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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND. JUNE 21, 1914, PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland, Oregon, r-oetofrlc Second-class matter. - . eubscriptios Bates Invariably to Avsoe; (BT HAIL,) Dally. Sunday Included, om year Daily. Sunday Included, alx months ..... Daily, Sunday Included, three montna ... Daliy, Sunday Included, one month ..... -" Dally, without Sunday, one year ....... J-JJ? Daily, without Sunday, s montna TZt Daily, without Sunday, tnree montna V... Dally, wltnout Sunday, ose month -Jr Weekly, one year a-ry Bunday. one year ,u fcunday and Weekly, one year tBY. CABKIKR) Daily, Sunday Included, one year ?! Daily, Sunday included, one montn How to Uemlt, Send postoftic money or der, express order or perional check on your local bank. Stampa, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Give poatoffica address la xtui. Including county and atata. Postage Kate 12 to Is pases. 1 cent; " te t2 pases, 2 centa; 34 to i pases, 8 cents, M to u pages, e centa; 61 to ,De . centa; 78 to 82 page, o centa. For elan post al e. double rate. tan era Business Olflcea Verree Conk lln. New York. Brunswick building- cnt cago, Steger building. ban Iraucbee Olfice 8. J. Bldwell Co. T41i Market street. , JPORTTAXD, SUNDAV, UXE ' 81, " 11. If WITH THE WHITE FLAG! ' President Wilson was so over whelmed with dismay at the gloomy outlook for our foreign policies that he went in person to Congress on March 5, 1914, and read a message demanding withdrawal of the free tolls concession to American vessels at the Panama Canal. Said the Pres ident to Congress: I ask thia of you In support of the for eign policy of the Administration. I shall not know how to deal with other matters of even greater delicacy and nearer con sequence if you do not grant it to me in ungrudging measure.. - , ..... i Congress had no alternative. In its great anxiety and perplexity over the unknown matters of "greater delicacy and nearer consequence" it yielded to the President's importunities. But from that day to this there has been no direct or authentic indication of the real nature of the dark troubles that threatened us. "W'e can only guess. Our guess is that It was war with Colombia. It is not a very good guess, perhaps, but what else but the pros pects of a terrible conflict of arms with the belligerent South American republic could have extorted from a self-respecting Nation that extraordi nary Colombian treaty? President "Wilson and Secretary Bryan have arranged with the ex pected consent and approval of the United States Senate to pay $25, 000,000 blackmail to Colombia, and to make a public apology for recogniz ing the new republic of Panama and for building the Panama Canal; and they have granted the following spe cial privilege: The republic of Panama Colombia shall he at liberty at all times to transport through the interoceanlc canal its troops, materials of war and ahlps of war. even in case of war between Colombia and another country, without paying any charges to tiie United States. It has been a long time since the United States has had a National Ad ministration ready in a National emergency to fly the white flag and to y ield to blackmail. BUYING RED TAPE AND DIAGRAMS. After the representatives of the New York Bureau of Municipal Re search had been brought to Portland by private enterprise to conduct a municipal survey, the .city arranged with the bureau for the preparation of an administrative code. It cost the taxpayers $4000. After the Bureau's representatives went home its adver tising literature commended the gen eral public elsewhere to a close obser ' vation of the workings of the system that it had prepared. Only one feature of the general ad ministrative code, however, was put Into effect by the City Commission. It was the efficiency code. Observation of its working is a disappointment. It has created a worse state of disorgan ization and dissatisfaction among em ployes than any system of political favoritism the city has ever had. The Mayor is soon to recommend its aban donment. The Commission in view of its failure will not have the cour age to install the remainder of the plan. Probably the principal cause of the failure of the efficiency code was the neglect of its framers to consider human nature, individual personali ties and the rise and fall of prosper ity. The New York Bureau, early In its survey in Portland, disclosed a proneness to exalt system above everything else. It began work when the new commission charter was un der discussion. It reviewed the faults then existing but invariably ascribed them to the councilmanic form of government. Lack of fitness for of fice had nothing to do with abuses. It seems to be its theory that any ad ministration, if run along grooves cut out by the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, would experience no jolts and would find it impossible to jump the track. The efficiency code it submitted classified city employes so that one employe doing work in one depart ment similar to work performed by employes in another department would receive neither more nor less remuneration. The readjustment re quired a substantial reduction in the salaries of many employes. But the merit and demerit system which was a part of the plan was held out as of fering a chance to the efficient to get back to the higher rate of pay. In actual practice the efficiency code seems merely to have trans ferred the power to display favoritism from one place to another. The sub ordinate employes who mark up the efficiency ratings, instead of the gen eral board that formerly raised sal aries, are accused of partiality. More over, in some departments, where the character of the work performed