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Postage Rates II to 16 pages. 1 cent; 18 to 32 pages. 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 3 cents; SO to SO pages, 4 cents, 62 to 76 pages, j cents; "8 tc 92 pages, 6 cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Biiswem Office Verree Cok" lln, .New York. Brunswick building. CB1 cago, Steger building. Han Franrieeo Office R. J. Bldwell Co., 74.1 Market street. PORTLAND. Tl'ESMAY. AUG 1ST 18, 1914. JAPAN'S TIME FOB REVENGE. In her demand for German surren der of Kiau-Chau. Japan has seized an opportunity for which she has waited twenty years. Under the tseaty by which China and Japan ended the war of 1S94-5. China ceded to Japan Southern Manchuria, including the Liao Tung Peninsula and Port Ar thur. Russia, France and Germany demanded that Japan relinquish the territory on the mainland and content herself with Formosa and an increase In the indemnity. The three powers then proceeded to help themselves to Chinese territory. Russia took Port Arthur and adjoining country, France took a. slice of country along the Mekong River adjoining Tonquin, and Germany took Kiau-Chau. the murder of two German missionaries serving as a pretext. After some friction with Russia, England was quieted with Wei-Hai-Wei. within striking distance of Port Arthur. Japan never ceased to resent being robbed of the spoils of war. There was some excuse for the action of Rus sia, for Japan's acquisition of terri tory on the mainland gave Russia a trong rival for power in that region and blocked her way to an ice-free port. France, as Russia's ally, was bound to help her. Germany had no interests in China and was bound by no obligations to an ally. It later de veloped that her action was inspired mainly by dread of the "yellow peril." Germany, however, was expanding her commerce in all directions and was planting naval stations at convenient points. Therefore, she took Kiau-Chau. With Oriental patience and persist ence, Japan has been working ever since to recover the lost spoils and to punish those who, she considers, robbed her of them. She has settled with Russia by the recovery of Port Arthur, the annexation of Corea and the practical annexation of Southern Manchuria. France and England hav ing become allies and having amicably settled their boundary dispute on the Mekong River, where Japan has no Interests, Japan, as England's ally, has no quarrel with France. With Ger many it is different. Japan considers that country's interference in her quarrel with China gratuitous med dling, and the motive which was later revealed fear of the yellow peril offends her pride. Exhausted by her war with Russia, she could not hith erto have challenged Germany with any hope of success. Now her opportunity has come. Japan finds Germany in a death grap ple with three great powers in Eu rope, unable to succor the little gar rison of 3500 men at Kiau-Chau or to relieve the naval squadron which has taken refuge there. At little ex pense of men and money, Japan can besiege the port by land and sea and take It at her leisure. Then she will have proved the truth of the saying that "time at length brings all things even." The best security for the perform ance of Japan's promise to return the captured territory to China is the rivalry among her allies in the war. None of them will wish any other to have this vantage point, and the sim plest compromise will be to do as Japan proposes return it to China. Japan's opportune intervention to Increase the odds against Germany Is a result of the long-sighted sagacity with which England has been prepar ing for the inevitable struggle for na val and commercial supremacy with the Teutonic ruler. Realizing that for the first time since Trafalgar a serious maritime rival was growing up, Eng land laid plans to concentrate her naval strength in home waters. Her scattered dominions required naval protection, but she partially provided this by encouraging Canada and Aus tralia to provide warships of their own. The alliance with France en abled her to entrust the guarding of the Mediterranean to that country; that with Japan makes the Oriental nation guardian over China and the Pacific. England's navy is thus left free to mass its strength in the North Sea in order to meet the supreme ne cessity of crushing the German navy. Japan's impending participation in the war need cause no apprehension in this country. The sincerity of Japan's desire to cultivate the good will of the United States has been proved by the pains she has taken to disabuse our minds of suspicion as to the existence of ulterior motives for her action, and particularly by the patience with) which she has endured constant irri tation about immigration. More than all, Japan could not provoke a crisis with this country In regard to immi gration without arousing hostility in Canada and Australia, whose people are of one mind with those of the Pacific States on the subject. England could not back up any unreasonable demands of Japan without alienating the affections of these colonies. She would restrain Japan from asking any terms of the United States which would not be equally acceptable to her colonies. Japan owes her rank among the great powers largely to her alli ance with England, and could not af ford to forfeit that nation's friendship by creating discord