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Newspaper Page Text10 POBTTAJTD. OREGOJf. Entered at Portland, Oregon. Fostoffiee aa Pecond-class Matter. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advanoe. tBT MAIL.) . Dal.y. enr.dav Included, one year S'S. ral!y. EundaT Included, she month.... I'ally, Sunday Included, three roontha. .3.3 rnlly. Sunday Included, one month ! Dally, without Sunday, one year. J ,, Dally, without Sunday, alx montha Daily, without Sunday, three montha... !. Daily, without Sunday, one month Weekly, ono year i- Sunday, one year ; SJ: Sunday and 'Weekly, one year "" (BY CARRIER.) Dally. Snnday Include", one year Daily. Sunday Included, one month How to Remit Send Portoffice on''r? der, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or 'jnn.cy are at the sender's risk. Ofve postofflce address In full, including county and state. Pootace Bates 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent. l lo 28 pases. 2 cents; 80 to 0 paites. " M to 0 pages. 4 cents. Foreign postage, double rate. , Eastern BoslneM Office Verree C lin New York. Brunswick building. Chi cago, Steper bulldlnf. ,,.. - San Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Co.. T42 Market etreet. .. ' European Office No. S. Regent street. B. V;, London. m PORTXA.VD. SATURDAY. NOV. 8. Mi- ; POETIC JCSTICE. I California has gone for Wilson, ap parentlysee latest news reports and the Bull Moose conspirators have been foiled In a good old-fashioned way. The Roosevelt Progressives de served to carry California least of all the states. They planned and at tempted to consummate an utterly dis honest game of grab and run. They s-tole the Republican name and usurped the Republican party ma chinery: They procured the absolute disfranchisement of many thousand citizens who desired to vote for Taft. They drove the Taft men Into the vVU son ranks by seeking to render them political outcasts. They are now hoist by their own petard. ' If the Johnson machine had been fair with the people of California. Colonel Roosevelt would easily have carried the state. A regular Repub lican ticket, with Taft electors, would Of course have drawn many votes. In a three-cornered fight there would have been no doubt of the result. Tour California Bull Moose Is a curious creature. Demanding vocifer. ously the most scrupulous observance of all his obligations and duties fcy every political opponent, he seeks In stinctively and unerringly the small est possible hole to evade his own. . ROOM FOB ONXY TWO PARTIES. " This Government can only be suc cessfully carried on by means of two great parties, one in office, the other in opposition. Though the Constitu tion did not provide for it. it inevit ably led to their organization. Through the alternation In office of two parties the Government has been successfully carried on from the be ginning. A third party of anywhere near equal strength yith these two eould only come into permanent ex istence at the expense of the efficiency of the Government in doing the peo ple's work. There would be an in stinctive tendency of the -weakest of the three to combine with one of the other two in order to obtain a share in the power and honors of office,, and the weakest would ultimately be ab sorbed, or it would become a fluctuat ing element in our politics, allied first with one, then with the other of the two principal parties, destroying the stability of our Government, as has been the experience of some European countries which have a superabun dance of parties. . A new party can only come into permanent existence to dispute seri ously with the principal existing par ties control of the Government when It presents a new, living issue on which the people are willing to divide and fight "with their ballots and when one or both of the old partes are try ing to maintain life on dead issues. ' That the Democrats do not regard the issues on which they depend as dead is proved by the practical unan imity with which they stood by their colors in the recent election. That the Republican party Is not ripe for extinction 1s proved by the fidelity of the millions of voters who stood by it when there was nothing to gain but a reassertion of their political convictions. That the policies for which that party stands are not dead issues is proved by the incorporation of the principal ones among them into the Progressive platform. The Pro gressive party thus stamps itself as not essentially a new party, but as the product of a schism in the Republican ranks. That schism Is partly the result of a protest against the Republican atti tude on certain public questions, against control of the party by certain leaders and the interests they repre sent, largely the result of a blind idol atry of one man. The continued pres. ence in the Republican ranks of the men who first voiced that protest, the retirement of practically all the old leaders who aroused popular anger and the approaching control of the party by the men who have fought for the very change of front which the new party demands should silence the protest and heal the schism. The demand for more direct control of the Government by the people Is an outcome of that protest and can be satisfied by the execution of the programme of the progressive Repub licans as fully as by that of the pro gramme put forward by the new par ty. Provided the people attain the end sought, which is Government ac tually of. by and for