is dependent largely on the initiative of each employe, and each has a stated amount to do, it has been found that there is no way of keeping check; There was no recognition provided by the code for the intangible fitness that all large) employers of labor find among workmen but cannot designate with so many marks on a piece of paper. Another oversight was the outside Influence of general business condi tions. Since the reductions in salary were made depression in business has Increased and the agitation for reduc tion In cost of government has grown. Thus employes who submitted quietly to a reduction in pay find themselves confronted six months later by public 6entiment opposed to increase. The clerks who tried for a prize with added zeal and won, find the prize withdrawn. No wonder they are dis satisfied and discouraged. The failure of the efficiency code is significant of the public disposition to conclude that every governmental form that has been followed in the past is wrong, and that any new thing of fered .by some theorist is better. Pro fessed experts imported at a cost of $4000 to instruct the city In self-government turn out to have been fourth rate clerks who made fetishes of forms and system. They knew noth ing of local needs or conditions. It ought to have been apparent from the first that they could not do as well in reforming Portland's administra tive code as would a committee of local business men. The red, tape and the pretty diagrams they sold . us ought to be thrown overboard. PREPARING FOR THE SACRIFICE. . The Oregonian repaints this letter from a. bad-tempered critic, out of its own great good nature, and out of a desire to emphasize a plain state ment it made the other day about the probable outcome of the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Oregon: You sav that Dr. C. J. Smith Is going to be beaten by the greatest majority ever given against any candidate for Governor In Oregon. This is another one of your foolish predictions. Tou said practically the same thing concerning his prospects of get ting the nomination. In almost every thing your extravagant predictions fail. If all signs don't fail. The Oregonian will again succeed in leading the Republican party to an Ignominious 'defeat. Never again will the rtepuDllcan party gain wuuui w - Uonal affairs. - The assertion of our displeased friend about what .The Oregonian said before the primary election ' is Just as far wrong as his prophecy as to results next November. The ore gonian at no time said that Charles J. Smith would be beaten for the Democratic nomination. It was dis tinctly of opinion that he was likely to get the nomination, and it openly warned the Democrats as to the formidable nature of Dr. Smith's can didacy, owing to the divided field. The opposition could not, or did not, unite and Smith was, of course, successful. "Never prophesy unless ye know," said the sapient Hosea Bigelow. It is good advice. . The Oregonian rarely prophesies. It studies political omens and portents. It states conditions. It tells what it sees, and invites others to see. Just now it sees that the Democrats are in open revolt against the enforced nomination of Dr. Smith and very many of them intend to vote against him. It sees also that the Chamberlain Democrats are calmly to oermit Dr. Smith to go to the sacri fice, and that they are getting readjrj to make the usual one-man Chamber lain campaign. Dr. Smith faces an overwhelming defeat. Poor Smith. MAUUCN-G THE KING'S DIVINITY. The divinity that "doth hedge a K-iro-" lion hppn sadlv mauled by the latest suffragette outbreaks. Custom rules that when an Englisn rung en ters all shall rise and remain stand ing until he. is seated. ' Extreme de corum marks the actions of all in his presence. All this is changed since . women broke out. as witness the following description of the scene when the royal couple went to a theater: Queen Mary took King George to the gala perrormance, auu aum -- - seats howled at him throughout the night. It was-a beautifully regulated performance, . .tnln tn mv mind that WO- carrj iiik -- -" j man will make a mighty good stage man ager, whether she succeeds as a citizen or not. Every now and then a woman wuuiu uu, . . i vnaiiv The scan- on in r stage aim " ' - - - . . - dallzed actors would brush her off and the stagehands would take her, yammering and kicking. Into tne wings. i no would quiet down and then Wheel One shrieking woman chained to her seat was no sooner detached than onnthor wnuirt break out with a stream of .insults to his majesty. King George, Queen Mary and .prin cess Mary sat with their eyes fixed v,a. atarrA nretendinir to ignore the tumult, while the actors moved as if in a dumb show. ' Thio flierpsnect for royalty may go far to explain the recent outbreaks of popular wrath against, tne sut r Tn tv,Q pvps nf the average Englishman of every degree a certain sanctity surrounds the King, and he regards a disrespectful wora as a per n!.i offrnnt But the habit of see ing and hearing the King "hazed" m9 break down this traditional ven- ..atinn nipso toDDed in its incipl- ency. A mob, perhaps composed of well-dressed and usually weu-Denaveo trno-llchman. mav vet d O what police and prisons have been unable to do quell the wild women. . w. FOREIGN TRADE AND I-ABOR. The alarm was sounded by James J. Hill as to the possibility of ex naninir niir fnrelern trade, when he spoke at the recent Foreign Trade Convention. He ascribed tne rapia in msirix hv Germany in overtak ing England to the arbitrary action of English trade unions and to tier many's more . advantageous wage scale. He predicted like difficulties for this country from the same cause and restrictive legislation and unnec essary taxation and he warned the American workingman that