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10 TIIE XORXIXG OKEGOXIAX, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1913. POBTLAXD, OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oreson. Postoffice as second-class matter. V Subscription Kates Invariably in advance: 4 By aCalL ;' tJailv. Sunday Included, one year $8.00 Jljai'.y. Sunday included. Bix month ..... 4.25 -lail.v. Sunday lncuc:-jd. three month ... r.Ja:iy. Sunday included, one month ..... . Ia:l. without Sunday, one year ....... 6-U1) . T'aily. without Sunday, six montha . 3.25 rlaily. without Suutiay, three months ... l.i -IaJly. without Sunday, one month ...... -W Jv eekljr. one year .1.50 -Si.ndav nr . ...... 2.50 St jnuay and Weekly one year .... Z-oO J By Carrier.) ?Xailr. Sunday included, one year 929 laily. Sunday included, one month ..... - " i How to Kemtt Send Postoffice. money or Trier, express order or personal check on your -Je- a! bank, Stamps, coin or currency are at .- s-nder risk, liive postomce address in iuii. . Ji-e-udinir county and state. I'on' RMte 1-1 to 1U aces. 1 cent: IS : pa?e. 2 cents: 34 to 4b paces, a cents: s. 4 cents; k: to iii page. ; 60 to mzm rnte; 73 to :! pages. 6 cents. Foreign post- e;e. oo-jDie rates. Eastern Business Office Veree Conk l N w Tork. Brunswick buildlnc: Chicago. -fc:etnor bolldln. - Ma Fraariseo Office P.. J. Bldwell Com. .ranjr, ,2 .Maraet street. .PORTLAND. IBIUAV. JANUARY 2. 1915. 1 ONE BILLION NOT ENOUGH. : The United States is a billion-dollar ;country and the spenders and wasters at Washington are running it. There .are millions to be extorted from the !pcople in revenue, but not a dollar ;for economy. ; The estimated revenues for the Government for the fiscal year ending 'in ISIS are the immense sum or Jl, jOSa.OOO.OOO. The expenditures ac cording to the estimates of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo are to be Jl. 090. 000.000. Here, then, the Government faces a .'deficit. A billion dollars is ' not enough for a single year. It Is not Tenough with fifty-five millions added. ; There must be more revenue, or the "administration will have either to go '.into the red or cut down expenses. A billion dollars was enough for .nny preceding Administration; but not .for the present. They blame the war; Ithey blame the industrial depression; they blame even the Republicans; but they never blame themselves, who alone arc to blame. Eourbon Democrats supports the ship ping bill and will not be denied sug gests that the emergency is not an emergency extending to all American commerce, but is one limited chiefly to the Southern States. It suggests that the Scioto Gazette answered cor rectly the Chicago Tribune's question, ""What Is behind ,the ship -purchase bill?" -when it said: The answer is plain: The Southern plant ers. They have been seriously hart in the marketing of their cotton by the war. They wanted the Government to buy it. Failing in this they now see an opportunity of hav ing it carried to European markets ,at a rate of freight to be fixed by their own friends and representatives. And they want this arrangement to begin as soon as pos sible and to last as long as possible. The National emergency is the need .of an American merchant ma rine which shall carry the commerce of the whole Nation, not of a favored section, and which shall be perma nent, because profitable, although competing with the world. That emergency can be met only by a thorough study of the whole problem by a non-partisan commission, which shall uncover the causes of our fail ure and of other nations' success and which shall report a measure accord ing with its findings. When Congress passes such a law we shall have laid the keel of a large and permanent merchant marine. The ship-purchase bill is doomed to failure, but a com mission could be created at this ses sion and a law enacting its recom mendations could be passed at the next session". The true remedy is to remove obstacles to private enter prise, not to add one more to those obstacles. should not be ascribed to murderous malice, but to ignorance, though it makes little difference to the victims. Dr. Bellinger tells of another old man reeking with tubercular germs who assured him that he always took the greatest precautions against Infecting others. A little later the physicians caught him spitting on the sidewalk. The need of education, and perhaps something sterner, is only too patent in such cases. If, as great authorities tell us, 75 per cent of the population is infected with tuberculosis more or less seriously, there is wide room for missionary work in popular hygiene. TOB A BOlitBON EMERGENCY. Senator Burton has brought clearly to light the evil consequences and the ineffectiveness in attaining the de sired results of the Administration shipping bill. That bill was rushed through committees of both Ilous and Senate and through the Hous with very little inquiry or debate. A ' attempt is now being made to rush through the Senate in the same man -ner by means of a conspiracy of si lence among Democrats, who refuse to debate. This extraordinary effort is bcin made to "jam through" a bill which is revolutionary in character an which would embiirk this Govern' meat in a private business in which no other nation on earth has engaged Other nations have engaged in lines of business within their own borders which are natural monopolies, such as railroads, telegraphs and telephones, but the Administration proposes that this Nation engage in a business which must be