THE OREGON SUNDAY "JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING ; FEBRUARY 13. 1916.
1IICY OF WATER POVER DEVELOPMENT,
lil:UfipM
CONTROLLED BY FEW POWERFUL CONCERNS
Models to Kepresent
Big Fashion Centers ,
Kiss Kales J gom to- Open Shop Peetur-
. tag Womin'i Wearing Apparel la
This ; City. vj;? ji "I i .-.v f
Mis Helenlgoe. well known on the
Paelf id. coast ' and Jfn - the east, will
open a. hop for" the "presentation " of
Parisian and American models In worn,
ea'a apparel In PorCumd . Wednesday
. A Permanent . store room has been
luxuriously ; fltted fronting ; on , the
Report of Secretary of Agriculture Which .Power Inter
ests' Sought to Have .Withheld from 'Publication Gives- poa
" Proof Situation in "West to be Over-Developed,'
Bf Claude McCollocbv
IlerewUh Is briefly, sketched the Ira
rortant parts of the recent report of
the secretary of agriculture on owner,
ftilp of electrical poweV. In the united
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Heed Smoot, father ronfessor to the
late Portland water, power conference,
and Mother, well known representatives
of the power. Interests In the United
states senate,' have been fighting, vlg-
rously to suppress the report and pre
vent Its publication s a public oocu
roent because It shows so strikingly
the tendency to monopoly-in the elec
trical power field. : Senator Gedf ge IS.
Chamberlain has been 'leading ' the
fight for publication f the document
The Journal is In receipt of advance
c oples of the report, from which -the
following excerpts are taken; -.-,
.', a Otwt Monopoly.' ---
Louis a Brandels t has warned the
country: In his "Other People's Money"
of the, dangers of ' monopoly in th
water ; power "business.,--....Tola report
bears out the Brandels contention to
the full; ; it shows conclusively that
the pqwer of the country, developed
and undeveloped. Is in the hands of a
few men and corporations. The report
eays:.'
"It is. found that eighty-five public
s arrice corporations, through owner
fMp. of properties, majority) owner-
Up of stock lease, or direct manage
ment, control 60.6 per cent of the total
public service "power in the United
ttates. f Thirty-five of these eighty
five . control one-half - of the total;
s ixteen , control one-third; and ten
ontrol one-fourth. Of these tigbty
Hve corporations, ; fifty-nine have
water , power' developments; ' and of
these fifty-nine eighteen control
2,326,531- water horsepower, or more
than : one-naif, of the .total water
rower used in publio service opera
tions in the TTnited States. Of these
eighteen corporations, nine control
more than one-third o the total, and
,six more than one-fourth.
"The character of control, which Is
considered with reference to the above
fig-ares, i definite and complete. It
consists either of actual ownership of
properties, of majority ownership of
stock, pf lease, or 'of direct manage
ment.. Control of undeveloped Water Power.
Undeveloped power, the power in
which the west Is most Interested, Is
also held in a close knit monopoly.
On this subject the report Bays:
. "Time has not been available to
make a. detailed study, of-the control
of undeveloped water power or .to
verify 'the information which has been
collected .. in connection' with other
branches of Inquiry. Such data as
love been secured, however, show that
120 publio service corporations out of
some 1600 corporations, the develsp
jnents of which have been listed In
this report, claim to own or control a
total of ' 3,683,000 undeveloped water
horsepower or 80 per cent of the total
water power at present developed and
used in pnblio service operations."
. .' Over Capitalisation.
- Great values have been' placed on
the - power- aites, far 1 beyond their
aetual cost for purchase and develop
ment, and on these values the public
is compelled to'pay, tribute by way of
increased rates to make up the excess
ive interest charges and necessary
"HODCKIN'S DISEASE"
RARE AILMENT THAT
BAFFLES SCIENTISTS
Due to Malady He Sought
to
i
displayed - productions of American
coe turners In addition to models from
European fashion center.
