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I'mtairA Ratea 12 to 19 paxes, 1 rent; 18 to pages. -1 cents; 34 to 4H paces, 3 cents: to to t paces, 4 cents; aj to 7ti pagan, b etitb; 78 t. It- paces. 6 cents. ij'orcisn postage, double rates. la stern Bulnrai Office Vrree Sc Conklln, New York, Brunswick building; Chicago, fcteuecr building. PORTLAND, THURSDAY. J KSB 3, M15. AT LAST. After two years of anarchy in Mex ico. President "Wilson has discovered th.it the United States has a. duty to that country beyond watchful waiting for it to tettle its own troubles. He now recognizes that the American people dare not Bit idly by while the .Mexican people and the . Americans and other foreigners within their boundaries are slain by bands of armed men who, in the much-abused name of liberty and patriotism, 6trive for the exclusive privilege of preying upon helpless men, women and chil dren. He warns the leaders of these 4'and.s that, unless a government is soon established which can save Mex ico, the United States will do some thing; to rescue that unhapy country from them. In order to have a clear understand ing of the causes of the situation which the President thus aims to rem edy, it is necessary to review the events of the last two years and more. Jladcro had no sooner been installed as President than revolt broke out among his followers. Orozco led the rebellion and Huerta. one of Dlazl generals, went In a halfhearted way about suppressing lt He defeat ed and dispersed Orozco's army, but did not follow up the guerrilla bands into which it dissolved. Felix Diaz led a new revolt in, Mexico City itself, and, after fighting him for ten days, Huerta went over to him and made Madero prisoner, then procured his own election as provisional President. Madero was murdered tt few days later, and Huerta was accused of prompting: the crime, but it was never brought home to him. Huerta was then In control of the government and his authority was un disputed in all parts of the republic except the small sections where Za pata had continued in revolt during Madero's term and where Carranza raised the standard of revolution. Mr. Wilson refused to recognize him bMauso he had not been constitution ally elected, though no President sinco Mexico became a republic had been so elected, with the possible ex ception of Madero. The Carranza re volt spread in the north with the scarce veiled sympathy of the United Slates Government. John Lind was sent to Mexico for the purpose of in ducing Huerta to abdicate, but his mission failed. The embargo on ex port of arms to Mexico was lifted, enabling the rebels to extend their rule to the southward. Refusal to rec ognize Huerta hampered him in ob taining arms and funds. His support ers became embittered and many out rages on Americans resulted. Arrest of a boat's crew from an American warship at Tampico was the outcome of this feeling. The men were soon released, but Admiral Mayo, in command of the squadron, demanded that the American flag be formally saluted. The demand was reiterated by the President, and, when it was refused, an armed expedition was sent, not to Tampico, but to Vera Cruz. After a sharp skirmish, in which about a score of Americans were killed and over a hundred wounded, the city was occupied. It then developed that this action had been hastened to prevent the landing of a cargo of arms for Huerta by the German steamship Yplranga. This ship could only be prevented from landing its cargo at other ports by the proclamation of a blockade, which would have established a state of war. Mr. Wilson studiously avoided such extremes, and the arms were landed at another port. Although Carranza said he would join Huerta to resist armed American intervention. Secre tary Bryan, opposed reimposition of the embargo on arms, and only after some friction was it reimposed by Sec retary Garrison. Mediation by Argentina, Brazil and Chile resulted in the ABC confer ence at Niagara Falls, which accom plished nothing practical. It did not secure the salute to the American flag, for before it ended Huerta suffered a scries of defeats and fled from Mex ico. Carranza then occupied Mexico City and a convention of generals met at Aguas Calientes to elect a tempor ary President. The choice not falling upon him, Carranza refused to recog nize Gutierrez, who was elected. He evacuated Mexico City and civil war was renewed between him and "Villa, his best general, aided by Zapata. The American troops evacuated Vera Cruz on November 23. 1914, and Carranza made that city his temporary capital. Gutierrez not having proved pliable enough, Villa set up another tempor ary President and finally- proclaimed himself ruler until an election could be held. But Carranza has been strengthened by the accession of the Diaz faction, and his armies have won several victories over Villa, but nei ther leader feels strong enough to oc cupy and hold the capital. Throughout these convulsions all semblance of law seems to have disap peared. Hundreds of Americans and other foreigners have been murdered and ma.ny more have been robbed. Priests and nuns have baen slain, tor tured, foully abused and robbed, and churches have been pillaged and de filed. Crops have been destroyed or liayc not been planted, and livestock has been slaughtered or exported. The people