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PORTLAND. SATCRDAY. NOV. . 1913-
THE VOTE ON MEASURES.
Only one-third of the measures sub
mitted to the voters Tuesday were
successful. The character of those
adopted Indicates clearly that when
the ballot Is overloaded direct legis
lation Is occasionally a lottery, but
that even with a great mass of legisla
tion before them the people possess
discernment as to fundamental and
elemental Issues and vote thereon In
telligently. ' There were some measures defeated
that it would have been well to enact,
but, as stated prior to election, there
was not one of the miscellaneous
measures that the state could not get
along without. One bill probably is
adopted that It would have been wise
to reject. The railroad rate bill
should not have been on the ballot.
In principle it is reactionary. It is
opposed to the progressive trend of
thought that had its first expression
in this country in the enactment of
railroad commission laws in many of
the states of the Union. This act
hampers the powers of the Railroad
Commission in adjusting rates for the
benefit of the whole people. It had
Its inception in the envy of smaller
communities of Portland's trade su
premacy. It was not designed to rem
edy rate abuses afTecting the greatest
number of people. It Is a local meas
ure. It was not drawn in behalf of
the people, but in the interest of a
few would-be small jobbing centers.
The voters may have believed it to be
a. movement to obtain better railroad
rnt for shiDDers in general. As a
matter of fact, it has been pronounced
by the Railroad Commission to be
prejudicial to certain producers and
shippers and discriminatory against
Portland. In some respects.it Is prac
tically unintelligible. What will be its
result cannot be safely predicted prior
to a formal interpretation by the com.
mission, the Attorney-General or per
haps the Supreme Court.
With this exception the voters gen
erally voted "no" consistently when in
doubt. Coupled with this policy, how
ever, was an averseness to creating
new offices and firm determination to
curtail indebtedness. The policy of
economy and the antipathy to new of
fices were disclosed In the large adverse
majorities given the university appro
priations, the acts creating the offices
of Lieutenant-Governor and Hotel In
spector, and in the voting on the road
measures. The harmony road bill
providing for bond issues was signally
defeated, yet bills emanating from the
same source and limiting state and
county Indebtedness for roads appar
ently were carried. On tne other
hand, the Grange measure providing
for a method of bonding counties for
permanent roadbuilding received a
close vote and may have carried, while
the other Grange bill creating the of
fice of Highway Engineer went down
to certain defeat.
, An intelligent discrimination was
shown by the electorate in voting on
the tax measures. The way has been
Opened for needed and rational re
forms in tax legislation, the power to
deal with the subject has been re
stored to the Legislature, and the state
has declared emphatically against so
cialistic experiments in the collection
of public revenues. The retarding of
regulation of public utilities through
the medium of the referendum was
properly and energetically rebuked by
the adoption of the Malarkry bill.
Oregon was placed again in the van
guard of progress by extending the
suffrage to women.
The chief lesson found In the defeat
of two-thirds of the measures Is that
the people resent the overuse and mis
use of the initiative and referendum.
The Oregonian predicts with confi
dence that should the abuses of this
year be repeated two years hence the
protest will be expressed in even
plainer terms. Direct legislation is
for use in emergencies. The public
holds an unshaken opinion In that
particular. Occasionally attempts at
ordinary or pinling lawmaking by
means of the initiative may win, but
as time passes these exceptions will
tecome less numerous and more dan
gerous to their protagonists. The tin-
kerer. the experimenter, tne tneorisi
' and the busybody might as well save
their money and their effort.
THE Bl'LL MOOSE ISSVE.
If we were to accept the views of
Mr. Elmer Grandin on the future of
the Bull Moose party as expressed in
a letter to The Oregonian today, it
would be necessary to assume that
there has been no bossism in the
Democratic party or that, if there has
been, sufficient virtue in its member
ship to cause a revolt does not exist.
Mr. Grandin minimizes the impor
tance of the steam roller at Chicago
as a contributing factor to the Bull
Moose strength and places the chief
cause of the Republican split on the
graft resulting from bossism in state
and county conventions and from
partv control by ward healers and
imail politicians in voting districts.
Mr. Grandin is from New York.
He ought to know something about
:he Tammany Democratic organiza
tion. Do election returns disclose
-ven a shadowy defection In New
York City from Democratic ranks to
the great moral party?
Has the Democratic party been the
acme of virtue in the states it has
tontrolled ? Has anybody heard of
a Democratic split In those states?
Does a moral issue appeal only to
Republicans?
On the other hand, why did the
State of Washington go to Roose-
lt? Conventions are not neiu in
ashington. The state has a modern,
ogressive direct primary system and
s had It lor several jears.
es, it is reputed, are out or Busi
ness. ; UIa WfCfiuu 60 avww...
a bigger vote than Taft. If Mr. Gran
din's theories are correct? Here,
also, we have a modern, progressive
primary system. It is the proud boast
of Oregon that the political boss is
reposing in a hermetically-sealed cof
fin, deep in the political grave yard.
