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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1913)
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Postage Kates 13 to IS pages, 1 cent; 18 to 32 pufft-s. 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 3 cents; 60 to 60 pages, 4 cents; 62 to 76 pages. 6 rents; 78 to 9-' pages, 6 cents. Foreign post as, double rates. Fa. tern Uuine Office Verree d Conk hn. New York. Brunswick building. Chi cago. Steger building. San Franclco Office R J. Bldwell C., 14 3 Market street. European Office No. Regent street S. w., London. PORTLAXI, SUJTDAr, JUNE 24, 1913. VACATION JOYS. As a rule, vacations are short, far too short. Teachers are the only toll er In the world who have reasonably loss; ones, and even theirs have been rudely curtailed of late years by Intru sive association meetings and Summer schpols. In our mind's eye we can see the destiny of the man who invented Summer schools. Flames and redhot Pitchforks are his portion, with seven little imps to keep him well basted. Seeing how woefully brief most vaca tions are, it is the part of wisdom to make them count for as much as pos sible. This brings us to the question we wish to discuss: "How to make a. vacation yield the maximum of Joy and the minimum of pain." Tastes differ so much that it is almost im possible to lay down wise general rules and yet there are some which ought to be universally applicable. For example, we think "Don't go fishing" is a good rule for most people to obey. Fishing as a sport is not what it is cracked up to be. There are grave doubts whether it is a sport at all. One might far more reasonably call it a torment. To sit all through the long afternoon with the sun beat ing pitilessly down on your head and the mosquitoes feasting on your face and hands while you long in vain for a bite, is it wise to call that sport? Or, we ask in all candor, is it sport to wade down an icy brook up to your hips In water, falling on the slippery stones and barking your shins on lurk ing snags? Having decided not to go fishing, we come to the next precept, which Is, "Don't go on a tramping tour," or a "hike," to use the cant term. There are people in the world who can walk day after day and find enjoyment in it, but one suspects something uncanny if not superhuman about them. They are more or less than mortal, probably more. Their heels are unblietefable. Their legs never get lame. They do not care where they sleep at night. They rather prefer not to sleep any where. Ordinary mortals, must not expect to relish the miseries which these oddities seem to delight in. If a person of average fortitude and pow ers of endurance goes on a tramp, he simply spoils his vacation. He had better never left his desk or hod, or whatnot. And what is so sad as a spoiled vacation, its ruined hopes, its blighted visions? With somewhat less assurance we advise the pleasure hunter not to camp out. Camping out promises a good deal more than it performs. The big Are at night, the Jolly circle gathered round it telling yarns, the dreamless slumber neath the .sentinel stars are lovely to read about, but they are only half the story. The dishes mus be washed with fateful regularity, the rain usually puts out the campfire Just about story time, and if it did not the best minstrels of the party are too tired at night to do anything but bathe their blisters and go groaningly to bed. What shall we do, then, to pass the all too fleeting days of our vacations? Well, for one thing, if the craze for rash adventure does not possess us, we can rest. One can find a place where there are no mosquitoes, where the temperate sun beams soothingly on grassy hillsides and the breezes are laden with the perfume of flowers and there one can lie at ease and dream the happy hours away. Doing noth ing? Exactly. Doing nothing. Nei ther Improving the mind nor exercis ing the body, nor worrying about the soul. Just lying in the lap of nature a.nd growing young. And there are gentle diversions well adapted to the sunny repose which seems to us the ideal vacation mood. We recommend nothing so strenuous as bicycling or rowing. These are all very well for people who do not need rest, but for the weary desk toiler whose brain and body hunger for nirvana, the best di version we know of is watching bees. The ceaseless industry of these foolish Insects invites one to blissful drowsi ness. Their hum lulls the perturbed spirit and the thought of the honey they are so laboriously gathering sweetens many an afternoon hour for the philosophic vacationer. There is no vacation food more grateful and hygienic than bread and honey. At intervals one reflects on the goodness of Providence who has created bees for man to rob, and this also pacifies the soul. Then there are pets. Not dogs, i They are too riotous and. "noisy. They are suitable for the wild hunter who tears tempestuously through the woods seeking what he may kill, and for the dame of fashion who enjoys poison ing them with candy. But the true vacationer finds pets more in harmony with his halcyon mood. He wants his animal friends to be in accord with the tempered surfshine and the odor ous breezes. So he chooses a cow, perhaps. The cow Is the embodiment of calm. She seldom hurries. She gambols only once or twice a year. As a rule she is a perfect Buddha for repose, and the vacationer imbibes fathomless draughts of equanimity from her companionship. If it were not for the