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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1913)
n THE HORNING OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY. APRIL 3, 1913. medford's mayor gives up fight Eifert Turns Over Government Reins to Restore Har mony in City. WAR OF 3 MONTHS PASSES "I Haven't the Means Sor Physical Strength to Continue Contest," Say Executive as He Quits In Council Meeting. MEDFORD. Or, April S. (Special.) Worn out by the continual oppoaltion of the City Council Mayor Eifert. after a. conference with a cltlsens' committee, rave up the fight and turned over the city government to the Councllmen to night. "I haven't the means nor the physical strength to carry on the fight longer." said the Mayor. I am through. The four members of the City Council who have opposed me throughout are now the city government. I give my appoin tive power to them. My only hope Is that this move will restore harmony in municipal affairs." The Councllmen proceeded to orrer the names of J E. Runyard for city market master and V. L. Arnspiger for city engineer. The Mayor appointed these men and they were confirmed by the Council. The members of the Council asked the Mayor to make other appointments put he declined. The appointment of City Attorney will be made as soon as the Councllmen select their men. This terminates three-months' fight between the Mayor and the City Council which has dis rupted local affairs since the first of the year. correct one In Its place in time to pre vent the result. The finger persists in Its course in defiance of Its owner's will, finds the key to which be had originally directed It. and prints the ob have been preserved, not one of them noxious letter In spite of him. This is one of the commonest and most sur prising of his experiences. It is also one of the most interesting from a psychological point of view. But the psychological result Is not the only one accruing from this proc ess. The verbal product Is also strik ing and significant. Along with all this irregular and seemingly haphazard mental action, there emerges an origi nal vocabulary, surprisingly copious and Interesting. The typewriter Is a prolific creator of new words. Besides the frequent substitution of one regu lar dictionary word for another, and the production of confused combinations that are not words at all. It turns out a multitude of words that are well formed, pronounceable, and even eu phonious, but which no lexicographer ever heard of. The writer has for many years been in the babtt of setting down these machine-made words, as they spelled themselves out under his eyes, until there has accumulated a .vocabulary large enough to furnish some new born nation with the nucleus of a lan guage. From between 200 and 300 that DELAY SIS SOUTH Investigation of Forestry Serv ' ice May Be Demanded. MILLIONS ARE AVAILABLE Lands In Appalachian Chain Tied Cp by Options but Xo Pare bases Are Made Western Men Join in Citing Inquiry. OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. April 1. A Senatorial investi gation of the Forest Service may be undertaken soon after Congress con- BENEFIT FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS WILL BE GIVEN NEXT SUNDAY NIGHT. RADIUM WILL BE CHEAPER Process Will Help Industry and Medicine Especially. London Cor. New Tork Times. If the promises of scientists are ful filled, radium, the market price of which Is now S.I.OOO.Ooo a pound, will soon be produced In large quantities on a commercial scale. An Anglo-French company, capital zed at f 1.000.000. has been formed for the purpose of taking over the ouih Terras mines. In Cornwall, which havs. hitherto been worked for Iron and tit:. Heaps of supposed worthless debris have been deposited on high dumps, and an analysis of these dumps has re vealed the fact that they are rich In pitchblende, from which radium is ex tracted. Mmr. Curie. Professor Jean Ianv.HX. of the Faculte de Sciences of Parts; Professor Jacques d'Anne, for merly chief of staff of Professor Curie, and Professor July, of Dublin Uni versity, have reported on the mine, which, according to their opinion, may prove tn be the richest of the kind In the world. Of the loose ore in the galleries and on the dumpa are some 17.000 tons, ready for shipment to France, where a TeJurtlon plant for their treatment is being erected, and it is estimated that It contains SO. 000 milligrammes of radium of