. Miss Igoe has maintained a ' shop
in Ki f t 1a th ' mi-r vtr nrl
stations, wmcn report an aggrerste i -MB mad frequent visits to ; Portland ;
w 01 mwirai ano a coat per i to handle business here. Her growing
""""' uisiauea ox sxsu, less nn i clientele in Portlandnow warrant her
oua-iuux n xae reported cost ox com- opening a shop in this city, she said, j
acrdai etstlonav While municipal ac-1. -. . . ' - ; !
vuuuiuig IIW SIKB tail lO OCIUUB
tne items of expense properly charge
able against Its undertakings. It is not
probable that any considerable part of
tne difference shown can be explained
on this ground. It is very doubtful If
amounts reported; sr commercial sta
tions as 'cost of construction, equip
ment and real state' represent actual
con at all in tfce ; sense of cash ex.
pendltures or their equivalent. Coats
in this sense have rarely been kept
except in recent year in a few states
under the pressure of public utility
legislation. Furthermore It atmeaxs to
be the general practice of pnblio I H r Lkn TaumaHlp Hni'k
utility corporations to denominate as ciooii o uouuj 10
'cost of . construction the amount
which will make assets eaual . to lia
bilities on their balance sheets. Since
stocks and bonds are carried on such
Balance sheets at par the so-called
coat of coBstrnctidn' la scarcely more
than net capitalisation. In .the ma-1 The death of Tr. John Fawcett last
JOrity of cases it would be more I Tuesday night from whaf id known as
nearly correct to call this item 'as-1 Hodgkln's disease call attention to
sumed present " value of properties' the fact that, while the diuawe is
than to call it 'investment in" or 'cost I familiar to' the medlca orAfeaslon.
or such properties." I very little is known of the orlflrln cf
the disease In the human body and of
A Xoht LiU. I an absolute cure for It.
The Frri. hui i- tnt.n t f 1 Professor E. F. Pernot. city Toac-
cilitate development of power projects teriologist. who has given considerable
on public lands bv srrantine- a. definite " to tne Study Of diseases, says
. m I -V AV. 1 1 f II
term in tne power sites of fifty years. I -"o iw.uk
a th leiTsr n. . I Rlz&Dla br DbysicianjB It la verr. un.
aa vw UV VT Im 1UUI c LiJBkU ttl i '
revocable permit over th nubile landa common, particularly in this country,
can be secured for n- nnwor "The , disease was named .by Dr,
development. The Ferris bill ha been I Thomas Hodgkin in 1823," says rro-
bitterly assailed by "power men" I fr Fernot. "and although it i has
tF. T. Griffith's phrase) on the ground Dcen nown au or tnis time, very t-
that it does not give certain enoueh tl known, as to its cause and its
title and a lone nourh term. The cure.
power men ' want the fee simple titles I 11 Is n infection, you -might say.
to tne power sites if thev can eet or ln lympnauc gianas, more noiice-
thejn. Capital la timid and will not able in those of the neck. It resem-
inveet without a long term and title. I Dle a cancer or tumorous growth as
so iney say. 1 gianas enlarge.
But. astonishingly, the fitnren torn- JPatient Qradnally Strangled.
piled by the secretary of agriculture I Tnls growth, gradually grows larger
show, that large developments have I a tne disease advances until nearly
ENGLISH TEACHER EXPLAINS
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OLO AGAINST . NEW :
CAUSED HIS TROUBLE,
. SAYS J. W. JEFFERIS
Former Franklin -Instructor
?, Explains His Stand In Fight-
; tng Existing System.
ORIGINATED HIS METHOD
Teacher Believes He Xs XHrst "to i
vocate Abolishment of Khetorio
and Orammar la Schools.:-
J. WlUfs Jeff oris
He Predicted Snowstorm
ci
aims Supernatural Powers
that Secretary Lant proposes throug
the Ferris bill to limit the title the
lower corporations may pet in the unappropriated-power
sites to a lease
hold right of fifty years. They cannot
then claim to own. as they now do, a
natural monopoly of great value, and
cannot capitalise it to the consumers'
detriment far above the actual coat.
On this Important point the report
t-av: , - .
"The total investment in commercial
central, stations in the United States
In 1912 as represented by the reported
cost of construction for the year was
over two -billion dollars, equivalent to
C301 per horsepower of primary power
Installation. Zn v marked contrast to
t'.ioie, flguxes are those Tor municipal
Philip GagrvB is a man of 'sorrows.
