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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY. SEPTEJllsKK 1, 6 PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland, Orexon. pastoffles M econd-clAaa matter. Subacrlpuoa Ratea Invariably la Adrance: BT MAID Dally. Bandar Included, one year fJ-J Dally. Sunday included. ix montha ..... Daily. Sunday included, tares months .. Dally, Sunday included, one month. Dally, without Sunday, one year J-"" Dally, without Sunday, elx months ; Daily, without 6unday. three montna... Daily, witbout Sunday, one montn - " Weekly, one year Sunaay, one year " i ao Sunday and weekly, one year (BT CARRIER) Daily, Fan day Included, one year - Dally. Sunday Included, one monta ..... " Haw to Remit Bend poetotflce money or der, ezpreae order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are i senders risk. Give poetofflce address m full. Including county and state. Poetaa-e Rates 12 to 16 pases, 1 cent. to 1 naze, i cents; 34 to 4s pages. ceni. 60 to 60 pages, e cents; to ,," cents: 78 to It pases. cents. Foreign post, age. double rates. Eastern Business Offices Yerree Cnk" lln. New York, Brunswick building. csgo, Steger building. baa Franclsr Office R. J. Bioweu t. T4J Market St. rjimMu offlHta. Ka. c Recent street & W., LoDdoa PORTLAND, MOXDAY, SEPT. 1. 1013. RESTORING THE SPOILS SYSTEM. Democrats are enthusiastic believers In the merit system for the Civil Serv ice when they are seeking votes, but their enthusiasm dies out when they gain power and have offices to fill. Their course since March 4 has been consistent, but It has been grossly in consistent with their campaign prom ises and their platform. The income tax provisions of the Underwood bill require the creation of hundreds of new offices under the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Th last Darasrraoh of that section of v. the bill provides that for two years - after the passage of the bill the agents, j.nnH nnllatnm AnH Insnertors shall be appointed by the Commissioner '. with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury without compliance 1.1- . 1 -H. TSt Canrlna 1 -J T.- That TT fl vision elves senators ana rtepresenta- tives hundreds of Jobs to fill with their favorites. At the expiration of the two years a simple executive or der of the President or a proviso in an appropriation bill can "cover" these favorites into the classified Civil Service and render them immune from . removal when Administrations change. When Republican Senators proposed ..... -. i i , i i . i . that tnese oinces De piaceu in me classified Civil Service, the Democrats fought to a man against any change. "When asked point blank by Senator Root whether he thought the recom mendation of a Congressman would be better than a Civil Service examina tion, Senator Hoke Smith replied: 1 think the Judgment of- a Congressman would be better in the selection of compe tent men than this examination they have been conducting. None of the men who have passed these examinations are as fit ss the men recommended, by a Deputy Col lector of Revenue. That remark shows disbelief In the merit system, not only as applied to Income tax officials, but In principle. It shows preference for the judgment of a Congressman and for a deputy '. collector appointed on recommenda tion of a Congressman. The solid party vote of the Democrats shows '. that they hold the same view and are at heart opposed to the whole merit system, which has prevailed for thirty years and which has been approved by both parties In every platform. The ' Democratic convention at Baltimore approved this law, declaring that it should be "honestly and rigidly en forced, to the end that merit and abiL . lty rather than service rendered to a political party" should be the guide. But the Democrats have already forgotten this plank In their platform. That they never honestly believed in It is proved by their course, not only since, but before Its adoption. The last Congress tried to limit the tenure of office In the Civil Service to seven -years, but was defeated by President . Taft. Since the Wilson Administration - took office men have been removed or '. demoted for purely partisan reasons. : 'Postmaster-General Burleson has en deavored to remove the highly effi . dent Postmaster of San Francisco be fore his term expired and has tried to make Jobs for Democrats by holding bogus examinations for fourth-class postmastershlps and by sending in spectors to fake up charges against the incumbents of such offices. Sec retary Bryan has supplanted men of proved ability and fidelity in the dip lomatic service with men Inexperi enced In diplomacy and having no spe. clal qualification except their Democ racy. So It goes all along the line. The Democrats are doing all In their power, or at least all that they dare, to break down the merit system and restore the spoils system. WAGES AND EFTTCTEXCT. An explanation of the reason why British workingmen receive much low er wages than those of the United States is furnished by J. Ellis Barber in an article In the Fortnightly Re view entitled "Great Britain's Poverty and Its Causes." He shows that the average weekly wages of the 4,656,915 adult Workmen In Great Britain are only thirty shillings, or about J7.30. He quotes figures from the British Board of Trade report showing that in 1909 one person in twenty-one re ceived aid under the poor law, and he says that thirty per cent of the British population lives "on the verge of hunger." The majority of this thirty per cent, he says, consists, not and professional beggars, but of work " ers engaged In wealth-producing In dustries." Mr. Barber's explanation of this