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THE MORNING OR EGO XI AN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1914. itntmt PORTLAND, OBEUOS. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Poetofflce as Second-ciaea matter. Subscription Rates Invariably IB Advance. (By SlalU Daily. Sunday included, one year II.SO Dally,- Sunday Included, aix mo nine 4.25 Dally. Sunday Included three months. . J. II Daily. Sunday Included, one month 7S Dally, without Sunday, one year 8.00 Dally, without Sunday, alx months 3.2S Daily, without Sunday, three months... 1.75 Daily, without Sunday, one month 60 "Weekly, one year 1.50 Eunday. one year 3.56 Sunday and Weekly, one year 3.50 (BT CARRIER) Daily, Sunday Included, one year $9.00 Daily. Sunday included, one month 75 How to Remit Send Poetofflce money or der, express order or personal check on your local hank. Stamps, coin or currency are at tender's risk. Give Poetofflce address in full, including; county and state. Postage Rate 12 to IS pases. 1 cent: 18 to 33 paces. 3 cents; 34 to 48 pases. 3 cents; SO to SO pases, 4 cents; o3 to 76 pases. 5 cents; 73 to 92 pases. 6 cents. Porelsn post ase. double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree A Conk lln. New Tork. Brunswick bulldlns. Chl- caso. Steser bulldlns. -an Francisco Offic 74.. Market street. -K. J. Bldwell Co., I-UKTLIMI. I-KJIJ.VV. AK.IST 14. 1914. OUR OPPORTUNITY. Europe's extremity is America's opportunity. War has blocked com merce on every sea by rendering ships of nearly all great ship-owning na tions liable to capture. Those ships which were at sea when hostilities broke out have hurried to port, and few of them dare venture forth again. Our ports are crowded with refugee hips, their docks tmd warehouses are becoming overloaded with cargoes for export, the railroads are becoming blocked with trains which cannot be unloaded, our Interior warehouses are piled with grain, cotton and other Btaples which the railroads cannot move, because of the blockade all Along the line to ocean terminals. Were either the Teuton nations or the anti-Teuton allies to gain suprem acy by sweeping the sea of their ene mies' warships, the blockade would be broken as to the ships of the vic tors, but It would be redoubled as to those of the vanquished. We cannot await the result of naval battles which may be postponed for weeks, even months. We have the power to break the blockade without awaiting the event of battle. It is not only urgently necessary, but It is to our highest Interest that we should do so without delay. By prompt action we can not only set our own commerce In motion again, but can probably be et me the greatest shipping Nation In the world and can seize the bulk of tht world commerce wnicn me Dei ligerents neglect while they quarrel. The bill admitting to American register foreign-built ships owned by Americans without regard to age points the way. It should immedi ately bring under the American nag the 2,250,000 tons of American-owned snipe now sailing under foreign flags. It provides an easy means for the ships which now crowd our ports to be bought by Americans and to en gage in commerce under the Ameri can flag without " serious danger of seizure. By giving the President au thority to suspend the requirements that all watch officers of American ships must be Americans and the re quirements as to survey, inspection and measurement, this bill enables buyers of these ships to take over, their foreign officers and crews and escape much red tape. So long as the control of the sea remains in doubt, owners of ships of any belligerent nation may be glad to sell to Ameri cans, and the necessity felt by all the warring nations of getting supplies from this country may induce all to raise no question as to whether such sales are genuine or in accord with the rules of war. When the question of supremacy at sea has been decided between Great Britain and Germany, ship-owners of the defeated nation and it allies will be only too glad to sell vessels tied up in American ports to Americans, since the alternative would be idleness or capture by the enemy. If we abstain from Americanizing foreign ships, our commerce will re main practically paralyzed, our ports will be crowded with Idle ships and our warehouses will be bursting with unsold products, while our farmer" will not receive the money they need to sow next year's crops and to meet their obligations, and our industries will languish for lack of adequate home market and of any foreign mar ket. This condition would continue until England or Germany had gained maritime supremacy. Then the ships of the victor would be set free and would monopolise the world's carry ing trade, while those of the van quished would remain idle until the war ended. The withdrawal of so many ships from service would en hance ocean freight rates and would, thus impose a tax on both our pro ducers and our consumers. The vic tors would seize the foreign com merce of the vanquished and we should be supinely sitting down, watching them do so. If we adopt the bold course, we hall not only relieve our existing commerce from the paralysis it now suffers, but shall acquire the ships with which to seise the commerce which other nations have had but which they are now neglecting. Were