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rORTLAXD, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9, 1910.
OVR DIVORCE STATISTICS.
The bald statistics of divorce in Ore
gon are discouraging enough to people
who expect the early dawn of the
millennium, but they must be analyzed
a little to show the full enormity of
the evil. Our divorce rate of 368 to
the 100,000 of population is exceeded
Jn only five states, and is more than
B0 percent above Japan's. This in it
self affords matter for serious reflec
tion. It is still more disconcerting to
discover that the number of divorces
Jn Oregon Increases at an increasing
rate year by year, while the number of
marriages increases at a diminishing
rate. Evidently if this continues a
time, will come when we shall have
more divorces than marriages.
To make the meaning clearer, we
may cite the statistics for the years
1904, 1905 and 1906. Between 1904
and 1905 the annual number, or rate,
of marriages in Oregon Increased by
472 and the number of divorces by
114. But between 1905 and 1906 the
marriages increased by 78 only, while
the divorces increased by 127. In
other words, the number of marriages
Is increasing at a retarded rate, while
that of divorces increases at an accel
erated rate. This portentous fact is
(brought out more instructively by the
statistics for Multnomah County,
which are more complete than those
for the entire state, and also more re
cent. Beginning with. 1905 and end
ing with 1908, the yearly number of
marriages . in Multnomah County in
creased at the yearly rates of 188, 156
and 102. For the same period the di
vorces increased at the yearly rates
of 5, 38 and 53. Between 1905 and
1906 the rate if increase of divorces
was only the thirty-seventh part of
that of marriages, while between 1907
and 1908 it had grown to be more
than half as large. In four years
more, unless conditions change funda
mentally, our divorce ratev will be
growing faster than our marriage rate.
It is facts like these which indicate
deep social tendencies. The mere
numbers of marriages and divorces are
Bueprnelal matters which do not neces
sarily convey any important Informa
tion. But when we find divorces tend
ing to increase at an accelerated rate
while the increase of marriages is re
tarded more and m.ore, then we have
reached a subject which merits pro
found study. The statistics for mar
riage and divorce are a little more de
pressing in Oregon than in some other
states, but their significance is the
same. Throughout the United States,
all over the world, in fact, with few
exceptions, divorce is increasing, mar
riage is postponed or avoided, and the
birth rate ia declining. Students of
sociology explain these phenomena in
various ways. Some find in them
grounds for apprehension. 1 Civiliza
tion is in peril, they say. Perhaps
the human race may have grown
world-weary and sterile. The will to
live Is failing and we areapproaching
the Schopenhauerlan self-annihilation
of mankind. Others do not feel quite
so. gloomy over it. The declining
birth rate is more than compensated,
they contend, by modern success in
saving babies' lives. It is better to
bring fewer children into the world
unci keep them all alive than to bear
them in countless multitudes and
slaughter the majority by ignorance
and poisonous food.
As for divorces, they are doubtless
regrettable, but enlightened opinion
seems to agree that they are not so de
plorable as they are depicted some
times. We must look upon them as
phenomena of a transition period.
Their number happens just now to be
abnormally great. It was smaller
years ago. Tt will be smaller again
by and by. Meantime we must make
the best of it. for there is no likelihood
that legislation can help at all. The
so-called divorce evil unquestionably
flows from deep changes progressing
in the structure of society. What
they are it would be presumptuous to
try to specify fully. They are as yet
too formless to be recognizable, but
certainly one of them is a revision of
the relations between men and women.
In America, at any rate, women are
forging ahead of men intellectually.
They dominate our religion and our
feebly Incipient art. Our literature is
mainly written for them. Moreover,
they are becoming every day more in
dependent economically. Some stu
dents express all this by saying that
woman is replacing her institutional
consciousness by a developing individ
uality. She is becoming more of a
rerson and less of a racial type. The
change requires time to complete, and
while it is in progress the marriage
relation is necessarily disturbed. Both
sexes feel their inherited habitudes
dissolving and perceive the need of
forming new ones. Until they have
done so there will be more or less
trouble between them and the family
will be comparatively unstable, but it
is not in any serious danger. In the
end all will come right again unless
foolish legislation interferes too much
with the course of evolution.
The General Manning, one of the
largest and finest craft in the revenue
service, is lying in Portland harbor,
awaiting some minor repairs-. At var
ious times in the past revenue cutters
have been stationed for brief periods
In this city, and it would seem that an
effort should be made to have this
port made a permanent station for the
Manning and her successors in the
service in this district. For conven
ience in handling shore business, se
curing supplies and repairs, this city
has advantages equal to any obtain
able at the Puget Sound cities, where
these craft have been stationed in the
past. Portland firms have been asked
for bids pn some of the repairs and
equipment needed on the vessel. An
effort should be made by those inter
ested to make these bids so satisfac
tory that there will be no likelihood
of the vessel going elsewhefe for them.
If the Government can be convinced
that Portland has special advantages
as a station for a revenue cutter, the
Manning or some other cutter might
be permanently stationed here.