conducted outride its ow borders, in competition with its ow citizens and with citizens of other countries.. These Government ship: are to "engage in trade with foreign countries." and it is provided that they shall have the same status as privately-owned ships, but neither that mere declaration nor the fiction that they are owned not by the Gov ernment but by a corporation can re- move the fact that the Govcrnmen Mould own control of that corpora tion. Other nations would ignore thi transparent disguise and would re sard the ships as Government ships and would hold this Government re sponsible for their action. As originally reported to the Sen- ate, the bill provided for ships to run to Central and South America "and elsewhere." Mr. Burton proved by quoting the sailings from New Tork and the amount of unused space in them, that the ships now runniii from American ports to Central and South America are now more than enourh to curry the present trade. So far iroin our trade with those regions having languished for lack of vessels, it is larger than that of any other country, and the recent discussion of expansion has been directed to the rapture of some part of the trade :which Europe canned; supply because of the war. Nor are the present "rates to Latin America exorbitant, for Air. Burton showed that the increase .during the war has been only 20 to 23 per cent, despite war risks, which were considerable until German cruis crs were swept from the sea. ; Insertion of the word "elsewhere' in the original bill and substitution of the words "engage in trade with for eign countries" implies a purpose to engage in trade with Europe. If our Government should" buy the interned German ship.0, load them with cotton and semi them to Bremen, what chanco would they- have of escaping seizure by allied cruisers? The allies would not be deterred from seizing the ships because they were owned by a Government-controlled corpora tion; they would be more apt to ac cuse our Government of an unneutral art in buying the ships and In thus releasing cash resources of their ene mies which would otherwise have re mained unavailable throughout the war. As Senator Hoot said, with every belligerent fhip we bought we should also buy a foreign complica tion. A large proportion, probably half, of our exports to Europe is now con traband of war. If more than half of the cargo of a Government ship bound for Germany were contraband the thip and cargo would be lawful prize, and our Government would be ac cused by the allies, with some cause, of giving aid to the enemy. If Gov ernment ships carried similar cargoes to the allies, Germany might justly make the same charge. We could not deceive them with the pretense that the ships were owned by a corpora tion in which the Government was merely a stockholder. They would brush that explanation aside and would point to the fact that the Gov ernment owned a controlling interest and directed operations through its shipping board. From what ports would these ships run? Every port on each of our coasts "would clamor for a Govern ment line and would pull political wires to influence the shipping board. If every port were gratified by being made a terminal, the J40.000.000 in vestment which is contemplated would not go far. If a steamer start irg. cay, from Boston for Buenos Ayres were to call at every port on the Atlantic Coast it would prove a long, long way to Rio, and Brazilian importers would weary of waiting for their goods. The fact that a solid phalanx of INVIDIOUS COMPARISON. The Oregonian has received from a critical subscriber a statistical discus sion of the auditorium matter, run ning somewhat in this fashion:. January. 1914 Strong talk about building a municipal auditorium in Portland. January, JUI4 Same, thing in Son Fran cisco. AnriL 1914 Same in Portland. April. 1914 laid cornerstone for auditor ium in San Francisco. January, 1915 No auditorium talk at all in Portland. Kverybody asleep. January. 1915 Twenty-five thousand happy people attend first ball in auditorium, awncd and controlled by the City .of Sac Francisco. Tip Don't compare the widcatvaks spirit of the two cities any more. We will riot make any such com parisons; nor have we. But if we were to make them we should call at tention to the historical fact that Fort land conceived the auditorium idea long before San Francisco did, and voted the -bonds. All this was some thing like five years ago. We have no auditorium, to be sure; but our in tentions are good. Just now, when labor is clamoring for employment, it is particularly un fortunate that the auditorium project is at a. standstill. The Supreme Court will decide the auditorium case some day; and then perhaps Portland will go ahead in real earnest to build the structure. , THE BEACTY OF GETTING TOGETHER. For years John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and "Mother" Jones seem to have re garded each other as the embodiment of all that is evil in industrial affairs. Finally Mrs. Jones heard Mr. Rocke feller express his opinions and senti ments, frankly to the Industrial Rela tions Commission. What she heard Impelled her to seek a personal con versation with him, and he readily consented. " As a result of that con versation each has discovered that he or she misunderstood the other and that they substantially agree on prin ciples and on the main points of ap plying these principles. Here is a lesson in the immense advantage of getting together and calmly talking over our differences. How many times have two