Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1911)
TIIE MORXIXG OREGONIAN. TUESDAY. 3IARCII 23. 1911. 10 fORTT-A XO. OUCOX. rc at f-tir.d. Onin, fottatTUM as a-on-i-ciaaa &tattr. ki-Invariably la AdTaaoa. T MA!U rt. rw!ir ta-turfi. cm yar. .....s'-;? X :!r. floJ.y lcc:ul-i. a:a aaoalha.... I;;t. Siaua lnc;oUU. taraa moataa,. X. X':7. Skadar Inc.uU'd. B poatk..f -' Xt.r. .t.ioat Suriav. yar. ...... .o I::. without S.aJr. monlha.... I .r. wmoat tuo iif. mm ioaik.. - I .:t. wltnoul Suaday. aaa stoat. . W I . oaa ...... 77 uala. aa a aad ;r. m raar.. (CT CAKBJCKI r-arrv. annay Inejrf.-J. ore faar...... La v. Sur.dar In-;U.!1. oaa n-.a-h. . HW u Brut trri po.-orftc mo ttJ r. i;.ra ord-r or p.noB; cha-B as jr !" fcaaa stamp. c a or arrjT ara at ma .nar'a r. iiva poatof.iea SJ-?-a la ilL lalud.c JIT and '; f ula i to it paa, I -. ' to a p4. i caaia; JO ta u paa, cn. to paaa, C.Ola. rar..(a pxaaa SauMa rat. Ummi BmlaM. OffWa Varra at Cw bb l or hniu.Kk. auiidia. CnJ- cfft St--,- bultcitr:. . rORTLAMD. Tlfill.IT. M.VBCH S. Mil. roR.uj.No ax humt rviirr. Mr. Bryan rejoice that tn Demo cratic party la 1'ennsrlvmnla has at List escaped from tho blighting riup tf Jimtj Guffey. and that there Is now opportunity to organise a militant and forceful opposition in a slat long under the domination of the bi-partisan machine. The Democratic party In Per.ns Ivanla U aa poor and spirit less a creature as It for year bu been In Oregon, and the cause for It de bilitated and contemptible condition are not dlyslmiiar. Guffey has Ions had the organization in bis plutocratic grip, and Guffey. like Penrose, baa always awaited respectfully, hat In hand. In the ante-chamber of the in terests railroad, coal, iron. oil. and the like for any order they might desire to give. Ha vine a common In spiration for political belns; and ac tion. It Is not strange that Penrose and Guffey never permitted themselves to Itet out of earshot of each other. The war made by Mr. Bryan on Guffey and hi atall-fed delegates, at the last Na tional Democratic Convention, is well remembered; and Mr. Bryan's great elation at the recent course of politi cal events in hidebound Pennsylvania Ja natural enough. The movement to create genuine Democratic party In Pennsylvania la led by Vance McCormlck, former Mayor of Harrlsburg. and a man of convictions, energy and Independence. George W. Guthrie, of Pittsburg, also a former Mayor. Is an ally of the Har risburg Democrat In the brave effort to rescue the Democracy from the paralyzing touch of Cuffeyism. and has been named for state Democratic chairman. Guffey himself has been displaced as National committeeman and the revolution Is fairly under way. Of course there are Democrats la Pennsylvania, though they usually make a poor appearance at the polls. The Republicans on National Issue outnumber them two to one. which would appear to make the outlook for them quite hopeless: but the situation la really no worse than In other state. In 1104. the Pennsylvania Republicans rolled up the enormous total of S40.4 for President, but the Democrats came along with 135.430. which, relatively was a great minority, but actually mnr than the total In almost any half a doxen Pacific Coast States. In Ore gon, for example. In 104. the Parker vote was only 17.6:1. while Roosevelt had over thrice as many 40.435. The proportionate showing of the Penn sylvania Democrats was far better In 104 than In Oregon. Perhaps they liked Parker better, though indeed few Democrats deserve the reproach that they like, or have liked. Parker at all. In 10 J the Pennsylvania Dem ocrats diJ a great deal better, rolling tip 44S. 77 for Bryan, the heaviest aggregate since 1SSI. when Bryan was unknown and the Eastern Democracy had not entered Into tie devastating silver shadow. . Tuft had 745.77. which shows that the Democracy In that anxious year came within 17.001 votes of carrying Pennsylvania a ery excellent showing. In the same year Bryan had 3.1.04 and Taft 62.530 In Oregon substantially' the same ratio as In Pennsylvania. Tet tne Iemocrats here are not discouraged and have no reason to be. The best offices and the greatest political hon ors are systematically and conscien tiously reservej for them. The Democratic party In Pennsylva nia has been herded like sheep by Guffey for delivery wherever It would do the most good for Guffey. The bi-partisan arrangement with the Re publican machine has for years been notorious, and many previous efforts, always futile, have been made to break It up. The demoralized condi tion of Pennsylvania public service Is due to It rotten politK-s; and its rotten politics comes largely from the de bauched and debilitated condition of the opposition party. When Guffey goes, the Democracy there may be able to hold up Its head, and Invite honest support from honest men who think that there should be a Demo cratic party in Pennsylvania, as there should be risen here even In Oregon. CONSISTENT. COViriKNTIOl S COL- Collier's Weekly devotes a large portion of the space In its issue of March IS to a somewhat labored at tempt to show to all the world how It tentatively refused a tentative bribe. With all of the a&suranc'e of a painted J-iebel vouching for her own virtue, this successor of the "Old Cap Collier" school of fiction proclaims Its sturdy integrity and honesty In accepting an advertisement from the American 'Woolen Company and then, by com ment thereon, nullifying any benefit that the advertiser might expect. Peering from beneath It self -con-siucted halo of unco-goodness. It asks: -Can the wool trust tlfle Colller'sT" Anyone familiar with Collier would Vnow better than, to attempt to "stifle" Collier's. Who ever beard of anyone attempting to "stifle" a polecat? And yet ther are some points of strong re semblance In Collier's