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1Q - THE MOTtyiXO OREnOXIAN. WEDXESDAY. MAY 15, 1913. Ek (Drrpnuro roRTUtxu. utoox. Enterr St Portland. Orn. Poatotflea as Mcwd'Oiu lattr. eubacrlptiua Una Invartabll tn 41nu (BT MAIL.) DstlT. unta Included, one Jranr "-J? l'iiy. Sun.lay lr.-lndU. sis moilM..,. I'i.y. Sun4r lnciurt4. U" moataa.. X.2J l'ily Sunday lBduld. monta.... .JJJ !.;.. wi'nout laitOar, ene yar J 'J? lil. irhoul Sunday. lm ooiM l-sily. without -iidr. IBraa Boaltl... - nboul Suae sr. eaa !" "V n !. yaar - huRilt), B kuaca and v !. ana yar " (BT 1-AKKIKR.I rll. S.ln1y Includml. on jrT ."? lar'y. Sunday Included, on monlh.... Hm tm HeHtJi -nd Pnatotttra mooay or r. upr-H trMr or csraoaal choc" on your lool kBfc. SKmpa. cola or curroory ara I i Ho -J-n rio. Oio p.torrico auaraae la full. Including county and stata. r-otaco Kaln-lo to 1 PM coat: 1 to . 2 cuii. 3 lo o passa. oooio- I , paaa. csnla. otoa aoatasa, ltiLJ rata. kaotrrm Haalaeaa (MfWo V.rr. Con lin -w Vara. .rUDi:a bulldln. (.-' caso. atosor building. kanona Of ffcro No. S Fot atroot. a. rOirUM). HttKilAV. MAT . BULT1.H.4 AM NO BOITUI. Mr. Roooor-lt cannot support Mr. Taft Iw Praoidont. Mr. Tft cann.t support Mr. hoaoo.olt for I'mulnii. If oith.r la bjI; aslad the olh-r roust boll. New Yora W arid. Siowly. alowl. We are not so sure of It. though the Imminence of two Republican parties or a Republican, party split wide open grows with the tumultuous progress tt the bitterest ante-onventlon campaign In the party's history. Colonel Roosevelt muy txIt. though ha ba never yet bolted; but he haa plainly reserved in hi apeech'a the right to determine whether the nomi ne has been "fairly selected." with, the Try rlrar Implication that he will not aupport m machine or steam-roller candidate. lie did. In 19S. and at other times; but. from the lofty peak of his own elf-procUlmed virtue the Colonel area things differently now. Failure to aupport a candidate does not necen-iarlly mean a bolt. Tha bolter U one ep-cles of dl(rrtjntlel political animal; the sulker is another. Mr. Taft wi:l not bolt If he shall ba d. feated. Ill kind do not ordinarily bolt. Sometimes, to dmtroy a malefi cent boea like the srlm and irrlmy Cox. they do; but the exception merely proves the rule. Mr. Taft belong to the dept!-ed element of tha Republi can party known as regulars, and also dorlnlvely called standpatters. They accept results after a contest within the party. They believe In party dis cipline and party organization, for party cannot be maintained otherwise. They believe In party because party Is, and has been, an Indispensable factor in the march of freedom and the de velopment of itovernment. Without party, party principles, party allegi ance, party support, there would be no American republic. But your Insunrent or radical does not stand pat. unless It pleases him for his own alms to stand pat. He Insurrs. He deserts. Its bolts. He quits.- He Joins the enemy. He will ruin If he cannot rule. It Is the f.t.hion. One reason why so many rcgrulars have been defeated In Oregon and In all the states Is that the progressives will not as a class vote for them after they are nominated. One reason why so many progressives or Insurgents have been elected In Oregon and else where Is that the regulars as a class vote for them when they are nomi nated. Thus one element has con tributed to Its own eclipse by Its steady adherence to party custom: the other element has contributed to Its own success by Its systematic repudia tion of party obligation. Hut we have come upon new time and new ways. Tour regular ha be come progressive and your progres- ive Is crying from the housetops for party regulars to support all progres sive nominees. We suppose thev will. If the nominee suits them: and the stipulation that the candidate suit them Is the highest evidence of their real progresslveness. IHKtrr tXIXTIO or r-EX.TOIt. The question of direct election of United Stales Senators now rests with the states, no doubt remaining that the President will approve the resolution submtttlnjc the Constitutional amend ment. There being forty-eight states and the Constitution requiring ratlfl .ation of an amendment by three fourths of the states, the negative vote or the failure to act of thirteen state would reject the amendment. There can be no doubt that the states west of the Mlsisslppl River, probably west of the Pennsylvanla-S-w Tork line, are practically all In favor of the amendment. Opposition Is most likely to come from the con servative Eastern states, such as New York. IV la ware. Rhode Island. Connecticut. Massachusetts. Vermont, where old political methods still have sway, and from the black belt of the South, where fear of negro domina tion through Federal control of elec tions still prevails. excluding such border states as Maryland, Virginia. Tennessee. Kentucky and Missouri, also the radical states of Oklahoma. Arizona and New Mexico, there are nine states w here the race Issue might have enough Influence to cause rejec tion of the amendment by them. If all these nine stales were to reject the amendment and four conservative Northern states were to adopt the same course. It would be dead. But the progressive spirit which d-, mands direct elections Is gaining In the Kast. as evidenced by recent events In renns Ivanla. Massachusetts. New Jer sey, New Hampshire, and the strongest hopes of the conservatives would He In New Tork. where Senator Root is the most able opponent of direct elec tion, and In such pocket borough states as Rhode Island. Delaware and Vermont. Should popular opinion overcome reactionary opposition In New York, the three other