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THE MORNING OREGONIAX, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 26, 1912. lO PORTLAND. OKIGOS. Entered at Portland. Oregon, postofflce Second-Class Matter. Eobscrlbtion Rates InTarlabljr In Advanc CBT MAIL.) Erallr. BnndaT tnclnded. one year W. Dally, fiunday Included, six monthi. 4. Dally. Sunday Included, three month. .. 2. Dally. Sunday Included, on month .. ..-., , . v. . . , cunt., (ini war.. . 0. Dally.' without Sunday, alz months J.2 Dally, without Sunday, three months... uallT. without Bunoay, on menu. ..... Weekly, ono rear ............... 1 Sunday, one year ...........-.- Sunday and Weekly, one year 2.54 a.sa BY CARRIER.) ft Dally. Ennday included, osa year. -0J Daily. Eunday Included, one montn..... -' Hn . ir-mlr. Rend Postofflce money or der, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Giro postofflce address In full, lncludlnc county ana siaua. Postage Bates lO to 14 pages. 1 cent; 10 to 28 pages. 2 cents; 80 to 40 to 60 pases, 4 cents. 4nuHla rat. Foreign postage. v.tm RinHi Offices Verre k Conk Mn Nsw York, Brunswick building. San Francisco Office H. J. BldwaU Co, T42 Market street. European Office No. 8 Regent street. W., London. PO KTLAA I, WEDNESDAY. JtTJTB 26. 1912. OO TO THE BOTTOM. The bribery scandal which involves heads of the city administration seems to bo based on the following-,factfl Currency aggregating 400ln value, after being photographed for identi flcatlon, was placed In the hands of two detectives by their superiors witn the expectation that the money would ba Dald over to Deputy District Attor ney Collier as an ostensible bribe for dismissing a certain criminal action. The Intention was to-arrest Mr. Collier with the money in his possession. Mr. Collier, It seems, counterplotted. He Indicated a willingness to accept the money, but also had a trap In mind. Whereas the police depart ment expected to catch Mr. Collier in the act of accepting a bribe. Mr. col- Her at the same time expected to catch two members of the police department la the act of attempting to bribe Dublic official. . Mr. Colller"e trap was - et on a finer trigger than that of the police depart ment. It snapped first and the briber Instead of the bribee was caught. If there was nothing more to the case than the foregoing plain facts. It might be well to put the Inci dent In the category of the two hunt ers who stalked each other. That Is to say. If the intent on both sides was an honest Intent to detect a criminal In a premeditated act of wrongdoing, the Incident would be more amusing than serious. But there is another point to be considered. To offer or to agree to accept a bribe either one is a criminal offense. Somebody opened the negotiations. The trap could not have been laid without the commission of an unlaw ful deed. Somebody took desperate chcjices. The risk was so serious that there must have been a strong motive for the act. What was that motive? It need not be disputed that when the Mayor of a city or the Chief of Po lice Is approached by a police detec tive under cloud with the story that another public official has agreed voluntarily to dismiss the charges against him upon payment of money, the Mayor or Chief of Police would be Justified In ensnaring that official by some such means as that employed In the case In question. On the other hand, no administra tive or executive officer Is called upon to manufacture crimes simply to cap ture the persons Induced to engage In their perpetration. It is of most re mote benefit to the public welfare to entice Into unlawful acts men or pub lic officials who would otherwise not transgress the law. It is done only with some stronger motive than a de sire to fill the jails. It has been indicated by one or more of the men Involved In the police scandal that the attempt to bribe Mr. Collier was a deliberate .frame-up by men high in authority In the city to throw discredit upon the office of the District Attorney. If this Is a true statement, one may take his choice of several speculative motives for the at tempt. None of them can be very creditable. At least one of them Is so serious that the whole affair calls -or the deepest probe and closest scrutiny, The Oregonian does not pretend to know that the bribery trap was In stigated by city "officials higher than the detectives who engaged in that doubtful enterprise. It only calls at tention to the fact that the aorusalon has been made. If it is true, it may Imply a perverted sense of duty, an unmanly vindictiveness, a desire to turn public condemnation of immoral conditions to a wrong channel, or ob tain a club that would protect wrong doers in official places. It is in the two last alternatives that the public is most interested. It is a matter that should be sifted to the bottom. EXCISE FOB ABOLITION REMOVKD. The Supreme Court has cut the ground from. under the feet of those who would abolish the Commerce Court. The court had assumed that it was virtually an appellate Interstate Commerce Commission with authority to reverse the Commission's rulings on questions of fact and In making rates. The Supremo Court Informed the new tribunal that It could pass only on Is sues of law, not questions of fact: that it could not grant relief to applicants when the Commission had denied It; and that it had not been clothed with any "new and strange power," but had merely Inherited the Jurisdiction of the Circuit Court judges. This decision removes all valid cause for criticism of the court. The Juris diction It retains would not be abol ished by the abolition of the court; it would simply be scattered among the other Federal courts. It can be abol ished only by an amendment of the Constitution, repealing that provision which forbids the taking of private property without compensation. The court has proved its usefulness by re ducing from two years to six months