THE ' OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 3,
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We too ar friend to loyalty.
. Wo lov ' ,
Th king who reapect th law,
respecti hla bounds,
And reigns contont within tbem.
Him w serv . iA . m
Freely and with delight, WOO
leave u free;. ' .v a ' '
But recolleotlng still that ha Is
man,' '. '- , '
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THE atATOIt'S POWER3
i HE Oregonlan says:.
Th cltlxen la to determine on
Jnna 1 whether ha 1 to veat In
Mr. Albea or Mr. Rushlight, or
rt. viiahr. r Mr. MeKenna, or
Mr. 1 Smith. the Immefte . powr of
' supremo dictator of Portland municipal
affair. For that la what the mayor
alty under tha new cnarter
Portland la to be ruled by an olt
' rarchy, and the mayor la to by the
benevolent, aeapoi. . wui.uio.
runa everythlnr, and tha mayor rune
tha commission.
Tha next mayor of Portland will
not bo a "supremo dictator." Ho
will not bo a "despot" He will not
"rtm the commission." -
, Under the new charter, the mayor
has less power than nnder the old.
No mayor hat been a "supreme dic
tator"! under the old charter. Nor
. has any mayor been a "despot" Nor
has any mayor run the council, ;
Tho Oregonlan ought not to, mis
represent the provisions of the new
charter. Even the exigencies of its
aggressive mayoralty campaign
. ought not to tempt It to go to such
length. There will be greater be
lief In the cleanliness of Its candi
date It It be cleanly In Its campaign
for him. '
The new charter diminishes the
mayor's power. Under the old char
ter he appointed over forty officials.
Under the new, he appoints none.
They say the authority to assign
their places to commissioners makes
him an autocrat But he had ex
actly the same power of assigning !
, their worfc fto members of the ex
ecutive board under the : old char-
.iter. In addition, he appointed tne
executive hoard. Thus, he had In
administration, all the powers he
now has, and.: had In addition the
naming of his administrative board.
Under the new charter, the people
name the executve board, which Is
the four commissioners.
In legislation, the mayor has less
power ; than formerly. He has no
veto under the new charter. He had
it under the old.
- Under the new, he exercises one
fifth the legislative power. Under
'the old, his veto could only be over-
' ridden by ten councllmen, a fact
that gave him as much legislative
power as two thirds of the entire
council. In actual effect, his legis
lative power under the new charter
Is exactly half what it was nnder
the old, and no more.
Why continue to get up these
scares about the new charter? Is
' not the example of what happened
to Mr. Lombard enough? He tried
' to get up a panto about the mayor's
powers, and it helped to beat him,
The Oregonlan cannot frighten peo-
; pie any more with Its bogy than did
; Mr. Lombard with his.
The sew charter is all right It
'; has aroused more Interest in a city
: election than has been seen in Port-
land over a similar event In a gen-
oration. It has brought more good
: candidates for commissioner into the
field than have sought office in
'Portland in a generation,'
most medical graduates leave school
when they are 28, too late to get
a good start in llfo and too lata to
got all there is in. their profession.
lioys aro now learning the forward
pass at an age when tholr grand
fathers were commanding ships
around the world. ' '
Harvard's president merely
touched upon some of the problems
confronting educators, but be
brought out the necessity of making
education more practical. Vocation
al training, toward which school
systems are.movlng. may be not only
for the boy or girl forced to leave
school to become a wage earner, but
also for the youth who seeks to
enter the .professions.
ROSEBUD PARADE
EVERYBODY will regret the de
cision to abandon the Rosebud
parade at' the coming Hose
The children have always been
the most attractive feature of the
carnival. They have also been
the most Inspiring. , The sight of
the marching little ones has been
memory to remain ', green with
every visitor who .has ever seen the
Rosebud parade. ' .,
Its abandonment Is a blow to the
festival, . The loss of the feature
will be-keenly noticeable when the
festival week comes around.
Possibly there is truth in the
claim that the, annual production
of the r&rade ;was attended Wth
seeking protection for herself, but
protection for her sisters. "The
single standard of morality must be
established in society," she says,
"but. we must get at the roots of
vice and deal with the causes, eco
nomic and social. All those Inter
ested in social betterment welcome
a vice probe, but the ends of justice
and purity are only defeated by cen
tcring on one individual." .
What an indictment of men! 1
I do not wloh my stateniont to be
regarded a a crtttclnm or any one, but
I do feel that tha publto mind la now
inclined to look at thla atimtlon In
Its real light and to eta the moral
Issue underlying the whole Question.
It is to be hoped that Miss Bixby's
faith is justified. Her argument
cannot be controverted. Her sacrl
flee is womanly. '
Society 'is too busy punishing its
petty thieves. A two-dollar pup is of
more ' consequence to some people
than an Innocent girl. The pups
value is measured in round dolurs;
the girl's value in hope. But could
we expect to convict thieves before
juries of thieves? : There Is a single
standard in thievery. Why not in
morals? V '.
