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Foreign post age, double rate. . Eastern Business Office Verree Conk Iln. Hew York. Brunswick building. cago. Steger building. San Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Co, I4a Market street. roBTLixD, Thursday:, jvly t. iai. NOT BEADY FOB NOVELTY. At the meeting: of the National Municipal League last November, the president of that organization, Wil liam Dudley Foulke, expressed skepti cism as to the advisability of general adoption by cities of tire manager system. We do not know that Mr. Foulke's opinions found their way to Seattle in the campaign preceding the charter election Just closed, but doubtless the defeat of the plan there by a vote of nearly two to one was due to recognition of the same prob abilities that Mr. Foulke forsees. The following is an extract from his re marks: I think I can ee the man who ha been our Mayor for a great many year although we now have got him out. I think we know exactly how Doc Zimmerman, .would act If the City Manager plan were put on In the City of Richmond. He would lay hi plana for the place before the election the place, not of Mayor, but of City Man ager, and he would have his alate of five Commissioners who would go In and vote far him. and he would get men who were ttersonally popular and knew how to pull the ropes. His skill as a politician Is much better than that of the men who would op pose him. Ha would have his five men who would vote for him. and the Issue before election would be: "Are we to have Doo Zimmerman for Manager or are we not?" This Is the opinion of one who is not opposed to the manager sys tem in. principle, but believes that it is the kind of reform that should not be hurried and that cities must first learn how to abolish political Ideas in municipal government before they take the city manager plan. It was proposed In Seattle to Jump from the old councilmanic form of city government, where political ma nipulation has long prevailed, to what is yet an experimental form of mu nicipal government in this country. Whereas more than 300 cities have the commission form of government, and there is a record of more than ten years on which to form a concep tion of its worth, only fourteen cities have adopted the manager, plan and none has operated under it more than two years. True, Staunton, Va, placed its affairs under an appointive exec utive in 1909, but he is responsible to a Mayor and Council of the old, long-ballot type. The commission manager system is but two years old and is confined exclusively to cities of fewer than 60,000 inhabitants, with one exception. Dayton, O., the largest city to adopt it, is less than, one-half as large as Seattle. Were Seattle to adopt the new char ter it is probable, almost certain, that the first manager would be a local politician. Where could it turn to ac quire the services of' an expert in all branches of municipal administration in a city of 250,000 or more inhabi tants? Moreover, in every large city there is as yet active opposition to the employment of other than citizens' in municipal capacities. In Portland, recently, charter amendments to per mit the employment of other than Portland citizens as City Engineer and Park Superintendent were over , whelmingly defeated. Wherever this sentiment predominates the ambition of the local politician is likely to be formidable In choice of a city man ager. We can readily agree with Mr. Foulke as to the need of going slowly In adopting the manager system, but for reasons In addition to those lie gives. Its general adoption would create a new profession with a dearth of men equipped to fill the posts it would create. As cities are now conducted the draft of the larger cities would be upon the smaller cities for managers. There would be no Intermediate positions in each city offering a choice of material. Munici pal service is not yet a profession. Promotion, step by step, is not pos sible as it is in the large private cor poration. The Portland or Seattle man ambitious to become manager of either city would under the pres ent order have to seek a Job as man ager in some place like Hickory, North Carolina, and establish a rep utation. This, of course, unless he had political strength in his own city and could get in by political means. If municipal service in all its grades were a recognized profession and one that gave encouragement to those who embrace it the manager system would on its face be more acceptable. But even so, elimination of politics and favoritism would have to be assured. The city which has long seen Its best ,ml!nai nnslMnna monetised with out resrard to fitness of the appncaTJ is not likely to create a new high salaried Job to be given out in the same way. We fancy the Seattle voters had past nistory in muia wuen mcy TOted Tuesday. MODERN GIRLS. We wish Miss Mabel Bayot had followed the furrow to the end after putting her hand to the plow. To be sure, she walked fifty miles out of the seventy that lie between Corvallls and Newport, but at that point she lnglor iously took the train, while her more robust companions went on to victory and fame. There were three women in the party, all agricultural students at CorvalHs. They started out to walk Tvrn-nniH and two of them nerse- vered to the end. The third did pretty well, but ner acnievemeni mna ouuic tkinir mYnr rrf the hitrhest oerfectlon. Far remote are these