8 TTTT2 ' MOItXTNG OKEGOXIAN. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1913. ; PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland, Oregon. Postofllce a second-class matter. Subscription Kate Invariably In Advance: (BY MAIL) "Daltv. Sutidav included, one nv .... lJaily, Sunday Included, alx moolhl . ... lJatly. Sunday included, three mooihl Ja:ly, Sunday Included, one month .... laily. wltnout Sunday, one year Jintly, without Sunday, sx months 2alty, without Sunday, three months laiiy, without Sunday, one month. M eekly, one year Handay, one year Munday and weekly, one year "' IBI CARRIER) 4.M euo 1.73 1 SO Xt-0 S.JO JDa'Ir, Sunday Included, one year ...... -m9!?2 Jjally. Sunday Included, one month v How to Kemil Snd postofflro money or fler. express yrder or personal check on your local Lank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Olve poetofrice addreaa In full. Including county and state. Foelaure Kaln 12 to Id Daces. 1 cent: 18 to paKes. 2 cents; 14 to 4 pases, a cents, ta to paxes. 4 cents; 62 to d pares, I cent; 7S to 1'2 pases, a cents. Foreign post are. double rates. Hmt ern Buftloewa Of flees Verree a: Conk 1'n, ew York. Brunewiclt building. Cai cao. Stoker building. San Francisco Office R, J. Bldwell Co. 74 Market street. . PORTLAND, SATCRDAT, DKC, 13, J91S. POETUSD'S Ol'PORTlMTT. The addresses at the Horticultural Society's dinner were worthy of con sideration by everybody who cares for the welfare of Oregon. Various I pects of the fruit-producing problem were taken up by competent speakers, The relations of the fruit grower to the banker, to the railroads, to the general business (world were passed In review and suggestions were ad vanced which, properly acted upon. ought to retrieve the horticultural situation. H. B. Miller's speech was I of exceptional interest because he presented tho subject from the pro ducer's point of view. He reminded liis hearers that there has been a fun damental change in marketing condi tlons since pioneer times. In early Iays it waa possible for the fruit grower, as well ns other producers, to turn their material over to comrals Ion men and obtain for it a remuner ative price. This Is no longer possible.- Conditions have so aJtered that the commission men cannot dispose of our fruit, dairy or poultry products to their own advantage or that of the farmer. New marketing methods must be devised to meet the new times or the fundamental Industries of the Hate will pine. Signs of retrogression are already npparent. The tone of the remarks by growers at the meetings of the Horticultural Society has been one of bewilderment if not of depression. The problem how to dispose of their crops profitably is one that in some of its phases baffles them. Oregon puffers from some disadvantages which work to nullify her exceptional blessings of soil and climate. Of these her distance from markets and the transportation expenses she has to pay are undoubtedly the most se rious. Add to this the undeniable fact that the cost of producing fruit of the highest grade increases from year to year and the difficulty may be in part appreciated. Nor are these the only discouraging circumstances which have to be faced. Some of our industries have actually fallen off, relatively to the growth of the state, if not absolutely. . Our dairying is far from what it should be. Pork and poultry products are but a fraction f the amount which the state ought 10 raise. Beef cattle are almost as scarce, relatively speaking, as they were in early pioneer times. Review ing a number of these circumstances, .Mr. Miller believed It was possible to account for them by a neglect of op portunity on the part of the City of Portland.- This city is the natural head, financially, of the productive Industries of Oregon. From this point should emanate a continually active directive influence operating to keep the farmers' methods up with the times. This duty lies immediately upon the banking and commercial powers of Portland. It is not sufficient for them to remain passive. They must take the initiative. They must become a source of inspiration, knowledge and leadership. The farming industries f the state are disintegrated. A de tructlve individualism prevails almost everywhere which prevents producers from uniting to promote their own Interests. When they do unite it is commonly done with so little tact, so little command of capital and busi ness intelligence that failure is the inevitable result. The truth cannot lie too often reiterated that the ordi nary farmer Is not a business man. He is a producer exclusively,' and when it fomfs to the business problem of marketing his crop he Is comparative ly helpless. This Is no fault of his. It is the unavoidable consequence of the condition under which he works. I.ack of business or marketing skill brings failure upon him and there fore his Industry shrinks and pines. Hut agricultural depression means in the long run a correspond ing depression in Portland. The city is united to the country by too many ties to thrive when the farmers are failing. Mr. Millers appeal to the bunking and commercial power of Portland to como to the rescue of the farmers was a direct appeal to self Interest. In Minneapolis and Chi cago the bankers have acknowledged their obligation, both selfish and un selfish, to aid agriculture. They have to some degree enlarged the ancient conception of the bankers duties and have become active missionaries and benefactors. The railroads of Oregon have ac knowledged a similar obligation. Of late years they have , done a noble work by carrying new methods to the farms and sometimes helping the pro ducers financially. They do this be cause the broad-minded men who conduct their affairs have read the slerns of the times. Dividends