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10 THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, TIIUISDAT, OCTOBER 8, 1914. POKTLASD, OREGON. Entered at Portland, Oregon, Postoffice as Second-class matter. Subscription Rates Invariably in Advance: (By Mail.) Dally, Sunday included, one year ... Daily, Sunday included, six months . Daily, Sunday included, three months Dally, Sunday incluued, one month . Daily, without Sunday, one year .... Diiiiy, without Sunday, six months . . Ui'.llyr without Sunday, tnree months Daily, without Sunday, one monvh . . Weekly one year Sunday, one year Sunday and Weekly, one year . (By Carrier.) Daily, Sunday included, one year ... Uaily, Sunday incluued, one month . . 38.00 . . i.23 .. 2.25 .. .I.) . . 6.UU . . 3.5 ... .ou .. l.oO . . 2.5U .. 3-oU . . $ a.oo . . -5 How to Remit Send postoffice money or der, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at senuei-'s risk. Give postotfice address ia full, including county and state. i'nslace Kates li to 1C pases, 1 cent; IS to pues, Z cents; yi to -is pages, 3 cents; "0 to CO pages, 4 cents; 0- to Tti page, a cents; 7S to lJ pages, ti cents. Foreign post age, double rates. JElastern Jiusiness Offices Verree & Conic liri. New York, Druiiswick building. Chi cago, eltenger building. San 1-rujiciseo Ollice P.. J. Bidwell Co.. 742 Market street. PORT1AXU, THIIWUAY, OCT., 8, 1914. KICKED WHEN IT WAS MX In view of the disposition of the Democrats to ascribe all the financial troubles of the Government to the European war, some official facts pre sented to the House by Representative Hughes, of West Virginia, are timely. Ordinary receipts for the fiscal year ending June 30, before the war began, exceeded by over $10,000,000 those for the previous year, but the excess over ordinary disbursements was about $7, 500,000 lets than in the fiscal year 31)13. Ordinary expenditures in 1914 were nearly $18,000,000 more than in 1113. democratic spending ability Outran Democratic: revenue-producing bilitj. We were promised a great expan sion of foreign trade as a result of the "emancipation of business by the t" nderwood tariff," but exports of mer chandise in the first fiscal year of the Underwood lnw exceeded those in the last ye;ir of the Pay re law by more than ? 100,000,000, while imports of merchandise increased more than JxJ.OOO.OOO. The Commerce Department's fig ures show a decrease in imports of crude materials for use in manufac ture and of manufactures for further ij-e in manufacture, hut an increase of manufactures ready for consump tion. The Underwood tariff was handing orer our market for manu factured goods to other nations, and the war hits furnished the first'oppor t unity to hold what is left, to regaiti what is lost and to gain that which Europe neglects. Whatever expansion in our foreign commerce occurs dur ing the war will be due to the wttr, not to Democratic policy. In the effort to reduce the cost of living the Democrats put farm prod ucts on the free list or under lower duties. Prices of lo.irt and clothing have not perceptibly decreased, though imports of farm products increased from $49, Sao. 031 in the nine months ending June 30, Ifil.'i. to 5120,2SO,S17 in the first nine months of the Under wood tariff. Our poducers were sub jected to severe foreign competition, but our consumers did lint profit by lower prices. The Underwood tariff brought great prosperity to KrmU'onl, the great wool center of England, which in creased exports to the United States in the first Jive months of 1014 as compared with the- same period of 1913 as follows: British and colonial wool, from L'3.100 to ."itf.ilOO pounds; worsted yarns, from - 1 to S 16 pounds; worsted tissues, from 3737 to 11,0-$ ards; woolen tissue:-;., from S05 to K293 yards. The United Slates Consul reports that Bradford's exports to tiie United States for the six months end ing June 30, 1014. were $ 1 7,4 04,;;G9, the largest total in history except dur ing t!ie rst six months of 1S!7, when the Wilson tariff was in operation. Shipments of raw wool were valued at $o223,271, as compared with $1,657, 337 in the first six mouths of 1913. Internal business conditions in the Vnited States iiave responded to the influences which sent our trade abroad. The barometer cf trade, the steel industry, did rint'rise under the influence of the new tariff. On- the contrary, the steel trust's unfilled' or ders decreased from 7.S27.36S tons on January 31. 1913. to 4,15R,5SD tons on July 31, 1914, and the decrease for the first seven months of 1914, as compared with the same months of 1913. was 35 per cent. Ki-plios from 264.5 manufacturers to inquiries about the trade situation in the first six months of 1914. compared iwith the same period of 1913, show' a great majority of the trades reporting no improvement in sales or collections, :;nd present conditions and prospects us poor or only fair, while the1 percent t'ge making decidedly favorable re ports is very small. Failures in the lirst half of 1914 involved liabilities of $1S5.099.730, as compared with the first half of 1913, and the average for each failure in the second quarter was greater than in the same period of any year since 1S93 and double the average for all years since 1893. In the first half of 1914 bank clearings decreased between 9 and 10 per cent and net operating revenue of railroads decreased 13.1 per cent. There were idle on June 1 from 175,000 to 200,000 railroad employes