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10 THE MORNING OKEGONIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1914, PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland, Oregon. Postovflce as Second-class matter. Subscription Ratea Invariably in Advance: (B Mall.) Dally, Snnday Included, one year ...... -y8-J0 Daily, Sunday Included, alx montbe ..... Dally, Sunday Included, three montha ... Dally, Sunday Included, one montn ..... -o Dally, without Sunday, one year J-Y Dally, without Sunday, six montha ..... a.a Dally, without Sunday, three montha ... Dally, without Sunday, one month ..... Weekly one year Sunday, one year ........ Au Sunday and Weekly, one year a- (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year ...... -9-9 Dally. Sunday Included, one montn. ..... How tm Remit Send Postofflce money or der, expreae order or personal check on your local bank. Stamp, coin or currency are sender's rik. Give postofflce addree In toll. Including county and state. Postage Ratea 1 to 16 pages, 1 cent: 18 to 32 pagea. 2 centa; 84 to 48 pagea. 3 cents; 60 to 90 pagea, 4 centa; 62 to 79 pagea. a centa; 78 to U2 pagea. 6 centa, Foreign poet, age, double ratea. Eastern Business Office Verree & Conk lin, New York. Brunswick building. Chi cago, Stenger building. San Francisco Office R. J. Bid well Co.. 742 Market street. . PORTLAND, THCB8DAT, KOT, 5, 1914. REPTTBUCAN PARTI COMES BACK. One fact stands out conspicuously In the results of Tuesday's elections: The Republican party has come back and will continue to be one of the two main contending parties in the Nation. From New York to Wash ington it has gained immensely in strength, both in the lower House of Congress and in control of state gov ernments, and has held its own, if it has not gained, in the Senate. The Democratic majority in the House has been reduced to such Bmall dimen sions that only a slight increase In the Republican . vote would have put the Administration in a minority. There are abundant Indications that, but for the war, a landslide would have swept the Republicans into con trol of both Senate and House. Noth ing but a conviction in many minds that "the overwhelming crisis of a world war imposes on the Nation the necessity of standing by whatever. Ad ministration is in office could have prevented the people from taking con trol of legislation out of the hands of the Democratic party. Notwithstanding this restraining In fluence, discontent with- Democrat!: policy has Impelled so large a num ber of people to vote against it that the Administration has narrowly es caped losing the .House. That dis content is aimed at the domestic pol icy of the Administration because it has opened our markets to the prod ucts of cheap foreign labor, has sur rendered our rights as owners of the Panama Canal, has been extravagant in expenditures and false to the prin ciples of civil service reform. Dis content is felt with the foreign policy of the Administration because it has acknowledged a duty in Mexico by forcing out Huerta, but has shirked that duty by doing nothing effective to establish orderly government; also because it has knuckled under to every Nation which has made de mands upon us, no matter how un- . reasonable and humiliating those de mands might be. The Nation freely .gives President Wilson credit for high character and patriotic purpose, but the belief has grown in many minds that the results of carrying out his purpose have been and will continue to be disastrous. It was to be expected that in the revulsion of popular feeling which has turned the people to the Republi can party some of its less desirable representatives should again be placed in office. The most conspicuous ex ample is the re-election of Senator Penrose In Pennsylvania by an over whelming majority. Tet there can be no question that the people of Penn sylvania wanted him. They nominated him at a direct primary and elected him by secret ballot No boss rule or corruption can have brought about this result. The people turned to him because thousands of them were out of a Job their dinner-palls were emp ty. He seemed their best hope of a remedy. His nomination may have had an adverse effect on the Republi can party in more progressive states but it was the direct outcome of hard times, brought on by Democratic tar iff legislation. . The re-election of ex-Speaker Can non and some of his most faithful lieutenants in Illinois may be ascribed to the same cause. While Mr. Cannon Is frankly reactionary, there is no probability that hi3 great age will per mit him to be more than a pic turesque figure in the House. The leadership will fall to younger men more closely in touch with the SDirit I of the age. The election of Mr. Wadsworth as Senator and Mr. Whitman as Gover nor In New York had nothing to do with bossism. Mr. Whitman's splen did work as a prosecutor of semi polltical criminals drew to him men of all parties and marked him as a progressive of the best type, regard less of the character of any of his supporters. The Republican organiza tion won there because it correctly read and bowed to the popular will and because it realized its impotence to thwart that will, even had it so desired. Next to the renewed strength of the . Republican party, the most outstand . ing fact Is the