GARBAGE.
It is a word neither elegant nor
nice, yet is very necessary. But any
other word, standing for the same
thing, -would be as offensive. Owing
to the vast variety of opinion for
which Portland has long been famous,
no proposition on the garbage ques
tion at Portland has ever re
ceived, the support of more than
a few of the citizens. Theories
are broached in exceeding plenty;
but every man is especially fond
of his own, or of some other
tYiat if Vina Yt&arA rf Vmt L-n im-o lfrtla
j about. Just now The Oregonian is
J intending to suggest a method that it
no success, heretofore. Possibly now,
after the circle of suggestion has -been
completed, this idea, by no means
original, yet based on the general
method of doing all kinds of work by
contract, may find more hospitable
reception.
Suppose now the city should aban
don or postpone for the present the
idea of selling bonds and building a
garbage burner, and let out to some
company the contract of removing
and destroying the garbage of the
city guarding the public interest
wit close and rigid regulations. It
probably would be the cheapest and
most efficient way. The garbage could
be removed from the city on cars or
by river, or in both ways, and de
stroyed at some suitable point where
the offensiveness of the operation
would be minimized. The removal
could be effected after midnight. The
charges would be regulated by law
and by contract.
It will be a wasteful method to cart
the garbage three miles, tfown to the
proposed crematory, to be built by the
city. One or two incinerators will
have to be put in on the East Side
very soon, if this plan shall be
adopted, and another on the West
Side, in South Portland. The city will
get a million dollars into the business
very soon, and then will conduct it at
vast expense. Besides, nobody in the
city wants a garbage burner in his
vicinity. There will always be a
"dump," on fire, like that in "the
Valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence, and
black Gehenna called, the type of
Hell."
But out beyond the city a place
could be obtained by contractors, who
could make their arrangements to
convey the garbage to it in tight cars,
in the early morning hours. This
would be the method least offensive to
the city; it would save the interest on
bonds in ever-Increasing amounts, and
would save the city the continual and
immense worry of "working the sys
tem." It is just what s done in con
tracts for services in ... jst other lines
of work in which tjie city is engaged.
Regulation of rates and of all other
particulars of operation would be
controlled by the city, and a super
vision maintained to see that all the
conditions were complied with.
But it probably would be com
plained that somebody might make
money out of the contract. That al
ways Is a prime consideration in Port
land the fear that somebody will
make money. But if this scavenger
business is not worth its reward it
would be difficult to say what busi
ness is worth it. Under the Socialist
system all, it may be supposed, will
have to take their turn at the garbage
cart. Is this the solution?
HILL MOVIXG SOUTH.
The announcement that the Hill
line into Central Oregon would be
continued to Klamath " Falls and
thence to a connection with Califor
nia will occasion no surprise. Despite
the frequent denials of Mr. Hill that
he hnd any intention of invading the
California field, neither railroad nor
commercial Interests in close touch
with the situation believed that the
line would find a terminus this side of
California. The immense traffic which
California has supplied for the South
ern Pacific has been one of the rich
est plums that has -ever dropped in
the Harriman basket. By systematic
silencing of opposition, the Harriman
lines have nearly always been in abso
lute control of the great traffic.
Aside from-thls great overland busi
ness that can be handled by the Hill
lines after they form a California con
nection, there is already a large
volume of passenger and freight busi
ness between Oregon, Washington.
British Columbia and California in
which the Harriman interests are
practically alone in their glory. By
forcing an entrance to Puget Sound
over the Hill tracks, the' Harriman
road with a through line to SanFran
cisco and beyond, quite naturally
secured nearly all of the through rail
traffic and it will hold it until the
Hill line is completed through to
California.
The extension of the road .to
Klamath Falls will also prove of In
estimable value to Portland, for this
city will then have access to the
richest portion of Southern Oregon
on even terms with our California
competitors.
COAI.S TO XKWCASTIJ5.
The steamer Northland arriving
from San Francisco yesterday brought
among other freight nearly 2000 bales
of California hay. During the month
of January, smaller consignments ag
gregating more than 4000 bales were
received by steamer from the Cali
fornia port. In this new business there
are some of the unusual elements that
have made famous that, remarkable
transaction known as "carrying coals
to Newcastle." Since the season
opened last July, Portland has re
ceived by rail from Oregon and Wash
ington points more than 1900 carloads
of hay. In a country which has be
come famous alike for the quality and
quantity of hay produced, it seems
strange indeed to witness the impor
tation from California of such large
quantities.
The incident demonstrates, how
ever, that the overtaking of the pro
duction by the demand is in evidence
in the hay business as well as in
wheat, beef, butter and every other
commodity which the soil produces.
It also shows that there are still grat
opportunities for producing remuner
ative crops for which there is always
a waiting market. Hay will grow
luxuriantly in a hundred localities in
Oregon, wherever the ground ia
cleared. With irrigation it can be
produced at great profit throughout
what is known as the dry belt east of
the Cascade Mountains, while in the
coast "regions there are innumerable
rich - little valleys and "draws' in
which the yield is enormous wher
ever the land is cleared.
