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I; PROGRESS IS PROGRES8TVISM.
! The platforms of the Frogres.
fc'sive conventions of New Jersey
? ! and Michigan enable us to f oresee the
1 1 kind of platform which will be adopted
t by the National convention of the new
! party at Chicago. They give us an In-
sight into the latest development of
5 progreaslvlsm In the mind of Roo
5 1 velt, for it is safe to assume that the
2 : leaders in these states got their cue
'.from him. A comparison of the
t ! principal speeches made by Roosevelt
' since his return from Africa enables
Slus to trace his progress in progres-
.slveness and to learn how far he has
S ! advanced beyond the doctrines which
! he preached as President.
C j The most striking advance In radi
C ! calism made by the ex-President Is In
t his advocacy of direct nominations
t land direct legislation. His Osawato
Jlmie speech on August 31. 1910. was
k at the time considered to embody the
1 1 extreme to which he would go without
i i becoming an outright advocate of pure
democracy. But In that speech he
j! simply recommended direct primaries
j and corrupt practices acta, ignoring
Si direct nomination for President and
- Vice-President, direct election of Sen-
; ators and the initiative, referendum
, . and recall. In his speech at Portland
J; he said or tne aireci B6isiu'
I ) ods of Oregon:
. i i.-.4r .rmiuthr with them, but
i there are one or two I wouldn't have adopt-
ed. If I had Deen in uregon,
S- Deen aaopteu. r . - - -
I have voted for applying the recall to the
L . Judiciary.
t That is far from a flat-rootea aeo-
' , rtvnvnn m alh.
Si larauon in lavor vc
. i- ie fa a nlnln rnndemnation of
J HU . . 1
recall of the Judiciary. But he had
! gone forward to the extent of favoring
j direct election of Senators.
In his Columbus speech on Febru
i ary 20, 1912. he had advanced so far
' that he proposed Presidential prefer-
ence primaries as well as direct nomi
? ..iinna sitii ia hArame an)Den advo-
cate of direct legislation, but only as
, ! a power to be held in reserve by the
1 1 people; also of the recall, but only
1 1 when there la a widespread popular
Lj. demand, and In. the case of Judges only
r as a last resort. He, however, supple
t mented his qualified support of recall
;! for Judges by-proposing recall for Ju
i dicial decisions in Cases of a certain
J class. The substance of what he then
; said on this subject follows in his own
i. i words:
f i 1 believe In the Initiative and referendum.
Jl which ehould be uaed -not to destroy repre-
eentatlve government but to correct it when-v-
ever It becomee mlarepreeentatlve. ... I
4 1 believe that the atate ehould provide for the
t posalblllty of direct popular action In or
' J der to make good legislative failure (to re-
apond to the popular will). The power to
' Invoke auch direct action, both by lnttl-
f ative and by referendum, should be provided
!, In such fashion aa to prevent Its being
1 wantonly or too frequently used.
Wl As to the recall. I do not believe that
C! there Is any greet necessity for It as re-
; gards short term elective officers. I believe
t , It should be generally provided, but with
N i euch reatrlctlone aa will make It available
! 1 only when there Is a widespread and genu-
' Ine publlo feeling among & majority of the
NI roters.
As t6 recall of Judges he said:
do not believe In adopung tne reran
m ; save aa a last resort, when It haa become
r clearly evident that no other course will
I , recall wtu have to be adopted or else It
will have to be made much easier than 1t
P 1 now la to gt rid. not merely of a bad
1" ' Judge, but of a Judge who haa grown eo
l '. put of touch with social needs and facts
t ' that he Is unfit.
V; The New Jersey platform of his
fi party makes a long stride forward. It
; proposes not only direct nomination,
I -.but direct election, of President and
Jr- Vice-President, and demands simpler
and easier methods of amending the
Constitution. It proposes without
: qualification the initiative, referendum
and recall, seemingly in National as
; well aa state affairs. Recall of de
cisions Is dropped by the wayside, as
fit has been long since by Roosevelt
himself.
la proposing Government ownership
fof express, telegraph and telephone
ifrvlce the Jersey men take another
5 long "step forward. When Roose-N-elt
was forcing the railroad rate bill
.through Congress in 1906. his most ef
i fectlve weapon was the warning that,
if the railroads did not submit to real
f Government control, they must face
I the alternative of Government owner
l ship, which he deprecated. In his Os
, awatomle speech he proposed to en
f large the degree of Government con-
trol so as to provide supervision of the
capitalization of all corporations doing
Tan interstate business, which would
'include railroad corporations, but he
said nothing of Government owner
"shlp. Now his supporters propose
.Government ownership of express,
j- telegraph and telephone lines; . also
; Government ownership and operation
i I of all railroads and other public utlli
J1, ties In Alaska. They would need to
V ' go but little further in order to urge
! ! the same policy for the United States
; '; as a whole, though Bryan's speech in
favor of that course called forth con-
j ; Roosevelt has always fought shy of
the tariff, and has been regarded gen-
I ! entity as a strong protectionist. Among
a . . i i i wi. V m vo
tlonallsm was revision by schedules
i , with tne aid oi a tana commission,
which then was and stiU is Taft's pol
) - Icy. His followers now profess faith
C in protection "limited to the difference
abroad." which is the Taft policy, but
they conple It with abolition of duties
- "where competition has been de
stroyed by monopoly." which might
have been taken in essence from the
Democratic platform on which Wil
For the first time the Roosevelt
& - 4w.lnM fAflnttlv fir wnmnn
S'suffrage. The Colonel's attitude has
Deen one oi inamrrente. no hhb muq
Ka, V n fawtvatrl thai mAfltnra ff Witmen
desired It. and has suggested that the
women themselves be called upon to
decide whether they should vote. Now
lils New Jersey friends, demand, a con.
