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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1913. 10 FOKTL.4M), OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon, Postofflca a econd-r.a matter. Subscription Ratee Invariably In Advance. (BY MAIL.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year. 'J-OJ Dally, Sunday Included, six montns..-. . Dally. Sunday Included, inree rooutu. Dally, Sunday included, one month... Daily, without Sunday, one year Daily, without Sunday, six month!.. . . i . ,1 ,. , , t-i rrnr.x.hM. 2.5 .7B e oo 1 Dally! without Sunday! one month - Weekly, one year Sunday, one year Sunday and Weekly, one vear. (BY CARRIER.) 2.50 naii Cnav included, one vear Dally! Sunday Included, one month. . .71 u , n.mt pr.H PoKtofflce money or der. express order or pereonal check on your Camna nnln nr "UrrCnCV aTe at the sender's risk- Give postofflce addreaa In lull. Including county ana Postage Bates Ten to 14 pages, 1 cent ,e . -T . .. no in o Daces, I cents: 40 to 60 naxea.' 4 cents. Foreign postage, double rate. Eastern Business Of flcee Verree fc Conk lln. New York. Brunswick building cago. Stegar building. Kan Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Co. Market street European office : W.. London Regent street B. PORTUXB, THURSDAY, FEB. 1S MEXICO OK THE BOCKS. Mexico Is beating on dangerous rocks. It would teem that Just one circumstance can ward off an Inter national climax. That is the backing down of one of the desperate leaders whmo ambitious Indiscretions are "bathlna- the streets of the Mexican cap ital in blood. Decisive defeat of either combatant seems out of the question and civilization cannot and will not. permit the gory spectacle to proceed much farther. The dally slaughter la Including scores of non - combatants who cannot escape the savage stme. Innocent women and children are mowed down. Foreigners are struck In their own homes by the leaden hall. The city Is wrecked by the formidable projectiles of modern field and siege artillery fired in the very heart of the city. The hasty preparations of the United States to interfere In this desperate situation Is the final notlfl cation to President Madero and Revo lutionist Diaz that the thing must cease. Even a backing down by one side or the other probably will afford but a temporary lowering of high pressure !n the Republic. While thousands of combatants are certain, with charac teristic Mexican Infidelity, to flock to the banner on which advantage rests, ret should either leader withdraw from Mexico City he would take an army with him. It Is not within pres ent probabilities that either man will yield. Madero has said he will die fighting rather than resign. Diaz has displayed a similarly desperate deter mination. Should Madero transfer the seat of government to another point he loses an advantage and fickle thousands will transfer their shallow allegiance to the red standard of Diaz When, two years ago. there arose a crisis far less desperate, President Porfirio Diaz resigned at the psycho logical moment when International complications were at hand. He had not been decisively beaten by Madero, nor was his plight serious. But he said that as a true Mexican, with the welfare of Mexico seriously at heart, he felt that he must make the sacri fice. Madero seems Incapable of such splendid patriotism. Selfishness ap pears to dominate the man and an other characteristic is his monumental Incapacity. He has followed the Diaz plan of exploitation of his country for gain, but without the attendant Iron-hand-edness which marked the Diaz meth ods and which seems so necessary to a successful administration in Mexico. Aside from rapidly exhausting the fi nancial resources of the country and removing confidence of foreign gov ernments that Mexico can meet In demnity claims, Madero has tempor ized with his most dangerous political enemies. Ha has sought to placate, to rule by negative rather than posi tive methods. The fruits of such an administrative policy in Mexico are now being harvested. Mexicans must be ruled by positive methods. They were fitted for nothing better that Porfirio Diaz. If the United States decides to Interfere it will be solely because such a course has become wholly Inevitable and unavoidable, at least so far as the Taft Administration is concerned. The Taft "hands - off policy has been maintained in the light of grave prov ocation to be less patient. Brigandage, pillage, rapine and murder have stalked up and down the land for more than a year all but unchecked When stirred by the United States to act, Madero has met each emergency with misrepresentation, even becom- yist insniiiii ill a. retciu uit'n'uinLiv Change. American citizens nave been far-reaching and thorough. Ir we are compeuea to h-ci now it. will be in the interest of civilization. An expeditionary army will be de signed to afford Immediate relief to Americans and foreigners. We must act. in extreme emergency, because through the Monroe doctrine the United States assumes responsibility for the whole American continent. No doubt if our troops are compelled to land on Mexican soil the Mexican com batants, with true Latin-American temperament, will proceed to embrace each other and combine on the com mon enemy. But then, of course, our back Is broad, and such a combina tion would not seriously embarrass the United States. WEAKNESS OF BIO MAJORITIES. The outlook is bad for harmony among the Democrats In the next Congress. As usual with a party hav ing a huge majority, they are splitting , into factions. We have the progres