THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1909. mumx POKTUXD, OBEGON. Entered t.c Portland, Oregon. Poatofnc a Eecond-Claas Matter. subscription Katea Invariably In Advance. n (By Mall.) Daily. Sunday Included, one year fS.OO ially. Sunday Included, six months.... 4.2S J-ally, Sunday included, three months. ..i.ii ially, Sunday Included, one mouth 75 Dally, without Sunday, one year 6.00 IJaily. without Sunday, six months 1.25 laliy. without Sunday, three months.. 1.75 IJaily, without Sunday, one monta . -0 vv eekly. one year...................... 1-60 Sunday, one year . 160 Eunday and Weekly, one year -6 (By Carrier.) Daily. Sunday Includod, one year 9.09 Bally. Sunday included, one month 75 How to Remit Send postofnee money erder, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency re at the sender's risk. Give postofnee ad cress in full. Including county and state. Footage Kates 10 to 14 cages. 1 cent: 1 to 8 pages. 2 cents; 30 to 4 pages, 3 cents; 4 6 to 60 pases, 4 cents. Foreign postage double rates. Eastern Business Office The 8. C. Beck wlth Special Agency New York, rooms 48 C Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510-612 Tribune building. I'ORTIAXD, MONDAY, MAI W II IS, 1909. ASHLAND AND CORVALUS. It is not surprising: that Ashland ehould seek reprisal against the State Agricultural College, which was suc cessful at the recent legislative ses sion in obtaining appropriations both for maintenance and for necessary improvements and extensions. Yet It cannot be supposed that Ashland and Its partisans are really in earnest in their purpose to wreck the Ag ricultural College. For they have heretofore been willing to make any sort of combination with Corvaliis and any kind of concession to the college, provided they were permitted to smell out their own particular from the general treasury. There was no out cry then from the Ashland claim ants about the exorbitant and unreasonable demands of the Cor valiis institution, for they had their own exorbitant ami unreasonable de mands to promote and protect. Be cause they failed at the late session, they want Corvaliis likewise to have nothing. Yet it may be supposed that the people of Ashland, or such of them as are behind this referendum move ment, are offering their protests against the State Agricultural College merely as a club to drive that insti tution and its friends into line for their particular enterprise. It may be supposed likewise that, if they fail now, they will make their threat good and actually invoke the referendum on the Corvaliis appropriation. It is all much to be deplored; but there is no help for it, apparently, while Ashland is in its present irreconcilable frame of mind and while we have in the ref erendum a convenient vehicle" for the satisfaction of revenge to which any community or individual may appeal. The college at Corvaliis is doing a most important work that commends itself to the state at large. The state supports it, in conjunction with the Federal Government, because it achieves results, beneficial directly or indirectly to every citizen. It is not a local institution; it is not a high school for Corvaliis; it is not a sec tional or community enterprise in any sense. It "belongs to the State of Ore gon, and very likely It will be found, before Ashland is. through with the referendum, that the agricultural dis tricts of the state will rally behind the institution in which they have and should have great interest and great pride. The difficulty with the Oregon ed ucational scheme, as ft has been de veloped, in' the past, is that we are un dertaking here to compete with older and larger states, and to have schools and colleges in great variety far be yond the ability of the state' to support properly. The state has not been willing to cut its garment according to its cloth. It must be done now, for we are confronted by a condition that requires recognition. The Oregonian sees, or fancies it sees, in the determination to cut off the normal schools, the beginning of a movement to consolidate the higher educational institutions of the state. Next, very likely, . if the state gets through this normal school agitation safely, and without restoring old con ditions, there will be an effort to unite the State University at Eugene and the State Agricultural J3ollege. It ought to be done. It would mean economy for the state, greater ef ficiency for the institution, and a vastly higher standing for the com bined university and college than either can hope to have under the present arrangement. No reason ex ists why the united university or col lege should not have a normal depart ment. If the state has a duty at all to train teachers, let them be trained at the State University. It may be expected that all students who enter such a normal department will go there to fit themselves to be teachers with the full expectation of remain ing in the profession. How many of the graduates of the normal schools are now teaching in Oregon or any where else? How many teachers, for example, in the Portland public schools have diplomas from any Ore Eon normal school? You can count them on your fingers. Yet these in stitutions have been doing their work for years and Portland has 600 or 700 public school teachers. Undoubtedly the normal school question will be submitted in some way to the people as a whole. Yet the place where it ought to be set tled properly and effectually Is at the Legislature. If several succeeding Legislatures shall persist in the ap parent attitude of the present Legis lature, undoubtedly we shall finally have an end to the demands from these. Institutions for support that should come, if at all, from