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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1914. 10 POUTLAND, OREGON, ntered at Portland, Oregon, postofflce as Second-class matter. . Subscription Rate Invariably In Advance. (By Mall) Daily, Sunday Included, one year Daily. Sunday included, six months . Daily. Sunday included, three months Daily, Sunday Included, one month Dally, without Sunday, one year - .is.oo . tvzs . 2.-5 . .75 . 6.00 Daljy, Wl'.nout sunaaj, Dally, without Sunday, three months .... a." 3.-3 Daily', without Sunday, one month " 1.50 2.50 3.50 weekiy, one year Sunday, one year Sunday and Weekly, one year . . (By Carrier) Daily. Sunday Included, one year c.av (nfliiriorl one month $8.00 .75 How to Remit Send Postofflce money or der, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Give Postofflce address In lull. Including- county and state. Postage Bates 12 to 16 pages. 1 cent: 18 to 32 pages, 2 cents: 34 to 48 pages, 3 cents. SO to 60 pages. 4 cents; 62 t 76 pages o cents; 78 to 82 pages. cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Business Offices Verree & Coiik lln. New York, Brunswick building. cni eago, Stenger building. Ban Francisco Office P.. J. Bidwell Co.. 743 Market street. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, SETT. 8, 1D14. DECISIVE BATTLES. While the Germans and allies are hotly embraced In what may prove the decisive struggle in France, the war clouds to the east are deepening. Word is flashed from Petrograd and London that Przemysl has fallen, hard on the taking of Lemberg. Perhaps the taking of Paris would be Of less significance as a portend of the future. For the fortified position Of Przemysl is the last Austrian Stronghold in Galicia. Perhaps as the Austrians retire they will find themselves suddenly harassed by an Irregular army of 6alicians suddenly fanned into revolt by the disastrous tide' of Austrian battle. If the official dispatches bearing on the Austrian campaign carry no exaggeration, the ancient prediction of eventual Austrian disintegration may not be far from fulfillment. Truly the two blows dealt by Russia have reached vital spots and removed Aus tria largely from consideration as an active ally of Germany in the fight ing to come. With Galicia strong holds stripped of resistive powers and the flower of the Austrian armies trampled by the Slav hordes from without, what part will be taken by the Slav hordes within the 27,000. 000 Slavs under Austrian dominion whose sympathies are anti-Teuton? Already the world has heard rumors and reports of rebellions and mu tinies. This before the Austrian army had been driven from Lemberg and defeated in a prodigious battle with hundreds of thousands of men of the first and second Austrian lines en gaged. France can lose Paris, can suffer the smashing of her military machine, and yet France will continue to be France. Her people are bound to gether by hundreds of years of com mon interests, mutual sympathies. Bufferings, hopes, ambitions and Ideals. Ceifturies have served to fuse the French people into a racial unit. The same rule applies to England and Germany and Russia. But it does not apply to Austria and therein lies the danger of Austrian disintegration should the iron hand of military des potism be rendered pulseless by the fortunes of battle. The Austrian pop ulation is a heterogeneous mass, part Slav, part Teuton. Czechs, Croats, Moravians, Slovaks, Serbs all would welcome a condition that would make possible the end of the Austrian mon archy. Forced into the Austrian army, these people have faced firing squads directed by their own officers rather than confront their Slav kins men on the battle front. Hence the world will express no surprise if a conflagration of rebellion and internicine strife follow the re Verses at Galicla's proudest strategic points. The disloyal Slav hordes may he counted upon to wait only until the power of the Austrian military arm Is no longer to be deeply feared. Then their activities would suffice to keep the broken remnants of the Austrian fighting machine fully occupied while the Russian advance was taken up on Berlin In deadly earnest. The Russians claim they have al ready reached a stage In their cam paign where they can proceed in ear nest to the task of striking Germany. Twenty Russian corps have been as signed to the Initial invasion of Ger many, the Russian war office an nounces. This Is a huge force equal to the entire line Germany has thrown Into the French campaign and four fifths the size of the entire Qerman first line. That Germany must take the most serious measures to meet this force Is apparent. The Slav is the real Teuton enemy. It is the Slav that covets Teuton territories, Teuton fields of sustenance, the re duction of the Teuton sphere of in fluence. The French seek only to re gain Alsace-Lorraine, while the Rus sians woud strike at the very root of Teuton existence. It would appear that the crushing German campaign in France must reach an early consummation or else lose something of its impetus. That is a potent reason for assigning to the present great battle the position of a decisive engagement. The French machine must be crushed shortly or m oil Tt would not seem to bf a matter that can be carried along for months. The Russian menace, ine real menace, has developed too rapid ly. The Germans may yet have to withdraw heavy forces from France content with letting the French see v, . hflvft hannened to them V 1..V " ' - - but for other considerations not of their own making. The end of the present great battle, or series of bat tles, may decide. TWILIGHT SLEEP. The Ladies' Home Journal and many other live periodicals are mat ins 'mnoh of the new treatment for mothers called by romantic physicians "Twilight Sleep. A motner under the influence of this treatment ex periences no birth pains and remem bers nothing of the dreadful experi-n.