flies that buzz, around al most every cow, we should recommend her as the queen of all vacation pets. Her only defect is her lack of intelli gence, but that is often almost a vir tue. v In vacation time intelligence Is su perfluous. If we must have It, we can turn to the rig. This animal is so shrewd that he is occasionally disturb ing, but usually he conceals his intel lect under an Imperturbable poise. The pig is the aristocrat of the farm yard. His voice is haughty, his nose is contemptuous, his eye is scornful, and with it all he maintains a serenity that bathes his surroundings in re- pose. If one cannot cultivate a pet cow, let him turn to the pig and he will lose little or nothing of his due pleasure. The point It, of course, that ne ought to select some animal com rade who will intensify the deep rest fulness which is the essence of a true vacation. I'NDER FAIR SKIES. The new city administration man ifests a purpose to start with a clean slate. Undoubtedly the people In tended, by the adoption of the new charter, that the Mayor and Commis sioners should have a free hand. They are under no special obligations to any party, or organization, or group, or body of men or women; and they are committed to no plan, or policy, or principle of action, except the wel fare of the whole city. No public officers in Oregon ever had greater powers or larger responsibilities re posed with them; but, on the other hand, none ever had a better oppor tunity to perform a great public service. There is no reason why Portland should not have the most efficient gov ernment of any considerable city In the United States. We believe it will have. For it has chosen for its all powerful City Commission men who are by popular acclaim said to be most fit for the Jobs; they have the necessary authority; and they have behind them the public good will. No ship ever set sail on the seas of government under fairer auspices. We shall hope fair breezes will bring her into port at the end of two years, or four years,' with a clean bill of lad ing, well-trimmed sails, a sound hulk, and a harmonious captain and crew. NTEW LIGHT IN THE SENATE. The Boston Transcript records as "one of the most astonishing and sig nificant events of the week" at Wash ington the favorable report for a con stitutional amendment enfranchising women, made by the Senate Commit tee on Woman Suffrage. "This re port," declares the Transcript," is none the less astonishing because it had been discounted in advance, and none the less significant because it is made by a political party which is not on record as favoring votes for women." It may be remarked that the Dem ocratic party has far less regard for mere consistency than for the warn ings of a growing public sen timent. Tet the Senate has not been noted for its inclination to re spond to the demands of the popular will. ' More astonishing and more sig nificant, then, than the fact that the Democratic party appears to be veer ing toward Woman Suffrage is the action of the United States Senate, al ways the home of the reactionaries and the foe of political progress. It is interesting to observe that the Senate Committee, In making up Its report, made use of the following set of rules from "Advanced Civics," by Dr. S. E. Farman: 1. Will this class of citizens vote when BVfr l-e 0PPortInly Is presented? -. Will this class of citizens (females) at- mp .to comprehend the questions upon which tt votes? 3. Will this class of citizens (females) at tempt to learn something of the character f.?- Jtn" of the persons for whom it votes ? wnl ,hl class of persons vote against dishonest persons for office? ur"sTWm this class oppose dishonest meas- r'1' 'his class refuse, directly or In directly, to accept a bribe, and refuse, di rectly or indirectly, to give a bribe? . V 1 ,hls clas place country above party? 8- Will thle class recognise the result of the election as the will of the people and therefore as the law ? a Will this class continue to fight for a righteous although defeated, cause so long i A V a ronable hope of success? end write? C'"" ' e,t,"n able to read 'J,- Does this class of citizens pay taxes T There are half a million citizens in Oregon who could and would answer these questions in chorus. Cl'BBDiQ THK LOBBY. Some Washington newspaper corre spondents have called attention promi nently to revelations in the lobby In quiry as to ownership of stock in en terprises affected by the Underwood tariff bill. Acknowledgment by Sen ators of more or less personal inter est in tariff duties was made with Just a bit of apology and, says one writer, "it was evident that more than one felt an instinctive sense of impro priety, even if he was angry at the occasion which reminded him of it." Whether a Senator shall feel embar rassed over such disclosures ought, in, common sense, depend very largely on the degree of his personal inter est in the tariff schedules and of his efforts in behalf of that interest. It seems hardly possible that a Senate at all representative of the varied in dustries of the forty-eight states could be elected and none of its mem bers be personally interested in some of the changes proposed by a law having the wide scope of the Under wood bill. It is a pretty theory, perhaps, that Congress should be composed of men whose Judicial consideration of ques tions . could not be suspected of being swayed by personal considerations. Yet the same theory is carried to ex treme in the American