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THE OREGON ; DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY. . MARCH 4, 1916. t J t- IT -r- i if 'f I IDM Al J s inC U J J T I NrM AN INDEPENDENT NIW5PAPEB c. a. jackson. ................ ...ruou-ber "ubii.ud erT day, sftsrnoo and a!0, (except atanday XMfopo. at -The Jonroal BulUiinf. Broadway and XsmhiU sob, fort- .Ml, Vt, anter-d t tne seatoffle st Portland. Or tor transmission tarwtixa the Mil as second 5 ' elsns Batter. .... . iJtUtfHONE Mln mi; Boo. A-eo6I. AO department reached by ties nambars. lell V operator what dtptrtawt yos want. 3?0UG1 ADVIBTWISO lUtPKltgH NtATlVg BeaJtBia Kantnoe Co., Brunswick & . ta Fifth - Kw fort; litis Poopl' , ; 1 faas Bid;., CMeil -" ' - anibacrlptum tern by aasU or to say a tm la tb Doited State or Mexlooj ; DAILY (MORNING OE rTKBNOO) . Cn year 5.00 On month I -50 ' . .-. aOSDAt One year 12.60 I Una month $ . DalLX (MORNING OB AJTBBNOON) ASD . SDN OAT - Osa rr. ....... $7.50 f On aonlh .J M , America asks nothing for her self but what she baa a right to ask -jr humanity itself. WOODROW WILSON. "The point in national af fairs never lies along the lines of expediency. It al ways rests In the field of principle. The United States was not founded upon any principle of expediency; it was founded upon a profound principle of human liberty and of humanity,, and whenever It ceases its policy upon any other foundations than those It builds on the sand and not upon solid rock." Woodrow Wilson. AN AMERICAN SENATE t I HERE seem 8 to have been some confusion in the senate voting yesterday as to the parliamentary effect of the .verdict. So eminent a parlia mentary authority as Senator Lodge however, says the senate , went on record as opposing g : warning to Americans and against Interference with the executive, and that Is the light in which the country andthe world will accept .' the vote. , The verdict of nearly five to .one is notice to all courts and . kings that the senate is an Ameri r 3 can senate and not a foreign sen ; : ate. - It was a vote in -which the undoubted purpose was to serve . notice on all concerned that the senate is to be guided by Ameri - can leadership instead of foreign leadership, It was an overwhelming vote - against the removal of even on , stone from the superb structure of .International law and an over whelming vote expressive of the confidence of the American peo ple in their own government. It was a vote that showed that ( In any crisis in America, there are no political parties, but only a com- pact people consecrated to na if tlonal unity and free institutions. , - ' At home and abroad, the Ameri- v canism or congress was ques- j -V1-: a b-. xionea. xnat Americanism was , challenged, by a email but noisy - - - WFftwn . tn ffWnOB' nnm -m Vv-vas f-. , ft' vu v t. vvu6 wnu UirjUl UCtSi ; . The challenge was acclaimed all " J . over the world as signifying that ' the executive head of the Amert- can government Is not supported ' tby the legislative branch. i v: ' The assertions of this disloyalty : and division, were heralded in for ; leign " newspapers and joyfully hailed in foreign chancelleries as " 1 proof that the diplomatic repre , -tA sentations of America were not re " fspected at home and therefore sub- . ect to resistance abroad. In thi only place that It could be done, the senate has Impres aively thrust aside the imputations . on, ita loyalty, . The vote was over- whelming enough to command at tention in -every foreign court and leave its impress . upon every for , feign government. ? - In Imposing sentence on a wo .: man who had mulcted men out of r thousands of dollars, under pretext of marriage, Judge Doollng of San ;Francfcco said a fool and his 5 money must be kept together, if tbe judge can do' it, a lot of us would like to be taken uider his jurisdiction. r . ANTI-PREPAREDNESS HE national anti-preparedness . committee has sent out from i ita headquarters in Washing ton a creed in seven articles I Which the country Is asked to adopt. The request comes with s some little force since Jane Addam ps, a. member of the committee with ; Dr. Stephen S. Wise to . support : her. - Florence j Kelly is ; also . .a. member, of J the committee.:, 4,Som3 f of the items of their ' program are ,xkot withoat i merit. tvvJs k. ' ' : f-For. instance-they ; ask, for. "an, f investigation1 the var budget as ;it stands".. In; -order.'-to Bee that J "every dollar spent, mayCbrtn g ; 10 0 pert cent' of efficiency." Not. even .'the most rampant .jingo, can object ;to this. since hevwilt never get the r 1 btg-vannyVandaavyyhewanfaaa 'long as. the money - given -.'for that, purpose is wasted.' .The committee also ask; the government to, manu facture, its . own-- munitions land armaments so that "private profit maMje taken out of preparedness' Thia la a pretty, rood idea too. The country does, not look -with; ap proval upon tne rich pickings of the munition dealers. . It would gladly see some check put 'upon their Capacity. A Few ? sensible Americans wish to go so far .as to stop the export of munitions. This would, in fact, mean nothing less than an alliance with one group of belligerent powers. But the great majority of our countryufen would be pleased to see the 4 government provide for Its own "warlike neces sities without invoking the aid of private business. The committee makes another demand with which the