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sf 14 THE MOIHOXO OltEGOXIAN, THURSDAY", SEPTEMBER 21. 1!)1C FOSTLAKD, OKEUON. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Poatofflce aa second-class mail matter. Sooacrlpiloa rates Invariably in advance. (By Mall.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year $8.00 Xally. Sunday Included, six months 4.25 Daily. Sunday Included, three months. . 2-25 Daily, Sunday included, one month..... -75 Daily, without Sunday, one year 0.25 Dally, without Sunday, six months..... 8.25 Dally, without Sunday, three months... 1.75 Dally, without Sunday, one month. -80 Weekly, one year l oo Eunday. one year 2.50 Sunday and Weekly 3.50 (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year 9.00 Dally. Sunday included, one month..... .75 How to Remit Send Postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your, local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Give postofflce address in full. Including- county and state. postage Kates 12 to 16 pases, 1 cent; 18 to 32 pases. 2 cents; 34 to 48 pases. 3 cents; 60 to 60 pages, 4 cents; 62 to IG pages, 6 cents; 78 to 82 pages, 6 cents. Foreign Postage, double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree & Conk Iln. Brunswick building. New York; Verree & Conklln. Steger building, Chlcsgo. San Francisco representative, R. J. Bidwell. 743 Market street. TOETLAXD, THURSDAY, SEPT. 21. 191S MR. HUGHES' COURAGEOUS STAND. If there aro two qualities which, the American' people admire above all others, they are courage and honesty. These qualities were displayed by Mr. Hughes in a pre-eminent degree by his speech at Springfield, 111., on the Adamson railroad law. His condem nation of that law cannot be ascribed to enmity to the cause of labor, for he has proved by his actions that he la a staunch friend of labor. Nor can It be truthfully ascribed to tenderness for the interests of capital, for Mr. Hughes has never flinched from an tagonizing capital when he thought it wrong. It was not inspired by sub servience to political bosses, for he served them, he was nominated for I President in spite of their endeavors to effect the nomination of any other man and he has since emphasized his Independence of them by his speeches and his acts. ., Mr. Hughes speech, was inspired by conviction that In their course with regard to the threatened railroad strike President Wilson and Congress were false to the whole people and were false to the true interests of la bor in particular. Keeling that duty called upon him to, express this con viction, he spoke out, . proving that he has courage to do his duty. Fear of antagonizing this or that interest did not deter him, for he would rather be right than be President. The people may feel assured that, were Mr. Hughes President and were representatives of any group, no mat ter how powerful in either wealth or numbers, to demand that he force cer tain legislation on Congress, without inquiry or material change, on pain of paralysis to the business of the country, he would refuse. He would not swerve from his sworn duty under the Constitution, he would not use the constitutional authority and moral power of his office nor do violence to his conscience by doing under a threat that which he either knew to be un just or that of which he could not form a sound conclusion until after Inquiry into the facts. With a few words Mr. Hughes swept aside the pitiful plea that the emer gency arose so suddenly as to leave no time for inquiry and that the only possible course was to yield first and inquire afterwards. He said: It was stated by the executive in his ad-3ress to Congress that "the matter" had been agitated for more than a. year. Why, thn, was it not investigated? Could the Administration command all necessary ma chinery for flr and thorough inquiry? Not only did the Administration fail to take proper action on its own initiative, but the business men of the country appealed in vain to the Administration for Investigation. Thfl- request won no favorable action. Time was allowed to run, and then came the surrender that shocked the people throughout the land. Was the crisis" un foreseen? Why was it permitted to arise when the Administration was forewarned? The emergency did not arise sud denly. Its approach had been plainly shown by months of public discussion. But the President drifted along as usual, not even watchfully waiting, until the crisis wns imon him Than jl under compulsion he threw up his Vn. . . : i j . The people will rally to Mr. Hughes because they know that he would never have done that. They know that he would never let expediency swerve him from the path of duty. They know that neither railroad man agers nor railroad employes could ex tort from him support of legislation by fear of consequences. They know that he would have done the wise and just thing and would thereby have prevented execution of the threat. v ; What the people want in the White House above all else is a man of cour age to do right because it is right without giving heed to consequences. They will prove to the whole crowd of ) opportunist, side-stepping politicians that the man who is thua indifferent to his political fate has followed the highest political expediency. WHY I'ORTL-VyD IS HEALTHY. ' Portland need not rely upon the estimates of population made by the United States Census Bureau, and dis- l credited by the same bureau, for evi- Jl dence that it is one of the healthiest : cities in the United States. Estimates j of population based on percentages of I increase over the last census total are necessarily unreliable, for they take no i account of fluctuation