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THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1913. 8 POBILAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland. Ores on, Postofflce u eecond-claas matter. Subscription Bat Invariably is Advance: (BY sCAXU Dally. Sunday Included, one year as.00 tally. Sunday Included, eat months ..... Daily. Sunday Included, three months .. Daily, Sunday Included, one month ..... Sally, without Sunday, one year ........ J-vv Dally, without Sunday, si montha ..... ; Daily, without Sunday, three montha. Daily, without Sunday, one month. . .. Weekly, one year irr Sunday, on year a-"J Sunday and weekly, one year .......... aw (BT CARRIER) Dally. Sunday Included, one year Dally, Sunday Included, one month Haw to Remit Send postofflce money or der, expreae order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Giro postofflce aodresa w lull. Including county and state. Postage Rates 12 to 16 paces. cent: 18 to il pages. 2 cents: Se to 48 paa.es, BO to 80 pages. 4 cents; 2 to cents: 78 to 92 paces, C centa. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Business Offlcea Verree Conk 11 n. Mew York. Brunswick building. ni cago, Stecer building. San Francisco Office R. J. BldwaU Co, 742 Market St. . European Office No. 1 Regent street B. W London. lt)KTI-AM). THTBSDAY.' AUGUST tl. 1913 GOOD NEWS FOB OREGON. Not only Umatilla County, which is to bo directly benefited, but the whole of Oregon, Is to be congratulated on. the decision of Secretary Lane to pro ceed with the West Umatilla reclama tion project. The end of the seem ingly endless waiting through repeat ed delays is cause for rejoicing, but the Secretary's action is most impor tant as an earnest of his purpose to repair the wrong done in diverting to other states the bulk of the funds de rived from eales of Oregon land. He admits this wrong and promises to see that hereafter Oregon gets a square deal.' The announced purpose to compel big land owners, whose holdings are reclaimed by the Government, to di vide them into small tracts and sell them at reasonable prices will receive the hearty approval of the people of this state. Oregon has suffered griev ously by the withholding from sale and cultivation "of great bodies of the state's area. To this fact is due large ly the alow pace at which this state developed until recent years, while neighboring states of no greater fer tility have far outstripped her in wealth and population. It is cause for congratulation that these greaj; land lords are now letting go, but it is still more cause for Joy that the Govern ment will use its power and influence to prevent this land from falling into the hands of speculatqrs and to place It in the hands of actual cultivators of the soil. The policy outlined by Mr. Lane and w;iich he has put in operation in the tTmatilla Valley is the policy which Oregon has long but vainly sought to have adopted at Washington. It is the policy which might be expected of a Western man with Western Ideas and who looks at affairs from the hu man point of view. It will win. FREE PCGAK IS ASSURED. Adoption by" the Senate of the free sugar provision of the tariff bill fore shadows the final passage of that measure In substantially the shape in which it was reported to the Senate. The defection from the Democratic Tanks is limited to the two Louisiana Senators, Democrats -who represent , 'beet-growing states having fallen in line with the Administration. As it has been with sugar, so will it be with wool. Senators from wool-growing states have been coaxed or driven into line. Senator Chamberlain having evi dently promised to "be good" after his outburst at opposition, and Sena tor Walsh having surrendered at dis cretion, though wool is one of the principal products of Montana. Under the new tariff the present duties on sugar are to be reduced 25 per cent on March 1, 1914, and sugar is to be imported free of duty from May 1, 1916. This is one meritorious provision of the bill. It will reduce the price of sugar, a prime necessary of life, by almost exactly the amount of reduction in the duty. It may kill the cane sugar industry of Louisiana, but that Industry is an exotic in the United States, maintained by taxing all the people on all the sugar they con sume, though it produced in 1913 only .073 per cent of the total consumption. The land devoted to growing sugar cane is better adapted to other crops.. Maintenance of the cane sugar indus try, therefore, constitutes a double economic waste, for it Imposes a bur densome tax on the one hand and pre vents land from being applied to its best use on the other. Beet sugar producers also complain that their industry will be destroyed by free sugar, but the facts do not bear them out. Beets enrich the soil and the beet pulp Is valuable as cattle food. It is therefore to the advantage of the farmer to grow them if he can get any reasonable price for the sugar contents. The cry for protection comes chiefly from beet sugar refiners, on the plea that they are developing a home supply of sugar, but. after six teen years of pampering, their indus try Is able to supply only a little over one-seventh of the home consumption. Their companies are enormously over capitalized, pay exorbitant dividends and do not share the benefits of pro tection with the beetgrowers, for they pay even less for beets than German refiners pay. The beet sugar industry can live without protection, and that policy has failed after fair trial to develop It to the point where it can approach supplying our needs. The burden of Its maintenance Is