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8 THE MORNING OREGONIAN. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1915. ! PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Foatofflca mm l accond-class matter. Subscription Bate In variably la advance: . (By Mall.) DaMy, Sunday Included, one oar '' S0 5?aii v. tundtv included, six montbs ..... 4.23 Lally. Sunday included, three months ... 2.23 Sunday included, one month ..... .75 1'ally. without aunda it one year ......... 6.00 Laily, without Sunday, six month ...... .5 Jjially, without Sunday, three months ... 1.75 la.ly. without tiuauay, one month .o0 Weekly, one year .............'..... 1-0 Sunday, one ear 2-60 feuuday and Weekly, one year ... 8.50 t (By Carrier.) Xallr. Sunday Included, one year 9-00 &aity. Sunday included, one month ..... -73 ! How to Remit Send Postotflce money or rfer express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at nnderi risk. Give pofclorfics address In full, incluulng- county and state. Postage Bates 1- to 16 paces. 1 cent; IS lo -1 pases, 2 cents: 34 to 4s pages, a cents; ho to 60 pases, 4 cents; 63 to 7t panes. 3 eenis; 7S to pases. 6 cents. Foreign yoat ae. double rales. Kartern Business Offices Verree Cohk 1iD, Brunswick building. New York; Verree A. Conklin, fc'teger building. Chicago; tan .'J'rancisco representative. It. J. iJlflwell. 712 Market street. fOKTLAND. WKDNEbDAY, JCJTE 23. 1013. , THE LAND GRANT DECISION. ' The outstanding interest of the State of Oregon is now, as it was be fore the forfeiture, suit was instituted against the Oregon & California Rail road lands, that the grant be devoted to a use beneficial to the people. As stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court, the purpose of the gTant was two-fold to aid the railroad in con structing its lines and to encourage settlement of the land. It was not conducive to Oregon's interests or in accord with the purposes of the grant that the land should be transferred to the locked and barred reservations which the Government maintains; it was not conducive to Oregon's inter ests or in accord with the purposes of the grant that the railroad com pany be permitted to hold the grant as it had in the past in a locked and barred reservation of its own. It was the last Oregon Legislature that first wisely proclaimed the detri mental effect of either disposition. And whatever the process of reason ing that induced the court to render the decision it did, the fact remains that the purpose and intent of the- de cision are in line with the purpose and Intent of the persistently garbled and much defamed "midnight resolution." That is they are to the "best interests of Oregon." ;. Singularly, too, the decision in ef fect puts the matter up to Congress jn much the same way as did the original land grant memorial adopted Vy the Oregon Legislature in 1907. That memorial did not question the railroad's title; it did no more than ask Congress to take such action as would enforce the covenants of the grant. Instead, suit to forfeit was instituted and Congress in anticipa tion of a successful prosecution passed a. general law reserving for future onsideration the disposition of any land grant forfeited to the Govern ment. In other words, it created a new reserve contingent "tSn a decree favorable to the Government. Now the Supreme Court has in effect in formed Congress that the remedy for failure of the railroad to live up to the covenants of the grant is in Con gress' own hands. They are enforce-, able and Congress may adopt any rea sonable methods to enforce them that will preserve Federal interests, yet guarantee to the railroad the stipu lated $2.50 per acre. The net result of the suit is a permanent injunction against actual violations of the pterins of the grant and a further injunction tying up the lands for a limited period to give Congress opportunity to act. Otherwise and essentially we are back where we were in 1907, with Congress given a mild intimation that it do now what it ought to have done then The main issue that now confronts Oregon is to see that Congress does xiot impose conditions that will prevent settlement, at least of that portion of the grant which is suitable for agri culture. It is suggested, that it is within the power of Congress to take over the 2,300,000 acres by paying the railroad company $2.50 per acre. In other words the sum of $6,750,000 is all that stands in the way of the Gov ernments gaining what it demanded in the forfeiture suit. It would not be surprising to see a proposition to buy the grant emanate from bureaucratic Washington. On paper a good investment can be fig ured out of a purchase at $6,750,000 of land having an assessed value of $21,000,000 and obviously worth up wards of $50,000,000. But there Js ground for hope that the reservation policy that has bottled so much of the West is not in such great favor as of yore. Congress has witnessed the growth of bureaus to top-heavy pro portions; has learned of the cumber some methods of administration that cat up profits; has observed the long distance supervision, with its annually recurring deficit, of a vast timber re source capable of producing great rev enues. It may be doubted that Con gress will readily appropriate $6,750,- 000 to add more acreage to already vast forest reserves indifferently ad ministered. But