practical disappear . ance of the Progressive party as an Important political factor. Almost everywhere it has sunk to a very low third place in voting strength, so low that in most states and Congression al districts it has lacked the strength even to turn the scale in favor of the Democrats. The one notable exception is the re-election of Governor John son in California, but the small vote polled by Mr. Heney for. Senator Is probably a more accurate measure of the strength of the Progressive party than is the Johnson vote. Governor Johnson's popularity appears to be personal rather than partisan. The Progressive party has cut so poor a figure in New York, Illinois, Kansas and other states where it showed strongest in 1912 that its early dis appearance can siifely be foretold The voice of Colonel Roosevelt will " continue to be heard, but he will ap- pear in the arena as a mere political buccaneer. The Republican party is massing its forces for victory in the Presidential election of 1916, and all events are working In its favor. The blighting effects of Democratic tariff policy can be only temporarily checked by a spurt of artificial activity due to the war, and after four years' trial the people will turn for relief from that policy to the Republican party. Their . weariness of it and of the piffling foreign policy of this Administration will overcome their respect for Mr. Wilson's personality and their faith in his good intentions. THE OREGON ELECTION". A remarkable Republican victory, except for the Senatorship, is the rec ord of last Tuesday's election in Ore Bon. A Republican Governor is cho sen by an overwhelming vote, the first in twelve years; three Republi can Representatives in Congress, a solid, delegation, are sent to Washing ton; the state ticket is triumphant without an exception by a great vote; the Multnomah County Republican candidates have won, carrying down in the avalanche even the redoubtable Tom Word, for Sheriff. It is a Re publican year. The defeat of Mr. Booth for Sen ator was due to the great personal popularity of Mr. Chamberlain, on the one hand, and to the unceasing campaign of defamation directed against Mr. Booth,, on the other hand. Just how far the strange Chamber lain luck has figured in the result The Oregonlan will not pretend to say; but it was present last Tuesday, as it has been throughout almost the wfrole of Mr. Chamberlain's astonish ing political career. A large part of the public, through constant iteration of falsehoods about him, was led to believe that Mr. Booth was a timber baron, who had got a part of his holdings through irregular methods, and there was a ccfnsiderable defec tion on that account from him. The Oregonlan reasserts now its firm conviction that this view was mis taken and grossly unjust; but it was effective, and Mr. Chamberlain as usual was the beneficiary. Two factors contributed to the suc cess of Mr. Withycombe by the great est plurality ever given for a Gov ernor in Oregon. They were the-un- yielding general confidence in his personal worth and the widespread determination to defeat the candidate of Governor West and the Portland Journal. Under other auspices Dr. Smith would have done far better. He made a tremendous effort against great odds, but it was unavailing. The handicaps Svere too heavy. Mr. Withycombe will be a satisfactory Governor. The Multnomah County Republican Legislative ticket twelve for the House and two for the Senate is successful by an immense vote. This is the answer of the public to the silly and untrue allegation that the ticket (for the House) was "hand-picked" by The Oregonian. This delegation made up largely of well-known men who responded to a call to public duty at considerable personal sacrl fice, will go to Salem with a definite programme of retrenchment and economy, and of reconstructive legis lation, so far as the administration of state and county affairs goes. The state is fortunate to have their serv ices. The personnel of the Legisla ture will be improved, and we may expect as a result of their labors that there will be less complaint that rep resentative government is a failure, The good sense of the electorate was again made manifest when it rejected probably all the undesirable and up setting bills, among them the "vicious seven," proposed through the initia tive and referendum. The people are wearied to death with nov elty, experimentation, reaction. They want leave to work out their prob lems under the tried and- 'proven forms of government, and they re sent more than ever the ill-devised and all-menacing schemes of the meddlers and the triflers. It certain that Oregon is entirely sane. Only the agitators refuse to recognize it. Read the verdict Just passed on URen himself and on U'Renism.' It is Oregon's message to the world that the disastrous U'Ren epoch has passed. Republican faction has disappeared The party is reunited. The Progres slve bolt, which split and all but wrecked the party two years ago, has been almost wholly removed. There is need for a militant Republican party in Oregon as in the Nation. It is clear that two years hence Oregon will do its part toward ejecting a Re publican President and a Republican Congress. consounq the taxpayer. A most ingenious argument was made by Senator Simmons to show that the