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8 THE NOITSTSG OREGOXTA3T, WEDNESDAY, JAXTJARY 20, 1915. mt (Bxmcw xmx PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon, Postoffica as Mnnri.iliu matter. Subscription Bates Invariably In advance: (By Mail.) a Ji I'ally, Sunday Included, one montti M I'aliy, without Sundmy, one year ... Dally, Sunday Included, one year . .. . railv. 8undav Included, six months . . Ja:iy, Sunday Included, three months ..8.00 .. 2.25 .. 8.Z3 .. 1.40 .. Z.U .. .U 9.00 .I Taiv. without Sunday, six mouths X'aily, without Sunday, three months laily. without Sunday, one month . Wee kly, one year .................. Sunday, one year fcunday and. Weekly one year ....... (By Carrier.) Ially. Sonday Included, one year Iaily. Sunday included, one month . Hmv in Remit Send Postoffice money or- der, express order or personal check on your icai tanK. stamps, coin or cuneuu " -sender's risk. Give postoffice address In lull, lneltirlflyip nuinlv and state. Postage Rated 12 to 16 pages. 1 cent: 18 to :: pages. 2 cents; 34 to s pases, o cc"-. r.rt in rio nuet-a 4 cents: 62 to 7 pases, cents: 7s to 92 pages, 6 cents. Foreign post, are. double ratea Eafltern Rndinnw Office VcTTee 8c Conk- lln. New York. Brunswick building; Chicago, fetenger building. San Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Com Tany, i- Market street. POK7 LAN O, WEDNESDAY, 9 AH. SO, 1913. V. w 3 A DO-NOTKTSG SESSION. '3t 5( Democratic leaders in the Senate demonstratiner their utter inca pacity to get business done under the present rules of the Senate.- Their inefficiency in the present session is in marked contrast to their relative J', efficiency during the extra session, j when Congress passed the tariff law e and the reserve bank law. - Then the 'J. Democrats worked like a tolerably j -well drilled team and concentrated 2 their energies on a definite purpose . g until it was accomplished. Now they a are scattering their energies over a ij number of measures, though the adop tion or any. new liiwa to cjLiiemcij jT doubtful and though the adoption of pork-grabbers may then learn, if they I contented with any other kind of followed glory for Mr. Everett in are caDable of learning anything, that bread. . If "we could all learn to con- I blinding succession. He was Minister their game is played out. PARTISANSHIP. The Oregon Congressional delega tion is composed of two Democratic sume more of this wholesome and I to England, and one of the best we nutritious food and less meat our ever sent there. He was president of health would be better and household I Harvard for three years, then filled bills would siuraD most agreeably. A lout Daniel Webster's term as Secre- loaf baked from unbolted flour, is in tary of State at Washington and itself delicious, but it may be made I rounded off his inimitable career oen-iure, io V still more palatable by putting in the Federal Senate. raisins iwhich, again, are more nutri- I But all these halos have grown rusty tious than any meat. Our diet is ex- I with time and Edward Everett is now pensive mainly because we do not I remembered best for , his orations, know what to include in it or are too which were sown broadcast over an Indolent to try beneficial experiments. 1 admiring land almost from his boy- tives and one Representative of un certain party affiliation. Yet it is a fact that all the appointive Federal jobs for Oregon are filled, or are being filled, with Democrats. Except that the incumbent may be protected by the civil service, his head goes Into the -wastebasket. The spectacle of the two Demo cratic Senators controlling ail .the Federal patronage for Democrats ought to give a great deal of pain to those "non-partisan newspapers of Oregon which are issuing stern words of warning to Governor Withy- combe for putting out certain ap pointees of his Democratic prede cessor and putting in certain men of his own choosing. The sum total of decapitations so far is three or four yet the objectors profess to be much scandalized at the introduction of the spoils system in state affairs. It might be a good idea for these agonized critics to turn their atten tion to the partisan activities of the President and the Oregon Senators. KRAI, rAW-EFORCEME"T. hood. His eloquence was brilliant. rtloeetnol , .1 ; T t a nnt Vnnwn that I ho ever Advocated manv things of rar. j. no worm is uui an umtiiu ticular importance, but almost any Gloom prevails almost everywhere, we cause became important for the mo- admit. There are earthquakes and I ment in the glare of his oratory. famines. Wars and rumors of wars His one piece of forensic bad luck set us ail shuddering. Death rides was to come into competition wun his white horse athwart the lands and Lincoln at Gettysburg, where nis eiao- his scythe reaps a hideous harvest orate periods and well inflated para- of human lives, but we insist that all graphs seemed rather to flatten out is not sad. Here and there a ray or beside tne presiaenrs genuine leemiK. joy pierces the abysmal murk and ir radiates the lethal shades. I "The Destroyer" as the New Tork For one thing, Senator Clark has 1 American sees him is an elegant "gen at last retrieved his $7000 tablecloth tleman," feted and favored by adoring from the hounds of the Revenue De- women, while behind him is a long partment. The infernal monsters did train of other women, his victims, no their best to make him pay duty on longer in a condition to fete and favor. it and even to wrest it from him