there is no younger country to which, he may emigrate when his Job is lost. The question as to the effect of high wages on prices "hinges mainly on the productive power of labor rather than on the rate of wages. Doubtless the high wages paid in the United States -were primarily due to the prevailing higher standard, of liv ing and to the lure which great areas of public land formerly held out to workmen. These conditions caused manufacturers to seek mechanical means of economizing labor to make one machine take the place of many men. They were assisted by the ease with which patents are obtained and by the coming to this country of large numbers of ambitious men from other countries. Some of these newcomers set their inventive genius to work on iat,ni.ogvlnir machinery. Machinery requires a higher degree of intelligence and skin to nanaie it than does manual work, hence high wages were necessary to attract these qualities. A well-paid American workingman could get a larger oul--w.m a iHven machine than could one of another nation. Hence it has often proved that, while wages per day were higher in the United States than in other countries, the labor cost of each article produced was lower. In England the relatively low scale of. wages has encouraged manufac turers to employ manual labor long after machinery has proved more economical. ' Technical- education has not made such strides In that country as in Germany. The latter country, therefore, has a larger supply of men competent to handle machinery and takes more readily to new American inventions than does England. To this fact is partly due its rapid gain in rank as an Industrial country. It has the advantage of a lower wage scale combined with technical train ing and threatens to reduce the labor cost per unit of product to that pre vailing in America. The solution seems to be to give the workman a direct interest in in creasing " production and lowering cost. . Piece work has that aim, but has aroused prejudice among work men because the short-sighted, self- ishness of some employers causes them, after the workmen have speed ed up, to reduce the wage scale until the workmen are -not gainers by their greater efforts. A better plan is that adopted by some corporations of giv ing employes an opportunity to buy their stock. " Another plan recom mended by some economists, but not put in practical operation, so far as we are informed, would treat the workman as an investor of his labor, Just as the employer invests his capi tal. The workman would receive no wages as such, but the value of his labor would be capitalized and he would receive dividends on its capi talized value at the same rate as the employer, who would, however, re tain full control of the business.- The whole labor controversy has been, a struggle to arrive at an equit able division between capital and la bor of the proceeds of their joint product. The nation which brings labor to its highest efficiency bids fair to gain supremacy in the world's trade. That nation which arrives at the most equitable division is likely to bring labor to its highest efficlency and thereby to gain the supremacy. It may at the same time almost do away with strikes by removing their principal cause. It will then have solved the most serious feature of the problem to which Mr. Hill referred. SETTtNG OR SITTING? A despairing reader writes to" The Oregonian asking if it will settle the harrowing and time-worn dispute be tween the advocates of the sitting hen and the setting hen. Does a hen sit? Or does a hen set? We shall comply, in so far as a single opinion can settle any great question, whether of statecraft or grammar; but we warn our corres pondent that we shall be delphic, most delphic. -The dictionaries do not give war rant for a setting hen; but it seems to The Oregonian that those ponder ous tomes, for the purposes of mere orthographical integrity, have ig nored a great biological fact. A sit ting hen may or may not De a semis hen. ' She may or may not brood or in.ha,D when she is sitting. But there can be no doubt at all that she is attending strictly to business wnen she is setting. w o ia rthiicrA in admit that "set ting" has no standing with the best grammatical or literary,- autnonuea. Tuto. th. -Rihie "As a partridge sit- teth on eggs, and hatcheth them not," laments the complaining jeremia... but' Jeremiah was a grouch. The great Shakespeare has a sentence that "birds sit brooding in the snow." Shakespeare was no grammarian, but his editors were. We must . ii,!,t th nartridore that sitteth must be a sitting partridge and birds that sit must be sitting Diras. Yet we make an appeal for the set ting, hen. Setting states a common truth and a universal situation we almost said setuation. ' Out upon the -ifHno- her which mav be . only a resting hen, and therefore a wanton deceiver, like others or ner ses, never a setting nen. AMERICAN WOMEN IN REVOLT. AmAr;an wnmct) are on the verge ......l revnit Tn fact, the re volt has already been launched with a backing of many tnousana ciuowumcu and it gives promise of a rapid spread. ivt- i n FKvnit n era in st the tyranny of man this time, but against the high-handed metnoas or iasnion. uc movement bids fair to drive the gor geous dame out ot ner raruMu stronghold and set up a new ruler of American fashions in tnis couuuy. Thia mvnit has been brewing some years, for the Parisian dictator of fashions has been growing more ana more high-handed with each passing Tho mnttpr has been brought to the breaking point by the General Federation of Women's uiuds in mc.i nial convention, which lately came to a close at Chicago after several tu multuous sessions; just such sessions as in the past have made history and changed the maps of the world. "What are we coming