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PORTLAVD, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1913.
CREATING A FAVORED CLASS.
In a strained, unnatural construc
tion of certain provisions of the Fed
eral Constitution the Democratic party
finds a pretext for placing: the Presi
dent and Federal Judges in a special,
privileged class. Because the consti
tution provides that the compensation
of these officers shall not be dimin
ished during their terras of office, it is
specified in the Underwood bill that
no income tax shall be collected on
their salaries.
The purpose of this provision was
obviously to maintain the .President
and Judges in a position of independ
ence toward Congress by withholding
from that body, power to reduce their
salaries by specific act. It was not
the intention of the framers' of the
Constitution to exempt them from
taxes to which all other citizens are
subject. A tax levied on these officers
alone would be an indirect means of
reducing their salaries and -would be
a discrimination against them, but ex
emption from a tax would be a dis
crimination in their favor, contrary to
the whole spirit and purpose; of the
Constitution. To subject them to the
same taxes as are paid by all other
citizens is not a reduction of salary
within the meaning of that instrument,
as understood by the ordinary man.
On the other hand, exemption' from
such a tax may fairly be construed as
an indirect increase of salary, which
is expressly forbidden to the President
during his term.
No warrant for this favoritism is
found in the income tax amendment,
for by that provision Congress is em
powered to levy a tax on incomes
"from whatever source derived." This
is as much a part of the Constitution
as the provisions forbidding decrease
of salaries. Indeed, it should have
more weight, being the latest expres
sion of the popular will.
The only judicial decision to which
the framers of the income tax bill can
refer as sustaining the exemption is
one given by the Federal Supreme
Court in relation to state officers. This
decision is made the ground for ex
empting certain state officers from in
come tax, . but has no direct applica
tion to Federal officers. Were the
courts called upon to interpret a law
which taxes the latter in the same
ratio as all other citizens, they might
well be expected to read the provisions
against salary reductions in, the light
of the income tax provision and to
' a-PP'y the rule of reason to the whole
subject. While it is the duty of Con
gress also to go directly to the Consti
tution for authority, that body should
err on the side of equality before the
law rather than lean toward creation
of a privileged class of office-holders.
If the President and Judges are to
constitute such a class. Congress would
better put the onus of its creation on
the Judges.
WHERE SOCIALISM THRIVES.
The fact that the states having the
greatest percentage of Socialist vote
are in the West and Southwest, which
The Oregonian has already had occa
sion to mention, opens an interesting
line of thought. Growth of Socialism
has frequently been ascribed to immi
gration from certain foreign countries.
While a statistical comparison, at first
glance, might cause one to question the
accuracy of this assumption, a closer
analysis shows that it is not far from
accurate.
It is well known that the greater
proportion of foreign immigration of
late years has remained in the- far
Eastern states. Rhode Island, accord
ing to the census reports, has the high
est percentage of foreign-born whites
Yet Nevada records the highest So
cialist vote of all the states in compari
son with total vote cast, and Its per
centage of foreign-born white residents
is 22, as against 82.8 for Rhode Is
land. In Rhode Island the Socialist
vote Is a little short of 3 per cent of
the total, while in Nevada it is in ex
cess of 20 per cent.
An Important point to be considered,
however, is that in Rhode Island the
foreign-born whites are of newer im
migration. Many of them have not
been in the country long enough to
acquire citizenship. The alien-born
population does not come to the West
fresh from Europe. It is of an earlier
Immigration. Aside from general
knowledge that this is true, comparison
of voting strength with total popula
tion gives corroborative testimony. In
1912 in Rhode Island the vote was 14
per cent of the population. In Nevada
it was 26 per cent, thus indicating a
much larger percentage of citizenship
in the latter state.
It is not to be readily admitted, how
ever, that foreign influence and breed
ing are the only really potent aids to
growth of Socialism. The doctrine is
one of discontent. It is found in
thriving state in nearly every newly-
settled section of the West. In every
influx of homeseekers there is always
a large number of seekers after they
know not what. To the indolent, the
habitually dissatisfied, the grumbler
the far-off fields look greenest. They
are the real body of the Socialist party
Whatever may be said of the actual
promises of Socialism and its theory
that each should have the full product
of his own labor and no more, So
cialism is presented in such terms that
it draws those who do not recognize
their own deficiencies, but put the en
tire blame for their condition upon the
type of government or the social sys
tem. It attracts those who want the
equivalent of what others- have, but
who would not exert themselves to get
it under any social system.
Oklahoma Is typical of the newly-
settled states. Its foreign-born white
population is only 2.4 per cent of the
whole, but its Socialist vote is in ex-
' iess of 16 per cent. The Socialist vote
in Washington is 12.4 per cent; in Cali
fornia, 10.54; in Oregon, 9.47 per cent,
all states that have received a, large
new population in recent years, but
states that also have a foreign-born
population ranging from IS. 3 to 21.8
per cent.
