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Newspaper Page Text10 THE MOIK5TXG OKEGOXIATT. THUESDAT, MARCH S, 1916. PORTIANO, OREGON". Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postoffice as second-class matter Subscription Kates Invariably in-advance: iUy ilaii. Ially. Bunlty Included, one year Daily. Sunday Included, Bix moathB. . T-aily, Sunday included, three months. Ially, Sunday Included, one month... Dally, without Sunoay. on year Iall;'. wltJiout Sunday, six months.., Xjaily, without Sunday, three months. Dally, without Sunday, one month.... "Weekly, one year Sunday, one year Sunday ana Weekly, one year (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday included, one year..... Daily. Sunday included, one month ..$8.00 . . !io . . 2.25 .73 . . 6.U0 . . 3.2.1 . . 1.75 .. . . . 1.50 . . 2.50 .. 3.50 .. 9 00 .. .75 How to Memlt Bend postotfice money or der, express order ir personal check on your local bank stamps, coin or currency are at sender's rlslt. Give postofflce addresses In '!' mciuu.nj- county ana. ..lAmoriran or insular nossessinns At Postaare Hat n st lutirpM n mm. :a to 4H oasres. 3 cents: BO to 60 pases. 4 cents; 62 to 7ti pages. 5 cents; 7S to pag s, 0 cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Katdern lioines Office Verree & Conk lln, BruniwlcU ', -lid ins. New York; Verree & Conklln. Steger building, Chicago. Ban Francisco representative. K. J. Bidwell, 42 Market street. POBTLAXD. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1916. TAKING THE GAG FBOH CONGRESS. President Wilson has been obliged to take his hand from the Congres sional mouth, for he has found that the policy of suppression and silence has led to grave and injurious mis understandings abroad. Restless mutterings and veiled threats have caused Germany to think that the American purpose to protect the rights of neutrals on the high seas has not the support or Congress; and if not of Congress, also not of the American people. The unhappy truth is that the Presi dent's own party is not heartily or unitedly behind him; and he has been forced to pull it along by the ears in his effort to offer a brave front to the belligerent powers. First his own Secretary, Mr. Bryan, a year ago, in formed Ambassador Dumba, of Aus-tra-Hungary, that the strict-accountability note of the President, which he (Bryan) had signed, was not to be taken literally and was intended chief ly for home consumption. It was a most amazing and audacious bit of treachery to his chief. The majority leader of the Senate, Mr. Kern, is an ally of Mr. Bryan, and barely more than a nominal supporter of the Presi dent. Senator Stone, of the foreign relations committee, is not prepared to go to the last ditch, and in effect says so. House Democratic Leader Kitchin is Openly opposed to preparedness, and is hostile- to the general Administra tion scheme of enforcing American rights. Chairman Hay, of the mili tary committee, is a recent convert to moderate preparedness, without the convert's Eeal. Speaker Clark, while he has given valuable aid, in crises, is not wholly in sympathy with the AVil son plans. The whole Democratic party the responsible power in government is permeated with dissatisfaction, di vision, unrest, indifference, inertia, and even outright disloyalty to the Presi dent. There is little sentiment among the Democrats to support the Presi dent because he is right, but only be cause he is President and a Democrat. There is a considerable sentiment among Republicans to stand behind him because he is President, because he is right and because it is patriotic. The demoralizing influence within the Democratic party is Bryanism. The seeds of discontent are sown by Bryan the undercurrent of opposition to any vigorous policy toward Germany or any foreign power is due to Bryan and Bryanism. He has wrecked the Demo cratlc party more than once; he is likely to do it again. Of Course Congress will support the President. It has no alternative. It was a bold stroke by him; but it was necessary. Whether it will accom plish tho desired reBult of giving to the world needed assurance that there is a firm, bold and united America remains to be seen. AMERICAN POWER IN THE CARIBBEAN Ratification of the treaty establish ing a protectorate over Haiti com pletes American control over the three largest islands of the West Indies- Cuba. Haiti and Porto Rico. The United States, by its guaranty of Cu ban independence and by the powers secured through the Piatt amendment, practically controls the foreign rela tions of that republic, by its protecto rate it also controls those of Santo Domingo and Haiti and it governs Porto Rico. It thus controls the most important passages between the At lantic Ocean and t.he Caribbean Sea. No nostiie neel couia enter mat sea witn out having to reckon with an Ameri can fleet based on one of these islands. Control of Haiti is important to the safety of our position in Central Amer ii'a and to the maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine. Had we permitted disorder to continue in Haiti and bank ruptcy to follow, some European power having interests or ambition there would no sooner have found leisure from vrar in Europe than it might have Challenged the Monroe Doctrine under the plausible petext of collect mg its subjects debts. Once in pos session, it could only have been ex pelled by force. Under the treaty the United States will be in possession and if our rights are to be challenged, the challenge must be direct. Control of the West Indies