jury system, and everybody knows what the sys tem often produces. Congress would be far less effective if it were an aggregation of blanks than if it num bered among its members men who have actual, intimate knowledge of the effect proposed legislation would have on the country's industries. It would certainly not be pleasing to Oregon,, for example, if, because the state knowingly elected a wool-grower to Congress, the member should re frain from giving his views or regis tering his vote on the wool sched ule, nor would his constituents think more of him should he hasten to sac rifice his wool holdings if a tariff bill appeared in the offing. The trend of the anti-lobby agita tion is indeed headed toward a fan ciful goal. Conceive of a lawmaking power composed of members who possess no direct or Indirect personal interest in or practical knowledge of the country's industries; exclude from the capital all representatives of In dustry. The only logical method of further . procedure is for the law makers to gather Information under strict rules of evidence; protect the legislators from contact with outsiders by guarding them with bailiffs; ex clude newspapers from the delibera tive chambers and lock Congress up every night until It has completed Its labors. Withdrawal from Washington of so-called lobbyists who represent the public and civic Interests is not what the public desires. Yet some who are professedly of that type and con cerning whose sincerity there is no reasonable doubt have withdrawn be cause of the broad classification given and odium heaped upon the term "lobbyist." From a search for the "insidious" lobbyist the inquiry is de veloping into an obstacle to adequate hearings on subjects affecting the country's welfare. Members of either House ought to be immune from personal influence, either secret or unidentified. The Congressional hanger-on who will take up any cause for pay ought to be exposed by some form of public registration. But in these days of quick and ready trans mission of intelligence it is idle to think- of a Congress so cloistered that Importunities from Interested sec tions or industries will not reach it in some form or other. Personal lobbying that is open and above board, and confined to facts or arguments unem belllshed with entertainment or favors can hardly be condemned or pre vented. But we shall always have to rely on our legislators being in some measure free from susceptibility to lobbying devices which may as readily be launched from New York as from Washington. RAISING $190,000. Portland property owners and busi ness men have given proof of their confidence and optimism by subscrib ing J84.000 of the 1150,000 Commer cial Club fund, although the canvass khas been quietly conducted and only puruon or .me city s many produc tive resources has been touched. Undoubtedly the full amount will be subscribed, for it must be, if the de velopment of city and state are to be promoted through the intelligent stimulus of concerted community ac tloh and conservation. The Commercial Club has done re markable work in the past nine years through its publicity fund. It has furnished an immense advertising impetus for .Portland; it has been of incalculable service to Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Now it is proposed, for the benefit of Portland, Oregon and. the North west, to enlarge the activities of the Commercial Club's promotion organ ization, and to carry forward a sys tematic and comprehensive construc tive work. Portland cannot lag or nesitate In the effort to build a great city or in lta contribution to the wel fare and progress of a great common wealth. It must go forward. It will go forward. Therefore, the Commer cial Club's development fund is to be larger than ever, and it is to be ex pended under the direction of a con servative and representative commit tee. Portland has shown the world what advantages lie in the one-for-all-and-all-for-one spirit of a pushing, grow ing, enterprising city. Its people stand together. They know what things must be done for the common good, and how to do them. They will not fall now. UTERATTRIS AXD SCTBXCE. President Hadley says that the first genuine scientific instruction ever given at Yale was by his father, who taught ' Greek. - His method was to make his pupils analyze verbs, dissect the syntax of sentences and pursue the origins of words by rigorously scien tific processes. Of course this could be done, and we agree with President Hadley that it Is far better to get real scientific training from language study than to get false scientific training from physics and chemistry. But it does not seem as if that alternative Dught to be forced upon the public. There is no apparent reason why pu pils should not learn their science from the sciences, while from literature and the languages they get something very different. One may infer that Profes sor Hadley's Qreek students were trained in exact thought, and very likely some of them became expert philologists, but, after all, they must have missed the essential benefit that ought to flow from literature. They could not fix their minds upon the analysis of a verb and upon the beauty of an author's thought at the same time. Poetry and etymology cannot live side by side in a student's brain. Every language teacher has to. choose between two courses. He may be a scientist and conduct his pupils along the path of exact thought, or he may be a lover of literature