Taken as a whole the foreign influ
ence shows the greater effect. It is
exhibited plainly in the Southwest in
the contrast between New Mexico and
a bordering state. New Mexico's foreign-born
population is 6.9 per cent;
its Socialist vote, 6.79 per cent. Ari
zona's foreign-born population is 22.9
per cent; its Socialist vote, 13.3 per
cent. Nevada's foreign-born percent
age is 22; its percentage of Socialist
vote, 21.15.
But even in states having large per
centages of residents of foreign na
tivity there are, of course, such mat
ters to be considered as the country
from whence the greater part of the
foreign-born came, for Socialism Is
stronger in some European nations
than in others; the extent to which the
party propaganda has been circulated;
the labor conditions; the kind of em
ployment at which the working class
is most largely engaged; the. openly
observed contrasts between wealth and
poverty and the general state of
health. For example, the idle poor who
are seekfng health are numerous in
Southern .California. The idle rich,
both sick and well, are also numerous.
Scant wonder that the contrast be
tween misery and comfort causes So
cialism, with its specious, though often
plausible appeal to those in misery, to
flourish in that clime, as statistics
show it does.
DOS'! BASE CIHREXCY OX DEBT.
The Wilson currency bill has set
many minds to working on the money
question and has stimulated produc
tion of many suggestions for reform
of the system. One of these comes
from Alex C. Lassen, formerly editor
of the New York Daily Financial News.
He proposes to increase the currency
by permitting National banks to take
out legal tender to the par value of
United States bonds and to 75 per cent
of the par value of state, county and
municipal bonds, subject to a gradu
ated tax; also to make United States
bonds exchangeable for legal tender
notes. He is so enamored of bond
secured currency that he would have
more of it, though such expanded cur
rency would have the same vice as
that now in circulation lack of elas
ticity. The best basis for currency is com
mercial paper, because it is a liquid
asset and represents actual sales. The
volume of currency would rise ' and
fall as the volume of commercial pa
per on which it was based increased
and decreased. This rise and fall would
come automatically, at short and fre
quent periods.
The objection to Mr. Lassen's
scheme is that our currency would be
based on what we. owe Instead of on
the volume of business we are doing.
As we paid off our debts, the circula
tion would be contracted by narrowing
f its basis. "Volume of circulation
would not be responsive to the de
mands of legitimate trade as evidenced
by the volume of commercial paper
afloat, but would correspond to the
amount of long-time borrowings.
The most needed reform is the cut
ting of the bond which ties our circu
lation and our debts together, for it
is unnatural. We should substitute a
tie between our' circulation and our
current business in production and
sales, for thaf is natural.
SUMMER COSTUME FOR MEX.
New York hotel men have become
the evangelists of. Summer dress re
form for men, as a necessary step to
making New York a Summer resort.
What on earth New York has to offer
as an inducement for people to go
there and swelter is more than any
Oregonian can understand, but some.
It seems, will endure the discomforts
of a Gotham Summer for the pleasure
of fluttering along Broadway, riding
on the Fifth-avenue omnibus and see
ing the palaces of the millionaires. To
such the hotel men cater.
But in order that the Summer visi
tors may dine in comfort hotel men
find necessary a revision of the rules
governing men's dinner costume
Women have reduced the weight,
height and depth of their Summer cos
tumes to a minimum, but custom com
pels men to continue sweating in black
suits. The landlords will not tolerate
discarding of the coats, since men
have gone no farther in devising light
Summer garb than to wear white
shirts with belts or invisible suspend
ers, but they propose something
which, in their estimation, is far bet
ter. This is a suit all white, with coat
and trousers of duck or pongee. The
hotel men estimate that the cpst will
be within the means of the men who
can afford the price of their dinners
and that the spectacle of many diners
garbed in immaculate white will start
a Summer boom for New York.
Everybody remembers the famous
white suit which Mark Twain wore on
several great occasions. For years he
was alone in his whiteness, which was
regarded as an eccentricity of the hu
morist. At last his sensible example
may find followers and we may be
able to distinguish the waiters from
the guests at a banquet by their attire
MARRIAGE AND LONG UKK.
Tradition long has had it that the
married individual enjoys greater Ion
gevity than the single person. Now
come statistics to the support of mere
conjecture with convincing informa
tion. Data compiled by the New York
State Health Department and issued
through the medium of the monthly
health bulletin make it clear that the
life of , the married is. not merely
matter of seeming longer; it is actually
longer. Here are some of the figures
on the comparative death rate:
Relative ages. Married. Single.
2U to 3U years 4.z e.
30 to 40 5.9 12
40 to 50 8.5 19.
