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THE MOHNXXG OREGONIAN. FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1914 " 10 PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon, Fostofflce Second-class matter. Subscription Ratea InTarlably in Advance. tBT MAIL) Party. Gander Included, one year Daily. Sunday Included, six montne .. bally. fcunuay lnciuded. tnree months.. Pally, eunday Included, one month ... Ial,y. without bunday. one year Jw Jji:. without bunday. aix montha ... Pally, without bunday, three months.. Pally, without fcunuay. one month -?V Weekly, one year ,1. bunuay, one year - ; ; kLnuw H wklv nn. veer -ov (BT CARRIER) Daily. Sunday Included, one year Paliy. bunday included, one month .... iiow te Remit cend PostoHlce money or der, express order or peraonal check on your local bank, btampe, coin or currency are i sender's risk. Uive poetolfica aUdreae In u". Including county and atate . i'oetaae Katcli to 1 paces. 1 cent. 1 to iii pes. II cenu; to 40 paKea, B cents. SO to bo pacea, 4 cenu; 6i to pases, a centa; 74 to it pacea. cents. ForeUn posi es", double ratea. . w fcawterm Buetneea Offices Verree Conlt lln. Mew 101k, Brunswick building. -ni-Co. Btes-er building. baa rmactca OlUce R, J. Bldwell CO T4 J Market street. . PORTLAND, FRIDAY. jn.x IT. I1- COJC8ISTENT IX ONE PURPOSE. President "Wilson baa on two recent occasions emphasized his desire to conciliate business men. big and little. In his statement defending; Messrs. Warburg and Jones from the criti cisms leveled at them by the Senate banking committee he pronounced "the vast majority of men connected uriu. what we have come to call big business, honest, lncorruptlve and patriotic." and he declared It '"the obvious business of statesmanship at this turning point In our development to recognize ability and character wherever it has been displayed." On the same day he "welcomed approval by Chicago business men of many features of the anti-trust bills and showed a disposition to meet their criticism of other features. This mental attitude of the Presi dent is taken by the New York Even ing Post as an evidence that he is wooing big business to enter Into alli ance with him; that he realizes the growing unpopularity of his Adminis tration and that he seeks co-operation of big business In order that he may make this time a "turning point" In another sense, namely, "in tne sense that the time has now come to turn and rend his political enemies." The Post holds that he has succeeded to showing an open mind and that he Is no child in politics and it suggests that he may recover his popularity by his conciliatory attitude. When we look back at the Presi dent's utterances on the Government's relation to big business, we are led to believe that there has been no change In his position, but that his recent expressions of opinion are Intended to emphasize that which has been over looked. In his speech at Chicago soon after his election Mr. Wilson ap pealed to business men to "come in" and help in the work of reconstruc tion, expressing his readiness but his reluctance to use "the whip of the law" against them if they continued to resist the law and to oppose the popular will. In his speech at New York on December 17. 1912, he prom ised "a gibbet of public disgrace as high as Hainan's" for any man who deliberately caused a panic, but he also said: There la a vast deal to do, and It can beat be done by forgetting that we are partl aana of anything except the honor and pros perity of the Nation Itself. In his message to Congress on Jan uary 20. 1914, recommending anti trust laws, he said: The masters of buelneea on the great acale hare begun to yield their preference and purpose, perhapa Judgment aleo. In honor able aurrendor. . . . The antagonism be tween buelneea and Government la over. We are now about to give expression to the best business judgment of America, to what we know to be the business conscience and honor of the law. The President seems to have been consistently pursuing one purpose, as expressed in these utterances. This was to secure. If possible, the co-operation of big business In translating Into law the oft-expressed verdict of public opinion against monopoly; if they refused their aid and obstructed his work by artificial panic and re sistance his purpose was to do the work aayhCTt- and to punish recal citrant big business men with the whip of the law and with exposure on a gibbet of public disgrace. Borne big business men persistently oppose him and when their opposition becomes apparent, he displays the whip and Is accused of hostility to business, the accuser neglecting to discriminate be tween good and bad business. Some trusts voluntarily submit to the law and some big business men offer their co-operation, and promptly the olive branch of conciliation becomes prom inent. Then narrow men accuse him cf yielding to the trusts. In fact, Mr. Wilson is neither hos tile nor yielding to big business. He la dictating terms of amnesty to men whose high character and ability he recognizee, but who have been In re bellion against the law. Those terms Involve no surrender on his part of his main purpose, but any man who accepts them finds him ready to re ceive advice as to the work in hand. He refuses to treat as outlaws men who regarded as a dead letter a law which long remained unenforced and as to which conflicting decisions had been' given, rendering its meaning In doubt Now that the law has been construed by courts and upheld by popular verdict, he