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Frunswlc building- Cbl-k- "" 'aar building. ' rnitruxD. ncofiAV, aioist tt. isii. J ', t A TIDAL WATT IX ISli? - The New York World on paper does "i not make out a strong case before the electoral college for the Democratic . Presidential nominee of 1912. In ' deed, ths New York Democratic news paper la madly discouraged over the outlook. The horoscope does not fore- cast Democratic victory without New "fork and other -well-nigh. Impossible nates. Those optimistic seers who have been Indulging In political crys- rTfal-gazlng- and have been able to see V" nothing but a continuous procession of Democratic states marching under the Democratic banner, are evidently i" fated for a rude bumping. There Is great , difference between dress-pa-'; rade and actual conflict. Mr. Bryan I has heretofore won several victories J the year before the battle. Governor 'Wilson and Governor Harmon and J ex-Governor Folk and other possible candidates might profit by his example. But let us understand the World's I reasons for Its remarkable pessimism. ' The New Tork Democratic paper has 'been making bitter war n Tammany -rad has been endeavoring to show that continued dominance by that " corrupt organization spells ruin for J" the Democracy. "Does Tammany 'want Taft re-elected?" cries the ( 'World. The only way to beat Taft. ' In the opinion of the New York news J raper. Is to beat Tammany. The New 'York Democracy without Tammany J jwould be a lame affair. The New I York Democracy with Tammany Is a y .sordid and mercenary outfit. The dilemma Is a sorry one. The World proves that nothing but . tidal wave win elect the Democratic : .nominee. If the strong Republican "states of the Middle West stand by 'The RepubUcan candidate, the cause of the Democratic nominee Is hope J "leas, unless New York goes Demo v tratic. But even with New York and the solid South the Democratic can didate must have Ohio. New Jersey. Indiana and Missouri, or a group of states equally powerful. If New York should be lost to the Democrats the tandldata would then have to carry -New Jersey, Ohio. Indiana. California, .- West Virginia. Colorado. Missouri. "Nebraska. New Mexico and Arizona. ..r The World's calculations are based on .the assumption that the two terri tories will be admitted to the Cnlon. ' It will be seen that there are many mountains for the Democratic noml r.e to climb and he may stall on any V one of them. Take Ohio, for example. If Taft r--pha.ll be nominated, and Harmon shall il'jiot he nominated. Taft v.111 carry ; Ohio. If he cannot, he will be the .-.worst beaten Republican candidate ' since Fremont. Ohio, then, will have : "to be eliminated from the World's list of Democratic possibilities. But Illi nois may be substituted. Can a Demo r -crat carry "a state that usually gives 'from 100.900 to 100.000 Republican plurality? If so, he will sweep many j ,: other states heretofore regarded as j safely Republican. If there Is doubt a about Illinois, there la reason for un r 'easiness about Pennsylvania; and no txins has yet worried much about what the great iron and coal state will do. The chief hope of the Democracy I tidal wave that will submerge even thing. If there Is to be no tidal f.t.wave there will be no Democratic , triumph In 1912. Tidal waves, like lhe wind, come and go as they will. ' " They know no rules, or periods. They i.-"are due when they arrive. Possibly x. the flood that leads on to Democratic i.rtune will come In 1913. Then again possibly not. EXrXOITTNG Or .NTJUIBT WASTE LAJiD. To the honor of the Chamber of J'Cnmrnerce. the Commercial Club and 2 a?lher organizations of Portland it can be said that In their work of ex jololUng they have known no Indlvld 4 nal section of Oregon, but have 2 labored fnr the state In Its entirety. ? In the printed matter disseminated t "they have given tha Snake River. C Coos Bay. Astoria and every other 1 section Just as much attention as ths p wr.lsmetts Valley or Portland. "J This Is the wise course, for what t ever helps the state at large, or any portion of It. assists In building up, rortland. The money for these ex 6 plottation purposes Is paid by Port j land citizens, every dollar of It. but w the donors are farseeing enougn to know that their city ran beat be bene fited by filling up the vacant places, by gettlrg people to mske homes on the unoccupied land. There Is a work right at our doors, however, which has been too long naglected. and which now rails fr united action, a wrk which msy seem i like entering upon the duty of peopi J Ing our very suburbs. It Is the clear- Ing of and the locating of settlers J opon the hundreds of thousands of a acres of waste lands adjacent to the i city. Until a very recent date nobody had a clear Idea as to how and at what I cost these rut-ovfr and brush lands Tou!d be made Into beautiful and pro ,Juctlve farms. There were no reliable data to work upon. There was no well-laid system to follow, there was no one who knew what It would cost or how long It would take to bring !7,'thM lands under the plow. Any k-vliumber of men could be secured to 1 Md on the making of cordwood, the excavating and removing of earth or the handling of rock, fnr all such work has long been reduced to a "'known and well-defined basis. But ' no man was willing to make anything mors than a guess at the cost of land 7 Clearing. But the. doubts, difficulties snd uncertainties are being removed. ' snd henceforth, or In the Immediate fatur. thsre. wilt be a siem for this clearing which will be Just as certain and exact as any other contracting, a i" system by which these lands caa be placed in possession of occupants ready for the plow at a known and very low price. The prime factor In this work Is the . char-pltling system for the removal of stumps. By this method tne cost or such removal will be a known expense, and so low that the owners will at once find It uprofltable longer to al low these lands, the very best In the state, to remain useless and Idle. Nothing at the present time Is of more Importance to the city of Port land than the rapid development of this work, and as said at first. It shows that the bodies mentioned are undertaking a great public duty In fostering this movement. In assisting In putting land clearing on a fixed commercial basis, in turning these unproductive and waste lands Into productive farms and prosperous homes. r-NiroitM DIVORCE uws. The best opinion of the country de mands uniformity In djvorce laws but not excessive strictness. This la ap parent from the replies which were received to a questionnaire sent out from New York to the Governors of the states. The wish for more uni formity Is unanimous but there seems to have been few or no demands for much more rigor. It Is admitted by the Governors that some states have divorce laws which are too lax, while others are too strict. What Is wanted by un prejudiced students of the subject Is legislation which shall .make the status of a divorced couple Identical throughout the Union. As things now stand, a man may be forbidden by the law to marry in New York, while if he takes the trouble to cross the ferry to New Jersey his nuptials will be perfectly permissible. Colonel Astor happens to be In this enjoyable situation Just now as the public well knows. A man who has been di vorced and remarried may be a big amist under the statutes of some states and entirely Innocent In others. This situation Is absurd. It would not be tolerated If we were awake as we ought to be to the proprieties of life. At the coming conference of Governors In Spring Lake. New Jer sey, the subject of uniform divorce legislation Is likely to be foremost In the discussions. Some advocate Fed eral action. Some think best to urge each state to adopt a pre-arranged system. It Is natural to suppose that a Federal law would cost less effort than Identical state legislation, but the old notion of unconstitutionality Intrudes here as It seems to even where when progressive action Is de sired. It Is objected that the general Gov ernment has no authority In the prem ises and perhaps It has not. In that case we must wait upon the agree ment of the states and the chances are that we must wait a good while. Unless Congress has authority to en act a divorce law for the whole coun try the chaos we have Is likely to continue. TIME FOR TIOX TO CO. If the pure food disturbance In the Agricultural Department should re sult In the retirement of Secretary Wilson under pressure. It would cause no surprise and little regret. Wilson's department has been . shaken by con vulsions more than any other 'since Secretary Meyer got a firm grip on affairs In the Navy Department and took things out of the hands of the swivel chair mariners who had been lording tt over the bureaus. Wilson has been letting his subordi nates run things Instead of running them himself. He let Plnchot run the Forestry Bureau until Plnchot ran Into the President and was bowled over. He has let McCabe and Dunlap take the Chemistry Bureau, which handles pure food cases, out of the hands of Wiley and use their usurped power to defeat the purposo of the law. There is one excuse for Wilson. His department employs an unusually large number of scientific specftllsts, each of whom thinks hi own particu lar 'ology Is the most Important thing In the universe. They are usu ally enthusiasts, but their devotion to one particular science Is prone to make them narrow and blind to all other considerations than their sci ence. A wise department head needs to guide this enthusiasm, and check without suppressing It. for It la a valuable element In public work. He needs to co-ordinate his corps of en thusiasts that their rough corners may not continually come into col lision. To do this requires a combination of firmness and diplomacy, of which a knowledge of human nature la the first requisite and an ability to con trol men of strong convictions and prejudices and much personal ambi tion so that they will do good team work. Experience has shown that in this work Wilson has failed. He let Plnchot get entirely out of hand and the result was an explosion which caused agitation injurious to the pub lic service. He has allowed two of Ms subordinates to carry on a con temptible Intrigue against Wiley, one or the most valuable men in his de partment and thwart Wiley In carry ing out a law which Is of vital im portance to the public health. One reason for this condition .may be that the department haa outgrown Wilson. Within recent years the great work of forestry and meat In spection has been