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EDCCATIO.VAI, I-ROGKEfcS.
There 1b too mucii truth for com'
fort in Superintendent Alderman's re
mark that our schools have been try-
lnr to fit chlloren to a scheme of edu.
cation Instead of fitting the education
to the children. Intellectually we have
been following the example of the In
dian mother who, as we learn from
the pioneers, used to bind a flat piece
of wood across her baby s loreneaa
ftnd force nature to come to her terms
In shaping- the poor thing's skulL The
system of education in most modern
schools dates back to the middle ares,
from which we have derived It with
some change, but not much. In those
days science was extremely meager.
History was a collection of more or
less rrotesque fables. Mechanical in
vention had scarcely begun. Nothing
was known of electricity or steam, or
nothing of practical importance. There
were no railroads, no telegraphs, no
steamships. Pretty nearly all work
was done by the human hand or by
horsepower. Printed books were not
In existence. Popular literature con
sisted of fairy tales and legends passed
from mouth to mouth. Grammar had
been fairly well developed. Some
fragments of Greek and Latin writers
had survived, but they were or course
the exclusive possession of scholara
Arithmetic had been cultivated from
the earliest times and for practical
purposes stood about where It does
now. as far as rules go.
In this state of human knowledge
the curriculum for popular education
was fixed. Naturally grammar, arith
metic and the cult of words over
topped everything else. There was
hardlv anything else to teach. Little
by little the medieval curriculum
which was the product of ignorance
and intellectual poverty has become
acred. Time has sanctified its faults
and arlorified Its emptiness. The
world has acquired innumerable new
branches of knowledge and developed
all sorts of useful arts, but until very
lately the schools shunned them as if
they were pests. Each new science,
every practical adaptation to the needs
of life has had to fight its way into
the schoolroom and by the time it got
there It was usually so deformed that
It could scarcely be recognized. Nat
orally the ingrained habits of peda-
roKuea fought against change. No
human machine likes to be compelled
to acquire new knowledge or adopt
strange habits. The almost irresistible
tendency has been to fashion the new
knowledge Into the forms of the old
and thus spoil it for genuine educa
tional effect. In this way nature study
has been made farcical in too many
Instances, while manual training has
been hitched as an insignificant ap
pendage to the tall of the medieval
routine.
It Is only a question of time, as
Mr. Alderman points out, when all
this must be changed. It Is hardly
too much to say, in his words, that
we are on the eve of an educational
revolution. Unless we are reconciled
to drop behind the rest of the world
In citizenship and industry we must
contrive, at whatever cost of tradition
and conceit, to make our education
fit the needs of life. The child must
be prepared in school for the place
and work which his nature craves.
This will necessitate the overturn of
a good many fetishes, but the general
welfare is superior to any Idols and
so doubt the beneficent change will
go forward even if Its path should be
paved with broken images. The hope
of the Nation is in Its children. They
are the future. No expense is too
great which helps prepare them for
what is to come. No labor is too dif
ficult which fits them for their part
In life. This is the true view of public
education and it is the view which Is
taking possession of the schools. In
speaking as he does for the new ways
Mr. Alderman expresses a sentiment
which has become almost universal
among educational leaders. It Is
summed up in the maxim that the
schools must fit children, not for a
preconceived pedagogic scheme, but
for life.
There are two or three changes in
the schools which we may expect to
sea pretty rapidly made. One is the
dropping of useless studies. The old
notion was that every traditional study
Is useful because "It develops the
mind." On this ground algebra, gram
mar and Latin were defended to the
last gasp, but it has now been discov
ered that the mind is Just as well de
veloped by studies which open the
doors to Industry and practical effi-
elency. Why spend a child's best
years teaching him something he can
never apply when by choosing more
wisely we can cultivate his mind and
train his working ability at the same
time? This is the modern theory of
education. It does not despise culture,
but neither does it despise efficiency.
It believes that both can be secured
by framing a curriculum from the
branches which are Immediately use
ful in the practice of life. All great
musicians have begun to study music
when they were children. Great en
gineers hare busied themselves with
mechanics from their boyhood. Dan
iel Webster delivered orations to his
brothers in the cornfield. Nature al
ways urges the young to practice in
season and out of season the arts by
which they hope to excel. The educa
tional machine has taken the opposite
course and subordinated the main pur
pose of life to the incidental, too often
to the purely ornamental. The Intelli
gence of the world is at last in full
revolt against this destructive theory
and we shall see the native abilities
of each individual child more and
more freely recognized and cherished
in the schools.
Another change to which we may
look forward is the breaking up of
large classes. This is Indispensable if
each child Is to receive personal at
tention and study. Some predict that
within a very few years no more large
schoolhouses will be built. In their
places we shall have small cottages,
one for each neighborhood, where
few children will be taught by the
same woman year after year up
through all the grades. Some such
plan must be adopted If we are to fit
the education to thechild. It will be
expensive. All good things seem to be
expensive. " Tis only God that is had
for the asking," but in time we shall
cease to balance expense against the
welfare of the children.
