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Postage Hate 12 to 16 pages, 1 cent: 18 to 32 pages, 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 3 cents; 50 to 60 pages, 4 cents: 62 to 76 pages, 5 cents: 78 to U2 pages, 6 cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Business Offices Verree Conk lln, .New York, Brunswick building. Chi cago. Steger building. Bon Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Co. T42 Market iu POttTLAXD, THURSDAY. OCT. 18, 1013. WILSON'S Mrn.IFITNE POLICY. Governor Harrison's speech at Ma nila Is taken as a pledge of much ear lier Independence for the Philippines than was to be expected under Re publican rule. Tet the promise con tained in the words: "We hope to move as rapidly as the safety and the permanent interests of the Islands will permjt" Is no more than was made by Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft, who all promised Independ ence as soon as the Filipinos were equipped for its exercise. President Wilson's predecessors gave evidence of their good faith by gradually sup planting Americans with Filipinos In the island government and by extend ing the school system as fast as the available funds would permit. Mr. Harrison's actions have been more decisive than his words. By giv ing the Filipinos a majority of the Commission they already compose the Assembly he has given them con trol of the government, subject only to his veto. He has accelerated the transfer of the offices to the Filipinos. By gradually enlarging the native membership of the Commission until all Americans are eliminated, he may ultimately place the Philippines in much the same position towards the United States as Canada occupies to wards Britain. The question may well be asked whether he has not gone too fast in making the transition. Under a very liberal franchise law only 235,000, or about 3 per cent of the Filipinos could Qualify to vote last year. Only about 10 per cent of the population has been educated and lack of funds prevents us from affording school fa cilities to more than one-third of the children of school age. To this 10 per cent we are confiding the govern ment of the whole population. What Is to be expected from a gov ernment composed of the educated people of the islands? Frederick Chamberlin says that before we came this 10 per cent "had a grip upon the other 90 per cent of their fellow Fili pinos as absolute as that of master over slave." He continues: The ambition of the gente lllustrada, the 10 per cent who oppose us at every turn, la not the Independence of the Philippines, but the Independence of the gente lllus trada. While in the islands Mr. Taft was visited by a delegation of gentlemen, who. as he says, "desired Independence at once and made an argument In Its favor based solely on the ground, which they solemnly stated. - that they had counted the number of gente lllustrada. or educated people. In the Is lands and they had figured out the number of offices to be filled, and had found that the number of educated people in the Is lands was more than double the number of offices to be filled. They reasoned, there fore, as the offices could be filled twice by educated Incumbents, first by one party and then by the other party, the country was ready for self-government. This, then, is the educated Filipino's idea of readiness for self-government double enough educated people to fill the offices. The American ideal la an educated electorate, not merely an educated governing class. And how would these people gov ern? The native Assembly's treatment of slavery gives us some light. The or ganic law forbids slavery, but the present Filipino laws, as interpreted by the courts, are inadequate for its suppression and the Assembly has blocked attempts to strengthen that law, because by so doing it would pen alize not only slavery but peonage as well, and "peonage is so widespread that it must be called general," in the words of Dean C. Worcester. He knows of cases on the farms of at least three members of the Assembly and is positive he could obtain con clusive evidence of at least 10,000 cases. The Manila Bulletin of Sep tember 12 reports the case of an 11-year-old girl who was sold at Los Banos by her mother to the proprie tress of a disreputable house for 100 pesos to cancel a debt. The girl was rescued by an American and taken to the residence of the Municipal Presi dent for protection, but the municipal officers refuse to take legal action. Un less they do, there is no way to pre vent the girl's return to her purchaser. Ex-Governor Forbes saw a way to independence, not for the cultured class only, which exploits the ignorant 90 per cent, but for the whole people, in the education of the uneducated million and a third Filipino children. Revenue Is now inadequate and he sought to increase It by interesting American capital In development of the islands, then to apply the increase to education. He regarded this as a necessary preliminary to independ ence. But all efforts to interest Amer ican capital have been opposed, usual ly with success, by the cultured Fili pinos and their American allies, who professed to foresee that, in the words of Delegate Tucson in Congress, "if we had many American capitalists inter ested in the Philippines, the inevit able result would be tfce permanent retention of the islands." A deadlock thus exists which pre vents completion of the work of pre paring the islands for Independence. The existing