m TTTT STOItNTXG OHEGOXIAN. THURSDAY, FEBRUAItY 15, 1912. 10 (Ditxnmtan rOKTLAXTJ. OKEOOM. Kstrd at portend. Or. PotofTlc M Kad tm Mltr. latKtvuoa fcic InvartaMy W Advasos. (BI MAll.) rrr. aar tneldd. o" Tr. " t'mf.f. Funriar lnelud-4. l mol. I'i:y. uolT Ini-ludwl. lhr ""'" J? I-1.T. SariiJmT liluJ-i. "ll...i !? w'.cnout fundtr. r. J-Y Iwilr. without Bund. mootna. . .. tiir. wiiboo unir. tar mootaa.. I'aiiv. without Sunday. ! soia . . . . "J wilr. yr i w fcoadftr. an ir... tu4r sua w..k.jr. on yr w BT CARB1ER.) rttv. SurMay lnclo1l on year J? tlly. lundiT Included. OM month...... Hew Kll Send Poet office r. esrreea iMtr or pereooel check lcl bank. stamp cola or currency. ,rT at the a.tisra rt.a. r.ia pefffc nddrees la full. Inrladins coanty and atata. hMut Hana It to 1 ! east I I" 21 (.. 1 carta: to ' P- 44 ta .) pa.a. 4 cents. Forel.a aaal Saubie rata. . Caatora Baetaaea Owlraa Terra Conk II o New Tort. Xnuilcl oalldles- t-nl-tf. aier euilduis fcaree. . OSkce Ne. street. S. W LdA. rOHTLAXD. TMVR.HDAT. ITB- . !' mowopolt is i-ir or trcsts. . There la point beyond which it la Impossible for a great trade combina tion, commonly called a trout, to suc ceed unless It hss the power of mo nopoly. This opinion was expressed by Louis D. Brandels at the Inquiry held by the Senata committee on In terstate commerce. Ite stated that tha success or failure of an enterprise depends upon on man, who must baa his Judgment on knowledge of facts. There, la a limit to the extent to which he can secure and retain this knowledge, as well as to the op portunity for exercise of his Judgment. Mr. Brandels backed up his opinion with a list of trusts erhlch. lacking the ability to control prices, have laiiea. He ends evidence of their failure in the market quotation of their common stock and In the fact that some of their stocks are not quoted at all. Success depends upon the power of one man at tha head of an Industry to iwatch every detail and to see that every man and erery piece of machin ery under his direction are working- to their full efficiency. If one man at tempts to combine under his direction a dozen plants at different places, he rannot personally watch these details nd must delegate power to subordi nate. -Js'oee of these subordinates can be expected to work with the same single eye to the success of his plans ss he does, nor can they perform their work exactly as he would hare It dona. Hence each delegation of power brings a loss of efficiency. The one great Incentive to efficiency Is the necessity of outdoing one's com petitor In the cheapness of production and excellence of the product. Just In proportion as an Industry grows be yond the capacity of one man to keep everything under his eye. Its power to beat down competition by the sheer weight of money Is Increased. Its In centive to efficiency Is diminished, and efficiency, which Includes economy. Is also lowered. Thus It may be that a combination which lacks the power of monopoly may yet be so large, as to lose In efficiency what It gains In econ omy. Its smaller competitors, through the closer attention which their heads give to detail, may be able to produce a better article at a lower price. Mod ern means of production, transporta tion and communication have certain ly Increased tha six of the business unit which one man can successfully manage In fair competition, but there Is a limit to that Increase. A combination which thus finds It self outdone by smaller competitors naturally seeks to escape the conse quence, not by removing the cause which la Its own Inefficiency due to ex cessive size but by removing tha competition which imposes the pen alty for these shortcomings. This It does either by buying up the com petitors or by using Its enormous money power to exterminate them and by creating a monopoly, whereby It ran force the consumer to pay for Its waste. The necessary conclusion Is that, when Industrial and trade combina tions grow beyond the directing power of on man. and prove successful, their success Is due less to any Increased efficiency than to their monopolistic power. If they lose control of the In dustry, their only hope of survival la an agreement with their competitors to maintain prices. Tha outlook for return to reason ably competitive conditions Is there fore good. A combination too Urge to succeed under such conditions can not survive except In the hothouse of monopoly, and the Government Is bus ily smashing that hothouse with tha c lub of tha Sherman law. The com - hlnations which, though too large for success on their merits, are not sub ject to assault under that law, will perish of their own unwleldlness. TALUS- OF PROOflESS. Woo d row Wilson's speech at the Iro quois Club In Chicago consisted mainly of a restatement of generally recog nised truths. He did not name a sin gle needed reform which President Taft Is not already carrying out. so far s tha Democratic party will allow him. Dr. Wilson say "something must be done to stop the tyranny of special privilege." President Taft la already doing this by enforcement of tha anti trust and Interstate commerce laws, and asks power to do It mora thor oughly by means of Federal supervi sion of corporations from the data of their organization. He has devised a plan of scientific revision of the