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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21. 1914. 6 PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofflce as gecond-ciaas matter. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall Dally. Sunday Included, one year Dally, Sunday Included, alx montha Dally, Sunday Included three montha. . l.J Daily. Sunday Included, one month Daliy. without Sunday, one year J-0? Dally, without Sunday, alx montha 3.25 Daily, without 6unday, three montha... 1.7 Dally, without Sunday, one month -8JJ Weekly, one year J-J Sunday, one year Sunday and Weekly, one year -su (BT CARRIER) Dally, Sunday Included, one year '9"?2 Daily. Sunday Included, one month How to Remit Send Poatotflce money or ' der, express order or personal check on your local hank. Stamps, coin or currency are at fender's risk. Give Postofflce address In full. Including county and state. Pontage Rates 12 to 16 pages. 1 cent; IS to 12 pages. 2 cents; 34 to 48 pagea, 3 cents: so to 60 pages. 4 cents; 62 to 76 pages, o cents; " tc 92 pagea, ( cenu. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Business Office Verrea Conk lln, New York. Brunswick building. Chi cago, Steger building. han Francisco Of lire R. J. Bldwell Co., T4a Market street. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, AUGUST 81, 101. PIUS X AND THE CHURCH. The man who ia chosen successor .to Pope Pius X will direct the policy of the most powerful institution on earth. More than 200,000,000 Chris tians bow before the throne of Bt. Peter and acknowledge its occu pant as the vicar of Christ and the terrestrial representative of God. The vicissitudes which have deprived the church of temporal dominion have Increased Its spiritual authority. The loss of worldly empire and material possessions has strengthened its rule over the minds of men and the Pope, deprived of the attributes of temporal sovereignty, is a more imposing figure than those of his predecessors who commanded armies and dethroned Kings. Up to the year 1870 the states of the church formed an independent dominion in the heart of Italy, with Rome for the capital and the Pope as monarch. The origin of this ec clesiastical state dates from a remote antiquity. Politically it was almost always badly governed and it involved the papacy in international entangle ments which threatened its dignity and often impaired Its spiritual influ ence. The Italian patriots who schemed and fought for the unity of their country toward the middle of "the nineteenth century naturally looked upon the papal state as a bar to their ambitions. Pius IX, who was Pope at that time, found in Louis Napoleon his principal supporter against the Ital ian revolutionists. Napoleon's troops reinstated him In the palace at Rome from which he had fled to escape the mob and maintained him there in spite of the efforts of Garibaldi and his associates until 1870. In that year the outbreak of his disastrous war with Germany compelled Napoleon III to withdraw his troops from Rome and the states of the church were quickly incorporated with the Italian kingdom. The protest or tne rope against these proceedings was vain, as might have been expected. He was treated with great formal considera tion by the Italian government and permitted to reside in the ancient palace of the papacy, but in many re spects his situation was intolerable. The transition from the estate of an independent sovereign to that of a private individual in temporal affairs was one to which Plus IX never could reconcile himself. Although he con tinued to reside in Rome and was really free to go and come as he liked, he was often spoken of as a prisoner and he declined to accept the large pension which the government had granted him. It is accounted among the merits of the late Pope Piux X that he established somewhat more friendly relations with the Italian monarchy. With this loss of temporal posses sions may be contrasted the great spiritual victory which the church gained not long afterward in its fa mous struggle with Bismarck known in history as the Kulturkampf. For some time before the war with France It had been Bismarck's policy to un dermine the authority of the Roman church in Germany. He was particu larly jealous of its political influence and denounced the Centrum, or Vati can party in the Reichstag, as "one of the most monstrous phenomena in the world of politics." The great Chancellor was asked from Rome to assist in restoring the Pope's temporal power, but hi demands were so exor bitant in case he should grant the favor that they could not be conceded and events in Italy were allowed to take their course. But in Germany Bismarck greatly underestimated the papacy's power. He believed that it could easily be broken down and began a course of procedure against the clergy so vio lent and ill-considered that it drove the extreme Catholics almost to the verge of rebellion and made even the moderates bitterly hostile to his pol icy. It was only a little before that time that the dogma of papal infalli bility had been proclaimed and there was at first much opposition to it in Germany. Pius IX had his heart set on the adoption of this tenet by the Catholic world and Bismarck by his mistaken course played into the hand of the Vatican. "The Kulturkampf," in the words of one authority, "was the