sives and the conservatives; those who would Investigate everything at imny cost and those who, like Fitzger ald, assert that the expense would make appropriations unprecedented In r amount and would render downward tariff revision a mockery; the two ;attleshtp men and the no-battleship men; the Little Americans and those who would pursue a vigorous foreign policy worthy of a world-power. The greatest danger to the Demo fcratic party consists in the unwieldy Ize of its majority. Experience proves ' that a party having a small majority ris usually actuated by unity of purpose .and stands In serried ranks to carry fthrough Its policy. The Republicans ..never had such effective, coherent control of the House as when, under the leadership or rteea irom loo to 1891. they had a majority of only even. The feels of division were wn by the large majorities they had nder Speakers Henderson and Can non, ana me enorrs oi me inner to hold his forces in line were accompan- 1 by a gradual whittling down of UlU IHIIJUllly ami trig Wg IHUlBg l Roosevelt's second term. He unwit tingly aided the growth of the pro gressive revolt until it culminated in the overthrow of Cannonism. The big majority possessed by the Democrats Is a source of weakness, not of strength, for it inevitably gen erates the tendency to split into fac tions, the smaller of which, by allying Itself with the minority party, may de prive the leaders of control. Clark and Underwood have before them the her culean task of holding their party to gether, at a time when "the progressive movement is having a disintegrating effect on all parties and Is tending toward a new alignment. MUNICIPAL CONDUCT OF SALOONS. Why should we not consider municipal ownership of saloons? Why should such a move smack ton much of .Socialism? What does The Oregonlan think of such a propo sition? Pilot Rock Record. Not much, not very much; mainly because we think very little of the sa loon and very little o'f Socialism. Our friend the Record has been inspired to offer its surprising suggestion by the reflection that the single saloon at Pilot Rock makes a great deal of money, and pays only 1500 annual license. "By doing this," urges the Pilot Rock reformer, "would the town be any more engaged In the saloon business than at the present time?" If the town is now in the saloon business and conditions are intoler able, how would they be Improved if the saloons were to be taken over di rectly ? THE ELECTRIC AGE IS HERE. Substitution of electric for steam power on main line railroads is com ing by degrees. The plan of the Mil waukee road to electrify Its whole system from Harlowtown, Mont., to the Coast is the most ambitious step in that direction, but it has been preceded by other steps in the same direction." Such is the network of trolley lines throughout the Eastern and Middle States, which began as a number of local lines, but has been linked togeth. er Into a system, repeating the his tory of the development of steam rail roads. Such also is the use of electric power on the Baltimore and New York terminals of steam railroads and in the Cascade tunnel of the Great Northern Railroad. With our abundant water power we may see the present era of construc tion of trolley lines in the Willamette Valley followed by electrification of such through lines as that of the O. W. R. & N. from Huntington to Port land and that of the Southern Pacific through the SIskiyous. Other railroad companies will surely watch the Mil waukee's experiment and be ready to imitate If it proves successful. A VOICE FROM TDK U'RENIC TOMB. The Oregonlan hears again today from Mr. U'Ren, who abandons the championship of his own failing cause to adopt the old device of abusing the opposition. The illumination of jour nalistic or personal records is indeed a more or less fruitful pastime. If The Oregonian should choose to retaliate n kind upon Mr. U'Ren, it might easily offer a sketch of his personal ac tivities since he came to Oregon not agreeable to him; but it will confine itself to U'Ren and the U'Ren meas ures. There never was a U'Ren bill that did not contain a Joker or trick. or a deliberate attempt to turn favor uble public opinion on some important issue into a political asset for U'Ren and his group. It Is knavish business; but it is U'Renlc. Now the public knows U'Ren, distrusts U'Renism and turns away from him and his system. Well it may. His day is done; he is mere hireling of a discredited and mposslble single-tax extravaganza, and whatever he does or tries to do hereafter will be referred in the pub ic mind to his meal ticket. All the reforms he has proposed through the Oregon system had as their ultimate his present service to Joseph Fels. Thus U'Ren has always smelled his particular from the general weal. The Oregonian supported the direct primary, and advocated the adoption of the present law; but it complained about Statement One after its purpose had been disclosed, and declared that Its results would be to elect Demo- ratic United States Senators. The Oregonlan has said, and repeats, that the corrupt practices act is full of ab surdities, and we have only to cite the act itself as abundant proof. Here again U'Ren took advantage of a com mendable public desire to end the era of corruption in our politics and among our candidates to disfigure the Oregon statute books with the travesty on a correct and practicable statute. The Oregonian approved, and ap proves, a Presidential primary law, but it distinctly objected, and yet objects, as the people now undoubtedly object, to the narrow proportional