Invites these men to submit and to aid him in perfect ing it. Men at the two extremes have mis understood the President. The last ditch monopolists have mistaken his friendly overtures .for surrender, his display of the whip for unswerving enmity. The radical trust-busters continue to see horns and the cloven hoof on any trust magnate or banker, and they obstruct his efforts to gain voluntary submission of those whom they would perpetually outlaw. The President has erred often and grievously, but he has been at least consistent in -the purpose to establish business on a sound footing,-so far as anti-trust laws are concerned, which hall impose only enough restraint to safeguard healthy competition and which shall leave ample scope for legitimate expansion. Dr. William Osier assumes that the world Is a great deal more intelligent than it Is. He continually sets sim pletons babbling by saying things they do not understand. A few years ago they imagined that he wanted to kill everybody more than 40 years old. Now they are all a-qulver because he Bays that 90 per cent of us have tu berculous foci In our lungs. His re mark Is strictly true, as every physi cian knows. The foci are there, but they are harmless. They were formed In babyhood and have subsequently healed over. The best authorities tell us that very few babies come through without one or more attacks of tu berculosis. IX ACCORD WITH THE FACTS. Circuit Judge Davis has ruled that the so-called Market block belongs to the city and that it may do as it pleases with its own property. The decision Is creditable to the Judge's common sense. It is difficult to see how any other decision could have been reached. Fifty years ago the block was bought by the municipality from W. W. Chapman for $1200. The money was paid and the deed passed. It is In fee simple. It was an outright sale. There was no dedication for market or any other purposes, and no conditions of any kind. The rec ord is clear and plain. It Is ample evidence of a definite arrangement between the city and the original owner, Colonel Chapman, to make whatever use of the block the city aw fit in make. All the hearsay evi dence that the city intenaea to ao something that its contract does not renuire it to do or that It srave) Colonel Chapman $1200 out of Its great gen erosity and unbounded gramuae, imu not as a sales price, Is Irrelevant If the City Commission must await final rWlslnn of the bupreme Court before starting the actual work of auditorium building, it ought to expedite the hearing with all possible nerrv Tr hna heen nearly four years since the auditorium bonds were vot ed, and not a spadeful of earth has been turned. CLOCDFNQ THE ISSUE. The tactics of the campaign for Mr. Chamberlain and against Mr. Booth are being slowly revealed. They will be to shake the ghost of Cannonism, Forakerlsm and Penroseism before the voter, with the expectation that he will be frightened away from sup port of the Republican candidate. The empty dinner pail Is to be Ignored; the widespread Industrial stagnation is to be termed a psychological crea tinn f a hectic Imagination; the in veterate incompetence of the Demo cratic party for public aoministrauun is to be discreetly passed over. We are to hear about the wicked Cannon, back In Illinois, the corrupt Penrose, far off In Pennsylvania, and the un scrupulous Foraker, 3000 miles away in Ohio. But the Oregon campaign for Sen ator does not hinge on Cannon, a cast off relic of the old regime, or on For aker, repudiated by his party at home and discredited by the people every where, or on Penrose, fighting des perately for his political life against the pure Plnchot and an almost un known Democrat. If the people of Pennsylvania, In their sovereign ca naMtv n rulers of their own state, should want Penrose for Senator, Penrose is the man they want. tr -Kir -Rr.nl h i to ba loaded down with Cannon, Foraker and Penrose, how will Mr. Chamberlain avoia re sponsibility for the odious Boss Mur phy, or Boss Taggart, or Boss Guffey, or Boss Sullivan, all of whom are ,,,,., anri in full control of the Democratic party In their respective states? How indeed? But of course neither Cannon, nor Foraker, nor Penrose, nor Taft, nor La Follette. nor Roosevelt on the one hand, nor Murphy, nor Taggart, nor Sullivan, nor Guffey on the other, are real Issues in Oregon. It is utterly futile to drag In such bugaboos. The electorate knows better. The Issue between Mr. Booth and Mr. Chamberlain Is not personal. It is wholly political. It will be deter mined on the merits of the respective principles for which the two men .i.nH Tn nAorils of Oregon In No vember "will be called upon to answer the following questions: cik.ii uinnnrt the ReDublican party and what It stands for through the election of Mr. uootn : ur sna.u thA Democratic oartv and what it stands for through the elec tion of Mr. ChamDeriainr t ty,m. nannis nf Oregon are satis fied with the policies of the present Democratic National Administration and their effects, they will re-elect Mr. Chamberlain. If they are not, they will elect Mr. Booth. TAXING THE POOR. DAviianii'. einciA t :i x newsDaner. The Journal, has discovered a lone in dividual whose household furniture o. nn(.A tn-rert at 116.500. under tne household exemption he now pays no taxes, "while many a man, because v,- hoe nniv ISO worth of furniture, gets an exemption of only $50." As an exchange for the nousenoia ex emption, the single, tax newspaper recommends the $1500 exemption. Tt under the 11500 