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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1914)
lo THE MORNING- OREGON! AN, TITTJRSDAT, APRIIi 1G, 1914. Wilt (&wmnm PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon, Poatoffioa u second-class matter. Subscription RaCta Invariably la A4taixe: " (BY MAID rtly, -ftooday Included, erne year. . . -. $8.o Daily, -Sunday Included, six mo n tie. 4-25 Lviily, "Sunday included, three roontns. . ttaily, Sunday included, one month..... .75 I.atly, without Sunday, one year....... a.VO taily, without Sunday, six months..... Iaily, without Sunday, tliree month.. 1.7i iJally, without Suuday, one mouth....- .60 Weekly, one year ? 1 Sunday, one year fHinday and "Weekly, one year. ........ - S.&o (BJ CARRIER) Daily, Sunday included, one year $9.00 aily, Sunday included, one month.... .75 How to Kemit Send post office money or 4r, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at Bender's risk. Give postomce address iu full, including county and state. Pontage Kntes VI to J 6 pages, 1 cent; IS to 32 pages, 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 3 cents; f'O to 60 pages, 4 cents; e- to 7ti pages, S dents; 78 to &'J pages, ti cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Business Offices Verree A Conk lin, New York, Brunswick building. Chi tgo, Stoger building. ban Francisco Office R. J. Bidwell Co, 74'J Market street. PORTLAND, TElliDAY, APRIL 16, 1914. EFFECTS OF NEW TARIFF. The Underwood tariff has now been In effect long- enough to enable Us to judge of its first results. These ire, as regards foreign trade, during the four months ending-- with Janu ary, an increase of 13 per cent In im ports of raw material, of 6 per cent in manufactures and of 20 per cent In foodstuffs, while there has been a decrease in exports of manufactures and the customs . revenue Is much less. The promised reduction in the cost of living has been slow in, com ing, though prices of commodities in general declined nearly 5 per cent In January and February, perhaps in fluenced to some extent by a decrease ft 15 per cent in the Transvaal's pro duction of gold during those months. The long-continued demand for re duction of iron and steel duties seems to be justified by the revival of the ateel industry in face of almost total cessation of buying by the railroads, the industry's best customers. Our Imports of iron and steel during the first four months of the new tariff were little more than $10,000,000, compared with $11,000,000 in the corresponding period a year ago, and our exports are Increasing. The New York Journal of Commerce pro nounces absurd the assertion that im ports would flood our steel market, when our production exceeds that of our only two serious rivals and when the surplus of these rivals would hardly make an impression on our market. The trust's unfilled orders increased in February; but showed some falling off in March, yet the steel mills are operating at 75 to SO per cent of capacity. In 1913 the trust's earnings iwere $29,000,000 ail ore than in 1912 -and Its payroll in creased 9.43 per cent. The textile industries have been aid to be hard hit by the new tarifr, though the knife was applied very mercifully to their duties and they were given free raw material. So far are they from complaining that Pres ident Wood, of the American Woolen Company, says it is "fully prepared to do business" under the new condi tions and the American Wool and Cotton Reporter says "the great ma jority of our mills are operating full time with a full complement of help." The Bilk Industry, -which remains well protected by the pretended reve nue tariff, enjoys a great volume of business, which is attributed largely to the demand for dance gowns aris ing from the tango craze. The only sufferers seem to be the woolgrowers, who are forced by the new law to contribute to the prosperity of the manufacturer". The great hopes of lower prices which -were raised by the placing of meat on the free list, have been fal sified, for the 33,500,000 pounds im ported in the last quarter of 1913 failed to affect retail prices. The ex planation is offered by the Wall Street Journal that imports amount to less than nine-tenths of our con sumption, and Secretary Houston ex plains that most of the beef from Ar gentina came from the beef trust's own plant, to itself. Thus free meat -has only facilitated the operations and increased the extortions of the trust, -which has proved invulnerable against all legal assaults of the Gov ernment. Free hides have not pre vented a large, decrease in imports; fience shoes are no cheaper. One industry "Which complains most loudly of the tariff's effect is sugar. The price of both raw and refined has declined materially and the con sumer has got much of the benefit, so he will turn a deaf ear to the cries of the growers. It may yet be too early to judge Of the full effects of the Underwood law, and may yet, as the New York Press and Kansas City Journal pre dict, be flooded with imports. But so far the. action of the Democrats has been vindicated only where they did as the progressive Itepubllcans proposed to do namely, reduce du ties on steel, textiles and : ugar. The vonsumer has not benefited where most ..was promised him namely, from the free market basket. The depression in the lumber and -wool-growing industries, contrasted with the activity in other industries, sus tains the contention of The- Orego nian, that the new tariff Is grossly