and the number of idle freight cars on July 1 was 219, K45, as compared with 03,704 on July 1, 1913. To the idle railroad men must be added an equal number of textile workers and the same number of men in the lumber industry. Esti mates of the total number of unem ployed on that date range from 3,000, 000 to 5,000,000. The entire responsibility for this in dustrial and business depression can not be laid at the door of the Demo cratic party, for depression was world wide when the Underwood tariff" was passed, but that law has had the ef fect of aggravating an already bad condition. When business needed a stimulant, Democracy gave it a de pressant. When business was down and needed a helping hand to raise it to its feet. Democracy gave it a kick. This happened before the war began, and any recovery which comes now will be due to the combined effect of the war and good crops, over neither of which has the Democratic party any control. rKKSOXAL IXBKKTY AND TYPHOID.. It is a curious circumstance that England has not yet applied the new anti-typhoid vaccine to protect her troops against infection. That such protection is a great boon to soldiers in active service is a matter of com mon knowledge. Our own Govern ment has reduced the mortality from typhoid to a negligible figure by it. The French are using it and even the Turks arc vaccinating their new re- cruits against both typhoid and chol era, j England's tardiness in this impor tant matter naturally excites some surprise at first sight but we under stand it well enough after a little re flection. Xo people in the world en joy so much genuine personal liberty as the English. In that country all sorts of cranks and "antis" are per fectly free to exploit their pet notions. Nobody, interferes with them. Nobody tries to suppress them. They are at liberty to make as many converts as they can and in a pugnacious, free thinking country like England they often make a good many. This is particularly true of the anti-vaccina-tionists. That obstinate sect of fanatics has preached its pernicious gospel for a long time in England and gained num erous adherents, some of them high in official rank and very powerful. The right of an Englishman to refuse vaccination for himself and his chil dren is respected and there is prob ably great reluctance to force the op eration even upon a soldier if he pre fers not to undergo it. No doubt this exaggerated respect for personal liberty is accountable for the neglect of anti-typhoid vaccination in the British Army. The Nation would rather lose a few thousand men by preventable disease than protect them contrary to their own desire. TWELVE SAFE MEN. If state taxes are, high because of executive maladministration or legis lative extravagance, the remedy is a sane and efficient Governor and a prudent Legislature. It is futile to complain of past errors without pro viding a way for future improvement. Multnomah County has twrelve Rep resentatives in the Lower House at Salem. The candidates of the Repub lican party at the approaching elec tion are: S. B. Cobb K. V. I.lttlefleld John (till Com ad P. Olson Oscar W. Home Ben Selling S. it. Huston Andrew O. Smith l.ouis Kuehn Plowden Stott D. C. Lewis n Lloyd J. Wcntworth They are all well-known men. Most of them have had legislative experi ence. All have good names and good records. They are to be trusted. They are pledged first to economy, and sec ond to sound and safe administration. Will any of the critics of past Legis latures give a single reason why all these men should not be elected? THE $100,000,000 OKOV. Last Spring, when the Democratic patty was in the full sweep of its orgy of extravagance and a new raid on the Treasury was a daily occurrence, Rep resentative Fitzgerald, of New Tork, chairman of the committee on appro priations, sounded this unavailing pro test: In a few months I shall be called upon. in ihe discharge of my official duties, to re view the record that this Democratic irouse shall have made in its discharge of the ex !nu i " ui't-s of the public money. Whenever i think of tie horrible mess I shall be calleu upon to present to the country in behalf of the Democratic party 1 am tempted to quit my place. The horrible mess "is now repre sented by a record of over $100,000, 000 excess in appropriations over the year 1912, wScn the Republicans were yet in control. Now the dilemma confronting the Democratic Congress is an approaching deficit in the Treas ury. They say it is due to the war, and they call it a war tax. Eut no Democrat, from President Wilson down to the meanest party servitor, has dared to say that the wild craze for more jobs for hungry Democrats and the lavish expenditure of money by an incompetent and un thrifty Congress all in direct viola tion of campaign pledges were in any way due to the war. The $100,000,000 "war" tax is caused by the $100,000,000 excesses of Congress nothing else. ALASKA Olt OKEUO.V? The newest argument for the elec tion of Mr. Chamberlain to be United States Senator is that once upon a time he gave ati humble motorman a hot drink. Undoubtedly Mr. Cham berlain has a soft heart and a kind disposition. We don't deny it; we have never denied it. But an ami able personality ad a genial manner are not the only qualities needed in a United States Senator. Probably it was the deep interest of Senator Chamberlain in his fellow man that led him to take up the Alaska bill. He gave it a lot of time and attention. Doubtless