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8 THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIA, TTTESDAT, DECE3IBEK 8, 1914. a i FOBTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofflce as second-class matter. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance: (Bl Mall.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year $8.H Daily. Sunday Included, six months..... 4.25 Dally, Sunday included, three months.... 2- Dally, Sunday included, one month...... Daily, without Sunday, one year......... o.t0 Dally, without Sunday, six months....... a-?5 Daily, without Sunday, three months.... ! Dally, without Sunday, one month...... -60 Weekly, one year. ................... - 1.50 Sunday, one year.. 2.50 Sunday and Weekly, one year.......... 8.50 By Carrier.) Dally, Sunda- Included, one year. ...... -$3-0 Dally, Sunday included, one month... .... -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 Rates 12 to 18 pages. 1 cent; 18 to 32 pages, 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages. 8 cents; 60 to 6U pages. 4 cents: 62 to 70 pages, o cents; 78 to U2 pages, 6 cents. Foreign post, ace. double rates. Eastn Business Office Verree & Conk Jln. New York, Brunswick building; Chi ccfto, Htenger building. Han Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Com. pony, '4:l Market street. PORTLAND. TUESDAY, DEC, 8, 1914. MR. WILSON OBJECTS. President Wilson's objection to Representative Oardner's proposed inquiry into the Nation's unprepared ness for defense is as flimsy an at tempt to avoid a great public duty as could be imagined. He considers Mr. Gardner's plan "an unwise way of handling a question which might create very unfavorable international impressions." "What can that mean except that to put this Nation in proper state of defense would arouse the suspicion of some one or more other nations? ' The only nations whicH could Just ly entertain such suspicions would be those which harbored evil designs against the United States. The sooner we arm for defense against them the better, without regard to their sus picions of our purpose. No nation which intends to live at peace with us should or will be perturbed by our purely defensive measures. A good citizen takes no alarm when his peaceable neighbor buys a revolver for defense against burglars; only the burglars are alarmed. Let them be so. The more alarmed they are the better for the safety of our homes. So, if by looking to our National defenses, we alarm some burglar nation, we should be gratified by the fact, for then our purpose is half gained. Mr. Wilson professes to favor the fullest inquiry by Congress, but that is not enough. Congress already knows all that it need know; so do the heads of departments and bu reaus and officers of the Army and Navy. Executive chiefs and Army and Navy officers have informed Congress again and again that we are practically defenseless, but have pro duced no impression. The only voice to which Congress will harken is that .of public opinion. Until that voice speaks in unmistakable tones, Con gress will keep the Army e.t its pres ent diminutive size, scattered among posts in the Indian country, without training in large bodies, without enough artillery or ammunition, with, out equipment for a sudden activ ity in time of war, without enough men to man Coast defenses; Congress .will keep the Navy only 50 per cent efficient, short of men, ammunition, auxiliary ships, well-located yards and docks; Congress will continue to pour money into useless Army posts and obsolete Navy yards, waterless Southern creeks and public buildings in villages until the people call a halt on such waste and demand that the public revenue be expended first on the primary purpose of all govern ments the public defense. The talk about arming for defense being militarism is buncombe. This Nation wishes to attack no nation, but it refuses to live in a fool's para dise and to cry "peace" when there is no peace. We are told that the moral law will conquer. It will if backed by the greatest and best armies, led by the best Generals, equipped with the best weapons and backed by the most money. We be lieve that moral law will triumph ultimately in any case, but we prefer to hasten its triumph by backing right with might. We cannot preserve peace by being rich and defenseless; we can by being prepared to defend our riches. A time when the most advanced nations of the world are tearing at each other's throats and trampling on treaties is no time to prate pretty platitudes about peace. It is a time for every nation to look to its armor. i BRYAN'S VIEW OF HIS OFFICE. Certain conclusions are justified by the synopsis of Louis Seibold's article in the New York World, which is published in another column. Mr. Bryan does not regard public office as a public trust, to quote the words of a greater Democrat than he. He regards it as an opportunity to reward his political friends at the public expense and thereby to build up a Bryan machine in the Govern- !ment departments and to advance his own political fortunes. He considers that the acceptance of the highest Cabinet office imposes no obligation to devote his time to his duties. He appears at the De partment for only a few days at a .time, and then devotes his attention to the distribution of jobs among his followers. In his estimation the test of fit ness for public office is not ability to serve the public, but past service rendered to him personally and the prospect of like service in the