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THE MORXIXG- OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, ATJGTJST 13, 1913. PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland, Oregon, Postofflcs as second-class matter. Subscription Rates Invariably in Advance: (BY MAIL,) Dally, Sunday Included, one year ...... .$8-00 uBLiy, buntiay included, sli montbs ..... .o Laiiy, Sunday Included, three months .. 2.23 Daily, Sunday Included, one month. ..... .75 Ijaily. without Sunday, one year ........ 6.VU iJally, without Sunday, six months ..... 8.25 Iaily, without Sunday, three months... 1.73 iJaiiy. without Sunday, one month Weekly, one year 1.50 Sunday, one year . ........ 2.5o bunday and weekly, one year 8.5U (BY CARRIER) Daily, Sunday Included, one year 9.O0 iJaily, Sunday included, one month . .... .73 How to Remit Send postofflcs money or der, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. uive postoflice address In lull, including county and state. Postage Rates 12 to 18 pages, 1 cent; 18 to 32 pages. 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 8 cents; bO to 60 pages. 4 cents; 62 to 70 pages, 3 cents; 78 to U2 pages, ti cents. Foreign post age, double rates. - Eastern Business Office Verree & Conk lin. New York, Brunswick building. Chi cago, steger building. Sso Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Co., 742 Market St. European Office No. 2 Regent street S. w.. London. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, Al. 13, 1813. THE MATTER WITH SULZER. Why has Tammany had the cour age to lead an attack on Governor Sulzer, who champions the cause of real popular self-government by his advocacy of the direct primary? The "World's "Work explains this fact by saying: The people have not abandoned their belief In this reform. The plain fact Is that they have little enthusiasm for Mr. Sulzer. They have no great confidence in his fundamental sincerity. . . . His whole career has seemed to Indicate that Mr. Sulzer was prepared to play the particular kind of politics that seemed most likely to advance his politiclal fortunes. Had Mr. Sulzer won popular sup port as did Governor Hughes, would Tammany have dared to go to such extremes in fighting him? It Is ex tremely improbable. Tammany Is led by some of the most sagacious poli ticians in the United States. They are in politics for "what there is in it," but they know that if they run counter to an overwhelming public opinion they will be swept out of power. None of the crooked devices they have adopted to turn things their way can stand against a wave of popular in dignation any better than a child's hill of sand can stand against the ris ing tide. But Tammany . accurately gauges public opinion. It knows how much the people will "stand for" without such an uprising. It some times goes too far, but its continued supremacy proves that it usually Judges correctly. Tammany sees that Mr. Sulzer has not caught the public ear; that the people as a masskdo not boil with enthusiasm for him and with indig nation against his opponents. It there fore cynically issues orders to its members of the Legislature to tear him down, and those members, as cynically, obey orders, fearless of con sequences. Contrast this situation with that which existed when Governor Hughes was fighting for his bill against race track gambling. Mr. Hughes appealed from the Legislature to the people, and the people nobly responded. Then one legislator after another deserted the opposition and fell in behind him until victory was his. The reason is that the people be lieved in Governor Hughes; they knew he was "straight." They do not believe in Governor Sulzer; they do not know how soon he would stop the fight and go over to the enemy, for they suspect that he is actuated by political expediency, Jiot by convic tion. They will not follow a leader whom they cannot trust. Therefore, they regard the fight now in progress at Albany as a fight between two self seeking political leaders, and their In dignation at the high-handed proceed ings of Tammany is chilled by their distrust of the Governor. FOREIGN BOOKS AND TRADE. The protest against the proposed duty on books printed in foreign lan guages comes chiefly from foreign born citizens who speak those tongues. But others might well Join in it. Knowledge of foreign languages is be coming more and more a means of extending foreign trade, and if we extend our trade abroad, as defenders of the Underwood tariff predict, it will become necessary in our large ex port houses. Being first to occupy the field of foreign commerce in modern times, the English imposed the use of their language on those with whom they dealt and began to yield only when the Germans, ready linguists, won away customers by corresponding and conversing with them in their own lan guage. They are still slow to change their practices, for their inborn con tempt for everything foreign still fights against business expediency. The Germans in the seventies sent thou sands of young men to England to ac quire English business habits and flu ency in the English languge. These young men carried their knowledge home and to foreign lands, and to them are due in large measure the inroads which Germany has made on England's foreign markets. We in the United States have been so absorbed in the development of our own country and the supply of our home market that we have felt no need to acquire foreign languages as an aid to business. The contempt felt by many native-borns for immigrants and the fact that these immigrants are generally poor and illiterate help to explain this neglect. When a stray letter in a foreign language woold reach an American firm, a translation would be