representa tion scheme strictly U'Renlc In mo tive and method that permits the voter to vote for one candidate only and that led directly to the unseemly and unprofitable squabble in a dis cordant delegation at Chicago last June. It Is not true that The Orego nlan attacked the three-fourths Jury system; It Is true that it opposed the extraordinary Judicial amendment fathered by U'Ren In 1910 and fairly bristling with blemishes, uncertainties, twisters and other characteristic URenlsms. It cannot manifest regret for following the plain path of its duty as it saw Its duty then and sees Its duty now. There may be profit in hypocritical evasion or easy prostitu tion of honest opinion and clear con viction; but The Oregonian has never learned the way. The Oregonian has been the one outspoken voice in Oregon against U'Ren and U'Renism in Oregon. It has seen, as the people now see, that he has sought to capitalize the Oregon system to his own advantage, and that he has gone far beyond the limits of rational and safe reform in his recent outgivings. He has descended from his position as a prophet of the people to be a mere paid lobbyist for a dan gerous and vicious propaganda; and he has confessed that all his life he has aimed at the single-tax and that he procured the initiative and referen dum solely with that ultimate object. If he has given the people more power, others have given them a clearer In sight Into his personal scbemlngs and subtle maneuverings. If he has given us the Initiative and referendum, oth ers more wise and less selfishly in terested have prevented him from giv ing Oregon the single tax. If he has given us the direct primary, others have striven, against the hostile ex pression of an inspired clamor, to pre vent him from destroying representa tive government. If the record of things done through U'Ren is to be balanced with the rec ord of things attempted by him, but balked by The Oregonian and by the Mleople who have with The Oregonlan approved progress with prudence and experimentation with caution, we shall have no reason to be disturbed about the showing ALTERNATE CAR STOPS. The Oregonlan prints today a letter from a Sunnyside home owner who es timates the increase in the value of his property, as a result of the alter nate stop system established over the street carline that serves that part of the city, at $500. It is probable that the estimate is not excessive. Observ ant patrons of the line have noted sev eral improvements in the service since the new plan was inaugurated. In addition to saving of running time, there has been less congestion of traf fic; the cars are able better to main tain a fixed schedule and stopping and starting of cars is accomplished with much less Jerking. Maintenance of a fixed time schedule and freedom from congestion permit a better dis tribution among the cars of the crowds during the rush periods. These improvements are most ap parent to the steady patrons of the streetcars. For them 25 per cent of the annoyances incident to living be yond walking distance Is removed. If the plan is continued in operation It ought to, and it, will, promote home building on the East Side. If anybody has any doubt about it, let him inquire in Piedmont or Irvington as to the effect on homeseeking and realty values of the approaching completion of the Broadway bridge, and its prom ised reduction of time In transit be tween those sections and the business district. The change is peculiarly adapted to Portland and particularly to the East Side lines. The East Side offers a natural area of expansion for the resi dential section. But It is removed from the business section fully one fourth mile by the breadth of the Wil lamette River. The arteries of trafflo must always be a comparatively few bridges with the possible addition of a subway in the future. Congestion of cars on one line of several using one of these arteries demoralizes schedules on all. The West Side lines are short er; there are a greater number of ar teries of travel in proportion to popu lation and the major part of the dis trict may be said to lie "close in." Need of the alternate stop system west of the river is not apparent and the change perhaps would not be desirable. But on the East Side let objectors weigh advantages against disadvan tages. We have enumerated the for mer. What are the latter? Merely an additional. walk of 260 feet (count, ing street width), not twice, but once in a day, by the car patron who makes but one round trip daily, for the car stops at his nearest corner either in bound or outbound. Two hundred and sixty feet can be covered in one min ute by the man or woman able to ac complish the moderate pace of three miles an hour. Yet we are told that this trifling exercise is considered i hardship by 800 residents of Sunny- side who have signed a petition for a return to the old system! NATURAL SELECTION AND DESIGN. The lecturer on evolution at the Lowell Institute this season is to be Profcsor Lawrence J. Henderson, of Harvard. He seems to be an excellent choice for the duty for many reasons, but chiefly because he retains a little common sense about Darwin and his work. It Is fashionable nowadays to speak of Darwin as a back number and to protest glibly that his doc trines have been thrown out of court. Natural selection in particular, the reactionaries gleefully tell us, Is dead tor good and all. It was freely pre dicted that when Dr. Vries came to this country to lecture on evolution he would give Darwin's renown its quie tus and' we should hear no more of the great Englishman and bis discov eries. But De Vries came. He ex plained his "mutation theory" which was to be so fatal to natural selection and opened his explanation by cau tioning his hearers that he disagreed with Darwin "only in unimportant particulars." Mutation Is an interest ing minor phenomenon of evolution which scientific men do not pretend as yet to be able to explain, but nat ural selection holds precisely the same place as it did forty years ago. It is and will remain the fundamental prin ciple of explanation as far as the origin of species is concerned. Professor Henderson virtual!