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THE BIORXnro - OREGONIAJt, TUESDAY, JAXTJARY 19, 1915. PORTLAXD. OREGON Entered a Portland. Oregon, Postoffics as Subscription Bate Invariably la advance: JBr MalL) Dally. Sunday ln'ifdad, one year . ... lastly, Sunday Included, stx month . . Iaily. Sunday Included, tnree month! Dally, Sunday Included, one montli Daiiy, without Sunday, one year . Daily, without Sunday, aix months . .. DalW. m-tthout Sunday, three months Daily, without Sunday, one month ... "Weekly, one yar Fund ay, one year bun day aad Weekly one year .MOO .'4.5 . 2.23 Oct) ."0 1.50 2..-.U 3.40 iy iimw.; Dally. Sunday Included, one year .73 or- xsauy, aunaay iuuuucu, uw mvu i. . - - -Haw to Remit Send Postoffieo money Orr, express oruw ur pvrwuM loral ban. Stamp, coin or currency are . your .re i 1 full. fostaa-e Kates iz 10 iop5, Ll to 32 page. 2 centa; 84 to 43 paea. S renUj to Go pages. 4 cents; Oi to 7 pages, , 18 ceflix; is lo . w . age. double rttu. Eastern BMUW unift verrco , Iln. New York. Brunswick building; Chicago, Ma Franriseo Office B. J. Bldwell Com pany. 742 Marital .Lre.t. PORTLAND. TUESDAY. JANUARY 19. 1815, WTMOUTS fflMMBXriK ACCEPTED. Bv his Indianapolis speech PresI ent Wilson threw down, the gauntlet to the Republican tat-ty. Senator Bo rah has taken it up. The President by his contemptuous remarks about his political opponents has Invited a com partoon of their record with that o his own narty. They accept the lnvl tatio'n. The President has descended from the high position ho took at his Inauguration as the chief magistrate of the Nation. He has assumed much lower position as leader of a political nartv. reiving for aid solely on his own followers and treating: as muti neers all Democrats who do not loi low his dicta. Hereafter Republicans are Justified In dealing with him, not as head of the Nation, but as tneir chief opponent in political warfare They are the more Justified in doing an because he Is the leader of a minor lty, which has attained power by a political accident, not by the people exnression of confidence. Seldom has a President for two years after assuming office been favored with such frank good will by his op ponents as has Mr. Wilson. They let him have his way with the tariff, and a considerable number of them voted for his tariff bill, not because they unqualifiedly approved it, but because they considered it less objectionable than the law which It supplanted. They co-openated heartily in perfect ing trie currency bill and many of them voted for it, though the Democ racy was reaping what they had sown; The same statement is true of the anti-trust laws, of the Alaska railroad law and of the conservation bills passed by the House, though as to the anti-trust bills Democratic leaders showed an" increasing disposition to reject the aid and counsel of Republi cans. Republicans joined with hearty good will in passing the laws made necessary by the war. though they did not flinch from placing where It be longed the necessity for the so-called war taxes. They saved the Democracy, in spite of itself, from passing the pork-barrel river and harbor bill, and the soundness of their criticisms of that bill was admitted by many Demo cratic Senators, who Joined forces with them in-cutting out the pork. While they have not scrupled to point out the inanities of the President's Mexican policy, they let him have his way when he asked authority to make war on Huerta without calling it war. As a reward for doing their pat riotic duty as critics of Administra tion measures and for striving to keep the Administration on the true path of progress, they aro now falsely ac cused or aiding the shipping trust and of not having had. a new idea in thirty years. The former charge Is prompted by irritation at their refusal to allow the President to force down their throats his revolutionary ship-purchase bill without Inquiry and with a minimum of debate; at their (refusal to acknowledge that this bill Is the only possible means of providing the Nation with a merchant marine. The latter charge is born, of blind egotism and bigoted partisanship; which can see no good In the work of an oppos ing party. Republicans should gladly accept the Invitation to review their record during the last thirty years. During two-thirds of that period they have controlled the executive power. Dur ing all except four years of those thirty they have controlled the Senate and Itirlng 18 years they have controlled the House. They have thus had the greatest Influence In molding execu tive and legislative action. That period has been . crowded with progressive work, both administrative and legisla tive. More has been done during those thirty years to keep the Government abreast of the times, to make it serve the people efficiently and to remove abuses than during any like period in the Nation's history, and it has been almost entirely the work of the Re publican party. Only during the four years of President Cleveland's second term and during the last two years have trie Democrats been In complete control of the Government. The Re publicans can confidently Invite com parison between their achievements and those of the disastrous period from 18S3 to 1S97 and those of the last two years, which have been marked by severe business depression. The time when his opponents are becoming reunited after a great schism is ill