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'tile uibbet or public disgrace.
President-elect Wilson thinks he
has found a punishment which fits the
monstrous crime of panic-breeding.
He would expose the grullty one on the
gibbet of public disgrace a gibbet as
high as Hainan's. That might be very
etfective If we could identify the guilty
and conclusively fasten his guilt upon
him. But can we? Even when a man
has deliberately sought to create or
aggravate a panic, he has of necessity
forked In the dark. If he knew, that
such a penalty would follow discov
ery, he would become even more mole
like In his operations.
The author of a panic is not easy to
identify, though the causes leading
up to it may be generally known. It
Is commonly accepted -as a fact that
the panic of 1907 began with the raid
cm Helnze's copper stocks, which
broke the Helnze-Morae chain of
banks and trust companies, but who
rpade the raid and what provocation
or Justification had they? What
reason had they to believe that their
operations would precipitate a panic?
True, when the panic was In full
swing, Gary and Frlck went to Roose
velt and Informed him that, if the
Steel Trust was not allowed to absorb
the Tennessee Company, the financial
ruin would become greater.
;'Had Roosevelt prohibited the
merger and taken the consequences,
ha might have put Gary and Frlck in
the pillory, but should not the
brokers who had allowed themselves
to be cornered and the bankers who
were pressing them for payment of
loans and the depositors who by de
manding their money forced the bank
ers to call their loans should not all
these share the public obloquy? If so,
the pillory would be so crowded that
the Identity of each occupant would
be lost in the crowd and the punish
ment would fail of its effect-;-Perhaps
Wilson had in mind pre
dictions that Industrial depression
would follow radical tariff revision.
Here again the number of parties to
the "crime" would be so great that
the punishment would be ineffectual.
A. reduction of the tariff to such a
scale that our manufacturers could
not successfully compete with foreign
ers would have such widespread ef
fect that all Industries would be af
fected. To place all owners of closed
industries In the pillory would give us
such a multitude of objects for public
torn that the pleasure derived from
pelting one prisoner with decayed
vegetables would be dulled by the
abundance of the sport. Further, the
prisoners might "talk back" and
might find support among the tens of
thousands of unemployed. They might
even retaliate by placing the tariff
revisionists in a pillory of their own.
When one-half of a Nation holds up
the other half to scorn, the moral
effect 'of the lesson is lost on both.
- There has been one instance In our
history where a single Individual was
held responsible for a panic.. That
Was the panic of 1873 and the Individ
ual was Jay Gould. But Gould con
tinued to do business and amass
riches for nearly 20 years more, ap
parently Indifferent to the curses
heaped on his head. When one man is
so cold-blooded that he deliberately
causes a panic or pursues his ends
careless whether a panic results, the
pillory of public opinion or the gib
bit of public disgrace has no terrors
for him. His contempt for the people
Is so great as to be equal even to such
an occasion.
A FOIR-YEAR CANDIDACY.
J The demand made at the recent
conference of the Progressive party
that Roosevelt then and there accept
the Presidential nomination for 19H
moves the New York Globe to sound
A warning "against a continuous can
didacy similar to that of Bryan in the
Democratic party. Acclaiming as the
"greatest achievement of his political
eareer" the polling by Roosevelt of
4.500.000 votes, the Globe, which has
arways been friendly to Roosevelt,
tmys announcement of Bryan's candi
dacy for the 1900 nomination four
years In advance was unwise. It says
Bryan kept alive not only the loyalty
of his friends, but the antipathy of his
opponents, and that he did not run
as well in 1900 as in 1896. nor In
1908 as In 1900. but that his party
"came Into power when he consented
to step down and heartily supported
another."
The Progressives can win only by
ginning over the progressive Repub
licans or the progressive Democrats or
both, or by capturing the Republican
party and polling Its whole strength.
The leaders of the progressive ele
ment in the two old parties see no
necessity for joining the new party in
order to promote their principles, for
they are confident of their ability to
dictate the policy of their own parties.
The rank and file see no such neces
sity, for- they share this confidence of
their leaders. Personal antipatny will
prevent many of these men from pass
ing under the Roosevelt yoke- The
antl-thlrd-term prejudice Is also
strong with many. The third party
has probably attained the greatest
strength possible under Roosevelt's
leadership. With him out of the way,
the chief obstacle to Its reunion with
the Republican party would be
removed.
' The Progressive managers see the
necessity of keeping Roosevelt to the
front as the leader, in order to hold
the party together. They recognize
that after the election enthusiasm and
animosity in their ranks began to cool
the tendency became strong for
many to return to their old party al
legiance. There Is also dissatisfaction
with the prominent part 1n the party
management given to Perkins and
men of his kind. Notwithstanding the
denunciations of bosslsm which filled
the air last Summer and Fall,
bossism dictated the organization at
Chicago. Perkins is placed at the
wheel as chairman of the executive
committee, which Is to appoint the
three heads of the legislative bureau
and the committee on plan of work.