future. He does not regard the newspapers as the accepted channels through which the public should be informed of those affairs with which he is en trusted. He regards their represent atives as men prying into official se crets, and persistent seeking after information Is rebuked as an attempt to argue or to draw inferences. This does not accord with President Wil son's promise to do business in the open. just such secretlveness about for eign affairs in Europe has been con demned as largely responsible for the present war. In some countries the people have no voice in the decision between peace and war, though they must pay for war with their lives and fortunes. Even in democratic Great Britain, though Parliament alone has authority to declare war. diplomatic negotiations are secret. The Cabinet may thiJs secretly commit the nation beyond recall, leaving Parliament no honorable course except war. Mr. Bryan's methods tend in the same direction. Though he is more likely to commit the Nation to a dishonor able peace than to an honorable war, he may bind the Nation so far that Congress, with which the final de cislon rests, would have no freedom of action. This is not democratic, nor is it safe. whose Bcrr? The United States is making a conscientious effort to remain neu tral, in name and in fact, between the warring nations of Europe. It is an aspiration The Oregonlan commends; and it calls all its readeres to wit ness that It has been an Impartial observer of and commentator upon the events of the world's tragedy. But it feels Justified, nevertheless, in ex pressing its wonder that Professor Kuehnemann, an authorized voice of Germany in America, has seen fit in Portland to explain Germany's at titude toward Belgium in the follow ing terms: Eelgium has made war by her own wlU and not by the win of Germany, and It Is cheap sentimentality to find more cause for sorrow over the sufferings of Belgium than over the sufferings of any of the other peo ple involved in this great war. Belgium chose badly, thinking that England could win, and has herself to thank -for her fate. In the prisoners' camps In Germany the Bel. glans reproach the French and English for having failed to come to their help in time, as they promised, and in this they are en tirely right. When war was declared the circumstances were such that for Germany to respect the neutrality of Belgium was signing her own death warrant. Belgium was a fortress be tween England and France against Ger many. There was no longer any historical right for the existence of Belgium's neutrality any more: and It was fatal to the develop ment of Germany. Belgium's neutrality had become for Ger many her death warrant, and there is no guarantee on earth that can bind an indi vidual or a nation to its own death war rant. This is remarkable language. If we understand Professor Kuehne mann correctly it is "cheap senti mentality" for the American people to offer succor to the starving and ruined people of Belgium. Should they stop the measures of relief go ing on everywhere in this country and let the Belgians suffer the whole con sequences of their mistaken opposi tion to the Germans in their resist ance of the invader and their defense of their own firesides? If it is right that the Belgian non combatants should starve and die, why does Germany not refuse to per mit their rescue by America? If it is wrong that they should starve and die, why does not Ger many feed them and relieve them? NEW TORE'S 'SCANDALOUS BIRTH RATE. Our wise men are worrying again over New York's birth rate. It is disgracefully low, so much lower than those of Berlin, London and Paris that the whole country ought to feel scandalized over it. Berlin produces forty children to the thousand of population annually, London thirty five, Paris 25, while New York con tributes but twenty. The reason offered for this derelic tion is the influx of immigrants. What should we do without the ig norant and convenient foreigner to load our sins upon? Immigrants are commonly supposed to be rather prolific, but this virtue evidently re quires them to be married. Now most of New York's incoming for eigners are single. Hence their com parative unproductiveness. Still they do have some children, the Germans fewest of all, the French next. Then the Irish, the Italians and the Poles come in order. The New York statistics show that the most prolific of our foreign im migrants are those who profess the Catholic faith. Sidney Webb found the same to be true of English work ing-class families not long ago. There thus appears to be some subtle con nection between lack of religion and sterility. OUR WATCHWORD. A group of anxious American citi zens waits upon Secretary Bryan, and lays before him the facts about rav aged homes, murdered men, ravished women, tortured priests, violated churches, blackmailed banks, wasted fields, ruined villages, despoiled cities, an oppressed and helpless peo ple and a devastated and revolution torn country Mexico. He asks them if they have property or investments In Mexico, and, if they have, he re fuses to act on the plea that they are interested and prejudiced persons. who expatriated themselves by aban doning the United States. When Secretary Bryan learns simi lar stories f rdrrL other citizens who have no immediate interests in Mex ico, he wants to know why we should meddle in affairs not our own But we have meddled, and we have mournfully muddled the Mexican situation. How long will the American peo ple tolerate the