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J0 KTLA VI, FRIDAY. MARCH II. 1913.
MB. WASIIISGTON.
There are grounds for believing that
since Mr. Washington began his work
at Tuskegee, true Ideas of the nature
and purpose of popular education have
advanced more rapidly among the ne
groes than among the whites. A large
part of the white population 01 m
United States are still obsessed with
the notion that "a little education In
m iinnnlainable way" will free
them from the hardships of the world
and enable them "to live without man
ual labor." The feeling is sadly preva
lent that "a knowledge, however little,
of the Greek and Latin languages will
make one a very superior human be
ing." He found his whole people fol
lowing this illusion and applying it In
their first feeble aspirations ior an
education after the war. He had the
same illusion himself at the outset of
hi. career. "I remember, he says,
"that the first colored man whom I
saw who knew something about for
eign languages impressed me at that
time as being a man of all others to
be envied." The surprising thing is
that Mr. Washington so completely
overcame the belief that education is
a sort of initiation into magic whereby
the candidate acquires occult powers
over men and things by virtue of the
formulas he learns. If he had not
been a man of most original genius, he
would have pursued the mistaken
course which almost everybody else
took In establishing schools for the ne.
gToes and his supremely important
work might have waited a score of
years for the master mind ana nana.
Fortunately Mr. Washington found
his way to Hampton Institute for his
youthful training. In this scnooi me
concept of Industry as something fine
and richly educative had already been
gained, bo that when his call to Tuske
gee came from a committee of South
ern men he was prepared to begin
teaching these along true lines for the
good of his people and the whole coun
try. No doubt he has exercised almost
as much Influence upon schools for the
whites as upon those for his own race,
but he speaks and. writes only of his
work for the negroes. In this field he
Is the first of masters. He has com
bated the false belief, so natural
monr a childish race newly set free.
that education means the memorizing
of words and the evasion of work, and
has won the negroes to see in practical
efficiency the way of escape from pov
erty and social degradation. His basic
doctrine is that all secure progress
must have an economic foundation.
He does not despise culture by any
means. "I favor any kind of training,"
he tells us, "that gives strength and
culture to the mind." But with cul
ture he believes also In teaching "the
latest and best methods of laundrying"
ind other occupations of the same sort.
Mr. Washington's educational ideas
and methods have spread rapidly
among the negroes. The. growth of
Tuskegee is an Indication of their ac
ceptance among both races. The
school began as a band of "hundreds of
earnest, hungry souls." It had no
buildings and no endowment. Now it
has become a village In itself with an
endowment of t2, 000,000 and its pupils
re at work in every Southern com
munity. At the close of the war an educated
negro, no matter how feebly educated,
became a preacher or a politician,
often both. He saw no other outlet
for his abilities. Mr. Washington has
demonstrated that there are hundreds
of other outlets, usually far better and
more profitable. The colored race has
made astonishing progress in many
directions since it was set free. His
tory shows no instance where so much
has been gained in so little time, tak
ing everything Into consideration.
Among its greatest gains we must
reckon the elimination of false ideals
in life and happiness and the con
quest of a sound economic basis for
ambition. This the colored people owe
to Mr. Washington more than to any
other man. The negroes owe to him
also much of that steady amelioration
of Southern sentiment which has been
proceeding ever since Tuskegee was
founded. As long as the whitea had
reason to fear that the negroes would
wield political power over them and
dreaded the specter of "social equal
ity" to which beyond all question the
blacks aspired in early reconstruction
days, good feeling was constantly en
dangered. As soon as it became evi
dent In any community that the ne
groes had settled down to earn an hon
est living in honest ways and their
consequent improvement In morals and
manners made itself manifest, the
feeling of the whites softened. Friendly
interest replaced suspicious dread. As
Mr. Washington often says, the ne
groes have no friends so true and
kindly as the Southern whites, but this
friendship is granted only on condi
tion that the netrro shall remain a
purely economic factor until he has
clearly demonstrated his fitness for
something different. The bargain is,
after all. a fair one and Mr. Washing
ton's unvaried counsel to his people is
that it is best for them as well as the
whites.
In the economic peace which they
have secured under Mr. Washington's
guidance the negroes are rapidly gain
ing wealth and Influence. They stand
well In the professions. They are pro
ducing a literature. The death rate
which their bad habits of living once
made so fearfully high Is declining as
their standards rise, and it Is reason
ably certain that they will Increase
about as rapidly as the whites In the
future. When their economic position
has become assured they will necessar
ily acquire their fair proportion of po
litical power. Property, no matter
who owns It. is bound to be represent
ed in the government. What their
ultimate social destiny will be it would
be rash to try to predict. The United
States Is a famous melting pot. but
there are very few s'-gna as yet that it
will form an alloy of black and white.
Perhaps in time the negroes will be -
come so wealthy and powerful that
they will care little what the whites
think of them and remain content with
their own racial life. From some
points of view this would be an Ideal
solution of a most difficult problem.