obtained with much diffi culty and the reply would be written in English. That would not conduce to the cultivation of business relations with the foreigner. A change is coming over business conditions. Our foreign sales of man ufactures already exceed those of food products. Our factories must more and more look abroad for their mar kets. They must conduct regular cor respondence In foreign languages, which will require clerks familiar with those languages. They must send abroad salesmen able to converse in the tongues of the countries they visit. The Panama Canal will increase the volume of trade with Latin-American countries, and Spanish will need to be used in our intercourse with those countries. Spanish and German are, next to English, the languages of com merce, and will soon need to be made part of the curriculum of a young man training for a business career. Then foreign books should be per mitted to come in at such prices that 'hey may fall into the hands of the masses. Duties on such books will hamper us in acquiring the tools with which we are to conquer foreign mar kets. If a revenue duty must be im posed upon them. It should be so small as not to add appreciably to their price and therefore not to check their coming. EASY TO RECOMMEND. Commenting on Secretary Daniels' statement that he has visited every Navy station yard and training school in the United States and will now set about preparing his recommenda tions to Congress, the New York Sun says: - That Is easy enough, but the difficulty is not only to make recommendations that will really benefit the service but to -persuade Congress to consider them seriously. For example, other Secretaries of the Navy have recommended aboli tion of useless Navy yards, but Con gress has not taken away from its members their precious bits of pork. Other Secretaries have pointed out the necessity of maintaining- our rank as a naval power by building two or three battleships yearly, but Con gress has stinted the Navy while wasting money on pensions and build ings. Other Secretaries have shown the necessity of building torpedo boats, destroyers, collies and other auxiliaries in a certain ratio to the number of battleships and cruisers, but our Navy is still lopsided. Secretaries can recommend without end, but will Congress heed their recommendations? MELODRAMA SPOILED. It is a cruel Jblow Tokio has given Mexican vanity and schoolgirl diplo macy. Up and down the western bor der of the United States one Felix Diaz has been proceeding with great mystery en route to Japan. He In sisted with suggestive reserve that his mission was devised purely to extend thanks from Mexico for Japan's par ticipation in an ancient exposition. Members of his suite let drop an oc casional hint about the errand being of a far greater significance. Com ment was heard from many quarters of the globe -and suspicion was not al layed when it developed that a party of Japanese officials would Journey on the same boat Diaz had arranged to board for Japan, even though the Japanese said it was a mere coinci dence. Now the little Mexican melodrama has had an anti-climax. Japan will not receive the handsome, dashing and mysterious Felix except as a pri vate citizen. If, in the bottom of his heart, he had hopes of alliances or of concocting a neat little intrigue di rected against the United States his ambitions pass up In smoke. Having Deen advised of Japan's atti.ude, he even speaks of abandoning his trip and has cabled Mexico for Instruc tions. We surmise that if Felix does not make the trip to Japan it will be solely because he doesn't want to. We can hardly picture Huerta recalling so dangerous an adversary into the zone of a tottering administration. When things get a bit more shaky Huerta might find in Diaz another Huerta. It is difficult to conceive of the distinguished Felix slipping a stiletto into the presidential back, but then queer practices are followed in Mexican politics. Henceforward Diaz, en route to Japan, will be a less sus picious figure than Diaz on his way back to Mexico City. IMPROVING OX MARRIAGE. Marriage is the most convenient and best solution of a difficult problem that society has been able to devise. It is a growth, a product of the cen turies, and was evolved out of human experience. Those persons who would revolutionize marriage as they would rearrange the furniture in a house recognize the inadequacies of mar riage without having the Intelligence to affix a true appreciation to things as they are. Those who would, strip marriage of its shortcomings by stir ring in new love potions are shallow faddists who will not benefit them selves or anyone else. There are many causes of married infelicity that have been discovered and alleviated in a measure. The new movement for hygienic marriage is a step In that -direction. Out of long experience many warnings have sprung up and are sounded to the young as they approach the age when marriage is to be contracted. But the limita tions of married life are the limita tions of human nature. So long as human nature has its errors and shortcomings these will be reflected in the married state as well as in the single. Common sense in selecting a life mate and in pursuing conjugal se renity are th'e great safeguards, but then common sense is a human virtue that everyone may not enjoy. Anyway, newly devised and untried fads for promoting domestic felicity, unless backed by those qualities which in sure happiness, are a waste of time If they are not dangerous as giving a wrong viewpoint. POLITICAL GALLANTRY. Somebody has favored The Ore gonian with a marked copy of the Sacramento Union, and the article which our thoughtful friend deemed of particular interest is an