We even tamped the earth a little
harder in the recent election.
Wherever the boss has been kicked
out, almost without exception he has
been kicked out by the Republican
party, and now we are told that the
Bull Moose party is a cry of protest
against the political boss and all he
represents. Meanwhile the Demo
crats with more reason than the Re
publicans to cry out do not even chirp.
We think Mr. Grandin will have to
look again for the great, permanent
issue that will keep alive the Pro
gressive party.
HOW LAME DICKS SICCEED.
Twelve candidates for the State
Legislature, lower house, ran in a
bunch In Multnomah, and every Re
publican but one was elected. The
one lame duck was overtaken by a
Democrat: but certain lame ducks
were protected by the. companionship
of others of the band, and were car
ried along into office. Good men
among the Democrats were beaten by
known undesirables among the Re
publicans. It Is Incredible that the
people can have thus deliberately in
tended to express their preference for
the unfit over the fit.
The trouble of course is in the
grouping of candidates, made neces
sary by the fact that all were running
at large in Multnomah County. The
people do not all know all the can
didates. They cannot. But they
should.
The state should be divided Into
legislative districts, so that not more
than two members of the House and
one member of the Senate may be
elected from one district. It is the
approved method elsewhere. It guar
antees local representation. It. af
fords opportunity for intelligent selec
tion. It is an inducement for capaDie
men to run and an encouragement for
Incapable men to stay out.
The Legislature ought no longer to
neglect its plain duty to secure its
own reform.
COLONEL KOOSEtKIT RESPONSIBIL
ITY.
Just what great general underlying
causes brought rn 'he Republican
National disaster Tuesday? A corre
spondent from Rt. Wash., writes to
inform us that Roosevo't was no more
responsible than Voltaire was respon
sible for the French revolution. What
was It, then?
Colonel Roosevelt discovered after
the Chicago convention that both old
parties were corrupt and debased and
had outlived thii usefulness. He
seems to be of the same opinion now
But suppose Colonel Roosevelt, who
is now said to have had small part
In the recent disaster, had accepted
the result at Chicago, and had sup
ported the nominee, and had urged
his followers to do the same. Who
can doubt that a different outcome
would have been certain? Taft might
have been beaten, but the Senate
would probably he still Republican
manv states would have gone Repub
lican and men who deserved well of
Colonel Roosevelt and of the people
would not have gone down to defeat
We rather think Colonel Roosevelt
considers that he himself has wrecked
the Republican parts", and is not
sorry. We see. no reason to under
estimate his influence or to look for
any sign of contrition.
TANGLED IN THE CYCLONE.
Whilst Governor West contemplates
his wounds, and sighs and sighs and
sighs over the opacity of a public
mind which refuses to receive light on
treat reforms like the abolition of
caDital punishment, let him cast an in
quiring eye toward Oregon City and
take comfort. There throbs also a
bleeding heart which has been stabbed
through and through by an ungrate
ful public. The benign proposal of a
nice new constitution has been over
whelmingly rejected; the single tax,
which was to lift the tax burden from
rich and poor alike, has been con
temptuously spurned by rich and poor
alike; and friend Jonathan has been
beaten again.
But U'Ren is nevertheless as cheer
ful as a real mourner can be expected
to be in the circumstances. He an
nounces that he will run for Governor
two years hence on a single-tax plat
form, containing likewise some other
fresh and attractive economic novel
ties. Evidently the Fels cow has not
.been milked dry. But who .will look
after the thrifty firm of U'Ren &
Schuebel after Mr. ITRen shall be
elected Governor? We assume that
Brother Fels will then be permitted to
go his way with what is left of his
misspent millions.
Dan Kellaher, too, is another re
former who finds experiments in legis
lative hallboning not altogether profit
able. The Daly-Kellaher public utili
ties bill has again been pitched off into
space and Dan Malarkey's public
utilities bill, which the other Dan
caused to be held up through the ref
erendum so that he might work his
own little scheme off on the public,
has been approved by the people, who
cannot be fooled all the time, or even
much of the time. As a sort of sola
tium they have sent Brother Kellaher
to the Legislature again; but his name
did not lead all the rest; and the
storm signals are still flying for him
at Salem.
Then we might also mention Mr.
Rushlight, who got tangled up in the
whirlwind last Saturday. But we re
frain. The story is too sad.
The way of your professional re
former is hard. It ought to be.
THE COSMIC ETHER.
Our valued friend. Dr. Cllne, writes
to ask The Oregonian about "the cos
mic ether." Our modest attempt at a
reply is printed here because we hope
a good many readers may be inter
ested in the subject. Dr. Cline in
quires if the existence of the ether
"can be proven." It cannot. But this
need not trouble us, since, as Tenny
son says, "nothing worthy proving
can be proved, nor yet disproved." The
existence of the cosmic ether is pure
hypothesis. It is highly convenient to
physicists in solving their problems.
