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THE MORNIXG OREGONIAN. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 24, 1915. 8 i 1 1 t ' t t i t i: POBTLANU, OBEGOU. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Poetafflc M Subscription Rates Invariably In adTaac: (Br Mail.J Dally. Sunday Included, one year 4 .00 25 Aa.iy. Duouttr uiiiiuu, - Xaily. Sunday included, three niontna .75 Jj&iiy, Duna&j inciuueu. w" - r, . . ..v...... ............. ...... v.ar ..... . S.00 JJiiily, without Sunday, six months Daily, without Sundi-y, three months .... -I Daily, without Sunday, one month .20 .75 .60 .00 Weekly, one year :.oo ouutwj, uue ? rzai , . ..J H'..1ilv nnw VJUU' .......... . AU By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year T.ail. Gn.flair llvlllriH. DDB mODU ...... i.00 How to Remit Send Postoffloo money or der. express order or personal checlc on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at senders risk, tiive postoiiiw m.w - Including county and state. Postage Bates 12 to 10 pages. 1 cent: IS to 32 paises. 11 cents; 34 to 48 pages. cents, to to KO pages, 4 cents; 62 to pages. cents; 78 to a J pages. 6 cents. Foreign post age, double raxes. Kastrra Business Office Veree Conk )in. New York. Brunswick building; Chicago, otenger building. (an KraDeb.ro Office B. J. BldweU Com pany. 74 J Market street. PORTLAND, WKIWErOAV, MAB. 21. WIS. BI.X MONTHS OF THE FA-NAMA CANAL. Some conclusions can now be formed from actual experience of the operation of the Panama CanaL The report of ships that have passed through during the first six months elnce the canal was opened, which ended February 14, shows a total of 496 vessels carrying 2,367,244 tons of cargo. Eastbound vessels numbered 252, with 1,340,25 tons; westbound, 244 vessels, with 1.026,619 tons. Ves sels were divided among various routes as follows: Number Cargo Route vessels, tonnage. V. S. coastwise, east bound ... . 17 4fl,439 7. if. coastwise, westbound. lou 4Ho,Ji2 T" S Pacific Coast to Europe. . till 444, SoG Europe to U. S. Pacific Coast. . 1 SO.alo S. America lo V. S. and Europe 378..tS 1. S. and Europe to S. America 31 12S.W22 ir. S. Atlan. Coast to Far East. 4S Far East to u. . Allan. Loani, Jrfinrailaneous routings. ...... .Vessels without cargo 2 14.500 IS 80,4.2 43 Total -SltS 2.367.244 Of the cargoes 41 per cent was in United States coastwise trade; 21 per cent between the Pacific Coast of North America, principally the United States and Europe: 21 per cent be tween the west coast of South America and the Atlantic Coast of the United States and Europe, and 12 per cent between the Atlantic Coast and the Orient. Grain, nearly all from the west coast of the United States and Canada, composed 303,124 tons of the total; nitrate from the west coast of South America to the United States and Europe comprise 204.441 tons; coal 151.745 tons, all to the Pacific Coast from the Atlantic Coast and Great Britain: petroleum products, 102.456 tons, mostly from the Atlantic seaboard to the Orient; lumber 56,078 tons, all but 600 tons from the west coast; raw cotton 38,239 tons from Atlantic ports to the Orient, 70 per cent going to Japan. Experience thus verifies the predic tion that the movement would be chiefly in bulky traffic of low value. As trade routes are changed to use the new waterway, the tonnage passing through will doubtless increase and Its character may change radically. The canal was handicapped at the start by the fact that it was opened two weeks after a general war began and that thereby most of the ships which were its prospective patrons were taken into military service or Phut op in port. When the war ends these ships will be released and may soon increase traffic to the predicted volume. Professor Emery R. Johnson esti mated the ships which would use the canal in the year of opening, 1914-15, at 10,500,000 tons, but the total for the first six months indicates a total for the year of less than half that amount. This falling oft gives some idea of the blighting effect the war has hail on commerce. The tolls collected to February 15 total $2,138,443. This is little more than enough to pay operating and maintenance expenses, which were estimated at 14,000,000 a year, though it was hoped by profit cn sale of supplies to reduce this to $3. 500.000. Not until commerce is re stored to its normal volume a year or two after the war can we hope to see the canal earn any material part of the interest on its cost. BETTKK FEDERAL Jl'DC.ES. In his official organ, the Commoner. Secretary Bryan congratulates Con gress on having taken a step forward by adding to a bill providing for an additional district judge in Georgia a proviso "that the President shall make public all indorsements made in behalf of the person appointed as such district judge." "The sume amendment was added to a similar bill, and a point of order alone pre vented its being applied to all ap pointments to the Federal bench. Mr. Bryan remarks: Those who are acquainted with inside poli tics know how easy it is tor the favor seekins corporations to collect recommenda. tions for those whose appointment they de sire, and a well-meanins President may eas ily be deceived by the volume of recom mendations and the high standing of the Indorsers. When indorsements are made public, inquiry wll'. bo instituted as to the chiracter of the indorsers. and then the public can judge of the reasons for the In dorsements. At what stage of the proceedings are the indorsements to be published, before) or after confirmation? If be fore, no power exists in the House to compel compliance with the pro viso. Nomination to office is a power vested in the President by the Con stitution, and confirmation