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10 THE HORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1913- mum PORTLAND. OREGOX. Entered at Portland. Ores-on, postoffice as scona-ciass matter. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance . (BY MAIL) Dally, Sunday Included, one year .. . ...$8.00 Daily, Sunday Included, six months 4.23 Daily, Sunday included, three months.. 2.23 Xaly, Sunday Included, one month 75 Zail, without Sunday, one year ...... 6.U0 Eally. without Sunday, six months Pally, without Sunday, three months .. 1.75 Iaily. without Sunday, one month .... .60 vveeaiy, one year. ..................... . i-u 8unday, one year........ 2.50 Sunday and Weekly, one year. 3.50 (BY CARRIER. Dally, Sunday Included, one year...... 9.00 Daily, Sunday Included, one month 75 How to Remit Send nostofflee money or der. express order or personal check on your local bank, stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postoffice address In lull, inciuainx county ana state. Postage Kates Ten to 14 pages, 1 cent IS to 2S Danes. 2 cents: 30 to 40 cases, i cents; 40 to 60 pages, 4 cents. Foreign postage, double rate. Eastern Business Offices Verree Jk Conk- 11 n. York. Brunswick building. Chi Cairo. Etenr huildins;. San Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Co. 742 yarket street. European Office No. 8 Resent street 8. rOBTLAVD, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 113. . rREPARIXG TO COMPROMISE. Democrats in Congress are already preparing themselves to ward oft a storm of Indignation from those mem- bers of their party who demand radi cal revision of the tariff and from those who wish mercy shown to their own local Industries. They are Inform ing anxious Inquirers that the final shape of the new tariff depends on the Progressive Republicans and on those Progressives who repudiate the title "Republican." They say that the House bill will be merely a basis for negotiation with these non-Democratic elements in the Senate. The narrow Democratic majority In the Senate and the known disposition of certain Senators to vote down radi cal revision cf certain schedules sup port this prediction. Four Democrats will vote against a cut In the sugar tariff, at least two will oppose lower duties on lead and zinc, from four to six are against free lumber, and so on down the list until there is scarcely an Important reduction "which will com mand united Democratic support. In order to compensate for the loss of these votas, help must be secured from the Progressives or the Progres sive Republicans, or both. The read!' ness with which Progressives have made deals on Senatorships and on organization of State Legislatures sug gests that their votes may be had for a consideration in the shape of offices or other political valuables. Charles R. Crane, who contributed liberally to both the Wilson and La Follette cam paign funds, is talked of as the Inter mediary to make terms. . That the House leaders are trying to stave off the necessity of a deal with the Progressives may be inferred from their urging President Wilson not to recommend the enactment at the extra session of any new legislation except that dealing with the tariff; also from the scheme to have the House practi cally suspend its sessions while the Senate Is acting on the tariff. Evi dently they wish to turn the search light on the Senate, to concentrate public attention on that body. They hope thus to bring such pressure to bear on the recalcitrant members of their own party as to drive the latter Into line. Should this plan fall, they must compromise in order to get any thing done, they must vary from their programme, and must not only dim the glory of their achievement, but share that glory with members of an other party. SAJflTY IX DIRECT LEGISLATION. In order to reach a final agreement on the methods of putting the initia tive, referendum and recall amend ments into use, tne members oi tne Washington Legislature need only de termlne what reasons the people had for voting, them into the constitution If they wanted a plaything, a means to enable & few cranks to pester the ma jority with submission and resubmis sion of freak measures, a method to permit holdup of laws, legislation by logrolling, removal of public officers through spite or political Jugglery, or If they desired a system which would offer ready employment to paid agi tators and petition forgers, the Senate In its enabling acts has failed to carry out the will of the voters. The Senate has adopted the wise and sober judgment of National statesmen as to the proper function of these im plements of government. It proposes that the question of the r.ecall of any office-holder shall be settled as a dis tinct issue. It is not to be involved with the political ambitions of office seekers. The voters are not to be asked to weigh personal friendship for some candidate against a belief that the incumbent in office has been wrongly accused. In short, the issue presented will be solely whether the official under Are shall be removed from or retain his office. There are to be no competing candidates. If he be recalled, the vacancy is to be filled by appointment in the same manner as if the vacancy had been caused by death, resignation or removal from the state. The bill Indicates the clearest concep tion of the purpose of the recall of any we have seen presented anywhere. Similarly sensible has been the Sen ate's safeguarding of the initiative