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Foreign postaie double rata. . fc. -.lero Uunlnem Office Verre Co.. an New York. Bronswlclt building, caso. Sinter building. r San Fraodero Olllce R. J. BldweU Co.. 42 Market street. . European olllca No. S Regent street V ., i.oudon. PORTLAND. FRIDAY. AVGCST 16. 1918- NEW YORK'S MORAL SPASM. r - "? 1 , New York in one of its penoun.. spasms of moral reformation always ; 5 presents an edifying spectacle to the '.countrv. These seasons of grace oc- cur to the city much as they do to in . I- Idividuals. A drunkard, after an un usually wild spree, is quite likely to j - shudder at the thought of his sins for J J a day or two and make vehement res t olutions of amendment which he for- - .l- -nnir nr as SOOn aS gets ine ncjvi. mwt ""oi - his head stops aching. New York s renentant fits follow as a rule some ; .monstrous outbreak of crime or cor i ruption which lets in the light upon ' f the habitual conduct of its malefactors, I politicians and police. The crime and ! corruption are continuous beneath the i"; surface. Now and then the crust 1 breaks and the stench and uproar t 'emerge. Then comes a penitential 'season while the rent In the decent J cover is being carefully mended. hen I! that is done things go on precisely as before. The present moral epilepsy ' which is afflicting our admired me ' tropolls originates in the exposures ; following the Rosenthal assassination, which, it will be remembered, was per i petrated in the broad glare of electric lights in front of a fashionable hotel by agents who at once took to an au ; ! tomobile and escaped. After a few days It came to light " that the crime had been concocted ', by high police officials to punish Ro- 'senthal for threatening to expose their i alliance with the gambling brother- hood. Just how high the lines of the J alliance stretched was not quite cer 1 tain, but the farther they were traced j 'the farther they ran. Of course they stop short of the Mayor, but his solici- 1 tude for the welfara of the accused j' officials seems to show that vibra-- lions at least, if not something more "substantial, can traverse the interval. . , With its keen susceptibility to moral 5 thrills New York has suddenly burst t into a glow of righteous indignation. - ' We do not pretend to say how deep t New York's moral reformation is like- 2 ly to go this time, but judging from the past, we see no reason to expect s It to be very profound or very lasting. J The metropolis loves to pose as a moral guide and censor for the rest of the country and the fit perform- ance of that role requires an aspect of. J decency. When that has been recov 5 ered by a decorous series of shrieks j and shudders over the Rosenthal mur. - der we do not apprehend that the . y spasm will persist a great while longer. It could not persist without di " verting the attention of the New York mind from its one object of genuine love and devotion the roll of dollars. I To this god he says his prayers a thou- sand times a day with a fervor which J the - dirtiest Mohammetan faker In I Turkestan can never rival in his ap .: peal to Allah. In money New York j a lives, moves and has its being. At the ; top of its social organism is a brilliant I circle having so many dollars that it j cannot spend them. The members of j - this worshipful and envied clique scat l Z ter their cash to the four winds of j heaven. Easy come, easy go. Naturally j j tne menials and parasites take their ! cue from those above them and burn J - on their part with eagerness to spend ,' J money like ' water. The salesgirl working long hours for $3 or $4 a I week yearns to blossom out in satin I and diamonds. The longing is per v fictly human and in itself innocent. There is no moral reason why a shop ; girl should not wear diamonds as well ; as Mrs. Astor. The only problem for -her to solve is how to get them. When she solves it she does it by selling her . virtue, just as the fine lady above her ; in the social scale sold herself to a , J. millionaire husband. Love has as lit ; j; tie to do with the transaction in one ' j i case as in the other. ' The barber cannot be happy until he has the money to gamble with like j i'i the man he shaves and massages. It comes to him in the form of tips which I is grow more extravagant every day with j ; his increasing greed and the swelling ' - vanity of his customers.- The waiter : receives the means of vicious indul . j- gence from the light-fingered pluto- 'I crat whom he serves with lobster and ' j champagne. The lower classes always . imitate the vices of their superiors ( and eschew their virtues if there are J any to eschew. Thus New York life I, exhibits itself. to the country, as a sort J; of witches' jubilee where everybody, i l:ke Goethe's demons on Walpurgis , night, is madly dancing around the money god and ready to commit any I I crime to satisfy the requirements of ;? his ritual. Essentially New York is a teathen city, as much so as Carthage .evras, and Its religion is as cruel as that ; Moloch worship which sacrificed chil '. Tdren by the hundred in living flame. I ;No doubt there were exceptional Indl- vldua!s in Carthage who protested Vhen the brazen idol received the dole cf screaming infants into its redhot naw. Just as there are citizens of New . ;York who raise their voices against the prostitution of manhood to money. Hut the worship of Moloch went on , until the city fell, and there is no rea- ison to expect that New York's devo- "rtion to Mammon will ever wane, at j least until some great social convulsion ' ears up the causes of the disease. . I We are an exceptionally favored Nation, but we are not exempt from the operation of the moral law, and the habits of life which have brought - ruin upon other peoples will bring it tipon us if we keep them up long enough. ' , THE CHRISTIAN" CITIZENSHIP CONFER : ENCE. Among the significant