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Newspaper Page Text10 THE MORmTr OKEGOXIAX, TjrTXRSTJAY, OCTOBER 23, 1913. xxmx PORTL IND. ORSGOX Enteral at Portl nd. Orea-on. Postofflee as rcond-claaa matte v. 4 . . . Kt.h.rintion Kates- .-Invariably Ib Advanea: m r MAIL) Dlly. Sunday Indue Wd. ore year.. . Dull Sunday inclu led, mix montna. ... 4..JO her. Into her personal affairs we have no right to intrude. But this Is singularly shallow sophistry, be cause an actress who lives in the glare of publicity has no private love af fairs. AVhatever she does In that realm is held up for the imitation of thousands and if her behavior is vi cious she becomes, in spite of herself, an apostle of vice. If "a sweet and l' 5H.i included, three months.. 2.25 an I Daily! Sunday inciud. d, one month .75 wholesome family life" Is really as 8.25 fundamentally important as we all ''Jo say 11 13 wny should we not feel bound ... 1.50 to protect it from the corroamg in ..,.,..,, cuniln V. one ear Daily! without Sundaj alx months... nailv. without Sunday, three months. Daily, without Sunday, one month. Sunday' one year fluence of shamelessly bad examples? Sunday and weekly, on e year. - . - (BY CAB BIER) Dally. Sunday Included, one year J0 SUITER'S VINDICATION. Dally. Sunday inciooaa. .we The Oregonian' is favored by the local bank. Stamps, coin or eurreuyr If.IIUCI B 1 I3IU Ml 'O - 4 ,.1 1 nn1iiiln- nt V A.IUV StlLtS. v.a Dn. i tr ift mures. 1 cent; 18 to Hi pages. 2 cents; S4 to pages. 8 eenU; A - r .ntr: R2. to 76 pages, o aer express order or per lonal check on your Progressive News Service (Munsey building, Washington, D. C.) wltn its latest bulletin on the progress of that great party along the higher levels of morality, purity and reform. The topic of the newest Progressive lu cubration is Sulzer William Sulzer late Governor of New York. The Foreign post- rOKTLANI). THCTtSDAY, OCT. IS, 1913. cents; 78 to 2 pages, 8 cent. Eaatern Business Offices verree lln. New York. Braniwici ouuuiu. cago. bteger Buna.ns T,ol Mnir. a ereatlv aei C ..la. J. niUWeiA awWM I A. AWB.AVUV VWUblbwV -w a 1 142 Market at. tated by the spectacle or tne tsuizer degradation by Murphy, as may be evidenced by the following quotation Charles F. Murphy made William Sulzer Governor of New York. The people of tn Btnto affpfl Bulzer was not honest, but Murphy didn't care, and the people didn't Vnnw Murnhv was MurtmV ana ail i."t. Unrnhvlam an .1 TammnBV Hall Stand toT. S.ilier knew that and didn't care. But the neonle did care. Sulzer thought he saw .hnnM tn flifvminB himself at Murphy's ex nnM Sft he kicked Murohy in the face and the crowd applauded. Then Murphy set out to tear Sulzer down. Now ne uas suc ceeded. The court of Impeachment that he ordered has convicted Sulaer and removea him from the Governorship. There is the whole case In a nut shell. Sulzer, an unworthy and venal his tinues to broaden as it has in the past. In short, if the Portland Com mission succeeds in holding the tar levy to the present proportions in definitely, it will have accomplished wonders. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. The general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church has re solved to co-operate with the inter' national committee on marriage and rllvornp. which is arranging for a world-wide conference on this burn in ouestion in May. 1915, at the Panama Exposition. The Episcopal delegates appear to be Interested chiefly In two aspects of the subject. TV, ov- cnonlr nf 'flwftkeninir the con- .i.n,.. r American nennln on the creature of Tammany, violates rt nr riirp and remarriage." corrupt bargain with Tammany, and The remarriage seems to be in their that delectable organization turns eyes as terrible a crime as the dl- upon him and rends him, achieving tv,!,, t. n,.ro v b iricai a tremendous revenge uuu at u viw r thB mpttpr which is not likely same time warning all other Tarn to exercise much convincing author!- many tools to betray Tammany at ty over the minds of the people. When their peril. We do not wonder at a divorce has been properly obtained the Progressive sarcasm, nor at the ilu nrrtinarv lav mind can perceive keen Progressive insigni into tne sur no reason why the innocent party did facts of the Sulzer-Tammany should not marry again if he or she dealings. In the virtuous Progres desires to do so. The stand of the sive view, it served Sulzer right, it Rnlsr-onal delegates depends on their served Tammany right and, above all, belief that marriage is an indissoluble it served the people of New York urmmAnt which retains much of its right for preferring a fellow like Sul binding power even after a legal di- zer to a good man like Oscar Strauss, vnrc hrut been in-anted in the courts, the Progressive nominee for Gover- TmnHoitlv it sets the oninions of theo- I nor. logians above the law of the land, a P. S. The advent of William Sul- theory which once had a strong hold zer in New York, on his return from upon the world, but which is now his disgrace at Albany, was marked pretty thoroughly abandoned. by the notification through a commit- The Methodist conference at Free- tee of 340 patriotic Progressives that port. 111., has also expressed an opin- he had been nominated for the New ion regarding divorce and. ripely con- York Assembly by the Progressives of sidered. It is of a more practical turn the Sixth Assemmy uistncc than that of the Episcopal conven tion. The Methodists favor "uniform divorce laws