are linked Intimately with agricultural prosperity. It is high time that our financial leaders looked Into this sub ject. The prime question, foremost and ominous, for the farmers Is that of markets. To acquire markets such as they imperatively need they must have financial aid, proper direction, aiul good roads. They must have financial aid to enable them to build up co-operative associations. ' These undertakings require long loans. It is for the bankers to meet the prob lem of providing them. Under proper Inspiration the farmers can be in duced to pool their credit as they have done in Germany and thus provide- ample security for the funds they need. Individual security is as anti quated as individual marketing. Co operative associations of whatever kind are continually falling for want of adequate direction. The commer cial powers of Portland will be wise in their generation if they combine to furnish it. To put it plainly, competent mis sionaries should be sent Into the field to counsel. Inspire, and, when neces sary, give financial help. Not less pressing than that of finance and or ganizing ability is the problem of good roads. Kvery rod of good roads over which he drives to market lessens the cost of production to the farmer and may lower the cost of living to the consumer. It would pay to tax in some form every acre of land in Oregon and reticulate the state with concrete roads. But nothing of the sort will ever be done, nothing at all will ever be done without inspiration from Portland. Here is the main center of economic interest. Here In the long run the ben efits will focus. And from Portland must flow the awakening Influence that shall Infuse our agriculture with new life. The times are ripe for a great industrial statesman to appear In this city. Never was there greater need, never a more brilliant opportu nity for service. Ot B XEIGItBORS WORRIES. "When the taxpayer of Portland con templates with dismay the high tax levy of 27 mills let him turn his mournful eyes to the aspiring city of Bend, in Central Oregon, where a total levy of 65 mills has just been an nounced. We rather doubt if it s worth, twice as much to live in Bend as in Portland, though there is, of course, a different view at Bend. We suppose, too, that the citizen of Seattle, who finds that the tax levy for 1914 Is to be 43 mills, regards the fact that he is able to live and labor with emphasis on the labor in Seat tle is adequate compensation for the burdens of high taxes. Being a city that never does things by halves, but always goes the limit, Seattle has contrived to Incur, in the period of its existence as a city and a world's port, bonded indebtedness that aggregates now $45,000,000. The annual interest charge on bonds is about tl, 600. 000. Portland goes modestly along with a bonded indebtedness about half the size of Seattle's, or less; yet no citizen here iwill give testimony that taxes are as low as they ought to be. The thrifty city of Salem has a total tax levy of 34.5 mills, and down In Jackson the county levy alone is 10 mills, while the municipal tax at Med. ford is 12 mills, Ashland 14.25 mills. Jacksonville IS mills and Central Point 16 mills. "When to these levies the state, school, road and other taxes are added it is obvious that the total at Portland will be eclipsed, or at least greatly distanced. But we do not defend the high taxes of Portland. Not at all. Yet there Is a melancholy satisfaction In regard ing the greater miseries of others. BAD JUDGMENT. Dr. S. W. McClure. a reputable citi zen of the West and an authority on the sheep-raising and wool-growing industry, is secretary of the National Wool Growers Association. In his offi cial capacity as the accredited repre sentative of many thousand substan tial and worthy American citizens he went to Washington for the purpose of protesting In their name against the proposal to place wool on the free list and to demand further that no dis crimination, be practiced by Congress against his employers in favor of the sugar growers of the West or the cot ton producers of the South or any others. It was a perfectly honorable and desirable mission, openly per formed and publicly proclaimed. He attempted no deception nor coercion, nor intrigue nor misrepresentation nor corruption. He was not an insidious lobbyist. He was there because he had a right to be there. Yet, when the Congressional inquiry" as to the lobby began. Senator Lane refused to testify to the high personal character of Dr. McClure or to ac knowledge that he knew him or to protect him In any way from the as persions upon him as the chosen agent of a great body of honest and anxious citizens, who felt that their welfare was vitally concerned in the tariff legislation. The other Oregon Senator, Mr. Chamberlain, cold-shouldered Dr. McClure out of all friendly or favora ble consideration, and, with his col league, made manifest his willingness to sacrifice a leading Oregon industry by voting for a tariff bill that in cluded free wool. It is an outrage and it Is reprehen sible to attempt to classify Dr. Mc Clure with the paid lobbyists of the National Manufacturers' Association at Washington and to include him in the denunciation fitly directed toward them. It would be entirely proper to say that If Secretary McClure of the American Wool Growers had no busi ness at Washington, no representa tive or employe of the American Fed eration of Labor was entitled to be there, though the Federation was ex pressly exculpated in the recent Con gressional report. If the sheep and wool men of the United States feel that they have been unfairly dealt with at Washington in the tariff bill they feel even more deeply their deliberate and contempt uous mnltreatment by the Oregon Senatorial delegation. It Is not wise for the friends and apologists of the Oregon Senators to rub salt in their wounds by taunts or abuse or innu endoes of dishonesty and double deal ing. THE STAR f4P.VSOI.KD BANNER. Most music lovers would hesitate to accept the views of "The Star Span gled Banner" expressed by the writer whose letter is printed in The Orego nlan today. He speaks of the words of that questionable song as "glori ous and patriotic," while the tune he damns with the faintest of praise. "It was first used -by an Anacreontic drinking society In England."