Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, July 16, 1914, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextTTTE MORXIXG OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, 16. 1914. 10 unmit mibti vn OREGOX Entered at Portland. Oregon, Foetofttee ea fcecond-class luiur. , . . subscription Kate Invariably lavAdTanea. BT MAIL) pally, Snnday Included, ona rear Daily. Sunday Included, ill months .. - Dai.y. Sunday Included, inrea months.. Iiaiir. fiunaay Included, one montn ... -1? Uai:jr. without bunu.jr. on year y-yy Kai:. without Sunday. ala months ... Isi:y. without bunday. three months.. l-ij Uaiiy. without bunday. one montn .... Weekly, one year .......- fcunoay. one year . bunaay and Weekly, one year (B7 CARRIER) Dally. Sunday Included, one year 9'? &ai:y. bunday Included, on montn - - - ' How o Kemil Send Postofllce money oi der, express order or peraonal check on your local bank, biampa. coin or currency ' sender's rials. Ulve poatoffica addreaa In lull. Including county and atate. ' . 1'oktage Kates 12 to 1 pages. 1 cent, is to 1 pses. i centa; a to IK PM. ""J". to to k pagea, cents; Z to . cents: 7S to pagea, centa. Foreign post age, double rateg. . w 4atern Business Offices Verree Cons. lln. Me talk. brunawlcK building. -ni-cago, Steger building. Co pan Krancbre OHice R. J. Bldwell Tel Market street. FOBTI-IND, THURSDAY, eTLXX 1. W1 WHAT ITEXTt Eleven months ago the United States demanded that Vlctonano . Huerta resign as provisional Pretsi- dent of Mexico. We had previously refused to recognize him. Now he has resigned. But the moving cause has not been any fireless ultimatum from President .Wilson or Secretary Bryan. He has yielded only to the 4nracinv nrMxiira of domestic revo lution, lie flees before the victorious rebels. He has lost his long ngni against foes within who have been aided and abetted by foes without. " Now Carranza and Villa and the other rebel chieftains are to be responsible for Mexico. The future Is not promising. It Is to be presumed that American troops and American ships will soon be withdrawn from Vera Cruz. We ehall then have emerged without glory from a futile war which we began. We have not conquered nor pacified Mexico. We have done nothing through mediation except to retreat from a position of belligerency which we bravely assumed and weakly abandoned. We demand an apology and a sa lute from Mexica and we get no sa lute, and we appeal to arms because the apology Is not enough. We incur large expense in moving cur forces to Vera Cruz and we tell the world that we shall seek no re prisals and shall demand no repara tion for the heavy damage done American interests. We view without concern the mur der of Americans in Mexico and the expulsion of other Americans from Mexico, and we calmly notify the sur viving Americans, that we can- and will do nothing for them, and that their best course is to leave their homes to the despillers, "d run. We put an embargo on arms to Mexico; then we take it off; then we put it on again; and we wink at every evasion that promises to involve us in trouble about its enforcement, or that appears to be of service to the rebels. We assure the nations in one breath that we are not at war with Mexico, but with Huerta, and In another breath we say that we are engaged in a "war of service" for Mexico; yet we appeal to three South American re publics to help us out of the conse quences of a war into which we have Inevitably drifted through our spine less diplomacy. We sacrifice seventeen lives of brave young Americans at Vera Cruz and then are utterly at a loss to know why. we did it. or what to do with a victory thus dearly won. We loudly demand an accounting for the murder of a single English--man, Benton, and insist on the deliv ery of his body, and we promptly for get It when neither, is forthcoming: but we can find nothing to stir our resentment or Insure our protection when an American is slain by Mexi can soldiers or Mexican bandits. All we can do Is to deny vainly that any one has been hurt. We are rebuked and scorned in turn by every prominent Mexican from Huerta to Carranza. except Villa, hero of a thousand murders. Tet we per mit our entire Mexican policy to be controlled by the single fact that we believe we do not know that HueTta committed one murder. Now. because someone else has ap parently ended the conflict with Huerta which we provoked, we shall strike our flag and abandon Mexico. But what next? It cannot be imag ined, of course, that there is to he stable government In Mexico under Carranza and his quarreling Generals. CONGRESS CROWS RESTIVE. Completion of President Wilson's legislative programme at this session of Congress is endangered by his In ability to keep the individual mem bers In Washington. Congress re mains formally in session and does business, but many members absent themselves, sometimes obtaining leave on the plea of "urgent private busi ness." This business usually has to do with renomination and re-election. Severul motions have been made In the House to Tlx a day for final ad journment, but have been snuffed out bv the leaders, and the pleas of the homesick are met with such a pledge as that given by twelve of the Demo cratic members from Missouri that they would remain as long as neces sary to complete the programme. That Is all very well as to the House, for Its committees have about finished their work and the House can grind away on the rest of the ap propriation bills, but It Is not so with the Senate. That leisurely body can not .be held down to a strict pro gramme prepared by the rules com mittee, but goes its own way. It Is debating the Trade Commission bill, but Senators refuse to discuss one phase of