the time consumed in appeals from tfc Commission to the Supreme Court. If those who have been crying out for the abolition of the Commerce Court would have had patience, the usurpation of power alleged against It would in any case have been stopped by the Supreme Court and we should have derived all the good from it which its creators designed. But some of them wwe so enraged by its de cisions and others were so glad of an opportunity to strike a blow at its sponsor. President Taft, that they went on without awaiting adjudication of the questions at issue. Thus al most at the very time that the Su preme Court rendered the decision which deprived Congress of any ex cuse for abolishing it. Congress pro ceeded to abolish it. Js this worthy of what the Repub-' lican platform, calls "our self-controlled representative democracy"? Is It not rather characteristic of a hasty. Impetuous - child who smashes a toy which does not work well the first time he plays with it? ' POSSIBLE RESULTS OF THE BOLT. The Republican candidates for Pres idential elector In Kansas, California and several other states were nominat ed primarily as Roosevelt men, and the party organization In those states refuses to recognize Taft as the Re publican' candidate. . Should these men be elected and vote for Roosevelt in the electoral college, It will be the first case on record of a bolt from the party nominee by a Presidential elector. , Since the convention system of nom inating President and Vice-President has been In use, we have practically had direct election of those officers, for no elector has dared t'j cast his vote for any men but the party nomi nees. If any were ever disposed to do so, they have been restrained by wholesome fear of public contempt, not only In their own, but In the op posite party. Should the Roosevelt bolt create a new precedent, it will be but one more symptom of the revolu tion which is now disturbing both parties. The sole excuse for a Roose velt bolt in the electoral college by men elected on the Republican ticket would be that, duly electe delegates having been excluded by the National convention, the nominations were not binding and they were under no obll (ration to vote for the nominees. Such a precedent, once established, might easily be followed In future elections until confidence that the electors would vote according to the popular will, as expressed at the polls, would be destroyed. An agitation would naturally follow for the actual election of President and Vice-Presi dent by popular vote, eliminating the electoral college, Just as it is proposed to eliminate the Legislature as an In termediary In the election of Senators. It would probably be proposed to con- tinue-the present practice of allowing each state as many electoral votes as It has Senators and Representatives In Congress: Having started on the road to direct nomination and election for every of fice, we may carry the practice to its logical conclusion. THE TARIFF ISSUE TS NEW FORM, The tariff, as ever. Is destined to be a principal Issue In the campaign which will be fairly begun only when the Democrats have made their nomi nation at Baltimore and the Roosevelt party, by whatever name it may be known, has adopted a platform and ticket. Controversy on that Issue promises to rage around the Tariff Board and its work, which have been the main objects of attack by the Democrats at this session cf Congress. We have progressed so far that both parties and both wings of both parties are agreed that the tariff must be re vised downward, and that the prelimi nary work of gathering Information should be done by a body outside of Congress Instead of by committeea of Congress. But the Democratic party desires a bureau which will report facts to sustain its foregone conclu sions and is therefore hostile to the present board, which reports the ap proximate difference in cost of pro duction at home and abroad and ad vises Congress what rates of duty would - offset that difference. The Democrats desire is for a board or bureau which will report facts justi fying a tariff for revenue only. The work of such a bureau would be to ascertain what amount of revenue would be produced by certain rates of duty on certain commodities, ignoring as irrelevant the comparative cost of production and the degree of protec tion requisite to equalize that cost. The present Tariff Board is regard. ed by the Democrats as a Republican organization designed to make findings which bolster up Republican policy. Therefore, they say: "Away with it,' rney propose as a substitute a new bureau In the Department of Com merce and Labor, which will collect statistics "upon the demand of either branch of Congress or the President.' This latter provision would put the bureau under the thumb of the House, which could require it to prepare data sustaining a Democratic revenue-only bill for the same schedule as that on which the President or Senate required it to prepare data sustaining a moder ately protective tariff. The parties have agreed only that we must have a Tariff Board. They now quarrel bitterly as ever over the kind of a board we shall have, how it shall work and to whom It shall be responsible. The present board has but one notable Democratic defender. the .New York Times, which says: It is poor business wiping It out. The Investigations of the Tariff Board have helped the cause of tariff reduction sub stantially. They have shown the utter im possibility of can-ylna- out the professed Re publican plan of basing- rates on the differ ence of cost - at home and abroad. They bave also shown that the Industries whose competitors are most highly taxed by the tariff do not need protection. They have exploded the notion that high wages neces sarily mean high cost, and vice versa. They hare made It plain that the tariff does not really help the worklngmen In this country. Why ahould the Democrats