chosen by Mr. Wilson for his assault. Never more than at such a time Is a party one in spirit, full of enthusiasm or aggressive. The Repub lican party has been, to a great extent, purged of the evils which caused its defeat and is under control of Its younger, more progressive and more vigorous elements. Those who had left it, recognizing this truth and seeing in their old party the best hope of realiz ing their ambition for social better ment and National well-being, are flocking back to its standard. The Nation shows weariness of Democratic incapacity in both home and foreign affairs, of Democratic waste and ex periment, aad is in the mood to en trust its affairs again to the party whose supremacy always coincides with prosperity and which has been purified in the fire of adversity for the work to which it will surely be called In 1916. In the Educational Reviewa teach er of English advocates Latin and Greek as the surest road to the mother tongue. He proves his case bj- citing Milton and so forth. The fact he for gets is that college professors have fceen following li!sjlan for four cen turies with results ever more pitiful. Men like Milton will write well, how ever badly they are taught. It is the garden variety of student whose wits wither under pedantic mishandling. COMMON JUSTICE. If anvone has an answer to make to the statement of President Griffith, of the Portland Railway, Light & power Company, that the Jitney 'bus ought to be subject to'regulation as a common carrier, it has not been forthcoming. The street railway company is entmea to fair play; but lust now it is the ob ject of hit-or-miss competition that is costly to the company and proDaDiy is not profitable to the Jitneys. The railway corporation pays a nroDertv tax and a franchise tax. It mtii heavv streetcar assessments. It has made a Very large investment in Portland. It Is Subject to control by both state and city. It operates some lines.at a loss. It is not able to pick out profitable territory and neglect the unprofitable. It can do. no Portland citizen any good, if through undue encouragement of the Jitneys the rail way -company shall be transformed from a paying to a losing concern. If the Jitneys are to be a part of Portland's transportation system, they should have equal privileges, and no more, with the street railway com pany. Common justice, as well as the common Interest, demands It. THE PORT'S WORK WELL DONE. That Columbia River channel Im provement is more than keeping pace with the growth In the size of ships which resort to this port is proved by the annual report of the Port of Port land Commission. We now have a thirty-foot channel at extreme low water from Portland to the sea, a hope that has been realized, as the Com mission says, "almost before the Fed eral Government has become aware that they have approved the project." Not only has the channel been deep ened; It has been straightened by the cutting of the Tongue Point passage in place of the old tortuous channel and by the cutting of a new route near Goble by which the rocks whereon the Eider was wrecked are avoided. The Commission proposes to keep right on with this work by deepening the channel to thirty-two feet and by widening it from the present limit of 300 feet to 400 or 450 feet. The river had already been navigated in the Fall of 1912 by twenty-one vessels drawing from twenty-five to twenty-seven and one-half feet The added depth and width will enable it to float ships of thirty-two feet ,draft, which is the draft of the greatest ships now 'in existence. The Commission is well equipped with dredges and will be still better equipped when the new Columbia has been provided with powerful machin ery. The amount of ship-repair work which has been drawn to this port by the presence of a dry dock proves the wisdom of the investment in "that structure, notwithstanding the small loss Buffered on operation and interest. The Santa Catalina furnishes the most striking justification. The next addi tion to the plant, as indicated by the Commission, will be a powerful tug for the bar, capable of towing the largest vessels. The Commission has rendered a service of the highest value to the community, but receives no compensa tion except the thanks of the people, which should be given in generous measure, and the gratification of hav ing done good work. That it regards itself simply as a board of trustees for the taxpayers is evidenced by the full statement of Its operations which it has sent to every citizen. We join in the salute: "Well done!" OUR 13-YEAR 01.0 BOYS. A boy of 13 years is at an interest ing age. He is Just beginning to think earnestly ofSife. His Ideals are form ing. His mind usually fixes itself at about that age on some definite voca tion. Superintendent Alderman has sent 'to The Oregonian some figures which go to show where boys.of that age may be found educationally. Tak ing our larger cities the country over, 14 per cent of these boys are in tne four lowest grades of tho public schools, If they are in school at all. Some of them are already at work. Portland has only 12 per cent in these ow grades, which speuks well for our schools, or for our boys. tor the whole country IQk averago number In the fifth graS'19 per cent. Here again PortlandBis a little better than the average and has but 1 per cent in the fifth grade. Again, we nave only 42 per cent in the sixth