THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, APRIL 2, 1933
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VOTERS HAMPERED
BY INITIATIVE LftW
Ballot Carries Only Titles of
Proposed Measures.
MUSICAL PORTLAND
ENVIED BY SEATTLE
Recent Grand 6pera Season
GOVERNOR OF ALASKA FORECASTS BUSINESS REVIVAL IN
NORTH.
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Regarded With Regret.
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ARTISTIC LAURELS FADE
TEXTS NOT AVAILABLE
Symphony Ventures Prove Failure
From Financial Standpoint
After Many Attempts.
Few Persons Read Pamphlets Sent
: to Them by Mail, Although
Taxation Is Big Issue.
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PUGET SOUNTJ BUREAU. Seattle.
Wash., April 1. Seattle is frankly
envious of Portland. Not now be
cause of any showing of local dis
advantage in commerce, port man
agement, bank clearings, building
records, or other indices of material
conditions, but because of the raro
privilege Portland recently enjoyed
in a season of grand- opera.
Seattle's envy is not of the mean
ort. No one here is disposed to say
that Portland shouldn't have had
grand opera merely because Seafctla
couldn't have it. And the success of
the Portland eeason paying out In
receipts over and above all cost
would confound any inclination o say
that Portland didn't deserve the priv
ilege, Seattle's feeling in the matter
is not of
that malignant envy which turns pale
And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
Seattle Regret Lost Opportunity.
Rather, perhaps, it should be called
regret; regret that Seattle could not
have brought those artists here, more
than regret that Portland was able to
bring them; regret that they should
have come to the northwest, so near
to Seattle,' as the radio broadcasts
fly. and yet so inaccessible to thou
sands of Seattle music lovers. A few
there were who made the trip to
Portland enjoyed part or all the
brief season of opera, but in propor
tion to the number who love such
things, they were few indeed.
Seattle sometimes has claimed,
among other things, pre-eminence as
the musical center of the Pacific
northwest. Seattle has had the Chi
cago grand opera company, with an
earlier constellation of stars and Se
attle has heard Mary Garden in both
"Thais" and "Salome." All . that
seems long ago. It was while the big
Moo-re theater was available for
first-clasa attractions. For many
thit kniiRn thi onlv one of
tize in the city has been the home
of Orpheum vaudeville.
Symphony Orchestra Neglected.
Seattle has had a symphony or
chestra, at first sustained with en
thusiasm, then intermittently and of
late not at all. And Seattle has also
a number of musical organizations,
embracing much of the best of local
talent, and some of them notably
the Ladies' Musical club bringing on
each season a number of visiting ce
lebrities. But Seattle could not have
entertained any such proposal as
Portland recently accepted and ful
filled to get grand opera at its best.
There are two reasons for Seattle's
present inability in this respect. In
the first place the city has no audi
torium suitable for opera that is large
e-nough to accommodate a sufficient
attendance at any prices, and, sec
ondly, Seattle would not just now
have risked so large a guaranty as
$72,500. The two reasons go together.
Portland provided a guaranty to that
amount, but was fortunate enough
to have a place to house the opera.
Good management and the strength
of the a-ttraction preserved the guar
anty fund intact. That would not
have been possible in Seattle.
Guaranty Fund Not Popmlar.
A guaranty fund for a big musical
attraction has come to be synonymous
with a donation fund in the minds of
many Seattle people Who are on the
standing list of eligible guarantors.
Past seasons of underwritten grand
opera in this city have not paid out
from receipts, with the exception of
the two occasions on which the La
dies' Musical club presented Antonio
Scotti and his associates. This club,
the oldest musical organization of
Seattle, has a big paying member
ship and a long record of notable
achievement and competent manage
ment. Its offerings are uniformly to
the capacity of the house. It has
made a margin over costs on both
Scotti engagements, but neither of
those engagements would have been
nearly so successful under any other
local auspices.
The guaranty fund for symphony
orchestra seasons is invariably used
up and even with the addition of the
season's receipts there usually has
teen a deficit. Seattle is probably
not exceptional in this respect. The
records of other cities will show few.
If any, self-sustaining orchestras.