throughout the United States, physical examination of the parties contracting marriage, wide publicity of proposed marriages, with a law making it a felony for the hus band to abandon his wife and fam lly." Upon these proposals the great majority of intelligent people will WHY TAXES ARE HIGH. It appears that the numerous critics who thought they eaw evidence in the original city budget that com mission government is not all that is claimed for it have been hasty in their conclusions. It is only in rare instances that departmental estimates DOffyjm,L TO THE SEA. The union of the seven north Pa cific states In support of the im provement of the Columbia River is recognition of that community of In terest which has developed some of the greatest business successes of the day. It is bound to succeed. A solid body of fourteen Senators and sixteen Representatives can get from Con gress anything it asks within reason. The sixteen Representatives among 435 may not be many, but the four teen Senators among ninety-six are a power to be reckoned with. By teamwork they can get the money to pull the cork from the Columbia's mouth and to clear the neck of the bottle, out of which the products of the seven states are to flow to the sea. Each of these seven states has a direct interest in keeping the Co lumbia open to the largest ships, for all are on the road which leads down hill through the Columbia gateway to the Pacific Ocean. This has always been true, but It will be doubly true when the Panama Canal causes the products of the intermountain coun try to travel west In order to go east, when the road from Helena, Butte, Salt Lake, Boise and the Wyoming mines and plains to New York and Boston leads westward through Port land to the sea and not eastward overland. Then the wool, grain, fruit, coal and metals of that great Interior will come to Portland for shipment through the canal to At lantic ports. There may be no nav igable water' near the point of pro duction, but the journey to market, though begun by rail, will be finished by water. agree. If there is any difference or mtum cac t..i..s -opinion it will concern the physical body that appropriates public funds, examination of persons who intend to Large requests by public officials, marry. Some argue against this on the ground that it is an unwarranted Invasion of private rights, but they forget that marriage and the physical condition of those who incur its ob ligations are not private matters en tirely. The public is intimately con cerned in the marriage and its conse quences and plainly has the right to protect itself against the fruits of un hygienic unions. If we admit that society Is under obligations to sup- port idiots and other defectives in public institutions how can we pos sibly deny that it has the correspond ing right to prevent by proper regu moreover, do not always denote ex travagant characteristics. It is prop er that each department call atten tion to desirable improvements as well as absolutely essential requirements. If the improvements can be afforded, well and good. If not the superior demands of necessity must prevail. The City Commission has now fixed a sum wnicn tne nnanciai resources of Portland seem to indicate is the maximum that may wisely be ex pended in 1914. This sum is the equivalent of the proceeds of a levy of 7.7 mills on the late tax valuation of all property. The levy Is the same lations their entrance into the world? as that imposed last year, but an in- The Methodist conference hopes to bring about improved conditions in regard to marriage and divorce "by establishing family religion and build. ing up Christian homes." Probably this method is as effective as any. It involves necessarily a wide education of the public, without which nothing crease in valuation win cause tne production of somewhat larger tax receipts than in the preceding year. It would be an ideal plan if a city of the size of Portland could establish a fixed moderate tax levy and rely on increases in property values to pro vide the additional essentials caused effective can be done. If by any by growth. But sucn a plan aoes not method of education we could pro- fit well with progressing ideas as to duce' that "sweet and wholesome the duties of society in caring for the home life" toward which the Method- welfare of the public, 1st conference aspires there would be In recent years new conceptions of no divorce evil to trouble us. Under- municipal duties have come into lying this subject there is the deeper vogue. Children's playgrounds, pub problem of educating the individual lio docks, city garbage collection, city man and woman to higher ideals, and crematories, public auditoriums, pub- the: same problem underlies all our He markets, comfort stations and social issues. Make men and women other conveniences have invaded the what they ought to be and it will field of necessities in cities such as matter very little what laws are Portland. Parks, paved streets, sani passed or rejected by our Legisla- tation in a dozen different branches. tures. In the meantime we are con- require enlargement out or propor fronted by the scandal of our diverse tion to city growth. High taxation is marriage and divorce laws. A couple the price of modernity. who are legally man and wife in one In Portland many of these evi- state may find their union criminal dences of progress have been provid in another. A woman who has been ed by bond issues. These bond issues divorced In Oregon will learn, if she in turn require interest payments and goes to South Carolina to live, that levies Tor sinking funds. A trifle MARRIED WOMEN AS TEACHERS. Abraham Stern, of the New York Board of Education, is unqualifiedly of the opinion that the mother of young child cannot be a good teacher, "It is a cold-blooded proposition," he says, "that the mother of a child less than a year old can't be a good teach er and those who hire her are ac countable to the public" for her de- ficiencies. Decidedly this is "a cold blooded proposition," and if it should happen to be a false one Mr. Stern might find himself in an embarras sing situation. The exclusion of mar.