and mephitis mephtUca, No respectable Individual with any retard for decency would make any attempt to stifle either of them. If the pests cannot be removed with a long-rang rifle It Is much-better to give them a wide berth. In the same issue in which Collier's make Inquiry a to whether it can be "stifled" It presents an excellent example of the sincerity, honesty and eons'stency of the course It has fol lowed since It srose from the garbage heap of yellow-back fiction from which the late "Cap Collier" picked out a fortune. In an affectionate fare well to Mr. Balllr.ger. whom It bitterly assailed, mallgne.l and misrepresented. CoUier'a states: W wish htm health avnd prosperity." and "may th best of life be yet to come." Fortunate Mr. Kal'.lnger. After Collier's characr assasains had left no stone unturned In an effort to prove him a villain and criminal engaged In robbing the public, "health and prosperity" should be his lot. In other words, since Mr. Bailtnger has ceased to be a target for the Col lier mud batteries, no harm can re sult from publicly admitting that he Is a good man entitled to "health and prosperity" and the "best of life" yet ia .ima Tf h. wer rtiiltv of one- half the crimes that Collier' ha charged against him. which, of course, he is not. he should spend the remain der of hi life behind the bars. The consistency of Culiler Is on a par with Its honesty. RATTLE A'D A FOsl SHOW. Seattle Is anxious to have some kind of an annual festival. After some discussion and hesitation it has de cided to try a rose show in June. "Of course." remarks the Post-Intelligencer. "Seattle's rose show will not In any way detract from popular local Interest In Portland great annual event: on the contrary, it will tend to accentuate Interest In the Portland rose show, for it will be conceded that the Oregon city has gone very much further In rose culture than has Seattle." The Seattle paper also Inti mates that the main purpose Is not so much to "make the show a permanent display of National significance, as to Interest the people of Seattle In rose culture purely for purposes of local beautificatlon and pleasure." A laudable object. Indeed! No ob jection ought to be made from any quarter and none will be made from Portland at any project that will aid In making Seattle more beautiful. Nor are these words written In any spirit of sarcasm, as our sensitive Seattle friends might suspect, PortUjid has no monopoly of roses, nor even of rose festivals; but It has very nearly a" monopoly of the wide spread reputation that ha come from the highest achievement in rose growing, rose combination and aggre gation and rose exhibition. Without re ference to the effect on Portland of the plan to have arose show there at the same time and It is not to be supposed that the Seattle exhibition will be a real competitor of Portland It would appear that Seattle would fare far bet ter In the eyes of the general public If It would devise and carry out as Seattle can an annual carnival, or festival, or mardl gras. or celebration, of Its own. Ha Seattle no original resources, or creations, or enterprises that are it very own? Then it is no longer the one and only Seattle. Axmir.it WAR STARE EXDE1. At no time since negotiations for the treaty renewal began has there been more than a very faint prospect for war between China and Russia, and even that prospect glimmered only when fanned by a draught of outside Interference. It 1 accordingly not surprising to note that China, with as good grace as the circumstance will permit, has receded from her Inde pendent position and promised to ac cede to the demands of the Cxar. The Russian policy of aggression pursued wherever there Is an opportunity to Invoke that unwritten and unreason able law that "might makes right" has frequently deprived that country of the sympathy and support of the rest of the world. It has wrought the same sentiment even when Russia was clearly In the right, a she is In the present cn.se. Had Russia, when she put down the Tartar rebellion In the province of 111 about forty year ago, followed the example of England. Germany and France In China, she would have re tained control of at least a liberal por tion of Sungaxia and East Turkestan, where the trouble had got beyond Chi nese control. Russia, however, waived what rights she might have had In that field in return for certain trade concession which China granted in the treaty of 1881. This treaty con tained a renewal proviso, effective every ten years, and the present crisis was brought about by the expiration of one of the ten-year periods. China with her customary vacillation and dilatory tactic ha prolonged, the pro ceedings until the last possible mo ae.An Knf a rrnrr! Ins- to yesterday' cable from Pekln ha at last acceded to the Russian demands. The unset tled condition of political affair In the Far East does not warrant the belief, however, that there is any per in th. iwiic that may be expected to follow China' promise to respect her own treaties. Th. mf aeons Involved In the Rus sian-Chinese dispute, together with tho adjacent Mongolian ana jtanciiui lan trade fields, are too rich to remain much longer In their present undevel oped state, Japan, with its rapidly- InnMaain s Wn Tkt 1 It t In It- Is not overlook ing any opportunities for locating Its hungry hordes .in richer iieias man are to he found on the Nippon isle. It is a suspicious silence that has char acterized the attitude of the little brown men who have vanquished both Russian and Chinese. This attitude point strongly to a secret understand- i , - a a n riis!