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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY. MAY 1, 1913- 10 PORTLAND. OHJEGOX. Entered at Portland, Oreaon. Poatotrle, a cond-clae matter. Subscription Kate Invariably III Aavaae: (BT MAIL) . ... . nn pally. Sanaa? inciuaeo. on jr Dally, Sunday Included, alx month ... . iJaliy. tundr Included, three month,. . Dally. Sunday included, one month .... .T Daily, without Sunday, one year m i Xiaiiy, without Sunday, six month ... Dally, without Sunday, three mon'.a .. Dally, without Sunday, one month .... Weekly, one year J-J) Sunday, one year..... buaday and Meetly, one year.. -- Dally. Sunday included, on year...... ."" Dally. Sunday included, one month..... ww - w. t. . i i.yu. mnnAV Or der. expreaa order or peraonal check on your local bank. Stamp, coin or currency are at the aender riek. Gin poetofflc addreaa in full, including county and alate. foetaxe Kate Ten to 14 pace. 1 cast le to 2s pa-re. Z cent; SO to 40 P eenu: 40 to 60 pace. cent. Forla poilace. double rata. . ta fcaatern Buiinea OffVre Verree at Con;. In. New YorK. Brunswick building. cio, bcecer bulldlne. ban teu OflW R. J. Bldwell Co.. 112 Market treC European OOkce No. a Recent trt n. W ., London. . POKTLAXO, THURSDAY. MAT it 1Bli- LAJfD CBAJfT FORFEITED. Judge Wolverton's decision forfeit ing the Southern Pacific land grant was almost a foregone conclusion, but It cannot become effective until It has been finally confirmed by the United States Supreme Court. In the mean time no disposition of the land can be made. The Southern Pacific's title la now so clouded that It could find no buyers, even though It complied strictly with the terms of the grant. The Gov. ernment can do nothing until the grant is finally annulled and until Congress has provided by legislation for the disposal of the land. The decision Is assurance that In not less than two years the way will have been cleared for raising the embargo on the devel opment of Southern Oregon, but how this will be done remains to be decided. It Is necessary to lay stress on these facts because many persons have been deluded Into the belief that by settling on tracts in the land grant or Dy making a tender of the legal price to the railroad, they have established a prior claim to purchase whenever the forfeiture Is confirmed. They have established nothing, but have simply thrown away their money. Forfeiture of the grant will rescind all its condi tions and will restore the land to the public domain, but not render it open to settlement under any of the general land laws. The courts can only declare that the Government, not the railroad, is the owner. They cannot declare on what terms it may be purchased from the Government; Congress alone can do that. Men who pay $200 to $250 apiece to lawyers and land locaters are buying a mere shoestring. Let them take warning and keep their money. The decision is Important as a Judi cial determination that the greatest corporations, like the poorest Indi vidual, must keep faith with the Gov ernment. When they acquire land from the Government, they must com ply with ' the terms of the grant or give back the land. The homesteader cannot get a patent without improving his claim and standing the fire of a special agent's inquiry and a land office hearing. The railroad stands on the same footing. It has the money to fight a lawsuit through to the high est court, but the Government Is equally ready and able to fight, and will do so. The decision means that there Is to be an end of deals between the people and corporations wherein the people live up to their side of the bargain and the corporations Ignore theirs. 4 It has been freely predicted that the forfeited land, being mostly timbered, will be added to the National forests and that there will be little. If any. left available for agriculture. This is by no means certain. Congress during the Roosevelt administration passed a law forbidding any further additions to the National forests without specific enactment. Congress ha9 shown in creasing reluctance to pass such laws. Much of the timbered grant land, being in the valleys and near the railroads, will be admirably adapted for farming when cleared. Such land may be turned over to the Forestry Bureau with orders to sell the timber without delay. It may then be thrown open to homesteading. The West will not consent to the legislative sanction of the Land Office's new classification of some land as "timbered homesteads" and to such land being withheld from settlement on that pretext. It would probably agree to the harvesting of the timber by the Government before agricultural settlers are admitted. That course would accord with the pol ler of conservation which carries with it the development of the country. WHY OIKLS GO WROXO. Committees of various sorts have of late been busy investigating, associa tions and societies of various sorts have fceen endeavoring to determine and philanthropists and humanitarians have been trying to discover why girls go -wrong. Perhaps it would be more proper to say they are trying to sift out the principal cause; for, disguise the fact as we may, silver coat the crude truth as best we can, the fact Is that many of those who are treading the primrose path -were drawn down through their innate passions. Wheth er this came through some pre-natal causa over which science can exercise control is another question. We simply know that in these cases pas sion held sway and the fall followed. In all of the Investigations made and the reports published it seems that