Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, July 13, 1911, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Text10 fte (Dmrmrimt PORTLAND, OKWiOX. Ent.rsJ at P.rtiu4 Or.oo PoeioSlce aa wuai-ciaM Matter. Kmu net. Invaiiablr ta Advanca. iBI HAIL.) fii'v obi Ice!n6e4. cm year. I i.y. SunJy Inciud.!. s's month. ... : !... f jnl!f laIi..iJ. tn, month... 2---; . uaJ Included, ooo m nttt T J.., t. it"inct e.jn;a. year . , !.:. wil-oui Po')T. sis nwnt-is ? 2 witnout .ua4ajr. one moota. w:y. ane year... Sir.aay. enyr... -' Sunday asd mm year...., 1 SO ! CUT CARRIER.) r'!T. Suaday teclodeJ. one year. ! . suable Included, os month 3 Mmr to Krenlt SenJ Hotofric money er..r. njrxi ordr or pers.oi eh-x-a Joar loca. beak. H-.aznps. coin or currncy r. el tne sndere r j- Uiv poetotrico Mnn la fe-A. larluaia county and state. fotsco ii) to 14 . I cent; 1 to : ia. 2 tuta: to 4u pa(, eeats: 4 to rosea, coal. ToKiO poecase ol-rcBie rat. !. 11 ii sr. OsTWia Verve Co 17 n .w tr. iimaaotck bulldms. CBI on, tor buIMlng. r)llTlN O. IHl KMIiV, JO.! la. Mil. bOOKTXO AKKAIt. Looking ahead to the fateful year 11J the editor of The Outlook In the Tlrlt of prophecy see the people of the United Sta.tr divided upon two very clearly marked Inuea. The first Is that of the proper method of deal In with "the. (Treat Industrial combinations- which are vulgarly called trust. The second Is the perennial Issue of protection versus free trade. The Outlook rather ahles away from the notion, that the struggle over these Issues will lead to the rormauon or new political party. This reflective and well-informed mag-axlne believes that the two old parties will continue to suffice for our governmental needs. They may obtain courage enough to declare themselves frankly on the Is sues here sot forth, or they may not. but In any case The Outlook believes that they will drift Into two clearly defined tendencies. One party will wander In the direction of protection and governmental control of the trust. The other, will Incline toward free trade and a policy of tnirt exter mination. Of course It l not very dif ficult to decide which party will choose the former path and which the latter, though The Outlook discreetly refrain from specifying;. The very influential magaxlne from which we are Quoting; these Interest ing; speculations upon the future takes the same ground as The Oregonian In regard to the possibility of breaking tap the Industrial combinations, or monopolies. It looks upon the old Ideal of free competition, which Is so dear to Mr. Bryan heart, as some thing; unattainable. It la gone and gone forevermore. The age In which we live Is ose of combination and or ganization. As Herbert Spencer would have put In his philosophical language. It Is an ape of Integration combined with a corresponding; development of Interrelations among the Integrated parts. The Industrial firms which once existed as Independent entitles have united Into larger wholes precisely as the protoplasmic cells of living matter united themselves Into more complex and useful organisms In the course of evolution. The process Is one which r re vail throughout the universe both In animate and dead matter and it la of no use whatever to struggle against It. Even a man as Intelligent as Mr. t'ntermyer. of New Tork. In the cur rent number of the North American Review, making an elaborate criticism rf the Standard Oil and Tobacco de rision of the Supreme Court, looks l.irglngly back to the vanished days of -free competition" and argues that the law ought to be so modified as to en courage Lheir return. Like Air. Bryan he holds to an economic theory which U ss dead as anything can possibly be. Irs a very true sense the human body Is a trust formed from the Individual rells of which It Is composed. Who n-l'.l sav. that both the cells themselves nl the world at large are not Im proved y the onion? As a matter of fjrt Industrial combination means progress In all the agencies of civiliza tion because It means cheaper and more raplJ production. The destruc tion of the trusts. If It were possible, would be a backward step, a move to rn ard barbarism. They are part of trw machinery f modern production sod distribution and fully as essential as stea.-n and electricity. But we have mastered the use of meant, and electricity a great deal bet ter than we understand the use of the trusts. That Is an art yet to be studied and put In practice. As yet It can hardly be said that we have given It ariy attention. The combinations have b4n permitted to grow up like Topsy i-. YAt An vttft mill and oro. during results which are far from ad mirable. Like all accumulations of un restricted power that which has been gathered by the trusts has been used tryannously and has brought great evils upon the country. As the proverb ays of fire and water, the trusts are excellent servants but terrible mas ters. Heretofore we have submitted calmly to be ruled by them In many respects. Tho problem of the future Is not how to destroy these servants, but how to apply their Immense strength for the public welfare. In other words we have to learn how to release the fruit of organization from the grip of the selfish few and extend It to the whole Republic. The problem of the trusts Is one of control and not one of extermination. It Is not very much of a task to foresee where the two political parties will stand on this Issue. The Democrats, at least If Mr. Bryan has his way. will take the Impossible ground that the combination must be dissolved. The Republicans. In all likelihood, will more rationally demand governmental regulation of a nature far more com plete than anything we have seen