Morning Oregonian., April 27, 1916, Page 10, Image 10

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ETTLCD, AUMOST.
If the Nation, or the Republican
party, had hcen lately disposed to
project itself into a heroic mood, it
may be suspected that the notion "will
be abandoned, now that Massachu
setts, New Jersey and Ohio have been
heard from. They have gone against
Roosevelt In the Republican primary
overwhelmingly and even enthusi
astically. The Oregonian has repeatedly ex
pressed the opinion that Justice
Hughes will be the Republican
nominee for President, unless he
blocks the way by action so explicit
and unmistakable as to make it im
possible. More and more it appears to
be plain that Judge Hughes has no
such intention.
If the course of affairs with, the
convention is not completely and un
expectedly reversed, the only real con
flict will be over the Vice-Presidency.
The delegates are to have the op
portunity of canvassing- the merits of
a known and avowed Progressive
named Hiram Johnson, Esq., of Cali
fornia. A FXtS.W IX THi ARMY WAS.
What may prove to be a fatally
weak point in the Army increase bill
Is the attempt by voluntary enlist
ment not only to enlarge the regular
Army, hut at the same time to increase
the strength of the National Guard
and to organize a National volunteer
army. Although some men may en
list In any one of these organizations
who would not Join either of the other
two, each will to a certain degree be
competing with the others in the same
source of supply of men. Experience
should have warned Congress not to
repeat this blunder, for It was made
with very harmful results on the out
break of the Mexican war in 1848.
Congress then authorized the Presi
dent to raise 5 0.000 volunteers to
serve for one year and at the same
time to increase the regular Army
from 75S0 to 17.812 men. but on De
cember 5, 1848. the latter showed a
deficiency of nearly 7000 men. In ex
planation of this deficiency the Sec
retary of War said:
The went of tetter success in rerrulllng la.
1 apprehend, mainly to be ascribed to the
large, number of volunteers which has In
the meantime ben called out. The volun
teer service Is resrarded generally by our
citizens as preferable to that in the Rku
lar Army, and as lonx as volunteers are
expected to be called for It will be diffi
cult to fill the ranks of the resrulsr rerl-nit-nts
unless addtlional Inducements are
Offered or the terms of service modified.
On his recommendation a cash
bounty on enlistment and a land
bounty on honorable discharge were
offered, and the term was changed to
five years or "during the war."
The evil consequences of placing
the volunteer Army In competition
with the regular Army for recruits
and of limiting the volunteer term of
enlistment to one year became ap
parent on General Scott's advance to
Mexico City. With less than 12,000
men he had taken Vera Cruz and had
so utterly defeated the entire Mexi
can army at Cerro Gordo that he
wrote "Mexico had no longer an
army." when his force was reduced
to 6820 men by the expiration of vol
unteers' terms and by sickness. He
had advanced to Puebla, only three
days march from the capital, but was
compelled to remain on the defensive
for two months while awaiting rein
forcements. During that period Mex
ico organized an army five times as
strong as Scott's and the American
Army was in danger of being sur
rounded and captured.
This was the consequence of placing
the volunteers in competition with,
the regulars for recruits and of the
faulty system of enlisting the former.
Yet the Mexican was our most suc
cessful war and its success was due
mainly to the large preponderance of
regulars in Scott's army. Of 11,052
men engaged in the battle of Contre
ras only 15S0 were volunteers, and of
these Upton says they "had had the
benefit of eight months' training, had
participated in the siege of Vera Cruz
and the battle of Cerro Gordo, and
were worthy of being called reliable
troops."
RKGCLATINO ACCENT.
Users of the English language have
yearly as many dialects as the Taga
l"a have. Perhaps they are not so
different, but that the common tongue
Is understood and yet one who has
learned English in the wilds of Mon
tana might find more or less diffi
culty understanding the English of
the highlands of Scotland. Sir Her
bert Tree, actor, author and theatri
cal manager. In urging that this is
a time to bring English-speaking
races Into a closer linguistic union,
would standardize the language by
use of phonographs. Let representa
tive men talk into the machines and
reproduce the records in schools
throughout the English-speaking
world. Thus all would acquire a
proper diction, and accent would not
hange with every geographical sub
division of the great family.
Such a plan has its arguments and
attractions. Eut who would be se
lected to speak Into the phonographs?
Although it has been said that one
may detect no difference in the use
of English by well-educated English
men and .American?, this rule is by
r.o means established. It has been
said that when Matthew Arnold talked
with Americans they had difficulty
in understanding him. Even Henry
James returned home with an accent
which did not belong to the land of
his nativity. There are Englishmen
who would fight for their accent and
there are Americans who would fight
rather than have that accent foisted
upon them. Who. even in the inter
est of culture and homogeneity of
eech, could hope to convert the?
Southerner to an abandonment of his
peculiarity of speech?