- takes J this ground In the syllabus of his pro jected lectures. He is indeed of the opinion that natural selection has op erated more or less under the control of a designing authority, but he is careful to exclude the possibility of anything like the old-fashioned "tele ology." In other words he believes in design, but not in purpose. The design which he seems to perceive in the uni verse Is merely that of a mechanic who constructs a machine. Every part is fitted into its place so deftly that the whole works harmoniously, but Pro fessor Henderson does not go so far as to say that the machine was built for any particular purpose. It may have been or it may not. Teleology Is entirely outside the domain of sci ence. The question whether there is mechanical design in the world or not Is purely one of evidence. It Is un deniable that harmonies of the most astonishing sort greet us on every hand. The insect which lays its eggs In the undeveloped seed of a plant and then fertilizes the flower to make sura that the seed shall develop and provide its young with food certainly appears to act with definite purpose and such arrangements are so numer ous that a powerful argument may be built up from them. But on the other hand the disharmonies of the world are Just as numerous and often far more impressive. They gain force from the fact that many of them are ethical. Herbert Spencer cites one in his bioldgy which Is typical of hun dreds. He mentions a minute germ which lodges in the human eyeball and there develops Into a creature of some ize, causing excruciating pain to its host as its growth proceeds. The mis erable creature has no sense organs and no brain to speak of. It merely lives and produces agony. If it Is the fruit of design the designer must have been evil. In fact the argument from design has long been abandoned by cautious theologians because it can be used far more efficiently to prove that God Is evil than that he Is good. If he planned the universe, we are told, he planned Its useless suffering as well as its agreeable features and he must be held answerable for all of it To be sure, certain logicians assure us that the suffering contributes in some way to a remote purpose which we do not understand, but this is so evident ly an evasion that it has no weight. An all-powerful deity who was good could have designed a universe with out pain. If he could not. then his power was limited, to say nothing of his wisdom. So the design theory falls of its own weight on the ethical side at least If those who uphold it could only confine us to the harmonies of the universe and shut out the discords all would go well with th'em, but un happily they cannot. This seems to be about Professor Henderson's posi tion. He admits such design as a mechanic employs in constructing an Implement for which he has no use, but nothing more. Plainly this throws us back on natural selection, since de sign without purpose must be devoid of Intelligence. The hand of the builder happened to work in that way. It might just as well have worked some other way in different circumstances. This is only another manner of stat ing the law of natural selection. Even the mutations of De Vries which have figured so hugely of late in moonshiny quasi-scientific specula tions must be reckoned among Dar win's "fortuitous variations." They are a little ampler than such varia tions usually are, but that makes no difference about their origin. The puzzling question In evolution has al ways been how the variations are caused. Once grant that they have actually occurred and the rest is easy by the law of natural selection and survival of the adapted. We can make two suppositions as to their origin and we cannot rationally make more than two. Either the physical causes of all possible variations were wrapped up in the first living cell that existed on earth, or new causes have been admitted to the germs of life in the course of its history. Modern thought trends strongly toward the former supposition. We are told by the leading biologists of the day that no new factors are ever admitted to the stream of heredity. Hence all of those that exist must have been con tained in the original cell. But .that does not matter a Jot as far as natural selection Is concerned. From what ever cause variations have originated the Incontestable fact remains that they have originated in some way and that the useful ones have been preserved by a process of survival. A variation adapted to the environment has given its possessor an advantage In the Btruggle for existence and his progeny have inherited it and won their way to success. Explain this by whatever hypothesis we may, the fact itself remains and this is all that Darwin upheld in his writings on evolution. When Wilson said at Chicago, "You must put the credit of this country at the disposal of everybody on equal terms, he evidently meant that the same test should be applied In all cases. The Saturday Evening Post says that, where the