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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6. 1914. . . PORTLAND. OREGON. Xntrd at Portland, Oregon. Potofflce as SscoDd-class matter. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (BIT Mall) Dally. Sunday Included, out year ?J Dally. Sunday Included. lx month! Dally. Sunday Included, three monies.. Dally. Sunday Included, one month . Dally, without Sunday, one year Vr Dally, without Sunday, alx months Dally, without Sunday, three months... Dally, without Sunday, one month -JV Weekly, one year 2 SO Sunday, one year ....... &utt-y and Weekly, one year (BT CARRIBR) Dally. Sunday Included, one year 9'2 Dally. Sunday Included, one month ' How to Remit Send Postofflcts money o. r. express order or perional check on your local bank Stamps, coin or currency are at cender-s risk. Give pos toff Ice addreaa In lull. Including county and state. r..tar Kates 13 to !0 pages. 1 , - to 8 pases. 2 cents: 34 to 43 pages. 3 cents, an ....... L - --.. to 78 Dages, 8 eeots; 78 to B 'pages, 0 cents. Foreign post age. double rates. W 11.. 1 ttr r Varron A ConK, 11 n. New York. Brunswick building. "-m" cago. Steger building. Dan Francisco Office R. J. BIdwell Co, T48 Market street. PORTLAND, THTRSDAY, AUGUST 6. 1914 AMERICA. THE WORLD, AND PEACE. With the world ablaze from the war fever, and six powers of Europe at each other's throats, the calm voice of President Wilson suggests mediation. The offer may be premature, and in the rage of conflict it Is not likely now to be accepted. But it was the high duty of the President of the United States to make it; and, sooner or later, It may be heard and heeded. The position of the United States fits the President admirably to be the peacemaker of Europe. The timely, but energetic, interposition of Presi dent Roosevelt led to a termination of hostilities between Russia and Japan; it is fitting that President Wilson, titular head of the one great nation not involved, but nevertheless deeply concerned, in the European tragedy, serve the world and mankind In the present awful crisis. The President's temper is for peace; his spirit Is conciliatory; his attitude Is wholly neutral; and he Is supported by a Nation that earnestly desires that justice be done to each of the war ring countries, but that the far greater service to humanity be done of restor ing the peaceful equilibrium of civil ization through effective measures to avert the dreadful calamity of general war. President Wilson can have no nobler design than to realize the dream of the prophet: 'They shall beat their swords Into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up a sword against any nation, neither shall they learn war any more." WHAT ENGLAND CAN DO. Germany's attempt to buy British neutrality by offering to abstain from a naval attack on the French coast betrays the respect in which she holds the British navy and her anxiety to save her own navy from coming to blows with the British while the Ger man remains inferior in strength. Germany was not willing to buy Brit ish neutrality at the price of Belgian neutrality, for that would have been to sacrifice one essential point of her first aim to crush Franco before Russia can get into effective action. But the Kaiser would gladly have for feited the advantage of his naval su periority to France If by this conces sion he could have kept his navy prac tically intact and could have gained time to continue Its upbuilding to an equality with that of England. The Kaiser has declared that "our future lies upon the seas," and he would fain avoid having that future postponed by the probable destruction of the navy he has built at great labor and cost nd by the necessity of beginning that work anew. Unless the Germans can defeat not only the first, but the second line of the British and French navies com bined, they cannot gain command of the sea. They are outnumbered 50 per cent in first-class ships and two ships to one in second-class. They may by skill and daring reduce the odds by successful torpedo attack on some of the big British ships, but here again they are overmatched In num bers. Germany has 141 destroyers to her enemies' 314; forty-seven torpedo boats to their 231, and thirty subma rines to their 175. Any hopes she may have of crippling the hostile fleet by torpedo attack must rest on the pos sible superiority of her men and craft, and on tactics, which play an impor tant part In war. Assuming the men of the two navies to be about equal In this respect, and assuming luck to average about equal, Germany is no match for her enemies at sea. The price she has paid for her short cut through Belgium to attack France is, therefore, the probable blockade of her coast, the paralysis of her foreign commerce and of many industries which depend on imported raw ma terial or on foreign markets and the exposure of her colonies to seizure. From a naval standpoint, Great Britain has one vast advantage in con trol of the principal cable and coaling stations throughput the world. From Gibraltar by way of Malta, Cyprus, Egypt, Aden, Colombo, Singapore and Hongkong she has a perfect chain to the Orient, while the islands off the East African coast and her African colonies extend the chain to Capetown and thence to Australia. She controls the cable from Canada by way of Fiji to Australia. Her ships can find a place of refuge and supply in any sea and can keep informed of hostile movement, while they keep