events to . take place In Portland next Summer - will De the worlds unristian citizen- " ship Conference. It will be held from -i June 29 to july 6 and it Is expected that a number of well-known men - will participate in the discussions. '"The design of the meeting, as we Jgarn from the official announcement, is to discuss a variety of social questions. Kf -nu- fmm the distinctively Chris tian standpoint." It appears that views dissident from this position win v. iomP. Some of the topics which are to be taken up are "The obligations and observance oi one uviiy education and religion; the family and divorce," with many- others of equal Importance ana ume- The circular announcement from which we gather these points rore less clearly what some of the purposes of the meeting may perhaps De. r or exanijiio o on the first page that "the constitu tions and statutes of the Christian nations do not always avowedly de clare the sacred sources from which ihiv He. Hve thpir authority." It may be legitimate to Infer from this that the conference will tane some steps i hoi.o th nims nt the deity Inserted in -the Federal Constitution. If this Is so it will no doubt give rise to some heated argument. Again the announcement declares that "all earthly authority banks up against the divine, which alone is su preme." This might be interpreted to mean that the church is superior to the state and that civil authority is derived from revelation. Very likely there will be advocates of this vUa- st th ronference and pos sibly opponents. At any rate there will be occasion lor lively aeoaies. xjio Federal Constitution, we need not re-mni-k tairce the nn.sltion sauarolv that all Governmental power originates with the people, -we me people oi tvia TTnUerl Statps" it beeins. do thus and so, without any specific deriva tion of authority from xne super natural. Rut Ilia Inr-trinB nf divine riht Is ancient and respectable and it would ha avrTtmplv IntprAstinsr to hear the arguments in its favor resurrected from their tombs and repeated to a modern audience. We foresee a live ly and interesting meeting next June. With such speakers as Ben Lindsay and Woodrow" Wilson it ought to be profitable also. STREETCAR SERVICE. Th ncnnlo of Portland are not de manding a 3-cent streetcar fare. What they want and will have is service from the Portland Railway, ugnt. at pn-a.fr PomDanv. The 3-cent-stand-up ordinance of the City Council is lit tle short of ridiculous. It couia scarcely have been passed with any serious purpose of enforcement. It would, mean endless confusion and trouble and no results. ' Th nnhllr. a vear asro. voted down a no-seat-no-fare ordinance for good reasons. One reason was mat n ex pected the traction company to be controlled as to service and other wise by a public utilities commission. The people voted down a local com mission scheme at the same time, for they had the promise of a state-wide commission from the State Legisla ture a promise abundantly redeemed vv tVi Malarkev nubile utilities bill. Then the same crowd that tried to put through its own scheme of local control, thus giving fine, fat Jobs to local place-hunters, held up the state measure under the referendum; and there Is no public regulation and will ho nono until after November all on account of the selfish schemes and prejudicial activities of the crowd that is busy all the time with public af fairs, to their great detriment. Vnw the Kellaher-Dalv-Clyde out fit civ us an Impossible 3-cent- stand-up ordinance. The public does not want to stana in streetcars on any terms. It wants service. But ior vei laher and his crowd we should have had it now. THE ANGEL PERKINS. Representative Stanley gave to Con gress Tuesday a few Interesting and salient facts as to the activities of Mr. George W. Perkins, financier, during the service of Mr. Roosevelt as Presi dent, and subsequently. Mr. Perkins was for years the handy man of the Morgan interests and the go-between for the trusts and the National Ad ministration. Now he is the angel of the Roosevelt campaign. The record of this great philanthropist and friend of the common people we find thus succinctly set forth in Who's Who In America: Perkins. Oeoree Walbrldae. financier: b. Chicago, Jan. 31. 1862; common sch. edn.; married, r-tartea business career in t.nicago office X. Y. Life Ins. Co.. 1877: became successively bookkeeper, cashier 1881, In spector of agencies. 1SS3, supt. Western dept. 1889. 8d v. p.. 1892, In charge of agency force, with headquarters at home office, 2d v. p., 18MS; chmn. finance com. N. Y. Life, 11HHJ, v. p., ivi4. DKKms partner in utilis ing firm of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., 1001; dir. Northern Securities Co., Internat. Mer cantile Marine Co.. Nat. , City Bank. V. S Steel Corpn.; chmn. bd. C. H. & D. By.. Pere Marquette R. R. Co.; pres. Toledo Ky. A Terminal Co.; chmn. exec. com. and dir. C, B. J. Ry- Co.; chmn. finance com. and dir. Internat. Harvester Co.: v. p. Great Central Dock Co.: dir. N. P. Ry. Co.. Mar quette & Bessemer Dock Navigation Co., Dayton & Union R. R. Co.. Astor Trust Co., Bankers' Trust Co., German-Am. Ins. Co.; trustee N. T. Trust Co. Trustee Vassar Coll. Home: Rlverdale. N. T- Office 23 Wall St., New York. There it is, bluntly set forth, except that to the impartial and curious his torian Is left the task of building up around this structure of bald bio graphical detail the story of the Per kins contributions to past Roosevelt campaigns, the powerful Perkins in tercession for the harvester trust, and the Morgan-Perkins absorption for the steel trust of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Company. Mr. Roosevelt now calmly presents Mr. Perkins as the chairman of the Roosevelt executive committee. Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, the great progres sive leader, with a progressive record extending over two or three long and turbulent months, says In five years Mr. Perkins will be the best-loved man in America. Bullmoositis is a strange disease. THE LITTLE HEIR TO MILLIONS. Less than two days old and worth millions. Casual Judgment would put the Astor baby down as a most fortu nate arrival In this world of many as pects. Staunch ramparts of money bags effectually shield him from the specters of future want. Financial independence, social position and every worldly advantage that dollars may procure are for this little new comer, and he will pass In a golden vehicle along the roads leading to ma turity. To the average healthy youngster the future is largely a blank. Lift him out of his tiny cradle and you may be coddling a future ruler of his country. The whole world is his arena, and who can tell what glorious honors he will grow up to achieve! No mat ter how carefully he be brought up, or how carelessly, who can gauge his possibilities when he buckles on his armor and takes his place In the ranks of those who struggle for achievement and human progress? There is no such delightful uncer tainty about the future of the little Astor baby. His life course is already pretty well defined. The golden ram TITE MORNING parts that protect him from future extremity also hem him in from par ticipation In the glorious battle that is life. When he graduates from the army of nurses and private physicians and tutors which will escort him through the delicious days of child hood, there is but one vocation he may follow. That is the hoarding of dollars. By the very nature of his en vironment he cannot escape it. His mission in life must be to look after the millions that have come to him from he knows not whence. It is in evitable that money can never mean so very much to him, for he will never have been without it. Yet this same money must form the center of his in terests, must form the mainspring of his life. Perhaps we would better save our envy for the normal youngster who Is heir only to the boon of life in all Its wonderful possibilities and delecta ble uncertainties. For if the young est Astor should escape from the cramped and prearranged existence of the idle rich, he would only be the ex ception that proves the rule. WOODROW WILSON'S ACCEPTANCE. Woodrow Wilson's speech of accept ance is commended by newspapers of all parties, but by each for a different cause. Democrats praise It for its De mocracy, Republicans for its modera tion and freedom from radicalism, Progressives for its progressiveness, and few And serious fault with it. "After the raging torrent of epi thets at Chicago, a calm and poised discussion of the chief political issues before the people," are the words in which the New York Evening Post describes the speech. It praises the speaker for having so completely dropped "the Sir Oracle manner." The Post says the speech "will be described by some as Intensely radical; others will think it unduly conservative." The journal adds: It will sound formidable and threaten ing to some. But there Is .nothing of the haste and rage of the leveler and re modeler - about him. When he comes to speak of remedial measures, we hear the cool and sure-footed man of business, who knows that legislation takes time and must be born of something more than a theory. His definite goal Is all the while there, and It Is to cut away ultimately every form of privilege, every concealed right of the few to tax the many, whether under the dis guise of a tariff or a combination In un lawful restraint of trade: but he is for pressing forward towards It with due con sideration of everything involved, and never in a way to alarm or destroy. The World calls the speech "the ablest, cfearest, sanest statement of high public purpose this country has known In a generation," and says Wil son "has driven straight to the heart of the supreme issue of American in stitutions rthe partnership between Government and privilege." It says that of all the candidates "Wilson alone meets this issue frankly and sincerely." It proclaims him "the leader of the American people in this contest to regain possession of their own institutions" and asserts that "he will again make his deeds square with his words," as he did as Governor of New Jersey. The New York Tribune satirically asserts that Wilson's inspiration must have come from some man who said: "Talk If you have to, but don't say anything." It calls the speech a "re markable collocation of polished com monplaces and studied evasions," and sees in the Governor's words "a dis position to kick over the ladder by which he has risen." It accuses him of coldly waving aside the Baltimore platform as inconsequential and of taking "pains to obscure and obfuscate his own", platform. Wilson's speech, in. the .opinion of the New York Sun, "has good luck as well as merit," and gives this reason: It comes Just In time to- contrast sharply with the Interminable Bedlamite rant of Tu. Dentatus Afrlcanus Ferox. The Sun finds this cause for joy: What will please everybody -who has a living to make la Governor Wilson's equable and moderate tone. Of his utterances on the tariff, the Sun says: The "foundations" of business "must not be too radically or too suddenly disturbed.' J mere are to De no violent cnanges. So whether Mr. Taft or Governor Wilson Is elected, business, so far as the tariff goes. Is to be .safe. Thus the essentials of prosperity are sure. This Is a promise of good times, more re assuring and more potent than any other that could be made. Wilson's failure to say anything in favor of maintaining the Navy, comes in for the Sun's criticism. It says that his explanation of the omission im plies that he considers this a trivial detail and that he "might well have found time for the chief and cardinal policy of National self-preservation." The New York Herald says Wilson has clearly Joined issue with Taft on the cause of the high cost of living, and after