yet. No doubt one method of controlling the trusts will be through a properly constructed tariff. There are very few Americans who wish-for absolute free trade. Almost everybody admits that protection of some kind and degree 1 necessary as long as other countries have tariffs. The Outlook Insists that we can not be expected to open our doors unrestrictedly to the products of Chinese labor or to Chinamen them selves with their low standards of liv ing. We owe something to our Na tional ideals. Moreover it would not be fair to ourselves to give the Ger man free accesa to our markets as long as their own are closed to Ameri can merchants by import duties. The true policy for the present seems to be fair trade" rather than free trade. Indeed It is through mutual exchange of concessions that the ideal of free trade can best be approached, by a game of give and take such as Mr. Taft wishes to play with Canada In lils reciprocity agreement. J. AoaU rec&roctty la tb paliwa Jong: which commerce among; the nations will ultimately reach complete freedom, but the Journey maybe a long; one. Here again we can easily foresee the future positions of the two parties. The Democrats will go a lit tle farther than the Republican In their demands for tariff reduction but it la not likely that they will declare for anything; like free trade In ISIS. FORCEKT AS AX ISnrSTRY. The extent to which the fraudulent and criminal business or peuuon-nuv-ing ha been carried on In Oregon 1 brought sharply to the public attention by the arrest of one Coler, who with other professional name-manufacturers Is charged with forging 8000 sig nature to the University of Oregon referendum petitions. The Portland Charter Commission at the same time take proper action by deciding unan imously to Incorporate a provision In the new charter that all InitiaUve or referendum petition must be signed by the voter at the office of the City Clerk, or County Clerk. The public has Just become aware of the facility with which these swin dler carry on their operation and the open opportunity given them by the loose and accommodating provisions of the rresent law. Petition-building and name-forging ha become an estab lished Industry- Paying so much per name Is attractive to the street round ers and billiard-room bounders who have no other visible means of sup port. But forgery a a basis of law making is not likely to be profitable la the long run. The arrest of Coler Is likely to have another most interesting result. It will determine Just how much credit 1 to be given to the statement of Mr. Park Ison that the university petitions were carefully examined by him and were 'In proper shape.- Eight thou sand bogus names all In proper shape T THE KKMT-T Of arETO MANIA. Most disastrous and lamentable, thus early In the history of the Oregon Trunk Railway, was the wreck of Its passenger train In the Deschutes Can yon last Monday. The wreck appear to have been the direct result of a high rate of speed at a point where the engineer had been warned that not more than ten miles an hour wa safe. According to an authoritative estimate that of A. S SIcCurdv. roadmaater of the line the train was running at the rate of BO mile an hour five time the limit fixed a a safe speed at which to round the "Shoofly curve." when it Jumped the track. The engineer, of course. demurs to this estimate, yet me rtii-ij fact remains that the flying train dlo" not and presumably could not. at the speed at which it was going, "take the curve." The Inevitable followed, tak ing heavy toll of life and property. For a wreck of this kind there is ab solutely no excuse. "Excessive rate of speed" furnishes none. Whether careless. Incompetent or afflicted with peed mania, an engtneer who run his train at a rat of speed that Is pro hibitive Of safety at a specified danger point on the road stands In line for conviction of manslaughter in case death follow his venture, and will. If Justice is done, receive the penalty that I ht due. In this wreck six lives were lost, three of the victim being women and one an Infant In arms. The case is one that cannot be passed np as a blunder, nor yet a an accident in the unavoidable en0 of that term. It I one wherein grave responsibility nod ded at Its post in the engineer" cab or had no place therein, having been overcome by speed mania. AS ATT rOHPARlON. "We roust recognize the fact." ald President Taft In his Providence speech. late in June, on tariff and reci procity, That the time for the Chlneso wall Is gone." adding: "Before an In dustry receive protection nw it must demonstrate the need of that protec tion, and it must -not ask for more protection than It needs." The comparison of our protective tariff to the Chinese wall Is an apt one. Each useful In its day. and each in its way, and in the light of ex pedient for protection then known, was a great barrier to Invasion. The one. long ago outdated by growth and development in the world beyond Its line. Is useless for the purposo for which It was created a forlorn but stni stupendous monument to the pos sible need against which It prudently sought to provide. The other, long since outdated by the ablllry of the Industrie that It sought to protect to grow and thrive upon their own efforts, remains a barrier to National progress, which it was framed to promote. Both seek or stand rr protection mat inn "no longer need." f i- lima for the "Chinese , i u i j, ------ wall" and Its synonym In protection against the outside world and the tariff wall built to protect our Infant Indus trie when they needed protection, is gone. nRWARDINO THE UFESAVKK. . ......nnnAiit of The Oregonian whose letter la printed