England to prove the victor, we could take the great German merchant ships and use them In building up American commerce, as Germany has used them In building up German commerce. Now Is our golden op portunity to acquire a merchant ma rine and to expand our foreign com merce in every sea. Necessity and opportunity both demand that we take whatever risk is Involved in car ing for our own Interests. How great is the prize within our reach? The European trade with South America alone amounted to Jl.600.000.000 In 1913. Great Britain. France and Germany leading In the order named. This total Is more than four times our trade with that conti nent. South America must have ma chinery, textiles and other manufac tures; it must have a market for food and raw material. That whole conti nent Is threatened with distress by the war. It is not only our splendid opportunity, but our duty to supply the need. The same statement Is true of the Oriental trade, unless we In tend to let enterprising Japan take what we may easily have. In case England's defeat caused her liners to be driven from the sea, should we not fill the gap? Should Germany's de feat have the same consequence, should we not likewise profit? The time Is most opportune for this expansion of our commerce. The Panama Canal is open, and we can now, by using it ourselves for onr own ships and commerce, silence the Jibe that we have built it for others. American-owned ships of foreign build should be admitted not only to foreign but to coastwise commerce, Jn order to furnish a fleet for traffic between our two coasts through the canal. We shall soon establish a banking system which provides facili ties for foreign commerce. The prin cipal need is the ships. They are ready to our hand; why not take them and explain afterwards? Having by these means acquired a merchant marine, we should lose no time about taking measures to retain It. Our shipping laws now put a handicap on operation of ships under the American flag. Unless this han dicap is removed before the war is ended, many ships will return to their former flag when peace is made. Modern wars are seldom long-drawn-out, and this war may be ended be fore the term of the present Con gress expires next March. Congress should at this session appoint a com mission to revise the shipping laws In such manner that American ships will be on an equal footing with those of other nations. At the next session the new law should be passed The United States must not miss the present golden opportunity to be come mistress of our own seas and to become as powerful in foreign com merce as any other nation. . men like Macaulay and Dr. Johnson who can venture upon monologues safely. The British carry their love of conversational interchange even into public life. With them a speaker expects to be "heckled" and the au dience likes to fulfill his expectations. Here a man who interrupts an orator with a question is guilty of riot. If he escapes Jail or a fine he is lucky indeed. A speech to a British audi ence is usually broken up Into small fragments by questions from the crowd. No American orator could stand such an ordeal. The difference between the two peoples In this par ticular seems to be fundamental. The swift responsiveness of the British government to the popular will may have some connection with it. right of the population of a territory who take up arms to resist invasion to belligerent rights "if they carry arms openly and if they respect the laws and customs of war." The tendency of armies in the heat of conflict Is to forget and ignore re strictions placed on their conduct by men who discussed the subject in cold blood. As war continues, it de generates Into a savage struggle to overcome all resistance by any means, no matter how barbarous. t The na tions have not yet devised any forum in which those who violate the rules of law may be brought to justiae. SMITH VS. CHAMBERLAIN. The gubernatorial candidate of the Democratic ring, C. J. Smith, is trav eling up and down the state, deplor ing the extravagance of Legislatures, and telling the people how, through the single-item veto, he will be able as Governor to hold down public ap propriations to the lowest basis. Candidate Smith was a state Sen ator from 190S to 1909, inclusive. During that time he had the untram meled constitutional privilege of ex ercising the single-item veto, so' far as his vote was concerned. But he rare ly almost never manifested the slightest interest in keeping down ex travagance. He rarely almost never voted no on any proposal to spend the state's money, no matter how unreasonable or inexcusable. The Oregonlan presents today one phase of the Smith legislative record. He has much to say now on the stump as to the great saving made by the vetoes of Governor Chamberlain and Governor West. Mr. Chamberlain was Governor while Dr. Smith was State Senator. Governor Chamberlain vetoed twenty-four bills carrying money appro priations. Of the twenty-four, Sen ator Smith had previously voted for sixteen; he had opposed four; he was marked absent on four. The Chamberlain record, which Candidate Smith so loudly lauds, was made largely over the opposition of State Senator Smith and those col leagues who voted with him. If Smith excuses himself for his loose ideas