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It is the inevitable result .of our persistent and inexcusable fail ure to hold the Mexicans responsible for their outrages upon Americans and their spoliation of American property. ; In the current number of the Out; look (New York) Frederick M. Daven. iort has an article upon Woodrow Wil con and his Administration. In. its course he has occasion to discuss the "VViison Mexican policy and to recall the following incident: " A representative English sub.ioct was Im prisoned by the King of Abyssinia in the fortress of Magdala without cause assigned. rMsraeli sought to discover the cause, but Without success. He thereupon embarked 30,000 British troops upon transports and ships of war, tinder the leadership of Cton ral Napier. They landed on the east coast of Africa, marched across the desert to the font of the hill on which the fortress stood, nd demanded its surrender. Upon refusal, .they stormed and took the fortress, the -King of Abyssinia killing himself with his own pistol. Then they reached down into the dungeon and drew up the one British subject, marched back across the desert, embarked again upon the transports and ships of war, and returned the British cap tiva to his home in safety. That expedition cost Oreat Britain $10,000,000 and made fieneral Napier Lord Napier of Magdala. JBut for a generation the person and prop rty ot a British subject were safer any jwhere in the world than ttve person and property of the subject of any other country- " The British were not restrained from protecting a British subject by maudlin sentimentality or mock heroics about the sacred soil of Abyssinia or the rights of its people to run. their affairs to suit themselves. J A resolute policy toward Mexico, in augurated at the beginning of Presi dent Wilson's term, would doubtless have averted the calamitous incidents of the past three years, including the Vera Cruz fiasco. WE CAN COME BACK. Most inspiring to Americans who take pride in their country's achieve ments is the article on "The Yankee Clippers," by 'William Brown Meloney in the Saturday Evening Post. It is a story of a time when the American flag was seen In every port, when American clipper ships contested with the British and won the prize for fast sailing on long voyages and when the United States held the title "mistress of the seas" in peace. As early as 17S9 a vessel flying the American flag ap peared at Calcutta. In the war of 1S12 the amount of British commerce destroyed by American privateers was $9,400,000, only $40,000 lees than that which the British captured. In the course of the next two decades the percentage of American commerce carried in American bottoms rose to 92. Between 1830 and 1836 the American merchant marine increased 12 per cent a year, the British only 1 per cent. The most glorious days of the Ameri lean clipper ship were the two de cades immediately preceding the Civil War. When new designs by John Willis Griffiths were adopted, Ameri can ships outsailed everything afloat. College men educated in the classics and knowing French and Spanish, be came commanders of ships as a step to becoming owners and merchants. The foundations of present-day for tunes were thus laid, especially In the boom days of the gold rush to Call fornia and Australia. The Sovereign of the Seas, which made a record voy ajte from Honolulu to New York and which outsailed the Cunard steam ship Canada across the Atlantic, netted her owner, Donald McKay, $200,000 in eleven months. On a voyage from Boston to Liverpool the Lightning made a run. of 436 miles in 24 hours. an average of 18 1-6 knots an hour, which was not exceeded by an ocean steamship until 1889. The James Baines in 1S54-5 sailed around the world in 132 days, making a record which no sailing ship has excelled. When the Civil War broke out the .-total American tonnage was 5,299,175 compared with 6.710,968 for the en tire British empire, and our ships ;were carrying 70 per cent of our ex ports and 65 per cent of our imports. But the days of the clipper ship were numbered. It had already to contend with the adverse influence of asinine ; statesmanship. Xow began a hope Ies contest with steam and with iron ;and steel ships. Fossilized naval offi cers reported to Congress against steamships and our merchants were slow to adopt them. Our resources of steel and engine building were rel atively undeveloped, while Britain was supreme in both respects.- During the Civil War we lost our lead, and the proportion of our commerce carried in American bottoms steadily decreased until in 1913 ft was a beggarly 8.9 per cent. Can we regain our lost maritime su premacyT We certainly can. Every factor other than legislative which was against ti in 1860 is now In our favor. In 1913 our production of pig iron, the raw material of steel, was 30.966,153 tons, against 1 9,004,022 for Germany and 10,481,917 tons for Great Britain, and our total is still growing. We lead the world in steel construction and engine building and can easily turn our skill In those di rection to shipbuilding. The war has given us an opportunity to make a good start In this neglected industry for it has eliminated the difference against us in cost of production and has temporarily boosted freights to a point where our higher cost of oper ation is immaterial. The Immediate future- for