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13 THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1916. vmmx PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland (Oregon.) Postoffles ma second-class mail matter. Subscription ratts Invariably In advance. (Br Mail.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year '5" 2? Daily. Sunday Included, six months. .... J.J Dally. Sunday Included, three montbi. . Dally. Sunday included, one month Dally, without Sunday, one year - Dally, without Sunday, aix months..... o.a Dally, without Sunday, three montha... 1-73 Dally, without Sunday, one month -J" Weekly, one year ?" fiunday. one year - Sunday and Weekly - B-ou (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year "-go Dally, Sunday Included, one month How to Remit Send postof fice money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Give postofrice address In full, including county and state. Postage Kates 12 to 16 pagea. 1 "nt5 8 to a2 pages, 2 cents; 84 to 48 pages. 3 cents, CO to 65 pages. cents; 2 to 76 pages, 6 cents; 78 to 82 pages, 6 cents. Foreign postage, double rates. Eaatern Business Office Verree Ac Conk lln, Brunswick building. New York; Verre Ms Conklin, Steger building, Chicago, tan Francisco representative, R. J. Bidwell. Market street. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, NOV. 16, 1916. I GETTING ONTO FIRM GROUND. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion at last realizes that, in tampering with the natural economic relation be tween rates to Coast points and rates to interior points, it has been floun dering: in a bog of uncertainty and It is trying to get onto firm ground again. That Is the conclusion to be drawn from its latest order in regard to Pacific Coast terminal rates. It has canceled all the increased rates to and from Pacific Coast terminals against which shippers had protested and has ordered much smaller in creases, on which shippers and rail roads have compromised. It is ad mitted that the latter rates may prove to be only temporary, for hearings are to be held on the entire question of exceptions to the long-and-short-haul clause of the act of 1910. The Commission thus reopens the entire controversy between Coast and Interior cities, which it attempted to settle by the order fixing zones within which interior rates might exceed Pa cific terminal fates by certain percent ages. Its new order Is an admission that one of the conditions on which its former order was based the clos ing of the Panama Canal no longer exists. The announcement that hear ings will be held on the general ques tion of water competition implies that the Commission is in doubt whether the zone sytem which it adopted to placate Spokane can be maintained. In fact, the zones were no sooner established than the conditions then existing were changed by the opening of the Panama Canal and the trans continental railroads began to lose traffic in large volume to the water lines. The war diverted ships from the lntercoastal traffic and the Canal was blocked for the greater part of a year, thus reducing water competi tion from an actuality to a mere po tentiality. This was the opportunity of the interior, and it eagerly seized the occasion for a demand that, as water competition had been elimi nated, the differential be also elimi nated. The Commission yielded, but before its order was made the Canal was reopened, thus making water competition a more immediate poten tiality. Still there were practically no ships, but the Pacific Coast set to work to provide them. Builders are putting new life into every Pacific Coast port, and it is highly probable that before the Commission can render a new de cision on the main question, a con siderable fleet of new ships will be carrying Pacific Coast products through the Canal to the Atlantic Coast and Europe, thus making water competition so big a fact that the Commission, however unwilling, can not fail to see it- Every blow of the hammer on a new ship on this Coast punches a hole in the theory whereon the Commission's recent decisions re? latlng-to water competition have been founded. The economic law governing water competition works out its ef fects faster than the Commission can evolve decisions setting it at naught. Nor is the Commission's zone sys tem of percentages by which rates to interior points may exceed terminal rates fixed on any firmer foundation. If the rate from Missouri River com mon points to the Pacific Coast is 75 cents, this system permits the addi tion of only 54 cents for the 415 to 500 miles between the Missouri River and Chicago, only 11 cents for the 865 to 900 miles between the Missouri River and Pittsburg, and only 19 cents for the more than 1400 miles between the Missouri River and New York. Doubtless a haul of 3000 miles can be made at a less rate per mile than the haul of about half that dis tance from the Missouri River to Port land, but If 75 cents is a fair rate for half the distance, an additional 19 cents is utterly insufficient for the other half. The Commission has gone astray through trying to find a common basis for two things which can have no common basis. The only sound basis for rates to interior points is reason ableness as determined by cost and distance. The only sound basis for rates to Coast points is the price at which a railroad can get a good share of the traffic away from the water lines and still make some profit, though that profit be at a much small er rate than that which is earned on Interior traffic. The duty of the Com mission is to see that these competi tive rates are not unjustly discrimina tive against interior