THEJIOKXEfG OREGON'IAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1915. rOKTLAXD, OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon, FostoffJce. as secona-ciass matter. 6uDscriptioa Bates invariably in advance. (By Mail.) Daily, Sunday incltided, ene year Daily, Sunday included. six months ... 4.2.j , Daily, Sunday Included, three month .. 2.23 Dall, Sunday included, one moBJJi -J Tiailv ulrhnnt itti4.v an v,af . ..... A.OO Dally, vlthoot Sunday, six moothi 3.2S - Dally, without Sunday, three montna. .. 1.7o Ttallv ... i . V. . . . i,,Wav An wi ont b .BO Weekly, one year................. .- 1.00 fcunday, one year 2.5o Sunday and Weekly, one. year.... .. 3.50 (By Cannier.) Daily, Sunday included, one year. $9.00 Dally, Sunday included, one- month 75 ' How to Remit Send postoffice money or der, express order or personal cheek on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender a rlsa. Give postortico aaaress in ami t Including; county an& acata. Postage Bates 12 to ltf pases. 1 cent: 18 -. .. ..am r.ar.1a- t i. 4R na?PS 3 CentS f.0 to 60 paxes, 4 cents; 52 to 78 pages, 9 -enid: 7 to Si pases, t cents, fuieigu aice. double rates. Eaxtern easiness Office Verrea Conk- lin, Brunswick building. New York; Verrea A- t.onKiin, ssceger Duiiamg, I-ranelsco representative, R. J. Bidwell, 4 42 Market atrfeai. J'OKTL.iM), FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 191S. Ol'R JIBM, CONSISTENT PRESIDENT. President Wilson Is represented to the people by his unwavering admirers sts so firm and consistent in adherence to his policies, that no consideration, personal, business or political, can swerve him from them. He called- upon Congress two years ago to enact a Presidential primary law. A protest was raised in his own party, chiefly in the South. It was loud and vigorous and showed that state constitutions would have to be changed before the new system could be inaugurated. The President forgot about the- Presidential, primary, and has not since- been able to refresh his memory. Representative. Gardner two years ago called attention, to our defenseless condition aJid proposed the establish ment of a National commission to pre pare a system of adequate National defense. The President pronounced the subject one for. academic discus sion, and his party, following his cue, sat down on Mr. Gardner. When the country, aroused by the object lesson of Europe, demanded better defense, the President reversed himself. He has Deen consulting neatis ot uio twi iigL ing departments, military and naval experts and chairmen of Congress committees, and is now pressing a scheme to enlarge greatly both Army and Navy at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. Against the advice of Democratic leaders in Congress the President in sisted upon entire removal of duties on sugar, and he whipped his party into line by a charge that an "insidi ous lobby" was working against his plans. He yielded so far as to accept only an immediate twenty-five per cent reduction in the duty, postponing free sugar for two years. The Secre tary of the Treasury, speaking for the Administration, now proposes repeal of the free sugar clause. Mr. Wilson ran for President on a platform which declared for free use of the Panama Canal by coastwise ships and he said: "Our platform is not molasses to catch flies; it means business; it means what it says." After being in office a year he demanded repeal of the exemption clause "with out raising the question whether we were right or wrong," and he de manded until he got It. He caused introduction of the ship TnrrhnA hill and insisted thnt it ha " passed. It was shown to be fatally defective in several particulars, one being that it put the proposed Gov ernment corporation at the mercy of state law. Within two weeks it was withdrawn and revised, and again its passage was insisted upon. Filibus tering prevented its passage, and now it has been revised again. It formerly provided only for merchant ships to be owned by the Government; it now provides for Naval auxiliaries to be used in merchant service when not reeded by the Navy. The main struc ture of the original scheme remains, but its outward form has twice changed. The seamen's law, by subjecting American ships to restrictions from which the ships of rival commercial Nations are exempt, has driven Amer ican ships from the Pacific Ocean. It ws approved by the President and is . championed by his Administration, ; iwhlle nothing is done to revise either this law of the navigation laws in general in such a manner as to en courage investment in ships. The ship : purchase scheme by these means is ' bolstered up as the only possible salva tion of our merchant marine. , The President at every opportunity discouraged woman suffragists, then he ostentatiously went to New Jersey and voted for woman suffrage. He is pledged to civil service reform, but has approved many schemes to restore the spoils system. He promised "pitiless - publicity" about public affairs, but has practiced secrecy without precedent. As a private citizen he wrote against excessive Government regulation, but he has extended it into many new fields and proposes its further exten sion. He is pledged by his platform to ' respect the rights of the states, but by the conservation bills he attempts to ' -'iitL 1 1 i ueeti aDout as firm as a reed shaken by the wind. WOMBS PATRIOTS. Woman's part was ever the hard ran in war. Hers has always