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TIIE 2IORN'IG OKEGOJTTA??, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1919.
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WILL CERMAVf SCBMIT TO TERMS?
While Paris sends out predictions
that the Germans will accept the terms
of peace within two weeks after they
are presented by tho allies, Czech dele
gates report that Germany is secretly
drilling a new army and gathering
arms and secret stores in preparation
for a renewal of the war. German
political leaders of the last-ditch kind
say that they will never give up the
Saar valley, will never yield the Khine
province as a neutral zone and will
never pay the indemnity which they
expect the allies to exact. They openly
threaten Kurope with a flood of bol
rhevisru if they should be driven to
extremities, and some of them talk of
flatly rejecting the peace terms and
defying the allies to do their worst
We all know that German mili
tarists are liars and not skillful bluff
ers, therefore we may discount what
they say, and what they say they have
done, very liberally. Even then the
facts look ugly enough. The central
government maintains its authority in
the heart of the country by martial
law. is shaky in the coast cities and is
utterly powerless in Bavaria. If it
should accept the terms, it may not
be able to execute them in all the
states. If it should decide neither to
accept nor reject them, it may use a
fresh outbreak of bolshevism as an
explanation of inability to decide. If
it should reject them flatly, it may
rely on the new army which llinden-
burg is drilling and on the activity of
bolshevist agents in the allied coun
tries to make its defiance good.
While Ebert and Scheidemann can
not be suspected of deliberately pro
voking the Bolshevist outbreaks they
turn these disturbances to their pur
poses. Bolshevism was originally a
German weapon turned against Rus
sia with great success in breaking
down that country's resistance: It is
still a weapon which the orderly ele
ment fends off from itself and diverts
against the allies.. As Noske turns his
machine guns and artillery against the
spartacist mobs, his colleagues may
find some comfort in viewing the
alarm which the revolt causes in the
countries around them. The men at
the head of the German government
have shown that they know how to
suppress insurrection. They probably
could do so completely by means of
the well-known Prussian ruthlessness,
but It answers their purpose to keep
the fire alive and to permit it to break
out occasionally, to serve as propa
ganda among the allies against "a hard
peace." The danger that bolshevism
might break the nation into pieces and
leave no Germany to accept terms and
to pay indemnity is expected to cause
panic in Paris. To the same end the
bog)- of bolshevism is trotted out in
order to extort food for a supposed
starving people, though all who have
money are well fed.
Bolshevism is a disease of the towns,
not of the country, and it is quite
plausible that Hindenburg should be
able to enroll the peasantry In an
army, to prevent ruinous taxes for the
allies and to prevent confiscation of
the land by cither allies or bolsheviki.
This new army may serve as a threat
of renewed war to keep Danzig, the
Rhino province and the Saar valley.
Should Germany go to such an ex
treme, the allies would have to choose
between a pusillanimous backdown
and renewal of the war ending in
armed occupation of all Germany.
Nor should we suppose that the real
moving spirits In Germany are only
those who are nominally at the head
of the government. The old guard of
Prussia, is close behind them, and
doubtless pulls the strings. That Is
to be inferred from a picture of the
national assembly at Weimar, which
shows the galleries filled with well- j
dressed, intelligent, well-bred people.
such as the. Russians call the intelli
gentsia. That crowd bears no resem
blance to the rabble which filled the
galleries of the French revolutionary
ussembly. It is the kind of crowd
which would put forward Ebert, the
saddler, as a stalking horse, to be
cast aside after the allies'' have been
Induced to make peace with him.
Camouflage is as useful in making
peace as in making war.
Thus it Is one thing to arrange terms
of peare. but quite another thing to
make Germany accept them. The situ
ation Is very different from that which
existed on November 11, Ulg. and the
change is all the work of Germany
and in Germany's favor. When the
armistice, was signed, it was confi
dently believed that, as Germany was
disarmed and democratized and as the
allies were free to advance from the
Khine at a word, the terms were
equivalent to unconditional surrender.
But Germany had not surrendered in
a political or economic sence, and still
held the most potent weapon of propa
ganda. All these non-military weapons
liave been used to good effect during
the last five months. The allies forgot
that Germany never carries out an
agreement except under compulsion,
and the armistice was no sooner made
than Germany began to break it. The
specified number of airplanes, guns,
cars and locomotives has not been sur
rendered, many prisoners are still
hidden in remote places, machinery
stolen from Belgium has not been re
turned, stolen cars and engines are
withheld from that country-, and there
was much haggling about surrender
of merchant ships. It is the same
Germany, ruled by the same evil spirit
as under the kaiser.
The sure way to have Insured tha.
Germany should fulfill all the terms
was to occupy the whole country, all
lis frontiers, cities and ports. Then,
the allies could have preserved tran
quillity while an election was held and
a constitution adopted, and they could
have insured that a united, responsible
government deriving its authority from
the people -would make peace. They
could have thrown open the ports to
food and raw material, thus putting
the people to work and warding off
bolshevism. They could have shut out
that pest from the east, and could have
given effective aid to Poland and Bo
hemia. Stolen goods and hidden pris
oners could have been sought out and
sent home. There could have been no
squirming out of armistice terms.
