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A wood U said lo b a flower In the Iwrona; pUc. or possibly It la a veg etable. Zeal la a beautiful virtue, and Ha moved worlds. Christianised peo ples and liberated rountieea slaves. Hut misdirected leal la a mischievous and harmful weed In society's vast garden. It is as troublesome as the cornflower In an Oregon wheatf leld. The Oregon prohibitionists ought to be able to move mountains If a stubborn and unconquerable spirit were sufficient for that purpose. But they do not go at it In the only way to art results, which Is to remove a cubic yard, or some other practicable Unit, al a time. They are determined to demolish the entire accumulation at onre. What the prohibitionists reed la a larger working capital of common sense. The prohibition party of Oregon announces that It will undertake an other statewide prohibition campaign In 1112. It Is noticeable that the ef fort Is to be renewed under the aus-y-k-ea of the old party organization and that the managers of the 110 rrusade have apparently retired from the field. Their losses In that fateful j ear were sufficient to warn them that the time was not ripe then, or soon, for another such effort: and It was obvious that only by patient and reaseless work could they retrieve the lieavy losses suffered then through their mistaken enterprise. Mr. Newell, the chairman, and the others tell us with great cheerfulness that no question Is ever settled until It la settled right. Evidently they mean that It Is not settled until it Is settled the way they want It settled. Their definition of right and -wrong Is sufficient for them, but It Is not sufficient for a great majority of the petiple of Oregon. Another period of fruitless agita tion over prohibition, therefore, ap pears to be Inevitable In Oregon. It Is a grievous mistake. Why do not the prohibitionists exert their ener gies toward enforcing the ' laws we have and abandon . the I'toplan scheme of getting an Impossible law r have not and will not have? fold comfort Is given the trusts la an Interview witn Altorney-uen-eral Wlckrrsham which was published In the New York World. Mr. Wlck ersham says this Interview was not Intended for publication, but admits Its authenticity except In two partic ulars, lie began by denying any In tention to resign and then said: At to any otnc forced out of the Cabi net by throat of powerful eorporatloaa or front magnate. I artould Ilk aothlng bel ter Uina to so to lh country oa such an Insu. Wlckersham said he knew when he took office what antagonisms he would arouse by enforcing the anti trust U, asked credit for honest en forcement of the laws and gave a hint of the amount of pressure brought to bear on him not to do so by saying: t Intend to nfnre thra regardle of .hit influence t broucht to beor to atop some of iho aulta th Xopartmcnt of J u lir has alroady begun. He went on to sound defiance and save warning to the trusts by the fol lowing emphatic declaration: Th only war the great corporations rnn avoid prooerutioa t by strictly romplylns with Iho law aad lny nr. foots if tby do Sot a that. Mr. Wlckersham 'expressed his In tention to bring about a readjustment cf business In conformity a 1th the Supreme Court decisions, but intended to send some of the rich offenders to prison all who knowingly, willfully and deliberately go on violating the law. Efforts were being made to stop the beef trust prosecutions, trial of which begins November 10. "but." said lr. Wlckersham. "they could no more stop those cases coming to trial than they could put spokes In the law of gravity." The Government attor neys all agreed that the evidence clearly established the guilt of the defendants, and he added: If v rna art a jury to convict and a trial Judg to tmpoo the prtnoo avntrnc. abnll urs thoo mn mill so to Jsll. but 1 can't eend tn.m to Jolt Tbnt la up lo tft court. A suggestion that the beef trust men might plead "non vulf or "nolo contendere," as did the members of the aire pool, caused Mr. Wlckersham to say sharply that the Government would oppose such a plea and to pro nounce absurd the small lines Imposed on the wire pool members by Judge Archbold. "That case goes to show that I can bring criminals to the bar of Justice, but I cannot send them to Jail." He has not offered Immunity to either the harvester trust or the steel trust If they voluntarily disintegrate and reorganize In compliance with the Supreme Court decisions. He ex plained that after premature publica tion of the suit for dissolution of the harvester trust the counsel for the trust offered. If he would withhold, filing the suit, to present a plan for dissolution In conformity with law. Mr. Wlckersham then threw light on the plan of the Government to prevent the members of a trust from ever again combining In a trust. He con sented to the, hsrvester trust's sug gextlon on condition that the Govern ment should apply to court for an or der Incorporating the plan, which would not only compel disintegration out would contain a permanent in junction which would prevent the sep arate companies from ever combining again or entering into any kind of an agreement as to territory or prices or In restraint of trade, or In violation of the law. In every case the disintegra tion must be In compliance with an crder of courfi which will forever for bid reintegration. He hoped In this war to bring about a