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J- Bldwell CO.. T4 Market street. PORTLAND. FRIDAY. AVOVBW 1. 191- FIRST BATTI.K-. Too much importance should not be attached to the early German military reverses as reported from several Quarters. This Is so particularly of the reverses in Belgium. Even cred iting everything that the Belgians claim for their arms, these are but Isolated incidents in a general cam paign to crush the French. To make any sweeping conclusion from the first brushes at Liege would be no more logical than to forecast a closely-contested election on the trength of the first incomplete re turns from a single isolated precinct. If the Germans have made up their mind to penetrate Belgium they will undoubtedly do so. The Belgian army can offer only delaying resistance, even when backed up by French and British allies. The French cannot afford to concentrate heavily in Bel gium. The British haven't enough mobile troops to make any consider able difference in an extensive movement. From a tactical standpoint the Ger man reverse in front of Liege is read ily explained. What the Belgians smashed was a German reconnais sance in force. Unexpectedly encoun tering Belgian resistance, the German covering forces sought to brush aside this resistance and naturally, after developing heavy opposition, with drew. Succeeding attempts to brush aside the Belgians appear to have failed, although it Is not recorded that the Germans threw the full force of a mighty field army against the Bel gians. One thing is certain: If the Ger mans are determined to push through Belgium they will rush up sufficient force to sweep aside Belgian artillery snl Infantrv. even though the Bel gians are wonderfully entrenched. But such an attack is by no means certain. The German strategists may decide to bluster about in front of Liege until there is a heavy French concentration in that direction and then direct a series of vital blows against France from an unexpected angle. Thus the main German attack mle-rit he. directed along the frontier south of Strassburg or through north ernmost Switzerland, so as to avoid the more formidable French frontier forts. Or the blow through Belgium might be pressed home simultaneous ly with advances farther south. With out doubt the German strategists have a varied and versatile scheme of play. In the fight by sea the Germans are at an obvious disadvantage. By the same rule that the Germans should win in the first months of military operations they should lose in the first naval engagements. The German navy Is inadequate to meet the com bined English and French squadrons. Part of the German naval force Is dis tributed to poor advantage in the four corners of the world; yet with the main battleship fleet concentrated to the very best advantage in the North and Baltic seas the Germans are over whelmed by the naval force confront ing them and must look to miracles of strategy and tactics if they hope to prevent being bottled up. In a war of long duration this phase would be come of the utmost importance, as the entente would be able to get supplies from the world at large, while the Teutons would be hard put for the actual necessities of life. CITO'O THE DEVIL HIS DUE. Give the devil his due. Had it not teen for the emergency currency bill, which was the joint production of Senator Aldrich and Representative Vreeland, interest rates might now have been kiting and our principal circulating medium might have been clearing-house certificates. As it is, we are assured of an ample volume of currency, absolutely safe, and cer tificates will be used only by the banks In settling their balances. While our millionaire tourists in Europe find their drafts and letters of credit are regarded as so much waste paper by European bankers, the United States Issues paper money without a doubt of its value arising In the pub lic mind. The new currency Is se cured by the accumulated wealth of a great, prosperous Nation, which Is at peace, while nearly all the rest of the civilized world is at war. How the Democrats did rave against Mr. Aldrich when he fought to get the emergency currency bill through the Senate! They accused him of trying to use the Government in bolstering up the price of railroad securities and in buttressing the money trust. How gladly they fly to that same bill as a welcome refuge in trouble! They re-enacted It in their currency bill last December, and now they give it their renewed approval by simply enlarging the amount of notes which may be issued under its provisions. They considered its re enactment only a superabundance of vaution, for they believed their cur rency law would meet all possible needs, but they have been so slow about putting that law In operation that war has driven them to accept the Aldrlch-Vreeland law as a very handy expedient for meeting the emergency created by the war. Mr. Aldrich did much mischief in hb time and The Oregonlan does not regret his retirement, but he did some excellent work. By the emergency currency bill he provided for Just such a financial condition as now exists. That bill was designed only as an expedient to meet emergencies. By the banking bill which bore his name but which was the product of the entire National Monetary Commission, Democrats and Republicans alike, he proposed a permanent system. The body and legs of that