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8 TJTR 3IORNIXG OREGONIAJf, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1917. POKTLAXD, OREGON. Entered at Portland Oregon) Postofflce aa second-class mail matter. Subscription rates invariably In advance: ' (By MaiL) pally, Sunday Included, one year ...... .5 00 Iaily, Sunday Included, six months ..... 4.25 Daily, Sunday included, three months ... 2.125 Ially, Sunday included, one month .75 Ially. without Sunday, one year 6.0O Ially, without Sunday, three months .. 1.75 Jjaily, without Sunday, one month ...... .00 Weekly, one year 1.&0 Eunday, one year ................. 2.50 tujidiy and Weekly 3.00 (By Carrier.) vally, Sunday included, one year 0.00 XVaily, Sunday Included one month ...... .75 How to Kemlt Send poatofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or cut rency are at sender's risk. Give pootofflce address In full. Including county and state. Footage Bates 12 to 16 pages, 1 cent: 18 to 82 pages. 2 cents; 34 to 4S pages. 3 cents; 50 to oo pages. 4 cents; 62 to 76 pages, b cents; 78 to 82 pages. 6 cents. Foreign postage double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree & Conk Hn, Brunswick building. New York; Verree & Conklin, Sieger building, Chicago; San l rancisco representative, K. J. Sldwell, 742 Aiarket street. POfiTLAKD, S4ICRDAY, UABCU 10. 1917. 1'ILL TOGTHB WILL WLX. Active, positive, aggressive work for the upbuilding' of Portland commerce and industry by the people of the city, and by all corporations having- inter ests here and deriving support from it, Is the chief need of the port. That Is the conclusion to be drawn from the speeches delivered at the dinner of the Traffic and Transportation As sociation. Our common interests will not be promoted by seeking: to make any one -class. Interest or corporation the goat for that which has or has not been done. Although the citizens have good cause to complain of past Indifference to the community on the part of railroads and many owners of large property, they must bear a good share of the blame. When steamship lines have been started, shippers have not given their traffic, factories have not been established to support them and the people generally have not got behind these enterprises to line up everybody who can help them to suc cess. The history of other cities shows that they can gret the things which build them up by going: after them and keeping after them. No city ever had such a struggle for existence as had Seattle in its early days, but the en tire population united to work tog-ether and pull together against rail-' road discrimination and for competing railroads and for Rtamshins. Tr. mav -be true that the qualities called forth by that struggle are the chief sources of Seattle's present proud position. -The same is true of Los Angeles, which has duplicated its northern neighbor's record for rapid progress to solid prosperity. It may be Portland's misfortune that it has not experienced the necessity of making: that struggle until the third generation of the pio neer families has reached manhood. But It is not too late to begin the pull-all-together, and it cannot begin too soon. The first thing- to be done is to clear off old scores and to remem ber them only for the sake of the ex perience they have given. All realize that the greatest and most urgent need of the port is steamship lines and, in enlisting support for them, it would be well to start with the expectation that all will do their part, until some hold back. Then the united effort of the community should be used to whip them into line. The grip of the Sound ports on through traffic by railroad from the East to the Orient may not be as strong as it seems, for those ports have lavished their favors on the new roads to the neglect of the old, and the latter are said to be ready to give Portland its full share of the traffic if the ships are secured. The North Bank road has shown no dis position to deprive Portland of water traffic which it can carry. Its Inter est, regarding it as a distinct enter prise, is to bring all the traffic possible Into Portland. If it should show a disposition to divert business to the Sound which properly belongs to Portland, its position, owned jointly by two parallel, competing lines, is not legally invulnerable, as it might soon discover. The Union Pacific road Is understood to be ready to hand over to water lines at Portland the port's full share of its through Oriental traf fic. It Is building docks at Seattle because ships come there for freight . and it has unimproved land on which to build. It has docks here which it would naturally like to see doing more business. But at best railroads can furnish ships with only a part of their cargo; - the bulk must coma from the mer chants and brokers of the Port and Its Immediate territory. The most con- CMgUtJUCUb LllCOn UtCI ests can make for railroad support of steamships is that they have done iucu y3Li l. uia.i i l us up to l 1 1 ti rail roads to do the rest. If there is any disposition to lavor other ports at the expense of this port, it would then quickly become apparent, and united . community action should be taken to remove it. Portland- hnwpvpr drmR not now gret all the ocean traffic of its trol the largest volume. It is the civic duty of these firms to give their traffic to Portland steamship lines. Branches of outside business