of Mexico City have been driven to riot by hunger, and food im ported by the international relief com mittee has been seized by the troops. A condition exists similar to that of Belgium before the Relief Commis sion undertook to feed the people. From the day when Mr. Wilson re fused to recognize Huerta as ruler in fact over Mexico, he rendered the present situation inevitable and he rendered American intervention equally inevitable. That Is the opin ion expressed by The Oregonian near ly two years, ago: it is the opinion we have since reiterated at frequent in tervals with stronger emphasis, and it Is the opinion we hold-today. We have declared that the treatment given Huerta" by the United States was in fact, though not in name, interven tion. We foresaw that the triumph of Carranza would be followed by di vision in his ranks, as it was. We see no ground for hope that, if either he or Villa or Zapata should triumph, new division would not breed new war, or that the process would not be repeated until the ruin and devasta tion of Mexico was followed by de population through starvation or tlight. There is no prospect that the President's exhortation will bring the rival leaders together; they would never unite except to prevent or re sist armed intervention, and they would quarrel again as soon as that jrtnergenoy passed. When the President undermined the strength of Huerta he destroyed the only hope of bringing tranquillity to Mexico without outside aid. He re duced the republic to the alternative between the now existing anarchy and starvation on the one hand and for eign intervention on the other hand. If the United States does not inter vene now, it rtMist do so as soon as the European war ends or. must permit the victor' in that war to intervene. The President imposed this duty upon us by his pacific intervention. It can not be escaped. MKTKK 'KM ALL. The essence of public service is that it shall bo available to every citizen according to his reasonable needs, and not according to what he pays. Yet here comes along a socialistic City Commissioner and turns inside out his own theories in order to sell water by the gallon. Denying his socialistic doctrines, he says the only fair and economical system is to make the consumer pay for what he gets. So ho would put in meters, to limit the free flow and generous and desirable use of our immense water suply. Very well. !Let us have a fair divi sion of the advantages of government according to the ability of the bene ficiaries to pay for It. The courts are paid for out of the public funds. Let them be supported by the litigants. The streets are traveled by all alike. Let us forbid their use by all who have not paid for them. Or let us impose a mileage rate upon all tra f f ic. The bridges are all free. Why should citizens who do not cross the river pay to build or maintain them? We have public schools. Let us meter them, so that the poor man with six children will pay six times as much as the rich man with one child. We have water enough for all, twice over; 'and the quantities avail able in the mountains are inexhaust ible. Yet to prevent one man using a pint more than another, without any penalty, we propose to padlock the entire supply and set inspectors on him to check him up. Rather than give him the surplus, we will let it rtfn off Into the sewers. A ,OOt TOWN t'OR CHILDREN. The current news contains an ac count of the good luck of Winfield, Kan., which has won a thousand dol lars as a prize for being the best town the state has in which to bring up children. The reason for Wintield's pre-eminence in this important par ticular is not given in the reports, but we suppose it is a. good one. We imagine that Winfield has a number of thriving churches, excellent public schools, no vile resorts, clean streets and a good system of public hygiene. All these conditions are essential for the well being of children. Others are equally necessary. For example. it is desirable that the parents of the children should be intelligent and well informed on such subjects as whole some food, family discipline and the proper hours for rest and sleep. Many a promising boy has been broken down in health by lack of sleep. His mistaken father imagined that it was a moral duty to drag him out of bed betimes in the morning when nature demanded that he should sleep an hour or two longer. In such contests nature always comes out ahead even at the cost of destroying the boy. Xo town can be an ideal place for bringing up children, or for adults to dwell in, unless it has adequate pro vision for recreation. The want of this provision is one of the saddest defects of village life. It is seldom properly attended to, even in cities. Many country towns are pestered by the heathenish belief that amusement is detrimental to morals. In reality there can be no sound morality for young people without it. The popu lar prejudice against dancing, amateur theatricals and other wholesome rec reations has done an infinite amount of harm. The rural clergy should hasten to remedy this unfortunate state of mind among their charges. The village minister can do as much as all other agencies combined to promote that healthful spirit of play which preserves the vigor of the body and the moral tone of the mind. No town is a good place for children