is lm portant to the protection of the Pan ama Canal and of our expanding in terests in Central America. These have been increased by the treaty, re cently ratified, by which we assume a protectorate over Nicaragua. The pur pose of this treaty is to secure one of the alternative canal routes, that no other nation may compete with our waterway at Panama and that, if any nation shall build a Xicaragua canal, that nation shall be the United States. The same motive dictates to us that we should obtain from Colombia the exclusive, perpetual right to the Da. ricn route. By such a deal we might salve Colombia's wounded feelings and gratify its hunger for money without an apology for the Panama affair, pro vided the price is not exorbitant. A treaty, similar in many respects to that with Xicaragua, was concluded with Honduras by the Taft Administration, but has not been ratified. It gave the United States financial control and a protectorate. There is still a possi bility that such an arrangement may be made. Clearly the expansion of American political influence and commerce tends southward. Some of us may foresee tho day when the Caribbean Sea will be an American lake. This thought seems to have been in the mind of Dr. Edwin E. Slosson when ho vrote for the New York Independent an ar ticle suggesting that tho United States swap tho Philippine Islands with Great Britain for the British West Indies, British Honduras and British Guiana. This swap would give us practical con trol of h11 the West Indies except the Danish, islands, Martinique and Guade loupe, which belong to France, and saa fcw Xu$cb isianda sX tag c&aatartat bad Xouad & tTymn&b.eu3 lAter- of Venezuela. It yould extinguish British control on the mainland of the Western Hemisphere south of Can ada. It -would relieve us of responsi bilities which are too remote from our shores and would insure humane, lib eral government for the Filipinos. But Dr. Slosson's swap is remote from the field of practical politics. It is inter esting merely as showing which way the minds of Americans tend. Increase of our responsibilities in the Caribbean Sea imposes upon the United States the duty of providing for their fulfillment. We must be able to protect the territory under our guardianship from any aggressor. That requires a navy strong enough to over come that of any nation which might possibly attack any of our Central present we are dependent on the good will of Britain for maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine. Though it is not probable, it is possible, that we might come into conflict with that country. Should that, never happen and should Britain remain a staunch supporter of American policy and a scrupulous respecter of American rights, depend ence on another nation for their main tenance hampers us in our dealings with that nation in other affairs and does not comport with our dignity. The ultimate purpose of our naval policy should be to have a Navy strong enough to uphold our rights and pol icies, not only independent of Britain but against Britain in case the neces sity should arise. JUST A FEW FIGURES ON PENSIONS. The Oregonian, in course of its in vestigation of the great subject of pre paredness, has come across a book entitled "The American Army," by William Harding Carter, Major-Gen- eral U. S. A. It is a timely and au thoritative study of Xational needs and the duty of preserving the Xational safety. It goes into the problem in all its phases, so that it is worth any patriotic citizen's time to read and di gest it. Just now we will content ourselves with reproducing few figures from tho Carter work, for whatever good they may do. They relate chiefly to pensions. The United States is pay- ng pensions on account of the Civil and Spanish-American wars of about $180,000,000 per year, and the end is not in sight. Immediately after the war of 1898 the following claims for pensions were filed by five volunteer regiments which had not lost a man through death, injury or other casualty and had not smelled the smoke of battle: Pension Kll'd "Woun'd Miss'g claims 1st Dist. Col.. fth Mass l 33d Ml"hisran r.73 S15 31ith Michigan o atn unio u- Totals 0 6 0 2!7 Hero is the record made bv- five regiments of regulars who were in action and who suffered losses: Kll'd Woun'd Miss'e claims Tiin i. . infantry . . . I i lllli 17 102 !;i I'm 1IO O S7 lo7 17 n:t 75 C 125 471 40 7 0 0 i!l)7 7th u. S. Infantry ..8:1 l.'lth IT. S. Infantry ..IS ll'.lh T'. S. Infantry.. IS 24th V. S. Infantry..:; Total for regulars. M: Total for volunteers o If there is any lesson to be drawn from comparison of the tables, we leave it to the experts, citizen and military. COME WEST AND LEARN. A New York financial paper, the Financial Age, was moved by the hold ing of the American Bankers' Associa tion's last convention at Seattle to seek opinions adverse to holding future con ventions west of the Missouri River. In so doing it "caught a Tartar," as the Pacific Banker expresses it. A South ern banker replied that he was so much pleased with the Seattle conven tion that he proposes to make a West ern trip an annual event, adding: "There is no doubt in my mind about the value of these meetings." If there is one class of men above all others which can afford to travel long distances to attend conventions and which should go to all parts of the country on such errands, it is the bankers. In order that they may do their business well, it is desirable that they be closely acquainted by personal observation with every important city