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rORTLAXD, THURSDAY. FEB. 55, 1915,
Ul SMIVs T.ATKST DEFEAT.
The Mazurian Lake region of East
t....!, i ih. exavevard of Russian
armies and of the reputations of their
Generals. For the secona -Russian
army has invaded that region,
onlv to be trapped by the Germans.
According to German accounts and to
the narrative of the Associated Press
correspondent who seems to accom
pany the German army, two forces,
each greatly superior to the Russian
army which was attacking the east
ern approach to the lake region, were
secretlv assembled, rapidly pushed to
the front bv means of the network of
strategic railroads and assailed the
Ruians from the northwest and
southwest. The Russians hastily re
treated to their fortified line beyond
the frontier. .
The German version of the affair
makes it appear as a rout, in which
large bodies of Russians abandoned
cannon and supply trains and were
finallv surrounded and surrendered to
the number of over 100,000.
The Russian version represents the
retreat as one in which every step
was fiercely contested day after day,
In which one body of the army made
a splendid stand against an envelop
ing force of four times its strength
and in which the Germans lost oO.OOO
men Combining the two stories, it is
probablv true that the Russians aban
doned large quantities of artillery and
booty in their effort to avoid being
completely surrounded, but that they
fought an obstinate rearguard action
and forced the Germans to pay a stiff
price for victory.
One would have thought that the
disaster at Tannenbcrg would have
taught the Russians to proceed with
great caution in again attempting to
penetrate the maze of lakes, swamps
and small rivers which constitutes the
southeastern corner of East Prussia.
Their caution seems to have been lim-it-d
to an invasion of that province
farther to the northeast than on the
former occasion, for the main advance
was made across the lower Xiemen
Kiver. leaving the lakes to the south,
but evidently a movement was made
nlso from points farther south. The
nature of the country perhaps forbade
cavalrv reconnoissance. but surely it
should have been possible to send
aeroplanes some distance to the west
in order to spy out the enemy's move
ments. The Russians are well sup
plied with aircraft, and their defeat
seems to be due to their neglect or
possiblv inability to use them, as well
as to their lack of sufficient railroads
for movement of troops with the same
celeritv as the Germans practice.
The second abortive invasion of East
Trussia appears to have been part of
a general plan of attack on the two
nines of the Austro-German army,
with the purpose of carrying the war
into the enemy's country and of re- j
lievins the pressure on the Russian
t enter thirty miles west of Warsaw.
While one armv invaded East Prussia,
another assaulted the Carpathian
passes in an effort to penetrate Hun
gary. The Russians have taken some j
of the passes in the main range boun- )
ding Hungary on the north, but in
others the enemy holds out and the
Russian extreme left has been driven
from Bukcwina by a superior Austro
Ofrman force.
The Russians seem now to be hold
ing a line extending just east of the
East Prussian frontier through Su
walki. Augustowo. Ossewctz, Lomza
and Prasznysz and to be making a
successful stand, the German advance
being hampered by swamps and dense
forests, particularly in the vicinity of
Augustowo. The Russian line through
Poland facing westward seems to hold
firm, though the bulge near Plock has
been putstved back, according to Ger
man reports.
The battle in the Carpathians con
tinues with unabated fury and the
retreat from Bukowina has been
staved, the Russians having sent for
ward reinforcements to hold the line
of the Fruth River, which flows east
ward past Czernowitz, capital of Bu
kowina. Russia now holds all of
Galicia except the part west of the
Dunajee River, which flows into the
Vistula about fifty miles east of Cra
cow, and Przemysl. The Muscovites
have now brought up heavy siege ar
tillery to reduce that city, which has
been ineffectively beleaguered for sev
eral months.
The German offensive may now be
pushed from the north as well as the
west, with "Warsaw as its objective,
while the Germans and Austrians
strive to prevent a Russian advance
through the Carpathians and across
the Fruth. If German reports of the
number of artillery captured in East
Prussia be even approximately cor
rect, the power of resistance possessed
by the Russian right wing must have
been seriously reduced, and Warsaw
may prove to be in more danger than
at any previous time since tho war
began! The Russian, however, is a
most dogged fighter, and the Czar's
military resources are limited only by
his ability to arm and equip his prac
tically exhau.stli-ss supply of men.
Russia must need a respite to re
organize her forces. With that end
probably the Serbians have begun a
new offensive against Austria-Hun-garv.
Pctrograd must surely be pray.
Tug that the Anglo-French army will
-ivc the Germans such hot work in
the west that tho latter will be unable
to detach any more troops to the east.
'Kitchener's army could render most
valuable service to the allied cause if
it were now in France and Belgium,
hut the Gentians may be emboldened
hy their success against merchant
ships to turn their submarine attacks
to transports, I" the hope that they
can prevent many of the new British
soldiers from reaching the mainland.
Success In thl jenture. combined w ith
Uicir victory in tha cast, would, have
a great moral effect in deterring any
of the hesitating states from joining
the anti-Teuton- alliance.
WHY THEY ARB COMPUIMNG.