and referendum. Paid petition-hawking, which has bred forgery in Oregon and burdened the ballot with the product of the flighty and the scheming, is pro hibited. Its corollary evil, the use of money collected from or contributed by persons, societies or corporations not resident in the state, is to be un lawful. The true purpose of each pro posed act is to be outlined briefly by the Attorney-General and printed on the petition so that nobody may be de ceived by a dishonest circulator. If these provisions are incorporated in the enabling acts as finally adopted, Washington will have the most ad vanced and orderly form of direct leg islation yet devised. None of the pro visions will hamper the proper use of the people's power. They will only in sure that it be reserved for emergen cies. If the Legislature refuses to en act a law earnestly desired by the peo ple or passes a bill to which the peo ple are opposed, the initiative or refer endum petition will be forthcoming under the proposed plan as quickly as under an unguarded system. If any public officer is recalcitrant to his trust he can be as certainly removed under the proposed plan of recall as if a pop ular candidate were listed against him, while if unjustly accused he will have much better chance of holding his place. The bills that have passed the Sen ate in Olympia ought to fill all the needs and grant all the desires of the sane and honest majority of the Wash ington voters. But the measures will doubtless have opposition, the volume of which will be deceptive, for the in triguer and the hobby-rider are the noisiest of our citizens. LA FOLLETTES FIGHT IS WON. Senator La Follette pioneer of the progressive Republicans, leader of the insurgents, is now a regular. He has been elected a member of the steering committee of the Senate, which once relegated him to an obscure committee room in the basement 0t the Capitol and let him talk to empty benches. The Senator has not abandoned his progressive principles, but the Repub lican party in the Senate has adopted them. He has not stepped back, but the formerly controlling element has moved forward in line with him. The one measure for which he has most persistently fought Is physical valua tion of railroads. This has been made law with the united support of the Re publican party. The Republican party is now the progressive party, with the real father of the progressive movement among its leaders. "The insurgents have be come the regulars, for they have won their fight and the former regulars have surrendered to them. There no excuse for the Progressive party. so-called, to exist- There never was for the fight "which that party made could have been made and easily won within the party. The rivalry between Republicans and Democrats during the Wilson Administration promises to be a rivalry as to which can best grat ify the desires of the people for prog- ECONOMY AND A BRIDGE. Governor Lister's desire to make a record for economical and prudent ad ministration is commendable; and it is natural that he should seek to restrain the Washington Legislature from ex travagance or from unnecessary and unwarranted expenditure of any kind. Yet it is well for him to remember that Washington is a progressive state, disposed to build for the future and possessed of resources and "proper .ex pectations that justify broad and com- prehensive plans for the creation of a great commonwealth. The united sen- timent of the people for good roads, for example, and the general willing ness that the state should make a con. siderable investment In highways, in addition to the county and other local outlays, is significant of the spirit and enterprise of her people. Now the Governor of Washington is to be called upon to approve a bill ap. propriating $500,000 for a great inter state bridge over the Columbia at Van couver. Into the campaign for the bridge there has been interjected by prejudiced or interested persons the utterly irrelevant boundary dispute. and it has been made to appear that some parts of Washington will not re- ceive any benefit from the bridge. But In a large sense any great public en terprise is a benefit and a credit to all the people, and, in a narrower view, the bridge has an immediate relation to the proper development of a very large section of Washington. Governor Lister undoubtedly under stands his duty. He -ought to under stand also that a very large number of his constituents are deeply in earnest about the bridge; and they think they have a right to ask that the state give a fair measure of assistance to its con struction. ' DIRTY LINEN. The passage of the Rogue River fish bill through the Legislature has awakened a bitter controversy in the Jackson County delegation; and its re- passage over the Governor's veto will not tend to make things pleasanter. Mr. Reames, who had charge of the bill the sportsmen of Medford wanted and didn't get, openly declares that his colleagues Messrs. Carkln and Wes terlund did not properly support him with the result that the river was opened to fishing on conditions pleas ing to Grants Pass. Carkin and Wes- terlund say that they did everything they could do for Reames In his fight. But evidently no one else did. As the matter stands, Rogue River is at last opened, after the indefensible and de structive closure engineered from Medford: and Senator J. C. Smith, of Grants Pass, takes home the bleeding political scalp of Representative Reames, of