out of all proportion to the benefits which accrue to the American people. In the last quarter of a century the two parties have reversed their posi tion on the sugar tariff. The Repub licans in 1S90 put sugar on the free list in the McKinley tariff. The Dem ocrats In 1S94 restored the duty in the Wilson tariff. The Republicans changed front in 1897 and raised the duty. They continued this policy in 1909, but in that year the Democrats changed front and advocated free sug ar. In this instance the Democrats have adopted a sound Republican pol. icy and the Republicans have aban doned it for the unsound policy which the Democrats have renounced. Free sugar will be of great advan tage to Oregon and the other Pacific Coast states. It will aid the growth of the canning Industry, which will fur nish a market for the surplus fruit and will thus benefit the fruitgrower. It will also aid the dairy Industry, for it will cheapen and thereby popularize condensed milk, in which much sugar Is used. It is all very well for President Wil aon to say to New York, "Physician, heal thyself." But If the physician has tried and failed, ought not somebody to help him a little? New York has been trying to govern Itself for a long time and makes a worse failure every year. It outside direction is good for the semi-barbarous Filipinos, why not for the wholly barbarous Tammany ites? Would it not be a good plan to place New York under tutelage until the people can prove that they are fit for self-government? . WITH STATE AID. Various considerations make 'the proposed Columbia bridge a project worthy the approval of Multnomah County. It is not a local scheme, but a great interstate enterprise. Clarke County, Washington, has voted $500, 000 in bonds, and has thus gone the limit of its resources. Multnomah County will be asked for $1,250,000" $750,000 for the structure proper and $500,000 for the approaches. The tax on each person in Multno mah will be one-fifteenth the tax on the Clarke County man or woman, so that the apparent disproportion may be neglected, so far as the Oregon end of the plan is concerned. In other words, where your Portland man pays one cent to the construction of the bridge, your Clarke County resident pays fifteen cents. But the Multnomah resident will not even pay his one-fifteenth at this time. Under the enabling act of the Legislature for interstate bridges, the county Is to issue the bonds and eventually pay the principal twenty or thirty years hence but the state pays the interest. Thus the fixed in terest charge is assumed by the whole state and not by the county. The tax payer in Multnomah therefore pays his proportion of the state taxes; that is all. It is an economical proposition for Multnomah County. A great interstate bridge is built, and the County of Mult nomah lends its credit to pay its share, and the state pays the Interest. MAXIM GORKY'S BREAKDOWN. News from Rome that Maxim Gorky has suffered a serious nervous break down is not surprising. He must be a man of remarkable strength to have escaped that fate so long, for he has long been a nervous, depressed and highly miserable individual. The se vere nervous breakdown, while the causes are not outlined In the dis patches, undoubtedly have grown out of his wretched viewpoint of life. It is the usual fate of men of his type. They see life through blue goggles for so many years that depression becomes a habit and there is no. wholesome nourishment for the mind. Gorky's "Foma Cordyeeff gives us all the insight into his unfortunate mentality that is needed to understand his present unhappy lot. It is suffi cient basis for a diagnosis. This work. thoroughly characteristic of Gorky, is bitter tragedy from cover to cover. In the character delineation which serves Gorky in place of a plot, the pessimis tic Russian displays an extreme mor bidity. His character, Cordyeeff, goes through chapter after chapter com plaining at life, wondering what life is all about and why it is. He finds the world a wretched place and life a hollow mockery. Foma seizes upon everything that is morbid and un wholesome and nourishes it into a blue phantom that chases away every little ray of sunshine. If Foma Cordyeeff is true to life. at least his delineation should be left to the realms of pathology. He is not a normal, rational human being, and the thoroughness with which Gorky pries about in Foma's inner soul must Indicate that the inspiration and col orings come from Gorky's own soul. So with Gorky's other works. He serves up on his literary menu the bitter dregs from the cup of discon tent. He regales us with characters we could relish outside the clinic. They belong to the sanitarium, to the realm of the psychoneuroses. Dealing in such emotions la a dan gerous business. It emphasizes and In trenches a predisposition to morbidity. Fed with brooding and unwholesome thoughts, the mind spreads the virus to the body, and the nervous system is the worst sufferer. Only in the wholesome and optimistic viewpoint Is happiness and contentment to be found. The man who goes through life seeing only its faults and drawbacks not only will be immensely miserable, but he cannot escape serious conse quences in the end. Nature eventually goes into violent rebellion. The ner vous breakdown is not the extreme penalty. Often violent madness en sues, as in the case of that dean of pessimists and cynics. Swift. There is but one antidote cheerful ness. The sufferer from a severe ner vous breakdown may find permanent recovery only in re-education, which implies different habits of living and thought. If Gorky