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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1915)
THE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1915. " rOBTLAX'D, U&EtiON. 1 Entered t Portland. Oregon. Postofflee MM icood-clai mailer. Subscription Rate Invariably In advance: ' (By Mail.) ' Iallr, Sunday Included, one year $8.00 T Uaily, Sunday Included, aix months ..... 4.5 4 Xaily, fcunday Included, tnree montha ... 2.25 . Jjally, Sunday Included, one month ..... .75 lally, wluiou: Sunday, one year ........ 6.U0 Jaily. wltliout Sunday, aia montna ' Dally, without Sunday, three montha l.5 f Ua.ly, without Sunday, one month .40 ; Weekly, on year l.SO , : Sunday, one year 2.50 fcunuay and Weekly, one year By Carrier. . ,' JBiIy, Sunday Included, one year 9.00 . lJaily, Sunday Included, one month ..... .75 Mow to Remit Send Poatoffice money or '. i1er. express order or personal check on your , local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at , sender's risk, tiive postoffice address la full. inc!udius county and state. " 1'oHtaie Kates 12 to ltt pages, 1 cent; 18 ' to pages, 2 cents; 34 to 4 pages, 3 cents; 60 to 60 lags. 4 cents; 62 to 70 pases, 5 cents; 78 to U2 pices, o cents. Foreign post, double rates. Btnt Bueiseiw Offices Verree & Con k -' - ltn, BrumwKk building. fo'ew York; Verree . At Conkiin. feteger building, Chicago; San " Francisco representative, K. J. .BidwelU 742 Market street. i ;;pobtia:nd, satikdat, jink 19, iti THE TWO BLOCKADES. The Oregonian is asked b- a corre- ypondent questions as to the cause and .. effectiveness of the German under sea blockade against the allies and of the British blockade against German .commerce. The German submarines began by sinking about one ship a 'day during the first month of their operations. They have gradually in creased their effectiveness to from two -to three a day, including both allied .'and neutral vessels. This applies to merchant vessels only. The Germans - have sunk far more fishing trawlers, ; sometimes as many as seven and eight -, in a day, but these are small craft, of ' '"w hich hundreds go out of single ports 'w'ron the Scotch and English coasts. .i Against these numbers are to be ."'set the number of ships going into and out of British ports. These ag- " grcgate about 2.00 a day. The latest definite figures we have exceed 20,000 vessels arriving at and depart ing from British ports between April "11 and May 31, a little over seven - weeks. The conclusion is that, o far, submarine attacks have had no ap preciable effect in destroying British - commerce or in preventing the move- ment of troops and supplies to the continent. They have certainly in :.flictcd serious loss and have caused insurance and wages and consequent ; Jy freight to rise materially, but they " have accomplished little toward crip . plinsr Britain as a belligerent. The establishment of the marine war zone by Germany with subma rines as the sole means of enforcing it is certainly contrary to international law, as President Wilson has asserted in his notes to Germany. Belligerent warships have a right under interna- tional law to capture an enemy's mer chant ships and to search neutral ships, seize contraband, and. if more than half the cargo is contraband, to confiscate ship and cargo. If they cannot, consistently with their own i'afety, take the captured ship to a Jjport of their own country, they may -sink her, but they must first insure the safety of all persons on board. ; German submarines cannot safely i take captured ships to German ports, J J or they would almost surely be cap tured and sunk. They cannot take i -the crews aboard before sinking the J;ships. for they have not sufficient ac- I c-pmmodation. The best they can do V4s to follow their recent practice of compelling the crew to take to the , boats. . This practice was condemned j.BS illegal by President Wilson in his ' note of May 13, for he said: i '. They the submarines' cannot sink her a i merchantman without leaving her crew and II ail on board of trer to the mercy of the sea 3n her email boats. He states the conclusion, which is j Irresistible to any unprejudiced, hu- mane mind, as follows: ' Manifestly the submarine cannot be used against merchantmen, as the last few weeks riave shown, without an inevitable violation -of many sacred principles ot justice and . h umanity. . The British marine operations ;e?ainst German commerce were started as reprisals for known or al Jleged violations of the rules of war by Germany, such as the destruction ii( Louvain, massacres and executions in Belgium and France and bombard 4ncnt of undefended British towns. I The reason given was not a desire to J starve out Germany. The British em ' bargo on German commerce is not a -blockade as defined by international J law, though it has been so termed col ; loquially, even by British statesmen. . A blockade must be formally pro i;claimHj and must be , maintained so 'effectively that it can be evaded only .at extreme risk of capture. It gives i;the blockading power the right to confiscate all ships, hostile or neutral, "which attempt to evade it. Goods of ;vhich the ultimate destination is a blockaded port may be seized, though "they may be unloaded at a neutral port for transfer to another ship. . British naval operations against TOermany go farther than a blockade