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6 THE MORNING OREGONTAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1914. PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland, OrafOB, PontofMoa as aecood-claaa matter. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance: (BY MAIL) Dally, Sunday included, one year fS.OO JJaily, Sunday Included, mix months . 4. 25 Daily. Sunday Included, three months ... 2.25 laiiy. Sunday Included, one month, ....1- -?5 Daily, without Sunday, one year ... 6-00 Pally, without Sunday, six months ..... 8.25 Dally, without Sunday, three months ... 1.75 Daily without Sunday, one month H Weekly, one year 1.50 Kunday, one year H M Sunday and weekly, one year H. 50 (BY CARRIER) TJally. Sunday Included, one year ...... . CB-OO Dally, Sunday Included, one month ..... .75 How to Remit Send postofflce money or der, express order or personal check on your local bank. Etlmpi. coin or currency are at sender's risk. Olve postofflce address In full. Including county and state. Postace Rates 12 to le pases, 1 cent: 18 o S2 pages, 2 cents; 84 to 48 pages. 8 cents; BO to 60 pages. 4 cents; 02 to 76 pages. 6 rents; 78 to 82 pases. 6 cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Kastera Bmiife Offices Verree A Conk lln. New York, Brunswick building. Chi cago, Steger building. San Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Co.. T42 Market street. ' POBTL4XD, SATCRDAY. JAN. 17. 1914. THE MATTER WITH TS. A most praiseworthy record of achievement stands to the credit of the Portland Chamber of Commerce for the past year. It has done and is doing great things for the improve ment of the port and the development of commerce. It has worked and continues to work in hearty co-operation and harmony with the Portland Commercial Club, each occupying its particular field, both working together when their fields overlap. Some of the speakers at the annual banquet of the Chamber showed a disposition to contrast the achieve ments of Portland and the spirit ani mating Its citizens with the achieve ments, and the spirit of neighboring cities, Seattle in particular. The Ore gonian says without equivocation that such contrasts spring from a misguid ed spirit and from uninformed minds. The achievements of Portland will compare favorably with' those of Se attle. Glance over the list and we shall find cause for self-congratulation, not for apology. Through the efforts of the Cham ter, or with its material aid, a direct steamship line to Alaska has been es tablished; the Hamburg-American and Royal Mail steamship lines to the Ori ent and Europe have come to this port; a great fleet of tramp steamers is continually coming and going; an average of one steamer or more a day leaves for coast ports; work has begun on the north jetty at the Columbia's mouth and the Chinook has been dredging the bar channel; the Ports of Portland and Astoria have con tributed $500,000 for the continuation of this work; the whole Pacific Coast delegation in Congress has been united in support of appropriations for un interrupted work on the Jetty and for the construction of another dredge for the bar; the Hawaiian-American steamers are to take and deliver cargo at Portland on their voyages through the Panama Canal to the Atlantic Coast, and arrangements are being made for another steamship line be tween this port and the Atlantic; we have a channel over the bar and up the river to - Portland deep enough for the largest available ocean car riers; we are building public docks adequate for the needs of these vessels and are prepared to add new docks as commerce requires them. In addi tion to all these things, the Chamber has obtained reductions and adjust ments of freight rates and has con ducted a fight to keep open the gate ways of traffic. It is new striving sys ' tematically for the location of new in dustries and is promoting the co-opcr-'ation of farmers and fruitgrowers in distributing and marketing their prod ucts. The results of Its efforts and of ;the diligent public and private service 4 Of others are seen 1n the expanding ' volume of trade, as evidenced by bank clearings and deposits, postal receipts, ;rail shipments of freight, livestock re jceipts and imports and exports. Port land's position as the commercial J metropolis of Oregon and the entire Inland Empire, though often and per sistently attacked. Is more firmly es tablished than ever. What has Seattle to set against this 1 record as a reason why it should be perpetually held up as an example j worthy of emulation? The Oregonian :is averse tp Invidious comparisons and would be the last to indulge in de--traction of our vigorous, enterprising neighbor; but, since comparison has been invited, we must make it. Se attle has larger foreign commerce, but it consists almost entirely of goods in transit, while Portland exports main ly products of its own territory, and imports largely for consumption with. in that territory. Seattle's totals of foreign trade are valuable to her chiefly for advertising purposes. Her other chief sources of business are lumber; which is in the dumps, and Alaska, which is afflicted with arrest ed development owing to too much conservation. T! e mosquito fleet fur nishes some local trade, but it is re stricted to an area of 40,000 square miles as compared with Portland's 300,000 square miles in the Columbia basin. We complain of a 27-milI tax, but Seattle is paying 45 mills and many citizens are losing their prop erty through confiscatory