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8 THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, . 3IAT 12, 1919. tsTAEHSHLD BI HEBT I- PITTOtK. Pubhshed' by The Oregonian Publishing Co.. IliO fclxkh Street, Portland, Oregon. C. A. MOKDEN. IS. B. PIPER, Manager. Editor. The Oresonian is a member of the Asso ciated Trcsj. The Associated Press is ex clusively, 'entitled to the use for republica tion of all news dispatches credited to it or nut otherwise credited in this paper, and ai.no the ioial news published herein. All riKhts of republication o special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription rates Invariably in advance: , By Mall.) Daliy, Sunri;iy Included, one vear $S.OO Dally, Sunday Included. Fix months 4.23 Daily, Sunday included, three months. ... 2.25 cuimay included, one monto..--. rially, without Sunday, one year JjHily, without Sunday, six months. Dally, without Sunday, one month.... "Weekly, one ear . 6 00 . a.- . .10 . 1 04 . a. so . 5.oU .$a.no . .75 . 2 . -' 3 . 7.S0 . 1.95 . .05 cuniid, oiif? year. ... ................ 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BidweiL CE.NEEA1 WOOD, Growth of sentiment for Leonard Wood as a candidate for president of the United States is impressive, even phenomenal. The republican conven tion is a year and more hence, and, in a topsyturvical world, no one can say what the political situation in America, or in any other country, will be at that time. But if the convention were to be held at this time the nomi nation of General Wood would "be highly probable. The reasons are manifold and ob vious. He is a great administrator, an experienced diplomat, an accomplished soldier. He belongs to no special sec tion and is in no sense the favorite son of any state, but lie has a prestige and a record that make a strong: appeal throughout the nation. He has clear insight into all important problems, national and international, .and the constructive understanding which pro vides a policy or a solution. He has the courage of his convictions and the power to express them and to make them effective. He has an admirable record of service to his country, in the army and out of it. His political posi tion is ideal, for he is acceptable to all elements of the republican party. A friend of Roosevelt, he is the natural heir of the Roosevelt tradition and the principal exponent of the Roosevelt ideals and ideas, one of which is pre paredness. A friend of Taft, that distinguished statesman made General Wood chief of staff of the United States army, and, when the present national administra tion declined to permit Wood to serve in the field, wrote a strong letter of public protest. The dominant quality of General Wood is his forthright Americanism. It Is the Americanism of Wood that commends him most strongly to all Americans, and is the underlying impulse behind the active, but wholly spontaneous, movement to make him president. .A contributing cause of the Wood popularity, however, is the public sense of the wrong done an upright man and an efficient and valuable soldier through the amazing discrimination against him by the war authorities, with the sanction, of course, of the .......; .-I .... . T i ... V. 1 T. 11. . f .......... ' . Vl. 11111 national administration has not righted and betrays no intention of righting. The people, with a feeling of respon sibility in the affair, and with a keen perception that they are the principal losers, since in a time of national peril they were arbitrarily and needlessly deprived of the services of their most competent soldier, will in their own time and their own way have some thing to say about it to the world, and particularly to the president, his secre tary of war and his political party. Leonard Wood, a surgeon, in the United States army, won a commis sion 6n the Mexican border. Then he became colonel of the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American war; then brigadier - general; then governor of Santiago and governor-general of Cuba, where his great talents as an executive and conciliator found ample play, Under President Roosevelt he appears in the Philippines, first as ruler and pacificator through energetic meas ures of the unruly province of Min dmiao and then as military comman der of the Philippines. He left behind him there a land of law, order, courts and equality, where he had found it rebellious, savage, unreconciled and ignorant. In 1908 General Wood became com mander of the eastern department, with headquarters at New York. In 1910 he became chief of siaff, and he reorganized the general staff and gave to the army something of his high and indomitable spirit of progressiveness and achievement. Here General Wood first appears in a natural sense as the apostle of preparedness, which he preached everywhere "and sought to translate into action in practical ways. The student camp, a Wood creation, was used at Gettysburg and then an other camp at Plattsburg. It was the basic idea upon which all volunteer officers of the great American army. organized for the war, were trained It was the good fortune of America that at the head of its general staff was a solider and a citizen who saw what was coming and, in face of many obstacles, not the least of which was the pacifism of the administration and the demand of he president that America be "neutral in thought" and passive in deed, persevered in his call upon the country to get ready. In 1914 General Wood was retired " as chief of staff, but became again lie was and is the senior major-gen eral commander of the department of the east. The