mi. Scon herald
NATIONAL PROFITS FROM WAR.
Now that there Is so much talk go-
Ing around about profiteering. It Is
t'ublUhed Every Thursday «1 I ente. Oregon bj I worth while exitiulnlug how »•«• stand
[ as a nation In this matter. According
A. II. HARKIS Mai’wr
' to official statistics, our favorable
Knt«*rt‘I a» >ecoi«4 class mail matter Fehru ; balance of trade since the war
ary U.lVU.at the
.'rticv at I a uis .O ti <an | began In August, 1914, has amounted
under act of Vonfrv*» March X is:*»
; to only a little less than ten billions
| of dollars. Tlu.t Is a staggering sum,
ihitMcriplion prict?
< < j.-ar.tns-lisi" - «and represents the protit<»ring of the
nation on account of the war. any*
j Philadelphia Bulletin. It is true, we
| generally had a nice little balance to
’ our credit before the war. but nothing
I to equal the figures quotetl above.
Most of this profit has come from
enhanced prices and larger activities
on account of the war. Belligerent
nations have bought munitions and
I food. and neutral nations
have
I bought all svjts of wares. We have
done some buying, but on a small
This paper has enlisted | j scale
compared with our selling. As
with the government in the i Is well known, practically all atocks
cause of America for die I and bonds of American corpora-
period of the war........... .. i tions have come home. We have paid
all our debts and have become rich.
The figures mentioned above are in-
THE BLUEJACKETS PROTEST. 1 teresting because they nre almost ex-
No sooner has the country beer un­ ! r.ctly equal to the amount we have
mistakably informed that its s Mien- J raised through Uberty b>..ns this year.
do not want to be railed “Sai . nies" 1 If the war were to stop now, we
than the fighting sailors in its navy I should have paid nil costs from profits
tise to protest against the apgiella- in our foreign trade ami have hud
t<on “Jackie." There is something I plenty to «parts for the actual cost of
about it that they do not like, thatI the war so fur is only about $»1000,-
sits uncomfortably upon them and OHi.ult». exclusive of almost us much
makes them ill at ease. Perhaps, and loaned to the allies.
probably, it Is the diminutive form.
Perhaps the rescue of Palestine
“Jack” has been a good name for a
sailor almost ever since there were from the Turkish rule may connect it-
Bailors and an English language self later with the schemes for a
“Jack Tars” have sailed all over the league of peace. A league ought to
world. In ships of war and in mer­ have a capital and Palestine hus so
chant clippers.
“Bluejacket" still many holy places already that another
stands and causes no resentment.1 Pl»ce that is holy because It is the
Your true sailor is least of all things capital of p
■' tr • ]>• i ular
will Imagination ¿is appropriate. What­
in the world a mollycoddle. He
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r.ot be petted, say« Portland Oregon­ ever their precise political status, the
ian. He Is deeply human, full of sen­ Jews in Palestine are sure to lie a
timent and affection, but there Is al­ foro- making for peace. They will
most nothing he would not rather do owe their existence as a nation to
than show It
To the outer world British arms seconded by Internntion-
he prefers to show a stern and even al agreement, they will be drawn from
forbidding exterior. lie Is doing a nearly every country of the world,
real man's work; he is going to fight and they will have the strongest of nil
and die when he is called on to do j interests for not being drawn Into the
so You may call him a “shellback" vortex of International rivalries and
or even a “gob" without embar­ racial discord, writes II. Sldebotham
rassing him, but not a “Jackie.” I t New Republic. If the league of
“Jackie” sounds too much like “Rol­ I*ace is to have a capital it will clear­
lo”—not phonetically, but sentimental­ ly be at home In Palestine.
ly. The soldiers and sailors have a
That old robber alternative, “Your
simple way of their own of settling
the matter when the« meet in public i money or your life.” attains to an hon­
places. Between them it is “soldier” orable relation In these days, for that
or “sailor,” and nothing more. There- i alternative confronts every citizen and
in lies a suggestion to those who de­ ! gives to his life a profound meaning.
sire to keep on th.» safe side. Both Tl.ere Is nn nian who can escape thia
are highly honorable appellations, con­ demand upon him. It Is either one or
veying every necessary Implication the other. He must offer bls life to
of manly dignity and full capacity for his country or his money, or perhaps
both. This is no half-way business.
a man's work.