themselves, they care not by what means that end Is attained. Those who voted for Roose velt did so less out of positive desire for the initiative, referendum and re call than out of a general, vague de sire for a change in the direction in dicated by those devices. Fully three-fourths of the advanced labor legislation which the Progres sive party advocates la likely to be 'established by the Joint action of both old parties before another election ar rives. The policy of regulation in stead of dissolution of trusts has won no popular support and Wilson is likely to continue substantially the same policy as has been pursued by Taft. There is good cause to expect that this policy will practically dis pose of the trusts and thus prove the Roosevelt policy to have been based on a false assumption. - The causes of the revolt being thus 'removed and the Republican party having renewed Us fidelity to its best ideals by reorganization and rejuvena tion under the leadership of its pro . oiement. the ' people will be disposed at the end of another four years to dispense witn me umu yw -j entrust the Government to one of the two great parties, which they will hold fully responsiDie iur ii - Chastened and disciplined by adver sity, its several elements having sunk their differences on minor issues the sake of success on the main issues, as must all parties which hope to do anything, the Republican party may well hope to be the party chosen. The personal issues which have embittered the late campaign will then have died nt onH ih onntendine factions will have discovered how nearly agreed they are on the Issues of principle which really count. lOtSO GIRLS ALSO. The recent revelations in Portland as to the- operations of certain de praved men and boys are a feast for the prurient-minded and the saiacious . . c- nn.t,i-i4 It n a srreat Joke on the T. M. C. A.; others' say it is a black eye for Portland. It is, oi course, neither a Joke nor a black eye. The effort of an unscrupulous and shameless newspaper to fasten respon. ct-vnitv tny tnf crimes UDon a clean and useful institution like the Y. M. C. A. was ' an unexampled display oi .anl-i..a hiar-ireiisirrltam. while the city as a whole has the same accountability for the affair as any other city in sun-110- onnriitinnn miht have. There has been unearthed here a foul nest of moral lepers; let other cities look nd and see how many of the same kind they are harboring. The presence of this monstrous vico in a ..nmTniinltv Is a. renroach to our civilization as a whole. But what shall we do about it? Obviously, the men who are guilty are mentally dis eased as they are morally degraded. Nothing can cure them unless It is fear of exposure and punishment. AH that can be done, oDviousiy, us io yu Ish them rigorously and get them out of sight and thought. But there are other men upon whom unceasing war should be made. They are the mashers and the rounders and the roues who victimize young girls. While we are at It, we might extend the investigation now Deing maae to T.nAe. the, daughters of thoughtless or incompetent or helpless parents who are permitted to irequeni me ..UI. enri Inhabit the KTillS at night there to meet the certain fate in store for them. PRITATE THEATRICALS AT SALEM. Tiiat what Mrs. Wvnne. of Klamath Falls, might accomplish by sacrific ing her life in place of the five con demned murderers Is not clear. She could hardly have expected to save the souls of the hapless five, though she says that was her Christian purpose. Tf thpu nnhannv men have souls to save, another way has been provided. If they are ever to be nt tor repent ance and forgiveness, they are fit now. Very likely Mrs. Wynne has Deen unduly shocked by the reflection that n man hv Governor West's order, are to die at one time. She may we'll ho shocked. The public is likewise shocked. It is a highly theatrical re venge the Governor Is taking upon the people because they ventured at the last election to declare for capital punishment. If the five men are to be hanged at nna timA let the resDonsibility rest where it belongs. The Governor has fiverl the date. He has staged tne performance. He is master of cere monies. One wonders wny ne is ar ranging the executions as private, not public, theatricals. WISCONSIN SETS A GOOD EXAMPLE. Th mpatu bv which a decision was mhad m tn the sanity of John Schrank supply a precedent worthy of imitation by every state. Instead of each side to call alienists to swear against each other for a fee. and thus to befog the nana oi me court, the law of Wisconsin provides that the Judge shall appoint a certain number of . experts whose duty it is tn rivo nn imnartial opinion as to the sanity of a man accused of crime. Be ing paid by the state to give an un biased opinion, instead of by one party to the trial to give a biased opinion, these experts are placed in. the position of Judges and their findings can be ac cepted as decisive on the question laid before them. Thi nrorediire is so simple ana so sensible that it Is no sooner put in practlcce than we all wonaer wny we never tried it before. Had It been adopted years ago tji New York, the alous farce of the Thaw trials might have been avoided.. The chief reason why the Wisconsin plan was not adopted is that we find it so much easier to travel along the same old rut to do things as they always have been done than to think out the wis est course of action without regard to habit or