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16 .'S TITLE IS FINALLY SETTLED Nt) Longer Will Deposed Ruler . Be Known as King at VJL-. Royal Functions. POLITICIANS ARE WORRIED Possibility ot Winston Churchill Ite. turning to Old Love, Conseira- ttsm, Leads to Speculation. 2 Cither's Experience Recalled. (Correspondence of Associated Press. LONDON. Jan. 17. Another little dif ference between Buckingham Palace, over which Queen Mary presides, and Marlborough House, of which Queen Mother Alexandra Is mistress, has aris en, this time over the titles by which the deposed King Manuel ot Portugal and his bride are to be known officially. When the exiled King and his bride were entertained by the Queen Mother, recently, the Court Circular, issued from Marlborough House, described them as 'King Manuel and Queen-Augusta Vic toria." This was interpreted as a sign that King Qeorge had officially sanctioned this description of tje royal couple and the press, following as It invariably does the fashion set by royalty, pub lished It as a. fact. An official denial was quickly forthcoming and it was announced that King George had de cided that the ex-King and "his wife were to be known and referred to only as Dom Manuel and Dona Augusta Vic toria. , As the King's decision Is bind ing on all the members of his family, including his mother. It Is probable that any future references In the Court Cir cular, even those emanating from Marl borough House, thus will refer to the young couple. In circles that side with the Queen Mother in her little differences with Queen Mary, It Is said that the King's decision was dictated by Queen Mary, who thus emphasizes that she, and not Queen Alexandra, is now the arbiter In matters of this kind. Politicians Now Speculate. Politicians of all parties are serious ly discussing the possibility of Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, roturnlns to his original belief. Con servatism. Mr. Churchill comes from one of the old-line Tory families, and until the Unionists at the behest of Joseph Chamberlain adopted the policy of tar iff reform, or modified protection, he remained true to the family traditions. On tariff reform, however, he found himself out of sympathy with his party and left It for the Liberal side, which rewarded him with a Cabinet position when tho party came into power In 1803. For a long time Mr. Churchill worked hard and' assiduously for Liberalism, and was the most intimate political friend of Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the exchequer. This friendship cooled wh"en Mr. George delivered one of his attacks against the Duke of Marlborough. Mr. Churchill's cousin, and landlords In general. Mr. Churchill then took, up with his political enemies Frederick E. Smith and Austen Chamberlain, with whom he is often seen, and became an even more frequent guest at Blenheim Castle, the home of the Duke of Marlborough, and at the houses of the Duke of West minster, who, although not In politics Is an uncompromising Conservative. Churchill Made Target This might have been all right, even after the Conservatives started writing to the papers complaining of their leaders entertaining . at their homes political opponents and "turncoats," but all at once Mr. Churchill found himself the target of attacks from his own party. This was largely started by the "lit tle navy" wing of the Radical group In the House of Commons, but it has been spreading considerably and the Daily Chronicle, edited by Robert Donald, who wrote flatteringly of Mr. Churchill some years ago, tells the First Lord ot the Admiralty that "the Liberal party will not accept Its policy of home rule from him." This arose over Mr. Churchill's speech proposing federal ism as a settlement of the Ulster Question. As It .might be impossible for Mr. Churchill to go back to the Conserva tive party, after the attacks members of that party have made on him. It is suggested that he Is watching his op portunity to try his own strength against that of the Cabinet. His father, J.ord Randolph Churchill, did this, to !ifs own undoing. Whatever his future, it is certain to have at least some in teresting passages. QUEEN MARY BARS CARDS More Thau 100 AVlthdraw Xames Prom Club of Women. LONDON, Jan. 17. (Special.) An attractive and novel scheme that was recently started in the shape of a club for women members (past and pres ent) ot tho various royal households In Hngland has fallen through. It was essential, of