THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAy. PORTLAND. JANUARY 17, 1915.
order It was provided that the com-
, 1, . Aff-rirtuitlir&l Col-
LABORER, SERVING CITY
SUCCESS OF "DRIVEN" ON BROADWAY DOUBTFUL . :
WITH 71 PLAYS IN LIST OF SEASON'S FAILURES
y. M. W. of Member T,., "E SL.0 "
mervichi ... . .
lege should continue as before, autnor-
ity being given tne umvei.uy, "
LONGEST, TELLS METHOD
Constant Albertini, Who Begins Thirty-third Tear on February 1. Gives
Health Rule Credit for HU Able Work.
ever, to offer courses in "nigner com
merce." It was understood inai inn
. . . . ; hA AllP.h 1LS tO
aivisiuu m " " " "
avoid duplication or unnecessary ex
penditure or money. i-u. n " -in
commerce at the University and if
me survey uwub "i'"v ' " '
of these institutions should be found
cides to Enjoy Herseil wun xonng Army :
in conflict with tne orders oi me
Board of Higher Curricula, there is ap
parently full authority vested in this
board for an easy settlement of the
question. In fact, since the decisions
. .1.1- hav. thA effect of law.
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how could such a question bo any more
effectively settled by an educational
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BY LLOTO F. LOSEBOAN.
NEW YORK. Jan. 1. (Special.)
Christmas ends what is practic
ally the first half of the theat
rical season and managers are now
proceeding: to take account of stock.
According- to the official figures, there
already have been 71 failures this
eason on Broadway, with a number
of other candidates fighting to avert
annihilation. Road shows, with a few
exceptions, have not made much money,
and all producers will welcome the
new year, hoping that it will be kinder
to them than 1914 has been.
Charles Frohman saw "Driven" while
In London and decided that the play
and Alexander Carlisle, the star, would
make a hit here, so he imported them.
They axe now the attraction at the
Kmplre. succeeding "Diplomacy." which
bad held the stage there for some time.
"Driven" Is the- work of E. Temple
Thurston, a novelist author of a num
ber of "best sellers." Who is being
"driven." or whence, or why is not
clear. London may have liked the play,
but it is doubtful if Broadway will
adopt it. , .
In "Driven" Miss Carlile is the wife
of a middle-aged member of Parlia
ment, and she is thoroughly weary of
him. Then she overhears a doctor say
that her condition is incurable and that
she will die in six months. She de
cides to enjoy herself for this period,
and her choice falls upon an army of
ficer. The audience sees this wife, who
la struggling to crowd so much into the
lrttle of life that is left to her. in the
rooms of her lover, and then observes
her retirement when she discovers that
a place has been set for her. implying
the lover's belief that she will remain
there. She resents this, bnt finally
3Z o&r75 y
relents and agrees to return the next
day, prepared to elope
In the meantime, the husband, whose
suspicions have been aroused, has de
cided to appeal to the lover, who does
not Know or me who -to
death. The lover, rather than part
a dvlne woman from her husband.
surrenders her. It turns out that her
health has been entirely restored by
this course of happy living and the
audience is convinced that she now will
be happy with her husband, even
though he IS mucn nw
There are some unique touches in
m.i... " TTni iinmnlp. in the first
act when the hero asks her to sing.
he listens to aDout two oars mu m
vanorbn that he WOUld
' AkMi-h..rMtp Tn the third act
she declared she was frightfully hungry,
grew enthusiastic over mo
and peaches, and then left the fruit on
HofcMiKM there were too ob
vious evidences of preparation. In the
last act, tne neroine, iuj
health, started to take poison and die,
but learning that her husband loved her
and had not read the letters she wrote
. v. Vi or- man. una accemea
Pekingese dog from hlin and decided
to live happily forever afterward.
The heroine is the most peculiar
thing about "Driven" and it is not Miss
Carlisle's fault that she was peculiar
without being funny. She did the best
she could, as did Haldee Wright, the
interfering sister-in-law, but the au
thor 1b to blame for their inability to
make any Impression in colorless, un
natural and impossible characters.
Arte? tf&J ye e W7s?&C
Leslie Faber, as the lover, was as
human as he could possibly be, while
Charles Bryant did all that was pos
sible to make something out of the
role of the Ill-treated hUBband.