the trust question until they know what the Democratic leaders propose to do with other phases, -and the latter are not ready to tell. The reason Is that committees have not finished them, and ono committee Is Inactive because several of its mem bers are absent. Here, too, there is urgent business at home, for In these flays of direct election Senators have fences to look after. If all three of the anti-trust bills are to bs passed at this session, an emergency call must be sent to absent Senators and speeches must be curtailed In a most . unsenatorial manner. All this goes to show that Congress men, like other officeholders, spend about one-half of their time In doing their work and - the other half In holding their Jobs. The President's Insistence on so much legislation has caused them to encroach on the sec end half of their time, and some of them are kept scurrying to 'and fro between "Washington and their homes, trying to do both things at the same time. Perhaps this explains why the Sen ata hniiii nut for 20 cents mileage, fo traveling: costs money now that passes are tabooed. MORS 8ERVICB FOR MANKIND.' Industrial stagnation, they say. worldwide. To be sure it Is. But that disagreeable fact does not Justify the United States In letting down the tariff bars to the distressed nations that are persistently seeking and get ting new markets for their wares. Tet that Is what President Wilson has done, i ' . In the eight months fallowing Oc tober 3, 1913, under the new tariff, w hnurht abroad S54.852.086 more in E-nnrls than in the same eight months of the previous year. e soia tl4S.424.002 less. Here was a cnange In the balance of trade against us of $200,000,000 In two-thirds or one year. nnrine A nrll 1914. there were such increases In imports of manufactured oifpUa am tha f rtllnwin er: Per Cent Increase. Automobile parta aJ? Cotton clothe Jj? bavQ ltt.B ,i in.i stockings ;i Other knit goods Ilnen yarns Cutlery -. Leather and tanned skins ...... Linoleum 718 57 ..114 silks ..41)1 . .38 Woolen cloths .................. Dress goods ............... Wparlntf aDDarel ........... . . 31 Other wool Imports -33 Buying more and more abroad, and selling less both at home and abroad, is the Democratic Administration's contribution to the empty dinner-pall. A STRIKE 6HOCIJ BE FORBIDDEN. The dispute between the Western railroads and their errrtloyes should not hn nermitted to end in a strike. The public, for whose service the rail miH, .list has rights in the matter superior to those of either the com panies or their employes, it nas tne right to uninterrupted operation of t h a rn i 1 roa da. Throueh Congress it has provided means for the fair ad justment of all disputes without In terruption of traffic. If either party tn th controversy refuses to accept those means, a way should be found to compel them or at least to prevent them from demoralizing business by a suspension of traffic in a large sec tion of the country. After a lone? Deriod of harrowing depression the country is beginning fool the vivifvinsr Influence of abundant crops, and the railroads, after a period of shrunken earnings, are ready to enjoy an increase of tf-fiv That the bullheaaea oosti- nacy of any set of men should be per mitted to blight this bright prospect Is not to be tolerated. SER AMERICA FIRST, prt vffar manv thousands of visit ors from the Eastern states will come to the Pacific Coast. Their prime nnrnnM fit course, will be to see the San Francisco exhibition, but .they will have other objects, one oi tnem will be to go through the Panama Canal. It Is very likely true of ninety nine Easterners out of every hundred ti-hn think of maklnsr the trip to the Coast that they plan to see the canal either coming or going. The Spring field Republican is-or tne opinion ihif hov min-ht better leave the canal for some other time and arrange to see more of the sights or tne ureai West. r.ont tnr Its hlemess. the Panama Canal' Is a good deal like any other work of the same nature and a sea vnva Is ant to be monotonous, iviahe the best you can of it, the time is vacuous. But for tne traveler who mmpt to the Coast by one railroad and returns by another there will be . . - t a, rru constant variety ana interest. j.uj annflcrj to be seen are meraiiy countless. The great plains are in themselves marvelous to the Eastern er whose outlook has always been cut off by tall buildings or Intrusive mountains. tvi ninina have the limitless non- without its weari some sameness. The transcontinental railroads follow for the most part nis toric trails and their courses are en livened with the memories of roman tic episodes. It Is almost impossible . cuv. th rnaat without traversing ground sown thickly with old-time adventures, all of which make travel interesting If one takes tne pains to iorn nhnnt them. The Oregon trail. the Santa Fe trail and the route of Lewis and Clark, are now an parai i,i,t w miirnnrls. and the judicious sightseer, as the Republican suggests. will get the most sausiacuon tur i" pains If he takes one of them on the way to the Coast and another re turning. ThA Southern route Is at Its Dest in tA out-iv nart of the season before the heat has grown exhausting and while the vegetation is sun iresn ana e-roen Later on it is better to choose a route farther north. Once a per son has reached the mountain re gion on his westward way the ob jects of interest are bewilderingly numerous. There are snow-cappea mountains, glaciers and lakes which Switzerland in beauty and grandeur. From the Puget Sound country all the way to eaiiioriiia. snow mountains are In sight, often half a dozen at the same time, -xne trin im the Columbia River to The rioiuo is mnrA rharmin?. as far as scenery "Is concerned, than a day on the Rhine. Nor is nistoric interest lacking if one takes the trounie to ritar-over it. The Rhine has its baron ial castles. The Columbia has its In dian lore which is not less tnrnnng. In Eastern Oregon there are the wild o-coa nf th Deschutes River, the snow peaks of the Cascades and the unique Crater Lake. rnese natural wonders are almost as accessible as the sights of Switzerland. , Many of them can be visited comfortably by n,.tnnnhiiA TCnr are the expenses as forbidding as' many persons Imagine. The advice to "see America tiroL woo fimarb nnntprerl with the answer that the price was prohibitory, to say nothing of rough roaas ana iiuaiiaujc hotels. ThA Tt AniihHran mentions a round- trip rate from Springfield to the Coast and back of $171. The traveler would nnniA hv- the Santa Fe route ana re turn over the Canadian Pacific witn stopovers at all the interesting points like the Grand Canyon, the Tosemlte and Crater Lake. Of course, visits to these places would cause some aaai tional expense, but the money would hp wen laid out. The country roads over 'which the traveler must go to visit many scenic marveis cannot com ner wWh fhnsfl In Europe, but on the other hand they are far better than the rough-and-ready highways oi Dloneer days and they are rapidly Improving. an nniieh th coast oountrv lo cal authorities are eagerly building roads In anticipation of the Exposi tion travel, and much of the work is skillfully engineered. Upon the whole the roads of Oregon are probably as good as those of the ordinary Eastern rural districts. - The best Eastern roads are a great deal better than our best. The average Is about the same As for our hotels, they are far ahead of the roads. The Republican mentions El Tovar at the Grand Canyon as a model of beauty and luxury. Oregon has prob ably no such superb hotel for tour ists exclusively, unless it be the White Pelican at Klamath Falls, but in ev ery considerable town there is now at least one which is clean and comfort able, w-ith prices not excessively high. The old-time excuses which once eased American consciences when their own country was slighted for Europe no longer hold good. PROTECTED BY PltOVTDENCK. m . ....nmnhlTAO ..nllfrlofl X'A.tTPrdaV X V j at a street intersection on the East Side, and several people were hurt. One automobile was going iweniy-uvu mils, nor hour. Tt is daneerous speed at a crossing, unless the approaches from all directions are ciear. -'There are more than 5000 automo biles in Portland, and there are prob ably 10,000 paved street intersections. It is a safe calculation mat tne num ber of street-corner transits by auto mobiles in a single day in this city is 100,000. The chances of accident, if a car approaches a street corner at hiirh sneed. are enormous.. Why any driver should risk his life, and the lives of his passengers, by advancing upon a blind corner at great speed is nnt tn ho A-rnlatned. Tet It Is done many times daily in Portland and in every other city. The wonder Is that collisions are not more numerous. The reason must be that Providence Is kind. WHEN WATER GRADE Vt'H-L TRIUMPH. Tpau hnmnlnnshlDS in the art of refutine that-which has never been said or argued come and go. Some? times the title rests in Medtora, again In Pendleton and occasionally in As toria. Just now the Astoria Budget holds the heavyweight honors. Tn dlseussine the Astoria rate case theBudget charges that Thev Orego n's n "endeavored to show wny As toria's claim should . not be recog nicii that The Oreconian "quoted some engineer as saying it would cost more to haul a train down tne water level grade to Astoria than over the mountains from the Inland Empire to the Sound,'.' and that The Oregonian would lead people to believe that the nrinMnni reason why Astoria's claim should not be granted Is that Port land would demand a differential and thus obtain an advantage over Seattle. an nf this la untrue ana tor mat reason it is wholly unnecessary to re print the learned arguments the Budget offers In opposition or reprint its calm and lucid exposure of "the bunch that rules the political, com mercial, financial and industrial des tiny" of Portland. What The Oregonian published was a review of some or tne eviuenue m the Astoria case accompanied by spec ulation of its own as to the effect on Portland in event of Astoria's success tr. thA .. it has Instituted. The Ore- gonian's conclusion was that Portland stood to lose a little or gain a great haoI rionenrHnr on whether Portland could, n the basis of the new Astoria rate, obtain a lower rate than -uget Sound. nut Th flreironlan has sufficient confidence in the Interstate Commerce Commission to believe that if the rnmmissinn finds that existing rates to Astoria are unreasonable or dis criminatory it will order their correc tion regardless of how Portland or the Portland press feels about it. For that reason The Oregonian minus that it hn the same privilege of tell ing Its readers what it believes might result to -the detriment of Portland as-the Budget has to tell its readers what ' great advantages mignt uccme to Astoria. ThA teatlmnnv of the engineer re- fAt-t-ori tn in doubtless that of one of the railroads' experts who, merely to show that tne Astoria experts imu used an obsolete and Inaccurate for mula, for determining the cost-or nuui. used the same formula and produced m absurd result one wnicn appur tly indicated that the cost of haul ing a train over a water graae was greater than over a mountain graae. The Oregonian distinctly said, in words so plain that a child could un derstand them, that, the railroads did not rely on these figures -and that it was a matter of common knowledge that the same