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TITE MOH1XG OREGONIAW, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1911. 10 rOKTL&XV. ORICON. Eataraa! at F trrl land. Oresea. Peetefnee as FKoDi-iikM Mettar. aeecrisuoa Hal lavartaely la Ad IBT MAJL.I rar. aalar tatlBSad. aaa year. .....a" l'a... Suanaa laciudaa. ata maotne.... a. l:-r. Ijniltr Includad. taree snoattae.. a : r ft n n .1 . huriarf a a tn nnt k . . T X't r. witboul Suotla. one aaax. ....... LaJ.y, aithout tua4a. als moaltaa..... a J - 1 r . iinaui pumif, inrtt munu" 1 . . T ViltAoaat Buada Mils BULk.... ! as raar 1 Sa4r. ftt yaa ....... a-ae twaaa aaa Waal. aaa saar. .. .... a.M (IT CABRIElLt rl. Paaday tarladad. aaa yaer..,.,a S auaeev lar.udM. aaa BMtB Hw aTiaili a4 Poaiorsce saeaay erl-r. axpraaa aroar ar paraoaaa ahaea: yaur lacai aaak. Stamp, aala ar corraacr era at tna aaadava rua. Ulva poalof flra aaMrace la ru.i. lae.adma teuttjr and atala. faataaa ILalae le la 14 aaaaa. 1 caal; I a aaaaa. 1 raota: ta ad aaaaa. a aaa la aaaaa. aaa la. rereisa aeiae eoua.a rata t-aeteas Raataaae Oftli VarTa Ca- "a .Saw Tor. 1 raaawlck Bal.alo. C e auiidiDa- Inim Ofnra J. a. a K a aaa I street. Laadaav rOariXA.VDu TVESDAT. NOT. St. Mil. MO JOB FOK OXI MAX. In another column Mr. B. E. Pres ton, asks for certain statistics which v rfTet we are unable to supply. Wt know of oo Oo-vernment figures that .tell the total amount of wealth produced In thU country conal deling wealth to be cot only the product of muacle but of brain aa well. More over, we do not believe that Mr. Free- ton could make any food use of the Harare If ho had them. It would not be possible, without going into a very exhaustive Inquiry. to ascertain whether the laborer In question. If robbed at ail. M robbed by his employer or by those from whom he purchased his necessities, or by both, through freed of pro flu. It might be found that the em ployer made no profit from the labor of this workman. Yet that would not prove that the workman had not been grievously deprived by the merchant from whom he purchased hla chll dren's shoes. 'or could the Inquiry consistently atop at that point. Per haps the merchant made only a fair profit, but the Jobber, or the manu facturer, made an excessive one. Taking up another phase of the rase. Mr. Preston ralcht have some difficulty In determining- whether. In the event someone had made an un Just profit, the workman In the New England shoe factory cr the laborer at $10 per month In whose case he la Interested, was the more grievously "deprived of hla necessities." The Justice of the laborer's com pensation Is not wholly fixe by the number of dollars he receive. nor by the profit hla employer makes from his services. The purchasing power of the wa.ce la a highly impor tant factor. The things that Influ ence the cost of the necessity and hance Influence the purchasing power rt the dollar are numberless. So, a-ln. to take up Mr. Preston's little Journey Into economics: Having reached the New England shoe factory he might find that greed of profits had not deprived any one of a Juat wage so far along the line. But still he would be uncertain. The owner of the steer that supplied the hide, the railroad that hauled the hide to market, the farmer who sold hay to the stockman and on back ward and among remote agencies that contributed to the cost of the shoes might be found one or several "greedy of profits." The family tree of the shoe, traced throngs Its spreading and ramifying branches, would not establish the case of the Pacific Coast laborer. The family history of the laborer's soup meat, of his scanty furniture, of hla fuel, of hla overalls, of his other ne cessities, must be probed. Really. Mr. Preston had better give up farther attempt to solve the prob lem unless he can afford to throw up hla preesnt Job and devote his whole time to the Inquiry. mors iro-rirrAxc"B: ADnri TNa Oregonlan reprints today a let ter from the President of the National Republican Progressive League. Jona than Bourne, addressed to the "Re publican voters of Oregon," advising them of his successful efforts to place the Presidential preference pri mary In a high place among other monuments of the Oregon system and felicitating himself on the spread of the popular Presidential primary to other states. The voters Republican voters are advised to write to Mr. Williams, National committeeman, asking him to unce the primary meth od on the National committee with a view of Its extension to all the states. The letter from the president of the National Progressive League has been printed In various Oregon newspa pers; but we regret to learn that the advice of the distinguished head of the National Progressive Republican League has fallen on stony ground; for National Committeeman Williams informs The Oregonlan that he has received not a single letter from any cltixen on the subject. Possibly the Republicans of Oregon are reluctant to act on the urgent In vitation of Mr. Bourne, though his counsel Is given not as a Senator, but from the exalted eminence of the presidency of the National Republican Progressive League his own, nobody else's league. Thus It would appear that the league president counsels Re publicans as a Republican, which Is Interesting, if not Important. Though to be sure the Bourne definition of a progressive Republican Is of a Repub lican who will not support the Repub lican nominee unless It Is La Follette tor Bourne perhaps). But there are others besides Bourne who will advise National Com mitteeman Williams to do Just what Senator Bourne asks him to do. Among