Morning Oregonian., December 26, 1908, Page 9, Image 9

STUDENTS GOMETO
JOSEPHI'S DEFENSE
University of Oregon Medicos
Declare Course as Given
Is First-Class.
DR. PAN TON IS FLAYED
Detractor of Medical College and
Its Chief Instructor Accused of
Having Acted In Under
handed Manner.
PORTLAND. Dec 23. (To the Editor.)
Th various articles which have here
tofore, appeared in the city paper mn
cerning the medical department of tlie
I'nlvcrMty of Oregon have caused the
.-tiir!nls In the institution, who feel
deeply concerned, to take action In the
marter. We wish H clearly understood
that Dr. Josephi hns no connection with
tlila article; that he has not read or
heard it read and knows not Its contents.
We have the highest resjiect for him
as a true gentleman and an able "in
structor and no responsibility attaches
to Mm for anything which appears
herein.
While it Is our desire to give any man
due ereiiit for honesty of purpose, when
a man who is In position to possess him
self of the farts In the case, weaves
siirh a web of misleading statements,
many of which are utterly false, no con
sideration for his position should save
him from just condemnation.
Jeakmsy Charged.
Dr. A. C. Pan ton. who is the party re
sponsible for the becinnlnij of the series
if articles which have been published,
has placed himself in a peculiar position
before the public. At one moment he
poses as a martyr In the cause of the
poor human beings at the cross-roads,
the next moment shows his real attitude,
that of an individual prostituting his
hiEh office for the gratification of his
personal jealousy and enmity toward
those against whom he holds a 20-year-old
grudge.
Dr. Panton. while urging the necessity
for higher educational requirements and
higher standards for the profession, as
evidenced by his various speeches upon
the subject, which are matters of record,
and criticising the local medical college
as delinquent in such matters, and fur
ther as being a nonmemher of the Asso
ciation . of American Medical Colleges,
makes a statement which. If true, would
brand the A- A. M. C. as an organization
with which no reputable college or self
respecting body would care to be affil
iated. He states that the local college
was apparently passed into the accept
able class of the A. A. M. C. because
of the personal friendship of Dr. Ar
thur Dean Bevan. Does he mean by
this that Dr. Mevan has no greater sense
of fairness or honor than to turn down
one college and accept another simply
for friendship's sake, and does he wish
us to believe that the A. A. M. C. Is
builded upon such a foundation?
Source of Knowledge I'nimportant.
Dr. Panton has stated, the slate law
e i.iencea the fact, and we so understand
It. that the public Is not concerned as to
where a man gew his education. It is
the efficiency of tbe man. and the real
question- is as to the competency of the
man to efiter into the practice of medd
ihie. His being a graduate of Toronto
no more fits him for his work than his
graduation from Portland, and so far as
surgery is concerned, many of the grad
uates of the M. D. U. of O. are the equals
of Dr. Pajiton today.
We will ohallenge the doctor to com
pare his alma mater a. the time of his
graduation with our own college as she
star. da today, assured that our own will
nut suffer by the comparison. The To
ronto school, from which Dr. Panton,
came was a stock company until about
three years ago. when it merged with an
other, disincorporated, and a large school
made thereby. And further, m connection
with his statement or that of another
writing through the city papers to the
effer-t that our college is furnishing abor
tionists, quacks, etc.. we can point out
to Dr. Panton, a graduate from his own
alma mater, who Is u present connected
with one of the advertising shark insti
tutions of this chy. Uet him do a little
missionary work toward redemption of
this lost eoul.
l'lenty of Clinics.
As to the statement that this commu
nity does not furnish sufficient anatom
ical material, had he taken the trouble
to ascertain the true condition, any de
sire for tlie truth would have withheld
his sl.itemeni.
We have a great variety of medical
and surreal clinical instruction by tlie
highest talent in the Northwest. The
fncilities are not excelled In any com
munity of far greater size. St. Vinoent's
Hospita'.. IJnod Samaritan Hospital. Baby
Homtj". Multnomah County Hospital, our
ovn free dispensary department treats a
great number of cases eac'.i year; and
Crystal Springs Sanitarium at Mount
Talinr furnishes, according to the atate
m -nt of neurologists, as great or greater
tielit for the study of the entire llet of
nfrvous diseases than any other locality
In the United StiUrs.
Our laiora.torie? for the study of dls
aj and disea-se-produetng agents are
conducted by able men. the pa.thologk?al
laboratory receiving specimens from the
operating tables of the hospitals and by
contributions fro,m physicians and sur
g.ms of the city. The bacteriological
laboratories are undeir the direction of
I ir. Ralph C Matson. and full and com
plete technic is carried out by every
member of the se-nior and Junior classes,
and w will defy Dr. Panton to follow
one of our Junior students thpoutrh one
dav s work In the laboratory. When he
got through he would know more of what
he was taiklng eiiotit than appears at
present.
