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fORlXAJTD. FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1014.
REASONS FOR TOLL EXEMPTION.
In order that the issue in regard
to exemption of American coastwise
ehlps from Panama Canal tolls, on
repeal or which Congress will soon
vote, may be clearly understood. The
Oregonlan will briefly recapitulate
the reasons for its belief that exemp
tion Is not contrary to the Hay-Paun-cefote
treaty and is advisable in the
public interest.
The treaty .provides that "the- ca
nal shall be free and open to the
vessels of commerce and of war of
all nations on terms of entire equall
ty, so that there shall be no discrim
inatlon against any such nation or its
citizens or subjects."
Only American vessels can engage
In American coastwise trade, there
fore there Is no discrimination against
any other nation engaged in that
trade.
The term all nations" has been
held to mean all nations other than
the one owning the canal. It has been
so held, not only by Senators, includ
ing some of those who now hold the
contrary opinion, but by distinguished
British lawyers.
The term Vessels, as used in
treaties, has always been .held .by
Sreat Britain not to apply to vessels
engaged in domestic . trade. That
construction was placed on the word
y Great Britain for sixty years, un
til the necessities of the present con
troversy required it to adopt the con
trary meaning.
Exemption is not a subsidy to
owners of coastwise ships,, for the
Panama Canal law insures open com
petition in coastwise trade by ex
cluding railroad-owned and' trust
owned ships from the , canal, and
competition would force shipowners
to give shippers the benefit of the
saving of tolls. The people, as a
whole, would therefore benefit in
lower rates.
Repeal of exemption would benefit
the railroads, Canadian and Ameri
can, by enabling them to charge rate
higher by the amount of the tolls
than they could charge if coastwise
ships were exempt. That would be a
tax on the whole people.
Repeal of exemption would turn to
Canadian ports business which would
otherwise come to American ports, by
forcing Americaft coastwise ships to
compete with British ships, which
cost much less and are operated more
cheaply.
Directly or indirectly, every Euro
pean nation except Switzerland is an
interested party, and therefore not
an impartial Judge, of the question
whether exemption violates the
treaty. The commerce of maritime
nations would be indirectly affected,
and the earnings of American and
Canadian railroads, in which Europe
holds large blocks of stock, would be
directly affected.
Exemption has been indorsed by
the great majority of all three lead
ing parties Republican, Democratic
and Progressive by the Democratic
and Progressive platforms, which
have been indorsed by 70 per cent
of the voters, and by President Wil
son in his campaign speeches.
National honor requires that, when
our interpretation of the treaty is
disputed, we submit the question to
an impartial tribunal and abide by
the decision. It does not require that
we shall reverse the action of our
own Government by accepting with
out question the interpretation put
upon the treaty by the other party to
that treaty.
Exemption simply carries out our
main purpose in building the canal,
which was to cheapen transportation
between Atlantic and Pacific.
Even though exemption be held un
wise as a subsidy, we should uphold,
as against other nations, our right
to grant such a subsidy, though we
may intend never to exercise the
right. This is essential to maintain
bur sovereignty in our domestic af
fairs. THE SOUTH IN CONVENTIONS.
The proposed reduction of Southern
representation in Republican conven
tions is opposed by S. Herbert Giesy
In a letter to Charles D. Hilles, chair
man of the Republican National Com
mittee, on the ground that it would
constitute assent to suppression of the
negro vote. He urges that, if Senator
Cummins desires to remedy the in
equality in the ratio of votes to repre
sentation between North and South,
the Senator would "better start at its
source and enforce section 2 of the
Fourteenth Amendment . to the Con
stitution and reduce the representa
tion of the South in the House and
electoral college." He pronounces a
"hollow mockery of reform" denial to
suppressed voters of representation in
conventions while continuing to per
mit them to be misrepresented in the
House and the electoral college. He
attempts to show that, while negro
population is increasing in the North,
it is decreasing in the South, but the
Southern states he cites in his statis
tics are only the border states of Mis
souri, Maryland, Kentucky and Ten
nessee. He suggests that the Northern
negro may "avenge any wrong done
his brother in the South."
If the Southern Republicans wish
to have the negro vpte represented at
conventions, they should take some
steps to have that vote polled at elec
tions. The Republican party cannot
be expected, to grant vastly dispro
portionate representation to mere
skeleton regiments of Republican office-holders
and office-seekers in the
South which are unable to fill their
ranks without the aid of Federal au
thority. If they can Increase their
number of delegates only by increas
ing the vote actually cast, they may
pxert- themselves more to uphold the
right of the negroes to vote. Until
they do this they have no right to
excuse over-representation in the
party by pointing to over-representa
tion in Congress.
