PGF, FOUR DATLVEAST OKEGOXIAX, PEXDLETOX, OREGON, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1912. EIGTTT PAGES AN IXliErEXDEXT NEWSPAPER. Published HM!y nd Semi Wwklj at Pen dleton, Oregon, by the EAST OREGON IAN PUBLISHING CO. 81T.SCRHTIOX RATES. Pslir, one Jfr. by mall fS.OO ally, ix monfhi. tjr mail 2.50 Ihter month, bj mall 1.25 111;, one mouth, by mall 60 Daliy, on year, by carrier 7.50 Lally, tu months, by carrier 3.75 tally, hree montt. oy carrier 1.85 PallT, one month, by carrier 65 Suil Ve. kly, one year, by mail 1.50 Heml Week.y, tlx months, by mall T5 Aaml-Weekly, four months, by mail... .50 Tbe Dally East Ore?0Dlan la kept on aale at the Oregon News Co., 3 IS Morrlaoa tre-t. Portland. Creqoa. North eat Neva Co., Portland, Orenn. hn K'o Bureau, ikry Security BuiUUng. Waahmctcn, l. C, Eureau, 501 Four teenth Km-l. N. W. Entered at the poetofflce at Pendleton, Oregon, aa eecond-claaa mall matter. Member United Press Association. clepfaon Main 1 OfHctal City and Count! Paner. THE THING WOKTII WHILE. It is not the gold that a world mar hold Or the voice of a violin It is not the fame of a deathless name Though It rings with a can- non's din; But the love that waits at a 4 thousand gates The words of cheer, the smile That follows you the long day through . That makes your life worth while. 4 4 It is not the power of a year or hour, . Or the homage wealth may bring. 4 Nor a goal embraced for which you've raced That causes the heart to sing! But love alone that is all your own TTnselifsh and free from guile That gladdens your days in a , thousand ways 4 And really makes life worth while. ' It is not the land for which you stand Or the thing that it may do, But pattering feet and voices sweet That are glad because of you, And I think you'll say on the, final day At the end of the closing mile 4 That of all the things a lifetime brings 4 Only love is worth while. T. H. Kendall. TIIE REGRETTABLE PART. The most unfortunate thing about the caustic remarks made by Senator La Follette in his speech about the press Is the fact there la much truth in what he said. It is not pleasant stuff for newspapermen to hear and it is not surprising the Philadelphia publishers did not like the speech. Just as many lawyers denounce criticisms of the judiciary and oppose the idea of allowing people to recall Judges so will many newspaper men assail Senator La Follette for his "kept" press speech. It is the truth nevertheless that the Judiciary is in need of criticism and so is the press. It is a mooted question as to which needs it the more. In his Philadelphia speech the in surgent leader said: "I hae sketched tho growth and power of the great interests that to day control our property and our government. I have shown how subtle and elusive, yet relentless, they are. Rising up against them Is the confused voice of the people. Their heart is true, but, their eyes don't yet see all the intricate sources of power. Who shall show them? There are only two agencies that in any way can reach the whole people. These ere the press and the platform. But the platform in no way compares with the prs in its power of continuous i pea ted instruction. "One would think that in a democ racy like ours seeking for instruc tion, able to :ad and understand the press would be the eager and will ing instructor. Such was the press of Horace Greely, Henry Raymond. Charles A. Dana, Joseph Medill and Horace Rublee. "But what do we find has occurred in the last few years? The money power has gained control of our in dustry and government. It controls the newspaper press. The people know this. Their confidence is weak ened and destroyed. No longer are the editorial columns of newspapers a potent factor in educating public opinion." That was not a politic speech. From the standpoint of aiding LaFol lUe's candidacy for president it may have been a mistake. It Is probable too that In the intensity of his feelings Senator La Follette colored the pic ture too hlghV- AH the newspapers of the country are not "kept." Most of the country papers, both small dailies and weeklies, are fairly free and even among the large metropoli tan dallies there are papers here and there that are conspicuous for their independence and for the vigor with which they uphold the gjneral wel fare. But that the privileged intor.