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10 tttt; ronxTxo oKrnoxTAX. Thursday, april 9, 1914. Bw$(nmn PORH-ANO. OBEOOM. Entered at Portland, Oregon, frostofflc. as second -olae matter, ubscrlptloa Bate Invariably la Advanco: (Br MAIL) Daily. Sunday included, one year. . ... ,S.OO &aily, Sunday Included, sis month... 4 J Oaiiy, Sunday included. tare month. . a.a Dally,- ftunday included, one month.. .7s Ualiy, without Sunday, one year joy Daily, without Sunday, aim montb,.. laily, without Sunday three month.. ally. without Bunday, eatf month. Weekly, on yar. ....... .60 1.60 euoaay, on year.... kunday and weekly, one year. S.50 I is I lA'K.itW Bally, Sunday Included, one year.... ally. Sunday Included, one month. .7 How to Kemlt Send poetofflce money or der, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender' risk. Give postoffice address In full, including county and state. Foliage Bates 12 to 1 pages. 1 eent; lfc to 32 page, il oents; 84 to 4S pases, a cental 60 to 60 p.-gea. 4 cents; 62 to 78 pages, ft cents; 78 to V2 pages, a cant, fsreisa post age, double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree Conk lln. Mew lork, UruuswlcK building. Chi cago, steg-er building. can Francisco Office R. X Sldwell Co., 742 Market street. FORTLAXD. THCRgDAY, APRIL ft, 1914, WORKS' PATRONAGE REFORM TtAS. Members of Congress must have grown weary of tile burden of patron age, if Senator Works correctly ex presses their sentiments. He has in troduced a bill to relieve both them and the President Of this burden by imposing- it on a. commission of three persons to be appointed by each Pres ident at the beginning of his term and to serve through to its end. This commission would doubtless be of the same party as the President. It would "receive and consider all applications and recommendations ' for appoint ments to Federal offices not controlled by the civil service laws, and recom mend to the President the person most competent and best fitted" to nil each office. It would be required to consider each candidate on his merits and to recommend no appoint ment as a reward for political activ ity. The President would be free to reject and the Senate would be free to refuse to confirm any person It rec ommended. In either case the corn emission would recommend another applicant until ' both President and Senate were satisfied. Members of the Cabinet, Senators, Representatives and other Govern ment officials would be forbidden to recommend candidates and the latter would be forbidden to ask their aid. Appointees would serve their full term unless removed for cause, and could not be removed for political reasons only. The bill does not apply to the secretaries, clerks or assistants of the President, Cabinet officers and their assistants, clerks or assistants of Senators, or employes of the White House, Senate or House. Mr. Works pronounced patronage a burden to both the President and members' of Congress, relief from which would save an immense amount of their time for more im portant duties. He depicted the evils of machines built up on patronage, but expressed the belief that ma chines had gone by and that Senators would like to be rid of patronage. They place no value on It, he said, but regard it as detrimental to them as candidates for re-election. He told of the failure of the President's attempt to turn over patronage to his Cabinet, of Senators insisting on stat ing the claims of their candidates to him, and said: The President could not escape it, and hi lit has been made miserable in conse quence of It. It is cruel, almost barbaric It should not be tolerated. Senators and Representatives have the remedy in their own hands, if they desire to use it. They need only adhere to the Constitution, which provides that officials be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. In practice, they are nominated by the Senators from their own states to the President, who then nominates them to the Senate which then confirms them. Excep tions to this rule are rare, But rec ommendations must come from some fource and members of Congress seemed the most convenient and re- liable. The number of Government employes has grown to such propor tions that their selection ha become a job by itself. It now totals 411.322 of whom 262,608 are under the civil service law and 148,714 are appointed by the President or some one else. Removal of the patronage abuse by some such means as Mr. W orks pro poses would cleanse public life of im- proper influences or of suspicion that they exist. Presidents have frequent ly been aeffused of holding the pat ronage club over the heads of Con nressmen in order to influence their votes on legislation, and Congressmen have been accused of threatening op position to executive policies in or der to procure desired appointments. Government and legislation would be better conducted if all such influences were rendered impossible, and public affairs would receive more exclusive attention of public servants. The quality of appointees would also be improved. RURAL CREDITS. The American Commission which was sent to Europe to investigate rural credits stirred up a considerable interest in the subject upon its return Congressmen were vaguely but not very intelligently moved to activity, and several bills have been introduced looking more or less directly to a sys tem of rural credits. None of these . bills exactly hits .the mark. They are all strongly affected with' the old habit of milking the farmers