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Postage itattes 13 to 1 pages. 1 cent; la to &2 pages, 2 cents; 114 to 4a pages. 3 cents; 60 to O0 pages, 4 cents; 2 to 76 pages, 6 cents; 78 to U2 pages, o cents, foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Business Offices Verree A Conk 11 n, Mew York, Brunswick building. Chi cago, Stager building. ban rraucisco Ullloe it. J. Bldwsll Co. 742 Market street. PORTTAJiD, TUESDAY, MAY S, 1814. XHJt MiDKKAL, RKSERVli liO.VBD. In. selecting Richard OIney as gov ernor or the Federal Reserve Board, President Wilson has made a choice which will meet the approval of the people in general and of business men in particular. The President could not have appointed a Democrat who would command the confidence of the people more fully. Mr. Olney's distinguished services as Attorney General and later as Secretary of State under President Cleveland have lifted him into a place in public es teem which is above partisanship. As executive head of the board, he will be a commanding figure in its councila and will insure that the gen eral interest will be the first consid eration. He la old, but his participa tion in the canal tolls controversy shows him to be still mentally alert, and many men of his age have achieved great things. The President's choice for the other four places on the Board indicates a purpose to disarm at the outset those critics of the currency law who feared that public control would be synony mous with political control. As the law requires, two of the men selected are experienced in finance, Paul War burg and H. A. Wheeler. The former 1s a member of one of New York's great banking firms, but was a staunch defender of the currency bill when bankers in general were severe ly criticising it. Mr. Wheeler is not only a banker, but is president of the National Association of Commerce and in that capacity must have broadened his horizon beyond that of the .bank. Mr. Denman will repre sent not only the Pacific Coast, but, being a lawyer and economist of the first rank, will represent also busi ness interests in general. Mr. Har ding, of Birmingham, Ala., is not even mentioned in Who's Who, but Representative Underwood can doubt less tell all about him. He is evident ly to care for the Southern agricul tural and manufacturing interests. Actual opening of the Federal re serve banks should not be much longer delayed. Members of the Board must take the oath of office within fifteen days after receiving notice of their appointment and must meet on a date set by the organiza tion committee. The law allows banks thirty days after notice to sub scribe to stock of the reserve banks. As notices were issued about the be ginning of April, the subscriptions should soon be in Washington. When the minimum amount of stock re quired has been subscribed, five banks in each district must be designated to organize the reserve bank. When organization is completed, the com mittee will be free to call for pay ment of the first installment of stock subscriptions. By that time the Fed eral Reserve Board should have or ganized and should be ready to name the three appointive directors of each regional bank, one of whom is to be chairman and agent of the Board in its dealings with the bank. It Bhould be practicable to have the new system in operation, with one sixth of the stock paid in and -with reserves of the member-banks in the regional bank vaults, by July 1, in time to finance the Western harvest. By October 1 the second and by Jan uary 1, 1915, the third installment on stock would then be paid, and the nw banks would be fully capitalized and In full operation. The remaining half of the stock subscriptions would be subject to call by the Federal Re serve Board. Thus one of the serious obstacles to business activity bids fair to be re moved before Summer is far ad vanced. The Administration can re move another by permitting the rail roads to earn enough revenue to put them on a solid financial footing. There is no scarcity of money, and the new banking' system should make the money market comfortably easy but those who can give good secur ity have generally ceased borrowing until business Justifies them in in creasing their obligations, and those who would like to borrow cannot gen erally give the required security. Thus there is a deadlock in the money market which can only be broken by a revival of business which will en able would-be borrowers to show good security, and by a shading of Interest rates to a point which will tempt those to borrow who already have good security. The business of the country is at that point where it needs only a slight push to start it on the road to pros perity. The Federal Reserve Board will have the opportunity to give it a vigorous push and Mr. OIney could not round out his honorable career in a better manner than by Inducing the Board to set things moving. Let us hope he will do so and that other agencies of the Government Presi dent, Congress and Interstate Com merce Commission will follow suit. 184 COr XT THEM 134. Governor West. It is said, does not Intend to be a candidate for office. Then why the excited defense of his administration particularly the ve toes? Is it hoped to cast a glow of promise on the Residuary Legatee who will follow in his footsteps if he gets a c nance 7 Vetoes, vetoes, vetoes. Did