been the greater sacrifice. While tne flower of the Nation's manhood marches forth in n fever of patriotism to the hot tone of interest and action, the country's wom anhood remains behind In agonies of suspense which carry a more poig nant suffering than hardships of the march or even battle wounds. It has remained for her to take up the idle plowshare, to keep the pulse beats of industry moving, to maintain the Na tional spirit and optimism even amid 'her gnawing gloom. Now the women of England have baen culled upon to make a greater . sacrifice. What began a short time - ago as a passing Bentiment has grown into u National movement. Woman is asked to sacrifice sentiment and ro mance on the altar of greed v war. 1tkn . t . . i ii u mure, site is responding her life to that of some, ihiuicMil hulic which was a man. Such marital trage dies they can be termed nothing less - a irpwuu in isrjre numoers. Blind bridegrooms, legless, armless - bridegrooms, scarred and marred bridegrooms are marrying loyal t omej who love not them, but their . country. The cold, calculating regu : la to re of National weal point to the i need of increasing-marriages and these are the only available husbands. The brave women of England may wed tnece halves of men or select those even smaller fractions represented by the poltroons who, having sound limbs and vision, lack all moral semblance of men. It is an unhappy choice. In these sentimental hours when patriotism is a living, driving force, the sacrifice may not seem so great. But it to a lasting sacrifice, one that reaches through the years from youth to old age, robbing life of the glamour of romance and that love which is everything to woman. How of the years to come when the war is but memory? The broken wreck remains a solemn reality to be "loved, cher ished" and supported until death severs the galling bond. It is too much to expect that true love will step in where love of country falls away in those long, thoughtful days of peace to come. GOOD TIMES AND BAD. The Oregonian will not pretend that it fails to understand the complaint of the La Grande Observer that it has made "numerous Insinuations and sar castic utterances regarding the Bull Moosers." Not lately; not lately.- It admits with due humility that it urged the Bull Moosers who felt that way to go ahead in 1912 and organize ft party or their own. It was the honest wav for honest men to do. It is not so important that this or that Dartv should win, or lose as that Issues which divide them should be clearly pre sented and understood. There was a sharp disagreement among great groups of Republicans, and the sooner the thing was fought out and decided the better. Now that it is all over and the Pro gressive party is an obvious and ac knowledged failure, it seems to The Oregonian advisable for them to re turn. We do not see why our friend at La Grande should have his feelings nurt aoout it all. Does the marooned Progressive think he is better off if he stays forever with the wreck? It ap pears inconceivable. ' The Oregonian is most benevolently disposed toward the Progressives, for it feels better, and it thinks they do, for the late family row. It seems idle now to ask who wrecked the Repub lican party in 1912. It was a sad year for everybody but the Democrats. Will it do the Progressives any good to have it repeated in 1916? Will it do the country any good ? In retrospect the trouble that divid ed Republicans and Progressives In isij appears not very important. Rut the welfare of the people is important. How does the Observer like the Demo cratic times of the past two and one- half years? SHALT, CONVICTS BE EDUCATED? The Oreeonian hiu mcprtlv nm. mended the plan of the present state administration for instituting a school for convicts; and it approved a sim ilar proposal under the former (West) administration. The effort of the K von i n rr Tmifnal by garbled quotation and dislocated context, to show that The Oregonian was a'harsh critic of Governor West's attempt to "educate the convicts," is not worthy of reputabln journalism. The Oregonian most decidedly disap proved Governor West's ininnai and demoralizing prison policy, based uu tne assumption mat the convict was a victim of hurtful social condi tions, and that the duty of a Governor was somehow to get him out of prison. But The Oregonian during Governor West's regime disMtictlv com suggested plan of a' school for con- vicio, ia.vorea, we suppose, by him. It Was nrODOSed h- Knnai-intAnnn4 Alderman, Superintendent James (of the state prison). Rev. P. E. Bauer (state parole orricer), and Father Moore, of Salem, and -wan Rnhmt to the State Parole Board for its adop tion on November 16, 1911. The news paper record does not disclose what became of it. But The Oregonian then uovemDer is, 1911) said: Ktlliralinnal BnW .. .1 . . . .