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Mr. Taft candidly appraised the situation last week when he openly said that the primary In that state would be decisive and "would ettie the nomination." We do not feel wholly aure that the .ubstantUl velt victory In Ohio ha "Milled the nomination, for the elimination or probable defeat of the President at Chicago doe not necessarily mean the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Taft may yet indeed rally his disheartened and diminishing force ind vrat triumph from an unwilling onventlon; but It t now a forlorn hope. We cannot think that he or h a managers confidently expect It; for It would appear now that the Taft stand ard I to be used principally a the rally-In? point of the anti-Roosevelt delegate. If the Taft people, a the price or Ms defeat or -withdrawal, shall be able now to put Roosevelt out or the running-, and to nominate a dark horse, they will have won a consola tion priie. and will be measurably at Ufl.d. That, we believe, will be the Taft tactic from this time forward. They will do anything and risk much, to defeat Roosevelt, all of them before nomination, and some of them "er. It la extraordinary that Mr. Taft should not have been able to win the support of Ohio. His defeat cannot be laid to the presence at th Republican primary of many thousand Democrats, though they were undoubtedly there, nor to the misrepresentation and in genious perversions of his chief politi cal antagonist, though these were nu merous and costly enough to him. nor to th disloyalty of his friends, though some who should have been friendly were not. It rests with the Inexplic able weakness of Mr. Taft as a candi date on the one hand and the enthu siastic admiration of Mr. Roosevelt" fighting spirit on the other hand. The hold Mr. Roosevelt has on the masse is based on their deep belief In his ultimate high aim and In his abound ing sympathy for them and their wel fare. What else could account for their ready forgiveness of all his known Idiosyncrasies, frequent lapses and proven political recreancies. He fills th common Imagination. He realise In his words, if not alwas In his deeds, th common aspiration of the everyday man for a square deal. He exalts the composite cltlxcn by his exhortations and by his professed prin ciple above the millionaire, the pluto crat and the trust magnate. Whatever Is Is wrong. In the opinion of too many, and Roosevelt caters to the widespread sentiment or unrest, uneasiness and dissatisfaction. All these elements put together have given the Roosevelt candidacy an Im pulse that has been Irresistible. No body could have foreseen three months ago the astounding progress his cam paign has made. The Oregonlan did not. It could not. The bluff and brag of th Roosevelt campaign, based en tirely upon rosy anticipation and haxy expectation, have become a living real ity. The row of bricks started to fall with the upsetting of Illinois, and then cam Pennsylvania. Oregon. Maryland. California and other minor states. Th only notable exception to the onward sweep of successive triumphs ha been Massachusetts. Massachusetts wss saved only by the narrowest margin and even then with a minority of the deles-ate. The constant assaults Of the aggre. siv Roosevelt leaders and their almost uniform triumph have made a pro round impression upon the country and wholly changed the political situa. tlon of the Republican party. Let us consider the feelings and temper of the Republican delegate who will as semble at Chicago In June. The Taft faction will be face to face with the uncompromising radical wing of the party, who are now determined to frce Roosevelt' nomination at all hazards. The two w lnxs will be prac tically equal In numbers. It Is en tirely true, without question, that the Southern delegates whom Taft has heretofore claimed are for him now. and would be for him then. If they thought he could be nominated and would have a fair chance of election. But any can didate for President hold the average Southern delegate with a rope of sand. He Is to be procured or held by the power of patronage and too often by the outright corrupt use of money. What the Southern delegate now fore see, however, and what every dele gate will see. will be a party split wjuarely In two. If Mr. Taft should be nominated, and a campaign under taken with not th slightest chance of success, unlea Indeed the Democrat hall commit th fatuous error of nominating an Impossible candidate. The Democratic party ha a rare fa cility for mistake, but It Is Incompre hensible that at this time It should fall to name its strongest man for Presi dent. The action of the Democratic convention will be Influenced, no doubt. In Urge degree by what Chicago doe. If It shall be Roosevelt at Chi cago. It 1 at least an even guess that It wUl be Bryan at Baltimore. The contact between Roosevelt and Bryan would be a titanlo struggle, with result now Impossible to forecast. Mr, Roosevelt haa not given Tart a square deal, nor ha th public, and there 1 no hope, or very little hope, that if Taft should be nominated the general attitude toward him would be much more favorable than It Is now. Mr. Taft Is wholly lacking In the art of the politician. HI method I Judl dal. not political. H doe th right thing, but