ln some respects, but fall short of It '. in others. Instead of maintaining a "patrol close to the German coast, Britain stations her blockading ships . kt the sea approaches, in the English channel, off the Irish coast, off the north coast of Scotland and far up In the Xorth Sea. She justifies this course by the fact that modern means of defense, such as mines and sub marines, require a patrol beyond their radius of action and that a long range blockade is just as effective as "one close to the blockaded coast. . Britain does not confiscate all ships and cargoes coming to and from Ger many. She confiscates wholesale only those which are German prop erty. She takes neutral ships into British ports and confiscates contra band goods, while any part of their t'argo which comes from or is going to Germany, either direct or through a neutral country, but is not contra band, she either buys or sells for the benefit of the owner. Neutral ships are released unless the bulk of their cargo is contraband. This form of blockade is an inno vation agrainst which the United States lias protested as contrary to interna tional law and as a hardship on neu tral commerce. The hardship is ag gravated by long delay in prize court procedure. Some distinguished Amer ican authorities on international law maintain, however, that the British - procedure is lawful. The United States has not pushed its protests "against the British blockade with the same vigor as those against the Ger- ,man blockade, because the latter In volves safety of life and elementary -principles of humanity, while the for mer involves .only monetary loss, for which compensation can be obtained. The Government also desires not to complicate the negotiations with Ger many by pressing those with Britain at the same time, for it docs not wish concessions It may extort from the one country" even to appear to be con tingent on those it may extort from the other. . The British blockade seems to have been effective against direct com merce with Germany, but there has been such an enormous and continued increa.se in American exports to Scan dinavia that Germany appears to re ceive large supplies of food and war material through that region. In that respect the blockade is apparently Ineffective. . HARMONY AT THE CITY HALL. An anxious public will hope -sincerely that the pleasant rumors that Commissioner Daly has promised Mayor Albee to be good are true. The feelings of our excellent Mayor, it seems, have been not a little ruffled by the obduracy of the Commissioner of Public Works during the past two years. He has devised his own poli cies and has sought to .put them into effect, even over the opposition of the Mayor. It may be recalled that Mayor Al bee publicly opposed the Daly water meter extravagance, and that an un seemly attack was made on our good Mayor by the Commissioner for the wasteful expenditure of public moneys in his owu(the Mayor's) department of public safety. It would appear, however, that the Commissioner was fitly rebuked for his shocking course by the Mayor's dignified turning of the other cheek. What more needs to be done in the way of discipline of a Commissioner who has either con sistently ignored the head of the City Commission in the past or who has recognized his service only to attack it in the public prints? If the people had not through the referendum chastened the bold and independent spirit of Commissioner Daly, it can well be imagined what would have been the present situation at the City Hall. HITTING FOtL. Somewhere at sea on the last trip from California the steamship North ern Pacific struck a log and weak ened her rudder. The strain incident to altering a ship's course in any wa ters in any sort of sea stripped the rudder from the vessel as she turned into the Columbia River. Yet the ship, without a rudder, crossed prac tically the width of the bar without mishap. The bar was smooth and at the stage of tide when the vessel crossed in there was forty feet of-water in the channel. The ship drew twenty-two feet. There is nothing significant about the incident except the demonstrated fact that navigation problems at the bar for vessels even so large as the Northern Pacific have been solved. The Northern Pacific and Great Northern are the largest and fastest vessels in the coastwise traffic. They operate on railroad schedule. They come into or go out of the Columbia River at any stage of water and under any weather conditions without delay. The fact that the Northern. Pacific dropped her rudder at the entrance to the Columbia River and not some where else was a mere accident of lo cality due in no wise to peculiar con ditions there existing. As might be expected, the rancor caused Seattle by the selection of the Columbia River as the northern port for the California steamship line of the Great Northern and Northern Pa cific railroads has led to new slander of Columbia River ports from that source, based wholly upon a mere coincidence. The Seattle Star ex presses its jealousy with studied amiability. With grim determination to be humorous it declares it a "fairy tale" that Portland has a harbor and speat.s of a ship's necessity to "pole vault over that troublesome bar." We have never known the time when the Columbia River was in fa vor at Seattle and do not expect it ever to see it. But it is food for thought