Democratic deficit law will not add to the burdens of the people. He contended that the falling off in customs revenue due to the decrease in imports would relieve the people of $100,000,000 a year in taxes and that therefore the new internal taxes are not an additional burden but are simply the substitution of one burden for another of equal weight. Accord ing to him, the deficit taxes will take no more money out of the pockets of the people than would have been taken If the customs revenue had not decreased and the deficit taxes, had not been imposed. Senator McCumber restated Mr Simmons' argument and then added Therefore the goods that will be pur- chased by the American people win necessarily purchased for $100,000,000 lei than they would have been purchased fo If they had paid out that sum In duties and we may therefore look, according to the Senator's own argument, for a reduction In the price of commodities which the Amer ican people consume to the extent, at least. of J10O,OOO.0O0. Senator Smith, of Michigan, put the proposition in another form by saying If .the American people had consumed $500,000,000 more of products made abroad and their home .production Dad Deen cumin lshed accordingly, we would have had rev enue to make up the deficit admitted by th Senator from North Carolina. In other pwords, the essential to receiving money through our custom-nouses is the practice of consuming European-made goods, and Just to that extent depriving our labor of employment. If this argument were sound, the more goods we import, the more money we make for the Government and the less internal taxes we need pay. Then why not all stop work, produce nothing, import everything and make life one glad, sweet song of loafing? In order, however, that Mr. Sim mons' argument be sound it is neces sary not only that we should buy at home articles in place of those we should have imported in order to pay the 8100,000,000 taxes, but that we should buy them $100,000,000 cheaper. Then we should save In the price of commodities subject to duty the $100,000,000 we pay in deficit taxes. lias anyDoay ODserved so marked a general fall in the price of commodi ties subject to duty as would effect such a saving to the consumers of the Nation? Prices of sugar and flour, two of the great staples, have risen. Prices of what commodities have fallen? True, we may have saved something by buying less works of art, produced either at home or abroad. but our beneficent Democratic Ad ministration will not permit us to save the duty on them. Our self- enying economy must be penalized by a tax on the little money we have in the bank, on the securities we sell. on the articles we pawn in order to keep the Democratic wolf from the door. , If we are able to squeeze out half a dollar to go to a circus or a dime to see moving-pictures, to play owls or billiards, part of it must go to make good that deficit. These taxes are Imposed on the banker, broker and amusement man, and experience proves that they will be passed along to the ultimate consumer. NEW AND. OW IN EDUCATION. Dr. E. A. Wins hip's paper, the Jour nal of Education, published in Bos ton, prints an article giving high praise to the Oregon Agricultural College. It is called a "dynamic in stead of a static, institution." - This means that it has a firm hold on life and keeps its work up with the times. President Kerr," says the Journal of Education, "is an intellectual dyna mo," which signifies that he is fer tile in ideas and a true leader in the intellectual world. . The agricultural colleges of the United States are far more important to our educational system than the old-time pedagogues are willing- to admit.' In their view education still means a hotchpotch of Latin, Greek and mathematics taken into the mind without any particular purpose. The stew is supposed to exert some magi cal effect, but Just what it is nobody seems to know. The agricultural col leges look at the matter very differ ently. To them education means def inite preparation for a definite' voca tion. It has purpose above everything else and goes to its end with Inflexible determination. The older pedagogues imagined that "culture," whatever it may be. could only be obtained by following a fixed series of studies inherited from the dark ages. The modern teacher, especially if he has a chair in an ag ricultural college, is convinced that culture" is a kind of honey that is easily 'distilled from any Intellectual blossom. It may come out of Latin but it may also come out of dairying or apple-growing. The ripeness of the mind, which is produced by the medieval curriculum; Is like .that of Stilton cheese, delicious to a palate properly trained, but strongly tainted with decay. DICKENS AND THE COURTS. It is common to suppose that Charles Dickens obtained his knowl edge of the law from his experience a reporter in Lord Lyndhurst's court. He earned his first money by the stenographer's art and in "David Copperfield" he gives us some account of the trials which beset him while he was learning it. The chances are, however, that Dickens obtained, his not wholly favorable opinions of the British courts -from another source. In the course of his life he brought five chancery suits against publish ers whom he accused of pirating his books. The great novelist