them Is The Oregonlan. The Republican National Committee ought not to stand In the way of any fair and full expression by the voters of any state of their preference for President and Vice-President. If the Republicans of any state are for Taft, their delegation to the National con vention should vote for Taft; If for La Follette. they should vote for La "Toilette. There should be no hocus pocus or flim-flam about It. The ma jority should rule and the Presidential preference primary plainly Intends that It should rule. Not only Mlaeoutiana. but citizens of all other states, will be shown what Oregon produces at the Land Show at Chicago. Many of them should be 4rawa te Oregon and other North western States by this display of the fertility of our virgin soil, especially hould they be attracted at a time when the Eastern States are complaln luf of decreased yield per acre. But 1 Oregon will expect those who come here to do better by her soil than they have done In other states to conserve Its fertility by modern methods of farming, instead of exhausting It. rrsHcro Koonn.i txro the rack. Mr. Norman E. Mack la near the seat of hostilities and may be pre sumed to know a thing or two about the political situation in New York. But If he does, he successfully con ceals his real knowledge by giving out for publication stuff like his recent Interview wherein he said that "Roosevelt Is now an avowed candi date for the Republican nomination. If Mr. Roosevelt has made an avowal of that kind It has escaped the notice of all observers except the astute Mr. Mack. Tet Mr. Mack, as National Democratic Committeeman for New Tork. may be able to see things others cannot see. Evidently he does see things others never see and never will. Mr. Roosevelt's only recent authen tic avowal about the Presidency Is his letter to the Pittsburg editor wherein he discouraged any move ment to secure his nomlnstlon and Insisted that "every friend do everything- In his power to prevent any movement looking toward any agita tion or movement for my nomina tion." "No friend of mine will take Dart In such a movement." further said Colonel Roosevelt. A letter In the Identical language of the Pittsburg letter, or In very slml- lar language. Is said to have been re- ceived recently by an editor in Wash ington State. Mr. Mack's fanciee grow from hla desires A Roosevelt boom under Mack auspices will get no farther than the famous second-electlve-term crusade of 190S under other auspices nus ixn crt for more. The taxpayer will squirm when he reads the Mayor's budget. But what Is he going to do about It? The pub lic, which pays the taxes. Insists on a higher plane of living for the city. The cost of living to the average family Is 60 per cent higher than It was ten years sgo. The ranuiy cannot gei along with less than it has. It Is the age of the silk, hat and the automo bile, the Paris gown and the theater, the dress suit for all the bovs and the JJ-per-hour music teacher for all the girls. Somebody has to pay. In the family It la the wage-earner; In the city It Is the taxpayer. The annual budget for Portland ag gregates 2. 420, 725 somewhat more than last year, but not so much as next year's is likely to be. It is a large sum, too large. But the respon sibility does not rest primarily with the Mayor or the City Council. It Is with the public, which "rill not be content with less and Insists on more and more and will Insist on more and more till the day of reckoning. The budget represents, besides the necessaries, the fads and frills and fancies of up-to-date municipal ad' ministration. There are not bridges enough, and we vote bonds for more; there are too many private docks, and we vote bonds for municipal docks; the old schoolhouses are not sightly or convenient, and we build of stone and brick; the three R's are too primitive. and we add trades schools, sowing, singing, art. cooking and a hundred other novelties to the overweighted curriculum; the old Courthouse Is an tiquated and cramped, so we tear it down and build a new one; the the aters are not large or numerous or handsome enough, and we set out to ret an auditorium. Ths streets are dusty and muddy, and we pave them and then pay IJOO.000 annually to keep them clean and In repair. These things are not all chargeable to the city's budget. Indeed, but they are the things which the taxpayer In one form or another of tax pays for. Besides, we must have more police. more Bremen, more Drass-mounted (Ire apparatus, more nice-looking fl re houses, more employes at high sal aries, and more and more of a hun red other things, some indispensable. others not. but all costly. Thus taxes go up with our scale of living. We are not willing to practice self-denial and keep them down. lXSOX FROM FtTTAXXCT TAIXET. The Oregonlan la indebted to the Gazette-Times, of Corvallls, for th' outline of an address delivered in that Ity last week by Mr. W. H. Paulha mus. of Sumner. Wash, In which are Iven some truths that should cause many communities to listen and heed. Adverting to the efforts being made by various sections to secure manu facturing plants through the giving of bonuses. In some cases equaling the payroll of the promised factory for a year or more, perhaps also the dona tion of a valuable site, Mr. Paulhamus made the terse statements that i should remember that we are living in an agricultural country par excel lence; that our attention should be turned to Intensive farming and co-op eration In marketing the products. He cited the case of the Puyallup Valley. In Washington, aa an example of what can be done by