THE MORNING OREGONIAX, TUESDAY, MARCII. 9, 1913. 3 HINDENBERG IDOL OF CHILDREN.- TOO Marshal, Who Calls Himself "Old Man," Has Kindness and Humor in Him. NAME IS USED FREELY Sa cities. Cukes mid Curcalls Attest Tremendous Popularity of Gen eralSimplicities Like Those of Bismarck. T.Y JAMES ODONXELL. BENNETT, oopvrisht. 1913. by James O'Donnell Ben. rtt. Published ly Arrangement Itn the Chicaco Tribune.) r:r-viTTJT. WKADQUARTERS OF THE EASTERN GERMAN' ARMY, Feb. 7. "The old man." So Field Marshal von Hindenberg describes himself this slow-speaking, wise, meditative, utterly simple being-, whose heavy lidded eyes suddenly vtartle you with a flash of fire. In the holiday time Mrs. von Hinden berg came to Fosen to visit her hus band. As no women are allowed to top in the castle in. war time, she had to take rooms in the Hotel de Rome Her husband used to come down there to dine with her and they made a very cosy family picture as ihv a rhuttincr tocether. When it came time for her to depart the field marshal turned one evening to me ai rrrinr of the hotel and said: "Well. Mr. Bethmann. tomorrow this domestic life ends, and the old ma must go back to work." Th.ii h siched and said: "yah. Tah, rv slowly, as Germans In a musing nood often do. !larhal Like "Good Old Vncle." A phrase of von Bismarck of Jarchlin, m nephew of tiie old chancellor, em phasized the simple, fatherly concep tion which the field marshal Jiimself Is content to have the world noia mm. whi-" -Mr. von Bismarck said, "he's 1,1a srnnH old uncle." it U like a good old uncle, a good old uncle who affects crustiness, that the general treats the children of I'onen. Sometimes they come into the raolo eourtvard to sing for a lew minutes under the windows of his nnirtmpnti. and once when they did that he came to the window and made them a little speech on love of the futherland. It was a terse, friendly xiwrrh. and it wound up thus: "Now klndchen. run home. 1 must go to work." Once on the street a group of child ren, sinking and cheering, followed hint until he turned on them in pre tended anxiety and said: "What is all this? What Is all thlsT JV von think I have run away from the Russians? It Is you who have run away from home." Name Associated V Itb Holiday". With the children of this generation his fame will always be connected with pleasant holidays, for in many cities of Germany news of his victories Is fol lowed by the teacher's announcement, "school is dismissed." ' The comic weeklies soon caught up the point and there have been numer ous cartoons like the one headed "Be fore the Latin Hour." and showing a small b'oy In distress. To his com panion on the steps of the schoolhouse the apprehensive boy is saying: "It's a certainty I'm lost if Von Hindenburg doesn't announce another victory to day r The field marshal pays all the penal ties exacted of a. popular idol for his fame. The school children of the whole empire have deulged him with letters. and these communications nnany so ats traded the servants and secretaries at the castle that on certain days they were burned by the basketful, and the newspapers printed appeals to the chll dren to write no more. A report got out that the General was Tiuffering from kidney trouble (he has an occasional touch of lumbago), and forthwith he was swamped with kidney cures, or would have been if the bottles hadn't gone out of the back door of th castle as fast as they came in the front. Then the manufacturers of nostrums for tout got after him, and remedies came by every post. Germans who have had the privlleg of close association with the field mar' Bhal are not, however, apprehensive con cernlng his health. "From the quantity I saw him eating Jast night," said one of these observers, "I think there is nothing the matter with him." Xante Is Vsed Freely. In addition to the venders of curealis, the manufacturers of novelties have made free with his name. Shop win dows all over Germany are full of Hin denburg soaps, Hinderburg cigars, Hin denburg writing paper, Hindenburg per' fumes, Hindenburg purses, Hindenbur: stamps, Hindenburg cakes, Hindenburg ashtrays. Hindenburg marches, and. above all, Hindenburg busts and por traits. As for the many marches dedicated to him. the General muttered one day when lie was confronted with an array of 40 new ones: "I