the, gross value of IS.KOO.OOO. This estimate does not Include the ore in the lower depths of the mine still un mined, which is believed to ex ceed tn value the ore already mined. The world's supply of radium Is now 32 grammes. It is announced that con tinental bankers and British engineers have subscribed the capital for the working by a new process, invented by Professor Krich Ebier, of Heidelberg University, by whom the costly method of producing radium has been revolu tionized. Large quantities of Austrian and Portuguese radio-active, minerals are controlled by the corporation, which will, by the new process. It Is said, re duce radium to a price rendering It possible to employ It for industrial, medicinal and therapeutical purposes. Jt is further stated that the Austrian government la interested in the enter prise. In reference to the claims of the company, which is exploiting the South Terras mine, the Statist Issues a note of warning and points out that for 20 years intermittent attempts have been made to induce the public to buy shares in a series of companies formed for the purpose of working the mine, and have hitherto met with failure. The Statist asserts that the savants are losing their heads over the affair by permitting their opinions to be used as certainties. AUTOMATIC WORD -MAKER When Wrong Keys of a Typewriter Are Struck. Scientific American. The blunders of an inexpert type writer, regarded as blunders merely, do not at first sight offer much scope for agreeable meditation, either to their perpetrator or to other people. But regarded as phenomena, physical and mental, they are found to be not only interesting matter for study, but valuable contributions to science and scholarship. For, Instead of being merely accidents of careless or awk ward fingers, they are really the prod uct of psychological law. and the ere ators of a new vocabularly. There Is. for Instance, the propensity to write a letter twice over. The finger receives an order to touch a certain key called for; like the genial conver ter of whom Emerson speaks, who, when he said a good thing, straight way says It over again. A modification of the same action la that of following a capital with the corresponding small letter, as Ccork. Itrome. (me wonders If Aaron. Lloyd and their like have originated in an analogous way. Again, when a double letter is called for, the order often seems to have been misunderstood, and the wrong letter Is doubled, as lokk for look, or faal for fall. Still more singular is the tendency to anticipate la one word a letter belong ing In the next, as lask week for last week. Tat most surprising and amusing ef fects of all are those produced with machine having shift-keys" for capi tals and figure, when one pushes the wrong lever, and having rattled off what he believed to be the word EDU CATION, see In Its place JI7TiS. or. intending to date a letter 1910. reads In all these blunders except the last it Is easy to detect the principle of the time-element In volition. The operator usually foresees the mistake before it Is nude, but is unable to prevent It. He know that he has directed the fin ger toward the wrong key: but he Is unable to recall the order and Issue the Ws'S Tit.' V- i?J TV- Three Lectures on Grand Opera Thais,- Jewels of Madonna, Etc., in Musical and Explanatory Recital at Eilers Music HalL Mrs. Charlotte Curtis, whose bril liantly Interesting lecture work has been accorded such enthusiastic sup port in the past, has arranged for three explanatory grano. opera even ings in Eilers Recital Hall. Admission will be free, but in order to prevent over-crowding admission tickets must be secured in Eilers Music House sales department or cashier's desk, any time during business hours tomorrow. Fri day evening promptly at 8 o'clock the opera "Thais" will be given, with re production of Mary Garden and nu merous other artists' voices on the modern phonograph, with musical ac companiments by means of the modern music rolls on the Autoplano. The psychological side of the inces sant warfare between good and evil Illustrated In the fundamental theory of Massenet's beautiful music and in the story of Anatole France will be Il lustrated and the descriptive interpre tation of the music will be analyzed. Following this recital, on Saturday night "Hansel and Gretel" and also the "Tales of Hoffman" will be treated and illustrated in the same manner and on the following Monday