farmers cursed each other across the width of a forty-acre field, only to learn as they drew closer together that each had some reason on his side, and to lower their tones and to moderate their languago until when they -met and leaned their arms on the fence they settled their dispute without difficulty? Mr. Rockefeller, although holding or representing the largest interest in his Colorado corporation, has done business only through executive offi cers whose chief purpose was to make the best financial showing. "When trouble came he was unwilling to go over their heads," meet their oppo nents and learn and remove the cause. Mrs. Jones, finding him remote and Inaccessible, and finding no one to deal with as representing him except local officials who were embittered against the strikers and who retali ated for her fiery speeches by cau ing her arrest, came to regard him as a sort of ogre. Mr. Rockefeller, judg ing of Mrs. Jones by her speeches, formed the same impression of her. When they actually met each was agreeably surprised to find what a reasonable being the other was. Had Mr. Rockefeller done a year and a half ago what he now intends to do gone to Colorado, personally met the miners and learned the cause f trouble much bloodshed, misery nd financial loss might have been avoided. But perhaps nothing except the terrible events of the last year and a half could have brought him to his present commendable frame of mind. A RCNAWAT, In appointing the House committee on alcoholic traffic Speaker Selling clearly sought to balance the mem bership so that neither radical prohi bitionists nor radical opponents of prohibition should have a preponder ance of influence. It was naturally supposed that an evenly-balanced committee would be able to agree on a bill that would best carry out the wishes of the people as expressed in the last election. Yet the committee members exhibit a"re markable unanimity of purpose. They are bent on reporting out a copper riveted, brass-bound law which would make acquirement from without the state of wine or other alcoholic bev erages for lawful use in the privacy of one's home so burdensome as to be a restriction on personal liberty. The provisions of the bill, as now agreed upon by the House committee, limit the quantity that one person may ship in by common carrier to two quarts 6f spirituous or two quarts of vinous or fifteen quarts of malt liquors in any one month. Mark the word "or."... The user has a choice of one or the other. He cannot have all. But to get this meager quantity out of the express office the consignee must make solemn oath that he is not a habitual drunkard and give a number of other items of information, all of which within the thirty days becomes a public record at the office of the County Clerk and open to the inspection of every scandal-monger in the county who is able to dine sump tuously off a crumb of gossip. Such restrictions offer but one con clusion. The liberal members on the committee believe that an obnoxious bill will sooner or later arouse the people to kill the entire principle .of prohibition. Their working partners on the committee seem to possess a sanctimonious impression that their mission in the Legislature is to com pel the public to conform to their particular ideas of how the public shall conduct its intimately personal affairs. When two such elements work as a team a runaway is perhaps to be ex pected and the only hope of avoid ing a wreck lies in the Legislature as body. The Oregonian trusts that there are not very many members in either House or Senate who do not realize clearly that they are not there to force their personal opinions on an unwilling public and that neither trickery nor hidebound prejudice can bo tolerated in the face of a public decision so definitely defined as was the decision on the particular prohi bition measure adopted last November. The amendment went before the people with solemn assurance from Its proponents that there was no in tent to interfere with the' personal liberties of the people. The voters relied upon that assurance. As a moral guidance that assurance is as much a part of the law as if it had been specifically included in th amendment. So plainly has a pro gramme been laid down by the people in this particular thap the Legislature ougtrt to have no grave trouble in agreeing on a popular law. About all that is needed to reach that end is the exercise of common sense and de cency of opinion. been limited to school children. It is organizing men's clubs for the' same purpose. They are variously known as Six o'clock Clubs, Candlelight Clubs, Civic Leagues, or simply Men's Clubs. The members are often business and professional men and the ques tions they discuss cover everything that Interests civilized human beings, The programme usually begins with a lecture, which is followed by free- speaking on the part of the members. Of course a great deal of information is disseminated on vital matters, but of still more advantage is the social life which these clubs foster. "Busi ness rivals foregather in a genial at mosphere and forget their differences and vexations in planning for' the common welfare.