war broke out, and Wood's voice was not stilled, nor his activity, within patriotic limits, cir cumscribed. Yet he seemed somehow to give continual offense at Wash ington, and he was summarily demoted being assigned to Charleston, after his department had been divided into tnree Charleston, the least important. It is not forgotten, however, that when. without personal protest, . he went to assume his new command, he was re ceived with great acclaim by the peo ple of Charleston. At Atlanta sixty thousand people later gathered to see and hear him, and at Little Rock, Ark., an equal number. The new south was speaking: but for the first time ears were deaf to it at Washington. Then Wood was appointed to train and command the Eighty-ninth di vision at Camp Funston, Kansas. The command of the army in France had meanwhile been reposed elsewhere. He was distinctly not wanted by an administration that proposed to ven ture on a great war without the coun sel or the active participation of Amer ica's most trusted and competent sol dier. The Eighty-ninth division was made ready under the vigilant and seasoned direction of General Wood, and it was finally ordered to Mineola, L. I., for embarkation to France. General Wood was at last, apparently, to get his opportunity. But there, without a word of explanation, he was relieved of his command, and ordered to San Francisco, later being again sent to Camp Funston. The war ended with Wood at home. Yet he was the only American major-general wounded in France, for on a tour of inspection, on which the secretary of war sent all American higher officers. General Wood was hurt by a flying fragment of a bursting cannon. Such is the astounding record of General Wood's treatment by. the ad ministration, professedly devoted to high ideals and bombastically com mitted to "adjournment" of politics. There has been no explanation of the retusal to permit General Wood to serve at the front. The country firmly believes that there is no adequate ex planation, but that it was due to army politics and administration disfavor. So the atmosphere of martyrdom surrounds General Wood. The coun try owes him something much and it desires to pay. But there have been victims of injustice in the army at other times, and there has been no thought of electing any such president on that account. It would not be con sidered now in General Wood's case except for the fact that he is regarded by very many people probably a great majority as fit for the presi dency; and a great party is', therefore, seriously considering the expediency of making him its candidate. SOFT JURIES. The Ruth Garrison verdict la exactly what the cynic might have predicted from the start. Always with our juries, a dimpled cheek, rounded breast and a well-turned aniria have, been the most effective pleas lor clem- cy. iar surpassing eloquence of attorneys d strength of evidence. If Ruth Garrison bad been M Innt-n nf IS: if her hair had been streaked with gray instead of being a glossy brown; If her lull blown cheeks had been lined with wrinuiee and seamed by worry: il her breasts had Deen roDDea or their fullness by age, sht might have started on her way to a life sen tence at Walla -Walla this morning with a world of people indifferent to her fate- Tacoma News-Tribune. The remarks of the Tacoma paper would have been more impressive In another day. Before the advent of equal suffrage and its corollaries it was quite generally supposed that all a female criminal needed in order to obtain acquittal was a modicum of good looks. But there were two women on that Garrison Jury, and women, it is said, are envious of, rather than susceptible to, the charms of other women. The verdict was reached speedily, so there is no indication that the two held out at all for another verdict. One of them sobbed as it was read in court.- Perhaps there is another reason for such acquittals. In oir criminal courts we select jurors with painstaking re gard for their openmlndedness on the issue; we permit the judge to advise them only on the cold and unyielding points of law; we swear them solemnly to be guided in their verdict solely by the law and the evidence; we protect them from exterior prying influence as diligently and as securely as the Turk guards his harem. Then we grant the lawyers the privilege of wringing their emotions until they forget evidence, instructions, oath of office and conscience itself. This plea is from the address to the jury by counsel for the defense in the Garrison trial: And now. In the twilight of her mother's lire, wnen ner hair has become sprinkled with gray and her features wrinkled with care; with her figure stooped with hardships and her hands knotted and gnarled with toil. she face9 this ordeal that Kh mlrht be with her baby girl In the time of her great trouoie. ine juror may nave never had a child, or a spouse, or a brother, or a sister, but each has had a mother to him most precious in contemplation or recollection. The mother route is the adroit way to the juror's heart. It Is never overlooked. It was not over looked in Seattle. Yet it did not have the slightest bearing on Ruth Gar rison's guilt whether her mother was aged and bent or was a bleached and buxom gadabout. Ruth Garrison has been virtually freed. . The lawyer's bill will be ren dered ,jn accordance, with that fact But in this case, as is true of many successes, of criminal lawyers, it will be based not so much on his learning in the law as on how much he knows about sob stuff. PRICE-FIXING WITHOUT CAUSE. Abandonment by the industrial board of the department ot commerce of the