is a prerog ative of the Senate, exercised in secret, the House having no authority to at tack conditions. Publicity after con firmation would be locking the stable door after the horse is stolen, for the ' candidate would then be a Judge practically for life, as Congress con- strues the Constitution, but not actually so. as Mr. Bryan assumes. If a precedent for publicity of in dorsements for judicial office before confirmation were once established, it would probably stand. It might do come good by inviting scrutiny of a nan's backing, but it would les sen the President's sense of re sponsibility and might prevent good men from seeking office. A more effective means of raising the standard of Federal Judges would be the lit eral application of the constitutional provision that Judges hold office "dur ing good behavior." In impeachment proceedings Congress has regarded a Judge's behavior as good so long as be is not proved guilty of an indictable offense, though the behavior of some men who could not be so convicted has been scandalously bad. Impeachment at several Judges in recent years has failed, though their unfitness was conclusively proved in the Judgment of average men. The office of Judge requires fax more of its incumbent than that he be free from crime. Men who have not been convicted of crime have nevertheless been excluded from decent society. Such men should also be excluded from judicial office. Let Congress raise the standard of conduct required of Judges and a higher type of men will seek appointment and will be se lected by the appointing power. . FOR AX AITWTOBITJM AT LAST. The most obvious observation to be made on the decision of the State Su preme Court as to the Portland audi torium is that KHs no surprise. The Market block is not, and has never been, in any true sense used for a public market, except temporarily, but it has been employed for .exposition and other public purposes. For years it was the location of the old Mechan ics Fair. No one ever thought of pro testing, and no one would have thought now of reviving the musty Market block dedication contention except that it was desired by the objectors to have the auditorium located some where else. The auditorium is a commendable public enterprise. There is nothing like it in any Northwest city, and it is well that Portland seek for itself dis tinction in that respect. But novelty is not its chief merit, but utility, mere ia ennnil r.nh1ir TPJlSnn WhV there should be an auditorium, and on that account Portland has undertaken to build it. There has been a modifica tion of the original ambitious plan, so tnat a. Htrnrtiirfl covering a block 200 by 200 feet will' now be erected. It will serve all needs for a long time. PLAIX BUSINESS. Behind all the trouble over roads In Columbia, Clatsop and Jackson. Coun ties is the fact that the money realized from the- bonds was not expended wisely. Clatsop County, for example, voted $400,000 in bonds and started to build roads costing twice that gum. The same experience, in greater or less degree, was had in the other road- bonding counties. There was large expectation of what the state would do, and now it is obvious that not a. great deal can come from that source. But the road-bonding project in Multnomah County is on a different basis. No aid is asked from the state. A road budget has been prepared on the basis of careful and reliable esti mates. There is no prospect that, when the bond money is expended, any road will be uncompleted; but it is certain that, under the County Com missioners and Roadmaster Yeon, the county will get dollar for dollar, in hard-surface roads. . The situation is plainly thai, as traf fic conditions now -are. there is no safe alternative in Multnomah Coun ty to the hard-surface plan. The macadam road has been good enough until now; but the paved road is a necessity. Commissioner Holman, for example, says that on a recent trip over a county highway, he passed two horse-drawn vehicles and 107 power- driven vehicles. There must be either paved county roads, or the automobile must be forbidden their use. . It costs at least $70,000 a year now to repair existing Multnomah County roads, and the annual interest on tne $1,250,000 bonds will be $62,500. There -will be no increase in taxation on that account, at least until five years hence, when It is planned to begin retirement of the bonds. The $1,250,000 bond plan is an out right business proposition. PRESIDENT WILSON'S BOOK. President AVoodrow. Wilson's newly published book, "When a Man Comes to Himself," is "understood by some critics to be largely a eulogy of John D. Rockefeller. His name is not men tioned in the book, but so many iden tifying circumstances are given that the matter is hardly doubtful. This choice of a hero illustrates Mr. Wil son's indifferencec to popularity. He could not expect that public curiosity would rest until his hero's name had been discovered and he must have known that the American voter does not, as a rule, enjoy the spectacle of too much intimacy between public of ficials and the Rockefeller dynasty. In Mr. Wilson's estimation the great Rockefeller is a man who "has come to himself." Early in life his mind was devoted to business to the exclu sion of all other interests, but with the advance of the years he has turned his attention to higher things. He has dis covered in fact that "education yields a singular increase to which there is no calculable end. In other words the great financier who accumulated wealth and hatred now conquers the President's esteem by giving a small part of his pickings to the colleges and to private foundations. In our opinion the President might without serious difficulty have discovered