energetic women from the type oi man ana weary sister that was so common in t a r a Ufa naif a. eenturv aaro. Do you remember, gentle reader, Helen Mar, the pallid heroine of The Scottish Chiefs? Her most marked characteristic was the ability to faint away. Always at any particularly in teresting moment you could count upon her to swoon into somebody's arms. The more her help was needed M ttiA mnrA certain was she to fade into ladylike unconsciousness. Helen spoiled The Scottish Chiefs for boys' reading, but she ira a great comfort to our Victorian aunts and grandmothers. Now everybody hisses at her and her elegant swoons. The modern woman does not faint away. She Is equal to every occa ion, both In mind and muscle. When she is needed she is on the spot with the goods' and the hero need not use his arms to keep her from falling upon the dank and grimy earth. .She Is as capable as he is of meeting the crisis. Her nerves have disappeared with her ignorance and general in sipidity. We hope more Corvallls girls will set out upon long tramps and all of them go through to the des tination they start for. t DEMOCRATIC LIGHTS. Is the Republican party the party of Barnes, Fpraker, Cannon and Pen mu9 Tii.nmiwratie cress tells us so with everlasting iteration. The purpose is plain. But th statement is not true. For io ritsr-rodlted and beaten in Ohio; Cannon is discredited and beat on in Tiiinnk' Punrosa Is discredited. and, though he has contrived, by the aid of his powerful political machine, to get the Republican nomination for Senator, he is likely to be Deaten in la- RarnM still rules the Republican organization in New York, but his tenure is insecure. SnnnniA that It were all true, as i i Ta ppnrnsA worse than Jim Guffey, ally of Standard Oil and pro prietor of the Pennsylvania uemoc- Is Foraker worse tnanxom xug gart, proprietor of the Democratic party in Indiana, ana owner mau irrut rrinph Lfck trambllng re sort? Or of Roger Sullivan, propri etor of the Democratic macnjiie w mi ic niri.timn nnlitical boss, and lUiuuui v.w ..... . - ...ii -matmatn. and also the lead ing Democratic candidate for Senator from Illinois? Is Barnes, the New Tork boss, worse than Murphy, the New York boss? ' What is the Democratic party do ing to get rid of its undesirables? The Republican party has done much. It will do more. MORE NOX-PARnSAJTSHTP. I am aware that during my absence my enemies will have opportunity to misrepre sent my work and the result I have accom plished. Some members of my own party will unjustly attack me because I have been unable to agree with the views of the Presi dent in favor of repeal of the free tolls pro vision of the Panama Canal act. It was with great regret that I found myself under the necessity of disagreeing with the man who occupies the position that makes him the head of the party of which I am a member. Nevertheless, I place my duty to the country far above any allegiance to party. Moreover, I do not believe that the repeal of the canal tolls provision could properly bo made a party measure. From a statement by Senator Chamberlain. The Oregonian does not suppose that Senator Chamberlain meant to say that President Wilson put duty to party above duty to country in his advocacy of the bill's' repeal. But clearly, if Chamberlain did bis duty by his country, Wilson did not There is no other inference. Yet it is a curious fact that Senator Chamberlain in his break with the President stood by the Baltimore plat form and President Wilson repudiated it. Evidently the President was actu ated by some motive other than duty to party. In our dilemma our only alternative Is to assume that President Wilson did his duty to his country by de manding tolls repeal, and Senator Chamberlain did his duty to his coun try by resisting President Wilson in doing his duty to his country. Same country, too. Our conjecture is that his very pretty play in words, containing a gentle defiance of those Democrats who have been criticising him, is pre liminary to another humbug Cham berlain campaign of non-partisanship. FORGET THE PAST; IiOOK TO THE Pl'TTJRE. Colonel Roosevelt's criticisms of the Wilson Administration will receive hearty indorsement from those mil lions of patriotic Americans who are dissatisfied with Mr. Wilson's policies and their disastrous effects on the in ternal prosperity and the external in terests, prestige and power of the Nation. His strictures on the tariff policy of the Democrats accord with the opinions of Republicans and Pro gressives alike. So does his condem nation nt Democratic foreien policy. if the practice of vacillation and yielding and of chasing the ram bow of universal peace can be dignified hv that name. The Administration has betrayed the inherent weakness of a party which still maintains tnai this Nation is composed of forty-eight unlta not una unit, and which1 is afraid of power exercised by the Na tional Government. K1n-A f!olonel Roosevelt so effect ively voices the sentiments of both his former party and his present party, it is cause for regret that ne aoes not concentrate his mind on the present and the future instead of the past; that he does not apply his energies to combining these parties into an ef fective political fighting force for ex pulsion of the incompetent party irom nower. . When he wrangles with Sen ator Penrose about the events of 1912, he is thrashing old straw, xne peo ple are concerned now not