-... ,iaoiiunw training; lor Convicts At Rnlm t,AnM v. - . , . - ' .. wu.v reiurmauon alone; practical lines and parole as a reward """ stimulate tne men to study. " It punishment for living by crime , - . - -" ' 1 in me ways of maklns an honest living, there will be hope that criminals win become useful citizens. The extracts which the Journal re prints were all aimed at promiscuous and hasty pardons and at the general west scneme of making it easv for the criminal and opening prison doors out ward for him. There is no reason, if results are to be considered, why The Oregonian should withdraw or in any way modify anything it has said. But it protests against the application of its remarks to subjects not contem plated by it and not properly related to the discussion. AN ASSISTANT TO NATURE. Professor JoseDh French .Tnhnann of the University of New York, has betaken himseir to the support of Malthus. who saw in m-nr npstiUnn. and famine a boon to the human fam ily in that it ridded the world of sur plus population. thereliv nr.rr, - delaying the necessity for organized anuria in mis same Held of endeavor. Professor Johnson adds a link to the Maitnusian theory, however, by pitting taxation against the encroachments ni too many people. Appearing before the Mills legislative committee -wri, is studying the complex topic of taxa- nuii m an us aspects, the Professor presented the claim that married men are the ones who should bear the heavier burden of taxation in order that they might not be encouraged in their mistaken practice of propagating human kind. While, pointing out thnt mianv w,nr. place themselves at the head of much larger families tha n thev nre nhla r take care of, a practice unpleasant to contemplate. Professor Johnson cov ered the whole race of benedicts in his charge. The proud fathers and moth ers of earth are plunging the human ittimiy neauiong toward disaster. If they continue their ma.i ,,- v. earth will eventually stand burdened wnn more people than it can accom modate. Even now Nutun t. in against the increasing burden or hu man animals, which explains the Euro pean war ruuy to the Johnson mind. Bllt lW :i T fllnna m .. . - . .. w nut sutceea ana so the Professor urges the aid of taxa tion to meet tne problem. More taxes for the married man and less for the bachelor, or at least "n i for each. Is deemed' essential to con tinued human contentment and happi ness, in that it will tend to discourage marriage and the attendant increase of uirtus. It is hardlv neceiscartf i . - . v aiuiQ mail the Professor is a bachelor. Nor can anyone take fair issue with him in his contention that taxation should be listed in the same category with war pestilence and famine. It is just as inevitable and nearly as disconcerting to mortal beings as any one of those other evils to which human kind Is heir. Most of us, for that matter, have suffered far more from taxes than from either war, pestilence or famine But we are impelled to suspect that the Professor, in common witb his il lustrious predecessor in this line of reasoning, has lost his bearings. De spite the well-intended efforts of dreamers. Nature has never shown any serious indications of requiring their assistance. The great forces that con trol the universe appear to have fash ioned this tiny sphere and its environs without the aid of professorial minds. Nature, in fact, has gotten along swim mingly even in the application of those Instincts with which it has -provided human animals for the purpose of perpetuating and increasing their kind. All in all, we are led to suspect that the Professor is wasting valuable men tal energy on Nature which should be expended in improving his own. good sense. TRIUMPH OF GER2IAX DIPIOMACI. Lord Lansdowne's speech holds out small hope for Serbia's escape from annihilation and is a confession of blundering on. the part of the allies wnicn any uriusn statesman should be ashamed to make. His denial that it "has been the nractice of amateur strategists to Impose their plans upon the professional advisers of the gov ernment," and his statement that "it was Impossible to suppose that Earl Kitchener would allow himself to be deflected from his course bv the nr As sure of civilian colleagues," tend to place the main responsibility for Brit ain's strategy in Southeastern Europe on Kitchener. But he admits that "the Cabinet as a whole considered both naval and military and political as pects of the case," and that "whatever particular views were given by the military and naval advisers, the vil- mate responsibility for a decision on mem must rest on tne government. The "oolitlcal asnci-ta nf the " were diplomatic. They concerned the relations of the allies to each other and to the Balkan States. From the entire nistory of the campaign against Tur key the inference is to be drawn that the naval and military advisers were convinced of its wisdom by assurances from the diplomats that it sooner begin than Greece and. Rou mania certainly, and Bulgaria prob ably, would make common cause with tne aiues. The Cabinet as a whole must have acted on these The naval attack on the Dardanelles was promptly to be followed by a vreeit ana .Bulgarian attack on Turkey by land, and the notoriotiRiv ineffi cient Turks were to be shouldered out of Europe before their German tutors could prepare them. But the allies found it necessary to compose the differences among the Balkan States in order to get them into action. This required concessions by the three other states to p.nirarig To obtain them called for time and pressure. Serbia, being already in the war and being exposed to the menace ul a intra invasion by Austria, was most susceptible to this pressure so long as military support was withheld from her by the Western powers, and seems to have yielded as to Macedonia. But the Interference of German diplo mats caused, the negotiations with the three other states to drair air.no- sr. their efforts were aided powerfully by u, ueniiau jsjngs or - Koumania and Bulgaria and the German Queen of Greece. Subsequent events imply that Ferdinand of Bulgaria was never sin cere in his pretended willingness to join the allies if the territory snatched from him in the second Balkan war were restored. The glittering prize ofl a. cizanune emmre with i mT i.