Dr. Ralph MiJ.wn is authority for the
statement that the course in bacteriology
!nri is better than any other be has
visited. Cambridge. London, not except
ed, lie nays: "I have visited the bac
teriolojrloal laboratories connected with
tvie best coll-es in Irwlon and also at
("atnltriiige University. Though some of
them hail larger laboratories and more
earnr-rivm. this was not so in
proportion to the students they had.'
Our microscopes and other laboratory
apparatus are the nune made as that used
1n the leading schools In the world. So
far as other colleges having more micros-opes,
they have not. We have one
fir every student In any class, end oil
Immersion leases and Abbe condensers
for each pair of students. We devote
more time to the work than four-fifths
of the medical colleges and from my
personal knowledge I will put students
front our clasps in bacteriology in a
cotr.petitive examination with a bacteriol
ogy class of any other college In the
country, in hoth practical and theoretical
bacteriology, and I firmly believe our
stud"tits will make at least an equal
showing. Our plan of teaching hac
t noleiry is patterned after Cambridge
sad is lust as- comprehensive
As to aui'fccvv, no student In our senior
class comes to graduation without hav
ing assisted the operating surgeon in
many, some as high as 20, others many
more operations, embracing the whole
field of operative surgery. In addition to
this, the students under direction of an
excellent Instructor, Dr. Aivln W. Baird.
perform all the operative surgery- upon
the cadavers In the college.
As to lectures being delivered by stu
dents, to the positive knowledge of every
student now In the college, no lecture has
ever been given by any student acting
as a substitute for the regular lecturer.
The majority of our students are West
ern young men and women. Interested In
Western enterprise, and we believe in up
building rather than destroying our home
institutions of learning, to many of which
we can point with great pride throughout
this Pacific Northwest. Every few days
we have opportunity to compare the at
tainments of men from various Institu
tions, and our Western men certainly
need take no back seat.
Our faculty and lecture corps are held
In high esteem by the students as a
whole, and no one. except some dis
gruntled specimen of humanity who has
failed to make good either in school or
in practice has a word to say against
them. Dr. Josephi, lecturing upon nerv
ous diseases and obstetrics, imparts in
struction of the clearest and highest or
der, and is constantly bringing Into use
ail the latest products of Investigation
as set forth by the leading Journals In
the medical world.
Pride In Lectures.
We point with pride to the men who
occupy the lecture platform in this insti
tution; men who stand in the front rank
of the medical profession In Portland.
They are Dre. S. E. Josephi, K. A. J.
Mackenzie. O. a Slnswanger, Richard
Nunn. G. M. Wells, A. J. Giesy, J. F. Bell,
George F. Wilson, El F. Tucker, H J.
Labbe. George B. Story-. A. B. Mackay,
James C. Zan. R. C. Yenney. C. H. Wheel
er. J. O. Wiley. J. A. Gilbert. Ralph C.
Matson, Jtay W. Matson.L. H. Hamilton,
Frank M. Taylor. L. A. Shane, O. A.
Thornton, C. J. McCusker. C. C. McCor
nack, O. B. Wight. G. S. Whiteside, G. H.
Ostrander. J. C. El King, Theo. Fessler,
Robert I. Gillespie. George F. Koehler,
William House. A. W. Balrd. P. J. Wiley,
William A. Shea. L. J. Wolf.
Without going Into details of the de
grees and honorable membership and sta
tions of each, it need only be said that
Johns Hopkins. Harvard. McGlll. Rush
and other large institutions have repre
sentatives among the members of the
stan. Further than this there are sev
eral members of the profession In Port
land who are ready and willing to accept
a position upon the lecture platform of
this college.
It costs these men no little expenditure
of time and energy to fulfill their duties.
True, they win the esteem of the grad
uates of the college, and when the young
er doctor is In need of assistance in his
difficult 'case, what more natural than
that he will turn to the one whom he be
lieves to be pre-eminently qualified to
advise the best course for the benefit of
his patient. Dr. Panton's action while
a member of the lecture staff were not
such as to warrant a very high opinion
of him, hence a probable cause for a part
of his slanderous and libelous statements
concerning his former associates In thie
Institution. A lecturer who la wholly in
competent will not be tolerated by a body
of students, and It Is a safe statement
that they would never tolerate Dr. Pan
ton upon the platform of this college.
Inconsistency Alleged.
Dr. Panton is credited with the state
ment that he is now Independent of his
practice, which he is willing to sacrifice.
If needs be, for the betterment of condi
tions and the advancement of the princi
ples he has advocated, yet he quit his
post at the college not only once, but
twice or thrice, because, as he is said to
have stated, there was not money enough
in it to pay him for spending his time in
the work, and also that it kept him too
hard at work preparing himself to de
liver his lectures.