interview with Judge W. A. Anderson, In which Judge Anderson give's his impressions of Portland. Some of the Judge's re marks are gratifying, others discon certing. He says, with much misgiv ing, that there seems to be' a dispo sition to make Portland "chemically pure' or morally pure; that he found members of Portland's "boost club" not inclined to pay attention to vis itors and that the streetcar conductors are not very courteous to information seekers. On the other hand, he ad mires The Oregonian and thinks Port land has a firm Mayor and brave Sheriff, while, of course, the beauty of the city's setting is complimented. We are not so modest as to be sur prised by the Judge's compliments. but as to his discovery of failures in courtesy can only believe he was exceptionally unlucky. We shall, therefore, pass by these observations more quickly to reach the important statement that "Portland cannot boast of as many pretty and well-dressed women as we have in our city of Sacramento." This charge is made to seem graver by our failure to recall having ever heard of Sacramento as a center of feminine beauty. If the Judge had been comparing Portland with San Francisco in this respeot the remark might have been credited to personal gallantry and a slight local prejudice. Everybody has heard of the one re deeming feature of San Francisco's climate. It promotes bright eyes and rosy cheeks. But who ever heard of Sacramento as a haven for males of an appreciative ej'e? We have no faith in the accuracy of the Judge's comparison, yet we do not blame him one bit. Doubtless the advent of woman suffrage will hereafter spare us repetition and re iteration by every returning traveler that "Jonesville is good enough for me." In all states where equal rights prevail no man after visiting some other state will fail to - express his conviction that nowhere else than home does feminine loveliness so flour ish and gratify the ocular sense par ticularly . when the interviewed pos sesses a political handle to his name or has political ambitions,- ON A BUSINESS BASIS. A remarkable illustration of the benefits accruing from commission government, where one man has full charge of each department of the city's airairs and devotes his entire time to it instead of making his office a mere side issue, is the plan by which the city is to become the purchaser of its own bonds. On the face of it, the sale by the city at a discount of bonds against one fund at 4 and 6 per cent while the city has money in another fund drawing only 2 per cent is ab surd. The city can save the discount on the bonds it sells and can Increase the interest accruing to the sinking fund for which it buys them by caus ing one department to work with the other in financial affairs. Saving of the discount on the bonds sold will reduce the cost of improve ments made with the proceeds, for the city will actually be paying 4 or 6 per cent interest on each $100 realized instead of on each $88 or $90, as would be the case if the bonds were dis counted to that figure. The difference will remain in the pockets of the prop erty owners .who pay for street and sewer improvements or water rates. The additional 2 or 4 per cent real ized by the sinking fund on which the bonds are bought will hasten the date of redemption of the bonds against which the sinking fund is created and will thus reduce the ag gregate amount of interest to be paid. This is a second saving to the taxpayer. This is only one of many economies which are being effected by the City Commission. All contribute to, rather than detract from, efficiency. They prove that it pays to hire a $6000 man for Mayor and four $5000 men for Commissioners. It takes a $5000 man to think out such economies and to have the devotion to duty required to carry them out. If the Commission goes on as it has begun, those persons who threw up their hands In dismay at the suggestion of paying the Com missioners such a salary will soon acknowledge that Commissioners are cheap at the price. HOW TO LITE LONG. If Lord Strathcona were one of our American potentates we should call him an empire builder. Since he is only a Canadian, he goes by the title of a railroad builder, but in his mod est way he has done wonders, perhaps not less marvelous than our own J. J. Hill. Lord Strathcona emerges into prominence Just now on account of celebrating his ninety-third birthday. At .that ripe age he is still hale. His body is lithe and his mind active. Like others who have surpassed the scriptural limit of human life he has been at some pains to explain the secret of his longevity. Some cen tenarians ascribe their length of days to copious tobacco chewing, others to the free use of strong liquors. Lord Strathcona says he has reached the ninety-third milestone because he has always lived a hardy and abstinent life. In his many exploring trips he has fared the same as his men, sleep ing on fir boughs by a campfire and eating beans and bacon. In the course of his explorations he has penetrated to wilds never before trodden by engineers, blazed the way for new railroads by which the Cana dian Northwest has been opened to settlement and great communities of happy people have been founded, and acquired a fame that history will never forget. His life has been passed in this way, laying out paths for others to tread, and during it all he has "never turned out of his way to avoid stress or distress." The spites and favors of fortune he has borne with an equal mind and through all the tricks of fate he has kept his heart warm and his soul peaceful. From his long and varied experiences Lord Strathcona deduces the lesson that the way to live to a great age is to keep the body well in subjection, never