points. The only safe guide in determining this point is the back-haul rate from the Coast to the interior. A Spokane merchant can have goods shipped by water to Portland, and from this port by rail. If the all-rail rate from the East to Spokane should exceed the sum of these two rates, it would be discrimi natory, though the railroad can charge a higher rate for hauling freight across the continent than is paid on water lines and can still get traffic. As was well illustrated in a recent article in the Oregon Voter, water competitive rates to Coast points are a benefit instead of an Injury to in terior points. Though "the railroad makes only a small profit on this through traffic, that profit helps to pay its general expenses. If it were not permitted to make rates which would enable it to get business in com petition with water lines and to earn this profit, the contribution made by interior traffic to its general expenses would need to be increased, which would mean higher rates. It is im material to the Coast merchant wheth er his freight is brought from the East by ship or rail; if the railroad cannot compete, he will use the ship and still get his goods into Spokane at lower cost than the Spokane mer chant pays for the haul westward. He has the whip hand, as will soon be eeen when the ships now building go Into business. The interior has the Ichoice between packing the entire load of railroad expense and dividing it with the Coast. .There will doubtless be able and eloquent lawyers to argue the inter mountain rate cases before the Com mission, but the most convincing ar gument will be the great fleet of ships built on the Pacific Coast and carry ing our products to the Atlantic Coast, some of them to return with cargoes of Eastern products. WARDEN MINTO'S RESIGNATION. The "hosing" of two convicts at the State Penitentiary has led to the re tirement of the warden, John W. Minto. Evidently Mr.. Minto has not kept up with the times. He belongs to an era which regarded a convicted malefactor as subject to strict and severe discipline, and an incorrigible prisoner as one who must be con trolled by physical punishment. That old methods were often cruel is un doubtedly true; and that many of them should be abandoned is the en lightened opinion of humanitarians and prison experts. But let us not forget that Warden Minto has had a long experience with -criminals and that he is known to be a fearless, up right, conscientious and capable citi zen. It is more than a surmise that In his administration he has been victim ized by disloyalty among his subordi nates and it has not been easy for him to enforce necessary prison rules. Let us agree that "hosing" is wrong. But will someone let us know what to do with defiant, insolent and intract able convicts? Or is nothing to be done? WHY? The state of Oregon has five votes in the electoral college and casts about 250,000 votes. The Solid South (ex cluding Missouri) has 126 electoral votes, or nearly one-naif the number necessary to name a President and Vice-President of the United States. Oregon with five electors cast on November 7 more votes than Alabama, with 12; Arkansas, 9; . Florida, 6; Louisiana, 10; Mississippi, 10; South Carolina, 9; Tennessee, 12; Georgia, 14; or Virginia, 12. Oregon cast in round numbers twice as many votes as Alabama; twice as many as Arkansas; three and a half times as many as Florida; three and a half as many as Louisiana; two and a half times as many as Mississippi; three and a half times as many as South Carolina; twice as many as Georgia; three and a half times as many as Virginia. . Either Oregon has inadequate rep resentation in the electoral college, or these states have more than adequate representation, or both. The case of Oregon Is the case of every other state in the North and West. Yet they tolerate a condition which has existed without change, or read justment, for fifty years. Can anyone give a single reason why the South, or any section of the country, or any state, should be given a preponderant representation in the electoral college, or in Congress? This is not sectionalism. It is a plain statement of facts. DRY NATION NEXT? Mr. Bryan now proposes to devote his energies and Jalents to the huge task of "making Democracy dry." He has a notion that the next four years will see the settlement of all economic and political questions by the Democ racy, under the direction of President Wilson, and that the way will be open to take up the liquor agitation. Mr. Bryan may succeed. Stranger things have happened. But if he does, there will be a new Democracy on the wreck of the old. For that matter, the present-day Democracy has been so completely Wilsonized that Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson would repudiate it. Mr. Bryan now finds nearly one-half the states of the Union already dry. Michigan, Nebraska, South Dakota and Montana have joined the prohibition column, and Oregon has become ultra dry. Alaska has returned to its for mer status as dry territory. Utah and Florida have elected Legislatures with a mandate for jlry laws. Think of the consternation in the Winter lob ster palaces of the southern state. Where will they go next? Or must the kings of Broadway and queens of Newport stay at home? New days bring new issues and new ideas. To be sure, prohibition is not a new idea, but nationally it has made little progress and has within just a few years passed from the category of freak notions to a serious problem pressing for solution In every state. Undoubtedly both great parties will be up against the necessity in 1920 of recognizing prohibition or taking