states named In combination with the entire black belt would be powerless to block tr e amendment. There Is reason to believe that the. "nigger" bogey Is losing Its power to st-are people In the black belt. Also the men who voted to the last egalnst Federal supervision of elections know In their hearts that that power, while reserved. Is not likely ever to be exer cised.. They know that .the nrgent reed of the new South for more effi cient labor than that of the negroes will cause the Immigration of people from Southern Knrope who will help t . rob the "nigger" bogey of Its ter rors and to render It useless for politi cal purposes. The great revival of popular power which Is convulsing the North and West Is also permeating the South. Direct election haa won a great t itt'.e by getting before tha states. The same Influences which have won the battle In Congress will be at work to win the aecond battle In the states. But the opposition will resist to the last ditch and the earnest advocates of the reform must fight without cessa tion In order to win final victory with out further disheartening delay. MAKINU A I AU-E ISSl E. Dr. Lane is out with his keynote for the coming: Senatorial campaign. It is. he says, a "contest of the plain peo ple against privilege." It aounds fa miliar. It haa done yeoman service In many a hard-fought campaign. We are to hear It again along the high ways and on the hustings, for the doc tor, being a plain man and a champion of the plain people. Is about to make a preliminary automobile trip through out the state, and another automobile trip later to wind up the campaign. But the plain people have been served before by Dr. Lane In public orhce. and privilege Is still doiag busi ness at the old stand. It 1 sad to relate It; but 'tis true, too true. Why should it be said that privilege will fare better under Senator Selling than Senator Lane? It will not. The pub lic record of Mr. Selling as against privilege Is good. The record of Dr. Lane Is not better. The assumption Is that Mr. Selling has something, and therefore he will stand for privilege, and Dr. Lane has little and will therefore stand agalnxt privilege. Yet the doctor seeks to put' an anchor to the windward by frowning- down the Socialists and the L W. W.S. and saying they should go. He would put them out of business by stealing their thunder. THK WOCTrTEKX PELERATCS. Comparison of the proportion of Federal officeholders among tho Southern delegates elected to the Re publican National Convention this year with the proportion In the hist -two Presidential years docs not bear out Roosevelt's charge that Taft 1 simply marshaling the Federal brigade to se cure the nomination. Analysis shows the proportion Is vastly less this year than In 104 and 101. when Roose velt controlled Federal patronage and secured the delegates, first for himself aod then for Taft. In the coming Republican conven tion the states south of Mason and Dixon" line will have 37S delegates, of whom 278 have been elected. Ac cording to the New York World, only flftv among these 17$ who are pledged to Taft hold Federal offices. In 1904. when the South had a smaller total number of delegates. 17 of them were Federal officeholders drawing 1400.000 a year In salaries and fees. In 1S0S. still with smaller total num ber of delegate than in 11I. the South sent to the convention itO Fed eral officeholder receiving 1450.000 In salaries and fees. Nine Georgia dele gates who held Federal offices and were delegates In 1808. when Roosevelt directed the campaign, are now dele gates for Taft, still holding office. Roosevelt . said at Pittsburg on April : No more scandanou abuaa of Fedora! pa ironies has ever boon than bars mm In th last too months rootmastera onsasod la tbo lowoat alada of lertln frauds. Of courao. this caaa Is morely Illustrative of what haa been attmptd In every branch of tha Government frirlrt. These words apply with threefold force to what he himself did In 1904. with fourfold force to what he did in 1908, for t'.ie things he now condemn were done In those years to three and four time the extent to which they are being done by the Taft men in 1911. The much smaller proporlon of officials among the delegates of this year goes far to disprove the charge that undue Influence Is being used to rally officials to the cause of Taft. When we recall that such men as post masters, collectors, district attorneys and marshals are naturally among the leading men of their party In their own communities. It Is not surprising that a considerable proportion of them should be elected delegates without any outside pressure. I'nder such circumstances SO out of a total of 278 I not an' unreasonable proportion. A KRY PRESENT HELP. "A Plsgah Mother" come forward In a gentle, motherly, but withal a logical letter which was published In these column a few day ago. and eta forth reasons . for the main tenance of the Pisgah Home at Lents which are well worthy of considera tion and Indorsement. As compared with the "schooling" which human derelicts get by means of a sentence of ten day In the City Jail, the picture presented by this Tlsgah Mother Is startling. As she depicts the scene, an orderly crowd gather In the early morning around the long white tables; elevating songs are sung, one man playing the organ; a chapter from the Scriptures Is read, followed by a devo tional meeting; all are encouraged to lead a higher life: the surroundings are cheerful and clean: no tobacco, no profanity, nothing that will defile the body or spirit is permitted. After this showing we are prepared to believe the statement of this good mother In Israel that "ten day of thl