pamper it and often compel it to undergo real hardships. Once given the rein the flesh soon seeks to be master and quickly commits sui cide by its love of indulgence. Most men who have accomplished great things have been temperate at least, if not abstinent. They have taught their bodies to stay in the background and brought their spiritual part to the front. There is a story of a famous French commander who always went into battle trembling with physi cal fright. His hand would shake and his legs totter, but he managed to forge to. the front, dragging his re luctant limbs along like cringing slaves. One day, when a battle was beginning, an attendant heard him say to his cowardly members, "What, quaking already at the mere sound of the cannon? I am going to take you right up to their mouths." It has seldom been found that too great con sideration for the physical being does it good. The body is like an ill-bred dependent who makes every new fa vor an excuse for demanding more. Locke, the father of English philos ophy, taught the same theory as Lord Strathcona about the value of hard living. He was particularly zealous to apply it to children. According to his doctrines the best way to bring up a boy was by inuring him to coarse food, hard beds and outdoor life. To be sure some would sink under such a regime and cut their education short by dying, but what of it? A boy who could not survive the experiences that would make a robust man of him was not worth keeping in the world. So Locke thought. Since his day some lives that mankind has called valuable have begun in feebleness and con tinued in pain. The poet Pope was an invalid all his days. Gibbon was a valetudinarian. Herbert Spencer never was robust. Mere physical fitness is rather a poor standard by which to estimate the worth of a life and yet it is true that ' for" most people life without physical fitness ' is hardly worth living. Geniuses like Pope and Spencer- can accomplish a great deal in spite of weak stomachs and crooked backs, but for most of us good bodily health is a condition precedent to both happiness and mental achieve ment. And there is no doubt that in the main good health depends upon hardy living. The rule among the Euro pean aristocracies is to spend two thirds of the year breaking down their health by riotous indulgence at the gay capitals and pass the other third , restoring it at Carlsbad or some other "cure." The medicinal effect of these "cures" depends theoretically upon magic waters which bubble from the ground. Practically it depends upon early bedtime, simple food and monas tic habits. There are very few people In prosperous circles who would not be benefited by a day's fast once a month. It i3 an excellent plan to go without a meal at short intervals. The habit jf omitting breakfast is growing upon the sensible world and it is usually helpful to both brain and stomach. The principal advan tage of an outing comes from the hardships It Imposes. A trip which subjects a person to no break of his usual self-indulgent habits scarcely Im proves his health or refines his spirits. One of the strangest facts of our psychology Is the delight with which we all remember the most miserable experiences in- the woods or on the road. A rainy night without tent or fire is not pleasant to go through, but it is an imperishably joyous thing to recall and describe. The medicinal effects of hardy living may be traced back to the habits of our ancestors who dwelt in treetops and wore no clothing, even in Winter, with acorns and slugs for their food. But it does not follow that our children will always be like ourselves in this par ticular. A time may come when the human frame will thrive best on cod dling. The growth, of cities fosters ease and luxury, and, as likely as not, evolution will kill off those who cannot adapt themselves to such a regimen. If that should happen the Lord Strathconas of the future would ascribe their longevity to the lobsters and champagne they had consumed. Those who formerly proposed that we solve the race problem by deport ing tine negroes wholesale to Africa, Cuba or some other country will won der at themselves when they read of the progress made by the negro race in the last fifty years, as shown by the Negro Year Book. This volum by Monroe N. Work, of Tuskegee In stitute, shows that negroes in this country own hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property. They own half of 42,000,000 acres of land they cultivate in the South and $57,000,000 worth of church property. They have built or helped to build numerous educational institutions, they maintain charities and fraternal organizations, they own banks and many of their race nave won triumphs in music, art, letters and the law. The ratio of crime among negroes is little greater than that among whites and less than that among many classes of immi grants. The negro has taken root in this country and is proving his fitness for citizenship. The Journal of Electricity, a techni cal magazine published in San Fran Cisco, speaks in complimentary terms or the Portland Y. M. C. A.'s courses in electrical engineering, which, it says, attract students from many di rections. "Some are married and have families. Some are supporting widowed mothers and sisters. Others are college graduates. All these classes of men and many more have presented their case to the Y. M. C A. as the one institution which Is free to act according to Its conception of men s needs." Governor Sulzer may be corrupt, but nobody can say he is a coward. To defy Tammany when he must have known Murphy had evidence that would ruin him required no mean courage, if Murphy really had it.. Men or nis stamp have been known to man