Much more can be said uron the sub
ject, but we deplore such a condition as
has been brought about by the dirty work
he has indulged in. There is plenty of
room for the expenditure of his energy
in proper direction as evidenced by a re
cent circular letter from the State Board
of Medical Examiners setting forth the
conditions the laws governing the board.
the authority of the board, etc. Dr. Pan
ton's name as president of the board Is
very conspicuous in this circular by Its
absence from its proper place at the top
of the list of signatures of the members
of the Board. Evidently his attention is
fixed upon other purposes, and those pur
poses are not so entirely philanthropic
as he would have the general public be
lieve. We have the statement of a member
of the present senior class, who will back
his statement, that Dr. Panton, having
heard of some adverse criticism of him
self by a etudent in the graduating class
of last year, said "that man will receive
no favors from the Board," which shows
that Dr. Panton takes the view that no
one has a right to criticise him or his
actions, and he appeared to speak as
delegating to himself the action of the
entire Board to down the man who would
dare to voice his sentiments.
" Understood Methods" Charged.
We have Uie greatest respect for any
man or men who occupy such a position
of trust as Dr. Panton has Just vacated.
and who conduct their offices honestly
and impartially, but we do moat em
phatically protest against the underhand
methods and dirty statements reflecting
upon .self-respecting young men and
women who have never done him a par
ticle of injury; young men who are pre
paring themselves for higher positions
and labors in this great and growing
western country. We declare that it is
ungentlemanly; It is disloyal to Oregon,
h is unAmerican. arid it la contemptible.
We who have heretofore stood out in
support of the doctor and his supposed
efforts toward elevating the standard of
the profession are not now trying to
lower those standards, but we feel that
we have suddenly been disillusioned and
that the attempt has been made to use
us as a big stick with which he would
beat down the monster of hie fancies.
It Is hard to believe that the man who
has posed before the people as the ad
vocate of higher education would be so
liule and contemptible as to insult the
students of the M. D. U. O. to satisfy a
personal grudge held against Dr. Bell and
our dean. Dr. S. B. Josephi. His mean
statements regarding the mental capac
ities of our students and the ability of
the instructors in our college is almost
incomprehensible. He has stated openly
that many of the graduates are noble
men, and has pointed to such men as Dr.
Wiley. Dr. Matson and Dr. Hoffman,
stating that the latter had obtained the
highest grading of any one who had
passed the Board examinations since ha
had become a member of the same. We
would ask him if he remembers where
these men received their medical educa
tion. If he has such high regard for
some, why not for others who are coming
and to come from this institution?
Railroading Is Denied.
Referring to the charge that the fac
ulty is engaged In the practice of rail
roading students through to graduation,
we cite the case of the present senior
class of only 14 members. This class,
during the four years' course, has num
bered 23. Two have changed schools,
with clear examination cards. Two others
changed schools, conditioned In on or
more branches, others dropped to lower
class, still others have quit the study
entirely. When we look over our class
roll and find only one-half remaining we
wonder If this corresponds with Dr. Pan
ton's definition of railroading. From our
point of view it spells sidetrack. After
all. a sidetrack is a part of a railroad,
so perhaps he can Justify the charge.
V.'e who know ths facts in this matter
realise to the full extent the Injustice
of the writings and Bpeechea of Dr. Pan- ,
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ton, and we have only this to add to the
present statement, that we do not pro
pose to sit idly by while the hand
prompted by rank Jealousy and hate
reaches forth to paint a dirty smear
across the face of each new diploma from
the medical department of the University
of Oregon.
The student body of the medical de
partment of the Universlrv of Oregon,
By GEORGR A. CATHEY, Pres.
J. B. GIL.L.IS. Sec.
WHITE TEMPLE EXERCISES
Bible School I tenders Programme
Amid Beautiful Decorations.
The White Temple Bible School held
its Christmas exercises last night in the
large auditorium of the White Temple,
which was decorated for the occasion
with electric lights and festoons of ever
green. The Christmas tree, illuminated
with colored electric lights, was excep
tionally beautiful. The programme was
in charge of a committee consisting of
Mrs. A. U. Veazle, Mrs. W. G. Wood
worth. Mrs. C. A. Dolph and Mrs. George
Hester. W. R. Lltxenherg, superintend
ent, presided. The following programme
was rendered:
Song Hark, the Herald Angels
School.
Prayer K- E- - 6mith
Scripture reading
W. R. IJtzenber.
Drill Joy to the World - . .
primary Class.
A Christmas Thought" -.
Pastor J. Whltcomb Brougher.
Tableau Drill The New Tear and Months
Represented by young men and younir
women in costumes appropriate to
each season.