to?" was the keynote of the bitter protest against prevailing fashions. special ol1c ,,nnn the fact that the Parisian arbiters of styles have slowly but surely forced upon the modest arid virtuous women of the country a dress intended for the French oemimonue. em Hria hobble skirts, tube skirts, peek-a-boo effects, apparel that covers but does not conceal, all have had . their sway. We have wondered how long ine goou women of the country were going to .iivi thine-s. In the words SltlllU XV : 1 " o of one eminent dress militant the pre vailing modes are not only immoarai and uncomfortable, but they are un attractive. There is the rub unat tractive. Woman has been made to appear more grotesque than a tropical parakeet and often more immodest than a Zulu. Her clothes have been such as to call for a setting of cigar ette smoke, half-empty bottles and gilded tapestries. The remedy suggested should prove an effective one. The revolutionists would encourage American designers and manufacturers to put out their own styles based on the crying need of simplicity, becoming modesty, comfort and attractiveness. Tills done, our women may once more regain their native charm and again be pleasing to the eye. . INTERSTATE TRADE IN LABOR. The experience of Portland and many other cities last Winter should convince any man that , one of the most pressing problems with which the American people have to deal is that of unemDloyment. The propor tion of working men ana women no are out of employment a part of the year is Increasing. Even in a year of such comparative prosperity as 1900, the census states, one person out of every five pursuing gainful occupations was idle from one to twelve months. In New York state 3 per cent is the least number of wage-earners out of employment in years of ordinary business activity. During Winter the number rises to 8 to 10 per cent and in times of busi ness depression it rises to 15 to 30 per cent. The percentage of union men unemployed in that state on September 30, 1913, was 16.1 and on December 31 it rose to 38.8. Similar conditions existed throughout the country. . ' This condition is a vast economic waste. A working day lost is lost for ever. It is a loss not only to the idle workman but to the community, for that much purchasing power is lost, so that the one man's idleness tends to deprive others of employment. If he has no means of support, a direct loss Is suffered in supporting him. Multiply the one man's last earnings by the number of others in like case and by the number of days' work lost during the year; then we have some conception of the total loss to the community during the year for the unemployment of one-fifth of 'the working population Much of this idleness is due to lack of proper means to bring man and job together. New York may be sup porting a bread line while the West ern -farmers call for "harvest hands. This Is not a condition due to hard times; it is a case of supply not being able to find the demand. Employ ment is found chiefly through private local agents, many of whom grossly deceive their clients and by dividing fees with contractors arrange that the Job shall last only a short time. When men are hired thus to cross state lines, state authority Is powerless to redress the workmen's wrongs; Fed eral power alone can meet the case. Unemployment can be dealt with only by Federal legislation in co-operation with states and cities. Tn meet th situation Representa tive Victor Murdock has introduced bill creating in the Department or Labor a Bureau of Employment, which is to establish free labor ex changes at industrial centers, is to license private agencies doing an in terstate business and by exchange of reports between exchanges and with state bureaus is to promote proper distribution of labor where it is neded. The bureau may revoke li censes and prosecute offenders. Some machinery or this Kino, is needed to prevent an Increasing pro portion of men from becoming casual laborers. As such they associate with tMmns annulre) their habits and per verted ideas, and often become re cruits in the army of vagrants, men dicants and criminals. THE NEW OREGON. June is perhaps the best month to visit Southern Oregon. The weather la halmv Cnnl (winds SWepD fi-entlY across the landscape. The healthy green of foliage and grain harmonizes with the mild blue sky. vegetation irlUton.a In the snnlicrht with the Vigor of its growth. The fruit treefi, pruned to a sturdy iramewora or orancneas, havA olraariv Tinf fnrrh lonK &hOOtS. Over the porches of the houses Vir ginia creepers fairly scramble upward, such is the energy of the life In them. Roses riot everywhere in color ana fragrance. But, speaking of fra grance, nothing can compare with that of a Willamette valley aisme clover field In bloom. Toward night as the air cools the honeyed odor of ,ha Invor Mnnmmfl mnkPR it almost cloyingly sweet so that a traveler on the gloaming highway mignt rancy a,(thntit murh difficult V that he WaB speeding through a paradise without any serpents. The alsike clover, as well as the great fields of vetches twining among thrifty oats, is for the dairy cows. All up the Willamette Valley, in every mountain vala hptwppn f'rtt tfl Cf GrOVO and Grants Pass, and everywhere in the Rogue River section,, tne aairy or, of fa micpn and the whole country shows the blessings of her kindly reign. Western Oregon nas neen transformed magically in the last dozen years. L,umoering nas neipea in tha rhantr. nprhjina minins- has done something here and there and certainly fruit has, played an impor tant part, but to the dairy cow we must ascribe most or tne miracie. Tha n-nniiap nf new llfn and creative energy shows everywhere. The farm houses have shuffled off that forlorn aspect of contented shiftlessness