8 THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, MAT 0, 1909. PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon, Poatofflc a cond-Claas Matter. Subscription Kate Invariably In Adranca. (Br Mali.) pally. Sunday Included, one year. ..... .f 8-00 l;ai y. Sunday Included, six month 4.25 pal y. Sunday included, three month.. S.25 Da y, Sunday Included, one month T5 rat y. without Sunday, on year e 00 gUaily, without Sunday, alx months..... 8.23 .fy' Wthout Sunday, three month. .. 1.T5 n." y Wthout Sunday, one month 00 weekly, on year...................... 1.50 Sunday, on year..... 2.00 Sunday and weekly, on year 8 50 (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, on year 9.00 i'y' Bunda" Included, on month... .75 Jlow to Kemlt 6end poutofflca money oraer, express order or personal check oi your local bank. Stamp, coin or currency t th sender risk. Olv postolflc ad ores in full. Including county and stmt, l.i'""" R1' 1 to 14 page. 1 cent: IS la 2.8 2 ct"; SO to 44 page. S cents; SouW. "ratE"" Fo"1 oat -.ififL"11 , Bo"1"' Office Th S. C. Beck To S..fLpeei,i Afncjr Now York, room 48 riZ.l u1' ,!'",l'dln. Chicago, room. 510-612 urioun building. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, MAT 6. 1009. V' FSB OF PARTY XA.ME. Of course, the members of an ex tinguished party are likely to say they don't beiieve in party at all. The fox that had lost his tail could show that the tail of every other fox was a useless appendage. Why are men appealing to the Re publican party, in making these nomi nations in Portland? Four men, at least, are contending for the Repub lican nomination for Mayor. Tet some of them are unwilling to say they will accept the result and support the candidate who may win the nomina tion.. Why, then, do they call them selves Republicans? Why do they con tend for the Republican nomination? Party, of course, is nothing in itself. But is party an efficient agent of gov ernment, or not? They who appeal to party evidently think it is, or they would not call themselves Republicans or Democrats. Parts- name, party organization, party purpose, the Idea of accomplish ing things by party action, must be abandoned; or party must be em ployed and used for definitive purpose. They who wish to use party, or the name of party, to reach their objects, must bo loyal to the requirements or party existence and action. They may, at the outset, repudiate party, if they see fit. But they can't use party on the principle, "Heads I win, tails you lose." It Is unfortunate, indeed, that the Democratic party in Portland and Ore gon has passed into inocuous des uetude. It now is in this position, that while it still tries to use the party name, and to accomplish and maintain ( through party name, such organiza , tion as it can, it tries to effect combina tions for its own partisan enda not for the public good with every dis gruntled element of other parties; and the consequence is that in this petty strife the public weal is lost sight of, or relegated to an inferior place. Com binations between a weak party and the dissatisfied elements of an oppo ' sltlon never portend much good to the ' community. The usual result is to . bring shysters to the front. But these people often say there is 6mall distinction or no difference be tween the parties. Then why should they, on either side, employ the party name? Is it done merely for confusion and deception? Party names in this country have stood for distinct policies that could not be mistaken. So they will again. Indeed, they do now. The Republican party stands for a govern ment of authority, and on occasion a government of force. The Democratic, party stands for a loose kind of polloy that in its ultirr-ate is negation or abandonment of government to sec tional Ideas and to local whims. Pres ident Cleveland was only nominally a Democrat. When he asserted au thority for the Government and used force to overcome opposition, he lost his. standing at once with his party. His vigorous measures, repeating those of Washington, Hamilton and Lincoln, broke the backbone of his party, and it never has been vertebrate since.. It is admitted that in municipal af fairs considerations of this kind need not enter. But they do. This Is at tested by the use of party names, In electoral contests in our municipalities. Why should men say, how can they say, that party . Is nothing in these municipal contests, and yet struggle for the advantage of party names in obtainment of nominations, and in the argument for their own election, after wards? It is a duty to strip this business of Its hypocrisy, for it is a form of rank hypocrisy. Members of the minority party on one side, not seeing a way to elect candidates of their own party, will combine with the factional ele ment of the opposite party for elec tion of unfit men, "Just for devilment"; while the members of the faction with which they combine will still use the party name for commendation of them selves and for obtainment in the party name of votes from the party which they have repudiated. This is done in the name, or under the pretense, of honesty in politics. It Is the game now in progress in Portland. And it is called honor, faith, honesty and re form. If men wish to be independent of party, let them say so. Let them drop party names, not use them to Juggle with, either in primaries or elec tions. We have candidates in Portland now using party name only for the purpose of the primary, but intending to repudiate it. and virtually saying they will repudiate It, if they do not get the party nominations. Isn't It about time the electorate should rid Itself of this sort of Juggle? It is fruit ful of dishonesty in politics and dis honesty in politics is fruitful of dis honesty in office. Let men repudiate party if they will, but let them do it openly