Some are insane, some drug fiends, altogether, but they have failed. The I some in prison and some just prosti- Senator has his tablecloth and he will tutes and nothing more. He never has spread it in all its grand beauty on labored at anything decent and his deeds do follow him. the mammoth dining-table which ex- Governor WithycOmbe is naturally pands its glittering top in his New concerned about enforcement of the York dwelling. So let the war rage I - The School Bulletin quotes an in- new prohibition law. It will be no and Death reap his fell harvest. stance of a New England village which easy task: but he Is determined that have one consolation ot wmcn notning Spen(js more money at its movie all the authority and resources of his can deprive us. As long, as Senator theater than it does on its public office shall be used to that end. Clark and our other opulent law- schools. v"e dure say horrid examples It may be recalled by persons of makers enjoy their taDieciotns, ineir of the ggg sort COuld be found out- acute memory that during the cam- pictures and their champagne we can sldo New England. When rural paign Candidate Withycombe, denying sleep sweetly in the faith that, be SChools rival the movies in intellectual the right of an inquisitor to ques- surface appearances what they may, interest they will get all the money tion nim as to nis personal stand tor tne world is rignteousiy governeu anu tk noerl or against pronioitiun, yet aeciareu I mat sometime, 11 we jive iu5 Billy Sunday's Washington sermon was particularly attractive to Con gressmen whom he rebuked scathingly for their sins. Being thus rebuked Is a sort of luxury to many people. It seems to give them a license ror further indulgence. The preacher's scourge cancels the past ana opens new and inviting roads to Bin in the future. . emphatically that as Governor he we shall all have enough to eat with- would do his full duty. - He will, un- out killing anybody to get it. more than one or two is impossible i doubtedly. The Senator's lovely tablecloth was unless appropriation bills are crowded But the .Governor thinks the powers I made in Venice at a school of lace- over to an extra session. There is 0f the executive ought to be enlarged making patronized by royalty itseii. a free-for-all scramble for action on I so that he may remove from office 1 The beauteous majesty of Italy con- ell sorts of measures, and those who delinquent county officers. It is no descends to take an interest in the try to get anything done toilsomely new suggestion. Two years ago The lacemakers and occasionally walks force their way through an ocean of Oregonian supported a similar pro- through the school spreading joy talk. posal, made by Governor West. It around as she passes. The lacemakers, It must have been obvious to any then said (Jan. 30. 1913): if they are fortunate and very in- person who is superficially informed The Invincible prejudice of the Lesisiature I dustrious. earn 10 cents a day, which that at a short session it is impos- I towards Governor West and all his works is is big pay for an Italian laborer. Their sible for Congress to pass more than h,h: ..". ,.,. , , ' nf lace is artistic in the highest degree. one or two laws of a general char- upon the Governor power of recall over all If it iwere not so, genuine connoisseurs acter in addition to the appropria- Sheriffs. Constables and Prosecuting At- ijKe Senator Clark would have none tion bills, and then only if those TmiyTZllTZ" of it. Our New York money kings measures be not subjects of ' acute ter ought to be equal to the power of the are nothing if not artistic to the back controversy. Yet President Wilson people. That Is all he asks: and he wants Done. we congratulate the Senator A ,.iit rfir.n, f to hold it for only ninety days. ... It . . v .u r.nJ t,i cllucu w . Js aI1 rignt we think. The Governor ought I no-? ij . I I -c-rtnatlr.Ti nawt a exeat educator as opinion by insisting that the ship- to have the power to suspend a public of- treasure. May his dinners digest bet- Education, sa s a great: eaucator, as purchase bill be passed at this ses- nciai wno tans or reruses to ao nis amy. t for the lace which underlies their " " T The warning given by the Chief of Police of Salem to minors to keep out of poolrooms may with benefit be spread over the State. If the law were enforced there would be fewer youths arrested for thieving and other crimes. uppujiiuui, iu . Imnlloitlv trusted hv the neoole. hilt not only from Republicans, but from nevertheless responsibility and control ought some Democrats, and has good pros pect of preventing its passage, owing to the expiration of this Congress on March 4. The immigration bill, which was left over from last session, has attach to that high office, and, if we have an unfit Governor, we have -the recall and can, or should, get another. Governor West wanted the right to suspend a public officer: Governor Withycombe would remove him out- WILSOJTS TARIFF BOARD "JOKEB. After having declared that a tariff commission was unnecessary. Presi dent Wilson boasted in his Indianapo- ars' club, means "to teach a man how to rightfully use language." Indeed. Should it not, then, include Instruc tion how to not split one's infinitives? taken up much time. By injecting I rjght. new legislation into tne postomce diu, if he is given that great power, it xne nouse nas provoKeu long ueuiie must be through a constitutional ana given cause tur niucii juure 111 me Benate. The demand for better Na if any concern or body in this country is to make a profit on the lis speech of having practically made European mar, it may as well be the Federal Trade Commission Into a I Bethlehem Steel, for that corporation tariff commission without the knowl- Is a great employer of labor, edge of Congress. Representative Mann said the President prided himself on The British plainly are sidestepping amendment passed- by the people, The prohibition law will be a farce . . ..,i,-h nmpthino. into law I ioc without rimiht thpv take uiiicojj ijiujjci cayuua ai i.uiscu I ..