There is no good reason why this
state should not produce all of the
hay needed f.r the home demand. In
buying in the California market, the
consumer is sending to another state
money which could be advantageous
ly circulated here.
There is the additional loss of
money paid for freight on the Cali
fornia product. So long as Oregon is
importing a great staple like hay, the
limit of development of our own re
sources is still some distance in the
future.
PORTLAND'S PROSPEROUS BANKS.
Portland has a reputation through
out the country as a conservative, safe
city that has never been over-boomed,
nor over-built. There has been very
little discounting the future in the
way of buildings that were not needed,
or in placing fictitious values on lands
not yet necessary for business or resi
dence purposes. This conservative
characteristic is reflected in the ex
cellent bank statements appearing in
yesterday's Oregonian. A gain of
more than $2,000,000 in deposits in
two and one-half months with an in
crease of $1,329,046 in cash holdings,
is a record which shows quite clear
ly that the banking business of the
city is strictly in keeping with other
lines of industry for which it sup
plies the sinews of war.
The twenty-three National, state
and private banks of the city at the
close of business January 31 showed
deposits of $62,350,653, with loans
and discounts of $34,579,900, and cash
and exchange to the amount of $22,
721,671. The ten clearing-house
banks reported a gain in the last year
of $10,915,831 in. deposits and of more
than $8,000,000 in loans and dis
counts. The highly conservative pol
icy for which Portland is noted, is
shown in the remarkably large pro
portion of the deposits represented in
the cash item. The New York clearing-house
banks have a rule which
requires a cash reserve equal to 25 per
cent of the deposits. This percentage
has nearly always been ample to pre
vent any disturbance of a serious
nature. On the same basis the clearing-house
banks of Portland would
have found it unnecessary to hold
more than $14,646,000, instead of more
than $21,000,000 as shown by yester
day's statement.
Even greater conservatism is dis
played in the matter of loans and
discounts, as the Portland clearing
house banks showing loans but little
more than half as large as the depos
its. In the New York bank statement
last Saturday the clearing-house banks
reported loans of $1,232,000,000, com
pared with deposits of $1,251,720,000.
A" noticeable feature of the detailed
bank statement yesterday was . the
very excellent showing made by a
number of comparatively new banking
institutions. The figures ior all of the
older banks, without exception, showed
liberal increases in the' volume of
business handled, thus proving that
the business of the new banks had not
been secured at the expense of the
older ones.
Portland bankers, by keeping on
hand big supplies of cash, may not
reap as large profits as they would se
cure by forcing the loan account, but
an examination of the statement
printed yesterday will show that the
local institutions are immune from
any trouble which might overtake less
carefully managed banks."
HOME RCLE.
An "Old Subscriber" to The Orego
nian writes to inquire "why England
refuses to grant home rule to Ire
land?" He mentions that she has
been willing to grant it to most of her
other dependencies, but seems to
make an exception of Ireland. Wales
and Scotland are exceptions also, but
their status is not the same as that of
Ireland. Scotland was incorporated
with England by an "act of union,"
which was, in form at least, entirely
voluntary, and the Scottish monarchs
became Kings of Great Britain.
Hence the position of Scotland is ex
tremely respectable. Wales is a con
quered principality, but its vanity is
soothed by having the heir apparent
for its "Prince," its religion is Protes
tant and the blight of absentee land
lordism has never smitten it. Welsh
loyalty to the British crown is there
fore firm and unwavering.
' Ireland is another matter. The en
mity of the islanders to the English
is racial, .religious, economic, linguistic
and sentimental. In all thesa particu
lars the Irish have been wounded by
their conquerors. Unforgivable inju
ries have been Inflicted and received
by them, and have generated a hatred
which nothing seems to assuage. Be
cause of this hatred, which might be
come disloyalty, England has not
dared to grant home rule to the Irish.
To do so, in the opinion of Tory states
men, would be simply to arm an ir
reconcilable enemy at her door. Even
Liberal leaders would not think of
conceding home rule without numer
ous precautions and restrictions. It
has been said that the racial charac
teristics of the Irish are the greatest
hindrance to their national progress.
A certain intensity of insistence upon
matters of passion combined with neg
lect of practical measures is what
critics charge them with. How fair
or unfair this may be, every reader
must decide for himself from his stud
ies in Irish history.
DEAD 1SSCES.
The outburst of Senator Heyburn,
of Idaho, in the United States Senate
against lending Government tents to
Confederate veterans for their re
union, and against placing the statue
of General Robert E. Lee in the hall
or fame, would have been applauded
in every state north of Mason and
Dixon's line a third of a century ago.
That the sentiments he expressed
have been' outdated by time the great
healer of wounds of the spirit was
witnessed in the fact that he alone,
in the United States Senate voted
against the resolution to lend the tents
to the Confederate veterans.