was not the meekest person in the world. His ardor in defense of his rights not In frequently brought him into troubled waters. Five chancery suits would be quite enough to familiaize him with the procrastination, expense and waste of that exasperating tribunal. In "Bleak House" he used -his hardly won knowledge to such good purpose that he actually moved the stolid Brit ish, mind to undertake some reforms. The court of chancery in our day is a very different institution from what it was when Dickens sued his pub lishers and the change for the better must be credited to him as much as t- any other man, perhaps more. Every experience of life is grist for the novelist's mill. The truly great historian of life and manners finds suitable material everywhere. An annoying lawsuit is as profitable to him, when it is over, as the happiest holiday. Sorrow is as fruitful as Joy. Like the poet, Dickens seems to have learned in sorrow what he taught in song. We suppose at least tnat his chancery suits must have been sor rowful. He never depicts such ex periences as occasions or joy for other people. THE BRITISH DEFEAT AT COKOSEt. The victory of a German squadron over a British naval force orr the coast of Chile will surely cause exul tation in Germany and will fill the British heart with rage and mortifi cation. Though the British ships were older and fewer in number than the Germans, they made a pitifully poor showing. The destruction of the Monmouth and Good Hope and the practical immunity of the German ships and their crews from injury demonstrate that either the Germans were far superior marksmen or their guns had far greater range. The lat ter supposition Is supported by the fact that the British ships were much older. They were probably disabled before they approached .close enough to make their shells hit.' The quick concentration of so pow-' erful a German squadron and its bringing the British into action may be ascribed to the excellent means of securing information the spy sys tem possessed by Germany, of which there have been many examples dur ing this war. The Scharnhorst and Gnelsenau had been reported in the South Pacific, the Leipzig and Num bers in the- North Pacific, while the British squadron was last reported as passing through the Straits of Magel lan. Instructions must have reached the two widely-separated pairs of German ships to meet off the Chilean coast, and the Bremen must have been sent from some other quarter to Join them. It is probably no reflec tion on the British squadron that it should have failed, but it seems to be a reflection on British naval strategy that It should have had to face such odds. Doubtless the British ..Admiralty considered that supreme necessity demanded the presence of the best and newest ships in home waters to guard the coast and to act as convoys for the transports which are carrying men and ' supplies to the army in France, and also for those which were bringing troops from India and the colonies. Britain can better afford to risk the loss of an occasional freight steamer than that of a trans port laden with troops. She there fore uses her best ships to guard the transports, leaving the older, slower and more poorly armed ships to take care of the merchantmen. - Thus the necessity of gathering men and ma terial from all parts of her far-flung empire gives Britain much work for her navy and is a source of weakness to the defense of her scattered mer chantmen. The German navy has no such duty to perform.. There are no troops to transport by sea, for all are within Germany's borders. There are no mer chant ships to guard, for the German merchant marine has taken refuge in port. Those German warships which the outbreak of war found at large in foreign waters or perhaps which were deliberately left at large are free to commit ravages on British ships, untrammeled by other duties. They are in the same position as was the Alabama during the Civil War. So long as a victorious German squadron of five cruisers is free to raid British shipping throughout the Pacific-or to cross into the Atlantic auu yiejr . tiio ejv wiutll bail; tngiana s Dreaa ana meat; so long as the Emden can work her will on British- ships in the Indian Ocean and I can make sucn daring raids as tnat I , , a i I " , i"?. " pan oi me .tsritisn supplies wui come from the Pacific Coast, but It runs great risk of never reaching a British port unless a superior force disposes I of the German squadron The tars on the main British fleet are no doubt aching for a decisive fight with the main German fleet, but the latter is biding Its time. Sub marines pick off British ships one at a time, thus reducing the British pre ponderance of strength. When the Germans can catch their enemy at a disadvantage or can encounter an equal force, they are likely to dash out, eager for the encounter. If then the British win, powerful squadrons used as a background for Lauder's act; may be sent abroad to dispose of the and shows a view of the Panama-Pa-raiders and to prove once more Brit- clfie Exposition palaces and gardens. lsh naval supremacy. If they lose, I though every Briton denies the pos- I sibllity, Britannia will be threatened with famine and may be forced to I fight a death struggle on her own where to go in 1915. A note of inter soil. I est