-eUtttSobiJ- ameadment-giving women
the fcallot.-
All of this goes to prove that, when
a man or a party starts on the high
road of progress, he or It cannot limit
the distance to be traveled. Especial
ly Is this true of the party which in
scribes "Progressive" on its -banner.
THX READJUSTMENT.
Mr. Bruce Dennis will of course re
sign aa chairman of the state Re
publican central committee. No one
who knows Mr. Dennis had thought
so. little of him and his character as
to suppose that he would take any
other course. He is for Roosevelt.
He cannot honorably remain at the
head of the Republican organization
in Oregon and he will surrender the
trust committed to him. What else Is
there for a straightforward man
to do? .
Mr. Dennis" example may well be
commended to others. Take Dan
Kellaher, who has a Republican, nom
ination -as Presidential elector and a
Republican nomination as State Sen
ator. Yet he haa Joined a new party
and is active in promoting its state
wide organization. Its function is to
overthrow and supplant the Republi
can party and its purpose la to elect its
own candidates and defeat the Re
publican candidates, where such Re
publican candidates have had the
courage and the manhood to acknowl
edge their allegiance to their own
party and have refused to Join
any conspiracy or scheme to betray
and destroy 1L The Kellaher epider
mis is rhinocerontlne. How could any
man of sensibility long occupy so
anomalous a position?
There also Is Lafferty. Consider the
unspeakable gall of Lafferty In re
pudiating his own party at a time
when he has accepted from it the
honor of a renomlnatlon to Congress,
and will solicit a re-election at its
hands. Lafferty Is not a Republican.
He does not pretend to be except at
election time. He was for La Fol
lette; now he is for Roosevelt, doubt
less because he thinks thus to head
off the nomination of any progressive
against him. What a little fellow
he Is!
There may be no real Roosevelt can
didate for Congress from Multnomah;
but there may be a Republican can
didate. There ought to be. The can
didate who, like Mr. McCusker, says
he 1b a Republican, and believes the
party is worth while, and may yet ren
der service to the country, deserves
and will undoubtedly get the support
of all Republicans, of whatsoever fac
tion, who think, as he does, that the
best interests of the people He in
saving, and not In destroying, the
Republican party.
FAITHFCTC, OR FAITHLESS.
By referzlna- directly to the people the
Republican mix-up over whether Roosevelt
electors or Taft electors represent the Re
publicans of the country, the progressives
are acting entirely In the spirit of the doc
trine which they represent. One of the
basic principles of prugresslveness is to em
body In the details of politics what has been
termed: The Code of the People's Kule."
. . This Is people's business. It is
business which the people ehould be per
mitted to determine for themselves. . . .
The new Issue Is whether the people them
selves will permit their guns to be spiked
by a few self-appointed rulers ana commit
teemen Shaniko (Oregon) Star.
Pretty good if true: but is it true?
Do the Roosevelt third-termers, or
National Progressives, purpose to re
fer to the people the plain question
as to whether they the people
shall choose Roosevelt electors or
Taft electors? Do they? Or do
Roosevelt partisans, masquerading as
Republicans, yet boldly announcing
that they are not Republicans, usurp
the Republican name and candidacy
and refuse, where they can, to permit
Republican electors to be named in
their stead? They leave nothing; to
the people, unless they must; they
take everything they can get- and
hold everything they have.
The only question they profess to be
willing to leave to the people is
whether they as Republican electors
shall be honest or dishonest faithful
or faithless. The very suggestion is
offensive and insulting. -
EVERYBODY'S TtorXG IT.
The Tillamook Headlight must be
somehow mistaken In its sharp com
plaint about the increase of taxes in
that county for the past ten years.
There has been no Increase, at least of
state taxes. On the contrary, they
have decreased, under the beneficent
workings of our modern system of
havin everything free through Gov
ernment bounty. For authority that
state taxes are less, we offer in evi
dence, In contradiction of worthless
tax receipts and the common impres
sion of every taxpayer In Oregon, the
testimony of the Oregon Blue Book,
Issued bv the State of Oregon; and the
State of Oregon ought to know. On
page 45 (edition 1911) we find:
Throunh the enactment of laws by the
Legislature, licensing and taxing private cor
porations, taxing inheritances, licensing in
surance companion, etc - and the receipt of
fund from other sources, the burden of
defraying the expenses of state government
haa been lifted from the shoulders of the
taxpayers of the state In the aggregate of over
two and one-halt million dollars within the
last 11 years, ending December 81. 1810.
and the receipts from the sources of indi
rect taxation are Increasing at the rate of
10 per cent per annum.
There you have it. right from offi
cial headquarters. The belief that
taxes are growing heavier Is all a
mvth so far as the state Is concerned.
The taxpayer's burden has been light
ened, and yet he complains. There
must, of course, e an error about the
Tillamook figures; for taxes cannot, of
course, be both lighter and heavier.
But. taking for granted that taxes
may be heavier. In places. Is the Ore
gon, system to blame? Undoubtedly;
but not the Oregon political system.