in the Canadian and Australian dominions. Self-interest and sentiment alike will keep Japan on good terms with this coun try. In the absence of wanton provo cation from our own people. This is the more desirable because Japanese victory over Germany In the Pacific would make Japan our near neighbor at several pol-its If Japan were to hold what she is likely to take. She would be apt to take the Caroline Islands, which are near the Philip pines: the Ladrone Islands, which are In the same group as Guam, and the German islands of Samoa, where we hold Tutulla. Friction in the United States would produce quarrels in these Islands, but If we avoid irritation at home, the two nations may be good neighbors abroad. NOT PSYCHOLOGICAL. "Prices," says the Salem Capital Journal (Democratic), "are. higher Just now than ever, and if if is high prices that make prosperity, what is The Oregonian kicking about?" Employed labor makes prosperity, conjoined with employed capital. High prices are symptomatic. Just now they are higher than ever, or going higher, because of the great European war. It is a wholly artificial and temporary condition. Sooner or later there must be a restoration to the ordinary eco nomic conditions. A powerful influ ence on our ordinary economic con dition is the tariff. It will not do for the Capital Journal to dismiss the tariff as a "bugaboo." It is not that. It is a factor in the life of every man, woman and child in the United States. It is futile to deny it, in view of com mon experience. The Capital Journal finds fault with a recent statement of The Oregonian that business is stagnated, labor un employed, wages deelinltig and invest ment not profitable. Evidently it would have the public to understand that the situation is exactly the oppo site. What credit can be given to the ar guments or contentions of any news paper or individual that advances postulates wholly false, and every where and by everybody known to be false? So the Capital Journal does. The tariff may indeed be "thread bare." But so are poverty, hunger and distress. There is nothing psycholog ical about them. WHOSE FACLT? The river and harbor bill still hangs fire in Congress. The prospect of its passage does not appear to be im proved by the delay. There is assur ance from the Democratic "confer ence" or caucus of the Senate that it will be brought up again for con sideration after the trust bills shall have been disposed of. But the crisis is nevertheless grave. Meanwhile the Columbia River and other Oregon im provements have run out of funds, and work Is suspended. Other great na tional works are doubtless no better off. Congress aione is responsible. It Is very little less than puerile to say that Congress could not act because the newspapers or a lonesome minor ity of three or four Senators would not permit it to act. The proper response to unwarranted newspaper or Sena torial objection is to pass the bill. If Congress sees fit to tie its own hands by clumsy and cumbersome rules so that the majority cannot control, Con gress must take the blame. Why does nnt Cone-rpss have rules that make it practicable for Congress to express its will? No otner manes mem ior lou irrfss' no other abides by them. Nor would Congress, if Congress did not choose to do so. if tViut river and harbor bill IS all right from Alpha to Omega and we have it from high Oregon autnoruy that it is what Dossible excuse can ho made hv Coneress for its failure to pass it? If it is not all right and there are numerous cnarges mat it us nnt what nossible excuse can Con gress make for refusing to correct it and eliminate the objectionable items. What possible excuse can Congress make, anyway whether or not the river and harbor bill as a wnoie is meritorious for its refusal to make noooH a nnrnnriations for the Colum bia River and other Oregon works? ABSENTEEISM. Mr Laffertv has been on the ab sentee list of Congress since April, nnrKiiiner in his own peculiar ana un scrupulous way his campaign for re election. During his incumDency ne has made a sightseeing and joy-nunt- ing trip to Europe, consuming many- days, and otherwise he has snown tnat rho hurflons of hLs duties rest upon him lightly. But he draws his pay regularly and pursues his private law nrartlnp Yet he unblushingly pre tends that he has an unusual record of achievement. He has none. If iai- frtv -an renresent his constituents In Congress by remaining away from Washington half the time, It is norm n-v,iin tn 9 what ran be done for Ore gon by keeping him away all the time. Yet Oregon has two Kepresenia tivpu who are not driven away from their duties by the demands of private clients or by political exigencies or Dy summer heat or bv pleasure-seeking adventures. Mr. Hawley is on the job, and so is Mr. Sinnott. Both are candi dates for re-election. Both have re mained at Washington, as they should. Only Lafferty deserts. VERSATILITY AND VOCATIONAL TRAIN ING. We know of nobody who has held up vocational training as a cureall for the troubles of the world. Perhaps some wild zealots have committed this mistake, but then zealots are always making mistakes and we must not be too hard upon them if they have kept up their old habit in this instance. Vo cational training will do a great deal toward solving the problems of those who have to earn their living, but it will not do