Every time he gets one of his ex
clusive -advance - hunches regarding
disaster, he begins to grieve. And Tie
has had so many lately. that he won-
H arm vhatKsr m. nrt th wnrlil 1 m nnt
been goinr on on the nublic lands. I the entire neck is circled, although I in oi ..,
even under the wholly unsatisfactory lu most cases the growth will be no- j For Philip has the gift of prophecy.
revocaDie permit eystem. The moral "a as starting rrom a point a snort He haa lt strong. but it is of the in
is. that the power sites are evidently I distance front behind the ears and r
so valuable that capital is attracted extendjng around the front of the cia-d at wm. Kor exmi)le. several
to their development even unoer ires- neck. , , dv hfnr th hir nnv. h wnt
ent adverse conditions.- This shows "As the disease grows worse this down to M Bevan's wood yard and
Secretary Lane to be right, that the I tumorous growth has the effect of a akid-
sites are of such treat value th fee I metal band around the neck and. you .
title should bo retained by the people, might say,, has a tendency to strangle WOod it's going. to snow It wiU be
mce development has gone on indus- I the person and prevent breathing. This a big snow " -
triously under revocable permits it tumorous growth may appear 'any-. pfUi for you" replied the incredu
may certainly be expected to proceed I where, however. 1 1 i ,!
o lAuEiu pruviaiQns ox I ilu liic wirunxnieni ma tils- ; foolish"
ojia um. nisi capum win not s me wane corpaBcues ox ine oiooa,
invest under the Ferris bill Is thus which are in the minority in the
proved conclusively to be a bosrev and I healthv person. Increase and the red
a threat particularly directed against corpuscles decrease.
western people who are anxious to seel "As though you were stnng by a
t nelr COUntry build Ut. Ountlnj fmm h unit th, wh-ft Mirnninl.. fnm, n I
tue report: throw off the poison from the stlne. Met wvan aiur ne. miM w
"Of the l.SOO.000 water hnrMnnwl m th whit, mniwiu nmm get one cord delivered ana said:
developed in the western states in fight this disease. - With the dimin-1 ' It YOU b&ve any wood stacked up
1915. 30 per cent is in plants occupy- ution of the red corpuscles an anaemic!01. Iow roUJ '?" tw' TJfoJS
ing national forest lands with some condition results and in time the suf- , -ulcls- fc We ar2 guing to have a flood
And the Snow Came.
But the snow came. . It came Just
as Philip's inspiration had told him
it would. '
Then, just the other day, Philip rent
saw a picture of rushing waters devr
astation a fertile valley. He felt
a shock, he heard a crash and 'his
head swam, as if he were himself be
ing torn from his habitation and sent
onward on the breast of a tide. , .
"I was suffering Just what thpie
people of the Otay valley were suf
fering, said Gagne. "I never knew
that a dam existed near San Diego,
but when the impression came, I
knew it was San tiego that was to
be "stricken." .. . ' ,
San Away from Some.; I
Gasmo lives at -4694 Sixth street.
He came to Portland - six years - ago
after selling nls property and deciding
Oregontq be the land of plenty. That
impression, he says, was gleaned from
the rosy literature ' sent him by .the
O-V1" R. & N. But Gagne is 64 now
and there are not enough Jewelry fac
tories to make employment in his line
. . . ... . v. Mj 11 ei,uc V- Mia . .
I don't know how I do it," admit secret grudge against an educational
part power house, water conduit, or I f erer dies.
diversion reservoir of the immediate iMseaee Tong i XJnratioiu
generating plant. Twelve per cent "The duration of the disease varies,
more are directly dependent upon however, from a few montns to a year,
storage reservoirs owned bv th nnr. Ti onm int,iuw, . ir .
ating companies or by their subsidi- known in its early stages, it may -be
dividends..--It is to stop this practice anes, and constructed on national f or- combatted hut in the advanced stages
ighpi 'a"u. 01 power develop- I little can bo done for the person af-
GRAY
TEA TURNS
HAIR
DAR
K
Tf Mixed With Sulphur It Dark
ens So Evenly That It Can
not Be Discovered.'
, to? '
That beautiful, even shaue or dark.
ssy hair can only be had by brewing
mixture of . Sage Tea and Sulphur.
ur hair la your charm. : It makes or
rs the" face. - When it fades, turns
y, streaked and looks dry, wispy and
aggy. Just an application or two of
-o and Sulphur enhances its appear-
a a hundredfold.. r : .;
on't bother to s prepare the . tonic;
i can get. from any drug store a 6ft-
t bottle of "Wyeth'a Sage and Sui
jr .Compound, ready to nee. VThis
i always, be depended; upon to bring
the natural color," thickness and
-re of your hair and remove ;dan
: stop scalp itching and falling
verybody uses "Wyeth's 8ag and
. hur because It darkens so natural
nd evenly that nobody can tell it
-, t een applied. You simply dampen
onge or soft brush .with it and
v this through the hair, taking one
.1 strand at a. time; by morniag the
v hair has disappeared, and after
'.er application it becomes beautl
- dark and appears glossy, lustrous
: bundant. ' ' '
mxn- ,1... una T . " . I '
tMining uuosu zorest i flictea.