that the Seattle newspaper which thus succumbs to envy is under the same ownership as a Portland evening newspaper whose prosperity is bound up with Portland's prosperity and whose existence is dependent upon the good will of Portland read ers and Portland advertisers. GKEECE VOTES FOB MAR. Entrance of Greece into the war on the side of the allies is foreshadowed by the result of the recent election, which gave the war party, headed by Mr. Venizelos two-thirds of the mem bers of Parliament. According to S. S. I. Vlasto, editor of-Atlantis, writ ing for the New York Times, the question at issue between King Con stantine and Mr. Venizelos was whether Greece should be content with promises from the allies of im munity from Bulgarian aggression in Macedonia and of territory in Asia Minor or should hold out for -more tangible guaranties. The Premier was unwilling to ask for guaranties and the King refused to engage the coun try in war without them unless the people so decided. Mr. Venizelos then resigned, the chamber was dissolved and an election called, which has re sulted in favor of Mr. Venizelos policy. Mr. Venizelos proposed that Greece take the lead among the Balkan states in joining the allies, because he be lieved such action would place Bul garia and Roumania in a difficulty from which they could extricate themselves in no other manner than by doing likewise. But Greece is still so fearful of Bulgarian aggression in Macedonia, for which, Mr. Vlasto says, she "has shed her heart's blood," that, having decided on war, "she is sure to strengthen all Macedonian garrisons before sending a single sol dier against the Dardanelles." Greece recognizes that she cannot expect to realize her dream of possessing Con stantinople, though she does not ex pect the predicted Russian occupation of that city to be long or definite. She does expect compensation in Asia Minor, of which Mr. Vlasto says: Once the Turk is driven out therefrom Greece Is the natural successor in this dominion; the predominating element alt over Asia Minor is Greek: the only element which represents civilization In that coun tryoutside some thouaands of foreign res idents is the Greek. He says Mr. Venizelos claimed that the entente powers promised him the vilayets of Smyrna and -Broussa, which include nearly all of Western Asia Minor with afl the coasts of the Aegean and Marmora seas except that part fronting on the Dardanelles and Bosphorus, but he adds: The larjrer part of the Greek opinion does not subscribe to that statement, for the only reason that it sounds too good to be true. Yet he continues: Greece does not want to expand in Asia Minor by losing ground in Europe, and for this reason there -is not the slightest pos sibility of Greece ceding- part of Macedonia tu .Bulgaria. In fact, he suggests that Greece claims more of Macedonia than she has, and also Southern Albania nearly as far north as Durazzo. He says Greece and Koumanla are friendly, but Bulgaria "remains the dark spot in the situation," .for she wants the whole of Macedonia, "and Greece is not willing to allow this by any means. Greece, however, supports Bulgaria's claim to Adrianople and Eastern Thrace, and Mr. Vlasto says: If the patriots of Sofia, coming- to their smses. could Oe satisfied with the occupa tion of Thrace, the restitution of the terri tory taken from them by Roumania after me second Balkan war. and a rectification of the Serbo-Bulffarian frontiers In Mace donia. -there would be nothing in the way of the Balkan states Joining the allies against Turkey and her Teutonic comrades In arms. The idea that German diplomacy has been successful at Athens is scouted, for "in Greece it is the peo ple, and no one else, that counts," and the King will obey their will, while the Queen will not interfere. The participation of Greece in the war seems thus to have been decided upon by a vote of the people to accept the promises of the allies, to take the risk of attack by Bulgaria and to en- ; deavor to force the hand of both that country and Roumania. In so doing Greece would play for a great prize, for, if she won and got the promised reward, she would become the domi nant naval power in the Aegean Sea and would again rule the land where ancient Greece had her most flour ishing colonies. THE PEOPLE FINALLY RESPONSIBLE Representative Frcar is undoubted ly right in "his opinion that ultimate responsibility for the pork barrel rests with the people. They need to be ed ucated up to an understanding that they really lose by waste of public money on unworthy river jind harbor work. Their own money is wasted and a general prejudice is aroused which obstructs appropriations for other works in the same district which have some merit. Great progress has .been made in the education of the people on this subject through the filibusters against the last two river and harbor bills and through newspaper denunciation of the pork they contained. Those bills were mercilessly dissected by Mr. Frear and by Senators Burton and Kenyon, and their speeches were widely published. The lump sum ap propriations which resulted from the filibusters were, in general, wisely ap propriated by the army engineers among meritorious projects. The pork barrel is not yet destroyed and con tinuous fighting will be necessary to complete the work, but the pork bar rel statesmen may gradually