THE MORNING OREOONIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL' 18, 1912. 10 F(te (Dmrimtntt l-OKTLAXD. OKOOJI. Knf.-d st pertlanO. Ottfoa. Peatotnea MiiJ e.ui Matter. . aatecrlptjoa kii-Invariably Is teit. San4ar taeladed. aaa rear. ...." r. knndar ln:aded. all mantha... J-Jg i , Bupnir laciuuea, u,uu.- Ve!y. asa year ral!y. HuBday loclod-d. aaa year . . - - - -fesi.y. Sunday Included, an ' '' Maw w Retail Send PoetofTlce " i-r. eip.-esa arder or paraooal ehec rTZL atal bask. 8 1 am pa. eola or enrreagy. at to. eeader's rlea. Gla aoatoOlca 4lraaa IB f u . i imrl.Minv r aunLf 4&d BtBlB. fMian Malaa 1 ta pagea. .""iLil: te pegea. 2 casta: ta ao paaa, c aeabie raia. : so ta aw - Ob C ki ha New lark. ilruaawlc bulJdiB. ansa. Sieger baudm. aVareii.ea 0Vra e. I Kegest " W . Ladoa. rflHIUMI, Till K-M.Y. Al-Rll. la, WITH MtLLINO AS ktSATOK. If Mr. Selling shall be elected Scn ntor as a progressive, he . III not Im mediately, or at all. align himself with the atandpatter and desert them with the insurgents because he has a differ, ence with the President over Federal patronag. If Mr. Selling shall be elected Sen ator, he will not vote for a high tariff on an Industry In which he 1 finan cially Interested and for a low tariff on an industry which his constitu ents are. vitally Interested. If Mr. Selling shall be elected Sen ator, ha will support the parcels post because It Is for the public benefit and refuse to yield to the representation of tradesmen, wholesalers and retail ers, that It Is against their Interest. If Mr. Selling shall be elected Sen ator he will plow a straight furrow, and he will not insurge in and out among the standpatters and the pro gressives aa whim, or prejudice, or personal interest or political oppor tunity may suggest. If Mr. Selling shall be elected Sen ator, he v. Ill keep In close touch with his constituents, laboring for them in the Senate and before the departments day by day and not in the last months of his term make a home stretch spurt of activity in their be half for the purpose of catching votes. If Mr. Selling shall be elected Sena tor, he will candidly lay before them his record for approval, and not pre tend to leave to their uninfluenced Judgment the question of his re-election, only to flood the mails with franked matter at Government ex pense In his own behatf. If Mr. Selling shall be elected Sen ator, he will stand for a!l the people, and will be able to show that he has dealt fairly with the people. Includ ing the people In hi private employ. If Mr. Selling shall be elected Sen ator he will make his way by his ac tivity, sincerity, efficiency and agree able personality, and not by buncombe or pretense, or playing of one interest against another. .Mr. Selling Is a man of force, ex perience. Intelligence and capacity. He is a progressive with a genuine desire t. promote the welfare of all. The common good Is his deepest concern. He has proved it by years of unselfish work for the public, and by gpnerous gifts of hi" time and his money to every worthy cause. Such a man will make his way at Washington, for he will be accepted at par value. UATHERIXi THEM IN. The Republicans of Connecticut yes terday elected fourteen delegate to the Republican National Convention, and Instructed ten of them for Taft. Two more are known to favor Taft and two were not Instructed by their Congressional district. Thus e are left in the dark as to whether the pair re to be added to the Taft column or the Roosevelt column or the La Fol lette column. But If we are uncertain what to do. the Roosevelt statisticians are not at a loss. They will promptly claim the Independent two. We mis our guess If they stop with the more or less harmless pastime of claiming. That the cry of fraud will be raised and fake contests against the Tart lozen Instituted we have no doubt. The battle the Roosevelt forces lose is always a wicked and criminal affair so we Invariably hear from the Roosevelt press bureau. But vote, not claims and false cries of foul, count In a National conven tion. The Roosevelt campaign evi dently reached high-water mark last week with Illinois and Pennsylvania. But the Taft strength grows steadily. The week has given twelve from Con necticut, six from Delaware and two from Hawaii. So far this week no Roosevelt delegate has been elected except the possible Connecticut two. Taft has now nearly 400 delegates. Itootevelt about 170. Who can doubt that Taft will easily win the remain ing ltO delegates out of 5S0, approxi mately, yet to be elected? his own womm. In summing np Senator Bourne'e unique position, tha rhlladelphta Saturday Evening Feet represents him aa Baying to the rltlsena of OriAHi "It ta np ta- you to demonstrate mhetber you have the Intelligence to recus rtie and appreciate good public eerrlce by r-talnlng public errvante who make good, or whether you prefer to return to the old campaign ayatem use of money, character afMMNnillon. personal contrasts, sophistry, misleading statements and skillful straddl 1ns of leading questions." That Is not what Senator Bourne says, fcut that la a hat his norel attitude means. Sn Francisco Bulletin. Why should anybody believe that the quoted words are not Bourne's own? is it inconceivable that a Sen ator would go before his constituents with such tremendous egotism? Of course. There is no other cause for believing that the Saturday Evening P'.t has put Its own Iiterpretation of Bourne's attitude into the Senator's mouth. Yet the Post has quoted Senator H.