shipping looks so rosy to capitalists that they have crowded every shipyard on all our coasts with contracts and have nduced the establishment of new jards. Despite its lack of iron at home, the Pacific Coast is sharing in the shipbuilding boom by bringing steel from the East. It has the oppor tunity to make its awn steel by im porting pig iron from China. The Co lumbia River Basin promises to enter the field with steel shipyards at Port land. That the strong foothold which the United States is now gaining in the shipping business may be maintained and that we may continue to gain, we need no Government investment in ships, as is proposed by the Adminis tration. We need only to revise our shipping laws in such manner that after the war we shall be able to com pete with other nations on equal terms. The conditions under which our ship ping business is now developing are mainly abnormal and temporary. That we may hold and enlarge the place we are now gaining, it -is necessary that we change the normal, perma nent conditions. All preparations, leg- slative and Administrative, to do this should be made before the war ends. THE LAST SYMPHONY CONCERT. The last concert in the 1915-16 sea son of the Portland Symphony Orches tra will be heard tomorrow afternoon at the Heilig Theater, and the pro gramme, as in the past, is an auspi cious and a good one. All too soon the fourth season of that estimable organ ization is over and the community owes more than a measure of com mendation to the workers and the ar tists who have made the attempt a success. Music is a powerful agency. Good music we cannot afford to be without, individually or as a Nation. The communities which have reached the most desirable plane in advancement are those which possess or have culti vated a love for music and have not lost sight of its potential qualities in the mad rush for other things. There fore a good symphony orchestra is truly an evidence of culture and a mark of civic pride and prosperity and cities older than Portland are learning it. Some cities younger have learned. Baltimore has taken the courageous step to make its symphony orchestra a municipal Institution, and the tax payers eagerly support the idea. Min neapolis has developed its symphony until now it travels thousands of miles each season,1 playing to thousands upon thousands of listeners, improving and delighting some while it educates oth- j. The Minneapolis musicians travel through the United States, almost from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, and as far south as the Gulf. There are other cities, which in size and influence rank with Portland, do ing much to encourage and advance philharmonic work. Kansas City, Los Angeles and San Francisco contribute $30,000 to $100,000 annually to this end. Portland is stepping into line, but there is much yet that can and should be done. The Portland Sym phony should be made a permanent. well-established institution, unharried by financial difficulties and confident in the appreciation of its public. It has found its way over frequent shoals, but that time should now be past. The sixty workers should be encouraged in a more material way and helped, not sparingly, but liberally. The commun ity has a duty to perform in fostering this branch of art and education. Good music spurs on to action. soothes ruffled brows, tempers the un derstanding and purges the dross from the metal in human disposition. We call up Lorenzo's speech in "The Mer chant of Venice": The, man that hath no music In himself. Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds. Is fit for treasons, strataerems and spoils: The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus. L.et no sucb man be trusted. None of us, of course, is that par ticular man, although all ears are not attuned to music. Just so! That is part of the work of the symphony or chestra. We have been told of the shopgirl who, from a love for good mu sic, cheated herself in dress and food to hear the Portland Symphony on one occasion. Since then she led several well-to-do customers of hers to hear one of the concerts. Today they are not only devotees of the symphony, but supporters. "Music, the mosaic of the air," says Marvell, and Thomas Fuller adds: "Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized Into time and tune." But what else is all progress and civ ilization! With a good symphony orchestra a city should be able to feci with Addi son: Muslo the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. SEEKING A FRESH START. The question of whether Henry Siegel shall return to business or to a cell in the New York prison is one that presents many complicated as pects to the New York authorities and those interested in his offenses. Siegel, a figure of brilliance in the business world before his conviction of felony in 1914, was released from jail the other day, having served his time on a charge of obtaining credit by false statements and having accepted de posits as a banker when he was in solvent. Immediately after his release he was rearrested, as there are some thirteen indictments hanging over him at this time. Now he contends that the law should bo satisfied and he should be given an opportunity to re-enter the world of affairs in an ef fort to make good. He says he wants to repay every penny ho got by dis honest means. At the present moment