A well-oiled machine run by Roose
velt and Perkins is to manage the
party. Will not such a machine cMill
the enthusiasm which caused millions
to flock to the standard?
The Colonel showed realization of
the need to keep this enthusiasm alive
and at the same time to maintain his
place at the head of the Progressive
movement by his indorsement of
Brlatow's scheme of Presidential ini
tiative and recall of Federal court
decisions. That scheme Is the logical
expansion of the principles laid down
in the Columbus speech. Roosevelt's
adoption of it proves that, like all rad
ical leaders, he dare not allow any
man to get ahead of him in radical
Ism, lest he lose his leadership and
be branded a reactionary. He re
members how the French Jacobins
devoured the Girondins and he must
perforce preserve himself politically
by becoming as Jacobin as Brlstow.
While Roosevelt dazzles his follow
ers with more brilliant visions of
popular rule, Perkins cunningly com
mits them to the perpetuation of his
beloved creations, the trusts, which
that hopeless reactionary, Taft, will
continue to bombard with lawsuits
until the very last day of his term.
FEDERAL JOB.
Senator Chamberlain's contention Is
substantially that the President has
committed the grave blunder of post
poning action on the Oregon Federal
appointments and the only way to
repair the mistake is to put them off
a while longer. Some time after March
4, 1913, will suit the Senator entirely.
The Senator promises to make trouble
through appeal to "Senatorial cour
tesy" if President Taft shall send the
names to the Senate. Senatorial
courtesy is that particular species of
Senatorial discourtesy to a President
by which a single Senator Is able to
defeat the nomination to office of any
person displeasing to him.
The appointing power for the Ore
gon Jobs is divided Into four parts,
viz.: President Taft, National Com
mitteeman Williams, Senator Bourne
and Senator Chamberlain, not count
ing Representative Hawley or Repre
sentative Lafferty. If any of these
sovereign powers objects, nothing Is
done. If all agree, something may be
done. President Taft proposes, but
Senator Bourne or Senator Chamber
lain disposes.
The Senate is the greatest deliber
ative body in the world. It Is able to
deliberate for month9 at a time over
the great National question as to who
shall hold a Federal Job In Oregon.
BUYING .STOLEN GOODS.
Mr. Hearst gave to the world
through the medium of a public
speech, at Columbus, Ohio, in 1908,
the text of several letters written by
John D. Archbold to Senator For
aker, from which it was obvious that
the Ohio politician was less than a
Senator for his state and more than a
friend of Standard Oil. The evidence
that the Senator was under definite
pecuniary obligation to the oil monop
oly was crushing. Publication of the
letters ended his public oareer.
From time to time Mr. Hearst has
printed in his papers and magazine
other Archbold letters, disclosing the
political methods of the corporation
and the mercenary practices of its
creatures. The genuineness of the let
ters has not been seriously questioned;
the public service rendered by their
publication was Indeed great.
Tet Mr. Hearst appears to know less
about the letters' authenticity than
anybody. He testifies at Washington
that he Is not sure he ever saw the
originals; and he got them from one
John Eddy, now In London, and there
fore inconveniently out of Congres
sional reach. v
- But ex-Senator Foraker appears to
be a little less doubtful about where
the letters came from. He says one
Wlnkfleld and one Stump took them
from the Standard Oil offices and sold
them to a representative of Mr.
Hearst.
Evidently Mr. Foraker knows what
he is talking about. Evidently also
Mr. Hearst does not, except that he is
willing to take the word of Eddy (of
London) that the letters were all
right and to base thereon grave
charges affecting the reputation of
well-known public men. It is possible,
of course, that Mr. Hearst did not
care to enter into a public discussion
of the method by which the letters
were procured, and the price paid. . It
is a nice question as to whether a
newspaper that buys stolen goods
from a thief is not an accessory after
the fact.
A HAPPY THOCGHT.
New York has' taken the initiative
In a change for the better which it
may be hoped that every city in the
country will make before many holi
day seasons have come and gone.
Heretofore the metropolis has cele
brated New Year's eve with a hideous
blare of noise. Tin trumpets, cow
bells, shrieks and yells have marred
the happy night and made peaceable
citizens miserable. It requires not
much sense and but little effort to
make a frightful noise and for that
reason, perhaps, the riotous way of
celebrating New Year's has grown
more popular every season.
But now a. move for better things
has been made. Dr. Lyman Abbott,
with the co-operation of several other
eminent New Yorkers, has set about
substituting songs and band music
for shrieks and miscellaneous din. All
along Broadway there are to be choir
masters and brass bands to lead the
crowds in singing . familiar pieces.
Nothing very grand or difficult will
be attempted. It la only "the good old
songs" that will be sung, but how Im
measurably better they "will sound
than a string of cowbells dragged
along the pavement by a bad boy who
ought to be whipped and sent to bed.
