THE 3IOKK1XG- OKEUOfllAW, THURSDAY. tBKUAKl' 201013.
KULbb UUNVbHllUN
GAINS ACCESSIONS
Root and Crane Favor Repub
lican Plan for Party Betterment.
SOUTH CAUSE CONTENTION
History, Says Senator Root, Empha
sizes Necessity of Special Con
vention if Kevlslon Is to
Be Made Effective.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 19. The pros
pect for a Republican National conven
tion next Fall to revise the rules gov
erning the selection of National dele
gates and to change the basis of South
ern representation at regular Republic
an conventions was strengthened today
through expressions favoring the pro
posed National gathering by Senator
Root, of New York, and Senator Crane,
of Massachusetts. No definite steps
have been taken toward Issuing a call
for the convention, but expressions by
members of various factions of the
party indicate that efforts will be made
to bring Republicans from all states
together within the present year for
the revision of plans.
Tits CBamgea Proposed.
Demand for a Republican conven
tion has been based on the desire to
make such changes that states will
have the opportunity to select their
delegates through primaries or other
wise and to cut down the number of
delegates from states having a light
representation vote.
I am In favor of holding a Repub
lican convention at some convenient
time next Fall or Winter," said Sena
tor Root, who w.-v chairman of the
Chicago convention last June, "for the
purpose of doing two things: First, to
make the representation In National
conventions proportionate to the repub
lican vote that is. correcting the dis
proportion in what Is spoken of as the
Southern representation, and second, to
permit the Republicans of each state
to elect delegates to National conven
tions In their own way., so that the
choice in each state will be regulated
according to the law of the state.
Sipecial Cvei Essential.
"In order that these changes shall
be effective In a convention to nomi
nate a President, they must be made
before that convention and that can be
done only by a special convention. The
National committee still is bound by
the old rules which were adopted by
the convention of 1880. They will
have to call the next convention Just
as they did the last one. under these
rules, unless a special convention Is
called to make the changes which cer
tainly ought to be made."
Senator Crane Indorsed the conven
tion plan.
"I am in favor of holding a Repub
lican National convention for the pur
pose of changing the basis of repre
sentation In proportion to the Repub
lican vote and also to amend the rules
for the election of delegates, in such
manner as may be deemed wise." Sen
ator Crano said. "History has shown
that a change in the basis of revision
is not likely to be made at a nominating
convention and this emphasizes the ne
cessity of a special convention."
BOND DEFEAT EXPLAINED
(iaj Ixmbard Says People Want to
Know Where Funds Are to Go.
"I am in favor of a park bond Is
sue, but I shall not support it in my
campaign." said Gay Lombard at the
meeting of the Greater Portland Plans
Association last night, "unless I know
and the people know where the money
Is going to go and I Intend to find this
out, so that I can support intelligently
the bond Issue when I go before the
people. I don't believe in the idea of
asking the people to turn over 12.000,
00 to a Park Board without being
given the slightest idea of where and
bow it is to be expended and it was
just that thing that defeated the park
bond issue in the last election."
Park Superintendent Mische had said
to announce to the public just what
land was to be acquired, would tend to
make the prices rise unreasonably. A
full statement had been given the com
mittee of the Portland Plans Associa
tion but this committee has not been
given permission to make the details
of the report public.
A resolution was adopted recom
mending an official statement showing
in what sections land is to be ac
acquired and the amounts of money to
be expended.
L. H. Weir sent In a report to the
meeting urging that every effort be
made to have all voters, especially the
women of the city, register at once.
Arthur Langguth announced that in
formation had been received from Sa
lem that the "excess condemnation
bill" originated in the Greater Port
land Plans Association la to be report
ed favorably.
W. II. Killingsworth. discussing the
street-widening plana for Portland, in
troduced the novel suggestion of
"double-decked streets. This he held
will provide a more efficient, safer ayd
less costly plan for handling the traf
fic in the business sections than widen
ing the streets from 60 to 100 feet.