The nation owns all of a man. what­
ever he possesses, and all the strength
The new Czecho-Slovak races have
that he has. Wo have never before
become welded Into a nation by the
alighted upon such times as we bnve
fiery and long-hanked furnaces of their
now; we hnve never before run up
own passion for liberty. They are to
against snch n demand for «mcrlflees
become a nation for the same reason
as confronts us now. Tills is not a
that the United States he ame a na­
sentimental situation. The response
tion, sprung from the spiritual and In­
to it Is not the waving of banners, or
tellectual loins of the dreamers of Ply­
the tumult of oratory, for It means
mouth Rock, the Virginias and the
Just what It snys—your money or your
Boston tea party, says New York
life.
Morning Telegraph. The lands, the
waters, the foods, the fabrics, th"
buildings, the ships and all the mate­
rial and sensible things which follow,
would be only Inert, metinlnglo« and
confused c mmodltles unless they
were vitalized and made eternally
dynamic by that spirit which is the
essence, the life and the Identity of ev­
ery nation which Is fit to survive.
One Gorman military export Is now
holding up the retreat as a strategic
masterpiece meriting admiration. In
fact, the numbers and volubility of
the explanations of defeat show the
desperation of the German high com-
mand In such wild and futlle at-
tempts to bolster up the splrit of
the people. They are fast getting to
the point of proving that the nearer
the enemy gets to Berlin, the more
triumphant are their own splendid
forces.
The story of the Italian lieutenant
who was snatched up and borne away
from a prison camp by an aviator
Mounds like some of the romances
which highly Imaginative writers used
to write for the pure amusement of
their readers. Rut the facts develop­
ing in this war only go to prove the
old truism that truth Is stranger than
fiction, for imagination Is surpassed
ty reality In Its happenings.
BARE FEET AND CHERRY LEAVES
Beer and sausage are German In-
dkpeusabka. Even though the alco­
hollc content ol the beer may be re-
duct'd to the vnnlshlng point and the
sausage may be made of horsemeat,
the German must have these two
things. But there are other things that
may be dispensed with. Tobacco, for
example. Is not a necessity. .The big
meerschaum must be stuffed with
something, but when you do not have
tobacco dried cherry leaves may do.
And the German who munches horse
sausages to the accompaniment of
uonalcoholic beer may find a certain
comfort In the aroma of burning
cherry. If he were a more Imagina­
tive mortal the consolation would bo
greater. But how about clothes? Wool
is very scarce, but not na scarce as
leather,
Something like n cru^ide
against shoes Is being preached. It
should l>e delightful, saya the cru-
sader, to walk barefoot fAr the love
of the fatherland. A few herren and
frsuen have always set the style, and
bare toes arc no novelty on Unter
•leu Linden, says Cleveland Plaindrai-
er. There may, ludeed. be a govern-
went Interdict against the wearing of
s I xh - h and stockings by civilians In
Sommer. The soldiers must be shod,
willy nllly, and going barefoot might
he a good cure for the corns of patri­
otic Prussian ladles or the bunions
of workers In munition factories.
With the faillir»' of submarine war-
far»» more and mofe apparent. It would
have been particularly pleasing to th»»
Germans hud such a ship as the Mount
Vernon, the former Kronprinzesaln O-
cllle. been sent to th»» bottom by a tor-
pedo. Happily the shot fulled to sink
her and she returne»! to a French port.
Th»' loss thus avorte»! would have been
a serious one. cotuparabb» to thnt of I
the Justicia. The Mount Vernon Is
one of the fastest of the ships In th»>
transport service, and sh«» Is credited
with being even more valuable than '•
the huge Leviathan In the work of get­
ting trixips over as quickly as possi­
ble. It Is a great pleca of g<x>d for- '
tune that she escaptsl. lndt*ed. the
fact that so few transports hav»» been
stink, and that those were attack»»d on
the return voyage, emphasizes the ad­
mirable work of the navy tn protecting
them from n menace of all the most
difficult to avoid or detwL
The more we learn of what Is called
“German efficiency" the less impressed
are we with It That sort of belief
has been fostered by Industrious Ger­
man propaganda, und now thnt the
war is tearing off the mask Its falsity
Is shown, says Aberdeen American.
