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I'okUia Rate 12 to 10 pages, 1 cent; 18 to m pages, z cents; S4 to 4s pages, a cents; BO to 60 pages, 4 cents; 6U to 76 pages, & cents: 78 to U'J pages. 6 cents. Foreign poet' age. double rates. Eastern Business Office Veree & Conk- lln. New York. Brunswick building; Chicago, eienger ouiiaing. Man Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Com' pany. 74a Market street. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, APRIL S3, 1915. INDIFFERENCE TO FRAUD. The other day a San Francisco grand Jury returned indictments against ten men for forgery in connection with securing signatures to three initiative and referendum petitions. The prin cipal frauds were committed in refer cnding a redllght abatement law, passed in 1912, held up for two years and then adopted by the people in 1914. In Ohio scandals accompanied the first application of the referendum. Petitions were filed against a work men's compensation, law and two tax laws. Whole pages were signed in one handwriting. One solicitor confessed that he had copied names from an old telephone directory. On other peti tions the names of dead men, lunatics, convicts and persons without legal res idence appeared. Washington, at the time of adopting the direct legislative principle, prohib ited the payment of petition circula tors, yet extensive forgeries committed by volunteer solicitors were uncovered. In Oregon one man has served a sentence in the penitentiary for forging names to a Portland Anti-Saloon League measure. Several others in dicted at the same time fled the coun try. Several solicitors were indicted for forging names to a referendum of a State University appropriation, but were never punished. Their forgeries aggregated more than 3000 names. Not long ago several others were in dicted for forging names to a recall petition in Portland. There is information in this con densed record worth considering. Ohio has. tightened solicitation of names to referendum petitions. Washington has prohibited circulation of petitions al together and has provided for regis tration offices, where the voters may voluntarily appear and invoke the in itiative, or referendum. But Oregon seems to view forgeries and corrup tion in connection with direct legisla tion not only with indifference, but possesses an element which protests against measures to safeguard the purity of the system as an Interference with the people's power. As a short but experimental step that could have done no harm, a meas ure was introduced at the last session of the Legislature which would have provided two methods of filing peti tions on voluntary and the other the one now in general use. It would have permitted a demonstration of the practicability of initiating and refer ending laws without use or employ ment of solicitors and yet would not have interfered with the rights of those who demand the latter method. It received but scanty consideration. The attitude in this particular of people who have struck so mightily against other forms of corruption in elections and legislation is inexplicable. CAPTURED RESOURCES OF ALLIES. So much has been said about the) economic pressure on Germany result ing from the maritime blockade, which is presumed to have thrown the em pire entirely on its own resources, that the compensation (Germany derives from occupation of her enemies' ter ritory has been overlooked. This occu pation places great resources of food find munitions at her disposal and de prives her enemies of those resources In equal measure. Germany occupies almost the whole of Belgium and" can add to her own food production that of this inten sively cultivated country. She also has the benefit of Belgian coal, iron, gun end munition works, including the great Cockerlll plant at Liege. Though she occupies only one-twentieth of the area of France, that twentieth in cludes one-tenth of the population and nearly one-half of industrial France: A bulletin of the National Geographic society says that the occupied territory includes "the banner departments of France," and it continues: Her are the mines, the foundries and factories, and the dairies and farms, which are the pride, the wealth end the strength of modern France. In this narrow strip under German occupation, there is produced 70 per cent of all coal mined in France, 90 per cent of all of the native-mined iron, nnd nearly half of the republic's output of manufactured articles. Almost the entire iron and steel in dustry of France lies behind the Ger man lines, for here are the raw mate rials. Pas de Calais produces 60 per cent of the coal and Meurthe-et-Mo-uelle produces 84 per cent of the French output. Germany is second only to the United States in steel pro duction, her output being double that of Britain and half that of the United States. Control of the French iron dis trict adds to her supply 90 per cent of iron going into the French steel output of 3,102,000 tons a year, while Belgium gives her 1.500,000 tons of steel. Germany stands third in coal production, and the French and Bel gian supply may bring her up to an equality with Britain, which stands second. The department of Nord, all but a few square miles of which is occupied ly Germany, leads France in agricul ture and industry. Here and in Pas de Calais, Meuse and Meurthe-et-Mo-eelle are the great metal-working plants, a great part of the land's tex tile industry, the cotton, woolen and linen weaving, the working of lace and embroidery- the weaving of car pets and dyeing, flour mills, brick kilns, distilleries, grass