for the benefit of the middlemen. The fact that the middlemen are financiers in this instance does not change the principle of the case at all. What is needed in a rural credit system is the abandonment of any thought of profit for outside in vestors. Rigid economy should be practiced from beginning to end and " all savings that can be effected should go to the farmers themselves. In every bill thus far offered there is an elaborate scheme of financiering, bond issue piled upon bond issue, ex pense added to expense until the real object is lost sight of. Rural banks should be free from all suspicion of ordinary' "high finance" with its com plications and inequities. They should aim simply and directly at the con venience of the farmers and at noth ing else. On April 3 there was a meeting at the Courthouse to consider the sub ject of rural credits. Delegates at tended from the Grange, the Farm ers' Society of Equity and the Farm ers Union. Resolutions were .passed which. condemn in unmistakable terms the illusory bills that have been nresented in Congress and state clear- lv what should be done. The kernel of the matter is a demand for "mort gage credit at reasonable rates with ' the privilege of repayment on the amortization plan." The whole series of resolutions should be made acces sible to the rural public. IMAGINARY CONVERSATION. "What's the matter with you, Sen ator?" "I want to come back." - "And you think you can make ft by opposing me?" "I am not opposing you, Mr. Presi dent. I'm for you: always have been. I've voted for your measures, stood by the Democratic caucus and gone the limit for you." "Don't you know I want no free tolls?" y "Yes, but you wanted and got free lumber and free-wpol and free every thing that my people don't want." "The people of Oregon are with me" "Perhaps; - but not with me. That's the rub. I've stood up for you for a year and it's time I did something for myself. I want to be' re-elected " "By fighting me?" "Yes, apparently. You'll have votes enough without mine, and if I can make them believe I'm sincere I'll win. You want to come back, too. You'll have my vote for six years more. Just let me work it out. I don't mean anything by It. I've done it before and my people fall for It. I must come back. What else can I do? I musT go homo and whoop up free tolls and tariff yes, even prohi bition. Just remember, I don't mean anything by it. It's the place I want. I've always wanted place- and profit. My people stand for the bunk. You'll be doing the same H.hing yet." "George, I guess you're right. Play the game. . If you win, I have a faithful Democrat in the Senate r?om Oregon for six Tears more. If you lose, we both -lose." But possibly it Is not a - wholly imaginary conversation. CROOKED LAWIEBS. The Oregonian has searched Its memory in vain to recall a time in recent years when a dishonest lawyer has been sent ' to the penitentiary from Portland. Some twenty years ago, through the energetio and fear less action of a Deputy District At torney, five or six attorneys who had betrayed their clients or had other wise violated the law they had taken an oath to uphold, were convicted and sent to prison. It is dimly remembered also that the grievance committee of the State Bar Association a few years ago had a real existence; but since the as sassination of Ralph Fisher by the maniacal Jim Finch the lawyers have evidently lost interest In checking the rapacity of the male harpies and blood-suckers who disgrace the pro fession. Evidently the lawyers do not care much about their general re pute. A few days ago two attorneys got Into difficulties before the municipal court over their relations with a cli ent named Amos. - The fellow had been arrested for a disgusting offense and taken to Jail. There he came In contact with Elmon A. Geneste, who had assumed the philanthropic role of public defender. Next appears E D. Ulrich, a partner of Geneste. and there is a contract for $750 for at torney's fees from A'mos to TJlrieh. A policeman is involved In an inci dental way with the transaction. But the heart of the affair is the circum stances upon which Amos was in duced to agree to the payment of $750 to Ulrich. Judge Stevenson says Geneste undoubtedly used his job as public defender to steer business to Ulrich. A statement by Deputy District At torney Deich is also worthy of repro duction: There have been for eome time capes In which clients of lawyers when surprised at the size of the fee charged were told that part of the fee would be devoted to bribery of the officials of th Folic partment and the court- In this way th lie rested oeriom were forced to give much more thun th legal services wer worm Such a praetlc I think Is worth Investi gating. The State Bar Association, it is aid, will Investigate the Amos case. Involving Geneste and Ulrich. There Is no dutytho Bar Association so clearly owes the public as a search ing inquiry into the facts. It Is possible, too. that the Dis trict Attorney might find employment for the talents and energies of some of his large force of deputies in vig orous war upon criminal legal prac tices and practitioners. A DEMOCRATIC SQUIRM. Free tolls and a protective tariff are in some respects identical In The ory. Oregon mill men protested against free lumber because the labor cost of manufacturing lumber in British Columbia Is lower than in Oregon. They now protest against the exaction of tolls on American coastwise vessels because they need some offset against the cheap