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THE MORNING OKEGOXIAX, MO:iAY. MARCH 29, 1913. 8 rOKTLAXD. OBXGOX. Eatared at Psrtlaad. Oracoa. poatofflca a avcoaa-ciaaa matter. Subacrlpuea Eua lavarlabir Is A4aie: IBT MAIL) Dally, eaadar lacluded. one yaar Dally. Su&day Included, ais montha ... 4. ra::y. Sunday Included, throa months.. X-Je Dally. Sunday Included, ana month. .... Dally, without Sunday, ana year ...... -U Dally, nrltheut Sunday, Blx jnontaa . J-.5 Dally, without Eunday. thraa montha .. Dally, without fcucda- oaa month -So Weekly, ana yeax ...... Eunday. ana year. .............. faun day aad Weekly, one year..... 1.30 BT CARRIER) Dally. Smday wclodea. ana year t.e Dally. Sunday Included, one month. Haw ta Keaalt bend poetoaice money er der. eapreaa oraer or peraonal chach on your local bank. Stamp, cola or currency are at the aender"a rlak. OIa poaloBiea aodreaa in lull. Including county and atata. I' aetata Katea Tea la 14 pagaa. 1 cent. IS to x caaea. 2 canta; to 0 pafea. eenta: 40 to 40 pafea, 4 canta. koralxn poetace. double rate. Eaatcrm Baalnaea (MTVei Verree Corne ll n. Kew Tort. BruuieicM bulldtns. Cnl; cao. Stecar bulldlna. (ma Fraadeco Office R. J. Bldwell CO.. T4i Market tre4. a Eoropeaa OOlce No. t Bagaat atraat a. W.. lor.d.a. rOBTLAXD. SATTRDAY. MABCH S. HAS OmCB TAMED BR VAN? When the waya and means commit, tee of the Btxty-second Congress re ported a 20 per cent duty on raw wool. W. J. Bryn, private citizen, de nounced it and demanded that raw wool bo made duty-free. Should the ways and means committee of the Sixty-third Congress aluo report a 20 per cent duty, what will W. J. Bryan, Secretary of State, do? Should he raise no objection, he will be taken as tacitly approving what he only two years ago condemned. Should he re- new his protests, he will embarrass ' the Administration of which he Is a member and may destroy the pros pects of tariff revision by this Congress. Loyalty to his party and to his chief may impel Mr. Bryan to forget his objections to a wool duty. He may recognize the difference between a private citizen's greater freedom and less responsibility and a Cabinet mem ber's greater responsibility and less freedom. He may see that the suc cess of the Administration of which he is now the second most important member requires that he subordinate his personal opinions and do team work with other leaders of his party. U- Qnon "a n flrtri irnnH eXCUSeS h. .Il.n.. nn hla nrranlnn. To ObleCt to any tariff on wool would endanger tariff revision or any mnu auu iuiis"i split the party. He may become con vinced that free wool Is impossible and that, since a large reduction is possi ble, he ought to accept the half-loaf. In our foreign relations, of which he has charge, he has plenty to keep him busy. The tariff only touches his de partment where reciprocity is involved. But Mr. Bryan has established a reputation for saying what he thinks regardless of consequences to himself and to his party, particularly his par ty. He has at times shown ability to hold his tongue and has appeared to be the soul of discretion. Should he practice self-restraint on the ap proaching occasion, we shall know that office has tamed him. Should he not. the fur will fly. and some of it will be Mr. Underwood's, some Mr. Bryan's. rTILIZINO A GREAT RESOURCE. The observations of Mr. Addison Bennett on the Deschutes irrigation project as set forth In The Oregonlan, Friday, serve to emphasize the diffi culties that confront the state In the utilization of the waters of the Des chutes River. Nobody will admit that these difficulties are hopeless, but their presence confirms the need for at systematic survey of the Deschutes Valley as provided for by the last Leg islature and in which the Federal Government is to aid. When one considers the areas of land, in Eastern Oregon that can be made Intensely productive by the ap plication of water and then reflects upon the immense waste of pure wa ter now pouring out of the Deschutes canyon into the Columbia River gorge, the immensity of neglected opportu nity becomes apparent. The Deschutes has tremendous power possibilities, but as Mr. Bennett points out, the de mand for power In Eastern Oregon will probably never equal the available supply until the country is brought into a state of general settlement and cultivation. To the west there is a possible future market in Portland and the Willamette Valley for this power, but its utilization here must await the lapse of many, many years. Engineers' estimates of the poten tial power or the Deschutes disclose that it will generate practically ten times the amount of electricity now -consumed in Portland and the entire W'illamette Valley. Tet we have by no means exhausted the power re sources of the Willamette's tributaries, -while the Columbia Kiver at Celilo of fers a feasible water power project . sufficient to turn possibly as many ; mills as there are In New England. It ' would therefore be foolish to reserve . the Deschutes for supplying Western Oregon with electric current. In brief, the utilization of the Des chutes water power in any great vol ume awaits the settlement of the table, lands which spread away from the sides of the canyon. There must be, "It is plain, an Intelligent division of . the waters, that the greatest good may J be obtained. So much must not be taken for Irrigation that the country will be held back for want of electric energy, nor must development of ag riculture be withheld on the possibil ity that the