night "The Jewels of the Madonna," with also a short reference to "Lucia di Lammermoor" at the same time, bring ing out the superb records of the glo rious Tetraxzini, will be given. Positively no admission without tickets. These tickets are free. Ap ply at - once at sales department or cashier's desk. Eilers Music House. An entertainment for the benefit of the flood sufferers of Indiana and Ohio will be given at the Uelllg Theater next Sunday night, under the auspices of Madame Donna Malott and Madame von Brown. Many of the stars appear ing at the theaters this week will take part in the performance. "Those Clever Kiddles," now playing at the Lyric; Irene Dale, now at the Globe; Edna Tcndelton, "The Dainty Song Bi rd": Paddock and Paddock, now at the Empress; the varsity team, from the Empress; McKlnley. "The Fool for Fun"; Ed Gray. Pantages comedian: Lloyd and Black. "The Entertaining Entertain ers." now at the Pantages; Billy Conlln. tenor soloist; Violet Johnston, 4 years old: "A Little Bit of Sweetness." Margaret Iteynolds; "A Treat in Rag time.": Margueretta D'Auria will sing the "Flower Song." from "Faust." in Italian: Francis White and chorus, from the Lyric: Honora Hamilton, "Our Own Prima Donna." at the Lyric; Reese Gardner, who Is now at the Lyric; Hortense Travers and George M. Perkins will give a sketch of "Matrimonial Troubles." Intentionally produced, the following 100 will serve as examples: able rira hrt neen soem acllce dlnf huse nrwa sporn af -fsf tr nlva stry ararra pmi M ontl slant; ana rw It ot stoet ins fTly linpuso ovs-t susa SKire fin IntI parton n aspa first JM psrsol thar attan flrtt klnt poan trrm bak flrt kep prlvare fruit beail filng l-a.-e ract ud barren nt llbaim rpor lird borne Iron lokk The vety cance rollen lond ruler H clre jrouni mint savoor wain conae grear mti scrim wawr ere Itarf mlnf pvind whld dat hald niosy syrinx whlx uepene baet niu shoy ont dvllture hela ned siue yoy This Is but part of the product of a single typewriter, not very constantly used. Every one of the words and bun. drcds besides, were absolutely acci dental. Many of them were produced several times over, trem seven times, and Id and Ir five times each. Could we add to the list the product ot the myriads of other machines, each, no doubt, despite the skill of the most ex pert operators, more or less proline or similar creations, we snouio. nave ma terial for a new unabridged dictionary and a new language. A machine for the production of a set of new Ideas to fit these unappropriated terms Is next in order. CHOOSING WALLPAPER. Henpecked Husband Has Trouble In lieaching Artistic Sense. London Tit-Bits. With an apologetic air the worried man who had been gaxlng in the deco rator's windows finally entered and asked to see samples ofwall papers. 'About what price?" asked the shop man. 'Eighteen pence a roll, said the man. "My wife won't pay any more. 'Well." said the assistant, taking down a roll, "here is something in light colors that "Oh. no. that won't do. Wj wife says the children get light-colored pa per soiled too quickly. "Here is something In a darker shade with " "That won't do at alL My wife wouldn't like that because it makes the room too dark." "Here is a design in a medium tone ' "I'm afraid not," said the man nerv ously. "That has a small pattern, and my wife says small patterns are always monotonous." "Then how about this?" said the as slstant. wearily, "with the big roses in It and the "I'm afraid that wouldn't please my wife." was the answer. "She thinks the room Is too small for large pat terns." "We have a very pretty pattern done in a conventionalized "Oh. please don't say that." begged the man. "My wife told me particu larly not to get anything of that kind, She thinks they are too dead looking." "In that case." said the assistant des- peratelv. "we have the very thing. Me dium background, with small flowers sprinkled on It In neutral colors, alto gether a very "I'm afraid that Is hardly it." said the man. looking more worried than ever. "My wife says flowers on wall paper never look like anything but smudges. "Then." said the assistant, rolling up his stock, "you don't want wall paper. You want a divorce." CHARTER TITLE PREPARED City Attorney Writes Caption for Ballot on Commission form. City Attorney Grant yesterday pre pared the title to the proposed new commission charter as it will be print ed on the official ballot at the special election