he turn out anything else? There are 134 of them count them 134. What a pile they do make! Most of them are- the product of an Impetuous and quarrelsome disposition; economy is an afterthought and a long time after at that. But there's the record. Nobody can beat it -unless it be the Residuary Legatee. Meanwhile the public would be in terested in learning, provided the West administration is a campaign Issue, what the Governor has done beside pile up veto messages, call out the militia and liberate convicts. His administration has been the most ex travagant in the history of Oregon, yet the only defense of it is an enu meration of 134 vetoes. His supporters may get a hint in Olympia. Recently an article from that city told how the boards ' and commissions under the control of the Governor of Washington were spend ing less than the amounts available. Let us hear what Governor West is doing along the same line. He has as much power as the Governor of Washington over his official family. The enumeration of 134 vetoes, to those who know their inspiration and the difficulty the Governor has in keeping in harmony with his official associates, is about as informative as a statement that the Governor ate 134 eggs for breakfast. SHOWING Hl'EBTA WHAT'S WHAT. The Oreitonlan. as usual, criticising the Administration's Mexican policy without re gard to the facts in the case, states that "we have failed to crack the Huerta nut." Maybe so, but It looks as If Huerta -was in the position where he will have to come out of his shell without cracking. Results are what the President is looking for and riot a "cracking bee," and to an unbiased observer It would seem as if he was getting them. Eugene Guard. Let us pray that he will. It will be a tremendous, relief to the American Nation to escape the Mexican im broglio. The Wilson policy has been directed exclusively to the elimina tion of Huerta. Apparently, Huerta is about to be eliminated through his own more or less voluntary retire ment. But who will have the temer ity now to say that the - Mexican problem will then be settled? Even a fatuous and unthinking Democratic follower of a partisan Democratic flag, like the Eugene paper, can now see that with the retirement of Huerta. the Mexican situation has merely entered into a new phase of disturbance and turmoil, and the way to get orderly government for Mexico will not be at all cleared. We are not making war on Mexico. Certainly not. Merely on Huerta. We let him alone so long as he merely tolerated, or provoked, murder of Americans, confiscated their proper ty, despoiled their homes, and made Mexico desolate. But when Huerta, after insulting the American flag and apologizing for the affront, refused also to tip his hat, we sent our war ships and our soldiers to show him a thing or two. TALK AND PERFORMANCE. Wherever I have gone I have found Democrats coming to my support because of The Oregonian's attacks on me. The Ore gonian fought Chamberlain, it fought West, and now It Is fighting me. I find Dem ocrats everywhere asking, "Why this great interest of The Oregonian in the Democratic primary?" From a statement by Dr. C. J. Smith. The Democrats who are asking that question will, we hope, remain at home, and refuse to join the bien nial Democratic Invasion of the Re publican primary. After the primary, when Dr. Smith is the Democratic nominee if he shall be nominated as a result of persistent interference in a Democratic primary by The Ore gonian we shall find, of course, that he is only a "nonpartisan" after all. Or is it possible that he intends to introduce a revolution in the methods of our most successful Democratic place-hunters, and frankly ask to be elected Governor because he is a Democrat? The doctor's phonographic twaddle about law-enforcement and economy is of course furnished from Salem. But it is a daring pose for him. The real Smith idea of law enforcement. as Illustrated by the Smith record as Mayor of Pendleton, is wide-open gambling, open saloons at all hours and for seven days in the week, and free-and-easy red-light district. The real Smith idea of economy, as illustrated by the Smith record in the State Legislature, is to vote for any man's bill, provided that man is willing to vote for yours. The Oregonian says, without fear of successful contradiction, that State Senator Smith, of Umatilla, voted for more bills carrying appropriations, during his four terms at Salem, than any Legislator in the history of Ore gon. Tet he talks glibly of economy! CONGRESS I .OAFS OX THE JOB. Congress has been dawdling along with legislation until the session has grown, old and the dog days are near. Perhaps it hoped that President Wil son would relieve it of some of the tasks he had given, it, -but he is evi dently not that kind of a. President. Between the lines of the announce ment that the anti-trust bills, the canal tolls repeal bill and the rural credit bill are to be pushed through we can read his insistent demand that the programme be carried out. Congress should have known its master from the experience of the extra session, but it has an incurable habit of "loafing on the job." The House is only less wasteful of time than the Senate. It has spent days in discussing the municipal affairs of Washington and the system of taxa tion adapted to that coddled city. It permits members