As things stand, the allies will do
won in ntnrrt t ho rnrrmarativel v mild
?s I terms on which they have decided.
? I There need be no more talk about
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for any such severity would cause Ger
many to dissolve and remove all possi
bility of collecting anything. Talk of
a commercial boycott is folly, espe
cially as it comes from the same source
as talks about that "last dollar." Ger
many can pay anything only b earn,
ing it and. if denied the right to sell
goods abroad, cannot earn it. Any
boycott on German goods will be an
individual affair. It will be stringent
and general enough for many years to
let the Germans know what it means
to be regarded as Huns.
LOOKING FORWARD.
PORTLAND, Or.. April 18. (To the Edi
tor.) Political parties In the United State,
no longer stand for anything. It I, a gov
rrnment of the people and for all the Jeo
ple. and they are tired of partisanship and
weaned of republican blatancy ana aemo
cratlc buncombe. There are no Issues that
are not national and International. What.
for example, doe. The Oregonian think will
be the lames of the presidential campaign
Of IK-'O? IsrlOW MB
The paramount issue of 1920 is to
be the democratic party, its record for
eight years, and its competency in gov.
eminent. It is enough.
TOO LATE.
Tho New York Times furnishes a
list of twenty-eight towns in Massa
chusetts which have recently voted
license," changing from "no-license,"
and it prints prominently the com
ment of a correspondent , who Inter
prets the action of the towns as a
realization that their "rights were
threatened," and that the "constitu
tion was being used to take away the
police powers of the state, and the
voters therefore "registered their pro
test in no uncertain manner."
The other Sunday a mass meeting
of some fifty thousand thirsty and out
raged citizens of Boston was held and
they paraded about the streets for a
while under suitable banners. In dem
onstration of their sense of personal
hardship and humiliation in face of the
impending dry scourge.
It would appear that Massachusetts,
like New York and other fragrant
oases in the great national desert of
prohibition, had just awakened to an
understanding of what has happened
in the nation. Yet the record shows
that the Massachusetts legislature
ratified the constitutional amendment
early in the year 1918 (March and
April, in the respective legislative
houses), and was the eleventh state
to join the arid column. Near the
bottom of the long list is also New
York, which in January, 1919, gave
a belated recognition to the new era.
The lobster palaces and the mirrored
barrooms of Broadway may rage
about interference with their liberty
to drink what and when and how they
please, and may protest against the
wicked invasion of their rights by the
blue-overalled farmers of the middle
west, and the schoolma'ama of Idaho,
and all the other apostles of a puritan
life, but they are not supported by the
responsible governments of their own
states.
Why did the Massachusetts towns
go wet? Why did Chicago vote for the
saloons by an overwhelming vote? It
may be true that there is a reaction
against prohibition, and a rising wave
of resentment against the action of
forty-odd states in voting forty-eight
states dry- It may be so, indeed. But
perhaps it does not mean as much as
it seems to mean. The prohibitionists
have won, and the nation has voted
out all alcoholic liquors, and prohibi
tion is as certain as tomorrow's sun
rise. Perhaps the prohibitionists are
resting on their achievement, and
watching with complacency the wrig-
glings and twistings of their captives.
and letting them have their way for a
little while. But whatever the reason.
what validity will the unanimous vote
of Broadway for saloons, and the ac
tion of any Massachusetts, or Oregon.
or Illinois town for the right of
licensed tippling have after the consti
tutional amendment goes into effect?
After a while they will learn in
Massachusetts and New York that
what has happened in Kansas and
Oregon and elsewhere west of the
Allegheny mountains, politically or so
cially, or morally, will sooner or later
happen everywhere in the nation.
STANDARDIZED . HENS.
The Kentucky agricultural experi
ment station is entitled to all credit
for its efforts to "standardize" the
poultry industry, and thereby to in
crease both production and profit. We
hall refrain from reminding Ken
tuckians that Oregon hens have been
distinguished for truly wonderful per
formances, that Corvallis is the home
of a line of poultry that has earned
its patent of nobility, and so forth.
The spirit of scientific investigation
leaves no room for petty jealousies.
This is especially true when investi
gation is undertaken for so high a
purpose as bringing poultry and poul
try products within tho reach of the
ordinary citizen.
Standardization, however, does not
preclude continued efforts toward
breeding the 300-egg-a-year hen. Its
prime purpose is to introduce not only
pure bred fowls, but so far as pos
siblo induce communities to adopt a
single breed and concentrate upon it.