-a thrmrh -which she has passed. It exerts all the beneficent effects of the old-fashioned anesthetics with out their dangers and their unpleas ant consequences. During the ordeal rimsrs emoloved destroy all sen sitiveness to pain. They even seem- n An more than that. Chloroiorm destroys the sense of pain, but it does not prevent Its disastrous errects on the system. These effects appear later in the form of "surgical shock." It Is said that no surgical shock follows upon recovery rrom ine twi n..hf cippn Among Its blessed influ mmmm 1. a. complete amnesia or loss of memory for the whole period of tle suffering. xne rwmgnt sieep. which promises to be one of the greatest boons ever conferred upon womankind. Is produced by hypo dermic injections. First there is an injection or narao phen, a preparation of opium. Half v.r.1,,. lator tyiA nhi-sipisn hpsrins in jecting scopalamine and continues to nmlnlctc, thlC HpilC- lllltll fllP dCSid anesthetic effect is obtained. The new treatment was first tried at irei- TTnl,Fawttv Trhora it hJ been UUijJ Uiltit.Jl.J, . . ..... ... applied to more than 5000 cases, all of which have been scientifically od nnon According to the reports there have been no accidents and no bad consequences. The patients reel no pain and experience no subsequent exhaustion. The birth of the child is greatly facilitated by the absence oi ttinca rio-Vitf ni atrnnips which are the usual accompaniment of motherhood. We need not point out tne in.iucm.i of these facts upon race suicide in the years to come. Should the new treat ment stand the test of scientific ln- v.inttnn if urill be nf thft eTeatest benefit not only to mothers, but to the whole human race. SINGLE TERM OR TWO TERMS? tt-. - - ,i.t. PnaManHnl term, and .i ) ..--a h orfrtntlnn nt an amend ment to the Constitution making the Presi dent of the United states ineiigiDio - election, ana we pieuge m this convention to this principle From the Democratic national rmuoriu vi j...,-. Yet Vice-President Marshall is not alone In the expectation that Wood row Wilson will be the nominee of the Democratic party in 1916. He will find distinguished precedent for the repudiation of a pre-election pledge. Mnrpnvnr the Democratic party has already torn to tatters the platform upon which It elected -r-resiaent Wilson. The nlntfnrm declares fervently for rigid economy; yet the present Con gress has made no pretense of hold ing down appropriations or public expenses. n niatform declares for civil service; yet the spoilsmen have sought to fry the rat out oi every available measure before Congress. Witness the recent all but successful attempt to take postal employes out of civil service. The nlatform declares for free tolls for American shipping in the Panama Canal; yet President and Congress united in a successful effort to repeal the free tolls measure of a former Administration. Tbo RinfHp-tprm nlank is of a sin gularly specific and awkward nature. The way out for the Democrats will he tn nfead that they didn't know it was there, as they did In free tolls. SHINGLES FOR TJNPATCHED ROOFS. The State of Washington has risen to industrial eminence in shingle manufacture and trade. It makes nearly four-fifths of all the cedar shingles sawed in the United States, and two-thirds of the entire sningie production. Just now. when there are mans uncovered holes in roofs throughout the United States, and the rains of the industrial storm are beating into anv homes, shingles are off, strange as it may seem. Evidently rainy weather is no time ior re roofing. Yet the industry in Washington employs many thousand men, and the same industry in Oregon many hun dred. But now that there is free trade in shinsrles. the number of busy mills and employed workmen is becoming fewer and fewer, even m the great shingle hive of Washington. Why' the tariff? Surely no coals are carried to Newcastle in' the shape of foreign shingles for Puget Sound? But there are. In the first eight months of the new tariff. 130,000,000 shingles were shipped to the United States through the Puget Sound customs district. Shingles became free of duty on Oc tober 3, 1913. In the first partial month (October) the importations were 8.842,000, larger than any pre vious month, and the volume of ship ments grew until the total in May, 1914, was 28,160,000. What has become of the home- industry newspaper propagandists? Does not the subject interest tnem now. when the trade barriers are down for the importation from other lands of such things as butter, eggs. shingles, lumber, beans, bacon, corn, cream, grain, hides, laths, meats, sheep, cattle, pork, potatoes, rye, seeds, wool and many others grown in Oregon and Washington. Evidently they are bored. What they demand is trade barriers against other American states, not against