men far more worthy of his distinguished admiration. In the course of his remarks Mr. Wilson observes that "the discovery of what they cannot do transforms reformers into statesmen." Sometimes it does so, and sometimes it trans forms them into sycophantic adorers of money magnates. A statesman is commonly supposed to be a man who incorporates his own ideas into public policy. If he becomes a mere ma chine for working out other men's ideas he is nothing moce than a po litical time-server. There is no ob vious reason why a genuine statesman hould not be' a reformer unless he chooses to be a traitor to his higher self. "SPRING IS COMB." .Not only do we find these to be among the first days of Spring by looking at the calendar and by taking note of the lengthening of the days; we feel it In our blood, note it by the sun's rays, and in the drops of per spiration oozing forth as we get a little too ambitious in the way or exertion. Going afield and what days these are for enjoying a walk away from the man-made city out into the God made country going afield we see on every hand evidences that the things Nature last Fall laid away as dor mant are dormant no longer. The buds have swollen, burst open and the blossoms in many cases have ap peared. Some varieties of trees, shrubs and vines seem to have " an undue haste in getting on their Spring ap parel. On the swards, in the trees, on the rocks and fences, the birds are sing ing their sweetest carols. And as they sing they matex for this is the season of the year when every heart-throb of Nature bespeaks love, when every liv ing thing that has a heart pumping blood through the veins, cries of love in the sweetest voice at its command. Perhaps in no place in the country can a human being enjoy an outdoor tramp to a higher degree than in this vicinity. Here the student of Nature and her handiworks can well say, as did one of such well versed In botany a few days since, "This is Nature's Flower Garden." The young woman who made that remark had been on an hour's tramp through the woods and over the hilis and had returned, while yet the sun was young in the heavens, with nineteen different speci mens of Oregon flora! And every specimen a thing of beauty! But you cannot enjoy-' such days without escaping from the city and "biking" across the fields, over the meadows, beside the brooks or the morasses, and through the woods. To do this you must shake off lethargy, cast aside lassitude and forget your languor and "hike" on and on and on until the very rocks look like silken couches where you could lie and sleep peacefully and happiiy. Do this occasionally during the next few weeks and you will get a little bit closer to God than you have been for many and many a day. For God's home must be, must assuredly be, out in the country, far from the busy marts of trade and the babel of noises. OUR SCHOOL, GARDENS. The desire to see vegetation grow ing, even to " assist in that growing, comes naturally to nearly every hu man being. To foster and encourage that desire is one of the most sensible labors our educators have ever under taken, and the farther they go toward interesting the pupils both in town and country the greater the debt the) public will owe them. The trend of the present is away from the community garden, which may contain one or several acres and be divided into from twenty to one hundred or more plats, to th Indi vidual garden the little plot in the front or back yard of the pupil's home. That is the ideal garden. It is right under the eyes of the parent, it takes no time to get to it or from it, and in its growth and cultivation the parents will, or should, take as much pride as the pupil. There ought to be one or more such gardens, even if they are not over eight or ten feet square, in every yard in Portland near which a boy or. girl is living. If the owner of the premises has no children, let some less fortu nate neighbor student be induced to take the plat. If this is done the owner will not only be doing a public and individual duty he will - be a silent but visual partner in something which will give him real joy. MOTHERS' PENSIONS IN NEW YORK, Mothers' pensions may soon be paid in New York state. A bill providing them has passed the Senate unani mously and is before the Assembly, The Brooklyn Eagle approves them in an article defining them as payment for the service of widowed mothers in rearing the state's future citizens. It also says other states find it cheaper to assist mothers to keep their children at home than to care for them in institutions. Thus a method of human conserva tion which originated in the West has spread to the Atlantic Coast, and to the most conservative of Atlantic states. Oregon was one of the first to adopt it, and has no thought of aban doning it. Mothers' pensions are sub ject to abuse, but so is ev-ery good thing, and with experience abuses can be reduced to a minimum. The law recognizes the child's right to a anoth er's love and care and to the society of brothers and sisters, a right which should not be forfeited by poverty or the misfortune of being orphaned. It recognizes that a mother can best train her own children, and that the machine rule of a public institution with the brand of pauperism gives a child a poor start in life. We are making : progress in the United States in putting into effect the conviction that the Nation's most valuable resource is its citizens and that the best primary unit of develop ment is the family. The public schools and colleges, compensation laws, the safety first idea, factory in spection and regulation, limitation of hours of labor, especially for women, all have the same purpose develop ment of the Nation's human resources