as to the public funds he must also ex cuse and defend the Legislature. I ARM- IX THE CITY". The Oregonian reverted the other day to the subject of growing food in city yards with the remark that it presented great possibilities. I he practical Germans have carried urban farming, as we may call it, to great lengths. In Berlin, as In other cities both large and small, there are many vacant lots which up to recent years were allowed to lie Idle and hideous. But finally the idea occurred to some genius that they might be turned to profit by cultivating them. At once the inhabitants of Berlin, on fire with the new project, began to form "vereins," or unions for city gardening. Each union rented as much vacant land as It could obtain. The tract" was divided iimong the co operators and each family went to work to raise its own green vege tables. The plan is said to bring forth wonderful results. All of the hum bler sort of people have gardens in vacant lots. Each plot Is adorned with a little house where tools are kep't and where the city farmer may sleep if the police do not forbid. In this way hundreds of people combine an outing with the production of a generous food supply for the Summer. Every philosophy of art ends by becoming a philosophy of life. This has already happened to cubism, whose apostles are now telling us how to live and be happy. Their great precept is "revolt from nature," thus reversing Rousseau. Wyndham Lewis, the cubist substitute for St. Paul, sums up the new doctrine in the admonition, "Be as cocky as you can and as proud as possible. Think neither of past nor future, but only of the present and yourself." THE CONCERN OF ALL. The live Issues of the present Ore gon campaign, so far as the respec tive political parties are concerned, are: (1) High taxes. (2) Democratic policies. (3) Democratic ring control. (4) Efficient government. The problem of the new state gov ernment will be to lower taxes and to Institute economy and reform in ad ministration. The problem of the Congressional delegation will be to revive American industry' by a rational tariff and other sane legislation, and to reduce the cost of living by cutting Congressional appropriations. The problem of the Oregon voter is to set the state free from the.clutcn of the selfish Democratic ring which has long controlled its affairs and which seeks to perpetuate Its power. The problem of all public officials, elected this Fall, will be to devise ways to fulfill the public demand for more efficient and economical gov ernment. The deliberate and dishonest effort to confuse the public as to the main issues, and to divert it into discussion of Incidental and Irrelevant topics, will not work. The great need of the day is some way to substitute for the empty din ner pail a full meal ticket. Who Is responsible for present con ditions, and what Is the way out? THE ART OF CONVERSATION. Boston authorities of high repute assure us that the art of conversation has been lost from the United States, if we ever had It. It is rare for two persons to sit down in an American drawing-room and converse ror an hour on sensible subjects. They can chatter and giggle Indefinitely, but the Interchange of thought is something they seldom attempt, and if they do they soon weary of it, partly because thought is scarce in "most heads and partly because those who have a fair supplj- are reluctant to waste :t on unappreclative listeners. The English, it is said, are far bet ter conversationalists than we are. From Dr. Johnson's day to this they have always enjoyed the society of one or more great talkers who could engross the attention of a roomful of people and emit flashes of wit and wisdom Inexhaustibly. Macaulay is the classic example of such a talker. He was so well entertained with the sound of his own voice that he sel dom gave anybody else a chance to open his mouth. But, on the other hand, he was always worth listen ing to. There are several reasons why con versation does not flourish in the United States. One is our reluctance to say anything to each other about important subjects. Such conversation- as we have clings to trite and in sipid themes such as the weather, the neighbor's baby and the new minister. Sex has been tabooed until very re cent days. Politics and religion are tabooed still. In a drawing-room where sensible topics are forbidden sensible people can hardly be expect ed to have much to say for them selves. Americans cannot as a rule mention either politics or religion without falling upon each other tooth and nail. Most people are quite will ing to discuss matters of pure intel lect, but very few want to treat their passionate beliefs as open questions suitable for miscellaneous comment and argument. Another reason for our arid con versational effort Is our dislike of asking and answering questions. An English company in a drawing-room will often entertain itself very pleas antly for an hour or two questioning a returned traveler or warrior about his adventures. Americans would not do anything of the kind because they fancy that It "looks green" to ask questions, while it Is a bore to an swer them. There was a time when Yankees were famous, or infamous, for their lnqulsltiveness, but the trait is no longer apparent. Conversation usually consists