The assumption of its reality leads to
no contradictions. Therefore they
proceed exactly as If they knew all
about it. while In solemn truth they
know nothing at all.
As a hypothetical substance the
ether Is a perfect fluid. It Is perfectly
elastic and transmits vibrations In all
directions without frlctional loss of
energy. As to its weight, probably It
Is not subject to the force of gravity,
though this is questionable. It fills
all space completely. Hence gravity
could not set it In motion In any case.
Dr. Cliae asks about its chemical
qualities. It has none, being totally
Inert. On the other hand. It does
transmit light and heat in the" form of
vibrations. The light waves are short
and excessively rapid, the heat waves
longer. At the red end of the spec
trum the light waves merge Into heat
waves insensibly. At the violet en
they pass into chemical, or actinic
rays. All are nothing more than vi
rations of different lengths.
Wireless telegraphy, to answer an
other of Dr. Cline's Questions, depend
altogether upon the properties of the
ether. Messages are conveyed by elec
tro-magnetlc vibrations which travel
with the velocity of light through the
ether and are received upon "anten
nae" at the various stations. They are
set going by sparks across a gap
the antennae. What the ether really
Is, if It exists. Is a question upon which
scientists are not agreed. v e hav
said that it is a fluid, but it must be
admitted that It has many of th
properties of an elastic solid.
SETTLED. '
Two great Issues were, among oth
ers, settled at the election in Oregon
Tuesday. Their determination will
serve as a lamp of safety and wisdom
at the feet of a disturbed public, which
sees the Oregon system being used by
itinerant mixers of patent political
nostrums as a means of earning their
own living and also as an opportunity
for the exploitation of all sorts of leg
lslative schemes and economic the'
ories.
The people will no longer tolerate
resort to the initiative or the referen
dum except upon a proper appeal
from the Legislature or for the dec
laratlon of definite public policy on
large questions.
No candidate can' Impeach the pure
Intent or honest Judgment of the vot
ers expressed at a direct primary by
repudiating its results and by appeal
ing successfully for popular support
at a subsequent election.
PRAGMATIC ART STANDARDS.
With the opening of the Fall exhi
bitions of pictures in the great art cap.
Itals the eternal question comes up
again whether or not beauty is to be
lost forever from art. People who like
to fret over the visions of their imag.
inations have been asking it ever since
the earliest genius among the prinv
eval cave dwellers carved the first
mammoth on his war club. We sup
pose somebody will ask it again on the
morning pf the Day of Judgment. The
occasion for special anxiety on the
subject just now arises from the work
of the German artist Marcus Behmer.
This interesting but troublesome young
man won his first whiff of fame s in
cense by imitating Aubrey Beards.
ley's illustrations of "Salome" and do
ing it so well that he surpassed his
master. It is conceded by the wor
ried critics that this early work of
Behmer's had genuine beauty, but
now, alas, he has forsaken the gods
that once he loved and wandered off
after the strangest sort of false ones.
Behmer nowadays deems It little short
of disgraceful to put any "beauty" Into
his pictures. He seeks after accuracy
in place of It. What he tries to do
Is to depict objects and actions "with
unerring fidelity to fact, regardless of
the pleasing or displeasing quality of
his results to old-fashioned critics,
One writer speaks of Behmer's pic
tures as "witty, satirical, grotesque,
extravagant, shrewd." everything but
beautiful though he is careful to
Inform the reader- that he means
"beauty In the old-fashioned sense.'
This concedes. Implicitly at any rate,
that there may be such a thing as
beauty In a new and modern sense
The trouble with the perturbed art
critics is that beauty, like everything
else on earth. Is a thing of times and
standards. It changes as we go from
one part of the earth to another and
from age to age. The Turks regard
their fattest women as the most lovely,
while we prefer a certain tendency to
slimness. In the Soudan connoisseurs
of female beauty admire a large
wooden hook . inserted in a gash
through the upper lip. We prefer a
hook through the lobe of the ear.
Beauty among the ancient Assyrians
was associated with winged lions, fire
breathing bulls, spade-shaped beards
and cringing ranks of captives. To
their minds there was not much differ.
ence between beauty and power, es
pecially cruel and relentless power,
The Egyptians found beauty In mas
sive masonry and the physical
strength of men, but the symmetry
of the human form which pleased
their eyes differed greatly from the
lines and proportions which we have
been taught by the Greeks to like.
The fact is that beauty is a purely
relative affair. The philosopher who
said that every man's type of wom
anly beauty was formed in the image
of his mother would not have been
far from the truth If he had added to
"mother" such words as tribe, kin
dred, nation and so on. AVhatever
helps us to get smoothly through life
is beautiful to us. Whatever hinders
us is ugly. It Is from these two con
siderations that all the rules of art
are fundamentally derived. In olden
days when physical strength was all
Important to a man in the struggle
for existence fertility was the only
quality that could win decent treat
ment for a woman from her asso
ciates. Strength and fertility were
Identical with beauty. The handsom
est man was the most amply muscled
and the loveliest woman was the one
best suited to bear children. The age
of fertility and muscle worship has
passed away, or it is passing pretty
rapidly. Men are now valued for
their intelligence rather than their
physical strength and women charm
by their wit and grace. Correspond
ing changes are taking place in our
standards of beauty. Very few mod
erns think the big gladiators of
Roman art particularly attractive.