- "Our breasts do not respond to it," and so on. His judgment, upon the whole. seems to be that if we only had a tuno as noble as the words of "The Star Spangled Banner" every, audience would rise automatically and stand in a glow of patriotic ardor until the lust note sunk into silence. We are sorry not to be able to agree with him. It must be conceded that a feeble sort of patriotism does seep and simmer through the words of "The Star Spangled Banner," but from the beginning of the song to the end there is not a solitary thought that rises above commonplace, not a line that is truly poetical, scarcely an expression that is not- borrowed from common conversation. The best phrase in it. "Land of the free and home of the brave," is at least as old as Pericles. But the music is of another cast. Tho melody Is extremely beautiful, and the fact that it was once used for a drinking song detracts nothing from its charm. Most good old tunes have passed through variegated adven tures. The experiences of "Home, Sweet Home," among the lazzaroni of Naples before it was captured for American sentiment might shock some of us If we knew them. We must Judge a melody Xor what it Is, not by the people who may have chanced to sing it The only trouble with the tune of "The Star Spangled Banner" is that it Is difficult for ordinary voices to sing. The compass it requires is ex cessive and the Intervals throughout are a little trying. Were it not for this fact it is well worthy to be our National melody. What we really want is a set of verses to fit it. "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," has too much sectional flavor to be universally ac ceptable, even if it were ours. When we produce a poet who can write pa trlotlc verse as good in its way as the music of "The Star Spangled Banner" we may all rejoice. OARRLSON SIDE-STEPS TKOl'BLK. Secretary of War Garrison side stepped trouble when he decided not to move for abandonment of small army posts. He showed good political Judgment, for the time when the President is striving to hold his party together on measures of the first lm portance. such as the currency and anti-trust bills, is a poor time to pro pose depriving Congressmen of some of their pork. But the plan Mr. Gar rison has adopted is a miserable makeshift- He says: I shall endeavor so to station the Army aa to have not less than a regiment at post, or so that the different Qnlts of a reel' ment are so close together as to make thrm for all practical purposes as tJttllsable as If stationed at one post. The chief purpose of concentrating the army in large posts would be to give it daily training in large units. A regiment scattered among several posts, though they be close together, cannot have this training. The plans of General Wood, which were ap proved by Secretary Stimson, pro vided for concentration of the army. not merely by regiments, but by bri gades. that officers might learn by practice to handle large bodies of troops. As now distributed the army affords no such opportunity, and of ficers often, wnen suddenly called upon to command large forces, are as much at a loss as would be the man who had sailed a cat boat when put in command of a big ship. Our army is small enough and should make up in high efflcency what It lacks in numbers. But an emer gency alone Is likely to drive Congress to treat army posts as factors In the National defense rather than as "pork." HELP TO MCTCAL UNDERSTANDING. A valuable step towards mutual un derstanding between the United States and Japan was taken at the meeting of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague. The American and Jap anese groups of delegates held a Joint meeting and appointed committees. the purpose being, as stated by one of the delegates. Representative) W. D. B. Ainey, of Pennsylvania, "to evi dence to the peoples of their respec tive countries, in a more tangible way, the continuance of the friendly rela tions which for many years have ex isted between the great nations and to furnish a means for presenting and considering in an Informal yet very effective way those questions and problems touching more peculiarly and particularly the relations between Japan and the United States of America, properly tho subjects for in terparliamentary discussion." The two committees will formulate such ques tions as affect Japan and the United States with a view to their presenta tion at the next Interparliamentary Conference at Stockholm in 1914. These committees can greatly pro mote mutual understanding, which Is the best safeguard of peace. The mu tual" understanding which grows out of common origin, language and lit erature and similar political institu tions and customs has knit tho United States and Great BrUuln in such close friendship that both consider war be tween them unthinkable. Diversity In these respects Is the chief difficulty in the way of amicable relations between the United States and Japan. Every means to "bridge the gulf created by this diversity is welcome as contribut ing to mutual knowledge and hence to removal of causes of friction. NEW II A VEX HIGH FINANCE. The passing of a dividend by the New Haven Railroad and the subse quent slump in the price of its stock to the lowest point on record form the climax in the ruin of a once prosper ous railroad by high finance. The high financiers have made money and the stock and bondholders hold the bag. For many years until 1S94 the stock paid 10 per cent dividend, in 1S93 9 per cent, from that year to the early part of 1913 8 per cent, this year 6 per. cent. Now It must suspend dividends until it is physically nd financially rehabilitated. This is the fruit of the Morgan control. When Mr. Morgan put (Viarles S. Mcllen in charge in 1903 tho total capitalization In stock and bonds was $S4. 