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Brunswick buUdlc. baa Francico Office R. J. BldweU Co" FurntM'.n OffU- w., London. J0 KTLA VI, FRIDAY. MARCH II. 1913. MB. WASIIISGTON. There are grounds for believing that since Mr. Washington began his work at Tuskegee, true Ideas of the nature and purpose of popular education have advanced more rapidly among the ne groes than among the whites. A large part of the white population 01 m United States are still obsessed with the notion that "a little education In m iinnnlainable way" will free them from the hardships of the world and enable them "to live without man ual labor." The feeling is sadly preva lent that "a knowledge, however little, of the Greek and Latin languages will make one a very superior human be ing." He found his whole people fol lowing this illusion and applying it In their first feeble aspirations ior an education after the war. He had the same illusion himself at the outset of hi. career. "I remember, he says, "that the first colored man whom I saw who knew something about for eign languages impressed me at that time as being a man of all others to be envied." The surprising thing is that Mr. Washington so completely overcame the belief that education is a sort of initiation into magic whereby the candidate acquires occult powers over men and things by virtue of the formulas he learns. If he had not been a man of most original genius, he would have pursued the mistaken course which almost everybody else took In establishing schools for the ne. gToes and his supremely important work might have waited a score of years for the master mind ana nana. Fortunately Mr. Washington found his way to Hampton Institute for his youthful training. In this scnooi me concept of Industry as something fine and richly educative had already been gained, bo that when his call to Tuske gee came from a committee of South ern men he was prepared to begin teaching these along true lines for the good of his people and the whole coun try. No doubt he has exercised almost as much Influence upon schools for the whites as upon those for his own race, but he speaks and. writes only of his work for the negroes. In this field he Is the first of masters. He has com bated the false belief, so natural monr a childish race newly set free. that education means the memorizing of words and the evasion of work, and has won the negroes to see in practical efficiency the way of escape from pov erty and social degradation. His basic doctrine is that all secure progress must have an economic foundation. He does not despise culture by any means. "I favor any kind of training," he tells us, "that gives strength and culture to the mind." But with cul ture he believes also In teaching "the latest and best methods of laundrying" ind other occupations of the same sort. Mr. Washington's educational ideas and methods have spread rapidly among the negroes. The. growth of Tuskegee is an Indication of their ac ceptance among both races. The school began as a band of "hundreds of earnest, hungry souls." It had no buildings and no endowment. Now it has become a village In itself with an endowment of t2, 000,000 and its pupils re at work in every Southern com munity. At the close of the war an educated negro, no matter how feebly educated, became a preacher or a politician, often both. He saw no other outlet for his abilities. Mr. Washington has demonstrated that there are hundreds of other outlets, usually far better and more profitable. The colored race has made astonishing progress in many directions since it was set free. His tory shows no instance where so much has been gained in so little time, tak ing everything Into consideration. Among its greatest gains we must reckon the elimination of false ideals in life and happiness and the con quest of a sound economic basis for ambition. This the colored people owe to Mr. Washington more than to any other man. The negroes owe to him also much of that steady amelioration of Southern sentiment which has been proceeding ever since Tuskegee was founded. As long as the whitea had reason to fear that the negroes would wield political power over them and dreaded the specter of "social equal ity" to which beyond all question the blacks aspired in early reconstruction days, good feeling was constantly en dangered. As soon as it became evi dent In any community that the ne groes had settled down to earn an hon est living in honest ways and their consequent improvement In morals and manners made itself manifest, the feeling of the whites softened. Friendly interest replaced suspicious dread. As Mr. Washington often says, the ne groes have no friends so true and kindly as the Southern whites, but this friendship is granted only on condi tion that the netrro shall remain a purely economic factor until he has clearly demonstrated his fitness for something different. The bargain is, after all. a fair one and Mr. Washing ton's unvaried counsel to his people is that it is best for them as well as the whites. In the economic peace which they have secured under Mr. Washington's guidance the negroes are rapidly gain ing wealth and Influence. They stand well In the professions. They are pro ducing a literature. The death rate which their bad habits of living once made so fearfully high Is declining as their standards rise, and it Is reason ably certain that they will