he doe It too late, or when I it Arm him innt lor much, so far as It effect upon th general mind Is concerned. His most admirable public achievement are viewed with Indiffer ence or with passive approval. HU er rors are magnified out of all propor tion to their real measure. The mis tnkn Taft make the public will neither forget nor condone. The mis take Roosevelt make It win not re namher ior criticise. What other than Roosevelt, for example, could have withstood during a political cam. n.m th revelation mad as to his action while President In protecting t m notorious Harvester trust? The proof that he had abandoned the pro- poeed prosecution or the ntiywwr trust under pressure was conclusive and the Inference wa Justifiable that hi motive wa purely political. Any othet candidate than Roosevelt thl exposure would have crushed com pletely. Tet It Is not eviaeni mai 11 lo.t him vnta N'n alnaie Incident In Taft"s whole career approaches the Han-ester trust episode as a demon stration of action Inconsistent with profession. Tet. If Taft had done w nat Roosevelt has done, the country would h.v. run v m-tth denunciation by Roose velt of the Infaraou conduct of the man he made President. Am roes Ohio. Taft haa said ana Diuurvuli has said, so will go the con. ventlon. It may be o. It probably Is so. If It is so. the Republican party has vanished Into the History or xne country and the substitute therefor Is R ooseve 1 1 party. THE kKFORXED KFYSTO.NK DKMOC- KAll. In this year of political surprise. when the unexpected and unprece dented most frequently happens, the demolition of the Democratic machine in Pennsylvania ha received only passing notice. Tet thl event may have weighty consequence in shaking the allegiance of the old Keystone State to the Republican party. Kor years the party haa been under the control of Guffey. the boss whom Bryan caused to be thrown out of the Denver convention. Instead of being an active, honest critic of the major ity party. It has frequently been a party to the corrupt bargain of the Republicans, making a deal for a share of the spoils when It saw no chance of winning them by an open fight. The Democracy of Pennsylvania ha been torn by an Internal conflict no less severe than that which has rent the Republican party. The reform ele ment, led by Representative A. Mitch ell Palmer. Mayor McCormlck. of liar, risburg and ex-Mayor Guthrie, of Pittsburg, ha wrested control from Guffey. haa driven all his creature from office In the organisation and haa adopted a radical platform. A pro gressive, reformed Democracy may be ble to make corutlderaole neaaway against the progressive Republican who have Just overturned Penrose and the Nation may be treated to a real political campaign In the stale where campaigns have been too often sham battles between two bosses, who were ostensibly foe but were eecretly allies practicing Quay's motto: "Addition, division and silence." AIIOLIsMINO OLD PORTLAND. We hear a great deal about the In itiative theee daya. Why seek to de stroy Portlands initiative In the mat ter of naming her streets? Why seek loftily to apply the name "avenues" to streets that are but 40 or 60 feet wide? Or to discard the name of honored pioneers by which certain street have been known from the beginning for names symbolical of nothing more substantial than a whim or that repre sent nothing more stable than change? If there are. as stated, two or three or four streets In different parts of the city having the same name It Is evi dent that this Is a blunder that should be and could be corrected without any great difficulty or confusion. But there Is but one Washington street, one Morrison, one Stark, one Yamhill, one Alder, one Columbia, one Clay and so on through a familiar list repre senting In many cases names honored In local and National history. Why Interfere with these? Not a resident of Portland today but is familiar with them by name and location; let those who come later learn of them; they can do thl much more readily than our present citizens can unlearn their knowledge of names and location of street and substitute therefor a knowledge of the new scheme and nomenclature that the Council Is con sidering. The Oregonlan. having been here from the beginning, feels more than a passing Interest In this matter. It has watched the city grow and rroud ly recorded every stage of Portland' growth, from a racged hamlet of log cabins and rude board houses, hewn, or whlp-swed from the forest, to its present metropolitan proportions. It ha before expressed Itself in term of decided disapproval of the re-namlng of Portland's streets. It still believe the proposed change to be needless and confusing, an uncalled-for substi tution of change for stability, of the new for the old: a scheme In engin eering that can only be worked out at great cost: that wtll make the city alien to those who have known It the longest and whose energies laid strong and sure the foundations upon which It rests. THK DARDANELLES! MAT BK ofENED. Tim work Strang changes In th affairs of nations, as of men. In 1651 Great Britain, after whipping Russia In the Crimean war, forced her to agree to maintain no warship in the Black Sea and closed the Dardanelles to warship of ail nation unless Tur key gave them right to