from year to year, but every report based on fig f. ures known to be accurate has shown ' the death rate of Portland to be among the lowest in the country. The general fact, which is notorious, is 1 sufficient. ' The causes of Portland's good health j are inherent in the" city's location and ? are preserved and added to by the peo- pie's sound sense. We have abundance . of pure mountain water drawn from Bull Run and we have a climate free from extremes or sudden changes and of equable warmth. We have health laws which are strictly enforced and which are in general cheerfully ob served. These laws have kept us pe culiarly free from fatal epidemics and have assured us pure food, while the soil provides fruit, vegetables, cereals and meat in abundance and variety. s j Ours is an outdoor man's climate, for j , It constantly tempts us into the open i , air, where physical vigor is preserved and the seeds of disease are killed.' I : We have ample means to combat suc i . cessfully such diseases as do attack : i us, for Portland is the medical center j of the Pacific Northwest, having phy- sicians and surgeons famed through- out the country for knowledge, skill and devotion to their science. A rapid 1 transit system which tempts the popu f lation to spread out has prevented ', growth of slums which breed disease, j (Nature has given us the means of I preserving health and prolonging life, I and we make good use of them. I What is true of Portland is true X In a greater or less degree of other flrcon cities find of ThA fztn tA in ct eral. Few cities in Oregon are so lo cated that they do not draw their water supply from mountain streams. The elementary laws of health are willingly observed, and Oregon reaps thd reward in a state of general health which is unsurpassed. This is a mat ter of common knowledge; statistics are merely corroborative. MERELY A COMMON NUISANCE. The perambulating saloon, or bottle house, or .booze ship, or whatever it is, that has set itself up in business off the Columbia River is an offense to public decency. There is no easy way, apparently, to reach it by law, though the Federal officials are said to be keeping close watch. Close watch without action will not clear the ocean of a nuisance; and action is seeming ly out of the question unless there is infraction of law. But in what way has the law been transgressed? The liquor is bought lawfully in California. It is transported lawfully In a steamship to a point off the Ore gon coast outside the three-mile limit. It is lawfully sold to the eager buyers who venture out upon the waters. They are permitted to carry into the state by their own conveyances for their own use unlimited amounts. They may get as drunk as they please law fully, though it may be unlawful to disturb the public peace by drunken conduct. But, even so, the harm has been done. It is obvious that the captain of the liquor vessel is not a pirate. Nor has he violated the cus toms laws. Nor is he technically in' a conspiracy to break the prohibition laws of Oregon, though in fact that is Just what he is doing. Possibly the Federal officials who are "keeping close watch" may find a way to revoke the captain's license as a navigator. He is a common nuisance. HUGHES AND LABOR. Y The boasted "independence" of a local Democratic contemporary, which is a leader of the "nonpartisan" news paper claque in Oregon, does not re strain it from daily displays of Inex cusable partisanship. For example, Mr. Hughes is now described as a "long-time corporation attorney," who views issues and events from that standpoint; and he is charged with killing the Coney Island 5-cent fare bill -"for the benefit of the streetcar owners.' The charge is. of course, false. It is contravened by every fact of Mr. Hughes' record in his attitude toward public utilities. Governor Hughes vetoed the 5-cent fare bill because it was legislation without knowledge and ' without in vestigation. It is more than a coin cidence that he takes now precisely the same position toward the so-called eight-hour enactment by Congress. Even a railroad is entitled to fair treatment from a President, or a Gover nor, or a Legislature, or a Congress. The Legislative Labor News, organ of the New York State Federation of Labor, upon Governor Hughes' resig nation in 1910, had the following: Now that Governor Hughes has retired from politics and ascended to a place on the highesL Judicial tribunal in the world, the fact can be acknowledged, without hurt ing anybody's political corns, that he was the greatest friend of labor laws that ever occupied the Governor's chair at Albany. During his two terms he has signed 06 labor laws, including among them the best labor laws ever enacted in this or any other state. He also urged the enactment of la bor lawa in his messages to the Legislature, even going so far as to place the demand for a labor law in one of his messages to an extra session of the Legislature. Only 162 labor laws have been enacted in this state since its creation in 1777 In 133 years. One-third of these, exceeding in quality ail of the others, have been enacted and signed during Governor Hughes'- term of three years and nine months. At that time Mr. Hughes' opponent for the Presidency was an advocate of the "open shop." The years have brought no change in Hughes, who cannot be turned from the strict path of conscience and duty by consider ations of party or personal expediency, or by pressure of class interests. GERMANY ON THE OFFENSIVE AGAIN. Field Marshal von Hindenburg has adhered to the first principle of Ger man strategy in assuming the offen sive on the Galician and Roumanian fronts. By centering his efforts