- ruler and with Constantinople as his -ijii.a.1. was aangiea Derpre his eyes by Germany, and marie ih nrh.. the allies seem petty by comparison. auies men in February, March and April considered that they had the upper hand in other fields of op eration and did not therefore realize the importance of haste in h,-r,i-, the Balkan States Into line. They were nuiutng nrm in the West, and in Po land, while Russia was. hammering away through the Carpathians, and Italy was likely to Join them any day. The German diplomats were playing for time in the hope that the military situation would take a turn in favor of the central empires. Hence pre cious months were wasted in diplo matic dickering, and Serbia was in duced to be reasonable by the with holding or military aid beyond artillery and munitions. Thus Germany contrived to prolong the negotiations until the tremendous drive through Galicia and Poland and the resultant Internal nniitii - slons in Russia had produced an im pression or Teuton invincibility and Russan impotence on the minds of the Balkan peoples and had nullified the moral effect of Italy's accession to the ranks of the allies. The latter's army on the Gallinoli Peninsula slight gains at h seemed to be butting its head against tuue waai. tience when Bulgaria sprang a surprise by joining the Teu tons, Greece and Roumania were afraid to move, . and Serbia was un- f roieciea. The military disaster which ens to overwhelm fiorhio . appears as the logical sequel to the most dis astrous Diplomatic defeat which has befallen the allies. The German diplo mats were aided in theii- ... .t. . victories over Russia, and the allies luuuiiuea tnejr pressure on Serbia by leaving her unprotected long after it had become evident thai t,. w 1 V II Ll'll Hi vasion of that kingdom was imminent. 1'" aiuea uipiomats were outwitted at every turn, and the crowning blunder was the ultimatum to Bulgaria from Russia, invaded and staggering under defeat. King Ferdinand instantly called the bluff, and his army now at tacks Serbia on one flank- L - I . , - ' V-l 1 CHI . w hile the Teutons attack in front and n tne otner riank. As a matter purely of military- and naval strategy, the fftlirSA rt V. .111 has been such a standing invitation to defeat that the veriest amateur strategist should not have been guilty of it. It is incon.evohi T , T. . . , mat men or Lord Kitchener's and General Joffre'a nr. 1Ci,tc ana proved ability would have been guilty of it unless t'bey had been deceived bv theii- as to the political situation in the Bal- -x.. rnure or the diplomats to en list promised military aid in that quar ter in the cause or the oii;. t t- only reasonable explanation. But Tor diplomatic reasons it is not probable that Serbia would have been left ex posed to the present assaults without heavy reinforcements close at hand Last Spring the allies had the central ..i.e euciosea m a huge ring in which Serbia was the only gap Their strategists must have foreseen that the Teutons might break through that gap to aid Turkey and that, without Greek and Roumanian help, the allied armv at the Dardanelles would then be in danger of extermination, with flight to its ships as the only alternative They seem to have relied on assur ances that the other three Balkan states would close that gap and would unite in an assault on Constantinople, both by way of the Dardanelles and the Chatalja lines. Had allied diplomacy won, the Turks might now have been driven out of Europe and might have been defend ing themselves desperately in Asia Minor, while Roumania might have invaded Transylvania and put Austria again on the defensive. That Serbia is in danger of extinction, that Teuton armies have joined Bulgars to rush aid to Turkey, and that the latter em piTe still has hope of survival, is a triumph of German diplomacy. ' Russia announces preparation for another great trial at the Germans. Munitions are being secured from Ja pan a.nd new armies are being mar shalled. The Czar expects better re- suits next time, and while we must admire the Russian stubbornness, there arises considerable doubt as to the Slav ability to do very much. Mili tary inefficiency appears to be deep seated in the Czar's domain. There are no braver soldiers. There is no mightier array of fighting men. But that element of National efficiency in organizing and supplying millions of fighting men which is so great a factor in the war of today, seems to toe alien to Russian tem-ne-m-ment Tha hoot- the Czar appears able to do is send rmge army ronwara equipped for a temporary campaign. He lacks facili ties for supplying needs as rapidly as - mccuo mise unuer sustained fighting. Inasmuch si 'Matinnai -in efficiency may not be replaced at once by deep-rooted efficiency, little more need be expected of the Czar immedi ately than a series of futile sorties. From the thriving little tm.