& and Japan by which there will be an economical division of any Oriental spoils mat can be easily picked up while China is not looking on. Far-Eastern history h Deen mail ing quite rapidly since Japan suddenly flashed Into prominence as a world power, and It would not be at all sur prising If Japan and Russia should pool their Issues and form a Chinese development leaguer If they kept away from the territory of other na tions and were not too aggressive in their attitude the powers might per mit them to carry out a reasonable plan of progress. A rARAMTE? ir. tha women of today speaking fer the masseconomic burdens? Are they parasites living upon tne earning capacity and endeavor of men? Pro fessor Scott Keating, who holds the chair of economic in the University of Pennsylvania, asks these questions and answer them In the affirmative. But what of the story that experi ence and observation tell In Industrial life throughout the American Nation? What of the story that the census tells of hundreds of thoussnds of women engaged In gainful vocations? What of the story of every-day life that, is repeated day after day and year after year In the home of American farm er, mechanic and tradespeople? TViiir h. And no women who are parasites. On the contrary, we find women everywhere doing tneir run share In the Industrial world making and snendlng clothing, cooking and per forming the various duties that pertain to home-making: gardening, poultry raising, frult-plcklng and packing in season, and doing such dairy work as they are physically able to do. Ring up the plumber, the doctor, the de partment store, the grocer, and a girl' or a woman's voice answers, taking your order; visit the schools and you will find nine-tenths of the teachers to be women; search the "want column of the daily paper for help suited to your needs and you will find It under the classification "work wanted, fe male." The loom has been banished from the kitchen, as has the grain elckle from the Held, but 1 doe not follow that the daughter of the woman who aforetime threw the shuttle all day long Is a "parasite" because of this. The sphere of her activities ha merely shifted. Nor yet would we say that the" sons of the man who thrust his sickle Into the ripened grain and gathered It In by the handful are Idlers. Prog res ha come to both men and women all along Industrial lines, and. barring the "idle rich" a mere fraction, after all. In the great multitude o Ameri cans the method that are applied to their endeavor have changed, leaving them more busy. If possible, than be fore. American women "parasites"? Truly. If we except a small percentage of the whole, whose husbands are -money- n iVa mnit.m aAtUte. WhO Set and keep the pace in extravagance with their wives and daugnters, tncy aa not look It. On the contrary, the appear ance that they present is that of energy-., capability and applied Industry as developed by human Ingenuity, thrift and growth. The man who would attempt to garner his grain by the handful, the sickle his only Imple ment, would be Justly regarded as a simpleton by the farmer driving the great combined harvester through his grain; so also the woman who would continue to produce the wearing ap parel for her household by means of the hand loom, the spinning-wheel and the dye-pot would be anything but an "economic necessity." . WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE? Nearly thirty live were lost near Victoria, last Friday, when the little steamer Sechelt capsized a mile off shore. There were no survivor and it is accordingly Impossible to determine exactly how the accident happened, but a logical explanation is offered In the news dispatches, which state: "The Sechelt. built for fresh water, rolled and was topheavy In the wind. Large gangway porta opened on her cargo deck and It is likely that she lurched over so as to place these porta under water." These maritime tragedle are of such frequent occurrence In Canadian waters that we are Inclined to be somewhat skeptical about the alleged superiority of the Canadian system of supervision over vessels carrying pas sengers. The loss of the Sechelt is the worst disaster that has happened on routes out of Victoria since the Clal lam was pounded to pieces with the loss of more than forty lives a few years ago. The Clallam followed the Estelle. which went down with all on board in a tide- rip off Cape Mudge, a few years earlier. Immediately after one of these dis asters, there Is great vigilance dis played until the first horror of the tragedy has disappeared. Then In spector become lax and masters care less. In due season we are confronted by another tragedy. No steamboat "bnllt for fresh water" should be per mitted to venture out of Victoria with passenger on board. There are days and weeks at a time when the "water Is as smooth and safe a that of a river or a mill-pond, but every mari ner familiar with the route knows that on short notice the wind will blow up a heavy sea In "which no river boat Is safe. If the news reports are correct, the Canadian inspector have omethlng to answer for in connection with this latest sea disaster of which there were no survivors. CHEAT FOOD. Ten cent a day looks like a small nm tn unenil for food, but we are informed by a learned Harvard pro fessor that It is umciem. a nine more than a quarter of a pound of food is all that the ordinary person needs In twenty-four hour and even of this minute quantity 70 per cent Is m-tr of solid material, therefore. about an ounce and a half suffices. Besides copious draughts or water and a little salt, the food that we must v.-.-a in orHee to keeD In health con sists of fuel and building material. The latter, known as protein, is louna in lean meat, but It is also found in peanuts, beans and peas. The most expensive of all food material Is prob ably that which we obtain from meat, and many wise people tell us that it Is not by any means the best for us. Meat must contain some of the waste products of the life of the animal from .