts intelligently directed, accom plished by men and animals and reg ulated with sufficient ingenuity for mankind to find amusement in it." That definition would Include danc ing, as well as croquet and mumble-the-peg. It would exclude lynching, which has been defined as the king of outdoor sports, and also poker and other games whose adepts are gener ally known among us as "real live sports." Whether automoblling as now prac ticed can be defined as "a combina tion of muscular effort intelligently directed" is questionable; yet it pass es undisputed as sport. On the other hand, street-parading behind a brass band on civic holidays, though gen erally "regulated with sufficient in genuity for mankind to find amuse ment in it," is not called asport. Fi nally, one man's sport is another man's nuisance, as the frog in the fa ble said to the boys that were throwing stones at him. It would ap- pers othat a sport Fh Hposes pear that a sport is anything a sporty person likes. If the French court be wise it will set the bequest aside on the ground that it Is opposed to pub lic welfare. New York World. for many years. Up to Dec. 1 the ar rivals in New York were 781, OSS, de partures 486,794; and in December the departures are exceeding arrivals by many thousands, Only within recent years have the Federal officials sought to keep ac curate figures of emigration, but the process of ebb and flow has always existed since fast steamships began plying. Alarmists yho have pictured the dangers of immigration have of ten blundered by considering the gross figures only. In the- decade 1901-10 immigration rose tfTth enor mous total of 8,796,000; but the net gain from this source was much smaller than the natural increase through, births. The heavy exodus this year is in part due to slack work. Building ac tivity has fallen off slightly. Railroad work Is proceeding slowly for finan cial reasons. But the custom among our foreign-born residents of taking a flying visit home is growing irrespec tive of lack of work. This year a special cause exists in the war in Tri poli of which students of figures have not taken sufficient account. Some thousands of Italians have gone east ward hoping for a chance to fight; but a much larger number who had been planning to go back "some time" have seized the present occasion, when' po litical differences are forgotten and when the entire peninsula is in a pa triotic festival spirit over "la terza Italia." v Sentiment counts heavily in that enormous total of 486,794 re-emigrants. And most of them will come back. this is so, perhaps, not altogether be cause of the colors and the plctures queness of the setting, but because he has never seen anything liko it in his own country. In the statos a cowboy on a mule wou d be a curios ity; and there is noth.ng in the table lands and low, rolling hills of Mon tana or Texas that can compare with these rugged, eteep-sided plains and valleys of Mexico. Then, again, there is something so wild, primitive and picturesque in the very appearance and dress of the vaqueros, apart from the country itself and the brilliant colorings, that the stamp of com merce fades into the background. The mules and raw, breeding beef, the short jackets, tight pantaloons, im mense hats and altogether fierce as pect of the riders, seem moni like a pant of some barbaric pilgrimage than a peaceful quest on a matter of hon est business. It is probable that no where else in North America, pos sibly In the whole world, will one find greater contrast between outward ap pearance and inward purpose. From "The New Cattle Country," by F. Warner Robinson, in the February Scribner. THE FURNACE. THE XEW CATTLE COUNTRY WHY IMMIGRANTS GO HOME. Excepting the after-panic . year 1908, when emigration from this coun try was 100,000 more than its Immi gration, 1911 will show the smallest net foreign addition to our population This Is Mexico Mexico of the cat tle country, the new cattle country. And the fouju men riding silently across the clearing in the glow of the sunset were Mexican cowboys. They sat gracefully astride mules, with their scrapes (blankets) wound close ly about them, each with a chunk of raw beef, bleeding and uncovered, dangling from his saddle. They were going into the mountains on the first night of the great rodeo (round-up) which would begin on Babicora Plain in the morning. This mountain phase of the work is only one of the features of the Mexican cuttle business that excites even the American cowboy's emo tions. There are other things that greatly impress him the Immense sizes of the rodeos and remudas (herds of saddle-horses taken along by the vaqueros for use in the ro deos), and the extreme poverty, slm plicity and primitive, dare-devil fear- lessneu-s of the vaqueros. But after ne nas seen and pondered over these things, after he has lived for months on the Mexican range,, and has taken part in a dozen rodeos, his most last ing Impression of It all is this picture In the foothills these solemn, mule mounted Mexicans, riding at dusk through a pool of crimson sunset. And The following essay Is furnished by a reader who Is afraid George Fitch may not find time to do justice to the subject; "The furnace Is the original cause for the necessity of the phrase. "The perversity of inanimate objects.' "It's efficiency at producing pro fanity is unsurpassed, even by the proverbial Most collar button.' "It is claimed by some that the furnace was Invented by the coal man, but there -is no more proof of this than there is that the ice man invented hot weather, that John D. invented oil or that the milkman In vented water. "There are two 'sets of rules for running a furnace. "One Is to turn on the drafts, in which case it will burn out, and the other is to close the drafts, in which case It will go out of its own accord. "It is similar to the clgarettlst in that it is usually brlk and robust at bedtime, but completely down and out when it is time to get up in the morning. "It is built of heavy, galvanized material, and Is firmly attached to the basement floor. This is to pre vent it from being precipitated Into the alley each Sabbath morning. "When the weather Is bitterly cold the furnace should be careful'.)' wrapped in blankets to keep It from freezing. "The requisites for running a fur ness are one shaker, one poker, fif teen cords of kindling, fifteen tons of coal and an unlimited amount of patience. "No two-flat building Is complete without a furnace, and few two-flat buildings are comfortably warm with them. Any man who lias successful ly manned a furnace for two seasons can die in peace, knowing that if his most bitter enemy's wish should come true he will at least be famil iar with his new job. TOD HUD." Famed for ifs Cooks and c To mention the South is to sug gest "good cooking." The South is the home of Cottolene, and more of the product is used there in pro portion to the population than in any other part of the country. This is simply because Southerners know that cotton oil is a pure, vegetable product, and the best cooking fat known. Cottolene is made from choice,refiried cotton oil, and packed 3 CREAMS A SPECIAL FOR Chappy Skin Weather' Cucumber, Almond, Edelweiss 25c a Bottle Koeppen's The drug store that serves you best. The Pendleton Drug Co. Is In business for "Your Good Health" REMEMBER THIS WHEN XOU HAVE PRESCRIPTIONS, OR WANT PCRE MEDICINES Two Old Maids Anna What do you think Mr. Bh lund charged me for sewing on a pair o: soles on my shoes T Clara Don't know and don't cars Anna, he only charged me SSo and did fine work too yes, but I don't like him. Anns, Well, well, you evid ntly do or you wouldn't care. Men's soles sewed on for SOc Full line of men's fine shoes. A. EKLUND Main Street inie in sealed, air-tight tin pails to insure its cleanliness and freshness. Why take chances with lard and inferior imitations when you can get Cottolene-- the original cotton oil cooking fat and still the best, most healthful, most economical in the market? .Cottolene will aid your cook to make a reputation. , Made only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY Nature's Gift from the Sunny South" BRING IN YOUR PONY VOTES In order to avoid confusion as to standing of contestants in our big Pony Contest, we would like to have all votes cast as soon as possible. Standings of each boy and girl in the contest, are now dis played at our store. Tallman Co. You'll get the best meal in Pendleton at the QUELLE Particular cooks Attentive Service. For Breakfast Ranch Eggs Buttermilk Hotcakes Good coffee Every day We invite your patronage aid aim to please you. A clean kitchen Regular Meals 25c Gus. La Fonlaino v. La Fontaine Block, Main Street