which was once so disheartening to tne trav. ciap Pnlnt has made them bright and cheerful. Ambition speaks in the gay flower gardens, the sleek horses and cattle, the big new barns and the neat surroundings. The napless mo- ttrlaf -nrhn hra a nail Of COOl water for his hot engine receives it, not from - the old oaken bucket, germ laden and back-breaking, but from a mountain stream through pipes that serve the farmer's kitchen and bed room. The farmer himself bubbles v m-lth Interest in the treat world. He is up to the minute upon the Mexican situation. . tie is aien to get the latest wisdom about the business situation. The good roads movement has become something more than a city fad to him for he has bought an auto. All the way from Eugene to Ash land, Oregon . Is astir with a road making revolution. Just south of Eu gene they are making a highway where for many years there has been a rack, for men and horses. Between Cottage Grove and Drain the good work Is humming. .The frightful grade through the Cow Creek Canyon has been made passable on the south side. On the north it still waits for the engineer's magic, but stakes have been stuck to show where work is soon to begin. The grades between Glen dale and Grants Pass are now in fair con iHnn rn hnth sides of the mountain. so that a car runs pleasantly where once a pack-norse troa in momeiimry peril of its life. The Pacific Highway from Ashland to Eugene Is not a per fect road by any means but it is improving so rapidly that last year's pilgrims would not recognize it today. Next to the encouraging signs of good dairying the -young orchards along the road delight the eye of the attentive traveler. Walnuts are work Inir their wav Into favor over an aston ishingly large territory. No big groves are in sight from the highway but hundreds or trees nave oeen planted, experimentally perhaps, . fVuir ftwM. nnrl thev seem to thrive in all sorts or situations on the hillsides as well as on the valley floors. t to nniipaa hin that the. walnut flour ishes particularly well where native oaks abound, tsetter man me mere nianttnir nf orchards is the tidy cul tivation they are receiving. There are nn nes-lected Dlantintrs to be seen be tween Portland and Ashland, from th, Pacific Highway at least, or course the varieties are almost count- losaa AnnlM of many kinds, peaches prunes, pears, walnuts, loganberries ha been planted and all seem to nvnmleA WaII - Tlia nparh. which begins at Eugene as a somewhat risky experiment. bursts into splendid vigor as one ap-ni-nnrhas C rants Pass. Apples thrive vervwhere. But nowhere has the foliage that enchanting luster and the twigs that sturdy vigor wnicn oe o re serves in the Rogue River country. Tv,ana the nrlncloal charm of travel through- that favored region is the n t cmartarle of KTOWlnK - or chards. There are many old plantings in full bearing, or course, pui u nope niwi,t. no. more than fulfillment, so the young trees with their promise of wealth and nappiness to come give the traveler more pleasure than the old veterans which nave aone as wen OS LUC J ' The modified delights of motoring over the Pacific Highway in Oregon are sweetened by the good hotels which have sprung up m tne towns along its course- No doubt these ho- tels. for the most part conducted by women, have been nourished, if not created, by the automobile. The traf fic arising from this expensive toy 1 already considerable and it promise is large. It has transformed the standards of hotelkeepers diffused urban comforts through all the big Western Oregon towns, and encour aged a mode of entertaining travelers which has more of Switzerland than of local pioneer days in it. Except in small villages, where motorists rarely stop, the hideous hostelry of olden times is but a nightmare vanisnea from reality if not from memory. Nor are good hotels the only mark of the new and energetic Oregon city. It is curious to note the garages which have been called into being by tne motorcar, one at least even in small places, half a dozen in bustling cen ters like- Medford. Whoever . wants proof ' that mechanical inventions change .the lives and habits of men may profitably contemplate these shops which have sprung up like mushrooms In the last few years and now support a great army of work men, too. well paid, intelligent and self-respecting. The garages are like Jonah's gourd .for growth ana e need not tear that they will wither like that unfortunate vine. Nor will the new pavements In tne Western Oregon towns be likely to disappear for centuries to come. What a wonderful stretch the surfaced streets would make If they could be placed end to end! Salem. Albany, Eugene, Corvallis, Grants Pass, Med ford, Ashland have all been spending money like water to pave and beau tify their streets. ' And at the same time thev have been bunaing new stores, banks and churches faster even than the dairies and orchards round-about have developed. A visitor who had not seen Eugene for ten years would not recognize the town. The pioneer buildings have been swept away. In their places stand solid and beautiful structure whose facades look calmly down on tne smooth, gray pavements, all made to endure. No Westert Oregon town rial changed for the better more than Medford iu the last lew years. ine streets are so wide that every building shows all Its good points, the aweii Ings speak plainly of taste and the means to vrratlfy It, and the stores cater evidently to patrons who know and desire the god things or tne world. Medford eeems singularly metropolitan to the passing traveler. Is it because the orchards have at tracted colonists from all parts of the world ? t onnoara that there are clean dairies and there are dairies that are not so clean. Scorlnr by uovernment experts discloses the