Oriental labor of British Columbia and the cheaper operation of British ships in order to compete in Atlantic and Gulf markets. But what is more wonderful than to. observe in a Democratic newspa per and ardent champion of the Underwood-Simmons bill and free lum ber, an indorsement of free tolls with a protective tariff argument? Here it is as it was printed in the Portland Journal: In British Columbia, the wajre for skilled men is about 7-"i per cent of the wages paid in Oregon mills. For common labor. It is 50 per cent. Much of the Kntlsh Columbia common labor Is done by Hindus and Japa nese. whose average wage is about $1.05 ner day. All this gives Canadian lumbermen n. a -ln heavy, advantage over Oregon lumber Atlantic and gulf, ports, if tolls are t charged on our home ships through our home canal in our home trade. It necessarily gives alarm to Oregon loesers and Oregon sawmill employes sav nothing of the sawmill owners. It fills them with concern over a prospect of seeing British Columbia lumber get all the trade of the Eastern limed States, and the Journal confesses that it has ver.. deep sympathy with them in what seems cloomv outlooK II ine tniiea ciaies Senate completes what the House has begun to free tolls. As a remedy for unemployment. the wheels of Oregon sawmills ought to be lrent in motion, and the way to keep them movln- is to keep the great market on the East Coast of the Lnlted states open as a sale place for Oregon lumber. If this is not as good an argument for a tariff on lumber as it is for free tolls, why not? Yet if the tariff on lumber had been retained repeal of free tolls would, not be quite disastrous to the Oregon lumber in dustry. It is indeed a ''gloomy out look." but we fancy that "the Oregon loggers and Oregon sawmill employes, to say nothing of-the sawmill own ers," will not find the "deep sympa thy" of our Democratic brethren very good substitute for bread and butter, if worst comes to worst. The shoplifters" syndicate which has just been exposed shows pretty clearly that women are as skillful or ganizers as men when they have a motive for using their ability. The motive in this instance was regreta- ble, but the principle is the same. We should not be surprised if women, as they grow more confident of their own criminal capacity, outwit the male police officer In every direction. It will probably require detectives of their own sex to cope with their ingenuity. COST OF TUB SENATE'S BATH 9. Every year when Congress consid ers the appropriations - the costliness of the Senate bathroom is subject of comment. Representative Bryan so far forgot the unwritten rule that ap propriations for one house must not be questioned in the other as to re mark that the- House committee al lowed "practically $4 a piece per month for the Senators to bathe in the Senate office building all the year around, although, we are not in ses sion all the time." He added: "I understand not more than 10 per cent Of the Senators use these bath. That would make it $40 a month for those who use them." Mr. Payne ironically remarked: "I do not think any one ought to object to a very liberal amount for bathing purpose to the gentlemen at the otherl end of the Capitol." I Nobody will object to an ample al lowance for baths for the Senators. Our lawmakers should certainly be models of cleanliness, and they no doubt need to bathe often when they swelter through the torrid Bummer days with their minds laboring over the intricacies of the tariff and the many other complex questions they must consider. Far be it from the American people to stint them in the matter of baths. But $40 a month apiece does seem a little steep, espe cially under an Administration pledged to economy. The average man can get a fairly satisfactory bath for 2 6 Cents. There Is room for much luxury in the margin between that sum per bath and $40 per month. Economy, like charity, should be gin at home and the Senate might easily save a few dollars without im pairing its necessary provision for keeping a clean skin. THE THACKERAY HC.MBCG. - More nonsensical gush has been printed concerning Thackeray then any other British author. There seems to be something about him that stimulates humbuggery. Every thing he wrote Is supposed to be in spired with a singular "gentleness. humanity, lucid tenderness." He was the one true gentleman among an thers. His style is too sacred to be criticised. His everlasting preaching is all pure gold, lils snobbery is deep respect for rank and dignity. This hypocritical tomfoolery has gone so far that the editor of The Bookman in righteous wrath Elves a name to it. He calls it "the Thack eray humbug," and add that the real Thackeray has been kept out of sight wiifle a lay figure "la being dangled before the eyes of posterity." The truth Is that Thackeray was an ex tremely human person. His foibles were visible to the naked eye. His fallings were fairly distinct and his worship of rank and money was pain fully apparent. All these faults have been gracefully absorbed In the myth and plastered over , with a coat of adulatory gilt. The latest phase of the Thackeray humbug is tho effort to make him out a Sir Galahad, pure as snow, and angel white in his relations with Mrs. Brookfleld, She was a married woman whose husband Thackeray frequently disgruntled by his too ardent atten tions to her. It was a flirtation of a flagrant kind, and if the parties es caped actual sin it was by good luck rather than good intention. Yet we are asked