and frankly not try to sneak nominations In the name of party, with no Intention of abiding the result 3houId It turn out against them. The direct primary in Washington continues to show results not unlike those accomplished in this state. The defeat of the Republican candidate for Mayor of Spokane is the latest example of the admirable workings of the law. There was the usual scramble for the nomination at the primaries, and with the usual Demo cratic assistance,' the weakest of the candidates landed the nomination, the men best qualified for the position re fusing to lower their dignity by mak ing the fierce scramble for votes. Hav ing nominated the weakest Republican for the head of the ticket, the Demo crats then put forward their strongest man, and, with the aid of the dis gruntled candidates who had failed to win at the primaries, he was elected. Only under the direct primary and the practices which it makes possible could so weak a man as the defeated Republican candidate have secured the nomination. Once nominated, the matter of defeating him with a good Democrat was easy. A WICKED FBOT.ENT. The Oregonian does, not profess to know what "a progeny of bibllical lore" may be, but doubtless It is something very dreadful. Very likely the monster richly deserves the trouncing which an excited citizen of Astoria gives It in another column of the paper this morning. If the aforesaid "progeny" is a man, as one is rather led to suspect from the tone of "Astorian's" letter, then he is, Indeed, a guilty soul. Run through the list of his crimes, as enu merated by the Indignant "Astorian," If you please. To begin with, he gets a salary of $2500 a year, from some source. This is a regrettable lapse. To draw a salary of $2500 or, indeed, any salary whatever, is presumptive evi dence of gross moral turpitude and our correspondent does wondrous well to pour out a vial or two of wrath on the man who is so depraved as to do such a thing. But what does this prog eny of bibllical lore draw the salary for? Well, It is for endeavoring to import 500 servant girls into Astoria. The wickedness of such an attempt is not at first clear, but, upon reflection, one sees it in all its horror. Five hundred servant girls iwould set 500 housewives, free from the kitchen. They would then rush away to Join .women's clubs .and agitate for the suffrage. The progeny s attempt was thus a foul conspiracy against the homes and husbands of Astoria. Let us all be thankful that it was foiled ere it was too late. Five hundred servant girls, indeed. One tries in vain to re call anything quite so villainous since Mr. Pickwick perpetrated his chops and tomato sauce. But the Biblical progeny knew no surcease from sin ning. After his servant girl plot had happily miscarried, he. rushed furious ly onward to "save Astoria from a whirlpool of innocuous desuetude." This must be a curious kind of a whirlpool. Despite its probable wick edness one almost longs to gaze upon It, merely out of scientific curiosity. How a whirlpool of desuetude must whirl. The progeny sought to drag drowning Astoria from this maelstrom, an effort which seems to have filled up the measure of his crimes. At any rate after accusing him of it, our corres pondent becomes incoherent with righteous wrath and we have been un able to figure out exactly what he is driving at. Our best conjecture is that he Is enraged because something or somebody has been trying to rouse As toria from the antediluvian slumbers in which the town sweetly reposes. Such an attempt would be shockingly cruel, for Astoria is loveliest when she sleeps deepest. MRS. BURDEN'S DANCE. Just how exciting charity will ulti mately become under the management of New York's millionaire society women it would be rash to try to pre dict. Mrs. Arthur Scott Burden's terpsi chorean performance In behalf of the Manhattan Trade School for Girls will naturally lead on to still more inter esting stunts. The worship of Bacchus, which this discreet matron so fascin atingly observed, will naturally be fol lowed at other charity events by rites in honor of Adonis. We may expect to see the holy ceremonies which were anciently performed by the nature wor shipers in Asia- Minor, renewed by the society women of New York, and doubtless the entire ritual will be en acted publicly according to the primi tive type of the cult. The mind may even stray farther in ecstatic anticipa tatlon of what our elegant and highly moral society leaders will do for the sake of charity. Who can say what religious sacrifices they will not submit to for that exalted purpose? Perhaps we shall one day see them sitting in a row In the temple of Ishtar, as the dames of ancient Babylon did on cer tain holy days, waiting for the men of the city to pass along, inspect the ar ray and take their pick. The subse quent performances at the high altar while the priests recited appropriate prayers, would seem singularly adapted to the tastes of New York society. It is marvelous that they were not initi ated long ago. ' It is exceeding satisfying to think of the influence Mrs. Scott-Burden's "Greek Pageant" must have had on the young women of the trade school, for whose benefit the refined exhibition was held. These girls naturally belong to the lower classes. They look up, or down, to women like Mrs. Burden as examples to be Imitated and, doubt less, before long they will all be danc ing the Bacchanalia in their rooms. Perhaps these chaste harmonies of arms and legs interwoven will even be taught in the classrooms of the trade school. One can imagine how profit able they would be to the souls of the young women and how much help such dances would be to them in earning their livings. The girls may not have the money to buy appropriate costumes immediately. Mrs. Burden did not wear a great deal, to be sure, but