It Is ho hew, proposition; the laws
are on the books awaiting somebody
to Invoke them. Law Is effective
when backed by public sentiment.
Miss Blxby thinks she sees a rising
tide. . .
Men cannot be sacrificed by
wholesale, is objected. Man, good
men, have been sacrificed by whole
sale to save black skins and half.
savages. Why not save Innocent
Utters From the Peopfo
great difficulty. All things worth
while are always attended with 31f-' girls?
But miss Bixny does not accorl
ficulty.
The whole- festival Is produced
with difficulty but It Is worth the
price.
TOO MUCH -RIGMAROLE
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CURVES OP BEHAVIOR
SPEAKING In Denver last week.
President Lowell of Harvard
university made a plea for
youth. "We hare six curves
i of behavior for boys entering col
i lege at the ages of fifteen to twenty-five
years,' he; said. '"The older
they enter the worse is their conduct
- and the poorer is their college
work."
He was Illustrating the advantage
of assisting a boy to select a life oc
cupation in early age. The boy who
is heading for college should get;
, there as soon as possible, for the
longer he delays the less fitted he
will be for getting full value for
the time he spends at college The
same rule applies,-in some degree,
to the boy who Is seeking an occu
pation in life.
Theref is small aground for ques
tioning President Lowell's advice In
view Isfinodern conditions ohfront
s, lng the boy starting out to fight his
own way In the world. It U an age
of specialists,' and the man who
finds his specialty early in life has
the greater, chance of success. He
wastes less time and energy and he
accumulates more useful experience.
The necessity of specialization, the
-end of vocational training, is more
apparent than ever. '"The study or
medicine and law illustrates this,"
;'h said. "There are physicians now
who -will not look at a patient un-lc8lheIness-Isn)eteen-the7aW'
and the lungs." .
President Lowell was somewhat
impatient with mothers and doctors.
i:a tl&med them for the, fact that
IGMAROLB and middlemen' are
the bane of modern life. Rig
marole continues Its senseless
circling while middlemen are
grabbing the lion's share. In or
ganizing everything, everything has
been everorganlzed. Even charity,
"the greatest of these," has been or
ganized by rigmarole until It often
defeats its own purpose.
Word comes from- St, Louis that
Floyd J.Slover, manager of the City
club, a philanthropic organization
aiming .to "better mankind," testi
fied before a wage Investigating
committee that the club never considered-
the welfare of Its women
employes. ,
An Illinois legislative committee
developed the fact that nearly two-i
thirds of Chicago charity is diverted
to middlemen fat salaried officials
and ponderous administrative machinery.
Charity, the world over, is too
often a passing impulse, a whim, a
social function. . Organized itharlty
Is for the purpose of utilizing these
perlodlo floods by storing them In
reservoirs, to be drawn upon when
the stream runs low. But organiza
tion has brought rigmarole and mid
dlemen. The worthy poor are still
poor and worthy. How can mem
bers of the city club have patience
with themselves? Presidents and
congressmen are Invited to speak to
them on how to better mankind.
Yet the club's manager says $7.50 a
week Is the least amount that will
support a woman and the tlub
pays $5, crediting itself with two
meals a day.
Rigmarole Is withholding help by
men who think they are willing to
give it These men are like the self
confessed patriots who meet peri
odically to extol virtues of ances
tors, and pay little or no heed to
today's call for real patriots ready to
fight today's battles.
The Chicago situation takes on
a different aspect, but it is -almost
as ridiculous. Business and indus
try are being captioned against over
organization. There is no doubt as
to the need of organization in char
itable work, but organization must
not eat up charity, or any consider
able part of it.
"., There Is a stronger argument
against over-organization. The or
dinary person these days la inclined
to shift responsibility. A contribu
tion to organized charity usually re
lieves the giver, in his own mind,
of further responsibility to the poor.
Organized charity is taking the place
of personal alms, and quite proper
ly. But the middlemen between
kindness and want must be kept
down to the smallest possible num
ber. . ; :
Let the worthy poor continue
full value to Individual prosecutions.
From her point of view they are
persecutions, but u n't 1 1 the time
comes when crime Is run down and
law is enforced, girls must be con
tent with whatever protection is
given them.