(. f nAcrlnnd hu- CnriHTesS" 1 tv, tntrsmnit nf nilf State. Tlfinart lor US eniorcement. I f rv, ;,., ;e nnnffxwrt hv n mem- I 1ntn nnnclrJHMtlnn in dealine- ber of the House, would cause him "to with the United States. A misunderstood city. I lose caste as a legislator and man.' The stately New York Times has Mr. Mann proceeded to show that The British steamer Cranley came seized the occasion of a hiatus in even this credit was not due to tne aq- into the Columbia after having been tional defense will surely cause pro longed debate on the Army and Navy bills, and the river and harbor bill may cause a filibuster. Yet Senate committees are grinding away on rural credit and conservation bills xi Vi ; , . I. Vi i n n r Vi -.) n n nf ntlrTl hv this Congress. Whenever any event I more interesting matter to bewail the I ministration ana its oacKers in tun- scarred by German sneu, ana win go stimulates a Senator's mental activity country's scant appreciation of tne gress. 'rne i'eaerai uaaa iunuuia- out again as soon as sne can ioaa or affects the interests of his con- metropolis. The great financial and sion, he said, "was first proposed na- I Scarred but not scared. .,,!..,. h .t.. .ni, -n-ithmit sinful center of the United States is tionally in the last Republican plat- o-oh tr. ,,.nT,nmv nf r,r-inn timo I sadly misunderstood, according to the form and is the direct outgrowth of I The latest fleeing Mexican Presi The President has lost that marve- Times. It is like a fair lady of un- the Bureau of Corporations, which 1 1 dent took several million dollars with i r,(i f-,M. Tchi,.h ho certain habits and bewilderinir ways had the honor first to suggest." He him. While Mexican presidential possessed until the election of last I who has been made out a great deal said that the Senate bill provided fori terms are very short they are likewise November. The legend of his invinci- I worse than she really is. If we may I investigation or tne export iraae oniy, i very profitable. hu;t wo- .tmvoH hv tho nrnnf thor. trust the Times. New XorK is not but we conierence committee, un un furnished that the majority of the mainly populated by grafting con- tion of Representative Stevens, of The thousand Kentucky mules just people reject his policy, and that his tractors, painted Jezebels and Tam- Minnesota, the Republican member, bought by Great Britain will check nnrti- rotnlnn n Tnaioritv In Con irrnss many gunmen. On the contrary. It after consultation wun air. ivianii, m- , German advance if headed right. through the division among its op- is a homekeeping, staidly law-abiding serted changes empowering the com- They ought to give stubborn resist- ponents and not through its own town or wnose piously seaate mnao- mission 10 investigate """ ance, at least. to rsnii, Ho thnft i,rnimi- on- ltants Dv rar tne larger numoer are aiso. xie cnaneiigeu su, vuaii mity among his followers by trying constantly engagea in reading tneir nsis lanu revjsmu iu.cuSreu u, " Two wild youths at SnaniKO must to punish the independent thinkers BlDies ana orienng up lamny prayers, commission ue t.ini.c.seu serve sixty ays for shooting up tne among them and by entering upon When not thus edifyingly occupied Democratic majority to provide the town. Get a dress suit, boys, and have a patronage fight. By forcing his they pass tne time singing nymns to necessary iuuus. nc uuca j-our nails manicured. We're civilized shipping bill to the front he gave the meioaious accompaniment 01 s me toub wu """" out this wiy. those whom he had thus antagonized parlor organ, vvnat seems cnieny to ana nas introauceu a tidm.B ,.,1 tr. nnnnco him I stick in the Times' crop is tne coun- tarnr revision commission. rv hnvA nnlt. Arlrianonle. Thi r -iii dn nttio if nv. trv-wide belief that the city and the The President appears not to be chM n-nrks win h maklne- their thing, beyond passing the ap'propria- state which it adorns are both ruled content with reducing his platform to Jast stand at Constantinople if disaster tion bills, and will have a struggle by xammany. Kinaimg woou, leaving l.m "- continues to run against them at the to pass all of these. With weakened To correct this misapprehension,, arcny ana surxenng tne country uu- present rate. prestige in both houses and with a our conterapurary is at grew ynina m uoicuueu cAuct-t uj ci.. L-ij ereatlv reduced maioritv in the lower present some statistics concerning po- scraps of paper in the shape of peace House, the President will be fortunate litical control ;n New -York for the treaties. He repudiates his platform If any items on his programme of last twentytjufe or such a matter, declarations and appropriates credit constructive legislation should be These figurfiemonstrate on their for his opponents' ideas In doing so. made law by the next Congress. The face that Taritmany has had very lit- He is a most high-minded President, legislative achievements of his Admin- tie