to their highest efficiency, physically, mentally, socially and spiritually, and the preservation of those resources from injury and impairment. THE ADAMS FAMILY. Charles Francis Adams, who died last Saturday at his Winter residence in Wauiiinptnn was thfi ereat-erand- son of John Adams, the famous revo lutionary statesman. The founder ot the family emigrated to this country from Devonshire, England, in 1636 and settled in Massachusetts. They remained inconspicuous farmer people nwtii 17SR whfn John was born. With him began the greatness of the family in American airairs. xne sec ond in succession was John Quincy. ift him name Charles Francis, whose son of the same name ha3 just died. Tne tnree iormer oesua ui we family were known as statesmen and diplomats. Charles Francis, Jr., won his renown as a financier and writer on economic subjects. He seems to have followed the general descent of American life from Intellectual pur suits to business which ensued upon nfiuQinn of thft Civil War. For six years, from 1S84 to 1890. he was President of the Union Pacific Rail road and in consequence of that posi tion he exercised great influence upon the affairs of the Pacific Coast. Upon his retirement in 1S90 Charles Francis Adams devoted himself to economic and civic problems. He nnt. unnn thfi suhlect of railroads with great clarity and force, but his opinions were not universally receiveu. The originality of his mind led him into frequent controversies. Indeedi controversy appears to have been the destined lot of the successive heads of the Adams family. They won their high place in the Nation's counsels by exceptional ability, but they held it only at the cost of endless contention. The elder Charles Francis was by birth and tradition a Whig, but as early as 1848 he joined tne rreesouers ana helped nominate Martin Van Buren fnr President. He and his associates were distinguished as "Conscience Whigs on account or tnis ana otner moves which put conviction above partisanship. After Lincoln's election he supported the policy of conciliation which the President adopted and pur port as lone- as it was practicable. When war had become inevitable Lin coln sent Charles Francis Adams to represent the country at the British court, a duty which his father and grandfather had performed before him. Here his task was difficult and per ilous. British sentiment was running strongly against the North. The Gov ernment sided almost openly with the Confederates and privateers were fit ted out in British ports to prey upon our commerce with little regard to in ternational law. Adams was a man of strong will and indomitable perse verance. He served his country dur ing those trying times with courage and tact, but in spite of all his efforts the Alabama was allowed to set out upon her destructive career and many similar unfriendly acts were commit ted. Still it is believed that his Influ ence prevented Great Britain from definitely espousing the Confederate cause.' Lowell said of him long after ward that he did the country as good service in "his forlorn outpost" at London as Grant did in the field and no doubt the praise was merited. In 1S71 he enjoyed the privilege at the Geneva-arbitration court of helping assess the damages which Great Britain-had to pay fast; her derelictions. The elder " Charles . Francis Adams was the son of John Quincy, who rose into National renown before his father John became President. Washington appointed him Minister to Portugal in 1798, but his father changed his des tination to Berlin and while there he negotiated a treaty of peace and amity with Prussia. This was in 1799. Jef ferson defeated John Adams for re election In the next Presidential con test and the angry father recalled his son just before he left the White House. We suppose he did it to de prive Jefferson of the satisfaction, of turning the young man out of office. John Adams' defeat was partly caused by a bad split in the old Federalist party. At first he had worked in per fect harmony with Hamilton and the other Federalist leaders, but when the troubles began with France factional feeling became bitter. Hamilton stood fnr s militant nolicv. Adams held to Washington's peace measures and in herited the hatred which xne gainer of his Country had incurred on ac onnnt nf it. This rift In the Federalist forces gave Jefferson the election and Dlaced the new "Republican" party on a firm basis. In later years. In 1825, John Quincy Adams was chosen President at an election where Henry Clay and An Jackson were also candidates. The choice was thrown into the House of Representatives, and, by Clay's in trigues against jacKson, it ion tu Adams, but his term in office was embittered by Jackson's relentless opposition. He was chosen to the National House of Representatives in istn a-nfl rffivorerl the latter years of his long life to the championship of abolitionism. Up to tne time ,oi nis death in 1848 there was no man whom tnt fire-eatfnflr Southerners feared so much. His father, John Adams, served the country conspicuously from tne outbreak of the revolutionary agita tion tn th time of his death. He was a member of the Continental Congress, was named' on the . committee with Jefferson and others to draft the Dec laration of Independence, helped frame the treaty of peace after the close of the war, was then Minister to Great Britain and finally President. The record of the Adams family from the beginning of our National history has been conspicuously brilliant. Able, hnnost and hithlv cultivated, its suc cessive representatives have ever de served the esteem of their countrymen, even when by their aristocratic chill they have failed to win. arrection. It is important to know