grade or below, while the average for the coun try is CO per cent. This shows that Portland's 13-year-old boys are a little more advanced in. their studies than the average for the United States, since those who are not In the lower grades must be in the higher. SIGNS OF COMING REVIVAL. The most encouraging sign in the business outlook, for the courtery as a whole is the renewed demand for steel. This comes mainly from the railroads, which have increased their orders for rails and cars and have re leased orders which they had given contingent on a favorable rate deci sion. Export demand for steal has also Improved, although the rosy ex pectations Indulged at the outbreak: of war have not been fulfilled. These expectations were based on predic tions that Great Britain and Germany would be unable to supply the foreign market, but they did not make suffi cient allowance for the fact that the war has done much to destroy the for eign market, even in neutral countries. Improvement in the steel market is of interest .to .the Pacific Coast be cause the consumption of a" certain amount of steel carries with it usually the consumption of a corresponding amouiof lumber. Even' in erecting a steel frame building much lumber is used, while every mile of new rails requires a certain number of ties. The opportunity to deliver lumber at mod erate price on the Atlantic Coast would be better , but for the high ocean freight which has to some extent counteracted the beneficial effects of the Panama Canal. The farmers of the grain states might have been ex pected to be liberal buyers of lumber, having been enriched by the sale of big crops at war prices, but they are reported to "be going ahead cautiously. They defer building new barns ana they repair old farm machinery in stead of buying new. The explanation is that, though money Is abundant and interest low, men who have money are conservative about putting it out until they see how long the-ar lasts and wnat effect it has on the money market. Exports are increasing from week to week, swelling the balance of trade in our favor to such figures that for eign exchange has fallen to the lowest rates known since 1907 and artificial restrictions alone can prevent gold imports. Money is piling up in the Federal reserve banks because member-banks themselves have such an accumulation that they need not bor row by redLscounting, even If old cus tom did not restrain them. The ex pected liquidation of American securi ties by Europe has not come, ana money is thus deprived of employ ment in taking them up. There is a beginning of investment In securities in Eastern markets, but there is evi dent reluctance to take up new enter prises nntil it is seen what the war brings forth. This situation makes the business revival which has set in gradual and cautious. It Is likely to continue so until the war is ended and until the financial readjustments which the war renders imperative have been made. If more nations should take up arms against Germany, Austria and Turkey, they should hasten the conclusion. If the war should! be fought out among the present belligerents, that conclu sion may be postponed far into 1916. In the meantime the United States is waiting, with abundant capital in hand and with old scores paid off, ready for a burst of activity whenever peace comes. The longer peace is delayed, the greater will be the activity, for the more capital will accumulate from booming exports at boom prices and from temporary stoppage of outlets into investment. When that time does come, the United States will be in the best posi tion to take the lead in the world's trade. While Europe's supply of labor and capital will have been terribly de pleted, ours will be unimpaired or In creased. While Europe will have to rebuild its Industries and commerce from the foundations, ours will be In full swing. Therefore,, we may have to wait longer than we have hoped for the full measure of prosperity, but the longer, we wait the fuller will be the measure., and the greater will be our share. . '' . WHY WORRY f Secretary Bryan is reported to be not a Mttle disturbed by the recent turn of events in Mexico, where the eightn President has been named by a self organized convention to fill out the unexpired term of Porfirio Diaz. Eight new rulers in five years! But why should Secretary Bryan permit him self to get excited?"Did not the Presi dent at Indianapolis lay down an oi ficial Don't Worry policy for his Ad ministration fn Its consideration of af fairs Mexican? Listen again to his soothing words: I hold It a. a fundamental principle, and so da you. that every people haB the right to determine its own form of government; and until this recent revolution in Mexico, until the end of the Diaz reign, 80 per cent of the people of Mexico had never had a "look-In" in determining vno ehould be their gBvarnors or what their government should be. Now, I am for the SO per cent. It Is none of my business ana it le none of your business how long they take In determining it. It Is. none of my business and It is none of yours how they go about the business. The country is theirs. The government Is theirs. The liberty, If they can get It. and Ood speed them in getting It. Is theirs, so tar as my immense bum while I am President nobody shall Interfere with them. Thus, in the lofty language of self satisfied indifference, the President