Song Hail to the Lord's Annolnted. ...
School.
Opening of Christmas tree. .
Selection
Orchestra.
Dr. Brougher announced that the
decorations would remain in place over
Sunday and that the Temple quartet and
choir would render a special Christmas
cantata Sunday night. Dr. Brougher
will preach Sunday morning a New
Year's sermon on "The Trinity of Bur
den Bearing."
New Brazilian Xayal Attache.
RIO JANEIRO. Dec 25. Lieutenant
Conrado Heck was today appointed
Naval Attache to the Brazilian Era
bassy at Washington.
OUR SUGAR BILL IS $1,000,000 A DAY
The Average Cltlscn Consume Half His Own Weight in Suvar Every Year.
180T Was the Banner Year for Home Product aud Importation tireat In
crease la Beet Sugar.
Tha average citizen of the United
States consumes half his own weight
in sufrar every year, and the sufrar bill
of the. country aggregates 1.000,0u0 for
every day of the year.
These assertions are Justified by sta
tistical statement Just prepared by the
Department of Commerce and Labor,
which shows tha quantity of sugrar
produced In the United States, the
quantity brought from our own Islands,
the quantity imported from foreign
countries, and th quantity exported,
showing a total consumption of from
AAA AAA AAA in 7 AAA AAA AAA TlOUndS a
year,' the total for the latest year. 1907,
being 7,089.67,VS pouna. wouuiuiii
this enormous total at the average re
tall price of 5 cents per pound, wa
get a total of $372,000,000 as its cost
to the consumer, or more than $1,000,000
for each of the 365 days of the year.
Dividing the total of 7.089.667.975
pounds by the 1907 figures of popula
tion we get an average consumption
for 1907 of 82 S-5 pounds per capita
which to more than one-half of the price
per capita weight of the people of the
country, including men. women, and chil
dren in this calculation.
till. Annrmous total Or
7,000,000,000 pounds, speaking now in
very general terms, is
home, one fifth 1. brought from our
islands, and the remaining three-fifths
from foreign countries. Speaking more
accurately, the Bureau of Statistics
,nw. that 21 and three-
tenth, per cent of the sugar consump
tion of the country m -
. j. 17 nnri neven-tenths
nome pruum ....... --
per cent from our own islands, and he
"emalnlng 1 per cent from foreign
U15U 000.000 pounds: that brought
tO l.0 1 i.uvu.vy w 1 oc i rvs- nnundfi
from fore, coTns. 4.S67
Vund. Of thel.5nround.
produced """ aaaato from beets.
duced from emm ' -
Tit the 1.254.000,000 pounds, brought
from our own isia..u. - -
from Porto tuco. ,i,,v ..v.. -
i oc nun nun from the Fnllip-
rines. Of 'the' 4.367,000.000 pound,
brought from foreign ""'vJIaz'
000 000 was cane sugar from Cuba, 73Z,
000 000 from other cane-sugar coun
tries and 898.000.000 beat sugar pro
duced ta Burop-. Meantime. 43 000.000
pounds were exported, leaving the to
tal consumption at home, as sbove In
dicated over 7.000.000,000 pounds.
Largest Record la Every Way.
rA in tha United States
. ... In several nartleu-
In liJU( w a." u'4"" -
lars. The quantity of sugar Imported
. .(as waa l n t fir- ! than
from toreigTi cuu",co -
I.u.Tw, v, i,ntitv brouKht from
ever uciujo. - ' - x. .
our own islands was larger than in any
former year, tne quantity i""""
home exceeded that of any other year.
i.w .rmrurl was larger than
in any year of the past decade, and the
per capita consumpnu
-a. n average of
ever rw.01 ucu, -
pounds for each man woman, and child
of continental
ii.. i.i....Hnr feature of this rec
ord year of 1907 was the fact that the
production or oi
time exceeded the production of oana
sugar; the product of the year being,
OFFICIATE AT CHRISTMAS MASS
IS
Father Thompson Says World
Forgets Christmas Lessons.
SERMON AT ST. MARY'S
Preacher Teolares This Age Disre
gards What Christ's Birth Taught
in Feverish Striving After Vain
and Worthless Things of Life.
At the pontifical high mass yesterday
morning' in 9t. Mary's Cathedral, Father
Thompson delivered the Christmas ser
mon. He dwelt upon the influence that
the personality and message of Christ
have exerted upon the world and con
trasted the civilization of today with Its
understanding of the life of the spirit
with civilization which antedated Christ's
coming.