China, Japan, New Zealand, Austra lia and British Columbia. TEACHING BUTTE TO RESPECT LAW. Waving kpnt Butte in a state of ter ror for months and made dynamite the arbiter of every dispute, the lead ers of the miners do not relish mar tial law and try to nullify it by seek ing release of some of their number by habeas corpus writs. Whether the action of Governor Stewart in proclaiming martial law ana putting tv.a tmvor-nm pnt nf Rutte. in the hands of the National Guard was constitu tional or not, martial law was cer tainly the only remedy for Butte's disease, "if the Montana constitution does not permit its exercise, an amendment is needed. The miners who have seceded from the Western Federation and formed a new union have overcome opposi tion by resort to dynamiting, threats and proscription. Last June they blew up the office of the Anaconda Company and attempted to blow up the plant of the Butte Water Com pany. They attempted to destroy the hall where the federation miners were meeting, injured the Mayor and later destroyed the federation hall. In a fight one man was killed and several injured. They drove Charles H. Moyer from the city when he at tempted to conciliate them. A miner stabbed the Mayor and was shot. Re cently the seceding miners have un dertaken to inspect all men entering the mines and have compelled all who still adhered to the Western Federa tion to join the new union. Open appeals for direct action have been made, the city and county authorities have been defied and have meekly al lowed the dynamiters to have their way. The ordinary machinery of government had absolutely broken down and it was time for the state authorities to step in if there was to be any government in Butte except that of the mob. This is the culmination of many years of misrule in Butte. The great majority of the population being miners and the mining companies be ing at war, the latter needed the miners' votes to get control of the state government and the courts. Therefore, a!l parties toadied to the miners and they "ran" the town. Now that they have split Into factions, they Imagine" that they should be permit ted to settle their quarrel in their own lawless way without interference from the local or state officers. Gov- ernor Stewart has gone the right way about inspiring them with a whole some respect for the law, and the only criticism to be made on him is that he did not act sooner. THE HUMAN VANISHING POINT. These are the words of the Presi dent of the United States; America cannot properly be served by any man who for a moment measures his interest against her advantage. The time has coma for great things. These are the days big with destiny for the United States, as for the other nations of the world. A little wisdom, a little courage, a little self forgetful devotion 'may, under God, turn that destiny this way or that. Great hearts, great natures will rejoice to e stimulated and guided and set an heroic example. If great hearts and great natures are revealed by response to duty s call; If "even little men" are known by the manner in which they are stimulated to duty by heroic example, what is the measurement of Congress men who must be coerced? Is there a unit on the yard-stick of American manhood small enough to cast the size of him who heeds his country's r.eed only on threat of ar rest or of loss of pay? Neither big, nor great, nor little, what then is the designation of such a one? DEFEAT OF LAFOXLETTE. The most notable outcome of the recent primaries Is the defeat of Sen ator LaFollette in Wisconsin. The Senator himself was not a candidate, but he was backing men for Senator and Governor. He was unable, how ever, to hold the- progressive Repub lican forces together. Division of their vote among five candidates en abled Emanuel L. Philipp,-a stalwart, to capture the nomination for Gov ernor. Governor McGovern, who was nominated by the Roosevelt forces for temporary chairman of the Re publican convention at Chicago in 1912 and who thereby deeply of fended Mr. LaFollette, won the nom ination for Senator over Thomas Morris, the LaFollette candidate. The majority of Wisconsin Repub licans seem to be still progressives, but they were perhaps so sure of con trol that they imagined they could safely divide and still win. Hence many of them have broken away from the leader who led them to vic tory after many defeats. It would not be safe to infer that Wisconsin has gone back on. the Wisconsin idea or that Mr. LaFollette's influence as a leader is gone. The meaning may be only that the Wisconsin idea has become so fully established that its adherents can divide on other issues. OUR SUICIDAL SHFBJPING LAWS. In a communication published in another column a subscriber asks what tho regulations In our ship ping laws which The Oregonlan criti cises as affecting our commerce. The laws in question obstruct the development of the American mer chant marine at every point, beginning- .witn tbe oritrinal cost Of a ship and continuing through almost every item in the cost of operation, unui the law was passed recently admit ting foreign-built ships owned by Americans to American register, only American-built ships could sail under the American flag. Owing to the greed of the shipping trust, the cost of an American-built Bhip is from 50 to 100 per' cent higher than that of a foreign-built