While it is possible that magnanim
ity may go too far, in a matter of this
kind; and while it must be admitted
that the people of the South, as a
body, have been slow to exercise a
feeling of brotherliness for those who
wore the Nation's blue in time of civil
strife, it is still well to remember that
victors can afford to be magnanimous
even under the pressure of great
provocation, and that the vanquished
should be forgiven for clinging to the
skeleton of their traditions, even while
its bones turn to dust in their hands.
As sung toy Will H. Thompson in
his "High Tide at Gettysburg" -
A mighty mother turns in tears
The pages of her battle years.
Lamenting all her fallen sons.
A mighty Nation, prosperous be
yond precedent and separated from
her battle years by nearly half of a
century, turns but seldom the pages
written in the blood of her fallen sons.
Over these pages, when turned in
sadness by the vanquished who sur
vive the strife of a strenuous era, or
in sudden gust of patriotism by some
impulsive orator who knew not the
bitterness of the strife, the "mighty
mother" sheds few tears. The foun
tains of these have long since been
dried under the sun of prosperity
that shine? upon a people, reunited
under the old flag. To be sure, any
one' whose memory extends over the
period and incidents of the Civil War,
ending with the assassination of Lin-
Kcoln, can lash himself into a frenzy of
patriotic Indignation if he chooses to
do so but what's the use?
Senator McCumber, of North Da
kota, was the first man to lift a vol;e
in official circles for the farmer, ia
the present high price flurry. Against
the statement that the farmer is grow
ing opulent and lazy because of the
high prices of farm and range prod
ucts. Senator McCumber asserts th.it
he is the last person to profit by soar
ing prices of these products. In sup
port of this assertion he cites that a
-four-year-old steer which would sell
in North Dakota for $74 would bring
$2500 when served at prevailing prices
for meat in the Senate restaurant;
that the bushel of wheat, for which
the farmer receives ninety cents, re
tails for $3 and $4"when made into
bread and sold at five cents a loaf,
and at $37.50 when served in a good
restaurant, while a bushel of potatoes,
for which the North Dakota farmer
receives thirty cents, when served
"hashed brown" brings an advance
of 450 per cent. Truly this does look
as if the army of purveyors all along
the line between the producer and
consumer have a distinct advantage
of those at either end. Against this
fact, however, there stands a big
item to the credit of the thrifty
farmer, viz: he is certain of his own
living and that of his family, on the
best that the land affords, while of
the surplus of his fields, garden and
orchards there is sufficient even at
first-hand prices to clothe and school
his children, and provide a rest period
for himself and wife in the Winter.
This means hard work and intelligent
work and to some extent disagreeable
work, but it means also that self
respect will abide-with plenty in the
farmhouse.
The Sailors' Union of the Pacific
Coast has been put into a very pe
culiar position by William Gohl, the
Gray's Harbor agent. There are very
few -ports along the coast that have
not experienced trouble with the
union, but no charges of wholesale
murder have ever been laid at its
door! Gohl, however, is said to have
threatened publicly that unless the
"higher ups" in the union came to his
rescue, he would disclose startling evi
dence against the union. Since this
statement the union has hurried to
the rescue, and it is now announced
that it will employ the best legal talent
obtainable to save the neck of the man
who is accused of so many cold
blooded murders. It would have been
much better for the reputation of the
union had this assistance been prof
fered before Gohl made his threats.
Complying with his request would
seem to be an admission of fear that
he might tell something startling
about the terrors of sailors" unions
on Grays Harbor. '
One of the Washington forest
rangers has been sent into the Olym
pic Mountains to kill cougars which
have been making serious inroads on
the small band of elk still remaining
in that country. This is a plan that
might be tried all along the coast. AH
of the hunters turned loose in the
Oregon forests do not make anywhere
near the havoc with the deer and elk
that is made by the cougars, and the
number of these pests, instead of de
creasing, seems to be on the increasa.
If there are to be deer or elk left
in the state for future generations, it
will be necessary to pay a larger
bounty on cougars or else turn the
forest rangers into the woods to kill
them off. It is not only in the Win
ter when food is scarce that the cou
gars make big kills of elk and deer,
but in the Spring and Summer thou
sands of young elk and fawns are de
stroyed by these worthless marauder?.
The German agrarians who have
been so persistent in their demands for
the exclusion of American meats do
not expect to supply- all of the short
age thus created with beef, pork, mut
ton, etc. Horseflesh is still a promi
nent factor in the food supply, al
though the Germans can no longer
secure the rich, range-fed Oregon cay
uses for food, as they did about a
dozen years ago. According to Herr
Calver, a prominent German Socialist,
the number of horses slaughtered in
Germany for food in 1908 was 136,575,
compared with 146,627 in 1905. Ger
man horses are mostly small and dress
down to about 300 pounds of market
able meat, so that even the large num
ber slaughtered do not go very far In
supplying the demand of the German
meat eaters.