the enemy in the dark as to their position and as to the position of other German ships. The wireless has reduced but has not annulled this advantage. The German Ambassador to Eng land, in his efforts to persuade that country to remain neutral, made little account of the British army. Alone, It is no match for that of Germany, nor need It be, for Britain's defense rests on her navy. But so long as the Brit ish empire retains control of the sea, It is free and able to send aid to its allies on land. The regular army Is available for foreign service. Its place being taken by the territorial army for home defense. Exclusive of the Indian army, England could send 175,4w0 men to the continent and have, 200,000 reserves to fill gaps caused by war, while about 265,000 territorials could step into their places for home defense. While an army of 175.000 men could not make head alone against the great forces which Germany is sending " through Belgium, it could do much, combined with the 100,000 Belgian regulars and the French troops massed along the Belgian frontier, to check the German movement to out flank the French forces which defend the line of the Vosges Mountains. All depends on the celerity with which it could be put In the field whether It could be made effective for this pur pose. Even if it could not be landed on the continent until the French and Belgians had been driven back from the frontier, it would form a splendid rallying point for them and would put heart Into them for a fight to roll back the German invader. A British army by itself might be useless against Ger many, but as an auxiliary to France It would have some value. The sneering allusion of the German Ambassador to its effectiveness may have pricked British pride so severely as to Inspire a determination to prove that the Brit ish army still counts for something, as In the wars of Frederick the Great and Napoleon. DOWN WITH THE DAIRYMAN. Likely enough, the Oregon farmer and dairyman, who has been face to face with the disturbance and demor alization of his own market through free trade in foreign butter, will ap preciate the following copious extract from a recent speech in Congress by Representative Hamilton, of Michigan: In a speech recently made at Bingham. Me. ex-Governor Fernald, of Maine, speak ing from an Intimate knowledge of con ' Anions', declared that Maine dairy farmers are losing $7000 a day. Governor Fernald owns a creamery, ana in March. 1013, he was paying farmers 33 cents a pound for butterfat, but in March 1914, under the new tariff law. the price of butterfat was forced down by Canadian competition to 23 cents a pound, and the farmer stands the loss. Governor Fernald told his audience tnat In one day he counted 29 carloads of Cana dian hav at Danville, on their way to Bos- .i k n- tariff law ion, aim . . was passed the Maine farmer has been receiving $2.50 less a ton for hay than theretofore, and the importer takes the profit and the farmer and the Treasury stand the loss. The Michigan Manufacturer and Finan cial Record says: ...... 1. 1 , ... n - itn In Arms over the injury done the dairy Interests by the new tariff law. ine Douom .,i, out of the market for dairy products and prices have lowered about one-third In the last three monthi. "Cream, or butterfat. haa dropped from 3 to 22 cents; milk from $1.90 to $2 per hundred to $1.35 delivered at the factories at Obly and Bad Axe ... "One farmer stated that his milk checks for March were $30 leas for the same Quan tity than for February." Significant and unanswerable. The pay check tells no lies. Here Is one instance where the Democratic Ad ministration has fulfilled its promise nr ,iHnr the cost of living. But it has at the same time wofully in creased the difficulty or living. -v it nnt strantre: for nothing better should have been expected of a tariff which enriches the importer and the middleman and Impoverishes the producer, without helping the consumer. TOTJ-fG MEN" IX BATTLE. u.,. w thn world rates age, make up the great armies that are now on the firing line in Europe. Hundreds of thousands of the com Katontu Yiava. tint rpached their major ity. The entire of the German first line is short of 30. As Von der Goltz, . i . . mllltarv HllthoritV. OflCC LJlt3 CUlUlCIlk .j - , - remarked, "The strength of a nation lies in her youth." As tne anu-mui-tarists say. "They catch 'em young." i.--nr,. a miiitarv rjoint of view, the young man makes by far the better soldier. He has strong durability, a desire for adventure and a strong re serve of enthusiasm. Hardship does not work the same inroads upon him; death and injury do not hold the same terrors. Furthermore, he is capable of a more implicit obedience to orders, despite that headstrong quality which belongs to youth. Older heads, to be sure, must direct him. It takes the otirt halance of middle age to stand up under the exacting problems of strategy ana tactics presem . i,.