The Salvation Army, fervent in all
good wrks, is going to help forward
this blessed reform. Instead of scat
tering its forces throughout the city,
the Army will concentrate In Union
Square and do Its best to make that
part of the city gay with pleasant
music. Some people do not like the
musical performances of the Salva
tion Army, but in our opinion they are
infinitely better than tin trumpets
blown In the ears of everybody that
goes along the pavement.
Movements like this are slowly
making the world an agreeable place
to dwell in- With our progress toward
a sane and safe Fourth of July and
the banishment of racking noise at
New Year's much will have been ac
complished. In course of time pretty
street music will be substituted for
uproar at the Rose Festival. A crowd
can be gay without being riotous.
There is no necessary connection be
tween cruel noise and happiness. In
deed to some observers the fact that
our holidays are so barbarously noisy
proves that we have not yet learned
the-art Of being happy.
OPENING THE PRISON DOORS.
Probably It will appear to ' be a
needless task to make any endeavor
to relieve the Indurated ignorance, of
a paper like the Capital Journal at
Salem; but The . Oregonian will say
nevertheless that the parole system of
the state and the "honor" system of
Governor West are not Identical. The
parole system was found to be in ac
tive operation when Mr. West became
Governor; but he was not satisfied
with the moderate progress it was
making In turning felons out of prison
and he established as his own indi
vidual project the "honor" scheme,
which was in effect that a prisoner
enjoying the executive favor or con
fidence might be released on the per
sonal parole of the Governor. Upon
his own initiative the Governor has
given their liberty in a given month
as many as 134 prisoners. In two
years the total number of "honor"
men who have "escaped is forty.
The Oregonian distinctly approves
the parole system, though the testi
mony as to Its efficacy appears to be
conflicting. Here, for example, is a
statement credited to Lend-a-Hand,
the little paper printed by the Oregon
convicts within prison walls:
' A careful review of the report of varlou
atateev on th parol system reveal a star
tling fact. Oregon shows the lowest percent
age of men making good on parole. Moat
atatea ahow that from 10 to 15 per cent
of tho on parole are returned for viola
tion, while the report of Superintendent tur
tle show that 80 per cent of thoie paroled
from thi Institution hav failed to maKe
good. Thla will never do. We have got to
make a better ahowing than thla or declare
the parole law. honor ayatem and enlight
ened pollcle of Governor West a failure.
Can w afford to do thlaT
The consternation of the convict
editor appears hardly to be Justified,
for his interpretation of the warden's
report Is not strictly accurate. War
den Curtis says that 12 per cent of
the parole men have been returned' to
prison, while 17 per cent have not
reported and are therefore listed as
"parole violators." Are we to under
stand that the authorities do not
know what has become of the 17
per cent?
The parole system of Oregon com
pares favorably with other states.
But its "honor" system is unique, sol
itary and peculiar.
A CHANGE IN EXAMINATIONS.
Harvard University has begun a
reform of the traditional examination
system which will probably go a long
way before it stops. At present It Is
limited to the division of history, gov
ernment and economics. Hereafter
students who work for the bachelor's
degree in these studies will be re
quired to stand an examination in
their entire "field of concentration"
at the end of the college course. Such
an examination will be something
more than a mere memory test. It
will give the student a chance to show
what power of independent thought
and research he has acquired. All his
reading in the direction of history?
economics and government will tell in
the examination. If he has done
work outside-the prescribed course it
will show in the final test and natur
ally count in his favor. The reform
will encourage thoroughness in daily
recitations and at the same time in
duce students to read widely. They
will learn the value of thinking as
well as remembering. If a young man
understands that at the end of his
four years' work in college he must
pass an . examination in all that he
has gone over he will be likely to pay
less attention to accumulating mere
credit marks and more to acquiring: a
real knowledge of his subjects.
There has been a great deal of news,
paper comment on the change in the
Harvard examination system and all
find something in it to praise. One
writer rejoices because it is a blow at
the elective system. Another Is de
lighted to think that It will discour
age mere cramming. A third Is grati
fied to believe that it will stimulate
wide reading by the students. No
doubt' there is something In each of
these hopes. The elective system was
probably pushed too far by its enthu
siastic friends in the days of its early
triumphs. As a reaction from the mis
erable emptiness of the old classical
"course" it appeared so excellent that
many supposed we could not have too
much of It. President Gilman, of
Johns Hopkins, was one of the few
progressives who perceived that even
so good a' thing as the elective system
might be carried to an excess and he
modified it from the outset by re
stricting the- student to a choice
amcng several groups of studies in
stead of permitting him to range at
will among the particular branches.
This happy arrangement secured lib
erty as well as coherence In college
work.. The new reform at Harvard
is a step toward the group system and
away from indiscriminate electives.
No doubt for that reason it is a step
toward thoroughness and sound
education.
