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The Western outlook., 1915-03-27

I was parted with the offer as riposte
| The answer to this was unanswer
able and final: Il don't need any dol
| lar"
Such is island philosophy. The sea
will always provide fish, the land all
other actual requirements, and since
| this will be as true in the future as
today, why trouble to lay up for ones
children? Even tobacco and coffee
| are homegrown, so only imported lux
uries require effort to obtain. Most
of the real work of the island, such
as curing vanilla, is done by Chinese
who value money for its own sake.
They bake the bread, run the restau.
rants, and own most of the small
stores.
Nevertheless the natives are splen-
did people physically, no doubt an in
heritance from their warlike and ath-
letic past. ThS men are often well
over six feet and tremendously mus
cular. The women are erect, grace
full, beautifully formed, and often very
handsome. Their brown eyes are un-
usually fine. Their black hair is long
and waving.
Polynesian races differ slightly in
color, that of pure Tahitians varying
also with caste and exposure, but the
commonest type is an olive gold not
darker in shade than the skins of
Chinese and Japanese, but warmer and
less yellowish. Their features are
pleasing and contain nothing Negroid
or Monaghan.
The typical native dress is the pa
reu, a bright colored patterned cotton
cloth much like the Burmese sarong,
and by the women around the breast.
The latter, however, rarely wear it
away from home, except bathing or
fishing, without loose over dress.
The men also are more and more COM
ing to regard the pareu as informal,
comfortable for home and work wear,
but to be replaced by coat and pants
on dress occasions. These customs
vary much with the distance from
town. Flowers constitute the chief
adornment, worn in wreaths and singly
over the ear. Carriers come in from
the mountain valleys with loads of
plantain, naked except for loin
cloth but with garlands of ferns and
flowers.
Are a Social People.
The chief Tahitian characteristics
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FOOD FOR STRANGER
SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVES HAVE
A HUMANE CUSTOM.
Field Is Set Aside on Which Supplies
Are Grown and Stored in Readi-
ness to Appease Hunger of
Chance Visitor.

In South Africa. among the natives
there is a custom which has never
been mentioned by any traveller in dis
tales In the Transkei, Basutoland and
Bechuanaland, nearly every fair-sized
village has field set aside for strang
ers. In a village where the king re
sides, usually his chief wife is told on
to cultivate this field and store away
all the product in the upper part OF
her hut, and If in any adjacent village
some chief woman is saddled with the
work, no man of the tribe is permitted
to touch any food thus stored.
The kings wife, or whoever cult
Yates the land, takes her share OF the
product and makes her living out OF
it, but all over and above the amount
actually consumed must be set aside
and preserved. She may not trade
with any other wife of the king.
This field is known as the "Strang-
ers' Field" Whenever stranger
comes to the village he makes known
his wants to the king and he is inn
Inediately relieved. The best hut In
the village is set apart for him, he
eats the food of the strangers field,
and the wife of the king prepares the
food for him with her own hand. He
remains a week, or month, or any
reasonable length of time, and his de-
parture is never fastened. Sometimes
he stays long enough to become a
members of the tribe.
An amusing feature of this custom
is the fact that INDECENT members OF
the tribe occasionally leave the village
and go to other villages and become
strangers, so that very often when a
familiar face has been missed from a
certain village and anyone asks where
So-and-So went or what became or
him, the inquirer has been gravely in
formed that So-and-So was poor and
became a stranger. Some lazy men
go around from village to village, and
when they return to their original kraal
they spin the yarn that they have
been working in the mines! Then
again one often can run across So-and-
So in a distant village living on the
fat of the land as a stranger and be-
ing treated to royal hospitality.
There are no beggars in Africa.
When a man becomes too poor to get
along comfortably he makes circuit
of the adjacent villages as a stranger.
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Are a Social People.
The chief Tahitian characteristics