resdjustment of conditions without the severity once thou-ght necessary, but he reiterated that "those who willfully and deliber ately and knowingly continue to evade the law "II! be criminally prosecuted." Mr. Wlckersham has checked up from "Moody's Manual of Corpora tions" those which offer prima facie evidence of being trusts and found about 100 In addition to those already under prosecution which ought to be dissolved. The Patent Office may come in for Investigation In connection lth the trust evil, a question as to whether In connection with the I'nlted Shoe Ma chinery case he had not come across many Irregularities In the Patent Offlce. and whether it was not true that the patent laws were used as a tool to create a monopoly, prompting him to say he considered It a fitting subject for investigation. There Is on thins thai I am tronly In fnvr of. and ! hav been atronslv In fnor of. hecnuao It la th only Mr a prevent pvramMln of corporations." Mr. nirkeraham conclude.!. -jid that I a Feoeral law to prohibit any corporation owning stock In another corporation J."' hould be on of th provision of a reu ral incorporation law." A later attempt to "draw" the Attorney-General on his Intentions towards the steel trust failed. He said he was examining all large com binations to deterrrjlne whether they were In compliance with law and that, if In anticipation of action to dissolve It. iucha combination worked out "a plan of separation to avoid illegal con dition." the department would con sider It so as to avoid hostile action. He would much prefer voluntary re adjustment to prosecution. Summing up. Mr. Wlckersham's plan Is: To co-operate In voluntary dissolution of trusts, where a plan Is submitted to him; to give that plan the force of law by a decree of court: to prevent trusts from reorganizing by perpetual Injunction; to put In Jail officers of trusts who persist In vio lating the law: to recommend that Congress block future organization of trusts by forbidding one corporation to hold the stock of another corpora tion. WORU4. ANI MORIS WORIW. Senator Bourne has a very learned article In the October number of The Era magazine) on the popular elec tion of United States Senators, where in he seeks to prove through many historical citations that "because the Constitution of the United States Is what It Is. it ought to be something else. We hear again about the com posite citizen, to whom the Senator pays a high tribute as a person of perfect conscience and infallible Judg ment. He says moreover: Th opponents of th direct letlon of senator, and other feature of popular sov erninent har utt.rly failed to point out anylhlna In American hl.tory thai Juatl flea vn th ausse.tloa that th popl In th corapoalt mlsnt act unwisely. The Oregonlan Is not. and never was. an opponent of direct election of Senators; but It feels called upon to protest against the ridiculous and false pretension that the people can not act unwisely, and never have so acted. lleing mere human beings, they are moved by human Impulses and human arguments, whether they act as Individuals or In the mass. It Is the cheapest demagogy to say that they make no mistakes. Freedom from error Is a divine attribute. No people have ever claimed it. The people of Oregon do not claim It. No one not Inspired by a low purpose to flatter and cajole ever claimed It for them. Here Is more of the Bourne nonsense: I unhesitatingly asaert that under th Inltlntlv lb peopl not only will not. but rannol ennct lestalatloo asaln.t snernl wel fare. Self-lnlereat la th dominant fore of humanity. Probably In a majority of caoes a!f-laterat descenda Into eeln.h In terest. No two peopl er hnv been or probably ver will b esactly allk: conse quently. becau of th utrterenc of the personal u,u(ton of th Imltvldunl units or Boclety and th resultant difference In th serf or Beln.b Interest dominating each In dividual unit where they net collectively, as they do under th Initiative, aa lmmna number of different force ar liberated. ach atrucsMnc for aupremscy nnd thus on gendering friction, bo thai before any Com munity action can b .tabll.hed. tbla at trttloa null wear away the felCsh Intereata. and general w!far, according to th ma jority view of th community, absolutely control the community action. No two people think alike, or feel alike, or have the same motives; but each has his own selfish interest. Therefore through the initiative nei ther will get what he wants, but everybody will get what he wants. It is all quite clear, easy and simple. The Oregon system ought to be relieved of the burden of such absurd and pompous exploitation. Why not the plain facts? They are a sufficient advertisement. WHICH WILL WIN. ITALT OR Tl'RKET? The beginning of actual hostilities between Italy and Turkey by the cap ture of Prevesa and bombardment of Tripoli by the former Invites the ques tions: What are the rrospects? Which will win? Italy's navy Is so Immensely su perior as to leave no room for doubt that she can take and keep Tripoli. She can prevent Turkey from sending any troops to reinforce the 10.000 Turkish troops and their nomad Arab allies and can pour her own troops Into the country at will. But If Turk ish obstinacy forced Italy to carry the war Into the Balkan peninsula In or der to bring the Turk to surrender, another story might bo told. Italy's army on a peace footing is 240.000, a large portion of which