Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, February 28, 1913, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Text10 THE MDKNIWG CTKEGOXIAIT, FKTDAY. FEBRUARY 28 1913. POKTLAVD. ORBGOX. Kntared at Portland. Orcsoo, poUffI fcond-class muter. . Subacription Bw Invariably la AJTince (BT MJUL) rmllv. earidiT included. one year - Eily, Sunday Included. ! monIM .. Pally, huidajr Included, three montn. Iallr, bundar Included, one tnocta ... I11t. without Sunday, one year I)i.. without Sunday. x month . Daily, without Sunday, three months . I'aily. without Sondaj. one month .... Wkly. one year. ... Sunday, one year. Sunday and Weekly, one year.......... (BT CARRIER) n.n. Bmti fnHndrrL one year. ....i 4.23 2.25 .70 .un ZJti 1.75 j6Q 1.60 2. AO a. so .no ln'iv Knnriav Included, one month..... w i. HMnit Send nostoClce money or Arr express order or personal check on your local bank. Etamps, coin or currency are at the sender s risk, oive posiomce i lull. Inciudlra county ana su.e. Poetaxe Bate Ten to 14 p-ea, 1 cent ia .. nuee 1 cents: 80 to 40 Dues. 1 ent: 40 to 60 pacea. 4 cents. foralsa joMate. double rate. m . Eaetnrn RmdneM OUVwa Verree Conk- In. .sw York. Krunswlok building. Chi an rranrisco Office JV. J. Bldwell Co. W2 Market street. . European Office No. S Begent street W.. London. POKTLAD. I FRIDAY. FEB. t. ltU- A IJTTXK "AYY FOR IJTTIJ5 AMTHU- CA. By refusing to appropriate money for two new battleships, the .Demo crats forecast an era of little Ameri canism. The disposition shown by the present Congress Is likely to bo more strongly evinced by the next In close nronortion to the increased Demo cratic membership. We are doomed to sink In rank until we shall be nnm bered among second-class powers. We have already dropped from second to third place In naval strength; at the pace set by the Democrats we snail soon sink to fourth and then to fifth nlace Our Influence among nations is measured not by the number of our people, but by the size of our armed force. There is no false pretense amonrr such powers as Great Britain, fiprmanv. Russia and France. ' The decree of respect they show one an other their chariness about stepping on each other's corns is measured by ' armed power, not by unarmed mil lions of population. A nation with a small navy cannot "talk up" to one with a largo navy, even when its quarrel Is Just, as it would were their a Dowr equal. wnens siappea in the face, we dare not return the slap. but must meekly turn then other cneeic Should President-elect Wilson de- rr to take vigorous strs to uphold our righte nd our dignity abroad, his activities will be limited by the Little American policy of his party. The action of the House presages a policy of scuttling, of evasion of our respon sibilities abroad, dictated by our in ability to back up any more vigorous policy with lorce. By crawling Into our shell w shall forfeit the respect and earn the. contempt and Insults of other nations Selection c W. J. Bryan for Secre tary of State Justifies expectation that arbitration will be one of the cardinal points in the new Adminiiratlon'a policy, for Mr. Bryan has been among the foremost advocates of settlement of International disputes by a Judicial tribunal. But he should remember this, that a pacific policy pursued by a weak power will be open to suspi cion of being prompted only by weak ness, while the same policy pursued by a strong power can well be attrib uted to a disinterested love or peace. The conciliatory disposition of a strong man inspires respect, while a weak man of similar purpose Is conscious of the danger of being thought and treaU ed as a coward. FtTMJC BUILDINGS AM) PORK. The newspapers of the country are overflowing with condemnation of the public building bill now before Con gress as a pork-barrel bill. They tell how iu defeat has been rendered im possible by the provision It makes for the, local Interests of almost every member and they quote approvingly Representative Fitzgerald's denuncia tion of the bill as indefensible. There Is much ground for this con demnation as applied to many provi sion of the bill. Buildings are pro vided for small towns, the cost of which Is out of all proportion to the Government business done there. Ap propriations for these buildings are indefensible, for they are "pork"; they are given as bribes. to secure the votes of members for buildings which are really needed and for each other's needless buildings. The radical fault in the public building bill Is that it goes about sup plying a real need In the wrong way, with the result that In those cities where buildings are necessary, eco nomical equipment for transacting Qovemmesit business, that business is done In cramped, inadequate quar ters, while many buildings are erected In small towns where they are not needed and where the Interest on the Investntent exceeds the rent which would be paid for adequate quarters. Congress has proved Its incapacity to . decide where buildings should be erected and what should be their size "and cost. Its Inefficiency In this re gard demonstrates the need of a pub lic building board whlch would de vote the lump sum available for the purpose to construction of buildings where business, not politics, demanded them. The receipts of the Portland Post office aggregate more than $1,000,000 a year, requiring space for the han dling of a large quantity of bulky mat ter. Any private corporation doing a business of such volume would erect a building adapted to Its needs and would consider this building a good Investment. The Government by erecting a building for the Postofflce and another for the Custom-House and other offices does simply what a corporation would do. Were It to rent quarters for all the departments which do business In Portland, Its total rent would equal, if not exceed, the current rate of Interest on its investment in buildings. Instead of these considerations guiding the hand of Congress, Port land is put in competition and in the same category with such towns as Buffalo, Wyo., Jelllco, Tenn or Jasper. Ala. Unless our Senators and Representatives are as active and in fluential as those from other sections, the villages may get the money to the detriment not only of Portland, but the Government service itself. None of the trusts believe in Dps cartes' philosophy. The great French man's motto was "1 think, therefore I exist."