ship. The interest on tv.i urnpsEivc post constitutes a per petual charge against the ship, which must be earned in rrelgnt. net tnat ship must compete in foreign trade with those of other nations. Our laws have also required the employment of more men On Ameri can ships than other nations require, men who are superfluous. This was a concession to the labor unions, which think they thereby create more jobs for their members. If the unions would help to procure passage of laws which would increase the number of ships, there would be far more jobs than can possibly be created by load ing the shipping business with useless expense. Wages are also somewhat higher on American than on foreign ships. The system of measuring the ton nage, upon which tonnage dues are paid at each port, also militates against American ships. For exam ple, a ship which In England would measure 2S00 tons would record over 4000 tons in the United States. There are other vexatious regulations which add to the cost of operation under American law. The Panama Canal law attempted a remedy by admitting to American register foreign-built ships more than five years old owned by Americans, but the restrictions as to operation were unchanged and in consequence not a gingle vessel came under our flag. The shipping law recently passed removed the five-year restric tion and gave the iresiaent auinur ity to suspend the restrictions as to officers and engineers and as to sur veys. This law relieves shipowners of some of -the burden imposed on them by labor unions. By waiving the re quirement that ships be resurveyed before registry it accepts the foreign tonnage measurement. The way Is opened to American ships to engage in foreign commerce on something near equal terms with other nations, but they are still handicapped by ex clusion of foreign-built ships from ,.i i.. ti-on-o rtthpp nations allow ships to be transferred from coast wise to foreign trade or vice versa at the will of their owners, xnus, wnen one branch of trade is dull, 'they can turn to the other. The present war has demonstrated that the commerce of no nation is safe so long as it Is dependent on other nations to carry it. This nation must buy Its ships in the cheapest market and operate them as cheaply as other nations In order to retain a merchant marine. Otherwise the war will no sooner be ended and the bel ligerent nations again engaged in ocean commerce free from dangers of war than our flag will again be driven from the sea. Protective laws do not build up the shipbuilding industry; they simply prevent the United States from having ships. Since competition between nations in the ocean-carrying trade is necessarily open; the shipbuilding industry must be made an exception to the protectionist pol icy and we must have free trade in ships in order to have a merchant marine. Our whole shipping code should be revised in accordance with this policy. Foreign-built ships should be admitted to our coastwise as well as our foreign trade.- Much as we should like to have an extensive shipbuilding industry, we cannot afford to have it at the cost of sacrificing our entire, foreign-going merchant marine; that is too high a price to pay. There is reason to be lieve that our few shipbuilders could, if they were driven to it, build ships as cheaply as those of Europe, for they have occasionally taken a con tract for a warship in open competi tion. Excessive protection has accus tomed manufacturers to expect high profits, and shipbuilders consider that if they make less they are losing money. The amount of business they do is limited by the laws they them selves have demanded, and the coat of ships is more than it would be if they had a steady run of business. A French author, M. Germain, un dertakes to show by biological evi dence that Plato's famed "Atlantis" was a real continent which ages ago sunk beneath the waves. The fauna of Central America, he says, is closely like that of Europe-hut totally un like that of tropical Africa? How could this happen? Evidently In no other way than by a great continent in the Atlantic forming a highway from Europe to America. Professor Labbe! of Paris, a great dietetic authority, classifies fruits into five groups with reference to their food values. They are the watery, sugary, albuminous and starchy. By selecting specimens from each group a person can compose a "balanced ration" for himself and live In health and happiness quite independently of the butcher. The experiment is worth trying. William D. Howells has caught the autobiographical fever. His reminis cences begin in Harpers for Septem ber. They are likely to be better worth reading than some other life stories we could mention. Thank the stars Mr. Howells never studied theol ogy as Lyman Abbott did and we shall be spared a garrulous summary of his doctrines. Arnold Bennett gives the world to understand that his next novel will end the Five Towns series. "Tis well. Of course he has made parts of those books interesting, but upon the whole they are dull. Written by an un known novelist, they could hardly have found a publisher and certainly would have had but few readers. Gertrude Atherton's new novel is called "The Perch of the Devil," as if his Satanic Majesty were some sort of a bird. Milton makes him fly but not" perch. Miss Atherton's story Is about a mine near