pass.. In 1911 Great Britain 1 reported to be party to a plan to throw open the Dardan elles to Russian ship. France and Italy supporting her. Thl 1 the re sult of the new alignment of European powers which has followed th rise of Germany to first rank in naval strength. In the middle of the last century and for many year later, Russia was regarded by. Britain as her natural enemy. Russia wa credited with de sign of world-wide conquest, begin ning with Turkey and using Constantl. nopl as a starting point for th over running of Asia. The very thought f a Russian fleet coming from the Clack Sea through the Dardaaellea to ravag the Mediterranean shore, or of a Rus sian army advancing to Merv and Ca bul at the gates of India, sent Shivers down the British spine. Th whole aim of British policy, until recently, has been to keep Russia bottled np, and of Russia to find an outlet to the unfrozen sea. Russia took advantage of the pre occupation or France and Germany, two or the signatories of th Pari treaty of ISSt. with their war of 1170 7J, to deciar tbat o would sa long TTTE MORNING OREGOXTAN. TIIURSDAY, be bound by the stipulation that she should keep no warship in the Black Sea. Rather than become Involved In war. Britain yielded, a did th other powers, but the new treaty reaffirmed the closing of the Dardanelles. In 1178 Russia had Turkey at her mercy and made a treaty at San Stefano w hich would have placed her in a position to elx Constantinople and the Dar danelles with eae. But a threat of war from Britain forced her to draw back and caused the closing of the Dardanelles to be confirmed. Again Russia sought to have the gateway to the Mediterranean opened when Aus tria annexed Bosnia and advanced towards Salonlca. the goal of her am bition. Russia and Italy are reputed to have then combined on Balkan pol icy, and Russia is believed to regard Italy's adventure la Tripoli with a friendly eye, being assured of Italy's diplomatic aid in opening the Darda nelles. But the realisation of Russia's long thwarted hope reals on her entente with France and Britain. So greatly have the relations - of th power changed that Britain' chief solicitude Is no longer the protection of the Med iterranean against Russia, but the pro tection of her own coast against Ger many. Her navy la now concentrated near home and on the French Atlantic coast, while the French navy guards the Mediterranean. Her agreement with Russia give that nation half of Persia and has calmed her fears for India. Thu It la that BrltUh. French and Italian consent to th opening of the Dardanelles would be but the natural sequence of th new alignment of the power. Opposition. If any, would come from Germany and Austria, backing np Turkey. There la still a remnant of the old Russophobe ele ment In England which conjures up the Russian peril, but It 1 made up of professional alarmists of th Hobson type and of bitter partlxana who hope to make political capital out of ap peals to Jingo patriotism. The Russian bogy has lost Its terrors and the Cxar fleet Is likely soon to sail the Mediter ranean unimpeded. a coLixrnoN or uncoi.n docu ments. Everybody who care for the pic turesque detail of Lincoln' life will be Interested In the Lemon collection of manuscripts relating to bin career which ha Just been purchased by a New Tork bookseller. Colonel Lamon. th late owner of the collection, made no particular effort to acquaint the public with It contents. Among the other valuable manuscript Is a lit) of Lincoln by hi law partner, W. H. Herndon. which has always been In accessible to Investigator. Herndon published a short abridgment of this biography, but for some 'reason he kept the complete manuscript In hi desk until his death. The collection contains another life of Lincoln by Colonel Lamon himself, which, like Herndon's, never saw th light, al though a syllabus of it was publshed. Colonel Lamon aeem to have been possessed of the collector's mania for exclusive possession In more than the usual degree. He was one of Lincoln's Intimate associates and no doubt knew that some of these manuscript were of great historical Importance, but for all that he kept them to himself They were not even catalogued at the time of his death, and the bookseller, Mr. Smith, who paid $20,000 for them, made his purchase by the bushel. At least It Is said that there are about two bushsls of the treasure, and nobody know exactly what the particular Item may turn out to be. Beside the lives by Lamon and Herndon, the collection contain docu ments relating to the history of the Lincoln family before Abraham was born. There are tome of the briefs which he drew when he wa practic ing law. a letter to hi father and an other to hi so-called brother, John Johnson, with score of other paper and letters. Johnson, who is careless ly spoken of as Lincoln's brother, wa not related to him. He wa the son of the woman whom the elder Lincoln married after hi wife Nancy died. He and Abraham grew up together and re ceived the same early care In the fam ily, but they were as different as two boy could be. Johnson was a fine specimen of "poor white trash" with It Indolence, Indifference to circum stances, lack of ambition and readiness to depend on other. In later years the two boy were companions on one of the flat-boat voyages which Lincoln made to New Orleans. Their wage were to rent a day, with a bonus of ISO apiece for safe arrival at the. des tination. But so far as Johnson was concerned, it made little difference what their wages were. He never saved a penny and was constantly lmportun. ing his brother for money. The letter to him, of which a copy exists In the Lamon collection. 