want to get rid or a ooara tnat is producing such results? The last question may be answered by the statement that 'the board threatens to become a powerful engine In pulling the tariff out of politics. It might furnish the Republicans with the basis for such extensive reductions as would allay public discontent, and deprive the Democrats of their sole remaining issue by robbing the people of their worst grievance. UOMN" AM) PUBLIC MORALS. Writing in. the Independent for June 20, Susanne Wilcox advances the curi ous proposition that American women exhibit an astonishing "lack of public morality." They are rigorous enough. she concedes, as far as private conduct is concerned, and they exact unvary ing strictness from .their friends, but when it comes to public; conduct a per son can go to almost any length of ini quity without shocking them much. To illustrate her point Miss Wilcox tells a story about a "prominent citi zen who was being tried for prolonged and flagrant breach of trust.' He had robbed orphans and swindled the pub lic, but the women of the town where he lived could not be persuaded that he was a bad man because he had been kind to his family. His wife never asked for a new bonnet without getting It, and "his daughter Molly never had wish that wasn't gratified." There fore he must necessarily be an exem plary individual. It was the old story of an iniquitous public servant being justified because he had some private virtues. Macaulay thrashed It out -in discussing the execution of Charles I, but it comes np every time an agree- ble grafter gets into trouble. He In variably finds some men and many women to take his part. Miss Wilcox accounts for this "be- latedness" in, .women's moral senslbili-, ties by remarking that their conven tional training never brings them Into contact with public affairs. Hence they have nothing to base their judgments upon but private conduct.. She .pro ceeds to argue that If we expect women to form correct estimates of public matters we must allow them .to take hand In managing politics and busi ness. She makes another point in the same connection which Is worth notic ing. Why is it, she Inquires, that so many of our American public men are exemplary in their family relations while they do not hesitate to wrong the public whenever they get a chance Miss Wilcox believes it is because they have been educated by women who are blind to civic duties. In their childhood our citizens are left almost entirely to the care of their mothers. Fathers are too much occupied with business to pay much attention to what goes on in their families. Hence boys acquire their mothers' "belated" views of public affairs and carry them on into every position they may occupy The inference is that if we wish for honesty in public life we must begin to secure it by admitting women to poli tics. That is, we must give them the right to vote and thus store their minds with the knowledge and ideals which we wish them to Impart to their children. POSTAL 8AVT3CG8 BANKS. The statement that there are de posits in the postal savings banks of the country in excess of 317,000,000, before two years have elapsed since the first depository was established and before one-half the offices of the country are equipped for business, shows what an Immense sum the Gov ernment will eventually gather in through these savings Institutions. Portland may well feel proud of its standing as the third city in the Union in amount of deposits, outranking all other places save Nov Tork and Chi cago. Just think of Portland' having more deposits than cities like Phila delphia, Boston, Cincinnati, Baltimore and St. Louis cities of from three to seven times our population! Surely our people must be prosperous. There Is one feature of these sav ings institutions not generally under stood. Nearly everybody thinks that the limit of one's savings or deposits is $500. .It is true - that one cannot have an account in excess of that sum, but at any time prior to June 1 or December 1 of any year a depositor may have his deposits exchanged for postal savings bonds and then go on and make further deposits. Eence a depositor could accumulate in one of these banks $1000 in a little more than a. year, and the same could be done in subsequent year- The Portland depository now has applications pending at Washington for about $4000 worth of these bonds. They will be allotted about July 1, and as soon as they are, these depositors can go on making further deposits. These bonds were called for by de positors who were well up t-- the limit of deposits." By purchasing bonds at this time, they lose what interest had accumulated on their deposits, for no Interest is paid until the money re mains on deposit for one year or more. The Portland depository did not begin business until September 17, 1.911. These bonds bear interest at the rate of 2 per cent per year. They may be had . either - registered or coupon and in denominations of $20, $100 and $500. They are exempt from all taxes or duties of the United States, as well as from taxation in any form by or under state, municipal or local authority. They run for twenty years and the interest" Is payable semi annually. A NEW KIND OF SCHOOL. Whatever one may think of the many educational innovations which are coming forward, they prove at any rate that the old ways are not satis factory to intelligent parents. The public schools are no doubt less satis factory than the best private schools. This we may infer from the fact that people who can afford the most desir. able advantages for their children uni formly select some school which is under non-political management. The benefits which they expect from choice of this kind are numerous, Some of them are illusory, but it must be admitted that others are real and valuable. Among the Illusory advan tages we may class that of "select as sociations." Many a fond parent im