works, pottery works, shoe and hat factories, tobacco factories, cabinet works and beet sugar refineries. Here also is the most in tensive agriculture. All of the cereals, eugar beets, fruits, hops, tobacco, flax and large droves of cattle are grown, nd some of the best-known dairies of France are In this territory. In Poland also Germany occupies much territory which can be turned to her advantage. That country Is a great granary and cattle-grower, ex porting about 27.000,000 bushels of cereals yearly, and grows beets, pota toes and tobacco. In the southwestern corner, adjoining Silesia, are mines of iron, coal, tin and zinc, and Lodz Is a great center of textile industries. Both these regions are occupied by the Germans and can be used to make up at least part of the deficiencies caused by the maritime blockade. Capture of an enemy's material re sources is as important as the capture of his artillery. The coal, iron and foodstuffs of Belgium, France and Po land can be used against the allies, just as a captured gun can be turned against the army which has lost it. Germany will not be dependent upon her own resources unless her armies should be driven within her own bor ders. If then the allies should con quer the great coal and steel-producing districts of Westphalia they would be able to use her resources against her. In the meantime they can only replace by importation the supplies they .formerly obtained at home. INTO SILENCE? Night after night Mario Lambardi saw the curtain fall on mimic trage dies. The singers voiced their joy and woe, the orchestra wailed or laughed in sympathy. Then after a little while the lights-went out and all was dark and still. Now the curtain has fallen on his own drama, as it will fall for all of us. The lights are out, the stage is dark, the theater is void. In his opera there were beautiful spectacles, sweet airs, divine harmonies. Are they stilled for ever? Or will the play be reopened on another stage? THE DAY OF GREAT' ARMIES. The British expect their army in France to cut some figure, now that it has grown to a total of 750,000 men and is still growing. That is a huge army, according to old standards; yet it is the smallest of all those in the field except the Belgian and Serbian and perhaps the Turkish. Its impor tance consists as much in the fact that It is the first line of an armed force of . 3,000,000 men which is to take its place beside the French as in its pres ent numerical strength. We have passed the point of speaking of hun dreds of thousands and have reached the point of speaking of millions when we talk of armies. When we compare the strength of this army which has gone to help France with the strength of the armies with which the. British formerly over threw the French, we can conceive what great results were in old times achieved with a relatively diminutive force. The Black Prince routed, the French at Poitiers with only 6500 'men against 16,000, and Henry V won the battle of Agincourt with only 10,000 men. Wellington began the Peninsular war in 1809 with only 18,000 infantry and finished it in 1814 with 60,000 men. His army was reviewed in Paris by the allied sovereigns, and he said that with it he could conquer the world. In the purely local battle of Neuve Chapelle there were 50,000 Brit ish engaged, and that is estimated to have been only about a sixth of the force in the field. Not until the Boer war did Britain have more than 100,000 men engaged. In the Crimea she had only about a division and a half not more than 37,500 men and in the second Afghan war she had 71,000 men, all told. The largest force employed in the Boer war was 250,000 men. She has now be come, like her allies and her enemies, a nation in arms. THE TRUE CHAMPION EGO LAYER. It is at this period of the year that the head of the family resurrects the window and door screens from the basement and puts up barriers against the pernicious housefly. But to many a good housekeeper the thought does not occur that screens keep flies within the house as well as without. It does not seem to her worth while to pursue a single lonely, buzzing insect from room to room or window to window. What does one fly amount to? But if the one fly is not relentlessly slain, ten or twelve days 'later the woman . of the household begins to wonder where all the flies come from. Perhaps a search is made for holes in the screens. Perhaps each sash is made to fit better. Perhaps little John nie is scolded for leaving the door open. But a more likely cause for their presence may be found in the following figures compiled by a scien tific publication: June 1 One fly lays 120 eggs. June 10 60 flies lay 7200 eggs. June 20 36oo flies lay 432.O0O eggs. June .10 216.000 files lay 25,920. Ooo eggs. July 10 12,1160,000 flies lay 1.5o5,200.000 eges. July o T77.60O.00O riles lay 03,312,000.000 eggs. July 30 46,656,000,000 flies lay 5,008,720,- 000,000 cjga. August O 2,799,300.000,000 files lay 335. 02;t,2oo.ooo,ooo eggH. August 18 167,961,600,000,000 flies lay 20, 105. 092,000,000,1100 fges. August 29 10,077,fi'.6.oofl,000,000 flies lay l,2i9,;i2S.520,OOO,0O(l.lMiO eggs. , September N 004, 0M. 760,000,000,000 flies lay 72. rr9, 411,200.000.000,000 egga. September IS :;6.279. 