bill have been taken Into the Glass-Owen law and only a new head and arms have been given to it by its Democratic footer- fathers. The ex-Senator has good cause to smile as he watches present events from retirement. BLAME FOR TILE CREAMERY TRUST. A disgusted creameryman writes to a Portland paper a fierce indictment of the local "creamery trust" for keeping down prices of butter fat in Oregon. The trust idea persists among some people who are averse to looking the truth in the face, and can account for the fact that they are unable to make a living only on the theory that certain wicked individuals are in a conspiracy to ruin them. But let us state the case of the disgruntled dairyman in his own language: The dairyman cannot produce butterfat for the present price and get any decent return on hie Investment and labor. Feed Is fully as high as It was a year ago. Pas tures are shorter and the cost to the farmer to produce a pound of butterfat la actually greater now than It was then, yet he is paid only three-fifths as much. The growth of the co-operative creamery and cheese factory Is the real reason for the present condition, and the present low prices is an attempt to ruin and put out of business the smaller and newer enterprises, to the end that the creamery trust for such It really Is mav grow and prosper and direct the affairs of the dairyman, and make the price what they please. The co-operative creameries, and the earnest citizens who have fostered them will be much refreshed to learn that their strenuous efforts to create markets for Oregon dairy products are regarded as selfish and well-nigh criminal. But let us see about the tariff: The facts are that under the Underwood hill the imnortations of butter and its substitutes made the startling in crease of 703 per cent more than seven times the average quantity un der the previous tariff act. Milk and cream increased 107 per cent. The collective increase" of twenty-seven agricultural products was 149 per cent. Our dissatisfied butter friend will find the true explanation of the de crease of butter prices, in Oregon and throughout the United States, to be: .1) The decreased purchasing power of the people; and (2) The tariff. How much the first is due to the second is a question that also deserves attention. PRESENT-DAY STANDPATTERS. "The Oregonian has directed atten tion to the high cost of the direct pri mary," says the Walla Walla Bulle tin "both to the state and to the in dividual, but failed to list the cost of the old boss-ruled convention to hon est and decent citizenship." Thus runs the argument against any kind of reform of the direct primary. The boss once corrupted our political methods; the direct primary disposed of the boss; therefore the primary is worth all It costs, and more; and any one who suggests a change, or reform, nr improvement, is a black-handed standpatter and no friend of the people. The nresent-dav standpatter is tne fnlsft friend of the direct primary who resists reform because he thinks it is still popular to berate the boss and whack the machine, and shout for the common neoole. and play the dema gogue generally. But he is mistaken. The problem before the people is not hi forirotten "assemblv" nor the dis carded boss. It is control and or ganization of the primary so that the best results will be obtained with the least friction and at the lowest possi ble cost. Xeither Oregon nor Washington is going back to the old boss system of noHtirs- But we' can think of no speedier nor more serviceable way to accomplish that result than ty adopt ing the Bulletin's suggestion, con tained in the article from which The Oregonian has already quoted, to elect thrpp. or four commissioners, wno shall name Sheriff, Assessor, Auditor, Treasurer, Engineer, Coroner and Su perintendent of Schools, wnat a tine basis for a powerful political marhine. GOOD FOR ST. HELENS. The St. Helens School Board has taken a commendable step. We hope other school officials both in large and small towns will take note of it and follow suit as their funds and discretion permit. It has been said by trustworthy observers that a coun try town is the worst place on earth for a growing boy. He is free from the tasks which are hardly avoidable for the farmer's son and he has no others to take their place. The con sequence is that a great deal of his time is spent in utter idleness, or it would be if he did not relieve the impossible situation by getting Into mischief. Vice offers a road only too alluring out of the dreariness of va cant hours. To meet this grievous situation the St. Helens School Board has decided to open "continuation schools," to be in session at times when the pupils have habitually been idle upon the streets. The curriculum, we under stand, is to be such as growing boys will find attractive and useful. It is fitting that one of the oldest towns in Oregon should be the pioneer in this profoundly useful work for the young. It is better than a dozen truancy laws. BAD REASONING. Katherine Tingley's Theosophical Path is a beautiful magazine exter iorly and almost as beautiful with in. But now and then Its perfection Is marred by an unsound remark. Such an one the reader will find in the "Thoughts on Education" by "A Teacher" on a page of the August number. "It is beside the point," this teacher reasons, "to argue that Latin and Greek