attempt to continue the war practice of government price-fixing is a wel come step toward normal business con ditions. Although peace is not signed. peace conditions prevail in markets for all materials except food and perhaps clothing material, and the natural law of supply and demand should be left free to regulate prices. The sole justification for govern ment price-fixing in war time is that in- such times the government is the largest single customer for all essen tial commodities, its demands in many cases exceeding those of all private parties combined. It has the right to seize any industry, and refrains only from motives of policy. It therefore has a right to fix prices as though it actually operated the industries, pay ing the owners only a normal profit The balance of production after war demand has been supplied is so small In proportion to private needs that prices might be exacted which would prove an intolerable burden on the people. As the government's action produces this situation, the duty de volves on it to protect the private con sumer from the consequence of the government's act by restricting prices for him also. When the war ended the cause of price-fixing disappeared, and restraint on economic law should be removed Exceptions are needed in the case of prime necessities like food, for the scarcity is an aftermath of war for which broad international policy dic tates a remedy in order that all na tions may be fed, but which should pass in one or two seasons. The war has made wool scarce and costly, but the renredy will operate more slowly than in the case of food and substi tutes can be, used for wool. Other commodities will remain high, but that fact will stimulate production until prices fall, and in the meantime the world will have to do business on the new level of prices which the war has established. One permanent benefit may remain from the operations of food adminis tration which may be extended to com modules in general that is elimina tion or at least restriction, of specula tion. Some middlemen perform a use ful function, but there is an excess ot such men who do nothing but gamble with. goods which they never see or who buy up large quantities of goods and hold them "for the purpose of creating artificial scarcity and extort ing excessive prices. Such men are parasites, and should be compelled to do useful work in a penitentiary. The aw can do much toYestraln them, but voluntary association of producer and consumer for co-operative action can do much more. This nation has had a few salutary lessons In the folly of flying to the government for relief from its Ills. Usually the remedy lies In the people's own hands. A NAME rOB THE GREAT WAR. It is announced by General March that the victory medal to be struck by the United States and the allies in commemoration of the war now draw- ng to a close will bear on its re verse side the designation. "Great War for Civilization." This is interesting because it Is the first attempt to give definite name to the great "conflict It remains to be determined whether it will meet with general acceptance. The probabilities are that It will not. Great War for Civilization" has a ponderous quality not quite in keep ing with our national habit of verbal condensation. We have refused, even when excellent arguments were pre sented, to call our own great war of 1861-65 "the war between the states." It la still "Civil War." and ,1s likely always to be known that way. "War of 1812" and "Mexican War" have re duced those two conflicts to their lowest verbal terms. The official designation, "Spanish-American War" is already in practice quite generally abbreviated to "Spanish War." All of the affairs in which we have been engaged since 1776, and which are listed in the encyclopedia as wars," number 107. No school boy will be expected to remember the half of them, of course. But they are known to historians by a variety of appellations. " The affair with the Ca- yuse Indians in Oregon in 1848 was the "Cayuse War," and thereafter in 1851-1853 we had the "Indian Wars of Oregon and Washington." But the adventure with the Snakes In 1851 was only an "expedition." There were numerous "expeditions" along about that time, some of which were fair sized wars for their day. The tend ency was not to magnify our military ventures. The most recent official ex peditions were that of Vera Cruz in 1914 and the punitive expedition into Mexico two years later. Each of these employed .a far greater , number of men than were engaged in some of our wars. Sometimes we have had only "trou- hles," such as the Kansas border troubles of the middle '503, the Sioux Indian troubles of 1857 and the Fenian troubles on the Minnesota-Manitoba border in 1871. The affairs with the Bannocks in 1895 and with the Chip pewas in 18 98 were "disturbances." There was a San Juan "imbroglio" in Washington territory In 1859. The campaigns in the Philippines and against the Boxers in China are desig nated as "insurrections. "Great War for Civilization" awaits the verdict not of the historians, but f the people who read histories. War of 1918" seems inadequate. European War" is sufficiently defin itive for our use, but lacks that quality in the languages of our allies. Cer tain army officers are said to call it the "War of the Existing Emergency," but this, -it will be supposed, is pure irony.. It reflects Impatience with conditions In the beginning whlcn were correcte and will be forgotten in rejoicing over the victory. But the accepted name of a war, like the popularity of a national antnem, de pends upon conditions which