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PORTLAND, TUESDAY. MAY 7, 1907.
TOl.ITICS AND ART.
What would happen to the world if
iverybody should act upon the princi
ple that it is better not to resist evil?
Perhaps nobody can tell with certainty,
but Pennsylvania gives some pretty
plain indications. That commonwealth
was founded by a sect which held con
sistently to the doctrine of non-resistance.
To them strife was among the
worst of moral crimes and peace the
greatest of all blessings. Rather than
fight they were willing to be harried by
the strong and plundered by the
greedy. They valued quiet above the
safety of iheir country. They taught
that "he who defended himself against
aggression was equally guilty with the
aggressm. This sect predominated. In
the early history of Pennsylvania, and
Its influence has been strong; there ever
since. So Ions as the dealings of the
colonists lay almost entirely with a
confiding people iike the Indians', who
were unpracticed In guile and easily
won by frankness and sincerity, the
principle of non-resistance seems to
nave worked well in Pennsylvania. The
Quaker colonists had less trouble with
the natives than most of the other set
tlers in America. The bland smile and
gentle tongue of William Penn extin
guished, the native laud titles quite as
completely and with far less bloodshed
than the guns or the Puritans.
But when the time came for Penn
sylvania to deal with the wiles of civil
ized Iniquity the principle of non-resistance
did not work so well. One does
not mean to say. of course, that the
conspicuous pre-eminence of Pennsyl
vania as a happy hunting ground for
the grafter can be attributed entirely
to the effects of the belief that it is
wrong to fight evil; but that belief has
prevailed there, and the state is, be
yond all question, more soddenly en
mired In corruption than any other in
the Union, not excepting New Jersey.
The latter Is making an honest, if not
very, violent, effort to attain to some
thing like decency in its public affairs.
It has brought to the fi-ont a number
of men of high character and' energetic
public spirit, and shows no disposition
to discard them. But with Pennsyl
vania it is different. Her spasmodic
lunges toward municipal honesty are
awkward. They are like the uncouth
antics of ft f:it man who leaves his of
fice once a year to piny baseball and
who docs not particularly care for the
game.
The pretentious display of reform
spirit which Philadelphia made a year
or two ago turned out to be something
very different from genuine public ir
tue. Nothing could well have "been more
sordid. It was all on account of a rise
of a few cents per thousand in the price
of gas. It contained not a trace of un
selfish devotion to the general welfare.
Robbery a thousand times worse did
not stir th faintest resistance in the
somnolent city so long as it was merely
committed upon the public and did not
visibly affect the budget of the individ
ual householder. The person who car
ried the bnnner of reform to an appar
ently brilliant but really deceptive and
nugatory" victory was. after all. a mere
politician of a peculiarly petty type who
threw off all semblance of a reform
leader as soon as he could make his
peace with the bosses. Almost alone
among the states of the Union, Penn
sylvania has produced no uncompro
mising' friend of the people and enemy
f . the grafters. The mushy-brained
rermypacker. crafty, cowardly, plausi
ble, is one type of her contributions to
our statesmanship: Penrose is another.
Quay, who commanded the affection
ate loyalty of Pennsylvania for many
years, combined the qualities of Penny
packer and Penrose. He was the per
fect fruit of the principle of non-resistance
applied to public affairs. He was
in exemplification miraculously com
plete of the sort of men whom peace at
any price sets over us for rulers.
Neither Pennypacker nor Penrose has
cue-tenth the malign ability of Quay,
but. working together, they have man
aged to perpetrate a fraud on their
state which makes him turn in his
grave with envy. It concerns the dec
orations and furniture of the new State
Capitol at Harrisburg. The committee
which had charge of these was under
Pennypackor's control. (Publicly It ad
vertised tor bids upon fractional parts
of the supplies; secretly It made a rule
that no bids were to be considered ex
cept for the whole. This threw the
contract to a single firm which stood
well with the committee, and rich was
the harvest it reaped. No imaginable
opportunity to pilfer was neglected. The
stealings foot up some ten or fifteen
million dollars, while the devices by
which they were effected are too ridic
ulous for vulgar farce.