tariff, by which "the tyranny of special privi lege" can be abolished without injury to any legitimate Interest, but Gover nor Wilson's party associates refuse to put It In operation. The Republican party la sadly broken: it has lost Its way." says Wil son. It has been divided, but not broken, and Is fast becoming reunited. A few of Its members have lost their way. but they Are finding It SLgaln. and It leads back Into the Republican fold. The Democratic party has mora need .f Wilson's tender ministrations In healing the grievous breach between the Pryan and Underwood factions "We look to the young; men to tiring about these reforms by the application of 'progressive' principles." Is another ef Dr. Wilson's wise remarks. Why, ,Taft is already applying progressiva principles and would apply them mora vigorously and more extensively If tha Democrats did not block tha track. Tha roung men recognize this fact and are flocking to his support. While Wilson and his like talk vaguely of progress, Taft is actually making 'progress, and tha only reason for his not making mora Is that these mm who talk of progress In Indefinite terms obstruct his work. Whenever these praters of progress get down to partic ulars. we And that Taft Is doing or try ing to do the very things they say should be dona and that they are standing in the way. But they are chary of definitions, lest they either ex pose their weakness or give an unin tentional Indorsement to their oppo nents. TIUT rTUOKMAGXi TO SAXES. Tha -eomralttae- will try ta knock ost tho Praald.ntlai prtmarloa. Tha Pr"' f Mr. Taft should bo to ba aaad. sot frora tha tool Orvgoa lawa. hot from Bla loo Orsoa rnaada. Portland Journal. This little fling Is directed at tha committee sent by tha Republican State Central Committee to Salem to Investigate the legal status of that sec tion of tha Presidential primary pref erence law which limits the choice of tha voter to on delegate to the Na tional convention, and to one candidate i .rf i.i rinrtor. Tha same - intfh er,m, Raiem arhlch I v. 'states the facts fairly enough, but. the headline boldly raisines tne piain read ing of the news Item so as to make It appear that an "attack Is made on the Oregon method of choosing the Presi dent." There is. and there should be. no at tack on the Presidential preference primary law: there is no sentiment supporting any effort or desire to evade Its clear and proper Intent. Tha Re publican Slate Central Committee, elected under tha terma of the direct primary law, raises the question as to whether It may not be possible for each elector to vote for the full com plement of convention delegates to be elected under the Presidential prefer ence law. and the full set of five candi dates for elector. That Is all. It would appear to be desirable to ascer tain now whether this very strict and unprecedented limitation upon tha osualfprtvlleges of a voter Is valid. Does our urbane contemporary, which Is haunted by the ghost of the dead-and-burled assembly, think that a political managing committee, elect ed In accordance with law, should be denied the right to refer any question about which it is in doubt to tha Su preme Court? KIR-IL ntW OF ROAD MOVEMEVT. The statement that everybody Is in favor of good roads is becoming a trite renfark. It has lost none of Its truth, however, as a result of excited charges that ha who opposes those particular road bills known as the state-wide high finance schema Is blocking highway Improvement and general state progress. They who are attempting to place the stigma of road opponent upon The Oregonlsn because It refuses to Indorse a schema that is a raw imposition upon one-third of the state's taxpayers and contem plates a one-man-power political ma chine backed by $40,000,000 are sim ilarly accusing the Stat Grange and undoubtedly a majority of the voters of Oregon. The slight chance that the state wide bills have of success at the polls Is perhaps not apparent to the ordi nary city voter, or particularly to him who Is also blind to the Inequalities of the measures themselves. It ought to be plain, however, to those lead ers among the good roads advocates who spent weary days st Salem last Winter seeking to adjust differences before the Legislature. A widespread belief exists throughout the state that the movement for good roads so far as It emanatt-a from Portland is con ceived and nurtured by automobile owners and dealers, who want smooth speedways or trunk highways for touring purposes built throughout the country at state expense. This belief has been openly expressed. It per vades every hamlet and crossroads. It Is held to the point of bitterness by every farmer who has ever been crowded Into the ditch by a roaring, dust-ralslng. scorching motor vehicle. Because of this feeling alone, the country will not consent to the plac ing of absolute roadbulldlng power in tha hands of a state officer. The counties demand the right to say where roads shall be built. They pro pose to reserve the power to build them for the chief purpose of getting produce to market. They will go down the line on this particular. There Is no doubt about It. The two bills offered by the'State Grange are worth considering. These bills create the office of State High way Engineer, but he la to be only an