what there was of her habiliments was ex pensive. Leopard robes and purple tunics cost money In these days of high protection. Even the gauzy silk stockings, in which Mrs. Burden diaphanously veiled her chaste legs, must have been far beyond the means of a girl from the tenements. But if these young women cannot raise the money to buy Bacchic costumes, on the spur of the moment, they can get it by and by. There are ways by which a girl can always procure money, and Mrs. Burden's performance. In aid of charity, has effectually taught the girls that these ways are perfectly innocent. If it is right for this elegant dame to exhibit her form and go through las civious dances before a crowd, why is it wrong for a shop girl to do the same thing In a variety show or in a worse place? It is not at all difficult to fore see what an uplifting Influence Mrs. Scott-Burden's self-sacrificing labors will have on the poor girls for whom she tripped the light fantastic toe and disrobed her Venus-like form. Bvidence of the putridity of what Is called high society i. New York and other Eastern cities. accumulates rather rapidly. During the Winter we were constantly hearing of the fetid plays which they crowded to see at the theaters. Some of these dramas are superficially described in the American Magazine for June, and certainly noth ing worse is to be seen in the vicious resorts of the slums. For all that, society women went to see them in droves and, stranger still, they took their daughters along. French people have long been in the habit of witness ing vile plays, but they do not let their young girls see them. There is a. cer tain cynical shamelessness in the ran cidity of society morals In the East which can hardly be paralleled in the modern world. One would have to go back to the days of Nero to find any thing quite like it Scandalous as the spectacle of these women is, it is still more pitiful. In their vain quest of pleasure, they work harder than the kitchen maid for her slender wage. Shunning the natural obligations of their sex, hardened, shameless, dead to moral sense, after all their striving they have not gained what they sought. Pleasure forever flees them, and their lives are nothing but a weary round of disappointment and satiety. Worse than that, they are sterile. Outraged nature has visited them with the penalty which awaits all useless things in this world and they are hastening to extinction. Like organs of the body which in the course of evolution have ceased to perform any function, our millionaire society is undergoing the natural process. It Is perishing while it still seems to sur vive, a repulsive instance of death in life. The mad rage of these men and women for pleasure is no more than a fever which indicates the approach of dissolution. As individuals and as a social class they are doomed to ex tinction and their wealth will go in the process of nature to those who can make it helpful to the world. Instead of wasting it. Mrs. Scott-Burden's Bacchic dance may be compared with the terrible convulsions of the dying sot In Zola's L'Assommolr. lit is the writhing of moral disease as it shrinks from the chill touch of death. CREATING SEW WEALTH. The opportunities and possibilities 1 available to the Oregon farmer and orchardist were never more strikingly illustrated , than in the sale of the Lowiujdale apple orchard for the sum of $275,000. While this Is one of the rgest industrial transactions that has iver been reported in the Willamette Valley outside the cities, its import ance lies chiefly in the manner In which this great wealth was created. But little more than 2 0 years ago, the land on which this orchard stands was selling for less than one-twentieth of the price it now brings with the growing orchards. Mr. Lownsdale, who has won a lasting place in the indus trial history of the state, recognized the possibilities which the future might hold for the apple industry, and with the courage of his convictions, he pro ceeded to transform -ordinary wheat land, which at its best could return but a small profit per acre, to orchard land, from which phenomenal profits could be taken. In bringing about this transforma tion, Mr. Lownsdale found it necessary to "blaze the trail," for his enterprise came so strictly under the head of new business that it was experiment in stead of experience that led him on to success. The apple industry in the Willamette Valley has grown into great proportions since the Lownsdale or chards came into hearing, and hun dreds now engaged in the pleasant and profitable work have been enabled to take it up without the burden of ex periment and lack of precedent which handicapped Mr. Lownsdale. Practic ally all of the people who have en gaged In the work in the prominent apple districts of the state during the past five or ten years have enjoyed, free of cost, worry or effort, the ad vantages of the experience of Mr. Lownsdale and others who pioneered the industry. To this fact is due the handsome profits which follow the ef forts even of the novices in the busi ness. Twenty years of intelligent effort have enabled Mr. Lownsdale to add more than $200,000 to the value of a comparatively small tract of farm land. This is the direct, tangible evi dence of his efforts. Their value in pointing the way to others who have followed in his footsteps is inestimably greater. What has been accomplished along these lines, since the Lownsdale orchards began attracting attention to Oregon as a fruit state, can only in the faintest degree suggest what may be expected in the futureThroughout the great state there are almost innumera ble localities especially adapted for fruit, and with the world for a market, ever Increasing its demands, the new wealth which will be actually created from the soil and air will reach pro portions