everything. Even after a young person has been taught a trade it does not follow that he can make his living by it. There may be no de mand for his trained hand and head. This difficulty threatens to impair quite seriously the good results ex pected from vocational training un less it is obviated by prudent thought beforehand. It is not enough to teach a youth a trade. He must be taught the right trade. And by "right trade" we mean not only one which suits his inborn faculties but one for which there is an economic demand. A per son who has skill which the market does not want might just about as well have none at all as far as earning his living is concerned. It stands out pretty clearly then that vocational education involves two fac tors of about equal importance. The first is the youth and his aptitudes. The second is society and its economic demands. The school which would do really useful work in the direction of fitting round pegs into round holes must study both. The problem is a double one and neither end of It should be neglected. The great ma jority of young people are "pretty well" adapted by nature for a dozen different callings. There is only here and there a born genius who can do one thing supremely well and noth ing else even decently well. Such geniuses may be safely neg lected in organizing schemes of voca tional education. The ordinary young person can succeed in any one of a large group of related occupations. Hence if there happens to be no great demand for one of them when he is beginning his education he can be guided into another and it will be fully as well for him. The point is to make a thorough study of the youth himself to discover the general trend of his abilities and of society to find out into what channel his abilities may be most usefully turned. As long as vocational education re mains a one-sided affair, blind either to the pupils' innate gifts or to the economic needs of the world where they must work, it Is not likely to be ideally successful. But when It is properly organized with a sharp out look on the world and a wise insight into the pupils' minds it is certain to effect great betterments in human life. For one thing labor will be guided into those general departments where it Is likely to be needed and such guidance will be offered not merely during a few Winter months but year and year continuously during the edu cational period of the workers' lives. There is reason to believe too that sane vocational training will make workingmen more adaptable than they are at present, so that the loss of a job in one department of industry need not necessarily mean total helplessness. Versatility is a most valuable trait in any wage earner and it should be fos tered as far as possible in the schools, though of course not to the point of making a jack of all trades and master of none. New inventions are constantly throwing men out of employment, sometimes by the thousand. We all remember how the Invention of a mechanism for blowing bottles de prived a great many formerly well paid workers of their livelihood. In the modern world with its incessant change and progress versatility, or adaptibility, is perhaps more essential to lasting usefulness than it ever was before. Hence any leaning toward a narrow and hard specialism in the vocational courses of the schools ought to be frowned upon decisively. THE SPENDERS. The studious voter who peruses the official pamphlet of amendments and measures to be submitted to the voters in November will be struck by the dearth of measures to promote econ omy and the abundance of measures that directly or indirectly affect rev enues and taxation without offering any relief from the high cost of gov ernment. There are in all twenty-nine meas ures cn the ballot. Fifteen may be placed in the class of those that affect the public pocketbook, either by pro posing public expenditures or altera tions in the method of providing rev enues. An amendment creating the office of Lieutenant-Governor adds one more to the legislative payroll. An amendment authorizes state In debtedness for irrigation projects and improvement of untilled lands. An amendment abolishes the uni form rule of taxation. An amendment authorizes specific taxes at different rates. A bill levies a tax to reopen the Southern Oregon Normal School. A bill levies a tax to reopen the Eastern Oregon Normal School. An amendment raises the pay of State Legislators. An amendment grants an exemption of $1500 on improvements and per sonal property. A waterfront amendment aDoiisnes the wharfing right that enters into the tax value of shore lands. A prohibition amendment is offered which would destroy much taxable property. An amendment proposes a graduat ed sur tax on large land holdings. A bill provides for a tax code com mission and appropriates money for its expenses. An amendment taxes inheritances to give work to the unemployed. A bill provides for an additional pri mary election which would cost many thousands of dollars each biennum. An amendment imposes a two-thirds rule on future tax measures. The public pocketbook is an impor tant consideration, but are we not run ning in the wrong direction? If the same Industry had been exhibited in proposing measures that would lessen the cost of government there would be cause for congratulation and we fancy that those