unprecedented and inexcusable policy of suppression by our State Department? How long will ' they continue, by silence, or half-hearted approval, to subscribe to the un-American doc trine that the line of least resist ance in our foreign affairs euphoni ously known as "watchful waiting" is worthy the traditions and the ideals of a great people? Is duty seen and not done, but weakly evaded, to be hereafter the watchword of the American Nation? BENEFITS OF BREATHING. The long-cloistered Mrs. Potter Palmer has returned to Chicago " so ciety. The light of her countenance again shines upon the friends whom she bereft of it years ago in order to meditate in solitude upon the vanity of pink teas and bridge. Her return was celebrated by a lecture in her art gallery by an intimate friend of hers. Dr. Emily Noble. This distin guished physician delivered herself upon the subject of breathing, which, as she sees it, is the most important of all our bodily functions. Most of us breathe improperly ac cording to Dr. Noble, and in this opinion she is confirmed by many great and erudite prophets of health. We do not take air enough into our lungs and what we do admit stingily and scantily does not flow in as rhythmically as it should. It is not mere breathing but rhythmic breath ing that makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Some of the ben efits of ideally perfect breathing Dr. Noble detailed to her aristocratic audience under the benignly approv ing countenances of the works of art on Mrs. Palmer's gallery walls. One of them is the defeat of the tuberculosis germ. Correct breath ing. Dr. Noble assures the world, will prevent this dread foe of mankind from even beginning his fatal career In the lungs. Children breathe cor rectly by nature and it seems there fore as if the little dears ought to be immune from tuberculosis. The only reason why they are not must be the improper breathing habits they learn from nurses and ignorant servants. Another crowning benefit of plenty of breath is the disappearance of fat. The woman who habitually keeps her lungs supplied with oxygen need fear no fat, either on the end of her nose or around her waist. Oxygen, simple and cheap as it is, does away with the need of anti-fat medicines of all sorts and even makes corsets super fluous. In our opinion Dr. Noble will go down in history as a benefactor of her race if all she says is true. It is idle to object that we have all of us been breathing for lo, these thou sands of years and our miseries still thrive. We haven't been breathing in the right way; PUBLIC INTEREST FORGOTTEN'. . Inquiry Into the Colorado coal min ers' strike by the Industrial Relations Commission has brought to light the extremes to which each party to the controversy has gone. There are re spects in which one is as unreasona ble as the other. On the miners' side we find men who strike because dis charge of men who attended the funeral of a "scab" is refused. On the employers' side are men who will not permit a union organizer among their employes, who control the civil government of their district and who procure continuance for a long time of a Coroner's Jury, which almost Invariably exonerates employ ers from blame for accidents to min ers. Amid such bitter and unreasonable contention the larger public Interest is entirely lost to sight. By the quar rels of miners and mine-owners a great industry is paralyzed, a whole state reduced to anarchy and a bur den of debt imposed upon it. A higher power needs to step in, as an old fashioned schoolmaster would step between two fighting schoolboys, force an agreement and see that it is ob served. The arbitration and mediation law, which has prevented several railroad strikes, -would still more beneficially be applied to mining and other in dustries. If those who refuse to ac cept the verdict of a conciliation board cannot be compelled to yield, they should at least be held up to public reprobation. They might be brought to their senses by stern, un sympathetic administration of the law, so that severe punishment would follow the slightest breach of the peace. Counties which have proved their incapacity to elect to office men who will impartially administer the law prove themselves unfit for self government and need to be brought under the rule of the state at large. ' WAR LOSSES. ' A conservative, but even so an ap palling, estimate of the toll of the European war has been prepared by Edward Bunnell Phelps, editor of the American Underwriter. Primarily the purpose of Mr. Phelps" article is to instill the wisdom of life Insurance into the people. He estimates that the chances of a soldier surviving one year of warfare are better than the chances of a civilian 25 years of age to live to the age of 36. Thus the effort is to emphasize the inexor ablenes3 of mortality expectancy by comparing it with the horrors of armed conflict. The ratio of total dealths from all causes in the European war is placed by Mr. Phelps at 90.1 per 1000 per annum. This ratio is calculated by averaging the ratios of deaths per 1000 per annum in the four princi pal wars of the last half century the American Civil War, the Franco German war, the Anglo-Boer war and the Russo-Japanese war. It is admitted that this ratio is probably low. The death rates traceable to wounds and disease have decreased in the three conflicts since our Civil War. The ratio of killed in battle, on the other hand, was greater in the Franco-German and Russo-Japanese wars, but the improvements