ufacture facts when circumstances seemed to require it, and their imita tion of the truth has been so adept as to deceive some very, wise people. Per haps the esteemed New York World may find by and by that this shrewd old game has been played upon it. .1 Intimations come from Washington that Secretary Bryan canceled one third of his Chautauqua lecture en gagements and is seeking an easy way to cancel the rest. How is he to keep the pot .boiling in Washington if he sacrifices so much of his in come that he will have little to live on beyond his paltry salary of $12, 000 a year? Texas may have to come to his relief in earnest. In addressing the newly-appointed policewomen of Chicago, Chief of Police McWeeny impressed upon them the value of silence. He seems to have forgotten that he was talk ing to women, or did he intend to be sarcastic ? Statements of condition of the Port land banks under the recent call of the Controller of the Currency explain why Portland bankers express little need of participating in the proposed dispensation by Treasurer McAdoo. In explanation of the robbery of an aged farmer from San Francisco by two thugs on a side street of Portland, all need be said is that previous to being victimized he had twice been arrested for being drunk. The Mikado doesn't want to see Diaz. Neither does Huerta. He might go on a diplomatic mission to the blonde Es kimos. Rebellions are breaking out In many parts of China, but up to press time Mexico still held the world's record. After twenty years of exemplary conduct an Oregon convict has been released. He has formed the habit. The Pennant Winners are again at home and fans will take notice that only the umpire is to be abused. The iceman and the dog catcher are useful members of the community, but everybody has it in for them. City employes will have to report on a time clock. These public jobs bid fair to lose their popularity. Dr. Sun embarrasses the Japs and they do not want Felix Diaz. The two are off color. Most of a Jury draft in Washington was of women. Suffrage is not all milk and honey. Perhaps there'll not be another Mex ican crisis until an auto tire blows up in Mexico City. Tally one more for the didn't-know-it-was-loaded rifleman. Prince Sulkowskl has changed his name. He's right Vacation time draws to an end. Thanksgiving next. In that sign the Knights conquered Denver. We'll soon be free of the despotic iceman. Want tamed the Bulgars. Felix is the goat- TREND TOWARD VEGETABLE DIET Colon Bacilli Will Vet Rout the Beef Trust, Says Writer. PORTLAND, Aug. 12. (To the Edi tor.) I am sure that every reader of The Oregonian is rejoicing that you have taken advantage of the tempo rary lull in the recent tempest of eco- nomlcs, flags. Industrialism, etc., and raised the curtain upon a new scene, to wit dietetics. The editorial, "Meat and Bacilli." in The Oregonian of August 7 furnishes tooa ior reflection. The investigations of Metehnikoff regarding the effects of a meat diet upon the human svstem bids us pause. We read that it is estimated that 160,000,000 colon bacilli are born every second In the intestinal tract, and that for this Inconceivable number of retainers a meat diet is largely responsible. One hundred and fifty millions of these unwelcome little strangers every second! I sat down to figure what the total would be at the end of the next 24 hours, but the array of figures was so appalling that I abandoned the task In terror ere It was half completed. rushed into the garden to cool my heated brow, when Oh, the horror of it from a neighbor's kitchen floated tne fragrant appetizing odor of a fry ing, rare and Juicy beefsteak. Like Mark Antony in "Julius Caesar," I "fled to my house amazed," amazed that my neighbor (a reader of The Oregonian) was intrepid enoush to Indulge in meat, with the ink of that editorial scarcely dry. In the succeeding calm I pondered long and earnestly over the fact that these parasites lie at the bottom of many serious physical disorders. The Idea presented Itself that these Inde fatigable workers of our Internal world may be largely responsible for our I. W. W.-lsm and the Innumerable other IsmB, for the temperate and in temperate letters and comments that have almost monopolized ti.e current newspapers. Anything that affects the physical body, communicates with and affects the mental and spiritual man. They may even be responsible for the great prevailing unrest afflicting the masses. I have not mingled much with my wealthy brethren, financial standing and sartorial limitations will not permit of such a thing, but those who know assure me that there is as much unrest among our gilded breth ren as among the submerged three fourths (of the whole). Serious reflection will make It very clear that our physical bodies respond ing to evolutionary laws are gradual ly becoming refined. One of the earlier results of this etherealizlng process is meat is rapidly becoming a deadly poison to the human form divine. Many are realizing this to be true, and have discarded it, and are reaping a reward in the possession of cleaner, more en during todies, brighter, keener Intel lects and increased spirituality. Doubtless the beef trust will Indig nantly refute this, but all of the In dignation and ridicule that can be brought to bear will not di.-turb the majestic upward march of evolution; like Tennyson's brook, it goes on for ever. A W. NEALE. 