It would be a crime to cast an
unnecessary shadow upon that sis
ter's hope, but events hardly war
rant her optimism. Three 'Oregon
supreme justices have made pun
ishment of moral perverts practical
ly impossible.
land Is Just entering upon expori-
enco. Tho opportunity Is here to
make it a nlcasant retrospect Port
land miiHt stnrf rlrht. nn the vliid
4 i j (foniromilretlon tnt fo Ths Journal fat
qutruuuu, wv uui, uvt cjvo uu piiuiHdtinti in this dirtiniut dUnuld I writ-
ears with the excuse that vice has " i'"1'0"' Vf. !? p"!.M,r' h.,,u.'i
always CXlfjted. It hflS existed, and ooninltl lr the name and adlrM of the
h l.ri. Ha. nr. nrr.arlnir frr writer OoMl not dealre to Bft
I iiu s nvw miw jtvi'WMMfj i ft9
iiiftlor fmerktlons fb rid themselves
of a itrowth that could have beorf Mrs. Dunhvay Defines Position.
prevonted. , Portland, Or.. May J3.--TQ the Editor
JL, a a r tim tt,itiMJ 1 9 Tn Journal As I aaw In a recent
tun.auu u,.od V4. iisRue or your valunble newapaper that
thought on the vice question." Yet, you had honored ma by name with print-
Wisconsin, with a later start in the f oriticiama I wish to aay in reply
mr tnr mnralltv vrv nearlv e- 1ft " would be Imposalbfe for me to
curea a jaw ia.ni. ween, yvvyiuiun uenoy to follow the Incllnationa or ad
that nroDertv knowindy used or v'ce of any set of would-be leadera.
loftsed for purposes Of prostitution ,'f fw;rf0 penned. Prominent
ouuu.u u "v..v w v... I CHUB. UmO(ira ' I'l-(h(hllnnll iml
Wlaconsln: with lta lars:e "lib- Progressives, have ur-d ma bv letter.
eral", element, is awake to the rav- ,ppwllSn(l iy t1Phon'
to favor their candidacy for placea on
ages of Vice. Wisconsin knew, even the new charter, aa it was proposed to
before the Rockefeller bureau re- catch our votea on primary day. alieKin-
port was prepared, that the only er- reaaon mat they nad cast
foctive ( method of suppressing vice ?
is to hit Vices pocketbook. v . thank these gentlemen and all patriots
v vrina 4a tiA inaa aorlnna a' rl I bad ha for doing; their duty toward women on
In Portland hcaue It has not )hti ,mni,0rtai occasion, it la manifestly
in I ort ana Decause i dm not imp08albia( ven M u iWM9 -Mrtr,w;
reacnea mo acuie stage, woai rori- ror an women to vote to please all of
land needs . Is a, .commissioner OI inem. xne equal surrrage amendment,
. ..l.ii. .. .(..' -.in I wniun DOiiea over BJ.uuo votaa from man
,v,- -,m a. - i of all parties, would not have won jput
tlves when they will do some goo.l. W it had relied for aucceea upon the
votera of any one party or the adher-
A FIT APPOINTMENT . fr n? f"? iue. Womaa-dld ppt
i , laeek the ballot to cut themselves in
n TTITTFR 'annolntmant Mnld leadlng tr'n- The man who marriea
O FlTTEIv appointment COUld a wprnun, believing that for that tea-
N
WHY BE AMUSING?
M.
C. REED has withdrawn as
a candidate for commission
er. The number still afield
Is seventy-five.
Now, If about fifty more would
gracefully quit, the ballot would
look like civilization and the elec
tion resemble sanity. It would save
fifty men from continuing longer
as town jokes, save fifty families
from disappointment, and release
the friends of fifty Impossibles to
vote and work tor candidates who
have a chance to be elected.
It would probably make no great
difference In th final result There
are fifty who are absolutely without
chance of election. Their names
will scarcely be visible In ' the elec
tion returns. The whole movement
of the campaign is away from them.
A concentrating Impulse is in the
direction of a small group.
What's the use of being a forlorn
hope? What's the use of being a
comic opera? Why be amusing?
have- been made than is that son she should always bend her will to
nt X.nnia F.'Poar nf Chlfitien. to I fa own., soon learns that there la but
'the 'position of "first assistant "5 Li.l11"! "
secretary in me aeparcmeni oi laoor, would be worth a farthing; to herself
at Washington. ; or tier country If she were obliged to
No man of his time has displayed 7h.,. tlJl1 "Z
a. ueeper uuu urwauer interest a i understanding.
the welfare of man. His broad sym-f While 1 have not advocated the can
nothina fn thn. mm m nn nf f h I dldacy of any man In our present muni
egacies he received at birth, and tn, only ona h0 wa. ,. nomin.ted
which rose to dominate his life after on primary day, of whom in Justice to
his career had been pitched for a tho public I wish to aay a word." To
Inn humanitarian fnnpHnn In th I """'n BuuwifUKO vr. u. vicioria
less humanitarian function m tne Hampton isn't the least bit of a crank.
practice or tne law. Asa temperance woman aha la not a fa.