collateral and the standing of the borrower are the same, credit is extended with perfect equal ity. It should be, but It is not always. A man of the highest standing may try to raise money on unexceptionable collateral, but If the enterprise in which he wishes to invest the money would compete with some enterprise In which the banker is Interested, can he always raise the capital? When the greatest banks, which alone are able to make loans of the largest magnitude, are all controlled by a small coterie of men who also control nearly all the railroads and big industries, the chance of securing from these banks the money to build a competing rail road or factory is extremely slim. Doubtless Wilson had In mind such cases when he uttered the words quoted. Very likely the dollar bill which an Albany man mailed without a wrapper a day or two ago will go to its desti nation safely. The sum of money is too small to risk stealing and the nov elty of the affair might insure safety ven if the bill were larger. But a second experiment of the same sort might not succeed so well. Were postoffice patrons to make a practice of sending loose money In the malls, they would corrupt the service. Citi zens are under obligation not to tempt public servants. Just as every house holder should guard the honesty of his domestics. There Is a fruitful subject for some genius to write about in "The Psy chology of Bank Depositors." They are a timorous race, especially those whose funds are In savings banks, and any trifle may throw them Into a panic. At Elyria, O., the other day the legend "No funds" stamped on a worthless check was sufficient to bring thou- gands of depositors hurrying to with draw their money. They were poor, ignorant people who ought to have known better, but probably such pan ics will happen as long as savings banks are permitted to fail corruptly. A renowned physician declares in a recent article that the Ideal human food is the potato. He says it contains all the substances required by the body and needs but little cooking. It is free from woody fiber and easily digested if one does not overload the stomach. According to his view, a vegetarian diet might be constructed with the potato for a basis which would be both wholesome and agree able. Would the Kaiser's only daughter have become betrothed to Prince Ernst August if she had not been a Princess and he had not been a Prince and if there had not been strong rea sons of state for the Kaiser to bring about the match? But perhaps they will be as happy as some of the couples that end their troubles at Reno. One would have thought that West Virginia legislators would know bet ter than to fall Into a bribery trap in these days of the dictagraph and of detectives who make a specialty of trailing bribers and grafters. South Carolina will not figure in the Inaugural parade. Blease's blood boils at the suggestion to march behind the colored troops. He, will not be missed. Talk does not build roads, but if continued long enough the roads will again be good and the talking will cease by limitation. Why don't the makers of women's fashions try to squeeze woman into one leg of a pair of trousers and be done with it? There are 1257 people entitled to place in Oregon's "Who's Who?" That many automobile licenses have been issued. Yesterday was a holiday for those who handle money, but not for people who earn it. A local thief stole a ten-gallon jug of vinegar and will be caught when pickled. West is snapping the whip, but there 1 is no cruLK iu u Stars and Starmakers By Leone Caaa finer. In Los Angeles the benefit held for "Little Alma," the telephone operator at the Burbank theater, netted ,2500. Alma has long been a semi-invalid and the money Is to be used for medical treatment. On the programme were a lot of names familiar to Portlandera. The Burbank stock company presented "Mother" with Donald Bowles as the spoiled son, Beatrice Nichols as the younger sister, Thomas MacLarme as the family lawyer, and Lillian Elliott In the title role. Nat Goodwin presented Paul Armstrong's sketch "A Blase of Glory," Phyllis Partington and Arthur Albro sang "Gypsy Love" melodies and Louise Gunning sang her famous Scotch numbers. A bevy of women whose hus bands are Identified with theatricals sold candy, flowers and programmes. These were: Mrs. Oliver Morosco, Mrs. James Neil, Mrs. Grace Travers Mont rose, Mrs. John Burton, Mrs. Charles Eyeton. Miss Beatrice Nichols, Miss Selma Payley and Mrs. Henry Stock bridge. Besides these, performers from the various vaudeville and musical comedy houses contributed to the en tertainment. A moving picture of the little lady herself closed the big pro gramme. Between acts the orchestra played "Alma, Where do Tou Live'." Among the early attractions at the Hellig Theater will be Chauncey Olcott, under the management of Henry Miller, in the romantice Irish play, "The Isle o' Dreams." Llna Abarbanell will remain under the management of John Cort despite reports sent out by a certain producing manager to the contrary. Mr. Cort Is casting about for a suitable musical play for the fascinating little Viennese prima donna, and makes positive state ment that Hue. Abarbanell will again be seen on Broadway this season in a new production that he will have for her, which contradicts the present ru mor that she Is to come to the Paclfio Coast before Spring. Rose Stahl, In her newest success, "Maggie Pepper," will come West for a limited tour. Donald Brain, who danced himself into fame in the original production of "The Merry Widow," in the role of Prince Danilo, is coming to Portland for the first time next month, when he will be seen as the star In Charles Frohman's production of "The Siren." Mayo Methot has been engaged by telegraph from Spokane for a four weeks' engagement at the American stock theater, where she will appear in "Mother," "The Awakening of Helen Ritchie," "A Man's World" and "Sapho," in each of which she will play the child's role. In the San Francisco Review is this line: "Lee Willard Is rehearsing with Mrs. Langtry, now playing over the Orpheum time. Mr. Willard is a stock actor who has appeared often in Portland. 