the "health record" of the house you are to live in. It may be unlucky with respect to cancers. Tuberculous patients may have infected It. Houses seem to be surrounded with an aura which may generate health or disease in their inhabitants. Normal children are eager "to do thin., fnr themselves." ImDatient parents do much harm by checking children's wish to be independent. Too much help is worse tnan none, one of the fine traits of- the Montessori method is its respect for the child's personality. The Secretary of the Treasury is reorganizing the work of getting the irn-nme tai hv discharging special agents who owe their jobs to political preferment and substituting trained accountants. This means business, but is rather discouraging to the mn on the' job. The Wall Street Journal computes that bread i3 twice as dear in New York as in London. Apparently the chief advantage of living in a wheat growing country is the privilege of paying a famine price for a short weight loaf. The most admirable quality of our censors' work on picture films is its celerity. How they can inspect twenty or more in a day is a mystery to the uninitiated. We suppose they decide by smell, which is far more reliable than sight. n a ramiiv tahbv at Silver Lake has adopted two infantile bobcats, and by and by the boys of tne ramiiy wui have "barrels of fun." for a domes Heated bobcat has relapses during which it can clean up anything on four legs. . The peace treaty with Russia means that if we get into a quarrel Russia may maintain her army at 5,000,000 men, but we must not increase our mobile Array beyond 50,000 during the year of "cooling off." The "Vice-President is a better man at San Francisco just how that ths President. They can call him "Tom" and not offend any dignity, which never would do with T. Woodrow Wil son. If Esperanto had but become the universal language before the war, we might have escaped all this dislocation of, the jaw in the effort to pronounce Polish and Russian-names. . A treaty of peace has been made ketween Russia and the United States, two nations that cannot become em broiled in war. This, is another of Bryan's triumphs. Seventy clergymen have undertaken a huge contract in starting a religious revival in New York- There is a field for seventy times seventy. , The French prize court finds the seizure of the Dacia valid. Prize courts are formed to give jug-handle decisions. The Iron Cross foundry in Germany is running night and day. So are all the coffin factories. Now that he has it, Nicholas must change Przemsyl to something easy. If Serbia started the war, she it paying dear in typhus affliction. . Przemysl's garrison had one square meal before the surrender. The crew of the Bouvet knew how to die for France. It is time to worry about rain on Easter Sunday. Twenty-Five Year Ago From The Oregonlsa of March 24. 1S90. , Frank M. Plxley, the well known editorial writer of the San Francisco Argonaut, is at the Esmond while on his return from a trip to the East in the interest of free silver. Mr. J. A. Estes, the "popular book keeper of the Alblna sawmill, some times speculates with his surplus cash. Yesterday he purchased a barrel said to contain cylinder oil, which was fished up from the bottom of the Wil lamette River. Upon opening his pur chase Mr. Estes ' found that oil had been replaced by water. The mud in RusBell street, Albina, is so deep that the other day a wagon laden with wood sank to its bed. Fear ing lest the conveyance would entire ly disappear from Eight, the driver unloaded the wood on the sidewalk, but the wagon is still in the mud. J. R. N. Bell, editor of the Rose burg Review, was among yesterday's arrivals at the St. Charles. The Portland police department was mustered out for review at the City Jail yesterday. There were 56 men present, including the specials, and four were absent owing to illness. Commissioners of Police Simon, Frank and Cardwell' were especially pleaBed with the appearance of the men and they are a body to strike terror into the hearts of tramps and criminals. The citizens of EUensburg. Curry County, are anxious to have the name of their town changed to Gold Beach and have forwarded a petition to Con-, gressman Hermann asking that he bring about tha change. A big landslide two miles east of Yaquina has unearthed a vein of coal which experts proclaim to be very val uable. . Mudflat property on Coos Bay now brings $300 per acre. The lovelorn girl in Iowa who wrote Postmaster Roby to find a husband for her has touched tha hearts of two men, both of whom have written the postmaster that they will accept her proposal, John C. Boyd, of this city, formerly connected with the Portland Board of Immigration, has signed a contract with Jacob and Peter Graber, of South Dakota, to locate 65 families here.. Rev. J. II. Webber will give his il luminated lecture on the Holy Land at the Adams-street Methodist Episcopal Church tonight Miss Essia TlttrJl will present the classic character Camllle at Cordray'a Theater tonight. ; - PLAKT CALLS FOR PRECAUTIONS. Writer Fears fcrfecls ot Monopoly If Port Turns Over Towage. PORTLAND, Maroh 23. (To the Edi tor.) For the purpose of reducing ex pense the Port of Portland Commission contemplates turning the bar and river towage of deep-water vessels over to the Puget Sound Tug Boat Company, a Seattle corporation. If such an ar rangement is made' the Commission should take .precautions to guard against the kind of towage service rendered Puget Sound bound vessels. Ships in general and the Puget Sound newspapers in particular, have bitterly complained at the service, over which the Puget Sound Tug Boat Company has an exclusive monopoly. Following is a press dispatch from Port Town