20 to 30 (married women only) 5.7 4.
rnus it win be seen that the only
advantage accruing to, single persons
up to fifty years in the matter of liv
ing long occurs in women between the
ages of 20 and 30. This is the time
when the children come, for the most
part, and that fact is held responsible
for the debit againBt the married life
roll. But the difference is. very small
and when it is considered that the
average marriage occurs late in the
twenties and that the death rate very
naturally increases as the years fall
away from twenty, the showing in fa
vor of single women is further mini
mized. Perusal of the -comparative figures
after 30 are calculated to make the
single individual rush post haste . in
search of a mate and minister to foil
the grim reaper. Observe the difference
that occurs in the figures for the years
40 to 50. It is a sheer 10 per cent.
Single life during that period would
thus seem to be positively dangerous.
It isn't until the age of 80 is passed
that the scale is turned. After that
there is a slight advantage, in favor of
the single person. But possibly a
single person who has attained the
age of 80 is about immune against
death.
The reasons for all this are not dif
ficult to surmise. In the regular hab
its, self-restraint and comparative fru
gality of the average married individ
ual the answer is to be found. There
are the exceptions to. this, to be -sure.
but they are noted on both sides of
the ledger and merely serve to strike
a balance and prove the rule.
A HEBOIXE XX PDfAFOBES.
Ungaugeable ' childhood is foreverj
giving us a glimpse of the nobility and
beauty that are inherent in human na
ture. It is a beautiful story, even
though marred by tragic denouement,
that comes from near Spokane of a
heroine in pinafores.
Eight-year-old Althea Mary Stark
is out on Sunday as the proud cus
todian of baby sister, aged 14 months.
You can see the picture of spirited
childhood exercising an exaggerated
maternal supervision over toddling
mite. Human nature cannot escape
all its frailties; babes of walking age
are capable of unheard-of things, and
so it is quite in the nature of things
that baby sister should slip away in
an unguarded moment and set out to
look over the world. Rumbling of a
distant train brings big sister from
play to sense of duty. She sees with
terror that her little charge, with un
believable agility, has gained the
nearby railway and with true infantile
perversity halted there to speculate
on strange phenomena of steel rails
and approaching smoke-plumed hulk.
Althea, with no hesitation, runs to-the
track, goes directly in front of the
roaring mass that is all but upon her,
lifts little sister clear of the death
trail and gives her own life as the for
feit-
That the act was instinctive takes
nothing from its magnificence. Rather
it gives us a peep at the great things
that are latent under the pinafores
and rompers of ihe rising generation.
THE NICAHAGUAN PROTECTORATE,
The proposed protectorate over Nic
aragua is the first recognition by the
Wilson Administration of the fact that
our ownership of the Panama Canal
must necessarily enlarge the scope of
our foreign relations. Having Invested
a vast sum in the Panama Canal, we
could not permit the depreciation of
our investment by the construction of
a rival ditch over the Nicaraguan route
by another nation or by private capital.
In order to prevent such competition
we must secure the sole right to this
route. The request of Nicaragua for
protectorate, with the "offer to cede
the canal route, therefore came at an
opportune time.
Before the treaty has come before
the Senate for action, we are brought
face to face with the possibility of still
further extension of our responsibili
ties in Central America- It is urged
that our protectorate must not stand in
the way of a .future union of the Cen
tral American states. When that union
comes, the security and prosperity
which Nicaragua will have enjoyed un
der our sheltering wing may have
proved so great as to arouse the envy
of her neighbors. They may desire to
have the protectorate extended to
cover the whole union and our actual
frontier may then be carried far to the
South. - , j .' '
These enlarged responsibilities" will
require enlarged -means of living up to
our agreements. Protection of a na
tion implies more than a few words
written on paper; it implies a display
of armed force to ward off enemies
and to shut out revolutionists. We
shall need a squadron of warships to
patrol each coast. That will require
more warships. Mr. Bryan will be im
pelled by the necessities of the situa
tion to abandon his Little American
naval policy if he is to carry through
his Greater American diplomatic pol
icy.
MAKING FUN OF CHAUTAUQUAS.
We are not disposed to join in the
sneers of some of our more acidly re
fined Eastern contemporaries at Chau-
tauquas aid Chautauqua orators. The
satiric humor of these papers has been
stimulated of late to almost mosquito
like activity by Mr. Bryan's Chautau
qua difficulties. In 'the spectacle of a
statesman condescending to address
the multitude from a lecture platform
they see a lowering of National dig
nity. There may be a real question
whether or not Mr. Bryan has any
right to fill lecture engagements while
the people are paying him for his
time, but if he errs in this respect
and we think he does it must be
confessed that he errs in excellent
company. .
The Chautauquas are not to be
sneered at by people of sense. They
are among the first great examples we
have in this country of popular co
operation and they exemplify co-operation
for the best of purposes. They
bring to the rural districts music, ora
tory, and miscellaneous entertainment
at a season of the year when the farm
ers are free to enjoy it , and at prices
within the slenderest means. The
Chautauqua platform is immaculately
clean, it is fairly humorous and it is
distinctly educational. It is infinitely
better than city vaudeville in ever,y
particular. Moreover, it has served to
acquaint the masses with the advanced
thought , of the day more intimately
than they could have learned it from
books or magazines. It is more in
stEuctive to hear Mr. La Follette tell
of his ideas from the platform than
to read about them.