should like to get all these com posers Into the castle yard while the band played all their compositions at once. He spoke half in despair and half in fun. and he was much offended when the person to whom he made the re mark gave it to the newspapers. In fact, he was angry. "Now that will make me seem to make light of the compliment these Kentlemen have paid me." he said, ad ding. "I canqot see why the newspapers think it worth while to put such trifles In their pages. They make me appear tiny. Another time when some pleasantry of his. was printetd he shook a warning ringer ana growled: "I fix that paper, making me say such silly things, not worthy to be printed or read." In fact, he is a curious combination of punctiliousness and simplicity- a trustful old man who expects people, to respect his little confidences and not retail his quiet jokes. That Is why he so likes Professor Karl Ziegler and why he doesn't like the newspapermen. The professor never retails castle chitchat In the coffee-house of Posen and the General knows that. So he sits con tentedly to the painter for the half hour stretches. Tricks by Writer. Inaplre Dlallke. "Writers for the press and some painters, he thinks, play tricks on him. as when an artist from Danzig, having obtained the privilege of a sitting from the General, made a rough sketch, took tliree photographs and then went'away and wrote for a newspaper a column of his impressions of Hindcnberg, set ting down what he said to the General and what the General said to him and what his little sister had said about the General. H was after hearing about that article that the victim remarked: "I fix that paper." The Germans eeverely deprecate all this kind of personal dishing up of a notable. They say it destroys the dig nity of a great man and. cheapens htm most with the very public that Is most eager to read the stuff. "Very silly," they call it. and in the next breath some of them will tell you an engaging littjo detail about a man like Hindcnberg that helps materially to enliven and illuminate even so un assuming a description of him as I am here putting together. Sometimes it has happened that per sons who gave me bits of detail would come meaching around three hours later and say: "Of course you won't send to Amer ica that little story I told you about the Field Marshal. It might make peo pie think lightly of him." 'Human Interest" Not tnderatood. "On the contrary," I would say. "it will make them think nothing of the kind." Then they would shake their heads and depart much depressed. And so. as to their ban on some of those Jokes and sidelights and whim- whams my kind but apprehensive in formants can go to grass. I think I know what is harmless, and as to the "human interest touch," the emphasis on that never cheapened any notable, however exalted. I thought it amusing and not unin structive in its bearing on the state of the popular heart when a man' who had written a book on raising chickens sent a copy of it to the Field Marshal with an adoring inscription, and it struck me as not a valueless item in the long and extraordinarily curious annals of tribal war when a German lady told me that the confectioners had changed the name of the once popular Japan cakes to Hindenberg cakes, so as to restore their popularity. But, she said, "how silly that is!" Also silly in her opinion was the fact that a glass of cognac, with a lump of sugar in it and a slice of lemon on top of it. is known as a "Hindenberg." And again, when she. who knows the victor of Tannenberg well, spoke of him one day as "an old Iamb, ' I could have kissed her han for that human touch, but if she knew I was going to put her phrase of en dearment in an article she would be very severe with me. indeed. Quizzing Habit Like Bismarck's. It is for these reasons that I may no give the real name of the young Lieu tenant whom. 