Glavis, straightforward fellow that
he is, sneaked Dennett's personal let
ters away through the Commissioner's
private secretary and boasts of the
achievement. Mrs. Glavis. who is su
ing the gentleman for divorce. Is now
in Washington, promising something
"sensational." She can doubtless throw
light on the character of the estimable
Mr. Glavis.
If the Saltair pavilion, when laden
with the world's sportdom at the'Jeff-ries-Johnson
prizefight, should col
lapse Into Great Salt Lake, that would
be more effective than closing the
town. '
A Pittsburg preacher laments that
soulless corporations are taking too
many young men away from the min
istry. But perhaps the ministry is
better off.
Price of false hair has gone up. This
is one of life's necessaries that the
women must have. There seems no
way of giving up the necessaries.
Peary's friends want Congress to
make him a Rear-Admiral. They evi
dently think he doesn't need do any
thing more in the world
SAVINGS-BANK LEGISLATION
RecoiammilalUiB tbat Sam Placed to
Ewb. Depositor's Credit Exceed $10O.
PACIFIC GROVE. Cal., Feb'. 1. (To
the Editor.) There are two new pos
tal savings bank bills before the pub
lic. The apparent limitations of both
are such as to make it obvious that
they are drawn rather in the interest
of "the Interests" than in the interest
of the people.
Mr. Sulzer's bill. H. R. 18,139, has a
limiting clause that seems framed to
mystify the ordinary casual reader.
Section 5 reads as follows: "That de
posits may be made at any time in
amounts of $1 or multiples thereof, but
no deposits for less than $1 shall be re
ceived, and no single evidence of de
posit shall be for a larger amount
than $100 exclusive of interest."
This therefore limits the possible to
tal to the credit of any depositor to
$100. exclusive of Interest.
The depositor's pass book is his
"single evidence of deposit;" this may
not exceed $100 "exclusive of interest."
Had the clause "exclusive of Interest"
been omitted. It might have been sup
posed it was meant to read "no evi
dence of a single deposit shall exceed
$100. So narrow a limitation must
have been framed with the intent to
minimize the usefulness of such banks.
The Senate bill is still better in that
it places the limit to $500 instead of
$100.
In Great Britain the amount to the
credit of an individual depositor may
be $1000, exclusive of interest; in Can
ada. $1500; in New Zealand interest is
allowed on deposits up to $3000. Why
should American citizens receive less
liberal treatment?
All the reply one gets may be
summed up in that one word of ter
rible omen and Import. "Paternalism!"
In the last panic who were the par
ties most pertinaciously vociferous for
"paternalism?" Who then yelled, "The
Treasury to the rescue?" Who held out
itching palms for $200,000,000 patern
ally placed, at their disposal by their
dear and much respected Uncle Sam?
Paternalism for plutocrats was O. K-,
but, dear me, how dangerous would
paternalism be If it dared to safeguard
the savings of the common people!
.Do not our people need and deserve
institutions yes. even postal savings
banks as liberal and efficient as those
of any other country? Then why don't
we have them?
EDWARD BERWICK,
President Postal Progress League of
California -
DrFFICULTIES OF SISKIYOU.
But Maybe There Will Be a Joker
Sojuewhere la the Deck.
New York Sun.
Is it truth or legend that Siskiyou
County now seeks benevolent dissimila
tion from California and asks to be
joined with Southern Oregon as a state?
Never will California consent to the se
cession of Shasta and parts adjacent, the
brooks of trout, tue haunts of Old
Ephr'm, the grizzly; the trails over whose
windings has wandered for almost three
generations the fecund fancy of old man
Sisson.
Never will California consent to the
loss of its rhythmic boundaries, conse
crated by its silver-tongued orators on
many a stump.
From Siskiyou to San Diego.
Prom the Sierras to the sea.
Not even the mountains looking on
Marathon and Marathon looking on . the
sea offer more compactly a statement of
geographical truth.
Through a score of years memory yet
treasures the recollection of the ground
of the opposition which California set
against so trivial a change as the creation
of a new county. It unsettled geography,
there were then 52 counties in the state,
a figure easy to remember. As we recall
it, Glenn County knocked long for ad
mission and knocked in vain until at last
it made its plea that in every deck there
was a joker. Then it came In.
But to permit the secession of Siskiyou
California might as soon forego its
Sierras.
Ed Howe's) Philosophy. '
Atchison Globe.
There are those who preach so much
they haven't time to practice.
There are people who live in such a
way t,hat death ie about the best luck
that can befall them.
The sympathy of a man who isn't really
sorry for you, is about the most unsat
isfactory thing on earth.
It is always easier to remember what
you have done for others than to recall
favors extended to you.
"When I am feeling tough, nothing irri
tates me more than to meet a woman
who ia determined to scatter sunshine."
Drake Watson.
Those under 20 see the form of a good
fairy in the flames of a grate fire, but
those past that age more often conjure
up a boogy man.
Everyone has his ghosts: To parents,
the Thing that .s most haunting is the
man who will come along some day and
steal the daughter.