9 The death in London of Frederick Tillisch, a well-known Pacific Coast business man. recalls the fact that Mrs. Tillisch is known professionally as Eva Stirling. Mrs. Tillisch is now in Chicago. Grace Raymond, formerly with the Edna May Spooner stock company in Brooklyn, has arrived to Join the Prin cess stock company In Tacoma and will make her first appearance in next week's bill, "Pierre of the Plains." George Cleveland, a well-known Coast defender, has also joined the company. Marie Baker has Joined the Kelly stock company in Salt Lake City. Edith Lyle, for two consecutive years leading woman at the College Theater, in Chicago, one of the largest and most important stock houses in the country, has been engaged by William J. Kelly at the Colonial for leading woman of his company. s From the San Francisco Dramatic Review Is this taken, which Is of in terest, inasmuch as "Broadway Jones" just left us: Adele Rogers, the 17-year-old daughtsr of Attorney Earl Rogers, of Loa Angeles, a Btage-struck girl, was almost forcibly re turned to her home la Los Angeles last neuk under telephonic orders from her father. The father had received word that she was about to elope with Ralph Morgan, leading man of the Broadway Jones company, but the daughter denied this. She said she had planned to get on the stage In Chicago when the company got back there and waa soon to start for rehearsals for her part. Miss Rogers came to the St. Francis Hotel a week ago from Los Angeles, with the consent of her parents, she claimed. She was visiting Edith Luckett. a member of the "Broadway Jones" company. When Lawyer Rogers re ceived the alarming report that his daugh ter was to elope with Actor Morgan, ho telephoned a taxlcab man at the St. Fran cis and. It Is stated, ordered Adele put on a train for homo at once. The Instructions were carried out hurriedly and the girl boarded a Southern Pacific train in an evening gown. She was in tears at the In-, terruption in her ambition to go on the stage. Phyllis Partington, who comes here In the prima donna role of "Gypsy Love," Is one of a family of talented San Franciscans. Eight years ago little Phyllis Partington played a small role at the old Tlvoll and her advance since that time In musical comedy has been almost sensational. Maude Leone has leased "The Geta way" to Charles Bachman, who will play the sketch over the big time in the East. Canada and Mexico. Miss Leone Is now leading woman with Van couver, B. C, stock. Adeline Genee, the world-famous danseuse, who comes to the Heillg to morrow night, will give an entire change of programme on Saturday night. Genee brings along her own company of dancers, her own orchestra, special scenery and costumes. R. B. McKenzle has closed with the Baker players to go to Aberdeen. Wash., as director with the Bijou stock. m m m From Los Angeles, via "The Round er," comes news that John W. Consl dine, active head of the big theatrical firm of Sullivan & Consldlne, has car ried out a desire, expressed some time ago, to make his future residence in Southern California. Mrs. Consldlne, who, with her daughter, Ruth, has beep wintering in and about Los Angeles, has purchased through the Considine agents property in Santa Monica, on which Mr. Consldlne will Immediately begin the erection of a Summer home to cost not lees than $50,000. It la also Mr. Consldine's Intention to build one of the most modern stables in Southern California, which when completed will cost over $10,000, and which will house the Consldlne show horses, which have carried away a majority of the blue ribbons at the re- cent horse shows In the Northwest. PROFIT SEEN IN ALTERNATE STOPS Time Saved Enkasieea Value of Realty, Declares Lot Owner. PORTLAND, Feb. 12. (To the Edi tor.) Permit a Sunnyside resident to defend the new system of stopping cars at every other street Any convenient arrangement that hastens transit to- and from the West Side adds value to residence land on the East Side. I am frank to say that slow car travel has made me almost wish I had not built my home on the East Side; yet the Sunnyside line offers as frequent service as any other in Portland. I located there because of that service. But even with the best carline in East Portland, I have wished myself back on the West Side, where I could ride without such exasperating delays. Each trip, at crowded periods, used to take half an hour. Stopping at every block, or every 200 feet, the cars made snail pace. The new system Is an improvement. It shortens the ride between five and ten minutes. It gives the feeling that one is traveling the ground and that close-tn residents are not getting all the best of the ride. In the matter of time. Every five minutes saved means hundreds of dollars added to the value of every lot tributary to the carline. Why do so many persons refuse to make homes on the East Side? Because of the long-delayed car ride. Let us think It over. As a matter of sense and reason, stops 400 feet apart are frequent enough. By