Medford. Doubtless Mr. Reames finds it nec essary to explain how it all happened, and it is convenient to blame someone else. But we doubt if his colleagues could have done anything for him if they had traded off their armory bill and sacrificed every project they had. Mr. Reames is an energetic and re sourceful man, but it is obvious that his close alliance with Governor West wrought great mischief to his cause. Besides, the idea has gained ground that Rogue River was not created wholly for the benefit of the Medford portsmen. As it is, Messrs. Carkin and Wester- lund go back to Southern Oregon with fine appropriation for an armory at Medford. TWILIGHT ZONE ABOLISHED. In upholding the white slave law the United States Supreme Court has struck a decisive blow at the traffic in women which has disgraced this coun try. It has done more. It has laid down the principle that a legal right cannot be exercised lawfully for the perpetration of a moral wrong. It goes even further, for the court holds tnat wnen tne limitations oi state jur-u lollHnn loovo nnon on nnnnrtimitv fnri the perpetration of what fundamental morality and the laws of all well-gov erned states hold to be crimes, the Nation must assert its jurisdiction. It thus abolishes the much-talked-of twi light zone between National and state power. The traffic in women and girls has been a growing evil, viler and more de grading than was the trade in black slaves. Had the Federal courts, re fused to rule that the Federal Govern ment must co-operate with the states in its extirpation, we should have pre sented to the world the spectacle of a ation whose governmental machinery as working at cross purposes, the central Government powerless to pre vent what each state within its own borders condemns. The court rightly holds that our Federal system requires unity of purpose between Nation and states, w herever the exercise of au thority is necessary, but is forbidden to any state, the duty falls upon the Nation. Justice McKenna thus stated the principle: There Is unquestionably a control In the states over the morals ot their citixens, and It may be admitted it extends to making prostitution a crime. It Is control, how- which can be exercised only within the Jurisdiction of the states: but there is domain which states cannot reach and irer which Congress alone has power, and if such power be exerted to control what he states cannot It Is an argument for not against Its legality. Its exertion does not encroach upon the jurisdiction of the states. This principle is capable of applica tion to many questions now before the Nation. It may be invoked to sustain the Webb law regarding interstate li quor shipments. It may exclude the products of child labor from interstate commerce. It knits together Federal and state power so closely that cun ning lawbreakers can no longer play one against the other in order that both may escape punishment. IyQKJMT.RTSM AMONG PROGRESSIVES. The Progressive party is not yet a year , old, but already its leaders- are showing themselves a prey to the frail ties common to politicians. The party began its career with a summons to the politically pure to come out from the unclean old parties and to make no truce with corruption. Just how lasting is this new ideal of political activity . is revealed by the Senatorial deadlock in Illinois. The cry "Down with Lorimerism" helped materially to turn the electoral vote of that state to Colonel Roosevelt and to elect twenty-seven Progressives to the Legislature. But Frank H. Funk, their primary nominee for Senator, has forgotten his principles in his ambition for office. He is prepared to make a deal with Lorimer and the Lorimer Democrats in order to secure his elec tion, and thirteen of the twenty-seven Progressive legislators have voted to carry out the deal. The other four teen are in revolt, but Mr. Funk may win a Senatorship for two years. though by so doing he will sacrifice his hopes of re-election and the future of his party. Ratification of the direct election amendment to the Constitution will prevent any future deals of this kind but it cannot kill the low political ideals which produce Lorimerism. The old poison will display its presence in some new form. The voters must teach politicians that platforms are made to stand on, not merely to get in oil, by severe castigation of men like Mr. Funk, who do after election the very things they have condemned be fore election. THE CROSSING OF RACES. Dr. Charles W. Eliot's extreme opin ions as to the bad effects of crossing races probably find some justification in experience. He writes to the Springfield Republican that "the East seems to me to teach emphatically that crossing races is always and every where a bad thing, so bad that the progeny resulting from such crossings in part die out and In part revert to one race or the other in three or four generations. The term 'Eurasian' is a term of contempt all over the East and justly. Kindred or related races can intermarry without harm and produce vigorous and durable de scendants. Thus the Germans, Scan dinavians, English and Americans can undoubtedly intermarry without harm It is not so clear that people of Teu tonic origin can intermarry safely with people of Latin origin. The Jews have intermarried somewhat with most of the European races, but in a few gen erations the descendants are thorough ly Jewish." We gather from this that Dr. Eliot, who is certainly a great reader and ought