on those quarters, he recognizes that the greatest danger to the central' alliance lies in the eastern front. Were Rus sian and Roumanian forces to cross the Carpathians and to' recapture Lemberg, Hungary the breadbasket of the Teutons might soon be over run and lost and the dual monarchy would be tempted to throw up the sponge. Were Russia and Roumania to force their way through Dobrudja into Bulgaria, communication between Germany and Turkey would be in peril and allied victory over the lat ter would be facilitated by stoppage of munition supplies. Continued suc cess of the allies might drive Turkey and Bulgaria into a separate peace and impose on the central empires the burden of maintaining their position in Serbia and Albania unaided, with the risk that, if . these countries were lost, the allied Balkan army might invade Hungary from the southeast, while Russia drove in- from the east and Italy from the southwest. Bul garia, so long as it occupies Serbia, is a valuable buffer between the al lies' Salpnlki army and the dual monarchy in one direction and Tur key in another direction. Germans show confidence in their ability to withstand Anglo-French on slaughts on the Somme by belittling the gains of territory and magnifying the losses of men for the latter. . Meas uring the area of ground which the allies have gained by the time occu pied, the Germans appear confident that they will lose little more before Winter seriously obstructs, if not stops, hostilities. They may calculate that, at the worst, the allies cannot advance farther eastward than a line running from Cambrai, which is eighteen miles east of Bapaume, through St. Quentin and Chauny. In that event the Ger mans would have to straighten their line by abandoning the elbow from Arras around Noyon to Soissons. They have probably prepared for that con tingency by constructing defenses along that new line. Their apparent confidence and their Snown forehand edness suggest that they have pre pared other strong lines of defense through Northeastern France and Bel gium. Von Hindenburg may hope to hold bflck the Anglo-French at these lines long enough to enable him to reduce Roumania to the plight of Bel gium and Serbia, to wear out Russia and to put Austria on its feet onoe more. The armies along the northern front in Russia appear likely to re main frozen in where they have stood for the last year, unless a sudden move should be started by Germans or Russians. The allies appear confident that by hammering away they can break through each successive German line of defenses in France more easily than they broke through the last until they compel a general retirement to escape outflanking. Russia is seemingly de termined to retake Lemberg and to break through, the Carpathians into Hungary. Withdrawal of the Russo Roumanian forces from the 100-mile line along the Bulgar-Roumanian frontier east of the Danube to the thirty-mile line between the Danube and the Black Sea south of the Con stanza railroad gives them a strong position, with both flanks protected. There may be another deadlock there, unless Von Mackerveen. can smash a way through before Russian reinforce ments arrive. That would at least protect Germany's corridor to Turkey for the present. Events on the Macedonian front in dicate a purpose of the allies to at tempt to turn the Bulgarian right in the vicinity eft Monastir and to swing their army around for a drive east- I ward, while Italian troops push the .nuaii Lo-iiss uunnwara tnrougn AiDania, if they can. This scheme seems more practicable than a frontal attack in the .Vardar canyon, which is a natural fortress. If successful, this movement would crowd the Bulgarians out of Serbia, while the right wing strove to double up the Bulgar left at Lake Doiran and along the Struma River. Ultimately the entire allied army might wnite in an effort to sweep through Bulgaria and Tvffkey to the Black Sea and Constantinople. The actions of both Von Hindenburg and the allies imply that the most immediately decisive movements of the war will occur in Eastern Europe, but the most important ultimately may yet be made in France. Unless they are made within two months, there is likely to be another pause in present positions until early Spring. EUROPE'S REFUGE OF PEACE. Switzerland . occupies a position unique among neutral nations. Others in Europe have belligerents on one or more sides, and the United States has among its citizens people of every bel- igerent nationality, but Switzerland is entirely surrounded by belligerent na tions and is the free, open, neutral meeting place for all. It is the place of exchange for disabled prisoners of war between Germany and Britain, and its people turn out at alj hours of night to welcome the human wrecks and to load them with food and flow ers. Deserters are safe on crossing the border, for there Swiss soldiers stop pursuit. Refugees from all coun tries are free to dwell there, on condi tion that they do not continue their countries' quarrels by force. Switzerland, too, remains the freest country in Europe. People of each nation are free to publish newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, advocating their cause, provided they do not in temperately assail other nations. Mon archists and republicans, capitalists and socialists, anarchists and pacifists write and speak freely, but are forbid den to do violence or to offer insult. Crownless Kings and proscribed rebels carry on intrigues and cook plots there. spied upon by the police of their re spective countries, while the Swiss po lice watch all to guard against breach of neutrality. Being by race and lan guage akin to one or another of