regrade as sessments. Seattle is building public docks, but so is Portland. For future expansion of her trade Seattle must look to the factors enumerated. Port land can hold her own with Seattle in the lumber trade and can galu In the face, having a much larger reserve of timber. We are about to take a share of the Alaska trade, and our foreign commerce nas just entered on a pe riod of rapid growth. As to domes tic trade, we have the advantage In the same ratio as 300,000 bears to 4 0.000 square miles. Portland has, besides, the immedi ate benefit of the valuable products of an immense adjacent agricultural ter ritory, and the prices of all, or nearly all, crops are good. What other city has such resources, or any agricul tural resources fit for comparison? Moreover, any one who will take the trouble to consult the 1910 census re ports will learn that the average num. ber of wage-earners employed in manufactories is greater in Portland than in Seattle But we are told that the Seattle spirit causes Seattle people to pull to gether In a manner tinknown to Port land. The answer Is that this asser tion Is not true. Every man famil ,iar with internal conditions in Seattle '.knows it is not true. The harmony Swith which the Portland Chamber of ,;Commerce and the Portland Commer ' dal Club pull together and the energy which they display aro in happy con trast to the dissensions on which the Seattle Chamber and the Seattle Com mercial Club fritter away much en- ' ergy. Portland is displaying a splen- did spirit, and in that respect need yield the palm to no other city. The only trouble v.-lth Portland Is a morbid habit of introspection and invidious .comparison which charac terizes some of our ottlzens. Survey ing the many great things which re main to be done, they Ipse sight of the many other great things which have been and are. being done, and they imagine that we are standing still. These critics need to be reminded of the boy who had a large pile of wood to saw and who went haltingly to work with a despairing look at the pile. A man asked what was the matter and the boy said he was afraid he would never get through. The man said: "You're sawing that wood over there," pointing to the uncut pile. "Now just keep your mind on the stick you're sawing, watch how the other pile grows, and you'll get through all right." The Portland Chamber of Com merce sawed a big pile of wood last year and it is still sawing away in dustriously every day. Its critics do not look at what it has done and is doing; they look only at what remains to be done. The Oregonian's advice is not to worry too much, but to worry only so much as may be needful. The Chamber will keep sawing until the last stick is sawed. It will saw all the better if the citizens will pay more attention to" what it has accomplished and less to what it has not yet been able to reach and will cheer it on with words of appreciation. Withal,- it Is time that the pessi mistic and false cry that we have no harbor, no rlve, no leadership, no unity, no public spirit, no adequate conception of our responsibilities arid opportunities, no commerce, no future, no anything worth while, be stopped. We are as well off as any city in America, We are better off than most. But we shall not be if we are to persist in' faultfinding and mis taken denial of obvious facts and in recriminative suggestion that some body or other is not doing as much for the general good as he, she, it or they should do. SEI,F-CENTERET MW YORK. , No citizen of the West who has had occasion to visit New York and who, hungry for news from home, has searched through the' New Tork pa pers for something of interest or mo ment from his section of the country, has failed to be struck by the remark able provincialism of the New Tork papers. It is interesting to note Uiat a citizen of New Tork has discovered the same thing, for he tried to find the news of the great CJuuet strike, after a trip to Michigan, with the following result, as given in a letter to the Chi cago Tribune: This morning, eairer to learn the status of the conflict, I secured a copy of the , which has always posed as New York's most representative newspaper, but I have searched Its columns In vain for. the least mention of news from Calumet. It contains plenty of foreign dispatches, some from the south and as far west as Philadelphia. There Is some sporting news from Chicago and one dispatch from the western metrop olis concerning a matter of political import. But there all Western information ends. To all Intents and purposes that wonderful por tion of our country toward which the bal ance of power, both political and com mercial. Is rapidly swinging. Is terra in- cornira from that newspaper's viewpoint. Generally speaking, the criticism I make of the . limited American horizon applies to all New York newspapers. It is a curious commentary on the great newspapers of i-he greatest city of America that their horizon should be so closely circumscribed, but it is true. The New Tork papers are strong ly localized, because nothing so much interests the average New Tork man as New Tork. The papers are there fore a necessary reflection of the nar row spirit and limited, outlook of "ew Tork itself. THE VEXD1CATED THAW. An entire week has passed since the Impeccable Harry Thaw was vindicat ed by the discerning peace officers of New Hampshire and nothing much has happened. It must be that the New Hampshire air, or scenery, or so ciety, or something not the tainted Thaw money, of