train could be hauled- at lower cost over a water grade man over a mountain grade. If the decision by the Interstate Commerce Commission accords with the strict letter of Astoria's applica tion. Astoria will have the same rates as Puget Sound. It will follow almost without question that Portland will then have acquired a basis on which to demand and obtain lower ratea thor. either Puaret Sound or Astdria. Portland has 'every reason to hope that the decision may be so worded, ut hope and expectation are not one and the same. ' The outcome of such an order is obvious. If the . northern railroads theiT- ritM to Pueet Sound the same as the new rate to Portland, they would automatically reduce as- LUl l t ,a.w - - rate lenvtna- the relative posi i -.otA anil in turn reauce rort- tions of the several ports the same. Portland would, 4hus having an un assailable lower rate than any rival, ultimately get all the traffic from competitive territory. But this possioie result, it is ic- nnnh e to HltDDOae. Will De consmereu by the Commission. Volume of traf fic affects the cost or nauu, xne mountainous railroad with a heavy traffic may find its cost of oper ation per average train lower than the water-grade road with light traf fic. JuSt now -the mountainous northern railroads have a greater volume of traffic than the water grade Columbia Valley roads. A low er rate on the latter wouia oouuiicm Increase the traffic of the water- A-roA emit to the further loss or tne northern railroads. The ability of the water-graae roaas to reuueo mi ent of profits would Increase progressively, while the abil ity of the northern railroads to han dle traffic at tne rates now in iur would diminish progressively. ine potential effects of th Astoria rate on traffic and raliroaa securities anu upon the prosperity or localities are enormous. It is likely that not oniy the earning power or me norinem ..timaiiQ hut the Drobable results to shippers who do not have access to the water-graae raiiroa.u, ww u -""-sidered. by the Commission. Two elements now prevent oom Astoria and Portland from' acquiring the full benefits of the water grade. One Is the existing method of fixing railroad rates which takes small or no account or me cost oi nam the other is lack of water competition. We think water competition is nearer than is reformation of rate-making. What the Interstate Commerce Com mission may seek to avoid in making rate orders, the opening of the Celll canal and- the encouragement of river transportation . will forcibly accom plish. The Oregonian expects to see the day when both Astoria and Port land shall have lower rates than Puget Sound, at least on grain and other bulky freight. I If Astoria obtains terminal rates it is altogether probable that the Com mission will see to it that the order puts Portland on the same plane as Astoria and Puget Sound. As here tofore observed, what Is Astoria's gain will then be Portland's loss, for As toria will get no new business except that which otherwise would have been Portland's. The last Is a plain state ment of fact, not an argument against" Astoria's petition. The boy under arrest for setting his bulldog on cats is guilty of a "hu mane" crime, to be sure. Tet who shall Judge him and prescribe punish ment?" Breathes there a man who has not In the days of his boyhood "sicked" his dog (for all boys at some stage own a dog) at a feline and en- Joyed the ' hunted animal'., apparent discomfiture? The word "apparent is used advisedly, for the cat always seeks refuge in tree or on post, going Just high enough to be out of reach, where it can spit defiance. There is no torture in it. Observation shows the animal has great engineering ability. It does not, like the man a lap or two ahead of a bear, climb to the top or the end of a limb. Not sO the cat. Just out of reach is as good as a mile, and there it worries the pursuer until he slinks away beaten. No,' to chase a cat is not criminal, ft may be wicked, from point of view of the boy's mother; but that Is be cause she never was a boy and "never had no fun," until perhaps the family cat devoured the canary and she saw the light. Besides, what are cats, anyway ? Many precious old-time truths are fading one by one In the glare of sci entific experiment. Just yesterday another perished. It was expressed in the answer to the conundrum. 'Why is a cow like an elephant?" The solution was "'Because neither of them can climb a tree," but while trusting millions have accepted this as true for centuries. It must now be abandoned ' because it has been dis covered in San Francisco that a cow can climb a tree, or at least a bull can climb a flight of stairs, which comes to the-same thing. The animal as cended . to the upper flats and drove the lnro,ates wild with terror. Mrs. Jean Vlissengen, a great sup porter of the beautiful art of danc ing, maintains that "the feet are Just as expressive as the hands." They can certainly express some things which the hands cannot. A kick, for example, carries contempt with it, while a blow with the fist is an ad mission of manly equality in Its re cipient. The beauty of the foot is "an old theme in literature. It was sung In Bible times and not neglected "In Trilby. But never before has the foot been made such a minister or joy as it Is by our Intellectual dancers of the tango and turkey trot. ' ' The Dayton man who Is ambitious to breed moles for a living should prepare for stormy times before he begins. If hl3 neighbors do not lynch him, it will be because their hearts are softened by a miracle. Moles are a terrible pest to farmers. Scientists say they eat nothing valuable them selves, but merely make underground paths in which mice destructively follow