000.000; it Is now, with the addi tion of floating debt. J433.000.000. After making every deduction for the assumption of debts of merged com panies the Investment Is still about 1250,000.000. Tho difference reprc sents the operations of the Morgan control and the -Me lien management. Only within the lust year has It been possible to learn how the road was saddled with a huge (li-bt. The annual reports to stockholders studiously concealed essential facts. The Massa chusetts trolley lines were sold In 1906, but the price was not stated. The Connecticut trolley lines were leased in 1907. but the rontul was kept secret. When the Massachusetts Legislature objected to the purchase of Boston & Maine stock for $13,000, 000 it disappeared from the com pany's reports without explanation. In 1903 treasury. bonds to the amount of $4,000,000 were sold, but tho prlco was not slated. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion has brought to light a course of wildcat investment and juggling with corporations on which stockholders wero kept In the dark. The Westchester road was bough, in 1907 for $11,000, 000. but not until the next year was It mentioned In the report. The com pany had a franchise for a compet ing line seventy-five miles long, but Mr. Mellen admitted there was "noth ing visible except some real estate, a Httlo construction and some lawsuits." He opposed the purchase, but yielded to Mr. Morgan's Judgment. The late J. P. Morgan, William Rockefeller and Mr. Miller were appointed a com. mlttee to arrange the deal and they made a contract with Messrs. Thorno and Perry to buy the Use at 7 "6 per cent commission. During the panic of 1907 this contract was terminated by payment of 1275,000 Jn addition to $825,000 commission. It was built at a cost of $12,000,000, the other $11. 000.000 charged to it being waste and graft. One of the most marvelous exam plea of rallrosd Juggling is the his tory of the Boston & Maine stock deal. This stock rwas originally bought by the New England Naviga tion Company, a New Haven dummy, at $116 a share, and Its value was marked up on the New Haven bonds to $125 a share, the difference being placed to capital reserve. When Massachusetts protested the stock was sold at $125 to John L. Blllard. a Connecticut lumberman, who gave a note for $2,740,000, borrowed $11, 000,000 In New York on the stock and turned this money over to the navigation company. In tho follow ing year the Massachusetts Legisla ture authorized creation of the Bos ton Holding Company by the New Haven to buyback the stock. Though sold at $125, it was bought at $150 from Blllard, who received $16,250, 000 in notes of another dummy cor poration and $120,000 cash. The New Haven paid the $11,000,000 notes given by Blllard to the bank which held the stock and turned it over to the holding company at $140, charging the actual loss against the profit nomi nally made on the sale to Blllard. This thrifty gentleman made a profit of $2,740,000 without paying a dollar. He Incorporated himself and Issued notes, of which the Navigation Com pany bought $2,000,000 for cash at par. The Holding Company bought more Boston & Maine stock at $150 and more until the investment reached over $30,000,000. The New Haven Is paying 6 per cent interest on the money borrowed to buy this stock, but Boston & Maine dividends were decreasing while it was buying until they are now nil and the market price is now $57. Equal sagacity In buying unprofit able property at padded prices was shown In trolley lines. The Rhode Island Company, capitalized at $2,000,000, Increased its capital to $12,000,000 stock and $3,500,000 bonds and sold to tho New Haven for nearly $20,000,000 in guaranteed de bentures of a New Haven dummy. The Rhode Island lines were losing money and the stockholders deposited $10 a share as a guaranty against losses for ten years, but the deficit ate up this fund in eighteen months. The deal was concealed by transfer of the road to the New England Navi gation Company, which Is not required to publish reports. Another trolley deal- was the purchase of the Berkshire Street Railroad Company, which shows a regular annual deficit. The New Haven showed ns great zeal In refusing to make profitable sales as in making bad investments. in ivoi diaries W. Morse offered $20,000,000 for its steamship lines, which were worth $6,000,000, and Mr. Mellen urged the sale, but he was the only director voting for it. hen treasury stock was sold the sale was made to Mr. Mellen, who resold it at a profit of $136,000. This was a device to reimburse him for political campaign contributions. The men who conducted these op erations have got away with "the goods" and lert the stockholders to carry the burden. It remains to be seen whether some means can be found of transferring it again to the shoulders which should Justly bear it. Guayaquil is declared the plague spot of South America, owing t,o its unsanitary condition, which the gov ernment of Ecuador persistently de lays doing anything to remedy. The heads of our War and Navy Depart ments and the Surgeon - General have declared that it will become a I terrible menace to our people when the Panama Canal is opened and have tried by diplomacy to bring about