precedent and then fearlessly to follow it. . Pnr showinir how we can determine, without calling two bands of alienists to contradict each other, wnetner or nnt m. man is of sound mind the coun try owea a debt of gratitude to Wis consin, the pioneer state in many lines of progress. ARMIES AND NAVIES. Some critics accuse A. T. Mahan, the celebrated writer on naval power, of being largely responsible for the nrorinmlnant unirit of militarism which is so manifest in the current affairs of the world. Though a man of exemplary personal piety, ne noma the theory that might makes right in international disputes and has persist ently taught that there is no tribunal higher than ships and armies to which nations can appeal. Whether might makes right or not it certainly makes international law. Moreover, it would be Insane to deny that the last resort between nations is now and always has been war. - The Monroe Doctrine, for .instance, would be merely a form of words were it not for the military power of the United States behind , it. Germany would have disregarded it time and again if she had not known that war would ensue. But granting all this, does It follow that military force will always remain the court of last-appeal for the nations? Suppose the armies of the world were today ranged about equally against each other. There would-be no power to punish an infraction 'of what are humorously called "the rules of civilized warfare," and yet we do not believe they would be seriously disregarded. Wells of water would not be poisoned nor would explosive bullets be employed. Why not? Simply because an In ternational code of honor is being de veloped. Just as it is the individual conscience rather than the criminal law which keeps most of us in the path of decency, so there seems to be a glimmer of public conscience, or honor, which tends to take control of affairs between the nations. It may be objected that beyond all In dividual conscience are the statute book and the police and this of course is true. We are not concerned at this moment to make the point, familiar THE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATT7RPAT. NOVEMBER 23, 1913. to all psychologists, that above the courts and the police is the chain of habit. We only insist that the devel opment of the individual conscience is . gradually making the cruder re straints superfluous. There are thou sands of men in Portland who would not change their habitual conduct a great deal if there were no police. Do we not see something of the same sort coming to light among the na tions? As each person in the world draws nearer to the moral ideal, how is it possible that the great national aggregates should not feel more and more the compujsioa of the moral law? Hence while iwe do not xpect to see fleets and armies abolished, it seems reasonable to believe that they will little by little become superfluous and thus pass away like other aborted social organs. ' AWAKENED CONSCIENCE. Voluntary . confession by young Glenn Gault that he murdered his stepfather two years ago emphasizes the fact that there is no safety for the man who commits a crime of the blood. True, circumstances and the law may not connect him with the offense. Young Gault was suspected of no crime, even while guilty of a most heinous one. Yet retribution Is certain, for within the very nature of the murderer lies the source of prob able betrayal. It Is possible that his conscience may lie wholly dormant when the crimeis planned and carried out with, a fiend ish cunning that defies detection. Gault did not so much, as leave evi dence of a crime. But the nature of man Is subject to change, latent con science may develop into full bloom. The wee small voice that comes in the night may rise in a gradual crescendo to a fiery tirade of accusation and con demnation. Strange obsessions may grow out of memory of horrible de tails. There may be conjured out of the guilty imagination damning pho bias; terrors of the mind that are ex cruciating. Once conscience Is awak ened, once realization of the enormity of the crime occurs, the ghastly secret gnaws like a hidden fox at the entrails and few have the Spartan courage and stolidity to hold back the outcry of agony. Fears of the consequences, even visions of the gallows, are as noth ing to the snarling wolves of con science that allow no moment of. sur cease. It la not at all surprising that murderers, having evaded detection, seek escape from the wracking Judg ment of an awakened conscience in the course of later years. AMERICAN IJTERATtJRE. A correspondent of The Oregonlan Is troubled over the question, whether we have an "American literature or not?" Since his letter Is printed in another column this morning it is not necessary to quote much from it nere. We need only say that his mind was rilstnrhnrl bv hearing a minister, a Princeton graduate, speak of Taine as the author of "A History of Our Eng lish Literature." while as a matter of fact that brilliant Frenchman does not mention a solitary American author. What propriety is there, then, in call inr thA literature he treats of "our literature?" Moreover, our perplexed correspondent proceeds to Inquire, If all that is written in English is Eng lish literature, how are we to distin guish In conversation between Ameri can and British authors? Before try in e- to resolve his difficulties it might be as well to remind him that similar perplexities might confront a bcotcn