The Oregon daily journal., August 21, 1911, Page 3, Image 3

THE OREGON . DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 21..191L
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.ANOTHER TRIUMPH
'SCORED BY FIGMAN
Many Curtain Calls Prove Pop
.ularity of "Mary Jane's
Pa."
Waterways Issue, Discussed by Expert
Development of lUyen and Hartxn-s Said to Be. Needed for Growth and
Continued Prosperity cf Any Cxmntry- What England Hm Done.
roonsir.' Irresponsible, auicV to die
miss every sertou fact by turning it
Into" the channel of humor,- mram rer
irin. intM-ni-Atad by Max FlBman. la
a worthless vcheo who . causes no end
of trouble for Portia Perklna and nettles
everybody by hla philosophical humor
and hie Intimacy with poetical quota
tions. But ae hie truer nature was
aroused and revealed under the sweet
Influence of Mary Jane the arrecuon ex
died for him in, the big-, audience that
filled the, Heillg on the opening night
of "Mary Jane's Pa'1 was expressed by
the maim curtain calls,
Married - while ; young, Hiram soon
arrows tired of the family responsiDUi
ties made heavy by the coming of two
baby girls and responds to-the wander
.lust In hla nature and slips away to
see the world. Eleven years pass be
fore he returns to find his wife, Portia
Perkins, which part Is played by , Miss
Robertson, Involved as editor and, pub
lisher of the "Clarion" In a heated po
lltlcal campaign. Rather than turn him
from her door Portia Perkins offers hfcn
a ' position as cook In her household.
. e astounda her by accepting. To hide
hla Identity they decide on an assumed
name. This soon sets the tongues of
the town gossips wagging and makes
Mary Jane and her sister Lucille the
victims of many a poisoned shaft of
suspicion shot from the bow of meddle
some neighbors.
The first Climax comes whan a com
bination of circumstances almost defeat
the publication of the "Clarion" on the
day- of the great political convention
when It is known the articles It contains
will defeat the nomination of the un
scrupulous Skinner. - This situation
brings the cook to the rescue of the
publisher and opens the way for the
reunion of the two that takes place
later.
The part of Mary Jane Is played per
fectly Jy Miss Dolly Von Weltoff. and
Miss Jaune Urban Is fine as Lucille Per
kins, who suffers greatly from the com
ments of the suspicious gossips, and
who feels the call of the aame spirit
that led her father into every clime.
This Is the beginning of the third
week of Max Fig-man and his company
at the Bellig. "Mary .Jane's Pa" will
run through this week, with Wednesday
and Saturday afternoon matinees.
HUSH MARQUIS
LOOKING FOR HI
Clueensbury Hasn't Found
What He Wants but He's
Still Searching.
(PnhllibmV Prna Laaatd Wire.)
New York, Aug. Jl-The Marquis of
Queensberry has not yet found the Job
he came to America to look for. He
Is studying America and Americans
and has' made some Interesting dls
eoveries.
"I was not all prepared to be rushed
as I have been," he declared. "I thought
I could land here quietly enough and
avoid notoriety until my plana had be
gun to shape themselves; but I have
given up. Why, you Americans ought
to have an aristocracy of your own,
you approve so st.tenuously of European
aristocracy.
"That's a queer thing to say, I s'pose.
But I don't really believe America will
be the country she Is destined to be
come until she has.
"You would" not hare so many dl
vorces, you know, if you had an aris
tocracy. " You can't make love of home
and the family and perpetuate the best
Instincts of a race unless you care
enough for the family name to keep It
unstained. Why. It's shocking the way
you Amelcans get divorced, v It's done
in England, too, but not nearly so
much as here. Just think of contract
ing alliances with three or four dlf
ferent families during a life time. It's
too much to contemplate. You can't
keep up the tradition of the Smith fam
ily if you are going to cut away from
it and Join the Jones family and then
marry Into the P.obinson household.
"But I do not want to criticise Amer
lea. I have too much respect for your
enterprise, your business ability and
brains."
PANAMA STEAM SHOVEL
ROUTS OUT CROCODILES
rUntta Preu Leaned Wlre.t
Washington, Aug. 21. Workmen on
the Panama canal have encountered
two IB foot crocodiles he first that
have been seen In Central America for
many generations and eaoh Is between
8.000.000 and 4,000,000 years old, with
seven full sets of jteeth on the upper and
lower Jaws. The crocodiles were routed
out of their hiding place aHput two
weeks ago by a steam shovel working
in the Culebra cut, and are now on
their way to the National museum at
Washington.
Bad Indian Johnny Caught.