im provement. The New York Sun now calls upon President Wilson to cut off all communication with Ecuador and thus to force that country to clean up. We seem to have become the sanitary evangelists of tho world. The fame of an artist Is no more immune from transitorlness than that of a novelist. People who are now of mature years remembervwell what they learned in childhood about Hi ram Powers. His genius was the glory of his native land. His "Greek Slave" was the acme of art. Nothing so fine had been done since Phidias. Now its glory is waning. It sold the other day for a tenth of its original price. Hiram Powers was an imitator and not a very robust one at that. Time has weighed him and found him wanting. Montgomery Ward owed success to business acumen, to large extent, yet there was much In the harmonious name. Jimmy, John or Thomas Ward has a common sound, but the ripple and roll of Montgomery had a stick that was lasting. Then, too. It ttas eitsily the subject or object of Jokes. One recalls tho conundrum: "How many wards has Chlcugo?" "Thirty, of course." "No, thirty-one. You for get Montgomery." This was before the day of refined vaudeville and the hook. Tho marriage of the Duke of Croy and an American girl Is officially de scribed in Germany as "one of un equal birth." Put then the poor Duke can't help his humbler origin. North Dakota has Just enjoyed her hottest December day in year. Hut it is only when North Dakota has her coldest December day that the world marvels. The British consulate was invaded by Mexican rebels, rinchlng the lion's tall Is a more perilous under taking than throwing stones at the eagle. The Socialists having bought Puck. the spontaneous humor of that little chap will be converted into cheese green satire and mediocre flippancy. Greek soldiers are enthusiastic over the tango. But. with the lute war in mind, we recall that they have long had a weakness for atrocities. Eugene sorority girls will givo lip their own Christmas to the poor. That's the proper spirit. General Wood may bo supplanted. Yes, he's too active in building up a real army. Bend's taxes come to 65 mills. No doubt Bend taxpayers are inclined to feel -bent. So Root gets the Nobel peace prize. and after W. Jennings Bryan tried so hard, too. Professor Taft says he loves every- bdy. Even Teddy"? Get your Christmas list of the needy poor early! The unselfish Christmas is the only happy Christmas. Evidently Dan Kellahcr had the right hen pa. ARE VOTERS- TIREI OF NOTING Frequency of KlectJoas IIm Perhaps Caaaed Apathy. PORTLAND, Dec 12. (To the Edi tor.) It it not largely possible that the result of Tuesday's election was not in any sense a public calamity? Suppose that we had no election at all during the past year aside from those regu larly provided by law, that Is, general elections? Or, further, would there be any serious consequences if we had fewer elections and could reduce the amount of our legislation by one-half? Has the average man any more per sonal rights that result in more per sonal freedom to go and come as he pleases than he had before at least 90 per cent of the legislation enacted during the past few years was placed on our statute books, or is he getting all this government for any less money than before? ' Has the mass of conflicting and con fusing legislation that has been the portion of our people in recent years reduced their taxes anywhere? And cannot we all recall the fact that prac tically all protests against governmen tal procedure have been directed .vralnst the constantly increasing taxes? And can anybody point to an instance where taxes have been re duced? Indeed, does not an Increased valuation of property, which frequent ly happens, usually call for an In creased levy? And with this prevailing condition t -it does the common man, or woman, get out of it? And what good reason can be given for the statement, heard now and then, that If people "had turned out" at last Tuesday's election the result would have been different? How does anybody know that tho "stay-at-homes" would have voted any different, "relatively, than those who went to the polls? If. as assumed, those who did not go to the polls were In favor of the proposed changes, would not it be more logical to suppose that, realizing the necessity of the changes, they would have been most likely to register their wants at the ballot box? la It not a fact that latterly there lias been such a cloud of amendments to and changes In existing laws, sub mitted In various ways and from var ious sources that the average man is becoming disgusted with tl ail and stays at home through a feeling that he wants a rest? And we are getting such a lot of boards, commissions, clerks and sec relane. all unknown a few years ago, resulting In a gradual but never-failing drain on the pocketbook of tho tax payer, that may it not be fairly as sumed that the people are beginning to wonder where or how it will all end unless they themselves call a halt It might be so. T. T. GEER. PROIIIBITIOVS ECOXOMIC EFFECT Veoa Sees Cain la Prosperity By Abolishment of Liquor Traffic. CORVALLIS. Or.. Dec 11. (To the Editor.) Permit me to reply to the letter in The Oregon inn entitled "As a Brewer Sees It." As to the unemployed, statistics show that the money expended in the liquor traffic returns only about one- fifteenth as much to laborer and pro ducer as other lines of commerce. Ex perience shows that the money Is turned into other channels of trade; therefore we may be reasonably sure of 10 men being employed In other oc cupations where one ts now employed in the liquor trades. A very small percentage of the hops raised In Oregon is used in tho state. Therefore the hop industry will remain as it Is until the "world goes dry"; that the hopgrowers may rais logan