-sits ex ert a wonderful influence through subtle control of a large element of the press must be admitted. "Through such work they are able to keep the people divided and baffled. If is be cause of this the reactionaries have held sway so long and have made political pro-gross so slow and difficult. CKADVATKD PAYMENTS. In yielding at last to the appeal of the settlers of the Umatilla project for graduated payments for their wa ter rights the government has taken action that will result in much good The settler who goes upon an irri gation project has much to battle with. It is not any easy task to con quer the desert even when a benevol lent government supplies the water and permits the settler to pay for the work in 10 annual payments. Upon the Umatilla project most of the settlers not only have to meet the government charges but they also have to make annual payments upon their land. - They must do this and they must live somehow until their land becomes productive. So by the nature of things the first few years of life upon the project means "hard I pic king." It may be taken for granted that in deciding to allow graduated pay ments the reclamation service offi cials are inspired by a desire to aid those who actually live upon their holdings and are trying to get their tracts into such shape that they will rrovide a livelihood for themselves and families. With graduated payments assured them the settlers on the project have good reason to cheer up. It will be easy for them to make their payments after their tracts once become pro ductive. TIIE $250 VARIETY. There are two classes of "kept" newspapers. Papers that are owned and operated continuously with a view to upholding vested interests con stitute one sort. Those are the pa pers at which La Follette struck. The others are the petty grafting sheets that exist to serve such Interests as come along at so much per. It is the less harmful yet more disreputable sort of the' two. Pendleton has a sheet of the last named type. It is conducted by a so cialist who has thrown his principles to the winds and operates a reaction ary republican organ. If very gen eral reports are true the price of that paper at mayorality elections is $250 At least we have it from extremely authentic sources that it wanted that sum from Mr. Raley. When taken to task for the sacrifice of his con victions the fellow who owns the sheet in question replies that he "must live." It is a very cowardly and con temptible excuse. A man who can not make a legitimate living in the newspaper business should go into some other line. It is evident though that such pa pers as the one in question reap very much as they deserve and so need not be feared. The legitimate patronage of the local grafter has never been sufficient in extent to "flag a hand car." We have noticed that scores of decent folk refuse to have the paper even when it is offered to them free. We have noticed that newsboys will not or can not sell that paper on the street. We have seen reputable news papermen refuse positions upon that vile sheet even when offered jsalary advances. Such observations create the impression that in the lower and coarser walks at least the primrose path of Journalism is rt what it might be. ENCOURAGE THEM. Local white people who desire to aid the Indians along the road to ad vancement should attend their meet ing at the agency tomorrow. The In dians have ever been friendly to Pendleton, in times of war and in times of peace. They spend about all the money the get hold of with the business men of the city. Pendleton folk should be willing to co-operate with them in the forming of their brotherhood and give them all the encouragement possible. In the conflict between Mr. Ground Hog and the United States weather bureau the honors of the struggle in as far as Pendleton Is concerned, are about even. While at Stanfleld today the visiting engineers might ask Dr, Coe what he will do with the Andrew C. Smith fil ing if the West Extension Is dropped. SOCIALISTS AT WORK, The term of the present adminis tration of Socialists In Milwaukee, draws near its close. This , spring another mayor and other officers will be chosen. Already, months in ad vance, the fight has begun. It Is not likely that in any American mu nicipality will the struggle be so bit ter, the situation so tense, the lines so tightly drawn. For. whatever the socialist party in Milwaukee may lack, it does not lack the fighting spirit. It meets trouble half way and goes out to face the big odds against it with a grim and Joyful satisfaction. It has met the silence and abuse of the regular newspapers by Issuing from its own big printing plant, bul letins, in newspaper form, which are di-tributed in every house in tho city by volunteer party workers, i In these bulletins all the achievements of the administration