705.000.000.000.000 flies lay 4,3S3..i64.872.u00.O(M),0OO,O0n eggs. rjepiemoer -3 1,0,004,01 ,uuu,ouip,ooo,ooo flies. Doubtless the figures are merely il lustrative. It frequently' happens that a home-owner closes his residence June 1 without eradicating every fly and returns not before October 1. -Yet we never heard of an incident. where ono had to shovel the flies away from the front door to get in. Yet the ques tion, "Where do all the flies come from?" which confronts the painstak ing housekeeper so often, generally has but one answer. It is eggs fly eggs." If you would have a clean house, a healthy house, spare not a single fly. TJXCLE SAM, THE STOREKEEPER. Uncle Sam keeps a store, but has no delivery system. His customers must hack up their own delivery wagons to his door and take away their pur chases. John does this and also rents wagons to his friends, Frank and Nich olas, who are short of wagons, but William has no wagon and has a feud with John, who not only refuses to rent wagons to him, but has rented all the wagons of outsiders to the quarrel. ' - William says to Uncle Sam: "If you don't sell goods" to me, you should not sell them to John, Frank and Nicholas. You are not giving me a square deal." uncle Sam replies: "I will sell goods to you. if you will take them away in your own wagon, as my other custom ers do." William says: "I have no wagon and nobody will rent one to me.". "I am sorry for you and should like to sell to you on the same terms as I sell to others," says Uncle Sam, "but your inability to comply with those terms is no fault of mine and your quarrel with John is no affair of mine. If I refuse to sell goods to him and his friends because you cannot do as they do in taking delivery at my door, my business would be ruined and they would have cause to accuse me of dis crimination." . , William feels aggrieved as he sees load after load of goods hauled away from Sam's door to the premises of John, Frank and Nicholas, and he transfers his grievance against his ene mies to Sam and persits in blaming Sam for his own unfortunate position. If we change the names of Uncle Sam to United States, John to Great Britain, William to Germany, Frank to France and Nicholas to Russia, this is the situation as regards the export of war munitions from the United States to Great Britain and her allies. Pres ident Wilson has frankly told Germany that she has no grievance and that she has no' cause for impugning the good faith of the United States. Germany's Inability to understand that neutrality requires us to permit exports to her enemies unhindered and that to forbid such exports would be a breach of neutrality is due to mortification at her inability to carry them safely to her ports. That sentiment biasos her judgment. We can scarcely blame her under the circumstances, but, being able to view the subject dispassion ately, we can but maintain our posi tion as the only fair one to be assumed. JOHSflON VS. RICH I KK. A few days ago Mr. William Richter, of HUlsboro, wrote us a postal card, on which he expressed the following kindly sentiments: Your news service is faultless, hut your editorials are rottenly English. We der ma n a concede the right of everyone to side with England, but we .won't allow ourselves to be stultified by calmly accepting your as severations of being unimpeachably neutral in face of your vindictively Anglophile interpretations of the cardinal points of the war. In confident expectation that shortly somebody would answer Mr. Richter for us, his postal card was laid aside. The answer has been forwarded by Mr. H. Johnson, who gives his address as Glisan street, Portland.. He says in part: In spite of your anti-English persuasion and defamation I and many more open minded persons will continue to believe In English methods and ideals. The English aro not angels. Some are rotters, same as some Americans are. All the same, the Eng lish as a world power is the squarest-deal-ing world power, bar none. England has made and does make mistakes, but she is true to humanity. I have traveled In many climes and many countries and mixed with many nationalities and' colors and have found such to be the case. Hence I believe in the English rather than in the ethics of Germanism as promulgated in this war; rather than in the diatribes of the Father land: rather than in your editorial and Carolyn Wilson falsifications. Your attempt to make readers believe that you are un biased and neutral Is laughable. Any intel ligent not brilliant person can find pro Germanism In extremis, in spite of the kind of aftermath allusion to the United States Government being in the same bucket as England, viz, holding back full reports of Governmental policies. Now if Mr. Richter will explain, why our "vindictively Anglophile" atti tude does not please Mr. Johnson, and if Mr. Johnson will tell why our "pro Germanism in extremis" does not please Mr. Richter, some valuable lit erature will be added to The Orego- nian's discussions of the European war. SIR. EDISON'S BATTERY FOR SUB MARINES. When Mr. Edison visited the Brook lyn Navy-Yard last December it was hinted that he had in mind an im provement for the storage batteries used on submarines. Such an improve ment has been sadly needed and now, according to the news reports, it has been perfected by the great inventor. The old storage batteries had one fatal defect. Their principal part was a sheet of lead suspended in sulphuric acid, the whole being enclosed in a hard-rubber case. When sea water happened to penetrate the battery chamber and come in contact with the lead there was an immediate evolution of chlorine gas, which is. a deadly poison. If the men breathe it for any length of time it causes death. Even a small quantity of chlorine in the air sets up hemorrhage of the lungs. Sev eral accidents of this nature have oc curred on submarines and the call for an improved storage battery, free from this peril, had become urgent. At the surface of the sea the sub- merslbles are propelled by gasoline en gines, but beneath the water the stor age battery is indispensable. Mr. Ed ison's new invention contains chem icals which can in no case generate chlorine gas.