it will help Alaska. ' We are glad of It. But the interest of Oregon in Alaska is not so great as it is in Oregon. What litis the Senator done for Oregon? Take irrigation for example. The State of Oregon has a great semi-arid area, susceptible of reclamation by water. The Government has gone ex tensively into reclamation enterprises. It had provided that all moneys real ized from the sale of Government lands should go into a reclamation fund. It had also stipulated that the major portion of such funds should be expended in the respective states, in proportion to their contributions. So read Section 9 of the reclamation act. But the Act was repealed, and Sec tion 9 with it. The Western irriga tion states have without exception fared better than Oregon. More im portant than Alaska, and on a par with liberal rivers and harbors appro priations was and is reclamation to Oregon. Yet through negligence, or indiffer ence or inability to cope with more enterprising Senators, Senator Cham berlain permitted this valuable advan tage to be withdrawn from Oregon. HARASSING THE VOTEK. There has just been emphasized in Portland the extraordinary power con ferred on a few individuals by the re call amendment. A half dozen citi zens or a smaller number may prac tically set the date of the special elec tion. The numerous voters who sign the recall petitions have no voice in tho matter; the city authorities are without power; the decision is left with the individuals who have the pe titions in their possession, for the law fixes the date of the election at not more than twenty-five days after the petitions have been filed. The recall petitions have. been filed at a most inopportune time. The spe cial election is brought on in the final stages of a general election campaign in which not only are important of fices to be filled but twenty-nine bills and amendments are to be approved or rejected. The dutiful voter, already over-burdened, is to have his troubles increased. The grounds for the recall of city officers, as stated in the petitions, do not constitute an emergency. There was no cause tor haste. The city would not be in danger of wreck were every charge against the Mayor and the two Commissioners true. A large sum of money would have been saved had the petitions bc-m withheld a few days, that the time limit on setting the dae of election could embrace the day of the general state . election. If the- petitions were withheld a month or two, money would not be saved, but the voters would be able to give the issues presented the atten tion they deserve. ' Eut the city is powerless. A few men bend the entire, community to their will and needlessly harass the public. An en actment fhat would make the latter end of a general election campaign a closed season on municipal recall elec tions ought to be popular. THE REED ADMISSION TESTS. It is rumored that the psychological tests for admission to Reed College are yielding satisfactory results. Thc-y have now been applied to three sopho more classes. The entering; freshman class is just undergoing them. When this class has finished the ordeal it will have been applied to some 200 students and there will be sufficient data on hand to show whether the psychological test for admission - is as good as the old-fashioned academic examination or better. If it turns out to be better why should it not take the place of the examinations which are usually pure memory work and not very wisely devised at that? All college faculties know perfectly well that marks from academies and high schools are extremely elusive. Sometimes they mean a good deal. Often they mean nothing except that the student has enjoyed the services of an expert coach. And the same is true of college marks, so far as that goes. The professor, a woman by the way, who averred seriously that her grades were "mathematically accu rate." expressed the state of her own imagination rather than any objec tive fact. The Reed College psychological tests, as far as one can Judge from wnat is known ot them, aim to dis close the real power of the student rather than his temporary acquire ments. Thus he is not asked to re peat any particular poem, but hi power to learn poetry is investigated He is not asked to mention exact dates and facts In history. Instead of that, inquiry is made into his histor ical judgment. We suppose In the same way his mathematical power is tested and his language faculty. What the precise process is by which all this is effected has not yet been disclosed to the public, but the little known of it is deeply interesting and if it turns out to be practicable it will of course be incalculably important. THE UESI'OJXEK'S VIEWPOINT. The statement made by The Ore goriian that the waterfront amend ment would deprive the school fund of revenue is denied by a newspaper supporter of the measure and atten tion is triumphantly directed to a pro vision in another measure. That pro vision is that tide-lands not needed by cities for public docks may be leased for private docks, one half the pro ceeds to go to the school fund and one half to the cities within which the lands are locate-.. We are reminded of the lawyer who pleaded for the acquital of a high wayman because the latter had kindly returned carfare to his victim after relieving him of a well-filled purse. Nevertheless the highwayman went to jail for robbery. The proceeds from the sale of tide lands in Oregon now go to the public school