the sev eral communities in which they are located and not from the state. CHAJi'GH IN. COPYRIGHT. . The bill for a new copyright law, which was hurried through Congress at the last minute, seems to be a better measure than could have been ex pected from the way it was passed. It is a long time since anything like rational discussion has been heard in the House of Representatives and the debate on the copyright bill was as inane as possible. Still, it slipped through, partly perhaps because the members did not know how good it was. The Springfield Republican, whose opinion upon such matters is admitted by everybody to be valuable, gives the new law qualified approval after a careful analysis. It permits an author to renew his copyright for twenty-eight years, in stead of fourteen, after the first period of twenty-eight years has expired, thus making the duration. o his monopoly J than a bare living at best out of their dooks, ana the law has hitherto given them but grudging Justice. The new liberality of Congress toward litera ture Is perhaps a sign of advancing civilization. Some such sign was need ed in Congress to ward off National despondency. The new law permits some productions, like lectures, to be copyrighted which enjoyed only scant protection formerly. English books written in Great Britain cannot be cops-righted here unless they are set up and printed in. this country, but works in foreign languages are pro tected from piracy even when printed abroad, and imported. The phonograph trust tried to in sert a provision in the copyright law which would have driven its com petitors out of the market. Its plan was to allow the author of a piece of music to assign the exclusive right to can and reproduce it, but, for a wonder, the plan failed. The law pro vides that he may forbid reproduction entirely, but if he allows it to one person, then it belongs equally to everybody who is willing to pay the fixed price for It, namely, two cents a copy. ENOUGH, QUITE ESOTGO. No doubt a reply to complaints that the recent Washington Legislature was extravagant in making 9 10,000,000 ap propriations will be that It is a J 10, 000,000 state. It is. But that Is ino reason why the state's substance should be wholly wasted and dissipated in one short biennial term. But wait. The oppressed taxpayer will make himself heard and perhaps felt later. He is patient and long-suffering, and willing to be gouged to a reasonable extent by wasteful and extravagant state, county and city taxeaters; but the day of reckoning comes sooner or later, and when it does the- taxpayer has his inning. If Washington can stand $10,000,000 for state appropriations, Oregon ought not to complain about a. trifling sum like $4,250,000, we are told. Per haps not. Yet if Washington sees fit through an improvident Legislature to throw away large sums of money, Ore gon is hardly Justified in following its example. Perhaps this is only Wash ington's pleasant way of showing that it has money to burn. But the entire sum of $10,000,000 is not to be raised by direct taxation, as in Oregon not more than $6,000,000 or $7,000,000. There is $1,000,000 of the $10,000,000 to be raised by sale of state lands for construction of the pro posed new Capitol; and there are other such sources of income for the state. It will hardly be disputed by any one that Washington has more population and more wealth than Ore gon, so that the $6,000,000 or $7,000, 000 its taxpayers must pay the state in two years may not be a heavier bur den than the $4,250,000 in Oregon. But it is enough, quite enough; and in this case enough is much too much. KKVENGE THROUGH REFERENDUM. If any considerable number of cit izens honestly believe that the Agri cultural College appropriations were unreasonable and unwarranted, it is their right and privilege to proceed against them under the referendum. But no one has a right to use the ref erendum for revenge. No one has a right to use the referendum against one bill in order to coerce members of the Legislature Into supporting another bill. Every measure should stand upon its own merits. Whether It shall prevail or be defeated should not be Influenced in the least by any action that may be taken upon any other measure with which It Is unrelated. The friends of the normals, who are now proposing the referendum upon the Agricultural College appropriation bill, are justifying the statement so many times repeated that the normals secured their existence and continu ance by trading. It was exactly this that created most sentiment against the normals. By their very act In attacking the Agricultural College ap propriation bill, the friends are con firming the old feeling against the normals, for they virtually say that they are willing to let the college ap propriation stand If they can get an appropriation for the normals also. Trading has always been one of the greatest evils of legislation and It seems that we are to have it even under the initiative and referendum. IS ENGLAND APPROACHING A CRISIS? The British naval estimates Issued last Friday show an increase of about $15,000,000 over the estimates of last year. The building programme pro vides for four Dreadnoughts, six pro tected cruisers, twenty torpedo-boat destroyers and a number of sub marines. It is further announced that an effort will be made to start work In 1910 on four additional large ar mored vessels. Thus does Great Brit ain servo notice on the rest of the world that the time-honored "two power standard" is to be maintained at all hazards. "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power," etc., is very dear to the heart of the British patriot, and among tho wealthy classes, or even