-urne literally. Oregon publishes a primary election pamphlet which Is ent to every Republican voter In Ore gon. In this pamphlet Senator Bourne us an address to the people of Ore--nn. The words quoted by the Phila delphia magazine comprise most of :he firxt paragraph of Senator '.nirne's signed statement. The quo ntlon Is literal and exact. Nor Is that all that Senator Bourne .as of the same tenor, in his signed ratement. He asserts that his cam paign Is the "most Important event of the year." He declare that "the re mit, not because of me. but because f the method, la of more Importance to the future of this country than the romlnc Presidential election." and that "the result must have a trcmcn- sltkoat fcuedsf. aaa , L.al y. wnnoul Suadar. 1 meaiaa. f fj l"l.jr. without Sunder, three roontme. - - Li.. aruhout Suada. BBoala. Wea!. aaa year .......----"""" ess eaadav, aaa year S - jaday aad Weekly, eoe year dous Influence on other states and the future politic of this country-" Senator Bourne haa remained away from Oregon during the campaign. Bourne's chief opponent, who. unlike Bourne, has his home In Oregon, haa also remained "at hla post." The only difference between the campaigns of the two is that the Senator's cam paign documents. In large part, are published at coRt by the Government and sent out under postoffic frank. Senator Bourne's campaign Is unique" only in Its sopnisiry. egotism and the great quantity of "literature distributed among the voters. M'HARU ANO THE OI'EN HAUL. The people of Oregon remember McHarr Orrnsby McHarg. of some-where-or-other In the East, but, "wher ever It la, near the open bar'l. Mc Harg was the rounder-up and whlp-per-ln of Southern delegates for the Republican convention of DOS, as signed to that service by President Roosevelt. Later, while Roosevelt was still President, early In 109. Mc Harg came to Oregon. The mission of this astute and compliant person was to persuade the Legislature to defeat Mr. Chamberlain for Senator though a majority of Its members were pledged to him through State ment One. McHarg failed. The mem. on of his sneaking attempt Is still odious In Oregon. We do not attempt to connect the corrupt errand of Fixer McHarg with President Roosevelt, for Roosevelt went on record for the fulfillment of Its pledges by the Legislature. Clearly he knew McHarg and his crooked ways. . Later McHarg got a Job with the Taft Administration, presumably on the recommendation of the useful Chairman Hitchcock, but he lost It, being dismissed for good cause. Natu rally one would suppose that a politi cal roustabout like McHarg. being so thoroughly discredited, would have difficulty getting along In these days of purified politics; but It would be a mistake. McHarg now has a high place among the Roosevelt shouters. He Is at the old game, going from place to place, making pledges, breaking other pledges if he can, and doing what he can as only McHarg will for the bene fit of the cause. McHarg Is the agent of Perkins George W. Perkins, the same Perkins that was the partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, and Is the bedfellow of all the trusts. Perkins Is fur Roosevelt: so Is McHarg. If there is to be argumentum ad homlnem In this campaign, and Taft is to be called on without reason to explain I rimer and Penrose, it will be well for the patriots who talk so much about the square deal and do so little for It. to explain Perkins, Mc Harg. Bill Ward, Walter Brown, Dan Hanna. Jim Flynn and many others of that Ilk whose voices choke with emotion and whose eyes fill with Joy ful tears whenever Colonel Roosevelt's name Is approvingly mentioned by anyone, which sometimes happens. nVING THE DEATH OF HEROES. . The anxious eye scans in vain the list of Titanic survivor for the names of men of world-wide fame who were passengers on the Ill-fated vessel. Astor. Guggenheim. Straus. Butt, Roebling. Millet. Hays all are equal ly silent at the calling of the roll. Soldiers facing a common fate with the deckhand and the scullion, they answered adsum when the summons came from the mysterious and awful voice beyond the distant stars. Heroes they were, for they waited and watched and silently prayed while the women and children were handed over the sldo of the sinking ship to the safe haven of the small boats. At least we shall hopa so. Our faith is strengthened when we note with deep emotion that the names of women al most wholly make up the list of the saved. The women were tenderly and carefully borne to "safety while the men. rich and poor, high and low, re mained and died. Perhaps all did not stay willingly, but let us think they did. But what ever' the true story of the great re nunciation. It is clear that there were Iron nerve and perfect discipline present and In the mastery. The women were saved, amid dreadful scenes of panic, terror, emotion, physi cal sufTeilng and anguished partings. It could not have been done unless there was a death-defying determina tion that It should be done. Who con quered the panic and compelled the sacrifice? Captain Smith and his brave officers? Doubtless. Major Butt. too. perhaps. Whatever else of regret and sorrow and reproach may survive this awful catastrophe, let us remember that Captain Smith, or someone, or many someone, saved the women, and then went to a glorious death. i LA TOLLETTE AMI ROOSEVELT. Senator La Follette does not agree with the hitherto prevalent opinion that Roosevelt Is the greatest man of action wa have had in the Presidential chair in recent years. He quotes Roosevelt himself as holding a poor opinion of hla own constructive states manship. He extols Roosevelt as a great moral force, an agitator who has awakened the National conscience, and quotes the Colonel as holding this opinion of himself, but says when the occasion called for action Roosevelt did nothing. We have grown accustomed to re garding Roosevelt as the man who struck terror into the trusts, but La Follette says he only pricked their flanks and attacked them so Ineffectu ally that In tha seven and one-half years of his Administration their num ber grew from It to 10.020 and their capital grew from S3. 