- It is therefore no doubt destined to .increase greatly the utility of the submarine and lessen the perils attending its navigation. i TO THWART STOCK THIEVES. ! The Times-Herald, of Burns, Har ney County, says there is prospect that the Cattle and Horse-Raisers' Associa tion of Oregon will hold its" annual meeting in that place June 14. The only thing in doubt is the co-operation. or more properly the promise of at tendance upon the meetings, of the cattle and horse owners of Harney County. This association is one that has a work before it which local organiza tions of the same kind cannot hope to accomplish. As a preventive against loss of stock from range or farm the local associations can comb only the neighborhood, whereas the state-wide association is able to employ men to watch the stockyards at market points and thus thwart the thieves. It is good business sense for the stockgrowers and stockfeeders of in terior Oregon to make such overtures to the Cattle and Horse-Raisers' As sociation as to secure the meeting there in June. All the association asks is that responsive and friendly spirit of co-operation be manifested by a promise to get a good attendance of stockmen out to the meetings. It ought to be an easy matter. PORTLAND HAS A REMEDV. The new rate policy of the transcon tinental railroads is the logical out come of the Interstate Commerce Com mission's incomprehensible abandon ment of the fundamental principle that water rates govern in competition with railroads. When the commission, by adopting the zone system, departed from the established rule that rates to interior points should be the over land rate to the Coast, plus the rate from the Coast to the interior, it cut loose from its moorings. If it shall accede to the railroads' plan of reduc ing rates from the East to Spokane and other Interior centers below the mileage rate, the commission will ex pose itself to assault from points far ther east, like Boise, Helena, Butte and Missoula, which would then pay a higher rate for a shorter haul. No interior point distant from water transportation has any natural advan tage over any other like point entitling it to favors such as the railroads pro pose to show Spokane. The commis sion cannot justly sanction such favors. It can get on safe ground again in only one of two ways. One is to re store the old rule that rates to the in terior must be the rate to the Coast, with the back-haul rate added. That would give Portland and other Coast terminals the advantage of natural location which they formerly had and which cannot Justly be taken from them. The other is to base rates on distance throughout. That would de prive the railroads of practically all traffic to the Pacific Coast in competi- tion with the. Panama Canal, but it would deprive Spokane of the un natural advantages given by the com mission and proposed to be given by the railroads. The latter policy would not exclude Portland from interior trade, but it would cause the "mer chants of the city to carry practically all traffic from the Atlantic Coast by water. ' Portland has less cause for pertur bation about the latest rate contro versy than any other Pacific Coast city, for in a few days it will have the rem edy in its own hands to apply to part of the trade territory involved. When the Celilo Canal is open Portland will need only to adopt the most econom ical transportation, methods on the Co lumbia River in order to become In dependent of the railroad in trade with that part of the interior accessible to the Columbia. Steamboats and barges will need only to be supplemented by auto trucks In order that Portland may reach other inland points from the river without the aid of railroads. Paved highways from river to the back country would enable Portland mer chants to ship goods into Spokane at rates which the railroads could not touch. Our remedy is the open river and good roads. We have the one and we are getting the other. With steam ers on the one and auto truckson, the other, Portland could go ahead, se renely Indifferent to whatever the In terstate Commerce Commission and the railroads might do. The New York Times gives the reaa- ing public some of the Bronte sisters' unpublished poems, which will pres ently appear in a small volume. The poems are not mere literary curiosities. They are full of passionate imagina tion, expressed with exquisite art. One by Charlotte, called "Eventide," re- minds us of Heine's heart-breaking "Am Meer." There are only two verses, but they are perfect. The London Methodist Recorder takes an interesting view of war, which, it says, "is always under the complete control of God's will." The Recorder says the Germans have been raised up to punish England's sins, just as some authorities held, that the great earthquake was sent to punish San Francisco. Fortunately, the Lord Is not always as bad as his spokesmen depict him. Amelia E. Barr, the novelist, has found a novel answer to the question why the Lord sends wars into the world. She thinks they stir up women to unselfish effort and are therefore, upon the whole, desirable. Similarly, we suppose, ,we cannot dispense with poverty and misery, since they pro vide a stimulus to the kindly emotions of the rich. Motorists, in common with other patriots, will rejoice to hear that