Mr. Giesy's letter was written be
fore the National committee had de
cided not to call a National conven
tion in 1914, for he said "the qires
tion of Southern representation is the
only qilestion to be referred to the
convention of 1914." He denies that
settlement of this question will heal
the breach between Republicans and
Progressives, saying that reduction of
Southern representation was no part
of the Progressive programme. That
was only one of the questions which
It was proposed to submit to a Na
tional convention this year and which
are now to be submitted to state con
ventions The principal questions and
those which immediately caused the
split are admission of delegates elect
ed under state primary laws and the
power of a moribund National Com
mittee to make up the temporary roll
of delegates.
The purpose of the proposed
changes is to make conventions truly
representative of 'actual Republican
voters, in the South as in the North,
and reduction of Southern represen
tation is necessary to attain that end.
The party cannot be expected to defer
what it can now do towards fairly ad-
Justing representation in conventions
until it is able to do what it is not
yet able to do reducing Southern
representation in the House. -
THE FOLICT OF SURRENDER,
The astounding feature of Presi
dent "Wilson's appeal to Congress for
repeal of the Panama tolls bill is
that "we ought to reverse our action
without raising the question whether
we were right or wrong."
What, then, becomes of the National
pride, the National consciousness and
the National sovereignty? No matter
whether we are right or wrong, we
should give way to the nations which
are demanding an equal interest and
the equivalent of a ' Joint ownership
in the Panama Canal. It is unthink
able.
The President thinks, the United
States is big enough and generous
enough to give way to the nations of
Europe in an issue involving our Na
tional "honor and our National wel
fare. Our honor is a poor thing, then,
which we may neglect, and our wel-
fare is unimportant to as when we
discover that it conflicts with the wel
fare of others! That is not the way
the United States became big, or gen
erous. It is not the way to sustain
our National honor.
If our foreign policy has been con
ducted with so little perspicacity that
we are to be involved in matters of
nearer consequence and greater deli
cacy unless we surrenaer tne canai,
it is time we changed our foreign
policy. v
. CHEAPER LXVING.
There is more glitter than gold in
the business of the retail grocer.
Some of his profits appear to be large,
but his losses are often larger still.
Professor Alfred D. Woodruff, of the
New York bureau of food supply, says
that only 30 per cent of the average
grocer's customers pay their bills
promptly every thirty days, as they
ought. More than a fourth of them
take from one to three months before
they settle up. Full payment is never
received from some 40 per cent, while
there is a scurvy 2 per cent of the
customers who shirk their bills al
together.
Of course the shortcomings of all
these delinquents must be made up
by the unfortunates who pay cash
and thus the cost of living is pushed
a little higher than it might other
wise be. Professor Woodruff sug
gests that something might be saved
from grocers' bills if housewives
would buy their supplies in whole-
sale lots. This plan looks more al-
lurin than it is in reality. The
modern apartment with its limited
space does not permit people to store
away large quantities of goods. But
even if there were plenty of room
it is not clear that the ordinary fam
Hy would gain a great deal by whole
sale buying.'
So much would be wasted that the
saving would probably disappear.
Every housewife understands the
temptation to exlravagance and waste
when supplies are too plentiful. Sugar
goes as if by magic. Tea vanishes
without cause. Nobody can tell what
becomes of the bacon. With only a
small quantity on hand from day to
day rigid economy is more likely to
be practiced.
The most obvious and practical
way to-reduce the cost of living is
to bring the producer and consumer
into direct relations and eliminate the
middleman with his fees and charges.
This can be done in the first place
by establishing public markets. Port
land will find. Just as other cities
have -found, that good publici mar
kets immediately reduce the cost of
household supplies. In the second
place the parcel post can and should
be utilized to bring country supplies
directly to consumers. The Govern
ment is working creditably toward
this end, but private individuals
oueht to co-operate. No doubt we
shall see parcel post clubs thriving
everywhere before a great while.
THE WEST GETS A COLD SHOULDER.
Congress has time to devote to the
interests of the rest of the country
and to., the. affairs of the City of
Washington, but it has no time to
spend on legislation for the benefit
of the West. It. can spend day after
day discussing the municipal affairs
of the National capital, deliberating
as to how many Janitors'shall be em
ployed and what salaries shall be paid
them, whether another automobile
shall be purchased for the District
Commissioners, but it cannot spare a
day' for a bill to ease the burdens
of the Western pioneer. All public
land bills are to be thrown into the
discard for this session and the blight
of Pinchot reservation is to rest on
the West for another year.
