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PORTLAND, TUCRSDAI, MAY 1, 1914.
IJET RESTITUTION BE MADE.
Charles S. Mellen's testimony in re
card to the wrecking of the New Ha
ven road is an amazing revelation
of the fact that men who were them
selves looked up to as captains of
industry were wont to bow down be
fore the late J. P. Morgan as to a
captain over all the captains. It im
presses on us the truth which George
I' Baker reluctantly admitted to the
Pujo committee, that concentration of
financial control had reached the dan
ger point, and in the hands of bad
men would be very bad for the coun
try. Being associated with Mr. Mor
gan in exercise of that control, Mr.
Baker, of course, did, not consider
their control bad, but Mr. Mellen now
gives the public an opportunity to
judge of that point.-
The people now know at first hand
what was long the popular belief
that Mr. Morgan was the king-maker
of the railroad and industrial world
and that the kings he made obeyed
him almost without question. He
hired Mr. Mellen as president of the
Northern Pacific, and afterward of
the New Haven, with no more cere
mony than an average business man
would show in hiring an office-boy,
and he ordered about this titular chief
of thousands of men as brusquely as
he would order an office-boy. When
Mr. Mellen was called upon to as
sume responsibility for the payment
of $11,000,000 for property which, at
a liberal estimate, was worth $5,000,
000, and when he asked for particu
lars, Mr. Morgan practically told -him
It was none of his business. When
other directors criticised the deal
and were invited Jlo question Mr.
Morgan about it, they all "ducked."
All stood in awe of the great man,
and knowingly played ducks and
drakes with the New Haven stock
holders' money rather than anger
him.
When concentration of capital re
poses such power in the hands of one
man. to be used or abused without
question, the danger-point is not
merely reached; it is passed. Since
Mr. Morgan assumed such absolute
power that railroad directors and
presidents were made and unmade at
his nod and mutely did his bidding,
he was responsible for their acts. We
have been tracing the high financing
of the New Haven from dummy of
ficers to the "higher-ups" next above
them and so on by steps until at last
we have reached the highest-up in
the person of Mr. Morgan himself.
Then since Mr. Morgan was prima
rily responsible, he should be held
financially responsible. He has passed
beyond the Jurisdiction of human law,
but the wealth he amassed has not.
His heirs should be compelled to make
good out of his .estate every dollar
of which the New Haven stockholders
were despoiled at his dictation. That
is the least that justice can require.
If the law does not now require such
restitution, it can be made to do so
In all future cases. It is proper that
every director of a corporation be held
personally and financially responsible
for the misuse or neglect of his power.
Attorney-General McReynolds has
been protesting most vigorously
against the summoning of Mr. Mel
len before the Interstate Commerce
Commission on the ground that ac
ceptance of his testimony would give
him immunity from prosecution by
"the Government." Mr. McReynolds
has been in office fourteen months,
but has done nothing with the indict
ment which was found against Mr.
Mellen in the Taft Adminstration. The
present inquiry was ordered by the
Senate, which is co-ordinate with the
Kxecutive, before Mr. McReynolds
had made a move. The Senate is at
least as much a part of the Govern
ment as the Attorney-General. It or
dered the Inquiry because Mr. Mc
Reynolds had done nothing to bring
the offenders to justice. Its purpose
was, as Mr. Folk said, to obtain in
formation that will "result in legis
lation that will cause it to be as
grave a crime to plunder the public
through a corporation as it is now
personally to rob an individual." Mr.
Folk truly said: "It is not a question
of immunity, but of whether the
truth should be suppressed." There
is no reason to doubt the veracity of
Mr. Mellen when he represents him
self as a tool of the masterful Mor
gan. Death has given immunity to
the real offender; the public interest
will be better served by learning the
truth from the tool than by silenc
ing him in order to punish him.
A DRAMA DISPLAY.
Among the unusual attractions at the
Panama Exposition will be a drama
display. The development of the
drama will be traced from its begin
nings in Greece down through the
ages. Each nation has contributed
something and each will be requested
to send a contribution to the display.
The Greek and Roman plays will be
illustrated by means of books, pic
tures and works of art. The social
status of the actor will be shown in
its ascending course from the time
when he was a slave who performed
to amuse his owner down to the se
rene eminence of Sir Johnstone
Forbes-Robertson, who performs to
instruct the universe. There will be
an effort to Interest all the literary
coun tries in the display. Norway
could contribute memorials of Ibsen
and Bjornson. France has numerous
relics of Moliere. Victor Hugo, Vol
taire and her other great dramatists.
Germany would probably contribute
a rich collection of Goethe and Schil
ler material. Of course the living
writers would be best represented by
their works and since there are a
great many of them, this part of the
exhibit ought to be extraordinarily
full and Instructive.