relative merits of the dairymen. There should be a reward for the purveyor of milk who goes to the trouble and expense of .ofairiniinir the nubile by means of scrupulous cleanliness. That reward should be added patronage. n'v,.. -Air.f- in the sizzling furnacea of Middle West and East when here in the natural Summer capital tne .metai- frnlirs around In the seventies and seldom gets above ninety? nifvf.iiiitv in hetner found bv a num ber of cities in raising funds neces sary to get a series of Billy Sunday revival meetings. Even the high cost of salvation is being felt. ' nTur-h . ninoKB is reported among American soldiers at Vera Cruz. Senile decay will be their fate if they are kept there until moral suasion paci fies Mexico. ' "Law graduates dine." says a head line A nrocess that may not be re- na.et three times a dav during the period required for establishing a practice. A perfect specimen of the missing link has been turnea dbck i rjms is land. There's too many of 'em run ning around loose in' the country al ready. r,.nn tviil I flvA an out-of-doors exhibition at the 1915 Fair. In Ore gon are the Happy Hunting irrounaa and they should be advertised. Althnue-h the Government has turned back a great man-ape at Bill Tianrl it is safe to say that worse specimens have been let in. Tt ho been ascertained that an nnnvmmis nift to Yal Of $400,000 came from the Lauder family. No relation to Harry, eviaenuy. The Mayor threatens to oust effi ciency codes. So the pretty theories of a few months ago don't work as smoothly as they might? Thnoe horrid and vulgah American athletes are en route to n-ngiana to capture aJl the award, in the athletic meet next month. . No doubt President Wilson will send to the British Museum the pen with -which he signed Uie tons exemp tlon repeal bill. Carnegie lauds the Wilson peace plans. Well, ca-.'t he make a mtie noise like a Jingle for poor William Jennings? With Standard OH dividends some 140,000,000 larger, "trust busting" also seems tov be purely psychological. rt recorded that a Virginia woman swam seven miles. Must have had a date. n nminnna silence from the Don don militants. Wonder what they're hatching vp. New Jersey Bull Moosers refuse to fuse. Unless In the hereafter, they might add. Don Venustiana Carranza will please not speak out of his turn again. Kansas Is sweltering at 105. Hell hath no fury like a Kansaa hot spell. Still the world will look a bit larger to the proud graauate as time passes There's a hard Winter . ahead for local Democrats and Independents. And then a Tew gentle showers Tor the roses and abundant ionage. . Baseball Is declared bad tor girls So back to your knitting. Insanity is on the Increase in the country-. No wer.der.- TROU BLES . LAID TO DK.!IK'RACY. Waablactoa Statrsa Polat Oat F.r- rors from W kick We Boiler. The Republican State Platform Con vention at Tacoma Thursday was char acterlled by the clarity with which the tariff discrimination against the West and the futility of the National Admin istration's foreign and domestic policies were disclosed In addresses delivered and letters read before the gathering. Representative W. E. Humphrey sent a letter from Washington, ot which the following Is a part: It will be a salnful day to this Nation when that prince of peaceful blunderers. that foremost of limelight lovers onre more takes un the poellc pursuits of filling hla purse and feedli, hla lonslns soul on pop ular applause and again stands In t'bautau qua's glad glare. In eirltlng contest with the yodeler. the acrobat and the unadorned dancer and leaves ttie affairs ot state to bnrdlnatea or to happy chance. The neoole of the United Htatee have built the Panama Canal, they have paid for It. they own It, It Is on American soil, the American flag floats over It. and In spite of the Democratic party they are going to con trol it. Congress passed a law giving the Inlled Stales the absolute control of Ihls oanal and permitting our vessels In the coastwise trade to pass through the eansl free. The Democratic parly In Its plat form specifically Indorsed this law. Woodrow Wilson, when a candidal fr President, particularly commended It. The Democratic majority In Congress on roll call voted for It. Th people on the I'aclllr Cosst believed that they could rely upon these Democratic promises and pledges. In that belief they spent millions of dollsrs and contracted to expend many million dol lars more. " President Wilson. Just one yesr sfter he had been In office, surrendered to the transcontinental railroads and the Influence of British worshippers la this country, and h appeared before Congress and pleaded with them to repeal this law without rale- Ing the question "whether we re rignt or wrong." This repesl will Increase the freight rate of every thousand let of lumber from Puget Sound to th Atlantic Coast, both by rail and water. I..V. It will Increase th rate more than $.',0 on every ceriosd of freight hauled across the continent. Th Democratic party has deceive,!, re trayd and robbed th people of th I'aclflc Coast. On f th first acts of h Republican Congress that will nieet In special session on th 4th day of March. 