-ied women from the public schools penalizes matrimony and puts a premium on race suicide. It is a queer state of things to hear our pastors and ethical guides of all sorts preaching the wickedness of race suicide In thunder tones, while the school boards cyiv lcally require it of every woman in their employ. A woman who does not agree with Mr. Stern's' opinions cites a fact or two which it might trouble him to explain away. Dr. Maria Monteseori, who has done so much to reform educational systems throughout the world and who will do a great deal more before long, has been married in the course of her public service. Ella Flagg Young, the most successful superintendent Chi cago ever had, wears the title "Mrs." The belief current among school of ficials that unmarried women make the best teachers is pure theory with' out an atom of fact to justify It. Nat urally a mother must retire from service for a few weeks after her child is born, but the same thing happens during any other illness. To be consistent the New York Board of Education ought to exclude from em plojinent every person who is liable to have typhoid fever or pneumonia, because a teacher must take a va cation to recover from those mala dies. From a rational point of view the mother of' a family should make a better teacher than an unmarried woman. She must naturally under stand children better. She would be likely to deal with them more hu manely and adapt her instruction more judiciously to their needs. In a certain ruthless adherence to form and rule an unmarried woman might be her superior but not in the funda mental process of education. the matrimonial bond still holds. In Oregon divorce is a mere matter of the judge's discretion. In South Carolina marriage will not be dis- more than one-fourth the total esti mated tax receipts for 1914 will be devoted to these purposes, and the budget in such particulars cannot in solved by the courts for any reason wisdom be cut. City taxes in the whatever. Between these extremes past have to a degree been held down we find all sorts of conditions in the by failure in one or more instances various states. Until we have at- to provide bond redemption funds. ta-ined that ideal home life which the Today the people are paying for a Methodist conference describes, we river bridge that no longer exists, but must rely on legislation to cure this is merely a memory of the older clti mischief and state legislation has zens who cross the Willamette on a proved itself to be ineffectual be oause of Its diversity. No doubt the National authority must sooner or I later be Invoked even if a Constitu- newer, better span. This Is not good business. It will not be repeated un der commission government. It ought to be clear to the taxpayer tional amendment should be required that the power of the Commission to to bring it into play. While we are waiting and working for this consummation it is possi ble to effect some slight moral im- provemeriLa oy irowning upon con- reduce the tax levy or hold it at a certain figure is limited. The peo ple themselves are In part responsi ble. If they vote, as they have in the past, on an issue of 11,250,000, to duct which tends to make a mockery pay the interest on water bonds from of marriage. President Hadlev. nf the treneral fund instead of from wa- Yale, once said, as a counsel of per- ter receipts, they must expect to note fectlon, that the way to break up the the effect in the tax levy. If they trusts was to stop inviting the trust vote bonds for new bridges they must magnates and their wives to dinner, expect to hear of it from the tax col- "Bocieiy, as tne lorgotten Orvllle Dewey once said, "has prisons and torture chambers more dreadful than those of the Inquisition," but. un- lector. It is not the purpose herein to decry the bonding of the city for needed Improvements. The Orego- nian believes the bonding policy happily, it can rarely be persuaded to might well be extended to the school district The intent Is to point out that expenditure of public funds is not wholly in the jurisdiction of the city authorities. Moreover, that portion they do ex pend Is largely a reflection of the will of the people. No one would give up a foot of Portland's paved streets If the money paid for them were returnable. Nobody looks upon for park improvements as extravagances. No intelligent man would stop the street cleaning or street sprinkling. There Is opportunity, however, for the Commission to eliminate the waste that has entered by a thousand ways into municipal administration under the old haphazard form of divided ac- but use them for the reformation of the rich. Dr. Hadley's excellent counsel as to the trusts passed unheeded, even by himself, but it really seems as if society ought to be able to frown down behavior