and its environs. A banker in one state may be called upon to judge of the value of a security, of the solvency of an enterprise, in a distant state. The banker is often looked to for business advice by his clients. He can perform his functions much better after seeing the city in question and talking with its leading people than if he is guided only by financial newspapers, reports and correspondence. He is not fully educated for his business until he knows the country. This is particularly true of a banker in New York and the other great money centers. Money pours into the reservoirs of the chief cities for redis tributlon throughout the country largely as the bankers advise and di rect. They cannot have too full knowledge of the places where it is to be invested. The greatest obstacle with which the West has had to contend in struggling for development is the East's ignorance of the West and its unwillingness to learn. The East judges too often by the wildcat real estate men and mining and other promoters who go East to float their schemes. and not enough by the solid business men who are plugging away to build up tho country. The latter and their like in industry and agriculture are the real West; the former are merely the froth or scum which bubbling en ergy throws to the surface. Personal knowledge and contact would correct the East's estimate of the West. UNIMSCirLINEH ILLUSTRATORS. In glancing over magazine illustra tions from time to time, the thought must occur to tho most casual reader and observer that art editors aro ex ceedingly lax; or else successful il lustrators are a power which the hum ble art editor fears to regulate and rebuke. In one of the leading period icals an illustration is presented by X. C. Wyeth, which seeks to embody the spirit of a virile short story by new writer. Mr. Wyeth, in addition to his graphic brush touches, has added a few flourishes of his type writer, explaining in a footnote that the picture ho drew was intended to breathe the spirit of the story. Mr. Wyeth also explains that the tale made a powerful Impression upon him. In fact, he regarded it as worthy of Tur- ganieff. So far as Mr. Wyeth is concerned the footnote is excusable. His illus trations of rugged outdoor scenes and characters aro so exceptional that even a footnote cannot detract from the merit of his work. Neither can it add anything. Why ho should add such a footnote is puzzling, unless it was sug gested by the editor. Perhaps, in these days when illustrators are permitted to follow their own fancies to any extreme, the editor wanted to call special attention to the fact that the est in his subject. Yet that is what should be expected of all artists. If the author describes a character as being lithe and sylph-like, why should the artist be permitted to paint a lean and lank heroine? If she treads the printed pages in a lounging dress why should she grace the accompanying il lustration bedecked in tho latest even ing gown? Yet who can pick up an Illustrated periodical without finding just such incongruities? The hero of a tale may be sturdy and manly yet in the picture appear as a dandified weakling. He may bo a private in the Mexican army and yet appear in the illustrations garbed as a Field Marshal of the Russian or Peruvian army. Tb,cso incongruities are growing more and more obnoxious. We suspect that the average discriminating reader would prefer no illustrations to the sort that do not catch the spirit or, at least, tho general outlines of the story. ANOTHER MEXICAN REVOLUTION. Those persons who have been con gratulating the Administration on the settlement of the Mexican trouble by the recognition of Carranza may have to revise their opinion, since Felix Diaz has started a new revolution. Notwithstanding reports circulated by Carranza that the Villa and Zapata forces were captured or dispersed, Mexico is evidently far from pacified and the appearance of Diaz on the? scene will probably fan the smolder ing embers of civil war into full flame. Diaz will probably have the support of the old Cientifico element which ruled under his uncle. That element has the ablest brains of Mexico and most of the wealth which has not been stolen or destroyed in civil war It is likely to have the backing oi the foreign moneyed interests which gained concessions under the elder Diaz and which would hope for more concessions and for security under the younger. Although the United States may impose an embargo on exports of arms to the Diaz party, it can find ways of importing them, as did Ma dero, Carranza and Villa. The reign of pillage and outrage under Car ranza may cause the people to wel come any change in the hope that it may be for the better. Prolonged civil war has developed a large body of soldiers of fortune "who would rather live by fighting and plunder than by work and who may join the new leader. There need be no surprise if Presi dent Wilson's policy should cause him o leave an anarchic Mexico to his successor at the expiration of his term. That successor may be called upon to choose between grasping the Mexican nettle so gingerly, as did Mr. Wilson, that it will sting, and grasping it so firmly that its sting will be crushed. Five years of trifling may convince him that the only way to deal with Mexico is to do what might as well have been done at the outset to de fend firmly the rights of Americans and sternly to redress their wrongs. A MODERN SOLOMON. It is the unusual man who can rise serene, logical and balanced above the tide of great