are not spoken and that they can be of no use to an elec trician, a politician or a musician." One of the main objects of education, our author continues, "is to endow the pupil with extraneous interests, additional resources and a rich and versatile mind." Hence every pupil ought to put in the best of his school and college years futileiy trying to learn Latin and Greek. As a woman writing in the current Outlook points out, he never does really learn them. At the best he makes a shallow pretense of doing so. The typical college graduate from the classical course "Knew Latin years ago, but has forgotten it all now," though of course he retains the "men tal culture" which that language so Infallibly imparts Just as "you may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, but the scent of the roses will cling round it still." The college graduate fondly expects the scent of his classical roses to cling round him to the end of his days. We suppose it does sometimes, though an extraordinarily sensitive nose is usually required to smell it. We as sent fervidly to the opinion that every pupTl in school or college needs "ex traneous interests, additional re sources and a rich and versatile mind," though for ordinary human beings efficiency of the mind is far more valuable than richness and ver satility. What we protest against is our "Teacher's" rash assumption that to acquire all these fine qualities a youth must spend his time studying Latin and Greek Grammar. We all need religion, a great deal more of it than most people ever manage . to accumulate. Must we therefore spend twenty or thirty years learning Hebrew? Can we not absorb the religious values of the Bible without staying to learn the language it was originally written in? Of course we can. The English Bible is a great deal more productive of devout feeling in us than the Hebrew would be If we could all read it. It is absurd to imagine that nobody can become saintly without learning He brew. It is Just as absurd to 'believe that nobody can acquire the culture of Greek and Latin civilization with out learning the classical languages. Those languages have nothing to do with the case. They are an issue ex traneous and irrelevant. We all admit that culture and breadth of mind are invaluable quali ties, but some of us will not admit that such qualities depend upon learning Greek or Latin or any other favored language dead or living. As soon as a person has mastered his mother tongue, all culture lies before him in an open book 'and he can get it if he will only read. SPOKANE'S FIRE ANNIVERSARY. Spokane celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of its great fire on Au gust 4 and looked back proudly to the day when the old Spokane passed away and the new Spokane was born. Then it had 15,000 people; now it has 120,000. Then it was a city mainly of wood; now it Is a city of steel, con crete, brick and Stone. Then it was a future metropolis of the I.iland Em pire; now It is the undisputed me tropolis of that great area. Spokane showed its indomitable spirit again and" again. It was no sooner laid waste by fire than It began to rebuild a more substantial, more beautiful city. Much of the money used in rebuilding was bor rowed from the Hypothek Bank of Amsterdam, and, when the panic of 1893 struck the city, eery bank closed and mortgages were foreclosed on the majority of the business build ings. Spokane made a joke of its misfortunes, said, "We have turned over the town to the Dutch" and nicknamed itself New Amsterdam. With the true Western spirit it set to work to build up new fortunes on the ruins of the old. Its leading men be came interested in Kootenai mines, dug wealth from the mountains and became rich once more. They extend ed their operations through Washing ton, Idaho and Montana and made their city a great mining center. Then they bought back their property from the Dutch. Spokane has spread its business through all lines since those days. It has fully developed its wonderful water power and has extended elec tric railways through the interior. It is not only a mining but an agricul tural, fruitgrowing, lumbering and mercantile center. Many of the fine buildings erected after the fire have given place to yet finer ones of the skyscraper type. The city has en tered upon the third phase of its ca reer and Is destined to grow and thrive as the country develops. Portland Is proud to have such a city as Spokane for a neighbor and congratulates it on its magnificent present and Its promising future. CONTROL OF RAILROAD SECURITIES. As reported to the Senate, the rail road securities bill requires detailed annual reports of their affairs from all railroads to the Interstate Com merce Commission, in addition to such special or other periodical reports as the Commission requires. It gives the Commission power to Investigate the financial affairs of railroads, cost and value of property, and to prescribe forms of accounts and records for railroads. The Commission is to have access to railroad records and may take copies. Penalties are provided for violation of each of these pro visions and for falsification, mutila tion or destruction of records. No information obtained by the Com mission's examiners Is to be divulged except by the Commission orders. Railroads are declared liable for loss, damage or injury to property they