houses enouia ao iiKewise. .fontanel firms -wnich import or export through brok ers snould see that their goods are landed or loaded on shipboard at their own port, not at some rival port. When any Portland shipper is found to be disloyal to his own port, per sonal remonstrance should be tried. ouU 11. J.d.11, Lilt? UUlkCU 1U1UH Ul public opinion should be exerted to bring him into line. When these things 'have been done and when we have secured to our home steamship lines practically all of the ocean traffic controlled In Portland, our claim on - the railroads for a full share of their tnrougn tramc win De vastly strengtn- ened. . ' Valid cause for preferring other ' ports has been removed, as far as dock and other charges are concerned. The Dock Commission has given this pledge to the Government as regards Army supplies, and is prepared to give it to ctamiin llnAC fliot mnv Via havaaftA. established. The Port Commission will build bunkers where coal will be ""supplied on equal terms with other ports; drydock and other repair facil lties are ample. A popular vote Is ' to be taken in June on the erection of public elevators to handle grain in .' bulk and of additional public docks, "and there is no doubt that the people "will be alive to their own interests and adopt the project. With a thirty foot channel in the river and forty feet of water on the bar, and with costs and facilities equal to those of any other port, the problem is simply one of getting the ships, and that in turn Is one of getting- the business for them. A valuable aid to expansion of our -commerce would be establishment of more factories which would work up both domestic and imported raw ma terials and would develop foreign mar kets for their products. As steamship service extends, industry would ex pand with the better facilities that would be afforded. A movement is now well under way to form a com pany which will enlist local capital in manufactures which have prospect of success, but irrespective of this, an organization is needed which will col lect and have ready all informa tion that may be required by men who contemplate locating - industries here, and which will also put such men in communication with local investors. By that means, many an industry may be secured which would otherwise be lost. It would speak ill for the enterprise of Portland if, when It has developed an extensive shipbuilding industry, it should have none of the new ships plying from its own docks under local owners. The wooden motorship should continue to be a Portland product and is well adapted to carry Oregon prod ucts overseas, and a line of such ships should be operated from this port to the Atlantic Coast and to Alaska All of the things which Portland lacks to build up its commerce are within its reach if we will go after them and keep after them, giving- those who control traffic to understand that we are in earnest and are determined to have our due, and if at the same time we give the ships that loyal sup port in the shape of tonnage without which they cannot live. We can gain nothing by nourishing- a grouch, by making somebody the goat or by let ting George do it. We must work for our city in hearty co-operation; when others see us at work and getting re sults, they will Join ua and unite their efforts with ours. If any persons who should be in the team stay out. we shall then have good cause for bring ing them into line or holding them up to public censure. WHKKE ABE THEYT "Some of our lawyers," says a dis tinguished local rabbi, "are discussing the question of war, with considerable heat, and all persons not agreeing with the proposition that this country should be at once in a state of war are denounced as traitors." The lawyers may reply for them selves; but upon the implication of the speaker that all persons opposed to pacifism and the methods of the pacifists insist that we should now go to war let us say a word. The pacifists, angrily denying: that they are for peace at any price, usually retort that their critics are militarlstaJ and are for war at any cost. Is President Wilson a militarist, mad with the war lust, determined to fight Germany, indifferent to the agonies. horrors, sacrifices, sufferings and losses of war? We think no one in his senses will say so. Xet the whole recent con troversy has raged over the question of supporting the President, and re quiring Congress to give him what he specifically asked, and that alone. In the present crisis all who are not for the President of the United States are "against him. They are against him if they are not definitely, openly. publicly for him in his demand upon Congress to have full authority to meet the German situation. Where do the pacifists stand? Are they with President Wilson? Or are they with Harry Lane, et al ? THE ZEPFEMN. A curious newspaper paragraph con tains the interesting information that the total losses of human life by the Zeppelin raids of England were some thing over 100, while in the same period there were nearly 1000 deaths from motor-bus and automobile acci dents. The perpetual darkness of London, due to the fear of Zeppelin raids, was a great contributing- cause of the latter casualties. Count Zeppelin lived to witness the triumph of the - airship as a vehicle of peace; but as a weapon of war, its usefulness was short-lived, except for reconnoissance. In the early days of the war the Zeppelin