Increase about as rapidly as the whites In the future. When their economic position has become assured they will necessar ily acquire their fair proportion of po litical power. Property, no matter who owns It. is bound to be represent ed in the government. What their ultimate social destiny will be it would be rash to try to predict. The United States Is a famous melting pot. but there are very few s'-gna as yet that it will form an alloy of black and white. Perhaps in time the negroes will be - come so wealthy and powerful that they will care little what the whites think of them and remain content with their own racial life. From some points of view this would be an Ideal solution of a most difficult problem. THE CASE OF MRS. EDGHX. The unhappy case of Mrs. Edgell. the New York teacher (married), who desired leave of absence for a year in order to "bear and rear a child," af fords an opportunity for contrast of the benighted illiberality of New York with the enlightened freedom of Port. land. The New York Board of Educa tion framed a by-law years ago under which any woman teacher who mar ried automatically severed her connec tion with the body of teachers by that act. Some time ago a dispute arose under thia by-law, and the matter was taken Into the courts. The Court of Appeals decided that the Board of Education's by-law was unconstitu tional. Thus the theory has been im posed upon the Board of Education that married women have legal stand ing in the body of schoolteachers. When Mrs. Edgell frankly stated that she desired to respond to a do mestic call, the Board pointedly de clined. It is not unusual for a mar ried teacher to ask for leave of ab sence, on the discreet grouna or ui health" and "opportunity for study," and what happened in the interim did not matter much to the public. But Mrs. Edgell lacked diplomacy, and suffers the consequences. But Mrs. Edgell would have been rewarded for her candor if she had lived in Portland. There is, or has been, a rule here against married women teachers: but It has its excep tions. Under the new dispensation, however, through the grace of the .re cent Legislature, which gave all Port land teachers life jobs, if they survive two years of probation, it seems clear that any teacher may get married, have children, or arrange her domes tic matters to accord with her own needs or likings, and the School Board cannot say a word. Unlucky Mrs. Edgell! Lucky Port land teachers. WHY THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY LIVES. Frank Munsey persists in his efforts to reunite the Progressive with the Re publican party, urging that the plank on recall of Judicial decisions is the only one in the Progressive platform to which the great bulk of Republicans seriously object. There is another obstacle In the way. It is the fact that the Progressive is Colonel Roosevelt's own personally conducted party. It Is absolutely necessary that he should have a party Since he has read himself out of the Republican party and since the gresslve Democrats are well satisfied with President Wilson as their leader, the only course open is to keep the Progressive party alive. True, its ranks are becoming some what thinned by desertion. At the outset Senator Borah refused to go with htm. Then Governor Deneen and Governor Hadley retained their places as Republicans. Now Mr. Munsey openly proposes reconciliation with the hopelessly corrupt party with which the Colonel will have no part, and thousands of men who voted the Pro gressive ticket last Fall are refusing to renew their allegiance to it. But, shrunken as it is, it must retain its place lest the Colonel have no organ ized following. FREE TRADE IN SHOES. Shoe manufacturers and dealers are combining in protest against the threat to put shoes on the free list in the Democratic tariff bin, ana tnere is much reason in their plea to the minds of moderate tariff revisionists, ine duty is now only 10 per cent on men's and 15 per cent on women's shoes, which rates seem moderate enough to satisfy an advocate of a purely revenue tariff. It may be contended that since hides come in free, snoes aiso snouia do free, but shoe leather pays duties ranging from 6 per cent upward and the several other commodities enter ing Into shoes pay duties ranging from 10 to 100 per cent. Manufacturers are also compelled to pay the exactions of the United Shoe Machinery company, from which the Government cannot relieve them without radical change in the patent laws unless the bupreme Court reverses itself. They also have to contend with a growing lad ror English shoes, made with the same machinery as they use and by labor much more poorly paid. Fairness would seem to require that the duty on shoes should about offset the duty on materials entering into their manufacture. No greater reduc tion should be made on the finished ar ticle than is made on the materials. Even if the Democrats scale down the rates on the commodities used by the manufacturer to a revenue basis, in ac cordance with their theory, that would not Justify free shoes and -might hardly Justify lower rates on shoes than are now imposed. WHY SOT HAYS SALON 3 T The thought that some of the wealthy women who adorn New York society ought to found salons to en courage art and music la too attractive to pass without comment. John C Freund. editor of Musical America, is responsible for it. No doubt others