proclaims the easy doctrine of non-interference. Let Mexico murder, riot and ravage at will. It is none of my business. It is none of your business. It is nobody's business but Mexico's, where nobody has any business. "jfet a short year ago the tremen dous influence of this same smooth talking President was directed toward an effort to efface Huerta. We then made it our business to tell Mexico whom it should not have for President. The ' same President definitely aligned himself with Villa and Car- ranza and other revolutionists, pro claiming his purpose to let in the light on Mexico and expressing his sympa thy for the aspirations of the sub merged 80 per cent. But why should Bryan worry?. PORTLAND AS A WHEAT PORT. As the wheat-shipping season ad vances, the number of ships coming to Portland for cargoes increases until during the week ended last Saturday this city exported 839,842 bushels of wheat, and the addition of grain and flour shipped to California brought tho total to about 1,000,000 bushels. The picture of the harbor published in The Sunday Oregonian showed twelve ships loaded or loading with wheat, and on Monday there were fourteen ships in various stages of readiness to carrjr away wheat, besides the steamer Cnahley, which was ex Dected to load Belgian relief supplies. The aggregate tonnage of ships in the harbor is 28,483 and there are Douna here for grain 68.174 tons of shipping. These figures compare with five grain ships of 10,659 tons in Puget Sound ports and seven of 15,813 tons bound thither. Portland not only holds Its place as the great wheat-shipping port of the Pacific, but bids fair to excel all rec ords for exports of that cereal. Al though the war caused delay in get ting vessels to sea during the early part of the season, the first six months showed a total of 6,672,478 bushels shipped to the United Kingdom, com pared with 4,071,195 bushels in the first six months of the preceding sea son to all of Europe. This season Portland has shipped 511,658 bushels to South America and South Africa, and will send more, though more went to those countries last season. The total exports to all ports for the six months ending December 41 were 6.194,136 bushels, compared with 5, 062,458 bushels in the first six months of the preceding season. This volume of commerce proves that Portland holds undisputed her position as the ocean gateway for the products of the intermountain coun try. The record crop, sold at record prices, pours through the Columbia gateway to send back a flood of wealth to the grain-growers. EARLY MARRIAGES. It is high time that the defenders of early marriages rallied to the ban ner 6f their cause, for it is in great peri!. The common belief that youth ful weddings result in brilliant chil dren has been challenged and appar ently refuted. ' Casper L. Redfield, of Chicago, offered a reward of 3100 to any person who would produce the name of a solitary eminent man, living or dead, who had been born of a fam ily reproducing at the average rate of four generations to the century. This comes to saying that his ancestors for four generations back had married at the average age of 25 years or younger. The money was deposited with re sponsible persons and lay waiting for a reasonable time. But nobody claimed it and it was finally restored to Mr. Redfield. Made a little rash, perhaps, by this victory over the early marriage propagandists, Mr. Redfield then made them a better offer. This time he staked J200 on the belief that no man of the first eminence could be found even in the three generations to the century class. This was limited to such men as Newton, Benjamin Franklin and Charles Darwin. . It fixed the average age of ancestors for three generations back at about 33 years. The second wager went unclaimed like the first. We must conclude, therefore, that nobody, who heard of Mr. Redfield'a offers w"as able to find a great man either in the present or the past whose ancestors had prac ticed early marriage for four or even three generations. The inferences from this fact are a little startling. The great majority of .people marry under the age of 33 years If-they marry at all. Hence the great ma jority of children born Into the world are the fruit of such marriages. But none of these reach high eminence. Hence the world's great men are all produced from late marriages, and since such marriages are relatively few we are driven to conclude that they are remarkably prolific - of genius. Therefore if we want to bring forth generations of -highly intelligent men and women we must cease to practice early marriage. Tha ...Irion duslh of W. R. Elite comes as a shock to his large circle of friends throughout Oregon. He naa lr.no- hann IriVnf If Inrl With Public life In this state. As nrosecuting attorney, some years ago, in an Eastern Oregon district, he was vigilant and success ful iy later a a. representative In Congress and as Circuit Judge, he gave satisfactory service. He was an amia ble man and a srood man. He was thoroughly trusted by his constituency, as his unusual political success shows. Tn raranf vasn h had lived OUletly: hut Iia hurt Annnnred to be in robust health, and apparently had many years yet before him. In his passing riianrtrteflr a rtrominent figure in the history of Eastern Oregon for the period between 1890 ana iig. - Tti wii of Smith of Jackson to do away with two heads in the State Printing Department is in line oi econ rtmr a. wall aa frnnrt spnRA. HO. tOO. ll if. nmnnnnl tn utlllzA the plantiowned hv the state for "small" Jobs. To let the large work by contract is soun( business. The only dauger lies in i possible payroll with the germs o growth within. 