fund. If a city needs state owned tidelands for municipal docks it must buy them from the state to the profit of the school fund. In 1911 Governor West vetoed a bill granting to any port all the tidelands it needed for its own development upon pay ment of $1. The reason given for the veto was that the cities ought to pay for such lands and that to make the grant would deprive the schools of in land towns of benefits to which they were as much entitled as the tide water towns. The Mulkey-Jackson waterfront amendment gives every city or town all the tidelands it "needs" for dock purposes, just as the vetoed bill of 1911 gave ports all the tidelands they needed. But the new amendment goes beyond that even. It prohibits the sale of tidelands within the limits of a municipality that are not needed for public docks. Such land it permits to be leased but even so it requires the school fund to split the proceeds fifty- fifty with the cities. In neither amendment nor accompanying statute is there provision for lease of tide lands outside of cities, where much of the unsold tidelands is located. Mr. Mulkey has made the statement that unsold tidelands are to be re served for the benefit of future gen erations. Resources which are not exhausted by use, as is timber, but become more valuable when utilized and add to the genera! prosperity are thus to be locked up. Nobody of the present generation, not even the school children, are to benefit from the state's heritage in tidelands that are located outside of municipalities; only what the cities will not take as a gift may be leased- and then the cities are to get half the income. The school fund is to lose a well- filled purse by the enactment of this amendment but, because carfare is to be returned to it, it is argued that the schools are not to be deprived of money nor robbed nor raided. It will be a great day for highwaymen when the same argument is accepted as to their activities. ' PKOMOTrSG POETRY. A writer in the North American Re view laments the discrimination which rich givers have made against poetry They have provided endowments and college priz.es for almost every other branch of human enterprise. Archi tecture, painting, sculpture, music have all received opulent encourage ment. Poetry alone pines in poverty stricken neglect both inside and out side the colleges. Notoriously the supply of great poets is always scanty in this country Now and then we produce one whom we think great and occasionally we are not mistaken in him. But there is no constant and unfailing supply such as modern business requires in other lines. The writer whom we have referred to. Professor Robert Haven Schauf- fler, opines that the perennial dearth of poets is caused by lack "of fresh air and time to keep up their exuber ance." Without exuberance there is no great poetry and naturally nobody can soar very high in the heaven of the Muses without plenty of fresh air to breathe. Professor Schauffler sug gests that we endow fellowships of poetry in the Kig universities. Such fellowships would permit the lucky holders to doze and meditate in indeterminate leisure. They could court Inspiration at any time of the day or night when it seemed most likely to heed their enchantments and, most important of all, they need not worry about money. The old maxim may be right in holding that money makes the mare go.' It certainly makes the Muse go. At any rate the want of it effectually paralyzes tier. We trust that the next few million aires who find it necessary to set out for a better world will remember Pro fessor Schauffler's happy thought. A valuable pamphlet to every per son interested in the tariff question is the "Protective Tariff Cyclopedia," published by the American protective Tariff League in New Tork. This is a comparative table of duties under the Payne-Aldrieh law of 1909 and the Underwood law of 1913, arranged alphabetically according to commodi ties. To these tables is appended a speech of Representative Mondell, of Wyoming, in which the effects of the Underwood tariff on the wool indus try are explained. This is the first publication, of comparative tables of the Payne and Underwood duties. The Senate Democratic caucus draws a distinction between alcoholic drinks and automobiles, classing the former as luxuries, the latter as neces saries, if its vote to tax the one, not the other, is to be taken as a criterion. There was a time when no Democrat would have dared to call whisky a luxury, but times have changed. Other sections of the Northwest will do well to follow the example of Baker County in sowing more AVinter wheat If the war continues through next Spring as seems probable, it will be up to the United States and Canada to feed Europe. There will be a mar ket for all the grain we effn grow. We shall await an explanation from Japan of her action in breaking her word and seizing a group of German islands in the Pacific. Of course, if Japan doesn't see fit to explain volun tarily we shall forget it, according to our revised diplomatic practices. Though John L. F.illard may not have received the entire $3, 824,147 do rived from the New Haven Company's mysterious dealings in Boston & Maine stock, there is no doubt he was richly rewarded for playing the go-between. Who got the rest? Prohibition of slavery in the Phil ippines, while leaving the privileged minority to enforce it under so-called independence, will have as much effect as the resolutions of