of questions and answers. It I only WAR LOSSES. Heavy loss of life in the attacks on Liege and environs along the Meuse are appalling frqjp a purely senti mental standpoint. With due al lowances lor exaggerated reports of casualties it is clear that there has been a heavy toll in human life a loss running well into the thousands. The battlefields in front of the! Belgian forts were littered with the "German dead and the total Is piling up with each hour of combat as the staunch German skirmishers move forward to the attack. The spectacle is one to send the chill of horror to tne marrow of one far enough removed from the scene of trouble to be free from the fierce passions that sweep Europe. Yet from a military standpoint the German losses are of no consequence. Without question the German com manders compute their balance sheets with little emotion as they note the trifling debits trifling when entered side by side with the enormous re serve yet to be drawn upon. It 1$ not a practice to rate human life very highly in warfare. A regiment or bri gade is valuable only so far as it can be operated to the advantage of a general plan of campaign. In the game of battle, the subtle play of strategists, a regiment or brigade or a whole corps may be sacrificed if the loss is Justified In the light of the main problem at hand. Units, In the stern viewpoint of modern military effic iency, are Indeed pawns in a great game of martial chess. Losses there mast be and they must be met un feelingly. The yawning maws of war fare crave human blood and human blood they must have. ' No doubt the German strategists have formed a very clear estimate of Just what efforts will be required to force the Belgian hosts aside. The volume of fire and scope of resistance Millionaires will rejoice to learn of a new invention which insures them against art frauds. It Is a method of chemical analysis. The artists of each age have used distinctive pig ments. Hence an analysis of the col ors on any picture tells with fair ac curacy when it was palntedi It will be difficult now for contemporaneous craftsmen to turn out Titians and Rembrandts without detection, but no doubt men with too much money will find some new way of being fooled. Stars and Starmakers BY LEONE CASS BAKE. A French critic who has profound ly studied the drama finds only thlrty-six "situations" in all the plays of the world. A playwright may de pict his characters as praying, saving somebody, seeking revenge, and so on, but by no possibility can he invent a new situation. The nineteenth In the list Is "killing a unknown friend or relation." This occurs In Sapho cles' "Oedipus" and has served faith fully ever since. Next Saturday forenoon the Pan ama Canal is to be opened for com merce "with the roar of cannon." That particular kind of noise is a little commonplace just now. Cannon are roaring so madly all over the world that the discharge at Panama will hardly be noticed. It might be well to employ some other species of uproar 3uch as singing a hymn or pinching the baby. Let us be origi nal whatever we do. . The world has stopped almost every useful work to stare and gasp at the marching soldiers, but a few things still keep going. One of them is the work on the Cape Cod canal which will transform that sandy peninsula into an Island. It is estimated that the yearly traffic through the new canal will employ 25,000 craft, a big fleet, even if some of the vessels are small. German and English cruisers in the Pacific are cleared for action, yet they seem careful not to get within range of one another. One being afraid and the other daring not. It would seem. It is suggested that something ought to be done to stop the German and English practice of planting mines in the North Sea. Let's see, just who would stop them? Styles of hats will be fixed by the winning side, says a fashion report. For that reason, if no other, let us hope those English monkey caps don t come into style. After having concentrated heavy arms and ammunition supplies at Ha- have been pretty clearly developed in I waii, we are now sending submarines the past day or two. Hence the Ger mans must make allowance for pos siblo casualties in the concluding events of the campaign in Belgium. Then they must arrange for a sub stitution of live men for dead ones. That is all. There is no sentiment about it. Just straight business the grim business of warfare. No busi ness firm can compute more tran quilly whether the expenditure of say $10,000 in developing trade within a given territory is Justified. If the military board of directors decides that the right of way through Belgium is cheap at 10,000 or 20,000 or 60,000 lives, why, the price must be unfeel ingly paid. Such Is war. -. LAW S OF WAR VIOLATED. Although the war has been In progress only two weeks, the com batants already accuse each other of having violated the laws of war as laid down at The Hague conferences. France and Germany each accuse air ships or aeroplanes of the other of dropping bombs on towns. A French airship is said to have thus attacked Nuremberg and a German airship is accused of similar action at Lune vllle. Both these places are fortified, but the spirit of the laws of war does not countenance bombardment of such towns unless they are besieged, the