The present Administration has
cuffed the West on one ear by put
ting its raw products on the free list
while protecting the finished products
which the East makes with those ma
terials. Now it proposes to cuff the
West on the other ear by repealing
exemption of coastwise shipping from
canal tolls, thereby presenting to Brit
ish Columbia a large share of . the
trade which should come to Ameri
can ports. It puts at the head of the
Interior Department a man who
knows better than any other man who
ever held that office what should be
done for the West, but it pigeonholes
his recommendations. Yet it expects
the West to say: "For these cour
tesies we give you thanks." i
The present Democratic Adminis
tration closely resembles the last in
its treatment of the West. President
Cleveland, despite all his great quali
ties, took the New York view of the
West. He regarded everything West
or ine Allegheny Mountains as "Ithe
provinces," the contemptuous term
which a Londoner applies to the rest
of England. When he made a tour of
the Country, he considered it not
worth while to come west of Min
neapolis and Kansas City; all the
rest was barbarous country in need
of missionaries, aa he afterwards In
timated. Mr. Wilson is too tactful
to express his opinion with such blunt
frankness, but his actions imply that
it 4s much the same as Cleveland's.
if the west wants a square deal, it
must exert Itself to get a man in the
White House who knows and is in
hearty sympathy with it.
HEALTH IN OLD AGE.
"Exercise in bed" has won a new
victory. It has restored Senator Till
man's health, or rather elevated him
from chronic invalidism to ruddy and
exuberant vigor. Some years ago the
distinguished South Carolinian was al
ways falling sick. Today, in. his sixty-seventh
year, he boasts of his phys.
ical and mental health to his fellow
Senators., The other day he took ad
vantage of a lull in the proceedings
of our more reverend legislative
chamber to explain the cause of his
abundant well-being.
To begin with, he is very careful
about his diet, eating nothing deleteri
ous and not too much of what is
wholesome. Deep breathing exercises
keep his lungs expanded and his
blood pure. A long night's sleep re
freshes his strength. A daily draft
of warm 'water, three quarts, irrigates
his system. But all these are minor
matters. The true source of his in
creasing vigor is undoubtedly the ex
ercise he takes every morning in bed.
This follows a carefully-thought-out
plan and particularly applies to the
muscles of the back and legs. It is
so effectual that it has driven rheu
matism out of his system and made
him young again.
Dr. Eliot, formerly president of
Harvard, is another enticing spec!
ment of mature vigor. He is now 80
years old, but to Judge from his con
stant activities one would think him
scarce 40. His alert mind is interested
in everything that happens in the
world. He writes astonishing radical
articles on education, the labor ques
tion and everything else that comes
along. His rules for keeping well
and strong are even more simple
than Senator Tillman's.
Dp. Eliot takes his exercise on a
bicycle. Every morning he sallies
forth upon his" wheel and fills his
body with health and dewy poetry as
he rolls along the bird-haunted high
way. But Dr. Eliot does not ascribe
any magic virtues to the bicycle. A
spade would doubtless do as well.
One might even try a bucksaw with
good hope. The main point is to
make the exercise, whatever it may
be, regular. This with moderate diet.
seven hours of sleep with the windows
open and abstinence from stimulants
will keep out disease and Insure a
green old age.
PREHISTORIC ELEPHANTS AND MEN.
The ancestor of the elephants
whose bones have been discovered up
the Willamette Valley must have been
a contemporary of prehistoric man
or pretty near It. The scholars at Eu
gene assign a million years or such
a matter as the age of .the monster,
This is about the age of man. Scien
tists now tell us that he cannot have
dwelt upon the earth less than 300,
000 years, while many believe that
he has been here several million. If
human bones ehould be discovered in
the same neighborhood with this
ancient father .of elephants it would
not therefore be at all surprising.
One might even fancy that the ele
phant was a tame one which our an
cestors harnessed to do their work.
Perhaps buckles and scraps of leather
may be unearthed somewhere on the
same farm where the bones were
found. If any are dug up it will be
natural, nay almost inevitable, to as
sume that they are fossil remains of
the elephant's harness. It would be
extremely interesting to obtain clear
accounts of the civilization which had
developed at that early period in the
Willamette Valley.
Were the agricultural processes the
same then as now? We may safely
answer that they were, at least in
some quarters. It is also highly prob
able that the political opinions ofl
jome citizens have come down with
out a break from the contemporaries
of the Eugene elephant. It would, be
most edifying to learn, if we could,
whether the same educational cur
riculum that we enjoy now was used
in those early times. It. is probably
safe to assume that there has been no
radical change. Educational methods
easily survive - cosmic catastrophes
such as those which may "have divided
the pleistocene age from ours.