the Lake Mohonk Peace Conference have had on the European powers. At last a great intellectual light has pointed the way to a solution of the high cost of living problem. Let everyone eat beans, says he. The trouble' is that if we all take to beans the pfTce will shoot up three or four hundred per cent. For a wonder, the principal exhibit at the recent Grange Fair at Murphy, in the Rogue River Valley, was not potatoes, which is where somebody missed opportunity pf renown. If both-Austria and Servia tell the truth, Austria has taken a siice of Servia and Servia has taken a slice of Bosnia. Why can't each return what it has taken and cry quits? As purveyors of news the European powers are so snameuiiy unrenaDie that the most lurid reports of a yellow American newspaper man would more closely approach the truth. The German diet may be reopened. It is the Austrian diet, however, that is causing most alarm. At last ac counts it consisted of a gulp of water and a hitch at the belt. Theaters leased to the New York orchestra, which has seventeen na tionalities represented, would seem to require a little extra insurance. Lassen Peak's eruptions are of no more consequence than a live-cent bunch of firecrackers by comparison with Europe's eruption. Japan is giving a demonstration of how much one Nation can do in an other Nation's territory -without vio lating its neutrality. The man who does not care a snap about affairs of state has registered, but the mart in interest is diffident and dilatory. "Boss" Murphy's endorsement of President AVilson was inspired by love of party regularity, not by love of Mr. Wilson. Canada is to raise another detach ment of 20,000 men. Vi hy doesn t Canada raise an army 'and be done with it? Mysterious cannonading is reported from the California coast. A continu ation of the battle of Coos Bay, we take It. When the war tax goes into effect a substantial jag will go far toward making up the Democratic pork barrel deficit. Federal troops in Colorado lare pre paring Winter quarters and hope of settlement of mine trouble is distant. Europe is now doing an amount of muckraking which woultMiave put the magazines of ten years ago to shame. Despite Portugal's entry into the fray, Spain persists in remaining neu tral. Spain got a sufficiency In '9S. Surely Japan is taking the Marshall group merely to afford a little inno cent pastime to her fighting men. The Japs are maneuvering, that's all. They are not playing the honor able game for keeps. Watchful waiting and spineless diplomacy have only aggravated the Mexican problem. Petty thieving at the Police Station seems easier than taking candy from a blind baby. They are banging away on the Mex can border worse than ever. Where's that Alaskan storm was headed this way? that Berlin throws a different light on the subject. Tax time approaches. So register! Stars and Starmakers BY LEONE CASS BAEli. Cora Belle Bonnie is so crazy over dancing that I've decided to call her Terpsi-Cora Belle Bonnie. Bandon Evans, of the Baker Stock, was in Charles Halten's room at their hotel the other day, and Evans re marked as he peered out of the win dow, "Where's Mount Hood? I thought you said you had a beautiful view from your windows." I have, and it isn't Mount Hood. She lives right across the street. That's my beautiful view at the window now manicuring her nails," said Halten. James W. Deckert, who hasn't seen this section of the country in over a dozen years, because he has been kept in one spot as the New York booking agent for the Shuberts, has been given taste of real life and is now in our midst. He is touting the melodrama. The Whip," which opens at the Heilig on October IS. Arthur Cunningham, now a promi nent member of the New York Casino star cast, coming to the Heilig the week of October 11, will be remembered for his delightful work with, the old Tivoli Opera Company in San Fran cisco. Cunningham has sung a larger number of Gilbert and Sullivan roles, it is said, than any singer on the Amer ican stage. Nana Bryant has gone into musical comedy and has one of the leading roles with Kolb and Dill at the Gaiety in San Francisco. Two San Francisco writers, Adrian Metzger and Walter A. Rivers, will make their debut as playwrights next Sunday night, when their play, "The Graven Image," will he given at pre miere. . Incidentally. "The Graven Im age" wiil be the f'.rst, of a number of brand-new plays which Belasco and Mayer have decided to present at the Alcazar during the present season. Un usual interest is being manifested in this production, not only as the authors are local writers, but because die play's reception will be closely watched with a view- to a New York production. Charles Frohman says he is going to sue Anthony t'onistock for the lat ter's utterances against "The Beautiful Adventure," which the morality censor declared to be immoral. Frohman says it isn't, Comstock says it is, and the Xew York District Attorney's office is going in a body to find out. m i Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle are danc ing in vaudeville while waiting for Charles Dillingham to call rehearsals for a new musical play, "Step Lively," in which the Castles are to have im portant roles. Felice Lyne, American soprano, sailed from London today for her tour in the United States. rhe will make her first appearance at Allentown. Pa., on No vember 6 Miss Lyne is the young niece of Dr. and Mrs. F. Moore, of Port land. Lou Tellegcn