The fact is in poultry breeding that
there are several standard breeds
which to all intents and purposes are
equal economically. Much more is to
be gained by improving any one of
them than by dissipating the energies
of the breeder in many directions. The
county which selects the Leghorn, for
illustration, will soon have a fine
strain of thoroughbreds of high pro
ductive capacity with which to im
prove the flocks of the entire com
munity. The same will be true of the
county which selects Plymouth Rocks
as its specialty. Kentucky poultry au
thorities find that four breeds of rec
ognized merits are enough for an en
tire state. Available reports do not
specify the breeds, but most poultry
men will agree that four allow suffi
cient variety. . ,
It is Interesting to know that in
Kentucky seventy-nine counties al
ready have "standardized," each by
adopting an official breed and stick
ing to it. In these counties last year
181. BOO pure-bred eggs went out to
more than 3800 farms. That number
of pure-bred eggs, of course, means a
bis boost Xor the poultry interests fit
the state. It is expected that distribu
tion this spring will reach 250,000.
Standardization has proved to be a
psychological as well as a biological
benefit. The idea of efficiency which
it conveys has so appealed to bankers
and business men that their co-operation
with the farming interests has
been an important factor in material
development.
It is now April and the market
price of eggs and poultry ought to be
a sufficient indication that the poultry
business needs serious consideration.
Only a comparative plutocrat nowa
days can buy a dozen eggs or a potpie
hen or a succulent -broiler. If as it
ought to do standardization will as
sist in increasing the poultryman's
profits and reduce prices to the con
sumer, it can hardly be begun too
soon.' It is impossible to contemplate
an egg famine with equanimity, and
the prediction that eggs will reach a
dollar a dozen next winter amounts to
almost that. It is time that something
was done about it.
A GREAT INDUSTRY.
How many persons know the extent
of the logging industry on the Pacific
coast? The mileage of its railroads
railroads built primarily for transport
ing logs is 4588. This is equivalent
to the distance from Portland to New
York and back to Omaha. Oregon and
Washington loggers employ 40,000 men
and the loggers of tho coast employ
a total of 70,000. This, be it remem
bered, is but one branch of the lum
bering industry. It has no reference
to sawmills or other plants that make
use of the rough product of those who
fell and deliver the big trees.
A reference work of value to those
having business dealings with the
logging industry of the coast has been
published by the Timberman of Port
land. It combines a complete direc
tory of all logging camps with a sec
tion devoted to log towing rates, range
of fir log prices, grading rules, rail
road building, cable information, log
scales and other useful data. One may
learn from it the office and camp
addresses of any logging company, its
daily output, the character of its
equipment, the number of men em
ployed and the names of manager,
superintendent and purchasing agent.
The scope of the directory may be
realized from the, statement that in
Oregon and Washington alone about
4(5 firms are listed and that the book
covers other western states and British
Columbia.
A NEW PRINCIPLE IN MAKING BATES.
The producers and ports of the
Columbia basin are by no means alone
In making the claim tc railroad rates
based on cost of service. They simply
have the strongest case, for they, with
natural conditions which should give
them the advantage of low rates, are
compelled to pay high rates imposed
by the natural disadvantages of their
neighbors, for the purpose of making
things appear equal which are unequal.
There are other sections of the coun
try where parallel situations exist, and
they. too. have appealed to the same
general principle of rate-making as
the Columbia river people have set
forth. That principle, and the evil
effects of its neglect, are explained in
an opinion by Robert W. Woolley,
member of the interstate commerce
commission who dissents from his col
leagues by favoring a five-year exten
sion of government operation of rail
roads. It is quite possible to agree
with his reasoning as to the sound
basis of rates without accepting his
conclusion that federal operation is
necessary to establishment of that
basis.
Hitherto rate - making has been
treated by both the railroads and the
government as an issue solely between
carrier and shipper, of equitable
adjustment between competitive com
munities and of the greatest profit to
the railroad where there is no compe
tition. Little or no attention has been
paid to the rights of the consumer.
The cost of transportation is in effect
a tax and, if it be not equitably levied,
it is a discriminative tax, unduly en
riching one man and .bankrupting an
other, expanding one place into a great
city while starving another into decay.
Government regulation has done no
more than to deal with specific cases
of belts of country, or local areas or
classes of commodities, and the com
mission has found that every change
disjoints other arrangements, so closely
related is each part of tho entire rate
structure to each other part. There
is but one way to establish justice and
sound economy. That is, to quote Mr.
Woolley. by "the installation of a nation-wide
rate structure based upon a
terminal plus straight mileage charge
Realisation of the wrongs and evils
growing out of the present unscientific
method of rate-making appears in sev
eral decisions of the courts and the
interstate commission which Mr.
Woolley quotes. In 1897 the late Jus
tice Harlan of the United States su
preme court said in dissenting from
the majority that, if railroads were
permitted to make competitive rates
in order to secure traffic, "although
such rates may discriminate against
intermediate points," they would be
permitted "to build up favored centers
of population at the expense of the
business of the country at large." In
his decision in a fruit rate case in
1911 Franklin K. Lane, then interstate
commerce commissioner, asked what
was to be our policy, saying that
"there is no uniform policy, even upon
the same lines or systems." He ven
tured this prediction:
Perhap, the United Elates will one day
declare a policy of it, own In this regard.