3IJU5 3TEN".
The Oregonian would like to say a
word for the downtrodden politicians
who are prostrate in abject terror be
fore the major-generals of woman
suffrage over the question of their bad
manners. The counts in the arraign
ment are several, vis: (1) Men
smoke at the City Hall while ladies
are present, and (2) ladies who
visit the Courthouse to register are
annoyed by impertinent questions and
unnecessary importunities.
The Oregonian qualifies for discus
sion of these grave matters by re
minding the ladles and any Interested
gentlemen that it approves woman
suffrage, and did what it could at
the election for the cause. It there
fore addresses the ladles as fellow
citizens and reminds them that there
is no distinction as to sex now in Ore.
gon on the suffrage. The men have
been deprived of none of their ancient
rights by the new order.
If men Insult women by smoking at
committee meetings, the men also In
sult women by smoking in the pres
ence, or the company, of women in
practically every Portland grill and
restaurant.
If the women are asked questions
and solicited to sign petitions at the
Courthouse, so are the men. If they
object to the surroundings of the reg
istration booth, they ought to protest
In behalf of all citizens and not one-
half the citizens. One reason why we
have equal suffrage in Oregon is that
the men thought the introduction of
women into politics would improve the
character of public affairs. There
cannot well be a rule for the women
In registration or in voting that does
not Include all citizens.
The men of the City Council, long
before women were granted the suf
frage, prohibited smoking on street
cars; and the same men years ago
passed an ordinance requiring the re
moval of women's hats in theaters.
We rather suspect that the women, or
some of them, would have been wear
ing their hats in public places to this
day except for the law; but of course
we can only guess. What we wish to
show is that the men are not unmind
ful always of the public interest or
comfort, or of good manners, and that
they are Just as ready to protect one
sex as the other, if it needs protection,
Let us hope that the recent little
unpleasantness will lead the smokers
at the City Hall even to greater feats
of self-denial, and that they will not
smoke in public meetings even when
gentlemen only are present. But the
ladles. ought really not to expect too
much all at once of mere men.
WHAT IS OK.VITT
Some Eastern publications which re
lied upon 'the good faith of Louis R.
Glavis in forming their opinions in
the Balllnger episode are inclined to
appraise Glavis recent money-making
venture in California as no more tnan
an indiscretion. From a legal stand
point Glavis doubtless was not a trans
gressor, lie merely contracieo. tor a
price to use his influence to secure
preferential listing of lands in behalf
of certain large timber companies.
Under these contracts he stood to
make $30,000 to $50,000. At the time
the contracts were entered Into he was
employed in a public capacity at 1300
per month by the State of California.
California s concern in the side con
tract was one of ethics of public
employment. The state was supposed
to 'be paying for Glavis' entire time and
services. Yet, while under pay from
the state, he engaged in a secret em
ployment which promised to yield him
ten times the salary he would draw
from California in one year.
But overshadowing that question is
one as to the moral right of one to
sell his Influence with public officials.
Had the large sum for which Glavis
was striving been offered in payment
for rare technical knowledge, the
greater part of the odium that now at.
taches to the deal would nave Deen
absent. One of the most Insidious and
baleful forms of graft now combated
In America Is the sale or purchase of
influence to gain for one firm or cor
poration an advantage over a rival, or
to secure for it some special ravor.
There is the politician who for a
consideration will agree to secure a
municipal contract for the one who
employs him: there is the boss who
will for a price obtain early action on
some claim against a city; there is the
lawyer friend of the executive who for
more than commensurate fee will en
deavor to obtain the pardon of a con-
ict. Favoritism of many kinds may
be purchased, but in a general sense
we consider such bartering a crime
only when a bribe reaches a public
officer. Perhaps the hardest point to
overcome in convicting Abe Ruef was
the contention that money paid to him
was a lawyer's fee, and it is an ad
mltted fact that a large part of the
graft paid for favoritism the country
over goes no further than the pur
ported intermediary who has no vote
to sell, but who can control the votes
of others.
We thus fail fully to Insure the thing
which bribery statutes are passed to
accomplish. That is equality of oppor
tunity and fair dealing. Mr. Glavis
bribed nobody. He did have influence
with the Interior Department. He
sold that influence and obtained a
more rapid turning of the wheels In
favor of his clients, while the claims
of others who, because of priority of
filing, ought "to have had preference
were left for later consideration. He
contracted to secure special considera
tion from a Government bureau for
wealthy corporations and he secured
it to the detriment of others that
did not employ him. If this was mere
indiscretion, then the Outlook and
other Journals which defend Glavis
may consistently excuse or keep silent
concerning much of the graft that en
riches the bos3, the politician or the
schemer.
An esteemed Boston contemporary
remarks truly that "it is quite easy to
overstate the effect of money in the
purse as a creator of ideals of virtue or
the purpose to be good." Money often
incites to evlL An ancient writer says
the love of it is the root of all enl.