THE CASE OF MRS. EDGHX.
The unhappy case of Mrs. Edgell.
the New York teacher (married), who
desired leave of absence for a year in
order to "bear and rear a child," af
fords an opportunity for contrast of
the benighted illiberality of New York
with the enlightened freedom of Port.
land. The New York Board of Educa
tion framed a by-law years ago under
which any woman teacher who mar
ried automatically severed her connec
tion with the body of teachers by that
act. Some time ago a dispute arose
under thia by-law, and the matter was
taken Into the courts. The Court of
Appeals decided that the Board of
Education's by-law was unconstitu
tional. Thus the theory has been im
posed upon the Board of Education
that married women have legal stand
ing in the body of schoolteachers.
When Mrs. Edgell frankly stated
that she desired to respond to a do
mestic call, the Board pointedly de
clined. It is not unusual for a mar
ried teacher to ask for leave of ab
sence, on the discreet grouna or ui
health" and "opportunity for study,"
and what happened in the interim did
not matter much to the public. But
Mrs. Edgell lacked diplomacy, and
suffers the consequences.
But Mrs. Edgell would have been
rewarded for her candor if she had
lived in Portland. There is, or has
been, a rule here against married
women teachers: but It has its excep
tions. Under the new dispensation,
however, through the grace of the .re
cent Legislature, which gave all Port
land teachers life jobs, if they survive
two years of probation, it seems clear
that any teacher may get married,
have children, or arrange her domes
tic matters to accord with her own
needs or likings, and the School Board
cannot say a word.
Unlucky Mrs. Edgell! Lucky Port
land teachers.
WHY THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY LIVES.
Frank Munsey persists in his efforts
to reunite the Progressive with the Re
publican party, urging that the plank
on recall of Judicial decisions is the
only one in the Progressive platform
to which the great bulk of Republicans
seriously object.
There is another obstacle In the way.
It is the fact that the Progressive is
Colonel Roosevelt's own personally
conducted party. It Is absolutely
necessary that he should have a party
Since he has read himself out of the
Republican party and since the
gresslve Democrats are well satisfied
with President Wilson as their leader,
the only course open is to keep the
Progressive party alive.
True, its ranks are becoming some
what thinned by desertion. At the
outset Senator Borah refused to go
with htm. Then Governor Deneen and
Governor Hadley retained their places
as Republicans. Now Mr. Munsey
openly proposes reconciliation with the
hopelessly corrupt party with which
the Colonel will have no part, and
thousands of men who voted the Pro
gressive ticket last Fall are refusing
to renew their allegiance to it. But,
shrunken as it is, it must retain its
place lest the Colonel have no organ
ized following.
FREE TRADE IN SHOES.
Shoe manufacturers and dealers are
combining in protest against the threat
to put shoes on the free list in the
Democratic tariff bin, ana tnere is
much reason in their plea to the minds
of moderate tariff revisionists, ine
duty is now only 10 per cent on men's
and 15 per cent on women's shoes,
which rates seem moderate enough to
satisfy an advocate of a purely revenue
tariff.
It may be contended that since hides
come in free, snoes aiso snouia do
free, but shoe leather pays duties
ranging from 6 per cent upward and
the several other commodities enter
ing Into shoes pay duties ranging from
10 to 100 per cent. Manufacturers are
also compelled to pay the exactions of
the United Shoe Machinery company,
from which the Government cannot
relieve them without radical change in
the patent laws unless the bupreme
Court reverses itself. They also have
to contend with a growing lad ror
English shoes, made with the same
machinery as they use and by labor
much more poorly paid.
Fairness would seem to require that
the duty on shoes should about offset
the duty on materials entering into
their manufacture. No greater reduc
tion should be made on the finished ar
ticle than is made on the materials.
Even if the Democrats scale down the
rates on the commodities used by the
manufacturer to a revenue basis, in ac
cordance with their theory, that would
not Justify free shoes and -might hardly
Justify lower rates on shoes than are
now imposed.
WHY SOT HAYS SALON 3 T
The thought that some of the
wealthy women who adorn New York
society ought to found salons to en
courage art and music la too attractive
to pass without comment. John C
Freund. editor of Musical America, is
responsible for it. No doubt others
have cherished the same project, but
he comes out boldly and advocates it
n the New York Times. Mr. r reuna
U an authority on dramatic art as well
as music. He has written plays and
.s well known as a critic or tne stage.
The "salon which ne nas in mina re
sembles the centers so famous in
French revolutionary times, and yet
It is not quite the same. The women
who held the revolutionary saions
were more Interested in politics than
anvthlng else. They gathered tne
orators of the day about them. They
attracted the leading men of the Na
tional Assembly and enticed tnem to
niar unon their ideas. But they
also brought promising artists ,and
young men of science as wen as ris-
ng literary cnaraciers '" men un
cles, and In fact iormea centers ior
the 'stimulation of the higher intellec
tual life In all Its expressions. .