111. will be In re-enact th American Pansma (-anal law that th Democratlo party so cowardly re pealed. Senator W. 8. Jones wrote In part as follows: Whet fteniil.llcene end third fSrty men said two years ago would happen If th Democratlo party was Intrusted with power baa happened ana Is happening more. That party, by ur division, has been In power a little more tban a year, its prom lees hev not been kept. Th prosperity turned over to It by the Republlcsn parly hss disap peared. Business la nauen. inoueiriee mrw narialvaed. factories are shut down, mills are closed, men are out of employment, rell roads are threatened with bankrupt, y and are pleading for authority to further las th people through Increased freight rates in order to live. The i-ost of living hs net been reduced escept at the espene of the farmer and laborer. Trusts nave soi nroeecuted. dissolved or destroyed. Heelte- tlon. uncertainty and stagnation prevent de velopment. Vasclllatlon. stupidity end chao mark our foreign policy. ignorance. "''P- ssiiees. Inesperlence. incaparuy eon f-r of numbers they carried ul th orders of th President In frsmltig and passing lh tariff law. It Is not the prodin t of their Judgment and experience, but of his decrees. They may hav Improved ur rnrrenry s- tem. out tney inrenta " - ' - making It the football ' spoils politics. h-,.lloltiK la the pathway lailnted out by a Republican administration, they have pro vided lor tne conairuction " - - Alaska, th only commendable piece of leg islation enacted and lh only legislative set of any Importance paaeed during this year c,i Continuous session. 1 nry ar tirein.? n.a , merit system by legislative as well as by executive act. They sr Increasing sppro- prlatlons and mumpiyine pui., ii, ih. nni economy secured comes from th dlecharg of war veterana. legislation la aectlonallsed and our colored rlliiens in onenlv and avowedly discriminated against. This criticism or tne Aumimairanun . economic policy came from iteprescnta tlve W. L. la Follelte. eh. theirv of the Democratlo party lead era was that a decrease In tariff ratee would allow additional Imports to enter the country, causing closer competition anu .,,1,1.. In cheaner living to the consumer. And In addition to this, those cltlsens who were recipients of Incomes above a certain amount should contribute to Ih expense or government by navlng a special tas to make up for decreased revenues for th benefit ot their not so lonuneis im" oitlKanoL This was all right and by a three- fourths majority vote of all the states w aorreaol to th levying ot sucn a tax; i alasl where Is the cneaper living i.mmir-u Tha revenues tisve shrunken nearly 100.0.000. Part of this will oe men up hv th sDeclat Income tax. but up to dat where Is th benefit to the people 7 Ninety per cent of tne proouci or me State of Washington, both raw and manu factured. Is niaced on the free list. Is prosperity abounding In the Stat of Wash ington T If conditions contlnu as they are. win an Increased or decreased proportion of our population pay " incom tax r i very mucn tear tne tetter. Nor were state Issues overlooked. Chairman John H. Powell pointed out the cost of hasty legislation In the name of "progress." He said: To those men and women who went te make this a good country to llv In w would say that thsy cannot progress too far. That doesn't mean that w must take up with and adopt every nostrum that Is thrown In our fscea. Real sdvsncement Is slow, and w should remember that w cannot bring on the millennium by passing laws. It happens that this Is th dsy of the demagogue and uoa Knows ne is mi Inr the most of his onnorunllles. I was an ardent .advocate of th direct primary law. and I would not for anything In the world return to th old condltlona However, we should seriously question If It meets all Ih requirements w expected of It. There Is now no wsy provided In Ih law whereby neighbors csn get together and concentrate Ihelr erforta towsrd the end thnt our ofllree ar filled with th beat tal ent obtainable. No provision Is msde for thee Important councils, and some means must b provided to bridge in void in our nautical Ufa Ther Is a continual press to Increase th functions of th Uovernment. and It Is In evltable that every time we Incresa the, function we Increase th eoet. it Is a problem how long local government can meet the requirements put upon It: how long It will be befor the bssket of the taxpayer Is raked clean. In King County ther ar four Independent taxing power, each working with little or n restrictions. Presently there will com a ttm wha w must call a halt. SOCIETY OF THIS , CI !C'I !, H ATI Oare Regarded as Attesapt te Orsaalsw a Hereditary Afisteraryt New York Mall. The most Interesting thing about the Society of the Cincinnati, at this time. Is the fact that It nver proved to be the nucleus of an American nobility or aristocracy, as manv people expected. This society, once famous but now very obscure, was organised at the Ver planck House near Flehklll, then th headquarters of ltaron Bteubn. on May 13, 178J. All Continental officers of three years' service were eligible to membership, and In turn their eldest male posterity. Failing direct male posterity, mem bership might pass to male descend ants through Intervening female de scendants, and tn some rase to collat eral descendants. lore Washington was the first president of the srx-lety. but -John Adams. Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson were very hostile to It. because they, regarded It as an at tempt to set up a hereditary aristoc racy. The Massachusetts legislature denounced It as "dangerous o the peace, liberty and safety of th I'nlon." It Is probable some of the original Cincinnati really did have a hope that membership In the sorlely would some time serve as a sort of patent of nobility; else why should they, have limited membership to th eldest male posterity, Instead of mak ing It Include all sons? Whatever their Intention may hav been, the society never achieved any social or political prominence. its membership, at the latest record, con sisted of only 91 persona The 11 origlnsl states are the only ones which have state societies. The chlefest dis tinction which the Cincinnati have thus far attained lies In the bestowal r.f their name upnn the little t.iwn of Cincinnati, O., in the year 1730. Gleams Through th Mist By leeaa Colllaa. TIU MIMrlAfKO MAX. While