have cherished the same project, but he comes out boldly and advocates it n the New York Times. Mr. r reuna U an authority on dramatic art as well as music. He has written plays and .s well known as a critic or tne stage. The "salon which ne nas in mina re sembles the centers so famous in French revolutionary times, and yet It is not quite the same. The women who held the revolutionary saions were more Interested in politics than anvthlng else. They gathered tne orators of the day about them. They attracted the leading men of the Na tional Assembly and enticed tnem to niar unon their ideas. But they also brought promising artists ,and young men of science as wen as ris- ng literary cnaraciers '" men un cles, and In fact iormea centers ior the 'stimulation of the higher intellec tual life In all Its expressions. . It ia the last aim that air. rreuna cherishes. He wishes mat. some oi the New York women would open their parlors for gatherings where all that Is hlc-h and progressive migni do discussed freely by men and women who stand for ideas. "Nothing could do more for the fine arts In the United States," says Mr. Freund, "than some thing of this sort. It needs no big fund or mlgnty organization." All it needs is the necessary initiative and gumption" in the brain or some ener getic woman. Tne nest tning uiai could come from the salons would be the encouragement of young artists. writers and idealists of promise who have not yet made their mark. Amer- 1 lea, as Mr. Freund observes, is none too fond of pushing her young gen luses forward. The melancholy truth is that she is inclined to despise them until they go to Europe and come home with the stamp of foreign ap proval. This ought to be changed. We should encourage our promising youths as the French and Germans do, and the best way to bring them to the front Is to provide a welcome for them in social circles. 8 A VIVO THE MURDERER. If each of the twelve Jurors at Al bany who found Ralph Henry not guilty of murder "by reason of insan ity" went home to wife and family with clear conscience, that inner moni. tor has ceased to do its promptings and has gone Into a sad state of atrophy. Nobody believes that Henry was insane when he committed the murder of which he has been virtually acquitted. Nobody believes that the Jury thinks he was. On the strength of a "law" that is not a law, and that alone, and in disregard of a solemn oath to render a verdict In accordance with the real law and the evidence, the jur. ors turned a deliberate murderer over to the uncertainties of an insanity board. That board must now either turn him free or in turn stultify itself by rendering the false verdict that he is insane. Ralph Henry, one day last October, calmly purchased a revolver, calmly walked to the Willamette River, a short distance from Corvallis, calmly engaged men to row him out to a raft on which George Dodd was working, calmly shot Dodd to death and calmly surrendered himself into custody. There was no doubt about identity, nor of intent. There was no chance of Henrys escaping the penalty of his act unless a motive could be shown that would press out of the minds of the Jurors the sanctity of their oath. Dodd had broken up the home or his slayer. That is not a legal defense to a charge of homicide. But Insanity is. So the liberality of our court procedure and the willingness of criminal law yers to engage in trickery to save a client permitted the introduction of testimony, not to prove that tne slayer was legally Justified in the crime, but to show that he would have been jus tified in becoming so insane that he could not distinguish between right and wrong. The shallowness of the excuse for submitting such testimony is recog nized by courts and public as well. Some few states have made steps toward curbing the abuse of the in sanity plea, but it is quite the general thing for the juror to hear the com plete tale of love, passion, intrigue, blasted home and motherless children. It at times falls with effect upon the ears of the man who has himself cov pro-1eted his neighbor's wife or engaged in clandestine immorality wltnout thought of the woman's husband. It is a story that strangely wins slob bering sympathy for the creature who advertises his wife's unchastity to the world, who indelibly presses the stigma of her sins and his own upon their children; who, when he finds his home unclean, adds untold defilement to its memory. The frequent and successful cloaking of the unwritten law In the transpar ent veil of emotional insanity is possi bly the most sorrowful and disgraceful feature of criminal procedure In Amer ica. In its perpetuation the lawyers the men who, above all others, kneel to ethics, bow to courtesy and laud pro fessional Integrity are the most cul pable. That it may be so successfully invoked gives some ground for belief that there is more emotional insanity among Jurors than among murderers. REG I LATINO WOMAN'S DRESS. Ohio's Legislature has taken up the weighty question of dress regulation on the grounds that the present-day tendency of fashion is towards im modesty. It has been urged that a fashion board be created to prescribe Just what and what may not be worn. One of the provisions put forth in the proposed law Is that not more than two inches of neck space may be displayed in a decollete gown. Fur ther, when meshy fabrics are worn next to the skin an