those in- moderate ircumstances, there will be little objection to this awful and ever-increasing expense that is necessary in order to build and maintain a navy of such vast size. But down among the submerged masses, among the small tradesmen and artisans, among the millions who are at all times on the verge of star vation, there are increasing "threat enlngs and complaints and impreca tions on men and saints' because of the prodigal expenditures for war pur poses at a time when men, women and children are actually dying from starvation. Estimates made by the London trades unions early last Win ter placed the number of skilled work men out of employment at 500,000, while the number of unskilled labor ers was placed at 1,000,000; and, as each of these men had some one de pendent on them, the number of peo ple who were suffering ran into the millions. The old age pensions act has alleviated some of this suffering among those who are too old to work, but it falls far short of solving the grave problem of pauperism with which Great Britain is confronted. There have been paupers since the world began, but at no previous time In her history has the problem pre sented such serious aspects as It now shows to. England. That pauperism is on the increase in spite of both public and private efforts to alleviate the trouble quite clearly Indicates a pro nounced defect in the economic policy of the Country, and the feeling, al ready intense, will not be alleviated when the millions of poorly-clad, half starving paupers and those whose hearts their condition, must touch, note the ever-in creasing expenditures for war purposes. There Is much In the present situation that points to a crisis in the career of the "power whose flag Is never furled." PROSPERITY'S FLOOD TIDE. The 1909 wool clip Is already sell ing at prices 'averaging 5 cents per pound higher than were paid a year ago. There is a demand for all of the wheat left in the country at prices which in most districts mean $1 per bushel to the farmers. Livestock, po tatoes, onions, and about every other product grown on the farm, are sell ing at unusually high prices. Natur ally these are conditions which spell prosperity for the farmers, and It is a very simple line of reasoning from cause to effect that accounts for a sim ilar degree of prosperity on different lines in the city. Twelve business days of the month of March have passed, and in that abbreviated- fort night new records for the period have been established in Portland real es tate transfers, building permits, bank clearings and coastwise lumber ship ments. With a large number of the real es tate transfers of great magnitude ap pearing on the records under the nom inal t and $5 consideration, the totals for the first twelve days of March ran up to $1,470,643, with building permits for the same period aggregating $427, 755 and bank clearings in excess of $16,000,000. Coastwise lumber ship ments by water were more than 7,000, 000 feet, and nearly 2,000,000 feet was sent foreign. Sixty-six vessels of more than 100,000 tons carrying capacity entered and cleared at Portland during the twelve da, and. whllo th min season has been cut short by the heavy shipments earlier in the season, March exports already include 60,000 barrels of flour, 250,000 bushels of wheat and 3000 tons of barlev. oats and mill feed There are now loading in port or un der charter to load lumber vessels with a capacity of more than 18,000, 000 feet, while the chartered fleet due to arrive wvtnin the next thirty days has a capacity of 20,000,000 feet of lumber. While the citv real estate dealers have been selling city residence and business property. Eastern money in record-breaking amounts has been pouring Into the state for Investment in timber lands and farms. As a i-r suit of all this activity, the banks of the state hold more money than in any previous March, and the growth and development of the city and state are based on a rn nm n i A ri stantial foundation than ever before. inese are the conditions which now obtain with practical v th portation facilities that we enjoyed when our prosperity went into eclipse about fifteen years ago. But today we are on the eve of greater develop ment in our transDortation faoliiHoo than has ever been experienced by any w estern community. The North Bank road, Dre-emlnentiv the crr-t-ataat factor in the coming change, will be completed to Spokane within a very short time, and will throw open to Portland an immense new territory. The Oregon Electric is making a large area of the richest portion of the Wil lamette Valley a suburb of Portland. The Harriman system and the United Railways are both pushing construc tion on lines to Tillamook, and the Harriman system, with surveys per fected md money available, awaits only the approval of the Government to open up that long-neglected and wonderfully rich Central flmrnn gion, with a water-level line up the jjescnutea uorge. These are only a few of the more Important Industrial which are responsible for the greatest prosperity that Portland has ever known. In their wake comes n. lnni? line of smaller enterprises which in tne aggregate will combine to make Portland a mighty city and tho me tropolis of a land of riches. New rec ords are now being established in nearly all lines of Industry, but they will seem insignificant bv with those which are to come. CHEER AMID DIRE PROPHECY. About two weeks arn nH v. earth was prophesied by Professor t-ercivai jjowell, who said an "un known dark planet" will collide with our sun. He intimated that tho vio lence of the compact would wreck our soiar system, or so badly alter it as to terminate life on the earth. This Is not