this morning makes a very Jost stricture on the conduct or the railroad passengers who were rescued from danger by two ragged tramps not far from Salem. r.k. - nnrfiirlnr willies, as the reader will remember, by flagging the train at a critical moment mkq i from running over a broken rail. No doubt some live were thus saved and many wounds prevented. The rs their appreciation by collecting some four or live dollars la nickel and bestowing it upon mc.r I ... T.ikit our correspondent. ifkuia - - - - . . t i j-i f Anfhiislaim we cannot mil " - orer their generosity. It reauy seems ..., nn of them mtcht have put four bit into the hat. A dollar bill would not have been inappropriate v. . maa rtntiiont of the crowd. Still our correspondent is very likely mistaken In thinking tnai me iun the rescued passengers gave the tramps measure the value they set upon their lives. To find out exactly -mtit-t o man thinks of his life you must make him ransom himself while the pern is imminent, not unci it has passed by. Many persons would give a million to escape a threatening it ihAiirh offer hetno- roaciied with peiii . v o . . - - - .-a - out a bargain they would feel that their savior wa ampiy rewaraea wun a nickel, or even a copper penny. Grat itude la the expectation of future fa vor, not the recollection of past one, nr. .knnM he aorrv to think that any person wealthy enough to buy a railroad ticket vaiue ms mo i no w . mnts. To be sure. Ham let said he did not value hi even at "a pin" fee. but ni circumstances wre exceptional. Something must be pardoned to a man who has Just seen -V. m A Mnartl soon to talk with it face) to face. The devil told U TITE MORNING OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, Lord that "all a man hath will he give for his life." He wa speaking of Job and he did not speak by the book either, for that pious putrlarch would not give up hi religion to cure his bolls. Much less would he' have de nied the Lord to save his life. We wonder what his Satanic majesty would have aald of the passengers In that train which the two tramps saved from wreck. Their conduct ought to have convinced him that some reoplo will not give even a amall fraction of what they poises to remunerate one who has saved tneir iive. Upon the whole the two Daaiy re- usr.L.I trnmno have 1ut grounds for complaint, but we do not know of any tribunal which can to- tne cne " ron.u.r tho nroner ludgment. There are some wrongs which must wait for retribution until mere is a. ui-uc" accounting for the w holw universe. DLANDKRKKS MAX BE fOKNKKF.U. Unless the House committee which is investigating Alaska should run down to Its source the scandalou story being circulated about the Con imikr nv wuterfront. it will lay it self open to the suspicion of having crivon fnrrencv to the charges ana re treated when It discovered that further Inquiry would prove them false. :soi iinrimr directiv to attack the Integrity of the President, the muckrakcrs at tack him through his brotner, unari I". Taft. Affairs have reached the point where to be rich, a brother of the President and active In busine.- nH nnhiic affairs makes a man tne chosen prey of these pickers of the garbage dumps. They are likely to linn mat tnty have assailed the wrong men this time. Secretary Fisher" Chicago ca reer proves that he Is a lighter who nnita n,i h will demand that tho chargt be proved or their nuthor branded as perjurers. cnaries tr. Toft is In the humor to drag his as sailants Into court and force the same alternative on them there. Both men tvniii.1 fnil of their Durpose If they allowed the mere tools by which the slanders were put In circulation to be exposed and punished while the men standing behind them, who are us ing them, were allowed to escape. vh i. noo.lnd Is tho branding and severe punishment of slanderers of public officials and deramers oi men who have the doubtful good fortune to be related to such officials. This is necessary not merely in the Interest of the men Immediately con cerned. It I necessary In the publio Interest. Not only should the public be protected ngninst dishonest omciais, k hnniit officials should be pro tected against causeless attack on their Integrity. It hua come to tno that manv mfn of the highest ability but of sensitive honor refuse to servo the people because they become the target for attacks on their Integ rity. The people suffer through the work of the slanderers, who hypocrlt tn.. nrtomi to serve tho people. Good men are led to shun publio office and the way Is left open tor ih. Mnacriinulous. callousea to criti- . m .ni.r in snA line their pockets. Tk. innatrv of the muckrakers nas been encouraged by the bglnning of libel suits which wrro dropped and by threats of libel suits which were never brought. A few convictions lor trim inal libel followed by sun pron tences would have a salutary effect. rOWKKS OF THE PKKhlDKNT. i:rt licht is thrown on ex-Presi dent Roosevelt- conception of his power as President by an article ou the ranama Cunal which appears In last week's Outlook. Commenting on an article by Haydcn Talbot, he says: Mr. Talbofa article incidentally furnlahea a tr.h llluntratlon of what waa really don, tr iuylf PreildVnt on tho o cn.-lnne when I wa rtenoun-rd as ortlna; "im.