recovers, it will be only in event that he is able to remove the blue goggles that have poisoned his soul and shattered his health with the Insidious poison of un- cheerfulness. CHANCES OF CURRENCY REFORM. Democratic opposition to the Ad ministration currency bill in the Sen ate threatens to put the whole sub ject up In the air. Only practical unanimity among the majority party and forbearance from long-winded speeches on the part of the minority can bring action at the extra session. A divided minority would hold long committee meetings to revise the bill and reconcile differences. The bill as revised may not win the support of those Republicans who purposed to vote for the Administration measure. Long debate In the Senate would re sult, and after tile bill had passed thefe would be long conferences to adjust differences between Senate and House. The expedient of a temporary meas ure to tide us over until Congress had threshed out the whole subject at the regular session would be most unsat isfactory, as are all makeshifts. The Aldrlch-Vreeland act is a makeshift, and none of the currency It authorizes has ever been Issued. It served only to postpone adoption of a complete system of banking and currency. An other temporary measure would prob ably prove as ineffective. Insofar as it proved effective, it would delay final solution of the problem, for those who shrink from the task would say: "Let well enough alone." The skill shown by President Wilson In Inducing his party to act as a unit on the tariff will be taxed to secure like unanimity on the currency bill and to drive it through Congress at this session. .The party had to stand or fall before the people on its tariff record, having made revision the main issue of the campaign in which it won control of the Government. It is not pledged as strictly to currency reform, and the radical differences of opinion within its ranks are an obstacle to bringing it together on fulfilment of its promises. Hence the members of Congress have not as strong a motive for bowing to the will of the President as governed them in the case of the tariff. Some of them are so opinion ated as not to be disposed to yield for the sake .of party harmony. Then, too, a disposition to chafe at the bit of one-man control will naturally grow. If the President should secure en actment of a currency bill at this ses sion he will demonstrate an ability to mold "Congress to his will . which has not been excelled by any of his prede cessors for many years past. BABY'S DISPOSITION. Fond fathers from the day of Adam have been committing serious error. They have been exercising a mistaken virtue in walking the floor of nights in order to soothe the restless mite of humanity which is so strangely en dowed with sixty-horsepower lung ca pacity. Not only have they been de priving themselves of ' needless sleep in the interest of domestic peace and tranquillity, but they have been doing the rising generations incalculable harm. It has remained to the Infant experts of the Children's Hospital at Philadelphia to uncover this important fact, but, now that the mistake is dis covered .by prying medical science. It must be corrected at once. Baby's disposition is the issue. Odd as it may seem, baby's disposition is simply ruined by these midnight mara thons. Although domestic joy-riding In fqnd papa's arms allays baby's ef forts to reach high C and hold that difficult note indefinitely, the process adds intensity to the tiny despot's tyranny. Traveling by night event ually becomes a habit and, in addition, the diminutive ruler of the household becomes more and more unreasonable In his demands. In these democratic days it is 'not well that any human being should exercise such absolute do minion over the fathers and mothers of the country. Just what the Philadelphia experts jrill offer us as a substitute isn't re vealed. The curative measures. In fact, are still in a formative and ex perimental stage. One suggestion is that baby be permitted to have out his cry. That Is a pretty remedy, the oretically considered. But when any one of experience considers the tireless lung energy, the treatment doesn't ap pear especially attractive. A petulant or irritated Infant airing its protests against the world is the nearest ap proach to perpetual motion yet achieved. After the Philadelphia in vestigators have experimented a little further with the problem we predict that they will announce gagging and anaesthesia as the only efficacious substitutes for the time-honored prac tice of floor-walking. OUR NEGLECT OF BEAUTY. A writer in the September Smart Set takes the American people severely to task for their neglect of the fine arts. He accuses the Nation of forgetting its literary men. ignoring its musicians and painters and living In badly de signed houses furnished with hideous carpets and unsightly pictures. He admits without pleasure that we have showered honors and . erected statues to second-rate politicians and Inconspicuous soldiers. Every public square grins horribly with them, but Baltimore has no street named after Poe. Our public libraries keep Whit man's poems under lock and key. No body ever drtams of erecting a monu ment to Emerson or Mark Twain. There are dozens of memorials to Gen erals who fought in the War of 1812, but none, says our author, to the man who wrote "The Star Spangled Ban ner," which sings the spirit of that war in fairly respectable poetry. "No artist, purely as such, has ever evoked any manifestation of general respect in the United States." In these words our somewhat sour critic sums up his