Money counts as a factor on the side
of virtue merely by giving a person a
chance to be good if he prefers. Dire
poverty often compels one to choose
evil as the alternative to starvation.
Money cancels that necessity. . It cre
ates no ideals, but It sometimes saves
them from degradation and death.
EXPLORING THE SPHINX.
The riddle of the Sphinx seems like
ly to be BOlved at last. An American
Egyptologist working under the aus
pices of Harvard University has dug
away the sand that has half buried it
for thousands of years and found the
entrance to the interior.
Within the monstrous body of the
Sphinx there is a temple 120 feet long.
The labor' of hollowing it from the
solid stone must have been immense,
but labor was cheap in Egypt in the
days of the pyramid builders and
Sphinx carvers. The serfs worked for
nothing but their rations and if Bome
of them starved to death it mattered
little. There were thousands to take
their places. When a monarch sets out
to .build pyramids it is the greatest
convenience in the world to own plenty
of slaves.-
It turns out that the Sphinx was de
signed to be the tomb of Menes, the
first King of the first dynasty of
Egypt. This personage heads the list
of Egyptian monarchs both in Herod
otus ami in Manetho, but. Inasmuch as
some other writers omit him, it was
supposed for a time that he was myth
ical. Recent investigations show that he
must have been a real personage. His
name is found frequently in inscrip
tions with various other evidences of
his actual existence. As a rule the
earliest traditions of Egyptian history
have been confirmed by scientific re
search. The monumencs of that most
Interesting country date from a past so
remote that they, invite skepticism, but
investigation only conflrnss their an
tiquity.
The scientific study of Egyptian his.
tory really began with the decipher
ment of the legends on the Roaetta
stone by Champolllon. By a series of
lucky guesses combined with a marvel
ous power of scientific intuition this
great genius managed to read an in
scription in the ancient hieroglyphics
which was Inscribed on one face of the
stone. This opened the way to the
study of the forgotten tongue of the
Pharaohs.
Since Champollion's achievement
other men have equaled or even sur
passed him. Languages like the Hit-
tite, of which not a word was known to
any living creature, have been res
cued from oblivion and made to give
up their secrets.
AX HONOR TO THE NATION.
Whatever may be the opinion of
some American newspapers, inspired
by over-officious persons who are
smarting under deserved rebuke, about
the conduct of Ambassador Henry
Lane Wilson during the recent battles
in Mexico City, there is but one opin
ion among the foreign colony in that
city. This is that all foreign residents,
whether Americans or not, owe deep
gratitude to Mr. Wilson and that
Americans have cause to feel proud of
him.
This sentiment was given expression
at a meeting of the American colony
in the shape of a formal declaration,
which was enthusiastically adopted.
This declaration recites that during
the ten days of the bombardment the
ambassador "caused headquarters for
the colony to be established at the
American embassy, and in concert
with his staff of faithful assistants
was untiring in his devotion to the in
terests not only of his own country
men, but of the many foreigners who
came to him for aid and comfort." It
was resolved that the American colony
owe Mr. Wilson "a debt of gratitude
the magnitude of which cannot be ex.
pressed in words, but which shall re
main with them a cherished memory
of the noble and patriotic services
rendered under most trying conditions,
which stamp him as an American of
whom his countrymen may well feel
proud."
Among the speakers was an Eng
lishman, who spoke "the sentiments
of all Britons, French, Germans, Mex.
leans and other nationalities who par
took of your unlimited hospitality, and
the benefits of your unique and com
petent organization during the stormy
times through which we have Just
passed." This Is what he said of Mr.
Wilson and of the American colony
generally:
I want to thank the American colony Tor
what they did for the general welfare of
all. for the liberality with which they
opened their homes and g-ladlr shared their
supplies, for allaying- through cable service
the anxiety of relatives and friends, for tho
heroism displayed in rescuing those In the
dancer zones, irrespective or nationality,
wealth or position, to the American con
sul-General is also due our appreciative
thanks for many kind services rendered to
those who availed themselves or the em
bassy organisation. I wish to add my
humble tribute of thanks, appreciation and
praise for your noble Ambassador, who.
though unaccustomed to the tiring line and
the ram ot bullets, never ror one moment
flinched In the execution of his duty, which
was the saving of lives and the consum
mation of peace. To him we are an in
debted more than I can express.
When such unstinted praise is be
stowed by those directly concerned
and in the best position to Judge, Mr.
Wilson can well afford to Ignore criti
cism for which there is good reason to
suspect an ignoble motive.
SENTIMENT AI DIPLOMA CT.-
Refusal of the Wilson Administra
tion to back American bankers In ne
gotiating their share of tho Chinese
loan is the first definite step in repu
diation of that policy which tho Demo
cratic convention sneerlngly styled
dollar diplomacy. It Is the initial at
tempt of Secretary Bryan to translate
his fine sentiments Into action.