agines that by sending his sons to a private school he will evade vicious in fluences and escape the baneful force of bad example. Since the private schools are pretty commonly patron ized by the rich whose children have experienced the depraving influence of ignorant nurses and vicious servants from babyhood up,-lt is not to be sup posed that a school where they con gregate will be Immaculate by any means. As far as associations go those of any ordinary public school are prob ably Incomparably better than one is likely to find in most private schools. But the expensive private schools have genuine advantages which ought not to be overlooked or minimized by students of education. One of the greatest is their practice of avoiding large classes. The pupils are divided into small groups. Ten Is the largest In the best schools. Each group has an Instructor of its own and thus each pupil receives that Individual attention which is out of the question in classes of thirty, forty and even sixty which we sometimes find In the public schools. Again It is becoming the practice In private schools to shun any thing like "general averages" in mak ing up students' grades. A boy gets the mark he merits m each particular branch and there the matter ends. In each separate line" of study he is pro moted according to his ability and such a thing as holding a pupil back in mathematics because he is deficient In grammar would not be counte, nanced. But very likely the greatest advantage of the good private schools lies in the emphasis which they throw upon cleanliness, good manners, wholesome food, fresh air and exer cise. Every effort to provide medical inspection for children In the public schools is met with vicious opposition from ignorant or mercenary sources. In the model private schools medical Inspection Is regular and systetmaflc. so that the faint beginnings of disease are discovered and stamped out. This is one among the many blessings which accompany wealth and common sense. The finest examples we have of pri vate schools are the "country schools for city boys" which have been grow ing up in all parts of the United States within the last fifteen years. ' The Fed eral Bureau of Education has pub lished a bulletin on the subject which is full of information that can hardly tend to make the ordinary patron of the public schools feel contented with with what his children get from them. The country- school for city boys is a private school, endowed or.not, situat ed in the country, but at the same time near enough to the city to permit .pu pils to go back and forth daily. Boys can thus enjoy its advantages wlthou spending their nights away from home and passing altogether from under their parents' influence. These schools uniformly provide extensive athletic fields and give a regular place to out. door sports in their dally programme. A typical daily schedule has study and recitations from 9 to 11:15 in the morning. For the next quarter of an hour there Is a recess with a luncheo of bread and milk. Recitations and study follow until 1:30, when dinner is served. After dinner athletics follow until 4 o'clock. Then comes the bath with more study until' 6:30, when the day ends and the boys go back on the trolley to their city homes. It is said that in schools where these methods are followed something like fifth more intellectual advancement is made than in ordinary classes, while of course the gain in health and morals Is beyond estimate. Naturally educa tion on such a plan is expensive, but It is one of the lessons of life that most good things cost rather heavily. Am ple grounds, gymnasiums, swimming pools and a capable corps of teachers cannot be provided for nothing. Still It is not pleasant to reflect that the children of the rich can enjoy all this while those of the poor are shut up In noxious class rooms with nothing better than dark basements for ath letic exercises. How to extend the benefits of suburban schools to the children of the masses is a problem which is ' engaging the thoughts of some of our advanced promoters of education. The principal obstacle in the way seems to be lack of transpor tation. In rural communities the problem of gathering all the children from a large area Into one central school has often been solved.v Now we have to consider how to transport thousands of children day after day from the crowded city to schoolhouses situated In the suburbs and surrounded by wide playgrounds. The time has gone by when sensible persons expect to build up a great university in the rural districts. The only institution of advanced education which can thrive outside a city is a classical college with a narrow curriculum for the training or a small and favored band of stu dents. Williams and Amherst afford excellent examples of what the coun try college must come to In the course of time. But while the university must go to the city for its prosperity." it Is Just as obvious, that the public school must gravitate toward the country wnere tnere is plenty of fresh air and room for healthy exercise in the fields. The Bureau of Education bulletin to which we referred above is numbered 8 for the year 1912. Parents who are Interested In the welfare of thoir chil dren will do well to send for It and read It. . A man may be a "pesky varmint' even If one of his ancestors did sign the Declaration of Independence. Thus much we deduce from the dis closures which poor Mrs. McKean of Nevada makes about her husband. This wretch descends from one of the famous signers" but that has not kept him from, maltreating his wife for the last sixteen years. He made her do the work of a farm hand and starved and beat her to boot. After standing It for sixteen years she has left him and sued for a divorce. The wonder Is that she did not leave him fifteen years, eleven months and 364 days ago. The tragic fate of Lena Speers, of Idaho, .ought to warn