The artistic furnishings of the Capitol
of the Keystone State were purchased
by weight. When the brutal Senator in
Mary Anderson'8 charming play of
'Pygmalion and Galatea" proposed to
pay the sculptor for his statue by the
ton,' we all used to laugh at the absurd
ity. It Is absurd no longer. It has be
come a rule of statesmanship, at least
in Pennsylvania. The bronze chande
liers, supposed to be products of the
finest art of the Nation, were bought
by the pound and the firm which sup
plied them cheated In the weight. Ma
hogany tables were paid for by the cu
bic foot, the price toeing computed by
multiplying their length, width and
height together, so that the public paid
for ten feet tf air-to one of table. The
plate-glass for mural decoration was to
be of the finest French make- The con
tractor supplied a cheap domestic vari
ety, for which he charged about double
the price of the genuine. The profits of
the contractor were something stupen
dous. Nothing like them has been seen
even in San Francisco. In the celling
of the Capitol at Albany. N. T., painted
paper was substituted for English oak,
but the rake-off was modest indeed
compared with that of Pennypacker's
contractor. An investigation of this
peerless, piece of thievery Is under way
in Pennsylvania, --hich Is painfully
bringing to light the knavery that
everybody has known all about for
months. The present Legislature being
dangerously tainted with the reform
spirit and somewhat regardless of the
principle of peace at any price, the in
vestigating committee finds it con
venient to postpone its report. Judging
from wnat we know of Pennsylvania's
history,, when the Teport is. presented
to the succeeding Legislature a resolu
tion will be adopted commending the
moderation of the thieves. Doubtless It
will counsel the people, whose cloak
has already been taken, to fulfill their
Scriptural duty and give their coat also.
JAMESTOWN AND SEATTLE.
Mr. Thomas McCusker suggests in
his letter to The Oregonian from
Norfolk, Va., that the Jamestown Ex
position is the "suspicion of a farce."
It may be supposed that Mr. McCus
ker's characterization is as mild as
conditions w-arrant. The exposition
opened under brilliant auspices. There
was a stupendous naval display. There
were official visitors from all over the
world. It was altogether a magnifi
cent inauguration .of a momentous his
torical celebration. Tet the facts are
that the exposition was in a woeful
state of unpreparedness. It will be
two months at least before buildings
will be completed and a generally cha
otic situation overcome. Besides all
this, the exposition is reported to be
in financial straits. They have either
undertaken to do too much or they
have done It a year too soon. "When
the exposition is finally completed, it
will be In the middle of the long, hot
Southern Summer, and few Northern
visitors can be expected to go South
at that time. The outlook for James
town is gloomy Indeed.
No small part of the success of the
Lewis and Clark Exposition was due
to the fact that everything was prac
tically In readiness on the opening
day. June 1, 1905. The beauty of the
grounds, the obvious efficiency of the
management and the symmetry and
splendor of the completed buildings
conspired to give the affair a wonder
ful advertisement, and from 'that time
on the success of the Fair was never
in doubt. The managers of the Alaska-Yukon
Exposition at Seattle may
learn something both from Portland
and from Jamestown. They have
scheduled their opening for June L
1909. They have more than two years
for effective work. If they shall not
be ready at that time, it will be their
own fault.
THE LOST CHILD.
A sorrow that has appealed to the
best that is in the human heart for
sympathy js that caused by: the mys
terious disappearance from his rural
home, bordering upon the Delaware
marshes, of Horace Marvin, the 4-year-old
sou of Dr. Horace Marvin; the
agonized search for the boy by' his
father and the discovery, full six
weeks after the disappearance of the
child, of his body about half a mile
from his farmhouse home. The anxiety
of a parent, when death in any form
menaces his child, becomes distraction
when this menace comes In the form of
the sudden, unexplained and inexplica
ble disappearance o the child from
his home. ThV'd . town beadle of a
former generatfon w-lth clanging bell
and sonorous voice, calling "child lost,
child lost," through the village streets
emptied as by magic every home and
engaged the occupants, one and all. in
a distracted search for the little wan
derer. The beadle and his bell have
passed, but the announcement that a
child Is lost Inspires city police and
town and county constabulary to eager
search; and now, as in former days,
pitying neighbors lend their aid in the
anxious quest. If perchance the child
is found alive and unharmed, the pub
lic rejoicing extends far beyond the
limits of the neighborhood; it his body
is found, sympathy Is widespread; and
if. as in the case of Charlie iftoss, a
generation ago. no trace Is found of the
missing one, the public, still expectant,
Fttll sympathetic, rises eagerly to every
clew for ' years, refusing to abandon
hope of the Wiinderer's ultimate return,
or of definite news of his death.
The astontshing endurance, shown by
a young child lost in the woods Is a
matter of pioneer record in many com
munities of the Oreat West. Some
years ago forty, perhaps, or more a
little boy of 3 years wandered from
his home on the Molalla. 1n Clackamas
County. He was clad only in a cotton
shirt, and was allured into the woods
that adjoined the pasture lot by ripe
blackberries. A close watch was not
kept upon children at their play- by the
busy ranchers in those days, and the
child was not missed for some hours.