adversity. Stress and calamity ordinarily warp spirit and reason so that grievances, real and fancied, are brooded over in dismal silence or mouthed in hysterical tones nto the world's ear. Such a state of mind and soul might reasonably be expected to engulf King Peter of Ser bia after his country had been over run by the central powers. Why did not Peter's allies rally to his aid? Why were there no British and French col umns to help drive back the Teuton invaders, whose iron heels ground proud little Serbia into the dust? It has been freely charged that the allies were neglectful in their duty towards Serbia. From a super ficial view of the matter, much evi dence tended towards such a belief. But when the charge was presented before King Peter he denied its truth in strong language. "For those of our allies who have remained faith ful we have no reproach," said he. "They came to our aid too late to save us. But they came. They were not organized for war, nor ruled over by soldiers. Had they been so or ganized, so ruled, perhaps they would have been able to save us. Civiliza tion cannot be made an engine of war and perfected to foresee every contingency." Even the critics of Britain and France, even those who have been loudest in their denunciatibn of the allies for their apparent neglect, must recognize the truth of this remarkable statement. Yet how exceptional that the exiled King of a ruined empire should be the one to retain this broad perspective and judge with such soundness of perception. He looks beyond the mere fact of their neglect. He does not seize upon the outward record of their failure to save Serbia and denounce them for their disloy alty or impotency. Instead, he per ceives the deeper reason for their fail ure and patiently accepts the disaster which their failure brought upon him and his people. His words deserve a place in the permanent record of the world's greatest wisdom. TO KEEP THE TARIFF IN POLITICS. Finding that the business communi ty, without respect to party, is almost unanimously in favor of a permanent tariff commission. President Wilson has caused the introduction in Con gress of a bill to establish such a body. But demand is for a non-par tisan commission on which the two leading parties would be equally rep resented, while the Democratic bill provides for a partisan commission, on which one party would have a ma jority. The demand is for a commis sion which will ascertain tho facts which Congress should know for its guidance in tariff-making. The Dem ocratic bill establishes a commission which shall "investigate the adminis tration and fiscal effects of customs iuws now in force or to be hereafter enacted, the effects of ad valorem and specific duties, and the operation and effects of the customs tariff laws, in cluding their relations to the Federal revenues." As Representative Fairchild said in discussing the bill before the House, a commission having a majority of one party would be likely to make re ports in accordance with the majority party's policy. A report on "effects" would lie an expression of opinion by its makers in conformity with the policy of their party. Under the Tariff Commission League's bill the commis sion would not recommend rates of duty that is, deal with effects un less requested by either house of Con gress or the President; it could only report facts. The Democratic bill re quires the commission to report to the tariff-making committees of Con gress; the I.eas:ue'8 bill requires it to report "to the President and to Con- gross." In practice the majority of the ways and means committee in the House or of the finance committee in fciia Senate aa uot sennit t-ka miner. ity to share in drafting a. tariff bill. Hence the majority of these commit tees would obtain from tho majority of the commission a report in favor of the policy favored by their party, while the minority of tho committee would get an equally partisan report from the minority of the commission. The result would bo not to take out of politics t,he collection of informa tion on which the tariff must bo based, but to add a new wheel to tho political machinery by which the tar iff is kept in politics. Mr. Fairchild truly said that this bill is "a step back ward rather than forward." We need no new wheels on tho present ma chine': we need intelligent guidance on either track which the machine may take. There Is a further formidable obligation that Congress owes Oregon. This state was unjustly treated In the matter of recla mation. Its money from sale of public lands was taken by millions and spent on recla mation projects in other states. This from a contemporary which has heretofore found nothing to crit icise in tho disposition of tho reclama tion funds, but much to criticise in tho assertions of The Oregonian that Injurious discrimination has been practiced: The clause in the old reclamation law protecting Oregon's interest was repealed under tho eyes of Oregon's Senators iwithout a word of protest from them. England plans to spend seven bil lions during the year. And if things go badly the whole sum may have to be paid over in one lump by way of indemnity. How different the issues today had Britain been prepared. But of all the sad words, etc. And the sad thing is that America does not appear to read the full moral, even though we have no France to stand off pros pective enemies until we get ready. E. G. Wendling, whom the Cana dians seek to enlist, was born in Port land in 1886, but thero is lack of rec ord to prove it. Thoso were tho de