He became a publicist, and as ed- htlc- A RPuWean she la not an
a -..t-ii-i..- l. n..t.u- . offensive partisan. As an expert chem-
Chicago, has exerted a wide and been turned out of a church for slander-
mellowing influence on human af- Inst her pastor and has never tried to dl
fgi-g vert the equal suffrage movement from
Its legitimate channel Into a narrow
His purpose will be harmonious current that prohibits the success of the
With the spirit Of a department of equal suffrage cause wherever tt la sup-
ferleral rnvprnment which is de- p0ed t0 be tron'- Nor has She ever
ienerai government wnicn ia ue .t-ndarad th mothr r th .n,.,i af.
voted to the interests of American frage movement by accusing her of be
workers. No man could more fitly lng "aold to whiskey." The counsels of
exemplify the generous and peaceful P1hJrriJ" nd, cheml8t J". Pr- "tmf
, . . 1 . . , tone attainmenta are needed In the city
aioi oi wiw new uHiUl. council and If the votera of tha city do
.No man could more fitly typify their: duty aha win be triumphantly
rxt Amorlnnn llhnr I elected.
ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAT.
THE BIBLE IN SOIOOL
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The Selection of the Fit
Portland, May 22. To the Editor of
HAT the world has moved for- The Journal There la . aome confusion
ward during the last quarter regards the legality or tne charter
1 , ,,,.,,, j t. ,. aa amended and granted by the aov-
century Is illustrated by a law tre,Kn powep of peop ExiBtlag
Just signed by Governor Tener political conditions demanded a
of Pennsylvania providing for Bible change, ao aa to reduca expenses and
reading in the public schools Sep- IZJZ
aranou ot cumuu auu bmi-o " public cribs without recourse of the tax.
of the underlying principles of payer to lay tha blame on any partlou
American government, but PennsylT par officeholder. The majority of the
vania haB reached a stage in her l1" T"LBU "" "
... II i n it
m"r"l-; . RICH COLLECTOR SCORNS PUBLICITY
tees for children to listen to some
ter aiiicndiiu'iita did so not because
they did not want the commlMHlon form
of government, but to enter a protest
agalnitt certain sectlona and conditions
which do not meet the requirements of
good government. Home lawyers
helped frame it. Now othors want to
quuHh It. claiming It Is unnonHtltutlon
al and will not statu! the legal test
They will find that the legal test end
the last court of appeal la the sover
lgu power of the people's will, and not
the lawyers, who are eternally oulb;
bllng over technicalities, precedents;
exemptions, distinctions, contradiction
and very often fictions to suit the" case
Instead of Bound common sense, Judg
ment and Justice. However, most ut
terances from treat legal mtnda, are
not auppoeed to be understood by tin
common people. Admitting that the
new charter la a Jumbled up' affair
aa tn fact a great many of our laws
are, which are framed by our lawyers
purposely to causa contention and end
less lltiaatlon all tha faulta can -be
eliminated and suitable provisions sub-
tltuted to meet tha requirements,, ana
hi tie u tne, peopia eiect patriotic
men of sterling character and Integrity,
who will revise and amend tha ooarter
to ault tha New York' of tha Pacific,
One good feature of the new form of
government la tha elimination from
the ballot of partisan politics. In fu
ture.. principles and not privilege will
be the candidates mainstay. True pat
riotism lone will avail. ;
The committee of 100 or any other
committee will find they tiave a hard
and delicate taak on their . hands, a t
no candidate will incriminate himself
nor give out anything that would be
detrimental to nia weitare. jxor win
It be policy for them to name any par
ticular number of candidate, aa the
people might look upon it with sus
plcion. , Tha process should ba the
elimination of unfit' by publishing a
true, unbiased, unprejudiced record 0
their past lire, t.ielr moral oharacter,
ability and earning capaolty; what they
have accomplished, for tnemselves;
how they have benefited tha public,
and can they earn the salary In any vo
cation outside of politics?- Are they
broadmlnded and patrlotlo enough to
eliminate Melt and selfish interests?
Have they te stamina to carry out
meaaures that will benefit tha people
as a whole irrespective or any inter
ests T. Are they nen who can get results?
Yet they must take Into considera
tion that there are many men who have
never had the chance to show their
Intrinsic value, who might make the
best kind of commlvslonera.
Let ua have the truth, ao that each
and every voter may know the caliber
of the candidates and vote for those
whom common sense and conscience In
dictate aa the beat fitted to govern the
affatra of tha greatest and most beau
tlf.ui city In tha far west W. H. a.
Disagrees With Mr. Gerber.
Portland. May H To tha Editor of
Tha Journal I have read tha letter of
Joseph R. Gerber, published In The
Journal yesterday, concerning the talk
on the preferential ayatem of voting
given by A.E, Gebhardt on Tuesday eve
ning. I was present when thla lecture
was delivered and to my mind It waa
very fair and clear presentation of the
irfatter, and I have heard tha same com
ment made by others who were present
Mr. Gerber's letter Itself shows that ha
has not yet aucceeded In grasping the
situation; nameiy, tnat, although there
may be only 1000 voters, there still may
be S000 votes cast, and that It Is votes
and not tha votera that are counted; and
It aeems to ma his remarks about the
apeaxer are entirely out of place.
