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lO THE MORNING OKEGONIAX. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1913- rOKILAD, OKIGOX. ntercd at Portland, Oregon. Postomco aa wcond-clasa matter. Subscription Rates Invariably in Advance: (Bt MAID Dallr. Snndaj Included, one rear $8.00 Xa.lly. Sunday Included, six months 4-25 Uaily, Sunday Included, three months. x.25 Dally, Sunday 'ncluded, one month... .75 iJally, without Sunday, one year. ....... t-00 Uaily. without Sunday, six months 3.25 Daily, without Sunday, three months.... 1-75 Dally, without Sunday, one month...... .00 Weekly, one year 1.50 Cunuay. one year.... 2.50 Sunday and Weekly, op year. S.&0 (BT CARRIER) Dally, Sunday included, one year -0 Da.'ly, Sunday Included, one month..... .75 How t Remit Send poatofric money or der, express order or peraonai check on your local bank. Stamps, com or currency are at sender's risk. Ulve postofffr address In tull. Including- -county and state. Postase Kates Ten to la pases. 1 cent: 1 to 28 pages. 2 cents; 30 to 40 pages, I centa; 0 to 60 pages. 4 cents. Foreign postage, double rates. Eafttern Business Offices Verree A Conk lln. .New York. Brunswick building, Chi cago. Steger building. ban Francisco Office R. J. EldweU Ca, T4S Market street. European Office No. I Regent street S. W., Loodon. I PORTLASU, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1913. 1 4 ; , PORTLAND'S GOOD FORTUNE. i Mr. Albee as Mayor will have the 'co-operation of four first-class men as Commissioners. Mr. Daly has had ex perience in public affairs, and he is f fair-minded, thoughtful and capable. 'The immediate sympathies of Mr. Daly ,i are with the labor interest; but it ia a ;",fact that his rear- worth and ' his sturdy Impartiality are so widely 'recognized by all classes that he has j the general confidence; and it is not ., surprising that he received a larger J vote than any other candidate for (Commissioner. i Mr. Dieck Is a trained administrator of public works and is an educated en J gineer. Mr. Bigelow is a successful J business man. Mr. Brewster is a law yer of standing, and he has besides i performed much meritorious public 'service. Mayor-elect Albee has been promi j nent as a life insurance manager. The new Portland Commission will J therefore be made up of two business men, a lawyer, an engineer and a labor , man. It has thus a variety of talent. Interest and experience that promises well for all branches of municipal ; government. The fitness of some of the Commissioners to certain lines of employment will be Immediately obvi ous; and the adaptability of others ' to the tasks to be Imposed on them will also be generally recognized. It Is proper to say that Portland has Immense satisfaction with the per sonnel of the board, and it has as well high expectations as to its use fulness and efficiency. - It is axiomatic that any government is as good, or as bad, as the men who direct.lt; and it is particularly true that a commission government will succeed, or fall, as the Commission ers are fit or unfit. The city has made a bold experiment In placing with rive men the entire control of the mu nicipality, and the first crisis the election of capable men has been Bafely passed. The preferential system has achieved the election of four suitable Commissioners, and it has brought about the defeat of the unspeakable Clyde. He Is among the first four on first-choice votes, and in an election where pluralities prevail he would have succeeded. Mr. Albee and the Commissioners have a large job. They are embar - rassed by no party obligations or class ties and, so far as we know, by no personal pledges. They have heavy. . duties, but they have been given the authority to perform them. They are ' faced by many grave problems, but . they are backed by a public belief in their ability to solve them. TWO MEWS OF DRUNKENNESS. The old Kentucky view of Indul gence In alcoholic liquors Is well ex pressed In the Louisville Courier Journal's discussion of Colonel Roose velt's successful effort to clear himself from the charge of being a drunkard. The Kentucky Colonel regards as much ado about nothing the New York Colonel's seeking to fix by legal inquiry the limits of his drinking hab its. He holds the question whether Colonel Roosevelt drinks "in a sense to be nobody's business but his own." He doubts whether the ex-President's denials will impress the hostile and holds that Mr. Roosevelt "makes him self a little absurd by the effort to prove that he is not a drunkard," as he holds Mr. Bryan to do "by the pains he takes to prove himself a total ab stainer." Says the Courier-Journal of Mr. Roosevelt: "It goes without say ing that he Is not a drunkard," adding: "His whole life gives the lie to his ac cusers." "But," it continues, "the charge Itself is of the kind which may be described as unimportant, if true." Colonel Watterson recalls Lincoln's wish that he might send to his other j General a few barrels of the brand of .whisky on which General Grant was said to get drunk. He recalls the cocktail joke on Vice-President Fair . banks, saying that, though the joke 'was cruel, no serious consequences fol t lowed. He declares the simple truth . to be that "the use of intoxicants j hinges altogether upon the abuse of them." I In conclusion. Colonel Watterson pens this glowing eulogism on Colonel Roosevelt in support of his contention that the vindication of the latter's so briety was superfluous: Surely a man who has lived In the world three and fifty years in the limelight thirty of them the head of a happy and prosper ous household a good husband and