advisory officer In actual roadbulldlng. The place of beginning and place of ending of each road, the amount of money to be expended and the kind of material to be used thereon are to be determined at a conference of dele gates representing each road district In the county. State aid is not con templated. Each county may bond If it sees fit. but the voter, when he casts his ballot for or against a county bond Issue, will know exactly where and how the road bond proceeds are to be expended. He will also know that under the safeguards of the act a road cannot bo permanently Improved with bond money unless It begins at a mar. kct place or connects with a road al ready permanently improved leading thereto. This brief review undoubt edly gives an epitome of rural senti ment on the road question. The Orange has also adopted a pol icy that the state-wide commission and every other proponent of initia tive law might well copy. Tha Grange bills are published before they are cir. culated for signatures. Perusal, dis cussion and suggestion are Invited. The purposa Is to correct faults or omissions before the bills go before the voters. The opposite attitude dis played by the st Ate-wide commission Invites the defeat of Its six measures. Tha bills have been hustled into the streets for signatures. They are pre sented as the perfect product of mas ter minds on legislation and road bulldlng. Suggestions are not want ed. Pointing out of faults brings upon the head of him who is thus venture some the charge that he Is an enemy of good roads This course of tha chief supporters of the high-finance political-machine road bills gives sup port to the country's charge that tha campaign b for a concealed purpose. Naturally, visions of auto trunk lines and speedways built at his expense ap pear before the eyes of the farmer. The Oregonlan Is not asserting that automobiles are the chief considera tion of the Portland highway advo cates, but it Is pointing out that an attempt to "bull through" a measure accentuates its weakness and gives strength to suspicion directed against it and Its promoters It ought to be possible for all true friends of permanent highways to agree upon workable measures, but a settlement will not b brought about by an academic discussion of the value of roads nor encouraged by a spirit of take-thls-or-nothlng. Let us hear from the state-wide committee some logical reason for taxing Multnomah County 117,000.000 more than It re ceives for roads or for making the Governor highway dictator and Indi vidual dlflburser of $40,000,000. Let us hear what Is wrong with tha Grange bills. Let us try to get some thing for the good of the whole people out of this unanimous sentiment for good, roads. AX LVrENDOiO COOTTTJCT. Some persons now on earth may live to witness a struggle for existence be tween Latin and Greek in our colleges. Both, languagea cannot be taught to most students. An Increasing number will have neither. In ordinary cases on must be chosen and tha other dropped. Which shall bo the lucky language? Greek is a more beautiful tongue than Latin. Its vocabulary la richer and Its literature Incomparably greater. Moreover, most of our Ideas on science and philosophy are derived from Plato and his countrymen, while the elementary concepts of our creeds can be traced back to the same sources. Modern life Is a continuation of Greek life when we come to ana lyze It. Stlll. we did not get these valuable ideas from Athens directly. They came to ua by way of Rome and they were conveyed by means of the Latin lan guage. That tongue la the Immediate source of our Inspiration. Its treas ure were for tho most part borrowed but we received them from the bailee and not from the original owner. So far as mere gratitude Is con cerned, therefore. It Is difficult to de cide whether we owe most to Greek or Latin. Our obligations to both lan guages are sufficiently heavy, and in forsaking either we can hardly hope to escape the charge of unthankfulness. But ther Is not time to learn both In school and college. One must be sac rificed to the god of haste. No doubt Greek will be the one to suffer. It Is commonly supposed to be more diffi cult than,Lat!n, though that Is a fal lacy. Probably the decisive fact will prove to be that Latin has so woven Itself Into the structure of our litera ture and thought that we feel nearer to It than we do to Greek It seems to b Indispensable in spite of the fact that a great many estimable people manage to live very comfortably with out it. The suggestion has been made that the colleges provide classes In begin ning Greek as they do in Hebrew and Sanscrit. This appears sensible. A partial sacrifice of dignity may be In volved, but better lose some of our dignity than all our. Greek. MKMORT OF GREENBACK DAYS. Only his death could remind the majority of the present generation that General James B. Weaver ever lived. To men of middle life he was & mem ory of the days of Greenbacklsm and Populism. That Is the fate of the man who becomes dubbed a crank through championship of fads and fallacies. His quondam followers, having gen erally recovered their sanity, ar ashamed of ever having followed him. Those who once scorned him recall him with passing pity and give him credit for being honest In his errors. But Weaver