government in the United States and the islands refuses to en courage American investment, and ac tually discourages it by holding out the early prospect of purely Filipino rule. Without such investment the work of education Is restricted, yet the new Governor goes ahead with-his policy of handing over the islands to the rule of the cultured class, which aims to exploit the people Itself. We are to abandon our trust when it Is half administered and are to render ourselves powerless to complete it This is to be the end of an experiment in National altruism which excited the admiration of the world. The plan" of "cottage schools," which has been put in practice at Colorado Springs, is bound, In the na ture of things, to become popular. The simple fact is that young children do not thrive best in huge institutions. whether schoo'.houses or orphanages. The cottage school houses the pupils in small buildings conveniently grouped and gives each an amount of personal attention impossible in the ordinary big classes. THE GREAT GAME OF CRIBBAGE. The Century Dictionary says that cribbage is "a game of cards played with the full pack, generally by two persons, sometimes by three or four. The Oregonian knows better. It.l played toy some thousands of persons, In Oregon and Washington, presum ably with any number of full packs They can not only play, but they can count and they can write. They have lately been writing to The Oregonian advising this paper to reform its crib bage department and making other comment on the quality and authority of our general Information on the great subject of cribbage that our sensibilities will not permit us to re print The matter started from an inquiry from an amateur crlbbager at Ash land, asking how to count a certain hand. The query was at once turned over to the only known cribbage sharp hereabouts and he made his computa tion 22 which was printed alon with the original question, with all Its delphic and hieroglyphic symbols, The result was astonishing, from every quarter the outraged cribbagers arose and hurried to the telephone and to their writing desks. "If," said one excited cribbage sharp, "your alleged authority would show his hand to a player who has really played the game a fortnight, the player would tell him that the hand counts twenty-four. It is hot quite apparent how he can get six pairs out of four sevens and yet get only five fifteens when you add an ace to the same four sevens." This and other perfectly intelligent remarks and highly conclusive calculations have convinced us that twenty-two is wrong and twenty-four is right. The Oregonian has reformed its cribbage department Next time cribbage puzzle is to be solved we shall take a referendum. It's the only way. EZRA VH:!L An old friend of The Oregonian makes our recent reference to a text in the Bible the excuse, for a. homily on accuracy. The text was Ezra vli:21, and we stated that it contained every letter In the alphabet. This was ex actly true, although "J" does not ap pear in the text, because when the King James version was published "J" and "I" were the same letter. It might have been more discreet to have mentioned this fact but we nat urally assumed that all our readers would have learned it at Sunday school. Speaking of texts or sentences which contain every letter in the al phabet, here is a new one, which an obliging reader has contributed. We think nobody can find any defect In It unless it be the name "Vandz, which, we must confess, looks a little suspicious. Did anybody ever know a man named Vandz? "J. Q. Vandz struck my big fox whelp." This makes excellent sense. Nay, it expresses a great truth of nature, for no person could see a . big fox whelp without longing to strike it. The letter on ac curacy, which our omission to speci fy the fact about "J" called forth, is printed in another part of today's pa per. The letter contains this sentence: "I suppose ninety-nine hundreths of the difficulties and contentions among men have been caused by loose think ing and slovenly language." There is an important truth in this remark, but the case Is put too-strongly. A great many difficulties among men have been caused by the struggle for mathematical accuracy of thought and language. Take, for instance, the famous dispute over homolousian and homoousian. The difference Is only a single letter and yet It was deemed so important by contending sects that bloody wars arose over it Our friend could scarcely say that in this Instance the trouble was caused by loose think ing. As a matter of fact it was caused by extremely hard and accurate thinking. Like many discourses which appear wiser than they really are, our friend's letter itself errs on the side of loose ness. Had he said that many diffi culties were caused by too much loose ness and many others by the effort for impossible accuracy he would have come nearer the truth. WHAT WILL CHINA DOT Will Tuan Shi Kai prove to be the Napoleon of China? He has already shown a disposition to follow the South American plan of establishing a dictatorship under the forms of a re public. He has suppressed the South ern rebellion and driven the rebel leader Into exile, arrested members of Parliament, made the five-power loan in defiance of Parliament and relied on force to establish his power. All these acts show a disposition to make himself dictator. But he may well make necessity an excuse. He doubtless sees that the republic must be organized and armed to