which sets a bad ex ample to all the world in regard to family life. The case of the concert hall singer, Marie Lloyd, is in point. That adorable young woman sailed America from her native London haunts accompanied by a male com panion to whom she was not married. Our authorities at the Port of New York admitted her to charm the pub lic by her melodies only on condition situation Indicates that British publlo opinion Is approaching that point. Should lirltlHh intervention come or should (Jrent llrlluln participate in combined lSuropna,n !ntnrvention, we should, for dm flrnt i Into since the Venexuolnn crlslo, coma Into serious conflict with llm nitu power which we have iHKiinliMt h our closust friend since tho t-imnlh Witr. Should Ger many ptirtli'iiiate, wo should be con fronted wllh it jmwor which never re cede from territory .whereon It has once wet foot. Our prestige as the dominant American power would be gone and with It would go the Mon roe Doctrine, Our Influence In Latin America would vanish and the na tions south of us would adjust their relations with Kuropo without regard to our wis ho. In considering the attitude of Great Britain toward Mexico, we must not overlook Britain's deep in terest in the establishment of a gov ernment friendly to Itself. That ex plains the prompt recognition of Huerta when he overthrew Madero. It explains the avoidance of delay by Sir Lionel Carden, the new British Minister, in presenting his credentials. Behind British policy is the desire to procure an abundant supply of oil for British warships, that the whole navy may be converted into oil-burn ers. The Pearsons have been strug gling with the Standard Oil Company for Mexican oil concessions. Madero was friendly to the Standard, which is reputed to have given him finan cial aid. The Pearsons, who are Eng lish, have backed Huerta, and to their influence Is attributed the British government's prompt recognition of him. With a friendly government at Mexico City, the Pearsons could cap ture the oil concessions and supply fuel to the British navy. These state ments have been made in Berlin and Paris newspapers and in those of the chief South American cities and have been the subject of questions in the House of Commons. In view of these circumstances, we cannot wonder at the British govern ment's obvious leaning to Huerta. Its direct interest in the outcome of the Mexican broil serves to emphasize its friendliness toward us in not obstruct ing our efforts at pacification and in giving us plenty of time to decide whether we would intervene. Sir Lionel Carden's words seem to Imply that Great Britain has abandoned hope that Huerta will firmly estab lish himself. The Inference to be drawn from his words is that, no faction in Mexico being strong enough to gain supremacy, a foreign power must enter and subdue them all. John Bull seems to stand at the open door of intervention, which Is blocked by the Irresolute figure of Uncle Sam, and to say: "If you do not wish to enter, step aside and make way for me. Stars and Starmakers BY LKONB CABS BABR. It may be difficult, for an actor to find his way upward, but the downward path is a blazed trail. . This Is exactly as it happened. A woman was sitting in a box at one of the local theaters, all dolled up and wearing a grand new bonnet. The bonnet, in spite of its grandeur or perhaps because of it Interfered with the view of a box full of artistic souls sitting directly behind the aforemen tioned hat. One of the artistic souls leaned forward and asked the hat- wearer to remove the offense. "I certainly will not," she said Icily. Then the artistic souls registered a large and loud complaint at the box office. Now th manager of this thea ter is known as a diplomat. "Do you know wbo the lady is?" he asked an usher. "Yesslr." grinned the usher, "It's your wife." "Two blankety blanks," sputtered the diplomat, grabbing a pencil and card and writing furiously. ' "Take this to her at once." Soon the usher returned in a panic "It wasn't your wife," he said. "Where's the note?" gasped the man ager. "Here It is," said the boy. "Thank heaven you didn't give it to her," said the manager, fanning him self. This (s what the note said: "If you don't know enough to keep interrupting the show with your hat, please go home." And the theater manager's name was signed to It. I fully expect to see Mrs. Pankhurst out here In vaudeville. Some one Is writing a sketch around the automobile In which Harry Thaw made his escape. It auto have "a good run." Just read a nearly-poem on "Lines to an Actress." Verily to her that hath shall be given. ' s Vaudeville artist I met once told me he sleeps with gloves on to keep his hands soft. I bet he sleeps In a hat, too. . Mary Edgett Baker had a cat named Wicks. T'other day I asked her what had become of Wicks. "Snuffed out, said Mary E. B., laconically. Clarence Oliver, former star of "Offi cer 666." who left the legitimate etage for a flier in vaudeville along the Era press circuit, met an old-time friend and playmate in Portland. W. L. Camp bell, of the Pacific Railway Advertls Ing Company, and Oliver went to school together in Kansas City, Mo., later they were ushers in the Auditorium Theater of that city, and as they grew to man hood they were members of the Audi torium baseball nine, which won many honors on the Kansas City diamond Oliver and Mr. Campbell met for the first time in 12 years a little over a year ago, when Oliver visited Portland as the star