- Time is devoted to broad projects of work for human ity." . Both heart and mind are broadened by the relaxation and change of thought which the clubs inspire. Such clubs are perfectly feasible in every rural community. The only prerequi site is .trained leadership to set them going. Where shall the leaders be found? The harvest is plenteous but the laborers are few. The annual report of Harvard's President' Lowell gives the startling. information that the university is short of money. The University Press needs funds. So does the dental school. There is penury everywhere. "There is almost no branch of the university;" writes the Harvard presi dent, "that is not straitened and ham pered by lack of funds." Evidently Harvard is almost ready to join the cue at the door of the soup kitchen. The Suffragist which speaks for a suffrage amendment to the Federal Constitution is growing a little impa tient with President "Wilson. He has now "turned back for the eighth time a suffrage delegation of representa tive women," pleading that it was all a question for the states. State rights Is a convenient catch-all for Mr. Wil son to contain subjects upon which he dares not use his brain. The Saturday Evening Post com ments ruefully pn the fact that farm ers can no longer afford to raise calves. "Feed, milk and veal are all so high that due consideration of profit ruthlessly devotes the young animals to - slaughter." The Post thinks "we may as well at once order a last porterhouse, kiss it a tearful farewell" and proceed "to learn th charms of boiled turnips." Stars and Starmaker BY LEONE CASS BAKU. ALTER GILBERT has discovered one of the reasons so many actors are out of work. He says there are far too many of them in the business. Kitchener showed he has heart in ordering a furlough, with ration and expense money, for a young trooper with the expeditionary force whose mother was dying. All the same, he tvill next Spring throw the young trooper and a million with him into the jaws of German artillery and never lose a wink of sleep. THE WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS. Dr. Orover Bellinger, of the State Tubercular Sanitarium, gave an inter esting account of that institution in a talk to a Salem business men's club the other day. The sanitarium was opened by legislative authority in No- ember. 1910, and up to the beginning f the current year had admitted 530 patients.' Any person who has resided in Oregon for a year may enjoy the benefits of the state sanitarium if he obtains a certificate of his need from physician with the County Judge's ignature. Some seventy- persons can be cared for there when all its capac ity Is utilized. The expense to the state, according to Dr. Bellinger, is about $35 a month for each patient. the course of two years, ended last September, the sanitarium dis charged 221 patients, of whom ninety- six were probably cured. In all of them there was manifest improve ment, but the physicians do not ven ture to pronounce them permanently ured until they have been under out side observation for several months. The disease "is apt to return should conditions favor it. even after it has to all appearances been extirpated. Like all other physicians who have to deal with tuberculosis. Dr. Bellin ger insists upon the prime importance prevention. Formerly afflicted persons took no precautions for the safety of those around them. They are still much too careless. The case is cited of one old man at French Prairie who "infected and tnus killed seven members of his household." Almost every neighborhood can pro duce incidents of the same sort. They CRITICISING EUGENICS. -The February Atlantic Monthly publishes a sensible article on eu genics by S. J. Holmes. It is in reply to a recent attack on eugenic theory and methods by Fielding Hall, who should have known better than to discuss a subject of which ho evidently knew little or nothing. Fielding-Hall imagined that eugen ists wish to set about propagat ing human beings as stockmen do horses and cattle. This silly mistake led him into all sorts of absurdities. The leading apostles of eugenics do not wish to disturb the marriage rela tion and they expect to improve man kind by a slow process of education rather than by law. The only radical measures which they approve concern degenerates who exhibit insanity, feeble-mlndedness and the like traits. It is admitted by all rational persons that these defectives should not be permitted to marry and propagate their miseries. Under suitable re straint they would die out in a short time and the world would be rid of their particular troubles. David Starr Jordan has given an account of a certain district in Eu rope where a singularly virulent kind of cretinism had been prevalent for many years. The people, he says, "were breeding a special type of man utterly incompetent to take care of himself and useless for all purposes." Tho local authorities finally segre gated the cretins, forbade them to marry and thus in a short time caused them to disappear. A similar policy might be pursued with regard to many other varieties of degenerates with no inhumanity to the sufferers and with immense benefit to the world. The subject of eugenics has now been under discussion for several years, but its purposes and aims are still misconstrued by men of , whom better things might have been ex pected. It is impossible for even a Fielding-Hall to treat any social sub ject edifyingly without studying its elements a little. It is a comfort to notice that old style graham bread is regaining its prestige. Since three-fourths of the wheat's nutriment is in the bran. what folly to, reject that part, partic ularly when the price is soarim Graham bread tastes better than the chalky loaf and is infinitely more wholesome. Farmers who are raising kale plants in hotbeds for early planting have begun an interesting