created immense consternation and did much actual damage to property; but its weak nesses were speedily ascertained by its enemies, and the more recent raids were most costly to the Germans. Two Zeppelins out of ten were lost in a single venture. They have not sought to invade England since then. The Zeppelin is helpless in defense. It must avoid aeroplanes and keep out of range of alrguns. Flying- high. it could not do much damag-e; flying low, it ran very great risks. The time came when the game was not worth the candle. Yet the Zeppelin is a marvel of skill. daring-, mechanics, and science. It marks an immense advance in aero nautics. It makes passage through the air an enterprise of safety and inter est, and it shows that the Germans are first in the field of utilizing for prac tical ends a new and original idea. It has its place, but it belongs to the domain of peace, not war. SPELLING. An old-fashioned spelling bee, de veloped to state-wide proportions, has recently come to a triumphant con clusion at Olympla. The conception belongs to State Representative Sum mers, who gave the prizes, and the rules were furnished by School Super intendent Preston. The contestants were selected by a process of elimina tion, first, from the school districts, and, second, from the counties. The prize spellers, who were honored with a commission to go to the state capital and match their orthographical abil ities with other champions, numbered thirty-four. There were twenty-three girls and eleven boys appearing to prove that the art of sound spelling is more high ly developed in the female sex. The country districts had almost uniformly won in the try-outs over the city. There is nothing surprising about that. The old-time spelling book still has great vogue in the rural sections, There is no royal road to orthograph ical perfection except hard work, com bined with a fair wit and a good mem-, ory. The new systems are no improve' ment on the old. Two girls outspelled all the others, the last boy, champion of Pierce Coun ty, going down on the word "incom patibility." It was not a fair test for a bashful youth, face to face with two eager, confident and superior young women. The final word which left little Miss Lindsey in solitary posses sion of the field, was "pewter." The valiant best speller of Yakima County gave it "peuter." Doubtless the true test of correct spelling is to be had through percent ages. Let 100 or 1000 words be given to a given number of contestants, and let the prize be awarded to the one who misses the fewest. But such a contest can be had only by writing down the words, and it lacks all tbe elements of a struggle, and, is tbere- fore uninteresting to spectators and not altogether exciting to the par ticipants. Yet we know of a famous speller, a modest man. who went down in a. spelling- bee before the pins of an inferior adversary. He put one "n" too many in "centenary" a lapse he would never have made with his pen in hand and the word before his eye. At another cbntest the unde feated heavyweight word-wizard of a larg-e community fell outside the breastworks on so simple a thing- as "basin." The polysyllabic wonder workers are frequently stumbled by Anglo-Saxon monosyllables. - The spelling- bee is an incitement to study and research. There are not enough good spellers. There never will be at least not until English is simplified and we learn to spell by rule and not by ear. In that unhappy day language, Taeing- a science and not an art, will cease to be interesting. GUNS FOB DEFENSE. By deciding- at once to arm mer chant ships against submarines. Presi dent Wilson removes any impression that Germany may have formed that Ihe Senate filibuster will result in im potent acquiescence in the barred-zone edict. If any doubt remained as. to his power, the overwhelming vote of the House and the written pledge of seventy-seven out of ninety-six Senators would Justify him in assuming that au thority will be given as soon as Con gress meets. But he needs authority to do more than arm merchant ships in order to give full protection, hence the neces sity for an early session of Congress, even if the neglected appropriation bills did not require action. The Presi dent should be given authority to use those "other instrumentalities" to which he referred in his address to Congress, but which he did not define, probably from motives of prudence. He probably contemplates using de vices of which our naval attaches have learned in confidence from the allied nations, but which it would be both folly and bad faith to make known to those against whom they are to be used. ' There is no warrant for the im pression that this phrase covers actual war, for the President has no power to make war without an express dec laration by Congress. The calling- of an extra session Is cause for satisfaction on other grounds. The Army bill should be re vised in the light of the latest events and passed, with provision for any emergency which may grow out of our relations with Germany. The merchant marine should be expanded and fostered by revision of the entire shipping code, and commerce should be facilitated by relaxation of the anti trust laws. There, is much important work for Congress, which will not brook delay until December. BOUR GRAPES. In discussing the probability of which is the more nearly accurate. Hicks' weather predictions or those of the United States