1 1 i TUe-iHns- trenches at night is de scribed from Germany as dangerous onii trvinir work. But not half so much so as climbing out of those trenches the next aay ana cnarging. Tr Is no fixs-ument against women lurnrs to sav that iuries are maltreat ed. They ought to be treated aeceniiy and a few good women in the box would soon effect a revolution. Does Weeks of Marion consider the dire possibilities that He in his meas ure to send election pamphlets to heads of families only? Why stir an unsettled problem biennially? nermnns and French held a bitter fight in a graveyard. Most convenient niim Tt wnniri hn atHl more conven lent If, the soldiers would wear coffins for uniforms. T)Qnr0prttitii7A Gardner has fired another broadside against our military unnrpnn redness. One day it may pre cipitate something worse than verbal broadsides. nnin hn. launched a great cam nalgn of airship construction. Possibly tho C.7.X.T intends to fly an army Into fjormanv. having failed to march One in. n-it,- "maA fnvniasi" tha.t are terror izing somebody in Eastern Oregon will be menacing members or tne twenty eighth session if the scare continues. However, In spite of the dire pic tures drawn of the dangers Involved, there are those brave souls who will continue to speon now and then. I Texas has had a snow storm and tho m.m waitine for the other place to freeze over would better consider his ways and language. The retiring President of Mexico left the capital with his army. Intent, ob viously, on becoming a candidate to succeed his successor THahnn Sumner does not need a press agent at the outlet of his career. A suit for libel puts him in the rank of forceful men. Another President of Mexico. Three days after the other one had been named for his second term in two months. Tromhline- continues in Italy. The ire of the gods is not easily vented, we Imagine, is the German viqw oi tne matter. Berlin complains of scarcity of news from the United States. And with the Oregon Legislature in session, too. Another Turkish defeat. Why, It begins to look as if we could almost nearly thrash the Turks ourselves. The man who is object of suit for large damages in an alienation case must be a complacent sort. The Russians were checkmated at Wkra; probably somebody threw in the rest of the consonants. I ? Now that a lecturer has pointed out the grave dangers of spooning, of course we'll all stop it. Th. woarom . Hrmle are) merelv wasting powder, while in the east the bear is eating turkey. Sport experts say Willard may beat Johnson. What's the matter, Is John son seriously 111? Again the East draws its best from the West. A Reed College man goes to Princeton. Governor Withycombe doesn't wield a tomahawk. The implement Is a full size ax. Mexico has just about reached the stage of complete anarchy and utter chaos. That Sheridan hen that lays and crows knows the value of advertising. Fighting Turks is a mere military outing for the Russians. Woodrow a grandpop. Gracious, how time does fly. . y The Governor easily can spot the "double-crosser." Twenty-Five Years Ago. From The Oregonian. January 19, 1880. A dispatch from Pendleton says the Union Pacific trains probably would be- able to break through the snow blockade by tomorrow. Washington Ex-Governor Foraker resumed his statement before the House committee on the ballot box for gery investigation yesterday. - Turin Prince Amadeo, Duke of Aosta, brother of the King of Italy, and formerly King of Spain, died Jan uary 18. He was conscious at the end and received the Pope's blessing from Cardinal Alimonda. The Duke of Aosta created a great scandal in 1888 by marrying a near relative. Princess Lititia Bonaparte, daughter of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, the French pre tender. Washington The President has ap pointed P. H. WinBton. of Spokane, District Attorney, and Captain Brown, of Tacoma, Marshal of Washington. W. T. Shanahan is arranging to move hiB piano business to new and commodious quarters in the Ainsworth building, at '69 Third street A friend, called yesterday to see "Rabelais," who is down with the in fluenza. "Rabelais" raised himself on his elbow long enough to remark that everything seems to have the grip except the cable road. Mrs. H. E. Parkhurst and her sister, MIbs Carrie Johnson, of Portland, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Park hurst, of Fresno. i Brilllantiffe wil be a popular dress fabric this coming season. High col ors are again In vogue in spite of the indication during the Summer that a change to low-necks was to be made. It is announced that the marriage of Miss Fanny Therkelsen and David L. Williams will take place at Trinity Church the first week in February. Mss Carrie Wilcox will return to her home in the East tomorrow. She has been visiting her brother, T. B. Wilcox. ATTEND TO BEAM I1V OUR OWN EYE. United States Not In Position to Criti cise British Unreadiness. PORTLAND, Jan. 16. (To the Edi tor.) Referring to your editorial in today's issue entitled "Our Duty and Britain's," which purports to be a reply to a letter signed "Briton," permit me to ask you