course, for Its success that the club should have the countenance of Queen Mary. Her Maj esty readily enough promised to lend It her support, but stipulated that the dub should have no cardroom. When this condition was made known to the 3 30 women who had originally prom ised to Join, nvpre than 100 withdrew their names. King George's efforts In club making luckily have met with a better fate. Kor instance, when his Majesty paid lils first visit to Sandrlngham after his accession he remarked in reply to his tenants' greeting: "I hope you will al ways regard me not only as your land lord but as your best friend." Since then the residents and workmen en gaged on the Sandringham estate have had their comforts greatly Increased as a result of the King's personal atten tion to their Interests. Today, for ex ample, the announcement Is made that his Majesty has provided them with a new club at the village of Babbingley. FUTURIST INVENTS RECIPE Vienna Master's Latest Find Must Ue Served Hot, VIENNA, Jan. IT. .(Special.) In most European cities today can be found the futurist chef who believes the ordinary "cuisine" Is monotonous end without surprises, and has Invented a. number of new Tecipes which are to bear the same relation to ordinary cooking as tho futurist's canvas to academic art. The Vienna master's latest recipe, which he considers his masterpiece so lar. follows: Take a slice of beef and soak It In rum and set on fire, cook to your taste, then sprinkle with salt mackerel finely grated, surround with sooseberry jelly and eery hot. MANUEL KINGS COME AND GO IN MONARCHICAL COUNTEIES, POLITICIANS WAVER AND LEAD IN WORLD'S MOVEMENTS, AND LABOR INDUSTRIAL QUESTIONS OF TODAY. ! i - - " .r'f t J ' 'r.A - t' J X , Si - L- 4 'Ex $k W;t-:: . ' .'O I A &?-S?reS Blindness to Worth Is Cited as Cause of Criticism. CHANGED ATTITUDE URGED Ella Hepworth Dixon Argues That Hatred Is Not Natural Thing, but Is Merely Product of Tenta ' tlve Civilization. LONDON. Jan. VI. (Special.) It is an open secret that tho "new woman" is in the pillory of public opinion in England and In most of the. principal countries of Europe. The militant Buffragettes, of course, claim that this is the result of their own pestilential activities, but the thoughtful, publicists, who hold no par ticular brief for any cause of "Votes for Women," assert that the whole Question has emerged irresistibly from the upward pressure of education, from the crowding of gins Into business and Into professions, and from woman's own physiological claims. And every where one detects an undertone of panic in London in the minds of min isters and priests anxious about the sanctity of marriage; in the outlook of masters and mistresses of schools, bewildered as to the right truths to teach; and In the plans of controllers of huge stores where both sexes are employed, and where bitter sex an tagonism has recently developed. Militants Are Attacked. The other day Mrs. Uoyd-George, the wife of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, berated the militants soundly under the text of "Bex Moral ity." Again, in a new book, entitled "The Unexpurgated Case Against Wo man Suffrage," Sir Aim roth Wright, the eminent physician, has delivered another attack upon the suffragettes. ana ne declares for the whole incom petence of women for political power upon physical, moral and Intellectual grounds. Practically gpealtiflg, he de nies to women any sense of public morality, because they will brush aside those to whom their emotions are en gaged, and they think no shame of de tected falsehood in public debate. Sir Almroth Wright also Identifies the suffragist army with "all the un grateful women," the thankless and disappointed wives, the spinsters in a state of retarded development, and those who want to have everything for nothing. Practically every man feels, he says, that there Is in woman an element of unreason which, when encountered, "summarily puts an end to purely Intellectual intercourse." Most critics are agreed that the so lution will not be found In any asser tion of the old principle,. "Man, the mas ter." or the new, "Man, the slave," but rather In "sex friendliness," for which Ella Hepworth Dixon has just raised her voice. Miss Dixon Is among the optimists on the question of sex hatred, holding that this hatred is an artificial and not a natural thing, and merely the product of a tentative civilization. "Old-Time Girl Bores." Miss Dixon adds: "I fancy the rather rare, "nice, old fashioned girl' bores the nervous, com plex young man of today (especially if she Is bis wife) more than he would care to admit. "Sex blindness infallibly leads to sex hatred, and so we can forgive a little exasperation in man with the limited kind of woman which be, or his fore bears, created. "As foe the . present - resentment - of NEW WOMAN SCORED mzHsmm LARKIN MAN OF IBON W , .