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Postage Kates 12 to 16 pages. 1 cent; IS to 32 pages, 2 cents, 34 to 48 pases, S centa; CO to 60 pages, 4 cents; 02 to 76 pages. S rents: 78 to U2 pages, 8 cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Biminess Offices Verree A Conk lln. New York, Brunswick building. Chicago,- Steger building. can Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Co., 742 Market street. l'ORTLANI, FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 1918. I NOT WAR, BOX MURDER. The Associated Press correspondent, who personally traversed the scene of the great "battle" of Juarez, after the sanguinary and protracted conflict be tween the federals and rebels, appears to have been unable to see the bodies of many dead soldiers, though he "found dead horses," thousands of empty cartridges and "occasional tracks where men, horses and cannon had been wheeled about." Within the rebel lines he discovered a grand total of two newly-made graves and two dead bodies. "There were other dead," lie adds, "for rebels with spades were seen coming in from remote sections of the field, but the death list Is not heavy. The general belief is that most of the men who filled the graves are men who were shot after capture." In another paragraph the unimpressed correspondent has this: Villa said yesterday that he captured COO federals. Today he brought fewer than 200 to Juarez. He admits executing some of them. Apparently the greatest number of dead as a result of the fighting are thOBs who faced -the firing squad and paid the penalty of supporting the Huerta cause rather than that of Villa, Madero or Car ranza. A trip over the battlefield today revealed but few dead bodies or newly made graves. The report of the correspondent bears out other previous statements of many observers that there is no real war in Mexico between organized arm ies. It is guerilla warfare between groups of quarreling and cowardly Mexicans, who shoot and run, or who ambush and kill, or capture and kill. They recognize the belligerent rights of no enemy; they heartlessly murder after capture for any reason or for no reason. A favorite excuse is that the victim deserted one side for the other as many do or that ha "vol untarily" joined the federals. "William Bayard Hale is on his way to Washington to report on the result of his negotiations with the "constitu tionalists." It may well be wondered If the President can be persuaded to support the cause of a Mexican Gen eral whose hands are just as red with the blood of his fellow countrymen as he says Huertp.'s are. OUR SECXL'SIVE PRESIDENT. President Wilson's announcement that he will not hold the New Year's reception, which has become historic, Invites attention to his general atti tude towards the public. Soon after his inauguration somebdy said for him J that his Administration would be characterized by pitiless publicity. Be. fore that event he announced that he intended to take the public into his confidence and to perform his func tions behind glass doors, allowing all who would to enter his office. In fact, he has been the most inac cessible of Presidents, he has shut himself up from all except those whom he wished to see or those to whom he could not deny admittance. He has not taken the public into his confi dence regarding his plans. The pub lic does not know his policy towards Mexico except that he intends to force out Huerta. He receives the newspa per men twice a week, but tells them nothing, simply denying assertions of sensational newspapers, which frank ness would have prevented. His Cabi net officers imitate him by telling nothing of their plans. He holds no regular Cabinet meetings, hence there are no reports of Cabinet proceedings. To this official secretiveness the President has added practical aban donment of the social functions of his office. He is not only the official but . the social head of the Nation and, as such, should be accessible to the peo ; pie at times when his official duties ; permit. No reasonable person finds ' fault with his abandonment of the regular weekly receptions to the pub lic, which were a mere waste of time and energy by a man carrying the burdens of the Nation and which ;. served only to gratify the curious. But '.' In abandoning the time-honored New ; Year's reception he has gone to an ; extreme which public opinion will not ; approve. He has practically shut him- self off socially from the people, who have chosen him to their highest " place. This shrinking from publicity has i been apparent in other ways. He has declined many invitations to banquets and public gatherings. He even de : clined at first to attend the celebra ' tlon of the fiftieth anniversary of the , Battle of Gettysburg, and only at the last moment consented to be present and to speak, although that was an oc casion of National Importance, in which the head of the Nation was appropriately the central figure. Since his inauguration his public appear ances have been very few, and his disposition to hide from the people has been marked. Of Mr. Wilson more than of any recent President it can be said that he has inspired confidence among his opponents as well as among his po litical supporters and that his charac ter commands universal respect iieiner or not tney entirely agree with him politically, .men and women concede to him in an