Archbishop Christie celebrated mass
and special music was rendered by the
cathedral choir under the direction of
F. W. Goodrich. Father Thompson's
sermon was in part as follows:
The ago In which w live Is prone to for
get the leosons taugiit us in the circum
stances of Christ's nativity. It shrinks from
the consideration that the poverty, suffer
ing and lowliness of the Savior's coming1
were God's ways of teaching: us the vanity
and worthlessness of so much that . we
feverishly strive for. Ai;d this is why the
world needs th Infant Savior today, needs
his example, need! his teaching-. Without
him there can be no peace, no happiness, no
living worthy of our dignity and destiny.
No formal argument is -needed to establish
this truth among the vast multitude of
Christians of every nation and tongue who
stand in spirit near the Madonna and her
child. We have the facts of our own ex
perience, the testimony of our own con
science, and we know, with a certitude be
yond the range of sophistry or argument,
that Jenus Is our Savior, our peace, our hope,
our Joy.
cane sugar, 544,000,000 pounds; beet
sugar, 967,000,000 pounds.
Rapid Increase in Beet Sugar.
The Increase of the production of beet
sugar In the United States has been very
rapid In recent years. A decade ago.
In 1897, the production of beet sugar
was about 84,000,000 pounds, against
644,000,000 pounds of cane sugar. Five
years later, in 1902, the beet sugar pro
duction was 369.000,000 pounds, against
729,000,000 pounds of cane sugar; In
1907 beet sugar production was 967,
000,000 pounds, against 544,000,000
pounds of cane sugar, the beet sugar
production of 1907 being greater than
that of cane sugar in any year of the
history of the country.
The World's Productions.
Another Interesting fact shown by
the table is the world's production of
sugar and the share thereof consumed
In the United, States. The table shows
that the world's production has prac
tically doubled In the past 20 years,
having grown from 17,000.000,000
pounds in 1887 to 32,000,000,000 In 1907,
and that while the United States con
sumed about 18 per cent of the total
world's production of 1887, It con
sumed 22 per oent of the greatly ln
T creased production of 1907. A still
more interesting fact shown regarding
the world's sugar crop Is that beets
now supply one-half of the grand to
tal produced, while 20 years ago chey
supplied but about one-third of the
total product.
The table which follows presents in
condensed form certain of the more im
portant facts presented in the table
above referred to.
1H90 1900 1907
Produced In ContI- Million Million Million
nntsl U. S. I.bs. I.bs. Lbi.
Cne 305.8 334.2 S44.8
Bt
4.9
163.4 967.2
Total sugar
Brought Into
8. from
Porto Rico . . .
Hawaii
Philippines . .
110.7
497.8 1.611.6
76.9
124. ii
259. 8
72.8 41S.1
604.7 21.0
49.5 25.2
T't'i from Islands 581. J
Imported from
other countries
Beet MM
Cane from Cuba.. 1,041.1
Cane from other
countries 731. 6
628.8 1,254.3
701.3
705.5
1.8S4.J
8,391.3
26.9
4.4S8.8
24,274.6
397.7
3.2X6.5
Total i
Exported
Consumption, Con
tinental U. S. . . 3
World production
of su?ar 18
Percentage woi'ld
product
Beet
Can
Percentage world
product consumed
In V. S
Percentage con
sumption in U.
8. supplied hy
Domestic eugsr . .
Sugar from islands
nanwd
Sugar from foreign
countries
Per capita con
sumption In U.
S.. lbs
Price per lb. at
Ner York ex
pressed in cts.
Raw centrifugal..
Refined, granulated
373.8
47.5
197.2
637.0
4,366.7
.42.9
7.0159.7
32,179.7
SAVIOR
NEEDED
43.0 50.8 49.7
67.0 49.2 50.3
17.2 18.6, 22.0
1.7 11.1 21.3
17.5 14.0 17.7
72.8 74 9 61.0
51.1 58.1 82.
6 67 4.5T S.T8
6.27 5.83 4.65
We shall not essay the ungrateful task of
depicting what t might have been and
doubtless would have been, had we never
luarned to know Christ or tried to rollov
him. Both th past and the present fur
nish sufricient evidence of the error and cor
ruption that besot the mind ana neari,
wherft Christ is neither known, nor loved,
nor fnllowen.
Without the Saviour, there is no love of
truth, of purity, of duty. He is forgotten.
self-sacrifice becomes madness, and meek'
nes3 and humility men Imbecility. With
out Christ, there is no restraint for pas
sion, no barrier to oxcess. With Christ
alienated from, thrt heart, there Is no Sister
of Charity to soften the sufferings of the
wounded and the. dying, no angels of mercy
to care for the aged, the unfortunate ana
the homeless; no apostles to illumine our
minds with heavenly truths, to fill our
hearts witlt faith and hope and love.
Where i'hrHt is not. tnere is no eacred-
ness to marriage, no permanent mutual
love, no Instruction in virtue, no honor to
motherhood Reject the Savior of the
world, and vou leave man to perish mis
erably In the fiery furnace of his own vile
passions, in the dark gloom of Ignorance
and despair.