China seeks a loan of $125,000,000
from foreign bankers. As security
the bankers ask a voice in the ex
penditure of the money, the pledging
of certain taxes and control over their
collection. They also ask the counte
nance of their respective governments
In making the loan, that they may be
assured of diplomatic support In en
forcing its conditions. There is sound
precedent for this demand in the ad
ministration of Chinese customs for
many years by the late Sir Robert
Hart. There is good ground for the
demand for control over expenditure
of the money and collection of the
taxes in the practice of China when
she builds railroads with borrowed
money. At the game of grafting the
Chinese could give the choicest spirits
of Tammany cards and spades and
beat them. There is no reason to be
lieve that the change In the Chinese
government from monarchy to repub
lic has changed the Chinese character.
The bankers are therefore Justified in
assuring themselves that their money
Is applied, to the purpose for which it
s borrowed and not largely dissipated
as squeeze ; also tnat tne taxes
which are to secure them are actually
collected and turned into the Chinese
treasury for payment of interest and
extinguishment of the debt.
The Wilson Administration tells us
that the taxes which China is asked
to pledge are antiquated and burden
some and that foreign control Is re
pugnant to the principles of the Amer. ,
lean Government. The bankers can
but ask such security as China is now
able to offer. Should China wish to
abolish these taxes and to substitute
others more modern and less burden
some, it is absurd to suppose that the
bankers would not consent- to their
substitution as security. Having lent
their money to China, they will have
a deep interest in the improvement of
China's fiscal system and in the devel-
opment of the country. Every such
Improvement will brighten the pros
pects of getting their money back.
The promise of the Administration
to support measures ot give Ameri
can merchants, manufacturers, con
tractors and engineers the banking
and other financial facilities they now
lack" in foreign commerce and the
declaration that "our interests are
those of the open door a door of
friendship and mutual advantage" are
fine phrases, but nothing more. Ex
perience has shown that the Nation
which furnishes capital to China con
trols the commerce of that country,
We may have reams of treaties and
agreements providing that our mer
chants shall have an equal chance in
supplying material for a Chinese rail
road, but if that railroad is built with
British money under the supervision
of British engineers, a way will be
found of manipulating specifications
and contracts so that British mer
chants will get the business and Amer
ican merchants will be shut out. The
key which opens the door Is capital
for the initial development of the
country.
In this matter, as in many others.
Mr. Bryan has shown utter incapacity
to grasp the essential facts and to rea
son out the plain, logical conclusion,
He takes seriously the fine sentiments
with which diplomats cloak their real
purposes. As a phrasemonger he is
almost without an equal; as a states
man he is the great American crab.
Policeman Post, who gave a bad boy
a sound spanking at his mother's re
quest, deserves praise. He did
worthy deed for which the boy will
thank him whfen he comes to riper and
saner years. But it Is the boy's mother
whose praises we particularly wish to
sing. A woman who in these mushy
times has sense enough to want her
boy spanked when he deserves it Is a
monument of motherly wisdom. Would
that she might have many disciples,
but we fear she will not. v
The subject of a decent system of
credit for farmers is not receiving any
more attention than It merits from our
public men. It is useless for Oregon
to send anybody to Europe to investi
gate the matter, since it has already
been fully Investigated and the results
published. Information is easily ac
cessible. Action is what is needed.
As lone as farmers cannot borrow
money on reasonable terms, their in
dustry Is handicapped.
The French Senate seems to have
more power than the British House of
Lords. When it rejects a government
bill, the government resigns. When
the Lords do the same thing, the gov
ernment calls an election, increases its
majority and clips the Lords' wings.
Having contracted for extension of
Its subway system after many years
travail New York City should now be
gin preparations for the next exten
sion. It may then be ready wnen
needed, instead of several years later.
Spokane Valley peachgrowers are at
a loss to account for dead buds. They
are fortunate their trees were not
killed by severe weather. The peach
Is a tender tree in high altitudes and
low temperatures.
President Wilson and the House
leaders may try to change the dress
of the budget system so as to disguise
the fact that it came from President
Taft, but they cannot hide the Taft
earmarks.
Democratic National committeemen
have had to go into hiding from Job-
hunting brethren. A series of nervous
breakdowns is bound to follow in the
trail of this pie-cutting strenuousness.
Delaware votes against direct elec
tion of Senators, having fond recollec
tions of Addicks' boodle. However, we
can win without Delaware, for only
four more affirmative votes are needed
A local man was arrested because
of a persistent desire to shake hands
with a policeman. The customary
ambition of such celebrators is to ex
terminate the police force.
John L. Sullivan is more than half
right in advocating that the schoolboy
be taught boxing. The old gladiator's
advice on abstention from tobacco and
liquor is wholly right.
In former days the Secretary for
Ireland was "the goat" of the British
Cabinet. Now that honor falls to the
Home Secretary, vrho must do battle
with suffragettes.
The Kansas pastor who Jammed his
wife's artificial teeth down her throat
during a family melee accidentally
of course may have been afraid she
would bite.
Wilson's record Tuesday of 650
handshakes in twelve minutes is at the
rate of forty-six In sixty seconds,
which is going some for shaker and
shakees.