-on.tl-tuf.onally." After Mr. Ptevena realnnatlon. I becam onnvlnrad that It ml Iniyerame that thero ahould be a alnglo head on tna lathmue. Conui-asa oluns to th pian 't . - - K .1 . . i .nmmliiliin. Hut the i'rea- Irtent had very r-t power. Implied In thi? mere fart of being rrllni. wnu-n "u.u u with the utmoet advantage If ha were willing to take the renponaiMllty and to look at the matter In the proper way. For two ear 0nrea artuully f illed to make any provision f ir running the Panama atrip at all. and If the then rr'Ment had at that time a-ted In arcorilnnto with the vlewa of bla critlra. the whole work would have topped Juat exactly aa it would nevtr have been begun if at that time ho bad acted In accordance with the vlewa of thosa aamo rrltlre. when Congreaa adhered to lt even-headed enmmliun. I aolved tho dif ficulty hv simply nnnouncltig that every recommendation made by t'olonel Qoethala wo6;d be acted uP'n exactly aa If he were III- alngle commleiloner; that he waa to be given the entire ropon.ilblUty and. therefore, the entire power and any other cornmU- loner who did not accept thla vluw or a-'t upon It would have been promptly rcpiaced. Mr. Talbot doe not slate the caae quite accurately when he that "a continua tion of a aeven-headed commission enn he had only at great coal. but alto that "a one-man control la In plto of law." Thl Implies that what haa been done waa con trary to the law. which la not the fuct. All that 1 did was to do what was absolutely noceaaary. so long aa the law did not forbid It. Instead of leaving undone what waa ab solutely necessary because the law did not explicitly provide for It tht instance af fording a true explanation of many other acts which were uenounced aa unconstitu tional during my adniintstraAlon of the Pres idency. In substance, then. Congress created a commission of seven men, each of whom had a vote in deciding what should be done. -Mr. Roosevelt be lieved, and believed rightly, that the power which Congress vested In those seven men should have been vested In one man. Ho therefore announced that he would act on the sole recom mendation of one of the seven and Ig nore the six. If any of the six object ed, he would "fire" them. He holds that his course was not contrary to law "so long as the law did not forbid it." Then In order that each of the seven commissioners should not be forbidden by the President to exercise his independent Judgment. It was nec essary for Congress expressly to forbid the President so to forbid them and also to forbid the President to threaten removal unless they voted as the chairman wished. It Is possible only to infer what Mr. r.oosovelt means by "very grea.t power Implied In the mere fact . of being President." unless it be that he could override the letter and spirit of acts of Congress without being Impeached, so long as his acts of this nature did not concern affairs of the first magnitude and were sanctioned by public opinion. He overlook the fact that It waa not for him to decide whether one or seven commissioners should govern the Ca nal Zone. That power was vested in Congress subject to his approval or passage over his veto. When Congress had decided, either wisely or foolishly In hi Judgment, It was for him to ex ecute that law and not to violate it while technically complying with It. Much has been said recently of Ju dicial legislation, particularly In rela tion to the action of the Supreme Court in reading the word "unreasonable" Into the anti-trust law. Colonel Roose velt has now furnished an example of executive logl.-latli-n which, as he says, I aiiexti "a true explanation oX xaaMf . i . . ...v.tr.Tn wn denounced a V1I1C1 .....- ' ' - " unconstitutional during my adminis tration of the Presidency. i-i.u Sam la a. man of varied actlvl- . i... itrt nnt nnlv nerforms the pri mary duties of Government maintain ing an army and navy, aanumsienu Justice, issuing ' money . and collecting taxes to pay for these things, but he also carries letters, deals in real es tate, irrigates land, educates Indians, dredges river and harbors, grows tim ber and sells it, maintains parns vwi thole rna,ii And hotels, keens a keen eye on banks, fixes rates of railroads. digs a canal across tne istnmus anu .r. rollrnari nnrallel with It. runs steamships, drums up foreign trade for American manufacturers inspects mo r r. A -e Tn& nonnln runs A orlnting office. Now he haa become an auc- tioneer of shoestrings anu roning puio at Vancouver Barracks. To a man who adheres to the old theory that mat rnvaenmitnt rovrrit! best Which gOV- erns least this looks like a gradual drift In the opposite qirection. i,,ti v VA-itiinma of s.intft Barbara. who died a few days ago. for full forty years kept the light ourning in iu lighthouse at the entrance to that city. Though she died at the advanced age of So years, her death was directly due to a fall from the light tower which she received wnne in tne per formance of her duty. She was the first woman to be appointed light v. , , vnnoe sin tho Paeiflc Coast and performed the duties of that office continuously from i860 to tne time of her disablement six years ago. This much the written record of lier life discloses. Kor the rest, it Is held In the fact that many a good ship out rode the storm because of the fidelity to duty that kept the beacon light In the Government's watch tower flash ing Its danger signal out in the dark ness over the bellowing waters of the Pacific. The steeplechase Is heralded as a new feature of tho Oregon State Fair. Shade of William Elliott. M. Wilklns, William Barlow and other charter members and early presidents of tho State Agricultural Society! Voices from the rast as one voice seem to cry out: "Steeplechase! What sort of a new-fangled farming Implement or ex periment Is that? Are more and bet ter potatoes and wheat to the acre; bigger pumpkins, taller corn and heav ier oats and timothy produced by means of this new aid to agriculture? If not, why make the steeplechase a feature of the State Agricultural Faif?" Echo answers "Why?" It takes more