were Congress willing to buy back the grant there is in the way a moral if not a legal obstacle of grave Importance to the State of Oregon. The Supreme Court holds that there "was complete and absolute grant to the railroad company with power to Bell, limited only 'as prescribed" by the actual settlers" clause. The land is the property of the railroad and is subject to taxation. Whether it can be assessed at its true value or only at the value it bears to the railroad company ia a. matter for future con sideration. In either event it is a ma terial source of revenue to the state. It is the law of Oregon and of other states and it is a custom long estab lished that the real and personal prop erty of the Government is not taxable. This law and this custom have never contemplated that the Government would enter a state and buy up prop erty of great value and extent and thereby remove it from the tax. rolls. They were meant to apply to public buildings and to public lands presum ably open to settlement and conse quent taxation. If freedom from tax ation enjoyed by Government prop erty is unlimited then nothing but the disposition so to do prevents the Gov ernment from absolutely abolishing 'state government by buying, up an amount of property within, a state's borders sufficient to deprive it of ade quate tax revenues. Oregon will cer tainly vehemently protest against any resumption of title by the Government not qualified with express provisions for the quick return of the lands to private and taxable ownership. In whatever attitude the Oregon delegation assumes it will not be un mindful of the fact that perhaps one' iiair of th.e grant la primarily timber- land. The people of Oregon, we be lieve, would support them in the view that it would be criminal folly so to dispose of the timber lands that valu able timber must be slashed and burned to give way to actual settle ment. We are reminded that Mr. L. L. Sharp offered at the Eugene Com monwealth Congress a plan whereby the timberland in the grant would be sold for the best price it would bring in the open market and the proceeds be made a fund for establishing a form of rural credits to assist in the settlement and cultivation of the re maining half of the land. Long-time loans so safeguarded that the money would be intelligently used in clearing and in providing settlers with needed Implements and livestock were pro posed. The plan is again outlined for its attractiveness and seeming worth. Possibly it could be worked out by Congress in a practicable way. If so. it would be of marvelous benefit to Oregon and repay the state for much that it has suffered from rail road and Government reservation policies. ON'LT A FEW LEFT. The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution finds time, in the midst of the tur moil over the Frank case, to put the Hon. William' Jennings Bryan on the editorial spit. It calls him a "public nuisance," and announces that It will no longer waste its space by printing his statements. The Constitution is a Democratic newspaper, but it is no mollycoddle. It is naturally impatient with the fee ble and cowardly Democratic strad dlers who are for Bryan and say they are for Wilson. But this is no time for facing-both-ways Journalism or two-tongued patriotism. The judg ment of the country is against Bryan and the things Bryan stands for. The New York World recently printed editorial extracts from 142 newspapers in thirty-four states. It found that 137 newspapers disap proved of Mr. Bryan and five were uncertain. The Little Americans are a fast-dl-minlshing group. But there are yet a few in Portland. MOB LAW. The watching world can only con jecture what would have happened to the courageous Governor of Georgia if the crowd had got hold of him Mon day night. There can be no doubt, of course, what they would have done with Leo Frank. But the authorities, with keen prescience, had moved the unfortunate victim of popular passion from the Atlanta Jail to the state pris on, iwhere he seems to be safe, before the announcement of the commuta tion was made public. Between the barbed-wire obstruc tions, the police and the militia. Gov ernor Slaton contrived to prevent a popular assault on himself. But what a spectacle! The Governor of an American state must be safeguarded, in time of profound peace, from the lawless rage of his own constituents, or some of them, because he had ex ercised his constitutional prerogative of sending a citizen convicted of mur der to prison for life instead of the gallows. If Frank were a thousand times guilty the outrage upon the commonwealth could not be excused or condoned. But since there is a reasonable doubt of his guilt, the epi sode is more than ever a stigma upon Georgia. ' The real achievement of the antl Slaton midnight demonstration is to lend weight to the general opinion that mob rule is the fashion in Georgia and that the lat,er mob was mad because the earlier mob had been foiled in its conspiracy to hang Frank. WHAT WE DESERVE. Chairman Kitzfrerald then interjected the remark that tbe appropriations committee was beginning the handling of funds for reclamation purposes with the idea that no stato w.".i "entitled" to anything- His Inti mation was that it would behs policy of the committee to handle every appropriation upon its merits. From the report of pro