476 Davenport street. SITE FILED OX FOR CITY USES Mr. Church Explains Matter of Water Power Gift to Municipality. PORTLAND, Aug. 10. (To the Edi tor.) In The Oregonian, August 8, you say: Since the recent announcement that the city is looking for a rood power site, many proposals have been made. The most recent Is that of C. P. Church, who claims owner ship of a power site in the Mount Hood dis trict. He has offered to donate the site to the city. A number of offers of sales of sites have been made, all of which are to be investigated. I have kept a filing on from 10,000 to 15,000 horsepower on a watersite on the Sandy and Zig Zag rivers for the past four. or. more years, often express ing In the refiling, "For the uses of the City of Portland," as Mr. Lewis, the State Engineer, will verify. As you may remember. The Oregonian bore the brunt of some peppery con troversies relating to light and power rates prevailing here, and that on April 3, 1912, I offered to give this power to the city under the restriction that It would be used in the interest of the public as to rates of hire. Referring now to the above excerpt will say that on July 17 I assigned my filing on the aforesaid water power to the City Board of Commissioners, on which, as I understand, Mr. Daly re filed, August 2, when my date expired. Accompanying my assignment I gave a written statement to Mr. Daly, giving comparisons of cost in power and light here as contrasted with the city-owned plant at Tacoma and the relative cap italizations between the two systems. that of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company and the City of Ta coma. I obtained the information on a visit to Tacoma, of my own volition, and I therefore ask that Mr. Daly sup ply It to any one who applies for it. In the same communication I gave the Board of Commissioners a detailed statement Showing that the 1500 horse power that can be availed of, already In their control between the upper and lower reservoirs at Mount Tabor, can be utilized for our own electric light ing, installed and substantially housed at the reservoir, for very considerably less than one-third the $185,000 the city now pays annually to the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company for Its hire for city lighting at the pres ent time. This 1500 horsepower is sufficient, or nearly so, to supply the power now used for lighting by the above-named company, and leave It for 14 hours of work daily in day service for power uses which should yield a large revenue to the city. In the meantime you will observe the assignment I made preceded any Inquiry from the Board or any offer of sale of other sites. It could have been had as a gift any time within the time of my first filing the earlier the better, financially, for me, if men hav ing, as a majority, the true interests of the City of Portland in their keep ing were In control, which unfortun ately was never the case. CHARLES P. CHURCH. Drinking From Cover to Cover. "The Avenger," by E. Phillips Oppenhelm. Page 10 With a little laugh, still not altogether naturel, he moved to the spirit decanter and drank off half a wineglass of neat whisky. Page 17 "There is one point," he re marked, filling his glass Page 21 Wrayson turned to the waiter and ordered a liqueur brandy. Page 2o Heneage, Mason sighed, "is always cynical after kummel." Page 27 Heneage . . . was play ing idly with his wineglass. Page 29 A gold-foiled bottle ap peared. Page 46 "We'll have one whisky and coda." Page 47 With a srreat effort, and an almost reckless resort to his host's champagne. Page 63 "You must come In and have a whisky and soda," she said to Wrayson. Page 64 Whisky and soda, wine and sandwiches were upon the sideboard. fare o4 "You want whisky and soda, of course or do you prefer brandy?" Page 70 The baroness helped her self to whisky and soda. Fishing; License Required. PORTLAND. Or., Aug. 12. (To the Editor.) Please answer the following question through the columns of The Oregonian. Is a license to fish with hook and line for catfish and carp in a lake in Oregon on private property where a 'man has permission of the owner to do so? Please answer the above and oblige." A SUBSCRIBER. Yes. 1 CALIFORNIA IS GREAT BORROWER. Not Only Seesei, Bnt Krnlt Have Been Credited to Wrong State. HILLSDALE, Or., Aug. 11. (To the Editor.) In The Sunday Oregonian ap pears an article dated Medford, August 9. headed, "Oregon Scene Borrowed,' containing two indictments which should not be permitted to pass unchal lenged, and yet we Oregoniana are not altogether blameless for permitting California, to acquire this "borrowing" habit, especially upon which she built up her reputation as a great fruit pro ducing state. In the earlier days of Oregon's fruit industry, in fact up to recent years, most of our fine apples, pears, peaches. cherries and prunes were bought by Californians and shipped direct to the eastern markets labeled as California fruit. Even our own shippers followed their example. This pernicious prac lice was not counteracted until we edu cated the Eastern buyers and consum ers, by the horticultural exhibits Ore gon made at the various international expositions, and It was a hard figrht un til we were awarded the famous "Wild er Medal" for our fruit exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, in which all the fruit growing countries of the world participated. This award is made by the Pomological Society of America, by its own members, strictly on merit and quality only, and now our fruits go to the world's markets under their own name. To further illustrate this California "borrowing" habit: When Oregon de clined to participate in the Exposition at Paris in. 1900, Mr. Stubbs, of the Southern Pacific, was very anxious that all territory in Oregon tributary to their lines should make a fruit exhibit which he agreed to exhibit under Ore gon labels, with their California ex hibit, and asked -me If I would lend him several hundred Jars of the exhibit I at that time maintained on Washing ton street, to