unusual measure sincerity of purpose and ability to i serve them as against any selfish in f terest. That purpose can be aided . Immensely by social contact with the i people on such accasions as the New Year's reception and at public gath erings of National importance. No man expects him to accept every in vitation, for many are prone to use him in exploiting a cause of minor or doubtful merit, but he can well select evenU of Nation-wide significance as ; occasions for public appearance and public declarations of policy. ine people are ready to back up : their President In putting wise poll i cies in effect; they believe in him and I will resolve doubts In his favor. But they cannot help along execution of his plans unless they know what his plans are. Yet they know only in the vaguest, most general way. They believe he is fighting for them and are ready to fight with him, but he persists in fighting alone, not tell ing these willing helpers whom, how and why to fight- What powerful aid public opinion can give, when in formed and invited to express Itself, was demonstrated by President Roose velt on several occasions. The league of privilege was more strongly in trenched In his day, but he overcame it by taking' the people into his confi dence and getting them to stand at his back. Mr. Wilson can do much more by like means, for the hostile powers are broken and disorganized and they could not withstand the weight of a practically unanimous public opinion behind a President who is popular In spite of his avoidance of the people. ONE MAN WttJXSfO TO WORK. The Oregonian has received a letter from a man In San Francisco that is so much of a novelty that it gives the writer the benefit of this editorial page prominence. He says: ' I am desirous of obtaining work up It that country cutting cordwood, and I am writing to ask if you could give me In formation In obtaining such a Job. If you would send me the name of some one who has wood to cut or some employment agent I will be greatly obliged. The Oregonian will furnish the name of this man-not-afraid-of-hard-work to any one interested. Certainly there is wood to cut in Oregon. There are hundreds and thousands of acres to be cleared and there are other great areas which have timber fit only for wood. Where the retail price of good fir wood is 8 per cord in Portland and of oak wood J7 per cord, or more, it would seem that there ought to be a livelihood for our earnest friend in San Francisco and for any others who are willing to toll and sweat in the brush, or anywhere. Governor West has inaugurated a movement to send men into the coun try for work and Mayor Albee has agreed to help him. It is a. good plan. We hope it will be successful. But it will not be easy. The men who are willing usually do not have to ask somebody else to find Jobs for them, and the men who are not will ing or are not fit do not hold jobs where they are to be had. WHAT ABOUT HOPS? Mr. Tom Rogers paints a very black picture of the future for the hop in dustry in case prohibition should carry. Mr. Rogers Is a political econ omist of McMinnville, who occasional ly favors the readers of The Orego nian with the literary productions of a reflective and philosophical mind. Living in, a dry county and also in a hop county, it is likely that Mr. Rog ers has had special incentive to con sider the sad case of the Yamhill County hopgrower in event that the world at large should see fit to follow the example of the Yamhill County prohibitionists. Obviously, if there is to be no beer sold or drunk there will be no market for hops. There is nothing the matter with Mr. Rogers' logic, considered in the abstract, but there is something wrong with his facts if facts are to have weight in an argument of this sort. The facts are that the prohibition area in the United States has rapidly grown during the past decade and the facts also are that the consumption of beer has shown a steady increase, xcept that there was a slight falling off In 1912 over 1911. The Statistical Abstract- of the United States informs us that the in ternal revenue collections from fer mented liquors in the United States (beer) have risen from $16,103,920 in 1882 to $64,367,777 in 1911 and $62, 176.694 in 1912. But for the first tan months in 1913 (fiscal year) the in crease in revenues over the same period in 1912 was $2,324,017, show ing that the brewing industry is not in so much of a decline as the falling off in 1912 might have inspired our prohibition friends to hope. The statistics gathered by Mr. E. E. Coovert, in conjunction with the Ben son campaign against distilled spirits (whisky), show that about 25,000,000 people now liye In dry territory in the United States under local option and about 14,000,000 people in the nine prohibition states. The total of 39, 000,000 in dry states, counties, cities and towns is almost one-half the en tire population of the United States. Prior to 1908 there were three pro hibition states (Maine, Kansas, North Dakota); since that time six have been added (Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, West Virginia, Georgia, Ok lahoma). Most of the local option dry area has been created within the past thirty years and much of It with in five years. It is obvious then that the consump tlon (or the manufacture) of beer in the United States has increased four fold in thirty