in his Urn filled a large place In the public eye. Having only begun practice as a lawyer when the Civil War broke out, he served with credit in an Iowa regiment, of which he became Colonel and was brevetted Brigadier-General. Ho held minor of fices under Republican administrations until he was seized by the flat money delusion and began teaching that the Government need only print on a piece of paper the statement that it was worth a certain sum of money, and it, by that fact, became worth that sum. He gained so large a following in Iowa as to be elected to Congress as a Greenbacker In 1S7S and to ba nomi nated by the Greenback party for President in 1880, when he received 308,678 votes. He reappeared In 1892 as candidate of the People's Party, which embodied the same elements and represented the same theories as the Greenbacker with some additions. To flat money were added the free and unlimited coinage of silver, abolition of National banks. Government loans to farmers. Government ownership of railroads and telegraphs. Income tax, direct election of United States Sena tors, initiative and referendum. A deal was made between the Populists and the Democrats by which Weaver se cured 1,041,028 popular and 22 elec toral votes and Cleveland was enabled to score an overwhtelmlng majority in the electoral college. In that election Weaver had the largest vote ever se cured by a third party candidate. Ills fiat money theory as applied to sliver was taken up by the Democrats In the succeeding election and was disposed of finally by the defeat of Bryan. On other subjects than finance Wea ver' platform was not so essentially unsound as it was ahead of the times. Income tax and direct election of Sen ators are now advocated by both tho old parties. Initiative and referendum have ben adopted In a number of states, and Government ownership of telegraphs may soon become a live Is sue with them. But Weaver was known as the champion of flat money, and as -such he was beaten and retired to such obscurity that he was well nigh forgotten. To his advocacy of the same theory In a modified form may be traced the successive defeats of Bryan. His greater ability, oratorical power, per sonal magnetism and energy will save Bryan from the obscurity Into which Weaver sank, but his unsound finan cial theories have sown such abiding distrust of him in the public mind that he, like Weaver, can never hope to be anything but a defeated candidate. "BPriLB BIDB A WEE." The excess of seal without discretion Is detrimental to any cause. The friends of woman suffrage should con. alder this, and not attempt to push the political rights of woman In advance of the popular sentiment along what may be called the higher political and Judicial lines. To the extent that women us without abusing their new. ly acquired rights or privilege in the enfranchised states will these privilege or rights extend to or be withheld from the .women of other states. In thl view the women of the State of Wash ington ar unwise in urging upon Pres ident Taft the appointment of a woman to the Federal bench for the district of Western Washington, where a vacancy Is soon to occur. There Is her no question of the umtlv ability of a wlsaly chosen woman to fill this place. Ther is, however, a grave question as to the preparedness of any woman for the grave duties and re sponsibilities of such position. Women cannot afford to make a mistake In this matter or in any other upon which the political equality .of . women de pends. Wisdom counsels that a class of citi zens whose lines of life have lain out side of the political arena should move slowly In their demands for political recognition In high places. In com mon parlance there Is no hurry in this matter. Having waited so long for po. lltical recognition, women may with wisdom wait a little longer before urg ing claims that to many men will seem premature for reasons that are plainly obvious. It may be well to remember In this connection that the question of woman suffrage Is still pending In many states of tha Union, Including our own. Many things are lawful for women In the states wherein they have been enfran chised, that are not at this stage of the matter expedient. Future honor, per manency and Justification await women In the political world If they but take counsel of discretion In the matter of pushing themselves to the forefront too early in the great game of equality so long desperately played, so hardly won where It has been won. It may be hoped that the leaders of these victorious clans In the states where they have won the battle will take counsel of discretion and move slowly In the direction of the higher goals of political ambition as repre sented by official and Judicial place. "Better bide a wee." The Saturday Evening Post Is usual ly sane except when an opportunity arises to give President Taft a rap. It accuses him of pardoning Morse only "because his crime was of the genteel sort and he had Influence." This after Taft had been deaf to the appeals of Morse's host of friends and had refused to credit the reports of Morse's physi cians on the prisoner's physical condi tion until they had been corroborated by the surgeon-general, whom he sent to Atlanta for the purpose. His action was prompted by no other motive