It is the universal system of spending
more and more for all sorts of publlo
schemes, improvements, utilities and
essentials, and non-utilities and non
essentials. If the publlo wants It, it
costs nobody anything much; and
bonds are voted or the money is ap
propriated outright. Withal, we spend
anxious days and troubled nights wor
rying and wondering at the high cost
of living.
BEFRIEXSrXO POSTERITY.
From present appearances posterity
will know a good deal more about us.
or some of us at any rate, than we
do about our predecessors. Ever since
celebrities began to pour their souls
and voices into the phonograph ama
teurs have been Industriously collect
ing their "records." In the last Pres
idential campaign all the candidates
might be heard by the studious citi
zen at his leisure in the sacred seclu
sion of his own parlor by simply
touching a spring and changing the
record at proper intervals. Since then
the art of passing illustrious voices
down the ages has been greatly per
fected and multitudes of the famous
have been persuaded to talk for fu
turlty who would have scorned to do
it a few years ago.
But this is not enough. Posterity,
If H la anything ilka us, will yearn to
find out- all It can -concerning those
who have gone before and a society
has been organized with President
Taft for its honorary head to gratify
this laudable longing in still another
way. The new project la to collect
literary memorials of living worthies,
carefully excluding any mention of
those who are not definitely known
to be "immortal." -
Aa a beginning for this noble un
dertaking Alfred Russell Wallace has
contributed. In his own handwriting,
"a resounding paragrah from one of
his most eloquent essays." Bernard
Shaw has donated some remarks on
the drama, oddly forsaking his long
habit of silence on that topic, and
Maeterlinck has sent in a selection
from his "Bee Life." These facts il
lustrate sufficiently the kind of me
mentoes of the rich and great which
the society is assembling. Incidental
to the work of collecting souvenirs for
our descendants is of course a Judi
cious selection of candidates for im
mortality. Think how distressing it
would be to send down to posterity a
memento of a man for whom poster
ity cared nothing.
So a secretary has been charged
with the duty of preparing a list of
the living men who are certain to be
remembered forever. He has com
piled a tentative roll, which The Ore
gonian prints in another place this
morning, but evidently it requires re
vision. A list of Immortals which
Includes J. P. Morgan and Balling-ton
Booth and leaves out President Eliot
and Arnold Bennett Is manifestly In
want of both pruning and expansion.
A RACK TOWARD BANKRUPTCY.
Like the gambler who doubles his
bet after each loss. Great Britain, and
Germany pursue the mad race for
naval supremacy, which may prove a
race Into national bankruptcy. The
German' naval increase is to be met
by a corresponding expansion on the
British side. Each nation is pouring
its wealth into the construction of
great floating fortresses, and the time
may not be remote when both will
decide that Winston Churchill rea
soned falsely when he said: "Though
modern peace is as expensive as an
cient war. It is much cheaper than
modern war." Either or both of the
two nations may reach a point where
they are financially unable further to
expand their armaments, or even to
maintain their navies at their then ex
isting strength. Then they may fall
upon each other with the desperate
determination to end the rivalry in a
grand carnival of expenditure in ac
tual war, each hoping so to cripple the
adversary that he will never again
dream of such rivalry.
The figures given to Parliament by
Mr. Churchill show that the two
power standard of naval strength,
which Britain has striven to maintain.
Is hopeless'y lost. Dating from 1914
that count -y will have forty-one bat
tleships, while the German programme
provides for thirty-eight ships of the
same class by the year 1917, and
building has been so accelerated that
this strength promises to be attained
next year. But Germany has already
mapped out plans for expansion to
forty-one battleships, the very number
which Britain has set as her present
goal. When we recall that a battle
ship is considered obsolete after fifteen
years" service and is then relegated to
the class of armored cruisers, we can
conceive how greatly naval expansion
adds to the annual expenditure for
maintenance of the strength attained.
That the strain is beginning to tell
on both nations is apparent. . Great
Britain is calling upon her colonies to
aid her by contributing either ships or
money. They have shown willingness
to comply, but wil! claim a greater
voice in deciding the foreign and fiscal
policy of the empire. Thus the race
with Germany in navy-building brings
perceptibly nearer the realization of
the dream of Imperial federation. Ger
many, on the other hand, has called
upon her ally, Austria, to build war
ships, which, with those of her other
ally, Italy, may dispute British su
premacy In the Mediterranean. Italy's
naval successes in the war with Tur
key and her seizure of strategic points
among the Aegean Islands add force to
this menace.
The only hope of an end to this in
sane race towards war or bankruptcy,
or both, seems to He in the influence
of the masses, for which the Labor
party speaks In Britain, the Socialist
party in Germany. MacDonald's
threat that the laborites of the two
countries would Join forces In oppos
ing Increased naval expenses portends
the time when the refusal of the peo
ple to pay the 'bills may call a halt
to the military spendthrifts.
8EYEV MODERX WONDERS.