avert the danger of foreign inter ference. The first and greatest need was money, without which he could not begin to put the new government firmly on its feet. He sees that rail roads are the first requisite to its development and that foreign capital alone is available at the outset. With greedy Russia and crowded Japan on the north, ready to take advantage of China's troubles by seizing whole provinces, he must lose no time In strengthening and arming a modern army and navy. When China is armed and has mil lions of men equipped to fight; when railroads have opened the Interior and the people have been put to work In developing the great resources of the country; when river improvement and irrigation have removed danger of flood and famine, what may we expect from China? Will the Chinese find enough occupation within their own borders to sustain them or will they overflow into other countries and use the great army and navy which Tuan Shi Kal aims to create In forcing open the doors which are now closed to them? In ancient and medieval times Asia poured her invading millions Into Europe and probably sent the pro. genitors of the Indians to America. Will that continent send forth other hosts in the twentieth century, armed and drilled in twentieth century fash ion? When nations swarm as bees swarm, they follow an Irresistible im pulse, which drives them over all such restraint as the rights of other na tions, laws and treaties. Nothing but force can check them. In such fash ion has the white race swarmed across the American continent. Is it destined to confront a yellow wave from across the Pacific? These questions are well worthy to be pondered by those preachers of peace and universal arbitration, who fondly imagine that such paper bonds as treaties can restrain the impulse of nations like the Chinese, Japanese and Hindoos to overflow their own boun daries in search of new and richer fields. If we sit down In fancied se curity, trusting to arbitration treaties for protection from outside dangers, we may find ourselves overwhelmed in our sleep. CO-OPERATIOK IX ITALY. Co-operation In Italy has gone be yond mere buying and selling. It has Invaded the building trade and has even undertaken construction of rail roads. This is a new development of the labor movement, which has so alarmed contractors that they have started a campaign for exclusion of co-operative labor organizations from public work and have provoked coun ter demonstrations. The co-operators profess to aim at making no profit from the state, but to secure adequate wages, to give good work and to pre vent speculation. The movement has gained such strength that the latest official . sta- tlsctlcs, which are for the year 1910, show the existence of 1017 co-opera tive associations, 754 of which have 95,000 members, a capital of $570,000 and reserve funds of 1300,000. There are 336 agricultural societies, 263 of which have over 65,000 members, $280,000 capital and $135,000 reserve funds. Between 1889 and 1909 these or ganizations had executed contracts with the state for public work to the amount of $14,090,000 and for prov inces and cities to the amount of $3,- 620,000. During the last two years they have completed public contracts involving nearly $5,000,000. A circle of these societies improved the basin of the Reno at a cost of about $2,000,. 000 and other societies have taken the contract to build the Reggio-CIano Railroad. They finance their own work and share the proceeds among the members. They are favored by the state through not being required to give the money guarantees demand ed of individual contractors. But It would be interesting to know how they reach an agreement on an equitable division of the proceeds of a contract. Do they concede that the brains and skill of the director of a $2,000,000 contract, of the foreman over each gang of men and of the men who manage the finances are worth more than those of the manual la borer? That has been the stumbling block in the way of many co-operative enterprises. It would be Interesting to know how dissension is avoided. THE HIGHER NATION ALITY. Lord Haldane's address at the thir ty-sixth annual meeting of the Ameri can Bar Association is characterized by those who heard it as "modern." The distinguished speaker is Lord Chancellor of England and his for ward-looking opinions derived more than common weight from the dignity of his office and the feeling that, in formally at least, he represented the government of Great Britain. Lord Haldane, as far as his address was concerned, completely forsook the lawyer's traditional habit of basing his views on the authority of the past He spoke with reference to "the felt necessities of the time," to quote Jus tice Holmes, of the Supreme Court, and did not find it necessary to quote precedents or derive his views from the ancients by a series of syllogisms. He applied his masterly Intelligence directly to one of the great problems of the day and came to conclusions which, whether they are right or wrong, are at least his own. His theme was "The Higher Nationality." His purpose was to show that a new species of international feeling is de veloping, which may, in course of time, become of profound importance. and he looks to the lawyers to help it forward. In Lord Haldane's opinion there is a class of lawyers who can be depend ed upon to aid every advance in civ ilization. Individuals of this type were formerly, perhaps, more common than they