and youths as long- as recreation has to be sought in dives or under the reproba tion of the "moral element." RABBI WISE AND WAR. Rabbi Wise's flippant comments on the celebration of Memorial day do no credit to his judgment. When his friends read his letter in The Orego nian today it will not surprise us if they wish he had stayed on his fishing trip until his sophomoric effervescence found some other outlet. Rabbi Wise lives in a country of free speech and he is. therefore permitted to refer to one of our great National holidays as "an unusually flamboyant scalp dance." He may call our loyalty to the President and the ideals of the country "rot," and speak of its ex pression as "a fraudulent and spuri ous set of platitudes." The convic tion that the country is in a critical political position he may say is "a blatant lie." The liberty to insult the American people is part of that heri tage of freedom which the American people have won and presented to all who choose to live here. Rabbi Wise may, without any personal danger, ridicule and despise the reverence we feel for the heroes of the great strug gles that bought this privilege. That is part of the privilege. If ho lived In some other countries, particularly in one that he seems greatly to ad mire, his conduct would hardly be dealt with so mildly. When Rabbi Wise is older and less puffed up with the conceit of infalli bility, he will probably regret his un warranted sneers at Italy and the Italians. The young lady graduate who wondered that "one head could contain all she knew" might envy the extent of his apparent ignorance con cerning that country. To Rabbi Wise Italy is "the home of poverty, illit eracy and organized banditti." To all who know the rudiments of current history it is the land of intelligent co-operation, of wonderful advances in popular education and of high na tional ideals. If its people have gone into the war without just cause, we could easily name others who have done the same, though they have not provoked Rabbi Wise's ire. He takes in his letter the stand of a thorough going materialist. We do not blame him for this. It is his right if he wishes to do so. We merely wonder at it a little. National honor as he conceives it consists of physical com fort, and nothing more. As long as the people are permitted by their conquerors to devour their daily por tion of "pigwash," as Carlyle called it, they need not care what else happens to them. Rabbi Wise does not appear to see anything regrettable in the Hptritual death of a nation, the ruin of its ideals and the destruction of its soul life. The main thing is to avoid war and its horrors, which seem to appeal to Rabbi Wise with singular force. It may not be out of place to remind him that men as good and bright aa he is have endured all those horrors without shrinking, for the sake of the ideals thes- held dearer than life. It Is no particular credit to a man that he prefers his own safety to everything else in the world. . What is a nation to do when it is attacked and threatened with the hor rors of invasion? Shall it lie down and beg mercy from the invader? When a monarch poes on the warpath for what he can make out of fighting, is he likely to be moved by pleas for mercy? Will such pleas Stay him from "destroying all the intellectual and moral resources of the con quered"? We confess frankly that. In our opinion, when a war party makes itself the common foe of mankind and threatens the civilization of the world with ruin, the only wise and safe course is to extirpate it as we would extirpate a den of ravening wolves. Nobody but a hopeless fool would try to make peace with a rattlesnake or a mad dog. It is recorded that St. Francis preached to the birds, but we do not learn that he converted any vultures from their old habit of mur dering doves. Rabbi Wise might have better luck, but we beg leave to doubt it. LOADING BOtra THE TAXPAYER. Reverting again to the odorous sub ject of garbage, it is well enough for the public to take some time to con sider the expensive and unnecessary Daly project of universal garbage col lection. Nobody is to pay anything nobody but the disheartened taxpayer. Of course there is to be a special charge against hotels and the like: but for household collection, six or more handsome automobiles and a large crew of paid city helpers are to do the work. It will cost $75,000 to install the system, and an uncertain amount to maintain it. Commlssio: ;r Daly has a hazy idea that it will cost $125,000 per year, though Seattle pays $175,000 or more annually for the same service. We have a single Portland crema tory, or incinerator, which appears to bo taking care of the garbage now collected privately. Undoubtedly, un der the Daly scheme, the quantity will be heavily increased, for everybody will then contribute. There will be precious little private disposal of refuse. It will all be gratefully turned over to the city. Then, of course, we shall have to build and operate that other Incinerator. More incinerators, more garbage, more jobs, more expense all will happen under the municipal collection scheme. The taxpayer, now struggling and groaning under his heavy burden, will foot the bill. AUSTRALIANS' BRILLIANT FEAT, The British colonial troops have pushed themselves to the front in the fighting, both