The obvious motive behind the out
cry against the Moser tenure-of-office
act is that it is in the Interest of the
West appointees. It is a demand that
the Statehouse machine be let alone.
It had managed to block in part the
legislative plan to consolidate various
departments and to abolish useless
commissions, and it looked forward to
two more years' of serenity and com
fort. Now the outlook is changed.
The state voted for a new deal when
it elected Mr. Wlthycombe Governor.
He is to have a free hand to give it,
so far as he is affected by the Moser
act.
Governor "Withycombe is no spoils
man Ha irnve the lie to that charge
when he appointed Bernard Daly, a
Democrat, to be Circuit judge ior
T.aifa rvimtv. Tt was not the act of a
partisan, but of a broad-minded ex
ecutive who will not be Influenced .by
political considerations wnere pontics
has no place.
Nor do we think the btate Boara 01
Control will abuse its power. It is a
fact, indeed, that the new law does
not greatly enlarge its discretion,
which was already broad. If it is to
be a maxim of state administration
that an appointee once in place can
net h removed, the responsible offi
cer at the head of government will
have no control of affairs. The only-
relief to be had will be wnere some
body dies or resigns.
But it is the emergency clause
irhii-h to r-nipflv worrvintr the unhappy
critics of the Moser act, or they say
it is. The stones thrown at the Gov
ernor on that account are all from
glass houses. Governor West did not
hesitate to apply the emergency act
when any little Job he favored was to
ho Hone Durlna- Governor Chamber
lain's administration five bills creat
ing judgeships carried emergency
clauses.
THREE DOLLARS OR NOTHING.
"I appeal to the public," said Com
missioner Brewster in a statement
published yesterday, "for work for
the heads of families, men- who are
residents of Portland, and some of
them owners of heavily encumbered
homes. They have managed to get
thus far through the Winter, but can
not hold out unless immediate Jobs
are found."
"Had you been with me yesterday
afternoon," said Commissioner uaiy
to the business men of Portland, at
the hearing on the minimum wage
ordinance, "when 400 men with fami
lies called on me begging for jobs to
purchase food for their families, while
the work of the city is being given to
aliens, you would have a different
view of this matter."
The remedy for this deplorable sit
uation, as applied by the City Com
mission (Commissioner Dieck votes
no, and Commissioner Brewster ab
sent, but also opposed), is to arrange
that no one shall work on streets or
sewers, or other city work, unless he
shall have $3 per day of eight hours.
It is hard to believe that the worthy-
heads of families who aroused the
quick sympathies of Mr. Brewster and
the 400 needy men who saw commis
sioner Daly, insisted on $3 and eight
hours, or nothing. .
A CANCER SERUM.
In some of the Eastern papers has
appeared an account of a new cancer
serum just discovered at the General
Memorial Hospital in New York., lr
the stories are true the remedy is of
prime importance to the world. It is
administered, like other "serums,".
bv injection and is said to give relief
when all other methods of treatment
have failed. Inoperable cases are
amenable to the new serum. It oper
ates beneficially upon deep-seated
tumors which are beyond the reach
of the knife and those as well which
lie too near the vital centers to admit
of removal. Radium, we are told, is
likely to be entirely superseded by this
novel remedy. The knife will be sup
plemented by it and perhaps now and
then rendered superfluous.
The Oregonian reports these .won
derful claims without putting much
faith in them as yet. This is not the
first remedy which has been an
nounced as a cureall for cancer. All
preceding ones have ended in disap
pointment. AV'e hope that there will
be a different story to tell of this, but
we prefer to be certain of It before
going into raptures.
The name of the discoverer has not
yet been published, nor are any of the
essential facts concerning the serum
available thus far. No doubt they will
come out in good time with other cir
cumstances upon which a reasonable
Judgment may bo based. Meantime
marvelous tales are published or tne
cures wrought by the serum. Mention
is made of an epithelioma on a pa
tient's temple which was almost ob
literated by a few treatments. A can
cer of the tongue which had spread to
the surrounding tissues Was "disinte
grated" and apparently cured.
These stories are most encouraging.
When the world Is assured of their
accuracy they will impart comfort to
thousands of sufferers. But we warn
patients not to expect too much.
Now, as heretofore, we feel obliged to
insist that the only safe treatment for
cancer Is the early and radical use of
the surgeon's knife. Taken in time,
almost every cancer is not only cur
able, but easily curable. Most of the
danger lies in delay.
NEWSPAPERS AND CHIME.
Some important light has been cast
upon the causes of juvenile crime by
Dr. William Healy, of Chicago. As
director .of the juvenile court's psy
chopathic institute this gentleman has
enjoyed exceptional opportunities to
look into the misdeeds of young mis
creants and his opinions are cor
respondingly valuable.
Dr. Healy says, among other things,
that the newspapers are only slightly
accountable for tho criminal pro
pensities of the young. This is quite
contrary to the common supposition.
We hear so much about a taste for
crime originating in reading news
paper reports, of murders, burglaries
and suicides that one would suppose
there must bo some foundation for
the story.