Since elephants were then employed
as beasts of burden it stands to rea
son that the barns must have been a
great deal larger than ours and per
haps the men were of proportionate
magnitude. In that case we are mere
pygmies compared with our prehis
toric progenitors, pygmies in Doay,
though not necessarily in mind. It is
fair to presume that the human brain
has waxed as the physical frame has
waned, though some scientists pre
tend that both mind and body have
declined in vigor since the days of the
elephas.
A DREAM.
The vision of a gold mine which
Mr. Olsen. of Spokane, saw many
years ago in his slumbers is not with
out frequent parallels In the history
of the occult. The scene of the hid
den treasure was presented to his
mind with great clearness and par
ticularity, as is usual in such cases.
He saw the trees, the surrounding
hills, the stream which rippled past.
Later when he was traveling through
a mining region he beheld in reality
the exact scene which had appeared
to him in a vision and naturally he
hastened to open the vein of treasure
which he was Sure must He concealed
beneath the magic' spot.
Whether he will be rewarded wltn
fortune or whether he' has been
lured by a will o' the wisp to waste
his time and money the future must
reveal. Thus far he has . obtained
nothing, but that does not signify. He
may bring millions to the surface next
week. What interests the philosophi
cal reader is the mystery of his
dream. How could he possibly con
jure up in his sleeping imagination
the exact reproduction of a landscape
he never had seen and which never
had been described to him?
There are several more or less sat
isfactory answers to this question.
We may suppose, if we like, war.
the correspondence between the vis
ion and the reality is not quite so
complete as Mr. Olsen fancies. In .his
dream he saw a certain landscape.
In his travels he saw one which re-
sembled it in some particulars and
he jumped to the conclusion that the
correspondence was exact. Imagina
tion plays strange pranks with us
when we are on the trail of the oc
cult. Again we may suppose that Mr.
Olsen heard long ago a description
of the spot where his mine 'lies and
forgot all about it. When he dreamed
his dream the old memory arose
from his unconscious mind without
his knowing its source and thus the
marvel is very simply accounted -for.
But it must not be forgotten that
as yet we know comparatively little
about dreams. Modern psychologists
have assigned a new significance to
them very unlike their old magical
meaning and very much more pro
found than the lore of charlatans and
village gossips. There is a theory,
too, that the "astral body" can depart
from the physical frame during sleep
and make long voyages of discovery,
returning to its home after many ad
ventures. Perhaps that is what hap
pened to Mr. Olsen.
A FAKE TOREST EXPOSED.
Against the protest of Representa
tive Humphrey, Congress continues to
waste money on the Chugach National
forest in Alaska, which is not, never
was and never can be a forest.
includes 11,000,000 acres of mountain
and glacier with a few patches of ag
ricultural land, and 90 per cent of its
area is treeless. That portion of the
reserve which is on the Kenai Penin
sula has not a tree over 30 years old
for when the trees reach any height
the wind blows them over. The tim
ber Is worthless for building, for a
man who tried it' Bald the rain beat
through it.
There are 150 fish traps along the
shore of the reserve, but the local
tlmber'is worthless for them and their
owners import timber from Puget
Sound. The timber has no value ex
cept for fuel or for wood pulp, and
the growth is so sparse about 1500
feet to the acre that it would not
pay to cut. Officers of the forest
service admitted to the Senate com
mittee that the only thing they had
conserved was the title to the land, in
keeping off settlers.
The continuance of the reserve was
defended on the plea that it was nec
essary to. prevent men from grabbing
the copper and coal mines. The for
est service has admitted that there is
no excuse for its existence by pro
posing that half of it be thrown open,
but its maintenance is favored by the
Government until the Alaska Railroad
has been located through it. This
"forest" has been so thoroughly ex
posed as a fraud and a subterfuge
that its defenders in the House made
a very poor showing, and its existence
is likely soon to end.
It is impossible to conjure up any
reason why the Government should
pay its, enlisted men for time spent
recovering from sprees. And, now
that we think of it, why should of
ficers be paid during the same re
morseful interval? Certainly loss of
pay will stimulate the private's con
science and fortify him to resist the
tempter. We should not be sur-
Drised if it affected officers in the
same way.
Mr. Taft assures the Minnesota law
students that a man ought to do his
best work at 60. There is much to
back up his doctrine. At three score
one's fortune is made, ambition is
measurably appeased and serenity
pervades the mind. Hence the Judg
ment works better than in earlier
years. But if a person wants to write
poetry it may be wise for him to set
about it younger. Byron, Shelley, Foe,
Burns were all dead by 40.
If England wants efficient field
service, it looks to an outsider as if
her best course would, be to dismiss
the army, horse, foot and .artillery,
and enlist a new one. We dare say
Tom Mann would undertake to form
an efficient force to act against la
borites and Ulsterites with a flying
squadron posted here and there to
ward off suffragettes. Has not the
British army become a little absurd?