he is at lib erty under $25,000 bonds and the fact that he was able to secure bondsmen for any such amount indicates ex istence of continued confidence among some of his friends in his honesty and ability as a. financier. The point is raised that if he is not prosecuted on the remaining charges and should fail or go wrong again the courts would come In for loss of confidence. So the authorities seem inclined to press the additional charges and send him back to prison if possible. However, the purpose of the man in desiring to repay his obligations is one deserving of commendation. No doubt he has gained & wholesome regard for other people's money through hia somewhat protracted stay in jail. While it is true that he may fail again, those who support him will do so knowing the past record of the man. While the palliation of offenses by men of high degree is something to be avoided if justice and confidence in the courts are to be upheld, it must be remembered that the common bur glar usually gains a fresh start after serving his time on one count. The man of affairs must suffer more in tensely through a year or two in prison than does the common offender. And the chances of his following the straight and narrow course are Just as cood. If not better. Jt .would seem that Siegel should have the same op- portunlty of redeeming himself that is so often1 accorded the yeggman and thug. THE STATE'S BEST INVESTMENT. Making good boys grow where bad ones might have flourished through the fault of parental neglect or mere circumstance is a good business for any state to be in, and the $10,000 ap propriation by the last Legislature of Oregon to develop, improve and start in life the boys at the State Training School is the wisest and best invest ment a Legislature could, have made. AVe have before us a set of postcard pictures in which the drama of life is more apparent than that any scenario writer or moving-picture man ever conceived. These postcard pictures show the interior of the Training School, the laboratory, the carpenter and machine shops, the print shop, boot and shoe shop and the class room, where this $10,000 appropriation is turning out future men. Here we have boys, born in poverty perhaps, of parents of good fiber; boys born to ease of careless, worthless parents; Boys whom circumstances have con spired to put them to the test. They are .not bad boys. They are the true children of circumstances, buffeted by the winds of adversity or led by the ignorance of youth to the State Training School. But we believe they have come into an inheritance in the state's appropriation. One picture shows a classroom in session. Save for the uniform dress, it is not differ ent in any particular from a class room of the most exclusive boys' school. Would that all of our public schoolrooms showed as well. Among these boys there is none, per. haps, who can call another mother or father in its bigger and better sense. Some there are who are twice orphans" or worse than orphans. The super intendent and hrs aides are the only parents they know. The state must accept its parental responsibility and be glad to do it. The $10,000 appro priation has given these boys a new birthright. Here we find them learn ing to be machinists. If their ben is not in that line they will be made into carpenters, boot manufacturers, print ers or given a course in some other highly useful industrial calling from which in time they will go to take their place in a respected citizenry. One looks at these pictures, not once, but several times, and instinctively re alizes here is a potent agency for good. Here is the state's finest businessTun der good administration the Training School should be a boon to many a Jad; an honor almost, to be there. We cannot help but feel, as we recall mentally slum districts here and there throughout the world, what a great advantage really lies in training schools for ever and ever so many boys. It should be forgotten that they are there through the process of law. We should forget that error on their part, or on the part of their parents or of society has sent them there. We cannot but think that in the next few years there will go from the institution boys who will become men of affairs and men. of parts, whose perspective of life will have a value not possessed by those who have slid easily into mature careers. The return on the $10,000 investment will be larger than we are apt to estimate now. Society as a whole will share the dividends and will come in time to admire instead of to sympathize with those lads who in their misfortune have been so fortunate as to find their way to the Training School, rather than along the idle, shiftless highway of life. PROFESSIONALISM IN GOLF. Professionalism is a taint against which amateur sports must be eternal ly and carefully safeguarded. This menace to cleanness and wholesome ness in games that are played for the sheer Joy of playing and the distinc tion of winning has Interposed itself in various guises during the past. Hired football players and collegiate baseball twirlers who spend Summer vacations with paid leaguers have been ferreted out and exposed, and at the present time the wells of amateur sports appear to be thoroughly purged, even though the continual vigil need be maintained. However, the United States Golf As sociation has gone somewhat beyond reasonable