of "Officer 666." Now that Oliver Is filling a week's engagement Charles Sumner Bird, 'the Progres sive candidate for Governor of Mas- sachusets, has won the indorsement of the Republican Boston Transcript for his policy of reforestation. He suggests that the state show what can be done In growing trees for a profit by developing its 12.000 acres of wild woodland. He would thus j at the Empress he and Mr. Campbell demonstrate how every owner of have renewed acquaintance and the woodland could grow trees for rev- vaudevillist has been the guest of Mr. enue and still keep his land timbered, and Mrs. Campbell at the ' Mallory The Transcript says that 3,000,000 of Apartments. Oliver will end his tour the 5,000,000 acres in Massachusetts I of the Sullivan & Considine circuit at are wooded. The Eastern states will Kansas City, his home town. in time have Dermanent. scientifical ly manaeed forests, like those of Ger- Tou never see a cat crying over many. You never spilled milk. I just noticed it, but wasn't the Sum- Princeton's new graduate college mer Just gone remarkably free from promises to De as great a wonder ea- sea serpents? ucationally as it Is architecturally. The plan is to make it the home of a Edward C. Woodruff, leading Juve monastic band of more or less active nlle with the Baker Players, served an scholars, such as one may find at Ox- apprenticeship as a reporter on a small ford. Their intellectual product may town paper. - I asked him why he not be very rich, but they will be opulently housed and delicately fed. The Princeton experiment is some thing new in the United States, but it Is in keeping with the aristocratic traditions of the place and as long as the new college keeps a good wine cellar its friends will not complain. Dr. Basil Gildersleeve at 82 Is as chipper as a boy. He has taught ceased. This Is what he told me and I don't believe it, either. He said that he was sent out to report a wedding, and that he wrote the bride's shoes looked like fairy boots. The printed version read that they looked like ferry boats. This Is the season of moving pictures one van full after another. Robert Mlddlemass, handsome Count there's the rub to prove Insanity on Mongolian seems a hopeless task. that the young man went back home. The British press was outraged by' responsibility. This cannot be this exercise of what It called "tyran- complished in a rew months. nical purltanlsm. In the opinion of there Is hope and confidence that it our cousins across the water an ac- will be in due time. Yet this saving tress" private life does not concern will doubtless be demanded for more the public. If she entertains us, that legitimate purposes If the conception Is all iwe have the right to demand of of proper municipal functions con- That extra event in the Beaver- Sacramento game was pulled off in the wrong place. A thing of that kind would put ginger into the Vaughn-street park. INTERVENTION MAY BE NEAR. In contrast with the policy of President Wilson towards Mexico is that of Great Britain. When Huerta seized the reins that country did not trouble itself about the manner in which he got them, regarding that as an internal affair which concerned the Mexicans alone. Finding him at the head of the de facto government, it recognized him as the man to deal with. Having sent a new Minister to that country, Great Britain does not inquire into the fact that Huerta has imprisoned many members of Congress, dissolved that body and made himself dictator. Finding him etill in control of the government, it Instructs Its Minister to present his credentials and he, like a well trained diplomat, follows instructions. On the other hand, Mr. Wilson questions Huerta's title to his office and tells him how he should make It good. Mr. Wilson undertakes to dictate to a man who shows by his actions that he yields to no argu ment except superior force, yet Mr. Wilson announces in advance that he will under no circumstances use force. By refusing official recogni tion of Huerta and by Bending an unofficial .representative he exposes this country to a rebuff. He wards off this danger by asking European powers to urge Huerta to give Mr. Lind a "sympathetic hearing. Sev eral of them comply, and thus our position as the sole arbiter of affairs on the American continent is weak ened and the Monroe Doctrine is set aside. Our advice to Huerta is re jected as officious meddling, because we have thrown away the club the possibility of intervention which is the only means by which we can en force respect for our counsels. Our action only aggravates the disorder by raising the hopes of the revolu tionists and encouraging them to new exertions. Foreign diplomats at Mexico City meet and urge sending of warships by their governments. The new British Minister to Mexico hints at the necessity of intervention by saying that we do not appreciate the seriousness of the situation and that no element can be expected to dom inate. The very measures which our Presi dent has taken to avoid intervention have brought that outcome measur ably nearer. While protesting that he would never intervene, Mr. Wil son has so. steadily drifted in that direction that the day may be at hand when the European powers, headed by Great Britain, may say to us: "If you don't intervene, we will." The East-Siders put the Injun sign London newspaper comment on the on Broadway west of the rlverx Greek at Johns Hopkins ever since je Mourney with Kathryn Kidder awakened