In Flanders and on the Dardanelles. The thrilling story of how the Canadians held the British left near Ypres, when poisonous gas drove back the French and left the flank exposed, is equaled by the story of how the Australians and New Zea landers gained a foothold on the Gal lipoli Peninsula and drove back the Turks until they held the command ing heights. The brief official dis patches give but a faint conception of the dangers faced and overcome with indomitable pluck by the men from the antipodes. At 2:05 A. M., on April 2 5, three transports under convoy of battle ships each embarked troops On four small boats, which were towed to the beach north of Gaba Tepe by steam pinnaces, which ' were followed by seven destroyers carrying more Aus tralians. The boats had almost reached the beach a few minutes be fore 5 o'clock when a terrible fusil lade from rifles and a Maxim gun was opened by Turks intrenched almost on the shore. Without awaiting or ders, the Australians leaped into the sea. waded ashore, formed a rough line, and, not waiting to load their rifles, rushed at the Turks with the bayonet killed them or put them to flight and captured the Maxim in one minute. From a second trench half way up a perpendicular cliff of loose sandstone the Turks poured in a ter rible fire on the advanced party and on the boats which "were pulling back to the destro3"ers for a second party. The Australians dropped their packs, loaded their magazines, scaled the cliffs and in fifteen minutes drove out the Turks with the bayonet. The landing had been made be neath a ridge which stretches north from Gaba Tepe and culminates in the height of Coja Chemen, 950 feet above the sea. The ridge forms a triangle of hills, valleys and bluffs, as described by the London Times corre spondent, which stretches across the peninsula to the Bay of Bassl Liman above the Narrows. Supported by a heavy- fire from the warships at day light, the Australians gained the top of the ridge and firmly established themselves, thus covering the disem barkation of the rest of the troops. But the Australians were not content to sit still. They pushed north and east over broken country until the Turks iwere reinforced and made a counter-attack, which caused them to fall back to the main ridge. There they held their ground throughout the afternoon, continually reinforced from the beach. But the Turks now enfiladed the beach with, two field guns from Gaba Tepe and two on the north and swept the invaders' posi tions with shrapnel, causing heavy loss. These guns were finally silenced by fire from a cruiser, but towards night the Turkish attacks became more vigorous and were supported by heavy artillery so far inland that the ships' guns could not reply to it. The position on the ridge was -contracted in order to secure it until morning. All water, ammunition and supplies had to be carried up pathless hills to he firing line, and the troops both at the front and on the beach wre ex posed to ceaseless shrapnel fire, much of which, however, was badly aimed. During the night the Turks were heavily reinforced 'and on the morn ing of April 26 made a violent assault, preceded by constant sniping, and reaching its climax in heavy rifle and machine-gun fire. Seven British war ships moved close in and, aided by the Queen Elizabeth, farther out, opened a furious fire on the advanc ing Turks. Much of the fire was in direct and the Turks continued their advance, while their artillery kept up a continual fire, even trying to drive off the ships, and snipers picked off officers. After two hours of fighting the colonials suddenly m'adeva bayo net charge, before which the Turks broke and fled amid a furious fire from the ships. The Turks made no further attack that day, though they continued shrapnel fire, and the Aus tralians Intrenched securely. Sniping continued all night, but the Turks only pressed orle attack home when the New Zealanders drove them off In disorder with the bayonet. The next morning field guns and mountain bat teries were landed. The Turks also brought up more field guns and bom barded both the shore and the trans ports, while the warships checked every attempt of the infantry to ad vance, a hydroplane directing their fire. Heavy guns were fired from the other side of the peninsula and from a ship which lay- in the straits, but no damage was done) to the ships and the colonials had secured a firm hold on their position. Suppose when the war is over Bel gium should apply for admission to the United States. Should wo take her in? Suppose France should' ap ply?. The Belgians are said to be almost ready to take the step. The "Federation of the World" may bo nearer than we think. The defect of the "world court" Is its non-repre sentative character. Federation would work better, as the United States has proved. The new president of Johns Hop kins, Dr. Frank Johnson Goodnow, made the obligation of service the keynote of his inaugural address. To the college and its graduates much has been given and therefore much shall be required of them. Our col lege men since Webster's day have rather shirked public service. They must take up the burden again, for they are sorely needed. The controversy between Chairman Walsh, of the Industrial Relations Commission, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., seems