There is one more point that should
not be forgotten. The Chautauqua
courses may not be true university ex.
tension, but we are not afraid to wager
that they have inspired more young
men and women to seek a higher edu
cation during the last twenty-five years
than all the New York papers put to
gether, with those of Boston to boot
Mr. Bryan, combining the functions
of Secretary of State and Chautauqua
lecturer, may be an incongruous figure,
but it is not triviality in the Chautau
qua course that makes him so.
Deposition of Charles S. Mellen as
president of the New Haven road and
Impending dissolution of the railroad
empire he built up in New England
cause one to look back on the other
railroad empires which have risen and
fallen. The Gould system, grown
overambitious for ocean-to-ocean . do
minion, verged on bankruptcy and fell
to pieces. The Hill-Morgan control of
the Northwest and the Harriman
merger were blocked by court decree
But the Pennsylvania system and th
Vanderbilt system have each held to
gether under the direction of a succes-
sion of able executives. A railroad em
pire built up by a meteoric genius in
defiance of public opinion; law and
natural conditions is as short-lived as
its founder, but one which is created to
serve the. people, in compact, contigu
ous territory and which is managed by
railroad men of skill and experience
will endure.
Having wasted nearly all of its tim
ber, Pennsylvania is now preparing to
conserve what remains. A bill has
passed the Legislature admitting for
ested land to an auxiliary reserve,
subject to a minimum tax at a valua
tion - of - SI an acre. The state com
pensates the counties for consequent
loss of revenue by paying the school
and road taxes on the reserved land.
Time was when great rafts of logs
were poled down' the rivers in the
Spring, but the raftsman's occupation
is almost gone. Where the forests once
grew, unchecked floods rush down, de
nuding hills of soil and laying waste
cities.
A new explosive has been discovered
by Lieutenant Harold Chase Wood
ward, of the Twenty-sixth Engineers,
New York National Guard, who will
give his secret to the Government with
out asking reward. Equal in power to
the strongest dynamite, this new com.
pound, called trotol, may be handled
with perfect safety and explodes only
by contact with fulminate of mercury,
It cannot be set off by ignition or ex
ploded by shock, however great. It
was packed inside a shell, which was
fired at armor plate on which it struck
with terrific force, but the trotol did
not explode.
Victory over Turkey has given the
Balkan states an Increased idea of
their own importance which causes
each of them to desire separate dip
lomatic recognition from this country.
Bulgaria, Servia- and Roumania now
share an American Minister among
them, but they have asked to have one
sent to each of them. This is the more
desirable since Bulgaria has been at
war with the other two states named.
Already Charles J. Vopicka, a Chicago
Bohemian,- has been picked for Minis-
ter to Bulgaria, and has had inter
views with President Wilson and Sec
retary Bryan.
The Standard Oil Company has come
to the conclusion that it no longer
pays to "buck" or evade the law. It
has followed its compromise with Mis
souri by making one with Texas. It
has paid to the latter state $500,000 in
commutation of fines, and has agreed
that its subsidiaries shall be operated
separately and that their stock shall
be placed In the hands of trustees
named by the Attorney-General. The
octopus seems actually to be becom
ing good.
Mediation is all rot, says Ambassa
dor Wilson. That's what many of us
think about the ambassador's pet
scheme for recognition of the mur
derous traitor, Huerta, With 1,000,000
bandits operating unrestrained in
Mexico it is unfortunately probable
that intervention will prove the one
effective remedy.
Those Eastern women all "shape
ly," according to reports who insist
on the limit in bathing suits should be
allowed their will. Such course would
be scandalous, no doubt, but; they
would soon tire of the novelty and be
decent, if they could.
Bryan asks if officials should live
within their salaries. Why not? Take
some of those frugal New York police
officials. Many have been known to
save large fortunes in a few years
from salaries of $100 a month..
Disreeardiner. to avoid useless dis -
cusslon. the 'moral side of the issue,
a circus should not be allowed to give
rM . i-
an e-xiiiuiuiuii on ouuua,. j-iib
and men are entitled to one day s rest
in me weeK ana snouia nave it.
r r0ii.,r io
j .- i i
was o.a, wnicn is remarKaoiy low, ana
may be accounted for by one fact, at
least mat tne attendance is maae up
of determined youtig men and women.
A Seattle judge closed his door with
a bitter oath fn the faces of two agi
tators. That's not our idea of judi
cial conduct, but the provocation was
almost too great for mere mortal.
The new placer strike in the Shu-
shanna diggings is too late to start a
stampede from the States, although
$3600 in forty-eight hours is almost
enough to yank a man off a sickbed.
