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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-04-25

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balmers and Fully Guaranteed.
Phones: D. E. McIver. 104: San
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05
CLAssrFIER OF PUBLIC LANDS

The United States Geological Sur
vey has now become in fact as well
as in name the agency for classifica-
tion of the public domain. During
the last five years about 206,34S, 909
acres has been classified by the sur
vey, and 75,2S9,19S acres additional
has been withdrawn from public en-
try.
OF these areas. coal classifications
covered 15.e21,429 acres; classifica-
ton of metalliferous land 2SS,465
acres; and designation of lands en-
terable under the 320-acre and en-
larged homestead act, 190,43s.s15
acres.
There have been withdrawn during
this period 67,724,91S acres of coal
bearing land, 2,394.914 acres of phos-
phate land. and 1,722,975 acres of
land believed to be valuable for the
development of water power.
SO far as the coal lands are con-
cerned. the survey policy is to class
ify and value the lands withdrawn as
rapidly as possible. so as to enable
their restoration to entry and sale
under the law, and although the oil
and phosphate lands and water pow
er sites are held withdrawn awaiting
congressional legislatIon; 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
Withdrawals to the smallest acreage
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 esuitable for "dry farming" as con-
templated in the enlarged homestead.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05
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 franz
ed statute to regulate and super
vse 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-its just blue
skyl"
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
mess.
ANY agent who offers securities
for sale in Kansas without 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"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05

80 tightly drawn. For. whatever the
socialist party in Milwaukee may
lack. it does not lack the fighting
spirit. 1t meets trouble half way
and goes out to face the big odds
against it with a grim and joyful
satisfaction.
1t has met the silence and abuse
OF the regular newspapers by issuing
from its own big printing plant, bull
letins, in newspaper form. which are
distributed in every house in the CITY
by volunteer party workers. In these
bulletins all the achievements os the
administration are praised and fierce
attacks are made on all its enemies.
Sarly in December the socialists start
ed ther own regular daily paper the
Milwaukee Leader. which is backed
by 100000 capital. subscribed by
Jealous members of the party.
Far more forceful as a campaign
argument than the vituperation of the
Leader was the great Municipal Bud
get Exhibit, held 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 city government
showed in charts and by actual spec-
linens of their work all that they are
doing to make Milwaukee a pleasant
ana profitable place of residence.
Especially remarkable and note
worthy was the exhibit of the Mil
waukee Bureau of Economy and Eff
ficiency-a department which has no
Fellow in the government of any 9TH
er American city. 1t is almost mirth-
provoking to consider that it remain
ed for socialist administration 70
establish such a thorough going and
ousiness-like check on municipal laz-
mess. ignorance and graft
At the head Of the bureau is Prof
John r. Commons, of the University
OF Wisconsin. Associated with him
as consulting experts are such men
as Major Charles Hine. organization
| expert of the Hartman 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 eff
cheney 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. 1t 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 i'm
| provements. 1t has 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
| 1t fairly certain that the city will get
dollars 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 extravaganza, while graft
is made practically impossible. From
Socialists at Work, February Techni-
| cal World Magazine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05
FEARFUL MIR. LoRIMER.

Senator Lorimer has been weeping
again. He always turns on that
tremolo stop that 50 affects his
Washington auditors when a senate
committee wants to know about the
''slush fund" with which his election
was brought at Springfield, Ill. At
such times 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 in the
world.
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 Links
family no doubt. when he died of a
broken heart after confessing the
taking of bribe to vote for Lorimer.
Perhaps Holstlaw's friends shed some
tears with his home folks; Holstlaw,
the village banker, respected in his
community. held to scorn for, having
deposited $4,000 of bribe money to
his own credit. Have White and
Beckemeyer. 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
Lor.mer camp have rnce looked up
on their public eXcorlation 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 scam
dal and look to Illinois. outraged and
demanding at their hands justice and
vindication New York World
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05
GRADUATED PAYMENTS.