Weather Bureau. The Oregonlan assumes a position of armed neutrality. It says it doesn't know why Mr. Hicks is not on the Government's weather board and suggests that these who believe In ground hogs, goose bones and rheumatism signs start a recall and then make una of the initiative and primary to get Mr. Hicks on the weather prognostication stafr. The Ore goniuo'i plan would no doubt be a good one and no doubt Hicks would win, for all the hicks would vote for him, but the trouble is, the Rev. Irl la dead and has been for some time. Even the sovereign squat cannot bring him back by use of the sacred recall. Corvallls Gazette-Times. So Hicks is dead? We don't believe it, and we challenge the Gazette-Times to cite any standard biographical work or any accepted list of the prominent dead which says so. It is our intention to propose Lydia E. Pinkham for Surgeon-General of the United States Public Health Serv ice. Probably some contemporary, sour because II did not think of it first, will now say that she, too, Is dead. THE 6ENATK COMES CP TO DATE. At last the United States Senate has become a genuinely legislative body as distinguished from a deliberative body. Hitherto it has devoted its time to deliberation with small regard to the necessity of dispatching a certain amount of legislative business in a given time.- Each member has had and has exercised the right to talk as long as he pleased on any measure, to move as many amendments as he pleased and to talk as much as he pleased on each of them. Only grudg ingly have Senators consented in par ticular cases to limits on the exercise of this right. The evil results have been aggravated of late years, espe cially since division in the Republican party has weakened party discipline and more especially in the short ses sion. In recent short sessions Senators have gabbled away to their hearts' content until the last week, and then have been stampeded to tush appro priation bills dispensing hundreds of millions without enough discussion. At the last session, even the stampede was too late and too slow, and the Army was left without funds for its continuance beyond July 1. though the country faces probable war. Failure to pass the armed neutrality bill made the Nation present the Intolerable ap pearance of having yielded to a der mand that our ships keep off the sea. That dramatic failure was a disguised blessing, for it afforded the President an opportunity to focus public atten tion on the necessity of limiting de bate, and public opinion drove the Senate to make the change. Unlimited debate has only become an evil as the membership of the Sen ate has grown, as National interests have expanded and as Governmental activities have multiplied. The Senate was established as a small body, con sultative as well as legislative. Its functions of ratifying treaties and con firming appointments made it semi executive, the link between the legis lative and executive departments. Originally having only twenty-six members and no great volume of busi ness, it could permit its members to talk themselves dry and 6till could get things done. With Increase in the number of states and with expand ing interests came more members and more subjects for debate, also in creased loquacity, yet greater need for prompt dispatch of business. The Senate's legislative duties gained in importance by comparison with its executive duties. Necessity has long existed for a change in its rules to adapt them to this new situation. The American people are reputed to be radical and prone to. change, yet their slowness to adapt their form and methods of government to the needs of the time proves them to be most conservative. The Senate is probably the last parliamentary body in the world to give the majority a right to close debate and force a vote. This right was first assumed by the French Chamber of Deputies, hence its French name cloture, which means closing, or closure. It was adopted by the British House of Commons as long ago as 18S2, and by our House of Rep resentatives in 1890 by acceptance of the Reed rules. The Senate has lagged thirty-five years behind the British Parliament and twenty-seven years behind the House of Representatives, yet the men who resort to this obso lete, obstructive device call them selves progressive. By requiring a two-thirds majority for adoption of the closure, the Sen ate has taken reasonable precaution against its use for the partisan pur pose of gagging the minority. It is improbable that any party will ever have a two-thirds majority, hence the ruling party can only impose closure with the aid of some members of the minority party. Reform will not, however, be com plete until the obnoxious seniority rule is abolished. It is absurd that a Sen ator should be elevated to a position of such influence as the chairmanship of a committee without regard to his fitness or to his attitude on the issues of the day. At the present time par ticularly the people will not view with patience the continuance of Senator Stone as chairman of the committee on foreign relations. It is imperative, at this critical Juncture, that the man in that position should be in full sym pathy with the President's foreign pol icy, since that policy is approved by overwhelming public sentiment. The way now being clear for the Senate to do business, there should be small delay In doing it In the extra ses sion of Congress. The