are now. . The old-fashioned American lawyer was more than likely to lead the public opinion of his com munity. He stood for Ideals in poll tics and honesty ln government. He ttered the best traditions of our Na tional life in his public speeches. He stood for Justice and fair dealing in the community against the trickeries of trade and the malice of private en mity. In many instances lawyers have forsaken this Ideal and bowed to the yoke of commercial spirit, prostituting their ability, to foster the worst tra ditions Instead of the best ones. But they have not all sold themselves to Mammon. There are those who fairly come up to Lord Haldane's standard and "exert a beneficent Influence on the ethical Ideals of the community and contribute extensively to the for mation and guidance of sound public opinion." Lawyers of this character may be depended upon to promote the concept of "the Higher Nationality," as they help promote every cause which promises substantial good to mankind. Lord Haldane finds it necessary to borrow a word from the German , to express the essense of his new concept. The word is "Sittlichkeit" which means almost but not quite the same as "morality." Sittlichkeit Is a com bination of morality, custom and en lightened public opinion and is finer and better than any of them. Men are ruled ln their conduct partly by the precepts of their religions, partly by the rules of formal morality and partly by the law of the land. These authorities may seem at first to cover the whole field of conduct, but Lord Haldane takes note of a domain which Is under different sway. "We find within the single state," he said, "evi dence of a sanction which is less than legal, but more than merely moral. and which is sufficient ln the vast majority of the events of daily life to secure observance of general stand ards of conduct without any question of resort to force." It will not do to say that this sanction is nothing more than habit or custom, for these are often blindly irrational, while the Sit tlichkeit of which Lord Haldane spake is strictly rational. It appeals fundamentally to right reason and commands obedience through its har mony with common sense. "Public opinion" 19 fairly synonymous with Sittlichkeit when the opinion is In formed and enlightened, but not oth erwise. Sittlichkeit has already become a power over the private lives of men, so much a power that it renders law as good as superfluous throughout large regions of conduct. The speak er's active mind could not refrain from going a step farther and asking why we may not develop between na tions some sanction of the same sort. The primeval concept of a world-em pire or world-republic which should include all nations under a common sovereignty has appealed strongly to j many modern minds. Goethe dreamed of it. Tennyson hymned it vaguely as a "federation of the world with Its "parliament of man." Our great living prophets of international peace lrenn in thA ..nolrirmiinds " of their minds the thought of an International police which shall enforce the decrees of . the central tribunal. This again is nothing less than a resurrection of the worm-empire idea wnicn was so po- tent all through the Middle Ages. But Lord Haldane was not thinking about anvthirnr nf tVint sort. His Interna- tional Sittlichkeit requires no police fnm. an Tin rnnrts It la a standard to which each nation will some day conform of its own accord, Just as men of the better sort already submit with- out question to the Sittlichkeit of their community. This amounts to saying that before a great while the most enlightened nations of the world will deal with one another according to tnose principles of Justice and honor which guide the conauct or gentlemen. niey win nui ohoat nna QnnthAr T.ipei will hppOme as disgraceful in diplomacy as they are in a club. No sovereign will think of trying to enforce his claims by vio- Ion hamiBa violence will have be- come"Unsittlich." "Gentlemen do not do things of that sort," will be the all- sufficient restraint. Of course it never will be much or a restraint upon tne John w Dunne, the typical burgo Iess civilized communities any more master with Sam Chip and Mary Marble man me principle ui pwvaLe uuuu. rule tne cunauci ul uiauAguarua, uui no doubt Lord Haldane hopes that the better nations will see their way to ex erclse that authority over the baser which they do not need for them- an international code of honor should not develop among the most advanced - - ... POWerS and command ooeaience throusrh Its Justice and common sense. As they progress ln civilization, na- lions, like individuals, lose the desire to be irrational and harsh. The pref- erence to "do what Is right" will nat- urally grow until Lord Haldane's ideal is substantially realized. Perhaps he may live to see the happy consumma- tlon. There are still seventy-six towns and villages in Great Britain where curfew is rung in the old way, though often Irregularly. This custom was not im- posed by William the Conqueror upon his unwilling subjects, as some school- books say, but was an old Saxon pro- taction against Are. The primitive British houses were of wood and there were very slender means to put out a cuiiiiagrauuii once Bianeu. xieuce uie custom of covering all fires, y curfew, couvre feu, at early candle light Only there were no candles and everybody went to hed at dark. The Mann act means one thing ln Kansas and another in Illinois and California, ana