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LESS POLITICS AND MORE PATRIOTISM
The Orcgonian a few days ago had quite a lengthy
editorial on the duty of Americans getting together and
working for a common purpose. Boiled down it took the
position that we needed more patriotism and less politics.
It is true there naturally must be two parties at least,
to which the voters may turn, for there will always be a
wide divergence of opinion as to the best methods of man
aging public affairs, and it is impossible for all to get to
gether in agreeing on many things.
While this is true as to affairs of national character it
is no longer true of state and county affairs. Time was
when the county and state offices were apportioned out
to the party in power as rewards for political activities.
The man who worked hardest and did the most for his
party was given office according to his deserts.
The sheriff's office was always considered the plum in
county offices with the county clerk's position a close
second, and these officers were selected according to their
merits as party workers, and not on account of their fit
ness for the places.
The same system exists yet as to federal appointments,
the offices being considered the rewards turned over to
the senators or congressmen to be apportioned to the
party workers. As a result the federal offices such as
collector of internal revenue and the postoffices are given
as rewards for political services instead of for fitness.
So far as the federal offices are concerned the rea
sons that were responsible for the system still remain,
that is party service.
It is a bad system, for it makes the senators and con
gressmen dictators in the state as to who shall fill the
federal offices within the state, and is a species of bribery.
Whatever reason was back of this system in state and
county affairs has vanished. There is no longer such a
, thing as state politics, for outside of using the name of
one party or another to ride into office on, there is no
state or county office that has anything to do with political
affairs.
When the United States senators were elected by the
legislature the politics of the individual legislator was of
importance. His was in a sense a political office, for his
political beliefs would outside of extraneous circlum
stancesJdecide the political party from which the senator
would be chosen.
When the election of senator was taken from the
legislature the politics of the individual lawmaker ceased
to be of any importance. The governor still has a remote
political importance, for in case of a vacancy in the office
of senator, he appoints.
Outside of the governor there is not an office in the
state now that it makes any difference whether the occu
pant is a republican, a democrat, or of any other political
faith. '
What we need is officials who are best fitted for the
positions and in selecting a sheriff or any other county
officer his fitness for the place, his ability to perform thi
duties of the office best should be the only criterion. It
would be as foolish to ask a candidate for any of these
places his religion as his politics, for neither has any in
fluence on his work.
Oregon has a vast work before it in solving many
serious problems connected with her development, and in
selecting her officers for this work she should select the
best without regard to what they believe about the tariff,
preparedness, Baxter's hints to the unconverted or who
struck Billy Patterson. One of these has just as much
to do with the ability of a person to carefully and success
fully manage an office as the other.
In the selection of men, or women, to fill these places
we should inquire into the honesty and efficiency of the
candidates and not bother about their politics, religion or
lodge affiliations. In this regard the Oregonian is correct.
We need more patriotism and loss politics, more sense and
less sensitiveness about political beliefs; more handling
of public business with the same care and watchfulness
we display in managing our private affairs, and we cer
tainly do not inquire into the politics or religion of our
lawyers, doctors or ministers. We do not ask our work
men about their political beliefs but hire them for their
ability to do the work we have for them. Why should we
not exercise the same horse-sense in dealing with public
affairs-and selecting public servants?
Strange isn't it that our republican friends cannot find
a candidate to suit them? With its six million voters it
seems to be of the opinion that, only one man has a show
of being elected, and next to him the only one with a
chance is the gentleman who would be, if elected a third
termer, and whether elected or not would be the man who
threw down the party that placed him at the head of the
nation for nearly eight years. Strange again isn't it that
the party should turn to an irfgrate and a renegade and
adopt him as its savior?
Oakland has sent out a report that owing to the La
Follette seaman's bill, ships are unable to get sailors, and
eighteen vessels are tied up at the wharves on this ac
count. It is also stated that fully 50 per cent of the sailors
examined failed to pass. Is this a follow-up of the story
sent out sometime ago from the same place and of the
same import, which proved to be-about 95 per cent un
adulterated lie?.
The soaring prices of all metals, due to the European
war, has given mining a decided boost. M. M. Parks,
director of the Oregon Bureau of Mines, has just turned
out a statement showing that in 1915 the product of Ore
gon mines was $2,000,000, against $750,000 in 1914. The
estimated yield in 1916 is $:',000,000, and this is probably
low judging from the unusual activity in all the mining
districts.
