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Newspaper Page TextfllE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAN, PORTLAND. SEPTEMBER 21. 1913. 6 PORTLAND, OKEOOX. Entered at Portland. Oregon, postofflca second-class matter. tiubscrlption Kales Invariably In Advance Dally. Sunday Included, one year '?!!? Laily, Sunday included, alx montha . 1IK- SunilKv lm-ludetf. three months Daily, Sunday included, one monto. ..... Daily, without Sunday, one year Dally, without fruudayt six mouiai Daily, without Sunday, three months Dally, without Sunday, one month Weekly, one year i. .eo l.&U i&0 I-UI1U.J, ui afui Kiimlair mil ..Llv nn Va.r ..-. Pally, Sunday Included, one year 9'?6 laiiy, Sunuaj' inciuaeo, one monm ...... SI k,mi K.nri nnrntntticm mODflT or der. express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at aender'a risk. Give postofflce addreaa in full. Including county ana eiaia. t . - - - . n u ruiiei. 1 cent; to 82 panes, -2. cents; 34 to 48 pages, 8 cents SO to 6U pages. 4 centa; to .6 pages. cents: "S to 92 pases. cents. Foreign post ace, double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree Conic lin. New York, Brunswick building. -ni r, ,n rifrr hulldlna. ban ranrtsco Office R. J. BldweU Co, Enropntn Office No. 2 Regent street W., Loudon. niiilUM), SUNDAY. SEPT. si. it OX TUB GRASSHOPPER CIRCUIT. Mr. Rn-an'j latest answer to the critics of his Chautauqua divagations does not leave him In. a better posl- tion before the country- He complains of misrepresentation; but he does not take the trouble to say In what the misrepresentation consists except pos sibly as to his absences from his post of duty. He frankly says that he has made $6500 out of his lectures and we are to assume that he is well satis fled with the addition of so consider able a. sum to his $12,000 salary. Cabinet officer ought to be able to live fairly well on $18,500 a year. Other Cabinet officers have had to be content with less and have not com plained nor resorted to circus meth- ods to tret more money. The circus methods of Mr. Bryan axe apparent In the Chautauqua ad - vertisements. Here Is an extract from 'a Kansas paper, announcing various attractions for a local Chautauqua: New York City Marine Band. Avon Sketch Club. English Opera Quintet. Neopolitan Troubadours. William Jennings Brjan. Elliot A. Boyl. Sears the Taffy Man. I.orenso Bwlckey. Ed Amherst Oct. The Oregonian Is not informed as to the stunts performed by all these artists: but it is obvious that a vaude ville hue Is given to the happy family group thus appearing together on the grasshopper circuit. Mr. Bryan gets $230 a lecture. Moreover, under his contract, he takes the first $250 coming in. and the next $250 goes to the association, and the balance is evenly divided between Mr. Bryan and the association. "What hap pens if the first $250 should not mate rialize Is perhaps not worth inquiry. since the superior attraction of a See retary of State on the vaudeville stage always produces large financial re sults. But there is at least one Chau tauqua association in Oregon that has been brought to a realization of the fact that Mr. Bryan Insists upon the fulfillment of his contract to the last cent. He takes no chances. A Cabl net officer worrying along with only $12,000 a year regular salary cannot afford to take chances. If a Secretary of State Is worth $250 a performance what would a President be worth? EMANCIPATE AMERICAN SHIPS. For more than a year foreign-built ships engaged in foreign trade and owned by American citizens have been admissible to American register, but not one has taken advantage of that privilege. Subsidy-seekers are scof fing and others are asking the reason Some shipowners and seamen are of fering explanations. They show that it is idle to admit foreign-built ships to American register unless we set them free to operate as economically as foreign-owned ships. "We open the do'or to them, but pile obstructions in the entrance. They naturally look through the doorway and then turn aside. Robert Dollar tells of some of these obstructions in the San Francisco Dally Journal of Commerce. One is that American measurement of cargo steamers is 30 per cent larger than foreign. proportionately increasing payments for tonnage tax, dry-dock ing, pilotage, etc Another Is that American law requires larger crews. On this coast steamers must carry four quartermasters, while foreign vessels select from the crew men to do this work. In the engine-room one extra engineer and three water tenders are added, though they "do nothing but draw pay they do not earn," as Mr. Dollar expresses it. The new law adds an extra mate, and if the crew exceeds 50, a wireless plant and two wireless operators. These extra harm's, at the present scale of wages on the Pacific Coast, add $8220 a year to the cost of operating a steamer. American requirements as to boiler Inspection and life-saving equipment are more expensive. At the expiration of each year American vessels are re quired to stop for Inspection at the first American port at which they call, though they could save time .and money both to themselves and the Government by going to their homo port. Foreign Inspectors so arrange their work as not to interfere with a ship's loading or discharging, while American inspectors are not so con siderate. The consequence is that) while in 1805 the cost of operating an English ship was double that of op