course has devel oped in the homicidal Harry the schol arly spirit, the polished manners, the remarkable conversational powers, the keen and just intellectual insight of which his appreciative keepers so elo quently speak. But if w e are uncertain as to wheth er the admiring New Hampshire of ficials might not have been over-impressed through contact with the Thaw type of gentlemanly murderer, we 'have also the report of the Fed eral Court commission, which reaches the sage conclusion that Thaw is per fectly sane and altogether normal and quite a proper person to resume his high station in society. Thus we see that New Hampshire is ready to do justice to a persecuted and maligned refugee, who has hap pily found asylum there. Justitia fiat. All the perfect Thaw did was to slay the man who had ruined the woman Thaw married be fore he married her and to plead in sanity as a defense. Successful in his plea, he was incarcerated in an asy lum, from which he escaped hy the liberal use of money. He has done many other scandalous things through money. The sequel finally Is to be personal freedom and a re"buke by the New Hampshire courts to the New Tork courts. New Hampshire holds in effect that Thaiw had a right to slay White while insane and a sub sequent right to break out of an asy lum while sane. THROUGH SMOKED GLASSES. Mr. Barzee, peering through the gloom of Socialistic discontent, re minds The Oregonian in a letter today that the incidents cited where "will ing hands" without other aid had tri umphed in the end had their begin nings some years ago. Certainly. The Oregonian did not pretend to relate get-rich-qulck tales or aver that one whose only capital is . industry, fru gality and honesty can get rich quick nowadays. The trouble with Mr. Barzee and others who complain that the days of opportunity are past is that they would recognize opportunity only in the event it offered itself ac companied by a gilt-edged guarantee of immediate or future wealth. Neith er The Oregonian nor any other can pick out the strugglers of the present who will be men of affluence twenty years hence, yet to deny that there are such is idle. It is not likely that a single one of Oregon's wealthy citizens who began with nothing foresaw , his present prosperity. They were industrious by nature. They would not have com plained had they gained nothing in all the years of their labor but a modest competence. They accepted the knocks from which too many now flinch and they have gained their reward. Gold is not to be had in Oregon today for the picking up. It never was. Tet for the man who is willing to endure the same hardships that the pioneer of Oregon endured thera are today aa promising opportunities as there were twenty or forty years ago. The building of two railroads up .the DeschutesValley in Eastern Oregon is within the recollection of Oregon residents of less than five years' standing. An Austrian who worked at common labor in the construction of one of the two railroads sold a short while ago an eighty-acre farm in the Deschutes Valley for J8000. He began only with "willing hands." He did not get his land for nothing. He saved his wages, worked for. neighbors to carry him through the first year's hardships on the land and in four years cleared a modest fortune. Con ditions have not materially changed since this Austrian seized an oppor tunity. Land prices in Oregon are higher now than they were a decade or two ago. They have reason to be. Trans portation facilities and markets have Improved. Lands accessible to rail roads and markets are the more cost- ly, yet the unpaid balance on the pur chase price is, because of better trans portation and better markets, easier to meet than the unpaid portion was in earlier days. For the man who doubts this there still remain the waste places in Oregon where oppor tunity ia spelled in large letters, but to grasp it and wrest favor from it re quires perseverance, industry and will ingness to forego for a time the ad vantages of modern comforts. But in Oregon and elsewhere oppor tunities to get rich quick and do It honestly from a standing start at the line of poverty are meager. To the man who defines opportunity as an of fering of sudden wealth The Orego nian gives no promise or comfort. TWO METHODS OF PROGRESS. The Outlook, having crowed over adoption of the workmen's compensa tion amendment to the New Tork con stitution as recall of the Ives de cision, a correspondent of the New Tork Evening Post corrects it by say ing: The people of the State of New York have proceeded by logical and orderly procedure to amend the constitution Itself so as to modify the provision which stood In the way of the desired legislation. This is not reversing the decision; this Is recognizing the decision and conforming to It recog nizing that the court only did its duty In pointing out -that the legislation, desirable as it might be. was not permitted by the constitutional provision adopted earlier. This correspondent also quotes from the Ives decision the following pas sage, which reads like a paraphrase of the Roosevelt denunciation of that decision: . In arriving at this conclusion w-e do not overlook the cogent economic and sociolog ical arguments which are urged in support of the statute. There can be no doubt as to the theory of this law. It Is based upon the proposition that the Inherent risks of an employment should In justice be placed upon the shoulders of the employer, who can protect himself against loss by Insur