-r hh nf conflict. But the real part of killing and getting killed belongs to the young man. --.,ntitv sls the course of war fare pursues its destructive way and line after line or iignting men 1 v,iVcu out, the older men must shoulder the rifle. The supply of youth is not -itVinut its limits. When the first great conflicts have been waged and one country ana anotner oegius lur ing in its supports and reserves the middle-aged men will be fed Into the maws of battle. Then will commence the era of orphans and widows. BLECTTN-G A SUPREME BENCH. The Oregonian said a year or more ago, and has said at other times, that r Via cr.otaflo of a SuDreme bench. wholly chosen from one political party, is not wnoiesome nur ino. Tt nhsorvea now that Its com ment is being used as an argument for the election ot one or more 01 un n.mnn,niin inrle-psrifn candidates. The Oregonian trusts that it will not be accused of a purpose or aesire 10 interfere with the free course of a Democratic primary', or any other primary, in its approval of the plan to make the bench non-partisan or bi-partisan. It is not at all disposed to retract or qualify its former state ments, though It sees at least one dif ficulty in the way of electing a Dem ocratic Supreme Judge. That diffi culty lies In the apparent hopeless ness of the effort to elect the Demo critic ticket as against the Republi can ticket. The Democratic plan, Just now, as The Oregonian sees it, is to elect four Supreme Judges and to defeat the four Republican candidates. The Ore gonian cannot support that move ment It cannot and will not aid in turning our several incumbent mem bers of the Supreme bench, and one or two other candidates, merely be cause they are Republicans, and put in four others merely because they are Democrats. It is not an adequate reason. It has heard from no quarter any criticism of the four Republican candidates; it has no fault to find with the Democratic candidates. The Oregonian thinks the election law ought to be amended so as to give the bench a proper political balance. It may be done in two ways: One Is to make the bench wholly nonparti san, and require all candidates to run without party designations; or to per mit the several parties to nominate fewer candidates than are to be elect ed. For example, at the present time, when there are four vacancies to be filled, each party might have been permitted to nominate two, or at the most three, candidates. The Oregonian will say candidly that it desires to be relieved of the responsibility of Indicating any can didate among the Republicans who ought not to be elected, or any candi date among the four Democrats who ought to be elected. By its nomina tion of four candidates the Demo cratic party has placed itself equally behind all: and so has the Repub lican party. The expected is happening in Mex ico. The constitutionalist army Is sloughing off a Villa revolution as naturally as. an Alaskan glacier sloughs off icebergs. But who cares what happens In Mexico now? War In that country has served only to whet the appetites of the bloodthirsty for the cataclysm in Europe, as a four- round preliminary whets the appetite of the sports for the championship battle. SCHtTMANN-HEINK'S TROUBLE, It seems absurd for Madame Schu-mann-Heink to be stranded In a for eign land for want of funds. All she has to do is to lift up her voice in song, pass the hat and pocket the re sults. When Martin Luther In his student days fell short of money he went about the streets singing, and though we cannot believe that his notes ever were very melodious, he collected what cash he needed easily enough. What the strident Luther did the dulcet Schumann-Heink surely ought to do without much difficulty. We remember one of Ouida's heroes who had some trouble to pay his hotel bill in a certain interior town. Did he cable to his attorneys for a remit tance? Not he. He sat down on the hotel porch and played his flute. The mob gladly supplied the cash he need ed and a good deal more. If Madame Schumann-Heink needs another ex ample to encourage her she might re member Oliver Goldsmith, who paid his way all through the low countries and up the Rhine playing on his flute. We are surprised that the prima donna with all her genius should be so help less in a comparatively petty difficulty. DR. JORDAN SUBMERGED. If Heine, the great Jewish poet, were alive he would find an inviting theme in the fortunes of David Starr Jordan. This tireless advocate of peace went to Europe to propagate his doctrine. Caught in the mael strom of war, he has been .lost to human vision and nobody on earth seems to know what has become of him. Like the terrible Lorelei, War has swallowed up "both the fisher and his boat," that Is to say, both the benevolent philosopher and his beau tiful doctrine. As Heine's fisherman saw not the rocky rapids and only gazed aloft, so the amiable Dr. Jordan gazed persistently heavenward while the waves broke at his feet and finally engulfed him. If he has been killed we fervently hope it was on some soap bo proudly preaching the gospel of universal peace. His voice would have been still and small, like the one the prophet heard in his cavern, but we must re member that the still small voice and not the tumult of the earthquake or the whirlwind conveyed the will of God to the listening sage. But let us believe to the last that Dr. Jordan has not been killed. In deed, It Is far more likely that he is marooned in some little village' dis encumbered or money and Its worries and living on such crusts of black bread as the kindly peasants dole out to him. There he can compose those great works on evolution which have been haunting his brain for years and years. He can philosophize unper turbed on the excellencies of peace and perhaps occasionally drop into poetry. What an opportunity for him and his sisterly colleagues of the Peace Society to pour forth ode's to hi roViito-wincprl dove! There Is nothing so stimulative to the poetic imagination as a spare diet ana