with the nnestlnn who was responsible for the split of 1912, not with the question who was right and who was wrong in that year, but with the question of supplanting the present Administra tion of incompetents with a Doay oi "coTirpeteatawho will restore and ma!ntairirjrosDelTtT-a4ome and who will uphold the interests, nonor dignity of the Nation aoroaa. Rnnhilrana and Progressives are of one mind on the tariff, on foreign policy, on efficient exercise or tne National power. They are substan tially agreed on legislation against the trusts, though the Republicans are not disposed to go to such lengths as Colonel Roosevelt proposes in bureau cratic control of business. They can not gain the opportunity to put tneir TM-infinips In effect so long as they remain divided into two parties; they thereby only prolong tne reign oi Democracy, which they unite in con demning. Persistence in fighting over again their old quarrels will be ,vi hv th vast bodv of independent evidence of their incapacity to rule; the best evidence or capacity which they can give is to iorgei oia quarrels and work together for the nttainment of those ends on which they are agreed. ta nut to tai mat uoionei Roose velt should cease his opposition to the ...liwtinn of Senator Penrose in -enn- sylvanla and to the supremacy of ik.mon bjium in rvew xoric. iei him t-iTht them and extinguish them it v. .in - No tears over their fate would be shed by the great body of Republicans in the country at large, for love of bosses is limited to their own states. Neither of them is big enough, ia the eyes of the Nation to THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1914, be upheld politically at the price of continued Democratic misrule. u.ney are generally regarded as survivors of the old, bad system typified by their predecessors, Piatt and Quay, and the Republican party would gladly be rid of them. But those are local fights, to be fought out in two states, and they should not ob struct the realignment under one banner of the adherents of Republican principles in the country at large. Colonel Roosevelt surely must realize by this time that he cannot get anywhere with his Progressive party as a separate political organiza tion. The most he can accomplish is that which, as a patriotic citizen, he must least desire prolpnged Demo cratic control. He cannot be blind to the fact that, with or without him, the Progressive voters are returning to the Republican party. His immediate aim the elimination of the bosses, Barnes, Penrose and their kind would be far sooner at tained if the Republican party of nihr states than New York and Pennsylvania were lined up with him than if he carried on tne ngni irum without, with greatly diminished nini noT-m1tttnor those men to iig- ure as representatives of Republican ism in a contest witn anosuie jiimj- ANOTHER NEW CUM. It may be that we will be able anon iikfiiH nch feeble sareguarau against mishap as speed ordinances, sane Fourth observance, nanger .ois- ..iinnivi anil other Durely pre cautionary arrangements of that sort. Accidents, it appears, are purely psy chological, much the same as is the present slackness in business and in dustry. The discovery of this latest important fact does not emanate from the White House but from the thought dome of an inspired person of Hindu persuasion who is now in our midst for the purpose of propagating a new cult which he has devised. At this late date the new cult must offer something of a special induce ment in order to draw well. The old fields have been pretty thoroughly ex. plotted by self-appointed saviors of the race. Offer of mere salvation does not suffice. So the new inducement proffered by this Hindu person should appeal strongly to patrons of life and accident insurance companies. Why pay on a large policy when a firm be lieJ in the mysterious tenets of the latest cult from India will serve the same purpose? It is' not surprising that the new faith already has con siderable of a following when it offers immunity from those terrifying acci dents which occur from time to time. As pointing to the efficacy of faith in warding off mishaps the founder of the new cult, one Mozumdar, relates of a . close call he once had and which inspired him to fresh zeal and conri dence. A feeble-minded wretch pointed an "unloaded" gun at his head and ivj v.a with thn Inevitable explosion. But was Mozumdar harmed ? He narrates tnai tne ounei pttcu through his sleeve ana aia no uwm tv.o- y,rt hnr a tailor mieht repair. He attributes his escape to the newly found principles which nave Deen re vealed to him. Now the point is that he sees no relationship between the fact of his escape and tne Daa marts manship of the marksman who pointed at his head ana nit nis sieeve. iic"i workers never do see the flaws in their wonder-tales. GARFIELD'S ASSASSINATION. T.m.. a rtorfipld had very little opportunity to show what kind of a President he could be, ior ne was aa eanotaii fniir month after his in auguration. The fatal shot was fired by Guiteau July z, issi. sui ourmg of the White House, brief as it was. President Garfield could not help exhibiting those ster-nno- traits of character which had won for him the confidence of the American people. One in particular mi vtrr rie&rlv. That was the steadfast determination "to live up to his convictions." in issu, aiter ma election as Senator from Ohio, he said in a speech: "It has been the plan of my life to follow my convictions at whatever cost to myself. I nave rep ,., fnr manv vpars a district in Congress whose approbation I greatly . . a ... 