Intelligent team work. That Is what co-opcra- Won really is. There the Puyallup A Sumner Fruitgrowers Association has o perfected Its organization as to em brace practically all of the growers In that section, the membership now be ing ove- 00. This association hi been conducted so skillfully and so successfully that the amount paid to the transportation companies for freight on the shipment of the mem bers products amounts to 1100 per acre per annum. The association, says Mr. Paulhamus, "handles all the fruit of the members, grades the fruit, ships the fresh fruit that will stand shipping and for which there Is, a mar. ket. and cans all the remainder. All aprlea. pears, plums, etc., that fall from the trees are used, and the fruit grower gets all the profit." The organization has been In exist ence but a few years, but the Increase in the fruit shipments of the valley have gone from S0O0 crates per year to 372.000 crates, and shipments are still Increasing. These are Indeed startling figures, figures that should cause every fruit-producing section In the Northwest to ponder. Yet the fur- ther fact Is given that in the mean time the price has gone from the for mer average of 75 rents per crate to S1.S0 per crate. Forty carloads of raspberries were sold this year at 11.7$ per crate. Surely such figures, given by a gentleman as marked for his conservatism as he Is for his intel ligence, should awaken our fruit growers, particularly In this favored Willamette Valley, to Immediate ac tion. We all know what the applegrowers hare accomplished by united action. It Is a certainty that If we were mar- keting our apples now as we were twenty-live yearg ago the Oregon apple would have no standing in the markets of the world. We would still be packing them In barrels, with the best specimens on top, each grower trying to get his neighbor's customers by underselling him, and the prices would stay somewhere about 12 per barrel In place of f 1 a box. But our agriculturists have over looked the fact that organisation, co operation and intelligent leadership are Just aa Important In marketing our other products as In marketing our apples. However, it is hoped the state ments made by Mr. Paulhamus will be the means of causing an awaken ing all over this Western country, to the end that we may emerge from the old. every-man-for-hlmself-an,d-tho-devll-take-the-hlndmost system to twentieth-century methods; that we may forget the stagecoach days and remember that we are living In an age of Big Business. The agricultural business dwarfs all others; then why should It not be han dled as Intelligently as the other great Industries? Mr. Paulhamus and a few other such leaders will assist mightily In bringing about systematic efforts to that end. POT BUOTS BT CONVICTS. When the parole and pardon policy of our emotional Governor goes wrong and he becomes the target for criticism. It Is but human nature I just weak human nature for him to I attempt to shield himself by suppress- Ing news of the misdeeds of his honor men. But how about the good citi zens among whom these truant honor men have been turned loose T Have they not a right to be shielded from the bullet and bludgeons of the hon or men? Has It come to the pass that one of the Incidents of life In and around Oregon's capital Is to have roving convicts take pot shots at one In the dark? Such Incidents are thrill ing, but most of us would rather be spared the thrills If the Oovernor must persist In his sentimental policy of managing con victs he should be frank enough to confess his occasional errors of Judg ment In releasing the wrong men. such as Sam uroger. "consiaerea one oi the most desperate among the honor men at the School for Feeble-MInded," as the news reports describe him. While this would be mortifying to the Governor, it would give the citizens warning to look out for men in am bush. The citizens might Indeed catch one of the fugitives occasionally and put him back where he should be. The visit of Gipsy 8mlth has made these dnys for searching the heart. Let the Governor search his heart and commune with his conscience. It may tell him that the only right course for him to pursue when one of his honor men goes wrong is to proclaim the fact and give unoffending cltl- cena a chance for their Uvea ME.MAL IIHALJMO. In its November number the Amer ican Journal of Clinical Medicine re prints with ardent approbation one of Mr. Brisbane's editorials upon the art and science of medicine. This de liverance of the distinguished essay ist was published originally In the Chicago American and was in reply to Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who had at tacked with her usual vim and vigor the entire profession of medicine and 11 its orthodox practitioners. The uninitiated observer might wonder at the spectacle of two editors as emi nent as Mr. Brisbane and Ella Wheel er Wilcox hurling Inky thunderbolts st each other on the same page of the newspaper to which they both contribute, but In the Hearst periodi cals wonders are too common to ex cite much comment. As a rule Ella Wheeler Wilcox poetry Is better than her prose and her silence is preferable to either, but on this occasion she was uncommonly Wllcoxy, If one may coin a milder synonym for smy. Regarding sur gery, she said that "probably not more than one operation In a hunded Is an Imperative necessity." Old school practitioners will fall more and more into the background, she pre dicted, and "mental and nature heal ers will Increase." According to her opinion, "In 100 years thought will be the acknowledged power