power may be usable in the remote future. One peculiarity of the Deschutes Is that for a distance of 140 miles it flows in what is virtually a canyon. There is no receding of canyon walls developing wide valleys over which the waters may be distributed. The flow to be used for irrigation must be taken by some means out of the main valley or canyon. In much of the ter ritory through which the stream flows the general slope of the plateaus on each side Is gradual toward the north and drops off abruptly as it nears the Columbia. But not so the bed of the river. It maintains a uniform but rapid descent for the entire distance, dropping several thousand feet to the point where it debouches Into the Co lumbia. The result is that in locali ties Sherman County, for example the surface of the water Is 1000 feet below the plateau. The feasible Irri gation projects therefore He farther south In Crook County or perhaps in the northern portions of Morrow and Gilliam Counties which may be watered by utilizing the lower river power of the Deschutes for pumping plants. On the Crook County projects, as indicated by Mr. Bennett, the water cost must be moderate to make irriga tion successful. The land is high in altitude and must be- devoted to the 'production of the hardier crops. Last year much of the land included within the irrigation projects yielded good crops of grain without irrigation. The farmers are learning dry land meth ods and nature was unusually kind. A few more years of similar success and there would be reluctance, no doubt, to accept irrigation at a heavy Increased cost to the private land owner. Nature seems to have had a con trary spirit when she designed the Deschutes. The uniformity of its flow Is unique in rivers of the country. It is said, we do not know how accurate ly, that the volume of water it turns Into the Columbia is equal to that of the Willamette. But, unlike the Wil lamette, it is nowhere sluggish. It knows no flood stage or drouth. It is the same Winter and Summer. At points the ocean steamer which loads cargoes in the Willamette could not squeeze between its banks, if it could and the draft, and much less turn around. Uniformity of supply makes It Ideal for Irrigation or power, but Its virtues have been partly offset by nature in the difficulty of getting its How upon the land that needs It most. There is land, and vast areas of it, that could be made to blossom and prosper immeasurably If water could be had from the Deschutes at moder ate cost. That Is what must be striven for. As the situation now stands, com plete settlement waits on water and use of power waits on settlement. The Deschutes is a flood of gold that now pours into the sea. It ought to be and must be saved for man's benefit by man's inger.ulty. MR- BCKLESOX'S DILEMMA. Postmaster-General Burleson has had an eye-opener. He has been act ing on the theory that all Republican fourth-class postmasters were hanging tenaciously to their Jobs, that Presi dent Taft's civil service order had clinched their grip and that his exam ination order was - necessary to jar them loose. Now he finds that thou sands of Republicans do not consider the Jobs worth having at the very small price of passing an examination and they are swamping him with their resignations. The reason is that the salary of a fourth-class postmaster ranges from nothing to 11000, and in many cases is closer to the nothing than to the $1000. Many a country storekeeper has secured the postofRce as a con venience to himself and his customers, for he has no competitor. Many an other who has a competitor regards It as a mere feeder to his business through bringing people to his store who may make purchases. In hosts of such cases the salary is only f 5 to HO a month. Account must be kept of stamps, a lot of petty bookkeeping must be done and the red tape of the department must be scrupulously un wound. If, in addition, the postmas ter must brush up his knowledge of various subjects and undergo the or deal of examination, he will not be bothered with the office. He will re sign, as thousands are doing. But Mr. Burleson does not wish him to resign, for such offices are not easy to fill. In very small communities men willing and able to do the work are not easy to duplicate. If the only man available resigns and no man takes his place, the office may be closed and the department will be accused of depriv ing small communities of postal facili ties. The men whose favor Mr. Burle son seeks by putting Democrats in of fice may thus be turned against him. for the community wants a postofflce, no matter whether a Republican or Democrat is in charge. There are some fourth-class post masters who will consider the Job worth the trouble of an examination those whose salaries range from 125 a month up. Mr. Burleson may find it advisable to exempt all below this limit, or some other limit he may fix from the examination order; in other words, to pick out the plums for the spoilsmen, the men who have "merit" in his eyes, and to leave the plain, plumless cake to the Republicans. PRESIDENT JOSEI.WS RETIREMENT. The public was not prepared for news of the resignation of President Josselyn, of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company; nor has it been received anywhere with satisfac tion. Mr. Josselyn has been for six years the directing force in Portland's largest public service corporation, which has a monopoly of the local street railway lines, and the electric power and lighting service as well. In