experi ment. Their expectation is to have Rale ready to feed in the August drought. This is quite practicable. The only wonder is that it was not done long ago. Creamerymen will rejoice at con viction of the "bull butter" -men at St Louis for defrauding the Government during eleven years. Integrity . of the butter business is built on the confi dence of the buying public, and whon It is abused the malefactor must get the limit. The Administration is worrying over the deficit. The only successful Democratic policy thus far is the Mexican matter, and just how much of a success that is tho public may judge from the dispatches of late. "Down with the war" has become a popular cry in Austria. It is hot much heard in the other fighting countries yet, but wait a few months longer and then listen. People sel dom feel after a year or two of war quite as they did at its beginning. Call for a thousand men to clear streets of Berlin naturally brought but sixty responses. In wartime "let the women do the work," and in the case of the German woman she will do it with a snap and "go." The Clarke County pullet that laid an egg nine inches around the larger way will get wise as she gets older and conserve her energy, as do all old hens. . The big attack planned for the Kaiser's birthday failed to develop. Possibly the field marshals wanted to take no chances of marring the occasion. Honora Hamilton, who used to sing in local grills, has got into vaudeville, in a small-time way. She and her part ner, George Henry, are at the Princess in San Francisco. Frank J. Morse, -formerly dramatic editor of the Washington Post, is ahead of Henry Miller in "Daddy Long Legs, now in California and soon coming to Portland. a Howard Russell has written another sketch for vaudeville, said by reviewers to be even more clever than his "Smithy and the Eel," which visited us via Pan tages last Fall. Like that sketch, this one also -is of the crook variety. Its title, "The Crooks," alone suggests as much. Harry Cornell and Ethel Con ley and Mrs. Howard Russell, the same cast that presented the first sketch, ap pear in the new one. Mrs. Russell' professional name is Minna Townshend. She is a Portland girl, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. J. T. Lighter, and her brother is Thomas Lighter. Howard Russell is a former Baker player," who is now with the Avenue Stock in Van couver, B. C. New stars are beginning to peep out In the theatrical firmament. Florence Reed has been made the star of "Th Tellow Ticket'; Ann Murdock twinkles as a star in "A Girl of Today," under Charles Frohman's management; Paul ino Fredericks is now the star of "In nocent," and Marjorie Rambeau (Mrs. Willard Mack) is soon to be launched as the star in "So Much for So Much, her husband's play, under the direction of H. H. Frazee. e The Bubble," Edward Locke's new est play, has been given a successful tryout by Louis Mann in Schenectady, X. T., and is scheduled next for Chi cago. Mathilde Cottrelly is his leading woman. The play concerns the ex ploits of a crafty bucket shop schemer who contrives against the proprietor of a delicatessen emporium. Molly Mclntyre, who is through with her season in "Kitty JIackay, is go ing into vaudeville in a sketch called "The Fiddle Told." Cora Belle Bonnie, who returns to the Baker Sflnday in "Tho Dawn of a To morrow," Gertrude Elliott's appealing success, says she knows a woman who reduces her weight by rolling around on the floor every morning. Sort of coffee and rolls atmosphere, as it were. Toby Claude, who was recently ar rested at the instigation of a Buffalo installment jeweler, filed a petition in bankruptcy on January H, with liabili ties at $5500. Miss Claude's trial in Buffalo on the alleged charge of grand larceny comes up in February. 1 Toby has visited us via Orpheuni vaudeville. - No compromise is in sight over the Democratic patronage fight.. Better get together, gentlemen. Your brief lease of power is rapidly passing. ' The Russians have lost their Carpa thian passes. "Which will prevent them from riding inland on Austrian rail roads. Oregonians who would move to Canada will note the temperature of 66 below zero at White River this week. RURAL CLUBS. - The University of Wisconsin has been working hard of late years to improve the conditions of country life. The agricultural college of the uni versity has made dairying a much more profitable business than it was formerly. New methods of grain growing have been introduced. To bacco has been made a highly profit able crop and many similar advances have been made in the interest of rural dwellers. The university has done as much on the intellectual side of life as on the material. Within the last few years it has been deeply concerned with what may be called the social and religious uplift. Clubs have been organized in the country villages. Debating has been encour aged in the public schools. Neigh borhood clubs have been organized widely and the plan of lending libra ries to the people has been pushed to great perfection. The debates which the university encourages have not Montana's "dry" measure, if adopt ed, will put a number of ready reliefs in the drugstore trade out of business. Mexico's food supply is about ex hausted. The revolutionary industry does not produce food supplies. Marion Barney has succeeded Edna Baker as leading woman of the stock company at His Majesty's Theater in Montreal. e The title of the new comedy intended for Lou Tcllegen has been changed from "An Irresistible Man" to "A