be driven to Accept the principle of lump ap propriations. If this principle be combined with that of making Government expendi ture conditional on local contributions to the cost of any work, pork will be practically eliminated and public opinion will be ripened for adoption of Senator Nswlands" plan. This em bodies lump appropriations and local contributions, but it provides for a co herent plan of applying water to all its uses navigation, power, irrigation, soil conservation and of protecting water from pollution and the country against floods. Reform in this particular -will be helped by the fact that we now pay direct taxes to the Government and shall therefore become more vigilant over the expenditure of public funds. The income tax and the war taxes will prove an ultimate blessing if they become the means of bringing about system and economy in public expenditures. THE BEST SHORT STORIES. A Boston critic named O'Brien has made in the Transcript a judicial esti mate of the year's output of short stories. Upon the whole, he thinks the crop is of high quality. Mr. O'Brien says, in fact, that we Ameri cans have "developed the short story as an art form to the point" where it is superior to anything of the sort pro duced elsewhere. Its superiority is as marked as that of the Hood River apple or Tillamook cheese. But the short story differs from those su preme products in that it lacks sub stance. It is a form and nothing more, Vox et praeterea nihil, to quote an old poet who knew what he was talking about as a usual thing. Our literary monarchs have brought the short story to a point where It is constructed by mathematical formu las. They give us the equations by which it can be produced and no stories find favor with the publishers except, such as follow the prescribed formulas exactly. This is "art" in Mr. O'Brien's meaning. If there ever was a pale, lifeless, utterly disem bodied specter It is the current short story as it wanly totters through the pages of the pictorial magazines. "Where all, or nearly all, are so mis erably worthless it hardly seems prof itable to make comparative estimates of merit. Some of the ghosts may be a little more bloodless, some of the corpses a little more cadaverous than the rest, but what difference docs it make? The very best of the year's 601 short stories, if we may. believe Mr. O'Brien, was Conrad Richter's "Comrades of No Kin," published In the Forum. His judgment surprises us a little, since the Forum is in the habit of publishing stories somewhat more readable than most of the other magazines and we have gathered from sad experience that readableness is the worst disqualification a story can have from the point of view of art. Probably Mr. O'Brien allowed his feelings to obscure his judgment w hen he made this shocking decision. In the second 'place stands Francis Buz zell's "Addie Erb and Her Girl Lot tie," which appeared in the Century, a magazine which i3 commonly re garded as the most sacred haunt of the pallidly artistic short story. For our further consolation Mr. O'Brien gives a long list of the "next best." Among them are two by Mel ville" Davisson Post, who now and then permits himself to write really interesting things. Mary Wilkins Freeman comes in with one and Kath erine Fullerton Gerould with four. The last-named writer is evidently a genius of the first water. "We dare say a number of the stories which Mr. O'Brien crowns with laurel are pleasant reading enough. Wo are quite certain that not a solitary one of them deserves any such praise at he bestows upon several. The Ameri can short story has long since ful filled all the artistic promise it ever had and is now in senile decay. Its decline to the tomb is gentle and re ligiously serene, but there Is no doubt at all about its destiny. Nor is there any doubt that its arrival ought to be speedy. When any art form comes to the point where it is produced by the bushel according to a mathematical formula, its demise is not far away. The elaborate literary crochet work which is palmed off upon the public as "short stories" by the magazines has no more artistic merit than the crazy-quilts of our grandmothers and it is not half so honest. -The trouble with these stories is that they are aimed at an Imaginary reader. That reader is "woman," who is conceived by the magazine editor to be a bundle of silly prejudices and mindless susceptibilities. The real, living woman of our day is an ex tremely inquisitive and courageous creature, full of intelligence and over flowing with common sense, but the critics know her nob. To them "wom an" is still the quivering jellyfish she was in the novels of Richardson and since this spineless monster is sup posed to be the main purchaser of magazines they are made up to suit her preferences. James Stephens, the author of "The Crock of Gold," says the trouble with our literature in gen eral is that it is aimed at "the middle-aged "woman." That would not bo so bad if the woman were genuine, but she is not. She is a chimera, a myth, a fable. If the day ever comes when our literature is aimed at real women it will be a very different thins from what it is and a. very much better thing. Harlem, Kan., feels quite bereaved by the death of Mabel Hammon. who weighed 800 pounds and -was there fore a citizen of great distinction. Ex tremely fat peopTe