a stand against it. FILLING THE SILO. In this sharp weather a good many farmers will open their silos and begin feeding silage many of them for the first time. Soon they will know whether they put the materials in in the proper shape and gave due at tention to packing the fodder in the right way. In particular it will pay those who put up corn silage for the first time to examine the product care fully and see whether it -is of proper consistency and flavor, whether it has the right amount of moisture, and whether the corn when put in was over or under ripe, so that they will profit by their experience next year and in the years following. It is a simple thing, say those who know, to fill the silo just right at the right time, and have the contents come out in just the right way. No doubt it is simple to those who know, but it is by no means simple to the be ginner, who has to follow the best advice he can get. There are no hard and fast rules as to the amount of moisture to include in' the materials when packing. There are, indeed, no rules for packing the silage in the silo that do not vary. Experience is about the only sure teacher. It is only a few years since silos were almost as scarce as white black birds in the Northwest. Now there are perhaps well over 100,000 in Ore gon, Washington and Idaho with hundreds under construction. The farmer is wise who puts up silage. Take corn, which is the best-known silage material. It is said that half the value of the corn is in the ear and half in the plant. If the crop is allowed to mature and is husked and fed, the first apparent loss is the cob. the second the stalks, for the leaves and tender shoots can be fed. But after they are fed there is a net loss of fully 40 per cent from failure to utilize stalks and cobs. In the silo the entire 100 per cent is saved. It is said that, taking an average yield of corn, it costs about $3 a ton to raise a crop of corn and put it in the silo. Some say the figure is too high and place it at nearer 2 than $3. Those who know say that a ton of silage has as great feeding value as $7 worth of grain. Yet part of the feedinsr value is lost sight of in such calculations, for there is a value arising from the bet ter conditioning of stock when fed in liberal quantities over grain-and-for- age-fed stock. Experienced feeders say they can tell silage-fed stock by tne looks of the hair of the animal, by the brightness of the eye and the general air of prosperity, so to speak, evinced in its appearance and car riage. - DIAMONDS AND SHIRTS. Some strolling -writer, wearing the resounding name of Rollin Lynde Hartt (yes, there are two t's) has come out to the Middle West for the purpose of studying the curious deni zens of that barbarous region, and he reports his discoveries in the Decem ber Century, in an article entitled 'Middle Westerners and That Sort of People." We have heard many things about the queer natives of Kansas and Iowa and the rest, but never before that they were a sort of people. Mr. Hartt finds the Middle West paradoxical, quixotic, possessing a genius for sentiment, inartistic some times, Inarticulate often, but never insincere except toward itself. As a basis for this mixed ' verdict, he cites such convincing and damaging facts as the stories that a Middle West savant once pronounced Mr. Carnegie a more exalted genius than Shakes peare; that a Middle Western library, reserving space for art treasures, filled it with Christy posters; that a Middle Western grande dame enlivened a fancy-dress ball in Chicago by exclaim ing, "Here comes my husband in the garbage of a monk!" and that a cer tain - Middle Western state superin tendent of education Wears a diamond stud in a negligee shirt. Evidently the Middle West must plead guilty. But we'll wager a bushel of Umatilla wheat, or a Medford pig, that the average Pendleton or Med ford boy or girl knows more about art than the average Broadway theater-goer or restaurant habitue; that he or she knows more about litera ture; that he or she is a more regular patron of the public library; " that he or she attends more constantly the school or lyceum lecture; and that he or she is deficient, as compared to the Broadway or Fifth-avenue aristocrats, only in exact knowledge as to the ap propriate uses of diamonds and negli gee shirts. ELIJAH WAGNON. In the bitter hour of defeat. Brother Wagnon, one of our esteemed prophets of single tax, has turned for consola tion to the scriptures. Brother Wag non; it appears, like others in sore distress who have sought surcease within the ample covers of the divine word, has not sought in vain. It may be gathered from the' letter, which we publish from him today, that Brother Wagnon has discovered himself to be something of an Elijah, still walking the earth for lack of a fiery chariot. But Brother Wagnon, it must be feared, like other prophets of the sin gle tax in Oregon, lacks something else which Elijah had in ample pro portions and what it is we shall pres ently and pleasantly disclose. For the moment it is meet that' we reject the soft Insinuation that the tale of Elijah and the 450 unfortunate prophets of Baal will provide us with a novel di version. That dramatic story was quite a Sunday school favorite when middle-aged men of today were gain ing their first lessons in the power of faith supported by truth. Presumably it still sheds the light of piety upon the mind of youth. The story as- we recall it is that the 450 -prophets of Baal laid a pile of faggots, prepared a sacrifice, then called and called and called upon Baal to start a fire, without result. But Elijah also built a pile of fagots. laid