greatest piece of good fortune that could have befallen the Holy See." It united the German bishops in favor of infallibility and made the Pope more securely than ever the head of the Catholic church. This must have afforded Plus IX substan tial consolation in the troubles which beset his reign. Pius X. who followed Pius IX with only Leo XIII Intervening, made it his purpose in life to fortify the spir itual authority of the church. The various reforms which he introduced centralized and increased his power, while at the same time they clarified the relations between the church and the world. The codification of the canon law was a task which had long demanded attention, and the reorgan ization of the Roman curia was scarcely less important from a prac tical standpoint. By taking England and the United States from under the direction of the Congregation of the Propaganda he raised the status of the church in those countries, in creased the self-respect of the clergy and made Rome and Its institutions sensibly more popular. During his reign the papacy has seemed to many men to be the one rock of safety amid the revolutionary tumults of the modern world. It is perhaps the most ancient of existing institutions. Its policy has pursued substantially the same continuous course for almost twenty centuries. It wtands as It has always stood, for sta bility, authority and the predominant worth of the spiritual as opposed to the material side of life. Its position in history attracts and encourages those who have power or property to lose by popular innovations. The vastness of its dominion over men's minds awes the soul into submission. The splendor of its ritual enthralls the imagination, while its tremendous possession of the keys to the eternal world and its mission to speak with the voice of God himself on earth draw toward its protecting fold with almost irresistible allurement all who are alarmed at the audacity of unre stricted science, the decay of mon archical institutions and the specula tions of socialistic philosophy. Dur ing the reign of Pius X the Church of Rome definitely assumed the part of the savior of society from revolu tionary periis. JETTISONING THE OVER-CARGO. Governor Chamberlain handed down the succession to Governor West and Governor West seeks to make Dr. Smith his succedaneous candidate. It is a perfect chain of machine management if it can be forged. But can it be? Now we wonder how long before Dr. Smith will file a notice of disso lution of partnership. It has become evident that he is to be the sacrificial goat of the Chamberlain game. He is to be thrown to the Republican wolves, provided only they permit Chamberlain to be saved. Poor Smith. There is not room for him in the Democratic machine's schemings to ride. When two men ride a mule, one must ride behind, as West has learned. When three try to ride, one must get off, if the animal balks. Our George intends to make the descent as easy for Smith as pos sible by subtly whispering to his friends the necessity of lightening the load. George would have carried him along if he could; but he cannot. Is it not better that one should be saved than all should be lost? Yes, oh, yes. George will, of course, nominate the candidate who is to.be saved and the other who is to be thrown overboard. GHOULISH JOURNALISM. Pope Pius X died at the Vatican, Rome, at 1:20 o'clock Thursday morning. August 20, 1914. But many hours before that fateful hour a pre mature report that His Holiness was dead was circulated throughout the United States by the United Press, and printed in various successive edi tions of many afternoon newspapers, including the Portland Journal. The exact facts about this shocking and daring exhibition of newspaper "en terprise" are thus set forth in a state ment by Melville E. Stone, genera! manager of the Associated Press: Pope Plus X died at 1:20 o'clock, Rome time, ihis (Thursday) morning, as announced In last night's dispatches of the Associated Press. There Is six hours' difference in time be tween New York and Rome, so that the hour of his death, New York time, was 7:20 P. M. At 2:29 P. M. New York time (8:29 P. M. Rome time) Wednesday, or four hours and fifty-one minutes before the Pontiff had artimilv DMsed awav. the United Press As sociations distributed throughout this coun try a formal announcement tnat tne rope was dead. Aa will be seen, the United Press announcement was false. It does not at all mitigate the in excusable nature of this painful epi sode that the United Press, with char acteristic temerity, boasts that it scoorjed" all other news associations. It would seem that the Vatican and its solemn scenes of death and mourn ing ought to be a sanctuary even from the vandal invasion of yellow journalism. THE SIN OF EARLY RISING. A clergyman of original views, the Reverend Father Dwight, has spoken out boldly against what he calls the "noxious superstition of early ris ing." He does not use precisely those words, but they carry his meaning ac curately enough. Father Dwight does not deny, as we understand him, that the early bird gets the worm, but he contends that this enterprising fowl loses ad vantages which are worth more than many worms. They lose, for exam ple, those delightful dreams which never come except in the late morn ing when conscience is urging one to get up and be at work. They