them. In other words, they open the door"to the burglar. As far as we can ee, they might as well be burglars themselves. In some sec tions moles make it almost Impossible for dairymen to grow corn. When the producer Is not being swindled by a bogus commission man, he Is victimized by a rascally cream ery man. The very nature of the farmer's life, hedged as he is by lack of opportunity to learn , of the wiles pf the fraud and faker, makes' him easy prey. A preventive remedy Is to read a daily newspaper, in which fraud is exposed, and another is ces sation of trusting every glib-tongued stranger. A contemporary asks In melan choly tone, "Why did Morgan do it?" That Is, why did he go on robbing the New Haven when he had so many millions salted down already? Why does a drunkard already full to the brim go on drinking? Why does a gambler stake his wife's wedding ring? Why did Napoleon go on fight ing after Moscow? ' They have the habit. That Is the long and snort or it. Tk to rnmnrui thnt the delav in ren dering the rate decision Is duetto the fact that the Interstate Commerce fnmmisRinn i divided, standing four for the advance and tnree against. The Supreme Court has been able to render decisions by a majority of one; why cannot the Commission? Why this agony of suspense? . Mr. Williams . . . says . he cannot he situation In Albania as Lhe would like under the restraint imposed by his diplomatic position. oecreiary oi an's statement. In view of what he said when un der that restraint, all Europe must tremble at the thought of what he might haveeaid when free from It. I Automoblllsts must expect collisions at intersections Just as long as they slow down to fifteen miles," which Is Interpreted to mean any rate under forty miles an hour. f The trades and professions are well represented in the Oregon Peniten tiary, the latest acquisition being a Portland lawyer who delivered him self at the gate. "T.nrtv" Snrh.rs differ from the dusky artist of the male persuasion in that they do not use tne razzer m settling their troubles. T 1 nntlnn Rfl Interpreted by Judge Jones, means that a ".dry" pre cinct cannot be sprinklea rrom tne bottle. Tt ViaIi nnvfl awrv Portland fan to go out to the game and yell, yell, yell. Mount Lassen has a. good stoker or a better press agent. Let Portland go over and show Seattle. "Beat It, Huerta!" OPIKIOX DUE TO OBSERVATION. Fitness of Teachers for Inatroctlng; la Sex Hygiene Carefully sounaeu. PORTLAND, July, 14. (To the Ed itor.) The mother who signs herself Ex-Teacher is mistaken if she thinks I have not observed for myself what the attitude of many women on the teaching staff in ur public schools Is with regard to sex hygiene. I have talked directly with a good many. Most of them, knowlnjr me to 'be a profes sional nurse, were quite frank In their avowals. Some of them, to their praise be it said, took a sane, wholesome and natural view of sexual subjects. A ma jority regarded the whole question a bordering on the "nasty," the "beast ly" or the "obscene." This attitude, I still maintain, is characteristic of a certain type of mind which prolonged splnsterhood tends to accentuate. An unfortunate sexual ex perience may produce the same marked psychosis. Of course, this sort of phobia Is not by any means confined to public schoolteachers, but-, there Is probably a higher percentage of this elusive but none the less morbid state of mind among teachers than among the members of any other occupation for females. The explanation for this is quite defi nite, but it would take too long to de tail It here. Let those who have the requisite ourloslty and alertness of mind which is the basis of all education by one's self or others dig Into the Freudian psychology and find the solu tion for themselves. What passes as "sex hygiene" with some persons, including- many so-called educators, is often only a bogus ;-ach-ing consisting of a, few general admo nitions based on an ascetic view of life, supplemented by a little physiol ogy, very much second-hand. Even this little. If accurate, will do for a begin ning. But many "sex hyglenists" think they have covered the whole field after imparting a little smattering- of sur face knowledge. They forget that they have made only a start, and that the knowledge necessary for the pubes cent and adolescent may not be at all adequate for the mature. I mean those who have reached sexual ma turity, which not Infrequently ante dates legal maturity. Yet these crude dogmatists do not hesitate to lay down formal and inflexible rules for all alike, forgetting that each individual i a class by himself. They also . overlook the Immense complexity of the subject. How com plicated sex-psychology Is has been made comprehensible to us in English only within the past 10 or 12 years with the -completion of the publication of the six-volume work by Havelock Ellis. In that work the author studi ously avoids dogmatism. He main tains the detached scientific attitude throughout, and Is satisfied if he gets no further than merely stating a prob lem correctly in itself an achievement in so complicated a matter. Perhaps a sweetly wholesome and in telligent unmarried teacher can teach elementary sex-hygiene. In fact, I do not doubt it for a minute. But there Is much more needed for the good of humanity than elementary knowledge. Qualification to teach the facts regard ing the more intimate things of the sexual relations facts of the most vi tal importance includes a wider and deeper Insight and experience than the unmarried teacher generally has. It is doubtful if a celibate of either sex wpuld really be qualified. The subject requires not only special training and knowledge, but also a Bubtle sympathy for the