scant, funds. Without poverty there would have been no Grub street and without Grub street no British poetry. Happy Dr. Jordan! Our only fear for him is that he will become so enamored of seclusion and silence that he never can be persuaded to emerge even after this cruel war Is over and a new reign of universal peace affords him an opportunity to begin preach ing again. It is so easy to preach peace when there Is no war. SCARED OF THE COLONEL. Amid all the clamor of war in Eu rope the policy of peace, apology and paying of blackmail to every little na tion which thinks it has a grievance against the United States has suffered a setback. Secretary Bryan has abandoned all attempts to secure rati fication of the Colombian and Nlcar aguan treaties at this session of Con gress, and has thus sidestepped trouble. The trouble was to have come from Colonel Roosevelt. That gentleman asked to be heard by the Senate com mittee on foreign relations against the Colombian treaty. He made the re quest as the President under whose direction the acts were done of which Colombia complained, asserting that "no man now living has as complete first-hand knowledge of what was done." Knowing that the Colonel would furnish some valuable ammuni tion to the opponents of the treaty, Chairman Stone tried to deprive him of the opportunity. At a meeting of the committee, which could not act for lack of a quorum, the Senator pre sented the Colonel's letter and Inti mated that the Colonel "has nothing to say that he has not said already" and that it was not worth while to hear him. Then the Senator's troubles began. He could not well refuse a shearing to an ex-President, particularly one who had been the object of attack, who asked to be heard In the defense and who rightly claimed to know more than any other man in this country about the subject In hand. But he did not wish the Colonel to have his say, for the Colonel might remind the Senate and the people of some facts which the Democratic leaders had overlooked or kept in the back ground, though he might not tell any thing new. The Colonel, too, has a most forcible way of saying things, which catches the public ear and which makes his sayings stick In the public memory. True, the committee hearing would be nominally secret, but Mr. Stone knows to his sorrow how nominally it would be so, when Senators are such notorious blabs. He shuddered at the thought that his committee might be made the vehicle through which the Colonel would fire a blast destructive to the treaty, to the reputation as a statesmen of Mr. Stone's dear friend, Mr. Bryan, and to the hopes of continued Democratic supremacy. By all means the Colonel must be "choked off." Therefore, It was announced, with the President's acquiescence, that the Senate Demo cratic leaders had abandoned all hop of ratification now and would post pone consideration of the treaties until next session. The Colonel could not be denied a hearing, but he was thus denied an opportunity to speak until after election. Since that announcement was made Mr. Stone has been kept in a constant state of irritation by those who have asked him what he was afraid of, or who have remarked, with obvious in tent to be overheard by him, that it looks as If he were scared of the Colo nel. His tormentors finally drove him to announce that the committee would hear Colonel Roosevelt. He did not say when, but "the when" will doubt less be after the election, when dan ger that the Colonel's statements would damage Democratic prospects of controlling the next Congress will have passed. The Colonel has been prevented from using the committee as a vehicle of campaign publicity, but he has not been silenced. The news papers and the platform are open to him, and he knows how to use them. "Contraband of war" is a phrase whose definition depends more upon the will of the strongest belligerent than upon the dictionaries. Toward the close of the Napoleonic wars pret ty nearly everything became contra band. England defines the term lib erally just now, but when the stress of war tightens she will grow more severe. As the war continues there will be Increasing temptation to make all foodstuffs contraband uncondi tionally. In this land of many opportunities each nationality is likely to be sup r.M,i with thp kind of war news it likes best. For each considerable group of foreign residents there are newspapers in their own tongue. The Germans will read news of one trend, the French of another and all will be happy in their respective beliefs until some great decisive catastrophe be falls. Then the news will be the same In all languages. The quatrain which won the prize In an "Omar" competition the other day Is a fair imitation of Fitzgerald's incomparable verse. The lines are melodious and they scan, which is more than can be said of most poetry. As far as sound goes, the quatrain is bone of Fitzgerald's bones. It Is only by the sense, or lack of it, that a dif ferent origin is betrayed. There is a great deal of human na ture in the passage of the general dam bill through Congress. It expresses so much feeling and does it so well. The prolonged hot weather session puts Congress in the mood to pass exactly that kind of a bill. No doubt pretty nearly everything is covered by It, as its name implies. Removal of the free employment bureau to the north end of the city is of doubtful benefit. Authorities must remember there are many wom en applicants and the proposed local ity is