country at large is likely to agree. If there must be increased expenditure for armaments it asks that it be met by income and Inheritance taxes. Thus the burden would fall on the rich, whose property is the price of war, and not upon the poor, whose burdens are already as heavy as they should be. The committee's demand "that all pre paredness . cease" can" hardly be granteddn the present mood of the country, but in so far as the mem bers of the committee come before us with reason In their language they are likely to be received with answering favor. One of the military requirements of the future will be the ability to talk in the sign language. This has been made necessary by the development of artillery In whose thunderous roar it is impossible to hear orders. Another indica tion of reversion to barbarism. A .SUICIDAL DIVISION F OR more than 40 years, the railroad grant lands have been Oregon lands. Congress parted with the title when it passed the grant act in 1869. The act contemplated that for all time the lands were to be devoted to Oregon settlement and development. This is a consideration that the Oregoa delegation at Washington should be able to press home with convincing effect. Every mettreer of the delegation ought to be ag gressive and purposeful in effort to induce congress to agree .to the terms of the Chamberlain blft 40 per cent for the irreducible school fund and 40 for roads in the grant land counties. The real contest at Washington is no longer between Puter and other claimants and the state of Oregon, but between the larger de mands of the federal government and the state of Oregon Con- gressman Hawley's bill only com plicates the situation. It . has no chance of passage. It weakens the position of Oregon. Oregon's position has been weakened by the foolish action of the grant land "conference" so- called and by proposals to divide ' tne lands between the railroad and tne state. The efforts of "the push to awaken sentiment '"fa vorable to the railroad." the "mid night resolution" and the other foolish actions by factions in Ore gon have all had their influence in weakening Oregon's claims. If. from the first, there had gone forth a united appeal for the pub lic's portion of the lands to be de voted to public purposes in Oregon, the Chamberlain .bill would have 1 encountered less resistance. A Btrong and united demand from public bodies, prominent persons and a united press would have gone far to prevent appearance of the present movement in Washing ton to cut the Chamberlain 40-40 per cent for Oregon to 2P-20. But even the Portland Chamber of Commerce has never yot lifted a hand to help the, Chamberlain bill. It has done nothing to con vince congress that Oregon wants any part of the surplus over the railroad's portion in the lands. Nor have other Important commercial bo die's in the state done any better. Resolutions' by three or four granges and by one or two small Chambers of Commerce are the sum total of public expressions on the side of the school fund. If the Oregon school fund loses ten millions or so and the grant land county .oada lose an equal amount, it will not be the fault of The Journal. It Is said that Justice never sleeps. But she takes long naps occasionally. For instance, It has been some time since Johu. Lind was murdered In Portland. GETTING EVEN M' R. FORAKER, whilom sena tor from Ohio, has published his "memoirs." We need not remark that they make racy reading, for the old war- norse of politics has a good mem ory and it is full of bitterness must have written his book more to pay off old scores than to win literary glory. At an ta 1 scores are thoroughly attended to while the glory remains somewhat dubious. A -book written on nf spite is a good deal like a "spite wall" erected to get even with neighbors. It pays returns In the coin of malice but it usually adds little to the builder's repute. Mr. Foraker was7 first hunted out of public life, in 190ST when the Taft outlook was languishing. Mr, Roosevelt saw that he must ""put some ginger"" into the campaign and- he could hit upon -.no better way than - to ' harry . Foraker.- So the sins of; that exceedingly vul nerable politician were raked out of, the large pile" of muck where they lay' and held up for public execration, v The sacrifice of For aker was supposed to demonstrate Taft'a Impeccable virtue. They were both of the aame party but by . demolishing Foraker Taft seemed to exclaim: "I am going to hew to the line, let the chips fall , where they may. 1 Foraker' second : expulsion oc curred in, 1914 when he was de feated for .United States senator in the Ohio primaries. This proba bly finished him, for if he had a ray of hdpe that he could ever come back he .would not speak so frankly as he does n his memoirs. The secrets he discloses are of the sort that politicians do not tell on one another as long as they have anything to hope for. We may therefore accept Foraker's memoirs as a sign that he has given up politics for good and all. What a pity It is that he has neither a cultivated mind nor a kind heart to console himself with in his old age. Nothing seems to remain for him but the bitterness of defeat and revenge. The bottom seems to have dropped out of the opposition to the confirmation of Brandeis. As one of our local politicians phrases it, "There ain't nothin' agin him." SOLONS AND SOLONS T HE non-support amendment was. a