used by all reputable physicians to cure and heal humanity." It often escapes ths notice of en thusiasts like Mrs. Wilcox that all reputable physicians" rely upon thought now as an acknowledged power to cure and heal humanity. When a certain young man asked Sir Joshua Reynolds what he mixed his points with the artist replied "With brains." He meant that he used thought as an acknowledged power to make good pictures. The doctor who falls to mix his medicines with brains will certainly come to grief In these times, whatever may have been his fortune in other days. But very likely the kind of thought" which Mrs. Wlloox believes In is not the kind which one common ly associates with brains. Far other wise. The "thought" which, accord ing to her prediction. Is to heal the world In the dawning centuries Is of the variety which the medicine man of the Skowhegan Indians relies upon In his Incantations. It Is one-half su perstition and the other half impos ture. It is Interwoven with ritualistic dances, the pouring of oil. the laying, on of consecrated hands and a hun dred other ceremonies designed to comfort the simple. While there Is some value in modern systems of mental healing, thought therapeutics and so on. Just as there -was some value In the Incantations of the medi cine men of the Potawatomlea, it Is none the less true that they are all more or less Intimately allied to Itchcraft. They walk so near the edge of that dangerous precipice that It needs only a gentle push to send them over. Hence, even If thought healing with Its congeners were much more valu able than It is, sensible people would be chary of encouraging It. There are drugs whose curative properties are extremely potent, but at the same time they are bo dangerous that phy sicians dislike to administer them. Arsenic Is such a drug. Morphine Is another. In our opinion the power of the mind over the body la a remedial agent which ought to be treated like arsenic and morphine. Valuable In Its place and under proper precau tions It Is so liable to abuse and so full of hlddan perils that laymen should beware of trying to apply It without wise medical advice. We do not agree with Mr. Bris bane's dictum that "modern mental healers can cure any disease you haven't got" and no others. They can cure a great many real maladies. Just as arsenic will relieve some serious bodily troubles, but the dangers con nected with the application of thought In Mrs. Wilcox" sense of it to therapeutic uses are so grave that upon the whole they seem fairly to outbalance the benefits. It Is unfor tunate that this agency should ever have been spoken of as "thought-" In reality It la a sort of emotional ex citement which seems to be more or less capable of transmission from one person to another. Some have mis takenly called It "will power," but it has nothing to do with volition. In Its original and savage form the art of medicine consisted entirely of "mental healing." The medicine man never dreamed of administering drugs. He relied entirely upon . in cantations, prayer and the like. With the development of civilization the use of these agencies has declined and physicians have come to rely more and more upon material means. This is r rallel with the development of civilization In other directions. A lit tle reflection will convince anybody that in the last few centuries our re Uanoe upon all sorts of occult powers has declined while we trust more and roots to material Inventions informed with Intelligent thought. We do not believe that mental healing Is des tined to supplant material agencies In the next hundred years or In ten thousand years. On the contrary the progress of evolution teaches us that occult devices of all sorts will be abandoned and that scientific pro cesses will be substituted for them. Emotion will be used therapeutically In its proper place, but it will be un der scientific control. No doubt speculations of this sort about the medicine of the future are pretty nearly superfluous. The great est triumphs of science have been In the direction of preventing disease. not curing It, and this process will go on until such a thing as a sick man will be seldom heard of. More effec tive than either "thought" or drugs for the elimination of disease from the world Is the betterment of the social conditions which entail disease. Tammany Is not friendly to Wood row Wilson, which may or may not be surprising. But Tammany Is not the wholo Democratic party In New York. There is Hearst. Doubtless Hearst ought to be for whomsoever or what soever Tammany 1s against. But he is not. The New York American re cently had this: ta New Jersey ths aetbaek to Oorernor Wlleon waa due In rmrt. parhapa. to the faot that ha la a fudden convert to pro areaalre policies advanced by othera for many yaara without hla axpreaaed sympathy or publlo aid. In aome quarters he has ralaed doubta. whloh tlma may remove, of hla entire alncerity, and In othera fears that ha la unsafe. The Wilson boom Is having rough sledding In the extreme East where the votes are. The Puget Sound country Is af flicted with a storm and flood such as that which has put the Seattle water system out of oommlsslon frequently, In fact, nature may be said to have a fixed programme for the third week in November. Heavy snow in the mountains la followed by a Chinook with a warm, heavy rain. As the melted snow and the rain water both try to crowd into the rivers at the same time and as there is barely room for one of them, some of the water la crowded over the banks. The evil may be aggravated by the gradual stripping of the