sweeping Indictment. We went mad over Jenny LInd, not at all for her artistic gifts, but because Barnum advertised her with Tom Thumb and his other freaks. Pader- ewski is worshiped for his tangled locks and romantic manners instead of his ability to play great music beau tifully. The United States has pro duced artists of renown, but they are scarcely ever heard of at home. Who knows anything of Chllde Hassam, Wlnslow Homer, Gutzon Borghum? Both Whistler and Sargent were Amer icans, but not one In a hundred thou sand of their countrymen recognizes them as the greatest English-speaking painters of the last century. There is no need to tell how Poe was flouted and slandered, both alive and dead. Longfellow acquired a saccharine re nown as the adored poet of the young ladles' seminaries, but his really fine qualities are almost Invariably over looked. Our National type of the great novelist is Harriet Beecher Stowe, in whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin," according the the critic we are quoting, "there is little more artistic merit than in a college yelL" Probably It must be confessed that there Is some truth in these charges. Jeremiah overdoes his part, but there are good reasons for his wails, The or dinary American regards professional artists as suspicious characters. He ranks painters, musicians and gam blers together as undesirables, apolo gizes to his pastor for going to the theater, and. In a vague way, believes that the cultivation of mere beauty is Inconsistent with the will of the Lord. No doubt we are the most inartistic Nation in the world, and we are proud of our lost estate. People make rath er a boast of being unable to tell one tune from another. They think such a defect renders them more trustwor thy as office men. They are not liable to be distracted from their rows of figures by wandering band players in the street. The staid American father of a family accuses himself, with an Indulgent smile, of not seeing anything to admire In the pictures in the city museum. He slyly implies that if he had any taste for art It would disqual ify him for business., The magazine writer whom we have mentioned un dertakes tentatively to account for this National peculiarity. Why is it that we neglect art so egreglously and have the conscience to boast of our short comings? Perhaps the most obvious reason is sheer ignorance. We have not been taught either the Importance of beauty as a factor in a happy life nor its place in the religious and political Institutions of the world. We look upon beauty as the pander of vice because we do not know any better. Millions of American children are taught year after year In schoolhouses which violate every rule of architec ture, even the elementary rule of safe ty from fire. The surroundings of these monstrous buildings are bare and forlorn to the last degree. Treeless, flowerless, with no statues of great men, no fountains, no shady walks. they impress the doctrine that life is a dismal round of painful duties, where cheer and innocent mirth have no proper place. Within the schoolhouses the same story Is repeated with details still more barren. The walls, the furniture, the books, the floors, the desks, all reek with ugliness. The lessons are as starved of beauty as a Puritan psalm. They are bereft even of the pitiful beauty of usefulness. From our schools. if we go to many of our churcnes and Sunday schools, we shall see a repetition of the same melancholy scene. The grounds are barren, the buildings ghastly, the fur niture of funereal gloom. Thus our children are reared, generation after generation, to dwell familiarly with the unsightly. It plays with them, eats with, them and lulls them to sleep with its horrors. In their lessons they are taught to do the, most dismal things one can imagine. They parse Ophe lia's tears. They analyze Lear's grief and madness. Their geography is arid. Their arithmetic is oten grotesque. Of course the reason for all this la the false Puritan tradition which domin ates our National life and poisons It. Scolding will not cure the disease. The writer in the Smart Set Is not the first by many scores who have told the same unpleasant truths, but very few of them speak of the obvious remedy which is to give beauty its rightful place in the education of the young. If the apostles of art would Invade the schoolhouses and rural churches and preach their gospel there, ,a gen eration might be nurtured who would apply it everywhere else. Germany will make, an effort to capture the honors at the Olympic games in 1916 and has sent a commis sion to this country to study our ath letic methods and to hire an American trainer. The Turners should furnish good material for a German athletic team, but Germany has far to go be fore she can excel the United aiaes in field athletics. It will take mote than the three years which remain be fore the games begin at Berlin In 1916. The athletes of the United States are thoroughly organized and trained lor competition and have a large field of all nationalities to draw from, thiugh native Americans now predominate. Ttiaxnoelnir th latest rani murder In New York, the Brooklyn Eagle says: The persistence ot the armed sang offers as sharp a criticism of our civilization as noes mat ui me s.t-i n u-m . . , .. inrtLTla Wnom great ousiness in ir. o.l- r-j - - There are signs In the West that the boss who Is out for bis own pocket all the time Is about to follow the buffalo to obuvion, out there are no signs of the waning ot our New York gangs or of any serious effort to deprive them ol deadly weapons. Here in Oregon the boss is not mere ly about to go, he has gone, to ob livion. A no new ior " better come West and learn civiliza tion. Ireland is not the only part of the .