Da JAMES A WHITHL
THE MISSIONARY AND A
NEW. REPUBLIC ,,
ENDING WHITE SLAVERY
T
good literature once a day. . ;-"("r5 ? wha hMfl.
Thirty years ago the fight against himself:
the Bible' In "public schools was at Charles I Freer la a rich man in pe-
118 SSin ET.T1T Bta8 his offlceV.cuVty long eTougVtoet
prohibited it. But after the trouble ,. nama on ev.ry first page In Christ-
began to cool down it, was discov? endom. Then-hedlffldently retreats
ered that the disturbance waa more Into the gloom. Between tlmea an af
in the nature of a language fight JSJSl
than a religious quarrel. granted to explorers around the South
HE coming election of a com- It will do every boy ana gin a rJLVVlJZ
mlssioner of public safety, to I world of good, Intellectually and fcme; gnitM an4 10Boiariy flt
have charge of vice sup-' morally, to hear a few verses from over the "Freer gospels" a sheepskin
presslon in Portland, makes the Bible each day. Pennsylvania manuscript which contains a new ver-
.1,1 or-a tn holm on rn-1 oiuu Ul wo ivouoi ui oi. mum, ui.
7.tt'7"" W..TU "' John, and St. Luke. Freer bought it
ponuuiij tu iiuyiuro men uu.uu. slx yeaj8 ago in Egypt aa a curiosity,
Now It turns out to be of inestimable
Tin Snlotn .Tmirnni tins tnrnnn I value.
.ignt years ago too worm, ouisiub vt
of interest locally, a report by the
Rockefeller bureau of social hy
giene just ' issued, Many of the
underlying causes of vice are com
mon to all cities. The report Is
the result of an investigation 'into
vice conditions in New York, It
strikes at the heart of the white
slave, problem. It will be of great
value to Portland's new commis
sionejr ,. of public safety, if the new
commissioner is a person of capacity
and conscience.
The bureau says vice exists in
the United States because It is fos
tered by a class of lndivdiuals who
profit from vice. Poverty, low
wages, ignorance, are put in the
class of contributory causes. The
pander, the procurer and the resort
keeper, all of whom are out for
profit, are the chief cause of white
slavery, says the report. White
slavery In all its ramifications ha3
been turned Into a gigantic business,
Its profits are enormous.
It would be criminal to cast aside
these findings on the plea that Port
land does not recognize vice as do
most of the eastern cities. If any
Its X-Rays upon uregon pontics, Detroit, heard of Freer for practically
with the resultant diagnosis: From the first time. Then he offered a mil
indications the commission form of Hon and a half dollars worth of art and
government has come to stay, and Jh to the smith wian intatioiuO
0 . . . . course, he had been In print before.
wiill be the rule in Oregon before There was the time the dallies of Lo-
long. It can't be worse and conse- gansport, Ind.. bewailed . In print the
nuentlv must be better than . the pro-babijlty that poor Charley Freer
present system." Come on in the
water's fine in the new BWimmin'
hole!
the, most sought-rfor of European
decorations.
worthy, but not hungry. Happily .body thinks vice does not exist in
not all the organized charities are
overburdened with an officialdom.
ffl'
OTHER BISTERS "
ISS FANNY W. BIXBY of Long
Beach, California, whose mil
lionaire brother is under in
dictment on a charge of con
tributing to the delinquency of two
girls, has made a notable contribu
tion to sound doctrine on suppres
sion of vice. Miss Bixby Is a prac
tical student of sociology, and has
had much experience in Juvenile
court and independent work among
girls and women. Question her sis
terly qualities, If you will. But, re
member she knows something about
girls and men. '
Listen to Miss Bixby:
If ,my brother, George H. Bixby, j
wem iu mo juuquii iuuiTimg nouse, ie
waa .not the only one who did ao. A
vlca probe should be a vice probe, and
not a one-man persecutlon.i:yery
man who participates In the. Social evil
contributes to th delinquency of aocle
ty, and should be accorded hla chare
or responsibility, when, however, oria
man is singled out among hundreds
seems very strange to all who desire
a fundamental and radical reform.
- Whether Miss Bixby has. a sister
is Immaterial; she believes ia the
sisterhood of womin. 8he in not
Portland, that, person should have
visited the district attorney's office
the other day. The office jwas filled
with fifty or sixty girla, and1 women
rounded up In raids the night be
fore. There w,ere hard-faced painted
Jezebels by the side of young girls,
some still carrying the look of inno
cence. Chairs were too few for
them; some had to stand.