lose, also, the benign satisfaction of a pain ful duty done which the lazy man feels when at 9 or 10 o'clock he at last slips out of bed and goes to work. "Falsely luxurious, will not man awake," sang the poet Cowper, "and springing from the bed of sloth" go about his duties? But this verse, in spiring as it is to the early riser, was written in bed, like most really good poetry and a great deal of good fic tion. Father Dwight tells us that late rising and civilization go together. All savages rise with the sun and so do the beasts that perish. With the growth of refinement and science peo ple incline more and more to late hours at both ends of the day. Perhaps in the perfect state to which we shall some time attain we shall sleep all day and play all night. Of course nobody will work in that happy future either by sunlight or candle light. Work, it is understood, is a distinctly savage occupation. HOW LONG WILL THE WAR EAST? The Oregonian is frequently asked to give its opinion as to how long the great European war will last. The Oregonian hesftates to venture even a guess as to a question so full of hazard and moment. It can at best be delphic and say that the war will be over only when one side or the other sees that it is beaten. Ancient and medieval wars lasted often through many years. Modern wars have been comparatively short. The great American Civil War 'extend ed over four bloody years. Not since has there been any struggle Involving so many casualties or costing so much money. The Crimean war (1854-56) extended over two years; the Austro Prussian war (1866) seven weeks; Franco-Prussian war (1870-71), six months, with a single month of severe fighting: the Russian-Turkish war (1876-77), two years; the Turko Greek war (1897), one campaign of a few months; the Spanish-American war (1898), four months; the English-Boer war (1900-1902), thirty months: the Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905), eighteen months; the Balkan-Turkish wars (1912-1913), one year. It will be noticed that Im mediately following the recent declar ations of war between the great pow ers the armies were in the field and the navies stripped for action. The first great battle is about to be fought or is being fought. The present war is something more than a contest of strength between nations. It is a vital struggle for per manent prestige. It is more than an effort to win; it Is a battle for the world's supremacy between Germany and Austria on the one hand and Great Britain, France and Russia and their allies on the other. Germany and Austria are outweighted and out numbered: but it remains to be seen if they are to be outclassed or out lasted. One battle, or two, or three will probably not decide. The scope of operations will be widespread, with changing results everywhere. There can be no clean-cut issue at the out set. There will be later, when forces are massed and strategic centers de velop. Money will be a great factor. Food will be another. The temper of the people in each nation will be an other. The inspiration of victory or the desperation of defeat will be an other. The human element will"" be another; and effective military and naval organization will be another. There are therefore may factors to be considered. One is overwhelmed when he attempts to weigh them all. It cannot be done. Only the unfold ing of great events will disclose what the future has in store for all the world. But it is going to be more than a thirty days' or seven weeks' war. AFTER TWENTY DAYS. After twenty days of fighting there is little to show over which force the god of victory intends to fly his pen nant. Of fighting there has been much, of bloodshed a harrowing quantity. Yet there has been no ac tion that might be called decisive In the larger aspects of that term. At a glance the military situation, so far as disclosed, is this: The Ger man fighting machine has extended Itself, developing an aggressive line of action some 280 miles in length, reaching from north of Brussels to the lowermost point of the German empire just beyond the boundary of Switzerland. The German army is plainly on the offensive, with the evi dent purpose of crushing France. Clearly the German main objective is no less a point than Paris. The French army, in the meantime, has extended itself, but the true extent of Its lines is not disclosed, although heavy French forces are massed along the Franco-German frontier and in support of the Belgian troops in the vicinity of Namur. The English ex peditionary force of some two or three corps is also in France, available to support the French and Belgians. Thus far the brunt of the northern campaign has fallen upon the Bel gians, and it is inevitable that the Belgians shall .be swept aside, yet, from the viewpoint of the allies, they have served the most useful pur pose of delaying an ominous German advance. The fifteen days which Germany has consumed in penetrat ing to the heart of Belgium have given the allies, with their slower mobilization, a marked advantage. It Is doubtful if the Germans had count ed upon this delay. The German forward movement may be said to have dominated that Dortion of Belgium running north and south on a line with Liege, while the advance elements are now pressing forward. A heavy German column moving north has pushed the German line west of Liege in