added as well as that of pure food Inquiry. When its work was confined to Investigation of field crops and orchards, hlss depart ment was 1n his grasp, but he appears to have confined his attention too much to these oilglnal functions and left the new work to his bureau chiefs. Secretary Wilson has won the dis tinction of serving longer In the cabi net than any other man. He has built up his department until It rivals any other In Importance. He has achieved great success In many branches of Its work. He should retire on his laurels and give place to a younger and more vigorous man. Tacoma students of the University of Washington have been asked, pre sumably under authority of the re gents, to nil out cards that the regis trar ha sent them, giving their opin ion unbissed, of course of ths value as Instructors of the professors under whom they took work Isst yesr. Now let the masters beware! The pupils are given the whip hand, and in view of the disagreement In regard to the Juxtaposition of the sorority and fra ternity houses on the campus, they will doubtless use the lash, metaphor ically speaking, to their own satisfac tion, at least. Time was but why In dulge In retrospection? The methods noted remind one forcibly of the disci pline of the "Queen's Navee" as ex ploited once upon a time on the stage under the title "Her Majesty's Ship Pinafore." . NOTABI.E VISIT. Prince Albert Edward of Wales will visit the United States In the near fu ture. The announcement recalls the visit of his grandfather, the late King Edward, then the stripling Prince of Wales, to this country In 1860. He who Is remembered In his later years ss an obese man of more than three score: rheumatic, short, stiff and of unwieldy body whiskered and bald was then a sprightly youth of eighteen, boyish In appearance, of frank and pleasing demeanor a well-bred lad of distinguished British lineage, who danced with the belles of Washington and Newport, as pleased as they at the opportunity to disport among them. Time made conquest of the youth, the gayety, the health and that Joy of life which "writes Its music in the major key." which were the attri butes of Britain's heir at that time, and so complete was the conquest of time in these matters that it seems scarcely possible that less than half a century Intervened between the visit of the smooth-faced stripling of 1860 and the passing of the grizzled mon arch that he became before time had ceased to play tricks with him. And now comes, or will come, the grandson of our erstwhile stripling guest also Albert Edward, Prince of Wales', a youth of eighteen. In training, as was his grandfather, for a kingship. The mutations of time, the fidelity with which history repeats itself, are noted in this second coming of a Prince of Wales to our shores. The colonies that his great-great-grandfather, George III. held In so little esteem that he could not hold them at all are but dim pictures In history to the young Prince. Grown into a great Nation, they will inspire respect pos sibly a shadow of regret for their loss in the youth four generations re moved from the events that severed them from the British crown. Be this as it may, we will all be English for the time being in the wel come that will be accorded to this heir to the English throne, even while we are Americans in our love of liberty and of loyalty to the Republic which grew upon the ruins of British rule W "the brave days of old." EFFICIENCY AND BCHOOIJIOfSES. ' The new doctrine of efficiency is startllngly pervasive. It peers into the most secret nooks and finds fault with the most venerated arrange ments. ' The tricks which the brick layer learned at the Tower of Babel and which he has practised ever since without a thought that they could be Improved upon, are pronounced ab surdly faulty by our efficiency ex perts. They teach the workman how to double his tale of bricks without Increasing the sum total of his toil. Nothing could be more fascinating if only tha pay doubled with the tale. Even as It is, the employer experi ences delight. But the doctrine of efficiency does not stop with bricks. It penetrates the precincts of the railroad office and reveals waste where economy had been supposed to rule. It groans to see a church which cost half a million dollars standing Idle six days of the week and used only for a little while on the seventh. "Why not open the Protest ant churches every day as the Catho lic do theirs?" it critically asks. The fault-finding spirit of efficiency might perhaps admit some difficul ties In the way of keeping the churches open all the time, but It condemns unsparingly the thriftless management of our schoolhouses. It particularly dislikes the modern meth od of locking up the country school house whenever class work Is not go ing on. The employment of the rural schoolhousc for book work and noth ing else. Is a recent Innovation and not a commendable one from the point of - view of social economics. Good management commands us to make our Investments work all the time If we can. The idea of erecting a structure and letting it stand entirely idle one-fourta of the year, while we use It only a quarter of the day for the rest of the year, la repugnant to every principle of sound finance. It outrages economy as much as it does pure