than death to discour age ambition. The recent airship dis asters In France and Germany have not deterred a solitary adventurer from trying his fortune In the upper air. Competitors the other day at Kansas City were more numerous and eager than ever berore. fame uii spurs the clear soul to scorn delights and live laborious days. Just a in Mil ton's time, and Just aa It always will until the race degenerates. The annual series of sacrifices to the forest fire demon has begun bril liantly with a holocaust of 30 persons In Ontario. Presently we shall hear of Moloch's victims in Minnesota, Washington, Oregon and wherever else there is standing timber. Nothing better illustrates the curious fatalism or the American people, than their submission to the preventable evil of forest fires with the destruction of life and property which accompanies them. Mayor Dllling, of Seattle, in de mantling fair treatment for United State sailors take a position which is decent and, patriotic Many people who will not sit near a Federal uni form In the theater honor it with frenzied shouts on the streets. If it i so glorious out of doors one would suppose it might retain a little claim to honor in public places of amuse ment. How does It come that the United States Army has so many articles of all sorts to sell at auction? A house holder who should supply himself with 196 rolling-pins which he did not need would be classed with Moses and his gross of green goggles. e wonder u a little more discretion In buying sup plies would not reduce the frequency and absurdity of these thriftless auc tion sales. Japan defils another blow to those who trot out the war bogey by agree ing to a modification of the Anglo Japanese treaty based on the convic tion that she will never have war with the United States. As fast as the vocal warriors sound an alarm, some such cold fact dissipate it. Insurgency is all the rage. It haa spread from Congress to the long-suffering woman .teachers and crowded a university president out of his position in the National Education Association. The same yeast is working in the minds pf both men and women in many professions. The little boy who lost his parents in the Oregon Trunk wreck Is with a rela tive In this city. He was not kidnaped by a claim agent. That enterprising band of railroaders are paragons of zealous endeavor, but they know their limits and the limits of the law. The reward of four times aa much for an escaping convict returned dead may lead to indictment of a man hunter for manslaughter If the human itarians are minded to take op the matter. As everybody expected would happen when the proper time arrived, the war pact between Great Britain and Japan Is to be modified to fit any fracas in which the United States Is involved. The small boy who Invade a cherry tree is more considerate than was the youth who became the first President. He leave the tree. Between the Elks In Portland and the Shrlners in Los Angeles, the Pacific Coast will be visited by some eminent people next Summer. There are weeds and weeds, but weeds that become a pestilence, like the thistle, for example, must be cut. Senator Hoke Smith and Senator Chamberlain have cause to shake hands and grin. More than moral suasion will be needed to bring Promoter Wilde to Oregon. , Cheap conspirators never note that one oX them Is sure to get "cold XeeU" JULY 13, 1911. Gleanings of the Day The effects of tvohold vaccination are pronounced by H. I Menchen In the Baltimore Sun to be so slight that they rarely produce more than temporary discomfort and do not prevent the pa tient from pursuing his ordinary voca tion. He describes the operation from personal experience as follows: Two or three months ago I submitted to Inoculation. My left arm wa made clean, the firnt dose of vaccine waa taken Into a. syringe, the noedle point of the Vrlu' pierced mv hide, and In went the deeaiy germs. There waa, at the moment, no sen atlon. whatever. Not a drop of blood, of course, was shed. The disagreeable accom paniment of mJlpox Inoculation were en tirely absent. . ; That waa lata In the afternoon. Four . wn , .hn a red noun later my ' - - : , spot and soon this red ot was Jlx inches . ..-a M. Mv arm felt a bit 1 stltT. but there was no actual pain, and I was atlll able to operate a typewriter witri perfect comfort. That night I slept sounds. In the morning I felt a bit stupid and heavy There was no headache, no nausea, no pam In the arm, no fever but still a certain lan guor waa evident, like that which heralds a bad cold. Next flay It waa gone completely. And my arm, though atlll red, wae no longer stiff. After the second Inoculation the game symptoms appeared, but were gone at the end of 3 hours. The third Inoculation had like results ana ror two -weeks longer three hard lumps were felt under the skin at the point of inoculation. ' Thla pTncriniA coincides with the result of Inoculation of thousands of men In the Army, less than one man In inn ToAlnv 1ncn.nAnlta.ted. As to its effects In giving Immunity, which lasts tor two or three years, wr. Men chen says: Among tha soldiers vaccinated last year there were but aix casaa of typhoid, and all of them were mild ones, short in duration and ending in recovery. Among the 70,000 odd soldiers not vaccinated there were 418 cases and thirty-two deaths. In the one case one man out of every Usl was stricken by typhoid and none died. In the other case one man out of every 187 was stricken and one man out of every 21U0 died. Thus It appeara that the liability to Infection of those not vaccinated was nearly fourteen times that of those vaccinated. OnA at lons-t of the aeents of the Government tariff