That It will discourage cramming is
evident enough, but one may hope
that it will not abolish the practice
altogether. Cramming as a habitual
method of study is as bad as possible,
but as an occasional incident in col
lege life It Is not without redeeming
circumstances. A young man gains
something by acquiring the ability to
go over a good deal of ground at high
speed-. The power of concentration is
a good thing to cultivate, as every
body will admit, and nothing strength
ens it more than the occasional prac
tice of learning a whole book in a
few hours. The danger comes in when
a student, finding that he can cram
successfully, never studies In any
other way. He becomes intense and
narrow and pays for his sharpness by
loss of that broad mastery which Is
far more valuable. But it ought not
to be overlooked that the ability to
cram Is Indispensable in most of the
professions. A lawyer needs It when
he has to master a hard case in a few
hours, a physician when he Is sud
denly brought face to face with a set
of new symptoms which he must un
derstand in order to save a life, a min
ister when he has spent the whole
week making pastoral calls and
Is obliged to write a sermon after 10
o'clock Saturday night. It would be
a pity If a reform in the examination
system were to blot out the habit of
cramming altogether, but we must
confess that we have little fear that,
any ever will. It is too deeply rooted
In our natural indolence and love of
procrastination.
But' if some reform could be de
vised that would do away with writ
ten examinations the true friends of
education would rejoice. Suppose
every young man were required to
stand on his feet two or three times
a year facing a shrewd and pitiless
committee of inquisitors who would
probe his knowledge to the depths; or
shallows, as the case might be. What
a change would ensue in the habits
of college students. Written examina
tions are a device, for veiling the
shame of the idle student and at the
same time decently concealing the
pedagogic deficiencies of his teachers.
It would be severe upon the profes
sors to see every one of their failures
paraded before an examining commit
tee in open court at the end of the
quarter. It Is much safer and far
less humiliating to let them fade away
quietly in the seclusion of the written
examination room. Bacon tells us
that writing maketh an exact man,
while speaking maketh a ready man.
We opine, that speaking under the
searching criticism of a ruthless com
mittee would make the college man
both exact and ready. He would gain
by the oral method all that he is sup
posed to gain by writing and a great
deal more. . ,
There Is a decided revolt among
American women against the tyranny
of French fashions. Some are trans
ferring their allegiance to London,
others are stepping out Into the Joys
of independence. It is said that more
and better artists than ever before
are now employed in devising new
fashions in the great American cen
ters. The next best thing to having
no new fashions is to invent the
changes at home. The difficulty here
tofore has been the lack of competent
artists, but this seems now in the way
to be overcome.
It is pleasant to learn that Mr. For
aker, the whilom Senator from Ohio,
can explain the $50,000 loan from Mr.
Archbard. But how much pleasanter
it would have been had.no such loan
been made and no explanation been
needed. Shady dealings between Sen
ators and Standard Oil magnates are
now of the past, but the shame of
them is a painful memory. The per
iod when they were a matter of course
will never look attractive In history,
nor can the men who stained their
fame by such transactions expect to
rank with true patriots.
The proposed French tiax on trans
fers of pictures will spread gloom
among our millionaire collectors. Two
per cent is to be levied on the selling
price and the proceeds will go to the
artists' heirs for fifty years. The
hardship on American collectors is
evident. They never buy the works
of a living artist, but when he Is dead
they bid his canvases up to fabulous
figures. The new tax will assess this
luxurious habit at 2 per cent, so that
a picture which sells for 11,000,000
will yield J20.000 to the painter's
famished wife and children.
The news of that Turkish victory at
Janina has been a long time coming.
Was it won before or after the Greeks
gained the success which they report?
Or is it another version of the same
battle? Both Turks and Greeks have
such facility at winning battles on
paper that we cannot guess what
really happened.
' It will not be safe for would-be Sen
ators from Texas to calculate upon a
vacancy until Bailey has, resigned and
his resignation has been accepted.
Bailey sent in his resignation once
before, but there was a string- on. it,
which he pulled vigorously. Bailey
enjoys being- dissuaded from resigning.
If Taft should be taken as medi
ator in the Balkan peace negotiations,
he might win the Nobel peace prize,
which is going begging. In that case',
the Nobel prize won by Roosevelt
would lose much value In its owner's
eyes.
That deluded white woman running
over state lines with a Chinaman in
effort to secure a marriage license is
deserving of pity more than contempt.
At 24 the skies should have for her
more brighter hue than saffron.
Tamed by twenty-six years' confine
ment, what is left of Geronimo's band
goes to the Mescalero reservation.
Only a part of the original number is
left, but the blood la in them and
bound to break out. -
Tons of candy have been pouring
Into Oregon City since the recent
election, at which women voted. Here's
an opportunity for defeated candi
dates to point the finger of grave
suspicion.
It was commonly supposed that
Foraker had been eliminated in 1908,
but he comes back at an inopportune
time for Hearst. S.ome men decline
to stay eliminated.
Carnegie's nephew has married a
working girl and gone to live with her
parents. But can they support him
in the luxury to which he has been
accustomed ?
While the contestants in the latest
Greek-Turkish naval conflict claim
they fought to a draw, It would ap
pear they merely fought to a with
draw. It would be far more In keeping
with the spirit of the age if those
tramping New York suffragists would
send their appeal to Albany by wire
less. A San Francisco girl will marry a
Chinaman because she says he is in
dustrious. The groom's motives are
probably similar.