task that can be tound only In persons whose own experience has been happy and satis fying. The victims of a sorrow-producing experience of whom there are many among the married and unmar ried alike speaking with ill-founded as surance on the subject would not an swer at all. None but those who have mot only knowledge and capacity but In addition a joyful, sweetening and enriching personal experience; In short. who have found happiness In love, ought to be considered competent to teach so tremendously Important a sub ject ' as sex-hygiene, in the broadest meaning of the term. I wonder' how many among her ac quaintances could Ex-Teacher find to meet the qualifications. (MISS) M. M. Miss Myrtle Moffatt, former special drawing teacher in the schools, writes to The Oregonian that she has been suspected by many of writing" the let ter on sex hygiene instruction, pub lished In The- Oregonian July 11 and signed "Miss M. M." Miss Moffett avers that she does not Indorse the senti ments expressed therein. The Oregonian has been supplied with the name and address- of the "Miss M. M." who is author of the let. ter published July 11 and of the one printed today. The rOregonlan corrob orates Miss Moffett's statement that she Is not "Miss M. M." It may also be said. In Justice to the author of the letters, that she has signed her true initials. . Wrong Paper Given Credit T. V. nllA..rtnw AVtat fmm IHIA tif lno luiiunius the up-state newspapers was published in The Oregonian July 10 and errone ously credited to the Eugene Guard: nTi.k.nkA 1- una randldata ir. james w mj..vi. . whd Is in a position to La envied. He has behind him the full strength of the reunited &t rrlnnriinin party, and ne nas me . 7 VuZ. and support of all h'.s late opponents In the nn mnra KTHIll primary election. nicie " . . . . . . . i .....d, that have to De nvomea euu 11 " . . . j Ti. I. ...... v admit- not yet neaiea over. e . 6 ted to be an estimable gentleman and a man . .i !.. rih thA Yl erifl OI wno is iuity ,4. ui. ... ---- r j the state, lie is caim anu .. - . headed qualities In a chief executive that the state stands In special need of just now His opponent Is in no such enviable po- ... . . . . -1 v. Ht.,.n, An. Sltlon. HIS party i mi --. and many of the men who would normally be oountea as nis upiii revolt against him. The rivalries of the prl- v . . - i. . -n ...ri..1 av and mary campaign 11 " 1 " u ' : " " - , will be strongly apparent at the November election. Personally, Dr. Smith is doubtless an amiable and pleasant gentleman, but he . . i . i - ,u. n.rtnnii ts namperea in mi ,' " choice of a Governor who has specialized in three-ring circus methods of government. There is cenamiy e.cii that this Is a Republican year in Oregon. Mr. E. J. Finneran, editor of the Guard, says: "The editorial in ques tion does not express the sentiment of the Guard on tne guDcnunoudi lection, nor its feelings toward either of the candidates mentioned," and that it certainly never appeared in the Guard. The Kind Irvin S. Cobb. Doran's Literary Notes. ' A tr.mn vecentlV Called St the hOUSS of Irvin S. Cobb, and the maid dragged ut nntMnir tha last touches 11 1 lit AV.A.J i . Kill . on his new book, "Roughing It de Luxe." "r-w- waive mnnv miles to see you. sir," said the tramp, "because people told me you were very kind to ..poor. unxortunate ienu"o , "Indeed," said the author. "And are you going back the same way?" "Yes. sir," was tne answer. i wnii . aA mt Pnhb. "lust 'con tradict that rumor as you go, will you? Good morning." Beer Turned Into Water. Meggendorfer Blatter. Stranger Who is that remarkable- looking man? Brewer Hlmmei: tnats mo magi cian who. yesterday turned beer into water. And they let a man liKe mat goeround loose! Arrest Faces Minister. Livingstone Lance. nr.!aira la lotterv." ' "As lot teries are unlawful, somebody ought to arrest the ministers." TRICKS OF STYLE IX CLASSICS Greeks Laid Streaa on Minute 1'olnta, Asaerts Contributor. PORTLAND, July U. (To the Edi tor.) It Is not my purpose to become involved in a fruitless discussion on the value of the classical studies, but In the Interest of truth and fair play I must raise a protest against certain statements in an editorial In The Ore gonian (Sunday, July 6) entitled "The Greek and Latin Fetich." Apropos of Dr. McJCinlay's admirable plea for the study of the classics as a means of cultivating one's Knglish style, the following statements occur: "It Is only in decadent periods of literary history or In imitative literatures, that these points receive capital attention. Ver gil thought more of form than of mat ter!" (The punctuation Is mine). To quote further, in the next paragraph: We hear little or nothing of this sort of "style" from the Greeks of the great period Following tbs genius of their language and tha bent of their minds, they said straight forwardly what they had to say and let it go at. that. Inasmuch as their thought was coherent their paragraphs flowed naturally one Into another, but we doubt very much whether either Xenophon or Plato ever troubled himself a great deal about "topic" sentences and tha like. Such fripperies came Into fashion among the Alexandrians when men had lost the faculty of original thought and oould only write about writing. To anyone who has any knowledge of ancient literary criticism the above remarks will seem incomprehensible In their lack of -appreciation of Greek literature. The greatest of all crafts to the Greek, and the one at which he labored with the utmost diligence and pains taking, was that of letters and this at titude, toward writing as a fine art Is due to his conception of speech. That artistic sense which distinguished the Greeks above all races that