to discuss any sub ject under the sun without any rela tion to the measure or motion under consideration. A rural credit bill may be before the House, but mem bers wander off at will into a disqui sition on Mexico. As for the Senate, it acts as though the sole purpose of its existence were talk. "Vice-President Marshall re cently made a formal ruling that un der its rules its members are free to talk on any subject at any time. Sen ators talk through pages of the Con gressional Record on minor points of order. If some member's feelings are hurt, half a day is devoted to ex ploitation of his grievances and to the mollifying of his wounded sensibilities. The amount of time devoted to a subject in the House particularly is in inverse ratio to its importance. Thus debate on the canal tolls bill was limited to sixteen hours and that on the anti-trust bill is to be limited to twenty hours, though as many days could be profitably devoted to them. But members are permitted to fire off speeches at will on their pet fads, and several hours were con sumed in discussing the salary and livery of Mr. Bryan's coachman. As for the Senate, it is hopeless. Between them the two branches of Congress have made the Congression al Record a boundless ocean of words. Yet they complain that the people do not read that bulky Jour nal. It is a good thing for Congress that the people don't read it. If they did, the bored readers might do some thing desperate. New York is progressing along the road to social and industrial Justice. The Court of Special Sessions recent ly upheld a law prohibiting night work by women, and the New York Tribune h will reverse a decision by which a similar law was held unconstitutional a few years ago and gives credit to Oregon for developing such legisla tion in this country. The Nation is gradually coming to accept the prin ciple that one of its finst duties is to guard the health of those who are to bring the next generation . Into the world. GENERAL BIC&USS. General Daniel Sickles so long out lived his distinguished contemporaries of the Civil War that hj seemed al most to belong to a younger genera tion. His National fame was won at Gettysburg, where he lost a leg de fending the Peach Orchard against the Confederates. This" misfortune did not, however, cause his with drawal from the Army. He fought subsequently In other great battles and always conducted himself worth ily, i but never with such ability as to win the implicit confidence of his superiors. Sickles' nature was passionate and romantic. He lacked that power of deliberate Judgment upon men and situations which would have made him a great commander. Meade, who held the chief command at Get tysburg, seems to have been pursued by an unkindly fate which kept him down, but if Sickles never rose to the eminence which he may have felt that he merited, we can easily read the causes in his own character. Not long after the Battle of Gettysburg the chief command of the Union armies was given to Grant, who was before Vicksburg with Sherman when that terrible conflict took Dlace. Many believed that Meade should have received the command as a recognition of his unsurpassed serv ices to the country, but he was over looked. Perhaps he was not trusted. There is no evidence that Lincoln ever regarded Meade with uncommon favor. Sickles served in a succession of distinguished positions after the Bat tle of Gettysburg, but never as com mander-in-chief. When Grant laid down the chief command of the Army ln 1869 to become President he fixed upon Sherman as his successor. The latter held the position until 1883 and then It went to Sheridan. It is the verdict of history that these three men were the supremely great fig ures of the Civil War on the Union Side. Whether any one of them equaled Lee in military genius is a question upon which writers will probably continue to debate forever. Sickles never has been mentioned among the greatest Federal officers. but there is no doubt that his talents were exceptional. Sheridan outlived Grant, Meade and Sherman. He was also in the West at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg. Later in that same sea son he was with Thomas at Chicka- mauga, where he rendered valiant service. The next Spring he was transferred to Virginia and in August Grant sent him to the Shenandoah Valley, which had been a granary for the Confederate army throughout the preceding years of the war. His orders were to make the valley use less to the enemy and he obeyed with such terrific efficiency that his raid became a portent to the whole South. It has been questioned whether the destruction he wrought was really necessary as a military measure. Might he not have' accomplished the same end with less cruelty? But neither Sheridan nor Grant were half-way men. What they undertook to do they did completely. Their motto was that "it is better to be safe than sorry," and this iron rule was applied by Sheridan with thorough going ruthlessness in the Shenandoah Valley. Grant came to the East in the Fall of 1863 to assume command of the Union forces and Sickles served un der him in Virginia as he made his way toward Richmond through diffi culties which would have discouraged a less dauntless character. Sherman stayed on in the West and a month after Sheridan went to Virginia to serve with Sickles under Grant he was