(Sperlat to Tne Journal.)
Aberdeen, Wash., Aug. 21. Johnny
Shale, the Qutnault Indian, who be
came drnk maddened and held up the
town of Taholah, on the reservation,
defying all attempts to take him a
' day or two ago, has been arrested at
Hoqulam, and is being held pending In
structions from. Superintendent Johnson
of the Cushman agency. When he left
the agency he still carried his gun, and
threatened to shoot anyone who Inter
fered with -him.
Bhoaf s Father Summoned.
il'nftwt I'ttrn l.rufx-4 Wtyt.t
San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 71. In re
sponse to a message that his son,
George F. Shoaf, a Socialist writer for
the Appeal to Reason, who has been in
vestigating the McNamara cases in Los
Anreles, has been killed there, George
C. Bhoaf has left this city for the coast.
Shoaf has been informed that his son
was slugged in the California city and
hl body thrown into. the ocean. -
In the publication today of review of
the work of the British royai commis
sion' on .waterway ; transportation- The
Journal completes the series of articles
from the pen of S. A. Thompson , of
Richmond. Ind.. on the subject of
'Waterways as Creators pf Prosperity,
' "' By 8. A. Thompson.' ' .
The conclusions reached and" the rec
ommendations made by the royal com'
mission of Great Britain and Ireland are
not wittiouj Interest and significance to
United States. . That commission was
appointed to seek a remedy for" the de
pression In British trade and Industry,
which Is especially evident In the Mid
lands, once the greatest manufacturing:
region, in the world. One great factory
after Another ha '.left its former loca
tion, which? at jnost" al only 85 miles
from a harbor, 'and sought a new loca
tion on the seasoast. This was not a
matter of choice, but of compulsion,
for the owners found themselves not
only beaten in the markets of the world,
which they onco had dominated, but
even shut out of -the market of Lon
don, only 100 miles away, by manu
facturers In the heart of Germany, (00
miles . farther ewaybut with water
transportation available all the way.
tfanala Ave Studied. '
" The royal . commission studied the
canals and inland navigations of the
continent, and found a great, connected
waterway ystaan, with channels which
have beer) continually deepened, wid
ened and Improved, so that they could
accommodate larger and larger boats
and carry an ever Increasing traffic.
They found the valleys of these streams
sown thick with thriving industries and
filled with prosperous cities, some of
which, as Frankfort did, grew more In
one brief score of years after the com
ing of the waterway than in a thousand
veara before. And as a natural, Inevi
table and invarlabfe result they found,
in every country, visited, that the busi
est and most profitable railways were I
those which lay closest to, and co
operated most fully with, the waterways.
They studied tho canals and inland
navigations of Great Britain and Ire
land, and found, not a system, out
Jumbled collection of odds and ends
of waterways, no two sections having
the same width and depth; all of them
too narrow and too shallow for modern
needs; most of them unimproved since
1830; all of them strangled by obstruc
tions: some emasculated by adverse rail
way control of strategic sections; some
lying derelict and abandoned, crushed by
unfair railway competition. They round,
not growth of trade and industry as on
the continent, but decay, as told in a
preceding paragraph, and, as a na
tural and unavoidable consequence, a
steadily decreasing rate of dividends on
railway capital.
Sxeeptlon to Bnle,
But there was one striking exception
to the general rule, one bright spot in
the gloomy picture, and that was in th
vicinity of the Manchester ship canal.
A brief and imperfect outline of tne
effect on Manchester has already been
given, but It should be said that the
six or seven million tons of traffic
which have been developed at this new
made port were cot stolen from Liver
pool; That City, with tne object or noia
ing the trade, built up through centuries
of effort, made repeated reductions In
Its dock and harbor dues. In spite of
these reductions possibly in part be
cause of them her traffic grew faster
than ever, so that In the- II years Im
mediately following the opening of the
Manchester canal the revenue of the port
of Liverpool Increased moVe. than five
times as much as during the : same
length of time" preceding that event :
The British royal' commission learned
from their studies that the Influence of
no other one thing penetrates so -deeply
Into the . very heart of industry '. and
trade as does that of transportation.
They learned that In the great race for
commercial supremacy the position held
by any nation depends chiefly upon the
Character, the efficiency and the econo
my of the transportation facilities with
which It is provided, and that in the
last analysis national existence depends
largely thereon. . They learned, beyond
all doubt or question, that waterways
are creators of prosperity for cities,
states, natlons-and railways. .
Hay Issue ' Bond.
They recommend: .