Conscience is the best interpreter of
the anti-trust act. So. thinks Mr.
Taft. What better interpreter . is
there of any law? Conscience, with
perhaps just a pinch of good sense,
ouKht to srive us ideal justice, free
from the poison of legalism and. prec
edent.
The German Crown Prince can't
take an African trip because Parlia
ment would refuse to foot the bill,
It's tough to be even an exalted pub
lic ward.
Inasmuch as he has no govern
ment to back him up, the lowly Hin
du must take what comes. He's about
as helpless abroad as an American
citizen.
Pugilist Choynski . has been left
$10,000 by a Chinaman, whom he
once befriended. Our good deeds, as
well as our bad ones, come home to
roost.
John Bull is now 'reaping the re
ward of having only rich men for
army officers. They can afford to quit
when things don't go to suit them.
Huerta has gained a big victory
and secured a fresh loan. Does the
Administration find fresh hope for
his downfall in these facts?
If the whole state turns out with
pick and shovel to work one day on
the roads, wonder how much it will
cost to repair the damage?
As soon as the tolls question ha3
been settled Europe can be counted
on to renew her protests against our
inane Mexican policy.
San Francisco hotelkeepers agree
to keep down prices during the fair.
Wise measure. If they expect a steady
run of business.
Baker grand jurors scored Gover
nor West. Have they no fear of a
court-martial for lese majeste?
It would seem that Villa walked
right up and turned around and
walked right back again.
The Queen of Bulgaria will sail for
the United States in May. Too late
for the opening game.
Some of those English army of
ficers- should be tried for mutiny or
treason. . '
Not even his personally-conducted
war correspondents couio win ror
Villa.
The sun- refuses to be routed.
The phone combine rang off.
Stars and Starmakers
BI LEONE CASS BAEIt
Florence Hart, a Portland girl, and
the only sister of Harry I Hart,
prominent hopman of Oregon, has
jumped from stock into position as
leading woman in one of the Jess Las
ky. productions in New York. She has
been booked over the Orpheum circuit
and will appear In Portland In thp ear
ly Summer. Miss Hart, who is a beau
ty of stage-wide reputation and
clever leading woman, is Mrs. Alfred
Cross in private life. Her husband.
who was a member of the Little Thea
ter Company in New York, is now lead
ing man in Atlantic City stock. The
sketch in which Miss Hfcrt appears is
called "The Beauties." Last Monday she
opened at the Bronx Theater; nex
week she Is at the Fifth-avenue Thea
ter; then follow Hammerstein'e. the
Bushwlck in Brooklyn, and then the
tour outside of New York begins.
...
Mary Edgett Baker is of the opinion
that stage people should marry out
side their profession. Oh, yes, maybe.
for the first six or seven times.
...
A new vaudeville act is being writ
ten for Texas Guinan, late of fat-reduc
ing fame, by Tommy Gray. She tried
out one recently, but was not satisfied
with it. In the new act she will be
assisted by Harry Short, a comedian
quite well known to musical comedy.
Incidentally, Miss Guinan, who has been
suffering from laryngitis, is almost
ready to go back to work again.
.
Mary Garden's salary is given out as
$3000 each time she sings. Truly, grand
opera is grand for Mary.
...
Margaret Mayo has written another
play. Margaret is a Gervais, Or., girl
who has so many plays and novels and
short stories to her credit that she
should have a statue out in the City
Park or her picture in the library. Her
newest play is "Lookers On" and deals
with that rapidly-increasing class of
new-rich Americans who believe their
wealth will act as an Open Sesame to
the inner shrines of the Smart Set.
According to Miss Mayo, these people
arrive at the gates finally and find
them closed in their faces.
Negotiations are in progress with
one of the most prominent actresses
in America to portray the leading role.
Miss Mayo's husband, Edgar Selwyn,
and her brother-in-law, Archie Selwyn,
are the producers. It Is to be produced
in the early Fall.
...
Clara Morris, for years an idol of
the theater-going public, had a birth
day last week. It was her sixty-ninth
and it brought her congratulations and
assurances of love and friendship from
all over the country.
The aged actress is cheerful in spite
of the fact that she is confined to her
bed in the little old house on the Sound
at Whitestone, L. L, which is her home.
Her husband, who is there with her,
is also ill in bed.
...
Lottie Collins, Jr., is about to. make
her New York debut in vaudeville. Lot
tie came across from Australia about
two years ago, secured an engagement
in San Francisco and later came to
Portland over Pantages' circuit in a
presentation of songs. Then, through
her sister, Jose Collins, who never
comes out of New York City because
she is in such demand in musical com
edies, Lottie secured a place in "The
Chocolate Soldier" company, playing
the role of Mascha, in which Portland
saw her on the last visit of "The Choc
olate Soldier." Lottie, Junior, Is a sep
ond edition of her famous mother of
the same name, who made "Ta ra ra
Boom de ay" famous. She is of Spanish-English
parentage, and is the di
vorced wife' of a surgeon in the Eng
lish army. She has one little daughter,
aged six years.