send which illustrates the character of service rendered where the company has no competition: Eighty-six days from Waiiaroo. South Australia, the British ship vestgate arrived this afternoon and will he fumigated to morrow, after which she will shift to Ta coraa to load wheat for Buroiie. Tho West gate arrived off Cape Flattery 21 flays ago, but on account of the storms and the fail ure of a tug to put In an appearance, was unable to pass in. During tha Si tiays the Westgato experienced heavy weather. On several occasions the deck of the big craft was swept by huge seas, carrying everything movable overboard. The yesoel made tho cape several times and wss as many times drawn out to sea until she was yicked up by a '.ug. Tho Commission and tho Portland Chamber" of; Commerce to uttract ton nage to this Port and to advertise this Port and the State of Oregon reduced the towasre tariff so as to compare favorably with other ports of the world. In fact the rate estaousneo oy the Commission was on the same basis as existed on Puget Sound before the Puget Sound Tug Boat Company se cured a monopoly of the business by buying up all opposition. In taking over the bar and river towage the agents of tho invading tugs are en rioavnrine to have the Commission ap prove an advance of 33 1-3 per cent over the existing Columbia xUver rates. This same company in past years has paid dividends of 75 per cent a year in addition to setting aside a large sink ing fund. If the proposed arrangement becomes effective it will be a serious menace to the good name of the river besides making this port contribute to the divi dends of a Seattle corporation which has not one dollar's interest in Port land or its surroundings, other than the dollars it can take back to its stockholders. Ta W. J. JONES. Manager Northwest Stevedore Co. . . I CASE OF CUBA IS NOT PARALLEL Writer Bellevea We Should Keep Hands Off Mexico Became 't Wanted. ECOLA, Or., March 33. (To the Edi tor.) In The Oregonian, March 12, why do you compare the case of Mexico to that of Cuba in your reply to the Pen dleton East Oregonian when there is no similarity in the two cases? In Mexico is all internal strife among several different factions and each fac tion is opposed to any meddling on our part, while iu the case of Cuba they solicited our aid and welcomed us to their shores. The great majority of the peoplo were united in tiieir effort to free themselves from the Spanish yoke. Spain took no Interest in them except to collect " all the revenue they could produce, and even under those circum stances it is doubtful if there had been any Spanish war had it not been for the explosion of the Maine. President McKinley was very careful to have the world understand that it was not for the purpose of accumulat ing more territory before he went into it. In the caae of Mexico it would be necessary to take absolute possession of the entire country and keep a stand ing army there to hold tbera in sub jection indefinitely. This would nec essarily cause a conflict in which many Americans would lose their lives, and I would not give one good American boy for all the greasers in Mexico. . JOHN SHAFFER. If all our duties and obligations un der the Monroe Doctrine are cancelled whenever the country Involved Insists on stewing in its own misery, Mr. Shaf fer's argument is good. He is remind ed, however, that we have already med dled. We have already sacrificed American lives for nothing at Vera Cruz. Our wavering course has con vinced the Mexicans that they can mur der, pillage and outrage Americans with impunity. We are actually giving American lives to avoid interference with anarchy among a people all of whom, as Mr. Shaffer says, are not worth one American boy. AS TESSIMIST SEES THE WORLD No Culture, K True HeUrJon. V Gowd Anywhere Except In Ford'n Factory, BAR VIEW, Or., March 21. (To the Editor.) To the reader of the daily papers, who has noticed the great In crease of crime, must often come the thought, what is the cause, and what the remedy, for the increase of law lessness? When we read every day of high way robberies, murders and outrages with very few arrests, and fewer con victions, and when one is convicted and sentenced to a few months in jail and perhaps paroled and turned loose to immediately commence preying on the public, or pardoned out before be has served half his sentence, w some times wonder if courts and police, are really anxious to stamp out crime, for fear of putting themselves out of a Job. Or perhiaps the courts are getting onto the view of the common people, and are beginning to realize that there must be nearer an equality of punish ment between the man who steals 1100 and the one who steals ll.OOO.OOO, and as it would not do to add to the punish, ment of the big thief they must let the small one off easier. But perhaps it is not the immunity from punishment, but that the cause for the increase of crime lies much deeper. Possibly'tha wide contrast in social, and economic conditions, bitter poverty and want on one hand and great wealth and extravagance on the other, has bred a feeling among the people that they are not getting their share of the good things of this world aud so they are trying to equalize conditions in their way. And who shall say that they are so far wrong? When we sea half the civilized world committing murder and robbery on such a scale as the world has never seen before, simply because one fellow has something the other fellow wants? The preacher tells us the cause of crime is lack of godliness. We need to convert the world to the religion of Christ. What! When all the nations en gaged in this war and murder are Christian nations, each one of them Dravintr to the same