one great cause why the ranks of the fallen are so swiftly augmented has been overlooked, and that is ill-advised marriages. Any candid Investigator will find that a very large percentage of those who thread the great white way have stood before the altar and promised some man to love, honor and obey. Which brings us to the sad fact that after all is said and done the par ents, and principally the mothers of the fallen, must take a large share of the responsibility for the downfall of their daughters. These mothers have not Intended to do so. There Is not one mother in a million who could for a moment think of her own daughter going wrong without suffering severest pangs. It is done unwittingly, perhaps through inculcating love for finery, perhaps by permitting association with undesirable companions, or in with holding words of counsel these are common aids to the downfall of our young women. On the other hand, there are moth ers who go to the opposite extreme and deny their daughters such raiment as they can afford, others who keep them housed against all companion ship and society, hold them In Ignor ance of such joys and pleasures as girls rationally need, and In the end usually will have, even at the cost of honor. So in the Investigations of under- nav and overliving and unfit abodes, suppose we go a step further and see what share of responsibility the par ents have had, are constantly having. In the downfall of their daughters. This is not a pleasant phase of an nn nlnasant subiect. But it is not an in dictment of the average mother or father. It Is a mere statement or ract which cannot be denied, and a hint that to get at the root of the evil, we should, through our best workers, reach the homes of those who are not treating their daughters 'rationally. BRYAN'S MISSION FRUITLESS. Having gone to California to plead with that state not to embarrass the Government in its relations with Japan, Secretary of State Bryan has found his mission has proved the fail ure which was to be expected. Repre senting the whole Nation, he weakly begged one of its forty-seven units not to cause trouble, admitting Its perfect right to do as It pleased In the Japan ese question. His action resembles that of the teacher who says to the ob. streperous boy, "Please be good." This Is the humiliating position to which the Federal Government has been reduced by President Wilson's adherence to the long-since exploded state rights doctrine. Our relations with foreign nations are by this doc trine rendered subject to disturbance by the freak legislation of any state. To the protests of Japan Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan can but return the Im potent reply: "We can't help it." An drew Jackson, whose name Democrats love to link with that of Jefferson as the Ideal Democrat, did not play so pusillanimous a role when South Caro lina defied the Government. The new version of the alien land bill Is more offensive than the orig inal through its attempt at deception by change of phraseology and through its pretended scrupulous respect for treaty rights. The bill is still admit tedly aimed at the Japanese: mere verbal changes cannot hide that pur pose. No other state has a law thus aimed at a single nation which has not long since become obsolete through ago and non-enforcement. The Cali fornia pretense that Its bill Is on all fours with those of other states forbid ding any aliens without distinction of nationality to hold land is too hollow to deceive a schoolboy. The show of respect for rights guaranteed by exist. lng treaties Is by implication a denial of the Government's power to make new treaties enlarging those rights. If the President wishes to assert the supreme authority of the Nation and to show California that it cannot light ly flout the Federal power and dis turb international relations because of the phantom danger of 45,000 Japan ese among 2,500,000 people, the way is still open. He need but negotiate a new treaty with Japan, by which each nation grants citizens of the other the same rights as to landholdlng. That treaty would override the California law, for the Constitution would make it the supreme law of the land. By so doing the President would abandon his extreme regard for state rights and would risk a stormy time in securing ratification by the Senate. But he would prove the futility of any at tempts by a single state to enact laws which disturb our foreign relations. CALLLVG EACH OTHER'S BLCFF. There was a refreshing novelty about the tariff debate of Monday, which was a relief from the dreary monotony of such -discussions. Each party was exposing the insincerity of the other in pretending to advocate a non-partisan tariff commission.' All parties - have at different times pro fessed to favor such a commission, but all have shown a strange reluctance to establish it when they had the power. Representative Murdock, the Progres sive leader, now renews the proposal and accuses the Republicans of hav ing been always opposed at heart to a tariff commission. He is sustained by the Democrats, speaking' through Speaker Clark, but his party's practice would probably square as little-with Its profession if put to the test. The records or tne tnree parties jus tify the belief that they are all afraid to establish a really effective tariff board, though all pretend to favor it. During the debates on the payne- Aldrlch bill In 1909 and In former years. Senator Beveridge was its most ardent champion and was well sup ported by other insurgent Republicans. The regular Republicans very reluc