summing up his declaration for downward tariff revision, adds: Governor Wilson Is in favor of going so far as to wipe out all advantages of manu facturers who In any way are participating In the artificial fixing of prices, no matter how far that may be. But tho Governor is not in favor of doing anvth'ng that in any way la going to dis turb business. How, then, can he do any thing at all 7 In a later article the Herald has doubts "if any deliverance from a nominee of either of the great parties was ever keyed on such a high, ambi tious plane or ever had so much re semblance to the Ten Commandments or the Golden Rule." Adding that Wil son has not justified the predictions of some Democrats that he would favor Incidental protection, the Herald finds comfort in the speech for these anxious souls, remarking: The tariff Is going to' come down, down, down, but is to alight on a feather bed. "Reform in moderation Is the key note," says the Brooklyn Eagle, which contrasts Wilson's speech with Roose velt's confession of faith to the ad vantage of the former. It contrasts. Wilson with Roosevelt in these words: He throws no mud. He does not deny either the right of Mr. Taft to his nomi nation or the right of Colonel Roosevelt to wreck a party to gratify personal ambition. He does not even consider himself indis pensable to the salvation of the country. He stands at no Armageddon. He does not confidently assume that God has entrusted to him or even to the united Democracy trie unique privilege of fighting the Divine bat tle. In fact, he cherishes the shockingly old-faihloned notion that the Presidential campaign should be a dignified contest, never degenerating Into & conflict of per sonalities. The Eagle praises Wilson's tariff programme as "sober, intelligent and comprehensive," and says of it: We do not think that the business Inter ests of the country can reasonably take fright at this. It is reform. It Is even revolution. But, as reform and revolution, it does not demand that the ax be laid to the root of the tree of industry; It does not propose to cast the legitimate business of tho country Into a state or uncertainty, suspense and stagnation. The Springfield Republican declares that "Governor Wilson Is obviously in sympathy with his party's desire to give individualism a further trial in the solution of the trust question, aided by further legislation -designed to supplement the Sherman act In the maintenance of competitive methods." It adds: The deepest note to be found In the ad dress, after all. Is the manifest insistence upon the essential unity and solidarity of the people. That Governor Wilson is "free to serve" such a conception (of the people as a universal partnership), as he declares in conclusion, no one can doubt. No man eve- received a nomination to the Presi dency under less obligation to the powers OREGONIAN. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1913. of darkness, or sectional hatred, of class bitterness. "A most peculiar document in many ways," is the phrase applied by the Boston Transcript to the speech. It finds the keynote "gentle, polite and delicate;" the matter not as "straight forward and emphatic as one could wish," though "there are excellent and thoughtful passages in it." ' Wilson's admission that "a new spirit has be gun to show itself among influential men of business" is called heresy for a Democratic candidate.. The tran script also comments thus: The final words against abusive person alities In the campaign are excellent and worthy of imitation by other candidates. In other words, Wilson is a gentleman and hopes to conduct himself as such during the campaign. But how will the great Demo cratic party, used to billingsgate and abuse, receive such a gentle message from its leader? And does anyone suppose that Terrible Teddy is going into such a wrlst slapplng contest as this? No indeed. The Governor-candidate may have to change his tune when Octouer comes and the guns ot two other parties open up on him. Yet it Is pleasant to know that the Democracy has a gentleman as a candidate. The Chicago Evening Post admits that "true progressives will have little to find fault with in the speech," but prefers Roosevelt because it believes he "would be able to realize for us far more of these progressive policies than Mr. Wilson would." It admits that the progressive ideas of tariff revision are Wilson's Ideas, leaving out of account the revenue-only doctrine, but it says: On the trusts we differ. Mr. Wilson would revise a measure of old-fashioned competition as best he may. We would frankly recognize the advantages of combl nut.on, while wiping out the evils of un regulated combination. The difference between the profes sor and the Colonel, in the opinion of the Chicago Inter Ocean, consists In the difference between the instru ments they would use in a surgical operation to 'separate politics from business. Henry Watterson, speaking through the Louisville Courier-Journal, has overcome his prejudice against the professor so far that he says: Governor Wilson's address was exception ally impressive and Inspiring. That it would be scholarly, thoughtful and well expressed, was expected as a matter of course. Ihot It would be marked by the ability of the man of intellect, the student both of books and affairs, was equally an. tlclpated. But with all this Its real force was the force of the intelligence, the acute ness. the claritv with which the student has analysed conditions and the courage, the sincerity and snnitv with which he ap proaches the responsibility of their rectifi cation. The partv to which the country is to intrust the administration of its govern ment next March is fortunate in having bo lucid and forcible a spokesman, and the country will be doubly fortunate if, under the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson, it shall see realized the soundly progressive policies