Some or the more outlandish, dia
lects and brogues might be done
away with. There Is no excuse for
the murdering of English found in
Missouri, New Mexico, Upper New
England, Cork, Cornwall or Edin
burgh. But the human family is pe
culiarly susceptible to geographical
influences and there are sections of
the world which would not accept any
dictation in the matter of shaping its
speech. Sir Herbert's" phonograph
would do nothing better than supply
some sections of America with first
rate comedy.
OX THE WRONG TRACK.
Just a word or two to the Parent
Teachers' Association (of Portland),
which is reported to have nariied a
committee to tell the Governor of
Oregon what he ought to do so as to
control the action of Congress in its
proposed legislation on the Oregon
& California land grant:
The Governor of Oregon has no
power to dispose of the grant, nor to
discipline Congress, nor to appropri
ate the proceeds from the land sales
to the school fund, or any other fund.
He has publicly expressed his com
plete confidence in the ability of the
Oregon Congressional delegation to
represent Oregon's interests in consid
eration of the question at Washing
ton. Do the women of the Portland
Parent-Teachers' Association or the
women who comprise the circle which
assumes to speak for the association
desire to have it understood that they
distrust their Senators and Represen
tatives at Washington ?
It may be taken for granted that
the association is not purposely sup
porting the petty, unfair and wholly
dishonest game of politics being
played by a Portland newspaper; yet
it has placed itself in that unenviable
position. That paper has descended to
a low level of demagogy when it has
begun a campaign against the Gov
ernor of Oregon for his alleged fail
ure to participate in the land-grant
matter in Congress.
The design Is as obvious as it Is
contemptible. The entire responsibil
ity rests with Congress, which Is be
ing largely guided by the land offi
cers of the Government. To shield a
Democratic Congress, which will pass
the bill in consonance with the pro
posals of the Democratic Secretary
of the Interior and a Democratic Sec
retary of Agriculture, the plot has
been hatched In Portland to show
that Congress and the Government
officials would do something ovholly
different if only the Governor of Ore
gon would tell them what to do. The
thing is preposterous. The Ahkoond
of Swat or the King of Cannlballa
might just as appropriately be criti
cised for their failure or refusal to
use their Influence with Congress).
Oregon has sent to Washington a
delegation which is expressly com
missioned and empowered to look
after the interests of Oregon. TUe
place for the Governor of Oregon is
at home.
nilKRE THE REKPOXSIBIUTY RESTS.
A speaker at the taxpayers' meeting
in Portland the other day made the
Indisputable statement that taxes in
Oregon had increased in ten years 4 00
per cent. Popular government crnnDS
high, hut we must have it, we sup
pose. When any plan to simplify govern
ment and co-ordinate political activ
ities and party forces is suggested, the
unwarranted outcry Is at once raised
that it Is proposed somehow to over
throw the Oregon system. If the Ore
gon system is responsible for the
grievous and intolerable burdens the
taxpayers are bearing, it ought to be
overthrown.
We hear that the Legislature is
chiefly to blame the useless, improvi
dent and wasteful Legislature. So let's
abolish the Legislature. Let lis see.
The city of Portland in 1900 (popu
lation about 100,000) raised, appro
priated and expended approximately
1300,000 for taxes. In 1915 (popula
tion 230,000) It raised, appropriated
and expended about $2,700,000. Tha
increase was ninefold, while popula
tion had only a littlo more than
doubled. What had the State Legis
lature to do with It?
The Portland school district levied
and raised in taxes in 1900 about
$130,000. In 1915, the total had
reached the great sum of $2,000,000,
fifteen times the aggregate for 1900.
What had the Legislature to do with
that?
The Oregonian makes the unquali
fied statement that the Important
branches of government with which
the State Legislature has had most to
do have been affected much less than
the others in the astounding tax In
crease; and it challenges its refuta
tion. COOUE OF rOREIG.V TRADE.
Analysis by the Commerce Depart
ment of the foreign trade of the
United States for February shows that
the record total of exports for that
month and for the ejght months of
the fiscal year is due to the vast in
crease in sales of manufactures, in
cluding foodstuffs. Included in these
classes of commodities are doubtless
the great bulk of the war munitjons.
In the eight months exports of food
stuffs partly or wholly manufactured
increased from nearly $264,000,000 to
over $403,000,000; manufactures for
further use in manufacturing from
nearly $209,000,000 to over $377,000,
000 and manufactures ready for con
sumption from over $429,000,000 to
the enormous total of over $1,122,
000,000. Miscellaneous exports, which
were mostly horses and mules for war
purposes, increased from less than
$40,000,000 to over $75,000,000.
Exports of crude foodstuffs and food
animals, on the other hand, decreased
from nearly $331,000,000 to over
$219,000,000 and the decrease Is be
coming more rapid, for in February
it was from $58,000,000 to $32,000,000.
Crude materials for manufacture show
a slight increase for the eight months.
from $329,000,000 to $345,000,000. but
in February there was a decrease from
$75,000,000 to $58,000,000. The favor
able balance of trade in the eight
months was $1,294,940,602, while the
balance in manufactures was $1,405,
985,133, thus offsetting an unfavor
able balance in crude materials and
crude foodstuffs.