About sunset, however, the family be
coming thoroughly frightened, the
neighborhood was aroused and search
ing parties beat the bush for three days
and nights until finally upon the morn
ing of the fourth day. the child was dis
covered sitting on a log picking and
eating the berries that grew profusely
around him. His cotton shirt was in
tatters and his limbs .were swollen
from mosquito bites . and ' briar
scratches; but he was otherwise un
harmed. -He had grown shy and wild
in the woods, and upon being discov
ered attempted to crawl away and
hide. But In a few days all traces of
his alarming experience had vanished.
The neighborhood literally went wild
over the affair and many regarded the
fact that the t-hild had lived so long
unprotected in tne woods, with nothing
to eat but berries, as a miracle equal
to that of bringing the dead to life
Few cases of this kind end so happily
as did this one. Next to this, the more
satisfactory ending, bitter and disap
pointing as it is, came to Dr. Marvin
in the finding of the body of his child.
Here all doubt, all agonizing specula
tion, end. Th.3 knowledge that nothing
further can harm the child or Inflict
suffering upon him Is In a way a com
pensation for the loss. The mystery of
his death 1.? baffling, but the fact is as
sured. Much more distracting would be
the thought that somewhere, under
perhaps cruel environment, the child
lived and suffered. This possibility is
set at rest in the case of little Horace
Marvin, and to this extent the father's
anguish is lessened. The mystery of
the boy's sudden and complete disap
pearance will probably never be solved.
But enough is known to make it rea
sonably certain that his death, how
ever it came about, followed his dis
appearance with little delay. So. offer
ing this slender meed of consolation to
this sorely bereaved father, a sympa
thetic public will follow him In thought
across the continent to the place of
sepulture and breathe with him a sigh
of relief that all is over.
LIN MACLAREX.
Rev. John Watson, whose death is
today chronicled, will be remembered
wherever English literature is read, by
his pen name, under which he wrote
a series of sketches published twelve
years ago with the title "Beside the
Bonnie Brier Bush." Unlike Barrle,
he Idealized the persons he pictured.
He peopled the glen of Drumtochty
with austere, sympathetic, brave men
and women in whom the spirit of hu
mor was deeply planted. In his por
trayal of Scottish types he exagger
ated their good qualities and made
them better than they were with one
exception. Dr. Weelum Maelure.
Here Is a warrior that appeals uni
versally to mankind; no writer, living
or dead, ever created a hero finer than
this country physician "A Doctor of
the Old School" is a modern classic.
Ill a list of the greatest short stories,
It could not rank lower than third or
fourth.
Though a minister of the Presby
terian Church, Dr. Watson was un
orthodox and narrowly escaped trial
for heresy over his sketch of "Posty,"
whom he allowed to die unconverted
and yet with the hope of life everlast
ing. He was Intensely religious but
not tainted with cant. No more beau
tiful tale of the Master's last days was
ever penned than Dr. Watson's "In
the Upper Room." Among persons of
Scottish birth or heritage the death of
Ian Maclaren will be counted a per
sonal loss.
HOW TO SETTLE ONE QUESTION RIGHT
The Linn County Grange is right in
Its contention that "some forms of
wealth have not borne their propor
tionate share of the tax burden"; and
it may be right in its other contention
that the last Legislature appropriated
too much money for the State Univer
sity. We shall see later The Grange
is also to be commended for propos
ing that an Initiative 'bill shall be
framed and submitted by the State
Grange for regulation of appropria
tions for the State Normal Schools, the
Oregon Agricultural College and the
State University, "with a view," so the
Grange says, "of settling these vexed
questions and of stopping the present
methods of log-.rolling in our State
Legislature." These vexed questions
will not, we think, ever be settled un
less the people at large shall by spe
cific initiative bill fix reasonable and
sufficiently liberal sums for mainte
nance of these institutions. There Is
no disagreement between the Grange
and a great majority of the people of
Oregon that we should have a State
University, a State Agricultural Col
lege and a Normal School or Normal
Schools, though there is a decided dif
ference of opinion as to the number of
Normal Schools. But that is another
question.
But the Linn County Grange is
wrong, we think. In proposing the ref
erendum also on the State University
appropriation. It is quite apparent to
The Oregonian that the appropriation
bill will be sustained by the people,
probably by a large vote. The only
result of the referendum will' be to
embarrass and delay the work of the
university, prevent desirable improve
ments and withhold salaries from
members of the faculty and employes
for more than a year. It ought to be
remembered by the Grange that the
referendum was Invoked a year ago on
the omnibus Normal School appropria
tion, and undoubtedly there was a
strong and Justifiable sentiment sup
porting the movement. Yet. the bill
passed. In the end the state had to
pay the appropriations, and more.
Nothing was accomplished except to
add to the burden of the taxpayer
The Oregonian then suggested the.
Initiative as the correct method) to get
at the Normal School appropriation.'