young women and others not to partake rashly of candies which come to them from un known sources. It Is a common trick to send drugged sweetmeats by mail. Usually only a crude joke is intend ed, but murder is committed in. this way not Infrequently. "Smart Alecks' in the eountry pride themselves upon plying , confiding girls with drugged candy. The consequences may be im agined without difficulty. The white slave traffic depends rather largely upon expedients of this kind. Readers who have kept themselves informed about the progress of medi cine will not be surprised to learn that an anti-cholera vaccine has been dis covered in Paris. It Is prepared in the usual way. ... The cholera germs are attenuated by successive cultures and then injected into the patient's system. Immunity follows, but whether it Is permanent or only temporary cannot as yet be ascertained. With vaccines to protect us from all the filth diseases we may revel In dirt and defy the consequences. The June Bulletin of the Public Li brary gives a list of seventy-seven en tertaining books on country life. We need not say that Bolton Hall's two fascinating works are included. "A Little Land and a Living" and "Three Acres and Liberty" are accountable for a big fraction of the movement back to the land. Both sides of coun. try life are fairly treated in the li brary list, and it has two. It is not all joy any more than it is all hard ship and sorrow. Elizabeth Kate Stephens' pretty lit erary souvenir of the Rose Festival ought not to go unmentioned by The Oregonian, which Is a friend to local genius. The booklet contains a num ber of pleasantly melodious poems. The stanzas on "Oregon" all end with the line "She flies with her own wings," which Is not only poetical but true. Some readers will .find the verses on "Individual Royalty" the most en joyable in the collection.- a . Portland Is a great hotel city, but accommodations will be overtaxed In a fortnight. Hospitality must be wide open and the courtesy of the home ex tended to the thousands who come. Georgia varied the programme by lynching a negress -yesterday. All the blatk men must be too busy in. poli tics to commit crime. Portland leads the country la wheat shipments for eleven months of the grain year. Tet people here fall to realize the Importance of our river. son-m-Law Nick s troubles are growing and the laws discourage wife, beating. There is opportunity for the poet who will rhyme bandana with blank banner. Bryan is never "licked" In the first round. The donkey is as unruly as the ele phant? The joke Is on Puter a Joke with out humor. Bryan must keep hie eyes dry end Jfit Milt Miller do the weeping. At the Cafeteria Br Addlsom Bennett. As the little blonde was busily en gaged in trying to make that recalci trant whisp look the part, a stranger came In and asked the cashier If she remembered him. She replied that she did not; that she thought she had never seen Him before. . "I was in here a few days ago," remarked the stranger, "when you were on duty, and in pay ment of my check I gave you a five dollar gold piece and walked off, for getting my change; don't you recall the circumstance?" "How much did you say your check was?" asked the blonde. "I think, if I remember correctly, replied the stranger, "the check was 40 cents. "I noticed the statement in the paper that somebody gave me a five-dollar gold piece in payment of a check for 40 cents, and vanished minus the change, said the blonde with her nose in the air, "but the person who put the notice in the paper was slightly In error slightly. I have some change here be longing to some person who tendered me a five in payment of a check, but you are not the person; the check was not 40 cents, and the five you have not properly described call again when the going is better," said the little lady, and the con man slunk oat. As she was laughing softly to her self, and examining the change for the five whichashe had cached away In safe place but by this time consider ing that it would never be-called for. Fat and Veg and Bones came galloping in, and close behind him appeared also Brother Obsession. But the latter gen tleman looked somewhat perturbed rattled, as it were ana the little blonde noticed that he did not select a very elaborate assortment of edibles, merely a plate of ham an' and a glass of buttermilk. a e s "I notice," said Bones as they were seated, "that you have been drunk again, Obsession, and I also notice that you are not fully recovered from your debauch; and I further notice that while on your spree you gave- out couple of checks to which you signed the name of the Cafeteria Poultry com pany. Limited, and said checks are now in the hands of the police. So I guess I will telephone them and have an officer come around and pinch you right here and now." "Excuse me for just a moment," re marked Obsession, "while I go out and get the money to pay those little amounts It was all a mistake, just simple mistake easily explained, I assure you; I will, be gone but a moment." But as moments are numbered on this little globe, a million of them have already elapsed, and no man resem bling Obsession has turned up to make those checks good never will It is simply a case of another "good" man gone wrong, another case of booze get ting the better of brains, another case of a reformer needing reforming more than those he wishes to reform. "Well," remarked Fat, "I think we are finally rid of that fellow; rid of him for good and alL And I am mighty glad of. It, mighty glad. I guess we had better -take up those checks, or at least pay the amounts, and have the present holders keep them so that if he ever does show up again they can have him arrested 'and placed where he be long!) behind the bars." e . - T do not regret the few dollars that fellow has cost us," said Veg. "It has been money well spent, for he surely had the right dope on some of the fine points of law making as it could be carried on in Oregon, with the assist ance of a small quota of brains and a fat roll of bills. But let us forget It and get back to our chickens, back to a man who is a man clear through and through Jobling. Let us talk about him and his works." 