to believe that the Brook field intrigue gives a fresh polish to Thackeray's halo. He was only half genuine himself, and it is difficult not to suspect that the praise of his admirers is a little tinged with insin cerity. llARVEY'S ADVICE TO WILSON. Col. George Harvey calls' on Presi dent Wilson to follow his own teach ing by recognizing Huerta as ruler of Mexico. He declares the ' policy of watchful waiting a proved failure and urges the President to practice the precept he has taught in the follow ing passage quoted from the canal tolls message: The large thing to do is the only thing we can afford to do a voluntary witharawai from a position everywhere questioned ana misunderstood. We ought to reverse our action without raising tu question whether we were right or wrong, and so once more deserve our reputation for generosity and the redemption of every obligation without qulbbie or liesitanon. Col. Harvey. In an article published In the New York Times and to be published in the North American Re view, says the President has, by rec ognizing "the Huerta of Peru," ad mltted that he has no right to say who shall be President of Mexico. He says the President has admitted hav ing embedded himself in a practically inextricable position when he de inanded Huerta's retirement. He tells Mr. Wilson that, -when the latter 'urged so impressively upon thai Con gress, as a primary reason for repud iating a pledge of your own party platform, the necessity of mpllifying foreign powers," he made the latter admission. Cc4. Harvey concedes that the Pres ident has done all that lay in his power to do in furtherance of the suc cess of his programme. He says, the President "declared war upon another President." while their countries were t peace, credits the president with energy and resolution in attempting 'to apply political eugenics to Mex ico in a schoolmasterful way," but he says That from the fatal defect within the policy itself the President has riveted Huerta in his place, there to remain, in all probability, until he shall be expelled by force of arms. He shows by numerous quotations from newspapers of the United States of all political complexions that pub lic opinion, which the President has admitted to be the only force that can control a President in shaping his course, has pronounced his policy a failure. He says that on August 27. 1913, Mr. Wilson expressed confidence that "the steady pressure of moral force will before many days (after August 27. 1913) break the barriers of pride and prejudice down and we shall tri umph as Mexico's friends sooner than we could triumph as her enemies." He reminds the President that more than eight months have passed, that Huerta is still far from elimination and that public opinion has veered around to opposition to the Wilson -policy. Recalling the importance Mr. Wil son attaches to foreign public opinion, he quotes leading European newspa pers as saying that his policy will lead to intervention; that neither Mexico nor Europe will tolerate his attempt "to regenerate the public morals of other countries:" that he ' has openly taken the size of Mexican anarchy; that we aim at a protector ate; and that Huerta's submission is lnconceivablejCol. Harvey quotes th President's words against him by asking if it Is not clear that his atti tude is "a position questioned and misunderstood" in Europe. Col. Harvey quotes leading Latin American newspapers "as saying, Mr. Wilson's policy "has merely served to fortify the position taken by Huerta," and has tended to unite the Latin American states in a federation hos-. tile to the United States. The President is advised to ac knowledge his' error and to "'recog nize "the de facto government of Mexico," as he has those of Peru and Haytl. He Is thus warned of the con sequences of persistence in his pres ent course: Whs. w do ask is that you do not persist In a course which leads straightway to the undoing .of all your good works, through the certain defeat of your party and the exe cration that Just as surely will be visited upon yourself If, as a consequence of sheer obduracy, thl country shall b dragged Into a hateful war. The success of Huerta in maintain ing himself in power for thirteen months in the face of all the obstacles thrown in hie way by Mr. Wilson is described as "an amazing personal record." Recognition of him is de clared the only practical course and the President is thus advised: Th feeling 1 growing stronger dally that your persistence In a course which In com mon with everybody else you must know to b wrong, is attributable to no kind of reasoning whatsoever, but to your own stub born pride. For your own sake, then. If for no other cause. It is of the utmost lm portanc that, if there must be war. it shall corn as an inevitable consequence, as dem onstrably unpreventable by any conceivable means and In strict conformity with the cus toms and precedents fixed by international usage. The. only visible prospect of elimi nation of Huerta by other means than Intervention is in success of the Constitutionalists. At the end of thir. teen months they have Just won their most decisive victory, and are at the edge of the most thickly populated and most fertile part of Mexico. If every battle they hereafter win should be as stubbornly contested as that at Torreon, Mexico will be bathed in blood and the final trlump of Car- ranza will be Jong delayed. He will then be dependent on Villa and his bandit army and Villa may become the actual ruler.' What