and make them follow him through the flowery fields of poetry and imaginative prose. But we ought not to expect him to do both. Our high schools for tsje last dozen years have chosen the scientific aspect of language teaching. Even English literature has been analyzed, dissected, tortured. as Prnfnf oH. ley used to handle his Greek verbs. The result has been a confirmed hatred or good reading in the mind of many a schoolboy and college student. Now a change is coming. We learn from recent news reports that the ana lytical method of teaching, is to be . . . . i i o i c aracriiiig inm it Is better on the whole to cultivafe in the high school youth a taste for literature" and let him among books. The revolution is time ly, literature is not science, and it is irrational to try to cultivate the love of it by scientific methods. roil. THE LAND SHARK. In providing means for protection of newcomers from being victimised by land speculators, the Oregon As sociation of Bankers has taken a most commendable step for the gen eral good of the state. Advantage has been taken of the general promotion work of commercial bodies by un scrupulous, wildcat promoters to sell to settlers good land at exorbitant prices and 'bad land at the price of good land. - The good work done in attracting settlers Is thus undone by these speculators. Every settler who finds that the state makes good the statements which have induced him to come here becomes a booster, but every' one who falls a prey to the spec ulators' deception becomes a knocker. The good results of the work of our commercial clubs are thus nullified and become a boomerang to the state. Even were we not Inviting people to come to Oregon and help us to de velop the state with a view 'to the general good, the common obligations we owe to the stranger without our gates would prompt us to shield him, in his unfamiliarity with conditions, from the wiles of the unscrupulous. Much more should we do so when people are cominghere at our invita tion, and on the strength of our state ments as to what they will find and the opportunities which await them. Thousands of dollars are being spent in promoting settlement, but the land shark is grabbing for himself all the benefits of this expenditure. He is doing worse, for by his methods he is making this expenditure work to our injury. Every man deceived by a land shark becomes a malcontent . and sends to his old home warnings not to follow him; that the statements truthfully made by . development bodies are false, as they indeed are of the gold bricks the land shark has sold him. Hence the money spent on pro motion Is worse than wasted! It la well then that the bankers and commercial bodies of every com munity should combine to furnish to every newcomer accurate information as to the value and character of land that Is offered for sale. They should regard the speculator as the worst I . . enemy, not only of "the new settler, but of their own community and of the state at large, and they should dog his steps and foil his every sinis ter move. New settlers will soon learn to trust . the bankers and commercial clubs and will direct those who come after them to sare channels of infor mation. By that means the state will reap the benefit of. the work done to promote its development. PROFESSIONAL. HEART BREAKERS. Great is the havoc that the polished rascal is able to wreak " In feminine hearts and pocketbooks by his devi ous' wiles. That women fall into his snares is not surprising. The cunning rascal Is schooled in feminine -ways. He has learned the fine art of pleas ing. Selecting a victim, he has noth ing else to do except press his suit, for that is his sole and exclusive business. Polished, educated, . well-mannered and gentle of speech, he wins the love and confidence of some woman of means who has not been overwhelmed by admirers, especially by attractive admirers. Getting her love, he next gets her poeketbook, then passes on to new and greener fields. That this particular field of criminal endeavor is not more widely followed is due, no doubt, to the fact that only the most craven rascal would sink Into such de testable business.. The burglar is far too respectable and the average foot pad or thug wouldn't think of such a thing. That a creature of this sort should still have his feminine following after aetection and arrest is,due to no nor mal phase of human nature. It is the neurotic and erotic female that throws her morbid affections at the feet of the red-handed murderer in his death cell. It is the unbalanced woman who seeks to bask in mysterious roles as the friend of some imprisoned rascal, especially If the rascal chances to be an attractive individual from her point of view. THE BOOK AGENT AND HIS VICTIM. When book agents fall out, we learn how much their customers pay for the books and how much' for be ing Induced to buy them by the oily tongued agent. James Plunkett and William Y. C. Humes, of Chicago, en gaged in a lawsuit over division of partnership profits, called each other "liar" and "double liar" In court and in their wrath let out the secrets of their trade.' Humes admitted that he bought a set of Byron for $600 and sold it "for J6450 to Captain J. I. Hinckley, a re tired railroad official who desired to accumulate a library, but Humes took in part payment at 31200 a set of Byron which the captain already had. He .also threw in some un bound sheets of Shelley's "Prome theus" which had cost