It ia the last aim that air. rreuna
cherishes. He wishes mat. some oi
the New York women would open
their parlors for gatherings where all
that Is hlc-h and progressive migni do
discussed freely by men and women
who stand for ideas. "Nothing could
do more for the fine arts In the United
States," says Mr. Freund, "than some
thing of this sort. It needs no big
fund or mlgnty organization." All it
needs is the necessary initiative and
gumption" in the brain or some ener
getic woman. Tne nest tning uiai
could come from the salons would be
the encouragement of young artists.
writers and idealists of promise who
have not yet made their mark. Amer-
1 lea, as Mr. Freund observes, is none
too fond of pushing her young gen
luses forward. The melancholy truth
is that she is inclined to despise them
until they go to Europe and come
home with the stamp of foreign ap
proval. This ought to be changed.
We should encourage our promising
youths as the French and Germans do,
and the best way to bring them to the
front Is to provide a welcome for them
in social circles.
8 A VIVO THE MURDERER.
If each of the twelve Jurors at Al
bany who found Ralph Henry not
guilty of murder "by reason of insan
ity" went home to wife and family
with clear conscience, that inner moni.
tor has ceased to do its promptings and
has gone Into a sad state of atrophy.
Nobody believes that Henry was insane
when he committed the murder of
which he has been virtually acquitted.
Nobody believes that the Jury thinks
he was. On the strength of a
"law" that is not a law, and that alone,
and in disregard of a solemn oath to
render a verdict In accordance with
the real law and the evidence, the jur.
ors turned a deliberate murderer over
to the uncertainties of an insanity
board. That board must now either
turn him free or in turn stultify itself
by rendering the false verdict that he
is insane.
Ralph Henry, one day last October,
calmly purchased a revolver, calmly
walked to the Willamette River, a
short distance from Corvallis, calmly
engaged men to row him out to a raft
on which George Dodd was working,
calmly shot Dodd to death and calmly
surrendered himself into custody.
There was no doubt about identity,
nor of intent. There was no chance of
Henrys escaping the penalty of his act
unless a motive could be shown that
would press out of the minds of the
Jurors the sanctity of their oath.
Dodd had broken up the home or his
slayer. That is not a legal defense to
a charge of homicide. But Insanity is.
So the liberality of our court procedure
and the willingness of criminal law
yers to engage in trickery to save a
client permitted the introduction of
testimony, not to prove that tne slayer
was legally Justified in the crime, but
to show that he would have been jus
tified in becoming so insane that he
could not distinguish between right
and wrong.
The shallowness of the excuse for
submitting such testimony is recog
nized by courts and public as well.
Some few states have made steps
toward curbing the abuse of the in
sanity plea, but it is quite the general
thing for the juror to hear the com
plete tale of love, passion, intrigue,
blasted home and motherless children.
It at times falls with effect upon the
ears of the man who has himself cov
pro-1eted his neighbor's wife or engaged
in clandestine immorality wltnout
thought of the woman's husband.
It is a story that strangely wins slob
bering sympathy for the creature who
advertises his wife's unchastity to the
world, who indelibly presses the stigma
of her sins and his own upon their
children; who, when he finds his home
unclean, adds untold defilement to its
memory.
The frequent and successful cloaking
of the unwritten law In the transpar
ent veil of emotional insanity is possi
bly the most sorrowful and disgraceful
feature of criminal procedure In Amer
ica. In its perpetuation the lawyers
the men who, above all others, kneel to
ethics, bow to courtesy and laud pro
fessional Integrity are the most cul
pable. That it may be so successfully
invoked gives some ground for belief
that there is more emotional insanity
among Jurors than among murderers.
REG I LATINO WOMAN'S DRESS.
Ohio's Legislature has taken up the
weighty question of dress regulation
on the grounds that the present-day
tendency of fashion is towards im
modesty. It has been urged that a
fashion board be created to prescribe
Just what and what may not be
worn. One of the provisions put forth
in the proposed law Is that not more
than two inches of neck space may
be displayed in a decollete gown. Fur
ther, when meshy fabrics are worn
next to the skin an opaque back
ground must be provided. The ban is
also put on the festive drop-stitch
stocking.
There can be no question but tnat
sex display Is carried too far by those
who cater to extremes of fashion. But
at the same time it is the opinion of
The Oregonian that the Ohio reform
ers are misguided in their errorts.
Women who wear ultra-fashionable
attire might seem Immodest if they
did not first appeal to the sense of
humor. Let a woman in extreme
fashion trip down the street, does
she not' stimulate universal mirtn i
Which being the case, isn't she really
performing a useful service, since
mirth is admittedly stimulating and
conducive to good health.
As to the evening gown proposition
the objection of the Ohio reformers
leads us to suspect that their eyes are
not righteous eyes. To him that sees
aright there is splendid beauty and
art in an exquisitely moulded neck
and shoulders. It is a beauty that
should not be obscured by a prudish
mandate.