...
Notes of . the Amateur Theatrical
Club says that Frank McSlaggart re
cited "The Other Side of the Bar." He
got over, I reckon-
.
Fannie Ward will not come to the
Pacific Coast until next season. Her
present play, "Madame President," ends
this week at the "TJ rand Opera-House
in- New York and immediately Miss
Ward sails for her home in England.
She Is a St. Louts girl and made her
reputation on the stage chiefly as a
beauty, although she has this season
developed spots of almost acting, according-
to Eastern papers. Miss Ward's
ex-husband is Sam Lewis, the "diamond
king," of England, and the petite act
ress has a marvelous collection of
stones. She was in Portland three
years ago, at, the Orpheum, in an awful
sketch.
Mrs. Alexander P. Moore Lillian
Russell has returned from a trip to
Jamaica and. says that "the women of
Jamaica typify the "secret that rn.work
lies perpetual youth. They are the ones
who carry the burdens with suffrag
ette ideas never entering their minds.
They work for 47 cents a day, carry
ing on their heads and backs cocoa
nuts, bananas and other burdens, and
they are all perfect specimens of wom
anhood, neither age nor work seeming
to make a visible Impression."
...
Blanche Bates is coming Portland
way in vaudeville over the Orpheum.
Last week in St. Louis she addressed
the graduating class of a dramatic
school and took occasion to tell about
her first political speech. It was made
out in Colorado before a lot of club
women. The actress talked of reform
and "uplift" and drove home many a
point which, she was sure, would bet
ter general conditions throughout the
world. It was a most impressive speech
and her audience seemed actually awed.
When it was over she thanked them
and dropped in a chair, very much
worn out. There was an impressive
silence for a minute or two. Then a
thin little woman arose- in the rear
of the room and -said:
"Mrs. Chairman!"
"Well, Mrs. Pumperboodle?"
"Don't you think Miss Bates would
speak us one of her pieces?"
It was at that point Miss Bates gave
up her work of enlightening the masses
along "uplift" lines, it was.
. . ..
Will Demlng. who played with the
Belasco stock when it bad a brief sea
son in Portland aix years ago, is in
the cast of "Marrying Money," a ro
mantic farce playing at the Princess
Theater in New York. '
Scientific Salesmanship.
. Detroit Free Press.
"Pa what is scientific salesman
ship?" Selling a dress suit to a man
who went into the store to buy a cellu
loid collar."
CANAL POLICY IS WEAK KNEED
President ana Secretary '"Buffaloed"
and On Ron, Say. Sir. Myera.
PORTLAND, March 25. (To the Ed
itor.) The main point in the canal toll
question is that its repeal challenges
our National pride and our National
sovereignty. " Whether our coastwise
vessels should go ' through the canal
free, or not, is an affair of our own,
and no foreign government nor all of
the foreign governments combined can
call us to account, whatever we may
determine to do. It is a question ex
clusively our own, and we must not
surrender our right to settle it as we
please.
To do otherwise, to let any part, or
all of Europe, settle the question for us
is to abdicate National sovereignty. It
is to give away our self-respect. It is
to stifle patriotism and to deny our
splendid record of the past. If we do
that we must abandon the claim that
wo are the leader of the nations for the
betterment of man and for the highest
and best hopes of the world. We must
reconstruct, or silence, our National
songs, and we must pull down our Na
tional monuments. Washington's Fare
well Address must be put out of print
and his pictures must be turned to the
wall, for he cautioned us against the
very things the President now wants
us to do. For after surrendering our
right in the canal matter, who with any
grace could sing:
O Columbia, the (rem of the ocean.
The home of the brave and the free.
The shrine of each patriot's devotion,
A world offers homage to thee.
Thy mandates make heroes assemble.
When Liberty's form stands in view,
Thv banners make tyranny tremble.
When borne by the red. white and blue.
Or how could we sing the "Star-Span
gled Banner" or "America"? Oh, yes, if
the President has his way, the Bunker
Hill Monument, of which I have been
proud all my life, must come down: and
to suit the changed state of affairs, a
monument must be erected at Detroit
to commemorate Hull's surrender, of
which I have been ashamed all my
life. The Statue of Liberty, in New
York Harbor, must be veiled, and as to
what will become of the National Mon
ument at Washington will depend on
European opinion. If that shaft ia of
fensive to foreign eyes it must come
down.