that time the company has made an enormous Investment of money, so as to keep pace with the phenomenal growth of the city. There have been numerous extensions, installations of immense power plants and a thorough rehabilitation and reconstruction of the whole system. There has been be sides an Increasing Impatience on the part of the public with all public utili ties and an attitude of criticism and complant not so marked in the years previous to 1907. The position of a public service cor poration president in those years has therefore not been an easy one; but It should be said in candor that Mr. Josselyn has carried his heavy respon sibilities with fidelity and ability and that his bearing toward the entire body of his patrons has been admira ble. He has besides done his full duty as a citizen of Portland, and has at tained a position In the general regard and respect of which he may well be proud. It Is pleasing to knor that Mr. Josselyn will remain in Portland. The good will of a very large number of friends and acquaintances, as well as the public which he has faithfully served, will attend him in any venture. A GREAT SOLDIER GONE. By the death of Viscount Wolseley the British Empire loses a soldier who has fought tor it with distinction on every continent and has carried its flag and its civilization into wild and barbarous regions. He saw his first service and received his first wound in Burmah In 1S52, then served in the Crimea and in the Indian Mutiny, be ing decorated for his prominent part In the relief of Lucknow. He went to Canada In 1565, and helped to stop the Fenian raids. His first independent command was that of the Red River expedition against the Ritl half-breeds and was again decorated. He gained recogni tion ns England's best general by his expedition to Ashantl in West Africa, where after two successful battles he burned the black King's capital Ku massi, and for this he was rewarded with a Major-Generalship and a grant of f25.000. He conquered Zululand and pacified South Africa In 1879 and 1SS0. suppressed the rebellion of Arabl Pasha in Egypt in 1S81, and led the expedition to Khartoum for the relief of Gordon in 1S82. only to learn that Gordon had been murdered. In 1890 he became commander of the forces in Ireland and later succeeded the Duke of Cambridge as commander-in-chief of all the British forces. In 1S0I he was succeeded by Lord Roberta. When Wolseley was in his prime it wa customary for critics of the army to refer to him as "our only General," but a brilliant succession of victori ous commanders, including Roberts, Kitchener, Tounghusband and Baden Powell has proved the sneer unde served. Like Roberts, he was an advocate of conscription as a neces sary means of maintaining the British army. He was a great favorite of Queen Victoria and was as successful a courtier as a soldier. His 80 years support the opinion that activity con tributes to longevity. SMALLPOX AT PERU. We suppose there is a vaccination ordinance at Peru, Indiana, as there is in almost every civilized town. If it had been properly enforced a good deal of useless suffering would have been spared to the flood sufferers. Gathered in a pent-up building with little food and insufficient clothing, their condition was sufficiently miser able, but an outbreak of smallpox made It worse. To the smallpox diph theria was presently added and then their refuge became a place of torment. There is no way known to prevent diphtheria under bad hygienic condi tions, but vaccination is an lnfe.lllble preventive of smallpox in all situa tions. We know perfectly well that this remark may call out a tempest of protest from the enemies of Bclentlnc medicine, but facts are facts and we should all learn to bow to them, even If they run counter to our dearest prejudices. Those who are opposed to vaccination often say that the best way to deal with smallpox Is to ward It off by hygienic measures. In ordi nary times this might suffice fairly well, but in an emergency like that at Peru hygienic measures are out of the question. And who can assure us that a similar emergency may not arise in Portland within a week or two? Vaccination is particularly desirable In large public schools because It is impossible to regulate with any thor oughness the home habits of the chil dren. The cleanly are forced to asso ciate with the neglectful and unless they are protected by surgical Immu nity they are sure to suffer sooner or later for the faults of others. The opponents of vaccination are singular, ly illogical in regard to the public schools. They argue first that hygiene will prevent smallpox and then they oppose the medical Inspection of pu pils which is the only method of se curing hygienic conditions even to a limited degree. The real need of the schools is both medical inspection and vaccination. FASHIONS AND MORALS. It is true that Edward Bok, of the Ladles' Home Journal, has undertaken to establish a great fashion factory in the United States to compete with Parisian products, but that thought should not prejudice us against his general doctrines about women's dress. On that delicate, though fascinating. subject he is an acknowledged author. Ity and his precepts have all the pres tige of oracles with some of the gran deur of the saint. .Now and then his zeal betrays him into what in a lesser prophet might appear to be an error, Kut in Vila nuA w must exDlain the seeming aberration of our own men tal blindness. Thus when he says in h An HI number of his inspired mag