Rubens' blooming females look a lit
tle coarse to the eye of the twentieth
century. What we want in art is the
expression of mentality and it Is de
sired In pictures of either sex. This
is emphatically the age of intelligence
as distinguished from speculation on
the one hand and muscle on the other.
The ascetic saints of the age of faith
please us not much more than the
spade-bearded monarchs of Assyria.
Any piece of art that expresses in
telligence is pretty certain to please
in our day. It may be a picture, a
statue or a book. The subject makes
little difference if It only admits of
the display of some Intellectual qual
ity. We do not care a great deal
whether it is beautiful or ugly accord
ing to the vanishing standards of the
past, because we are forming new
standards for ourselves. It will not be
long, if the process keeps up, before
"beauty" will mean the same thing as
intelligence" to us. In other words,
if we perceive thought in a work of
art w.e shall probably like it regard
less of any other considerations.
Since there is a vast quantity of intel
ligent thought in machinery, more
than in anything else, pernaps, it is i
daily assuming a more commanding
place in modern art, both literary and
plastic. Books about one sort of
machines and another are actually
driving novels out of the market, and
books on society, the most complicat
ed and Intelligent machine of all, are
helping them to do it. Pictures are
going the same road as books. The
critic who thought he was condemn
ing Behmer's pictures by calling, them
"witty, satirical, shrewd," was really
praising them according to modern
standards.
Of course it may be contended that
these standards are wrong, but to a
truly reflective mind the words
"right" and "wrong" have only the
faintest meaning when applied to art.
Beauty is purely pragmatic, more so
even than truth. That which con
forms to the ways of the world as it
exists is artistically right and that
which does not conform is wrong. In
other words, using the formula of
pragmatism, the only .correct stand
ards of art are those which "work
in the world as It stands.
Turkish defeat is explained largely
by unpreparedness. The young Turks,
who have controlled the government
since the revolution four1 years ago
have been playing politics Instead of
maintaining the efficiency of the army
and navy. When war came upon
them, their soldiers were without food,
their artillery without ammunition,
their generals without a plan of cam
paign. The soldiers, finding them
selves without these essentials to i
successful fight, deserted their stand
ards and fled in (disorderly rout before
the well-trained, well-equipped Bui
garians, who until thirty-five years
ago were not even allowed to possess
arms. Turkey's shame is the greater
that she has suffered such crushing
defeat at the hands of nations -tilch
she has always despised. The allied
Balkan kingdoms are but children
among nations, but a mere push of
their fingers has knocked, down the
whole rotten structure of Turkish mis
rule.
In striking contrast to the feverish
excitement of the pre-convention
campaign was the apathy and dullness
of the campaign proper. Beginning in
March, the contest for nominations
kept the country keyed up to a high
pitch until the Roosevelt convention
In August. Then Interest died down
only to be revived temporarily at each
city and town as one of the candidates
appeared there. The American people
cannot devote time and energy to poll
tics for eight months, yet the genera'
adoption of the direct Presidential
primary, which seems probable, hojds
that prospect before them. If we are
to have longer Presidential campaigns
than hitherto, we must have them at
less freauent intervals. The direct
primary thus adds an argument to the
case for a longer Presidential term
That question may be threshed out by
the next Congress in connection with
the single-term amendment to which
the Democrats are Pledged.
Bv restricting production the dia
mond trust has sent up the price of
diamonds. Though we are accus
tomed to regard the United States as
the home and rbreeding ground of
trusts, the diamond trust excels any
of ours In its arbitrary control of pro
duction arrdmarkeL If It worktd the
mines to their run ca-pacny, it wouio.
glut the market and make diamonds
so cheap that there would be little
glory in their possession. But it
works only a few"of the most produc
tive diggings and is expected to send
the price up to the limit, which is the
most the trade will stand.
Had Wilson's victory not been so
decisive as to leave no doubt of it on
the night of election, the close results
n Illinois "and California might have
kept the country in as agonizing sus
pense as It suffered in the Blaine
Cleveland campaign of 1884. In that
ear the result hinged on the vote of
New York, which in turn hinged on a
difference of about 1000 votes between
the two candidates. 'It was not posi
tively known until a recount had been
made in New York City that Cleve
land was elected. The Roosevelt bolt
saved us from any such agony.
That Carnegie owes more than he
owns in New York is news that will be
shock to many. A popular sub
scription for his relief must be started.
Fashion's decree gives woman all
man's apparel except trousers this
year. It s only a matter oi time unui
skirts for meji will appear.