board is, obviously out of place, says the Springfield Re publican. This Is G. W. Burton, who is engaged In collecting Information In Europe and who Is also writing letters to the Los Angeles Times. In one of the letters he says: "Your tariff re vision demand, fellow-Americans, is a fad." In another: "The merchants of our country who are so Inadvisedly shouting for lower duties In order to get the cost of living reduced should stop making so much noise till they learn what they are talking about." He is clearly too biased for such a place. Moreover, he is so weak in dis cretion as to show himself unfit. A King who never ruled Is Otto of Bavaria, whose silver Jubilee was cele brated by his subjects on June 13. He has nominally reigned for 25 years, but has really been a prisoner in Fuerstcw reid Palace. He Is a hopeless paranoiac. having been mad since 1870, and has been growing worse until his mind Is now a total blank. When he was first Incarcerated, hope of hie recovery was Indulged and pictures of his mother and his favorite haunts and his school books were placed where they would catch his eye, but nearly 15 years ago he destroyed his mother's pictures in a frenzy and the books and. other pic tures have disappeared. Otto has a mania for strawberry picking; which has a pathetic origin. When he waa about 21 and before his madness had assumed such a severe form, as it did later, he fell deeply In love with a young Countess. This love affair came to a sudden end at a picnic on the shores of the Tegern Sea, when Otto wandered away with his sweetheart and spent the whole afternoon pick ing strawberries. His brother, Lud wig, then King, found them and took Otto to task angrily, while he packed the girl off to her parents with orders that she should be placed in a con vent. The King now rises late and sits In semi-conscious apathy or reads newspapers upside down or takes a walk In the park. In the park he actually brightens up and jets keenly about his favorite occupation search ing for strawberries. Winter and Summer, Spring and Autumn for nearly 40 years he has sought Industriously for strawberries, and never found one except once. This waa when his doc tors, hoping that it would make him happier, planted strawberries by the side of the park walks. The Kins tore tip the strawberries, looked at the roots quizzically, and threw them away. Then he began seeking more. He has occasional outbursts of terrible violence, always preceded by fits of crying, but his attendants are forbid den to use force against him, even when he beats them. He eats and sleeps at Irregular Intervals and all attempts to give him warm food have been abandoned, for he would not touch it until the mood took him. His physical health has improved and he Is big, hroad-shouldered and fleshy, but his brain is gone. He has shown no 6lgn of memory since last Christmas, when he Inquired for his old tutor. The King, is 63 years old and will probably outlive his heir, the nonagenarian Prince-Regent Lultpold, who is his uncle, and the next heir, his cousin Ludwig, who Is 65 and who, if he should outlive Otto, is sure to renounce the throne. The crown would then descend to Ludwlg's son, Rupprecht, who is 42 and is physically and men tally sound. He 1 regarded by the small handful of adherents of the Eng lish house of Stuart as the rightful ruler of England. With him the taint of insanity Is expected to disappear from the Bavarian royal family. Sarah Bernhardt is quoted as saying she may appear as Mephistopheles when she returns to France and would portray him "not as a great, big muscular person," but as "less ma terial, something ethereal, elusive, a mental more than a physical character." To anybody who has seen Sarah there are obvious reasons why she would not portray a great, big, muscular person. The Connecticut Legislature Is dead locked on publio utilities legislation. A bill establishing a state commission was passed by the Senate, but the House by a majority of one substituted a measure fathered by the corporations. The Senate rejected that and a con ference may settle the dispute. As usual, the corporations are held re sponsible for the tangle. The University of Michigan has cre ated a new honorary degree, that of doctor of the public health, and has conferred It on Drs. W. A. Evans and G. L. Keifer, heads of the health de partments of Chicago and Detroit re spectively. This innovation may re lieve the degree of LL. D. of carry ing the burden of all miscellaneous distinctions, VICES AND MISGODED ENERGY Writer Gives Heated Explanation of Wickedness in Children. PORTLAND, July 11. (To the Edi tor.) Tour humanitarian editorial on "Sparing the Rod" has answered my every question on the subject. Truly, one ahould be all wise after reading such an enlightening "stunt." The shame of it all Is that such as you are put In the position to en lighten (?) poor, discouraged humanity. You . are a bachelor I'll be willing to wager a good box of cigars for you do not know the first principle of guiding children to right action. You are dyspeptic and have a torpid liver and want to vent your pent-up enersrv on the coor bov or girl who, if he or she were your child, would not j be born with the right Ideas, and II not, may have the right ideas but express them In a crude, wrong way. I will tell you (as I do not expect this will be published to the world) that the wickedness manifested In the boy or girl Is but misguided energy. If we teach the child he Is our equal-to-be he will strive to live up to It. If we know there Is a spark of divinity within us, and teach our children that truth, they will not "go wrong" and will not need