at an early hour at his hotel by a phone call. Harry Reed was on the other end of the line to greet him. and reminded him that the actor was a freshie and beneath his notice the last year Mlddlemass was in Harvard. Mid aiemass ana Jonn s. Keed now doing magazine work in New jtork were pals at Harvard. The year he gradu ated, in 1909, Mr. Middlemass was pres ident of the Harvard Dramatic Club and Jack Reed was manager. That last vear .Tjt rk PamI wrntA . . - rm .1 - t I41. !.!., - m mj vvnen lmd rauiiuj ....!.. unnj Hastv Puddina- Cliih'a onm.nl .,i-i miles of Portland has a family on comedjr ln whlch MidJiemasa , every ten acres and the head of the lead- Mldd,ema88 goea to Hood R(r la...!., w I 2' ""'"'-"" Monday to spend several days with H. service win ue pieiiLy atiu tucap. J"- t;. irram ,i,,hi., ,i, , t-i 1 cnhiirhantto la nf na Tin- ' ' V ttlOO B w.., u - Harvard chum. ture ol a piuiteur tmu uiuat yuL uy with a few inconveniences, one of One of the disadvantages of the nine Which Is that a long ride costs more foot sheet is that you've got to live in than a snort one. a, hotel to enjoy It, the university opened and has del uged the learned world with writings on that fascinating language, but he says he has rirty years more work laid out. May he live to finish it. Philosophers and scholars enjoy life better than other men and live longer. The serenity of their occupation con duces to length of days. Dr. Glider- sleeve is both a scholar and a phi losopher. Hence he Is likely to die a centenarian. LET AUTOMOBILES HAVE STREETS. I'nt Electric Car Indrr Gronnd and Teach Pedestrians to Fly. PORTLAND, Oct 22 (To the Edi tor.) Anent the discussion now going on and the proposed regulation of pedestrians by city ordinance and po lice supervision, I am heartily in favor of the proposition both generally and spectaily. It is nothing to the pur pose that walkers were here aome thousands of years first; they have served their purpose and must get off the earth. Automobiles are here now and the mere bi-pedalist is in .the way and he must go, eventually, and be regulated, at least, ripht now. Of course he should be held up by police men at the crossings until all the au tomobiles have passed, and as things are now. that will be after the regula tors have ceased to reg-ulate and the weary are at rest. Why is a pedes trian anyway? If our peerless city only had alleys he could be forced to use them, with viaducts over street intersections, but this plan is out of the question and it is up to some genius to invent artifi cial wings and teach the luckless citi zen to fly. Then, too, the electric car must go. At least so I was assured by an en thusiastic motorist coming in on the streetcar one morning, after havinpr es caped death or maiming by a playful motorist who violated the traffic ordi nance by running past a standing car, although I had signalled him that I wanted to cross from the curb to the car. "Certainly," said this "regulator," "the streetcar must be put off the streets; there is no longer room for mem.' nui, x saia, "what are we poor aevus to ao who do not own cars? ' "Why, put the cars under ground; mat is wnere tney belong." Of course put them "under eround and it seems autoists and motorcyclists are wonting over time to put the rest of us underground along with the luck less streetcars. Of course it is true that during rush hours at the corner of Forty-second and Broadway and a few other busy corners ln New York, policemen do hold up the solid stream of traffic to allow cross traffic to pass, but this is not particularly ln the Interest of auto mobilists; it is absolutely necessary ln order to avoid hopeless blocking of the streets. But Portland is not yet quite so large nor are her streets quite so congested as are those of New York. By all means let ua regulate pedes trians, and the more he is regulated the better he will like it; it will cure dull times and cut down the hiph cost or living. F. F. SMITH. Twenty-five Years Ago REASONS FOR OPPOSING NEW LAW. Leading- Opponent 0f Sterilization Act State Their Position. PORTLAND, Oct. 22. (To the Edi tor.) We believe tho sterilization law should be rejected because it does not sufficiently guard the safety of the insane and feeble-minded and all pris oners in the state institutions. If this law is approved by the neoDle and Is constitutional, it will be possible for only two men, one a superintendent of a State Asylum, without an oath or affidavit, without a trial or hearing, without a notice, to the insane person or prisoner, or to any friend, relative or guardian, to cause any insane person in the state Institutions to be steril ized, spayed, castrated or otherwise mutiliated by any "surgical Deration" the State Board of Health may be pleased to order. Nothing is required by law but approval by the State Board of the reports of the superintendent. There Is nothing in the law to pre vent all of this being done before any of the work is made public We do not think any two men or any combination of men should have this power over the bodies of Insane persons or prisoners. It is true that the law says the insane person or prisoners may appeal from the order of the State Board, but it does not require that he or she shall have any notice whatever, and this makes appeal impossible, except by the kind ness of the superintendent of the asy lum or penitentiary. We recommend that this law be re jected by voting 305 X, No. We do not say the present officers