Wonder how some of the candidates
and campaign managers would feel at
Trtcklnir ud a week-old paper with
their predictions in it.
Public opinion in Constantinople is
against peace. No doubt tne "rurkisn
army is willing to turn over tne iray
to public opinion.
A religious ceremony was conducted
by a phonograph in Boston. At least
It had the advantage of stopping on
schedule time.
It is pretty hard to make a case of
the Salem boiler explosion, with both
McNamaras in prison and the rest at
Indianapolis.
Handcuffs brought tears to the eyes
of Pugilist Johnson. The worst is yet
come for the abductor or wnite
girls.
Hereafter the cut of a man's whis
kers may have more or less to do
with his political fortunes in Oregon.
Roosevelt says he is looking ahead
to 1916. He will be but an unpleas
ant memory by that time. .
A three-battalion fire department
under the eight-hour law will make a
lot of "dandy" jobs.
Nothing less than a torchlight pa
rade will do justice to the equal suf
frage victory.
Forecasting hard times is easy.
since this weather prevents digging
the potatoes.
The "hungry" will be relieved and
the Oregon vacancies filled at an early
day. -
Better change it from "the Terri
ble Turk" to "the Harmless Turk."
For Armageddon substitute Oyster
Bay and continue standing.
U'Ren says he is going to run for
Governor. Run errands?
' Statement No. 1 may taste bitter,
but the dose goes.
The price of turkey is the next sub
ject of agitation.
BULL MOOSE VIRTXTES EXTOLLED
Member of New Party Outlines Reasons
for HIa Stand.
PORTLAND, xmov. 7. (To the Editor.
In The Oregonian you ask "What of
the Political Future?" and more espe
cially of the "Bull Moose Party?"
You but scratch the surface; you do
not go to the heart of the subject.
new party has surely been formed and
has Droved its right to the consldera
tion of all right-thinking men. It has
the s-reatest reason for permanent ex
istence, inasmuch as the corner stone of
Its platform Is Humanity and tne oet
terment of the condition of all man.
kind.
It was not formed to revenge th
crime of the bosses at Chicago, or to
aggrandize any one man. It was the
cry of protest of the Republican voter
against the existence of graft, greed
and selfishness of the men who had
seized control of this great party, and
were uslnif it for their own base pur
poses, without regard to the right of
tne voter.
For 30 years I have been a Repub
llcan, and the glorious achievements of
this great narty are dear to the heart
of every true American; hut for the
past 15 years things nave Deen going
wrong on tne msiae or tne party; petty
bosses in the country districts making
up the ticket year after year, three o
four in a back room; the same tactics
in the larger towns and cities; every.
thing done in caucus, everything fixed.
In the county convention tne aele
gates had not a wosd to say as to
nominations; state conventions th
vsame, only more so. Republican lead
era make dirty deals with the Demo
cratio leaders, and the voters paid the
bills with nothing to say.
If a delegate dared to rise up and
cry out against these measures, the
bosses -cried "Throw him out!" and tha
heelers did the work. The Republican
Dartv Is filled with that "old-time ele
rrlent that is neither to be bulldozed
nor, bullyragged, and knows how to
stand tne gaff," ana tney nave uvea
for years on the blood of the taxpayer,
and their slogan is "We never worked
and never will."
This is the creature and these the
conditions which created the Bull
Moose party. Consider the great State
of New York in the grasp of such an
individual as Barnes. Twenty years
ago he could not have negotiated credi
for the ink to run one issue of his so
called newspaper; today he is a mil
lionaire. How? Someone was needed
to carry messages and polish up the
handle of the big front door of the
Capitol? "He polished up the handle so
carefully he became the ruler of the
party. ' He formed a publishing com
pany to publish the reports of the
Court of Appeals, and then copyrighted
the reports. Can you beat that? And
this party dares to talk of political
ideals. It is to laugh.
No, the Bull Moose party was not
formed out of revenge; it was the heart
cry of the best In the Republican party
for freedom of thought and action in
political life, for decency in our leaders,
for the voice of the voter as to who
should represent him. There was only
one way to achieve this end: Break the
gang, deprive them of patronage, make
th loafers work. A great man was
needed to lead? us, and, thank God
Theodore Roosevelt was at hand. We
followed him, not for the spectacular
reasons given In your editorial, but be
cause we believed he was honest and
brave; the one big man in this glori
ous country who has gone through the
political furnace and can look the
whole world in the face and say, "Ask
me?"
1 es. we love him for his grit; we
love him for his fighting qualities; but,
best ot all, we love him lor his honesty.
ELMER GRANDIN,
Patchogue, N. Y.
HAPPINESS LIES IV MARRIAGE
Woman of Vnhappy Experience Gives
Ideas on Subject.
PORTLAND, Nov. 6. (To the Editor.)
A few questions to the married man
who writes to The Oregonian on the
subject of being happy, though mar
ried.