exemption tne man who owns but $60 worth of fur niture and nothing else would get but $50 exemption. The man who owns furniture worth $16,600 would pay taxes on part of it, but the thousand nrtA nerxtnna -who now have an exemption on say $500 worth of fur niture and are abundantly able to pay taxes would get a further exemption up to $1600 if they owned home buildings or improvements. xrnr-enver the home-owner who has $1500 worth of furniture installed in his handsome residence could, by putting the furniture In his wire s nnme not onlv exempt that, but get an exemption of $1600 on the home owned in his own name, or $3000 In all. Th KnmA slnele tax authority on April 7 admonished its readers that it is a fallacious idea that the renter who owns no property does not pay i.r Tt said: "He may have no property except the clothes he wears. but when he pays hla mommy rent, ne nava the taxes that have been levied on the house In which he lives." The $1500 exemption will be fol lowed by an Increase in the tax levy, for property not exempt must pay more taxes in order that the public revenues may be provided. The rent ed home will get no exemption at all under the $1500 exemption. The man owning $50 worth of furniture In a rented house will get no further exemption, while his landlord will find his taxes increased. If the news paper quoted Is to be believed, the landlord will pass the higher taxes on to his tenant. An increase of 10 mills on a $1200 house means an increase In taxes of $12 a year or $1 a month In the rent. It ought to be a tremendous satis faction, indeed, to the owner of $50 worth of furniture to know that the rare individual who owns $16,500 worth of furniture will then pay taxes on $15,000 worth, If his own rent, which Is the same to him. as taxes, is Increased $1 a month. References to occasional inequitable exemptions under the household law are offered for no other purpose than to arouse the prejudices of the poor against the rich. The cold fact re mains that the $1500 exemption pro poses to relieve from taxes vastly more property than is now exempt. The resulting sacrifice of revenues would fall on the renter, on the installment purchaser who has not been able to improve his land and on the consumer. On the producer, manufacturer and oeaier tne tax bur den would aDDarently be Increasea, hnr the Mme sin el tax newspaper declares unequivocally that he who buys a, loaf of bread pays part or tne taxes of the farmer, the miller, the Violrer unrl the merchant. Somebody always must pay for tax exemptions. On the autnority or tnia leading exponent of the $1500 exemp tion bill, the ones who will pay for It If it be adopted will, in many in stances, be the poor. JOHN WESLEY ON THE FASHION'S. In the mad whirl of the fashions we all try so hard to follow it is re freshing to turn to John Wesley's sermons and read what he has to say on the subject of extravagance in dress. "Gay and costly apparel," ac cording to this great spiritual author ity, "engenders pride." Even the idlest and most thriftless of the idle rich would agree with him on this point. "But what if it does engender pride?" they would retort. "That is precisely what we wear it for." No disciple of fashion puts on silks and diamonds to engender humility. Wesley says further that "every shilling you needlessly spend on your apparel is stolen from God and the poor." This sounds very much as If the great preacher thought some of our gay society leaders were little bet ter than thieves. Such an imputation would hurt them more perhaps than the charge of vanity, but it is no longer really painful to Te called a thief. So many of our shining artis tic and financial lights have acquired the habit of dipping now and then into their neighbors' pockets that the practice has lost most of its bad repute. If a railroad magnate can rnh his stockholders and still live and die In the odor of sanctity, rich women need not worry a great aeai over the consequences of robbing God nnrl th noor. at least in this world. What may happen in the next is an other question. John Wesley was the founder of the Methodist Church and in the days of its primitive zeal his sermons were revered as If thev had been Inspired. The. nractiee of the church then was to wear simple apparel. Jewelry and gay headgear were renounced. .Brus sels lace and elephantine hats and bonnets, those scandals or remaie modesty," were never seen in the early Methodist congregations. But the church that Wesley rounaea nus now hecome ODulent and its sartorial habits differ very little from those of the older Christian bodies. Tt mav be Questioned whether any thing of consequence has been lost by the change. It is difficult to believe that the Lord requires his people to a rrnv themselves in dowdy garments or that the Christian graces are pro moted by looking like caricatures, a patriotic American lady told Lincoln at a critical moment of the Civil War that she and her friends were wear in rhran e-owns because their con sciences would not permit them to dress sumptuously when tne tjovern ment was so distressed for money. The Fresident pointed out to her that the hest wav to heln the Government was to spend as much as she could on silks and diamonds, since it was from such sources that the duties came in. Tt i oulte likelv that the ordinary woman of wealth and fashion will hAln tha noor more bv spending lav ishly on her clothes than by econo mi.tnir Tn hA sure, a trood Dart of fashion's trinkets are pure waste, but from the crumbs or tnat waste