the purgatorial stretch between Tigard and Rex, on the Newberg road, is to be improved. Those miserable ten miles are responsible for many an exploded tire and many a soul lost by profanity. When the road is "fixed" Newberg will be one of Portland's most agreeable suburbs. The highway projected through the Modoc lava beds will open up an at tractive region to motorists. The coun try surrounding Klamath Falls abounds with interest. The lakes, the moun tains, the odd flocks of water fowl awaken the wonder of sightseers. But none of the marvels surpass the lava beds. Will somebody explain how the Clackamas County young man who committed suicide by hanging was able to tie his hands so tightly that he could not rescue himself in case he changed his mind? This almost dis counts the tale of the one-armed man who chopped off his remaining hand. Typhus follows in war's wake and slays the victims the furies overlook. But science is greater than typhus. It has discovered a vaccine that checks the monster's ravages. The discoverer is Dr. Harry Plotz, of New York. He will probably save as many lives as the European .monarchs destroy. The figures of Mr. Muller, the rate statistician, lead to the conclusion that the way to -make money out of farm ing is not to farm, but to run a rail road. That's another check' to the back-to-the-farm movement. Glasgow is experimenting with young women as platform men on municipal traction lines. During the war with Peru years ago Chile used women and found they worked well. France is retiring its older general officers to make way for young blood, although the old men have put up a very good front against the best fight ers in the world. Somebody has just discovered the existence of an ice trust In Portland. He cannot have had to pay any ice bills or he would have discovered it years ago. 4f Dr. Marcellus spreads mosquito oil on all the lakes and sloughs, the boy who "goes in'J three times a day will be pretty flick by nightfall. China has taken so long to awaken that she should have both eyes open and should be stretching her limbs by this time. The British, don't' know what they miss when they let those Oregon ap ples rot on board ship at remote Kirk wall. The' Texas town 'of Goforth is well named, but misspelled. Three of its quadruplets are in fair way of living. Sex of the three-legged calf at Rose burg is not stated, but it is to be hoped it is a heifer, with no kick coming. The air may be thick with; peace rumors only to keep it occupied until it becomes thick with shells. The weather is good and the players are good, but they need the "ginger" Imparted by large crowds. The Hungarian Diet seems to regard more expenditure on the war as good money thrown after bad. British cruisers patrolling this coast need the exercise. They do not inter fere with anybody. Hungary has had enough and re fuses to vote more war credit. California will continue to hang, but Alaska is the other way. Germans on the western battle line have the garden fever. Sense and Nonsense. Called by Addison Bennett. Scout, Union. PEOPLE come back to Union not infrequently, after trying their for tunes in other places. William Mc Cardle, who sold, out in the town sev eral years ago and went to Canada, arrived back to the city Wednesday and bought back the house and lot which he had sold on the eve of his departure for the North. He expects to remain here for the future. a Ask P. M. G. Burleson. The Dalles Optimist. Spend a dollar at home and it still works for the community; send it away and you, bid it an eternal farewell. Prohibition Item. Coos Bay Times. A four-headed rabbit with green eyes whipped a hunter and killed two dogs In Curry County. Why. Bryan Seeds All There la. Cottage Grove Leader. "Kaiser Bill's throat overworked and seriously affected" yet Bill Sunday and Bill Bryan are still able to articu late. Why don't the Kaiser try loganberry Juice? Biow About Vsrdsmanf New York Sun. We can think of no great South erner, not forgetjting Josephus Daniels, who would have made such a tri umphal progress up the east Atlantic coast as Jess Wlllard has contrived to endure without taking the count Hermlaton Is All Right. Hermiston Herald. New people are securing land here and doing improvement work. The outlook for good crops was never bet ter. There is work for every man and team. Altogether the prospect is for an excellent year. OoDght to Go to Mexico. Coos Bay Times. "I never saw such a man as you are," remarked the Central avenue man to the Knocker the other day. "I really believe you hate yourself." " "Well, why shouldn't I?" the Knocker replied. "My mother is English and my father is German." Ia Teddy Loose Again t Lebanon Express. "Yes, the submarines are deadly, but the aeroplanes will get them yet; but say, do you know why Spring is the most dangerous time of the year? "Give it up." "Well because the flow ers have pistils, the buds shoot and the bull rushes out." The Minor Details Count. Lebanon Criterion. The main argument lor a good road is repairs at the right time. This seems to be the place where the road force 6f Linn County falls down; they fail to get In their work when it will do the most good, waiting their con venience and paying little attention to the minor details of road work. - A Sensible Ending. Bandon Record. J. R. Smith, whom report credits with the ownership of a gold mine on Lobster Creek, a goat ranch on Coos Bay and several castles on the Rhine, was in Bandon this week on his way from the land of sour dough and gold to the confines of the Coos' Bay coun try. And Earn That