recognized purpose of bombard ment being to terrify the civilian pop ulation and thus induce it to influence the military commander in favor of surrender. There being no siege, the bombthrowers seem to have commit ted wanton acts of destruction and slaughter In disregard of this provi sion of The Hague treaty of 1507: In sieges and bombardments all necessary steps must be taken to spare, as far as pos sible, bulldlnss dedicated to religion, art. science or charitable purposes, historic mon uments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not belns used at the time for military purposes. It Is the duty of the besieged to Indicate the pressnce of such buildings or places by distinctive and visible signs, which shall he notified to the enemy beforehand. No notice seems to have been given and no care taken not to injure build ings of the character described. The British accuse the Germans of violating the rules governing the lay ing of mines at sea by sowing mines by wholesale in the North Sea with out retaining control. On this sub ject The Hague treaty says: It Is forbidden: i Tn lav unanchored automatic contact. mines except when they are so constructed as to become harmless one hour at most af- ter the person who lala mem ceases to con trol them. 2. To lay anchored automatic contact mlnpK which do not oecome narmieas an soon as they have broken loose from thai: moorings. The action of the Germans in shooting civilians who resisted them In Belgium accords with their course in 1S70, but the question whether it vU.!ates The Hague treaty hinges on whether the Belgians carried arms openly and respected the laws and customs of war. uermany treated a? bandits the francs tireurs of France, because they were not called out by any legal authority and wore no dis tinctive mark, but she Joined in The Hague treaty, which recognizes the there as rapidly as possible. Why? It is revealed that the Kaiser has invited his staff to dine In Paris. We trust, however, that they are not re quired to fast in the meantime. The French commander-in-chief has hired a famous racing chauffeur for his motor car. Nothing like be ing prepared for a hasty retreat. When one considers that those striking newsboys will be running this city within a score of years, there is nothing funny in the affair. The Kaiser is reported to be on his way to take personal command. He would do well to leave that to his more experienced Generals. Let us hope that the Federal probe of high food prices gets beyond the probing stage before we are com pelled to declare a fa6t. Great- Britain shows confidence In her ability by advising all nations to continue sending goods to her ports. "Britannia rules the sea." Three train malls each way dally between Portland and Southern Ore gon show how the mercury climbs the business barometer. A Russian monk has rushed away to the front to fight. The war fever is Irresistible when it seizes upon an individual. If Turkey buys the Goeben and Breslau they will become two bites for the Kllks as soon as .Greece unlimbers. If one of the Lelpsig's battles were pulled off opposite the Columbia, it would give great stimulus to seaside travel. American refugees bring harrowing tales of hardship abroad. How very extraordinarily horrible! Kitchener is muzzling the British press, but give him credit of know ing what Is best. In addition to censors, it would ap pear that the armies also carry press agents. The steady rise in sugar is one way of putting the screws on the consumer. Wo shall next hear that Villa and Carranza have clashed on the field. Will tho country be able to com pose itself for the world's series? Let the war proceed. Harding Davis has arrived. Richard Bailey of Texas wants opportunity to do more resigning. Arrange tomorrow. today to make a noise 6ee where an actress in New York, jailed for falling to pay a bill In a the artlcal boarding-house, has gone on a hunger strike. She probably is in ex cellent practice. e . e e A note from James A. Bliss gives the information that he has been engaged by Manager Garrett to direct the stock company of the Utah Theater in Salt Lake City next season. Mr. Bliss was stage director at the Baker Theater in Portland last season. see We yet may see Madame Cailloux in vaudeville. Mrs. Carman and Becky Edelson have been approached with offers. ' e Becky will probably nave an ani mated background of I. W. Ws. to help out her act. while Mrs. Carman might have a chorus composed of her hus band's women patients and shoot one at special matinees. see At last the disposition of Mme. Ber tha Kalich is settled, says a headline. It does not mean, however, that there has ever been two opinions about the Kalich disposition, which is a cross between Mrs. Leslie Carter's and Mrs. Pat Campbell's. But the disposition of the lady's talents has been settled. She is to appear under Klaw & Erlang- er's management in Eugene Brieux's drama "The Judge's Robe." This is a play which Kalich has been hoping for years to have produced for her. She will play Yanetta, the role Kejane cre ated in Paris during the run of the piece there. Kalich has already stud led the part in German, and the man uscript has been in her keeping for several years. Kalich was in Portland two seasons ago in vaudeville. She is a marvelous exponent