father, a prodigiously hard workei could afforrt t,i let tongues wag as they will about his exits and his entrances, his fnort and hln drink, and his Intimate personality. J The Kentucky Colonel's view is the old. tolerant view of occasional alco ' hollo excess on the part of ordinarily right-living men. In former days it i was a. matter of course that a banquet should end in at least a mild debauch and drinking was considered an essen tial part of all merrymaking. The time has passed when that view is generally taken. A man who gets , drunk, even occasionally. Is looked ' upon askance and one who drinks ha bitually in moderation is by many held to Impair his efficiency. Conscious ness of this change in public opinion on the subject of use and abuse of stimulants was doubtless behind Colo nel Roosevelt's desire to vindicate his reputation for sobriety. Another 'cause of his action was doubtless that ' Impatience of criticism which is pe culiar to men who are unsparing in their criticism of others. His lntem . perance in speech and manner bred .suspicion in many minds that he was Intemperate In other respects. There , was need to clear himself of such a ' suspicion, which would not exist with .more moderate, self-restrained men, i though the latter may be more prone than he to alcoholic excess. Colonel Watterson thinks Colonel Roosevelt made much ado about noth ing because he holds to the old view that drunkenness Is a mere peccadillo unless it leads directly to crime or vice. Colonel Roosevelt takes the more mod ern view that drunkenness is In itself a vice which lowers a man seriously In public esteem. TWO HMALL OBSERVATIONS. We have no ill wilL toward Mr. Kel. laher and his common-user propa ganda; and we suppose his Itch for office Is incurable, but it will do no harm to express our happiness in feeling that it will be another year or two' before he can run again. Tet there is a vacant School Directorship this month. We are overflowing with charity toward our bewildered friend, the Daily Journal; for just now it must know how the Honorable George C. Brownell,' statesman and band-wagon expert, felt some years ago when he made his last grand leap for the Sena torial band-wagon and missed. He hasn't been the same man since. KEEPDiG OUT THE FOREIGNER. Wool in Oregon is from two to three cents lower than it was a year ago. Wool in London and other foreign markets is from two to three cents higher than it was a year ago. If anyone can explain the phenom enon on any basis except that it is due to the Underwood bill and the free wool agitation. The Oregonian will ask the expositor to hold up his hand. The grand Congressional ride- in tht free trade toboggan goes magnificently on. The House put on the free list wool, flour, lumber and a lot of other things in which Oregon is interested; now the Senate purposes to fry all the remaining fat out of the poor pro ducer by making duty-free wheat, cat tle, hogs and sheep. It Is a free coun try, to be made commercially free also to the Canadians and the Mexicans and all- the rest. THE K.Vn OT? ATT ANCIENT BUSINESS. The Independent sees at least one "blessed result" of giving .women the ballot. No doubt others just as desir able will manifest themselves In the course of time, but this already forces itself upon the attention. It is the abandonment of weak compromises with the "social evil." While men ruled the world their attitude toward this vile business was two-faced and cowardly. They called it "the oldest of the professions," which It is not. There were honest wives before there were prostitutes, and men made their living by hunting and farming before any of them became purveyors of vice. But even if it were the oldest of the professions, that would not be an ex cuse for tolerating it any longer than we must. Age does not always make a profession honorable. It is fairly certain that with the Increasing power of women prostitution will have to dis appear from the cities of the world. The unhappy creatures who earn their living by it will be obliged to seek some other occupation, and the men who patronize them will be deprived of their bestial opportunities. The good women of the country are opening refuges for the fallen sisters. None have thus far been opened for the fallen brothers, but in time this defect will be remedied perhaps. Some provision will be made for the vic tims of man's unholy lust, and the business which has fed upon it for so many centuries will disappear : from the earth. Good riddance to It. The era of human sacrifice ought to have ended long ago. WHAT THE WEST NEEIM. No part of the new currency bill which is to be presented to Congress will need closer Inspection than that relating to the National discount rate. This rate In other countries regulates the flow of money Into circulation or into the banks. When stocks "of money in the banks are low and great de mands are being made for speculative or other operations which bankers con sider dangerous, the rate of discount is raised, the outflow of money is checked, reserves are strengthened and speculation is cooled with a dash of Ice water in its face. When money ac cumulates, business becomes inactive and men are too slow to take up new and meritorious enterprises, the dis count rate is reduced and the outflow is quickened, business is stimulated and new .undertakings are encouraged. In European countries there is one discount rate for the whole nation. This could not be in the United States unless the proposed regional reserve associations were combined under one head vested with the power of fixing the rate from time to