'Yes," said Fat, "there is a subject that we" can talk about without being ashamed, and I'll be dinged it I wasn't always ashamed of that Obsession fel low.. I am glad we have sidetracked him. And I promise here and. now never to have anything to do with one of his Ilk again so long as I live and have my right mind." The conversation then became mixed and general, but the sum of it was that the three of them had been out to the poultry ranch the day previous, and had found wonderful things doing out there, wonderful things. Jobling was too busy to pay much attention to his felloW'Cafeterians, but he told them to look over the books and then follow him around and talk to him a-running, 'for," said he, "I am too almighty busy with these 'ere hens to give you any time today this is my busy day, the same as all days about now, and nights, too." The three Went into what Jobling now calls his office, and there on packing-case. In use for a desk, they found three books, and In each the en tries were neat, comprehensive and in telligible. Jobling came rushing in and handed them a bank book and a check book, with the remark that they had better look over them first. "And, re member," said Jobling, "we don't owe a cent, not a single penny." "Jobling," said Veg, just tell us how the balance stands, for we don't want to go snooping Into your books and balances; just you tell us how you stand." Boys," said Jobling, "I have made all of these Improvements you see I have about four thousand chicks and old fowls on hand, we don't owe cent and have over a thousand dollars to the good. But I'll be blessed If I have time Just now to go Into the de tails with you. One of you stay out here for a day or two and dig into things and I will try and get time and talk a little about my plans now and then. .Sometimes in the evening I get a little time when I can go oyer things." e "Now. look here, Jobling," remarked Fat, "you are working too blamed hard. working too long hours; why don't you hire some more help and take things a little might easier do the directing and bossing and let others do the work." "Look around you; look around you and size up the situation; see what I have accomplished; figure what was here when I came and what is here now and then figure out how I could have done It by acting- as boss and hiring the work done," replied Jobling. "It may be." he continued, that after get everything in working order. after Mr. and Mrs. Farmenter, the old lady and gentlemen I bave helping me, get the full hang of things, then I will have time to turn ' around and take things a little easier, but not much. I figure that I have before me a year's work with from 16 to 24 hours crammed into every day 16 to 24 hours of work that you can't hire done you may get It done through sheer loyalty, just as I believe Mr, and Mrs. Parm enter will do it through loyalty and thankfulness. For they were down and out when I found them. Now they are taking an interest in lite again, seem to have something to live for and they are going to have an Interest In this busi ness, a working interest. They deserve it and are going to have It If I stay here." ' , He then rushed out to the room where three or four young people were dressing poultry to be taken in to fill an order for one of the hotels. As the trio followed him Jobling remarked that he had made a contract to supply that hotel with all of their poultry, "and." said be, "I get about 2 cents a pound over the market for it, over what you might call the top of the market, practically the full retail price. And I must make It worth it by not only keeping up the quality, but by taking to the Portland market nicer dressed, nicer looking and better poul try than anybody else takes Jhera,' NATIONAL PRIMARY LAW VRGED Plan of Putting: Selection of Candidates In People's Hands Outlined. VANCOUVER, Wash., June 24. (To the Editor.) la all of the recent agita tion for a National direct primary law, I have not seen any proposition which. in my opinion, would be of much bene fit, and as great reforms often spring from humble sources, I have some ideas along this line which I wash to submit. Congress should pass a National direct primary law, uniform in .oper ation throughout all of the states and terrltorlaal possessions, the election to be held on the same day, say the Tues day following vthe.v first Monday In June, and the people should vote direct for Presidential candidates, doing away with National conventions. Carrying, out the provisions of this law should be placed in the hands of the Federal authorities, preferably the Circuit Judges, and the election Should be held separate from all state' pri maries, to prevent local issues from confusing the voters when choosing the .Presidential candidates. A candidate for President would be required to file a nominating petition In each state, bearing enough names to show that there really was a demana for his candidacy and thus prevent, to some extent, a multiplicity of candi dates, and such petitions should not be circulated, but placed at convenient points where the voters who so desired could sign them. As it is a well-known fact that public officials do their best work, when confronted by a strongly organized opposition, it is best to pre serve party organization. Therefore, voters should be required to state their party preference when registering, and it should be a misdemeanor, punish able by a heavy fine or Imprisonment, or both, to vote the primary ticket of the opposite party. . .. With the nominating petition, each candidate would file a declaration of his views on the important issues