000. 000. 000 to S30.000.000.000. Roosevelt has come to be regarded a the man who made Government regulation of railroads a reality, but La Follette say that, of eight amend ments to the Interstate commerce law for which the Interstate Commerce Commission asked In order to attain that end, not one was Included In the Hepburn law. The Senator say that a year after that law was passed Roosevelt expressed to him the opin ion that there could be no regulation of rates without valuation of railroads, asked him to write a statement of the reasons for such a law, and promised to recommend It and agitate for It, but never did either: on the contrary, in a speech at Indianapolis Roosevelt said railroad capital was not watered. La Follette says that for seven and one-half years Roosevelt saw monop oly growing behind the protective wall of the Dlngley tariff and said the tariff ought to be revised, but postponed the work until after election and handed it to Taft. The ex-President la pictured by his rival for the Insurgent leadership as a man who admitted his lack of con structive statesmanship, a man who admitted that he was merely an agi tator to prepare the way for his suc cessor and as one who picked Taft to do the work after he had aroused the people to demand that It be done. La Follette by Implication says that he is the constructive statesman to do this work, and points to his own achievements in bringing the rallroada of Wisconsin into subjection as evi dence that he haa the will and the ability to do It. He tells what he would have done to destroy the trusts, had he instead of Roosevelt become President In 1901. But he says that now the trusts have wound their thousands of arms around the business of the country completely that to assail them with a broadax would de stroy legitimate business; that it is "the work of surgical statesmanship" and "no Job for the rough rider." We are left to Infer that the Senator Is the surgical statesman to whom this work should be Intrusted. As seen through the La Follette spectacles, the rough rider, the man with the big etick, the St. George who went forth to slay the dragon monop oly and to humble the railroads. Is ahorn of all his terrors and shrinks to very mean proportions. -EACH WILL MOURN HIS OWN. Consternation and horror at the wreck of the Titanic have given way to the dull feeling of despair for the live of the hundreds who perished in the "dread sweep of the down-streaming seas" as the great ship, shivering In every timber and Joint, went down Into unknown depths. Some surprise Is expressed among nautical men that a mariner with Captain Smith's ex perience and sagacity aAd with the heavy responsibility that he carried did not "sense" the close proximity of the great Iceberg, the Impact with which wrecked his ship, since at this season of the year these monsters of the north are wont to beset the path of the navigator and the chill breath of their presence is felt for many miles around. However, in the absence' of all official news of the disaster, tha cause, beyond the great first cause, can Only be conjectured, and for the gal lant mariner who went down with his ship there is (at least In the absence of detail) no censure. Had Captain Smith been given his choice In the matter. It Is not likely that he would have wished to survive this most terrible sea disaster in the world's history. The owner of the vesxel might not personally have blamed him, but the mariner's un written code would not have permit ted him again to command a vessel, while the terrible midnight scene off the Newfoundland coast would have haunted him. Hence, while sympathy for the brave and luckless mariner is rife, there Is a sort of relief In the fact that he did not survive, to be discred ited and haunted by this greatest hor. ror of the sea. For the rest, while "each will mourn his own," the great heart of human ity throbs in unison for the grief and terror and loss that has befallen the fated voyagers and their Immediate relatives and friends. A realization of this comes close to this community In the loss of a man who has been a fac tor In Its business, social and philan thropic life for nearly half -a century. In the absence of convincing certainty of his death, the family of Mr. F. M. "Warren. Sr.. still cling to the hope that he yet lives and In this hope the friends and associates of Mr. Warren share. And while each will mourn his own in the tenderest sense, the public mourns also the fate of all of the hapless voyagers who went down with the Titanic. There is comfort, however. In the thought as expressed by Sir Francis Doyle hat They sleep aa well beneath the tide As others under turf. BERXiKON ANI DAKW1N. It seems 