the world has ever known was concentrated, at least In the period of greatest achieve ment, on the idealization of man. Now, logos, speech, was recognized by the Greeks as a distinctive attribute of man. It was necessary, therefore, at this stage that they should require In speech a clear-cat and typical beauty analogous to that of the Idealized hu man form. The pursuit of letters as a fine art, the toil and exacting demands made upon the classical writers of Greece -and Rome, is a matter that ancient critics frequently dwell upon. Horace, who was a product of the Golden age of Roman literature, the most pains taking and exact In choice of word and in phrasing, criticises his predecessor, Lucillus, who boasted of the speed with which he could spin off verses, but, if he were living In this age, Horace adds, he would bite his nails and pull his hair. Cicero compares the phrase, lexeis, each fitted with nicety to Its setting in a finished sentence, with the pieces, tesserulae, laid In a mosaic. The ancient writer was attentive not merely to the general drift or total effect, but to the particular excellence. Isocrates speaks of "the antitheses, the symmetrical clauses, and other figures, which lend brilliancy to ora torical displays, compelling the listen ers to give clamorous applause." Ancient critics habitually compare the pains needful to produce a good piece of writing with the pains needful to produce a good statue or picture. When Plato wished to describe the finished smoothness of Lysias, he borrows his Image from the sculptor. But among the passages, and they are Innumerable, which treat this matter, there Is ono in Dionyslus In his treatise on style which is of prime importance to those who wish to understand the real nature of ancient literature. Dionyslus is explaining and defending that minute and Incessant diligence which Demosthenes devoted to the per fection of his orations. "It Is not strange," says Dionyslus, "if a man who has won more, glory for eloquence than any of those who were renowned before him, who Is shaping words for all time, who Is offering himself to the scrutiny of envying time, adopts no word, no thought, at random, but takes much care of both things, arrangement of his Ideas and the graciousness of his language: seeing, too, that the men of that day produced discourses which resembled no common scribbling.", but rather were like to carved and chiseled forms I mean Isocrates and Plato." Dionyslus then refers to the fact that Isocrates spent ten years, at the lowest estimate, on his creation, the Penegyricus, and "Plato ceased not to smooth the locks and adjust the tresses, or vary the braids of his comely crea tions." As further evidence of Plato's industry in writing, Dionyslus men tions the current story about the tablet which was found after his death with the first words of the Republic "I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon, son of Artston." This sentence was written in many different ways. The distinguishing feature of Greek literature is its sustained perfection of style. How much 111 finished work have Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Tennyson, Browning left? Shakespeare himself is not blameless. In the Greek poets even when the thouKht is trifling and the language undistinguished, the workmanship is nearly always good. "The sawdust of the workshop has been brushed away from their verse, the edges trimmed and rounded, the whole has been painted and polished." It was the Greek's unsleeping Instinct for beauty that prevented his ever be coming careless or slovenly In execu tion. Thucydides, Sophocles. Herodotus, Xenophon, Euripides, Demosthenes, Isocrates, Horace, Cicero and In gen eral all of the greatest classical writers were masters of this craft, laid utmost stress upon minute points of style, "deft express," "easy transition," upon lucidMy and euphony, studied out the best possible way or phrasing tne idea. Plato above all made use of arl the tricks of. style. KELLEY RKJSS. What la Protestant Ireland! PORTLAND. July 15. (To the Edi tor.) Please define the boundaries of Protestant Ireland, sometimes described as "The North of Ireland." J. N. M. The province of Ulster Is roughly spoken of as Protectant, but in fact the pare of Ireland where Protestants are In the majority Is restricted to the four northeastern counties of that province. The, population of the nine counties of Ulster is divided as to religion as fol lows: -Population Tountv Protectant. Catholic. Antrim 447. Ml i:w.i!4 H4.4S.1 H4.4"l ins l.l.l.OL'l 4, 740 74.271 B.'i.:i6.i Down . . . .i3,s:io Derry Tyrone .1.40 Donegal !t...S1tl Fermanagh Ji.oHH Cavan lrt.POJ MonaKhan W Armunh OJ.iO.i Total, SHO.SSO' 6110,810 Imports of Wheat. AZALEA, Or., July 14. (To the Edi tor.) To settle argument please state if any wheat was imported from foreign countries to the United tates in the last two years, and how much. GERALD PICKETT. Imports of wheat to the United States In the year ending June 30, 1913, were 798,028 bushels; year ending June SO, 1912, 2,699,130 bushels. Figures for year ending June 30, 1914, sre not yet available. Who Has It! VANCOUVER, Wash., July 14. To the Editor. Can yero refer me to some one In Portland who possesses a set of Bernard McKadden's Enclycopedia of Physical Culture? I desire to ex amine the books, but do not find them in the library. M. M. B. Twenty-Five Year Ago V- From The Oregonian of July 1. 1!. Albany. July 15. Deputy County Clerk Hodges, of Prlnevllle. who la In the city, states that Georae Nuttintr. sheep inspector of Crook County, lias been missing for several weeks and that fears are entertained that he has been murdered. Olympia, July 15. Geome II. Thomas Post," O. A. R.. of thla city, was vislt.