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t THE MORNING OREGONIAN. TUESDAY, MARCH 34, 1914. LITERARY SAVANT DIES BY OWN HAND Professor Harry T. Peck, For merly of Columbia, Ends Life With Revolver. MARITAL WOES RECALLED of Washington, is more or less discon certed by reason of the fact that O. C. Moore, of Spokane, his former law partner, and until recently an active leader in the third party, has seen fit to go back to the .Republican ranks. Mr. Moore is now one of the most active men in Eastern Washington in promoting the movement to reunite the Republican factions, and recently re ceived considerable notice because of his activity along this line. Senator Poindexter takes exception to some of the reports that have been published, and has given out the following au thorized statement: 'O. C. Moore is not my partner and has not been for a number of years. I have no control over Mr. Moore's po litical beliefs or disbeliefs. But 1 do not want my friends to be under the impression that Mr. Moore represents me or expresses my beliefs. I did not consult with him and he did not con sult with me regarding: amalgamation, or the meeting he is reported to have Tilt AVIUi President Butler and Breach of Promise Suit Incidents In Bright Career Ei Wife Gives Aid. STAMFORD, Conn., March 23. Harry Thurston Peck, formerly a professor at Columbia University and a writer of note whose marital troubles and a breach of promise suit gained him un pleasant notoriety in the last few years, ended his life today in his room In a cheap lodging-house. He shot himself through the head. He was found lving across the bed by the land lady, Mrs. Gottleib Mense, who went to awaken him from his supposed sleep to answer a telephone' call from his secretary. Dr. Peck was seriously 111 at Ithaca, N. T.. about a year ago from a mental breakdown and was thought to be rtv-inn-. His divorced wife, Mrs. Cor nelia D. Peck, a Christian Scientist, at tended him and he ultimately regained his strength. His second wife also was at his bedside and there seemed to be no friction between the two women. Until a month ago Dr. Peck had been living at Riverside near here. Embarrassed by financial difficulties, he gave up his home, engaged a room in a lodging-house and took his meals at a small restaurant. He was work ing on an enclycopedia for a New York publishing house, but it appears that he was troubled over a threatened law suit and during the last week did not work remaining in his room much of the time. His secretary. Miss Margaret MacDougal, then left him. She called him on the telephone several times to day to inquire concerning his health. Dr. Peck's health had been delicate the last month and friends feared he was about to have a recurrence of the mental trouble. It is believed his finan cial condition, which forced him to give up his fine home and live in modest circumstances, touched his pride and made him depressed. The body was taken in charge to night by his divorced wife, Mrs. Cor nelia D. Peck, and his daughter. Miss Constance Peck, a teacher in the Ham ilton Institute for Girls in New York. His second wife, who lives on Staten Island, was notified. NEW YORK, "March 23. Harry Thurston Peck was a writer of note and for 28 years was professor of an cient languages at Columbia Univer sity. He left the institution more than three years ago In consequence of un pleasant notoriety incident to a breach of promise suit for $50,000 brought against him by Esther Quinn, a sten ographer. Shortly after the filing of the suit. Dr. Peck filed a voluntary petition 'in bankruptcy. He gave his assets as $260. In March, 1912, Miss Quinn's suit was dismissed as Insufficient. Later she filed another action, which was pend ins- at the time of his death. As far back as 1910, Dr. Peck had a sharp controversy with Nicholas Mur ray Butler, president of Columbia, over the authorship of certain Latin ad dresses. Mr. Peck charged that J-r. Butler proposed to deliver in Berlin, as his own. an address in Latin, which Mr. Peck wrote. Dr. Butler subse nuentlv admitted that this was true. Dr. Peck was born in Stamford. In 1856, and was educated in this country and abroad. He was an authority on Latin and the classics, and the author of numerous books, including treatises, essays and verse. BAKER GRAND JURY SITS District Attorney Says Governor "Butted In and Spoiled Things." BAKER, Or., March 23. (Special.) The grand jury convened today after a vacation of two days, but only to visit the county institutions. In the meantime District Attorney Godwin has been busy preparing indictments. Mr. Godwin said today that every thing that the grand jury has done and is doing in relation. to Copperfield Is exactly in line with what he had outlined and already started when Governor West "butted in and spoiled things" by sending the militia to Cop perfield and acting otherwise in such a manner that orderly procedure through the courts is well-nigh im possible. Prank Snodgrass, whom Governor West has said will be sent to Baker in place of Colonel Lawson, has not yet appeared. sir &jp& far -i'i - if ' 3r 'IT ill IS PASSING REVOLUTION STAGE So Says Secretary Redfield. Who Thinks People Do Not Realize Changes. HEALTH CONDITIONS CITED Pr.ifennor Harry T. Peck, Yt ho Kndrd DiMnppointments and Recent Rebuffs by' Shooting Self. attended in Spokane. The first I knew of the meeting was through reading newspaper accounts." " LEASING BILLS DIFFER SHII.TIPLICITY OF MEASURES LIKELY TO DELAY RESULTS. IS Oregon Member of Honse Committee Objects to Provisions in Favor of Larger Stockowners. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, March 23. There is such a dif ference of opinion among members of the House committee on public lands as to how the public range should be leased, that it is likely the general leasing bill will go over until the next session of Congress. A dozen bills are pending before the committee, no two alike. Representative Sinnott, of Oregon, who is a member of the public lands committee, takes exception to an im portant feature of most of the pending bills, which gives the stockman prefer ence over the homesteader. Some of the bills provide that when public lands are leased for grazing, the land cannot be homesteaded during the life of the lease. Others provide that land leased cannot be homesteaded within one year after the lease is signed. Rep resentative Sinnott maintains that any bill passed should provide that lands leased for grazing purposes shall at all times be open to homestead entry. Some of the leasing bills now being considered are criticised because they favor the big stockman as against the small owner. Mr. Sinnott maintains that any leasing bill reported to the House should allow the individual farmer and small owner to lease lands immediately adjoining or in the vicin ity of his home. There is some opposi tion by members who show interest in the large stockman, but unless these members make a concession to the h small owner, the fight against the leas ing bill will be carried to the floor of the House. " RIOTER GETS 4 YEARS MIXERS' ORGANIZER SEXEINOBIJ FOR NAXAIMO TROUBLE GARFIELD PROSPECTS GOOD I'ine 'Weather Gives Promise Bumper and Early Crops. of Another Union Official to Serve One Year and Socialist Member of Legislature Is Released. Preventable Disease Taking More Lives Than AVar and Treasuries of States and Country Are Closed to Killing Pace. BERKELEY, Cal., March 23. The fifty-fourth anniversary of the found -in.- nf tho University of California is being celebrated today and William C. I Redfield. Secretary of Commerce, spoke in the Greek Theater on "The Larger Outlook," touching on important ques tions now bffore this country. He was introduced by President .Benjamin me Wheeler, of the University. The Secretary was the guest or honor late today at the annual charter day reception given by President ana jurs. Wheeler. This country has not known that It is working out a revolution. Secretary Redfield told the undergraduates of the University of California, in his ad dress. "The truth is," said the Secretary, "that a new social bill of rights is be ing practically worked out in our land, here a little, there a little; line upon line in this place; precept upon, pre cept in another. . Social Reforms Progress. "Men have not known that they are working out a revolution. Many who have had part in the movement have not thought of what they did, or what others were doing as aught but an in dividual thing. Many are conscious how far the current has run in other places. If, however, we were to at tempt to set back the car of social pro gress to the point where it stood even ten years ago, we would speedily be come conscious how far it had run in the interval. Indeed, the programme of one of our political parties takes shrewd advantage of this social con sciousness and bases its plea for power on the working out by law of social reform. "The impulse of this mighty force is felt in our political debates and is re flected in party platforms. One may scarcely take up the morning paper, or read his monthly magazine without seeing, if he has vision, the daily strides this movement makes. "It is the power that condemns mon opoly. It. and no other, is the force that demands the removal of privilege. It is that which says that the creature of the state may and shall be regu lated by the state. Crudely often, powerfully always, this new force speaks its will. 'He that has ears to hear, let him hear.' "Let us briefly consider how we deal with human life. We" value it, of course. That is, we say we do. But collectively, do we care much about it? Health Conditions Deplored. "There have died before us in the last six months from preventable causes more people than were slain In the Civil War, and more, many times more, than all that have died in the Mexican troubles. A special student of this problem connected with' one of our great life insurance companies, us ing the conclusions of Professor Irving Fisher, who investigated this subject for the government in 1908, as a mem ber of the National Conservation Com mission, tells me that every year in the United States 650.000 people die from nreventable diseases and accidents. Observe that word, 'preventable.' We know how to prevent these people irom dying, but still they die. Here and there efficient societies in one iorm or another do sporadic work, but the problem remains generally unattacked in any aggressive, vigorous spinu The treasuries of the states and Na tion are not wide open in this sacred cause. We may issue dohos xor me slaughter of war. We do not issue them to save the killing in peace. What we need to have aroused is a sense of proportionate value. There are men who worry over a battleship or two; but every month by saving those in ways that are well known who heedlessly die we could more than pay the cost of four battleships and save a lot of human agony besides. But the hattleshins will be actively discussed and the money will probably be voted for them, while few, as yet, would fol low him who suggested a like expen diture for the public health." TELEPHONE ACHIEVEMENTS TELEPHONE SERVICE OF TODAY THE CREATION OF THE BELL CO. GARFIELD, Wash., March 23. (Spe cial.) Fine weather the last two weeks has given the w inter wheat here Treat impetus. The light frosts pre vailing at night have done no damage to the apple or other fruit trees, as the fruit buds are not far enough ad vanced to be affected. However, there may