poverty is that, because labor Is cheap, ' British industries rely largely on hand labor. The population of the United Kingdom Is about half that of the , United States, but a much larger pro portion is employed In factories, yet ' the total horsepower used in manufac turing In Great Britain Is only 8,083, 341. while in the United States it is 18,675.376. He, therefore, attributes low wages and a consequent low stand ard of living in Great Britain to in efficiency of production. As almost all industry in China and India is moved by hand, so are wages much lower in those countries than in Eng land. The great wealth and high wages of the United States are attributed by Mr. Barker to the unceasing improve ment and to the superior productive capacity of our labor-saving machin ery. He proves this by showing the comparative production per man in the leading industries of the two coun tries, rie gives a. lew illustrations as ; follows: Daily Output Per Man. Industry Gt. Britain, t-'. 8. Boots and shoes 12.28 I7.0S Cardboard boxes l.M 3.80 ;c-ment J-J g-Jf .Clothing S-IO Thus the low wages or threat tsmain have tempted manufacturers to hold down efficiency by employing hand labor, where by employing machinery they could so increase efficiency as to increase production and thereby in crease both ' wages and profits. The high wages prevailing in the United States have prompted manufacturers to substitute machinery for hand la bor. They have thereby been enabled to increase production per man enor mously and consequently to continue paying high wages and to make large profits. The British manufacturer lives down to his low wage scale and holds down his workmen by so doing. The American manufacturer lives up to his high wage scale and holds his workmen up to the standard which he sets. High wages are a spur to, low wages are a drag on, efficiency m both employer and workman. IF ROOSEVELT WERE PRESIDENT. A contributor of the New York Eve ning Post asks that Journal a variety of pointed questions on the policies and methods of the Wilson Adminis tration, and a Progressive friend sends a cony of the letter to The oregonian with a request to reprint ana to re ply, if we can. The Oregonian win reprint, but It will not reply. Like the Post, it is disposed to doage. Anyone is entitled to his own guess as to what would have happened in Mexico If Theodore Roosevelt were President of the United States. If President Roosevelt had sent John Lind. or any confidential agent, to Mexico, -he would have supported LInd In his demands with all the great power of the United States, and . he would have gone through. If Theodore Roosevelt had made up his mind that he had a duty to require Huerta to resign, Huerta would have resigned, either under persuasion or through compulsion. If President Roosevelt had discov ered that Americans in Mexico were being murdered and their property despoiled he would have protected them and he would not have evaded his plain duty to protect them or re quire their protection by the weak device of asking them to leave Mexico. If Theodore Roosevelt were Presi dent he would have used the Big Stick and not merely the Big Talk. In the one instance its display would have been sufficient; in the other it was nothing but empty talk. If Theodore Roosevelt were Presi dent we should have an outright dip lomacy for Mexico, and not the dip lomacy of hesitation, parley and fail ure. If Theodore Roosevelt were Presi dent there would be peace In Mexico, if he set about to compel peace. KEEP THE MADMAN UXDKR IX)CK- W Tibvo heard much of the effi- rlenrv nnH sufficiency of Canadian law, but, nevertheless, we are present ed with the spectacle or a aangerous maniac, supported by wealth, playing mi pci- nrankq with that same law. All of which leads to the conclusion that our brand of legal procedure is not in the least inferior to that of our cous ins tn thn north At best It la a travesty on simple Justice to trifle longer with a maniac whose homicidal tendencies renaer him a menace to the public safety. His status was decided long ago, and that he escaped the gallows was due larrelv to alienists of that particular type who can adjust their viewpoint to their pocketbook. or the purpose of saving Thaw's miserable neck, they swore he was insane, and now, to keep him out of the insane asylum, where he belongs, they will swear he is quite sane. No doubt there are alienists nrhn wnnlil swear that Thaw is the most rational of men. provided the consideration were surncient. Ttur it is not alienists alone that the Thaw gold keeps busy performing pro fessional handsprings. He has a small army of skillful lawyers working day and night in one of the keenest hag riinr contests that ever reduced tech nicality to tatters. The Canadian courts, too, are a party to the rarce, and are kept busy issuing writs, or or. mnnrintps suhnenas and other solemn documents. All to determine whether a dangerous maniac snail De taken hack- to a rilace of safe keeping or shall be turned loose to apply his murderous Impulses as morma rancy and insane whims may dictate. This red-handed maniac belongs back in Matteawan, and every normal person wants to see mm reiurnea there. Canadian Justice may well hide its ta.cn If puerile technicality inter poses to turn the madman. Thaw, loose on society. OUR GRASPING SECRETARY. At last Secretary Bryan has found a defender of his practice of taking In literary and oratorical washing to help out his J12,000-a-year salary. This champion Is none other than the genial W. Jennings Bryan, sometime editor of the Commoner and proprie tor of a fortune estimated at from J200.000 up. In a signed article Sec retary Bryan, by