But Dr. Healy says there is none,
or very little at any rate. His ob
servation is that young fellows at the
age when the habits are forming do
not read the newspapers very much.
They pay some attention to the comic
supplements and the sporting pages,
but scarcely more. The news columns
they are apt to neglect altogether.
What these young fellows do read
is "bad" books. This means books
In which criminals are herolzed. It
also means books which cater to the
animal instincts. This species of
reading actually Urta boya pa a
criminal career. Newspapers are
mainly- read by persons whose habits
are pretty well established and who
are unlikely to be injured by read
ing the news, however bloody or re
pulsive it may be. Unquestionably
mature people are sometimes per
verted by ' accounts of crime. The
imitative faculty is so strong in them
that they are led to commit suicide
or perhaps even-murder by vivid de
scriptions. ,
There is a suggestiveness in such
accounts which may prove hypnotic
to sensitive temperaments. But young
persons are notoriously bad subjects
for hvnnotism while they are ardent
hero worshippers. Hence the chances
are that Dr. Healy's remarks are well
grounded. It would be sad to be
forced to believe that the news of the
world could not be adequately- re
ported without encouraging crime.
THE BEST SHIFFTXO POLICY.
President Wilson proposes that the
Government go .into the shipping
business at precisely the time when
the inducements' are strongest for pri
vate investment therein. Mr. Schlech
ter, agent , of the Lloyd Brazileirs in
New York City, wrote a letter to
Chairman Alexander, of the House
committee on merchant marine, which
was read in the Senate by Senator
Burton, setting forth the reasons for
this opinion. American-owned and
American-built ships are now earning
a fourth to a half of their value in one
voyage across the Atlantic and could
not be bought at a reasonable price.
There is a great rush for shipbuilding
in Britain, thirty large freighters hav
ing been ordered on the Clyde in one
week. Holland and Norway are also
building more ships. By the time
peace is made there may be abundant
tonnage and freight rates may be nor
mal. Release of ships now used for
war purposes may send freights below
normal. If the Government were to
buy ships at the present unnatural
prices, it could not continue operating
them and could not sell -them except
at enormous loss.
Private capitalists are willing to
take these risks for the sake of tem
porarily high profits, provided they
can buy or build ships where they
please. They do not build in this
country because the cost Is too high,
but Mr. Schlechter offers this recom
mendation for the upbuilding of an
American merchant marine:
Abolish all existing laws on navigation.
Lat owners buy their vessels In the open
markets of the world. There are vessels for
sale on the stocks of United Kingdom ship
builders at this moment. The prices are
high now, but still lower than that for which
American builders can or will build them.
Let owners hire their officers and men in
the open labor markets of the world. Then,
and then only, will we have a merchant ma
rine which can be operated without placing
an additional and foolish tax burden on the
American people.
Add to this programme the aboli
tion of imprisonment for desertion
and the wages of seamen "in the
open labor markets of the world"
would be forced up toward the Amer
ican standard. Then American ship
owners could compete with those of
all nations, and American shipbuild
ers, with the last hope of subsidy
gone, might learn to build ships as
cheaply as those of other nations.
BACK TO THE LAND.
Massachusetts thinks of encourag
ing the "back to the land" movement
in a rather more sensible way than
most enthusiasts have adopted. Its
plan provides some education in agri
culture before city families are sent
out into the country. Upon petition of
100 persons a school will be opened
in town, where the elements of farm
ing may be learned and while at school
adult students will be provided with
houses to live in and plots of ground
to work upon. Of courso this, ex
pensive as it may at first sight ap
pear, would be far cheaper than, sup
porting the unemployed in idleness, as
is so often done. Its advantage in the
long run would be their conversion
into capable producers.
City men going into the country to
try their luck on farms fail for lack
of knowledge and capital. In spite of
a common belief to the contrary,
farming requires a good deal of ex
pert knowledge. It also requires more
ready money than some people imag
ine. The Massachusetts plan provides
at least part of the essential instruc
tion. The capital must come from
other sources. Perhaps it will.'
The United States sadly needs some
such system of draining off superflu
ous urban population upon the land as
most European countries have adopt
ed. Switzerland, for instance, has sep
arate colonies for the wilfully idle and
those who, are out of employment
through misfortune or the lapse of
"seasonal industries." Germany has
paid much attention to this subject,
and so lias Italy. It is not a credit to
our civilization that men honestly out
of work with families to support
should be left to haphazard charity
or starvation.
OUTLAWS A BY-rnODCCT OF WAR.
Tho James gang of outlaws, the last
but one of whom, Frank James, died
recently on his Missouri farm, was a
by-product of the Civil War. Sons of
a Baptist minister who was strongly
pro-slavery, Frank and Jesse James
were made more violent by their liv
ing in a border state among anti-slavery
neighbors and directly across the
state line from "bleeding Kansas."
The border war in that state was
fought under their eyes, when Frank
was approaching manhood. ''That the
brothers joined Quantrell's band of
guerillas was a natural result of hos
tile environment and of the senti
ments they had imbibed from their
father.