Its advice was ignored. Now the Linn
County Grange appears disposed to
take such advice in part only. It con
cedes that the Initiative is the proper
remedy for the abuses of log-rolling
and excessive appropriations. That is
good. But the Grange ought also to
abandon the proposed referendum and
let the ciuestion of the appropriation
for the State University, Agricultural
College and Normal School be settled
on its merits under the initiative.
Kansas is nothing ir not remarkable
in its development, its prosperity or
Its depression. It led the hosts of dis
content in the political upheaval and
financial disaster that preceded and ex
tended through the second administra
tion of President Cleveland, and it now
leads in the shout of prosperity that
echoes from ocean to ocean. Recently
all the breweries of the state were con
fiscated by the authorities, but there
is no sound of a wail as from a crowd
athirst. On the contrary, according to
recent reports, the state is now In the
enjoyment of the greatest prosperity In
its history. It is its boast that there is
not a village of" 500 population in the
state without a 'bank, and all of these
Institutions are full of money belonging
to farmers. There may be a note of
warning beneath this boast, but the
Kansas farmer hears it not. He sees,
op the contrary, continued expansion
of the resources of the state and- finds
the secret of Its abounding prosperity
in the application of modern ideas and
expedients in the cultivation of the soil.
Irrigation and the cultivation of the
sugar beet are strong elements in the
prosperity of Kansas. On lands that
two decades ago were given up to
drouth, beets worth millions of dollars
annually are grown, and this through
irrigation, and without trenching upon
the wide areas that are given to the
production of corn and wheat. Applied
energy. Intelligence and water form a
combination that laughs at adversity.
This is why Kansas laughs, forgets the
past, enjoys the present and looks hope
fully to the future.
Fruitgrowers ' in Southern California
are strongly opposed t any govern
mental action looking toward the re
striction of Japanese immigration. They
say they are now unable to get the
help necessary to harvest their crops
and that further restriction will be dis
astrous to them. -..The manager of an
olive-producing company near Los An
geles Is quoted as saying that last year
his company was unatle to get white
help at any price and had to beg for
the Japanese. They- were compelled to
wait until the Fresno grape harvest
was over before they could get workers
for the oltve harvest, and then the sea
son was so far advanced that the frost
injured the crop, making it impossible
to fill contracts. Japs have been paid
$1.25 a day and whites $2.25, but at
those figures a sufficient number of
workers could not be secured. ; He
thinks shortage of help this year will
result in immense damage to the fruit
Industry In California. This view of the
Japanese question comes from one who
is. of course, biased- by his personal in
terest. White labor pretty generally
opposes Jap Immigration largely from
personal reasons. The Japs work for
less money and therefore tend to re
duce the wage scale. The Government
now has a special agent in California
investigating the Jap situation, and this
official will hear both sides of the question.
Strychnine pills ieft,on a shelf within
her reach were responsible for the
death last Sunday of a 2-year-old
dau-rhter of Mr. and. Mrs. Victor Peter
son, of Tenas Illthee Island, near As
toria. It is one of the established facts
of natural history that young children
put everything that comes to hand In
their mouths. Parental vigilance, while
knowing this to be a fact, nods some
times, with results that are disastrous.
It Is unkind to blame parents for an
event so distressing as the death of a
child from accidental poisoning, but the
fact remains that accident In such
cases is the logical sequence of their
own carelessness.
After all. Imprisonment is not so hard
for a rich man as for a poor one. The
rich man has friends who will write
him daily letters, make frequent calls,
provide reading matter and entertain
ment, and 'supply him with all the
dainties money can buy. The poor man
must sit alone and forgotten in his cell
with nothing to do but brood upon the
past and curse the evil day that led
him Into crime. The rich man has the
consolation of knowing that he has
been persecuted, while the poor man
must suffer the disgrace of knowing
that he was prosecuted. The rich man
Is a victim of conspiracy; the poor man
a felon and an outcast.
The Mount Hood and Barlow Road
Company has been granted an increase
in tolls over its road. The showing of
the expense of maintaining this road,
including the bridge over Salmon River,
for the benefit of Summer tourist travel,
was doubtless satisfactory to the
Clackamas County Court, hence the In
crease was granted. If tourists think
the tolls too high, they have the remedy
In their own hands. They need not pat
ronize the raad. .
The supply of material for boxes Is
so short In California that fruit packers
are worrying over the question of get
ting boxes in which to ship their prod
ucts. The Riverside Enterprise bursts
into rhyme to express the seriousness
of the situation:
Woodman, cut down that tree.
Lose not a single bough
If we ever needed snooks
We certainly need 'em now.
Before the minister of the gospel who
officiates at the Corey wedding voices
the usual request that If any have rea
sons to offer why the marriage should
not take place, let them speak now or
forever after hold their peace, it might
be well to close the church doors so
that the protests of 85.000.000 people will
not be heard.