of greater magnitude than were ever deemed possible of attain ment by the original owners of these fruit lands. As the pioneer in one of our greatest industries and as a citizen who has so successfully demonstrated that brains and original ideas will bring their reward on the farm or in the or chard Just as readily as in the store or counting-house, Mr. Lownsdale will not soon be forgotten. This state has plenty of room for a large number of men of the Lownsdale type, and the soil can be depended on to respond to their efforts. Just as it has responded to those of the late owner of the Lownsdale orchards. THE FRENCH CRISIS. France seems to be making an eleventh-hour attempt to repair some of the damage created by truckling to the Radicals and Socialists a few weeks ago, when the postal strike was on. Paris cables announce that Premier Clemenceau has taken a firm hold on the situation, and will no longer tol erate the right of the public employes to strike. The recent strike of the pos tal and telegraph employes was or dered by the Socialist leaders largely for the purpose of demonstrating their power over the Government as well as the business community. In order to quell the disturbance at that time, the Government was induced to make cer tain minor concessions, which only served to embolden the strikers and induce them to ask for more. Since the former difficulty was patched up, the agitation has been in creasing until drastic measures are now regarded as almost a necessity. It is announced that the property inter ests of the country will support united ly any measures that the Government takes, no matter how rigorous they may be. The serious nature of the crisis which France is now facing can be understood when it is stated that the Jabor and Socialist leaders claim that, in obedience to the Socialist doc trine, the Government employes would be Justified in preventing any resist ance to the invaders in case a foreign foe should set foot on French soil. Acknowledgment by the French Government that it had insufficient control over its employes and servants to prevent their striking or affiliating with organizations which thus preach the doctrine of anarchy would be an admission that the country was on the verge of dissolution. The Government baa the right to expect and demand from its employes and servants im I plicit obedience and unqualified loyalty in time of,trouble. This could not be possible If the Government employes were affiliated with and working under instructions from the Socialists, who have been most prominent ' in organizing the strikes in France. M. Clemenceau may be a little late in taking a firm grasp ! on the situation, but his republic would be unworthy the name if it permitted further drift toward anarchy through the element that actually draws all its sustenance from the Government. In Secretary Ballinger, Mr. Pinchot seems to have encountered an official who is familiar with something be sides the theoretical side of forest pre servation, forest reserves, etc. Under the former Administration, millions of acres of land were withdrawn from public settlement in order to create forest reserves, many of them of ques tionable value. Included in these re serves are unnumbered millions of feet of timber, which is now fully ripe and deteriorating In value every year that it remains uncut. To prohibit the cut ting of this timber is to sanction its destruction,- as it will be worthless if it remains uncut any longer. Mr. Bal linger now refuses to grant the request that further withdrawals of land be made for forest reserve purposes, until it Is shown that there is need of such reserves. People on the Peninsula are very much exercised about the proposal to hold up by the v referendum the con struction of a very necessary trolley line. The main' feature of the situa tion is this, namely: That if the ref erendum should be invoked the line will be held up for two years, vastly to the detriment of Industrial and property interests in that quarter of the city. The ordinance has features that The Oregonian does not approve; and yet this larger matter is a thing to think about when men are asked to sign for the referendum. The ladles and gentlemen who gain their livelihood by manufacturing ho siery and gloves quite naturally view the change in tariff from a different standpoint from that taken by the wearers of these necessities. It is accordingly noted that a delegation of young women and men have arrived in Washington to urge an increase of 25 per cent in the duties on hosiery and gloves. If Congress defers action on the tariff until all of the people are satisfied, the proposed revision will hardly be accomplished for several centuries and then some. Tou may depend that The Oregonian has been read, and that it has made some impression on affairs, when state ments and arguments from its col umns, printed, ten, twenty or thirty years ago, are reprinted now as con clusive matter by those who didn't obey or follow it then. However, in all the small matters of politics there have been changes within ten, twenty and thirty years; and what was writ ten for conditions then may not be applicable to the changed conditions now. But your literal ass probably don't know it. The hypothetical question in regard to the insanity of Captain Halns, which will be submitted to the alienists, con tains 10,000 words.. The answer of the alienists will probably contain enough words to make two or three volumes. Since the unwritten law came into .such a. prominent place in our courts, the brevity of diction of Coke and Black stone seems remarkable by contrast. The Seattle Restaurant-keepers As sociation has given a pledge that prices will not be raised above the present standard during the Alaska-Yukon-Pa cific Exposition. Let us hope the stand ard will