- The trusts not only think, but they sot. and yet not a solitary one of them is convinced of Its own exist ence. Even the verdict of a Jury can not quench their doubt. The trusts are all disciples of Gorgias. who taught that "nothing is." That famous phil osopher maintained In an argument with SocraU'S that he did not exist and never had existed, but he went a little farther than the trusts and held that nobody else existed either. JUGHTDTO A WKO"Q. Times change and men with them. The people's laws are no longer safe from the profane hands of merely hu man legislators. The guardian angels of the initiative have Joined the vulgar herd who think that the business of a Legislature is to legislate, and to cor rect errors or repair mistakes wher ever made or found. The bill passed through the initiative in 1908, upon the importunity of a selfish group of sportsmen at Medford, dosing the Rogue River to commercial fishing, and thereby ruining a flourishing in dustry, has been repealed. The Gov ernor may Indeed veto, but there will doubtless be a legislative sequel to any executive disapproval. The people of Jackson County long ago discovered the mistake of closing the river. Josephine County clam ored also for an open river. The dis pute between Jackson and Josephine as to the exact method of restoring commercial fishing did not deny the general merits of the demand for re peal of the mischievous and harmful law. AH hands, including the most ardent advocates of the closure, agreed that something had to be done. This time there was no appeal to the Inttia- tive. The agency to right a wrong done I woman suffrage is becoming respect by the people under a misapprehension I able if not popular in the immobile was the Legislature. Let us see now If Governor West has the audacity to veto a measure which justice demands and the public un doubtedly approves. TVAtX ICTY OF TUB COUJfCIX. The charter commission has com pleted its labors, and has prepared a charter that has admirably harmon ized many conflicting ideas and inter- adit Th, t-MMit 1.4 fin outrieht com mission charter. Commission govern- ment la the ideal to which the people win one's cause after it has been vir- each, wnetner it win compel pua of Portland aspire, and It is the plan tually -won Is always most comforting Ushers to cease their disagreeable and which they will have if they adopt the to the soul. Some of these councillors, indefensible practice of rejecting man prepared form. whose wisdom is only matched by uscripts the reports do hot say, but we The charter commission has wisely resisted all efforts to be diverted from its Durnose to have true commission government by declining to make an exception in favor of one or another or sippi. "Look at the states farther from a majority of the memDers De the existing boards or commissions. If west," they Bagely urge. "Those are fore he summons a meeting to con- there is to be a single deviation from the central scheme, why not two or three, or more? It Is to be noted, however, that separate proposals are to be submitted with the charter so that the people may decide whether the dock commission, for example, shall be retained. But the commls- sion plan Itself stands alone. ' The Council will today take the nnai steps for submitting the commission charter and the collateral proposals to the people. It is necessary, if Port- land is to have commission govern ment, that the plan devised by the charter commission be accepted with out change. The only effect of modi- fication or amendment of any kind will be postponement. Are postponement and defeat or a commission charter the desire of any Councilman? IN SELF-DEFENSE. The Legislature has the right to act on Its own vetoed bills. Undoubtedly the. motive which induced the Legis lature to take the unprecedented ac tion of adjourning for a week, after us worn naa oeen to,.,plnCu, " protect itself and its measures. Two years ago Governor west ye- toed wholesale a large number of bills left in his hands after the session had adjourned. The same lllbalancea Governor unfortunately continues to fill the executive chair,. and he has openly threatened to repeat the in discriminate veto slaughter of 1911 . . . . I The consequence wouia oe mat ma.. measures oeionKi.i8 " A t -. down the lines along which It has al ms would be tossed into the Legis- 0. k, , tu ,.,, lature of 1915 and the controversies and issues that ought to have been settled previously would be revived there, to the detriment of the public service and the annoyance of the state, A Governor with his veto is an in strument of mischief and 6trlfe when he has no adequate sense of the re sponsibilities and duties of his office and a vicious purpose to make capital for himself by demagogic outbursts designed to excite public prejudice and to increase public Ignorance. A veto now. without an opportunity for con si deration by the Legislature for two . ..... ears, stanas pracucaiiy as me i . . III3 l-31 ord in any , controversy over anr f e , ., issue, mere a no "J" or reprisal for a long period, and then the subject may be n?"en only to De reopeneu wnei. that ought to nave naugni to say in the troubles of -the Governor and a former Legislature Is obliged to con sider and determine them. A concrete example of the certain effect of a veto is to be found In the Day bill to hold a special election ln November. 