opaque back ground must be provided. The ban is also put on the festive drop-stitch stocking. There can be no question but tnat sex display Is carried too far by those who cater to extremes of fashion. But at the same time it is the opinion of The Oregonian that the Ohio reform ers are misguided in their errorts. Women who wear ultra-fashionable attire might seem Immodest if they did not first appeal to the sense of humor. Let a woman in extreme fashion trip down the street, does she not' stimulate universal mirtn i Which being the case, isn't she really performing a useful service, since mirth is admittedly stimulating and conducive to good health. As to the evening gown proposition the objection of the Ohio reformers leads us to suspect that their eyes are not righteous eyes. To him that sees aright there is splendid beauty and art in an exquisitely moulded neck and shoulders. It is a beauty that should not be obscured by a prudish mandate. It Is generally held to be a main function of womankind to make itself attractive. The various little tricks in that gentle art which the ruthless Ohio legislators would banish should by no means be discouraged. If pub lic morals are amiss, then let the rem edy be a campaign of education in right thinking. THE RI LE OF REASON. When Congress comes to legislate against the trusts, it is practically cer tain that the law will contain specific application to combinations In restraint of trade without exception, tnus re pealing the action of the Supreme Court in reading the word "reasonable" into the Sherman law. Senator Cum mins reported from the committee on commerce a strong conaemnauon oi the court's action in thus modifying the law.. He said that the "rule of reason" substitutes the court for Con gress. In the Commoner, Secretary Bryan says this report "will meet with commendation at the hands of progres sives of all parties," and he hopes it jvill speedily meet with the approval of Congress. The adoption of the "rule of rea son in tne ou ana tooacco decisions was a reversal by the Supreme Court of itself. In the Trans-Missouri case the court had held that the combina tion was reasonable but was forbidden by the Sherman law, which drew no distinction between reasonable and unreasonable restraints. Justice White dissented on that point and he, as Chief Justice, wrote the oil and to bacco decisions reversing this inter pretation of the law. That Congress acted deliberately In making no quali fication Is evident from the fact that the Insertion of the word "reasonable" was proposed when the law was under discussion, yet was omitted. In these days, when the courts are, rightly or wrongly, much criticised, they should be particularly careful to confine themselves to their proper functions. Because a law seems unrea sonable to them, they need not assume that Congress did ot know what it was about. To read into a law a word which so gravely affects its operation is to usurp legislative power. It would be better to leave a bad law In full operation than, in order to remove its defects, to ' assume a power that was never given to the courts. The Supreme Court's adoption of the "rule of reason" had a more injurious effect probably than would decisions dissolving some harmless combinations under a literal interpreation of the Sherman law. It gave the great, law defying trusts an excuse to plead that the meaning of the law was uncertain and that they did not know whether they were illegal until a decision had been rendered as to each one of them. Had the court taken the law to mean precisely what it said, there would have . been no such excuse and the work of the Government in dissolving the trusts would have been greatly facilitated. Dartmouth College, following Ober lln's example, Is going to try some thing new in the way of presidents. The office is to be divided, as it were. Instead of heaping on one pair of shoulders all the Intellectual and pater. nal duties of the old-fashioned college president and all the business entan glements of his modern successor, Dartmouth will distribute these cares between two men. One of them will stand for hoary dignity and Intellectual splendor. The other will be a sort of business manager who will do the beg ging and spending. We see no reason why Dartmouth should not profit by the innovation. Browningites will be interested in an advertised London sale of manuscripts by Robert and his almost equally fa mous wife. Among the items is her manuscript of "Aurora Leigh." The love letters of both Browning and his wife will be sold. Included in the catalogue there is a pen and ink sketch of Tennyson reading "Maud" to the Brownings at their lodgings. This is dated 1855. Tennyson was 43 years old then and his fame was established, but still growing. "Maud" did not in crease it a great deal, though some es teem It now as his best poem. The Oregonian Is much exercised because Mr. Wilson will detract from the dignity of his offico by wearing a sack coat at his desk. What has the coat sot to do with It? It's the man that lends the dignity, not th. garment. Eugene Guard. We fancy President Wilson would lend great dignity to a sweater and pa jamas, for example. If he chose to ig nore the conventions and stand on nis right to' dress as he'pleased. Huntington Wilson's resignation shows sad discord among the Wilsons. The alacrity with which the President accepted