Here's wishing success to the farm
ers in the Deschutes country who are
boring for artesian water. When they
have a supply of water for domestic
purposes there will be few more pros
perous homes in Oregon than in the
Agency Plains country and the region
farther south.
The loyal subjects of his youthful
majesty Alfonso XIII of Spain find the
stork a tantalizing bird. The sound of
his wings is in the air, but he refuses
to alight according to the programme
mapped out by the physicians of the
Queen.
If counsel In the great conspiracy
case at Boise should- happen to get
too warm. Judge Wood can cool them
off in the city's famed natatorium.
Promoters of a new suburban tract
advertise that tie view of the moun
tains is sensational. In other words.
It Is a view of beauty unadorned.
Citizens of Eugene complain that the
weather man Is in league with the local
cptionlst and the two have made the
town "too dry for anything."
"We may confidently hope that in
vasion of the Inland Empire by a train
load of Portland business men will not
be resisted.
Portland rosegrowers who expect to
compete at the carnival next month
can have no fault to find with the
weather.
About 23.000 Portlanders are getting
ready to ' umpire the match between
Devlin and Lane scheduled for June 4.
The hopmen are said to be praying
for rain. Yet some of them voted
themselves into "Idry" precincts.
Miss Mabelle Oilman Is reported- to be
lame in her foot. Mr.' Corey's lameness
Is in the other extremity.
.Mr. Corey will likely cross his fingers
while he promises to "love, honor and
cherish."
Next week Portland will devote all
energy to baseball, politics and prosper-
WHAT OTHER ST ATES ARTS DOIJie
Liberal Appropriations for Support of
State I'ntvereltlea.
Seattle Times.
It would appear to us that Oregon can
scarcely afford to throttle Its university.
That state has not been lavish toward
Its leading educational institution, which
nevertheless has always maintained a
high place among- the universities of the
West. The taxpayers of Oregon would
pay only 3-10 of a mill to furnish the
appropriation of $125,000.
The State of Washington, supplies its
university with $225,000 per year for main
tenance. Idaho has appropriated $260,000
for two years and California's appropria
tion approximates $1,000,000. The total
annual income ' for the . University of
Colorado Is $166,000, North Dakota $152,000,
Utah $164,000.
The University of Oregon has been on
a basis of $M,000 for the past two years,
and was on a basis of $60,000 for the two
preceding years. Of those, amounts $47,500
was from a? fixed annual appropriation,
and the balance from a special appropri
ation of $62,500 in 1905.
President Campbell, of the University
of Oregon, says if the referendum were
invoked on the $125,000 appropriation the
university would be forced to depend for
a year and a half on the old fixed ap
propriation of $47,500 per year, plus some
$10,000 or $12,000 received annually in in
terest on university funds. The number
of students has increased since 1903 from
an enrollment of 218 to an enrollment of
340. exclusive of the departments of law,
medicine and music, which are practically
self-supporting;. It would seriously ham
per the university to be obliged to care
for a half more students on the old
appropriation of 1903. Any development
of the departments would inevitably be
delayed until the fate of the appropria
tion could be determined at the polls a
year from next June. Such a result could
not fall to prove calamitous.
So much for the immediate effect on
the university. Ultimately, It would ap
pear, the appropriation would stand, as
only a small minority of the people of
the state oppose the bill.
UNIVERSITY IS A SEEDED LINK
High School Principal Argue Against
Referendum Movement.
KLAMATH FAI,LS, Or.. May 4. (To
the Editor.) I have noticed the reports of
the action of the Linn County grangers
in regard to the University of Oregon ap
propriation, and being interested in
educational matters ask leave to speak
on the subject.
I believe In practising economy in pub
lic as well as in private affairs. But we
are all aware that in both what Is done
sometimes in the name of economy is
really gross extravagance. And I believe
that will be the result of this affair, if
it goes so far as to be submitted to the
people. There is an old saying "that
what is worth doing at all is worth
doing well." The University of Oregon
is, I believe, conceded by all to be a
necessary institution. We need a supreme
head to our educational system. We
need university-trained men in our state.
Our university men have made good at
home and abroad. The institution has
certainly proved Itself worth maintain
ing. Then, is it not worth maintaining
well? .
Statistics prove that Massachusetts,
which leads in expenditure for education,
leads in per capita production, and each
state shows a per capita production pro
portional to educational expenditure.
Hence such expenditures pay.
Oregon is now entering an era of great
advancement. All educational Institu
tions should advance equally with other
things. Heretofore we have had our
University, but it has helped a limited
few. Why? Through no fault of the
university management., but because' we
have not promoted high schools to sup
ply the link betwen common schools and
the university. Now. high ' schools are
being promoted all over the state and are
rapidly preparing students for the univer
sity. There is a largely Increasing de
mand for university-trained young men
in business.