the belligerent nations, the Swiss cham pion the cause of their favorites, but in writing and speech only. Here is the one great forum where all nations lay aside their arms and meet in open discussion of their cause. The oldest and almost the smallest republic is an island of peace amid a war-riven continent. It is made so by the guns and bayonets of its citizen soldiers guarding its borders. It is an object-lesson in universal service with out militarism, in peace preserved by the strength of the nation in resisting aggression from others and in resist ing temptation to aggression on its own part. It is a standing rebuke to militarist and pacifist alike. TOO MANY DIVERSIONS. Emphasis is placed by recent writ ers on education topics upon the ad visability of cultivating the habit of concentration in the student, especial ly when he is young. History is re plete with stories of men who with relatively limited facilities ' accom plished wonders because of their abil ity to utilize all their intellectual pow ers in solving problems put before them. It is for the development of this faculty that many so-called men tal exercises are given, and it is upon this ground that mathematics and tljfr classics often are defended as part of the curriculum, even when the student does not expect to employ them direct ly in the profession of his choice. It id admitted generally that the time for the formation of habits, good as well as bad. is in youth, and that a good beginning is highly important in every sense. That the schools are handicapped in their efforts to inculcate the studious habit is strongly asserted by George H. Brown, a famous headmaster of an Eastern school for boys, in ari ar ticle in the Independent. -He points out that distractions are mary, at a time when the boy should .lave his education uppermost in miiid, and he enumerates seven classes of handicaps that the School is not able fully to overcome. First among these he places cheap reading matter cheap in the sense that it is "written down" to an uncultivated teste and exacts no mental exertion. Following this in the order of importance rome cheap amusements, similarly devised to save mental exertion: then cheap music, and after that dancing and the exag geration of the athletic craze. How ever excellent, the writer points out, it may be to give the boy plenty of outdoor exercise, this is being run into the ground. Then follow "premature assumption of the manners of club life," the automobile and the moving picture show. Not all of these are denounced for themselves alone, but their rivalry with serious study is pointed out. The automobile he re gards not as a bad Institution on the whole but, in the case of the boy going to school, as "the devil's own as a time consumer." As for outdoor play, little Johnny too frequently stays out of doors so long in the pursuit of pleasure that he is too tired to get his lessons in the evening. But, never mind, he cannot be blamed for rea soning, it will come out all right, for teacher has been instructed not to make study too hard for him. Every thing possible must be taken away that would work "hardship" on the boy, even if teacher himself or her self does the work that Johnny, for his own good, ought to do on his own account. Quite obviously it is not Johnny's fault. He is too young to reason those problems out for himself. It is the exceptional boy who develops serious purpose early In life. One does not expect himself to show the concern for the future that would be mani fested by an elder who can look back at his own mistakes and profit by them. Youth is endowed with energy in abundance; play is only a mani festation of that desire to be doing something all the time. Where guid ance s lacking in the critical period. It is natural that much time should be wasted and habits formed that may bring regret in the years when it is everlastingly too late. Authority of the teacher does not extend to the home, but it is pointed out that parents also have their short comings, and that one of the higher duties of the teacher is to impress these facts upon the minds of parents as well as the pupil himself. '"The matter with secondary education to day," says Mr. Brown, "is less in the subjects taught in school than in the lack of home co-operation in meeting the multiplicity of distractions out of school." He puts concentration in the forefront of the essentials of educa tion. More, he says, depends upon this than upon anything else. The distractions of the last ten years have been disastrous. It is another of the penalties we pay for the "comforts of civilization." Boys are not much different from the boys of former times. In a log cabin on the frontier, with few books to read, many a one of them would know the joy of mastering such studies as he had opportunity for. instead of contenting himself with skimming the surface of many subjects and rush ing away to the counter-diversion of the day; and while he would not. per haps, accumulate so great a store of miscellaneous, and mostly unimpor tant, information, he would form a habit of thinking such as would be worth an encyclopedia to him. It is seriously to be questioned whether the trend of modern times is to develop thinkers, and it is not the schools, but the diversions of the time, that are chiefly to blame. "Net immigration" Into the United States in the past fiscal year was 125. 