are social. Feasting, dancing and sing
ing are always in progress, usually on
a wholesale scale. The entire village
participates on the slightest excuse.
Anything that can be done alone is un-
popular. Even in fishing, the single
venturer is regarded as a pothunter
and no sportsman, the gentlemanly way
being to set net in the lagoon and
invite the neighbors to drive, afford
ing much noise and frolic, or to or
ganize a deep-sea expedition for al
bicore.
In several stays on the island the
writer was never allowed to fish with
hook and line from a single canoe be-
cause, while all right for a commoner
who needs fish, it is not the thing for
quality" to do. The visitor is struck
with the invariable good nature of the
people. They rarely quarrel, drunk
or sober. Violence is practically un-
known. Murders are so infrequent as
to be little more than traditional and
even fighting is extremely rare.
Like all Polynesians, they are won
derful swimmers, and probably excel
all others as canoemen Whereas, in
Hawaii the canoes seen today are pure
ly unitarian, the Tahitian retains his
navigating ancestors love for naval
architecture. Racing canoes carrying
20 paddlers or more are built with
great ceremony and beating of drums
and carefully kept from the weather
In houses constructed by the district.
These canoes have beautiful lines
and are incredibly fast So are also
the sailing canoes, which carry tremen-
dous canvas and are trimmed by the
gymnastics of the crew, who balance
themselves on lateral spars extending
from the side. They also have out
riggers, but in racing these are not
allowed to bury themselves and so Inn
pede progress.
The Western outlook., 1915-03-27
Activities of Women.

New Mexico is the only state In the
Union which has no suffrage organiza
ton.
Less than 10 per cent of the young
women in large city have normal
bodies.
approximately $500 women are EN-
ployed in the garment factories of In
diana.
Fifteen women to every 100 men IN
Minneapolis earn their living by labor
France has 18 women inspectors OF
labor, while Austria has five and Bel
GUM one.
Mrs. E. j. Clinton of Portland, Ore,
is considered an expert on card filing
systems.
Women very often do farm work in
Sweden while their husbands sit back
and smoke.
II New York state grants equal suf-
frage nearly 100000 women will
share in the franchise.
Missouri has over $4,000 women
workers, of whom about 10000 live
away from home.
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FAIR TNHITlAN WOMEN

den in verdure, green slopes rise quick
iy to splintered volcanic peaks nearly
eight thousand feet high, carved by
precipitous valleys with countless
flashing waterfalls. Melville wrote
that the ineffable repose and beauty
of the Tahitian landscape was such
that every object struck him like
something seen in dream, and he
could scarcely believe such scenes had
real existence. "Often," said Bou-
granville, Il thought 1 was walking in
the Garden of Eden"
Papeete is the only town, but the
fertile level shores of the island are
SO thickly populated as to form almost
continuous village, along the road
that skirts the beach for its circumfer-
ence of nearly one hundred miles. Yet
there is practically no open land ex-
cept in the uninhabited mountains.
Houses and villages are beneath end
less groves of cocoanuts, breadfruit,
mangoes, oranges, banyans and bam-
boo, with occasional ornamental exot-
ics from other tropical lands. Alligator
pears. native "chestnuts," mummy ap-
Piles and bananas, arefn almost every
doorway. Except for two small sugar
plantations, a few halfhearted cotton
patches, and small clearings for taro,
vans and other vegetables, there is
no farming as we know it. Copra and
vanilla are the island crops
Work Is Not a Worry.
On the whole, however, industry has
small part in the daily life of the in
habitants. Very little work suffices
to procure all that is essential where
nature supplies food and shelter! The
writer once asked a native to bring
him some fish.
why don't you catch your own
fish?" was the response.
THAT isn't the question. I'll give
you dollar for good string Of fish,"
The Western outlook., 1915-03-27
CrocodiIes Live Iona.

Crocodiles are very interesting be-
cause they are survivals of an ancient
and vanished epoch They resemble
closely some of the saurians that
walked on the earth and swan in the
ocean during that age of reptiles
which, according to the biologists,
came to an end many millions of years
ago. 1t is probable that these crea-
lures live longer than any other ami
NAL in the world. There is crocodile
in the embassy garden at Mutwal. in
Ceylon, which is known to be 155 years
old, though its age when first captured
could not be ascertained.
The Western outlook., 1915-03-27