sultory days between booms, and about the only vital statistics put on record was the mortgage. Many who grew up with AVendling can attest the fact, if the Canadians want to be con vinced. Representative Tilson at least has applied the lessonB of the war, for ho proposes that the United States pro vide full equipment for manufacture of munitions, that factories may begin maximum production a month after war begins, instead of a year, as was the case with Britain, the unready. War profits are helping to reduce the Democratic deficit. The only luck the Democrats have is derived from war, which they profess most to ab hor. Base ingratitude to Mars. But we should bo certain beyond the slightest doubt that the Columbia River is the ideal place for a naval uase oeiore going xo limit, roric ana preparedness will not mix. Tho Iowa anti-tlpping law was held yesterday to be unconstitutional and the girl who was given the gold piece by Mrs. Wilson a month ago can go ahead and spend it. The time approaches when tho old bond-secured currency will be a curi osity and our children will wonder why we tolerated the absurd system so long. Tho prospectors do well to discover moro gold, mercury and tin mines. The war is making a market for as much of all those metals as can bo mined. "Bully Dam Dangerous," says neaanne. But strenuous efforts are being put forth to prevent an inun dation on Bully Creek in Eastern Ore gon. St. Louis will have "Jim" Crow blocks in which whites cannot reside also the other kind. Evidentlv the Missouri city fears the black will rub off. The opposition of Secretary Daniels would seem to confirm tho general be lief that the Columbia River offers an ideal location for a naval base. Italians are clamoring for declara tion of war on Germany. Might do something with their present war be fore taking in more territory. New York's multimillionaires are not in the big figures people thought. Five millions for personal tax Is not much for Mr. Rockefeller. The only law that has any force In Europe these days Is the law of neces sity, which is administered at tho su preme court of might. London is said to watch tho issue at Verdun with uneasy interest. Per haps Washington has no greater need to fret. Greece probably desires the armies to join battle around Saloniki that it may decide with which to ally itself. Cold rain turning to snow in the Rogue River country should be classed among the blessings of early March. But think what might have hap pened to the monthly paycheck had the month entered bright and cheery. In expelling the secretary of the Ford peace mission, Germany classes the harmless with the undesirables. The man who was married Tuesday does not need a dato book to Jog his memory on anniversaries. Germany has no room for busy bodies, so expels Mr. Lochner, Henry Ford's peace delegate. Of course it may be that in these arduous suffragist days the mail-car robbers were females. With Diaz in the field Mexico again appears before us in the guise of a three-ringed circus. Berlin and Paris reports disagree so violently that we can only surmise that someone Is lying. Let us hope that somo years elapse before we have another such Febru ary. Many of tho questions in the school test would "stump" the grown folk The question of legality is of little moment in the submarine controversy. A sharp hoe turneth away wrath if tho wife makes tho garden. All 1 t . . n m WABv- . . i -u demajKi, Stars and St&rmakers By Leone Casa Bmer. XIFRED BRTSOX says she'd be mighty suspicious of any man who would permit himself to bo leap yeared Into matrimony. Frank McGettigan, the futurist press agent of the Orpheum, says that every time he sees an actress leading & fat. asthmatic dog around on a string he wishes he had enough money to go out and endow an asylum for orphans. e Philip Klein, a son of Charles Klein, the late playwright, is being Bued for divorce by his wife Irene, who was married to him' in 1909. Klein Inherited no nnn HentH r ,! father and I S30.000 by the death of his lamer ana ls now in London settling up the estate. I At the conclusion of their season in I isew ion, 6ir iierDert ires ana jisie . , , . , , Ferguson, it is reDorted. will Join forces in a revival of Sheridan's "The School for Scandal." At first tho Eng lish actor planned to confine his stage appearances in New York to the plays of Shakespeare, but was finally per- suaded to bring over his production of The School for Scandal" on the condi tion that Elaia Ferguson would play 1 Lady Teazle to his Sir Peter. It is said that other important re vivals of "The Merchant of Venice" and 'As You Like It," with Miss Ferguson and Sir Herbert in the leading roles. will follow that of the Sheridan play. e Mrs. Leslie Carter-Payne says that she has permanently retired to the quiet of a home life in Cincinnati. Her last appearance on the stage, was In vaudeville this season in a condensed version of "Zaza." a Edgar Selwyn and his wife, known professionally as Margaret Mayo, are taking an early vacation in Havana, Cuba. A line from Peggy O'Neil says that she, too, is having a vacation In Ha vana. Peggy says she hasn't been feeling the finest in the world, so she decided a few weeks' rest In the Cuban town would brace her up. "And It has. wonderfully," Peggy writes. In private life Peggy is Mrs. Timothy Frawley. A note from Izetta Jewel Brown's mother, Mrs. Jewel-Kinney, tells of her happiness in being grandma to two lovely baby girls, Izetta's baby and Hazel May's. Just at present they are all in Washington, D. C, and