transport,- all stipulations to the contrary being declared void. The most Important section is that forbidding railroads to Issue stock, bonds or other evidences of debt ex cept for extensions or Improvements of their transportation system, for re imbursement of funds already ex pended, for the lawful acquisition of the property of or interest in another common carrier, "or for the protec tion or Improvement of property here tofore acquired not connected with its business as a common carrier if such last-named expenditure will not In juriously affect the public interest" nor impair the corporation's ability to perform its public service. No se curities may be issued until the Com mission has investigated and approved the issue and its terms, and the pro ceeds must be used for the purpose specified. The Commission is given power to fix a minimum price below which securities may not be sold, ot may require sale on competitive bids and may make such other rules relat ing to the sale of each particular issue of securities "as in Its Judgment may be for the best interests of the' car rier and the public." The Commission is to prescribe a form of application fbr permission to issue securities, which shall specify the amount of the proposed issue; de tails as to prior Issues and the amount thereof unsold or unpledged; all de tails as to the disposal of the proposed Issue and the purpose to which the proceeds are to be applied. Upon ap plication the Commission is to give notice to the Railroad Commission of each state through which the road operates and is to give the states a hearing. The Commission may au thorize change in the application of proceeds of securities. Nothing in the bill is to be construed to imply any guaranty or obligation on the part of the United States. The roads may give notes for not over two years aggre gating not more than 5 per cent of outstanding securities, but must notify the Commission. No railroad may ac quire control or interest in any other railroad, electric line or boat line un less the Commission finds the acquisi tion will not Impair its ability to per form public service, but this finding shall not impair the legality of the acquisition under the anti-trust law. No railroad officer or director may profit personally through a security issue or participate in paying divi dends except from profits or surplus. There is danger that this bill would unduly delay action on security issues. The Interstate Commission is already burdened with work; this bill adds more work, and the hearings and de cisions following them would con sume nfuch time. Before a railroad got permission to issue bonds, the market might turn against It and the road might be unable to obtain the minimum price. It would need to provide against this contingency by obtaining authority long in advance and holding the bonds for a favorable market. There is -no valid reason why the Commission should fix a minimum price. Railroads should be allowed to sell bonds for what they are worth on the open market. If the Commission takes precautions against excessive commissions to promoters or brokers, and if the entire remaining proceeds are devoted to the purpose for which the issue was made, it does not con cern the Commission what price they bring. Massachusetts has tried to regulate the price at which securities are sold, but found the law hampered investment and development. After fifteen years' trial the law was re pealed. Further, a Government-fixed price would create the impression that bonds were worth that price. It would encourage investors to pay that price when the bonds were worth less, or to refuse to pay more when the bonds were worth more. The best protection against abuses in railroad finance is publicity com bined with determination by a public body that the purpose of a bond issue is legitimate, and the amount not ex cessive. The Commission should sat isfy itself that the proceeds are ap plied to the purpose specified and should give the widest publicity to all material facts relating to the rail road. Had this been the law a few years ago, the New Haven road could not have been wrecked. We need no Government price-fixing for either railroad securities or commodities. All the real interests of mankind must now He neglected for months or years while the proud war lords send their armies to shoot at one another. Art, poetry, music, religion, all' lose their charm in the red glare of war. Our ancestors had no pastime but killing and we show our descent by still preferring it to all others. "Misunderstanding of orders" is again given as cause of the death of two score persons in a collision in Missouri. There should be nothing ambiguous in the verdict of man slaughter in this kind of affair. The Belgian King, taking advantage of treaty prerogatives, will take per sonal command of allied forces in Belgium. We hope His Majesty Is .versed in rear-guard tactics. Army and Navy officers In the American service have been forbidden to discuss the war. So pow Wilhelm and the Czar will have to fight it out the best way they can. China is stirring uneasily. If China runs amuck right now the name might be changed to Japan, since Europe is reasonably occupied in other directions. Despite the American mediation of fer, we are inclined to believe the bel ligerents will fight at least until the atmosphere of racial