lies In the fact that the DaintinK The hard-hearted British authorl- ties have spread grief among Belgian I and American refugees by refusing to I admit their dogs. Belgian dogs are I comparatively respectable, since they note is so obviously sounded, the eco are beasts of burden. American dogs nomical Mr. Lauder is probably the are nothing better than pets mainly owned by women. The latter can cir cumvent the authorities by leaving their dogs next time they go to Eu rope and taking their children if they have any. Woman suffrage has not quite made the gains expected for it. As the cause moves Eastward its prog ress becomes more difficult. In states like Ohio it had to face a com bination between the "wets" and the normal foes of the women's move ment. Future victories will be hard won, but no doubt the leaders will take fresh courage from every repulse. There is trouble ahead for the small countries like Holland and Nor way, through whose ports supplies are passing to Germany. The British will probably be forced to blockade all their ports as they did in the wars with Napoleon. Germany's air fleet would be useless without erasoline. which can be obtained only from the I United States. It Is reported that the Japanese are now sending colonists to captured Pacific Islands. Of course. Did any one suspect Japan entered the war for her health, even though she did announce that to be the case? The Demon Rum did not lose quite all his dominion this time, but how long can he keep the remnants? He is fighting a losing battle which can end only in one way. Time is the tireless ally of the "Drys." An airman failed to snipe two rul ers he was after. The airman is un successful when he extends his oper ations beyond the sphere of helpless women and children. When those benighted states that defeated equal suffrage realize its benefits, they will get into the ad vanced order of registry. The Oregon man gazes contempla tively at his wife and realizes she did well Tuesday, but he will not say so. for obvious reasons. However, the loser will shortly .find a multitude of reasons for assuring himself that it was realy best for him that he lost. There Is something in the party name of Republican not quite enough, - yet a lot. Democratic jobholders will now hasten to declare themselves innocent non-partisans. And no wonder we are turning away from the Democracy. Too much Is. plenty. Recurrent delays in counting bring out the advantages of the voting machine. SU11 the report that the German fleet has left its base may be a base canard. It was a bad day for the grand- standers.' hook. All three of 'em got the And the day of the political grand stander and four-flusher is gone by. urav-h th iirhln of two ,,.. and ten minutes Tuesday did it. The German fleet has sailed out into the open. So beware. Anyway Dr. Smith fooled some of us by failing to run third. The Czar is reported on his way to e front. Again or yet? th the next Congress. The line of gubernatorial succes sion is broken. ' To live up to its name, Arizona goes arid. Ole Hanson he ban out of sight already. Republicans are certainly waking up. Back to the Army and Navy Club! Has anybody here seen Lafferty? Now he is plain "Doc" Smith. Alexander is the Idaho Moses. Now for the war. Lafferty also ran. Stars and Starmakers Br LEONE CASS BAER. Adeline Genee, billing herself as the "Idolized Danish Dancer," Is a vaude ville headline act at Keith's in New York, and will tour the country in a two-a-day act. All of which sounds odd in face of the little dancer's as sertion when she was In Portland over a year ago with her own big company that she "wanted to retire and be known nH 1nat nlain T rR. Isitt," Mr. j.,tt Tr,rtr. na ,..!. hut mavbe the war ha. depleted tho coffers of th. JgittS. This from the New York Morning Telegraph will be of Interest to Port landers: Ann Swinburne, who returned to New York last week after a aeries of more or uni)ie.nt Xnerienee In the European war belt, has signed contracts for a cnlo opera she will produce In January. Henry Blossom will write the book and lyrics of this new work, the music will be by Victor Heabert. who also composed the melodies of "The Madcap Duchess," In which Miss Swinburne was seen last year. - Harry Lauder has a novel and artis tic departure in the line of advertising curtains. It is being painted in Ban Francisco now, and will be used by the Scotch comedian on his tour of the United States, which began two weeks - The curtain is a back-drop to be In order that no auditor may overlook the import of the painting it will carry In huge letters a line telling the world or the world that views Harry's act is being done under the supervision of Jules Guerln, who is chief of the color department of the board of artists who are decorating the Exposition buildings. Also, since the advertising price of a curtain to the good. Pauline Chase, the original "Pink Pa jama Girl," who has been playing Peter Pan in England for the past six years, was married a few days ago In London to Alexander Drummond. the banker. She is a Washington, D. C. girl, and her career has been meteoric. Any other time than when the papers are filled with war news and politics Miss Chase's end of a chase would have been noted in at least a column. This is the ,15th time that Miss Chase has