Izetta and her Congressman husband, William Gay Brown, are in the midst of I round of state social activities of offi cial Washington. Hazel's husband is on his ship in Cuban waters and when he returns in a few weeks Mrs. Jewel- Kinney Is going to California, her old home, for a long Summer visit. e Otis Skinner is going to bring his newest play, "Cock o" the Walk," to this Coast. He has been presenting it at the Cohan Theater in New York, but closed his engagement last week to start at once on his tour. Henry Ar thur Jones wrote "Cock o' the Walk. Julie Herne has written a play. She and Chrystal Herne are daughters of the late James A. Heme and both are well known in the stage world. Julie is heading a stock company in New Britain, Conn., and it is thero that her play. "The Outsider." with herself in the leading role, is to be tried out this week. Julie Ring, who flits from stardom in big productions to vaudeville, i visiting Portland for the first time In three years. Vaudeville is Miss King s rest cure, and this season an enjoyable part of her Orpheum en gagement is the fact that her tour takes her to Los Angeles, where her sister, Frances, is a member of the Morosco Stock Company. Julie's tour has been a family-reunion affair, as In Kansas City at the Orpheum Blanche Ring, her other sister, was the head- liner of the show of which Julie wa the added attraction, with her comedy cemetery playlet, "Twice a Week." "It was a two-ring show," said Julie, "with Blanche at the top of the poster and her kid sister at the bottom." In the simple widowy role filled by Julie Ring in "Twice a Week." the Joint headline act at the Orpheum, you would not think she is the same Julie who starred for the Shuberts in the lively productions, "Lulu's Husband," "The Yankee Girl" and "The Girl in the Taxi." Miss Ring does not have to sing in "Twice a Week," and the only musical-comedy spark she shows In the playlet is a bit of a dance In the finale. Nearly five years ago Miss Ring filled stellar place over the Orpheum circuit in a sketch called "The Wrong Room," X In her vaudeville visit here three years ago her vehicle was "The Man She Met." James Norval, who has the role of the widower In the graveyard playlet. Is Miss Ring's husband. Mizzl Hajos has made application for the legal authority to change her name to the single word Mizzl. She wants to drop the Hajos altogether, giving as her reason that we Americans can never pronounce It correctly. She could adjust the difficulty by marrying some man named Smith. The i in Mizzl's name, Hajos. Is pronounced as If It were y, and the os is sounded as osh, making the name Hayosh, accenting both syllables in the same degree. MIzeI she calls "Meetsy. It means kitten. Last week Mizzl appeared in the try- out of Henry Savage's new operetta. "Pom Pom," and this week the com pany moves into the Cohan Theater In New York. It Is in the theatrical air that Mizzl will be a bigger hit In "Pom Pom" than she was In "Sari. ' Even Henry W. Savage admits that her role In the new piece is a far more brilliant one than she has ever before assumed. Margaret Woodrow Wilson, the daughter of President Wilson, who Is Nationally known as a talented vocal 1st, is considering an offer to appear In vaudeville, which was made to her by Harry Weber In behalf of the United Booking Offices this week. Some of Miss Wilson's Intimate friends are urg ing her to accept the offer. President Wilson is a frequent patron of Keith's Theater, In Washington, but how he would regard his daughter taking up professional work upon the vaudeville stage is something yet to be tfcer taincd. I think father will not permit It. Might era) hj a act en the, BoliUcal clr Oilltm SEASON OP IRISH OUATORY N EAR Article 1st Irish Periodical Seems to Be Inspired, Says Mr. Murphy. PORTLAND. Feb. 29. To the Edi tor.) "Ireland." a weekly periodical, published In New Tork City, support ing the policy of the Irish Parliamen tary party and generally regarded in this country as an organ of conveyance of Irish affairs that speaks with au- tliority. contains in Its last Issue the loiiowmr eaitonst, wmcn Dears toe earmarks of being: inspired: Thers teems to be something afoot In Ire land. Between r.ow and March 17 there will have to be s new understanding about home rule. Either the act will be further put off or arrangements will be made fe-r Its going Into operation. The former may be the more probable: the latter Is not impossible, i'or the first time. Protestant Ireland has shown marked oispoction to meet the National ists half way. Trinity College has become a center or conciliation. Arcntusnop Ber nard, professor Trench, and finally Mr. Campbell, have held out the olive branch. ,awara CarBOn na. withdrawn from noi itlca for several -weeks at the command of nis pnysician. Ann me iieuast irisn iew. a staunch Nationalist paper, in the course of an article on the nominating of Mr. Whit- ney irroieiiinii lor Hie vacancy in i.ouiu. cUsed by the death of Mr. Augustine lioche. gives the emphasis of black type to the fotlnwinr significant assertion; "We are gradually and steadily progressing towards a national unltv of thotisht and purpose wnion the most sanguine amongst us did not dare to hope for 12 months ago. Let no man aare to fling nia personal amnmons across tho path of ail the' people's Instinc and in the direction of lasting peace. tive movements away from olden prejudices would seem to be only one thing it can mean, mere is a souna or a going in the tops of ths mulberry trees. The season of Irish