Truly has the inspired writer told us
that Christ came to save thivt w-leh waj
lost. Yes. so lost, so enervated by ex
cesees, so degraded by vice, so blinded by
error, was humanity on the day of Christ's
coming, that none save a God of love would
have stooped to save it. and naught but in
finite power and holiness would have been
itlile in rnlv h remertv.
So utterly barren of efficacy are merely
earthlv considerations as an offset to tne
weakness of our wills and our proneness to
evil, that It baffles our Ingenuity to ex
plain t!ie conduct of those who. acting as
If the past were wlinout recom. aua m
present voiceless, proclaim some folly-rt-eklng
theory of ethics as a substitute for
the person and precepts of Jesus, whom we
have been created to know ann to servw
and to love.
Xo. man has no other Savior than Jesus,
our Christmas gift from God; and If the
light and love of his countenance be not
before us in the inevitable hour of temp
tation, then in bitter truth there is no
salvation from cur enemies and from the
hand of those who hate us.
"Save us lest we perish." has ever been
the cry of humanity as well as the appeal
of the trembling apostle, and to have Christ
tlie Savior in our mlust is to nave vic
tory on earth and heavenly rest hereafter.
All that men need ever do to prove to
their satisfaction the truth of Christ's
claims as our Savior and teacher. Is
test his commands by living them. By be
ing obedient to God s precepts, we purify
our hearts ami elevate our minus; auu
with our faculties thus tuned to the har
mories "of divine revelation, we come to
understand more fuily and to realize more
vlvidlv the Incomparable truth and sweet
ness of Christ's character and precepts. By
living Christianity we vindicate Its claims.
T,et us ask, then, in humble prayer this
Christmas morning, the Divine infant to
call us frequently from the hillsides of our
lal.ors and watchlngs to Bethlehem, that
we mav see the thing which has come to
pass. The less we are in a woriaiy wa,
the fewer our human consolations, the
n'tarer we may draw to our infant Savior,
who loved poor shepherds better, than the
princes of royal blood. Let us pray that
the deep meaning of his poverty, suffering
and linmilitv mav not be lost upon us, for
the very dangers against which Christ thus
warns us are ever striving against heart
nd conscience. Let us consider finally.
that the child who is born to us this day la
also the mighty God, the Prince of Peace,
the Kather of the world to come; and let
us ask him to keep us always responsive
to the appeal or nis t nnsimaa love.
CHRISTMAS AS TRADING TIME
Bishop Scadding Says Real Signifi
cance Is IiO.st Sight Of.
Bishop Scadding celebrated Christmas
communion and delivered the sermon
yesterday in St. David's Episcopal
Church, on East Twelfth street. Ap
propriate anthems and hymns were
sung by the vested choir of boys and
young women. In spite ' of the in
clement weather, the services were
largely attended. Before beginning his
sermon, the Bishop referred to the com
ing of Rev. H. R. Talbot, of Albany,
New York, as rector or St. David s, and
paid a high tribute to him as a church
man and a citizon.
In opening his sermon Bishop Scad
ding reviewed the events Just prior to
the birth of the Savior; the arrival of
the Galilean peasants, Joseph, the vil
lage carpenter, and Mary, his espoused
wife; their pathetic condition, and the
fact that there was no room for them
in the Inn. From this he drew a paral
lel of Christ's coming Into the world
today, saying that material things oc
cupy such large space In men's hearts
that often there Is no room for Christ.
He said:
We make too much cf material gifts. For
many Christmas is merely a trading sea
son. The gift of Christmas is God's gift
of himself. No christian can really have
a happy Christmas unless Its happiness
centers in Christ. How much Is lost to
us of this natural love and Joy. because
the world has seised this Christmas-tide,
and. in a whirl oS commercial acl!vi;y, has
crowded religion Into tUo background. .Out
of all the expenditure of the past week,
how much or rather how little has been
reserved for the cause of the Christ child?
It la as true of the hearts of some of us
who bear the name of Christian, who ex
pect Christian services at marriage and
burial, as it was of the hotel in Bethlehem,
"there is no room for him In the Inn."
Heroic firemen Nearly Stifled.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 25. As a re
sult of smoke Inhalation In a fire In a
moving: picture show last night, Sam
uel Dunlap, an assistant fire chief and
one of the best-known men in the local
department. Is in a precarious condition
at a hospital. Several other firemen
were overcome by smoke during tne
fire, but with the exception of Dunlap
none Is in a serious condition.