-hi-h it la taken, and It stands to rea son that these substances are more or lees Injurious when we devour them ' , , n-h. materials which the body burns to maintain Its heat and to supply energy are lumped under the name of carbohydrates. W hen we eat more oi them than are actually required for the day's work they are stored up In .v.. rnrni of fat. Some native fat seems to be beneficial mixed with other food, though in chemical com position It is about the same as sugar, alcohol an starch. Children as a rule do not like fat. but the adult appetite often craves It. The authorities tell us that It is rar more injurious to overload the system n.i.n nrntetn than with carbohydrates. The latter will be stored away In the rotundity which most men develop .nn-e or inter and there it can do no harm. Indeed It is thought by some to form a pretty ornament- But a superfluity or protein must oe emn mil hefore it gets out of the system it la more than likely to de cay. Hence the wariare against nen foods Is supported by scientific con siderations of considerable weight. . A AFPALIXNG DISASTER. Th. iatet New Tork disaster was r w, vorst of the class that has blotted the pages of our twentieth cen tury civilization, 'lnus iar no uirect nt thm disaster bv which some thing like 150 working people, mostly girls and women, met tragical aoom has been assigned. The prime cause was, of course, the work loft filled with Inflammable material, ten stories above ground, crowded with hurried rnri.r, and without adeauate mean of escape in the always Impending event or rire. a oimiiar flra occurred In Newark. New Jersey, a few months ago, the re sults of which were, nowever. rar less disastrous to human life. Six glrla were burned to death and nineteen died as a result of leaping to the pavement from, fourth-story windows. The story of this fire and of that do not differ in any essential detail. The buildings In both case were old. built to serve other uses than that to which they had come and were without even a pre tense of adequate means of escape In case of fire. It Is an example of man's Inhumanity to man when incited by greed of gain. The buildings In both cases were shirtwaist factories of the type In which worker are driven constantly to the limit of their speed amid the din of whirring machine and clouds of flying lint. It is from fac tories of this type that bargain coun ters throughout the country are filled with shirtwaists "below the cost of manufacture." Harrowing in the extreme as are the details of this disaster they are properly spread, before the public to the end that public sentiment may, with a force that is resistless, compel employers of labor to safeguard as far as possible the lives of operators who work' In "lofts" at dlzxy heights from the ground. Portland's bank clearings for the six days ending last Saturday were more than 12,300,000 greater than for the same week last year. Seattle's clear ings were 12.100.000 smaller than for the same week last year. For the week ending Thursday, as reported by Bradstreet's, there were but twenty other cities In the United States show ing a larger volume of clearings and the percentage of gain in Portland was greater than that of any other city. Portland, with clearings of 111. 693,000, made a better showing than such cities as Buffalo, Washington, Indianapolis, Providence, St. Paul, Denver and Seattle, all of which are credited with larger population. For the first two months of the year Port land showed a gain of 6 per cent over the first two months of 1910, while Seattle for the same period showed a loss of 13.6 per cent and San Fran cisco a gain of but 2.8 per cent. The "parasitic woman" who looks so terrific to Professor Nearlng, of Penn sylvania University, is no new thing In the world. There have always been parasitic women, as well as parasitic men, but their number is smaller now than It ever was before. Idle and worthless women who are a burden and no help to their husbands are more showy than Important, Com paratively few In number, they are sure to be eliminated from a world which make efficiency the price of existence. It is hardly worth while to lecture or preach at them and It does no good. If Illinois decides to offer a bounty for large families it should at the same time take timely measures to insure them against misery and ignorance. A bg family of children Is a menace to society unless Its father is a com petent workman who is reasonably sura of retaining his Job. Children who are doomed by circumstances to be slum-dweller were better unborn. Illinois does not need more people half so much as more character In those she already has. The Harvard professor who has dis covered that man can subsist on 10 cents a day Is unearthing old tablets. Once there was a man right here in Portland who "swiped" an umbrella, "soaked" it for half a dollar and lived five day on the proceeds. Now he is drawing a hundred a week in a dis tant city, but he does not relate dis coveries like that of the Harvard man. Walking Is accredited among Eng lish women as the most healthful of all exercise. The task to which the "co-eds" of the State Agricultural Col lege have set themselves. I. e., a walk of from ten to fifteen miles a day, is a simple "constitutional" for English women and l Indulged by all women of leisure, from Princesses of the realm down to the w'lfe of the country squire. New York's obs over the girl who were sacrificed In Saturday's holocaust are picturesque but Ineffective. An ounce of honest inspection before such a fire 1 worth tons of hysterical re more when it is too late. Upon the whole, fire escape are preferable to tears. The Massachusetts Legislature is "near" with Its money. That body re fused to make appropriation for a statue of