it is not possible to forecast. HURLEY IS TOO LATE. , Chairman Hurley, who says he has taken up with President Wilson "the question of allowing our steel ship yards to take orders for foreign ac count," and is revising the board's shipbuilding programme with a view of making recommendations to con gress, including new types of vessels. is six months late. The armistice was signed six months ago, and any man of ordinary foresight should have fore seen these things: That many months would elapse before a peace treaty could be signed and ratified; that dur ing that interval building of Ships for the merchant marine must continue with unabated activity if we were to keep pace with the renewed activity of other nations; that this course was also necessary to preserve the full efficiency and to maintain the organi zation of the shipbuilding industry, which was one of the most valuable assets acquired from the war; that that course was more particularly neces sary if it were deemed advisable, for reasons of foreign policy, to forbid ac ceptance of foreign contracts; that new types of ships, adapted exclusively to commerce, must be adopted in place of those which were adapted especially to war. Mr. Hurley foresaw none of these things. He should have prepared new designs last November; he is doing it in May. He should have let new con tracts under these designs so promptly and in such amount as would keep all the ways occupied until they could be filled again under the new policy which congress is now to adopt or as long as funds held out. He should have been permitted by the president to authorize employment on foreign contracts of any capacity which he could not use. He is now asking the president's permission to' take this ac tion, six months too late. As is plainly shown in the message of theNorthwest Steel company and its employes, the action which is now proposed cannot avert the mischief of disorganizing the industry. After the shipping board submits its new pro gramme to congress, that body will talk about it for several months in the intervals between talking about many other things, and after congress acts the board may spend another month or two in arranging contracts.. If the embargo on foreign work should be lifted this month, four to six months vJould elapse before work could ac tually begin on construction. Ifrio more government contracts should -be let to keep the ways filled during that interval, great plants would gradually become idle and great organizations of skilled workmen, which have been assembled and trained at infinite cost and pains, would be scattered. A large part of the money and labor expended on the creation of the new smpDuiid Ing industry would be wasted. Many yards would lose all the immense ad vantage of being going concerns. There is no reason why the shipping board should await action of congress I on its new programme before replac- ing canceled contracts with, new. ones for new types of vessels. It has the necessary authority and funds extend ing several months beyond the procla mation of peace. Any sound reason which may have existed for the em bargo on foreign contracts was made of no effect by the free export of ship building material, for it simply per mitted foreign tonnage to be increased by foreign labor with American mate rial, and thus gave foreign yards a good start in competition with 'Amer ica. That embargo should be lifted without delay. The shipping board's excuse for a policy is shown to be the more absurd by the rank discrimination which has been practiced against the Pacific coast in cancelling contracts. All with possibly one exception, which IS a branch of an Atlantic coast concern, will be out of a Job by October, while many Atlantic coast yards have con tracts extending well into 1920. This Is in face of the fact that the best records in completion of hulls have been made by Pacific coast yards, and that more than half of the tonnage completed in 1918 was constructed on the racific coast. The only possible excuse for this discrimination is Mr. Hurley's statement that the cost is 121 per deadweight ton more on the Pacific than the Atlantic coast, which is dis puted by Portland shipbuilders. That excess would be more than eliminated if the railroad administration would abate its extortionate rates on ship steel, or if the shipping board .would employ some of its vessels in bringing steel through the Panama canal. Both justice and sound public policy demand that existing contracts be redistributed so that all efficient " yards on both coasts be fully employed until they can start work either on the board's new programme or on foreign contracts. WHAT CERMAXT "DOGS NOT UNDER STAND. Evidently the German peace dele gates have failed to grasp the bearing of the league of nations covenant on the freedom of the seas, one among the fourteen points which. they profess to find ignored by the allies' terms. Nor do they seem to understand why Germany is not to be an initial mem ber of the league, the organization of which that country is required to ac cept by accepting the treaty. Freedom of the seas was a question In controversy between belligerents and neutrals under, a dispensation which conceded belligerent rights to any na tion which made war. Under the new dispensation to be established by the league of nations, there will be prac tically no neutrals. Any nation which makes war in disregard of its agree ment to accept decisions of an arbi tral court or of the league council as mediator will be an outlaw entitled to no rights of trade and travel on the sea. The nation upon which it makes