l!ir, ,uas". w W r the "The exact cause of the disease is
IIZIJ iopea power or tne western unknown. It may he by San outside in
states. Nearly 14 per cent in addition faction or a bruise or form as does a
i.i upi.-n puohc ianas outside I wurt rttir tt Iomim i..a. hiii
thA natlnnal r . I . .u v ' u
- . reservoirs con- ticularly if it results -in the enlarge
structed upon such lands. Piftv-six h,mni,.ti. fw-
-t.tl- L,,-t ol . l wew "It also causes an enlargement of
-' wvwaawav -vsr u airaoxiw ns i i i s.. s
Srne vJmtL BtZlZ. LVV Jnd" Kn in the upper part of the abdotninal
nanS- an?n 1 J.BUC OCm" cvlty the of the stomach. Here.
ErtinT uw- ntlionsed under sx- of courser it is not nearly so readily
It lA . ' I 3V"tb iwacu - an. rriicu a v aviW'v'aO fLaJO
..,i,j,m.m urows Apace. I glands of the neck.
Aven in. tne last few vea whlln -Unito-uirj'a i)im i nn
ine power narons nave been bewailing few diseases the mysteries of which
inai iney were unable to flnanr. fur. tho ni,rfimi ,ion. hi. r
uevciupraeri unless rreed from to satisfaction."
governmental restrictions, new power
anes nave oeen goopied up and their
development pushed. In comparison
with the -rest of the country power de
velopment in the western states has
gone iorward at an am art no- na m
this connection the report reads:'
in tne eleven western states in
cluded within the Vaciflo and
i . groups, primary power installa
tion zrom an sources and for all cses
Increased 840 per cent from 1903 to
1912 .or mors than two and a half
times as rapidly as in the remainder
am uniteo. states. In primary
power equipment. pr capita "the west
ern states during the same period
added nearly twice as much to their
which the average annual additions
for the last three years have been ap
proximately twice as great ' as the
average for the preceding firs years."
Western Power Over Developed.
To cloud the issue and fool the peo
ple, a great hullabaloo haa been raised
by friends of the power men that con
servation is holding back the western
country. As shown oy this report the'
facts' are that there is more" power
and a big one.'
Bevan chortled agalnv Now we 'have
the flood.
So, you see, the old saying regarding
the prophet in his own country is
again vindicated. . ;
Gagne used to live in the east, where
he worked for 30 years as a Jewelry
maker. It was thus that he first knew
he had the portentous faculty o fore
vision." :- :-
The steamer Larchmont was cruis
ing along in the seft within sight of
"the Gagne home. .
Ship Sinks as Predicted.
"That ship will sink tonight off
Block Island," croaked Gagne to his
wife. "I feel it."
"Philip hush; how can you say.
those things?" asked his , wife with a
But that night the-Xarchmont went
down and with her 200 human souls.
From that time forth the impressions
of disaster-kept coming-; The last
one came the other day when Gagne
ted Gagne. "I am not a crofessoW
of religion ; 1 1 am not a .New Thdugbfj
1st; I am not a Spiritualist. If thesoi
prophecies come from some peculiars!
mental trait, i aont. Know what ifca
could be. I have never studied mend
tal scfence! I am uneducated; I ra"f
away rrom home when I was a bovj
in Quebec because r didn't like to gr
What of J. Willis Jeff eris?
He . was a teacher . of English ; at
franklin- high school. . '
' He resigned to escape dismissal and
other .trouble.
He views his trial and resig
nation as .the temporarily ' success
ful i thrust of the old against the
new, and that the injury to him is not
personal, but because he . represents
ideas.
To his students ;-he said, "Forget
your . text books " on erammar i and
rhetdric and learn English by reading
Etevenson, modern authors and current
literature. ' . -
Text Books Scored.
"No great man ever condescended to
write a text book, and the authors of
technical texts on grammar - and
rhetoric are penny-a-liners ' compared
with authors whose work is published
in the "Saturday Evening post
His superiors the supervisor, the
principal and the superintendent were
aghast. They named his method heresy.