mastery of affairs in the Empire All these facts should be borne in istration are about completed, and it State. But their face is highly un- mind, for the tariff promises to be eeems that he can only continue or trusiwurmy aim uw iausuu uncicu mu rei6 1 in all good faith by the Times are 1916. xne voters win neea to remem- fanciful in the extreme. In the in- ber the President's changes of front terval which they cover it has made when they judge of his claims to credit terial little ainerence wnat parLy ostetiaiuiy i iur- guuu wwio. uwwc m .v,.. ruled the state or who was Governor Ises of good work in the future. -add to his strength with the people fcy reaping the harvest from that jrhich he has already sown. Italy disclaims needing help in car ing for earthquake victims. Well if you ever do, we are the people who can furnish it to the whole world if necessary. The late John Mulr knocKed quarter-million out of rocks, bugs, etc, which is very much more than most men get from less sordid ma- Forecasting Br Dean Collin a. This morning I arose, and frigid was my nose. The while I cranked the furnace up to drive the cold away: But the calendar I took and I' gave a single look. And up my frozen spirits soared and I grew blithe and gay. I called a friendly snowbird nigh And loud we sang together: "What care you and what care I For this chilly weather? January's flying on: Swift doth Winter go; Ere another month be gone, I will bet. on every lawn. Crocus blooms will blow." Loudly roared the furnace draught, But gaily still sang we: Grumpy Winter loud we chaffed. Caroling in glee; "Pooh, for the Winter time! Past away it flies! I will bet at least a dime, February's skies, Blue as a baby's eyes, Ere a month shall pass. Gazing down to earth will see. Pink Sprint? beauties, timidly Peeping from the grass." GIVING WORK TO UNEMPLOYED Difficulty Found In Way of Adopting Tne Ore-gronlan'a Sua-g;eHtlon. PORTLiAND, Jan. 3 8. (To the Edi tor.) I have carefully read your edi torial in The Oregonfar. January 18. entitled: "Give the Man a Job." While I agree with you that the man should have a job. Just at this time how would it strike you to in crease your staff, say 10 per cent? Is there any way you can figure that you can get returns by doing it? If I increased my force, it would call for more raw material, more labor cost, and a greater oversupply of manu factured goods which at present would make it necessary to borrow to carry the added load, as well as increased insurance, all of which means an added outlay of money without any prospec tive return on same. Is it sound advice to give a man to gamble on the future. and have to borrow to do it? I am not alone in this, as I find quite a number of others without the ready means to pile up manufactured goods. men too, my mind reverts to a firm of well-known contractors in this city trying to do a piece of railroad build ing recently at a time when there was not much work going on, and to my certain knowledge on this piece of work sabotage was practiced in its worst forms, even to the extent of fouling the food which their co workers would eat. With full and' complete knowledge or all the above, a man's heart does not warm up to the subject as easily as the mouth speaks what the other fellow should do to help the unem ployed. Do you think, taking your own medicine would be beneficial to you and to the men you try to employ at this time? (J. D. WRAY. The Oregonian does not wish to be understood as recommending any manufacturer to produce more than he can sell, or to borrow money in order to hire more men. But many things can be done during slack times In the way of preparation for a time of activity. Our suggestion was not directed to manufacturers in parti cular, but to every person who has work that could as well be done now as at some future time and who has the means to pay for It. Why not paint the house during the first spell of good weather, or trim the bushes and dig up and manure the yard, or grow potatoes on the vacant lot? As to sabotage, the only safeguard a person has is to be careful whom he employs. The law may already provide others and probably should provide still more. But surely a good influence will be exerted if an endeavor is made to employ all who will work faith fully, for the spectacle of the honest workman at work while he himself is the discard will surely bring to reason an I. W. W. who has not lost the capacity to deduce cause from effect. Twenty-Five Years Ago. SENATE VIEWED AS I'SCRFER C. E. S. Wood Reullms to "Senator on Pntronanro Scrap. PORTLAND. Jan 16. (To the Ed itor.) The subject Is so lmpor tant I am impelled to point out what seem to me certain errors In "Sen ator's" letter, though I hope I am never dogmatic and I recognize that I may be the mistaken one. First Wilson's personality has noth ing to do with the subject. Men pass away, but institutions live. It Is the institution which makes the man, not the man tho institution. However, there is a fine character sketch of Wil son by Sam Blytha In the last Saturday Kvening Post. Second If- the Knglish have reduced their monarch, with all his prerog atives, to an absolute figurehead, must we fear our elected executive, whose utmost duration in eight years? Is not the genius for self-government as vital in the American as in the English? Third In robbing their monarch of his executive power, the F.nglish peo ple gave all that power to their elected executive, the Prime Minister and his Cabinet, and