-J THE SUNDAY OKEGONTAN, PORTLTSXD, JANUARY 18, 1914. -7- '3i 1 r" ' I I Jf''i " k ' "J I ! , ... vv, Xi;-: . Iff r 1 S&'cr ASsye? women. It is no more than a symptom of her wish "for a place in the sun.' Now that man has educated her and opened her eyes, she is inclined to criticise a social system which gives all the honors, the power, the place. the money,, the titles and ribands, the glory and the fame to one-half the human race. "This fear of extinction has made of woman, when she is ambitious, a stealthy, predatory creature, achieving her ends In the way which man has taught her. But to achieve her ends in this way she had to acquire the vices of a slave. And the modern thinking woman does not propose to continue this line of advance. She wants a fair field and no favor." ULTRA-WHITE RACE DUE Scientists Forecast Man With Greatly Different Stiu. PARIS, Jan. 17. (Special.) The race of supermen which may eventually re place present day humanity on our planet, according to some prophets, will have a skin greatly different from that of the man of today. Professor Daniel Berthelot, the emi nent French specialist, declares that the skin of the human race has under gone great changes since our primitive ancestors. He finds notably that while the whitest of modern skins reflect al most all the colors of the spectrum, the skin of the more primitive races ab sorb the colors of higher and finer vibrations and only reflect the strong er colors at the spectrum's lower end. For instance, the skins of the primitive negro races reflected practically no colors at all. The red-skinned races reflected only the reds at the lower end of the spectrum and the so-called yellow races only as far as the yellows in its center. The white skins of the races of today are able to reflect not only the blues, but also the violets at the top of the visible spectrum, al though the strength ajid clearness of the reflection varies with each indi vidual skin. But no skin has been found so far capable of reflecting the ultra-violet rays, which, although present in almost all light, vibrate at a rate too high to be visible by the human eye. It is therefore believed that the past evolu tion of the human skin foreshadows the existence in the distant future of an ultra-white race, which, in addition to its other capacities, will have a skin capable of reflecting the Invisible ultra-violet rays. BRITISH ACTOR IS SCORED Norman McKinnell Heads 25 0 0 Plays in Two Years. LONDON, Jan. 17. ( Special. )-Xpiay-wrlghts in the United States and else where will learn without much grief that the eminent British actor Nor man McKinnell is being taken to task for his account of the way in which ne aiscnargea nis responsibilities as reader for Miss Lena Ashwell. He has stated that within the period of two years as many as 2600 manuscripts were submitted to him at Kingsway Theater, and that not more than one half per cent could be reckoned as even possible. The question is now asked how on earth did he manage to know that in the time? The argument is that he could not have given them proper at tention. Of course, his explanation will be a simple one. Everyone who has examined the work of would-be dramatists is aware that a few mo ments' consideration will place a large percentage of ordinary submission out of court at once. Sir Herbert Tree, for example, tells the story of a play the first act of which was said to begin "One Christ mas Eve, B. C 600." That is the sort of lapse that settles problems quite easily. Danger of Meditation. Atchison Olobe. It's a disease to meditate too much. - II " VA?CS Dublin Labor Leader, How ever, Not Eloquent. SHOWING IN COURT POOR Irishman. Jailed for Use of Sedi tions Language, Hasn't Fluent Tongue Nor Quick-Witted Au dacity of a Ben Tlllett. DUBLIN. Jan. 17. (Special.) Jim Larkln, head of the Dublin labor lead ers, is not an eloquent man, or he would have made a better show in court when he was sent to Jail for the use of seditious language. He hasn t the fluent tongue of a Ben Tlllett, for Instance, nor Tlllett's quick witted