941, but the actual number of arriving aliens was 366,748. In the previous year our "net immigration" was only 50,070, although there were some 70, 000 more alien arrivals, the difference being due to the fact that not so many are returning home. Two facts that stand out are the record-breaking im migration of Portuguese and the fact that 22,000 Mexicans were among the alien arrivals, the former doubtless being due to the uncertainties of war at home and the latter to the disturbed condition of domestic affairs, for there are some Mexicans who look upon the United States as a land of oppor tunity and others who have found their own country uncomfortable for them. Prediction is made by immi gration officials that immigration aft er the war will be large from Central Europe and that a million or more from Poland. Austria. Lithuania and other countries may be expected. This estimate is based on data collected by steamship agents and' is believed to bo' conservative. There is a prospect that alcohol as a motor fuel will have a serious trial in the Philippines, owing to economic conditions there. High prices of gaso line and scarcity of transportation fa cilities have threatened a famine in this fuel, and at the same time the tropical islands are rich in plants pro ducing large amounts of sugar and starch, such as the yam, cassava and various palms. Cocoa sap and the residue of sugar mills are also im portant factors, and a distillery in the islands has produced alcohol from nipa juice at a cost of 5 cents a liter. It comes to pass, as a consequence, that alcohol has a chance to compete industrially with gasoline at this point, which will give opportunity for the development of the manufacture on a large scale, and it is hoped that fur ther economies will result from the practical operation of the business. Manila dealers are now selling a mix ture of alcohol and gasoline, in which about 10 per cent of the latter is used, and it is regarded as superior to pure alcohol. The leader of the National Liberal party of Germany is a "kill, kill, kill!" man and advocates ruthless war; but he is sane when he says the present series of American notes to Great Brit ain will have as little result as their predecessors. He can be assured that if the trouble abroad lasts until after March 5 next there will be other notes of another kind. When those sons cannot help their poor old mother, 65, and no longer able to support herself, it is well for humanity's sake the county can step in and care for the aged woman. It is all very well to try giving wom en's gowns a masculine touch with a baggy trousers effect, but they will not resemble the real things unless they have cuffs at the ankles. Now if Jupiter Pluvius will only hold off until the state and county fair season is over, we will forgive him the.moiat attentions he heaped on us last Summer. The efficiency of our Government was displayed by the fact that it took five years to prepare for a building which is to be erected in twenty-two months. "Art" dances are classical when man dances before men and woman before women; otherwise, they draw the crowd and art becomes business. The shirking Guardsmen whom General Funston has ordered to do the hike they hate will swear off walking when they get out of the Army. Just about the time it becomes known a man has hard cider to sell the police swoop down on him. This is a sample of "dry" humor. It is possible to entertain an angel unawares, but you cannot bump into a policeman in overalls and get away. Circus day, the date when the sun "crosses the line" and fair weather! Happy combination! Skirts will be longer this Winter, but not long enough to suggest the age of the wearer. When a man of three-score dies suddenly, all the men of that class take notice. Generally it's the man who lets his insurance lapse who suffers by fire. Candid Democracy puts Oregon In the Hughes column. Eh, what? The flood in China seems to be bigger than that of Noah's time. Holland is peaceful but prepared and defiant to all invaders. The Serbs are coming back after a Winter of recuperation. Who wouldn't rather be an elephant than a donkey? Watch the elephants go around. Stars and Starmakers By Leone Caaa Baer. PORTLAND people who remember the lovely Izetta Jewell, once leading woman of the Baker Company, will be interested to know that she and. her baby daughter. Izetta Jewell Brown, are in Belllngham.' Wash., and may later visit Portland friends. Mrs. Brown if on this Coast ir connection with set tling the big estate of her late hus band. Representative William Gay Brown, Jr., of Virginia. From the Dramatic Mirror is gleaned news of a motion that lias been made in the Cir cuit Court of Kingwood, W. Vs., by counsel for Mr. Brown's daughter by a former marriage to remove. Mrs. Brown as administratrix of the estate. Mrs. Izetta Brown, the widow, was for merly a well-known actress and was a member of a stock company in Wash ington, D. C, when she was met, wooed and won by Mr. Brown. They had been married about a year when Mr. Brown died. The motion sets forth among other things that the administratrix was hostile to the daughter. Miss Jessie Brown, and, therefore, that her interest in the estate might be fully protected, a removal was asked. A decision favor able to the defendant was given. An appeal will be taken." When news in theatricals is dull, the engagement of Phyllfs-Neilson Terry is announced. The last one is just out. It is to Cecil King. Miss Terry and Mr. King, who is the stage manager of her act. are headlining at the Orpheum in New Orleans this week. From London comes news that Marie Lloyd is seriously ill and prabably will be unable to appear on the stage for a long time. Doris Keane is going to produce "No body's Widow" In London shortly. This Is the play Blanche Bates brought to this Coast several seasons ago and which has been presented in stock since. If one is to believe his eyes, the Winter Garden