limits in defining amateur players. for the association has reached a. conclusion that anyone en. gaged in the sale, manufacture or dis tribution of golf clubs, balls or other accessories of the game is Ineligible to play As an amateur. If a player han dles golf supplies or should "engage in any business where one's usefulness or profits arise because of skill or prominence in the game of golf" his amateur standing is threatened. As we understand the proper lines separating amateur from professional sports, the dividing mark is that of playing for profits arising in the game itself. Professionalism is playing for profit. Amateurism is playing for the delights of the game without direct profit. In the National amateur cham pionship amateurs and professionals compete in the same tournament. When Mr. Travers won last year many of his competitors were professional players. The difference was that he would accept no cash prizes or other valuable considerations, while they held no such compunctions. While main taining that high ethical standard should he become the owner in a plant which manufactures golf materials he would be subject to classification as a professional. By the same rule a man engaged in the hardware business with a boxing goods department would be rated as a professional should he enter the roped arena. Or a wrestler who was agent for wrestling mats could not preserve his standing as an ama teur. Fortunately, however, the asso ciations which gauge the morals in other branches of amateur athletics are endowed with a greater breadth of mind and no such questionable and nonsensical line Is drawn about their games. THE RIGHT OF PEACEFCX PURSUITS. The most disheartening fact about the attitude of Congress toward the German submarine campaign Is the utter failure of even its leading mem bers to grasp the full significance of the question, and the callous slurs which they cast upon those citizens whose lives are lost or risked. Sena tor Chamberlain "thinks the peace of the Nation should not be endangered by a few adventurous persons, who like the thrill they get from travel ing on belligerent ships in the war zone." Representative Mann, leader of the House Republicans, says: I bops our citlsens never win be put to ths test of having to fight because soma fool baa Involved us by entering; upon a Joy rids. A woman and her six children went from Philadelphia on the Lusltanla to join their husband and father. The wife of a Roslyn miner took her ehil dren to visit her parents in Scotland Many others went to unite divided 'families or to be near their men, who were fighting in the war. Many more, like Dr. Fisher, of New York, and Miss Connor, of Medford) who hap pily escaped, went on errands of mercy to care for the sick and wounded. Does Mr. Chamberlain imagine that these people crossed the ocean on a belligerent merchant ship because they liked "the thrill"? Does Mr. Mann suppose that they went for a "joy ride"? Those people went on lawful business and on errands which all hu manity should' applaud. They went in confidence that all the belligerent nations would observe those rules of war by which their lives are held sacred. They trusted to the American Nation for protection in traveling tlfe ocean highways, just as Mr. Cham berlain and Mr. Mann trust the police of Washington for protection against robbers and assassins on the streets. They had a right to such protection and all who hereafter travel on mer chant ships, armed or unarmed, have the same right. But the question is far broader than one of protection to "adventurous ocean joyriders." The issue between the United States and Germany con cerns the right of the United States to maintain communication on the ocean highways with other nations, not only for passengers, but for our entire com merce, safe from unlawful molesta tion by any belligerent. The contempt ible slurs cast upon ocean travelers arouse the suspicion that the so-called statesmen who utter them would aban don our commerce to the mercy of Germany without protest were not the lives of Americans at stake. They appear annoyed that murder of trav elers should provoke protests which they dare not ignore, but in the ab- ence of which they would feel safe in confining official protests to an interminable series of notes. Such men are not statesmen: they lack the first qualification of states men, which is a due appreciation of the bearing of every event on the life, honor and rights of the Nation. They have so keen an eye for the ap proving smiles of hyphenated and pacifist constituents that they can give no thought to statesmanship. The Frankfurter Zeitung, arepresen- tative German paper, permits itself to indulge in a Jingoistic dream when it makes itself responsible for the fol lowing: With the fall of England. Russia and France will automatically collapse like the organs of a body whose heart has been bored through. Then. also. America will remain Isolated and must for her part ac cept any conditions which we Impose, be cause in the peace treaties with our Euro pean foes we can. among othr things. also demand the handing over of all large battleships and submarines, whereby our fleet would become seven times the strength of the American Navy. Then America would be simultaneously compelled to surrender, and as a matter of course would not only be compelled to givia up all