he does nnt have to ask the advice and consent of the House of Lords or of anyone in making appoint ments; nor does tho President of France or of any other modern country. Our "advice and consent of the Sen ate" was born of a fear that our ex ecutive might become a King, when in fact it is the Senators who are more likely to usurp power. Fourth Does "advice and consent of the Senate" mean that the Senate Is to treat the appointment as a public ques tion in the public Interest, or does it mean that a single Senator may state that the appointment is personally ob noxious to him and without further discusion by the "yoii-tlckle-nie-antl- l'U-tickle-you" courtesy of the Senate the Presidential nomination is rejected? It is the Senate today which is usurp ing all the power with none of the rc sponsibllity. I do not agree that it would ba well to let tho Senators have the absolute appointment with the full responsibility, becausp, as I have said, the whole people of the United States have lust one agent on the Job in Washington that is the President, and to him the people must look. Me may Inform himself as best he may, but he .... . w 1 -t-ib. Ill ougnt not iu uo anuc" i cttj fraternity responsibility to the people. Fifth The United States Constltu- .iff Hayes, the Pacific lv.stn.rs n- tion was not historically evolved, but terprlstnir manncer. salt) at 2 I". l. t was theoretically written. Its theory day the lines of his company north. of checks and balances, setting the l-.x- BOuth anil east were working H the ecutlve and the Legislature against way through to New York and that tho each other and the supreme court over linemen of his company have rnmlmt all. Is an academic theory, not a po- tfd the storm conditions belter than litical evolution, and the sooner we get those of any rival system. over the idea ot our own wiwiom ana the Infallibility of the United States Eugene Canfield. railroad capitalist. Constitution ana iook to some ot mu of Seattle, is iu Portland. modern growtns in government, mo hottor it will be for us. C. E. S. WOOD. From Tho Orcronlnn of Janusry "0, Washington. Tho Administration bill prepared by Secretary Wlnriom. In volving the silver measure, will bo In troduced in both houses if Congress this week. Tho measure is entitled " bill authorizing the Issue or treasury notes on deposit of silver bullion." Washington William M. Kedpatli. of Spokane. Falls, is here waiting- for the appointm.-nt of a Federal Juries for his state. He has prc.-si cl the claims of J. O. Mooro. Ixindon. Tho promoters of thi proj ect for building- a bridge across tlii Kngiih Channel .proposo to start tho structure) tomorrow between risii" and Ambletuse. to pass over the two rocky banks of the Yarn, and I'olbart, ending at Folkestone, a dlstanco alto gether of about 24 miles. It Is esti mated It will tuke 12 years to build the structure. Sun Francisco In Utile more tlisn a week tho rnee around the world be tween Mlhs liislaitd, of the. Cosmopoli tan Mngazine. and Mini Nelllo lily, of the New York World, will be over, lloth aro trying to circle tha aloha In less than the eil days required by I'hineas Fokc tho hero of Jules Verne's story. Huth I. ft New York November 14, Miss lily bsvlnir a 13 hours' start, going cs.it, while Mix Ills land went we.-t, The bnnk clenr.mt-e of T'ortlnnd Issl Thursday were ;.'.6.h 7". I. with bal ances of I-'-, I 11. It. A new company imd'-r tho name of tho Alnlna Light Water Company hHS been formed with a enpitnl Mo-k of J!V0,0oft. The company proposes to furnish electric liht and wster. H. C Campbell, at the hmil, hns purr-ha.! the plant of the AIMna company for $:'0,000 and a 11 T.",liio feet at Hard ing and Chapman streets and will btllld a two-story brk-k building. Dr. E. S. Aborn's writ of nmndsmiis to compel tho Insurance to liiui of a phyiciitn's VertlfU-nte, at the bunds of the State Hoard of Mudtcal Kxstmncr, promises to stir things up In tho mvdl- Half a Century Ago. From The Orejonlnn of January 20, lsrtl. The London Times says very point edly that "the Americans neither ap prehend the strength of Unglsnd nor understand the vlitor with which a r TWO-FOLD PEACE IS PROPOSED I !.. War'a End Mark Restitution to Jews, Vrgea Writer. PORTLAND. Jan. 16. (To the Kdl- tor.) Permit me, a stranger in I wnuia be prosecuted." The Kngllxh community, to express my entire sdii- natlon seems to be contemplating the faction with an editorial In The Orego- poa8iDilty of a war wltll America, and nian December 15, under tho caption: to h(lvu ,u(1(ieny awakened from their "Our Part as Mediators," every word luten8a enjoyiiien of the embrogllo ol wnicn article was muoi. .urivoi "-"" into, which our slates have been true, for, certainly, wnen tne propoi time shall come, when the representa tives of the various European nations now at war will gather around the table to discuss peace treaties, then the United States of America will have a great deal to say as mediator. But. in the humble opinion ol tne writer oi plunged for four years past, to reallxs, that in spile of the great drain on our resources, caused by civil strife, we are able to force a war on England, and, of courBe, upon France at I ho same time, for Napoleon, who has sll the time been willing to take this Ini tiative in the recognition of the Con- DRY" PREDICTION IS RECORDED by PORK-GKABBERS AT IT ' AGAIN. The pork-barrel statesman, like the Bourbon, learns nothing and forgets nothing. We might reasonably have supposed that the successful