in sani tation and army medical and surgi cal methods have succeeded In re ducing the total death rate. But Mr. Phelps points out that newly-devised and more destructive war mechanism, practically continu ous combat, and the German mass fighting that characterized the early stages of the present war, may counterbalance the promises of de creased mortality. The estimated death rate of 9 per cent a year is impressive, however low it may be. Just what it will total in a year of fighting depends of course on the number of men engaged. Six million Is the figure he selects for the prob able average number of combatants engaged during the first year of the war. Applying to this estimate the average death rate of 9 per cent inci dent to the last four wars and the total losses at the end of twelve months would be 540,000. This total can best be conceived by formulating a contrast. The pre sumptive mortality of male adults in the entire United States, with its peaceful 98,000,000 population, for the calendar year Is 530,000. These figures include all males 20 years old and upward the young, the men in their prime and the aged. Add 10,000 to this total, then remember that the war deaths are among men from 18 to 35 years only; recall, too, that both death rate and number of men en gaged are conservative estimates, and the American living in peace and fair measure of prosperity may be able to realize one of the awful con sequences of war. AUTO TRUCKS AND ROADS. The action of the Washington County officials against auto trucks is so extraordinary that it requires comment. Very likely the authorities had the best of reasons for the order virtually banishing auto trucks from the Washington County highways, but upon its face it looks sinister and there should be no delay in offering the public a 'full explanation. The plea that auto trucks injure the roads more than other vehicles sounds plausible, but It will not bear exam ination. The ordinary farm wagon with Its narrow tires works more injury to the country roads than any auto truck usually does. These wagons, even with light loads, cut down through the surface, form ruts and entail the destruction of any road they travel upon. Moreover, they are often excessively laden. A narrow tired farm wagon with a heavy load is the most destructive vehicle that uses the country highways. If the Washington County authorities really desired to protect the roads it seems as if they should have taken action against these wagons. They might at least have required the use of wide tires, which are as cheap as the nar row ones and far less injurious to the road bed. The auto truck business which Is ruined by the order of the Washing ton County authorities has become extensive in recent months and is of the greatest benefit to the farmers whom It serves. A well-informed freighter says it deprives Portland of at least 1000 gallons of milk a day. Of course it also deprives the dairy-1 men of the income from this milk. One of them Is feeding milk to his hogs. He cannot afford to haul It to the station and then pay the freight to Portland. The auto truck received it at his farm yard. These trucks were penetrating to all parts of the farming country and building up a service which was of inestimable benefit both to producers and con sumers. It is said that their charges for transportation to Portland cut under those of the railroads somewhat and persons who are cynically disposed discern In this fact the real ground for the extraordinary order of the Washington County . authorities. Without approving of such suspicions we cannot help observing that the order needs some better explanation than has yet been given for it. The auto truck is a perfectly ' legiti mate vehicle and it has come to stay. It Is a scientific invention peculiarly suited to develop the business of rural producers and It Is inexcusable to de prive them of its benefits. No doubt auto trucks help to tear up the roads, but other vehicles help also. The remedy is not to exclude them from the highways, but to build roads which are suited to modern traffic The Washington County fathers and their Imitators remind us of a good woman who was defending a graft ing road supervisor. "His roads," she argued, "would be all right If the farmers would only keep off from them with their loads of wood." The dear creature forgot what roads are for. The crying need of this part of the world is easy and swift intercommu nication. Motor trucks supply this requisite of civilization better in many respects than any other vehicle yet invented. Quite properly, however, as they become more of a competing factor with the railroads, we may put them under the same state supervi sion. To permit a line of autos par alleling a railroad to make rebates to arge customers, carry passengers free in order to get their freight, alter rates without notice and at their own pleasure and do like acts which the railroad may not lawfully do, is to promote unfair competition. There is no charge intended herein that the auto lines have yet been guilty of the practices forbidden the railroads. Such incidents, however, may be ex pected as competition grows keener. But to bar the auto trucks. from the county roads is to stand in the way of progress. The society to study and educate exceptional children which is to be organized next Friday at Superin tendent Alderman's office deserves all encouragement. Some children are exceptional for lack of wit, others because they have more than usual. Both