been engaged. There was a time when it seemed certain that she would marry Claude Graham-White, the avla tor, and on another occasion It was predicted that she would wed "Lawdy Artha' " Wellesley, the great-grandson of the Duke of Wellington. It has also been reported on various occasions that she would wed Sir James Matthew Bar rie, her foster father, but it has re mained for Banker Lieutenant Drum mond to capture the pink pajama girl Ann AiuraoeK, heading the company of "The Beautiful Adventure," began an out-of-New York season November after which the company starts on its tour to this coast. Carrol McComas, a Los Angeles girl, once of the Tivoli chorus and known as "the whistling girl," Is playing the title role in "The Salamander," pre sented first in New York by the Sel- wyns last Saturday. This was the play in which Janet Dunbar was to have appeared, but she has since become John Mason's leading woman In his new success "Big Jim Garrity," now running at the New York Theater. George Alison and Nance O'Neil are heading a stock company at the Schen ley Theater in Pittsburg. Alfred Hick man Is also of the company. So is Mr. Alison's wife, Gertrude Rivers. e Reports have it that Willard Mack's new play, "Kick In," made out of his old vaudeville sketch which we have seen here at the Orpheum, is going to prove another "Within the Law" suc cess. The reviewers go into delighted details over the play, and one of them gives this accounting of Willard Mack's curtain speech, a sort of au thorial chin-chin which may become the season's vogue. Says Mack, who used to be a Baker leading man: Ladles an' Gents--6n de level, I'm prout ter be wit youse ter-nite, anter shake youse by tie mlt. D-Ls Is me foist little ting ter be perduced. Pipe me, kiddo. do, when X sez aat 1 been scratcbln' me Bpencerian fer some years. As fer dls dish er Junk, Jes' split de hand-smashm stuff fifty-fifty. 1 geta me allce and youse kin sen' de res' over to der perducer by parcel post. 1 ain't after no lnterlexual dram ers. Nix on de thlnkln' parts. Glad youse grab jff de play ter-nTght. If I wazn't here gettln' away with it after a long vaudeville course In stump speechln', catch-as-catch- can, I'd be in. Mike Dolan's cafe wit me foots on de bar rail an' me chin in a tin uv suds. Now youse kin take It er leave it It's up ter youse. Margaret Anglin is coming Pacific I Coastward In "Lady Windermere's Fan.' Milestones," which comes the week of November 8 to the Heilig, missed us last season or rather we missed see ng the production because it proceeded no farther north than San Francisco on its tour. It started -out late from New York, and the open season for the meater naa ciosea ere it reacned Port- land. "Milestones," which is an Arnold Bennett-Edward Knoblauch play, . ran for two years in London and one year at the Liberty Theater in New York City. And this is what one critic in Chi cago says of a great artist so-called: .T". e, but an frost ct . how. Bunny was about as funny as a John Bunny opened at the Auditorium I cry for succor. He should never get away from moving pictures. When he doe, he is gone. He Is as funny as he was in George Lederer's "Girl Rangers." and his comedy that show reminded one of a funeral. But John Bunny will go away with a lot of Chicago money and "Joseph and His Brethren" could hardly pay expenses at the same theater. Bat One Leader. PORTLAND. Nov. 4. (To . the Edi tor.) In a news item which appeared In The Oregonlan relative to the open I Ing on Sunday or the new home of Second Church of Christ. Scientist, the first reader was mistakenly referred to as also the leader. In Christian Science churches "The Church Reader shall not be a Leader" (Church Man ual, Article III, section 8.) The Chris tian Science movement has but one leader. Mary Baker Eddy, the discov erer and founder of Christian Science. Sunday marked the formal opening of the new Second Church but not Its dedication, as was stated. Christian Science churches are dedicated when fully paid for. Then and Now O n 8 hundred Today the giant super-dreadnought "Pennsylvania" Is to the battleship ' Connecticut " as the gunship Amer ica was to the Bon Homme Richard in which Paul Jones first made the American Navy a power on the sea. When the Bon Homme Richard defeated the Ser apis, the American Nation numbered less than 3,000,000 people. Today America has more than 33 times that number of people but It has a Navy more than' 10,000 times as strong as its little Navy at its best in the and thirty - three years ago today the "America," the 74-gun llne-of-battle ship was launched at Ports mouth, N. H. This was known as the first American man-o'-war. If the word dreadnought had then been in use the America would have been it's nation's first dreadnought. It was in that day a most formidable battleship and was built under the di rection of Paul Jones, the most famous naval hero of the Revolution, and it was built for Jones to drive the British from Revolution. One of our smallest gun boats could sink the whole fleet of brigs and schoon ers of 1776. and perhaps whip the entire British navy of that day. A bat tleship like the Pennsylva nia could whip all the navies of the world in the days of our Revolution, and this statement would probably hold good until the iroifclad came into full posses