'amid the turmoil of Tan nenberg. General von .Hindenburg be thought himself to ask to dinner be cause he had known the youth's father 50 years ago at cadet school. iou won t use me orricer a name, will your said the Germans, "for people would see the name and think the Lieu tenant had been telling of the General's Invitation so as to make himself con spicuous.' " So I don't use it. I fancy that half the time people are taxing Mindenburg s simplicities quite seriously he is only getting a little mild run out of life by quizzing the world. And he does it to such perfection that they remain in happy ignorance that he is poking fun. It is said that Bismarck had the same knack and that the exer cise of it used to rest him greatly. one morning a painter said to Hin denburg after the regular half-hour sit ting: Excellency, I am going to work In this light all the rest of the day. and may I keep here the leggings you are wearing? Then I can get the color exactly." The General looked at the nainter with slow intentness and pondered the question several seconds. Then he said. witn patient resignation: 'No, I think not. It's the only Dair I nave, and' maybe this morning 1 need them." And he marched awav. SEED SOUGHT FOR CONTEST Klamath Water-Users Prepare for Competition by Children Growers. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. March S. (Special.) TheKlamath Water 'Users' Association, with ' President Abel Ady and County Agriculturist H. R. Glals ycr, Saturday began securing the best seed possible for distribution among the children of the water users on the Klamath project who wish to enter the contests announced by the association recently. The seed grain will be all of tho same variety and the best obtainable. The contest is in the way of growing the best vegetables and grains. To the boy or girl growing the best po tato crop on a sixteenth of an acre will be given the choice of three colts. The second best grower, will have second choice of the colts and the other colt will go to the third best grower. Other prizes are three calves, three hogs and three pens of young turkeys for the best crop of wheat, oats and barley grown. The Slhoe g Sale (A- CONTINUES OFFERING lf( Jn The Most Radical rv V JM?A '.Reductions on JiistZW Popular Moddsp .95 -4-15 TEETH MAY IDENTIFY MAN Mrs. Jack French to Inspect Body Washed Up at Westport. ABERDEEN", Wash.. March 8. (Spe cial.) Indentification of the body washed up by the sea at Westport Wednesday as that of Jack French, employe of the Crescent Bottling Works, who has been missing since November, may be made by his wife tomorrow from gold dental work in the man's mouth. The body will be viewed by Mrs. French tomorrow. A son of It. C. Rohrabacher, of Chehalis, believed the body to be that of his father and the teeth were sent to Kelso for inspection by a dentist who had done work for the elder Rohrabacher. The dentist said none of the work had been done by him and belief that the body is that of Rohra bacher has been abandoned. BAKER MANIS IN RACE Friends of J. II. Nichols Want Him on Game and Fish ComralMio. Shoes for Women, Men and Boys More different kinds of fashionable shoes are in this sale than were ever before presented in a special selling event. Shoes here for every need and styles that reach from the conservative kinds which some of our customers wear season in and season out to the very newest ideas in shoe fashions. $7.00 Women's Patent and Demi-Calf Boots Military style in patent calf and demi-calf with short or long vamps, lace style, with fawn, ' . sand, gray, putty and black toppings. Mili- gt yfl tary or Louis-Cuban heels $5.00 Women's Patent and Gunmetal Boots Button styles, welt soles, Louis-Cuban heels, with tan, fawn, gray and black toppings. All sizes and widths. Also three Spring styles with the new sand, fawn and gray toppings. Louis heels, welt soles, button style. Sale $6.00 Women's Patent and Demi-Calf Boots Button shoes with Louis-Cuban heels, with colored toppings in sand, fawn, gray and putty shades. Sale $6.00 Women's Satin, Suede and Calf Boots Discontinued lines of shoes in black satins , . with Louis and Cuban heels, welt and turned soles. Also black, gray, golden and seal brown suede, in button style. And tan calf button shoes with Cuban heels. . . . . $4.00 Women's Gunmetal, Patent and Velvet Boots Brpken lines and discontinued sizes in gunmetal calf, patent leather and all velvet button and lace style boots, with cloth or kid toppings. Sale SHOES FOR BOYS $4.00 Boys 'Patent and Demi-Calf Shoes $2. 85 . School Shoes in calf, oak soles, strong and serviceable. Dress Shoes in patent calf, demi-calf, button and lace style. Sizes 22 to 6. $3.00 Boys' Patent andGunmetal Shoes $1.95 Button and lace styles in gurirnetal calf and patent colt, , for dress or school wear. $2.00 Youths' Gunmetal Calf Shoes $1.45 Welt soles, in gunmetal calf. Sizes 10 to 13 only. Vnscincnf. 