not a desirable one for them to visit. The seizure of alleged bad catsup from California that contained 280, 000,000 "bugs" to the cubic centi meter Is enough to scare a man into eating his hot dogs without decora tions. All the combatants say the other f-iinvt- started the fiirht. but to the dis interested bystander it Is apparent that each of them had one arm out 01 his coat-sleeve in preparation before war was declared. The phenomenal rise of foodstuffs in England is a symptom of British inefficlence for a great war. Ger many was prepared to prevent high handed exploitation by grasping tradespeople. As to the Kaiser's suggestion that f!rn,anv will f i-.it the world if nec essary we would remind him of the story of the man who "took in a little too much territory.' The heroes who die fighting forest fires in Oregon deserve greater honor than those who die fighting men in Europe. They fight to preserve, the others to destroy. A job as porter In a cafe at 5 francs a day and board would look good to some of those stranded American mil lionaires in Paris right now. Invasion of Oregon by the "greatest show on earth" is nearing and the small boy is getting into action on the woodpile. Just take your eyes off the war bul letins long enough to notice Portland's position at the head of the baseball column. Now prepare to read harrowing tales of the experiences of the tourists as they straggle home from Europe. If the Mexican trouble should now come to a focus it would afford a mere cat fight in the back yard. Strange Bryan hasn't done more in his efforts to get a strangle hold on that Nobel peace prize. As to Schumann Heinle's isolation in Europe, we are Inclined to the ver dict of "leave her there." What if they should capture that American cruiser filled with gold for American tourists ? The Turkish will remain neutral. Then the Turkish marathon is not to figure in the war. Sitting in his tepee on Sagamore Hill, the Colonel reflects on what might have been. Possibly David Starr Jordan now realizes that he has been wastins his energy. In his details of neutrality President Wilson does not prohibit hoching the Kaiser. It looks black for Germany. Jack Johnson wants to enlist In the French army. The Rose Festival does not go into the discard if Portland knows it. At last reports it looked as if the Belgians were beating the Dutch. The Dardanelles is closed, but Rus sia is welcome to use the canal. Up to a late hour Iceland and Greenland had not mobilized. There is great mortality among the Seven Sisters of Washington. Portland, Me., is fortunate in stag ing a little naval vaudeville. It is time to get the eugenics baby in shape for the State Fair. The war will send up the price of .offee. Also of coffins. Do not fail to swat the fly. This is again breeding time. So far Copenhagen has not ban tagen. The Salvation Army Is a noncom batant. Where Is the ABC board? . - l . , . r FAD GOVERNORSHIP AND U'REJf Honest Criticism Held Jfecesanry to Show Both Sides ot a Question. ASHLAND, Or., Aug. 3. (To the Edi tor.) Will you kindly allow one who has read The Oregonian for 35 years to commend you for not complying with the request of George C. Craig, of Enterprise, who suggested that you suppress the writings of our interde pendent candidate for Governor, W. S. U'Ren? Your correspondent is In error, first because The Oregonian has often announced itself as an Independent newspaper, and altogether In error to think that a state-wide Journal could reflect the political situation without printing all sides of the now badly mixed efforts to capture the guberna torial chair. Oregon has a bad habit of lawyers and law-givers, which necessitates a law-foundry to supply the demand for the support of more and more until we reach a complication of constitutons and laws that will require tne fttate Executive to appoint himself prosecu tor. Judge and Jury, so as to execute his own will instead of the law, aB our present Governor is doing, and as U'Ren or the residuary legatee would do if either should attain his wishes. It is possible that Oregon should have four more years of fad Governor ship to teach the majority of our vot ers that good government does not con sist of fads and fancies, but is born of progressive and conservative action based on precedent. If it were not for the fact that the majority is a benevolent mob, we would indeed be in sore straits to out live these fads. Kansas and her trial3 should be a lesson to Oregon, but she has passed most of her cranky trou bles, and is trying to raise wheat to feed war-ridden Europe, that is on the road to devastation. Your correspondent should also re member that honest criticism is neces sary to help us realize that there are always two sides to every question, and as it is out of the question to argue with a wild-eyed fanatic, criti cism becomes the only efficient weapon. He also should know that Ore gon formation is largely volcanic and produces volcanic politicians that can imitate Mount Lassen and erupt an im mense amount of vapor, gas and smoke from a very small aperture, that In creases in volume by a little boosting. Hence U'Ren should have all the rope he can use in order to burn out all tne sooner, which ho will do as an Inter dependent. OLD SUBSCRIBER. PUT WARFARE UPON THE BALLOT People Should Have Chance to Vote Be fore Flsthtliitr, Says Writer. PORTLAND, Aug. 4. (To the Edi tor.) As a Swedish-American, my sympathy in the war is with Germany. It could not be