But the process of getting the guar
anty year after year from practically
the siime list of persons is a wearing
process and Seattle's list has shown
marked signs of attrition. So far
this season there is no fund, nor
have there been any symphony con
certs. Waning Enthusiam Revived.
Local musical history discloses
earlier periods of low tide in en
thusiasm.' In 1910, when Henry Had
ley retired as conductor of the Seattle
symphony orchestra, local promoters
and guarantors settled back for a
season of rest. But John Spargur,
who had been Hadley's concert master
and first violin, would not have it so.
By main strength and persuasion he
held together the essential men for
a small orchestra, and for several
seasons the Philharmonic gave a full
series of symphony and popular con
certs on a hard-won guaranty fund
that ranged as low as $4000 and never
higher than $S000.-
Enthusiasm gradually returned. The
symphony orchestra association was
reorganized in 1918, Spargur was re
tained as conductor under a three
year' contract, authorized to employ
all men needed for a larger instru
mentation, and the association un
dertook to provide a guaranty of not
less than $100,000 a year.
Good Mimic Too Expensive.
Then followed three seasons of as
grocd music as Seattle has ever heard
from a local orchestra. But they were
years of tough scrapping for the
mony; the guaranty cloth fell far
short of the musical suit 'that had
been ordered. The season of 1920-21
was cut in the middle and the sym
phony association trustees declared a
recess.
This season, then, is the first that
Seattle has been without an orchestra
since away back in the beginning of
the century. Conductor Spargur. still
on the ground, again is trying to
come to the rescue. Lately he has
announced the organization of a
smaller orchestra, with what sort of
a guaranty if any no one knows. A
short season of spring concerts is
scheduled for the Arena, built for
ice skating and by no means an ideal
auditorium, but having some advan
tage in good location. Visiting art
ists keep coming to Seattle and these,
by the way, are rebooked through a
Portland agency.
If musical history repeats itself, Se
attle may be. again at the turn of
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SCOTT C. BONE.
ALASKA CflSL PROMISED
BIG SUPPLY AVAILABLE, SAYS
GOVERNOR BONE.
Northern Executive Stops Over in
Portland While Returning to
Juneau From East.
Millions of tons of coal from Alas
ka, an entirely new source of supply,
will be available this year and should
be of much benefit to Pacific coast
markets, it was declared by Scott C.
Bone, governor of Alaska, who passed
yesterday in Portland.
The new railroad to the Matanuska
coal fields, he said, will be completed
this year. From the undeveloped coal
seams in Alaska will be dug great
quantities of good coal and, consider
ing that it will be carried in cargoes
from the rail termini at tidewater to
coast markets, it is believed it can be
sold in coast cities at very attractive
prices.
The stimulus to Alaska's own de
velopment by reason of the big fuel
supply to be made available this year
will, in Governor Bone's opinion, be
very great. This is one of the reasons
assigned by him for -a period of com
mercial and industrial growth in the
northern territory.
Colonel Frederick Mears, chief en
gineer for the Alaska railroad, who
is accompaying Governor Bone, sus
tains his belief in a banner year for
.the territory. He said 1500 more men
will be employed in railroad work in
Alaska this year, in addition to the
1200 already there.
Governor Bone and Colonel Mears
arrived at 8 o'clock yesterday morn
ing from the east. They are returning
to Juneau. At the train they were
met by a reception committee made
up of the following: Rev. Thomas J.
Jenkins, A. R. Heilig, Mr. and Mrs. H.
Bruno, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Collins,
W. H. Downey, John E. Gratke, Colo
nel and Mrs. J. J. Crossley and Frank
Ira White.
After breakfast at the Benson hotel
the party left for a tour of the Co
lumbia river highway. At 6 o'clock
last night Governor Bone was guest
of honor at a dinner at the Chamber
of Commerce.
FRUIT PEDDLERS TARGET
WHOLESALERS . PROTEST TO
CITY COUNCIL.
Venders Declared in Competition
With Merchants Paying Taxes
As Well as High Rents.
Wholesale commission merchants
have launched a campaign to prevent
wholesale fruit peddlers from operat
ing in Portland under nominal license
fee. .