him $160. He sold to Miss Sue Denkman, of Rock Island, for J4000 a collection of Sir Walter Scott's works which he had bought for 3525, throwing In a copy of "The Passionate Pilgrims" which he charged to his firm at the padded price of 3100. . These two illustrations show what rich bibliomaniacs, who do not know books, really buy. To every dollar's worth of book, they buy nine dollars worth of smooth talk, affable man ners and stuff about rare editions, binding, paper and type. Hypnotized by the smooth agent, impressed by his deep knowledge of all the great editions of all the great authors, and flattered into a pliable mood, they swallow his bait, hook, sinker and all. They pay dearly, in dollars which have been toilsomely accumulated by somebody, for the salve to their van ity, but they get what they want and the book agent gets what he wants, so who should complain? If they did not fall victims to the book agent, they would probably buy bogus old masters or bogus antique furniture or bogus oriental rugs.' After all, it is better that . they should spend their money on such trash than on monkey dinners and even worse diversions. From this standpoint, the book agent with his exorbitant , profits serves a useful purpose. THE RIGHT TIME FOR ACTION. That rampantly ' radical Roosevelt sheet, the New York Mail, attempts to conceal its alarm at the Republican reorganization movement and at the disintegration of the Progressive party by intimating that the movement is a return to the crossroads at which the bolters left the party, preliminary to a new start along the Roosevelt road. This it calls a stern chase after the National Progressive party. It re proaches Senators Borah and Cum mins and ex-Governor Hadley for flinching when the choice came be tween submission and resenting what it calls fraud by bolting. As usual with Roosevelt adherents. the Mail misrepresents the position of. the progressives who refused to leave the Republican party. They made a valiant fight for their man, but when the decision went against them they submitted, with a bad grace, it is true, but they submitted. Colonel Roosevelt, from the very announcement . of his candidacy, was in the p'osition of a player in a game who demands that the rules be changed after the game has begun. He started by demanding election of delegates by direct primary after the National committee, in exer. else of its undoubted right, had an nounced the basis of representation and method of election In accordance with the existing rules. He asserted the right of an individual stare to elect all delegates at large, though the party rules and the convention call provided for election by districts. He assailed the Taft men for taking advantage of the excessive Southern representation, of which he himself had taken advan tage in 1904 and 1908. The Republicans held that, after the call for the convention had been is sued, it was too late on that occasion to adopt the direct primary in every state and to elect a whole state dele gation at large. They held that, after the delegates were elected, it wag too late to talk about changing the- num ber of Southern delegates for that oc casion. They also held that the eve of the convention was not the time to take away from the National commit tee power to pass oh contests, and that a convention lined up between two candidates was not in a position to de cide whether contested delegates should participate in the preliminary proceedings. A better simile than that of the crossroads is that of swapping horses. While the Republican party was cross ing the stream of 1912 it refused to swap horses that is,- change its rules. Now that the stream has been crossed. It is ready to consider the swap. It has learned the impossibility of calm Judgment on changes in the rules at a convention which is heated by nomina. tlons. We never hear of changes In baseball rules or football rules while the season is on. The governing, bod ies of those sports meet between sea sons to revise rules. Then the work can be done calmly and deliberately, uninfluenced by the effect on the for tunes of this or that team. The Republican party is preparing to follow the example of the ruling bodies of our favorite sports. The schism of 1912 impressed upon it the necessity of a change, and it proposes to make the change between seasons.. The men who supported the candidate defeated under the present rules and Who believe that candidate was the real choice of the party naturally take the lead in this movement. As men who remained loyal to the party un der circumstances which strained their loyalty to the utmost, their counsel should receive most respectful atten tion. Change In the basis of representa tion and in the manner of electing delegates cannot be regarded as a vic tory for either element in the party, for each in turn has taken advantage of existing inequities. This p.pplies to those who left the party last year as well as to those who remained stead fast. The quarrel has simply con vinced all concerned of the necessity of removing its cause. M AN ENGINEER'S FAITH. A man who describes himself as Ig norant "of philosophy, metaphysics and theology, old and new," gives an account of his religious opinions in the Yale Review for July. In spite of his frank confession he Is by no means an unread or a thoughtless person, as one sees from his article. He is, in fact, a civil engineer, and no doubt has en joyed the usual educational advantages