ceedings before the Congressional committee at Grants Pass. Tet of course the State of Oregon is entitled to fair play- It is incredible that it can be longer denied. Oregon is no mere territorial dependency, or vassal state, or hermit duchy, to be forever exploited by the United States Government through a juggernaut bu reaucracy. Forty per cent of Oregon is assigned to the forest reserves, which are a heavy Incubus to development. It gives no taxable revenue whatever to the state. Of Its public lands, many acres have been sold' and' the proceeds some thing like $10.500,000 turned into" the Federal treasury as a contribution to the reclamation fund. Xet we have had only a little from the reclamation fund. The state has put at least $450,000 in an irrigation project, upon the promise, as yet not fulfilled, that the Government would match it with a like sum. The state has even put up large sums to improve its rivers and har bors in conjunction with the United States; . but other states leave that work to the Government alone. Entitled to nothing? We bespeak a considerate hearing from the com mittee of the Oregon case beginning with the forest-reserve imposition and continuing through the reclamation and irrigation misadventure. We shall be content to get what any fair tri bunal says we deserve. THE FCTILB WAR. It would be Interesting to learn what the nations engaged in the Eu ropean war think they are fighting for and what they expect to win. The last prospect of any extensive con quests vanished long ago. The war has come to a state of equilibrium where each sidjC now gains a little and now loses a lime, just as a pendulum swings back and forth past a certain point. What the Russians wen in Gal lcia last Winter the Germans are winning back now. Later on as soon as the Czar replenishes his store of muni tions the pendulum is quite likely to swing again in the other 'direction. In the west neither side either advances or retires a great deal. The oscilla tions are almost imperceptible and nothing seems to result from them. Thus far the Italians have forged ahead, but nobody knows how soon the stalemate will be repeated in that quarter. War appears to have reduced itself to mere futility. It can slaughter men and destroy human happiness, but it can do little more, except, of course, lo obliterate the works of civilization. That it is doing thoroughly wherever it sweeps the country. The ancte-nts had a maxim, well known to modern school children, "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." If the maxim is true we must Infer that the gods wish t destroy the human race in JSurope, for they have certainly made it mad, stark, staring mad. The war which the military rings have conjured up is the crowning folly of the ages. Man kind has done many foolish thlng3 in the course of its long and melancholy history, but nothing as foolish as this and nothing so ruinous. The "spendthrift who sold the baby's shoes to buy drink was a Solomon compared with the Kings and states men who have plunged Europe into this abyss of misery. Wrhen we call them madmen we speak with temper ate exactitude. They are mad them selves and they have infected the people with the contagion of their dis ease. They are like a maniac who runs to the verge .of a precipice and hurls himself down upon the rocks below. It would be a mercy to them all if some power were great enough and sane enough to put an end to their senseless strife. rcZZHNG. A resolution by the last Legislature that the railroad land grant "should be disposed of for settlement and de velopment" that the "best interests of the State of Oregon be protected" has long been represented by the Ore gon Journal as meaning that the lands should be restored in full to the rail road company. Remembering that it is the Jour nal's own contention that it is to the best interests of Oregon that the rail road win its case, it is strangely joy ful that the court's decision i3 a re fusal "to give the lands in full to the railroad, as was requested by the mid night resolution slipped through the Oregon Legislature in iti closing hours and presented to the court by order of the Legislature at the hear ing of the case." There are rabid types of Legisla ture baiters, and again there are rabid types of corporation baiters. Classi fied as both, the Journal has been in an awkward predicament. Although contending that the railroad's success was to the best interests of the state it has felt compelled to denounce the Legislature for adopting the resolu tion. Now that the case has been decided with such evidence of approval from all sides, perhaps the Journal will en lighten us as to which it hates worse, a railroad or a Legislature. RAISING ALFA I. FA SEED. The raising of alfalfa seed on dry land farms is an industry that is too little followed in Oregon, and yet the landowners in the arid and semi-arid sections of the state could probably make from $8 to $20 an acre by Sum mer fallowing their land, drilling in alfalfa in rows and cultivating it clean. To the wheat farmer this would mean more than the value of the crop. It would mean enrichment of the soil and conservation of moisture at. the same time; whereas clean Summer fallowing simply conserves or stores the moisture. Our leading agriculturists, particu larly those of the Oregon Agricultural College, have