FACE THE FACTS!
Weeks Talks About Our Navy
and National Defense.
Insists en Military, Commercial, Fin
ancial and Industrial Preparedness
Let Us e Ready for Psses ss
Well as War.
By JAMES B. MORROW,
In the Philadelphia Record.
NONE of the Weekses, save John
Wlngate, the senator anil the
Massachusetts cancllilatn for
president tolling as they all IM
aniong the franlte humps of New
Hampshire ws ever noted for hi ac
cumulation of cash or property.
They were farmers mostly, begin
iilng with Leonard Weeks, who, emi
grating from England In 16.r.fi, became
the head and source of the family
Agriculture sternly practiced among
the embedded rocks and Irremovable
howldera taught thorn to be resource
ful and to keep at least one eye open
to opportunity.
Ho William IX, the father of the aen
ator, wu a probate Judge, and once
essayed to bn a manufacturer With
tha co-operation of neighbors, likewise
alert and adventurous, be started a
factory at Lancaster for making stsrch
from potatoes.
"I will never forget the look on my
father's face," Captain Weeka told me,
when, on a Sunday morning, Juat as
we were leaving church, we saw men
sod boys running down the etreot and
hoard them crying: "The starch fac
tory la burning.'
Captain John Wlngats Weeks.
"There was no Insurance tlM I "I
try hud lapsed -and the lire awept
awuy all of my father's moans and put
a burdenaome mortgage on his farm,
i i and a half mllea In the country '
If there bad bean a navy of a re
spectable site In 1(81 John Wlngate
Weaka would now be a captain in
stall of a aenator. Nor would ha
cur have become s banker and thus
have act at naught all the traditions of
ili" Weeka family for self respecting,
capable and wholesome poverty.
And yet u psychological aiialyals of
Inherltod traits might show that the
senator comes naturally by his talents
for public affair and finance. Any
lnu,utr) Into hla personality muat In
lude the Wlngates, tha chief of whom,
John, an Englishman, emigrated to
New Hampshire In 160.
I'll,' UYi'kiea and the Wlngatea In
turmarrled during the aecond Auieii
.iteration tha Weekses to con
Hnue aa farmers, with an eicuralou
Into potato starch, as haa been re
corded, but tha Wlngatea to become
Idlers. prea.hera and statesmen
I'.ilne Wlngate. for example, the great
grandson of John, waa a member of
i In- Continental congress and later a
aenator from New Hampshire
A Big Man Phyalcally.
lolni Wlngate Weeks of Massacbu
setts. In his name, tbsrefora, gis bark
to Hi., middle of the seventeenth ON
i.r v l'ftltups his gifts are equally a
muii nt Wherever they originated
he ha made good use of them He It
well to-do but haa less mom-v i
haps, than la often represented and
K,. publicans In Maaaachuaetts have no
I 111. id tha country that he la their can
liduie for president. If he Is noml
nated at Chicago In June, the main
i will have been that be la a
buslnaaa man Hla candidacy, then.
will he something entirely new In na
tlonal politics
In his measurements, Captain Weeks
la a 'urge man A reaaonable gueaa
at hla weight would be 260 poiindi
His stature, perhapa, Is Ave feet and
eleven Inchee. His eyes are gray and
his manner Is frank and hearty While
..t the naval academy he could slowl)
raise a l l'.' pound dumbbell above hlf
l ud with his right hand Then, kneel
i use with one leg, he could alowly rale
.in 87 pound dumbbell with hla left
hand More than that he could lower
Ills hands to hla shoulders and slowly
,i,d ilniultaueously put both dumb
hells above his bead the second time
muacular youth, he waa n
mended b hla principal to the "pru
dautlal loiiiiiiutee" that called at the
idem In Ijtncaater on a hum of a
macher for their district school. The
school was then closed a group of
i he larga boys having carried the
teacher Into the road, alauiuied him
.town In the dirt and warned blm
never to retum.
Lick em and lick em good. " the
prudential committee aald. "We'll
back you up If you do."