has been engaged as star actor in William A. Brady's pro duction of "The Lone Wolf." This is a dramatizatioa by Robert Housum of the novel of the same name by Louis Jo seph Vance. October 26 witnesses the first presen tation. . Since Mr. Tellegen's first American appearance last season as leading man for Madame Bernhardt, he has been a pronounced social successf as well as a highly favored actor, and it is ex pected that the night of his debut as a full magnitude star will be an occa sion of uncommon moment. m So many iqiuries have been directed to this department to ascertain if Wil liam B. Powell is married or single that ho has authorized me to answer for him. Yes. m ' m A great big picture of Nancy puncan decorates the front page of this week's "Critic," a 'Seattle publication. Nancy is posed like a postgraduate actress, aud it's difficult to recognize in the statuesque young tragedy queen of the picture the gay littleNanyy girl who used to walk on in bits at the Baker Stock. Nancy is indeed growing up to be a big girl now. The company and production of "The Whip," on its way to the Heilig, follow ing the Gilbert-Sullivan Opera Com pany, are obliged to travel in'two sec tions, as it takes five cars alone to move the scenery for the four acts and 13 massive scenes. Locomotives, real tracks, a race course, horses, dogs, a reproduction of Madam Tussaud's fa mous "chamber of horrors," thousands of yards of panorama and an automo bile are a few of the requirements There is c company of 100 people. "The Whip" only plays the largest citiea on account of its elaborate nature. Leo Carrillo has been signed for five years with Oliver Morosco. He will play a few vaudeville dates before be ginning rehearsals for a new show. A London exchange says that there is the greatest distress prevailing among members of the theatrical pro fession. Thousands of actors and ac tresses of all sorts have been thrown out of employment by the closing of read companies and the postponement of productions. A large number of actors have volunteered for military service, but not all have been accepted and the numbe out of work Is large. Steps have been taken to assist the families of those who have joined the colors, but nothing has been done to relieve those who are at home and idle. Some of the theatrical newspapers are raising war distress funds and contri butions are earnestly solicited. But the distress is too widespread to be re lleved by any such half-way measures. The daily papers contain pitiful ap peals from- act-s and actresses who seem to be on the brink bf starvation, many of them having families to sup port. There will undoubtedly be a large emigration of actors to the United states, and many who have been did appointed in making a livelihood on the stage will look for other employ ment. Tossibly the weeding-out process,, in evitabie under the prevailing condi tions, will eliminate many of the in efficient and unfit who have been crowding managers' offices for the past few years. Jf this is one of the results of the war it wiil prove a blessing in disguise, for it will give the worthy actors a better opportunity to advance In the future. Just to Illustrate what condition? are in London, the London Music Hall is not charging any admlslson to the gal lory. This idea of a free gallery, how ever, does not appeal to music hall managers very strongly. REAL. VALl'G IX PREPAREDNESS Navy Teacbrs Youth i Armament May Shorten War. PORTLAND. Oct. 7. (To the Editor.) I beg space to answer a few argu ments given by Dr. Foster, president of Heed College, at Lincoln High School, on the subject of "Peace." Dr. Foster, to gain peace, wishes to dismantle the Navy, and by disman tling the Navy wishes to build up our merchant marine. The United States is the richest Na tion in the world. In 1913 the income was nearly J700. 000,000 and the ex penditure about S50.oo0.o0u less. The wealth of the United States amounts to about $13o.00t.0u0,e00. Her National debt $l.l'27,ouo,uoo. Her Navy ranks at third place. Dr. Foster mentioned that the cost of one battleship exceeds the contribu tions to schools and colleges for one year, and that the cost of a single 13 inch shell exceeds the salary of a schoolteacher. He also stated that of all the total receipts of the United States 17 per cent was spent for war. This may all be very true, but a sin gle tlreadnaught employs about louO men and officers. Now the Navy takes young men. trains them, disciplines them, teaches them a trade and turns them into the world better physically and mentally to fight their way to success. In other words, a modern bat tleship is a school; it is better than a school; it teaches discipline. What is a man who has not learned self-control? Dr. Foster wants peace and to have peace he wants to make the Navy smaller to discard it. Now- it has been figured out by the foremost naval au thorities that, if the United States had been prepared, the Civil War would have lasn-ii but six months. The United Mates fleet could have blockaded the Southern ports and the war would have been over for the simple reason that the South had to import foodstuffs and manufactured articles. The block ade would have starved the Confeder acy into submission. However, the Government was not prepared. The .Navy was inefTicient and the arma ments poor. What was the result? About 1. 