are praised and fierce attacks are made on all its enemies. ?arly in December the socialists start ed the r own rejru'ar daily paper, the Milwaukee Leader, which i4 backed by J 100,000 capital, subscribed by zealous members of the party. Far more forceful as a campaign argument than the vituperation of the Leader was the great Municipal Bud- ei r,xniou, neld In the Auditorium during the last week in November. In booths and on platforms which filled the huge building the various de partments Of the Citv tnvprnm.nl showed in charts and by actual spec imens or ineir work all that they are doing to make Milwaukee a pleasant and profitable place of residence. Especial.y remarkable and note worthy was the exhibit of the Mil waukee Bureau of Economy and Ef ficiencya department which has no feHow in the government of any oth er American city. It is almost mirth provoking to consider that it remain ed for a socialist administration to establish such a thorough-going and business-like check on municipal laz iness, ignorance and graft. At the head of the bureau is Prof. John R Commons, of the University of W'sconsin. Associated with him as consulting experts are such men as Major Charles Hine. organization expert of the Harrlman railroad lines, Harrison Emerson, efficiency engi neer, F. E. Turneaure, dean of the College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin. S. W. Gilman, accountant President Taft's economy and effi ciency commission, and W. T. Sedg wick, head department public health, Massachusetts Institute of Technol ogy. This bureau, with Professor Com mons at its head. Is an integral part of the city government. It has the authority to go Into any other de partment. Investigate and study Its methods of doing business, point out errors and leaks and recommend im provements. It hag already installed scientific and accurate cost systems In many of the city departments. These systems, first approved by the consulting experts of the board, make it fairly certain that the city will get a dollar's worth of labor or material for every dollar it pays out. At any rate, with the cost system once in stalled, it is an easy matter to locate waste and extravagance, while graft is made practically lmpossible.From Socialists at Work, February Techni cal World Magazine. Uiiardonablc. ' "My wife made me what I am " - "Have you forgiven her yet?" Satire No Place for Them. "Why are you moving?' "We forgot to give the janitor a Christmas present " Chicago Rec ord Herald. The rural mail carriers and the city ones, too have more than earn ed their salaries lately. IDAHO-WASHINGTON BOUNDARY. The "boundary line between the states of Idaho and Washington was originally surveyed-in 1873 by Rollin J. Reeves, under contract with the General Land Office. As the mark ings of this survey had become largely obliterated and as much of the country U being rapidly settled, congress in 1908 authorized a rrsurvey or retrace ment and re-marking of the boundary line and appropriated $25,000 for the purpose. The surveying was done by the United States Geological Survey, and a report of the work has just been issued by the Survey as Bulletin 466, by R. B. Marshall, Chief Geo grapher. The report contains an ex tract from the field notes of the or iginal surveyor, Mr. Reeves. whnP account of the difficulties and hard ships encountered is most interesting at this time, when much of tho country traversed is a well-settled and highly prosperous section. In commenting on the trials relatpri hv Mr. Reeves, Mr. Marshall remarks: With a knowledge of the country traversed, as it is to da. one ran tint marvel at the persistence and hardl- nooa or that party of men who did not faltei until actual lack of fnnrt compelled their retreat. At their nortnernmost point they were nearly 90 miles from Snokane Bride, the nearest white settlement 90 miles of mountains, windfall forests, thiu. eta, with zero weather, and snow in the retracement comparatively few of tnese mrncultles were encountered " The Idaho-Washin fftnn hnnnarv line runs through rolling agricultural ma iruu country, where the work was easy, and also through heavily timbered mountains, where contlnu uous chopping was necessary. The portion of the boundary north from Newport to the Canadian line is de scribed as excessively rugged. Most of the wood en hnnnrlnrv r,rtata of the original survey had disap peared, inougn in setting the new posts their stumps were often en countered. New posts of wrought iron were set at every mile point, and every 5 miles, as closelv as thn tnnn. graphy would allow, 