courtesy of Publish er Bryan, sets out his defense of Lec turer Bryan. He shows that his sal ary of $1000 a month Is trivial indeed as compared with his "needs," al though, unfortunately, he doesn t pro vide a table of figures. As the larg est item, he mentions insurance poli cies, church obligations, charity and education. These cost him more than $6800 a year, he says. It would be interesting if he noted Just how much of that sum goes for insurance, which may be egarded as an investment. But he neglects this little detail. Then his expenses in en tertaining, he continues, are heavy. This admittedly is true. Yet it is not as large as the expense of previous Secretaries, for he saves at least $2500 a year by his ban on wines, It is esti mated. Aside from the lump sum he men tions in connection with insurance in vestments and church work. Secretary Bryan deals in generalities. He inti mates that his present salary is Inade quate, but does, not say so In as many words. Nor does he say anything about his Income derived from his various interests and his private fortune. Ac cording to a writer In the current is sue of the Saturday Evening Post, the Bryan Income, conservatively estimat ed, amounts to $22,000 a year without lecture receipts. This same writer suggests that stinginess and a grasping desire to hoard Is the trouble, rather than a shortage of income. But, as Mr. Bryan says, he should be entitled to make as much as he pleases, "provided the means em ployed by me were legitimate and pro. vlded that public business did not suf fer." That's exactly the point. Pro vided the public business did. not suf fer. The public business not only, did suffer, but does suffer and will suf fer. With several of the greatest dip. lomatlc problems ever confronting the American people on his desk. Secretary Bryan neglected this public business. The whole world knows that when the Mexican and Japanese situations re quired immediate and painstaking at- tention by the head of the Cabinet in Tnin American Secretary of State was seeking the golden pot at the end of the rainbow. And only Baiuruay imorion refiiiraes from Mexico, hur rying, destitute, from that troubled country at the urgent request oi me a m -i nun Ariministrn-tion ' arrived at New Orleans to find no provision made . T-l for their reception ana care, uti'wi' appeals to the State Department hrnmrht nn resnonse. Why? The bee retary of State was away from his post again on a lecture circuit. Secretary Bryan profits handsome tours. But continued neglect of tender diplomatic situations may one day cost this country a pretty penny. LAWYERS AND IXTVE. Artnrnevs for PhiliD K. Gordon, w vho is ViMno- sued for alienation of the af fections of Mrs. Lillian Beck, evident ly know nothing of the language invo Thou must ho of that type which the descriptive name dryasdust has been given, which demanas a pre cise name for everything and which never1 strays beyond the legal vocab-iiim-v When Mr. Beck's attorney waxes eloquent and Indignant In his description of the wiles by wnicn ir. n.irHnn io U tprl to have 'WO n the af fections of the fair Lillian, they call his language prolix and "a jumoie f iimlpmint sne-eestlons. recitals, ref- ,-anfas rilirresstnns ajid stories." They call for an exact definition of that which Mr. Beck's attorney, in his prosy agony of soul, says "stings, line a white-hot brand." Rnnr ran a man. suffering as Mr. Beck says he has suffered, be pinned 4nwn Aptnp!is of statement, to precise use of terms? What words In the legal vocabulary can accurately describe all the Implements contained In thn arsenal of love? MOW wouia a lawyer define love in legal terms? The enginery of love, with all its hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging. Is beyond the narrow ken of such lawyers as coldly nicir to nieces the passionate outpour ings of Mr. Beck's riven soul. The law lacks words in which to aescriDe the subtle methods by which the little wretch Cnnld. does his work. Law cannot define" the tender tones, the passionate pleadings, by which an in truder steals away a woman's heart from her spouse. It has no words in which to express the palpitations, the hopes, doubts and fears which it causes In the breast of the fair be sieged. a new lera.1 vocabulary musi De compiled for use of those lawyers who make a specialty of affairs of the heart divorce, breach of promise, alienation of affections and the like. Mow rules nf evidence must be made applicable, especially to such cases, in which the tone of the voice, tne giance of the eye, the clasp of the hand, the expression of the face, all shall be ad missible. For these are truly rele vant, material and in accordance with the facts. . . IS THE WORLD GEOW1SU Blxii.nvr whether a. nerson believes the world is growing better or not depends upon his temperament and poim oi view, n may depend, too, upon certain fixed etanriards of valuation which he re fuses to modify In the light of facts and reason. Such seems to be the case with a. Bev. Mr. Thomas, who discusses the- question of the world's improve ment in one of our Eastern contem nnrarles. The sum of his reflections fa that cinra men sro to church less con stantly than they did some centuries ago, they are less religious and there fore less moral, and the necessary con clusion is that the world has grown worse Instead of better. His reasoning is a sample of tnat deductive logic which occasionally makes the pulpit futile. Mr. Thomas might have looked around mm to see hnnr tha world was actually wagging and .nmnnred his observations with the state of things five or six hundred years ago. But no, nothing so sensiDie occurred to him. He lays down an