reason. Most citizens of mature age can remember a time when the country schoolhouse was the social center of the neighborhood. The spelling bee was held there to the delight of all the young people and their elders too. It was the meotlng place of the old fashioned debating club which called out all the budding Websters and gave them a chance to cultivate their nascent powers. The wandering preacher found a free forum in the schoolhouse. no matter how unortho dox his creed might be. and even the political spellbinder was not unwel come to its tallow dips and blazing wood fire. Now all Is changed. Few ever think of going to the school house for a good time. Like Dante's hell. It is a place of woe unmitigated. The motto above its baleful door might well be "Abandon hope." What has brought about the lam entable change we do not make bold to try to say in one brief note. The causes have been many but no doubt race suicide Is the chief among them. The use of the country school house for miscellaneous social pur poses has been abandoned because those who want to resort to it have disappeared. The children of most country districts are but a melancholy remnant of the vigorous band they once were. Not enough of them re main to enforce a demand for a com mon meeting place. As soon as the youth of the country reach years of indiscretion they spread their wings and fly away to .town, a Does the city schoolhouse open its doors to receive them of an evening and offer a whole some substitute for the rursl amuse ment they have left behind? Hardly. The ordinary city schoolhouse would be painfully astonished to see a mer ry band of young people disporting themselves In Its hallowed rooms. Their elders prefer to let the young people disport themselves In dance halls and dubious theater. Leaders of thought In this country have not acquiesced In the shallow dictum that the problem of the fu ture Is the problem of the city. Many of them believe that It Is the problem of the country. Others take the ground that In order to have a healthy and prolific race of people In the United States, we must first solve the social problems of both city and countn'. the one class being fully as important as the other. Race suicide In urban families Is a dreadful thing to contemplate. Race suicide In the Country I worse because It is more unnatural. The conservative thought of the Nation turns more and more steadfastly to the problem of pre venting it everywhere. Most students confess that life must be enjoyable, fairly easy and free from the dread of poverty before In telligent married couples can be ex pected to rear large families of chil dren. From this it follows pretty ob viously that it Is folly to neglect any means of lightening the circumstances of the common man In city and coun try. What everybody hungers and thirsts for after the day's work la over Is amusement. Some want intellectual-run, some want bodily exer cise, but the desire for diversion is universal. This desire has a sound economic basis because nature has so ordered it that we can all work better tomorrow if we play a little before going to sleep tonight. But solitary play Is unsatisfactory. To produce its full benefit it must be so cial. Scientists agree that one of the prime needs of every community, both In town and country. Is a place where the people, young and old, can gather as often as they wish for a good time. Of course intellectual profit Is not ex cluded, but amusement Is the main purpose, for pleasure of the right kind means health, good spirits, pros perity and a high birth rate. Since the natural place for these meetings in the country Is the schoolhouse. there is no more encouraging sign of the times than the spreading disposi tion to open these buildings to the public for every legitimate purpose. Country life has been sordid and gloomy long enough. It is time that the people began to use the means they have at hand to make their daily routine wholesomely cheerful. Oregon furnishes two laudable ex amples of self-help which are worthy of general imitation. The Port of Nehalem Is building a Jetty which will deepen and straighten the channel of Its harbor, having Issued bonds and undertaken the work Itself without awaiting Government aid. The set tlers on the Upper Klamath irriga tion project, weary of waiting for the Government to take Its promised ac tion, are organizing an irrigation dis trict under Oregon law and propose to do the work themselves. Their action is as much a reflection on the exas perating slowness of the Government, as it is a credit to the energy and self reliance of the people in each case. If the Republic, Bethlehem and Lackawanna Steel Companies should merge. It would probably . be only a preliminary to their absorption by the trust. About 100 per cent water would be injected into the stock when the merger was effected and another 100 per cent when the trust took in the merger.. This was the process preliminary to the organization of the trust. The Individual companies were absorbed by several large com panies and the large companies then merged In the trust, water being added at each stage of the process. The consumer will pay always. Two deaths from drowning were added last Saturday to the long list that has made sorrowful thcvacation records for