'I 'he third day, Captain Weeks
told me a big. red-faced boy took
till "ii in hand aud laborious! be
gal 10 w rite a letter that Is. he aa
Hf'rtt'T engaged In writing a let
i.i gg .i matter of fact, ha waa show
tug off hi fore the school aud expert
iu mtlug with the uew teacher Whan
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ordered to iut his pen and pi per
away, he smiled around the room at
the pupils, who had stopped work
ing, mill then resumed his writing
"I took him by the collar, dragged
him out of his seat and gave htm a
thorough whipping. He turned out
to be the son of the chairman of the
prudential committee. The old man
never spoke to me again, not even
when I met him In the road, he rid
ing In a buggy and 1 walking to or
from my work "
Went to Sea for Two Yeara.
On hla graduation at the Annapolis
Naval Academy, young John Wln
gate Weeks went to sen for a rruisa
of two years Hcventy men were In
hla clasa, but there was room for only
10 of them In the navy. The navy
Itself consisted of but five steam ves
sels classed as first-rates, and tiny
were obsolete and unfit for active
duty. George Harnett, his room-mate,
went Into the Marine Corps and is
now a major general and the com
mandant of that branch of the naval
aervh e.
In Florida, where he had been en
gaged as a surveyor on a railroad, the
late Midshipman Weeka learned that
an old firm In lloiton waa going out
of Im-ilnes One of the partner had
died and another had become blind
Henry Hornblower, a aon oi' one of
the partners, and the youthful Mr.
Weeks bought the business, the lat
ter borrowing the money with which
to begin bis career as a bauker and
broker.
Hornblower acted for the firm on
the floor of the Boston Stock K
. Iihim Weeks kept the books snd
waited on the customers as they ap
peared In a few years the two fOBBl
in "ii had offices all over New England
and In cities as far away as Chlisgo.
"I got my first vsluabh business
Idea from a famous New "uglsnd
dressmaker," Captain Weeka aald to
the writer of thla nrtlcl "A friend
who came to apend the night at our
house waa talking to Mrs. Weeks
while I wss reading a newspaper I
heard her aay that she had bought a
dross In iloston. and that noun after,
on returning to the atore, the pro
prietor, noticing her at the counter,
asked If she had purchased the dress
she was wearing at his establishment
On learning that ahe had. he aald.
"It Is not right Please give your
name and addre.s to the clerk sod wo
shall correct the matter at once.'
A Story of Great alue.
" 'But,' tha v-oman replied, 'the dreas
la satisfactory to me. Whatever la
wrong Is so small that It Is not worth
mentioning '
Small to you, tisdam,' the man
answored. 'but very large to us.'
'And do you know,' the woman
told Mrs. Weeks, the dress was not
only taken back, but It waa kept aud
I waa given a new una.
"I repeated the story to my partner
next day," Captain Weeks said, "and
from that time onward we tried to
please our customers before we
thought of ourselves and the probable
profile we could make In our trans
actions." Three yeara ago, following at once
his election to the upper House of
Congress, Captain Weeka sold out to
his partners and disposed of every in
lerest that might be thought, even 111
directly, to Influence hla Judgment aa
a lawmaker. It It aald In New Bug
land that he haa alwaya been vary
careful about hla repututlon as a busi
ness niun An anecdote told of him
In State street, the Wall street of Bos
ton, shows how his sensitiveness to
public opinion on one occasion proved
highly profitable to hla partner and
himself.
A run on a bank In which Captain
Weaka waa a director, though he
owned but : of the atock. threat
cited, so he feared, to Injure his stand
Ing In the community He spent a
day and a night at the hunk, pledged
two-thirds of all the properly he aud
his partner owned for the payment of
die bank'a debts and put through a re
habilitating plan under which tha
Hhareholdera were aaaeaaed 60 per
cent, on their holdings The hunk
waa saved, but some of the fright
ened ahareholdera aold out Their In
tereata were promptly bought by
Captain Weeka The bank prospered
and later waa conihln wllh oilier
large banks Boston financiers say
that Mr. Hornblower and Mr Weeks
ultimately made $260,000 on the atock
which they purchased when the hunk
seemed to he on the verge of ruin
When I aaked Captain Weeka about
the matter, he aald 'I waa a young
man and couldn't atford to be a di
rector In a hank that had closed Ita
doora In the faces of Its depositors,
msny of whom wuro poor and most
of whom were email merchants aud
vage-earnere."