191J, to pass on all meas ures referred to the people through the referendum. If no acts of the 913 Legislature are so referred, there will be no election. Tet if the Gov ernor should have vetoed this meri torious measure after the Legislature had adjourned it is obvious that the effect would be to destroy the bill ut terly, making the Governor in this In stance the court of last resort. There are other such measures. But, whether mere are ur uui, u ko vuioim i that the Legislature of 1913 should make and complete Its own record; and so It is that the members will re turn to Salem next week. Tet it Is deplorable that the public necessities, through the erratic and whimsical conduct of a rudderless Governor, call for action so unusual and extreme. SOCIETY'S PROGRESS, People whose only occupation is to amuse themselves have a dismal ana rather laborious" time of it. Their I brains are constantly at work to de- vise some new diversion. In nine cases out or ten tne new diversion proves to be a worse bore than the old ones. The quest for pleasure is tne most disappointing pursuit in the world The person who enjoys himself most Is the steady worker, if he has reasonable time for relaxation and reasonable funds to pay for It with. Amusement of almost every kind costs money, but ordinarily It is not very ex- pensive and is within the reach of the poof man snd his family if he man- I ages shrewdly. I The lengths to wblch people will go In the mad quest of pleasure when they have notmng else to tmnK aoout are astonishing and sometimes a trifle disconcerting. Except going stark naked, we do not see what more Roy McWilliams Chicago guests could have done at his fashionable party the other night One pair of girls came as "impressionistic monkeys," no doubt carrying out their natural bent, Ordl- narily monkeys do not wear a great deal of clothing, and, according to the reports, these elegant young women followed their models pretty faithfully. Another pair, man end wife this time, went to the party as "Adam and Eve." Chicago weather hardly per mitted them to adopt Garden of Eden attire in all its scantiness, but they did the best they could. Of course they chose the garb which our first parents put on after the fall. The fig leaves were much In evidence, and there seems to have been little more. Scan. dal was averted by stretching tights over the natural Integument of the bodv. but. unless the accounts mislead us. the tights were as thin as possible and served more to reveal than con ceal the beauties of the wearers. Nero and his society friends in an- cient Rome used to wander about stark naked. Chicago society has not ouite reached that pvtrpm vet. but evidently it Is not far from the felicl- tous goal. The path which Nero trod before them descends easily and no one has the least difficulty in following it to the end, once he has begun. Within a year or two we may confi dently expect to read about "impres sionistic" functions where the guests make no pretense of clothing them - selves. Nature when unadorned' adorned the most. NEW SUFFRAGE PROBLEMS. I There are signs that the cause of East. One of the most convincing of them is the new habit Eastern news- paper men are forming of giving ad vice to the women workers. While the cause was feeble, no metropolitan daily paid any attention to it Now that it haa rrown eomnarativelv ctrnni and aggressive they turn upon it a be- nevolentlv admonishing tvf. A ttn- tion from such quarters must be little short of insnlrlntr to thn nrnnnjrandiats who have been bearing the burden and hpn t nf tha rlnv or Inner TH f V rn varrxcr nltion of any sort. To be told how to their buoyant confidence In their own opinions, dislike the methods which I the suffrage workers seem Inclined to adopt In the states east of the Missis- the only states where suffrage has pre- vailed against its foes and in every one of them the fight was made alone edu. cational lines. The women held meet- ings but they did not lnterupt other people's meetings. They argued with the voters, but they did not march from town to town like soldiers. They I sent out literature but they did not have any tableaus. In Kansas last Fall the suffrage campaign was as dig- I nlned as that of any of the Freslden I tial parties." The women could hardly have made a less dignified campaign tnan some of the parties, but that is of no conse- quence Just now. The kindly advisers of the Eastern suffragists urge them to follow the shining example of their Western sisters who have done so well. At any rate, they would like to see the Eastern women give the Western system a fair trial. This advice is amusing, in view of the fact that the so-called "Western methods" were In vented in the East by Eastern women. The suffrage movement in the United States did not arise in the West. It arose as part of the great intellectual and spiritual revival which began in the East In the second quarter of the . . , orw, Air. ferent form8 , alfrerent brains. With some It became an anti-slavery agita tion, with others a revolt