sitting out on Iturnslds spaa. A-flshlng for a carp. t ssw a melancholy man Who twansed upon a bara. And sang, the while he floaird Vwe Ths rtver'B brosd expense: This Is a weary, woeful town. Wher no man has a chance." I hopped Into the flowing stream And paddled to his side; Why d -oa thus Isment and crSS And yelp and wallT" I cried. , He sighed and gave a gloomy frewa. Then groaned, with d,,IVful glaaoei "This Is a weary, woeful loan Where a man hss a chaaea." t picked a limpet from a pile ana pounvea it n cis p'm. "Why do you thus refuse to emit, ifut knock the tewnT" I eld. II cried: "I build, from srsr.lt brew Kin tombstones, te enhsnc Men's tombs, but 'tis a woeful toss v ner no men naa rnaace. "How sot" I said. "IUeue," said k In Accents aeep an grurr, "Men have no sympstliy fnr me llow shsll I keep expanses dowaT My rent comes In dance This Ib a wearr. woeful Iowa ' Wher so man haa a chance. I paddled through a passing ew ell An rioateo lor a space. 'Ther la n need for yoa yell Tnii're almnlr ntlt of Pis,-. Flnst an. sad wlshl. and let the lid I r J " ' --- Mid seaweed gardena yo may blda, v ner lots r ne eK. t clsmbered ut upon the lnk And watched aim fleet awsi. Amid lb rushes I all nd rank More faintly ran bis lav. Then throtnh the humming tw I erest. As twilight settled dim. There me b Bnme tic fee thai Seat. But her s bo place for hlra." 'Sir." said h Courteous Offlrs Roy. and 1 Jumped guiltily, for I anew that he had been readln over my shoulder. Hlr," he repeated, "I that pom go ing to be In the psperr "Tea my son." I revamped. "If I ea ret away with It "Then I don't e tahy you csn t this wheel, that I hv Juet dug VP." said the C. O. R. "A msn stepped etim a welshing machine and dropped a le4 slug Into the slot and then h stole a weigh " "I grant, my on," I Inlerposerl. "thai my pom Is even mor minir in.n f.-..r Jest, yet I must Insist that ou keea out of tha Crawfish editor s wste basket In th future" And I locked him up In the sporting editor's roll-top desk while I finished my cob uro. Sole me Thought. This Is Ih rrsduslloa moelh. Which mskes m deeply frel. ror. with th bunch ef sru'es Tbey-r turning out la "l th stBtee Oh. wbt a doale of eerorm This poor eld world will g-tt If ! Note I hsve no grmlg egslnst graduates nor Ihelr well-known hablls of revising, the i:slsbllshe Order In their graduation orations. Tills Holemn Thought la Injected Into this otherwise frivolous colyum solely for the pur pose of provlnr to rien. Pub. that I have not overlooked th fact that June Is th Jnkesmlth's o.en season for A. R s and Hwret Ulrl Orailuats. The ll traditions of Joke building must be tip held, and when It comes to staunchness In upholding Ihem. this colyum shall fly from Its Arm base as twin as I. F.4orsllsssl lMf. Blrrteeardlng the movement te establish a course In elementsry piracy In .Portland's public srhonla, I wish In go on record as oppoed to It. Why spend the tanpsyers' money to equip a cast Institution merely to tesch our children what many of them ate al ready picking up In a practical way? If you don't agree with me, I would refer you to a -year-old rheruh who sold me a pall ef wild blackberries th othor day. The pall proved on Investi gation to contain a netful of pebbles, basely masquerading under a thin cloak of blackberries. Yours Truly, CONSTANT BKADKPl. If Kaniadraaalt, Tager H er la Perl I. Alt. l,ov. t welch the streetrers Halting at Broadway till the Ireffle ep Too-toota for them t Mmbi ea their sf. And I am sad. Tee, considerably dewnrssu Tsr lies my humble horn. Far swsy on th blu ridge of th Pen insula Forty-flv mlnnle. yes, lwenty-ves dred I2TOOI cruel seconds, l.ls bstweea m snd hom-cooked grab. Deep, dsrk and lolersbly gloomy. Hetties upon my soul sn unuttershle we, For. I.v. I know th.l It Is up I m To frisk myself for twenty 3nt earns. And grab a sandwich In om beenerr. Apprwslaaat II later y. 42.900 B. C. Aldermen of Antdelu.la divided on th question of whether lllndocl shall be permitted to run et large on the streets, without murtl. 4(1 B. C foci ales born: lstr as ai.ta local phvslclsns of Athens In perlmentatlon on th fatality of hem lock In large doses. HO B. C Klrst candidates for con sul set out Ihelr campaign literature In Home, under the new system of di rect legislation. (I A. V. Nero Introduces Ms origi nal ftrad.. In a musical specialty at the spectacular staging of the Horns n con flagration. Xlotlnn picture operators, unfortunately fall to he present at the production. 1311 A. P. Wst Tyler "no's Mtnslf ahead of Ms tint and highly unpopu lar, leading th first I. W. W. semen stration In Lomlon. 11 A. !. I'lsarro graciously e-ci.ls contributions of Sold from th Pare vlans, and In recognition of their rottr. tesy, permits a few of them te get away. lxt.1 A. P. Kherldan attracts notice with his famous JO-mll Marathon. II was scarcely fatlsu,1 when h rchd the finish and appeared quit ready for another performance, sa Is evidenced by his rtsiark: "Turn We, turn! We're going back!". IJI1-I2-I1-I4 A. P. M. sit V. hat s the use? p Ml for th past hr or four years for dope on the Mln situation. rater Ike- Bird. AI-l . Twin 'liy Kentlnel. The inestimable talus or hirds vegetation. In comparison wllh Ihe small damage they d". haa Pn preached until It Is a tnresdbst sub ject. It ha been fully ethllehe4 Ihst the eotishlrds. and even lh sparrows, earn their living, by th Immense num ber of destructive Ira, ts wh, h thr destroy. That Is th practical side of It There Is a eentlmentsl side as well, especially when the birds sre httildlng nent snd mating They sr so Jnvnua In the business that the Creator meant Ihem to perform What hoy has tha rleht to wantonly tfce the life of even tha leust of the happy mites which do so ntu-h toward making the earth brighter? r