President must be clothed with full power to protect our seamen and our ships " against at tack. Ample provision must be made for increase of the Army to deal with the grave situation which- is likely to grow out of the break' with Germany. Laws to facilitate foreign trade and to strengthen our merchant marine should be enacted. The country must be placed in condition to cope with the war situation and with the economic situation which will exist after the war. LOOKING FOB OFFICERS. Six thousand enlisted men of the Army may be converted into officers for a great volunteer force in the event a general call becomes necessary. This is according to announcement at Washington. Each regiment is to name sixty, and while this will not give the desired total of 6000, no doubt the rest can be secured by special allotment among the various branches of the Army. Such an expedient merely empha sizes the desperation of the military situation in America should the coun try be called upon to defend its shores. Naturally the selection will come largely from among the Army's non commissioned officers, which will leave the Army itself short of skilled fighting men. Sixty men taken from some of the-skeleton regiments of the Army would play havoc with that sadly deficient force. As for making officers of non-commissioned officers, the plan Is not a bad one. The American non-com knows his business. Frequently his is the hand that controls the organiza tion with which he serves. Officers drop In occasionally to attach signa tures to rolls, but it is the non-com who drills the squads, particularly the recruit squads. When it comes to lick ing a recrIit into shape for soldiering tbe American drill sergeant is at his best. The American volunteers would be certain of good Instruction in the details of taking care of themselves and handling their equipment. But 6000 officers, added to what the country has, would not be a drop in the bucket compared with the need for a real army. Tens of thousands would have to come from civil life. They would have to be created from the first armies. The drill-sergeant captains and majors would have to cull out their brightest recruits and pin shoulder straps on them. This is not an impossible feat by any means. There are thousands of bright young Americans who - could be wrought Into effective lieutenants. It may be considered a fortunate cir cumstance if America is permitted to work out such adjustments while cop ing with a foe that is engaged else where for the time being. It is pain ful to reflect upon what would happen were that foe hard upon us while we were trying to get an army into action officered by green leaders. Thirteen ewes on the University of Idaho farm possess twenty-six lambs. Some have but one, while others with three make up the number. This average cannot be equaled on farm or range where tht college training Is lacking. Shipbuilders prove their patriotism by agreeing to cut their profit on naval work and to give it preference, In these days the country has first claim on every man and everything needed for defense. Greater temerity never was dis played than that of the Chief of Police of Oregon City when he picked up a City Councilman on the charge of drunkenness and kept him in Jail over night. If the decision of the United States Court of Appeals in the Cashier Com pany case should be taken as a model. we shall have to revise an old saying to read, "Brevity is the soul of law." It seems hardly necessary to call a conference to find where the American Federation of Labor stands on pre paredness. If labor Is not loyal it is not anything. It would seem that the man who has the nerve to drive headlong over the edge of a cliff to commit suicide is qualified to live and accomplish something. Putting postmasters of the first class under civil service may keep them out of politics, but who will collect the campaign funds? Sharing in the profits of Bunker Hill & Sullivan to the extent of $1.25 a day beats using dynamite to blow up the mill. Russia accuses her foes of abusing the rights of warfare and threatens to retaliate. Russia is talking too much. Telephone people figure on 500,000 people In Portland In 1937. Too modest- Make it a million. Time is approaching when a visit to California will be necessary to save a man's life. Hyphenated Oregonians rally to Lane. Are you eating an apple a day? MRS. WILDER ON BRITISH GOLD She Doubts Lord's) Aid la Defense ef This Corrupted Country. PORTLAND, March 9. (To the Ed itor.) The writer would respectfully suggest that the editor of The Ore gonian might well copy the Indian cus tom of killing before scalping, since the unlabeled scalp which he hung at his belt belongs to her. She acknowledges her kindness In withholding her name and would say that the printing of her letter In the leading editorial was an honor greater than any she had ever dreamed. There is probably some truth In his remarks about "Indian methods" and "loyalty" and also in what he said a few days ago regarding a certain, fa mous tea party held in Boston some time since. However, it is well to remember that those who poured the tea on that memorable occasion were dressed as Indians and that there was not one Loyalist among them. Since sending the objectionable let ter the writer has heard that the Pro- Americans are planning to petition Congress to pass a law-confiscating all property belonging to any party that tries to subsidise the press and perma nently to suppress all publications so corrupted and to restrain the owners from further activity along the same lines. The writer realizes perfectly that she is a weak, sinful, constitutional old coward, but she has faith to believe that God will give the humblest of us all strength to meet danger, disgrace or death in the fulfillment of duty. Still she sometimes does wonder Just how even God could help liberty-loving Americans defend their country against its enemies if they follow the course laid out and use the ammunition fur nished by Great Britain. SAKAi; HINDS WILDER. 