ready for his march through Georgia to the sea. The natural se quel to this tremendous adventure was his northward march to meet Grant before Richmond. Between them the two great Generals squeezed the Confederacy together like a lem on and left very little juice in It. Sickles' part in these events was that of a competent subordinate. There is no doubt that his superiors always admired his valor more than they did his intelligence. As a comparatively young man in Congress General Sickles demon strated his capacity to take the bit in his teeth and perform spectacular rather than judicious acts. Suspect ing that the District Attorney of the District of Columbia had been im properly Intimate with his wife. Sickles shot the offender. The jury before whom he was tried sympa thized with his application of the unwritten law and acquitted him. This misadventure did not seem to impair Sickles' prospects at all. though it is doubtful whether now adays a man who had done such a deed would be admitted to high mili tary or political honor by the Amer ican people. But that was in the year 1859, a period of unprecedented turbulence in our public life, when much violence was Inflicted and en dured. It was only three years be fore that time, in the Spring of 185 6, that the South Carolina hero, Preston Brooks, assaulted Charles Sumner in the Senate chamber. The bully, who very faithfully represented the senti ments of the slave oligarchy, did not use a pistol like Sickles, but attacked his victim with a club. Sumner was sitting at his desk when the blows began to rain down upon him and was taken completely by surprise. In his efforts to extricate himself from the desk he struggled fearfully, but for a few moments he was at Brooks' mercy and received injuries from which, he never fully recovered. Public life had its excitements at that time which our less robust gen eration of politicians would scarcely envy. .Brooks was loudly applauded by the slaveholding element for his cowardly deed. The section of the country which - talked Incessantly about its chivalry made much of a man who had brutally assaulted a helpless and unarmed opponent. Sumner's offense was his speech on "The Crime Against Kansas," in which he exhibited with unsparing truthfulness the outrages of the slave power against the free-soil settlers along the Missouri border. Truth was something that slavery never could endure. Jt invariably took refuge In suppression either crafty or violent. The whole country was tolerant of Sickles" use of the unwritten law. Lincoln gave him a command In the Army as willingly as if he had always been a man of peace and order, and public opinion approved. Very likely his truly Christian Blindness to his erring wife won him favor with the people, since they are more apt to be moved by sentiment than by rigor ous logic. The atmosphere of the time was emotional. The country was swayed by tidal waves of passion and Sickles seemed to Invoke that higher Justice to which the Nation was al most ready to appeal when he took the law into his own- hand. It is quite an Innovation to arrest for perjury eleventh-hour witnesses for the defense of condemned mur derers, but District Attorney Whit man, of New York, has established a precedent worthy of imitation. Two of the witnesses who made affidavits designed to delay, and, if possible, prevent execution of the four gun men have confessed that they per jured themselves and one of them is said to have named the man who paid him for the crime. Evidence offered under such circumstances should always be looked upon with suspicion. If it were genuine it would be produced at the trial, but it often imposes on susceptible Gov ernors and pardon boards. Perhaps we are to witness a mod ern rehearsal of the Wars of the Roses between the suffragists and antis. The former have chosen yel low for their sacred hue, while their antagonists wear red. Between York and Lancaster it was white and red, so that the modern revival of the contest is not mere servile imitation. York and Lancaster reconciled their troubles by marriage finally, but we do not. quite see how the suffragists anl antis could adopt that solution. Frank Chance says: "A war with Mexico ' is bound to prove a great baseball hardship." It would be ter rible if the bleachers were deserted while thousands gathered to read war bulletins. But up-to-date managers might reflect the bulletins on a trans parency on the backfield fence, or have them read by the umpire. The real disaster would come if the J10. 000 beauties were to catch the war fever and enlist. This definition of sausage is give'n by Dr. Goldwater, Health Commis sioner of New York: Sausage and sausage meat shall be held to be a comminuted meat from cattle or swine, or a mixture of such meats, either fresh, salted, pickled or smoked, with or without added salt and sptces, and with or without the addition of edible substances. Now we know what sausage should be, but how many of us know what is called sausage really is? Professor Scudder, of Corvallis, sends us an interesting bulletin on corn, in Oregon. He does not believe that "corn will ever become a com mercial crop in Oregon," since our climate is against it, but it will be increasingly valuable for dairy feed ing. Professor Scudder gives all the information a farmer needs in order to grow corn successfully. In