MIIIER LIKENS
Slaughter Case Nears End
Daughter Testifies In Her
Father's Favor
Rev. Slaughter on trial at Oroville for alleged mis
conduct with 15-year-old Gertrude Lamson, compared
himself to a flower, in his sermon, Sunday, saying its
smell and its fragrance cannot be destroyed even though
trampled under foot. So far as the fragrance is con
cerned it would perhaps be better for the minister if it
could for it is of the unpleasant class of odors.
Tom Taggart is at last senator from Indiana, a place
Ke has wanted ever since Sitting Bull went out of busi
ness. It is probable Thomas would never have cut the
mustard had not Shively died. He will hold the place
until the next session of the Indiana legislature, possibly
longer, but this is a remote possibility.
Los Angeles' city council has recommended the doing
away with the board of moving picture censors, and turn
ing the job over to one commissioner at a salary of $2,100
a year. Say, wouldn't that be a snap, getting a salary like
that for seeing all the movies for nothing, and the bad
ones all by your little lonesome?
Congress, whatever it may do towards preparedness,
is certainly opposed to a large standing army. Monday
Kahn's amendment to the Hay bill making the regular
army 220,000 strong was voted down by 18:) to 10:, an
other amendment to make it 280,000 was simply howled
down before it could be put.
According to the usual acceptance of the term Spring
began the first of March, but as fixed astronomically it
begins today, as the sun in its northing crosses the
equator. The checked suit and flower garden lid are now
properly at the top, that is the head pieces are, not the
suits.
Rumania is reported as ready to join the allies next
May. Judging from her past course she will join the
allies when she is absolutely certain they will win, and
perhaps by that time they will not let her.
Anyway the ladies patronizing the Salem street cars
will all become accomplished in the intricacies of the "two
step." They would much prefer a three step for a starter
on the cars.
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CAPITAL $300,000.00
Transact a General Banking Business
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SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
Oroville, Cal., March 211. Striking nt
the story of her former chum Gertrude
I.ninson, Xaomi Slaughter, aged 17,
daughter ot Hey. Madison Slaughter,
testified today that she was in her
home on the nights it is alloyed her
father attacked Gertrude ther.e aail
that she did not see the Lamson girl
there.
Miss Slaughter said she left her
father alone at home one night 'and
took the family autonioliile to the rail
road station to meet friends, at the
time it was alleged the. pastor and Ger
trude were riiliucr in the machine. Miss
Slaughter testified she left home at
lll:.).i o'clock on that night l'roseeu
tion attorneys asserted they would
nrnvii slip was lint in the iintnmiiliilc
but was with voting friends in the park
at that time.
High water this morning caused sev
eral uirors to he lute in arriving, and
delayed the start of the trial's third
week
Oroville, Cal., March lid. With the
Rev. Madison Slaughter's "alibi de
fease" drawing near a close, the prose
cution today prepared a new corps of
witnesses for the state's reobutlal in
the pastor's trial on charge of assault
ing Gertrude Lamson, fifteen years
old.
District Attorney Leonard said to
day he was confident that Slaughter's
alibi's would be over thrown. Slaugh
ter's lawyers are equally confident
that these alibis will result in a verdict
of eeqnittal.
In his Sunday sermon Slaughter
likened himself to a flower which could
be crushed and trampled under foot,
while its soul could not be destroyed
nor its fragrance diminished. To il
lustrate this point, he tore a bright red
rose, from his button hole and stamped
on it.
The Fallacy of Paraffine
Base: Eastern oil manufac
turers have long extolled
the superior virtues of paraffine
base motor oils. But Pacific Coast
motorists have proved that Zero
lene, made from selected Califor
nia crude, asphalt-base, gave best
results. Their experience is now
supported by the testimony of in
ternational experts, Lieut. Bryan
stated before the Am. Soc. of Naval
Engineers: "Oils made from the
asphalt-base crudes have shown themselves better
adapted to motor cylinders, as far as their carbon
forming proclivities are concerned, than are paraf-fine-base
Pennsylvania oils." Zerolene received
highest competitive awards, San Francisco and San
Diego Expositions. Dealers everywhere and at service
stations and agencies of the Standard Oil Company.
Ha hi
the Standard Oil for Notor Cars
Hugging Girl Employes
Not Pleasure, Just Habit
Portland, Or., Mar. 121. Hugging his
girl employes was just a habit with A.
I). Frost, state manager of a string of
stores, according to his own evidence
on record in municipal court tod.iy.