1895 Thorburn avenue. Far be It from us to disappoint any body who Insists upon the notoriety of Ignorance. "The law advocated by the "Pro- American party" of Thorburn avenue Is already In effect to all intents and purposes. Under an existing Federal statute any newspaper which prints purchased opinions without so labeling them may be denied he malls; and any newspaper which does not semi-annually publish a correct list of Its own ers, stockholders and bondholders is liable to the same penalty. All that Is necessary to put out of business the newspapers secretly bought with British gold Is for "pa triots" to give the Government the pri vate Information they so love to mouth about. 'Unlike our correspondent, we shall not undertake to penetrate the Inscru table wisdom of God. but we do hazard the guess that if the entente shall be finally successful the Lord on high will not be above the suspicions of the wild eyed brlbe-gosslps. CHALLENGED TO MORTAL COMBAT Fire-Eating Pacifist Would Defend Filibuster on Field of Honor. WARRENTON, Or.. March 8. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonlan March 6 you refer to pacifists as cowards. Now, I want to say right here that I think Senator Lane a very brave man to stand up against all the Jingoes. As for myself, I am ready to meet you or any war booster on a field of honor, you or they choosing the weapons anything from fists to cannon. But I absolutely refuse to go to some for eign country to protect Rockefeller, Morgan, Dupont and others' money. I suppose you and the above-named crew are perfectly willing to sacrifice all your relations and all your wife's re lations on the altar of patriotism, but you will stay at home and make more money. While we are talking about this, why does not President Wilson play fair? How about Great Britain's intercept ing U. 6. mall on the way to a neutral country? How about the war zone In the North Sea? Do you call that free dom of the sea? There are several other questions I would like to talk to you about. If I could meet you face to face you would get a tongue laehing In such language you wouldn't like to see it In print. Now, I am not afraid to sign my name to this, as I am a native of the United States, from Holland-Dutch and Scotch-Irish stock. ED HOLLENBECK. At last! Out of a dozen fire-eating pacifists who have written to The Ore gonlan here is one who signs his own name! We admire his courage, but not his Judgment. He considers Sena tor Lane a very brave man. Tut, tut. A brave man does not crawfish. Has Mr. Hollenbeck not read how the Sena tor Is welching on the filibuster since he heard from home? WHY MR. MARTIN DID NOT SING Abscess Over Right Eye Under Treat ment Here and In San Francisco. PORTLAND, March 9. (To the Edl tor.) May I be given space to correct an erroneous impression regarding the cause of Rlccardo Martin's non-appear ance In "Faust Tuesday night? When I met Mr. Martin at the station Monday his first words were, "Take me to Dr. Coghlan's office immediately. I have had an abscess in the frontal sinus over my right eye and have not sung for ten days. We were at th doctor's office wlthin20 minutes. I saw Mr. Martin at 2:30 and he was with the doctor and at dinner that evening he told me he had just coma from the doctor's. He did all that a man could do to get into condition to sing and said the evening of the performance that It was one of the bitterest disap pointments of the season that he could not sing in Portland, where he had sung so many times and of whose audiences he was so fond. As It was, he spent the evening at the perform ance, greeting old friends and express ing his regret to all he met. As the leading tenor of the company, through his disability in San Fran cisco he placed the burden on his understudy of singing five perform ances In a week. His failure to appear In Portland was unavoidable and caused him as much disappointment as It did the audience. HAROLD HURLBUT. - Education in Alaska. PORTLAND, March 9. (To the Ed itor.) Kindly give the population and school facilities of Wrangle, Alaska. SUBSCRIBER. Wrangle has a population of about 1000 and two schools. The Common Council in each Incorporated town of Alaska is required to appropriate not less than 25 per cent nor more than 50 per cent of the moneys derived from Issuance of various licenses In such town, this percentage to be used In providing public school facilities for white children and children of mixed blood who lead a civilized life. The School Board Is elected by the qual ified voters of the town. Information on Honolulu. - SALEM, Or., March 8. (To the Ed itorT) I am asking you as to how. I Could obtain the information as to the resources and advantages of Honolulu. CHARLES D. BROWN. Write to Hawaiian Promotion Bureau. Honolulu. HOUSTON