of emotion. e' Rida Johnson Young has written the book of a musical comedy. Fred. C. Whitney is arranging to produce it, "My Lady Luxury" Is Its title. e e e We will see Mary Stockwell In "The Dummy" when it comes to Portland next Winter. Mary Is the daughter of the late L R. Stockwell. the actor man ager of early California theatricals. Ethel Brandon, character actress, is Miss Stockwell's mother. She was last in Portland as the Mother TyL In "The Bluebird.". Mary made her theatrical debut only a year ago. see Softly and steadily, in an educated but somewhat, unladylike way, Julian Eltinge Is cursing the German cooking and life of general ease he has been experiencing abroad for the last six weeks. These have added 15 pounds to his weight and enlarged his waist line, all of which he will have to train oft before he stuffs himself into straight fronts for "The Crinoline Girl" in which he will play another season. Gee, we girls do have our woes. e e e A new play called "Trifling With Tomorrow" is to reach New York in October. Frank Mandel, a former San Franciscan, wrote it. In the cast will be Charles Cherry and Rose Coghlan. f j Already Harry Lauder is bracing himself to spend real money for an entire week. This Is the first time in his life so far as history records the movements of this uncanny Scot. In December he will go to his estate In Dunoon, Scotland, where he owns a castle and thousands of acres of mead ow lands and forests primeval. On the Christmas and New Year's holidays, at Dunoon, Comedian Lauder will preside at a series of festivals and feastinga, to which all the neighbors for miles around will be bidden. Simultaneously he will project a number of charitable enterprises. All of this news comes in a letter from his publicity agent. You see, Harry believes Implicitly in the Scriptural injunction to never let your left hand know what your right one does. He starts on a gala world tour right after his Christmas activities and visits the Pacific Coast next Summer. David Warfleld will bring "The Auc tioneer" to the Pacific Coast next sea son. "The Heart of a Thief" opens In Oc tober Paul Armstrong wrote It for Charles Frohman and that astute man ager is going to put Martha Hedman in the principal role. Miss Hedman has been playing loading roles at the St. James Theater in London, to which city she went last season after ap pearing with John Mason in "Indian Summer." In London she has achieved wonderful success. e Perlmutter in the play, "Potash and Perlmutter" wears a mustache, and for that reason Julius Tanney, who will play the role In the Western company is cultivating one. Truly this struggle to keep In the picture Is soul harrow ing. It's the "type's" wife who suffers most. - "The Girl From the Farm" is the newest addition to the ranks of po lite vaudeville. The young person's professional trade mark is Viva Eth elia, although It's almost certain she didn't use that name out among the pigs and poultry. She halls from Poseyville, Ind., and Hammerstein's publicity department says she was "discovered milking and raking the hay." Maybe they do milk the hay in Poseyville. Viva Ethella will wear a gingham gown (from Paquln) and an imported sunbonnet to prove she Is truly rural. Her qualification for stage exhibition is her high top notes. Lydla Lopoukowa, the Russian danc er, who got In "such a mess of publicity over her "Dante of the Bee," In which the bee was the only scenic equipment the dancer afforded. Is making her first appearance In an English speak ing role. She has changed her name to Vera Tula, which is seven shades eas ier to pronounce, and has the principal role in "The Young Idea." a three-act comedy. Harrison Grey Fiske is its producer, a Mrs. No-Initials Grant wrote it, and at its premier with a Pittsfleld, Mass., stock company it made a sensation. The idea of "The Young Idea" is novel. , Vera Tula plays a role entirely new to the stage. She Is Euphemla Ken dall, a young girl, who. having ac quired an advanced education in Munich, returns to her conventional family In America and proceeds to ex plode a series of theoretical bombs that astounds the Southampton smart set, embarrasses hor relatives and de lights the audience. She is versed in all branches of modern study, from So cialism to eugenics, and Elien Key to Lombroso. When it comes to the mar riage question, she does the propos ing herself. It will be produced in New York next Autumn. ECONOMY: THEORY AND PRACTICE What Candidate Smith Says and W hat He Does. That the record of Dr. C. J. Smith. Democratic nominee for Governor, as a State Senator and his repeated state ment in advocacy of his candidacy that he favors economical state government do not harmonize is proved by com pilations made by The Oregonlan of his votes on Important appropriation measures the four terms he was a mem ber of the upper house Citing the numerous vetoes of ap propriation measures by Governor Chamberlain as proof of Democratic economy, Dr. Smith says he will wield the veto ax with like vigor. He and Governor Chamberlain served In Salem simultaneously. Every bill the execu tive vetoed was voted upon previously by Dr. Smith, except those acted upon when he was absent from the deliber ations of the State Senate. The rec ord shows that Governor Chamberlain vetoed 24 measures, making appropri ations from the State Treasury. Dr. Smith voted for the passage of 16 of the measures that were vetoed. He voted against four. He was absent when the vote was taken on four. The measures Dr. Smith voted to make laws which were vetoed appro priated 1382,800. money actually men tioned tn the bills. Some of the meas ures, because of the Impossibility of es timating amounts necessary for the contemplated work, carried indefinte appropriations. Dr. Smith says the Governor in 1903, 1905. 