would abuse the authority granted them by this law, but we believe the history of mankind proves that such secret power is too great to be given any body of men over other men and women, and most of all over the help less Insane persons and prisoners. M. G. MUNLY, EMMETT CALLAHAN, HENRY E. M'GINN. PERRY JOSEPH GREEN, LOR A C. LITTLE, J. H. BLACK, W. S. U'REN, MATILDA M. G REINER. I disapprove of the law because it ac complishes nothing, may be an engine of tyranny and oppression and is rot. C. E. S. WOOD. From The Oreftonlan of October 23, 1SS8. Olympla. Oct. 22. Hon. John B. Allen left this morning for Bhelton, accompanied by Adjutant - General O'Brien, Major Hayden, General Mc Mlcken, Judge Root, Herbert Mc Micken, A. B. Cowles, J. J. Williamson and the glee club. Murray, Idaho (via Thompson Falls, , Mont., Oct. 22), Dubois closed a very successful campaign in tills county to night. London, Oct. 22. The commission ap pointed to investigate the churges made by the Times against Irish mem bers of Parliament opened this morn Ins. Sir Charles Russell, leading coun sel for Parnell, applied for the release from Wexford prison of William Red mond, but Justice llannen Imposed such conditions that he did not insist. Lots 7 and 8. block 65, together with the old Jewish synagogue situated thereon, corner of Fifth and Oak " streets, were sold under the auction eer's hammer to Hon. H. W. Corbett yesterday for $14,500. Citizens of east of Sixteenth and near Lone Fir cemetery complain that there has been a good deal of random shooting in that vicinity. Several burk- shot rattled on the house of W. W. 11c Guire yesterday morning and his dog got one ln his nose. Hon. H. B. Miller, of Grants Pass, was at the Esmond yesterday. - Frank Dekum Is expected home from the East on the 6th. The stove ln Judge Demerit's office was blown up yesterday by an unex ploded cartridge, which carelessness or wantonness had deposited ln the grate. Charles A. Burckhardt has Just re turned from an extended trip ln the East. The Council yesterday passed an or dinance granting the Portland Railway Company a franchise along Spring, Fifteenth, Jefferson, Fifth and Hoyt streets. C. F. 6wlgert and wife arrived yes terday, In company with H. C. Camp bell, from San Francisco. Mr. Swlgert has just returned from Central America. Half a Century Ago Down in Redmond City, Cal., the "eadiine announces, "Bore BOO feet authorities have caught a Chinese Delow wuiameite is cut through." I firebug thought to be insane; but W18n couia be done to a lot of bores So long as we have Governor Foss to continue running for Governor of Massachusetts on any old ticket, we shall still have some diversions, even ln an off year politically. If Congress should vote three bat tleships, where would It get money for public buildings In all the South ern villages? This extravagance must stop. The aeroplane has celebrated its tenth anniversary. The aviators should now try to apply it to useful Instead of suicidal purposes. If preponderance of evidence counts, Dr. Lyman may as well pack hia kitbag for a long sojourn. Philadelphia has changed its name from "corrupt but contented" to "champion and elated." The man who would buy stamps at the postoffice needs a blue print to find the window. Is General LI, the new Vice-Presi dent of China, a member of the; Ana nias Club? above the Willamette. In Los Angeles there is to be a Little Theater Company. The players are Earl Harbrough, Campbell Gollan, Ben Johnson, George Barnum. William Cortlelgh, Richard Vivian. Katherine Grey, Ann Settle, Elizabeth Tonwer, Ethel Grey Terry, Fanchon Everhart and Lillian Lawrence. Ethel Grey Terry is Lillian Lawrence's daughter, and both are former Baker Players. So Is Dick Vivian and his wife, Fanchon Everhart. Henry Miller says, "Life is only a standing in line until we reach the box office window and finding actual pleas ure in the waiting." Mr. Miller opens at the Heilig next Monday night in "The Rainbow." j Shifting an old proverb around to suit the Sulzer case, we have "A Denial Come to judgment' In. "The Lure," opening at the Heilig Saturday night, are William J. Kelly. who was the original Ben Hur of the Pacific Coast; Leonard Ide, who came here with Margaret Illington ln "The Thief," and Harold Russell, who is the husband of Ada Dwyer and Is known as, one of the best of the earlier day leading men. He now plays character roles. Buried histrionic hopes. It seems, re quire the deepest graves. Intoxicated With Success. Baltimore American. "Did you hear of the dreadful thine which happened to the Prohibition can didate?" "No; what was it?" "He was elected and became intoxicated , with success" WIVES WHO WORK OF NECESSITY Office Men'a I niuu Would Help ' End Married Women's Competition. PORTLAND, Oct. 21. (To the Edi tor.) In regard to the City Council committee's ruling that married women be prevented working in the city of fices, I think it extremely unfair and am pleased to see that "A Sometime Wage Earner" has taken a voice ln the matter, although I do not think she has made her argument clear. In my case, my husband is a book- eeper and his salary is 190 per month. a help to him, I take up stenog raphy and typewriting, which Is the only way we can make a respectable living and at the same time keep up appearances, although we do not live anything but economically. What I would like to ask is why Is there not an office men's union, with a ."minimum wage," as in most other professions and