time. The Democrats seem to shrink from creat ing a central body because of their traditional aversion for a central bank and for centralization in general, ret if they create fifteen Independent re serve associations, as has been sug gested, each with power to fix a dis count rate, we might have fifteen such rates. The present wide variation of interest rates in different sections of the country would then continue, though it is mainly an artificial prod uct of our unscientific banking sys tem. Commercial paper of the same class has the same value, whether is sued in East or West, yet the West has always been compelled to pay higher interest rates. Any new currency system should, in its effects, equalize the volume of money in each section of the country in proportion to needs of legitimate business, and should equalize interest rates. This can. best be done by a central body having control of re serves, .rediscounts and perhaps, of currency issue. - The West has suffered moat from-the evils of our present un scientific currency system, for that system has drained money from the West to Eastern centers and has com pelled the West to pay high interest. Western men in Congress will serve the interests of this section if they bend their efforts toward a degree of central control sufficient to secure uni form interest rates and a fairer distri bution of the money supply. BOOKKEEPING BT MACHINERY. When It was told in the backwoods that McCormick had Invented a mow ing machine, the old fanners were in credulous. How could a machine imi tate the motion of a scythe? It could not. but that did not Justify the farm ers" lack of faith, for it did not need to. The motion of a mowing ma chine's sickle is totally unlike the wing of a farmer's scythe, and yet It does the same work faster and better. Thus man's intelligence improves upon crude and awkward nature. What emotion do most people feel when they see the queer animals at the circus, the hippopotamus with Its misshapen frame, the pathetic ele phant, the deplorable monkeys? Is it not -pity that nature should have made such failures and left them to disfigure the world? Man does almost every thing he undertakes better than na ture. And he does his own work bet ter and better every year. This is the meaning of progress, more work in less time and with less cost of pain. The sorrowful old bookkeeper of Dickens' stories laboriously wrote down his entries with a quill pen and added up mighty arrays of figures by sheer force of mental muscle. He had no labor-saving devices and he took pride In wanting none. Some expert accountants were the worst foes of the ! adding machine and the typewriter. Now bookkeeping is done by ma chinery and its scope has been en larged In astonishing ways. The Sat urday Evening Post has an article tell ing what a truly modern bookkeeper expects to do for his employers. He has many employers because he works by wholesale methods and can serve a hundred as well as one. "He performs creative and constructive services," we are told. Consider the task of tabu lating the bills for an electric com pany's customers. It Is done by punch ing a set of holes In cards, each hole signifying a fact or figure. The cards are then run through a complicated machine which arranges the facts, puts the figures In columns and adds them up, and finally presents the offi cers of the company with a beautiful set of totals. The new bookkeeper is master, not of a quill pen and ink stand, but of one of the most ingen ious pieces of machinery in the world. THE CAUSE OF GRAVITATION. Last Wednesday The Oregonian published a letter on the subject of gravitation and the constitution of matter which- must have struck many readers as being exceptionally schol arly. No doubt the writer, F. G. Franklin, of Albany, has devoted much time to studying the principles in volved and he certainly expresses his views with enviable clearness. He does not, of course, offer any modification of Newton's law of universal gravita tion. That law Is a simple deduction from common experience and as far aa we can ascertain it extends through-. out the material universe, applying to all matter wherever It is situated. The force by which each particle of mat ter attracts every other varies Inverse ly as the square of the distance and directly as the quantity of matter in question. If the quantity of matter in the particle is doubled its attractive force is doubled and so on. But if the distance between two particles is doubled the attractive force Is divided by Jour, which is the square of two. If the distance is increased three times the . force is divided by nine, which is the square of three, and the same law holds for all distances and masses. The correspondent does not try to revise this law at all. He simply of fers an explanation of it, something that has been done many times before and never with much success. When Lord Kelvin developed the old theory of vortices he believed that It might be made to yield an explanation of gravity but he never worked the ques tion out satisfactorily. It was the French philosopher Descartes who relied upon vortices to explain the physical universe. He had seen how a whirlpool seems to draw floating bo dies to its center and surmised that some force of the same nature might account for the attraction between the planets. If they are all whirling around in vortices no doubt they ought to be drawn toward one another and toward a common center. Perhaps It was from this theory that the notion of a common center for the universe derived some of its popular persist ence. We all like to imagine that the