Charming Fellow." Sounds like a wrist watch and lavender spats. v A play depicting the peril of tho Na- tion because of its unpreparedness for war is scheduled for production shortly by Harry Von Tilzer, producer of "To day." The play is "Stultitia" (Folly), and is of anonymous authorship. "Stul titia" was written in February, 1913, and is said to have predicted the pres ent European war and, further, that the victor would wage war against the United States because of its insistence of the Monroe doctrine policy and com plications resulting from the Panama Canal. Before the foreign foe begins its invasion of the country, after de stroying our Navy, the United States is represented as paying for peace to pre vent the bombardment of New York City. The scenes are laid in Washington. Statesmen, politicians, high military and Navy officers, financiers, diplo mats, .peace advocates, and even the President of the United States arc in troduced as characters in the play. Eugenie Blair, who is playing stock at Columbus, O., is spending her spare time writing motion picture scenarios. e a War conditions in England and their effects on the theatrical outlook in the United States have forced steps for the uniting of the English Actors' Asso- iation and the Actors' Equity Assocla- ion of this country. For a number of months there has been constant frie- ion between the two organizations. The English actors charged that they were discriminated against in this country. The American actors said that the presence here of English ac tors made it more difficult for them to get positions, and that they were dis criminated against in England. The membership of the English association is estimated at about 1500, and the Actors' Equity Association membership roll reached the 2000 mark yesterday. It is understood that the threatened cut in actors' salaries on account of the war has had much to do with the patching up of the long-standing dif ferences between English and American actors. v ' SERVIAX SIDE OF VA1t VIEWED j Militarism Held Not So Much a Dancer: . aa Civic Duty Need. PORTLAND. Jan. 28. (To the Ed itor.) A few days ago you published an appeal from a Servian lady, who represented that her people were with out seed wheat to replant their crops. We have been generous in our con tributions for the relief of Belgian suf ferers. It seems to me that the Slavs and the Servians have an equal claim upon us. Bosnia and Herzegovina were Invaded and conquered by Austria, and Servia was invaded by the same power. Can we imagine the desperation of our people if the farmers of Oregon had been left by the desolation of war with out seed wheat to renew their crops? We constantly hear the expression that there Is no justification for the present war in Europe. Do we stop to think of the great issue at stake? The issue is between pan-Germanism and pan-Slavism. The Britannica. Encyclo pedia gives the population of the Slavs in Europe as 120.000.000. Of these 60. 000,000 are Russians and 60,000,000 are made up of Poles, Bohemians. Servians. Translvanians, Kumelians. Croats and others. All these are men without a country, and are subject to the rule of Germany and Austria. There can be no peace in Europe until this unnatural condition is rectified. We express our gratitude to Lafayette and Steuben for their services in our war of independ ence. We should not forget the serv ices of Kosciusko and Pulaski. We are apt to say that the war In Europe is the result of militarism. It is a race war for independence or con trol. In it militarism is but a means to an end. There is even idle talk about militarism being a danger to this country. Fifteen out of our 28 Presi dents had performed military duty be fore their elections.- Would these men have been elected President and m num ber of them re-elected had our people thought that their election would have proved dangerous to their liberties? Our danger is not from military ambi tion, but indifference to civic duty. WILLAMETTE. Twenty-Five Years Ago. From The Oregonian of January L'9, iBHi. Paris. France is noj for free trade. The general viow Is that tho condition in France. Ilk those In America, dif fer from Great Britain's. A petition Is being circulated for a trl-weekly mail nrrvlce between Arl ington, Oi'm and l'rosser Falls, Wash. G. W. McBride. Secretary of State, has brought suit ngulnst Major K. G. Adams, of South Berwick. Me., in the Circuit Court of Columbia County. Major Adama formerly published the Columbian at Sr. Helens. The suit la for $700. VACCINATION MEASURE HELD VOOO Hood River Man Mould Stop Com pulsory Inoculation. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Jan. 25. (To the Editor.) One of the most sensible bills ever brought before the Legislature of Oregon, is the one presented by Senator .uoser to put an ena to compulsory vac cination and providing a penalty for ts violation. The American Medical Association. working through and dominating all of the state, county and city boards of health, have tried to compel all citi zens, regardless of their medical beliefs or desires, to submit to their dictation and be vaccinated on any and all occasions. Th medical men, themselves, arc at variance on this question, many of them opposing vaccination because it does not do what the doctors claim for it and admitting it is dangerous to life and health. The people at large are generally awake to this fact and are bitterly pposed to having this thing forced on them or their children regardless f their wishes. During, tho flood