discriminatory. JIASCFACTCRED WAR SCARES. There has recently been a new war care In Germany, provoked by the Cologne Gazette announcement that Russia had increased her army to 1,400.000 men and was gradually massing troops on her western fron tier. The Gazette suggested that an attack on Germany only awaited a favorable condition of the revenue, which would be attained in 1917, and the completion of new artillery and war material. It said that, had there been cannon enough to bombard the frontier ports, Russian cavalry would long ago have invaded Germany. x These alarming statements were echoed in. other German newspapers, tut they were pooh-poohed in others. The Socialist Vorwaerts described the article as designed to promote a fur ther advance in the size of the army and provision of new artillery and rifle a. This explanation is adopted by the London Times and the Paris Llberte. The Times, however, says the Russian military measures were known before the last increase in the German army and were adduced as a, reason for voting it. .An explanation of the motives for thla hubbub in Germany may be de duced from a pamphlet entitled "The "War Traders,", written by George Her bert Perrls and published in Eng. land. This writer reveals the close connection between the armament companies and the. governing classes In England, and Teaches the conclu sion that war scares are manufao tured for the purpose of causing mili tary expenditure to the great profit of the armament companies. In which many noble lords, members of Par liament, officials and army and navy officers are stockholders. There is no patriotism behind these scares, for the English companies have branch plants In other countries, including England's potential enemies in war, and the secrets which have been sold first to one country soon become the property of all. Thus the great mili tary nations are represented as hav ing loaded themselves with debt, os tensibly - for . their own . security, but actually for the enrichment of those who deliberately awaken and then prey upon their fears. We need to beware of the manu factured war scares of those , who have armor-plate, guns and ships to sell, as much as we should beware of those who, with their delusive talk of universal peace, would persuade us to neglect reasonable precautions for our own defense. The American Na tion cannot safely rely for security on arbitration treaties alone, bub must be prepared to meet a possible foe with his own weapons. Yet we should liberally discount the state ments of those who trade in war and fear of war. - A CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS. - It is agreeable to nvelcome into the world another tuberculosis cure. The company of them is already numer ous and somewhat respectable and a new -addition will find many polite competitors to keep it in counte nance. Most of these cures are short lived, unhappily, but the excitement of their careers no doubt makes up for their brevity. The cure of which we are writing hails from Astoria, though we are not certain from the accounts that it was invented there. Dr. H. L. Henderson, who seems to be sponsor for it, does not, as far as we can discern, claim to be the originator. - , It is a ' comparatively simple medi cament consisting of salicylic acid and guaiacol, which In the proper proportions are injected into the pa tient's blood. Salicylic acid is an, old friend of the public. It hi-s served before now as a sovereign panacea for rheumatism, gout and disorders of that pestiferous description. When its usefulness in that domain had be come curtailed it naturally sought for new fields of usefulness and finds them in the Various forms of tuber culosis. Guaiacol, as the reader prob ably knows already, is the methylated ether of pyrocatechin. The effects of the new remedy are most encouraging. Some little incon veniences follow upon the first injec tion, but they presentlyv disappear and the patient finds his cough di minished while his general -vigor im proves remarkably. Tonics follow with the regulation tuberculosis diet of eggs, cream and the like. Under this regimen a ravenous appetite de velops, which is stimulated again at the end of twenty days by another Injection. Such is the new treatment. It is said to cure every case of tuber culosis which has not reduced the patient to prostration. Hair a dozen treatments at most are sufficient to effect the cure. ' If these results stand the test of time and investigation, Dr. Hender son, or whoever invented this mar velously simple and potent remedy, has earned the gratitude of mankind. Hitherto ' every effort to attack the tuberculosis bacillus by Injections or direct applications to the diseased tissue have been abortive, but that proves nothing with regard to this ef fort. It may succeed where ail the rest have failed. TICK MEXICAN POWBKU-K1XJ. Having taken a firm stand in the Mexican matter, it is entirely within the range of probabilities that the United States will find the situation is to be likened to a rabbit trap. The farther we press our foot down on the Huerta government the farther into the mess we will find ourselves until armed intervention will be upon us with all its tremendous conse quences. Having concentrated in force on both coasts, what next? A flying spark would set off the magazines of war. Or that end might be precipi tated by a sort of International spon taneous combustion. That the pres ent crisis is freighted with dangers and dire possibilities