Chief Dunlap has been in more acci
dents than any other member of the
Philadelphia fire department and he
has mere than once fooled the sur
irenns by returning to duty after they
had pronounced him hopelessly Inca
pacitated. He once rumen, nis me oy
carrying from a burning building Abe
LdiceV a fireman who was Injured with
hi in last night's fire. For this
act he w?.s awarded a gold medal by
the Gsorge Mead Post. i. a. oi
a.hich ha is a member. He carries a
bullet in hla body received in the Civil
War.
The population of tha Unite etatas par
square mile is 27.71.,
PROTEST AGIST
FREIGHT ADVICE
Vigorous Action Will Be Taken
by Commercial Bodies
of Portland.
RATES ARE NOT UNIFORM
Increases in the Schedules Are Un
just Is Contention of Shippers.
New Tariff to Take Effect
First of the Year.
Commercial bodies of this city propose
vigorously to protest against the arbi
trary advance In freight rates affecting
practically all Pacific Coast shipments
over transcontinental railroad?. These
new rates, which amount to an Increase
of from "Vt to 10 cents a hundred, accord
ing to the schedule that has been puo
llshed bv the transportation companies
become effective January 1 next. The
new tariff is being studied by the Inter
ested commercial organizations prelim
lnary to formulating a protest that will
In due time be presented to the traffic
departments of all roads concerned.
"The transportation committee of the
Chamber of Commerce is now examm
ine the contents of the proposed new
tarinY' said Henry Hahn, a member of
that organization and chairman of Its
transDortatlon committee. yesterday
"and when we have finished our work It
FIONHER BMPIXMTMENT AGENT,
WHO WAS WELL KNOWN
IN PORTLAND.
C. It. Hansen, Sr.
C. R. Hansen, Sr.. who died at his
home In San Francisco Tuesday, was
well known In Portland and In other
cities on the Coast. He was one of
tha pioneers of the Pacific Coast In
the employment agency business. He
had made a number of- visits to this
city, where hla eon, C. R. Hansen,
Jr., Is located.
Is our Intention to compile a formal pro
test which will be filed with the traffic
departments of the different companies
subscribing to this unwarranted advance
In freight rates. So far as we have
progressed In our labors It is apparent
that the rates, which are scheduled to
become effective on the first of the year,
amount to an Increase ranging from 714
to 10 cents a hundred on practically all
shipments to Pacific Coast terminals or
Pacific Coast territory generally.
Proposed Rates Not Uniform.
"It does not appear that the proposed
rates are uniform respecting shipments
to the Interior and It is for that reason
that the commercial organizations of this
city naturally have become Interested.
It will be several days before the com
mittee can complete its examination of
the new tariff and until this task has
been finished the committee will not be
In a position to determine the true ef
fect of the concerted action of the rail
roads or to formulate an Intelligent pro-test."-
"We have not yet been advised for
mally of the intention of the commercial
bodies of Portland to undertake to re
sist the prospective advance in freight
rates affecting all Pacific Coast ship
ments." said C. W. Hodson, president of
the Portland Commercial Club, yester
day. "The initiative in these matters
usually is taken by yie transportation
committee of the ChaTTiber of Commerce
and we understand that committee al
ready Is inquiring into the new tariff.
If the proposed rates are found to be
considered excessive and if It is decided
to submit a protest against the new
rates, the Commercial Club will be found
a party to that protest. When the com
mercial Interests of the city are Involved
concerted action always Is taken by
those organizations that are representa
tive of Its business interests and it may
be depended upon that this will not be
an exception to the rule."
Protest by Implement Dealers.
An organization of the implement deal
ers of this city, which was formed for
that express purpose, already has pre
sented a Drotest against the, advance
rates, as they are applied to agricultural
machinery, to the traffic departments of
various roads which would profit by an
enforcement of the new rates. The In
crease In the rate on agricultural ma
chinery amounts virtually to 10 cents a
hundred and the association of dealers
handling these goods in Portland de
mands that the old schedule be main
tained. An extended letter, detailing the
disastrous effects that will result to the
agricultural Interests of the Pacific
Northwest In event of the enforcement of
the new rates, has been compiled and
forwarded to the traffic managers of. the
different railway systems. Similar ac
tion of a more general character, how
ever, will be taken by the commercial
bodies if the city as soon as the facts
essential to such a protest can be gath
ered.
The announcement by the railroads or
these Increased rates, argue the commer
cial bodies, serves only further to em
phasize the importance of Senator Ful
ton s pending amenameni to me inter
state Commerce law which proposes that
before any arbitrary advance In rreight
rates, proposed by transportation com
panies, shall become effective, the Inter- (
state Commerce commission nrst snai.
have the privilege of conducting an in
quiry and determining the reasonable
ness of the proposed new rates. Such
an amendment is pending before a com
mittee in the united States Senate and
an effort will be made by Senator Ful
ton to have It considered favorably by
I - 1 i
Congress when it convene after the
holidays and before its final adjourn
ment March 4 next.