joker. It was slipped through the 1915 legislature under a lying calendar title. The title declared it to be a meaa ure to prevent a person. from fail ing or refusing to support his wife or children." It was Instead, a measure to free certain fathers from the duty of supporting their children? The "midnight resolution" was slipped through the legislature at 3 o'clock in the morning of tha last session, when most of the members were asleep. Many such tricks are played in the legisla ture. Most of them originate in the Multnomah county delegation. That delegation nearly always has gangsters In it who go to the leg islature for sinister reasons. Most of the rottenness in the legislature Is concocted by these ganfsters.. If the Multnomah county voters would try they could end most of the foolishness. Muftnomah, for instance, sent to the last house a delegation that Included but few thlmbleriggers. As a whole It was a good delegation, and aa a result the work of the house was excel lent. The house was the one branch that was responsible for nearly all the good legislation and that prevented passage of many bad measures. Six senators are to be elected from Multnomah county. If, among the six there were no gang sters, it would be a splendid thing fcr Oregon. Six men with no politics to play, with no joker measures to slip through, with no special Interests to serve, with no non-support measures to pass; six men thinking only of the public welfare and striving earnestly to do honest work, would exercise such a controlling influence in tho body, that, coupled with the usually honest character of up state members, the senate would be a good senate. There are men like Mr. Selling, like Mr. John Gill, like Mr. Cobb, all of the last house. There are men like Mr. Joseph whose career at, senator was distinguished by constant exposures of the schemes of gangsters. There are other men, many of them who would go to Salem and use all their ability and power to give us a wholesome and efficient legislature. One reason for the Increased cost of producing motion pictures is said to be the demand of the actors that the management fur nish cigarettes used In the per formance. GUNS AND ARMOR PLATE F OR many years the public has been entertained by a con tinuous race between guns and armor. The bicycle riders who run a thousand miles in a thousand hours are aa nothing In comparison with these competitors who keep at it all the time. By the last reports we see that tho guns are a little ahead just at this moment. In a trial at Sandy Hook the other day-"the strongest armor was pierced." The armor manufacturers will now set about making plates which can not be pierced. This will stimulate the gunmakera to fresh endeavor. The new armor Will finally be rent asunder by the newer gun and from that happy goal the race will set forward again. This contest of strength and endurance-Is probably diverting to the armor .manufacturers and the gunmakera.'. But we can not think of anybody .else who profits by it. If we Lad neither armor nor guns there would be no call for pierc ing and no piercing to resist, and the chances are that . the world would whirl ' on about as happily as It does now. A very thin ar mor would effectually withstand a very weak; &n and both would be Immensely less expensive than the present outfit. If we can not get rid of guns and armor altogether it does seem as if we might go back to the days when guns were puny and Armor plates were thin . and "cheap, i; It is their relative strength .that really counts. No matter how thin your armor Is if the enemy's gun cannot penetrate-it,' and no 'matter how ..... ... - . i puny your gun is if t It shoots i through the. hostile defense. Those eld days of thinness and cheapness look quite arcadian now. One thinks of them as tag ends of the golden age when innocence and virtue ruled the land and people could still afford an occasional beefsteak after paying their taxes. Is it possible to conceive of any thing more senseless than - this everlasting race between armor plates and guns? It can never stop unlecs the people rise in their might and say "thus far ami no farther." Will they ever do It? For the old saying, "from' soup to nuts," the Russians are substi tuting "from Mush to Kerman Bhah." NOTHING THE MATTER WITH PORTLAND ("Sat civilized man cannot lire without eooks," aaya tbe poet. Neither, In these Jaj, can man live at any rate he does not try to without pore fooditafft far the cook to cook, nor witooat the latest thlnes in devices both convenient and sanitary wherewith she may do tbe said cooklnc. What Portland is actually doing in supplying "everything for the table," as wen a everytning to get it reaay ior tne table, is to be seen assembled on one large floor In Portland, as described tn today s "Nothing the Matter With Portland" article. No. 66 of the series. Here, to be viewed and tasted, are cereal and vegetable, trait and fruit Juice, product preserved and product des iccated, together with many a device to lighten and accelerate operations; and these are tbe output of home manufactories manned bv borne workers, employing home capital sad utilising borne materials, and altogether fit to serve the most exacting borne demand. THE happiest exhibition of local enterprise pulled off in this neck that now on at the big department store of the Meier & Frank company. It covers the sixth floor of the