the present Summer. In eaeh case the loss was to the com munity as well as to the Immediate families of the victims, both being young men verging 'upon manhood. The event in such cases is more than an accident: It Is a calamity and Is widely regretted. Though dictlnctly preventable. It seems Impossible to prevent these occurrences, since the lure of the water In the Summer time 1 much stronger than the sugges tions of prudence. Hlllsboro citizens have resolved that its sidewalks shall no longer be mud ways In Winter and dustways In Sum mer, and with this end In view have undertaken the extensive construction of cement sidewalks. The movement is a voluntary one a novel feature in such work. If It should extend to some other Valley towns we could name It would be duly appreciated by more than the resident populations of those communities. The whole continent Is In an agony of suspense on the question not whether the Democrats or Taft will win In 1912, nor whether the Panama Canal will be finished by 1915, nor whether a rival steel trust will be or ganized, nor whether wheat will go up or down, nor whether the Morocco af fair will cause war but when and where will Astor marry Madeleine Force? The man, drunk or sober, who can beat out his own brains is the equal of the one-armed man who cut off his remaining hand with one blow of a aword. So It may be worth while for the Coroner to look Into the death of that unfortunate man' In the Linnton dungeon. The indifference with which Mr. and Mrs. Jack Geraghty show to the opin ion of Newport and the bride's will ingness to wash dishes and make her own bed indicate a degree of common sense which promises well for the suc cess of the couple. There are worse offenders than mo tormen who speed their cars. Pedes trians know where to expect the dan ger and act accordingly. The great est fear Is of the motorcycle, which whizzes by like a crazy dragon fly. Though the Prince of Wales and Prince Frledrlch of Hohenzollern are to be treated merely a naval officers, society will surely find a way to pay them homage as princes. Should the Army be stationed near the large cities and the officers live In town, the social advantages of of ficers' wives will be greatly enhanced. Growers of hops in Lane County are offering $1.25 per hundred for pick ing, which is very well, but subject to a rising labor market. Simultaneously comes the news of a heavy rainfall and another gold dis covery. The more valuable Is easily discovered. In spending a million to remodel his big house, John D. Rockefeller Is making good use of his money. Diaz at the tomb of Napoleon Is-as spectacular as Mark Twain at the grave of Adam. Whose will be the distinction to be picked up by the new fender? Who will "own" the President when he comes In October? "Gleanings of the Day Thanks to the hot weather, an American soda fountain has at least been established In London and Is doing a rushing business. Though on the Strand in a big drugstore, it is kept modestly In the back so that only the diligent searchers may find. The foun tain itself Is worthy of American tradi tions, being a big, ornate thing in silver, marble and onyx. Asked why It should be placed away in the rear of the store where it can't be seen, instead of in the front, one of the English clerks said quite Englishly: "Oh, it might interfere with our drug trade." "But if you gave it a chance it might become as important as your drug trade, or at least would prove a valu able advertisement to your place." "It might become such a nuisance," was the final and decisive answer. The hot weather of this Summer, which has been as great in Europe as in America, has caused scientists to seek the explanation of death from heat stroke. Dr. George Hirth, a Munich specialist, attributes it to elec trolytic disturbances due to the abstrac tion of salt from the system. He says that persons who perspire copiously, especially those who perform heavy physical labor In hot weather, may lose In the course of a single day thousands of grammes of moisture, containing from two-thirds to four-fifths of 1 per cent of salt. He comes tr the con clusion that the human body under those conditions may lose as much as 30 grammes, and in extreme cases 40 grammes of salt a day. an amazing quantity, which is not replaced In the ordinary course by food. Drinking large quantities of water is of no avail; although It has this advantage, that water attracts the remaining salt res erves of the body and prevents thick ening of the blood, which otherwise would cause giddiness, the first warn ing of Impending heat collapse. The British colony of Victoria, Aus tralia, has discovered that many per sons buy methylated splrHs to drink In place of intoxicating beverages. In nH n ston the practice it will mix .! nno ntr cent Of coal tar naphtha in the spirits, which ' will ,v h mis nhlectionable, but will not affect their value for industrial or 'domestic purposes. 