ance and by such an addition to the price of his wares as to cast the burden ulti mately upon the consumer; that indemnity to an Injured employe should be as much a charge upon the business as the cost of replacing or repairing disabled or defec tive machinery, appliances, or tools; that, under our present system, the loss falls immediately upon the employe, who Is al most invariably unable to bear it, and ulti mately upon the community which is taxed for the support of the indigent: and that our present system is- uncertain, unscien tific and wasteful, and fosters a spirit of antagonism between employer and employe which it Is to the Interests of the state to remove. . We have already admitted the strength of this appeal to a recognized and widely prevalent sentiment, but we think it is an appeal which must be made to the people and not to the courts. Those are not the words of a fos silized judge, who is a slave to the letter of the law., They are a mani festo from an up-to-date judge, who exposes the wrongs done by the law which his oath compels him to uphold, and who .thereby urges the people to change it. There are two processes by which progress can be made. One is the New York process, which rights not only the wrong immediately under discussion, but all others of its kind. The other ia the West-Copperfleld process, which, in- haste to remove a single wrong, does a greater wrong; which in making one step of progress makes a mile of. reaction. True prog ress takes no backward step.. R. IXEX3NTER OS THE SOCIAL EVIL. Dr. Abraham Flexner's newly pub lished book on vice conditions in Eu rope will put powerful weapons In the hands of social reformers. May they be wielded as truly and wisely as he has fashioned them. The eminent man of science has spent a year in Europe studying the social evil under a com mission from the New Tork bureau of social hygiene. Some of his conclu sions confirm views already popular in this country. For example, he says that the policy of "segregation" is uni versally acknowledged to be a failure and that it has been abandoned both In England and on the continent. He also pronounces decidedly against, the medical inspection of lewd women for two reasons. In the first place it never is or can be thoroughly done. In the second place it "robs dissipation of one of its greatest terrors" by ef fecting an illusion of safety and thus actually encourages vice. As to the white slave traffic, Dr. Flexner speaks roort encouragingly than some other authorities. He does not believe that it thrives to any such extent as people commonly suppose. Good laws against it, the vigorous ac tivity of many private societies and the gradual advance of public senti ment have almost put a stop to it, he thinks, throughout Europe, so that to day when a girl is entrapped and Im mured for white slavery "it is as ex ceptional as a mysterious murder or robbery." Still mysterious murders and robberies do occurand as long as it is possible for even one girl in a generation to be captured for this fate public vigilance ought not to re lax. In this country, where laws are less strictly enforced than in Europe, white slavery still seizes many victims. Dr. Flexner warns his readers that even in Europe the snake has been scotched, not killed. There are plenty of persona on the watch to take ad vantage of every opportunity to ply this most fiendish traffic. He pro nounces emphatically against any pol icy of "regulation" for the social evil. Regulation only makes matters worse.-) It debases legislation, corrupts the police and lulls social forces into a false security. The only way to deal with commercialized vice in all its forms, he tells us plainly. Is to destroy it root and branch. "Civilization," says Dr. Flexner, "has stripped for a IKe-and-death struggle with tubercu losis, alcohol and other plagues. It is on the verge of a similar struggle with the crasser forms of commer cialized vice. Sooner or later it must fling down the gauntlet to the whole terrible thing. This will be a real contest, a contest that will tax the courage, the self-denial, the faith and the resources of humanity to the ut termost." Verily it will be a glorious fight, and, as Socrates told the men around his deathbed, the prize will be noble. No doubt the fight will be harder in Europe than here on account of the Ingrained traditions which favor vice and injurious privilege. "Europe." writes Dr. Flexner, "U a man's world, managed by men and largely for men, and cynical men at that." These men, he tells us, are- taught disrespect for women from their boyhood, especially for women of the lower orders. Girls who work are their natural pray. Nothing is lost socially by ruining them and precious little morally. Law, fashionable religion and custom are all arranged to give the young man his fling. The soldier, the student, the aristocrat must all .sow their wild oats and society looks smilingly on while they are doing it. Women of the better classes, who might exert some restraint, are taught to say noth ing about such subjects. It would be Indelicate. They are taught not to look into their husbands past lives; it would be Indiscreet. Don Juan has by no means lost his charm for Euro pean women, even good ones. To reform social arrangements which are so radically perverted will require a tremendous effort. Both In Europe and the United States Dr. Flexner insists that legislation aimed merely at this particular evil and ig noring the general social situation is bound to