Herself. Gresham Outlook. How many of the young men of the country do you know who are looking the country over for girls in 1 dresses? The young man who consults his purse rather than his heart in mat ters of courtship is a doubtful proposi tion. A too conservative lover will make a tightwad husband, and the girl who appeals to him because she wears a $2 gingham will, if she takes him for her husband, find herself dressed in about four bits' worth of calico few years later. Of Value to farmers, lone Journal. A farmer tells us that he has prac tically rid his farm of gophers by the use of gasoline. He carries a bottle and a bunch of cotton batting with him while working in the field and when he sees a gopher run into a hole he pours some gasoline upon a wad of cotton and places it at the mouth of the hole and covers the opening with dirt. The gas fumes are heavier than air and go to the bottom of the hole. In an at tempt to get air, the gopher comes to the top of the hole and the gas does the rest. Remove cotton in about half an hour and Mr. Gopher will be dead. The plan will apply to many other burrowing animals. Whiskerless Watson! Never! Ashland Tidings. A stranger appeared in our midst last Saturday. His voice sounded fa miliar and he appeared to know us, but it required several moments of careful inspection before we recognized Ashland's old friend. Judge Watson. The reason? The judge has unmerci fully torn the hirsute adornment men are wont to call whiskers from off his physiognomy. Mr. Watson has been a farmer now for the past two weeks and It must be that the whiskers got tangled up In his rake, or maybe the hired man made a mistake when he was burning brush. Mr. Watson Is still alive and happy, but says that he has to take a friend around with him for identification purposes when .he visits the banks. CHANGl'l FROM API.G ROYALTY .SngKestton for "Miss- Portland" for Festival Finds Quick Favor. MEDFORD. Or.. April 21. (To the Editor.) Three cheers. At last some one has come forward with brains enough to suggest a change from the sickening aping of royalty put on in every city In this Republic whenever a celebration of any importance occurs. "J. N. R.s" suggestion of "Miss Port land" is good, also that an escort for "Miss Portland,"' consisting of a popu larly elected young lady from each of the principal cities of Oregon would increase the interest in the rose show in all parts of the state; but do not limit the attendants to six, let every city in the state that will send one. Let us have, then. Miss Rose Portland and her attendants. Miss Medford, Miss Eugene. Miss Astoria, etc. Yours for a democratic celebration. " G. Rate to Seaside and Lewlston PRESCOTT, Or., April 20. (To the Editor.) (1) During the Summer months the Spokane, Portland & Seat tle Railway Company makes a round trip rate from Portland to Seaside or Gearhart of $3. Is there any reason why persons living at Rainier, which is 46 miles down the river, should be obliged to pay the same rate as those living in Portland? Would the State Railway Commission take any action In the matter? (2) Will you please advise me what the fare will be on the steamer "Un dine," which the Commercial Club has chartered for a trip to Lewiston? A SUBSCRIBER. (1) It is the business of the Railroad Commission to consider complaints as to rates, but we cannot forecast the action. (2) For round trip, $7. SO; meals and bertha extra. HORSES AD MILES FOR WAR Hnmane Society President Would Stop Shipping- Animals for Slaughter. PORTLAND. April 21. (To the Edi tor.) Would it be asking too great a favor of you to have the following ar ticle appear in the columns of your paper? I have been requested, by several people who are interested in the work of the Humane Society of Oregon to express my views on the subject of the sale of the 80,000 horses and mules to England for use in the cruel war now ia progress, mention of which appeared in the daily papers April 18, 1915. There is a lot of praying going on all over the United States with nothing at the back of it whatever. What is the sense of praying when you have the iollars to sweep your God and yourself out of all decency? Just Im agine the people across the ocean coming to this country to buy all the poor Worses and mules and these people who are selling them and the buyers as well praying to God to stop the war. If these would-be human beings are so delighted in killing each other, that is entirely a different matter, but to force our animals to face such an outlandish thing as this is an outrage. Why don't the villains who are selling these mules go and face the same thing themselves that they are forcing; the innocent animals to face? No, men of this type are the biggest cowards on earth. The dollars in sight would make these cowards stoop to do anything. Now, I claim these animals have some rights on earth, just as man has, and they should be respected, and in my opinion these 80,000 mules and horses that have eight days to live on the battlefield have far more intel ligence than the hypocrites who are selling them or the purchasers, either, who are praying for peace and helping the war on to the best of their ability. It reminds me of a man trying to put out a fire by throwing on gasoline. There Is Just as much intelligence dis played In one case as the eother. Now, I don't believe there Is an Intelligent person in the United States but would rather see every ship loaded with the innocent and unprotected animals go to the bottom of the sea, together with all the guns and ammunition that is reported being