treat ment and environment Invariably de velop a longing and determination In the derelict to do right even though all may not be established so soon as this In the power to do so." This home and the work that It rep resents have frequently been subjected to harsh criticism. It promoters have been called fanatics and It methods assailed as creed bound and outdated by experience and Intelligence. But Is It not possible that reformation where reformation Is possible In these des perate cases lies along the way where belief In the Bible as the word of God is Inculcated; the efficacy of prayer i- acknowledged: the value of sacred songs to the accompaniment of Instru mental music Is recognized; where de filing stimulants and habits are for bidden and where love rules? No one can reach the Inebriate the social outcast, the moral derelict through his Intellect. That faculty is so befogged by base self-Indulgence that It is practically dormant. It is worse than useless to talk over the heads of outcasts. As once said by a worker In the Crlttenton Home, "the girls like to cry and whimper over mysticism that they do not under stand and beliefs the basis of which they know nothing." This being true of social outcast of either sex: of men and women whose Ideals were never high and whose moral sense has been, at least tem porarily, befogged by evil Indulgences, how foolish It is and how useless to prate to them of the ethic of moral ity, of the salvation that they murt work out for themselves and of self dependence as their only hope? No. Having found themselves broken sticks upon which to lean, they need a belief in a higher power to help them back to the long deserted shore of Individual decency and self- respect, and to cheer them along the way. It is good for them to lng: "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning." The words mean something to them. And much to them mean the kindly inter est that seeks to lead them Into better ways through the corrective Influence of an Insistence upon clean living a the price of horn and help. So, with out taking lssu with its creeds, or seeking to controvert Its beliefs, we can well afford to let the Plsgah Home continue the even tenor of it way. under the ministering love of the "Plsgah Mother." glad to believe that the home and the mother form a very present help In time of need, even as Individual homes and mothers I are wont to do. Htl'FUAdE AND FREE LOVE. Th National Aaeociation Opposed to Woman Suffrage publishes a month ly periodical which It calls "The Woman's Protest." We- have run through a copy of this edifying maga zine, and without making any partic ular effort to cull Inveracities, but we ' have stumbled upon two amazing ones. The first of these inveracities Is that "the women of the West do not want to vote." If they do not want to vote, who is making all this noise and what Is R about? Certainly somebody In , the West wants to vote, and we had always supposed it was the women. ' But perhaps we are mistaken and It Is a company of cherubim. The other Inveracity which we have noticed In this wonderful "Protest" Is tne stntement that Miss Ashley, the treasurer of the National Woman Suffrage Association, indorse. free love. This astonishing bit of gossip rests upon a foundation fully as stable as most of the other "anti" argu ments. The only warrant for It Is the fact that Miss Ashley told somebody to read Bebel'a work on "Woman." The . "antl" mind at once draws the Infer ence that Miss Ashley Indorses Bebel's lax notions of marriage. I In the same way If a suffragist ; should tell a person to read the Bible i the "antls" would shriek that she adopted Solomon's views of matri mony and wanted every man to marry a thousand wives. Thackeray was a great admirer of Fielding's "Tom Jones." He went so far as to declare that it was the best novel In the Eng lish language. According to the "antl" method of reasoning we ought to ac cuse Thackeray forthwith of approv ing all Tom Jones' loose adventures In love. If It is an Indorsement of free love to recommend Bebel's philosophi cal treatise on "Woman," it is certain, ly an Indorsement of immoral conduct to recommend "Tom Jones." 4?ne may very well approve of the general trend and character of a book without wishing to follow all the mi nute details of its teaching. One may believe In the general moral doctrine of the Bible without wishing td have a many wives as Solomon. FK VNC'IS DAVID MILLET A'I MODERN ART. The world continues making up the account of its losses in the wreck of the Titanic, and the total grows more disheartening every day. At first there was a great to-do over the millionaires who went down with the ship. Their conduct was scrutinized, their fortune estimated and their fate deplored as If they had been the only persons of any consequence who perished in the disaster. Now, after the lapse of a few days, the public has forgotten the millionaires and Is beginning to pay attention to the men of real signifi cance who lost their lives on the Ti tanic. The Ocegonian has made some comments on William T. Stead, the dis tinguished English Journalist. We wish now to say a little about Francis David Millet, the artist. It Is the death of men like these which makes the wreck of the Titanic an Irrepara ble calamity. Half the millionaire In the country might have gone down without depriving the world of as much true genius and public spirit as Millet embodied In his single person. By profession he was a mural painter. Ills work may be seen on the walls of the Baltimore Custom House and In Trinity Church, Boston, while, as the public will remember, he supervised the decorations of