3.15 'HOOVER SUCTION SWEEPERS' Picture Framing Lowest Prices Mail and Telephone Orders Filled by Expert Shoppers SiDmarfWoflG c Merchandise ofcJ M Phone Marshall 5000 erit Only" Phone A 6691 Watch and Jewelry Repairing New CM Spring Styles in Party and Dancing Dresses -, Three Charming Empire Models of Crepe Meteor That WouldSell in the Regular Way at $27.50 very Special $zi.du The daintiest of frocks, in models that you would only expect to find at much higher prices. They are fashioned of an exceptional rich crepe meteor, in light blue, pink, maize, white and peach, shown in the attractive new Lmpirc. effects, with ribbon straps over the shoulders. These frocks are trimmed in distinctive styles, with fine laces, self pleatings, folds of silk and bouquets of dainty flowers. ' It is almost impossible to properly describe these lovely dresses, which tnu be seen to be appreciated. . Third Floor New Dresses of Serge and Shepherd Checks Unusual at $20.00 Exceptional at $14.85 myrtle. In all the new Spring colors, such as putty, battleship, gray. black, navy and fashionable black and white checks. i Made in the new Eton effects, trimmed with braidings and embroidery, finished with crushed girdles of satin, white pique collars and cuffs. I lie skirts are made in the latest full flaring styles now so much in vogue. Third I'loi.r. Women's Bags in Spring Shapes $1.12 $1.50 Regularly Of genuine pin seal leather, morocco, English long grain, crepe seal grain and silk moire, in smart new melon shapes. They are lined with poplin or moire, all with coin purse to match. Some are equipped with vanity fittings. Other new styles now on dis play and sale at various prices. First Floor. A Big Blouse Event $2.95 For the Newest Styles in Embroidered French Voile Blouses Four of the most attractive models for Spring, made of French voile, embroidered in new designs. Made with the popular "two-in-one collars, elaborately trimmed with fancy lace edgings and embroidery. Some in yoke-back effect ami hemstitching and others with French backs and allover cm broidery.. These waists shown for the first time Tuesday. Third Floor, Mail and Telephone Orders Filled by Expert Shoppt cTMercKand.'so of Merit Ony Pacific Marshall 5000 Home A 6691 J Make Your Own Buttons on the new Button Forms 20c to 30c Dozen By using these new button moulds you can make a dozen buttons for 30c that would or dinarily cost $ 1 .00. Requires no skill or experi ence. Can be covered in a mo ment's time. First Floor Women's Smart Hats Delightfully Trimmed Conforming With the Prevailing Vogue At $3.95 A REALLY ALLURING assortment of satin hats, or com binations of sat'n and fancy braids, in all the newest sliaprf. which are so very becoming this Spring. THERE ARE MANY charming ideas in ribbon and floww trimmings, wreaths and feather fancies, fruits and butter! !y bow;. THE NEW SPRING COLORS in the hats at this price, as well as black, black with white, or black with colors. Second Floor JEWS' FOE PUNISHED Turkish Government Not Hos tile, Says Ambassador. EXPULSION NOT OFFICIAL BAKER. Or.. March 8. (Special.) La Grande has asked Baker to indorse D. Crowe, of that city, for the po sitlon on the State Game and Fish Commission, but Baker may put its own man into the 'field. James H. Nichols, of this city, president of the Bake? Ad Club and well known for his interest in sports, has been asked to run. He -says he will make no ef fort, but if appointed will accept. Grant County's prominent Republi cans are In favor or a Baker man and 11 aid in the. fight if Baker desires t. This will offset the combination of Union and Umatilla counties, and. as it is expected that Malheur and Harney counties will join with Baker, the chances of a man from here are be- ieved to be good. NDIANS PAY PENALTYTOO Campaign Against Bootlegging in Umatilla County Pnshed. PENDLETON'. Or., March 8. (Spe- ial.) Though city, county, state and Federal prisons are housing local boot- eggers. the supply seems to be in- xhaustible and the campaign against them is being waged relentlessly by ocal officers. A new policy has also been announced by Police Judge Fitz gerald, who sayg that hereafter he