Bought friendship may be of some
value, but I doubt it. Bought friend
ship is transient, treacherous, unstable
and worthless. It may, in fact, become
an element of embarrassment and of
danger. "Beware of entangling alli
ances, said Washington, and tnat say
ing, for us at least, was the crystalliza
tion of wisdom.
It is our canal. It was built by
American money, on American soil, by
American genius, and its management
is our affair. If we do not run it to
suit any European crowned head, he
need not patronize It. In building the
canal we have not obstructed the way
around Cape Horn or through the
Straits of Magellan, and he can travel
that way as long as he wants to and
we will not object.
The President and Mr. Bryan seem
to be buffaloed and are on the run.
They seem to think we are in danger
from somewhere and that we must
hasten to conciliate somebody and ev
erybody. They seem to have no just
conception of our dignity and strength
or of who we are and what we are, as
Nation, among the nations of the
earth, and they must be given to un
derstand that we are somebody, on our
own account; that we are standing on
our own dunghill, and that we have the
courage to crow when we feel like it.
LEVI W. MYERS,
681 East Ankeny Street.
"ASSISTANT DEVILS" CALLED FOR
Amount of Cossedness Too Mnck for
Satan to Look After Alone, Is Stated.
Ed Howe, in E. W. Howe's Monthly.
We hear a good deal lately of the
awakening of the public conscience; of
big things to be accomplished morally.
It's a pity we do not hear more of the
need of common honesty, fairness and
politeness among the people.
Let any business man tell his story
of the meanness of customers, and you
will begin to realize that we should
neglect big things a while and attend
to little things.
What we need is not the awakening
of the public conscience, but a clean
ing of the public conscience.
we are studying phychoiogy when we
should be studying physiology.
In looking up at statesmen we stub
our toes on rocks that should be re
moved from our bad roads; we abuse
palpable stomachs three times a day to
listen to talk about Impalpable cures.
Instead of perfection we should work
for plain, plug fairness, politeness and
common sense.
The storekeepers and bankers even
tell some very tough stories on the
honest old farmer. And in every town
you hear of enough dishonesty, lying.
gossip, rudeness and miscellaneous
meanness to suggest the necessity of
an assistant devil.
One devil is not enough; the old
scratch should have at least a million
assistants. One for every hundred
people would not be -toomany.
Half the meanness in the world is
due to the ass trying to make out
that he is a lion; to the wolf masquer
ading as a sheep: to the clamor of the
rabbit that he will finally whip the
bulldog.
Summer School to Be Held.
ELLENSBURG, Wash., March 24.
(To the Editor.) Recently there ap
peared in The Oregonian a news item
from Centralis. Wash., of date March
9, saying that the Ellensburg Normal
School has decided not to conduct a
Summer school this year.
The Ellensburg Normal School will
conduct a Summer school in Ellensburg,
beginning June 8 and closing July 31.
The prospects are good for the larg
est attendance in the history of the
chool. It offers board and lodging for
the entire term of eight weeks for 525.
The Northern Pacific, Milwaukee. Great
Northern and O.-W. R & N. will sell
round-trip tickets for one and one-third
fare to those wishing to attend Sum
mer Normal School at Ellensburg. These
tickets will be on sale from June 4 CD
10.' inclusive. J. H. MORGAN.
Vandal Get Flowers.
PORTLAND, March 26. (To the Edi
tor.) Reading: Mr. Woodward's letter
n The Oregonian I am led to believe
that more of this vandalism occurs In
Portland than Is generally known. Two
nights ago about half of a perfect row
of hyacinth blooms which were growing
in a window box in front of the writ
er's house were torn off and carried
away.
Such actions are an offense against
the public even more than the individ
ual and should be checked. It is prob
able that youthful thoughtlessness is
at the bottom of this and that some
publicity may develop grood results.
E. EURSLEM THOMSON,
419 East Forty-sixth Street N.
louse 91. D.'a First Wish.
Life.
"What Is your greatest wish, Doctor,
now that you have successfully passed
for your degree?"
Young Doctor To put "Dr." before
my own name, and "Dr." after the name
of other people.
Fair to All Dealers.
Houston (Texas) Post.
"Do you think women are quite fair
to men?"
"From the amount of make-up they
buy and use I am sure they try to be."
Skirt Question Considered.
Judge.
"How are modern young women on
the skirt question?" asked the ancient
shade. "Divided!" bawled the young
potential spirit of 1914, informatively.
Twenty-five Years Ago
From The Oresonlan of March ST. 1SS9.
Washington, March 26. The Presi
dent today sent to the Senate the nom
inations of Lee Moorhouse. of Oregon,
to be Agent of the Indians at the Uma
tilla Agency, Oregon, and John D.