Ben Butler, the state's greatest soldier after Miles StandLsh. The money is needed to reglld the sa cred codfish. A party of hopmen, enthusiastic over the prospects of the Oregon crop. Is entitled to the benefit of extenuating circumstances "When they bend a rule that forbids singing, "The Watch On the Rhine." after hours. Gratifying Indeed to public-spirited citizens of Oregon Is the Influx of colo nist during March. They are wel come as the flowers of May. May each and every one find home contentment and prosperity within the borders of the state. Bad weather Is due, say the fore casters and as the groundhog has taken out clearance papers perhaps the rain will come. Better now than later In blossom time. A man named Lawless who fired a bullet into a box of dynamite In an Iowa town Sunday and killed one and Injured many was well branded By his progenitors. He belongs In the foolish house. ' Watch the candidate grasp the horny paw of the workingman whom he has not known for nearly two years. Bank robbery, as a muscular en deavor, cannot succeed in Portland. The real thing requires finesse. Burr Mcintosh, actor and Jingo, is gone, and the war scare Is over. The lesson of the lack of fire escapes must be heeded in this city. Watch the real maneuvers by the Beavers today. - A "Scoop" oa Onlo. New Tork Press. Anyway, Nick Lonrworth can be an uncle. Washington Star. The Joyful Interpretation of which would seem to be that California and not Ohio Is to have the honor of being first to greet the world' most distin guished soldier, statesman, politician, edi tor, hunter and traveler with a salutation more thrilling than the discordant yella which followed the battle charge at Ban Juan, more precious than the plaudits of Kings, potentates or politicians a salutation which will last when all the others are but memories, and which will endear him still more in the hearts of all mankind the time-worn, simple words. "Hello, Grandpopl" APPLEJ IX TIIE DITCH VALLEY. I BT rat 1KB tor Kin da Kxeelleat OpporttuU tlea for Orchards. DCFTJR, Or.. March 24. (To the Edi tor.) Having received so many In quiries regarding the possibilities for fruit-growing In the Dufur Valley that were I to answer them personally I should be constantly busy, I have de cided the best and most practical way out of the difficulty would be to give my impressions of the country, its pos sibilities as a fruit-growing section and what Information I have obtained since coming here of what has already been accomplished In that line through the columns of The Oregonian, that those Interested may determine for themselves the line of action to follow. Until recently the Dufur Valley was practically unknown as a frult-produc-lna section of Oregon, and but- few are conversant with the facts regard ing the unprecedented strides she has made in that line within a few years. I was very much surprised, myself, to find that the Dufur Valley has such a good start in becoming one of the great apple-producing sections of the Northwest. Several thousand acres have already been planted to apples and much of that area is In bearing. Samples of the fruit raised last season compare with the best of other sec tions. Several tests of soil I have made prove conclusively no better can be found In Oregon for the successful growing of apples, pears, peaches, apricots and small fruits. Climatic conditions are ideal, the cool nights of early Spring keeping back the buds until all danger of frost is past. In fact, more favorable conditions for the production of first-class fruit without irrigation could not be Imagined. The soil is a deep, rich loam, with suffi cient sand to make cultivation easy and yet retain the moisture through out the summer months. About S000 acres near Dufur will be planted this year to apples. The Du fur Land & Development Company, un der the direction of experienced and competent orchardlsts, Alfred Jeselson and P. H. Moores of Portland, will plant 1800 acres of. apples this year. The Churchill Matthews Company, of Portland, Or., own over 3000 acres In this neighborhood and expect to plant the most of It to apples this year. Other companies are preparing the ground for planting. Once the possibilities of this locali ty become better known as a fruit cen ter its developments will be phenom J. MOORE, Newberg, Or. HOUSING M)F OUR AMBASSADORS Instance' of Johax Hays Hammond, Cor euatloa Representative to Eagland. Boston Herald. It Is announced that John Hays Ham mond, as special ambassador at the cor onation of King George V, will occupy the house of the late Baroness Burdett Coutts In Piccadilly, where, qo doubt, "he will entertain on a scale of magnificence worthy of the mansion and of his mis sion. Times and manners have greatly changed since the days, not so long ago, when American diplomatic representa tives abroad were expected to live upon their salaries and when most of them managed at least to keep out of debt by spending all their modest private Income and their Government stipend. James Buchanan and the charming Harrlette Lane lived well enough for the midperiod of the last century upon a small fraction of what Mr. Reid now SDends as American Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Indeed, Buchanan's letters home to his niece before she Joined him Indicate that his mode of life was extremely simple tried by the standards of today. Charles Francis Adams was wealthy, but his style was not extravagant wnen ne was reaaer ing his Immensely valuable services as United States Minister during the Civil War. General Robert C. Schenck, of Ohio, taught the English the game of poker and innocently misled them into buying the stock of the Emma mine, but meanwhile lived without ostentation. Mr.. Lowell perforce maintained a sim ple establishment and conferred