AdITI, the largest Island or the
Society group, and by many
travellers believed the most
beautiful in any sea, lies nearly
south of Hawaii and about sew
enteen degrees south of the equator,
writes E. IT, Allen in American For
estry. First touched by Portuguese
and Spanish navigators, it was de-
scribed to Europe by Wallis (1767)
and Bougainville (176S). They gave
such lively account of the beauty Of
both island and people, and of what
they considered the idyllic perfection
of its semiwild, semideveloped society.
that much was written, especially in
philosophical France, to argue that
here was proof of the necessity for re-
turn to nature by the human race.
BougainvilIe named 1t New Cy-
therea His companion, the naturalist
Commerson, called it Utopia and wrote
extravagantly of the virtues which he
said fourished because the natives
had no conventional restraint.
Cook and Forster's visits soon fol-
lowed Q76e to 1774), bringing fuller
information and in 1888 England sent
Lieutenant Bligh in the Bounty to get
breadfruit for introduction into her
tropical colonies. How his crew mu-
tinted later, put back to Tahiti, sailed
from there again with a party of ma
tive men and women, and disappeared
from the world until found long after
on Pitcairn island, where they found
ed an isolated colony that exists to-
day, is perhaps better known than
any other episode in Polynesian his
tory.
OF Aryan ancestry, practically or
wholly escaping Mongol or Negroid in
fusion by their exodus from the main
land In the remote past, the Tahitians
were and are still about what would
be expected of people much like
southern Europeans, but who have
been isolated for ages under all the
passionate influences of the tropics.
"The Garden of Eden"
Rainbow colored fish play through
the coral along the sea wall at your
feet, the placid green lagoon meets
skyline of palms on either hand, and
seward, beyond tiny palm covered
islet where a queen once had her
fortress, the surf rolls Dreaming on
the barrier reef from the blue trop-
ical ocean, ripping in the soft fresh
trades. Behind the town, itself hid
The Western outlook., 1915-03-27
Domestic Paradise.

Mother-Does that young lady you
intend to marry know anything about
housekeeping?
Son--Not a thing. I'll be the hap
piest man alive. don't believe she'll
clean house once in ten years.-New
York Weekly.
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What II Amounts To.

Lawyer-So you want to start di
vorce proceedings against your hus
band? On what grounds?
Client-Incompatibility, artistic tenn
permanent and psychic cruelty.
Lawyer-In other words, your hus
band is not making enough money to
suit you?-Puck
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-10-01
ADVANTAGES OF THE suO

Too much can not be said at this time
to dairymen and even cattlemen regarding
the benefits and advantages of good silo.
Good ensilage enables cows to produce
more economically and larger number of
animals can be maintained on a given
number of acres. The silo ration, or
ration in which ensilage is introduced,
keeps the animals fed in good physical
condition. 1t really provides summer feed
during winter.
BY placing feed, such as corn, in the
SLID it keeps corn stalks from the manure
heap. Again, the silo makes palatable
feed of materials grown on the farm that
would not otherwise be eaten, and it en-
ables the farmer to preserve feed which
may mature at a rainy time of the year,
when drying and curing would be i'm
possible.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-10-01
Marketing Dairy Products

Now we will consider another phase of
the dairy conditions, that of marketing.
Upon looking into the butter and cheese
industry, especially with reference to the
exports and imports we see that the fol-
lowing conditions exist (these figures
we're compiled from those obtained from
various butter houses in Seattle and Spo-
kane and are largely estimates for Wash
ington): About five years ago $50 cars
of butter and IA cars of cheese were being
shipped into this state. In 1912 there
were about 316 cars of butter and "a cars
of cheese shipped in. In 1913, 3O3 cars
of butter and ~ cars Of cheese. Last
year it dwindled down to 119 cars OF
butter, but the cheese increased to 80
cars. On the other hand, we find that we
exported but very little butter in 1910,
whereas In 1914 some 80 cars we're ex-
ported to Australia and New Zealand.
While these figures are for Washington
only, similar conditions exist in Oregon
and no doubt they can be applied to Cali
fornia as well.
The figures for cheese seem to show
that we could we'll afford to pay more at
tentlon to that end of the business and
to be sure, we would like to see several
cheese centers, such as the well-known
one in Tilamook County, Oregon, develop
in various parts of the Northwest. How
ever, the figures on cheese include cheese
from oregon into Washington, and II we
were to consider the Northwest as a whole
Wa would find that we are producing
about as much as we are consuming.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-01-21
Taft
Opposes Direct Primary