May i. It is as follows: An act to amend and reneraiiy revise the etiy charter br providing a commission form of sovrrnment, vesting all legislative power la a Council constating of a Mavor aad four Commissioners, distributing the executive auslness among five departments. the Mayor or a Commissioner being at the head of each department; abolishing ward representation, providing that the Mayor, Commissioners and Auditor shall be elected, all other officers to be appointed. hall the present charter of the City of Portland be amended by providing for a COBunlauOB form of government s venes In special session if Senator Overman, of North Carolina, adheres to the purpose he now has in mind. Such an investigation. It Is shown, can be made without In any way interfer ing with the consideration of the tariff bill, for the Senate will have little to occupy its time the first month. It may seem strange that a Southern Senator should propose an Investiga tion of the Forest Service, but it is not so strange as appears at first glance. Two years ago Congress authorized the purchase of lands in the Appalachian Mountains, with a view to creating a forest reserve extending the length and breadth of that range. Several million dollars have been avail able all this time for acquiring private timber lands in the Appalachians, and yet practically no lands have yet been bought by the Government. It is out of this delay that the investigation promises to grow. South Vexed by Delay. North Carolina and other Southern states are interested In this proposed reserve, for it will run across them, from north to south, following the mountain range, and millions of acres of Southern lands ultimately will be acquired by the Government. The fact that the Government, with ample money on hand, has made practically no pur chases, though it has expended many thousands of dollars in timber cruises, surveys and estimates, has aroused the ire of Southern Senators, and they do not like the dilatory methods' thus dis closed. Senator Overman has been advised that the delay in acquiring lands for the Appalachian reserve has been due to the Inability of the Forest Service to make satisfactory bargains with private land owners. He has been in formed furthermore that this delay is due primarily to the fact that the Forest Service sent Inexperienced and incompetent men to make timber cruises, and because of their inefficiency It was necessary in many cases to have reappraisals made. During all this time, the lands sought by the Government have been tied up by options; the own ers have been unable to cut their tim ber, or to sell to other parties, and the Government has never bought their land. Land Owners Are Protesting. After two years of dillydallying these land owners have protested, and Sena tor Overman Is inclined to think they have some ground for complaint. At any rate, he wants a Congressional In vestigation, and one started, is dis posed to go thoroughly into the Forest Service to find out Just how it is run. Since the North Carolina Senator began to talk of a Senatorial investi gation be has received from various sources all manner of complaints against the Forest Service, and almost Innumerable suggestions have been made as to how and wherein the serv ice should be probed. Some of these complaints have come from Western men In Congress, who would be glad to have the investigation undertaken, and the probability Is that one of the first resolutions Introduced will De ny sens tor Overman proposing a thorough In vestigation of the service. ACROSS SEAJN ONE DAY Aviator to Make Trans-Ocean Trip In. Seven-Passenger Aeroplane. London Cor. Chicago Record-Herald. Details concerning the plan of Claude Grahame-Whlte to fly across the Atlantic are at hand. The popular British aviator proposes to attempt this remarkable flight next year. Ac cording to his calculations the trip can be made In 30 hours. Plans for the trip are nearly com plete. A large hydro-aeroplane driven bv four enginea of 50 horsepower each is being designed for the journey. A smaller machine, driven by four 35 horsepower engines, has been con structed for experimental nignts. Trials will be made with the larger machine, which, it is estimated, will be capable of a speed of 100 miles an hour. "Nothing; is impossible in aviation," said Mr. Grahame-Whlte in outlining his scheme. "I am confident the jour ney can be accomplished. "I propose to carry