KALAMA THIEVES ELUSIVE
FoMorricc .Raiders Sought at Ceil
trails but Not Found.
CENTRALIA. Wash., Feb. 19. (Spe
cial.) The Centralia police today went
through every north-bound freight In
an endeavor to capture the thieves who
lat night entered the postofflce at
Kalaraa and made their getaway with
StiOO worth of stamps.
According to advices received here
from the Kalama authorities the
thieves are beaded this way.
RIGLER WILL QUIT HIS JOB
Contlnnd From First Pae.
of this city will become a pattern for
-,i. .r th entire United States.
Directly due to Mr. Rigler's influence
j hi interest in the problems oi vo
rational Instruction have been many
of the Important steps In this depart
ment that have been made thus far.
h hroad knowledge of the sub-
t.f n. h acouired through years of
consideration and study upon It. will
probably have a vital influence upon
ttwseia-of"'rr!rHeTeIopment-ln the
coming few years.
Alderman's Rank Illgb.
'Mr. Alderman, who' is being favor
ably considered by the board as Mr.
Rigler's successor, has gained for him
self within a comparatively short time
a reputation and standing as a pro
gressive and broad-minded educator,
which places his name high in the
ranks not only of educators of Oregon
and the Pacific Coast, but of the entire
United States.
Graduating from the University of
Oregon comparatively few years ago,
his career carried him successfully
through teaching, through service as
Superintendent of Schools In Yamhill
County and service in the chair of edu
cation in the University of Oregon,
from which he passed to the superin
tendency of the education affairs of
the state, being elected without oppo
sition. DcflaKe 'holer to Jle Made Soon.
In all positions he has occupied, Mr.
Alderman has proved himself a man
of breadth and originality of ideas and
manv of the important features of the
educational system of the state have
been introduced through his influence
while connected with the educational
department in the State University, or
since his accession to the position of
State Superintendent- Probably the
most notable of the many movements
which he has been instrumental In In
augurating and developing. Is the ag
ricultural educational movement in me
public schools, which has reached 1n
Oregon a magnitude unequalled In any
other state.
Mr. Alderman will leave soon for
New York, where he is to attend .and
take an active part In the convention
of the National Education Association.
The School Board discussed the sit
uation In its every phase at an informal
meeting last night and a definite de
cision upon the matter of Mr. Rigler's
successor will be made probably next
week.
PHONE MEN TO VOTE AGAIN
Company Offers to Raise Wages 25
Cents a Day as Compromise.
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 19. It will
require another vote of the telephone
company employes on the Pacific Coast
belonging to the International Brotner
hood of Electrical Workers to decide
whether there shall be a strike. .At a
meeting today of representatives of the
union and of the telephone company,
the latter offered to compromise by
agreeing to pay 25 cents a day more
than the present wage of the men in
the union. The men have demanded an
increase of SO cents a day.
San Francisco and Oakland members
of the union will vote secretly tomor
row night on the proposition and before
midnight Monday night the members
In other parts of California, in Oregon,
Washington,' Nevada, Utah and parts
of Idaho will vote.
Six thousand five hundred men are
Involved in the discussion and it was
said tonight by F. B. Smith, vice-president
of the union, that if the vote is
against accepting the compromise, 3000
men will go out at once.
E. C BRADLEY TO RESIGN
Telephone JIanager Would Retire
After 4 0 Tears of Service.
KAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 19. F. C.
Bradley, vice-president and general
manager of the Pacific States Tele
phone & Telegraph Company, will ten
der his resignation when the stock
holders meet. March 5. In annual ses
sion. In announcing his intention to re
sign, Mr. Bradley said that he desires
to retire from active life. He started
40 years ago as a telegraph operator.
At one time he was third vice-president
of the Postal Telegraph Company. He
came to the Pacific States Company
from the American Telephone & Tele
graph Company of New York and
YEGG SPIRITED AWAY
Fred Love Will Complete Term
in North Dakota Cell.