1 a refusal to lend him ISO accompanied with some good advice which. Lincoln tells him. "will be worth SO time ISO If he will fol low It." Of course he did not follow It. He drifted Into deeper and deeper poverty and finally disappeared. The letter to Lincoln' father refer to a request for 120 which he had made of his son. The money Is en closed "cheerfully" and some explana tion rollows. "You say it Is necessary to save your land from sale" under an old Judgment. "It Is singular that you should have forgotten a Judgment against you. And it is more singular that the plaintiff should have let you forget It so long, particularly as I sup pose you have always had property enough to satisfy a Judgment of that amount." The letter closes with some of that shrewd, practical advice of which the family seems to have been In constant need. "Before you pay the Judgment It would be well to see that you have not paid it already or at least that you have lost the receipt If you did. Give my love to mother and all the connections." In a letter to Jesse W. Fell which waa written at the time of his first nomination for President, Lincoln peaks of the first elective office he ever held. "Then came the Biacg Hawk war." he . wrote, "and I wa elected captain of volunteers, a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since." From thl and in numerable other sources we gather that Lincoln did not find much enjoy, ment in the Presidency. It high re sponsibilities were a serious matter to him and weighed heavily on hi mind. When he laughed, it was rather to ob tain relief from his haunting melan choly than from real merriment. In the collection is a Utter written by Lincoln during the campaign for his second election to check the career of a slander. A story had been Invent ed by the Democrats that Lincoln rode over the field of Antletam two days after the battle while the corpse still lay In heaps on th ground. With him were McClellan and Colonel Lamon. la- th midst of the frightful ur rounding, so the story ran, Lincoln requested Lamon to sing a ribald song. Of course McClellan was represented as being virtuously shocked by such a hideous disregard of the proprieties. Lincoln ignored the miserable calumny for some time, but finally he was im portuned so much that he wrote a let ter to confute It by narrating the sim ple truth, it was sixteen days after the battle when he visited the field, there were no dead bodies In sight, the drive wa wearlsom in th extreme, and. being sad at heart, he asked Colonel Lamon to ing the old song. "Twenty Year Ago," to lighten me occasion. Everybody knows this ong. It run: I wanitaroi to lh vlll, Tom. I sat bensath th tre Vpes 'hoolhou plsylri sro"11". That ahlirl you and m. with more In the same vein. Nothing could be eadder. fcucn is the malarial from which campaign libels are fabricated. Lincoln' letter simply relstes the facta It contains no word or reproaen ann no tiona. It Is tha clear, brier statement of a great man who disdain recrimi nation and esteem his own cnaracicr too much to defend It basely. t i. .nuiki. thai tha nreservatlon of th. oik mav ba overdone. The de sire to save thta splendid animal from extinction Is most laudaoie ana n well that the Government should set aside small tracts as ranges for It. But there is no need to devote to elk large area, such a Senator Borah mentions, K.nihin nt rraxins- many thousands of sheep. That would be too close an Imitation of th action or tne ocoicn Hilvrarr In deDODUlatlns; Whole counties for the creation of deer parks and grouse moors. T k.ln. m endo aafelv lntO the mrnr ftr its mother has expired Is one of those triumphs of surgery which cause thoughtful men to oow men heads in reverent wonder. Nobody can predict where the conquest of science will cease or set a limit to the benefits it is destined to confer on mankind. It may never teacn now 10 raise the dead, but it seems likely to make life more secure and valuable every year Civilized conditions never will be come permanent in Cuba and Haytl until both Islands are annexed to the r-nit states. Th negroes who form almost the entire population of Hayti and a large proportion or tnai oi uu lrA hilt little above savages in mind and morals. They do not know how to use power properly and win not set tle down peacefully without the guid ance of a strong and sure hand. It would be Interesting to know what reflections are passing through the cosmic brain of Mr. Barnes, of New York, these days. And what is the Vice-President whispering to his troubled heart as the fearful news busses along th startled wires? No doubt the vision which they behold the likeness of a kingly crown has on and Us Infernal name begins with T. The same bad Judgment which caused William McGrath to attempt suicide prevented . his success. It caused him to suspend himself from a limb of a tree too weak to bear his weight. When McGrath came to his senses he