mnn PinrlLih literature has swal lowed up Burns and Sir Walter Scott bodily. Just as it has devoured tne Irish authors Goldsmith, Burke and Dpun Swift. Still readers of discern ment seem to have little difficulty in fixing upon the nationality or mese men when there is occasion. Much the same trouble might pos sibly arise between the members of the Union. Hardly -anybody would think seriously of setting up state lines in American literature, granting for the moment that there is sucn a thing. To be sure, we hear row and then from proud patriots about "Ore gon literature" and "Indiana litera ture" and the literature of Kalama zoo, Mich., but these references usual ly provoke a smile from everybody but the most solemn circle of native sons and daughters. Such local distinc tions are convenient how and then, but it can hardly be said that they signify a great deal. What there is of Oregon literature is a branch of the literature of the country and no doubt the majority of students would agree that what there is of American literature is a branch of the litera ture of the English-speaking peoples. It Is best to name a -literature from the language it is written in, not from the place where it happens to be produced. This always has been the rule and we can see no good reason for chang ing it. Homer was born and sang his songs in Asia Minor, but "The Iliad" Is not excluded from Greek litera ture. Neither are the Idylls of The ocritus, though he was a Sicilian and always lived in his native island. We do not dream of classing Ovid's poems with Latin literature as long as he lived at Rome and naming the rest Thracian because it was produced in exile on the shores of the Euxine.' The poetry that Browning and his wife wrote in Florence is Just as much a part of English literature as what was composed in London. Not to carry examples to the point of superfluity we may ask who ever thinKs of ex cluding Maeterlinck's plays from French literature, though he is a Bel gian? It is the language that counts In this matter, not the locality. . We may add that Americans have little to gain and much to lose if they insist upon cutting themselves off from the common heritage of English literature. As long as we claim our share in It Shakespeare and the Wlck llffe Bible belong as much to us as to the British. To give up these treas ures for the poor privilege of calling Poe and Whitman exclusively "Amer ican" "writers would be a bad bargain as we see it. Very likely the time is coming when'a literature will be pro duced in the United States as powerful and as instinct with genius as any thing to be found in England and Scotland, but it has not come yet. The most determined National pride can scarcely venture to compare any of our poets but Whitman with such men as Wordsworth and Milton, of whom there have been dozens in the British Isles. We have no novelist but Haw thorne who can be mentioned in the same breath with Dickens and a score of his compeers. Of course this inferiority Is tran sient. When America learns to love literature and art it will begin to pro duce them with as much splendor as any other country, but not until then. The importation of old books, age idimmed pictures and smudgy tapes tries will not bring this about. Life does not feed on death, or at any rate not on decaying corpses.' Genuine love of melody is not shown so much by listening to singers from Europe as by developing singers of our own and supporting them here . at home. Appreciation of musical composition is demonstrated more clearly by permit ting men like McDowell to live in comfort when they appear than by falling Into real or simulated raptures over Beethoven and Bach. Painting will feel a more vital stimulus when the American people learn to rank artists as high as politicians than it now receives from the spasmodic pur chases of over-valued old masters by Ignorant millionaires. Art of all sorts, Including literature, grows from the soil. Its seeds do not germinate in museums nor in the palaces of the opulent. The geniuses of the Italian Renaissance began their careers as artisans in workshops and this' must be the history of all art that is worth the material it uses up. Some day we shall have a literature that we shall be proud to call Ameri can, not to cut It off from Shakes peare and the Bible, but to emphasize its local tone and trend. It will still be a branch of the noble heritage which belongs to all who use the English language, but it will be ours in a peculiar and Intimate sense. It will appear when America has affixed new values to human achievement, placing the things of the outer world a little lower and those of the soul a little higher. When we have needed a great man in politics or war he- has always appeared. When we become conscious of a National need of great men in literature and art they, too, will appear. The soul of the Nation has only to call upon Its children and they will answer with whatever hero ism is demanded of them. Phidias built the Parthenon because there was a Parthenon in the soul of Athens which craved' external expression. When our National soul feels the same hunger we shall have Parthe nons and Platos. Men are being wasted in the cities who are needed in the country, as is stated by James J. Hill, because the city offers superior attractions. The attractions of the country have been increased by the telephone, rural mall delivery and electric railways, and are