than humanity, for every other mean than the appeal to his sentiment had been tried in vain. Prejudice blinds Taft's enemies to facts so completely that they always seek a discreditable mo tive for his acts, though the creditable motive is obvious to any man who la willing to see. An example of the species of econ omy practiced by the trusts Is the waste by the steel trust of all the by products of coke manufacture. For at least two generations tar and dyes have been made In several Kuropean countries by the use of patent coke ovens, while all Ingredients of coal other than coke have been discharged into the air of the Connellsville region of Pennsylvania, Not only are millions of dollars thus wasted, but the air is poisoned and vegetation is blighted. Her Is a fine opportunity for conser vation of natural resources. The action of the Federal authorl tlca in proceeding against the get-rich-qulck men of the orchard scheme Is commendable, and It Is to be hoped that they will show equal energy In prosecuting the case to the finish and In blocking all other schemes of the kind. What Is most needed, however, is a state law providing that all corpo rations offering; securities for sale shall pass muster with a state officer before they are allowed to begin business. Mrs. Springer's $2,000,000 la a con siderable eum of money, but it will not last long If it Is to be spent to bolster up the theory that a man who has failed In the city will necessarily suc ceed on a farm. The city man needs education, encouragement and much perseverance to enable htm to solve the problems of country life. If Mrs. Springer's bequest supplies these with out promoting Idleness, It will be of inestimable benefit. The alert French Intelligence has decided to spend money on aeroplanes rather than war vessels next year. Perhaps this resolution Is a little pre mature, but before a great while other nations will be doing the same thing. As the military aeroplane approaches perfection warships will go out of use. Something moro than an accusation by Russian officials, or by Persian of ficials terrorized by Russian bayonets, will be required to convince the world that Shuster, the American recom mended by President Taft, misman aged the finances of Persia. Better three square meals with Sin clair than free love and hunger with a tramp poet, is Meta Sinclair's sober second thought. Great Is the power of privation to restore the balance of a disordered brain and to calm riotous emotions. Tho Democratic muckraking com mittees are discovering many things which everybody already knew. The story of the Great Northern ore deal Is threadbare, and the only new feature Is James J. Hill's manner of telling It. The committee of butter men de plores the use of oleomargarine at the asylum, but does not suggest a remedy other than an Increased appropriation. Had Canada voted for reciprocity, the farmers of the Northwest would not have needed to fight for cars to haul their grain to market. Th Texas Judge who whipped the man who called him a liar and then fined himself evidently thought the pleasure worth the price. What an argument for the prohibi tionist! Withdrawal of money to pay for licenses caused suspension of an Idaho- County bank. Having; a frank. Senator Bourne naturally cares not for reduction of letter postage. Franc may not be far out of th way of war In preferring airships to dreadnoughts. Every, visitor to Roosevelt these days seems to have a "bug" plank for the platform. As might be expected, Darrow at torneys have begun to Interpose tech nicalities. Cooper Morris, whose Incarceration la a joke, has returned to his retreat- Remember the Maine! She floats today after a lapse of fourteen years. Welcome, Sis' Arizona. Stars and Star-Makers By Leone Cass Baar, Alice Fleming, who is remembered as leading woman with the Baker stock company last Fall, and who sud denly terminated her engagement (at least, her theatrical engagement), by eloping to Oregon City, that mecca of the undismayed, . to become Mrs. C. E. Everett. Is going back on the stage. For one week positively and maybe more, this delightful little actress Is going to forget all the large columns of Interviews she gave out about pots and pans and sock darning when she exchanged the calciums' glare for the gentle effulgence of the fireside's glow. She Is going to have the distinction of creating the leading feminine role In "The Desert," a brand-new play by Clay M. Greene, the big playwright Mr. Greene, It happens, is In Ban Fran cisco now and wants to see his play produced under his personal supervis ion before he returns East. It so hap pens that the week of March 11 is open at the Alcazar. Bertram Lytell and his wife, Evelyn Vaughn, close their engagement In leads there on the 10th, and Wilson Melrose and Flor ence Stone, the new leading people, do not open until March 18. So the Alcazar managers, Belasco and Mayer, plus George Davis, busi ness manager, are going to produce the play that week. Everybody concerned In Its direction has met Miss Fleming and has known of her work In the East, and Mr. Greene said at once that she was his Ideal type for the role of Sahara, who is the daughter of the desert chief. So they wired Miss Fleming at once, and naturally she conferred a bit with friend and hus