Totals of imports for the eight
months show that we are using in our
manufactures a much larger quantity
of foreign raw material, the total hav
ing grown from $336,000,000 to $550.-
000.000. Imports of crude foodstuffs
increased from $147,000,000 to nearly
$169,000,000, but decreased more than
$700,000 in February. In spite of the
war. the nations have Increased their
sales of partly manufactured goods to
us and the Increase grows larger
monthly. Foodstuffs show a gain of
over $3,000,000 for the eight months,
but of $10,000,000 for February. Of
partly manufactured goods the in
crease was from $157,000,000 to $203.
000.000 In the eight months, but from
nearly $17,000,000 to $30,000,000 in
February Finished. manufactures
show a decrease from $244,000,000 to
$196,000,000 in the eight months but
an increase from less than $24,000,
000 to $26,000,000 In February. Total
Imports show an increase - of over
$235,000,000 for the eight months, but
for February alone the increase was
nearly $69,000,000.
If these increased Imports of manu
factures come from belligerent coun
tries, they show a remarkable ability
to revive industry and commerce in
the presence of war. Whether that
is their source we shall not be able
to Judge until reports of commerce by
countries are published.
APPETITE FOR PORK GROWS.
Although the Treasury deficit and
the imperative needs of defense render
economy in National expenditures
more urgently necessary than ever,
the appetite for pork grows by what
it feeds upon. Pork-barrel bills mul
tiply in Congress. The river and har
bor bill and the pension bills long
since ceased to be the sole pork bar
rels. The public building bill then
assumed that character. The Army
and Navy bills have contained pork
for Army posts and Navy-yards these
many years. The agricultural bill is
now being transformed.
In opposing the Shackleford good
road bill Senator Works gave a. list
of the measures now before Congress
by which it is proposed to take money
from the Federal Treasury for pur
poses which are solely within the
province of the states and localities
or for purposes which should be left
to private enterprise.. The list begins
with a bill by Senator Fletcher appro
priating $4,000,000 "to arrest and
eradicate citrus canker." This Is fol
lowed by a series of public health bills,
providing $500,000 to prevent and sup
press malaria and typhoid lever; $2,
000,000 for "Federal aid in caring for
Indigent tuberculous persons"; $250,
000 for the care of lepers and to pre
vent spread of leprosy. Then come a
long series of road bills granting either
millions directly, to bo divided among
all the states or the proceeds of land
sales to particular states. For educa
tional purposes there are bills grant
ing public land for penal, charitable
and educational Institutions and for
schools of mines in particular, also
a bill granting sums for vocational
education beginning with $500,000 the
first year and increasing to a perma
nent annual grant of $3,000,000. Sen
ator Borah introduced by request a bill
to appropriate $5,000,000 for a division
of scientific distribution and marketing
of agricultural and other products.
Senator Williams asks $2,000,000 from
the proceeds of sale of swamp land for
drainage and Senator Robinson asks
$500,000 to survey swamp lands in the
Mississippi Valley. Senator Myers
would appropriate $7500 a year in
each National forest state to promote
instruction in forestry and Senator
Walsh would grant 100,000 acres of
land to support a school of forestry
In Montana Senator Polndexter wants
$105,000 to purchase water rights for
Okanogan Indian land.
Those are the Senate bills and mnjiy
of them have been duplicated In the
House, but there are also House bills
in abundance. One would spend $1,
000.000 and another $50,000 on devis
ing schemes to protect fruit from frost.
Half a dozen bills appropriate sums
ranging from $15,000 to $350,000 to
exterminate insect pests and predatory'
animals, while two more set aside
$100,000 and $2,000,000, respectively,
to eradicate animal diseases. The
modest sum of $40,000 Is asked to aid
In developing denatured alcohol pro
duction on farms. A long series of
bills provides all the way from $25,000
to $2,025,000 for war on leprosy,
rabies, malaria, typhoid fever, tuber
culosis and pellagra. Arkansas asks
that 50 per cent of revenue from its
National forests be used in promoting
the state's agriculture. A great sys
tem of National defense highways Is
proposed at a cost of $100,000,000.
Nevada asks $100,000 for drilling iwells
to locate water for irrigation. Two
more swamp-land bills are offered,
one appropriating $10,000,000. Many
more road bills are offered, each .call
ing for millions. ' A National board
of rural Industrial schools for moun
tain children is proposed, to spend
$300,000, and another bill would give
$1,000,000 "to promote rural educa
tion, industrial training and eliminate
adult illiteracy." A bill to extend the
franking privilege to literature pub
lished by state boards of health closes
the list
All of the purposes for which these
appropriations are asked are good, but
very few of them come within the
scope of Federal power, as defined by
the Constitution. The Government
might properly construct military
roads to connect coast defenses in
sparsely settled districts which can
not pay the cost of such solid roads
as are needed by heavy artillery and
supply trains, but it is not called upon
to construct roads in general. It may
properly undertake drainage of swamp
land on the public domain and as
auxiliary to the general work of flood
control and navigation improvement
on great rivers, but the enhanced value
of the drained land should make the
Improvement pay for itself. It may
establish interstate quarantine against
diseases of the human race, animals
and plants, but the extirpation of
these evils Is the duty of the individ
uals concerned under state law. The
Government may properly establish a
clearing-house for Information on
health of man, animals, plants and
fruit as well as on education, but that
is as far as It should go.
