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MORNING ENTERPRISE TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1912
TO NATIONALIZE
LAWN TENNIS
Complete Supervision of Ranking
Planned by Association.
WANT RECORDS OF PLAYERS.
President R. D. Wrenn Hopes to In
clude Every Section of .the Country
In the Movement Would Be Good
Thing For the Sport.
Robert D. Wrenn, president of the
United States National Lawn Tennis
association, sounded the first note in
the progressive movement toward the
nationalizing of the game at a meeting
of the ranking committee in New York
recently. It was stated by Mr. Adee,
who is secretary of the committee, that
It is the wish of the president of the
association that every player in the
United States who competes in tourna
ments may be registered with the rank
ing committee this season. This will
afford the national association a com
prehensive list upon which to work and
the names of the active competitors
through whom the betterment of tour
naments may be brought about
"It is the earnest desire of Mr.
Wrenn to give to lawn tennis an active
administration," said Mr. Adee, "and
he has been planning and working to
ward that end. Every branch of the
game is being carefully gone over, and
even now Henry W. Slocum and his
committee associates are busily en
gaged in a complete revision of the
rules.
"The president has conferred with
this committee and has written to Miles
S. Charlock of the Crescent Athletic
club of New York, its chairman, upon
the chief points which are to be devel
oped In its systematic work this sea
son. Already upward of a thousand
letters have been sent out to players
and tournament committees throughout
the country. More will follow. Our ef
forts to establish a complete list can
not bo successful, however, unless ev
ery player interested in the game lends
his assistance toward making our rec
ords absolutely complete.
"At the last annual meeting it was
ruled that ten players were to be rated
numerically, and the following ninety
men were to be rated in groups of ten
each.
"It has occurred to Mr. Wrenn to
offer valuable suggestions to the com
mittee, so that no section of the coun
try may be overlooked. Heretofore the
eastern players have monopolized the
ranking list We propose now to ascer
tain whether or not they rightfully be
long there. Undoubtedly there are bril
liant performers -in other sections of
the country who have not received
their just recognition. They are about
to receive their just reward unless they
persist in hiding themselves. I think
that I can confidently state that this
committee is inaugurating the most im
portant movement for the development
of lawn tennis that the game has ever
known in this country.
"Necessarily we have to deal with a
larger territory than any other nation.
This makes the task more difficult
Mr. Wrenn has wisely pointed out,
therefore, that middle season and late
season playing should count for more
In arriving at a Just rating than the
early season performances. Then at
least three tournaments must be con
sidered for a singles rating and two for
a doubles, with, of course, occasional
exceptions as of champions who have
previously assured their positions.
"One of the greatest difficulties this
committee will have to contend with is
the shifting of doubles teams, which
makes an adequate rating almost im
possible. An effort will be made to es
tablish permanent pairings so that
Americans may not fall behind in this
department of the game.
"We are planning to begin work on
the ratings not later than Sept 25. To
facilitate this work every player is
having mailed to him a record blank
upon which data may be readily en
tered and sent to this committee."
The committee includes Miles S.
Charlock of the West Side Tennis club
and Crescent Athletic club, chairman;
Charles M. Bull, Jr., Crescent Athletic
club, and George T. Adee, Country
club of Westchester, secretary. Mr.
Charlock has ably planned the system
atizing of the campaign so that every
player in this country may be listed in
the national association records even if
his name fails to appear on the honor
roll of 100 at the close of the season.
Altogether it is the first movement of
national scope which the association
has undertaken.
JOHNSON'S LATEST AMBITION.
Champion Heavyweight Wants to Be
come Crack Baseball Player.
Jack Johnson, heavyweight cham
pion of the world, wants to become a
baseball player. Johnson recently made
application for the first base- position
on the American Giants in Chicago,
Rube Foster's colored semiprofessional
team, and will be given a chance for
the place.
Manager Foster asked Johnson to
report for morning practice for a cou
ple f weeks for the purpose of de
veloping his batting powers. Johnson
says he played a fair game of ball
several years ago, and he has no doubt
that he can "come back."
PIQUE.
Pique is at once the bitterest and
most absurd enemy that a man can
have, making men greater pests to
society than all the criminals who
infest it Muir.
A Famous Olive Tree.
St Torquatus, the apostle of Cadiz,
lived In the first Christian century and
planted an olive tree before the church
dedicated to him In Cadiz. This tree
is always In full bloom on the fete day
of Torquatus, May 15.