improvement will that be on Huerta's rule? Ex change of Huerta for Villa is not worth all that Mexico and the JL'nited States have sacrificed to make it. A fish cannery on the Sea of Gali leo will look a little quocr at first but everybody will soon get used to It and think no more about it. The notion that a place must remain for ever ruinous and miserable because some great event happened there is hardly reasonable. The Egyptians say they are more important than their pyramids. The Italians ruth lessly clear away sacred ruins to make way for railroads. Perhaps we must all agree that the rights of the living are superior to those of the dead. The Eugene miscreants who are peddling "dry beer" seem to be out of the reach of mere "liquor laws.' It is not likely that their goods make an intoxicating liquor immediately when dissolved in water. Likely a little time is needed for fermentation The chances are that these peddlers have nothing more mysterious than one of the many "beer powders,' which are so well known and so dis gusting. "Grandma" Munra is alive to all her duties and privileges. The world Is full of happiness for her and is" interesting as it was long and long ago when ahe was a girl. She is still a girl in spirit in spite of her 83 years. Mrs. Munra is an ardent suf fragist and her devotion to the cause does not end in talk. She has e her younger sisters an example by registering which they ought to fol low promptly, but we fear some o them will not do it. One cannot feel quite certain that Mayor Crisss, of Vancouver, will save money by turning off the electric lights when the moon shines. When the moon does her very best he rays are feeble. Crime haunts dimly lighted thoroughfares. The expense of a single arrest and trial would keep a lamp going a good many hours. It was a wise philosopher who said that "light was the best policeman." a English militants hovering abou Chicago polls enjoying the spectacle of women casting votes were ordered off. If those English a-urfragettes had more tact they might not be reduced to the sphere of mere lookers on. Not a single consumer has applied for a list of farmers who will furnish them produce direct by parcel post at La Crosse, Wis. And yet they will continue to howl about the high cost Of . everything. It has been decided that committee meetings on our foreign relations shall be held behind closed x doors. Yes, the least said about our present way of handling foreign relations the better. The Mayor of Vancouver would turn off the street lights when the moon is bright, so as to save money. It- ought, also, to stimulate the Van couver marriage industry. Vancouver, B. C, now proposes ex clusion of Japanese children from the schools. But it remains to be seen If Japan will address John Bull above a whisper. The Mayor's private secretary has been named as Police Commissioner of New York. Something of a come down from Colonel Goethals. The Wilson candidate for Congress was defeated in New- Jersey by his Republican rival. The Republicans are coming to their senses. The East is beginning to note symptoms of Spring. In Portland Spring has been out in all its splen- l-flor these many weeks. An Illinois woman cast her vote at 100. That should afford fresh courage to Mrs. Pankhurst. Good Friday Is well named, since the impossibilities cannot file for office afterward. The State Board Is giving the Clackamas County osteopath health officer a hard rub. The opera deficit In Portland was only $3300. Mere bagofeoln. Stars and Starmakers BY UEONE CASS BAER. A remarkably pretty picture of Faye Cuslck, a Portland girl, appears in this week edition of the Dramatic Mirror. Miss Cusick has for four seasons ap peared with May Hobion, first with The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary." and last year in "One Day." Miss Robson has Just closed her season and Miss Cuslck is spending a vacation in New York city. Answers to various inquirers: Copyright protects the title of a play after the play has been produced, not before. A may use B's title if the play is unpublished, and produce another play under that title, as a title is sup posed to have no value as such until It becomes valuable by use. Otherwise man might copyright titles wholesale and prevent others from availing them selves of them. a And now Marie Dressier la going to cross complain for the sum of $50,000 against the Gaiety Theater folk, who ac cused her of having neglected to marry her present husband, a Mr. Dalton. Suit has been entered against the De Koven Opera Company by Hillard Booth to recover $1000 as the prize offered by the company for a libretto, in a contest wb.ich was won by him. Booth's libretto was chosen out of three hun dred. - see Isabel Irving, who haa been Lao D- trlchstein's leading woman, haa been engaged by the Selwyn Company to ap pear In Chicago In their new play "C'n der Cover." e Frederick Warde. the Shakespearean actor now appearing In -"A Thousand Year Ago." will maka a tour of ten weeks on th Chautauqua lecture cir cuit at the close of the present season. giving recitals of the plays of Shake, speare and lectures on the same sub ject. .... Ida St. Leon's little slater Vera haa disappeared from her hotel. Jhe St. Margaret on Forty-second street In New York. Vera was In Portland as one of the equestriennes In "Polly of the Circus," In which Ida starred. Ida was here only a short while ago as Amy In "Little Women." Vera, who is only sixteen, wrote a letter to her mother and one to her