advocated this for many years, and in some sections, notably in Sherman County, several farmers have tried the plan, but with what success we are uninformed. How ever, whether they have met with a success commensurate with their ex pectations, or even with profit enough to pay for the labor expended, the facts should be widely disseminated. It may .not be generally known that alfalfa seed grown by dry-land farm ing is superior to that grown in the humid sections or by irrigation. It brings from 2 to 3 cents per pound more and there is constant demand for it, the market in this section be ing usually short of it. The prices in Oregon are given by the Agricultural Department bulletins as $12.50 a bushel at retail, which would perhaps mean about' $9 to the grower. In addition to the teachings of the Oregon Agricultural College experts. Farmer Smith, agriculturist of tho O.-W. R. & N., and Professor Shaw, agriculturist of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, are . persistent in their advocacy that something in the way of a legume be raised on land that is to be Summer fallowed, and in many sections they lend their .uncon ditional sanction to the growing of alfalfa seed. These experts know from tlvelr own actual observation and experience what they are talking about. A SORDID TRAGEDY. "Gas" Addicks, once sordidly Con spicuous in Delaware politics, was committed to Lud low-street jail in New York the other day as a de faulting debtor. He was unable to pay a judgment for $15,000, though a few years ago he had millions at his disposal. H.is career is a tragedy of the baser sort. For his ups and downs Mr. Addicks may blame his own vi cious propensities. His greed, im moral ambition and unscrupulous dealings have brought him low. He went up in life like a rocket propelled by the spoils he had gathered from his fellow men. He came down by reckless expenditure for unworthy purposes. It is idle to compare the tragedy of his life with those terrible dramas which have come down to us from the Greeks. Tragedy to Aeschylus and Sophocles meant the disaster which fate heaps upon man through no fault of his own and which no wisdom on his part could have avoided. It was a picture of the inherent and irremedi able sadness of the human lot. .The sadness of Mr. Addicks" lot was neither inherent nor irremediable. He has come to grief by his own bad con duct, and after he is released from jail, if he forsakes his evil ways there is no particular reason why the rest of his life should not be happy enough. - His meteoric career began some twenty-five years ago when he re turned from a European trip laden with the spoils of his transactions in gas stock. A millionaire many times over, he decided to round out his am bitions by entering the United States genate. Naturally he looked for a vacancy in some small state where his money would be likely to outweigh all other considerations. He finally fixed upon Delaware for the scene of his political adventures. A Summer resi dence iwhicft he owned in that state gave his aspirations a certain faint aspect of decency. Senators were elected by the state Legislatures in those days, and Mr. Addicks frankly approached the Dela ware lawmakers with his hands full of money. This was his sole qualifi cation for the position, and he was honest enough to pretend to no other. So much should be said to his credit now that fortune and his evil ways brought him to penury and the jail. Mr. Addicks' dealings with the Delaware Legislature were the shame of the country for many years. In our opinion he man who offers bribes is no worse than the men who take them. Both species of guilt were open, notorious and fathomless in the capital of Delaware until the Addicks ambitions were finally laid. It is said that he spent $100,000 a year in. bri bery and corruption. The exact amount is of no consequence. It was enough, whatever it may have been, to deadlock the Legislature twice and once secure the semblance of an elec tion for Mr. Addicks. Fortunately there was decency enough at Washington to refuse him his venal seat. At last he gave up the struggle, which had become hope less. A large part of Delaware had been " debauched, but the state still retained enough conscience to thwart the tempter and he drifted away to other scenes and other joys. How he passed the time between his retire ment from Delaware politics and his imprisonment for debt the world does not know, but it is safe to assume that his conduct was in keeping with the rest of his story. . Mr. Addicks" career does not prove that virtue will always be rewarded and vice punished. Unscrupulous conduct is often crowned with great and lasting success In this most puz zling world. But his fate does prove that conscienceless venality ia not the road that leads to political honors. The American people have many faults, but when they discover that a man has no sense of right and wrong they are not apt to elect him to a high office. He may rise to some lofty position -by hypocrisy and cun ning, but as soon as he is found out he is sure to be degraded and cast away. Mr. Addicks did not pay our National conscience even the scanty tribute of hypocrisy. His corruption was open and unblushing and his fail ure abysmal. To show how fortunate our farmers promise to be this season, as com pared with those of other states, the