is a conclusion that cannot be escaped. Barring an unexpected act of war. such as an anti-American outbreak, actual hostilities may be drifted into by a gradual course, provided Huerta doesn't back down completely. The landing of marines at Tampico and Vera Crua might not precipitate trou ble Instantly if the federals withdrew and the American forces were not fired upon. But if Huerta then con tinued defiant, even though not offer ing armed resistance, the American stand is one that would be weak ened by inaction. It might even be determined upon to proceed and oc cupy Mexico City. That would mean war. That Huerta will back down com pletely does not appear very probable at this time. In fact the suspicion grows that he is forcing the issue to save his face. His armies defeated In the North, his treasury all but empty, Huerta may have concluded that his only salvation lies in pro claiming that the Gringoes are com ing; that the "colossus of the North" is sweeping down on Mexico. Thus might he arouse a wave of antir American feeling and create new en thusiasm for his dying cause. True he could never resist the mailed fist of the American Government, but neither can he resist the tightening grip of anarchy and Villa. It is significant that no move has been made that might arouse the sus picions of the constitutionalists. The demonstration is aimed -solely at Huerta, . But any hope that a co operation of rebels and American forces would ensue in event of trou ble must be put on a very slender basts. If we engaged in strife with Huerta it is more likely that we should in the end find all the Mexi can malcontents united against us. Carranza and Villa might make a show of co-operation with us, but the Mexican character is fickle and the dislike of the American strong. It is entirely possible that we should have the rebels to contend with in the end, even as we had our erstwhile allies, the Filipinos, to contend with after we had disposed of their Spanish op pressors in the Philippines. Intervention, if l develops, will demand an Immense army. The Nary, now in motion, could do noth ing ,mort than make a bold show off the coast ports. The entire mobile Army, supplemented by the National Guard, both forces recruited up to full war strength, would be first called upon, providing a force of ap proximately 200,000 men. With the constitutionalist and various other rebel forces active, volunteers might also be needed to the number of from 50,000 to 100,000. These figures are in keeping with the War College plans and estimates. While the American arms would be victorious at once, the military problem presented by war, which is another term for intervention, would not be a small one. It would be the Philippines over again, but on an im mensely larger scale. Sweeping "aside organized resistance with an army of occupation, we should be confront ed by a long siege of guerilla warfare. The activities of an army of pacifica tion might continue over a number of years. War Department experts have agreed that from two to five years would be necessary to. reduce chaos to order. The cost in" human life and treasure would be heavy, a cost that would fall upon the United States as a world power in. carrying its "part of the white man's burden and extending 'the horizon of civilization. MUZZLES AND RABIES. As long as the City Commission refuses" to muzzle mad dogs it can hardly expect the State Board of Health to provide serum to cure ra bies patients. The favor would be a graceful one, of course, but it would look too much like pouring water into a sieve to . commend itself to practical men. A few months' muz ling of the dogs would prevent all danger from rabies and the serum would not be needed. There is something in the owner ship of a dog which seems to harden the heart and destroy human fellow ship. Just as a woman who acquires a flock of hens immediately grows callous to her neighbor's howls, to a man who gets possession of a dog is blind and deaf to the misery it causes. The city is no place either for dogs or hens. If we must have one of the nuisances, by all means let it be the hens, which are noisy and filthy, but compensate for their failings by lay ing an egg now and then. Dogs are noisy and filthy, but they do not lay eggs. Their principal public service is to raise the Old Ned when every body in the neighborhood wants to sleepr If a human being should con duct himself at night as the ordinary dog does he would be sent to the rock pile with hallelujahs from the entire community. Next to his noise the dog favors us with his bites. When most harmless these attentions cause seriotrs wounds. At their worst they communicate ra bies, a frightful disease which is growing much too common in this part of the world. Almost everyay's papers contain the account of some new case, and .unless treatment Is prompt and radical death is certain to follow. Were all dogs properly muzzled there would be no rabies. Human suffering would be immense ly diminished, but then the poor dogs would be sadly Inconvenienced. Since we are driven to choose between the welfare of men and the comfort of dogs, how - shall we decide? It is terribly puzzling. WHO'S TO, 15 LAM K? Tax Commissioner Galloway is perturbed over what he says is mis representation of the State Tax Com mission from one end of the state to the other with reference to the adop tion of the unpopular tax law by the Last Legislature. -- . We are not Informed as to what these misrepresentations consist of unless it be that Mr. Galloway con strues the fixing of responsibility upon the Commission for the adop tion of the law as misrepresentation. One of the prime reasons for hav ing a tax corn-mission Is the compli cated and debatable character of methods of levying and collecting taxes. Because such is a prime rea son for'.lts existence the Commission was instructed by-the Legislature that created It "to make diligent inves tigation and inquiry concerning the revenue and tax laws of other states and countries . .