The display would naturally be so
arranged as to demonstrate the vari-
ous stages through which the drama
has passed. We should have a classic
section, which would include not only
the Greek' and Latin plays, but also
those of Racine and Cornellle with
their associates in France. The ro
mantic period would begin, as far as
France is - concerned, with Victor
Hugo and take in most of his suc
cessors. Where to put Shakespeare
might puzzle the authorities a little.
He was certainly not classical. Neither
was he romantic in Victor Hugo's
sense. Perhaps he was too nearly
universal to be classified and should
have a compartment to himself.
In recent times the social school of
dramatists has arisen. They are "sci
entific" rather than classical or ro
mantic. They do not write to enter
tain so much as to instruct. They
propose problems without always tak
ing the trouble to solve them and be
devil the theater-goer as often as
they enlighten him. The evolution of
the drama has never been so rapid
or so protean as it is today.
MORE NON-PARTISAN HUMBUG.
The loiric of the situation, however, calls
for the election of Dr. Smith and he will
be elected. This despite the fact Oregon Is
nominally a Republican state. In this day
of enlightened voting the majority of people
care next to nothing for mere partisanship.
Nowhere has this fact been shown more
conclusively than in Oregon. From a "non
partisan" newspaper.
Just as the frogs by their piercing vo
calisms from the suburban ponds give
us the first signs of Spring, so the earli
est symptom of a Democratic campaign
in Oregon is the sugar-coated call to
"non-partisanship" from the Demo
cratic press. Not a single newspaper
fisherman in the "non-partisan" pool
in Oregon ever 'carried his "rion-'par-tisanship"
to the extent of supporting
any but a Democrat for a leading
state or Congressional office. Not one.
They are for Democrats to the last
man when there are Democrats in
sight; otherwise they are for Repub
licans or Progressives.
It has been sixteen years (1S9 8)
since a Republican was elected Gov
ernor of Oregon; it has been eight
years since a Republican United
States Senator was elected. All be
cause the majority of people yielded
to the demand upon them to divest
themselves of partisanship. It is time
that the persistent partisans who have
been promoting their partisan ends
through the masquerade of non-partisanship
be thoroughly understood.
The Senatorship is a political office,
in a broad. National sense; the Gov
ernorship is inseparably connected
with politics. It is a Republican. year.
LOCAL REPRESENTATION.
Hood River County finds itself
threatened with the likelihood of
having no Representative in ' the
forthcoming Legislature. Hood River
is in a joint legislative district with
its neighbor, Wasco County." At the
recent primary election the several
Hood River candidates on the vari
ous legislative tickets were defeated
and the Wasco men nominated. Now
some of the citizens of Hood River
propose a grand combinationbetween
Republicans, Democrats and Progres
sives, who are to unite behind an
independent Hood River candidate
and elect him in November.
The plight of Hood River is not
unique in Oregon. It has been the
repeated experience of counties in
Eastern Oregon, which are linked in
a sausage chain of legislative districts,
that the nomination and election of
members of the Legislature have gone
elsewhere. The great county of Mult
nomah is joined in a senatorial dis
trict with Clackamas, and Columbia;
yet Multnomah always has the nomi
nee. Multnomah and Clackamas have
a Joint Representative; but Multno
mah usually gets him.
The whole difficulty arises from
the Oregon system of representation.
It is theoretically on a basis of popu
lation, though actually it is far from
that. Multnomah has twelve mem
bers of the lower house, ,but it would
have one-third, or twenty out of sixty,
If the constitutional method of appor
tionment were to be followed. Yet
nobody rises to demand the full
twenty.
The only fair plan is to give every
county ,one Representative in the pop
ular branch of the Legislature, and
to district the remainder on the basis
of population. The membership of
the lower house would doubtless have
to be increased to make a fair distri
bution; but there are worse calami
ties. We have not yet got away from the
old policy of local representation in
legislative bodies, though commission
government is in essence its entire
abandonment. But we do not fancy
that the counties of Oregon which
have something to ask of a Legisla
ture will agree to commission state
government without a great struggle.
NOTICE TO TILE UNWARY.
The particular fraud of which O. E.
Gross has pleaded guilty and for
which he has been sentenced is but
one of several swindling schemes
founded on the litigation over the Cali
fornia & Oregon railroad land grant.
In some instances the promoters have
perhaps better protected themselves
than did Mr. Gross and his associates
by merely offering for sale a species
of future shoestring legislation. But
millions of dollars have been extracted
from people in the United States and
Canada for which they will receive no
return.
It is small consolation to the swin
dled that one of the swindlers and
doubtless others of them will be pun
ished, but the sentence is valuable in
giving further notice to the unwary
who might yet become prey that there
is no claim or right that can at this
time be purchased, or secured through
entry or application, to the lands in
question.