-n nr Namna. Idaho. COTTle -WnTVl a hATir- lng - gum epidemic. Ten thousand buckb 01 me sweetened cud are used each week, which makes a grand total of more than half a million ne- i-e.. This naturally leads to the question of ""cmer tne conaition is local or gen eral. The subject should be inquired into at-once. If the whole Notion affected by the gum habit the fact should toe reduced to record. Scien tific aata snouia be prepared as to whether gum is beneficial nr Hiatsri. ous. At present claims conflict. Some say that it warps the mouth, others say that it aids digestion. Who knows but that some occult inquirer may not be able tb foresee the fate or regen eration of the whole country in the incident at Nampa? It was entirnlv m ho Oregon WOUld scorn heavllv- -in h stock show at the Exposition. There is no clime more friendly to stock raising than those sections of Oregon which know nothing of extremes of temperature. Stock may roam the pastures the year around . with no heavy drafts of energy to meet rigor ous weather. There is no season when green grass does not abound to add leavening to the diet. What is true of cattle applies to nearly everything else, animal or vegetable, peculiar to the temperate zones. A has Kan served heretofore, this is Nature's fa- vorea realm, isvery time a competitive fair is held we are reminded of the fact toy the heavy share of high awards vwucn uregon producers obtain. Apples should not hn sIIadu to waste this Winter. Cider mills of more or less rnmiritv bo .- ' -J " 1UC1VJCUDITC and it will not hurt people to get back iu ni sweet Deverage jr they consume it while it is sweet. Nampa, Idaho, which retired from the fame column when the jackrabbit cannery ceased operation a quarter century, ago, leaps into the column on Its record per capita consumption of chewing gum. Colonel Tucker is welcome home to health and active service. He has proved what the simple life will do to restore an apparently broken-down When all the other ) that ......... in the asylum at the time -nn, they will be sorry for young Shepard because "he can't have no fun," being nt'n. The welldigger near Brownsville who found gold at twenty feet, iron later and copper still deener. mav strike brimstone if he goes far enough. There mav be a rnnnocttrtti hAtn, the Belgian victorv In Africa ani th- . - - ... , 1 VI 111C German overtures for with the allies about that continent. The Arervll is one TtWHah 11.. ... . . viumci I.UB Germans did not a-et whtm ., v. aground off Scotland. The difference is that all hands were saved. Those who own no aula fall t the slightest increase of pulse-beat over the announcement that juice has advanced another notch. The aviation corns seems to hn been used as a meann Ana-hn,n Army officers to fly high everywhere -v i y L 111 tne air. Britain may send tronna to hoin Serbia. An announcement calculated to arouse the French sense of humor. An "old-fashioned Hahv- QhT,. i. planned for next wnelr hut 1 any old-fashioned babies to exhibit? Excuse US from that am-tal -1: i -. boiim Jitney. The kind that runs below is deadly cuuugu m meet an our needs. The only thing rarer than k. fla-c- in October is February 29, and that is due next year. Reports from the turkev POlinrrv un Roseburg way say there will be plenty of the birds. Can policemen in Mnihimio .antnA. mounted patrolmen at the head-of a urvcession : A French Cabinet that wnii -.. resign now and then imi,tj i forgotten. The lead-pipe - cinch in California has discovered a hna- that eats it. The report on the F4 nrna that somebody's carelessness murdered her crew. Lloyd George is wastina- hreath an time again In denying peace rumors. The i'iner who in nnt at thA t Show tonight is not loyal. Russia has cause for rejoicins. Win ter is on. The British submarine gets its in nings. Be snre to land at the Land Show- Stars and Starmakers By Iioaa Cass Baar, i ( A CTRESS motor driver in crash is J. new,- says a Deadline. Should think so. Imagine wearing crash at this season of the year. a a Dr. Saton Temple Pope, of the Uni versity of California, put what might be termed a "maximum silencer" on a student whom he caused to hold bis breath for 10 minutes. Personally I wish It could be ar ranged to have the doctor operate on a. lot of theatrical press agents and then during the lovely 10 minutes re spite rd run out and have the in junction made permanent, a a a I just read the account of a New Tork vaudevlllian accent on the uit- lain It turns out who is being sued ror otgamy and is accused by five wives. The story says he is a "member of several clubs." I ll betcha the em ployes in the "several clubs" were kept busy answering the phone for five women and tollinsr them "V,,- husband isn't here, he hasn't been here ana we don t know when he left or when he'll be in." For the nut fwn wVa Ttrni. Story, husband of Bessie Abott, the prima donna, has been seriously ill with hardening of the artei-iea an hi. condition does not Improve. Miss ,Ab- oti is aiso on the verge of collapse from anxiety and her long vigils at Mr. Story's bedside. , Mr. Story is undergoing treatment at his home in Eut Sixtieth it,..! New York City. He is tha hrotii JuUan Story, the painter and sculptor. wno was rJmma Eames' husband be fore she married Emil Rnrmi Ttr.i Story is a sculDtor. too. Bni ih. ott was in Portland on her most re cent visit two seasons ago in "Robin Hood." a "a . Take It from Anna Helrf h i. t Vaudeville herself nnrl In 1 8elf for Oliver Morosco, there will not ny dearth of French plays after the war. Miss Held. Who ha hnn vl.llln. the-hospitals of France and entertain ing the wounded vrffh ano-at iiu. that at the present time there Is little or real theatrical production In Paris. Plays, however, she declares, are still being written by native authors, and are even being tried out. xne method of nrodncina- than to present them in the great room of some villa or chateau for the benefit of the hospital funds. While, of course, the productions under these Condition are tint ,thr.,.t. i. sufficiently adequate to demonstrate .cue, ui i ii jot mus pre sented, SSys Miss Held, several plays that will eventually reach the regular stage nave heen disclosed. The withdrawal of Irene Frankly from the cast of "Hf.no1. Tin1" h.. parently not enhanced Its chances of success, for it has ended Its career. It was a Lew Fields project- Bearing upon the rennrt that .h. had made an offer tn hnv an in..