Primarily it is a matter of national con
cern and not of railroad policy a, to what
system of rate-making shall obtain, so long
as the carrier, receive a reasonable, return
upon the value of their property..
In the same year the entire commis
sion declared that rates "have not been
constructed as a rule upon any scien
tific basis": that "those who are most
interested in rate advances are usually
not represented"; that the freight rate
finds its way into the price paid by
the consumer."
As recently as July, 1917, the com
mission indorsed the very principle
which is invoked in the Columbia river
cases, when it said of an argument ad
vanced in the Ohio and West Virginia
coal case:
This argument is predicated upon a mis
taken view of Uie duty of the commission.
Its fallacy lies In the assumption that In
dealing with a competitive situation between
producing fields the commission may. in
disregard of transportation conditions, fix
rates to equalize commercial and economic
disadvantages or approve existins rates that
effect such a result.
f differences pro win g out of rivalry and
internecine competition between the ship
pers from the different groups can no
longer i- composed among themselves, the
commission will have no alternative but to
break up the group arrangement and sub
stitute for the present adjustment a rate
basts which will give to each ot tho sev
eral district. It, just relation to all other
districts. This wonld probably result in a
distance basis . . . but It would approx
imate justice and would give to each rep
resentative district the advantage or disad
vantage that goee with location.
An extended quotation is made from
J. N. Teal's article on "The Future
Course of Rate-making," to show: the
rule-of-thumb and intuitive methods
which have been followed by traffic
officials and the grave social evils
which they have produced through
congestion of industry, commerce and
population and through annihilation
of traffic on inland waterways.
The present lack of system has per
mitted railroads to extinguish water
competition and thus has robbed us
of the use of water lines at times of
congestion and of the economy which
they can effect. It has encouraged waste
of transportation in hauling of freight
from remote points which could have
been obtained at near points. It has
lumped the terminal with the line
charge and thus has again assumed
the unequal to be equal. The extreme
to which this Inequality goes is shown
by the wide variation in cost of han
dling a car of freight lifferent ter
minals. It is $35 at Iv Yovrk. 110.35
at Chicago, $3.80 at Salamanca, N. Y.
and $1.80 at Binghamton. From these
I causes flow the evils of a few big
i ports when there should be many
smaller ports; a few big manufacture
ing cities when there should be many
such: overdeveloped urban life and
underdeveloped rural life. Nor can
these evils be eliminated so long as
rate-makers look at their work from
the old viewpoint. They -must start
from a new, sound principle and build
on it. That is the principle which Mr.
Woolley puts forward, though five
years of government operation are not
needed to put it in operation.
STUDYING CHINESE.
American missionaries in China
have performed a definite service for
their countrymen by developing a new
method of teaching the Chinese lan
guage, which is described by Paul
Hutchinson in the Christian Advocate.
The old method, by which the lan
guage was made hopeless to all but
the natural scholar, has given place
to a rational system which is said to
resemble that by which the child ac
quires familiarity with his own tongue,
except that it gives play to the supe
rior mental development of the adult
If the proof of the pudding is In the
eating, the missionary system may be
said to be a success. In a school year
of seven months a pupil learns to un
derstand between 700 and 1000 char
acters. The possibilities of combina
tion of these characters are so vast
that he actually has command of a
vocabulary largely in excess of 1000
words.
When it is remembered that large
classes of people are able to conduct
their ordinary affairs and prosper
considerably with a vocabulary of 800
words or less, it will be understood
that the missionaries, if they have
constructed their lessons wisely, have
given us what amounts to an entering
wedge into participation in the busi
ness and social life of the most popu
lous country on the globe. It is true
that Chinese is broken into many dia
lects, but although knowledge of one
of these does not lead to understand
ing of another, it is well known that
when one had been learned, others are
easier to acquire.
The chief bar to study of Chinese in
the past has been the widespread be
lief that it was the most difficult lan
guage in the world not excepting
Russian. But it now is made to appear
that this was due rather to the method
of teaching than to the language itself.
It will be worth while to consider
whether this is not true also of other
languages which are taught in our
schoolB. Americans do not acquire
foreign languages as the people of
other countries do. It will be neces
sary for them to abandon their lin
guistic isolation if in the future they
are to enter into the affairs of the
world. Scrapping of all of the now
existent language text books would
represent a small loss by comparison
with the advantage that would be
gained, for example, If students of
French, or Spanish, or any other
tongue, were enabled to emerge from
a seven months' course of study with
working vocabulary of 700 to 1D00
words.
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Larger use of the Automobile
Patrol," which Is one of the topics to
be discussed at the forthcoming con
vention of the Western Forestry and
Conservation association, carries a
definite challenge to the imagination.
We see therein not only. wider use of
the automobile but also striking ex
tension of the roads and trails move
ment. The forest is no longer the
Impenetrable and Inaccessible wild that
it used to be. Roads run almost every
where, and one that can be negotiated
by an automobile advantageously is
a promising sign. Bven a. decade ago
the automobile would not have been
thought of in this connection. In an
other decade, perhaps,' aircraft will
make dally flights over the 150,000,000
acres or so of our forest reservations
and by discovering tho blaze in its
very incipiency will make it possible
to prevent disastrous forest fires alto
gether. Germany may be forming a new
army secretly. The Idea is not novel
knowing the boche, big and little; but
by the time the principal offenders in
the late war have been tried and exe
cuted tho new army will be leaderless.