-1 1 1 c-k Fmniro which has a home rule problem. India Is perturbed by an agitation of the same Kina, tnougn uvi nearly so well considered. Unlike Ire land Tnriia. haji en loved home rule In modern times and a sorry mess her Brahmins, Rajahs ana juanaimm made of it. Child widows, wife burn ...o iL'hniMRia cruelty, starvation and ceaseless war were some of its fruits. The Hindoos may fairly be askea to wait for home rule till they get a Ht le more sense. Th. -vitamant over Thaw's escape seems out of proportion to its cause. If he is Insane he has committed a freak for which he is not responsible. If he Is not Insane, ne is rauuw un der the law to his freedom. In either case a rational citizen ought to view his escapade with 'equanimity and. following Dogberry's sage advice, rin That h la rid of an arrant knave." To some it appears that Thaw has done his country a signat aervn-e by leaving it if he will only stay away. lrtMmiH lint nan s-ht the new spirit In roadbuilding. She raised an army of 350,000 men the other aay woo marched valiantly forth with spades to fight ruts and swampholes. Every county sent its full quota. The men worked freely for the public good and their smiling wives, enraptured at the - ,.. f rMlnsr to church over smooth roads, fed them with apple pie and fried chicken. A wormy ex ample has been set. "Pensions are being tried for street car horses." says the New York Sun. The system must be confined to New York, for that is about the only city which still runs horsecars. New fishing laws are urged. We recommend one clause requiring re tT,A mnnev on licenses that are un productive of a single nibble. When the Administration gets through trying out theories about Mex ico, then some real soluUon of the trouble will be In order, y It remains with the Jury to deter mine whether Dlggs trip to Reno was for immoral purposes. That rather puts the Jury on trial. Having secured rains for Kansas and .v.- c.iiur matter nrettv well in hand. Pastor McPherson might try his magic on aiexico. Since the Kansas apples have been destroyed the Kansan can learn how a real apple tastes by buying the Ore gon product. nmn sv he will keep right on chautalking. What has become of that fund in Texas for reiier oi m Bryan Jaw? Policemen have instructions to watch out for X-ray dresses. All sus picious cases will be looked into. But if every woman wearing sug gestive apparel is arrested, the Jails wouldn't half hold them. There is delightful touch of Autumn In the air. Incident to approach of hop-picking time. The first policeman to make arrest of a woman in diaphanous skirt will leap to fame. The train robbers took $1 from the Pullman porter. George must have banked. Thousands turned out and helped improve Missouri roads. Lefs try It. Give the best position today to the woman with little children. That train holdup hardly shows a proper respect for the police. Tally still another for the speed fiend. ' Who is Governor of New York, any way ? But these Mexican crises never last. XEW ENGLAND TONGUE DEFENDED ttaasaefcaaetta Mam Also Nates Same Weslers Oddities ot Speech. WALLA WALLA. Wash, Aug. 19. (To the Editor.) It Is with some diffi dence that I take my pen in hand (albeit said penNs a typewriter), in or der to register a mild criticism In re gard to a recent editorial utterance. This is notwithstanding the fact that for some 20 years I rattled around in the editorial chair of a Massachusetts newspaper, during which time I dis covered there were between one and two things I did not know. But your writers register their promulgations with so much of a "thus-salth-the-Lord" air that one is Impressed with the Idea that an error must be very un usual and censure even of the most demure kind very unpalatable. The article to which I have reference- was headed "The Cult of the Dic tionary," and contained several state ments that were quite wide of the actual facta For Instance, you say that "in a truly New England mouth Idea' rhymes accurately with 'fear." This Is not so at all, for it la a well known fact that the genuine Yankee eliminates "R" ag a final letter almost entirely and slurs it considerably in almost every word. We are making no claim that this is proper, but It is a fact that such la a custom of the coun try. The word you quote would be more nearly pronounced as though it were spelled "ideah." The use of the Italian A. which la prevalent throughout New England, is becoming widely copied among cul tured people almost everywhere, and we notice it somewhat even among the "rich fullness" you note as character izing the Western pronunciation. We have traveled considerably, both In our own land and abroad, and we have yet to find a locality that did not have Its own especial peculiarities both of hajlt and speech. We are equally sure that the absurdities you quote as emanating from Cincinnati were never heard out side the poor white district of the mountains of Tennessee, and we are quite sure they would be as instantly rejected among people of education In Portland, or, as in Boston, Mass. It la quite the habit in more than one locality rather to sneer at Boston, and imagine her people are all blue-stoca- lngs who pride themselves soleiy on their "culchah. They are not supposed plainly to "go to bed," they retire; In the morning they never "get up," they arise; in place of a "child" they are always Imagined to have a babe. All these are largely figments of the