to be further increased by the parcels post. They should be still further In creased by good roads, good schools and opportunities for social pleasure and entertainment. They are prac ticable, and the demand for them Is reasonable. When they are provided, the tide which has already set back from city to country will grow strong er, for to these attractions will be add ed the fresh air, healthy outdoor work and beautiful scenery, in which the city can never compete. Detention of the Menas, father and son, on the Panama Canal Zone, sug gests the creation on the zone of a refuge for exiled rulers and revolu tionists. With all the comforts of home, Zelaya, Diaz and Castro, ex King Manuel, Don Carlos, the French Bourbons and Bonapartes, to say nothing of ex-Sultan Abdul Hamld, might find pleasure in each other's society, swapping experiences and tales of wrongs suffered at the hands of an ungrateful people. Uncle Sam, while keeping the colony of the de posed out of mischief and exercising a strict censorship on their corre spondence and on all goods received and sent out by them, could play the Indulgent host. ' The United States has indirectly contributed to the victory of the Bal kan allies over the Turks. For years Bulgarians, Greeks, Servians and Mon tenegrins have been working in our steel mills and quarries and building our railroads, hardening their mus cles and imbibing the spirit of free dom. Many thousands of them had returned with savings which were a small fortune In their nativeland and many thousands more have returned since the war began. The most ad vanced nation on earth has furnished much of the material which has been used to push backMnto Asia the most backward of nations. . Of all men who achieve greatness through persistent effort, Horace Voss, of Westerly, R. I., ranks well to the front. As turkey-raiser to the Presi dent, he has become famous. This year's bird is a thirty-pounder, about the' Taft size. A plea for warships is to be made to Congress. Let us hope, the Democrats will redeem themselves on this impor tant topic, now that they are to take the helm. California 'ought not to embarrass the Nation with a renewal of anti Japanese measures. - We are ill pre pared to become finical in such matters. If all women had the millions of Hetty Green they could afford to emu late her example, even to the onions. That they have not Is why mankind rejoices. The display of bad temper by the President-elect when being "shot" in Bermuda was human, but he will get over the feeling before he again runs for office. ' Oregon will not fjgure exclusively In the gory history of December 13. The Aliens will take the long Journey with Oregon's quintette on that date. The treatment given her frivolous husband by the Medford woman is recommended for such cases as more effective than court procedure. It would seem that turkey and re ligious services have become mere in cidents of Thanksgiving day with foot ball as the feature. It surely must prove a great Joy to John D. to tell funny stories. Nobody would think of not half dying of laughter. ' Carnegie is indeed an ambitious chap. He would have rulers feeding out of his hand literally. . Who will deny that a land show prize ranks close to a Nobel prize in point of achievement? It's possible the Turks rely on the cholera plague to protect them from further Invasion. Chicago physicians seeking a giftless Christmas have forgotten their child hood, and youth. ' Possibly Andrew seeks to make It an object for Theodore to remain in retirement. IS THERE AMERICAN LITERATURE? Correspondent Puaaled by Broad Use of Word "Enarllah." PORTLAND, Nov. 22. (To the Edi tor.) The Illustrated XiOndon News of November 9, In reviewing the "Life of Adam Lindsay . Gordon, Just pub lished, makes the following remark: "Gordon might be an Australian Im mortal if there could be an immortal poet specialized Australian without a language specialized Australian. It is the language and not the place that contains a literature." If the Illustarted London News is right, is there such a thing as an American literature? Or is there no American literature? Or do the Eng lish people claim all the works written by American authors as tfart of their literature and the American people claim all the works written by English authors as belonging to their litera ture, both peoples giving the one name to the works of all, calling It English literature? Last Sunday morning I heard a min ister (an American) In this city from his pulpit refer to H. A. Taine as the author of the "History of Our English Literature. Yet I feel certain there is not one American author mentioned In the whole of Taine's great work. If it is the language and not the place that contains, a literature, and there is therefore no American literature, as the remark of the above-mentioned clergyman would Indicate, then how Is one to distinguish the works of the American authors from the works of the English authors, and how is a com parison to be made between the two? I had always supposed until now that the two works of English authors as English literature and works of Amer ican authors as American literature were as entirely and distinctly sepa rate and different from each other as the English people and the American people, or the English government and the American government, but the lan guage of the Illustrated London News and of the clergyman (a Princeton man and Princeton is a name to con jure with now) to whom I have re ferred, has much confused me, and since your readers are in the habit of frequently calling upon you to assist them when In doubt and difficulty, I take the opportunity end claim the privilege of asking you If you will be kind enough to give me some ex planation and enlightenment on the question I have submitted. J. I. TEESDALE. 