will be en gaged In Tripoli. Turkey Is credited with 360.000 men, and this army has been modernized, reorganized and greatly Improved In discipline by Gen eral von der Goltz and twenty Ger man officers. It has also been armed with a new Mauser rifle and an Im proved field gun. Since the Young Turks gained power In 190S they have opened the ranks of the army, to the Christians on the theory that all In habitants of the empire are citizens and have thus Increased the avail able fighting force. There are no bet ter lighters In the world than the Turks, and If the Italians send their army across the Adriatic to meet the main Turkish army, there may be a vert" different story to tell from that predicted for the campaign in Tripoli. The Italian seizure of Prevesa, on the Turkish coast of the Adriatic, Is significant. It is probably to be held as a base from which Italy may in vade Turkey In case of necessity. In that event It would be convenient for co-operation with the Albanians, if they should rise again, and with the Greeks If they should Join In the war on Turkey. If Turkey should persist In fighting. It might be retained by Italv permanently, as that country re garded with Jealousy the Increase of Austrian power on the Adriatic by the annexation of Bosnia and Herze govina and the projected increase of the Austrian navy Is disquieting;. Now TIIE MORNING Is the opportunity "for Italy to get a foothold on the east coast of the Adriatic. If she were to delay until the final break-up of the Turkish empire. Greece might secure Albania snd make her frontier identical with that of Montenegro and Italy would then be shut out. Seizure of Mltylene by the Italians Is a, strategic move which may presage an attack on Constantinople Itself. It Is within easy distance of the Dar danelles, by which entrance is gained to the Sea of Marmora. The straits are guarded by forts which trsdltion says can destroy any ship which at tempts the passage, but If the Turks bave been as Indolent as Orientals proverbially are and as were the Spaniards at Manila Bay, the guns may be harmless and July may de velop another Dewey. An attack on Constantinople would be a good strat egic move to bring the Turks to terms, but It might prove bad policy by arousing the fears of other powers. Mltylene would also serve as a base for an attack on Salonlkl. the second In Importance of Turkish ports In Europe, or Smyrna, the principal port In Asiatic Turkey. Either of those ports might be seized as a hostage for the safety of Italian subjects in Tur key or to cut off Turkish revenue. Italy's best strategy seems to be to sweep the seas clean of Turkish ships, to seize all outlying Turkish posses sions which can only be relieved by sea. and to confine land hostilities to Tripoli. To carry the war to the mainland of Europe would expose her to the risk of another disaster like that uf Adowa. HOSIBI-K CARTERS. There Is nothing new under the sun. Very likely some persons imag re that the "hobble garter" Is a com plete novelty? Nothing like It was exer seen In the world before. But they are mistaken. Long, long ago. when old Dobbin showed a disposi tion to Jump the fence, he was sup plied with an attachment to his limbs astonishingly like the hobble garter, though It was called a "hopple." Ho, ever. Grlm's law of the procession of the mutes points, out the close rela tion of the two epithets. On the un refined tongues of horsemen and farmers the word "hopple" denotes the same apparatus as "hobble" does when spoken by tho elegant. But this does not" end the story. Hopple garters were worn by hu man beings at least as anciently as the flourishing period of Carthago. The beauties of that refined and lux urious city .went about the streets with gold chains on their ankles which restricted their freedom of movement much In the same way as does the modish attire of our day. The chain linked one limb t- the other and compelled the wearer to progress In a manner which was sup posed to be stately. No douDt the woman who proceeds along the street In a hobble skirt thinks she Is stately. It Is. surprising to note the various delusions to which human beings are subject. The Carthaginian hobble garter will be found interestingly dascribed In "Salaambo." which has been called the most powerful historical novel ever written. The author of It was Gustavo Flaubert, the Frenchman who also wrote: "Madame Bovary" and divers other delectable books. The heroine of "Salaambo" -wore her golden hobble garters when she went to visit the hero In his tent at thereat of the war which was raging between Carthage and Its rebels and certain Inconveniences arose from the fact that the key had been forgotten. We are not informed whether the modern hobble garter Is removed with a key or not. Mysteries of that sort are revealed only to women themselves and the French novelists who write about them. ' BAUFBAI.L ENTHUSIASM. There is something extraordinarily charming In the enthusiasm of a crowd over a baseball game. For one thing It Is completely unselfish. No man In the shouting throng has any thing whatever to gain or lose by the game. .His local pride may be grati fied or mortified, nothing more, and pride la perhaps the most unmercen ary of all the passions. It cornea nearer to thriving on nothing than any other plant that grows. But, for all that, pride Is a wholesome thing. Without It what are we? Poor cave dwellers quarreling over rancid bones In antediluvian forests. The local pride which shouts Itself hoarse over a victory tor the home team Is capa ble of more Important achievements, though not more disinterested ones. A skillful exhorter might use It to forward the development of "the city beautiful," Including parks, play grounds and decent homes .for the poor. A man who thinks it sublime for his town to win a baseball game might be taught to think It subllmer to have an honest city government. No doubt the germs of all our altru istic achievements are to be discerned In disinterested enthusiasms such as the crowd exhibits before the base ball bulletin. 