be maintained without the as sistance of stronger butter, weaker tea or a shrinkage in the size of the or ders. Mr. Lownsdale had an apple or chard of 300 acres and unplanted 4and of 350 acres, and sold it all for $275, 000. But he had been at it 20 years, which will be a little discouraging to those apple experts who want to make $1000 per acre per year for 20 years. There is reason to fear the supply of African Hons will not hold out. A shortage of lions at the rate Roose velt is killing them, seems inevitable. Our peace societies should hold meet ings to protest against further sacrifice of- these defenseless animals. Nevertheless, if you are going to employ a man to manage an intricate, large and complicate business, would you employ Bailey, Rushlight, Simon or McDonell? The Inquiry is made in no Invidious spirit. It is just a plain question. In Central East" Africa there is a disease known as sleeping sickness. It is a febrile and wasting disease. Theodore Roosevelt Is to pass through the country, but you may depend no "sleeping sickness" will ever catch him. Ten dollars per week "and found" is the elaborate salary paid circus mu sicians, according to an attachment suit filed in this city Tuesday. This offers a partial explanation for some of the music that we hear at the cir cus. The lawyers in the Calhoun case are yet in the "scoundrel" and "liar" stage of the argument. The trial is a little slow, but, as will be seen, everything is proceeding in an orderly and satis factory manner. "Roosevelt," says Senator Borah, "saved the Republican party." Wheth er the party was worth saving is yet to be determined. And, again, how long the salvation will last. If the flood prophets will take a stroll down to the river they will be startled to discover that the great flood of 1909 is having difficulty reaching the dignity of a freshet. A carload of live lobsters has start ed from Halifax for the Pacific Coast. So many of the lobsters we have here are dead ones that the new arrivals will be welcomed. Now Ortis Hamilton, late Adjutant General of Washington, Joins the ranks of undesirable public officials in that city. Olympia must be a gay capital. Apostle Galvanl should be able to present the Oregon idea at the Na tional Peace Congress. His tomahawk was left at home. SOME REMARKS ABOUT ASTORIA With Special Twlart Toward the Paid Booster Who Fosters Enmity. ASTORIA, May 4. (To the Editor.) Astoria Is certainly up against it. to use a slang phrase. For the past two years it has endeavored to forge ahead with the ostensible purpose of defeating Portland to the goal of com mercial supremacy. It has what is euphoniously styled' a Chamber of Commerce. No one seems to know from whence it derived its name, or what its mission on earth is. For the past two years it has been the pli able tool of a nondescript especially imported from some Southern state imbued with the idea, that Astoria is the center of gravitation around whose enchanted circle the entire north Pa cific Coast revolves. At a salary of $2500 per annum, fudged from the un sophisticated white population of this embryo bailiwick, who are largely In the minority in the point of population, he has endeavoured first to bring five hundred servant girls here to contami nate the rising male generation. The next attempt at gaining the commer cial supremacy of the state, was the suggested importation of five hundred descendents of darkest Africa to werk in the logging camps, notwithstand ing there were many experienced log gers looking for work. This not be ing productive of any benefit to the as pirant for commercial honors, he in vited five hundred Japs for the osten sible purpose of clearing' logged off lands, upon which a billy goat would starve to death. He has scattered his ephemeral advertisements in all the eastern magazines and newspapers, overlooking the best advertising med ium lie Oregonian, in his efforts to bring to the mouth of the Columbia a race of foreigners whom his environ ments would meet with a hearty co operation in overthrowing the recog nized seaport of the northwest for the sold benefit and behoof of Astoria, whose only claim to commercial su premacy is the fish which managed to escape the hundreds of miles of gill net meshes in its efforts to reach the natural spawning grounds. From an organization of over 200 members one j'ear ago, the Astoria chamber of commerce has dwindled down to a membership which can be counted on the two hands,, and if all signs do not fail, it is simply a mat ter .of time when this Messiah, who came to save Astoria from the whirl pool of lnnocous desuetude will be compelled to hie himself to the balmy sunny skies of Louisiana from whence he came, leaving the vendors of ephem eral desires to become a common point of the shipment of products it cannot produce, owing to the lethargy of its Inhabitants, from whence it came in the early days of Lewis and Clark. Truly. Astoria is up against it Its location and natural resources are made subservient to those of more cul tured and enterprising people, where knockers have been relegated to the realms of the mossback asylum for imbeciles, free from the cares and tur moils of a busy world. Astoria is still on the map, not as a rival of any of the more prosperous cities of the northwest, but as a sub urban retreat destined only to take Its proper place in the history of Ore gon, with ambitions never to be ful filled under the present disposition of the populace to antagonize cities su perior in every respect as regards com mercial supremacy and importance. It always will be on the map, because it is an entrepot, a sort of way sta tion on the lines having their termin als in the more central portion of pop ulation and wealth, where money re ceived from products is distributed among home residents, and not scat