a new nroDhcirv. nnr even an im probable one, to persons who have ob served the laws of cosmic process. The catastrophe Is probably so far dis tant. In h as to be beyond human concern, since wnen it comes the earth may have passed Its teeming time and be child less and forlorn. Professor Lowell said that the col lision would be foreseen fourteen years. He meant, provided there shall be human intelligence here to watch for it. There certainly has been no such disaster since life began. The life period of the earth Is such a small fraction of the earth's chance of a solar wreck during that period is perhaps infinitesimal. The time interval, visible to man in the past and the future of th nh i perhaps but as a moment in compari son wun tne duration of the nni9p system, or even of the earth itself: and again, tho space occupied by the solar system, apparently so vast, is but as a pinpoint compared with nhmim. space, from which Lowell's "unknown aark planet" la to dash upon us. The matter to be borne In mind is that while in the outcome of an incon ceivable length of time the earth and the solar system are to perish, many an eon may pass before that result, af ter life shall have disan nearer! Thin Is not a happy thought for those guess- ers wno tninit lire's place on the earth Is unique and probably without paral lel, nor for many of the students of Alfred Russell Wallace, whose "Man's Place in the Universe" comes pretty near the special creation theory. It is quite probable that Professor Lowell in his lecture In Boston two weeks ago was speaking in terms of astronomy and other science, where the end of the earth Is discussed in cold-blooded fashion. However, as a matter of fact, the scientists don't know any more about the end of the earth than the humble street-sweeper, and they are aware of their ignor ance. Just like the humblest, they are in the presence of that old query: "Canst thou by searching And out God? Canst thou find out the Al mighty unto perfection? It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Ueeper than hell: what canst thou know?" Our sun may in some distant eon butt into an unseen planet or star or into a shining one. If the mau r.r I nelgUbor eh&lX Ue great enough, the I whole solar svstem will be rhsnii When we consider that life on this earth Is delicately poised on the ex isting conditions of light and heat of the sun, we understand that any con siderable change on the sun. or even minute change, would bring about im mense, alterations in the life environ ments of the earth. But if the earth shall be cold and waste by that time, as it promises to be. what's the worry? Sir John Herschel says of the sun. It Is "the almoner of the Almighty, the delegated dispenser to us of light and warmth, the immediate source of all our comforts, and indeed of the very possibility of our existence." Perhaps when it shall become time for the col lision the sun will be so cold and worn out that it will need to be warmed up by the Impact. So let's be cheerful about It. There Is no good reason why the Port of Portland should build a. tug boat for either bar or river. There are more river boats already available than are needed, and with the disap pearance of the sailing vessels, bar tugs already built can be chartered or purchased at much less than the cost of building. If, however, the Port of Portland Is to add a fleet of expensive tugboats to the useless pleasure launch and the ancient pilot schooner, it would seem that tho money ought to be spent Is a local shipyard in stead of sending the work away to California. Portland builders had the lowest bid for constructing the Seattle flreboat a short time ago, but no one had the pleasure of witnessing a. Se attle flreboat building In a Portland yard, nor will such a performance ever take place. If this money must be spent for boats that are not needed, we should endeavor to spend It at home, unless there is a decided ad vantage in awarding the contract else where. One week ago today the Govern ment crop report gave the wheat mar ket a good, hard shove down the -toboggan, and, before the decline was checked, the fortunate "shorts" had profits of from 5 to 6 cents per bushel to their credit. Before the week ended nearly all of the lost ground was re gained and the markets closed strong under the influence of bullish statis tics on quantities on passage and world's shipments. The figures on the American visible supply will be await ed with considerable interest today, and, if there Is any dependence to be placed on the Government figures on wheat in farmers' hands east of the Rocky Mountains, the "visible" should show a heavy Increase, followed by lower prices. If the Government fig ures for the rest of the United States were as far wrong as they were for the Pacific Coast States, there will be a decrease in the visible and higher prices. Dispatches from North Yakima say that hopgrowers there are undecided whether to continue digging out their hop roots and go into some other line of industry or take chances on the future of hopgrowing. A long term of experience shows that the hop In dustry is a speculative one. The man who hits the markets right gets rich rapidly. He who misses, goes down in a hurry. On an average it Is prob able that dairymen make a success In a larger number of cases than do hop growers, but they work" harder for their money and. when they do suc ceed, seldom make so much money in so short a time. Hopgrowing is largely speculative. Nothing is more of a. "sure thing" than dairying. Friday's dispatches announced that on conclusion of his South African hunt ex-President Roosevelt would go to Nova Scotia and hunt moose. . Sat urday's news