enunciated by him. The Indianapolis Star's first thought Is that Wilson is "closely following the new party's programme," and the second is "a feeling of satisfaction that these new progressive ideas are making such headway." But the Star professes to know "that if Wilson wins the bosses also win," contending that "great organiza tions like Tammany Hall are too canny to go in on any arrangement contemplating that they shall elect Mr. Wilson, for example, and then he will tell them to go to thunder." "True in spirit and temper and sound in principle" are the terms ap plied to the speech by the Indianap olis News, which calls attention to the fact that both Wilson and Taft, "in their discussion of issues, limit themselves to those with which the National Government has to do," and, unlike Roosevelt, "do not try to make the people believe that all they have to do is to ask the Federal Govern ment for what they want." The-meteoric shower which is about due now will be unusually brilliant because the nights are moonless. The little objects travel through space in a cluster which the earth encounters at this season of the year. The near est ones are captured by gravitation and drawn earthward, acquiring veloc ity as they fall. Originally they are dark, but friction heats them as they traverse the atmosphere. Most of them are vaporized and disappear. Some few reach the ground. They are composed of the same substances as familiar earthly objects, which goe3 to show that all the universe Is akin.' Elmer M, Hartnell has done pretty well in the waj of a criminal record "even fora minister's son." He is "wanted" in three different cities, which means that he is not wanted anywhere except in jail. No doubt the common saying about the deprav ity of ministers' children arises from the popular tendency to expect too much of them. Saintly as their par ents may be, the children are mere human beings after all and quite as likely to err as the rest of us, but not a particle more likely. The Astor baby attracts attention In direct proportion to his money. There is no reason to suppose that' he is stronger, brighter or better than a million other babies born about the same time, but because he inherits a good deal of money he Is acclaimed to the skies, while they are ignored. And yet it is possible that In some humble hime on the Astor boy's birthday a Shakespeare or a Lincoln saw the light. Such things happen now and then. Study of scriptural quotations In some of our esteemed contemporaries forces one to the melancholy conclu sion that an energetic course at Sun day school would do them good. For a single example out of many sad ones take this from an afternoon paper. A certain scheme, it says, "does not flourish like the young bay tree." The Psalmist wrote "green bay tree," but perhaps our contemporary has im proved upon his language. Not all the pains John Jacob Astor took to prevent a will contest be tween his successive wives and their .offspring seem likely to avail. Even when a rich man leaves only, one fam ily it. is difficult to prevent discord from arising over division of his es tate, but when he leaves two a quar rel seems inevitable. About the only way for a man to keep his family united in affection is to die poor. Eagle Cap may not be so high as Mount Hood, but those who have seen It agree that It Is a peak not to be despised and it is certainly the high est peak in the Blue Mountains. That is glory enough. If old Phineas T. were alive he would be here today to remark to "Llmpy Hawes," animal trainer, that Portland was considerable of a show town. Missouri women are progressing. One is seeking divorce because her husband chews tobacco in bed. By and by spitting in the hearth will be come an offense. Will Rev. J. S. Rickard kindly keep his eye on the sun-spots and tell us whether the weather will be fine dur ing our vacation? HOW OXE DEMOCRAT THEVKS Latter-Day Conversion of Mr. Roose velt on Many Issues. W. J. Bryan in New York World. Mr. Roosevelt will also have to meet the Questions raised as to his tardi ness in espousing the reforms which he now advocates. Democrats, at least, will feel that a party which, like the Democratic party, has been fighting In behalf vof reform for many years ought to receive some consideration from one who has violently opposed, as Mr. Roosevelt has, many radical reforms when the Democratic party was mak ing great sacrifices in their behalf. Why, for instance, should a Demo crat leave the Democratic party, which has labored In behalf of the popular election of Senators for 20 years. In behalf of an Income tax for 18 years, for railroad regulation for 16 years, for anti-trust legislation for 12 years, for publicity before the election as to campaign contributions for four years and for tariff reform for a generation why should a Democrat leave such a party to march under the leadership of a commander who did not begin ad vocating the popular election of Sen ators until two years ago, the Income tax until about six years ago, railroad regulation until less than eight years ago, who has remained silent during all these years as to tariff extortion, and has In every campaign since 1892 joined Wall street, the subsidized press, the plunderbund and the bosses In de feating the Democratic party? Assuming that his conversion Is sin cere, why does he not bring forth works meet for repentance Instead of demanding the chief seat at the feast? He ought not to slander the party that has furnished him nearly every reform that he has espoused. A third objection that he must pre pare to meet is that founded upon his position on the trust question, i He failed for seven years and a half while Presi dent to check or even control the trusts; he has not only kept silent for 11 years while the Steel Trust has ex ploited the country, but he permitted the Steel Trust to swallow up its larg est rival, and he now