tantly yielded to the repeated urglngs of President Taft and consented to the creation of a board with very limited powers and with no assurance of per manence. They grudgingly gave it a renewed lease of life and more money In 1910. While the insurgents or pro gressives appeared clamorous for It, their enthusiasm cooled as President Taft advanced towards success In its permanent establishment. The Demo crats were favorable to a tariff board until their opponents endorsed it but insisted that it should report to Con gress rather than to the President and should receive Its instructions from Congress. The Democrats no sooner secured control of the iouse than they turned against the existing tariff board and proceeded to revise the tariff without regard to it. The insurgent Repub licans, some of whom have since be come party Progressives, helped them. Mr. Taft insisted that Congress live up to the professions of its leaders, but he gained no' support except from the regular Republicans. Democrats ob jected to a board responsible to the President and created a new bureau to perform the same functions, which should take orders from and report to committees of Congress. The truth is that no party desires what Mr. Taft proposed and actually created a genuinely non-partisan board of experts which would report facts, no matter which way they hit. Republicans, Democrats and Progres sives alike were and still are afraid that such a board would discover most Inconvenient facts. Standpat Repub licans fear exposure of the Jokers they have hidden in the tariff and of the inexcusable character of many high duties. Progressives and Democrats fear revelations which would cut the ground from under their feet in "tak ing care" of the pet industries of their own districts. If they must have a tariff board, they desire one subservi ent to the party in power, one which will make no investigations except those they wish and which will find out and report only the kind of facts they wish discovered. That Is why the Democrats wish the board made responsible to Congress. The Taft Tariff Board pleased no body except Mr. Taft, because it dis covered facts which suited the purpose of no party. Regarding wool, it showed that, while wool duties were much too high, they were not as much too high as had been alleged and that free wool would bo ruinous to many growers. That was too fair to suit any of the extremists. If Congress had legislated according to these findings and public satisfaction with the 'result had com pelled it to allow the board to continue work and to act apon the board's re ports, we should gradually have se cured a scientific tariff. Then the poli ticians would have been deprived of much of their thunder and Congress would have been reduced to the nain ful necessity of legislating on many other subjects which urgently call for pKttnn .hnr which members artfully dodge by wasting time on tariff debates. Congressmen do not wish to settle the tariff question and let it stay set tled. They wish to keep it in the air like a shuttlecock. They do not desire a non-partisan tariff board, for that would reduce them to the necessity of action with some approach to finality. When they advocate a tariff board, they are nearly all bluffing, without distinction of party. COLLEGE BOYS IN BUSINESS. It would be terribly disappointing If the college graduate did not make a better man of business than the youngster who has simply "growed" without the benefits of intensive cul ture. It Is common to say that the fine effects of the college show them selves In a general excellence of char acter rather In mere efficiency. But what is general character but effi ciency of one sort or another. A man who is fitted to do nothing but sit like a placid Buddha to receive the worship of the world can hardly be said to have much character. It Is more likely that the solid stuff of which character is composed has been washed out of him by the drenching floods of his four years of learning. The question whether colleges really do produce washed-out and faded hu man specimens or men and women capable of efficient service in life is admittedly an open one. Some say a man f affair is vastlv better off if he gets his education in "the school of hard knocks." Others contena mat tv. riis-A- rivM him all the training he could obtain in the stern school of experience without its exhausting hardships. Nn rirmhr observation will settle this little controversy In the course of time. Some light has been tnrown imnn th nnlnt In disDute by a ques tionnaire which. Howard Eltlng sent out to business men in many parts of the country- He gave the results of his Inquiries at a conference on "com mercial education and business prog ress" held at the dedication or tne nw Commerce Building at the Illi nois State University. This excellent university includes the practical and mechanical studies In its curriculum as well as the theoretical. Mr F.ltinc said that, from his ques tionnaire, he must Infer that college hnv nrA In flinprl to be snobbish and easily discouraged, while on the other hand they have more concentration than other vouths. and are more con- isolentious and adaptable. The balance seems to swing to the college side a little, but Mr. Eltlng predicts tnat it will swing that way a great deal more strongly when the old "culture courses" have been replaced by studies relating directly to practical affairs. NTatnrftHv he had In mind such studies as will be pursued in the Commerce Building which was men being dedicated. ' THE APPLE GROWERS TRIALS. Amonsr