to be familiar with his facts, believes that the best thing a good race can do is to keep its blood pure from mixture with other human stocks. As we have said, . there are some facts which certainly seem to uphold this view. The halfbreeds from In dian and white parents have not usu ally been vers' estimable persons. The Hawaiian Island children of mixed parentage were terribly degenerate in most cases. The "Eurasians" to whom President Eliot refers are the off spring of European fathers and Orien tal mothers as a rule. They are a mis erable lot, but what else could be expected when their fathers are the dregs of Europe and their mothers the scum of Asia.' Their degeneracy proves nothing. Nor can any legitimate objections to race mixture be drawn from conditions in the Hawaiian Islands, where- we have the blood of drunken and diseased sailors crossed with that of the island women. Dr. Eliot certainly understates the extent to which Jewish blood has been min gled with that of other peoples in Europe. Good authorities assure us that there is no such thing as a Jew of really unmixed blood In the Occi dental world and no person who has seen the Oriental Jew in all his Orientalism would agree with Dr. Eliot that any European Jew is 'thoroughly Jewish." The great ma jority of them are "thoroughly European" in comparison with their Asiatic kindred. The ordinary German Jew differs far more from an inmate of a Russian Ghetto than he does from Parisian boulevardier. The Jewish blood is extraordinarily prepotent, but so is that of some other races and in the clash of heredity each wins an oc casional victory. The mulatto pro duced by the mingling of white and negro blood is usually more intelligent than his colored parent, but he is said to be deficient in qualities that make for survival. We see therefore that ewjen in the instance of races far apart in physical and mental qualities the results of crossing do not entirely sustain Dr. Eriot's contention. His :old remark that crossing may do no harm when races are nearly related comes far in deed from telling the whole truth. Such crossing not only "does no harm," but it appears to be a prime condition for National success. The Romans, for example, remained an insignificant village community until they crossed with -he Sabines. After that event, which all their historians celebrate, they began a career of expansion and conquest which traversed the whole civilized world. Dr. Eliot might cor rect from history his doubts as to the advisability of crossing Latin and Teu tonic stocks. The modern Italians, es pecially the northern and more vigor ous part of the nation, come from pre cisely such a cross. The modern French have both Latin and Teutonic blood in fairly equal proportions in, their veins. The English derive from a mixture of a dozen Teutonic strains with the Roman which came not only from the armies of the Empire long I resident in Britain, but also, and more effectively, through the Normans. The vigorous peoples of the Balkan penin sula arose, at least in some instances, from a cross between the Latin and Slavic stocks, which are farther apart than the Latin and Teutonic. There is not a nation in Europe whose blood can, even by stretching poetic license, be called pure. They are all mixed and the mixing process has been repeated again and again. Even the Oriental blood, which Dr. Eliot thinks so detrimental when it combines with European, has been crossed repeatedly with that of every people in Europe on a wholesale scale. The Oriental invasions which traversed Europe time and again in the early centuries of our era have stamped the features and mentality of Asia throughout the Western world. The New Testament is literally correct when it says that all nations are made of one blood. There is no fact of his tory more patent. It is idle in one sense even to discuss the benefits or in juries of crossing races. They have already been crossed about as persist ently as can be Imagined. Europe from the beginning of its history has been fully as much of a melting pot" as the United States is today. Race mingling has been car ried on there by violence too often, but it has also resulted from peaceable migration and settlement. And ' the foremost nations of Europe are those whose blood is most mixed. It is the comparatively pure stocks like the Castilians and the Celts of Brittany and Ireland who are just beginning to wake up to modern progress. As rule the less crossing of blood a people has experienced the less fitted it is to play an active part in history. Even the. ancient Greeks were a complicated mixture of races, as modern science has discovered, and if we knew the genealogy of the Jews accurately, we should find that they, too, arose from many sources. If they did not they were a solitary exception among the peoples of the world. His tory gives no countenance whatever to the fear that the mingling of races in America will produce an inferior popu lation. The indications are all in the. other direction. We may safely as sume that in this country, as in Eu- rope, the best families in the long run will be those who can count parents in the most diverse races. Governor West has made two excel lent appointments to the State Su preme Court in William M. - Ramsey and Charles L. McNary. The two men are not at all alike in temperament or viewpoint; but in the essentials of thorough legal training and high character neither is lacking, air. Ram sey is widely known as a conservative, studious and conscientious lawyer and judge. By instinct and experience he takes a judicial viewpoint on all ques tions. He has the confidence of the public, and he has the respect of the bar. Mr. McNary is an active practi tioner at Salem, with an acute legal mind, quick insight and clear judg ment. He has had abundant experi ence in practice and he has the equip ment and the desire to be a first-class Judge.