will punish the Indians who solicit liquor, as well as the white men who supply them with it.' Jim Canine was the first Indian to suffer under the new ruling, lie was fined to. while I'.lmer F. Martin, who supplied the liquor, was fined 825. Action Taken in Palestine Results in Recall of Tocal Authority and ' Repetition to Be Prevented, Assures Count Bernstorff. WASHINGTON, March 8 Count Bernstorff, German Ambassador here, issued a statement today declaring tolerance toward all religious beliefs has been shown by the Turkish gov ernment and that the disturbances to the Jews in Palestine were caused by over-zealousness of local Turkish au thorities. The Ambassador's statement follows: "The government In Constantinople has, since the outbreak of war, strictly adhered to its traditional tolerant at titude toward all religions and there has never been an anti-Jewish or antl- Zionistic feeling in Constantinople. The political unrest, which for some time disturbed the Jewish population of Palestine, has been caused by the over-zealous attitude of local Turkish authorities. "But luckily they have in no place been followed by excesses which could not be entirely repaired. The expul sion of several mousana jews irom Palestine has also, without permission from Constantinople, been ordered by local military authorities. The Turk ish government, however, has now taken severe measures and has re called the official who is chiefly to blame. "The German Ambassador in Con stantinople, closely co-operating with Ambassador Morgenthau, has. during all this time, given much attention to the Jewish question and has urged the German Consular officials in Turkey to report regularly on local events. The Zionlstic representatives in Palestine, as well as in Constantinople, have also had opportunity to make representa tions to the Turkish government through the intermediary of the Ger man Ambassador and Ambassador Mor genthau. It will, therefore, in the fu ture, be possible to prevent anv local anti-Jewish agitation." WAR RELICS TO BE SENT The Balles and Other Places in Pa cific Xorthwest to Get Cannon. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, March 8. Under the terms of a bill, passed just before the adjournment of Congress, old cannon, relics of the Civil War, were donated to variou3o"it- les and towns throughout tha"country, but with the understanding that the cities and towns pay the cost of ship ping the cannon and balls, and also pay the cost of mounting them. Under this bill two bronze or brass cannon, with carriages, and a suitable set of cannon balls, are donated to The Dalles. Or., and similar donations are made to Aberdeen, Everett, Dayton, and one cannon to Dan McCook Post 105, Grand Army of the Republic, of the State .of Washington, and two cannon and balls are donated to Payette, St. Maries and Twin Falls, Idaho. Specials in Wash Fabrics and Comfort Materials 40c Printed Rice Voile 29c An open intricate seed effect woven voile in white grounds, over which are printed in delicate colors neat floral designs. 36 inches wide. 75c Silk Mixed Crepe de Chine 49c Floral and Belgian stripe effects. White grounds with dainty colored sprigs and flowers, colored grounds with contrasting floral patterns.' In black and white combinations, in new and striking designs. New Dress Ginghams, Special 10c The 'best ginghams we have ever sold at this price. In new patterns in neat checks and plaids, also stripes in dark and light colorings. 27 inches wide. 15c Cotton Challie 12 l-2c Full 36 inches wide, an ideal covering for comforts and quilts, in dark and medium colors, in Persian patterns. 60c Cotton Batts 43c These batts come about 3 pounds in weight and open up in full size for a comfort. Made of pure white cotton, light and fluffy. Size 72x84 inches. Basement Tfrap AND COLUMBIA TALKING Sale Toilet Goods 10c Kitchen Sapolio 5c Sold at this extremely low price only when making other purchases at the Drug Section. 25c Glycerine and Rose Water 16c 25c Jar Cocoanut Oil. 16c 10c Bicarbonate Soda. 5c 25c Bay Rum 16c 25c Witch Hazel 16c 35c Milk Sugar, Mercks', at .... 19c 20c Aspirin Tablets, doz en 10c 35c roll Hospital Cotton for 29c 25c box Toilet Soap, ,14c Assorted colors,' 3 cakes in box. 50c Rubber Gloves. . .25c -Red rubber, all si.es, tty durable for all hourcwork. $1.75 Neverip Water Bot tle 98c Black reinforced seams, 3- quart capacity, guaranteed one year. rir.t rir. MACHINES. HOMESTEAD LAW AMENDED Settlers Who Took Additional Land Prior to 1914 Protected. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, March 8. During the closing hours of Congress a bill was passed providing that all pending homestead entries made In good faith prior to January 1, 1914, under the enlarged homestead act by persons who before making such enlarged homestead entry had acquired title to land under the homestead law, be validated, if in other respects regular, in all cases where the original homestead was for less than 160 acres. The Department holds that a citizen who makes one homestead entry and acquires title, exhausts his homestead rights, whether he enters 160 acres. 80 acres or 40 acres, or even less. ENGLAND WILL PAY Reimbursement Proposed for Confiscated Cotton. BARS P,UT ON FOES' PORTS I.a Pine Saloon Is Unique. LA PINE. Or., March 8. (Special.) One saloonkeeper here has a large pos ter on which the Lord's Prayer ap pears, surrounded, by the Ten Com mandments, illustrated, hanging in a conspicuous place in his barroom. The saloonman is considered "as good as they make them" in his line of busi ness and has a record of which he is quite proud. He has never called an officer into his place of business, nor has he ever had a disturbance of any consequence. First Official Announcement Made of Execution of Asserted Right to Forbid All Trade With . Germany and Austria. WASHINGTON. March 8. The fol lowing statement was issued at the British Embassy today on "the subject of American cotton cargoes soing to Europe: "As already announced, there is no question of confiscating co'tton cargoes that may conie within the scope of the order-in-council, to be issued. The fol lowing arrangement has been come to in London as to cotton consigned to neutral ports only: "All cotton for which contracts of sale and freight engagements- had al ready been made before March 2 to be allowed free passage, or bought at con tract price if stopped, provided ships sail no .later than March 31. 'Similar treatment to be accorded to vided it is put on board not later than March 16. Hnrmy Port Voder Ban. "All shipments of cotton claiming above protection to be declared before sailing and documents produced to and certificates obtaineed from consular of ficers or other authority fixed by gov ernments. Ships or cargoes cwnsignea to enemy ports will not be allowed to proceed. The arrangement is said by the Brit Ish Ambassador to be framed to meet temporary condition arising from the fact that Americans had made con tracts, some of which were in execution. for the ielivery to neutral countries. which could not be fulfilled under an indiscriminate application of the as serted rights of the British and French overnments to cut off all supplies for their enemy. Cargoes for Xeutrals to Pan. It is reasonably certain that regard less of the treatment to be accorded supplies destined for Germany and Austria, directly or indirectly, such sup- piles when non-contraband will not be prevented from going forward to neu tral countries, even after the expiration of the dates mentioned in today's a ranzement. provided the neutral coun tries' have by suitable measures guard ed against the re-exportation of th.ese supplies to Germany and Austria. Although dealing only with the sub. ect of cotton, the arrangement made todav may be regarded as of the great est importance, because, while hereto fore the British and trench govern ments have contented themselves with the assertion that they reserve the right to cut on an me supplies irom Austria and Germany, this is the first actual notice of the purpose to exercise this power. elected n. A. Applegnle, inhIum) ruler; .1. K. Choate, leading Kniulit: riirtord Jenkins! lecturing KimkIiI: ficorce Wl son. loyal knight: I'. I'rovoM. trt-i.-Minr; Edward .1. Thornton. Hi'rri'tHry; T. I'vo vost, guard: ilciirp Owen, iriiHte. The membership Is nearly ". The Inds will celebrate its l''lh aiinUer.vary March 19. Ashland Elks Klecl Officer. ASHLAND, Or.. March 8. (Special.) all cotton insured before March 2, pro- Ashland Lodfee No. 911, of Elks, has rORLD'SOLDES'" i? HIGH GRADES?' 1 i i . V i i Violin fK TB7ir?l!T! Is ... v. s BROWN ,1 1