1 1 1 w.An t-VlA desired, dui x aesireu ami mi7 w.w approbation of one person, and his T,omo. to Oarfield. He ia the only man I am compelled to sleep with, eat with, live with ana aie wim, uu u ii n hsvn his approbation I should have had bad companionship." This inflexible determination iu uo up to his principles ultimately caused Garfield's assassination, for it brought him into conflict witn parry dobb like Roscoe Conkling, who were deter mined to rule or ruin without much regard to conscience. The strife between uarrieia ana inr n.wir, faction naturally passed on among the fringe of office-seekers who harass every new i-resiaenv. aDDointments nat urally shared Conkllng's resentment. One in particular, wuueau, wuu nHav.ri tn h Consul to Marseilles, took his rejection deeply to heart. His private wrongs, as he brooded over them, grew to be the wrongs of the .,.( wis naturally feeble mind be came completely unbalanced and in fanatical desperation ne muraerea mo x ii Th loss to the American people was beyond all estimate, if we may venture to construct blighted future from his past. His ambitions and his achievements were typical of the best there is in the Ideals of America. He was born in a log cabin and his boyhood was passed In the poverty of the backwoods. His r was a narawornius iwno 7 " . . j . . . fc. -ntotp v or k to rnc forests to make a home-for himself by the toil of his hands, wis rao,-"ctr a woman of French descent, was left ij i rr-o Tom pa was two years a VVAUUW u . - old. In her bereavement she displayed those heroic qualities wmcn wo - t- mothers of ereat men. Thomas, the first child of the family, was nine years oia. ..mw. -i it vim cnilt rails and fence in the wheat field. "She carded and spun the wool or ner sneev. wvyc into cloth and made garments for her children." From such a mother James Garfield learned to aspire to great ness He dreamed at her knee of the mighty world of thought, beauty and achievement which lay beyond their cabin walls. Be would read books, he would think the thoughts of heroes he would climb to fame. With the generous ardor of gifted youth he set out to secure an education. The college which he entered after passing through the lower schools would count for little among the vast and opulent seats of learning to which our youth resort today. It was one of those primitive Institutions which he himseir afterward described as "a log in the wilderness with a boy at one end and a great teacher at the other." But we dare say .Garfield from his college course than many a young man obtains from our colossal universities. He entered with high Ideals and eager ambition. The world of knowledge was full of ro mantic charm to him. Nothing was stale. He had no fashionable world weariness to kill his energies. He went to college to study and the books he read, the teachers he heard and the companions he associated with formed him to greatness. The classics meant much to a boy like James Gar field, for he sincerely believed that in his own life he could imitate the men of whom he read in Plutarch and Llvy. He received at college a crea tive Impulse which never failed through all the rest of his career. In his younger days Garfield was both a preacher and a teacher and to the end there was more of the mis sionary than the politician in his makeup. , He became a good soldier without ceasing to be a good Chris tian and won the votes of his country men without sacrificing a solitary principle or staining his conscience with a dishonorable compromise. At a time when corruption had already begun to eat into the Nation he stood like a rock for the old American mor ality. He paid for his integrity with his life, but he won the crown of a great patriot and a good man. The "poison needle" flourished banefully for a while last Winter and then collapsed. Frightful tales were heard of its activity but they were not believed by the Judicious and they soon wilted away. Now they are freshen ing up again. "A singularly thrifty one floats in from California's Long Beach, where a blooming damsel has been "poison needled" by a fiendish Japan, ese. The story must be true, for a doctor "has found the mark of the needle upon her body." Naturally it could have been made in no other way. t mnH h nathetio if the Princess Rospigliosi's father and mother back In Cincinnati could not pronounce ner new name. Theirs is Stallo, which trin msIIv iinon the American tongue. The old people made their money in the united States witn tne neip oi AmpHi-nn workinemen and American institutions. The daughter will spend it in Europe with the help of a ram shackle Italian Prince. When the mnnv Is eone she will come back home, get a divorce and take in wash ing for a living. Tv,ft mill' who averred that "women can't reason" must have traveled in Spain and stayed a good while in ivriii-M Th women of that city have broken into the bakeries and stores and bestrewed the streets with pota toes and bread because prices are xoo hirh Prin rls when suDPlies are scarce. Destroying food does not make it more plentiful and can hardly make it cheaper. The angry dames would have been wiser if they had. spaded and planted some vacanj: lets. ordinance against roller towels and common drinking cups is good as far