"The formal charges cited Jefferies for
evil influence, -incompetence and In
subordination.
When the situation warmed up and
he was brought to trial, he referred
to his accusers as "crustaceans and
mastodons."
The metaphoric epithets contained
perhaps the inner secret of the whole
ruction.
. Jeff eris was impatient .with the
pedagogues whom he thought, barked
back to a dim and dead past for .their
formulae to use in training the youth
. And his- superiors, who are included
in the sweeping criticism without
doubt, resented what they construed
as an attitude of seir assumed superi
ority and held more tenaciously than
ever, perhaps, to their creed that lifs
without rules is naught, and rules
must be learned first, then life.
The charges and the trial before
the officials . of the school system,
dwelt upon the allegations of insubor
dination and Incompetence so exclu
sively and made the thing : the : man
was trying to do so incidental, to. his
infraction of the established order,
that the question, for very lack of
utterance, asserted Itself the more
strongly? - '
What Was Purpose?
What seal; possessed Jeff eris mind?
" What was his motive?
Did he want publicity and cheap notoriety?
Was be endeavoring to vent some
to school. I Just can't tell yoa wot
a vuw t. i uvau.v ,u uioaoicia art
coming.", '
Earthg.nake Xs Poreseen. t,
, Gagne doesn't pretend to be able "ttN
lorecast disasters atfwiir. Lots of
them get away from him. He cannot
sit down, contract his brows, put his
t inger on his forehead, gaze into -a
crystal ball and get an impression of
evil.
But he claims to have forecasted
the Messina earthquake. ; I '
"Think of the, thousands of lives
that" could have been saved If I had
been able to tell them over there what
was going - to happen and if they
would have- believed me. But people
don't believe me at ail-when I peak
of ; the Impressions of vil that ,1 'gefc
Those impressions- have never' failed
yet. I wish I didn't, have them."
Verily, Rocky tke Stool Pigeon s Pa tk
e.
st
Lawyers ; Despise Tkem, B ut Use Thefxk
i : .
How wbuld you like to be a stool
pigeon in these stormy days of boot
legging trials?
Thr never was and never will oe
I a closed season on "informers. When-
developed in the west today than VJtJriT
find a market. It is not true that 1 It. n t,Mt vortifitfa
great development would at once fol- 4"1 V ?.TZZ.r I'TsSi
thrown ; al .- .... . - -
low if the power sites were thrown
thi 3t U. H?n 88 h -emalnder of They would be grabbed up quickly
If LLn"fd Statesand had an installa- I enough but for speculation only, to be
tion at the-end of the period one-third
man ior tne remainder of the
United States. This comparison , in
cludes primary power used directly in
manufactures, 94 per cent of which is
iouna in tne central and
states. j
eastern
enough but- for speculation only, to be
held out of use until the country grew.
In this connection the report says:
There is at the present time a con
siderable over f development in nearly
all the power centers of the western
states. . California, Oregon and Wash
ington in particular show installations
far in excess of maximum demands.
While there are doubtless many re
mote ' sections where - small -. amounts
"If a comparison is made of the de
velopment of electric power in the
western states and the remainder of
the United Htntu .
while primary power employed in the of r ould be used if it could be
electrical -iniitrJtJ2I-m.-zvMt. reasonable expense, the
cent in the remainder of the TJnited
States, in the ten year8' 1902 to 1912.
it increased 440 per cent la the west
em states, or nearly twloe ' rapidly,
waiie the development per capita, in
the western states la 19 la was two
and a half v times as great as la the
remainder of tae United statu
ll water power be consider, statistics cited in ; the report.. The
from aU : other source's of power, the J tot1 of both developed and . undevel-
"ra,u - are iound to occupy a
stll more commanding position While
water power-development in tal re
mainder of the TTnited States increased
98 per cent from 19oa to 19ia, x in
creased. 451 per cent in , the western
western states in : general have : more
power than they are ftbie to 'dispose
of and the demand i for more market
rather than for more power." ' -. - .
Prepomderamee of the West.