erating an American ship, the tables have now been turned. Mr. Dollar states that the daily cost of operating the British steamer M. S. Dollar, of 6600. tons. Is $100 Jl. while it costs $133.15 a day to operate the American steamer Grace Dollar, of only 2300 tons. Foreign ships could be deprived of much of their advantage over Ameri can ships were seamen relieved of the penalty of imprisonment for violation of a purely civil contract of service. If a sailor deserts, he may be im prisoned, though a landsman who quits his Job In violation of a con tract is subject only to civil suit. Had a sailor In an American port the same freedom, foreign ships plying to our j-orts would be compelled to pay American wages In order to secure crews. Our sailors would become free and our ships would escape one of the handicaps under which they labor. The rich nations of Europe are those "which carry the world's com merce and levy tribute on other na tions in the shape of freight money. Their ships also build up their own commerce. The abundance or scarc ity of ocean tonnage regulates the amount of this tribute and actually adjusts the price of the staple com modities they carry. The withdrawal from commerce of British ships for service in the Boer War raised freights on the Pacific Coast to such a point that the farmers received 25 cents a bushel less than the year before. Thus the farmers of the Pacific Northwest indirectly contributed over $4,000,000 to the expenses of the Boer War. We are dependent on foreign nations for means of marketing our products abroad and if England and Germany should engage in war, use of their ships as transports might send freight to famine figures and leave our farmers with surplus crops on their hands, because ships were not procurable. Hence the revival of the merchant marine is a question "which vitally concerns inhabitants of the Interior, and not merely those of the seaboard states. Subsidies have proved a costly fail ure in restoring the merchant ma rine. A discriminating duty on good carried in foreign ships will not ac compllsh our end. Enabling Amerl cans to buy, ships in the cheapest market is not sufficient, though it is a srood beginning: we must enable them to operate as cheaply as the for eigner. To do this we need but re move the existing restrictions and put our ships on the same footing as for elgn ships in all respects. INJURING EASTERN OREGOX. Pendleton Is a thriving and growing city located in the heart of a great producing district. The prosperity oi Pendleton arises from and depends largely upon the industry of the farm era and sheepmen of Umatilla County, Whatever is good for the farmers and sheepmen is good for Pendleton; what ever is bad for the farmers and sheep men is bad for Pendleton. The farms of Umatilla County yield annually from 4,000,000 to 6,000,000 bushels of grain; the ranches and ranges support hundreds of thousands of sheep and produce annually several million pounds of wool. Wheat and wool are the life of Pendleton and of Umatilla County. It is surprising therefore to discover the Pendleton East Oregonian ardently supporting Senator Chamberlain and Senator Lane in their strange position on wool and grain bags. Headstrong partisanship has seldom, gone farther. Like the Oregon Senators, the Pendle ton paper is far more solicitous for the success of the Democratic party than it is for the welfare of its own constituency. Devotion to a cause. however mistaken, could hardly go farther. Or is it mere stubborn and unreasoning partisan "prejudice and the payment of political- obligations? The Pendleton paper wonders why The Oregonian should condemn the Senators for their advocacy of a "Re publican principle" in retaining a tar iff on grain bags. "How," it asks, can The Oregonian with sincerity denounce Senator Chamberlain and the Democratic caucus for the slight lean Ing toward Republicanism?" The plea that if it is good enough for the Re publican party, it is good enough for Chamberlain and the Democratic cau cus hardly meets the case. Raw Jute, from which grain bags and wool bags are made, was on the free list in the Dingley and Payne- Aldrich bills. The Underwood bill has therefore contrived no new policy for raw Jute; but it has Imposed a ten per cent tariff on Jute bags. Senator Jones, a Republican, proposed to make grain bags free, and the whole Democratic caucus. Chamberlain and Lane Included, resisted on the extra ordinary ground that they desired to protect American industry. Yet there no such American Industry worth mentioning, or worth considering in lew of the paramount interest of the farmers and ranchers who buy and use the bags for grain, wool and pota toes. Senator Chamberlain and Senator Lane have put themselves in the inde fensible position of voting to remove the duty on wool, which duty would have benefited the Oregon producer, and to retain the duty on grain bags. which duty will be costly to the Ore gon producer. Let them wiggle out of their dilemma if they can. NEW YORK'S CHOICE OF EVILS. One can understand, though not ex cuse, the readiness of many people in New York State to condone the of fenses of Governor Sulzer when one is Informed of the methods of Tammany, which would prevail if a man of its choice became Governor. These meth ods are illustrated by Tammany's deal lngs with a contract for work on the new aqueduct from the Catskills to New York City. The lowest bidder was a Kentucky