fail. Commercial vice de pends upon economic conditions which go far down among the roots of our civilization. It depends upon ancient habits, world-old traditions and abo riginal feelings. But modern man Jias made up his mind not to accept evils complacently merely because they come down from the past. The fact that a wrong always has existed is no reason whatever why It always should exist. The fact that an evil is rooted in human nature ought not to discourage us from fighting it. The business of civilization and religion is to change human nature. The traits we have brought with us from our an cestral beasts are the ones we must get rid of. Commercialized' vice grows out of these traits, not from those we have acquired since the race began to move upward. Dr. Flexner's book is on the side of hope and courage. It discards the old makeshifts which have always proved disappointing and speaks out boldly for thoroughgoing intelligence in deal ing with the enemies of the human race. Tuberculosis Is one enemy, al cohol Is another, commercialized vice is a third. They form a trio which for hundreds of years has defied the best Intentions of reformers and brought to naught many of the teachings of re ligious faith. They seemed too strongly Intrenched ever to be dis lodged. But little by little these evils have enlisted formidable enemies against themselves. .' Christian senti ment is at last almost a unit against them; science lias exposed all their spurious pretenses to benefit: the world, democracy shudders pt the waste and ruin they cause. With books like Dr. Flexner's preaching a world-wide crusade against them we may comfort ourselves with the hope that their day will be short. In anticipation of the action of the Public Service Commission, the New Tork Telephone Company has offered to reduce rates 10 per cent. This is taken by the New Tork Times as a confession that it has been overcharg ing Its patrons, and that Journal says the reduction is only an installment of that which may be expected from the Commission. It suggests that in crease of business may more than off set the reduction in rates. Public regulation is actually proving the bes friend of public utilities. It places rates on a stable, profitable basis, silences corporation-baiters, stops strike" legislation and cuts off graft. Securities of regulated corporations will in time find a better market be cause regulation will render them more secure. According to a report of Its railroad com pany. Long Island has a population greater than that of New Hampshire, Vermont, Otah. Montana. Idaho, Oregon, Delaware. Nevada and Wyoming. Though the com parison is hardly fair. Those splendid states are too far away to commute. New York World. Tes, there may be few of us Orego nians by comparison with the Long Islanders, but consider the superior quality of our population. A. speaker on race betterment said the perfect type of woman was "com pact In build, deep-chested, with steady nerves and fleshy enough for the antitomlcal angles to be nicely rounded out." How could such a woman fit herself into the " modern tight skirt? The flesh on her "ana tomical angles" would burst the seams. New Tork- engineers with little to do ask that their salaries bo cut in twain. Remarkable men! Or do they wish to take no chance of losing a good thing entirely? Threatened by. showers from fire hose, the army of unemployed has tened to leave Albany. Tour I. W. W. recruit hates a bath almost as earnest ly as he detests work. With the closed season at hand ducks are now plentiful for the first time this season. Evidently the game birds are keeping posted on the game laws. General Villa will - now march on Mexico City. Of course all Mexico's troubles will vanish if the capital J? taken by the villain Villa. - Two hundred people have offered skin for use in grafting on a. stricken child. Who said the age of. chivalry has passed? Colonel Gorgas has been tentatively selected as surgeon-general of the Army. Pretty big man for such small job. Woman of 60 stands In line fifteen days and wins homestead. Woman displays riewstrenuosity every day Women will be employed as gate tenders at Chicago depots. Another gate opened to the gentler sex. It now develops that Taft has second-hand automobile. No wonde he has been losing weight. Portland may win the reserve bank on merit. There"3 merit in merit, after all. Some one, some time, will apply the short and ugly word to the wrong man. The weather man in Japan has killed himself. No wonder. There ia no temporizing with th South African strikers. On to Alaska.! PUBLIC OPISION SOCXDLY FORMED Writer Doubts That It Favors Arbi trary 1'ower In Emotional Executive. PORTLAND, Jan. 16. (To the Edi tor.) As an Irishman and a scholar and a good judge of military law, as most Irishmen born happen to be, per mit me to reply to the brief filed on behalf of the lilliputians by Judge Lowell, of Pendleton, In The Oregonian, January 14. I commend the Judge for declining to discuss the constitutionality or wis dom of invoking martial law to evan gelize a mining camp and create a foolish precedent. But the rationality of the business is what seems to ap peal to the Judge, predicated upon the hypothesis that the learned Jurist feels the pulse of the public sentiment in this state. Public sentiment of this state speaks not through politicians; it knows something of legal history, the experience and evolution of civil government and of mankind and It does not lean at this time, so far as