NOT SINGLES TAX CITY Pastorisa Plan Discarded, Though Author la Elected Mayor. HOUSTON. Tex., March 4. (To the Editor.) I understand that the elec tion of J. J. Pastoriza as Mayor of Houston is being heralded as a single tax victory. Now, the single tax was not even an element in the mayoralty campaign. There Is no single tax law In force in Houston and there never has been. That Pastoriza is a single tax advocate Is well known, but all of his single tax "doings" In Houston were contrary to the constitution and general laws of Texas. I -will give your readers the truth of the matter, so that this city will not continue to be the subject of misrep resentation. For four years prior to his election as Mayor of Houston Pastoriza was city tax commissioner. When he was first elected tax com missioner he took it upon himself to ignore the constitution and general laws of the state and levy taxes ac cording to his own ideas. He, there fore exempted all, or nearly all. per sonal property from taxation. This 'In cluded money, bonds and mortgages. Franchises of public service corpora tions, however, were taxed to the limit. Real estate owners were loaded down with taxes, while those who owned no land were "In clover." The citizens of Houston got tired of this "Pastoriza plan of taxation" and filed suit against Pastoriza. A writ of mandamus was issued by the ccurt compelling Pastoriza to levy taxes ac cording to the provisions of general laws. Pastoriza appealed the case to the Supreme Court of Texas and the "decision of "the lower court was promptly affirmed. Thus passed the glory of the so-called "Houston plan" of taxation. GEORGE W. DIXON. More Evidence on "Copperheads. HILLSDALE. Or.. March 7. (To the Editor.) Kindly permit me to attach hereto an editorial clipping from the National Tribune, of Washington. D. C, which is clearly another Indorsement of the "Copperhead," to-wlt: Bryan's idea of "Gettln behind the Presi dent" is about the same as his father's of getting behind Abraham Lincoln. That Is. getting- where he could give him a good nek rrom the Dack. Bryan a lather was one of the leading Copperheads in Southern Illinois. When several weeks ago I stated. that the "Copperhead was not a paci fist, during the Civil War, I had no in tention to start an avalanche, but Judg ing from the many Indorsements printed since from many cities and states, shows that I have touched a responsive chord and also, that The Oregonlan is not only read generally. but read closely and carefully. HENRT E. DOSCH. Cabinet Needs New Blood. PORTLAND. March 9 (To the Ed itor.) Your editorial on Stone Is the reason for this note. You talk about putting Baker and Daniels out of their respective offices. Why not make a good Job of It and put in an Army man to nil the position as Secretary of War and a Navy man for Secretary of the Navy? The days for politics and muddllne along In these high places are of too vital importance to the whole Nation to be longer allowed. I congratulate you on your editorial. L. KENNEDY. Stand Pat, Woodrow Wilson! By James Barton Adams. Stand pat. Woodrow Wilson! The country's behind you, despite the vile niss or tne copperhead snake, despite the foul mouthlngs of those who malign you for raisiner a hand when our honor's at stake. Defend grand Old Glory with all of your power, the uanuer Dequeatnea us Dy patriot sires, keep its bright folds unsmirched at this critical hour and scorn the pacifists' disloyal desires. Stand pat. Play the hand that the grim fates have dealt you, play it with Invin cible patriot pluck: the words of dis sent with which copperheads pelt you make harmless as raindrops on coat of the duck. They care not a whoon in .the Infernal regions for national honor, and well may they be despised by the patriot, flag-loving legions who'd fight to the death for the Land of the Free. Stand pat. Teach the monarchs who sneer at our honor that hissing of snakes is but venomous air, that millions would flock to de fense of our banner should worst come to worst and the war bugles blare. Stand pat till the soul-galling cares that distress you are melted to naught by the peace sun's bright rays and all but the serpentine traitors will bless you and hold you in reverence all of your days. Special Feature for the Fraternity of Spring Gardeners Is in The Sunday Oregonian In its Sunday issue The Oregonian will print several pages of well-selected advice on gardening, with suggestions anent seeds, soils and culture. No genuine Spring gardener, imbued with the ' kindly impulse to plant things and watch 'em grow, can afford to miss this feature, which will be found to be both interesting and informative. OREGON'S LITERARY FOLK Alfred Powers writes of the authors of Oregon, who have already won place in the firmament of letters.; A special story in The Sunday Oregonian, with pictures of success- f ul magazine contributors. BEAUTY CANT BE MADE WITH PAINT So says Dr. Wiley, far famed food specialist, who tells why a woman's complexion is largely a matter of what and how she eats. Powder and rouge lend "a suggestion of the circus," he avers. An illustrated beauty hint article. HERBERT KAUFMAN'S PAGE Read, and reckon with, the sane and spirited philosophy of Kaufman, who has routed despondency with the keen lance of satirical criticism; found a lot of fun in doing it, and helped thousands of his readers to a clearer conception of duty and its