A system that requires a city school
board to buy water from a. city bureau
seems absurd, though it requires more
or less bookkeeping which means labor
for somebody, and in that is not so bad
in a day when a city job's the thing.
The recent arrival in Albany who
committed suicide a day or two ago
was too hasty. Albany is a fine place
to live in and die in after years and
years of joyous life.
The peace treaty will be signed in
the hall of mirrors, says a Paris cable
gram. This probably is so the Ger
mans can see themselves as others see
them.
Ice cream and all tho "perfumery"
drinks will cost more, and it will be
after the war is over," too."
Not many divorces are secured from
men who get small pay. A bit of
alimony is an attraction.
There's a humorist in this city who
advertises to have your car washed be
fore Easter. Why not?
Insuring a man for a million cannot
bo profitable to the company except
in an advertising way.
In these days of missing automo
biles it is refreshing to read of the
arrest of a horse thief.
Wicks was convicted of criminal
syndicalism in Spokane, but the worst
is to come.
Most men will need consent of their
wives to ride in that flying circus.
Lloyd George stands by the records
and the empire is behind him,
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leans Case Baer.
A peculiar significance and a train
of personal interest attaches to the
presentation of "The Man Who Came
Back," which comes to.the Heilig next
week. John Fleming Wilson wrote
the story, and John Fleming Wilson is
a product of the Pacific coast news
paper world. Jules Eckert Goodman
an Oregonian, dramatized the play and
Dorothy Bernard, who is one of the
cleverest young women on the Ameri
can stage, is widely beloved in Port
land where she was a child actress at
the Baker theater some 14 years ago.
She used to go to St. Helen's Hall and
had a host of young girl friends who
have followed "Dot's" activities with
loyal devotion in the years since she
left here. Her father was William,
known as Billy Bernard, for several
seasons stage director at the Baker
and whose death occurred three years
ago in New York.
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Arthur Cunningham, who is remem
bered by earlier day devotees of light
opera is returning on Mayday to the
Heilig in a musical play called "Going
Up," produced by Cohan and Harris.
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David Belasco has three mighty busy
workmen in his offices at present la
boring on new plays for him. They are
George Scarborough, Whitford Kane
and H. S. Sheldon. They are at work
on plays for Leonore TJlrich, Eileen
Huban and Frances Starr.
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From a Washington, D. C, paper I
glean the following bit of news and
right after it, if you care to read that
far is another piece of news I gleaned
from a New York paper of the same
date. One of the accounts is probably
correct.
Washington! April S. Edward H. Sothern
and Julia Marlowe are to make this city
their home once more.
There is a possibility of these two famous
actor, occupying their former home on the
bluff on Twenty-ninthtreet, between Q and
R street,. Northwest, which place ha, be
come familiarly known as "The Little Gray
Home." This mansion, built about 65 years
Ago, contains about 3o rooms and i. In ex
cellent condition. Mr. Sothern. during hi.
former occupancy added many new feature,
to the place. One waa a unique summer gar
den with walls 30 feet high with a watch
tower.
Mr. Sothern stated that considerable
thought had been given by himself and
Mrs. Sothern (Julia Marlowe) regarding re
maining and making their home in England.
However, the remembrances of Washington
were too strong.
Here is the other one, from a New
York paper, same date.
IS. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe (Mrs.
Sothern). who are now living in England,
will take up their permanent residence there
in a little village of literary and artistic
people. The village I, called Broadway and
1, a few miles west of Stratford-on-Avon.
One of the residents of the village is
Mary Anderson, who has been acting with
Mr. Sothern recently in "Macbeth" and other
classic dramas for the entertainment of the
soldiers. Ml us Marlowe'ha, not appeared on
the stage, although the condition of her
health la better than when she retired. Mr.
Sothern never expects to return to the stage
except for auoh special performances as he
ha, given for the soldiers.
The reason the Sotherns have decided to
spend the rest of their rives in England is
their love of the quiet English country life.
They were living In England in 1914 and
returned to this country because of Miss
Marlowe', nervousness over the war. Dur- i
Ing tha war they passed most of their time
In this country, although after America
entered the war Mr. Sothern went to France
on behalf of the entertainment activities of
the Y. It. C. A.
In his column in Variety, Jack Lait
writes from Chicago:
They laid away a battered old body at the
county morgue this week. In the neighbor
hood in which the hag lived in a squalid
basement, filching a filthy subsistence from
the garbage cans in the nearby alleys, she
was known a, "Old Maria." In the records
of the county morgue she was registered as
Mrs. Maria Leavitt- In the memories of a
few old-timers she blazed brilliantly as
Marie Rose, a Chicago favorite of the music
halls 30 years ago. Time is the master of
make-up. and all he uses in years. The
changes between Act 1 and the final cur
tain are sometimes tragic and nearly al
ways dramatic.