otherwise. We have bled together on the battlefields in Germany and we have much in com mon. I also agree with The Oregon ian that it is peculiar that two of the finest nations of Europe, England and France, should side with Russia, our common enemy of civilization and progress. But above all it is painful to see that our boasted civilization still stands so low that war is possi ble. No government should have a right to declare war before the ques tion had been referred to the people and a majority in each country con cerned had voted thereupon. We vote on smaller things than this. Why should not the important matter of war be decided by the people? Then there would be no war. The people of the different countries do not hate each other. The navies of the world and the armies of the world would then not be needed. The men would be given useful occupations, be pro ducers instead of parasites. Let us hope that this war will work in this direc tion, open the eyes of the people to,the criminality ot war so that no crowned head or diplomat at a banquet or any private Interest can cause war, but that the people themselves will vote on such important matters. Let us hope that the present war will be as short as possible, but also decisive, so that Russia's power will be limited and kept in check forever. It is pain ful to see that big spot on the map occupied by Russia. Barbarians hold the greatest part of Europe. Let the people vote on the matter and there will be no war. I believe in "peace on earth and good will toward men" throughout the whole uni verse. JOHN ANDERSON. SCIENCE FAILS TO STAY SWORD It Does Mnch for Mankind, hat Can not Stay Hnnian Passion. SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug. 3. (To the Editor.) Homer and Thucydides point ed out thousands of years ago the im mutability of human nature. From im memorial times, as the occasion arose, men have been frenzied with the spirit of war; never more so, perhaps, than in old Europe today. Invested with pathos therefore is the thought that in vain are the distilled poetic senti ments of a Tennyson dreaming of when the war drum beats no more; in vain are the peace-promiting efforts of simple-minded dillettantes. The enchanting wand of science averts pestilence and prevents or miti gates famine, but it cannot stay the sword! Never, perhaps, in modern times has that message from the Greek poet Snnhocles. delivered many centuries ago to mankind, had a deeper meaning than today in tne uia w oria witn ref erence to human life: "Look and won der and think." The old Greeks would have seen in this European war the spirit of Nem esis scourging humanity for its pre sumption. Are we so much wiser than they? Millions of human hearts be yond the sea will soon answer "No." C. A M. Voters' Qualifications. TROUTDALE, Aug. 3. (To the Edi tor.) Please let us know if a man who is registered In Oregon can vote in Washington for President at the gen eral election if he is not registered there. This is to decide a dispute. A SUBSCRIBER. One must be a citizen of Washington and resided in the state one year to be qualified to vote in a Presidential or any other election in that state. Reg istration in Oregon would not aid him, and If entered within one year of elec tion would conclusively establish that he was not a qualified voter In Wash ington. The One-Yard Kiss. Anderson Bulletin. Official regulation is at it again. Mrs. Cyrus Niver. of the Pennsylvania Moving Picture Censorship Board, has been measuring kisses in the films and has decided that a kiss of one yard in length is the maximum of good taste. Hereafter one may expect, as he or she punches the hammock pil low into comfortable shape and opens the best seller, to read that "the world seemed very far away and a light, old as time, came Into her eyes their Hps met in a kiss 2 feet 11 inches long. 'My own!' he breathed." Let Every Lot Pay tor Water. PORTLAND, Aug. 3. (To the Edl- lu-- t. vt TfiinA's Rnearestion in The Oregonian today in regard to sprin kling Is a good one. t n i. i ,r trt nwrv lot n. tinminal Dy i 1 1 ii t ft 1 1 1 n l " - j - - - amount for sprinkling, say 50 cents or a dollar a season, mere wouia ne mure revenue for the water department and more satisfaction to the consumer as well as a more beautiful city. Can't some public - spirited citizen for the sake of the "City Beautiful" see this through to a finish? R. SMITH. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of Aug. 6, 1864. In the Pacific Christian Advocate of this week appears the valedictory of Rev. Thomas H. Pearne as editor. Rev. Professor H. C. Benson succeeds Mr. Pearne. The Jacksonville Intelligencer pro poses to issue dally, provided an addi tional compositor can be found who will take steady employment. It would take a pretty tough Journeyman to work steadily on such a conduit of treason. Bishop Kavanaugh, of the M. E. Church South, recently arrested by or der of General McDowell for treason able utterances, has been discharged from custody, after taking the oath of allegiance. Cincinnati, Aug. 4. Stoneinan's force, consisting of General Ed McCook's di vision of cavalry, tore up the Macon railroad and burned the ties for 18 miles. On returning, McCook fell in with a large wagon, on which were much private property and all of Hood's papers, near Newman. A quantity of whisky was captured, and here is where the trouble began. The rebel General Rains came up. a fight en sued and McCook was routed. About 