of the day and such views of the success ful candidates would constitute the party platform. Thus the voters would have an opportunity to voice their ap proval of the platform as well as of the candidates. In the recent so-caiiea preferential primaries, it was demon strated that the voters were confused by local Issues, and that personal likes and dislikes of the candidates for dele gates to the National convention fig ured largely in the results. Thus In Massachusetts, Taft carried the state in the preferential vote, while Roosevelt secured the delegates at large. So it is easy to be seen why the National primaries should be held separately from local primaries, and all voters should be required to register for the National primaries. This law should also oontain a clause limiting to a comparatively small sum the amount any person or firm could contribute to the campaign ex penses of any candidate, and also limit ing the amount candidates could spend to. the necessary expense of getting up the nominating petitions and pub licity. Perhaps we are not far enough ad vanced in civic righteousness for such a law, but it must come in time and until it does come, we can look for convention rule, whether the delegates are elected by preferential primaries or by the old convention system. DESCENDANTS PROVIDE BANdUET Secretary of Pioneers Replies to Sug gestions of Woman Critic. ' PORTLAND, June 24. (To the" Edi tor.) On page eight of The Oregonian of this morning appears a communica tion entitled "Descendants Ought to Be Hosts," and signed by "A Daughter of the Pioneers." What motive the de m-erwiatit of a oioneer family could have in concealing her real name is beyond my comprehension; that -the lady has a perfect right to conceal her identity, however, cannot be questioned. From the expressions in the letter all theaway through it is apparent that the writer labors under he impres sion that the "business men of Port land" provide a banquet. Such is not the case and never nas seen except in an Indirect way. "ine oanuuei been provided by the Woman s auxu larv of the Oregon Pioneer Association for the last ZO years, ana a numoer oi the women connected with the auxu iarv at that time are among the most efficient helpers or me present ua.y. The auxiliary is made up of wives, daughters and granddaughters of pio neers, as a rule, and their men folks, to a considerable extent, are business men of this city, and thus indirectly do their share in making it possible to have the banquet. And the assist ants at the banquet, with very rare exceptions, are directly connected with pioneer families not "pioneer lammes at the "sixties, seventies or eighties,' but of the years closing with 1859, the extreme limit of the pioneer era as established by the original organizers of the Oregon Pioneer Association over 40 years ago. ' If "A Daughter of the Pioneers" will kindly call upon me I will take great pleasure in explaining the workings of the Oregon Pioneer Association and the Woman's Auxiliary, aB well, and then she will plainly see that there is no occasion for the "sons ana aaugn torn" of "real pioneers" to form an nsBoclatlon." "the purpose of which hail ha to elve the banquet to our fathers and grandfathers who have made it possible for us to have a home In Oregon," as there is an or ganization already in existence ior mat purpose wnicn nas oemnu u jrc. of very satisfactory experience. GEORGE H. HIMES, Secretary Oregon Pioneer Association. CHILDREN HOLD CANDY FEAST, Missing Owner of Confectionery Store Leaves Doors Unlocked and Open. New "Fork Evening World. Th o-ln srerbread feast in "Hansel and Gretel" was nothing to what the little girls and boys of Bogota, N. J., naa in Otto Bochert's confectionery in Queen Anne road. Bochert left suddenly for his old home in Europe, leaving the store deserted and open to the children. It was Just like a fairv tale. The first boy who dis. covered it passed the word around and within half an hour Boys ana gins naa helped themselves to what they wanted, filling pockets as well as stomachs. -Nobody knows why the owner vanished so mysteriously, but neighbors said he told them he was going to nurope. Remedy for Pest. PORTLAND. Or., June 21. (To the Editor.) In. the paper some time ago read an article aoout, some trouDie with sweet peas. I think, they were some eort of insects, it seems tne white ones are infected more than any other. I have noticed something similar with my sweet peas and would be very much obliged If you can tell me what to do for them. ETHEL A. HART. Tour vines are probably Infected with the red spider. This insect made Its appearance due to the hot weather that has prevailed. Nurserymen have a preparation which is sprayed on the vines where they are badly affected. The use of the sprayer on the hose nozzle will be found effective. Figures -on Popular . Vote. - PORTLAND, June 24. (To the Edi tor.) Please give the popular vote re ceived by the two leading Presidential candidates In the years 1900 and 1908. ' SUBSCRIBER. 