The bride of six days who declares
she is unfitted for married lift has not
the proper idea of fitness of things
generally.
The rose thief in Summer is a holly
thief in December and,tha crime is all
the greater because of slow growth of
the tree.
Portland Is "dolled up" this year,
nearly a quarter-million having been
imported for the holiday trade. -
The Robert Dollar looked like
Bobby Slxbits when she limped into
Yokohama safe and pretty sound.
When an elopement or love-at-first-sight
marriage ends happily it is the
exception that proves the TUle.
Two centenarians fought a duel
over a woman. Doesn't man ever grow
old enough to know better?
It is too bad that hog cholera should
develop Just as spare ribs and back
bones are ripening.
Republican plum gleaners may yet
put a crimp in the Democratic pie
festival.
Now what money baron dares start
a panic?
Stars and Starmakers
By Leone Cass Baer.
"Mere Man." In which Minette Bar
rett, a Portland girl, has an important
role, has registered a failure in New
York.- It is Augustus Thomas' latest
play. Its presentation at the Harris
Theater was discontinued before one
week had passed.
a
In January David Warfield arrives in
"The Return of Peter Grimm." and
with him is John Sainpolis, a former
Baker leading man.
The tour around the globe of the
famous Flemish author's classic, "The
Blue Bird." will be virtually completed
In Portland December 29, with the en
gagement at the Heilig Theater all
New Year's week. Maeterlinck's poetic
fantasy has taken successful flight to
many lands. From the West to the
East it has penetrated to the fringe of
the Pacific with a six months' engage
ment In the Japanese language in Toklo
and to the South seas with a two
years' run in Sydney, Adelaide and
Melbourne. The other way around the
earth Berlin.' Paris, London, New York
and Chrcago have Been the play, and
the New Theater production, made a
hit in New York year before last, is
now headed for Portland to complete
the circuit of the habitable world. The
company of 100 persons travels by spe
cial train and carries an enormous
equipment of scenery and effects in
several 70-foot baggage cars. On their
big transcontinental . tour of 22.000
miles they crossed the Rockies Sunday.
It is estimated that 6,000.000 people
have seen the play, which has been
translated into eight different lan
guages and produced in every import
ant world-capital. .. It is a delicate
fancy of two children's search for hap
piness, gorgeously and spectacularly
executed with the aid of scenic and
electrical art and an orchestra of 25
pieces.
Izetta Jewel opened in "A Romance
of the Underworld" at the head of the
Burbank Theater in Los Angeles last
Sunday night. .As might be expected
the vivacious Izetta has purchased a
new car, and is working off some of
her pristine enthusiasm about the Los
Angeles drives.
..'
"A Modern Eve," a sprightly, spark
ling musical comedy, founded on the
suffragette questidn and answer, with
Adele Rowland in the cast, comes to
the Heilig Just after "The Blue Bird."
Miss Rowland's sister, Mabel, was sec
ond woman with the Baker company
for about a month last season.
a
David Belasco has announced the
cancellation of the contract existing
between him and Blanch Bates, now
Mrs. Creel, of Denver. The severance
of the contract is by mutual consent.
In making the announcement both
Belasco and Miss Bates wish to put
special emphasis upon the fact that
the severance of their professional alli
ance did not in any way impair the
cordial personal relations existing be
tween them. Nor did it mean Miss
Bates' retirement from the stage. So
far as any retirement from the stage
is concerned. Miss Bates declared that
she has never contemplated such a step.
On the contrary it is her intention to
resume her work next year.
'
Jules Friquet, composer of the mu
sic ' of "The Macy Models," headline
number at the Empress and musical
director of that act, was in Portland
30 years ago as director for Patti Rosa,
and his tour book shows he has visited
Portland at least once a year ever
since. Friquet became associated with
Patti Rosa immediately upon her ar
rival in the United States from Eng
land and remained with her through
out her early triumphal tours. Later
Professor ' Friquet joined Dan Sully,
with whom he appeared here in "The
Corner Grocery." Then he was asso
ciated here with Henshaw and Ten
brook in "The Nabobs," with Alva
Haywood in "Edgewood Folks," with
Florence Bintley's "Pay Train," and
with George Monroe in "Aunt Bridget."
Friquet has been with John B. Hymer
ever since 1908. He is the author of
the music of "The Devil and Tom Wal
ker," Hymer"s production, and made
several tours of the Coast with Hy
mer in that act.
-
William ("Billy") Dills, one of the
best-liked actors ever affiliated with
Baker stock, is to be director and
character man with the Princess Stock
Company to open December 22f at Spo
kane. Leon Llndhard, a Portlander, Is
leading man.
7
Wlllard Mack Is in trouble again
not matrimonial this time, however. He
is made defendant in a suit filed in
the district court by the American
Play Company, in which it Is alleged
that he Is Indebted to the play com
pany In the sum of 11380.31 for roy
alty and rentals on plays furnished
Mack between October 12, 1908, and
May 15. 1910.