against iron clad religious creeds, . with others an attack upon barbarous marriage laws. Still others began the long fight for woman suffrage. Such women as Lu. cretia Mott and Mary Livermore actu- W l v llOi ii. v vv a a a iuui j v v. a wa J a in,tiated the wftrfare and laid both east anfl of thfl MiBBlBslppl Moreover, a large share of the actual campaigning in the states where suf frage has won the day has been done I by Eastern women. . The Rev. Anna I Shaw Is admitted by all candid persons I to have done the most effectual work of anybody in the Oregon campaign last Fall. With these facts In mind we see how fatuous it Is to advise Eastern women to take lessons from their Western sisters. For half a cen tury and more they have been pursu ing in the East the plan which has succeeded in the West, and nothing Diilutantlal V, n H Mn,. ft T .ftnn. Bubatantiai ,,. Mme of it. To coun- u1 ,h1 Wn ..d ..,,,.. ,i,. a huviu ku vtqim aa-wrv ?wa 11 a Q mv,i nave been doing for fifty years may .. ht v,wn ha t thlnj ege nan BOUn(J w,th pernaps a ,lttle mingling of fury, Exterl6nce ln ml.nv dilTeret fields has shown that the psychology of the Eastern voter Is Vitally unlike his Western brother's. He looks at social and political questions from a differ ent point of view. The arguments which affect the Westernei do not make much Impression upon him. He may not be more conservative, but he moves along other lines. Massachu setts has mere radical Corporation laws than Oregon, but she looks upon the reoall With a shudder Of abhor rence. The Voter's psychology de pends a great deal upon his environ ment and manner of life. People whose surroundings and Occupations alterent arguments and influences. To ii..0,-0tA nninia vta naaA miv pd. I mind the reader that the arguments 1 . . tn . . r.mentg which have convinced Washington. Arizona, Oklahoma of the value of the Initiative and referendum have hardly dented the brain of the Eastern man. I He rather inclines to side with Dr. Butler, of Columbia, and call these in- novations sheer humbug.' The same diversity of mind is exhibited in the field Of education. The Westerner loves and upholds his state schools, with their direct Impulse) upon popular lire ana institutions. Tne Easterner clings to his ancient private colleges. with their conservative appeal to "the better classes." A campaign for better senoois wmcn woum tarry in nmust any Western town would not win a dozen votes in new iotk, ociai wotk as well as political must be adapted td the peculiar field in which it Is carried on or it is bound to come to naught As we have said, the Eastern suf fragists have been waging' a so-called "educational" Campaign for at least half a century without helping their I cause very much, votes lor women are about as far away in the Atlantic States as they were wnen Lucretia Mott preaonea ner nrsv Bermons. i ne conviction nas oeen xorcea upon tne worners tint meimran must db tried, something perhaps a little more spectacular and arresting than the old plan of speeches and pleas'. The new Ways are Just as "educational as tne old ones, but they are different. There are teachers who find the picture shows which efe now pehetrating their classrooms spectacular and vulgar, They Weep" fof IHC Old "educational" tricks, forgetting that . we must all ehange with the times and adapt our selves to the moving world if we would not be dropped from the procession. It Is a grave error to say that the march ing and street speaking which the Eastern suffragists have adopted are an Imitation of the Brttteh suffragettes. Nothing could be farther from the truth. If the British women limited their efforts to public appeals of any I Innocent sort, nobody would complain I of them. But they commit crimes. I American woman has advocated vio ience to win votes. None of them have counseled lawbreakhig. They have merely added a few spectacular ap - 1 peals to the old quietistle methods. J Whether by doing so they have strengthened their propaganda or not time will tell. It is certainly too eariy yet to pass Judgment upon them. Th I one lesson experience teaches us is that in the East the old ways have been almost a total failure The - European powers, having washed their hands of the obdurate Balkan states, are now wondering who will get the biggest slice when Asia Minor Is cut up. Everybody under- 1 stands that the Turk's sojourn there I will be transient. He will be squeezed into nothing between Russia, Germany and England, as Monsieur Hermann used to annihilate a handkerchief in his fist. The Kaiser particularly wants Armenia, which lies conveniently on the route to Mesopotamia, where he plans to restore the Garden of Eden through the ministrations of German policemen. One can only hope that each nation will get all It wants, AsDirinar authors will rejoice to learn of the movement to safeguard the rights of their profession against grasping publishers. An Authors League Is forming whoso principal business will be to draw up and en- torc a "model contract" between I writer and publisher which shall mathematically define the rights of suppose it win ietti ir Chairman Hiiies, of the Republican National Committee, awaits a request aider the calling of a National conven tlon to revise the rules. Few mem bers have committed themselves, but the movement is gaining headway Should the committee meet, it will probably do so early in the Spring and September is suggested as the month I for the. convention, We must not hope too much from surgical operations on criminals' skulls as a means of -curing their evil pro pensities. A man who thought such