For her second bin at the Comedy
Theater. Miss Marie Tempest is pre
senting "The Marriage of Kitty," which
already has been' given here with
another actress in the name role, pre
ceded by a new one-act play. This
latter is "The Dumb and the Blind,"
by Harold Chapin. .It is a character
study, dealing with the poorest class
r,r T.nnHnn lifo. Tho characters are a
mud barsre worker, his wife, two
children and his "pal," also employed
on a mud barge. Joe, the head of the
B-as n hnnffA Of WOT"lC which
laimij, 9
enables him to be home every night,
instead of once a week. He tells his
wife and later is surprised to find that
. j .i l.,,.Tl,r nMvlnir This frives
BOD 12 niwti.A , J . J n - ' -
rise to a question of religion and Joe
Is enragea to nna not winy m,. .,
4r finA hut that his nal
w ii r uciicteo .
"BUI" also does. He is about to leave
his home in disgust when the appear
ance of his little daughter and baby
saves the situation, and brings a happy
ending to the play.
"The Dumb and the Blind," it is an
nounced, was "written especially for
nn Tmneat" Why this was so is
not stated. '
posed by Mr. Hofer would only add to
tne cunicuiiy. xio
adopted during recent years in Kansas
and Iowa. The fact is, that no good
has come to these states rrom tne
change in their educational policy, as
evidence of this it is necessary to refer
to only one fact.- Soon after the single
board assumed control of the State
University and the State Agricultural
College ancf the State Normal School
of Iowa, orders were Issued making
changes in courses of study, eliminat
ing engineering from the state univer
sity, discontinuing worn m
grade at the normal school, and so on.
But conditions became such, with pro
tests from alumni and other friends of
these different institutions, na.i who..
.... -r lal..a. nftnvar.rl in order to
avoid the abolishment of the board by
the Legislature and the readoption of
the old plan, tne ooaro rraciauuu in
action and left the institutions as they
had been .before. The result there has
been to agitate and unsettle matters
rather than to effect any permanent
or satisfactory adjustmnt. Certainly
. . . i in(. tn th )hT-
tnere.nae uoeu t
payers and no improvement in the ef
ficiency or tne worn oi mo iu6-'
Btitutions of that state. -
Kansas Flam Discredited.
The plan In Kansas, too, is conceded
to be more expensive than the old one,
without any compensating advantage.
In our neighboring state of Montana
the higher institutions, as well as other
educational work, has been for some
years in charge of one board, the State
Board of Education. But in Montana
the result is no more satisfactory. The
plan has failed to accomplish the pur
pose intended. This is clearly shown
by the fact that as late as 1914 the
conditions in Montana affecting the
higher educational work were so unsat
isfactory that a measure was Initiated
and submitted to the vote of the peo
ple providing for certain changes in
the policies of the higher institutions.
An active campaign was carried on
throughout the state. People were lined
up on one side or the other, and when
the votes were counted conditions were
found to have been left as they had
been before. There was no settlement
P.egarding financial responsiDimy.
there any reason why a board having
. i A AnA Institution should be
any less responsible for its official con
duct than it tne same uumu duwhu m
in charge of several institutions r ur
is it thought that two or three "busi
ness men," at so mucn a aay, wouia
be any more interested in the work of
the institutions unoer tneir cnargo,
.-i j wo., .. .i i csotpr ahllitv. or
nuuiu ii i. . U j 13 - V ,
would be any more unselfish and pains
taking in the discnarge oi meir uu
ij.. v. ..-nni ii tha men nnd women
vieo i-i" ii w n . - -
.ta nhAsnn from amonir the best
citizens of the entire state, merely be
cause the latter serve wnnout cuiunu?
satlon and have only one institution in
stead of several to look after?
Leas Agritatios Recommended.
mx- TJ.r.. nniTD that thA ninele
I'l 1 II 'ill ao.j - '
board "should Tepresent the interests
of the whole taxpaylng body of the
state, instead of the local interests.
Now, is there any Known reuun
a board should be any less representa
n. - w t. .nnBfltn nf 13 members
and has charge of one institution oniy
than if it snouia conBisi oi mioo uu.
mn hut have charge of three
different, institutions?
As it appears to tne average cmson
who is interested in the general wel
, . ti. ccatA what niir hlffher
lalU ui in o 1 1-1 m .
educational Institutions most need at
the present time is less agitation and
more opportunity to devote themselves
to the real interests ior wmcn moy
i i i .... .1 Tkav hava hnan nrnvlded
QlltLULttlllcu. i J
with permanent income through con
tinuing appropriations miu h"s"
measures, riy acuon ui mo v-
Hlcrhur Curricula their courses have
been outlined and assigned to the In
stitutions In a way sucn as to avoiu
unncessary duplication. Why now over
turn what has been accomplished
through the efforts of a quarter of a
century and throw the institutions
again into a Condition of uncertainty,
with the resultant sparring fof advan
tage and dissipation of effort, waste of
. '1 . i - j r aftlnt.nnvV
iunas ana uujj.u mon m ...i.n-i.., .