- --. ' ' If all the. crooks and swindlers in the country would only come to Portland at the same time they might be boxed up and sunk in the Pacific or shipped to Alaska and honest people would be well rid of them. The idea of estab lishing a colony of rogues at the North Pole or near it seems to us rather a happy one. Why support these creat ures in comfortable jails when they might just as well be planted out .on Icebergs, where they would have to kill walrus for a living or starve ?v One of the curious phenomena con nected with Clarence Darrow is his attractiveness to women. His doc trines are of the radical sort not par ticularly agreeable to ' the feminine mind, and his face is not that of an Apollo by any means, but his pathway is strewn with broken hearts and at his trial women have been mobbing the court officials to get seats. The Vice-President asks for a com fortable desk on which he can stow his feet and smotfe a cigar; the Presi dent knocks off at 4 P. M. to go auto mobiling. But we thought from their pre-inaugural conversation that these gentlemen planned on from twelve to thirty-six hours at hard work every day. ... . Chief of Police Sylvester, of Wash ington, replies to critics of his handling of the suffrage parade by putting it up to Congress. But it remains for him to prove that he did the best possible with the men at his command. Steamship lines are now coming to Portland almost in flocks, the China Import & Export being the third with in a few months to announce its plans. We need offer no subsidies; all we need to do is to show the business.. The first defiance of the money trust since it was investigated has come from George Gould, who has started a fight in the Manhattan Railway Com pany. The Rockefellers and Morgan are arrayed against him. Roseburg cidermakers find it neces sary to get into court to learn their product is an intoxicant. Cider when sweet is one of the greatest of bever ages, but a little age will make it the most deluding. Germany and France are adding men to their armies by the hundred thousand, while the Greeks are captur ing Turks In great quantities. Russia is playing the game, without doubt. Vice-President Marshall says he was no different from a monkey in a cage at his new office except that the visitors didn't feed him peanuts. Stingy people! Recalling the days of the lesson in geography, Holland is not much bigger than the back of the hand, yet she appropriates $300,000 for the Panama Fair. Now that the German "and French armies have been heavily increased we should exercise the typical American military policy and reduce our force. There is hope for Boston, since it has realized that it can learn some thing from an Oregonian in the person of Professor Alderman. New features In the amusement pro. gramme will help the State Fair Board avoid a deficit- The more the better. for they are needed. Final adjournment brings the com forting knowledge that the State Print ing Office trouble is settled for many months. No wonder Dr. Friedmann has been attracting so much attention. He has an American press agent. The post of Minister to Dahomey was still open at the hour, of going to press. About time for the lazy man to be gin figuring on his vacation. Oregonians are in the front row of applicants at Washington. The bray of the donkey drove the Taft poodle under the bed. The Nation having once more been saved, now for the city. But what chance has a homely man In the running, now? - ' "Buy them by the box.' WHERE THE REAL BLAME BELONGS Deaaocratie View mm to the Method of . Geverser West. J Oregon Messenger, Democrat. The greatest joke of the biennial period that is. the greatest but one has been sprung on the people of Ore gon, the result duly appreciated, and now the joke the Legislature has ad journed and gone home till next Tues day. But give the devil his due! The blame should not all be placed upon the Legislature. Put a just and de served proportion of the blame for fail ure to do what the people wanted done in the matter of legislation upon Gov ernor ,tiswald West, who has shown by his boyish conduct ever since the ses sion began that in the matter of play ing politics or playing horse he had few equals and no superiors among the members of either house. The action of the Governor of Ore gon in absenting himself in the clos ing days of the session, when matters of great importance demanded his con sideration was nothing less than child ish, if it were not cowardly. It Is time the Governor learned that the people of Oregon care nothing for his spectacular stunts; that the people of Oregon are not interested ' in whether -he "gets even" with his po litical enemies or whether he is worst ed by them in the game of politics. The people demand that the Governor give them the very best service possible; that he work In harmony with the legislative branch of government, and that he keep expenses down to the minimum. Has he done this? He is attempting now to place the blame for new offices created upon the shoulders