God to help them slaughter their Christian brother simply because be belongs to some other nation? Have we forgotten the new dispensation taught by Jesus and gone back to the old Bible doctrine of an eye ror an eye ana a uroin iui a tooth? Or perhaps it is as the Chris tian Scientists tell us. all this warfare. crime, poverty and suffering are but imaginary, unreal and do not exist at all. or it is all according to God's will and he created men to be slaughtered in war, women to be widowed and out raged, children to be starved in order to make room on eartn ior moio ieu nie to a-o throuch the same process. But if Christanlty will not better conditions, what will? The Germans tell us that German "kultur" Is going to regenerate the world. And when we see the highest exponents of that "kultur." the German university stu dents, bearing proudly the scars of the duels fought while acquiring that "kul tur" we have our douots. nrt when we read of the proudest most cultured Frenchmen going out to settle their disputes, with the sword we can't accept their brand of culture. Then there's the Englishman, he's bearing "the white man's burden" on his broad shoulders, and Christianizing the heathen by sending them opium, whisky and a few missionaries, aided by our own Uncle Samuel. But then we have one hope left. We in the United States are not engaged in killing anybody, that is not by wholesale, although we may have to go down in Mexico and slaughter a few thousand Mexicans for the glory of God. But Just now we are fairly peace--Kio if TL-m don't count the dally murders In our cities, the strikes and riots in our coal mines. We have banished the Johnson-Willard pnae flght to Cuba, have made a long start towards banisning rum. nave sn -part of our women the ballot, have adjourned Congress and mcst of our State Legislatures. We don't fight duels n our colleges, oiihnuirh we do kill a student oc casionally by hazing or football, but we alwavs punish the evildoers by frowning and saying "Boys, boys, you must not do that any more." In our efforts for the highest culture we pay our baseball players more than our college professors, and our prlse nhtori more than our President. And If anvone doubts the beneficial results of this culture on oiir literature, let them read the sporting page of our dotlv papers. If anybody doubts that tho "future peace and happiness of the world rests on our snoumeri,, mru us make, laws to prevent any respect able man from carrying weapons to protect himself, and when a highway man takes his purse, make him give up his watch also, and soon we will see all the thugs and highway men coming in and turning over their auto, matics to the police, and then we win v..,,. ti ,nnra murders except when the doctors cut out our appendixes and after a highly successim upeiai.... we are perverse enougn io-u.c. if thi don't work out all right, suppose we try Mr. Ford, the automobile Out ns A1 - - TRICK USED TO GAI.V ARRESTS Correnpondent Charge Deputy Entire. Motorists to Brenk Speed Limit. PORTLAND, March 23 (To the Edi tor ) It appears that since the new speed law has gone into effect our be loved protectors are endeavoring to in crease their already high reoord for "pinching speeders" or the city pock etbook. Which one it is. I am at loss to know. However, Tarn in favor of enforcing the law in cases whore the defendant is able to pay the fines imposed and also in cases where the defendant is .... . . wu hiir nrfenriera. not ame to pay, -- As I mentioned before, the effort put forth is remarKaoio, Deuevo ..... mi mi 1 mnst u ii v trickery iiiey v ... idbui. w - - - -in order to get you pinched. ror ex ample: A certain salesman for the roro moiQr v-r ly to the front and instead of trying to sell his wares, teeis no . !"' . .,.. nKnvA the Kneed limit euuufi.l iv - - ' - - and thus entica the motorist who might happen nis way mui . i.n.o bv passing him with a Ford. If t lii-st ho don't succeed he tries again, thus arousing your sporting blood, only to havo him spring his little legal doc ument declaring him a deputy author ized at all times to pinch those who engage in his little game. Now, on the other hand, the motor ist leaves his car standing on the street a few minutes and some one who happens to reel so inciinea lanea Vw session thereof and goes for a ride. You return to where you left your car, only to find same gone. When loss Is reported, you are informed that your car is smashed up on such and such a corner. Now. do we see a long list of names in the paper stating this one or that one was fined 115 to S.10 for theft? No. Our Judges turn them loose with a lecture. Why? Because they either can't pay a fine or the court judge this offense only borrowing, and the percentage of thefts reported is about as large as the ones fined for speeding. As a certain officer of the force men tioned. "Wo like to see results as well as you. We arrest persons for steal ing and the courts turn them loos. What's the use of pinching them?" I advise giving the motorist a little protection along with the fines for speeding. J. F. MORRELL, Jr. Curtailment of Prlvllear. Washington (D. C.) Star. "My doctor says I mustn't worry," said Mr. Groucher. "Well, I'd get an other doctor." replied his wife. "First he says you mustn't drink. Then he says you mustn't smoke. Now he says you mustn't worry. He don't let you have anything that you will enjoy." . Half a Century Ago From The Ortgonltn oi March 24. JS65. vorable, making it very bad retting about, and as a consequence the gen eral tone of matters and bualnraa ! dull. Wa are without tha almplasl thread wnerawitu io weavo a. wco gossip; but such a stato of things can not last loug. and soon we may ex pect a rush of matters interesting to our people. There was the "usual . attendance . Willamette Theater last evonlng nn.i the plays of "The Mysterious Murder" and "Cross Purposes" wero finely ex ecuted, interspersed with song and danca When Sam Brannen hoard of tho 1'ell of Charleston he got up a orivata cel ebration of his own and Tired a nai lery on Montgomery street Tho Clara destroyed by the firing was valued al 2500. Sam is a patriotic "cms" am' ion't oar a darn for anybody. ft Is related that when things wait ... - I .... 