accepts a Steel Trust director as his chief financial backer, and advocates Federal . Incor poration, the very thing that the trusts have clamored for for a generation. A fourth, and the greatest, objection is his desire for a third term, an honor declined by Washington and Jefferson, and withheld from Grant, A third term opens the door to any number of terms. What emergency requires it? The tendency Is toward a single term, not toward a third term. Surely the hatred of the progressive Republicans toward the Democratic party is as Implacable as It Is impos sible to explain If they are willing to risk the dangers of an unlimited suc cession of Presidential terms rather than use .the Democratic party, with Its progressive platform and progres sive ticket, to rebuke the Republican party for failing to keep step with the progressive spirit of the age. Farm Regulation and Fish Laws. NORTH PLAINS. Or.. Aug. 12. (To the Editor.) 1. How Is Sacajawea pro nounced? 2. How do you register a farm? Will you publish the names already registered in the near future? 3. Is McKay Creek, Washington County, a closed stream and by whose authority? i 4. Is It unlawful to fish In a closed stream with license when it flows through your land? A READER, I. Sack-ah-ja-wee-ah. Accent on "wee." 2. Farms may be registeed by pay ment of 1 to the Clerk. of the County Court In the county where the farm is located. The name will be registered in a book kept for that purpose end a certificate issued to the owner with name of farm, Its location and name of owner. The clerks forward names to Secretary of State and in event there is another farm name In the state registered substantially the same a new registration will be furnished for another name without cost and so on until the name Is not substantially the same as any other registered in the state. 3. McKay Creek has 'been closed by order of the State Board of Fish and Game Commissioners. 4. If a stream is closed to fishing ownership of adjoining land will give no right to fish in the stream, nor will possession of a license. Problem In Science. PORTLAND, Aug. 14. (To the Edi tor.) This morning in washing a large stone jar with a flat glazed Bottom, an ordinary brass .nozzle on the end of a -inch hose carrying a very strong force of water, was placed ver tically on the bottom of the jar, wnen it was instantly seized and held fast, so much so that the jar was well-nigh lifted by pulling up on the hose the water In the meantime continuing with unabated force. What held that noz zle? This evidently is the old phe nomenon of the ball and nozzle, but it is none the less puzzling to the ama teur scientist. will rue t'regonian please show us? C. E. CLlNi,. Either Mr. Cline has neglected to give all the particulars of the case or he has made a remarkable discoveiV Did we not know him to be strictly temperate we would say spirits had something to: do with the phenomenon. Weight of Water. PORTLAND, Aug. 14. (To the Edi tor.) What is the weight of a cubic inch of water? A READER. The weight of a cubic foot of dis tilled water at a temperature of 60 degrees is 1000 ounces, very nearly. Divide by 1728 to find the weight of a cubio inch. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of August 16. 1S02. A gentleman who has crossed Irom Fourt Benton this Summer arrived here last evening and states that he was one of the advancad party of emigrants who were en route for Oregon The emigration coming by this route had got along finely, with little or no trouble. Fortress Monroe. Aug. 6. A recon nolssance on Monday night to Malvern Hill resulted favorably. We now oc cupy that position with sufficient force to hold it and carry on other plans. Washington, Aug77. Ex-Senator A O. P. Nicholson, of Tennessee, has been arrested on a charge of treason. ' Although there Is" no probability of hostilities between the United States and Canada, the people of that province have been told emphatically that in such event they must not look to Eng land for armies to sustain their causes. The steamer Marie will make her first trip to the Cascades on Monday next, leaving here at 9 A M. and will con tinue thereafter to make regular daily trips on this route, connecting with steamers Dalles and Spray on the Co lumbia above. This will complete the arrangements for the, establishment of an opposition line of steamers on the Columbia, iFLrENCE, jtot identity; vovtsts Bad Man Among; Followers Need Hot Injure Candidate. MARSHFIELD. Or., Aug. 12. (To the Editor.) The writer agrees with "Another Voter" in that It is high time the goats and the sheep were unmixed. We want a separate pasture for the elephant, the jackass and the bull moose, and the sooner we get them the sooner we shall know who is who. There are too many office holders and office seekers with the voice of Jacob and the hands of Esau. We want to put these fellows somewhere and then see that they stay put. With all due respect I wish to remark that Theodore Roosevelt did take steps toward the remodeling of the tariff, but we said: "Hold on now, don't be so fast, wait until after, the election In 1908 and-then look at our smoke." The folks claimed the tariff on neces saries should be reduced, and we prom ised to do that. Oh, but we did though. Uh huh! Not in so many words in our platform, but through the press, from the stump and otherwise; they believed us and took us at our word and hence we landed the jobs. Then we got busy right off. We weighed in at the ringside and waded in. We fiddled and feinted and side stepped and finally landed a foul, after which we took to the uncut cat tails. Then the folks said, "You have played us for suckers; you have deceived us; you promised us bread and Instead you have handed us a whole stone quarry." We crossed our fingers, bowed to the shades of Ananias, and declared we had kept the faith and done the very best we could. The folks continued to