audacity, but he Is commander- in-chief of the insurrectionary forces in the coming revolution of labor forces in Ireland. Of course, you have heard of the rev olution that is coming. If there is a man of blood and iron in the revolu tionary army in Great Britain it is "Jim Liarkin. Larkln, by the way, sees no place In tho fighting line for statesmen like Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snow den. He says quite frankly that Mac Donald, ought to have remained a school-master. Robert Blatchford, the Socialist, playwright, author and ed itor, too, has disappointed him. But his most biting sarcasm is left for those red-tied, soft-hatted theorists who help on the revolution by playing draughts In an Independent Labor Party or X Y Z club over a cup of cocoa and a bun. WILL FIGHT RECALLED DEATH OF ERNEST O. TIIELI.TJSSOX BRINGS Tjy FAMOUS CONTEST. Htntorle Document Provided Valued Property Wna Not to Be Distrib uted for Five Generation. LIVERPOOL. Jan. 17. (Special.). The recent death of the Rev. Ernst Charles Thellusson recalls what was probably the most famous will contest ever heard, by an English court. Thel lusson was the descendant of Peter Thellusson, who died at the end of the 18th century, leaving a will which pro vided that the residue of his estate should not be distributed, for five gen erations. The provision was contested in the courts and while a decision was given that the will was legal under the existing law, the action led to the pas sage of tho act popularly known as the "Thellusson Law," which limits the pe riod of accumulation of the residue of estates. Peter Thellusson was an English merchant, who directed that the in come of his property, consisting of real estate of the annual valuation of $26, 000 and personal property valued at over $3,000,000, should be accumulated during the lives of his children, grand children and great grandchildren. At the time of his death in 1797 such dis position of property was not forbidden by law, but the contest which was en tered directed public attention so forc ibly to the matter than an act was passed by Parliament foruiddlng such disposition of property in the future. It was estimated that If the property accumulated as directed by the testator It would be worth (70,000,000 at the time of final distribution. At that time i j AAs4t'?2; I a quarrel arose as to who were the heirs of the estate, and before the liti gation was settled In favor of Lord Rendlesham and Charles Augustus Sa bine Thellusson, the costs had reduced the estate to about its original valua tion, but the lawyers waxed fat during the prolonged and involved suits neces sary to eliminate all but two claimants. BLACKMAILIS RIFE NOW Smart Set 'of Imnnon Town Suffer From Money Mania of Others. LONDON, Jan. 17. (Special.) Black mail Just now is particularly rife among the smart set in England, and the blackmailer Is not always , a serv ant. Frequently It Is a man or woman who moves freely among the most aris tocratic families but is hard up and must get money, even by the most foul means. It Is rampant everywhere in towns and villages alike. There is hardly a prominent person who at one time or another has not been attacked by these people, but it is only occasionally that the public learns of what Is happen ing. As a rule, although a- person may be Innocent of the Insinuations made against him, he shrinks from the pub licity of criminal proceedings. Black mailers work on this fact and with Im punity threaten to expose the youthful Indiscretions of politicians, prominent society and business men and local of ficers unless payment is made. Even the fact that men occupying social po sitions of some Importance began life in humble circumstances has been used as a lever for extorting money, and at this time of year blackmailers make what they consider a fine thing out of "seaside episodes." A wife, for instance, spending her holiday by herself has been seen in the company of a man more often than perhaps was wise. That is seized upon and she pays and pays rather than that what was nothing more than an indis cretion should come to the knowledge of her husband. DISEASE AFFECTS BRAINS Medical Expert Says Stevenson MHght Have Done Better Work. LONDON. Jan. 17. (Special.) A startling assertion about the physical ailments of authors was made the other day in London, In a lecture on eugenics by the great medical expert. Sir James Barr. He contended that Robert Louis Stevenson would have written