Even if the Federal Government
had the constitutional power to en
gage in these activities, it would be
very inopportune to do so at. the pres- '
ent time. The primary duty of the
Government is to defend the Nation
against enemies at home and abroad.
That duty will absorb all its energies
and all the additions it can make to
its shrunken revenue for several years
to conre. Our Army is now engaged
in a foreign expedition, the limits ofl
which we cannot foresee, and other
dangers overhang us, the warding off
of which may require all the power of
a greatly enlarged Army and Navy.
Were all these activities w-ithin the
power of the Government and. were
the time opportune for making the
expenditure, it would not be sound
policy to have the Nation undertake
them until its Governmental maohine
has been vastly improved. That ma
chine is now wasteful, inefficient and
dilatory- It appropriates money for
certain purposes, not because the pur.
poses are good in themselves but be
cause a certain Congressman desires
to have the money spent in his dis
trict. It does much work which
should not be done, and it does that
which should be done at double the
legitimate cost and with costly delay.
The activities of the Government
should not be extended until It has
adopted a budget system which will
eliminate Improper expenditures and
will balance income and outgo. Nor
should they then be extended to in
clude anything which is the function
of tha state and can better- -be done
by the state. Attempts are being
made to tempt states to submit to
Federal encroachments on their
sovereignty in the guise of supervision
over expenditure of Government funds.
These funds are covert bribes offered
by bureaucrats hungry for power.
Before the decision on freight rates
for which interior cities ask could be
placed In effect, the conditions on
which they base their claims may be
removed by restoration of peace. Re
lease of vessels employed in war or
driven to refuge In neutral ports would
promptly follow the signature of a
peace treaty, and normal shipping
conditions would revive water compe
tition for transcontinental traffic. The
law regards peace as the normal con
dition of the world, and war, especial
ly such a war as this, as an abnormal,
temporary condition. There is no rea
sonable ground for suspending the ap
plication of so basic a principle as
that, of water competition because of
a temporary" disturbance of the condi
tions which, have established It.
Whenever Ireland has been on the
eve of gaining Its desire home rule
- some marplot spoils everything.
When Parnell had won Gladstone
over, it was Kitty O'Shea with her
winning ways. Now it is the Sinn
Fein with their rebellion when home
rule Is actually the law, though its
operation is postponed till after the
war. The worst enemies of Ireland
are those Irish who mar their coun
try's chances when they are brightest.
The time is not ripe for a success
ful uprising in Ireland. Indeed, there
Is doubt if ever it will be. There seems
but a single ray of hope. In the gen
eral adjustment after the war, the
United States may perhaps grab the
island. Wouldn't it make an elegant
state of Erin, the brightest star in the
whole galaxy of the Union! Then
would Robert Emmet's epitaph be
written.
It is not a waste of money to send
more than 50,000 peace telegrams to
Senators and Representatives, for the
telegraph companies get it for service
rendered; but it Is waste of time and
endeavor, for Congressmen will do as
Wilson wishes or will oppose him, re
gardless of their constituents' desires.
The Federal Court of New York Is
in distress, and of all this broad land
our own Judge Wolvorton has been
called to. help clear the docket. He
will do It with the dignity and grace
that characterize the Federal Court
of Oregon.
The Zeppelin raids and the Irish
revolt now bid fair to do that which
all the pleading of Lord Roberts and
others could not accomplish Induce
the British government to adopt con
scription without restriction.
What disgusts the woman with con
siderable avoirdupois is that all these
"reduction" pictures and diagrams
are of forms already reduced to a de
lightful stage of plumpness.
When a man in a fit can stand off
seven patrolmen and a physician, it
is time Chief Clark had the officers
take boxing lessons with diagrams
showing a knock-out blow.
Married men of Great Britain are
invited to enlist during the next four
weeks and if thoy do not they will
be drafted. This shows the kingdom
needs the troops.
Having pumped the well dry to re
cover his wife's glasses, Mr. Hanby
will now probably make it "his busi
ness to see that they are fastened se
curely. With more than 14 0 names on the
Republican primary ballot, election
officials will need all the vigilance the
job pays for In tallying.
To be sure Mr. Wilson voted for
himself at Princeton. It was all he
could do and he had to vote to be a
consistent Democrat.
The war has taken much of the
sweetness out of life and may soon
take it out of our coffee, if sugar con
tinues to advance.