following comparisons may be made between conditions in Oregon and the average conditions throughout the country, the first figures denoting Oregon conditions and the second the average for the country: Apples, 97, 83.8; Winter wheat, 95, 92.9; Spring wheat, 98, 94.9; oats, 100, 92.2; bar ley. 98, 94.6; rye, 99, 92; hay. 96, S7.8: clover, 95. S6.7; pasture, 100, 91.3. In only one crop do the conditions in Oregon fall as low as .the average alfalfa. In that our condition is rated at 94 per cent, while the general average of the country is placed at 95.4 per cent. When Hannibal's soldiers came down from the Alps Into Italy they solaced themselves for their hardships by bathing in wine. Portland's vis itors from Philadelphia have made a longer Journey beset by perils which Hannibal never knew, such as Pull man porters. and peanut peddlers. To comfort themselves they "choose some thing far more luxurious than a bath in wine. Their wise preference is for a bath in Bull Run water, to which, as they say,, they look forward with joy ful expectation. In older days the book store was a community center. People of light and leading habitually met there for discussion and news. Later the book store fell from its high estate and became a notion market which people of sense found but slightly attractive. Now it is resuming its former dignity and has regained much of its told standing. In many instances the book store is spoken of as "a community center and an educational radiator." Old shoes are upon the whole pref erable to the kitchen stoves as a hid ing place for valuables, but Miss Ollie Zimmerman's unhappy story seems to indicate that a still better choice might be made. AVhat shall it be? If we hide money in the stove some idiot is sure to kindle a fire. Shoes are liable to be given to the Salvation Army. Perhaps the safest way . to keep money is, as Pat said, to spend it. The old warship Arizona, built in 1859, was 200 feet long. The new superdreadnought Arizona is 608 feet long: The difference measures the progress of naval architecture in half a century. The next half century will probably see more astonishing prog ress, but it will not be in size so much as in other features. It is thirty miles across London, so that a bomb thrown from an airship has rather a big mark to aim at, but on a misty night the chances are against his hittinganything of conse quence. The last Zeppelin raid wrecked some houses in Whitechapel. Their loss will not count heavily in deciding the war. i They have a way of their own at Marshfield of settlings domestic trou bles that is primitive but effective. A man whose wife was escaping over took her and her escort and with flourishes of his gun took her away. An aboriginal could not improve on that method, for he would kill some body. The mob habit thrertens to become incurable in Georgia. A state where prisoners are convicted by mob in timidation and a Governor is threat ened with lynch law for doing his duty will hardly be chosen for a resi dence by peaceable people. With many like Kipling to do the prodding. Great Britain will not need enforce conscription. When he say3 Germany will shame England in event of victory he emphasizes what all know. Patriotic Britishers can point with pride to the House of Commons that votes a blank check for a billion and asks no question nor attaches strings to the grant. ' Minister Sullivan, accredited to the Dominican Republic, Is held to be "temperamentally unfit." "Say, youse, what are y givin' us?" However, the mob at Atlanta de serves credit for not lynching a few "niggers" while it had its hands in. Da Wet gets off easy with six years for treason. If he was anything but a Boer he would be hanged. ' Russia is yelling for help. Russia Is the overgrown baby of Europe. The Prince of Wales is 21 today and celebrates on the firing line. A sane Fourth everywhere means more powder for Europe. The pioneers ate the real aristocrats of Oregon. Salute the Indian War veteran to day.. Teaching the Calf to Drink By Addison Bennett. THE city Realestater had practically done no business for a couple of years and he was getting mighty tired of it; so was his wife. Fortunately they fwere pretty well fixed financial ly, so they concluded to try farming, having' read much on the subject, and they purchased 30 acres of good land not far from town. Having an automobile they were In close touch with the city; but they determined at the very outset to cut out all city frills and lead just a'piain country life until they had an Inc mc from the farm of a thousand dollars a month, over and above all expenses. "We can quickly reach that stage." said Realestater to his wife. "We will only have to sell 25 head of our thor oughbred Holsteins at $400 a head and 150 head of our thoroughbred Jersey Duroc pigs at $4') a heal. ' "Besides," went on Mrs. Realestater. "there are my pure-bred White Leg horn chickens; we will have the best ir the country. Surely we can raise 500 of them each year, beside? there will be at least 200 sittings of eggs to sell at not less than five dollars a sitting: and then " But the pow wow was never finished, for Just at that moment the hired man came in to say that it was time for the new calf to have Its milk. "Oh, yes," said Realestater, "I quite forgot; I must go out and teach .hi calf to drink its milk from a bucket.'" So