tered broadcast over the world for lack of facilities for providing for the immediate wants of its own popula tion. This, today, is in brief, the po sition Astoria occupies through the efforts of a progeny of bibllical lore upon whose foundations he expects t6 build a city to which Portland will simply be an outlying political ward, subservient to the jealousies and an tagonisms displayed by this learned leader of the blind leading the blind. Requiescat In pace. ASTORIAN. WHAT TO DO WITH THAT ARCH Cover It With Flowers That "Will Bloom Eight Months of the Year. ' PORTLAND, May 6. (To the Editor.) There has been considerable talk about tearing down the arch of welcome on Sixth street near the Union Depot. While passing along there the other day, it occurred to me that It would be a pity and a howling shame to tear it down, but Instead transform it into a thing of beauty. This is how I would propose to make it such. Have a trench dug around the base of the arch three feet, and about two feet wide, build a cement curb eighteen inches high around same for protection from vehicles, fill trench with prepared soil, then plant the following: Climbing Caroline Testout roses. Madam Wurtemburg roses. Ampelopsls Vichii (Boston Ivy). Virginia creeper. The climbing Testout, a grand, rapid and thrifty grower, would cover more than half the. height of the arch in one summer's growth. The Wurtemburg rose (red), a lofty climber, should, in two seasons, cover the top with a . mass of red roses all Summer, the roses to be stapled on to the walls as they grow. Boston ivy would cling tightly to the walls, and after frost, and roses are through flowering, there would be the effect of the changing rich color ing of the ivy leaves. The Virginia creeper being a rapid grower, should be planted for quick ef fect, and torn down and taken out when the Boston ivy (a' slower grower) gets a good start and covering. The arch would be covered eight months of the year with flowers or foliage. Imagine the effect ' It would have to visitors during carnival week. That arch of welcome covered with growing roses to greet them, and as they are departing from the city again, the last beautiful sight for them to see. Then for the re mainder of the season, the effect would be the same with the general public. Pot grown roses can be had and the plants well started this summer. The nearest park gardener could care for the arch garden. ALFRED B. M7CAIN. Mr. Simon and Y. M. C. A.-Y. W. C. A. PORTLAND, May 5. (To the Editor.) The question is asked whether Joseph Simon, a candidate for Mayor, has "ever parted with so much as a dime for any thing calculated to develop or improve Portland and make it a greater and better city?" The writer knows of numerous - gifts for charitable purposes by Mr. Simon and that he is a prompt and generous contributor to many civic affairs besides. The Young Men's Christian Association, the Young Women's Christian Associa tion and numerous other church insti tutions annually receive magnificent gifts from Mr. Simon,, although he is not a member of their organizations. ONE WHO KNOWS. Court Notes. James Dowd. executor of the James "Barry estate, petitioned the County Court yesterday to be allowed to sell to the United Railways Company, a right of way across sections 25,. 30 and 31, town ship 2. north of range 1 west. Dowd desires to accept $300 for the right of way The estate of Oleva J. Haynes has been appraised at $4127.20. The . Lillian M. Barnes estate, valued at $4000, was admitted to probate yes terday. She died April 7. 1909, leaving all her property to her husband, Well ington O. Barnes. He was appointed ex ecutor yesterday. CALLS RATIFICATION MEETIXG Republican Club Pushes Further , Unanimous Support Policy. Under the auspices of the Republican ' Club the Republican voters of this city are planning a general ratification and get-together meeting to be held in the 1 A. O. U. W. Hall in the Selllng-Hlrsch I building next Wednesday night. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Republican Club last night C. E. Lockwood, A. J. Fanno and H. B. Dick inson were appointed a committee on ar rangements. Judge M. C. George, pres ident of the club, will preside as chair man at the ratification, to attend which an invitation will be extended to both the successful and the defeated candi dates in Saturday's primary election. The purpose of the gathering is further that even if Paganlni or Wleniawski to carry out the policy of the Repub- violinists who were said to be inspired lican Club by bringing the Republicans by the devil because they could make together in the interest of a unanimous you cry or weep at will could appear support of the municipal ticket in the today in the flush of their power, they June election. could not play better than this young Secretary Lockwood reported that 21 boy. who is more wonderfully gifted of the 33 Republicans who are seeking i than any other violinist of this genera nomination In the primaries had signed ; tion. This stamp of universal approval and returned the pledge submitted by 1 has been placed upon Elman by crowd- the club, binding themselves to support the party's successful nominees in the regular municipal election. The 13 can didates who have not yet signed the agreement are: For Mayor, A. A. Bai ley and A. G. Rushlight: Councilmen-at-large, Fred J. Brady and J. J. Jen nings; Second Ward. H. W. Wallace; Fifth Ward. Eugene Conn; Ninth Ward. Frank L. McAtee. F. E. Reed and Fred Tonsing; Tenth Ward, C. H. Beard, M. F. Donahoe and Joseph T. Bills. EDUCATES THE RAILROAD MEN i More Inspection Trips Over North west Ordered by Burlington. Following the visit of P. S. Eustis. pas senger traffic manager of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. to Portland and the Northwest a few weeks ago, several par ties