of men in that calling. If he has im proved upon, his college course by re flection of his own, that is to his credit. His point of view Is strictly scientific. In other words, he believes that the entire universe is under the rule of cause and effect, without any excep tions whatever. This, of course, shuts out anything like miracles or inspired revelations from his theory of divine government. But it does not hinder his acceptance of a superhuman ruler, nor does it seem to impair his funda mental faith In Providence. "There are men of science today," he admits, "who regard religion as the child of Ignorance and superstition, the enemy and natural antagonist, past and pres ent, of science," and they see in the modern minister nothing better than a veneered medicine man surviving from savagery. There are others who take up the agnostic attitude. We cannot know anything about ultimate causes, and therefore it is useless to bother our heads speculating upon them. Finally, there Is a third class who keep their science and their religion in separate compartments and who allow neither of them to interfere with the other. But our civil engineer allies himself with none of these groups. He is a man of science and at the same time profoundly religious, and he experi ences no difficulty In making his faith and knowledge dwell together in per fect peace. To begin with, he reminds us that we possess the power to affect insentient matter by our wills. How this is done he does not undertake to explain. Any person can take hold of a stick of wbod and move It about. This is undeniable. Moreover, our wills at least seem to be free. We do not feel under constraint when we make our choices of action. There may be constraint of which we know nothing, but if there Is it makes no difference to us. We feel free and we act as if that feeling were valid, so we might as well assume that we are free. Our evangelistic engineer next ob serves that the slightest motion we make is propagated to the ends of the universe. Disturb a single atom, no matter how gently, and sooner or later the effect will arrive at the uttermost limits of space. Remember now that we can, as free agents, move objects about, and the conclusion is evident that each human being is constantly disturbing the entire universe by his will. He does not disturb it a great deal, but that is not the question. If he had a more powerful will,' he could stir up a greater commotion, and who knows but there are beings whose wills are as much more potent than ours as ours exceed the puny volitions of oysters? There are events happen, lng all the time with which we have nothing to do. We do not cause them and we cannot hinder them. Hurri canes, earthquakes and volcanoes are of that order. But since we know that some events roundabout us result from our volition, what is to hinder our be lieving that those which are outside our power are within the power of some other being? Is it not reasona ble to conclude that everything hap pening anywhere throughout the uni verse is the work of some will? This Is strictly in accord with analogy and is no doubt the most rational theory one can conceive. We must admit that will does some things. The inference lies very near that it does everything. But how account for the Invariable sequence of cause and effect? Our wills are vacillating. Sometimes they turn one way, sometimes another. We certainly cannot predicate any thing like eternal permanence to them. And if everything that happens Is done by an Almighty will, why do the same causes always produce the same ef fects? It would seem as if oxygen and hydrogen ought to make water to day and wine tomorrow. But no. Our feeble wills vacillate because our knowledge is limited. If we knew with absolute certainty the consequences of every volition, it would be as good as impossible for us to flutter from change to change. Why? Because there would be no motive for flutter ing. Perhaps our engineer here un consciously abandons his dogma of free will, but If he does, he Is no worse than most theologians. Sooner or later they contradict themselves, abandon their premises and leave their conclu. slons hanging in the-air. So let us boldly on. God does know every thing. The consequences of every vo lition are eternally before him. He has therefore no motive for vacilla tion, always wills the same thing in the same circumstances, and conse quently we see the invariable law of cause and effect in operation every where. This presupposes that if the Almighty had an adequate motive for vacillation, he would flutter the same as we do. In other words, his will is as absolutely determined as ours. What, Indeed, could freedom of the will mean except emancipation from the law of cause and effect? Granting that the Almighty has liberty which he never exercises, what better off is he than if he had none at all? ' But leaving aside discussions of that nature, it is interesting to contemplate the system of thought which this plain professional man has erected for himself. In a way which he finds per fectly satisfactory and with no worse slips of logic than the greatest phil osophers make, he has solved the fun damental problems of the world. And it is noteworthy that his solution Is the one toward which modern thought is tending. He assumes that matter is just as real as mind, but that It is sub ject to mind. It Is the stuff upon which mind operates and thus arrives at self-knowledge. Those who