conveyed the intelligence that he would visit Northwest Canada and hunt musk ox and polar bear. He is already scheduled for a boar hunt in the Black Forest with Em peror William, and by the time the returns are all In there will hardly be many open dates betweea now and the time he may again take up the hunt for votes. For variety, after he re duces the animal census in the Dark Continent, he might visit some of the dry counties in Oregon and hunt blind pigs, which are said to he increasing rapidly In number. The latest dream of the Inventor is another device to do away with news paper composition. The typewriter whacks the story into a specially pre pared matrix paper, which is turned over to the stereotyper, who prepares a plate, which Is made up into forms the usual way. The project is imprac ticable. It would, of necessity, in crease the size of newspapers, which are now large enough, with a tendency to grow larger and unwieldy. These visionaries may as Well realize that the linotype machine will retain for many years its position aa the acme of progress in printing. The number of Japanese in the United States decreased 94 last month. The number will decrease much more, rapidly when the employers of the United States cease employing Japs, and they will cease whenever white labor is .willing and ready to do the work required. The chief reason for employment of the Japs in California orchards is that sufficient and reliable white labor cannot be had during the harvest season. Perhaps Mr. Harriman demands 4 per cent guarantee for his proposed Eastern Oregon railroad after behold ing the wonderful finance of the por tage. The Oregon Legislators are true patriots: they will not bo frightened out of taking all the time they need to repair their blunders. Great Britain Is to spend $15,000,000 for new fighting machines during the coming year. The dove of peace is flying high. Taxpayers who complain about taxes should save their breath until the state goes into the railroad busi ness. A profile of the new Secretary of War indicates he will run his depart ment if there is anything in physiog nomy. That white wife of Jack Johnson will be his Delilah, and he will vanish from the public gaze. Still are they trying to find twelve simple-minded men to till that Cal houn Jury. The Oregon spirit will not down. Some folks are sighing Xor rain. WHAT GOOD 1HOM THE NORMALS Here la the Case Clearly Stated By Some One W ho Kaowi. Condon Times. The Valy Record, published at Ash land, has been generally circulated around Condon recently. This paper contains a number of articles roasting the Legislature In general and Senator Bowerman In particular because of the opposition in the Senate which resulted In the Normal Schools not receiving any appropriation at the last session of the Legislature. If this paper is being sent here with an Idea of injuring Bowerman the pur pose haa miscarried, for at least nine tenths of the people In this part of the state are strongly opposed to all of the present normal schools and have ex pressed themselves In highest terms of commendation for the work performed by our member of the Senate in the interest of the taxpayers by assisting in cutting off those so-called normal schools and saving to the taxpayers of the state nearly $320,000. The appropriation asked for by the schools passed by the House of Repre aentatlvea and defeated In the Senate, would have entailed a coat of more than $500 per atudent each year. When we take Into coaalderatloa the fart that cm thai tea per cent, and probably not more thaa Ire per rent of the peraou who tmenate fron the annul schools are teaching; and that only a a mall p. eeat of those who attend the aehoola ever arraduate. It win be aeea that It costs the taxpayers Cram 10,000 to 920,000 to educate one normal school teacher who actually teaches. When we take Into consideration' the further fact that a great number, and in fact a very large per cent of the common schools in the more sparsely settled counties In the state are unable to maintain a school for more than three months in the year and that the state and counties are expending less than $20 per year for each student Ju the public schools and that a very large number of the children of the state are of necessity denied the benefits of even a common school education and the money which would go far toward giving them such an education haa in the past been wasted upon these so called normal schools. It will be under stood why such a very large per cent of tho people throughout the state con sider any appropriation for the normal schools as unwarranted and unjustifi able. All of the studies taught la the nor mal schools, except Theory and Prar tlce of TeachJnsT, are taught In the county hla-h schools, which are now maintained by the counties, and none of the normal schools has ever been in any sense of the word normal schools, but were, in fact, merely local high schools maintained at the expense of the state for the benefit of some small town, which otherwise would have no excuse for existing. If there was ever any reason why the taxpayers' money should be wasted by the hundreds of thousands of dollars for the benefit of some country village where theretofore goose feathers, and chlttem bark were legal tender and a. pound roll of butter its principal circulating medium, we have never heard the reason stated. It has been repeatedly charged, and to our knowledge, never denied, that Gilliam County has never had more than three or four successful teachers who were graduates from any Oregon normal school and so long as the state pursued a policy of spending $10,000 or more in educating a normal school teacher and