1 The ladies who wear sables may have to pay more for them, for it is pro posed to prohibit sable hunting It Siberia for two years in ordl to pre vent extermination of the animal. New Zealand Is one of the great sheep-growing countries of the world. In 1910 It had 24.269,620 sheep, and produced 192.822,002 pounds of wool In 1909. The colony exported in 1910 wool to the value of $40,278,873; frozen meat, chiefly mutton and lamb, $19,560,684; tallow $3,674,22$; sheepskins $3,602,519. A road which Is designed to form part of a through road from the Coast to the Alberta line is being built by British Columbia from Wardner to the boundary at the summit of the Rocky Mountains in the Crows Nest Pass, where It connects with the Alberta road system. It Is 75 miles long. An other trunk line is projected from some point on the Canadian Pacific Railway, east of the Rocky Mountains, to some nnlnt nn the road already built up the Vnntcnv and down the Columbia Rivers, which is designed to form a in una through the mountains which will be of sufficiently easy grade for automobile travel. United States Coniuls In many coun tries agree on the reasons why Ameri can foreign trade has not made great tr strides, though some express the opinion by Implication, simply stating what must be done to secure such trade. The manufacturer Is warned that It is waste of time and money to seek trade in Brazil by catalogues or correspondence; he must have direct representation by putting a good man In the field with enough capital to give the business a fair trial. Such a man must be willing to leave his own coun try for a good salary and commission, and may be hired Jointly by firms In several non-competing lines. In Co lombia and Ecuador American firms put an obstacle In the way of business by giving only 30 to 60 days' credit, while German. English. French. Span sh and Italian houses give four to twelve months' time. This one fact gives the bulk of foreign trade to Europe. Merchants of Asuncion, Para guay, deal with commission houses which send salesmen with samples, and the Importers give directions for pack ing and shipping, which must be scrupulously observed. The same con ditions, exist in Venezuela. The mar ket for American knit goods In China has been largely lost through care lessness in packing, ticketing, selection of material and other details, with the fatal result that the "chop," or brand, has been given a bad name. A manu facturer Is advised to give soma estab lished house in Shangha1 or other Chinese port a sale agency and to give liberal advertising allowances and credit, as do European exporters. No attempt has been made by Americans to enter the markets of India. Aus tralia Is a liberal customer of , this country. How much Germane can do with lit tle Is Illustrated by the case of Getsen klrchen, a town In the Interior prov ince of Westphalia, which has spent $6,000,000 on harbor works and $1,500, 000 to attrp.ct new Industries. Thle harbor Is merely on a canal which con nects with the Rhine. Another town called Neuss stopped Its decay and made Itself a great industrial center by borrowing $2,000,000 and converting the River Erft into a deep canal to the Rhine. It has built a harbor, attracted 40 factories and Increased Its popula tion from 4600 to about 60,000. Dues scldorf, Mannheim and Frankfort, all Interior river cities, have spent large eums on river Improvements. Vast deposits of magnetic Iron in the form of black sand have been discovered tn New Zealand, and a New York firm has obtained an option on one tract of beach after making a teat. A syndicate has obtained a large concession and other Iron ore deposits have been die covered. A resolution has just been passed by the Trades and Labor .Federa tion of New Zealand expressing the hope that the New Zealand government will take steps to nationalize the natural Iron ore deposits of New Zealand and work them itself Instead of permitting outside capital to secure the profits. HARD WORK TO ELECT DEMOCRAT Campalgw of 1912 Is Yet o Be Wi or Lost. New York World (Dem.) Assuming that Arizona and New Mexico are admitted into the Union to day, there will be, with the additional members provided for In the reappor tionment bill, 53i votes in the next electoral college, an increase of 48. The majority required to elect the President in 1912 will be 266, as com pared with 2.2 in 1908. Mr. Taft had an electoral vote of 821. With the same states under the reapportionment the Republicans would gain 32 votes and the Bryan states ten votes. The Republican vote by states would be: California .... Connecticut ... Delaware . . . Idaho Illinois . .. Indiana ....... Iowa Kansas ....... Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Unnlan. ... . 13'New Jeney 14 . 7New Tork 42 . 3 North Dakota .... . 4Ohlo 23 . 29:Ore(fon 3 . 15!Pennylvanla 3 . 13 Rhode Island 3 . Id South Dakota ... B . Sl.tah 4 2;Vermont 4 . ISIWeit VlrRlnia 8 . I5Wahinston 7 . 12' Wisconsin 13 . 11 Wyoming- 3 41 Total 353 New Hampshire. The Bryan states would give the fol lowing Democratic vote: Alabama ... . 12' Nevada 3 , OiNorth Carolina ... 12 . eokiahoma 1" . 6 South Carolina.... 0 . 14iTennesee 12 . IS Texas 20 . 