First, how are you going to know
who to believe in? There must be good
men and women In the world. How
would you go about it to find them? I
myself have been married. I did all of
my work In the home and 1 have been
complimented as to being a good house
keeper and mother.
My husband didn t want children and
we had one. we was cruel to tne oaoy
and the humiliations heaped on us were
unbearable. But I left him for th
baby's sake. The man I want Is one
who wants a wife, a chum and a com
panion and a friend. I try to be broad
minded and practical. I don't object to
man smoking a pipe or cigars, or
taking a social glass with a friend, but
I do object to cigarettes and drunken
ness. I want a man who likes chil
dren. And if ever I get married again
want to have more children, for
home is not a home without them. My
baby girl is 10 years old and I work
hard to take care of her and she Is
away at school, but I wouldn't be with
out her for anything in tne woria. one
is my little chum and companion; and I
have her to live for and sue is tne dear
est little girl in the world. I do think
there Is nothing that brings a woman
nearer heaven than a baby, bne win
work hard to make her husband happy,
and if she does her work It's pleasure
to do it. if she has a husband to think
about, and make his home a pleasure.
He will run all the way home to her
and his babies. Some men even then
are not pleased. But if a woman tries
and a man appreciates his wife's ef
forts, he will plan little pleasures for
her. There is no question as to their
happiness. LOUISE.
MOCK CEREMONIES ARE DECRIED
Traveety of Marriage by Thoughtless
Youths Deplored by Writer.
CORVALLIS, Or., Nov. 8. (To the
Editor.) A Jealous husband comes to
town and murders the man whom he
suspects of intimacy with his runaway
wife.
The very next night young men and
women assemble in a local hall for
a social. As the evening wanea and
time hangs heavily, the Reno demon
comes to enliven the party. First, a
mock marriage is enacted. But that
proves stale. A divorce suit must be
added!
So marriage and divorce are just two
huge Jokes!
Why this deplorable profanation of
things as sacred as marriage and fam
ily life? Such thoughtlessness, under
the circumstances, is grievously dis
heartening. More, it is ghastly against
the sinister background of pistol, mor
gue and jail.
Is not our civilization built upon the
sanctity of the marriage relation and
the integrity of family life? Why un
dermine it by the hair-brained silliness
of a mock marriage? CITIZEN.
Good Work Appreciated.
PORTLAND, Nov. 7. (To the Editor.)
I trust jrou will find space for a few
wnrrls of appreciation for the able
effort put forth by The Oregonian look
ing to the defeat or a numoer oi vicious
measures proposed by initiative peti
tion at Saturday's election. It would
seem to me that we are already suffi
ciently burdened with taxes without
the several millions of dollars in bonds
proposed by the petitions mentioned,
and it would also, I think, be wise to
first get on our feet before plunging
any further Into an Indebtedness that
would keep the nose of the taxpayer to
the grindstone as long as he should live
and would leave an almost unbearable
burden as a legacy for future genera
tions. That these measures were de
feated is, I believe, largely due to the
able manner in 'which they were Bet
forth bv The Oregonian and Telegram,
and, as I believe in saying a good word
for a man while ne lives, i trust, you
will accept my hearty appreciation of
your good work. W. A. STOREY.
DRUNK FOR SCIENCE
Record
Is Made of Series of Experl-
menta on Educator.
From "studies In the Psychology of Intern
fierance," by O. E. Partridge, Ph. D.. pub.
ished by Sturgls & Walton Company.
The subject of the experiment about
to be reported was a man of 35 years,
serious and dignified In temperament, a
specialist in education, his main work
having been teaching and administra
tion. He was in perfect health, of
muscular habit, and active both men
tally and physically. He was entirely
unaccustomed to the use. of alcohol, and
undertook the experiment because of Its
scientifio interest, to have the experi
ence, and in order to know what an
intoxicated person feels.
The place of the experiment was a
large room of a laboratory, with special
apparatus and tables for tests arranged
in one part. Only the experimenter and
the subject, and during a part of the
time, an assistant, were present. All
social excitement was eliminated, and
the seriousness and quiet of the scien
tific laboratory were maintained. The
alcohol was administered in divided
doses; and was a 16 2-3 per cent solution
of absolute alcohol and distilled water.
Six doses of this mixture, 100 cubic cen
timeters in each dose, were prepared,
but only five were given.
The doses were administered at 2:55,
3:26, 4:05, 4:48 and 6:55 P. M. The
sixth dose was not given for the reason
that the subject was at the time argu
mentative and refused to take It. Be
tween the doses various experiments
were carried on and were continued
until recovery from the effects of the
alcohol at about 9 P. M.
The method of work was as follows:
After each dose of the alcohol the sub
ject was nut through a series of experi
ments, including tests for' rapidity of
movement, adding, memory tor digits,
strenerth of handclasp, estimation of
time and distance, control of the reflex
wink. The pulse rate was also taken
during each period. X
A few notes of many taken during the
course of the experiment, or later from
restropectlon of the subject, will show
something of his attitude toward the
condition.