everv class of men there are some who lose their heads in time of trouble and some who keep their wits about them. The former are the vic- Hmo et firru mstances. The latter win victories In war and industry where their weak competitors fall, 'lnis is no less true of those engaged in orchardry than in other human enterprises. The last season was not propitious to apple growers. The crop of fruit was abun dant In all carts of the country, mar keting methods were defective and trices were discouraglngly low. as Professor Hector Macpherson points out In his letter to The Oregonlan, pub lished yesterday, a great many appies produced in the Northwest were not mot-voteri at all. When we remember that the arrangements for manufac turing them Into cider and vinegar as nroii na the canning establishments were far from adequate we must con clude that the loss was heavy. It will be heavy in the years to come unless tlmelv measures are taken to cure these maladjustments. But this is a situation which numan intelligence is perfectly capable of moAtlne- The aDDle growers have brought their tribulations upon them selves by too great zeal in speculative planting, by faulty methods of mar keting, by careless grading, and it lies with them to apply the proper rem edy. There Is, as Professor Macpher son remarks, no occasion for panic and It is only the shortsighted and timor ous who will be panicky. Tt atinds to reason that the Western grower cannot compete with his East ern rival on equal terms, tie must have some advantage either of nature n, irt nr nlsn he, la doomed to failure. It ought not to require any argument to prove that he cannot pay rreigm to the East on the same varieties oi iruu thot th TCiuitnrner nroduces as well as he himself does and sell it at a profit. His only rational hope lies in pro ducing varieties which the East does not grow in perfection. With these he can enter the market and hold his own. There is a great deal of unwar rantable boasting about the superior ity of all Western fruit. Some of it Is superior to what the East can grow, some is not. In color and general ap pearance, as other observers besides Professor Macpherson have pointed out, we have the advantage, but as far nn flavor is concerned our position is disputed on the Atlantic Coast. Common sense teacnes us to mane ih. mini nf nnr natural advantages and send no fruit to market which is not up to the highest standard both in size and color as well as symmetry. In order to attain this end production must be restricted to varieties which reach greater perfection here than elsewhere. What these varieties are experience has pretty well demonstrat ed by this time. Professor MacPherson says that at least 100 varieties of ap ples are grown here now In more or less excellence. Naturally many of them are of poor quality. Tne apple Is one of the most sensitive of all fruits to the Influence of soil and cli mate and It is absurd to expect that as many as 100 different varieties should reach their best estate in this quarter of the world. If we have half a dozen varieties which excel, these are the ones to fix upon to tne exclusion or tne rest. r .M-wwwat mnat nnt lnnk rn rpa the j t. vwuibv w same varieties thrive in' both the Wil lamette Valley ana tne iooa liiver country. The conditions in the two re gions are radically omerent ana grow ers must accommodate tnemseives to this tai-t Prnfpssrir Maenherson Quotes a Chicago dealer upon the subject of the best varieties lor tne toast, ae mentions the Spitzenberg, Ortley, Rome-Beauty, Jonathan, Ben Davis and others. But the word "Coast" is of wlfle import. The SplUenDe.gr is not by any means the best variety for the Willamette Valley, neither is the Ortley, while both these apples reach matchless perfection at Hood River and Mosler. At Wenatchce the Wine sap seems to surpass most others. Thus each region has its own problems to solve both in the choice of suitable varieties and in methods of culture. When these matters have been settled wisely the fruit business will go for ward at a steady pace to permanent success. But this can not happen until both haphazard Ignorance and specu lative uncertainty have been elim inated. Each fruit region needs special methods of culture as well as specially adapted varieties. The tillage which succeeds perfectly In the Irrigated sec tions is not likely to be the best for the Willamette Valley. Here there Is abundant rainfall almost every year up to the first week of July and often later, so that the problem of conserv ing moisture 'is not nearly so serious as some others. It might almost be said of the Willamette Valley orchard that if soil fertility is properly attended to the clouds will provide all the mois ture that is needed. One of our most vexing problems is, in fact, to avoid that unseasonable growth of wood which is promoted by excessive mois ture. The question might well be raised whether an annual hay crop or some other which would help dry out the soil In late July might not be directly beneficial to many valley or chards. There is ground to believe that it would increase both the quan tity of fruit and its quality. It has often been observed that "wild" apple trees growing without cultivation in neglected fence rows produce regular crops of fruit which are excellent in their modest way. Here as elsewhere the husbandman must submit to take lessons from nature. Theory Is often oblivious of simple facts which are fundamentally essential to Success. "Oh, Earth, what changes hast thou seen," must have been running through the workmen's brains as