a priori principle and from that, with out regard to the real circumstances. draws his conclusions. This would hair, hoon n.ccAntabIe enOUKTh in the dark ages when everybody was doing the same foolish thing, dui u naraij passes muster now. Church-e'oine has undoubtedly fal len off more or less in our days. Just why such a thing has happened no hniiv sooms tn he auite able to explain, but all observant people admit the fact and some of them deplore it, dui u na. nni rviinw. bv anv means, that there Is less real religion among men than them was in other generations. The Biblical definition of religion is not acceptable to some clergymen, put, novoftholess we are obliged to adopt it unless we choose to flout the sacred volume. r-o- this definition relieion means to do Justly, and to love mercy and to n-oiv hnmhiv hefore thv God." At anv rate this is the Prophet Micah's notion of It, for he asks what else the Lord can require or a man auu James confirms his opinion of it by toiling us that "pure religion and un- defiled before God Is to visit the fath oiou and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world." Even the Reverend Mr. Thomas, who sees things pretty black, confesses that there Is more of this Biblical kind of religion in the worio than there ever was before. There i more solicitude for the welfare of the poor, more effective abhorrence of In justice, more active warfare upon wrong, more tenderness ror me wiaow and orphan. rn mleht make more sweeping statements without any fear of suc- ofni refutation. For instance, there pan ho no doubt whatever that men are, upon the whole, more honest in our day than In previous centuries. There Is less temptation to fraud and theft, because comfort is more com mon and the law Is far better en forced than it used to be a few gener ations ntrn. Both life and property are safer now than they were for our an cestors. We have no rohoer Darons li vino- ononlv bv theft and violence. All inroads upon the rights of others have been forced into the darkness. There Is still plenty of predaceousness, but it Is clandestine and timid. It does not stalk abroad in the daylight, It did once. It is lust as easy to prove that there Is less sexual Im- orallty in our time than formerly, i Rhakosneare's dav. for example. .such misconduct was a mere subject for Jest. It is scarcely ever mentioned seriously In his plays, except by Jeal ous husbands, usually it is laugneo at. It was by Boccacio. one or bnane- speare's characters pleads that "of all the deadly sins it is the least" We are well on the road now-a-days to making it the greatest. Gibbon speaKs of illicit relations between men and women as "an amiable weakness. What writer would dare so to charac terize it now? Mor ia thera anv d If f loiiltv In show. lng that both the mental and the bodily health of mankind has improved. The great epidemics which swept our ancestors away by the million have been overcome. Many diseases which baffled the physicians of the past are now easily curable. It is mere insanity to deny that the eradication of dis ease, with the cessation of the suffer ing it causes, has increased the happi ness of . mankind. The only alterna tive is to contend that the more we suffer the happier we are. Mentally, the health of the world has been im proved still more abundantly. Students of history know In what a state of constant fear our forefathers lived. The -air was full of demons. Earth swarmed with witches. Most of the natural phenomena, like thun der and tempests, proclaimed the wrath of the .deity. Life was one long frenzy of fear. For us most of these fears have been overcome. The de mons have been banished. There are no more witches. The lightning is not sent by an angry God. The gain in human happiness by the conquest of fear is simply immeasurable and It is increasing all the time as knowledge and common sense replace supersti tion. But knowledge brings positive pleas ures of its own. The more a man knows" the happier he is, upon the whole. We are aware that exceptions can be cited, but it seems to be incon testable that the sheer act of knowing things affords pleasure to normal men. The child finds pleasure in dis covering the facts of the world and so do adults as long as their mental machinery works properly. Life Is longer than It used to be, it is healthier in every way and it is so much more Interesting than it ever was before that there is no comparison to be made. But the best proof that the world is growing better every day is the large number of capable men and women who are definitely laboring to make it better. We find them every where, lawyers like Brandeis, politi cians like LaFollette, capitalists like Carnegie, writers like Brieux, social workers like Jane Addams. The list might be made to fill columns of The Oregonian. Such men and women do not shut themselves up sullenly behind four walls to save their own little souls, but they pour out salvation in floods upon the whole world. What a satire it is upon the goodness of trod to try to maintain that their work i3 and must forever be futile. How near we are In time to some of the dark practices of past decades and yet how far from them in view point is emphasized by the felicita tions expressed by a colored woman at Albany, on the occasion of her eightieth birthday. Born a slave, she was given by her master as a wed ding present to one of his daughters. She was then a mere chattel. Now she Is as free. as her one-time owner and has an equal voice in the government with the mightiest. The human fam ily has evolved apace in eighty years. A remarkable and significant event was a recent reunion of more tnan uu former slaves