corporation, but actual awarding of the contract was likely to be indefl nitely postponed unless the .Kentucki ans "accelerated" proceedings. They did so, according to court testimony, by paying $30,000 to James E. Gaffney for "advice." Mr. Gaffney is the friend and partner of Charles F. Mur phy and is the same man whom the Tammany boss wished Governor Sulzer to intrust with the expenditure of $50,000,000 on state roads. If he had got the Job, there is no doubt the $50,- 000,000 would have been spent, but there Is grave doubt whether the state would have got good roads. The people of New York are driven to choose between a man who misap plied funds given him In trust by, his friends and who, when detected, tried to hide behind his wire s skirts, and a gang of men who use political power ystematically to rob the people and then use some of the plunder to per petuate their power. , The people are not safe in the hands of Mr. Sul zer, for he has proved lacking in In tegrity, and they may well feel that policy, not conscience, restrains him from robbing them. But they are sure that Tammany, If given power, would rob them. New York probably would fain dis card both Sulzer and Murphy as rul ers, but whom shall it put In their places? It imagines the choice to be between the known and the potentially dishonest and seems inclined to choose the latter. But is that necessary? urely there are other honest and ca pable men similar to Justice Hughes among its millions. It is not neces sary to sustain a Sulzer in order to defeat a Tammany. The chairman of the Democratic state committee of Massachusetts, one Riley, considers It his duty to save the party from the disastrous effects of the direct primary law by having the committee force candidates on the ticket. He says those who attempted to foist themselves upon the party by securing the necessary number of sig natures to their nomination papers must be shown the error of their ways. He does not seem to realize that the very purpose of the direct primary is to enable men to "foist themselves upon the party" in Just that way in disregard of the wishes of the party committee. He .is a survival from a bygone political era. He still Imag ines that the bosses know better what is good for the party than the party itself. The Progressive state commit tee is in much the same position, for it has assumed the right to select the candidates. The Republican party alone has not interfered with the right of any man who can secure the required number of signatures to have his name on the ballot. What has become of that rule of the people, of which we heard so much a year ago? Is the old, reactionary, corrupt, boss ridden Republican party to be its sole champion? CO-OPERATIVE KITCHENS. Co-operative housekeeping has had a curious history. While every openly-proclaimed effort to put it in prac tice has been a failure, it has never theless been making steady progress in ways that are scarcely noticeable. The co-operative kitchen from which so much was promised years ago in the height of the Bellamy fever, never has come up to expectations, but for all that the family kitchen with its dead ly stove, its smells and waste, has steadily given -way to the restaurant of the apartment-house and hotel.' Thousands of families now take two or three meals In a public place every week whose progenitors would have been shocked to think of such a per formance. It has become a widespread fashion to engage a table at some res taurant for Thanksgiving, Christmas and similar holiday occasions. Of course this is desirable from every point of view, since the family have better food to eat and the housewife Is relieved from the torment .of over work. In many cases the home kitch en has been abandoned altogether and the household takes all its meals at some public place. But this practice Is not commend able. Family discipline suffers at pub lic tables. Children become pert. Im proper food is devoured and too much of it. The elders lose their appetites. No matter how excellent the cookery may be there comes to most restaurant habitues a time when "everything tastes Just alike." A recent Invention may relieve this difficulty. In some of the ultra-modern flat buildings res taurants have been established which proceed on a plan quite novel. - The families living in the building obtain their food from the restaurant but it Is eaten in their private dining rooms. They send their orders down to the kitchen exactly as they would to their own cook, if they had one." They can choose such food as they like and have It cooked in any way they may select. When they are ready for it the dumb waiter delivers the various courses and the family consume them from their own dishes, using their own linen and cutlery. This seems to solve the problem of the co-operative kitch en as far as it admits of solution. PROPERTY TS. LIFE. A recent prosecution under the food and drugs act in New York raises a nice question in the ethics of Inflict ing penalties for law violations. In this case, or cases, a manufacturer of penny candles pleaded guilty to ten in dictments for adulterating candy with arsenic and shellac In one, and only one, of the ten cases was the element of underweight a factor. In that one the package misstated the net weight. Problem: Does or does not a manu facturer mitigate the offense of selling poisonous sweets by adopting short weight methods? There is a double law