Why not leave the institutions alone,
each In its own field, under Its own
board, charged with the responsibility
of taking the funds provided and mak
ing the best use of them in developing
the respective institutions m -j
..h to make them of the greatest
value to the state? OBSERVER.
PROPOSAL TO ABOLISH REGENTS OF
STATEINSTITUTIONS DRAWS PROTEST
-ThreeBTnessMen-Me Over University, Agricultural College .nd Normal as Suggested by IV Hofer,
SHH No Advlges, Write- "Obser-Less AgiUtion nd More Co-Operat,on Recommended.
ryORTLAXD, Jan. 15. (To the Ed
Ym Itor.) In The Oregonian of Jan-
uary 7 I note the communication
from E. Hofer, recommending the abol
i.w . r .v.. haiHi nf reeents of the
State University, the State Agricultural
College and the State normal ora
his idea being to place all these Insti
tutions under one board, comprising
"three business men." A careful analy
sis of Mr. Hoter's statement leaves the
casual reader in doubt regarding the
advantages of the proposed plan. For
instance, he speaks of the State Board
of Higher Curricula, established by the
Legislature "for the purpose of cutting
out all duplications in courses of study
by these institutions." Then he says:
"Only recently we have seen the estab.
Iishment of a school of commerce at
the University of Oregon, when there
is already a full-fledged school of
commerce at the Agricultural College,
and each- of the Institutions Is carrying
on an industrial survey.
According to the law. the State Board
of Higher Curricula, consisting of five
persons with no connection whatever
with either of these higher institutions.
has full authority to deal witn mi
question and to avoid a oupiicuu .
courses. That this is true is shown
by the fact that since the establish
ment of the board, as is well known
to the publio through announcements
in the press, different orders have been
issued, eliminating courses of study
. i )........ n thA nther. The
irom duo .'1 . .
object in view, no doubt, was to limit
each institution to a P"""'
and avoid a duplication of courses that
would Involve unnecessary expenditure
of money.
.. . x.tia. nin a vear
It is only I'n'i' -
ago that the board Issued an order elim
inating all engineering wv..-.
State University and centering this
work at the Agricultural College. The
duplication of engineering courses at
these institutions had been the one
ii AV,au.t,4 tn hv thA nAODle
of Oregon. It had been agitated for a
great many years. During reierenaum
campaigns, when educational aproprla
tlons were Involved, one of the argu
ments advanced against these appro
. . - V. . .kaA waa i 1 1 W 1 1
pnauons " n - . -
f lcation In the duplication of expensive
engineering equipmoni o.uu iimn-w-i
, . c thataA twn institutions
lionm iwawcc -
.11 tna .nirin,rrlnf work could De
centered in one Institution at great
saving to the taxpayers. Newspaper
files show that when the order of the
Board of Higher uurncuia was issueu
assigning the engineering work to the
i inn tho H i-i ui rm met With
gne tuwmii" . ,
f.mr throughout the state. In
fact, there is no "evidence of opposition,
the people of the state apparently hav
ing accepted that" decision as the final
settlement of the vexing problem.
I am also advised that in. the same
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'Tk X-, '-'71
NO LATE hours; total abstinence
from coffee and tea; moderate
use of tobacco; plenty of rye
bread, cheese and simple, wholesome
foods; little or no meat; moderate use
of good wine: plenty of hard work.
These are the health rules of Con
stanta Albertini. He is the oldest la
borer in point of service in the city's
employ. February I he wil'. celebrate
the 33d anniversary of the day when
be first took up a pick and shovel and
entered a trench to lay water mains in
the Portland water oureau. do .
ii- - 4.h aua,tf AV rA.ln. BDOW OT
shine, and he still is rated as one of
the best maintenance mou
Ber,T?Ce 1 .l.n. ata,tail VOrlf t h A WateF
system was owned by tae old Portland
Water uompany. ini. - ---
was then 36 years of ae. He is now
69 and says he is just as much of a
man as he was then, ewen though for
38 years he has missed but few days
t.. i ..i..t mnnuAl labor. Hi says
hard work doesn't hurt any man if he
knows how to taKe care oi
Thirty-thrM years ago mr.