sion of the sea. American waters. When Jones re turned to Phila delphia In Febru ary. 1781, from Eu rope, after his bat-. tie on the Bon Homme Richard with the Serapis, Congress tendered him a vote of thanks. For months thereafter he spent his time designing and working out the details of his new ship in the hurry to get it to sea. But it took time then as well as now to build a The Pennsylvania cost to build and equip over $14,- battleship and be fore the America could be finished ooo.ooo. money enough to build the war ended. all the wooden Congress then pre warships of the world in 1776. An hour's broadside sented the America to France for the 74-gun French from the'Pennsyl ship "Magnlfique," vania would cost destroyed In the harbor of Boston. Jones then joined the Russian navy and the first line-of-battle ship the United States ever built never had the opportunity to show its fighting power under the American flag and with an American crew. the Government more than the building of the first battleship America did. A POT AND KETTLE SCRAP. "You're a miserable ingrate!" says the Ivalser to the King, "You had no excuse for tossing your war helmet in the ring: 'TIs beyond my comprehension why you snuggled up to France. And I yet will play the fiddle while your Majesty will dance." Then the King said to the Kaiser: "O you fain would rule the earth. You would have your picture hanging over every family hearth; You would place your foot on Europe, grind it down beneath your heel. Caring not a continental for the public woe or weal. "You are talking through your helmet, said the Kaiser in reply, "I abhor the vulgar epithet, else might say you He! I have no such aspiration as a univer- - sal reign TIs a fanciful obsession of your out-o'- kllter brain. have been a man of peace for many years, as well you know. But a sense of justice led me to stand in with Francis Joe, And the quarrel with the Serbs would have been settled p. d. q. But for cussed intermeddling of the French mogul and you." Quoth the King: "Now, look here, Will- lam, here s a fact you can't gainsay: Twas your butting in that plunged all Europe in the bloody fray; Had you quelled your martial spirit, in your pocket kept your hands. There'd have been no frightful carnage. been no desolated lands. You may try to lay this trouble at the royal British door. But the somber shadow falls across your own imperial floor; You're responsible for turmoil where there should be peaceful calm That's a fact, and I can prove it by old Yankee Uncle Sam." From beyond the bounding billows In a ringing voice there came The words: "Don't put it up to me, for I'm not in the game; A motto hangs above my door where everyone can see. And even he who runs may read, 'tis Strict Neutrality." Fight out your pot and kettle scrap be tween yourselves, my friends The world will name the one to blame when roar of battle ends. But I have got no time to waste; I'm busy every day In building up prosperity in my own U. S. A." James Barton Adams. Vancouver, Wash. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Taft. ASTORIA. Or.. Nov. 3. (To the Edl- tor.) Kindly give me a short biogra phy of our President, Woodrow Wil son, The particular information I de sire In this respect is concerning his education. Is his wisdom attributable to a splendid education, or is it due to an inborn Judgment with only ordi nary schooling? What schools or col leges did he attend? Also, has he ever been president of any institution of learning? Still another question: Is ex-President Taft a man of brilliant scholastic attainments, and does he ex cel Wilson in this respect? L. B. Mr. Wilson was graduated from Princeton in 1879 and has degrees from several institutions of learning. He was president of Princeton from 1302 to 1910. Mr. Wilson has a scholarly in tellect and a broad education. Mr. Taft probably does not excel Mr. Wil son in general scholastic attainments. as he has devoted his life largely to the law, while Mr. Wilson has been an educator, author and a devotee of lit erature. WOMAN'S RIGHTS. Pa and me has been a quarrelin' All the blessed livelong day. He says I must do my votin" As he says, and just his way. "Now," says I, "I do object To vote them measures as you say." Then Pa, ne looks so very wise. And says, "You promised to obey!" Whycall this "woman's rights?" My rights amount to nothln"! When I begin to state my mind. Pa says, "Don't burn the muffin!" I take them from the oven. And Pa, he sets there puffin. Then I forget where I was at And go about a snuffln'. Pa and me has happy lived. Close onto 40 year. I've done my best to make a home, And now. as death draws near, I hate to set my foot down hard. And say, "Now, Pa. look here!" So, on election day, I'll say, "I'll vote just as you say, my dear. Agnes Calbreath Hoag, Sodaville, Or. Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oregonlan, November 4. 