The dire troubles that were coming
to us because we would not be able
to get the benefit of German Ingenu­
ity have faded before the genius of
Americans, who are now supplying bet­
ter dyes thnn the Teuts; potash cornea
from our own states and every btlier
need supplied from abroad Is now
filled at home and better than before,
Even the toys are better thun those
old ones branded “Made In Germany.
German efficiency i -c German bunk.
“They are superb soldiers,'
Pershing of Ids own men. If Is well
to remember the true meaning of su­
perb, which Is "proud." Our men In
France may well be proud; proud of
the purposes they Incarnate, of the
commanders they serve under, of the
allies they shoulder. There Is great
virtue In honorable pride.
In years to come, we suppose, an ex­
member of the Prussian Guards, gath­
ering his wondering little grandchil­
dren about him in the lnglenook, will
tell them with pride of how In the
great war he proved himself almost
And yet there will no doubt be some
as good a soldier as a young dry­
gents
Interested directly or indirectly
goods clerk from America with six
In booze who will forget that th®
months’ training.
date for J. Barleycorn's passing wal
set for June 30. 1010, and when that
The Belgians nre still In the fight­
date comes will holler for more time
ing, the Belgian army Joining In the
In which the Innocent Investors can
offensive against the Germans. The
unload.
spirit of the gallant little nation no
amount of oppression hns been able
Ninety-five per cent of the rural
to suppress, and even In their slav­
women nre helping to win the wnr. It
ery to the Invaders the Belgian peo­ is In the cities thnt Indolence, luxury,
ple rejoice that their soldiers nre still extravagance, frivolity, sensnallty,
In the field.
worldliness and wantonness paralyze
the nobler traits of womankind and
It Is said many women work In make so mnny women serviceable only
Scotch shipyards. The Scotch women to the enemy.
have many peculiarities, one of which
is they have a constitutional objection
A profiteer Is a scoundrel who had
to anything necessary for the salvation
an opportunity to help the country win
of the country remaining undone If It
the war by making a hard situation na
Is clearly up to them to grab hold.
light as pos-lble for the people who
When one recnlls the terrible fate
brought to the women and children of
France and Belgium by the kaiser's
armies, there Is grim humor In the ad­
vice of the physicians of the empress
to her to avoid all worry and excite­
ment.
If at the end of the fiscal year It be
Another reason why labor should he
shown that the nation has not earned honored along with the fighter Is thnt
enough money to meet all the war though the fighter takes a trifle more
demands and pay its living expenses, risk than the laborer. It must be a
It will prove that the several millions .hundred times more fun killing GfT-
of men and women who did no work mans.
to sustain themselves ought to be pad-
died for their worthlessness.
Leading pachyderms are the PÎP-
pliant, the rhinoceros, and the nutomo-
The tying reports of shipyard fatali­ blllst who Is able to enjoy hitnself
ties have resulted In making public the r'ding round on gasolineless Sun-
real statistics of accidents, which prove days.
that shipyards are relatively safer to
work in than factories. One beneficial
Experiments have shown thnt srorwl
effect of the general German propa­ paper can be made outfit grapevine.
ganda of Iles has lieen to defeat Its That ought to cheer up the nervous
object by bringing out the truth.
vineyard proprietors.
patronize him. and Instead of doing
he robbed them.
Arc you nn asset or a llnhlllty
your country In a time like this?
you nre capable of fighting or working
and are doing neither you are helping
the kaiser, whetht* you are a man or
woman.
Boiled down to n single sentence. It
is Just this: Every day the able-
todted man or woman wnstes In Idle­
ness in the United States Is the equiva­
lent of working a day for Germany.
One of the troubles wnr hns brought
Upon tis Is trying to crowd seven tons
of soft coal Into the average cellar
and then leave room for the furnace.
If n man Just must have bls hnnd
on the steering gear and Inhale gnso-
line, why would not n tractor plow
meet his requirements?
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