Each year sees a lancer number pre
pared and desirous of entering. Last year
we in our schoof graduated one. this year
we graduate six. So it is elsewhere. For
this reason, our university facilities
should be enlarged. One of the greatest
inducements we hold up before our
students is the possibilities of such an
education. We In Klamath County have
lately spent $50,000 to build a High
School and supply the link between the
common schools and the university. Now
we do not want the university facilities
impaired.
The argument that more money should
be spent on the common home schools is
good, but we can do that and get returns
on the additional money Invested.
Klamath County is doing it, and other
counties can. I am' confident that it is
going to be done. But the more we im
prove ' our home schools, the more we
need the university. It is a poor adver
tisement for the state to have the word
passed .along that we are begrudging the
little money we are giving to this cause.
Our sister states are giving millions.
I feel positive that the people will vote
the appropriation at the polls, and our
grangers will cost the state a lot of
money all to no purpose. The idea of
shutting down on extravagance Is good,
but 1 am of the opinion that there should
be some foundation to a test case. I be
lieve that the people will vote that our
granger friends have no case. I think
that Is the sentiment out here in the
sagebrush. '. JOHN G. SWAN.
Principal. Klamath County High School.
APPROVES SCHOOL TEXT CHANGE!
Teacher Sketches the Educational In
stitution of the Future.
PORTLAND, May 6. (To the Editor.)
Every few years there comes up the
question of a change of school text books,
and just that often there is a cry of
expense.
Who suggests this change of texts?
The teachers do. Why? There surely can
be no selfish motives on their pae-t.
There is scant profit even to the book
sellers. The per cent of gain on school
books Is less than in any other form of
merchandise. This same cry arose when
another text was added to the Bible and
spelling-book schools. Since then, we
have had many changes. But each im
provement has been fought for. There
have always been a few who have become
educated In spite of the schools. But
that is no argument for poor methods
and dry text. School is for the aver
age child. And the average child has
not the determination of Abraham Lin
coln. It is the average child 'that re
cruits the slums.
I will hope that the school of the next
2ft years will be as different from that of
the present, as the present is from that
of 50 years ago. I hope that then from
35 to 50 children will not be penned in
one room. (70 deg. F.) and seated in one
place for six hours a day. It is a won
der that more children do not develop
nerves and more teachers become in
valids. Suppose a mother were to restrict
even two or three children in that way.
The school of the future will have gym
nasiums, kitchens, gardens, workshops.
A child will not have to learn that a
square foot Is a surface bounded by four
straight lines meeting at right angles.
He will have square foot before him.
He will have miniature house to carpet,
plaster and hang paper. When he fin
ishes the common schools, he will have all
the accomplishments of a Robinson Cru
soe and know some craft at which he
could work. Then, will we have the
millenium- A TEACHER.
ity.
PERPETl'AL FRA? CHI5ES ARB DEAD
Are Only- l.!renaea Revokable 7 Con
ferrlna; Power-. Ssri Mr. Hayek.
PORTLAND. May . (To the Editor.)
During the last few days Portland has
heard considerable from candidates seek
ing nomination at the primaries, about
perpetual franchises and pledging them
selves against such arafts. It has also
been publicly said thaT certain prominent
attorneys assert that the Fourth-street
as well as the Portland Gas Company's
franchises are perpetual, and again that
other learned expositors of the law.
equally distinguished, maintain that they
are not. Some one else asserts that as
suming the Fourth-street franchise to be
perpetual, it does not deprive the City
of Portland of the right to compel the
Southern Pacific Company to run electric
cars over that line instead of railroad
trains pulled by steam locomotives.
While all these discussions are going
on. the Southern Pacific Is regularly run
ning its passenger and freight tratne
through the heart of Portland, and the
Portland Gas Company continues to fleece
the public lamb. The latter Is more or
less befuddled as to whether or not the
City of . Portland is situated In the Port
land Gas Company, or whether the Port
land Gas Company Instead of the City
of Portland Is now the metropolis of Ore
gon. After all I have heard from candidates,
and myself read about grafts in per
petuity. I have come to the conclusion:
That as a fundamental proposition in mu
nicipal law. it Is impossible to grant a!
perpetual franchise, either now or In the
future charter or no charter and: That
all the so-called perpetual franchises
granted in the past, by either a territorial
government or the City of Portland, are
not franchises at all, but merely licenses
revocable at any time by the powers that
granted them.