hatred clears up a bit. So far little news is coming from Berlin, which is accounted for by the fact that Berlin hasn't a great deal to shout about. The hitherto fireside-loving head or the family has valid excuse for stay ing down town late. The best war news is due around 10 P. M. When this war Is over the "crowd ed" condition of Europe will have been transferred from the surface to a few feet below. The St. Lawrence is to be mined. We were inclined to the belief that fogs made mining unnecessary up that way. Some 100,000 Canadian young men want to join in the melee. Patriot Ism, lust of war, or craving for ad venture? Now comes word that the Mexican treasury is entirely empty. Which fully explains the Huerta retirement. Portland after a spirited contest, secured the convention of osteopaths from Los Angeles. It was a ciose run, When a physician Is caught speed ing and offers emergency as defense, why not make him prove It? Japan needed little persuasion to get In. She wants to show the honor able world what she can do. Happy the wife whose lot In life keeps her in humdrum that is not spurred by ambition. England is reported to be anxious for news of its fleet supposedly at tar get practice. The California end of the Coast League is giving the pennant to the Beavers. Italy's standard should be changed to a double-cross rampant on a field of perfidy. The country's deepest sympathy goes to President Wilson in his dark affliction. However, China should remain neu tral and attempt to supply the world with eggs. The Belgians are fighting an In vader. Invasion would make a Qua ker fight. Almost any port is a haven, but old David Jones' locker Is the great refuge. But If Italy refuses to go to war she may have to fight to keep out of It. At least we cannot accuse the Bel gian army of being Belgian hares. Those who think the Mexican trou ble is ended are a bit premature. Think of the poor chef working overtime with all the troops. What will become of the 1915 Fair if this war keeps up? Kitchener Is like Grant in wanting plenty of men. The dam Is a factor in Holland, sTBW POLITICAL WOKU IS COISBD. "Nlt-Wlt" Suggested As Having? Large Sphere of Application. VALE, Or., Aug. 4. (To the Editor.) Always ready to receive with avidity any real advancement, we present to The Oregonian a new word which should be immediately added to sits al ready large vocabulary. In one of our anti-psychological ex changes we noted that a celebrated so ciety lady, after having coined the word, became very much vexed at the notoriety coming to her therefrom, and we therefore appropriated to ourself that which this lady refused to ac knowledge. It was necessary that definitions should be given at the same time the word was placed before the public, in order that its applicability should be understood. We have, therefore, de fined It. "Nit-Wit" A word originating In Chicago society and appropriated by an Oregon citizen. It has many meanings and apropos applications, particularly in political matters. Its many de rivatives became applicable to a largo number of individuals in public life in the United States during the psycholog ical administration of 1913-16. "a" An intellectual politician whose mind changes with the seasons, or on account of political expediency. A tariff tlnkerer. One who expects to kill big business without hurting small business. A peace at any price states man. A donator of other people's money to forpign blackmailers and cor rector of the diplomatic crimes of past administrations without attempting to correct the "crime of '73." A believer In the fallacy that lowering the cost of living raises the price of the farm ers' product. One who believes in the policy of prohibiting foreign laborers from entry to the country but Insists on the pj-oduct of their labor coming unrestricted. "b" Watchful waiters. "c" One who mistakes sound for wisdom. d" Donators of the benefits of our great engineering work to foreign na tions and monopolists. "e" A political straddler and law maker who forgets laws that he has formulated and becomes "hoist with his own petard." "f" One who swings at the tail of another's kite. A residuary legatee. g" A statesmnn who votes to do away with the prosperity of his own state through his unbounded love for foreigners. Note: This Is broadminded statesmanship so-called. This by no means exhausts applica tion of the splendid addition to our language. Its applicability will at once occur to a discriminating reader. A recent law passed by our nitwitian aggregation of docile children under the rod of the pedagogue is a good case in point. A treaty having been solemnly entered Into where neutrals shall not purchase the vessels of bellig erents and change their flag during the progress of war, a law is passed permitting citizens of the United States to violate the treaty. It is a great word, Mr.' Editor, and we hope you will take same to your pen and use it regardless of its origin and manner in which it is brought to your notice. JOHN RIGBY. GOOD VISION IS A BARE THING. Perfect Eyes Do Not Exist, According to Medical Authorities. (Journal American Medical Association. Measurements of human eyes demon strate that there is probably no such thing lit the world as an absolutely perfect eye. That would be a miracle which Nature, with all her Infinite in genuity, has never performed. No hu man face