Spasmodlo raids have not stamped
out vice; nor will they. Portland
needs a commissioner of public
safety who will strike at .the root
of the evil.-
"What of the boy?" asks the' Chi
cago Tribune in discussing the re
port The Tribune asserts that slavery
of girls begins with the ruin of
young boys. The boy, innocently
looking for amusement, is inveigled
into vice and then sent out to prey
upon his girl acquaintances. Of
course, Ahel boy t h o ii 1 d . h a v e
stauncher moral stamina but vice
knows human nature better than
virtue knows it. The boy becomes
would starve to death out in a cold
world, he having Just been boosted out
of his Job as auditor of the Eel' River
railroad. And some years later a dis
creet attention was paid to the fact
Join iue tocai isiu ui nuuur. work, in Detroit to the trust, thereby
Be loyal. tGet and wear a Rose entering Into the enjoyment of some
Festival medal of more signifi- Ioobo millions and unlimited leisure.
fal (k.' o w i ' w
V,(tiit;0 lil JUUi vitu vaiij I gfti5
Freer is one of the most remarkable
art collectors of the United States, His
collection isn't of the wholesale and
White, negro, Chinese afcd Japan- bv the late J, p. Morran. It is con-
ese kidlets play amicably together fined within definite llmita, and within
in (ha PhlldrAti's nark nnnnolfa thA those lines it Is coldly logical. His por-
custom house, while their fondffKSK
mothers watch them from the his gathering of scripture texts la the
benches. imost complete in me nanas or any in.
dividual. He nag a most notewortny
..,11 -hlwAMA T.nafl... rm.aon
"What a man, soweth, that shall Satvlonla, and Central Asian art. A
he also reap But a certain Bill characteristic of Freer la that he knows
Lorimer of Chicago has the con- what he wants. Then he gets it. He
f has owned the "Freer gospel" for six
nuuiiiw uio e years. The news Just kind of leaked
tne wmnwinu ior a second engage 0ut in London,
ment.
spised in measurable comparison
with aallen man? '
"NevTYork, Philadelphia, Chicago,
have Lad their experience; - Port-
Freer's luck began when he lost bla
June, 2 will be remembered as ,n inaiana This waa a rust-eaten, rot
"Bluo Monday" in the lives of. many ten-timbered neighborhood mistake. It
Portlanders who couldn't overcome wa.a so milea long, owned is freight
f , ,,,nA ,ty, cars, six coaches, and two tin tea ket-
tae Ollice llu. , i0 whlrVi Vromr nnsHlonattv asserted
were engines. One of them was at the
plumber's most of the time having it'a
bronchitis plugged. Freer lived in a
. Why Whitman Is Wanted
nvnm th ttt PauI nirfnatch.
They have In New York city at laat. 11f, T0m ?000Atlt.?i" hVn
.. , t ' -.,.i .. i. an oil atove, and adored that frog-nop
It a apparent a prosecutor, who la a aaoa(,; By Md by h.-fiteam auditor.
rea.1 fighter, both 4inafrald of crooka, L,fa Mi M ther gifta for him. -He
and uninfluenced by pull. Charles 6. wouldn't have traded placea with tha
Whitman has certainly made a record Prince of Wales. .
In the police prosecutions which seta The Wabash wrabbed that meagre
him apart as a public servant of undl- angleworm, the Set River railroad, and
vlded loyalty and consecration. Other reorganised Freer out of a Job. The
prosecuting attorneys In New York city world eama to an end fofTilm" right
have made much noise and bluster but there. But 4n order to occupy his mind
have done little to worry the powers be went to Detroit and 'began to build
that prey. . . ' ears.. By and by tha trust bought him
it is almost Impossible to -conceive out. He'a been collecting art and keep,
how powerful weta the forces Whitman lng quiet aver alnce. He la something
had to face,' how varied their arta and mora than (0 years old, and ho haa been
trlcka, what tremendous pressure they a man of large affairs since ha was 80.
could tiiing to bear,-, how many ways And It la believed that he haa not spoken
they had to delay prosecution and to In tha first person to tha publto in all
avoid conviction, Lthat time. Ha la alender, wears a Van
No' wonder New York wanta Whitman Dyke beard, jtnd la a bachelor. Also, he
among hundreda - n.M.. A. twAa .i,. for mayor. Ha tha most retiring man in tha world.
a-jaMaaltaejaalf. aeveaiyen aewld fctiry JraaiaBt. Slf aa gob.4
all who ilpalra Vice. i tanvu nuiuou IU li ue- n.mhra tit
members of the police conspiracy to lets In the whispering gallery at Wash
Jail, the mayor of New .York,, oncal lngton and he'd get out without a tin-
talked about aa a uemocratio candidate kla.
for president Is reading Eplctetua auiet
ly and declaring the New York police! Wonder wliat tha leaders of the I
fore the best In tha, world not qulaUyAf W, W1. woul aay, lfteyweraasked to
work the aort of a day that Yuan Hhl
Kal, tha president of China, does ha-
unuiuiy r Accoraing to uon Luia Fas
tor, the Spanish minister to China, who
passed through hare on his way to Pekln
the other day, Yuan puts In IS hours a
aay.