"How," 1 aaked him. luaamuch aa
gg was a sailor himself once, and Is
now on i.rms of Intimacy with many
high officers, "would you describe the
uavy of the I'nlted Statea?"
' At the outbreak of the war Iu Eu
rope " he anawered. "our navy, In my
opinion, waa the second beat 111 exls
ten. Authorities for whom 1 have
great respect did nut agree with me.
They ranked our navy third or fourth
- some giving France second place
and some believing Uerniany waa
atronger at aea than ourselvet,
"I still think that In ahlpa aloue we
were the equal of France or Qermany
and much the superior of Japan Our
officers are the ableat In the world;
our crews are the moat Intelligent No
nation gives Its officers the training
that Is given to tbe naval officers of
the I'nlted Statea And the men In
our ahlps. coining from farms and vil
lages, In large part, are the finest
morally aud physically afloat.
'In my days, hack Iu 1880. let us aay,
the aallor oii ihore leave wh" returned
to bis ship sober was keelhauled or
otherwise puulahed by hla mates All
that lia changed luloxicated sailors
are see no more on tbe streets Our
men sre sober, aerioua and capable
VI I, .n an estimate Of any navy Is
made, the personnel, as well as the
ahlps must be considered.
Lessons of the War.
So I had thought that only Ureal
llrltaln excelled ua na a naval power
ut the outbreak of the war in Europe
Since the war started. Frauce aud
Germany have geen building ahlps
Our rank Just now, therefore, Is uu
certain But we have a good uavy.
Still, it ahould be much larger."
"Has the war taught the world any
naval leeaoua?"
"A great many. It haa shown t.i
value of aeroplanes, which aie tow
known aa the eyes of the fleet. Ti -y
are very necessary as scouts Leuv
Ing tha deck of a vessel, they can
easily locate the enemy and are there
fore of tha greatest possible use in
the events that occur before a bailie
"The submarines, too. It has l. i N
learned, are of a real and practical
service. All officers think they bavo
become a permanent addition lo
very navy, but there Is some dis
agreement as to their general utility.
Can a swarm of submarines, for In
stance, go to sea, meet a floet and do
stroy It? The question rantinl he
answered until such an attempt has
been made and either failed or suc
ceeded "I asked one of the highest military
authorities In the country If 1,000 sub
marines, along with mines, could safe
guard the i'nlted Stales against In
vaslon the mines to blow up the ene
mies' ships off shore. If any Imp
pened In get that near, the submarines
having met the rest and destroiil
them before lliev came within striking
distance of our coasts. The answer
was that auch a measure of pro
i.'i Hon. on Invasion of the United
States would, to say the least. b
ma. In very difficult.
"You see, no one can tell aa yet
what part the submarines will take
In the wars of the future. Their uses
arc alowly being developed, and we
cannot know what they arc capable of
doing until the French or Brltlah
fleet meets the fleet of Emperor
William.
Also. It has been learned that bat
tle crulaora are required to bring a
navy up to Ita highest efllclenry
Cruisers formerly wero used as scoutH
and lo hunt down and doatroy lh
merchant ships of an enemy. They
were swift, but not heavy enough to
take a place In the battle line when
large vessels were engaged
A Saa Battle First.
The modern cruiser, however, can
ii bt being covered with armor aud
armed with large guns. Steaming M
knota an hour, It can run all around
a fleet of drcadneugbta and MHB
shells into them from a lung distance
and from any angle Our navy must
have bettle cruisers, besides a great
many submarines and aeroplanes, If
we mean to be In a position where
we can protect ourselves against In
jury. Insult or dishonor.
"It should be alwaya remembered, "
Captain Weeks went on to say, that
our navy will be our drat line of d
fenee American ships will meet for
elgti ships before there Is a battle on
shore. If tha United Stales goes to
war with any nation In Euorpe or
Asia, the fleets or tha two countries
will fight for the supremacy of tbe
sea.