to have settled down to a question of how loud Mackenzie King talked. If 'he talked loud he was boasting; if he talked in subdued tones he was confessing, says Mr. Walsh. The settlement of the dispute depends on the keenness of Mr. Walsh's hearing. The Orange, published by the Cor vallis students, is bigger than ever this year. Its growth keeps pace with the college and displays the varied usefulness of that great institution. The students pay all the cost of the Orange from'subscriptions and adver tising. The annual is worthy of the young people who publish it. People think bank officials have easy hours, with big . pay, handling other people's money; but here is the case of the cashier of a National bank at Newmarket, Va, who was paid 19.50 a weak and embezzled $2000 to support his family. Receipts of veal in this market in dicate that too many calves are being killed. On most Oregon farms the animal can pick its. living until a 2-year-old and what he brings is nearly all profit. A movio show in Warsaw was bom barded and women and children killed and injured yesterday. Why, by the way, are people in the war zone attending moving picture shows? If it is the Russian idea to swamp Germany with prisoners, the attempt may succeed, for more than 300.000 were captured last month. To feed that many must be a big expense. The Atlantic fleet will not visit these shores, after all the talk and making of programmes. One of these days there will be a Pacific fleet and we will all have glory. Whenever the Spokane holdup, man needs a little ready cash he Just drops in at "the office of the Citizens' Sav ings &' Loan Society and takes it from the bookkeeper. Motorboating following a house party in which whisky is a chief at traction has the advantage over joy riding; only those concerned lose their lives. One simply lhas to grin at the man who hid all his money in the gas heater and left his home to the paint ers, who needed hot water. They did the rest. . A New JYork brewer who died a week ago left $20,000,000. Why do brewers die rich? It may be because their business is based on 5-cent sales. Have you invited upstate friends for next week? Portland-can afford to "sleep as thick as three in a bed" once a year on this occasion. There Is always some new excuse to keep the battle fleet out of the Pa cific Ocean. We may yet provoke a naval war to bring it here. The movement to grade eggs in this market is long overdue. The buyer paying for "henneries" and not get ting them is losing faith. Why not forget the trouble, in the Police Band for a few weeks? There is Rose Festival music due next week. One thing is certain in this city of fans. Once the weather is settled, there will be crowds at all games. Portland cannot compare with New York in quantity of people, but con sider the quality. If San Marino shall join the allies, the cause of Germany would be irre trievably lost". Somebody will step on the republic of San Marino some dark night. Sebastian has been scandalized into the Mayoralty of Los Angeles. Is everybody wearing a rose? Stars and Starmakers BY LEONE CASS BAER. MRS. CARMAN says she will retire from the stage just as soon as she is out of debt. Well, there wouldn't be many retired actors if they all waited that long. e The actress who sued the producer for alleged breach of oral contract ought to take a lesson from the man who got himself all broken ufj trying to cash a blank check. . The new dresses are said to "show the development of dressmaking art." And that isn't all they show. Billle Burke says she will not accept any offers for motion-picture work un til she has made arrangements for a. new play for next season. It was an nounced last week that Miss Burke had signed a contract to pose for pic tures with the New York. Motion Pic ture Comparjy. She denies that she has signed any such contract, and makes the further statement that she will not sign any contract for picture work for the present. Miss Burke opens her Heilig engage ment tonight in "Jerry." Probably the most important thing Eugenia Kelley has said is that she positively will not enter vaudeville. At the conclusion of the all-star pro duction of "Trilby" at the Shubert The ater on Saturday night, June 5, Joseph Brooks has arranged for a short tour in Eastern Canada for Phyllis Neilson Terry in "The Adventure of Lady Ur sula," the play by Anthony Hope in which she was seen earlier in the sea son. Of the other stars, Taylor Holmes win begin work on a new play in which ho will be starred next season by Mr. Brooks and which will be seen early in August; George MaeFarlane. who is also to be starred next season by Mr. Brooks, will probably accompany Miss Neilson-Terry on the Canadian tour; Rose Coghlan will go to L03 Angeles, where she will act in a number of motion-picture plays; Leo Ditrichstein will go to his country estate at Stamford, where he will finish a new play on which he has been at work for several weeks, and Brandon Tynan will join the company which is presenting his new play under the direction of James IC Hackett. e "Actors are tired," says a headline. Tired of work or of Just being actors? It has just been learned that Mrs. Kzra Kendall, widow of trie famous Cleveland actor, was secretly married to Jesse Calkins, character actor in the "Old Homestead" company, last