classes fare rather badly In the ordinary class routine. The question of an outlet through the Gulf of Mexico for the Mississippi Valley and Western Canada is up again. It will grow more insistent as the use of the canal develops. The gulf is the natural doorway to the world for those regions and sooner or later they will learn how to use it. Dr. John W. Cook Is quoted in the School Bulletin upon "the ideal teacher." One of her traits is, he says, "to be forever open-eyed upon the wonder of the world." Would we all were, for it means poetry, art, re ligion, love. Having eyes we see not, having ears we hear not. In the old days the butcher boy was a reckless driver, wow tnat ne runs a power machine there is no limit to his endeavor. That occasion ally a patrolman is hit has ho signlfl- fance. The housewife wants the meat in a hurry; let the officer get out of the way. Consolidation is the watchword of the modern world. The Commercial Club and the Chamber of Commerce can do more and better work united than by keeping apart. The Bame is true of rural schools-. They grow stronger and better as they consoli date. It is becoming more and more ap parent that the American people do not approve of the Wilson-Bryan Mexican policy. Which is fortunate, as indicating that the American peo ple have not yet lost their spirit and sagacity in short, their Americanism. Report that Lodz has been taken by the Germans comes as a startling surprise just at a time when Petro grad had the Russians hovering about the outskirts of Berlin. The National League says the de fenseless condition of the United States is appalling.- That is, to every one even remotely acquainted with the facts. According to the Labor Commis sioner's report, there are about 11,000 Orientals . in Oregon, a very small percentage of the population. Why worry? Greece has been invited to take a hand in the game, and a3 she has done little fighting for some time, she likely 'will accept. Harvard is the greatest institution of learning. She has played twenty- seven games of football In three years and lost none. Congress may dispense another bil lion or so. Bet more goes for pork. though, than for -National defense. With Congress back on the Job it is peculiarly important to shop early while you have a few pennies left. Don't overlook the stock show. The Northwest is the great potential stock country. With Congress again In session there might be worse luck for the country. Christmas shopping and then tax time. Really it keeps us busy dis bursing. ' Now is the time to provide for someone else to have a merry Christ mas. But what West giveth the Legisla ture may take away. And then Greece roasted Turkey. The livestock show Is a live one. Looks a little like snow. Then and Now Thirty - eight years ago Sunday the first scientific cremation in the United States took place at Washing ton. Pa. The poi neer cremator was Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne, and the subject was the body of Baron de Palm. But the American prece dent had been set 83 y-ears before when under penal ty of losing a legacy of 60,000 pounds if he re fused, the son of Henry Laurens, South Carolina's Revoluti onary patriot, consigned his father's body to a funeral pyre. The ghastly ex perience of seeing his Infant child come to life just before burial in the earth is said to have been re sponsible for Laurens' demand to be ' cremated. The origin of cremation is lost in the days of un recorded history. It was practiced sporadically by the pre-Christian civilizations, ex cept in those countries whose religion, just as do some religions today, forbade its practice. The P a r s e e s were worship pers of Today about 1 per cent of the 800,900 individuals who die in the United States an nually are inciner ated in the 30 or more cremate r 1 u m s located in more than half of the states. Ten years ago the ratio was about one-half of 1 per cent. The move ment toward uni versal cremation is gradually spread 1 n g throughout the world. Europe has nearly 100 cremator iums, Germany dispos ing of 8S58 bodies by cremation in 1912. Conceded to be the place of r e s u r r e ction of the ancient prac tice, Italy leads the world in- per centage of crema tions, while during 1912 the City of St. Gall, Switzer land, reported that of the bodies of 5 3 5 individuals who died there, 201 were thus dis posed of. England is leaning toward the practice. The a u t h o r i ties of Westminster Ab bey, the repository for Great Britain's heroes, recently prohibited the burial of more bodies there. They must be cremated. Cremation is be coming a neces s 1 1 y , especially around the large centers of popula tion, declare advo cates of the prac tice. At the rate at which ceme teries are increas ing around such cities as New York and London, each of which require Are, but prohibited cremation because of the opinion that the lire was thus polluted. The Greeks and the Romans practiced cremation, while the Egyptians considered it an act of paganism ana disposed of their dead by earth burlaL The revival of the practice in Europe in the 17th cen tury was greeted with horror by the medieval peasants. Kings prohibited it under penalty of torture. Sir Henry Thompson introduced crema about 24 acres of additional land an nually to bury the dead. It has been predicted that the cities of the living will be veritably encompassed b y "cities of the dead." Humanity Is reluctant to give up the age tion into Great long practice of Britain shortly