years, while nearly one half the country has gone dry. The Oregonian submits without bias these figures for digestion in Yamhill and other hop counties. What they In. aicate possiDly some rising young economist like Mr. Rogers can tell us, The outlook for the hop Industry may not. Indeed, be so dark as some gloomy prognpstlcians have thought. W hat it will be when prohibition pro hiblts under National prohibition. perhaps may be another question. KIr"KItS FROM THE DOCTOR. Thanksgiving being one of the most popular days of the year for weddings it is not surprising that any growln city should produce a n&w record in number of marriage licenses issued But there seems to be more than seasonal factor or population growth in Vancouver s record. The Washing' ton city has a population of perhaps 12,000;' Portland numbers 250.000 souls. Granting that Vancouver offers attractive surroundings, pleasant min isters and accommodating judges, there must be still something more to give Vancouver twenty-two joyful oc casions while the wedding bells peal only for thirty-nine in Portland. It's "onekal," as the elder Weller would remark, when his toddy was not pro portioned to suit hia taste. In a measure Vancouver's popular ity as a wedding center is but the his tory of many towns that have the fa- cllity of license bureaus and exist in proximity to large cities. It Is a haven for elopers elopers not so often from parental opposition as from activities of hilarious, friends with shoe or rice throwing inclinations and from the practical jokers with white ribbons to tie on the bridal couple's trunk. Yet It Is significant that Vancouver drew young folk on marriage bent .from various points in the Northwest and attracted eight couples from Portland while In the Portland list every license except three named Oregon person and those three were to couples one or the other of whom lived in Portland, We are not repining the loss of 11 cense fees to Vancouver, but merely directing attention to the ineffective ness of marriage regulations that are not uniform among the states. No physician's certificate is required of applicants In Washington. The bride groom must submit to examination in Oregon. Therefore those who do not wish to disclose physical defects or care to pay a. doctor's fee to prove to the bride and the world that they are sound, go where such things are not required. The new Oregon marriage regulation is one of the easiest things to avoid imaginable in the one spot where, because it is the state's most populous center, the most good ought to be expected from it. Yet it is doubtful if adjoining states could be Induced to copy the lop-sided and oth erwise Ineffective Oregon statute. The examination has become perfunctory; one party to the marriage is denied the slight assurance of clean health that the other party receives, and any revelations contained in the physi cian's certificate are not a bar to wed. lock. The most noticeable result of the law is the conversion of Vancouver into a Qretna Green and why that should be the subject of Oregon legis lation is beyond ordinary comprehension. AMERICAN ARTS. The question why we have not de veloped a distinctively American art continues to disturb the minds of the critics. Alfons Mucha, a famous Frenchman . who often" comes to this country to lecture upon matters ar tistic, is of the opinion that American- art ought to be as well marked off as that of his own country or Germany, but It Is not. "Alas," he exclaims. American art does not exist." The trouble seems to be that we are too imitative, which comes to the same thing as saying that we are too pro vincial. We have tried to produce a ative art by collecting more or less valuable relics from all parts of the world and worshipping them as ideals. When American artists find a way of expressing themselves that is in consonance with the life of their own country, then," says M. Mucha, "they will produce something worth while." It is all very well to bring to this country pictures and bronzes from Europe and house them in great mu seums. Simple-minded people will no doubt continue to prize the men who o this as great patrons of American art. But the fact is that while they may possibly be doing something for the art of other lands they are doing nothing for ours. They may, perhaps, hinder instead of helping, since they ncourage the fatal spirit of imitation. The art of any country must grow out of the life of its people. As long as we content ourselves with copying opies of the life of Rome, Paris and so on we shall have no art of our own and ought to have none, for we shall ot deserve it. When our artists come ut of the monastic seclusion where they have been in the habit of dwell- ng and condescend to work up a little ympathy with the aims and ideals of our people, then they can begin to paint pictures and chisel statues which shall breathe our National life and express our National spirit. It is an old lesson, but too true to be overlooked, that art is Intimately allied with the workshop. When the painter and sculptor isolate them selves from the popular handicrafts they cut off their best source of in spiration ' and necessarily produce weak work. This has always been the case in America and it accounts well enough for our pining art. DRIVE THE BILL THROUGH. While the country waits for settle ment of the currency