dignity upon the post by his personal distinc tion. Mr. Bayard, who reluctantly took the office of First Ambassador to the Court of St. James, fearing that he should be plunged Into debt, lived with dignity, but not at great cost, and his predecessor, Mr. Phelps, was hardly more extravagant, Mr. Choate, great lawyer and great wit, was better able than most of bis predecessors to keep up the show of the Ambassadorial residence, though he maintained no such establishment aj Mr. Hammond will have during his short period of splendor and dignity. SPAXISH-AMERICAV WAR RELIC Abb Arbor Has Enitlne Takes From One of Ortert'i Ships. Detroit Free Press. Ann Arbor An interesting piece of machinery In the engineering depart ment of the university Is a relic of the Spanish-American War. It is a triple expansion steam cutter engine which was recovered from the wreck of the Almeranta Oquendo, one of the fleet of General Cervera and one of the Span ish ships sunk by the United States fleet at the battle off Santiago in 1898. It Is fitted with a link motion valve gear and was something that had long been desired in the university equip ment ' The machinery came in possession of Frank Klrby of Detroit and he In turn presented it to the university. The en gine Is apparently of Scotch or Eng lish design and the working of it is a marvel of marine engineering beauty. The boat from which the engine was taken was one of the steam cutters of the fleet plying between the shore and. the beats and was about thirty feet long. The engine Is battle scarred but Its working qualities are not injured. Road Bills of Vital Interest. , . Grants Pass Courier. Thank the Lord, the good roads knocker. Governor West, has left the Rogue River Valley and his return, let us hope, will be indefinite. This man who Is the only Individual in Oregon able to prevent the people from hav ing good roads for the next two years, is a knocker that even the members of the Democratic party should be and, doubtless are, ashamed of. The peo ple of the state last Fall gave the good roads proposition a majority of 18,000 by authorizing the voters of each coun ty to build all the roads that they needed and Issue bonds for the pay ment thereof. The Governor vetoed what was really the enabling act to carry out the people's wishes. Gov ernor West played the bull in the china shop by vetoing 72 bills passed by a Legislature of unusual intelligence. The majority of these bills were In tended for the upbuilding of Oregon. The good roads bills were of vital in terest to the people of the state and the veto action meant an injury to Oregon which millions of dollars would not repay. ' Bum Mayor Is Tbonghtlesa. Burns Times-Herald. Mayor Clevenger fell yesterday while carrying in a load of wood, striking his arm on another piece of ji rA hiirtlnr hlmulf aA irozen wuou , verely; Clevenger is awkward, and he knows It, and should not take chances let the wife carry in the wood. Colonists Jnat in Time. x Fossil Journal. A carload of young men from Ten nessee arrived in r ossu ntonnoaj night, and have since scattered south ward in search of Jobs. As lambing is about to begin on the sheep ranches, most if not all of them will get work. BRYAN AJTD FOSS, 1813 TICKET. Looks Like Perpetual Caadldate Had Picked Hla Next Running; Mate Hartford Timesi. In 1S36 it was Bryan and SewalL In 1900 it was Bryan and Davis. In 1908 It was Bryan and Kern. Few people carry In their memories the names of all the run- ning mates of the Nebraska man in his variou Presidential campaigns. As preparations are now making for the selection of a fourth Vice-Presidential candidate on a Bryan ticket It becomes worth while to "call the roll. Mr. Bryan has been In Bo6ton lately, has delivered hie lecture, has met nis friends and admirers in that section, and is reported to be in a well-pleased state of mind as a result of this visit - Mr. Bryan'e special happiness is that he has discovered through his friend, a. F. Williams, an "available man for the second Dlace on the ticket In 1912. lAigene tsoDie oss is ms name oo" and Foss" is to be the ticket. Mr. Foss has been In the Democratic party Juat long enough (a little over a year), and is loaded to Just exactly the right de gree with Democratic "principles" to make him an ideal associate of the Ne braska leader. It is true that the thrice-defeated can didate makes the announcement every where he goes that he is not a Presi dential candidate. That is merely a part of the game merely the harmless, per missible dissimulation of the man who loves bis country and his people too well to go back on them when they come again to demand the quadrennial eacntice. Once he did keep his promise not to be a candidate. That was in 1901, and how melancholy the result! He means to pave us from another such catastrophe by letting the burden of defeat fall once more on his own broad shoulders. Should anything happen to disarrange this programme, Mr. Bryan stands ready to name she man who shall be nominated in bis place. He may consent, if necessary, to the nomination of Woodrow Wilson, although not to that of Judson Harmon. His real preference, however, Is to take the nomination himself, and In that event he regards the Massachusetts Governor as the most available man to nominate for Vice-President. The perpetual can- didate regards plutocrats with deep dis- tniat at all times, exoeot when they are associated with him in a Presidential campaign. At such times he can endure any amount of Intimacy wun mem. Whether he will be in the eame mood toward Mr. Foss if the latter runs for the Governorship again this year and la beaten at the polls Is a matter not necessary to be considered at present. "SERVANTS" AT IXSANE ASYLUM. . Writer Describes Routine of Work 1b Such Institutions. PORTLAND, Or., March 