great edifice, and more than 60 firms, the greater number of them home concerns, big and little, are there exhibiting: everything- imaginable. Even an Indian, "smartefn chain lightning," descendant of famous old chieftains, with a pedigree as long as the face of a loser In a poker game, is there making small totem poles and exhibiting his loquacity as he discourses on his geneaology. He's a bright fellow, too eleelc and" fat as if well provisioned and on so-"n learns he Is not existing merely fox his health. Then there's a good-natured Afri can artist, handing out "scones" at so much per, fast as two charming young madens can bake them. "Scones," you say, "what's a 'scone r Go buy one and see. Tou have lived in vain if you've never treated your palate to a scone. It's the quintessence of epicurean delight, and ! for fuel usually "tailed. The wo the most fascinating dainty that ever i man 3ust heaU ch has coursed down the sides of a fellow's the appearance NOf a. little grindstone epigastrium. So there you are. The colored brother wlli weigh 805, and it's all good, nature. He has a life job with a flouring mill. He is chaperoned by Erwin A. Taft, and they travel around the country at tending big fairs and demonstrating the excellence of the products .of the Fisher Flouriirg Mills company. These two are the curiosities of the exhibition, but the new and use ful things on display are certainly interesting. MADE IN PORTLAND. For example, James "W Arthur and wife, 300 Clackamas street, origi nators and makers of Pom-Or-Lem marmalade conserves, are advertising their product in one of the booths. It is toothsome stuff, too, and mre and healthy. Those who deUgrht in table luxuries would do well to pro cure at least one of those exhibition Jars. It is comprised of grape fruit, orange and lemon, and they are so delightfully blended as to captivate the heart once the palate has made the acquaintance of the delicate food. And the Tru-Blu Biscuit company is on deck with another exhibit which runs away with the soul that loves the dainty. Its fancy cakes and bis cuits Jugt "get" one and have such a grip upon him he can 'scarcely get away. This is the Industry recently purchased by Mr. Krause, of Spokane, one of the extremely "live" men of the west. To wash these sweet viands down, comes the Oregon Fruit Juice com pany exhibiting Its Pheasant Brand 1 Y. 4 .. I . .1 J.l. . l ,u,u'uw" tmakes. one forget the sorrows of lif e in the gladness of the moment, and the white-haired Mrs. T. B. Whee lock, loaTded with am lies-and pleasant Words, demonstrates her wafer, saucer and oup irons; likewise she cooks things which taste as lovely as they look. And they are " beauties. Mrs. Wheelock is well known in -Portland, and numerous friends will be glad to know that she will remain at the Meier & Frank store .for some time, lecturing and teaching others bow to cook the best things ever. PRAISES THE EXHIBIT. "I iave been traveling around and over the United States land Canada a great many years,"' Mrs. Wheelock says, "and you may say for me that this Is one of the best pure food exhibits I ever saw, and exhibitors are treated better here than is the case In 90 per cent of similar shows in the 'country. Mr. Meier is so kind and considerate of everybody, and Mr. Miller, whom he has on the floor, is so attentive that It ( makes one feel good to be here. I never saw their equal except, perhaps, at Wana maker's In Philadelphia.' Allen & Lewis, wholesale grocers; Closett A Dver, manufacturers of spices, extracts and coffees; Mason, Ehrman & Co., wholesale grocers, and Wadhams & Co.. wholesale grocers,' haVe most Interesting exhibits of their pure food products. The canned fruits put up by the grocers attract great attention, and will serve to -familiarize- ; tbe people with tha . choice foods "prepared by these home indus tries. The Diamond "WT cake filler exhibited by Wadhams & Co engages tha attention of the housewife. It takes the place pf the white of KsTj -j,--. ....... - ..- ror cream , puff a, meringues, marsn-1 mallowa and layer cake finings. An Interesting : book of recipes is given away at this booth. OTHER THINGS FOR COOKING. The Magnolia company shows a de lightful substitute for lard in short ening; cake- making, pfe crusts, etc The Genesee pure Food company dis plays an Ice cream and Jelly powder claimed to be of rare excellence. It is used in these table delicacies, and is said to be a universal friend of all acquainted with Its appetizing Qualities.' . "Oyster-Cmay be said to be mul tum in parvo, because, for a mortal fact, it is much In little. The help less Baltimore bivalve is fished out oIthe briny waters of the Chesapeake, pumped plum dry by machinery or I something anyway evaporate d j ground Into powder, put up in little i papers , lik homeopathic . doses of ' medicine, and when the cook cooks she drops the contents of one or more of the papers Into the soup, for in stance, and, presto, there you go with the finest kind of oyster broth. ItJ makes one smack his lips until he can be heard as far as from the MoPrison to the Burnslde bridge. FINEST FLOURS ON EARTH. Albera Brothers, cereals and pan cake flours; Crown Flouring Mills, Crown bread and biscuit flours; the Portland Flouring Mills company, new process whola wheat and graham flours, and the Jobes Milling compa ny, showing "Vim" flour, so it is said, "the kind that gives a fellow