filibuster in the last session of Congress against the river and harbor bill, the deficit taxes, the decreasing revenue and the consequent necessity of economy. would have taught the river and har bor committee of the House to ex clude from the pending bill all items except those of undoubted merit. We find, however, that the bill con tains an item of $100,000 to improve St. Lucie Inlet on the west coast of Florida, which lias no or Mayor. Tammany has had its bit in the mouth of almost every official and has guided his course with an unerring hand to the profit of the gang. This is the simple truth ot the matter, which no amount of tear ful expostulation will obliterate. The country knows New York all too well. It is the people of the metropolis and some of its newspapers who need in struction on their own HOW TO BUY BEEF. The Xational Housewives' League has undertaken the good work of Army engineers say, teaching women how to buy beef and water-borne commerce and I cut It up to the best advantage when If that bill to cut. out Latin from I prescriptions passes we might be un EDWARD EVERETT. willing to pay a dollar or so for a two Edward Everett died January 15; ounce bottle of sweetened water. 1865 fiftv years ago. In many ways he was one of the most interesting Having purchased 1000 American men ever born in the United States, mules the British staff corps should His accomplishments were almost in- not neglect to recruit a sufficient num- credibly varied and his gifts in a dozen ber of American mule skinners. different fields were of the highest jS.. eminence, or at any rate they barely The squaw man will no longer be lOSt Condition. I ,, . . ... . I . . 4. t,o OonT-emo leil snort ui me uigncau i ultjcul ui cuuicuifc .. - great as a preacher, as a politician, as Court decides he can inherit his wife's a diplomat, as an educator, as a states- allotment. but thirty-two people. It Is proposed they have it. The recommendation to spend $30,000 in dredging Miami they make is to buy a whole cross Harbor channels, which. Army engl- rib for a family of several people. neers say, fill with sand as fast as I making fourteen pounds of meat and they are excavated. Other sums are I bone, at 21 cents a pound by New provided to maintain or improve other I York prices. This will cut up at obscure Southern streams. The two I home into two steaks, a pot roast and particularly mentioned are merely I a good soup bone. One faint voice samples. f asked the lecturer who made this rork-grabbers' audacity does not I proposal how a woman who marketed ntop at using pressure on Army engi- over the telephone could be sure of neers to procure indorsement of un- getting the piece she wanted. The meritorious schemes; it goes so far as reply was that she could not. No to ask money for schemes which the person who wishes to be economical engineers have condemned, and the will ever think of buying by telephone, committee is weak enough to yield The recommendation of the House- and to put these schemes in the bill, wives' League is wise and those who Senator Burton and his associates must have meat upon their tables have shown plainly enough that they regularly should heed it if they care : nill fight to the end against a pork- anything for the savings bank account barrel bill and that they can defeat and the inevitable rainy day. But it In a long session. Anybody except why eat so much meat? There is a mentally blind person can see that more nutriment in a piece of good they can defeat it far more easily in bread than in a beefsteak and it tastes a snort session. better after a person has educated his If Improvements of real merit like palate a little. that on the Columbia River, the mer- We are not Bpeaking of the angel its of which are proved by the fact white loaf, which looks like chalk and that local communities voluntarily tastes like sawdust. That deceptive chare the cost, are to have tacked to them, like the tail of a kite, schemes for shameless waste of public money, the friends of genuine waterways will confection neither nourishes nor de lights. We mean good bread, the kind that contains all the virtues of the wheat, including the bran. It Is a need to do again what they did at the solid, tasty article of diet. It pro- ' last session. By making a lump sum vldes all the chemical elements the appropriation to be expended by the system needs and at the same time Army engineers, they cut out the keeps the bodily machinery In good . worthless and saved the worthy proj- working order. Everybody who tries cots from suspension of work. The it for a few meals likes it and is dis- man and as an orator. Everything he attempted he did well, but of course not quite so well as men "who limit their efforts to fewer tasks. He began life as a Unitarian minister with all the culture that Harvard could impart to a graduate of 17 years. Entering the pulpit at less than 20 years of age, he left it after entrancing Boston with his sermons for a little more than twelve months. We need not believe that he ever had a compelling call to the pulpit, since he debated for a long time between theology and law for a vocation. His next move was to Har vard as professor of Greek. His appointment was a gamble in futures, since he knew scarcely any Greek, but he learned it by five years of study in Europe and came back home equipped to conduct enthusiastic classes in that language. To his duties as professor he added those of editor of the North American Review and finally