band. He said he would go down for the opening, and thus It has been most satisfactorily arranged all around. The manuscript of the play will arrive this week end and then Miss Fleming will be busy learning her role and plan ning her costumes for the part. And here's the nicest part of alL If the tryout of the production warrants It, they will take It back to New York, and Miss Fleming; will go along. She leaves Portland on the evening of March 8, arrives on March 4, begins rehearsing on March E, and . opens Monday, March 11. a a Hattle Carmontelle, who la playing the Irish Widow McGovern, of hectic hair and temperament, at the Orpheum, this week. In "Old New York." will be recalled as the really excellent "Mam my" In "Graustark," as presented at the old Baker Theater, on Third street, over two years ago. a a a Particulars of the frustrated elope ment of Harry Cort, son of John Cort, the theatrical magnate of the Pacific Coast, are leaking Into the press In small quantities. Young Cort, who last Summer was In Portland as promoter and financial manager of the Max Fig man stock company, at the Heilig, had made plans to wed pretty Mabel Tow ers, whose papa Is a millionaire land owner In California. Three years ago the young folk met In Los Angeles, and later, when Miss Towers visited In Seattle, the acquaintance was renewed. In fact, they were progressing more thsn famously when Pa Cort exhibited an attack of the marble heart and sent his son and heir East Last week. It appears. Miss Towers and her father arrived In New York en route to Ger many. On the day their boat, the Kron Prlns Frederlch Wllhelm, was sailing, and after the Towers had gone on board and all on deck were waving good-byes, an automobile dashed up and John Cort, perspiring and anxious, held up the boat. He found his son hidden aboard and dragged him, pro testing, ashore. And as the steamer sailed the Irate Mr. Cort shouted to the equally Irate Mr. Towers, "They'll wait a few years before they wed." a a ..Pauline Lord, who has a prominent role In Marlon . Fairfax new play, "The Talker," now running In New York, Is a niece of the late Governor Lord, of this state. a a a Sedley Brown, Jr, who will play the attenuated Mutt In the musical play of "Mutt and Jeff," which comes to the Baker week after next, is a Paclfio Coast native. He is the son of Sed ley Brown, the well-known stage di rector who made many notable produc tions at the Valencia Theater, In San Francisco, when It was opened as a stock house. a a a MInnette Barrett, a Portland girl who has -won recognition throughout the East for her histrionic ability, is rehearsing for a big role In a new playlet by William de Mille, of which Florence Nash Is to be leading woman. Another name that looms large on the programme of the cast Is that of Jo seph Jefferson. a a a The following anecdote, of which St. Peter must hold first knowledge, comeg by way of the Dramatic Mirror and should prove especially Interesting to those of us who are reminded when we read of Blanche Bates that sha Is a Portlander. Says the narrator: Just before Christmas, durlnr our second lay-off week, a faw year a ago, tha glrla of our company waro having- a aort of tell-your-exporienca prayer meeting, over eome caka and chocolate. Never had tha seem ingly hopeless tragedlee of earlier seasons seemed funnier than la thla retrospective glance. The last arrival apologised tor her tardlnesa ty explaining where aha had been. it seems tuat some aeaaons ago she atart ed out with a fly-by-night troupe, only to be stranded In Illinois. As It was the year of the World'a Fair at St- Louis, she decided to make that city In tha hope of securing employment. Gt. Louis, however, was al ready overcrowded with the unemployed and the mendicant. So. with 80 cents In her purse, sha spent tha nifrht tn the Union Station, and tha next day sent an appeal for aaststance to a prominent star then play ing In St. Louie. After telling her to return the following evening, the manager Invited her to see tha performance. When seated In tha soft cushioned chair, sha fell aound asleep, which waa fortunate perhaps, as ah had to spend the rest of the sleepless night on the hard benches in tha station. On her arrival at tha theater the next evening, sha waa not requested to sign a note; neither were any question asked; but the manager, with the etar'e compliments, presented to her the money which, enabled her to reach New York. That was why she asked our indulgence for her tardiness, for she had been offering prayers and burning candlea to her patron saint, Blanche Bates. e a a Klaw & Erlanger are sending us that colorful musical comedy, "The Pink Lady," which la no relation to "The Red Widow," or "The Red Rose." Neither is she of the family of "The Blue Mouse," "The Black Hand," "The White Sister," "Green Stockings," "The Yellow Peril," "Dr. Lavender," "The Deep Purple," "The Prince of Orange," "The Little Gray Lady," "The Scarlet Letter" anlj well the list Is a long one If you care to continue- - TEST IS PROPOSED TO SERMOX3 Wky Sot Apply Some Criticism to Preachers as to Healers T PORTLAND, Feb. 12. (To the Edi tor.) The recent controversy over the merits and demerits of healing, engen dered by sermons from a local pulpit, would perhaps not Justify any further