10 Virginia 12 , 10 8 Total ' 172 electoral college New Georzta . Kentucky . Louisiana Maryland . Mississippi X Ul A, Willi B1A WlUlllOUW . u . -J , a of 42, will continue to hold the balance of power between the leading parties In campaigns less hopelessly one-sided than the last. With New York's vote either side may easily figure out a majority. The solid South has been broken since 1904. Having twice given her electoral vote to Republican presidential candi dates Missouri no longer can be placed In the Southern column. Kentucky, which has shifted in state elections, and Maryland, which divided her vote in 1908, the solid South has 155 votes. To win, the next Democratic candidate must have In addition to the South 111 votes. Carrying New York the Demo crates could win with Ohio, New Jersey, Indiana and "Missouri, a total of 112. Illinois could be substituted for Ohio. In place of either of these strong Re publican states the Democrats could elect with California, Colorado and West Virginia or California and Ne braska. Counting .New Mexico and Arizona Democratic, with three votes each, a successful combination could be named with New York. New Jersey, Indiana. Missouri. Nebraska. West Vir ginia and Colorado. Montana with one of the Dakotas could take the place of any of the three small states. But If President Taft holds New York the Democratic problem will be difficult. Assuming that Governor Wilson will be the Democratic nominee, we may concede him New Jersey. Where would he get his majority? He would have to carry New Jersey, Ohio. Indiana, California, West Virginia, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico and Arizona. Should he lose Ohio he would have to carry two of the insurgent, but hitherto rock-ribbed Re publican, states of the Northwest, such as Michigan. Minnesota, Iowa and Wis consin. M -T Without the electoral vote of New York nothing less than a tidal wave will save the Democratic party from defeat next year ' Monument Is Proposed. PORTLAND. Aug. 19. (To the Edi tor) it has been suggested that a shaft be erected within the Lownsdale Park and the following excerpt from G B. Shaw's "Man and Superman" chis eled deep Into the marble, and that The Oregonian. as It Is the most progress ive newspaper in the world, take the matter up and give it furtherance. "But there are also men strong minded enough to disregard the social convention which bids a man live by heavy and badly-paid drudgery. We misuse our laborers horribly and when a man refuses to be misused we have no right to say that he Is refusing honest work. Let us be frank in this matter. If we were reasoning, far sighted people, four-fifths of us would go and knock the whole social system to pieces with most beneflclsl results. The reason we do not do this is be cause we work like bees or ants, by Instinct or habit, not reasoning about the matter at all. "Therefore, when a man comes along who can and does reason, and who. ap plying the Kantian test to his conduct. can truly say tu us. i o.bijuuuj t t, wauM he r.omnelled to reform Itself industrially, and' abol ish slavery and squaior, which ei only because everybody does as you do." Let us honor that man and seri ously consider the advisaoiiuy oi ioi lowing his example. Such a man is the able-bodied, able-minded pauper. Were he a gentleman doing his best a- , n-iAn nr a BlnnniirA instead "i S" of sweeping a crossing, nobody would blame him ror aeciains mai u lung the alternative lies between living mainly at the expense of the commun ity, and allowing the community to live mainly at his. It would be folly to ac cept what is to him personally the greater of the two evils." GENTLE READER. THE LEGITIMATE GROtCH. Last night It was late that I labored; With a headache this morn I trwoke. And ate three hot waffles for break fast. But mv stomach could not see the Joke. I As a plow horse I plodded to labor, Ti'kit- o toa y ilrnn nf bitterness slid Down the bridge of my beak like a dewdrop To splash on my typewriter lid. As o'er his keys, pensively musing. The oreanlst's shekel hooks stray. My digits dance o'er the typewriter And grind out a sorrowiui lay. And I sit. as the moments flit by me. Wi t h ieet neain iuo cnair ouiwni And srind out a grist of typewriting. And worn up a groucn it ins wunu. When thou seest me thus, come not near me. with tales of vacation delight. Of riotous romps In the woodland. Or strolls on the .seashore at nigni. Talk not of the trout string all whop pers ExDect not that I shall believe: For your fanciful fables of fishing Add fifty per cent to my peeve. Wh'en thou seest me thus, speak not to me, Mnp crMt me with Jubilant cry. For I'll freeze all your Joyful advances With a glance or my eaim, nsny eye. uean uoiiins. Portland, August 21. Strictly Betweea Physicians. Washington (D. C.) Herald. "Doctor. I want you to look after my office while I'm on vacation." "But I ve just graduated, doctor. Have had no experience," "That's all right, my boy. , My prac tice is strictly fV'onable. Tell the men to play golf and ship the women patients off to Europe." Advertising Talks Br William C Freeman. When James Schermerhorn, publisher of the Detroit "Times," gets up to say something, his words carry conviction, because he backs them up by his deeds. He has made a long, hard fight in the newspaper world for accuracy In both news and advertising. He made a speech at the Boston Convention, parts of which are here recorded because I they should be remembered by those who are working hard to develop ad I vertising on right lines: . "The advertiser who puts anything J but the truth into the newspaper space ne contracts ior Darters away his good name and the publisher's, too. "The advertiser is for truth mightily part of the time. He makes the pub lisher