my observation goes, to puttlne arbi trary power to deprive men of their liberty and property without the ordi nary processes of law and least of all tne bands of those whose "judg ment" has been found wanting in the hands of those swept Into office on the waves of unrest In turbulent and try ing times, who know not that the mi nority have rights as well as the ma- orlty and that under our system everv man has the right of his day in court In following these lines the Legisla ture ii3 is ngnt and Judge Lowell is wrong. He that ROeth around to ncrniiAilA a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought- to be. shall never want attentive and favorable hearers" is as true now as in the fen erations past. Jurists "who varnish onsense with the charm of words " to the contrary notwithstanding. More over, it is as true today as it ever was m tne dreary past that "Civil libertv can be on-ly secure where the Governor has no power to do wrong, yet all the rerog-atives to do good." therefore, the Legislature was wise and responded to tne sentiments of a free peoule. who know full well the tyranny of arbi trary power vested In an emotional and hysterical executive. I am Rlvlnir full credit to .Tn Lowell's political acumen, however it may detract from his Judicial learn- ng and Judicial poise. "I boos that Oswald West will become a candidate to succeed himself," he writes. So do jeorpe and Jonathan and Robert and all the other fellows. The Judge has ere displayed some Judement from the Judge's viewpoint and aspirations. I SHAN AH AN. 144 Third street. YOUTH'S LOVED SCENES. wnen tnougnt steals back to vnnth ii ;i i u Arise loved scenes a-npw inese scenes which 'neath time's hand uavo jam What spell doth claim each vlewl Those sunny hills, close cropped and Drown, Through Autumn days erown spar- The brook that 'mong the hills led aown. Where shady groves appear; The swamp and darkling ponds that lay x-nugeu rouna witn nags and reeds, Where muskrats built their strange, rude way. For warmth and safety's needs; Oft red-wing made a daring dash v neu i miruoeo nere, vv nue the heron, warned by suridnn spiasn. Sought clumsy flight, In fear. Upon a "willow tree a-near. lie clustering blackbirds annf Their wondrous din so full of cheer. as crackling tumult rang. In black-oak depths were mandrakes round. Mid glooms they loved so well: ' mere pidgeons flocked from fiti! , around, When shades of evening fell. There squirrels on the branches ran, wneneer I happened niirh. And all excitedly, began lo shout their warning cry. No spot more charming I recall As comes the past to view Than these still woods, where shadows , laii. And sunbeams ripple through. The cattle herd, too, loved that wood, And every path-cleft dell: These paths which led where thickets stood. The bell-cow knew them well. Though dreamy eyed, that bell-cow knew When "cow-time" came around: She then to denser thickets drew All hushed the tell-tale sound. Oh. boyhood days, they soon did eo. Tet memory does not fade: They all return with youth's sweet glow Woods, cow-paths, pastures, shade. E. PLACKETT, Washougal, Wash. The Late Rone. My rose Is blooming, blooming. She tells tne of the thorn; She wears for me a paler dress In gardens of the morn. She saw the flush of Summer, Fall in my guarded heart: When I waited with the lilies Where fairest visions start. My rose is coming, coming. She scarce hath seen the sun. He may not dye her fairest cheek . Till I her love hath won. I know that she la breathing. Incenses rich, and rare, -The spirit of the rose exhales' The balm for all my care. -Before the tired Summer, The faded leaves have blown And I had thought, my lovely rose, Had left me all alone. My rose, my rose Is blooming, She tells me of the thorn; I care not for Its piercing now. In gardens of the morn. Finale: O, the north-bells ring, wherever I go, And bring me the rose that blooms in the snow. MRS. O. J. ELLIS. Film Pictures In Greek Schools. London Standard. In Greece the Minister of Education has opened negotiations for the lnstal lation of 4000 natural color moving pic ture machines, with supplies of films, for use in the state schools. Six Slatera. 475 Years. Baltimore American. There is a family of six sisters living in the French village or Uomelle sou Bouvron, of whom the eldest is 85 and the youngest 75 years old. Their total ages amount to 475 years. Watchful Housekeeper on Guard. Livingston Lance. The Salesman This is a splendid health food. I can assure you the chil dren will cry for it. Mrs. TKidmor Then it won't do in my house. My children cry enough as It is. Berlin-Vienna Airship Trlpa. London Echo. The erection of an extensive aerial station midway between Berlin and Vienna is expected to lead to regula aeroplane service between the two cities. VICTIM OF MOTOR BIKE FIE5D Contributor Relate Horrors of Ilia Ex istence Sfar Mail Experimenter. PORTLAND. Jan. 16. (To the Edi tor.) What are the rights of a private citizen who lives in the same block with a fellow who has gone stark mad over a motor bike? He tunes this en gine of his up at an hour when honest folk' should be ' asleep and then tries to ascertain how many stunts he can perform with it, first on the low gear, then on the high once around the block with the muffler open, cracking like a machine gun. and then the next lap at a 40-mlle clip with the explos ions taking place in the muffler and about every 10th one a miniature can non in your front yard. He must have a motor bike of the t Integra of 