show coming to the Heilig next Sunday night for a brief stop is made up of damsels who let no thought of clothes bother them. This is going to be an opportunity to see some more of Margaret Edwardes, the girl who Eved her way through the picture Truth. Several persons I know went a lot of times to see Margaret in that picture. Now she is going to visit us in person. Sho i one of the principals in the big "World of Pleasure" show. Notwithstanding there is said to ba a standing offer for Evelyn Nesbit to return to vaudeville, that young woman is reported looking for a picture en gagement at $2000 a week. Gertrude Hoffmann has turned aside her intention to place an Hawaiian act in vaudeville for this season, it is said, and is now undecided as to her plans, though favoring pictures. Her price for a single feature picture is reported at $40,000. The best offer so far made her was $30,000 for six weeks. Miss Hoffman has never appeared upon the screen. Her husband. Max Hoffmann, is re ported engaged as the orchestral leader at the Century Theater in New York City. For several seasons Mr. Hoff mann lias been the -musical director of his wife's large vaudeville productions. Stella Mayhew and her husband vaudeville partner, Billie Taylor, are surely landed proprietors. They own a big home in New Rochelle and others scattered around, which they rent. Now they've taken last season's theatrical receipts, or a part of them, and bought the Waldo estate at Mamaroneck. N. Y.. where they will reside and rent the new Rochelle place. . Laura Nelson Hall, who was nt first announced as the star of th first show of the season for Orpheum vaudeville opening October 1, will not be In Port land until two weeks later, the book ing sheets having been changed owing to the opening of the Seattle and Port land houses sooner than expected. Miss Hall, by the way, was a childhood playmate of J. A. Currey. Portland's rose expert. A lot of state women and others with leanings in its direction are going to suffer cruelly from a new crimp in the higher cost of living. Cold creams, cosmetics and routes and "liners," pencils and what nots of face making among stage and other ladies, have simply soared sky high In price. It truly Is going to be difficult for some of us to stay beautiful. The cause for the tilt Is laid to the war by the manu facturers, one of whom states that the price of tin cans has gone up to such an extent that he has been forced to raise his retail prices. The imported rouges and cosmetics are especially high at present, as the supply on hand In this country has been almost exhausted. Several "of the American manufac turers, who make cold creams, etc., catering exclusively' to theatrical patronage, will not raise their prices. s An exchange tells this story, which is a good one. whether or not It's true: A few years ago. when Bernhardt was making a tour of the United States with an unusually diversified reper tory, the public demand for extra mati nees was so Insistent that she often acted on Tuesday and Thursday after noons as well as on those of Wednes day and Saturday. It so happened that the company playing "Madame X" in English was in Philadelphia at the time that Bernhardt was playing it there in French, and the manager of 'it wished his company to see the French company. He went to Mr. Connor, who was Mme. Bernhardt's manager, and .asked him a little shame-faoedly whether Bernhardt could not be in duced to give an extra performance of the French play on Friday. Mr. Connor, willing to please his fellow-manager, finally agreed to ask "Madame." He went to her and with every known form of deprecation and timidity, ex plained to "Madame" what it was that the manager asked. To Mr. Connor's great surprise. "Madame" replied cordially, that she would gladly give the extra perform anee. Mr. Connor came back to the lobby, almost In a daze. "There is a woman more than mortal," he said, "and capable of more work than ten men. She is going to give an extra matinee on Friday." Suddenly the ticket seller poked his head out of the win dow, and called out loudly: "Extra matinee on Friday? Hell. ,what does that woman think I'm made of r i CAREFUL INQUIRY IS ESSENTIAL Railroad Question Not to Be Settled Except by Deliberation mnd Justice. PORTLAND. Sept. 20 (To the Edi tor.) I read Mr. Hughes' speech at Springfield with great interest, as it passed over ground with which I am familiar and in which I have had much experience. The questions discussed relate to railroads, their cost, who furnished the money to build them, the cost of operating them and the right the public has in and over their man agement. I know of no other public business that has been so befogged and mismanaged as this of the relation of the railroads to the public welfare. If It had been properly and fairly treated from the start, the emergency of the threatened strike that confronted the country recently could not have hap pened. Everybody agrees that railroads should be allowed "reasonable" com pensation for the services they render to the public. Their charges should be "reasonable." But what are "reason able" charges? To answer that ques tion fairly and fully requires wide in formation and the utmost deliberation. Deliberation above all else. To put a law through Congress without con sideration and by force, is to destroy the foundations of civil government by one fell blow. If you will allow me to be a bit reminiscent. I would like to state that I have been Interested in these questions almost all the whole of my life. As early as 1850 they began to arise and it seemed to me that as the public put so much money in construction of rail roads, and was