- . and with the aid of information thus obtained, to gether with experience-with and ob servation of our own laws, to rec ommend to the Legislative Assembly at each regular session thereof such amendments, changes or modifica tions of the constitution or laws as seem proper or necessary to remedy injustice or irregularity in taxation, or to facilitate the assessment and collection of putrtic taxes and revenues." in other words, the State Tax Com mission is supposed to be a body of tax experts upon whose advice the Legislature may act without on its own initiative inquiring into tax methods elsewhere or seeking de tailed information as to the working of our own laws. ' In the larger sense the Tax Com mission Is responsiSle for the law. It drafted the bill and .irged its adop tion. The sole change of conse quence made by the Legislature was for the better. The Legislature add ed the provision that one-half the taxes might be paid before April 1, only the remaining one-half being penalized at 1 per cent a month until paid. As originally drafted the law provided that if the taxes on any par cel of property werp not paid before April 1 the penalty of 1 per cent a month should be collected on the whole. - .If the Legislature is equally re sponsible with the Tax Commission for the mistakes of a tax law recom mended by the latter, then it must be that the Legislature is considered or ought in fact to be as much an expert in taxation as the Tax Com mission, and there is no need of a board of tax experts to advise it. GIVE AID TO BUSINESS. The Government spends over $5, 000,000 a year to increase the effi ciency of farmers, but it spends very little money on similar work for the manufacturer and merchant. ' By conducting inquiries, experiments and educational campaigns it has greatly promoted better farming. As to manufactures and distribution, its work has been confined chiefly to promoting foreign trade, to regulat ing railroad rates And to extinguish ing monopoly. Secretary Redfield has begun to extend its usefulness by conducting inquiries into selected Industries and their practices, but chiefly with a view to demonstrating the degree of greater efficiency ob tained by combinations. Business needs what Is already done for the farmer a general study of the methods and cost of produc tion and. distribution in each indus try, that the best ideas and practices may be placed at the service of all in order that the lent efficient may be raised to . the standard of the most efficient. This policy would reduce 1 cost and eliminate waste of time and material. It would thereby increase our ability to compete with other nations both In home and foreign markets, and would reduce the cost of living all along the line without reducing the reward any man re ceived, for his labor of hand or brain. This policy is the more desirable now that our Industries are adapting themselves to a lower tariff. It may be shown that increased efficiency will more than offset the degree of protection which has been, with drawn. The Taft Tariff Commission proved that the reason, why some pa per mills were unable to compete with Canada on an equal rooting was that they were obsolete and wasteful. The tariff should only equalize dif ferences in coet between the efficient at home and abroad; it should not. offset the shortcomings of the ineffi cient, for then it would constitute a premium on inefficiency. The work in question 'has been done by private enterprise in some industries by or at the suggestion of System, the Magazine of Business, but it has been hampered by serious lim itations. It is also carriojrl on by large corporations and trade associa tions, but there Is no provision for correlated study of all industries and for wide dissemination of the results. A. W. Shaw, editor of System, pro poses in an able editorial in that magazine the creation of a Govern ment Bureau of Business Practice, to undertake- thi3 work, as the several bureaus of the Agricultural Depart ment work for the farmer. He be lieves this bureau' should first study distribution, which he describes as "the great uncharted jungle of busi ness." He sums up the whole case for his plan In these words:- National efficiency and National well being are the sums of Individual efficiency and Individual well-being. Farms, factories. rallroadB, mines and stores are all bound up in a common circle of production and ex change. If any trade group bungles or slights its lunetions-over-eharges or un(ief-ere hot only does the Nation become a more backward factor in the world's business, but each frrouo and each individual Is in volved and must help to pay the cost of that lost motion or wasted material. By establishing the proposed bu reau, the Government would only be extending to the whole field the ma chinery with which it already covers the larger part of that field. The Ag ricultural Department is a clearing house for all knowledge about farm ing; the Interstate Commerce Com