timber from the mountains. Professor Woodman's remarks upon sugar as an article of diet ought to Interest temperance reformers. He says that It Is the most available source of energy we have, and It is so rapidly assimilated by -the body that It acts as a positive stimulant. Why not give sugar to cure the craving for drink? Men who do not use liquor are said to be fond of sweets as a rule. Sugar provides the same heat-generating element as whisky and does It harmlessly. Mrs. Hetty Green, of Wall street, is perennially young. Age cannot wither her nor dollar-grabbing stale.' Sua cessful financiers are apt to live to a good old age, but not so apt as philos ophers and preachers. Mental work ers outlive men who use their muscles severely. The best preventive of pre mature senility Is Judicious Idleness alternating with the work you like. An Invalid who loves his daily Job will last longer than an athlete who hates it. It is sad that the exquisite Dr. Ly man should not be allowed to gratify his luxurious tastes in his cell nor en Joy the Improving society of his fellow-prisoners. But Dr. Lyman has shown such hypnotic power over other men and such facility in breaking from restraint that he can hardly wonder at the caution of his guar dians. It Is really a tribute to his wonderful powers, hence a compliment which should please the doctor. When floods cut off Puget Sound from the East by way of the railroads across the Cascade Mountains, it Is very convenient to have the North Bank road through the Portland gate way open. It is always open, floods or no floods. It is even better than a water-level route, for, though it fol lows the water route through the mountains. It Is far enough above the water to be out of danger of floods. In calling a meeting and Inviting the public to attend . tomorrow night to discuss corporal punishment, the School Board la catering to whimsical protest. Every parent knows school children should be whipped other people's children, of course. One thousand signed the pledges at Gipsy Smith's Sunday meeting and the "collections totaled $1000. In the old days salvation was said to be free, but now a better brand deserves the slight cost- Does It speak well for civilization that the first outward signs of It evi denced by Ishl, "the uncontamlnated man. are ruty-one pounus oi rai ana I the clsrarette habit? I Those bachelors up in Lake County think they are yearning for wives when it is cooks they need. Now that the hold-up season has begun, there will be demand for dol lar watches. Somebody la due to be trussed. Re lations are ruptured between Russia and Persia Once more people must pass through Portland to get anywhere. The undertaker Is a long way ahead , of the stork In France J SENATOR BOtTRXCS ADVICE. Wants Republicans te Write 'to Na tional Committeeman Williams. Jonathan Bourne as president of the National Republican Progressive League, has audressed the following letter to the Republicans of Oregon: "In the Spring of 1910 I proposed, and at the following November election the voters of the state enacted a Presi dential preference law permitting the voters in direct primaries to express their choice. for party oandidates for President and Vlce-Presldent- "Thls law has since been enacted In Wisconsin. North Dakota. Nebraska and New Jersey, and will certainly be enacted In other states at the next session of their legislatures. Thus it is hoped the steamroller method of nominating candidates will be de stroyed and the voters given opportu nity to say whom they desire as party "However, until such laws have been However, until such laws have been generally enacted. It is desirable that this feature of the Oregon system do established by custom in other states. With this end In view L as president of the National Progressive Republi can League, recently addressed a letter to eaoh member of the Republican Na tional Committee asking him, at the meeting to be held In Washington in December, to support a resolution urg lnr all state committees, wherever nratlcabla. to order Presidential prl marles held. To this letter I have had numerous responses but thus far none from the Ore iron member or tne com mlttee, Hon. Ralph Williams of Dallas. "Mr. Williams, as member ot tne na tlonal Committee from Oregon, Is I servant of the oarty and not Its master. It Is his duty to carry out the wishes of the members of the party so far as he can ascertain them. I believe that an overwhelming majority of Oregon Republicans believe In the Oregon avatem and earnestly desire Its ex tension to other states. "Therefore, I respectfully suggest that Republicans throughout the state write Mr. Williams, expressing their desire that as a member of the National torn mlttee he urge the adoption of the Oregon plan. of Presidential preference vote In all states where possible. Yours truly. "JONATHAN BOURSE." GOVERNOR CASTS PALL ON CLUB Democrat Desooien Wear a Plea Sherman Law's Repeal. for PORTLAND, Nov. 10. (To the Edi tor. I was nresent at the Jackson Club Friday evening and heard Gover nor West "explain" his Democracy and tell how his appointment of Republi cans to offioe had helped build up the Democratic party and tear aown mo Republican party, all of which was very interesting. His advocacy of Gov ernment ownership of all public utili ties as well as industrial trusts being nenr Democratic doctrine was not ap plauded .except by the slngle-tax-ITRen-Crldge-McAllister-Soclallst con tingent which has little Influence and which merely seeks to break up the n.mocrat a as well as KepuDiicen parties for the purpose of building im the Socialist Darty. where their avmoathles really are and under which banner they will enlist Just as soon as the Socialist party nas a cnanoe o win. The Governor's plea tor tne repeal of the Sherman anti-trust act fell like a pall over the club. Shades of Andrew Jackson I A Governor, elected as a n.nnnni. advocatlnir the repeal of law because It has not been en forced by the opposition party! For n ari everv Democratlo National platform has Insisted on the enforce ment of the Sherman anti-trust act. W. J. Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, Judson Harmon. Champ Clark, Joseph Folk and every Democrat of National fame Insists on the strict en forcement of the anti-trust law to break up the trusts, restore competi tion, disseminate the wealth of the Nation and bring contentment to the masses through reduced cost of living. But Oovernor West Is on the side of the "masses" with J. P. Morgan, Rocke feller. Perkins, the Havemeyers, the Guggenhelms, the Aldrlches, and wants the Sherman anti-trust act repealed. What a spectacle West would make at the Democratlo National convention, arguing with Bryan. Harmon and Wil son for the insertion of a plank asking for the repeal of the anti-trust actl Should we repeal the law in Oregon against murder because our Governor disregards his oath of office and will not enforce It? FRANK T. BERRY, 4 North Sixth street NO GAMBLING TO BE PERMITTED Multnomah Hotel Company Defends Purposes of Down-Town Clnb. PORTLAND, Nov. 18. (To the Edi tor.) The Multnomah Hotel manage ment feels that an Injustice has been done It by the numerous news items appearing that the Down Town Club was being formed and that Its main ohiant and purpose would be gambling and that this club had leased quarters In the Multnomah Hotel Dunamg. The managers of the Multnomah Hotel have lived in roruana own, years some of them being pioneers. The general public knows that gam bling would not be allowed In any hotel whi,-, thpv conduct, but a good many people who are not acquainted with tnem migni moi be nermltted In the hotel and keep away from It accordingly. The Down Town Club has been formed and has Becured an option on nmrMri in the new Multnomah. These quarters will be elegantly finished and furnished for tnis ciuo. iuo purpuoo and objects of the club have been rep resented to the Multnoman manage ment ji belns: that of club life and club comforts for Us membership. The gentlemen who compose tnls oiud are well and favorably known In the city and the writer is positive that gambling la farthest from their thoughts. in any event, gambling will not be al lowed In the Multnomah Hotel, and I believe has never been oontempiatea by the members of this club. MULTNOMAH. HUlLL tuiirAiHi, By Philip Qevurtx, President. CAR MARKINGS PVZZI.B VISITOR. Callfornlan Lauds Numbered Route Sys tem Employed by San Diego Company. PORTLAND, Nov. 17, To the Edi tor) I am a stranger In your beautiful city, having Just come irom Ban Diego. I was here some 30 years ago and am greatly surprised at the change. I cannot say I like the climate as well as our own, but, as an old saying goes. It will do with an onion. Your street cars are much bigger and different from ours, but the way they are maraed is bad. Now. our cars are simply numbered. There Is a lantern on each right-hand on the deck. These lanterns are num- herea l, z. . accurumg ij mo ruuto iuo cars run on. They are lighted nights. 1 nere is card on all street corners which tells the passenger where they run. Each route is so numbered and the car Is numbered to match. The company publishes a leaflet which con tains the full Information and the con ductors will give you one if you ask prettily. Here how different! You want to take a car for Sellwood; you wait for a car; It is night; you see a car coming by getting in the track and waiting until It is almost on to you; you are able to see that the sign says "Brook lyn;" you get back on the sidewalk and swear. Now, If cars were marked our way you could tell what car It was as far as you could see it. nut wnat is the use of talking? If you can stand it. I ou. I am colng home tonight SAN D1EGAN. FARMEH COVETS FEIN ADVANTAGES Educational and Amusement Plans Turn Thoughts to Bank. robbery. MMINNVTT.T.E. Or, Nov. 19. (To the Editor.) The advantages offered and Inducements still being formulated by state officials and others to people to become Inmates of our state prison are becoming so attractive that a number of us here In Yamhill County begin to doubt the wisdom of plodding along at our usual vocations, as 'producers and taxpayers. We have about decided to try and break Into the penitentiary for a few years that we may embrace the educational advantages and opportuni ties for advancement as suggested by Superintendent Alderman and associ ates in the article headed "No Educa tion, No Parole Plan" in The Oregonlan, November 17, provided the same is adopted. We have been too busy of late years In cultivating and improving our farms to devote much time to some of the studies enumerated and have about de cided on taking a course in Mr. James' Institution, provided we can rent our farms out to some of the graduates In the agricultural course from there. It would, of course, be somewhat of an experiment with us at first and be fore enrolling we would want "Os." to agree to let us oft occasionally for a week In Portland or for all time If we do not like the place, and If In order to stop opposition to the school here, we should have to ship out a trunkful or two of old stiffs, would ask that he agree to us having a shorter