Attoraev-Oeneral McRevnolds is said to fa vor the Kansas view. General respect for all law would be Increased by some sort or concordat of Judges and prosecutors Brooklyn Eagle. The law means precisely what It says and no Judge or Attorney-General has any right to go behind its plain wording in order to restrict its appli- cation- Obviously, Mr. McReynolds favors the Kansas view; he showed that by his handling of the Diggs-Cam- lnettl case. But who gave him author- ity to revise laws passed by Congress? Federal Judge William C. Hook writes thus in "The Green Bag": "All candid men will agree that for re- proach our criminal procedure is ln a class by itself. It would be humorous elated with Frederic P. Thompson's en were It not tragic." Others have com- terprlses and came last about four mented In the same strain upon our astonishing caricature of criminal Jus' tlce and what comes of It all? The guilty continue to escape their dues on foolish technicalities and crime thrives in all parts of the country. When will the lawyers pass from talk to vigorous action in the matter of reforming criminal procedure? The three Iowa girls who have im- plored Mayor Albee to help them find H t. m r t-i j husbands in Oregon must be classed nftth t Vi n mrlaa viroHna TVioli nrofpr. nn i ,n,h.r. rather rhan law- yers or ministers, and in this their wis- dom shines with singular brilliance. The Oregon rancher "has all the quail- ties of an ideal husband. He is hand- some, stalwart, brave and generous. and he makes money enough to keep a wife haDnv. Anv three bachelor ranchers whom the Mayor happens to remember will fill the bill. There is something new every day. As a by-product of disaster, volcanic ash has been found to be Just the thing to polish brasswork. A federal General was arrested this side of .the border yesterday. Mexi can Generals can be Identified because they wear shoes. Prosecutors are trying to present new charges against tsulzer. vvny waste ammunition on game after it's bagged? With the assays at hand, the city may now feel free to utilize the Mount Tabor gold mine site for a lemon grove. For two days a New York aviator has been strangely missing ln the air. May have landed on the wrong planet. Ohio girls want Oregon ranchers. Well, come right on. We surmise the supply is equal to the demand. Prince Albert of Monaco learned cowboy slang on his hunting trip. And kilt a she bar, by heckl We may recognize the Constitution- alists. And thereby Jump out of the trying pan into tne nre. But then the lone robber doesn't al- ways have the faint-hearted type of mail clerk to deal with. Mysterious earthquake in Seven Devils country. Possibly the seven are on a rampage. Three more honor men have de- camped from Salem. How the supply I does last! More, big news for the Coast coun try. Mrs. Pankhurst isn't coming this way. Another diplomatic crisis with Mex ico has occurred. How thrilling! Outlaw baseball will be one of the aggravations next season. But all will be .all nice and tranquil in Mexico tomorrow. Of course a daring American won the aeronautic cup. The humidity Is growing somewhat noticeable of late. Stars and Starmakers BT LEONB CASS BAKU. The Tivoll Opera Company, of San Francisco, is going to Los Angeles for a six weeks' engagement at the Audi torlum Theater. While the company is away ,ta home the new T,voll on Eady stre ?lU ccuPled, tha "u """''"""' "1'c'a pan'" "Officer 666" seems to have a habit of opening theaters. A new one, called the Majestic, seating 1100, was opened at Corvallis, Or, on October 2, and an- other new one is the Auditorium, at Dunsmuir, CaL, which was christened by "Officer 666" on October 7. Also the new theater at Roseburg, called tne Antlers, seating 1200 and built by tho Eiks was dedicated by "Officer 666 on ,tg tr,p lnto CalIfornia. "Little Women" Meg, Jo, Amy and dear llttle Beth. with Laurie and John and Professor Bhaer, are coming to the "euig ngnt after tne nonaays. . wu Ham -A- Brady is-sending this best-be loved of all girlhood stories. ln "The Land of Dykes," at the Or pheum. Is not only a San Jose boy but two favorites in the amusement world, have also come to light through him and his plays on the Pacific Coast Mr. Dunne made his first theater appear- fnco .ln.8an ncIsco cal1 at Malr8 s e. e course I nf t ma 1 a n..rl.or. -non- - -""""-" Ber DU 11 waB n wno orougnt j-aiu ttosa to tne coast Later .no Drought Hoyt's "A Milk White Flag." During the San Francisco engagement of that play he engaged Ethel Levy as a chorus girl at $20. She was working at the glove counter ln the Emporium at $12, Afterward he came here with Dunne & Ryleys all-star company with such people as Mary Marble, Louise Gun nlng. Norma Whalley, Tony Hart Phil Ryley, Waltor Jones and Matthews and Bulger. The company played 10 weeks in San Francisco and at the close of that engagement he took Gertrude Hoffmann on chorus' work. He also brought "Dream City" to Portland. Mr, Dunne is the husband of Mary Marble, wnom he has brought to the Ornhaum twlca berore thl. Dre.ent ene-a.ren.ent Stop Thief," written by Carlyle Moore, one-time stage director for George L. Baker, will be at the Hellig the ninth of next month. Nena Blake, leading woman In "Ready Money," which played here the firB of this nuasnn. la 111 si tho rflorn . I vm '"i" tai iu j.ua Augeien. Two gentlemanly praise agents" are in Portland. One is Will R. Antlsdel, ahead of "The Lure," and the other is James Shesgreen, representative . of Margaret