March. The company was playing Cleveland on that date and Mrs. Kendall, who was in the cast under her maiden name of Jennie Dunn, and Calkins went to the office of Justice Murphy, who tied the knot. They decided to keep the wedding a Secret for a few days, and friends have just learned of it. Mrs. Kendall is 45 and Calkins is 31. Mrs. Kendall has six children and one grandchild. Mr. Ken t'.all died in January, 1910, Read the advertisement of a "won derful screen version of Sunday" and got half way through it before I dis covered that it wasn't Billy. It's one of Kthel Barrymore's old plays, "Sun day." - Edgar Allan Woolf's romantic com edy, "Master Willie Hewes," will be produced by Oliver Morosco at the Burbank Theater, Los Angeles, on June 13. Frank Kemble Cooper, the English stage director now in this country, has been engaged to stage the production, and Marjorie Rambe,au has been as signed the leading role. -The play in which Laurette Taylor will celebrate her return to the Amer ican stage next season is "Happiness," writen by her husband, J. Irartley Man ners. During her last engagement In New York In "Peg o" My Heart," Miss Tay lor appeared at a special performance in a one-act play called "Happiness" and she was also seen recently in it at a benefit performance of the American Women's War Hospital in London. It is upon that playlet, reciting the story of Jenny, a millinery drudge who rises to become a modiste of international renown, that the new play is fashioned. Miss Taylor will return to America after the end of her run in London in "Peg o' My Heart," and her engage ment in "Happiness" will begin in Chi cago. Whatever its success, she will be seen during the year in other plays. The theatrical world generally, and particularly in the vaudeville division, will be interested to know that hence forth Florence Moore, of the team of Montgomery and Moore, will go it alone. She has signed a, contract for a number of years with rhilip Bar tholomae, who expects later on to star her in a play from his own pen. Montgomery and Moore have been headliners in vaudeville for a number of years. Miss Moore being accredited one of the funniest comediennes in vaudeville. Rumors of the dissolution of the pair have been current for sev eral months, and they received fresh impetus a week ago, when Montgom ery and Moore were engaged to re place Eva Tangua-y at the Palace in an emergency and failed to respond. Miss Moore will appear with "Maid in America" at the Palace Theater, Chi cago, for the present. It will be Jan uary before New York will see her in Mr. Bartholomae's new musical com edy". Wedding on the Sa. ILWACO, Wash.. May 31. (To the Editor.) In a recent issue of The Ore gonian I noticed an article, "Waves Delay Wedding." Can a party who has been divorced in Oregon ret married at sea outside the three-mile limit be fore the expiration of six months, then return to and live in Oregon without violating the law? Please answer through your paper. F. A. C. A. Such person would not be legally married, although the offense is not a criminal one. A divorce is not con sidered complete until six months have expired. Lnion Depot Location. CARLISLE. Wash., May 31. (To the Editor.) Will you please tell me on what streets the Union Depot, Port land, is., "T" Does the Morrison-street bridge swing or lift? JACK ALLEN. The Union Station is on Sixth and Johnson streets. The Morrison-street bridge draw RABBI WISE ON TBY1XO TIMES After Fishing Oatlng, Country's Immi nent Crisis Annoys Htm. PORTLAND, June 1. (To the Editor.) Decoration day is such a fine holiday that I dislike marring it with a note that may spoil the harmony. Upon returning front a fishing trip, with no fish, I found your valued paper to hand and perused it with my usual solicitous curiosity. Amongst tho details of maimed, marred and miserable, I found and read extracts from some Decora tion day declamations. I During my piscatorial peregrinations I was at peace. Barring the annoy ances of. bramble scratches, underdone fried potatoes, cold sleeping quarters, gnats, mosquitoes and such trifles I had repose, but no fish. Imagine my annoy ance at returning from the humble re pose of ichthyoiogical if not theological isolation to find that my fellow civil ized citizens had been having an un usually flamboyant scalp dance. It seems to me that all that rot about fighting and standing behind the Presi dent makes poor decorative material. How a crowd of sane men and women can listen to such a fraudulent and spurious set of platitudes is more than 1 can understand. The burden of the orators was that America is in a criti cal political position. What a face tious but blatant lie! People ehould not joke about serious matters. Look, at the horrible example Italy has set us. The Italian people was bedeviled into a bellicose attitude by cheap ora tors and by apostles of piffle, like D'Annunitio, who is a poet and wants to see humanity with its entrails ex posed like Homer did. The Italians were told their national honor demanded war, especially now that it looks like war will pay in more property. That is a low and cheap lie in Italy as it is in America. The National honor de mands justice to man and woman, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the privilege of honest work, the prospect of .working the soil in one's own name, the abolition of poverty and economic slavery. Aside from that there is no National honor any more than there is a National shoulder to knock chips off. Italy is the home of poverty, illiteracy, organized banditti and the greatest exporter of excess hu manity in the world. A drunken bum who is insulted if you will not drink with him haft the same setute of hotior as a nation, boozy with poverty, ignor ance and excess human garbage; ex cepting the fact that a drunken bum will not steal, he is profanely and vociferously a person of unsullied vir tue, an alcoholically purified Sir Galn hed but a nation is not so particular. While its neighbor is lighting robbers in front your nation alongside steals your back yard. ' Italy was noV only brought into war. but also to the act of land stealing by just such twaddle, as our newspapers and grave ornamentors are pouring out. War produces some heroes, persons who haven't an alert sensibility to bullets or shrapnel. Personally I have no such immunity. I do not feel that I could benefit my country by having my bow els torn out by a Jagged shell. I have met scores of war heroes, I honor the dead, mainly because they are so. but i value none of the pathetic putrescence that war is at all capable of com pensating a people by producing a generation of one-legged, blind, deaf, idiotic and generally maimed heroes for the unfortunate production, along side these desiderata, of war bastards, murdered women, debauched girls, supply- contractors, burned towns, idiot children, bounty jumpers and all the mess and welter that goes with it. National honor Is a matter of the Nation's efficiency ,in providing oppor tunity for its citizens. Our newspapers and orators should tell us that and smother these cheap heroics with real patriotism and a distinctive American ism. Not peace at any price, but peace is the only price. You can't buy honor, prosperity, happiness or virtue with hatred, murder, rape, arson "and rob bery, but you can with work, honesty, thrift and self-sacrifice. America is the land of the latter, not the former; the land not. of war but peace. I ex pect to go fishing again on the Fourth of July. What a prospect! JONAH B. WISE. METER BURDEN I'SJVST ON FACE Property Owners Responsible In Way That la Unfair In Principle. PORTLAND, June 2. (To the Ed itor.) This Is the water question as I see it: 1. Property owners are responsible for every gallon of water furnished premises owned by them. 2. Property owners constitute the responsible collection department of the Water Bureau, for no water is fur rished premises where water bills re main unpaid. 3. Why should not the tenant, who Is the consumer be made to pay for the water he consumes; the water that is not consumed by the property owner? 4. Property owners are responsible for all metered water consumed by their tenants. 5. How does Mr. Daly figure that each man will pay for the water he con sumes, when it is charged to the prop erty and not to their tenants? 6. All men engaged in selling any commodity make profits as well as suf fer losses. Property owners do not sell water, but must suffer all losses not paid for by the water consumer. Does Mr. Daly really think that meters will force each man to pay for what he consumes under the present laws framed by him? 7. Why should property owners who assume the risk of collecting their own rentals guarantee the water rental, which Is an additional loss in case of default by the tenant? 8. Why Is it that the telephone, gas and light companies do not ask own ers to guarantee the payment of their bills for services furnished tenants? E. G. The K-l and the Crest Northern. CORVALLT8. Or., May 30. (To the Editor.) Will you please answer through your question column the fol lowing questions: 1. What has become of the F-4, United States submarine, that sunk re cently. Did the Government succeed in raising her? 2. What has become of the steamer Great Northern? Why is she not run ning on the Portland-San Francisco run? It C. HOL.MAN. The Government is gradually bring ing the F-4 into shore and the process of raising it is proceeding slowly but surely. The engineers in charge ex pect to have the craft either raised or in water shallow enough to allow in spection in a comparatively short time. The steamer Great Northern, which has been tied up for overhauling. Is about to be put on the schedule be tween Portland and. San Francisco again. Raphael' Itlaflonna Not Shown. EMA, Wash., June 1. (To the Ed itor.) Can you tell me, in your col umns, if Raphael's "Madonna and Child" was exhibited at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exhibition, held in Portland in 1905? I think I saw it there, but the fact -was disputed. So I ask you and thank you in advance for your kindness in answering me JENNIE' K. 1IUKD. The picture in question was not ex hibited. There was. however, a pic ture of "Mother and Child." by De For rest Brush, on exhibition, and. while there is no real (dmilarity in the work, there is a similarity in the studv. Three Costly Thiugs. Exeha nge. Three things arc very costly in this era: Living, loving and B rad.ua tins, Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oregonian, June 3, 1890. Although returns from over the state are very meager, owing to the fact that a