There is little to distinguish tho
guerilla in war from tho outlaw In
peace. The customs of - war give a
color of regularity- to acts of murder
and robbery committed by the former.
The same acts committed by the latter
would lead to the gallows. There was
no essential difference between Quan
trell's raid on Lawrence, Kan., and the
later exploits of the James gang. The
James brothers, finding themselves
outlawed at tho close of the war, sim
ply continued their former mode of
life. For sixteen years later their
robberies of banks and trains made
them the terror of the Southwest and
caused them to be held responsible for
many crimes which were doubtless
committed, by others. Jesse was
treacherously killed In 18S2 for the
sake of a reward by Bob Ford, a
member of his gang, and Frank sur
rendered to the state. A revulsion of
sentiment against the treachery which
took his brother's life probably ex
plains his acquittal. He then settled
down peaceably on his farm, where he
spent the rest of his life.
When we consider the license which
is sanctioned by war, there Is cause
for surprise that the close of civil
strife in this country did not turn
loose more bands of outlaws like the
James gang. Idleness, violence and
r ovine become habit, and men prone
to such vices are unable to settle down
to peaceful pursuits.' After medieval
wars discharged soldiers often became
bandits and proved a terror to Euro
pean countries. Europe will be for
tunate if the present war docs not
leave such an aftermath.
SHAKESPEARE'S TRUE GREATNESS.
What Shakespeare loses In dramatic
prestige is more than made up to him
in fame as a money-maker. Audi
ences may be bored by "Hamlet," but
the whole world hears with" avid ears
the story of the millions that the
printed editions of the plays bring
into the coffers of the booksellers.
Next to the Bible itself, Shake
speare seems to be the most popular
of English books. The annual saie
of "complete sets" runs up to about
3,000,000, a figure to make the most
riotous best seller pale with shame
The royalties on these sales collected
at modern rates would amount to
$37,000,000 a year, a decently re
spectable income even for an Amer
ican trust magnate.
In the face of these facts It takes
some boldness to say that literature
"does not pay." Certainly some lit
erature pays, though the returns may
be a little slow to appear. W e aare
say Shakespeare would have appre
ciated a share of these millions while
he was here on earth. He had a pro
nounced fondness for cash and the
good things which it commands.
One highly desirable measure which
hu heeome law at the present session
of Congress is the law consolidating
the revenue cutter and lire-saving
services. It puts the life-saving crew's
in a nosition where the many vacan
cies In their ranks can be filled and
where their efficiency will be in
creased. It elves the men retirement
pay after thirty years' service, extra
allowances for longevity and re-ennst-ment
and allowances for clothing and
hospital service. It also enrolls over
4000 trained men in the naval reserve,
to be transferred to the Navy on call
nf the President. It gives fair treat
ment to a body of men which yearly
saves thousands of lives and minions
of dollars In property. This law Is
one brieht spot in the record of a
session barren of good results.
It seems to be a pity that nothing
can be done in the matter of Stella
Williams, the young Umatilla who
must go to the penitentiary for lar
ceny, having broken parple by getting
drunk. There is a statute against,
s-ivlnir liauor to the aboriginal, but
nobody in interest appears to obey it.
Indulgence in intoxicants is Stella's
besetting sin and her record shows
more than one hundred arrests for
drunkenness.
Tradition reauires men teachers in
the hie- Ensiish public schools, but
war says nay. So many of the
schoolmasters have joined the ranks
tnat ther is sl call for stopgaps or
understudies to serve until they come
hsK-k The Association of University
Women Teachers has sprung into the
halii and for the first time in nis-
tory, tho venerable academic halls
re-echo feminine voices.
rnnrress bus declined to charter
th "National Academy of Arts and
Letters" because it dislikes the notion
of an "aristocracy of artists." Every
artist is an aristocrat in the sense that
Vi la snnerior to the simpletons
around him, but an aristocracy- of
artists in any evil sense is scarcely
possible. History teaches that art is
the most democratic thing in tne
world.
The patriots who worry over our
newspapers printed in German, Po
lish, Swedish and so on may perhaps
be consoled when they learn that other
countries are similarly blessed. There
are many English papers in Argentina,
Brazil abounds with German perioai-
cals. A newspaper in tnat tongue
published at Santiago. Chile, circu
lates from Peru to Cape Horn.
Allegation that more than 3,000,000
rifle artridres are shipped weekly to
Great Britain by one American con
cern will not shocH tne wasningion
idea of neutrality. If they- were sent
t Russia, to be captured quickly by
Von Hindenburg, there might go up a
cry' of horror.
The loss of 130.000 men only fires
the' Russian heart. Peter the Great
learned to defeat Charles XII by los-
ne- half a dozen armies, it is possi-
hi, that Nicholas may profit in the
same way by his reverses. The en
durance of the Bear is proverniai.
silins- the high seas has become as
perilous again as it was in the exciting
days of Captain Kidd. To sinK a mer
chant ship with all on board was
piracy then. Now it is civilized war
fare. Thus the world progresses
like a crab.
r,,wia nvermnn. whose business is
to lie awake of night dreaming public
ity for the Oregon niiectnc, eaye mo
--,-. m is a marl of manifold courtesy.
and women travelers agree with him.