lawgivers in particu lar whose names regularly recur in every issue of the official pamphlet, had they devoted their energies and funds to a programme of economy, would have improved their sadly de ficient popularity AN HONOR TO LIEGE. When the Athenians were left al most alone to fight the Persians at Marathon the little city of Plataea sent a thousand hoplites to their as sistance. After the victory Athens de. clared the territory of Plataea forever sacred. Liege has performed a serv ice for France much like that of the old Greek town for its ally. It has checked the advance of the German invader and given the French time to mass their troops for the defense. , In recognition of the heroism of the Belgian city France has conferred upon it the decoration of the Legion of Honor, a token dedicated to hero ism and valued above wealth and fame by those who have won it. It is a cross upon a red ribbon pinned to the front of the coat. Nothing simpler has been worn by heroes since the Athenian crown of wild olive. Noth ing ever proved more definitely that the human heart in its depths values service to country and to fellow man more than anything else on earth. Men too indolent to work for money will gladly die for their country. Na poleon founded the Legion of Honor in the year 1802. His grenadiers and officers were the first to wear its cross and many of them refused to be parted from it even in the grave. "Das Ehrenkreutz am rothen Band sollst du auf's Hertz mir legen," said the old soldier in Schumann's song. He was speaking of the cross of the Legion of Honor which Napoleon had given him. Perhaps the Great Conqueror had himself pinned It to the soldier's lapel. Napoleon did such things sometimes and that was why the Frenchmen loved him so well that death and defeat could not quench their fidelity. Liege is not the first city to receive the Cross of the Legion. It was given to the town of Belfort in 1870 for its heroic defense against the Germans in that disastrous war. In front of Bel fort's citidal stands a statue by Bar tholdi, "The Lion of Belfort," which heralds to the world the bravery of the little city. Liege will have a statue, too, in due time. It will be carved by some great French genius and It will have its place among the monuments of the world's intellectual capital. France produces geniuses who are adequate for such tasks. Among the names of American tour ists sailing from Genoa given in a dispatch to The Oregonian yesterday was that of Representative Johnson, "from Washington." The appended statement that this was Representative Albert Johnson, whose home Is in Hoquiam, Wash., was obviously an er ror. Representative Albert Johnson is one of a very few members of Con gress who have kept at work continu ously during the tediously long ses sion. It is asserted that he has not been absent, except on necessary com mittee trips, since March, 1912. He has refused to desert the capital to make a campaign for re-election, al though a candidate. The reference in the dispatch was probably to Repre sentative Ben Johnson, of Kentucky. Cheap pettifogging it is, of course, to say that The Oregonian now crit icises Residuary Legatee Smith for voting as a State Senator for certain bills which Governor Chamberlain vetoed. Perhaps it did and perhaps it did not. That is not the point. The point is that Residuary Legatee Smith now loudly commends Governor Cham berlain for his twenty-four vetoes of appropriation bills, from 1903 to 1909, inclusive. Of the twenty-four, State Senator Smith voted for sixteen and against four, and was absent on the remaining four. Where Residuary Legatee Smith commends Governor Chamberlain he necessarily criticises State Senator Smith. But a grand and lofty flipflop is nothing to your Dem ocratic candidate. Lovers of the more tepid style of poetrj- will welcome Henry Van Dyke's "Grand Canon and Other Poems." We have not seen the vol ume, but we vouch for its utter purity and harmlessness. It contains noth ing that can alarm the most timid sensibilities or offend the most fastidi ous taste. Every line of it may be read to the whole family without a blush, which is more than can be said of Shakespeare. The Impressionists are now dead and forgotten. The Post-Impressionists are antiquated. The Fu turists totter toward oblivion. Even the Cubists are behind the times. If a person wants to be really up to date he must be a Vorticist and read the new magazine, "The Blast," of which the first issue is just out. Their motto is, "There is one truth, ourselves, and everything is permitted." Is it clear to you? Perhaps it were better to continue to bear more of the evils we have borne than to give Colonel Hofer all the paraphernalia and impedimenta he intimates he needs to break the pro longed drouth. Exultant in success and swollen with the pride of power, he might drown us. The rising star In British fiction is Oliver Onions, a young genius who has fought his way to fame through great difficulties. He is only 30 years old and great things are expected of him. Naturally his stories are a little tearful. If that story about the magic effect of the "Marseillaise" in inspiring the French to rally and win should be authentic, the Germans will need to kill the bandsmen first in order to win a victory. Pittsburg robbers took all the avail able cash from a bank and escaped in