Marie Leavitt was killed while stand
ing on a street crossing, weak and
staggering from lack of food when
struck by an automobile. She leaves
an estate assessed at from $30,000 to
1100,000, but died while begging. Lack
of food was undoubtedly responsible
for her death. In one bank in Chicago
she had 136,000 on deposit. In her
hey-day she was considered one of the
best singers ana aancers in America.
A search is being made for her heirs.
H. O; Da vies of Los Angeles entered
suit March 31 to enjoin further presen
tation by David Belasco of "Daddies"
unless he Is awarded a share in its
financial and artistic returns. He
claims that the comedy is a reproduc
tion of his story entitled "The Little
Belgian," which he wrote after the
war began and which he copyrighted.
His counsel declares that he has attend
ed a performance and in his opinion
"Daddies" is a revived edition of his
client's work.
Robert Mantell is ill at the Johns
Hopkins in Baltimore, Md., and will
undergo an operation shortly.
Rubini, recently in Portland at the
Orpheum, is continuing the balance of
the circuit as a single. Up to and in
cluding the San Francisco engagement
he was assisted by Diana (Mrs. Rubini)
a singer, and Salvatore Santella, pian
ist. Diana returned to New York and
Santella has joined the St. Francis ho
tel orchestra.
Edith Conrad, for many years May
Robson's leading woman, was married
last week to David O. Rogers, district
attorney of Florida, and will live at
Jacksonville.
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Alexander Pantages, who is in the
east, says he will build new theaters
at Toronto, Memphis and Kansas City.
Each of the theaters will cost $1,000,000.
e e e
Mademoiselle Sigriot, well known on
the Paris stage as Gabrielle Dorziat,
sued Blanche Tcutain, also a popular
actress, for $20,000 for slander at the
Theater do la Porte St,-Martin in Paris
during the rehearsals.
The alleged libel consisted in the ap
pellation of boche, the plaintiff's father
having been born in Alsace though he
adopted French nationality.
The case was tried In .fans courts
March IS. judgment being deferred. It
was shown that Mademoiselle Dorziat
was born in France and the distasteful
word boche could not be - applied to
her.
Other similar cases have already been
tried, the courts considering it a grave
libel. Among witnesses cited were A.
Capus. the playwright, Jean Coquelln,
manager of the Porte SC-Martin, and
members of the company.
Judgment was rendered on April I in
favor of plaintiff, the amount of dam
ages being assessed at $4000. Juadejnoi
seile Toulua may anpnai.
Those Who Come and Go.
Judge N". G. Wallace of Crook countv
left for home last night well satisfied
with the treatment his territory re
ceived from the highway commission.
C. T. Darley of Klamath Falls, coun
ty surveyor, is in the city.
Arthur W. and George H. Clark of
Sacramento, Cal., are in town to seek
road contracts. They say that down
in California some of the contractors
have had to pay $5 a day for common
laborers.
Members of the recent legislature
were thick in Portland yesterday.
Amonir those present were Senator
John Bell, Representatives A. A. Smith,
S. L. Burnaugh, P. J. Gallagher. J. J.
Stewart, W. H. Gore, B. F. Jones, and
not counting most of the Multnomah
delegation who were fraternizing with
the outsiders.
Herman Politz leaves Saturday for
New York and other eastern cities on
a buying trip. While east he will at
tend some of the major league games.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Miebach are regis
tered at the Nortonia, from Lethbridge,
Alberta. Mr. Miebach is in the tractor
business.
J. A. Kelly,, publisher of the Walla
Walla Bulletin is registered at the
Nortonia.
N. J. Sinhott, representing the second
congressional district, went to Salem
last night to meet his former law part
ner, Judgs Bennett, of the supreme
court. Later he will visit Klamath
Falls. Mr. Sinnott is now head of the
public lands committee in the house, a
position of particular importance to
Oregon.
Frank Vines, county commissioner
for Malhenr, and incidentally a rancher,
is here with about 50 of his constitu
ents, who demand help from the state
highway -commission. It appears that
the old feud between Vale and Ontario
is sti'I going on, and each wants a dif
ferent road from the other. Time was
when the legislature was bothered every
two years as to wnere the county seat
of Malheur should be located at Valo
or Ontario. -
Brogan, famous for nears and armies
and not for shoes, is represented on the
Imperial register by Jack Kennedy,
general storekeeper at that place. Down
around Ashland and Medford and
around Hood River the Brogan apple
Isn't particularly known, but through
out eastern Oregon and Darts of Idaho
oh, boy!
Clarence Oxman, who has a big hav
ranch on Willow creek, in far eastern
Oregon, is at the Imperial. His broth
er, Frank, is at the Benson.
"There's only one natural outlet for
the John Day highway." areued Dr.
J. W. Donnelly of Gilliam countv. who
is at the Benson, "and that is throueh
Arlington. Not everyone who travels
the John Day highway will come to
Portland. Many will go to Yakima.