One thousand "eminent scientists"
have been Invited by the magazine
Popular Mechanics to vote upon the
selection of the Seven Wonders of the
modern world. The purpose Is to
compile a list which sahll express the
spirit of the twentieth century in con
trast with antiquity. The Seven Won
ders of the world before Christ, as
readers all know, were designated by
Antlpater of Sldon in a sort of guide
book which he wrote lor travelers and
his selection has been approved by
the voice of .all the succeeding cen
turies. Those which he selected were
the Pyramids, the Pharos, or light
house at Alexandria, the Hanging Gar
dens of Babylon, the Temple of Diana
at Ephesus. Phidias' statue of the
Olympian Zeus, the Mausoleum erect
ed to King Mausolus at Hailcarnassus
by his widow Artemisia, and the Co
lossus of Rhodes. The last was a huge
metal figure which bestrode the en
trance, to the harbor of Rhodes. The
largest ships of antiquity could pass
under It, but It was scarcely half as
tall as the statue of liberty in New
York harbor.
The seven wonders of the modern
world which have been chosen by the
votes of a thousand men of science
are wireless telegraphy, the telephone,
the aeroplane, radium, antiseptics and
antitoxin, spectrum analysis and the
X-ray. ' The list Includes no great
structure like the pyramids or the
temple of Diana and no famous work
of art like Phidias' statue of Zeus.
Neither list Includes any work of lit
erary genius or any machine. The
seven modern wonders were designat
ed by laboratory Investigators and
consequently they reflect the predilec
tions of that class of men. Had the
task of selection been left to poets or
merchants, no doubt an entirely dif
ferent choice of wonders would have
been made. It is quite likely that a
committee of merchants would have
agreed that one of the foremost won
ders of modern times is the mall or
der business, which Arnold Bennett
describes with Imagination so lively In
Harpers' Magazine. As a triumph of
organization nothing in existence sur
passes it and few things equal it.
What any given individual is likely to
regard as a wonder depends upon his
education and habits of life. Objects
which Impress the rustic with awe are
commonplace to the city -dweller. Jo
a poet there Is more wonder in a bril
liant sunset than In wireless teleg
raphy, and to a devout man the an-
nual unfolding of the buds in sapnng
is the standing miracle of the ages.
It never grows old and it never loses
its magic charm.
The modern list of "wonders" is
derived largely from science and in
vention. The ancient world had very
little of .what we call science and its
Inventions were few and trifling.
Some mechanical contrivances were
devised by such men as Archimedes,
but skill and knowledge were lacking
to apply them in practice and they
were soon forgotten by everybody' but
scholars and bookworms. Mechani
cal invention, like natural science, is
a distinctly modern development. For
sources of power the ancients depend
ed altogether upon men and beasts.
Slaves were utilized by the thousand
to shove the huge blocks of the pyra
mids up inclined planes to their posi
tions and a man who happened to
be crushed was less regarded than a
broken pulley ,would be today. 'It is
likely enough that more lives were
sacrificed in building the Hanging
Gardens of Babylon than in our
Civil War. We often speak as If
life were cheap in the United
States, and it is, far too cheap;
but if we compare our conditions with
those of antiquity we shall discover a
change for the better which Is simply
Immeasurable. It would be impossi
ble for the modern world to tolerate
a sham' battle for sport In which hun
dreds of men should be slain as they
often were at a gladiatorial combat
in Rome.
Gunpowder was the first important
step toward substituting natural force
for muscle 'in doing the world's work
either of slaughter or manufacture.
The task of killing men in war was
almost wholly taken over by gunpow
der before any other mechanical
agency was much utilized, but after a
few centuries steam was harnessed
and then In comparatively rapid suc
cession came electricity and explosive
vapors. The rude use of water power
is of course very ancient, but not until
modern times has It been extensively
applied. Its utility was necessarily
extremely limited until the art of
transmitting electric energy to long
distances had been perfected. As con
ditions' now stand, water power bids
fair to be the most valuable mechani
cal agency in the world and long
sighted men are taking advantage of
the fact.
We have spoken of the carelessness
with which human life was sacrificed
In ancient times. No doubt the great
est advance which has been made
since the reign of Augustus has been
in promoting the safety of life and
property. The modern world is in
comparably happier and more secure
than the ancient and Its superiority
over medieval conditions Is still more
marked. In Greece and Rome there
were occasional Intervals of peace, but
Europe In the Middle Ages was a scene
of constant fighting and universal
death. The change has come about
from many causes. One of the most
potent has"been the advance of sci
ence and invention. War has lost its
prestige as the mechanic arts have
advanced. But still more important
Is the fact that science has so In
creased the world's productiveness
that It Is no longer necessary for
starving nations to wage war to ob
tain the necessaries of life. Above all,
however. It Is publicity which has di
minished slaughter and outrage.
Nowadays it Is difficult for a mon
strous deed to escape notice. Former
ly all sorts of horrors could be per
petrated in dark nooks and nobody
was the wiser. But we must not for
get that publicity Is one of the fruits
of science and invention. Without the
telegraph and telephone the dally
newspaper would be as Impossible to
us as railroads were to Alexander of
Macedon.
The next best thing to showing Ore
gon itself to prospective settlers is td
show its products. When the people
see the fruit, grain, fish, lumber, wool,
sheep and cattle of Oregon at the land
shows in the Eastern cities, they will
wish to see the land on which these
exhibits grew. In the last analysis we
are all Mlssourlans and must : be
shown.
It Is doutotful whether Mr. Thomp
son still holds as high an opinion of
Mrs. Goodeve's good-fellowship as he
did when they became engaged. He
would also dispute any statement that
her company was worth 150,000,
though he liked it. Provided she ac
tually gets the 150,000, Mrs. Goodeve
will -not feel the slight he has put
upon her.