an operation on himself would cause him to mend his ways underwent four years ago, but last January he was caught cracking a safe. The de ect was in the contents of his skull. Revolutloh is such a recognized sport in Mexico that children play it, An American visitor to Madero a house several years ago gave the children dolls. Next day he was shown a col lection of heads, limbs and other frag ments a mock-lurid forecast of Ma dero's fate. The mafise of the old Presbyterian church at Caldwell, N. J., in which Grover Cleveland was born, is to be dedicated as a memorial to him on March 18, the anniversary of his birth. President-elect Wilson, his first Demo. cratlo successor, will most appropri ately attend. - President Taft's recommendations for reducing expenses and paying the National debt will receive little atten tion from a Congress which Is bent on Increasing expenses for everything ex- Cept the Navy and on increasing the National debt. By reporting the bill abolishing in- voluntary servitude of seamen the Senate commerce committee, ' con trolled by Republicans, proves that the most earnest advocates of social and Industrial justice are not those Who shout loudest for it. The garb of Adam and Eve, worn by a couple at an Impressionistic party in Chicago, was out of its proper en vironment in a drawing-room. It . - 1 . . .3 would oe. more-in piuce li a gaiueii party. Explorer Stefansson is going back Into the frozen north. In view of Doc Cook's fate, it might be just as well for Stefansson to bring back a few of those blonde Eskimos by way of proof. W, D. Haywood's recall from the executive committee of the Socialist party marks the line of cleavage be tween the moral suasion Socialists and the physical force Socialists. The scheme for creation of a new state out of Northern Idaho and part Of Washington appears at this season as regularly as the flowers that bloom In the Spring. Alligator pears at 60 cents each I from foreign lands are in the market tor the reckless high cost of liver, but tne uregon appis is ueiier aiiu cheaper. cheaper. Joy does kill, despite the proverb. The bride of 105 lived but five days. The young buck of 82 is, no doubt, properly disconsolate, yet the world is young for him. By an error in engrossing a bill a clerk added 360,000 to an asylum ap- proprlation. Strange a little error suoh as that should ever be noted Morgan says the panic of 1907. was not made to order. Sure thing. It Was a dispensation of Providence to catch crooks, and it Worked. With the announcement of blizzards and zero weather in the Middle West come reports that the flowers are blooming ln Western Oregon. Worth Idaho and Eastern Washing- ton have community interests, but not (treat enough to Justify erection of an other state. Wlison has hired the fastest- stenog- rapner n Washington. Mechanical epee(j t3 indicated, of course; Frenchmen mdy be frenzied arid frothy, but they know when and how to use the guillotine-. It is the legislators' that will come back, not the Governors i - Mexico's hold on the front page is Wavering again. SITS FOR LEWIS AJ1D CLARK SHAFT Captala Gray Would Choose One of Two . Historic Eminences. PASCO, Wash, Feb. 26. (To the Edl tor.) I have seen no suggestion so ap Dronriate for the commemoration of the opening and discovery of the Pacific Northwest by Lewis and Clark as that of the members of the Portland Com mercial Club as ' given In The Orego nian, February 22. But to be correctly suggestive that monument should be erected where the waters of the mai Columbia, the Clark's Fork, the Lewi Fork and all land trails converged, and the expedition was assured that their Journey to the Pacific would be prac tlcally uninterrupted; or at Astoria, where their journey ended. Such a monument, erected on top of either side of the Wallula Gap, bearing an electric globe 12 feet in diameter, could be seen from the plateaus bor dering the Snake apd Columbia Rivers for 100 miles ln eltner direction, bucn light on Cockscomb Hill at Astoria could be seen 60 miles at sea. The monument, if erected on Swan Island, as suggested, would be a littl higher than University Point It would advertise Portland all right but there are a couple of old proverbs about "building a house on sand'- and "hid ing your light under a bushel." Tho followers of Lewis and Clark have builded many cities and towns di rectly along the route followed by those Intrepid explorers whose citizens would gladly join ln such a memorial as sug gested. but it should be National, or at least NorthweBtern, and the large hearted, patriotic men of Portland who have suggested the Idea, should have that credit; but I believe that they are too broad-minded to localize a memorial of such wide significance. In explanation of the two sites I have mentioned as suitable for the monu ment I would explain that Cockscomb Hill Is In the city limits of Astoria; its summit was crowned by gigantic firs, growing In the shape of a cock's comb and was noted to mariners the world over as a guide to the entrance of th Columbia River before lighthouses and lightships were known on the coast wallula Gap has been made famous bv the artist Bierdstadt, who was em ployed by Henry Vlllard to portray the points of greatest beauty and interest alone- the Columbia River. The beauti ful painting is now in tne possession of the O.