at Rockingham, N. C, which was held with the assistance of the white people. It included a parade, plantation singing, reminis cences, oratory, entertainment at rne "movies" and a dinner given by the former masters and mistresses. The reunion helped toward a better 'un derstanding between the races and Is expected to have many repetitions in the South. It is fortunate for President Wilson that Castro's revolution in Venezuela failed. Had it succeeded he would have, felt impelled, following the ivToirinan nrecedent. not to recognize f-acti-o as nresldent. Refusal to have diplomatic relations with any govern ment established by armed force in stead of by constitutional means, as wo understand them, might conceiv ably cut us off from a majority of the Latin American nations. TTfliw Thaw hast been advised to buy land in Canada and apply for naturalization In that country. ew York would save money by buying a farm ahrnad and presenting it to him on condition that he live on it. But how ahont Canada's boast that she carefully selects immigrants? Taeoma firemen had to grope their way about with lanterns in a fog. Fog does not become noteworthy, however, until you have to chop your way through. simian said Mrs. Monkev to the old man reading the Illustrated Jungle Weekly and hating to be disturbed, "can't you find me some thinner leaves?" Tho Clackamas eenius who has crossed wheat and corn might next try for a bovine-equine hybrid. The cir cus people, at least, will buy. a Snni-ann irlrl braved fierce flames and "navod her home. Most heroic deeds these days are performed by the so-called weaker sex. Twenty thousand dollars for the yield of pears from one Medford farm. How many big business nrms can show a bigger record? MoTfevnnlds savs he feels he is a handioan to the Wilson Administra tion and may resign. There's a pointer for Bryan. ' The New York Giants were fiercely attacked by fans. We've all felt that way about it. though hot recently in Portland. rhii while wlshine them well, we hardly feel like wishing the convened undertakers a prosperous season. storms have destroyed the grape and tobacco crops in France. That's putting a crimp In the old inick. Now that a cure for seasickness has been found the cost of feeding passen gers will come up, no dOUDt. st T-ohIs milkmen have raised the price to 9 cents a quart. The public 13 forever being milked. nensirv of London foe is historic, but nobody suspected Taeoma was af flicted that way. Two more weeks and back to the schoolroom for the youngsters. Did you get up in time to see Sep tember morn? Two games In one dayl Good old Beavers!. To many, rest today will mean labor. Cupid has gone to the hop fields. WIDENING OF STREET PROTESTED. East Bnrnalde Change is Objected to by Property Owner. PORTLAND, Aug. 30. (To the Edi tor.) As a property owner on East Burnside street I am vitally inter ested In the proposition to widen the street, and I desire to register my earnest protest. The proposal was initiated . by East Side resi dents who' do' not own a dollar's worth of property on the street be tween the bridge and East Twenty eighth street, and many of the active agents In the movement do not own property adjacent which would be, under- present laws, assessed for the change. It is easy to impose taxes and expense on the other fellow when the boomer has nothing to pay. If my in formation is correct only a very small minority of the property owners within the area of the proposed widening have signined their approval oi me jjium, ond manv of these will change their mind when all the facts are presented tn that, trna Hp-ht. There Is no general demand for the widening, it is entirely uDnetea j It will not Increase the value of prop .rtv nn the atroAt- nn the contrary 11 will be an Injury and lessen the value of ahutHner nronertv. There are many parallel streets whinii are hinp- navod and these w ill valiovo .anv Increased traffic On Bum mtr-wt Tt In iinnonensarv. as other streets will always bear their share of traffic, and extra widening win oniy invite additional traffic, which will in mrito moro trsfflo and increase conges tion. The lots on East Burnside street vary -from 60 to 100 feet in deptn Most of the houses are placed close tc the street, and in most cases occups a lirre nortion.mf the lot from front to back. If ten feet are taken from each side of the street houses will 1 .nHih nn tho front street lin If twenty feet be taken from the north side of the street to even tne jog ai i.'nut Twentv.elffhth street the condl tlons will be even worse. Many houses riii ho pur in front, as the depth of lots will make removal further back on lots Impossible. This brings us to the matter of a uniform building line thA etreet offer thA Widening. If the street is widened the houses must of necessity be set back further rrora the street line to harmonize with tn .....cka width A building line on the south side of Burnside might be established li tne cut was made entirely on the north side, but If the cut was made on the nrth ddo a hirildine- line, to harmonize with the increased width of the street would be a physical impossibility f-hroiicrh loRspnine- tho deDth of lots Without a new building line the beauty of the street would be destroyed with houses practically on tne streex un in front. With a building line on th Dnnth side and none on the north sid tho street would be lopsided and grotesque. Tf under the law this UnlUSt and 1111 necessary widening can be forced upon the property owners by a lot of boom--v-...tenfi i-t is for the ceneral good, then let the entire expense be charged to the general luno, or a spe niei ta-r lew ho made to cover. Burn side is a good