8:26 P. M. The subject reported that he
did not notice the burning sensation so
much in taking the second dose, as he did
In the first, showing some diminution of
sensibility.
4:00 P. M. During tne tmra rouna xno
subject was conscious in the tapping ex
periment or putting on more power man
in the preceding rounds, and of a slower
movement. This was true, and as the ex
periment progressed, the movement was
changed from a. precise finger and wrist
movement to a movement of the whole
body.
4:00 P. M. Muscle sensation seemea
much changed. The subject lifted a chair
and was surprised to find it so light, and a
little later a stool, and was surprised to
find it so heavy.
4:20 P. M. Complained of many roay
sensations Felt as though the body were
long and the legs short. The neck felt
less sensitive when touched by the fingers.
The subject was conscious of a peculiar
feeling in the legs as though they wished
to straighten out rigid and firm and to
swing like pendulums from the hips in
stead of bending at the knees. If the eyes
were closed there was a feeling of dizziness.
The subject was conscious of a tendency to
repeat phrases.
4:48 P. M. Beginning of the fourth
round. The subject complained of a feel
ing of numbness. He could not taste the
alcohol at all this time. When he wiped
his mouth he did not feel it. In the dyna
mometer test he tried to change to the left
hand at the sixth pull. He showed signs
of fatigue' during the adding, and com
plained that everything felt gone from him.
He began to show lack of Interest m the ex
periments When he finished the memory
experiments, he said. Got In an extra one.
but never mind." Instead of putting down
the nine which were read to him. he had
recorded ten, a gross error in a simple
memory test.
6:30 P. M. The subject said that every
thing looked distant, but he thought he
could estimate distance correctly. He tried,
and did. Everything looked topsy-turvy to
him, but he was not dizzy.
6:40 P. M. The subject said that he felt
paralyzed. A moment later he complained
that the world seemed all shut in; that
there was no light outside the room. There
was a peoullar kind of contentment; he
was perfectly content to sit still.
:4." P. M. The subleot tried to walk.
and thought "he could do better at a waltz."
He tried It. About this time he oomplained
that when sitting he felt a tendency to
plunge forward, as though "everything were
In the head."
6:55 P. M. The subject complained that
he cared for nothing, whether he were dead
or alive heaven or hell, happiness were all
the same to him.
7:B0 P. M. The subject said he felt all
right, so far as he felt anything. He felt
as though he had been asleep. He was
conscious that he had been talking wrong,
pronouncing everything in the easiest way.
7:0 P. M. The subject said that his
words still sounded different to him, both
in expression and in tone, from the normal.
He said that now In looking back he could
see that concentration of his attention upon
a motor task had had an effect of bringing
consciousness together and clearing it.
7:B5 P. M. The subject seemed Quite
sober. He still walked with slight inco
ordination. He guessed the time of day
correctly. He complained still of a numb
ness all over, as though he were not a
living organism. Since the last dose the
time had seemed very short, as though
sometime in the past he had been shut
up like a book. He remembered that he
passed through a complaint stage, and an
argumentative stage.
8:30 P. M. The subject said that since
the beginning of the fifth round everything
seemed a blank. The world seemed small
and shut in. He still felt a desire to look
into a mirror to see whether he were really
swaying In sitting upright, or whether this
were merely a sensation. It was mostly
suDjective.
STAGE WIVES I.AST SEVEN YEARS
Marital Happlneaa of Women Star I
Short Lived.
Boston Herald.
The usual stage marriage lasts seven
years six months two weeks three day
and seventeen hours. A man with a gift
for statistics discovered it by putting 20
actresses and 24 divorces together.
There's Maxlne Elliott, for Instance,
and Edna May, Louise Dresser, Edna
Wallace, Edna Goodrich, Charlotte
Walker, Ethel Jackson, Lillian Kussell,
Blanche Walsh. Julia Marlowe, Frltzl
Scheff, Christine MacDonald, Margaret
Illlngton, Mabel Taliaferro, Mary Man-
nering, Anna Held, Marguerite Sylva
and lots of others.
Mary Mannering and James K. Hack-
ett were marrie'd for 13 years. Then
Miss Mannering got a divorce. Next
year she became .Mrs. fTeoencK
Wadsworth. Christie MacDonald and
William Winter Jefferson stayed mar
ried for eight years. Two years later
Christie started over again with H. L.
Gillespie.
Edna Wallace married De woir nop-
er in 1895. She was divorced in 1898.
Six year later she was married to Al
bert O. Brown, a New York broker.
And, of course, there's Lillian Russell.
Her'marrtages usually last a trifle less
than seven years.
Six years saw the culmination ana
decline of Julia Marlowe' first mar
riage. In 1894 she married Robert
Tabor, but concealed the marriage for
some time. At last he confessed it and
made Tabor her leading man. They
were divorced in 1900 and Tabor died
later. Last year she was married to E.