better if he had not suffered from consumption, but- the truth of this statement that the best bodies necessarily shelter the best minds is now hotly contested. For Instance, one of the best publish. ers in London says that one of the most promising of the younger English nov elists often suffers 12 hours at a time from neuritis before he consents to take the soothing drugs necessary to enable him to resume work. "This is only a modern Instance of what has been common to all literary history," he said. "It seems as If high literary talent usually goes wltfc, or is impeded by some physical disorder. Whether it is the character of the work that Induces it or not. too. authors, who have no physical complaint, often com plicate themselves by some moral dis order. Their genius works in odd mo ments, and the rest of the time they are either ruining their own health or suffering from, an Illness oongential to them." LEADERS PUT NEW PHASE II BARBIE !S AFFABLE Sir James and Marie Corelli "Good Friends." BUT FISHING ONE HOBBY English Writer "Who Has Been Al most Woman Hater Since His Dl vorce Not So Shy as He Once Was Coming to America. LONDON, Jan. .17. (Special.) When Sir James Barria had seen "The Adored One" produced in London, he retreated to his Scottish home, Kllliecrankle cot tage, which nestles amid somber hills in Perthshire. This cottage, only recently rented by Barrle. is the basis of much amuse ment in literary circles. It formerly belonged to Marie Corelli, of whose work Barrle cannot be said to be an admirer. They had reason to exchange correspondence over certain matters connected with the cottage, which re sulted in a personal meeting in town. His friends say the shy dramatist. who has been almost a woman hater since his divorce, has shown himself most affable toward the fair Marie, who has expressed sentiments of admiration for Barrle which are not in accordance with her usual scorn for all things masculine. This rather Incongruous literary friendship excites much in terest, but it still leaves Barrle with one ambition unfinished. He wants to catch a tarpon. Fishing is his one hobby, unless you call writing plays a hobby as well as a habit, and his holidays in the far north are usually passed with rod and line. But he has never caught what is known in Florida as the "big game Ash," and so he -is going to visit friends In America in hope of finding sport. Barrle now has a new neighbor in London. John Galsworthy, whose play, "The Fugitive," is drawing crowded houses at the Prince of Wales' Theater and who has Just removed from suburban Addison road to Adelphl Ter race. He now occupies a flat in the same building as Barrle. Across the road is Bernard Shaw. Thus within the space of 60 yards in the center of London's busiest streets and looking across some gardens onto the river Thames live three of England's most representative dramatists, each of them producing work that appeals to a spe cial and highly differentiated audience. Arnold Bennett prefers to live in the quiet regions of Thorpe-le-Soken. and Stanley Houghton has fled to Venice In order to escape the distractions of Lon don. Houghton, by the way, is now writing a novel, thus reversing the usual process of novelist-dramatist. Hypocrites of a Kind. Atchison Globe. If you must be a hypocrite, try to be tb agreeable kind. ONDQN RIDICULES MICROBE MANIA Noted Explorer Says Many People Injure Themselves Needlessly. FRENCH DECLINE SEEN Eminent Spanish Economist Says During 1911 All States of Europe Except Republic Increased in Population Greatly. . (Cor. of American Press.) PARIS. Jan. 17. The microbe mania has driven many people to injure them selves in refusing to drink ordinary water, according to Henry Savage Lan dor. The explorer declares that water even from sources considered impure is often harmless, and cites instances when, he has drunk from polluted streams, "When, you, boil water you devitalize it," he explained in a recent discussion of drinking water. "I have been drink ing from streams and ponds in the tropics and all over the world for 25 years, and I am convinced that people are wrong in believing that there is any danger in water that is dirty or that may actually have disease germs In It. "I remember a five weeks' trip I took wUh one of the American expeditionary cofurnns in the Philippines. The doc tors laid down absolute rules tliat no soldier should drink water until It had been boiled or take a bath In any river N or lake because