relation to life. TOTEM INDIANS AND THEIR TRIBAL EMBLEMS Here, then, is the totem of the Alaskan native tribes, plainly portrayed by Frank G. Carpenter in another of his inimitable travel yarns of the northern country. Concerning the tribal customs and traditions which cluster about the totem's carved grotesquerie, and illus trated with photographs THE OLD POEMS PAGE Of course, a vote of The Oregonian's read ers on the fitness of" the Sunday selection for first place among the poems of yester-year cannot be taken. But if it could, it is certain that a heavy share of, ballots would fall to the fine old song that heads the page tomorrow "In the Gloaming." PATRIA In Episode VI, of the widely read and screened serial ap pearing in The Sunday Oregonian, does Patria, last of "the fight ing Channings," find new and more enthralling adventure than aught which has hitherto befallen. Follow the story and the com panion photo-play. CHURCH AND SCHOOL A page to each companion institutions in which Portland may well take pride. Announcements of sermons and other church events. Gossip of the city's several high schools, edited by a student staff. OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO WOMEN Pages of fashion and fancy work, intimate sketches of women who have won places of prom inence through signal ability, the news of society in Portland and elsewhere. Illustrated . FIRST IN THE FIELD The reliability of information found in The Oregonian makes it easily the favorite in its field a wide and comprehensive claim that is attested by many thousands of keen and critical readers. A Nickel Buys It Anywhere THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. In Other Days. Twenty-five Tear Ago. From The Oregonlan of March 10, 1892. Washington. March 9. The tariff discussion of the 52d Congress opened in tne House today with McMillln. of Tennessee, leading the tariff reform, and Dlngley, of Maine, defending Mc Kinley. Washington, March 9. President Harrison today sent to the Senate the correspondence In regard to the Ben ring Sea question. The New Grand Central Hotel had its formal opening last night and it was a grand success. The rock quarry bought by the county out on the Cornell road Is prov ing a good Investment. The rock crusher there is kept busy, to the great betterment of the roads. E. Shelley Morgan, a member of Com pany K. O. N. G., fell from a bicycle at tne Armory Monday night, and broke hl3 collar bone. As the inauguration of the free de livery system on the East Side will require the services of nine letter car riers, and two or three more are needed on the West Side, a special ex amination will be held on March 19. Chinatown was thrown Into a fer vor of excitement yesterday afternoon bv flamlnur bulletins nosted on Second street, which were a challenge from the Sue Sing tong to the Hip Sing tong to meet them in pitched battle this afternoon at 2 o'clock. COALITION CABINET FOR WILSON Writer Suggests Beverldge and Roose velt for Presidential Advisers. PORTLAND. March 9. (To the Edi tor.) Evidently Senator Lane listened to the loud-mouthed pacifists or has not read the papers. In either case, he has shown that he is a poor politi cian and a worse American; but what can we expect when we send men like him to represent us? While wo cannot find words strong enough to express our opinion of his stand, he has done the country a serv ice. Inasmuch as it has shown the world at large that we are with the President, Irrespective of party. It takes a few Lanes. Stones, et aL. to bring- about needed reforms In our Senate. Now, If President Wilson will have a real Spring housecleanlng in his Cabinet and get rid of the ltght callbered Incompetents, such aa Dan iels and Baker, he will convince the people that he Is for real preparedness. England has a coalition cabinet, why not America? It takes a broad-minded, fearless statesman to put it over, but the welfare of the country demands that we have the best there is, and if the "present Cabinet Is the best that the Democratic party can furnish, then of a necessity they will have to go outside of their party. n.vA.iH pa as Secretary of State and Roosevelt as Secretary of War would look bad what? C. L. ELLIOTT. GUARDSMAN'S CREED IS QUOTED Sergeant rolnts to Opening In Militia for Those Who Uphold Preparedness. PORTLAND, Or., March 9. (To the Editor.) Owing to the fact that there Is such an Immense amount of bellig erency in the State of Oregon, many of whose influential and prominent citi zens are for preparedness, it might be well to draw their attention to the Guardsmen's Creed: "I believe that It Is the holy and patriotic duty of every American to of fer himself for his country's service in peace as well as war. "I believe that it is only the prep aration and training of all able-bodied men of the Nation that will avert the calamity of foreign war; or if such a war be forced upon us. that we will be able to meet the trained forces of Asia or Europe on something like terms of equality and by the sacrifice of our lives, if necessary, prevent the hoisting of a foreign flag over our land, or any part of it." It is needless to state that the Guard needs recruits, and all who favor pre paredness are Invited to present them selves for enlistment at the Armory any night. They are assured that their applications will receive preferred at tention. First Sergeant Company D, Third Ore gon Infantry N. G.