always acquire lo cal fame and usually bear their hon ors pleasantly. There is a relation be tween fat and good temper which Shakespeare mentioned but did not explain. Very likely Miss Hammon had not an enemy in the world unless it was some rival fat woman. Most of " the "peace plans" of the day aim 'blows more or less deadly at the principle of nationality. This does not seem to be a merit in them. The various nations have an individ ual life which is too valuable to be destroyed. A quiet life in a city is perfectly compatible with strong indi vidual traits among the citizens. World peace ought not to require the suppression of national spirit. An article in the Columbia Univer sity Quarterly ascribes to the million aires - the gr'w'ing disfavor of Greek at college. The writer advises the So cialists to come to its rescue because "Greek was the native language of democracy." And of state socialism, too, he might have added. State so cialism was more complete at Sparta than in Germany, which is saying a good deal. A fight under the water must be even more interesting than one in the air. A full account of the encounter betw-een the Italian and Austrian sub marines would be as thrilling as Vic tor Hugo's story of the devil fish and the diver. The outcome must have been a mere matter of chance, since everything was done in the dark. There is a strange contradiction be tween British opinions of Germans. The newspapers call them Huns, bar barians and all that is- repulsive, but three Cabinet members are eo infatu ated with them as to have them for secretaries. It is a wonder what Japan can do in the way of absorption while the other powers are not watching. . If the war continues much longer Europe will look over toward Asia and not be able to find any of China worth picking up. The Congressional committee at San Francisco was in such a hurry to con sider reclamation that only three of its members had time to raise their hats to the ladies, 'i he first thing thev should reclaim is their manners. The world's "grand prize has been awarded to a Kentucky artist at San Francisco, but nobody thinks of giv ing a prize to the Kentucky artist who designed the mint Julep. What sort of a cross will be given the. commander of a German sub marine who, in his haste to sink an other steamer, did not complete the destruction of the Turnwell? There is more common sense about the plans of the League to Enforce Peace headed by ex-President Tuft than about any of the plans of the most vociferous pacifists. The tornado season has begun in the Lower Missouri . Valley and adja cent sections, and timid people will now fix up their cyclone cellars and save what they can. Norman Angell says the United States must reorganize the world. We are equal to the job, provided enough is left to' reorganize w hen the war is over. "Corsets," says a woman doctor at Los Angeles, "should never be worn." Possibly, sister, possibly: but what will replace art in the "ads"? 1 We will always have the river and in consequence boys in canoes, and lives will be lost. Perhaps these acci dents are foreordained. Russian effort sPems now to be di rected to making Austro-German vic tories eo costly that they will be of the Pyrrhic t pe. The roar of the artillery is. so loud that the belligerents cannot bear the melodious voice of Mr. Bryan plead ing for peace. In the interests of mediation and peace, suppose Wilson appoints Bryan to ask the Kaiser what he'll take to quit. What matters what is used in christening the Arizona today? She will fight as well if skim milk Is the dope. The etliciency code around the City Hall needs a $75 clerk to keep the records.- That ought to settle it. When the California insane are or ganized into ball teams they will need one of the hopeless to umpire. " The man who bought half the Ba ker wool clip must possess Inside in formation to matcli his dollars. Ownership of property in the dis trict is an added qualification re quired of the voter today. In another week the I. W. W. will be at a loss for excuses for the un employed. Arson is finally becoming a hazard ous industry. It should always be so. As you cannot vote early todaj-, vote late; but vote anyway. The man who wants work will know where to get it next week.. Stars and Starmakers BY LEONE CASS BAER. Wife ofa broker in New York City testifying ill her suit for separation says the sight of the photographs of 40 chorus girls in her husband's room "got on her nerves." I don't wonder at the neurotic effect. A fleeting glimpse of the photograph of just one damsel of the merry merry, frequently has played havoc with many a man's steel-stanchioned nervous system. . In descriptions of osculatory varia tion it had seemed that the resources of Noah's little lexicon had long ago been exhausted. But here is a new one: A woman plaintiff in a divorce action" testifies that the defendant kissed a chorus girl co-respondent "patheti cally." The saddest thing in human life, it ' seems to me, is a "pathetic" kiss. I don't want to learn that kind. And yet, most of us can understand without a diagram the pathos that would accompany the kissing of some grandmotherly chorus girls. John Winthrop Pratt, who wouldn't recognize himself under that title since he is ever Jack Pratt to the theatrical fraternity, is in Portland ahead of Mizzi Hajos in "Sari," which comes to the