of the Legislature. But right on top of this, one of his closest friends in the lower House introduces and pushes through a bill placing the sal ary of the Governor's private secretary at $3000 a year. We have heard re peated cries for economy from the ex ecutive office. Is this salary grab an indication of the Governors ideas in regard to the subject? How many far mers and other working men all over Oregon are there today working seven days a week for half the sum drawn by the Governors secretary? Then, on top of this and several other salary grabs, for which there is no excuse, comes an addition of two more judges to the force of five now on the Supreme Bench. Each mem ber of the Supreme Court draws a sal ary of $4500 per annum. How many farmers are there in Oregon working 16 hours a day making so much? Who believes that seven judges are required to do the work demanded of the su preme Court? Why did not Governor West show his oft-repeated affection for the down-trodden taxpayer by veto ing his iniquitous .bill providing for two more judges? FOLLY OF NAVAL COMPETITION. Millions Spent for . Warships When Yawls Might Da mm Well. ONTARIO, Or.. March 6. (To the Ed. itor.) The Oregonian says save the battleship Oregon. Certainly; by all means. But why not save the Massa chusetts, Iowa and others? It is said they are no match for the dreadnougnts now building. True, but why not dis mantle them, take out the war fixings and make them Into transports and merchant vessels? Are their hulls near ly rusted out, or would it cost too much to make the transformation? Again, why cannot the nations agree that they will build no battleship larger than of specified . dimensions? If all would agree to have only yawls for bat tleships they would he as - evenly matched as they are now, and be as likely to win as they are now. Why will nations that claim to have common sense be such fools as to spend so much money trying to outvie each otner in building these expensive dreadnoughts that have to be thrown on tne scrap- heap before they have been in a single engagement? A monitor would do just as well if all would agree to it. Was there not an agreement between the United States and England, after one of our wars with her that neither would build a warship greater than a 74-gun ship? I am quite sure I have been told that. Think of $14,000,000 In one ship! What a lot of irrigation that would do. How many postoffices it would build! How many bars it would remove and deepen river channels, and build canals! All of which would be of lasting benefit, while the dreadnoughts must be de stroyed almost as soon as' it is done. When will the nations have as much sense as Mr. Taft, and settle disputes by arbitration? W. P. LAWRY. HOW TO REDUCE COST OF LIVING Writer Points Ont Advantage of Buy ing: From Farmers. PORTLAND, March 6. (To the Edi tor.) As I am a farmer and have also lived in big cities and had the experi ence, I agree with those who say Patronize the farmers and cut out the middlemen." Of course the farm ers need watching, at least some oi them do. When you buy anything from them see that the quality is good. If you buy a sack of potatoes, make them empty them out and see that they are all right. For instance, I went to Portland with a load of potatoes and started to peddle them from house to house. I was surprised to see the lack of judg ment some women had. Some took the advantage and bought two to three sacks. I sold them for 60 cents per sack, two for $1. In one and a half days I sold 16 sacks. Most all of them bought of their grocer. " One woman told me she had paid 90 cents. The poor farmers are not to blame for the high cost of living. I say, buy from the producer, cut out the middle, men, and you Will soon see the differ ence in high cost of living. A FARMER. Folk Dances In Schools. PORTLAND, March 6. (To the Edi tor.) In an interesting article on folk dances in public . schools .by Miss J. R. Wold in The Oregonian recently there was a mistake, which I hope you will rectify. She says that folk dances in publte school were first introduced in 1907 by Dr. L. H. Gulick in New York. As a matter of fact I taught folk dances to the boys and girls in the high school of Washington, D. C, in 1883-84, and again in Harvard University Summer school 1892, when Dr. Gulick was a student, and In 1894 I made folk dances a part of the regular programme of physical training in Boston schools and in 1900 of the schools of Brook line, Mass. In the last ten years teachers from all over the United States have come to Brokline by the hundreds to see the physical training in that town, which consists of corrective and strengthen ing exercises first and then recreative fancy steps and folk dances. Dr. Gulick went further in that he abolished the corrective exercises and gave folk dances entirely as physical training, and he also had the girls and boys in separate rooms for this dancing. I hope Portland schools will not make this mistake, as the corrective exercises are absolutly necessary to the school children and so are the recreation exercises, but no amount of folk dances, or plays, are able to correct the faulty position and carriage, which are so frequent among school children. HARTVIG NISSEN. Serious Step fa LoTemaUmc, Philadelphia Record. 