H. Sothern, her co-star.
But Sothern had already been di
vorced by Virginia Harned. He and
Miss Harned had remained married for
twice the average length of time. Ethel
Jackson, the "Merry Widow," was mar
ried to J. Fred Zimmerman, Jr., in 1902.
The marriage lasted till 1908. Mabel
Taliaferro was married to Frederick
Thompson in 1906 and divorced him
three years ago. Marguerite Sylva was
freed from William David Mann at
about the same time she had been
married for seven years.
Mme. Schumann-Heink was married
to Ernst Heink in Dresden in 1882. She
rot a divorce six years later. Then he
Was married to Paul Schumann, who
died within six years. In 1905 she was
married to William Rapp, Jr. This year
was the seventh, and she divorced him. j
GETTING
The Calamity Howler
By Dean Collins.
He sat and sighed, full sorrowful.
His eyes were rolled In doleful way,
"Tell me, old scout," I sympathized.
"What makes you seem so sad to
day?" He sighed till he had sighed his fill;
"I know I'm going to be 111."
"Nay, nay! Cheer up! The world la
fair.
Come hoist a little drink with me.
And soon your blues will fade away,
.And you will gay and merry be."
"Ah, no," he groaned in bitter grief.
"I shall be 111, 'tis my belief."
I told how fresh and sweet the air.
And begged him to come out and
walk. J
Instead, he held his head awhile.
And gave a deep, despairing squawk.
"No hope, alas, can ever be.
Illness Is sure to land on me."
His pulse went up; his epes grew
glazed;
His cheek assumed the hue of brick.
Although I strove to stave It off;
"I know," he moaned, "I shall be
sick."
I argued on and on, until
'Twas clear he was becoming III.
"'Tis but a figment of the mind."
I said, "that makes you suffer so."
"Shut up!" he roared In peevishness.
"I'm going to be ill. I know."
His limbs grew limp, his breath came
thick;
He bellowed: "Call a doctor, quick!"
L'Envol.
Because election didn't go
As many men could wish it had:
Behold, some raise a panlo cry:
"The country's going to the bad!"
Exactly like that poor, sad stick.
That would insist: "I shall be sick."
When yellow-hammers such as these.
Begin to pound a panic cry;
Pause not to argue pro or ton.
Nor hearken to the doleful sigh
Bestow on him a lusty kick,
Who roars: "The country will be sick."
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonian of Nov. 10. 1S62.
A gentleman arrived at The Dalles on
Thursday evening from Auburn. Pow
der River, who stated that very flat
tering accounts had been received from
a party who had prospected Boise River
and returned to Powder, and that in
consequence a considerable number of
people were leaving Grand Ronde and
Powder River for the new diggings on
Boise. The snows on the mountains are
already reported to have fallen to con
siderable depth, rendering travel very
difficult. If not impossible, for pack
trains.
Boston, Nov. 3. The brig Baron de
Castine, Just arrived, reports on Octo
ber 29. In latitude 39. longitude 60, she
was captured by the pirate Alabama,
but was liberated on giving bonds for
$6000, payable to the President of the
Confederate States 30 days after peace
is restored. Among the vessels cap
tured by the Alabama was the sloop
Towanda, from Philadelphia to Liver
pool. She was released on giving bonds
for 18000. The captain or one or tne
vessels captured was informed by the
officers of the Alabama that her next
destination was New York, to throw a
few shells into the city.
Washington. Nov. 3. A dispatch from
the headquarters of the Army of the
Potomac, dated 2d, says: "General
Pleasanton came up with the enemy's
cavalry and artillery yesterday at Phil
omont. The fight was conducted whol
ly by artillery, and lasted five hours,
when the enemy retired to Union. At
o'clock this morning General Pleasan
ton renewed the attack. During the
forenoon he was reinforced by a bri
gade of infantry. At 1 o'clock the reb
els fell back and our troop occupied
the town of Union. Another portion of
our army took possession of Snicker
Gap tday."
Cairo, Nov. S. A dispatch from Jef
ferson. Tenn., received at Grant's head
quarters from the South via Rlenci,
confirms the capture of Mobile.
We learn that General John F. Mil
ler, one of the Incorporators of the
Portland & Dalle Wagon Road Com
pany, has Just completed a survey of
the route and reports the perfect prac
ticability for the opening and construc
tion of a good wagonroad over the en
tire route.
Did Colonel Roosevelt Do Iff
ROY, Wash., Nov. 8. (To the Editor.)
What a compliment the Republican
press is paying to Mr. Roosevelt. Sure
ly there is a "nigger in the fence" when
one man can almost annihilate the Re
publican party. A Republican for near-'
ly 40 years certainly think the beating
they received was richly deserved.
Please get down your field glasses,
clear your nostril, and the great
underlying causes will soon appear.
Mr. Roosevelt was no more responsible
for this disaster than Voltaire waa re
sponsible for the French Revolution.
I. A. JACOBS.
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Professor Earl Barnes writes a
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