Why are the powers Inactive? We have
a City Attorney whose duty it Is to force
issues of the kind enumerated, and while
we are waiting for another Legislature
to meet and adjourn with possibly nothing
done, let us get busy. Let the proper
authorities under whose jurisdiction the
matter properly comes. Instruct the City
Attorney to get busy. As to Fourth street,
it is now no longer a question of per
petual franchise, but whether the run
ning of freight and passenger trains over
that public thoroughfare is not main
taining a public nuisance.
Now, since "the powers that be" do not
and will not act, I submit: That no man
should be elected to any office who has
not clearly stated 1i!b position on all im
portant questions concerning the public
welfare. That no office-seeker should be
trusted of whom wa have been fore
warned that he has corporation leanings,
and certainly no citizen should be elected
to any position with legislative func
tions who is representing a quasi-public
corporation as attorney, financial agent
or lobbyist. That any man who makes
certain promises while a candidate and
after becoming a public official remains
inactive or acts in opposition to his prom
ises should be presumed to have "sold
out" and be accorded thereafter the
traitor's reward.
FRANK HAYEK.
LIFK -IN NEW YORK'S HOTELS
Some of the Prices Pnld by Men Who
Have Money to Burn,
From New York Letter to the Philadel
phia public Ledger.
John W. Gates- reservation of a suite
of rooms in the new Plaza Hotel, which
will cost him $42,000, has called attention
to the staggering prices paid for accom
modations In the great hotels and apart
ment houses of New York. Fifth avenue,
of course, is the street on which the high
est rentals are charged. At the Holland
House, for instance, there are sufteB con
sisting of nothing more than two rooms
a parlor and a bath costing $15,000 a year.
These are corner suites, with a frontage
on Fifth avenue. Fully 35 suites In this
hotel are leased by persons who are prac
tically permanent guests. No other city
can show anything like such prices for
hotel accommodation, nor even London
during the season, when all hotel rates
are raised from 30 to 50 per cent.
At the Waldorf-Astoria there are a
number of permanent guests paying in the
vicinity of $20,000 a year for small suites.
Prices of an Impressive nature are like
wise the rule among the apartment hotels
in the Fifth-avenue district. At the Ren
aissance, on the corner of Forty-third
street and Fifth avenue, suites may be
made up according to pleasure of the
persons leasing them at the rate of $tW0
to $S00 for each room per month.
In the apartments above the Van Nor
den Trust Company, on the corner of
Fifth avenue and Sixtieth street, 10-room
suites cost as much as $12,000 a year, un
furnished. At the Bolkenhavn. on the
corner of Fifty-ninth street, $9000 a year
for a furnished apartment and $7500 for
one unfurnished are by no means unusual
figures. But when It Is considered that
James J. Hill and other magnates fre
quent this region when in town, such
prices begin to appear less astonishing.
Apartments at Sherry's are leaded at the
rate of $1000 per room a year. The aver
age cost of small suites in the Sherry
building is $5000 per year.
No Such Thins; aa a Cork Ug,
Minneapolis Journal.
"A cork leg?" said the dealer. Why,
man, a cork leg would crumble under
you ltke a leg of bread. You don't
want a cork leg, but an elm or willow
one."
"I thought the best ones were cork
the lightest, you know."
"No, indeed. A leg was never made
of cork since the world's beglnnng.
But many men think as you do. and
I 'll tell you how the fallacy, originated.
The inventer of the modern artificial
leg the leg instead of the stick was
John Cork. Cork's legs, cork 'Igs,
were famous around 1810. And when
ever a man makes your mistake he
pavs an unconscious tribute to Cork's
skill."
THE PARTIES OUTSIDE "WE HADN'T INTENDED TO
CALL ANYWAY."
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
"PETE," A BVLLDOG, IS NOW ON DUTY AT THK WHTTKHOUPK TO RK
I FORCE THE POLICEjrEJf NOW STA riONED THERE. WASHINGTON
DISPATCH.
COST OF LIVING GOES tP.
Labor Bureau Sa Utah-Water Mark
for 17-1 ear-Period Late la 1906.
New York Evening Post.
The Bureau of Labor has taken another
look into the cost of living, and it finds
it is -tllI Increasing. -Its latest examin
ation had to do wtth wholesale prices
only. It is now making a study of retail
prices. The Investigation Just completed
shows that wholesale prices, considering
-S commodities as a whole, reached a
.higher level .in m than at anv other
time during the 17-year period covered.
The average for the year 1SKK was 5.S per
cent higher than for 1905: : 5 per cent'
higher than for 1897 the year of lowest
prices during the 17-year period: and 22 4
per cent higher than the average for the
ten years from 1890 to 1S99. Prices reached
their highest point during the 17-vear
neriod in December, 1906, the average
for that month being 4.1 per cent higher
than the average for the year 1906. and:
S3 Der cent higher than the average for
December. 1905.