question, the Senate committee has been wrangling ver details of the bill and has finally reported two bills, which are now the subject of what threatens to be an In terminable debate. The Republican Senators, aided by a single Democrat, disagree in details with the Demo cratic majority and prolong discussion while business languishes. What this country needs above all things is certainty as to the conditions under which business must be done. We have worried along for fifty years under our Imperfect banking system and, had the currency question not been raised at this time, we could have worried alongfor a few more years. S"et it was inevitable and necessary that the question should be raised and disposed of sooner or later. Now that it has been raised. Congress should go through with it. In order that we may have that certainty without which men cannot plan largely for the fu ture. President Wilson has given the Re publican Senators an opportunity to co-operate with the Democrats In framing and passing a bill and to share the credit. Instead of seizing this opportunity, the Republican Sen ators have chosen to divide the Senate along party lines on a question which is In no sense a party issue. By so doing they have Justified the Demo crats in making the bill a party mea sure and in massing their forces to drive It through without unreasonable delay and to take all the credit to themselves. It Is significant that the Senators who are most earnest in demanding prompt action are those who have re cently returned to the capital from their home states and who are thus in close touch with public opinion. They have learned that, the people are weary of delay and demand an end to it. They have learned that the people, regardless of party, trust the President and stand behind him. The Sena tors who have been viewing the ques tion from Inside the Governmental machine of which they form a -part had better take a hint and change their view to conform more closely to that of their constituents. . With the currency question settled. business could go ahead. Of the four causes of disturbance, three "railroad control, the tariff and money will then have been removed, and these are the most Important. As to the fourth, the trusts know that they are doomed to dissolution, if not volun tarily, then by compulsion. That is the main point which concerns them, hence they will have no excuse for continuing the cry of uncertainty. The Nation is impatient for stability of business conditions and looks to the President and hia party to bring it about. It will not forgive men who, for partisan motives, obstruct realiza tion of its desires. Methods of opera ticket speculators are a close Imitation of those of Morse and Heinze in buying their string of banks. One company bought $153,000 worth of tickets, put them up as col lateral for a loan of$100,000 and then began selling them to subscribers After paying $40,000 of the loan, the company was refused a renewal on the balance, and the bank declined to release the tickets until it was paid. A man who had bought some tickets and could not get them accused the speculators of larceny and the whole J story came out. The managers of the opera company seem to be responsible for the exactions of the speculators. Kentucky, once the land of plenty, no longer produces enough food for its own population and Prof. H. B. Hendrick. of the Kentucky experiment station, furnishes this explanation: Largo, unproductive farms, only part tilled, the balance resting, in many cases with no clover or other legume crop grow ing upon the farm. Gulleyed and guttered fields, resulting from the lack of humus content in the soil and because cover crops are not used. Farms poorly laid out, fences down. If any at all. fence rows grown to weeds, rarm machinery out of doors, rusted and out of order. Poor roads, poor .schools, decaying and neglected country churches. The much discussed labor problem, and accompanying it no community social lite; farm ooys becoming dissatisfied with coun try life and going to the cities. That is the trouble with many an other state, but back of the bad farm ing Is the bad farmer and back of him are bad roads, which cause men who would make good farmers to shun tfte farm. By keeping in the cities men who Would make good farmers, bad roads waste the abilities of such men and increase the cost of living for all. They are our worst form of waste. Lord Cowdrays abandonment of the Colombian concessions, which Included right of way for the Atrato River ca nal, was to have been expected. The construction by British capital of a canal parallel to that at Panama would have been regarded as a hostile act in this country, as much so as would have been construction by Americans of a. canal parallel to the British-controlled Suez waterway. It would, Indeed, have been regarded as a violation of the spirit of the Hay -Pauncefote treaty, about which Eng land now makes such a fuss. It Is publicly announced that there is to be a radical change of policy in managing the notorious New Haven Railroad. Under the old discredited regime the road almost forgot its duty of carrying passengers and freight and branched out into a hundred lines of business. The public knows the con sequences. On other lines a similar policy has brought results only a little less regrettable. The day when our railroads