1 There Is one thing to be satd for baseball w hich Is not so true of any other professional game. It Is Im maculate. The umpire sometimes ex hibits bad Judgment, but he Is not for sale to any secret bidders. His decrees may be wrong, but they are honestly wrong. The players always play fairly. They do no Jockeying. All there Is in a man comes out on the baseball field. The players devote themselves unreservedly to their cause. That the cause la of mere momentary Interest does not matter. The same Is true of most of the ends for which we toll and strive. When a few years have passed away what will be left of them ? The Importance of our toys cannot always be meas ured by the money they bring In. Baseball pays profits sometimes to the managers, but never to the shout ing crowd. Still we are of the opinion that the crowd carries away more substantial good than the owners of the clubs . "Fate cannot touch me, I have dined today," said the old epi cure. ' Fate Is tolerably powerless against the man who has witnessed a good game of baseball. He has had an hour or two of unmingled delight. His feelings have been stirred Just enough to be pleasant. He has wept with the losers and rejoiced with the winners. In a word, for a little while he has been free from the Incum brances of civilization and enjoyed life like a child of nature. To be sure, he has been a child of nature aa some of our Northern pa triots were soldiers In the Civil War. He has done It all by means of a sub stitute. The only muscle he has em ployed In his hour of diversion has been his tongue, a valuable member, but not the only one which Is bene fited by use In the open air. It Is OREGOXtAX. FRIDAY., delightful to see a crowd standing and shouting before a bulletin board, but It would, be even more delightful to see them out In a field playing ball themselves. . After alU the bone and sinew of a nation are not developed by vicarious athletic exercises. Some exertion on the part of the Individual is required for the best results. The chief accu sation against our American college athletics is that they encourage para sitism. The great body of the stu dents get their exercise as the wood tick gets Its nutriment, by the use of other organs than their own. The capacity to sit and scream Is power fully developed In them, but while this capacity possesses great Intrinsic beauty, it is comparatively useless in the exigencies of war or even in those of civil life. In battle a man has to employ other muscles besides those of his tongue. In the contingencies of peaceful life he often needs his brain. Neither of these Instruments profits particularly by sitting on the bleachers and yelling. So with our - pleasure In the inno cent delight of the crowd over a base ball game Is mingled regret that they do not go out and play -for them selves. Professor William James has taught us the dangers there are In emotions which find no outlet in ac tion. To Indulge such emotions too freely finally kills the capacity for action. The image of the wood tick recurs Insistently in this connection. He has lost his legs by not using them. In the same way we are apt to lose our muscular powers when we depend too much upon other peop'.e for our athletics. The emotions of en thusiasm which bubble up in the crowd around the bulletin board are beautiful to see. for they are as un selfish aa anything can be In this wicked world, but they carry with them the seeds of danger Inasmuch as they find no outlet In action. If every member of the shouting crowd were moved to rush out Into the parka and play one old cat with his youngest boy all would be well, but as a rulo we fear he is not. The excitement of the ciphers on the bulletin contert him. He has gone through the pro cess which James stigmatizes as "en ervating," the process of allowing an emotion to arise and perish wholly within the boundaries of his mind. British athletics are admirable chiefly because it is the rule for everybody to take a hand In them. The farmer who rents land hunts be side the duke from whom he holds. The village blacksmith plays tennis with the parson and the lawyer. Each town has Its club of experts or pro fessionals over which It goes wild on occasion. Just as we do, but It has also the Inspiration for better things than clubs In the love of men and boys for actual sporty The plans for the Broadway bridge are said by City Engineer Hurlburt to call for an exceptionally artistic structure. The public Is entitled to all that It can get, useful and orna mental. In this bridge, as compensa tion for the vexatious delays in con struction that have been' suffered. However. If the bridge is commodious and substantial, and If It is completed within the time specified by the con tract, the lack of