probably appreciated the Joy of mere existence so fully as to be cured of ail suicidal mania. That was a prodigious blulT of C. E. Wasster, the Texas Ranger the threat to arrest a whole Mexican rebel army but It worked. The Mexicans did not know how large an army he had hidden in the high grass. Many a bluff has succeeded for the same rea- The good roads programme recom mended to the State of Washington Is ambitious, but has merit. Three trunk highways through the Mate would both Improve communication between all sections and serve as examples of good roads to be copied by each county they traversed. Senator Crane's retirement will still further reduce the old guard In the Senate, which has been depleted by the retirement of Aldrlch. Hale and Frye. It Is probable that in a few years very few old faces will be seen in th Senate. When it come to whipping Japan lngle-handed In case of war. It is Just as well to recall that three of the big gest officer In Portland were needed to subdue a diminutive brown man who objected to arrest. On the same day that Haldane starts for Berlin to renew his efforts for the restriction of armaments, the German Reichstag votes to Increase both army and navy. Haldane evidently has his work cut out. Hlllsboro is extending hands across to Cottage Grove on account of a cir cus show on Sunday. These "foreign ers" should not be allowed to com pete with ball games. Multnomah Republicans will defer making a platform until after the Chi cago convention, which shows wisdom for obvious reasons, mostly visible to the naked eye. Advertising men declare for abso lute truth In advertisements. These are days of progress. Absolute truth In a political campaign may yet prove attainable. Electrocution of canines is reversal of the experiment and something of a slap at man' faithful friend, consider, lng the test has been successful on bad men. - 4 If the city's automobiles can be used for pleasure rides, why not hook up the city horses for a Sunday Jaunt and save them an attack of azoturia? tv. whA noMa a nMjmeraton sale of blood cattle gives wonderful help to the aairy inaiwiry. viciuu many Harry Wests. Disarmament Is slipping off the rain, bow. Russia propose to spend $251,. 000,000 in fixing up her navy. Tonne- LlDskltz. latest prominent citizen of Gotham, escaped the moving picture camera, anyway. Outcome of the Darrow trial will test the faith of many men in the -thirteen" uperstition. Which faction will succeed to the glory of the old guard of 30? Cuban negroes need to ba Ku-Kluxedr MAY ,23, 1912. Stars and Star-Makers By Leoae Caas Baer. From Los Angeles comes news of plavers all of whom have become more or "less identified with Coast produc tions, and are well known locally. Muriel Starr baa gone to be leading woman at the Belasco Stock, and Alice John. Its former leading light, has gone to New York. Lauretta Taylor is playing leads at the Burbank. a, , v.. r.i.,ntlv signed up another promising young aspirant Jane Meredith who was flrst brouKht to his notice In an unimportant part In nis - e w iurn i i vri li l ' - - - m i . t i i ' xria. -Vlreilh has D1IU UL I i.1 SMI.t.. ....... come on to Los Angeles and is await ing a xurDanK oiuu Maybelle Baker, formerly here at the t w.i. Hii onen soon at the Fischer Theater in Pasadena. Thais Magrane. an erstwhile Belasco leading woman, is now co-star with Robert Milliard In "The Avalanche, Just produced In Boston. If.- KT.lll. 'h.ulnr who WAS SSSO- clated' with John Pollard in the own ership and management or ine onie fameus Pollard Juvenile Opera Com pany, sailed April 17, from Vancouver, B. C, for Sydney, Australia, where she will proceed to reorganize the Pollard company with many of the former i inni..inv iv. Pollard. Olive IIICIUUCI a. IHl-"B Moore, who are now in Australia, and Jack Pollard. Willie Pollard. Teddy MacNa.ma.ra and Emmie Stewart, who are In this country. The present plan is to open the next season ivu mo Pollards at Vancouver, play across the D..1H.1, i.primrv to Hall. auttumu j &1. .i ...... . fax and then return through the states, touching at ueiron mm cago and thence westward, making a tour of seven months. Helen Ware In the intensely drama- llo play ine rricc ln fcv j attraction at the Hellig. It will be the first visit here or mis new nutr. "Louisiana Lou." the big musical hit of Chicago's season, is coming in July to the Heillg. MarJorie Smith, who has been re ceiving a great deal of publicity in the last few days as being one of the alleged parties connected with the dis appearance of the 35.000 diamond necklace belonging; to Mrs. De Sabla, taken while she was enjoying herself at the Mardl Gras ball at the Palace Hotel on the night of February 20, has been acquitted through the efforts of George F. Crosby, the theatrical lawyer. Miss Smith first entered the limelight last Fall when she purchased a "guar anteed Orpheum sketch" from Walter Montague, which was to reward the young woman wlli both fame and money, but It happened it did neither. Miss Smith has not decided as yet whether she will agair endeavor to enter the theatrical Held or go into seclusion. Rice and Cady. who lately closed an engagement at the Lyric Theater here, have concluded arrangements to open the new Teal Airdome In Fresno on- June 1. The opening bill will be "At the Fair,", and a strong company will support the two clever German comedians. Among those In the cast will be Dave Nowlan, Gertrude Sin clair, Jske Snook. Matt Taylor. Eugene Le Blanc. Sid Lloyd and 1 chorus girls. "The Composer" will be the second bill. Ernest Van Pelt and Mrs. Van Pelt, who have been with Ed Redmond's stock musical comedy company in Pan Jose, will close their engagement this week and take a vacation. Mr. and Mrs. V. P. were last sea son and a part of this one with Keat ing and Flood's company in Portland. Warren T. Adams, known on the stage as "Leland" and who is appear ing at the Orpheum with his wife in a landscape-painting act, is an Ore gonlan. He was born In Ashland and his father was an Oregon pioneer, coming to the state In 1849 from Rutland, Vt.. when a boy. Elma C. Mama, father of the vaudevilliBt, drove a siage from Salem to Ashland for several years, long before the ad vent of a railroad In the valley. Later he became a stonemason and was among the first sculptors in Oregon. He did the figure work on the present Portland PostofTlce building in 1874. Mrs. Adams, now a septuagenarian. Is a resident of San Francisco. Mr. Adams died In San Jose, Cal., 15 years ago. Adsms, the vaudeville artist, left Ashland for San Francisco when a boy and was graduafed from the Johns Hopkins School of Art in that city. While being a "straight" artist, as the term goes, Adams, or Leland. in his vaudeville act works backwards, he and his wife facing the audience as they paint, the colors showing through transparent paper as they operate be hind the easels. Ruth Lechler. who was with Flor ence Roberts last season In her tour of "Jim the Penman," Is with the Baker Stock Company. This week she has a difficult role that of the mannish Janice, who writes on platonic love and dabbles In the affection market. Miss Lechler handles the role with amazing distinction and snap, with no sins of either omission or commis sion, making an unllkable type most likable. Some time in July a new play by J. Hartley Manners entitled "The Money Moon" will be tested by Oliver Mo rosco's Los Angeles stock company, with Richard Bennett and Laurette Taylor In the leading roles. Mean Temperature in Portland. PORTD'AND, May 21. (To the Edi tor.) Kindly publish the .average temperature of Portland In the Sum mer months; also the Winter months. . ALLIE M. JONEd. Statistics from the United States Weather Bureau based upon ooserva tlons extending over more than 67 years give the following mean temperatures m c - winter months: June 62.5, July 67.3, August , December 40.2, January 38.7. teoruary .Mean annual temperature In Portland, 62.8. Girl Gnldea. .vrr r Mo. 9ft To the Editor. DCl.LT V., . J " ' Could you give me the address where I could obtain inrormanon in regaru I. . n nrtrantzanon for OirlS similar to the Boy Scouts7 Think it is called the liin uuiaes. G. 1L B. The Oregonlan published an illus trated article about the Girl Guides on March 17, 1912. The Soft Aaawer Mean War. Baltimore American. "Don't vou believe a soft answer turns away wrath. I tried it the other day with my wue. And she cot mad?" "Did she? She asked me what her biscuits tasted HKe ana i merely saia mush.' - The First Newspaper la English. ir.nsaa Olfv Times. The flrst dally newspaper in the Eng lish language was urai leeueu Jiiiitu 11 1703, in London. It consisted of a single sheet, which contained two col umm of news, all foreign, and no com 3m- I leo- 1 re- I ments, the editor "supposing oiner p pie to nave sense viiuusu w uw&v flections, Joj: themselvess." WHY ARB WORDS AS THEY AREI Here Is Another Genius Who Wants a Xew Language. ' ONTARIO, Or.. May 20. (To the Edi tor.) In The Oregonlan Saturday "Edu cation" was somewhat troubled because the Reed College had omitted the letter "a" from the word "read." Why should "Education" or any others be such i sticklers for so many superfluous let- ters in our written language? Such i letters are useless, cumbersome and . preposterous. Why use a digraph at all? Why have to write two letters when only one of them is sounded? Again, why should we write le in believe, and el in receive? Why not have them the same in both? Or. bet ter, why have them at all? A long a wnuM exsetiv en the hill. Can "Edu cation" tell us what use the o and 1 are J in the word could? It would much bet ter represent the word cowled: while "kud" is plenty for could (u as In full). Will "Education" tell us. also, why we should use ph for f? What do wa gain for nslng k in know: p in pneumo nia; g In gnat and m In mnemonics? I say nothing of the ough terminations, the I s and c's before k. snd many oth ers that could be dispensed with to great advantage. To use these superflu ous letters is as unreasonable and rid iculous as it would be for "Education" to hitch a wheelbarrow on behind his buggy when he goes out riding, or for The Oregonlan to set a cornplanter be side the printing press while they run off the paper. Like Governor West's little daughter. "Education" backs his argument with a Quotation. "Be not the first to" lay the old aside." We are continually lay ing the old aside, tearing down old buildings, laying aside old styles oi clothing, building bungalows and buy ing automobiles, and going for almost every new fad that comes along. In