'Incredible that a man should lose his temper over anything so calm and gelid aaw Bergson's sys tem of philosophy. One would as soon think of getting a sunstroke at the North Pole. Still Mr. George Hook ham, a British evolutionist, manages to do the feat. Mr. Hookham is a great admirer of Darwin and in Berg son's doctrines he find many opin ions which ars nothing less than rank heresy from the Darwinian point of view. Mr. Hookham pours forth his anathemas against Bergson in the Na tional Review, a London periodical which detests everything modern on principle and which would therefore welcome an attack of Bergson even if he agreed with Darwin at every point simply because he lives now Instead of having died a century or two ago. The difference between Darwin and Bergson emerges on the question of the origin of species. Doe this take place by virtue of natural selection or from some other cause? Darwin pinned hla faith to natural selection. Indeed he was the first philosopher to bring out the importance of that great factor in biological history. By natural selection Is meant the persistent action of the environment upon the living species. When in any individual of the species a variation appears which Is favorable to its sur vival in the struggle for existence the environment naturally acts to perpetu ate this feature no matter how trivial It may be. On the other hand. If a variation appears which hinders in stead of helping In the struggle for existence the effect of the environ ment Is to stamp It out. Favorable variations are thus passed on by heredity from one generation to the next and they slowly accumulate. The accumulation Is probably very slow indeed, but according to scientific cal culations the world has existed for many hundreds of millions of years, so that there has been plenty of time for natural selection to produce any effect that Is within Its power. This Is Darwin's explanation of the origin of the different species of living beings and also of the peculiarities of each particular species. Bergson' doctrine concerning these matters is somewhat different. He does not deny the con stant effectiveness of natural selection as a factor In evolution, but he says he perceives some things for which it does not account. An example of which Bergson makes a great deal In his argument is that, of a certain wasp which preserves spiders for the food of Its young by paralyzing them with Its sting. The sting is directed to a certain point on the spider' body where It will pene trate the central nerve ganglion and no mistake is ever made, or at least mistake are excessively rare. The wasp seems to know exactly where to plant Its sting In order to deprive the spider of the power to move. How did it acquire the knowledge? No wasp ever dissected a spider and if it had done so there are no books In wasp land by which knowledge is transmit ted from parent to child. How does J the rising generation of wasps learn to do the neat little trick which Is so essential to the prosperity of the spe cies and so Inconvenient to the spi ders? Darwinians, like Mr. Hookham, sav that this beautiful art of stinging spiders with mathematical exactitude has been acquired by natural selection. Mr. Bergson says he does not see how natural selection could ever have done It, and we must confess that we are as puzzled as he is. Bergson explains the mystery by assuming that there is a "sympathy" between the spider and the wasp. By sympathy he means something a little occult. It is not the ordinary feeling to which we give that name, but some thing far more subtle. Life, says Bergson, Is the same In the wasp as It Is In the spider, so that the struc ture of the spider Is really known to its enemy without, any necessity of dissection. This sort of knowledge is called by him "instinctive." It arises from the mere fact of being alive. Human beings would possess it like other living creatures if they had not lost it by cultivating their intelli gence so much. Intelligence forgets ail the instinct knows, so that when we with our boasted superiority over the rest of the world want to learn anything we have to begin at the be ginning and after all our efforts we never get very far along. If we could get rid of our Intelligence and go back to Instinct everything that we now seek to acquire with such painful dili gence would be ours as a matter of course. We should know the things we need to know Just as the bees and ants do and Just as the wasp knows where and how to sting the spider in order to provide fresh food 'or Its young. The Infant wasps devour the paralyzed spider little by little while it is wrapped In Its trance, which, by the way. illustrates the tender mercies of unassisted nature. Mr. Hookham, as a loyal Darwinian, Is horrified by these heresies of the French philosopher. He does not see why the wasp should not have learned to sting the spider by the process of natural selection. There was plenty of time for the habit to have been ac quired, he thinks, and since there was time enough for It to have been ac quired, therefore It was acquired. The orthodox Darwinians believe that everything which could possibly have happened In the way of acquirement has happened. They say that if you shoot an Infinite number of arrows into the air in every possible direction you are bound sooner or later to hit every possible mark, no matter whether you ever aim at It or not. This to their minds correctly repre sents the