sister Ida, both dramatic In phraseology and expressing despair at her inability to perfect her self in her work. The one to her mother reads: Dearest Mother: I realise that I have alway been in th way and that I can never do what Is right. I am going to do away with myself. I never could make any money, so I will not be missed. While I am writing this 1 am crying my eye out. I do not ask forgiveness for my crime, and I do not expect you to f-irglv me. It seem that everything I h.v4h don has been wrong. I expect I shall go to helL Tour wicked daughter, VERA. ... For tho first time in many rears Ethel Barrymore and her uncle, John Drew, will appear upon the stage to gether in May. in a revival of Sar dou'a famous play. "A Scrap Of Taper." This will be their flrat appearance to gether since 1894. when Miss Barrv- more made her deWut as an actress In Tho bubble Shop." In which piece Mr. Drew was then starring. Two yearSTing and lying next the Columbia River before that Mr. Drew had begun bis career aa a star under th management of Charles Frohman. to whose guidance he now returns. . . Blanche Bates. Marie Doro. William Gillette. Julia Sanderson. Donald Brian and Joseph Cawthorne are all under the Frohman banner next year. . . ,Tho Portland Ad Club Is going to aponsor "The Easiest Way" at the Baker for three nights week after next, Portland has never seen this play. It came aa far as San Francisco two sea sons ago with Francis Starr In the leading role but ft turned right around and went back to New York without visiting us. Opinion used to be pretty much divided as to whether Portland could view "The Fastest Way" and attll remain a sweet, pure, unsullied city. Since the advent of "The Lure." the "Blindness of Virtue." and the White Slave Pictures we are all past gradu ates In knowledge of easiest ways and the Ad Club will find It haa picked a winner. ... Soma Interesting plana have been di vulged concerning two new plays from the pen of Eugene! Walter that are to be presented next aeason. One of them is called "The Valley of the Moon." and la an adaptation from a novel by Jack London. Mr. Walter intends to feature his wife. Charlotte Walker, who s now appearing in his dramatization of John Fox's novel. "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine." ... Roland Hogue. the Australian actor, who plays the role of Alarie In Oliver Morosco's production of "Peg O'My Heart" at the Helllg Easter week. Is a much traveled actor. One of the most Important events in his professional career, was hla trip around the world as a member of the famous T. Daniel Frawley Stock Company. It waa the boast of the Frawley Company that they had appeared and played in every civilized port of call. On the tour young Hogue made with this organiza tion they played In Australia. New Zea land. South Africa, the Philippines. China and Japan, returning home by the way of England. The trip lasted a year apd a half. ... "Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Towl'e are at the Multnomah. The Importance of this personal Is that Mr. Towle is the Individual who for fourteen years pilot ed the Ben Hilr companies over the world, and this is the first season in all this time that he isn't doing it. Like breakfast foods there's a reason. Last Summer when he took the Ben Hur Company to London, he became Inter ested In the Stafford upon Avon Play ers and it is as advance man for this excellent company of all English play ers, from the Stratford upon Avon Theater, the only endowed theater In England, that Mr. Towle now visits Portland. The company will present Shakespeasean repertoire. It comes to the Kellig week after i9xt.- Yamhill Abead. SHERIDAN". Or.. April 7. (To the Editor.) I saw two notices In The Oregonian about the first roses bloom Ing outside, one in Portland, the -other in Ashland. I want' to tell you Sheri dan is Just a little In advance. On March 20 I had one in full bloom, another four days later, and four since. mukinc six roses on one bush and other buds ready to open. The variety is commonly called "o;d of Ophir." MRS. W. T. SHAW. PROMISES Or SEW VOTING SCHKMK ! Proportional Representation Offered aa Care fur False Registration. PORTLAND. . April 8. (To the Edi tor.) Aalde from what may be gained by proportional representation by way Of representing the different policies of government that dlvld. the citizen ship of this or any other state into different political parties, there are other very great advantages to be gained. Proportional representation will solve the short ballot cry that la and has been agitating the minds of the people. If the people may have their ideas presented and discussed where laws are made they will not resort to the- cumbersome, expensive, awkward method of the initiative. It Is not expected that proportional representation will change the political complexion of the assembly in a state having so great a majority as th. Re publlcans have In Orenon. but it will !tlve expression to new Ideas and not force them on the ballot for the pur pose of education., It will also bo a very great incentive for each elector to register with his own political party. As long as there Is no possibility of any minority party succeeding in ela tlon of Its candidates no Interest Is taken in the nomination -T the candi dates of that party and a false regis tration with other parties is made for the purpose of either giving that party a candidate not desirable or fur the privilege of expressing favor for some friend in