suns with their trains of attendant planets are sweeping to the same goal far off In the depths, of space, where possibly the ruler of the universe holds his court. Another philosopher accounts for the attraction of gravity by supposing that myriads of little particles are fly ing through space In all possible direc tions. Naturally each piece of matter is bombarded by them, and If it is re mote from every other body it is bom barded with equal energy on all sides, so that no moving force results. But if It Is near any other body each is then screened on the face It presents to the other and they are driven to gether. This Is a very pretty theory. All it needs for proof Is the drift of particles through space with their bombarding energy. The theory that our Albany correspondent presents depends upon the ether which Is sup posed to be a substance composed of infinitesimal grains, solid and indivisi ble. They are many times as small as the old-fashioned atoms we used to learn about in chemistry. The latter have been resolved into electrons and the electrons themsglves are now sub divided into little grains so minute that it is useless to- try to imagine how they would look if we could see them. But they are probably spheres and can thus be piled very compactly. In the normal ether they are piled as closely as possible, but sometimes they be come disarranged. When that happens the equilibrium of the ether is natur ally disturbed. When not disturbed the ether is subject to a stress which is equal in all directions and which therefore sets up no motion. But if we imagine a spot where the stress is diminished, the resistance to the uni versal pressure will there be broken up and that particular spot will be pushed about. It will continue to be pushed as long as it presents a vol ume under diminished stress. If we now agree that when a spot of dimin ished stress is once established, it will persist forever, we have all that Is necessary for the concept of matter, namely, mass and motion and indefi nite existence. Mr. Franklin, quoting from some eminent scientific men, defines matter abbut in that way. It consists of spots in space where the stress of the ether is for some reason less than else where. This curiously inverts our es tablished notions. Instead of believ ing that ether Is empty nothingness and matter dense we must-try to be lieve that matter is comparatively rare, while ether is the densest thing in existence. Thus far the new the ory simply accounts for motion. It leaves the law of gravity hanging in the air, but as soon as we imagine two masses of matter within reason able distance of each other they begin to react. Each modifies the stresses on the other so that they are thrust together. From this point of view, as the correspondent says, gravitation is not a pull, but a push. This brings us back to the old notion of the drift of particles which we spoke of a mo ment ago. By that hypothesis also gravity was reduced to a push on each of the attracting bodies. The discern ing reader will not attach too much importance to speculations of this kind. However wise they may appear, they are really almost as insubstan tial as words. Science is making most encouraging sallies toward the ultimate mysteries. .but it has not yet conquered them by any means. The atomic theory which was taught in the colleges twenty-five years ago is no longer tenable, but when it comes to devising another to take its place It Is well to be cautious. We need not re mark that Mr. Franklin really pre sents the old theory In a new dress. His atoms are smaller than Dalton's. That makes about all the difference. Governor Baldwin, of Connecticut, having learned that the Legislature proposed to turn back the hands of the clock on the last day of the ses sion until it had finished its business, told the Lieutenant-Governor and the Speaker that the constitution must be observed and that there must be no Juggling with the clock. A contro versy arose about setting back the clock In the Montana Legislature some years ago, and one member settled it by throwing an ink well at the time piece with such good aim as to smash its works beyond repair. Perhaps some Nutmeg State solon will adopt the same means of evading the constitution. The British Parliamentary system wins new favor in this country every day. Its latest Important advocate Is Henry L. Stlmson, iate Secretary of War. He believes the ordinary legis lator is a pretty decent sort of man made Ineffective by a bad system. His plan is to adopt the "responsible cabi net" which has worked so well in Eng land. The . executive would prepare the budget and propose legislation and go out of office when it failed to com mand a majority In the legislature. It will be interesting to see how far w shall go In this direction. Students In the department of busi ness ethics of the school of commerce of New York University were asked in an examination: "How should a newspaper be managed to conform to the requirements of ethics? Name your favorite newspaper and give your reasons for preferring It." Almost all the students named the Springfield Re publican as being- "ethically the near est to the Ideal newspaper." This will provoke loud Jeers from the yellows, which know ethics only to shun them, but the staid old Republican will con tinue more confidently on Its well marked course. It is nonsense to explain the low price Mrs. Lincoln's letters brought at the recent New York auction by their "bitterness." That had nothing to do with their value to collectors and Mar tha Washington's "womanly sweet ness" did not add a penny to the