On limited rations, the German
store of potatoes will last but four
months. However, this coast will
have new potatoes ere then ana all
the Kaiser need do is come after them.
Sea fiction hereafter will contain
the phrase: "The periscope or a sun-
marine was seen just Deiore ins ex
plosion."
Ttather shocking to learn the divine
Sarah la "broke." Where has gone all
the money made in American tours?
Doc White's '"health don'ts" omitted
the most important: Don't wear an
open-front waist, on a jitney nu.
rorfninlv Rrvan looks better with a
dove of peace on his lapel than with
battered old rooster in nia nat.
n-.u- Ttvnrla.m is sailing from Rotter
dam for New York and doesn't give a
hoop.
Chicaeo will seem unreal without a
Carter Harrison in the Mayor's office.
Davy Jones soon will hoist the "S.
R. O." sign above his locker.
How will the Hun make the goulash
if this thing continues?
Everybody Is eating the best Ore
gon apples now.
Increased train service is a bright
sign.
Now Austria has a bread line.
Et tu, Idahol . . . . .
Stars and Starmakera
BY LEONE CASS BAER. ,
TO a Thespian there Is always some
thing better In prospect than in
retrospect until the prospect has be
come the retrospect.
What d'ye reckon leading women of
today will do 25 years hence when
there will be no Edwin Booth to put
Into their memoirs of a wonderful
past?
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- Madame Emma Calve has at last con
sented to enter vaudeville and will ap
pear at the Palace In New York next
week. Now who will say that glory
ever stops re-echoing? Fifteen or 20
years after her Carmen zenith Madame
Calve is to receive more money for
singing groups of songs than she tiiicd
to get for both singing and acting
whole operas.
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George M. Cohan's mystery farce,
"Seven Keys to Baldpate," headed by
Cyril Scott, is on its way here by way
of San Francisco.
So Is "Fotash and Perlmutter."
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So is "Under Cover."
So Is "Grumpy."
Lillian Lorraine, who could have
been made Mrs. Flo Zlegfield if she'd
wanted to, has gone back to vaude
vllle.
"I Hear the Voice of Belgium" Is
Irving Berlin's latest war song.
Pauline (Polly) Moran has been add
ed to the Keystone funmaklng staff.
Mabel Riegelman, operatic star and
an Oakland girl, has gone into vaude
ville. She was Gretel In "Hansel and
Gretel" with the Chicago Grand Opera
Company when it aprjeared In Portland
two years ago, and last year appeared
In "Parsifal."
From the Hotel Algonquin In New
York has come a wee white missive,
the joint calling card of Mr. and Mrs.
William DeWolf Hopper, and tied to
It is a wee little card bearing a few
Interesting lines "Master William
DeWolf Hopper, Junior. Tuesday, the
26th of January." The year1 date fol
lows. The mother of the new Hopper
baby was Edna Furry, a young actress
whose only appearance on this Coast
was in "The Country ..oy." She ac
cornpanled Mr. Hopper on hia comic
opera tour this season.
Mrs. D. M. Norwood, aged 67 years,
mother of Adelaide Norwood, the prima
donna, and Rev. A. C. Barr, aged 30,
were married last week at Fort Smith,
Ark. Barr gave up the ministry tem
porarily to sell kitchenware and earn
money to study singing. He will study
with his wife. -
Dorothy Shoemaker has Just closed
her engagement with the Lyceum s"tock
in Duluth, Minn.
Two grandsons of the late Count
Tolstoi are fighting in the Russian
army. One has been wounded in the
fighting in East Prussia. His name has
been mentioned for the Cross of St.
George. The other, who is a prisoner
in Hungary, has also been" proposed for
the cross.
, Clair Sinclair Is to appear in a new
vaudeville sketch called "Relics of
'61." She will play the title role.
Sophie Tucker, who crowned her se
ries of troubles and misunderstandings
on the Loew circuit by cancellation in
San Francisco, may take a tour over
Hugh B. Mcintosh's time in Australia.
He has offered the Mary Garden of
ragtime 18 weeks.
Miss Tucker had a personal inter
view with Marcus Loew while the lat
ter was on his tour of Inspection and
the last straw is said to have been
refusal of that magnate to allow her
full pay for the week she laid off In
San Francisco suffering from a cold
contracted in Stockton.
True Boardman, once a stock actor,
is now of the movies, with the Liberty
Film Company at San Mateo. Cal. Mona
Darkfeather is in this company.
That the Alcazar Theater manage
ment in San Francisco is assembling
a company with early reopening of the
stock playhouse In view Is Indicated
by an appointment made by Fred Be
lasco and George Davis with MarJorie
Burt and Ernest Anderson, former Bos
ton stock favorites who are visiting
Portland in a vaudeville engagement.