which I agreed, provided he would return them to me at Buffalo for the Pan-American Exposition, held In 1901. Imagine my surprise and cha. grin when all of the Jars that came back were labeled "California Fruit." Our Oregon labels had been turned to the wall and the California label pasted in front, several or these jars so la beled are still in the exhibit In charge of the Chamber of Commerce. This brings us to the second indictment. The article in question further says: "While Oregon has no reputation as a grape-producing state, etc., etc."; to which we plead "Mot Guilty." At the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893, we exhibited a very fine lot of grapes on which we were awarded the - Grand Prize. Among these was one jar con taining a bunch of Tokay grapes weigh ing 7 pounds, grown by William Fleck near The Dalles, others grown by A H. Carson, Grants Pass; W. K. Newell, Dilly, and A. E. Ru'eter, Forest Grove. The grand prize awarded to California on grapes at Paris, was given on these very Jars of grapes "borrowed" from my exhibit by Mr. Stubbs. It has been thoroughly dem onstrated that grapes grow to perfec tion in all parts of Oregon notably Eastern and Southern Oregon and the foothills on the Willamette Valley, large vinyarda existing there now. Even the wines consisting of Riesling, Muscat and Burgundy made from grapes grown by Mr. Rueter near Forest Grove, were awarded the gold medal by the superior, jury at the Omaha Exposition in competition with California. Personally I do not concede anything to our sister state on the south either in climate, scenery or in horticultural lines, except citrus fruits, based on ex perience. It is up to us further to educate the world at the Panama-Pacific-International Exposition at San Francisco that there is no place anywhere on earth, where fruits of all kinds, whether ap ples, pears, peaches, cherries, prunes, strawberries, grapes or walnuts grow to greater perfection, more wlney. aromatic, toothsome or keeping quali ties than in Oregon and possibly we can convince our California friends that It Is no credit to them to persist, in the "borrowing" habit. HENRY E. DOSCH. EXCLUSION LAW MUST BE ADOPTED Writer Believes Presence of Orientals In United States Not Desirable. . CORVALLIS, Or., Aug. 11. (To the Editor.) The foreign land owners in California who incorporate their land, thus defeating the alien land law, re cently passed, are In fact hastening the day when all the Pacific states must In self-defense exclude them. Any per son who by reason of color, religion or race prejudice cannot assimilate with the native white population is not a desirable citizen. All such should be excluded. They but give for a day's wage a day's labor. Out of every $1 at least 75 cents goes to the Orient, whereas a native white man spends out of every $1 earned 100 cents at the place where he earned It. These foreigners do not assist in any way to upbuild the country's In stitutions, either in a religious, educa tional or progressive sense. They be come domestic servants, they rent land and fake its proceeds and ship the net returns to their homes in the Orient. This is not In accordance with the American idea. I believe in America for Americans. It is not true that with this popu lation gone the country will go to the dogs, or that the labor will not be per formed. These foreigners simply crowd out the deserving white man. The white man has no chance against them. They live on what we throw away, and to compete with them we have to descend to their level in the way of eating and of living. The American people are indeed a great conglomeration of races. They compose the most adventurous blood of the most progressive foreign states, as well as some of their offscourings, out generally the American stock is better . than any one nation can pro duce. Out of 1000 Americans and 1000 of any other nation, I -submit that the general average of intelligence, of re finement and of progress will favor the American. I have no Btatistics to prove this by. Then why house and shelter under our flag a class-of per sons who pick a living where these Americans cannot do so, who live in the most humble manner and whose ra tion would .be turned away from by most white folks? They crowd out our white labor, and the country which shelters these aliens cannot furnish the necessary white labor to take their place, at once, but exclude them, and very quickly the white labor will re turn to those localities now practically shut to the white man. These sentiments I appreciate are old. and time-worn, they are even thread bare, but unless we would have a worse calamity befall us let us begin to pre pare for the time when all Orientals must be excluded. J. H. WILSON. Descent of Property. PORTLAND, Aug. 12. (To the Edi tor.) (1) How should real property be deeded in order that It may pass automatically to either the husband or wife upon the death of the other? (2) Is it necessary that they be de scribed in the deed as "husband and wife?" (3) If not so described, would the children or heirs have a claim against the estate? (4) Does real property deeded to John Smith and William Jones, or the sur vivor, pass automatically to Smith up on the death of Jones, regardless of the claims of Jones' widow and children? (1) Let the property be conveyed to them Jointly as husband and wife, the property will go to the survivor with out probate proceedings. (2) No. (5) No; the children will not. (4) Weight of authority indicates that it does, Twenty-five Years Ag From .The Oregonian -of August 13. 