The common grafter must look with
awe on the record of Chief of Police
Lepine, of Paris, who has Just resigned
after twenty years service.
King Constantino's reign should
have a good beginning, through his
being the popular hero of the war with
Turkey.
The Joke is sere, yellow and passe.
Indian war veterans who lost their
horses will at last receive pay.
Easter, the season of new hats for
wives and stogie cigars for the hus
bands, is near at hand.
Bryan, as Secretary of State, re
minds us somewhat of a bull in a
china shop.
The annual rush from all parts to
favored Oregon will shortly be on in
full blast.
This weather is good for the fruit
buds, which are too ambitious alto
gether. Hereafter woman will not be wooed
so fiercely for her hand as for her
vote.
There is no let-up in the effort to
get" Boss Cox.
March is living up to its reputation.
Stars and Starmakers
By Leoae Ca
Baer.
Clara Beyers is the newest member of
the Alcazar stock in San Francisco.
She is to be second leading woman,
but this week is playing leads In
"Checkers," since the new leading
woman, Madeleine Louis, is not to as
sume her position until next Monday.
Charles Waldron, a former Baker
player, will play opposite Miss Louis,
opening in "The Passing of the Third
Floor Back," which Forbes-Robertson
brought to Portland. . . Miss Beyers
was last season with Del Lawrence in
Vancouver, B. C stock, and by a
coincidence, though not an unusual one
In stock, Rhea Mitchell was ingenue
with her then. Just as she is now
ingenue with the Alcazar. . . Roy
Clement, who was a member of the
Cathrlne Countess stock last Summer
and later appeared in vaudeville with
Theodore Roberts, is now with the
Alcazar.
Chauncey Olcott, in his newest play
by Rida Johnson Young, is headed
Heillg way. "The Isle o' Dreams" is
its title, and Henry Miller is director
of the company. Next Sunday night
Olcott opens a fortnight's engagement
at the Columbia in San Francisco.
David Belasco's comedy production,
"The Concert," with Leo Ditrichsteln.
who has stood the acid test of both
actor and author. Is coming to the
Heillg soon. It is playing this week at
the Columbia in San Francisco. Isabel
Irving has the principal feminine role.
Ditrichsteln tells humorously in an in
terview with Waldemar Young of what
he calls a "good Joke on himself,"
though it is doubtful if he relishes it
over much:
About ten year ago, I wrote a piece for
Summer production In Chicago, called "Viv
ian's Papas." Blancha Ring played It and
so did I, and Ukewis so did Harry Conor
and Emma Janvier. It was something of
a hit. too.
Blanche Ring liked the piece immensely
and wanted to buy It from me for her own
use later. Recognizing that It waa a val
uable asset, and not caring to repeat the
experience of ' Are xou a Mason T" l wouia
not sell at the price she was wlllfng to pay.
I simply put the play away in my trunk
and awaited developments. I thought that
the least I could do would be to get $10,000
or $12,000 out of It In the course of a sea
son in royalties. So I waited.
I waited so long that I ' forgot all about
the piece until recently I bad a letter from
Sanger A Jordan, the New York play bro
kers, offering me $750 flat for "Vivian's
Papaa." 1 wondered whether I should take
this or not and let It go at that, and after
much bargaining back and forth I sold It
to them for $2000, relinquishing all rights.
Just a few days ago I saw an' announce
ment that Blanche Ring la to be sent out
directly In a new piece, "When Claudia
Smiles." by Leo Ditrichsteln.
"When Claudia Smiles" Is "Vivian's Pa
paa" Blanche Ring haa secured it at last.
and for a great deal less money than
thought It would be worth to her.
In the cast will be Harry Conor and
Emma Janvier, and that fact makes It look
like a much better proposition for Miss
Ring. And for
He said this as though he might have
been Leo the Forsaken.
. Anita Allen, who has the part of the
sweetheart in "The End of the World,"
Nat Carr's playlet at the Empress,
boasts that she Is natively and thea
trically a Pacific Coast product. She
was born In San Francisco, gained her
first stage experience with the Nelll-
Morosco Stock Company, was graduated
from the ranks, of the Alcazar Stock
Company of San Francisco and filled
engagements with various companies in
Portland, Seattle, Spokane and Oakland,
Cal. Miss Allen was the leading
tngenue for the Russell and Drew Com
pany at the old Heillg In this city,
coming to Portland with "Dad" Russell
after playing for 70 weeks under his
managership in Seattle. The young
actress declares her record of 70 weeks
In Seattle as Ingenue has not been ex
ceeded by any other Thespian in the
history of the Sound city. After the
dlsbandment of the Russell and Drew
Company here Miss Allen Joined the
Auditorium Stock Company in Spokane
and later she was affiliated as Ingenue
with Ye Liberty Stock Company of
Oakland, Cal. Between times. Miss Allen
has made many visits to Portland. She
was here with Florence Roberts in
Zaza," was seen here as "Stephanus,"
. boy. in "The Sign of the Cross" and
played In Portland with "The Girl
From Rector's" and "The Girl in the
Taxi," in both of which productions
she had the role of the French maid.