the World's Fair at Chicago. In the buildings for the fair the wall space were so vast that It seemed almost Im possible to cover them with colors by brushwork. To overcome the difficulty Millet Invented an apparatus for ap plying the pigments in the form of a spray. The pictures were projected on the walls In outline from a magic lan tern, the colors were Indicated for the guidance of the workmen, and then the spray machine was set at work. Whether the modern method of white washing barns with a spray nozzle Is derived from Millet's happy Invention ws are not prepared to say. Of course pictures painted by such a device could only be tolerable on wide surfaces seen from a great distance. Although Millet was born an Amer ican, his home, during the latter part of his life, was in England, near Lon don. Here, in, the congenial society of other artists and literary men. he devoted himself to what Is called genre painting: that Is, he painted scenes from real life, after the manner of the Dutch. It does not follow, however, that he confined his work to British scenes and events. On the contrary, he took many of his subjects from the common life of Rome and Greece and gained much commendation for his fidelity to the ancient costumes and in. tcrlors. Millet was too versatile to become an artist of the highest rank. There have been men. like Leonardo da Vinci, who could make painting one among many pursuits and succeed as well as the greatest, but modern times afford no cramples of this kind. Millet distrib uted his energies in so many directions that he fell somewhat short of su preme excellence In all. But perhaps the Interest of his varied occupations more than compensated for the dissi pation of ability which they entailed. Besides his palntlrg. Millet was a war correspondent of renown. He was with the Russian armies during the last Turkish war and made himself so useful that the Czar decorated htm with certain orders of distinction. His principal literary work is an account of a canoe voyage down the Danube, with illustrations made by the way. I"e also published other book, a trans lation of Tolstoi's "Sabastopol" and a volume of short stories w hich are es teemed by the critics. Millet's pictures are Interesting be cause they are so entirely modern. Even his classic studies are classic j merely In costume and setting. Their SPint IS mil OI Wie iwriiurui iciuui. With the art of the Renaissance he seems to have had no sympathy what ever. His pictures contain nothing of that religious feeling which Is supposed to abound so astonishingly in th works of Raphael and Leonardo. The nature of thl religlou feeling wa no doubt perfectly clear to tne peopie ot the sixteenth century, but to the mod ern man It become more and mor elusive with every decade. We do not mean that the modern man ha les real religion than his predecessors of 400 years ago. The probability is that he has a great deal more, but the old way of regarding it ha lost it mean ing to him. Theareliglon of the present day is a matter not so much of. feeling and creed a of conduct. Raphael saw no Incongruity in rioting with hi mis tresses all night after painting Ma donnas all day. Piety and cruelty ex isted side by side in many a person without any apparent clash. The mod ern world cannot understand this men tal situation, and for that reason It is often at a loss to perceive the beauty of Renaissance pictures. We all accept with profound fidelity the tradition of their greatness and charm, but our eye are apt to be blind to It all the same. The mpdern tendency, as we have said, Is to express religion not with paint brush and color, but by the conduct of life, while In art we prefer to see the sentiments depicted which lend charm and diversity to common affairs. The amenities of human In tercourse are a great deal more Im portant to us than they were In the time of the Renaissance, while religion is not less Important, but it is mark edly different. A cult which should begin and end with ritual and emotion could not satisfy the Inhabitants of the modern world. As our religion be comes divorced from feeling, so It be comes divorced from art and the pic tures of the old master grow less and less attractive to us because they cor respond to a state of mind which is foreign to our experience. Very likely If emotional religion should ever re gain complete ascendency over the hu man mind, the art of the Renaissance would be admired as much in reality as it is now In pretense. If the Democrats cannot elect Harmon or Underwood or Marshall, or some other Democrat who l faithful to the teachlnss and prlnelplea of tho fathars of tha Con stitutional Government in tho United States, I .hould Ilka to see Mr. Taft ra-elacted. bllvtn aa I do that tha intoresta of tha Nation would ba safe in hla hands. This Is the conclusion reached by Major J. C. Hemphill, of the Charlotte. N. C, Observer, in an article in Har per' Weekly, In which he terms Roosevelt' Administration "The Reign of Terror." He sum up In a man ner most denunciatory the leading events or Roosevelt's two terms and give an Inkling that in case the Colo nel should bolt Taft nomination, men of his type would cast aside party al legiance and vote for anybody to beat Roosevelt. "The Portland papers." says the Capital Journal, "are worrying because the Republican ticket in Marion County is largely made up at Salem. In Multnomah County nobody is ever nominated from any part of the county ..... . v. - r Portland. Generally OUl llic . - i the nominees are picked up within a ; few blocks of the center oi me .. often many from one skyscraper. : Bowl 'em out. Colonel: bowl 'em out If there la any