manv things we are up to date, but some very necessary and desirable things we are very slow about. we were 20 years getting ready to enforce the Sherman law; have been to or 60 years working for prohibition, and per haps as many for woman suffrage. Ar bitration has got a setback, and we must go on building $15,000,000 war ships that get out of date before they are launched. Now "Education" not withstanding, I hope to see Reed Col lege give us a method for writing our language that will dispense with every superfluous letter and represent every elementary sound by Its proper letter, as burd instead of bird, sid for sighed, ches ror cheese, etc Let Reed College do this for humanity and we will place her . name with Edison. Marconi and others high on the scroll of fame. W. P. LXWRY. p. s. If I had sum ov yung Astor's muni I wud improv and enlarj our alfabet, and then hav a paper printed in Bimplifld speling. Ov kors, it wud luk od, and the standpater wud de nouns It; but we wud soon get usd to it. and I belev al, even Edukashun. wud aknollj that it wax a saving in ink, paper, work and tlm: and lif is too short to wast enl ov them. N. B. Educatlop will bear In mind that no offense Is intended here: 'tis only a friendly punch in the ribs. Josh Billings was the original pho netic speller, or one of the originals, and he made little headway. But his efforts are well remembered for their risible effect upon the public mind. Josh's literature was good fun, but it was not English. Nor were his words English words. Nor are the words of the phonetic spellers English. The 11- Inncrune-A la What it I. With all its crudities, flaws, imperfections and curiosities of spelling. If the -i aneilers have their way, we .shall have a new language, for we shall have an entirely new onnograpuy .miraiv new nrosody. The trouble with the phonetlclsts is that they are barbarously inerau . belong in the Esperanto camp. .Or the Volapuk. : WHY PIXLER AGAIN WENT WEST Back to the Prison the Governor Tried to Take From Him. Pendleton Live Wire. Yesterday a prodigal son of Umatilla County was returned to the bosom of our own and only Oswald. Governor of Oregon. Plxler had been sentenced some time in the cob-webby past to serve a term in Oregon's abode of peni tence. , Time hung heavily on Pixler s hands. His heart yearned for his old home, with Its majestic pine and balm trees and its mountain ranges, where the lowing kine and spotted cayuse roamed at will. To be penned up with others of his order was not right it was a travesty on Justice. Why should he be deprived of his liberty? The man from whom he had purloined had plenty. It was uch a little thing any way and he should be given another chance. . . Something of his thoughts may have been transferred to the august pres ence of His Excellency, Oswald, Gov ernor of Oregon. At any rate. Pixler was released on parole with two years of his sentence still unsettled. But habit is strong In most of us, and Pixler was no exception to the rule. The inclination to reap where he had not sown was strong upon him. And soon he found himself once more In the familiar Jail which had harbored him on a previous occasion. But this did not disturb his tranquillity, for was not his friend Oswald In a position to aid him in a few years after the feel ing over his second conviction, and the expense of the trial, had died down? There was no cause for worry. Why worry? Let the Umatilla taxpayer at tend to the worrying. But a hard-headed Jury found him guilty of theft, as charged, and a kind hearted Judge let him off with a sen tence of from one to 10 years In the Governor's town. Yesterday Sheriff Taylor took him back to the old fa miliar home at Salem. And bo Pixler went West. BaBr Traveler Know Many States. Kansas City Star. John D. Carr, third, five-year-old son of Attorney and Mrs. Wooda N. Carr. of Unioiftown. Pa., is a great traveler for one of his age. He has been In more than a dozen states, having made numerous trips with his father when tho latter was on business and speech making tours. A "Tip" In Society Calls. Baltimore American. Maid Mr. Jones has called, miss. Miss Beauty Show him into the drawing-room, Jane. Maid Yee'm, , Miss Beauty And after he has put his box of chocolate on the mantel piece tell him I'm out. Italian Garden Worth 150,000. Boston Herald. William Hall Walker, a wealthy New Yorker, is having an Italian garden built in Great Barrlngton, Mass., that will cost $150,000. It is to be one of the finest in the country. Glad to Oblige Her. Minneapolis Journal. Old Lady My little boy, do yon smoke cigarettes? - Boy No, mum; but I can give you a chew of tobacco. Comment In Cnrrent Politics. Judge. Bobby Pa, what is the ruling pas sion? pa Tie .third-term, fever, mjr on, Half a Century Ag From The Oresonlan of May ;s, UJ. We learn from The Dalles that the false and exploded charge against John R. McBride, that the estate of Colonel Baker held a note against him, was re Iterated by would-be Judge Page In a speech there. Mr. Gibbs followed him and inflicted upon him a withering re buke, which he will not forget very soon. The repeated hurrahs and cheers showed that two-thirds of the audience were out-and-out Union men. We have been Informed that the Ore gon Steam Navigation Company has stopped operations