The Japanese dispute is nearing an
end. No doubt the Nipponese have as
certained to their complete satisfac
tion that we are not to be talked out
of anything.
Those who made possible that won
derful trip to the country should enjoy
with keen relish the happy antics of
the youngsters.
Filmy gowns and slit skirts with
longer slits are to be fashionable. Why
not abolish the skirt at once and have
done with it?
beattle is said to be the baldheaded-
est city on tne coast. iNeitner early nor
late piety is responsible in the case of
Seattle.
. , , 4. ,. , , .
icpuweu an auiu uiuwuui m uie """-
sun without swearing, lies more tnan
human.
Quarantine the California potato and
keep out the pest. The Oregon arti
cle is best for Oregonians and is ready !
to eat. i
Rebel leaders in China are seeking
peace. The net result will be a new
crop of rebel leaders.
Six rides for at quarter is proposed.
Or, if you want the police auto serv
ice, six quarts for a rider.
Demands on Huerta may produce
results. At least requests are idle and
diplomacy is empty.
No continuous ball next Summer!
Who should worry? Next Summer 13
a long time away.
Really, Colonel, the long suspense is
wearing. Now what did you do with
the six cents?
I. W. W. fight among themselves.
Even the rattler bites itself when
aroused.
The rock-the-boat menace has found
a close rival in the speed-the-auto
fiend.
The forecaster's' "showers tonight"
has been put back Into the card index.
Did you help send those
youngsters to the country?
happy
I BOCRXB IN CONGRESS CORRIDORS
I HIa Motives Are Examined Into and
Questioned by Correspondent.
PORTLAND, July 25. (To the 'Edi
tor.) Congress must feel safe and
comfortable with.our ex-Senator haunt
ing Its corridors and legislative cham
bers, under a privilege due an ex-member.
There is a suspicious set of cir
cumstances, which needs an airing, in
connection with his patriotic attend
ance there, on no Governmental pay
roll at least, and I. think I am able to
shed light on what it is.
The Congressional Record attests to
the fact that about the last function
the gentleman performed In official ca
pacity was as member of the post-
office appropriation committee bill,
urging immediate passage to vigorously
oppose the efforts of Senator Ashurst,
who desired a large reduction in the
amount Bourne's committee had award
ed for railroad compensation for mail
carriage. Senator Ashurst said it was
a matter of current notoriety that the
railroads were exacting unduly exaggerated-rates
for postal carriage; some
nine or ten times higher than for or
dinary freight, and four or five times
higher than the same companies
charged express companies for trans
portation. This Bourne evasively de
nied, and gained his point by down
right falsification. The railroads are
now enjoying the same unreasonable
rate they have long been accustomed to,
through Bourne's persistence in their
behalf. Today, who is it that. ' with
rampant haste, storms the committee
chamber to protest the act of our new
Postmaster-General, who has recently
reduced postal rates in the first and
second zones, in consonance with what
he construes to be his right under the
bill, and is endeavoring to block the
operation of the new executive? None
other than brother Jonathan. Why
this strenuous assault against a meas
ure that inures to the benefit of the
people and correspondingly hurts the
express companies?
It does not take a high order of pre
science or much gurgitation of the
think tank to know the reason why,
when we also read that the railroads, in
aid of Jonathan, rush to his support
with supplicating petitions to Con
gress to stay the marauding hand of
the Postmaster-General, as they will
lose $20,000,000 of freightage from the
express companies, if the order is not
rescinded. Can" anyone be in doubt as
to who cares for the individual who
but recently in Oregon was consigned
to "that bourne from which no traveler
returns" unless he is dead-headed?
Well, we rather think not.
CHARLES P. CHURCH.
Real Oratory What Is Itt
PORTLAND, July 28. (To the Edi
tor.) I have of late listened to not a
few distinguished scholars, thinkers,
writers, orators, and speakers. Yes
terday at the African Methodist Episco
pal Church, in Portland, I heard a man.
born a slave, but now a bishop In his
denomination, preach, and this is the
conclusion:
Eloquence, true eloquence, does not
consist in speech. It is not brought
from far. Labor, learning and lngenu
Ity may toll for it in vain. Words and
phrases may be marshaled in every
way, but they do not and cannot pro
duce it.
Eloquence exists in the man, in what
he has, on his heart, and in the occa
sion, as it did in Mr. Lincoln at Gettys
burg. Intense expression, affected pas
sion, declamation, and pomp of man
ner, all may aspire after eloquence, but
they-cannot reach it. It comes. If at
all, like the outburst of grief, or Joy in
a child, with spontaneous, original, mo
tive force. Therefore, the orator or
preacher the real thing is born, not
manufactured. C. E. CLINE.
Golflnor on Sunday,
Suburban Life.