Congress is being flooded with pro
tests against a break with Germany.
Why not direct them to Woodrow and
the Kaiser?
The chief of police at Berkeley will
teach criminology. Now why not pre
vail on the fire chief to give a course
In arson ?
In the standing of the clubs, Walt
McCredie, Johnnie McGraw and Con
nie Mack are in position to take all
comers.
The aged . joke of stealing a red
hot stove has realism in the theft of
a few hundred feet of live-trolley wire.
All honor to the heroes of the
Alamo! They were not too proud to
fight, and their fame will never die.
If sugar continues to soar, the aver
age consumer will be compelled to
have his sweet tooth extracted.
Wages are being advanced. But
they'll have to sjieed up to keep pace
with the cost of living.
Chairman McCombs has quit the
Wilson campaign. While he can quit
with a clear record.
The debating societies approach the
point where they are shaking fists
over Shakespeare.
The parade of the children will be
held on the East Side, and that is
where it belongs.
The East Side will get the chil
dren's parade. And thus another
crisis is averted.
The situation in Mexico reveals
Uncle Sam sitting on a cactus, too
tired to' get off.
If steel continues to advance it
may soon be coined at a. ratio of 16
to 1 with gold.
The only product of the state pri
maries so far is a crop of favorite sons.
War bread is good for the Dutch.
Popular belief is they are all too fat.
Ireland is adding nothing to the ar
gument for home rule these days.
A week has passed and the diplo
matic bonds are not severed.
The thunder was not applause for
the Beavers. '
The great Irish, volcano is smoulder,
ing again. .
Stars and Starmakers
By Leone Casa Baer,
A GAY little note from Dorothy Shoe-
Xl maker, who is now Mrs. Louis Leon
Hall in her private life, says that her
baby, little seven-weeks'-old Anne Hall,
is the most wonderful little girl in the
world. Miss Shoemaker has returned
to the Washington Square vaudeville
act, in which she originated the role we
saw Mary Servoss In a few weeks ago
at the Orpheum. Miss Shoemaker Is
playing on the Orpheum this week in
Cincinnati. Her husband is playing
the role of Henry VII, a romatic
"heavy role," with Lou Tellegen In
New York. While she is en tour Miss
Shoemaker's baby is in the care of her
devoted grandmother and aunt in New
York City.
Mary Edgett Baker is busy packing
her belongings to set sail on Saturday
for California. She will visit in San
Francisco and later go to Los Angeles,
where a movie picture offer awaits
her. Miss Baker plans later to go on
to New York in time for the new sea
son. At the Alcazar in San Francisco
Florence Reed and Malcolm Williams
have inaugurated a stock-star system.
Miss Reed is the daughter of the late
Roland Reed. Among the others in the
new company are Henry Hall, Elizabeth
Ross and John Sumner, all three re
cruits from the Baker stock.
m m
Adolph Bolm, rnaltre de ballet of the
Ballet Russe at the Metropolitan Opera
house, as well as one of the principal
dancers, is co-operating with Anna
Pavlowa on a book entitled "The Evo
lution of the Russian Dance," which
will be in three volumes.
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ITust received a note from Emma
Carus from Denver telling me she opens
there this week on the Orpheum in
vaudeville. Emma says she will "play
Portland in about a month." Emma
didn't know when she wrote, that
"there ain't no more Orpheum" in Port
land this Beason.
George Primrose, the veteran min
strel man, formerly of Thatcher, Prim
rose and West's Minstrels, has been
married to his secretary, Mrs. Viola
Katherine Trueblood, of Jacksonville.
Mrs. Trueblood is a widow, 31 years old.
Primrose gave his age as 62. This Is
his third matrimonial venture. His
first wife is dead anl his second Wife
divorced him. The divorce was se
cured in Portland a few years ago.
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From Los Angeies comes news of
Maude Fulton's new play, "The Brat."
Oliver Morosco has produced it with
Miss Fulton in the title role. Its
premier scored an Instantaneous hit.
This is Miss Fulton's first appearance
In the legitimate, although she has
had such an appearance as the objective
of her career. While she was in Port
land with William Rock in the team
of Rock and Fulton she was writing
down ideas to incorporate In her play.
A year ago she came with Mr. Rock In
"The Beauty Shop" and when it failed
she very generously provided fares for
all the chorus girls to their homes,
paid back salaries and closed the show
with a clean record. And It wasn't
her show, cither. After that she went
to Los Angeles, where she domiciled
herself In a bungalow with her mother
and pitched in to writing in earnest.
This play is her first big result and
Oliver Morosco is making preparations
to send it East.
The title role is of a street waif who
Is picked up by a novelist and later
marries the misunderstood brother of
a society household.
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Every actress In the Uryted States Is
envious of Bonita, the radiantly beau
tiful woman who, with Lew Hearn,
is the extra attraction at the Orpheum.