the interned German liners, but also pay all the war expenditures of the Germanic powers and their allies. The picture of Uncle Sam as a large, fat person, his pockets bulging with money, exactly fills the imagination of some of our foreign friends. But it is looking a long -way ahead to begin- ar. rangements for the indemnity the United States is to pay anyone after the war. The adventure of Captain Owen to take possession of a rich gold mine in Patagonia is one more of the many examples which prove the truth that distant or hidden riches always have the greatest charm. There may be as rich a mine in the Cascade Mountains, within a day's journey of Portland, as any in Patagonia, but proximity de stroys its attraction. The richest mines are always distant or lost. What min ing country has not its "lost cabin mine, though as rich a. find may be hidden under the camp of the man who tells the tale. The Oregonian has observed that there is among the state press of Ore gon for the most part an acute under standing of the meaning of the Astoria rate decision. For example, this from the Bend Bulletin: Th3 Portland afternoon papers which have labored so diligently to secure parity rates for Astoria seem to have succeeded almost too well. At least they have assisted in tvlnsf a mllIaton around Portland neck. for which no doubt Its citizens in time will thank them appropriately. Anyway, Astoria s to be congratulated. As matters stand it is on top of the heap. And Portland is asked to say it likes it. Acting Governors do act up now and then, if the allegations of a former waitress in Salt Lake against Secre tary of State Mattson are true. She sues for damages for being kissed and hugged against her will, which is not a remarkable happening in a state like Utah. The woman up in Clackamas who sued an old bachelor tor jiz.uuu, ai leging slander, and lost, is not a tacti cian. Her experience with three alleged husbands should have taught her better mode of procedure. If there be merit In the suit of the man for damages for a. vagrant shock from-the car rails that injured him, it behooves everybody to wear insulated shoes. This applies as well to horses. Old Man Nelson Is something of a financier and diagnostician, for Bat tling alleges he is holding out $150,000 while the old gentleman declares the son is "crazy." Talk about equality of the sexes! An old hen sells for-nearly twice as much as an old rooster. Time is ripening for the coimm-uter to begin blowing about his early radishes. Of course, the Villa break Is result of German Intrigue to divert the muni tions. If Villa only had waited tmtll the week of the Chicago convention Wo w ! Catch Villa alive. Technicalities do not exist In a courtmartial. The 10 per cent rise in the Spring field mill sounds good. Why not steer the peace party to ward Mexico, Henry? Eggs are approaching the stage of too cheap to gather. Rough Riders and Rangers r the boys seeded. UnpreparecVness was in, evidence at Columbus. Portugal is the opera bouffe end of the war. "Tentlon, Third Oregon! European War Primer By National Geographical Society. "From Dover, Folkstone, Brighton and Portsmouth, all war-lanes across the English Channel lead to Boulogne, the great port for the western entente battle line, safe behind the long rows of trenches inthe north, and made the principal point for import from Eng land of vast stores of munitions and a steady stream of troops," begins a primer Just prepared by the National Geographic Society, which describes the harbor to which the war has brought its most brisk import business. "Bou logne is a vitally important point in the line opposing the Germans in the west: it is the funnel through which the British empire is pouring its con- rlbution to the energies expended on the first of the war theaters. The French port, always very Eng lish and now almost as cosmopolitan, as Paris, lies upon the narrowest tretch of the channel, 22 miles south west of Calais, and only 28 miles by ea southeast of the busy English har- or of Folkstone. Paris, with which the city is connected by a brilliant ex- ress service over the tracks of the Northern Railway, lies 157 miles in the south-southeast. Portsmouth-Boulogne the most direct line of communica tion between the great British arsenal nd the tiring line through Flanders, Artois, Picardy and Champagne. The River Liano divides the town, and the mprovements at its mouth provide ex- ellent harbors for the unusual stress f shipping that the war has brought about. Boulogne has always had more or less close relations with England, friendly and unfriendly. It has ever beer suggested that it was the Portus tius where Julius Caesar assembled his fleet. In modern times Boulogne as been the Englishman's favorite way into France, and. before the war, the passengers from Folkstone to Boulogne totaled about 300,000 annually. The trans-Atlantic liners of the Hamburg American and the Holland-American companies, also, made Boulogne a call ing point. English business interests in France were largely represented at this port, and the English colony at the outbreak of the war numbered more than 1500. It has long been said, that Boulogne is the most English city on the continent, and, before the war was many months old the English language and English ways became the accepted currency of the place. In 1S04 Napoleon I selected Boulogne