it, following close upon the retirement of "Tama Jim" Wilson, and taken in connection with his objection to appointment of any relatives to office, suggest a desire to have only one real Wilson in the Administration. Assistant, and Acting Secretary of State Wilson is a Republican, holding down the Job to accommodate the President and Bryan, and not in har mony. Naturally he finds fault with his superior and does the wisest thing by getting out lnstanter. A cold-storage plant In Medicine Hat, where a disastrous explosion oc curred yesterday, seems incongruous. Medicine Hat has the unhappy reputa tion of originating all the cold spells that filter down into the Middle West. mer nre several million political wAdthoF nrnnhcts who have made the same guess as Secretary Bryan made in his Des Moines speech. Mr. Bryan seems to follow Mark Twain's advice: Don't prophesy until you know. A Pullman man at 72 works to sup port nineteen children, tne youngest of whom is now 2 days old. Carnegie should provide an ample pension fund for such patriots. Th Governor of Nevada vetoes the minimum eieht-hour bfll for women w,i. there are not enough women who work in that state to make the law worth while. Austria's demands upon Montenegro, backed up by warships, imply that she has no fear that Russia will come to the rescue of the little mountain, state. It seems a pity that white man can not be allowed to marry the red moth er of his children, if only to straighten out the record. The Pennsylvania expedition which will explore the wilds of Brazil might do well to take their dress suits along. Authority at the State Reform School could not keep them from breaking out when smallpox appeared. Doing time at McNeil's Island will not be the picnic it has been, with Al catraz an annex to hold the overflow. Old Indian tunes are to be pre served. Some of them are very stir ring, causing the hair to stand on end. Quick action is sought on the tariff by the Democrats, so it is announced. Same as bolting a dose of bitters. Recovery of damages for the loss of a foot fifteen years after the event is an example of how not to do it. The White House tennis court Is being repaired. Are we to have an other tennis Cabinet? Turkish troops have attained a vic tory. The exception that proves the rule, no doubt. Those seventy-eight directorships may account for J. P. Morgan's physi cal collapse. A public playground for grown-up boys should prove a most profitable Innovation. Some of the more astute are already flirting desperately with the woman's vote. Anyway, some nice things were said about Bryan at his birthday dinner. Spring arrives today. You may not feel it in the air, but it is here. Are Bat and Fay working a press agent game? THE MATTER WITH BIO BCSKESS Trouble Foreseen Until the Govern ment Own. All Ranks. CORVALLIS, Or., March 18. (To the Editor,.) The recent investigation of concentration of capital in the hands of a few men in the United States, and the "explanation" Just out, which a leading bank In New York gives of economic and financial conditions in the United States, all fall short of satisfying the average voter. The situation as "explained" by this bank is to the average mind about what Christianity would be with Con fucius instead of Christ as its master. Until the Government becomes wholly responsible for the banking business in the United States there will be trouble with business, both little and big. No private interest should own one dollar in any bank stock. The Government should own and operate all banks. Just as it owns and operates the postoffice business of the country. I do not advocate any measure of confiscation of vested interests in any banks. The Government can well afford to compensate all private own ers, and let the bank liquidate its own purchase price. That is what the people of every community will, eventually have to pay to vest " the ownership of banks In the United States; and. It takes no prophet to see that the time Is approaching, at race horse speed, when something like this will have to be done. Or would the elect prefer the Socialistic condition, whose advocates are rapidly Increas ing, and to which many people, in de spair of assistance through ordinary political channels, are turning, as promising some measure of relief? Ex-President Taft is on record as believing that the great issue arising among the people of the United States is this same despised Socialism. Mag azine after magazine is drifting into that broad highway, and the vote for Socialism is rapidly mounting. It ap pears to me that there Is a golden ! mean betwixt the radical, all-devourin processes of some part of our present economic system, and this communis tic theory of the Socialists. "Thus far shalt thou go and no farther. may be said along several lines where the pendulum of prosperity never reaches the great mass of unhappy wage-earners. How far. It will be lor a majority vote to determine. When there is a real question, so fraught with momentous results, to be de- termlnedi in these United States, as this approaching struggle between men and, alas, brethren It would seem more than Idle folly for great bodies of friendly voters to split on the per sonality, only, of some magnetic leader. J. H. WILSON. FISH GUARDED BY ANEMONES A Phenomenon of Marine Life Seen on Australian Coast. "Messmates," by Edward Step, F. L. S. On the tropical Darts of