less than $20 per year foe the education of a scholar in the pub lic schools, our public schools were un able to pay salaries sufficient to main tain a school for the proper length of time in a year or a salary sufficient to command a competent teacher. The large majority of our citizens secure all of their education in public schools, and for that reason It is for the best Interests of tho state and of the great est number of citizens that the pub lic schools be made as nearly perfect as Is possible, and to our mind, it would be radically wrong for the state to further squander the taxpayers' money by the hundreds of thousands of dol lars when the beneficiaries are a few lodging-house keepers, tradesmen and real estate owners in small villages which would be unheard of were It not for some political deal pulled off years ago. It Is a fact well known to the icen ernl public that every normal school In the state was established la the nrst Instance, not In the Interest of the pub lic, not for the public jcood. not for any benefit that would accrue to the school system of the state, but because there by the political Interests of certain per sons would be benefited, and the tax payers have, for 15 years, been paying; the bills and recelvtuic practically ao returns. Two Views of Senator Kulton. Harney County News (Frank Davey), March 12. Senator Kulton has not assisted his friends to believe that he possesses the very best men tal qualifications for an Important judge ship, by the fight he has kept up against the confirmation of J. C. Young as Post master of Portland. If there is to he a second FVderal Judge in OrfRon and the state be not divided so as to make the eastern half of the state a district hy Itself. President Taft coudd not do better thnn to appoint Hon. Charles W. Fulton to the place. Mr. Fulton Is well versed His last stand in. in the law. ho ha Congress on this the poise and dignity questlon causes men to wonder whether lie could resist the temptation to take reprisals from the bench on supposed or real political ene mies. The News is sorry to see such bitterness displayed. belonging to such a position, he Is thor oughly honest and fearless, and with him on the bench the probability is the state would be here after spared the presence of Francis J. Heney. Knar! nc Smashes Shovel Pansei Man. Philadelphia Record. Michael Fl uney. a Beading Railroad employe. In stepping out of the way of a freight train, was struck by the pilot of a fast express train on the other track, which ripped ' Off a piece of his coat and smashed a shovel he was carrying, but Fluney escaped any in jury. Stepchildren Spoil Love's Dream. New York Press. A woman In New York City com plained to a Police Magistrate that her husband had deceived her by Maying when he married he had only two step children, but . she ' discovered he had nine. Groom of K2 and Brltle of 7f. Indianapolis News. George. W. Jones, aged 82. and Cor nelia C. Grove, aged 70. got a license to bo married at Bedford, IncJ- A. PLEA FOR ONE! UNITED STATES. Bnt In Acrualnr Westerners of Earotlnm Writer Dodjces Ilia Own Medicine. ASTORIA. Or.. March 13. (To the Editor.) Why- is It that many Western newspapers are criticising the South erners and the manner in which the latter treat the negroes? The criticism in last Sunday's Oregonian on the Southerners was unfair, both in refer ence to the negro and to the writers of the South, as to the latter always getting unreasonable when they write about the Southern people and their sensibilities. I have traveled all over the United states, and nowhere have I met people with finer sensibilities than people In tho .Southern States. Any o,fi correct when he writes that our Southern people are refined and as a whole, are elegant people and are The writer has found them to have a Til"""" ot Integrity. Talk about egotism! The Westerners Spates notlVM ot the United miH,rer,CI?CV T''Oreconian's state ment that It hopes President Taft wIM Tow1 SU,h ut of ll attitude toward the negroes, I also hope that President Taft will bring about more South. Let the South and the negro alone, and I am sure there win be more tranquility on both sides. . J"0" 'Vtarner would only sweep the dirt from your own doors you Z?. ,haTe. an you could attend to without giving attention to the South 'I7ler; 1 rr to the Jap question. If The Oregonian Is really anxious to bring about a feeling of one united people, start now. Rut let the South alone, also the nesro question. South erners do treat the negroes better than IhfJvVr eated clwhe. I really think Mr. Taft will bring about a bet ter feeling down there than ther has ever been before, although Mr. Roose velt has done a. great deal towards this end. I wish that the people of the Unite,! States would forget that there is such a thing as North. East, South or Wet and discontinue criticism on "sections. ' e should treat each other both In. the newspapers and elsewhere as one united people, and one great Nation. K. SHIELDS. OREGON'S Clr-WIISNixo APPLES. Prise-takers at National Apple Show. Spokaae, All tirowa at Hood Hirer. HOOD RIVER, Or.. March 13. (To the Editor.) I wish to correct a state ment made by Tom Richardson in Tin Orewonlan of last Thursday in regard to the cup which was recently pre sented to the Hood River Commercial Club for the exhibit of apples from this district at the National Apple Show and which it presented to the Portland Commercial t:iuh. The statement by Mr. Richardson that the apples that won the cup were not all grown at Hood River. Is a mistake. This was probably unintentional on his part, and In Justice to the growers of the apples here. I am making this correction. The exhibit consisted