have read the book by Professor Fullerton, of Columbia, called "The World We Live In" will be entertained to ob serve how a professional thinker reaches the same goal to which our frank and simple-minded engineer proceeds directly. President Wilson will not have as easy a time In getting his currency bill through the House as he has had with the tariff bill. There is more divergence of opinion on that subject and, as the dog days come on, mem bers will become more restive and ir ritable and will be anxious to go home. The virus of the old silver and fiat money heresy is still 1n the veins of many and is likely to break out. But the President realizes that the pres ent no-system banking ana currency laws afford splendid facilities for those who may wish to discredit the Under wood tariff by provoking a panic or even depression in business. He is determined to disarm these men as far as possible and seems determined' to keep the nose of Congress o the grindstone until some such measure as the Owen-Glass bill is passed. He has shown that he can have his way and he may have it in this case, though the difficulties are greater than with the tariff. The thirteen superstition is in a bad way. There is a systematic campaign against it. Every person who per formed some important act on a day In which the number 13 figured, and who has been blessed with good for tune. Is proclaiming the fact with evi dent purpose to discredit the supersti tion. A Pittsfleld, Mass., policeman, who says he has had practically un broken happiness for many years, seems to have been tangled up with the magic number in every possible way. On June IS he celebrated with his wife the thirteenth anniversary of their marriage. They were married on Friday, the thirteenth, and the bride's birthday was January 13. Be fore her wedded life began the num ber in the street on which she lived in Ware was 13. The dreaded number injures only those who fear it. Unless the Progressive party makes a better showing than it has made in the recent party enrollment of voters in the Eastern states, there will not be enough of It to be worth consid eration when the Republican Darty re organizes. Hans Breitmann might wen ask: "Where is dot nartv now? In New York city, where it polled oi.uuu votes for Governor, the enroll ment is only about 2500. In Boston only 834 enrolled themselves, though 25,533 voted the Progressive ticket last Fall. In Rochester, N. Y., the total is only a little over 500. Where is the enthusiasm of those who made the Chicago Coliseum ring with "On ward. Christian Soldiers" and "We Want Teddy?" President Wilson's opposition to the new raiiroaa armtratlon bill is to be regretted. Surely the railroad of ficials and chiefs of the railroad unions are the best Judges of what machin ery is best for adiustment rr th.ir disputes and the small additional ex pense to trie Government Is a slight consideration by comparison with the great public benefits to be - conferred. The same law could be easily ex tended to settlement of industrial dis putes in general and becomes the means of almost eliminating strikes. Having retired from the Navy, Rear Admiral Osterhaus is now free to Join his father, General Peter J. Osterhaus. who in his ninety-first year is living in retirement at Duisburg, Germany. The General was a Prussian officer and lived In St. Louis when the Civil War broke out. He helped General Lyon save Missouri to the Union and rose to high rank in the Federal army. The two old fighters, one on sea, the other on land, can enjoy some inter esting discussions of warlike methods fifty years ago and now. The Gretna Greens of Massachu setts are gradually being closed. That state requires five days' notice of In tent to marry and impatient lovers have been going to adjoining states to wed. Rhode Island then required five days' notice and the elopers turned to Connecticut, but after August 1 the same law will be in effect in that state. Did Washington require like notice, Vancouver might lose its pop ularity among Oregon lovers. The names of Army and Navy offi cers who, like Lieutenant BUlingsley, sacrifice their lives in applying the art of aviation to their country's defense, should go on a special roll of honor. Unlike those aviators who lose their lives In attempting foolhardy feats, they perform a real service to their country and brave danger from mo tives of patriotic duty. By permitting anti-American dem onstrations President Huerta, of Mex ico, seems to be trying to coerce this country into recognizing his govern ment. Those may be safe tactics with our little American government, but some other kind of government might be coerced to intervene and fling the instigator of Madero's murder into the gulf. Massachusetts women want lower car steps to suit their narrow skirts. If the steps were lowered to fit the fashions, some other change of fashion would soon require further remodel ing of the cars. Why not make the fashions fit the cars? The carman who, after receiving hews that he has inherited a fortune, continues his work until he gets the money in his possession is the kind of man who will make good use of it. Such men. don't go off on "spending Jags." The Senate Committee goes the House one better in the effort to re duce the tariff without reducing the revenue. If the manipulation is con tinued much longer the income tax will become unnecessary. Is Aguinaldo scheming to be bought off by the United States as he was by the