What an overwhelming Interest the
west -has In the proper solution of the
water power question is shown by the
Af nl?Mn. Then, after he has Daggea
the game, the legal light goes to his
neighbor and confesses that:le hated
to do-it. - He. the attorney, admits
that the stool pigeon is a necessary
evil. - ' - , t
Pages and ; pages of ancient ana
modern law books are filled with in
formation as to liow much i weight
Juries and Judges should not give t3
testimony of informers and profes
sional witnesses., It was John Mc-
Cue, defending George Scbults
week, who resurrected 13 volut
each containing a separate and.
tinct roast on the stool pigeon. ':
While Attorney Farrell was seari
ing he innermost .x crevices ; of i
brain to find words -with which
express his ' contempt..: for Joe Singi
in the course . of argument , beforel
Jury on ' behalf of W." O. Ttfannin) ,
associate?
Why was" he toot content to insure
his Job by remaining quiet and incon-
snicuous. true to the rote or tne texts
and obedient to the rules laid down for
him? . ,
Waa it Dossible that in education he
was fired with a dream of reform and
was willing to lay upon the altar his
own comfort ; and security, as some,
have done for religion and others for
political freedom? -
: Says Be Pioneered Plan,
rHow much of your method did you
originator he was asked. ,
-I belieye that I am the first. Eng
lish teacher publicly to urge the total
abolishment of grammar and rhetoric
in the grades and high schools."
He did not claim authonslfip of the
idea that English is better taught with
out these texts. t
President Wilson, while at Princeton,
be said, believed that the teaching of
English was such a'total failure that
it should be abolished. ;
He spoke of the stuyvesant high
school of "New -York, that uses the In
dependent, a current publication, in its
English work, and r of other- schools
that similarly employ the Literary, in
gest. Spokane, and San Diego schools
use newspapers and magazines. ..
. Systems Are Compared.
With -this liberty he contrasted his
Own. typewritten instructions issued by
the- supervisor of his department, tell
ing how many pages of grammar and
rhetoric must be covered in a given
period. -'
"There were excluded from our class
rooms by the principal." he said, "the
rollowlne magazines: Saturday Even
ing Post, Literary Digest, American
and Current Opinion. V '
'"Why,. 0 per cent of the time of
students in the .lower grades and high
schools is taken by technical grammar
and rhetortc," he exclaimed.
Such . selections .of good English
ijtomposition as are assigned for study
rT n,ni,rv . Thpra are so manv
MRS. S. S. SPARKS HAS
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Play Composed by One of
, Members to Be Feature of
- the'Meeting Wednesday,
PRODUCTION f IS . SATIRE
Present Method of Giving Credit and
the Sesulta That Follow Are Strlk-
lagly Illustrated. " .
3Irs. Barilla Sparks
Forest Grove, -Or., Feb. 12.- Mrs. Ba
rilla Spurgeon Sparks, who recently
celebrated her - 75th- birthday anniver
sary, is one .of the best known plo
neers of this section. A large num
ber of. her friends 1 called.', to con
gratulate her. - .!'..,"-- :.
Dixon, Progressive;
Outfor.G.0. P. Place
Montanan Thinks Progressive aad Be-
pnblloans - Should TTnited f or Xooae
velt to Bring Trinmph.
Missoula, Mont.,-Feb. 12. (U. P.)
Joseph M. Dixon, former United States
senator from k Montana and until re
cently ' chairman of the Progressive
national committee, today onnounced
his candidacy as a delegate to the
Republican' national convention to be
held in Chicago in June. He declared
that he believes both the Progressive
and Republican - conventions should
unite in the 'nomination of Theodore
Roosevelt as candidate of a reunited
and trimphant -Republican party. .
In his formal announcement Mr.
Dixon declares that he is not acting
with the knowledge or consent Cf
Roosevelt, and that he is taking this
ctep on his own personal responsi
bility. i0
U. S. Being Robbed
In Panama, Charge
Washington, : Feb. 12. I. N. S.)-i
The United States is being "robbed"
of between $18,000,000 and $17,000,000
through a too liberal attitude on - the
part of the Panama-United States
Joint land commission, 'according- to
statement - here today by , General
George W. Goethala. ttravagant
payments he told the house com-H
merce committee, are being allowed
private' land owners whose property
is needed for canal purposes, i .
"Squatters" without legal title have
been enriched. General Goetbals sug
gests that legislation . be enacted to
compel payments to - be of the .value
of, those of; 1903 when' the Panama
canal none was acquired. He also asks
for the introduction of a bill abolish
ing the Joint commission. - vi-
"The . commission, said General
Goethals. "has taken the ground that
Paneumalans are poor and that we are
rich and. should be liberal. In some
instances -they have awarded clai-
For their regular monthly meeting
and dinner, to be 'given at the Cham-
bt." of Commerce on Wednesday eve
nlng Fehrtlftrv 18. :th Pnrtlnn1 linn.
elation of Credit Men will have a di
versified program. It will Include a
play written by one of the members,
a brief excursion into phrenology and
a string of rhymed take-offs on the
characteristics of those present
The program is in charge of J. E.