con ception, but we do prefer good gram mar to Incorrectness of expression, and we are not above keeping in touch with the latest efforts .of the dictionary maker. Has it ever occurred to the erudite writer of the article In question that the Far West has some few little "pecoolarltlos" of her own which may seem funny to a newcomer? For in stance, you say "pack" instead of carry, "sack" rather than bag, "I want out'' Instead of I want to go out, or as I presume you would accuse the Bos tonese of saying. "I would be pleased to obtain egress"; "two bits Instead of twenty-five cents; all of which are Just as odd to us as our little idiosyn crasies are to you. We have at least found one thing from the East that is highly acceptable here, and that Is the good, round hard dollar. That goes even In Portland, Or., without quea tion, whether It is given its Boston pronunciation of "dollah," its Southern one of "dohlla" or Its Middle Western of "dollurr." Its creed, lineage and ped igree are unmarked and unquestioned. MARIAN D. MERRY. NEW YORK IS A CITY OF CLUBS Oae Thousand of Them) 500,000 Mei berahlpi Waiting; List Large. Pittsburg Despatch. New York is a city of clubs. Every line of endeavor has its club whether it be a palatial building in Fifth ave nue or a room on a side street In the tenement district. Politics, the arts, the sciences, the stage, labor and busi ness in fact, every phase of activity or otherwise, is found In New York banded together. In Manhattan alone there are more than 600, taking the latest directory list. In the entire cjty, all the boroughs, the number will reach far beyond the 1000 mark. Member ship in these clubs, it is estimated, will come close to 600,000. The cost is Im possible to determine. As New York has advanced, so has its clubs. It was a continued spell of bad weather in 1836 that gave birth to the Idea and brought about the organization of New York's first club and today one of the richest and most exclusive In the city. If not in the world. That is the Union Club, located at Fifth avenue and Fifty-first street. The original woman's club.. the Sorosis Club, was the answer to the exclusion of women at the din ner given by the Press Club to Charles Dickens In 1862. While the Sorbsls Is the first woman's club, the first to be fashioned after the man's club is the exclusive Colony Club, which was or ganised in 1902. Fifth avenue and the Immediate side streets, from Madison Square north to Central Park, Is the great club center of the city. The Met ropolitan Club, sometimes called the Millionaires' Club, at Fifth avenue aud Sixtieth street. Is probably the most magnificently appointed club In the world. Then there is the Union League Club, at Fifth avenue and Thirty-ninth street; the Knickerbocker, the Lotus Club, all having large buildings on Fifth avenue. To enumerate all the clubs of the city would require pages. There Is not a club In New York of any consequence that has not a large wait ing list. In such clubs as the Knicker bocker, the Union, the Metropolitan and the University the waiting list is so long that the boys born today are placed on the list by their fathers, the idea being that by the time they reach their majority they will have an oppor tunity to Join. . PARCEL POST CAINS IN ENGLAND. California Mis Writes From London of Flat-Rate Socceaa. LONDON, Aug. 6. (To the Editor.) This afternoon I had a pleasant parcel post gossip over the teacups on the ter race of the House of Commons with the British Postmaster-General. He set at rest forever some of the oft-reiterated, but quite unfounded, as sertions as to the British flat-rate par cel post not paying expenses. Both the domestio and foreign parcel posts are conducted at a profit. It may be re membered that the rate for the former Is 6 cents for the first pound and 2c ad ded for every additional pound, up to an 11-pound maximum. Although there are many parcels delivery companies, which carry vast numbers of short-distance packages, and although 63 per cent of the gross receipts for those bandied by railroads in conjunction with the postofflce is paid to the rail roads, the business still yields a profit. He also told me that notwithstanding the very low rates, three pounds. 24 cents, seven pounds. 48 cents and 11 pounds, 72 cents, for carrying foreign and colonial parcels aa far aa from Britain to Burma. Indo-China. etc. even this class of mall showed a gain for the treasury, which, including the whole mail transactions of the postoffce for the last fiscal year, amounted to near $20,000,000. No doubt so wide awake a business man as Mr. Burleson will soon find him self able, as I am sure he is willing, to put the parcel post In the United States on a satisfactory basis, dispens ing with the cumbrous, obsolete and odious zone system, which is a constant source of relation -and annoyance. EDWARD BERWICK, president Postal Progress League of California. Stars and Starmakers BT LEON CASS BAEB. Eleanor Baber, socially and profes sionally a favorite on the Pajlflc Coast, has signed to play the lead in "The Country Boy." which goes on tour next month from New York. see The title of the next Helllg play, "Ready Money," is affording every lit tle punster an . opportunlty to have a repartee all his own. The one heard oftenest Is that everybody wants to see ready mo.ney. Well, it's going to be ' at the Helllg all next week, with a picked east of 17 folk. There Is an unusual feature in the long Jump made by the company after Its eight months' run in New York, In that it leaves our neighbor ing City of Seattle out of Its routing. On its