among all the world's 1,600, 000,000 may be held perfect, either ar tistically or physiologically. To the owner of the face this is relatively an unimportant matter, but to the owner of the pair of eyes an error of one-three-hundredth of an inch in the cur vature of dimensions of the eyeballs may make their all-important function abnormal, resulting in eye-strain with its attendant physical Ills. The eye responds to the slightest physical force in the world, that is. light waves which are hundreds of millions of times more infinitesimal than sound waves. The eyes are the hardest worked of all or gans, and the safety and existence of human lives frequently depend directly on their accurate working. The harm ful results of eye-strain, never wholly absent throughout life, may begin very early in childhood, even in the second year. Many little children, for in stance, are constantly tearing their clothes, hurting their feet and legs, stumbling and falling, because their eyesore so faulty that their estimates of tfP? size, location and nature of ob jects are not correctly made. Adults who have been blind and are suddenly given good vision require years to learn to see with accuracy or Bafety in action. Probably 6 per cent of chil dren are left-banded, left-eyedness causing left-handedness. From 6 to 10 years of age many children show an incomprehensible nervousness, twitch ing of the hands and face, fickle appe tite and various disorders, all usually due to eye-strain. Yet almost all of these cases of eye-strain can be re lieved, and should be relieved In early childhood. The Importance of correct ing this condition early in the child's school years and the influence of such a condition In the education and de velopment of the child must be appar ent to every parent and teacher. DOES THE CATERPILLAR THINK f Scientist Pursues a Novel Investiga tion of Insect Habits of Life. New York Press. Can caterpillars think? If caterpil lars cannot actually do so it appears that they have a degree of sense not generally recognized. In a London institution lecture the other day Frederick Enock, who has been studying the Insects for half a century, showed that they really seem to be conscious of their marking and coloration and are able to use the knowledge In protecting themselves from the birds, their natural enemies. A picture of a geranium branch thrown on the screen apparently rep resented only a mass of dead twigs, yet there were included eight cater pillars, looking almost exactly like" the twigs. An even more remarkable exercise nf protective foresight may be seen when the caterpillar spins its cocoon on a leaf and evidently becomes aware that the leaf may become detached and that' its fall may be fatal to the chrys alis. To prevent this catastrophe the caterpillar fastens the base of the leaf to the stem by silken threads. This strengthening of leaves has been noticed many times and is strik ing evidence that the little thread spinner must realize the danger from a fall. Getting Trousers Free. New York Times. A well-known Southern clothing firm has a novel scheme for increasing its business. The birth records are scanned In the newspapers every day and record is made of the birth of each male child. A congratulatory letter is then sent to the parents of each new boy, wishing him long life and prosperity, and with the letter is sent a miniature pair of boy's pants. These pants measure about four or five inches from waistband to knee. In the letter It is said that if the letter and the little pants are re turned to the firm when the baby Is large enough to wear his first trous ers they will be given to him free. Ac cording to a member of the firm in question, about 20 per cent of the let ters and pants sent out are returned and. exchanged for the frco pair. International Battle Hymn By Dean Collins. (Blanks to be filled in according to the singer's sympathies.) Ye sons of . . .' awake to glory! The voice resounds like thunder peal, And beardless boya and grandsires hoary Bind firm the belt and bare the steel. Ye mariners of arise! To arms, to arms! Ye men of ! On sea and land the banner files! Brave hearts and true defend the Oh who have with hledt The God of defends the right: Far has the mighty summons sped: To arms! To arms! And forth to fight! "On, on to . !" rings the cry, And loyal soldiers follow all. See where the foemen's banners fly! Forward, to conquer or to fall! Almighty Ruler, guard our cause. And o'er our armies stretch Thy hand ; To vict'ry lead! No rest, no pause. Till is driven from our land; Till haughty is humbled low. Her bones are broken on the sod; Forth with our conquering army go And vindicate our right, in Ood. Brave hearts and true, awake to glory! Hark, hark, the myriads bid you rise. 