so directly and deep ly interested in the services they were to perform, that they rightfully should have a voice in their management and in. the tariffs they should levy. It has been said, at times, that the public was Inclined to fight the railroads. This was and is a mistake. The rublic needs and appreciates the railroad service. The fault was not with the railroad, as a public benefit, but with the manner of managing railroad busi ness. "All the traffic will bear." "the people be d d," bred discontent, as might have been expected: for if the republic Is to continue the people must rule, by deliberation and Justice to all Interests alike. So, as a newspaper man In Iowa, after the Civil War. I helped the people of that state to take up this question of "reasonable" tariffs and the right to regulate them, on the basis suggested, above and that right was affirmed by the State Supreme Court and afterward by the Supreme Court of the United States. But above all, the questions arising out of railroad management and serv ice can be settled only by careful in quiry, by extensive knowledge and by the utmost deliberation. I hope every thoifghtful citizen will read and care fully consider Mr. Hughes" speech at Springfield. He is fair, broad and reasonable. LEVI W. MYERS. PEOPLE TIRED OF ADVENTURE Maine Indicates Wllxon Han Not Woo Over Many Opponents of 1912. Despite Democratic apologetics the honors of the Maine election clearly belong to the Republicans If the way In which the voters have realigned themselves in Maine is any indication of their realignment throughout the country. Mr. Hughes will be the next President of the United States. It can. of course, be argued with a great deal of force that the realignment in Maine is not representative. Mr. Wilson may prove to be on election day surprising ly strong in many of the former Repub lican strongholds In the Ohio and Mis sissippi Valleys. The victory of the Republicans In Maine is not decisive enough to do more than establish a slight presump tion in their favor. But it does make an overwhelming victory for Wilson improbable and it ensures an extreme ly close and doubtful contest. In Maine, at least, the Progressives have returned to the Republican ranks. A large fraction of the voters are tired of ad ventures and are allowing their choice to be decided by habit, association and prejudice. In order to be elected Mr. Wilson needs to arouse a positive conviction in his favor among many voters who did not support him in 1912. Presumably from the Maine election he has not succeeded with the people of New Eng land and- perhaps of the Middle States and his failure is at least partly due to the predominantly partisan com plexion of his Administration. As a consequence of consolidating the Demo cratic party he did what he could do to restore and consolidate Republican ism. He may still pull out owing to the greater measure of popularity which he probably tnjoys in the Mid dle West, but it will be an up-hill fight with a dubious issue. SOURCE OF PROSPERITY KNOWN Voters Not Deceived by Great Activity In Munitions Trades. PORTLAND. Sept. 20. (To the Ed itor.) "I have noticed." said a man to day, who, I regret to may. uses some little sporting lingo when talking about even serious things, "that when the Democrats are in power, the fellows who have the dough put it away where It win be sale. They seem scared. They tako it off the table, instead of lend ing it to the railroads to build cars and make other necessary Improvements. When the Republicans get in. these chaps spread the coin on the table, and give all the little fellows a chance at it. I am a natural born Democrat, but I vote for Republican President after this and members of the Houses of Congress." A friend who has just returned from an Eastern trip was asked how the good times, resulting from the war mu nition trade, are affecting the voters? Whether they would ascribe their pres ent prosperity to v ilsonlan policies. "Not on your life." was the reply "They have too much sense for that Tf some deadly epidemic were to visit Portland, and in consequence the doc tors, druggists, nurses, undertakers and gravedlggers were worked to their full capacity, do you think thev would say that Wilson was to be thanked for their financial prosperity? Certainly not. Neither will the men In the East who are prospering through the sorrows and death of their brothers and sisters In Europe. They are not thanking any body for their fat pay envelopes, and especially not Wilson." R. M. TOTTLE. The Impeeesbie Huarnes, PORTLAND. Sept. 19. (To the Ed itor.) The following extract from an article In the World's Work for May. 1907, is of considerable Interest in con nection with the Presidential cam- Dalsrn: "When a noted ' politician recently tried to get Governor Hughes to sup port him in a certain personal scheme he came away utterly crestfallen, say ing, 'That is the strangest man I ever met. You can't make any sort of a trade with him; you cannot approach him on the side of personal advantage; you cannot seem to touch his political ambition. He Is beyond me; the fool simply does right the whole time.'" JOHN BAIN. Mr. Carnegie's Address. BORING. Or.. Sept. 18. (To the Ed itor.) What is Andrew Carnegie's ad dress? JOHN CURRY. Mr. Carnegie lives at 2 East Ninety first street. New York. Tart's Running Mate In 191::. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Sept. 19. (To the Editor.) Who was Mr. Taft's run ning mate for Vice-President, after the death of Mr. Sherman, in 1912? A. J. MILLS. Nicholas Murray Butler. In Other Days. Twenty-Five Years Aaro. From Tho Ort-gonlan of September St. IS91. Berlin. Sept. 20. Prince Albrecht. of Prussia. Is said to be responsible for the efforts made to effect a reconcilia tion between Bismark and the Kaiser. Prince Albrecht. who Is a cousin of the Kaiser, has always been a friend and admirer of Bismarck and deeply re gretted the estrangement between the young Kaiser and the veteran states man. All the necessary preparations have been made for starting up the smeltintr works at Linnton today, but It is not quite decided whether operations will be resumed or not. H. D. Winters, an East Side capital ist, has begun suit in the State Circuit Court against the free bridge comxnis-, slon created by the Meussdorf fer act to have the proposed issue of bonds for Tree bridges declared illegal. The seatlntr canacitv of then First Presbyterian Church was taxed to the limit last evening, the occasion being a special service devoted to the First Keglment. Oregon National Guard. The, men were commanded. bv Colonel" Charles F. Beebe. The pastor. Dr. tsrown. orriciated In his chaplain s uni form. Graders are pushing the wori on the Falrview electric line and IUL soon have the grading finished -to Osdd s farm, about 15 blocks having beSn com pleted. It is expected that the "vYUam ette Bridge Railway Company -nAli soon commence work on Its G-stre'eti exten sion, which will connect wit the Ualr view line. I Half a Century Abo.V From The Oresonlan of September 21. 1SSB. Paris. Sept. 17. It is said the Emper or has refused to allow the officers of the French army to hold office In Mex ico, owing to the protest of the United States Government. The Chicago directory for this year haa Just been issued. It contains over 74.000 names, being an Increase over last year of over 20.000. Salem. Sept, 20. After a long debate, the amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified by tho House last evening at 9 o'clock. The vote stood, ayes 25, noes 21. all the Union members, except Lockhart of Coos and Curry, votin-g In the affirma tive. The purchase of a steam fire engine by the members of Multnomah Com pany. No. 2, was a most opportune event, as was shown on the night of the Sth. That fire did much to prove the value of steam fire engines. Ducks and chickens were in active demand yesterday, being purchased by the Chinese residents for a general feast today. We were unable to learn what remarkable event had transpired in ancient days to be still observed at this particular time. CHILDHOOD'S DREAMS DISPELLED. In the days half forgotten she and I Barefooted innocents played together; We lolled in the dust when the earth was dry And made mud pies in the soggy weather. We climbed the trees In the deep old wood. Chased butterflies through the leafy bowers. Sang childish songs In a merry mood And plucked from their stems the woodland flowers. The lovelight glowed In our youthful eyes. And never a cloud obscured love's skies. We talked of the days when we'd "growed up": We'd be man and wife in our cosy cottage. Would sip of bliss from its sweetest cup And eat from the same love dish of pottage. She'd cook me food that a god would eat. While I would hustle for golden shekels. And I would gaze In her face so sweet. Though terribly spangled with nut brown freckles. And our eyes would meet and our souls would seem To mingle in love's first childish dream. As the years passed on and we older grew. And were chums in the same great co-ed college. I would try to kindle love's flame anew In the resting spells in our search for knowledge. But she grew less chummy, less full of play. Into staid "Paulyne" grew the simple "Polly." And she read on her graduation day A thoughtful essay upon the folly Of girls assuming the role of wife Instead of a nobler sphere in life. I meet her oft on a busy street Of this great Oregoni:in city. A cold, proud dame, with the face once sweet Now hardened by politics. O. the pity! The llitht of affection never plays In the eyes that 1 used to think so cunning. But with hatred they seem to fairly blaze When they meet with mine, for we now are running For the same fat office, she and I, And we never speak as we pass bv. JAMES BARTON ADAMS. Grand Jury and Candidates. PORTLAND. Sept. 19. (To the Ed itor.) (1) What are the names and addresses of the grand jury members for this term? (2) Who la the rjemocratlc nominee for District Attorney of Multnomah County? (3) Who Is the Democratic chairman? A READER. (1) A. E. Peters, 514 Jefferson street, foreman: Fred Vail. 1568 East Yamhill street; John S. Gibbons, Lents: W. C Roe. 211 North Jersey street; Bert Presba, 631 East Linn; Julius Pflug macner, Holbrook. and O. L Neal, Gresham. (2) Walter H. Evans. He Is also the Republican candidate. (3) County. George Alexander: state. Judge Samuel White. Single Crop Paya for Land. ENDICOTT. Wash.. Sept. 18. (To the Editor.) Here Is an Instance In which a single crop paid for the land on which it grew. Edgar Chenault bought half a section in Whitman County, seven miles south of Endicott. a year ago. paying $51.50 an acre. It was all plow land. Last Fall he planted It to Tur key red. which he sold at $1.27 this year. This has brought him better than $56 an acre. Mr. Chenault Is a young married man. and this is his first year at farming for himself. SUBSCRIBER. I Hawaiian Volcano. Exchange. Mauna Loa. the greatest active vol cano in the world, is again in eruption. Nine years ago this Hawaiian volcano produced what Is described as the most remarkable display of molten "fire works" of modern times. Then, as on the present occasion, there was little or no loss of life, Mauna Loa s erup tions in this respect differing notably from the outbreaks of lesser volcanoes tuch as Vesuvius and Mount Pelee.