mission collates data about and regu lates railroads; the' Department of Labor cares for the Interests of work men; the Treasury Department con trols the world of finance. It is only appropriate that the Department of Commerce, which is to an increasing degree to regulate business, should render valuable service to manufac turers and merchants. The growth of the Y. M. C. A. as Shown by Its latest report is encour aging, but in a city as thrifty and intelligent be Portland it should re ceive a more adequate support,. The Y. M. C. A. systematically works for the welfare of young men. It does for them what no other organization even attempts. - Their morals, health and education are all cared for by competent guides -and recreation is provided under the best conditions. Such an organization ought not to be skimped for money. The Portland Rationalists, who use the Public Library rent free for their meetings, protest against any an nouncement of "Go-to-Church Sun day". In. the public schools. This an nouncement is quite unsectarian. It says, "Go anywhere, it makes no dif ference where." Its breadth includes the Rationalist meeting which will be held rent free in the Public Library on "Go-to-Church Sunday." .There is such a thing as straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel. There is a general impression that the Chief Industry of the French and Italian Riviera is gambling, but there is another -flower-growing. That district Ships $2,250,000 . worth of flowers annually to all parts of Eu rope, even as far as St. Petersburg. General Lee's grandson has been dismissed from West Point for failure to pass his examinations. But since it develops that he is a crack short stop and batter, he should Worry. The Navy can start but never settle the Mexican muddle, inasmuch as the boats are not provided With wheels for giving chase inland. Bryan must shed his boudoir cap, throw the grape-Juice bottle out the window, and' realise he is Secretary of a fighting Nation. Alaska is Wrought up over the an nual dog raoe. Ere long Alaska will be enjoying the greater speed of the Overland Limited. But does -the Senate really intend to do anything more than exercise its vocal functions over the free tolls matter? At least the Greasers will shortly have reasons to suspect that the "Gringo dog" is a bull terrier. The whole American fleet concen trating on Mexico is like lifting a plledriver to crush a gnat. Now that Villa haft dropped the correspondents he meets with noth ing but great victories. "Watchful waiting" has run its Idle course and brought us face to face with war. The office man who was sick Tuesday can get a relapse after to morrow. But let not the war news distract attention from the opening game. Harry Thaw has won another great legal victory and Is still in Jail. Huerta now finds himself between the devil and the deep sea. The moon will change tomorrow. Let the fan chirk up. The dogs should be muzzled and kept muzzled. Seattle appears to be overrun by society divas. Watch the elephant and camel tango. Surely, the weather will be good today. Give the- Third Oregon a chance to fight. Something doing all the time HOW. Stars and Starmakers . BY LEONE Cass bakb. t Ellen Terry says that to be success ful an actress must have a good heart and three Is imagination, independ ence and industry. - Mary Edgett Baker leaves at the end of May for Denver, where she' goes to play second leads at the Klitch Garden Stock Company. ' Nell McKinnon, a former Baker play er, is touring In the Southwest in "The Wolf." Livingston Lamed writes feelingly of the cabaret meal in the New York Re view: The while I stow away a bit Of relish, I can hear some dame Upon the platform throw a fit; Leastwise, It sounds about the same. My soup has scarcely "hit" on "high" Before a gaunt, anaemic gent Comes out and has a vocal try At: "Mother's Both Back Legs Are Bent" Vm fond of shad when It is prime, ' "Here. Garcon,, let me have a chunk!" "In Normandy, It's -blossom time." Y Gods! that sentiment is punk! They "castle-walk" through roasts as rare As any blawsted day in June. "Apaches' rant and dance and swear "Twist every pea upon my spoon. Oh! Entries, munched to mandolins Oh! salads, seasoned with a flute. Who'll answer for thy gastric sins? Whoa make the dread dyspepsia scoot? I only know that through the meal My teeth to melodies must crunch. COme on, old gal, and shake a heel; Lefa have an orchestra for lunch! Personal Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mc Gaffey are In Portland for a few days. Mr. McGaffey is in advance of the Eve lyn Thaw company. Mr. McGaffey is almost as' well known, though, not. In the same way. as Evelyn Nesbit-Thaw in her line of endeavor. Said line is short story writing and newspaper work. For five years Mr. McGaffey was connected with the New York Morning Telegraph, and it was while on this paper that he wrote the series of brilliant little sidelights on theat rical life in the chorus - which have since been published in book form un der the title of "Sorrows of a Show girl." Mr. MoGaffey s father owned two theaters in Denver at one time, and it was here that his young son acquired a knowledge of the inside workings of the show game. 