1902, with some recent Im provements attached. Evidently every part of it Is new except the muffler, and if it is a muffler it is a misnomer. He has circled this block tonight about a hundred times at a rate of speed that would make Barney Oldfield look like a lazy man going to work, or an L W. W. on a stroll to Salem. His cus tom is on about every 20th lap to stop in front of my place and try out the machinery. With the thing at a stand still he throws it into the low, then adds more gas until It Is running at full speed, when he begins to alow It down and with each turn these un earthly reports begin. Does the law of this state recog nize justifiable homicide? Has the City of Portland a foolklller? If so. hla ad dress, please. It is no consolation to mo to know that every living creature on both sides of the street around this block is cursing like myself. Truly, I am sorry for the neighborhood and I expect that my sentiments are theirs in wishing that on Judgment day he might be assigned a place In the In fernal regions cracking lightning at a'lout 5 cents a snap. He just missed a motor truck on West Park and Mill streets. Really I'm sorry. THOS. R. NELSON. Tes, you have a remedy. Report the case to the Chief of Police. - DEFESSE OPEVAXGELIST OFFERED Story of Dr. Bolgln's Unusual Success Calls Forth Strange Reply. BEND, Or., Jan. 15. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian January 12 I was attracted by the following headlines. -fastor stirs uend." If you will kind ly give space to the defense I wish to make in behalf of the pastor, the cour tesy would be much appreciated. ur. liulgin made no attack upon any particular individual during said meet ing, neither did he engage in personali ties. He is a Southern-born gentleman, coming from a state that is proud of him as one of her sons, and which recognizes his spiritual goodness as well as masterful intellect. One of fortune's jewels, .molded bright. Born among the most beautiful mountain scenery in America, kissed by sunny Southern skies, it Is no small .wonder that the mind of this mountain boy should have been filled with noble as pirations and high ideals, which in later years brought him fame as lawyer, lec- .turer and minister of the gospel. 1 am surprised that your correspond ent should lay such stress upon the financial side" of the meetlnfr. Dr. Bulgin makes no demand for any cer tain amount for his services, and re ceives only what Is given In a volun tary way. He should not be called a sensationalist." but a man who loves his fellow being, trying to lift his soul from the mire or sin and fit it for the life eternal. He pictures sin in all its hideous colors, but his description of the Christian life is like "apples of gold In pictures of silver." Dr. Bulgin gave up a most lucrative law practice for that of the ministry, arid since entering the gospel field has followed closely in the footsteps of the lowly Nazarene. 'Fools who came to scoff remained to pray." MRS. ROBERT LEK POTTS. The whole tenor of the article this correspondent criticises was that Dr. Bulgin had aroused wonderful Interest and attained unusual evangelical re sults in Bend. Nothing that we would call "stress" was laid on the financial side of the meetings. We were not aware that announcement of success In one's work as an evangelist calls for defense, but, nevertheless, the "de fense" Is cheerfully published. DISMAL. WORDS FROM MR. BARZEE Opportunity no Longer to Be Gruped by Willing Hands, Soya lie. PORTLAND, Jan. 16. (To the Edi tor.) Permit this reply to your edi torial "What Willing Hands Can Do." As the story goes of the hunter who after having swallowed the "fish" story of Biblo fame, balked when he was confronted with the "fox" story; per mit me to say I know the farm. Willing hands vs-!th knowledge. In dustry, frugality and opportunity, in all the last word means, can succeed. The one and principal element, "op portunity," must be connected or all the other pre-requisites amount to nothing. The cases you cite were those of 20, 30 more or less years ago when Oregon was a wilderness compared with its present Inflated and over-rated land values. The opportunities are positively gone if there ever existed such an opportunity, for any pair of willing hands whomsoever they may be legally to acquire $100,000 by any honorable means. Moreover, no man, Pierpont Morgan's statement to the contrary notwithstanding, can purchase anything of real value in these days with no other surety than willing hands, etc. If known opportunities were present the case might be different. With bankers who are knowfi to be land judges and experts, land Is the asset surety of all obligations. Land today Is quoted, sold and transferred at prices beyond any reasonable possibility of speculation. Every land deal made by willlne hands today Is covered with contract made up of land and chattel mortgages, Btitched together with a logchain of security. Property and not men are trusted these days of over rated land values. The lack of op portunity in this .case denies all such possibilities by nanus or any sort ex cept those of the boom speculator who possibly unjustly escapes the feniten tiary. The very essential element op portunity you left out of your list of qualifications that make for success of "willing hands." C. W. BAK.Eli GOOD ROADS STORIES EXCL.EtI.EXT Samuel ITill Compliments Work of Tbe Oregonian Traveling: Correspondent. PORTLAND, Jan. 16. (To the Edi tor.) I want to congratulate you on the most