If I were an autocrat I would decree
that the golf-course should be open on
Sunday, but not until the hours of
morning worship are over. Not because
1 1 think the church should shrink from
competition. On the contrary, it ougnt
to.make its offering to the community
-of so higha value in each mans life
that lt need fear no competition. There
ougnt to be no excuse open, so far as
the communitv can help, for the sin or
omission on the part of the man who
outrht to be worshiping with his fel-
i low men. a,nu iu do uj kivuik mo dku
ort to the most important institution
r t-bA -nmrmlIl1,v. t would decree that
anv ,. who neglected his family to
Diay golf on Sunday should be ducked
In the water hazard at the thirteenth
hole at the hands of Colonel Bogey.
AFTER THE MORNING.
When it was morning
And life leaped high with hope.
There came a whispered warning.
The future softly spoke.
Unheeding then those careless ears
And wisdom s voice awoke
No shadow of the coming years.
When it was morning.
On Angel wings the moments fled,
The morning passed away;
No thought of age or future dread
Could modifv or sway
Where riant life on pleasure led.
'Twas laughter loud and gay,
When it was morning.
At last is heard another song,
Life's happy morning fades;
lis evening now and gathering gloom,
The owl hoots from out the shades
And ghostly grayish shadows loom
Sepulchral from the silent glades.
Now memory drops her curtain on
A scene repeated o er and o er.
And Father Time, his victory won.
Calls softly from the other shore.
Farewell bright hopes, ah,- whither
fled?
An nhr nnnwprn "whither fled?1
Among the shadows with the dead
Where went the morning.
we cry in vain, 'twas ever thus
The dearest hopes of most of us
I Will vanish on the frosty air
without the solace of a tear,
After the morning.
George H. Sands, Portland, Or.
A RUNE OF DESIRE.
Ah Love, you and I,
With a smile, with a sigh.
Let us wave the world away;
( Let us drift in the sheen
Of a mystic moonbeam.
That reaches the rim of day.
We shall sail, out afar
To the fairest fair star
That glows in the realms above
We shall weave the beams
With the thread of our dreams,
And, fashion the garments of Love
And, the eyes of the sky
Shall see us sail by.
And beckon and beam with delight
And the hours will be slow,
As safely we go
Into our haven of light.
And there as we ride.
We'll answer the tide
That calls from the Bay of Desire;
We'll drift deeper still
To the heart of the thrill
That seeks and sanctifies fire.
Our limbs we'll lave
In the tremulous wave
Of joy that carries us far;
Our souls we'll tether
To Lore, while together
We drift on the bay of our star.
Ah, Love, you and I,
Let us whisper good-bye
To the world, let us hasten away;
For, there's nothing below
But the wind and the snow.
And hearts grown weary and grav.
MABEL HOLMES PARSONS.
Eugene, Or.
GREAT MAJORITY BEHIND MAYOR
Laborer Declares 85 Per Cent Indorse
Stand Against Street Speaking.
LENTS, July 28. (To the Editor.)
I am a common laborer voted for A.
G. Rushlight in District 153.
In the present controversy the in
significant bunch of I. W. W.'s seem to
think they are the whole thing in the
city. I have heard with my own ears,
as thousands of others have, their soap
box orators run down the. churches.
United States Government and about
everything else under the sun.
The present Mayor and Sheriff are
supported by probably 95 per cent of
the people in the city. If the issue ever
comes to a real show-down I for one
am in favor of standing by their guns.
Let's settle the thing once for all.
The voters should wake up and get
up counter meetings to indorse the
present officials; give them to under
stand they are supported by a big, big
majority of the people of the city.
Let them start their threatened re
call. We will show them where to get
off at. . - P. B. PITTS.
Based on Wrong Figures.
PORTLAND, July 18. (To the Edi
tor.) I have read with Interest a para
graph in The Oregonian on the crop
traffic issue in which you state "there
is no fear that the coveted record will
pass to Puget Sound, much less a single
city there." I hope so, too, but I have
before me R. G. Dunn & Co.'s Trade Re
view of February, 1913, which gives the
following Items for the year 1912:
EXPORTS.
Wheat. Flour.
Portland - $6,243,824 12.559.119
Seattle 1.554.424 7.119,629
Tacoma 6,411,833 Not stated
In view of these statistics, which 1
presume are correct, it is hoped the
ear 1913 will see more vessels here to
carry the grain crop and thus bring
back the coveted record. O. W. C.
In the December issue of the bulletin
f the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, Department of Commerce,
wheat exports for 1912 credit Portland
with having sent abroad 6,810,206 bush
els, valued at $6,273,825.
From the entire Puget Sound district
the same authority places the exporta
tion at 5,108,205 bushels, valued at $4,-
23,493.
A comparison also in the Government
publication, shows Portland exported
7,703,061 bushels in 1911 . and Puget
Sound 3,434,873 bushels, while In 1910
Portland floated 5,120,826 bushels and
Puget Sound 4,499,487 bushels.