violation by the manufacturer and he is getting a higher price for his arsenic and shellac than he represents, but on the other hand he is in a measure protecting the venturesome consumer of penny goods. The small boy or girl gets less arsenic for a penny than If full weight were given, or the retailer poisons fewer children. The decision of the court on this phase of the case is most interest ing. Judgment was suspended in the nine cases where weight was not an Issue and a fine of $50 was imposed In the Instance where the delightful confection was sold short weight. Unfortunately, the reasoning of the legal mind is not available. The source of our information Is the bulle tin of the American Medical Associa tion, which boldly criticises the court for placing property at higher value than the life or health of little chil dren, but leaves us in doubt as to now the court was guided to its beneficent decision. But accepting the medical or hu manitarian view of the decision, are our courts, 4n placing rights of prop erty above human life, fallen behind public opinion materially? There Is now prospect that "adulteration" in fabrics may have to be labeled, but a child-labor brand or the prohibiting of interstate traffic in the products of child labor is still but a dim possibility of the distant future. MONEY I1t BURN UP. While we are occupied in removing or counteracting the causes of the re cent increase in the cost of living, we may well stop the leaks which, by waste have always swollen tne cost. In that manner we -may at least partly offset some of the causes mentioned before we have removed them. For example, we annually burn about $200,000,000 worth of property and we spend about $250,000,000 more in putting out the fires. This amounts to a tax of $2.51 per capita of our population. We pay more than this sum to lire insurance companies, in order that we may spread the tax evenly over a term of years and that we may not be required, to pay the tax for that whole term in the one year when fire leaves us homeless. If we were more careful with, oil and gasoline, with matches, cigar and cig arette stubs and other rubbish; if we paid more attention to fireproof build- incr or slow-burning materials; if we attended more closely to fire preven tion instead of to fire extinguishment, we might get off with an annual loss per capita of E4 cents, as in England; of 30 cents, as in Austria, or even of 0 cents, as in Germany. We might trace fires to the man who is primarily responsible, as In Germany. There a fire was traced to a violation of the law by the man who erected the building and he was com pelled to pay for the damage to ten ants property, also the cost of extin guishing the fire and In addition a fine of $500. Because the owner had not discovered and remedied the de fect in construction, he was required to repair the building at his own ex pense. Those who have a number of scat tered 'buildings throughout the city might begin by holding down the fire waste to its actual amount instead of expanding it by paying for insurance. which necessarily costs more than tne aggregate fire loss, or insurance com panies could not pay agents, expenses and dividends. For example, a cor poration owning 20 or 30 buildings in various naxtr at 4-h dlv; cnuld credit the amount it would pay for insurance to a self-insurance fund, kept care fully apart from its other funds, to be drawn upon only to repair damage caused by fire. The chance that all its buildings would be burned simul taneously is so remote that a large enough fund would accumulate to re place any one building which burned In fact the amount set aside might well be scaled down by the difference between the cost of insurance and the actual fire loss. As Multnomah County has many pieces of property at widely scattered places, the Commissioners might well consider this plan of self-insurance as a measure of economy. Then it would not be troubled by a quarrel among agents as to which should get its Insurance business. A SLANDER FROM IOWA. . A column of slander and falsehood about the Pacific Coast has been writ ten by James J. Mears, of Portland, to the Courier, published in Waterloo, la. It contains evidence that its au thor has been badly bitten on some land deal. Instead of profiting by his experience to be more careful in fu ture, he denounces the Pacific Coast, Its climate and its whole population In his eyes real estate men in general are swindlers, lawyers are loafers and parasites and women are drunkards and prostitutes. He says: The Paclfio Coast has existed largely the money buncoed out of Eastern tourists and today three cities vie with one another tor tno exclusive Drivueire or exmomns. Anything; to beat the other is their aim both in new buildings and olty improvement that are years in advance oi tne neea. The following paragraph illustrates the reckless mendacity of his state ments: Hewing out a patch of land from the rough, where grubbing alone costs on an average of 1125 an acre, plus the Irrigation cost of that much more, olus the cost of tn raw land which la usualfv sold on the pay ment plan covering usually five years, is something to think about, and in many cases it runs the values un to JIOOO acre, with the production of actual produce sngntiy, it any, more tnan uentrai xowa. This man should know that no land which needs irrigation costs $125 an acre to clear. The only timber on Irrigable land is in