That il nnrmanent "Waterway Board
be created, which shall be made up. not
of legislators with countless other call
upon their ttm, but of experts who
shall give exclusive and continuous at
tention to its work.
That this board be empowered to issue
bonds to provide the needed capital.
That all the inland waterways of the
United Klna-dom be acquired as speed
ily as possible- and placed under the
control of the board.
' That the first step should be the con
struction, at an estimated costrof about
1100.000.000. of two great waterways ex
tending from the Mersey to the Thames
and from the Severn to, the Humber,
lying across the Midlands ljke a gigan
tic letter X, with branches which would
shorten the routes from north to south
and from east to west.
That a comprehensive plan be formed.
and carried to completion as fast as
funds become available, which shall ex
tend a connected system of modern
waterways to every part of Great Brit
ain and Ireland, so that the manufactur
ers of the United Kingdom may be able
to compete on even terms with the man-',
ufacturers of the continent In the mar
kets of the world.
Details differ in our own country,
but the same principles apply. Theirs
Is chiefly a problem of canals, ours
chiefly a problem of rivers. (It goes
without saying that in both countries
there will be continued' development of
ocean harbors with the addition in this
country of the channels and harbors
pf the lakes.)
Permanent Board Beaded.
Theirs Is a problem of arresting de
cay, ours a problem of hastening de
velopment. But we, the same as they,
need the permanent board or commis
sion of experts, the comprehensive plan,
the complete, connected system of
waterways, and the bond issue in order
that the needed work may be pushed to
speedy completion.
The growth of the United States has
been wonderful. But that growth Is not
finished, it is scarcely begun. If we
shall have the wisdom and the gourage
to supplement our magnificent railway
system with a splendid system of in
land waterways, all the growth of the
past will be but as a prologue to the
mlghdest" drama of national develop
ment which the world has ever seen.
If, by the Improvement of our water
ways, we make possible the utilisation
of all the multitudinous resources with
which a bountiful providence has en
dowed us, it needs' no gift of prophecy
to foresee tne speedy coming of a day
when America, dowered with illimitable
wealth and girded with resistless power,
may stretch forth her hand and say to
all the warring tribes of ear,th, "Hence
forth there shall be peace."
21 Y. M. C. A. BOYS OFF
SUMMER
UT
Twenty-one boys under the leadership
of J. C. Mehan, one of the assistant
secretaries of the boys' department of
(he M. C. A.. Iff t on the steamer
Monarch at 7 o'clock this morning for
Astoria, from which point they will
start on their tramp down the coast to
Bayocean and then east up the Wilson
river road to Forest Grove They will
take the train from Forest Grove for
Portland on their return and expect to
arrive in Portland September 3.
The original plans ware to take 'the
Y. M. C. A. launch to Aatorla. but It
was found that it would be more ex
pensive getting the launch back to Port
land than going by steamer. A pack
horse will be taken along to carry some
of the camping outfit and each member
of the parly wHl have a knapsack.
Everything necessary will be taken
along, but the boys will have to forego
all luxuries. G. H, Johnson and C. G.
Raymond of the Y. M. C. A. will also
accompany the party.
AVIATOR
ROBINSON
TO ARRIVE TOMORROW
(P pedal to The JouniaI.lt'
Astoria. Or, Aug. 21. Mu-.httnl,.i.n
Will J. Shackelford. - from the mn
Junius aeropiane ractory, arrived In As
toria yesteraay afternoon, hrtnrlno- its
him a hydro-aeroplane and an aeroplane,
wiuuh Avinior nugn A. KOblnson will
use in ms ingnts nars commnn
tr ,
VTTUUQIUHy.
'Robinson left Chloaso HatuMn"
said Shackelford. "I started ahead. He
win arrive nere Tuesday. Astoria Is
an meat place ror the flights. He will
make bis Water flights- from a barge
which we will have anchored in the
harbor. Robinson Is 'the nerviest 'bird-
man riying, ana his flights evill be tru
ly asiounaing. e may attempt a flight
to Portland, but that will den end
weather conditions, although he told me
he would like to attempt to meet the
Portland newspaper men and accompany
their special train when they come cn
August -'t.
Robinson believes In the fetish hf
the Bupposeoiy unlucky number "13."
He has hie' machines all marked '"13,"
and according io Shackelford, the noted
aviator will not attempt a 'flight In any
uuriius maenme uniu il is numbered
"IS."
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"1 HAM" LEWIS
HAS EYE ON TOGA
London, Aug. 21. Colonel James Ham
ilton Lewis of Chicago, former con
gressman and defeated Democratic can
didate for governor of Illinois whom
Speaker Champ Clark called "the big
gest dude In the country," because he
has a necktie of a different tint for
every day in the year recently re
turned to London from Madrid, where
he has been projecting a railway. He
has returned In high spirits.