they dug out that old ship buried forty feet deep under a New York street. Since ships don't salt-up the streets, the tide must have ebbed and flowed there one day. Tennyson, when' he wrote the line we have quoted, was thinking of the changes wrought by streams that "draw down Aeonian hills and sow the dust of "continents to be," but the changes wrought by human hands are as Interesting and sometimes as exten sive. At the meeting of the National Fed eration of Musical Clubs In Chicago a few days ago the delegates represented 400 clubs with 45,000 members. This Is good, but not good enough. The public schools in every village and city ought to be musical clubs. They ought to make young people as ambitious to compose music as to write short stories. There Is no reason why Amer ica has not its own Bachs and Wag ners except that we do not care to train them up. It is time for us to begin to care. Wilson sends regrets that he couldn't attend the St. Louis peace conference. With Japan In a bellicose attitude and Mexico on the rocks again the Presi dent probably is not In the precise mood to enjoy a peace conference. Mrs. Belmont is so irritated by the treatment accorded suffragettes in Fnrlnnd that she will "not spend a penny" on her London visit. That's the kind of punishment, too, that hurts the Londoners. Archaic discoveries in New Tork will be paralleled here in the distant future, when timbers and other debris used in filling deep gulches are un earthed in making foundations for hundred-story buildings. Whale steaks in competition with beef may suit Californians, who can stand most anything, but Oregonians prefer the steer, the hog and the wether, with a little goat made into a side dish. John Reed has been sent to Jail for threatening to "make boobs' of the Newark police. He's not the first to come to grief through trying to im prove on Nature. With Mexicans once more engaged lr rhoti- favnrltn nastime of Dlunderinz and murdering Americans, President Wilson shortly may be compelled to show his hand. Justice will not have been fully sat isfied by the get-rlch-qulck promoters convicted at Philadelphia unless they are compelled to .refund the proceeds of their frauds. With the tariff debate warming up it might be Just as well to conduct a daily search for "weepons'- on some of the more excitable Congressmen. The outcry against closing wireless stations on account of the operators' strike reminds us how quickly a new discovery becomes a necessity. TT v-t-n r, an4a, a narA In n. Bn7r1 rflKP. for identification purposes. As though that e-pnlal countenance would need Identification in any.portl When there Is no fighting for the army, it can always be relied upon to supply us periodically with a domestic scandal. Any man who attacks Governor Sul. zer may expect to get twice as good as he gives. Senator Brown has learned that. Fresh Columbia River Chinook sal mon for dinner tonight will be mighty good and Just as suspicious. The difficulty of unmerglng the Har riman railroads Is measured by the unwillingness to unmerge. Forty-five Inches Is the limit of any trunk hereafter. Barely large enough to accommodate one hat. Why not make an example of Mex ico, for the effect it will have on other off-color N people? Still, let us hope that discussions of the charter do not lead to the di vorce courts. The political spieler has two stren uous days left In which to transmogrify truth. - It would appear, now, to be up to the Japs. Bryan's visit served to grease the skids. Stars and Starmakers By Leone Caaa Baer. Waldemar Toung in the San Fran cisco Chronicle says some pertinent things' in this: "The reason many of the productions which reach here seem to be the victims of economy is not that this Pacific Coast territory lacks the fertility to support the original article In Its orig inal splendor, but rather because in the transcontinental Journey from New Tork a vast expanse of theatrical 'bad lands has to be traversed. ' The vaunted 'Middle West,' as narrow in its view of life as It Is broad In acre age, lies between San Francisco and New York. This is a sad geographical fact, but It's true." Mark Murprty, star of "The Coal Strike" at the Empress, Is one "of the few pioneer vaudevllllsts who recalls playing in Portland in Its hamlet days in 1876. In that year Murphy appeared here as a Jig-dancer with Joe Murphy's Minstrels. Then Murphy wore a medal heralding him as the champion Jig dancer on the Pacific Coast and a feature of the minstrel show was the creation of rivalry In every town visited in endeavors to wrest championship honors from Murphy. The veteran actor recounts that a youngster named Keating tried in vain to out dance him in Portland in a hall near the river, where the minstrel show held forth for several nights. Murphy remem bers Portland when there were beaten paths on the sites now occupied by skyscrapers and when "nothing but forest could be seen on both sides of the . river now forming the metropolis of the Willamette. Murphy regards himself as a Pacific Coast product, all his early stage suc cesses having been won in the Far West. His brother P. J. ("Paddy") Murphy was State Senator In California from 1884 to 1890. Senator Murphy was city editor of the San Francisco Post when Henry George was managing edi tor. James H Murphy, another brother of the Empress actor, lived In Port land for many years and is remembered by old-timers here as the owner of the Bank Exchange. After his first appearance In Port land Murphy returned to this city as a boxer In 1877. In 1893 he again visited Portland, then