a sacrifice thereon and even dug a trench around the altar and poured on water until the trench was full. Then he called upon his God Just once and the fire of heaven came down and consumed faggots, water and sacrifice. So Elijah took the 450 prophets down to a brook and slew them. Now if Brother Wagnon i3 a latter- day Elijah and we are King Ahab, who supported the prophets of Baal, then Brother Wagnon is consumed with a horrid, horrid ambition if It is to take our 450 prophets of the Taxpayers' League and the Realty Board down to the Willamette River and chop their heads off. It might have been all right in the stern days of Israel in behalf of a religious cause, but not in these mollycoddle times when the soul shrinks from bloodshed and there is only an economic revolution at stake. It is possible that Brother Wagnon would not have gained so much blood thirsty comfort had he read a few chapters further. There is there the story of the King, who coveted Na both's vineyard, even as the kings of the Havenots today covet the vine yards of the industrious. But let that pass. The point we started out to make is the differentiation Brother Wagnon and his fellow-prophets of single tax bear from the prophet Elijah. It will be observed that Brother Wagnon proclaims the ultimate tri umph of truth as he sees the truth in spite of the 450 who are against him. Elijah's faith was not of the future. It was of the present. Ho wetted down the faggots, he made the Job of setting them afire as difficult as pos sible. But the faith-lacking Wagnon and his fellows present their great truth with all the doubt that assailed a certain other also of Biblical tame. No water for their pile of faggots, but gasoline, tar and other applica tions conducjve to spontaneous com bustion. They have never yet had the faith to present single tax honest ly, openly and above board. They try to slip it over. When Brother Wag non can show that Elijah's twelve bar rels of water were in fact coal oil and that he sneaked up when nobody was looking and applied a Bunsen burner, then he can properly liken himself to his favorite prophet. Faith no larger than a mustard seed exemplified in a real single-tax meas ure would have gained more votes for their principle than all their obliquity, piled as it was as high as Mount Car mel. The Federal Bureau of Education is urging that states encourage at tendance in the schools by passing laws patterned after that in Nebraska, which bases the distribution of three fourths of the state school fund upon the actual average daily attendance returned by the directors of the vari ous districts. This law is praised by the bureau as appealing to the "en lightened selfishness" of the people themselves, who are thus stimulated to endeavor to have as many pupils attend school as possible. The bur den of a reasonable school term, which is desirable from the point of view of society in general, is equalized by the equal apportionment of the remaining one-fourth of the state fund, and where a district votes the maximum tax and conducts Its business properly, the state gives direct aid sufficient to provide a minimum term of seven months. 1LIKS IN WINTER. Because Summer has gone is no reason, in the opinion of the ento mological bureau of the United States Department of Agriculture, why peo ple should relax their efforts to "swat the fly." On the contrary, it is urged that this is the time to conduct the campaign with unceasing vigor, since flies are induced by the warmth in side to enter the house and are the more easily killed. The importance of the Winter campaign can be real ized only by those who know about the amazing fecundity of flies. The Government bureau already referred to estimates that one female fly sur viving the Winter will have 5,598, 720,000,000 descendants by September, on the basis of a single laying of eggs, while as a matter of fact three or four broods are not unusual. Whether flies breed as actively in Winter as in Summer, even in well warmed dwellings, is doubted by in vestigators, but that they do multiply when conditions are especially tavor able is strongly asserted. Favorable conditions are found, for example. In heated houses and Americans are said to keep their houses warmer than is necessary for real comfort in res taurant kitchens and in furnace-rooms. It Is true that the larger proportion remain dormant through the cold sea son, but the fact is Important that they survive at all. It has been found that houseclean ing in the Winter, or even early in the Spring, before the dormant flies have fully awakened, is effective in ridding premises literally of thousands of the pests. Stress is placed also upon the necessity for making their destruction complete, since in rubbish piles they may subsequently spring into activity again and be as much as ever a men ace. The swatter, therefore, is not 'the only implement that should be em ployed in Winter. Every crevice should be searched out and every possible hiding place thrown open to the dust brush and broom. Timely work now will save much trouble later. The Government's advice will not be neces sary for the most careful of house wives, but there are others, not habit ually so painstaking, who would do well to heed it, beginning now. Fuel shortage is a serious problem in the small town, distant from tim ber, that depends on coal brought in by rail. Seldom anybody but the banker thinks of laving in a supply in the Summer, and when shortage comes It hits everybody. A former mode of relief was to levy on coal in transit, possible only on a main line, but this opportunity has been lessened by the adoption of