-W. R. & N. Ry. Company. This Gap can be distinguished with the naked eye from the Deschutes mils in Sherman County, Oregon, from the AI Dowa Hills in Asotin County, Washing ton, and from the old emigrant trail on the Blue Mountains. Its northern wall rises abruptly from the Columbia River several hundred feet ana then perpen dicular 1000 feet; the southern wall Is not so spectacular, but the summits are of equal height. It Is supposed to be 2360 feet from the surface of the Co lumbia to the top of the northern cliff. As an after-thought, I would suggest that the base of the monument, wher ever located, could be utilized as i masoleum for the bones of the pioneers whose names are deserving of the re membrance of their followers. CAPTAIN W. P. GRAY. EFFORT TO LIVE HIGH IS COSTLY Writer Would Turn Gnns on Extrava- trance and Let Apples Alone. PORTLAND. Feb. 27. (To the Edi tor.) All honor to "Happy Man ana Wife" who wrote to The Oregonian, Blessed Is the man as a man, and thrice blessed as the husband of his wife. am sure she is not one of the many who are making onslaught on the over worked, underpaid grocers and apple- arrowers. I have no Interest whatsover ln any trrocerv: neither have I an apple rancn furthermore. I am a housewife, buy my own eroceries, do my 'own cooking. know that the profit made by the gro cer Is very small and that tha business is very harassing, both to body and mind. Instead of attacking the price of BDDles and disrupting the apple market. When apple-growing is one of our chief Industries, I would turn my guns toward woman's high cost of dressing and do a little cannonading in that direction. The delicatessens flourish because many women won't cook. The tailors and dressmakers flourish because they won't sew. The ready-to--wear coun ters Drosner because those who can not hire their clothes made buy them ready made. I heard a young married woman say a few days ago that she nald her cook a few dollars less every month than her grocery bill amounted to. There is no one to cook for but herself and husband, and they live in an un-to-date apartment-house. Inci dentally, this same husband gets a sal ary of 1125 a month- Is It any wonder that the divorce mills grinaT Tt Is not what we pay for necessities, comforts and a few luxuries, but it Is the absolute cost of living high that is causing this mighty torrent of poverty and crime to sweep over our beautiful land of plenty and carry in its vortex mstiv innocent victims, we snouia en ooiiratre the orchardist to grow the best apples and should oe wining to pay him a profitable price. Are not our Oregon apples the admiration of the world? We pay without a murmur $1 nd $1.50 a dozen for choice roses ana carnations. Pandemonium would cer tainly reign if apples were i a aozen. it each Woman of Portland would hecome a missionary In her own home to reduce the cost of living high, they would soon solve the proDlem satisiac- torily and with ho loss to tne appie- grower or the groceryman. A WOMAN WriU irUViiiS juoin-u. The Last Word la Thinness. Herbert Cory's New York Letter. Someone saw Mile. Gaby Deslys, the king's charmer, with all her junK on the other day. Whereupon that some one remarked tnat ner iace louneu like a bowl of cracked Ice." But that isn't up to the latest nit at the lady. As it Is the fashion to be thin nowadays, Mile. Gaby is ultra- fashionable. Not only do her clothes forbid navigation, but they handicap emotion. A spectator looked at her: If she'd close one eye," saia ne, she'd look like a needle." Discussion of Two Husbands. Chicago News. Hamlin Wifey told me to be home early, as she has something she wants to talk to me aDout BufES-MT wife generally wants to talk to me about the things she hasn't got Monrnina; lor net nnaenna. Baltimore American. "Is vOohsr Mi's. OldboV ln mourning for her husband?" I'm no mind reader now ao l know?" WlveS Who Are Talkers. Stray Stories. Mr. Yoting-My little girl Is nearly two years old, ahd nasn t iearnea to talk yet. Mr, Peck Don't let that wori-y you. My wife says she didn't learn to talk ntil she was nearly tnree, ana now But Mr. Peck's voice at this point was choked with' sobs. Faealodlnsr a Husbands Houston (Texas) Post. He Is a self-made man, isn't he?" He was." "Then he is." "No, tne woman he married didft't like the re- ult he had accomplished, and she has made him over." A Word for the Helpless. Blfmifigham Age-Herald. She-celt is rude for a man to fall asleep while his wife is talking. He -BUt. good Heavens, a man nas to sleep some time! WHAT WILL SUFFRAGK DEVELOPT Alms of Advanced Suffraglsta Com v mented Upon by H. C. Vthoff. PORTLAND, Feb. 20. (To the Editor.) Can it be that those were right who claimed, last Fall, that one of the indirect results of granting women the vote would be the break ing ud of the home? , Some thought like this must strike the average man and woman who will read the articles entitled. "The Changing Home." by Miss Inez Milhol land, in the March number of JIc Clure's. Therein Miss MUholland the same young woman who is going to lead the big suffrage parade in Wash ington next month goes far beyond the arguments offered by woman suf frage advocates in the campaign Oregon last Fall. She gives the reader plainly to understand that political en franchisement is but a comparative! small part of what she calls "modern feminism. ' She outlines the far-reach ing results of granting women equa rights, politically, industrially and so cially. She particularly dwells upon th effects of woman's emancipation (o which the vote is an essential part) upon marriage and tha family. Her conclusions on the subject are suf ficiently unusual to be properly called revolutionary. Discussing motherhood pensions, she touches a phase of "modern femin ism" not so well fixed ln the public mind a phase that Is kept somewhat ln the background for practical