Wonian'sWorld
Golden Slippered Pavlowa
Dances at Lawn Party.
Photo by American tress Association.
ANNA PAVLOWA.
Anna Pa v Iowa's conquest of London
society was manifested as never be
fore when the Russian dancer held
court in her suburban home in north
London. Her latest triumph was the
talk of London.
Among those present were the Duch
ess of Marlborough, the Duchess of
Rutland. Mrs. Asquith, Mrs. Leopold
de Rothschild and Count Benckendorff,
the Russian ambassador, as well as a
crowd of other prominent persons.
Pavlowa danced on the lawn in gold
slippers and provided other entertain
ing surprises.
What Women Are Doing.
Mrs. Caroline Weeks Barrett of
Brooklyn, until recently connected with
the Pratt institute, is said to be the
originator of the plan to raise a fund
of $100,000 as a memorial to Mrs. Ellen
H. Richards. Mrs. Richards was the
first president of the American Home
Economics association. The income
from the memorial fund is to be used
in puttiug the Journal of Home Eco
nomics on a firm foundation and to es
tablish prizes and scholarships to en
courage research work on problems rel
ative to home life.
Miss Rosa Belle Holt of New York
is said to be the only woman oriental
rug broker in the world. Miss Holt
gained her training by foreign travel
and selecting rugs for her friends.
When the time came for her to earn a
living for herself she announced that
she would gladly fill orders for oriental
rugs. Success came to her almost
from the start Now she is said to
have scores of private clients from
Maine to California as well as many In
England and other European countries.
Mrs. Maggie Carter of Wakefield,
Mass., is known in her section as the
"lady milkman." She keeps forty-five
cows, covers five towns in her daily
route with more than 500 customers
and employs six horses in her delivery.
Though she has six or more men in her
employ, she does much of the daily
milking herself, delivers a good share
of the milk and manages alone the
financial end of her business.
Mrs. Elizabeth Davidson is said to be
the only woman bank president in
Maine. She is at the head of the York
County National bank, which was
started about six years ago by her hus
band, the late James T. Davidson, a
lawyer, in York. The bank rapidly out
grew its original quarters, and the
business finally increased to such an
extent that a large building had to be
erected to accommodate it
Daytime Jewelry of Amber.
Amber is at present a very highly fa
vored item of daytime jewelry. It Is
seen as the hatpin head, globular in
shape and of a medium size, and is the
ornament of combs and prongs.
Magical properties were believed to
be ascribable to amber in former times,
and there were wearers of the beads
who vowed they were saved by them
from that tedious and troublesome
complaint, hay fever. The new delight
found in amber is traceable not to any
occult connection, but to the fashion
for every shade of gold, through all the
gradations from the most pallid to the
most radiant tint London Mail.
Far a Rainv Evenina.
Misquoted quotations is a game
which will cause amusement ana at
the same time Is something of a tax on
the player's knowledge of poetry. In
this each visitor is handed a slip of
paper with all kinds of muddled up
quotations, as "Some are born great
but to be or not to be a rose by any
other name is the question." To
straierhten out a ereat many such quo
tations ana to finish them correctly is
a eood test of the true lover of poetry.
Sometime amusing mistakes are
made.
EDUCATION.
What sculpture is to a block of
marble education is to a human soul.
The philosopher, the saint and the
hero the wise, the good and the
great man very often lie hid and
concealed in a plebeian which
a proper education might have
brought to light Addison.
A Hint
He I don't approve of tips. She
It has been noticed that you do not
A WOMAN
SAVED HIM
By F.I I F.N INGERSOLL
Fred Grigsby was a clerk id a
bank In Montreal, Canada. Being in
bad health he longed for a trip, but
having no means laid up he could not.
afford to take one. The president of
the bank in which he was employed
liked him and set his wits to work to
arrange an outing for him. One day
he called the young man into his pri
vate office and said to him:
"One of the bank's customers owes
some money to a Spaniard named
Juarez, living in an out of the way place
on the northern coast of South Amer
ica. There is no bank near the credi
tor through which the debt can be
discharged. Juarez is a mean, trieky
old fellow, and Hardwick, the debtor,
feels that the only way An the matter
is to send some one there with the ex
act amount in gold to pay the debt and
take a receipt. Thinking it a chance
for you to get a change of scene, I have
suggested that you would go and at
tend to the matter without charge If
your expenses were paid. The winter
you dread is coming on here, while it
is warm down there. You will get
a sea voyage out and back. What do
you say?"