,
Warda Howard, who used to be a
leading, woman at the Lyric when it
was a stock theater at Seventh jind
Alder, is to open next week with the
Bailey-Mitchell Company In Seattle.
.
' Carl Stockdale. once a Baker player,
but more recently of the Del Lawrence
stock in Sacramento, is to play a fea
ture engagement at the Bert Levy
house, the Diepenbrock, this week.
Louise Gunning, the comic opera
diva. Is Wintering In Sierra Madre,
Cal., where she owns a ranch.
With no leading man or woman, no
stars or near-stars and no company to
speak of, the Rainey pictures are play
ing to capacity houses this week at
the Heilig.
Jacob ' Proebstel, a Portlander who
this season has been understudy for
the leading Juvenile role in Henry W.
Savage's "Prince of pilBen," with Jess
Dandy as the comedian, has been
forced to discontinue his work through
Illness and is Just now convalscent
from pneumonia in Richmond, Va. He
will rejoin the company after the holi
days in California and will appear In
Portland with it in April.
Fifty Park Bears to Die.
Anaconda Standard.
Because there are so many bears,
mostly silver tips and- grizzlies, in Yel
lowstone National Park that the lives
of tourists are In danger, the park au
thorities intend to kill off not less than
60 of the animals this Fall. Many bears
have been captured within the last few
weeks and shipped to parks in Eastern
cities, but the cost of capturing the
animals is great, and as many of them
are so bold as to be a nuisance in the
park around camping outfits it is be
lieved best to kill them.
INSTITUTION IS LIKENED TO CITY
Municipalities, Mlsht Well Adapt Super
intendent's Biennial Report.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Dec. 14. (To
the Editor.) Boiled down to its con
crete and condensed form the essence
of all the rancor in our urban govern
ments is to be found in a lack of frank
publicity of the activities of public
officials. And this, too. in an age
where the demand for publicity has de
veloped Into such a banal craze as to
demand the revealing of the contribu
tors to campaign funds, producing a
masquerade for fact which is nothing
short of an incentive to perjury.
The pretext for animadversion. 1 as
frequently unjust as well founded,
would be eradicated if the city's Mayor
were obliged to present such a resume
of his work, with the minutiae, preci
sion and - comprehensiveness of Dr.
Steiner's report on the Insane asylum.
Indeed it would not be difficult to dis
cover a deadly parallel between the
asylum administration and a city ad
ministration. It is difficult to resist
classifying the Salem institution as a
sample, in practice, not in theory, of a
municipal ownership form of govern
ment, though not of the Upton Sinclair
brand. With the Superintendent as
signed the classification already men
tioned, you have the Board of Trustees,
equivalent to the City Council or Com
missioners; you have the replica of the
city engineer; the asylum has its own
fire department and waterworks, its
own electrical department, its own
railroad (a spur track), its own drug
gist and dentist; its bookkeeper might
be styled city clerk; it haB its own
orchardist; it Has its grounds super
intendent (yclept Park Commission);
its watchmen, ' alias police force; its
restaurants, its bakery, its laundry,
tailor, shoemaker and all the concomi
tants of a municipal community, in
cluding a population equal to and
greater than seven-eighths of the in
corporated cities of Oregon, even to its
own Federal Postoffice in the building.
In short, it has nearly every funda
mental equipment but its own news-pape-
and that is only nearly fatal.
I should emphasize its most impor
tant adjunct. It has its board of edu
cation. This would tally with its med
ical faculty. But there the comparison
ends, else it would be odious. The
school boards too often provoke that
mischievous Mark Twain raillery: "In
the first place God made Idiots. That
was for practice; then he made school
boards." The educational system in
this institution sterns to be a mar
velous one marvbious alike in its util
itarian simplicity, in its harmonious
operation and Pyrrhic results. It
trains the mind into an orderly state,
a mind not in a raw, not in a virgin or
chrysalis condition, but inchoate and
demoralized state. And it has done so
effectively in 66 per cent of the cases
under its Jurisdiction. Is there a
school board in all the land that has
reclaimed into useful prospective mem.
bers of society a corresponding per
centage of 100 incorrigible hoys or
girls? No, for when confounded with
such a condition they in popular par
lance "pass the buck" to the police
arm of the government and that de
partment religiously turns the rotation
of responsibility on until it finally re
poses on the shoulders of the warden
in that driftwood sepulcher, the peni
tentiary. Now a corollary to this presentation.