an auto. Suspicion naturally falls on someone needing a full new set of tires at war prices. Belgians report that German invad ing troops are hungry and tired out. If that is true we should dislike to face them when they are well fed and fresh. The warring powers are so penuri ous with news that we may get no reliable details of what has happened until a treaty of peace is signed. When a man goes home intoxicated on Sunday and abuses his wife and children, the query arises, where did he get the "booze" that day? Notice of change of address: Dr. Withvcombe. of Corvallis. will change his residence to Salem along about the first of the year. Rv the wav. what has become of those peace advocates and prophets who were so exceedingly ousy a iew weeks ago? So far the war has provided a fresh thrill pvArv dav. with no immediate prospect of a shortage in the supply. We needn't feel uneasv about Janan unless she goes to pressing that Cal ifornia matter just at this time. If prices get too high, let people eat more potatoes and gravy. The sim ple diet will be beneficial. In another six months, however, the word mediation may sound mighty fine to those Europeans. It isn't the number of corps but of corpses In the field that reveals the fearful wrath of Mars. So far nothing that remotely re sembles a military genius has ap peared in Europe. The torpedoes that were to sink the British fleet seem to be delayed in transmission. With fighting going on all around them, how could the Turks and Greeks keep out of It? A baseball manager now commands as much salary as a Panama Canal digger. A special session in December will simply hasten the biennial agony at Salem. with the smoke nushed aside Mt. Hood continues to loom on the hor izon. Mnn1roda of Portlanders will now take the field the hop field, however. The Kaiser and the Mikado appear on the verge of exchanging courtesies. f When the war is over the news will be released for the magazines. Federal ball in Portland will start real war among the fans. Marcos Bozzaris, up to date, is put ting on his warbonnet. Market quotation: Austrian battle ships are going down. A few more days and the straw hat goes into the discard. Half a Century Ago ! From The Oregonian of Aug. 18, MM Rev. Dr. Bellows, president of the United States Sanitary Commission, will soon be in our midst. Washington, Aug. 15. Sheridan has pushed his advance from Winchester to Strasburg. "Early is retiring from that point towards the west. Salem, Aug. 17. Dr. C. Hoel is re pairing a large building in the lower part of the city with the Intention of fitting It up as a water cure estab lishment. Married At Vancouver, W. T.. July 31 1S64, at the residence of the bride's father by Hon. JudVe J. E. Wyche, Mr. William Switzler and Miss Mary C. Hale, all of Vancouver. The steamer Pacific, A. M. Barnes commander, arrived at 8 o'clock last evening and the firing of her gun sent a thrill of gladness to the hearts of our citizens, who turned out en masse to welcome her. The Pacific- left San Francisco on the seventh, and it was then blowing. The gale increased and it was hard for her to make more than two miles an hour for some dis tance, when she put into Tort Or ford and was detained CO hours. She was detained 10 hours off Columbia bar on account of fogs. Last Tuesday evening a family gathering was held under the roof of Rev. Mr Royal in this city, upon which occasion 26 children and grand children assembled around the family altar. , Colonel Babbett has been reinstated and promoted to the office of chief quartermaster in the military depart ment of the Pacific. The Pioneer Hotel in this city was closed yesterday. B. G. Whitehouse, the popular and worthy clerk, takes his position in the new hotel of Mr. Arrigoni. WEED CUTTING DONE AT BAD TIME Seed Scatters Over Lawns When Left to Mature, n Hum Been Done. PORTLAND, Aug. 17. (To the Edi tor.) I read in the Oregonian recently that the season's weed cutting on neg ligent owners' property would amount to more Than $3000. As a property owner, I would ask where this sum is to come from? If those in authority who are re sponsible for this measure would acci dentally happen along where some of these men are cutting the grass, they might have an eyeopener. as I did. Passing by where a man was cutting grass I saw the fellow carelessly swinging his scythe at the rate of a swing, then a good long breathing spell, then another long lazy swing that told only too plainly his object was to kill time and draw his pay. He made no effort to cut the grass closely or to take it all down. Personally I consider it a grave mis take to cut the grass at this time, when the seed is ripened and of light weight. The mutter should have been attended to weeks ago. Simple contact with the seeds cause them to scatter widely over adjacent lawns that some people are attempting to get in shape, with the result that the lawns grow more weeds than grass. Permit me one more complaint: At the beginning of the season notices were sent to householders who wished to use water through the h03e requiring them to fill out the the same and return to the water bureau. I presume that requirement was com plied with. I know that I did my part, and was notified in due time that my fee In addition tn the charge for the house, would be Jl per month for the purpose of attempting to keep green the