Grigsby jumped at the offer. He
was provided with a - box containing
eagles, half eagles and double eagles
to the amount of $6,000, which was
put in his stateroom on the ship just
before she sailed. He was also fur
nished with a statement of the account
and all necessary papers. The box con
tained the exact amount due to be
paid.
On the ship with Grigsby was a re
cent graduate of a woman's college on
her way to Honduras, where she had
accepted a position of teacher of math
ematics and physics. Seeing that
Grigsby was not well, she was very
kind to him, entertaining and cheering
him. Grigsby, who had a way of say
ing what he meant instead of smooth
ing things, was much opposed to the
present movement in woman's status.
He regretted that women should oc
cupy positions formerly occupied by
men only. He was opposed to a col
legiate education for them and pre
ferred to see them taking care of
homes.
'Women," he said, "haven't the same
kind of brain as men. They're not fit
ted to- take , hold of problems as men
are and work them out."
"If you should get into a scrape
would you rely most on a woman or a
man to help you out?" asked Miss
Boyd.
"If my getting out depended on fool
ing some one I would prefer a woman.
If it depended on proving facts I
would only rely on a man."
Miss Boyd admitted that she would
rather follow nature's law marriage
but since she couldn't wait for a man
she would be pleased to marry to
come along and offer himself to her
she must be doing something for her
self.
When they reached Honduras Grigs
by found Juarez, who came from the
interior to meet him. The Spaniard
was more disagreeable than he had
been represented. After the payment
had been made he counted the money,
and, finding the amount correct, he sign
ed a receipt not for $6,000 In gold, but
for so many pounds, as stated in the
invoice that had been made out In
Montreal. After giving Grigsby the
receipt he said that he would have the
gold weighed. To Grigsby's astonish
ment It was short in weight Then the
old rascal had Grigsby arrested for
purloining some of the gold.
The young man was not only dis
tressed, but puzzled. The gold had
been boxed and sealed ever since it
had left the bank, and he could not see
any possible way for the shortage to
have occurred. Nevertheless he had
seen it weighed himself, and the weight
was enough short of the figures on the
invoice to make a considerable differ-,
ence in funds.
There was nothing for Grigsby to do
ut stand trial, and, there being no
way for him to prove that he had not
taken from the coins by acid applica
tion, filing or other means an amount
of gold equal to the deficiency, it was
impossible for him to escape a term in
prison.
He did not meet Miss Boyd after
they landed till he saw her sitting
among the spectators in the court
room at his trial. He was about to
be convicted when she arose and asked
to be put on the stand. Her evidence
was given, direct, without her being
questioned by an attorney.
"I will explain," she said, "why the
gold weighs less here than when it left
Montreal, though the amount in dol
lars is the same. Weight varies with
the centrifugal force caused by the ro
tation of the earth. This force is
greater at the equator than at any
point between the equator and the
poles. That is, any substance is lighter
here than in Montreal."
Juarez's case fell to the ground.
Grigsby was acquitted and left the
courtroom with the woman who had
saved him.
"I believe I said to you," he re
marked, "on our voyage here that if in
trouble I would rely on a man more
than a woman to save me in a matter
of fact. My position has been abun
dantly disproved. Among a hundred
men, more or less, who have known of
my peril not one had the knowledge to
explain the deficiency in the weight of
the gold. For this I am indebted to
you. I retract all I said. Hereafter I
shall be a devoted supporter of wom
en's colleges"
HONEST LABOR.
"Honest labor bears a lovely
face." The first call and duty of
life to the healthy and the capable
is that of honest work. The mere
lounger and looker-on in life who
deems his indolence godlike is but
a despicable creature.
A Distinction.
Mistress Have you had any experi
ence with children? Bridget Nope,
but they have had some wid me.
Single Tax Would Be
Hard Blow to Workers
(By Charles H. Shields, secretary
Oregon Equal Taxation League.)
Thoughtful people all over the state
of Oregon are now considering one
feature of the proposed Graduated
Single Tax which does not seem
even to have been considered by Mr.
U'Ren and his friends in the efforts
they are making to foist a scheme of
taxation on Oregon in place of the
rational, commonsense system offer
ed in the three amendments by the
State Tax Commission.