148 Thirteenth Street WE LIVE AGAIN IN OUR CHILDREN World Lovea Those Who Have Stamina to Rear a Family. PORTLAND, Nov. 20. (To the Edi tor.) With more than passing in terest did I read the editorial in The Oregonian entitled "Advice to the Young Lover." All- that you say is very aptly said, and I wish to under score your every word with three great lines, however, along these lines I wish to have my little say. The prospective candidate for mar riage, be it either sex, has many aspects of married life seriously to consider prior to entering Into such a noble and happy future. Being a physician I shall restrict my communication to one that of the offspring which surely and inevitably follows a normal mar rage. Income upon which to subsist is of minor Importance if we but re member the homely old aphorism, "Where There's a Will There's Always a Way." However with a normal happy union, a propagation of our specie will surely and inevitably ensue, consequently the unavoidable expense incident thereto. Happy, indeed, is the couple or rather happy, indeed, should the young xminta Ka unnn whom la conferred the dignity of parenthood, especially re ferring to ine momer, iur iu uo mother , is bestowing upon one of his humble creatures God's greatest gift. Whara la thn individual that Will UOt stop and gaze in admiration upon a young motner ana ner iiua.ni: The happiest period of our lives, it is said, is the period of childhood and if ir. that have nnKHAd that rjeriod could only take a retrogressive step to those days gone Dy, now enjoyaoie ii. wuum be, but nature did not so ordain it. In her infinite wisdom did ordain that we should enjoy a repetition ox cnuonooa, wnou i vociferously exclaimed with all empha sis: That in our children we live again our lives. Deplorable, indeed, are the parents who have no time to devote to their children, for they are missing, as it were, the very concentrates of life. Again, more deplorable is the childless marriage, of which there are only too many in existence today. The world loves the man and woman who have the stamina to take upon themselves the responsibility to rear a family, and contribute to the population good, honest, honorable citizens. G. W. TAMIESIE, M. D. AUDITORIUM AND PUBLIC MARKET Bast Side Location Advocated tor Com bination Structure. PORTLAND, Nov. 22. (To the Ed itor.) The discussion of the auditor ium question, especially the statement that a location at Eighteenth and Washington streets, or even the Mar ket block on Third street, would be centrally located, would have caused Mark Twain to sit up and take notice, and calls to mind that Mark, on being informed that a report was abroad that he was dead, after due consideration said: "That report is exaggerated." Look over the map of Portland, scan the latest statistics as to population of East and West Sides.v and then ponder over such a statement. No doubt a suitable location in the neighborhood of Burnside and East Eighth street could be bought for a reasonable price. And In case . two blocks are required, build first story of cement, leaving the necessary openings for a future publlo market, with a 26 foot driveway under the main building, with silent paving, to be used for street traffic. It is not necessary that an auditorium should be surrounded by a great noise, nor that it should be near the main business center. When the circus comes to town a half mile of street is often impassable for business or transportation. While most of the publlo buildings nt thA wealth ara concentrat ed in one corner, it does not follow that a building lor ine use oi an uumu " built in the same district at a much greater cost. In the near future, at the present rapid growth, east, north and south, the proportion of population that would have to cross the river, will be much greater than at present. And the need of a public market in that district is felt now. No doubt the committee will consult publio Interest in the matter and expand a little. JOHN M. PAYNE. . HOW K. I. PERKY WAS NOTIFIED. Governor' Remark Were. Rude, But Yet Quite Acceptable. Boise Statesman. MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho, Nov. 16. Judge K. I. Perky, of Boise, was noti fied over the phone by Governor Haw ley this afternoon that he had been made a United States Senator. The following dialogue occurred: "Hello, who is this?" "This is Judge Perky." "Who?" "Judge Perky." "The h 1 It is!" ; "Yes." (Some. warmth in the Judges billowy neck.) "I know better." "Say, what's the matter? Who are you?" ..itt ii twi Clnvmmnr HawlftV. and I know you are not Judge Perky you are Senator rersy. The long distance operator plugged in several seconds for laughter. A more formal notification followed. THE THINKABLE BUT IMPROBABLE Writer Una Little Patience With Cer tain Metaphysical Reasoning. DALLAS, Or- Nov. 21. (To the Edl- J-tor.) I was both edified and amused to read in The Oregonian last Sunday this specimen editorial brick of in genuous reasoning: "There is no rea son why beings should not exist In whose bodies the sun and planets are insignificant