weeds in my lawn. Now comes an other notice that we are prohibited from using the water except on every alternate day. Yet nothing is said about charging but half the fee. The question of high cost for every thing that Is agitating the public mind seems applicable in this case. We are urged to make our surroundings beau tiful and are willing to do so. but are not allowed the privilege, even though we are willing to pay for it. C. E, S. The cost of weed cutting, about which the correspondent inquires, is assessed against the land where the cutting Is done. It is not a general expense. Plan Offered Hibernians. PORTLAND, Aug. 17. (To the Ed itor.) The members of the Ancient Order Hibernians are formally to open their new hall In the near future. Their fellow countrymen in Ireland, after centuries of active and passive re sistance to English rule, have in this hour of dire peril to England decided to withdraw this resistance, extend their hand of friendship to their former oppressor and offer even their lives If necessary to uphold the honor of Eng land's flag in the present conflict. In order to follow In some measure this splendid example of patriotism and forgiveness it might be suggested that the Ancient Order Hibernians, as the most representative and important Irish organization in the alty, Invite the British Benevolent Society and kin dred organizations to participate In the ceremonies incident to the opening of the new hall, have British Consul Er sklne, leading British subject In Port land, as president of the day, and in the scheme of decoration have the Eng lish flag take precedence over all flags, except, of course, the Stars and Stripes. This will show the world that the Triahmnn of Portland, who in the past have contributed so generously to help win Ireland s long Dame ior justice are as willing to forgive and forget as their countrymen at the other side of the Atlantic. P. J. SCA.NNELL. Peace Conference at Saa Francisco. ECO LA, Or.. Aug. IS. (To the Edi tor.) How can we stop this European feud? It seems that progress and the various peace congresses have utterly failed to quench the Immortal embers of war. We can see no benefit of the trans Atlantic mixup, save to fatten the his tories for -posterity and to embitter man against mankind. The Peace Conference at The Hague evidently assumed a Chautauqua aspect and only held rood for a season. What the United States should do now is to gather these bloodthirsty countries together at the World's Fair at San Francisco In 1915 and let them arbitrate their difficulties and show their Creator that use of brains with a peaceful halo is the only way to deal out fairness and to live and let live. HOWARD S. M'KAY. Not Spanish War Veteran. PORTLAND, Aug. 17. (To the Edi tor.) In the account of the meeting held under the auspices of the German, Austria-Hungary Red Cross, yesterday at the German House, I am reported to have stated In my remarks to the meet ing that I was a veteran of the Spanish-American war. This is an error. My statement was that my father was a Civil war veteran in this country, although German born, and as his son I was thus made eligible for member ship in the Sons of Veterans, to which organization I stated I belonged and in which I hold the rank of commander in Owen Summers Camp, No. 2. I make this correction because I do not wish to have the impression created that I am claiming honors which do not belong to me. CHARLES J. SCHNABEL. "SECOND COMING" MAY BE NSAR Scriptures Quoted In Opposition to Min ister's Views. PORTLAND. Aug. 17. (To the Ed itor.) Under the heading, "New Ver sion Given," in The Oregonian, we are told that "Christ's secc coming was 1800 years ago." This Is a strange delusion. What Is the matter with some of our preach ers? They surely need to read again the New Testament Scriptures, which are the only reliable source of our knowledge with regard to this most momentous event. Jesus Christ, when teaching his disci ples, said: "1 will come again." Can any one suppose that Jesus Christ did not say what he meant his disciples t I believe? In Matt. 24. after predicting the de struction of Jerusalem, our Saviour tells of certain signs signs celes tial and physical which should pre cede his second advent. "Then," he said, "shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the son of man coming In the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." Where, in all history, sacred or profane, chSi any one read of such a marvelous and momentous event as this? To say that this occurred at the destruction of Jerusalem Is exegesis gone mad. In the 25th chapter of this same gospel Jesus Christ speaks of his second coming to judgment, in these words: "When the son of man shall come In his glory, and all the holy an gels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory, and before him shall be gathered nil nations." To af firm that Jesus came 1800 years ago. the second time, Is to affirm that the last judgment has taken place and that the righteous have already Inherited the kingdom, and the wicked are even now "away in everlasting punishment." The mere statement of this absurdity is Its best refutation. The very last Instructions given to the disciples by our Lord, as found In Acts 1. were that they should receive power and become witnesses In Jerusa lem, Judea, Samaria and unto the ut