inhumation, some anti-cremationists declaring that "when the body is consumed by heat the soul is at the same time de stroyed." Legal minded objectors also point out that "it destroys all evidence of crime where mur der by poison has been committed." In the reply the cremationl sts argue"that crema tion is the only hygelnic, sanitary and economic method of dispos ing of our dead." after the closing of the American Civil War. Using reverberating furnace, he re duced a body weighing 144 pounds to four pounds of lima dust within 50 minutes. Encour aged by Thomp son's success. Dr. i-.e iioyne installed an improved in cinerator in a small one - story brick structure on a hill overlooking the town of Wash ington. Three years after his pioneer cremation. ne aied and was cremated in his own institution. AMERICAN ART ESTEEMED ABROAD It Ilaa Solidity and Style Purely Mod ern, Says Mr. Trulllnger. PORTLAND, Dec. 7. (To the Edi tor.) Your editorial in regard to "Our Troublesome Art" is very interesting. Having lived in the Latin Quarter in Paris some 6 '4 years, I am very fa miliar with the art of Europe and the American art exhibited there, and I assure you that the Americans are foremost of all foreigners exhibiting in the salon. The American art has not only solidity, but style that is purely modern. Our painters are as highly esteemed as any others in Europe, but at home they are passed over with Ignorant contempt. It Is with them the same as with American musical composers. In Portland we have a pianist whom I heard some three months at his work, while living in 8 Bis Rue Cam pagne Premiere, Paris, and I am con vinced that this genius (Richter) plays well enough for the most critical in Portland, for he was well received in Paris and much spoken of in the press. Portland has much fine talent In the arts. It can be stimulated to the point of appreciation by your timely remark, "One thing might be done everywhere to help along in the cause and that is the artistic treatment of school rooms. The barrack aspect of these child prisons is inexcusable. It would require only a little money to trans form them from dens of ugliness to bowers of beauty, but it would require a great deal of good taste and probably that is why it is not done. I, for a mechanic's wages, will deco rate a schoolroom. The subject I will submit to those who have the work in charge. JOHN TRULLINGER. Germans Woolly Confident. PORTLAND, Dec. 7. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonlan I find certain statements to have been made by person coming from Berlin stating that the Germans know that they will be ultimately defeated. This is most pre posterous and deceiving. I have re cently been In Germany, and many thousands of others from the States have also. We all received, the one impression that Germany's -conviction of final success was universal and ab solute. The patriotism and enthusiasm are supreme. All Germany wants is fair play; state the truth and the Germans will be thankful. Germany is a grand nation, most peace loving and most en lightened. This I hate learned in my visit in Europe, and this others who have been there have also learned. FATHER GREGORY. An Important "Tip- to the Jury. London Tit-Bits. The great John Philpott Curran was once addressing a jury in an important case. During his speech he observed that the Judge shook his head. Fear ing the gesture should have an adverse influence on the Jury, Curran warmed up for the moment and said: "I see, gentlemen, the motion of his lordship's head, but, believe me, If you remain here many days you will see that when his lordship shakes his head there's nothing in it." Barbers In New Zealand. . London Tit-Bits. Barbers in New Zealand have a min imum wage scale of $14 a week. Loss in Battle of Sedan. London News. Of 267,000 men in the battle of Sedan, 25,970 were killed or wounded. Million Eggs Lost In Breakage. Baltimore American. The New York market loses a million egg3 a year by breakage. BRYAN AS SECRETARY OF STATE. Fev Day. at Office. Devoted to Offlce eekera Public Affairs Kept Secret. A detailed description of W. J. Bry an's activities and inactivities as Sec retary of State, written by Louis Sei bold and published by the World, the leading Democratic paper of New York, leads to certain conclusions, which are by no means flattering to Mr. Bryan. From October 14 to November 28 he devoted ten days, ostensibly, to the affairs of his department. From Oc tober 14 to November 10 he was mak ing political speeches; from November 10 to November 17 he was at the State Department; -from November 17 to No vember 24 he was on his Florida es tate; November 25 and 27 he spent at the Department, Thanksgiving inter vening; on the evening of November 27 he went to Ann Arbor. His public duties apparently occupied ten days in a period of 46 days. The word "apparently" is used ad visedly, for the World says: - Until Mr. Bryan's departure for Florida a considerable portion of hte time each day has been given to the receotion of Political friends and to tireless efforts to land them in Jobs. On the day before he started for Florida "an American engaged in bust ness In South America was compelled to wait for more than two hours while Mr. Bryan discussed patronage with political retainers." This gentleman is quoted as saying that "by force of proximity" he was "compelled to hear fragments of the conversation." There were five of these political retainers, each "looking for a Job" and all "friends since '96.' They flattered