mourn and refused to bo comforted. There upon "self-abnegation" girded up his capacious abdomen, annexed his al leged faked tariff statistics and hied him to the land of the insurgents. "Bearded the lion in his den." his ad mirers said. Arrived, he lauded Mr. Aldrich as a patriot, he told them the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill was the best ever, and that, honest Injun, we had done our full duty and our very level best. Whereat the lion roared, and "the smile that won't come off" re turned, It is alleged a much madder, but not a wiser man, to withhold pub lic patronage from the representatives of the mob. . It was about this time, too, we had a board of some sort, of the "Judicial tem perament," supposed to inquire into and report upon the cause of the high cost of living. We have proved long on boards. A board is a fine place behind which to deposit one's sins. This board, after profound consideration, determ ined, if my memory is correct, that the high cost of living was not at all due to the tariff, but to cold storage and cold feet. Since then we have been on the run and the folks have been looking for us with a club. Each time they have gotten a fair wallop the sponge has gone up and our approved policies have gone down with unerring regularity. But instead of gaining wisdom by the depletion of the ranks of our parti cular brand of statesmen, at Wash ington and elsewhere, we have hard ened our hearts, stiffened our necks and taken a more direct route for the devil and Tom Walker with Captain Jonah at the wheel. Now the plain truth Is, the folks are infinitely better Informed on public questions than they were even five or ten years ago. The ossified haven't found this out yet. They'll get there just after the procession "has moved on. The people are familiar with our curves. We have been caught with the goods. Then why not frankly con fess, take what is coming and have another -try at it. under parole? The Democratic party as such is and always has been a negative party. It is and always has been a party of standpats. It never has and probably never will break new ground to any arjDreciable extent. Mr. Wilson, as leaven. Is out of all proportion to the lump. Just what comfort any insurgent of any sort can nna. in tnai party x am at a loss to know. However much we may deplore the fact, it would seem an attempt to mod ernize either of the old parties is labor lost. The Deoole in one way ana an other, within the last few years, have brought about many radical cnanges in covernmental affairs, and they are determined to bring about many more. Thousands of them are aetermineo. not to support any man for public office who is opposed to what they believe they need, whether friend or foe. Pub lic feeling is infinitely greater than skin deep. We are not obliged to wait 30 years, as per Mr. Bailey; we are at at this moment in the throes of a modern and an American revolution. But It appears there are many honest and sincere peo Dle who either won't, can't or don't comprehend the gravity of the situa tion. They are satlsneu tooiisniy 10 cry "demagogues," "erotics," "spasms," "mobs" and the like, but the people who do know, know the situation Is far removed from any Joke. I assume any candidate Is sure to have some corrupt men behind him. Even the Savior of man had among his followers one Judas. The question is not has a candidate bad men among his supporters, but rather can these men control his acts and policies should he be elected to public office? That is the question. That Mr. Taft has accom plished wonders, we cannot deny. The proof is overwhelming. Behold how he has built the Panama canal. Yeow: GEORGE W ATKINS. Canal Treaty and Single Tax. ' SALEM, Or., Aug. 14. (To the Ed itor.) 1. Upon what clause of the Hay. Pauncefote treaty does Great Britain base her objection to the present Panama Canal bill? 2. What would be the effect of sin gle tax upon a farm, assessed valua tion $4000, taxed $80, and bringing the owner an annual rent of $240? These fierures are offered In the hope that single-tax theories can predict the actual monetary gain, or loss to me farm owner. 3. Who will bo responsible to labor ers on the farm? 4. How many salaried positions will be created? SUBSCRIBER. 1. The treaty clause on which Great Britain relies Is as follows: Th mnnl shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all na tions observing these rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of ; traffic or other wise. Such conditions-' and charges of traffic shall be Just and reasonable. 2. If the correspondent refers to the practical application of single tax as provided in the Fels amendment, the answer to his problem cannot be given. There are no existing assessments, tax rolls, statistics or other data from which can. be computed the single tax rate of levy with any degree of ac curacy. The Oregonian has heretofore warned the voters that figures pur porting to show definite mathematical results of the enactment of this meas ure are mere guesswork. 3. The amendment would not affect existing contracts between farm rent ers and farm owners as to payment for labor performed on the premises. 