The railroad grant in Oregon is in
litigation. The Government has won
a suit for forfeiture in the lower court,
but the case has been appealed. In
the meantime Congress has passed a
law covering whatever, lands may be
recovered in forfeiture suits into the
forest reserves. If the Government
finally wins, doubtless the lands that
are suitable for agriculture will be
eliminated from the reserves and
thrown open to entry. But there Is
no reason to expect that such a land
opening would be any different from
others conducted by the Government
in which' attempt has been made to
give all applicants an even break.
On the other hand, if the railroad
company should succeed in maintain
ing its title to the grant it is hardly
to be expected that it would do other
than refuse to sell the lands at
$2.50 per acre as prescribed in the
grant, as it has refused to do for a
long time.
It is impossible'for anybody to ob
tain an equitable hold on any of these
lands at the present time or until
the suit is finally decided. Neither
Congress nor railroad, whichever may
win, has adopted a plan for disposi
tion of the lands. Any person -who
states the conditions otherwise is a
swindler.
PANAMA CANAL TOLLS EXEMPTION.
Just how easy it is for a Senator to
abandon his attitude and yet not
abandon his conviction is shown in
the case of Senator Thornton, of
Louisiana. When the original tolls
bill' passed the Senate, August 6, 1912,
Senator Thornton was one of those
who saiA such a-bill was nowise vio
lative of the treaties between the
United States and Great Britain," and
he therefore favored the bill and vot
ed for lt.
By a speech tn the Senate on the
9th instant Senator Thornton endeav
ored to show that his convictions had
In no wise changed but he was in
favor of repeal because the President
wished the repeal. The Senator was
ill for several weeks last Winter and
says he brooded in his sick chamber
over the reports that the President
wished the former bill repealed. So
he wrote to the President on the sub
ject. This was on March 2. The
President did not reply by letter, but
on the 5th of March appeared before
Congress and asked that body to re
peal the bill.
"Xt once the Senator from Louisiana
found a way out of his dilemma by
avowing that he had voted for the
former bill through convictions based
upon a wish to see the bill become a
law because most of bis constituents
favored it. He dwells at length upon
this "wish" of his former attitude.
But he no longer stands by tb"'wish"
because the President has also a
"wish" in the matted. In other words,
the Senator from Louisiana is now not
standing upon his own wishes, desires
or convictions, but solely upon the
wishes, desires and convictions of
President Wilson. Many other rweak
kneed and nimble-brained Senators
have the same attitude.
If these Senators would come out
boldly and say that they are going to
vote against their convictions 'because
the President has asked them to it
would not be so bad. But by various
processes of mental gymnastics they
argue that they were right in voting
for the law in 1912 and will be
equally right In voting for its repeal
now and also believe the Democratic
party did right in making a campaign
on a platform espousing the former
bill.
It is a pretty hard job for some of
the Senators to do this. It was par
ticularly difficult for Senator Thorn
ton. But in a three -hours' speech in
the Senate last week he was success
ful in convincing himself that he was
right in 1912 when he voted for the
tolls bill and right now in voting for
its repeal but his argument will not
convince anybody else.
THE ANTI-VTVISECTIONJSTS.
In the current number of Harper's
Weekly, Catherine Loving Buell
throws a bright light upon the psy
chology of the anti-vlvlsectionists.
She more than hints that these es
timable people love sensational stories
better than the cold truth. To en
force her point, she tells how they
have used, or misused, a minority re
port of a British commission ap
pointed to investigate vivisection. The
majority of the commission reported
that the practice was useful and em
inently proper. The minority issued
a sensational dish of horrors. Ameri
can anti-vivisectionists have been se
renely quoting the minority report as
if it came from the majority of the
commission.
We are told by Mrs. Buell that pec
cadillos of ' this mild sort are quite
a common thing among the antt-vlvl-sectionists.
Having so little truth on'
their side, they naturally resort to
the next best thing, which, to put the
case bluntly, is falsehood. They have
two extremely active allies in this
country. One of them is the weekly
periodical, "Life," which is often
classed as a humorous magazine. Its
constant slurs upon the medical pro
fession are anything but humorous.
There is too much ignorance and pure
malignity in them. ,
We have often wondered why any
body should hate the doctors as viru
lently as the writers in "Life" do. Phy
sicians do more good without pay than
any other class of men. They all have
numerous charity patients. Indeed It
Is these patients who most frequently
hale the doctors into court on charges
of malpractice. We have heard over
and over again of instances of this
kind. A physician does his best to
cure a man of some ailment without
money and without price. His reward
is a lawsuit based on some trivial ac
cusation, which, ninety-nine times out
of a hundred, is utterly false. The
court records swarm with instances
of this ugly ingratitude. No doubt
a good many of them might be traced
back to the intrigues of impecunious
lawyers if anybody thought it worth
while. "Life" never misses an oppor
tunity to slander the doctors, but It"
is Hearst's New" York American
which has attacked them most ven
omously of late.