northernmost Belgium, as reports from Antwerp in dicate. It is not yet clear whether this is an intended French invasion from another point of the compass. although it appears likely that the troops sought that route as following the rtne of least resistance. This force will be enabled to protect the flank of the German army and may become a serious menace to the allies, as the heavy attack now Impending In the Meuse Valley around Namur develops. Despite the frequent reports of German reverses, it will be noted that the German line is moved forward almost from day to day, slowly but surely. Many of the German reverses, doubtless, were mere defeats of brig ades or divisions on reconnoissance in force. Inasmuch as it is the func tion of such a force to withdraw with out seriously engaging the enemy after developing his position, no im portance is to be attached to these re ports of minor defeats. They may bear little relation to the main problem. So far no great strategical surprises have been sprung. Nor have any master strategists asserted themselves. However, the period of maneuvering has not yet passed and the war is very young. At this time the indica tions point to a foot-by-foot struggle for possession of the territory leading into France. Military experts are in clined to believe that the German army would prove powerful enough to overcome even such desperate re sistance and fight its way possibly to the doors of Paris. But this might take months, and there is another element in this several-sided conflict which might make it impossible for Germany to confine her attentions to the work of subduing the French and English armies. That element is Russia Russia has not yet succeeded in making herself strongly felt in the war. Necessarily the Russian mili tary movements must be directed against the east front of the German empire. With Germany in undisput ed control of the Baltic, it is impos sible for Russia to reinforce France. Thus the Russians must -take up an offensive campaign, prodding Ger many with sufficient severity to di vert much attention from France. Already a number of Russian corps are operating on the Russo-German border, but reports show that the Germans, taking the initiative, have seized a number of important strate gic points in Russian Poland and are holding their own, while the Aus trian are mobilized in sufficient force to prevent a successful invasion from their front. There is an odd similarity between the German movement to the west and the Russian advance on the east. For while Germany seeks to crush France, Russia seeks to smash Ger many. Thus the German problem be comes a dual one offensive at one border and defensive at another. It may be that while the Germans are crying "On to Paris" the Russians' cry is "On to Berlin." Nor should such an ambition on the part of Russia be belittled. Her army is the largest in the world larger by half a dozen corps than the German army, although it lacks the splendid organization and mobility. Yet, obviously, when the Russian pressure becomes sufficiently strong on the German frontier, it may be necessary to divert troops needed for the French campaign. Force of Rus sian numbers may compel this. Up to this time the naval aspects of the war are of little importance. No important engagements have been reported. The German fleet appears to be clinging close to its base at Kiel, iutent on steaming forth on short sal lies, perhaps in the hope of engaging British squadrons and reducing the English naval power piecemeal. Later, should the war prove an extended one, control of the sea may become a far more important problem. The sinews of war must be nourished and the re sources of no power engaged are equal to providing its own sustenance for an indefinite period. Supplies must be had overseas. So, after twenty days, the war con tinues In a formative stage. There can be no forecast of the probable outcome based on the present status of operations. Weeks, even months, may elapse before the great straggle enters upon its decisive stages. People who fancy that an open win dow thoroughly ventilates a room de ceive themselves in many cases, ac cording to recent medical lights. It has been found that the air some times remains foul near a window open both at top and bottom. The only certain way to sleep in fresh air is to sleep outdoors. Fortunately this practice is growing and all the doctors commend it. Beneficial as it is to the sick it is doubly beneficial to the well. S. S. McClure's first job after he graduated from college was to teach bicycle purchasers how to ride. He did not know how himself, but he managed to teach the art with pleas ing success, won the good will of his employer and was promoted to edit the magazine now known as Outing. The bicycle merchant started it as an advertising medium. In this modest way the publisher of McClure's Maga zine laid the foundation of his career. Henry Ford, the famous automobile maker, is said to have learned the se cret of being happy though his In come is a million a month. He pur sues the simple life in a modest coun try bungalow, wears overalls much of the time at his shops and keeps only two domestics. By lopping off super fluities he retains his peace of mind and by avoiding luxuries he keeps his health. We know poor men who might profit by Mr. Ford's examp(e. Modern teachers