Miss Allen has been with the Nat Carr
company since last December,
Blanche Bates will begin a Spring
tour next month under the manage
ment of Charles Frohman In A. E. W.
Mason's "The Witness for the Defense."
During her stay In Portland this
week May McCabe, leading character
woman with "An Opening Night, the
headline attraction at the Orpheum, Is
the guest of her nephew, Harry Ander
son, and Mrs. Anderson at their Irving
ton home on East Eleventh street
North. George V. Hobart, author of
An Opening Night," wrote the part of
Mrs. Lane, the landlady, for the express
purpose of exploiting Mies McCabe's
laugh. Her preceding visit to Port
land was made as Mrs. Canby in
"Arizona" at the old Marquam Grand.
a
Sidney Baxter, the wiry Scotchman
who has been entertaining on the wire
at the Orpheum this week, paid his
first visit in Portland more than a
dozen years ago at the old Cordray
Theater on Washington street. A few
years later he returned to play vaude
ville at the old Baker, on Third street.
under the direction of George L Baker.
He appeared at a number of variety
bouses here at that time and espe
cial Interest attaches to the engage
ment, for it was then that Mr. Baxter
and Beatrice Southwlck. who appears In
the act with him, were married in Port
land by Father Hughes. This is their
first return.
Catherine Calvert, who came to the
Pacific Coast with Holbrook Bllnn in
The Romance of the Underworld," and
was taken 111 with inflammatory rheu
matism is still confined in a sanitarium
In San Francisco. Miss Calvert is
horjlnar to return to New York this
month.
m
In the current Rounder, of San Fran
cisco, ,1s an accounting of the attempted
suicide of Mrs. Jack McGreevy, who
lor 20 years has played the plump
country girl with her husband in the
sketch the "Country Fiddler." They
were In Portland about a month ago.
The account says that Mrs. McGreevy
cut her wrist with Bcissors, but will
recover. Says the Rounder, under
dateline of March 13:
vr McGreevy had been worrying over
i hmnind'! actions for several week. It
was decided last night that the sketch would
be canceled irom tne urpneum om ut
week.
It ha been th headllner in tne uamano
Orpheum
for a week, coming from ban
Francisco. McGreevy was not o:e to piay
his part, hi wife said.
Be went through with It last night, but
th climax cam when her husband accused
her of stealing hi diamond stickpin.
PORK AND BEtAKS TTNFIT FOR FOOD
White Flour and Drags for Healing
Also Condemned by Writer.
PORTLAND. March 19. (To the Edi
tor.) I have read the articles of Dr.
Woods Hutchinson and Dr. Madden and
The Oregonian's comment on the Hut
chinson article about flour.
I hold a medical degree from one of
the oldest and best-known medical col
leges in th United States and became
convinced long ago that the practice
of allopathic medicine was chiefly guess
work, devoid of any genuine good and
built on wrong lines generally. No
system ot healing can b a success
that seeks only to suppress symptoms
and not remove the cause of the dis
ease. I gave up the practice of medi
cine for the above reasons, and spent
several years in Europe studying the
natural methods of assisting Nature
to cure disease drugless healing, al
so non-surgical healing, which Is
founded on correct principles and is
not guess work. I studied the chemical
values of foods and the chemistry of
cooking, something the allopathic fra
ternity knows nothing about.
Wheat 1 a starchy food and was In
tended by Nature to be eaten whole, for
under the hull are contained the or
ganic salts or natural medicines placed
there by Nature ts nullify the starchy
qualities and aid in digesting them.
When this is removed the flour forms
a paste, like wallpaper paste, and is
about as nutritious as sawdust. Beans
contain a large percentage of xanthln,
the vegetable equivalent of uric acid,
are starchy and . have no distinctive
food value. Pork in any form, being
fed on swill, largely, carries much dis
ease, particularly cancer, and is unfit
for human consumption.
Woods Hutchinson is a notoriety
seeker, and his line of action is only
a part of the propaganda of the Ameri
can Medical Association, which Beeks
to mislead and terrify the people with
periodical scares the daily discovery
of new serums which cure nothing and
to suppress successful competitors of
rival schools. The people are rapidly
realizing that medicines cure nothing
and that operations are barbarous and
unnecessary in most cases.
Modern surgery, or cutting for every
known trouble Is fakery for the
money only, causing untold misery and
doing no good.
Intelligent people should not take
Woods Hutchinson seriously, for he
knows not what he says most of the
time. REFORMED ALLOPATH.
PENSIONS FOR INDIAN VETERANS
Congressman Havrley Outlines Proced
ure for Those Entitled to Increase.
CULVER, Or., March 18. (To the Ed
itor.) For the Information of the In
dlan War Veterans of the North Pacific
Coast, several of whom have written
to me as to how to proceed in order, to
get the Increase of pension from $3 to
$20 as per act of Congress, as moved
February 19, 1913, I Inclose letter of in
structlons from Hon. W. C. Hawley for
their information and guidance.