berries. Experience also shows that the buildings vacated because of a dry con dition ilo not remain vacant, but are soon refitted and used for legitimate business and better homes. Taxes are paid by property owners. All property is owned by some one. The only difference will bo the re-adjustment of the ownership caused by the increased ability of the poor man to purchase homes from the present prop erty owners. The $300,000 license money. If di vided among the voting population of Portlnnd. would be a very small sum. Indeed I am sure the "mothers of men" would willingly follow the lead of tho women of Kansas, who said they would rather raise hogs than boys to supply the necessary revenue. As to the bootlegging, any one with half an eye ought to see that boot legging (or sale of liquor without license) Is aa prevalent In license states and cities as in "dry" territory. This only proves the debasing influence of the stuff that makes people willing to break a law. and also the need of a dry courthouse and dry city halL A law permitting the spread of scarlet fever scales would stand a poor show of being enforced by a physician who preferred personal gain to the health of1 the community. So It I with linuor law. MIIS. HATTli: M. WOLFE. TCXE I JfOT WORT1IT OF WORDS. Writer Itlsllkra O rial a of Air of Na tional Aathemu PORTLAND. Dec. 11. (To tho Edi tor.) The Oregonlan'a account of the band concert at the Gipsy Smilh audi torium last Sunday concluded: "As usual, when the band began to play the Star Spnugicd I'.snncr llm crowd made, ji rush for the door. When shall we Americans stand at attention when this tune is played?" When ahall some American write a patriotic, tuna to thesw glorious and patriotic, words? If tills tune is no morn than a drink inn song from old England, why should tho audience stand uncovered when it Is played? I speak of the "tuue." 'and not the words. . The "tune" was nrst used by the Anacreontic Society of England and since then It has boon b-ard with nu merous settings, notably "Adams and Liberty' and a number of soiikh reint Ing to the order of Freemasons. No doubt Puccini's opera. "Madame Butter fly." owes a certain amount of lis pop ularity in this country to the effective use of this tuna Tho writer is fully aware that usage and sentiment has much to do with the matter of public opinion. The Argu ment Is this the "tune" to our beloved words "Star Spangled Banner" (by the very nature of Its origin) does not cor respond to our native land as does the national anthem of England, and con sequently does not respond aa deeply In our breasts w-lth the somo associa tions. Terhaps a lack of patriotism for this venerable tune has much to do with the audience "not standing ..." I say "venerable tune" because It has served Its purpose well, but Is It not right that some American citizen should accept tho labor and set the glorious words to a tune written by an American citizen Rnd thus do away wilu tnis rt-meinbiatice of old England debauchery? HOY MARIOS' WHEELER. Iil Illm Revolt. PORTLAND. Dec. 11. i To the Ed itor.) I read in Tl-.e Oregonlan an ap peal from a Hindu in behalf of his countrymen, hegelng for admittance Into the United States. He claims he Is a scholar, and that Ms people arc up to date. He is a British subject and yet ho or his countrymen aro not al lowed to emigrate to any one of the numerous British colonies. Isn't it about time those Hindus got wise to themselves and followed the example of China? It's up to the Hin dus themselves. - If 1 understand rightly, that country has a population of 30,000.000 people and still they don't realize how easily thi-y could overcome a handful of British marauders. Why don't our friend Kenchu Kun try to be a second Sun Yat Sen? JOHN DOLAN, WHAT -CT LTVRE" DOES FOR SOME. Coatesapt for Patriotism Is Scored by J. Beasessy Mar pay. PORTLAND, Dec 1L (To the Edi tor.) If my memory serves me, it was Dr. Holland who first reminded me that culture, so-called, had a tendency to make men indifferent to the strug gles of their species and to regard such things as patriotism with uncon cealed contempt. Of course there are exceptions. Men reason from their own experiences and environments, whether they know it or not- So In my own case after reading James David Kenny on "Irish Nationalism' in the Decem ber Forum, Dr. Holland's dictum Is brought home to me again. This fel low Kenny shines among the literati, but he hasn't the heart of a clam. Through the spectacles of a cynic he befouls his nativity, its religion, aspira tions, language, history, traditions and Its incomparable history. His type is found among all races. His culture is destructive. What little learning he has Is a dapgerous thing; he knows not the humility that drinks deep at the Pierian spring. Another of his kidney is William O'Brien. M. P. for Cork, than whom no man was better loved when he dwelt down among the common people. But wealth, suddenly acquired by mar riage which brought in Its wake tha leisure and company of the elect, has never and will never enrich the language of the patriot, as did O'Brien's words when mauacled In Jail for his country's cause. The bri'Hant talents molded In his adversity, are now turned to the ruin of his countrv. Cultured O'Brien. Cultured Tim Healy! Better, far better had they remained one the peerless Journalist, the other the masterful advocate, K-aders of their countrymen, than to rot in'dis arare with their gold In their high stations. It Is a common assertion that Ameri cans of Irish extraction wliora fortune has smiled" upon are not worth a con tinental In the display of those quali ties of heart and mind that caused their forbears to leave the Motherland between sunset and sun-un. They fain would forget these thlnes. They are not for cultured