-cl this evening by Department Commander S. G. Cosgrove and Inspector-General C. M. Barton. Olympia, July 15, Great dlssp. polntment was felt here this evening at the nonsrrlval of The Oregonian by express. Baker City. July 15. The largest mining sale ever made In Oregon wa that of the Basiloy mine today to Colonel R. F. Looney, of Mamphla, Juxtue R. E. Reese and O. fizonlagh, of Kan Francisco. San Francls4. July 15. The contest over the property of the late Thomas II. Blythe commenced In court this morning. TUo property is vajued at about H.OOO.uuO and the clalmante num ber over 200. The qiost prominent are Florence Blytha, who avers she la ths legitimate child of Blythe and Alice Dickerson, who claims he recognitor her as his wife. The East Portland Water Company has filed with the City Council a pro test against the latter's action In ap pointing commissioners to act for tha company In fixing water rates. Joseph Richardson has moved Into his new and elesunl resilience on Rod ney avenue north of Russell street. P. C. Stone, county road supervisor. Is having a good wagon road made Into tit. Johns. Judge Deady ordered the election of two settlers, Schweitzer and Seward, from claims in Harney Valley. When Deputy Marshal Harper, of Baker City, went to Harney to enforce execution, a party of men armed with Winches ters would not let him. "Billy" Beers, one of the ol.l-tlme Portland printers, who wna connected with the Herald for yeara. Is In the city for the first time in seven years. He now has a homestead on the headwa ters of the Ysquina Klver. C. C. Bozorth recently started a cheese factory at Woodland. W. T. The engagement Is announced of Mr. J. L. Howard to Miss Lizzie Prettyman. of Albany. . Dr Harry Lane and E. W. Bingham have' returned from a fishing trip to the Dohertr. The grand Jury, G. W. Ptaver. fore man, has reported recommending sup pression of the social evil and sale of liquor to minors and removal of explo sives beyond the city limits. Half a Century Ago (From The Oregonian of July II. ls4.) A private letter from Captain Olney, at The Dalles, says: "I have Jjisi learned that the rinake Indians have made a raid upon the settlers in Ante lope Valley, 5 miles from here, on the road to Canyon City, driving -ff all the stock In that valley. !t Is sleo reported that they have been seen within SO miles of this place, on the east side of the Deschutes River." Hon. J. R. McBrlde left New Tork on the steamer of July 13. and may ba expected to arrive among his constit uency In about 30 days from that tlnia. Auburn. Or., July 11. On Burnt Riv er, at the tollgate near Miller s ranch, on July 6, a half-breed by the nam of Greenwood killed a gentleman by tha name of Kennear. Greenwood then came on to the Express ranch, where he threatened to take the house. Ha and Mr. Scott both fired at the same time, each receiving a wound in the arm. Greenwood tiien came near tha Straw ranch, where he was captured. Toward evening the citizens of Burnt River and Auburn collected together and demanded the prisoner, took him about four miles east until they came to a Juniper, where they left him with a rope around his neck and tied te tha top f a tree, his feet lacking about 10 Inches of coming to tha ground. Yes terday his body was taken down, and burled. A letter from Captain George L. Cur ry to a gentleman In this city tells of work in the Owyhee mines. Baltimore, July 11. The Washing ton Ktnr says that skirmishing on the Rockvllle road commenced early tills morning and was followed by an ad nf iim rebel force to a point about four miles west of Trnallytown. Their progress on that road was stopped and they disappeared. Huhe n nr. lieurd them skirmishing around the Peventli-street turnpike. near Claggetfa farm ana F. i n.air residence. It Is reported that they burned Montgomery Blulr's reM.lrnre.. It Is said tl.at the rebel forte Is im1 sufficient to make an attack on lhe fortifications around Washington, and that it in not their Intention to do so. Per contra, we have Just received ac curate Information that the rebel army marched down the valley ti.OOO strong. Including tOOO cavalry, under Bieck lnrldge. Rawson, Imboden and McCaus land. IxniKStroct was at OorrtonsvllU with additional forces to Join the army of Invasion, and It the Intention ot the army to attempt the capture of Washington by surprise. .v, c ,n Tiiiv it. The enemy began tr.elr retreat across the Potomac at midnight. They had held- Rockvllle, give miles from the Potomac, as their base of supplies. Dr. Plummer. the obliging operator .v.- i.urr,nh office, has a battery arranged which shocks customers who touch the office bar. 'Several weeks since the Ktreet Com missioner fenced up the bridge on Front street, near the penitentiary, as a precaution against suits for damages. and yesterday a part oi rront sireei. In the busiest part of the thoroughfare) was fenced up. Two Celestials sppeared on tha streets yesterday, bearing upon a pole stretched from shoulder to shoulder be tween them a barrel of water, which they carried from the river to a wash house. Bamuel Brown, near Belpaosl. In Ma rlon County, was robbed of a valuable horse on the night of the 14th. The Dancing Craze Is playing Its rrt In the revolu tion of attire. Just as the automobile did before it Certain styles In shoes In men's clothing. In women's frocks are de manded by this fascinating enter tainment. Before you go away for your va cation you will want to be sure you have the right things In your trunk. Not necessary to waste a lot of time looking around. Just take the advertising columns of The Oregoni.-yi and see the fond of Information they have In this im portant subject.