term, pro vided we do not care for the full course. We also strictly draw the color-lino and If there are any black ones In there would ask that they be turned loose. We would expect to be punished with the up-to-date magazines and a graphophone with the latest records until such a time as we become pro ficient on the piano or get so interested in Shakespeare that we do not care for music. Another matter of Importance, too, we notice that the school Is to be kept up by volunteer work. We are afraid of that plan and would suggest that a measure be brought before the next session of the Legislature to reimburse instructors for services already 'per formed and also to appropriate moijey for future support with the understand ing that a high salaried corps ot teach ers are to be permanently employed. We have about concluded to hold up a train or crack a bank first, and if we make a successful haul and get away of course we shall not need to fit our selves for employment In the future with a course at the James Institution. But should we fail the state will look after our comfort and educate us at the expense of the ones whose money we failed to get In the hold-up. What bet ter Inducement could be offered than this, for us to try our hand? YAMHILLER. ARB OLD IDOLS CAST ASIDE? Mr. Klsaen Thinks Mr. UTlen Is Now Repudiating His Political Gods. PORTLAND, Nov. 20. (To the Edi tor.) Last evening I listened very at tentively to W. 8. U'Ren's address on the "Oregon System." The speaker was Introduced by the Rev. Mr. Eliot, of the Unitarian Church, as a resident of Oregon City, Oregon State and as the "father" of the Oregon system. But most of the time Mr. L"Ren argued against the "system." He spoke In favor of the short ballot. and of appointing publlo officials rather than electing them, whlcn would result in getting better men Into office. He urged the advisability of fixing full responsibility on a few men, and then giving them power sufficient to enable them to render good ana emcieni serv ice. This plan is to be highly com mended, for Is it not manifestly far better to have a few certain indivi duals, rather than the people, held responsible for the conduct of public officers? But Is this in Harmony wnn the Oregon system? Mr. U'Ren said that the "best" men should be elected to the Legislature. I most heartily agree with him. But does he for one moment thinK that the best" men will be sont to the Legisla ture under the Oregon system? No never. When the speaker asked for ques tions I asked him If the initiative and referendum would be needed when the best" men were sent to the Legisla ture. He answered that they would be needed, but only rarely. Illustrating, he said: "It's a good thing for a man to have a weapon In his house, though he may not need it once In 40 years." But where there Is no danger for there would not be any with the "best" men in tne legislature wnai is wie need of weapons? At the beginning or his talK Mr. TJPRen argued for "responsibility and power, but if he would have the Ini tiative and referendum hanging over the heads of the Legislators like an ax. the resun wouia do irresponsi bility, and an utter lack or power. When the time does come in Ore gon wnen tne nigneai ijp oi man hood. Intellectually as well as morally. Is sent to the Legislature, the "Oreson system will be no more, out Oerore men of that cnaracter ana caiiDer meet at Salem. It will be necessary for Oregon to wake up to the realization that republican form of government Is far superior to the radical form now in vogue. GUSTAV BLAINE NISSEN. CITIZEN WOULD PROBE THE CASE Mr. Preston Would Dlacover Wbether Contentment In Poverty la Juatlfled. . PORTLAND, Or.. Nov. lo.(To the Editor.) I was much Interested In an editorial in The Oregonlan November 14 entitled "Contentment in Poverty." I also saw the statement In another newspaper that "of 850,000 adult males employed In the leading Industries In Massachusetts In 1908" (and I don't suppose conditions have Improved any since then) "one-third received less than 1460 a year." That is a fraction over $8.84 per wk. So this Aberdeen sawmill hand Is not the only case, but his name Is legion. Now, there are no doubt many men today who are ac counted wealthy, who practiced Just as rigid economy as that spoken of by this man, in order to get their start. But It Is impossible for all men to ac quire wealth, even though they were endowed with the same business ability. So that If a man looks at the matter In a sensible manner perhaps he would sooner rorego nis cnance oi Bi""B wealthy and have some butter spread on his bread occasionally and change off the soup bone lor sometning wun a little substantial meat on It after cooking. However, It seems that this condi tion Is not one of choice with this man, but is forced upon him by circum stances over which he has no control. Now, I should like to ask a question or two, and hope The Oreponian will in a spirit of fairness print both this letter and the answers to the questions. 1. Does labor produce all wealth? 2 Does the Labor Commissioner at Washington, D. C, print or give out in statlstlces the total amount of wealth produced in this country in a given time, or period? 