as it goes. Let these abominations sink to Tartarus, the quicker the better. But we snau ho lannnolnted if the spoonles3 sugar- bowl does not sink with them. Would It not be lovely to behold writhing on the rack the wretch who dips sugar with his own contaminated spoon and hacks at the butter with his reeking knife? ' tvo nniir inrte-p. who fined himself kragiinir the law climbed almost to the summit of the heights of fame and then slid ignobly down, ir ne nau tho rin t should have chanted a paeon to his glory. But he did not. He had no sooner imposea 11. upon himself than he remitted it. This is playing Brutus with a pasteboard sword. coo,Mn'a nnHoo 1ud?e fined him self following an altercation with the chief of police and then remitted the n nanHinr eood behavior. He should be careful or he may find it necessary to slap himself on tne wrist. fv vra Cruz incident is likened to comic opera so far as the diplo n,tk t,viosa of it ia concerned. Our present diplomacy would be a knock out if set to lively music. Tn th matter of alleged flirting, a citizen who knows he is falsely ac cused cannot see a Joke in it. although the humor is visible to his friends. trust that the departure of the t.t i (ntia for Honolulu and the nrdpr abolishing liauor in the Navy. were purely a comciaence. So the income was short of expec tations. How these pretty little high brow theories do fall short in this world of harsh facts. ThA Naw is "dry." but it is a safe guess that once in action a Dewey will tell a Grldley to serve today when ever he's ready. Although slightly disabled, Teddy la Btlll able to make himself heard somewhat above a whisper. T,a. Santa Pa Evstpm starts the re vival by increasing working hours. Now watch the stampeae. - Suffrage is a state issue, President Wilson tells the ladies. So is Califor nia alien land ownership. ' Roosevelt arraigns the Democratic partv as "inadequate." That's putting it rather mildly. Nature has leaped in where the Democrats failed and is bringing us better times. Another Prince has wedded an American heiress and his future is now assured. The flag is to be saluted at the Panama-Pacific Exposition grounds July 4. . Lightning split open the steeple of a Kansas church. What's the moral? Be careful what you eat. Another shipload of Chinese eggs is due. ; The state will stay the hand that would disfigure "Jump-Off Joe." Oregon will lose on prunes, with bhance to recoup on potatoes. That Huerta-about-to-flee antique has J ust been sprung again. Mediation has proved to be as fruit less as watchful waiting. Astoria is the place and the rest of the week is the time. - Even the thermometer is going up. Stars and Starmakers BI LF.OXE CASS BAEB. A Portland-born actress, Mlnnette Barrett . has Just been given a verdict of 11250, in the New York courts against Archie Selwyn, producer, or "Within the Law." Minnette alleged that she was sure she had been en gaged to create the role of Aggrt in the original production. Back in the Summer of 1912, Miss Barrett declared, she was given a con tract. Just a verbal one, to play Aggie in the now famous play. Her agree ment was with Mr. Selwyn. and he promised her $125 a week and guaran teed her. at least ten weeks, she as serted. Mis Barrett hugged Aggie to her bosom and studied that young lady's eccentricities for some days. She even rehearsed for the "victim of so ciety" parts, only to receive a letter from the offices of Mr. Selwyn, that through the good offices of his partner in the production. A H. Woods, he had secured Florence Nash for the part, and Miss Barrett could consider her self disengaged. Mr. Selwyn added the consoling in formation that he originally had Miss Nash in mind for Aggie, but a contract with George W. Lederer had apparently precluded securing her services. At the last moment Mr. Lederer was induced to release the actress and she was given first choice. Miss Barrett was not satisfied with apologies. She wanted to play Aggie. She also wanted that ten weeks' work. She told the Jury she had played Just such roles with Joseph Jefferson and had been Robert Edeson'a leading woman. The 12 citizens sympathized with her lack of fortune and after some minutes of discussion returned a verdict for the full amount, with a little interest and court costs thrown in for good meas- ure- ... ,..-1 M..nt Thaw, with her dancing partner Jack Clifford, are making a round oi tne cu.u restaurants in Paris, where she exploits impromptu tangoes and hesitations. She has been sued by Paul Polret for non tm-Ioa of a town she claims she never ordered, and which she says she has never even seen. ... Any act-ess, pianist vocalist or writer, or dancer or devotee of any r th. flno arts ' hasn't a chance in the world without nerves accord ing to Nat Goodwin's lateBt wne, wu w-i m n Ai-trpsa Is privileged to rush into print with opinions. Mrs. Goodwin, is professionally Margaret . j TO-,pn ih married Nat. and juoreiuuu. " . . until this season she was Marjorie. but a few changes of names are noinmg the Goodwin family so now she writes it Margaret. To prove her assertion that you can't amount xo mucn n. ara not nervous Miss Moreland cites herself as an instance. "I suffer from nerves, ana im bim . .. n.ri. Moreland "I wouldn't oi 11 - want to be serene all the time. ur course, I always make an enort to con hacause I know that the minute my nerves get away from me my conception of tne pan i playing, and my lines will go with them." . . . n.