society. cultured thought or cultured consideration. The exception to the rule In this last case tr.re'y emphasizes the rule. Perhaps I should not write of cul ture, knowing little of it. I would. If I could, have the culture r.ot of the prelate of Austerlitx who climbed the steeple to get nearer God and away from the common herd, but to know what's worth knowing -without forgetting who 1 am, what I ant and whither am I going. I have not changed my mind that Dr. Holland was right when he said cultured people of the Kenny crowd are more of a detriment to our humanity than an adornment and some of them make me very tiret J. HEXXESSY JIl'EI'IIV. 1915 FAIR FOSTER! CiOOD WILL Loadoa Paper fiives Rraaoa for Brltlaa Exhibit la Saa Ktinrinra. Pall Mall Gazette. When the refusal of the Government to take part officially in the Panama Exhibition of 1915 was made known, we took our stand among those who regretted the decision. It Is with much pleasure, therefore, that we read today of the formation of a strong committee to urge the reconsideration of the mat ter. Most influential names in the manufacturing and shipping world ap pear among its members. The very lint knocks the bottom out of the Govern ment's contention that the heads of Industry in this country did not' see a return commensurate with the expendi ture. Such a view would have been most foolishly shortsighted, when the trade of the whole west coast of South America is at stake. It is. surely, worth while to tHrow a sprat of very considerable size in the hope of catch ing so huge a whale. And the reduc tion in the tariff of the I'nited States may give British trade a chance of competing on favorablo terms within the western borders of the United States themselves. We are almost sur prised that American manufacturers should have consented to afford their rivals this golden opportunity. It Is. however, mainly on broader grounds that we urge the Government to take this opportunity thus offered of reconsidering- their position. The San Francisco Exhibition is being or ganized to celebrate one of the most notable events In the history of hu man endeavor. The magnificent dar ing, skill, and the enterprise shown by the Americans in constructing the Pan ama Canal have won for them the ad miration of tho whole world. If the other and older half of tho EnKlish speaking race were to hold aloof and refuse to spend a comparatively fmall sum of money in taking part in the commemorating Exhibition, it co'ild not fall to bring a chill to the relations of the two countries. The immediate monetary return Is not always the must valuable pain to be won from any en terprise. To foster the growing cood will between this country and the I'nited - States Is. to both, one of the most important objects their Govern ments can set hefore theniselves. We tlo lip-service to this sentiment every day. Are we to wave It aside when we are aske d to prove our sincerity by the expenditure of a. comparatively trifling sum of money? Were the re bult of the San l-'r.incis-o Ev hlhittoti never to show itseif at all In the trade returns, we should Mill think the Gov ernment riijht in being the first of for eign nations to aid in making the Ex hibition mcrp.su. ;IFTS IV MEMORY OF DEPARTED Heath llaei t Shorten Thin Writer's t.l-t of l'liritraaa Prriu-at. DALLAS, or.. Dec. 9. (To tbo Edi tor.) This Is a season wherein a good mnny teop!e are talking and v ritinic their ideas on Christmas givinc I will write mine although they may seem absurd to sme. A few years ago my beloved father went to his eternnl rest. The Christ mas nfteo he hnd left us waa very lone ly. I had always remembered ham some way at Christmas even though It was very little 1 could afford sometime. 1 thought o myself "well papa's pres ent will R-t be amonor my t'hristmns purchases this year." Then I thought why not give some one else hia pres ent? Some one near his nge who would need and appreciate It. So I tried it. 1 gave it to a Civil War veteran who had very few to remember him. It was well received no in a few years I gave a present in remembrance of my mother, father, a beloved brother, sister, and little daughter. Of course it left me less to spencl on the living membera of my famiiy but It has given mo great pleasure. I do not always let the recipients of my presents kru.w where they como from. For my i arents' presents I hunt up some one near their age. For my brother w ho was fourteen years of age 1 nn easily find some poor, neglected boy to receive his prenent and make a little joy for him at Christmas time. For my little eight-year-old sister and my little baby girl I can always find some littlo orphans to make glad with a doll in remembrance of each. For presents to give tc relatives and friends thcro is nothing nicer than pho tographs of one's self and family I think. I do not thir.k presents to friends should be mote than a little re membrance and a nice postcard photo graph or costlier picture if one can af ford it is something that is generally appreciated. 