process of evolution by nat ural selection. It has aimed at noth ing, but since it has been shooting In all directions for millions of centuries, It has hit everything. There is a remarkable coincidence between the epidemic of accidents among the city employes and the opening of the baseball season. Do the accidents cause the baseball or does the baseball cause the accidents? This is a subject well worth investiga tion. We hope the scientific men at Reed College will find time to look into it. No doubt the relation between baseball and official Illness is governed by some great law of nature whose discoverer will outshine the glory of Newton. Mrs. Astor has lost her husband and perhaps her Jewels, but she will not want bread. The sailors' wives at Southampton have no bank accounts and no stock In corporations. To them the loss of the Titanic means hunger or heartbreaking toil. There is as much money In the world as there was before the wreck took place and sym pathy makes men liberal. Perhaps it will occur to somebody to start a sub scription for the widows In that street of sorrow at Southampton. A useful little apparatus for some young Edison to invent -would be an indicator of icebergs. There must be a substance which Ice attracts or re pels or affects In some other observ able way. What is the substance? When it Is found and ships are pro vided with It. the Titanic accident will never happen again. But other kinds of accidents will happen. As long as men are fallible ships will be lost and train wrecked. When it shall be learned that all the women and children on the Ti tanic were saved, the hastily formed opinion of Mr. Ismay, to his prejudice, may be revised. Loyalty to their su perior, no doubt, led the officers to se lect htm among the first to embark In the lifeboats. That would be their first tribute to the house flag, as prob ably to go down with the colors was their last. ' There Is hope that survivors have been picked up by the fishing fleet, to be brought ashore in due season. The Gloucester man Is averse to leaving until his hold Is salted down. Kipling, in "Captains Courageous." tells this in detail, and every person who has read it will be strong in the belief that all are not dead. It would be Jnterestlng to know what Influence the steel trust had in rolling up the big majority for Roose velt at the Pennsylvania primaries. It was to be expected that the trust which Roosevelt shielded from the law should remember Its friend in his time of need. The struggle of Colonel Edward H. R. Green to avoid matrimony Is only less strenuous than that of certain gentlemen to acquire political office. One Senatorial candidate is thrifty. His campaign statement shows profit of 175. 0. It Is greatly to be deplored that many others will "go broke." The truculent Orozco did not take long to descend when Uncle Sam laid down the law to him. Hugh Chalmers' epigrams take rank with Ed Howe's sayings as terse ex pressions of every-day wisdom. Good old earth remains pretty fine to travel on, for in disaster a victim can grab something. Perhaps the excess of relative hu midity will start working the ginger in the Beavers. Mr. Williams' team might be In duced to coach the Beavers. A drowsy Juror is the fault of the attorneys. Only one day left for Spring politics. Britain needs another Pllmsoll. Stars and Star-Makers Br Lease Caaa Baer. Mizzl Hajos will return to Portland a j few weeks hence in "The Spring Maid. Charles McNaughton, a brother to Tom, who in turn is Alice Lloyd's husband In private life will play the role of the barnstorming actor In this operetta, aaa Helen Ware, who created the role of Annie Jeffries in "The Third Degree." and who since her promotion to stellar honors has never appeared west of Chicago, will this season make her first visit to the Pacific Coast. sea. A bit of stags realism that came near having a very different ending was enacted on the other side of the Baker footlights last Sunday afternoon. The company was rounding up the first act of "The Witching Hour" to the cul mlnative point in Its action where young Clay Whipple kills Tom Den ning by striking him over the head with an Ivory paper cutter. To go back a moment and disclose a stage secret there are two paper outters used in this scene, one is a real knife, heavy enough to make a sound when It is knocked off the table to the floor. Another one. similar in detail but made of wood, with a heavily padded hilt painted white is placed behind a row of books on the table. When Denning goads Clay Into striking him. the near paperknlfe Is grabbed and the soft chamois covered end falls on the head of Denning. Last Sunday afternoon. Walter Gilbert, who played the role of Clay, put Melville Browne, as Denning, out of commission for several hours. Gilbert grabbed the wrong paper cut ter and In acting frenzy cracked Mel over his -nicely parted hair. Down he went In honest and true earnest and was dragged out according to the play's schedule without the audience being any the wiser. A doctor was hurried to the scene; he sewed up a neat little scalp wound, and Mel was on the Job again that night. And all through tha week you may be certain that Gilbert grabbed the right sticker every time he killed his man. e e Still talking of Melville Browne he has a new vaudeville sketch to be tried out In the next few days. It's a comedy called "Hands Up." and it requires a cast of four people. Mr. Browne will himself play the