are coming to re gard fear as an undesirable state of mind, perhaps as a disease. G. Stan ley Hall's new book on "Fear" tells how to "treat" the affection as if It were a case of measles. Certainly it is as destructive as most diseases, par alyzing the mind and weakening the body. An old philosopher wrote that "the fear of the Lord is the begin ning of wisdom," but he really meant "reverence" instead of fear. The press association which report ed the Pope dead five hours before the end merely took a chance. Had the Pope lived it would have reported the previous dispatch false. Such are its methods and it frequently slips up. When Charge O'Shaughnessy was missing in Mexico City this press serv ice reported him assassinated, later denying the report. Reliable press associations, of course, never resort to such tricks. Few people enjoy the society of de tectives, but everybody likes them in books and plays. Harvey J. O'Hig gins and Harriet Ford have writ ten a play, "The Dummy," in which the hero is a boy detective who does wonderful feats of courage and cun ning. The play is said to be "a care free, sophisticated comedy full of pure gaiety and simple sentiment." This sounds attractive. Those who value spiritual things will be glad to hear of a new transla tion of one of Rudolf Eucken's books, "Unity of the Spirit." This great Ger man thinker insists upon the reality of the inner life and in all his .works sustains Its claim to be nourished and cultivated. He is the foremost cham pion of spiritual values in the mod ern world. A man at Clatskanie is making a bit of money by growing sweet peas and selling the flowers in Portland. There is nothing great in such a proposition, to be sure, except that he had the wisdom to find a market for his product, and that is something. Other men can develop other lines and get the money, but they must be men with ideas. Reform in the conduct of the Gov ernment Printing Office has been long delayed, and if nearly a $1,000, 000 a year can be saved the time is ripe. Abuse of courtesies in connec tion with the Congressional Record should receive first attention. If the weather man will slip a cog or two In his machine and send the "westerly" breezes from the sou'-sou'-west, the resultant favor will be ap preciated. The American in Germany must talk through his nose or use wild, Western language if he would not be mistaken for an Englishman. Belgian resistance Is about done for. The heavy fighting will come when the French and English supports take up the burden. The sealer of weights is needed at Klamath Falls. A man there says he caught a twenty-two-pound trout. Just now the world is not a vastly different place from what it was cen turies ago. In Europe, at least. The price of sugar having fallen a fraction of a cent, we are now able to sprinkle a little in the coffee. American millionaires and laborers mingle freely in Paris. Necessity is a great leveler of class. Taking Mulhausen appears to be a regular dally affair with the contend ing armies. So far, however, sugar has not reached a value as great as that of radium. The Mexicans have an American Consul in jail. At their old tricks again. The German navy, in the meantime. Is keeping its keels mighty close to Kiel. The world awaits with keen Inter est the advent of a new Napoleon. The Idzumo will not get hurt if she keeps a day behind the Leipzig. The career of Pope Pius reads stranger than romance. Wish the weather would help us out with the lawn. Not even a whisper from Teddy of late. Promise of rain is in the air. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of August 21, 1864. The amount of water put upon Front street and First street, every day,- for the purpose of laying the dust, is 22.200 gallons, distributed by two sprinkling wagons, capable of carrying 600 gal lons each, and yet, like Banquo's ghost, it will not down, not but that the carts do their work effectually, but because there are not enough of them to extend the good work over the length and breadth of the entire city. An Importation of girls by the last steamer has revived the amusements at saloons called "hurdy-gurdies." Mr. James Castor, of this city, has brought some specimens of stove coal, found on the Chehalis River, one and one-half miles from Claquato, W. T. Halifax, Aug. 16. The Persia, from Liverpool, the 5th. and Queenstown the 7th, has arrived. The following are stated to be the terms of peace agreed upon between Denmark, Prussia and Austria; Luxemberg and Schleswlg and Holstein is to be ceded to the Great German powers. The Island of Aroe Is to remain with Denmark. Alsen and the islands in the North Sea are to go with Schleswig. Reoccupation of the Jut land frontier wHl take place. Through the politeness of Captain J. M. Keeler, Provost Marshal for the District of Oregon, we are enabled to lay before our readers his report of the enrollment of the State of Oregon as follows: Jackson, 918, Josephine 381, Curry 79, Douglas 852, Coos 177. Lane 970, Linn 1491. Benton 603, Polk 598, Marion 1476, Clackamas, 732, Yamhill 698, Tillamook 41, Multnomah 1831, Washington 638, Columbia 118. Clatsop 164. Wasco 1800. Umatilla 662. Baker 843. Total. 