comment, as it has been profitably con sidered In communications and edi torials from many angles. One phase of It might be capable of a little elucidation, however: In an endeavor to fulfil Christ's undisputed commands, one church heals the sick with noticeable success, notwithstand ing many other churches denounce the practice, and emphatically aver It is not of Christ. If healing Is not of Christ, could it not with equal pro priety be asserted that the character istic present-day sermons are likewise not of ChristT People used to go hun gry for a couple of days or so, and walk miles and miles to hear Christ's sermons. What proportion of the mod ern churchgoers would "pass up" a single meal, or walk a single mile, to hear their modern pastors decry the alleged unchristian methods of a. sister church? The average reader will draw his own Inferences as to how this kind of a question would be answered. With an equally forceful trend of reason ing, then, should we not place in the same category with those who "do not heal ag Clylst did" sermons such as are Incapable of attracting under con ditions parallel to those delivered by the Christ? In other words, sermons not preached as Christ preached them? When contentions like these are brought into the limelight, through un due aggressiveness of the pulpit, there might be some excuse if we try to And a little balm in the following words of Tom Moore: Shall I ask the brave soldier who Cents by my aide, , In the cause of mankind. If our creeds agree? . Shall I give up tha friend I nav valued and tried. If he kneel not before the same altar with me From the heretic girl of my aoul should I fly. To aeek somewhere else a mora orthodox kiss? . No! perish tha hearts, and th laws that would try Truth, valor and lov by a standard Uke thla. ERNEST STEWART. Disturbing; the Peace. LA GRANDE, Or., Feb. 9. (To the Editor.) Having studied Judge Taz well's definition of the word "scab," and being a disinterested person con cerned In It, I request from your au thority the definition of the legal sen tence: "Disturbing the peace." Has a man, working for a living, the rights of an American citizen, even If work ing as a machinist or bollermaker on the Harrlman system as things now stand? Have the strikers a right to harass hlra and call him vile names? Can the city and county officials be Im peached for not doing their duty In not Duttlng a stop to such proceedings? READER. Ordinary disturbance of the peaoe In Incorporated cities is defined by city ordinance. The courts are to Interpret the scope of the law In Portland. Use of profane, obscene or abusive lan guage In a public place in an unincor porated town or upon a publlo highway to the annoyance of any person or per sons is disturbance of the peace, , as defined. by state law. Public officers cannot be impeached In Oregon. We have the recall. Trala Record t 107 Miles, 10T Minute. Baltimore American. Wlllram McAdoo, who built the Hud son River tunnels, recently made what Is said to have been a record run In a special train on the Southern Railroad, covering the 107 miles from Charlotte, N. C, to Greenville in 107 minutes. THE PRIME REQUISITE. I met a literary chap Who raised a sad and doleful roar; "The times are out of Joint," he cried. By way of showing he was sore; "Although with burning words 1 write. My stories never come to light; And I must live, while still I hope. By writing ads for yeast and soap. "Full many novels have I made. But ne'er a publisher I've found To bring them out in fancy style And make my name In fame resound." "And why." I asked, "although you strive. Are you not able to arrive?" Quoth he, "One thing my fortunes blast I overlooked to have a past, "Were I an actor, muchly wed. And much divorced," my friend averred, ' "The editors would haste to buy My w.ritinps at two bucks per word; The deeper did the scandal blight The more I'd get for what I'd write, Alas, what fortune I have missed By being a monogamist. "Full many years I wasted while I studied well the English tongue. And learned the secret of the art Of all the masters wrote and sung; Had I but spent those Idle years Wading In scandal to the ears. My writings all had sold direct. Though writ in Bowery dialect, "What boots It though the speeding pen In deep artistic blunders stammer. What though the writer's halt or lame In both his rhetoric and grammar; Success, I've learned this weary while. Pooh-poohs at diamond-polished style. Nor calls for thoughts that glow and ring The notoriety's the thing. "Out on my style, my wasted years. My flaming visions and my dreams; I have no seamy-sided past To catch the shining shekels' gleams. Give me but one affinity To bring the spotlight round to me. And I perchance might Join the game And carve me out a niche of fame." DEAN COLLINS. Portland. February 14. Only by Placing an Advertisement in the Classified Columns of The Oregonian Can You Know the Won derful Pulling and Business-Getting Powers of Those Little Ads of Which You See Hundreds in Every Issue of the Paper If you want to sell your automobile, or your house, or a building lot, or office furniture, or anything else, place a classified advertisement in The Oregonian. You will be surprised at the results. Hundreds of Oregonian readers look through the classified