Samson nerves," offer selections for breadstuffs unexcelled anywhere on earth. The Frei Pickle Works and the Knight Packing company are there with all kinds of pickles and condi ments which. In connection with the exhibits of the Pacific Coast Biscuit company, the Tru-Blu people, Hazel wood Creamery, the Pacific Coat Syrup company and the chaps who dish up the teas, hand out a show such as would enable a billionaire to make selections suitable for a ban quet to his wife, even. COULD BE COOKED MINUS FIRE. All right, then and the banquet coud bo cooked withput fire. Bread baked to a beautiful brown, ditto pork and beans, pies.' cakes, potatoes or anything. Without any heat in the house either. That lady over in the southeast corner has the dope with whioh to do it. She-operates fireleis cookers. They not only cook anything which can be cooked by any cook, but with about cne-tenth the expense ana puts it into a chamber with the stuff to be cooked. The lid is then clapped down and the stove is left to its own meditation. The cooker does the rest. ALL KINDS OF RANGES THERE. And if one isn't satisfied to cook without fire there are all kinds of wood, coal and gas ranges to select from. And some of these are com binations of wood, coal and gas, so that "the most fastidious" may to suited, nd matter how particular he or she may be. Or one may select an electric cooker or electric, 'gas, wood or coal heaters. The Gem Lighter company, a Portland enter prise, has a patented lighter which "saves its weight in matches," or something like it. The gas stoves might b lighted with one of these it there were not a luclfer on thj premises. One of the most interesting of tha exhibits is that of the Drl-Fresh company, an enterprise brought' into existence by the W. G. McPherson company, one of the solid concerns of Portland. It shows varieties of evaporated fruits and vegetables which, at any time, no matter if it be years hence, can be freshened and given all the flavor they possess when taken from the earth or picked from the vine or tree. It is one of the industries it is believed will revo lutionize the preservation of vegeta bles, berries or fruits for future con sumption. MISCELLANEOUS EXHIBITS. The American Brush & Broom com- ruinv has a. moat erditjihl. -xhthi j hav. BrotnerB of p. land, with their 17 kinds of brooms. matches and other things made li this city. The Wearever Aluminum display is fine, and, that of the Port landlubber company is the wonder of scares. This company also has a big display In the Sixth street win dow of the store. The Mount Hood Soap . company has an enterprising display of its products, much ad mired by . housewives and others. The Universal percolators and food chop pers exhibited by Landers, Frary & Clark t ars worth seeing. There Is so much that is new In them as to make them of Interest to thousands. The Lusterol company, a Portland, con cern, is doing a land -office business in showing the public a wood polish superior to anything brought to this market from tha east. It is made at Woodstock, a Portland suburb, by the postmaster-druggist of that place. Electric washing and Ironing ma chines are shown by the Maytag com pany; stoneware by the Paciflo Stone ware company; White Mountain re frigerators by the White Enamel Re frigerator company; . a great variety of stepladders by tbV Pacific Ladder Works; portable garage by the Miil made Construction -company; Redi-to-Make lumber by the Miniature Lum ber company, and av marvelous vari ety of paints by. Fisher, Thorsen A Co. and W. P. Fuller ft Co. The Globe Manufacturing company shows tha Dorothy . Perkins) Adjustment Dryer for Jnfant'a garments. When, laundered the - child's ' clothing U stretched over the dryer and. cannot shrinks W., S, Fleming; has porta ble' shower bath made' la Portland, which may "be carried anywhere. it PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE Congress should remember there are a lot of American-Americans. .. - The little .spell of March weather we have been having was due to clouds with, silver linings. Those counterfeit IS bills circulat ing in Portland can be avoided by ..ac cepting nothing but $20 gold pieces. y Even the president's bitterest crit ics admit he has plenty of back-bone when s fight with congress becomes necessary. .Wonder whether the man who sold a revolver to the woman who killed herself Thursday has any qualms of conscience? Bachelors are to be called to the colors under Britain's conscription act. After all. there is some advantage in being an American bachelor. Vancouver has awakened to tha fact that private control of its waterfront is at the expense of industrial devel opment. Portland knows it from sad experience. The secretary of California's state board of health says spring fever is only an expression of a desire to drop work. But how is it that men who won't work have it the hardest. THE LIVING LAW Louis D. Brandeis in Harpers' Weekly. What we need is not to displace the courts,- but to make them efficient instruments of Justice; not to dis place the lawyer, but to fit him for his official or jndicial task. The pursuit of the legal profession Involves a happy combination of the intellectual with the practical life. The Intellectual tends to breadth of view; the practical to that realization of limitations which are essential to the wise conduct of life. Formerly the lawyer secured breadth