shall resolve, like the New Haven, to confine their efforts to transportation, will be a happy one all around. Governor Glynn, of New York, In vited the .Chamber of Commerce of New York City to appoint a commis sion of fifteen to twenty-five members to investigate and aid him in reor ganizing the state departments. Jo seph H. Choate asked him to take his pick, saying that every man selected would serve. If the people go on In that spirit, the rule of the bosses Is definitely ended and they will have to earn an honest living. Esthetic Chicago cannot see the beauty of New York's boasted Great White Way. Lorado Taft, the Chicago sculptor, said at a luncheon of the Electric Club: The "Great White Way" of New York about which we hear so much, is not a thing of beauty, but an unsightly glare of lights. We in ChlcaRO ought to be thankful that we have not sunk to such a degree as they nave in rsew xorK. That will avenge many a slighting remark about the smells of the packing-house district. A Federal law limiting the period of storage of food to three months is suggested as a means to break the egg corner. That would help to re duce the price of meat and butter as well as eggs. But we also need a law to prevent the destruction of food In order to maintain a price not war ranted by the law of supply and de mand. A New York stenographer complains that she cannot obtain employment because employers want a young wom an. Perhaps they want not only to dictate to but to flirt with the stenog rapher. Mayor Albee has ordered vocal music shut off between 5:30 and 7:30 A. M., because a woman disturbed her neighbors' sleep. 'He cannot stop the roosters, however, without banishing them. Voice culture at unseemly hours is to be stopped by the police. Why not an ordinance relegating this form of training to a sound-proof chamber nine miles beyond the city limits? Dr. Mary E. Pennington, a Gov ernment food expert, says turkey never was intended for a Thanksgiving din ner. Many sufferers from indigestion this morning will agree with her. The usual Presidential turkey from Westerly, R. I., graced the White House board, with a thirty-pounder from Kentucky to even up the light and dark meats. The Albany bootlegger who has just completed a year in jail and has eight more months to serve will have proper respect for the law when he gets out. Juarez rebels will pursue defeated federals after two days' rest. The Anglo-Saxon pushes his adversary while he has him on the run. But if we should arrest all Latin- American murderers it would require a thousand additional prisons to hold them all. A window-smashing vandal Is op erating in Portland. Can It be that Emmallne has slipped Into town In cog? A peep behind the veil of bragga docio reveals that the Juarez affair wasn't very much of a battle, after all. It was the costliest Thanksgiving In years. .But then the cost record Is broken each succeeding day. Another friend of Rockefeller Is dead, leaving millions. That kind of friendship certainly pays. Women are barred from boxing con tests in San Francisco. More work for the militants. A San Francisco burglar took only eggs. The modern burglar disdains mere pearls. Yon Llnd has been ordered back to Vera Cruz. Yon he ban keep on the yump. But what we'd like to know is what Huerta had to be thankful for. Taxes are to be 80 per cent higher. Along with everything else. Pigskin was the piece de resistance and turkey the dessert. Father, as usual, had the reck and wings. Poor Fatherl Stars and Starmaker BT LEONE CABS BASH. A lot of actors I could name need I trlve themselves no uneasiness over thelcently from the East, may I be per- income tax. Fortunately there is no I tax on an actor's imagination. 9 So their salaries will not suffer One thing I gave thanks for was that Paul Gilmore, Henry Woodruff and "The Merry Widow" were playing else- 1 where than Portland this week. Another thing I gave thanks for was I that the actors here are so Drosoeroua I v I their turkey day. I see where an actor and actress were wed while dancing the tango. Reckon they expect life to be one grand sweet cabaret. Did you hear that the old adage about "the goose that lays the golden egg" has been revised to "the hen that occasionally lays a golden egg"? Note where a Seattle policeman 82 years old is writing bis memoirs. Arti cle says he is hale and hearty. Well, there's nothing like a steady position, with no excitement, and plenty of sleep to promote longevity. I bet a cookie it was some sort of a reformer who started that scare rumor that turkey-trotting and tango dances make women fat. On Monday nfsrht the company ao- I pearing "Within the Law- at the Hay- East, as well as in the West, to leave market Theater in London gave a com- thelr husbands and children to the . . . , care of servants or sometimes with mand performance before the King and out any carewhIle they attend meet Queen of England. The performance inB-a and conventions for the further- marks the beginning of the thirtieth week tn London. There are nine com panies of "Within the Law" playing in the United States. Jane Cowl heads the New York company and Margaret Illington, who can play all around Miss Cowl, heads the Pacifio Coast company. For once we have no howl coming about original companies. Reszicka Dolly, sister to Yansci, who was here lately with Harry Fox In vaudeville, is going to