of 84 boxes of apples grown at Hood River by K. 1L Shepard. J. L. Carter. L. E. Clark' H R. Albee. N. C. Evans. C. Dethman. Wil liam Ehrck and John Ilakkel. These comprised tho entire prize-winning dis play, and no apples from any other part of the state were in It. The action of the Hood River Commercial Club, in turning the cup over to the Portland orfranlzatlon was due to the fact that it took the Initiative and bore the ex pense In sending the display to Spokane where it was exhibited as the Oreon exhibit. It was for this reason that the cup was turned over to the parent oi-Ka.niz.iUon of the stato, which, it was thought, was Its proper custodian. W. 11. WALTON. Secretary Hood Jtlver Commercial Club. AS OTHKIIS SEE THE LEUISLATIRK Baker City 1 lerald. No one can tell Just what glaring blunders of the last Legislature the day may bring forth. Woodburn Independent. Comment Is unnecessary. ' The peo ple understand the situation, but fear the precedent of establishing a legis lative rectirier. Pendleton Tribune. Governor Benson 1h desirous of hav ing a short session of the Legislature this week. He deserves some praise for his wishes. Baker City Democrat. Oregon's Incompetents must go into legislative session again to remedy their bungling work. And all this at the expense of the already overbur dened taxpayers. ( Cottajre drove Western Oregon. The legislators have a chance to "do themselves proud" by making the meeting short anil to the point, or they can see-saw. "chew the rajr" and make the state treasury look like 30 cents. WVlch will they do? Grants Pass Observer. The extra session and whatever cost it may Incur, is the result' of tho stupidity of the Legislature in. over looking the final passaite of an appro priation for state institutions that is considered urgent. The people are arr.il.l of this extra session of irre sponslbles. Dallas Itcmizer. It is claimed that the session will be only for the purpose called and that the business can be transacted in two or three days. This we seriously doubt, as it Is a pretty hard thing to choke off the average legislator from talking on the different subjects that will bo presented. Jefferson Review. We've Rot to have that special ses sion Inflicted on us. Benson says so. It will bceln next Mondav. an.l n, Lord only knows how long it will last and what it will do. There should be a '"s appropriation made for an addition io me asylum, ror a whole lot of tax payers are liable to go crazy. Gervals Star. Would It not be advisable to act n the vetoed hills of Governor Chamber lain.' it would seem so. In thn firt pHce there Is no valid reason for not doing so. and In the second place this Legislature Is more competent to act than will be the legislature of the fu ture. It will aid the future meeting Just so much and clear the calendar of worn. Among the vetowd measures are many that are meritorious. Albany Herald. T-! 1 . . .. . 1 . w kuiii ine memoers ot the Legislature. voluntarily given. mo tuniining or tne work to w.c i"3iiiK oi ine necessary appro priation bill, and the remedying the defects in elk protection bill and the tax commission measure, in the spe cial session to convene next Monday. It remains to be seen if those pledges will be observed; it perhaps would have been mora secure to have had some kind of statement signed up. Corvaliis Republican. Governor Benson doesn't intend to have any "monkey business." When the session is convened the boys must "do business" and do It quickly, and they mubt not do anything except at tend to the buslne.-a for which the body is convened. Looks as though the new Governor has the necessary backbone, as it seems that he intends to Governor, He's all JAere.- MR, DrXnVAT TO MR. BEAN.; Oae More Caustle Communication on the Sabject of State Prlntlnc SALEM, March 13. (To the Editor. Something must be forgiven a lcs Islator who is suffering the chncrin. having his pet measure rejected. - ? 1 pass over a number of the misstate ments of fact in Represent-tive L. K. Bean's recent communication about my self and the states printing. Tut two of his misstatements are so grossiv Rt variance with fact as to' require notice. The first of Mr. Bean s misrepresenta tions Is his assertion that the !.. to revise and lower rates of printing "win nnt tin i . . . uai -M r. lunlvay claims it will." and that ".Mr. l.ur.iway knows It will make no reduction whatever in the Job printing, and that is whore tin large rrofit of the printer is made." Here Mr. Bean shows the same crass Ignorance as well as ih same vgotisai that murked his course in tho Lpi:!i turc. Ho knows nothing of j.rinl:: and yet makes absolutely f;i!,. m..i.-. monts with a hardihood tha- i- mn'ti Irtg. The jobwork. especially, will Ji:c.v great reductions under the fi'ir and reasonable bill which passed tho Sen ate by 23 ayes and 6 nays, and whi. :i waa later concurred in by the House, after favorable report (3 to 1) by a conference commltt.e of the two bodi. s. and became a law In spite of Mr. Hean hysterical effort to "lay It on the table" after its passage (when he should hav moved for reconsideration If he wished to defeat the measure). Under the new law a large part of the jobwork will be done at less rates lhan commercial printers charge for like work, especially throuirh the use of olght-polnt in lieu of "slx-polnt" and the cutting of the rate of press wort from 55 cents to 40 cents. ,om card Jobs and a number of others of one token" or less will show- an Increase, of 10 cents each, but tne total of ti e Increases of this character will n..t reach $100 In two vcars. and tho oe creasrs will offset this manv. m:.r tlmes over; while the new section m:k Iiir It the state expert's dutv to pen alize tho State Printer. i:p to So per cent on work done contrarv to law. will prevent any subseouent Stato Prlnte from attain Indulging In the crafMnir that I have uncovered and stopped dur ing my timo in office. Mr. Bean knows more about timber land grubbing than printing, and 1 e doubtless could. If he w-ou'd. enl:c!