as the starting point for an invasion of Kngland. He assembled an army of 1S0.000 men and a vast assortment of war-stores here for this purpose. The invincible General was so certain that England was fated to fall before his genius that he had coins struck with which to pay his soldiers on the other side of the channel and inscribed them "minted in London.' He also be gan a column of victory here to com memorate the conquest about to be realized of his most troublesome oppo nent. Marshals Soult, Ney, Davoust and Victor were to lead the Invaders The harbors of Boulogne were com pletely hidden under the hulks of the many-vessels, upon which the expedi tion was to be transported. A flotilla of 2413 craft of all sizes had been gathered at the port. "Preparations for the invasion were admirably made, and the troops waited only for the coming of the protecting French fleets from Antwerp, Brest, Ca diz and the harbors of the Mediter ranean to convey them to the island battlefields. The units of these fleets had been in the course of construction for several years for the express pur pose of aiding in the decision against England; for the Little Corporal, will ing to divide the world with Alexander of Russia, knew from the beginning that his Interests and those of Britain could never be reconciled. The French fleets never assembled at Boulogne, and the victory of Nelson at Trafalgar, in ISOo, forever shattered Napoleon's hopes for the invasion. The column of vic tory, however, was finished In 1841, and it is crowned by a fine statue of the Emperor." HOOD RIVER'S SELECT APPLES. Portland Fails to Respond After Years of Complaining, says Grower. HOOD RIVER, Or., March 8. (To the Editor.) Figures compiled by the Ap ple Growers' Association of Hood River indicate that Portland is slow to take advantage of something for which It has complained for 10 years. Time was when Portland could not get the choice Hood River apples. These were sent by the enterprising growers to Europe and the Eastern markets. But now con anions have changed and for the last year or so the first-grade fruit has been offered to Portland. What has been the result? Portland takes in a season only three or four cars of the choice fruit, now it is offered. San Francisco and far-away Los Angeles take 204 and 172 cars, respectively. The Hood River association has In vestigated the situation and learned that about 40 per cent of the choice fruit now comes to Portland, from Washington orchards In the Wenatchee and Iorth Yakima sections. Little of no Oregon fruit goes to Washington cities. But the fact that San Francisco and Los Angeles draw eo heavily on Hood River when they have pood apples of their own and Southern Oregon so near at hand for them haw caused the Hood Klver men to feel that Portland is need lessly slow in taking what has so long been asked lor. OSCAR VANDERBILT. Questions of Taxes. PORTLAND, March 8. (To the Edi tor.) To settle ars argument, will you kindly answer In The Oregonian the following: 1 What are the amounts of taxes paid in Multnomah County by each of the City Commissioners and the Mayor during the year 19167 2 Are their salaries subject to the Government income tax and do they pay on them? S Is there any way of ascertaining whether or not any attorney in Port land paid an Income tax on an income of 1160.000 for the year 1914? 4 Are the stocks of liquors that a private Individual has on hand in his own house on March 1 this year assess able? ENQUIRER. 1 The tax lists show the following taxes paid by the Mayor and other City Commissioners: H. R. Albee, $408.31; G. L. Baker- and Mrs. Baker,- $143.11; C. A. Bigelow, $76.63; W. H. Ualy, $37.45. Robert G. Dleck does not ap pear on the 1914 assessment roll. 2 A City Commissioner's salary Is not subject to exemption so far as we know or can ascertain. 5 The Internal Revenue officers In Portland are forbidden to give any fle taJIed information such as you aBk. Perhaps if you would write to Wash ington you could learn. 4 A stock of liquors wo.ulol be con sidered as food products and not taxed. If the supply was large enough to be considered saleable merchandise then it would be subject to taxation. Data oat Moat Inspection Stamp. BISHOP, Or., March 6. (To the Edi tor.) Referring to your city meat in spection ordinanoe, 1 wouldyeuggest the date of inspection included in the stamp on all meats, otherwise the stamp is useless. Meats have been kept in cold storage for years. The longer the time between the slaughtering and the use as food the less vital principle is in the meat and the greater danger of eentamlnatiea from outside snurees. , . ansa, i-osier. BENSON POLYTECHNIC DISCIPLINE "Tnree Students'' Call Attention to Sys tem Held Inimical to Best Purpose. PORTLAND, March 8. (To the Edi tor. The purpose of this article is for three conscientious students of the Benson Polytechnic School to gain an insight into a few of the laws govern ing this school or any school. Perchance there may be some person who reads this article who is able with authority to enlighten us with regard to certain questions through the medium of The Oregonian. We, the writers of this, feel that the instructors in one of the departments are overstepping their au thority. For instance, each of the stu dents in the shop is required to put in 1S00 hours' work in & particular de partment, about four periods