is it good taste for a paper of the prominence of The Oregonian to criticise Great Britain for being un prepared to defend the neutrality of Beleium? Would It not De wise to at tend to the beam in our own eye before worrying about the mote in the eye of Britain? The U-iited States, by .virtue of the Monroe Doctrine, is the self-appointed guardian of all North and South Amer lea minus Canada, and proclaims the policy of "hands off to all the other nations of the world. Suppose some nation, not half so powerful as Ger many, defied the Monroe Doctrine, how are we Drepared to enforce respect for it? HoV did we enforce respecj; for the American flag at Vera Cruz? How are" we prepared to protect the lives and property of our own citizens in Mexico and on our own sou bordering Mexico? If we are to be neutral, why not let Great Britain alone? I think the United States is acting wisely in keeping' out of the European war, but without hurt ing the feelings of any of the belliger ents we could easily allow Great Bri tain to fight her own battle without any criticism from us,' especially as we are not in a position to criticise any nation for its lack of preparedness as long as we are ourselves turning the few swords we possess into plowshares and meekly turning the other cheek to any nation that cares to take a swat at us. FORMER BRITON. Ov criticism of Great Britain was called forth by British criticism of the United States, for not taking up the cause of Belgium. We called attention to British unreadiness In the further hope of doing the very thing which our correspondent does that is, turn ing the minds of Americans to tbeir own far greater unreadiness to carry out their obligations. Great Britain was guilty of the same fault as the United States, but in a less degree. It was blindly .confident in its own latent strength and closed Its eyes to the far greater developed strength of Germany and the evident purpose of Germany to attack the British nation. We pointed to the mote in John Bull's eye not only to show that he was in no position to criticise Uncle Sam for not living up to his supposed obligation to defend Belgium but to draw attention to the beam in Uncle Sam's eye namely, his utter inability to carry out his real ob ligation, namely, to maintain the Mon roe Doctrine against serious attack. Now that Great Britain and the United Stales are reminding each other of their faults in the matter of mill tary unreadiness, there is hope that both will mend their ways". Then the world, may be secure against another Pan-European war and also against a war between some European nation and the United States. Though the antl militarists refuse to believe us, we are laboring in the oause of peace, but of peace with honor. AUTOBUS SERVICE! IS DISCUSSED A. B. Gottschalk Asks Questions Per ilnent to New Traffic Means, PORTLAND. Jan. 16. (To the Edi tor.) I notice tflat auto buses are now serving Union avenue and Alberta street. Besides the nominal taxes on tne machines, what do they contribute to the support of the municipal, county and state governments? What do they contribute toward tne maintenance of pavements, etc.? Why are they not compelled to run owl cars at the unprofitable hours, taking the bitter with the sweet, as the street railway must? - Will their participation In tne pas senger business not reduce the street railway service to this district Whv are the buses not taxea on tneir cross earnings or made to pay suffi cient license for this public service? A. B. uorlBLHAiiit. Red Cross Stamp Sale Proceeds. PORTLAND, Jan. 16. (To the Ed itor.) A constant reader of The Ore gonian and one who has purchased Red Cross stamps ever since they were nlaced on sale desires to know how and where tne proceeas aerivea irom the sale of such stamps are applied. A SUBSUKIWISK. Anyone knowing of a case of tubes. culosis In which the patient is In need of care and appropriate surroundings and attention may apply to Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, 7118 Fifty-third avenue, Southeast, Portland, who has charge of the funds derived from the sale of Red Cross seals. The case will be In vestigated and a committee will .see that aid is given. Last year the Red Cross sale was conducted by the Visit ing Nurse Association, and this year the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs was in charge. DEMOCRATIC TIMES DO REPB1AT Reader Diss I n Voiced Kxpreealon .n Congress of 1KV3-93. Demooratie time, are Demooratlo times, and Democratic Congresses are Democratic Coneressos, with all their attending Ills, thinks one reader of The Oregonian whose memory ""errs not. neither does 11 fail." The trend of sentiment during the seoond Clev. land administration, he has recalled, was very similar to that prevailing now, and the expression of this sentiment was voiced as audibly In the year, between lsWi and as at present. This reader, who signs "C. B. W.," has sent to The oregonian two bits of poetry and parody printed In Chicago and Pitts burg papers during the Democratic admin istration of 1W3 to with the comment that they might easily apny now: The Suxar-Coated CoogrHs, Pittsburg Dispatch. (Tune 'The Old Oaken Bucket.") How dear to our hearts Is our Demo cratic Congress As hopeless inaction presents it to view; The bill of poor Wilson, the deep tan gled tariff. And every mad pledge that their lunacy knew! The widespread depression, the