The study of the Bureau was extended
to farm products. foods, clothes and
clothing, fuel and lighting, metals and
implements, lumher and building ma
terials, drugs and chemicals, house furn
isnlng good., and miscellaneous com
modities. Only two of the nine groups;
showed a decrease in price as compared
with 1905 farm products and drugs and
chemicals. Seven groups showed an in
crease in price, this increase reaching
10.4 per cent. In the case of metals and
implements, and 9.6 per cent in the case
of lumber and building materials.
The average price for 1906 of farm pro
ducts, taken as a whole, differs but lit-,
tie from that of 1905, a decrease of only!
one-half of one per cent being shown.'
Food as a whole Increased 3.6. per cent I
in average price for 1906, as 'compared i
with 1905. The principal articles show
ing an increase were cheese, fish, fruit, j
hog products, milk, rice, and vegetables, i
No change took place in the price of I
bread. A slight decrease in the wholesale;
cost of coffee, eggs, wheat flour, corn'
meal, beef, sugar and tea Is shown.
Of the. 76 articles included underj
clothes 'and clothing, 66 showed an In-1
crease in price, Ave showed no change,!
and only four showed a decrease. In t
the group, as a whole, there was an !
average Increase of 7.1 per cent In price, j
In fuel and lighting, as a group, there)
waa an increase in price of .5 per cent. '
There was an advance In the price of an-;
thracite coal of domestic sizes, coke, and
petroleum, and a decrease In candles, j
broken anthracite coal, and bituminous
coal. There was a greater increase in 1
price for metals and implements than
any other group. In this group the in
crease for 1906 over 1905 was 10.4 per cent.
Of a total of 3 articles in the group
there was an increase in price of 29
articles, including tools, barbed wire,
copper. lea pig Iron, nails, silver, tin
plates, etc. Tvjenty-four of the 27 articles
Included under leober and building ma
terial increased in price In 1906. Tha:
only three articles that showed a de-'
crease were pine doors, linseed oil. and
quartered oak. In the group, as a whole, 1
there was an Increase in price of 9.6 per
cent.
The only one of nine groups under con
sideration that decreased in price to
any considerable extent was that of drugs
and chemicals. In this group there was
a decrease of 7.2 per cent. There was an
increase in price of both grain and wood
alcohol, and in that of brimstone. House
furnishing goodf, as a whole. Increased
1.7 per cent in price. More than half the
articles in this group, namely., earthen
ware, glassware, woodenware. and ar
ticles of cutlery did not change In price.
The Bureau of Labor has made' no at
tempt to go into the causes of the rise
and fall of prices. The aim has been to
give the prices as they actually prevailed
in the market. In explaining why it does
not discuss the Increase In prices, the
Bureau says: "The causes are too com
plex, the relative Influence of each too
uncertain. In some cases involving too
many economic question, to permit their
discussion in connection with the present
article." The Bureau ventures to sug
gest that the various internal revenue
and tariff acts have In a marked degree
affected prices by helping them to move
upward.
Carrie Nation Declines Marriage Offer.
Washington, (D. C.) Dispatch to the
New York World.
Mrs. Carrie A. Nation has had an offer
of marriage from a Civil War veteran
living In Virginia, and In the current
Issue of her newspaper, The Hatchet,
she thus tells why she declined It:
"Lonely and despondent at times be
cause he hasn't a wife. Thomas Flan
agan, of Virginia, wants to marry. And
he sings his song of 'Can't Ton Sea I'm
Lonely?' to Mrs. Carrie A. Nation. Shi
received the letter ot proposal from this
ardent admirer -Friday, and he wants an
early answer so he can arrange his af
fairs. "But he will receive the marble heart.
He will get the frigid mitt. Mrs. Nation
says she Is wedded to her work and that
she can't wed a man.
"In his letter Flanagan says he is a
government pensioner at $12 a month,
and has $275 in the bank, together with
a house and some land. His wife died
some time ago, and ever sine he hag
been lonely, and at times despondent."
Moving . In.
Tietrolt Free Press.
Across the street they're moving in.
The flvst van load Is there;
And on the sidewalk there is heaped
Much costly furniture.
And through a window not far off
A neighbor looks the while.
To estimate from what she see
The stranger's wealth and style.
"A baby grand piano! My!
They must have lots of dough;
I wonder who on earth they are?"
She mutters, soft and low.
"Jut see the lovely chairs they have,
I'd like to own them all;
I wonder what her husband does?
I'll be the first to call."
The second van arrives, and still
The neighbor watches there:
Her eyes are Kiued upon each rug.
And fastened on each chair.
Of every article she maltes
A rapid mental list:
Then mutters, as the doors are closed t
"1 hope they play bridge whist.