price of hers. Bitterness has just as good a market as sweetness with collectors. They care not a fig what a letter is about. Martha Washington is a larger historic figure than Mrs. Lincoln, more romantic and interesting. Hence her letters are worth more and would be if they were full of spite. How does Senor de la Barra keep his head on his shoulders through all the turmoil in Mexico? He bobs up In every ministry of eyery ephemeral president, like Talleyrand during the French revolution. He Is a most adaptable man, but even he has grown fearful and will go abroad before Huerta puts a knife in him. Massachusetts towns are having an epidemic of centennials, sesquicenten nials and bicentennials. Greatest of these is at Lexington, where the first shot was fired for independence. Hardly a state lacks a town named after the original Lexington and they might well celebrate the day observed by their name mother. . The late George F. Robertson typi fied the positive force of kindness and unswerving fidelity to duty. Coming to Portland a young man In the active times of the early '90s, he made and maintained an honored place for him self In business and fraternal circles. His life was an inspiration. North Battleford, Saskatchewan, is growing so fast that it could not house its people, so the city built a munici pal apartment-house of fifty rooms. Within forty days it was finished and fully tenanted, a paying investment of 2 0,000. What will be the next ex periment in municipal ownership? . Barbur Is not a politician. People think an unwritten section of the civil service law should keep In office a man whose talent fits him for the position. , When the millers succeed in mak ing a self-raising flour, the 1 per cent of the hop crop now wasted, in yeast will be diverted to Its legitimate end. The. headline writers are pleased with the result, too, for Albee, Daly, Dieck, Bigelow and Brewster all are short names. A despondent cook took the easiest way out of Seattle yesterday by leap ing from an eight-story building. The people believed Will Daly hon est to the core, as well as aggressive and fearless. That's the answer. One militant suffragette was put out of business yesterday. The others are not so fortunate. Many men who never had a wed ding present helped' to make that $20,000 which multi-millionaire Busch gave to his granddaughter. Illinois societies are unable to sup ply the demand for children to 'be adopted. Why not interest the stork? The laziest man In the world has been located- in Kansas City. Not In politics, either. Crop Increases In prospect through out the Northwest! Prosperity will not down. Anyway you should be thankful you weren't elected judge of the baby show. No. 13 was a hoodoo after all. Yet 13 is lucky for some men. But It appears that the stay-at-home vote didn't stay at home. The real politician began a new campaign yesterday. Goad citizenship has taken its place at the "helm. Stock on the free list may bring meat down out of the clouds, anyway. If any showers are in the wind, let them come this week. Nothing niggardly about that Albee plurality. Cholera morbus days draw nigh. Stars and Star-makers Bt Leone- Ca Bser. William Bernard and Mrs. Bernard, who professionally is Nan Ramsey, leave the Baker Comnnnir a ih in clusion of the present week's bill of ine Wolf." Henry Hall, who is the new leading man, is -director too of the Plays he presents. In "Th Mn ns-nm Home" Mary Edgett will have the lead ing feminine role, that of Ethel Granger-Simpson. Returning to the Bernards, they will visit In Pnrilonri with friends for one week when they leave lor Vancouver, B. C, where Mr. Bernard will direct another stock com. oany. While in Los Angeles Wilton Lackaye purchased nine lots, comprising 202 feet of frontage on the west side of Van Ness avenue, 355 feet on the north side of Temple street and 203 feet on the east side of Norton avenue, for a given consideration of $20,000. The purchaser, it is announced, will resell a portion of the property, retaining only as much as he will require for a home site. I bet he does not live there at all. He tol.l me he wouldn't give 10 cents to live anywhere outside of New York, unless it was aorcad. Robert Wayne, accompanied by Mrs. Wayne and their small daughter Non-das, leave Portland next Sunday afternoon for Denver, where Mr. Wayne will be heavy man with the Lakeside stock. James Durkln is leading man and later In the season Maude Fealy will play leads. Just now Nance O'Nell has that position. Alice Patek Is In Denver, her home town. She may Join the Elitch Garden stock this Summer. see San Francisco Is to have a hippo drome built on the lines of New York's great amphitheater. John Cort, is authority for the statement. "I have been commissioned by the Messrs. Shubert," said Cort this week, "to secure a good location for this vast project which should mean a great deal to San Francisco and which will no doubt be the biggest amusement enter prise in connection with the Panama Pacific Exposition. "Some idea of the magnitude of the project may be understood when you realize that over 600 people, perform ers and stage-hands, are required in the putting on of these entertainments. A great tank will also be constructed for the famous plunging horses and elephants. v e Margaret Anglin announces that she has accepted an invitation from the University of California to again ap pear in the Greek Theater. The event will take place about the end of Au gust, when Miss Anglln will present "The Medea of Euripides." Miss An glin's previous performance in the Greek Theater was two years ago when she played