take a jump in the two-a-day. Her partner Is to be Jerome Schwartz. Dorothy Davis-Allen, a Portlander, will be here in a week or so at Pan tages in a sketch of her own manufac ture. Wind Is air doing, a tango. Alleen May is heading a little stock company that jumps weekly from Aberdeen to Hoquiam, Wash. It is not what the father sees to ob ject to in his daughter's suitor so much as it is what he does not see In him. e The "Count of Luxembourg" is not coming to Portland. It closed in Los J Angeles a week or so ago and has been taken back to New York. I know a man whose business is so dead he takes off his hat when he speaks of it. Mrs. Romaldo Pacheco, widow of an early Governor of California and au thor of successful plays and novels. died in San Francisco suddenly No vember 5. She was 71 years old. Among her productions were "Incog, "Narcissus," "A Modern Don Quixote, "The Two Johnnies" and others. Her daughter, Mrs. W. S. Tevis, is one of the wealthiest residents of California, and the mother of the famous Tevis twins, Gordon and Landis. Said the ent at the piano: "Do you love good music. John?" "Oh. that don't matter," said the youth, "Pray, play on." a Evidently the run of "The Candy Shop" at Anderson's Gaiety Theater, San Francisco, is approaching its end. An arrangement has been made with Anderson whereby the production will move to the Morosco Theater, Los An geles, on December 7. This step Is taken in accordance with Mr. Morosco's belief that more musical comedy is demanded in Los Angeles than its citi zens have been getting. A large size explosion is due at Kitty Gordon's apartments in Los Angeles when she learns the awful truth of the cruelty of the vaudeville magnates. Miss Gordon has appeared in vaude ville, it will be recalled, at a salary of $2000 a week. Just whether the In crease In attendance warranted that expenditure is still a mooted question in vaudeville circles. At any rate when the closing of "The Enchantress' company was announced recently Miss 'ordon was booked to appear at the Palace in Chicago on November 10, with Milwaukee and St. Louis to follow, at a salary of $2000 a week. Perhaps the prima donna believed that the vaudeville powers would be patient and gladly await her coming. The fact Is that when in Los Angeles she received an offer to remain there for a special engagement in "Alma, She accepted. The vaudeville managers are now wondering if this stock engagement has not lessened her drawing powers in the varieties, and, it is said, they are seriously considering a substantial re ductlon in salary, one manager having stated that $1000 would be his limit hereafter. For her engagement in "Alma" Miss Gordon is said to receive $750 a week, with a percentage of the receipts if they exceed $6000. While under the direction of Joseph M. Galtes her total haul has bqen $77,000. Winifred Greenwood (Mrs. Frederick Bannister), well-known motion picture actress, has been granted a divorce in South Bend. Ind. Judge Funk imposed the restriction that she should not re marry within two years. Miss Green wood is at present located in Santa Barbara, Cal., where she is leading lady with the American Film Company. Miss Greenwood played for two years with the Indiana Stock Company prior to entering the motion picture field. Her former husband, Frederick Ban nister, is also an actor, and Is known in Portland, where he has appeared often in traveling companies. Effie's Brother Asks n Question. Puck. Effie's Brother Do you love my sis ter Effie? Effie's Steady Company Why, Wil lie, that's a queer question. Why do you want to know? Effie's Brother She said last night she would give a dollar to know, and I'd like to scoop it In. His Mother n Financier. Exchange. Jack My mother paid nine dollars for this coat. Jill My mother has a charge ac i count. She never pays for anything, "OLD MAID" NOT CHIEF OBSTACLE Eastern Hen Who Would Denr Them the Franchise Are Rare. OAKLAND, Or, Nov. 26. (To the Editor.) Being a married woman re- mltted to enter the discussion raised by the reference of Mrs. Dunlway to "professional old maids" as leaders of the suffrage movement In the East. My first taought on reading the ar ticle In The Oregonian was "What an unusual and unfortunate remark." I have, since read Mrs, Duniway's letter f explanation, but have received- no itariuer enusnienment just wny an unmarried woman should be a "profes- sionai oia mala in tne East while ene ia a. uacneior gin ana rjeiovea co- VLT n V 11 - ln 4-V.a In V ...... .1 n... comprehension. If a woman Is un married in the West, where men are supposed to be plentiful, is it not more ol a chosen state or profession than it Is in the East, where, as everybody knows, there are not men enough to go around? Mrs. Duniway's assertion that the husbands and fathers of the East are averse to the suffrage movement chiefly because It is led by old maids is entirely without fact. It would be hard to find a man there who 9oes not admit that a woman who is earning her own living, and perhaps paying taxes on property, is entitled to the fran chise such women as a rule, are too busy to become the leaders of any movement. It is the wives and moth ers, whom the men are supporting and protecting, who are the greatest obstacle to the success of suffrage. The' masculine mind cannot under stand why such women are unwilling to stay in the home and be content