Hogue to be Postmaster of Tacoma.
Washington, March 27 An appraiser
will be sent to value the lands of the
abandoned Fort Steilacoom reservation,
in Washington Territory, and action
will be taken toward their disposal.
Port Townsend, March 26 British
sealing schooners seized three years,
ago in Bering Sea by United States
revenue cutters for violation of treaty
obligations were sold at public auc
tion today by United States Marshal
Hamilton.
McMinnville, March 26. Circuit Court
opened today. Among the a,ttoeys
present were George H. Durham. A. L.
Frazier, W. T. Hume and Sidney Dell,
of Portland.
Salem, March 26. Rev. K. H. Telka
poce, of Tacoma, has been engaged to
preach at the Christian Church.
The annual meeting of the Oregon
Humane Society was held in the lecture-room
of the Unitarian Church laBt
evening. Reports were made by Rev.
T. L. Eliot, president, W. T. Shanahan.
secretary, and James Steel, treasurer.
Mrs. Cleveland Rockwell and D. I.
Thompson were elected directors, and
Mayor Van B. DeLashmutt and E.
Smith Kearney have become life mem
bers. James Harkelroad Is building cot
tages at Long Beach for Messrs. Jef
fery, Sbow.ers, Witherell and Knott.
Colonel John D. Dement, who was
fighting Indians in Washington Terri
tory in 1856. speaking yesterday of the
recent discovery of a lot of old mus
kets and rifles near the Cowlitz River,
gave it as his opinion that they were
left there by the Cowlitz Indians.
Considerable work has been done on
the roads of the Multnomah Driving
Association leading to City View Park.
Commencement exercises of the grad
uating class of the medical department
of the University of Oregon will be
held at Masonic Hall, Saturday. The
oration will be delivered by Rev. A. D.
Brown, pastor of the First Presby
terian Church, and the charge to the
graduates by Dr. C. C. Strong. The
class will be presented by Dr. S. E.
Joseph!, dean of the faculty, and the
degrees will be conferred by Hon. M.
P. Deady, president of the Board of
Regents. J. D. Fenton will be valedic
torian. William McGuIre has returned from
San Francisco, where he contracted for
the machinery for the Portland Cold
Storage Warehouse and Ice Works.
The petition of the citizens of East
Portland for the reduction of the max
imum rates of fare on the Morrison
street bridge and the Stark-street ferry
were heard by the County Commis
sioners yesterday.
Work, Not Charity, .eit Time.
PORTLAND, March 23. (To the Edi
tor.) Perhaps no city in this country
has bad better success In dealing with
the unemployed this past Winter than
Portland. When we consider that for
the past four months some 2500 home
less and many of them penniless men
have been cared for in comparative
comfort with very little sickness and
scarcely any lawlessness, one wonders
how It all happened. But then, Portland
Is well equipped for such a task. Such
institutions as the Men's Resort, Com
mons. Salvation Army, the Civic
League, a sympathetic City Council and
a generous public did the work splen
didly. I am not arguing that there is not
a better way to do It- I believe there
and I hope ere another Winter
comes some plan may be worked out
whereby a man who Is In need may
be given sufficient work to earn his
keep, and the man who won't work may
be told he is in the wrong community.
LEVI JOHNSON.
THE MONROE
DOCTRINE
Discussed by
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
A vital article on the great doc
trine which dominates the Ameri
can continent;' in which Colonel
Roosevelt goes into the matter "of
our rights, duties and obligations
regarding Latin America.
Living Long
Eminent men who have passed
the four-score mark give their own
special secrets of longevity, and
all are agreed that long life is a
thing that mnst be cultivated and
worked for.
Medals for Women
They are medals of :the highest
honor and have been awarded to
clever French women. The service
of one woman in the field gives her
the right to wear male attire. An
illustrated half-page feature.
Spring Brides
They are going to shatter all
sorts of precedents and traditions,
especially in the matter of dress.
Illustrated.
Character Pointers
.analyses by Edith Macomber Half.
The Cut-Out" "Woman
How a struggling matron unex
pectedly opened up a new field
and gained independence. A re
markable fact-story.
Would-Be "Cops"
There are hundreds of them, and
how they set about the task of
indulging their pet ambition is the
subject oa half-page article, with
photographs.
Fairies Umbrellas
An art panel for the children,
together with a full-page of other
entertaining featyres. Tear out
this page each week for the little
ones.
Good Fishing
Just how the full-creel is pro
vided for in Oregon is the subject
of an absorbing full-page, in col
ors. The Unobserved Great
An illustrated article on how the
greatest of Americans mingle with
the crowds without being recog
nized.
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