"No Invading army will sat out for
America mall It Is safe from attack by
our fleet. Ho long aa our fleet la afloul
no army will venture to start for our
shores. Moving troops from one couu
try to another la an Immense under
Inking, even when It la safe to do so
Four hundred large ships, for ex
ample, would be required to trims
pint an army of HaO.OOo men fn.in
Jupau to the United Statea. Armies
traveling by water have to carry that
own artillery, ammunition and hnts.s
Japan would not aend too large troop
ahips out Into tbe Pacific unless Its
i.et bad fought and defeated our
lleet. Nor would Germany or any
..tint country In Europe attempt au
Invasion of the I'nlted Stales so long
as our fleet, decks cleared, was wait
ing in the Atlantic
Looking to the Eaat, 1 cau sso no
probable danger that la likely to m u
in the near future, unleaa the allien
ui. n. en. iiglily beaten by Germany, oi
unites Uermany la thoroughly beaten
b the alllaa. If tba war la pnajtl
cully a draw at the end, tbe cffoiii
of all the great nations to maintain .it
equilibrium of power will keep ibeu
nt ii fly engaged for aome time wltl
their own affairs."
no you believe that a trade wa
against thla country will follow II"
i "Mm alien of peace In Europe
"Such a war will come dun la n
duuht of It. 1oaded with deb' hi,
.l.ii. d with taxation, Europe will tun
wiih energy and ferocity to the work,
of peace. The factorlea In kVOpa M
opt Iu lielglum, Poland and Noitheri
I rain e, have not been ahut down noi
burned. Indeed, new ones have bee.
bu.lt Industrially, aave In tbe plan
I have uumed, Europe la better altu
ui.d now than wheu the war beguu
Pacta to Be Faced.
Thing have been speeded up u
tii cut Britain, Geruiuuy aud Fruuce
Hi. la. tonus, old ouea and uew ones
ui .' runulug They will be rumnm
after the armlea at the front havt
ben sent home, but Instead of mak
ing ..union aud ammunition, aa ai
prcscut, they will be upereted night
and duy Iu tbe production of goods
for the American marketa.
All Americana, no matter whether lbe
call llialiieKee Democrats Or Hepul.l.
...KM to have courage enough and
wlsnoUl enougli to fu.'o ill fa. ta
, ig lu mkc pueaaaalon of the markets
In this cuuulr) if wa do nut defend our
alt pa Yuu apuke uf an Invasion by sol
diers Then can also be an tnveaton wllh
pi -ducts
, favoi all ainOa of defense i. .Hilary,
i . lal. financial and indualiial. And
light I. -re at hume I think some of ua
need Jaii-use against fallacluua Ida ta Kin
li.atance Tins Is a great buslneaa nation
ml yel we hear many suggestions that
business be taken uut of the uwu.ial.ip
in ,i management which have deielupeJ ft
mil luuJe it wonderfully euooeaafuL ao
thai 'I ' ay be lurued Over lu the national
got eminent.
i ualneaa ought to be regulated, but we
nave i.-gulated tbe railroads so vigorously
that no more are being built, although
they are surely needed in some parts of
ititry rurthenaore, the tune has
..Hie when the railroads cannot boiiow
. fol ahull periods ua as u.l.antuge-
ana terms i can uttier Hues of big bust
le toe Ana yet irauaimiiaiiuii. next is
la our
moat Important ludu
try
u.ioi.t rut eminent uwnereliip and oner-
it lull Improve the situation?
v.. i lie alluatlon would be uiaJe worse
mieiahlp and operation baa (ailed
. a-s Canada and ulher countriea
Wherever It baa been tried, expenses ar.)
u. r.aaed and deficits created On the
.'. ,-siein Hallruad of France the operating
i arses went up 60 per cent In three
. ,- us Mure than e.SoX) new men wens, eiu-
oyed uu workers on the tracks, engt-
oudin tore or biakemeii. but cleraa.