azine that "the American counter- narts" of the French streetwalkers copy the clothes "of their foreign sis ters, as it is perfectly proper tor mem to do," we mast not rashly condemn. We should rather Dray for light to illuminate our inner darkness. But one rash question will not down. Can It be proper for a streetwalker, wheth- in imitation of Paris or not. to ad vertise her business in publlo by her clothes? If by her ciotnes wny nm by her gestures and by spoken solici tations? Evidently in this remark Mr. Bok conceded more than he intended. He never could have meant to grant that lost women should advertise their trade on the streets either by their clothes or in any other way. What he had in mind in the edi torial to which we have referred was a bit of admonition to American girls. He tells them that the fashions com monly imported from Paris are not those worn by the true aristocrats, but rather by the demi-monde, so that when our girls put them on they un wittingly advertise themselves as du bious characters. This is a killing blow at the business of Mr. Bok's com- . i . . ViA rnanlnn trade and no doubt there is some truth in his warn. Ing. Still the pictures of Parisian fashionables at the races and other great public events seem to show that they dress much like American women of the same station in life. All up-to-date fashions for women are eccentric and some of their perversities may strike a critic as immoral, especially If he is commercially interested in pro moting other modes. Mr. Bok says that the women's fashions of last Summer were more shocking than ever before, "brazenly or Innocently displaying In their attire their physical rather than their Innocent charms." Just to what lengths a woman may go In uncovering her hands and face and setting her limbs free to move is a perplexing question. In Persia the bold creatures who have left off their thick veils are called indecent. The early Methodists in their zeal for dress reform held it not only indecent, but positively wicked to wear earrings. The Soudanese beauty is preached against by the Boks of her country if she omits the nose ring from her toilet. In the little sermon from which we are extracting these morsels Mr. Bok seems to draw a fine distinction be tween the display which is permissible in the ballroom and on the street. In the former abode of innocence and sacred joy a girl may with perfect propriety leave off as much clothing as fashion prescribes and no ill con sequences will ensue. But if she wears a narrow skirt on the street or puts on a tight-fitting waist men will be allured from their guileless medita tions and the chances are that she will be lost. How far shall we go in pre scribing women's costumes to suit the susceptibilities of men ? The Turks are satisfied with nothing less than the thick black veil and a heavy robe that leaves no visible semblance of the hu man figure. In this country we have allowed women more liberty, but if their freedom tempts innocent men to their destruction perhaps It ought to be taken away. Who Is the proper person to decide what a young girl shall wear, the milliners of Paris and New York or her mother? To ask the question Is to answer It, and yet as long as women permit the dictators ol fashion to prescribe their own cos tumes, what hope is there that they will use any more sense for their daughters? It Is easy to overestimate the moral or immoral effect of any particular article of clothing. Livingstone tells a story of an African chief who had been in the habit of going entirely nude. The missionary persuaded him to put on a waist band in the hope that his morals would be improved When the chief went among his tribesmen decked out in his new at tire everybody was scandalized. It has never been found that the morals of heathen Islanders are bettered by making them wear civilized clothes. We grow accustomed to everything imaginable in the way of attire and when tha habit of seeing a particular mode Is once established It ceases to exercise any moral effect whatever, We doubt whether persons habituated to ballrooms so much as glance twice at the display of women's charms usual in those places unless some ven. turesome beauty has gone to an ex treme. The Invisible is often more tempting than the visible. Readers of French literature remember the phrase In a classio novel, "II la derobait avee ses yeux," a process which is quite as possible through all the envelopes of the harem as through the thin waists Mr. Bok so much abhors, perhaps even more possible. It has been noticed that some of the most abandoned crea tures in the world are the most solici tous to be dressed with extreme mod esty in public We agree with Mr. Bok that mothers ought to dress their daughters with the greatest care in order to shield them from the wiles of the tempter, but it would be a mis fortune indeed if they should imagine that this covers the whole of their duty in the premises. WHO ARB THE BETTER SPORTSMEN? In its correspondence with Sir Thomas Llpton on the proposed yacht race, the New York Yacht Club has shown itself to be controlled by very poor sportsmen. The club Insists upon its own interpretation of the deed of gift of the America's cup. That is as good as to say that the captain of one team should umpire a baseball game. Were the New York yachtsmen game sportsmen, they would leave this to some impartial body. Sir Thomas Lipton maintains that the limitation of races to yachts be tween sixty-five and ninety feet long should be Interpreted