In yielding at last to the appeal of
the settlers of the Umatiua project
for graduated payments for their wa
ter rights the government has taken
action that viii result in much good.
The settler who goes upon an irri-
cation project has much to battle
with. 1t 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
picking"
1t may be taken for granted that
in deciding to allow graduated pay
ments the reclamation service Off
-cials are inspired by a desire to aid
those who actually live upon their
holdings and are trying to get theiI
tracts into such shape that they will
rrovide n likelihood Tor tI,a,,,eol,-e,
and families.
With graduated payments assured
them the settlers on the project have
good reason to cheer up. 1t will be
easy for them to make their payments
after their tracts once become pro-
ductive.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. BOUNDARY

The boundary line between the
states of Idaho and Washington was
originally surveyed in 1873 by Rollin
]. 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
Is being rapidly settled, congress in
1908 authorized a resurvey or retrace-
ment and re-marking of the boundary
line and appropriated $4,000 for the
purpose. The surveying was done by
the United States Geological Survey.
and report of the work has lust
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
lginal surveyor, Mr. Reeves. whose
account of the difficulties and hard
ships encountered is most interesting
at this time, when much of the
country traversed is a well-settled
and highly prosperous section. In
commenting on the trials related by
Mr.. Reeves, Mr. Marshall remarks:
With knowledge of the country
traversed, as it is today, one can but
marvel at the persistence and hardi-
hood of that party of men who did
not falteI until actual lack of food
compelled their retreat. At their
northernmost point they were nearly
80 miles from Spokane Bridge. the
nearest white settlement-90 miles of
mountains, windfall forests, thick
ets, with zero weather, and snow. In
the retracement comparatively few Of
these difficulties were encountered. ;"
Ihe ldaho-W Washington boundary
line runs through rolling agricultural
and fruit country, where the work
was easy, and also through heavily
hmbered mountains, where continu-
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 wooden boundary posts
OF the original survey had disap-
peared, though In setting the new
posts their stumps were often en-
countered. New posts of wrought
iron were set at every mile point, and
every miles, as closely as the topo-
graphy would allow, S00-pound gram
lie monuments were set with the
words Idaho" and Washington"
chisied on their respective sides. In
all III miles Of boundary were COW
cred, and that number of practically
imperishable posts and monuments
were set or metal tablets cemented in
to powders. The report contains
description Of each post and a state
ment as to what was found remain
ing Of the old markings. 1t also con-
tains 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 mile
on either side of the boundary line.
The line crosses many rivers. small
streams, railroads, and wagon roads
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05
THE DULL SPRING.

From you have been absent in the
Spring
When proud-pied 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
Could make me any summers story
tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them
where they grew;
Nor did 1 wonder at the lily's white,
Nor praise the deep vermillion 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 shadowI with these did
play
Shakespeare, Sonnet XCvIIT.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05
THE $3.50 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 Toilette struck. The
others are the petty grating sheets
that exist to serve such interests as
come along at so much per. 1t is the
less harmful yet more disreputable
sort of the two.
Pendleton has a sheet of the last
named type. 1t is conducted by So
cialist who has thrown his principles
to the winds and operates reaction
airy republican organ. If very gen.
eral reports are true the price of that
paper at mayorality elections is $3.50
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-
yictions the fellow who owns the
sheet in question replies that he must
live" 1t is a very cowardly and con-
temptible excuse. man who can
not make a legitimate living in the
newspaper business should go into
some other line.
1t 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 CRATER 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 salary
advances. Such observations create
the impression that in the lower and
coarser walks at least the primrose
path of journalism is not what it
might be.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05
THE REGRETTABLE PART.

The most unfortunate thing about
the caustic remarks made by Senator
La Toilette in his speech about the
press is the fact there is much truth
in what he said. 1t 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 Toilette for his
Kept" press speech. 1t 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:
Il have sketched the growth and
power of the great interests that to-
day control our property and our
government. 1 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
are the press and the platform. But
the platform in no way compares with
the press in its power Of continuous
repeated instruction.
zone would think that in a democ-
racy like ours-seeking for instruc-
ton. able to ;ead 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 polite speech
From the standpoint of aiding LaFol-
lette's candidacy for president It may
have been a mistake. 1t is probable
too that in the intensity Of his feelings
Senator La Toilette colored the pic
ture too highly. Ali 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 dailies there are papers here and
there that are conspicuous for their
independence and for the vigor with
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05
THE SOUNDING BALLOON.