It Is generally held to be a main
function of womankind to make itself
attractive. The various little tricks in
that gentle art which the ruthless
Ohio legislators would banish should
by no means be discouraged. If pub
lic morals are amiss, then let the rem
edy be a campaign of education in
right thinking.
THE RI LE OF REASON.
When Congress comes to legislate
against the trusts, it is practically cer
tain that the law will contain specific
application to combinations In restraint
of trade without exception, tnus re
pealing the action of the Supreme
Court in reading the word "reasonable"
into the Sherman law. Senator Cum
mins reported from the committee on
commerce a strong conaemnauon oi
the court's action in thus modifying
the law.. He said that the "rule of
reason" substitutes the court for Con
gress. In the Commoner, Secretary
Bryan says this report "will meet with
commendation at the hands of progres
sives of all parties," and he hopes it
jvill speedily meet with the approval
of Congress.
The adoption of the "rule of rea
son in tne ou ana tooacco decisions
was a reversal by the Supreme Court
of itself. In the Trans-Missouri case
the court had held that the combina
tion was reasonable but was forbidden
by the Sherman law, which drew no
distinction between reasonable and
unreasonable restraints. Justice White
dissented on that point and he, as
Chief Justice, wrote the oil and to
bacco decisions reversing this inter
pretation of the law. That Congress
acted deliberately In making no quali
fication Is evident from the fact that
the Insertion of the word "reasonable"
was proposed when the law was under
discussion, yet was omitted.
In these days, when the courts are,
rightly or wrongly, much criticised,
they should be particularly careful to
confine themselves to their proper
functions. Because a law seems unrea
sonable to them, they need not assume
that Congress did ot know what it
was about. To read into a law a word
which so gravely affects its operation
is to usurp legislative power. It would
be better to leave a bad law In full
operation than, in order to remove its
defects, to ' assume a power that was
never given to the courts.
The Supreme Court's adoption of the
"rule of reason" had a more injurious
effect probably than would decisions
dissolving some harmless combinations
under a literal interpreation of the
Sherman law. It gave the great, law
defying trusts an excuse to plead that
the meaning of the law was uncertain
and that they did not know whether
they were illegal until a decision had
been rendered as to each one of them.
Had the court taken the law to mean
precisely what it said, there would
have . been no such excuse and the
work of the Government in dissolving
the trusts would have been greatly
facilitated.
Dartmouth College, following Ober
lln's example, Is going to try some
thing new in the way of presidents.
The office is to be divided, as it were.
Instead of heaping on one pair of
shoulders all the Intellectual and pater.
nal duties of the old-fashioned college
president and all the business entan
glements of his modern successor,
Dartmouth will distribute these cares
between two men. One of them will
stand for hoary dignity and Intellectual
splendor. The other will be a sort of
business manager who will do the beg
ging and spending. We see no reason
why Dartmouth should not profit by
the innovation.
Browningites will be interested in an
advertised London sale of manuscripts
by Robert and his almost equally fa
mous wife. Among the items is her
manuscript of "Aurora Leigh." The
love letters of both Browning and his
wife will be sold. Included in the
catalogue there is a pen and ink sketch
of Tennyson reading "Maud" to the
Brownings at their lodgings. This is
dated 1855. Tennyson was 43 years
old then and his fame was established,
but still growing. "Maud" did not in
crease it a great deal, though some es
teem It now as his best poem.
The Oregonian Is much exercised because
Mr. Wilson will detract from the dignity
of his offico by wearing a sack coat at his
desk. What has the coat sot to do with
It? It's the man that lends the dignity,
not th. garment. Eugene Guard.
We fancy President Wilson would
lend great dignity to a sweater and pa
jamas, for example. If he chose to ig
nore the conventions and stand on nis
right to' dress as he'pleased.
Huntington Wilson's resignation
shows sad discord among the Wilsons.
The alacrity with which the President
accepted it, following close upon the
retirement of "Tama Jim" Wilson, and
taken in connection with his objection
to appointment of any relatives to
office, suggest a desire to have only one
real Wilson in the Administration.
Assistant, and Acting Secretary of
State Wilson is a Republican, holding
down the Job to accommodate the
President and Bryan, and not in har
mony. Naturally he finds fault with
his superior and does the wisest thing
by getting out lnstanter.
A cold-storage plant In Medicine
Hat, where a disastrous explosion oc
curred yesterday, seems incongruous.
Medicine Hat has the unhappy reputa
tion of originating all the cold spells
that filter down into the Middle West.
mer nre several million political
wAdthoF nrnnhcts who have made the
same guess as Secretary Bryan made
in his Des Moines speech. Mr. Bryan
seems to follow Mark Twain's advice:
Don't prophesy until you know.
A Pullman man at 72 works to sup
port nineteen children, tne youngest
of whom is now 2 days old. Carnegie
should provide an ample pension fund
for such patriots.