Butte, Mont. If the reader finds it half as exciting as real life in that town there is no dan ger of his falling asleep over It. George Meredith's fame begins to brighten in the glare or war. He Is looking up as a "patriot poet." British war poetry produced by the pending struggle is pretty poor stuff. No wonder the people of the empire turn to dead singers for Inspiration and cheer. Byron wrote some fair military verses in his day. The peace propagandist who points to the United States as a beautiful example of the peace spirit is remark ably shortsighted. It has been but a few years since we had -a war, while the future is by no means certain. If the movie man could only get on the line of battle, he might get some films which would be worth money, but European Generals lack the enterprise displayed by Villa and would smash the camera. Belgian workmen have been of fered an increase of 50 per cent In pay to mould German guns. Even necessity may not force the Belgian workmen to swallow such a bitter dose. The British estimate of losses in their ranks is 15,000. Which, being 10 per cent, is a striking tribute to the courage and steadfastness of the British soldiers at the front. With all the war news, the Colonel again talking and Johnny McGraw in second place, the President cannot see any space on the first page. Although he has taken the field for the Bull Moose campaign, Teddy fails to make much of a noise In the dis patches these strenuous times. China advises us that she -cannot send any warships to the Fair. Wouldn't It be terrible now if Swit zerland should likewise fail us. China announces she cannot partic ipate in the naval rendezvous at San Francisco, and fpr obvious reasons there may be others. ' Planting of mines at sea is a ran dom shot which may hit a ship load ed with innocent civilians, as hap pened to the Runo. It is far better to be beaten by a thousand votes. Then there can be neither doubt nor sense of lost op portunity. The Teutons are reported as doing a little marathoning, but whether from necessity or strategy is not yet certain. England looks to us to protect the Christians in Turkey. We wouldn't even protect our citizens in Mexico. "Probably showers," says the weather prophet, not yet being quite certain of his ground. The Leipzig stopped the British freighter and took off the German cook to save his face. The white-haired warriors of the landstrum will make a business of fighting. Britannia shares dominion over the North Sea waves with German mines. Now the potatoes will get their second growth, to their disadvantage. Still the rain might- have waited until after Labor day. Adamzad on his hind legs is stalk ing the Austrians. Who pays? The war is costing $55,000,000 a day. Just as the Fall "doin's" begin, so do the rains. The moratorium for the straw hat has closed. Dame Rumor is still directing naval operations. Austrian defeated. Same old story. It Is now the octette entente. On to Vienra! Rain at last. Life's Sunny Side IN DISCUSSING the number of auto mobile accidents due to careless or Incompetent driving, a manufacturer said the other day in Detroit: "These accidents do automobiling harm. They make people talk like Cornelius Husk. - Old Corn Husk's little grandson said to him one day, pointing to the horp of an automobile that had halted for repairs: "What's that there thing for, Brand pop?" "That, sonny, 'old Corn Husk an swered, 'that Is the thing they toot afore they run ye down.' " Washing ton (D. C.) Star.) "Indeed," the lecturer went on, "I believe I am justified in asserting that nine women out of ten propose to the men they become engaged to. As a test, I would ask all married men in the audience whose wives virtually popped the question to them to rise." There was a subdued rustle in' the auditorium and in the dense silence that ensued could be heard sibilant feminine whispers In concert, "Just you. dare to stand up!" Pathfinder ' Pat Yls, sorr, wur-rk is scarce, but Ol got a Job last Sunday that brought me folve dollars Mr. Goodman What! you broke the Sabbath? Pat (apologetically) Well, sorr, 'tTas wan av us had f be broke. Boston Transcript. One of the guests at a weddh.g, see ing a dlsmal-Ioklng young man who appeared to be on terms of familiarity with the principals, asked: "Are you related to the bride or to the bridegroom-elect?" "No," was the gloomy reply. "Then," said the guest, "what inter est have you In the ceremony?" "Well," replied the young man, 'Till the defeated candidate." Ladles' Home Journal. The Mexican student was watching his first Northern football game. It held his Interest firmly. His face grew flushed, his arms were flung out, he shouted hoarsely. "Do you call this a game?" he asked of the man at his right. "Sure," was the reply. "What would you call it?" Tn my country," said the stranger from across the border, "we would call it a seven-day pitched battle!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Why aren't you going to the ball?" "I have a slight cold. 'You can wrap up well." 