Heilig week after next. Mr. Pratt is a well-known newspaperman, and a contributor to magazines. He has been city editor of the Chicago Tribune, night city editor and dramatic editor of the New York World, and night city editor of the New York American. "Dancing Around," with Al Jolson in the cast, is coming to Portland this Summer. Kitty Doner, too. Is in the company. Even to successful actresses come moments of unspeakable chagrin, now and then. Such a moment came to a stage girl, a New York one, and the story of it as related in a metropolitan ex change has a humorous twist. It appears that this actress, finding her self quite unexpectedly in town for a space between trains, called up the flat (it was in the Bronx, that fiat, which shows that the fascinating actress isn't so discreet as she is talented), and, surprised at hearing a strange voice at the end of the line, asked to speak to Mr. . her husband. "I'm sorry," said the voice which the actress recognized as that of a sister, comedienne regarding whose flirtations with her husband disturbing rumors had reached her from time to time, "I'm sorry, but Mr. is In Water bury; but I'm Mrs. . Can I do any thing for you?" "No, "thank you; nothing," said the astonished inquirer. "Except to tell your husband when he comes home that his wife called him up." And now there is to be a divorce, with a claim for alimony calculated to give acute pain to the recreant husband and his indiscreet paramour. Hubert Henry Davies, the author of "Outcast." in hich Elsie Ferguson is appearing at tue Heilig, is an English man by birth, and is at present at the front with the hospital corps of the allies. San Francisco residents remember Davies when he was a reporter doing his daily grind of journalistic work, and doing it well. He contributed a considerable fund of dramatic and other copy" to the News Letter. Perhaps he wishes at this writing that he was back there. That he is not is. lro-.iv a 'matter of unexpected good fortune. He inherited $5000. and with that sum between him and worry, he took him self to playmaking. Among his earlier works was the lightly frivolous nlpce called "Cousin Kate." in whrch Ethel Barrymore was delightful; a master piece of a trifle called "The Mnllmi. " and, finally, "Mrs. Corringe's Necklace," which was produced at Wvndhnm's London Theater, but which, so far as I know, has not been given nor nublishprt in this country. Speaking of Elsie Ferguson, that young actress lias just been chosen as its favorite lady of the footlights by the .senior class of New York Uni versity, who voted her the best of them all. A week previously the graduating class of Columbia University picked Miss Ferguson as its favorite by a vast majority, and it has been recorded that the Society of American Drama tists and Composers selected her as the player for whom they would prefer to write an epoch-making drama. Sarah Bornhardfs definition of econ omy is worth repeating. "It's a way of spending money without getting any fua out of it," opines the divine Sarah. "When you think of the number of stars I have managed, a mere subma rine makes me laugh!"' This little quip was read to several thousand persons in Washington, D. C, last Saturday afternoon, yet none took it other than most seriously, for it was a lino from a letter written by the late Charles Frohman be fore lie went to his death on board tho l.usi tani.i. The letter was written to E. II. Soth ern and his wife. Miss Julia Marlowe, and Mr. Sothern read it to a large audi ence at a theatrical performance given in the Columbia Theater under the auspices of the Ked Cross for the ben efit of those made needy by the loss of tho Lusitania. The performance was under the di rection of Miss Mabel Boardrnan,. of the Red Cross, and Dr. John Metzrott. It was the occasion for a patriotic out- J burst when Miss Marlowe, who was reciting "The Star-Spangled Banner," had the audience stand while she read the last two stanzas. She received an ovation at the end. Jt was the opinion of those who heard her that her voice was as strong and clear as ever, despite her recent illness. The letter of Mr. Frohman showed him to have been in a most cheerful frame of mind when he wrote it. For the most part it dealt with personal matters, and Mr. Sothern explained some of the personal references. Daniel Frohman and Isaac Marcosson, a magazine writer, are now at work on a biography of the late Charles Froh man. The work" should be interesting from many angles. Charles Frohman's theatrical career covers a period which saw the development of the drama from a nomadic condition to the dignity of "big business"; he was responsible in America for tho "star system," and he not only was associated as producer with the drama in America, but in Eng land as well. Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oresonlan, Juno 30. 