Th Governor of Nevada vetoes the
minimum eieht-hour bfll for women
w,i. there are not enough women
who work in that state to make the
law worth while.
Austria's demands upon Montenegro,
backed up by warships, imply that she
has no fear that Russia will come to
the rescue of the little mountain, state.
It seems a pity that white man can
not be allowed to marry the red moth
er of his children, if only to straighten
out the record.
The Pennsylvania expedition which
will explore the wilds of Brazil might
do well to take their dress suits along.
Authority at the State Reform
School could not keep them from
breaking out when smallpox appeared.
Doing time at McNeil's Island will
not be the picnic it has been, with Al
catraz an annex to hold the overflow.
Old Indian tunes are to be pre
served. Some of them are very stir
ring, causing the hair to stand on end.
Quick action is sought on the tariff
by the Democrats, so it is announced.
Same as bolting a dose of bitters.
Recovery of damages for the loss of
a foot fifteen years after the event is
an example of how not to do it.
The White House tennis court Is
being repaired. Are we to have an
other tennis Cabinet?
Turkish troops have attained a vic
tory. The exception that proves the
rule, no doubt.
Those seventy-eight directorships
may account for J. P. Morgan's physi
cal collapse.
A public playground for grown-up
boys should prove a most profitable
Innovation.
Some of the more astute are already
flirting desperately with the woman's
vote.
Anyway, some nice things were said
about Bryan at his birthday dinner.
Spring arrives today. You may not
feel it in the air, but it is here.
Are Bat and Fay working a press
agent game?
THE MATTER WITH BIO BCSKESS
Trouble Foreseen Until the Govern
ment Own. All Ranks.
CORVALLIS, Or., March 18. (To the
Editor,.) The recent investigation of
concentration of capital in the hands
of a few men in the United States, and
the "explanation" Just out, which a
leading bank In New York gives of
economic and financial conditions in
the United States, all fall short of
satisfying the average voter.
The situation as "explained" by this
bank is to the average mind about
what Christianity would be with Con
fucius instead of Christ as its master.
Until the Government becomes wholly
responsible for the banking business
in the United States there will be
trouble with business, both little and
big. No private interest should own
one dollar in any bank stock. The
Government should own and operate
all banks. Just as it owns and operates
the postoffice business of the country.
I do not advocate any measure of
confiscation of vested interests in
any banks. The Government can well
afford to compensate all private own
ers, and let the bank liquidate its
own purchase price. That is what the
people of every community will,
eventually have to pay to vest " the
ownership of banks In the United
States; and. It takes no prophet to see
that the time Is approaching, at race
horse speed, when something like this
will have to be done. Or would the
elect prefer the Socialistic condition,
whose advocates are rapidly Increas
ing, and to which many people, in de
spair of assistance through ordinary
political channels, are turning, as
promising some measure of relief?
Ex-President Taft is on record as
believing that the great issue arising
among the people of the United States
is this same despised Socialism. Mag
azine after magazine is drifting into
that broad highway, and the vote for
Socialism is rapidly mounting. It ap
pears to me that there Is a golden !
mean betwixt the radical, all-devourin
processes of some part of our present
economic system, and this communis
tic theory of the Socialists. "Thus
far shalt thou go and no farther.
may be said along several lines where
the pendulum of prosperity never
reaches the great mass of unhappy
wage-earners. How far. It will be lor
a majority vote to determine. When
there is a real question, so fraught
with momentous results, to be de-
termlnedi in these United States, as
this approaching struggle between men
and, alas, brethren It would seem
more than Idle folly for great bodies
of friendly voters to split on the per
sonality, only, of some magnetic leader.
J. H. WILSON.
FISH GUARDED BY ANEMONES
A Phenomenon of Marine Life Seen on
Australian Coast.
"Messmates," by Edward Step, F. L. S.
On the tropical Darts of the Australian
Coast where the Great Barrier Reef
affords splendid hunting grounds for
the naturalist there are huge speci
mens of anemones.
One of these has spheroidal beadlike
tentacles which occur among others ir-
reeularlv mixed in catches ot gray,
white, lilac and emerald green, the disc
being shaded with tints of gray, while
the mouth is bordered witn Drignt yel
low. Now. in admiring these giant ane
mones, you will scarcely ever come
across a specimen without seeing a nsn
of the perch family swimming about
among the tenacles.
Knowing what we do about these ten
tacles, how not only have they the pow
er of Instantly clasping the fish from
all sides and carrying it to the ane
mone's mouth, but of thrusting out
stinging threads that could pierce tne
scales and flesh and rapidly kill it we
are astonished alike at the fish's fear
lessness and his immunity from des
truction. His eround color Is orange Vermil
lion, across which run three bands of
white bordered with blaok a very
noticeable style of coloring in open
water, but perhaps not so striKing in
its chosen environment.