'He became a civil en gineer and had decided to keep on be ing one, when the story-writing bee en tered his bonnet and be wrote two short stories, afterward published as the "Monologues of Mamie of the' Mer ry Merry." Editors in and around Den ver rejected them with thanksnot even polite thanks--ahd told him . to stay right on with the civil engineer Jobs. So he sent the manuscript to the Morning Telegraph and on the strength of the two stories landed a newspaper job. Mr. McGaffey has since then held newspaper. Jobs in Chicago, where he married Elisabeth Brock, one of Chi cago's best known newspaperwomen. Identified for years with thv Inter Ocean. Following tils early bent, Mc Gaffey inclined again toward the the atrical game. Because of his close knowledge of the Thaw trial, which he covered for the Telegraph. Mr. Mc Garfey was selected by Comstock & Gest to herald the tour of its princi pal figure. Evelyn Nesblt-Thaw, when she returned to the stage. Mrs. Thaw will give a matinee and night per formance at the lieilig one week from next Sunday. She heads a vaudeville and musical bill, with her dancing partner. Jack Clifford, a San Francisco boy who taught the Castles how to dance and introduced the Barbary Coast dances to the elite of New York. Again referring to Mr. McGaffey. he is a cousin of Ernest McGaffey, who was a member of The Oregonlan'B staff three years ago. Archibald D. Flower, chairman of the board, of governors of the Shakes pearean Memorial Guild at Stratford-on-AVon. was the guest of honor at a luncheon yesterday at the Multnomah Hotel. The host was Charles F. Towla. who is ahead of the Stratford-on-Avon players. The guest list included O. C. Letter. John F. Carroll, Calvin Hellig. W. J. Hofmann, Mr. Flower and his -brother. Major Oswald Flower, of the English army, who was one of the Commanding officers at the relief of Fckln during the Boxer trouble. Arch ibald Flower will deliver addresses be fore Reed College. Columbia University, St. Helen's Hall, the Shakespeare Club and the Drama League upon the work of the Shakespeare Association of Eng land. The Memorial Theater was pre sented to this British association In 1877 and is the only endowed theater in England. The donor was Charles Ed ward Flower, an uncle of Archibald Flower. Both Archibald Flower and Major Flower will be guests of the University Club at a dinner tomorrow evening. Mr. Flower is a graduate of Cambridge and rowed on the varsity eight. The lata Sir W. 6. Gilbert, who wroto the librettos of "Pinafore," "Mikado" and "Patience." In collaboration with Sir Arthur Sullivan, was always re garded as a tyrant by the chorus girls. "When the distinguished Britisher came hither to direct the rehearsals of "The Pirates of Pensance," the American chorus girls trembled with fear. At the first rehearsal one of the "merry, merry," provoked him greatly by missing her cue repeatedly. "What are your qualifications for this work?" demanded Sir William. "Perhaps none. said the chorister with temerity," "but have I not got to live?" "Not necessarily," duly responded the English satirist. And we all guessed right when we said that last season's vaudeville tour would not be Sara Bernhardt' fare well to us. - She has the fever of good bye tours and from Paris has Just Is sued an announcement that she is go ing to make another tour of the United States, beginning in October In New York. This route will also Include a tour of Austria. Russia and England, and she will probably go Into Japan to fulfil her engagement to appear at the Imperial Theater In Toklo, Although her latest appearance In this country was heralded as her farewell, she spoke so frequently to Interviewers about It being but on of her fare wells that It was fully expected that she would return. - KILL FLIES SCIENTIFICALLY. Methods In Mar on l-t Drive Writer to Verne of Poetry. EUGENE. Or., April 14. (To the Editor.) I have been waiting for ome one to point the way out of the com plexity that has arisen from our edu cational institutions embarking In the fly-kllllng campaign. I do not refer to Institutions fn the same town. For Instance, professors and their classes In the university; in the high school and In the grade Bchool have all en fiajied In making- "surveys." whatever that may mean, of my section of the city. Meanwhile the city and county health officers are harrying tho dis trict. But I don't mind that. I stay away, except nights and Sundays, anil let them harry. But when it comes to state leader ship In this great work, are we at liberty to make a sneak? Have we not a duty to perform? , Last w'eek the following news item was going the rounds: l"r. , of the University of Ore gon, who Is a tlf- expert of National re pute, says the bulletin issued by the Ore gon Agricultural College will do more harm than good, because of its collection of old rules and antiquated mtrhods. Where Is tho board with the quwr foreign name the Board of Higher Curricula? Why doesn't the Board get busy? Doesn"t it appreciate the seri ousness of the situation? But I reel the poetic mood coming on! Business for the Board. Call the board together soon! ' Call it for tomorrow noon! There's a conflict, there's a mix; Things are in an awful fix! Our professor. U. of O., Kxpert fly man here below. Our professor says, savs he, "Oh, the childishness of O. A. C! They mistake the problem quite! TIs to kill, but kill aright. And to kill "by mode antique. That were foolish, vain and weak. Phall we lower our' standards high? Unscientifically kill tlie fly? I protest in learning's name! These, my reasons fur the same: Why a professor ambulatory? Is't to tell In common story That which all may understand? Is't to swat with unstrained hand? No, Lucius, no! tf we'd magnify our places. We must