-te:i the public as to methods of "nenulrln tr title" to thousands of aires of tVe forest-covered public domain. Were I simply my desire to "crt sufficiently rich to retire" I should have rmr.!iv, .1 some conscienceless lawyer to seen... llle the title to two or three thousand ncres of the people's timber lani f.-.p a fraction of its value. Not until Vr. Rean shows up the sharp practices ' -i limber land Krabhinir. as I have tt.o abuses In prlntlnir. will he be entitle. 1 to receive credit for sincerity 1 professed desire to "serve the people" Mr. Hean s second cross misstatement of fact is the following: The hod- of men to be rt evrr M- T'!": way hv the provision of 7n MM ieclu iot htmelf. n I se no Jutt.-e In' the Ftnteni. .u thnt he tin to he n-- rontrel ovir th rrlntlnir ..trice Mv b.U further p-"vt-'.-l that the Smto Printer should h.ive tro over the printing n'JUW. emn'ov of the mechanics ami liinori-r--. tth fie r;:'-t to djKcharxe the nnrne at his ple-i-mro. 'Tis hard not to apply the "shorter and UKller word" to these hnld asser tions by Mr. Hean. The provisions ho now seeks to claim for "his bill" am from the substitute bill prepareil by three committees, snd these fair pro visions were forced Into the bill by Campbell. iMmlek. Hushes. Orion. . . bott and otiiers. over the strenuous ob jection of l!ean ami his adhere;.;. When Bean audaciously claims credit for provisions that he opposed to tbo best of his ability, he ols ,,p new stnndards of Inveracity and Impudence The Hean bill sought to oust a con stitutional ofrlccr elected by the people and to confiscate his plant; to put tho. prlntlnc Into the control of men know ing nothing about it; to create a printing- board and leave the printer off it; to hold tile printer In bonds for the conduct of the office, over which In had no control, but to require neither bonds nor responsibility from thoo set up In authority over him; to deprlvo the State Printer of power to emplov his printing force or curtail the cost of binding and ruling, as I have be.-u doing; to make it easy and convenient for concerns selling suprip.es to unite In spoliation of the state. If anv-r. cares to verify this summary of' tho provisions of Mr. Roan's biil I shall tio glad, upon request, to forward a eop of the delectable. measure. together with a copy of the report which I sub mitted to the Legislature. Mr. Renn's attempt to reflect upon my conduct of the printing office will only amuse the many members of tho legislature who visited the office nr.. I learned how the former schemes for "grafting" have been supersede.) by plain business methods. The informa tion Mr. Bean afreet to ask is fur nished In the report I submitted to the Legislature- In that report 1 Invit. 1 ami requested examination of the oft'ic-. Also I personally invited Mr. Kcan t. examine my conduct of the office. Mr. Rean carefully remained away. He un doubtedly felt the better qualified t t misrepresent the office If ho knew nothing about It. Again. T Invite and challenge Investi gation or the printing during my term, and If I can get the chance I shall demonstrate to any legally constituted body what a choice candidate for tl e Ananias Club a timber-land grahb, r Is when he uses the term "ij-aft" In connection with my management of the state's printing. The svstem of "piece work" for do ing public printing has been shame fully abused in Oregon. No doubt of that. I have shown It up. fu: it ha never been so bad as the prof!"--..!., system that Mr. Hean seeks to s. ; c . In this state. Now. under the consti tutional amendment relating to print ing the rates of pay may be rhanged from time to time to suit carving con ditions. Just as the Legislature I,.t done. Rut under the 1:ean method w-o shall have an Intricate business hmdlcit under "stato control" ty politician', with abundance of Idlers and loafers on the payrolls, as In California and other states where the method nrcv.-aits with no end of graft and scandal and constantly growing extravagance. Now that the Tcgl.-laturo has passed a law. along lines I recommended, to prevent recurrence of the nbuses thrt formerly prevailed. It wol nP folly to adopt the most wasteful and unsr;. factory method of doing public print ing that grafters have vet dvied Willis s. prxnvAY. A Deputy Game AVarden la Around. R'APPOOSK. Or.. March IS. (To t' Kdltor.) I notice in a recent lsne o' The Oregonian a communication sign-M by one K. A. Parsons in which he state that he has been Informed by a "busi ness man" that, daily, deer are brin-' run by dogs at Scappoose. " Now Mr. Parsons. I win state fo your information that whoever tVs "business man" is that his statement U incorrect and I hope that you cannot personally believe what he savs to be true. As a matter of fact, all this talk Is for political reasons by a few so-e-heads" here in Scappoose who hope by making such assertions to throw into disrepute Mr. Stevenson and his depute here tnat by so doing they themselves may have a chance at the deputvsl-.lp. Rm ,,vln ln Scappoose and if Mr. Business Man" will take tho troublo to give me his "proof." I will unrtertike to disprove his statement. If Mr. Par sons really wishes the game protected and is not talking for political effect. I ask the name of this "business man." so that I may personally interview him. JAM US D. ll'KAV, v,i v Zorutjr Gams Warden