'Mid clash of steel, through combat gory, Follow where fame and honor lies'. Stand ye for until your arms Have hurled proud in flight! Brave hearts and true, In war's alarms. May God be with us and the right. LET MEN WHO MAKE WAR KICHT. Then There Would Be . War, Sajs Stephen A. Lowell. PENDLETON, Or.. Aug. 6. (To the Editor.) -In this season of war, and agony of soul, when the Ideals of civ ilization are toppling, the peace move ment espoused by idealists, and financed by Andrew Carnegie, seem, as shimmering as the noonday shad ows of a Summer day, as Influential as a snowflake In a Winter gale. Is not the reason of Its futility the fact that in the dispensation of Providence) war is yet essential In the Divine pur poses? To a student of history there is much to demonstrate that the govern mental and sociological problems of men can never bo justly settled except by the shedding of blood. The race has moved forward spasmodically, and its advancement has usually been In the face of shotted cannon, and with baptism of blood. Neither civil, social, political nor religious liberty have made marked advancement in times of peace. It required the stern sword of Crom well to demonstrate to a wondering world that a nation could live without a king. The French revolution was needed to shatter feudalism and assure constitutional liberty. Slavery passed only In a sea of blood. In the war now on in Europe the hand of a mighty God of Nations will be seen, ultimate ly, if not immediately. One thing alone will stop war, and that an international agreement, en forceable by public sentiment, that the men who declare war. the kings and so- called statesmen, shall bear musketB as privates in the front ranks of the first fighting force in the neia. STEPHEN A. LOWELL. CRITIC OF AMERICA IS SILENCED Wonld-Be Ex-Psltrlot Admits This Is the Favored Lnnd, After All. PORTLAND. Aug. 5. (o the Editor.) Two months ago a well-to-do ac quaintance whom I met on the car, made some very severe strictures on the United States in general and the Oregon system in particular. He main tained that a man with means is bad gered on all hands; If he owns an auto mobile he Is sued and damages award ed against him regardless of the merits of the case; If his auto Is stolen the thief, if caught, Is sentenced to 9ft days in jail and his sentence suspended, and added : "1 think that a man who has inconle enoush to live without working hard who has been thrifty would show his good sense by taking his possessions to the old country. Let him buy a place in England, Germany or France, where property la respected, where ev erything is safe, stable, permanent and solid, and where it Is regarded as being honorable to be possessed of enough of this world's goods to be comfortable." I met him again yesterday and asked him how he would like now to live In the countries he had named before, and have his servants all leave and go to the army; his favorite driving and rid ing horses taken for cavalry use, never to return; his autos commandeered re gardless of protests, to be used up and never paid for at half their value, to say nothing of the taxes that would follow. He admitted that after all the United States Is a good country to live in and he was glad to be here. R. M. TUTTLE. YAWNING GOOD FOR THE HEALTH While Not "Well Bred" Practice Is Nevertheless Commendable. Tid Bits. According to most of our books on etiquette It is very Improper to yawn, but from the standpoint of health It is one of the best things we can do. For one thing, a yawn ventilates the lungs. When you take an ordinary breath the lungs are not completely filled, nor are they thoroughly emp tied by an ordinary respiration. There is a certain quantity of air left In the lungs always what physiologists call "residual air." This air in time becomes foul and affects the blood, and through the blood the nervous centers. Then at certain times certain nerves get tickled, as it were, and the result Is a long-drawn-out yawn, which has the power of stretching the lungs to their fullest ex tent, driving out all the foul air and drawing in a supply of fresh, pure air. Yawning, too, is beneficial to your hearing. When you give an extra big yawn you hear a cracking sound Inside your head. That is due to the stretch ing and opening of certain tubes which connect the ear and the back of the throat. If they are congested, as hap pens when you have a bad cold In the head, you complain of deafness. If you feel inclined to yawn, by all means do so, regardless of what your book on etiquette may say. It is na ture's way of cleaning out your lungs and the air passages In your head. Skirts for Men. New York Tribune. The Welfare Director of Dayton. O.. has declared that men bathers at a shore resort there must wear skirts. Moreover, he has provided the skirts a kind of kilt effect reaching about half way to the bather's knee. "They're modern and proper," says he. They may be modern they must be. for they've not appeared at any other bathing beach. And they inevitably must be proper, if a welfare director approves them. They may not be es pecially comfortable for swimming by comparison with the somewhat anyone-piece costume which Is the prevail ing mode for males at Coney Island and other resorts hereabouts. Nevertheless, if mortality and uplift demand that they be worn, by all means let us have skirts for men. Due to shrinkage ami slits, there's not nearly so much of women's bathing costumes, skirt and all else included, as there used to bo. Maybe It's necessary for the men to wear skirts if the women are about to discard them, to preserve a due bal- ance of the welfare director brand of modesty. . 