During the last year there has
been a lively campaign in New Tork
for a law to put medical science un
der the supervision of a commission
composed largely of ignorant senti
mentalists. To help this law along,
the Amerrcan "Indulged in many a
pleasant fiction about the horrors of
vivisection. It told In one issue of
the dreadful doings of Dr. Holt, who,
it was announced in screaming head
lines, had "inoculated a thousand
babies.'' with the implication that it
was all a piece of vivisection prac
tised upon the wretched little crea
tures. As a matter of fact. Dr. Holt
perceived symptoms of tuberculosis
in them and to make matters certain,
he applied the tuberculin test, which
is well known to all physicians and
perfectly harmless. This enabled him
to prescribe proper treatment for
them and no doubt saved some hun
dreds of lives. The reward he got
for his work was a shrieking libel.
The American told tearfully of an
other family of six children, three of
whom went to the hospital suffering
with either - scarlet fever or measles.
They returned, the American says
discreetly, "afflicted with a dreaded
disease," which they communicated
to the other- three children of the
family and to their father and moth
er. The implication was that they
had been inoculated with syphilis at
the hospital as an experiment. In
vestigation by the Board of Health
proved that not one of the children
had been inoculated and none of them
had syphilis. Such is truth as it is
transformed in certain ,media.
Hearst's American stirred up a ter
rible row in the Bronx by similar fic
tions. The report was spread abroad
by a settlement worker named
Deutsch that forty-eight children had
been inoculated with syphilis at two
hospitals. His inspiration came from
the American. City Superintendent
Maxwell was asked to exclude the af
flicted children from the public
schools. He naturally began an in
vestigation, which showed that fifteen
of the children were entirely imag
inary. Among the rest not a solitary
case of syphilis was found. What the
purpose of the American could have
been in publishing such reports must
be- left to the reader to decide for
himself. But it is plain to be seen
that the principal foundation for the
anti-vivisection campaign is mendac
ity. The people who carry it on are
no doubt extremely humane, but what
shall we say of their morals?
The advice showered so abundantly
on graduating classes at this season
of the year is well meant, but it
ought to be superfluous. A student
who has attended well to his books
and lectures and improved his other
college opportunities should possess
pretty definite opinions upon things in
general, should have chosen his voca
tion and should know how to pre
pare for it. What need has he of
advice?
Nobody better deserves a term in
jail than the spitter. He is a public
nuisance without excuse. His foul
ejections precede him as he emerges
from streetcars and doorways and no
body is safe from defilement in his
presence. He is a constant menace to
health, scattering disease germs wher
ever he goes. If our health officers
can put a stop to public spitting, no
body" can begrudge them their sal
aries. Ambassador Page is in hot water
again. -Speaking to the Authors'
Guild, he said writing ' was a risky
way to make a living and that gam
bling was more likely to pay. Then
up rose hosts of writers to tell whaf
a good living they made. If Mr. Page
wishes to avoid criticism he will con
fine his speeches to people' who are
as dead as Columbus. But perhaps he
would rather be scored than ignored.
Again is death recorded of an aged
man, caused by attacks of an infuri
ated bull that had hitherto been gen
tle. By this time it should generally
be known that that kind of animal is
never to be trifled with, be he the
meekest Jersey ever bred. Dehorn
ing will take most of the fight out
of him, but the nosering and pole- are
the" real protection.
Have we made an armistice with
Mexico? No; how could we? for an
armistice presupposes war, and we
are not at war. Then what was all
that shooting at Vera Cruz? Oh! that
was only a military operation; that
was not war. Then why are the A
B C powers mediating? Just to pre
vent any more military operations.
Sour or silly wits who are md of ridicul
ing Bernhardt'! repeated farewells to Amer
ica are most ungentlemanly. Parting with
so great an artist Is such-sweet sorrow we
could say goodbye till 'twere the fortieth
century. Louisville Courier-Journal,
Provided the divine Sarah's divine
voice holds out to the fortieth cen
tury without cracking.-
A Baltimore society man rolled
three miles through the streets to
pay oft! an election bet. The need
of a fool-ktller in this country is be
coming more and more apparent.
Tiny boy scouts have offered their
services to Secretary Garrison for
Mexican service. They are just as sen
sible as some of the untrained civil
ians who have offered regiments.
A Tacoma laundry employe, finding
a $1000 brooch in the wash, set out to
pawn it. Which indicates that there
are still a few people left In humble
walks who are not strictly honest.
The Mexican hesitation is the latest
dance and its movement of one step
forward, four backward and then a
sidestep is an accurate portrayal -of
the Wilson-Bryan policy.
The Navy Department plans to
withdraw battleships from Mexican
waters. Influenced, no doubt, by
withdrawal of the Mexican "navy"
from Tamplco waters.
It Is denied by the Pullman Com
pany that porters are dependent upon
tips: On the grounds, no doubt, .that
most of them are now independent
as a result of tips.
Another man has been fined $10 for
beating his horse unmercifully. -The
punishment does 1 not fit the crime.