the "hickory." The "educator" of today seems to tend to make the boy clever and if. in his cleverness, he should take after his clever father who has "pulled off a pretty good "deal" in business, and should steal an apple or two then his father says: "George, come here, how dare you copy after me you should wait until you grow up before you be gin exerting your cleverness, so I shall not have your deeds as well as my. own on mv conscience." At Point Loma. Cftl., they have started the new order of teaching and all who have been there, Including many educationalists, are not only sur prised by the almost perfect conduct of the children, but surprised to find the "hickory" left outside the gate. I enclose for your perusal a pamph let, and hope the next effort at "en lightenment" of the unwary and In dulgent parent will have some logical basis and be humane at least. A. G. B. The dogmatic writer of this letter Is in error. The man who wrote the edi torial which he so roundly excoriates is not a bachelor. He is a married man of about 30 years' experience, and, in his own opinion at least, knows all there Is to know abodt the training of children. He cannot spak quite so confidently as the mother who "had borned 12 and buried 10," but ho claims a modest position not far be neath her In experience and wisdom. As to the "wickedness manifested by a boy or girl" being merely "misguided energy," we must say we have our doubts. There is misguided energy In many cases certainly, but in others there is misguided Indolence and again we find the quality which Artemus Ward used to call "pure cussedness." The human Infant Is not nearly so simple a creature as our correspond ent seems to suppose. He Is a wonder ful piece of work, beginning humbly and ending but little lower than the angels, perhaps not an inch lower if he has been nurtured and admon ished by a wise parent. In this lat tr c.atearorv we sadly fear our cor respondent cannot be enumerated until he has mended his pedagogical wit a good deal. LETTER FROM LEWIS' FRIEND. New-berg AVrlter Cornea to Defense of Vnlverslty City Promoter. XEWBERG, Or., July 10. (To the Editor.) Pardon the delay in sending The Oregonian my acknowledgment that your criticism was correct. E. G. Lewis is not "Mayor of St. Louis." I ought, and intended to have put "Mayor of University City, St. Louis." The mis take was due to a hurried article. I acknowledged It In the next Issue of the Newberg Graphic. -. I have delayed writing you while I searched for "the columns of the local Newberg papers" that "have been filled for several weeks with eulogies of Lew Is and a somewhat frantic defense of the league." The Oregonian's great so licitude for accuracy, evidenced by its criticism of my article, leads me to be lieve that these "columns" during "sev. eral weeks" must be represented by something more than the criticised ar ticle and one-half column In the pre vious Issue from the pen of our presi dent, Mrs. L. Harmon. And yet I can find no trace of other articles. The editor of the Graphic who is keenly In Bvmpathy with The Oregonian, and re printed the editorial verbatim, adding a loud "Amen" for himself can give me no information. He should be greatly indebted ror news 01 im-ae many articles. They would be quite refresh ing to read. Our usual experience and even for this we are thankful is a more or less grudging acceptance of an ar ticle with one hand, and a smart slap (figuratively, of course) with the other. Columns of eulogy of several weeks' duration would, indeed, be a boon! Relying on The Oregonian's well-known fair play to find a corner somewhere for this letter. ANNE NEWALL This silly letter refers to an article in The Oregonian 'discussing the Ameri can Woman's League ana the troubles of E. G. Lewis, the promoter. The writer seems to have an obsession that every publication about the Lewis proj ects, not friendly or eulogistic, is in spired by some sinister motive of deadly hostility. The Lnlted States Govern ment, which has Just brought about the indictment of Lewis, also no doubt Is moved by an unworthy purpose to de fame and ruin a good man. The women of the country have poured millions of dollars into the Lewis schemes. Mrs. (or is It Miss?) Newall is obviously agi tated because they are not likely to pour millions more. Fence Posts and Nursery Stork. PORTLAND, July 12.-(To" the Editor.) "A" buys a farm from "B," no men tion being made at time of sale and transfer of the fence posts cut from timber on the farm and intended for use on the farm. To whom, under the laws of Oregon, do the posts belong. Does the same hold true of nursery stock "heeled In," of which no men tion was made at time of sale and which were Intended for the farm sold? SUBSCRIBER. Fence posts cut under conditions named would probably be "fixtures real" and would go with the farm. Healed-ln" nursery stock Is person al property and belong to "B" if not mentioned in the deed. Appeal to Oakar Huber. PORTLAND, July 11. (To the Edi tor.) Won't you please get Oskar Hu ber busy again, as he was for the Lewis and Clark time, to rid us of mos quitoes. Then he did "Ple"d'dfnw'r and we never had a bite: but for the last few evenlngs-well. there ain 1 : no words for it. The only reason that seems possible for mosquitoes, is that druggists may sell ammonia or Ponds Extract, etc., but even with these re liefs the pests are well, use your own word, P B' PUBLICO. Advertising Talks Br William C. freeman. 