to allow an agreement that the two yachts shall be of about the same length. The club insists that the deed of gift re quires that either boat may be any where between the two extremes. The club sacrifices the spirit which prompt ed the donors to the letter of their deed of gift. To a mere outsider Sir Thomas' Interpretation seems the fair er. The spirit which animated the donors Is shown by this clause, which was inserted In the deed in 1887 by George L. S. Schuyler, the last survivor of their number: Tha club challenging- for the oup and the club holding the iamt may by mutual con sent make any arrangement satiafactory to both ' aa to the dates, courses, number of trials, rules and sailing . regulations and any and all other conditions of the match, in which case also the ten months' notice may ba waived. The deed thus gives the widest lati tude in varying from its letter, but the club ignores this provision and stands on a technicality. Its position contrasts most unfavorably with that of Sir Thomas, who ignores the handicap of sailing his boat across 3000 miles of ocean and, undaunted by three defeats, comes up smiling, ready to try again. Whether he has the better yacht or not, public opinion will vote him the gamer sportsman. ' If Huerta may commit murder "in the interest of the public peace," why may not his nephew and all his ad herents? The example Huerta set by killing Madero and Suarez is infec tious. That system may produce "publlo peace," but would It be worth having at the price? Do not Imagine that, because the estimates of the number of dead In the flood are exaggerated, there is no need of relief. The dead are beyond our help, but hundreds of thousands of homeless, hungry, sick and unem ployed living need it. Even the most extensive and com plete system of storage reservoirs for flood waters could not have checked such a deluge as descended on Ohio and Indiana. When the floodgates of heaven are opened man can but flee to the hills. The rush for the Salem postmaster ship indicates that while the Demo cratic party may be short of available Ambassadors, the crop of office-seekers is by no means exhausted. The local police raided a poker game at which all the chips were piled In front of one man. No doubt, police interference was gratefully received by the other players. Expulsion of members of the Chi cago Board of Trade for cross trading suggests that the voice of public opin ion has been heard even there. Judge Tazwell warns chronic spec tators to keep out of his court. Efforts to give a pompous dignity to a police court must fail, however. In a drunken rage, Huerta's nephew had a firing squad kill an enemy for his amusement. Mexico Is rapidly be coming nearly as bad as New York. Four Washington men are in jail for defrauding Skagit County by duplicat ing wildcat skins for bounty. Reg ular skin game, that. The charitable and unselfish will give, even though their means be small, to the hapless sufferers of the flooded districts. The legislative appropriation crop in Washington has been damaged to the extent of 8480.000 by the gubernatorial veto blight. Cubist art has no curves. And the season is at hand when we will be in terested in little else than curves. Trout fishing becomes a favorite sport Tuesday. They still enjoy skat ing in less-favored sections. But this is no season to boast that you've gotten, through the Winter without catching cold. Who doesn't give to the flood suffer ers must be desperately hard up or hopelessly selfish. A Forest Grove cobbler has been sticking to his last for sixty-five years. Lasts well. SV'FFRAGB A POLITIC..!. PRIVILEGE It Does 'ot Give Womem Riajht to Dic tate aa to Blea'a Feraoaal Habits. MEDFORD, Or., March 25. (To the Editor.) I am sure that all the women in Oregon are not in sympathy with Mrs. A. E. Clarke. I, for one. think tbat her attitude in regard to the al leged Insult offered her when she called at the Council chamber in Port land makes all women appear ridicu lous. - Before -the election in November I was not in favor of suffrage. I asked ' no man to vote for it. Suffrage Is only a step In the evolution of the race and 1 did not think that we were yet ready for that step. Mrs. Clarke has proved this to be true. Women have prematurely forced themselves Into politics. They asked for equal rights; they asked to be put on an equal footing with men; they must not expect that the men are go ing to lay aside all their life-long hab its because- women have stepped off of tbelr pedestals and come down to vote. A woman may try to reform hex husband or her son. That is a personal privilege; the right to vote Is a po litical privilege and gives no man or woman the authority to dictate wbat anyone's personal habits are to be. I protest against these men of Ore gon, who smoked In the presence of ladles, being branded as ungentleman ly men. The majority of Oregon's men must be gentlemen, because they gave woman the privilege to vote. She did not have to fight for this privilege. She asked for it and It was given her In a gracious, dignified way. If the men were broad erougb td grant us women what we ai.ked for, let us be broad enough In return and put aside our petty Ideas and show these men of Oregon that we appreciate their courtesy and gallantry enough to use the privileges accorded us by the vote for some big purpose and not for petty, personal prejudices. Let us work with the men and not against them. Some writer says: "Good people, es pecially good women, do a lot of harm