'I know. But I don't think my ball gown would stind a sneeze." Wash ington (D. C.) Herald. Science was horrified when Statistics discovered that babies to the economic value of two hundred millions of dol lars perish each year. "This must cease!" exclaimed Sci ence, excitedly. "It's up to you," rejoined Statistics, without emotion. But no sooner had Science, by various devices, caused the babies to stop per ishing than Statistics discovered that half of these were girls and two hun dred millions wouldn't begin to dress them. Science looked rather foolish. "The laugh is on you," quoth Statis tics, grimly. Life. An excursion party from a woman's club had gone to the country. As there w-as only one very small hotel in the neighborhood, some of the members had to sleep in a nearby farmhouse. Everything was very simple, al though scrupulously clean and home like. But there was naturally a lack of some of the;luxurles of high-priced city hotels. Bedtime came, and some of the ladles discovered that there were no keys in the locks of their rooms. They consult ed the farmer's wife. That good 'woman was frankly sur prised. "Why," she said, "we don't usually lock our doors here, and th 's no one here but you. But then," she added, as she scrutinized the ladles carefully. "I suppose you knQw. your own party best." Toronto Mall and Empire. "Doctor, " said he, "I'm a victim of insomnia. I can't sleep If there's the least noise, such as a cat on the back fence, for instance." "This powder will be effective," re plied the physician, after compound ing a prescription. "When do T take It, doctor?" "By the way, you don't take it. You give it to the cat In some milk." Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. Joe Coyne tells a story about a seedy looking Individual who got Into conver sation in a railway carriage. "Ah, sir," he said sadly, "I've seen changes. I was once a dor'T with a large practice, but owing to one little slip my patients began to leave me, and now I'm just living from hand to mouth." "Wht was the slip?" I asked. "Well, sir," he replied, "In filling In a death certificate for a patient who had died I absent-mindedly signed my name In the space headed 'Cause of death.' " London Tit Bits. . Mrs. Flint, a kind-hearted employ er, was much disturbed that Martha, her new maid, was obliged to sleep In a cold room on the top floor. "Martha," said she, remembering the good old-fashioned custom in her girl hood, "it is going to be a very cold night, and I think you had better take a flat iron to bed with you." "Yes'm," the girl quietly assented. When Martha announced breakfast the following morning the mistress "Well. Martha, how did you get along with the flat iron?" Martha breathed a deep, reminiscent sigh. "Veil, ma'am, I got it 'most warm before morning." Boston Advertiser. "Did you have a ?lno auto trip?" "I must say It was mostly line." Baltimore American Do Milk Csuaa "Sift PORTLAND. Sept. 6. (To the Edi tor ) Will you please state in your paper If the following sentence is cor rect? "There were several milk cans sitting out in the sun." Surely setting is incorrect. G- F. F. The expression is correct enough but unpleasant to the English ear. "Sit" Is best used of animate objects. Milk cans "stand" rather than "sit" in the sun, though they may lie upon occasion, net only with regard to their position but also their contents. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlsn. Sept. S. 184. Captain F. C. Paine has ordered a drill of the Washington Artillery for this evening at 7:30 o'clock at th Armory. Ill Second street At a meeting of citizens to take steps for the removal of obstructions at or near the mouth of the Willamette River, on motion of Mr. Corbett. Mayor Falling was called to the chair. H. C. Leonard was named secretary. A com mittee to ' solicit subscriptions was named as follows: Captain A. P. Ankeny. John Green. H. W. Corbett. C. H, Lewis and D. W. Burnslde. Th subscription was started on the spot with following, results: Allen A Lewis, 1500; H. W. Corbett, $500; Portland Gas Company, $300: Portland Water Com pany, $200; A. P. Ankeny, $150: Savlsr & Burnslde, $300: Couch & Flandera. $250; Richards 4 McCraken. $100; Henry Failing. $200; B. F. Smith. $200; total. $2800. Some of our merchants have kept what Is termed a "black list of debtors who take advantage of the times to meet their obligations with green backs." making an enormous discount on their balances. New York Simeon Draper has been commissioned Collector, vies Barney re signed. Washington Sherman's official re port of the capture of Atlanta has been received, dated 2 miles south of Atlanta yesterday morning. H first attacked Jonesboro, his army carrying tha works, capturing 10 guns. 1000 pris oners and driving the rebels to Love Joy's Station. Hood, finding commun ications cut off, blew up the magazines and left Atlanta at night Slocum's corps (Twentieth) took possession of the city. ' 8o Atlanta is ours and fairly won. "Since May 5 we have been In one constant battle or skirmish and need rest. Our losses will not exceed 12,000. We have 3000 rebel dead and 15,000 prisoners," reads the report signed "Sherman." Bulls Gap John Morgan was sur prised and killed at Greenville, accord ing to a dispatch sent out from here by Olllen. , James F. Donlln. In San Francisco, has been Indicted for misdemeanor for shouting for Jeff Davis. We ars sorry to announce tha death of Judge Laughlln at The Dalles Tues day. He was one of the plonaars of Eastern Oregon. Washington There Is no truth In ths published report of an envoy extraor dinary from tha Emperor Maximilian of Mexico having arrived in Washing ton. J. R. McBrlde. member of Congress, called at Tha Oregonlan office last night. We are again Indebted to Mr. Mc Cormick, of the Franklin Bookstore, for numerous magazines, papars. pictorials, etc., again. The Boston Journal e itlmates tha fighting rebels at 185. 