IJonita. you know, is the present pos
sessor of the diamond star which goes
by vote to the most beautiful and most
popular actress In New York. The
star was worn by Georgia Cayvan for
20 years and was left by her to the
actors' fund to be awarded for life
to the actress acclaimed as the most
beautiful by stagedom. Bonita won
the diamond Jewel in 1908, when she
was star of "Wine, Women and Song,"
and her nearest competitor was Paul
ine Frederick. In the same year George
M. Cohen was proclaimed the most
popular actor in New York, so Cohen
and Bonita are the King and Queen
of America's stage world. Bonita's dia
mond star is valued at $2500. It is
made of perfect blue brilliants and
is so" constructed that it may be taken
apart. The star now reposes in a
vault in London, where it was left
by Bonita after her recent London en
gagement, the directors of the actors
fund suggesting that safeguard when
Bonita was about to sail through the
submarine zone- to return to America
for her Orpheum engagement. From
all appearances the next election of the
most beautiful and most popular actress
is far distant, as it will not be held
until Bonita passes on, and Bonita
seems to be growing younger every
year.
(Evelyn Nesbit and Jack Clifford have
made up their difficulties and have
sent out a story that their "artistic co
partnership has been as pleasant and
successful as ever." They add: "We
play Buffalo tha week of May 8 and
then go to New York for an engage
ment." Trinity Church, Nevr York.
RAYMOND, Wash.. April 21. (To the
Editor. Please say: (1) Where John
Mccormick was born; (2) Who owns
the estate on which Trinity Church,
New York City, stands at the head of
Wall street; and (3) Why is the ed
ifice allowed to stand when the prop
erty is so valuable?. I have read The
Oregonian for 15 years.
L. E. MORRIS.
(1. In Ireland, of Scottish-Irish
parentage.
2.) Trinity Episcopal Church Cor
poration. (3.) The owning corporation man
ages the property which probably must
be devoted to church use. There may
be private reasons which we are not
privileged to learn.
Says Poor Pay Makes Poor Army.
WIXNETKA, 111., April 21. (To the
Editor.) I have Just read from the
Chicago Tribune qubtlng from one of
your editorials. As an old newspaper
man. let me answer The Oregonian's
questions: "What Is wrong with the
American physical standards that so
few are fit for military duty; and
what is wrong with our system of re
cruitment?" The United States, the
richest country on earth, pays its com
mon soldiers in the ranks $16 a month;
hence, largely the inferior, mentally,
morally and physically, offer their
services, and hence the small number
accepted. Pay the -American men liv
ing wages and the strong men will
come out, the United States will accept
them and the ranks will be filled.
ADDISON C, THOMAS,
RUSSIA AND THE I'.MTED STATES
Czar's friendship and Proffered Help
In Past Recalled.
WASHINGTON, April 24. (To the
Editor.) During the darkest days of
the Civil War. when the hopes of the
South were highest and the prospects
of the North the lowest. Louis Napoleon,
then Emperor of the French, tried to
induce England to unite with him in
recognizing the Confederacy and in dis
patching a Joint English and French
fleet to its aid. It Is supposed the proj
ect was defeated by the non-acqules-ence
of England and it is doubtful
whether the opposition of the French
people would have permitted it In any
this time, when the action of
England and France was in doubt and
when the procedure of the two great
powers was a serious cause of anxiety
to the Government at Washington,
which feared foreign Intervention, and
to the Confederate government, which
hoped for it, a Russian. fleet appeared
off New York in the Atlantic and at
about the same time another Russian
fleet appeared off San Francisco in the
Pacific. Each fleet was under sealed
orders to report to the Government at
Washington in case of the descent of
an English and French fleet upon our
coasts.
This timely display of friendship was
In harmony with the relations of Rus
sia with the United States from the be
ginning. With the possible exception
of the Spanish War. Russia has always
been friendly to our country. I think
during the war with Spain perhaps
every continental government rather
sympathised with Spain. Russia among
them, but with this inconsiderable ex
ception the great Colossus of the North
has reached a hand across the Pacific
in friendly grasp of the hand of the
great republic of the West.
Russia, the greatest real estate owner
or the world, whose traditional policy
hag been to get all she could and hold
all she got. parted with her large
American holdings to this country. It
was the only instance, I believe, where
the great White Czar loosed his grin on
territory over which he had. acquired
full and undisputed ownership. I have
been told by an informant in position
to Know that the Gubernatorial palace
at Sitka was left with full and com
plete housekeeping equipment, includ
ing the silver plate on the dining table,
but what the Russian so generously
and courteously left, the American of
ficials succeeding them appropriated, so
that the United States failed to profit
by Russian generosity through the ra
pacity of its own officers. If the Na
tion failed to receive the stiver do
nated, it did receive the land ceded by
Russia, which was not only a valuable
acquisition, but removed one of the
great European landowners from the
Western Continent, leaving the north
ern half of the New World to the un
disputed possession of Great Britain
and the United States.