closing night, Friday, August 29. "Ready Money" goes directly to San Francisco for a three weeks', stay at the Cort. Frank Mills, who used to play leads with Olga Nethersole. Rlch- Ober, a oneTtlme Baker leading man. and Nena Blake, a former musical com edy star, remembered of the "Ginger bread Man" days, are three of the prin clpal. see In a roundabout way Mayor Albee figures in one of the surprises offered by Mrs. Battling Nelson (Fay King) In her monologue and cartooning at the Empress. In the finale of her enter talnment. Fay draws a doghouse, and. to the complete surprise of even body. she thrusts her fist through the door of the make-believe kennel and pulls out a puppy. Mayor Albee, through W. H. Warren, his secretary, provided the dog for the vaudeville act. To the last Fay relied upon friends to lend her a puppy for her debut In vaude ville. When Monday came there was no dog in sight and it was up to Mra. Battling Nelson to rush to the city pound to get a puppy for her vaude ville masterpiece. Secretary Warren authorized the poundmaster over the telephone to provide Mrs. Nelson with a puppy and she obtained the critter Just In time for her act. "What kind of a dog Is it?" Fay asked the poundmaster. "Just dog," was the reply. Mrs. Nelson has become greatly at tached to the puppy, and at the close of her Empress engagement Sunday she Intends to ask Mayor Albee to allow her to keep the dog that helped her make her first hit in vaudeville. see Sydney Isaacs,' who deserted the office force of the Baker Theater last Spring to take up business connection with the Avenue Stock in Vancouver. B. C Is back in Portland for a visit with the home folk a He had a yard of goasip to retail some of it bound to be of Interest locally. William Bernard and his wife. Nan Ramsey, are leaving in about ten days for New York City. Ned Lynch, the leading man, closes In a month and is to be replaced by Wil liam DowIIng, an actor who played in Portland part of one season for Keat ing and Flood. There has been two stock houses in Vancouver all season and a new one, the. Imperial, opens this week. Jimmy Gleason, of the Baker Playern, a few seasons back and lately from Ye Liberty Stock in Oakland, is a new member of the Imperial company. His wife, Lucille Webster, is of the company, also. Marie Baker, who played character roles last Summer with the Baker Players, Is to be with the Imperial Stock. Isabella Fletcher and Charles Ayers no relation to Sidney who spells his Ayres play the leads. The other company is at the Empress, where Maude Leone, slim as a fairy and a great favorite with the Britishers, la co-star with the com pany owner, Del Lawrence, Howard Russell plays with the Empress Stock and so does Margaret Marriott, who played a brief engagement at the Baker in Summer stock a year ago. One pretty little feature of the com petition between the three stocks Is that since they pay no royalties any one of them can put on any play it "wishes to care for," and each watches the other with the sweet friendliness of alley cats. For Instance the Avenue Stock rehearsed two days on the grand old "Count of Monte Cristo," only to discover that one of Its rivals- was going to play It also for the same week. So the Avenue folk had to grab a quick substitute. e e Walter Gilbert, always popular in local stock' is to open In a fortnight In Salt Lake with Wlllard Mack In his stock company of which Marjorie Ram beau will play lead a see - Ida Adair, who Is Mra Walter Gilbert in private life, Is convalescing after a serious throat affection, at her mother's home in Los Angelea. When she has recovered Miss Adair will appear with a Los Angeles motion-picture company. t ' ' William Farnum, brother to Dnstln, and himself a well-known thespian, has for two weeks been playing leads with the Selig motion picture company in Los Angeles In their production of "The Spoilers." The pictures sow being finished William has returned to New York. see. "I love Portland," warmly declares Charlotte Ravenscroft, singing violin ist at the Orpbeum, "for It Is the home of Madame Carrie Bridewell, that glorious contralto of the Manhattan Grand Opera Company, and she did more for me than all my other teachers put together. At the time I met her socially in Xew York I was soloist in a couple of churches. She heard me sing and saw possibilities that I did not suspect. She at once began to coach me and offered to take me abruao with her when she went sometime afterward, but It was a case of op portunity coming and I not wise enough to see it Instead I turned from church soloist to singing violinist In vaudeville and have been at It ever since." Miss Ravenscroft brought mes sages of greeting from Madame Bride well to the members of her family in Portland. In private life Miss Raven scroft is Mra Edward Flanagan, wife of the tall, slender member of the Flanagan and Edwards team present ing "Off and On." Henry Hall Is leading man at Ye Liberty Theater in Oakland, Cai. see Ralph Hers, comedian, last ieason here as ' a vaudeville headllner, is booked for a limited starring season at the Alcazar in San Francisco, com mencing Monday afternoon, September L during which he will appear In the vehicles with which his name and fame are most closely identified. First of these is the three-act musical comedy, Madame Sherry, in which be will be as sisted by a carefully selected company. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlan of August 21. 