and other little point, ana plai -
i nhoiii were found around Ins general
snd at the station
, 1, .eminent ownership In tbe I'nlted
lutes would add 1.T0O.00D men lu uur uf-
n, e -holding class, and congress would tig
alsries Freight ratee. I am sure,
would be higher than at present and the
. onsiim. the oieu who work nuuld be
lossra and net gainers
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Thirty yeara ago the telephone us a luxury. Today,
through personal Initiative and private enterprise, it haa become
a neceaatty within the reach of everybody. Where once a bui
ueti hud but one telephone v,llli u limited talking range, toduy
that buslneaa haa service with a rauge three-nuurtera of a coutl
iieui broad, and every branch of ever) business is linked lo ev
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The telephone haa earned ita responsible place and there are
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2U.O0U.000 talks dally
Kvery Bell Telephone is a I.oiik Distance Station.
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No. Le
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75 Huntington pony I $6 in
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I Fast Mall Jli p. ..
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140 Mlxtd from Riverside a
dnli.v except Sunday 12:01p m
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
MM States
President Woodrow Wilson,
Vlce-i'realdent Thos. It. Marshal
Secretary of State, .. Hubert Ianlng
Secretary of Trias.,. . W. O. MoAdou
Secretary oi War, . L. M. Oarrleon
Attornoy-Ooierul, Thoa. W. Oregor)
I'liHttnasler-t n. u.l . . . . A. Ilurleaun
Secretary of NBf) J Daniels
Secy of Interim ..Franklin K l.nia.
Sec'y of Agrlc iltma,, O. P. Houston
Sec'y of I'oiiim 'ice Will. f. Iledlleld
Secretary of LbIM i . . . W II. Wilson
Sec') to the Pros J. P. Tumulty
II. H. Nupiru i t'oiin
iblef Justice. ... Edward . n'hi I
Associate Juatlcea,
Joseph Me Ken tin
Oliver Wondeh Ml ma
William It. Da)
James (' Mclte iritis
ibnrles E Hugh"
Willis ValiDevanni
Joseph It laimar
Muhlon Pltnoy
Vale I M. i in. . .-
Iteglster Tho. J
Receiver M. N Fa I
Stale Ofltcers.
Oovernor Jamea Win. Mint
Sec'y of Slate Dou Olci
Treasurer 1 . Ka
Attorney-Ueueral, . .Oeo. A, . owi.
Supt. of Public Instruction
J. A. 1 nu Hi
Dairy aud Food Commlaalonai
' ii. all la
Slate Printer AW. La. H ce
IU. I. Senators,
llary K. Lane
O. B thaitiberlaln
t'ougreaamen,
W C lUwIey
N. J. Slnnol
C. N. M. Villi III
Slate Supreme t.iuit
Chief Justice Frank A. Mm. re
Associate Juatlcea,
Thomaa A. McUrlda
Henry J. Uoau
Oaorga II. Burnett
Itobert Eakln
Henry L. Henaon
Lawrence T. Harris
Ninth Judicial District
District Judge Dalton liiggs
' District Attorney W II Hrooko
Senator lUttli Legislative Assembly
' Joint Senator, for Orant, Malheur,
aud Harney Counties.
. . I.orlng V. Stewart
County Officers
County Judge O. W. McKnlght
County Clark,. .. .John P. Houston
I Sheriff ii.-u J. Brown
i County Commissioners,
John F. Weaver
Melville Kelley
County Treasurer, J. Ralph Weaver
Assessor Lewis E. Hill
School Supt Fay Clurk
County Survayor B. F. Farmer
County Corouor 1(1) Payne
Truant Officer, A It Mclutoah
Justice of the Peace (Ontario Dla-
trlct Q. L. King
Circuit Court
Circuit Court for Malheur county
meets lu Vale, the county seat, on
the second Monday In January; on
the fourth Monday in April; and on
the first Tuubduy lu September for
regular sessions Hon Dalton Blgga,
Circuit Judge; V II Hrooke, Dist
rict Attorney; John P Houston,
Clerk.
County Court.
The County Court of Malheur
Count) meets in regular saaalon at
Vale on the flrat Wednesday of Jan
uary, March, May, July, September
and November. County Judge, Oeo.
W. McKnlght; M. D. Kelley and
John F. Weaver, Commissioners;
John P Houston, Clerk