in this world, because they make so much evil out of badness." Smoking may be a bad habit, but surely not an evil one. At the worst It is only uncleanly to the one who does It. If a man can think, talk or work better while he Is smoking, iet him do (t. He can still be a gentleman. If women will step out of their sphere and encounter a smoky atmosphere, they should not complain. H. C. G. SOCIETY GETS GOOD RIDDANCE. Writer Thinks Home Destroyer Re ceives Just Draerta When Killed. PORTLAND, March 26. (To the Edi tor.) I read an article in The Ore gonlan entitled "When Women Sit in Judgment," and because it does not present both sides of the question squarely I wish to suggest a few words. While it Is admittedly true that so ciety is not as well balanced and as well regulated as it might be, the question is too large to discuss here. I wish to take issue with the young lady on the question of the so-called "Unwritten Law." It is true that Ralph Henry committed a crime which is for bidden under pain of punishment by positive law, but I believe the act was a benefit to society. Whenever a man will deliberately enter the home of another, under the guise of friend ship and then betray the trust reposed In him by assuming to cultivate af fections in derogation of the marital relation, he deserves what the gentle man In question received. The man who will encourage such action is the insane one and not the man who takes the law in his hands to prevent such action. It is not a question of equal right, and suffrage, but a part of our statute law tbat governs the relation between husband and wife. A husband does not even assume ownership of his wife when he tries to discourage such disgrace. The man who enters the domicile of another, seeks the affections of the wife and mother and causes a doubt as to the legitimacy of the offspring;, is not fit to live in civilized society. He tampers with a relation that is established by both moral and statute law. It requires two persons to make a contract, but, on the other hand, one can break it Should this one be a third party? I say no. Sometimes one party is to blame and sometimes the other, but more often both. The woman is not always the party who is deceived Into entering the contract of marriage. The writer of the article above re ferred to evidently has forgotten that equal rights of necessity bring equal responsibilities and burdens. The Im possibility of reforming the law of evidence would -appear more clearly to the writer of the article mentioned should she undertake a study of the law and see what lawyers and judges have to contend with day after day. L J. K. RACE PI HIT Y MI ST BE PRESERVED Time Is at Hand for Discrimination In Admission of Aliens. PORTLAND, March 27. (To the Edi tor.) God speed Mr. Wright's views on the Tace question. The time for indis criminate admittance of all varieties, classes and conditions of foreigners is past The fact that the country is big and strong and contains much vacant space is no good reason for lowering its standards or including elements that conflict with Its civilization or habits of life and conduct There are certain race instincts which it Is well enough to heed, the same as Individual ones. In fact they cannot be disre garded without danger, as the history of various nations shows. The cry of intolerance or prejudice shouldn't be allowed to stand in the way of protec tion or safeguarding of that which Is dearest or lies deepest to the heart of all the members of the white or Anglo Saxon race. Its purity and native moral strength or environment In order to secure this, a separation of the races is necessary, perhaps prov identially designed, at least within cer tain limits. Whatever social, political or other measures are necessary to the said separation should be put into ope ration, no matter who objects or where the kick comes from. J. K. STONER. Printing: Economy In Oregon, ALBANY, Or, March 25. (To the Editor.) I was astonished to read in The Oregonian today the statement and figures as to the cost of state printing in Oregon. I had heard it positively asserted that State Printer Duniway was making fabulous sums all the way from 860,000 to 8150,000 a year, and had been led to suppose he was do ing a lot of grafting until I read to day's paper. It surprises me to know that the gross amount paid him by the stare has been less than 840.000 a year. If that Is all it costs the state for its printing, out of which he pays his printers, pressmen, miscellaneous ex penses and furnishes plant and ma chinery, as well as his own services, why, the word 'moderate" is properly used In regard to the cost Having recently come from Califor nia, where the state owns Its own print ing plant and the cost of printing runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly for printing, I would be unable to believe an assertion that Oregon's state printer and his employes and plant were receiving only $40,000 a year gross were It not that you give the amounts In detail paid by the dif ferent boards, departments and Institu tions. I am glad you have printed the facts, as I believe in the "square deal." E. J. N. Overheard at the Theater. Life. Fussy Old Lady "I want two good seats for this afternoon in the coolest part of the house." Ticket Agent "All right, madam. here are two in Z row. j WHEN NORTH POLE BEGINS HIKING Writer Looks Forward to Excnralona and Diaeomfltuiw of Doe. Cook. WASCO, Or.. March 27. (To the Edl. tor.) In The Oregonian recently is to be found