bulletin No. 121, treating of po tatoes,- Professor Scudder suggests that starch manufacture would be profitable in Oregon. We import all our 'starch from other states when we have plenty of potatoes to make it at home. For this purpose small and inferior tubers are worth 50. cents a hundred pounds, which is far better than letting them rot. The shades of night are falling fast upon the older generation of opera queens. Nordica and Calve have taken their leave of footlights and laurels. Mary Garden begins to shjow by in firmities of temper that she is not so young as she was. It is time to turn our eyes toward the younger gener ation. Anti-suffragists are asked to wear red roses on their breasts suffrage day. It may prove something like wearing orange ribbons on St. Pat rick s day. Frisk your boy in a day or two. Burglars stole fifty automatic pistols the other night and there will be bar gains in surreptitious sales of "hard ware." Little-Navy advocates are prepar ing for their campaigns in the House. Their efforts will have the full ap proval of Europe and the Orient. The Baker preacher who declined to take in the Sunday baseball game but telephoned to know the score was at the game in spirit, at least. If mediation fails after Huerta has fortified the route to Mexico City that shipment of 800 American coffins may have to be re-enforced. The general Weather Bureau bav Ing predicted violent storms for the end of the present week we should enjoy perfect weather. The British treasury faces a heavv deficit. But no doubt John Bull n struggle through until we get his canai working. -uispaicnes irom vera Cruz an nounce that Huerta is on the verge of presenting his formal resignation. Again or yet? It Is reported" that" thlrtv Mnrmnno have just been driven out of Northern Mexico Must be merely part of one family. Vow they are trying eugenics on the steelhead salmon. Take it all In all, this is a world of progress. Opera chiefs had heavy losses all along the line the past season. Back to the spaghetti factory! The Greaser troops around Vera Cruz are trifling with fire when they bait General Funston. The Oregon Senators seem to have enough pull to draw their salaries and mileage. Sugar advances a trifle today, as the Oregon strawberry begins to redden. Great Britain needs an army of Greeks to handle her suffragists. Is there no river Funston can swim and get his hooka on Huerta? Huerta's resignation Is again in the hands, of Dame Rumor. Taps for the last of the old Gettys burg leaders. Election day and then the Rose Festival. point heretofore: overlooked. Ipllfter. In lihymr. Aiks for Certain News Fi-oa. the Front. EUGENE, Or. May . (To the Ed itor.) I think I have & real grievance. When you printed my war poem last week, you separated the poem from the explanation, and that is more than any upllfter"a verse wiU stand. I am very sorry to have to do the thing over, for it's not so easy to write war poems as it is to talk uplift. The war poem I enclose Is not up to the other. It is only a sort of last minute substitute. To summarize: I am an uplifter. I can talk of files. 1 can read erotic plays with fair expression, and. what is far worse, on a pinch I can write them. I can write, too. war poems and so serve my country in times of stress and storm. Now. to be very frank, why should 1 not be attached to one of our educa tional Institutions, as a sort of profes sor of thtngs-in-general, and go around on a regular scnedule, and once a month have the sweet satisfaction of little jingle of state monev deer. down in my breeches' pocket? And now for the war poem: A, Vera Cru, The Admiral stood on the quarter deck. it tnat is the spot where Admirals be. But there, or where, I little reck. And little I know of the sailen sea. His port was high, and well beseen In one who waits for gasolene. The mariners bold had gone to land. Not, as sometimes it haps, for booze. Nor yet with red war's stern demand. No, guileless they went to Vera Cruz, No thought of the sordid nor the mean. And boldly they went for gasolene. And time sped on. as time will do. That tricked Napoleon at Waterloo. Brought low the mighty Charlemagne. And. eke, each haughty Prince of Spain, Transferring kingdom and demesne; But I forget that gasolene! Sing, muse, the long delay. In patience borne; The late return; the shamed tale of arrest: The lame excuse; the righteous scorn That fiercely surged the patriot breast The President at the midnight phone. in pajamas, Dut, let us hope, alone. Faint morn on old Ulloa's bav. Where grim the gathered warships lay; The debarkation; the impetuous charge; i no city, ours: But wny enlarge? For this we all In print have seen. But say! Got we that gasolene? U. P. LIFTER. (As the thoueht in this verse cannot be adequately expressed by use of any word that rhymes with Tampico, the slight historical error has been passed by the State Inspector of Versification and the Commissioner of Poetic Li censes.) POE'S DEFENSES OF" "THE RAVEN" Autograph Letter of Poet Selllnsr for 700 at New York Recalls Story. Edgar Allan Poe's defense of "The Raven" as a poem, in the form of an autograph letter in three full quarto pages, written December 15, 1846, to G. W. Evelett, of Phillips, Me., was sold for J 700 at the auction of Americana collected by Jonn Boyd Thatcher, of Albany. George D. Smith bought that