1 remember some friends and rela tives with flower rods and plants as I have a good many choice ones. Nothing you can make a little girl for Christ mas is more appreciated thsn some nice homcmnde doll clothes. They n-vi-r have I oo mn.ny. For little boys hella and stuffed animals of all kinds an appreciated. M. G. D. I Twenty-five Years Ago troTn The Oresoniaa of iecemoer 14, 2S. Washington, Dec 12. The river and harbor bill was reported to the House today. It appropriates for the mouth of the Columbia River $250,000; lower Willamette and Columbia. J 60.000; up per Columbia. $5000; Willamette above Portland, $7000; Yaquina Bay, $100,000. Albany. Or.. Dec. U. Samuel Alt house, one of the pioneers and a prom inent citizen, died this morning, aged 63. Walla Walla. Dec. 12. Monday night, while descending a long hill near Lew lston. the stare upset, killing R. Green field. John Pitt and "Poker Bill." a gambler of Florence. Salem. Dee. 12. In the Supremo Court Hugh G. Kirkpatrlck was ad mitted to practice. Indianapois, Dec. 12. Yice-Presldent- elect and Mrs. Jorton arrived today on a visit to President-elect and Mrs- Har rison. Paris. Dec. 12. Several newspapers say if the issue of the Panama Canal loan proves a failure, the government will introduce a bill In the Chamber of Deputies to enable the company to meet Its engagements. Captain R. Greunds has been making a short trial trip along the Coast with bis new steam schooner Maid of Ore gon, preparatory to ber Inspection. A. J. Knott sold his interest In the Breyrasn block, corner Fourth and L streets, to Charles Smith for J30.0i0. Mrs. A. M. Perkins has returned fr-jm a visit to Seattle. P. B. Johnson, editor and proprietor of the Walla Walla I'nion. is at the Esmond, accompanied by his wife. Captain Medorem Crawford, of Yam hill County, is in New York en route to Fortress Monroe, Vs. The new Jewish synagogue on the corner of Tenth and Main streets, is nearing completion. Colgate Baker, of Hiogo, Japan, was in the city lately to visit C. H. Woodard and L B. Knapp. whose acquaintance they formed in Japan. L P. W. Quimby. proprietor of the Quimby House, has secured a lease on the entire block on which his hotel Is located. The Carleton Opera Company played "Erminie" at the Xew Tark Theater last night. WHAT -UII.P tUTS- MAY CAl SE Woman Marvels That Fathers Some time F.sronrsce Boys to "See Life. FPRIXG FIELD, Or.. Dec. 8. (To the Editor.) I read with great Interest the letter in The Oregonian. December 6. from W. E. Coman and it filled me with horror to think that any father deliberately thrust his boy Into some thing that he knew himself was wrong, and might forever blast the boy's life and bring sorrow and sadness to all concerned. I wish every man and woman, especially the younger ones, whose characters are being formed, would read that great poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, which appeared in the Cosmopolitan (I think) of last April or May. where the young father sees what his co-called "wild oatt." have brought him. in the little blind baby. Too late was the lesson learneO. In a recent popular magazine la a picture of h fine looking, elderl woman, telling her grandson, pool. weak-looking fellow, what a stronc and splendid man his father was. Th' echoing answer tells full well the rea son for the lack of strength in the boy. Although I have not been "blessed among women," with sons and daugh ters, as I am a bachelor maid of "un certain Summers." yet when I read articles like Mr. Coman s I think of my own splendid nephew of IS years, and wish I might help every boy and girl over the hard places and 'jp to the best things. "Wlid oats are necessary" people hove said in days gone by. but like children's diseases, we know full well that everybody Is better -off without them, and no one with any Intelligence in these days subjects a chii-J to them. Let th work of the Social Hygiene Society go on and on till it reaches every boy. even to the uttermost parts of the world. LIDA M. BROOM ALL. Opportunities Are Many in Advertising Field II j- Joss Mania. THE great opportunities oTercd iii the advertising lield today are nol so large In what is known as the ad vertising business as in the Introduc tion of advertising principles and methods into ordinary everyday busi ness. Take The OreoLlan an example of a business In which the fundamental principles uprfcrlyin? all successful advertising effort are developed to the hii-'hcst t-tatc of efficiency. The residents of I'ortalnd have de livered to their homes very murnin; the conciele, boiled-down results of k complete canvass of the whole world bv cable and tel.gieph. to say nothlnc of the most thorough exposition of everything that Is live and vital to the Cltv of I'ortlaiid Itse'.f. This wonderful result is accom plished by co-operative buying on the part of the subscribers to The Ore gon ian. Tho fact that over 58.000 peo ple can be depended upon tomorrow mornintr to take The Oregosian enables the publishers to accomplish every d:i the wonderful achievement which the renders of the paper have become ac customed to regard as ai matter of course. The real spirit of advertising Is demonstrated in the constant study and appreciation of what human imture naturally craves or can be educated to continually desire on the part of the management of Tho Oregonian. There are probably 3'JU men in Port lam' who could afford and would glad ly i y $ll a day for the information contained In The Oreaonian. So tha price at which it Is sold is in no way a measure of the value of the paper, considered as a tseparate item. Tho adoption of advertising prin ciples and methods of procedure on the part of our great manufacturers in the distribution of their goods will mean a corresponding reduction in the price to the individual consumer. It Is the most effective solution that coald be applied to the so-called problem of the hitch cost of living. The groat opportunities for young men today are exactly along this line. The same fundamental principles which have mude. our great newspapers pos sible and entrenched them against com petition, on the basis of giving the largest possible service for the money. Is open to a long list of separate busi nesses. The young men of today who will he the big men of tomorrow will study the group organizing and group serving characteristics of our daily papers and undoubtedly find through their ad v. rlisir p.it?e.. :i blazed trail for ac cm;dishine the same desirable results In the particular businesses in which they are now engaged. t