trades? Then there would be no necessity of any clerk's wife to spend all her time ln an of fice insteud of looking after the much neglected home. Until there Is such a union or em ployers pay their hard-working clerks better, there is no chance for wives to fulfill their ambitions as mothers. STENOGRAPHER. From The Orejjonlan of October 28, 1R6T Washington, Oct. IS. Gregg's divis ion was attacked ln front and on both flanks by the rebels near Jefferson on the 12th, but cut their way out with heavy loss. New York, Oct. 15. The Morris Island correspondent of the Times writes: Lieutenant Glossom and Hail ing Officer Tombs declare that the ex neditlon against ' the Ironsides was prompted by the desperation of the cit izens of Charleston, who are pinched for the simple commodities of life. St. Louis, Oct. 14. General Brown brought the rebels under Shelby to a decisive engagement.' The rebels were completely routed and scattered. The Concordian Society of the Port land Academy and Female Seminary will give a public entertainment this evening. Yesterday afternoon, as a double buggy was passing over the cistern planking at the crossing or w asning ton and First streets, the forward axle suddenly broke In twain. The traaredy. "Lucretla Borgia," will be put upon the stage at the Willam ette Theater this evening. The city taxes levied by the Common Council this year will probably amount to $30,000, a little more than double the levy of last year. The Gentler Method By Dean Colllna. Lecturer Is Gifted. PORTLAND, Oct. 21. (To the Edi tor.) I beg leave to awaken the public to the fact that In the person of Pro fessor B. R. Bauragardt we have in our midst one of the most gifted lecturers on foreign lands, civilizations, etc., in the world. His travelogues are perfect gems. His stage manner, presence and art of imparting his knowledge are all that could be desired. The Teachers' Association, under whoso auspices he has been brought to this city, has dis played rare Judgment and exquisite taste. He seems to hold his audience from the moment he begins until the last word is spoken. Thse who have not given themselves tho pleasure of hear ing him should make It an especial point to do so during the balance of his engagement this wee And above all, do I commend hearing, and wit nessing his illustrated lecture on Rich ard Wagner, to be given Saturday evening at the Lincoln High School. This lecture had not been originally scheduled, but the few people who have heard It have succeeded ln making the necessary arrangements to have it included In his present repertoire. CHARLES. J. SCHNABEL. Cornelia, It seems nice to see, The easy grace with which you're toteing The civic burden, 'long with me, Which manifests itself ln voting. 'Tls nice to note you did not frown And rage and storm about your "fetters," Nor burn a public building down. Nor pour out acid on the letters. Cornelia, you were quite a sport. You did not wield the ax or mallet, Nor unto dynamite resort To blast your way unto the ballot Boneheaded man you did not chide: Your gentle method was a rare thing. And those on the opposing side Just simply had to do the square thing; Because, Cornelia, your campaign Avoided violence and vanity; ' Because you put your case so plain With utmost gentleness and sanity. Therefore I shudder not to know Thut Britain from her shores Has flung us. Pankhurst. the militant, to sow The seeds of dlRCord here among us. Cornelia, you have been too sane To be transformed by her example; Perhaos to her you may make plain Your method's better, for a samplo. So let her range about at will, The torch of militancy lighting: Your method has proved better atill- You're voting and she still Is fighting. Want to Elope With Nurse. Boston Transcript. Patient "But you promised that when I recovered you would be my wife." Nurse "Oh, I know. It's my duty to keep my patients cheerful. Why, I promised this morning to run away with a man who has lost both his legs." rjoaena of Introduction. Judge. Mrs. Payton "Have you evtr been Introduced to Mrs. Bloortgooil?" Mrs. Parvenu "Lots of times." Name of the New Baby. Washington (D. C.) Star. "What are you going to call the new baby?" "Reginald Claude," replied Mr. Bliggins. "Isn't 'Reginald Claude' a rather affected name?" "Yes. I want him to grow up to be a fighter, and I fancy that 'Reginald Claude' will start something every time he goes to a new school." My Lady's Hand-Bag: One of the most Important acces sorles for the new Fall costume Is the handbag that must go with It. Never before has there been such an endless and fascinating variety of styles and leathers as there is before us this season. It seems that there is hardly a species of animal from the walrus tu the lizard, that has . not con tributed It3 skin to make my lady's shopping bag or vanity case. Also the brains of hundreds cf skilled designers have been used ta make them not only serviceable, but artistic, convenient, and Individual, The time has passed when a woman would buy one good stout bag to last Summer and Winter for years. Now she must have a variety to suit different costumes and dif ferent occasions. And this is quite possible, too, even for the woman of limited spending money because the bags of today may be comparatively Inexpensive in spite of their dainti ness and intricacy. If you have not considered this part of your Fall wardrobe, look over today's Oregonlan and see for yourself the possibilities suggested therein. Adv.