Yesterday the commission men filed
a petition in which they pointed out to
the city council that it was manifestly
unfair to allow wholesale peddlers of
fruit and vegetables to operate under
a nominal license fee from the city
and compete in the re-sale of fruit
and vegetables to- the retailers, rest
aurants and hotels.
The petition declared the wholesale
Commission merchants are heavy tax
payers and pay rent here.
The wholesale fruit peddlers, it was
said, are in many cases not residents
and do not contribute to the support
and development of the city, except in
the case of the payment of a low li
cense fee.
The petition was signed by Page &
Son, Bell & Co., Bollam & Co., E. R.
Ivie & Co.; Ben-Levy ft Co., Ryan
Fruit company, Pacific Fruit & Prod
uce company. Marvin & Co., and Levy
Spiegl & Co.
admitted that statements upon which
he had obtained credit from the bank
were false.
The envelope receivd by his wife
has not been seen by the bank offi
cials or his business associates in the
Ontario Meat and Grocery company.
It is estimated that the total of his
ohlitrations to business firms and the
bank will reach $8000.
Tunny was a resident or unianu
for 10 years. He i3 a native of Canada
and formerly was a prizefighter and
horse racer.
It is believed that losses sunerea
by his string of ponies at various
meets last fall started him on finan
cial troubles.
. It is thought here that Tunny has
gone either to Canada or to Mexico,
hia .lnw nf the nonfes being counted
on to attract him to Tiajuana.
while in untario runny uun an
active part in civic affaris. , He was
i,aaf0 a mcmhpr nf the Malheur
county fair board, and once president
of the Doara. -Me was a memuci ui
the board of directors of the com
.awtoi s,i,ih nnH wast H. prominent
member of the Knights of Columbus,
having been leading Knigni oi onaiie
River council. He also promoted
o,,onto onri nftan was called
upon to officiate ia matches in Boise
and nearby cities. As yet no cnarge
has been lodged against him.' ,
GARAGES ARE IN DEMAND
MORE PERMITS ARE ASKED OF
CITY COUNCIL.
ONTARIO MERCHANT GONE
FALSE STATEMENTS TO OB
TAIN LOANS ADMITTED.
H. H. Tunny, Said to Have Suf
fered Losses at Race Meets,
Writes He Will Not Return.
ONTARIO. Or., April 1. (Special.)
H. H. Tunny, for years a prominent
merchant of this city, has disap
peared. In letters he wrote the First
Ifational bank of this city, and to his
business associates, contained in an
envelope with a letter mailed to his
wife, he- told his associates he would
not return to Ontario. He also told
the bank he had no cattle such as
were described in the mortgage held
by them as part of the security for a
loan of several thousand dollars. He
Requests for Permission to Build
Are Presented From All
Parts of Town.
Demand for additional public ga
rages, repair shops and gasoline fill
ing stations continues, if the num
ber of applications for such permits
before the city council is any crite
rion. A dozen or more such applica
tions are now pending before the
council, in addition to those filed yes
terday. Anton Sechten has applied for a
permit to erect and maintain a pub
lic garage on Powell street betweeh
East Twentieth and Twenty-first
streets.
C. A. Peterson wants permission to
erect a frame building on Belmont
street between East Nineteenth and
Twentieth streets to be used as a
gasoline and oil filling station.
Plans have been submitted by D.
Helbok for a concrete building on
East Twenty-third street between
Oregon and East Irving streets for
an auto repair shop.
C. E. Steel has filed an application
for a permit to erect a one-story
concrete building on East Fiftieth
Street between Thirty-fourtl. avenue
Southeast and Powell Valley road, to
be used as a gasoline filling station.
Louis' C. Rose would erect a concrete
building on Union avenue between
Weidler and Broadway for use as a
bicycle and motorcycle repair shop.
EUGENE BUILDING ACTIVE
Permits for March Reported to Be
25 0 Per Cent Over Last Year.
EUGENE, Or., April 1. (Special.)
The gain In building ' permits in
Eugene for March this year was
practically 26 per cent over those of
March, 1921, according to the report
of W. H. Alexander, city building
inspector, made out yesterday.