per day of 45 minutes each. Each student is made responsible for his own time, as he writes down each day on a card provided for the purpose the exact number of periods put in each day. The head instructor has taken the liberty to deduct time for slight mis demeanors and other trivial offenses, such as talking on subjects not per taining to work in hand, helping an other student with a difficult piece of work, or falling to return tools to the toolroom at a given hour. A boy sel dom knows of these deductions until he receives his report card at the end of a month. Then it is too late to recall the offense to mind. If the boy tries to explain, he is told that he is arguing and wasting time. We may cite the case of one boy who In writing up his time failed, through mistake, to give himself credit for 62 hours' time. The instructor would not permit the boy to make the correction, although he was known to have put in the time In hard work. This is the same as having been absent 52 hours' time from the shop. Is it not a school rule that time can be deducted only when a student is "absent" from his work? It is an everyday occurrence for a boy to be told to go get bis time card, it being the desire of the instruc tor to dock the boy some time. The punishment for leaving the shop to do an assigned job in another department without permission for each trip is four hours time. Failure to see a no tice on a small blackboard, which re quested that certain boys show up at a certain time to make a few alterations In the headings of their "time cards," cost eight or nine of 16 boys two weeks' time apiece. The boys were not per mitted to defend themselves. To the boy who is trying to get through school as soon as possible so as to get a position and thus relieve his financial distress this time docking stunt means a great deal. By no means is this article intended to knock the school. It simply reveals some of the stringent rules concocted by the head instructor himself. The penalties are too great for too trivial offenses. The head instructor in this department is known to have been in the Navy, so you will readily see where he acquired his ideas of discipline. The boys are afraid of him. We do not ob ject to severe, rigid discipline so long as it does not take off time, thus mak ing it necessary for graduates to re turn after graduation and make up time in order to receive their shop certificates and diplomas. We seek In formation- not knocks. If we are wrong we can be shown. If the shop Instructor endeavors to oust us from his domain on the strength of this ar ticle he will meet a decided opposition. We have not time to waste: we want all we can get out of the school. THREE STUDENTS. Formal Erenlnc Dress. PORTLAND. March 8. (To the Edi tor.) I am not certain as to the correct form of evening dress. Kindly advise in Daily Oregonian. "When ladies are present In evening dress can either white or Mack vest be worn? Can either white or black tie be worn? Can either standing or turndown collar be worn? With Tuxedo coat is there any prescribed style of collar or tie? Can a Tuxedo coat be worn where ladies are present? OLD SUBSCRIBER. A white vest, white tie and standing collar should be worn with full dress. Any deviation from this is not in good taste. With the -Tuxedo coat the turndown collar and black tie should be worn. I A Tuxedo coat is strictly speaking a dinner coat and may be worn when) ladies are present. Formal affairs, however, demand the full dress. Waynesboro a Modern Utopia in ' The Sunday Oregonian One of the busiest industrial centers of the country is Waynes boro, Pa., yet it is a town that has not had a labor strike forjnora than 10 years, that has no drunkenness, no paupers and none of the other troubles incident to modern commercial life. How all this has been made possible together with pictures illustrating the novel situation will be printed in tomorrow's Oregonian. RARE ANIMALS IN PANAMA Digging the Canal is not the only activity in the Canal Zone that requires science and skill. Catching specimens of rare animals is another one, even more exciting than the canal job. A story in tomorrow's paper wall tell all about it. GARDEN SEASON HERE Nearly everyone7 except apartment and flat dwellers, keeps a garden. Whether your garden is large or small you will be interested in three or four pages of timely informa tion on the raising of flowers and vegetables, to be printed tomorrow. WATCH FOR YOUR POEM Favorite poems are coming into The Oregonian office thick and fast. This is the result of the recent call for old-time favorites. Classical and near-classical poems are accepted on a parity. All will be printed as fast as space is available. Another full page of them will appear tomorrow. BIRSKY AND ZAPP This time it is the income tax that demands the loquacious attention of Birsky and Zapp, Montague Glass' new characters. They are funnier than ever and twice as natural. MORE OF SARA MOORE Are you keeping up with Sara Moore's original drawings from real life? If not, you are missing some thing really worth while. Watch her pictures in The Sunday Ore gonian and get her keen insight into domestic and social affairs. Three more pictures tomorrow. BILLIE BURKE'S NECK Women readers are interested in the weekly chats concerning Billie Burke's beauty. These chats "are helpful to those women who are seeking