If Henry Gaillard Smart should
ever learn to pronounce his wife's
middle name, it will only be after
many lessons from her. If he should
attempt to repeat It when excited by a
conjugal Jangle, his tongue may be
tied in a knot. Just try it yourself
KahllnonapaopulanL
At the risk of making reiteration
Irksome and merely to Impress the
cold fact on the Puget Sound papers.
Old Dry Statistics is again proving
that Portland led all the ports of the
country in shipping wheat the last
fiscal year. ,
There is material In the case of the
Oakland girl for good work by the
Douglas County authorities. The ruin
of young women cannot be stopped.
but mighty good example can be made
in punishing the guilty parties.
A Jail sentence has been given to a
speed maniac In the Municipal Court.
This is. Indeed, progressive, but will
It reach the man quoted in Dun or
Bradstreet?
Possibly one-fourth of 1 per cent of
the Inland Empire grain crop has been
affected by recent storms. This means
calamity to the individual sufferer, but
trifling loss in general.
The people putting the additional
six stories on the building at Fifth and
Alder streets are teaching other con
tractors a thing or two In non-Interruption
of tragic
Diet of carrots and milk. It has been
discovered, will promote longevity
and Improve the complexion, but the
red-haired girl, prone to freckle, must
still be cautious.
Hitherto Invocation of the unwrit
ten law has been Jug-handled. A case
In a local court will show how it
works the other way.
Dan Kellaher will exhibit the fine
points of the bnll moose this morn
ing. ,;-
Fleas -bite more people than mad
dogs. Why not muzzle the flea?
There is no relief for Vincent, Astor
outside a monastery. . ' "
TAXES AM) - POLITICAL SYSTEM
Tillamook: County's Experience! Has
Not Been Satisfactory.
Tillamook Headlight.
The advocates of the Oregon system
are not so enthusiastic as they used to
be, and the newspapers which de
nounced those who opposed it have
held their whist Why? Because they
have to admit that the system is not
working as satisfactorily as they pre
dicted It would We want to say this
that the Oregon system came In handy
for a certain class of politicians to es
pouse and get into office. But what
about the taxpayers, the fellows who
have to foot the bills? We will ask
the taxpayers of Tillamook County to
compare, their taxes last year to that
of ten years ago. It is the privilege
of the taxpayers to advocate a new
system of politics and legislation, but
is the system reducing taxation and
simplifying the laws and bringing
about a more satisfactory state of af
fairs? Not much, by a long shot. But
we will confine ourselves In this arti
cle to taxation and what the Oregon
system is doing to the taxpayers, and
we hope those who were so loud in
their advocacy of it will prove to u
wherein it is a benefit to the taxpay
ers in face of the increase in taxation
in this county. Below we give the to
tal amount of taxes collected for the
past nine years:
190S ....I S9.83S.26
104 86.810.80
1905 89.262,81
1908 ." -. 110,000.82
1907 125.713.79
19liS -. 203.393.43
1909 2:10.063.67
1910 2S2.244.98
1011 837.379.98
State Tax, Tillamook County paid in
1903 6.612.00
1911 48,866.00
These figures show one thing very
oonoluslvely, the taxpayers are being
"stung" quite badly by the Oregon sys
tem. That Is not the only bad feature
about the system. By the dual system
of legislation, taxpayers' property has
been placed in bondage, with the pros
pects that laws will be passed which
will Increase the bonding system and
fasten the yoke of bondage tighter
upon taxpayers' property. But this is
what the - people wanted and they
should not complain, for it Is what is
commonly called the sovereign will ot
the people. This is only the taxation
features of the system we have touched
on. and we cannot refrain from ask
ing the taxpayers of Tillamook Coun
ty, "How do you like it, and how do
you like to be stung harder every
year?"
IMMORTALS .OF MODERN TIMES.
Tentative Catalogue of Living; Statues
in a World's Hall of Fame.
' New York Sun.
The Modern Historic Records Asso
ciation, of which President Taft is the
honorary president, is seek'.ng to ob
tain certain autographic records on
parchment from men and women of
genius throughout the world. The at
tempt to obtain these Inscriptions,
which are meant to embody a brief but
permanent expression of each man and
woman's pre-eminent gift or attain
ment, is meeting with some interesting
responses. The opinion expressed by
Ambassador Bryce that the collection
we are making "will be of the greatest
Interest in years to come' seems to be
shared more especially by eminent men
in Europe. For example. Sir William
Ramsay has sent us a striking epitome
of his career as a scientist: Dr. Alfred
Russel Wallace a resounding paragraph
from one of his most eloquent essays;
M. Maeterlinck a passage from his "La
Vie des Abeilles," Sir Arthur Wing
Plnero and Mr, George Bernard Shaw
some characteristic thoughts on dra
matic workmanship.