How is this practical scheme of things
developed? This biennial brochure of
the Superintendent is the answer, the
solution. Through It there can be no
ahirktne- of dutv. There the chief mag
istrate renders a full account of his
stewardship to the last cent. It is
presented, too, in an intelligible shape
and with such military precision and
finesse of detail that the veriest tyro
may read and comprehend. There can
be no stuffing to apologize for extrava
gant expenditure of state money. It
may be urged that the Mayor is mili
tntMl airalnst in that he has not an
unrestricted carte blanche as the asy
lum superintendent, that ne s oo
structed by an unsympathetic and
often hostile council. So, too, could
the asylum superintendent. The limi
tations on their quasi-plenary power
are co-equal, with the advantage some
what in favor of the Mayor. The
is maintained by the two
"V's" Vote and Veto. The asylum has
it rnlin nil. too. but the Superintendent
has no veto. But the asylum board of
trustees, evidently, are men wno are
as patriotic as they are practical, in
that they are big minded and broad
minded enough to concede credit where
credit Is due, and to do so in the case
in point, spontaneously ana nem con,
by expressing their appreciation, in a
fnrewnrd in the booklet, of the loyal
and efficient service of the Superin
tendent.
Where. In any one of the 200 or more
municipalities of Oregon, could you
find a city or town council unani
mously commending and thus unre
servedly extolling its chief officer?
And harking back to the original tune
I sav that the key to mis enviauic
consummation is the system which de
mands this full and faultless chronicle
of the" doings of this asyium-cny. veru.
t- rr f i.' v ir r? v
San. x-. x.
SOURED MAN IMPEACHES CUPID.
Marriage Is Perilous Thing, Accord
ing to Ex-huabaad.
PORTLAND, Dec. 13. (To the Edi
tor.) I have read many communica
tions in The Oregonian, most of them
deploring the difficulties of marriage
able people becoming acquainted. It
appears to me the better plan to let
these people plod along in single bles
sedness, unhampered and not annoyed.
The large number of divorces, ap
proaching 300 in this county alone this
year, seems to prove that the marriage
relation is not one of pure happiness.
The five women who met death at
Spokane this week by drinking pois
oned whisky were all married, and if
there Is any one thing that will make
an unhappy home it is a drinking
woman.
The man who marries must become
a slave. He must work early and late
to face the high cost of living, which
is made doubly galling by an Idle, ex
travagant or drinking wife. Every
girl is taught to look for marriage
only with men of means, and these are
very few a compared with the number
of poor men who must depend solely
upon their labor for a livelihood. If
one of them, tired of waiting, finally
i - mam ruthAr than be left
mtiri iks a j.i u 1 . . -
an old maid, she is forever afterward
dissatisfied because sne cannot nvu
.11 in., raiment or expensive
amusements she sees some other wom
an enjoying. Carping criticism oi jier
. . j -..Otoe in feollnir and
nusDu-nu uuuii j ,
dissatisfaction, which grows from bad
to worse, and a divorce soon mu".
"Well, if you can't make enough
money to buy me a new suit and hat,
I know another man who can." Is a
l.mnHnn frtaplV fUinfif at
I'UIUIIIUJI o ...... v -
the poor, slaving husband who is try
ing to earn an honest living by hard
and grinding toil.
Think or tne aerna-ima u "
band's pocketbook. as the holidays ap
proach, when Easter bonnets are in
bloom and when the ocean resorts call
for their prey! Think of the bills,
, Li,,- -. uinri thnt must be
met No wonder husbands grow gray
before their time.
j rinriirR the marriage
shackles which would enslave them for
life and make life ior me pum umu.
tunates a tragedy.
And. no matter how worthless a
woman may be. even though she re
. v,ai- husband's meals or
IUSO L"
keep his house, she can have him put
on tne rocKpno i' u,..,. , .
v fahulous alimony if he has any
property, and get it.
The Dlggest. s"'" "'" "
market today are scheming, extrava
gant, idle, drinking, worthless women.
Men, young, old or middle-aged, be
ware of that kind!
ONE WHO WAS STUNG.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonian of Dec 19. 1862.
The rebel army in Virginia is said,
on good authority, to be suffering
greatly for want of the common nec
essaries of life.
Washington, Pec. 11. At 6 o'clock
this morning 143 Federal guns opened
on Fredericksburg. The destruction of
the city is certain. The enemy opened
fire at 7 o'clock. During the night pon
toons were conveyed to the river und
artillery placed in front of Fredericks
burg, and at 3 this morning the con
struction of three bridges commenced
in front of the city, and when they
were completed the enemy opened a
murderous infantry flro from houses
on the river bank, driving the engi
neers from the bridges. General Burn
side ordered all guns to Dnen on the
city. The concentrated tiro of our guns
hud the effect of driving back the ene
my from their batteries, and the work,
on the bridges commenced again. Gen
eral Franklin's division crossed the
river three miles below.
Philadelphia, Dec. 11. Nashville dis
patches say rebels under Johnson,
Bracir, Cheathuni, Forrest and Morgan
advanced and appeared in front in
great force. A battle is expected near
Harpeth, 20 miles soutnwest or iasn-
ville.
Olvmnia. Dec 15. In the House Mr.
Grlswold introduced a memorial rela
tive to fortifications at tho mouth of
the Columbia River and at the entrance
to Puget Sound.