as the star of "O'Dowd's Neighbors," which was presented at the Marquam Grand. Murphy says he has the distinction of having engaged David Warfleld In the early days In New York to play the role of a woman in "O'Dowd's Neighbors." Warfleld played the part of Honora Murphy, a scrubwoman. a e Frauleln Martha Haberland, petite and attractive owner of Don, the talk ing dog at the Orpheum, has invited all the members of the bill to a little celebration after the matinee today in honor of Don's 9th birthday. Don first saw the light of day In Ham burg, Germany, where Frauleln Haber land's father is one of the forest keep ers. Loney Haskell, who introduces Don, has promised him a wreath of flowers with a Wienerwurst In the cen ter and Vida Reed, the Portland girl, who is "possessed" about dogs In gen eral and Don in particular, is giving him-, a home-made birthday cake with nine candlea There will be a bone for each of the six white collies In the ballet of the Top q," th" World Dancers and If some of the gifts and plans hinted at by various performers ma terialize, Don's Portland birthday paTty will not soon be forgotten. The author, whoever he or she may be, of the winning play In Wlnthrop Ames' American play contest Is now assured of the $10,000 prize. Edward Lyons, business manager for the thea trical enterprises of Wlnthrop Ames, has filed a guarantee bond for $10,000 with the National Security Company. ThiB Insures the winner In the con test, which ends August 15. Officials of the surety company say that the bond Is unusual. The bond was made out to Adolph Klauber and Augustus Thomas as trustees for the unknown author of such a play. These two gentlemen, with Mr. Ames, form the committee of Judges. Wilson Mizner has been called on to write a new review for the London Opera-House. He is expected to infuse humor and life into the work. e Adele Farrington, long the second woman of the Belasco Stock in Los Angeles, has gone into vaudeville. She has a sketch called "Turning on the Gas," written by Frances Nordstrom. e The stork Is again figuring in Ethel Barrymore's plans, and she has gone to Europe for two months. Lillian Russell also is going to sail soon, e e Fay Bainter opened last week as leading woman in Toledo, O., with Keith's stock. James Durkln, Maude Fealy's husband Is leading man. Their opening bill was Bernstein's "Samson." e e Robert Homans, a one-time Baker player. Is with the Northampton, Mass., players. e Hugh Dlllman, who was Juvenile man with the Baker company for awhile last season. Is to open In three weeks as leading man with the Mary Servos Stock in Grand Rapids, Mich. Frank Fatton will play leads until then, e . a e Ethel Clifton, who played leads for George Baker stock In Seattle two years ago. Is with Poll stock In Spring field, Mass. a Lillian Kemble Is at the Duquesne Theater in Pittsburg. e e e Baker Moore will open on next Mon day at Union Hill, N. Y. He has been playing Juveniles at the Harlem Opera House. e e ' Nat Goodwin and Marjorle Moreland are at the Helllg tonight In "Oliver Twist." Miss Moreland is Nancy Bikes, e e e From a New York exchange It Is gleaned that Florence Roberts, Cath erine Countlss and E. D. Price were fellow guests at a house party at Cedarhurst, near New York, on a recent Sunday. It was the first time that Miss Roberts had met Mr. Price since she was under his management at the old Alcazar and .on the Pacific Coast circuit, and they had many happy rem iniscences to talk over. Miss Roberts is playing Eastern vaudeville time In j. Hartley Manners' fine sketch, "The Woman Intervenes," and Price Is still manager of Robert Hilllard, who is nearing the 200th New York perform ance of "The Argyle Case," at the Criterion. It Is one of the greatest hits of recent years. Miss Countlss is on the Orpheum circuit in vaudevi" In a sketch "The Birthday Present." DEFECTS IN NEW CITY CHARTER Inconsistencies Are Pointed Out in Sal ary Hate of Official. PORTLAND, Or., April 30. (To the Editor.) The writer wishes to reply to a letter signed by W. C, Elliott and published in The Oregonlan of April 19. Mr. Elliott states in his letter that the salary of the City Engineer is fixed and determined by section 303 ot the new charter at $2400 per annum. To correct this statement, I would call Mr. Elliott's attention to section 286, headed "Appointive Officers," wherein the Commissioners have the power ot appointment of the City Treasurer, City Engineer, City Attorney and Mu nicipal Judge. The Commissioners "shall also fix and may change from time to time the salary of every offi cer," so that the salaries of these ap pointees can be made any amount at the discretion of the Council. It is easily understood why Mr. El liott was wrong in his belief that the salary of the City Engineer was fixed by the charter, and the voters of Port land are being disillusioned in the same way, for under sections 289, 303, 330 and 340 the salaries of the City Treas urer, City Engineer, Municipal JudKe and City Attorney are fixed at $2400, respectively, except that of Municipal Judge, which is $1800. These sections are in direct contradiction to section 286, wherein the Council is given the power to fix and change the salary of any of these officers at any time. aThls Is only one of the glaring In consistencies of this new charter, and Is an attempt by the framers of the same to disillusion the voters into the belief that the salaries of these offi cers remain as they are at present. The framers of this charter knew that at the last election the people overwhelm ingly voted down an attempt to