termost part of the earth. "And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight." "And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he wont up. behold two men stood by them in white apparel, which also said, 'Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up Into heaven?' This same Jesus which Is taken up from you Into heaven shall so come In like manner ns ye have seen him go Into heaven." Ministers may "wrest" these scrip tures and become "blind lenders of the blind." but the faithful believers of the word of God are still waiting "the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour, Jesus Christ." Who knows but that we are even now rapidly approachlner the time spoken of In Rev. 11-18? "And the nn tions were angry, and thy wrath Is come and the time of the dead, that they should be Judged, and that thou shouldst give reward unto thy serv ants, the prophets, and to the saints, and them thnt fear thy nnmo, small and great, and shouldst destroy them thnt destroy the earth." JAS. DAVISON. Insurance In Foreign Companies. PORTLAND, Aug. 17. (To the Edi tor.) Replying to the communica tion of A. King Wilson In The Morn ing Oregonian entitled "Insurance In Foreign Companies." beg to state that while he has given an outline of the Oregon insurance laws, and what la required of companies before doing business in this state, he has not gone far enough into the subject to ascer tain that many foreign companies do ing business in the United States and In Oregon have a United States branch which is governed and controlled hy a chief executive officer and a board of directors In this country. The assets of the United States de partment are invested In the United States 6olely for the protection of American policyholders and are sepa rate from the homo office assets. According to the statement filed with the insurance department of the State of New York, the Liverpool Ac London & Globe Insurance Company of Eng land, which we represent, for the year ending December 31, 1913, shows assets invested In the United States amount ing to $14,263,846.95 and surplus of $4,631,216.90, which affords ample pro tection to United States policy holders. The home office assets are over $61. 000.000. G. ROSENBLATT, & CO. Intelligence of Insects. CORNELIUS, Or., Aug. 16. (To the Editor.) Recently a question was asked: "Does a caterpillar reason when It spins a cocoon on a leaf, and draws a line to the limb from which the leaf sprang and attaches it, lost the cocoon might fall?" Once, while contemplating nature. I saw a beautiful splder-wob: and Just then a little weak miller came flying by, but not parallel to the face of the web, and touched It with one wing and stuck fast! A telegraph wire run from the web to the office In the'ground, where the operator who owned the web was con cealed. Ho received a message that something had stuck to the net. where upon he rushed from the hidden office, climbed part way up the web, took hold of it and shook it with all his might, hoping fully to entangle the miller. Then he climbed to It and sucked Its blood. Was that reason or Instinct? The above Is not fiction. EDGAR W. WINANS Anonymous Letters Not Published. PORTLAND. Aug. 17. (To the Edi tor.) On the eighth Inst. 1 sent copy to your office replying- to article ap pearing In The Oregonian July 24. en titled "Protection to Night workers." but my reply was not printed. If the same wore not printed on ac count of space required. I would be willing to pay reasonable amount to have it published, or if there was some other reason for it, would be glad to know what It was. Will you kindly udvise ane through The Oregonian and oblige. OLD SUBSCRIBER. Communications must disclose the identity of the author, for the infor mation of the editor. The communi cation referred to was wholly anony mous and, moreover, was too long to be acceptable. War Causes In V'erae. H1LLSBORO, Or., Aug. 15. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian yesterday you refer "A Faithful Reader," who wants to know the causes of the Im pending European war to several ar ticles published in The Oregonian at intervals. Let me call the attention of "A Faith ful Reader" to two poems by Dean Collins. One, Germanla, he will find Ofi the editorial page of The Oregonian August 8, and the other, Slavonic, In The Oregonian August 10, on the same page. GEORGE BANTS. Adjective or Ad verb f BANKS, Or., Aug. 16. (To the Edi tor.) Will you kindly publish how the word "nightly" is used in the follow ing? "We piled with eare our nlghtly stack of wood against the kitchen back." A says It is an adjective, B says It Is an adverb. DAN JUNES. As the word qualifies the noun "stack" it is an adjective as there used. Electric Vehicles for Sweeping London TIt-Btts. Electric vehicles are now being used In the streets of London for sprinkling and sweeping. Little Editorials on Business How the Advertising Protects You. You can make the t'ir-t sale of nearly any article by advertising it. hut no amount of mb qnl ad vertising will make the consumer buy an inferior piece of merchan dise the second lime. The West known and lai'.