Central Oregon, where clearing and grading cost about $15 an acre and where the Juni per trees are useful for fuel and fence posts. He can buy good irrigated land there for $45. an acre on time pay ments, with a perpetual water right, for which he must pay 80 cents an acre a year. Men have bought such tracts on these terms and have sold out after a few years for a small for tune. But they were men who bought wisely, then worked and saved, not men who bought a gold brick and then cursed the whole population as a com munity of gold brick merchants. There is plenty of room lni Oregon for men who carefully select their farms and work intelligently on them Such men can and do acquire inde pendence. There is no room for such men as Mr. Mears. They would better go back to Waterloo or whatever oth er places they hail from. ADMXRAI, DEWEY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Admiral Dewey has followed the fashion so prevalent among the great men of our times and published his autobiography. The book relates in style not too grandiloquent the events of an interesting career. The fact that a man writes his autobiography shows that he appreciates the Importance of his deeds. When he succeeds in doing It without blowing the trumpet too vlo. lently he displays a degree of self-com mand that deserves as much admira tion as all the rest of his career. Ad miral Dewey has fairly won this greater prize. His book 13 as modest as Grant's. It seems that, like many another hero, he chose his career al most by accident. In the days when he was appointed to the Naval Acad emy at Annapolis, entrance both there and at West Point went by favor, and political favor at that. Any boy who happened to please the eye of a Con gressman or whose relations had votes to dispose of stood an excellent chance of obtaining a naval or military educa tion if he cared for it. To be sure, there were entrance examinations, but if a youth were unfortunate enough to fall in them, his intellectual deficien cies were easily cured by the influence of his powerful friends. Young Dewey really preferred to Join the Army, as he tells us, but, un fortunately, there was no vacancy at West Point when he reached the age of decision, while one was open at An napolls. So thither he went and thus became a Nelson instead of a Napo leon. In the Civil War he saw some distinguished service, though it Is not stated by historians that he played an unusually brilliant part In events When Farragut ran past the Missis sippi fort3 at the capture of New Or leans, Dewey was on board, and, like hundreds of other young and ambi tious officers, he doubtless did his duty loyally. He was also with the expedi tion against Fort Fisher at the mouth of Cape Fear River. So he was not without experience in naval warfare when the duty fell to him to command his country's fleet in the Pacific at the outbreak of the Spanish War. The OTder to destroy the Spanish fleet at Manila came to him from Sec retary Long in April, 1898, and he pro ceeded without hesitation to obey. The enterprise was not free from possible difficulties. His vessels were none too well supplied with ammunition and he knew perfectly well that Manila was a strongly fortified port guarded by what he must naturally have supposed to be a well-appointed fleet. He was warranted in expecting nothing short of a bitterly contested fight, with the chances against him. It is not easy, as a rule, in 'modern warfare for a fleet to capture a port and city without losing a ship or a man. Still, that is what Dewey did. He sailed into Ma nila on a moonlight night, expecting every instant to be fired upon from the forts. There was some ineffectual nre. but it. was insufficient even to annoy the advancing vessels. Why the Span lards missed this golden opportunity to cripple their foe seems Inexplicable at first, but when we remember the cen turies of training both their fleet and army had enjoyed in the arts of ineffi ciency and graft, the mystery is dis pelled. The Spanish nation has never been ready to do anything at the crit ical moment since the days of the Ar mada. The forces at Manila were sim ply putting into practice the education which superstition, indolence and van ity had been teaching them for at least 300 years. Dewey found the fleet a facile prey when he came up with it. His scant supply of ammunition made him cau tious about beginning fire. In order to husband his strength, he waited until he was within 5000 yards before giving the word to Captain Gridley, -of the Olympla. His vessels were so massed that every round told terribly upon the Spaniards, who made only the feeblest resistance. Their vessels were speedily riddled and disabled, but the envelop ing smoke prevented Dewey from no ticing their condition. Haunted by the fear lest his ammunition run short, he gave orders at about 7:30 in the morning to withdraw from the flght for a time, so that what was left might be redistributed among the ships. This operation permitted the smoke to clear away and Dewey at once perceived that the victory was won. He con fesses that he was surprised to find how easily he had gained it. It was then that his practical mind reverted to the subject of the men's breakfast. They had swallowed a little coffee at dawn, but nothing since except gun powder fumes, and no doubt the Ad miral's own sensations reminded him that they must be a little hollow. So he ordered breakfast served. From