oil for fuel. The esteemed Portland Oregonlan thinks Oregon voted for Hughes because this state Is not "too proud to fight." If they will east an eye over the election returns they will discover that the so-called herolo sec tion is small In area. Pendleton East Ore gonlan; Do we understand that a hundred odd thousand Democrats and others voted for Wilson in Oregon because they are too proud to fight? The . Poles are in much the same position as the Irish held during Ire land's dark days in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They had no chance to fight for Ireland, but there was an Irish legion in almost every army on the continent of Eu rope, and they fought fiercely when they met the English. It is well enough for President Wil son, who draws down $75,000 a year, to advise farmers to raise bigger crops, but he knows little about the cost of growing bigger crops and the difficulties of harvesting them, and he seems to have left the weather wholly out of account. As to Utah, Wyoming and Idaho It Is plain that the Mormon Church had a "reve lation" in favor of the Administration, but why did radical Oregon, support Mr. Hughes, while -Washington, Its neighbor on the north, plumped for the President? New Tork Globe. Radical Oregon? Ouch! The State Supreme Court decides that a man of 77 has a right to marry again, no matter what "the. folks" think about it. The privileges that go with being free and an American citizen arrive late occasionally. Miss Sharpley, who was able to talk $80,000 in unsecured loans out of various people by her persuasive pow. ers, will not be a genuine expert until she has performed the same feat on a 5 per cent a month man. There is no cause for surprise at the ability of the British to steal up on the Germans through a fog. They have had many years' practice at groping through fogs in London and mists in Scotland. Kansas City and Jackson County voted "dry," but the Missouri majority was "wet.". Now those people will seek relief under local option, and the signs point 'toward getting it. Antagonism toward the parcel-post system is shown in the latest order limiting the amount that can be sent to a person in an outlying district. Great Britain has removed the ban on cotton hosiery until the first of the year. British sisters want some thing new and will have it. The wild man of the Clackamas Cascades turns out to be a lunatic In seeking the wilderness he only fol lowed his simple bent. The prospect is that the only per sons to get an early advance of wages through the Adamson act will be the railroad lawyers. Labor Commissioner Hoff estimates Oregon's population at 834,515, subject to addition by a 'somewhat diffident stork. It is too bad the best of the deported Belgians cannot bo brought to Oregon. They would make good citizens. The President waited for the full count before designating Thanksgiving day. The result last week seems to have put a frost on the whole country. Two weeks to Thanksgiving, and how high is the turkey? Stuffing the ballot box is something new in Idaho. Stars and Starmakers B7 Leeae Cass Bsn. A WHOLE chapter might be written about the visit, a day or so ago. of May Dowling, personal representa tive of the Shuberts In New York. Miss Dowling is a young, attractive news paper woman, who does publicity work for this big theatrical concern and when there's an especial pet show in which the Shuberts are especially con cerned they trot out the fascinating Miss Dowling as an advance agent. So that is how she happened to visit ua touting the excellencies of "Hob son's Choice." which opens tonight at the Helllg. The show has an all-English cast of artists and is a capital farce comedy. The chapter that could be written about Miss Dowling con cerns mainly the fact that women are taking the place of men in this work and getting away with it in great style. One reason I don't write it is because I'm. not a suffragette. The other rea son is that May Dowling is the only woman I know in the business. Minus statistics, exit the chapter. e e Sarah Padden told me a funny story of a cunning wee Chicago kiddle she knows. He was eating cherry pie and ran across a hot bite after he'd popped it plump into his mouth. Manfully, he struggled with the burning bite and finally gulped it down to the accom paniment of tears. When he discov ered he was attracting admiration he smartly took a wrong tack and began poking about, hunting another hot bite to be a hero all over again. Miss Padden noticed that he was picking out cooled bits and using a lot of dra matic antics, and she said, "Oh. you're stalling now you're stalling." The fu ture actor gulped a really hot bite and sobbed, "Gee, that wasn't a barn." e Emily Frances Bauer, the Portland critic of things musical, who makes New York her habitat, so that she may tell her old friends about the various artists she bears and sees In the me tropolis, has Informed Portland that there is a treat in store for music lov ers here. Craig Campbell, one of the extra attractions of the Orpheum show to open at the Helllg next Sunday, is the artist about whom Miss Bauer has words of laudation. Mr. Campbell was garnered for Martin Beck's vaudeville from the Little Church Around the Corner, the corner in New York where he was the tenor singer. Miss Bauer attended one of Mr. Campbell's con certs in New York and she was so Im pressed with his singing that she de scribed it as "consummate art. sheer beauty of vocallsm." in her review for The Oregonlan. Mr. Campbell is ap pearing in vaudeville under the man agement of Payson Graham. This is his first tour In thetwo-a-day realm, but he is not new to