Bloomington, Ind, Jan. 21,-"I say
without hesitation that the selection
Of political candidates at general pri.
maries has not tended towards the
elimination of corporation rule Of po-
litical machines or the selection Of bet
ter representatives Of parties" "
Former President William II. Taft
made this statemtnt during an ad.
dress delivered here today ut the
Foundation Day exercises Of the Uni
versity of Indiana.
cit is not true,'' he added, " that
the primary law is any the less sub
icct TO control by machine, a boss or
a p0iltical organization than is a po'
ltical convention"
Reviewing conditions at present tho
former chief executive said the eoun'
try was hating in It's business progress
but was learning that 'unwisc steps
had been taken" These steps, he said
should be retraccd with justice, equity
and moderation.
owe must grant increased rates to
the railroads when condition require
and grant them quiekly,r he added
"Thoir prosperity is important TO The
prosperity Of the whole country"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-01-21
Pomona Grange Passes
Resolution On Taxes

That the law ON delinquent taxes is
unfair and unjust to the farmer, and
that efforts should i've made to change
the law, was the opinion expressed in
a resolution passed yesterday at the
Marion County Pomona Grange held in
this city,
A resolution was also passed urging
the members Of the legislature from
Marion county to bring before the pres.
ent legislature a law changing the pen.
atty when taxes are delinquent. In.
stead Of the 10 per cent penalty No.
vember ! when taxes are not paid, the
Orange urges the passing of law max
ing the penalty per eeut ON April 1,
and 10 per cent on all after November
!. The Taxpayers league were also urg.
ed 20 present this proposition to the
Marion county Legislators.
AZ the meeting yesterday there was
a large attendance from the grange
members from Woodbum, Albany, Am
ity, Turner aud jefferson. These meet.
ngs of all the gWnges In this section
are held every three months, rmnei
was sleetod as the ncxt meeting place,
Among thosc present nt the meeting
Yesterday was A. g. Miller of Albany
A. g, Libby OF lcticrstn, Mrs. Etho
Law Gulyin of Jefferson aud Mrs, 7
Cochran of Marion.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-01-21
Says Accounting
System Saves Money

According to figures compiled by
Chief Accountant Richardson, Of the
Oregon department Of accountancy, the
system Of state exporting Of county
records and establishment of uniform
systems Of accounting is found to pay
in other states where it has been in
practice for a number of years and has
saved hundreds Of thousands of dollars
to the people in the amounts of money
found due the several counties and re.
naming uncollectcd by the officers
whose duty it is to look after the pub
lie interests in such matters.
In the state of Ohio where the sys-
tenn has been in vogue for 10 years or
more, he shows that the total cost Of
conducting the department, including
the auditing of county and city rec.
ords, was $777 ,ss4.74, or approximately
$4,000 per year while the total amount
Of findings, which represents the
amount reported by the examiners as
illegally drawn by public officials, or
otherwise, from various public treasur-
les which are recoverable by suit NJ
law or settlement, was $3,76597I,04
Besides this the total amount Of mo.
neys unclaimed and not turned into the
treasury by officials, recovered as a re-
suit Of the examination, $l4,5slll, and
the total return was S047 ,S93,75.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-01-21
Seattle Gets Car Order
For Trans-Siberian Line

Seattle, Wash, Jan. 2l.--" An order
for $4,000 railway cars has been placed
by my government with the Seattle Car
and Foundry" reads an official state
ment issued today by n. Bogoiavlensby,
imperial Russian consul
While officers of the company wdlld
not confirm the statement in its en-.
tirety, they admitted they had been ne.
gotiating with the Russian minister Of
railways and communications for two
months and that they were to confer
late today with the local consul in re.
gard TO the ordes
The rolling stock, said to be designed
for use on the Trans.Siberian line, will
cost more than $l0,0O0O00. Tho order
will be the largest Of the kind cV0r
given TO a western foundry.
If 1t comes to Seattle, as Dogoia-
vlensky announces, il will mean the
steady employment of 1000 men for a
period Of two years and considerable
enlargement Of the car company's s plant,
according to Oliver D, Colvin, vice.
president and general manager Of the
company
The first cars would he turned out
in 30 days from the time tho spccifica.
tons were settled on, he added. Ship.
ments would be made by the Russian
volunteer fleet service, recently estah.
lished ON the Sound.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-01-21