the title character in the Antigone of Sophocles, which attracted widespread interest and the hichest critical praise. Immediately following ine university perlormance. Miss Anglin will begin her regular season In San Francisco, In a production of Shakes peare's "Antony and Cleopatra." Nat Goodwin seems to be in quite venturesome mood these days. He has taken over the Bristol Pier at Ocean Park, where hereafter the sign will read. "The Nat Goodwin Pier." On June 14 a very formal ball and dinner will open the cafe, and this will be an invitation affair. Mr. Goodwin promises a very pretentious sort of resort, basing his ideas on the Cafe des Beaux Arts in New York. This is Mrs. MarJorie Moreland's Idea. Nat declares that she is to be not only "the coming Ameri can actress," but the "cleverest woman in the world." "She has the bump for Dusiness so nnely developed that I have made her a partner in everything, as well as owner of all my worldly goods. What she says goes. I bank more on her Judgment than I do on any lawyer. She's the greatest Woman I know." Edward Barnes and Mabel Robinson (Mr. and Mrs. Barnes), musical comedy entertainers at the bmpresa, are old- time friends of Mr. and Mrs. George Coover, of this city, and in their vaude ville engagement here they are the guests or the Coovers, at 1177 East Flanders street in Ledgewood Heights. Another friend of Mrs. Barnes' in Port land is Mrs. James Hart, of 230 Tenth street, who before her marriage was known in the stage world as Blanche Trojan. Several years ago Barnes ap peared In Portland as the leading barl tone of the San Francisco Opera Com pany and Mabel Kobinson has paid sev eral visits to Portland with T. Daniel Frawley and Ferris Hartmen. The vaudeville duo has appeared in Port land- every season for the past six years. Mabel Kobinson makes the boast that she is the youngest grandmother on the American stage. She is 34. - . Ada Dwyer will take a Salt Lake City playhouse for a month this Summer and present lour of the plays with which she has recently been associated. These will include the Deep Purple. The experiment In her home town. In which she Is a popular idol, will be distinguished by the stage debut of her Junoesque, 17-year-old daughter. Lorna Doone Russell. - Two men on the Orpheum bill thank Portland for their first steps up. One Is Page Spencer, with "Handkerchief No. lo, a San Francisco boy who was brought to Portland about ten years ago by Louis Mothersole and Fred Cooper with a stock company at the jld Baker on Third street. After eight weeks it went broke and Harry Corson CJlarke, who was playing In Seattle and had fallen out with several members of nis company, heard of the fiasco and at once engaged Mr. Spencer, Georgle Cooper and Mr. Norfleet to go north and play in "What Happened to Jones. That engagement took Mr. Spencer east. He played a year with James K. Hackett in repertoire and four years with David Higglns in "His Last Dol lar," which was seen at the Bungalow three years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hickman Bes. sle Barriscale) have closed with "The Bird of Paradise," and are now in San Jose visiting Mr. Hickman's parents. Next season these two California actors will not be with the Richard Walton Tully play, but will appear in a new play by Mrs. Tully (Eleanor Gates) who Has to her credit the present great New Fork success, "The Poor Little Rich ctlrl." In the new play- Miss BarriBcale will create the leading- role. Following the season of Leo Ditrlchsteln at the Alcazar. Miss Barriscale will be featured for a short season. This from the Dramatic Review: "Franklyn Underwood has ambitions Co be an actor-manager, and he is con tantly' looking around for the oppor tunity to take a chance. He Is one of the leading members of the Afrlllated Amusement Company that is inaugurat ing a season of tabloid music over the coast territory, opening at Santa Rosa on June 1. . Later on in the season. Mr. Underwood may have a chance to manage his own stock in Denver." Marie Baker, who ' was a Baker layer for awhile last season, is con valescent after a severe illness In San Francisco. Made-ln-Ten-Mlnmtes Ltinrh. Cleveland Leader. Mr. Jawback Gee whiz! You've been monkeying around the kitchen for three hours. What are you doing? Mrs. Jawback Getting up one of these "made-in-ten-minutes" lunches I read about on the woman's page of this magazine. Half a Century Ago From The Orvgronian of June S, 1S03 The Mountaineer says: Lieutenant Elliott, the officer who has had charge of the construction of the harbor de fenses of San Francisco, is under orders to repair to the mouth of the Colum bia and superintend the erection of forts on either side of the river. Union League in Butteville The citizens of this village and vicinity as sembled on Saturday, May 30, and having raised a flagstaff 75 feet 'high, the meeting was called to order and a pledge of loyalty to the Government was read and subscribed by more than 70 of the voters of the precinct. John V Grim, president; M. M. McKean. secretary. From Walla Walla Major Truax has been ordered to Lapwai. probably to take command of the post there. It is thouKht that Colonel Steinberger will be returned to the command of fort Walla Walla. Captain Mason's com pany of Washington Territory infantry has been ordered out on the old emi grant road across the Blue Mountains to repair the road for the Government teams bound lor the new post at Boise. 