sent out of our land to help carry on such a warfare, and all be Christian nations supposed to be highly civilized. I may be severely criticised for expressing my views on such an important subject as the above and you may accuse me of being an Infidel because I criticise prayer. I am far from it; I believe in prayer, but to start a war and have the unlimited nerve to pray to God to stop it. that looks like you were playing pinochle with him. The facts are right here. God never started that game over there, and if he did not start a thing, why pray to him to stop it? Now. you brothers who are used to praying. Just cut out prayer for a time and try something that you are more accustomed to. You had better find yourself first and pray afterwards. Let's all go to work now In earnest. Let prayer rest. Don't pray for divine help with a material brain. Get in tune first. How to stop the shipments of mules and horses from the State of Oregon for one year. This would be my suggestion: Let the Governor of the state Issue a proc lamation to this effect, as was done a few years ago by ordering a legal holi day for the banks covering a period of time: "I. the Governor of Oregon, declare a legal holiday for a period of one year from April 25, 1815. to April 25. IMS. for the purpose of protecting the mules and horses of the Slate of Ore gon, by prohibiting the transfer of all horses and mules from Oregon to other states or territories for use in the war in Europe, or other purposes. Any per son or persons buying horses or mules in Oregon for use In the European war or transfers to other states or terri tories for the period of one year, as stated, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $50 nor more than 500 for each offense, or not less than three months nor more than one year in the County Jail for each offense." If a legal holiday can be declared for one set of men it certainly can for others without any quibbling. Those who want to fight such a law, let them fight. By the time they get through fighting the law the war will be over. Now is the time we want the pro tection. I want the women of Ore gon as well as the men to stand by me and put Oregon at the top of the list as the starter of this great work. There are no money grabbers in this transac tion whatever. OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY. By A. Cowperthwait. President. "XIHSE'S" PAMPHLET ATTACKED Devoted Mother Points Oat Work for District Attorney to Do. PORTLAND, April 21. (To the Edi tor.) Your item. April 21. regarding the shortage of babies desired for adoption, calls to mind an incident that came to my attention the other day. My 16-year-old daughter was discov ered by me reading a pamphlet writ ten by a person passing herself off as a trained nurse. I am not certain that the name is genuine. I am inclined to think that it is assumed, for I cannot bring myself to believe that any self respecting woman would sign her real name to such lewd and obscene writ ing as this pamphlet proved to be. In It were given the most minute and revolting details, expressed in the plainest, baldest and most nauseat ingly indecent manner, as to how God's law of human reproduction could be effectively circumvented by the fiend ish ingenuity of mankind. Think'of a condition of society which permits such horrible printed matter to fall into the -hands of innocent young girls! Think bow such gross and scur rilous stuff may debauch the heart and mind of a young woman! Think of the unchaste and sinful conduct which such shameful and blasphemous knowledge as that of artificially restricting the development and birth of an Immortal human soul may lead to! I have heard that thousand of these pamphlets have been distributed in Portland, just by whom or through what agency J cannot say. Neither can I understand the motive, unless it be to encourage viclousness. Certainly those who are responsible for such distribution have done a very wicked thing. If the hearts and bodies and souls of pure young girls are blast ed as a result of such vile literature, those who brought it Into our com munity will have to answer to eternal God for their sins. Meanwhile, is there no law which the District Attorney, who is a clean, moral man, can invoke so as in some way to stop tHe further spread of this poison ous obscenity among our young peo ple, and especially our girls? A DEVOTED MOTHER South American Trade. WALLA WALLA. Wash., April 21.--(To the Editor.) To whom would I address a letter for information re garding business conditions in Chile, Brazil and Argentina? Would it be possible to learn whether different lines are handled similar to the cus toms of this country, such as the un dertaking business. DAN J. HENNESSEY. Address letters of Inquiry to "The American Consul" at the principal cities In the country about which you desire Information. American Consuls are lo cated at Bahla, Para. Pernambuco and Rio d Janeiro, Brazil; Iqulque, Punta Arenas and Valparaiso, Chile; Buenos Ay res and Roaarlo. Argentina, Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oreconian. April -l, 1P90. New York The American Federation of Labor has it-sued an appeal to all members excepting carpenters and Joiners, asking them not to take a part in the agitation and demonstration for an eight-hour day, until the result of the first great struggle that of the carpenters is decided. ' Washington Senator Mitchell yester day addressed the Senate, urging a change In tho procedure of electing United -States Senators. He said there had been 15 changes in the Constitu tion and