this humdrum incident the public mind, ever avid of romance, manufac tured the fable that Dewey stopped the naval action to give his men their breakfasts. His facile success at Manila made Dewey a National hero, though he sus pected nothing of his sudden glory until he returned home In 1899 and was received everywhere with shouts of triumph. The next most natural thing for Americans was, of course, to make him a Presidential candidate, Happily, the campaign of 1900 was not far off, and for some months the peo ple diverted themselves by discussing his prospects of entering the White House. What his Incipient candidacy might have grown into had events been favorable it is idle to try to guess. silly incident beclouded his glory when it was brightest, and, like many an other popular hero, Dewey awoke one morning to find himself overwhelmed in a storm of obloquy. Amid the tran. sient waves of newspaper fury his Presidential prospects were swept away, never to return. Whatever may be the case with baseball pitchers and Mr. Bryan, it is certain that most Pres idential candidates "never come back. That has certainly been true of Ad miral Dewey. Still, the subsidence o his renown has not really Impaired his usefulness. He has served his country as faithfully in peace as he did in the Spanish War, and, to cap his career, has now done us the favor of publish ing this readable autobiography. SIB OLIVER AND IMMORTALITY. Sir Oliver Lodge's presidential ad dress before the British Association for the Advancement of Science hardly came up to expectations as far as thrills were concerned. He had noth ing to say -about materialized spirits and very little about the trustworthi ness of messages from the other world The greater part of his address was consecrated to profound scientific speculations about the law of continu ity, the doctrine of free will, the limits of the scientific method, and so on, Bergson's pervasive influence can. be traced plainly enough in some of Sir Oliver's remarks. "I will risk the as sertion that life introduces something Incalculable and purposeful among the laws of physics," Is obviously borrowed from "Creative Evolution." vYe per ceive also the Influence of Bergson's doctrine of free will. Sir Oliver takes a firm stand against determinism, eco nomic or other, and declares as vigor, ously as Milton himself for the free dom, with all its perils and responsi bilities. His theme did not lead him to attempt any of the usual reconcili ations between man's free will and God's foreknowledge, and we dare 6ay his devout mind would have been scan dalized by the solution of the difficulty which Anatole France proposes in Penguin Island. When the Lord turned the penguins into human beings he did it with full foreknowledge of the consequences. can see them fighting, murdering and cheating," said the Creator, "but in order Xo leave their wills free I will pretend that I don't see." This is really the same as Milton's solution, though it is stated with the deplorable candor of a Frenchman, and the Purl- tan poet takes several thousand lines of blank verse to say it in. If life in troduces an incalculable element into the universe, it must be because the will is free. To turn the proposition around, freedom Is necessarily incal culable. The instant any being can foretell our conduct we cease to be free, for there must be some law bind ing us by virtue of which he can ob tain his foreknowledge. As long as Absalom is free to rebel or not to rebel against David, It is Impossible for any being in the unlverse-to predict what he will do. When once the prediction can be made the question has already been decided and he is no longer free. The lncalculability of life and the freedom that goes with It seem to be Inextricable parts of the evidence for Immortality. Sir Oliver expressed his firm faith in the continuance of life beyond the grave, but he clearly felt. without saying so explicitly, that un less we get rid of determinism in some way it Is of no use to argue for sur vival after death. By the theory of determinism all that we do and think Is fixed for us by our surroundings. As a mathematician would put it, we are functions of our environment. At death we cease to respond to the influ ences that have kept us going. The correspondence that we call life has broken once for all and the story ends, But' if it is possible to prove that life acts independently of its surroundings, the case wears another aspect. There Is an incalculable element which in no way depends on the world of matter. It chooses a course and follows it out exactly as If it were creating a new world where none had ever existed be fore. For a being who has this power we cannot predicate any such depend ence upon material world as we deduce from determinism. Since he now makes hU volitions independently of that world, he may very well continue" to make them when the last of his re lations with matter has been broken off. We see what a boon Bergson con ferred upon, the faith in immortality, therefore, when he argued so power fully for the "creative" element in life, the same element which Sir Oliver des ignates as "Incalculjfble." When we push the case to the final issue we per ceive that the hope of a future life and faith In the freedom of the will are Just about the same thing. Either we are fatally linked to the fortunes of matter or we can rise above them. But if we decide to believe in free