of view largely through wide professional ex perience. Being a general practitioner, he was brought into contact with all phases of contemporary .. life. Hl3 education was not legal only; because his diversified clientage brought him. by the mere practice of his profession, an economic and social education'. Tbe relative smailness of the communities tended to make his practice diversified not only in the character of matters dealt with, but also in the character or standing of his clients. For the same lawyer was apt to serve at one time or another both rich and poor, both employer and employe. " Furthermore, nearly every lawyer of ability took some part in political life. Our greatest judges, Marshall, Kent, Story, Shaw, bad secured this training. Oliver, in his study of Alex ander Hamilton, pictured the value of such training in public affairs: "Jn the vigor of his youth and at the very summit of hope, he brought Jo the study of the law a character already trained and tested by tha realities of life, formed by success, experienced in the facts and disorders with which the lv has to deal. Before he began a study of the remedies he had a wide I knowledge of the conditions of human society, with him the law was a reality, quick, human, buxom and jolly, and not a formula, pinched, stiff, banded and dusty like a royal mummy of Egypt." Hamilton was an apostle of the living law. The last BO years have wrought a great change in professional life. i Industrial development and the conse quent growth of cities have led to a hVfch degree of specialisation specili tatlon not only in tha nature and class of questions dealt with, but also I specialization in the character of i clientage. The term "corporation lawyer- is significant in this connec tion. The growing, intensity of cro- fessional life tended also to discourage participation in public affairs, and thus the broadening of view which comes from political life was lost. The deepening of knowledge in cer tain subjects was purchased at the cost of vast areas of ignorance and grave danger of resultant distortion of Judgment. The effect qf this contraction of the lawyers' intimate relation to contem porary life was doubly serious; be fits any bathtub and is) a most de sirable bathroom auxiliary. EVERYTHING FREE. The generosity of the Meier & Frank company Is strongly exempli fied in the manner of its conduct of this fortnight exhibition. The corporation not only gave the sixth floor of -ta building free, but paid for the lumber and for the construc tion of- the booths. A man is also furnished the exhibitors whose busi ness it is to look after their Interests, and he does it with a cheerfulness which betokens the fact " that he is tha very proper person for the posi tion. , Tbe attendance is exceeding by thousands all expectations. Even tbe afternoon of the first day exhibited the public took a keen Interest :u this most attractive and varied dis play of merchandise, most of which Is of Portland and Oregon products, made in Oregon, and, all of which are sold by the house of Meier 6c Frank. The "fair" will close on Saturday, March "111. Letters From the People I Communications sent to Tb Journal for Dcbucatlon fn tats department abould be writ- tan on only oos side of tn paper, sboald n-u , c&crea suo woras in MDgui ana mnsi om sc-cca-panled ' by tbe same and address of ta cider. If tb writer does not desire to bar to aaate published, be sboald so stats. "XHscossloa ts th area test of til reformers. It rationalise vsrytaing it touches. It rotM prtneipes of all (aia sanctity and throws tbeai back on their reasonableness. If they bavs bo reasonableness, it ratalassly crusa them out of existence and sets up Its owa josclBStons Is thair slsad.' Woodrow Wilson. Oregon's Insanity Laws. Portland, Feb. 29. To the Editor of The Journal I note With Interest the letter of S. C Bowles In av recent issue of The Journal, calling attention to. lax methods of Insanity laws, espec ially in regard to methods used in committing to the state Insane hospi tal. . At present it Is only necessary for some person to swear to .a. complaint, merely stating that in his belief the unfortunate is Insane and should not run at large. The party is then brought to the county Jail and confined until Men time as the county judge orders an examination made by a regular li censed physician. When tha physician or physicians as the- case may - be make the examination; in the presence of th Judge, the witness- or in Vher wordathe party swearing to the com plaint, is not present, nor In- many cases is he known.; : If the patient under examination is suffering . from some -form of Insanity .which shows AND NEWS IN BRIEF ORKtiON SIDELJUms The Lane county court has declared school district No. S2. in the northern t v.. luuillj , .weak 1 nuv. - school in the district since 1910, and at present there is only one child of scuool age jn tne district. A state bank at Sumpter, the Baker Democrat predicts, will follow the passing of the First National .of that place. "The business of Sumpter de mands it and there are enough en terprising and loyal people in ttve old camp to see that a bank is supplied," the Democrat further says. Program announced in Benton Coun ty Courier: "With a 50.000 college building, an addition to the high school or a new building, a new Bap tist church, several new residences, the electrification of the Southern