war and which accepts the league's decision will have the support of all other members of the league, which will include practically all the rest of the world. With all nations at war, there will be no room for controversy with neutrals about freedom of the seas. The outlaw and any nations which aid it will be simply hunted off the seas. Germany's protest against exclusion from the league proves that it does not yet understand the full Import of the indictment against the ex-kaiser and his high officials, which is Included In the treaty. Having under their leader ship and direction committed - Innu merable crimes against civilization. Germany is in the position of a felon who has forfeited his citizenship by his acts. Germany is called upon to consent to the organization which is to decide when it has atoned for and repented of its crimes and become fit for membership. Failure of Germany to understand these two points is good reason for the allies' refusal to engage in oral dis cussion of the treaty. It would be fruitless, for the Germans are men tally and morally incapable of under standing the allies' viewpoint A long process of moral training and re-education would be necessary to make them understand. Peace cannot await completion of -that process. It must suffice to compel the Germans to ac cept the terms, leaving them, to learn in course of years that the terms are just. They will learn as they realize that the same power which restrains them from aggression also protects them from aggression by others. There Is a circus due next week that likely will be as are all circuses, com plete and satisfying; but this one has a noveltv in its advance man, .nuss Emma C. Miller, who does not assail the office with hat on the back of the head, vest pocket full of smokes, and the aroma of the lion and the wild kangaroo, but has the "dope" and the good thrillers. kWhy not a woman on the job, will somebody please tell .' Professor Hyslop at Corvallis finds it embarrassing that Oregonians do not know Oregon food products are as good as the eastern-made article. It is matter of advertising and fancy package. Appeal to the eye leads to the stomach. By and by moving-picture machines will be made of family size so that one can have the neighbors in of an evening, put the oldest boy on the muslcphone, pass the cider and dough nuts and have a real good time. The "lesson'i of the war seems to be Inciting colored people to insist on rights, which include killing, though the south is a bad section for demon stration. Close of the' phenomenal fur sales in St. Louis shows two points above others, that the country has money for luxuries and Is going to spend it. It must be hard to keep the eyes out of the camera when you know your nicture will be in the paper. Yet it can be done. Good thing for the heirs Jay Gould left $83,000,000. Litigation cannot consume all that money. The skies wept a bit for' Mothers' day. though the sun shone smiles through the tears. ' Bar silver was $.11 Saturday, and the "cross of gold" is losing some of its luster. - 0 There are jokes and jokers, but pro hibitlon in the Yukon is the limit. Bunchgrass continues its record farm sales in the six figures. of The "two bits" on the telephone bill was premature, that's all. j There's a new city job in I airplane inspector, sight Those Who Come and Go. "Never again! Never again!" quoth the Southern Oregon man as he leaned against the desk at the Imperial hotel, at the end of an episode of his journey to Portland. Having visited California this well-known business man thought to bring gratification to the lips of Portland friends and decided that he could with propriety bring two small flasks. One of these ha wrapped in a handkerchief and placed in a, hip pockef; the other was safely stowed away in an inside coat pocket Con templating the pleasure of friends he felt a touch of moisture and caught an odor of aged bourbon. Hastily he re tired to the smokinsr room and was hor rified to find the bottle cracked. Even a change ot trousers did not remove the odor and fearing a special agent might approach he dropped the rfher bottle from the car window. Neither did he observe near what mile-post the deposit was made. . Colorado la already experiencing the beginning of the tourist travel .of the summer season and expects the great est number of visitors In history, ac cording to H. C. White of Hugo, a live L'nlon Pacific division point and famous old range center in the Centennial state. Back In his home town Mr. White has been prominent In politics and served for 15 years as county treasurer. It is his first trip northwest and he is cap tivated with the beauty spots about Portland and wealth of verdure in strik ing contrast with the great plains. He Is at the Imperial. A "long-distance" doctor is Dr. J. H. Fell of Prairie City, Or., his friends pull the "Josh," but not the kind that treats by the absent method. Applica Hon of the phrase in his case ia based on the fact that often in the middle of the night, or some other unseemly time, he must sally forth and make a little drive of perhaps 60 or 70 miles to reach some sufferer needing his ministra tions. Dr. and Mrs. Fell were at the Im perial yesterday. Since he no longer plays the part ot "mine host over at the Summit hotel In Condon. P. H. Stephenson has time to play traveler a bit himself Instead of merely watching others do it He la still owner of that well-known hostelry, however, and retains a lively interest in the ebb and flow of travel, freely ad mittlng as much as he registered at the Seward. Frank C. Bramwell. of the Grants