'Mr. Gerrlt Fort, passenger traffic manager of the Union Pacific and Ore gon Short Line railways. Is an enthu siastic believer In accurate and convlne. lag advertising copy. Not only does he believe, but he practices what ha preaches. His roads and those affiliated with them will spend this year in advertis ing of all kinds Jl.300,000 over a half million of which comes directly under his personal supervision. Mr. Fort does not intend that an) advertising put out by him shall mis represent In any way anything that ta to be told to the public about the ser vice rendered by the. passenger trains that operate under his direction. As an illustration of how Intense he Is on the subject of truthful advertis ing, which he claims, and rightly so, is the most effective advertising, let me state here that a phrase that had been used for a long time in the ad vertising of the Union Pacific has been eliminated from future copy because it was susceptible to wrong construction. The phrase read: The beat dlnlnsr-cara In the world." Sir. Fort and a number of his asso ciates. In discussing the Importance of not printing anything In their adver tisements that might be wrongly con strued, decided that the statement, "The best dining-cars in the world" mlxht Imply that the service on the dining-cars of the Union Pacific waa better than that rendered by any other railroad in the world, and they thought that such a statement should not be printed because they know that It la not true. They all agreed that their dining car service is as good as any furnished on a moving train under trying conditions, but to say that It was the beat service In the world waa a misstatement of fact, because there are other railroads that run dining cars on which tiie service is excellent, and the Union Pacific people know it. This may seem to be splitting hairs to a great many advertisers who do not as carefully scrutinize the printed statements that go out over their names as they should, but, whether it is splitting hairs or not, the fact re mains that that advertising which tells the whole truth tella It plainly and without any frills Is the kind of ad vertising, after all, that is the greatest aid to business building, whether ap plied to railroads or any other line of business Mr. Fort Is not only a stanch sup porter of Integrity in advertising, but also of Its great power in the upbuild ing of a business. Ills own advertis ing policy is a credit alike to him and to the railroads he represents. (To be continued.) Country Town Sayings by Ed Hows (Copyright, 1911, by Georae Matthew Adams) BY "ED" HOWE. There is a great deal of talk about a great many things that there is mighty little In. A certain amount of humiliation Is necessary to keep a man down to where he belongs. I sometimes think that people don't know any more after having had ex perience than before. Every man I ever knew had ambi tion,' but only a few had application with It. Sometimes tho nomination seeks ths man when the office does not. An actor Is like an Indian; when he wants to get married again, he doesn't pay the attention ho should to the fact that he is already married. Have you noticed that when a man asks you for your candid opinion, he nearly always questions the soundness of itr When a woman does wrong, she thinks she has been wronged. After a child Is 25. its mother shouldn't tell how old it Is. Not every woman thinks she is handsome; but every woman thinks she can make the best pickles on earth. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian, July 13, 1861. " The following are the shipments ot lumber to San Francisco In 1860 and ISfil from the Columbia River: 1860 4.393,647: 1 S61 3,148,000. Decrease since 1860. 1,205,947 feet. Probably this .apparent decreu.se arises from the fact that the lumber is used in Oregon. The printers are having a glorious time in this war. They have already distinguished themselves in Virginia by publishing a paper at Alexandria, and it will be remembered the St. Louis volunteers printed the Inside of a seces sion Journal at De Soto, 111., making it strongly Union, while the outside, which had been printed before their ar rival, was secession. The Iowa troops at the junction of the North Missouri, and Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad, took possession of the Missouri Register, a vile secession sheet, and at once went to work with their shooting irons by their cases and got out the paper in tasteful style under a new name "Our Whole Union." The Portland Times very properly suggests that it does not improve Ore gon butter in barreds to stand In the hot sun. The Tramp's Refvard. PORTLAND, July 12. To the Editor: I notice in The Oregonian an account of the near wreck of S. P. train near Salem and I would like to make a lit tle comment on the subject. I believe if I had been a passenger on this train that I would never want it made public.- To think that a train full of people whose lives were so near the reaper's as to show such ungrate fulness to two tramps who had saved their lives as to make a collection of nickels and dimes, the total amount of which did not exceed five dollars! Of course we cannot predict how many lives would have been lost, but use the fatality of the Oregon Trunk as an example: Suppose that the two tramps had saved that train and had received five dollars and a free ride ' to Portland. Is that all that human lives are worth in this generation? I think a little item in The Ore gonian might bring some of these un grateful human beings to a realization of how they show their appreciation for the saving of lives even if It is only to a couple of tramps. H. G. H. Beavers In Canadian Northwest. Kansas' City Journal.' Beavers have become so numerous and destructive in some parts of the Canadian Northwest that the settlers have appealed to the Government to exterminate them.