Juvenile role. There's a musical Interpolation in the sketch a waltz song "Dreamlove." written, words and music, by Earl C. Sharp. Mr. Browne's other vaudeville sketch, "The Value of a Dollar," starts out again from New York In August. Here's Just a few of the theatrical folk who are coming along soon; Blanche Bates, in "Nobody's Widow": Maude Adams. In the much-heralded "Chantecler": "Over Night," with Eddie Foy, which was produced in New York simultaneously with that other farce, "Baby ' Mine"; William Hodge, the original star of "The Man From Home," arrives with the successful American drama of patriotism; Margaret Anglln, in "Green stockings"; Margaret Illlng ton. In Charles Kenyon's drama, "Kind ling," and "Louisiana Lou," which comes directly to this Coast at the close of its present run in Chicago. e a a When the "Bird of Paradise" closes next Saturday at the West End Thea ter, in New York, Oliver Morosco's first New York production will go down In stage history as a success. Mr. Mor osco has given New York a true picture of how plays are produced in Califor nia. His labors during the Summer will keep him In Los Angeles, where he will again manage his admirable stock company and make many new produc tions of plays which he will test be fore an audience for the first time. Among the players he has engaged for his organization is Laurette Taylor, whose career is one of the richest In promise of our young actresses. see In the meantime to the West End Theater in the metropolis goes Thurs ton Hall, formerly of the Baker Stock Company here, to play leads In that theater. He leaves Salt Lake City on Saturday for the East. For one month he lias been leading man with the Garrick Company there. a e a Ida Adair, who has Just finished a two-months' engagement in stock at Salt Lake City at the Garrick, arrived In Tortland last Monday evening for a few weeks' vacation. She will be remembered as leading woman last season at the Baker. Nell Franzen.'who has been identified with the Baker Stock Company at var ious periods during Its seasonal ac tivity, returned last Saturday from a ten weeks' stock engagement in Hono lulu and the Islands. Miss Franzen was Ingenue with the Harry Corson Clarke and Margaret Dale Owen Company, and received much attention socially as well as professionally during her engage ment. Since the closing of the company, Mr. and Mrs. Clarke the latter of whom is Miss Owen on the stage have sailed for Australia, for a vacation. Miss Franzen will spend hers here with her parents. a e e Another Portland girl who served her apprenticeship with the Baker forces, Is Mildred Disbrow. She Is at the Em press this week In "Nerve." George Bloomquest's play. George, bv the way, is also one of that great family a "former Bakeronian." see That fascinating creature. May Yohe, who has run the gamut of life from dance-hall to peerage and back by way of the Barbary Coast, is now in vaude ville on a small circuit In the East. T'other day she held an auction, dis posing of gifts made by her whilom husband. Lord Francis Hope. David Belasco, Al Jolson, who has been here in vaudeville," and William Collier, were among the buyers. May Yohe was at one time a resident of Portland ' for several months. a a a Ethel von Waldron, a Portland girl who has achieved success In her chosen work as an actress. Is appearing in vaudeville In a satire called "The Leap Year Girls," written by John Stokes, e a e "The Marriage Not," an original comedy-drama by Joseph Noel, a California editor, will be produced by Cecil do Mille at the Empire Theater, Cyracuse. N. Y., April 22-24. It will then play a half week in Rochester and go to Powers' Theater, Chicago, for a run. The plat. 1 based on a poem by the author called "The Mgotist." In the company Is Oza Waldrop, who is one of the best remembered of the early day Baker Ingenues. Robert Drouet Is leading man, with the company. EQUAL RIGHTS FOB ALL ALIKE Mr. Evan Will as District Attorney Show No Favors. PORTLAND, Or., April 17. (To the Editor.) Eleventh hour efforts of poli tical assassins necessitate some public statement from me. I am now. accused of being indorsed by the Employers' Association, in the hope that such accusation will take from me the votes of laboring men, who desire a square deal. The nefarious scheme is falsely to place me where a large body of voters, who are really friendly to me, will refuse to support me. Let me answer this in a manner that will leave no doubt of my atti tude. I have not knowledge of any such in dorsement. I did not directly or indirectly seek such indorsement. I did not directly or indirectly give the Employers' Association or any em ployers whatsoever any promise what ever. More than that.' If I am elected. I will not give employers or the Em ployers' Association or any one else any favors that I would not also give to the humblest person. If elected. I shall be District At torneyr to all alike. To the poor, the rich. eWo laborer and all. each will receive -at my hands the same consid eration and will be given the same service. I will remember, if there is to 'be any special consideration, it should be for those who are poverty stricken and who are unable to pro cure private counsel. This has been my firm conviction from the time I first announced my candidacy, and is not a promise made to procure votes. I have stated at every opportunity that if elected, I shall be unfettered and will serve all justly, honorably, in