some ornamental features will readily be forgiven. Twenty-five thousand dollars per annum Is given by Mr. Fels to ex ploit the single tax In Oregon. It Is a lot of money. It is not so much, to be sure, as $100,000, which It la said to have cost. Mr. Bourne In his great campaign of education for the Sena torshtp. But In four years It will reach $100,080, while Mr. Bourne's $100,000 was an Investment in a six year Job. Twenty-five thousand dol lars annually will care for a lot of people and accomplish many things. George W. Perkins deprecates "an attempt to sweep the country back Into the old era ,of ruthless competi tion," but the law and President Taft say that competition Is the only legal condition under which business can be done. The people have been say ing for twenty years with Increasing vigor that they want the 'law en forced. Is it to be repealed, weak ened or ignored at the request of one of Its violators? Lesbos, the island which Italy has Just captured from the Turks, was Sappho's home. She was the only woman in all history who wrote poetry as great as Pindar's and Shol ley's. Nothing is left of it now but a few verses and fragments. Some times there Is only one word out cf an ode gleaned by patient scholars from the ruined manuscrips, but the word la golden. The daily war bul letins read like a page out of Herodotus. The pit that was digged for Dr. Wiley seems to have other occupants Just at present. Once in a century or two there occurs In the world an In stance of poetic Justice so complete, so exact and so satisfying, that we are constrained to explain It by invok ing an overruling providence. In Dr. Wiley's case the providence Is fat and loves to travel, but It Is capable cf doing an effective piece of work now and then. ' The people of Marshfield are to vote on a proposition to change the mu nicipal name to Coos Bay. The now name will be distinctive, tobe sure, and when some style-maker' at Wash ington makes it Coosbay It will be more so. . President Smith proved an alibi in the alleged photograph of his bed room with four beds in it. The alle gation was. a sad commentary on Mr. Smith's discretion. The alleged occu pants would talk him to death to be gin with- A white slaver, given a heavy sen tence yesterday, shrieked and sobbed at his "awful" fate, never giving a thought to that of his victim. City Physician Wheeler says pupils must not clean the blackboards. Thus passeth another pleasure of child hood. Sheridan's owl-man-monkey can be added to- Oregon's menagerie of freaks, human and otherwise. A thoroughbred man, like a blood fowl, meets his doom stoically. The scrubs make a noise. Violence means the beginning of the end of the strike. "Breakers ahead!" Is not motto at the carehops. good OCTOBER 6, 1911. GIeanings of the Day John D. Rockefeller has Just cele brated the 56th anniversary of his ac quirement of his first -$1000. says the Louisville Courier-Journal. Other per sons celebrate anniversaries of births or weddings which are, in the experi ence of many, blessings more or less mixed. But Mr. Rockefeller's amassing of his first $1000 was a labor of love that was not lost and the blessing of the possession of that sum was a bless ing undiluted. For the second time thiS year a pest of potato bugs descended on Lehigh County, Virginia, the other day, says the Philadelphia Record. They came by the million apparently from no where. There were so many of them that they did not all find room In the potato fields nor In the county, and some had to seek board and lodging In the grass, among the corn and in adjoining counties. At times, when1 they took wing, the, bug hosts formed clouds that obscure the sun. and they made a noise worse than the locusts. The enterprising; Lehigh potato grow ers lost no time In combating the pest. Within two days all the usual poison In the county was used, some of the larger growers requiring more than a ton, and the hardware stores and tha druggists who handle the drug tele graphed posthaste to New York and Philadelphia for carloads of It to supply the demands. Bonding matd-servants is the latest new idea In Chicago. Cyril G. Perry, owner of an apartment building, which contains 85 apartments, believes he has solved the problem of counteracting the doubtful honesty of domestic servants. He has a head-maid, a woman of great ability, whom he has bonded heavily, and ahe Is held responsible for the othersr but all the maids are bonded Individually, besides. - The head-maid holds the only master-key to all the apartments, and all the contents of all the rooms are catalogued and num bered, and each picture, tapestry. Jewel, rug, vase or other valuable thing Is checked up regularly every morning before work begins. Logan M. Bullitt, chairman of the committee which has been Investigat ing the plundering of Philadelphia by the Vare brothers under the protection, of Mayor Reyburn, charges the Vare contracting firm with having received $1,000,000 In .graft under Its contracts with 'the city for the making of ' the League Island Park. It la the old story of "Influence" being used so that not the lowest but a higher bidder could be favored. On one contract. Senator E. H. Vare bid 40 cents per cubic yard and got it, although another responsible contractor bid 27 cents; loss to the city and profit to Vare, $119,426. On another contract. E. H. Vare was paid 62 cents per cubic yard; this contract