the stage, as he was with Emma Trentini in "The Firefly," The Music Cure" and other musical comedies. Of interest to musicians is the announcement that Mr. Campbell sings the aria from "La Boheme" in the original key and that he has the reputation of being the enly tenor be fore the public who sings a C sharp. Mr. Campbell is young and of Scottish descent. Right now I see where a lot of girl ish boys are going to meet their Water loo in Boston. That hub of culture has a city censor, by name John Casey. He is keen on the morality code stuff with a Mayor to back up his philan dering. His specialty is covering up bare legs and smothering suggestive gags, on the stage, of course. Now he is out for dope scenes and sissy types of men. All female Impersonators who don't tone down their femlnlnlsm to suit Censor Casey will be barred from' appearing. Al Jolson struck a snag last week after "Robinson Crusoe, Jr.," had been witnessed by Casey, objection being made to the scene where the spirit of Captain KIdd. the pirate, emerges from a magic well and speaks in an effemi nate manner. The feature, a real laugh producer, will be modified, but not eliminated. "A Kiss for Cinderella," Maude Adams' new play, which comes to the Empire In New York Christmas week. Is to remain but eight weeks, unless the piece goes over unusually big. Miss Adams expects to spend the remainder of the season on the road, where she is practically sure of capacity business, and that means a trip to this Coast in the Spring. And maybe we will never hear the real story, the inside one, of how and why Eva Tanguay didn't come to Port land. Eva says one thing and her manager another. I'm inclined to be lieve the manager. William Morris, and yet Eva also has a right to have her say. Stories of trouble and bad busi ness have been coming along ever since the road show set out six weeks ago. Last Saturday night, in San Francisco, the I-don't-carish-ono left the stage and didn't return. In explanation Eva said: "I left the Morris show because my contract read I was to receive my salary every night. After we were seven days away from New York, Mr. Morris informed me he could not pay me and two days later borrowed $500. In Denver I loaned him 11000. "Meanwhile trouble was brewing every minute. With my voice gone 1 even appeared with only a piano player in my act. to keep going, but finally gave two weeks tentative notice. I was willing to continue, but by the time we reached San Francisco Morris owed me over $5000. He would not give me a statement of the amount due me nor acknowledge he owed me anything, but accused me of faking an Illness, al though at the time I was ill I had four doctors in attendance. The accusation by Mr. Morris convinced me consider ation on my part would not be appre ciated, and I closed, as-per my notice, the remainder of the company also hav ing had notice." Explaining his side of the disagree ment. Morris said: "It's the old story of 'temperament." I have had trouble with Miss Tanguay all along the line. When she opened here she stirred up a terrific row about the orchestra, but she got over that, and. in Los Angeles I got a telegram from her saying that the orchestra had been fixed up. and that she would stick to the last, and that whatever I said went with her.' "I supposed everything was all right, and then when I reached San Francisco. I learned that a local theatrical re viewer had criticised her severely, and that started the temperamental busi ness all over again. I tried to nune her along, but it was no use. and I was not surprised when she refused to ap pear Saturday night." So there you are! TOTES OF THE "SOLID SOUTH." Writer Discusses Representation In Electoral College. PORTLAND, Nov. 15. (To the Edi tor.) In your answer to Mr. Fry, of Beaverton. on November 11, in discuss ing the "solid South" situation you say: "For many years the right of suffrage has in fact been denied to negroes by force or fraud In many Southern states; and Congress has au thority under the above provision to reduce the representation of those states; several attempts have been made to exercise that authority, but I they have failed through Democratic obstruction in Congress." The mere fact that an honest deal In the "solid South" has heretofore failed by reason of "Democratic ob struction" does not seem to the writer any reason for permitting tho fraud at this "time and In the present election. Representation in Congress and elec toral votes in the electoral college are based upon population excluding In dians not taxed. That is to say, the negroes are all counted in determining the electoral votes to which any South ern state is entitled. Take the state of Georgia, for illustration. The last census give Georgia d.431. S02 whites and 1.1S1.294 blacks, or 2.613.096 total population. The number of electoral votes claimed and allowed is 14. or one to every 200.000 of the population, in cluding the negroes. From the figures given it is clear that approximately one-half of this representation is based upon the negro population. So far. so good; under the Constitu tion the negro is entitled to be counted, and in fixing the representation in Congress and the number of electoral votes any state is entitled' to cast In a Presidential election no distinction is made between white or colored popula tion, all are counted. But, "for many years the right of suffrage has in fact been denied to negroes by force or fraud in many Southern states." That being so, the white population is not only defraud ing the negro, but by claiming the en tire representation of the state and ac tually voting the electoral votes al lotted to the entire population of the state (negroes included) is defrauding every state In the Union and every citi zen of the United States whose vote is put in Jeopardy by this action. Every 200,000 of the white population of Georgia, by this fraud, has two elec toral votes Instead of the one vote to which It is entitled under the Consti tution. . Fraud In a Presidential election should give no better right than in an ordinary commercial transaction. The total vote for President In Geor gia, as given by the newspapers, was 137,200. Dividing the negro popula tion by five to arrive at the probable number of negro voters, we have 290. 