The increase is not so great in the
number of permits as it is in the
cost of the new buildings and repairs
for which permits were issued last
month. The estimated cost as repre
sented in the 35 permits issued last
month is $118,210 as compared with
$46,775 for the 30 permits issued in
The permit for the Hotel Osburn
apartment house, calling for an ex
penditure of $70,000, issued last
month, was the largest - in a long
time and was responsible for the
good showing for March this year.
MABEL MOORE CONVICTED
Charge "Following Transportation
of Woman Is Upheld.
Mabel Moore, accused with her hus
band, Roy Moore, of having induced
Elsie McBride to go from Spokane,
Wash, to Astoria, Or., for immoral
purposes, was found guilty on one
charge set out in her indictment.
The husband was found to be not
guilty, the defense pleading ignor
ance of immoral conditions at the
Astoria hotel conducted by the
Moores.
Mabel Moore, it was pleaded by
the defense, is iresponsible mentally
for actions charged against her, and
it was testified that she suffers from
a blood clot on the brain. Ten days
were allowed before sentence will be
pronounced upon her. ' ,
PUGET SOUND BUREAU, Seattle,
Wash., April 1. In proposing legis
lation by means of the initiative in
the state of Washington, the proc
esses compel submission of the whole
text of the measure for consideration
by the voters. The secretary of state
must issue a printed book containing
all laws proposed in their exact form
and language, and the book must be
mailed to every voter. The voter
doesn't have to read the book; very
few of them do. But the forms of
law have been complied with when
the book is put in the mail.
All poss'ble official effort has been
made to force the attention of the
voter to what is going on. If the
voter will not read the book, or if, in
reading, he is utterly unable to com
prehend the meaning of the proposals,
so much the worse for him. The law
and the law's agents have done the
best they could to put him "hep."
Initiative PropoaaU Different.
Not so with initiative proposals and
other matters put before the voters
of the cities of the state. Here the
voters get but a scant and arbitrary
Interpretation that, more often than
not, obscures rather than elucidates
the meaning of these things.
Take the present situation in the
city of Seattle for example. In the
election of May 2 seven separate and
distinct proposals are to be voted
two initiated measures, four amend
ments to the city charter, and one
bonding proposition. Somewhere about
the city hall, no doubt, the full text
of these proposals may be found and
studied if the voters, just now reg
istered to the number of 85,000, will
each of them take the trouble. They
won't do it; they never have done it,
and never will.
Little Information for Voter.
The proposals now to be passed on
will be stated in from three to half
a dozen printed lines on the voting
machines. A - complete change of
municipal policy or a slight amend- i
ment in municipal procedure, a turn
over that will run into millions of
dollars in additional taxation, or a
bond issue for a few thousands, each
will be as importantly and impres
sively set forth for popular decision.
All that the voters will ever know
of these matters in advance must be
picked . up from the promoters and
opponents, and decisions will be made
in prejudice or ignorance, or both.
Proposicon A, as it will be shown
on the -vot;ng machines at the coming
city election, reads thus: "Shall the
municipal street railway system be
maintained and operated by general
taxation, and extensions and renewal
of track and equipment be paid' out
of gross receipts, as provided in in
itiative petition No. 82285?" The
vote must be "Yes" or "No."
Legal Statement Obscures.
This statement, of course, is legally
sufficient. It is not at all illuminat
ing. Voters who are interested in the
reduction of taxes, on the one hand,
and in reduction of street car fares,
on the other, will have to get their
light elsewhere. The statement falls
short of making it clear that adop
tion means the raising of ?5, 500, 000
more in general taxes annually, and
an increast in the tax rate from 63
to 85 mills. Nor does it even show
that rejection means, for the time be
ing, the continuance of the 8 1-3-cent
car fare.
Candidates for mayor and city
council, all of them reluctant to in
dorse this initiative, add to the con
fusion by persistent talk about re
ducing the carfare without increas
ing taaxtton. Other proposals to be
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Uses and Recommends
Buescher Saxophones
With
Ye Oregon Grille Orchestra
at the Hotel Oregon
Buescher Saxophones
Are used and recommended by the best
performers throughout the United States
and the same condition exists in Portland.