CYRUS H. WALKER,
Grand Commander.
Washington. D. C. March 7. Hon.
Pvnw M. walker. Grand Commander Indian
War Veterans of Oregon I have had under
advisement with the Commissioner of Fen
sions the matter of the requirements of
the law of February 19, 1913, Increasing the
pensions of Indian War Veterans in certain
cases, l am aavisea mat it win not w u.
cessarv that any of the veterans make ap
plication for the Increase, but that the same
will be granted them and payment -made in
the next regular time, the Increase dating
from the day the law waa approved. How
ever, many veterans are now in receipt of
pensions by special act ol congress, ana
the Commissioner suggests that In such
cases only those will be entitled to
creased pension under th new law who
would have had title to pension un
der the laws of July JT, 1892. June
27. 1902. and May 30, 1908, and be
suggests that In each of these cases that a
letter be anaressea to mm setting wrui
the matter of length of service, etc.. of the
veteran. Will you please make these condi
tions known to your comrades as rar as pos
sible, as we have worked hard to secure
this benefit for the veterans and desire that
all of them who are entitled to the Increase
under the law receive it as soon as pos
sible to administer to their comfort during
their declining years!
W. C. HAWLEY.
Bow Socialist Party Could Improve,
PORTLAND, March 19. (To tho Edi
tor.) In The Oregonian of March 10
there appears a letter from R. H. Brat
ton "Soap Boxers Are a Drawback."
In it he states there are quite a num
ber of atheists in the Socialist party.
also that he Is an atheist himself, thus
acknowledging that both are a draw
back to the uplift and betterment of
the human race.
An atheist is a person whose egoism
is dominant in all he says or does a
person whose general make up shows
that the animal man is the main fac
tor. Imagination and that inner
prompter called conscience have never
been properly awakened, hence the lack
of knowledge of the sublime architect
of the universe. The "scientific mind
cannot conceive of anything so fancl
ful. The atheist knows he Is alive
but refuses to admit it, self being the
dominant factor, and "being wise in
his own conceit" condemns any other
God but himself. The "scientific mind"
being cold and cruel (and In all prob
ability a Mlssourian) must have cold
tangible facts to work upon, hence the
great progress and advancement it
provides for the unscientific and Imag
inative mind.
All men are Socialists in some way
but if the Socialist party would ellm
lnate from its ranks sucb cranks as
atheists, communists and anarchists, as
well as soap boxers, they would get
more sympathy and more people to Join
them, yours lor true socialism.
SPOKESHAVE,
Board Feet in Timber.
CITE HALTS, Wash, March 18. (To
the Editor.) In The Oregonian of to
day I notice a question asked by R. F.
Martlndale and answered by you and
answered incorrectly. I have been
handling lumber for over 30 years and
I never saw your rule used before.
There Is a good, true and simple
rule, and according to standard rules In
mathematics.
First To find the mean base, find
the area of the smaller and the iarger
ends, add these, and divide by two.
This will give the average, or mean
base.
In his question the stick is 6 by 6
at one end, 12 by 12 at the other and
40 feet long. Ninety square Inches is
the average or mean base. Hence the
stick is equal to a board one inch
thick, 90 Inches or 7H feet wide and 40
feet long. The number of square feet
of lumber In the stick is 300 Instead of
280 as you gave It. I. H. CRUMLY.
The stick In the example is the
frustum of a pyramid. The rule for
determining Its cubic contents may be
found in any text book on solid geome
try and In the New International En
cyclopaedia, under the head, "Pyra
mid." The rule Is as given In The Ore
gonian's answer. It may be that lum
bermen use an easy or thumb rule for
ascertaining the approximate number
of board feet In timbers of such di
mensions, but the solution given there
under by the correspondent is not
exact.
Chamber of Commerce Building.
PORTLAND, March 19. (To the Edi
tor.) Please let me know the date on
which the corner stone of the Chamber
of Commerce building was laid.
C. T. B.
January 1. 1891.
The Unwelcome Return
By Dean Collin.
Tuesday morn, the mad March bunny
Gambolled in the meadows sunny.
And the winging birds were singing:
There was Joy in everything.
Yestermorn, my wide eyes lifting,
I beheld the snowflakes sifting.
And perceived the rakish Winter
Sitting In the lap of Spring.
Oh, Winter, you're unreasonable;
Your presence is unseasonable;
The groundhog's time, some weeks
ago
Had passed he had his day.
Pack up your little grip again
And take your farewell trip again;
'Tig time that you are trudging,
You are fudging
Fade awayl ,
Unto that prophetic master.
The United States Forecaster.
With a feeling deep, appealing.
On his phone I gave a ring.
"Why!" I cried, "this snowfall streaky T"
He replied: "It's simply freaky
For Winter thus to take his seat
Upon the lap of Spring."
Oh Winter, your behaving
Has no quality that's saving.