4. The amendment does not specify the number of clerks to be employed in carrying out its provisions. It names the Governor, State Treasurer and Secretary of State as the Board of State Tax Commissioners, and author izes the Governor "to employ necessary assistance and to Instruct and direct assessors and prosecuting officers." Safe Vacation In a Cellar. Cleveland Plain Dealer. In the Breathitt County hills. The Stranger What delicious moun tain air! Why, It's far finer than any tonic. I suppose your family spends most of its time out of doors? The Native Waal, no. Pap an th bovs spends most c their time in th' cellar. We got a feud on with th' Hightower XOCTSB. HOME AITD ITS - PURPOSES Friend Commends Its Work and Dis cusses Needs It Fills. PORTLAND, Aug. 15. (To the Edi tor.) In The Oregonian August 15, I noticed an article concerning one of the charitable institutions in Portland that I felt I would like to say a word about, as I have become familiar with its work and workings, and feel that the general public do not know of. it in all its length and breadth. I believe heartily with you that there is a tendency to multiply churches In many places all out of the need and to the impoverishment of the individual church and the good accomplished: but when I consider the sreut no-d which the institution under question is meeting I cannot believe that it comes under this category. The Louise Home for needy and morally "down and out" girls, or ihofce who are on the slippery road to this condition, is doing a distinctive work, peculiar to itself, and which no other Institution in the city is doing, In that it seeks out the girls of whom it hears through the police and juvenile courts, or through report of those who know that the girl is not properly environed and cared for and needs a. friend who will be father and mother and big sister to her until she can get on her up ward tending feet again; girls who are hiding in their timidity and shame, awaiting the fearful ordeal of their sorrow. It says to these: "You will find an open door and friends who will care for you whilo you have need and will help you to start aguln In the race of llf. even though you have been this time worsted." Further It makes the girl understand that when ever she has need of a home for a few days between periods of work after she has left the Home she will always be welcome and may write for advice when away and counsel with the home-keepers and Its superintend ent whenever she needs directing. This means much to the homeless girls who many of them for the nrt time taste the delight of having one who really cares for them and their greatest needs, and will lead them in the best way. More, the founder of this home and his helpers make It a part of their work to keep in touch with the girls who go out of the home and help them to find work where they are freest from temptation. It admits any girl who needs help at any time of the day or night with no credentials but her great jiecd, the diseased, desperate, hiding from the tempters, of all races, colors and con ditions, with no questions asked, no waiting for consultation with boards, which must be done in many other in stitutions as they are organized for a special work and cannot go beyond, the terms of their constitution. In short, this home Is Just a warm open door to the girl in her direst need and remains so Just as long as possible afterward. . Because it has outgrown Its present quarters a work is on foot to build larger and better accommodations for those who are seeking its shelter, where they may care for the little waifs who are born in the institution and who now rgt be boarded out often in unsuitable places by the child mothers who hug these little fatherless children and care for them, even though living evidences 01 meir pasi miaiui tune and sorrow. More, this home is very distinctively religious, while non-sectarian. While It never turns a girl away no matter what her belief or unbelief, it uses every means to plant her feet on the rock which will never fail her as she goes out again into the world of temp tation and sin. TiA..a thn inKtitntinnR in the city doing the same work still we would urge its defending ana support mute there are not enough places yet to v... tho -L'avwur1 anH fallen cirl3 when they are searched for and fouml nA rtf thn "nnnn door." and be cause the present home Is taxed to the utmost a great part of the time. Finally there is little danger of too many doors of refuge being opened for the needy, and we cannot do less than Hm ail thA hftartv suruort and God speed which they need, especially when tney are uum ui aavi u.vo are carried on by those who are giving their life to the work, with simply a living as recompense, as those who are in the care of the Louise Home are doing. A FKIISU. More London Women Smoking. London Cor. New York Sun. Qmnifinr lit heftominr far more com mon among women In society. Tho habit is Indulged In more openly than it was, and It is not an uncommon sight to see a woman motorist who Is mak ing calls puffing away at a cigarette between visits or a woman golfer doing .oma thine-. At many of the West End restaurants woman no longer take the trouble to conceal meir ii&ios . v. Ai0ttA Miinv women, moreover. lug v4-fcvw. have got beyond the cigarette stage, and smoke cigars mild Havanas. Horn to Beat the Dictagraph Detroit (Mich.) Free Press, "I'm going to learn the deaf and dumb language." "What for?" "So's the next time I go after a bribe no measly little dictagraph can catch SUNDAY FEATURES Setting Things Straight Tho work of a coterie of German scientists, who would normalize the world, is described by a Berlin correspondent. An in teresting and profitable feature. Outlawed Birds There is a Federal court that tries feath ered offenders against mankind. The guilty are condemned to die. Unusual page feature. Capturing Berlin How irri sistible American beauties took a handsome count for their own and humbled the Emperor's daughter. The Outfielder Joe Jackson, star outfielder of the Cleveland Americans, contributes to the series of baseball articles by ex perts. Safe Flying An illustrated page feature on the progress of aviation. It will be as safe as automobiling in another year, says one authority. A Perilous Corner A true narrative of the perilous corner in Congo's rubber output ef fected by two adventurous Englishmen. The Mystery A rattling good adventure tale. Three complete short stories. The Golf Girl New feature in, colors, replacing the Jump Ups. A striking page to frame or mount on cardboard. Many other features. Order today from your news dealer.