"Although I am not very amiable in
that line myself. I admire a man who
loves his kin, and is cheerfully imposed
on by them." Parson Twine.
Talk all you please about exact Just
tic, to all, it happens every day that a
big dog chases a little dog away after
the little dog has found it first.
American Women Wonderful.
New York Correspondence London Ex
press. v
The women of America are wonder
ful! Their versatility, acuteness, splen
did mental enerry, high ideals, firm
grasp of subjects, added to their charm
ing manners, tasteful dress, graceful
deportment, are refined- and feminine
to a degree. We all know the brainy,
masculine woman the world over..
But the American, while she may be
masculine in brain and alertness, is
also feminine emotions, if you like
in her makeup. She is a truly charm
ing type. The American woman is
also very practical, very inventive. She
develops an idea and she works out
her idea to its utmost possibilities. It
may only be a new sort of neckband
supporter, but she does not belittle her
hobby. She brings her imagination into
her work. She may be ultilitarian, but
the successful business woman is ar
tistic to. her finger tips.
Everybody Paying for Antos.
Indianapolis Star.
We are paying a good deal for auto
mobiles, even those of us who do not
purchase machines. Our Bibles are
costing us more for one thing, because
the paper pulp and leather used in
making them have gone up in price on
account of the demand for these mate
rials by automobile manufacturers. The
same excuse is offered for a raise in
the price of shoes; our rubber over
shoes have also gone up because of the
demand for rubber in the making pf
automobile tires. This knowledge will
not add to the plain citizen's peace of
mind when he leaps for life to escape
from a machine bearing swiftly down
on him.
Melisande.
PORTLAND, Feb. 7. (To the Editor.)
In the Saturday Evening Post in the
last sentence of the story "Up Against
It," it speaks of hair like Melisande's.
Who was this person and when can
reference of her be found?
GEO. L. CHERRY.
Maeterlinck's play of
Melisande."
"Pilleas and
Suggested Collaboration.
Kansas City Times.
Richard Harding Davis is to be di
vorced. He might get Howard Chand
ler Christy to illustrate it.
GLAVIS' SNEAKING METHODS.
Used Dennett's Confidential Stenoc
rapher to Get Possession of Letters.
New York Sun.
The testimony of Mr. Louis R. Glacis
before the Ballinger-Pinchot investigat
ing committee on Saturday last contained
this extraordinary statement, or (shall
we say?) confession, as reported by the
Washington Star:
Mr. Glavis continued his narrative. He
said he was Informed that ion)e of the
claimants had frankly discussed their hopes
and alma with Commissioner Dennett. He
told of his interview with Mr. Dennett upon
the latter's arrival In Seattle. Glavis re
lated how Dennett had used one Spaldlns
aa a stenographer and that upon Spalding
reporting to him that Dennett was writing
letters on the coai cac?s he had asked
Spalding to furnish hira with copies, which
was done. He felt that he ought to know
about the letters. . These letters wre fur
nished the President by Glavis and were
afterward submitted by tho President to
Secretary Balllnger.
In another account of Mr. Glavis' tes
timony Spalding is described as Mr.
Glavis' own stenographer, loaned to Land
Commissioner Dennett while the Com
missioner was in Seattle.
. Concerning the correspondence thus in
tercepted and obtained by Glavis for his
own purposes the witness spoke further
on Monday. We again quote Jrom the
Washington Star's report:
Glavis' attack seemed to center more yes
terday upon Commissioner Dennett. He said
he became convinced In the Summer of 11K9
that Dennett was crooked and took steps
to secure carbon copies of letters Dennett
was writing back to Washington. Several
of these letters were introduced In evidence.
One was from Commissioner Dennett to H.
H: Schwartz, chief of the Held service.
In considering these singular disclos
ures of personal method, made under
oath by Mr. Louis R. Glavis apparently
in total unconsciousness of their signifi
cance as affecting the public estimation
of himself, it is unnecessary to give a
thought to the merits of the controv-ersy
between Mr. Gifford Pinchot and Secre
tary Ballinger.
Mr. Glavis, according to the report of
his sworn testimony, "felt that he ought
to know about the letters:" and he there
fore instructed the stenographer, tempor
arily in Commissioner Dennet's employ
and confidence, to furnish him with car
bon copies, which he subsequently made
public.
. We think that comment is stiperfluous.
What is the opinion of Mr. Gifford Pin
chot, an honorable gentleman educated
in the ethics of personal conduct and
intercourse?
STEP HIGH AND LIVELY, LADIES
Then Yon Will Not Mind Those Car
Steps.
PORTLAND, Feb. 7. (To the Editor.)
I have read with ' much interest many
letters in The Oregonian on high car
steps. Now, I don't ride on streetcars
very much, but I ride on them often
enough to know that I can board any
car and get off with perfect ease, and
I am only a woman of average strength.