a mul titude of poor people manage to pluck their daily bread. MR. KNOHXES' SIMTJ.E LIFE. .Tawnh Knowles has chosen the sea son of the year for his experiment with exemplary prudence. Wild ber ries are ripe at about this time and in the Southern Oregon region which Is to he the scene of his adventures they are unusually abundant. Mr. Knowles is to enter the primeval wilds without clothes or tools of any kind. Not even a match is to be al lowed him. He expects to stay away from the world for sixty days and m.r fnllv clad, in his rltrht mind ann esininned with everything he needs to live comfortably. We may well believe he can do all this, lor ne has done it once before in the woods of Maine. Mr Knowles wishes to Drove by this extraordinary experiment that the human rnce has not desrenerated from its ancient vigor and could live wild today as well as it ever could ir It so desired. Of course, however, he will nrovA nothiner of the kind. The ex periment will show that Mr. Knowles is an uncommonly resourceful and hardy Individual. Concerning others it win reveal nothiner whatever. Not one man in a million could repeat his comedy and live through it. Tt ta said that Mr. Knowles pos sesses much knowledge of woodcraft, edible plants and fruits, and devices for trapping wild animals wnicn is unknown to ordinary men. Such lore will be indispensable to him as he roams alone through the forests. Some of It might be useful now and then to men of affairs In the routine of their lives. The outdoor arts are more prized today than they were in former years. Man Is by nature an open-air animal and his acquired hahit of dwelllncr in close rooms has affected his stamina unfavorably. All sorts of active sports, vacation camp ing and hardy exercises attract him to th woods and supply him witn stores of vigor. In a way the world is actually returning to primitive ruin its of life, at least when it escapes from its houses and furniture, and a little of the knowledge which Mr. Knowles possesses so abundantly is possessed and valued by almost every honv. No doubt we shall set moie store by it as the years pass. Without feeling any am ration to .rmnet with him in his adventures. one can easily imagine how he will probably proceed. Having satisfied his hunger upon a feast of ripe ber ries, he will kindle a lire eitner witn a flint or with fire sticks. The latter t. ,v. viorA reliable method and no doubt he understands it perfectly. uy, il fim to sleeD by he win he se- .,.a from cold and from savatre beasts. Crawfish he can catch with his naked hands in any stream. From fihrons nlants he can make cord and thus proceed to snare birds. With a flint -knife, which he can readily chip out, Mr. Knowles can manuiacture a bow and arrows which will enable him to slay the larger . beasts, and from their skins he can make com fortable garments. Perhaps he will weave himself a shirt from the same fibrous plants which provide his snare for the birds. It all looks simple and easy from this distance, but most of us will be quite content to let Mr. Knowles go through the experiment alone. His experiences will be more pleasant to read about than to share. The line between professional box ing and prizefighting Is indistinct. The two arts merge into one another almost inevitably and American senti ment dislikes both. In England and France the prizefighter, thinly dis guised as a boxer, has become a proud hero whom everybody adores. Wom en pay him reverence and show their jewels and feathers at the ringside. France has produced a champion fighter and glories in his prowess. We produce many champions and scorn them. In the light of our worship of football heroes this is curious. The New Haven stockholders should not grieve too bitterly over the $90,000,000 which the Morgan crowd swiped from them. It was but pelf. Compared to a clear conscience and a contrite heart, what Is $90,000,000? Vanity and vexation of spirit. Then, there Is the sweet consolation of re membering what the money was spent for. Those broken-nosed statues, chipped wash basins and ragged tap estries that Morgan bought with his plunder Infuse rivers of peace into souls properly attuned to the har monies of art. Freight and passenger traffic along such lines as the Pennsylvania and Baltimore ft Ohio la already picking up, and all they can handle when the big crops begin to move la anticipated in the re-employment of many men discharged during the Win ter. and in the operation of repair and equipment shops to full capacity. The situ ation Is getting out of the clutches of the calamity howler. It may still be bad psy chologically, but it is evidently coming around the corner with the goods. New York World. Good, but the revival will not be helped along either by interminable speeches on the anti-trust bills in the Senate nor by heckling such men as Paul Warburg. Educational writers are worrying over the excessive growth of the "graduate schools" In some of the big universities. Columbia had 1600 graduate students last year and Har vard had almost as many. It is feared that the college classes will be swamped by these more mature stu dents. In some cases they ought to be swamped. It would be the wisest course to turn the big universities over to graduate work and let under graduates pursue their studies at the small colleges. It gives one something like a shock to see how speedily the technical graduates from the Agricultural Col lege and the Y. M. C. A. courses are snapped up. The poor fellows hardly have time to read their diplomas be fore some magnate Is after them with a big salary in his hand. Young men who want to lead lives of elegant de Dendence upon papa's check book are advised to shun these technical schools, for they mean hard work, self-respecting careers and big pay. WmMnirtnn farmers will read with pleasure tha court decision validating the foinmhin hrlrio-o honds. The con struction of the bridge will be fol lowed by electric lines penetrating the rich lands of Clarke and cowntz Counties and these tracts will become nnmmAfnlfli Knhiirhs of Portland. Pro ducers will sell their truck in the public markets and spend their money at Portland stores. The bridge will be a great agency of civilization and prosperity. A symposium was held the other day to decide upon "the best short poem in the English language." Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" received the most votes, so we suppose the ques tion is settled for all time, but we must permit ourselves to say that no person of good literary sense would ever have asked it. One might as well ask "What is the best fruit or the loveliest flower?" Such point must be decided according to individual taste and feeling. An erudite German physician an nounces that women as well as men will presently be bald. The physical energy which formerly caused luxur iant tresses to grow on our sisters' scalps has been diverted to their noses, which are growing longer as the hair vanishes. The plain infer ence Is that the sex whom we have so fondly adored are destined to be come a mob of hairless proboscidians. With such dire changes can we love them still? William Sulzer is addressing great crowds in New York in his canvass for the Progressive nomination for Governor and proclaims himself "the same old Bill." He is a thorn in the flesh of the Progressive party, and Colonel Roosevelt Is being urged to run for Governor to save it from this arch-demagogue. The announcement that Chairman Harlan, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and his wife will sail for Europe on July 24 fe taken to Imply that the long-deferred rate decision will be rendered before that date. Let us hope so. Suspense Is bad for business. Marconi says no ship ever called for help by wireless without getting an answer. Soon we shall need wireless to prevent collisions between aero planes in fogs. It seems rather odd that New York should be compelled to spend $50,000 to fight grasshoppers. That insect is held popularly to be a Kansas bird. Local butter prices go up today for no' reason apparent other than desire to get more money for it. However, a good article Is worth the money. "Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble." Oregon will have seventy-seven more lawyers as result of recent exami nation. ' Recent deals in Portland real es tate show it is held to be good for In vestment, despite anything and every thing. The very latest victim of collision must have been going at a tremendous speed when he hit the wagon tongue. Huerta is wealthy and will be a striking member of the foreign col ony wherever he locates. Interest in the game w'tll not wane while played as it is Just now in Portland. A million-dollar fruit crop in the Rogue River Valley Is prosperity by the oodle. Stars and Starmakers BT LEONE CASS BAEK. BILLINGS, Mont., July 16. What Sherman said about war applies to the spell of weather we're enjoying here, e e e But I never mind the heat. When it gets warmer the memory may seem cool by contrast. see Just like when it pours in bucketfuls back in Portland when I'm there and have my mind set on wearing my best hat, I forget it all by recalling the soothing soporific value of soft drops on a peaceful cottage roof at midnight, e e e Yes I do! e e e See that the Colonel has quit the Outlook. Well, I'll bet he still keeps a sharp look out see A note from Dorothy Shoemaker fol lowed me here. She and her husband, Louis Leon Hall, are playing leads at the Lake Cliff Tlasino at Dallas, Tex. A few clippings Inclosed from the Dal las papers show that already the Titian-tressed Dorothy has made great inroads into the affections of her pub lic. Later this Summer, Mrs. Shoe maker and her daughter Helen will join the Halls in Dallas, and when the season ends in mid-August the entire party returns to New York. The Shoe maker-Hall duo hope to secure an en gagement for next season that will permit their being in the same Toad production or in stock together. They seem to be taking their marriage vows like regular people. Seldom we hear of it in our best little theatrical circles, see Ethel Barrymore fans are deploring the fact that their idol has lost all her girlish lines and is looking stout matronly, which it would seem Is sev eral accents more emphatic than mere ly matronly. They say she very much resembles her late lamented mother, Georgia Drew Barrymore. e e Mrs. Fiske will have a new play next season, also a new leading man. The play, a comedy, is unnamed, but the man isn't. He is Eric Blind. We last saw him in Portland as Petruchio with Margaret Anglin In her disastrous sea son of Shakespeare. see In Chicago crowds are flocking to the Garrick Theater to see Peggy O'Neill in "Peg o' My Heart." And all this just as if Laurette Taylor had never been heard of. Little Irish Peg gy the real has had so great a triumph that Oliver Morosco has signed a five years' contract to feature the young actress in other character comedy roles. Among the six companies which have been touring the road with "Peg, the company headed by Miss