a prophecy of "Devlne Clara voyant" It seems to one who can only see things as they are today he has the sequence of hla prophecy wrong. It should have been stated something like this; A year or two after the world tiDs over, the Mexican government will voluntarily accept the American flag as their own. As regards the world tip pins; over and the North Pole landing where the equator" is now located, he leaves us in the dark as to whether it is to happen in one fell swoop or move gradually. The latter would be pre ferable for many reasons, chief of which would be to give the real estate men a chance to adjust themselves to the impending catastrophe. There is the whole Antarctlo continent which as soon as the snow and ice have meltel off, could be subdivided into wheat farms, and would undoubtedly become the granary of the world. And then, again, what a gigantic advertising schema it would be tor the railroads if the professor could deflnite lv inform them that the North Pole wilt move southward over the American continent at a rate, say, of- 100 miles a year. In six or seven years the Canadian Pacific could begin to offer excursion rates for sightseeing tours to the North Pole. Each of the Amerl can roads In their turn could do like wise, and Dr. Cook and PeaTy would no longer have a monopoly on the Pole. All of us could raise the price of a trip to Edmonton or Calgary when the Pols was due to arrive there. If these prophets could only bo in duced to make their statements more definite, more business-like, the world would be far happier. I. -DU-N.nu. Baby Baskets for Rural Mothers. SALEM, Or., March 28. (To the Ed itor.) In these Spring days, when nearly every one wants to get out in ,Ha onnahlnit mftDV mothers In the country are either developing a lethar gic patience wim existing ouhuhjuhd, or are decidedly out of patience with their lot The rural roads are In such a condition that baby buggies and go carts are perfectly useless as a means U L llbuiuuuuu, . . . - - j j- - are well-drained paths along roadsides which are wide enougn ior comionauie walking, but too narrow for any one of the so-called horseless carriages. So the rural mother of a small baby Is compelled to carry her baby In arms if she would go outside the walls of hef home. Any one who has tried this knows how the arms ache and the ben-At- th. nnHncr in more than bal anced by the exhaustion she experi ences on her return. Following this idea, the writer haa i t i molfirc nf n currier, nut of any material which seems to be suit able, to swing on tne snouiaers. mis is the way the Indian woman solves me of It the women have been grateful to near or it. .even me cny icuijio i. in, ih, RnnHnr afternoon walks In the by-paths of the' surround ing country. Carried further, the girls of the schools could make these baby in th, naulrot-wAa vinor classes where such subject is taught Or some enterprising worKer couia iaae up me malting or oasset oaoy carriers o ln.lhnn A nam llll-h AS the "Klickitat Baby Carrier" would lend a sort or romantic interest to me article. MUSA GEER. Invention of the Telegraph. Tinnrk prffmn Or March 26. (To the Editor. In 'Halleeks' History of English Literature, on page tnis statement is made: "The year of Vic toria's accession to the throne (1837) saw the operation of the first telegraph line In England." It is recorded in TTnt, otnfa Mintnrv that 8. F. B. Morse Invented the telegraph In 1844. Can these Ideas be harmonized? BADEN GIBSON. Th first commercial telegraph line in operation was between Paddlngton and Drayton, In England, In 1887, and was 18 miles in length. The date, 1844, giv en for the Morse invention is that of the Inauguration of the line between Washington and Baltimore. Morse, however, first conceived the Idea in 18.1S ana nubllclv exhibited his inven tion in 1887. While Morse is generally credited In America with invention or a practical telegraph the principles on which hia invention was based were discovered by Joseph Henry, a profes sor in Princeton College, wno experi mented in 1832 with a mile wire and a m&arnet which struck a bell. Experi ments in the use of electric current for signalling began as early as 1774. The crude methods of producing electricity at that time prevented its successful application. Sane View of Unwritten Law. PORTLAND, March 25. (To the Ed itor.) I wish to congratulate you on the uniform Btrength and fairness of your editorials. It seems to me that the position you take on "the unwrit ten law" Is the only sane one that any man or woman In our country could I think Kuth Vernon Mayne in The Oregonian, Monday, struck the key note. I also wisn to compliment you on your fairness, usually, in dealing with the political questions of the day and the politicians. I am a Democrat, but have read The Oregonian contin uously for the two years I have been in Portland, and feel there are few newspapers In this country that have stronger and fairer editorial columns than The Oregonian. A. HOWARD YOUNG. 