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THE SUNDAY OREGONIATS", PORTLAND, JUSTE 11, 1923 7 CENTRAL PARK SOD ' TO BE JT CENTER Someone- Upsets Tradition , in Old New York. MILLIONS TO BE SPENT Education tn Painting, Music and Drama to Be Advanced by New Project.- BY JESSE HENDERSON. (Copyright 1922. Sy The Orejronian.) NEW YORK, June 10. (Special.) It's too bad. Just as the rest of the country gets all set in the be lief that New York stands for ex actly two things, somebody goes and upsets the tradition. New York, of course, is supposed to be full of nothing but short lives and long chances; of crimes and croesi; of scandals and vandals. You'd no more think of looking to New York for culture than you'd look to Central park with its nurse maids and Its loo for an opera house or a set of municipal art studios. Which is where the little old town has its fingers crossed again. For Central park, along two blocks on the south side, is exactly where you may look very soon for the begin nings of one of the finest municipal art centers in the world. $15,000,000 to Be Spent. A cool $15,000,000 is to be spent on the two blocks square home of art which will advance education in painting, music and the drama. The city, moreover, will donate the land. All this, mind you, in the interests of culture and not of any other crime. The mayor did not even stipulate that his portrait must adorn the drop curtain- of the opera house, which is to be among the nicest opera houses on this or any other planet. You don't even have to vote the straight Tammany ticket in order to study cubistry, or whatever it is they study nowadays in a studio. You needn't even know how to spell Murphy in order to get a shot at play acting in the municipal theater. Politics doesn't figure. Cash doesn't figure. Only culture. And it's a five hour ride from Boston, too. , Dr. Smith 100 Years Old. Another thing. This crash and hurry, short life and worry idea. Too bad, once more. Folks, meet Dr. Stephen Smith, who received the honorary degree of doctor of science at Columbia college com mencement Exercises. Most regret table this, from the point of view of the New York tradition. Nobody in this town of rush and riot is supposed to live to be much more than 4B. Fifty is a ripe old age. Well, of course, they tried to keep it secret, but the fact leaked out. Dr. Smith is 100 years old. Not only .100 years old. but looks not a day over 75 and feels not a minute over 60. Outside New York it sometimes occurs that Uncle Jed lives a cen tury and is pointed to as he drowses and mumbles in the chimney corner. Dr. Stephen Smith, however, isn't even self-sacrificing enough, having lived to be 100, to do it in the ac cepted fashion. He simply won't hang about the chimney corner nor drowse nor mumble. He goes around taking degrees and giving sound advice on the American public health service, of which, as it hap pens, he is the founder as well as the most conspicuous exponent. College Busts Traditions. Columbia college itself, moreover. Is some buster of traditions. If Gotham is as full of crooks and jail as its reputation demands, it's peculiar that a big university could compete at all. That the university should be turning out scholars for 168 years and is now planning to receive a bumper crop of freshmen in its 169th year is, from the tradi tional viewpoint, distinctly discour aging. Can it be that tranquillity has been over-press-agented? Can it be that human beings thrive better on hold ups, cabarets, badly ventilated sub ways, surging crowds and cut throat competition. Here's a topic for savants to get headaches over. And in process of aoquiring the headaches, will the savants please bear in mind that Boston has no 15 million-dollar municipal home of art nor lonesome corners uncrowded though it be any Dr. Stephens Smith. But let us not gloat. This is no weather for gloating, anyway, with New York the hottest spot mercurially speak ing in the country, with the asphalt on Fifth avenue even at 7 P. M., clinging to the soles of one's satin pumps; and with an egg de clining to be fried on the blistering pavement and merely going up in a puff of smoke. Weather Great for Reducers. This is weather in which to fix the thoughts on higher things. On, for instance, some roof garden ar the Ferris wheel at Coney, on some spot where you may loaf and invite your soul or at least your soulmate. It is distinctly not the weather for a run around Central park, particu larly if you are a woman and SO pounds overweight. The city health department thinks the weather is great for just that little thing. You see, last fall the .health department took a couple dozen plump ones in hand and put 'em through all kinds of diet and exercise, with the result that when the class met for reunion this week it was found they had sloughed off nearly eight aggregate feet of waistline and half a ton of avoir dupois. One woman lost 81 pounds. Imbued with enthusiasm at the example of this ex-elephant