he sublet to a Vare comapny, which did the work at 10 cents a cubic yard. Net profit to Vare on this neat little transaction was $754,704.50. Vare defended himself by asking If a man waa not entitled to make as good a business bargain as he could, and by asserting that the best possible work had been done, so that this park should be "a monument to the Vares." So It will be; but not quite In the way Vare hoped, for to offset his testimony four men who drove the piling testified that the piles were smaller than Called for and did not reach solid bottom as required. This particular Vare Is a brother of the can didate for Mayor who is backed by Rey burn and opposed by Senator Penrose. Mr. Bullitt declares that, beside this million of graft In the park, he has shown that nearly a million more was stolen in public building construction, and states that If the public gives him the funds to continue the work "the outcome will be to satisfy every one that corruption In the administration of affairs of the city exceeds anything that has yet been exposed In this coun try." A woman's zeal to obey the law caused her arrest for breaking It. Mrs. Rose Benjamin, of New York, took to a police station a revolver which her husband had owned for a year and said that, having heard that there was a law against keeping revolvers at home, she thought it better' to give It to the police. The lieutenant on the desk at once told her she was under arrest for vio lating the law in having the weapon In her possession. Then Mrs. Benjamin was furious. She shrieked like a mad woman, but the lieutenant was obdu rate, and the woman went to a cell. - The New York Evening Sun is caustic In Its comment on Speaker Clark's speech In which he said: President Taft has more power than the King of England, and the latter would nave to seek a new Job If ho vetoed bills as fast as Mr. Taft docs. e" The Sun's cruel comment Is: Now that Mr. Clark has discovered the Interesting fact that our President has more pw-er thin the King of England, wj may soon expect to hear a very practical sug gestion from blm. This modest statesman, consented that the Speakership bo turned into a figurehead to fit hi. own measure of ability: So why should not th. Presidency S. alm larly tran.formed? Certainly If there Is the remotest chine of Mr. Clark'a filling tho office there will be a loud demand for tho change. Th. Pre.ldenfa veto power hould be as dead as King Georges If Champ Is to exercise It! Acommlttee of the Brown University corporation and alumni Is making an effort to raise a million-dollar endow ment fund. Two-fifths of this amount have been pledged, but these pledges are conditioned upon the assurance of the entire amount not later than June 30 of next year. The committee has made a specific appeal to 5000 Rhode Islanders for sums according to the means of each contributor. Brown's present funds amount to nearly three and three-quarter millions, but much of this is in such shape that It cannot be devoted to any of the several purposes that need immediate strengthening. The beautiful new John Hay Library Is a very valuable asset that adds much to the dignity and the educational re sources of the university, but Its main tenance imposes an extra burden, in the opinion of the Boston Transcript. The demand for an Increase In teachers' salaries is very urgent, and it is im portant that the Institution shall be able to compete with the Carnegie foundation In the matter of pensions. The Women's College Is lightly en dowed, and to these four worthy inter ests the million dollars, if It can be raised, will be applied. Brown fcs to a larger extent than most great universi ties a state institution, that is. It al ways lias a very large representation of Rhode Island students. There are 455 on Its rolls at the present time. ; DR. YOIXG AND BIBLE'S ORIGIN. Rector O'Neill, la Conanaeatlng. Pays TrtbBte to Catholic t horch. WOODBIUX. Or... Oct. 3. (To the Editor.) I was somewhat disappointed at the extract given in The Oregonian of Monday from Dr. Young's doubtless Interesting lecture of Sunday: for with such a general subject. It Is logical to suppose that the. origin of the holy book. ig preservation, inspiration, etc, was not neglected by the lecturer. Most of us, still Christian, would like to hear what he had to say. as to how we got the Bible and from whom. Was It dropped from heaven ready made, or placed on earth by seraphs? Was It written In Gaelic or English originally? What of It before the printing age? and most of all how does he prove It to be for men an inspired book, the book of God? "Dr. Young's brief history of the translation of the English Bible, men tioning Wycliffe's. etc.." as quoted, is apt to deceive, particularly when fol lowed by the eulogy on John Wyclllfe as the "morning Star of the Reforma tion," who becomes "a hero" because of his determination to give to the people the Book of God. People (non Catholic) may be led to suppose that the first translation of the scriptures that was ever made for the English people was the work of WycltfTe, or was one of those Bibles mentioned In your citation. It may be well to bear in mind, there fore, that prior to Wycliffe's time the language spoken in England had been constantly undergoing modification. Dr. Johnson dares to say that Sir John Gower (1302-1402) was the first who can properly be said to have written English. French was