The wonderful thing is that, not only
does the anemone refrain from molest
ing the fish, but receives It in a friend
lv wav into its mouth when any dang
er threatens It. The danger past, the
fish swims out unharmed.
In the same dangerous position, but
among the tentacles of another of
these large anemones we find a prawn
of somewhat similar and equally color
ation. There is clearly a very definite
understanding in both these cases,
otherwise the lives of fish and prawn
would not be worth five minutes' pur
chase. One point that such an association
seems to make clear is this that these
lower forms of life must possess a
higher grade of intelligence than it is
the fashion to credit them with.
Both fish and prawn are the natural
prey of anemones.
Easier To Do Than Say.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Why, George, what a condition you
are in! Where have you been?"
"It's all rl". Been to say goo' by to
Charlie Scrapple."
"Where's Charlie going?"
"Charlie's going to girdle th' g'obe."
"What?"
"Girbal th' glode."
"Say it slowly."
"Gobal th' gird."
"Once more."
"He's going round th" earth In 80
days. What's th' matter with your
"Ah. he's going to girdle the globe,
is he? Well, you girdle your way to
bed Just as fast as you know how!
Skip!"
The Spanking Cop
By Dean Collins,
Sing, Musel Let you and me devise
n.u. t ImmAPtDllT. .
J. Hill CUCl w..-w.
Who spanked the boy, with vim and
mignt,
A a n j Llm Intn nntViA ftf rlsrht:
All truant thoughts and bad behavior
Banished by that Diue-coatea savior,
Sing, Muse, and praise Patrolman Post!
Myself, when young, oft needed what
The youth, herelnoeiore nameo, got.
When o'er my past career I think.
ij nnia Aach sneclal moral kink.
I know 'twere better now for me
If, in their immaturity,
Those budding faults had chanced to
'Neath some strong copper's heavy
nana.
9
t m nth ors' clubs T often heard
The preaching of the modern word
On moral suasion from a book
T'was tried on me, but never took.
TV.,..rh "mni-fl 1 fSllARArfi" .rStWhilfi tHed
My moral growth witn care to guide;
. . . . . Wt T 1 1 1 ., .) .1 1
Soon wouiu tneir leaciims.ttii on.cruauww
Unless accented with a paddle-
Therefore, I hail the spanking cop
And wreatns oi giory on aim mui.
Who, for the welfare of the Nation,
Hath spanked the rising generation.
Mayhap, by spanking thus in time.
Nipped short a long career of crime.
Chant. Muse, his praise to beat the
band.
And sing: "More power to his hand!
L'Envoi.
Far greater is prevention sure
Than any old amount of cure;
Greater than he who brings to grief
Some hardened villain, thug or thief,
t ha, nhn when 'tis needed most.
Spanks hard, as did Patrolman Post
Portland, March 20.
COMPESSATIOS ACT RIGHT STEP
Good Reanlta WU1 Follow With Right
Men in Charse.
PORTLAND, March 19. (To the Edi
tor.) A feeling of uncertainty seems
to prevail, among employers as well as
employes. In regard to the workmen's
compensation act recently passed In
Oregon. There Is nothing unusual,
however, for this feeling. Whenever
a new law or a new rule is createa
until it has been thoroughly tested,
no one is sure of the result.
Men who have made a study of this
are of the opinion that it is inevitable
that Vnmnnsation" for workmen will
become universal. It is only the
n tnrul .vnlution of thinSTS.
For this reason and from the stand
point of humanity it is quite right that
laws of this nature should be enacted.
If all men were competent to Judge
and satisfy themselves as to the best
way to protect themselves, laws to cora
nenaata workmen would not be neces
sary but. again, from the standpoint of
humanity. It is up to tninxing, cnan
table and just men to see that all are
taken care of, even those who wilfully
neglect their own interests.
Whilo the nreaent law. Just enacted,
may not be satisfactory to many, it is
nevertheless a stepping stone In the
right direction, from this will eventual
ly be framed something more satisfy
iner.
Insurance companies may for a short
time feel a slight loss in business
classed as "industrial" Insurance, but
in time, however, will benefit from this
law by increased business coming to
them as Boon as tne people Decome
familiar with and educated to the more
liberal terms and benefits derived from
their policies, and because every man
will find that the amount he receives
from any compensation act, while
enough to Veep out actual starvation,
it Is not enough to provide some com
forts impossible to receive thereunder.
When run under well governed state
Insurance departments the insurance
company is a blessing to mankind.
Like any other business, the insurance
company pays no great dividends, when
in competition it has to give as much
as can be bought for the premium re
ceived, but pays the stockholder only
a very ordinary dividend and only the
wildcat promoter will picture other
wise. This anyone can verify before
investing. It is only by most com
petent management that the ipsurance
company can be as liberal as it Is
with the policyholder and on account
of years of work and actual experience
and in employing men who under
stand. If, under the newly-created law,
only men of experience and ability
are placed in charge and it Is not made
into a political plum-tree, good results
should come and a solid foundation
for a better law will be built.