1SSS. Minneapolis, Aug. 12. Details of one of the most, gigantic trusts ever de vised have just come, to the surface. It is a combination of all the principal lumber interests of Minnesota with those of Wisconsin. Fred Weyer haeuser Is at the head of the company. After an absence of about three months In Europe, Rev. Dr. J. Bloch. the well-known Jewish rabbi, returned a few days since. Washington, Aug. 6. There must be an election coming- off In Washington Territory ere long. So thought every one who heard the biennial effort of Delegate Voorhees the other day in behalf of the admission of that com monwealth to statehood; John Wilhoit, of Wilhoit, sends to Te Oregonian a cure for diphtheria which he pronounces certain. F- N. Humphrey, of North Salem, and Charles Claggett, of Salem, are mak ing a tight race for the biggest peaches this year. Dr. W. E. Everette, of Tacoma, con sulting mining engineer of the Northern Pacific Railroad, is at the Esmond. Coroner A. P. De Lin has just moved into his new residence on Corbett and Gibbs streets. Grants Pass, Or., Aug. 11. I will bet $1000 that Harrison is elected Presi dent. John C. Boyd. The soldier nine from "Vancouver Barracks came over yesterday and de feated the Portland baseball club by a score of 9 to 8. Mrs. a. W. Bates and Miss Hattle Menzles have gone to Spokane. John Miller Murphy, of Olympia, ter ritorial auditor of Washington Terri tory, is in the city. John B. Allen, of Walla Walla, a leading candidate for the nomination for delegate to Congress, is at the St. Charles. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of August 13. 1S63. Washington, Aug. 7. The Chronicle says a movement is in progress which is morally certain to result in the cap ture of Mobile. Chicago, Aug. 7. Yesterday's New York Herald says the Government de signs sending a naval, force to the Pa cific and with this view the command ant of the naval rendezvous on that coast is directed to make strenuous ef forts to procure 200 men. ; Fortress Monroe, Aug. 6. A Charles ton letter dated August 2 Bays firintr commenced on Fort Wagner that day. On Saturday a column of rebel infan try made a sortie on our batteries in course of construction, but were hand somely repulsed. - Yesterday afternoon a portion of the scaffolding used in building the" new Presbyterian Church on Washington street suddenly gave way, precipitat ing two of the workmen a distance of 12 feet below. One of them escaped uninjured, but the other, W. L. Card well, fell upon the sharp-pointed stakes of a fence and remained Impaled there on for several minutes. He was very severely injured. The steamer Julia. . on her arrival from The Dalles last evening, brought a large number of passengers and $50, 000 In gold dust. The steamer Brother Jonathan sailed last evening for San Francisco 'via Victoria -with a very - large number of passengers and upwards of $200,000 In gold. - PRESERVES OPPOSE DEVELOPMENT Southern Oregon Project Objected to by Ashland Correspondent. ASHLAND, Or., Aug. 11. (To the Editor.) rl learn from . correspondence In The Oregonian that someone in Grants Pass is trying ; to promote a monster game preserve In Southern Oregon and Northern California. VY hat Oregon needs is not more re serves and huge game preserves, but more development of the natural re sources. The territory named to be set aside is rich in mineral and timber and grazing land. No one in Oregon need. worry about the game and fish proposi tion, for with Its many streams and vast area of rough - mountainous terri tory with dense undersrrowth. what few deer are killed by the scanty popula tion or uregon nas no errect whatever. But for the cougars and other var mints, the deer would soon become a nuisance. More deer are killed every year by hunters in some of the Eastern states in an area the size of. Jackson and Josephine Counties than are killed In the whole state of Oregon. To make a game preserve of a large territory surely retards its develop ment, for game and fish are two of the prospectors best resources. The an noying and worrying of homesteaders have stopped the settlement of public lands In Southern Oregon, and the rail road lands, nearly one-half of the un settled area, are tied up In litigation. Let ns encourage development rather than a wilderness. Wise game laws, well enforced, are a good thing, but there is something wrong with the fish laws of Oregon when the dealers . of Ashland and Medford ship salmon from Seattle and retail It at 17 cents a pound, while Rogue River is full of them, many dying and going to waste along the shore. The game and fish should have rea sonable protection, but they were put here for the use of the people here. Southwestern Oregon Is not developing as it should, and it will not help It to make a vast game preserve of it. E. T. MERRILL. Logrlcal Surmise in New York. New York Sun. Stella Why do cows wear bells? Bella To call the calves to dinner, of course. Where Igrorance is NOT Bliss Suppose you could run back, pver every purchase of every kind you have made in the past twelve months. Suppose you could classify them and analyze them Just as the purchasing de partments of big business con cerns do. Do you not think that you would check up many a purchase made unwisely, many an Item that costs too much, and here and there some article bought that wesn't at all what you thought you were buying? Family expenditures and per sonal expenditures, of course, aren't made -with anything like the ajcuraoy or system that would mark the purchase! of a well organized business. But this very fact ought to Impress upon every fKmiiy, every Individual, the necessity of closer attention to their annual expenditures.' In this matter the newspaper is one's best friend. The adver tising columns point the way to economy and satisfaction. Where ignorance is not bliss, It Is better to be wise.