000,000 were killed, homes were broken un, widows and orphans were made. The war dragged on for four weary years at a cost of about $3,600,000,000. Up to date about 14.000, OOtt.000 has been paid for pensions and just recently Congress passed the $180,000,000 pension bill. A total cost of about $7,S0O,u00,000 up to date all because the Government was not pre pared and the Navy inefficient. Think "f the schools and eoltetres this sum would have built nnd kept. The United States is Isolated from the rest of the world and is in very little danger of being invaded by a foreicn nation, but to gain the respect of the other nations and to be fore most as a world's civilizer and to be able to push her policies and protect her merchant ,marine she must have an efficient Navy to back her up and "be prepared." A STl'DEXT. piiorosEn LAW PI,KI,I.S IJISSTF-It Knrmem AroiiKrd by Amendment Men at-ingr Their rerwinnl Liberty. DUFUB, Or.. Oct. 3. (To the Editor.) The Oregon ian Fridav contained letter of a distressed Hillsboro farmer concerning the eight-hour law. w ith the editorial reply. Indeed, there are many farmers, as well as their wives, who are worried over this measure. The case this man cites is typical of hundred of farmers and if this law is voted upon favorably it will affect oar whole state. From even before CatoV time record show tiie farmer to be tin most-law- abiding citizen we have. Is it not true that he causes the community les trouble and is seen in the law court fewer times than any other class of workers'.' But thi is one law tha will interfere With las personal liberty and every farmer to a man will rebel ainst it. Surely it will give these street loafers an interesting ocrupa tion as private detectives and Sheriff deputies or will there be labor war dens to arrest the multitudes? How pleased the lawyers will be hearing the countless cases. Their coffers wiil no doubt increase, but when thev retur to their noonday meal to find that the bread, the meats, the vegetables and the fruits all produce from the farmer yes, even the butter, milk and Oregon eggs, have vanished from their board hat then? The amendment, no doubt, appeals to all the country cousins of the I. u. W sect, but are they certain of securing their doilar-and-a-l:alf a day with board for doing the morning chores and fishing all afternoon? With the exception of the harvest season, farm ers hours are quite reasonable, and if a man employed by the farmer finds them otherwise, lie is, under the ores ent system, at liberty to seek work elsewhere. Is this not fair? Not only does this concern the Jar er. I have a neighbor who is now ill and employs a nurse. ill she be com pelled to have three nurses that siie may have the proper care without of fending the etate, and will each nurse expect, or demand, her customary $ a week? Surely the people of Oregon will not be so Ignorant as to vote for a measur so disastrously injurious. MRS. LAV1NA K. GALLIGAN. Women I'rged to RegrlKtor. PORTLAND. Oct. 7. (To the Editor Kindly permit the undersigned t call the special attention of Republican women to tho Importance of their duty to tneir country, winch can be show in no better way than by seeing that every iriend tney meet will be sure to register between now and the loth inst. Also, please allow me to remind them of the anticipated pleasure of seeing them in attendance at the dinner to be given by the Republican Club at the Hazelwood, Thursday evening. Oc loDer . ine entertainment promises to be unique and enjoyable in every particular. . So many tickets have been sold at 50 cents, including dinner and entertainment, that an annex will be provided for the overflow, so that all can be accommodated. Alt BIG AL SCOTT DUN1WAY. The War Expert By Dona C'olliun. " thought him General at least; He had a military walk. And such a varied fund released Of expert military talk. And gave such dope, profound and true On what the Kaiser's men should do. And how the Russian force might win A speedy entrance to Berlin. He held me by the buttonhole. And told, with many a lengthy word. How in the struggle toward their goal The forces of the allies erred; On Belgian tactics he conversed. The Servian campaign he rehearsed: I said, while my surprise increased. "An ex-Field Marshal this at least." He told just what the fleets must do. And how the British forces work; The situation through and through. He followed with every wind and quirk; A fund of military lore Into my ears I let him pour. And said, with widely-opened eyes. "Some gol-dinged war lord in disguise." Filled with this thought, I went my way, Proud such a wondrous man to know; But on the next ensuing day My pride received a midriff blow; Into a restaurant I went And met again this war-wise gent; But oh, and ah! and bully-gee! He lugged my ham and eg3 to me. Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oreironian of October 5. 1SS9. St. Piiul. The tnection of Pierre as the capital of South Dakota is likely to create a boom in the opinion of those on the ground. A special snys more than $50e.eio worth of real estate chanced hands yesterday when the result became known. Lots which brought $100 a week airo sold quickiy for 1000 yesterday. Seattle Returns from throughout Washington show that John L. Wil sons majority wiil not he less than 9000. The Democrats will be lonesome. San- Francisco. George Lount. who recently died here, was a pioneer of the Pacific Coast, having gone to Ore gon in 350. Spokane. The O. R. & X. bridEe across the river above tiie city was completed last night and the first train .