O'Neill has returned the largest profits, hav lng earned this season over $110,000. Laurette Taylor, of course, brought in a larger amount than that, but she didn't move out of New York to do it. Now she is chewing her finger nails in fury and burning up the wires sending cablegrams from Europe to the news papers In Chicago telling them what she thinks of Mr. Morosco and Miss O'Neill because Mr. Morosco let Peggy play in Chicago, when it had been re served for Miss Taylor. Her husband. Hartley Manners, who wrote the play as a wedding present for his wife, is in Chicago now trying to straighten out the mesa In the meantime Peggy O'Neill goes right on packing them In and Mr. Morosco says if Miss Taylor doesn't be a good girl he will cancel the rest of the five-year contract he has for her services. see Tully Marshall will play the princi pal role in "The Trap" next season un der the management of Arthur Ham mersteln. This is the play written by Jules Eckert Goodman and Richard Harding Davis and originally named "Blackmail." e e e Why don't they specify what society when they bill all these messes of dancers as "Society's Favorites." see Speaking of dances, a Billings teach er of the art terpslchore has Just re turned from New York, where he watched the success of such turkey tangorles as the Jardln de Danse and the Polles Marigny and others with grand and noble names. When he re turned to Billlngs-on-the-Big-Irriga-tion-Ditch he was brought face to face with the problem" of originating a name for his emporium of dance. After the local sign painter (also pa-peranger-tinter-and-decorator - prlces-upon-application) had waited impa tiently for threegquarters of an hour, the dancing one brought forth a bit of paper upon which he had written this mystic spell-binder, "The Mons Sower Danceres." "What's that mean?" the sign-writer demanded, scratching his head. The teacher looked at him In disgust. "You blooming boob," he retorted with elegance, "do you think I've got time to teach you French?" e e e In a letter from Mary Edgett Baker in Denver that young thesplaness sage. ly remarks that the only thing that might move her to be a motion-picture actress would be the fact that she wouldn't have to worry about her grammar or a cold in her head. e e e The ice man must feel like an ama teur and a piker when he bears about bow much .coin the tango teachers are making. e e e Lillian Russell-Moore, the fair peren nial, has been bitten by the tango bug and is taking lessons at Atlantic City. Miss Russell and her husband, Alexan der Moore, of Pittsburg, have a cot tage at the fashionable Summer resort and intend to stay all Summer. One can hardly believe that Miss Russell has to tango to keep in form, despite this is the excuse she gives. Rather It must be just that she loves to dance or because she wants to prove that she Is Just as light on her dainty toes as ever she was, or maybe to prove that, al though she has known a lot of cold Winters, she is still able to make her calculations by Summers. see George Arliss, in "Disraeli," is booked for the Helllg next Winter. Just now be and Mrs. Arliss, who is not a pro fessional, are vacationing In their London home. Violet Hemlng, leading woman in "Disraeli," Is the guest of the Arllsses. e e e Albert Brunlng, who last year played in "The Reckoning," is to have the role of Easson in "The Salaman der," in which Janet Dunbar will play the title role next season. Filling the Autocrat. v Little Rock Gazette. Why should wives complain when husbands read the morning paper at the breakfast table since reading maketb a full man? EMPLOYES' SIDE! OF CONTROVERSY Issues Involved In Possible Kailroad Strike Are Dfacaeaed. PORTLAND, July 16 (To the Edi tor.) In an editorial published July 16 The Oregonian comments on the present conference which Is being held between the general managers' confer ence committee and the representatives of the employes on the 98 lines of rail way west of Chicago, and concludes with this sentence: "That the bull headed obstinacy of any set of men should be permitted to blight this bright prospect Is not to be tolerated." The one thing which brought forth the declaration from the representa tives of the train orders Interested was that three years since they had a simi lar controversy with the roads east of Chicago, in which the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers only were Inter ested, and the ofllclals of the various roads have never fully complied with the awards of the conciliation board. One year later the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen were engaged in a similar argument, and they have been fighting ever since to have the findings complied with, the companies putting up one excuse after another, sometimes claiming "miscon struction" and again some other ex cuse, while one of the lines interested positively refused to be bound by any of the "awards." When this Federal board does not have the power, or else fails to exer cise it in enforcing its findings, is it any wonder that the employes object to being drawn into a situation where they only stand to lose? For, if this board finds in favor of them, they must make an individual flirht to get the companies to comply with the awards, but if its rulings are against them, they must submit gracefully or be branded as an organization of men without the honor to keep their pledged word. If these organizations have the as surance that the awards of the arbi tration board will be immediately and fully complied