raise the salaries of the City Attorney and City Engineer, and have, therefore, in sections 289, 303, 330 and 340 attempted to lead .the voters to believe that these salaries will not be raised, and at the same time under section 2S6 Inserted a "Joker" giving the Council full power to say what these salaries may be. The voters are also led to believe that the Auditor, who is elected by the people, is Independent and not under control of the Commissioners and Mayor. But this, also, is buncombe, as under section 270 it says "the salary of the Auditor shall be fixed by the Council, and shall not be less than $3600 per annum," By this power of fix ing his salary, will not the Auditor be subservient to the will of the Commis sioners and the Mayor? They call this the commission form of government. Nothing could be more false, and the voters of Portland should condemn and overwhelmingly defeat this "Joker" charter, which would permit to be formed a political machine, such as the present administration would like to form, which would be the "Tammy" of Portland for years to come. H. R. SHROYER. POINT RAISED ON NEW CHARTER Question Which Has Been Overlooked Raised by Mr. Clark. PORTLAND, April 28. (To the Edi tor.) So much has been said for and against the proposed charter that I would hesitate to call any further at tention to its provisions except for the fact that I think an important ques tion has been overlooked. This ques tion will arise in case of the passage of the charter, as the local improvement code of the new charter provides (Sec tion 346a) "That so much of sections 346, 347, 348, 349 and 350, as hereto fore amended, and of sections 362 to 421, both inclusive of the charter of 1903, as is not inconsistent with the provisions of this charter, shall re main In full force and effect as ordi nances only subject to repeal and amendment and to the enactment of new legislation by the Council," etc. This quotation Is sufficient for the pur pose of this communication. It Is proposed to change the desig nated charter provisions to ordinances which may be changed by the Council In accordance with certain provisions, and this change presents the question whether an ordinance can be enacted by the people except in the manner pro vided by the. general laws of 1907, which provide In certain detail the manner of the submission of an ordi nance to the vote of the people. In the first place it must show that it is "re ferred to the people by the Council of the City of Portland" in accordance with the change of x the act of 1907 made by ordinance known as the "Mc- Nary ordinance." Second, it must have a ballot title, In no case exceeding 100 words: third, it must be numbered on the ballot; fourth, it must have an affirmative and a negative space for voting, each of which shall be sepa rately numbered In numerals. The pro posed charter does not enact these or dinances in accordance with this law or with any law In force. It therefore becomes necessary to vote on all these ordinances submitted by charter in the affirmative or negative. The local Improvement code is one of the important provisions of any charter. These questions are bound to arise in the shape of legal proceed lngs and suits to enjoin improvements? to declare assessments void- to restrain the sale of bonds and as the procedure may be changed several times a year, it will be the subject of grave ques tions until It can all be determined on appeal to the Supreme Court. The manner of submitting to the people city ordinances is contained in the general laws of 1907, page 398, and as there provided this law shall govern until changed by city ordinances. With out going into detail the city ordinance governing the voting on these measures Is not in conflict with the act of 1907. EDWARD J. CLARK. MODEST WISHES ARE OUTLINED Among? Other Thins" "Taxpayer" Wants Commission Government Installed. PORTLAND, April 28. (To the Ed itor.) Things we would all like to see: L Will King given a Job at Wash ington or sent home to Oregon. 2. A law or ordinance passed pro hibiting the cruelty inflicted on the public by candidates defacing the map of the entire county with their photo graphs on trees, fences and other con spicuous points along the highway. This could probably be brought about by the law against nuisances, or cru elty to animals. 3. Some real good men, who measure up to the Job, to be persuaded to run for Mayor and Councllmen or Commis sioners. 4. Let us try the commission form of government. It may not be any better than the present lorm out cannot be any worse. A TAXPAYER. Stont Jeweler Has to Move. New York Herald. Because he grew so stout last Winter that he can barely squeeze in j rwt hi. nlwA nf riiiHinpna. Leo UUU UUfc ' " ' Strass, a Jeweler in Sixth avenue, an nounced tnat ne wouia ob ouhsim iu move to larger quarters June 1. "The 1 tnT is whnr SrrAKa calls hi store It is three feet wide and 18 feet deep, so small that it cannot support a half number street address and is known as 745 Sixth avenue. running the length of the rc ' ' 1 mi .t o a a mnrfrln of Onlv t V the proprietor to wait on his After i nave esutonantm a wwtwoww kDr. r mncit Ipfivft If' lam. Strass. "When I opened this plat years s-o J. weigneo-i- n-.: now I ' i 2s5 and rr -. in h' .jar rl On Straw Hat Day By Dean Collins. Forth from your shelf, oh faithful straw. Where you have lain the Winter through! Old bat, you show full many a flaw, But still I think that you may do. In years agone, five bucks I threw To bear you from the hatter's store. Since then, each May day, blooming new