-ill enter fc-pokane next Monday even ing. Salem. It' was made known here to day that Willamette University :s to have a theological department. ' The trustees decided on the following fac ulty: Dean, Kev. M. C. Wire: Rev. V,-. ioliins. Hebrew: Rev. N. Doan, theol- ay: Kev. A. C. Fairchild, historical theology. Victoria, B. C. Prof. Otto J. Klotz, one of the astronemers of the Depart ment of the Interior of Ottawa, has re turned from Alaska, where he visited the Muir glacier, which has attained elebrity by accounts of the "Silent City." a mirage of the city of Montreal, eported seen in the ice. Professor Klotz pronounces the "Silent City" a humbug. He says a mirage could not be seen in the ice as described. He says it is phenomena of the air, and that tiie reflection of a citv thousands of miles away would be an utter im possibility. The compilation of the Century dic onary promises to insure the accept ance of English as the universal lan- uage of trade. The case of W. St. M. Barnes against the Dalles National Bank was non suited in United States Circuit Court in Portland yesterday, for want of jur- sdietion. Mr. Barnes alleged in the uit that the failure of the bank te honor a draft he drew while in the South when he had money on deposit to cover it impaired his credit and hampered a business transaction. Congressman Hermann arrived in Eaker yesterday. He will make a long tour of Eastern Oregon. Rev. John B. Clark, D. D.. one of the secretaries of the Congregational American Home Missionary Society. whose headquarters is in New Yorlc was a visitor in Portland yesterday. John D. King and Etta Rey were united in marriage Thursday evening. A dinner and reception followed at the Globe Hotel. Ex-Governor Woods was reported better yesterday. Uremia has been feared for several days. Half a. Century Ago. From The Oreponian, October 10. lS6t. Tho New Columbian, 118, 120 and 122 Front street, corner of Morrison, having been elegantly finished and furnished and now being ready for the reception of customers, the proprietor would say the citizens of Portland and the traveling public that he is now ready to receive and entertain all who may wish to favor him with a call. I'. B. innott is the proprietor. If anyone doubts that The Oregon Statesman is amiable let him read it and be convinced. Let them peruse its columns however such a task may af fect their nerves and learn how just are the encomiums (over the left) that our California friends are so fond of according the Oregon press. The truth is that most diseases are liable to be come chronic, and The Statesman's pe culiar kind of amiability is hereditary and chronic besides. It was peevish when it was young. It no sooner cut its teeth than It began to bite. It no sooner got its limbs than it began to thrash around and tread on unoffend ing corns. Of late a change had come over its editorial quill and it has been so "good that many of its admirers thought it would 'take first prize for good manners at the state fair. But. recently Its spleen has come on bad as ever. 0 Cincinnati Hooker has relieved Gen eral Heintzleman, and assunird com mand of the Northern Department of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michlff-in. New York The Italian convention for the evacuation of Rome by the French is confirmed in a dispatch just received. Charleston A dispatch received here says Beauregard has accepted command of Hood's army. Eugene On the morning of October 5, Marion Thornbury shot and killed himself accidentally, near the residence of liis parents on the Henry A. Owens farm, four miles south of here. The gun was accidentally discharged when Young Thornbury was taking aim on a rotten log, which gave way during the process. Mr. J. S. Potter begs leave most re spectfully to announce to the ladies and gentlemen of Portland and the patrons of the drama generally that he has leased the Willamette Theater for the ensuing season and proposes open ing October 24, with a full and efficient company. The stock company will be headed by the eminent actress, Julia Dean Hayne. There are gold deposits within the City of Portland. A shaft has been sunk to the depth of about 100 feet on College Hill and gold prospects are obtained in almost every pail or panful of dirt. William F. Downs, of the Internal Revenue Department of the National capital, was 'in Portland yesterday on business. He is stopping at Arrigoni's. Smith Il."itle Not Appreciated. SALEM, Or.. Oct 6. (To the Editor.! I wish to inform C. J. Smith, whose name appears on the Democratic ticket for Governor, that I am not a Demo crat, and ask him that he will please send me no more letters. He thanks me for my help and in fluence which he has failed to get from me. I am a Republican and desire my party shall win, which I feel sure it will, lie should look over the regis tration hooks. J.IRS. K. GAMBLE. r Will Men's Styles Be Military? London sets the .styles for men and just now war is the uppermost topic in the London mind. So we may expect the tailors' shears to cut oni military lines, the hats to be more aggressive in their angles, and colors more In keeping with the spirit of the times. Some say they can already detect more daring tendencies in the Fall styles. The stores are ready with the new :vu-i- an-i manufacturers and mer chants are telling them in our ad vertising columns. The man who keeps posted is the man who reads the advertising in his favorite newspaper.