Frost was fined till on the technical
charge of assault and batter on two
pretty stenographers.
He and his wire both admitted that,
he had a habit of petting ami fondling
the girls who worked for hint. The
I r t in-1 1 :i I compl.iinnnt was a girl grad
uate of Whitman College who applied
to I) i in for a position ns stenographer.
"lie put his anus around me and
kissed me three times," testified the
girl. "Then I fainted.''
Two Women Wanted ;
for Counterfeiting
Sin Francisco, Mar. 21. Federal se
cret service agents hunted two women
today in connection with their probe of
an alleged eoastwide counterfeiting
conspiracy. Tile women vanished when
six men, were arrested in San Francis
co ami Seattle and a bad money en
graving plant here riided.
Henry Davis, one of the men caught
here, is held on 2.un0 bail charged with
manufacturing 1 ill counterfeit federal
reserve bank notes. Charles J. Grooms
is held on the same bond, accused of
having ten of the notes in his possession.
.Mrs. Clayburg Roasts
Seattle Sheriff Hodge
Los Angeles, Cal., Mar. 21. Ch uig
ing from the passive attitude she has
persistenly maintained throughout the
preliminary phases of the Seattle "bad
ger" case, Mrs. Isabel Clayburg came
out today with a red hot attack on the
Seattle sheriff, seeking her extradition.
"Shenfr Hodge, who 1 understand is
an avowed candidate for governor of
Washington is attempting to make pol
itical capital out of me," she declared.
"He is attempting to wre.ik vengeance
on members of the liainier club of Se-
I .u ne. ii ne nas one nn or evnience or
a single; photograph showing me in a
compromising position with any man, I
will drop my extradition fight and re
turn north. He has no picture; he has
no evidence. ' '
Mrs. Clayburg 's habeas corpus hear
ing will come up in Feder.il Judge
Trippet's court tomorrow-.
Elastic rubber jardinieres may now
be had, which will accommodate a flow
er pot of any size.
PUT CREAM IN NOSE
AND STOP CATARRH
Tells How To Open Clogged Nos
trils and End Head-Colds.
j You feel fine in a few momenta. Tour
! cold in head or catarrh will be gone,
i Your clogged nostrils will open. The air
; passages of your head will clear and
I you can breathe freely. No more dull
; ness, headache; no hawking, snuffling-,
; mucous discharges or dryness; no strug
gling for breath at night.
leu your druggist you want a small
bottle of Ely's Creaui Balm. Annlv a
j little of this fragrant, antiseptic cream
j in your nostrils, let it penetrate througli
i every air passage of the head; sooths
I and heal the swollen, inflamed mucou
I membrane, and relief comes instantly.
It is just what every eold and catarrh
sufferer needs. Don 't stay stuf ted-up
! and miserable.
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POPULATION
Prune Center is a hustling town. For liveliness it has
renown. The leading boosters stand and crow, "Just
watch our population grow !" All new arrivals have their
charms; they're welcomed there with open
arms. All sorts ot cheap and worthless
lads, the deadbeats from the other grads,
the loafers who, for vagrant ways, have
drawn ten dollars or ten days, who'll work
the town for grub and coal just as they
swell the census roll, they're welcomed with
a hip-hooray, and told to camp right down
and stay. If I were owner of a town, and
wished to give it high renown, I'd see that
no one settled there, without a record clean!
and fair. I d have a censor in each street,
the new-arriving gents to meet, and he would warn the
worthless skate to turn around and pull his freight. You
don't invite the worthless dub to seek your home and eat
your grub. Then why invite him to your town, and beg
that he will settle down ?
I'isiidena, Cal., Mar. 21 James 11.
Caifield, secretary of the interior un
der I'resident lioosevelt and son of the
late I'resident Carfield, strongly advo
cated preparedness today.
"In America, an invading force
could go through the country from end
to end and meet no effective opposi
tion, except in a few places, he told
an assembly .it the Throop College of
Technologv.
"The volunteer svstem is worse than
useless. Why idiould one man volunteer
and another stay at home Every man
should know how to take care of him
self in the field and be an intelligent
unit in an army.
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PUMPED HIM OUT
Venice, Cal., Mar. 21. After being
rushed to a hospital, his stomach pump
ed out and every precaution ngaiust
poisoning taken. YV. C. .lansen today
told physicians he hid merely suffered
from A little fainting spell.
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