six persons two pilots, two mechanics and two passen gers. One man, who is anxious to ac company me. has already made a hand some offer. "The machine will be constructed at Hendon. "I bop to land in New Tork Harbor, and doubtless our appearance there will cause some surprise. Such a flight has been talked about a good deal in the world of aviation, and I may say that for me it has a great attraction. "When you consider the wonderful strides which have been made in the art of aviation during the last two or three years and the potentialities of the aeroplane, a flight to America in less than two days Is within the bounds of possibility. Indeed, in an other 10 or 15 years the journey by air may well be accomplished in 15 hours. "I estimate the experiment will cost 15,000 to 20,000. The quantity of pet rol which we shall use, for Instance, will be enormous. "The engines will be larger than any ever designed, and I anticipate some difficulty In obtaining them. "It Is. of course, highly important that for the gTeater part of the jour ney they should, be reliable and effi cient. We shall be able to dispense with one of them (should it fall us) on the last part of the Journey, because the aeroplane will be lighter owing to tlie expenditure of fuel. "No provision will be made for boats along the track. Such assistance will be unnecessary, for even if we come down on the ocean we shall be able to keep afloat and also to rise again. "We shall endeavor to keep in touch with liners, which will be'able to ob tain for us by wireless information as to the state of the weather ahead." STUDENTS TO VISIT PAPERS Agricultural College Paper Plan Trip to Portland. Staff OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis, Or.. April 2. (Special.) The management of the Oregon Agricultural College Barometer has completed ar rangements for giving the staff of co workers a complimentary trip to Port land on Saturday, April 12, for the pur pose of visiting the plants of big news papers and studying their operation. According to present plans the Barom eter staff will leave Corvallis on the 6:30 car Saturday morning, arriving in Portland in time for luncheon. Students expecting to make the trip are R. B. Thompson, Portland, editor- in-chief; Misses Delia Purves, Seattle, Wash, and Mildred Soden, Portland A, F. Mason, Pasadena, Cal.; E. C. Brownlee. Auga Callente, New Mexico Lynn Cronemiller, Lakeview; F. E. Neer, Pasadena, CaL; Oliver B. Hayes, Pasadena, CaL; Otto Ballhorn, Ham mond, Wash.; J. L. Taylor. Portland; K. L. Fox, Portland: C H. Cooper, Cor vallis; . E. W. Curtis, Clarement, Cal. manager, and L. J. Allen, Cove, as slstant. TRAINS COLLIDE HEAD ON Most of Killed and Injured in Wreck Arc in Smoking Car. SHERIDAX. Wyo.. April I. Two men were killed and one fatally hurt and seven others badly injured this after noon when two Burlington passenger trains collided head on at Wakely, five miles east of here. The dead are: Walter Taylor, Sheri dan, route agent for the Adams Ex press Company, and "Bump Mobbery, of Tacoma, ash. J. C. Page, of Walla Walla, Wash., INTENSE ITCHING ID BURNING Scratching Made Sores. Could Not Sleep, UsedTwoCakesofCuticura Soap and Two Boxes of Cuticura Ointment. Now Rid of Trouble. R. F. D. No. 2, Tawas City, Mica. "My skin trouble irma brought on while I was in tba amy, by fever and ague. ' I earns on my body la a form of dead akin, than tba itching and burning ware intense, and I would scratch, and make sons. One year ago this winter I was so bad I could not steep, had to get out of bed every hour at the night, build a fire, heat water and take a bath before I could get any rest, "I washed with hot water, washed off the dead skin, thea put an the Cuticura Soap, dried with a towel and than put oa the Cuti cura OmtZBent, I used two cakes of Cuti cura Boap and two boxes of Cuticura Oint ment and I was rid of the trouble and now I can sleep and rest." (Signed) . L. price, June 14. 1813. Not only are Cotioura Boap and Ointment most valuable In the tnasment of -and other illin im ilnu eruptions of skin and scalp, but no other xnolUents do so much for pimples, Nars-heafls, red. rough skins. Itching, scaly sasips, dandruff, dry, tain and falling hair, chapped hands and shapeless naus, nor do It so ecorosnlcaUy. A single eaka of Outleura Soap (3oc) and box of Cuticura Oiatment (50c) are often srracient when an also has failed. Bold throughout the world. Liberal asm pis of each mailed fraa. with 3-p. Blda Book. Address post card "Cuticura. Dept. T. Beaton." OT"Tendar-facad man should ass CuUcuia Boap Bhavtng Stick. 