Pass Banking company, who has been sojourning in Portland for a few days, says there was never a better prospect for a big fruit crop in his section of the Rogue river valley. Farmers and stockmen report the general crop out look: the best for years, and range stock is in flourishing condition. Among stockmen who brought in shipments to catch the Monday market in Portland were J. L. Wells and Ross McPherson, both of Payette. Idaho, with cattle shipments, and J. W. Roblson, who accompanied two cars of sheep here from his ranch at Pilot Rock. Or. They registered at the Imperial. James S. Martin, whose father Is capitalist at Vancouver. B. C. but who registers his own temporary abode as Corvallis, was attracted to the city yesterday by an offering at one of the theaters. He stopped at the Benson long enough to register. Rome" and "England" are the lmpoa ing register addresses, indicative of the international prominence of Dr B. M. Tipple and Dr. T. T. Tiplady, re spectlvely, enrolled at the Portland and here in interests of the Methodist cen tenary campaign. J. A. Churchill, state superintendent of schools, came in from Salem and made his headquarters at the Multno mah over Sunday. Interest In outcome of the teachers' salary Increase elec tion was one of the things that at tracted him to Portland. J. C. Herbsman, one of the popular Chautauqua lecturers of the Ellison- White system, with Mrs. Herbsman, is In the city between engagements, spend ing Sunday at the Portland. When home Mr. Herbsman is found In Seattle. Business In connection with the sal mon season, now getting active, brought R. D. Parker and Mrs. Parker to Port land and the Perkins Saturday night Mr. Parker Is interested in one of As toria's busy canneries. T. J. Gill, who supplies residents of Columbia county with such Implements of peace as hoes. Hinges and hammers. from his hardware store in St Helens, was a patron of the Perkins yesterday. Arthur Clark left off practicing law at Corvallis long enough to greet friends and view attractions of the Rose City over the week end. The Sew ard was the base ot bis local expe ditions. Yes. they do say I bob about a bit,1 laughed George Cork, who came all the way from Concord. N. H., and has res istered at two hostelrles in the two days he has been in Portland. Judge F. B. Lathrop, former citizen of Portland, who now hails from San Francisco, is at the Benson while re newlng old acquaintances in the city. Mrs. Ida H. Holmes, who Is an In structor in the Oregon State Norma school at Monmouth, spent the week end in Portland, with headquarters the Seward. John H. Hall, prosperous ranche from the vicinity of Scoffield, Or., wa In Portland yesterday at the Perkin hotel. Revised Costume Advised. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. "Remember, constable." said the port X mayor to the policeman who stood on duty at the town hall on the night of the children's fancy dress ball, "no adults can be admitted. "Right, yer mayorship," said Dooly as he sat about regulating the crowd. Everything was In full swing when Dooly felt himself clutched by an ex cited looking woman. "My little girl is in there." she said, pointing to the ballroom, "and she's forgotten part o her costume." "Can't help it, ma'am, no adults is to go In." "Nonsense," cried the woman. "My little girl has gone as a butterfly, and has forgotten her wings. I want to put them on her." Dooly wrinkled his forehead and tried to think if any of the official regula tions prescribed for a case like that. Orders is orders, ma am, he said a last "Ve'll have to let your little girl go as a caterpillar. Real Snakes. VANCOUVER. Wash., May 10. (To the Editor.) It Is pleasing to note, once again, a good snake story in evi dence in The Oregonian. Since July 28. 1914, we have not heard from the snake men. 1 deplored the great war solely from the fact that it diverted our attention from snakes. In the Pun jab country, north of Lahore, I have seen the "two-headed snake" to which Mr. Dugan alludes, but the Indian spec imen is never less that 48 feet in length and always runs In both direc tions at the same time, i also saw an interesting snake in the Mandalay district. It is known as the "disap pearing snake." It is harmless and timid and when alarmed it effects It disappearance through the simple pro cess of swallowing Itself. V. E. RACITY, , Late Bombardier Battery B, Bom bay Artillery. Self-Mastery. By Grace E. Hall. No oilier c:n your lite despoil it ou yourself control. Though fret and strife and sad turmoil their forces all enroll: Though venomed tongues in rage at tack, their aim shall prove un true f you ar strong the greatest wrong shall help strengthen you. No battle waged In craven fear did ever victory bring: The power to win lies deep within a kind of spirit-thing: Deprive an army of this strength and guns ehall not avail. For through the brain comes every gain, and through it, too, we fall. When trouble comes it helps the soul to say. 