( in "Hands Up," Miss Franklin said to a newspaper man: The report la absol-utM- fa ice vv collapse Is physical, not mental." Mr. and Mrs. Julius Tann.n . . - second son. born last week In Now Rochelle. Mr. Tan nan in inn.,,!.. i the newest version of the Potash. Fenmutter plays. This one is called ADe ana .Mawruss. Frances White Is annearimr with William Rock in a dancing specialty with the "So Lone- Lett v" rnhinBnV In San Francisco. This is the Rock of the famous Rock and Fultnn Maude Fulton has taken to play writ ing. Her newest is a olav for l,nn Ulrich. Rennold Woir In the New Tork Morning Telegraph tries to keep tab on the peregrinations of E. D. Price, known to this coast for his managerial days Jn the California theaters, and more recently as the husband of Cath rine Countiss. Says Mr. Wolf: "The current season promises to be the most exciting In E. D. Price's career, and he has been married several times. First he was attached to "Just Outside the Door." wnicn slammed shut. Then for a month or two he served as business manager tor .nenry Miner and Ruth Chatterton. Next Joseph Brooks found himself without a business manager for "Tril by." and Mr. Price was. dispatched to that attraction. And how he has been recalled by Klaw & Erlanger to take charge of "Follyanna." Mr. Price will begin his campaign in the interests of that play next week in St. Louis. e Man proposes, woman disposes and later changes her mind about it. At least that's what Olive Wyndham, ac tress, thinks she should do. Miss Wyndham has done that same her self and has decided not to marry Walter Klrkpatrick Brlce, son of the late United States Senator Calvin S. Brice. The pair had been engaged since early last Summer, the engage ment having been announced July 3. Neither Miss Wyndham nor Mr, Brice will explain the cause of their break and the affair is somewhat of a mys tery to their friends. "I do not care to talk about It." said Miss Wyndham yesterday, "it is over; that Is all." Mr. Brice. too, refused to discuss the matter, although admitting their en gagement had been broken. Miss Wyndham, a sister of Janet Beecher, has had a wide experience on the stage, having appeared In "What Happened to Mary." "A Modern Girl." "The Man From Home" and numerous other plays. a a Dainty Marie, the Venus who Is next to Houdint in importance in the show at the Orpheum, ig a niece of Ezra Meeker, the pioneer who blazed the Oregon trail and who has exploited Oregon from this city to Portland. Me. In his trips across the Continent baa hind oxen. Marie's father was Ezra Meeker's brother. The Orpheum ac tress never has met her patriarchal uncle, the necessary jump from the Seattle Orpheum to Portland making It Impossible for her to visit Mr. Meek er and his family during her recent engagement north. In her vaudeville act Marie Is assisted by her younger sister. Margie. Dainty Marie's father met death more than a year ago in Galveston. Tex., at the hands of in-x-adlng Mexicans. 6he is making her second tour along the Orpheum circuit and- the fact that her name on tha poster is next that of the famous Hou dint is taken to indicate that she is regjrded by -the OrffheuDU powers as a star of magnitude. LIQUOR DISPEN'SART SUGGESTED PIsu Out liar d tar City Sell Ltquora and Make Profit. PORTLAND. Oct. 28. (To the Ed itor.) We have a new law taking ef feet January 1 in Oregon which is to regulate the sale and usage of liquor and the question as to whether it is an unjust or a just law. is not up for discussion at this time. There is, how ever, a question as to the manner in which the regulations are made and the injustice done the people of Oregon from the standpoint of revenue. There will undoubtedly be a good profit derived by someone from every drop of liquor shipped into the State of Oregon after January 1 and this profit by rights belongs to the people of this state. It seems to me it would be only fair to impose a license on the dealer who is privileged to ship his liquor into this state. A better plan, however, would be to permit each mu nicipality to handle at a profit the liquor that may be consumed in that locality. This could be done under identically the same regulations the law now provides for. Take for example our own City of roruana. Tne revenue derived from the sale of liquor by the City ot Port land to its citizens, under the strict regulations of the law. would over come the loss that will be sustained by not having the benefit of. the money formerly derived from the saloon li cense. In other words, allow the City of Portland and other cities In the state who may through their city authori ties apply to the state for a permit, to open a municipal liquor store for the sale of liquor to its citizens In the same manner as prescribed by law. and In this way allow our own towns in the State of Oregon