Miss Burt and Mr. Anderson are to
meet Mr. Belasco at San Francisco
next week and, while arrangements
have not been completed, they expect
to be assigned to prominent places in
the new Alcazar company. Miss Burt
and Mr. Anderson are appearing at the
Empress In "Home, Sweet Home." a
comedy playlet. Before this tour, they
played for 6.1 weeks In stack at the
Castle Square In Boston, Mass., and
previous to that engagement they
played for two years in New York,
appearing at. the Fifth-avenue and the
Harlem Opera-House. In the Shubert
Theater in Kansas City Mr. Anderson
played alternato loads with Henry Kol
ker. Anderson and Burt rIso were
with "The College Widow" for two
years and played in W. A. Brady's
"Overnight" for a season. Mr. Ander
son has figured prominently in fllm-
dom, having been the producer of "Lost
In tho Jungle," "Zululand" and other
animal pictures In Florida, where he
filled a year's contract with Sellg.
Marie Dressier is going to be a Cal
ifornlan In every sense of the word
and from now on she is going to pay
her taxes in that state, says an ex
change. It has always been Marie's
life dream at some time to be the pos
sessor of a home in California, or so
she says, and now her dreams are ma
teriallzing, for she has Just purchased
a home at Long Beach "rather than de.
posit all her golden returns In a bank
safe." Miss Dressier has also purchased
a five-passenger limousine, and In this
connection she told an entirely new
giggle.".
Miss Dressier recently advertised for
a Japanese chauffeur to take charge
of tho car, and the first applicant for
the position was a diminutive Japanese
from San Francisco, who stated that
he had been chauffeuring for several
ycarsv
"Itave vou been cnaurreuring ior
many prominent people in NewTork?"
asked Miss Dressier.
"Oh. yes, honorable lady," replies,
the Jap, bowlns low, "their 0bltuar7
notices speak for themselves." j
1913 LIH. ISLATl KE APrHECIATED
Governor Praised and Results. Lauded
aa Rebuke to Obstructionists.
PORTLAND, Feb. 24. (To the Edi
tor.) I would like to have space in
your paper to express my appreciation
of the work of our recent Legislature
and of our worthy Governor In what I
believe to have been the best legisla
tive session ever held In Oregon within
my knowledge. It is evident that nn
honest endeavor was made to carry
out the wishes of the people aa ex
pressed in late elections. The watch
word appears to have been efficiency
and economy in fact aa well as theory,
and within the short time the Legisla
ture had for it work, proarrusa wii
made which promises better govern
ment in future.
When it is taken Into account that
the forces of obstruction In the lobby,
headed by the late chief executive and
allied with the battalions of C'Renism.
used their utmost endeavors to thwart
needed legislation and hinder tho suc
cess of the new administration, it la
not too much to say that the achieve
ments of this Legislature have been
beyond the reasonable expectations of
the taxpayers of the state. H will be
noticed that the surviving active mem
bers of the late royal family of Oregon
was not content with dictating legis
lation during the term when he mis
guided the affairs of the state, but
must still stay on the Job to "point
with pride" and "view with alarm."
In contrast to this attempt at boas
ism the attitude of our present Gov
ernor towards the Legislature is all
the more marked. He did not attempt
to dominate legislation. He did not
bargain, bribe or bulldoze In Ma deal
ings with the lawmaking body. It has
come to be the fashion In these days
for the executive to combine the legis
lative and executive bodies under one
head and be himself the captain of the
team. This course of conduct Is In dl
tect violation of the Constitution of the
United States and of the. constitutions
of the different states of the t'nion.
The founders of our government woro
emphatic in their declaration that the
legislative, executive and judiciary
departments be separate and indt-pend-ent
of each other. Governor Withy
combe recognized the validity and po
tency of this provision and strictly ob
served the limitations Imposed by It.
He sent to the Legislature a dignified
and comprehensive message setting
forth his ideas of the needs of the state
and recommending such legislation as
in hia judgment seemed advisable, but
forebore to attempt any coercion or
undue influence to force the exploita
tion of his views.
In following this course Governor
Withycombe exhibited a wiae and pa
triotic determination to preserve In
violate his oath of office and to per
forin his official duties In the manner
prescribed by that fundamental law
upon which our libertiei rest and are
secure.
Another declaration of Governor
Withycombe's Is worthy of notice, and
that is that he intends scrupulously to
observe and adhere to the Judgment of
the courts in criminal cases, so that
during his term of office, at lea-st. the
pardoning power will not be made the
creature of a whim or the football of
Politics. WILL W. COX.
331 East Tenth street.
THE BASIS FOR A PROSPKROl S KHA
Roseburg Man Says Definite Aid
Should Be Given Farmer First.
HOSHBURG, Or. Feb. 22. (To the
Editor.) Your edltoriHl on setting the
bail of commerce rolling for a pros
perous year is tho kind of optimism
that encourages everyone to put tlicir
shoulder to the- wheel or lo push
the ball and set tbo wheels of com
merce spinning, bul, like any piece of
heavy machinery, it must be started
with the right nucleus and from the
right point In order that it may gather
impetus and substance, and not run
against a barrier that would burst the
ballor throw the bolt off the main
drive pulley.