18S9. Woodrow Wilson in the November issue of the Atlantic Monthly writes on some National perils, saying, among other things: "This vast and miscellan eous democracy of ours must be led. its giant faculties must be schooled and directed. Leadership cannot belong to the multitude; masses of men cannot be self-directed, neither can groups of communities." Astoria, Oct, 28. (To the Editor.) I believe that all competent authorities who have studied the matter of im provement at The Dalles are thorough ly convinced that a boat railway Is the only feasible or possible plan of solving the water transportation of the Columbia in a reasonable length of time. My experience dates back to 1862, when I was master of a vessel run ning from Celilo to the head of naviga tion. J. H. D. Gray. Berlin. Bismarck today received a message from Emperor William and af terwards said that the German ruler was desirous of continental harmony. Washington, Nov. 2. North and South Dakota were today admitted into the union. Governor Millette, of North Da kota, and Governor Miller, of South Dakota, were present when President Harrison signed the proclamation. Detective James Berry announced to day that a rogues' gallery would bo started in Portland. The Laldes' Aid Society of the First Congregational Church was entertained at a social at the residence of Mrs. George Marshall Wednesday night. The drawing of prizes took place In the Farmers' and Mechanics' Store last night. Those who won were: L. Cren shaw, Mrs. Hickok and Miss Susie Woodard. The awards were made by Melvin G. Winstock, L. Samuel, of the West Shore, and J. J. Burnett, Henry Bloch. the brother of Rabbi Bloch. of this city, was killed In & rail road accident at Columbia. Pa. The Marine Band of Portland will welcome P. S. Gtlmore, the leading band conductor and organizer of the world. when he arrives tomorrow at the O. -i. & N. depot at 6:40 P. M. On Thursday night Miss Helen Moser tendered Miss Emma Hackney, of Port land, a brilliant birthday party at the former's residence. Eleventh and J streets. Bailey Avery left last night for Spo kane Falls, having been transferred to the local staff of the Review. Half a Century Age From The Oregonlan. November 4, 1S64. The penitentiary in this city 13 now conducted under the new organization authorized by the State Legislature. The superintendency, -formerly in charge of Governor Glbbs, devolves upon A. C. R: Shaw, former warden. The appointments of the superintendent are: John C. Gardner, warden, and John P. Ward, deputy warden. Jarvin J. Bush, who has been on trial at Vancouver, in the United. States Court, for the murder of Ed mund Sullivan, at the Cascades last Spring, was acquitted yesterday. The brothers who still remain in custody on the same complaint, will most likely be released without a trial. The necessity of obtaining a dredger for the river was the subject of a mes sage from Mayor Failing at the last meeting of'the City Council. The mes sage also spoke of the requirements of the new city charter. James CreiEhton. aged 63 years, and a former resident of. Washington Coun ty, died near Dallas, on October 28. Washington, Nov. 2. The Depart- has received Information from the British provinces that there Is a con spiracy on foot to set Are to the prin cipal cities of the Northern states on the day of the Presidential election. (Signed) Seward. The Front-street bridge has been re- planked, under the superintendence of the Street Commissioner, for the safety of the community. A person who has curiosity In such matters has been keeping count of the vehicles that daily cross this bridge, and tinds that the general average per day is about 400. Citizens of The Dalles are advised that Mr. Pearne will address them on Saturday evening next for Lincoln and Johnson. The Union Club, meeting at the Pi oneer Hotel last night, was well at tended. The audience listened to splen did speeches from H. N.-George and J. li. Mitchell. THE PATHS. The salt spray fanned my cheek and cooled my brow. Fevered beneath the weight of Sor rows load; While far Into the -distance, gleaming gold. Chasing Life's oases, ran Arcady's road: Whither shall I find the fair abode of peace? I cried, across the wide blue stretch of sea? Or yonder where the gipsy trail roves on To unnamed lands where winds of joy blow free? t Then, lo, another path world-old and worn I found led through the heart and up to God, Lined with countless trials and jagged steeps. Whereon was writ " 'TIs here great souls have trcd"! . JO HARTMAN. Glendale, Cal. New Strike In Alaska. FORTLAND, Nov. 4. (To the Edi tor.) Please inform us whether there Is any truth regarding the new gold find in Alaska. Where can informa tion be obtained for full particulars? EIGHT OF US. The Oregonlan has no information on the subject other than that published. Copyright, 1814. hy The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World.) Prosperity Talks (No. 7.) to Advertisers: BY F. D. CARUTHERS Imagine a super-searchlight in East port. Me., playing Its rays on Yuma, Ariz., another in Portland throwing its spot of light on Key West. Here you have a great "X." each staff of which is nearly 3000 miles long. And all within the United States. It crosses hundreds of millions of acres of farms with bumper crops. It illuminates tens of thousands of prosperous shops. It lights nearly 100.000,000 people of the United States, all going about their dally pursuits, undisturbed. They are buying and selling; using and producing; saving today and spend ing tomorrow. They will buy supplies for Winter and seeds for Spring. They are stock ing up with raw material for the turning out of finished product. They need you you need them. Advertise! Advertise!