nil keep serious faces. We must speak In tones profound. And, in words of learned sound. Tell the progress to the mlnlt. Ulse, forsooth, we'll Rot be in it! If we use the tried or common-place. Any duffer mar get in the race And outfoot us for the prize Bo the cynosure of languid eyes!" Ro I hold our tnan is right. And protest with all my might. Let there be no weak division! Let the board make its decision! Which, dear friends, which shall it be. University or O. A. C. T Call the board together soon! Call It for tomorrow noon. Lest through some mischance of luck Our professors run amuck. As they take their lecturing way's, To Wallowa and Coos Bay. ' To where Columbia meets "the bluer To , Lebanon and l.akeview! i Really, we must have. a. rciaenlial head in tills great statewide work : of ny swatting. U. P. LIFTER. umio.v AVEsin ron APrito.i'cii Choice of Bridge Commission Ipneld as Logical and Jnat. PORTLAND. April 15 (To tho 'lCd- tor). Concerning the interstate bridge, the argument that Derby street should be chosen Instead Of Union avenue, for reasons of economy and public benefit. Is amusing but not enlighten ing. It is also pleasing to know that we have gentlemen so active in the public's Interest and welfare as tax payer protectors: but equally sorrow ful to know of their desire at this late date to try and upset the well-thought-out decision of the Bridge Commission and the public's general approval of the tame. The principal objection to Union avenue, the chosen approach, it seems, are economy and a bugaboo scare that any well - regulated and properly tinanced lnterurban line will have dif ficulty in raising money enough to get within using distance of the bridge. The reasons that are advanced, we are told, are on the word of sundry engi neers and other parties unknown. The public should be informed of the names of these persons that their competency of Judging the points involved may be passed on. The decision of the Bridge Commis sion In choosing Union avenue the Portland outlet and approach of the interstate bridge Is. in our humble ODin- ion, both sane and logical. Consider ing that this thoroughfare la one of the widest and longest well-paved streets, as well as one of the oldest. It is easy to see that it is the direct and unbroken line of least resistance as the connecting highway with our sister State, of Washington. So, why this "tempest in the teapot" about ln terurban lines yet to be built, and sav ing money yat to be spent? Is it to oars unsuspecting taxpayers into be ing their own worst managers, or Is it to upset definite plans already In ac tion for the Improvement of local con ditions generally? For the greatest good, the Bridge Commission's answer air. njKiuu ana inose nacic of him should be that of Caesar, when on the banks of the Rubicon. He snld, "The die Is cast." ELIAS BKONu. Kins t the I'arla Thieve. London Sphere. Franchomme, who bears the title in Paris of King of Thieves, has been condemned to three years In prison. He Is the hero of 70 thufts, his prey for tne most part Having been Parisian jewelers. M. Franchomme has been em ploying his snare time whilo in nrlson writing his "Memoirs," in which he boasts of his marvelous dexterity, le Crl de Paris quotes a passage from tnese memoirs, which are. soon to be published: "My thefts, my swindles, will figure into the thousands. P.n-i Is truly the. city par excellence to produce a man so resourceful in his adventures, havinar at hand an inex haustible eprinsr of strategems. I have employed in this city a supernatural intelligence and no end of novel In ventions to obtaii money. I have turned the same tricks in Paris as In London and Brussels, but In Paris 1 did morn of them, until at last the Parisians could no more allow them selves to be taken." Origin of Adage. PORTLAND. April 15. (To the Edi tor.) The heroine In "Peg o' My Heart," In oti of her quaint scenes refers to the adage "You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow s ear." Can you give the origin of this phrase? J. L. F. This homely old saw came down from antiquity like the rhymes St Mother Ooosc. It is immortalised In the following lines by an unknown author: Ye pie he Is a pretty fowl. And wondrous good to eat. Ills ham Is good. Likewise his Jowl. And eke his pretty feet; But If ye try a thousand years, f trow ye'Il always fail. To make a silk purso of his ear. Or a whistle of Ms tall. Women's) Sixth Senna and Spider. London Times. A medical correspondent has had brought to hla notice the remarkable case of a woman possessing an extra ordinary sixth sense in regard to spiders. She could, the writer records, detect tho presence of a spider In any room she happened to be living in without having seett the Insect, or with out having any reason to suppose that It was there. The discovery was ac companied by violent sickness, malaise and even debility, but all this passed away on the spider being caught and removed from tho room. Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonian of April 16. 1889. Washington. April 15. The Supreme Court today decided against the claim of Adam Badouu for pay aa a retired Captain in the Army while he was Consul-General In London. Redbanks, N. J April 15. Five students from Princeton, among them Chester ?. 