the languag-e of the Eng lish court and of the educated classes till past the middle of tUe14th century. As late as the time of Elizabeth and James the First we find many legal documents made up of Norman French and Latin, with hardly any admixture of English. . The so-called Wycllffite Bible ap peared in 1382. and before that time all who were able to read could read French, and nearly all could read Latin, and the Bible was easily accessible in the Innumerable Latin copies or In such French versions as existed in England. Bede tells us that the knowledge of Latin was widely diffused throughout England. "This Island at present," he wrote in the eighth century, "in the languages of five nations, examines and confesses one .... in those of the Angles Britons. Soots and Plcts and Latins: and this last by the study of the scriptures, hag become common to all the rest." (Hist. 1-1.) Hear Thontas More. Lord Chancellor of England, under Henry VIII. as to the actual existence of pre-Wycliftite Bibles. "The whole Bible long before Wycliffe's day was by virtuous and well-learned men translated into the English tongue, and by good and godly people with devotion and soberness well and reverently read" (Dialogues iii). Again the clergy keep no Bibles from the laity but such translations as be either not yet approved for good, or such as be already reproved for naught, as Wycliffe's was for. as for old ones that were before Wycliffe's days, they remain lawful- and be In some folks' hand. I myself have seen and can show you Bibles, fair and old which have been known and seen by the bishop of the diocese and left in laymen's hands and women's too, such as he knew for good and Catholic folk that used them with soberness and devotion." (Old English, of course.) . Archbishop Cranmer testifies to tne free circulation of the scripture In the pre-reformatlon English Church In his preface to the Bible of 1540: "The Holy Bible was translated and read in Saxon tongue, which at that time was our mother tongue . . - and when this language waxed old and out of com mon, It was again translated into the newer language." Foxe, who had no "Romanizing" tendencies, thus writes In his dedication to Archbishop Parker of his edition of the Sanon Gospels: If histories be examined we shall find both before the Conquest and after, as well as before John Wycllffe was born as since, the whole body of the scriptures was by sundry men translated Into our country tongue." An Anglican digni tary Dean Hook, tells us that long before Wycliffe's time there had been translators of holy writ." These "sundry men" and "translators were the Catholic monks, bishops, her mits and kings, such as Caedmona and Bede, of the seventh and eighth cen turies: King Alfred the Great, Aelfrlc, Archbishop of Canterbury. William Shoreman and Richard Rolle, to mention only those of England. There Is no reason, therefore, to make a "hero" of WycllfTe "because of his determination to give to the people the Book of God." since history proves that the Catholic Church had done so ere "the morning star of the Reforma tion" had appeared In the firmament. The renowned -historian Gasquet O. S. B.. In his scholarly work, "Wycllffe and the English Bible," charges Wye iffe with having plagiarized from an older English Catholic Bible, and has the sup port of Protestant standard authorities In proof of this charge. it behoves lecturers to seek science, and having found It. to remember that "private Judgment" and "liberty of con science" are limited by the boundaries of truth and Justice, even at the cost of caving tribute to the church which, though it does not admit the necessity of Bible-reading for salvation, collected, copied protected, declared the Inspira tion of and distributed to the people the Book of God. not only In England, but throughout the continent of Europe and throughout all ages. i. an. - Connlry Town Sayings by Ed Howe Indignation when a man attempts to hold a woman's hand Is not all there Is to proper conduct on the feminine side of the line. If a man shows a disposition to pro vide for his old age. don't discourage him by saying he is stingy. The man who is always wanting to fight rarely has an ambition to fight a man of his size. Men are always telling the women what they should do. but I don't believe the women hear a word of It, Life Is Intensely, practical; yet so many of us live It with artificial hopes. Every woman suffragist in the coun try is mad because Alice Hubbard can not write as well as her husband. The natural sciences are reliable; the eclipse of the sun predicted years In advance, comes true. Human na ture Is true: learn from experience, and if you are fair and Intelligent, you may. depend on your knowledge. You are not a coward if you refuse to engage In a fight with a man weigh ing fifty pounds more than you do. In iufh a case, discretion Is warranted. If you want Justice for yourself, you must grant it to others. If a man is baldTand also a widow er he is compelled to submit to two sets of very old and tiresome Jokes. It Was the Woman. Puck. Lawrer Now, sir: you say the burglar, after creeping In through the front window, began to walk slowly up the stairs, and yet you did not see him. although you were standing at the head of the stairs at the time. May I venture to inquire why you did not see him? ... - Principal Witness Certainly, sir. The fact is, my wife was in the way. CLAH HAS A PLACE .IV POETRY.. Hoqnlam Paper Kinds Literary Pro ml -ear Given Mollnnk. Grays Harbor Washingtonlan Discussing the fact that the Native Sons of Washington have adopted a- their emblem the clam, tne seam; roBi-inieiuffrnrrr enirra iiuw " w . torial rhapsody concerning this sub stantial mollusk. But the P.