to be represented at the polls by their husbands and sons. It is no uncom- mon thing for married women In the ance of woman's suffrage. This Is the almost - universal argument against the men In the East. As we all know, the Eastern man Is more conservative than his brother in the West. It has always been so n the older states; but one has to cross the Atlantic to find a man who i3 bold enough publicly to make -the statement that women are mentally unfit to cast an intelligent vote. Is it any wonder that they breed mili tants over there? Would the women in this country stand for that? MRS. JOHN PERKY. WHAT BECOMES OF OREGON HOPS Tim I What Mr. Tinker Wants to Know, If Prohibition Carries. M'MINNVILLE, Or.. Nov. 25. (To the Editor.) It is high time the hop grower was beginning to backfire. Two elements are pitted against him the short seller and the Prohibition ist. The former has already been dis cussed, now for the latter. Do those who sign these pledges being passed around so freely in the interests of prohibition ever stop to think of this fact, that those so ac tively engaged are paid workers, as a rule; tnat tney are uiessea wnn means or have good paying positions? They must not. else they would balk at being led like an ox to a shamble and ign away their rights for a mess of pottage. In case prohibition wins the grower would be compelled to dig up his hops. It would put an end to the very, very little tad earning his dollar or so; those a little older their ten or twenty. dollar stipend; with pa and ma of that seventy-five or eighty dollars to buy flour and shoe3 and school books and thousand and one things not ob tainable urough any other source. In case prohibition carries It would do away with city folk Journeying up the beautiful Willamette Valley in the hazy mellow month of September in auest of remuneration and recreation. The rancher and his family wouldn't come out of the mountains any more: the siwash wouldn't come from the coast. The treasure chest for thou sands of worthy people would be closed, and closed for good. Oregon as a hop-producing state would be the first to suffer. If she oses out other states will follow: and in case the United States should de cide to cut off its revenue from this source through legislation, the hop in dustry would be a thing of the past. Our acreage would be reduced, dug up, stamned out. Oregon alone can supply the world with hops. But she wouldn t get the chance. The moment America began to reduce her acreage England and the Continent would increase theirs England has available acreage to set out, soil and climate, and hut lor America butting in with cheaper grown hops her acreage would be twice as larsre as it Is. If the hop industry 13 doomed I will dig mine up as cheerfully as the rest: but I want to know, who of the prohibitionists are going to compen sate the hundreds of men, women and children for what they have driven up? TOM ROGERS,. TO THE CRAZTHOrSB WITH THEM. Colonel Hofer Would Send Political Cranks to Deep Seclusion. PORTLAND, Nov. 27. (To the Edi tor.) Justice Moore la to be com mended for declaring the latest leg islative election law unconstitutional. The registration law or election law that deprives a single citizen of the right to cast his ballot at any elec tion Is a crime against our institu tions, which are founded upon man hood (and now womanhood) suffrage. It should make any American citlzen'B blood boil, or at least, gently simmer. to see any bona fide citizen denied the right to express his will at the ballot box. Laws that deter people from vot ing undermine free Institutions that were blood-bought In all civilized lands and most dearly bought in our free America. Yet we think nothing of allowing every fool legislature to tie our hands with new ballot laws and suppress citizenship. Our double elections, , our complicated and expensive election machinery dis gust the taxpayer and the voter, until more and more refuse to po to the polls. The one place where restrictions should be employed we have none notably voting on matters affecting revenues and property, are left to be decided by those who pay no taxes and have no property. Such a system should pre pare us for the millennium or the asy lum. Again, thanks to Justice Moore, a voter cannot lose his most sacred rlsrht by the playful pup chewing up his registration paper or the hired- girl light the fire with It. The Supreme Court will confer a lasting obligation and go far toward earning its salaries if it will knock out one after another'of the accumula tion of fool laws that handicap the In dustries and producers of the state. Oregon cannot develop rationally by making the state an experiment farm for all the crankisms of the world. The men and women who impose the In ventlons of the political crazyhouse on an undeveloped commonwealth that Is noted for being easy should receive the hospitality of the Institution befitting their genius and where they could en Joy themselves without afflicting the patience of the industrious citizen, who Is happy minding his own business and not getting up new laws. E. HOFER. Right Under Her Nose. Boston Transcript. Dad How many times did that I young man kiss you last night? 1 Daughter I can't tell you that, pa, - 1 Dad WhatI And the thing going ion Tight under your very nose? Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of Nov. 23. 