will, we must not Insist too relentlessly i upon the doctrine of continuity. Per haps Sir Oliver slips a little at" this point. He wishes to prove that there is unbroken continuity everywhere in order to carry the living soul safely past the grave. Admit that the con tinuity of life can be interupted for the most minute fraction of a second and all Is lost. Who shall reunite the ends and set the current of conscious- ess running again? We cannot cease to live and begin anew. There must be no missing link in the chain. It Is better Jlgure to say that there can be no dry Interval in the running stream. How can a brook skip one poor inch of its course and still be a brook? So we cannot dispense with continuity. But, on the other hand, if life is creative, or incalculable, it must be, in a sense, discontinuous. If we can trace the causes of this moment in the contents of former moments, there Is no lncalculability. As long as causes are discoverable, everything can be computed. There is no creation where there is a cause, there are only conse quences. Hence, If life Is creative and the will is free, the law of continuity is broken at every act of pure volition. Something comes into existence for which there Is no cause and which is totally dissevered from everything that existed before. It seems almost as if a living being must perish before he could possibly perform an act of free will. What is it but to perish when a person completely severs himself from all that goes before? So we land In a sad dilemma. There. can do no immortality wunuui nee will, and again there can be none with out perfect continuity. But every act of the free will necessarily severs con tinuity. How shall we escape from the contradiction? It Is memory that saves us. By virtue of memory the past lives in us even when we break with it by performing "incalculable" acts. Hence the stream does not run dry. It only leaves a dry place at one side of its channel. The Agricultural Departmont has defined brandy as the alcoholic distil late obtained solely from the fer mented Juice of fruit, distilled "under such conditions that the characteristic bouquet, or volatile flavoring and aro matic principles, is retained in the dis tillate." In other words, different kinds of brandy cannot be made from the same barrel of crude spirits by the addition of various flavoring extracts and coloring matter. Brandy made by the latter method Is declared mis branded or adulterated unless the label Indicates Its true composition. If the Pure Food Bureau follows this line, it may yet give us a definition of whisky which will exclude all com pounds which are not whisky. Illinois, the banner Bull Moose state, has relapsed sadly. At the primaries for nomination of Judges in the fifth district, the highest number of Pro gressive votes polled was only 61 in Peoria, a city which last year cast 5678 votes for Colonel Roosevelt. If the vote should shrink at this pace gener ally, the Progressive party will soon be of no more consequence than the Pro hibition party. It has already proved to have been a spasm, not a party. What has happened to Colonel Wattcrson? He now describes Presi dent Wilson as a ."still, strong man in a blatant land." That hardly agrees with what he said of Mr. Wilson at the time when the Wilson-Harpers incident occupied the public attention. He usually gives us a discordant solo, but here he Is Joining In the chorus of praise. A Wisconsin couple on their honey moon were compelled to sleep in the town Jail of a small village because there were no hotel accommodations. A little incident of that sort only adds romance to the real honeymoon, how ever. Americans who rushed out of Mex ico in response to Presidential warn ing and who are thereby rendered penniless fall to see the charm of our grape-Juice diplomacy. London commentators suggest that the Democrats In the United States have adopted the Republican foreign policy. This Is a base slander on the Republican party. Counterfeits of the new nickel are not being circulated, say Treasury Department officials. Certainly not. No self-respecting counterfeiter would reproduce it. Mrs. Pankhurst's advance agent has landed In New York. We are sur prised that Mrs. Pankhurst would countenance such a Bring as an ad vance agent. Exports for a week at the million mark; bank clearings show a heavy gain over last week; but we grow weary of talking about our eternal prosperity. . Kansas City boys are to be taught nights how to raise vegetables. That Is the period when they have been wont to learn how to raise Cain. San Francisco promises to wipe out the "Barbary Coast" before the Pan ama Fair. Possibly wants to do away with strong counter attractions. In Italy a prisoner has been found innocent after thirty-eight years, in Jail. It usually takes us about that long to reach a verdict. Works of art are now. on the free list. The Democrats are Blmply de termined to lower the high cost of living at all hazards. With campaign time drawing on apace a tremendous interest In the welfare of the people will shortly assert itself. An American stripling bested En land's champion golfer. We should think the English would drop athletics in despair. Bryan's lectures netted him $6500, he says. What they cost the country is of no consequence, of course. Better fix up the storm cellars around the Capital. Mrs. Pankhurst will be there October 26. Skirts slit on both sides have been