street, as wide as any ordinary street. If it is nest ior xne good of the entire city to widen it, i inf entire Mtv heln to de fray the expense. Instead of saddling it upon tne property owners wmi aii-oadv naid for three distinct street surfacines or pavings. I fail to see how a constant stream "of traffic over i . i rt.oat lllro Rurnside com posed of automobiles, motorcycles, sand o-mvel motor cars, ice wagons, meat wagons, lumber wagons, garbage wagons, Iron pipe and telegraph poles will Increase the value of property on the street, or add to its beauty as a thoroughfare. Tf Diirnal. la wldpned Tl T1(l made nsi-Vwav and nlaced under the Park Commission and all heavy business traffic excluded from it, then the utility plea falls to the ground, for the street ia rcida onniio-h at nresent for all pleas. ure and light vehicle traffic which will be ever placed upon it. t e v-- i. renllv n domand for a parkway let the city acquire all the property between Burnside and Couch Btreets and rrom tne nrer to Twenty-eiehth street. This will make a parkway averaging 320 feet in width giving ample width for parking strips, bridle paths, tree lines, walks and driveways. Tax the whole thing on the entire citv. and have something worth while. Other cities are doing these things. . FLORA A. BROWN, M. D IF ROOSEVELT WERE PRESIDENT, Wonld He Follow the Methods of the Wilson Administration f New York Evening Post. To the tr.ditor of tho Evenine Post Sir: Would you mind a plain man's asking you some plain questions; (1.) If Theodore Roosevelt were President, would we have an Incom petent Secretary of State, and, in con Qomienne a. foohle Mexican policy? Would Huerta dare to talk to Roosevelt as he talks to Wilson? (3.) Would we have a secretary oi the Treasury oancing tne cancan iur the editlication of a lot of wild men in Congress? , ' (4). Would we nave an Attorney General who would permit himself to e-ot mixed ud in such an affair as the Diggs-Canilnetti case? (5.) Would we have one xammany ki as Governor of the Philippines and an other as Collector of New York? C6.i Would we have such a (Ho! io:j Secretary of the Navy? (7.) Would we have such a bun combe tariff polioy? (8.) Would we have such a do-nothing special session of Congress, mak ing us a laugning-stoCK among na tions? After all do vou not think that the habit of voting the Republican ticket straight is a pretty gooi nami, aim that those like the Evening Post who advise anything else have much to an swer for? Come now; no dodging. LEON PHILLIPS. New York, Aug. 22. wo ran't heln dod?lnT. for what our correspondent evidently needs is not an editor but an astroiogisi. cjo. .evening Post.) Would Rob Turk of Title. purp a nr ajio-'27 fTo the Editor: The world has been humbugged long enough about Bulgaria and the Bul- ).. - Th. lain ajar- iinmalred them. Instead of hiding their faces, names and all, some persons, .Bulgarians or paid agents, have the , effrontery tc. -,,1.11.1, n several naners throughout ,.LJ-1-, ' ... - - - , 1- the country misleading and false stuff for the purpose or palliating tne most palpable facts. All the world knows that the war was brought about by the hoggishness of the Bulgarians In claiming everything and by their treachery in attacking the Greeks and the Servians without previous notice. Now the Bulgarians have been every where lgnominiously defeated. The de feat of an army, when armed men fight against armed men, is not a dis grace. Disgrace is when armed men massacre unarmed men, women and children and commit upon them the most revolting crimes. For their hor rible misdeeds against humanity the Bulgarians will stand . disgraced and execrated for generations and genera ina The Ttnlfrar has out-turked the Turk in cruelty and vileness of every kind. nencetorin ne tiuuuiu uu THE UNSPEAKABLE. J. P. LEOTSAKOS. A Jewel of a Dogr. Puck. Hunston I'd like to go shooting to morrow, if I could get a dog that was well trained. Ethel Oh! I'll let you take Dottle, then! She can stand on her head, and shake hands, and play dead, and say prayers, aad do lots or things V. M. C. A. HAS DOSE BIG THINGS Inntlttition Builds Character and So Contribute to Real Success. PORTLAND, Aug. 31. (To the Edi tor.) Your editorial on the "Growth of the Y. M. C. A." portrays a most remarkable record of that institution. It leaves one to Inquire into the things that have made it such a great sue-, cess. As an observer It occurs to me that its present condition has not been reached in a day, but is the result of a half century of growth. It may be true, however, that the business men who are providing the money are Just beginning to awaken to the results the association seems to accomplish. They seem to have gotten down to the analysis of the real social, religious, physical and educational needs of men. They proceed upon their findings and gear their work to deal with men as they are and not as they ought to be. Their methods are tried and the personnel of their hoards and executive force contain the best special ists the country produces. Their aim seems to be the building of character first and thereafter mate rial advancement. This is an ideal more nearly reached in the Y. M. C. A., I believe, than in any other institution standing today. In Its educational work they say that to learn bookkeeping, bricklaying or physics is good and Is an element to reckon with for one's advancement, but a man may be a mas ter brick mason and still be a failure in life. Character is the foundation and first essential to bricklaying or any other business, profession, trade or occupa tion. Likewise, to keep the body clean and healthy Is good religion and con tributes to