exhibit, another class was started. It planned as a first exercise a little run around Central park not .all around the park, you understand, hut just hither and yon. Spectators Get Exercise. And because of the weather and one thing and another the specta tors got about as much exercise as did the Women. Because first the spectators got all limbered up hunt ing for shade trees and they got even more limbered up laughing at the patients and cheering them to greater efforts. If the patients persist however, the laughter will be on the other foot, for they will not only emerge from the ordeal fairy-like but with a well-defined scorn for any man who lolls under a tree and grows fat when he ought to be exercising. Already the weather is having its effect on the news. Upon a day when the thermometer registered 90, a man called at police head quarters and offered a J8.000.000 check for use in behalf of the po lice department. They sent him to Bellevue for observation. At Belle-, vue somebody asked the donor why he wanted to give the New York police department such a large sum. "To establish some sort "of a foundation." he replied, "I know of no institution more in need of one." They ought to have let him out with an apology. The hot weather seems to' have hit Ellis island also. A French silk merchant living at the Hotel Van derbilt bought a home for his family on Long Island one of those coun try cottages costing a few hundred thousand and sent for his family to come and live in it. Arrived at Ellis island, Madame Max Spinnier and her sons, Jean, aged i years, and Robert, aged i months. It so happened that Mme. Spinnier was born in Poland and Jean in Italy. It happened also that the month's quota of admissible immigrants from Poland and Italy was ex hausted. Voila! Or what they say at Ellis island. Mme. Spinnier and Jean must be deported. But 9-months-old Robert is admitted with out hindrance. Because Robert, though born of the same parents as Jean, happened to see the light of day in France, the frantic husband has appealed to Washington. Mean time the red tape continues to wind. OIL LEASES TO BE SOLD BONUSES EXPECTED TO EX CEED $7,200,000. 54 Tracts Are Near Famous West ern Osage Pool, Producing 66,000 Barrels Daily. PONCA CITY, Okla., June 10. (Special.) When the oil men of the United States assemble for the next sale at public auction of OBage In dian land leases June 28. will the total amount paid in bonus money for these leases exceed the now higl" mark of 17,200,000, which was paid during the sale in December last? That the record may be broken is evident from the fact that 54 of the leases to be (old In June are within or near the famous Hickman or Western Osage pool, which is now producing over 66,000 barrels daily. The highest figure for a single lease was established at the sale in March, this year, when the Skelly Phillips Petroleum, company paid (1,335,000 bonus for a lease on the northeast quarter jf section 25-27-5 east, and $1,600,000 bonus for the northwest quarter of the same sec tion. The total amount paid in, bonus for' leases at the March sale, this year, was $4,173,400. Two of the leases which are to be sold at public auction June 28 at thi Osage Agency building in Paw huska. are offsets to the million dollar leases bought by the Skelly Phillipa people in March, but they are also a half mile north of pres ent production. Fourteen of the tracts offered in June are within the present Hickman or western Osage, including the two just men tioned. Altogether 223 tracts are to be sold, of which 169 are in the eastern half of Osage county or east of and including range 8. All of the 33 tracts, lying within the Hickman pool district, should bring big and some of them, fancy figures. In addition to the two that offset the million dollar quarters, there is another quarter that off sets one on which the Sinclair Oil company recently brought in a 3500 barrel producer, and still another off-sets one owned by the Prairie Oil & Gas company with a 1165 barrel well. The total amount re ceived from the sale can well be estimated at $5,000,000 in bonus money, and it probably will, go con siderably higher. A greater attendance than ever before is predicted by oil men for the June sale. This is because of the upward trend in the oil Indus try, the loosening of the m oney market and the general advance in the price of refined products. If the weather permits the sale will be held in the open and Colonel Wal ters, who has been the auctioneer at every sale, will handle the lob again. All the money received in bonus, paid by oil men for leases, and also in royalty goes into the United States treasury for the Osage In dians and-i-s paid to them every three months at an average of about $1000 per capita, for the 2200 Osages on the citizenship rolls of the tribe. The next payment, to oc cur in the near future, will amount to $3300 per capita. REPRIEVE STIRS LONDON MtRDERER DECIiARED SON" OF WOMAN OF TITLE. Reprieve From Death Sentence Is Termed Scandal Demanding a Full Explanation. LONDON, June 10. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Major Ronald True's respite from the recent death sen tence for the killing of Gertrude Yates was the subject Friday of much discussion by the London press and public. True, who spent some time in the United States dur ing the war as a British aviation instructor, was . ordered removed yesterday to the Broadmoor crimi nal insane hospital by the home sec retary after a medical examination by three physicians who declared True insane. The home secretary, Edward Shortt, was severely criticised by several newspapers for this act of clemency. The Evening Star terms the re spite a scandal, in view ofthe fact that the jury had not recommended mercy. The Pall Mall Gazette and Globe said: "The reprieve of True will have to be clearly explained, for there are persistent rumors that he was well connected, that names have been connected and consequently the as sumption will be natural, even if unjustified, that influence has been at work." - The Daily Express in reporting the reprieve quoted .the following from a recent issue of the Sunday Express: "The murderer (True) is the son of Lady -Blank. Her, identity has been mercifully concealed, but it has been whispered all over Lon don and if disclosed it would startle the whole world. Ronald True came into the world when his mother was a girl of 17." DEATH REPORT MISTAKE Angler Believed to Have Been Killed Turns l"p as Usual. SPOKANE. Wash.. June 10. Oscar Fall of Deer Park, Wash., who was believed to iiave been killed beneath a train at Pasco last January, arrived at Loon lake, hear here, for his annual fishing trip today. - Fall explained that the man killed at Pasco was Otto Fall of Clayton, Wash. Oscar Fall said he had been working in the woods in this vicinity during the winter and had not known, of his supposed death. LITERARY CRITICS IS E Shane Leslie Rebukes 'Sin clair Lewis. - SPICY WRITINGS SCORED Modern English Fiction Held Vulgar and Indecent by Dean Inge in Article. BY NORMAN H. MATSON. (Copyright, 1922, by The Oregonian.) LONDON, June 10. (Special cable.) It has been a week of rather peevish literary arguing, and whether literary controversy can be conducted without using pep" or "darn literary," as Shane Leslie avers in his rebuke of Sinclair Lewis' hearty criticism of British contemporaries, it evidently can be conducted without "suppressions" and "thwarted" and "libido." Leslie, having criticised Lewis as ' temptor in his English, points out by way of refuting the statements that American writers are patron ised by the English l iterati that Whitman was hailed and glorified by English writers; that Edith Wharton and Hergesheimer are ap predated: that some critics have read Carl Sandburg, James Branch Cabell and Henry Mencken! Appar ently he has never heard of Sher wood Anderson. And as for there being no vitality in English writers whiles, in America there is "life, vigor, adventure and experiments," he . doesn't think that America in 20 years of experimenting will catch up with Ezra Pond, Synge and James Joyce. , Wells Does Not Shirk Facts. When Dean Inge publishes a newspaper article criticising the al leered vulgarity and indecency in much of modern English fiction, and qualifies it as ugly, he is for once in his life writing like a taboo ridden dean instead of like one of! the mentally most gifted English-1 men now living-. I Mr. Wells does not shirk facts because they are considered scan-: dalous, especially when the conven tionai foundation of that view of them is becoming: more and more questionable; but I cannot find in his books a trace of that morbidezza which disgusts the dean, and which is very largely produced by the fact that the writers have no real ex perience of what they are writing about, and are the victims of a baf fled libido rather than of a casa noveague excess of gallantry. To add to all this "moral poison of modern fiction," a denunciation by Brimley Johnson, a critic, was published. He briefly objects to the bedroom in literature; and objects with such intemperate phrases and so obvious a rage that he, too, is going straight to a cruel spanking' at the hands of the critics with the psycho-analytic vocabularies. ! Society Be In if Organised. "A Friend of American Freedom! society" is being organized in Lon don by some 25 men and women de ported from the United States for their participation in revolutionary propaganda: Prominent in . this curious enterprise is Charles Ash leigh, the I. W. W. poet, who was released from Leavenworth and de ported some months ago, and Mr. and Mrs. Collier, the English com munists, who were deported from Boston last year. . The committee Is to be patterned after the famous "Friends Of Russian Freedom which was for years active in Lon don during the Czars regime. Ash leigh is not clear as to how they mean to make the influence of the committee felt in benighted Amer ica, but there will be things to be done on this side caring for re turning deportees, for instance. BIRTH CONTROL IS LIKED Chinese Welcome President of American League. . SHANGHAI, China. May .. 