He usually rtaea at 4 o'clock In the
morning," said Don Lula to Caaallly
uook or tna New Tor bar, with whom
he waa in, conference here. "After a
light breakfast he goes to his office. He
is usuany engaged with his secretaries
by 6 o'clock in the morning. By 9 o'clook
the rim callers are admitted to audi
ence. Luncheon la aerved about noon,
and la a very' hurried meal. The one
meal of ceremony ia dinner, and even
that Is rushed through, as compared
with the leisurely Chinese custom. Yuan
rarely leaves the office before 11 o'clock
at mgnt.
The one thing that haa most prayed
upon the anti-suffragists here la that In
the suffrage parade "one woman wore
a slit skirt which showed her leg to
the knee." Thla haa been vigorously
denied by some of the auffragettes and
coyly admitted by soma of the younger
Ones but it remained for Kate Jordan
to put a numorous cap upon that charge
"Perhapa ahe did," aald the writer.
?Aa regarda the 'Annette Kellermann
silhouettes,' sty les are no longer what
they were. ... Even with a lawn petticoat
beneath, the moving body would not be
entirety mas (tea. uaa tne paradere been
antia the result would have been the
same. Matching against a breeao the
heinous secret would have been disclosed
that they were bipeds Instead of being
maae soiia uge tn pass or a sideboard.
Mason Peters la aa well known upon
Broadway as the Times building. He
haa a brisk wit, , a happy disposition,
and unlimited leisure; Last winter the
owner of a camp In the Adlrondacka In
vited him to take part in a deer hunt
"Peters went out to hla station one
rrosty morning," aald . hla friend.
"armed with a rifle and a bottle the
latter for use If tha weather became
unbearable. He put the bottle on the
stump, zo ret from the stump behind
which he hid. In 10 hours not a deer
appeared. 80 Peters started for the
bottle. Just as he : reached it a big
buck hopped- across th trail . which
ran between Petera and his rifle.
That was no trick at all.' aald Pet
are. 'Any deer oould get between me
amd my rifle. But I'd like to see the
deer that can get between ma and my
htii.
Seth Low, once mayor of New York
haa met with such financial success In
scientifically farming a boggy and rock
laid place in Westchester county that ha
is trying to rouse other farmers to
their opportunities.
"The secret of auccesa," said Low.
ia in co-operation.
It recalls tha statement made by
Maurice F, Egan, minister to Denmark,
on hla moat recent visit to the United
States. Egan aald that 50 years ago
tha . Danish farmers were practically
bankrupt, because of war and internal
conditions.
"They are mostly well to do now."
said Egan, "because they -have worked
together. The 100,000 farmers have be
tween mem 1009 cooperative societies.
Bacon or butter bearing the- Danish
stamp commands the highest price ev
erywhere. Thla haa been accomplished
In a country only twice tha ause of New
Hampshire, In which the tllraate Ia so
inclement that cows are only allowed
out, of doora 16 weeks In the year, and
Iwhlci'tw-4blrdef4aUitd. hiding
are of less than 87 "acre's, '.rrrrpr-
The man who prefere' quantity to
quality doesn't Stay In penmark," aald
Mr, u.gan. -we len t let. Tne rarmers
cooperate against bad farmers as well
as for better methods."
From the ItouMton Chronicle.
1 The revolution in China and tho con
version of ona of the world's most auto
cratic dynasties Into a republlo la on
of the most remarkable occurrencea of
this wonderful age, '
i It waa apparently quietly done a re
publlo was born ere the world waa awar
of It, "Yet In another sense It difl not
come as a Surprise, because there had
been many premonitory symptoms of
the gathering storm. 1
There had not been many violent re
bellious eruptions, but tt had long been
evident that a spirit of unrest brooded
over that land of teeming millions, and
that there were In China, aa there are
In every land, a few far-aaelrig souls
who catch tho raya of the rising sun of
liberty long before those of dimmer In-
telleotual vision note the coming of tha .
duwn. - , 1 .
Commercial connection and communi
cation with tha western world waa not
sufficient to account for actions so radl- .
clt and results so far reaching.
The royal family of . China traced Its
ancestry back Into the mists of remote
antiquity, and Its autocratic power was
'absolute. It assumed to hold In ! its
hands the power of Ufa and death. - The
persons of the members of the "royal
family were sacred In the ayes of their
Superstitious and obsequious subjects,
upon whoso benighted and bigoted
minds the Idea that any dweller In that
ancient realn had any Inherent natural
right to nartlclnqte In tha .affaire of .
government had never dawned.