y x y y = " = y - y = - - = y
Judge Scott is Portland visitor to.
day.
w. NJ. Hamilton left on the morning
electric for Portland,
r. @. Blgh, Of the Bligh hotel, is in
Portland today on business,
G, A. Hoover, of Gcrv0is, is q visitor
in the city today.
W. A, Taylor, Of Macleoy, was in the
city today on business.
g. w. IMfler returned today from
two days' business trip to Portland,
Henry A. Thoms and wife, Of Suhlim.
ity are in the city today on business,
Henry r, Bowlby, member of the
state highway commission, went to
Portland this morning,
N. c. Maris, one Of the educational
workers Of the state, Is here today, reg
istering from Portland.
w. W. Vanwcy, one Of the prosper
ous farmers Of Victor Point, was in the
city yesterday transacting business,
s. IL. Reeves, Of the Perry drug store,
who has been III at home for the past
two weeks, is reported to be improv'
ing,
j. w. Porter former representative
from Linn county, was in the city vest.
orday TO attend the Oregon Pure Bred
Livestock association
Miss Ruby Ramsdon and Miss Regina
Long, high school teachers, went to
Portland this afternoon TO see Forbes.
Robertson, tho famous English actor.
l., II. Johnson, steward Of the state
univcrsityj i, s, Maglady aud John +
Kelly OF Eugene, came down to the
city this morning ON business
Mr. j. u Howsen, Of Corvallis, an
exlhomhcr Of the Oregon legislature 6.
in the city this week. Mr. Howscr is
interested In good roods legislation.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-01-21
Trading Stamp Companies
to Pay License Of $4,000

II the bill introduced by Representa-
tive Vernon A. Forbes, of Bend, should
become law it viii mako it pretty
hard "slcdding" for the trading.
stamp, cortificatc-issmng concerns who
are doing business in the state Of Ore.
gou to continue to ply their trade in
future. This bill provides that any
company using trading stamps, cou.
pons, tickets, certificates, cards or 9th.
or similar devices for or with the sale
OF goods, wares or merchandise, with.
out first obtaining license from the
county clerk Of the county in which
such company or firm desires TO con
duet its business, II shall BE- deemed
guilty of gross misdemcanor and sub
ieet TO the penalty provided in such
cases. The amount Of license, $4,000
per anuum, is by no means the smallest
feature Of the measure.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-01-21
Regulating Jitneys
San FranciscO's Problem

San Francisco, Jan. 2l.---The 200 Jit.
pey bus owners in San Francisco, or
their representatives, will be given an
opportunity next week to present their
news before the public utilities com.
mittee Of the board Of supervisors re.
.garding the proposed drastic ordinance
regulating their business. This was an
.nOunced today following a preliminary
meeting of the committee when the
drafting Of the measure was begun
Testimony presented to the commit
tee was that scores Of new buses are
going into service in this city daily
and that double decked autos would
soon begin operations here.
The ordinance tentatively proposed
TO the committee suggests minimum
license fee of $40 per year for bus
seating five persons or less, the rate
being graded up to 500 for buses seat
ing more than fifteen persons. The
lprovision to which the Jitney men es-
.pecially object, however, is that sug-
sgesting that they be required to file
a bond of 10000 with their applica'
,tions for licenses.
|, Policemen who have been in the hab.
it Of stepping upon streetcars and rid
ling ION their stars" received q severe
Jolt today when it became known that
the Jitneys had decided that the blue
coats would have to pay nickel tC
ride, just the same as any other folks
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-01-21
PREDICTION OF ANOTHER
QUAKE CAUSES ALARM
Tootnless Old Scorers Announced Shock
VIII Occur on January 25-Panic Re-
suits
By Alice Robe.

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent J
Rome, Jan. 2l.--'rhe prediction voiced
by a too.hless old seeress tnat central
and southern Italy would be shaken on
January 20 by the worst earthquake in
history resulted today in veritable
panic among the poor people of Rome
and the stricken survivors Of the recent
tremor in central Italy,
The people Of the lower classes arc
highly superstitious and the work Of
the rescuers who are trying to restore
order in the earthquake zone has been
seriously hampered.
Tae woman claims the powers OF a
clairvoyant. She told neighbors it had
been foretold to her that another and
much more violent earthquake would
rock Italy next Monday. The neighbors
spread the report rapidly and it soon
reached Avezzano and other districts
where refugees are still being cared
for.
Instantly there was panic. Hun.
dreds Of refugees have been going about
wringing their hands, weeping, praying
at the roadside shrnes and eongregat.
ing in the ruins O. wrecked churches,
Military and government officials
have asked the clergy to call the refu.
gees together and quiet their fears.