800-pound gran ne monuments were set With the words "Idaho" and 'Wshlnrtnn enisled on their resoectlvA nMia in all 177 miles of boundary were cov ered, ana tnat number of practically imperishable posts and monuments were set or metal tablets cemented In to bowlders. The report contains a description of each post and a state ment as to what was found remain ing of the old markings, it also con tains a topographic map the data for which were obtained In the resurvey, showing all the natural topographic features and the work of man for a width of about three-fourths of a mile on either side of the boundary line. The line crosses manv rivers, amnll streams, railroads, and wagon roads and passes through the towns of Newport and Farmington. TEARFUL- MR. LOR1MER, Senator Lorimer has been weeping again. . He always turns on that tremolo stop that so affects his! Washington auditors when a senate j committee wants to know about the "slush fund" with which his election was brought at Springfield, III. At such timeJ he is overcome by mem ories of old, unhappy, far-off times when he was a bootblack boy; and how he went through the fire; and how many Abrahams befriended him, and how he started a collection agency and thus, by degrees, got on la the wor'.d. Lorimer's hoarse voice and glisten ing eye are not the only evidences of pathos in connection with his unfor tunate career. There were tears in Michael Link's family, no doubt, when he died of a broken heart after confessing the tak'ng of a bribe to vote for Lorimer. Perhaps Holstlaw's friends shed eome tears with his home folks; Holstlaw, the village banker, respected In his community, held to scorn for-having deposited $2500 of bribe money to his own credit. Have . White and Beckemejer, confessed bribe-takers. saved their nearest and dearest from shedding some tears for their shame? For that matter, how many of all the Fifty-three democrats who followed the "bel-wether" Abrahams into the Lorimer camp have since looked up on their public excoriation before their own neighbors as a Jest? , Yes, there have been tears shed in this affair, and not all In Washing ton. Let the senators lift their eyes from the blubbering Lorimer who per petuates his shame and their scan dal and look to Illinois, outraged and demand'ng at their hands Justice and vindication New York World. KANSAS "BLUE SKY" LAW. According to Isaac F. Marcosson, Kansas is teaching the nation a les son In stock-selling that is more than worth while. In an' article in The Munsey for February, entitled "Bar ring Out .the Stock Thieves," he writes: "Bank Commissioner Dooley fram ed a statute to regulate and super v'se the sale of securities. To use his own picturesque phrase, "it had to have hooks in it strong enough to catch a whale,' and when he com pleted it there . was no loophole through which a tricky stock sales man could crawl. He called it the Blue Sky Law, because, in warning people not to purchase wildcat 'pro motion stock, he used to say: " 'Don't buy that it's Just blue sky!" According to the writer: "Every corporation, company, or Individual, whether it be incorporated under the laws of Kansas or of any other state, that sells or in any way handles stocks, bonds or other securities with the exception of government, state or municipal bonds Is subject to the statute, and must undergo a rigid censorship before it can do bus iness. "Any agent who offers securities for sale In Kansas without a license from the state" is subject for each of fense, to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, and to imprison ment for not more than ninety days." TIIE LURE OF THE LAND. Several years ago I was told of two clergymen, distant relatives of mine, who had Just given up their choen calling to go Into realestate business, The fact lingered long In my mind, with a certain discomfort, making me scan past and future with dim mis givings. Real estate .versus the realm of the spirit I did not like the an tithesis. So, they had forsaken the Heavenly City for Long Island, the exposition of the charm of golden strepts for the new boulevard! But Is the Pennsylvania Railroad, I asked indignantly, any true substitute for the narrow way? For a time I felt bankrupt, as one does when some great crisis has caused panic, sub verted values, made worthless the priceless securities of yesterday. My inheritance seemed to depreciate rap. Idly, for my ancestors had staked their all upon that invisible realty which Is now being quoted lower and lower in the markets of the world. Did tby, I asked myself, who turned their faces heavenward with so rich a sense of possession, after all die intestate From the innermost corner of my soul came the echoed answer, "No!" and again I hugged my old cloak of dreams about me, resolving that, whatever befell, I would never join the ranks of those who could misin terpret the word "real" as meaning mere'thlngs. That was three years ago. Now, alas! I have fallen from my high es tate of the invisible. I. too, have come to traffic In so-called "real es tate," not with a view of providing other people with homes, but to pro- Golden Rule Store ALWAYS GIVES "More Goods ior Same Money Same Goods for Less Money" COMPARE TIIE FOLLOWING. 