to derive the revenue or profit from its sale Instead of giv ing this profit to some saloonkeeper or liquor dealer in another state. The question Is a simple one and anybody can understand It and all there is to do is to so amend the law or the constitution that a man could order his stuff locally from the muni cipal liquor store and thereby leave his money in Portland and allow Portland to realize the profit, instead of send ing his money to some other state and getting the delivery of the same goods through the express company, though a few days later. Were it not for the loss of revenue from liquor licenses I am quite sure our worthy City Commissioners would not find so much difficulty in arranging the budget for 1916. I am not in any way defending the saloon nor do I care personally whether r not there is a drop of liquor sold in the State of Oregon, but what I am trying to make clear is that the law which will be applied and put Into ef fect the nrst of the year takes away from our city a certain revenue that could just aa well be saved, as It Is needed and needed badly. W. H. TREECE. BAD ENGLISH, QUEER SENTIMENTS Writer ladlrta Wonder Child's Mother da Two Seperate Counts, PORTLAND. Oct. 28. (To the Ed itor.) Permit me to indorse " the re marks of Dr. J. Allen Gilbert In The Sunday Oregonian on the new-fangled ways of teaching children to be learned and good. But in estimating the value of the new methods wa may be pardoned If we pass in review the lan guage or those who ret out to startle us by their criticisms or present-day methods. Some of those who attended the lec tures of Mrs. Stoner in Portland re cently were rather taken back by the shortcomings of her own, language. For example, she spoke of "lees people" in. stead of "fewer people." She split her infinitives horribly. She spoke of children as "kids" and referred to a 'batch of children." Instead of speak ing of "mothers-in-law" she said mother-in-laws." Ehe held up to scorn church women and cast unnecessary aspersions on bridge and pink teas It would seem that she dropped sad ly when she said that she would not blame a husband for getting an affin ity if he has a scolding wife. Her use of the word "like" for "as" in the Phrase "do It like I do" and her use of there s' for "there are" made one ask if all the stories regarding her wonder child are absolutely correct. Both her f'rench and German accent were cen sured by unquestioned authority. Her Latin also was severely criticised by two women of my acquaintance who have both taught that language. Opinions may differ as to whether it Is better to speak eight languages poorly or one elegantly. R. M. TUTTLE. HALLOWEEN OF LONG AGO. Halloween of long ago! How the mem- v i j licet On its retrospective wings, how the afireinsr evea Almost with the old-time light seem "i tjoitiy glow As the pleasing picture comes of the long ago. Gathered in the old farm, house every eye alight With the twinkling sparks of fun- on that jolly night. Boys dressed in their Sunday best, for the nleaallrea Iraati Girls the bright-faced witches of that uiu-iune ractiioween. Never was there music like that old fldrtlet ntflv.H One leg, cased In homespun jeans, Cowhide boots a-beating time, head to "no aiae Dent, As he'd jerk the, music from that old Boys and girls upon the floor, lor how Every muscle lending power to the country dance. Faces lit with sunny smiles, fun's re flected sheen. Picturing the pleasures of that old- iiiiifs nuiiuween. And the lunch 'twas passed around! Twisted doughnuts lumps of gold " w i'i wut ot tno try. Red-cheeked apples that would grace ft n V fr-l Anu tnVi at Van a v4 Apple cider from the bar'l' in the cel- lo. ......... .1 Popcorn white as drifted snow, each HnMchl. nhn Eating from the treasure piled in his Laughter following' the jests from tnanv mlffir 4.,, ,. Old folks thing of the days' when they. When the old grandfather's clock told the noon of night. With a creepy feeling almost bordering on fright. Each girl, mirror held In hand, candle overhead. Braved cellar's gloom to see the face of fellow she would wed. Down the steps she'd backward go, intently gazing In The glass to see the face of him tha - rates said she would win. Then with scream she'd hasten back and tremblingly declare I The dim outline of someone's face was surely pictured there. I asked an ageing woman sitting near me as x write If ever she'd backed down the atair on that mysterious nlEht. And in her wifely eyes a gleam ot pure mischievouanesa I noted aa with nod of head she quickly answered: "Yas. And. sure enough, a face appeared within the mirror, one I would have shattered p. d. q. if I had had a gun! I vowed Td never wed the man whose lace was there outlined. But then, you, know, a woman has the right to change her mind." JAUfcS BARTON AfcAilS, j Twenty-Five Years Age From The Oreconian. of October 19, iSOO. Chicago. Oct 28. The annual con vention of the Unitarians of the West began here this evening. Cincinnati, Oct 28. Briggs Swift, a noted pork packer and merchant, died tonight. A gentleman from Washington Coun ty reports having met a gang of Chinese yesterday going to work on the Astoria & South Coast Railroad near Hillsboro. He says the new survey Tor the line.has been made out by the Hoover place, and there is considerable excitement on the Tualatin Plains in regard to the road. The gilded life-size steer has been hoisted to its niche in the tower of the new Perkins House. It is on the south side of the tower and glistens in the ' " "sshko copy or tne Golden Calf and can be seen from afar. Owing to Judge Deady being confined to his room with illness, there has been no session of the United States Court thin weelr Tt ..