00f., divided as follows: West of the Mississippi 25,000 With Johnson 46,000 With Forest and others 10,000 At Mobile and In the Carollnas.. 20,000 With Lae 85.000 Total 186.000 OUR POLICY MAY BRIXO TROUBLE Weak Forrlan Attitude Not Inclined to Maintain l'rce, saj Writer. PORTLAND, Sept. 6. (To the Edi tor.) i am afraid there Is trouble ahead for the Administration at Wash ington in Its foreign relations. It has tried to be so amiahle ana accommu dating with everybody, and so afraid of friction or dlfferenca of opinion, even on matters of great moment, that almost anybody feels freo to call on It as a chore boy, to do errands. The thought of the dignity of the Nation appears to have fled from the capital. I notice that Great Britain, through the London Spectator, assigns to Presi dent Wilson a task a little more diffi cult than he has heretofore undertaken for that government. It Is nothing less than that the President shall tackle the Kaiser of Germany and try to find out what he means, and what his In tentions are. by coming Into adjacent portions of the continent of Europe, with gun and sword, and shooting at peopb'. At this stage of the game, this whole proceeding, on the part of the Kaiser, Is a mystery In London, and it wants to find out about It. But why must the President of the United States assume this dangerous business. Must the United States be "worked" as France. Russia and Japan have been worked, and made to pull chestnuts out of the fire for somebody else to eat? Of course. President Wilson has been very accommodating ' in the past At the suggestion of Great Britain, he, to a considerable extent, destroyed the usefulness of the Panama canal by the repeal of the coastwiss shipping clause, although the canal had cost a large sum of American money, and now. when this country sees a great opportunity to build up a mer chant marine, the President hesitates to buy foreign ships, especially ships from Germany, because Great Britain objects. To buy German ships would aid Oer many with money, and would Interfere with Great Britain's purpose not only to rule the wave but the commerce of the whole world for all time to come. But If the United Stales is to be neu tral in this War. and I hope it will be. It must be so in good faith and in fact It must not play fa?t and loos. H must not make fish of one and fowl of another. It must be candid and fair and open to all alike, and there is an element in this country, millions In number, who will not be satisfied with anything less than that. There is talk of making food contra band of war, or of cutting off food from shipment to the warring nations. 1 hope no such brutal method will be adopted. It would be mean to deliber ately starve a sheep-klllltig dog to death. If the women and children and non-combatants of Great Britain want food, let them have It without stint, snd h ame of France and Germany, and all ships carrying food ought to be fre to come and go wiinout inicrrujiuun. not be Inhuman and brutal, though we are sometimes compelled to f igllt. sfSVJ W WiDno. WHAT IS WRONG WITH SHIPPING! The Oregonlan Is Asked to ftasae De fects In the Laws. TWO RIVERS, Wash.. Sept. 5. (To the Editor.) From time to time you havo commented editorially upon the Am.riran ahiDDlng laws. I have gained a hazy sort of knowledge about our commerce, but have no clear under standing of what our regulations are and why our commerce has been af fected as It has by them. Can you d vote an editorial to this subject written for a reader In the primary class? In passing, I wish to express my oft felt thanks for your editorial page. It Is-a dally banquet, and to one removed from ordinary sources of knowledge, without access even to a library. It Is, indeed, of educational value. E. R. C. Copper, Tin. Iron Sdpplle. New York Globe. "Where," said the land agent, ad dressing an audience of possible pur chasers, "where else on th face of the globe will you find In one place copper, tin. Iron, cotton, hemp, grain, Aice replied "In the pockets of my youngest son." , Twenty-Five Year Ago From The Oresontan September 7. lssa. Linkvtll. Or. Tha business part ot Linkvlll. Or., Is totally destroyed. Flra. starting at !:S0 A. M . Septem ber 6. In Forbes' saloon. sprad rap Idly. New York. Professor Pierre Charles Marie Villa died here September (. Professor Villa was driven from Franr after tha Napoleonic roup d'etat In 1 S3 1 For more than If years he has written wonderfully graphic and pic turesque criticisms of New York the atrical performances. At on time h was Figaro's dramatic critic. Salem. w.. L Bradshaw. of Th Dalles and William Hathaway, of Port land, wer appointed notaries public Friday. Walla Walla. Th Walla Walla Equal Suffrag Leagu has adopted resolutions declaring they will fight the attempt of certain men of Wash ington Territory to debar th woran votars from th exercise of th elec tive franchls. of which thev wer for years In undisputed possession. Th women will establish polling places of their own. The resolution Is signed by Lucia Isaacs, president; M. A. Davenport, treasurer D. Y. Isaacs, corresponding secretary