Breed, -credit man for Rosenfeld-Smith
Co.,- who ! chairman of the commit
tee on credit cooperation. He will be
assisted by B. F. Wagner, W. 8. Tuj
per and W. J. Henderson.
The play, which is entitled "Every
Credit Man," is a morality, and is a
satire and preachment on the present
methods of credit giving and the re
sults that follow.
j f-t-i.Cast Xs Given.
The cast of characters Include nine '
speaking parts, as follows;
- Prologue. Miss 6. M. Orr; Showdown,
B. ' K. Knapp; Cooperation, E. M. ,
Underwood: Experience, Edward
Drake; Statistics, R. P. Pouch er;
Credltman, P. L.. Bishop; Salesman,
E. J, Cashin; Lame Duck, H. S. Mont
gomery; Kurlous-to-Know, J. J.
aayer. .
There are also six pantomime parts:
Slick, Mrs. I. L. Bruce; - Slack. Mrs.
H. B. Hall: Straight, Miss M. Blake!
System, Miss A. C. ifaaon;. Security,
Miss Agnes Hummer.
Cnsloal Selections Pasture.
Other numbers on the program win
include two . musical selections by a
trio consisting of Miss Beulah Clark,
flute; Mrs. Helen S. Breed, violin, and
Mrs. Eleanor N. Everson, piano.
8. L. . Eddy will deliver a series of
topical verses under the title of "Who's
Who In Dunville."
Professor -G. Morris, the phrenolo
gist, will give a talk . on his special
subject and illustrate n.is points by a
series of photographs End the reading
of the heads of a ', number of mem
bers.' ., . . ; ! r '.. -. 5
B. K. Knapp, manager of the ad
justment bureau, will tell of his ex
periences at the natl9nal convention of
adjustment bureaus,, which be attend
ed in Chicago in January.
Tbe' meeting will be in charge of
W. W. )ownard president.: -
mants 4000 per cent over the valuation
placed on the land In 1903.
"The commission Is ignoring agree
ments of the original land owners, is
exceeding its authority and violating
laws and treaty provisions.
' "The commission has one American'
member, the others , being Panam- -alans."
"
' pumps 'which -are being tested in a
plant to supply London with water
operate by the explosion of gas and
air directly : against a volume of
water - -'
Ifjiintirig Time
Standard Price For
Eyeglasses Planned
Prevention of Price-Cnttlag How
: of State", Association of regoa
Optometrists. ,
' standard price list for eye glasses
In an endeavor to prevent price-cutting
is the plan of the Stata Associa
tion, of Oregon - Optometrists as dis
cussed by its members in their semi-
oped power . In this section : of the
country, far exceeds that in any other.
The .r - minimum potential .-, water ' annual convention held ' in Portland
power resources are 27,943,000 horse- last night. - "-
power, and the maximum S3.905.000 j j A committee was' appointed to in
horsepower. Of these amounts th na-i t-mmUtratA nnA fix a " standard.' It is
states or more than four and tional forests contain va. minimum of f nmnnuj t win war against those
mw. mm rajaoiy.s in installed water! ww norsepower, or 80.4 per cent who do not adopt the price list.
8: W Moodv of Oregon City. ,W. J.
Curtis of Oorvallls. ' and W. M. Pear
of La Grand were ss'ected as candi
dates for the position on the state
board of examiners.' - one is to De.se-
power per capita the western states ot tne otal- minimum, and a maxinfum
in 1912 had more ' than our times as of 18,874,50 horsepower, or 1.S per
much .as the remainder of the United eent .of" the ; total maximum' for the
"An - examination of "the do ?'aI' I s Mi..t ' jJT i '
!w tt nM rt uW liowi United States eves 7a per eeat ; is lected; by. the governor; from the list
r We"tera stateaare stui main- foomd lm . the aaouatala and Paotflo to t submitted to Mra to fill the va
t&imng their commanding position in states the pnblio land states.' Xfeaxly . cancy of Henry E. Morris, Trhose' term
power. development. Primarv m.. n.i nr ttm , i in.Hi - ? "
, - . . - I Ur VJ1 MM , - ...