of Burlington passenger men are routed to Inspect the north Pacific Coast cities. The policy of education has proved so successful in the case of the officials accompanying Mr. Eustis that the road has decided to continue the experiment during the Summer. It is held that every man routing people, whether for business or pleasure, to the cities of the North west, should be acquainted with the cli matic conditions, the suitability of the country for certain crops and other con ditions likely to determine the desire of settlers to make certain unctions their homes. Passenger men from Kansas1 City territory, embracing most of Texas, as well as Kansas City and Omaha, are scheduled to arrive in Portland May 13. This will be a party of seven, and will be followed 10 days later by a large party of 14. conducted by J. Francis, general pas senger agent of .the C. B. & Q. This latter party will be dispatched from Chi cago territory and will comprise men as well from Cincinnati, Buffalo and other Eastern points. DAVIS PROTEST IS EVIDENCE Action After Chamberlain . Election Admitted in. Libel Trial. Mrs. L. M. Davis was called on yes terday to testify In her husband's suit against the Journal Publishing Company for $40,000 damages for alleged libel. Judge Morrow, before a Jury in whose department the case is being tried, ad mitted in evidence yesterday a protest against voting for Chamberlain, which Davis said he signed Just after he cast his vote. Attorney W. P. Richardson came into court yesterday with a copy of Tuesday's Journal, saying that a re port of the trial appearing in it showed malice. ' He wanted it admitted in evi dence, - but wanted the Jury to disregard its statement of alleged facts in finding the verdict. Attorney Logan, represent ing the publishing company, was willing to have every newspaper issued in the last 20 years admitted in evidence, he said, but could not see how the Jury could receive it and then disregard it. John H. Stevenson is associate counsel for the de fendant. BIG GILLIAM FARMS CHANGE Tract of 2400 Acres Brings $72,000, One of 1920 Acres, $48,000. Two important sales of wheat lands in Gilliam County were closed yesterday by W. H. Moore, of the Moore Invest ment Company. One tract of 2400 acres was sold to Thomas Hye, of Spokane, the former owner being A. J. McDaniel, at a consideration of $72,000. This is said to be the largest transaction in farm land ever negotiated in Gilliam County. The other sale was that of the farm of J. A. Harbke to J. K. Weatherford, 1920 acres at a consideration of $48,000. The purchaser was a former resident of Dayton, Wash. Both these tracts are located near the town of Olex, on Rock Creek. Mr. Moore said last night that quite a brisk movement is noticeable in farm lands in Eastern Oregon and that values are increasing at a favorable rate. He said the two sales reported are indica tive of a good tone in the market for lands of this character. SAYS HUSBAND BEATS HER Salt for Divorce Is Brought by Mrs. William G. Smith. An ungovernable temper and an insa tiable appetite for' liquor are alleged by Mrs. Nellie W. Smith to be a part of William G. Smith's character. Greatly distressed on account of frequent beat ings, she says, she wants a divorce. The Smiths were married in Portland May 2, 1900. Six months later the beat ings commenced, says Mrs. Smith. The day after Christmas, in 1906, Mrs. Smith says she was knocked down by a blow in the face and remained unconscious for two hours. Evelyn M. Snyder brought suit in" the Circuit Court yesterday to secure a di vorce from Percival W. Snyder. She says she married him at Los Angeles, Cal., March 10, 1907, and that he deserted her less than three months later. Since that he has contributed nothing to her support. John Manning is her attorney. Loyal to Himself Only. PORTLAND, May 6. (To the Editor.) Mr. "Rushlight, Mr, McCusker and other supporters of Mr. Rushlight for Mayor, declare that Mr. Simon is the only other possible nominee for Mayor, and that they cannot support him if nominated. That means that Mr. Rushlight has no inten tion to be a Republican after the primary if the party does not indorse him for Mayor.' Since the statement is not dis puted that Mr. Rushlight supported Harry Lane for Mayor in two contests, having first taken part in the Repub lican primaries, the question is pertinent How long can a man be a good Re publican whose loyalty centers in him self only, and who ceases even to make a pretense of abiding by the party's nom inations? C. Q. MARX. All the Same in Oregon. Charleston News and Courier. ' Some of the members of the New York Legislature insist that $1500 the year is too small a remuneration for their serv ices. In South Carolina the services of Scions and Solomons, whether middling fair, good middling, middling, strict low middling, stained or dogtail. are paid $200 the year and mileage, together with such stationery, pens, ink and blotting papers as they can take home in their valises. MISCHA ELMAN IS GREAT GENIUS Rnaalu Youth, Who Will Play Here May JO. Paaaea Throuah Portland, and Talk of II 1 career. BY JOSEPH M QCENT1ST. RELY, never before has such groat musical genius visited the United States as Mlscha Elman. the young Russian violinist of international fame, who gives a concert at the Heilig Theater, Monday night. May 10. under the direction of Misses Lois Steers Wynn Coman. "Great" la the correct worn tr n, for the music world has already said ed audiences in concerts at London. Paris. Berlin, St. Petersburg and other European capitals, and at New York City, Chicago, Boston and other places in this country. Word has even floated over the ocean that at many concerts at which Elman appeared, the services of the police were necessary to regu late the mobs of enthusiasts who stormed theater doors. Yet the subject