skyscraper assembly picking 'em out in Portland, it should : be located and the skyscraper razed. The lawyers employed in the suit j against the sugar trust are quarreling , over the admission of Havemeyera, testimony. He has been dead five I years, but what he had to say la on record. If the purpose of the lawyers were to discover the truth, there ... . w AvnlnHinff would De no mousm Havemeyer's story, but truth is the last thing they want. In the American criminal courts technical etiquette form and precedent outvalue truth and Justice. From the clouds of Democratic In decision the perenniahy sublime figure of Mr. Bryan emerges with Imposing majesty. If he Is not the Rock of Age for hi party he Is certainly a palm tree In the desert and a city of refuge in distress. Nominated for President, he would have the felicity of fighting as Republican doctrine most of the great principles he cham pioned In his previous incarnations. Free silver la about the only exception. The only criticism we have to offer upon Ruef-B graft story is the one Mil ton made upon his birth. He said it came an age too late. Had Ruef told what he knew when the graft prosecu tions were on. the country would have been grateful. Now it is merely curl ou and contjmptuous. Since Daniel G. Reld's memory Is almost a blank as to the organization of the tlnplate trust, the Government might be able to obtain the missing evidence from the original documents unless they have been destroyed, like the evidence against the wire pool. The Austrians working with the convict camp near Salem must be mis taken in charging the "honor men" with stealing their money. It is easy to give a bad dos a worse name, and all these "honor -men" are playing good dog. The Seattle ordinance governing use of the flag is worthy of emulation by every city. Star and stripes of proper size must lead every parade and flags and banners following must ahow what they represent. In a whirlwind an aeroplane la and probably always will be as powerless as a twig. Man' conquest of the air only holds good In the air's milder moods. When a woman has her husband . , v. vvnllA three duvs after BCUl 1U HIS - , marriage, one is led to wonder as to the inducement In the affair in tne De- glnnlng. x ' ' Like an echo from the dim past comes the news that Max Pracht will quit the fat and return from Wash ington to his famous peach orchard. Old-line Socialists the real article are becoming weary of the I. W. W. element that bring disgrace upon the party. Two meals a day are not enough for a healthy prisoner on the rockplle. These are long days. Rain is needed to put out the fires and clear the atmosphere, and it is coming. The four-legged duck at Canemah will have two speeds forward. Now Klickitat has wholesale murder resulting from "kid" marriage. I NEW DEAL IX HIGHER EDT7CATION. I Mi " Consolidation of Two Big Schools Im I Portland Is Sussreated. PORTLAND, May 18. (To the Editor) If the people of Oregon decide to i consolidate the University of Oregon and the Oregon Agricultural College, the proper place for such a consolidated institution is at or near the City of Portland. This city has advantage that cannot be offered at either Cor vallis or Eugene and the loss in build ings and grounds at those places would be insignificant as compared with the value to the state of a large and well equipped university located at the metropolis. A public Institution whose support Is derived from the public fund should be located and conducted with the view of doing the greatest good to . the greatest number, and, for this rea son, a combined Institution of higher learning should be centrally located. Portland is unquestionably the most centrally located point In the state. All transportation lines, both rail and water, lead to Portland, and It Is ac cessible not only to the people of Mult nomah and the surrounding counties, but also to Eastern Oregon and the coast counties. Portland is more, ac cessible to the counties of Baker, Mal heur. Wallowa, Union. Umatilla. Grant, Wheeler, Harney. Gilliam. Morrow, Sherman. Crook. Wasco, Hood River, Multnomah, Clackamas. Marion. Polk, Yamhill, Tillamook, Washington. Co lumbia, Clatsop and Tillamook, Or., in other words, to . three-fourths of the population of the state, than Corvallls or Eugene. . Should the combined institution or . learning be located at Corvallis or Eu gene, there would be a guerrilla war fare between these towns for all time to come.; so If consolidation Is decided upon, let us have a "new deal" and se cure a location that will be best for the general welfare of the state. The build ings and grounds at Eugene and Cor vallls could be disposed of and the equipment moved here at a small cost. Portland Is the present location of the law and medical departments of the University of Oregon and it is not probable that these departments will ever be moved elsewhere. The better , plan would be to move the other de- j partments to Portland, where one great 1 institution with all the professional de partments of a great university, could be built up. There is room here for a great Institution one like Berkeley, I Washington, Pennsylvania, Columbia or Harvard but such an Institution can- , not be built up at Corvallls or Eugene. I suggest that those who contemplate. ; Initiating a consolidation measure con- ! elder Portland as the location of our ; big state school, and I predict that n such a measure-Is proposed. It will car ry by a two to one vote throughout the state. H. V. TICHERT. A proposal to locate a consolidated oHui-attonai tchnnl In Portland " ' " 1 - ( would carry the implication that it was to be a university with an agricultural college appendix. For this reason we do not believe such a measure would carry two to one and doubt that It would carry at all. MANY FORESWEAR TRIE POLITICS Writer Appalled by Falae Registration In Multuomata Count'. PORTLAND, May 13. (To the Edi tor.) At the primary election last month the registration of voters In Multnomah County was: Democrats, 6415: Republicans, 35,053. or nearly Republicans to one Democrat. The normal strength of the parties in the county, as shown by the elections of 1908 and 191U, is less than two Republi cans to one Democrat. Had the regis tration been honestly made, the ac- , count should stand: Democrats, ij.sjj, Republicans. 