-irnnn Miss Moreland gives an example of the genius who lets her or his nerves get tne neat ui-uo. him. Take a violin, for Instance. Let the trlnea of the instrument become loose and then , .v. k across them. The result Is a series of meaningless noises, with abso lutely no effeot. Tighten tne ainus. -,.. that tha instrument VOU Kcl liio " has to offer. You now have an Illustration of the nervous person with comro.. you tighten the strings too much you get a series of squeaks and squeals, the strings, perhaps, snap and the violin is Many women fool themselves Into believ ing that they are possessed of that atrange thing termed "temperament." and commit all sorts of foolish things In its name, worn themselves np Ifto a highly nervous con dition and render themselves useless to themselves as well as the rest of the world. I am far from an admirer of this sort of thing." But I do not approve of the person who la all poise, who Is serenity personified under all conditions. The true artist In every Instance has never been of this. type. ... Scott Cooper, who plays old Hard castle in "The Road to Happiness," now at the Heillg, is an old Alcozar (San Francisco) stock, favorite. . Sarah Bernhardt's world tour will begin in October, and will consume 26 months. Her manager. "Mon Fils," so she always addresses him. says she looks younger and stronger than he has ever seen her. That knee "de diable." as she phrases it, still lm pendes her walking, and causes her considerable pain, but otherwise the perennial one is in no respect of feeling or appearance past B0. ... The embalmed body of Mme. Nordlca, the famous American prima donna, ar rived In London June 20 for cremation. Her ashes will be placed in a solid bronze casket and afterward placed within a sarcophagus and brought to America for Interment. Early next month Fred Stone, the comedian, will go to Oklahoma City, where the cowboys of that vicinity are holding a "stampede," at which cash prizes will be given In contests for riding, roping, and shooting. Mr. Stone might easily qualify in all contests, but he is entering only the roping steer and fancy rope throwing events. A year ago at Cheyenne he won the first prize for fancy roping. Immediately after the games Mr. Stone will return to New York and be gin rehearsals of the new Montgomery and Stone production. . By underground there comes an ink ling that Oliver Morosco plans another coup which is likely to work to the discomfiture of Hartley Manners and Laurette Taylor, author and original star, respectively of "Peg o' My Heart" That there is no love lost be tween the management and Mr. and Mrs. Manners is easily deduced from Mr. Morosco's sudden decision to pre sent "Peg" in Chicago, with Peggy O'Nell in the title role, although that city had been reserved to Miss Tay lor. His latest strategic move, if the un derground information is correct, is to beat Mr. Manners and Miss Taylor to a London production. Mr. Manners and his wife are at present abroad, and it may be that since the controversy with 'Mr. Morosco reached the exciting stage they have threatened to produce the piece themselves in London. What ever may be the reason behind the tactics, T. Daniel Frawley, Mr. Moros co's director, sailed on Monday for London to begin preparations for a production there. ' London, too. it will be recalled, was one of the cities reserved to Miss Tay lor for her appearance in ."Peg.". COLOMBIA'S RIGHTS IN WAR Treaty Would Permit Vlolaio of the Canal's Neutrality. PORTLAND, July 1. (To ths Edi tor.) In The Orei-onlan there la statement by Mr. F. B. Loomls, for merly Assistant Secretary of State, that "Mr. Bryan is seriously propos ing to allow Colombia the use of the canal In time of war, even should she be at war with us." Now does not a war between two nations abro gate treaty? If Colombia should de clare war against the United States, what would be the effect of such stip ulation? INQUIRER. Mr. I.oomis evidently alluded to sec tion 1, article of the treaty, which reads: The Republic of Colombia ehall Be at no. erty at all times to transport through the itmmmr,tn fan. lta trooDS. materials of war and ships of war. even In cas. of war between Colombia and anothor country, without paying any charges to the United States. - It is quite true that war between the United States and Colombia would abrogate the treaty, but it is neverthe less open to the interpretation put upon it by Mr. Loomls and could be cited by Colombia to any third power which might accuse that country of violating the neutrality of the canal as established by the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, in case Colombia should seize the canal In war and should oontlnue to receive the rights granted by the section quoted. Two Word Mispronounced. GILBERT, Or.. June 80. (To the Editor.) I think your appeal for re form In pronunciation of our mother tongue quite timely. The decline in pronunciation seems to have kept step with that In spelling. Correctly pronouncing, off-hand, the two words, automobile and chauffeur, ought to constitute the shibboleth entitling one to membership in the suppositious so ciety of Good Pronouncers. Not that the mastery of those two murdered words would imply the mastery of all; but the fact that I cannot recall ever having heard the first word pro nounced according to the dictionary argues, negatively, in his favor. If