the Australian Coast where the Great Barrier Reef affords splendid hunting grounds for the naturalist there are huge speci mens of anemones. One of these has spheroidal beadlike tentacles which occur among others ir- reeularlv mixed in catches ot gray, white, lilac and emerald green, the disc being shaded with tints of gray, while the mouth is bordered witn Drignt yel low. Now. in admiring these giant ane mones, you will scarcely ever come across a specimen without seeing a nsn of the perch family swimming about among the tenacles. Knowing what we do about these ten tacles, how not only have they the pow er of Instantly clasping the fish from all sides and carrying it to the ane mone's mouth, but of thrusting out stinging threads that could pierce tne scales and flesh and rapidly kill it we are astonished alike at the fish's fear lessness and his immunity from des truction. His eround color Is orange Vermil lion, across which run three bands of white bordered with blaok a very noticeable style of coloring in open water, but perhaps not so striKing in its chosen environment. The wonderful thing is that, not only does the anemone refrain from molest ing the fish, but receives It in a friend lv wav into its mouth when any dang er threatens It. The danger past, the fish swims out unharmed. In the same dangerous position, but among the tentacles of another of these large anemones we find a prawn of somewhat similar and equally color ation. There is clearly a very definite understanding in both these cases, otherwise the lives of fish and prawn would not be worth five minutes' pur chase. One point that such an association seems to make clear is this that these lower forms of life must possess a higher grade of intelligence than it is the fashion to credit them with. Both fish and prawn are the natural prey of anemones. Easier To Do Than Say. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Why, George, what a condition you are in! Where have you been?" "It's all rl". Been to say goo' by to Charlie Scrapple." "Where's Charlie going?" "Charlie's going to girdle th' g'obe." "What?" "Girbal th' glode." "Say it slowly." "Gobal th' gird." "Once more." "He's going round th" earth In 80 days. What's th' matter with your "Ah. he's going to girdle the globe, is he? Well, you girdle your way to bed Just as fast as you know how! Skip!" The Spanking Cop By Dean Collins, Sing, Musel Let you and me devise n.u. t ImmAPtDllT. . J. Hill CUCl w..-w. Who spanked the boy, with vim and mignt, A a n j Llm Intn nntViA ftf rlsrht: All truant thoughts and bad behavior Banished by that Diue-coatea savior, Sing, Muse, and praise Patrolman Post! Myself, when young, oft needed what The youth, herelnoeiore nameo, got. When o'er my past career I think. ij nnia Aach sneclal moral kink. I know 'twere better now for me If, in their immaturity, Those budding faults had chanced to 'Neath some strong copper's heavy nana. 9 t m nth ors' clubs T often heard The preaching of the modern word On moral suasion from a book T'was tried on me, but never took. TV.,..rh "mni-fl 1 fSllARArfi" .rStWhilfi tHed My moral growth witn care to guide; . . . . . Wt T 1 1 1 ., .) .1 1 Soon wouiu tneir leaciims.ttii on.cruauww Unless accented with a paddle- Therefore, I hail the spanking cop And wreatns oi giory on aim mui. Who, for the welfare of the Nation, Hath spanked the rising generation. Mayhap, by spanking thus in time. Nipped short a long career of crime. Chant. Muse, his praise to beat the band. And sing: "More power to his hand! L'Envoi. Far greater is prevention sure Than any old amount of cure; Greater than he who brings to grief Some hardened villain, thug or thief, t ha, nhn when 'tis needed most. Spanks hard, as did Patrolman Post Portland, March 20. COMPESSATIOS ACT RIGHT STEP Good Reanlta WU1 Follow With Right Men in Charse. PORTLAND, March 19. (To the Edi tor.) A feeling of uncertainty seems to prevail, among employers as well as employes. In regard to the workmen's compensation act recently passed In Oregon. There Is nothing unusual, however, for this feeling. Whenever a new law or a new rule is createa until it has been thoroughly tested, no one is sure of the result. Men who have made a study of this are of the opinion that it is inevitable that Vnmnnsation" for workmen will become universal. It is only the n tnrul .vnlution of thinSTS. For this reason and from the stand point of humanity it is quite right that laws of this nature should be enacted. If all men were competent to Judge and satisfy themselves as to the best way to protect themselves, laws to cora nenaata workmen would not be neces sary but. again, from the standpoint of humanity. It is up to tninxing, cnan table and just men to see that all are taken care of, even those who wilfully neglect their own interests. Whilo the nreaent law. Just enacted, may not be satisfactory to many, it is nevertheless a stepping stone In the right direction, from this will eventual ly be framed something more satisfy iner. Insurance companies may for a short time feel a slight loss in business classed as "industrial" Insurance, but in time, however, will benefit from this law by increased business coming to them as Boon as tne people Decome familiar with and educated to the more liberal terms and benefits derived from their policies, and because every man will find that the amount he receives from any compensation