TTZir' w eiecwrcai inflnstry fonnd in the three states, Washington.
ieeS? Z'ZZfLZFZ'fZy.10" Of. the water
Si. it i a-r Power , within the national forests,
sue -ISia- Jhe average annual In- 91. per cent are found in the west-
crease has been 29,00 horsepower ern states, and these power, amount
ta i-!i''TB,utta ot pr cnt " 'the maximum estimated
ths to increase l, water power, ta power resources of those states.- .
Taglieri Presents
.'. Singers in Recit
f . . Thara r met, Tri a n 1T1
cti - . . m.. - , . i v i are lniK ii-cumu j ... rf i
nth.- Iwwrlo-Jv,, o l . a rt4 i rUlCB W IIU l..a. vviwv.. v .v
InFroonl-sTngerad ltJi'tJ
dence against Manning and Oatf iefM V-ThT schools, knowine- that
, verily, the path of the stool pigei tf-4t ft probably suppUnt Latin and
is not peaceful. UrJlv 'The of English are' al-
But," the officers asfc "what cillC "r.i.,.iiff ,Mli,i.t,. nf ik.i.
you do 'without 'emT' tvJWi rmrM who learned Latin and
xnvariaoiy, tne answer r even ; irov T-3re,ir by the grai
tnose u wtiom the class is mo ,.r. -.v.i w vhi.h h,v , .i
ivautov-uic - io
it cant De did. fKngllsh imffet be- taught.
'I f
Dr. O. F. A. Walker of Portland rwas
appointed secretary of the association
to fill the vacancy, left by Dr. Irving
R.'T'Fox. r resigned." - A I committee ef
five waa also appointed to- arrange
for the annual meeting to be held in
June.
Given Klgn Bating.
I . "Thus they lose sight of the fact
that ' ability to read, and understand
la. the key to ail anowieage.--
. jeiieris pruweuvu - iu itwiv
tudents who did poorest' work under
in method were given highest grades
Mrs. Walter Kendall and B. W. Bel bv a substitute' who took-his place for
Delight Auditors at Studio Musical k month, and that those given highest
trmm sn.nn-ti. r.Mii. 5 grades ' in technical grammar by, the
-Woicea Smooth and Controlled. eubjStItutes were least able to rank
Taglieri presented . two-' singers in creditably under bis standard.- -a
studio recital last night who have; -Reports will be graded according
- .! , i ... - . ,i , . J to the ability to read, write and speak
real . yolce inuality and besides giving nEngLh language." ' - 0
the niessage of the composer give alsoTij . Mlnch Tims Wasted." - ' ;. ''
the nessagp of the poet through clear,- jje concluded.' -.
enunciation! -f The singers fwere Mrs.-? "Technical, grammar : and rhetoric,
Walter.: Kendall, mezzo-soprano Of.! per se. have no place in an English
twU t txr trii tt- !icourse .The application of gramma-
Portlind, ahd IX W. Hall, lyric tenor,, and fhetorJcal principles . should
of Toledo.. Wash. Lowell Patton ac-V;De inductively through the etudy
companled both singers. ; , - f 0f current and classical literature.
Mi. I Bell'S vfJIce showed to best ad-ij Mimoni. of dollars and years of Valu-
vaniage in sucn Mcwormacic songs as j w time are heltig wated in this
. pawning.- ana An, wd t hHk, ...
Delight.' In Gounod's "Salve Dimo
rahf his high C was .reached without
evidence-. .of v strain.:, r Mrs. -Kendall's
mezio appealed to her hearers especi
ally an her I "Vainka's - Song." - by Whi
shaw,f and fNadeaha, by Thomas.
. i -
scientific section of the National Op tl-!
cal . association, read a paper on the
"Kducation i of the Optometrist," and a'
discussion - followed. - Dr. Pear of 'La
Grande also msuie a ahnrt. tnlfe on T!f..
country by the use of grammar and
rhetoric text books in the classroom.
Un Portland, to- abolish these texts.
would - mean : a saving or some 7U0S
a year to the parents of approximate
ly 2000 students. ,X had a classical
education with much grammar- and
rhetoric, but It showed me the Deed of
the better method. ' - .
'i novl belt for iUDDorttm - men's
iruuBCES im xusuv ciaauu - uio. ill-
sertlon of a flat coiled . spring in a
Dr. S. W. Moody, a member of the ficiency. Political and EducafT6naL" 1 pocket. in" the back.
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