1S&3. Extension of the Milwaukie Road As the convenience and Importance of this admirable avenue begin to be ap preciated, there is an anxious and fast- increasing desire on the part of those residing beyond its southern terminus that Its benefits should be extended. Citizens residing on this side ot the river, on the line of the Tualatin bridge, have caused a survey to be made to the bridge. The distance is only eight and one-half miles. The Walla Walla Statesman says that the minera in great numbers are returning to the settlements on their way to the valleys and towns of Ore gon and Washington to spend the Win ter. Washington, Aug. 15. The number of colored troops in the Army is be tween 22,000 and 22,000. Thirty addi tional negro regiments are partly or ganized and rapidly approaching com pletion. New York. Aug. 15. The rebels are securing Immense supplies by way of Wilmington. N. C, in spite of the blockade. - Council Meeting. Counselor Monaa tes presented an ordinance requiring the grading and laying of sidewalks and cross-walks in Jefferson street, between First and Park, which was read a first time. The City Council on Wednesday evening . ordered the City Marshal to deposit all the street lamps in the city Jail. The Gaa Company seems to think it will never do to give up, and, though the lanterns were gone last evening the gaa was lighted about the streets at the usual hour. - Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonlan of August 21. 1SSS. Washington. Aug. 20. The Chinese exclusion bill passed the House today without a division. Pasco. W. T Aug. 20. M. C Sulli van, chief detective of Portland, with his assistant. Colonel D. D. Anthony, and 65 detectives left here today on a special train with 100 colored minora for Roslyn. An Importation of 450 Italians from the East Is expected tomorrow, bound for Roslyn to take the place of the miners now employed there. The miners are determined that the Italians shall not displace them and are arming. Annexation to Portland or no annex ation is the topic of discussion in Al bina at present. In Portland and East Portland the majority opinion seems to favor consolidation, while in Alblna it is Just the opposite. At two mass meet ings the vote showed that the people did not want to be Joined to Portland. Chairman Louis T. Barln. of the Re publican state central committee, ar rived yesterday from his home in Ore gon City and reopened the headquar ters in the Portland Savings Bank building. Jerome C Bonaparte and party will arrive here today from the Sound. M, M. Ktlllngsworth and family and also Mr. William Simpson's family are camped at Salmon River. Governor Moody has returned from the East. Joe Waterman, well known aa the crack second baseman of the old F-ed Stocking Pioneers, sent as fine a box of trout as have been seen this Sum mer to The Oregonlan office the other day. Mr. and Mrs. C H. Prescott arrived last evening direct from Boston. Joseph E. Smith's piled river, em ployed In driving piles tor the O. R. & N. Company's depot in Couch Lake, -tumbled into the lake Saturday. Captain R. H. Lamson. clerk of the United States Court, Is at Bartlett Springs, Lake County. Quotations on Stocks. PRINEVILLE. Or, Aug. 16. (To the Editor.) In the Saturday Evening Post of August there is an article under heading, "The Forehanded Man." in which the statement is made that in 1909 among other things, Pennsylvania Railroad stock sold at $48 'above the market value. Will you kindly explain this? I understand that par value of this stock Is $50, but the dally quota-, tlona cover two shares. Will you kindly explain this? Also state what is meant by market value, and what constitutes a point In the quotations. E. J. WILSON. The par value of common stock of the Pacific Railroad Is $50 and the arti cle quoted distinctly says that $4S a share was added to the value of Penn sylvania stook between 1907 and 1909, though it is customary in quoting this stock to name the price of two shares in order to make It correspond with the great majority of stocks, of which the par value is $100. Market value is the price at which actual sales are made on the Stock Exchange. A point is $L How It Feels to Freeae. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Freezing to death Is preceded by a drowsiness which makes the end pain less, the body actually feeling warm and going comfortably to sleep. Ex periments have been made with animals to show Just how freezing to death proceeds. In one of these experiments. In which the animal was placed In a temperature of from 125 to 150 below zero, the breathing and heart beats were at first quickened, the organic heat of the body rising above normal, which la 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. This showed a sudden and Intense effort oa the part of the functions to preserve the body's temperature. Then violent heart action gave out suddenly, and death came when the temperature of the body dropped to 71 degrees Fahren heit. Thrifty Readers of The Oregonian In the olden days of our grand parents, thrift was a much hon ored quality. Such thrift as this was the backbone of our national life durinsr the earl V days of America. ica, these present days, how- In ever affairs Ily upon emitter wings and we are an proa to extravagance ana careless ex- penditure. In this connection we shall feel that we have done our read ers a service If we can persuade them to a saner and more sens ible method of spending their In comes, great or amalL One of the best methods of practicing thrift is to buy things of known Quality and reputation and to deal with business-men in whom you have confidence. A careful study of The Ore gonlan advertisements is the first step In the right direction. 1 1