cam palgn purposes by woman suffragist themselves around election time. Miss MUholland defines her Idea of mother hood pensions thus: "That woman will one day insist on some sort of direct compensation for her peculiar service to the state in bearing and rearing little citizens, and this (mark these words) quite lnde pendently of her relations with the Individual man." In other words, there is to be no distinction made between what is now called legitimate and 11 legitimate parentage. Consider what is contemplated. system of pensions is to be put in force recognizing the mere fact of mother hood of Itself (apart from any legal relation known as husband and wife as entitled to special attention and support by Organized government. The period of Infancy is thus tided over for the fatherless child. From pen sions for mothers It is but a short and Inevitable step to public day nurseries. Then come the kindergarten the public playground, the primary grade, the grammar grade, the high school, the trade school, the profes sional school, the college all of the latter being maintained even now by the state. If, after all these provisions have been made for the rearing and train ing of "little . citizens," anyone still holds to the Idea that the family, minus practically all the functions and attributes that formerly distinguished it will continue to be the unit of so ciety, his mental processes must be peculiar. Needless to say, the advocates ot motherhood pensions, of whom there are many among advanced suffragists, declare their system will be a distinct benefit to the race. Whether or not this claim is valid, is bound to become a subject of political discussion in this and other states before many years. H. C. UTHOFF, 661 Halsey, Street. MEXICAN PEOPLE UNFIT TO RULE Three-Fourths Should Be on Keserva tlons Like American Indiana. WASOO, Or., Feb. 26. (To the Edl tor.) I notice an article in The Ore gonian from a gentleman who has evl dentlv snent some time In Mexico and among other things truthfully sifts that the Mexicans are but children as easily led Into comio opera revolutions and revolts. They will shout "Viva! Diaz today and for Madero tomorrow. They are no more fitted for self-government than our own American Indians, nor do the men astute enough to exploit them Intend to allow their votes to carry any weight In their government Because Diaz could not find enougn fat sinecures for the grafters around him, he was overthrown. Madero start ed grafting for himself and his satelites and because he could not satisfy their demands he in turn is overthrown. Huerta and young Diaz are noW in the saddle and hOw long they can amuse the simple-minded half-breed Indians remains to be seen. In the opinion of many fair-minded men Who have had ample opportunity of observing at first hand tha child-like simplicity of the rank ahd file of the Mexican citizens, they should, three- fourths of them, be run on reservations, disarmed, and fed and clothed just as we do the American Indians, and if they got enough to eat, a place to sleep, and clothes to wear, they would be far bet. ter treated than they are today as "free citizens." God save the mark! The half of the other fourth of so-called citizens" should be stood up against stone wall at sunrise and shot without mercy for the liars, tnieves ana an round scoundrels and murderers that they are. The few remaining are good. honest, conscientious men, whose hearts are sick and sore for the hellish state of affairs. They are, however, so much in the minority that their voices of protest are unheeded and unheard. No pacification or Mexican anairs will ever come about but through the ron hand of a second Porflrlo Diaz, and his government was one of secret mur ders of those who opposed him; or the ntervention of the American Govern ment T. C. UAKTbJK. SELF PROTECTION GUIDES COURSE Our Security Would Be Menaced by Foreign Intervention in Mexico. EUGENE, Or., Feb. 29. (To the Edi tor. )"A statement from one of The Oregonian's correspondents regarding the Mexican situation in opposition to Intervention is interesting as an ex Dression of Oolnon, but does not seem to comphrehend the relative position of the parties at Interest Mexico is in a different situation in regard to the United States than countries at farther distance. In 4 way, and a large one, our security Is- Involved in the political control or situation of Mexico. This is ow recognized in some other coun tries as well. It Is unavoidable In fact as long eg continued anarchy of dig-1 tnt-hanr-H to the foreign interests would render action necessary, and practically obligatory under the assumptions oi the Monroe Doctrine. Having assumed the implied protectorate under said doctrine, the country cannot back down or renounce It, at least without leaving sufficient guarantees of protection from aggression in its place. A mutual concert oi me puweia ui states of the Western Hemisphere has been suggested as an alternative of upplement to the doctrine or policy nunciated py monroe, uui whether It has ever Deen seriously .AniMiiriiil or not. the time or occasion does not seem to have arrived for It. Trip mutual jealousies and discords, temperamental as well as geographical, financial and otnerwise nave rrmicieu ubious the success or practicaoiuiy oi such a proposal. However, mere are evidences lately in some quarters of forming policies or lines of develop ment Involving continental or lesser groupings which may result favorably to some such policy. These are matters or time, nowever. o great coalition is made in a day ither in private or national