27,669, or somewhere in that proportion, allowing for Socialists, Independents and Prohibitionists who have registered Republican. As it stands. 7384 citizens have signed and sworn to statements false ly alleging that they were Republicans, whAn ihv were not. Thus 7384 citi zens of this commonwealth have de- J liberately perjured themselves lor tne sake of a chance to vote in a primary where they had no more right than an Oddfellow would have to vote in a Masonic lodge of which he was not a member. This condition of things Is appalling. It exceeds by far the worst fraud and corruption worked out by the crooked est boss of Oregon politics In his palmi est days. It Is a condition that Bhould command the earnest, serious atten tion of every man who has at heart the welfare of this commonwealth. In 110 practically the same frauds occurred. In 1908 the same frauds oc curred in slightly less degree. What Is true of this county Is true of the whole state in a less degree, but still to an extent alarming to the lover of Justice and fair dealing. As a result of the Presidential prim ary it Is announced that this state has declared for Roosevelt. As a matter of fact, in view of the registration frauds no man can say whether the Republi can party of Oregon favors Roosevelt, Taft or LaFollette. The registration figures furnish sufficient basis for challenging the right of the Oregon delegates to sit In the Chicago con vention next month. Delegates to nomi nating conventions have been unseat ed for less palpable reasons. The system that will permit and in vite the perpetration of such frauds should not be permitted to stand can not stand if the state Is to continue to exist. Will not the decent, self-respecting, patriotic citizens of all par ties get together to put a stop to this abuse? J. W. CAMPBELL. 1573 East Fifteenth Street. Reed College Endowment. PORTLAND, May 14. (To the Edi tor.) Kindly state for the informa tion of others as well as myself, what the amount of the endowment fund of the Reed Institute Is. What an nual Income Is the college to realize from this endowment? Was there an amount set apart by the late Mrs. Reed for the original flrt cost? If so, how much? Will this amount cover the entire cost as planned at this time? The Reed endowment is largely in real estate variously estimated as be ing from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 in value. It Is steadily increasing In value hut is not all yet income-bearing. The income. It is expected, will exceed $100,000 yearly by the time the first class enters upon its senior year. Mrs. Reed's bequest limits the ex penditure from the endowment fund to $150,000 for site and buildings. Ex cess Income, however, will be available for buildings. The first building for general uses of the college will cost $218,000. A catalogue giving fuller de tails is now available. Statute of Limitations. PORTLAND, May 14. (To the Ed itor.) While in conversation with a friend of mine on points of law. The subject came up on statute of limita tion. For instance, some person buys land from the State of Oregon, say 150 acres of school land and after 5, 10 or 15 years It Is discovered It was obtained through fraud or perjury as to its char acter. I claim that no statute of lim itation exists by which the state would lose the quarter section of school land. My friend claims the state would lose the land after five years. If no action has been started to recover the. quarter section containing 160 acres. CHARLES D. HEIRRT. The statute of limitations does not now apply to actions instituted by the state. It did, however, prior to 1903. Dealer Advocates Appointment of In spector by City. PORTLAND. May 13. (To the Edi tor.) Thousands upon thousands of dollars are squandered every year In this city by coal consumers and the same is getting worse every season. The city should pass an ordinance com pelling each delivery to be accompanied by a ticket and every ticket for coal to be signed by the seller, stating from what locality, when unloaded from car, car number, from where shipped, date of arrival, name of mine coal was mined at, and make a fine of not less than $500 for misrepresentations. When solicitors are asking you to put In your Winter's fuel, before giving your order see that the parties whom they represent are dealers, whether they ever had a car of coal at one time or whether they are only so-called brok ers who buy the coal sold you In ton lots, and either resell the same under another name or sell you a coal under a well-advertised name and then on delivery substitute another and infe rior grade. All coal is black and comes from the earth beyond. This the average con sumer knows, and but little more. Yet there Is as much difference as between a plain steak and a porterhouse. There Is no coal trust in the city. Competition is very keen; there are plenty of deal ers, some six or more, who contract and buy their coal direct from the mine in 5000-ton lots or more. There are