Nature has made the right place for
the John Day road and that is throueh
Arlington." Boosters of Sherman
county please note.
One of the biggest ball fans in the
state is George McKay, retired cattle
man, who is at the Perkins. Yesterday
he received from Dave Lodge at Los
Angeles a miniature baseball and bat.
souvenirs given at a baseball banquet
in juos Angeles. Mr. McKay attends
the coast games until the world series
open and then he hikes east to see the
finish.
i ears ago J. ti. uiackaDy was a mem
ber of the house of representatives at
baiem. .Now he is the respected presl
dent of the Ontario National bank and
is with a delegation urging road help
for Malheur county. He is at the Im
perial.. . .-
A graduate from the Oregon Agri
cultural college, L. R. Breithaupt be
came agricultural agent for Harney
county, but left that job to move over
to Malheur, where he has an alfalfa
ranch on Dead Ox flat. He is in thi
city teasing the state highway com
missioners to build roads out his way.
An esthetic farmer, despite his chin
whiskers, is F. M. Northrop, who hails
from Dead Ox flat. Once upon a time
an emigrant train was coming through
Oregon and was held up by a bad win
ter, which killed all the cattle and left
the pioneers on the old Oregon trail
in pretty bad shape. Next summer an
other train came along and, seeing the
skeletons of the animals, dubbed the
place Dead Ox Flat, a title which has
survived the 'bones. Mr. Northrup is
reformed lawyer, having abandoned
the legal profession to its fate while
he turned his talents to ranching.
Specializing in land, water, clover
and alfalfa, Harley Hooker of Chicago
and Jordan Valley, Or., is at the Im
perial. Hooker made Twin Falls, Idaho,
famous by projecting its irrigation pro
ject, and now he is helping on the big
irrigation programme in Jordan valley,
which is ignored on many of the maps
of Oregon.
R. J. Ginn of Moro Is at the Perkina
In addition to being a pioneer store
keeper he has also dabbled in politics
to the extent of being elected county
commission and now he has, as a com
missioner, $300,000 to put on roads.
Only 28 people in the county voted
against these 'bonds and Commissioner
Ginn has his suspicions as to their
identity.
He helped promote tile Warm Springs
irrigation project and put it over, did
Gus Wildhaber, president of the United
States National bank at Vale. Mr. Wild
haber is looking 'em over in Portland
and lamenting that some of this good
Portland rain doesn't fall in his sec
tion.
OMISSION IN - ROAD ARGUMENT
Pamphlet Nearlects to State Military
Value of Roosevelt HieTbway.
WARRENTON. Or., April 15. (To
tho Editor.) I trust the argument for
an appropriation from the general gov
ernment to aid in the construction of
the Roosevelt military highway will
be somewhat different from that pub
lished in the referendum pamphlet to
secure support for the contemplated
bond issue. It seems to me (though I
may be wrong) that there should be a
military feature to a military highway;
but I fail to find it in the voters' pam
phlet issued by the state.
When we try to pull our Uncle Sam's
leg for $2,500,000, a due regard for his
feelings would seem to indicate that
we should give some plausible excuse,
if not a real reason, for the elongation.
I am enthusiastic for. the highway and
can see that it will be of immense bene
fit to Warrenton, which the map shows
to be the only real, bona tide fresh
water terminal city in the world. We
are all going to vote for it. "Hurrah
for the old flag and an appropriation."
But as to that military feature: Let's
try to give Uncle Sam a run for his
money and make the road worthy of the
great name that is being used to boost
it.
There is a fort at the mouth of the
river and some day it may be of service.
The Roosevelt highway should un
doubtedly be of service to that fort, and
it. can be, possibly, of vital service if
f parallels Tounrs bay railroad tres
tle from Astoria to Warrenton, there
by cutting off over three miles of the
distance from Astoria to the fort, and.
by the way, furnishing one of the most
attractive drives Imaginable. As a
measure of ultimate economy it seems
that this should appeal to the powers
that be and it is certainly some Induce
ment for our senators and representa
tives to use in trying to secure the ap-
jLBraDliaHnn M, H. FLAGG.
In Other Days.
Twenty-Sve Years Ago,
From The Oregonian. April If. 1S94.
Crook county has $7724 to expend on
good roads this year, more than one
half being from the state fund.
The monthly rental of telephones in
Puyallup, Wash, has been reduced to 2.
La Grande's telephone exchange will
be ready for operation by May 1.
Astoria. Delegates to the democratic
state convention, which meets tomor
row here, are gathering today. About
75 arrived this afternoon on the steam
er Telephone.
Fifty Year Ago.
From The Oregonian, April 17. 1SS9.
The quarts ledges of South Boise are
promising well. The district bids fair
to be one of the most valuable in Idaho.
New York. The Post urges the sale
of the New York canals. Great expense
of maintaining and improving the ca
nals and the creation of a corruption
fund that entails a host of evils upon
the politics of the state are the reasons
urged.