To start the rolling mills, spinning
mills and sawmills before there was
a legitimate demand for their products
would be placing the cart before the
horse. First place the farmer in
position where he can fertilise his
worn and washed-out soils, till his
fields, fence his land and then stock
tliem with animals and machinery to
operate at full capacity and you will
have laid a foundation upon which to
build your era of prosperity that will
last forever, but without which no
amount of boosting clubs, festivals
and world fairs will avail, for they will
all fade and vanish like hot air bal
loons. A commission of farmers, with the
advice of the Attorney-General of the
sta.te, could draw up a bill by which the
capital now in the Btale's hands could
be utilized without drawing on any
other fund, and why should we pro
crastinate and become partners In
thieves of time when the feast Is spread
before us? Are we so blind we cannot
see. or of those now so blind who will
not sec? .1. M. MOOUE.
Police and Fire Satltlc.
CHICAGO. III., Feb. 20.'(To the Kdi
tor.) I am a daily reader of Tho Ore
gonian and am taking the lihcrtv to
ask of you the following information:
What is the name and business ad
dress of Ihe chief of polh e and chief
of fire department of your city, and
the number of men employed in each
department? FRANK I". NKAU
Bureau of fire Chief. B. F. Dowel!.
City Hall, Portland. Or.; number of em
ployes, month f January. 1315. 40S.
Bureau of police Chief, John Clark.
Second and OaJc atreela; number em
ployes. December 1. ISM. 3M.
A Schemer Foiled
II j- Jamea Harton Adams.
lie wrote her many letters that were
bulging out with love.
Compared her with the choicest of Ihe
aiicis up above,
And in her shrewdly penned replies she
drew him on and on
Until she had him In the state so oft
described aa "gone."
Shu played her cards exceedingly fine,
for thia old Western bach
Possessnd a bank account that made of
him a golden catch.
And all tho girls she knew would be
ns envious as the deuce
If tbo should get his neck Into the mat
rimonial noose.
At last the longed-for lotter came for
which he long had prayed.
In which Ins heart nnd fortune at her
little feet wee laid,
And In impassioned eloquence begged
her to be hia wife
And Cakewalk hand In hand with him
ndown tho oath of life.
She answered In enraptured vein and
said she really thought
That heaven had spread the silken net
In which she had been caught.
And she would do her level best to
strew his path with flowers
And make him think his wedded days
weio but as fleeting hours.
But soon ho met another girl he
thought was Just tho thine
And on her taper finger placed the gold
en option ring.
But she he'd shaken had preservrd his
letters, every one.
And vowed that she might lose the man
but she would share hia mon..
And with "exhibits" in her hand, sweet
letter from the brute.
She sought a lawyer to begin a breach
of promise suit.
But O! alas! alack-a-day! and other
things like that.
She found the mouse had cunningly es
caped the scneming eat,
t-'or when she opened up the bunch of
eplstollo sweets.
She found the envelopes contained but
bla.nk white, staring sheets.
The fellow was the aucker she had
thought him w. don't intnK
Hia loving missives had been writ with
disappearing inn.
Twenty-five Year Ago
From Ths Oresonlim February '.''. 1:'0.
Washington The world's fair ha
beet awarded to Chicago, on the tiirhth
ballot, deciding the contest bctwen Chi
cago and New York. Mt. IhmiIs anil
Washington. The riithth ballot atomi:
Chicago l.r7. New York 107, M. Louis
25 and WH.-liiniitoti 18.
San Francisco The Joint meeting of
the commercial bodies, municipal offi
cial and other, held here yrierlii,
took steps toward providing work to
relieve the Idle men. It was proposed
to appropruit a certain portions of public
funds Including those for stroet and
park improvements so lhat the M'
could be employed al once. A com
mittee has been named lo work with
the offlcluls In the matter.
E. Hayes, one of Ihe most resjierte-l
and Influent ml residents of John I v
and of Grant County, is belivg nr-aed
to enter the rare for Ceunty Jii'lae on
the Uepubllcan ticket.
Ja.me W. Moriincy. who has charge
of the tour of the eminent miiMctans
Sarasate and D'Alhurt for M s-srs
Abbey nnd Gran, arrived here yesterday
en routo for Sail Kraiuiscn. Mr. Mot
risey learned he couldn't sal! for evil
Fraucihco before Welneday and at
once announced be would chance hi
plans and go back to Omaha, where
they were waiting for a return date.
In 3 K 7 1 five gentlemen. Willi a honu
from the state of 20u.,niij, liK-orpoi nted
to build the locUs at nrunii 'ity. Their
name were Harney Goldsmith. Joseph
Teal. D. 1". Thompson, John I'. Miller
and J. K. Kellcy. A painting m made
of the locks nnd falls al (list lim'
and vvas coildered ijulle a worU of
art. From that time the picture, with
the property parsed throush various
hands until It became the propcily f
Mr. Freeman, of the . 11.4 N i d. M..