righteousness. Religloin is not forced on any one, but a young man, after a year's work in any of their over 100 different line sof activity has caught It, whether he recognized the contagion or not He cannot well help but be a better citizen because of his association with men of high ideals and pure motives. It seems to the writer that it is time for some of Portland's folks to criti cally analyze the Y. M. C. A. work as it is conducted in our city and give some outright gifts to it. A rose to the living, while living. Is worth more than a whole wreath given In memory. The donors of outright gifts towards an endowment at this time would give them mucn satisiac tlon and comfort, as they view the good it does In building character In the lives of thousands of Portland's young men, making them better citizens, etc. Those who cannot spare blocks of bonds, cash or property, should see the trustees regarding an annuity, or, as the writer has done, and as many more in Portland may do, place something worth while in their wills. This much I have found: the closer you investi gate the Y. M.,C. A. the better you will like it. Familiarity does not breed con tempt with their work. They deliver the goods. A FRIEND. FIGURES OX Liat'OR QUESTIONED Government Statistics Said to Include Intoxicants Stored I" p. PORTLAND, Aug. 30. To the Edi tor.) Recently certain figures of the Internal Revenue Department, tending to show an alleged increased consump tion of intoxicating liquors have been given wide publicity by the liquor-interests. These figures led you to write an editorial not long since in which you made the pertinent inquiry whether, notwithstanding the widespread and successful operation of the local option and other prohibitory laws, the con sumption of liquors was really on the increase. Your inquiry was very fully an swered by a letter to you which was published in these columns, from Mr. H. L. Sheldon, state superintendent of the Oregon Anti-Saloon League, who showed by comparisons between wet and dry states that, while it was prob ably the fact that liquor consumption was on the Increase in the cities and In wet localities that it was most cer tainly on the -decrease iij the rapidly increasing dry territory. There has Just come to my notice these additional facts which it seems to me, in all fairness, ought to be added to and emphasized in the discussion. The Government furnishes no statis tics as to the use of liquor, but through the Internal Revenue Department re ports the amount of liquor withdrawn from the bonded warehouses on which the tax is paid. Under the Federal laws, liquor, when manufactured, may be put into these bonded warehouses and kept there for eight years, if de sired, but at the end of that time it must be withdrawn and the Federal tax on its manufacture paid. Owing to the Inroads of state-wide prohibition and local option, the sale of liquor has lagged behind the pro duction, and last year there had been accumulated In these bonded ware houses 263,785,831 gallons. The time limit had expired on a large part of this accumulation, and It was withdrawn, the tax paid upon It, and it was stored In private warehouses, but it went into the records of the In ternal Revenue Department as "con sumed" liquor. The liquor dealers, anxious to dis credit the work of the temperance forces, are losing no opportunity to create the impression that this with drawal means consumption, and any so-called temperance forces who are using the recent figures to discredit the ' good work of other temperance forces have evidently "fallen" for the misrepresentation. Any set of figures submitted by the liquor forces may be looked upon with suspicion, for misrepresentation is as natural to them as water Is for a duck. EL1SHA A. BAKER. DRIXK FROM ICE TUMBLERS. A New French Invention Insures a Coo and Safe Beverage. Pearson's Weekly. Caterers at several French watering places are this season taking up an invention which probably win revolu tionize the whole Summer trade in cool drinks. The idea, which stands to the credit of a Dane named Hulza, Is to cool beverages not by putting a piece or ice in the middle of the liquid, but to serve up the liquid inside ice. In other words, your favorite thirst quencher is served In a tumbler of pure and transparent Ice. The tumbler stands in a cap or paper so that it is not unpleasantly cold to hold. This cap, also, of course, pre vents warm fingers from melting holes In the bottom of the tumbler. An ice tumbler is, of course, beauti fully sanitary. It will not stand a sec ond filling. The customer has the sat- sfactlon of knowing that no one nas drunk out of his glass before, and that no one will again. The making of these tumblers, which look Just like ordinary ones, except for. being somewhat thicker, needs a special refrigerating outrit, witn a small engine. With an engine of one horsepower, 100 tumblers can be turned out in a minute. You watch your tum bler being made. Where Life Is Easy. Bandon Semi-Weekly Recorder, Aug. 26. The Recorder will not appear on Fri day, as our office force wants a little time off and we are so rushed with job work that we cannot keep every thing up and accommoaate tne force. Next Tuesday we . will be with you again, bigger and better than ever and will continue twice a weeK. as usual. Up-to-Date Housekeeping. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "How do you like our Kitchenette?" Rather small., isn't it? "Oh, no. If s plenty large enough. We take all our meals out" Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonian ot September 1, 1888. Jacksonville, Fla Aug. 31. The epi demic of yellow fever is in full sway in every part of the city. Today's re port shows 23 new cases and four deaths in the last 24 hours. Tacoma, Aug. 31. Hop-picking will begin throughout the Washington Ter ritory districts . Monday. The crop is good. Salem, Or.. Aug. 31. Ben Critchlow. a carrier of The Oregonian and States man, was thrown from a horse and kicked a terrible blow in the forehead, while carrying papers this morning. James Saryeanc, formerly connected with the Y. M. C. A., arrived here frorr the Palouse country, where he has been employed on a railroad survey. Professor T. H. Crawford returned yesterday from Brownsville, where he has been attending the golden wedding of his parents, Dr. and Mr. R. C. Crawford. & M. H. Holcomb, general manager ol the Oi R. & N. Company, returned Thursday (from a tour over the line! of the company with Charles F. Adams, president of the union Facitic Railroad Company. J. W. Whalley and H. Pilklngton started for Sauvle's Island yesterday for a week among the duck ponds. The Fourth Presbyterian Church, corner of South First and Gibbs streets, is undergoing extensive Improvement. Woodard, Clarke & Co. and W. M. Wisdom have put in the largest size cash register in their retail depart ments. From the number now in usa it is evident that the cash register is found to be a valuable acquisition to the retail trade. Half a Century Ago From The Oresonlan of September I, 1883. A gentleman connected with the firm of Humlston, Wilson & Co., who came down on the boat Saturday, reports that between Boise and Umatilla ne passed 104 immigrant wagons on the way down. The steamer yesterday brought to our city Captain W. L. Dall, formerly commanding the steamer Columbia and other ships of the P. M. S. S. Co.. and for many years the only pilot of ma rine emigration to the Columbia River. The following was published l i the Yreka Journal of the 27th: ieoVrals are throwing shells Into Charleston. Beauregard protests on the ground of humanity and asks truce of 40 , hours. No terms will be granted except un conditional surrender. The last gun in Fort Sumpter has been dismounted. Kansas, Aug. 25. Reports have been received that Majors Blunt and Thatch er overtook a company of guerillas In Lafayette County and killed 30. A detachment from Lexington also met a company near Pleasant Hill on Sat urday, killed seven and recovered a considerable quantity of goods taken at Lawrence. The Rev. Dr. Eckman, a Jewish rabbi, also editor of the San Francisco Gleaner, arrived on the steamer yester day to officiate In the synagogue of the Congregation Beth iBrael. Among the passengers who left New York by the steamer of August 3 were Hon. H. W. Eddy and family, of Mil waukie. Tonight Bulwer's grand and thrill ing drama of "Richelieu" will be per formed at the theater. SEW DRESS FADS HELD RATIONAL "Inherited Error" Viewed as Csuse of Conventionality in Attire. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 31. (To the Editor.) For a rational, sound and telling' discussion on dress for woman I feel that I can conscientiously rec ommend, in the full conviction that I am doing a moral act, an article en titled "Modesty in Women's C.lothes, in Harper's Weekly for August 30. The points made are convincingly and In terestingly Illustrated. A new era has surely dawnei in styles for the ladles when we find a conservative publication like this giv ing a prominent position to a contrib utor who makes it clear that he is in favor of the new style of dress for women, and gives as reasons for his belief quotations from celebrated scientists and physicians. The most remarkable part of the ar ticle is that he succeeds in making out a pretty good case in favor of the con tention that the old custom among wo men of heaping on plenty of clothes is in reality a sign of an Inward pru riency, an association of necessary evil with anything and everything connect ed with the human body. The fact that certain men and wo men even now quite sincerely Insist upon an excess of covering in the name of decency and modesty proves that they are the lingering victims of an Inherited error which may truly be called a vital lie. They need the bright, clean sunlight to flood and purify their souls. That sunlight is the joyful feel ing of kinship with nature in all her lovely and wholesome variety and strength. We seem gradually to be getting back to the sane attitude of the ancient si 1 TirA .r. n H . I n cr rhaf tho clean, healthy, beautiful human form cannot oi liseii. uo aujiums uui buuu, MISS M. M. An Ode to the Pelican. Santiam News. A funny ole bird Is the pelican. His bill can hold more than his bellcan. He can take in his beak enough food for a week, but we don't understand how the helican. Moving Picture at Home, Birmingham Age-Herald. "What is the editor of the "Health Hints' department raving about?" "A rich woman writes that she gives pri vate moving-picture shows In her home, and she wants to know If they will In jure her poodle's eyes." Are You In the Know?" There is an expression "In the know," which is rather pat. To be "in the know" means to be Informed, or rather to have spe cial. Inside information that per haps others have not. This phrase may be very aptly applied to those of our readers who carefully read the adver tisements every day in The Ore gonian as contrasted with those readers who are not so enterpris ing. Being "in the know" on the subject of advertising gives one a marked advantage over those who are not "in the know." One's dollar goes farther, shopping Is made easier and ridiculous and wasteful purchases are elim inated. Not to be "in the know" means careless, out-of-date-ness and ex travagance. Read the advertisements daily and be "in the know."