"PORTLAND WHITEY" ALIAS
Officers Fear 'Man Once Released
Through Friends' Aid May Go
.Free Again and Surrender Him
to Penitentiary Deputy.
' Fearful that interests that once se
cured his release from the Penitentiary
might again secure his freedom. Fred
Love, whose yegg name is "Portland
Whltey." was secretely taken out of
the state yesterday afternoon by de
tectives Goltz and Craddock, turned
over to Deputy Warden Gray, of the
North Dakota State Tenitentiary. and
is now on his way East to serve the
remainder of a five-year term. -
With him, the detectives think, goes
the secret of who blew the outside door
of a safe In the Alisky Cafe, Third and
. . ! .. . . o -u-Aok- Ao-n. When
arrested he eagerly asked if he were
being taken in lor some juu u
.. 1 - A (mn Vial 113ri On the
mat weeft. - " . w "
safe was partially traced to him also.
Love was paraonea irum .
Idaho, State Penitentiary August 7,
1911, through the Influence of Port
land persons, on the statement that he
was afflicted with an incurable disease
which would soon caue his death.
i no , i o Ti havin? hppn ac-
costed on the street by Special Pa-
n , i. . . 1 o, Porlrnr
trolman raraer, ne -
with a knife slightly injuring him, and
was sent to the rockpile.
Love was convicted in 1905 of blow
. - t t?oll..A Trtnhn. and was
mg a bale in " " . - r
sentenced to serve 15 years in the Peni
tentiary, lie escaped iu
-J in XT -i 1 V. rinVntfl
il O was seiiicm-cu ........... . -
to serve five years for burglary, April
25, 1907 and escaped, later being ar
rested In Minneapolis for a highway
robbery ana escaping.
LAD OF 16 SHOT BY SELF
Robert Walker, of Nj ssa, Accident
ally Killed While Hunting.
NYSSA Or., F"ebT 19. (Special.)
Robert Walker, the 16-year-old brother
of Rev. C. L. Walker, pastor of the
Methodist Church of this city, was ac
cidentally killed Monday. evening.
Alone he had gone duck shooting, on an
island In Snake River two miles north
of town. His actions were plainly
marked out by the consequences. He
had finished his hunt and rowed back
tj the river bank, where he tied his
boat. Evidently he had stooped over
to lift his 22 special from the bottom
of the boat and in so doing the hammer
of the gun became caught in the boat,
discharging It in some manner. The
bullet penetrated the back of his head.
His widowed mother was in Caldwell
and his brother in Nampa, leaving only
his 18-year-old sister at home.
The family came to Nyssa last Fall
with Mr. Walker from Haines, Or.
Their home was formerly In Michigan.
DESERTED WIFE IN NEED
Associated Charities" Cares for Girl
but Carfare Is Wanted.
Deserted by her husband and desti
tute, a young woman only 19 years old
was brought. to the Associated Charl
- . - . i- nf thA roominer-
ties uy mo iu.-.- - -- -
house in which she had been left, fane
SLEZAK, GREAT SINGER,
IS REAL COMEDIAN, TOO
Famous Artist Who Sings at Heilig Tonight Likes Yankee Slang and Uses
It Deliriously Leone Cass Baer Writes About His Funny Ways.
BY LEONE CASS BAER.
LEO SLEZAK singing before an au
dience in his best bTg dramatic
tenor style, as he will tonight at
the Heilig, excellent in diction, flaw
less in accent, because he knows the
languages In which he sings. Is a vast
ly different Leo Slezak who permits
himself to be Interviewed.
If he weren't such a tremendously
important personage I would say right
out in meeting, that his antics are
muchly reminiscent of the playful
gambols' of a Newfoundland puppy. He
is so big six feet four inches, and he
plays and frisks about, cutting capers,
throwing his big head around careless
ly and sprawling his large hands over
the table.
He is Irrepressible and funnier than
any trade-mark comedian I ever drew
for an Interview.
He loves American slang because one
word will suffice for an entire sen
tence, he says. Only he doesn't say
suffice.