mills that closed by it. The rock of free silver where great Grover fell. They've busted our country, no use to deny It, And darn the old party, it's busted as well. This G. Cleveland Congress, This Queen Lilly Congress, This wild free trade Congress We all love so well. Their moss covered pledges we no longer treasure. For oft at noon when out hunting a Job, We find that Instead of the corn they had promised. They've given us nothing not even a cob. How ardent we've cussed 'em with Hps overflowing With sulphurous blessings as great swear words fell, The emblems of hunger, free trade and free silver. Are sounding In sorrow the working- man s knell. This bank-breaking Congress, This mill-closing Congress, This starvation Congress We all love so well. How sweet from their eloquent lips to receive It. "Cursed tariff protection no longer uphold," We listened and voted our dinner palls emntv. The factories silent, the furnaces cold. And now far removed from our lost sit- ' . uatlons. The tear of regret doth intrusively swell, We yearn for Republican adminlstra - tion And sigh for the Congress that served us so well. This Fifty-third Congress, This Democrat Congress, This sugar-cured Congress We wish was In well. The Empty Dinner Pall. (Lizzie Clark Hardy in Chicago Tribune.) As I sit here idly dreaming of the hamiy time that's gone. Not a dollar in my pocket, and the Win ter coming on The thing that breaks me up the most. and makes me feel so small, Is the sight of that old dinner pall hanging on the-wall. I've carried that old dinner pail for fif teen years or more. And It never taw me out of work or Restitute before. For with shops and factories running and the best of wages paid. A prosperous lot of fellows were the dinner pail brigade But you see we wasn't satisfied, though it seems most mlKhty KtranKe, And we said we thoupht the country would bo better for a change. And we railed about the tariff, and we blowed about free trade. And we voted I.emooratic, did the din nor pail brigade. Well, a change was what we wanted, and we trot It. too, you bet. For the shops and factories all shut down, and left us in the wet: Oite banks suspended payment, and 1 I lost my little all, hd the dinner pall is empty now, that's hanging on the wall. I'm dependent now on charity for the roof above my head, ' 1 And I've Been my wife and little ones -go hungry to their bed. But I've plenty time for thinking, and I see It Isn't strange. For. I voted Democratic just to have a little change. Yes, we voted Democratic, and you see the change has made A lot of hungry beggars of the dinner pail brigade. The workingmen are Idle, but the wormwood and the gall Is to see the empty dinner pail hanging " on the wall. Facts About the P. E. O. Order. GOI.DEN0ALE, Wash., Jan. 15. (To the Editor.) Will you please print some information about the P. E. O. Order? F. H. C The "P. E. O." is a secret order. The Oregon state president is Mrs. J. W. Ferguson, 347 East Thirteenth street North, Portland. The P. E. O. was organized in Iowa Wesleyan Univer sity, Mount Pleasant, la., January 21, 1S69. It is composed of local, state grand chapters and supreme chapters. It is said to be the largest exclusive woman's secret organization In the world.. The object and aim is general Improvement; educational in influence, with its direct work along literary, social, charitable and philanthropic lines. The official magazine Is the P. E. O. Record. It Is edited by Mrs. Effie Hoffman Rogers, Oskaloosa, la. Troops fn Field. SHERWOOD, Or., Jan. 16. (To the Editor.) Will you state approximately the number of troops France and Austria have In the present war? C. D. StALENS. Francs has a war strength of -4,000,-with 1,000,000 available for duty un organized.. Austria-Hungary has a war strength of 200,000 with 3,000,000 available for duty unorganized. Only the war offices of the countries in volved in the conflict know how many troops each has in the field; but It is estimated France has close to 3,000,000 and Austria close to her full war strength of organized troops. Whistling; aa a Profeaaloa. SALEM, Or., Jan. 16. (To the Edi tor.) Please tell me if a womanf could obtain lessons in whistling? I am an extra good whistler, and, being a widow, would like to know If I could In this way help to support my chil dren. i WIDOW. Inquiry at vaudeville theaters In this city elicits the Information that suit able whistling "acts" are rare, wnetn er you could succeed in your plan Is merely a question. For further infor mation please write. Inclosing a stamped, addressed invelope, to the manager of any of the three leading vaudeville theaters in this city. Change at Boardlng-Houae. Boston Transcript. Boarder Here's a nickel I found In the hash. Landlady Yes. I "put It there. I ou ve been complaining, I understand, about lack of change in your meals. Half, a Century Ago. From Tha Oregonian Jan. IK, ISflS. The New Haven Palladium contains an extended notice of the life of pro fessor Henjnmln Pllliman. Sr., who died ThanksKivine: day. The name of SUllman ia :t.tnoiiatert throughout the country with the highe.it order of scientiflo attainment and commanded great respect throughout the world among men of science and learning. Born In 17T9, he was one of the oldest living graduates of Vale, having been connected with It 64 year, during which tme he probably did more than any other to secure