fear of no one and without fear or favor to any class or clique. I expect the opposition of law breakers and those who desire favors and special protection, because all such persons shall suffer the conse quences of vigorous action at my hands, should I be elected, but every law abiding citizen and every lawful busi ness shall have the safeguards prop erly due and by law provided, and to all such I will give every assistance of my office, and will as unhesitatingly deny special privileges to any one. whether it be the Employers' Associa tion, or any man or set of mpnv WALTER II. EVANS. ONE VIEW OF TITANIC DISASTER Writer See a Lesson for Lovers of Worldly Thlngn. PORTLAND, April 17. (To the Edi tor.) The sinking of the Titanic does not look, to our limited and narrow vision, like Love on the throne of the universe. But such things need not disturb our faith In our Father. Even with my short sight I can see that such an event may have the effect of a message like this: "My children, too many of you are growing more trust ful toward millions of money than to ward your Father in heaven: more anxious to get perishable things than to do Justice and show mercy. I will Just let the ocean swallow up your greatest triumph over the winds and waters, your greatest accumulation of wealth in one spot, together with a few of your klnps and lords of finance, that you may not wholly forget the things that abide. I will, indeed, take good care of these who seem to you to have perished. Some of them will see now what nothing else could show them, and such of them as had not done so before may now lay up treasure in heaven. And you who remain yet awhile in the body, may feel afre-sh that 'a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of things that he posses ses.' " Indeed, it appears to me that God has ordained the gulf stream to warm water to meet the Icebergs, and fill the air with awful fog just off Cape Race, where rocks and shoals and swift currents are ever taking toll of Uvea nnri rHrfroeH. Hnd rischt in the path of the world's greatest traffic, to keep men from forgetting that there is one stronger than they, who loves them too well to let them have nothing but ,mnniii en I line- and selfish success. This greatest of marine disasters is onlv one of a thousand things mat are happening every day with the same end in view But men torget me orui nary. They g:et used to what they re gard as the "time and chance that hap neneth to all." So. now and then. God has to startle them and Jolt them out of their self-importance and mone-yea security by an unusually appalling loss. But. whoever feels stricken, the word comes to them, "Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it bo afraid," for "God is Love." R. M. WEBSTER, 814 Tillamook st., Portland.- Ev' Wlf Pollclea. PORTLAND. April 17. (To the Edi tor.) There are a few things about the policy of Mr. Evans, candidate for Dis trict Attorney, that should be brought to the attention of the public. First of all, he wishes to abolish the "third de gree," the use of which has been a dis grace to this county. It is wholly bru tal, unfair and Is productive of no results. I am glad to see Walter H. Evans take the stand that he has taken, and I hope that tills office of District Attorney will see the practice abol ished for all time. Again, he will ad vise a man of his rights under the law when he Is charged with a crime, but hold him responsible for all that he says. This is another good move, for all too often the poor devil that is brought before the bar is practically deprived of his rights by the over-ambitious prosecutor, who, in his desire to win, fails to grant to him the rights which the law has provided for his safeguard. And, in conclusion, it is the policy of Mr. Evans to exert no power that he is not given under the law. but to exercise the power that he has granted him. Surely this fairness on the part of the candi date is such as to warrant our sup porting him and having these features of his policy put into practice. E. A. K. Delegates to National Conventions. KNAPPTON, Wash., April 17. (To the Editor.) How many delegates will the Republicans and Democrats have at their National conventions and what is the number of delegates of each party based on? A. L. DARK, The principal basis In each party is representation In Congress, two dele gates being allowed for each Senator and each Representative. Delegates are also apportioned to Hawaii. Porto Rico, Alaska. The Philippines and the District of Columbia. The Republican total is 1078. A slight variation in the plan gives the Democratic convention 1096 delegates. The Congressional representation totals 631. making 1062 delegates on the main basis, but Arizona and New Mexico are allowed two ad ditional delegates each, making a total of 1064 delegates from the states. Railroad Station's Record for Siae. Indianapolis News. The Grand Central Station In New York, which holds the record for size. Is eight times larger than Waterloo Station in London. New Alloy In France. London Tit Bits. Magnesium is the principal ingredi ent in a new alloy brought out in France that weighs about two-thirds as much as cast aluminum. Love's Labor Lost By Dean Collins. I met a man who laughed in glee. And puffed a large cigar; "Oh. tell me, sir," said I to him, "Why you so merry are. While I and other men are glum As nearer the elections come; Feeling, as voters, heavily Our great responsibility." "Have a cigar!" cried he. and smiled. "It cost me not a cent. For it was given unto me By would-be Sheriff gent; He, with the smoke stick, gave his card And said, 'I'm out and running hard To be the people's nominee. Do a good turn and vote for nus.' "I gladly took the card and eke The luscious black cigar; Not from this one alone; there came Others from near and far. My pockets bulge with cards and smokes. My ribs are sore from friendly pokes, From many score of candidates Full oft I took the stogie baits." "But wherefore laugh?" I asked of him. He gave my side a poke. "Get wise, get wise." he gaily cries, "And tumble to the joke. Though these cigars I take and puff Until I holler, 'Hold, enough!' I cannot help them, as it were i I'm one who did not register." Portland, April 17. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlan of April 18. 1862. Robert Johnson, son of Senator An drew Johnson, arrived at Washington on the 4th. He was driven from his home, escaped through the rebel forces and reached the Federal lines. The Union spirit in East Tennessee he rep resents to be as strong as ever. The two Union men. Fry and Henckle. were arrested at night by the rebels and hung'the next morning. This was done by order of General Carroll. Captain J. P. Bagley. of Steilacoom, was drowned in San Francisco harbor on the 21st of March In attempting to go on board the brig Energy, which he commanded. We have a slip from Corvallis which purports to give the resolutions adopt ed by the secesh convention. The whole thing looks like a hoax. We Judge that but few delegates were In attendance., as we notice that some whose names are given in the proceedings were in our city during the sitting of the con vention. The following are the candi dates nominated: For Congress, A. E. Wait: for Governor, John F. Miller was taken up and elected on the fourth ballot: Secretary of State, George T. Vlnning: State Treasurer, Jerome B. Greer; State Printer. A. Noltner was taken up and elected on the sixth ballot. The new Council organized by the election of O. Risley. president, and C. H. Boyd, clerk. . The new ferry-boat is very busy tak inn cattle across the river every day, most of which are northward bound. The new boat is quite an improvement on the old, rickety -tub heretofore used as a ferry-boat. As "Ed" Howe Sees Life The devil claims that when people are about to make a mistake he whis pers to them: "Don't do that." If you want your daughters to be come good piano players reverse pres ent conditions. Let them practice six hours a day and go to school an hour a dav. Learning to play a piano well is more difficult than to learn to read and write. When a man gets along all right when his wife is away it is a sign that he doesn't get along very well when she's at home. It mav at least be said of divorced people that they had the courage ot their convictions. When you do a thing because "it is expected of you," it is usually your duty. What is there in this story that ex ercise is so good for us? Women ex ercise less than men and live longer. When you receive a compliment look it over for flattery. When there is something plainl wrong with a man, and people are not certain what it is, the favorite guess is fits. A Chicago man offers to teach any one bv mail, in an hour's time, to play the piano equal to a music-master. Many people will not only buy this sys tem, but believe, after an hour's prac tice, that they can play as well as any tine. Indeed, I believe that many of the piano players I know were taught by this system. Only members of the musicians' union have a right to make music, and finally there will be a protest because you whistle. DECENT ELEMENT SHOULD UNITE Time Is Ripe to Put Such Men as Fouls Out of Politics. PORTLAND. April 17. (To the Edi tor.) Just the other day a citizen asked me if there was any serious attempt to put Seneca Fouts in office. Knowing how the great North End votes and how solidly united the vicloui element stand when from their stronghold they at tempt to put their favorite In office, I replied that the attempt to put Mr. Fouts in office was a serious move. Right here I would like to say that it is high time that men like Seneca Fouts were being given frankly to un derstand that the time has come when a man with his past record Is not wanted in public office in any re spectable community. There is a way to do this in a quiet, dignified manner; and that wa is to go to the polls, not with the voting strength of the decent, law-abiding ele ment scattered for two or three candi dates, but united upon one single can didate whose reputation and ability meet with universal approval. Evidently Walter H. Evans is that man and if the law-abiding, self-respecting and country-loving voter wishes to profit by casting his ballot, let him cast It for Walter H. Evans for District Attorney. Adopt this plan, and it will not be long before such men as Fouts will be divorced from politics forever. But if the vote of the better element will not be united at a time like this, we may expect unfit officials in public office. THOS. N. BENTH. The Comforts; of Home. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Doctor Your wife says you talk In your sleep. The Patient Well, confound It, it's the only chance I get! Italy Copies Our Trademarks. Baltimore American. A great part of Italy's trade with Turkey consisted in selling cotton goods which were Imitations of Ameri can marks and brands at