TTIE SI7XDAT OKEGONIAX, PORTLAND. APltIL 28, 1912.
CAMERAS CATCH NEWS IN MAKING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
England Recently Launches Dreadnought Queen Mary, Having Displacement of 27,000 Tons.
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NKW OKJC. April 17-(Spclal.)
At racant auffralt meetin- In
Nw York Mrs. Lea To we, wife
of a Chlneaa tnlaalon worker, ul hef
daushter. Mabel Le, occupied aeata
on the platform with tr. Anna Shaw
and Mrs. Oraca Stratton. All China
town ! proud of MabeU who has been
ready to enter Barnard College. She
and her mother are iuffraglila and will
participate la the rreat suffrage parade
on May 4.
Doctor Veau, aurreon of the Chil
dren's Hospital In Paris, has just been
awarded the Cross of the Legion 0
Honor and the Oold Medal of ear
ned Foundation. Tne doctor eon
tracted diphtheria In carina; for th
children during- the epidemic of
and nearly lost his life.
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New York deJefatlon to the Demo
rratlc National convention In Balti
more undoubtedly will pir an Import
ant part la the proceeding of that
body. Th most prominent members of
the delegation who are known a th
-Big Four," are J. 8. Cram, W. H. Flta
patrlck, C. F. Murphjr and Norman K.
Mack. These gentlemen were photo
graphed together at th recent meeting
of th Demncratla state committee In
New Tork City.
Among the delegations to the Inter
national Ked Croas Coafexeqc to be
held la Washington. D. C. Ma 7 to IT.
will be on from Japan, which arrived
a few weeks ago at San Francisco. Th
delegation Is headed by Baron T. O sa
ws, one of th toremoet peace and hu
manitarian envoys of the Orient. ' Oth
ers are Dr. Aktyama, Madam Naga
saki, countess Yosntyaea and Count
Ogasawara.
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Th body or General Philip Kearney
was removed recently from Trinity
Church to City Hall to II In etat until
taken to Washington for burial In Ar
lington Cemetery. General Kearney's
body rested In Trinity churchyard for
59 years. The body was taken from
the churchyard and lay In state all
night la the chancel of th church
guarded by six veterans of Kearney's
old command. Morning service" were
held la th church. Philip and Thomas
Kearney, of New York, Wer among
th relative In the Watt pew when
the ceremonies wer held. They are
grandsons of the General. Mrs. Levi
P. Morton, a nlei-a, and Mr. Selfrldge,
a daughter of Ceneral Kearney's sec
ond wife, wer also present. The Gen
eral' son, John Watts Kearney, met
th funeral party at Washington.
After services, conducted by Dr. Man
ning, a a-uard or honor escorted th
body to the City Hall. It was led by
Oeneral Gearg Dyer, of th New York
National Guard, troops from New York
and New Jerspr militia and m. hattallnn
of regular Infantry. Grand Army posts j
wer also In lln and the members of
the family and comrades Of the General
rod In carriages.
Charles Evans Hughes. Associate
Justice of tns Supreme Court of the
Lhlted States, Is being mentioned orom
Inently for th Republican nomination
for the Presidency as a compromise
candidate. Mr. Hughes was appointed
o th Supreme Court by President Taft
In May, 1910. Be'ore that he was Gov
ernor of New York 8tat for two terms,
resigning aS Governor to go on th
bench. Justice Hughes celebrated hi
SOth birthday yesterday. It Is under
Stood that he does not desire the nom
ination. John D. Rockefeller recently contrib
uted IIO.OOO for th preservation of th
house in which Pasteur was born In
Dole, Franc. Th local newspapers at
Dole sarcastically remarked that th
government of France was Always
ready to vote 110,000 to erect a monu
ment to Monsieur Nobody, but filled to
recognise true genius. That privilege
belongs to America.
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This Is the new dreadnought. Queen
Mary, recently launched at Jaxrow. ,
England, In th presence of thousands
of spectators. She Is th largest cruiB
er built by Great Britain. Her dlsplare-
, ment Is given as S7.000 tons and her ln-
uicitfeBu nurBfljiwwer as liivvv. xtis
ship cost $10,308,120.
As a protest against their working
conditions, 4000 mill strikers paraded
through the streets of Passaic, N. J.
They carried banners telling th public
of their grievances. Two-thirds of the
workers were women.
DEBATE TOPICS COME UP
Washington High Schools Have
Heavy List Prom Which to Choose.
OLYMPIA, Wash., April .7. (Spe
cial.) Th commute) In charge of high
school debates, consisting of Professors
J. C. lUrbiman. J. H. 'Morgan and
Frank O. Kreager, has Submitted to
the principal of th four-year accred
ited high schools through the State De
partment of Education, seven questions,
requesting each principal to indicate
his choice of a subject for next year
The questions submitted are th following;
1. Should the State of Washington adopt
the sinxle tax T
4. Should th Constitution of the United
State be amended by providing for a Presi
dential term of slalit sears and limiting the
number of term to which a President I
eligible to one term?
. Should cohftres establish a general
parcels poet systumt
4. Chould the t'nlted State Government
own and operate th telegraph f
5. Should Alaska be mads a territory
Immediately f
. fchould th ' United State dispose of
non-continental territory?
7. Should the State Board of Education
adopt the N. B. A. report on articulation of
high arhool and colleger
Judging from the answers received
up to the present, parcels post, single
tax and a modified high school course,
are the favorite topics.
The state Is divided Into three dis
tricts for th purpose of holding these,
tnter-scholastlc debates. The subject
chosen this year was; "Resolved, That
the conservation of our natural re
sources should be a function of the
state rather than the National Govern
ment." Senator Wesley t Jones has annually
provided prizes amounting to (ISO dur- .
lug th six years theao debates have J
been oarried on, ISA going to the win
ning team of each of Ihree districts.
PANAMA STEAM SHOVELS
Without Such Machinery the Canal
Probably Wouldn't Be fiullt.
J. F. Springer in Casslers Magazine.
When the Panama Canal was taken
over by the Americans In May. 1904 a
great deal of mechanical development,
which has since proved of great service,
had already taken place in a quiet way.
The Impulse of this development is to
be found In the enormous aggregate of
construction, work which had. been go
ing on during the previous years espe
cially In the United States. On the
other hand, the flefrds of the canal have
stimulated Invention, so that the world
will be the richer because of the great
work going on upon the Isthmus. An
example of a piece of meohanlsm taken
hold of and utilized by th builders of
the canal, which had nevertheless re
ceived Its development independently.
Is the steam shovel. Perhaps the canal
could be excavated wthout It; if so, the
F reposition would have been a wonder
ully different one. The Steam shovel
is excavating the Culebra out at the
rate of about 4,600 oubio yards a day.
It Is n6 wonder then that'th greatest
piece of dry digging ever undertaken
by man is being- accomplished wltb
great certainty and dispatch.