and other curious autographs. for the purpose of poetry It Is Quite sufficient that a thing is possible," Poe wrote, "or at least that the Improbabil ity be not offensively glaring. It is true that In several ways, as you say. the lamp might have thrown the bird's shadow on the floor. My conception was that of the bracket candelabrum affixed against the walls, high up above the door and bust, as is often seen in the English palaces and even in Rome of the better houses in New York. "Tour objection to the thinking; of the footfalls is far more pointed, and in the course of composition occurred so forcibly to myself that I hesitated to use the term. I finally used it. be cause I saw that it had. in its first conception, been suggested to my mind by the sense of the supernatural with which it was, at the moment, filled. No human or physical foot could tinkle on a soft carpet therefore the tinkling of ieet would vividly convey the super natural impression. "Your appreciation of 'The Sleeper' delights me. In higher qualities of poetry it is better than 'The Raven." but there is not one man in a million who could be brought to agree with me In this opinion. 'The Raven,' of course, is far the better as a work of art but In the true basis of all art 'The Sleeper' is the superior. I wrote the latter when quite a boy." ATHLETIC COACHES IX SCHOOLS. One Who Has Worked for Nothing Says They Should Be Paid. SHERIDAN. Or..' May 8. (To the Ed itor.) I would like to differ with the High School Lover who wrote in The Oregonian that because the athlete does not receive pa,y, the coach should not either. What novice in any line receives any pay, and what skilled and accomplished workman is ever asked to do his work gratis? What the ath lete learns is sufficient reward for the time and energy he fives while learn ing. Possibly the Lover forgets that the coach has been through years of gruelling toll to fit himselt to be a coach, besides spending his time and money. Is it good reason if someone gives me a valuable gift that I should give it away because I got it for nothing? The high school lad who is being coached now will in turn coach others and nobody will question whether he shall receive pay for his services or not. Our soclalistically - inclined friend says that the teacher should have no outside business. Is training the boy or girl to have strong, vigorous and healthy bodies outside of any teacher's work? I have "coached basketball, lots of it; some football, baseball and track and never received a cent for my work, but I have never been guilty of being Jealous of one who was more fortunate. I wonder if our lover ever coached, and u ne did, did ne do it all gratis? DAN SHERI. Invention Not New, JUNEAU. Alaska. April 27. (To the Editor.) Regarding an article pub lished in The Oregonian April 19. en titled "Photographing Music," and ascribing the invention to Melville Clark. Chicago, the description of the device is identical with that of the re cording device of the "Wilte Mingen.' The "Wilte MIngen" the records of this device were first brought to Port land by Henry Eilers, president of the Eilers Piano Company, about 10 years ago. The basic principle of this re cording device is a German invention patented by the wilte people. The re suits were 6o perfect in the Interpreta tion of the present-day artists that it Is pretty hard to believe anyone could Improve upon this device. GEORGE ANDERSON. Safety Flrt for Children. PORTLAND. May 4. r(To the Editor.) .ow tnat tne warm weather Is id proachlng the children are beginning to play on the streets again and are thereby put In Jeopardy of their lives by passing automobiles. Would it not be a good plan to have certain streets where the children are plentiful, designated as "playground streets' and a sign put up at the e trance of such as "playground street; arive slow, or similar warning? I am sure that a great many parents would appreciate such an action on the part ol the commissioners. YoTirs sincerely. ARTHUR K. TRENHOLME. ROADS BIXIT TO LAST SO YEARS Concrete Highways Boomed la Indiana Day or Macadam Pike Is Gone. Indianapolis Newa Ninety property owners of Washing ton township, Indiana, according to representations made by Emsley W. Johnson, are in favor of improving roads In that township with concrete. These property owners wish to have an election called in order that all the property owners affected shall have opportunity to express their desires. A petition filed by Mr. Johnson with the county Commissioners is to come up April 20 for special hearing. It is proposed that about 30 miles of high way be Improved with concrete 5Vi to 7 inches thick. The total cost is estimated at J300.0UO. or $10,000 a mile. Under the scheme suggested the con crete roads would Join improved roads in Center townshin. in ih -it f In dianapolis, and would thus afford good roaa connections between the city and the surrounding farming country. The suggestion ought to bo con sidered by every property owner in Marion County, although those in Washington township are the only ones affected by the present plan. Concrete roads are the roads of the future. The day of the gravel road, of the mac adam pike, and certainly of the ordi nary earth road. Is past. It may seem that $10,000 a mile is a heavy price for the improvement, but it has been shown, notably in Wayne