be danger a little later on if the warm weather continues. Farmers of this vicinity declare that if this favorable weather prevails pros pects are bright for an early and bum per crop of both fruits and grains. Plowing and harrowing are in full swing and seeding will begin In gen eral in a Very short time. T $15,000 DEPOSIT. SOUGHT Victim of San JFrancisco Fire Says Seattle Bank Has His Money. ABERDEEN, Wash., March 23. (Special.) John A. Peterson, a victim f of the San Francisco .fire, is in Aber 3een today seeking legal assistance in - securing J15.000. which he says he has on deposit in a Seattle bank, but which : lie cannot locate because of the loss of his bank book and his memory. - Peterson, who is 60 years of age, told Prosecuting Attorney Stewart this morning that he lost all his effects, : together with the bankbook and re- :. -eived injuries to his head that ren '.; dered him temporarily insane. . VANCOUVER. B. C, March 23 seph Angelo, international organizer for the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, was sentenced today to four years' imprisonment for his part in the Na naimo riots of last August. The official close of the riot pases came at New Westmin ster when 24 miners from Ex tension. Nanaimo and Cumberland, who had been convicted of rioting and unlawful assembly, marched down the street from the provincial jail to the courthouse. Among them, and manacled. were Angelo, Ben Dominick, another union official, and J. W. Place, Socialist member of the Legislature of British Cnlnmbia. Justice Morrison sentenced some of th men to varying terms of imprison ment, released others on suspended sen tence. Angelo was the first man asKeu to stand. "I am not guilty of the charges, and have a wife and four children," he said. He said that he had been Drougnt to British Columbia as an interpreter tn induce his f ellow-countrymen to join the union, and that anything he had done had been in a legitimate endeavor tr hettp.r conditions. 'Yours is a very grave ortense, ana there are few extenuating circumstan ces, said tne juage in pashms scmcuto, Dominick s sentence was one ear. Place was released. THAW ASKSRJR MORE TIME Final Brief In Extradition Proceed ing Not to Be Keady. CONCORD. N. H., March 23. Counsel for Harry K. Thaw announced tonight that they had filed a motion lor an ex tension of time for completing the final brief in the extradition proceedings be fore the Federal court. The brief, which is voluminous, will go to the printers tomorrow and prob ably will be ready for filing by the end of the week. It was to have been sub mitted to the court next Wednesday. POINDEXTER GIVES STAND" Authorized Statement Denies Part nership With O. C. Moore. OTIEGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, March 23. Senator Poindexter, Act Holds for Territories. WASHINGTON, March 23. The Fed eral employers' liability law of 1906, declared unconstitutional , as to th states, was held valid today by the Su preme Court as to territories. Harry S. Friday, a railroad brakeman, was permitted to receive $7500 for loss of an arm In New Mexico. .ANE CHAMPIONS WOMEN Oregon 'Senator's Speech Another In dication of Lack of Reverence. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ncton. March 23. Senator Lane, of Oregon, believes in the adoption of an amendment to the Federal constitution conferring the right of suffrage upon women. He spoke In support of the lahnrst resolution proposing such an amendment, and in the course of his re marks advanced several unique argu ments which few Senators would as sume to make on the floor of the Sen ate. Senator Lane s speech was an other indication of his lack of rever ence for the United States Senate, a shortcoming which has brought him into public notice on several occasions thus far. Senator Lane said that the people or Orecon have, no fear of the partlclpa tion of women in matters on puoiic concern. He went on to say: 'In fact, we find that the women are as intelligent as are the men in their consideration of public affairs. We nna that their interest is as great as that of the men, and that it arises from the same "motives. I do not see, as a mat ter of fact, how anyone can make any Question concerning the right of wo men to vote or their ability to do so if they care to exercise the franchise. c v c...,A.A.a a f a. rtinninff a opecmi. o n i . n - -- line for the right-of-way granted to the Washington-Oregon Corporation by the Lewis County Commissioners for a hlgn-power line uclwccu .r u. , . n . - "l I . . t- r. Vi ii' Vl II lo eii. ana toiwio. r. ah. o""'i - erintending the work, says that it will be several weens oeiore me set and wires strung. When the new line is completed, Toledo will be given 24-hour service. Attendance Percentage 88.48. nTTT.II.TTO TTT. 'VTaVCrl 1 iSnfi- IlrjIliVi.JO, TT CLOU., , J cial.) "No tardiness is our aim is the motto of the Chehalis schools, and dur ing the past month there were put nine .Yakima Raises $5000 Fund. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., March 23. (Special.) The North Yakima Com mercial Club has started a campaign to raise- a publicity fund of toOOO, which will be used for advertising the valley at the San Francisco exposition in inducing tourists to travel this way, and in securing exposition year con ventions. With the completion of the North Yakima Armory this Summer, the club will try to make North Yak ima the convention city of the state. In no line of human endeavor has the inventive brain of the scientist contributed more to the world's progress than by the creation of the art of telephony, of which the Bell System is the em bodiment. When the telephone was born, nothing analog ous to telephone service as we now know it existed. There was no tradition to guide, no experience to follow. The system, the apparatus, the methods an entire new art had to be created. The art of electri cal engineering did not exist. The Bell Pioneers, recognizing that success depended upon the high est engineering and technical skill, at once organ ized an experimental and research department, which is now directed by a staff of over 550 engi- , neers and scientists, including former professors, post-graduate students, scientific investigators the graduates of over 70 universities. From its foundation the company has continu ously developed the art. New improvements in telephones, switchboards, lines, cables, have fol lowed one another with remarkable rapidity. While each successive type of apparatus to the superficial observer suggested similarity, each step in the evolution marked a decided improvement. These changes, this evolution, have not only been continuous, but are continuing. Substantially all of the plant now in use, including telephones, switchboards, cables and wires, has been con structed, renewed or reconstructed in the past 10 years. Particularly in switchboards have the changes been so radical that installations costing in the ag gregate millions have frequently been discarded after only a few years of use. Since 1877 there have been introduced 53 types and styles of receivers and 73 types and styles of transmitters. Of the 12,000,000 tele phone receivers and transmitters owned by the Bell Company January 1, 1914, none were in use prior to 1902, while the average age is less than five years. Within 10 years we have expended for con struction and reconstruction an amount more than equal to the present book value of our entire plant. conversation could be had over long-distance cir cuits of which as much as 20 miles was in under ground cables. By 1906 underground talking dis tance had increased to 90 miles. By 1912 it was possible to talk underground from New York to Washington. It was then that the construction of under ground conduits from Boston to Washington was determined upon, not that it was expected to get a through underground talk between those places, but in case of storm or blizzard, to utilize intermediate sections in connection with the over head. Our persistent study and incessant experimen tation have produced results more remarkable still. We have perfected cables, apparatus and methods that have overcome obstacles heretofore regarded as insuperable both to lpng-distance overhead and underground conversation. Underground conversation is now possible be tween Boston and Washington, four times the length of the longest European underground line. This enabled the Bell System in the recent great storm, so destructive on land and sea, to maintain communication for the public between all the prin cipal points on the Atlantic seaboard. Telephone communication is established be tween New York and Denver, is potentially possi ble between all points in the United States, and by 1915 will be an accomplished fact between New York and San Francisco. Long-distance and underground transmission was the most formicKrble scientific problem con fronting the telephone experts. The retarding effect of the earth on the tele phone current often impaired conversation through one mile underground as much as through 100 miles overhead. Overhead conversation had its distinct limitations. No possible improvement in the telephone transmitter could of itself solve these difficulties. The solution was only found in the cumulative effect of improvements, great and small, in tele phone, transmitter, line, cable, switchboard, and every other piece of apparatus or plant required in the transmission of speech. While the limit of commercial overhead talk ing had increased from strictly local to over 1,000 miles as early as 1893, it was not until 1905 that In our use of methods or apparatus, we are committed to no one system. We own, control or have the right to use inventions necessary to oper ate any system recognized or accepted as the most efficient. The Bell System must always-recognize, and in its selection must always be governed by the necessities of a national service, with its com plex requirements, which is infinitely more exact ing than local or limited service. These achievements represent vast expendi tures of money and immense concentration of ef fort which have been justified by results of im measurable benefit to the public. No local com pany unaided could bear the financial or scientific burden of this work. Such results are possible only through a centralized general staff, avoiding wasteful duplication of effort, working out prob lems common to all, for the benefit of all. The pioneers of the Bell System recognized that telephone service as they saw it, was in the broadest sense a public utility; that upon them rested a public obligation to give the best possible service at the most reasonable rates consistent with risk, investment and the continued improvement and maintenance of the property. Without this expenditure of millions and con centration of effort, the telephone art as it exists could not have been developed. What we have done in working out these great problems in the past should be accepted as a guarantee of what we will do in the future. THEO, N. VAIL, President. cases out of a total enrollment of 10501 dudIIs. The high school's percentage of attendance was 98.48. Cascade 96.1.5, West Side 97.82. Average, 97.52. Six hundred seventeen pupils were neither absent nor tardy during tne monm. POSLAM SOAP II NEW SIZE 15 CENTS POSLAM SOAP improves and beauti fies the skin and hair, prevents rough ness and eruptional troubles, purifies the scalp. 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