500 of his command reached Marietta, who report the surrender of the main body, 3200 strong. General McCook was killed. Washington, Aug. 4. Early has de termined to hold the Shenandoah Val ley at all hazards and has from 35,000 to 40,000 men engaged in threshing wheat. He takes every tenth bushel, besides levying a tax for the labor performed. Chicago. Aug. S. Particulars of the disastrous repulse of the assault on the rebel defenses of Petersburg have been received. Frederick, Md., Aug. 2. General Kelly was attacked at Cumberland yes terday by a large force under Bradley, Johnson and McCausland. After a se vere fight of several hours, he com pletely routed the enemy, capturing several caissons, a great many wagons and a vast amount of plunder stolen in Pennsylvania The enemy is in full retreat towards Oldtown, Kelly pursu ing. St. Louis, Aug. 3. Advices have been received from the plains to the effect that the Apaches, Comanches and Ara Dahoes. numbering nearly 1000, were committing serious depredations on the Santa Fe road. The Boise News of July 30 says: A Union convention was held at Packer John's ranch July 23 to take steps for the calling of a union territorial con vention. Three counties were repre sented, Nez Perces, Idaho and Boise. The Dalles Mountaineer of yester day says: A salute of 100 anvils was fired last night in honor of the passage of the bill for establishment of a branch mint at The Dalles. The Triweekly Statesman Through the courtesy of Mr. Calaro, of Boise City, we havo received the Ilrst num ber of a spicy little sheet with the above title, which made its debut on July 26. We wish the editor and pub lishers, James S. Reynolds & Co., suc cess in their enterprise. Our citizens very generally observed the proclamation of President Lincoln in a suspension of business and at tendance at their places of worship on Thursday. In the evening a meeting was held at the M. E. church, prepara tory to the formation of a branch of the National Christian Commission. Ad dresses were made by Rev. Thomas H. Pearne and Rev. George H. Atkinson. Captain J. C. Ainsworth yesterday showed the first brick from the crush ing of quartz by the Ainsworth mill in the Owyhee district. A miniature ship was recently pre sented to Captain John H. Couch, of this city, by John Miller, chief officer of the bark Almatia A new invention for the crushing of quartz was forwarded to the upper country yesterday. It is known as the Howell crusher, and the sample will be accompanied to the mining regions by Messrs. Simms and Hannay. The Mechanics Brass Band was out on the Plaza in its best humor Thurs day and discoursed music for several hours. It partook much of the form of metropolitan life and reminded one of parks, bands and cities far to the east of this. War's Cost In Human Life. New York Herald. Of particular interest at this time ar the records of killed and wounded in the- last European wars "little squab bles In the Balkans" they are sometimes described. Professor Octave Laurent has summed up these losses of human life In the account of his 11 months' experience as a surgeon with the Bul garian troops, which has Just been pub lished in Paris. He writes for his surgical colleages, not to produce a sen sation. Bulgaria, with 4.300.000 inhabitants, put 500,000 soldiers in the field. Of these, 53,000 were wounded and 30.000 killed In the first war and 16,000 killed and 62,000 wounded in the second. Alto gether 150.000 killed and wounded one-third of the effective force of the army and 3 per cent of the population. There was one death out of every four injuries, a very high figure. In the last Balkan war 150,000 men on both sides were killed or wounded on the field in a single month. Eighty thousand of these fell on the banks of the Brognalltza in the six days from June 30 to July 6, 1913. Professor Laurent quotes an authori tative prophecy to the effec t that a zero . . . 1 1 1 n 1 t 1 , 1 trtvfl the aaueu to l urn'; iifei, - - losses in a European war which would line up two armies of tne great powers. There would bo not less than 1.600,000 wounded and killed in a month once the forces were fully In the field. The figures may be .an exaggeration, but they come approved by a professional expert who has just had the latest pos sible experience. Ballade of Villa By Deaa Collins. Mars drags the world down on his head In crashing chaos, vast and grim; Portentous messages are sped. And dreams of peace wax faint and dim; And loud and snarling trumpets blow. Where is the row of yesteryear? Where is that scrap in Mexico? Tis but a little since we gazed On savage Huerta's sullen stand. And while the fierce rebellion blazed We trembled for his woeful land. Now all of that is in the rear; The furies over Europe blow. Where is the row of yesteryear? Where is that scrap in Mexico? Today may Villa tweak the nose Of poor Carranza, if he will; All Mexico may come to blows. And none will murmur "Peace! Be still!" O'er Germany the war clouds rear. While all the wontt deals blow on blow. Where Is the row of yesteryear? Where 1b that scrap In Mexico? Passion and War. with clutching hands. Rend Into fragments Europe's map. And now at last wo understand We've got a reg'lar man -size scrap. Adios to Villa! To the rear, Your hopes to hold our Interest blow. Where is that row of yesteryear? Where is that scrap in Mexico? Little Editorials on Business An Advertising Failure This is the story of a concern whose advertising failed because