14.954. COMPULSORY VACCINATION BOON Writer la Ready to Defend Opinion In Debate nnd Supply Hall. PORTLAND. Aug. 20. (To the Edi tor.) Accept the thanks of the writer, and I think I may say of several thousand others In Portland, for your miblication of August 8 of the health commissioner's timely exposure of the attempt of fanatics to stop the vaccina tion of school children in the Mount Scott district, and thereby bring upon Portland a terrible and devastating scourge. Vaccination is the greatest boon ever conferred upon the human race and it Is high time we had a stringent law compelling every person to be vaccin ated often enough to entirely prevent smallDox. Otherwise we never can stamp out that most dreaded and horrible disease known to man. In Japan before vaccination was made compulsory the number of deaths every year from smallpox was simply appalling, whereas for the last twenty five years smallpox has been unknown there, and the same is true of all well vaccinated countries or communities. Our citizens ought to show apprecia tion of the work of the Health Com missioner instead of cermitting its iiamnerlnir bv Dersons who do not thor- misrhiv understand vaccination, and what it has done, and is doing through out the world. Let us have universal, compulsory vaccination, strictly enforced by law which is one of the strong points brought out by Dr. Smith's "law en forcement" with heavy penalties at tached, as in Japan and Italy, as then, and then only, are the most beautiful and beneficial results of vaccination made manifest. I challenge any anti-vaccinist to meet me in a public debate of the vac cination question, upon any date named by our opponents, and I will provide the hall. It was by vaccination that smallpox was entirely stamped out of our army many years ago. BERTHA DALLINGER. LET FOLK KNOW WHAT THEY BUY Contributor Wanta Beef From Tuber cular Cows Labeled. PORTLAND, Aug. 20. (To the Edi tor.) The law relating to the slaugh ter of stock found infected with tuber culosis provides that one-half the indemnity to the owner be paid by the county and the other half by the State of Oregon. The amount paid for such cows is 125 per head, regardless of whether she be a blooded animal worth hundreds of dollars or whether she be of common stock valued at much less. This practice is not only Incurring a great expense to the county and state, but is causing a great loss to the dairymen as well a loss that means much more to him personally than to either the county or the state. I will readily admit that it is neces sary to kil such, cattle in the interest of humanity and for the safety of the public health. But were the law to stop at this there would be little cause for complaint and whatever object tions might be raised in regard to the result in doing so could be over looked. The meat of such cows that have thus been condemned as tubercular is then "Inspected" and sold to the butcher for what he may offer. He in turn takes this meat and sells It to the public at a price that is asked for any choice cuts of beef. The dairyman is not allowed to sell the milk from tubercular cows, but the butcher is permitted to sell you the tubercular meat at a price charged for any other select beef. Would you as a consumer relish the roast upon your supper table tonight, did you know under what conditions It was obtained? As a remedy for this-state of affairs and in fairness to the public, I sug gest that the pure food and drug act be enforced and all meat thus obtained by the butcher be labeled "tubercular" and sold as such in the public mar kets of the city. W. VERNON. Lament of the Tourist Br Dean Colllna. I used to think I'd like to roam Away from quiet scenes of home: I used to sigh and yearn and pine To go canoeing on the Rhine. Now that my dream is realized It does not make a hit with me: I wish some scheme could be devised To tote me back across the sea. Home! Ho-me! Swe-e-e-e-t! Swe-e-e-t ho-o-o-ome! The only thought that's In my dome! I'd swap the Rhine's whole scenic track To be back on the Hackensack! Oh war is Just what Sherman said! fv inv in Hfnri' mv hones are sped! Marooned in foreign climes am I, To wait and weep and curse and sigh. My travel vision has come true. But little joy it brings to me. I'd rather be in Kalamazoo, Or Kankakee than gay Paree. Home! Ho-me! Swe-e-e-e-t! Swe-e-e-t ho-o-o-ome! In Baltimore, New York or Nome, It's any place, I'm here to say, That's hooked up with the U. S. A. St. Petersburg's a doleful spot; There Is no Joy In Wein, I wot; Berlin, or Munich, Amsterdam, Or any other place I am No more looks good, or brings me Joy; I dream of San Antonio, Or of Chicago, Illinois, Or any other spot I know. Home! Ho-home! Swe-e-t Swee-ee-ee-t Ho-o-o-ome ! This foreign travel's no sweet pome! My eye will not be Drigntening, My heart-strings won't be tightening With joy. until I lamp the flame Of that long-lost and lovely dame Old "Liberty Enlightening"! Stars and Starmaker BT LEONE CAM BABR. BILLINGS, Mont., Aug. 17. With the papers chock-full of war news not even the biggest actress in the world could get more than a three-line men tion if she started a breach of promise suit. Haven't seen a single resurrection of that be-whiskered war Joke about soldiers facing the powder and women powdering the faces. And Isn't it high time we heard from our old friends the end men: "I see you're back from the front." "Heavens. I knew I was thin, but I didn't know you could see my back from the front." One of the real horrors of war is the poetry