26. (To the Editor.) An editorial in The Orego nian of March 25 was read with a great deal of Interest by the writer, who is constrained to say that the author Is evidently not well informed as to the routine followed in some Institutions for the Insane and feeble-minded in regard, to dining-room work. Some times there Is but one waitress, who has charge of a number of trusty pa tients. She "carries the keys," returns them to their wards, and perhaps at times assists the attendants in caring for patients on the wards. Attendants are servants in the same sense that the other employes of the institution are servants, of course. It matters not whether one scrubs a room, bathes a patient, takes a tem perature or cuts out an appendix, It Is "serving" the patient, insofar as it adds to his comfort and well being. The state officials, who are elected by the people, are said to be the "ser vants" of those people. In the same cense a trained nurse Is a servant, and the attendants are required to do a good deal of nursing. . Many of them are graduates of training schools for attendants, others of hospitals, some of them from the school of experience. Let it be said that perhaps there Is wrong on both sides. A more broad minded, tolerant view on the part of the attendants, in whose defense It may be said that it has not heretofore been customary to employ colored help in Institutions in this part of the coun try, 1st perhaps needed. In institution life there is close association during working hours; the hours are very long, the time off duty short, making It incumbent upon the employes to as sociate socially, and share such amuse ments as are possible In an Institution. Therefore, it would seem to be a case of "social equality" In this Instance. On the other hand there may have been disregard for the opinions of those working people who help to-make It possible for the "higher-ups" to oc cupy the positions that they hold, and for the prejudice of the patients, some of whom have the same views of the matter held by the attendants, doubt less. Again there Is the Injustice done the colored help by placing them In these positions. They are probably worthy, capable people, who do not care to be made a target for unpleasant discus sion. READER. Chemical Causes Cancer. Baltimore Cor. New York Sun. Dr. Howard A. Kelly, professor of gynecology In the Johns Hopkins Uni versity Medical School and one of the most prominent surgeons in the coun try, says physicians are on the eve of defining exactly the causes of cancer and of placing it among the absolutely curable diseases. He believes that It is even now. curable, if the signs of its presence are discovered early enough and If surgery Is used at once. Dr. Kelly said tonight: VThe researches of George Crile, of Cleveland: Victor Vaughn, of Ann Ar bor; Rose, of Liverpool; Flexner, of New-York, and others, by careful ani mal experimentation and the most re fined methods of scientific Investiga tion, have demonstrated almost to a certainty that cancer is not, like many other diseases, due to the Invasion of minute organisms Into the cells of the body, but is due simply to the overac tivity of the cells themselves, which run riot In their growth, stimulated and changed by some phemical sub stance, probably caused by the Irrita tion of the cells. "This fact being established narrows the investigation and brings the goal, the cause of cancer, almost in sight and directs all the energy and ability of our ablest scientists toward the dis covery of some chemical substance which will neutralize that produced by the activity of the cells, and so destroy the growth. "Pending this great discovery, which seems not distant, it is important for every human being to remember that cancer is a curable disease if taken in its early stages and treated surgically." Date Laws Were Publlahed. PORTLAND, March 27. (To the Edi tor.) Will you kindly state in what issue' of The Oregonian the cbmplete list of laws passed by the last Legis lature of Oregon was published? WILLIAM TAYLOR. The list of acts passed by the last Legislature was published February 20, 1911. POETICAL DEMISE. ' I. I was always a writer of verses Of verses that wouldn't rhyme; Oh! the hours and ink I've frittered away On eDlca aimed atsnblime. I've followed the lead of the ma sea Thevve led me a merry pace. 'Ti l I'm lck and tired of lyrical lore. And, well I'm out of th race. III. Now If a m for the simple and easy. Plain and consecutive prose; Is every durn -poet" bacillua rread in my system who knows Seaalds. Timely Tales of the Day Judge Percy R. Kelly, of Albany, who was chosen In the last election as a Cir cuit Judge of the Third Judicial Dis trict c (.alllnc- the docket In Marlon county the other day and came to u case In which a man named "A. Goodfel- low" was defendant. Charles L Mc- Nary. attorney for the plaintiff, asked that the case be continued for service. "I would think that it would not be hard to get service on this defendant," remarked Judcre Kery. "iou might 1 serve any member of the Marion County Dar "Tour honor would not be exempt from such service," quickly responded McXary. County Clerk F. S. Fields, incidental to his recent tour of Southern California, had courtesies shown him w th Los Angeles Fire Chief, who presented him with a metal badge, upon which was let tered "Admit Bearer Within Fire-llnes." Whether or not Multnomah's County Clerk was afforded opportunity to enjoy this privilege while in Los Angeles, the prophet sayeth not. But be valued the metal star highly, and wore it securely pinned on the under side of his coat lapel whoa he walked up the gang-plank of an excursion steamer and embarked for tne beautiful Island of Catallna. All went well with Fields until the steamer passed out of the harbor, but wnen