cholera was about. Lliidor "Scandnl of Party." The pack animals were loaded down with cans In which to boil tije water, and during all that expedition I lo not believe a single soldier or officer drank water that had not been boiled, or ven tured to bathe In any of tho creeks or ponds that we ran across. I was the scandal of the party because I Insisted upon drinking from the streams and Lakes and refused to drink the boiled water. I wa3 the only man in the ex pedition who returned in a lit con dition." Landor added that when he found tainted water he simply took less of it than he did of the pure. Contrary to the nre-ailin view. Mr. Landor's experience is that In dolnjr without food one does not caro much for water. He and two native servants were without food 16 days durinfr his exploration of remote parts of Brazil. He had plenty of water during this starvation period," said he. "but we took very little because we did not want it. With extreme hunger went also the desire for water." Populations Show Increase. Eduardo Navarro Salvador, the emi nent Spanish economist, who has stud ied the statistics of the populations of Europe, concludes that during 1911 all the states of Europe except France ln areascd in population at the rate of from 67 to 18S per ten thousand. The number of deaths over births In France during this period was nine per thou sand. Next to France at the bottom of the list comes Ireland, with an increase of only 67, Spain with 81, Switzerland 84, Belgium 85, Austria 95 and England, without Scotland, 98. The Increase in Scotland was 105 per ten thousand. The six countries at the top of the list are Bulgaria, Roumania, Russia, Portugal, Servla and Bosnia. Germany takes 11th place, with an increase of 113 per ten thousand. TAPPING REVEALS SECRETS Paris Grain Broker Said to Have Paid Telephone Girls High Prices. PARIS. Jan. 17 (Special.) A grain broker here is suspected of bribing telephone girls to let him hear private business communications of Important firms In the same line of business. Ho protests his Innocence, though he con fesses to certain slight Irregularities by which he managed to get communi cation of the state of the grain market sooner than his rivals. He energetically denies the principal charge brought against him that of having branch telephone lines from the offices of the leading grain brokers led to his office so that he could tap the wires and anticipate movements in prices and sales. Several of the girl telephonists In volved have been suspended, and !f they are proved guilty It must be ad mitted that the temptation put in their way was extremely difficult to resist. It is said that the broker paid as much as $120 a month to several of them, and that he gave others of them dresses and hats of the latest fashion. For this they are alleged to have kept him informed when the houses whose affairs be wished to know spoke over the telephone. - STATUE 0FHUG0 DONATED French Government's Gift to Be Erected on Isle of Guernsey. LONDON, Jan. 17. (Special) Ar rangements have been made for the erection in Guernsey of a statue of Victor Hugo, who spent 14 yearB on the island, in which many of his works were written. It Is expected that the statue will be unveiled in June by President Poincare. It will be the gift of the French Government. Guernsey was considered the most fitting place for the memorial, owing to the author's close association with the island. The statue, which is being executed by M. Jean Boucher, will cost the French gov ernment $6000. It was In 1852 that Victor Hugo, together with other French Republi cans, fled to Jersey, from which island he was, however, banished three years later as a punishment for the publica tion of a letter reflecting on Queen Victoria. 20-MINUTE DRESS RECORD For Bet, Six Girls Finish Fashion able Costume In Short Time. PARIS, Jan. 17. (Special.) For a bet, six midinettes (milliner's girls) be longing to a famous Paris dressmaking establishment, have cut out and made a fashionable dress during a Journey of 20 minutes in a subway train. The dress was of pink chiffon, and. designed in the latest style, with, draped tunlo and lavish ornamentation. The designs were only submitted to the midinettes as they got into the train on the Metropolitan Railroad at the Porte d'Orleans depot. Seats had been re served for their use. and as soon as the train began to move the six girls fell to work. Tt.lfTT-.if thrniivl, . law i a final stitch was put In. 6