1 OK. V 1 1 1 . wurntnf in nmu.j ., .!.-. . .... . . .. ....... .niiliitii In rimi- eral Grant for a remedy. "Send me." says tho tecreiary, tne rrj onp .. A in tk. bcwv " Hranl rfnllo.l by sending Phil Sheridan. saylnn "There inn t mucn ot nun, nut im . .. . T I. mmiA that tha inau JUU rmv. w " Secretary looked somewhat askance at the slight and youmiui incur ino . t wtm h - , him at work and now be is convinced that Gram know nis man. Since the fallura of peace negotia tions tha National Intelligencer, a pa per hitherto in favor of securing tha return of the rebel states by com promise, is out in support of th war. It says that as the rebels demand noth ing less than independenca. it i idle to think of peace until they are over come. The issue is merely on of union or separation. NEWMARKET THEATER RECALLED rioneer Who Saw Opening and Closins Telia of Its Triumphs. PORTLAND, March !I. (To the Ed itor.) I am anxiously waiting, with many others, trom Sunday to Sunday, to see what Is going to bo sprung on us old-timers In pictures of early Port land. Ltttt Sunday we are treated to tha seventh article of the Newmar ket Theater and Ankeny niarktit. May I be permitted lo add a Utile more to the description of this early amusement and market place? Writing from memory, I doubt that If we have today in site anything that can surpass that old hall In area f space tor dancing before it was re modeled Into a theater. , Una of the memorial events held there was th I6th anniversary of the organisation of the Willamette Engine Company. No. 1. There Is nothing in decorations that could touch It today, with fiaga of all rutlons, ship's equip ment, flags with flowers in abundance, evergreen festoons and. lastly, multi tudes of canary birds In cages distrib uted through the hall, their shrill notes commingling with that of the stringed orchestra It was an Inspiring event and there may be a few left who re member and enjoyed that evening. When Captain Ankeny commenced the building of his theater it was the second one of the city playhouses. The Oro Flno Theater was a two-story wooden structure, upstairs over a beer hall and a restaurant, and whan It was destroyed by fire It left the city without any place of amusement. When Captain An'keny's theater was complet ed It wss opened by James A. Heain and the play was "Oliver Twist," Hearn taking the part of 11111 Sykes. The part ot Nancy Sykes was taken by Blanche Galton. That was some opener of a play. In after years Beam became author of plays of milder typo in that of "Shore Acres" and others, others. The old theater honked many tin productions. 1 think that th Burts and Dr. Cornelius and others Were ahead of J. P. Howe as lessee. Tha writer was at both the opening and closing of this theater. Tho honor of the closing came to the well-known and popular couple. Milton and Polly Nobles, In the play "From Sirs to Son." When the curtain went down, closing it. It was soon after dismantled. Let's go downstairs to Hie market part and see what Captain Ankeny had provided in tho way of a market. It was fitted up In tha finest shape that money could produce. Among the early butch ers who had stalls there were W. W. Spalding, Spalding Bros., and A. H. Johnson. nd among the employes of Mr. Johnson wer the O'Shea broth era, who now are enjovlng their retire ment as owners of fine business prop rtv. Th market, like the theater, was not on a paying basis, being too far down town, and It went out of exist ence, as It was too fsr in advance of th city's need. The owner exchanged It for a gold mln In Southern Oregon, which turned out well. J. K. KINGS!, . 1SS5 Tillamook street. Law a to Flag. IMBLER, Or.. March 22. (To the Edi tor l. Is ther any legal punish ment for an individual publicly de stroying his privately-owned United States flag.' 2. Can the alien wife of an alien husband become a citizen and vote In Oreeon if her husband retains hi for eign allegiance? W. V. CONNOR. 1. Ther is no Federal law against it protection of the flag being a slat matter. Section a08. Lords Oregon Laws, forbids the us of the flag for advertising purposes In ny way ind Incidentally penalties are provided for anyone who ''shall publicly mutilate, trample upon or publicly deface th flag; This would probably cover the case, although Intent might enter into the matter and determine whether th act was criminal. A small fin of from 20 to $100 is provided. . No. No Lost Motion The up-to-date machine shop own er la getting out of tha habit of using power to keep a long shaft running when he doesn't want to use th machines It supplies. Too much energy goes Into useless mo tion. Nowadays he has a separata mo tor for each machine direct con nected which applies th power wher It Is wantod and when it Is wanted. Nowhere else May we show you how to apply your advertising power in th same way where and when you want it? Thar isn't any secret prooess about It; it Is simply connecting your appropriation with th people you want to reach and not bother ing about those you do not want to reach. It Is simply focusing energy Where It will do th most good through th local newspaper. Th dally newspaper Is th direct link between producer and consumer.