he took off his cuffs, discarded hi3 Prince Albert coat for a nobby smok ing jacket, rolled his pants up above his patent leather shoes and went out to give the calf its first lesson. He came back In about 20 minutes came back perspiring, muddy, milk-bespattered, his smoking Jacket ripped up the back, one eye slightly discol ored and the blood trickling from r. cut up. "Why, dearies," asked his wife, "whatever Is the matter? Did you get into a fight with the hired man?" "No, N-o-o, N-O-O. I didn'tget into ho fight; it was that damned calf that " "Realestater! REALESTATER!" yelled his wife, "do you know you swore, really swore, about a poor, sweet, innocent, mild-eyed little darling of a, calf? Why didn't you aslc John, the hired mari? He was brought up in the country and could have shown you In a minute how to teach a calf to drink milk." "John," bawled Realestater, "JOHN; why that fool don't know as much as the calf." Pretty quick a neighbor came along on his way to town and Realestater patched himself up and got in the buggy with him, determined to get ex pert advice. Arriving at the postof fice he sought the oldest inhabitant and asked him if there was not some simple way to teach a calf to drink from a bucket. "Sure." replied the oldest inhabitant, "easiest thing in the world; I've taught millions of 'cm, I never fail; just shove the calf's nose down in the milk and hold It there until the calf drinks it won't" take three minutes." It didn't: for the calf was dead in two minutes suffocated. Just as it died the hired man suggested that perhaps it would be better to let the other calf try the cow for a day or two. "No," yelled. Realestater. "it would be as much trouble to teach it to suck the cow as it will bo to teach it to drink from a bucket; I am going to do this Job right and scientifically just watch me. He produced a baby's suck ing bottle, filled it with warm milk, grabbed the calf around the neck, had the hired man hold the rear, then in serted the nipple In the calf's mouth. Quicker than thought things began to happen. The calf bawled, gave a jump to tho, rear, dashed the hired man Into the fence, then jumped forward and butted Realestater in the solar plexus, punched him in the abdomen, kicked him In the mouth, knocked him down, walked on him, trampled him then jumped the fence. The mother of the calf had been an interested spectator from her vantage point out in the road. As the calf joined her they started down the high way at the rate of 100 yards in eight seconds, with the hired man after them making equally good time. Realestater soon got his automobile out and re covered them about 10 miles out. When the third calf came there was held a family consultation and as a re sult Mrs. Realestater went to a neigh boring dairyman and found out exactly how to teach a calf to arink from a bucket. "Easiest thing there is to do in the dairy business," said the good friend. "and the simplest. But it takes pa tience, for occasionally a calf is stub born and it may take two or even three lessons before you can just place a bucket of milk before it and go peace fully away knowing it will drink the last drop." "Now, Realestater," said his wife on her return, "you just stay in the house and John and I will go out and teach this calf to drink in a jiffy, in one short and peaceable lesson; you are too impetuous, too impulsive. you lose your patience and presence of mind too easily and then grow pro fane." In about five minutes Realestater heard a racket, and looking out the window he saw the calf speeding down the road closely pursued by its mother. The hired man was a good third and Mrs. Realestater a poor fourth. Real estater, in his machine, soon joined the chase and overtook them a few miles out. Mrs. Realestater was crying. She had a bump the size of a goose egg on her forehead, an abrasion on her cheek, her dress was in shreds, her nose was bleeding, she .had lost one shoe, her switch and her temper. As the procession was wending slow ly and sadly homeward Mrs. Reales tater. said. "This all comes of your pro fanity, for you swore, really swore, at that first calf; now we. are suffering for your sin." Realestater was silent for several minutes; then he found voice and said: "I don't see what Bildad and them other guys was thinking about that they did not aslc Job to teach a calf to drink from a bucket. Also and likewise I have been thinking that this farm life is too strenuous for me." Soon after they reached home a sign appeared on the Realestater gate, read ing as follows: THIS FARM FOR SALE. Or will trade for anything but an other farm or cows and calves. SELF-GOTEHXMEVT, A nation in its might has risen again. Among the governing powers of Chris tendom, To announce once more to kings of this round world That freemen of the forest, farm and plain. Are yet self-governing; are now, one mission done, Advancing toward another, flag un furled. America land where freedom had Us birth. Moves forth with faith to govern all the earth. Hence was it, that, like a resistless flood. Drawn by conjunction of the stars abov e. There swept from east to west this purpose broad: T govern not by empire nor by blood, But by Justice, wisdom, law and love. By, more and more, the single soul before Its God. I Luella Clay Carson. Mt-'MAV NATlRti AND RETAI.IATIOX Mankind Prone to Kxrusc Wrong If Inspired by Another Wrong. DORRIS. Cal.. June 19. (To the Edi tor.) Since you devote considerable space to the expression of public opin ion, permit me to offer an impartial view of German submarine warfare. Two wrongs do not make a right! but human nature is such as to excuse one wrong to combat another. According to our State Department, England is carrying on an unfair war fare. December 28, 1914. our Govern ment sent to Great Britain a note in sisting on an early improvement in its treatment of American commerce, stat ing that reimbursement alone is not sufficient for cargoes seized- and that a series of former emphatic protests had been unheeded. February 10. 