Meanwhile, in the pursuit of our en
deavor, there has been assigned to me
the work of compiling a list of names
that shall include all living men and
women whose reputations are likely to
endure. To assemble a list of, say, two
hundred names that will pass muster
may not, to many persons, seem a for
midable undertaking. France has her
"Forty Immortals." The Nobel prize
list is an index of impartiality, yet not
perhaps in all respects a roster of en
during reputations. Included in my
list are twenty-six of the fifty-one men
and women awarded prizes for their
achievements In physics, chemistry,
medicine and literature. Also we have
our own Academy of Immortals, lnclud
Ing certain Industrious contributors to
the periodical press whose names I
have been rash enough to omit. Tet
the making of such a list Is beset with
pitfalls, and must inevitably Invite dis
agreement. Such as it is, incomplete
and imperfect, -I submit it, though
with considerable indifference:
Amundsen, Professor Arrhenlus,
Duke of the Abruzzi, Asqulth, Apponyl,
James M. Barrle. Alexander Graham
Bell. Augustine Blrrell, William Crary
Brownell. Luther Burbank, John Bur
roughs, William J. Bryan, Right Hon
orable James Bryce, George Brandes,
Balfour. Barres, George Grey Barnard,
Balllngton Booth. Sarah Bernhardt,
Brleux. Professor Caducci, Jules Clar-
etie. Lord Cromer, Andrew Carnegie,
Joseph M. Choate, Sir William Crookes,
Mme. Curie, George w. uaDie, u An
nunzio, Admiral Dewey, Debussy, Por-
firio Diaz. Donnay, Mme. Duse, Degas.
Echegaray. Thomas A. Edison, Dr. Paul
Ehrlloh, Rudolph EucKen. l-'aguet, t in-
sen. Galdos. Goldmark, Thomas Hardy,
Frederic Harrison. Sven Hedin.
Hauptmann, Paul Heyse, William Dean
Howells. Paul Hervieu, rienry James,
Rudyard Kipling. Lord Kitchener, Prof
essor Koch, Fritz Krelsler, Selma Lag-
erlof, Jules Lemaltre, Senator Lodge,
Professor Lounsbury, Lloyd George
MacMonnles, Marconi, Hiram S. Maxim,
Maeterlinck, Professor Metchnlkoff.
Professor Michelson, Frederic Mistral,
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Claude Monet,
Lord Morley, John Mulr, J. P. Morgan,
Nansen, Richard Olney, Dr. William
Osier. Paderewskl, Peary, Pinero,
Marcel Prevost, Puccini. Sir William
Ramsay. Lord Rayleigh, Jean Rlche-
pin. Professor Rontgen, Elihu Root,
Henri Rochefort, Jonn u. KocKefelier,
Augusts Rodin, Theodore Roosevelt,
Rostand, Professor Ernest Rutherford,
John S. Sargent, Professor Saintsbury,
Richard Strauss, George Bernard Shaw,
Sienkiewicz, Sorolla, Sully-Prudhomme,
Salvlni. Charles P. Steinmetz, Sun Tat
Sen Sudermann, Thlbault (Anatole
France), Sir Joseph John Thomson,
Tesla, Elihu Thomson, Viaud (Pierre
Lotl), Vambery. Alfred Russel Wal
lace. William Watson, rienry watter-
son, H. G. Wells, Chief Justice White,
Owen Wister, Count Wltte, Orvllle
Wright, George Westlnghouse, Wood
row Wilson, Zuloaga.
This list, it will be observed, contains
the names of few American artists or
men of letters. With the death of
Abbey, Whistler and Saint Gaudens, is
It too much to say that no command
ing figure remains with us In the
realm ot artt vo a utile tower in tne
scale and there are a dozen admirable
American painters. But is there one
great one? I confess myself incom
petent to Judge. Perhaps some brave
soul will suggest a few additional
names of American writers.
Rulers of the principal nations, form
ing an arbitrary group, are not in
cluded in the foregoing list. Singers
for the present are purposely omitted.
Architects? One hesitates.
W. T. LARNED,
Secretary of the Modern Historic
Records Association.
Fight Mosquitoes With Gold Fish.
Four thousand dollars' worth of gold
fish are to be planted In New Jersey
swamps, pools and canal basins in the
hope that the flsh will kill oft the
mosqultoea-
Stars and Star-Makers
By Leone Caaa Baer.
Pearl Gllman, whose divorce proceed
ings filled the local papers last Win
ter, Is singing at Levy's Cafe in Los
Angeles, where she is billed as "sister
of Mabelle Oilman Cory."
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Edna Archer Crawford, who followed
Cathrlne Countiss as leading Woman at
the Baker six years ago, is playing
leads with the West End Stock in New
York City. .
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Florence Roberts nresented last week
in Los Angeles at the Orpheum her
newest dramatic sketch, "The Woman
Intervenes," which she recently pur
chased from J. Hartley Manners. From
the attitude of the reviewers who saw
it at the tryout the production fits
Miss Roberts like the proverbial glove.
and is In every respect better than
'The Miracle," the thrlllo drammerette.
which she visited upon us. There is
little comedy In the piece, the basic
principles of which are the unlawful
attachment of a middle-aged bachelor
for the wife of a Colonel Brent, a
reciprocal feeling on her part that is
supposed to have reached dangerously
near the compromising point, and the
advent at the psychological moment of
the intervening woman." whose inter
ference has the effect of pacifying a
Jealous husband and ultimately pre
venting a shooting tragedy by the em
ployment of skillful tact and diplo
macy. The theme is a delicate one, and
if not altogether original, la treated
masterly and appears delightfully
novel. Miss Roberts is the "woman
who intervenes" and her interpreta
tion of the part Is a fine, strong
specimen of hlstrlonlsm, according to
report.
At this writing it locks as If art had
come to a halt In Vancouver. The last
performance of a serious drama which
is likely to be given there for some
time took place one night last week
when Margaret Illington appeared at
the Vancouver Opera House in "Kin
dling."