of th Walla Walla Equal Suffrag League. Mr. and Mrs W. H. Flannagan, et Portland, are visiting In San Fran cisco. Antwerp Dynamite exploded yes terday In a cartrldg factory In the vicinity of th Bourss. Th estimate at midnight was .100 killed and lOOn wounded. Th flro covars two acr. Ships have been saved, but th docks ar burning violently. Th fartory was condemned some tlm ago. but th authorities allowed work to continue. Washington. The suit of th United states Government aralnt th Bell Telephone Compnny has assumed a more definite aspect. A unification of all interests v. huh formerly fought tha Bell Company has been effected A paper filed assigns to Senator Frank Jonas. John R. Bsrtlett and Henry T. Andrews as absolute trustees th con trol of all the light held by th Peo ple's Telephon Company. Ths Bell patent Is to be fought on the grounds of priority of the patent of Daniel Drowbaugh. J. IT. Smith, a railroad contractor. Is building a resltlance In Belmont Park, on top of Mount Tabor. It will cost $:o,ooo. Policeman Robertson has rturnd from his vacation In th mountain. Th Salvation Army band last night created such a din It nearly caused th horsa driven by United states Dis trict Attorney L L McArthur, accom panied by Sanderson Reed, to run away. Mr. McArthur's great physical strength prevented a disaster. Chief Clerk W. T. Henry, of tha railway mail service. Ift yesterday for Spokan Falls to see that th malls thr ar not Impeded by tn strike of t'.i postal clerks. Colonel Kobert A. M iler, secretary of the Southern Oregon Btat Hoard of Agriculture, writes the district fair at Central Point, Jackson County promises to be a blK success, Mrs. Sarah A. Lswls. hr son. Ulnn; hr sister. Miss Kmma Rlggs. ami brother, Breese Rlggs, of Polk County, havo been passing several weeks at Foley's Hot Springs. Professor W. N. Hull, of the Orearon Agricultural College, fractured th right forearm at the wrist the other day. The steamer T. J. Potter will make her last trip of the season to llwacn. leaving Portland Tuesday at t A. M returning leaving llwacu Wdnsday at 10 A. M. Rabbi Jacob Bloch, of the Congre gation Beth Israel, sands Ths Sunday Oregonlan regularly to his daugheer. Miss Rosa, a pupil of the Vienna Con servatory of Music. HOMKCOMISO OK UF.ORGK COSTLY. rnbrric Correspondent MsgSnlK ItrSMins Why sfenalor Stay on Job. NKWBERd, Or.. Sapt 6. (To th Edi tor.) Between war bulletins the public Is able to notice that the Jackson Club of Portland frantically urges Nonparti san George to hurry home and assist In preserving his bacon; that Gorg himself, yielding to th force of the recent order that all members of th National Legislature will b rqulrd to remain at their posts on pain of los ing their salnrles. has dramatically In formed tha club that under no circum stances will he be enticed sway from the performance of his sworn duties, re-election or no remembering Laf ferty's experience, doubtless. Of course, the Journal praises Georg to the skies for his spectacular display of devotion to th office with a Lure. Th combination makes a very at tractive picture to behold, even to study. There Is Insistent Importunity for local hlp on the part of the club; oratorical defiance of th requirements of mere partlssnshlp even a threat of solf-lmmolatlon on the altar of Con science, If necessary, on the part of Nonpartisan George (loss of salary and dangor of arrest not considered), and the Journal's ebullient Indorsement of the whole works being an "Independ ent" newspaper the while dlrertlng the attention of a breathless people to the Inspiring figure at Washington, to wlt. Nonpartisan George, staying with the Democratic programme to th vry last. In the meantime business languishes, mills are either closed outright, run ning on half time or cutting wages, while th products of foreign labor ar admitted fr of duty In competition with onr own laborers and producera. It is well, however, for Gaorga to stay with It. for If the popl gansrally over the stato feel as thy do In this ssctlon as to th Democratic Invitation to the products of foreign labor to come and divide our markets with our own people, he had better make th most of his sojourn at th National Capital while he Is there. If Congress sits continuously until December his homecoming In March will b a per manent affair. The farmers tn this part of th stata ar not at all hidebound; they ar willing this tlm to "vot for the man." all right, but his nam I Robert A. Booth, who Is Just anough of a parti san to bellev In protecting our markets against the Invaalon of foreign producers. Non-partlsanshlp may hav IU uses, but this Is not th tlm for Its favorable consideration by th po- ole of Oregon. Wevs haa too mucn of It already. S. W. What? Where? "What to get?" and "where to get it?" are Important questions In every American horns thes days. Vacation Is ovr. Thr sr maosr wants to b supplied additions to th wardrobe, things for th chil dren, nw furnishings for the home. Economy sks the best advan tage in buying the most deslrsble qusllty for the lowest prlc. And to buy right on must know. Keen shoppers first post them selves by reading the advertising of llv newspapers like The Oregonlan. They compare the offers carefully and visit tha stores with forehanded knowledge. Advertising reading savs tlma In shopping and ssves monsy for th shopper.