anairs. That the line of cleavage win come, however, seems more certain as time goes on. wnere two rates ni m cuu flict or mutual antagonism the weaker must necessarily give way. Whether to hasten or slow up on tne process is question. GHAKLKS w. baiit1; Owner of Her Huaband. Boston Transcript. Mrs. BeckWhat party does yOUf husband belong to? Mrs. Feck--rrn the party. Half a Century Ajo From The Orcgonlon of February 88, 18S. Washington, Feb. 17. Fremont goes to Texas with a command Independent of the Department of the Gulf. At a meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of Wasco County, held yesterday, Nathan Olney was appointed Sheriff to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Sheriff White. Several parties started out yester day from The Dalles for BoiBe and we hear of any number of persons who Intend trying their luck in that locality. Even the ladies are taking the Boise fever. Tho acting Mayor has vetoed the ordinance passed by the City Council, imposing Mcenses on the various branches of trade and commerce in this city. We had the pleasuro of meeting with Hon. William Greenwood, of Howell Prairie, Marion County, who is on a visit to this city. Mr. Greenwood is one of the most extensive and energetic farmers of Oregon. A pair of fine trotters under the saddle were made to go ur and down the plank-road portion of Front street yesterday to the gratification of lovers of fust horses. Yesterday evening a large audienco attended the highly instructive lecture delivered by Professor B. A Tanner before the students of the Portland Academy. Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonian ot February 2, 1??S. South Valley, Feb. 27. About 6:10 this morning, just after the whistle had blown to signal tho departure of the steamer Julia from the South Val ley's wharf before the moorings had been cast off a terrible explosion oc curred. There were a great many pas sengers on board. Petroleum used for fuel was scattered through the steamer. setting it on fire. The dead are esti mated at 25. Vancouver, W. T., Feb. 27. Madame Lucier, niece of the late Archbishop Blanchet, of this diocese, died this afternoon at the hospital of the Sisters of Charity. She was born in Quebec about 75 years ago and came to Oregon about 1816. Salem. Feb. 27. Judge William Ramsey today wrote his resignation as Mayor of Salem and left with nis family for Pendleton, where they will In future reside. Judge Sharpsteln, a prominent figure in the territorial legislature and an op ponent of woman's suffrage, suggests that the suffrage question be made tno paramount Issue ln the constitutional convention canvass the coming Sum mer. Jack Matthews, who has just re turned from a hunting and fishing trip down around Milton Creek, tells of some excellent sport in tho fishing line. Manager W. H. Holcomb, of the Northern raciflc Terminal Company, Port Captain J. W. Troup and other railway officials visited the Albtna dry dock yesterday. It Is probable that the dock will be put in condition to receive vessels this Spring. The first suburban trains that Port land has ever had were run on the Portland & Willamette Valley RatlroaU Sunday to Fulton, Rlvervlew Cemetery. Elk Rock, the White House ana Oswego. The five trains were crowded. John Collins has received his land warrant for 160 acres from Washington, to which he was entitled as an Indian War veteran. He has aold it to U. . Rankin for a good, round sum. Homestead Requirement. INDEPENDENCE. Or., Feb. 26. (To the Editor.) Please inform me how long one has to live on a homestead n Washington and what improvements must be made on same before one can get a clear title. MRS. JOHN USBUK.-M. The residence term on a homestead Is now three years. To get patent the settler must have one-eighth the land in cultivation to crops other than na tive grasses. The Secretary of the Interior has authority to reduce the cultivation re quirement where the character of the land makes them excessive, but appli cation for such reduction must be made In the first year of the entry. Mlacha Klmnn, Violinist. PORTLAND. Feb. 29. (To the Edi tor.) Please give (1) nationality and parentage of Mlscha El man; also, (2) pronounciation of his given name. K. i. 1. Russian. 2. "Mee-sha El-man,"' with first syl lables accented. The Elman family Is of Jewish extraction, according to a statement made, last Wednesday, by b young man's father. SPECIAL FEATURES For SUNDAY Real Suffragettes A visit to headquarters of the militant type in London is described by a correspondent of The Oreo nian who talks with some of the most bellicose. Conan Doyle r The famous writer contributes a striking short story, The Marriage of the Brigadier. Comets Coming There will bo five of them in 1913, according to the sky experts, whose work is gone into minutely by a clever and careful writer. Xatmai in Action Eruption of the Pompeii of the North some months ago, described by a Government official who saw the tragedy. JIany interesting; photographs included. Good Humor It .is capitalized by Mauberg, the noted operatic star, who .gives a delightful in terview to Theodora Bean on the subject of cultivating a pleasant nature. Swearing In President Wilson A full-page account, in colors, of juat what will happen at the National Capitol Tuesday. Pickpockets Their wftys and workings are gone into by Jack Rose, in the eighth of his series on the underworld of New York. Batting An interview with Ty Cobb. . Gibson PicturesThe widow ia the subject of more hostile criticism by jealous friends. MANY OTHER FEATURES Order today from your newsdealer. 1 : : ; ; ;