Even bread and water on the rockplle
would not do.
The little town of Orenco is eight
een miles from Portland; but in spite
of distance it is nearly the largest
contributor to the public market.
One of the handy fixtures of a coun
try bank should be an automatic re
volver. Target practice, too, should be
part of the cashier's training.
Accounts of how millions were jug
gled in New Haven bring a chill to
the man who has a struggle of it
meeting his living expenses.
Predictions are made that mediation
will be brief. Leave it to those Latin
Americans to mediate from now until
doomsday, if permitted.
An Oklahoma pastor, despairing of
his salary, sold his church for $40.
Which Is a heap of money to the av
erage country pastor.
Portland will see the real thing next
year when the National Society of
Sons of the American Revolution con
venes. The new ruler of Albania faces a
revolt already. The ruling business
is becoming more and more unattrac
tive. ,
Inspectors will watch for expector
ators. It is high time to put a stop
to the filthy and unsanitary habit.
The man who would live elsewhere
these glorious Oregon days is the vic
tim of circumstances.
Drop-stitch effects are currently re
ported; ."with the mercury' still climb
ing. Bank-robbing is growing to be quite
an industry in the Northwest.
The Colonel finds the Bull Moose
fences sadly out of repair.
Portland already has enough roses
to cover Mount Hood.
Penrose still holds Pennsylvania in
his masterly grip.
Stars and Starmakers
BY LEONE CASS BAEB.
Tonight the "Follies!" We shall have
a chance to "get back" at theatrical
managers.
The "Two Orphans" is to be the ve
hicle by which this "troop" will ride
to fame and fortune -not fortune for
themselves, but at least a comfortable
slice of kale for the association's benefit
fund. Personally -the actor-managers
crave only the-'gobs of glory that go
with the roles. I wish all the actors
who ever played in any of the local
houses under this band of thesplans
for a single night could drop In to
night and see the "Two Orphana"
" I bet the original cast turns over in
its grave.
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Olga Nethersole has given a sub
stantial check toward the musical edu
cation of Alfred Walleretein. a boy
'cellist in Loa Angeles. Miss Nether
sole believes he is a genius and says
she wants to be partly responsible for
his development.
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The horrors of war are nothing com
pared to some of the vaudeville Jokes
about it.
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Helen Ware, out all season In
an Eastern company in "Within the
Law," winds up her season this Satur
day night and will not be seen tn that
piece when It takes to the road again
next Fall. Miss Ware Is slated to star
In a new play next season.
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Margaret Illington, who has been
star of the Western company playing
In "Within the Law," has been re
engaged to. appear in the role next
season.
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The starring tour of Mrs. Douglas
Crane In "Her Soul and Body," under
the direction of Frederick Belasco,
wound up at San Diego May 13.
The company disbanded after suf
fering a consistent run of poor busi
ness. Belasco is reported to have lost
considerable money on the venture.
The Los Angeles engagement of the
show cost $2000 on the week.
The Lawrence Stock, In Vancouver,
B. C, nlayed what was advertised as
"Peg o' My Heart" last week. It was
an unauthorized showing. "Peg" not
having been released for stock but
this is Canada.
In Canada, you know, there is no
royalty law and any play can be pro
duced. Managers of pirating firms send
stenographers to take down the dia
logue of legitimate productions when
they show in New Tork and sell the
play to Canadian stock companies.
When "Within the Law" was here the
last time it was booked for Vancouver
and only the week before a stock
presentation of "Within the Law" had
been given.
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The traffic in war songs is on and
Paragraphers are busy. , Tommy Gray,
who runs a column of tattles In Va
riety, submits a list of titles In the
hope of assisting his brother lyric
writers without charge or presumably
hope of mercy on his readers. Here Is
the list:
"Pay Your Agent His Commission Before
You March Away."
"Save the Stars and Stripes for the Sake
of Our Magicians."
"Don't Kick: About Your Spot You'll
Find Bullets Everywhere."
"Good-bye. Small Time, I Must Leave
You."
"The U. 6. A the T. M. A. 8, the A.
A. A.s and You."
"Take Your Father's Gun and Sword but
Let His 'Gags Alone."
"He Gave Up Wearing Grease Paint fur
Dear Old Uncle Sam." .
"You Know I Love You, Mamie, but
Soldiers Get Steady Work."
"He'd Rather Be a Sailor Than Play the
One Night Stands."
"I'll Come Back to Lay off in the Town
Where I Was Bom."
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Myrtle Gayety McQuarrle has been
granted a final decree of divorce from
Benedict MacQuarrie. Both at one time
were members of the Alcazar Stock
Company, and were married in April,
1906. 1
Mrs. MacQuarrie, who retains her
name of Gayety for the stage, is a
sister of Mrs. Arno Gassin, who was
Anne Gayety, a social bud of San Fran
cisco. e m
-Here is a chance. for would-be play
wrights, b--
Davld Warfield wants a new play.