the actual Pacific was encountered an(j tne boat began to pitch and tumble. things were different. He was soon In the throes of mal de mer, and after what seemed to be an eternity of suffering, he collapsed in a deck chair, hanging Inertly over the side, and wishing that he were dead. Just about that time there was a tre mendous clatter and racket, and a wild clanging" of the ship's alarm. In panio an(j confusion the passengers on board i came running but shouting that the , Bteamer was on fire, not knowing it was onIy tne impr0mptu fire-drill for the ship's crew. But Fields was so seasick ne aidn't care. Untroubled by the wild Bhrleks and confusion, he lay languid an(j exhausted, nor lftftd an eyelash, anil exhausted, not liftsd an eyelash, ! to nlnli grabbed him by the shoulder and Rhoolc him vieorouslv. "Get up, man," the other thundered; "don't you know the boat's on fire? Wake up, man, and get out of here!" Fields laboriously lirtea one paie, lau- 1 nana ana feebly turned back th lapel of his coat, displaying the badge he wore there. That was all. "It has been a remarkable Spring In many ways; in no way more strange than In the behavior of the sitting hens," said Bluch Ginder, of Clark County, Washington, recently. "Hens this year are unaccountably fickle. They manifest the usual sign! of wanting to hatch a brood, they stop laying and begin sitting on nest eggs. good old-fashioned way, and then when the farmer's wife puts them on a nest all nicely prepared with a full sitting, they lay an egg or two on top of the nest ful and won't sit at all. This isn't un common this Spring; it is the experience of most of the folks up our way, and they don't know what to make of it. It is the strangest Spring ia that .regard we have had for 30 years." A small crowd of pedestrians, automo biles, street-cleaning wagons stood at the east end of the west span of the Burnslde bridge and- every man in the crowd was swearing in the manner which best expressed his indignation at the engineer of the bridge. It was between 3 and 3 o'clock A. M. and all were in a hurry to get home, the newspaper men because they were tired and hungry, the other pedestrians who had been royster ing because the law prevented them from roystering any more, and the automo- ; billsts because it is against their nature to wait for anything. But the engineer had opened the draw to give it its weekly oiling, and he was going about his work In a leisurely man ner which exasperated the weary watch ers. They watched his lantern travel to one end of the draw and bob up and down with his movements. Their supply of profanity being exhausted, they resorted to sarcasm after this style: "He's got 360 wheels to oil and It takes him 60 minutes to oil each wheel." "He's found one wheel that's a little bit bigger than the others, and he's go ing to keep us waiting while he files it down," . . "If I could only get at him. But he knows he's safe on his old draw." "I wish I had a gun. I'd take a shot at that lantern, and I shouldn't mind if I hit a little to the left." At last the point of light on the dark bulk of the draw began to move towards the center, and the weary watchers who peered through the gates across the bar rier of wind-swept, rain-lashed water hoped that the oiling was done and that the engineer was about to ascend to his tower and close the draw. A chorus of execration went up as he passed on to the other end of the draw and his light bobbed up and down tantalizingly at its extreme end. "I could have been home by now If 1 had gone over the Morrison bridge," said "Why doesn't he oil his machinery when there's nobody going over the bridge?" said another. "Those fellows that hired the taxis will be piling up a fine bill," said a third. At last the light was seen returning to the center of the draw and the stream of objurgations ceased. The light was . seen climbing the stairs to the tower and; finally the draw was seen to begin mov41 lng slowly so slowly. tub gates m. sooner opened than there was a rush of feet and wheels through them. The draw had been open about 40 min utes but a minute between 2 and S in the morning Is twice as long as any other minute. The engineer oils the machinery at tnat hour every Thursday morning. It is a good time to avoid tne curumuo ma. Half a Century Ago From the Oreonlan March 28, 1S61. The charge against the Republicans of Monroe, in Benton County, that they hoisted a 17-star flag on Inauguration day, is false. A friend writing from there under date of the 23d of March says the flag had 17 stars on one Bide and 16 on the other, which he takes It means 33 (you ought to add another for Kansas). That is all right. We took the liberty of contradicting it on general principles, well knowing that no Re publican can be a disunionist. We rec ommend our friends at Monroe to have the stars so arranged on the blue field that the entire 34 will show on both sides, and then no cross-eyed disunionist will get a chance to misrepresent you. Mind you, 34 stars South Carolina is still in the Union. She is simply cutting up for diversion. The recent organization of a regatta club in this city has been noted. The committee on arrangements has sent to Victoria for a boat which was built es pecially for racing. It would be a good . Idea to get up another club to run the pioneer club, opposition. Then when both clubs are well trained we could have sport. We think the printers could muster the heaviest lot of rowers if they would get into it. Some Life to Party. Corvallis Gazette-Times. v" Colonel Hofer would rejuvenate-the Republican party in Oregon, and he presents an elaborate scheme. If Vo remember rightly,' the party was suf ficientlv alive a few months ago to get away from the do-ughty Colonel, even when he was pushing on ths high-speed lever.