The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-09-28
PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Battieship Oregon May be First to
Pass Through Panama
Canal.

Seattle-"Copa Tyee Taft" is tn
! greeting at the head of the Invitation
extended to the President by the Seat
tie Press club. Although it was il
the Chinook language, he understood
and wired back "Bettcher Life o.
words to that effect Which means
that he will be the guest Of honor a
an evening of wierd doings by Sc
attic newspaper men, when he comes
to Puget Sound. This is one of the
most active press clubs in the country
today, having entertained Theodore
Roosevelt, Gov. Woodrow Wilson, Sec
rotary of the Interior Fisher and many
J other notables. President Taft comes
next month and a big time awaits him
all along the line.
A practical conservation movement
is that adopted by the department OF
agriculture, in cooperating with the
lumber manufacturers of the south,
urging the use of odd lengths of lum-
ber Formerly, it was the custom to
sell only the even lengths, but now
it is found feasible to sell the under
sized pieces, thereby saving much of
what formerly was all waste. The
same practice applied in the Northwest
would bear good fruit.
The organized forces that are fight
ing tuberculosis in Washington, report
encouraging progress. People every
where seem eager to help and the il
Illustrated talks, using moving pictures,
are drawing good crowds. National
health statistics last year, indicate that
tuberculosis was the most fatal of all
diseases. It's dangers will become
oC n If
tinueS.
Is it the soil or the climate of the
Pacific Northwest that makes the APP
pies grown here superior to those of
any other section. Indiana growers
intend to find out. Accordingly, they
have had shipped to their experiment
station twenty-five tons of Wenatchee
soil. When it gets back there, trees
will be planted. Then the results
will be carefully watched. If they
are no better than the native prod
uct, the Northwests superiority will
be ascribed to climate; otherwise, the
soil will get the credit.
Today, the United States is the land
of million laws. Europeans regard
Americans as the most governed"
people in the world Thus are they
getting away rapidly from the ideal
of Thomas Jefferson when he said:
that government is best which gov
erns least" At the recent meeting
of governors in New Jersey, it was
to assemble a law library
where all states could deposit copies
of their enactments for general refer
ence purposes. Seattle asked the gov
errors to come to Puget Sound next
year.
The old batt1eship Oregon may be
the first to pass through the Panama |
canal, when it is opened in 1915. |
A movement to that end has been |
started, believing the historic craft is
entitled to the honor. The navy de-
)artment is not opposed to the pro-
)osal. The Oregon has been COM
)letely rebuilt at the BremertOn navy
ard and is once more in commission.
The overwhelming defeat of the
program in the Canadian
lection last week, was considerably
# a surprise. The bigness of their
ictory was equally surprising to the
conservatives. They won by po-
itical trick, clouding the issue with
eclarations that reciprocity was the
ntering wedge of an attempt to an
ex Canada to the United States. On