Mr. Bryan until he "blushed like a school girl and he "beamed appreciatively' upon them when they promised future political support. "All of them," says this eyewitness, "departed with mani fest satisfaction over their prospects for being stacked up, against the Na tional payroll." The principal part of Mr. Bryan's ac tivity during his brief stays in Wash ington is shown to have been the pro curement of Jobs for Bryan men. He did not stop at his own department, but forced his friends into other de partments, stepping on the toes ot other cabinet officers and of Congress men who had candidates of their own for the same Jobs. " Estimates of the extent of his "raid on the public crib" range from 300 to 800 places and Mr. Leibold says: "It is not improbable that the score would total more than half of the maximum estimate." He continues: Apparently' not a single branch of the public service has been overlooked by the Secretary of State in his quest for Jobs for "Bryan men" the Diplomatic, Consular, De partmental, Postofflce, Army. Navy. Cus tomss. Internal Revenue, Civic and Insular in foreign possessions. One pt Mr. Bryan's most active exploiters manifested a com mendable degree of pride a day or two ago in declaring that "W. J. has got a man in every branch of the Government service." Below is a partial list of the Bryan men whom Mr. Bryan has put in of fice or attempted to put there: Henry M. Pindell, Peoria, 111., nom inated for Ambassador to Russia, but nomination declined after exposure of fact that he was to have been Am bassador In nr.me only and for but one year. John Lind, Minnesota, confidential commissioner to Mexico. J. E. Osborn, Wyoming, Assistant secretary of State, an "appointment that astonished persons trained in dip lomatic service." George Fred Williams, Massachusetts, Minister to Greece, who meddled in Al banian affairs and aspired to be King of Albania- Cone Johnson, of Texas; R. F. Rose and W. B. Fleming, foreign trade ad visers in State Department. R. L. Metcalf, editor of the Com moner, was appointed a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission at 314,500 a year to get him out of the way of Mr. Bryan s brother Charles, as a candidate for Governor of Nebraska, and when that body became obsolete he was made a member of the cere monies cemmiUee which is to conduct the celebration of opening the canal. This job expires next January and e new job may be found for him. W. F. Kelly, Lincoln, Net)., assistant solicitor of the State Department, thought he had no experience in . de partmental affairs. E. C. Sweet, clerk to Mr. Bryan, ap pointed to oblige A. L. Tolbert, the Secretary's former law partner, . who Is chief of the Modern Woodmen. John H. James, Urbana, O., who wrote newspaper articles boosting Mr. Bryan during all his campaigns, ap pointed chief of division of lnforma tion. State Department. at$3000 a year. C. M. Hitch, Georgia, assistant chief of division of Latin-American affairs. F. P. Lockhart, Texas, assistant chief of Far Eastern division. Cotter T. Bride, with whom Mr. Bryan lived when a Representative, was proposed, for united States Marshal of t.he District of Columbia by Mr. Bryan, but was rejected by the Department of Justice. He was given a job in the local municipal service. the refuge of those whose sponsors cannot get them into the departments. J. L Taminosian relies on Mr. Bryan to procure him a job in the Immigra tion Service, though the position is under the civil service law. He ad- tted this in asking the Nebraska Supreme Court to permit him to resume his real name. Mohammed Nadir. Mr. Bryan interfered in many fights for Postofflce appointments, thereoy stirring up factions and causing defeat of Democratic Representatives. He tried unsuccessfully to get Representa tive Ansberry's man appointed post master at Wauseon, O., causing a row with Representative Sherwood which cost Mr. Ansberry his seat. His inter ference in postoffice fights at Canton and Zanesville, O., split the party and lost it a Representative. He induced Postmaster - General Burleson to appoint F. W. Brown post master at Lincoln, Neb., though Rep resentative McGuire had recommended A L. Johnson, and then he tried to conciliate Mr. McGuire with a check for $25 for campaign expenses. Mr. Mc Guire returned the check and lost the election. Finlay Howard, of Nebraska, was boosted for auditor of the Treasury, but failed because of admitted unfit ness. Mr. Bryan found him a job with the Canal Zone government. Representative Foster, of Illinois, ac cused Mr. Bryan of mixing in a post office fight in his district and the Secretary backed out. Dr. A P. Fltzslmmons, of Nebraska, was made executive secretary of the Philippine Commission as a reward for singing Mr. Bryan's praises. By procuring the appointment pf Louis Murphy, of Dubuque, as Col lector of Internal Revenue, Anthony Van Wagenen as District Attorney and Jerry Sullivan as a member of the board of general appraisers he split the Democratic organizaton in Iowa and is said to have caused the defeat of the party candidate for Senator. C. J. Smyth, or omana, was made special counsel in the Department of Justice at Mr. Bryan's Instigation. An official of the Canal Commis sion is quoted S3 having offered to bet $100 that "Bryan has dumped more than a hundred men into the various departments of the Panama service." There were no takers. Stenographic reports of the dally conferences between Mr. Bryan and that newspaper correspondents show him to be either