'This cannot last: The sun shall shine with light divine, as In the days gone past"; It puts new vigor in the veins to simply say "l will!" Then doubt and fear both disappear and questioning voice is still. There Is no victory denied to thoso who truly strive; Each mental effort quickly proves the strength that you derive. When alien forces strike in hate and seek your peace to kill. Keep self-control: this is a goal beyond their range and skill. USE FOR THAT VACANT FRAME Editors Would Fill It With Picture ot Real American Captain Nease. CORVALLIS. Or.. May 10. (To the Editor.) I read with much satisfaction the articles in The Oregonian concern ing the act of patriotism of Captain Nease in removing the William Ran dolph Hearst stain from the walls of the Portland Press club. A half a dozen up-state newspaper men were enter tained at the Press club a few weeks ago and many expressed among them selves their indignation that the like ness of this mockery of American cili zenshlp, this disgrace to the newspaper profession, should be hanging on the walls of the Press club along with the portraits of members of the craft whose names are revered in newspaper history. Captain Nease merely did something that the officers of the club should long ago have attended to of their own volition, and instead of being asked to pay for the picture, and instead of be ing accused of "vandalism." Captain Nease should be given a distinguished service medal and a vote of thanks by the public. We do not believe Mr. Dana's connec tion with a Portland paper that uses the Hearst news service would in any way Influence his attitude, unless it were unconsciously, bt the word "van dalism" as applied to the act of Cup tain Nease. would make Captain Nease himself a "vandal." Now we get the word "vandal" from a tribe of Teutons called Vandals who ravaged Gaul and pillaged Rome about 1500 years ago. taking particular delight in destroying art treasures and works of civilization. Mr. Hearst is neither an art treasure nor a work of civilization, but on the other hand a warm friend of those van dals who Imitated their distinguished ancestors in the late war. Captain Nease could not be guilty of vandalism, be cause vandalism Implies destruction of something or value. If the Press club Itself is really feel Ing bad about the matter. I am sure the Oregon State Editorial association will be glad to fill the vacant frame with the portrait of a real American. We sug gest that of Captain Nease. C. E. INGALLS. President Oregon State Editorial Ass'n. TRl'E-BLl'E AMERICANS APPROVE Had Captain Nease Deen Politic, Only Pacifists Would Have Been Pleased. PORTLAND, May 10. (To the Edi tor.) We were thrilled with admira tion when we read in The Oregonian that we had in our midst a man. Cap tain Nease, who had the courage of his convictions, and did not hesitate to demonstrate the same by cutting the picture of William Randolph Hearst from its peaceful resting place in a frame on the walls of the Portland Press club rooms. Now, It would have perhaps been more ethical had the captain gone to the manager of the club and said to him. "After having given up my busi ness, hoifle, friends and relatives and crossed the briny deep to risk my life for their future safety and forever to put an end to disloyalty at home, it is distasteful to me to see on your walls the picture of such a man, and I beg the same will be removed." Now, that sounds flno to a pacifist, but to an honest-to-God, true-blue American who has gone through hell to kill such stuff it Is pure rot I have always, been an upholder ot the law and blush with shame that we ever have to "resort to unlawful meth ods to get justice, but it takes a Kan sas cyclono to wake up some people. I am with the captain to the last trench. Let us not hesitate to show our disapproval of disloyalty, whether it be found in the heart of a poor devil or a rich devil. I have a very high re gard for Mr. Dana, and believe his patriotism is unquestioned, but I would advise him, as well as the Portland Press club, to soft-pedal this affair. J. ALLEN HARRISON, 263H Yamhill street BACK TO THE FARM. Thirty little chickens, Happy as you please. Romping in the sunshine And the ocean breeze. Waking in the morning At the peep o day: Go to sleep at sundown Till the night's away. Chirpy little voices. Like a cricket sings: Many little trial flights Of downy little wing3. Searching out with bright eyes Everything that grows; Running to your beckon On dainty little toes. Climbing to jour shelter. Nestling In your hands. Seeking the protection That helplessness demands. All of this may happen Any day for you; Get an incubator , And raise a chick or two. MARY ALICE OGDEN. Seaside. Or. TRY SIVGIXG. When things go wrong, just start up a song. . Just set the wild echoes ringing. And gloom won't stay for a single day If you fill up the day with singing. EVERETT EARLE STANARD. Sale of W. S. S. DALLAS. Or.. May 10. (To the Edi tor.) A has ten war saving stamps on a certificate with his name on it. but they are not registered and he says he can sell them any time "between now and 1323. B says he cannot as long as they are on a certificate, whether registered or not Please state in paper who is right W. W. The stamps can be sold at any time to the postmaster, whethes, registered or not, and to no one else. , In Other Days. Trtenty-flve Years Ago. From The Orcsoulan of May 12, 1S04. -Carlton Place, Ont. The Campbell heresy has been settled before the Pres b,vtery by Professor Campbell agreeing that statements of Old Testament char acters as to God were true, but not al ways the whole truth, and that gen erally God, when sitting in judgment acts In accordance with general lan a or through secondary causes. St. Tctersburgh Hundreds have been arrested as the result of a discovery of an organization called Friends of Polit ical Freedom. Mrs. Eva Emery Dye of Oregon City has just returned from San Francisco, where she rend a paper before the omen s congress. Robert Wakefield, contractor for con struction of the grand central station on the terminal grounds, has decided to begin work ou the annex next Monday. Fifty Years Ago From The Oreironian of May 12. 