'The Salt Lake News of May IS gives an account of the breaking out of an Indian war in Idaho Territory. A mes senger had arrived from that territory with a petition to General Connor from the whites asking for military protec tion. Rumor says that the killing of one of the Indian chiefs by a white man made the red men mad, who in turn killed a company of 24 white men. who were out hunting after stock, whereupon the whites killed 17 Indians who were in Bannock City. New York. 1t&yS0. A Washington letter says that a balloon reconnols sance shows that the rebels are massing their troops near Chancellorsvllle and making preparations as though they expected to cross at United States ford. Hooker Is preparing for every emer gency. On Wednesday evening an ordinance was Introduced in the Council appro priating $700 for use in celebrating the coming Fourth of July. John Wood, the comedian, whom many of this city remember, died at Victoria recently. GOOD ROADS OF UTMOST V A LITE Taey Play Important Part In Life of Country, Says Banker. The following pertinent statement concerning good roads and their value to the community was included in a recent address by Sir Edmund Walker, president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, at Toronto: One of the most powerful and inex cusable local causes for the high price of food is the condition of our country roads. It must be clear that If a farmer has to travel 10 or 20 miles to a city to sell his produce, every hour of delay to himself and his horses and wagon, every bushel or pound less he is able to carry, every day lost tn the length of the life of his horses and wason. cause Just so much Increase in the cost of the article he has to sell. To the extent that this needless and cruel loss might. If avoided, partly add to the farmers' profits and partly lessen the cost to the consumer, the state of our roads is little short of a crime. If the bad roads around a city cause the price ox rood to oe much higher than it need be, one of the results is to enable pro ducers hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles away to enter into competition with the farmer in his own county, be cause the cost in transit over one mile of bad wagon road will cover the cost over many miles of good railroad. This competition may help the consumer by keeping prices from rising still higher, but It will not bring the price below the point fixed by the extra cost from the bad local roads. It will not do any good for those of us -who live In well- paved cities to blame the farmers for bad roads. They cannot be expected to build good roads entirely at their own expense, and good roads will not come so long as we wait for anything as unfair as this. It is not that we do not know how to construct good roads. We know fairly well what we should do, but -we hesitate to do It. In the ex cellent report on Highway Improve ments In Ontario for 1911 there is a sufficient abstract: of the systems adopted by the various countries of the world and by 33 states In the United States; of these, that In use In the State of New York seems to be the most complete. Under this system roads are classified as follows: First State roads built at the entire cost of the state. Second County roads to which "the state contributes one-half, the county 35 per cent, and the township 15 per cent. For maintenance the state col lects from the townships $50 per mile per annum, the remainder being con tributed by the state.- Third Township roads, to which the state contributes one-third of the cost of construction. Can the people of Canada be made to realize that every man. woman and child suffers from the evil of bad roads whether they use the roads directly or not? Have we not as much intelligence as the citizens of these 33 neighboring states? BEST MEN WON OUT IN RACE Publicity Played Part In Elimlnatlns; Cnflt, Says Mr. Lathrop. PORTLAND, June 4. (To the Edi tor.) Not a single undesirable got into office. At least that is my opinion as I look over the list of survivors of the municipal campaign just ended. However, what I want to say partic ularly is "There s a reason." Publicity is what did it. Cold relent less publication of records of the various unfitted candidates certainly had the effect of eliminating them. It Is as plain as the nose on your face, and I assume that the editor must have a conspicuous nasal appendage as all literary lights are supposed to have. I believe that publicity is to be the great public safeguard hereafter. It will usurp the functions of a Moses to lead the voters out of the wilder ness of incompetent self-seekers. The man who is unfitted for office, whether the unfitness be mental, moral or phys ical, will no longer stand any show because the voters will peruse his rec ord and view his achievements. The truth of what I say is forcibly brought home by the election of Mr. Dleck. Whoever heard of him be fore in a political way? A month ago the wildest guesser would not have said he had the slightest strength. Yet he won on his record. It was a very formidable record. It was called to the attention of all the voters, and Mr. Dieck finished strong in the race. I think the day has come when we need fear the incompetent man no longer, at least in municipal politics. MILTON LATHROP. Eats Slipper Left for Dog. Popular Magazine. Robert M. Plndell, Jr.. chief clerk of the Department of Commerce and La bor, Washington. D. C, seldom gets nome in time to eat ainenr with his family because the press of his wnrlt keeps him at his desk until long after everyDoay eise nas lert the building. Mrs Plndell always puts his dinner in the warming oven, where he finds It wnen ne- artrvea. One night he reached home aftr th family had gone to bed and found his mncn on top or the stove. Next morn, ing