His revival of "The Auctioneer," de
spite his great personal drawing pow
ers, did not make the money at the
Tremont Theater that was expected and
the last -week of the engagement was
to really poor business for Warfield.
In his chats with friends, it became
known -that way down deep in his
heart, apparently, he wants fulfillment
of the promise he might play Shylock
under proper conditions and produc
tion. An interlocutory decree of divorce
was granted Mrs. Harry Fox last Fri
day in the Supreme Court, New York.
Mr. Fox, when-, testifying, was asked
If he would be willing to pay his wife
$25 weekly alimony. "With much
pleasure," replied Fox, who added, as
he left the courtroom, "I like the way
they do business in this place, and I
am always coming here after this for
my divorces."
Mr Fox was sued by his wife as
Harry Messman, his maiden name.
Little Magda Foy, who is one of the
seven little Foy Joys at the Orpheum
this week, is the first minor member
of the Actors' Fund of America On
May 12 a special meeting was called to
follow the regular annual meeting of
the organization, at which time the by
laws were changed to make minors eli
gible to membership. Little Magda
. Foy Is not yet 7.
e
Madame Critic In the New York Dra
matic Mirror chats delightfully of
Charlotte Walker, whom we saw In
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine." Miss
Walker is rehearsing the -star role In
a new play by her husband, Eugene
Walter.
"Since began rehearsals I have lost
40 pounds," she said. "I have to laugh
when I hear people asking what on
earth they can do to lose flesh- My
answer is, work, work, work. When 1
began rehearsing my new role I was
supposed to be theN mother of a 12-year-old
boy, and I looked the part. In
a short time I had lost several pounds
of flesh and it was decided that I did
not look matronly enough to be the
mother of a 12-year-old child, and Mr.
Walter decided to reduce the age to 10
years. That was all well enough for a
couple. of weeks, when another consul
tation was held, and my child was made
8 years old all because in the mean
time I had lost more pounds. At pres
ent the child is 6 years old, and Mr.
Walter says If I get any thinner he
will have to make him a babe in arms."
Twenty-Five Years Ago
From The Oregonlan of May 21. 1889.
Jackson, Mich., May 20. Mrs. Emma
C. Folsom, mother of Ex-President
Cleveland's wife, was married this
evening to Henry E. Perrine. a mer
chant of Buffalo. Mrs. Cleveland was
present.
Astoria, May 20. The new board of
pilot commissioners this morning elect
ed W. L. Robb secretary. Brown. threat
ens to resign.
Albany. May 20. Willie Shoels. aged
8. while playing whipcracker today at
school across the river In Benton
County, was thrown to the ground,
breaking his leg.
Salem. May 20. Articles of incor
poration were filed today by the Pen
dleton street .Railway Company; J. E.
Bean, F. J. Donaldson, John Eager,
George W. King, J. H. Raley. J. D.
Murphy. Louis ReitU and J. P. Wager,
incorporators.
Salem. May 20. Postmaster Swank's
store at Aumsvilla was rtrnlcan Intn
Saturday nlght'and $2 taken.
Salem. May 20. A daily mail com
menced running today from here to
Independence. Heretofore it has been
tri-weekly.
The East Portland Council met last
evening. President Merrick in the
chair. A communication was read
from Roscoe R. Morris and others, resi
dents of the southern part of the city,
representing that that portion of the
city is inaccessible by any street or
public highway. The proposition of
the Oregon Real Kstate Company to
furnish $500 for building a bridge
across Sullivan's Gulch, on Twelfth
street, provided the company will ex
tend its improvement to Halsey street,
was accepted.
Motor No. 3 of the Portland & Van
couver Railway Company made its trial
trip yesterday. Besides the engineer
and fireman. Superintendent (irimesL
H. H. Holmes and the . East Side re
porter were on the motor.
Councilman Hardie, of East Portland,
nas returned from east of the moun
tains. Three new sprinkling carts with new
team a and new harness were out yes
terday. The machinery for the cold storage
warehouse and Ice works near the Al
bina ferry has arrived.
Fish Commissioner E. P. Thompson
has returned from Astoria and the
Cascades.
Some important coal and gold discov
eries have lately been made in the vi
cinity of Wilhoit Springs.
Police Captain Cardwell, after an
other tussle with rheumatism, was
yesterday again at his post.
One of the boats from the ill-fated
steamer Alaskan came in to Cape Per
petua May 19 with ten of the wrecked
sailors.
Effle Ellsler appeared In "Egvpt" at
the New Park Theater last night.
E. D. McKee reported to the Board of
Trade last evening that he had ar
ranged with C. J. Smith, general man
ager of the O. R. & N. Company to
divide with the board the cost of main
taining a pilot boat.
COFFEE DOES NOT AFFECT MORALS
Contributor Challenges Doctor or Min
isters, to Prove It Does.