CRESWELL DEBATERS WIN
Eugene Team, With Leader Absent
Due to Injury, Is Defeated.
niOT-TC Or. Jan. 16. (Special.)
v i-. tTio-H Snhonl debating
XDB to " i'i 1 1 o
team last night defeated the Eugene
team on the negative sine oi mo vru
ernment ownership of railways ques
tion. , .
The Creswell team was composes oi
Edmund Padden ana Aioert otuujuoi.
The Eugene team was composed of Day
i ,i nuth Ynune. The latter
DttVlCT i . . c.
,KnttoH William Rebec, leader of
the Eugene team, who was injured by
an automobile last night.
PHARMACIST TEACHES TOXI
COLOGY AT Y. M. O. A. .
COLLEGE.
: , -
I ri i HantTrilf 1 Jrf- .sT
D. Ji. Crockett.
D. N. Crockett, a graduate of
the Indiana College of Pharmacy,
has been appointed instructor of
toxicology in the college of phar
macy of the Y. M. C. A.
Mr. Crockett is a registered
pharmacist in the state and has
been in business for himself
since his graduation from school.
He is 26 years old.
COiSirA-TA ALRKMTIM
aw.ai wlfeUlnar & filrk fend shovel. flU"!" y
Ing water pipes weighing hundreds e'j
..,,.. nnriarnlii tiArdff hi ts and ex
posure of the most unusual kind an
doing otirer feats that the aver'
M.n unifiil nnt att.mnL Tfxl a T he I
in tha uni llnw vet he does not show
the effects of his rugged life. He Is
.... ... 1 . -A k.allhw 11 M
liovuy, i uu . w i j -
says If tle city Is willing he will still
be on thoi job for many years to come
Elrht . M. Is Albertlnl's deadline
for retiring. He generally goes to bed
m.un 1 .I..L K.. ...in a.wapal nf .
St I .111 V UlWn, n n 1 mv.. . . - .
caslons, hrt says, he has indulged In the
dissipation or staying up vmn utur...
Tka m nut, ic ereta b o ciotk in m
mnpninr ha la out of bed and a IIMI
t.li. l.tur ha la off to work. Ill
work la with a rang of men whose
duty It is to Stop leaks In water malna.
Albertini says the trouble wtlh moat la-
hAran la that thev are not rcsuiax
(k.i. KaiKitH Ha aava a workman ca
not kaep his pice unless he takes cai
of himself properly. He nays that 1
. i . .I-...IJ ka. an. anat h.ll
IS KlnS W i ui nu 1 1 .... I
careful about une of stimulants, oveil
eating, not getting enougn ni
keeping late Hours.
He never has
In his 33 years
missed a nt
Once he was
,-.lMrl hla
BHIUO 1""" waa i. " . ... ....... .
He will celebrate the 33d anniversary
of hla service in the water bureau by
doing his usual hard day's work, he
says. Possibly he will not go to bed
that night until o'clock and during
tha day he might possibly partake of
a portion of meat or might drink an
extra glass of wine.
. . .
been sick, ne says, an a
of service be has no V
r on account OI an'anon. a
off a few days when he
bark and once or twice 1
SAFEGUARD FAMILY, IS
CLUBWOMAN'S ADVICE1
Prevent Scattering of Member on Death of Breadwinner, Is Mr. Thomaa
G. Wiater'a Plea Insurance la Prevention.
mimw a n tp-tktiCR.
President Woman's Club, Minnapolla
n-, s soon as your an-nnom --'""'
i to it, you reallxe that detached
peopi peopiw "-""'"
cannot make a city or a -tate -ja na
tion. It is tne iamny ; " ; . '
upon which society Is buUL The fam
ily and family life are the
sioeration to every community, to
which all other interests are second
ary and tributary.
So marriage ooes .
Join one man ano one wi.,
create, the new social
than either of the two dividual.
which mane it, a uiiiii- ----- ----
guarding all the forces of civilization
must held. For a family is not a mere
heap of people. It has e'""'""?
individuality of it. own It ha. .
own soul. 11. '
own habits, its own little ways, even
Its tricks of manne.a
has a being of its own quite as real
aa If it had a body.
Into a family a child has a right to
be born. God does not intend mat
human soul stiouia oe orwU j .