'Mr. Pater, I love your daughter. Do you object to my paying her atten tion?" "No, but I warn you you'll find it a lot easier than paying her bills." The Fresh-Air Crank. Lippineott's. Agdin he has us on the rack And pains us more and more. For now we have to call him back SCHOOL CREDITS FOR HOME WORK Mr. Mttty Talnk. Teachers May En courage Pupils Wtthosnt Rewarding. KOLA. Or., March 6. (To the Editor.) Some time ago a letter written by B, G. Dykstra, of Suver, was printed In The Oregonian, in which he con demned my previous article regarding school affairs. To such letter I wish to make reply. ; My criticism was mainly that chicken-raising and gardening divert time and attention from the common English branches, thereby weakening efficiency so that but a smattering of instruction is' given in these subjects. Mr. Dykstra says "that such is mere assertion." In reply I will refer to but one recorded school fact and that is that in a state wide, eighth grade examination, held last year, three-fourths or more of the pupils failed to pass. Was it because efforts were concentrated too, much upon essentials, diversified too much upon erratic fads, or Just plain incom petency of the leading . educational forces? I criticised the home credit plan, be cause school holidays are offered as an inducement. A system whereby pupils can gain holidays as merit re wards, and later receive demerits in the form of decreased percentages in study examinations, is certainly upon a par with a faker's swindle. The ex cuse is made that the children do not accept the holidays, so that it does not interfere ;wlth instruction. When school children are promised a reward, It should be upon a basis that the re ward will be given, and the children can accept without loss In instruction or educational standing. Moral im pressions are more Important than in creased industry. Teacners that cannot Influence and encourage children to do their home duties as a matter of duty to their parents, and a credit to their own worth of character, are not fit to as sume character training; and those possessing such abilities should not be hampered by an unjust, set system. Mr. Dykstra says "that I do not real ize that the home is the fundamental Institution of civilization." Bosh! It seems that the erratic, irrational, locoed educational leaders do not real ize the need of the children, the homes and Nation. It is character just noble, sublime character, possessing unselfish, self-sacrificing love, and deep sense of fairness and Justness to all humanity. In the common schools all efforts should be concentrated upon higher character training and Instruction in the common English branches; and vo cational training should come later in life. I sometimes wonder if public school efforts were concentrated more upon Influencing and controlling character growth, would there be such a crying need for the juvenile courts? If that high appeal to honor and self-responsl bility. now being exemplified in our juvenile courts and modern prisons. was transplanted into our educational system, would there be such extensive needs for juvenile courts and prisons? If an ounce of prevention is worth pound of cure, why neglect to give the ounce of prevention to the prospective future prisoner, while administering the pound of cure to the convicted criminal, especially when the remedy is beneficial to all, airS an overdose is impossible? GEORGE C. MITTY. YOUJfG PEOPLE MAY BE TRUSTED Home Meetings Often Unwisely Pre vented b-y Parents, Says Writer. RIDDLE, Or., March 3. (To the Edi tor.) How are young people to meet- boys and girls, young men and young women, when they have an arbitrary parent or parents, who will not allow a young man to call at the home? The reply may be made that the. young man is unworthy, or the parents would approve. Now that doesn't always hold good. In my almost 53 years, I've seen girls lose their "young man" when he was all the world to them through the Interference of prejudiced, angry par ents. The father is oftenest, though not always, the most unreasonable parent. And mind you this same father married the girl of his choice. In most cases the young lover didn t turn out a scoundrel and black leg. No, he be came a very good, useful citizen. Per haps the thwarted daughter married later on a man that spoiled her life by dissipation and debt. I've known church acquaintance to end unpleasantly, too. I am Interested in young people, and their affairs to this extent. I have about me most of the time girls, and boys. and the young people see each other unrestricted. They talk at the gate, ride horseback, swim, dance or engage in any other rational, healthy pastime that contributes to their happiness and a sane, healthy state of mind. But I've had no experience with scandal or any thing else of unpleasant nature. There may be an occasional little quarrel, but why not? Young people are human like their elders. They order their lives mostly so far as I can see just as wisely as I do mine. Great-grandmother must have been a girl of spirit. She eloped quite often with great-grandfather in the long ago, often before she was out of her teens. and strange to say family life and the Nation at large didn't go to pieces. "FIFTY-THREE." Jnst His Little Way. : Judge. Visitor (to - facetious farmer) rd like to know why on earth you call that white pig "Ink?" Facetious Farmer Because he's al ways running from the pen! The False Prophet By Dean Collins. I'll indite a little lyric. And will tune my metric flute, To produce a song satiric On the foolish groundhog brute; With a scornful song I'll splinter That old legend about Winter If he