to better their own appear ances. Tomorrow's paper not only will present a number of new and intimate views of the popular actress, but will tell what she does to preserve her remarkable complexion, and to maintain the charms of her well-proportioned neck. CARPENTER AT JUNEAU Alaska abounds in places, of interest and none is more interesting than Juneau, the political and com mercial capital of the territory. Frank G. Carpenter, who is "doing" Alaska for The Oregonian, writes about Juneau for to morrow's paper. SECRETARY LANSING AS AN ANGLER Every man, great a3 well as near-great, has a hobby or so. Secretary Lansing, of the State Department, has so recently been thrust into a position of greatness' that his hobby heretofore has not been discovered. At least it has not been exploited. But it has been well established that Mr. Lansing is an inveterate and a more or less successful fisherman. In tomorrow's paper will appear a new Etory telling of the Secretaries fishing exploits. FOR THE MOVIE FAN Three or four pages of late motion picture news will be printed tomorrow dealing with the local situation, as well as with the film field in the world at large. OFFICIAL TASTER NOW IN DEMAND Since the recent attempt to poison a party of prominent banqueters in Chicago it has become the custom at places where dinners are served to large numbers of distinguished people to have the food tasted by an expert, for the detection of poisons, before it is served. Thus a custom that pre vailed in barbaric times is revived. Tomorrow's paper will tell about it. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The usual departments will be fully covered sports, society, drama, automobiles, real estate, marine, markets, schools, churches and women's clubs. In Other Days Twenty-five Yeara A ao. From The Oregonian of March 11. 1S91. New York. March 10. At a meeting in the office of the Illinois Pteel Com pany this mornintr. a consolidation of the Lackawanna Coal & Iron Company and the Scranton Steel Company was effected. General Superintendent MeXell, of the Union Pacific, will leave for the East tonitrht to be gone about two weeks.. He will visit Omaha. Kansas City. St. Joseph, Salt Lake, etc. Mrs. Dr. Ford Warren will leave on the next trip of the Orepoo for & months visit in Southern California. She will bo accompanied by her niece. Miss Minneta Munkers, of Salem. V . S. Ladd. who hn hnil bis tmrt on Hawthorne avenue platted, has sent East to ascertain what it wil cost to improve the streets with Trinidad as- pnait. It Is his intention to rrade the property, construct sewers and lay gas and water mains; The granite to be tlserl in nnorlnriiirh' six-story block at Fifth and Yamhill streets Is to be furnished by the Na tional Granite Company, of Ashland. Or. H. L. Crawford, of Illinois, arrived hero yesterday with his family to make this city his permanent home. He has purchased an interest in the Puniwnv Lumbering Company, of which he will be the vice-president. MATHEMATICAL PRAS'K ATTACKED Mr. Orutae's Jocular Flxnrlns: Falls to Strike One's Sense of Humor. rORTLAN'D, March (To the Edi tor.) As a schoolboy and a believer in the Infallibility of mathematics. 1 desire to dispute the accuracy of the problem printed in Vur columns re cently and formulated by Sir. Grutze. The figures don't lie. but are manipu lated to look that way. To begin with." the year is divided into three parts, one devoted to work, one to play and one to sleep. Mr. CJrutze shows his prejudice in the be ginning by allowing 1J2 days to sleep and a similar number to play, while he cuts one short on work. Now, hav ing divided the year into thre parts, we can subtract only one-third of holi days, lunch hours and from the hours of work by dividing -.he days of the year into three parts, tor the reason that the other two-thirds should be subtracted from the hours of play and slwap. respectively. Thus we have 62. 26. 2.1. 14 and 6. with a total of 121. Two-thirds of this is SI. which must be added to the result of 0 achieved by Mr. Grutze. and it must further be borne in mind that this means work ing 24 hours in the day for 281 days, or, if we take Mr. Grutze's calculations, eight working hours constitute one working day, so, multiplying by three, we have 243 working days. Dividing S65 by three, we have 121 2-3. Four thirds times 24 equals 30 hours; divided by three, wo have ten hours which must be added, leaving 244 working days and two hours over. There may be something else the matter with the problem, but I haven't the time to in vestigate. I suppose Mr. Grutze merely meant to prove that the employes of the city don't do very much work for the salaries they get, and he proved this, but he didn't prove they didn't do anything for the money they get. D. H. Mr. Grutze's figuring, implied and expressed, was a mathematical prank and was not intended to be taken se riously. Neither was the article call ing attention to the calculations. "A little nonsense now and then" should be relished, etc. A Chicken Interview. Louisville Courier-Journal. "Better interview this Lady Eglan tine," suggested the managing editor of the New York Daily Squash. "Why, she's a hen. A hen can't do anything but cackle." "Well, we've printed worse inter views. Go ahead." To,r,. sergeant (to rather slo"w recruit) Now. then. President Wilson, you're a long time tnklng your coat off!