Anglin's production of "As You Like It" and "Twelfth Night,' which open next week at the Hellig. Mr. Shesgreen has been coming to the Pacific Coast for a long session of sea- sons. He brought Louia James, Madame Modjeska, Forbes-Robertson and a doz- Jen other celebrities of earlier days here. More recently ho has been asso years ago to bring us "Polly of the Circus." He Is a great personal friend of Newman J. Levlnson, formerly Sun day editor on The Oregonian. The other praise agent, Mr. Antlsdel, is an ex-newspaper .editor. From 1891 to 1903 he was dramatic editor of the Philadelphia Record and during those years and since has compiled data for . . ' . . . , . , . Jt, . . , ' v . . ln the hands of the publishers. In his , ' , "U 7 C i ijluiu tt vi i iv. mi . Auiiauci lino uu- earthed old files, letters and read per "J"1 dIarlf sIne the mlddle of 1740' The ?ook ls Eald t0 be tho only au" thentlc authority of early theatricals ln the United States. Mr. Antlsdel was last tn Portland as the representative of Henry Miller and Margaret Anglin n 1 ne creat Divide. ' Search for a mother-in-law marked half of the week passed in Portland by Ben Hastings, who with Hans Wilson ls billed as a lunatic comedian at the Empress. When Hastings left New York on his Empress tour his brother, Harry Hastings, informed him that his mother-in-law lived ln Portland and asked his vaudevlllian brother to call upon her. When Hastings arrived here he realized that he had neglected to find out his brother's mother-in-law's name and address. Forthwith he tele graphed to Harry and a lettergram re ceived from New York yesterday con veyed the Information that the Port land mother-in-law ls Mrs. Albert sass, who lives at 178 Alnsworth ave nue. Hastings called on his brother's relative immediately. Mrs. Sass ls Hastings' only near-relative in the Far West Hastings and Wilson will close their Empress engagement at Los An geles to proceed at once to London, where they will fill a prominent place at the Hippodrome ln the Christmas Review, England's biggest vaudeville pantomime show, for which they have been engaged for 24 weeks. To be se lected for place ln this London show is regarded by American artists as one of the greatest honors ln vaudeville. William Faversham opens tonight in "Julius Caesar" at the Hellig. When Faversham produced "Julius Caesar" in New York last season the Eastern critics were prompt to notice that he had departed from many of the established traditions in presenting the Diay- The performance was pitched in an entirely different key from the per- formances of this tragedy remembered by the present generation, and the uni versal comment seemed to be that he had succeeded In "humanizing" the play and freeing it from what someone has aptly called the "stern frigidity" which had previously almost universally been associated with It It will, therefore, not be surprising to those who have followed his an nouncements to learn that when he produces "Romeo and Juliet" he will entirely dispense with the traditional balcony. And Mr. Faversham announces that there are still other mossy tra ditions which he proposes ruthlessly to shatter. An amazed public will no doubt await them with keen Interest. "The Fools of Shakespeare" ls the title of a new work by Frederick Warde, the tragedian. It ls now in the press and will be published ln a few days. Mr. Warde has dedicated the book to the memory of his old asso ciate and friend, the late Louis James. NEED FOR MORE RIVER DREDGES. Activity In Preparation for Canal Busi ness Vrgred by Correspondent. PORTLAND, Oct 15. (To the Ed itor.) Are we not already beginning to forget the main issue in the ports of the Columbia situation the making' it possible for commerce to cross the threshold; and like Rasselas "listening with credulity to the whispers of fancy and pursuing with eagerness the phan toms of hope; expecting that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow?" As toria and Portland are no longer spite ful rivals for the little old New York ship of the P. C, but sister cities of a great commonwealth, with separate functions, whose progress is linked to gether in a common business the serv ice and development of the Columbia country. "The waters know their own and draw the brook that springs in yon der heights." In this case they drew a lot of dirt along with it and left it ln a most inconvenient location, and our serene handfoldlng wait of 100 years has left It where it lodged. Our handicap, hurdle, is that bunch of mud dumped at our gateway; the only kind of Bhlps that can take It safely are airships and light-draft craft, and mod ern freight isn't going that way. Uncle Sam ls Just finishing preparations for the great wedding of the waters, and Nature cracked open the continent to give us an easy way to the wedding. Are we going to be like the man with, out the wedding garment While we are magnifying what the canal is going to do for us are we not forgetting what we have to do for ourselves before we can accept the trade that will be knocking at our door? Days of delay in being ready may mean decades of effort ln regaining the advantage we ose. While we are fussing about a "Mor:k ' bottom, ships are still finding a real one where they should find a safe and easy entrance. We need to remember that one "bar" in Oregon has a little wa'er on it and needs more 40 feet. We need to remember that the most important "acreage" in Oregon ls the Columbia River bar, and that