The following prominent professionals in
the various grilles all use and recommend
Buescher Saxophones:
Vern Bartlett Hotel Portland
F. E. Elliott Hotel Portland
Mrs. Malthouse . . Hobbs Orchestra
Chas. Rudd Hotel Multnomah
Eddie Swartout. .Hotel Oregon
A. F. Yoder Hotel Multnomah
Practically every professional in Portland
uses and recommends Bueschers.
Buescher Saxophones
are good enough for the best artists, there
fore, in justice to yourself, try one before
buying.
Seiberling-Lucas Music Co.
Largest Music House in the Northwest
125 Fourth Street Broadway 6576
submitted to the voters are officially
stated in terms equally vague and
lacking of true significance.
Initiative Friends Object.
In state-wide practice the initiative
system permits so many slips and
misapprehensions that it is not al
ways satisfactory even to its staunch
est friends. W. D. Lane of Seattle,
who has assumed sponsorship for va
rious initiative measures offered this
year in the name of organized labor,
and of even more radical elements, is
just now making'strong objection to
the ballot title provided by the attor
ney general for initiative No. 44. This
is a sweeping measure designed to
establish the supreme right of cities
to do as they will regardless of state
law. It is promoted under the plea
for "home rule." Mr. Lane asked for
an amended title, but Secretary of
State Hinkle pointed out that the time
allowed for such an appeal had al
ready lapsed. ' -
Without touching on this point,
Attorney-General Thompson has writ
ten a letter to Mr. Lane, saying,
among other things:
"The person reading the title you
propose, if he were conversant with
existing laws, would suppose that the
only change which you make is in the
matter of fuel, whereas the truth is
that you have, in fact, materially ex
tended the scope of municipal activi
ties by permitting cities to engage
generally in the business of dealing
in food products; also the sale of ice.
I think the act which you have drawn
would empower municipal corpora.
Uons to operate grocery stores If
"hey deemed it desirable."
Mr. Lane and William Short, presi
dent of the state federation of labor,
also have discovered that they made a
"typographical error" in their new
workmen's compensation bill. Their
request that they be allowed to make
a correction in the original copy has
been denied. Nor can they, under the
law. be permitted to substitute an
amended bill for the original measure
and retain the old serial number. The
bill to which title already has been
assigned must stand. A new bill,
carrying the change tney wish U
make, would only increase fhe con
fusion. The new educational bill. Initiated
by the teachers' organizations, has
been found to have been printed on
paper 9xl3, whereas the law re
quires 12x14 inches with a 1-inch
margin at the top for binding. The
educators have had to call in the
15,000 petitions already sent out, and
the bill must be reprinted on paper
of proper dimensions.
Railway Brakeman Held Up.
GRANTS PASS, April 1. (Special.)
Rules may be rules, but William
Sperry. a Southern Pacific brakeman.
is against them from now on. While
protecting the rear of train 16, about
9 o'clock last night, he was held up
by two men and relieved of his watch
and several dollars. This is the
second holup at the same place with
in a week.
Country Club Manager Named.
LA GRANDE, Or, April 1. (Spe
cial.) Miss Hazel Magnuson, head) of
the domestic science department of
the La Grande High school, has ac
cepted the position of manager of the
La Grande Country club. Miss Mag
nuson is a graduate of Oregon Agri
cultural college in iome economics.
She will not devote her full time to
the club work until the end ot the
present gchool year; but, bi-gi-nnlnT
tomorrow, Sunday dinners will Ix
served at the clubhouse under hfr
gnrrv1ioTV
Sunday Morning 10:30 Services at
First Methodist Episcopal Church
N. W. Corner Taylor and Twelfth Streets.
Sermon :
"The Unalterable Condition"
DR. B. EARLE PARKER, Pastor.
Sunday School Noon.
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METHODIST CHURCH
35th AND EAST YAMHILL
11 A. M.
"What Must I Believe to Be a Christian?"
DR. GALLAGHER, Speaker
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