Mr.. c. f. Talman in the February
Worlds 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. 1t Is small free balloon. which
carries no human aeronaut but in
stead a set of super-human meteor
illogical instruments, which register
continuously and automatically
through the whole course of the Jour-
ney. In its commonest form the
sounding -ballon is made of India
rubber, and when launched is inflat-
ed to less than its full capacity with
hydrogen. AS 1t rises to regions of
diminished air 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
more-from the pace of ascent. At
tached to the apparatus is a ticket
offering the finder 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 bal
loon is 1879 miles
No doubt 1t hurt Colonel Harvey,
but better the straight tip sooner
than later.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05
THE LURE OF THE LAND.

Several years ago 1 was told of two
clergymen, distant relatives of mine,
who had just given UP their chosen
calling to go into realestate business
The fact fingered 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 did not like the an
tithesis. So they had forsaken the
Heavenly City for Long Island, the
exposition of the charm of golden
streets for the new boulevard! But
is the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1 asked
Indignantly. any true substitute for
the narrow way? For a time / 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 they,
1 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, mot"
and again / hugged my old cloak of
dreams about me, resolving that
whatever befell, l would never join
the ranks of those who could misin-
terpret the word real" as meaning
mere things.
That was three years ago. Now,
alas! have fallen from my high es-
tate of the invisible. I. too, have
come to traffic in so-called real es-
tate" not with view of providing
other people with homes, but to pro-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05
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 cooperate
with them in the forming Of their
brotherhood and give them all the
encouragement possible.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05

yiding myself. l have deserted my
sky-chamber and have purchased a
small piece OF ground. No longer
have the right to scorn those who
mistake finite things for realty. The
earth has laid hold upon me. 1 un-
derstand now the greed wherewith
men have clutched and held 1t. from
earliest savage days to the Oklahoma
scandals of land-grabbing. The curse
of property has descended upon me;
the selifshness of the land gentry
which have so scorned as 1 have
driven past high English walls, set
with Jagged glass, is no longer unin-
telligible to me.-From Point of
View in the February Scribner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05

SOCIALISTS AT WORK.

The term OF the present admins.
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. 1t Il
not likely that in any American mu'
nicipality will the struggle be so bit.
ter. the situation SO tense, the linei
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05

which they uphold the general well
fare.
But that the privileged interests ex-
ert wonderful influence through
subtle control of large element oi
the press must be admitted. Through
such work they are able to keep the
people divided and baffled. II is be-
cause OF this the reactionaries hav,
held sway so long and have made
political progress SO slow and diff.
cult
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05
No Place for Them,

why are you moving?"
I'VE forgot to give the janitor
Christmas present" - Chicago Rec
ord Herald
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05

THE THING WORTH WHILE.

. 1t is not the gold that a world 4
y may hold
. or the voice of a violin 4
y II is not the fame of deathless 4
. name
= Though il rings with a can 4
= mons din;
. But the love that waits at a
= thousand gates
y The words OF cheer, the smile 4
. That follows you the long day 4
y through
= That makes your life worth
. while. 4
. 1t is not the power of a year or ,
. hour, 4
. Or the homage wealth may 4
= bring. 4
= Nor a goal embraced for which 4
= you've raced 4
. That causes the heart to singl I
. But love alone that is all 1
= Unselifsh and free from guile 4
. That gladdens your days in a I
thousand ways 4
. And really makes life worth 4
while.
. 1t is not the land for which 4
you stand
. Or the thing that it may do. 4
. But pattering feet and voices 4
= sweet
. That are glad because of you, 4
. And 1 think you'll say on the 4
= final day
. At the end of the closing
mile
= That of all the things a lifetime 4
brings
= Only love is worth while.
It. II. Kendall.
. . Q Q Q Q Q Q . Q . . q 4
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05

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.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05

While at Stanfield today the visiting
engineers might ask DIR. Coe what he
will do with the Andrew c. Smith fill
ing IL the West Extension is dropped.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05

The rural mail carriers-and the
city ones, too-have more than earn
ed their salaries lately.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05
UnDardOnahle

My wife made me what 1 am ="
Have you forgiven her yet ?"-
Satire.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05

and passes through the towns
Newport and Farmington.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-05

No doubt 1t hurt Colonel Harvey,
but better the straight tip sooner
than later.