W. A. FOSTER.
INTEGRITY OF THE SCHIPTUnES
Seminary Which Accepted Non-bellev-ers
In Miracles Reopena Issue.
AMITY. Or., April 24. (To the Ed
itor.) Notwithstanding that t hold
your opinions as expressed in your edi
torials as of the very highest order,
I would not he true to my convictions
of duty were I not to ask permission to
say a word in review of what you said
in your comments on the action of the
New York Presbytery in receiving the
three graduates of the seminary who
rejected the integrity of the Bible ac
count of miracles in both the Old and
New Testaments. The denial of a fact
cannot in any sense destroy the fact,
por the declaration of unbelief in the
integrity' of the miracles of the Bible
does not demonstrate that they were
not performed. Even the action of the
Presbytery in receiving the young men
who declared their disbelief in the fact
of miracles, does not effect the facts
upon which the "dogma" of miracles
stand.
The fact, if it be such, rests abso
lutely on the integrity of the Bible.
To deny that they were a part of God's
great manifestations to mankind is to
deny the truth of the Scriptures, for
they assert them as diyine manifesta
tions. Especially, in the "Virgin
birth," we are confronted with this ln
vulernable proposition that the New
Testament boldly assumes the event as
a miraculous fact. If it were not true,
then the only place left the thinker
is to renounce the whole of both the
Old and NeTw Testament accounts as
the most daring fabrications of all
time and history. The Old Testament
freely prophesied of the Virgin birth,
the New boldly assumes that it took
place.
Much evidence might be adduced to
show that the very conception and
birth of our Lord was miraculous, and
that he was "God manifest in the
flesh," but If the integrity of the only
record of the events recorded as
miracles is questioned. then quite
enough has been, said until the relia
bility of the Bible is settled. Finally,
it Is passing strange that any man
would seek to become a minister of
the very teachings of which he de
clares he has no faith.
But I opine that the fact of miracles
will stand the unbelief of the present
and coming ages as it has that of the
past, for upon this fundamental fact
will stand or fall the faith of the world
in the integrity of the Scriptures.
J. S. RHOUDS.
KADI.ES S REPRESENTATIVE LIKED
Polk County Mun Says Return Red
Illooded Man Like McArthur.
DALLAS, April 25. (To the Editor.)
It may Beem at first blush that it la
none of the business of outsiders as to
who is the nominee for Congress from
Portland, and, from a superficial view
that is correct, but all citizens of the
state have an interest. This is not
the time for hyphens. Let a man be
an American or not. Let him be a
straight-out Republican or not. It is
time to get down to brass tacks and
have a little of the old-time American
ism at the front. We have no time for
fads.- foibles and foolishness.
C. N. McArthur has shown himself to
be a broad-minded American. When a
question comes up in Congress that calls
for Americanism above party. McArthur
has been there, with the vote. He is
a red-blooded American, inclined to safe
and sane methods and not given to new
fangled ideas not tried out. Men have
advocated giving a man the second
term so as to give him a fair chance
to make good. We of Polk are for
McArthur to a man.
G. A. HOLMAN.
Receiver I RlKht.
ROGUE RIVER. Or., April 24. (To
the Editor.) I have been working for
a corporation that has gone into the
hands of a receiver. It owes me over
$300 in wages. Is this a preferred
claim or Co I have to take mine with
the whcTlesale houses? I have re
ceived some money and some merchan
dise on my salary, but had a balance
of $300 coming at the time of receiver
ship. The receiver has given me $100
on this, saying that this all they
can allow on a preferred claim and that
the balance will have to go as a com
mon claim. J. W. S.
The receiver is right. Under the law
preferred claims for wages cannot ex
ceed $100.
About Teaching.
PORTLAND. April 25. (To the Edi
tor.) (1) May a married woman teach
school in Oregon? (2) May a person
teach school with a grammar school
diploma without taking teacher's ex
amination? SUBSCRIBER.
(1) Yes. Local school boards have
ruled against employing married wom
en, but the latter have a legal right
to teach.
C2j, No, ,
In Other Days.
Half a Century Ago,
From Tie Oregonian, April 117. 1S66.
Oregon City. Governor Gibbs and
Colonel Hawkins addressed a large and
enthusiastic meeting here on Wednes
day evening. Governor Gibbs made a
capital speech and was followed by
Colonel Hawkins, whose merciless ex
pose of the rebel Democracy elicited
the loudest cheers from the Union men
and utterly abashed and discomfited
the Copperheads.
"The Idaho papers are continually de
claring that the California overland
route to that territory is far better,
cheaper, quicker and easier than via
the Columbia River. Yet these same
Journals" ship all their paper, material,
etc., by this route.
The City Council is determined to
hold block 172, donated the city for the
purposes of a publio market. Several
petitions have of late been sent to the
Council asking privileges to use the
land in question, but the board is mL
disposed to take any action concerning
such petitions that can in anyi manner
compromise the claims of the city.