another party. This Is clearly proven by consulting the registration and vote of the Re publican party for 1912, which shows some Se.OOO ls vore were cast for both Taft and Roosevelt than were listed in the total Republican reglstra tion of Oregon. I'roportional representation will give a shorter ballot, a truer registration and a. fair representation to th citi zens of this state. C. W. BAKZKK. The ballot under proportional repre sentatlon would be Juat a long as It la now, probably longer. Each party In Multnomah County woultj have the privilege of nominating 1! candidates for the Legislature. The only difference would be that the elector could vote for only one. If five parties name tickets it re quires Just as much study and Informa tion to find the one best man In the 60 as It does to find the 12 best men. The record, promises. alTUiatlona and chat acter of each of the 60 must be loarncd In order to pick out the beat. False party registration la not great ly effected. If at all. by the legislative ticket, to which alone proportional rep resentation applies. It la induced by contests for offices like Governor and United States Senator. The Democrats have gained the big prizes heretofore partly by registering as Republicans. It is a good atunt from their standpoint They are not likely to relinquish a chance at the big plums In order to get excited over the nomination of candi dates for the Assembly Just because a few of the latter would be certain of ulectlon. Mr. Barzee better try to think of a more reasonable argument for propor tional representation. IRRIGABLE LAM) NOT IN MIND. Mr. Reader's Criticism Wit Promo tloa oC Wvrthleaa Scab Ld. ROOSEVELT. Wash.. April 7. (To the Editor.) Permit me to say a few words about the letter of Edwin J. Montague, written In reply to my com munication concerning the sand blows, .volcanio rock and dexert lands adjoin- here. The lands at the higher eleva tions' require no comment and I, had no reference to them whatever nor to the ranchers who occupy them. They are all honorable men and the public or the unsuspecting do not have to be warned against them. They and their ranches and th. business they follow tell what they do without having to go back to an experimental station In Kansas for any information. I am writing this to put myself right and to show that I knew what I was talking about, not for any notoriety nor to get my name- in the paper nor to show my education nor to show where I was employed. ut a warning to those people who purchase and in vest through promoters without see ing first what they have to offer and to reply to the letters of Inquiry sent me. I would like to see not only this place but all places along the Columbia River maae to blossom us the rose and bring forth the fruit of the tree and the vine. Let tho States of hashing ton and Oregon harness the Ceilio Falls and distribute the elements which could be generated there to overcoming nature aa she la found here and will always be and can be only overcome by that other product of nature "water." Stop all tula hue and cry of good roads. Make homes for the people. When you get the peo ple you can easily get the good rolds. W. ri. REABEK. NO CHARGE M ADK FOR MARRYING One of the New Soelal Plana of Trinity C hurch in Chicago. Chicago Cor. New York Times. Marrlaice ceremonies for which no fee will he accepted is one of tli in novations which will be inaugurated at Trinity Episcopal Church in case a fund of $10,0u0 a year can be raised to make possible the extension of the church's activities. "We wish to make historic Trinity something like the Little Church Around the Corner in New lork. de clared Andrew R. Sheriff, chairman of the campaign committee, "It is propoaed to have a clergyman in at tendance at all hours of the day and night to offer spiritual consolation. perform baptisms and marriage cere monies, and attend to the physical needs of the poor. An after-midnight service on Sunday mornings for actors, newspaper people and those detained downtown laTe is also probable, while the social center work of the church will be greatly extended." Motion to Adjourn. BEAVERTOX, Or.. April 7. (To the Editor.) In a meeting of a society business was in progress when a per son rose and said, "1 move to ad journ." (It was nearly time to close.) The chairman put the motion and but one or two voted. It was then said oy the chairman. "You must vote unani mously for adjournment." Was It cor rect? MRS. ELIZA PORTER. A majority carries a motion to ad journ. It Is possible In the Instance cited that the chairman was in doubt as to the desire of the meeting and asked that all vote. Choice of Words. SALEM. Or.. April 7. (To the Edi tor.) The following sentence. "Rud yard Kipling achieved tho popularity of a cation at the early age of 27.' was used by a highly educated Hin doo. In his criticism of Kipling. Is the sentence correct? It sounds queer, at any rate. B. HOWARD. The sentence is not good. It would have been better to bave used the ex pression, "National popularity" or "nation-wide popularity." Aa it now reads the sentence indicates that Rud yard Kipling made the nation popular Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregronlnn of April , 1889. New York. April g. Baseball men in this city tendered a testimonial ban quet tonight at Delmonlco's to the bast-ball tourists who have Just re turned from a trip around the world. Amonji the speakers were: Ianlel Doughtrey. Mayor Chapln. of Brook lyn: Mayor Cleveland, of Jersey