17. (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) 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A Chinese physician in the audience volunteered for the post, when the young female inter preter stepped down. The American, lecturer -,dm not appear before any of the foreign women's organisations of Shanghai in the 10-day period she spent in this city. - Mrs. Sanger began her Chinese tour at Pekin where she formed a branch of the American league, which she, heads. Then she came to Shanghai. She is at present In South China. HORRIBLE SECRET KEPT . : s FAMILY SKELETON BLOCKS INQUIRY INTO MURDER. Woman Refuses to Tell Judge How Husband's Body Got Into -Trunk Shipped by Her. PARIS, June 10. (Special.) "A family skeleton in the cupboard" a secret involving her honor .was the reason incoked Friday by Mme. Bessarabo for not replying to tne judge s question relative to the mur der of her husband, of which she and her daughter, Pauline Jacques, are accused. After sternly enjoining the mother to choose her version of the trag edy and abide by It, the judge ap pealed to her to explain how her husband's body was conveyed to Nancy in a trunk. Mme Bessarabo asserted when she sent the trunk from the Gare du Nord it was full of documents. She would not offer any explana tion of how the exchange was ac complished during the journey. The judge then repeated his same questions to the daughter,- but the latter only stammered, between fits of sobbing, that she knew nothing. "Your mother is quoted as saying to you the trunk must be sent away as far as possible," said the judge. "How do you explain this?" - 1 cant answer; its a secret, was the answer. "The secret isn't mine; it is my mother's." , "Yes," broke in Mme. Bessarabo, "the secret involves a question of honor I cannot reveal." It seemed at this moment as though the girl were about to speak, but her mother shrieked in Spanish: "I forbid. Be silent." - This was followed by her appeal to the jury "to have pity on two unhappy rench women" and do not insist, on piercing their "horrible secret." NAVAL BOARD IS NAMED a . Body to Recommend Officers for Promotion Is Announced. WASHINGTON, D. C, June 10. The navy department Friday an nounced the personnel of the new naval selection board which is ex pected 'to begin the selection of officers for promotion June 27 as follows: Admirals Hilary P. Jones and Ed ward W. Eberle, Vice-Admiral J. D. McDonald and Rear-Admirals Harry McU P. Huse, Henry B. Wilson, a S. Robinson, C. F. Hughes, William V. Pratt and L. M. Nulton. Promotions to the grades of com mander, captain and rear-admiral will be recommended by the board when selections are made. Seven rear-admirals, 21 captains and 44 commanders will be selected. LIQUOR SAFE IN BOSOM Search Warrant Held Necessary to Delve Inside. Dress. SPOKANE, Wash., June' 10. The bosom of a woman's dress should not be invaded in a search for liquor without a search warrant. Police Judge Witt'held here. The attorney of a woman defend ant proved that not even the neck of a bottle in question was show ing when the policeman began his search. - . Read The Oregonian classified ads. aei AND HER GANG O Complete service Authentic Information Expert Appraisals . Wash Cleaning Native Repairing' Insured Storage Direct Importations Popular Prices CARTOZIAN BROS' PORTLAND- O RE . Phone Broadway 3433 qqO Washington OVO Street at Tenth St. ' . CUE BACK IN AMERICA CONDITIONS IN STRIA, HELD TO BK THREATENING. Educational . Enterprises Costing $50,000,000 Declared to Be Menaced. . NKW YORK, June 10. Charles R. Crane, who recently was reported incorrectly to have been sentenced by a French court to 20 years' im prisonment in Syria for having at tempted to incite anti-French dis turbances, reiterated his denial of anti-French activities on his ar rival here today. While declaring that conditions in Syria were bad and that the people there , and in Palestine could not.be reconciled to any kind of mandate, Mr. Crane announced that he would take no steps to bring matters to the attention of officials in this country. "Far from being sentenced to im- The Names Model "117- in everything pertaining to Inc CfiallUbti. prisonment," he said, "I have had i i:o experiences whatever with the French authorities.- The report of the- sentence probably arose from confusion with action taken in the case of Dr. Shahbender, a distin guished physician, who is high in the Moslem world and whom I met several times. "Our missionaries and our great educational enterprises, whioh have cost $&0,-000,000 to put into operation, are seriously menaced," Mr. Crane added. "America cannot regard this unconcernedly." HENRY LEONE IS DEAD Actor Who Played With Late Lillian Russell Succumbs. MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., June 10. 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