16634 East Thirteenth Street. Nothing ever published by a news paper has made so universal an appeal. nas aitracieu bo piucdihwhi l as will the forthcoming CHAPTERS OF A POSSIBLE AUTOBIOGRAPHY By COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT which -will be published every week in THE OREGONIAN Beginning; Sunday These chapters will be published by special arrangement with The Outlook, of which Theodore Roosevelt Is the con tributing; editor. The first article deals with incidents of Roosevelt's boyhood days and is illustrated by new and striking photographs. Love and Lying An attractive page on domestic felicity, by Laura Jean Libbey. Tong Wars They are mainly fakes, says expert, although Port land's is a real one. Save Your Furs There is a scarcity of them and the price is soar ing upward, reports The Oregonian 's Paris correspondent. Aeroplanes to Guard Forests Heliographs and air craft will be used during 1913 to prevent destructive forest fires in our great Na tional reserves. . Wanted, a Bismarck Europe is short of big men to handle a deli cate problem. The Drama in 1913 Charles Frohman takes a glance into the distant future. An Array of Other Features. Order today of your newsdealer. Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonl&n of March 2a, 1SSS. Salem. March 28. Last evening fire broke out in the upper story of the Eu reka Hotel at Perrydale, Polk County, and soon enveloped the entire building. The hotel, furniture store, machine shop and grocery store near by burned to the ground. San Francisco, March 2S. C. P. Huntington this evening said he did not think the Southern Pacific would build any road In Oregon Just at pres ent. Mason Hall was alive with delegates to the Prohibition state convention yesterday. The Democrats of Multnomah County began a convention yesterday at Third and Alder streets. For tem porary chairman F. A. E. Starr was victorious over Judtre Aaron E. Waite. M., G. Munly was chosen secretary and H. W. Cushing assistant secretary. Deletrates to the state convention were elected by ballot as follows: Charles Fernan, O. P. Lent, B. L Norden, C. C. Scott. J. L. Sperry, D. B. Murphy. M. E. Freeman, E. D. McKee. George Roberts, J. H. Steffen, E. C. Protzman. E. Meyer, J. H. Kelly, H. C. Myers. T. M. Richard son. F. A. Starr. M. G. Munly. The delegates were Instructed to vote for the renomlnatlon of Cleveland. There was a meeting of the East Portland Democratic Club In Hall .& Stott's hall last night presided over by George McD. Stroud. John Myers, Fred Kindorf, George Wigg, A. C-. Psrrott and John Wolf were elected s the executive committee. F. A. E. Starr, Mr. Edwards, of Powell Valley, and J. B. Kelly addressed the club. The Holladay Hotel building has been leased by Mrs. Allen. Colonel C. F. Beebe, of the First Regiment, Oregon National Guard, has accepted the resignation of Captain Frank G. Abell. of Company A. First Lieutenant A. B. McAlpln is prom-, inently mentioned as his successor. Half a Century From Tha Oregonian of March 80, 18S3. Mr. John Wright has got the con tract for carrying the mails on Puget Sound from Olympla to Victoria for $20,000 a year, making weekly trips and stopping at all the wayports. The steamer Eliza Anderson is to begin this service today. Washington, March 18. Rebel pris oners report that six or eight gun boats passed Fort Sumpter on Mon day and on Tuesday Charleston was being bombarded. Sacramento, March 19- A disgrace ful Bcene took plaoe in the Senate Chamber this afternoon while the Cap itol bill was being discussed. The Speaker called for order. Perkins In sisted on the bill being further dis cussed. The chair ordered Perkins to sit down: he refused and the ser-geant-at-arms was ordered to arrest him. Perkins showed fight Several of the Senators went to the assistance of the sergeant-at-arms and one or two helped Perkins. He was finally carried out of the chamber. The play of the great prose tragedy. "Metamora," was very well played on Saturday evening. Mr. Waldron, as Metamora, received many plaudits, while Mrs. Waldron, Mr. Thayer, Mr. Mortimer and Miss Sue Malleck sus tained their parts well. We were favored with a visit last evening from our excellent friend, Mr. Samuel Brown, of Belpassi, who is at the Pioneer Hotel. Mr. Brown is on his way to the Cariboo country. President Wilson and Chlneae Loan. i,TTMir -vk-wwom WbrIi March 25. mvum ' - " (To the Editor.) I think President Wilson is right In declining to partici pate In the bankers' arrangements for a loan to China, which might some day oblige us to make another trip to Pe king with the allied powers. Uncle Sam does not object to tha American and European bank syndicate loaning money to China, but declines to become "indorser on the note" or" dictate the conditions of the loan. The bankers want to make the loan, but want their governments to back them in dictating the manner of ex penditure, with a mortgage on the cus toms revenue, which no self-respectinR nation is expected to submit to. Tha day of administrators and receivers la passed, with China at least The Mon roe Doctrine doesn't extend that far, and we do not desire to assume any re sponsibilities in that realm. It la in,i tnn that Mr. Bryan is cor rect in surmizing that China will be grateful for our non-intenereuoB these financial negotiations. , trat thn RlflTlfiV. but til bankers will have to make their own arrangements without any "urging from the State .Department. JAMES POWER. Letter From General Logan, PORTLAND, Or., March 27. (To the v th.,,1 a lAtiAr ha of anv value that was written by General John A. Logan in tne year isou i MRS,, NEL; CLEVELAND. Letters written by departed great , ...nkllaha pnmmniiltv men are ovi -Ll of barter. Their value depends upon i , 1 1 htotni-lf-nl aactetles tne w u i infs 11-. no 7 . or collectors to pay the price at which the owner Is willing to sell, and such price naturally would vary according . ... ii. 1 .... , I a c f nt thA tfXt. to tne iiiHiuiinj i- v. 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