1SU3. William Bennett, United States Mar shal for Oregon, has published notices of cases now in hand by J. N. Dolph, Prosecuting Attorney for this district, "against three boxes of cigars" which were sold without the prescribed tax stamps. There have been several cases of this kind during the year. T. J. Dryer, a man well known and remembered by everybody in Oregon as tne founder of The Oregonian and for a long time its editor, returned to this city a day or two since. On Saturday he gave this office a call. Of course we wrere all much gratified in seeing him. It is now nearly fivo years since he left Portland. He went front here to the Sandwich Islands as Minister Resident from the United States. Hav ing resided there two years, he re turned to California and went thence to Washington. From that city he started West again and, reaching Ien ver City, remained there some time. Last Fall he came to Boise City, Where he resided during the Winter and Spring. He now resides in "Portland again. We learn it is his purpose to remain here permanently. British sympathizers have been urg ing the people of the South to continue their resistance and to sacrifice their property in support of a "righteous cause." Now that these people are im poverished by having followed their perverse inclinations and the advice of their admirers, the New York Times calls upon the haters of "Federal tyr anny'" across the water to come to the relief of their pauperized Southern friends, who are in danger of dying of starvation. A most excellent oppor tunity for the exercise of charity is now offered to these "friends of hu manity." Willthcy give a groat to al leviate the suffering they have aided in bringing about? Pennsylvania has sent 250.000 men to the war. Of these 50.000 will return to their homes no more. A rebel paper says: "President Davis and family have arrived at Fortress Monroe." Can coolness beat that? During one week endinsr May 6 more than $40,000,000 was subscribed to the seven-thirty loan. Not one dollar was taken on behalf of contractors or in the shape of contractors' vouchers. The Government has an immense bank in which the people are investing their money. They are interested in pre serving its credit and cannot let it fail. II. R. Meeker. Clerk and Auditor of the City of Portland, has issued a statement of the condition of the city's finances. Accounts of the trial of the conspira tors against the Administration which is under way at Washington are com ing through in detail. The counsel for the accused includes Thomas Ewing, son of the ex-Senator of Ohio; Attorney Stone, Walter S. Cox. Hon. Keverdy Johnson and ..lessrs. Aiken and Clampett. The members of the court are: Ma-jor-General David Hunter, V. S. A'.; Ma-jor-General Lew Wallace, U. S. V.; Bre vet Major-General August V. Kautz, U. S. V.; Brigadier-General Albian P. Howe. U. S. V.; Brigadier-General Rob ert S. Foster. U. S. V.; Brevet Brigadier General James A. Eakin, V. S. V.; Brigadier-General T. V. Harris. IT. S. V.; Brevet Colonel C. H. Tompkins. U. S. V.; Lieutenant-Colonel D. li. Clendenin, Eighth Illinois Cavalry; Briiradier-Gen-eral Joseph Holt, Julge" Advocate. Divorce nod Remarriage. PORTLAND, June 18. (To the Edi tor.) Will you kindly advise me whether 1 can get married in Oregon without waiting six months, or even in Vancouver, Wash. My husband deserted me four years ago and I've just took a notion I'd like to get married and 1 don't want to wait six months. How about it? ANXIOUS. 1 If you get your divorce in Oregon you cannot marry again legally in this or any other state until six months have expired. Widow's Mite and Other Ancient Coins Told About in The Sunday Oregonian It is probable that the widow's mite, declared by the Bible to be a more substantial offering to the ecclesiastical treasury than the gold of the rich man, was not referred to as a figure of speech after all. The mite was actually coined in Jerusalem about the time of Christ. It was of small value and was commonly circulated. An American minister recently unearthed one of these rare coins on the site of ancient Jerusalem and brought it to this country, where he presented it to the Philadelphia mint. He learned a lot about mites and other coins of contemporary circulation and will present the result of his investigations in The Oregonian tomorrow. CHILD'S LIVING EXPENSES 1000 A MONTH Children or the rich in New York and elsewhere have "allowances" of $1000 a month and over. It is said even that $1000 is not considered too much for the 10 and 11-year-old juveniles to use in their actual monthly living expenses. This story, with its contrasts in the manner of youthful living, will be printed in tomorrow's Oregonian with pictures. MICROBES GOVERN WORLD EVENTS Dr. Robert T. Morris, vis iting surgeon of the post-graduate hospital of New York, is the author of a book called "Tomorrow's Topics," in which he presents a lot of new and interesting theories regarding the conditions that cause the varying phases of human nature, lie will explain his strange, but interesting, views in The Sunday Oregonian. TEMPLE HERE AGAIN People like to study Temple's true-to-na-ture "sketches from life," because they really are true to life. The Sunday-issue wiil present three of Temple's best sketches. BILLY SUNDAY AT HOME As an evangelist Billy Sunday has been cutting a wide swath in the big Eastern communities for the last few weeks. He has been the subject of numerous controversies among ecclesiastical authorities. Some people agree with him and approve his methods, others agree with him and disapprove his methods, yet others disagree with hirn but approve his methods and a good many neither agree with him nor approve his methods. At any rate his home life is mighty interesting. His Summer home, be it known, is at Hood River, right near Portland. A staff writer recently visited