The theater has been sold by the
Canadian Pacific Railroad to the Sulli
van & Consldine Circuit, and will be
converted into a vaudeville house. No
other theater in the city Is at present
available for traveling companies.
The Avenue, which Is devoted to the
Del Lawrence Stock exclusively, has
closed for Improvements on its interior
and all the company - Is vacationing.
Howard Russell came to Portland for
a few days, and Rhea Mitchell, who has
been ingenue with the company for
over a year, is visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Mitchell, of
681 Kearney street. Miss Mitchell
brought along with her as her house
guest Dimple Kelton, daughter of the
late Jane Kelton, who was leading
woman of the Del Lawrence company
while in Spokane and later in Van
couver. Clara Byers. a Chicago ac
tress, is the present leading woman.
John Harrington, leading ' man for
Bertha Kallch In "A Light From St.
Agnes," at the Orpheum, learned his
first lessons in stagecraft in 1901 with
Donald Bowles, former Portland stock
actor. Both - were members of the
James Nelll Stock Company in Los
Angeles, Bowles appearing in Juvenile
roles and Harrington' being the heavy
man of the troupe.' The first role ever
played by Harrington was "Swan"- in
"Puddln'head Wilson." Harrington's
success in stock at -Los Angeles led to
his engagement in New York by Ar
nold Daly for whom he waa leading
man In "The Regeneration" and other
Shaw dramas. Harrington created the
role of Hawkins in "The Regeneration
Later he played with Nat Goodwin,
whom he replaced aa Colonel Monroe
in "Cameo Klrby." Harrington played
with Dustln Farnum here in "Cameo
Klrby" three years ago. Harrington
also was a distinct success as Cass
Hawkins in "The Squaw Man." He
was born in Temescal Canyon, Califor
nia, and was educated at St. Vincent's
College in Los Angeles, where he was
a student with Edward Morlarty, a
charter member and one of the first
officers of the Portland Press Club.
Harrington celebrated his 28th birth
day here last Tuesday.
'
Marjorle Rambeau opened with Wil-
lard Mack In stock at the Orpheum
Theater In Salt Lake City. July 14,
playing "Paid in FulL" Rosa Roma Is
ingenue with the conipany.
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John World and Mendell Kingston
are spending a few weeks in San Fran
cisco. This clever couple are among
the vaudevllltans most in demand, and
they generally manage to get back to
San-Francisco every two years, where
they have extensive property Interests.
As World and Kingston this pair visits
us early via the Orpheum.
Bert Leslie has announced the pos
sibility of opening a musical comedy
stock house In Los Angeles. Leslie, in
addition to being the King of Slang-
sters, is an experienced producer and
manager. His idea of a small house
with the highest class of comedy at
tractions seems to be meeting with
favor in Los Angeles.
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Geoffrey Stein, who was in Portland
two season ago in "The City," is ap
pearing as leading man In the same
play this week in Denver with the
Elltch-Long stock.
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Maude Fealy has Joined her company,
the Bealy-Durkin company, taking the
place of Mary Boland, who for two
months has been playing leads with
James Dux kin. Miss Fealy" s husband
manager. e e e
Eugenie Le Blanc Is dancing at the
Portola-Louvre In San Francisco, where
she is dubbld "The Girl with the Elec
tric Heels." Eugenie was soubrette for
Keating & Flood at the Lyric this
Spring season.
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Way back in the metropolis they're
publishing what as news hadn't yet
been given out in Portland. But It's
true: "
Because of a courteous act .by Cathrlne
Counties, the "Louisiana Lou" company will
be enabled to play an engagement in Port
land, Or., which otherwise would have been
denied it.
Miss Countiss Is appearing at the head
of a stock company at the Helllg Theater
in that city for the Summer, and doing
very nicely, thank you. "Louisiana Lou"
also is playing on the Pacific Coast, and in
Its Itinerary Portland will become an Im
portant stop during August. When the
situation was explained to Mlas Countiss
she consented to give up the Helllg for
balf of a week while she and her stock
company appeared In neighboring smaller
towns.
"Louisiana Lou," one of the all-season
attractions of the La Salle Opera
house in Chicago, made a straight Jump
into California several weeks ago, and
has Just finished a three weeks' run
J at the Columbia in San Francisco.
Now it's headed our way and plays at
The Dilemma
By Dean Collins.
fable: In primeval days
Who might have been, if parties were
ill uiuBfl u&jb, a, nviiuuuinii.
He roamed the Jungle day and night
to gataer w nui. ua uuiui,
One day within a hollow tree.
Through a small knot-hole aid . ne
peek.
And saw therein a goodly egg,
A prize which he was wont to seek:
I nominate myself." said he.
"The holder ot that egg to be."
But when his hand was thrust inside.
And the egg grasped, at once he wist
The hole was far too small for him
Then to draw out his doubled fist.
The problem thus assumed an air
Of needing patience, skill and care.
And as he labored at the Job,
Roamed through the wood a lone Bull
Moose,
Who bellowed. "Come along with me.
And let that egg you grasp drop
loose.
For he that In my following comes.
Mayhap may find a crop ot plums."
The baboon scratched his head in
doubt.
Sooth he was puzzled as the deuce,
For It was clear that he could not
Both keep the egg and chase the
Moose.