one can forget that there is a city named Mobile and will look up the word mobile and prefix auto, it almost wiP be superfluous to look up the wora formed by combining them. When one begins investigating doubtful words it will soon become apparent that their name Is legion; but he will experience genuine satis faction on being set right. W. B. EMERSON. Art School of High Standard. PORTLAND, July 1. (To the Edi tor.) The Oregonian answers a ques tion asked by "G. W. M." about art schools. A year and a half ago. Will iam M. R. French, whose recent death has Just ended his 35 years' director ship of the Chicago Art Institute, spent a day at the Art Museum and from his cordial Interest In our work, I feel sure that had he been anked by an Oregonian about art schools, he would not have omitted mentioning the School of the Portland Art Association. There Is also an excellent school devoted wholly to art Instruction In Berkeley. Cal. Not only has our Portland school sent students to the Art Institute, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn and the Art Stu dents' League, of New York, but among the 400-odd students It has registered during the five years of its existence, a number have previously worked In the large schools. Considering tho con ditions of the Far West, it is, perhaps, not surprising that the warmest com mendations of our work come from Eastern visitors. ANNA B. CROCKER, Curator. Sale of Receipts and Medicines. DALLAS, Or, June 30. (To the Edi tor.) I have poetry and prose gath ered. Is there any law keeping me from having it printed in book form and selling it? Also I have receipts, such as cooking, tollet-and medicine I hava collected and some tested ones of my own. Would I be allowed to have them all printed in book and sell or would I have to have copyright? Can one mix and sell any medicine or toilet article without a patent? AN OLD SUBSCRIBER. Copyrights and patents are solely for the benefit of the originator. He does not have to have either in order to market printed matter or com pounds. Care should be taken not to use material or formulas copyrighted or patented by others, and due observance should be given to state and Federal drug acts concerning branding and use of narcotics or adulterants. Lenta In School District No. 1. i LENTS, Or., July 1. (To the Editor.) Does the new school law compel School District No. 1 to relinquish that portion of the district outside the city limits? SUBSCRIBER. No. There are now two school build ings, the Weston and Multnomah schools, and considerable strips of ter ritory located within School District No. 1 yet without the City of Port land. Recently the Sylvan School was lost to the district because the Su preme Court ruled that the territory had been illegally annexed to the City of Portland. 'When it had been annexed to the city it nominally became a part of the school district which embraces all of Portland and certain adjacent territory. Cheap Labor at Home. ST. HELENS, Or., June 30. (To the Editor.) The "poor farmer" is once more getting his share of sympathy. The low tariff, by bringing Australian meats and cheese into the country, is taking the money out. Possibly the farmer deserves our sympathy and aid. But let ua look for a moment at an other phase of the same question. We have a situation in Columbia County approaching this question. We ara spending half a million dollars on our highways this Summer, and it is safe to say that at least $150,000 of this will go to Italy and Greece. Puzzle: Where Is the cheap labor that Americans are competing with? SUBSCRIBER. Sale for Butterflies. SEATTLE. Wash.. June SO. (To the Editor.) Do you know of anyone who would like to purchase butterflies? How much should be paid for them? Where do the purchasers live? READER, Prices and possibility of sale of but terflies would depend upon their va riety and preservation. Write to or oonsult the biological department of your state university. Prices Paid for Manuscript. PORTLAND, July 1. (To the Editor.) Kindly tell me about what are tha regular rates paid by magazines for articles on general subjects. B. G. C. Prices paid vary among different magazines and are also governed by the reputation of the writer. There is no general fixed Tate. Black and White, PORTLAND, July 1. (To the Ed itor.) Is black or white a color? R. H. Black Is a color. A black horse has a color as much as a bay one. White is not strictly a color, but a composi tion of all -the colors. Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oregonian of July t, Salam, July 1. The Supreme Court today decided that tha city of Gaat Portland hat full power to improve streets and to make conlracta. Independence, July 1 Judr Will iam Dawson, of Monmouth, died Bun day evening. Salem, July 1. This it the first day f I h . at a t aih.r maetlns. Tha department of superintendents this afternoon elected in following oiu cers: President. W. A. WetselL of Multnomah; vice-president, T. V. Hutchinson, of Douglas; secretary. F. Klgler, of Oregon City. At tha opening exercises Rev. W. Rollln offered prayer. Professor A. fl. Starr, of Willamette University, delivered an address of welcome; Professor Herbert Klttrldge, of Baker City, responded. I"rofeasor Parvin and chorus sang, and Colonel L F. Copoland. of Harrlsburg, Pa, da llvered a lecture. Salem, July 1. George O. Bingham, was elected chief of the fire depart ment by a vote of TS, to