Billy ami "Ma" Sunday on -their farm and in tomorrow's paper will tell the story. COATS OF ARMS AND SUCH While American people usually give little weight to coats of arms, crests and such symbols of snobbery when applied to private individuals, their accepted use by the people ofEuropean nations as emblems of authority presents a situation of more or less interest especially in the light of the war. These symbols of empire will be fully explained with illustrations. WHAT DIPLOMACY REALLY IS In these times of international intrigues and delicate readjustments of the relations existing be tween nations the word "diplomacy" is much used in the public prints. The Sunday Oregonian will print a complete, illustrates story on this subject. LURE OF EASY MONEY The story of the Mississippi Bubble and' other gigantic "get-rich-quick" schemes will be explained in detail. BRIDEGROOMS AT A PREMIUM After the war whenever -that is Europe will be short of marriageable men. There will be nu merous widows of army officers with great estates on their hands and a large number of young heiresses with no eligible young men in sight for them to marry. Here is a chance for straightforward, capable, healthy young Americans, says The Oregonian's Taris - correspondent. AND THEN SOME MORE The usual page of stories devoted to little folks, Donahey's Teenie Weenie stories and a handsome front cover picture of a scenic spot near Portland are some of the other attractions. Society, sports, the drama, women's activities, auto mobiles, real estate and many other phases of local life will be covered fully. H ilf a Century Ago From The Or'cr.iiinn, Junf l:v IS'-'O. Washington The men who run liko frightened cattle yesterday when -the bi;i Kansas Senator threw a free coin age bomb into the Senate are wonder itjr today what they ran for anil hav ing .srot themselves into the present predicament are striving to extricate themselves. They are hoping that wiser counsels may prevail in the House on the silver legislation. Redding. Cal. The cloudy weather has obscured Mount Shasta and those who have viewed the mountain through gl.tsses assert positively that the north peak has diSHipeared and that there is a flat place on the top. Mount sUiast is SO miles from Redding. The editorial comment of the New York papers, telegraphed throughout the country, show that there is niiit-h opposition to the free silver coinage lull. The jrfnerai editorial opinion is that the bill i.- far more radical than as expected possible to put through the Senate. D F. Stewart, of Prineville. thinks that from present prospects thet will lie more wheat threshed in Crook County this season than last. Percy Olnistead, naval cadet at An napolis, returned to his home in Bker City Sunday after a two years' ab sence. The Baker City Blade says it Is wonderful what two years wiil do for a boy at the Annapolis school. G. B. Frost, of East Portland, made a proposition to the citizen of Link ville. Klamath County, to establish an electric light plant in that town, pro vided they give him a bonus of 1000. AUK SKA I1I.IK K M)i:s Kl'rKrriVKf -Vpireela(i- e Correspondent About ltefciilts Attained b PORTLAND. June S.(To the Edi tor.) Since tho great European war started the writer has endeavored in every conceivable way to acquire au thentic information as to developments in the conflict, the application of ac cepted and established principles of international law contended for by the warring nations as well as this C.ov ernment where its rights have been infringed or violated by belligerents in waging merciless and relentless war fare against one another. In pursuit of this knowledge I have consulted to a considerable extent the eiiitortal pages of tho leading newspapers of the country representing all shades of par tisan politic, as no doubt they reflect the unbiased opinions anil sentiments ot the people as a whole, not only witli respect to judging the guilty perpe trators of that frightful holocaust, but in regard to tho merits of the san guinary conflict and desired ultimate, outcome as well, and I wish to assure you that the various articles bearing on the struggle in the Occident in all Its phases, which have appeared in your editorial pages at different in tervals since last August, have been perused by me with great satisfaction on account of fullness and accuracy of details and historical references and conspicuous impartiality as bet wren the opposing nations engaged In the bloody contest for supremacy: and this simple testimonial of progressive and dignified journalism is but the echo of thousands of other readers of your valuable organ who rely on the truth fulness of its press news pertaining to the great war. and reliable an.) wholesome editorial comment arising from the developments of same. Much is written concerning the Ger man undersea, warfare, many of the Kaiser's adherents claiming its effec tiveness on food shipments destined to the British Isles is showing material results. Will you kindly state your views on this point, at th"" same time indicating the legality or Illegality of the so-called "submarine zono" created by Germany; also give reasons ad vanced by England for preventing car goes of any description from entering the ports of tlermiiny and her allies, whether the latter blockade is wholly elsewhere on this page. JOHN E. WALLACE. -