County, Michigan, that the first cost In con crete construction Is the principal cost. The burden of expense i gravel and macadam roads is found In the repair work. TTpkeep is reduced to a mini mum with concrete roads. Wo should have good roads by all means, but these roads should be con structed and paid for by the people who use them. Washington township could very well put several hundrni ihnn. sanu collars into concrete roads. Bonds covering a long period could be issued, so as to extend the burden to others who. In time, will use the high ways. In all lines of work it pavs to build thoroughly. If roads can ba'biiilt to last for 60 years. Instead of two. the better roads should .be chosen. PAINTED GIRL, A.NOERS COIRT All Rlsrbt for Wrinkled Women. Judge, but Not for YountT. Says New York World. Justice Morgan Ryan, sitting in the Children's Court in Jamaica, gazed with astonishment at Anna Merz, of 55 For est avenue, Winfleld. Queens County, when she appeared to report upon her record during her probation. Anna, who Is 15 years old. had her face more or less artistically decorated. "Paint and powder!" sniffed the court, "Young woman, let me inform you that the scum of our large cities uses paint and powder. The faces of young girls, and especially of children like you, are no places for paint and powder. They may be good enough for old women with wrinkles. Don't you ever appear again in court decor ated in this manner." Booth Strength Growing;. Yamhill News Reporter. The friends and admirers of the plain citizen from Eugene. R. A, Booth, feel that he will receive the nomination of a united party. Already the sentiment for Mr. Booth Is far stronger than at any time since he was urged by his fellow citizens of Eugene to enter the race for the Senatorial toga. Mr. Booth's Election Sure. Toledo Leader. R. A. Booth. Republican United States Senator, was over from Roseburg this week getting acquainted with the people of this section. Mr. Bootn is a good man, well qualified for this position which he seeks, and he undoubtedly will be nominated and elected. Topical Verse The Illinois Lesson. 'I want the vote," the woman cried, "To cleanse our Dolitics! Tho old machines I cast aside! Uood-by to bosses' tricks! All candidates unpurifled Id send across the Styx!" And while, the bosses ran and hid, She-, voted as her husband did. "The Demon Rum must banished be," Her leaders told her so. In future we must never see The alcohol aflow. The man who wabbles at tho knee Must meet his overthrow!" But hubby said. "I thirst, my pet!" And what d'ye think? She voted Wet! Down in the ward of Bathhouse John, v nere the raw red rights dare The suffragists cried, "Vice, begone! wen kick you down the stair! The garb of good our sex will don Ana crush tne wronir fore'er " And woman, in her new-found crown. went voting lor the Open Town! O Suffragist! O Suffragette! lou grieve us sore, you do. We thought that when the vote you'd get Some new ideas we'd view. And men would have to toll and fret To win the votes of you. Instead, your noble aims you hid And voted as your husbands did. John O'Keefe in New York World. Overdolnir It. I knew a fellow who declared He never, never worried. He said that he was always spared Sensations fiercely flurried. Upon the doorstep he would sit; "Twas there you always found him. He loved to watch the sunbeams flit Till shadows gathered round him. The old fence trembled in the breeze That set the house a-creRking. The roof is greener than the trees. Moss grown and sadly leaking. Although we cherish sweet content. And with much envy view it. This anti-worry sentiment Some people overdo it. Washington, D. C, Star. Under Difficulties. The founders of our Nation were A noble race and full of vigor; They faced their foes without demur And well withstood the climate'; rigor. They ne'er despaired, though oft de feated. And through their lives were not steam heated Undaunted, calm, they stood alone And tamed the forest u naff righted; They never knew the telephone. Nor were their streets electric lighted! Through hardships they were rather jolly. But how they must have missed the trolley! They fought in freedom's holy cause. Their hearts were stout, their minds were noble. Although they had no pure food laws And knew naught of the automobile. When Washington defeated Britain, His orders never were typewritten! A nation free they gave to us; We cannot praise them; then, too highly. They knew not of the octopus. Or schedule K or Dr. Wiley. Though well they wrought, despite all strictures. They never saw the movinir pictures! -Omaha. iNeb.) World-Herald, Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonian of May 5. 