Mrs. Slezak, charming and, oh, so
pretty, In a piquant, Viennese way, is
her great, big boyish husband's care
taker as well as interpreter. He adores
her openly and frankly and they have
never been apart In the 13 years and
three days they have been married.
Artist Enjoys Movies.
Back In New York, where "Father"
Slezak is a great, big Important one
with the Metropolitan Opera Company,
are two little Slezaks.
"They are much less trouble to look
after than Leo." says Mrs. Slezak. and
apparently means it. For Leo would.
just as soon appear sans collar, sans
comb, sans shoes, if Mrs. Slezak didn't
remind him constantly that In America
be needs them.
"Ah, I shall be glad wlien I get to
my farm near from Munich," sighed
the boyish Slezak. "There I play all
Summer. I go with bared knees and
short trousers" a sort of B. V. D. ef
fect, I Imagine, from his none too lucid
description.
Slezak's greatest joy on earth Is go
ing to moving pictures. Yesterday af
ternoon he and Mrs. Slezak, with Mrs.
Warren H. Thomas, made a gay and
giddy round of all the motion picture
houses In Portland. It was the wildest
sort of excitement for Slezak. He sings
ragtime with the singers who appear
between films and makes loua smacKS
when the pictured hero kisses the pic
tured heroine.
"In one place where was the mov
ing pictures a colored man sit next to
me. I sing Teedle up. feedle up-a-on
a vl-o-lin.' and Slezak lurched his
great shoulders In an elephantine rag
and sung the line n nis wonaenui
voire.
'SJh-ssh-sh," (how do you write that
word?) said Mrs. Thomas. "Tonight
folk will pay to hear that voice."
Friendly Flap Ketnraed.
"Oh, yes," said Slezak, singing It
again, with a fine disregard to ad
monitions. "I seeng It In the moving
pictures and a colored man who seet
by me heet me on my knee and say,
'oh you gotta swell voice my man. you
oughta go by vodeville I bet you get
twenty-nve a week.' " and Slezak
laughed till his blue eyes folded them
selves clear out of sight.
"What did you say?" I asked, think
ing that maybe Slezak had exhibited
temperament and crushed his ebon ad
viser with hauteur.
"Oh, I heet heem on hees knee too
and say. Thank you, my fren.' "
Leo alesak nas an tne reverse in
thg comedians played off the boards.
He says he can speak six languages,
of which English Isn't one. "My wife
Dv.A i, in thA warm water constantly."
he smiled. "Ever I make breaks. She
telegraph me with her reet. or n me
(aM, la an Inns- nr her feet are far
..... d Vi a fm0-h an. 'Leo ( mil irh.
cough) 'Leo,' " and the great singer
mimicked tne warning sigpais ma n
i-wnnt tn send out a habit peculiar
to married women.
Leo Slezak whistles, sings, frowns,
makes grimaces and ejaculates a long
.i a.ti.r-A with- such a delicious
impertinent intimacy that It seems not
slang but a nne aaaition to our mo
guage.
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HOW MAN'S
EFFICIENCY HAS
BEEN INCREASED
By the "J. B. L. Cascade"
Over 200,000 people have found that
this new method of Internal Bathing
keeps them always up to "Concert
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That by using it once a week their
Lower Intestine Is kept . thoroughly
clean, pure and sweet, as nature In
tended It to be.
That biliousness, with its attendant
nervousness, "blueness" and depression,
no longer pulls down their efficiency,
but they constantly feel bright, con
fident and capable; also that the more
serious ills of constipation (appendicitis
for instance) cannot progress where the
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It is aptly termed "Nature's Own
Cure for Constipation," for Its opera
tion Is just as safe and natural as
washing your hands.
Until recently the "J. B. L. Cascade"
has been obtainable only by sending to
its Inventor, Charles A. Tyrrell, M. o.
of New York City.
The demand for it now, however, has
become so universal, through the recom
mendations of those who are using It,
that it has been decided to place it In
the hands of leading druggists through
out the country.