18113. The steamer Julia, after landing the Idaho murderers at Cascades, returned to this city Thursday night. The Im pression is that Page will turn state's evidence, if the case is not summarily disposed of by the people. He Is said to grow paler and more dejected as he approaches Lewiston. at which place, we are told, a vigilance com mittee is organized In anticipation of their arrival. Chattanooga. Nov. 15. There has been no fighting since the seizure of Lookout Valley two weeks ago. Har bor's position is considered impreg nable. The enemy hold Lookout Mountain and throw shell occasionally In both directions. Nearly all fall short. Washington, Nov. 14. A consultation was held today between the President. Stanton, Halleck and Meade. It is said that Stanton and Halleck favor the Army of the Potomac going' imme diately into Winter quarters, while the President and Meade propose to take advantage of the completion of the Rappahannock bridge to endeavor to force a fight on Lee at a point nearest to the Rapldan. New York, Nov. 16. The Herald has advices from Banks' expedition .up to the afternoon of November 4. The ex pedition landed safely on the Texas shore of the Rio Grande, after losing one or two vessels. The rebels evacu ated Fort Brown, setting fire to the works there. Brownsville was also set on fire by rebel cavalry, but the Unionists turned out and extinguished it, whereupon the rebel cavalry. Joined by the secessionists In the town at tacked them and a terrible street fight was going on while the houses were burning around them. The observance of Thanksgiving. At the Presbyterian Church, the singing was as good as any ever heard in Portland. The leader of the choir, Mr. J. B. Wyatt, has recently received a collection of very fine music from the East. At the Methodist Church, Rev. Mr Pearne observed that all the states in rebellion had been reoccupied by our troops except Texas. Just before the benediction some gentleman passed up the dispatch which announced the occupation of Texas by General Banks. Mr. Pearne corrected the error in his discourse by reading from the dis patch, amid a tumult of applause. Twenty-five Years Ago Prom The Oregonian ot Nov. 2S, 1SSS. 'Auburn, N. y., Nov. 27. The first of the famous opium-smuggling cases was moved in United States court this morning. Defendant is Edwin A. Gard ner. John C. Haines, a prominent lawyer of Seattle, is also one of the defendants. Seattle, Nov. 27. Josiah Collins, chief of the fire department; James Murphy, fire marshal, and Street Com missioner Cummings, took a crew of 20 men today and forcibly tore down four wooden buildings erected in de fiance of the fire-limit ordinance. Salem, Nov. 27. Work was com menced on the Salem street railway today, the center of State street being plowed up. A regular meeting of the Sellwood City Council was held Monday, called to order by the President, R. Bean. W. L. Ball & Co. have been awarded the contract to improve and grade two lots and move the city Jail thereon. At the meeting of the Society ot Co-Operative Charity, held Monday at the First Congregational Church, a con stitution was adopted. The contractor, C. O. Blakely, hs finished the schoolroom on the seconu floor of the North Central building. Mr. Fltspatrick, of Skamokawa. is having the largest and finest residence built on the beautiful grounds west of Lone Fir Cemetery that has been put up on the East Side this year. It will cost very near $4000. Arrangements for beginning work on the north Jetty at Yaquina Bay are well along toward completion. H. C. Leonard has gone East for the Winter. FEATURES FOR THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN Exit the Fire Horse In his place comes the fiery red streak. A page illustrated by striking photographs of Portland's remarkable new bat tery of motor-drawn fire apparatus. Queen of Spendthrifts Princess Louise recently awakened to find $1,000,000 in shopping debts con fronting her. She has a mania for shopping and buys finery she does not need and cannot use. Paris correspondent of The Oregonian tells the whole story of her ex travagant shopping tours. Turkey Trotting That' new figure in the world of gentle satire, John Henry, delves into freak dances. This is the second of the John Henry series by George "V. Hobart. Want to Be a Suffragist? Then yon will have to go to school. A school for the training of real suf fragists has been founded and the courses will be open shortly. Invading Mexico The invasion was for the peaceful purpose of rescuing imperiled Americans from the west coast, however. An il lustrated account of tripa by the transport Buford. The 1915 Midway At the San Francisco Fair the amusement di vision is to be the most wonderful yet. An illustrated account of the $11,000,000 marvels that are being installed in one small section of the exposition. Devouring Forests An interest ing article on the tremendous de mand made each year on our for ests. Happy Fireside Days The con cluding chapter on home life in Colonel Roosevelt's Autobiography. It tells more about happy days at Sagamore Hill. Through . Stately Siskiyous A page in colors on the course of the great Pacific Highway through a most picturesque and enterprising section of Oregon. Two Splendid Short Stories, Il lustrated. An immense volume and variety of other features. Order today of your newsdealer. i