sees his shade on groundhog day And makes a hasty scoot. Oh, 'twas bright and it was sunny Upon groundhog day this year. And I'll wager any money, If the groundhog did appear, Why he surely must have found Quite a shadow on the ground. Which would mean, so runs the table, We should still have Winter drear. Yestermorn, howe'er, arising, I beheld the skies were blue. And I thought It not surprising That the sun was shining, too. And the grass was green and springing, And the dippy birds were singing. Though the groundhog legend should have piled The snow a foot or two. And I saw the pussy willow. And the ferns on rock and log. And the Springtime breezes' billow Filled the air with pollen fog; And the more I gazed about. Still the more was I in doubt Of the truth within the story Of the shadow-fearing bog. So while Springtime comes a-scooting O'er the land from West to East, On my lyric flute I'm tooting My derision of the beast; Mr. Groundhog, you weren't able To substantiate the fable; As a prophet you're a piker- Here in Oregdn at least. Portland, March 6. Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oreronlan ot March T, 18S3. Washington, March 6. Senator Mitchell has proposed an amendment to the bill lorfeiting the landgrant of tha Northern Pacific along the uncomplet ed portion of the line. The amendment reserves to the City of Portland the right of way heretofore granted to tha Northern Pacific, for the city to carry water from Bull Run to Port land. ( . Indianapolis, March t. The National executive committee of the Union Labor party assembled here today for the purpose of considering a letter from Dr. McGlynn, inviting the send ing of delegates to a convention to be held in New York. The letter insisted that Henry George's land theory must be sustained, which did not meet tha committee's approval, and it was decid ed to hold a convention in Cincinnati May 15. Salem, March 6. This morning while the Oregon Pacific steamer N. S. Bent ley was going down the river below Lincoln, she ran upon a snag, which ripped a seam in her bottom. As soon as the boat could be freed. Captain Smith sent' her ahead full speed, but before a landing could be made she sank in four feet of water, 100 feet from the bank. Salem, March 6. Hon. A. Bush and daughter Sallie returned today from an extended trip through-Canada, tha Eastern and Southern States, Mexico and California Jacksonville, March 6. The Oregon Sentinel, of this city, has been pur chased by Charles Michell, of the Democratic Times, and its publication will be suspended. The purchase of the Sentinel Is much regretted, as it was the party organ of the Jackson County Republicans, besides being next to the oldest paper In the state, it be ing a tew years younger than The Oregonian. Mr. W. S. Ladd is busy, metaphor ically speaking, plowing and reseeding 300 acres of oats on his farm near East Portland, which was Winter killed. Half a Century Ago From The Oreg-onlan of March 7, 1863. Congress donated 90,000 acres of land to the state for the endowment ot an agricultural college. The State Legis lature at its last session expressed its acceptance of the conditions and ap pointed commissioners, who are to meet at Corvallls within six months from October 17 to locate the college. Auburn, Feb. 26. We have been for two weeks without news from the outer world and were last evening made glad by the arrival of the ex press and also of the mail. Cairo, Feb. 27. The steamer Conti nental, from Lake Providence, Febru ary 23, has arrived. The canal lead ing into the lake was almost completed. Van Dorn is reported to have crossed the Tennessee River to Florence, Ala., with 8000 cavalry to reinforce Bragg. Sacramento, Feb. 27. The Senate discussed at some length a bill grant ing to E. Sullivan the privilege of lay ing gas pipes in San Francisco. The United States mails on the route from Portland to Lafayette via Hllls boro. Forest Grove and Wapatoo and thence to Grand Ronde were detained one day. Thewhole cause was a poor and unsafe pole bridge adjacent to Colonel Hall's farm, seven miles from Portland, and high water. Amosa Howe, mail contractor on the above route. Steamer Hermann The prospect of an immense rush to Oregon is so good that this ship, when the Pacific left, was making arrangements to start from San Francisco for Astoria this day, bringing a large crowd of honest . miners. Use of Mailboxes. BUHL, Idaho. March 2. (To the Edi tor.) Please inform me what the postal regulations are regarding the use of Postoffice boxes by patrons of a rural delivery' route. Have postmasters the right to refuse renting a box to a rural patron who wishes to get mail on Saturday afternoon which he could not get until Monday without a post office box? A. W. R. Acting Postmaster Shellenbarger. after examining the' rules of the de partment, states that the repy to the query in the latter should be "No.' SUNDAY FEATURES War on Tuberculosis A timely and valuable page on the great white plague and the un successful efforts of mankind to stamp it out...;' . The Easter Outfit An art istic page in colors dealing with the very latest things in Spring styles. Burglars They are discussed by Jack Rose, who tells you a few ways whereby burglars can be kept out of your home. The best yet in the "Underworld" series. Wonders of Surgery -r- An illustrated page on the amazing feats which are performed by the 6killed surgeons of 'today. 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