It stirs up. Ditto the popular songs with senti mental refrains. That actress who in the course of 11 marriages wedded an especial husband named Smith four times must have had intermittent but natural longings to conceal her identity. Mary Edgett Baker was approached t'other day by one of the reg'lar nuisances who hang around stage door entrances. "Miss Baker may I put you down for a couple of chances for a raffle we are getting up for a poor old man?" he asked presenting a paper. Mary E. B. looked surprised. "Certainly not," she answered, "I wouldn't know what to do with a poor old man if I won him." e This bonmot Is accredited to Robert Kegerrees. "The author of a bad play has one satisfaction, no audience can yawn and hiss at the same time." Ray Cox, the comedienne who did the airship, travesty at the Orpheum two years ago and sang her own made up songs in a big deep voice, has gone Into the legitimate. She always has aimed at doing It. and even when she was here she was pulling every string sVie knew toward such an end. Now she has the leading role in Margaret Mayo's farce dramatization. "Twin Beds." Ina Claire, who hns made a big personal success In "The Belle of Bond Street," Is to be the Gaiety's new lead ing lady in London. Hostilities permit ting she will make her first appear ance in December at that famous house In a musical comedy which Paul Rubens and George Orossmlth are preparing. "Lack of rain causes death of five acres of fish." says a headline. Why on earth did the fool fish come out of the lake during a dry spell? They might have known they couldn't And water elsewhere. Gertrude Elliott, or Lady Forbes Robertson as she now is known, is not coming with her distinguished hus band on his American farewell tour. Just at soon as he can arrange It Sir Forbes-Robertson Is coming over and will bring a new lending woman. Laura Cowle. Three plays only will be taken, "Hamlet," "The Light That Failed" and "Caesar and Cleopatra." Lady Ger trude Is to stay at home on her English estate with her three baby girls. George Beban, of "The Sign of the Rose" fame, is soon to take another fling at the legitimate. He has secured a play from Harriet Ford and Is dick ering with a manager. The play con cerns an Hungarian musician. A few years ago Beban had "The Sign of the Rose" lengthened from a vaudeville sketch into a llfe-slse play and It failed. Then he boiled It down once more and has delighted audiences everywhere with it. He was last In Portland with the Anna Held road show. . e Cecilia Loftus is exceedingly anxious to appear as Juliet or Desdemona In London and Is negotiating for a theater in which sho will appear with her own company, says a dispatch. Wonder if there'll be any theatergoing this season in London. Can you get a mental blue print of that blonde little throne wrecker Gaby Deslys asking for "Thursday ufternoong off, please ma'am" and reciting glibly her abilities to sweep dust, cook and do general housework. Well, once Gaby did it. She was a house maid. Also Gaby is past 30. All of which has Just come to light In an article in the Dally Sketch, an English publi cation. Gaby recently Just escaped drowning, and then she was sued by a Jeweler for a great sum of money for Jewels delivered. It wss whllo the case was being tried (yes, the Jewel case), that many interesting details were elicited from her concern ing her birth and origin and early years. The Daily Sketch proceeds: We have always regarded this dainty and attractive creature as the last word In things Parisian. All wrong-. She Is an Austrian, born 30 years ago In the Moravian village that baska In the name of Hornl Moatenlce. Her name waa Hedwlg Navratll. As a girl she obtained situations as a house maid, but even then her heart waa set on the theater and ahe was singing and dan cing all day long. Which led to frequent changes of situation. Her genius was first recognised by an elderly aunt, who had her taught dancing. Then she vanished. The next that was heard of her was that ah had made her debut at the Apollo Theater. Kattowltr (Silesia). Then little Hedwlg adopted the name of Rogee, appear ing at varloua theaters. Next ahe appeared with another girl as "The Sisters Nografll." Next she won popularity as "Little Hara kln," and attracted the attention of a Rus sian colleague, who gave her lessons so successfully that Paris was soon taking to Its fickle heart Mademoiselle Oaby Deslys. And after Paris the world. It takes all sorts of people to make a war audience. There's Just as many who are eager to get abroad and see what's doing, as there are those marooned who want to come home. Adele Blood has closed her Summer stock company In Toronto, Canada, and returned to New York. Corlnne Rellly Barker, a Portland girl, was a member of Miss Blood's company. The season lasted ten weeks. "Actresses will parade for peace," says a headline. Which surely will not surprise those managers who have at various times had to parade 'em for peace of mind. Little Editorials on Business The Chocolate Girls. This is a little story of two girls. One lived in Rochester, the other in Philadelphia. Both girls loved chocolate one in cake and the other in candy. They made other people love, it. Rochester is the home of cameras, clothing and candy. "Mary Elizabeth," the originator of the famous brand of chocolates bearing her name, is