He knit his brows in thought Intense,
For he was square upon the fence.
The moral of the Jungle tale.
Doth not apply to each and an;
Yet there are some who grasp the egg
Today yet hear the Bull Moose call:
Some who within politic thicket
Seek eggs on the G. O. P. ticket.
How the baboon of ancient days '
Solved the deep problem. I don't
know.
Nor how his modern prototypes .
. Will make their final actions go
But they are booked, I think, at best
For wavering pangs of deep unrest.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonlan of July S5, 1882.
A private letter from The Dalles
states that the writer saw In the hands
of John Campbell, of Washington
County, two pieces of gold taken from
Auburn Flat, Powder River, weighing
respectively 67 and $21. reckoned at
116 to the ounce. Mr. Campbell says
that his and other claims on the same
gulch are paying from 136 to 150 a
day to the hand.
From The Dalles Mountaineer The
repairing of the Cascade Railroad Is
now completed and the arrangements
are such as to admit of passing 200
tons of freight over the road dally.
Florence, July 15. Three men go out
where one comes in. and this will con
tinue to be the case, as hundreds here
can get no work and the failure of
water is stopping the working of claims
daily. The long faces seen here would
amuse if they were not so often worn
by poor men. who. worsted by the frost
and floods of the last eight months,
are here to mend their broken fortunes
and have left those at home dependent
on their labors.
"That Blessed Baby" was the richest
thing we have seen played upon the
stage for many years. Mr. John Wood
Is certainly a first-class comic artist.
Miss Belle Devlne fully sustains her
position as a star actress, while Mr.
Harry Taylor Is Improving rapidly.
Max Irwin continues to present new
and original amusements each evening.
Miss C. Howard is also deserving of
much praise.
Major Curtis' command, consisting of
two companies of California volunteers,
arrived at Fort Vancouver on Wednes
day evening from . Fort .Colville. en
route for Humboldt Bay. We are in
formed the command lost about 20 men
on the way down, by desertion. It is
supposed the deserters have gone to
the mines.
Washington. July-!- In the House,
Bingham, from the select committee ta
whom was referred the President's
message on gradual emancipation, re
ported a bill providing that whenever
the President is satisfied that Mary
land. Delaware, Kentucky, Tennessee
or Missouri has adopted measures for
the emancipation of the slaves tnrougn
out either or all of these states, the
President and Secretary of the Treas
ury shall deliver to such state bonds
equal to the valuation of slaves, ac
cording to the census of I860, provided
no compensation be made to anytate
which aided the present rebellion, the
bonds to be delivered not to exceed an
aggregate of $180,000,000.
Road Is Death Trap.
PORTLAND, July 21. (To the .Edi
tor.) I have Just read the account In
ThA n.n.un rf thA ARI-Jdltnt OH the
Base Line road at Mount Tabor last
night. I have also looKeo. over -tne
scene of the catastrophe. I am per-
...oa that it micht hnve been avoided.
as might also the seven others which
you say nave tanen piace ineio m
past two years. The entire road about
. . . lmi , l n .ra.nn b phnrartflr.
inia "ill la " .
especially at night when the traffic
seems to De tne nwvioni. iun pi-i
of the accident is especially dangerous.
t , .itha. vnv nnsr this snot the
light from the machine will be thrown
across to the opposite noi oi me pio.ce
of danger. On a dark night such as
last night, the driver is wholly de-
. nn hia wn llo-hl. Ani this llsrht
does not show the place of danger. The
road makes- a quick turn here. .The
natural course of the machine is over
the edge or tne roao. io up uvor
. i l..t nle-ht Is unavoidable.
Now the way to avoid such accident!
in the future is to widen the road at
this spot. It can easily do aone. n
would be a small expense to repair 11
.1.1- .. - - nrni-h nrnnartr and
in IU1EI uiouii.j. . r -
many lives may be saved thus. There
are other improvement uii o. -made
on this dangerous road that
i .i .. a ,i in the safetv of
wuuiu aw r. - - -
those traveling it. I submit thess
words believing mat a uiuo
along this line wouldjiea. KdtI.nK'
Where Is This Slan's 'Double!
Christian Herald.
Charles L. Boyer, of Harrisburg, Pa,
formerly of London. England, is devot
ing his life to making people smile
not people who are healthy, happy, or
well to do, but poor people, invalids,
children, and overworked mothers. Al
though busy all day he gives th
greatest amount of pleasure with his
automobile, which was presented by
the people of Harrisburg, and built ex.
pressly for the purpose of giving free
rides to those who are less fortunate.
It accommodates a dozen adults or 20
children, folding steps at the rear, so
that the children cannot hang on at
the risk of life and limb; a big wind
shield and soft backs for the sick. It
started Its career as a Joy giver a year
ago and has covered hundreds of miles
about the city, leaving behind it "miles
of smiles," as Mr. Boyer himself likes
to say. The automobile is only one of
the many ways which he has of bring
ing Joy and hope to those who have
fared ill in life's Journey. Another
unique means of promoting happiness
Is the Home Invalids' Union, which he
organized about seven years ago and
planned for invalids and shut-ins. who
live In homes where they have little to
give them pleasure or cheer.
A Canal Makes New Ports.
London Tlt-Blta
It is asserted that the opening of
the Suez Canal made Marseilles and
Milan, Instead of London, the prin
cipal markets for the distribution of
raw silk. ,