with, I am certain that they will be only too glad to enter into an agreement to submit every question to mediation without delay. There is no more conservative set of laboring men In the world than those comprising the two organizations which are at present involved, and they do not enter into this kind of argument without knowing the conditions thor oughly. In the different statements made of late by some of the officials and mem bers of the general managers' confer ence committee, they have dwelt strong ly on the fact that the men were mak ing some very radical demands, and have tried to convey the idea that the raise in wages asked was prohibitive. The general idea which they have tried to drill into the public has been that the conditions already being so bad that they are forced to ask for a 6 per cent increase in ratea, they cannot af ford to give the advance. They do not tell you that on the Southern Pacific, Sante Fe, Denver & Rio Grande and many others, the rate asked for does not equal the present rate of pay, or that the whole effort is an at tempt to equalize the pay of the men on all of the lines, which would be of benefit to those roads which are in com petition with others which have a lower rate of pay. The enginemen have for many years been on a "piece work" basts, and have been well satisfied with that arrange ment, but of late the companies have tried to make their work a combina tion of piece work and "timo period basis," and this effort on the part of the general managers' conference com mittee was what brought forth the present demand from the employes. To illustrate this, on a run of 100 milea In freieht service, with a Klven- slze locomotive, the enRlneor receives $5.50 if the run is made within iu nours. but if. on account of heavy train, dense traffic, poor condition of the power, or for any other reason. It takes longer than the 10 hours, the engineer receives 55 cents for each hour over the 10. If the train makes the run in less than the specified 10 hours, the engi neer receives the 5.B0 and his day's work Is done; but when this point was brought up in the conference, the com panies claimed the right to "10 hours'" service, or, in other words, if the crew is so successful that the run la com pleted in six hours, the company may claim the services for an additional four hours. You will understand that this is often possible where stock is to be unloaded or switching Is to be done at branch terminal points, and tholr per sistence in this brought forth the de mand .over which the companies are so loudly bewailing. They are so loud in their assertions that wages have wonderfully increased. Let us look Into that a little. Twenty five years since a locomotive was large if it had 60 tons on the drivers, and could pull 700 tons from Portland to The Dalles, the engineer receiving $4 and the rest of the crew paid in pro portion. Today the same train and engine crew make the run, and the locomotive which they now have pulls 2500 tons, or nearly four times as much, and the engineer gets $6, or, in other words, while his earning power has in creased fourfold, his salary has in creased but 50 per cent. They tell the trusting public that a locomotive costs more today than it did some years since. Quite true, but It is much larger and more powerful, and its earning ability has increased very much more than the cost price. A car costs more than it did 15 years since. Yes, at that time the capacity of the average ear was 25 tons; today they are about 50 tons, and some of the roads are using 100-ton capacity, and we seem to have no limit. While previous water was wrung out of the stock of the Northern Pacific when it failed and went into the hands of a receiver after the panic of 1S93, the new capitalization, on reorganiza tion cost the present stockholders but $15 a share, par value $100. In the year 1913 these original investors in North ern Pacific were paid in dividends and betterments nearly 101 per cent, and the figures for the Atchison, Milwau kee, Great Northern, Southern Pacific and' Union Pacific are on about the same basis. 1 have taken this one as an Illustration because it shows In round numbers, while it is a fair aver age. The Union Pacific shows a vastly better average than any of the others, still these roads are crying "hard times and asking for "rate increaae,' and claim that they cannot meet the re quest of the employes for an equaliza tion of wages. Knowing all of these conditions so well and how hard it has been to get the railways to live up to the awards of the arbitration board, I want to ask of the reader. "Is it any wonder that the train orders at present Involved hesitate to submit their case to arbi tration V i RAILROAD MAN. The means of adjusting railroad labor disputes to which The Oregonian al luHeri were not In existence at the time of the settlements referred to in the second and third paragraphs of the above letter. Last Summer Congress passed the Newlands amendment or tne Erdman act, which bad been Indorsed by both railroad managers and offl rinla of the brotherhoods. That law provides that. If mediation fails, par ties to a dispute may agree m writing to accept the award of an arbitration hoard, and the agreement and the award then become a court record, en forceable by law. The wage dispute on the Eastern roads last year was set tled under this law. If any road rejects an award given under this law. It can be taken into court for breach of a written contract. Any excuse that may have existed for