oratory is approaching here, where oratory in the past has not Infrequently been merely a vocal ex hibition of what one doesn't know of the present and a somewhat hazy ex position of the past. Thero Is a man's work here In America for Americans at this time. For 40 years and more Irish statesmen have shown to an admiring world that they are capable of manag ing their own affairs. They need no advice from those who have yet to show that they have a very clear con ception of their National policy under present conditions. J. HEXNESSr MURPHT. "GOOD" LEADER IS OT EXOl'GH eit President Must Be Man ef Iron. Reasons Correspondent. CORNING, Cal.. Feb. 28. (To the Ed itor.) It seems that quite a number of Republicans, The Oregonian included, want Justice Hughes nominated for President on the Republican ticket. I wonder why? The only reason I can think of why he should be preferred, is that he is a good man, but ia that n guarantee that he would be a good President? President Wilson is a good man, but I believe there are other men. and not quite so good, who would be equally as good, or better, as Presi dent. Again. Justice Hughes is a good man for the office he now holds, and only the best of men should have a seat as judges in the highest court of the Na tion. I believe that Justice Hughes can serve his country better as Supreme Court Justice than he could as Presi dent, during the next Presidential term. The United States i facing a crisis as great, or greater, than it ever did before, and it will take its biggest man to safely steer the ship of state through the next five or six years. Colonel Roosevelt Is" the only known man who can safely be entrusted with the reins of the government of this country, at this time. If conditions were different, if our peace and integ rity were n)t threatened, if interna tional complications were not looming mountain high on every side, then any good, liberal, broad-minded man would serve with credit. But under present conditions we need a man of very broad knowledge, and a man of iron, and Colonel Roosevelt is the man. READER. Orlaln. of Pliserinetnn. PORTLAND. Feb. 29. (To the Edl tor.) You used a word recently In your editorial columns which I have often heard, but never before saw in print. and which I nm not able to find in the dictionary. The word, as near as I can pronounce it. Is "pizarinktum." Is thero any such word In any dictionary, and what is Its meaning? SUBSCRIBER. "Pizzerlnctum" was coined In Boise, Idaho, 33 or forty years ago, by Jud Boyakin, then editor of the Idaho Dem ocrat, to designate the highest official in the Hornlquebriniques also coined there. This organization conducted and participated in the regular celebra tion of the Fourth of July, when that city was "500 miles from anvwhere. and had to depend upon its efforts to make the day a BUccess, which it al ways did. In other cities that kind of crowd was called "Horribles." "Call thumpians," and the like. Sometimes dictionary editors are slow. Taxes and Vtllitirs Rates. GATEWAY, Or.. Feb. 28. (To the Ed itor.) Will you please tell me what taxes are in Portland, say in Laurel- hurst and Rose City Park, if there is difference; water rates per faucet per month, and electrlo lights, half dozen SO-candlepower, per month? R. M. Taxes depend upon the assessed val uation of the property. The same rate of taxation applies throughout the city, but the amount of the individual tax differs according to the value of the property and improvements. Portland's schedule of water rates Is lengthy. They may be obtained free of charge by writing the Water Bureau. City Halt. The monthly rate for a half doz en 30-candlepower electric lights is 9 cents for each of the first 10 kilowatt hours, 7 cents for each of the next 10 kilowatt hours, and 4 cents per Kilo watt hour for the rest. As to the Liquor Law. PORTLAND, Feb. 29. (To the Edi tor.) I would like to know if a per son has to file an application here be fore ordering his allowed amount of liquors. If so, to whom tlo you apply for It? A SUBSCRIBER. In Oregon you do not have to file an application. When the liquor or dered arrives on receipt of It you sign an affidavit which is made out by the common carrier. In Washington the law Is different. requiring the filing of an application In advance. Plural of Son-f o-Ln w. KELSO, Wash.. Feb. 29. (To the Editor.) To settle a dispute, will you please state through The Oregoninan which is correct: "My four son-in-laws came home" or "my four sons-in-law came home"? MRS. GRACE PARRISH. Sons-in-law Is the plural. See Webster's International Dictionary or any other authority. (letting Work on Railroad. PORTLAND. March 1. (To the Edi tor.) Will you please tell me through the columns of Tbe Oregonian where. In this city, one should apply for a position on the railroad as fireman or brakeman? H. M. G. Alblna shops) of O.-W. R & N. Co. Washlnffton's Labor Commissioner. PORTLAND. Feb. 29. (To the Edi tor.) Will you kindly give me in Tho Oregonian the name and address of the Labor Commissioner of the State of Washington. A SUBSCRIBER. w- 1 3T Oiaa Olympia. Wash. In Other Days Half ..Century Age. From The Oregonian of March 2. 