The precedents and customs of 4000
years had crystallaed Into law, to Whlob,
every subject of despotlo rule must obey,
but which none dared suggest ahould ba
changed but tha change cama
The- phllosophlo atudent of ; history
need not go far to find the reason. Ha
will find the connection between causes ,
and resulta near at hand. When ha atka
what brought about tha revolution and
guve a new repubrfe to the world, tha
anawer la: The missionary. -
When Ha who spake as never man sptke,
said, "Ye shall know tha truth and tha
truth shall make you free," He wlfn tHa
vision of omniscience looked adown the
aisles of the coming centuries and Hla
words had a meaning of whtch those
who heard Him little dreamed, ,
Lova of liberty la born, of troth.
Whenever men come to know that they
have tha Inherent right to rule them
selves, that no man Is dowered with th
right to rule his fellow men, that all
Just government rests upon tho conaent
of the governed, they have learned th
truth and they will not b content till
that truth has male them free.
Tha missionaries did- not antagonize
existing political conditions. They did
not counsel disobedience to law fiS au
thority, but exhorted their followers to
yield obedience to tha "powers that ba" .
and emphasised precept by example, but
they at tha aame time sowed the seed
of truth from which -millions wer dea
tlned to reap the rich harveat of liberty
and self-government.
The first prealdent of the Chinese re
public, gun Yat Ben, la a Christian and
member of th Episcopal church, and
tho national asaembly la now In aeasion
and the Chinese government has aent
out to tha provincial authorities and th
leadera of Christian churches In China a
request for,prayer for the assembly, for
the new government, for the president
who Is to ba elected, for the constitu
tion of the new republlo and for recognl- .
tlon by th powers and for peace and
for the election of honest and virtuous
men, to office, and that the government
may ba established upon a strong foun
dation.
Buch an appeal from such a sourc
for auch a purpose la on of the moat
remarkable Incident In the history of
th world. The republo may be crude, t
the difficulties whtch confront It may be
great and unquestionably are, th task
of th new leaders la stupendous, but th
way to b traveled will be lighted by
the radiance of th star of thla weatern
republic, and while China may move
alowly toward the light, th Journey will
be accomplished after awhile and tha
haven of constitutional liberty b
reached.
NEWS FORECAST FOR THE
COMING WEEK
Washington, D. C May H. Rumors
are again prevalent that the long-expected
decisions In th Minnesota and
Intermountain cases will be handed
down when the supreme court recon
venes Monday after a two weeka' re
cess. ......
Imposing ceremonies will be witnessed
In New York Friday at th dedication of
tha memorial there, ereoted In honor of
th United State aailora who met death
In th explosion of tha battleship Main
In Havana harbor.
On tha same day there win be dedi
cated Ii the Arlington National Ceme
tery a monument to Major Archibald
W. Butt, who was lost In th Tltanlo
disaster.-
For the first time since th Soldiers'
National cemetery at Gettysburg waa
dedicated fifty eara ago, the Memorial
day address next Friday WU be deliv
ered by a southerner, Congressman. Hef-
Un Of Alabama having accepted an In
vitation to deliver the oration.
The civil suit Instituted by Theodora
Roosevelt againat George A. Newett, a
newspaper editor of Ishpemlng, Mich.,
on a charge of libel will be called for
trial Monday at Marquette. The publi
cation of an editorial atack upon tha
former president la responsible for the
litigation.
President Mellon and Vice Prealdent
McHenry of tha New York, Now Haven
and Hartford railroad are to be placed
on trial at Bridgeport Conn., Tuesday
on a charge of manslaughter in connec
tlon with th wreck af Westport leaf
October, In which several Uvea were
lost
Th national reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans will open Monday
In Chattanooga and continue through th
greater part of the week. Th Sons oi
Veterans and other auxiliary bodies will
hold their annual meetings at th same
time.- .
Events of the week abroad will In- .
elude the general parliamentary eleo
tlona In Australia, the British amateul "
golf championship tournament at Bt
Andrew's, and the delivery of the first
annual Wilbur Wright memorial address '
before the Royal Aeronautical Society
of Great Britain. '
Pointed Paragraphs
A lie Is often more respectable than
th truth.
One hen en a nest Is worth tw
roosters on a roost
-
There's a beautiful statu In every
block of marble, but only an expert,
soulptor can make It com out :;
: " :"';':';' ''' '' -ri f',
Only a Strong minded female can put
hunk of gum in her mouth and refrain
from phewlng U.
; ..jr..,,,. , , tlJl -, ,;,-,,
'And many a woman' ha married g
man to reform him because she Altt
covered him before the foolklller 'found
An Ohio man boasts of having as
umbrella that has been In his possea
sion for mora 'than twenty years.
That's long enough 1 h ought to rv
turn it. - s
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