ini Ohio not long ago, the American Medi cal Association were so determined to force the people to bow to their wishes that they placarded the boats that car ried supplies to destitute and starving people: "No vaccination, no rations. ' i sincerely congratulate Senator Moser on his action in presenting this ong-needed bill betore the legislature and feel sure he will have the support George E. Dayton and Sarah B. WIs well were married Janury 26 at the residence of Robert Jones, Portland, by Rev. T. E. Clapp. J. E. Thomas arrived here yesterday from Nestucca en routo to Astoria, having received word that his llttl girl attending school there is sick. The posloffice yesterday ran Out of S-cent stumps and had to give one cent postage to many pun-liui-cr. Post master Roby has 812,000 of the 5-ccnt variety ordered and it la presumed they are on the delayed trains. A thief attempted to enter the apart ment of W. J. Morgan, SSI Second street, yesterday morning, but he found the locks on the windows uml dool s more than ho bargained for and quit in disgust. Mrs. Morgan SH.d she heard him tinkering uwuy, but was so fright ened she could not dare to arouse Mr. Morgan. Dr. Emma J. Wclty will uddret the public tontght on "linicriiciicicb'' lu case of illness and accident. She wil give suggestions on whiit to do If a physician is unavailable or "before the doctor comes." The lecture will be preceded with a violin solo by Master Alfred Holt, L T. Barin. chairman of tho Repub lican State Central Committee, has de cided to call tho committees together lu roitland, March 5. Owing to tho receipt of trlcjsrjiplito dispatch conveying the r-ews of th' death of the mother of Messrs. Donald and Kenneth Maclcay, the warehouse of Corbltt & Macltay will bo closcn today, Marshall V. Wilder, the dwarf hu morist, is under eiascmcnt to Mrs. Cornelius Y'Hndcrbllt to v i s i t all New York hospitals and play j'-stt-r to the patients. In this manner many of tli' puttcnts art! laughed back to health and happiness. Congressman Flower defeated Wil liam Waldorf Astor'for n place In the Lower House of ConvesM. Ah-tor bus found consolation for his political re buff In writing novels f thousands of law-abiding, but llb-rty-loving people in his battle to re lieve them from the clutches of tho medical octopus that is today the men ace of this Nation. Very trulv yours. FRANK B. CRAM. ty. AW ON" RO.tD ItltiHTS WANTED. Michigan Newcomer ays 111 High way Maa Been Fenced In. (PORTLAND, Jan. 27. (To tho Edi tor.) Some time ago I purchased n mall tract of land in Columbia Coun- and was taken over a good traveled road to it. which was represented to mo a county road. Soon after getting small cabin up and starting to get my supplies in, I woke up one. morning o find my supposed public road fenced nd four gates across it, notwithstand- ng that the road had been used by the ublic for four years. In Michigan, one ear's open and notorious use of this road would have made a public road hlch could not bo closed by tho abut- ng property owner. Tho lawyers tell me that there Is no w In Oregon, on tho subject, and that my only remedy Is against tho outfit hlch sold me the land for misrepre sentatlon. I did not wish to buy a law suit, but ony a small piece of land lth road to it. Is it possible that there no provision in the Oregon luws pecifying how long an open traveled road can be used before it becomes :i ublic or county road? If there is not, this not a good time for the Lcgisla. ture to get buay and stop a little of the land "bunk" which is being handed to the new settlers in Oregon, who are brought here through high-priced pub lieity? I might also suggest that if a good share of this high-priced advertising was placed on the roads of Oregon. In tho shape of rock and drains, there would be fewer farmers going away discouraged and disgusted. A MICHIGAN NEWCOMER. lav -UnV TGMI'nRIXIMi mi u im-:i. Legislature Expected to laKe Oregon rrobihitloa In Fact. PORTLAND. Jan. 28. (To the lO.II - tor.) Why ate temperance people pe titioning tho l.ecislatiire to limit or permit! the nurchaso of alcoholic li quors for a single Imllvidunl, to two quarts of whisky and 12 u larts of beer every 20 days? Did not our people vote last Fall to abolish saloona because they wished individuals and families protected from tho injurlotia effects of liquor? Did they not wish to abolish the poverty, dismnce and crlino that drluking produces? Do not our people, so active for eugenics and "better babies." wish to givo the children their rightful herltaso to be born well, un handicapped at blrlh by the dcbasinn Influence of alcohol? Then why do they wish to cater to drlnUliig cus toms? Why permit a family of livo or 10 to have In the home from 70 to I qunrts every 20 days if they wish? Why should we nullify t ho very law wo worked i-o hard to get? Should not expect the lKislaturo to Inter pret the law to mcalt what It was meant to do? Whore people desire a dry commun ity, let a dry law bo effective; let li' enforce If. give It a fair trial, lyel children grow up as they do In other dry states, not knowing what liquor places or drunkard nrc from seeinn them. C. E. BUKCK. The boys who re-enlisted for the Oregon's trip will have a longer term to serve than anticipated. This is Sunflower day and an occa sion of note, but next Tuesday will be the day of days. Of course Wilhelm received birth day greetings from Nick and Cousin George. The McAdoo girl is too big to be come reconciled to her new ma. That's a right smart press agent the