1900 McKlnley, 7,207,923; Bryan, ,358,133. JJOS-rTaft, 7,678,908; Bryan, 6,409,104. Half a Century Ajp From The Oreeontan of June 26, 1562. The County Clerk of Coos County has refused to canvass the votes given in that county for State Senator, upon the ground that an election had been ad vised by the Governor at another tim than the general electlont and therefor he assumes that the votes cast for Sen ator at the late election were Illegal. A large fish, weighing 1300 pound! and measuring 14 feet long and 20 inches through the thickest part, wai captured on the mud flat in front of Olympla one day last week. Our state treasury has now over $35,000 on hand and no outstanding orders to meet- This sum is more than sufficient to pay our allotment of the war tax or if appropriated to pay the expenses of Legislature, as is likely, will cover all needful appropriations and leave a balance. The postmaster at San Francisco has announced that on and after the 14th of June all printed mail matter for the Eastern states will go by steamer and all letters by the overland mall. City Council A petition was received from Messrs. Star te Green praying for privilege to construct a wharf at foot of Stark street. Ordinance to estab lish a grade on Washington street be tween Second and Park streets, read first time. Resolution introduced in structing the City Surveyor to survey Ash, Pine, Oak, Stark, Alder, Morri son, Yamhill. Taylor. Salmon, Main, Madison, Jefferson, Columbia, Clay, Market, Mill, Montgomery, Harrison, Hall, College, Jackson and South streets from Front to" Park streets and B, C D and E streets (Couch's Addition), for the purpose of determining proper grades therefor, including the streets at rightangles. The Julia last night brought down about 3200,000 in dust. Thirty men are said to have gone on board the Pa cific at the mouth of the Willamette who had a large amount of dust. The following was taken from the Mountaineer: At the moment of going to press a rumor reaches us that a large number of miners have been mas sacred by Klamath Lake Indians. The party, 60 strong, came from Jackson ville. When near Klamath Lake, they were attacked by Indians and all but six of their number perished. Numbers of Chinamen are coming over from British Columbia to the Colvllle mines, which are said to be paying welL The Puget Sound Herald announces the death of Captain J. P. Keller, who has long been favorably known on Puget Sound in connection with the Puget Mill Company at Teekalet PRINCE HELPS COAL HIS SHIP. Aristocratic Henry of Resit Not Far. orrd By German' Admiral. New York Dispatch. In the lottery of the social diversions during the visit of the German fleet Prince Heinrich XXXVII of Prussia drew a blank. While his fellow officers of the Moltke were enjoying the charm ing trips up the river to Scarsdale on Commodore Blair's yacht and later hav ing luncheon, the unfortunate prince was left aboard the flagship to play hl part in the necessary but unromantlo task of "coaling ship. Even a prince as accompnsnea as ins thirty-seventh of the Heinrlchs cannot do this and maintain the customary spotlessness of his linen and his coun tenance. When he was seen he was standing amid the flying coal dust aboard a barge at tie starboard side of the big battleship cruiser directing the men who were hoisting bags of coal aboard the flagship. The prince's face and hands were streaked with grime, through which lit tie rivulets of perspiration traced Irreg ular lines. The phenomenally tall col- ' lar which Is one of his sartorial special ties, long before had been prostrated by tha haot Wiai nnra whftn lanlcet and trousers looked as though they might bring despair to the ship's laundry. The trousers were tucked Into a pair of high ' top boots. ., But this young prince was doing his work, doing it well and apparently do ing it cheerfully. He evidently knows what German discipline means, and he is withal something of a philosopher, in his begrimed lips he held a gold tipped cigarette, from which he blew s cloud now and then to mingle with the soft coal dust. . The Moltke's sides were covered com. pletely with protective canvas to pre serve as well as possible her paint. Two hundred men of the flagship's crew, barefooted and stripped to the waist, tolled ceaselessly on each side of the warship, handling the bags of coal as they were Bwung aloft by block and tackle from the barges alongside. The Moltke was taking on 8600 tons of soft coal preparatory to her steaming upon her long voyage homeward to Kiel. GIRL TRAPS FLIRTING OGLERS Baltimore. Sid., Female Detective Sayt Old Men Are Worst Offenders. Baltimore Evening Sun. "I don't feel a bit scared when I gc through the parks," said "Miss Agnei Rammer., 160 South Collington avenue, who has been commissioned by the park board to help end flirting and improper conduct in the parks of Bal timore. "I rather enjoy it, and I'm going to organize a club of girls to do the same work. My hours are from 4 o'clock until 5:30 o'clock in the afternoon and at night from 8 o'cIock until 11 o'clock." 'Do you think girls are to blame for this wholesale flirting and spoon ing?" she was asked. "I certainly do," said Miss Rammell. 'If they didn't encourage the boys there wouldn't be so much of it I ex pect to order the arrest of girls as well as boys for the girls are the chler offenders." Miss Rammell declares she has never worked as a "female detective." She Is 19 years old, pretty and demure. 'I Just walk along siowiy tnrougn the park" she said. "Usually there Is another girl with me and a policeman 4 in plain clothes follows close Denma. Whenever anyone accosts me I am ex pected to give the signal to the police man and when he comes up I order the man's arrest. Old men are the of fenders more than the young ones, but the former appear chiefly In the after noons. It is our plan to get one of the most persistent 'fiirters' and make an example of him. "Recently I was in Patterson Park and found that conditions were even worse than had ben believed. The talk of some of the boys was simply awful." ... Reprimand la Repudiated. BAKER. Or., June 24. (To the Edi tor.) In The Oregonian Saturday, June 22, I noticed a telegram reprimanding part of the Oregon National dele gates to the Republican National con vention with my name signed with others to the same. I want to state that I have not signed, handed or given to the press or through any one else my name to telegram reprimanding delegates in any way. I. to this day, regard the delegates as having done their duty In a Justi fiable manner, according to the views of their constituents. MOSE DIKHEIMER. Boxing Gloves for the Bride. Judge. Prue Did the bride get a pearl neck lace from the groom? Hugh no boxing gloves. She mar ried her second husband again