3. Does the Labor Commissioner oHtr'a out In statistics the total number of men engaged In the production of wealth spoken or in question z I What I should like to know Is the average amount of wealth produced per month, per man. In order to make com parisons between this man's J40 per month received as wages and amount of wealth produced by him per month. Anyone could tell, then, whether he was being deprived of his necessities by greed of profits or not B. E. PRESTON, 401 West Park Street. Nitts on Power of Prayer By Olaf Gunatvelt. (With apologies to Dean Collins.) Nesoius Nitts, of Punklndorf Station, Whose death, when it comes, will hang crepe on the Nation And ruin the plug trust beyond rep aration And fill all the Insects with Joy and elation. Bit out of his chew slab the regular ration And spat on the 'roach and began this relation: I 'members one Fall when the mist was so thick It made even the oldest of webfooters sick. It hindered the harvest of hops and pertaters And busted the skins of the prunes and termaters. The mossbacks was kicking and cuss ing becoss Their Fall hatch of nits was a teetotal loss. Then, one day, there pranced Into Punklndorf Station A party that fired us with hopes of salvation Our hearts that was dripping and drenched was uplifted Becoss the man said he was that away gifted His wish brought the sunshine and till he should call On the Lord to permit It no rain wouldn't fall. Well, we made no bones 'bout It but 'lowed to this party Who said he was Welsh though his name was McArty: ' Make yourself right to hum ' here In Punklndorf Station, We'll treat youl like you was a rich old relation. We'll give you for breakfust our doubl yolked eggs And for dinner our chicks with the yallerest legs. But the prayer sharp said no, he was called for to go Down south where there warn't no rainfall or snow. He was sorry he said, he loved Punkln dorf Station 'Twas the homelikest spot in the hull of creation. But a voice in his ln'ards was pulling and warning; He could tarry no more, he must leave in the morning. It was then that SI Perkins, our Sheriff, took holt. And I tell ye old SI was no manner of dolt; Said he to this party whose name was McArty, "You're needed right here and you stays here, my hearty. Leastways till the Fall chores are over and done You, stays and you prays for the shine of the sun. Til put you In Jail so tWa voioe that you say Is pulling and hauling cant pull you away. Jest so you won't loaf on the Job, but take pains. You eats when It shines and you starves when It rains." Well, the sunshlhe chap bluffed and blew up quite a lot. But SI had a mind that was mulish and sot. I don't Jest recall what sum Punkln dorf Station Paid out for Mao's keep on that Joyous occasion. How often he eat I now quite disrera ember. But when Si let him out sometime 'long in December I shore recollect he was thin as a shadder; And mad as a hornet he was, only madder. OLAF GUNSTVEIT. Portland, November 19. Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe Bloodhounds have never prit down, and for that run a oul reason my curiosity has never been satisfied. If bloodhounds should actualy catch the man they are chasing, would they eat him, or would they sit on him, and hold him down until the Sheriff came up? No one person In a thousand can be come familiar with another without showing impudence. A woman with sis chddren was a The oldest and paeenger on a train. worst one was about nine, and all were crying. The woman was plainly losing her temper, and had slapped several of them. The train boy approached her with an armful of books. "Madam," he said, "wouldn't you like a good novel with which to pass away your idle timeT" The woman looked at him In dignantly, and said: "If you don't go on away from here, I'll slap you." No wonder a man worries; he has so much to worry about. There are the foolish things he does; he worries about these almost as much as he worries about the wise things he has neglected to do. Don't get into a narrow rut. There is a broad road where traveling is eas ier, and where you can do more for yourself and others. What has become of the old-fashioned patent right man who used to come round to sell "territory," and who had trouble in getting his victim's wife to sign the deed? A country town Is compelled to fight for everything It has, and then fight to keep It. When yon were little, do you remem ber you wanted something for your very own? And don't yqu feel that way, occasionally, now that you are grown? After a man and his wife fuss about so much, people lose Interest In the quarrel. WHAT DELEGATE'S OATH MEANS 3Ir. U'Ren Tells How Far He Should Go in Supporting; Presidential Choice. OREGON CITY, Nov. 20. (To the Tviitnr. As to tho obligation of a delegate elected under the Presidential primary law, I fully agree with Presi dent Selling and other members of the People's Power League who drew and presented that bill to the people. A delegate Is In honor bound by his elec tion and oath of office to aid the nomi nation of the candidate for his party nomination who receives the highest number of votes at the primary elec tion. He is In honor bound to continue this support in the convention so long as that candidate is in the race for the nomination. Under the proportional representa tion plan every faction equal to one tenth of the party will be fairly repre sented by delegates of Its own choice and election. Thus the voice of the progressives and standpatters will be fairly heard In preparing the platform on which the party candidate must go before the people. The primary pur pose asd theory In the election of dele gates and representatives to any con vention or legislature is that the mem bers are to represent constituents. This law will certainly secure that result in the election of delegates, and the au thors believe It Is altogether likely that the delegates so chosen will also fairly represent the different sections of the state. W. S. tTREN.