units of which thousands could be blotted out without ever be ing missed." I am an enthusiastic ad mirer of the imaginative Hellenic in tellect which conceived those beautiful myths so picturesquely portrayed in the poetical writings attributed to Homer and Hesiod, and the habit of at tentively reading The Oregonian's edi torial pages for years past has culti vated in my mind a sincere respect for its thought-provoking lucubrations, hence one may imagine the mystical glow that illuminated the microscopic cells of the gray matter, of my brain when I perused the above-quoted phan tasy. The editorial concept is intensely metaphysical, the Homeric poems are intensely human, but there is an inter medium between the two poles Of thought. I know it is the province of philosophy to Boar Into the Elysian fields of speculative thought, therefore I have no quarrel with the Bergsonlan idea so finely expressed in your edito rial. If the assumption be true that there is no reason why beings should not exist whose bodies are composed of suns and planets and streaming neb ula, then those fantastic and wonder ful astronomical configurations pic tured on the starry sky by the poetic Greek Imagination as Hercules. Orion, Cassiopeia. Taurus, etc., may, after all, be real, celestial beings to whom it was Derfectly rational for those old an clents to pay religious worship, and we self-righteous moderns are only de arenerate sons of an Illustrious ances try" when we Impiously refuse divine homage to these visible deities. That beings may "exist In whose bod ies the sun and planets are Insignifi cant units" no cautteus person will de ny, no more than he will deny there may be worlds In which two and two do not make four, and In which two straight lines do inclose a space. But the admission of such possibilities does not imply a belief in them. Candid thinkers, who are unwilling to deceive themselves or delude others, ask for trustworthy evidence of the fact, and as there can be no such evidence given, all such speculations are highly im probable deductions of the metaphys ical mind. If it were true that because a thing is thinkable therefore it is. the story of Jack and his beanstaiK wouia become a plausible adventure; indeed, it might be that fresh oyster shells piled up in the back alley of a Japan ese cafe are not oyster shells after all, but some mysterious freak of Nature. Of course, I do not mean to say that speculative reasoning does not lead to many undiscovered facts In Nature. J. T. FORD. HOW CAN THE HOMELOVERS MEET? Tlmea Are Out of Joint for Senatble Peraona Who Would Wed. SALEM, Or., Nov. 20. (To the Edi tor.) It has certainly Interested me, as well as many others, I am sure, to read the different opinions expressed on the marriage question, but to one specially do I want to call attention. This lady of 30 years, of moderate tastes, homely disposition, going "once in a while to a show with mamma and enjoying it very much," but who is keeping away from dancehalls and pleasure-seeking crowds how is a man like myself, having the same tastes, not going to dances, only once in a while to a show that I also enjoy very much, staying home after supper to read or study, though feeling lonesome how is such a man going to meet and get acquainted with such a woman? It is the kind that would suit him, that would make a happy home for him, the kind he is looking for, but how are they going to get together? The fault is not that the men do not want that kind. There are many who desire such a woman, but how will they find her? The fault is. above all, with society and its customs of today. Old time sociability is practically dead; people of our days are more trivolouu. always seeking for pleasure more or less legitimate, and .woe to them who keep away from the crowds. They are destined to remain either old bachelors or old maids unless somebody takes pity on them and brings them together. I want to make a home bad enough, but do not want any old kind of friv olous, artificial blonde. I am 35 years old. It is (I should say It has been) Leap Year and I am still single. .Oh, you women, do not blame the men so much. GROUCHY BACHELOR. GOOSE HUNTERS USING DYNAMITE Game Birds Slaughtered by Unlawful Means la Charge. , LA GRANDE, Or., Nov. 21. (To the Editor.) While hunting at Blalocks November 4, 5 and 8, the following facts came into my possession that the at tention of the game wardens of Ore gon and Washington may be called to the same. On Monday night, November 4. we could hear the geese flying and calling all through the night as though their resting place on the island opposite Blalocks was not a safe roosting place and wondered what could be disturb ing them. The next day they came over the wheat field, where we were sta tioned, but did not alight, as was their daily custom, and seemed not to want to eat. That night, Tuesday, we heard two charges of dynamite, on the Island, one at either end. After some little time, I suggested to others in the party that we take our guns, and a light, and if the dynamiters came over to the Oregon side to try to Investigate, but they left the island in a launch which kept to the Wash ington side until out of our hearing. I was told by persons at Blalocks that last year during the time these birds were there, that some one shot from a pit on this island every al ternate day and on alternate days the game warden was there, but never at the same time, which