.... ..ored and less essential. No
charitable institution, however well
and kindly nanus :.'
warmth, the spiritual tmo;,n"B?
moral etanuarat -----
circle, so inorousu.y -
to be realized that the more dvanced
charities are preferring to put desti
tute childen Into private homes rather
than into xno dwi ihdh-. -
tSat even a somewhat flnCsjrtor Smmtlir
in & better picw w -i- ---
l? . V;...tn-,nr nubile "homes."
tne Dest ui .-as.as.. - -
It come, nearer to the norma
Well, suppose m , , .
existence, husband, wife and children
forming this compact unit who.. ,, .
'uch 'a Iron;" death "often" fall. Ilk.
sucn a a . . nieces, scat-
a Bomp "1...s " , ...
ltlry individuals, each struggling alone
nsuad of m that circle where they
belong, that home which 1. the unit of
social life. .
Better, iduh' V nf it.
maimed by .the loss of on. of It.
member., pernapa
than such a breaking down of the e-
e"tlal ."f .... come. in.
It is one of the force, that cement.
the family in danger 01 """
For, after all. money must give the
between the possibility of ...Ping on
the normal, imiui .
into fragments. And nothing can be
of greater Importance to the maKer.
and founaers 01 i-..... -----
guaranteeing of the permanence of the
. ..-1. t,i..h th hava created.
sacrea uun n .......
PICTURE THEATER NEWS
(Continued From Pae4.)
"Miriam Nesblt, the popular
In a two-reel comedy, is one of the
most intensely funny "P1"1";
tures yet shown to Portland people,
and "Love, Oil and Grease" I. a rapld
?ire comedy featuring .mlllng Ruth
BCom1ng Wednesday is "The Tlp-Off -one
of the best police stories yet fllmf.
in three full reels. The Hear.t-Belig
Weekly 'is provided also.
The new pipe organ will be ready for
dedication next Sunday for future en
tertainment of National patrons.
STJXSET HAS FEATURE BILL
"Mother Hulda""" and "Refining
Fires" Are Unusual Stories.
Film adaptations of the old-time
fairy tales are being produced with
remarkable clearness. A new Improve
ment of th. lens make. It posxlble tn
expose the same film twice. In thin
way many novel and spectacular ef
fects are being .hown. Perhaps the
best double exposure effect is the scene
In "Mother Hulda." where -the Fairy
Prince wafts his wand and change. :
forest Into an army.
"Mother Hulda" Is the two-part fes
ture of the programme at the Bunnc
Theater. The stars of the Broncho Com.
pany are used In this film by Thorn"
Inc. and William Clifford, two of the
most clever producers in America.
"Refining Fires" has for Its themn
a socloloirtcal truth. The plot is con
slatant and Intensely Interesting. The
cast is headed by Harry von Meter,
Vivian Rich and Jack Richardson.
A Keystone comedy, produced under
the direction of Mack Bennett, proaurer
of "Time's Punctured Romance" and
called "Only a Farmer's Daughter." 1
the only comedy on the progrnnime.
The Mutual Weekly, with war pic
tures snd other interesting scenes, con
elude, a programme of -arloly.
The Panama-Pnoirio Kpilllon has
tablmhed a clerln-huu I"r l"t rhliilr.
and rt-latlven. and haa communlratlon ll
tha entlra Han rranclnco lrl.ihon lyitin
KEW THOCfiHT I.IT!."! TO J
LKCTIHK I1KKH
Twn-.-'i ' - - -- -
V'-f-.
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HU ma 1- - mi Wis ar ' ' W
II. Edward Mills.
H. Edward Mill.. New Thought
teacher, of Spokane, Wash., will
lecture in Portland today, Mon
day and Tuesday evenlnga Mr.
Mills Is associate pastor with Ir.
A. C. Grler, of the New Thought
Pool 'v In 8pokane and comes to
Port -d under the auspice, of
the I gon committee, for the
World. Congre.. of New
Though to be held at Ban Fr.n
clsco In Connection with th. Panama-Pacific
Exposition In June.
Mr. Mills will deliver his first
lecture this evening st t o'clock,
at Temple of Truth. Kllers build
ing subject, "Truth. Principle,
and Practice." On Monday even
ing at I o'clock, he will lecture
at Central Hall in the Publio
Library, Tenth and Yamhill
streets, subject. "Con.clousne.s-j
Key to Conquest," and Tuesday
evening, In the Lincoln Wn
School auditorium, subject. "Tho
Signs of the Times." His lectupa.
in this city are free to the gen
eral public.
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