-(11 k.vi . several days before court will be Joseph Kirkley died of typhoid fever at his residence on Front and Gibbs streets at 9 o'clock yesterday morn ing at the age of 61 years. The de ceased was an old resident and highly respected business manv The flour trade with China is in creasing all the time. By the next steamer, the Portland Flouring Mills will shin 70(1 ton it i. . ' - . - .a niwi a iMlfcn likely that the prophecy of a flour uini-Mi umi v it ii in ten years Asia will consume the entire output of flour of the Pacific Coast will prove correct. Large numbers of Immigrants are coming in from Kansas. From SO to 100 have been coming in daily over the Union Pacific of late. Most of them are stout, hardy young men, used to roughing it. and all have money enough to make a start. . FINDING THE HOME-MAKING MAX Working Girl Says She Knows They Exist, but Where Is Her Question. PORTLAND. Or.. Oct. 27. (To the Editor.) I have read quite a number of Interesting articles on "How Is the Right Girl Going to Meet the Right Man." I am a working girl and have worked for 18 years, so you know I know the value of money. They say we live In a beautiful world. I know it must be so, for everybody says that. But I am real lonesome at times, es pecially when I come home and Bit tn my room, too tired to go anywhere. Unless I am different from most girls I think when a girl gets my age we look forward to making a home; for someone to give us a kind word when the day is over, from someone who is more than Just a boss for whom vou are working. But nowadays the men are mostly all looking for fine clothes and "street walkers." They don't think of getting a girl who will and can make a good home. What does this word "home" mean, you ask. I will tll you in a few words. Home Is an Inn where love Is land lord: home Is where the heart finds its greatest content: home is where the wife is neat and clean and the husband sober and industrious, chil dren respectful. If there is any way of digging up such men who can help make homes like I am speaking of. I v would be glad to know, for 1 really do think there are many good men if we only knew where to dig for them. MISS ROSE. ONE TROUBLE WITH BIRTH RATB Writer Thinks Common People Are A f fected by Living Conditions. PORTLAND, Oct. 2S. (To the Edi tor.) -Kindly allow me to say a few words regarding the cause of the de crease In the birth rate of America. The common people of our country are the ones who have brought forth the large families in the past, but the conditions of the wage earner have be come so bad that the expense of rear ing a family, even a small one. In a way it should be, has become a gamble. What mother, or father for that mat ter, wants to bring children into the world to be hurled in later years in the vortex of an over supplied labor market? Look at the unemployed sons of mothers on the Burnslde labor ex change awaiting their chance o get or not to get a day's work right now, even when the great corporations are mak ing fortunes. Look at the children of poor families in the Juvenile Court of your fair city. There will have to be a change made in the economic conditions of our coun try before the sturdy, hard-working men arm women of this Nation will even listen to the propagation or their kind In numbers which will correspond with the past. The shrewd fathers are also reluc tant to bring up a large familv for the lowest bidder on the labor market. M. C. ARMSTRONG. NAME SIMILARITY IS VEXATIOUS Seaside Doctor Annoyed Through Esca pades of One Dr. Gottlieb. SEASIDE. Or., Oct. 27. (To the Ed itor.) It would please me much if you would publish that I. Dr. Theodore Gottlieb, of Seaside, Or., formerly ot Portland, am not Identical with Dr. Leon Gottlieb-, accused of passing worthless checks and other offenses, nor am I related to that man in any way. At the time of Dr. Leon Gottlieb's elopement to Oregon City I received congratulations from friends near and far, some good and bad advice and oc casionally a black cigar. My best girl was on the verge of suing me for breach of promise. But since the publication of the ar rest of Dr. Leon Gottlieb my mother in Portland is kept busy assuring benevolent friends and neighbors that she didn't raise her boy to be a forger. I trust the publication of these lines will put a stop to the foolish questions of the "dear friends." DR. THEODORE GOTTLIEB. War Nurses, RAINIER, Or., Oct. 27. (To the Ed itor.) Please Inform me In just what wav a rjeraon WRntlnr tn ant,. hospital service In the European war wuuiu bo auuut putting in an applica tion. A. C. If you desire to enlist In the hospi tal service of one of the belligerents you would probably have to go to that country and pass an examination. For Information about service with the American National Red Cross write to the secretary, 1621 H. street N. W Washington. D. C. Ignorance Is a Vice. Not to know Is criminal. To buy by the rule of Impulse or by guess is improvidence. When you spend your money get its worth in merchandise. Form your own opinions, but form them from well grounded facts. A splendid source of information for the buyer is modern advertising the kind you see day by day la The Oregonian.