1 Little Editorials on Business Blowing Your Own Horn. King Solomon once said that "a man can do Milling better than to rejoice in his own works" or words to that effect. You will find the exact quotation in Kcelesiastes. third chapter. Inst verse. Solomon probably referred to spiritual works, but in this gener ation the man in business who fails to tell the public what he has to offer in the way of service or com modity is a "back-number." The individual who sells his ser vices discusses his personal achieve ments and his ability as he would present the merits of a piece of merchandise. His enthusiasm is often mistaken for rgiitism, but these red-blooded, enthusiastic boys usually bring home the bacon. The business concern, whether wholesale or retail, must blow its own horn just as vigorously and as loudly to many people as does the individual who sells his services to n prospective employer. The first essential in this horn blowing process is to attract ami hold attention. An advertisement that fails to arrest ami hold Um attention of the reader isn't worth l lie lime spent in writing it. Attention value is obtained by an illustration, a heading in bold faced type or by the general pleas ing appearance of the advertise ment. The bold headline "A postage stamps puts this vacuum cleaner in your home" induced thou-and of people to read the advertisement and ask for further particulars. A piano concern attracted atten tion to their proposition with the headline "Our player pianos are guaranteed for 10 years." Other houses were giving a guaranty for only one year. In the many retail lines atten tion is obtained by advertising bargains, but this form of attention-getting argument is losing its effect, l'eople are becoming sk tieal of continuous advertising of merchandise offered at impossible reductions. Don't lose sight of the attention value of your copy. This i the first and one of the in.-t impor tant considerations in advertising. Twenty-Five Year Ago From The Oregonian of Aug. 7, HM. Since the abandonment of tho cus tom house at Osoyoos Lake on the boundary at least louo Chinamen have come In from British Columbia, and much opium has been smuggled. Fire did $.1000 damage tn the Bald win lodging house, between Salmon and Main streets, at 1:30 this morning. Ben Woods, driver of the supply wagon, and Seymour, of truck No. 1. ware badly Injured by falling brick. The water committee met yesterday at Ladd ft Tllton'a Bank. Henry Fall ing In the chair and W. M. I.add. H. W Corbett. Frank Dekusi. F. '. Smith. A. H. Johnson. W. K. Smith. F. Therk clsen and C H. Lewis present. Blda were opened for a lO.ooo.OOO-gallon pump and laying 4. V miles of 24-lnrh pipe. The disastrous fires that have been raging for several days north of the city are still uncontrolled, and have done great damage In destroying cord wood and timber. For two days and nights the residents on the outskirts of the Multnomah tract have been fight ing the fire. Loads of watsr have been hauled from Lower Alblna for the purpose of protecting buildings from the heat and cinders William Hays, fireman on the West Side O. & C. line, has been transferred to the run from Grants Pass to Ash land, and his family will remove to Ashland. Mr. and Mrs. A. B Manley will leave today for the East and South. iri.Unnmah T r I V 1 n IT A NROC 1 .1 t lOIl Tuesday evening appointed Will Dud ley. H. Allen and AiDen aimbouii a committee to arrange for a race not later than a week from Saturday. A committee consisting of Frad rage. Frank Paxton and D. D. Ollphant was appointed to wait on tha City Council and see what can be done In fixing up or tearing up the plank road. Waldo F. Hubbard, who la In chargo of the hatchery" on the Clackamas, was In the city yesterday. Chinese "housemaids." armed with brooms and1 long clubs are again wag ing war on old dusty carpets in the two Plasa blocks. Mayor DeLashmutt la In receipt of a letter from Judge O. N. Denny, dated at Seoul, Cores. J W. Cook, of I'oi tland was In New York July 31. Ex-Governor Chadwlrk was In the city a few days since. He had Just re turned from a three-weeks' tey t Foley Springs, Lane County. During this time he reduced Ma girth five inches and weight 15 pound, and otherwise feels greatly improved. The Snokane Falls relief coi itnlttee has raised $3365. J. P. Howe a the New Park Theater. Dunr.m H H. r Ison and Manager Elward L Bloom, of The Paymaster" Company, will give one half of the proceeds for the test of the week to the relier runn. The Future Power. Philadelphia Ledger. Each of us needs a huree end a half to do our dally fetching and t frying. A population of 100.000 require Juet about 150.000 - horsepower to. keep things moving Its trains, it re rail ways, its light, heat. automoMlks, de livery wagons, elevators nrl thle must also Include the power i.ejried ta produce Its food. America owes much of Us . r; 'ne to Its enormous quantity of ft.ell vtilrh has been converted Into we First, the forests gave tne pi ns r an the fuel he required. Mora i it; coal at the rate of hundreds dr mil lions of tons annually has aojie the work of the horse and mule. Now the mountain torrent; ' I the mighty rivers are being conT-rtr i Into thunderbolts for the use of nan. But they will not be able to do allth" work of the future, and it la cetam that some Edison of a not rep ot' day Wtll clap a hood upon the ooemw.ive and make It operate railroad t--1ia electrlo plants and turn our mill wlaals. Kong berore tne last ion h coai nas been lifted from Us suhteianean bed beneath a Pennsylvania sountam It will no lougor ho reeded. A cheaper power In the form of .:lrctly gener ated electricity will uavabcen found.