39c Bampla free. Portland's Foremost Specialty Garment Store" Checks Are More the age Than Ever! A Feature Display This week of Smart Checked Suits, Coats, Dresses, Skirts and Waists. THE natty black-and-white checks return to favor as regularly as Spring rolls around, but never have they been'in such vogue as this season! Those returning from New York say it seems nearly every other woman you see on Fifth Avenue and Broad way wears a checked garment. Our display of smart popular-priced Suits. Coats, Dresses, Skirts and Waists in the shepherd, the diamond and broken checks, is not surpassed in Portland, we believe. See our "stunning" window dis play. Come let us show you the garments today. Checked Suits Semi-fancy, Norfolk, Balkan and plain tailored models. Special val ues at $17.50, $19.50, $23.50, $24.75 and up Checked Coats v including the short Norfolks, the charming three-quarter cutaways, trimmed in black satin and new, bright colors $12.50, $14.75, 17.50, $19.50 and up. Checked Dresses retching models at $13.50, $16.50 and $19.50. Checked Skirts Checked Waists New girdle top and belt ed styles, at $7.50 and 75. Newest Millinery Fashions la sr ka -1- M WW Z7e- Accordion jjlaiteo: chif fons, with checked sail or collars. front and cuffs, at .50 was among the injured. His right foot was mashed. The smokine car on the eastbouna train was telescoped completely, and It was here that practically all ot me dead and Injured were found. WHAT IS 'SOLID GOLD?" Degree of Fineness of Alloy Should Be Shown on All Articles. New Tork cor. Cincinnati Times-Star. I was very much astonished at a few things which a Fifth avenue Jew eler told me the other day about arti cles manufactured from gold and the marks which are placed upon them. "There should be a law making it a crime to use any other mark than one which shows the fineness of gold arti cles," said he. "People accept the solid gold' mark as quite the equiva lent of the "14-carat or even the '18 caraf mark. But It doesn't mean the same thing at all. As no law covers the use of the mark, many manufactur ers put it on articles of 8-carat, 6 carat or ex-en 4-carat fineness. And, in the matter of real value in the trade, no article is considered as 'gold'- if the alloy from which It is made is of less than 10-carat fineness 'The riprht to use such marks as 'solid gold,' 'pure gold' and Just merely gold,' instead of the legitimate mark, which shows the proportion ot gold in the alloy, opens the way to all sorts of fraud and deception. I have heard that a measure is to be Introduced into the next Congress, forbidding the use of the word 'gold' in stamping any article, unless with the word 'gold' there is an accompanying mark show ing the degree of tineness of the alloy." The quiet air of refinement and perfect service of the Imperial Grill dinners and after-theater suppers is found no where else except in the occasional European inn referred to in your Baedeker's. Luncheon Fifty Cents lalmer: "A Dependable Self-Starter" Two years satisfactory use on thousands of Chalmers cars has proved the Chalmers self-starter dependable. Operating by compressed air a well-understood, widely used principle in mechanics the Chalmers starter is the simplest made. An air pump, a storage tank and a button to push that's practically all there is to it. It contains no complicated parts; practically nothing to get out of order. It should require no attention except occasional oiling. It can be readily understood by anyone. There is nothing costly to be replaced in case of accident. And the proof of the merit of the Chalmers self-starter is simply this: It starts. In cold weather, in warm weather, when the motor is hot and when it's cold. You can count on it. , Besides. the self-starter, the Chalmers cars have all the other up-to-date motoring conveniences electric lights, demountable rims, four-forward speed transmission, car buretor dash adjustment, Turkish cushions, 11-inch upholstery. " And built into every part you will find Chalmers quality the result of Chalmers manufacturing methods. mcnogmm en 0,0 jjQi us show you the Chalmers cars, iiet us demonstrate radiator jtsntu frail , , jmaaaikmia tQ vou the Chalmers self -starter. Please telephone or call H. L. Keats Auto Co. 341-347 Burmide St, Portland, Or.