Colonel "Jim Ham's" raiment Is more
radiant even than when he combated
"Bathhouse" John Coughlln for sartor
ial supremacy in Chicago. He fairly
makes the streets dazzle when he walks
down the west end and his presenoe
revives a dying season and suggests
again the glories of the coronation deo
oratlons. His famous "pink" whiskers
are a Joy.
But for all the splendor of his attire
Colonel Lewis was full of politics.
The colonel said he may decide to run
for the United States senatorshlp of
milium as soon as a vacancy occurred.
Concerning the arbitration treaty bo
twepn tha i;nl(H Si.t... n.. ,1 -.
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I Britain, he said:
"I distrust both the spirit and the.
inidnuon Of this agreement It varies
only slightly lr. language from a simi
lar understanding we have had seven
times before and I cannot forget that
while three of them existed England
exerted both sentiment and assistance
against America. When we had civil
war England was willing to aid in at
tempts to disrupt the government; so
she was when we were at war with
Spain."
Tho colonel is a native of Georgia
but was a representative In oongresa
from the state, of Washington. Sub
sequently he moved to Chicago and be
came corporation counsel there.
EARS WOT STflMflrH I
CAUSE MAL DE MER
.New York. Aug. 21. Dr. Julius Auer-1
oacn, wno has spent nine months at the
University of Vienna, returned yester
day by the North German Lloyd liner '
Bremen, confirmed In his belief that sea- i
sickness, Is not due to stomach disorder
but to Irritation of the semicircular'
canal of the Inner ear. This is a theory
that has been known for some time to
specialists, and Dr. Auerbach believes '
that Professor Alexander Dallklnlk of
the University of Vienna has proved It 1
The dootor says that the function of the ,
semicircular canals is to maintain thi
equilibrium. When they are 'irritated, I
their owners have all the symptoms of
seasickness. The doctors of Vienna '
found by experimenting that a child !
In whose ears the canals had been d- I
etroyed could not be made seasick and
that animals" without the ear canals!
were unarrected by seasickness. Diet
ing; --before a Voyage, therefore, would
not prevent seasickness. 'The doctor
said no remedy had been found.
The Socialists of Massachusetts have
nominated a complete state ticket, head
ed by James F. Carey, of Haverhill, for
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Sales i
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Regular $15 Men's
Spring Suits at
$1 1 .85
Regular $20 Men's
Spring Suits at
$14.85
Regular $25 Men's
Spring Suits at
$17.85
Regular $10 Men's
Spring Suits at
$78S
New Arrivals of Mens
Fall Suits Now
Shown
When You See It in Our Ad It's So
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First ibd Mormon
First aha Yamhfll
Second and Morrison
Third and Oak
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Are You Obtaining Your Share of Bargains
From This Great
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The goods are going at remarkably low prices and hundreds of new and satisfied,'
Customers made every day. Don t miss the opportunity.
Stlckley Rockers. Chairs and
Settees at Special Prices
Think of getting great reductions like these on
genuine "Stickley" furniture! The cuts will give
you an idea of these goods, but you know what
"Stickley" means for style and quality. These
J pieces are all in solid oak, fumed finish, upholstered
wun genuine opanian icauicr.
This Stickley f7tt
Rocker for V9iD
No. 1565 Made Hke the cut, by the
Chas. Stickley Company; seat has
strong steel supports and is covered
with genuine Spanish leather; solid
oak, in the popular fumed finish.
These rockers sell regularly at $12.
Our August sale price is only $8.75
Chairs to match at same price.
This Stickley Settee for $15.75
No. 1687 Made like the cut,
of best' selected oak, fumed
finish, genuine Spanish lea
ther tcovering over strong
steel spring
up h o lstering.
Regular $2 0
value, August
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36 ins. : wide,
6 feet lone.
We are clos
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of these' cots,
u ph olstered
with cotton and covered with strongHicking on
wire mattress; worth nearly doable 'oar; price.
84-lnch Upholstered Cots, special. . . . ;$2.75
36-inch Upholstered Cots, special. .,, .$3.75
A 54-PIece Dinner Set for 84.65
Fine decorated semi-porcelain. Fifty-four pieces in the set.
Your choice of three decorations. One of the greatest bar-
fains of this August Sale. And look at this
ix 7-inch Plates, Cups and Saucers ,75
Plain white semi-porcelain. Tuesday only. . , , ,
Lowest Prifces
at
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