looked very sus picious to the people in that vicinity. Now this year geese were killed with dynamite. It is a matter of considerable im portance to all Oregon sportsmen. In the western part of the state, as well as to us in the eastern part, that these migratory birds should be protected from such slaughter, and we look to our game wardens so to enforce the laws that they shall be protected. FRANK RICHARDS. Aid to Cauae Appreciated- PORTLAND, Nov. 21. (To the Edl- An .mTiotaru nt th Portland WX.t no f ' . - League for Equal Suffrage, I am writ ing to thank you tor ine couneuy uu consideration shown to us by you in our work for the cause. We all feel sure, knowing the power of the press, that your Btrong and kindly attitude and your helpfulness have done much in giving us so large a majority. We all appreciate your generous support and wish to thank you most heartily. ANNA S. BROWN. Woodrow Wilson's Church. uniTi.inn Wnv. 22. (To the Ed itor.) Kindly publish in your paper (1) what religious denomination Wood wnenn is. and (2) is he a member of the Knights of Columbus? (1) Presbyterian. (2) No. 1 Baby aa Sleep Gauge. Cincinnati Enquirer, win nelson savs that four hours' sleep is enough for any man. Bin We have a 2-year-old baby at home who knew that a year ago. The Barrier to Success By Dean Collins. Phyllis, for thy sake I would strive To learn the methods of the great; To know the means by which they rose Unto their enviable state; And, imitating all their style. Myself be famous afterwhile. Lo, the poor millionaire who shuns The flowing bowl and black cigar! I might consent to shun them, too. To be as rich as those ginks are. Lo. the rich man who says: "Give due Time to the poor." I'll do that, too. Lo. he whose vast uncounted pile Makes millions seem but trifles light: Who shuns the glories of the grill. And gets home early every night! Phyllis, for your sake I would try To Imitate him, though I die. For years each rich man's whims I watched. Which might be sources of his power; And I have tried to shape my life After such models, hour by hour, That I might able be, my queen. To buy for thee a limousine. I've studied Rockefellpr's whims, Carnegie's habits, and the way That Morgan and such other whales Shaped up their habits day by day. And I have striven hard to be Like unto them and all for thee. But, woe and wail and bitter grief! My work is all in vain I ween, I learned the stunts of all the rest But have you heard of Hetty Green? My hopes fall smashing from their trun nions For her pet plan is eating onions, v A rich man I may never be. Nor rate my life among the lives Of those who rose to that high state Where they could eat from golden knives; For (more indomitable than Bunyan. Who went to jail) I'll spurn the onion. For what would riches moan to me, Phyllis, if all my mortal days. The onion betwixt thee and me Should a malodorous barrier ralse? My plans may turn out "mucho malo," But that's one pattern I won't follow. Portland, November 22. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlon of Novsmber 21, 1S8--The Postoffice Department Iihk awarded contracts for carrying the following named moils east of the Cas cade Mountains: First, from Walla Walla to Colville; second, from Walla Walla to Bitter Root Valley; third, from Walla Walla via Lewlston to Pierce City, Florence and Elk City. All of these routes have been let to Louis A. Muller, of Walla Walla, for $74,000 annually. Washington. NovT 14. The Star says: The latest Information from Warrenton satisfied me that the time since Burnside assumed command has been most profitably spent here, effect ing army arrangements to worst the enemy, when the grand clash of arms takes place New York, NovT15. A special dis patch to the Tribune says it is reported that the rebels have occupied Thorn ton and Chester gaps, in Burnside's rear, in force. New York, NovT" 15. The Herald prints a memorial, generally' signed by merchants, financiers and others, rec ommending a return by the Govern ment to specie payment on all bills from $20 upward. A meeting of journeymen printers of this city was held last Saturday even ing for the purpose of forming a more perfect organization as an association by virtue of charter recently obtained from the United States Typographical ir-inn Th frtllnwlncr wnrM Installed as offioers: Urban E. Hicks, president: Ira Mayneia, secretary, mm j. Geiger, treasurer. Notice to apple dealers From and after this date the price of apple boxes at the mills will be per 100, $24.60. A discount of 10 per cent will be allowed on all bills paid in gold or silver coin. Carson & Porter. Darker Refuses a Ralar. Judge. Congressman Lamb, of Virginia, has an old "befo' the wan" darkey working on his place, whom he pays 1 a day. The old man is not very fond of work and loses a day often because of his alleged Infirmities. The other day the Congressman told him he was going to raise his wages from 6 a week to 7. The old darkey emphatically refused the raise, and when his boss asked him why, he an swered: "It's lak dis. Mister John. When I loses a day from work now, I kin count mah money; but if you gib nio a raise an' I loses a day I won't know now mncn i ye it"i -iinuMi urn SPECIAL SUNDAY FEATURES Free Coal Mines How the Government, following a unique plan, will give to each city and town in the country a free coal mine, aa well as waterpower facilities. 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