647. or more than 100,000 negro voters in the state than the total number of voteB cast in the election. In Minnesota and California the Na tion is watching with deep interest the official count; possibly a fraud has been committed: maybe some precinct has been inadvertently overlooked; and if the vote now recorded shall, in MInnestota. be changed by a few hun dred, or in California by a few thou sand, the result in the state and pos slblly in the Nation will be reversed. Why then, should the United States meekly submit to the fraudulent elec toral votes of the 'solid South" with out which Mr. Wilson cannot be elected? ROBERT M'BIUDE. MR. WAGNON QCOTES 5CR1PTVRE Inspiration for li'Kenlam Found In Tale of Elijah and the Prophets. PORTLAND, Nov. 15. (To the Edi tor.) Your questions about the "pes ky slnglctaxers" must be answered, an It grieves me to see my old progres sive friend. The Oregonlan, with its economic wires crossed at a time like this. It is evident that your political motor has a bad short-circuit in both fields and the armature, to eay nothing about the dust on the brushes. 0. anything that 1 can do to start the normal flow of Juice once more shall be done with pleasure. You know that something is wrong about our land system and complain about its unuse arm you blame the land taxers. and In that you are like a cer tain etandpatter who lived in Israel In the time of Elijah (see I Kings. 18:17 18). It is good reading and I hope you will read it. You see. at flat time they had an election between the Dem ocrats, led by Elijah, and the Republi cans, led by a man named Ahab, who had a wife named Jezebel. Ahab and his wife believed in the protection of Baalim, and Ahab defeated Elijah by a majority of 450 to 1. It was a real landslide to Ahab. But the protection of Baalim did not bring prosperity to Israel. 0 Ajab said Elijah was the cause of the hard times that lasted for three and one-half years, all of which time Elijah was hoarding with a wid ow and taking no part in the politics of Israel; yet when Ahab saw Elijah he said: "Art thou "ie that troubleth Israel?"' and Elijah answered: "I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's house In that have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and followed Baalim." Then Elijah called a meeting on Mount Carmel and made a speech to the people, and that speech caused the re call of some 450 ot Ahab's officers. You and one Charles K. are much like Ahab. You think that the "land taxers.'" or "LTRenism." are troubling Oregon, when it is the men who boom land prices and build $2,000,000 "lotels in a place where no hotel should have been built, and that try to corner the land of Los Angeles with money made out of Laurelhuret. "You ask how long Oregon Is to be troubled with single tax laws. Let me answer that single tax is a truth, and you may kill all living singletaxers. like Jezebel tried to do with the prophets of the Lord, but it would come up again as soon as men commenced to think. All truth is the voice of God, and If single tax Is a trut'l. "if It be of God ye cannot overthrow It lest haply ye be found even to fight against God." Truth he 1s God's warrior; He will out-watch the stars .And light the heavens When the last star falls And the silent dark devours. H. G. WAGNON. E.FORCI.G THE DRY AMED)IE.T Governor Vrsred to Invoke H'ebb-Krn-y on Law by Proclamation "EUGENE. Or.. Nov. 13. (To the Edi tor.) I would like to address" the fol lowing open letter to Governor Withy combe: I see by the press that you are un certain about the enforcement of the bone-dry amendment; that It cannot be enforced by reason of lack of penalty. This is to urge you to Usue your proc lamation and Invoke the Webb-Ken-yon law of ttie Federal Government against all common carriers, and we will have prohibition that will prohibit. We have had two years of legislative prohibition and under Its provisions any person that had & thirst and money to pay for quenching it could import 24 quarts of distilled liquors and nine barrels and nine quarts of malt liquors. Is it any wonder that there has still been some consumption cf the same? Do not wait for the Legislature, or when we expect to score on a "touch down" we will lose on a fumble, the same as we did two years ago. O. L HALL. Classification of Methods. Industrial Management. Since different procedure must be followed in establishing methods in various businesses, it is evident that a complex business must be analyzed and classified Into simpler forms bet ter to study and to provide for the re quirements of each. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago, From The Oregonlan "November 16, ISM. New York, Nov. 15. Memorial serv ices for the late Charles Stewart Par nell were held tonight in the Academy of Music Chauncey M. Depew was the eulogist. Reports from Braiil say the revolu tion there seems to have been success ful. Discontent Is spreading. Omaha, Nov. 15. Captain Hattie Smith, of the Salvation Army band at Oskaloosa, Iowa, was shot and killed by Nettie Biedler in the presence of Ls. Marchale Booth - Clibborn and her brother, Ballington. during their visit here today. The Biedler woman then killed herself. Miss Hattie Clow, daughter of the Junction City statesman, is at the Bol ton. Thieves have been breaking Into the houses at North Beach. Among those entered were F. A Knapp's. H. Wltten burg's, David Steel"s. J. M. Arthur's. Hotel Tlago and P. F. Moray's. Captain Kelly, of the Irish tug-of-war team, yesterday bet J500 with Cap tain McDonald, of the Canadian team, that the sons of Erin would defeat the Canucks tonight, A fire yesterday threatened to de stroy the Centenary Methodist Church. Quick work paved .the edifice and held the damage down. C Rev. I. J. Hove was arrested yester day for poaching on private hunting grounds along the Columbia Slough. Frank L. Howe and Etta H. Warren were married by Justice Bullock yes terday. They will live at Brownsville. Arrangements have at last been made to build the sorely-needed union de pot. Mr. C. H. Prescott has returned from New. York and is authority for the statement that the work will so ahead. Half n Century Ago. From The Oregonlan November 16, 1S66. The New York Evening Post has re cently printed an interesting article on the steps which led up to the sav ing of Oregon Territory to the United States. The facts were brought out by an elaborate paper read by Mr. Trent' at the meeting at Pittsburg of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The firm of Nevison. Scott A Co.. of White Bluffs, Washington Territory, has been dissolved and Henry Nevison is the sole successor. Boise City. Ruby City and Idaho City have been designated as money order postofflccs in Idaho. Captain Kelly, late of tho Volunteer Cavalry, has assumed command of Company C, First United States Cav alry. James Lcnaghan. 11 Washington street, will give $10 to the man who cw his billiard table cloth between 6 and 7 o'clock last night if that man will come and tell him what he did it for. The City Council last night adopted resolutions of thanks. commending Mayor Henry Failing for his able' and conscientious work as Mayor of tho city and head of the Council. Mr. Fail Inar is about to leave on a trip which will keep him away for some time. OTHER STATES NEED ITS I.IKH Country Would Be Different Ith More Papers Like The Urrnalin. North Yakima Republic. We have seen the returns from Ore gon and have noted what The Morning Oregonlan of Portland has to say about the state standing for sound principles of public action in great emergencies. We arc moved in this connection to point to a moral and adorn & simple tale. For many years Oregon has had a newspaper which was conducted by men who knew their trade and respected it, who neither feared" thtir own shadows nor battened on their own importance. Day in and day out this paper has spoken earnest ly and authoritatively to the people of Its state. These people have come to know that in it they have a guide and counsellor which is never swerved from the straight line of its treat duties by any petty personal or polit ical motives nor by any unworthy con siderations. Hence they believe in it and wcept its leadership as a general thing. Sometimes they go faster than It goes, but they seldom get hysterical about the silly schemes of the political idiots. In The Oregonian. the greatest single force on the Pacific Coast for half a century for rational thought and action concerning all public mat ters, is found the explanation of the unusual exhibitions of good sense which the people of Oregon make on election days. What a different coun try it would be if there were an Ore gonian for every state! Seeds and Appendicitis. PORTLAND, Nov. 14. (To the Edi tor.) (1) People have told m that swallowing grape seeds is liable to cause appendicitis. Is this true? (2) I have a rriend who winks his eyes more than a person should, occa sionally drawing up tho corners of his mouth while winking. Does this show that the eyes aro In a bad condition? If not, what is tho cause? SUBSCRIBER. (1) No. (2) Your friend probably has what is known to the medical profession as "habit tic." It is a condition in which there Is an involuntary movement of voluntary muscles due to acquiring the habit of moving a certain group or groups of muscles and finally being un able to control them. The eyes may or muy not be affected. Eye strain might have a tendency to cause a tic of the eye muscle. Neicro Wno Areompsnled Peary. PORTLAND. Nov. 15. To the Editor) Can anyone tell what hus become cf the colored man. Matthew Henson. who accompanied the explorer. Peary, on uli of his North Pacific expeditions nf: r the first, and Invariably attended hi::i on each of his farthest sledge Hits, because, as Peary says, of l.ls fitness, adaptability and loyalty; standing by Peary's side on the North Pole t it" Peary really stood there). April 6. 1909? Henson is now about 50 -ars old. if living, and has the United states Government made any acknowledge ment of his invaluable services? C. E. CLINE. Idaho's Vote In IBIS. ONTARIO. Or.. Nov. 12. (To the Editor.) (1) Did Idaho vote for Taft or Wilson in 1912? (2) When did wom en first vote in Idaho? SUBSCRIBER. (1) Wilson received a plurality of 1111 votes over Taft in Idaho in 1912. (2) Full suftrage was granted to wom en in 1896. Admiral Dewey Still In Service. COSMOPOLIS. Wash., Nov. 14, (To the Editor.) Please tell whether George Dewey is on the active list of the United States Navy or is retired. W. L. SNELL. Admiral Dewey is still in active serv ice and since Marci 13. 1900, "jas been president of the Navy General Board,