25c Men's Wool Socks, regular 15f? 75c Calfskin Welt Gloves, regular .. 49 $1.00 Calfskin Welt Gauntlet, rcfrular 69 ,75c Men's Sweaters, regular 49 $1.25 Blue Flannel Shirts, rerrular .. 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During the last five years about 206,34 8,909 acres has been classified by the sur- vai' n , .1 "t 14a lao .......... ..llnl 1 . has been withdrawn from public en try. J Of thee areas, coal classifications ! covered 15,621,429 acres; classifica i tion of metalliferous land 288,465 acres; and designation of lands en- terable under the 320-acre and en larged homestead act, 190,433,915 acres. There have been withdrawn during I this period 67,724,918 acres of coal ; bearing land, 3.394.914 acres of phoa- i phate land., and 1,722,975 acres of I land believed to be valuable for the . development of water power. j So far as the coal lands are con l cerned, the survey policy is to class ! ify and value the lands withdrawn as rapidly as possible, so as to enable I their restoration to entry and sale under the law, and although the oil j and phosphate lands and water pow er sues are neia withdrawn awaiting congressional leg'slation; the policy is to cut down the withdrawals to the exact acreage of land found to be underlain by oil, natural gas or phosphate and for the water power wlthdr.lU'nTfl tn tha omallast ai.rinirii ! which will protect the public Inter ests. The enlarged homestead designa tions are made on the basis of data in hand or on field examinations by the survey showing that the lands are not suitable for irrigation or may b equitable for "c'ry farming" as con templated In the enlarged homestead. TIIE DULL SPRING. From you I have been absent in the Spring When proud-pled April dressed in all his trim Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, That heavy Saturn laughed and leap ed with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers In odor and In hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilllon of the rose They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seemed it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadowl with these djd play Shakespeare, Sonnet XCVIII. THE SOUNDING BALLOON. Mr. C. F. Talmnn In the February World's Work gives some very inter esting Information about the new sci ence "aerology." The most remark able Invention for exploring the up per atmosphere Is the sounding bal loon. It is a small free balloon, which carries no human aeronaut, but in stead a set of super-human meteor ological Instruments, which register continuously and automatically through the whole course of the Jour ney. In Its commonest form the sounding-ballon is mode of India rubber, and when launched Is Inflat ed to less than i!s full capacity with hydrogen, As It rises to regions of diminished nlr pressure It gradually expands, and finally bursts at an elevation approximately determined In advance. A linen cap serves as a parachute, and the case containing the Instrument falls gently to the ground. This usually happens many miles sometimes two hundred or moro from the p'ace"of ascent. At tached to the apparatus is a ticket offering the finder a reward for its return, and giving instructions as to packing and shipping. Sooner or lat er it usually comes back. The record height attained by the sounding-balloon is 18.9 ' miles. No doubt It hurt Colonel Harvey, but better the straight tip sooner than later. 3 CREAMS 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 WREN rOU HAVE PRESCRIPTIONS OR WANT PURE MEDICINES Two Old Maids Anna What do you think Mr. Ek lund charged me for sewing on a pair o: soles on my shoes? Clara Don't know and don't care Anna, he only charged me 6Eo anc dld fine work too yes, but I don't like him. Anna Well, well, you evld ntly do or you wouldn't care. Men's soles sewed on for 10c. . Full line of men's fine shoes. A. EKLUND Main Street. 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