act, while enough to Veep out actual starvation, it Is not enough to provide some com forts impossible to receive thereunder. When run under well governed state Insurance departments the insurance company is a blessing to mankind. Like any other business, the insurance company pays no great dividends, when in competition it has to give as much as can be bought for the premium re ceived, but pays the stockholder only a very ordinary dividend and only the wildcat promoter will picture other wise. This anyone can verify before investing. It is only by most com petent management that the ipsurance company can be as liberal as it Is with the policyholder and on account of years of work and actual experience and in employing men who under stand. If, under the newly-created law, only men of experience and ability are placed in charge and it Is not made into a political plum-tree, good results should come and a solid foundation for a better law will be built. C. H. WESTON. LOVE WILL ACCOMPLISH REFORMS Home Is Place to Begin Correction of Evils, Says Correspondent. PORTLAND, Or., March 18. (To the Editor.) There never was a man or woman so low In the human scale that some one could not reach the latent spark through the power of love. The restraining hand of love that under stands the weakness of humanity to re. sist temptations will accomplish more by one gentle word or touch to reform and uplift the wayward boy and girl, or to protect them from the pitfalls, than all the harsh measures that can be enforced by the wisest of men and the rich and those in pow er, ridiculing and scoffing at the igno rant and uncouth, only reflect greater evils, forcing all humanity to lower lev els. The promptings of malice and envy will never reach the latent spark in the merchant who pays starvation , wages, nor the procurer or his victim, nor any soul performing the work of the deviL Father and mother possess the same evils handed down to son and daughter. Vanity in the mother begets vanity in the daughter. The greater evil In the father descends to the son. Virtue in the mother abounds in the daughter. Chastity in the father reflects in the son. Father and mother in their home are the ones and the place to begin and to continue reformation of present busi ness and social evils and to guard against new ones of different form and character that must necessarily follow correction of the old, for the flesh is weak and the day of redemption is not yet.. The world was once redeemed by love and Its second redemption will be accomplished by no other means. Give the working girl higher wages and shorter hours of labor to the bounds of reason, love and equity. She will be the better girl for the favor and the boys or men who seek her ruin will be fewer in number. HAPPY MAN AND WIFE. OLD OREGON A STAUNCH CRAFT Could Yet Give Good Account of Her self. Says Sailor. BREMERTON, Wash., March 15. (To the Editor.) Having noted in The Ore gonian a news item bearing on the 1, a fnmmi. ftM hflttlPShiV Oregon in the new dry dock at Puget Sound Navy-yard, I beg to make a few inn- In th. intrfat nf veracitv. With all due respect to sentiment I will say that uncle bam s oiuejacttets are . 4.,A ..fvlnfr lllr. hftMeft. The I Si veil - j - o - - occasion mentioned was one of Joy and gratmcation over tne auuceaa m bici . , ... Ul-.n-l- .. I . i ,.r unaertaitins, wua u. uioiunu .mi A x'n..n in b nrnmlnpnt rnl Rands playing and hundreds of schoolchildren singing National and patriotic airs and r, am 11 A mPrlH fl fifths a BC . ......... ... 1 . are not conditions conducive to copious tears, ana wny tne periuuitni uutmus of a battleship should provoke such a downpour of nautical weeping is a mat. ter beyond my comprehension. Having served several years In the TTniiaj crat.a v.w nnH hut rerentlv on uuikv;u ot"." . - - i. j the United States battleship Oregon, I reel quaimea to state tnai mo uuii- j ... .n- uawn thmiB-h f- from hA. lng In a class with the modern dread nought, IS yet a Btauncn ana bcbwui i.uy vessel aiiu d " ' count of herself for several years to come. oaiixi. PEDESTRIAN'S WRATH IS AROUSED Auto Driver's Letter Arouses Ire of B. L. Wilson. PORTLAND, March 19. (To the Edi tor.) In answer to Louis F. Simpson's letter of March 19. published in The Oregonian, I think he Is one of those speeders who should be watched very carefully. He seems to think everyone Is asleep Dut nimsen. it wouiu ia,n.e many columns of your paper to tell the faults of both pedestrians and auto drivers: but who is to blame for so many accidents of late? I would like to snow L,ouis tr. Simp son that I am very much awake and also can prove It to him If he cares to ee me, and I will not be called a "lazy, sleepy rough-neck, as he has mentioned In his letter, by any auto driver. I have had some very close calls of being run down by autos, but I am not like L, F. S. I do not say that all autoists are alike. If you want to see some careless driving, go out on the Sandy road, or a side street like Knott street, and you surely will have to go some if you get out of the way. especially on Union avenue when getting on or off a streetcar. E. L. WILSON, 848 East Fifty-fifth St. N. A Sermon on Opportunity. Louisville Courier-Journal. "Opportunity really knocks at many door." "Then why don't more of us succeed better?" "The trouble Is that Opportunity wants us to go to work." Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonian of March 21. 1SS9. Washington. March 80. The Presi dent today sent to Congress a com munication and testimony relating to grants of land to the State of Oregon for the construction of wagon roads. He says It has developed the most un blushing frauds. A bill accompanies the communication with the recom mendation that it become a law. Sena tor Dolph Introduced a bill in the 9th Congress to forfeit these gTants and the Senate passed it. It was sent to the Democratic House, where it was Ignored by the committee on publio lands. Washington, R. C, March 12. To Hon. R. Gulchard. Walla Walla. W. T.: I shall under no circumstances be a candidate for the Congressional nomi nation in the ensuing campaign. C. S. Voorhees. x The East Portland Council did a handsome and appropriate thing in recognizing the efforts of Judge Wood ward in behalf of the proposed bridge across Stephens Slough. It was mainly through his efforts that $700 was raised. The work of pumping out the dry dock of the O. R. & N. Co. at Alblna has been completed and the manage ment are more than satisfied with the result. Recently some one wrote to Senator Mitchell asking for catfish to stock Tualatin Lake. Mr. McDonald, of the United States Fish Commission, re ported unfavorably." State Fish Com missioner E. P. Thompson urged Sena tor Mitchell to oppose the introduc tion into Oregon of any fish that is foreign to Its waters, that Is detri mental to present fishing interests. He argued particularly against catfish Today Arohblshop W. H. Gross win celebrate his silver jubilee, or :5th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. The day will be celebrated at the Cathedral by a pontifical high mass, at which the Archbishop will be celebrant. Rt. Rev. Aegidlus Junger, D. D., will preach the sermon. F. Vlgne Andrews, the well-known Insurance agent, was driving along Water street. East Portland, with his clerk. Donald Macleod. yesterday when the wheel struck the projecting end of a plank upsetting the cart and pitch ing both gentlemen out. Mr. Andrews was knocked senseless and Mr. Mac leod's nose was broken and his hip badly Injured. Half a Century A50 Prom The Oregonian of March 21, 1803. Large numbers are leaving Lewis ton dally in small boats for the Boise mines. A great many are leaving by land also. One hundred loaded pack animals left Lewlston on Monday last. Men write about their claims yielding from 50 to 8100 per day and ounce dig gings are scarcely mentioned. The men who stole the quarter master's pack train from Fort Walla Walla were trailed by . Miller and Oreighton, the Government herders, across the Columbia above Fort Okano gan, where they had camped, being snowbound. Miller shot one of them dead and Creighton killed another named Stubbs. The third robber, an Indian, was brought back a prisoner. The herdsmen collected the 76 mules and brought them back. A party of miners were recently coming down Snake River and near the ferry on the Boise and Auburn road were making a portage around a rapid place In the river. While two of them were at the lower end of the rapids, two others at the other end were set on and murdered by a party of Indians and 82 ounces of gold taken from their baggage. Memnhis. March 13. Information from Vicksburg reports that Admiral Porter had received news that the Yazoo Pass expedition had captured Yazoo City, Miss, and destroyed the Confederate fleet between that point and Haines Bluff. The Columbia River road We are In formed by General Palmer that this road has been opened so as to make a good trail for pack trains and cattle. The ferryboat for the crossing of Sandy is finished and will be launched to morrow. Salary of Collector. NEWPORT. Or.. March 18. (To the Editor.) I read In The Oregonian: "Taft Order Cuts Collectors iJay. Please tell me what positions of those enumerated are under the civil servico and what are appointive. Are the dep uty collectors under civil service tiop ing to see the answer on the editorial page, I am, F. L. P. The salary of Collector of Customs was $6000 per annum, but is now re duced to $4500; all deputies are under vi service. Richard Harding Davis and Sir A. Conan Doyle Write for. The Sunday Oregonian Modern Warfare A careful study by Sir A. Conan Doyle of the next great Continental war and the part Great Britain will play. Illustrated with unusual military photographs. The Editor's Story This is another of Richard Harding Da vis' short-story masterpieces. Complete Sunday. The Tailored Maid A mag nificent page feature in colors of especial interest to women who follow the smartest things in dress. What Is Love An effort by experts is made to answer this profound and elusive question. Elinor Glyn The famous au thor of "Three Weeks" writes an absorbing special article for The Oregonian on the question of loyalty. Venus Rivale d A pretty Swedish girl is heralded as the most beautiful and perfectly molded of women. Perfect Gown at $10 It has arrived to remove the bachelor's terror of marriage. Helen Keller at Close Range The result of many months iu company with the wonderful blind girl is condensed into a readable article by Robert IL Moulton. The Law May Curb Fashion Congress is to be asked to make feather decorations ille gal. Sarah Bernhardt She con tinues her absorbing letters on current topics. Many Other Features. Order today of your newsdealer. J