-evt -cling- lines of merchandise are the trade-marked lines that have been advertised continuously. c.ir after year. They are -rood enough to stand repented advertising. The hip manufacturer who is advertising- his poods under his own name and trade murk ha millions of customers. If he should o!I an inferior product by false adver tising he is ruined. He cannot re deem himself. Therefore, the manufacturer who is not ashamed to pjit his name on his poods, but trade marks his line and goes ahead year after year nnd advertises simply mut make good. He is not tempted to skimp the quality, but pives you better value as his business grows. When you buy un article that is seldom or never advertised you know nothing of its oripin or its quality. It may be very pood this year and very poor quality next year. Trade-marked merchandise that stands continuous advertising are the best poods for the money. The best evidence of quality and value is the continuous advertising of the manufacturer. In these columns you will find the advertisements of many well known trade-marked necessities. We indorse them or they would not be given space in this news paper. It will pay you to demand and insist upon having advertised trade-marked merchandise. Then you'll be sure to pet your money's wort h. Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oresjonlsn of Ana. IS. 10 Purvis, Miss., Aug. 17. Judge Ter rell todn'y sentenced John L. Sullivan to one year's Imprisonment for prlie flghtlng. Baltimore. Aug. 17. Jake Kllraln this morning simultaneously hc.ird of Sullivan's sentence and the nrrlval of Mississippi offleet In Baltimore to take him to Purvis. He was surprised and scared. Spokane Falls. Aug. 17. The tot.il loss by the great fire was about $6,- 000.000. Seattle, Aug. 17 L. 8. J. Hunt has sold his Interest In th Evening I'rcaa to W. E. Bailey. The Morning Jim. n il. which whs In the agonies of denth. has been purchased by u syndicate of Dem ocrats. Pittsburg. Aug. 17. The solicitor of the South Fork Hunting and Fishtna club made a plea of not guilty today to the allegations made by the John town flood suffercra. John Martland. ono of the he. id maa tcra of the Upper Canada College. To ronto. Is visiting Dr. Kenneth Mc Kenzle. Colonel John M. Wilson, late super intendent of public grounds and build ings In the District of Columbia, who Was yesterday appointed superintend ent of the United States Military Academy at West Point. formerly lived In Portland and was United Slates engineer here. First Lieutenant H. R. Alden. of Company A. O. N. O.. has resigned. William l Liidd. the banker, had some photographs taken a few days ago at the gallery of B. C. Towne Ho was struck by the coincidence that lust 25 years ago he had some ambro types takon by Mr. Townc'a father In San Francisco. Plans and specifications for a two story brick to be erected on the cor ner of Sixth and M streets. East Portland, have been prepured for V. S. Dunning u. ( A.vsot lohi; ti AMMF Kapanillim llllsllon Will llske II Necrnr for I a l Knler lllunera. PORTLAND. Aug. 16. (To the Edi tor.) The advice of a correspondent In The Oregonian of August 10 regarding foreign alliances, while perhaps ood at one stage Of the country's history, does not seem to me advlaable or neces sarily so under present conditions. Tha country has burst its swaddling clothe and Is on the roud to assuming the po sition of a great power or position of influence among nations. If It has not already done so. Its interest are be coming more extended both In a finan cial, territorial and moral sens a well. A country of its size and devel opment on all the various plauea con stituting a Nation of advanced civiliza tion could not well be otherwise. It would be drawn Into the currant of ac tivity or International Intercourse or even contest, whether It so fjrMM or not originally. There Is a tide which engulfs both men and nations at tlmea, which the most farsoalng "ii"'1 pre vent or turn aside, nnd wise are Ihey who. If possible, recognize anil make, the best of It and prevent If they can dangers or III effects which accompany the s.n me The Indications are thnt this country, like others of similar race, must grow or spread anil mnke Its Influence felt In fine. It must be n living force, nnd not a dream or memory of the past. This latter has been the fnte of somo nations and it Is not beyond the rane of possibility for this. but. however It may be, like an Individual It must Ufa its life, assume the position "!od and nature Intended for It and meet Its re sponsibilities according to the. lights and standards which have been set up for it. To that end the United States will have to take Its place as one of the active parties or directors In the world's affairs ns they come up or af fect It. and we look In the not distant future to Its being associated In agree ments or understandings with certain of Its neighbors having common ' ends In view or of similar CrVfltBOtlon or race. As Its commerce expands such com merce will have to be protected, nnd this can be In only two ways by naval equipment nnd territorial standpoints or way stations necessary to the out fitting of said Navy and as vnntnge ground for the proper Influence of Its said commerce, and, In a word, civi lisation which It will bo naturally desirous of spreading In every lawful and proper way whether by political, oducntlonal or other means. Including the influence of religion, which In eome form Is common to all the grenl na tions and a vast motive force In tha accomplishment of the renersl objoot referred to. A. T. DOW.