Pacific and the probable paving of three streets, Corvallis has plenty of work in .sight for the coming tuiu mer." Railroad rumor and comment there on in recent issue, of Salem Journal: "It may be Salem is to nave another railroad added to ita list. The sur veyors starting from tha electric depot a few days ago are evidently still going, though no one seems to know in which direction. There is a xumor they were headed for Stayton, and they surely cannot find a better little city to steer fro." cause it came at a time when the rap- j idity of our economic and social trans, i formation made accurate and broad knowledge of present day problems essential to the administration of Justice. "Lack of recent information," says Matthew Arnold, "la responsible lor more mistakes of Judgment than erroneous reasoning." The judge came to tha bench un equipped with tbe necessary knowl edge of economic and social science, and his Judgment suffered likewise threugh lack of equipment in the lawyers who presented the cases to him. For a Judge rarely performs his functions adequately unless the case before him is adequately pre sented. Thus were the blind led by the blind. It is not surprising that under such conditions the laws as administered failed to meet contem porary economic and social demands. - We are powerless to restore the general practitioner and general partic ipation in public life. Intense speciali zation must continue. But we can correct its distorting effects by broad, er education by study undertaken preparatory to practice and continued by lawyer and jude throughout life: study of economics and sociology and politics which embody the facts and present the problems of today. "Every beneficent - change in legislation." Professor Henderson said, "comes from a fresh study of social condi tions and Ocial ends, and from such rejection of obsolete laws to make room for a rule which fits the new facts. One can hardly escape from the conclusion that a lawyer who has not studied economics and sociology is very apt to become a public enemy." Charles R. Crane told me once the story of two men whose lives he should have cared most to have lived. One was Bogigish, a native of tire ancient city of Rag osa off the coast of Dajmatla a deep student of law, who, after gaining some distinctjon at the university of Vienna, and in France, became professor at tbe. Uni versity of Odessa. When Montenegro was admitted to the family of nations, its prince concluded that, like other civilized countries, it must have a code of law. Bogiglsh's fame hadj reached Montenegro, for Itagusa is but a few miles distant. So the prince begged the czar of Russia to have the learned jurist prepare a cod for Montenegro. The czar granted the request; and Bogigish undertook the task . But instead of utilizing his great knowledge Of laws to arart ai code, he proceeded to Montenegro and j for two years literally made bis home with the people, studying everywhere . n...ti.. th.u .v,- K.i,f. thai- nnint- of -iew. Then he embodied in law the life which . the Montenegrins lived. They respected that law, because it expressed the will of the people. ttseli. only at intervals or perhaps days, you will readily see how diffi cult it is for either Judge or physician to determine whether the patient is sane or Insane. While I admit there is room for im provement in the laws, I must take exception to Mr. Bowles' claim Vt hat It is ah easy matter to obtain a physi cian's aid in sending to the asylum, onn whorls sane. Mr. Bowles says he personally knows of two men whose wives had them committed with no other intent than to get them out of tha way, and he personally knows of the doctors who aided and encouraged these par ticular cases. I am surprised to hear that we have in the profession such men. I am of the opinion that Mr. Bowles will find it difficult to have many believe that it is an easy "matter to obtain a physl sian to aid- in such a crime as this. It is his duty to make complaint to a member of the state board of medical examiners and produce the proofs, and I assure him the penalty of revocation of license will proclude these physi cians, if found guilty, from practicing in Oregon. HARRT F. M'KAY, M. D., Member of State Board of Medical Examiners. , Praises. Wilson's Leadership, Vancouver Barracks, Wash, March 1. To the Editor of The Journal Per mit me through you to thank your re porter for his discreet, understandable and complimentary notice in your is sue of-February 28 on tbe rather ram bling 'talk in which I tried to some what Interest my fellow members of tbe Portland Chamber of Commerce in the facts, not reassuring but far from hopeless, of our military condi tion. .J I was especially pleased that he quoted a little of what I said about Mr. Wilson. At a time when repre sentatives at least of his own party seem to be grudging that undivided support and cheerful seconding neces sary to effective team work due so sane ' and reasoned a leadership, it would seem incumbent qn us vof the military, although properly and will ingly subordinate to tha civil, not to withhold testimony to our faith and confidence in the nation's commander-in-chief. COL. DAVID jr. BAKER JR. I ' The Leap- Year . Birthday. . Corvallis, Or- Feb. 26. To the Edi tor of The Journal In answer to Mrs. Agnes u. uecaara a conundrum regard ing "A Leap Tear Birthday," I wlU state that her age on February 29,1916, will be 6, providing sbe counts the day on which she was born her first birthday. But if she counts 14 birth days besides the one on which she was born, then she would be 60- years old on February 29, 19 IS. . MISS MART ANN CLAY, ' ..