it was written to please those on the inside rather than the great public without. It was a large retail establish ment. At first it was a one-man organization and the business grew rapidly. After a year or so the proprietor sold a half interest and took in a partner who was skilled in advertising. The business continued to grow. One partner was in charge of the buying end, and the other was re sponsible for the sales end of the business. Finally, they reached the point where a larger store was nceosary and more capital was required. The two partners decided to again di vide the business and sell half of it to two other men who had merchan dising ability in addition to capital. Thus it became a four-man organi zation, each partner with an equal share in the business. It then became necessary for the partner who wrote the advertising to submit it to the other three for their approval before it was printed, and every conference on advertising would end up with a fight. Within a few months the adver tising of that store lost its "punch" simply because the advertising partner was compelled to plan his work to sell goods to his partners and clerks. This store advertised overalls with beautiful rhetorical phrnses that might have enticed the mem bers of the Bankers' Culture Club, but it was not convincing to the horny-handed sons of toil who wear overalls. The severest critics of advertis ing are those on the inside who know nothing at all about ihe science of printed salesmanship. Too much advertising is written to please the boss. Advertising to he profitable must be written in the lngu:iv of the people who buy anil u-'' your merchandise. To be absolutely sure you arc right take your advertisement before you publish it and submit it to a dozen or so people of the class that buy the goods. Twenty-Five Year Ago From The Oregontan of Aug. . 18!. Spokane Falls, W. T.. Aug. 6 The entire business portion of the city was destroyed by last night's fire. Twenty five blocks were reduced to ashes. The estimated loss is $14,000,000. A meet ing of the relief committee was held last evening. Hon. A. M. Cannon was in the chair, and there were praMMt Councilman Rettls, ex - Mayor Taylor and H. L. Wilson. Eugene. Aug. 5. Mlas Minnie Luckey and Mr. Al Wilson were drowned hy the capsizing of a sailboat at Acme, on Sluslaw Bay, yesterday. Pendleton, Aug. 5 Fire destroyed Tennery & Wheeler's photograph gal lery to Thompson & Burnharfs brick block yesterday. Mrs. W. A. Wilcox twisted her ankle on Saturday evening at Ilwaco while boarding the tralr The Police Commission last evenlns removed Patrolman John J. Byrnes IMM Special Officer Dan Moshrr and Will iam Myers, and appointed H. R. Ad ams. Orlf. Roberts. N. H. Bird. J. w. Blanchet, Frank Snow and Alex John son. The East Portland City Council la.t evening adopted water rates, reported by the commission composed of Thomas R. Turnbull. H. C Myers, Cyrus Buck man and John H. Hall- A fire on the line of the O. B. N. Sunday night destroyed an Immenije quantity of cordwood a few miles this side of Troutdale, burned the ties for about 200 feet and prostrated the tel. graph wires. A brldsre burned on the Northern Pacific and cut off connec tions by that route. The only way in which Spokane could be reached by wire was via Han Francisco. Ogden and Helena. T Jay Buford's bond as agent of the Slletz Reservation was approved by Judge leady yesterday. The recent order of Secretary of War Proctor to abandon Fort Klamath stirred up a hornets' nest in Southern Oregon, and telegrams protesting have been recelvod by Senator Mitchell from Llnkvlllo and Ashland. Mayor le Lashmutt nd Charlea II. Dodd, uctlnp president of the Board ot Trade, appointed committees to soli' It subscriptions for the relief of Spokanr. About $1300 was collected yesterday. Duncan B. Harrison appeared In "The Paymaster" at the New Park Theater last night. BiKin of I'alnleaa rhlldulrth. PORTLAND, Au. 5. (To Hie Ml' tor.) Like many women especlaly . 1 r ki- .,.n mm h Interested in the accounts of "Twilight Sleep, as set forth In some of the K-flaMMi and certainly every mother has a right to be most vitally Interested. Re port says that not a muni-... . ., ulnr, hnrn into this rc'curas hiiucc. -we, world of ours. Wc- mothers know what that means, that not a momriii r 1.1 , 1 1 (im ill rninr down Into W1UIUUI Bum'- " , , the very Jaws of death Itself In fact, suffering far more than the agonies or death that another may bn given life. Now after centurlea of suoh suffering, comes one who says this suffering Is all uncalled for; that the "curse" laid upon woman has been lifted; that with out endangering the life of either mother or child all this pain can be avoided. If all these statements be true, why Is it we have never heard of them be fore? Why should women be compelled . , l.i. .. .-1 1 H 1 I,,, wnrlrf to to travel 110... j -- - the Black Forests of ilermany? Are not our physicians as .; , ..,.!., wru 1 1 , it 1 1 1 i.t, imI 1 1 11 T our iicisuii. - " - - ww- nurses as competent as those of Ger many? Or Is It necessary, as one writer nas iisserieu, c.i. ney to Freiburg before they are capa ble or using cms 1 nmc-j . . us raise a subscription and speed them on their way. (MRS.) M H. EC. Z. "Easy." THREE PINES. Or.. Aug. l (To the Editor.) I saw a letter In The Orego nian about the government of the Phil lpplnes and It suggested that It be called E. Z. instead of U. S. Govern ment. What Is meant by that A READER.