asked what one had been un welcome, lie also declared the pres ent system of choslng Senators unrt publican and vicious. Corvallis, Or. The Benton County Democrats nominated the following ticket yesterday: Delegates to the state convention, S. G. Thompson, Allan Parker, John Burnett. M. M. Davis. P. Avery. P. Scott and I,. E. Cauthorne; SLate Senator, S. G. Thompson; Repre sentatives, Jess Foster. K. 11. Gibson: .ludei E. Hulgate; Sheriff, William Mackey: Assessor, E. Skipton: Com missioner, Wesley lllnton: Treasurer, M. 1'. Burnett; School Superintendent, Miss Nettle Spencer; Surveyor. A. Is Porter; Coroner, Dr. Applewhite. All teachers of the city schools will meet on the evening of April 6 at the High School to hear nn address by State Superintendent McElroy and a paper on "Physical Training" by Mr. Martin, vice-principal of Falling School. Professor Ackerman. of Jlolladay School also will participate In the pro gramme, as will Professor Gault, of Tacoma. The Seattle Press Club has beeri established and officers will be elected next Saturday. The number of guests entertained at the new Portland Hotel is astonishing. For several nights there have been scarcely any rooms vacant and travel is already increasing with the coming" of Spring weather. Those very persons who once declared the hotel was far too large and that it never would be filled, now are realizing It Is If any thing not large enough. It was reported yesterday that Dan Sprague intended to run for Constable in South Portland against Sam Sim mons, who defeated him two years ago, but as Sprague has moved across the line some time ago, he is out of tho precinct. As George B. Markle and wife were returning from the funeral of William Sherman yesterday their horses took; fright from an electric car at Eighteenth and B streets. One of the horses Jumped over the other and in the mix up the harness was broken and a gen eral smashup and runaway was Immi nent. But before the buggy was upset Mrs. Markle was helped to the ground. Several of the firemen from the engine house came to the assistance of the couple and prevented what appeared would be a disaster. The James G. Blaine Club Is planning a rousing meeting for next Thursday, and intend for it to stir Republican en thusiasm .to a high pitch. Mr. Olln L. Warner, the sculptor of the Skldmore fountain, has spent part of the Winter In this city In a studio of his own building on Johnson Hill. Mr. Warner has had commissions from W. S. Ladrl, Charles Ladd and from C. E. S. Wood for the group of the five Wood children, and for a life-sized medallion of General Gibbon, commanding this department. Delegates to the Democratic state convention are arriving. Pennoyer seems to be the choice for the Demo cratic nomination for Governor. J. N. Teal and Ed McKee are spoken of for chairman. UHi:(.ii hi ilimm? is aitii i:c iatkii D. O. Lively Bays Ilrcent Criticism of Interior Not Warranted. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., April 19. (To the Editor.) Some time ao I read in one of tho Portland papers a criti cism about the Interior arrangement of the Oresron liuildlncv Exposition of ficials are more than ordinarily busy men, but after reading this criticism r took the opportunity of paying a visit to the Oregon building to see for my self the work that had been done by tho Oregon commission. As a result of careful investigation I am able to say that the trust reposed in the commission has been well plseed. The problem of filling bo large a ipani has been successfully worked out. The building and its exhibits attract a preac number of visitors nnd I made It my business to ak a number how thi-v were Impressed by what they had seen. Without exception the answers were favorable. The exhibits of photographs, ibe moving-picture display of Oregon activities and resources and the entire arrange ment of the buildinjr constitute a splen did advertisement for the State of Ore gon. The balance sheets showing how the money has been expended demonstrate that the commission bus been economi cal as possible. As far as I am con cerned, knowing the extraordinary cost of everything connected with ait exposition, the results accomplished In the Oregon building for the amount of money Is little short of marvelous. Tne luncheons being served by tho home economic class of the Oregon Agricultural College attract numerous visitors and have won for the college and the Oregon building many expres sions of praise. The officials and at tendants in charge are always present, and are eager and willing to show visitors about. D. O. LIVELY, Chief of the Department of Livestock. F.VESTlDE. The house was still, the room was still, 'Twas eventide in June; A caged canary to the sun Then setting, trilled a tune. A free bird on that lilac bush Outside the lattice heard. He listened long there came a hush. He xlropped an answering word CHARLOTTE BRONTE. t hrss Came by Mall Wanted. GRANTS PASS. Or., April 13. (To the Editor.) Could you give tne the name and address of some person who would care to play a game of chess by correspondence? Tf you can do so I will be very much obliged. Am only an amateur. L DWIGHT JEWELL. P. O. Box 724. , Look in the Index When you seek some information in a reference book you save time by turning to the index. The advertising Jn this newspaper Is the index to the fulfillment of your needs. It presents the cream of commer cial possibilities. It tells you the story of men and things. Advertising Is a time savrT and a money saver. It In like the In dex that gives the exact page and paragraph to turn to.