TTnnn mv head T-e carried vou. As glorious as In days of yore. Fond mem'ries linger round your brim. There is tne tooia mailt, iMeiciut, hrniia-h Where Arabella bit your rim When she got man. lour iiuuihi iuu To ctsinwl and faded from the dew. The night I left you on the lawn When Phyllis iaa tne dooijiicr wubw At me with savage aim and true. And bade me fiercely to begone. There is the mark of Sylvia's heel, The evening tnat sne sieppeu on jo When, fearful of unsteady keel. She tried to hop from the canoe. Upon thy crown, that blotch ot blue. Spreading in broad, uneven stain. Brings memories to me of Lou, And how her parasol, brand new. Faded in sudden Springtime rain. Those pin pricks scattered o'er your crown. My dreams of Hazel's eyes renew; Of how she decked you up and down With leaves, with daisies woven through. And, with approving smile and coo. Placed you on my protestinff dome And spite of all that I might do, (And I felt like a Jackass too) Begged me until I wore you home. Old lid. adowu he street a bit, A Greek boy stirs a magic brew. And swears if you've a dose of it. You can come back as good as new, In years agone five bucks I threw To bear you from the hatter's store. I'll see what Grecian zeal can do To take the mem'ries out of you. And make you glorious, as of yore. Twenty-five Years Ago From The OreRonlan of May 1, 1RS8. Washington. April 30. The President has sent to the Senate the nomination of Melville W. Fuller, of Illinois, to be Chief Justice of the United States Su preme Court San Luis Obispo. April 30. The Pa cific Coast Steamship Company's steam er Queen of the Pacific, plying between San Francisco and southern coast ports, was sunk near Port Hanford this morning. Salem, April 30. Two pioneers of 1847 yesterday Joined the great ma jority. They were Mrs. M. J. Watson, relict of the late Sanford Watson, of Polk County, aged 78 years; and John G. Orchard, living near Stayton, aged about 74. The storm of last evening did not in the least affect the number of auditors of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's second lec ture. Rev. Dr. J. Bloch last evening was the surprised and gratified recipient of a testimonial In the form of a set of ele gantly engrossed resolutions adopted by the board of trustees of the Congre gation Beth Israel. Dr. Bloch expects to leave for Europe tomorrow, aceom pied by his daughter, Miss Rose Bloch. Prior Adelhelm, of the Benedictine Monastery at Mount Angel, reports the nunnery of the order near Mount Angel rapidly approaching completion. Salem, April 30. Articles of incor poration of the Portland & Vancouver Railway Company have been filed; in corporators, Frank Dekum, R. L. Durham and John B. David; capital stock $200,000. Dr. Josephi has his new residence on Twelfth and N streets, East Portland, well under way. J. H. Munk has been appointed Coun cilman for Alblna in place of R. B. Deaton, deceased. All that was mortal of Portland's late Mayor, John Gates, was laid to rest yesterday at Riverview. Over 1000 guardsmen, "officials and citizens were in the funeral processsion. Fourteen subscribers to the hotel fund were added yesterday: Mrs. Mary Phelps Montgomery, Forbes & Wheeler, G. Shlndler & Co., Walter Bros. & Co., Dr. A. C. Panton. Dr. C. H Wheeler, Lewis Russell, James Canby, James P. Moffatt, Edward R. Adams, L S. Wat son, Buffum & Pendleton, Percy G. Cllne and J D. Meyer. Mr. H C. Campbell, president of the Willamette Street Railway Company, has let the contract for grading the railway through Lone Fir Cemetery to the center of the Sunnyslde tract. Mr. George S. Morrison, chief engi neer of the O. R. & N. bridge across the Willamette, arrived here yesterday. FRAZIEB HOME ABLY CONDUCTED. Present Management Is Landed and Proposed Change Opposed. PORTLAND. April 27. (To the Edi tor.) As a taxpayer and citizen of this county I wish to enter a protest against the proceedings of Judge Gatens in asking- Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Baker to resign as superinteddent and matron of the Frazier Detention Home. It appears that the Judge has asked .w.l- o-na tlnn Wlthnilt CTlvinS iur men- ; - any other reason than that he desired to make a change in tne manageraeni. , nr hw fact that Mr. Diiice ciiii"6 " - " and Mrs. Baker were asked to resign. I have visiteu tne xiumo . wa than satisfactory. IHilimBcmcui . - The first thing that impresses you Is the cheenui ana cuulculcu -.un.i ns. thn motherly and OS LIIUUlcil ' . w fatherly care of two of the most lov able people it has Deen my pieonmo m meet. The children are well fed and corori for in every way possible, under the circumstances. Judge Gatens states mat ne uues mi . . i inE,tnHnn In hp merelv a. waui l" Dlace where youthful offenders may be ' -. : j . ! ... V. , 1. 4c, connnea. xms i r ua . ,1 . . K,,, li'Vi.n a niirhr wntchmun not liuvv, uuv n is DUt on it will bo, or will have that eliect on me tuuui ou. - u . ., hill nrnvll no f nr a juvenno L" - . night watchman, which is decidedly un necessary ana atwaj" win un uiiuci mc . . . it n -T- d n f Twr. hnv hflVA preseut . -i-- run away at night from the Home in the past nve years unu mey wm tramps. ... JB t mo ........... and good-natured encouragement that - . 1 the juage sucans j"w"e children's countenances and the cheer ful manner in which they respond, one cannot help but feel that his wishes are met to the fullest extent at pres ent. Mr- and Mrs. Baker's influence and ' over children are extensive. I Home Duuoing anytning ht to ba from an archi--f. it biMng very in v. Is not the neither is t has !!B -r