Freeman now hm presented tt to Mi.
Thompson as n relic.
rrofeseor M V. Hork. of 5aiem. si.ii
organir.er, nnd Major K. A. W rni, of
California, will sneak at the old Viion
Mall, near laid A TIMnn's Mini..
Wednesday nnd Friday eveitlnas on t'-e
issues of the new party. This M null
seem to Indicate that the nans- ;
knlght-prohl combination (ntrini to
have a alate ticket In the field foi the
June election.
,T. R. Klrklsnd. the new llrket stent
for the Southern I'si itlc al Portland, I.
expected to arrie on the next "teamer
from Jan Fraiw-lscn.
R. Alexander, and .lareh Frater, lead.
Inst merchants of Pendleton, aie in
Portland for a few days.
Dr. A. Ir. Mcsr. city phvrlcian. h
recovered from a six weeks' Ulcers
Half a Century Ago
t-'rnni Thr Oiesoninti !'t'rurv ll'l.Y
The Mansion lloor-e. formerly ihe
What Cheer llon.-e, has been ropenrd
to the public after uiiderarolna" a Ihoi -otish
renovation and being newly fur
nished, il. I'arnev is proprietor, and
the place Is conducted on strii lly tem
perance principle.
William Ferrell. in a, public police.
a that the reason he paid l.et
Love in areonback InMrad of In coin
was because the horec ho bought from
l.ovo, agreeing- to pay in coin, was not
as ..otind as It wa. represented at the
time of the sale. and. therefore. Ii ir
served the rlnlit to alter his pait of the
agreement and pay part of the prb o
in greenbacks.
Coyrrnor Glbhs re-clved last nih( a
telei;"rani from Ihe iccrrtai'.v of War.
dated February 21. advising that
National, salute had been ordered to be
fired on February 2'-' at West Point
and at every fort. nlM-nii and Army
beadqua rters of the 1 nited States in
honor of the rctol ation f tho flag of
tho Union over Fort finnter. Th'
Governor has ordered the National '
lute to be fired nt noon today by thi.
Washington Artillery in this city and
the Salem Light Battery. "
Lieutenant J. W. (iawnon. Fust
Washington Territory Infantry, arrived
at Fort Vancouver with soldiers
from Fort Walla Walla who are to be
mustered out of the service, si their
time of enlistment baa expired.
If. Morsan and Miss Melinda F. Moon,
daughter of Mrs. .1. P. Hoon. of ralrm,
were married I'ebruaty 2." at the, tesl
dence of Mrs. Hoon In Salem, lUv. .
Plckinson officiating. M. M. Knapp.
of Clarke County, Washington Terri
tory, and Miss Anna. Arville. Huffman
were married February 1 . Justlen
Krwln Hush officiating.
More than 2001 teams are raid lo be
waiting at Omaha, to slait westward
on the opening of good weather.
City Marshal Mov t hn recent h
placed .Mr. Ktann.m s- an officer on
the "beat'' In llio Third W ard, and th
place lately piitrolcd by Thomas l'oie
man is now occupied by officer Hall.
There nre now six police officers on
the force of the Marshal as assistant.
Hev. George M. Atkinson, the worthy
Miperiiitendent of tho school. id Mult
nomah County, has rcu'irsted Ihe
clerks to send in their teporla as soon
as possible, as on March t the money
must be apportioned
Mr Potter has closed M thratrl. al
season at Victoria and arrived hern
last rveiiiiiK. brincinc with him
James Tavlor. Fstclle Porter Macdoii
aid. Miss Belle I'lvlne. Miss Florence.
Mr. and Mrs. Ixlle and Mesiv
Graham, Shields and otheif.
Personal Tat.
rO FIT LAND. Feb. 21.--do the i:d
tor.l Last year a Rod many lticns
Of this citv and Mate did i.ol psv an
personal tv. claiim; that mi'Ii t
could not legally ho . ..lie, t-d. V III you
kindly state whether or not the sm
situation prevails tins year'.' C. P. M
The sltiistion does not prevail this
year. Last year It was a question
whether tho revocation of the personal
tax applied for Hist rr. 'n which,
the assessments already bad boen mads,
or whether It took ' rf ' 1 beginning
thia year. There Is no personal tat
now.
Civil Service i:tamlnlln.
PORTLAND. Or.. Feb. 2.1. I To the
Kdltor.) How can t become eligible to
take the Government examinations?
S. L. PltKSCOTT.
Communicate with the civil servb a
examination clerk at the Portland n-
offico building.
Production and Selling
Production brains nt Ihe raw ma
terial and wnrUa d". .
Demand begins w ith the consum
er and worke up.
The merlin? place Is the retail
er's counter.
Advertising has only lo do with
the selling end.
It must start with the t onsunicr
bul when it Is the kind of advertis
ing that tan not only start with Ihe
consumer, hut brine lhat consumer
to the dealer's counter and mak
the dealer hang out a welcome sign
It la 100 per rent efficient.
Newspaper advertising cornea
nearer to doing Ihls than any other
kind of advertising.