on The Dalles rail road and taken their entire force down to the Cascades for the purpose of building a railroad on the Washington Territory side of the Cascades. Mr. Preston leaves this morning for Salem, and will address the people of Marion and adjoining counties in obedi ence to earnest solicitations extended to him from that portion of the state. Professor C. G. St. Clair, late of San Francisco, has permanently located In our city. He brings good references as a professor of music As "Ed" Howe Sees Life How you wonder at the popularity of the man you hate! You wonder that decent people even speak to him. Superstition is like Idealism; we all know better, but we all have a touch of it. I am always trying to do something that I can't do and worrying over fail ure. No difference how clean a man keeps a house when his wife Is away, when she returns she says: "This house Is a sight!" If you succeed In attracting public attention, at least half of those who see you will laugh at you. The average man is ashamed all hia life; so many wise and noble sayings are thrown at him. Your rival is rarely as fair and square as he expects you to be. The politest storekeeper Is ver;- apt to neglect the man who has bought for the man who has not. A man who Is a social success is ,a1v i,l t no giim.,,. MR. V'REy AND THE GRANGE How That Body Forcefully Rejected Single Tax. Roseburg News. Yesterday the Grange, by a vote, of 90 to 5, adopted a resolution scoring single tax and taking a slap at U'Ren, the father of the idea in this state. When the resolution was presented It came up for open discussion and U'Ren himself demanded the floor. He spoke for 20 minutes and then, as speakers were limited to live minutes each, be begged for more time. It was granted him and he spoke ror 20 minutes more. After his talk the resolution was finally adopted as introduced by the vote recorded above. This should have been sufficient for this self-imposed lawmaker and law giver and savior of the State of Ore gon. But in keeping with his usual tactics be waited till 3 o'clock this morning, when most of the delegates that had voted on the resolution had dispersed, and then he went out and got a number of delegates to come in and a motion was made expunging from the resolution such things as were the expression of the Grange on their dis approval of U'Ren. This motion waa carried bya vote of 27 to 9. There ought not to be much consola tion to U'Ren in this vote, but to such a man as he it means exoneration. But to the Grangers whom he fooled and played with it spells hostility. And the Grangers will remember it this .Fall when they are called upon to vote on ITRen's pet theory, single tax. Let every Granger beware of the single tax. It is the most pernicious piece of hypocritical legislation that has ever been Initiated in Oregon. It is danger ous to every man or woman In the State of Oregon, be he banker, farmer, labor er, merchant or otherwise. Beware of the Bingle tax and vote against it when ever it appears. THE BALLAD OF A. GINK. BY DEAN COLLINS. Attendez! I will sing to you The merry ballad of a chap Who thought to give assistance to Doolittle, Mitchell and Dunlap, The doctors whom the Pure Food Board Sent out to travel far and near. Sampling In every brewery To solve the problem, "What is beer?" A. Gink, the hero of my eong. Read of the three ad of their plan. "I shall assist them!" he declared. (A. Gink was such a helpful man.) "Tonight from bar to bar, my firm Investigating course 1 11 steer. And send my findings back to them Anent the question, 'What is beer?" " Late in the night, In ev'ry place Where amber hop is sold to drink. Spurred on by scientific seal. Roamed the inquisitive A. Gink; And in the witching hour of night He sang, "We're here because we're here;" And beckoned to the moon to ask The world-old question, "What is beer?" Helpfully testing hour by hour, He gathered data Bteadlly, Wherever opportunity Offered, he grasped It readily: He clasped a lamppost at the curb And whispered in a copper's ear. The question he had set to solve, "Tell me. old fellah, whash ish beer?" And in the cold forbidding dawn. When he awoke within his bed. He opened wide his wondering eyes, And tenderly caressed his head. Then rose and wrote unto the three: "Dear Sirs I wish- to say right here. My hearty sympathies go out To you, who study, 'What is beer?' "P. S. And as I pen these lines, And hold the Ice on brow and ear. The self-same query burns my brain Shades of old Bacchus, what Is beer?" PERHAPS. Listen to the houn' dawg bark! Long was the way, the night still dark; But now we're drawing near to town. Just hear the howl o' that ol' houn'. For sixteen years we've wandered far, Bereft of hope or guiding star; To us there is no sweeter soun', Than welcome howl from that ol' houn'. , Through all the years of dire distress. We wandered in the wilderness; A small but ever hopeful band. Our thoughts fixed on the promised land. ' With Bryan thrice we met defeat. And Parker proved not hard to beat; But we can surely win with Clark, Just listen to that houn' dawg bark! Soon we'll forget the long, lean years. The blasted hopes, the doubts and fears; He'll cut and pass the pie aroun'. And none shall dare to kick our houn'. FRANK W. STONE. . ' Vancouver, Wash.