169. New York There was much enthusi asm about the completion of the rail road to the racific coast. A commemo ration service was held In Trinity church. In Philadelphia, the independ ence Den was rung. It is claimed that the Klamath Lake basin will In a few years contain a larger population than the Rogue river valley. Testerdajr was a rip-roaring screech er for hotness, the most modest tem peratures at 3 P. M. being 90 degrees in northern exposures. Exception is being taken to Reverdy Johnson, whom newspapers of the coun try are asking President Grant to re call from England. FOLLOWING MR. SELLING AROl'XD What the Public-Spirited Citizen Does) with His Time and Service. A lively account of an effort by C. C. Chapman to keep track for 24 hours ot Hen Selling, in his many public activities, is riven In the Oregon Voter. Incidentally, the article furnishes some insight into ths many Interests ot Mr. Chapman himself. The article is: We attended a meeting of business men In the board of directors' room ot the First National bank at 4 P. M. to discuss the reconstruction programme. Ben Selling was there. Later, a meet ing with war department representa tives relative to uniting the different employment bureaus into one head quarters for the benefit and conven ience of returned soldiers. Ben Selling was there. That evening he was at a meeting of the Beth Israel congrega tion called to raise the salary of Rabbi Jonah B. Wise. Later the same even ing he turned up at a local vaudevillo theater and helped raise $35,000 for the liberty loan. Next morning at 10 o'clock we found him at the public dock commission, of which ha is vice-president. In the aft ernoon he was at the public welfare bureau, ot which he is president. At 3 o'clock we went with him for an in spection of the great St. Johns terminal, where the West Munham was being loaded with the aid of the modern, equipment installed in that great pub lic dock by the municipality. All this was within 24 hours. Early in the morning and between .times ho found a few minute. to attend to his private business In his store. When we parted with him we wished him many happy returns of the day, for the dsy was his 67lh birthday. The gang following him around thought ho tru.tt have meant 67. but he made it clear that 67 was correct. In his business, success follows his pathway. His philanthropic efforts are) not ejulto so successful as his business, fcr he has not been able to give away quite as much money as he has been making of late, a circumstance that seems to distress him. Ben Is an active jrtver. although seldom a foolish giver, :tnd it always worries him when his hank balance gets ahead of his capac ity to donnte with discrimination. Bm Celling has done a wonderful lot of good In his Portland. He is fussy about it. for he likes to put his money where it will help put the helpless on. their foot so they can help themselves. Provldirg for temporary needs of un fortunates like discharged or paroled convicts U his hobby. But he doesn't pivo emotionally though many the time we have seen the moisture In his eyes when ho was scheming out means of getting some distressed family start ed right again without patronizing them or inflicting upon them anything that loDkd like charity. At least 30 happy returns of the day for Ben Polling! May he live to be 97! For 80 times S63 amounts to 10.-f-50 days, on each several day of which Ben Selling would do something to aid and inspire some unfortunate, which means that at least 10.S50 people will be benefited directly if he survives 30 years more. LOAN rSDKRWRITIMJj NOT FAIIfr Drive Methods In Iowa and Michigan Questioned by Chicago Paper. Chicago Post. Oregon claims to be the first stato to have gone over the top In the victory loan by popular subscription. She challenges the right of Iowa and Mich igan to pose as superpatriots because, she asserts, they used the banks as a short cut to the completion of their quotas. Our sympathy is with Oregon. Chi cago Is going the long route, and Chi cago knows it is not an easy route. In Iowa and Michigan there were com munities we do not know how many where no real canvass was made, no house-to-house solicitation. What the people did not step up and subscribe for on a mere printed invitation, the banks absorbed. This is not fair to the rest of the country. It Is not fair in a competition for honors, nor is it fair in making this loan nerve one purpose for which it was designed that of releasing credit through the banks for the use of reviv ing and expanding business. If Oregon can establish the fact and we think she can that Iowa and Michi gan have dodged the hard work and chosen tho "easier way," we hope the treasury department will recognize her claim. How Tacomsns Feel About It. TACOMA. Wash.. May 10. (To the Editor.) Some one has suggested that Mount Tacoma be renamed Roosevelt because rival cities prefer to give the beautiful mountain the name of a for eigner who did his little best in tho revolutionary war against the infant American colonies fighting for free dom. Now if you want to honor Roose velt why not rename Portland in hi honor? It will prevent tha perpetual mistakes in the postoffice between your city and Portland. Me. Better still the region around Los Angeles is al ways talking of seceding and forming a new state. Why not go ahead and name the new commonwealth Roose velt? Or as Seattle don't like Indian names like Tacoma but what's the use? JAMES A. EPROULE. Marringe Licenses lit Oregon. PORTLAND, May 9. (To the Editor.) Is it still necessary to get a doctor's certificate before gettiug a marriage li cense in the state of Oregon? JOHN SANDERS. It IS. . " ;