walking a short distance, one or two passengers can save a half minute stop for the 60 or 60 others In side the car. Ten or 15 fewer stops on a trip mean many minutes saved for all. Let us get used to the new arrange ment. keet It. save time and add to value of our lots and to serenity of our patience. The undersigned writes as a home owner, who delights to spend a minute longer walking to and from the car. Just to save six or eight minutes In the car ride. That means a net saving of five or seven minutes, doesn't, it? I figure that the value of my two lots Is enhanced thereby at least $600 each. That is $100 a minute for five minutes saved, Isn't It? SUNNYSIDE. MR. ITHEN DISCUSSES JOKERS The Ore- Wlth a Few Remarks Aboai Etonian's Record. OREGON CITY, Or., Feb. 11. (To the Editor.) I think you will give me a littlo space for reply to your personal remarks of last Sunday concerning my character as a politician. The Ore gonlan's understanding of what consti tutes a "joker" or "trick" in a measure Is that it is something to abolish some form of graft or corruption, or to make special privileges less profitable. The Oregonian thundered editorially for nearly four years that Statement No. 1 was a "Joker" Inserted in the direct primary law by U'Ren. The cor rupt practices law was filled with "jok ers" In the minds of The Oregonian editors. Anything looking toward pro portional representation, or applying it in any form. Is another "trick" and "Joker" and therefore The Oregonian was against the Presidential primary law. The amendment allowing verdicts by three-fourths of a Jury was another of U'Ren's "jokers," If one listened to The Oregonian's editorials and the cor poration lawyers. That amendment abolished the business of Jury bribing in Oregon. All of the things The Oregonian looks upon as "jokers." and with which I have had anything to do, have re sulted In giving to the people of Ore gon more power, or Interfering with some graft But The Oregonlan has learned some things. All of these measures, especially Statement No. 1, are now recognized by the editors us good and wholesome laws. I have hope that some day In the blessed future The Oregonian will be proclaiming to the reading world the very great prac tical advantages of the single tax as applied In Oregon. W. S. U'REN Two Sides to Car Stop Question. PORTLAND, Feb. 12. (To the Edi tor.) The reader of the newspaper re ports of Monday's Council committee meeting on streetcar grievances would get the mistaken idea that Mt. Tabor and Sunnyside people were all petition ing for stopping the cars at every street. The fact is there were two sets of petitions presented, both volum inous. Speeches were made for and against. The Sunnyside people, who get cars about every three minutes want stops at every street. Mount Tabor and Montavilla people, who have a 10-mlnute service, want alternate stops. A school teacher, whose school is on East Fourteenth street bemoaned the fact that she must get off at Fifteenth street and walk a block! Just as though In these days of out-door gospel she did not know that 10 blocks before and after school would do her and her pupils a world of good! Please let your readers know that there are two sides to this question, and Mount Tabor, Montavilla, Mount Scott, Rose City Park, Parkrose. Sell wood, the Waverly and other populous suburbs are entitled to consideration. In my Judgment, if the old plan of stopping every 230 feet Is returned to, it will be because these districts are asleep at the switch. R M. TUTTLE. Congress. SHERWOOD. Or., Feb. 10. (To the Editor.) Please tell roe the number of Representatives and Senators In the United States Congress, and also the number of population that it takes to every representative. D. O. In the Congress which convenes March 4, 1913, there will be 96 Sena tors and 436 Representatives. Repre sentation in the House is on the ratio of one to 212,407 of population. In Your Spare Time, Please. Indianapolis News. If twelve persons were to agree to dine together every day, but never sit exactly In the same order around the table, it would take them thirteen mil lion years at the rate of one dinner a day. and they would have to eat more than 479 million dinners before they could get through all the possible ar rangements in which they could placs themselves. Parole Requirements. PORTLAND. Feb. 12. (To the Edi tor.) Please tell me If a man paroled frpm the State Penitentiary Is required to have $25 to his credit before they will release him. A READER. No money Is required for a paroled prisoner, although he must be assured of a position that will make him self sustaining. INFORMATION FOR CORRKS PODESTS. Communications intended for this page of The Oregonlan should not contain mora than 250 words. The editor will use bis discretion in cutting letters of greater length. Correspondents who prefer rejection of their manuscripts to having parts eliminated should so state. The Oregonlan will not by mall supply addresses, statistics, data for debates or similar informa tion. Queries of general Interest will be answered when practi cable, but The Oregunian will not undertake to place values on old coins or curios or give legal advice In detailed controversies. Legal inquiries should be con fined to general law points. In the Flat Below By Dean ColUna. A man, and a peaceful man was be, Lived In greatest tranquillity In a flatbouse. Peaceful he lived, 1 ay. But that Is Just in a general way. For day and night his peace and quiet Were broke by an unremitting riot. Of crash and smash and bang and blow Prom the