For the cereal year ending June 30,
1913, the Department of Commerce pub
lication announces that , Portland ex
ported 8,147,139 bushels worth $6,955,
233 and Puget Sound 5,668,394 bushels
at $4,790,962.
For the preceding period Portland, in
the same official statement, is reported
to have floated to foreign destinations
6,829,943 bushels at $5,895,993 and Puget
Sound 3,191,983 bushels, at $2,740,711
The year before. Portland disposed of
7,345,784 bushels at $6,314,305 and Puget
Sound 3,997,435 bushels, at $3,461,200,
"Bob White" Likes Music.
Suburban Life.
A baby quail was captured and
brought to the house. The large cage
provided for him stood upon a square
of oilcloth, and this was little Bob
White's ranch. Here were his food
his basin of water, and the sandpile
where he took his daily dust-bath. The
door of his house was always open
but he seldom wandered beyond the
limits of his own domain. One thing
Invariably tempted this little recluse to
venture forth, this was the sound of
music. Like a small boy racing after
the band, the moment the tones of the
piano reached his quick ear he started
on a run, and the -quick pat-patting of
his tiny feet announced his approach.
He would circle about the piano, and,
with a fluff-fluff of his short wings,
mount to the keyboard. The little
square corner at its end was his opera
chair, where he cuddled down content
edly as long as the music continued, at
times expressing his appreciation by a
contented soft, purring sound.
The Deadly Bottle. -
Forester believes bottles thrown
away in timbered areas cause forest
fires. News item.)
Oh, bottle round, designed to hold
The hop vine's freight of liquid gold!
Oh, bottle flat, whose limpid sides
Retain the corn juice s subtle tides!
Oh, bottle square, whose cubic contents
Contain some quack prescription non
sense!
Oh, bottles big and bottles small.
All colors, sizes, shapes, yea all
Have dangers now, much greater far
Than were suspected heretofore.
The ope juice brand no longer fires
Only interiors' sacred pyres;
No longer lights but golden glows
To cure depressions' sombre woes.
For, when the subtle dope is quaft
The bottle's self may seize some shaft
Of radiant brilliance from tVie sun
And fire the woods by com-bus-tion.
Hence bury all the glass in sight.
Or forest fires may blear the night.
P. O. TRY.
Easterner Offers Criticisms.
PORTLAND, July 29. (To the Edi
tor.) As a stranger in Portland, please
permit me to call attention to the great
need of names of streets being placed
at every street corner, also to the fact
that the Western custom of allowing
smoking in hotel dining-rooms is most
objectionable to most Eastern people,
especially the smoking of cigarettes.
Why not set apart a separate eating
room for those who want to mix their
smoke with their food, or else shut
out smoking altogether from hotel dining-rooms,
as most of the better class
of Eastern hotels do? EASTERN.
Not First Buffalo Calf.
SHERWOOD, Or., July 27. (To the
Editor.) In The Oregonian an article
states that the buffalo calf born at the
park is the first of its kind to be born
in Portland.
About 25 years ago a full-blooded
buffalo calf was born on Third street,
near Salmon. The owner of the father,
mother and baby was Mr. Winston, a
showman, who was engaged in raising
buffaloes in California, the last I heard
of him. S. M. KELSO.
Report of Conference.
PORTLAND, July 27. (To the Edi
tor.) Where and how can I obtain a
copy of the report of the Charities and
Correction conference recently held in
Seattle? W. M. LISSNER.
Write to Alexander Johnson, general
secretary, Angola, Ind. The report is
probably not yet out of the hands of
the printer. Bound reports of proceed
ings have heretofore sold for $2.
Magnets.
PORTLAND, July 27. (To the Edi
tor.) Is there any way to magnetize
gold, or where can I find out?
JOHN GREENWOOD.
Iron, nickel and cobalt are the only
metals that are attracted by the mag
net and can become magnets them
selves.
Fashioning: a Physician.
New York Weekly.
Professor If a person In good health
but who imagined himself sick, should
send for you, what would you do?
Medical Student Give him something
to make him sick, and then administer
an antidote. Professor Don't waste
any more time here; hang out your
shingle.
Twenty-five Years Ag9
From The Oregonian of July 29, 1SSS.
Walla Walla, July" 28. Lieutenant D.
L. Brainerd, Second Cavalry, left yes7
terday for Vancouver, where he has
been detailed for target practice duty.
Tacoma, W. T.. July 2S. E. E. Ellis,
Canadian Pacific agent, just returned
from Vancouver, reports that the new
steamship Aberdeen, belon&ing to the
Canadian Pacific" fleet, arrived there on
Monday from Yokohama.
Walla Walla. July 2S. Delegate Voor
hees says a revocation of his determi
nation not to be a candidate for ' the
Congressional nomination this' Fall is
not to be thought of. ; , '. .