threw them both over to go to Congress, where he supported John Quincy Adams in his titter fight with Andrew Jackson. Here Edward Ev erett charmed everybody by his elo quence and served on the most impor tant committees either because his counsels were of value or because it was felt to be scandalous to overlook so brilliant an ornament of the House. Massachusetts honored her venerable self by electing him Governor in 1835 and he served with that well-starched ability which he displayed everywhere. After four fruitful and polished years he failed of re-election by a single vote, the prohibition issue slipping into politics for the first time at this junc ture to his dismay. Thereafter glory In calling out her landsturm, Hun gary will get good fighters, though they lack the "ginger" of youth. Except for target practice to amuse the artillery gunners the war has been colorless the past few days. Hungary has called her old men to the colors. Let us hope they do better than the young ones did. The Legislature is far behind the record for bills made in 1913. Let us hope it keeps behind. Nine thousand Turks frozen to death in the forests. Must have lacked en ergy to build a fire. Russians are said to be retreating before the Austrians. Must be some mistake about this. Chivalry exists. The House passed Miss Towne's bill offhand. Harry Thaw must officially become crazy again this week. If woman Is to do Jury service, let her do it like a man. Two Winters in one season are too many for Portland. The pot of anarchy is boiling over In Mexico. About time for some more peace ru mors. . National Prohibition Will Come Partisan Politics, Says Mr. Fox. PORTLAND, Jan. 16. (To the Edi- tor. With reference to your editorial comment upon my previous letter. I am satisfied that The oregonian agrees that "great measures must ecessanly be party measures," but thinks that the Prohibition party is not "big enough for the job." Time is the best judge, and our record in Ore gon Is encouraging.. The Prohibition party win be a lac- tor to be reckoned with in Oregon in 1916. and I predict that when National prohibition is attained it will be by means of partisan political action. It is immaterial whether the present Prohi bition party leads our Nation to vic tory. There may be a new alignment (the Prohibitionsts being joined by those dry voters who are now out of harmony with their own party plat form), or it is conceivable that our propaganda may result in one of the dominant political parties taking this ud as a National issue. The result would be the same National prohibi tion with an Administration back of It, which is what we have been contending for over 40 years. I do not think there is any ground for supposing that either the Kepub lican- or Democratic parties will adopt this plank in their National platform. President Wilson recently said: "The Republican party has not had a ,new Idea for 30 years," while the action of our esteemed President and Secretary of State on the Hobson amendment plainly shows that their party is still unalterably opposed to all anti-liquor legislation. So long as other parties maintain their present attitude toward this issue we shall support the Prohi bition narty as offering the only prac ileal and permanent solution or the liquor problem. I would like to express my apprecia tion of the fair-mindedness you have shown in this correspondence, and to assure you that, while I find myself manw times in disagreement with the editorial policy of The Oregonian, I un hesitatingly accept it is the best and "biggest" paper on the Coast, and, of course, could net do without it. J. SANtiEK FOX, Executive Secretary Oregon Prohibition State Committee. these lines. It win Decome tne federacv. having been detained from duty of some great and respected so dolnK by the hesitancy of the nelgli- power to come out openly and declare bor acrogs the channel, would i-ejoue to those representatives somewhat In to a)d Jn ,ne humiiation of tho United this manner: I states. We do not apprehend, how "'mere IS One people rn.-an.ci cu, t. .,, that wne v soon cnnmienee. separate, among too imnuuB n i v provinces .or our various KinBaom . gan Kranc,coThe Oakland Itnll people who for nearly 2000 years had Company has derided to .tart Im hoen relentlessly persecuted, and most! u , , k crueiiy pui sueu o. ,",'Z 7o railroad through that village nvwava. : u w in iiiij inira v mo - make restitution, ir only In a smau measure, to the remnant of a race to whom we are so greatly Indebted. It is high time now that we, at least, give the Jew a resting place, too. whether that resting place shall be In ancient Palestine, where once stood tne craoie of this singular people which gave birth to that gentle Son of Nazareth, whose doctrines and moral precepts have given and still continue to give spiritual consolation to so many mil lions of the human race all throughout these many centuries, or, whether we make a home for him amongst us. We must from now on and forever remove all civil and religious disabilities under which he is groaning in some oi our Countries today." ' This. In my opinion, shall become tne sacred duty of civilization to do and to perform. What other country, witn the probable exception of England, Is better fitted to maKe sucn a Humani tarian demand than the glorious United States of America; who, but a short few years ago, had the courage of its con At tho meeting of the Common Council last night a correction In tha assessment of Lloyd