City; A. G. c'ptuMlnif. of Chicago: John M. Ward, of New lork; Mark Twln, Krastus Wyman and Chauncey 1. Lie pew. Seattle, April S. L B. Rinehart. W. T. Carroll. K. P. McDonnell and L. v. McKenxie. representing Union County. Or, asked the Chamber of Commerce to raise $20,000 towards a subsidy asked by G. W. Hunt for an extension of the O. & W. T. Railroad from Walla Walla to Uniam. The Idea is to ship to the Sound rather than to Portland in order to save $2 a ton. which It costs to get wheat from Fortlarhd to the mouth of the Columbia, Salem. April . Captain John Mul lan, claim agent for th Oregon. Wash ington & California, is in the city settling up some claims collected for Oregon from the Government. Albany. April 8. A meeting was held last evening for the organisation of a Y. M. C. A. Forty-three names were enrolled. Albany, April 8. William McCulloch. an amateur bicyclist of this city, made a trip to llarrlsburg and back today, a distance of 58 mile. In six hours. The East Portland " Council lat nlitht appointed John H. Hall mid Thomas R. Turnbull to act with two commissioners appointed by the com pany In fixing and regulating the water rates to be charpred by the Last Portland Water Company. Rev. Mr. Snodgrass, the new pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Last Portland, and hi family, have arrived from Youngatown, Ohio. . At th meeting of the Board of Trade yesterday it was suggested that the City Council levy a special tax for dredging purposes. Park Officer Myers finds It hard to keep people from walking on the slop ing banks and newly-sowed lawna In the City Park. . Jacob Kamtn, president of the 11 waco Railway & Navigation Company. haa placed an .order for seven passen ger cars. The benefit ball tendered Adolrh Flck at Turner Hall Sunday night net- i ted between 1400 and $500. FUk Is the fireman who was run over bv a hook and ladder truck last Fall and severely injure. Rev. B. F. Rattray, pastor of Em manuel Baptist Church, leaven this evening to visit his family In Oakland. The French residents met last nlsrlu and decided to celebrate the fall of tho Bastille July 14. The following offi cers of the day were elected: First honorary president, A. Labbf ; second honorary president. T. F. Tyaon: presi dent, J. Oodart; vice-president, C. Du pont; treasurer, J. Polntle; secretary, L. Levy. The steel bridge across the Snake River la completed. m B. Campbell, general freiarht agent of the O. K & N. Co.. haa completed ar rangements with the Pacific Coast Steamship Company for placing the steamship Idaho on the route between Portland and Fusret Sound. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of April 9, 1S4. Dr. J. W. Drew, well known to our citizens "as a prominent Democrat formerly and of late an officer in the provost marshal's office, has been ap pointed a paymaster in the Army. It Is whispered that the appointment was made upon the application of the Ore gon Senators without the knowledge of McBrlde. A dispatch from Washington dated Feb. 2S. says: Caleb Lyon, of Lyon dale. nominated Governor of Idaho by Lincoln, squeezed through the Senate today. San Francisco, April $. Ridgely Greathouse was re-arrested by tho provost marshal at Yreka yesterday. It la conjectured the object of his arrest Is to try him by a military commis sion for the violation of three differ ent oaths of alleglanca taken previous to the Chapman piracy affair. Chicago, April 6. A Salt Lake tele gram reports that a party of Boise emigrants were attacked by the In dians 6ft miles from Fort Hall. The Indiana were whipped. Died At Colijulta Kami. V. I., March S7. in the 44th year of his age, Henry Newsham Peers, Esq.. Hon Hudson Bay Company'H service formerly and for several years in ebarge of the Cowlltg Farms Estate. W. T. In tho case of the 30 casks of alu nd 20 casks of porter seised on llix Jenny Jones, the firm of Ladd. Reed Co. yesterday presented their petition to the Judge of the United States Dis trict Court for a remission of forfeit ure. The new drama "Leah the Forsak en." will tie produced at the Willamette Theater tonight. Edward A. Temple, deputy In tho County Clerk's office, has accepted an appointment as clerk In the quarter master's department at Fort Van couver. A. B. Hallock launched Ms new half- deck sailing yacht at the foot of Stark street yesterday. The dead body of K. D. Bre?ee was found on April 7 In Pollovk precinct. Clarke County, W. T. The verdict w as that be came to hi death from some cause unknown to the Jury. The choir of the Catholic Chnrrti of this city started for sa'.em yestrtfay morning, where tliey will assist in the exercises of dedicating a new church e'dlfiee tomorrow. Ararameat of m ldy'a Veld. Fl legend Blaetter. "Well, madam, if you don't pay the usual annual round of visits to :onte Carlo, Egypt, Norway and so forUi. 1 cannot enter your service. I am accus tomed to a fashionable style of life," said the lady's maid. Easter For The Children All children love Eastertide. They feel the Springtime interest in fresh, new things. Have you provided the v younger members of your family with what tb-y need for the early Spring daya? The advertisements in The Ore gonian are full of suggestions about all kinds of apparel for children. Head them thoroughly and consider what your children require and what you want them to have and then visit the shops. You will find your buying made easy if you have prepared your mind beforehand by knowing what our most reliable merchants have to offer you.