columns every day, looking for bargains in all lines. On the other hand, if you want to buy something, the chances are that there is some one who has just what you axe looking for. And for some reason or other he is will ing to sell at a sacrifice. There is your opportunity to pur chase what you want at a minimum price. Half a Century Ago From Tho Oregonlan of February IS, 1S62. The San Francisco Daily Herald and Mirror of the 7th inst. has the fol lowing remarks upon the political con dition of Oregon. They do not present an overdrawn picture. "The secession principle in Ore gon appears to be a deeply rooted disease. The circumstances attendant upon the appointment of such a man as Stark to fill the position left vacant by the death of the gallant Baker might have taught the people of this Coast as much, had they given heed. The Oregon Statesman deliberately expresses the conviction that If tha secessionists of that state are next June able to carry it, under what ever name they may think best calcu lated to catch votes "peace Demo crats" or what else the result would be the placing of the state in conflict with the Government and the Introduc tion of rebellion with all its horrors. A full-blooded dlsunionist heads the councils of the state in the person of the Governor, Whiteaker, and old Joe Lane, althgugh qtilet enough at present, is still secretly working in conjunc tion with his friends for the over throw of the laws. A formidable secret organization, embracing some of the prominent men of the Coast, holds regular sessions in all of the principal districts, yet no public voice unites to put them down. The gigantic treason which was to wrest the Pacific Coast from the Government was Just on the point of bein consummated when the removal of General Johnston deranged the plans of the traitors and nipped the conspiracy in .the bud; yet compara tively a small proportion of the people were aware of tha peril In which they stood. . . The loyal press of Oregon, therefore, does well to call attention to the secret machinations of the gang of whom Whiteaker, Stark and Lane are the designated leaders, and men like Sykes and Metcalfe late Indian agents in the north but now serving in the rebel army are the unprincipled instruments. The snow Is gradually going oft in this valley. In the timber there Is but little left Chicago, Jan. 14. The Gem of the Sea on the 25th of December ran ashore, nine miles north of George town, S. C, entrance, and burned. The British schooner Prince of Wales, at tempting to run the blockade, at Au gusta on the Slst, captured the schooner Island Belle, of Nassau, laden with sugar and molasses. The Island Belle was built at Charleston, but sailed under the British flag. Fremont's debts already audited amount to 89,000,000. Chicago, Jan. 15. The Army ap propriation bill waa reported from the committee on ways and means. It appropriates nearly $300,000,000 to pay the 'volunteers, $9,000,000 to pay regulars, $1,000,000 for Western gun boats; for permanent fortifications over $1.00,000; ordnance, $8,900,000; Army clothing, $30,000,000; manufacturing arms for National Army, nearly $2, 000,000. Chicago, Jail. SO. The Senate bill authorizing the President to take pos session of railroads and telegraphs passed. It also passed the House. Chicago, Feb. 1. It is now asserted that there are not ten Republican members In the House prepared to ad vocate an immediate and unconditional emancipation of slaves. All hope of this sort of legislation Is now aban doned and the Administration pro gramme of preserving the Union and constitution and enforcing the laws Is said to be ommlpotent In the House. - The secessionists around the streets have been blowing because W. W. Page and Judge A E. Walte had signed the call for their traitorous conclave, but we are happy to see that it is J. D. Page and W. F. Walt who signed the call. No one who is acquainted with the first-named gentlemen would expect to find them In league with tha enemies of their country. We heard it said yesterday that Cap tain John H. Couch has been ap pointed surveyor of customs for this port. Ccunfry Town Sayings by Ed Howe You may usually make a pretty good guess at the problems of life. If you habitually carry a red flag, and see a mad bull charging, you may guess almost with certainty what will happen next. s ; When the devil Is to pay In some other man's affairs, most of us are more pleased than sympathetic A young man has a serious time de ciding whether he will be a lawyer, doctor or merchant chief, but he will find making a success of either a harder Job. Most men know a good deal on the neighbors, In case the neighbors ever get gay. When you need spectacles, surrender, promptly. Every man Is hen-pecked in his wed ding. Men are clever as cooks, mil liners and dressmakers, but women, will never admit that men know any thing about the management of a wed ding. Those who are temporarily out of it, can give love some mighty hard slams. No woman thinks a man knows any thing about the delicate art of making a home. When a man has a photograph taken, the more it looks like him the les3 he likes it. Success is fair; when a man wins , ha nKimllv entitled to it. But fame Is a fickle Jade; some men who have fame should have had a whipping Instead. ( ( i A