Such public service corporations
as the Portland Railway Light and
Power Company, and its equivalents
in Eugene, Astoria, Roseburg, Baker,
Salem, Medford, Oregon City and oth
er progressive Oregon cities will re
taliate very quickly to legislation
that will take away all power of their
returning a dividend on the capital
invested.
The forthcoming Public Service
Corporation in Oregon will be forced,
as have public service commissions
in other states, to so regulate rates
that a fair rate of interest may be re
turned on the capital invested.
Therefore, it is not difficult to show
that under Single Tax, or Graduated
Single Tax, call it what you will,
there will quickly follow an era of
high electric light and power rates
and high trolley rides.
For it must always be remember
edthe consumer pays the bill.
To illustrate: Suppose the Port
land Railway Light and Power Com
pany's books should show to the sat
isfaction of the commission a legiti
mate investment of $4,500,000 in op
erating equipment, including tracks,
buildings and every thing of that na
ture, and in addition thereto another
$500,000 in various investments in
connection with the operation of their
business. This would be a total in
vestment of $500,000,000.
Public Service Commissions in oth
er states have established a prece
dent allowing public service cor
porations a net earning power of six
per cent on their investment, which
will be the rule in Oregon.
This would necessitate a net earn
ing of $300,000 per year.
To make this illustration clear, we
will asume that $300,000 is exactly
what the commission finds to be the
net income of the Portland Railway,
Light and Power Company.
The present tariff then would be
found not excessive but ' exactly
right to permit the company to
earn its six per cent.
Now, let us suppose that the Grad
uated Single Tax, according to the
advocates of the measure, the power
in Clackamas County owned by the
Portland Railway Lfght and Power
Company would be assessed at $8,
000,000 exclusive of all improvements
whatever. According to this
scale of taxation, the Portland Rail
way Light and Power Company would
be compelled to pay $225,000 taxes
in addition to the taxes it has herto
fore paid.
The earning power of the company
would be no greater under the Grad
uated Single Tax system than under
the present. On the contrary it
would be less, consequently its net
earnings would be reduced from $300,
000 to $75,000.
The Portland Railway Light and
Power- Company would, of course,
ask for a hearing of the Pulblic Ser
vice Commission to determine the
necessary increase in the service tar
iff to make up this loss.
The Commission would be compell
ed to allow an increase in rate so
that the net earnings under the new
system might be $300,000 to justify k
six per cent interest on the invest
ment.
In this event, who has paid the,
$225,000 which the advocates of Sin-
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gle Tax are so anxious to have? Not
the Portland Railway Light and Pow
er Company but its patrons.
Who are the people who patronize
the Portland Railway Company?
I venture to say that 75 per cent of
the patrons are laborers, mechanics
and the average business man.
The rich and the well-to-do have
their automobiles and enjoy the roads
constructed by the farmers and the
lot owners.
To sum up the situation: This
$225,000 must come from the common
people.
In Seattle a telephone company was
granted a franchise. The rate estab
lished in the franchise was $4.00 for
a main 'phone. The campany asked
for a hearing of the Public Service
Commission. It showed the Commis
sion that it was not earning an aver
age rate of interest on its invest
ment. In the face of the franchise rate,
the Commission authorized an ad
vance of some 20 per cent in the tel
ephone rate to justify a reasonable
interest return on the investment,
holding that if the rate charged by
the tlephone company was excessive,
the Commission had the right to re
duce the rate, and where it found the
rate charged did not give a reason
able return for the money invested,
it had a perfect right to increase the
rate.
This is but fair and honest. Hon
esty and fairness are what the public
is demanding. When we have a pub
lic Service Commission in Oregon,
any excessive tax upon public service
corporations will be an indirect tax
upbn the people.
Only a few weeks ago in Northern
California the Public Service Com
mission authorized an increase in the
service rate of a public service cor
poration, so as to permit it to earn
six per cent on the investment. Sup
pose this corporation was subject to
the Graduated Single Tax amend
ment, the rate would have been estab
lished so as to take care of the ex
tra tax. Th people would have it to
pay. There is no way to escape.
Force of a Business Habit.
"There Is one thing 1 do not like
about Jorkins. He has such a pushing
manner."
"But, pa. you must remember he
manufactures electric buttons." Bal
timore American.