1907 and 1909 vetoed 110 bills, including appropria tion measures calling for from $500,on0 to $1,000,000. He voted against meas ures which were vetoed that carried appropriations of only S98.243.71. He was absent when measures, later ve toed, appropriating $13,600 were read the third time and passed. Dr. Smith voted for the following measures in 1903. which were vetoed by Governor Chamberlain: Legislature of 1003. Senate Bill 18S To create Eighth judicial district. Judge's salary from the state, $3000. District Attorney's sal ary from the state, $2400. Total, $5400. Senate Bill 237 To establish Bureau of Mines. Appropriation, $20,000. House Bill 113 To establish Summer normal school at Newport. Appropria tion, $5000. Dr. Smith voted against one appro priation measure in 1903 vetoed by Gov ernor Chamberlain, as follows: House Bill 363 Special appropria tions aggregating $16,443.71. of which $14,500 was to be used for purchasing mansion for Governor. Dr. Smith was absent in 1903 when the following bills vetoed by Governor Chamberlain were passed: Senate Bill 204 Authorizing appoint ment of Btate land agent and clerk, with combined salaries of $2700 and ex penses. House Bill 198 To regulate sale of food and drinks, with salary and ex pense account of commissioner of $3750. Legislature of ::.-. Dr. Smith voted for the following measures in 1906 which were vetoed by Governor Chamberlain: Senate Bill 17 To provide two gaso line patrol boats for protection of salmon in Columbia River. Appropria tion, $16,000. House Bill 147 To provide deputy fish warden and clerk. Appropriation. $2400. House Bill 377 To authorizo board of trustees to relocate Dear mute School. Appropriation, $70,000. Dr. Smith was absent In 1905 when the following bill vetoed by the Gov ernor was passed: Senate BUI 41 To establish labora tory at the University of Oregon for testing building material, etc. Appro priation, $5000. Legislature of 1007. Dr. Smith voted for the following measures in 1907 which were vetoed by Governor Chamberlain: Senate Bill 88 Establishment and organization of Seventh Oregon Dis trict Agricultural Society. Appropria tion, $1500. Senate Bill 93 To aid Oregon Nor mal School at Monmouth. Appropria tion, $22,500. Senate Bill 168 Establishment of Eastern Oregon District Agricultural societies. Appropriation, $3000. Senate Bill 198 Establishment of First Eastern Oregon District Agricul tural Society. Appropriation. $2000. House Bill 254 Providing for State Printer on salary. Appropriation, $101,000. House Bill 260 Creating First Cen tral Oregon Agricultural District Fair. Appropriation, $1000. House Bill 432 Appropriation of $2500 for improving provisional Gov ernment Park at Champoeg. Senate Bill 62 To amend act to pro vide for Third Eastern Oregon Agricul tural Society. Appropriation, $2500. House Bill 37 To increase annual appropriation of University of Oregon $125,000. Dr. Smith voted agatnst the follow ing bills vetoed by Governor Chamber lain in 1907: House Bill 293 To provide cheese and creamery inspector and creamery and dairy Inspector, with appropriation of $5000. Senate Bill 134 To establish and regulate normal schools. Appropria tion. $75,000. Senate Bill 96 To provide State Highway Commission. Appropriation, $1800 and expenses. Legislator of 1009. Dr. Smith voted for the following bill vetoed by Governor Chamberlain In 1909: , - ' Senate Bill 32 Fixing salary Judge Eighth Judicial district. Appropria tion, $3000. Dr. Smith was absent when the fol lowing bill, later vetoed by Governor Chamberlain, was passed in 1909: Senate Bill 34 Sale and preservation of Supreme Court reports and compen sation for reporter. Appropriation. $2150. Little Editorials on Business What the Consumer Wants to Know. The Oregonian is a purveyor of news. Ever- word of its new columns is changed every day. This should be equally true of its ad vertising columns. The readers of The Oregonian are consumers of the merchandise advertised in these columns. They buy The Oregonian because it is a good newspaper because it keep them accurately and promptly in formed on the momentous events and incidents of the entire world. We believe that the advertising columns should be as newsy and as instructive as the news columns. Consider the news elements in your business and you can make your advertising more newsy, therefore, more attractive and more profit able. Let me illustrate: The manu facturers of a popular brand of com flakes advertised in The Ore gonian that their packages would, in the future, he wrapped in wax paper to keep the contents crisp. Another food advertiser told the public of a scientific investigation that increased the nutritive value of his product. In both cases this was news. A jewelry house, which has been ! advertising diamond