1915, a sharp note was sent to England pro testing against its misuse of our flag. April 5, 1915, Great Britain and Fram e were notified by our government that it could not admit their right nor their assertions of justification in placing an embargo on all commercial Inter course between Germany and neutral countries. These protests have not made the slightest change in British policy or acts and therefore it is the opinion of the President and the State Department that Great Britain violates interna tional law when it is to her interest to do so. These violations are, directly, wrongs against the United States, but, indirect ly, of much greater harm to Germany in depriving her of food, clothing anl other noncontraband of war and, since England assumes the right to make or break international law at her pleas ure, it is but human nature for Ger many also to assume that right and carry on any kind of warfare she sees fit to engage in. We are urged to stand behind our President. Let us do so. Tho Govern ment is earnestly striving to build up the American, merchant marine. Let us patronize American vessels, freight and passenger. Harsh as it may seem, I can have but little sympathy for per sons who lose life .or property on a belligerent vessel. Let us use our own vessels and insist that all nations shall leave them alone while on the high seas and not carrying contraband of war. Then the German submarines will not bother them. We must not forget that the Germans believe that they are in the right. They are sacrificing their lives by countless thousands and, of course, would sacrifice the lives of neutrals who get in their way. But if we insist that Germany respect American lives, let us also insist that England and her allies respect American vessels and cargoes on tha high heas. The property is not so important to us as lives, but it is more important to Germany. FRANK F. MULLAX. NOW I'SK IT. ("The Government has given you this canal, to use; now use it." Words spoken at the opening of the Celilo Canal by Senator Jones.) This canal was given you By the Government to do The work it is Intended to; Now, tnen, use it. Or, if in years that lie before. You should ask for something more, Uncle Sam will look this o'er And, refuse it. Thus it is with every man. If he do the best he can. More is given on demand If he need it. But. if he let his talents lie, If 'tis never; "Do or die." For "a chance" he'll vainly cry. Fate's decreed it. "Unto him that hath is given," Only those who shrive are shriven. Always those who drive are driven. None excepted. But reward at last is handed Unto him whose iish is landed. Aught for naught is ne'er demanded. Or expected. When, at last, you tell your story Unto him, "the king of glory," Though the tale be sweet and flowery, He'll detect it If it shows no hard race run. Over self no battle won. Not for you the praise, "Well done." He'll reject it. If to you is made some gift. Give another soul a lift; All is valued, naught is drift. Don't abuse it. Work, for work is our salvation. Work enriches all creation. Strength is ours but on probation, Ob, then, use it! r Horace William MacNeal. CO-OPERATION. Mere drops of water form the streams That ramify the lea. Augment into a river that Expands into a sea. Small grains of sand pile mountain high. Short moments make the years. Each deed is helpful that instructs. Enriches, strengthens, cheers. Each planet, moon and twinkling star Maintains its work and poise. Each soul should qualify and aid To higher works and joys. The true should all co-op"ferate To edify the race. The humble, or exalted one Is potent in his place. So. shining as true, smaller stars. Or larger, bright and strong. Let us advance the better works And remedy the wrong. L. D. Westfall. Tualatin. Or. Sons and Daughtera of Pioneers. HOOD RIVER. Or.. June 21. (To the Editor.) I saw in The Oregonian last Sunday that a new organization of Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers had been formed, the first of its kind. There must be some mistake, for there lias been such an organization, with head quarters in Portland, for at least 10 years. Judge M. C. George was its president for a number of years, his successor being Colonel Robert A. Mil ler. The annual meeting is held be fore the annual meeting of the Oregon Pioneers. Further information can doubtless be obtained from Mr. George H. Himes. Incidentally, I should like to call at tention to the fact that 1859 is the last year for membership In the Pioneer So ciety. Hence those articles which speak of old pioneers of 186S or of the early '70s are incorrect and .are fre quently annoying to the real pioneers. A