excellent articles which you published in The Oregonian written by David Swing Ricker. I have read these all with intense interest, and have watched the fight you have made day by day for improved highways. I am leaving for Washington In the hope of getting some members of the Grange to volunteer to come down Into Hood River and Columbia Counties and see what can be done In the way of lining up those counties for the cause, having heard that there are people In both those counties who are not in ac cord with the movement. So I must drop my work as presi dent of the Pacific Highway Assocla-r tlon and take up my work as vice-pres ident of the Columbia River Highway Association, in the hope that by 1915 we may make Portland accessible from the north and east. I believe the people of Oregon are aroused as never before and I am pleased and proud to feel that there has arisen a spirit of public service among the people, and no better ex amples of this can be found than the persons of Simon and Amos S. Benson and John B. Yeon. If the people only knew! i SAMUEL HILL. Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oreconian of January 17. 1881. Salem, Jan. 16.-The Legislature In Joint session listened to the reading of Governor Pennoyers message. Pendleton, Jan. 16. Efforts are being made to secure the extension of the Hunt Railway to Union with a good prospect of success. Seattle. Jan. 16. Elijah Smith, presi dent of the O. R. & N. Co., arrived this morning In company with J. L. Howard, manager of the Oregon Improvement Company. Brussels, Jar 16. The first letter written by Henry M. .Stanley since he left the coast of Africa was received by post last night. The Refuge Home for Women filed articles of incorporation yesterday. The society will be supported by the Wom an's Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. R. M. Robb, Mrs. Anna R. Riggs and Mrs. E. Dalgleish are the incorporators. Dr. Hanlon B. Drake, of Detroit, has decided to locate In Portland. D. D. Neer is in New Tork. M. L. Nicholas, foreman of the North Pacific mills, was on leaving presented by the employes with a gold-headed cane, a - handsome water set and an easy chair. Rev. C. E. Cllne, pastor of the Hall Street Methodist Episcopal Church, has been holding revival services. Two fine Westlnghouse motors, fur nished with airbrakes and all the latest Improvements, have been ordered by the Portland & Vancouver Railway Com pany. These, with the two Pullman coaches lately ordered, will be a good supply of rolling stock. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of January IS, IS'J-l. In joint convention at Olympia B. Harried was elected Treasurer; U. 10. Hicks. Auditor, and J. P. Judson. Li brarian. A caucus of 16 Union members had nominated for Treasurer. D. B. Bigelow; for Auditor, A. W. Moore, and for Librarian, G. X. Woodruff, but the caucus could not control the assembly. Waconda is the name lately given to a pleasantly situated village 12 miles north of Salem. It is tne first stage on the route from Salem to Portland. Placerville, Boise County. Idaho, De cember 27. On Christmas night a peaceable old gentleman named Miller was shot dead by a man named Dtmo hue. who went around town looking for a man who had struck his "woman." got drunk, went to the Horsemarket saloon, shot twice into the celling and then fired into the midst of some three or four persons, hitting Miller. Offi cers are on his track. Steamer Senator Is so far near com pletion that it is proposed to raise steam on her today. The Julia returned from the Cascades on Saturday. She found the Columbia frozen only about seven miles below The Dalles. Owing to the high stage of water in the Willamette at Corvallls on the 14th. the stage coach was laid over one night and the next day the mail and express matter was forwarded by boat to this city. Mr. Cooper AV1I1 Seek Xo Olfice. THE DALLES, Or.. Jan. 16. (To the Editor.) I saw a statement in The Oregonian that I would be a possible candidate for Governor on the Pro gressive ticket at the primary election to be held in May this year. Please say in your columns that under no cir cumstances will I be a candidate !n 1914 for Governor or anv other ofT'.ce. D. J. COOPER. Features for The Oregonian Tomorrow REMINISCENCES OF DAVEN PORT By T. T. Geer Former Governor of Oregon, cousin of Mr. Davenjxrt 's, recalls many interesting incidents in tbe life of Oregon's famous cartoonist. ADVENTURES WITH THE MOVIES Linda Griffith's Story This star of the movin; picture realm contributes a fascinating chapter to the series of articles on moving picture heroines. ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE By Sir A. Conan Doyle In which that greatest of de tective characters "Sherlock Ilolmes" is revived for one of the most thrilling mysteries yet un raveled by his shrewd mind. MAKING HOMERIC HEROES The Story of Eva Emery Dye An absorbing page is occupied with the record of her struggles and achievements in the literary world. HELPING THE DUMB BRUTE A touching article on the work performed by the Oregon Humane Society. Fully illustrated. A STEWARDSHIP FOR THE PEOPLE By Theodore Roosevelt. Another important chapter in the story of his life. HOW MEXICAN SOLDIERS FIGHT THE STORY OF AVIATION CLEVER WOMEN AND THEIR WORE STUDIES OF OTHER WORLDS ABOUT MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE WOMEN OF THE SWEATSHOPS DAME FASHION'S LATEST DECREES CAMERA SNAPSHOTS These are but a few of riiany splendid features. Order Today of Your Newsdealer.