Introduced. Go ahead and slash them to ribbons. ' Women are carrying swagger sticks. Handy things for use on street-corner Johnnies. , One million bad eggs condemned at Kansas City. No place for barn stormers. So far we have heard of no boom for John Llnd for president of Mexico. Shaw's latest "production has been coolly received. It must be decent. No, Algernon, the Corn Club is not an association of chiropodists. This Is the season when the wood man feathers his nest. This perfect Fall weather has splen did staying qualities. The chrysanthemum will soon be the flower. Sun Tat Sen's sun has set. Another hop hop. Scraps and Jingles By Leone Cassj Baer. A lot of us didn't g"to the Roundup because we had to stay home and "square up." Ain't you tired of this tug-of-1haw. Everybody keeps a-hopln' Thaw or Dlggs or Caminetti will do something more. Hope springs eternal when news is scarce. Still talking of Harry, why do they call him a gilded foot when his law yers have proved ho's solid gold? And a headline had it "Thaw put Coatlcook on the map." Just as if the poor fellow hasn't had enough crimes laid at his duor. Suggested coat of arms for Bryan a double cross of dollars. Could you say that brides' of last month have August presents? Those California burglars who shot a wood and coal deafer will never be lynched by an infuriated mob. Dog-gone-tough-luck note Jack Johnson was only slightly hurt in a motor crush in London. " Says my friend Ella Speeler Pillbox "Womanly charm can be acquired." It surely can, Ella, Just look at the men In the chorus. Seattlelte, aged 93, was arrested for sowing a mess of wild oats. Doesn't Seattle love to boast? "At the'end of his Ufa In what condition Was Moses?" The teacher said. And the bright little boy With the freckled face Beplled: "Why, iloB was dead." Screams a headline, "September Morn Figures In Suit." Well, now I reckon the prudes will be satisfied. Automobile adage The more space the less heed. e e And the printer got it the nappy couple exchanged cows at the altar. Spinster, aged 48, is held as a burglar, says a headline. Well, If you've got to hold some one as a burglar why not pick on a spinster of 48? Testerday the office boy and I had a cool million between us. We helped a chilly old wealthy dame Into the elevator. See where Lillian Russell Is going to appear as a statue in a Parisian comedy. Sort of plaster of Paris cast, as It were. Motto for bank cashiers: When In doubt sail for Europe. If a murderess described as youthful, beautiful, fascinating, well gowned and talented was being sought, I know 69 women who would rush and own up to It. What do you think of the nerve of a minister who has married 900 couples and brags about it? Lady Constance Stewart-Richardson Is headed our way with two marvelous dances and 43 gowns of the diaphanous sort. It might create more Interest If she brought 43 dances and two diaphanous gowns. The slit skirt has done its little mite In helping restore the sight of streat corner beggars. Its a good Idea, nowadays, to have yourself tattooed pretty well all over so that if some one cuts you up and throws you In the river it will not be so hard for the police to identify you. Collegiate Ambitions By Dean Collins. Aloyslus had packed his grip to go Away to college, where the vital founts Of higher education freely flow And high ambition ever higher mounts. I grasped his hand and gazed Into his eye. "What Is your great ambition?" did-1 cry. "Will you attempt forenslo laurels, say?" .... Aloyslus responded bluntly: 'Nay! "Perhaps," I cried, "You'll woo the lyrlo muse. And dope out verses full of lofty fire. Until your friends exclaim: 'It beats the deuce How well Aloyslus strums upon the lyre!' Or will you seek the solemn haTls of Where high-brows mingle In the deep debate; Or seek In lifrature to make a hit? Aloyslus responded shortly "Nit!" "Then I opine your high ambitions turn To squares and angles and to cubes And sDhnres: All the fine dope of Euclid you will. learn. Till you are crammed with wisdom to thn ears. Or do you plan the highest grades to win In logic which they say is hard as sin? Or will you learn tne cnemicais to mix?'" Aloyslus responded tersely: "Nix!" What then, when unto Wisdom's hall you come Do you intend to do? How win your fame? For all men have ambitions. You have some! Aloyslus, divulge to me your game!" Aloyslus smiled a calm, cool smile at me. And to my ear, his lips inclined he; Aloyslus spake; Aloysius spake witn crust "I'll make the team as quarterback, or bust'.'" TtaoughtfulnCBs ol am Uncle. Boston Transcript. Ol Tftevliv Ik rirli and stinRy. 1" the event of his death his nephew will Inherit his property. A friena oi ins famllv said to the old gentleman: I hear your nephew is going to marry. On that occasion you ouuht to do some thing to make him happy " " said Peterby: "I'll prutend that 1 am dangerously 111." Two UM Friends Confer. Houston (Tex.) Post. 'It Is vulgar to dress so as to attract attention on the street. isn.i it; i saw miss Knobby going down the street yesterday in a gown which caused every man slie passed to turn and look at her." "Sure enough! I wonder who is her dressmaker." "I asked her. but she wouldn t tell me. Fitting a Woman's Feet. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Fussy Patron "Why. mercy, this shoe Is a 6!" The Tired Clerk "Par don me, madam, you have It upside down. It is really a 9 child's size. What a perfect fit!"