-'..' , - TKpnce en rSyX. I j AMPMA M T ESTETtDA Y MORNING aboil A T:45 as I wan inmln ur Yni hill street from -the Oregon City Q n-h. JOUmal T 1 fr4 u m m n which seemed to come from ' f wnere. JAnd the sound took shap oecame a tune. and the tune was "Dublin Bay. JAnd I looked about to locate till source of the music. " JAnd others were looking .too. 11 Ana somehow there was soma thing about it a kind of snorts! quality that made us all smile. JAnd it sounded as ttiouffhsj hal heard it some pihee long ago I JAnd then ! thought of Jim Hick ej ana urover Sykes. TI v e used to be kids together in Wisconsin. II jxna i remembered how Jim ul """" were musical tried ti -.s.iiio u aazoo band among til niua. But the water got warm enougl j.r swimming and broke up thl IT And then I knew what the sounJ w ana where it came from. -ror about half a block ahead- wb a iittie boy no higher than chaifback. ST U -. . , . - n una nis nfa down ani ms eioows stuck out like, wings. "JAnd I kaew he waa playing kazoo. JAnd the kazoo be the pipe of boyhood. it known-il JAnd any hOV -van nna - Play & corn-stalk fiddle or a willov flute can soothe his soul and ex press ms yearnings on a kazoo. J And I quickened my" steps an came up to the small musician. II Ana just then on his way Dublin Bay h0 came to the line: J"My heart with love a-bubblln' anu tne music wavered broke. and J And the player wiped his mouth- wiut tne Dack or hjs hand. and looked up and smiled. IT And I said "Fine stuff go on.' J Can t ho said I'm stuck." aT I. . H om lie put tne kazoo to bis llpxl and soon the people going t iueir wont snurned their feet t. ei in step. -j-or ne was playing "Marchinr Through Georgia." II Ana ne Drought the good old bul Mian-iiea uown to tne sea I ana Daca again. JAnd then Doodle." he gave us "Yanked mixed up with "Dixie." JAnd as I turned The Journal cor tier I looked back and waved him jBut I don't think he saw me. for he was . Just changing bi tune to the Spring Song." or maybe it was "Old Black Joel but anyway I liked it. JAnd I'm grateful for a glimpse ox, boyhood. --jAnu ii me Doy wltn the . puii nose wno ptayeu the kazoo on Yam J hill street yesterday morning wi:l come to Tne journal office and ask for me 111 buy hinJ some slingshot rubbers or take bind to a movie or something. JBut -he wants to come early beJ cause Kids thia offer onA noma gooa ror the first eleven bov l inu come. Dossastio rUcity. Fo the Atchiswa tM. After Da bad lived hera f.air taara aha asked her BiMbaad otw nturning to brlr.g 1J ai ariuiai i oven wiKxi. a Her Krrad j was miaj about some K'a" ffi am. Uj-o so down aa-alu. When the huabsoi m w ainner no ciauer was ready mm 1 oii wife was sulk Inc. i W.h" b Mw ,?.rln! tlff be ander- siooa tne cause: DBt he had a temner. tiav h walked out of the itoutm without biaf aznoer. ami aide t com back. 1 Tb wife lived a lout for ii years. On ronll ermine In tb fsll she Was sittlua- br thai kitohen tuv when the door opened and br husband walked In, carrjlof an armful ofl ex-n wood, lis bad rstlr ensured, but sno kr.tw him, ami was pleased that be bad comxi tiaca. one oaa long wanted to make up, but! bad no opportunity, as ber husband never! wrote, ana sne aiau i snow wbere b wss. She thought ft bcr duty as wlf bnw I to r.-prluianrt bim a little foe hi fault; not I t... much, but lust enough: to korp bltn sub- n:iMlTe after tb reconciliation, ho sb saldl lu mm; '"Well, yom were a lonr time ahont it " This made tbe buabaud mad again ao bsl warn away ana uwmr oka oacs, "Martial ltelatlorw." Judge Galloway today dismissed tiie divorce suit of J. W. Kvaus against Alice Evans upon the promise of the couple to - forgive ail former disagreements and to again assume th martial rela tions. They will reside at Oreely, Colo. Salem Capital Journal. . Making the Best of It Prom tb Pittsburg Post. "Ex-congressman mubduD wants a little writeup," remarked the magazine publisher. "What shall we say about him?" -What did he ever do" "Nothing." "Say he upheld the best traditions of congress." 9AXHTY XAJtTY SSZ88Z0 910. -AArt. Simple enough, according to C. C B of the Detroit News, who says that the V at the throat plus the V at the back equals J10. KILLED IN FALL AND MAY NOT RECOVER Headline N, Y.' Sun. Sijori9r o7r r Learned In Georgraphy. A C. NEWILL of Portland is an Tka Englishman, born In Madras, India, where his father was governor Of. province). He is, therefore, a cit izen of the United States not by birth but by choice. After be had been nat uralized he lived for a time la Mon- taBsa H went one-day to register.. I "Where were you bom?" inquired the registration clerk. "Madras," answered Me. Newilh "Where's thatr persisted the clerk. - Before Mr. Kewill could an swer, the clerk's associate in the office called out. "A lot you know about geography, you boob. Madras is over In Missouri" : : And they let It go at that . v ' Wrfl That's ftstmtthnir. -? flAFT HARRISON is sore. Not so very long ago a friend introduced Cliff to pretty girt This young lady sold Harrison subscriptions to some magazines, r " ' 1 - That was some time ago, but CUflf has- a good memory. All Cliff has now is a recollectionand a receipt . 4