as important a personage in the confectionery line as Eastman is in the camera business in Rochester. Mary Elizabeth knew how to make randy. Her chocolate creams were delightful. She packed her cream in cute little boxes and sold them in the cigar stand of one of the office buildings. Her fame grew. She began to advertise and hns kept it up ever since. Good candy and good ad vertising made a fortune for her. In Philadelphia a young bride delighted her friends with the most wonderful "Devil's Food" cake they ever tasted. "You can get dollar per pound for this eake. Don't hide your light under a bushel let us enjoy this cake with you," they ex claimed. The young matron thought it over and a few days later baked several of her cakes, which were cut into individual slices and de livered in dainty boxes to a number of the best homes in that city. An engraved card in the box invited orders. The samples made a hit. This chocolate girl then entered into ne gotiations with the chief caterer of the city. She taught him how to bake the cake and shared the profits on sales. The newspapers were used to ad vertise this cake nnd the result was another chocolate success. Every day The Oregonian reaches f8.000 homes, but on Sunday near ly 80,000 homes are reached and in fluenced by The Oregonian N6 days of the year. They buy the things advertised in this newspaper. As you read this article think of something you can do that is better than anyone else can do. Tt may be making cake or candy, children's garments, soap or mouse traps. Capitalize your ability. The Ore sronian will show you how you can lay the foundation for a very prof itable business. Twenty-Five Year Ago From The Oragonlsn of August 21, 1SSS. The stage between Canyon City and Baker City was held up and the entire mall captured and gone through by robbers on Saturday last. Among the families who went Into the mountains to spend the heated term was that of Mr. C. M. Wlberg. of Mt. Tabor. With his entire family and a few Invited friends the past two weeks were spent In the shadow of Mt. Hood at Summit Prairie. East Fri day the younger members of the party started out to gain the summit. The party consisted of three men and six ladies The party reaching the summit of Crater Rock did not get back to the teams at the foot of the mountain until 7 o'clock at night. Then noses were counted. There were mlae Ing Mrs. Geo. Bonar. Miss Snllle Wlberg and Mrs. Frank Morgan, of East Tort land. They were lost on Mt. Hood H 10 o'clock. It Is said, 20 men with lan terns were scouring every nook and crevice of the mountain for the loat ones. Shortly before midnight, away on the eastern slope of the mountain, near White River, the three lost women were found perched high up on a large stone, huddled together, with one long pole with an Iron spike In the end which they had used for climbing, as an only means of defending themselves from the panthers and wolves supposed to Infest the mountainside. They were weeping with Joy when they were found. The rommittee appointed by the Ma sonic order to select and purchase a site for the new and magnificent tem plo which the Masons propose to bullo In this city, yesterday concluded ne gotiations for a quarter block at the northeast corner of Washington and Eleventh streets, paying $26,000 for the 100-foot square. The unusually dry Summer hns eaused a great scarcity of feed on the ranges In many parts of the North west. salvation MMMNH aortJUT. Lack of IMsrnlty Seen la Way Seate Approach Urltf. PORTLAND. Aug. 20. (To the Edi tor.) Throughout my pilgrimage on earth my attention has been called and quite often to the many and Strang.. Ideas entertained by man as regard" his future salvation. Borne, It seems. Imagine that the deity Is conciliated by the blowing of horns, the beating of drums and the like. Some get the Idea that self-humllletlon Is pleasing to the Creator; they even go so far as to Invest the Almighty with certain human attributes, sucn as Jealousy, anger, vengeance and the like. But they often forget dignity. Many of them approach God In anything but a dignified manner, as In such songs as: The wonder working Jeeus; The spirit moving Jesus; Praise hla name. Let us imagine a -soldier at Valley Forge going Into the presence of Gen eral Washington with such a song aa this: The great fleneral Washington; The great General Washington; Bless his name. Picture the look of frozen dignity on that majestic countenance and laugh. Now 1 chanced to observe a very peculiar brand of salvation a few night ago In North Portland. 1 was attracted by a loud noise. On inquiring, I was told It was souls seeking salvation In fact, they had already found It. I was asked to Join In and "get saved." I told them I was already saved, whereupon they shook their heads in doubt. The humor of the thing struck me. though, and I remained a while to listen. Four or five aged women were praying at once. The burden of their praver waa for God to grant this, and grant that, as If God needed to be told and coached as to the way he should handle the universe. They seemed ob livious to the fact that God had given them a world and life, and eternal laws; laws that no prayer has ever changed and never will. But I sup pose the average mind cannot climb tho heights or philosophy and thus the hag of superstition still rides her broom. u. E. SAN1J3.