Brooke was authorized. The examination at the Portland Academy and Female Seminary was continued yesterday, under the chill ge of Professor Frambes. Last Wednesday M. M. Southworlh. who lives a short distance below this city, shot a duck on Cities Lake, in the crop" of which particles of flake gold were found, amounting to about 10 cents. Our attention has been called to tho team of eight fine mules drawing a large SO-hundred freight wagon Into the city yesterday under direction of Mr. Carr as wagon master. Miss Lisle Lester, tho patriotic edi tress of the Pacific Monthly, leaves this morning by the steamer John 11. Couch for Astoria. She will give victions to abrogate its treaty with one crleg of drumallc readings at Astoria of the mightiest powers In Europe be- Monticcllo. cause that country had failed to recog. nize that American principle of equal- -y. S. Rolls found a nugget In his ity, liberty; and who a few years pre- cinim pear Wllliow Springs. Jucksoii vlous to that had the courage to thrust County, week before lust. which a petition right under the nose of the weKhed 2J ounces and Is valued st Russian Czar? Although It was not 137S.50. About Revelstoke, B. C. TOLEDO, Or., Jan. 17. (To the Edi tor.) Where can one obtain reliable informatioin about the City of Revel stoke, B. C? SUBSCRIBER. Write to the Revelstoke Chamber of Commerce. Advise particularly in your inquiry just what you want to know and results will be much more satis factory than if you ask only general questions. Also ask them to send you literature descriptive of that section. which they will be quite glad to do. Address of Author. PORTLAND, Jan. 17. (To the Edi tor.) As I am very much Interested in Jean Webster's books, especially Daddy Long Legs" and "Just Patty," kindly give me this author's address. it. S. The address of Miss Alice Jean Web ster, authoress, is 55 West Tenth street. New York City. N. Y. accepted, still the entire world knew then the contents or mat American pe. tition. So now. too, America should lead in Its demands for justice, for hu manity, for a lasting peace. GEORGE M. STANLEY. Canal Tons and the Turks. PARKPLACE, Or., Jan. 18. (To the Editor.) Will you kindly inform me through the columns of your paper: (1) The attitude Mr. Roosevelt took on the Panama canal Tons question. (2) 1 To what race, the Turks belong. ; ; t Bu whatever his Are they purely Mongolian, or Is there iu a mixture of Aryan blood? W. II. NEELHAD. At a meeting of Company A at the Armory last night. J. T. Mono was elected Captain; F. S. lllcklln, First Lieutenant, and It. S. vt iillitma, r-econu Lieutenant. S. M. "urr was ciocica Orderly-Sergeant. A Nameless Prnd. (After Kipling's "Vampire.") Hv Kiluur M. Mmnfortl. A man there was, and he cranked his crank tl-:ven as you ana 11. 1. Colonel Roosevelt opposed the bill repealing exemption of American coastwise vessels from tolls. He fa vored arbitration. 2. The Encylclopedia Britannica gives us to understand that the Turks were originally of Mongol stock, both Turkish and Mongol traditions repre senting them to be descended from I uut the man Just followed his natural ran k (If yOU called him by phono na woiiiu give it a yiiiiaj He was mouth and nnmo ana a cait- rldge blank (riven as you and I). man there was, nd his time he spent 1 Kven ns you nnd Tl. n half defeating his Maker s Intent CTwas not in the least what the fellow mcanti- two brothers. There were many Turks in Jenghlz Khan's Mongol army, and the chief traces of Mongol Invasion in Europe are settlements of Turkish- speaking Tartars in Russia. The tribes of Central Asia, whence the Turks came, were constantly minglng, con querors marrying the women of the conquered. But the modern Turks have a large admixture of Aryan blood through marriage and through absorp tion of converts to Mohammedanism. The Britannica says: "The modern Turks are almost entirely European in physique." lient- (Kven as you and I). The man could boost. If ho ever tried !-;von ns you nnd I), But he sputtered and fumed and rhrlv. eled and dried tit ln't on record that any one cried) Vancouver was glad when they hurled his hide (IJven as von and ?. lUHGAlt M. MU.MFOm. Vancouver, Vh. Oregon's Representatlvea-elect. PORTLAND, Jan. 16. (To tho Edi tor.) Will you please publish the names of United States Representa tives-elect from Oregon? JOHN SOVEY. C. N. McArthur, of Portland, has been elected to succeed A. W. Laf ferty in the Third District. W. C. County Judges' Term. MAYO UK, Or., Jan. 17. (To the F.dl- tor.) Please Inform me through '1 h Oregonian what the Supremo Court's decision was In reference to th County Judges holding oltlce six years. va:n the decision apply to Justice of the I'eacc? A READER FOR 30 YEA HS. The Supreme Court's derlsloln wss given in the case of County Judge T. J. Clecton, of Multnomah County. 11 stated that Judge Cleeton had been elected In 1910 at the same election at elected in the First and Second Dis tricts, respectively. Hau-lev and N J. Slnnott were re-1 which the constitutional amendment In creasing tne terms ot junges 10 n years had been passed, and. therefore. Judge Cleeton's term would be from 1910 to 191. In tho opinion of District Attorney Evans this amendment dors not affect Justices of the Peace, but applies only to courts of record. The Supreme Court The Desideratum. Lives of great men should remind Of this fact to make a note: ah nA m.u to He u KtuteMman Is a, long Prince Albert coat, Puck. I decision refcrrtd only to County Judjjts.