for that Institu tion the high academic standing it has attained. In 1818 hn founded the Amerlcun Journal of Science. A correspondent of the Sacramento Union writing from Humboldt County. Nevada, saws there is an extensive oil region in that section; that the oil la of a superior quality and from appear ances the basin la large and In time may rival the famous fields of Penn sylvania, A friend writing from Chehalls Point, W. T., of date January 12. acknowl edges the receipt of The Weekly Ore gonian of December 3 and 10. on that day. If mall drag, along that alowly we shall have to devise some way to punch them along. The Pope has received from a deputa tion or the Hpanlsh clergy an invita tion, in case he I, obliged to have Rome, to take up his abode in some r-nanleh city. D. W. Williams, Treasurer of Mult nomah County, ha, l.auad notice to all concerned, of the requirements of the act passed by the last Lea-lalatlve As sembly to regulate and tax foreign in surance, banking, express and exchange corporations doing business In this state. "The Portland Directory" for 18i la Just off the preaaea of 8. J. McCorniick. It shows a total population of for Portland, 90 of whom are colored and 210 Chinese. The population shows an increase of 1000 over 18(4 and 17(2 over that of 1863. The new lrt-pent postal currency la printed on paper made from corn husks. The total amount of property ff. stroyed by General Sheridan In the Shenandoah Valley ia placed at S6.941. 128. G. H. Atkinson, superintendent of tha common echols, has written an article on the work and needs cf the primary department COIHT KALAIWKN AUK ATTAtKDI) Lebanon Man Would I'rnn. Pay of JydKra and Proarcnfora. LEBANON, Or., JBn. 16. (To the lid. Itor.) 1 notice that one member of the Legislature in the Interest of over burdened tax,. aj era of Oregon propose to cut the salaries of all state officials, and It appears to me lie should receive the unanimous support of his fellow members. As a member of the Grange In Linn County I am acquainted with the vie, of many of the farmers of the Wil lamette Valley, anil I believe I voice their sentiments when I Mate that a radical reduction In salaries is demand ed, aa well as the abolishment of many commissions. There scemx to be a prevailing aentl mentthat many oiricials an receiving salaries which need pruning and n general reduction In the working forces of various commissions, some of which appear to have been crenta4 for polit ical reasons rather than the real wel fare of the state.. A Hupreme Court .Indite should bo content with $10 a day for each work ing day of the year; that Ib an annual salary of .3130, for. besides his salary, the state furnishes free hia office, heat, light. Janitor and other conveniences. Circuit Court Judges should he con tent with $8 for each working day; that is, 32S04, Instead of $4000- they now receive. County Attorneys outside of counties having a population of tiO.000 should not receive over $50 per month, aa In many of the counties there are only three terms per year, so that the Coun ty Attorney as a rule does not put In more than one-fourth of hia time In attending to work connected with the office of County Attorney, the other three-fourths being devoted to his pri vate practice. It la well . Town among attorneys that the office of County Attorney Is alwa'i a big asset In the building up of a ) irgs prlvale practice, and In many of ths old states the Coun ty Attorneys oulsldo of large cities only receive a nominal salary, and the best attorneys as a rule are anxious for the office, even at a small salary because it is the best business asset that a lawyer or firm can have. In Lane County the County Attorney receives $7 a day for each working day of tho year, and yet tno vr -holds only three tirm. a year and the criminal business does not take lip ..fifth of his time. This la hut an example of the work of the office n other counties, and the peoplo who Cabinet Ofneers. Jn 16. To the Edr-WIUyou publish the nan.. the preBeni .I.... -- -- T.1.NT nfs Cabinet? TRLNT. Rncretarv of 8tat- -William Jennlng. Bryan, oi Secretary of th. Treasury -Vi llllam Glbb. McAdoo. of New York. Secretary of W.r-Llndley M. Garri son, of New Jersey. Attorney - G.ner.l-Thoma. Watt Gregory, of Texas. pLmaster-General Albert Sidney Burleson, of Texas. Secretary of the Navy-Jo.cphu. Dan iels, of North Carolina. ,, Secretary of the Interior-Franklin Knight Lane, of California. Secretary of Agrlrultur. D.vld Franklin Houston, of Missouri. Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield. of New York. Secretary of Labor William Bauchr.p Wilson, of Pennsylvania. The salary of tho Cabinet officers Is $12,000 each. Manufacturers Can Make a, Market Any manufacturer with business character and a worthy product can make a market for his producL His easiest way is through well directed advertising. The best medium for hl appeal, first, last and all the time, is the dally newspaper. It reaches the places you want It to reach. It reaches people In tha home.. Its appeal la double, for It not only reaches the consumer but It directly Influences the retail stores in favor of your good. have long been patn-nv : . and demand that. In the Interest of iustice thousands and thousands of dol ar. now being spent In excc.lv. salaries and conducting useless com rXns be reduced at this ,n Legislature. J- A. Muni. . .. ...... m n I m r