great many scratched tho ticket, yet the only contest much in doubt is that between Pennoyer and Thompson for Governor The Republicans' liava carried the state with as clean a swerj in all other offices as was -made by Hermann two years ago. Tho elec tion in Portland passed off compara tively quietly, although several arrests were made. The front doors of the saloons were closed, but it appears the back doors swung to and fro. An at tempt was made to involve Henry E. McGinn, Prosecuting Attorney, who was active among the Democratic workers, in a vote-buying revelation, but nothing came of it. although one man of no standing was willing to state he had had a dealing with Mc Ginn. McBride, for Secretary of State, seems to have the highest ma jority, having a walkaway from Town send and Pierce. Metschan, tor Treas urer. Is havincc a closer race against Webb and Walker. Rev. John Hogan, a German preach er, has selected a larco tract of land in Linn County, near Albany, for a col ony of Germans who will arrive at Castle Garden soon. William Waldorf Astor is paying $10,000 each for the illustrations for his novels. Tho reVnlar annual meeting of the Portland. High School Alumni was held last night. E. P. Nortlirup was elect ed president; Miss Minnie Randall, vice-president.; Mrs. T. G. Green, sec retary;C. H. Chance, treasurer; W. H. Dodd. orator: Harold Pllkington. his torian: Mrs. Captain Fillshury, prophet, and Samuel Council, poet. The submarine built and designed by Coubct. of Franco, has been given- a trial off Cherbourg. Tho artificial llslt stayed under tho water, dodging an chors, dead ships rik! such like for periods of four to eight hours at a time. Mr. Uoubct -is studying a play of mirrors that will permit him when immersed to perceive within a certain radius all tho objects rising above the water and also a combination to pro tect his compass against the disturbing influence of the electric motor. The submarine is named the Goubct. It was a distinguished party that gathered at tho foot of Taylor street yesterday afternoon to take a ride on the new steamer Altona on her maiden trip to Oregon City and return and it was a well-pleased party who some three hours later walked ashore at the same dock after a three hours' run to the city at the falls. The Portland Woman's Union will give a ball and flower festival in the Exposition building on the evening of June 10. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian. June !. 1865. Tho wealthier classes of the South, who plunged the country into the hor rors of the Civil War, are now feeling the truth and force of the .old adage, "sorrow tracketh crime." Captain C. Hopkins, of Fort Van couver, has advertised that he will re ceived sealed bids for a supply of fresh beef for the troops stationed at Fort Vancouver. The vast extent ofcountry lying be tween Salmon and Clarke's rivers and extending from the junction of the Snake and Columbia to the Rocky Mountains is now engaging very gen eral attention. By the discovery of gold In the Coeur dtAlenca a new im petus has been directed toward the country in question. There are said to be exciting rumors of the discovery of gold in large quan tities somewhere not far distant from The Dalles. San Francisco A. large and enthusi astic atidience attended the mass meet ing hold at Piatt's Hall Thursday to give expression of sympathy for Mexico. The motto of the Monroe Doctrine was posted conspicuously in tin; hall, and every allusion to the Monroe Doctrine was hailed with applause. The uni versal feeling was that Maximilian must leave Mexico. The rebel Senator Henry S. Footo. whose only claim to distinction lies in his wonderful versatility in meanncs.s, is announced by telegraph as on his way to California. lie probably coming to reorganize the "Democratic." party, a work which Eastern " Drrrc cratic" papers said would be begun on this Coast. Joshua I'. Garlick and Miss Mary I. Cason, both of East Portland, were married yesterday at the residence of the bride's father by Rev. 11. C. Benson. Wells, Fargo & Co. arc now ready to deliver the 7-;!0 bonds to those who have the means at their 'disposal to in vest in the great National loan. Major Davenporte has called a meet ing to further the organization of the Zouave cadets this evening. The cadets will present an appearance at the July 4 celebration. " The friends of W. P. Doland have an nounced hitTj a candidate' for the office of City Treasurer. Orchard Inspection. FOREST GROVE, Or., June 1. (To tho Editor.) Kindly answer through the Oregonian: 1 To whom shall one write to com pel the owner to take care of his or chard .' Z. To whom shall I write to register the name of my farm? Atid can there be more than one farm with the samo name in a county. SUBSCR1BEK. 1. Write to tho Slate Board of Hor ticulture, Salem, Or. 2. The Secretary of State. Salem, will give you the necessary inform; tion. Air lreurc In the t'auar. INDEPENDENCE, Or.. May ."0. (To the Editor.) A recent account of the operations on tho F-4 stated that it took 12 minutes for the diver to de scend to the boat and one hour and 43 minutes to return to the surface. Will you kindly explain the reason for the great difference in the length of time necessary for the descent and the return? READER. 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