1S0S. Of the 9000 postofflcea in the dis loyal states, about 2000 have been re opened. Nearly 300 of these have re ceived postmistresses because no man could be found who would take oath that he had not borne arms against the country. We have a report todav of a conver sation between the President and Gov ernor Cox. of Ohio, which. In view of recent occurrences at Washington, Is worthy of attention. The pacificatory tone or the President s remarks is in singular contrast with the extraordi nary language of his late speech. He does not fulminate acainst Congress and the loyal party of the North, as he did a lew days ago. Chicago It is reported here that Secretary tantion's resignation Is in the hands of the President. A strong pressure Is evident tor the appoint ment of Francis P. Blair, Jr., as Sec retary of War. Through the California papers we learn that the merchants of San Fran cisco are awake to the Importance of securing the Montana trade. Arthur Nicklin is authorized to re ceive daily advertisements and sub scriptions for the daily and weekly Oregonian. The fine drama of Don Caesar He Basan was performed again last night by tbe Ward Company. Mr. Kescher. leader of the orchestra, takes a benefit ihls evening. The undivided one-half of the lot where the Lincoln House now stands and the south half of the lot adjoin ing have been sold for the sum of $12,000. Twenty-Five Years Ago. From The Oregonian of March 2, 101. Judge W. II. Clagett. of Idaho, la to make a fight for a seat in the United States Senate, contesting the legality of Fred Dubois' election. Sydney. N. S. W. The hotels are filled with delegates to the National Australian conference, which opens to morrow for the purpose of preparing a general constitution for the seven Aus tralian colonies. The delegates favor National independence and would abandon the British yoke. London Baroness Roque. mother of Mrs. Maybrlck. is seeking to reopen the easy of her unfortunate daughter frith a view to securing her release from im prisonment. She alleges mental un soundness of Judge Stephens, who tried the case. Cuba and San Domingo are agitating reciprocity. They will be represented at the world's fair. Alfred Wilkie, the English tenor ot the Hess Opera Company, sang the or fertory at Dr. Eliot's First Unitarian fshurch yesterday. Mr. Wilkie is the tenor of Dr. fcUebbin's church in Can Francisco. . Mrs. Mary A. Austin, who died In East Portland Saturday, was a pioneer of 1854. Her husband. It. D. Austin, was publisher of the Portland Times In early days. Union Iron Works employes have presented K. W. Jones, their superin tendent, with an easy chair and foot rest as a wedding present. Corlnne. the magnet, will be at the Marquam Grand tonight with a bevy of pretty girls. Hard Lurk, but Law In I. aw. PORTLAND, Feb. 28. (To tho Edi tor.) Last Christmas a friend of mine asked me to buy for him and have sent to him a gallon of whisky. I did. Through his mistake ho did not find out in time where the whisky was, and when at last he did know the ex press company through which it was sent refused to hand it out to him. He called for it after January 1. Why can't he get it? Note, it was boughJ: and paid for in December. 1915; also shipped and also arrived there before 1916. MAX GOHRE. 1352 Burrage street. Te law prohibits the delivery of liquor except under thn conditions laid down. Therefore the express company was right in not delivering the liquor until the law's requirement had been met by the consignee. No doubt he could get the' liquor by arranging with the District Attorney to get half one month and half the next, or by signing for one-half one month and the other half after the necessary 28 days have elapsed. Better talk it over with Wal ter H. Evans, District Attorney, at tho Courthouse. For Armenian and Syrlnn Relief. PORTLAND. Feb. ,29. (To the Ed itor.) In view of well-authenticated Turkish atrocities of long standing, now augmented by horrors such as. ac cording to missionaries, "cannot be de scribed nor conceived b the human mind" (Including roasting of babies in bake ovens), should we not inaugurate a campaign for financial aid for the Armenians and Syrians? To such & cause everyone would gladly contribute his mite. In Paris I have heard Armenian refu gees. In manner rendered matter-of-fact by being long inured to Turkish cruelties, tell of horrors whose heinous ingenuities long since gained for the perpetrator the title "The I nspeakable Turk." MARY BOWMAN MORGAN. 508 Tillamook st. Poetry Macraaine-. JOHN DAY, Or.. Feb. 29. (To tho Editor.) Please tell me through The Oregonian the name of a good period ical I could take to get a good selec tion of poetry. A SUBSCRIBER. Poetry, a maB.ar.in-e published at 643 Cass street, Chicago. Is devoted entirely to contemporary verse, and according to its own announcement endeavors to give as widely representative selection of the best current poetry as possible. The Lltfcrary Digest and Current Literature both carry pections devoted to contemporary poetry. The Digest being a weekly, probabiy offers a larger collection of current poetry in a month than Current Literature. I. a (ale Douaalne. PORTLAND. Or.. Feb. 29. (To the Editor.) Through the columns of The Oregonian will you kindly advise me the meaning of following: "La Gale Dotizalne." and If not French, what it it? SUBSCRIBER. "La Gaie Douzaine" is the French for -The Gv Dolten." Helping the Storekeepers Storekeeper are distributors of goods the way stations between the manufacturer and consumer. When the manufacturer adver tises his brand in the newspapers of this city he is helping the re tailers to enlarge their distribution. He is making new customers for the stores. It is natural that storekeepers should co-operate with the manu facturers' newspaper advertising. It is only good business for them to show the goods in the window at the time the advertising Is running.