The trouble is. there are so many
women who want to be carried on a
"chip." I mean, they want to be waited
on. They can't do anything for them
selves. If some of them would have to
step high and step a little oftener, per
haps there would not be so many weakly
women in the world. All they need Is
some exercise, and stepping off and on
the streetcars as they are at the present
time is only a small part of the exer
cise they need.
Some .women are never satisfied. The
easier they have things, the easier they
want them. MRS. J. C. C.
Truth In Advertising;.
Bookkeeper for February.
A. W. McCann, advertising manager
of Francis H. Leggett & Company, of
New York City, in a recent address be
fore an advertising class in Brooklyn,
gave some interesting practical illus
trations of the effectiveness of telling
the truth in advertising. His long ex
perience with a house which knows how
the best results are obtained enables
him to speak with authority. "No mat
ter how well our story is told," he said,
"if not founded on facts its effective
ness will perish. Untruth has no place
in advertising because the common
sense of the consumer challenges the
merit of the article brought before its
attention, and if every detail of good
ness claimed far that article does not
assert itself upon personal inspection, the
interest of the individual is lost. A cau
tion, therefore, which harmonizes with the
first commandment of simplicity is
framed in the seoond commandment,
"Thou shalt be truthful or silent."
Tennyson on His Rivals,
Elizabeth R. Chapman, in Putnam's
As we strolled back along the terrace
towards the house, I was trying to tell
the master how it was that I had called
him so in a very special and intimate
sense almost ever since I began to
think.
"Well," he said, "there are many
schools. There's Browning. He has a
t large following.. He Is a fine fellow
nothing small about mm no petty Jeal
ousies or rivalries. And there are
others. . . . Swinbourne Is a fine
metricist." (It , will be recollected that
on another occasion he said of Mr.
Swinbourne, "He is a reed through
which all things blow into music")
"Latterly he has written some pretty
things about children, but he got a
good many of them from Victor Hugo."
The Sauer Kraut Philosopher.
Pacific Outlook, Grants Pass.
Probably it has not occurred to most
people that if we all quit eating meat
we shall have to find something to take
its place, and whatever that thing is,
it will immediately go up in price be
cause of the increased demand, and we
will be no better off than before. To
boycott one article of food is to boom
another. The best kind of boycott, my
friends, is for a lot of you able-bodied
ones, who are trying to live a French
salad sort of life on a sauerkraut in
come in town, to overcome your squeam
ishness about soiling your hands and
your antipathy for blue overalls, and get
out and extract some of these articles of
diet from the bosom of Mother Nature.
That will soon fix the trust prices.
Standpatter's Change of Base.
New Orleans Times-Democrat. .
One of the curiosities of the present
Congressional situation is the appeal of
the Cannonltes for that sort 6t execu
tive interference from President Taft
which they denounced when attempted
by President Roosevelt. As the stand
patters see it "there are, it would seem,
two varieties of executive interference.
That which aids them aj praiseworthy
and patriotic, while e sort whlci in
terferes with their autocratic control
of the House is an outrageous and dan
gerous invasion of their constitutional
rights.
Washington and Lincoln.
TIGARD, Or., Feb. 7. (To the Editor.)
Kindly tell me which you think is the
greater man, George Washington or
Abraham Lincoln, and give some impor
tant reasons why. SCHOOLGIRL.
Washington and Lincoln were too un
like to admit of a Judicious parallel
between them. Each was supremely
great in his own way. The best advice
we can give schoolgirls in general is to
try to appreciate each of them at his
true worth and not to worry over the
question which was the greater.
Or Somethln.
Puck.
"How is your wife this morning.
Uncle Henry?"
"Well, I dunno. She's failin' dredful
slow: I wish she'd get well or some-thin'."
LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE
Senator Beverldge was replying1 to a
defender of the sugar trust. "You re
mind me of a roan at his brother's
funeral. This man bent over the grav
and closely watched the lowering ol
the coffin into the clean-cut rectangu
lar chamber prepared for it.. He heaved
a sign as the coffin came to a rest, ajid
said to the undertaker heartily: 'It's
the neatest fit I ever saw In my life.
Come and have a drink on it " Kan
sas City Star.
Oscar Hammerstein, at a studio tea,
told, at a dinner in New York, a story
about James Russell Lowell and a bad
boy.
"A Boston woman. said Mr. Carman,
"asked Lowell to write in her autograph
album, and the poet, complying, wrote
the line
" 'What is so rare as a day in June?
"Calling- at this woman's house a few
days later, Lowell idly turned the pages
of the album till he came to his own
autograph.
"Beneath it was written in a childish
scrawl
" A Chinaman with whiskers.
Mrs. Margaret Deland, the author, at
the end of her recent arraignment of .
"the new woman" at the Waldorf-Astoria,
said: "She is, the new woman I
speak of, too selfish. She thinks only
of herself. It must have been she in
person who visited the Boston fortune
teller.
" 'Lady,' said the fortune teller, shuf
fling the cards, 'fate decrees that you
will visit foreign lands. You will min
gle in the court life of kings and
queens. Conquering- all rivals, you will
marry the man of your choice, a tall
dark, handsome gent of distinguished
ancestry in fact, a peer of the realm.