1883. Astoria. May 4. James Hutchinson. a logger at Bradbury's, was crushed to death this morning by a rolling log. Vancouver. W. T.. May 4. Both the Republican and Democratic conven tions met today to nominate delegates to the constitutional convention. Tho Republicans nominated Honorable Louis Sohns. of Vancouver, and A. A. Llndsley. of La Center: the Democrat. Honorable G. H. Stevenson, of Skama nia County and 11. M. Knap p. of La Camas. Corvallis, May 4. The Evansrel irn I conference today made the following appointments: Oregon district C. t Poling, presiding elder; East Portland, L. S. Fisher: Albino. J. L. Pershner; St. Johns and La Camas, If. L. Pratt. Chicago. May 4. Tho merging of the, three great steel manufacturing con cerns of Illinois as the Illinois Steel Company was completed today. New York. May 4. James Water bury, jr.. gave a circus performance last evening at Baychester. which has caused much excitement among the "four hundred." A train of nine drawing-room cars, filled with a brilliant throng of lovely women and girls and more or less known men. left the Grand Central Station. Mrs. Paran Stevens. P. Lorillard. Miss Leiter. of Washington; Colonel and Mrs. William Jay. Marquis de Mores and many others prominent in society were among the guests. The tent was almost large enough for Barnum's circus. The Salvation Army barracks Thurs day night was filled on the occasion of the wedding of Captain S. H of Portland, and Cadet Etta Sutton, of The Dalles. The two counars donated to the Citv Park by the officials of the Oregon & California Railroad Company arrived yesterday. Captain U. Sebrcc. United States lighthouse inspector, and Major Haml bury. United States engineer, left for Astoria last night to start on the ten der Manzanita on a tour of inspection south of the Columbia. Yesterday the Portland. Mount Hood & Eastern Railway Company organized by electing tho following officers: President, R. 1. Earhart: vice-president and general manager. W. A. Bants; secretary and treasurer. D. C. McKercher. Surveyors will be In tho field within 10 days. . The Ladies' Mission Society of the Presbyterian Church gave a pleasant tea party at the residence of Judge J. K. Wait Friday. Mrs. Kirk Sheldon took lur depart ure for San Francisco yesterJay after- Joseph R, Grlsmer and Phoebe Davies were the attractions at the New Park last week. Next Frldav afternoon Kstn rw.nit, iggin will read her charming story. "The Bird's Christmas Carol." at the residence of W. S. Ladd for the benefit of the Portland free kindergarten. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of May 6, 1S61. A meeting of citizens was held on March 13 at Huntsville. Ala., to devise means for the restoration of Alabama to the Union. Speeches were made by Hon. Jere Clemens, who sat in the United States Senate when Jeff Davis was a fellow Senator, the other by Hon. D. C. Humphreys. Strong union reso lutions were adopted. Placervllle. Boise County. I. T.. April 2-1- We have here five sets of hurdy gurdy girls, who are patronized and danced to their hearts' content. Considerable anxiety is felt at Olym pia concerning three children, sons of Marcus McMillan, living near Claquato, Lewis County, that had wandered away from home three days before. Thev were aged respectively 8, 10 and 13 years, and the most serious apprehen sion was that they had been devoured by wild beasts. Washington. May 2. The affidavits taken by the committee on the conduct of the war at Fort Pillow show conclu sively that some of the negroes were buried alive. The deposition of one was taken who dug out of his own grave. . There Is no doubt that one or more prisoners were nailed through tho flesh to pieces of wood and then buried alive, not only on the day of the sur render but next day in cold blood. The victims 6een by the committee were pierced and cut in the face with bay onets and swords, while other parts or their bodies were disfigured either by steel or lead. A large amount of bacon belongins to J. A. Abbott, of Josephine County, will go up the Columbia this morning on the steamer New World, together with five heavy freight wagons and SO head of young work oxen, the latter by tho steamer Julia, New York. May 3. The Herald's spe cial says that General Lee does not de sign falling back on Richmond, but Is concentrating all his forces at Orange Courthouse. The O. S. N. Co.'s new steamer Ta kima, just completed for the Upper Columbia trade, will make her trial trip today. She will bo Dlaceri on tho Uine from Celilo. The bark Helen W. Almy has on board some heavy implements of war for the fortifications at Capt Disap pointment. As Mr. Fitz Henry was leaving the city yesterday with a load of hides for Terwilliger's tannery, his horso ran away, throwing him out of the wagon. An artillery company of the Oregon State Militia will be organized at the Courthouse this evening in accordance with authority from Brigadier-General Coffin. Frank Johnson writes to the Boise News from Salmon Falls that on March 24 the Indians had stolen a horse from the men at the ferry. The men went near the camp and the Indians com menced firing. They returned the fire and killed eight Indians. The next morning another engagement ensued and resulted in killing 11 Indians. The same evening the ferrymen attacked the camp and killed 10 Indians. Two days later a party on the road killed two Indian and captured two horej Radium in the News! Radium, the most priceless of'all minerals. Is collected In small amounts and In only a few places, because man has not yet discovered' places where It may be found in large quantities. Science tells us, however, that there la n little radlnm to be found everywheret that there is enough in every foot of the earth's crust to keep the planet warm and habitable long after the sun has become cold. There Is "Radium" to be found everywhere in the advertising col umns of the daily newspapers. If you are not collecting it you are neglecting an opportunity that lies close to the corner-stone of success.