-I. is in error when it says: "There are no le gends concerning the clam, no myths, no poetry." Does not flie Post-Intelligencer re member the famous "Old Settler's . Song." written over a quarter century ago by the well-known Francis Henry.v one stanza cf which runs like this: "No longer the slave of ambition. I laugh at the world and Its shams. As I think of my pleasant condition. Surrounded by acres of clams." This song, set to the tune of ''Old Rosin the Bow." and Illustrated by Major W. H. Fell, of the United States Army, went everywhere In the old days, and made Puget Sound hopping marf. , 1 Then, too. there Is the clam nursery rhyme, which carries the line "when the tide Is out the table Is set." but the rest of which we have forgotten. And who In Washington will forget Cushman's classic about the panic of '93, when our citizens had clams morn ing, noon and nlght-BSO regularly that their stomachs rose and fell with the tides? There is certainly rhythm In that statement, and all it needs to make it poetry is to throw In the word "be sides" to rhyme with "tides." See how simple. "Morning, noon and night be sides, te duin, te de, te dum. te tides." Then, again. It Is wrong to overlook the unfinished epic of Colonel Robert son, of North Yakima, on the "geo-duck"- or "goeduck." Robertson has been working on this great master piece for seven years. He has dragged the succulent geoduck from his lair on Mud Bay. and made him sit on his hind legs In the Horse Heaven coun ty. In the next canto. Colonel Rob ertson should take his hero to Seattle, and make him into chowder for the gastronomic edification of the Post Intelllgencer. Srays Harbor's contribution to clam literature has - consisted solely of a series of tri-colored labels bearing thereon In yellow a picture of the fa mous razor-back, and in red the mystic words ','Port Elizabeth." or "Sea Beach." or "Copalls," or "Qulnlault." and in plain black a few well-chosen stanzas about mincing some bacon, some po tatoes, throwing in the nectared con tents of the can, and producing In two minutes a dish fit for the gods. This Grays Harbor poem has gone Into thou sands of editions. It has filled man hundreds of freight cars, has softener the finer feelings of a hard world, has created wealth of intellect, as well aa adipose tissue, to say nothing of add ing to the taxable values of Chehalls County. W'hat more can the Post-Intelligencer ask In the way of true poetry? A Stranger and Diplomat. Washington (D. C.) Star. Witmer Stone, the naturalist, of Philadelphia, was discussing at the Academy of Natural Sciences a bird book that was full of errors. "Really," -said Mr. Stone, smiling, "the errors In this book make me think of the City Hall clock." VThe City Hall clock, sir?" queries the reporter. "It's an anecdote." said Mr. Stone. "It's an anecdote about two men who, after dining not wisely, strode arm-Inarm down North Broad street. "One of them happened to raise his head, and the illuminated face of the City Hall clock, high up in the eve ning sky. caught his eye. " 'Oh.' he said, 'look at the hlc moon !' " "That isn't the moon,' said his com panion. 'It's later than you think. That's hie the sun.' . . t i . a...,iAi4 int-phlnr on together. over this question a long time, and finally they agreed to leave It to the first man they met. "A man soon drew near. They stopped hlm- ' " 'Beg pardon,' they said In concert. pointing to the clock tower, 'but, to set tle a bet, would you kindly tell us. sir. whether that's the moon or the sun?" "The man looked at the clock, then he looked at his interrogators. "'I'm sorry I can't oblige you. gen tlemen,' he said, 'but the fact is. I'm a stranger In these parts. " Swimming I'p to Date. Harper's. Father Who is that chap that writes to you so often? Bella He Is teaching me to swim. in a correspondence school. Ade Fables and Doyle Mysteries , in THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN Two Fables in Slang George Ade has never written anything funnier than the 1911 fable of the flat-dweller and the fable of the local Pierpont. both of which will appear Sunday. Sherlock Holmes The adven ture of the Musgrave ritual puts Sherlock Holmes at work on a deep-laid mystery ease. ' Columbia River Traffic-A vital pag:e analyzing the vast changes' that are in prospect as a result of opening up the great waterway. Women for Army Service Eng land's matrons and daughters while preferring peace, prepare for war service. Strange Sights of New York's Streets An absorbing article by a Portland writer on phases of life in the great American metrop olis. Music Hit "Isn't It Nice to Know Somebody Cares for You," as sung in the new musical play, "The Happiest Night of His Life." Oregon Moonshiners Excit,ing experiences of revenue agents in running down illicit distillers- Gorgeous Churches A half page on the glittering edifices and strange customs of Russia's churches. The Funny Men Ten minutes of refreshing fun that will put you in good humor for the day. ' Widow Wise, Mr. Twee Deedle and Sambo all have fresh adven tures. , i MANY OTHER FEATURES