J. C. Avery, J. F. Miller and J. H.
Douthit, commissioners appointed by
the last legislature to locate the lands
donated by the United State to the
state of Oregon as an endowment for
an agricultural college will start next
month on a tour to Goose lake. Crooked
river and the Ochoco and other districts
where it is thought lands may be se
lected. Tawdry.
By Grace E. Hall.
The tawdry how it glares along life's
way,
Flaunting its silly claim in pretense
vain.
Aping the genuine with bold display.
And gaining but contempt and cold
disdain.
The tawdry! how It sets the nerves
a-quake
By insolence of foolish sham and show.
Deceiving none save those who fall to
. make
Distinctions as they. blindly onward go.
Oh, better far (if some could loarn,
(alack!)
A calico that's worn with simple taste.
Than silk, if it real elegance shall lack,
Resembling but a vast and barren
waste!
O.M3 IS OT INDICATIVE OF ALL
Manners of Children In General Nut Re
vealed by Single Had One,
PORTLAND, April 16. (To the Ed
itor.) A letter on The Oregonian's d
itorial page I think exemplifies the na
ture of many of the landladies and
landlords of this city.
There is a doubt in .my mind if an
ordinance could be enforced which
sought to compel the owner of prop
erty to rent his house or apartment to
a family with children unless he wished
to. The small oottage on the outskirts
of the city may be the correct solution
of the problem, but why Is it necessary
for any woman to vent her spleen on
children in general because perohanco
she may have mtt one who was not
properly brought up?
Her assertion as to the "angel" In
question "breaking in on the privacy
of other tenants at all hours" is of
course exaggerated on the face of it,
for undoubtedly the "angel" did not
stay up until 3 in the morning for this
special purpose. Why wouldn't it have
been enough to have said that at times
she went Into the apartments of others
uninvited? Why the drivel about some
one building an apartment with hard
wood floors so that the children could
use their roller skates, coasters and
kiddie cars? . . T
She says children are not taught the
rights of other, and that the old-fashioned
spank has gone out of style. Af
ter reading her letter I wonder how
she was brought up, if she was taught
when young to consider other people's
feelings, how she thinks the average
mother feels when she reads a letter
like hers, with all its sarcasm, venom
and ill-will toward children In gen
eral. There are lots and lots of children
In the city of Portland today that are
carefully brought up, are taught anl
compelled to consider the rights of
others and in fact show great promise
of becoming quite useful citizens. If
she is not coming in contact with this
kind of children and these families, I
would advise her to change her circle
of acquaintances and get In with a bet
ter class of people.
F. E. MANCHESTER.
CRADLE RELEGATED TO ATTIC
i
Grandmother Says Old-Fashioned De
vice Is Where It Belongs,
PORTLAND, April 1. To the Ed
itor.) "What has become of tho old
fashioned cradles in which the solid
men of today were lulled to sleep?"
You aren't expecting an answer to that
editorial comment, but here is one.
nevertheless:
They are back In the attic, the far
thest cornif, where they belong.
I am the mother of four children and
now a grandmother of four. I rocked
my babies in the "old-fashioned ura
dle," rocked them until I was worn out,
sewed and darned with my foot on the
rocker, carried them on my hip while
getting a meal. Oh, yes! I raised my
children in the "good, old-fashioned
way," with no time for pleasure or
reading.
My daughter and daughters-in-law
put their babies to bed when It's time
for them to sleep and leave tho room.
When they are awake they are put in
their pen or high chair.. They are
sweet, contented babies, with, what is
most important, sweett, contented
mothers, not worn out with constant
rooking, amusing, jiggling and feeding.
i,ct the cradle stay in tne atric!
A GRANDMOTHER.
Debe Farewell Meaae.
SOUTH BEND, Wash., April 15. (To
the Editor.) In view of the fact that
Eugene V. Debs has gone to the West
Virginia penitentiary, where he ao
justly deserves to be, why does the
press of the country publish his "Mes
sage of Love and Cheer" and In that
way help to further the cause which,
he represents?
KULLI.N tU VAKWW.
The press published Debs' farewell
message beoauae it was deemed likely
that a great many persons. Including
those who have no sympathy for him,
would be Interested in reading it. Dobs
has been sent to prison not because he
represents a cause or holds soolallstlo
opinions, but for an overt violation ot
a specifio statute.
i Enemy Pictured at Night. .
Indianapolis News.
Word of a rather etartling photo-
arraDhic advance comes from Italy in
the submission of an Invention to the
United States signal corps. With the
new device it is said to be possible to
take excellent pictures of enemy posi
tions from airplanes flying at a low
height on moonlight nights. It is also
claimed that the invention can be fitted
to motion picture camera,, which would
permit the photographing for the screen
of much of the fighting In the air, the
greater part of which takes placo in
the early morning hours. Up to the
present time the chief ohstaoles met by
daylight aerial photographer, is that
the anti-aircraft guns force the flyer
to take picture, from a great height,
and much of the detail of the enemy
lines is therefore lost.