Oregon Agricultural
, College
This great institution opens its doors
for the fall semester on September
20th. Courses of instruction include:
General Agriculture, Agronomy, Ani
mal Husbandry, Dairy Husbandry,
Bacteriology, Botany and Plant Path
ology, Poultry Husbandry, Horticul
ture, Entomology, Veterinary Science,
Civil Engineering Electrical Engineer
ing, Mechanical Engineering, Mining
Engineering, Domestic Science, Do
mestic Art, Commerce, Forestry, Phar
macy, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics,
Mathematics, English Language, and
Literature, Public Speaking, Modern
Language, History, Art, Architecture,
Industrial Pedagogy, Phyiscal Educa
tion, Military Science and Tactics,
and Music. ,
Catalogue and illustrated literature
mailed free on application. Address:
Registrar, Oregon Agricultural Col
lege, Corvallis, Oregon.
School Year Opens September 20th.
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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE
SCHEPPS SAYS POLICE
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Aug. 12.
Trembling with fear and rage over
the action of Deputy Police Commis
sioner Dougherty in offering to send
members of the New York police
force here to take him back to New
York, Sam Schepps, under arrest here
for allp&eri cnmnlinitv in tha mnrrior
of gambler Herman Rosenthal, this
aiternoon Degged to be sent home by
a detective from District Attorney
Whitman's office, offerina to waive
extradition if this was .done.
Do not let them send the police,"
he begged. "I would never get back
to New York alive if they come."
Schepps is held here under a heavy
KUard in a hotel. He flat.lv rten'iprt
report that he had confessed, assert
ing that he does not intend to talk
until he reaches New York. -
NEW YORK, Aug. 12. "Keep the
prisoner from outsiders at any cost."
This was the last word of District
Attorney Whitman to his assistant,
Robert Rubin, and the County Detec
tive Robert Stewart before they de
parted for Hot Springs this afternoon
to brine back Sam Srh
here for alleged complication in the
muraer or liamDler Herman Rosenthal
before the Hotel Metropole.
Schepps was arrested by the post
master at Hot Springs yesterday as
he was about to post letters to "Bald
Jack" Rose and Harry Smith, both of
which were confiscated by the police
of Hot Springs. Rose is held here
in the Tombs for his part in the mur
der, and has made a confession to
Whitman which corroborated others
made by Harry Vallon,. "Bridge" Web
ber and Jack Sullivan, al implicating
Police Lieutenant Becker as the man
who plotted and planned the death of
Rosenthal.
District Attorney Whitman openly
stated this afternoon that with the ar
rival of Schepps his. chain of evidence
against the police officer would be
complete.
Schepps, he said, would have noth
ing to say, until he reached New York
when he would give a detailed state
ment, giving the names of the gangs
ters who did the actual killing, and
the motive for the killing.
It was also announced at the dis
trict attorney's office that Schepps
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General Passenger Agent, Port land, Oregon.
SPOKANE KEPT
LEAD BY
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 12. Spo
kane today again passed up a chance
to take the lead in this nerve-wracking
Northwestern League pennant
race, succumbing to Portland by a 5
2 score.
For the rude affront to the hopeful
loyalty of Spokane fans, Manager
Williams explains that his club also
has designs on the 1912 pennant and
from the manner in which they per
formed today there seems to be some
foundation for such an ambition. They
played like real champions and, de
spite the perserverance and pepper of
Spokane, easily held a strong and
safe lead to the end, snuffing out an
incipient rally in the ninth with mer
ciless execution.
The results Monday follow:
At Spokane Portland 5, Spokane
2.
At Seattle Seattle 10, Vancouver 8.
At Victoria Tocamo 7, Victoria 2.
National League
New York 6, St. Louis 8.
Cincinnati 2, Philadelphia 1.
Brooklyn 3, Pittsburg 5.
Boston 7, Chicago 10.
American League
Cleveland 3, Chicago 0.
knows the whereabouts of the men
who fired the shots that brought Ros
enthaV down. .
Schepps is the man, Whitman says,
who paid the slayers to accomplish
the death of Rosenthal. This money,
he charges, was given Schepps by
Lieutenant Becker.
MAN AND WOMAN FINED
FOR BEING INTOXICATED
1 1 X
Alec srengren and a woman were
arrested Sunday night by Policeman
Henry Cooke, charged with being
drunk. Slengren has been employed
at a local saloon, and the woman went
to his room. The man was fined $25
and given a sentence of ten days In
jail by Recorder Stipp. The woman
.was fined $2.50.
If you saw it in the Enterprise It's
so.
Week-end.
$3.75
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