AURORA. Or., May 19. (To the Ed
itor.) In your editorial May 16 I note
you take issue with me en one asser
tion I made in a previous letter, "that
there can be absolutely no comparison
between the permanent effects of cof
fee and of tobacco, and proceed to de
tail results of caffeine, the active prin
ciple of coffee, on the system.
While I must agree that you are per
haps correct in one respect, yet you
mUSt nOtA that tmh HT- -I -1 1 -
myself treated the subject from vboth
moral and physical standpoints, while
i.ic.uj iiieimonea tne physical evil
of the drug on the system.
You will note in mv nrnvlnn
I stated that "I am not defending the
1. i uonee, as i nolo -the excessive
use of -It to be detrimental to the
health, but not to the morals." The
latter part of the sentence was omitted
in your publication. Mr. Wilson lists
coffee, liquor and tobacco as being "the
chief instruments tf i i - cA,AM,A , .
- -' ' uaiami; -HMJt'3-
ty in his operations "seeking whom he
- " oucn an assertion com
ing from a supposedly intelligent man
I characterize as being supremely ri
diculous. That coffee, tobacco and al
cohol are detrimental to the health, no
one candeny; that tobacco and alcohol
undermine the moral nature and stunt
the intellect a wan . i i ,
- - - - - - etc oouy, no
one denies, either. But that coffee is
iiHoiiwi to tne morality of any hu
man being is a belief I have never be
fore heard advocated, and do not be
lleve. I should like to hear the opln
ion of some intelligent physician on th.
subject.
It seemn f n rl i u 1. ... ,
------- - v compare a
coffee drinker t r. - . , , .
vl tLicunoi. as
the effect on the system is altogether
wV. V r, " uocior will denj
When T nafri lhra l v. . .
- ------ -vu,u o3 ausoiuteiy
no comparison between the permanent
effects of coffee and of tobacco 1
meant also the permanent moral effect
. .. . ""l"r or some minister show
statistics to aisprove my statements, if
. A READER.
When Periodical Is Gift.
ALBANY, Or.. May 19. (To the Edl-tor-
I" 1912 I subscribed for n fi...-
gon publication. At the expiration of
"'u" mem to tllscontinuc
still It came. After a few months
wrote aeain askino-
,hS V iy never wrote, but still sent
vrmcn i supposed they
intended as a gift. At the end of the
year they sent a letter asking for back
pay. I wrote them stating that they
had been asked to -discontinue the
journal. They claimed they never re
reived my lotters and say if I do not
pay they will put it in the hands of
an attorney.
Now Is there not a law in Oregon
that covers this case?
MRS. L FRANK.
The case Is covered by section 7585
Lords Oregon lawn, which provides that
a newspaper or periodical sent without
order shall be deemed a gift whether
received or not by the person to whom
it la sent.
Reminds Him of Home.
It was midnight The burglar had
entered the house as quietly as possi
ble, but his shoes were not padded, and
they made a little noise. -He had just
reached the door of the bedroom when
he -heard someone moving in the bed
as if about to get up, and he paused.
The sound of a woman's voice floated
to nis ears.
it you dont take sour boots off
when you come into this house," it
saia, mere s going to be trouble, and
a whole lot of it Here it's been rain
ing for three hours, and you dare to
tramp over my carpets with your mud
dy boots on. Go downstairs and take
mem ort tnis minute."
He went downstairs without a word,
but he didn t take off his boots. In
stead he went straight out into the
night again, and the "pal" who was
waiting for him saw a tear glisten in
his eye.
"I can't ro"l that house," the burglar
said, "it reminds me of home." Path
finder. - -'
Half a Century Ago
(From The Oregonlan of May 31, 1SS4.)
Osfield, Vs.. May 16. Lee is now on
the right bank of the river in the rear
of Spottsylvania. Grant's strategy has
thus far bewildered Iee. Grant has
steadily moved his entire army from
the Wilderness to this point and acted
offensively during the whole time.
WASHINGTON. May 16. Dispatches
from Grant to 8 A. M. state that of
fensive movements are postponed un
til the roads are passable. The two
armies are now concentrated on the
main road from Fredericksburg to
Richmond. The latest reports from
Butler state that he was battering
against Fort Darling.
(Signed) STANTON.
Washington. May 16. Intelligence
from Resaca, Ga.. to 11 o'clock last
night has been received. Sherman is
reported to have captured a wagon
train and two guns, and whipped Early.
Two lines of the enemy's works have
been stormed. (Signed) STANTON.
The new Presbyterian Church at the
corner of Washington and Third streets
will be dedicated tomorrow morning. A
sermon will be preached by Kev.
George H. Atkinson, of the Congrega
tional Church, and the other exercises
wtll be conducted by Rev. P. S. Caff
rey. pastor of the church. The whole
cost of the church, including the land,
has been $20,000. On Monday the pews
will be sold at auction. The Income
will probably amount to about $2000.