15oloh. son of the United States Senator from Oregon, came her on Saturday and were arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct- I'olph Was wounded on the head by an officer, who accused him of attempting to draw a pistol. After a hearing a Justice of the peace discharged them. The stu-dt-nts gave him several college cheers. Olympla. April 15. Governor Moore tod;iy issued a proclamation calling an election of delegates to a constitution al convention to be held at Olympia on July 4. The election is to be held on May 14. Astoria. April 15. David Davis and a man from St. Helens are going to start a weekly paper at llwaco. Brownsville. April 15. The plant of the roller grist mills and the woolen mills were bought for $30,000 today by a home company. Seattle, April 15. Acting Chief of Police Wlllard today arrested the pro prietors of 11 houses of lllfame. All the gambling houses jn the city have closed in anticipation of a raid. Paris. April 15. number of docu ments proving that Boulanger tamp ered With the Army have been submit ted to the Senate. The City Council of East Portland yesterday took the Initial steps In tho direction of a sewerage system. H. Y. Thompson, of the Oregon Real Es tate Company, said the company was about to make extensive improvements and to sell a larce amount of its prop erty, and wanted a water supply and system of sewers. There is a scarcity of houses and oitices in the city. The Willamette Pulp & Paper Com pany has begun work on its establish ment for making wood pulp by the sulphite process, which will cost $100, ooo. John D. Daly, of Newport, has Just made an extended exploration of the country around the headwaters of the north fork of the Santlam. The panther which has terrorised tlia cillzens of Scappoose is dead. It stolo a hog, which became entangled In a snake fence, and was obliged to leave It. Thn owner dosed the hog with, strychnine and when the panther came back, it ata too much pork. The First Reslment Band was re organised hist night. Following are the members: T. It. Appelhoff, lead er: Frank Clinton. Percy Collins. M. Smith, Thomas Parrot t. Joseph Tavlor. Chris Lolllok, T. Williams, Robert Welck. J. Jones, L. L. Dav, G. N. Wolfe. Charles Towell. S. Webster, Charles Ring, K. Harper. J. I. Hol land. S. R. King, formerly manager of the Lombard Investment Company. In this city, has been appointed general man ager for the Pacific Coast. C. H. Lom bard will remain manager of the Port land office. J. B. Hammond, superintendent of the Alaska Gold Mining Company, is in the city. D. C. Stone has been appointed road supervisor of Ihe new Albina district. About 10"0 Indies assembled In the new Tark Theater yesterday to hear Mrs. Annie Jenness Miller m Ideas on health and comfort in dress. Half a Century Aga From The Oregonian of April 16, 1864. The Copperheads of Washington County met in mass mooting In the courthouse at lllllsboro on April 2 and elected S. V. Knox and Thomas Hoover delegates to the Copperhead convention at Albany. The meeting indorsed the traitorous resolutions' and platform of the Yamhill Copperhead convention. The friends of th Union met at Sublimity on April 6 for the purpose of oraanislng a Union Club. After a speech by J. Kernoyer and the adop tion of resolutions, the following offi cers were chosen: J. Kernoyer. presi dent: W. Porter, vlce-preeldent: J. Jones, secretary: 1- M. Gooff, treasurer. Professors Crawford and Beach, fol lowed by the students of Sublimity Col lege, filed Into tho building and treated the meeting to patriotic sonss. There exists in this city an organ ized gansr of thieves. Last Wednesday night they made a raid in the vicinity of Yamhill and Second streets, enter ing the premises of J. F. McCoy, J. W. Sutton and J. M. Strowbridge, but did not secure much of, vaJuc Improvements are rapidly being made in this c-lty.' K. M. Burton has recently furnished n dralt for & very fine, dwell ing, two stories high, with a basement, to be built for Dr. Weatherford at the corner of Salmon and Second streets. Near Washington, on Sixth, a new dwelling is being constructed. The thrilling tragedy, "Pirate of tlic Isles," will be performed this evening. Mrs. Hayne appearing aa Imogene and G. B. Waldron us "Bertram. Among- the numerous arrivals In Ihe city yesterday of persons who are trav eling to our new mines were two coach loads of passengers from Marysvillc, Cal. They report hundreds more on the way. Itose was attached yesterday to the fireplug at the corner of Washington and First streets, and It was found to be a pretty good institution. Benjamin Thornally, of this city, has sold to the Government lOO.OOO brick, to be used in construction of defences at the mouth of the Columbia River. A huge pile of siabwood corded tip on tho sidewklk between Front and First streets, on Taylor, fell over with a crash last evening. J. F. Brink has Just finished a fine, oil paintinc. "Venus Rising from the Sea." a copy of a picture) In the gallery of Prince Wolkonvkt. The copy is on exhibition at Sutton's shooting gal lery, and will be put up at a raffle on the. 2Sd Inst. Sending It Back Women often say when making a purchase. "Oh, well, it I don't like It. I can send it back." Thia is a bad custom Tiad for the retailer because it entails unnecessary deliveries and collections; bad for the customer because it entails loss of time in making a second selection. Also, it is one of the many a-rainx of sand that make tip tho "high cost of living." Women who read the advertise ments contained In such newspapers as The Oregonian know before they enter a shop what they want, and Vo themselves and the merchant time and trouble by making satis factory purchases on their first trip.