N. J. Levinson, who has been con
nected with The Oregonian lor more
than nine years and for the past six
years the city editor, loaves its service
with this issue, .and will go to Seattle
In a few days as the assistant general
manager of the Post - Intelligencer.
Samuel R. Frazier, who has had charge
of The Oregonian's news service in
Washington Territory, succeeds Mr.
Levinson. -
Yesterday forenoon about 10 o'clock
fire destroyed the excelsior and shoddy
factory of Jonathan Tice, ubout 200
yards north of the corporate line on
the Riverside road. Loss nearly $15,00u,
without a dollar of insurance.
In the game between the Portlands
and Willamettes yesterday McMullen
pitched for the former and held the
East Side boys down to three hits for
seven Innings. In the next two innings
they pounded him for eight hits and
scored six runs, and won the game.
Score: Willamettes S, Portlands 5.
C. H. Mclsaacs, a young man well
known in National Guard and other
circles, was arrested on a charge of
blackmailing by Constable Samuel Sim
mons yesterday. The complaining wit
ness is Mrs. Dr. Frances McMurray,
who charges that Mclsaacs told her he
was the duly authorized agent of John
D. Wilcox, proprietor of the Daily News,
and that he wanted $1500 for the re
traction of certain statements against
the professional character of the doctor.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregronian of July 29. 1S63.
Vicksburg, July 18. To General Hal-
leck: Johnston evacuated Jackson on
the 16th. The rebels are in full retreat.
Sherman says most of Johnston's army
must perish from heat and want ot
water. GRANT.
New York, July 22. Letters from
Rosecrans' army dated July 14 report
the army again in motion. The enemy's
rear had been shelled, but no fighting
had occurred.
Washington, July 22. From the best
information it appears that Lee's army
is near Winchester or above that point,
while our army is in such a position
that he cannot go back to Richmond
without fighting at disadvantage.
The weather yesterday was much
pleasanter. The thermometer at noon
indicated 92 in the shade and at 4
o'clock it had fallen to 82V4.
The bark William A Banks arrived
yesterday from Nanaimo. Her cargo
consisted of 490 tons of coal; con
signed to Messrs. Leonard & .Green..
There are now advertised for sale
six fine lots of ground, situated on the
west side of the public square. They
now comprise one of the finest orchards
in the state and are owned by Thomas
Pritchard, Esq. We would call the
attention of the County Commissioners
to this as an eligible site for the pro
posed new Courthouse.
EMBROIDERS AT 10S YEARS.
English Woman Who Spent 62 years In"
America Now Thrives at Home.
From New- York Times.
London Mrs. Rose Wood, daughter
of William Daniell, the Royal Acade
mician, and niece of Richard Westall,
R. A., who taught drawing to Queen
Victoria, celebrat&d recently her 102d
birthday anniversary.
The old woman who dwells in a
pleasant little house with its own
grounds at Chertsey, went to America
when 17 years old. Her voyage out
took six weeks, and her return trip,
62 years later, one week.
She did artistic needlework while
she chatted about her American ex
periences. A slight deafness is the
only sign of her advanced age. She
said:
"One thing I have always regretted
In leaving America. It Is, I haven't
had good cooking since. Here the
cuisine is too limited. England has no
Imagination, but America cooks the
old woman waved her hands gayly
they combine all tiie delicate touches
of French cooking with sound quality.
"I lived in Baltimore and had a negro
cook for 62 years. I have been just .a
longing for some of that corn pone
she used to make. I tried to get my
children to go back. They never would.
So I am now endeavoring to persuade
my granddaughter. I suppose I ara
too old to go alone."
She sighed wistfully, and added:
"Aside from the cooking I don't re
member much about the United States
except the church-going and; giving
music lessons. My father made a spe--
cialty of Indian studies. I painted, too.
but after I returned to England, where
I studied with Uncle Richard, Queen
Victoria's first drawing master."
Mrs. Wood closed her interview ab
ruptly, saying that she had to finish
the centerpiece she was making for a
church bazaar, and added, , demonstrat
ing that ambition did not die with age:
"I've a reputation for this sort of
thing, so I must get to work and not
gossip any more about America, tor I
guess lt would be too great a task to
return."
Fine Edge of Flattery.
The Sphinx.
He The biggest roughnecks always
get the prettiest girls. She Now you're
trying to flatter me. ,
July Time
Needs for the
Youngsters
The children these hot ctays
need particular attention in
food, clothing, and other things
to keep them sound and healthy.
Little things that add to
their every day and every
night comforts must be had.
Where to get them is not al
ways a question easily answered
until an advertisement in The
Oregonian offers the solution.
Science is constantly at work
devising things for the im
provement of humanity, and
often these things, amazingly
simple, may be had for a, few
cents, and some druggist or
other dealer heralds the news
to the world in an advertise
ment. Advertising in The Oregonian
is more than the mere mention
of things for sale.
Advertising is one of the
greatest boons of modem times.
if