also some small dealers who sell at a small margin of profit and give what you buy. but in nearly all cases a reliable dealer has yards, owns his own teams, has a stock of coal on hand at all times. With a little in vestigation and ordinary care you can protect yourself against the shark who rents an office in an uptown building, pays the printer for some cards, gives himself some high-sounding name, so licits the business at yOur door and gives you a Washington lignite for high-grade coal, calling it, perhaps, a name sounding similar to one you have seen advertised and perhaps your neigh bor has recommended to you. Another favorite trick is- to say they are rep resenting a well-known coal company, and when they get your order, buy the coal and deliver it themselves by hiring teams. The writer was in the coal business for a good many years and has sold coal to Bome of these fellows and knows of what he la speaking. He has had the agency for coals and had coal sold under the same name by these fellows that was not worth as much within 50 per cent In actual heat value, and, on the other hand, has sold coal to sharks who at time of purchase frankly admitted that the same was to be sold under another name at twice the actual cost of It. A competent, honest inspector, em ployed by the city, a plan as hereto fore outlined regarding the sworn and delivery ticket, and a little care on your part will do the rest. But until the city takes action in this regard you will have to bank on the honesty and standing of your dealer. If you al ready have one who you think has treated you right and given you what you bought, stay with him, but If you are suspicious, investigate, and if you find him dishonest beyond a doubt, tell your neighbor. W. R. STEARNS.. BAN IS NEEDED FOR LONG HATPIN Woman Advocates Regulation of Length by City Ordinance. PORTLAND. May 11. (To the Edi tor.) Reading about the man In Seat tle being hurt by a hatpin reminds me of a car ride of five miles not long ago, when I might have had a similar ex perience if I had not dodged the hat pin. As it was, I just missed it myself three times only by careful watching. I wear a hatpin myself, but there has been a time when we never wore them, and our hats stayed on our heads as well as they do now. Why could there not be an ordinance passed to arrest women- for wearing hatpins of unrea sonable length, the same as they arrest a man for smoking on a streetcar? They stop him only too quick if he begins to smoke. But the smoking is not near as bad as the hatpins. I am not alone In my opinion about having the law passed, as several women of Influence and Intelligence coincided in the same opinion. MRS. RUTH SWEET. Travel by Sea and Land. LA PINE, Or., May 10. (To the Edi tor.) Since the recent loss of the Ti tanic, a discussion has risen here as to whether there is more ravel by steamships on the seas or by railways. There has been a small wager placed on the result, which we are willing to leave entirely to your decision. G. W. ROPER. Statistics, no doubt, vary in different countries and we know of no world data on the subject. In America, by reason of railway development, short distance Journeys and extent of country the railways carry vastly more pas sengers than do ocean-going vessels plying to and from American ports. For example, in 1910 the railways of the United States carried 971,683.199 passengers. The departures and ar rivals from foreign ports aggregated 2,167.115 last year. Statistics on coast wise travel are not available, but the figures doubtless would come far short of making up the difference. Korelgn-Born Voters. RICKREALL. Or., May 14. (To the Editor.) Please tell me the ratio of foreign voters (naturalized) to the American-born voter. Would it be pos sible to give the per cent of foreign ers among the socialists and I. W. W.s? ARGVL M. HARRIS. In 1910 the native white population of voting age was 14,103.619: foreign born white. 4,932,524; persons of negro descent, Chinese. Japanese and In dians, 2,293,676. Figures are not avail able as to what proportion of the foreign-born white males of voting age are naturalized, nor are statistics avail able as to aliens among the Social ists and I. W. W.s. Rivera and Harbors Bill. THE DALLES, Or., May 14. (To the Editor.) We would thank you to in form us whether or not the rivers and harbors appropriation bill affecting the Celilo Canal project has passed the low er House of Congress and Is now in the Senate for consideration. BOSTWICK & FERRY. The rivers and harbors bill has passed both Houses and is In conference. Sen ator Bourne Is on the conference com mittee. New Homeatead Bill. ARROW. Or., May 10. (To the Edi tor.) Will you tell me whether the three-year homestead law. If, passed, will affect the homesteaders who had filed before It was passed? R. L MARVIN. As the bill is subject to amendment Its provisions will not be accurately known until It passes. If It does pass. BLOOMTIME I.N HOOD RIVER. - The orchard Is sweet with the Spring time, The trees In their tardiness bloom. Our woods are a bower of fragrance, Our home a delightful perfume. Oh ranches and branches and Spring time. Oh hills and their wonderful peace. Do you think, oh, my Lady Delightful. One could wish for a moment's release? A. H. C. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of Slay IB. 180i Some 25 miners from Powder River came down on the Carrie Ladd and from the tone of their stories one would rationally conclude they had put on a "big disgust" with the ppospect for realizing a "boot full" of the precious stuff from that locality. Washington, May 4. Torktown was evacuated last night. We now oc cupy the enemy's works. The follow ing has Just been received by the War Department: "Headquarters of Army of the To tomac. May 4. E. M. Stanton: We have taken transports, guns, ammunition and camp equipage. We have taken the entire rebel works, which our en gineers report as very strong. I have thrown, all my cavalry and horse ar tillery in pursuit, supported by in fantry. Gloucester is also in our pos session. I shall push the enemy to the wall. M'CLELLAN." Savannah. May 1. General Lawton has formally communicated to the City Council his determination to surrender the city. The Council have resolved to sustain him. Washington, May 3. The Navy De partment has just received dispatches from Commodore Dupont, announcing the capture of the steamer Ella Wanley by the Santiago de Cuba. She was deeply loaded with Enfield rifles for the rebels and It is supposed has can non in her fore hold. Washington, May 6. In the Senate the homestead bill was considered and Carlisle's amendment rejected. 11 to 28. The bill was then passed, 33 to 7. Washington, May 6. The House to day adopted a resolution for the Im peachment of W. H. Humphrey, of the District Court of the United States for State of Tennessee, for hitrh crimes and misdemeanors. Common Council Resolution author izing the committee on health and po lice to appoint a street scavenger and defining his duty to remove rubbish and nuisance collected in the streets, adopted. Mr. Edward Glddines. chief clerk of Surveyor-General's office for Washing ton Territory, is In town on his way to Walla Walla and the country east of the mountains, where he goes to make examinations and report upon the topography of the country, showing the regions most susceptible of culture, as also what sections are now set tled and now need the Government surveys. From and after Monday next, the steamer Yamhill will take the place of the steamer Union on the route from Oregon City to Lafayette and Dayton. Commissions have been received from the Department at Washington for the following postmasters: James Worth, Brownsville, Linn County: Timothy D. Hinckley. Seattle, King Countv. Washington Territory, and no tice of appointment of Major C. Bark well. State Creek, Josephine County, Oregon. T. R. Wilkinson writes to his wife tn this city, from Lewlston, the 2d of April, that Buel Woodard's revolver had been discovered in the hands of Indians and that two white men are suspected of being with the Indians at the time the murders took place on John Day s reiver. As "Ed" Howe Sees Life Before I broke my leg, I was gener ally known as a hard worker; ask any of the men who know me. But I didn't enjoy it; I worked hard because I had to. You are never Ineffective when you are polite and fair, and causing others to speak well of you. Don't promise so much that people will expect more of you than you can accomplish: say little, and do more than people think you can do. Don't aid a scoundrel to get even with an enemy by repeating his charg es; a scoundrel's enemies are usually better than he is. When a man talks about the wrongs of the people, he means his wrongs. When I try to quit the tobacco habit, it is no encouragement to think how noble I am acting; I think only of how I would like to smoke again. What an insignificant thing a match Is; a toothpick dipped in something. Yet a single match, applied in Moscow, destroyed Napoleon and his Grand Army. You are not taking proper 'care of yourself if you are not educating your self as you go along. Everyone has his bandit days, when It seems that honesty does not pay. and that the best way is to be a wolf. But there is nothing in that sort of phil osophy, except the penitentiary. When people have confidence in you, they probably haven't as much as you think they have. Street Sprinkling Wanted. PORTLAND, May 12. (To the Ed itor.) This Sunday morning we have been enveloped in dust storms that penetrate everywhere, spoiling clothes, food and temper, all through the neg lect of the authorities in failing to send along the sprinklers. I am living on Second and Couch streets. I dotit know how it is in other places. This Is a substantial and productive portion of the city close to the great river and ought not to be forgotten, as this Is a modern city. I presume that one dis trict Is as important as another; it one portion of the business district needs watering, so does any other. I hope no monopoly of municipal con veniences will be tolerated. E. B. CLARKE, Globe Hotel. KlBhts of Part Indiana. BAN DON, Or., May 12. (To the Ed itor.) Here Is a question that Is in teresting the people of this section, and if you will kindly answer it you will oblige a number of subscribers. Do Indians who are one-halt to three fourths white and who were given al lotments by the Government, invali date their allotments when they vote and claim to exercise all the rights of American citizenship? . Second Are such Indians exempt from taxation? A SUBSCRIBER. First question No.' Second question Yes, as to their al lotment until fee patent is Issued. Japanese Doctor of Philosophy. Indianapolis News. Miss Tsuru Aral, a young Japanese woman, has passed the final examina tion for the degree of doctor of phi losophy at Columbia University. She is the first wflman o'f her nationality who ever acquired the degree. Miss Aral came to this country to study about four years ago, after having graduated from the Woman's College in Tokio. Historic Manors to Change Owners. London Tit-Bit. Earl Stanhope . will place under the hammer at auction his Derbyshire estates of 2500 acres at Stanton-by-Dale, Dale Abbey and Ilkeston, includ ing the historic manors of Stanton and Dale Abbe-