Yesterday a violent hail storm passed
over this vicinity. By parties from
Hillsboro and Vancouver we are in
formed that the ground was made quiln
whitish by a similar storm at those
places.
Hon. rhil Wasserman, Hon. Carry
Johnson and other Oregonians were In
Washington City on St. Patrick's day,
March 17.
It is claimed at Washington that
neither our Government nor the British
Minister apprehended any danger of an
Invasion of Canada by the Fenians.
Tixenty-flvo leara Aco.
From The Oregonian. April ST, 1SP1.
San Francisco, April 26 The Presi
dential party spent a very quiet Sab
hath. This morning President, and Mrs.
Harrison, accompanied by Mayor Sand
erson and Mrs. Sanderson, went to tha
First Presbyterian Church. The re
mainder of the day the President
passed in his rooms at the Talace
Hotel.
Paris, April 26. The newspaper com
ment upon the death of General von
Moltke is generally unsympathetic and
often marked with a chauvinistic spirit
that Is repulsivo to anyone hut a
Frenchman.
Chicago politicians are complaining
that Mayor-Elect Washburne, of that
city, "won't talk." Oregonians are just
now abashed at having a Governor who
will talk. Thus it seems Impossible to
please an exacting and perverse gener
ation. The British Benevolent Society will
this year resume their time-honored
custom of giving a grand banquet on
the anniversary of Queen Victoria's
birthday. May 24.
The companies of the First Regiment,
O. N. G.. are to have a special lrill to
prepare themselves thoroughly for th
part they are to take in the reception
of President Harrison.
It is confidently expected that the
smelter at Linnton will be blown in on
Wednesday next.
llrro'a Name Misspelled.
The Philadelphia Ledger carries an
original story which may explain why,
in the recent biographies written on
the death of Richard Harding ravls.
there was a lack of consistency in
spelling 'Gallegher," the title and
hero's name of one of Mr. Davis' most
popular books. It probably explains
also why authorities, such as encyclo
pedias and "Who's Who." have failed to
agree on a spelling. The story follows:
When Richard Harding Davis was a
Philadelphia reporter one of the office
boys on the newspaper where he worked
was Gallagher. Ho was a prei'oclons
lad, and eome years after Davis had he
come famous as a novelist and Gal
lagher himself had graduated into a
brickyard, the latter revisited the Press
office.
Meeting J. O. G. Duffy, who had been
a reporter with Davis, Gallagher asked
him what had become of the "big guns"
on the paper in the "old days."
He wanted to know about Bradford
Merrill and R. E. A. Dorr and Andy
Watrous. "Then there was a tall guy."
said Gallagher, "who used to give me
a nickel to dance on the table. 11a
called himself Mr. Richard Harding
Davis. What's become of him?"
"What!" exclaimed Duffy, "don't you
know that 'Dick' Davis is now famous
and that he made you famous in a
etory ?"
Gallagher wouldn't believe it, so
Duffy went to the ofice library and
got out a copy of "Gallegher." The
original looked only at the cover and
said :
"Why, the derned fool spelled my
name wrong."
And it appears that he had.
Walking Stiaka In Vosruc.
The most genuinely Irish of all the,
souvenirs and mementoes offered for
sahe in Ireland are the walking sticks,
principally blackthorn, which are
grown and finished in large quantities.
The carrying of canes or sticks is in
finitely more common in Ireland than
in the United States. In fact, the num
ber of those who do not carry sticks In
Ireland is about proportionate to the
number of those who do in America. As
a consequence walking sticks are
everywhere displayed for sale. The
prices have increased by 10 to 20 per
cent since the outbreak of the war. -Consular
Reports.
Thomson and Thompson.
BROWNSVILLE. Or., April 23. (To
the Editor.) Would you give the rea
son why the name Thomson Is spelled
Thomson and Thompson. Why should
the "p" be left out in some names and
put in others? A. D. THOMSON.
There are genealogical reasons not
briefly explained. Ordinarily the name
Thomson denotes Scotch origin, al
though there are exceptions, while
Thompson is the name pursued by
those of English or American families.
Stratford Players.
ROSEBURG, Or., April 22. (To the
Editor.) Are the Stratford players
English? Were they in Portland in 1314,
and if so. in what plays? J. M. M.
Yes. They were In Portland the lat
ter part of April, 1914. appearing in
"Merry Wives of Windsor. faming
of the Shrew." "King Richard." "Mer
chant of Venice" and "Much Ado About
Nothing."
The Shots That Hit,
Win-
The same thing is true In adver
tising. Only the advertising that
reaches possible buyers is worth
while.
Because they can concentrate
their shots and score a larger pro
portion of hits, manufacturers are
coming to use the daily newspa
pers more and more.
They reach consumers direct.
They gain the friendship of the local
dealers.
Every dollar they spend counts
definitely.
They can see the results and can
tell Just exactly when and how they
hit.
To sell goods in the modern way is
to advertise in the newspapers!