tl for T. A. Howard. A J. Basey was elected as sistant chief. Independence, July 1. E. P. Pant land, editor of the West Side, and wife departed for Spokane Falls today. San Franolaoo, July 1. F. M. Wll klns and wife, of Eugene, have left for Oregon. Mayor Stewart, of East Portland, de livered his message to the Counoll last evening. The East Portland Water Company having failed to appoint members of the commission on rates, the Council elected H. Clay Myers and Cyrus Buck man. Ground for a new woolen factory at Mllwaukle has been broken on the premises owned by C. Bonnet Mount Hood will not be Illuminated on the Fourth of July this year, but about the 10th a party of Portlandara will go on a trip to St. Helens or Adams Hon. Ira G. Holtt, state superintend ent of publlo instruction of California, and wife visited the Portland schools yesterday, In company with Professors Burnham, Pratt and Crawford and City Superintendent Sabin. Walter H. Peart, manager of the domestic department at the Farmers' and Mechanics' store, was married last night to Mlsa Lou Ward, daughter of Hon. John P. Ward, mercantile ap praiser. S. M. Graham, or Marshland, Colum bia County, has 11 ecres of land on which he cut six tons of hay to ths acre. Joseph Holladay Is the highest bid der for the purchase of the First street horxecar line at the sale of the Ban Holladay estate, and he proposes to make It a cable road. wnen Lnninnnn j uicim aunvn the Police 000.101880 meeting to order last evening, there were pres ent, besides Commissioners i'rank and Cardwell, Klcnara r-verains;, tn. recently-elected Commissioner, and his attorneys, Hon. George' 11. Williams and ex-Judgs Watson. District Attor ney McGinn and Chief of pollcs Tar rlsh were also In the rooms. Judge . . - . t -A r. rvanKnr'i r ja r 1 1 - Wai.UH iirKitntM a. - - - flcate of election, but Mr. Simon said his term naa not expireu, auu rmn.i the attorneys to the courts. Tha at torneys were given a hearing. Edmund Smith, of Philadelphia, was elected president of the O.-W. R. A N. Company by the directors yeeterday, and W. S. Ladd was elected vice-president. Half a Century Ago (From The Oregonian of July 2, UM.) The Mountaineer of yesterday con tains an account of another conflict be tween a party of 14 packers and an unknown number of Snake Indians. The statement of the affair Is received from one of the wounded men. ,J. M. Greenatreet. Five trains were trav eling In company and on Sunday made camp at the Bridge Creek House and placed a strong guard over the corral. At daylight, Monday morning, as the guard was turning out the horses t graze, the Indians charged upon them and attempted to stampede the animals. The horses were driven back to the In closure and an alarm gun fired, when the whole party turned out to fight with the Indians. The savages posted themselves on a ridge overlooking the house and for some five, hours rained down a galling fire. The packers had three rifles and one shotgun, and each man was armed with a revlover, but the Indians had greatly the advantage In tho longer-range of their guns. The Snake finally turned their fire on men and horses indiscriminately, but without fatal result so far as the men were concerned. Six men were wounded a follows: John Atterbury. J. M. Green street, Henry A. Deauman. Louis Lam bert, Albert Houston and August Ni chols. All the wounded are likely M recover. The Indians shot and killed 17 horses and wounded seven or eight others. They ran and captured three horses and captured all of the blankets and a portion of the cargoes. 1 ester day morning Mr. Strickland, agent of the Canyon City Stage Company, left The Dalles, accompanied by eight pri vates of Cavalry, to look after the Indians. The Oregon Freedmen s Relief Asso ciation formed at the meeting Wednes day evening with a committee com posed of George H. William. H. M . . Corbett, D. Rutledge. C M. Carter. J. H. Mitchell. G. Shindler, G. H. Aknon and P. Wasserman. Henry W. Cor bett Is treasurer and 8. Cornelius, sec relary. Marysvllle, Cal.. July 1. The dif ferent lines of travel through this state are Infested with gangs of high waymen. Not long since the stage from here to Downlvllle was stopped In day llaht near Camptonvllle. and LanRton & Co.'? express robbed of 11800. More recently a like robbery was committed on Whiting & Co.'s express near Oro vnie in which they lost $1,00. Men supposed to have been engaged In these robberies are now on trial at Orovllle. Last nlsrht a more extensive haul was made of Well's. Fargo & Co', trras ure and bullion. The stsges from lr Klnia to Placervllle were stopped last night about 10 o'clock by six men a mile above the 13-mlle house on har Sam's new grade. Jh. robbM. hel4 the driver. In check with shotguns, while they took eiftht bags of bullion Votlest-d. Tne parson ci Sheriff Roger, and party went n pur suit and arrestee, i-v. -mile house. The pther four had oft for Cosumne. via Pleasant Valley About 10 o'clock a courier from the Somer.et House .t.ted that there had been " flg"t between th. robber, and the officers. In which two of the job ber, wer. killed and another badly wounded; also that Sheriff Staple, was wounded. A bill granting the widow ef Colonel E D Baker, a pension of ISO a month passed the United States Senat. lately. Iu Oregon City at the EpIsi-opaJ Church on the evening of the 37th. ult. by F.ev. Bishop Scott. Captain F.. H. Baughman to Mis. LUsl. Tbomea.