Rockefellers have hired. This is the weather that makes the native glad. Mexico approaches the last gasp. Daniel Frohman, president "of the Actors' Fund, is in receipt of the fol lowing letter: "Daniel Frohman, Esq.. Actors' Fund of America Dear Mr. Frohman: For some weeks past we have had in our company a fund which we call the war fund, and which was intended for the distressed and out-of-work actors in England. "We find, however, that the effects of the war are now being so much felt in this country that we have much pleasure in sending you $50 out of our funds in hand. Inclosed please find M O. for that amount. Yours very truly. Members of the George Arliss Com pany." Clcan-Vp Day Lincoln's Birthday. PORTLAND. Jan. 28. (To the Ed itor.) Portland's Mayor must have had in mind the old adage, "the better the day the better the deed, when he chose as cleaning-upday February 12, the birthday of- tiie only American saint. Abraham Lincoln. However, it seems to me that out of respect for that be loved and martyred President another day might have been selected. Those who lived at that tune ana lougnt ana suffered with him will probably voice this sentiment with me. PAUL I'FERDNER. Unorganised Women. PORTLAND. Jan. 27. (To the Edi tor.) Will you please state In your columns If there Is an effort being made in Portland to organize the un organized women such as dressmak ers, milliners. stenoRfaohers and do mestic servants? I would like to hear from any of your readers who may bo interested in this subject. VI DEL JENNE. 2048 Multnomah Street. There has been some effort along this line as it affects one or two of the vo cations mentioned. Communicate with the members of Central Labor Council. Portland, and no doubt they can put you In touch with some one who is giving detailed attention to this phase of 'organized labor. Sunday ClOMlng In Portland. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2-1. (To the Editor.) Kindly give me Information in regard to the saloons of Portland. Or. What year were they open on Sun days, and what year were they closed on Sundays, since 1900? I am, respectfully, E. P. GESTRIC1I. Saloons were open Sundays In Port land until the Summer of 1907. They, were closed then by District Attorney Manning, under the state law. In the model liquor ordinance of the city which went Into effect April 1, 1911. Sunday closing was made a local law for the first time. Sunday closing. however, has been enforced since 1907. Tumalo and Other Projects. SANDY. Or.. Jan. 2S. (To tho Edi tor.) Will you please Inform me where the Tumalo irrtaalinn project in Oregon is located; also II there an other irrigation projects being carried on In the state? CONSTANT READER. The Tumalo Irriuatlon Troje.-t em braces nbout 20,000 ncrcH of land In Crook County, lying west of tho Des chutes River and adjacent to tho town of Laidlaw. Tho lultor town Is some thing like 12 miles north of licnd. Tho lands run westward from the Deschutes nearly to the town of Sisters. The Tumalo project was first segregated as tho Columbia Southern protect but the promoters fell down und tho stato lias just completed tho reclamation of Hie land In a very satisfactory manner un der the supervision of Engineer o. Laurgaard. Thero are various other Irrigation projects being tarried on. notably tho Ctovcrnmcnt projects In Klamath County, tho llermlston project in Uma tilla County, the West I nialllla pro ject lu I'maillla and Morrow Coiintlrs. and various projects In Malheur, Crook. Hakcr und other counties. Corn rovtlBa In the II ml. TACOM.V. Wash.. Jan. 2 7. I To tile Editor.) T have been told some one In Portland has been making a Hudy of tho corn yield of (ho Middle West, as compared with tho yield of I'enlial Washington and pail of Oregon, f am considerably ini,resie,i m coin isimr in Washington and I have 12 acres five miles west of Yakima, where I have somo Berkshire hoys that wouia do better from a business standpoint if tho corn proposition was better un derstood In tho Irrigated sections o this state. Can you advise inn where would get this In forma lion'.' II. I'. VERM1LYK. Write to J. of the O.-W. land. Sinllh, "Corn Expert," &. N. Company, l'ort- l.'ame Bill t'nheld. HAMMOND, Or.. Jan. 26. (To the Editor.) What a tin soldier Is to the State Militia, so ure the men who call themselves sportsmen, who hire game preserves and bait and feed duck and slaughter thm at their will. There Is not a grain of American sportsman ship about It. And .Senator IMmlck deserves the heartiest support In his fight utainst the trust. It. OKA). National Debt Can Be raid. HUNTINGTON, Or.. Jan. 26. (To the Editor.) I have heard it said that the war debt the United States owes the Rothschilds, of England, can never be paid, the contract is so drawn. UH.UK'ilU SH.DUI-;. Government bonds are Issued for a fixed time and cart be paid when due or can be redeemed by the issue of new bonds. Even if any irredeemable bonds had been Issued, they could be bought in the open market by the Gov ernment and cancelled. Dress Your Windows With Live Goods When he features tljo merchan dise advertised by manufacturer In this newspaper a storekeeper I making his store interesting. I'eoplo will stnp to look at his windows and will come insiao to buy. They know nhout the Bonds, for newspaper reader arc a-lvi ri isina readers. They will take an Interest In the store that shows them. They will feel that It Is tin up-to-date public service store. Mr. Storekeeper, when tte manu facturer advertises In this paper, show the goods.