of all this world adoration is a mere boy, and a mild looking, yet manly boy he is for ' Elman was only 18 years old last Janu ary. I called yesterday morning at the Hotel Portland to see him, and found him looking at a newspaper in the lobby. Then he talked to a Japanese bellboy, and the pair attracted more than usual attention. Manager Henry Woltfson, of New York, under whose management Elman is making this, his first American tour, hove in sight, and Introduced me to Elman, who extended his hand and said: "How do you do?" I gazed with awe at those fingers of his, fingers which he afterward told me were insured in England for $100, 0U0 against accident through which he might not be able to play his violin. Mr. Wolffson led the way to Elman's apartments, where he met Saul Elman, father of the young genius. "This gentleman," said Mr. Wolffson, indicating Mr. Elman. senior, "is the capitalist backing the concern, and I should say that this son of his is a splendid investment" During our conversation I closely studied Mischa Elman's personality. He is under the medium height, but is sturdily built and health glows from him. His hair is of normal length, and he neither wears a bow-necktie nor any Bohemian attire which often proclaims the professional violinist. He is just an ordinary-looking, natural, unaffect ed human being whom you might pass In a crowd, without a second glance, were It not for those eyes of his. which pierce you through and through wheU Elman feels like it. "There Is not any use in your copy ing in your notebook my name, the names of my parents, how many broth ers and sisters I have, where I was born, and so on," suggested Elman, his eyes twinkling with fun, "Mr. Wolffson, bring out our patent." The obedient Mr. Wolffson did so and gravely handed me a paper headed "Important Invention," and reading: My name la Mlscha Elman. My mother's name la Helen Elman. I have three slaters. We now live in London. I Taa born near Odessa. I like your city very much. When a child I had the measles, whoop ing cough and the mumps, and was vac cinated twice. 1 eat well, sleep well, and very much like walking, though not oppoaed to au tomobillng. I am passionately fond of a game at chess. This list is quite long and I have copied only a few of the items. "That list often saves the newspaper men a lot of trouble." said Elman, laughing. "Sometimes, you know, those foreign names are difficult to spell. Now, ask me some new ones. If you can." I did so, and in the course of a general talk Elman said: "In 1S96 I became the pupil of Pro fessor Fiedelman at the Imperial School of Odessa, and won a free scholarship at my entrance examina tion. In 1902 Leopold Auer, the great Russian violinist, heard me play and I then became his pupil, and while with Auer I made my repertoire in one year and four months. I possess two vio lins, one of them being a Stradivari which once belonged to Joachim. I bought it, and its present value is esti mated at $10,000. It is my favorite in strument. My other violin is an Amati, valued at $8000, but my muscles- are sometimes too strong for it, unless I take care. That is why I prefer the Stradivari. "No, I don't think that the older vlo' llnlsts, such as Paganlni, sold them selves to the devil to obtain the power to enslave hearers at will. People in audiences of those days were not so well educated, not so intelligent as we of this generation. Consequently they put down too many things they couldn't understand to witchcraft, and talked about some gifted ones being in league with "the devil. Were Paganlni to ap pear now the world would see that ha is not better in technique and in violin playing generally than are the great violinists of our day. Now, violinists study more and therefore accomplish more. The compositions of Sarasate, for instance, freely played today, are more difficult than the compositions of masters played in Paganinl's day. I do not think there is any soul in a violin. The soul in the player brings out tha divine." . When wo walked away I realized that we had been under the spell of a potent personality. Now, the next thing is to hear that personality make music with a violin and a bow. I wonder If Elman will make Portland women weep, as he has done in other cities when he has played the Schubert "Ave Maria," or make us all laugh with the Joy reflected in a Cossack gavotte? We shall soon know. Elman, his father and manager left yesterday afternoon for the north. Elman plays tonight at Seattle; Friday, Vancouver, B. C; Sunday afternoon, Seattle; Monday night. May 10, at Port land: then at Tacoma and Spokane.. Elman then leaves for New York, from" which port he sails on the Kaiser Wil helm der Grosse, May 26, for Europe. Elman wears a handsome diamond ring, the gift of King Edward of England, and a gold watch, presented to him by the Prince of Wales on behalf of an English orchestral society. MR. MTUSKER KEEPS MUM. Mr. Cox's Letter Breaks Not His Char acterlatlc Reticence. PORTLAND. May 5. (To the Editor.) Just one line tn reply to W. W. Cox, whose article appears this morning. The coming primary is to Bettle the question whether the people or machine politicians rule. I am not an issue, neither is Mr. Cox, and the people are not interested in newspaper controversies. Neither is it so mueh Mr. Rushlight as the preser vation of the people's rights in the direct primary. I met Mr. Cox once at the people's forum. He said he was a stranger here, that he was "honest" and was seeking information. The class in which he trains shows his honesty; it is unnecessary to exploit it. He certainly earns his salary. It is unnecessary to refer to the assinine quality of his communication. The ear marks are plain. Neither do I intend to advertise him' nor the cause which he represents by replying to them. ;iCiO& il'CUSKEB.