Spaniards? If so. we shall prob ably fool him, for he Is one of the people who don't stay bought. If that 20-ton meteor found by a California farmer should prove to be pure gold, every farmer might become a star-gazer on the lonknnt tnw en-sent fortunes. We take off our hats to Archdea con Stuck, who climbed to the highest point in American territory. He is two kinds of sky-pilot Scraps and Jingles By Leone C'a.ta llaer. There's only one nuisance worse than a man who keeps a woman watting, and that Is the man who seta ready first and sits around whining for her to hurry up. s s Article refers prettily to a new haby as a new wavelet on life's ocean. Hm-m I think a freth squall is per haps more apt. That philanthropist who promised his smnll daughter $50 for the Fourth o' July, provided she raised a similar amount Is carrying business methods a little too far. a a Anna Belle wants to know why it Is that tall women always marry short men. I dunno, unless its because short men can't run very fast. Prosperous cllmbrs or :.e luaaer err success Invariably say that it is made up of broken rungs. They do it SO that others won't try to crawl up too Many a man who has a reputation as a "quiet dresser" can be heard ten blocks howling over a lost collar but ton or a misplaced tie. "Rock of Gibraltar has 75 miles of tunnels," reads an article. Funny then that we never read "the happy couple have gone to Gibraltar on a honey tour." Woman in police court told the Judge she was on calling terms with her neighbor. Said she called the neighbor names, and the neighbor called her no lady. I know more about a certain woman than she does herself because I know she Isn't pretty and she doesn't. Woman writes to say she has written a little play she Intends for a curtain raiser, and asks for a title. Lets see. why not call it "The Shavings of the Barber." Lines on a Dead Horse. By a Veterinary Doctor. RIeid are Dobbin's muscles. Concealed cold his chyle. No more In hauling milk carts Will he excite his bile. Dry is his epidermis His veins no longer bleed. And the communis vermis t'pon old Dobbin feed. Drawn is his mouth and mournful T hat turned at touch of rein. Only a taxidermist "an make him stand again. Dried are his sweet corpuscles. Quiet his liver and head. Still In his epiglottis Yes 1 thlnlt old Dobbin's dead. s Funny, each time we read of Queen Victoria of Spain adding another heir, we all begin to count on our fingers, "Lets 6ee, she was married six years ago. One, two, three," etc. A bylaw in the English constitution forbids the entry of children under 8 years to lectures and museums. Un fortunately we have no such protection for our little ones. It must be an awful disappoint ment to parents' hearts to find their children getting too big to afford ex cuses for going to the circus. I heard of an artist who rubbed a bit of fresh meat around a rabbit in a painting and when the pet dog of his customer smelted of It she promptly bought the picture. Would you apeak of a man who sews on his own buttons as mending slowly? The 1913 girl prefers an heir in a castle to a castle In the air. I know a girl so proper and prim she won't accompany a man on the piano unless they're chaperoned. e I read so much about silent heroes. around Memorial time. Mv idea of silent heroes Is married men. No, Theodosia, Rome was not founded by Romeo. But Juliet was found dead by Romeo. e New line for geography The earth is divided by earthquakes. When folks ask you how on earth you can enjoy grand opera without knowing what it's all about, ask 'em if they can't enjoy meat pie without being acquainted with its ingredients. The Spankless Era By Dean Collins. A mother in an Eastern state. Spanking her s"n as sons require Knocked o'er a stove, so they relate. Starting a million-dollar fire. The moral plain must then remain r or spanking mothers everyone: "From spanking of tl'.y son refrain, Lest It may cause a costly tire. ' And here, within a local court. The judge Informs one George McCoy He must not hamper childish sport By cuffing a trespassing boy. The moral clear doth then appear. For everyone who reads to see; "You must not box the boyish ear Of him who robs your cherry tree." Hail to the bright millenial day Tliat comeB to baffle aged cranks. When boyhood shall be saved alway From fear of scoldings, cuffs and spanks. And gay and free as breezes be That blow wherever they may list. Live his young life filled full of glee. A glad, unhampered anarchist. L'ENVOI I see the dawning day arise Of happiness Tor sons of men. And in mv reminiscent mv-ak The tears from ancient spanking rise In this bright age when spanking dies. Oh, would I were a boy again. Starting: Iaitita In Conversation. Cincinnati Enquirer. "I ain't out. I beat the ball by a foot." "Lemme tell vuh what that kid UT mine done this morning." "Did the Reds lose again? "When I was abroad last Summer." "Fine weather, ain't it?" Lots of room up in tront. "That darn gas bill gets bigeer every month." "Pleased to meet you, Mr. Om blomph." "I ain't bragging about myself, but " "Will you have another?" One Viennf Wawtatnirton. Chicago Record-Herald. "When we were in Boston." said Mrs. Twickembury, "we visited the Public Garden and saw that splendid pedes trian statue of Washington on horse back." Beginning In Golf. London Punch. Sympathetic Voice (in the distance) How are you getting on. old man? Sanguine Beginner First rate. Just made three perfect putts on the last green. 4