swear on the Book when he de clares his circulation. "The newspapers have no associa tion to insist ' upon guaranteed copy. They send forth no representatives to verify statements. They demand no affidavits. Where ignorance Is bii, tir folly to be wise. "If the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is too drastic if It sounds like asking you to sell all that you have and give to the poor in order to gain eternal life this is the time to establish a twilight zone between the day of truth and the night of falsehood. "But be brave and be explicit, breth ren. If you cannot stand the daylight, come out courageously for twilight, "If you declare for reasonable re straint of honesty, it would be well to settle the number of readers who are poisoned by a nostrum or fleeced by a wildcat Investment proposition, before the pervasion may be said to be un reasonable. "If you fix a twilight zone, let It also be fixed how many times the Scheftels and Burrs must be thrown out of the malls and thrust into dungeons before their copy passes out of the gloaming Into the dusk. "Truth stands at the door and knocks; let the advertiser open unto her and she will bring him honor and glory forevermore: or, at least, respect ability. "If you are to become a profession you must here and now formulate a code. That code need spell but one word, truth, and all other worthy things shall be added unto you." These are only extracts brief" ones from a most interesting speech that took more than an hour to deliver, and then Mr. Schermerhorn's hearers want ed him to continue. . His deeds in Detroit have called forth the approval of the good people of the city and have won for htm the good will of the reputable business interests of the country. He Investigates all advertisments before they are printed in his news paper, and has had the courage to drive out of his community many ad vertising fakirs. (To be continued.) Half a Century Ago (Prom The Oregonian. August 22. 1861. t The persons murdered at Barlow's Gate, on . the Cascade Mountains, prove to be Mr. Jarvis Brlggs and his son. Newton Brlggs, of Lane County. The murders were committed by Indians. These Indians and others, who have lately committed murders, are all likely to be taken through the vigilance of Captain Whittlesey and Messrs. Logan and Dennlson. O'Meara has started a secession paper in Jacksonville. The Secretary of Washington Terri tory. Mr. J. L. S. Turney. was received at Olympia by a National salute. On yesterday, while several workmen were shingling a stable in process of erection for Mr. Knott, in the south part of town, the roof fell in and the walls fell apart. Of two children of Mr. R. Ladd. who were in the building, one was slightly hurt and the other received no Injury. .Mr. KIrkenthall had his wrist broken and otherwise severely in jured. Mr. Kinney received a severe cut on the face. Mr. G. Allen was slightly bruised. A detachment of 34 United States troops under command of Captain Black left Fort Vancouver yesterday morning for the Cascades. Company K, Ninth Infantry, Captain Van Voast command ing, now stationed at The Dalles, are also ordered to the same place to pro tect the settlers from the threatened in cursions of the Indians. Brad's Bit o Verse (Copyright. 1911, by W. D. Meng.t A city farmer owned a hen; he kept her in a stately pen and studied all her whims and moods, and fed her choicest breakfast foods. He washed her face and curled her hair and manicured her nails with care; he starched her feath ers every day; but not a bloomln' egsr she'd lay. The neighbors watched him brush and rub, and joked him for a silly dub; he went his way in calm re pose and patronized the poultry shows; he took in every cacklefest, his speck led beauty did the rest, she never failed to cop the prize, and people saw that man was wise: his bank account to thousands grew, he lived in clover and in dew. I hear that adage, old, absurd, that feathers do not make the bird; but many a fowl of good Tntent on plain and honest duty bent has seen the prize pass by her coop because she let her feathers droop; and I ta.ke notice more and more that starch adds figures to the score. The tailor does not make ths man. but be as nifty as you can; brush up your clothes and get a shine, hold up your head and buck the line, mow the alfalfa from your face, walk Ilka a man who sets the pace, keep neat and sweet and clean and wise, and fortune holds for you a prize. Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe (Copyright, 1911. by G. M Adams.) I suppose every one feels better aftet he has "made a fuss" about his wrongs although he gets no redress. I dislike a grouch, but a man who is always smiling, and Insists on telling you "good Jokes," is worse. The few really well balanced men are quickly grabbed up, and given big Jobs When a woman becomes careless, she first shows it in her skirt gaping in the back. When there is a consultation of doc tors, the verdict usual V.- is that th patient Is fatally ill; which the attend ing physician already knew. How tired we all become of beef steak! But what else can we do? Don't abuse your rival; behave better than he does. A second wife usually seems to do batter than a second husband. Let a dog Into-the house three dayr tn succession, and you spoil him. 4