You dawdled through the ' sunny
weeks
The while it was your day
Your right to stick you cast away;
'Tis high time that you passed away:
Your presence we're begrudging.
You are fudging
Fade awayl
But though fickle winds may blow
flakes.
And dot the air with snowflakes
Falling thickly, they are quickly
Melted as to earth they swing;
And old Winter, bluff and breezy.
Finds his status quite uneasy.
He can't last long, I'm thinking.
Sitting in the lap of Spring.
Oh Winter, though you're daring.
It Is time that you were faring;
The climate Is too warm for you
To lengthen out your stay;
You're leaning on a hollow prop.
Oh snowy, blowy malaprop;
Full soon you must be budging?
You are fudging-
Fade away!
Portland. March It.
Twenty-five Years Ago
From Th Oregonian of March 20, 1888.
Washington, March 19. The Supreme
Court this morning delivered an opinion
In the Bell telephone cases In favor of
the Bell Telephone Company on all
points and in all cases.
Washington, March 19. The Supreme
Court today decided the case of the
Willamette Bridge Company vs. Z. J.
Hatch et al. This was a suit for an
injunction to restrain, the bridge com
pany from constructing a bridge across
the Willamette River between Port
land and East Portland. The court
holds that the lower court was with
out Jurisdiction.
Washington, March 19. Mrs. Eliza
beth Cady Stanton, president of the
National Woman's Suffrage Association,
arrived In Washington this evening.
Washington, March 19. Senator
Stanford reported favorably th bill to
erect a publlo building at Salem, Or.
Its appropriation 1 cut down from
$100,000 to $76,000.
Salem, Or, March 19, Last night the
barn of Dr. L L Rowland was set on
fire by an Incendiary and burned.
Astoria, March 19. Plledriving on
the seaward extension of the Jetty,
Fort Stevens, began Saturday.
Paris, March 19. The committee of
initiative of the Chamber of Deputies
has agreed 'to consider a proposal to
authorize the Panama Canal Company
to Issue a lottery loan of 40,000,000
francs.
Mrs. Z. F. Moody and her son, Mr.
Ralph Moody, returned to Salem yes
terday from a Winter's visit in South
ern California,
First Assistant Engineer Brlnker-
hoff, of the steamer Columbia, has
been promoted to the position of chief
engineer of the Queen of the Pacific,
on the Southern route.
Jake Kennedy, son of 111 Kennedy,
the old Siskiyou hunter, shot a mon
ster panther within about a quarter
of a mile of his father's house, says the
Ashland Tidings.
The Portland cable road committee
will today begin a systematla canvass
of the city for subscriptions toward the
balance of $45,000 required to com
pletely equip and place in operation
the cable road connecting the city
with the heights. Preston C. Smith. R.
H. Thompson, Samuel Heitshu, A. W.
Oliver, Ira B. Sturgls, J. E. Haseltine,
L. H. Parker, J. W. Bailey and Eugene
D. White constitute the committee.
At the adjourned business meeting
of the Y. M. C. A. the following were
elected directors: J. Thorburn Ross, R.
K. Warren and A. M. Smith.
Half a Century Ajro
From The Oregonian of March 20, 1863.
Washington, March 13. Secretary
Chase has appointed an entire new set
of office-holders for the San Francisco
Mint, the Custom-house, etc.. In re
sponse to the revelations of frauds by
the department s special agents.
New York, March 12. Letters from
England call renewed attention to an
Immense fleet building In Great Brit
ain for the rebels and to the necessity
of a peremptory demand on Palmerston
to put a stop to this mode of making
war.
Sacramento. March 13. In the Sen
ate today the bill appropriating $600,
000 for defense of the state and pur
chase of arms, artillery etc., and main
taining 25.000 infantry and S000 cav
alry was discussed at length.
Mr. W. M. Case, of Buttevllle, left at
our office, a day or two since, a couple
of bottles of Oregon cider, manufac
tured by him from the pure juice or
apples. It was quite palatable, as was
evidenced by the rapid disappearance
it met with among the handB of the
office.
The little son of Mr. Price has been
found. He had accompanied a brother
out to their father's farm in Washing
ton County.
Good Words for Auditorium Board.
PORTLAND, March 18. (To the Edi
tor.) In the report of Paul Wessln-
ger 0 remaras Detore tne musicians
Club, an Incorrect Impression is con
veyed by the heading "A Political Note
Sounded," etc.'
The suggestion that if the commis
sion form of city government carried.
the Auditorium Commission would nec
essarily go out of office with all other
commissions was made by one member
of the Musicians' Club, and it was dis
cussed in an Informal way, and was
not voted upon.
Tho majority of the members of the
club have no desire to criticise, still
lees to antagonize the members of the
present commission, and hope that the
suggestions they have made will re
ceive the courteous consideration that
one body of men would show to an
other both having the best inter
ests of the people at heart, by whom
and for whom the Auditorium is being
built. W. GIFFORD NASII.
President, Musicians- Club.