C. H. WESTON.
LOVE WILL ACCOMPLISH REFORMS
Home Is Place to Begin Correction of
Evils, Says Correspondent.
PORTLAND, Or., March 18. (To the
Editor.) There never was a man or
woman so low In the human scale that
some one could not reach the latent
spark through the power of love. The
restraining hand of love that under
stands the weakness of humanity to re.
sist temptations will accomplish more
by one gentle word or touch to reform
and uplift the wayward boy and girl,
or to protect them from the pitfalls,
than all the harsh measures that can be
enforced by the wisest of men and
the rich and those in pow
er, ridiculing and scoffing at the igno
rant and uncouth, only reflect greater
evils, forcing all humanity to lower lev
els. The promptings of malice and envy
will never reach the latent spark in the
merchant who pays starvation , wages,
nor the procurer or his victim, nor any
soul performing the work of the deviL
Father and mother possess the same
evils handed down to son and daughter.
Vanity in the mother begets vanity in
the daughter. The greater evil In the
father descends to the son. Virtue in
the mother abounds in the daughter.
Chastity in the father reflects in the
son.
Father and mother in their home are
the ones and the place to begin and to
continue reformation of present busi
ness and social evils and to guard
against new ones of different form and
character that must necessarily follow
correction of the old, for the flesh is
weak and the day of redemption is not
yet.. The world was once redeemed by
love and Its second redemption will be
accomplished by no other means.
Give the working girl higher wages
and shorter hours of labor to the
bounds of reason, love and equity. She
will be the better girl for the favor and
the boys or men who seek her ruin
will be fewer in number.
HAPPY MAN AND WIFE.
OLD OREGON A STAUNCH CRAFT
Could Yet Give Good Account of Her
self. Says Sailor.
BREMERTON, Wash., March 15. (To
the Editor.) Having noted in The Ore
gonian a news item bearing on the
1, a fnmmi. ftM hflttlPShiV
Oregon in the new dry dock at Puget
Sound Navy-yard, I beg to make a few
inn- In th. intrfat nf veracitv.
With all due respect to sentiment I will
say that uncle bam s oiuejacttets are
. 4.,A ..fvlnfr lllr. hftMeft. The
I Si veil - j - o - -
occasion mentioned was one of Joy and
gratmcation over tne auuceaa m bici
. , ... Ul-.n-l- .. I . i ,.r
unaertaitins, wua u. uioiunu .mi
A x'n..n in b nrnmlnpnt rnl Rands
playing and hundreds of schoolchildren
singing National and patriotic airs and
r, am 11 A mPrlH fl fifths
a BC . ......... ... 1 .
are not conditions conducive to copious
tears, ana wny tne periuuitni uutmus
of a battleship should provoke such a
downpour of nautical weeping is a mat.
ter beyond my comprehension.
Having served several years In the
TTniiaj crat.a v.w nnH hut rerentlv on
uuikv;u ot"." . - - i. j
the United States battleship Oregon, I
reel quaimea to state tnai mo uuii-
j ... .n- uawn thmiB-h f- from hA.
lng In a class with the modern dread
nought, IS yet a Btauncn ana bcbwui i.uy
vessel aiiu d " '
count of herself for several years to
come. oaiixi.
PEDESTRIAN'S WRATH IS AROUSED
Auto Driver's Letter Arouses Ire of
B. L. Wilson.
PORTLAND, March 19. (To the Edi
tor.) In answer to Louis F. Simpson's
letter of March 19. published in The
Oregonian, I think he Is one of those
speeders who should be watched very
carefully. He seems to think everyone
Is asleep Dut nimsen. it wouiu ia,n.e
many columns of your paper to tell the
faults of both pedestrians and auto
drivers: but who is to blame for so
many accidents of late?
I would like to snow L,ouis tr. Simp
son that I am very much awake and
also can prove It to him If he cares to
ee me, and I will not be called a "lazy,
sleepy rough-neck, as he has mentioned
In his letter, by any auto driver. I
have had some very close calls of being
run down by autos, but I am not like
L, F. S. I do not say that all autoists
are alike. If you want to see some
careless driving, go out on the Sandy
road, or a side street like Knott street,
and you surely will have to go some
if you get out of the way. especially
on Union avenue when getting on or off
a streetcar. E. L. WILSON,
848 East Fifty-fifth St. N.
A Sermon on Opportunity.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Opportunity really knocks at many
door."
"Then why don't more of us succeed
better?"
"The trouble Is that Opportunity
wants us to go to work."
Twenty-five Years Ago
From The Oregonian of March 21. 1SS9.
Washington. March 80. The Presi
dent today sent to Congress a com
munication and testimony relating to
grants of land to the State of Oregon
for the construction of wagon roads.