his wife opened the oven and dis covered that the food she had left for him had not been toncned. "Why. Robert, didn't you eat your supper last night?" she asked. "My dear." he replied, "I did. and enjoyed it very much, but you made a mistake and left it on top of the stove." "God heavens!" she cried. "That was the dog's supper." A Post Election Wish - By Dean Collins. The tumult and the shouting dies. And with expressions deferential' On the elect we turn our eyes. v no inumpnea through the prefer ential. On the light tom-tom shall I beat And prophesy the things that shall be, Since the old system met defeat And a new leader's found in Albee. Albee et aL be, in my mind. Now that the old regime is busted. As good a bunch as one might find To whom the city may be trusted. Yet while all others raise a cheer And the glad hand unto them proffer. Condolence I give them here. Albeit I am not a scoffer. High Is the place they occupy. And high their worth who occupy it. But there is something with a sigh In the near future 1 espy it. Soon 'gainst that gallant Five, the mob onaji nun itseir, and keep them humping. Dodging the seekers of the Job wno at tneir neels will all be Jump ing. Oh, gallant Five, in your new tas I do expect to see you do much. So from the Fates one boon I ask: .Don t let pie hunters plague them too much." Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oresonlan of June 6, 1888. Washington. .Inn. 4 - niK from the committee on military affairs, reported a bill for the relief of the citizens of the State of Oregon and the icniiunes oi tuano ana Washington ho served with tha Unit. troops in the war against the Nes Perces and Bannocks and Shoshone In diana and for the relief of lhn. lrin. in such service. Multnomah lican on the ticket has a big majority. aaxuio-na Deats liearm over l&oo votes.. Owing to the limited telegraph facili ties in Oresron outnlriA nf h a wniam- ette Valley, election returns this morn- "B irnra me aistant counties of the state are very meager, yet sufficient has been obtained to show the strong sentiment that has prevailed In favor of Republican principles. The returns given below show that Hermann has been re-elected by at least 2000 major ity. Republicans have won victories all along the line, and will have a strong majority in the next Legisla ture. At the regular annual meeting of the high school alumni last evening the following officers were elected: Presi dent, Rollo Burnham; vice-president. Miss Euphemla Alnslle; secretary. Emma Hlldebrand; treasurer, Mrs. Frank Sealy; orator. Miss Bessie Thompson; poet. Miss Maud Allen; his torian. David Williams. The president appointed the following committees: On reception, Samuel Connell, Daniel Malarkev. O. F. P.TrtTi ad t. rlsh. Miss E. Alnslle; on programme. ttaipn iioyt. Miss Clara Nundt, Miss Libble Dickinson; on refreshments. George W. Collins, Miss Emma Hilda brand, Mrs. Frank Sealy. Yesterday evening a number of gen tlemen organized the Webfoot Canoe Club. B. J. Bretherton was elected skipper and M. W. Parsons purser. In addition to C W. Hansen. T. Har ris Bartlett has been appointed immi gration agent of the Northern Pacific. W- R- Rtnlr rf TTaa t-. i i v. been awarded the contract to build a noiei at Pendleton for John Gagen. Mrs. J. A. Ruffner, of Tucson, is vis iting her brother. F. W. Bay. In this city. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. King, who went east on their bridal tour some five weeks ago, were at the old home of tha former In Luenburg, Vt on the 25th ult. ELECTION CAUSES FEUCITATIOJI. Commission Government Will Rave Fair Try Under Officials Named. PORTLAND, June 4. (To the Edi to.) The outcome of the election is certainly a cause for felicitation and I want to congratulate The Oregonian for the splendid winning fight it made in the interest of good citizenship and better municipal government. Port land is now on the threshold of a new era in which the taxpayers will get at least close to 100 cents in value on the dollar, which has not been the case in the past. It is apparent that the voters of Portland are no longer asleep and are not permitting weaklings, undesirables and Incompetents to creep Into public office. The men elected throughout are of clean records and big caliber. The commission form of government will now have an opportunity to try Itself under the most favorable sur roundings and circumstances.- It Is in the hands of friends and of com petent administrators. H. E. N. O-ivlras: Himself Awar. Judge. "Here, ma!" requested the boy, hur rying in from school before time, "hang my Jacket up behind the stove." "Ia it wet!" - "No, but teacher sent ' me home to tell you to warm my jacket for me." Little Journeys Away From Home J These pleasant Summer days one is naturally tempted to take week-end trips, or little journevs of a day or part of a day. lJnst where to go and what to do sometimes forms a puz zling problem. ftSome prefer a trip by water; others like land travel best. JfLet The Oregonian guide you to the safest and most enjoyable" .journeys. J Advertisements in The Ore gonian point the way to delight ful hours. Cfflf you want to take a trip -by water the ads tell you where . and how. Jlf you want to make a jour- . ney Jby rail or auto The Ore gonian ads give you all the" news and information you re quire. J If it is merely a trip to some ' near-by pleasure park or resort; if it is a ball game or any other enthusing outdoor sport, well, The Oregonian ads will tell you all about this, too. jlt is a pretty good thing to keep in touch with the world and its doings through the ads j in The Oregonian.