WOLVES FEAR ABERNATHY
"Catch 'Em Alive' Fails to Give
Xew York Show.
New York Despatch.
John R. Abernathy, of Oklahoma,
whose feats of catching wolves with his
bare hands attracted the attention of
President Roosevelt, went up to the
Bronx Zoological park to play with the
wolves. With him went "Al" Jennings,
of Oklahoma, and Frank Jones, of Kan
sas City.
"Sure I'll be glad to work a little of
this New York high life out of my sys
tem." gasped "Catch 'Em Alive Jack,"
as the tax bumped over the Harlem
streets. "Jones there wants to climb a
giraffe's neck for exercise."
Dr. Ditmars, curator of the museum,
met the party and acted as guide. Mighty
little time, was lost In getting to the
cages where the wolves were confined.
"Gosh, they look good to me," ex
claimed Abernathy, as he feasted his
eyes on a couple of big timber wolves.
"Not quite as large as our Oklahoma
lobo, but they look as if they would
give me some fun. Got any real ugly
ones hereabouts. Doc?"
"A couple." replied the doctor, "but
you had better try the others first. These,
two I speak of have not permitted a
keeper to enter their cage for months."
"That's what I want." exclaimed Ab
ernathy. "Nothing except the best for
mine."
Quite a crowd collected In front of tlie
cage. A keeper slipped his key into the
lock and quick as a flash Abernathy
slipped into the cage. With his right
hand thrown out In front of hts throat
Abernathy advanced slowly on the two
bad wolves. Tails down, they retreated
before him until they were backed up in
a corner.
"Now look out for them. Jack." yelled
Jennings.
"I'm ready." called Abernathy. With
the sound of his voice both wolves dart
ed like a flash down the side of the cage
and brought up shivering with flight al
the other end. Again Abernathy ad
vanced on them and again they slipped
away. Twenty or 30 times he tried to
scare up some fight in them, trying with
taunts and gestures to arouse their an
ger. But there was nothing doing.
Neither of the wolves seemed to relish
the Idea of tackling the stock man with
the alert gray eyes, the quiet smile and
the air of perfect unconcern and mastery.
Finally, disgusted, he gave it up. "O.
thunder!" he exclaimed, stepping out of
the cage. "I guess they're dead ones all
right. Let's go back to Broadway, where
there's some live ones stirring."
One Killed, Two Hurt In Wreck.
LA PORTE, Ind., Dec. 25. The bursting
of a water gauge in the cab of a mogul
engine running 50 miles an Hour and pull
ing the fast through stock train from
Chicago to New York, resulted last night
in the death of the head brakeman, the
probable death of rlie fireman and the
slight scalding of the engineer. The
dead:
David W. Melser, head brakeman; head
crushed.
Injured:
Elmer Replogle, fireman: leg and foot
crushed: probably internally Injured.
David Moorehouse.
The fireman and brakeman, who
believed that the holler was about to
blow up. Jumped. The brakeman landed
on his head and was Instantly killed.
The fireman rolled back against his train
when he Jumped and his left leg and
right foot were crushed. Bngineer Moore
house stuck to his post and brought the
train to a stop. Replogle has a slight
chance for recovery.
Electricity to AVard Off Police.
NEW YORK, Dec. 25. An alleged gamb
ling resort, protected by a sheet-Iron door,
charged with electricity, was entered by
the police last night and a man who Is
said to be the proprietor, placed under
arrest. The place was raided about two
weeks ago, and the same man arrested.
On breaking In the sheet-iron door last
night several policemen were slightly
shocked, and! electrical equipment is said
to have been found above the door. En
tering the parlor floor, the police found It
necessary to chop a hole through the floor
to reach the basement, where 50 men were
gathered. They were all arrested. A
wasron load of gambling paraphernalia
was confiscated.
Giving evidence at an Inaueet st Lam
beth, London, a woman said that ehe had
had 21 chlMren, six of w-nm were sliv.
Store Rented
Over Our Heads
We must vacate in a few days, and
our immense stock of fine pianos and
"player-pianos" must be sold at
once. We were unable to renew our
lease (five-year term) on a basis sat
isfactory to us, or within reason; and
Thursday we received notice that our
store had been rented to other parties.
We have not yet secured another loca
tion, so are
Going to Sacrifice
Our Entire Stock
at Once
SALE STARTS THIS
MORNING AT NINE
O'CLOCK
Now is the one great opportunity
of your life to gret a fine piano or
player-piano at such a sacrifice as
was never known before in this or any
other city. Not necessary to pay all
cash. Will arrange convenient terms
of payment to responsible parties.
Come early and get first choice.
Hovenden-Soule
Piano Co.
Cor. Morrison and Park Sts.
Forced Out