Woodard, Clarke & Co., Alder street,
at West Park, Portland, now have the
"J. B. L. Cascade," and we will be glad
to show and explain Jt to you In detail.
We are also distributing a very In
teresting Booklet on Internal Bathing,
called "'hy Man of Today Is Only 50
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has one small child and another" is
expected.
Ten days ago her husband put on
two suits of clothes and went away
leaving behind a note to his wife say
ing that he was sorry but that he
would never come back. He left her
only $2 in money.
No relatives of the woman live in
Portland and after sending many mes
sages the Associated Charities got in
touch with her parents In Garden City,
Kan. A reply came, saying that they
would care for her but could not pay
her fare.
Associated Charities officials declare
that the number of wife desertions
average three a day.
THOMAS ERSKINE CONSUL
(Continued From First Page.)
Anyone can make delicious, crisp wheat
cakes by following this recipe-a new one
received from a famous Vermont cook: 1
WHEAT CAKES
1 1-2 cups flour
4 even teaspoons baking: powder
I- 2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
II- 2 cups milk
1 egar , , ,
1 teaspoon melted butter or two
of rich cream
Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar into
mixing bowl; add milk very gradually, beating
smooth. Add well-beaten egg and melted butter
or cream. "Bake" on a hot griddle, slightly
bnt evenly greased. Do not have cakes too thick ;
as soon as lightly browned on both sides, spread
one side with butter, roll them up and serve
immediately on a warmed plate.
But cakes aren't cakes without plenty of
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Towle's is good all the time,
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making youngsters grow and
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and Towle's is fine for them.
Their craving for Towle's is
Nature's guide to the nourish
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And that flavor always like
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theTowlewayof making syrup
keeps the original mellowness
St. Louis April 1, 1908, but served as
Acting Consul-General at Chicago In
1908 and 1909. The State of Arkansas
was transferred from the district of the
Consulate-General of New Orleans to
that- of the Consulate of St. Louis, and
a new commission lssiled to Mr. Erskine
September 1, 1910. 5
NEW APPOINTEE IS ADVISED
Thomas H. Erskine Tells Why He
Still Prefers England to America.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 19. (Special.)
Thomas Erskine, British Consul here,
has received notice of his promotion to
the British Consulate at Portland, Or.,
to succeed the late James Laidlaw, who
died recently in that city.
"The more I see of America the
lishinan," will be in reality as well as
more British I become," declared Mr.
Erskine here today, in an Interview
regarding his promotion to the Oregon
post.
Although Portland cannot yet boast
as large a population as St. Louis, the
British Consulate there is of the first
class, while that country's Consulate
in St. Louis is of the second class,
hence the transfer of Erskine, who Is
described in a St. Louis newspaper to
day as "St. Louis' most typical Eng
by courtesy a step forward.
"Don't you know, we do things bet
ter in England," explained Erskine.
"I learn that more and more each
day. For one, we observe the law
better. In my country when a police
man puts up his hand everything stops.
Here nobobdy minds him, but I don't
think It is willful evasion of the law,
rather pure negligence, you know.
"Justice in England Is meted out so
much quicker than here, I should say
ah sometimes too quickly."
"If a law is unpopular In England it
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linn HffliiiinM
is enforced to the letter until it makes
things so unpleasant for the people
that they bring about Its repeal; here
you merely let It stand and continue to
violate it."
Fondling the British coat-of-arms
with gaze, Erskine calmly shattered
the American's pet theory of himself
and Instead placed the Englishman on
the pedestal. He said there was more
democracy and less class distinction In
England than in the United States.
Erskine has oeen popular In St.
Louis, notwithstanding hla preference
for London.
Centralia to Spend Thousands.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Feb. 19. (Spe
cial.) At the meeting of the Centralia
City Commission preliminary stops
were taken for the expenditure of
thousands of dollars for street im
provements, including the paving or
five of the principal residence streets
of the city. The Commission also voted
hereafter to furnish cement, "and and
gravel for all paving contracts let b
the city.
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Seen It?
East Morrison and East First
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