ignorant or secretive concerning the affairs of his depart ment. His replies to questions are evasive and, if correspondents try to extort definite information, he replies: "You come here to argue. You are not here after facts." Or he says: "That question has an inference. I have tried to avoid questions that have inferences in them." Or he says: "I can't say," which may mean: "I could tell you. but I will not." Twenty-Five Years Ago (From The Oregonlan December 7, 188.) Mrs. Seneca Smith, wife of Judge Seneca Smith, was killed yesterday, and Mrs. N. B. Burtch very seriously injured when their driving horse took fright at steam escaping from a valve at Front and Grover streets, and threw both of them out on the pavement. Mrs. Smith struck the back of her head against an electric light pole, break ing her neck. Mrs. Burtch struck the sidewalk on her face, causing a con cussion of her brain. The regular monthly meeting of the Oregon Immigration Commission was held last Tuesday. Those present were: Charles H. Dodd, president; H. W. Cor bett. Ellis G. Hughes. T. F. -Osborn, William McFall and Wallace Struble. Washington, D. C Dec. 6. The spe cial committee charged with Investi gating the office of sergeant-at-arms met this morning, Silcott's defalca tions, it is said, amount to nearly $72,000. E. J. Glass, observer for the signal office in this city, has been ordered to Moorhead. Minn., to take charge of an office there. New Orleans, Dec. 6. When the fam ily of Jefferson Davis had partially recovered from the shock of his death, dispatches were sent to Miss Winnie Davis, who Is in Paris with Mr. Pulit zer; to Mr. Davis' son-in-law in Colo rado City, and to Governor Lowry, of Mississippi. Mrs. Hayes, Davis' daugh ter, was due here yesterday, but was detained. Washington, D.ec. 6. Among the can didates for Judge of the United States Court in the new state of Washington are H. G. Struve. C. H. Hanford and Thomas H. Humes, of Seattle; Priteh ard. of Tacoma, and S. G. Hyde and Judge Calkins, of Spokane Falls. Fargo. N. D., Dec 6. At a meeting of the recently organized Dempsey Ath letic Club, held this evening, it was decided to offer a purse of $40,000 for a fight to r finish between Sullivan and Jackson. To take testimony In securing busi ness for Puget Sound points, Messrs. Moore, Fee and Bullitt left here for Omaha today. Our Inconsistencies By T. T. O. (With apologies to Dean Collins.) Old John Henry Botts. of Puhhlnhead Station, Was chewing his quid with great ani mation. And his mind was so centered In deep cogitation That he permitted a fly, in its peregri nation. To sleep on the doormat without inun dation By a fatal discharge of expectoration. So he delivered himself of this disser tation On the trend of affairs in his home state and Nation. can't 'zactly make out, ner quite understand The meanin' of men who raise their right hand. And swear they belong to this party or that. And tben go and vote like they talked through their hat. Thay's thousands and thousands of purty good men Who believe in pertectln' the American hen. That go and cripple her right in her nest By forcin' her down to the Chinaman's test. 'We boast the big timber 'gainst all o' the earth. And tell the whole world to come measure its worth, But if a home man buys the trees in the stump We call him down hard as an unworthy chump. "And we rush to the Round-up each Fall in a run, Showin' respect to the Cowboys and the things they have done. And then open our markets, with a wink and a hunch. To them New Zealand fellers and the Australian bunch. "We growl like old sin when them furriner yaps Come over among us and crowd out our chaps; fiut we ship in their stuff In endless supply And buy it all up 'thout battin' an eye. "With a chip on our shoulder on the Fourth o' July, You can see that we're ready to do or to die; And we'll wallop the daylights outen' any- galoot Who refers to Old Glory with a slight or a hoot. "Such a thing couldn't happen in no neck o' the woods But your Uncle "d be thar to deliver the goods Yet them Greasers can prod us with murderous hate x As we sleep on our job while we watch fully wait. "But when Huerta got gay and per- ceeded to shoot us. Old Woodrow, plum riled, said "Old Boy, you'll salute us.' So Funston went down with a passel o' ships, Staid awhile and come back 'thout openin' his lips. "Then we got some highbrows, called the A., B. and C, And tweedle de dum and vs. tweedle de dee Was the nut that engaged their dy-ploma-see As they fiddled along down to X., Y. and Z. "So there's Dias and Huerta and Mr. Carranza, All driftin" along well, I'll be dod swizzled"'. At thls'point old John Henry, with sur prised exclamation. Saw the fly on the mat, and the glee ful temptation To swat him a swat to impede his mi gration. Quite severed the thread of his calm contemplation. And he embalmed the poor insect with out hesitation. As he called his dog Tlge and walked out of the Station. Denmark's Trade In Carrots. London Tit-Bits. Denmark In 1913 grew 11,379,347 bushels of carrot, When Your Money Talks It asks for substantial value for Itself. When a storekeeper seeks to per suade you to take something "Just as good" as the standard article you asked for he is arguing against your pocket-book. Something Just as good Is usually such only in the Imagination of the dealer. Your money is entitled to what it seeks full substantial value. When you ask for an article you saw advertised in this paper, GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR. 0