Our attention is repeatedly called
to the bad condition of the streets.
At the last meeting of the Council the
City Attorney and Judiciary committee
were required to draft a new charter,
which, it Is hoped, will be adopted by
the Legislature early In September,
that' we may receive some benefit from
its provisions this Fall.
For several weeks past Sunday ex
cursions have been Indulged in and one
steamer has been In active demand, but
tomorrow four steamers are advertised
to run on excursions.
There will be an exhibition at the
close of the present term of the Port
land Academy and Female Seminary,
which will be devoted to the aid of the
sanitary cause, and feea for admission
will be taken.
Among te bills allowed by the Com
mon Council -on Thursday was one of
$1.50 "for dragging a dead dog out of
the city." It occurs to us that there
are altogether too many dogs in Port
land, and it would be a good thing if
they could be taxed.
Another five-stamp mill for the Boise
region has been commenced at the
Oregon Iron Works.
The amount of treasure received by
express from the upper country for
the past two days Is $37,000. A larger
amount has arrived in the hands of
passengers.
WHEELER COUNTY BACKS KEL9AY,
Sheriff Whom West Agents Persecuted
Tr'.umphs In Election. -
FOSSIL, Or., May 18. (To the Edi
tor.) Oscar Kelsay, Sheriff of Wheeler
County, was renominated yesterday
by the largest majority ever given a
candidate for an office in this county.
Sheriff - Kelsay has been Sheriff for
three terms. Kelsay received 640
votes, while his opponent received 202
votes. In Fossil precinct, Kelsay's
home precinct, he received 206 votes,
while his opponent received 53 votes
Sheriff Oscar Kelsay has received
much undeserved and disagreeable
notoriety through the press of the
state because of the activities of Gov
ernor West in Wheeler County in his
so-called vice crusade, and because of
a charge of giving liquor to a minor
which was brought against him in
Marion County by West's henchman
and appointee. District Attorney
Ringo. Wheeler County is one of the
cleanest counties, morally1, in the state,
and the various activities of West's
detectives resulted in no charges which
could be sustained before the courts.
The only conviction resulting from the
so-called crusade was the conviction of
Conrad Glantz, one of West's special
agents for giving liquor to a minor.
Glantz in his overzealous efforts to
catch bootleggers, gave two minors
whisky, and when brought before the
grand Jury the boys informed on him
and his conviction resulted.
Kelsay was acquitted of the charge
brought against him in Marlon County
and his renomination by the people of
this county is a complete exoneration
from all charges against him. in the
eyes of the people of Wheeler County
toward the so-called clean-up crusade
of Governor West in a county in which
there is no illicit liquor selling and
very few minor law violations, and
which was started for the purpoqe
alone of revenging himself on the Dis
trict Attorney and Sheriff for political
grievances against them. CITIZEN.
GAME OUT OF DATE AT COOS BAY
Marshfleld Horrified at Intimation Its
Society Still Plays SOW.'
MARSHFIELD. Or.. May 19. (To the
Editor.) There has always been a sort
of sensitiveness In the hearts of Coos
Bay people, happily diminishing
through the past few years, regarding
the treatment of our news items in the
Portland press.
We were, therefore, ill prepared for
the intimation which appeared in
your first-page article May 16, headed
"Feminine 'Raffles' Puzzles Society."
In that article you report that the
thefts, some of them, occurred at "500
parties." Shades of Foster! Are you
trying to undo all the publicity work
of our Chamber of Commerce?
The only balm you offer Is the ad
mission of the fact that we have a so
ciety burglar, which does place us on
a par with Portland and other cities in
a measure. The next thing you'll say
will probably be that we dance the
waltz and two-step at our dancing par- '
ties.
.If you had done as much for the ad
vancement of "All Oregon" as one of
your contemporaries, which published
a Sunday series, of "Bridge Problems"
and reports the "New Tango Twists,"
instead of merely taking it for granted
that the "out-of -Portland" population
is socially hopeless, and Incapable of
Improvement, we might have some
spark of kindly feeling. But as it Is,
you are likely to lose about "400" sub
scriptions hereabouts if you don't edu
cate your staff to a knowledge of real
social conditions In Marshfleld.
L. A. HAKK1S. '
Greater Markets and
Groceries
Everybody must eat daily and
everybody reads the daily news
papers. What is eaten daily should
be advertised In the medium that is
read daily.
No field of advertising is more
neglected than that of the market
and grocery. Pages of department
store items appear in the newspapers
to bring together buyer and seller
of merchandise. Yet food, neces
sarily of greater daily interest in
every household, is given compara
tively little advertising by retailers.
Greater markets and grocery stores
can be built through advertising,
just as surely as great department
stores.
In every city iu the country the
market and grocery trade should
jointly use at least a page once a
week in the family newspaper.
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