" 'Will he be young?
" 'Yes; young- and rich."
"The visitor in her excitement
clutched, the seer's arm.
" 'But how she cried eagerly, 'how
am I to get rid of my present hus
band?' ' Kansas City Times.
In a suit tried In a Virginia town a
young lawyer was addressing the jury
on a point of law, when good naturedly
he turned to the opposing- counsel, a
man of much experience, and asked:
"That's right, I believe, Colonel Hop
kins? Whereupon .riopkins. with a smile of
conscious superiority, replied:
"Sir. I have an office in Richmond
wherein I shall be delighted to en
lighten you on any point of law for a
consideration."
The youthful attorney, not in the
least abashed, took from his pocket a
half dollar piece, which he offered to
Colonel Hopkins, with this remark:
"No time like the present. Take
this, sir; tell us what you know and
give me the change.' Pittsburg: Chron
icle Telegraph.
"Once In London," said Fuller Melllsh
recently, "I heard an American phrase
taken in its literal sense, much to gen
eral amusement.
"Two New York women were purchasing-
some very expensive woolen
underwear as a present for the husband
of one of them.
"What do you think of such a pres
ent for George?" said New York
woman number one.
" It will tickle him to death," said
the second.
"Excuse me, madam.' interposed the
clerk, 'I can guarantee that it is the
finest and softest merino, and will do
nothing or the kind.' " New York
Telegraph.
Ir. Robert Wood, of Johns Hopkins
University, was complimented by a
young; lady, at a umner in Baltimore,
on the artificial mir-.ges that he had
succeeded in making in his laboratory.
"It is by attention to the least de
tails.' said sr. Wood, with a smile,
"that one succeeds i . experiments of
this kind. One must look after de
tails like er like the landlord's wife.
" 'Tommy,' said the landlord's wife
to her little boy. 'who is that talking
on the doorstep to your father?
'It's a divinity student, Tommy
answered, 'who is looking for a fur
nished room. v
'Hurry, then, said the mother, 'and
walk up and down the hall whistling
a hymn.' "
THE EAGLE AND THE PISHHAWK
Here's a New Application of the Old
School-Book Story.
Tacoma Tribune.
Secretary BallltiRer's statement that
Alaska is a prize package the full value of
which no one yet knows should tend 1u
make Uncle Ham keep a good firm hold on
it until he has had time to poke about in
its soils and find out what is hidden there
in. Boston Monitor.
Thls for the text; and herein lies
the radical difference between the Bos
ton man's viewpoint and the viewpoint
of the crude "rough neck" of the rude
West. We of the West are deluding;
ourselves with the self-pleasing idea
that the wild lands of the country, here
in the West, are open to discovery,
prospect and entry by we of the West
or any other citizen who has the hardi
hood to go-out into the wilderness and
hunt for timber, coal, gold, copper,
gypsum or whatever. And if we find
anything we delude ourselves with the
belief that we have the right to take
it up, in accordance with the laws of
the country, under which all these
things have been taken up by other
prospectors and pioneers, from the days
of the Pilgrim fathers down to date.
Not so the Boston man; the natural
resources of the West are for the pub
lic And the "public" is the Boston
man at least while he don't really go
out into the wilderness and take It up,
he wants a death grip mortgage on it.
What right have these rude "rough
necks' of the rowdy West to take up
lands that belong to the public? The
Government must shut out the people,
or, better yet, allow the hardy pros
pector to find something and then drive
him off arid take it, as the eagle docs
with the fish hawk. In the old Sander's
Union reader.
' American Honored in Paris,
Current Literature.
There are many art lovers who know
little or nothing regarding the work of
Elizabeth Nourse, yet this talented
American lady has been working in
Paris for upward of 20 years, and has
received the plaudits of artists, no less
distinguished than Puvis de Chavannes,
Rodin and Bernard. She is especially
dear to the French heart, and grows
more so with each year. The simplicity,
the exquisite womanliness and the subtle
sense of intimacy which pervade her
pictures have completely won the heart
of a nation, which, however complex
in other ways, looks always to woman
for the ideal of purity and sweetness.
In the art of Elizabeth Nourse that
Ideal is fulfilled.
Natural Philosophy.
PORTLAND, Feb. 7. (To the Editor.)
If a solid wooden ball one foot in
diameter and a solid iron ball one foot
in diameter were dropped at the same
instant from a height of 500 feet, w-hieh
will strike the earth first, or will they
strike at the same Instant. R. M. KAR.
Omitting from consideration the slight
effect of atmospheric resistance, they
would strike the ground at the same
Instant-
Most Insolent SuKgestlon.
Columbia State.
A Pan Antonio dispatch states that
a Texas man has swapped 100.000 acres
of land for 100,000 gallons of whisky,
but It should be borne in mind that
a great deal of Inferior whisky is
manufactured nowadays.