bunch that lived in the flat below. From time to time, as he heard their scraps, He murmured mildly: "I say. old chaps. Nix on the noise; soft pedal low! There are other folks in the house you know, And much as I hate to make trouble here, may be obliged to interfere." But they only started another go The ginks that lived in the flat below. He cried, "Long suffering I may be. But this gets wearisome even to me! Can it:" But still tbey kept tneir flow Of noise the ginks in the flat below. Sharply he spake: "Now, that will do, Or I may come and sit down on you," But the fight still rumbled to and fro Twlxt the ginks that lived on the floor below. Till all the flat dwellers cried In a breath: "This uproar pesters us half to death. Let It be finished, bottled, canned. Or we are going to take a hand." Then the peaceful man in his sltppera shod. Picked up a bat and a cleaning rod. And puttered out through the hall, to go And clean the bunch In the flat below. "Far better that 1 should paddle them well," He mused: "Because of their fuss and yell, Then all the neighbors. In anger grim. Should grab them and rend them limb from limb. I hate to do it, but I've a hunch I'll have to go down and clean that bunch. Which breaks the peace of our flat house so. With rioting round on the floor below." The moral: The peaceful chap, we'll aay. Is the long, lone suffering U. S. A., Though it almost seems, as I pen this rhyme. That It's getting close about spanking time. For certain parties In Mexico The ginks that live in the flat below. Portland, February 13. Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonlan of Feb. 13, 1SS8. Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 12. Ben Jones, chairman of the National Republican Committee, has received a letter from Mr. Blaine declining to allow his name to be presented to the Republican Na tional Convention as a candidate for the Presidency. New York, Feb. 11. Among the cab In passengers op the steamer City of Chicago, which sailed this morning for Liverpool, was Mrs. Folsom, mother of Mrs. Cleveland, who came on from Washington and .saw her mother off. Washington. Feb. 3. The Senate passed the biU introduced by Senator oolph to authorize Dalles City to con struct n bridge across the Columbia River. Washington, Feb. 2. The House com mittee on territories is still wrestling with tho Dakota problem and has not yet haa time to give Its attention to me claims ut Washington Territory. The efforts of Professor Frank Ris ler, principal uf Park School, to main tain uiscipiine in nis chool have been approved oy the Jury before which tho case was tried Saturday. At 11 o'clock yesterday morning the verdict of ac quittal was read. The friction elevator heretofore used in The Oregonlan office, having been superseded by the introduction of a uyuraulic elevator, is offered for sale at a bargain. At last Portland will have a long felt want filled by the construction of a cold-storage warehouse. Space sut' Iicient lor six rooms eight feet square and 12 feet high in connection with Harris & Salmon s ice factory on Second street bus been leused for that purpose uy William McGuire as Co. Revs. F. S- Noel, late of Gettysburg, Pa., and J. S. Broulllard, of Canada, were ordained to priesthood during the celebration of pontifical high mass by Archbishop Gross at the Catholic Ca thedral yesterday morning. During the military hop at Bishop Scott Academy Saturday Dr. J. W. Hill presented Mrs. Foreman, the dancing teacher, in behalf of the young ladies, a beautiful goid shawl pin In form of a tambourine. ha-f a Cent jry Ago From Tho Oregonlan of Feb. 18. 1863. Goid is at 100 per cent premium and silver at 50. Nashville. Feb. 1. The Knoxvllle Register says it has positive Informa tion that General Joe Johnston will In person command the Army in Middle Tennessee. Charleston, Jan. 31. Thia morning the gunboats Palmetto State and Chl cora, accompanied by three small steamers under Commodore Ingraham, made an attack on the blockaders and succeeded In sinking two vessels and crippling a third. The steamer Pacific brought up $100. 000 for Major Winston, paymaster at Fort Vancouver. By far the larger portion of it was In coin, say, $70,000. The steamer Vancouver had great difficulty in coming from Vancouver yesterday morning. The slush lee was running from three to five feet thick. Unless the weather moderates the river will be closed. The board of fire delegates organized last night by electing E. G. Randall president, T. Brooke Trevitt gecretary and Harris Seymour treasurer. Ascent of Mount McKlnley. SALEM. Or., Feb. 11. (To the Edi tor.) I believe I read an account In Tbe Oregonian not long ago of an authentic ascent of Mount McKlnley. Alaska, by a woman accompanied by a man. , Can you advise me whether or not there has ever been a successful ascent of Mount McKlnley? F. B. SPRINGER. One or more pirtles from Fairbanks, Alaska, aver they have scaled Mount McKlnley, and their stories of the feat have been published by The Oregonlan. So far as The Oregonian has observed no geographical or scientific society has conceded the authenticity of any reported ascent to the extreme sum mit of the peak. Sabotage. ASTORIA. Or., Feb. 10. (To the Edi tor.) Kindly give ma the definition of the word Sabotage. I cannot find It In Wbster. F. M. R Sabotage Is a French term for acts of retaliation by employes against em ployers for real or fancied wrongs acts that are not in the nature ot direct physical violence. It may mean loafing on the Job, displacing tools, intentional turning out of defective work or the like.