At no time in the last three years
has the condition of the streets been
worse than at present. The accumu
lation of mud all over town is im
mense. Unfortunately there is no power
in the city charter to compel property
owners to make street improvements
or pay for the removal of filth and mud
unless the city pays one-half of the
expense.
Ml tVic l.illa nrpnntpi1 for attendance
upon a smallpox patient and the ex
pense attending nis ouriai appearea to
have partially frightened the Council
out of the notion ot providing for in-Hip-ent
nersons affected with this loath
some disease, but the pest-house Is a
necessity.
Sealed proposals will be received at
the office of G. Richardson at the Pio
neer Hotel until the 2d day of Janu
ary, 1863, for grading, bridging and
macadamizing a road from Portland to
Milwaukia,
OPEN LETTER SE.VT TO MAGAZINE!
Portland rhynlclan CrltlrUes Life's At
titude Toward Ills Frofeaiilnn.
PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 16. (To the
Editor of Life, New York.) I have
been a reader of Life more or less
constant ever since you began publi
cation, but have at times for even
years rarely looked at it, on account of
your hostile attitude toward the medi
cal profession, for which you never
have a kindly word, but seem to revel
in denouncing ail medicos as unspeak
able knaves and fools, ignoring the
fact that physicians and surgeons, who
are, I trust you will admit, human, and
are, like other people, some bad, some
indifferent, but also many good.
It hurts to be constantly sneered at
and censured and slandered by Life,
which is in some respects to be ad
mired, and my motive in addressing
you is to protest against your unfair
ness and unkindness, in the hope that
you may Indulge in some introspec
tion, and reform; for if you will look
about you in a receptive mood you will
discover that there are very many
honest. Intelligent educated and benev
olent men In our profession, as well
as the unfit, who are seemingly the
only ones visible to you.
To argue In favor of vaccination
should not be necessary when we re
flect that, in 1857, 150,000 Mandan In
dians died of smallpox and that 400,000
victims were carried off annually by
It in Europe before Jenner discovered
the Bimple and harmless means of pre
vention which has almost rendered
extinct this once terrible scourge; and
yet without qualification you inveigh
continually against vaccination. Vivi
section of the lower animals has
taught surgeons many things by which
the span of human life has ben pro
longed, including the successful treat
ment of intestinal wounds which used
to be almost always fatal; but no nor
mal human being, surgeon or other
wise, would wantonly injure or cause
pain to any creature.
You have persistently tried to teach
the public that all surgeons are In
human fiends who delight in torturing
dogs and other animals. Would you
favor a return to the conditions of the
middle ages, when the plague and
cholera, and smallpox and other pesti
lences, destroying countless millions of
people who had no better protection
than the exorcisms of good Cardinal
Carlo Borromeo. carrying a crucifix as
he walked barefoot through the streets
of Milan? Or does it grieve you to see
our Canal zone freed from yellow fever
and other disease, or our army, through
the use of the recently discovered anti
typhoid seruin, practically Immune to
a malady that used to carry of many
times more of our soldiers than used
to fall before the bullets of the enemy?
If not, what is your, aim?
To whom is due the credit of almost
ridding the world of the above named
and many other afflictions, if not to
our earnest, studious, self-sacrif Icing
professional brethren, many of whom
have even laid down their lives in
their zealous researches?
Now Is tho time to make some good
resolutions for the coming year; and
let me suggest that you enter upon It
with a determination to abstain from
"all evil speaking, lying and slander
ing," bulievlng that you cannot other
wise acquire self-respect or the cheer
ful good wishes of your readers.
AC. P ANTON.
EYES OF LITTLE USB TO THEM
RntM, Mice and Dors Live as Well
Without Them.
New York Press.
The researches on animal behavior
by Professor John T. Watson. Professor
H S. Jennlnsr? and others In the Johns
Hopkins University Indicate that rats,
mire and dng.s at least may wen oo
without their eyes end ears at any
rate, during periods that such sensa
tions might be considered helpful.. .
Does born blind or that become bilia
by accident are able to- smell and, 'paw
their way into the mont inaccessible
and out-of-the way places. It Is prac
tically impossible to starve them, lose
them Or trap them. Furthermore, blind
dogs learn stunts Just as quickly as
those that see. Loss of sight in no way
interferes with their ability to learn
tricks, acquire habits or find their bed.
Rats, as a matter of fact, lr tney use
their eyes at all a doubtful matter
can see little or nothing of the world.
The retina of these creatures has no
point of perfect vision such as Is
found in the hieher animals and man.
Hence their noses, muscles, touch and
hearing gtve them information about
the world they live in.
Look-In With MnMer Cupid.
Ext-hange.
"I Bhot an arrow In th'a air.'1
Laughed Cupid, little Dan dumb.
"It fell to earth I know not where.
And what Is more, I do not care.
I often shoot at random."
The .Comforts of Home.
Philadelphia Record.
Blobbs Your wile suffers from
nervous prostration, doesn't she?
Slobb Well, sometimes l imna sne
suffers and sometimes I think she
positively enjoys it.