He says It has developed the most un
blushing frauds. A bill accompanies
the communication with the recom
mendation that it become a law. Sena
tor Dolph Introduced a bill in the 9th
Congress to forfeit these gTants and the
Senate passed it. It was sent to the
Democratic House, where it was
Ignored by the committee on publio
lands.
Washington, R. C, March 12. To
Hon. R. Gulchard. Walla Walla. W. T.:
I shall under no circumstances be a
candidate for the Congressional nomi
nation in the ensuing campaign. C. S.
Voorhees. x
The East Portland Council did a
handsome and appropriate thing in
recognizing the efforts of Judge Wood
ward in behalf of the proposed bridge
across Stephens Slough. It was mainly
through his efforts that $700 was raised.
The work of pumping out the dry
dock of the O. R. & N. Co. at Alblna
has been completed and the manage
ment are more than satisfied with the
result.
Recently some one wrote to Senator
Mitchell asking for catfish to stock
Tualatin Lake. Mr. McDonald, of the
United States Fish Commission, re
ported unfavorably." State Fish Com
missioner E. P. Thompson urged Sena
tor Mitchell to oppose the introduc
tion into Oregon of any fish that is
foreign to Its waters, that Is detri
mental to present fishing interests. He
argued particularly against catfish
Today Arohblshop W. H. Gross win
celebrate his silver jubilee, or :5th
anniversary of his ordination to the
priesthood. The day will be celebrated
at the Cathedral by a pontifical high
mass, at which the Archbishop will be
celebrant. Rt. Rev. Aegidlus Junger,
D. D., will preach the sermon.
F. Vlgne Andrews, the well-known
Insurance agent, was driving along
Water street. East Portland, with his
clerk. Donald Macleod. yesterday when
the wheel struck the projecting end of
a plank upsetting the cart and pitch
ing both gentlemen out. Mr. Andrews
was knocked senseless and Mr. Mac
leod's nose was broken and his hip
badly Injured.
Half a Century A50
Prom The Oregonian of March 21, 1803.
Large numbers are leaving Lewis
ton dally in small boats for the Boise
mines. A great many are leaving by
land also. One hundred loaded pack
animals left Lewlston on Monday last.
Men write about their claims yielding
from 50 to 8100 per day and ounce dig
gings are scarcely mentioned.
The men who stole the quarter
master's pack train from Fort Walla
Walla were trailed by . Miller and
Oreighton, the Government herders,
across the Columbia above Fort Okano
gan, where they had camped, being
snowbound. Miller shot one of them
dead and Creighton killed another
named Stubbs. The third robber, an
Indian, was brought back a prisoner.
The herdsmen collected the 76 mules
and brought them back.
A party of miners were recently
coming down Snake River and near the
ferry on the Boise and Auburn road
were making a portage around a rapid
place In the river. While two of them
were at the lower end of the rapids,
two others at the other end were set
on and murdered by a party of Indians
and 82 ounces of gold taken from their
baggage.
Memnhis. March 13. Information
from Vicksburg reports that Admiral
Porter had received news that the
Yazoo Pass expedition had captured
Yazoo City, Miss, and destroyed the
Confederate fleet between that point
and Haines Bluff.
The Columbia River road We are In
formed by General Palmer that this
road has been opened so as to make a
good trail for pack trains and cattle.
The ferryboat for the crossing of Sandy
is finished and will be launched to
morrow. Salary of Collector.
NEWPORT. Or.. March 18. (To the
Editor.) I read In The Oregonian:
"Taft Order Cuts Collectors iJay.
Please tell me what positions of those
enumerated are under the civil servico
and what are appointive. Are the dep
uty collectors under civil service tiop
ing to see the answer on the editorial
page, I am, F. L. P.
The salary of Collector of Customs
was $6000 per annum, but is now re
duced to $4500; all deputies are under
vi service.
Richard Harding Davis
and
Sir A. Conan Doyle
Write for.
The Sunday Oregonian
Modern Warfare A careful
study by Sir A. Conan Doyle of
the next great Continental war
and the part Great Britain will
play. Illustrated with unusual
military photographs.
The Editor's Story This is
another of Richard Harding Da
vis' short-story masterpieces.
Complete Sunday.
The Tailored Maid A mag
nificent page feature in colors
of especial interest to women
who follow the smartest things
in dress.
What Is Love An effort by
experts is made to answer this
profound and elusive question.
Elinor Glyn The famous au
thor of "Three Weeks" writes
an absorbing special article for
The Oregonian on the question
of loyalty.
Venus Rivale d A pretty
Swedish girl is heralded as the
most beautiful and perfectly
molded of women.
Perfect Gown at $10 It has
arrived to remove the bachelor's
terror of marriage.
Helen Keller at Close Range
The result of many months iu
company with the wonderful
blind girl is condensed into a
readable article by Robert IL
Moulton.
The Law May Curb Fashion
Congress is to be asked to
make feather decorations ille
gal. Sarah Bernhardt She con
tinues her absorbing letters on
current topics.
Many Other Features. Order
today of your newsdealer.
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