it cannot be nego tiated on "easy terms." We need to remember that the important piece of "road work" ln the real Columbia "highway" ls excavation, and that the dredge ls the Implement to pave a path, passable and safe. One little "Chinook" ln one short season has melted the top off of that great barrier that separates us from the real .world of commerce, and we need a little flock of Chlnooks to complete the work by the time ship ping comes via Panama. We need our experienced Moses (Mclndoe) to con tinue safely through the sea of Indif ference and out of the wilderness of conflicting ideas and demands; and ar rogant, indifferent, hidebound, musty old precedent Insists on sending us an untried Aaron. This is the "hard rock" period ln di recting interest and effort to the open ing of this territory to ocean transpor tation and it will take more than a few scattering shots to dynamite the dead ness. A. T. NO "CONFESSION FROM MEDIUM Physical Research Society Disputes Writer of Letter. NEW YORK CITY, Oct 9. (To the Editor.) We have been much sur prised to find lu The Oregonian of September 24 a letter by a Mr. Davi son, of Clarkston, Wash., ln which he states that the well-known medium, Mrs. Piper, had "confessed to the mem bers of the Psychological Research So ciety that the time had come when the truth should be given to the world, which was that she had no communi cation with the spirit world." We are also surprised to find that the same gentleman claims that "even the advocates of spiritism acknowledge that there ls nothing reliable comes from the other side." We trust therefore that you will al low us a little space ln which to make the assertion that neither of these statements is warranted by the facts. So far as Mrs. Piper is concerned, the imputation is an exceedingly cruel and unjust one. She has never made any such statement; and she is too honorable a woman to be even a silent partner ln any deception. She has never, at any time, made any state ment that could possibly be called a "confession"; and every candid student of the subject has known for years that what she did say and that was many years ago was merely that she was not herself convinced that the marvelous results of her trance medl umship proved that the messages were really from the spirit world. As to the statement that even the advocates of spiritism acknowledge that there ls nothing reliable comes from the other side," the answer should come rather from the spiritualists themselves than from the Society of Psychical Research. We do, however, meet with very many of such advo cates, and have never yet met with one bo utterly foolish as to be capable of making any such "acknowledg ment" Compare this imaginary acknowl edgment with the statements of Dr. James H. HyBlop, late Professor of logic and ethics ln Columbia Univer sity, made by him in the proceedings of the Society of Psychical Research in May, 1912 The sceptic must con vince himself if this work does not do it " And again, "the evidence for personal identity ls sufficient to con vince intelligent men." R. H. GREAVES. Assistant Secretary American Society for Psychical Research. i Plea for the Laborer. PORTLAND, Oct 13. (To the Edi tor.) In a recent issue of the daily papers appeared an item having refer ence to the proposed standardization of salaries of city employes. The general trend of this movement ls in favor of lower salaries to all employes with exception of the laborers. Some of the Commissioners are ln favor of raising the wages of this class, while one or two others are against same. I note that W. L. Brewster is one who is strongly opposed to this increase, and, furthermore, advises that their, wages should be lowered to $2.25 per day. I am .not a laborer, but am an office man. This explanation is offered so that my intention in this letter may not be misconstrued. In my opinion the laborer is certainly entitled to all he receives. Under present-day conditions $3 per day is not too much pay for a laborer, but, on the other hand, from the hard and dirty work as well as dangerous work which he is compelled to perform, I fully believe that he should be given even better pay. Is seems this commission charter is costing so much that Mr. Brewster thinks that retrenchment should start with the man who gets the least and works the hardest for his pay. Believe me, the taxpayers are getting 100 per cent value from the money paid the laborer. Get in line with the rest of the Commissioners. Mr. Brewster, and vote for the $3 per day scale, even If it does cause you many sleepless nights thinking of the good money going to the class that gets the least and works the hardest for what it does get. C. S. FONES. St. rani's Noah's Ark. St Louis Globe-Democrat. St Paul's old union station, known as Noah's Ark, burned briskly to the ground a f;w days ago; and Kansas City but Kansas City doesn't care now; her new one Is nearly done. His Palms Sunburned, Bystander. "What's the matter with Isadore's hands?" "Oh, he's pot his palms sunburned talking bithnith on the ethplanade." Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonian of Oct 16, 1888. New Albany, Ind., Oct. 15 Inclement weather interfered somewhat with the demonstration here over tho arrival of Hon. James G. Blaine, General A L. Hovey, Corporal Tanner. General Adam E. King and A. Snowden. Salem, Oct 15. At a special session of the Board of Trade tonight the ad visability of making an effort to secure direct railroad connection with the sea via Astoria was considered. A commit tee consisting of President Wright, Secretary Manning, T. McF. Tatton. J. H. Albert and R. J. Hendricks was ap pointed. Salem, Oct. 15 Colonel Lee, Superin tendent of the United States Indian Training Schools, ln one of his peren nial rows with the employes, has sus pended several of them. Salem, Oct 15 D. T. Williams, lata of Lafayette, Ind., telegraphed to Cin cinnati for a plant for a steam laundry today. J. M Robertson and John Gatchet were appointed night policemen of East Portland by the City Council last night. Dr. Joseph! had a lively runaway yesterday on N street. East Portland. Some time this week the steamer T. J. Petten will be brought back from the Sound. On Sunday there was a quiet funeral at Salem, when the mortal remains of Mrs. Linns Brooks were laid beside tha grave of -her pioneer husband. Linns Brooks, who was the founder of the town of Brooks, eight miles north of Salem. Bids will be opened today by tha South Pacific Terminal Company for filling from 100,000 to 150,000 cubto yards of dirt Into Couch Lake. The company has also the plans and speci fications prepared for a union freight depot 48x800 feet This huge building will be parallel with North Front street and will extend from Fourth to Sixth. The first annual meeting of the Wom en's North Pacific Board of Missions was held ln Salem, Mrs. W. S. Ladd ln the chair. The following officers were elected: President Mrs. W. a Ladd; corresponding secretary, Miss L. A. Warren; recording secretary, Mrs. W. B. Gilbert; treasurer, Mrs. 11. J. Cor bett; secretary of bonds, Mrs. H. C. Campbell; auditor, Mrs. W. B. Gilbert Charles Caudwell ls going to erect a business block upon the northwest cor ner of Third and E streets. Half a Century Ago From the Oregonian of Oct 16, 1868. Casalus M. Clay, American Minister at St Petersburg, has secured from tha Russian government a charter for a telegraph line from the Amoren River to the northwest coast of the Amer ican continent. Washington, Oct. 7. The Navy Der partment has official Information that the rebels contemplated throwing Greek fire Into some Northern cities, provided the rebel Ironclad Atlanta had escaped from Savannah. Memphis, Oct 5. The latest Vicks burg advices represent that General Grant has so far recovered as to be able to move about on crutches. Cincinnati, Oct 7 Correspondents report that reinforcements for Kose- crans are constantly arriving from the West and elsewhere. The rebel cavalry cannot seriously interfere with Rose crans' supplies. A great battle must soon be fought Petitions to Congress are ln circula tion, asking for the establishment of a mint and marine hospital ln thts city and also, most Important of all, that Portland be made a port of entry. Immediately upon ths arrival of Major Lugenbeel, Deputy Provost Marshal-General, who is dally expected, the enrollment of the citizens of this coun ty, liable to duty under tha conscrip tion act will commence. On and after Saturday P. M. the P. & M. M. (Portland & Mllwaukle Macadam) road will be closed for repairs and the ferry suspended until further notice. Mr. Plerson, agent for Grover A Baker's sewing machines, has Just re ceived a large supply. That Versa In Ecra. PORTLAND, Oct 14. (To the Edi tor.) In The Oregonian today you mention the possibility of making a sentence ln which all the letters of the alphabet may appear, and then you add, "Every letter appears ln Ezra 7-21." This ls a mistake. The letter "J" Is not there. Of courss It ls a very small matter, ln and of Itself, but small and unimportant as It is, such a mis take is suggestive of tha Importance of accuracy In everything. I suppose 99-100 of the difficulties and conten tions among men have been caused by loose thinking and slovenly language. When we realize that accuracy and "positive knowledge" form the only true basis for the power to discover "Truth," their Importance will be more fully understood. LEVI W. MYERS. Figuring Areas. OZEErOr.. Oct. 11. (To the Editor.) How much land In a piece of ground 600 yards around? What ls it worth an acre under a good ditch and ln clover and timothy? FRED H. MOSIER. The area cannot be computed unless two dimensions are given. A square, tract 600 yards ln circumference would contain a greater area than one 200 yards long and 100 yards wide, though the latter would be the same distance around. Location and other charac teristics would affect the value. Sentence With Every Letter. SALEM, Or.. Oct. 14. (To tha Ed itor.) How will this sentence do? "J. Q. Vandz struck my big fox whelp." I do not know who ls the author of this sentence, but it certainly fills the bill. It contains every letter of the alphabet, with no duplications. CHARLES KIRCflNER. "Just as Good Wont Do, Mr. Retailer! To the man who knows what he wants, you can't offer a substitute i and persuade him to take it. Your substitute may be and prob ably ls, all right, but the customer doesn't know It and you can't blame him for insisting on having the kind he knows about and be lieves ln. This ls the day of advertisement readers. Men and women take their newspapers home with them and keep posted on the things they buy. You need have no fear of push ing the articles of general distri bution that are advertised in the columns of The Oregonian. Meet half way the public demand created by the manufacturer who uses newspaper advertising. It will bring you more business and great er profit. Adv.