not invoking the Erd man law Is not valid as to the present law. The Oregonian does not discuss the merits of the controversy on the Western roads, for we hold that, re gardless of the merits, the law affords a means of fair adjustment without a strike. I Twenty-Five Year Ago From The Oregonian of July 17. !. Spokana Falls, W. T, July 1 Fire bugs have mad numerous attempts of lata to burn the city. This morning a frame structure containing 1000 gallons of kerosene waa set on fire, and hut for the prompt action of tha Ktr De partment the city would hava been In peril. A vigilance committee was or ganised this morning, composed of lead ing business and professional men. The members will patrol tha streets Incog nito and any one applying the torch will be summarily dealt with. Danny Ross, the ll-yar-old son of ex-Sheriff Boss, met with a terrible accident Sunday, which came very near resulting fatally. Ha accidentally shot himself in the forehead, while hunting with another boy near Westport, Rev. Dr. Talma ge will lecture at New Park Theater on August 14. Miss Maggie A. King was married to Mr. A J. Colllngs yesterday at the resi dence of the bride's mother, 313 First street by Rev. Mr. Parsona of Mount Tabor. Peter Boyd, master mechanic of the Oregonian railway at Dundee, who waa Injured by being thrown from a ve locipede, died yesterday. A burglar attempted to enter the residence of County Treasurer Frank Hacheney on Corbett and Thomas streets on Sunday and again on Monday night. The directors of the Portland Cable Railway Company recently presented Mr. Preston C. Smith, president of the company, with a solid silver tea service on the occasion of his marriage. Mr. I. Goldsmith la in New York, and will sail for Europe tomorrow. Judge Deady, In the United States District Court, yesterday, upheld thu new pilot law of Oregon. The second trial of Sundy Olda for the murder of Emil Weber began be fore Judge Stearna yesterday. District Attorney McGinn and Judge Pag rep resented the State, and 11. V. Thompson and C. L. Ilolcomb tha defense. Henry Meyer, chief engineer of tha East Portland Fire Departmont, aul mitted his report to tha Council Mon day. It shows expenses for tha six months to have been $663.16. foine Good In Music and Sermon. PORTLAND. July 16. (To the Edi tor.) lu a communication to The Ore gonian, dated July 13, a "Header'' de plorea the absence of "Christian fel lowship and sympathy." which he say is lacking In tho churches of this city. Our friend states that. coming t Portland 10 years ago from tho East, where ho had taken an active part In church work, he was iilnlicartene.1 to find the people seemingly cold and in different to the stranger who happened to come within their church doors. Ho says that after attending ona of tho churches for five consecutive Sun days and also one mid-werk praer meeting and having no one ariva him the sllghtent attention, ho "j:ave 11 up." Perhaps if our friend had pusKesied a little more of the true Christian spirit ha would nut. after attending a few services, Kive up church-going an a hopeless tank. It acems to ma that if one attends church service in ll.a right spirit some little good at least may always Le acquired from tha mu sic or sermon. 1 believe the good una obtains from a service of any kind lies entirely with tha Individual. Let us hope our friend will try tha church-going habit again and sea if he cannot find the church people more interesting and sociable than thry were ten years ago. W. VEUXO.V I'kreaologlral Periodical. CARLTON. Or., July 15. (To tha Ed itor.) Kindly Inform me If there la any weekly or monthly Journal or mait uiine principally devoted to tha poi -trayal and discussion of physiognomy and phrenology. A CONSTANT READER. Phrenological Era (mo.), Bower ston, O. ()ue.l:laath of Area. PAYETTK, Idaho, July 14. Tu Ilia editor.) How much laud on a 160-arte homestead has to be cleared ami In cultivation at the end of tha third year? HU.VIKSTEADEU. ttupply and tae Irmaad. JucJf-a. Visitor Are you having any trouble to find work for the unemployed here? Uncle Ebon Nope. Our trouble here Is to get work out of the employed. Features in The Sunday Oregonian Violet Soup and Orchid Salad. A page story, illustrated in col ors, detailinjr London's latest fad of serving floral luncheon-. Bearing Wild Beasts. A personal interview with a lion and aniinul keeper, t'llinR of the hnbits and appetites of captivei animals. That Eruption at Lassen Peak. A close rang, study, by a geolo gist, of the California volcano that is on a rampage. Will Panama Canal Pay? A trained observer studies the effect of the ennal upon the world's trade routes. Georgo Ade'a Newest Tables In Slang. Famous Humorist relates the Tale of the Scoffer Who Fell Hard and the Woman Sitting By. Her Women Are the Hope of For lorn Mexico. William Atherton DuPuy de scribes their longsuffering and toil in troubled republic. The American Girl Abroad, by Harrison Fisher. This week the artist takes his fair creation riding in a gondola in Venice. Woman Loses Her Place n Eanka of French Army. Minister of War issues edict against water carrier who served in war of 1870. Newest Discoveries In World of Science. A page of useful information for readers, both old and young. A Picture-Book Page for the Lit tle Ones. Short stories, puzzles, rhymes legends, cut-outs and games. Four Pages of Colored Comics. Doc Yak, the District School Boys, Uncle Jim and Tad and Tim, Mamma's Angel Qhili, Hi Hopper and Genial Gene continue their amusing adventures.