rinsrs at a cer- I tain price, without reference to the size of the stone, says: ''We arc now buying direct from Am sterdam and are offering pure white diamonds at $125 per carat. Again, this is news. The lace division of a big de partment store advertises the fail ure of a prominent lace mill and the purchase by that store of the entire stock, to be sold at very low prices. This is news of great interest to women. The railroads advertise new steel equipment and faster schedules, giving real news value to their an nouncements. If you are a consistent adver tiser the consumer already knows much about your product, but you can increase the efficiency of your copy by telling the consumer the things they do not already know, and when you do this you put new value into your advertisements. Twenty-Five Years Ago On the "Father of Lenta." PORTLAND, Aug. 1$. (To the Ed itor.) Recently there appeared in the newspapers of Portland, obituary no tices of Otis K, Addlton In which he is dubbed "The Father of Lenta" Nei ther the records of the Historical Soci ety nor the deed rscor ds of Multnomah County, Or., will justify this assump tion. Lents postofTlce was established over 40 years ago, some years before Mr. Addlton came to the state of Ore gon. It was established there through the efforts of O. P. Lent, the real 'Fath er of Lents." A few years later the first business place was establiihed there by John Yott 1 platted the original town of Lent in August, 1192, almost 10 years before Mr. Addlton came to the place. It was a considerable business center long before Mr. Addlton came there, as Is well known to the earlier residents of the place. Mr. Addlton was a worthy man and an enterprising qitlsen, and I do not believe he would want a false Impression to go out In regard to this matter. GEORGE P. LENT. From Tha Orrfonlan of Ausuit 14. 1SS9 Seattle. Aug. 18. The surveyors of the Seattle tk Southern Rallrosd hate nearly completed the location of their line from Seattle to Portland, where a Junction will be made with the South ern Pacific. It will not require more than 10 months for completion of the entire line. The Hawthorne Avenue Railway Company has received from the Hala wln Locomotive Works at Philadelphia a 15-ton steam motor. Walter Jones, housemover, began moving It from the railroad yesterday. George Johnson, one of the early settlers on the East Side, was married to Mrs. Gardner at Ocean Park on Fri day. A. W. Lambert Is on the Clatskanlne River, hunting. He wrote yesterday that "we" had bagged 15 grouae and ono deer. The cornerstone of the new Congre gational Church at Oregon City was laid yesterday by the pastor, Rev. O. W. Lucas. Prayer was offered by Rev. J. L Reed, pastor of the Baptist Church, and an address was delivered by Rev. C. I. Whittlesey, of Plymouth Congregational Church. An excellent exhibit of the products of this state left for the Eaat yester day, in charge of P. C. Kauffman. as sisted by W. A. Sherman and E. N. Morgan. State Surveyor-General D. W. Tay lor said yesterday that muft of the sur veying was being done in Nehalem Valley, back of Saddle Mountain. Portland will be represented at the commercial conference In San Fran cisco by Colonel John McCrakon. R. P. Earhart. William M. Ladd, General William Kapus and Mr. Allen, of San Francisco, of the firm of Allen & Lewis. A 15-year-old boy named Blavln killed a panther half a mile from the rallroaii and two mllfM from Scap poose, Sunday. Frunk Keller's new three-story resi dence, on Nineteenth and D streets, Is about completed. It has been rented by Edward Ehrman. The representative heads of the vari ous political reform organisations, the Grange, Prohlbltlonlst, Union Labor and. Knights of Labor, met at Salem. August 10. to consider consolidation of the reform elements for combined political action. A call for a confer ence to be held at Salem. September 14, waa Issued by H. K. Havre, master of the Patrons of Husbandry; a. K. II Miller, chairman of the ttate commit tee. TJnlon Labor party; C W. Brown, chairman of the state committee, Pro hibition party; J. M. Paynr. worthy foreman Knights of Labor; Ashley White, representative of the Uranc and Prohibition party; J. F. Hendrlx. district master workman. Knights of Labor, and Q. M. Miller, representative of the Prohibition party. Ode to the War Talker By Dran olllna. I raise my voice and carol free; What la thla woeful war to meT What care I for the rise or fall Of stocks upon the street called Wall: What care I If the rebels blow The rulers up In Mexico? Though everywhere sad rumors fly. I still will warble. "What care IT" What care I though the prophets see The world's end coming rapidly? What care 1 though the race be sped on To final smash at Armageddon. What care 1 though the Swiss navoe invade the whole darned Baltic Sea? Though o'er the news tho nations sigh, I still repeat It. "What care IV What'tcare I. friend, of how you think The world Is going on tha blink? What care I for this theory Of war that you are telling me? What care I for the rabies wired? What care I Listen, l am tired J Of warlike rumors on the wing. Of trampling armies muaterina. Of extraa that the newsies sing. So my plain statement thus I fling: At my request, dive Mars a rest: I'm tired 1 Please talk sums 'other thing'." i