DAUGHTER OF PIONEERS. Land Sold on Contract. PORTLAND, June 22. (To the Edi tor.) A buys a lot of B in Portland on the installment plan, purchase price be ing $650. A pays B $350 and then fails to make payment according to contract. Could B take the lot from A? And if so, would A get a per cent or any of the $350 he has already paid B? If A has built a house costing 53000 or $4000 on lot and is living in it, can B fore close on lot according to contract and take house and all improvements? If so, would A get anything for house and improvements on lot? READER. A would have an equity in the prop erty to the value of his improvements and payments made, but subject to B's prior claim for the unpaid balance on the contract. That Is, the property would be sold and B would first be re imbursed, A taking the amount of his equity from tbe excess, if any. Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oregonlan. Junu 2", 1S00. Washington It is generally believed here that Congress has so much busi ness, ahead, which will take eo much debating, that it cannot possibly ad journ before September. St. Petersburg An epidemic of Asi atic chotera in Europe now seems in evitable. Already it is spreading throughout the Russian empire and the Czar lias taken steps to put all infect ed districts under strictest quarantine. Mayence. Germany The great print ing exhibition opened in the Electoral Hall yesterday. This function is to com memorate the 430th anniversary of the invention of printing apparatus and the display includes every kind of printing apparatus and equipment from the time of Gutenberg. Some bita of printing actually done by Guten berg himself are shown. E. K. Anderson, of Talent, while re pairing a flume across a gulch at his "'49" mines on Anderson Creek, fell from the flume to the ground a dis tance of about 20 feet, striking on his head and shoulders. His shoulder was dislocated but he managed to mount bis horse and ride home. George River, the Coroucr-elect. says that when he assumes charge of tha coroner's office ho will change the large front room now used as a par lor, into a coroner's office. Rev. Edward Williams, D.D.. of Min neapolis, who has been appointed field secretary of tho American Congrega tional 1 'nil, ii f;r the Pacific I 'oast dis trict, has been malting a tour of in spection in Oregon unci Washington. He is much impressed with the magni tude of his field. Rev. Williams makes San Francisco his headquarters. Admiral J. 11. Upshur, of Washing ton, arrived yesterday to visit with his son, C. 1". I'pshur, of Astoria. Admiral Lpshur is now a rcar.-admiral on trc retired list. i Hon. J. Sloat Fassctt, president pro tern of the New York State Senate and Secretary of the Republican National Committee, arrived yesterday anil reg istered at the Portland Hold. Mr. Fas sett said Kx-Presttlent Cleveland was still as popular and strong as ever in the county districts and with -the hfp-h-clasH democrats, but that Tavld Mill was in complete charge of the Pemo cratic organization. He said Hill would carry the organization at the state con vention unless the situation changed materially soon. Tho census so far as Portland is con cerned is looked upon r.s a botch and a farce, it is believed now in light of developments and revelations that the count will underestimate the popula tion of the city liy 2000 or more and there is some talk of requesting a re count. Poor work is in evidence in every district. Htlf a Century Ago From The OrefcOnian. Juno 23. 1SG.". Occupylner an ordinary and common place position in one of the showcases in the larse hall of the Patent Office at Washington is one little model which, in ages to come, will be priced as at once one o the most curious and one of the most sacred relics in that vast museum of unique and priceless things. Tiiis is a plain, and simple model ot a. steamboat, roughly fashioned in wood by the hand of Abraham Lincoln. II bears the date of 1S1;i, when the in ventor was known only as a successful lawyer and a rising politician in Cen tral Illinois. What we wish to suggest to the peo ple just now is the propriety of their engaging hereafter in enterprises which shall not tend to enrich others abroad, at their expense, but whici may develop our wealth at home. There are a thousand wa s in which capital could be employed with a greater ultimate profit to the country and to its posses sors. We want ships of our own; there arc railroads to be built; the naviga tion of our rivers is to be improved and agriculture Is to bo aided and devel oped. Xew York Papors arriving from Buenos Ayres contain additional infor mation of the iirst movements of the belligerents in opening tile war be tween Argentine Republic and Para guay. President Mittre. on receiving news of the invasion of the Argentine Republic, issued a proclamation calling upon the citizens to take up their posts as citizen soldiers. The World's Richmond correspon dent says the large landowners of that part of the country have started a movement to encourage emigration to Virginia. They dn i:ot take kindly to the idea of immigration from the .North. They think that by bringing emigra tion from Kurope they would quickly fuse wiiii the Southern people. William Corrie. lately convicted at Canyon City of the murder of a man named Watson, is to be hanged August 3. Omaha Five hundred Sioux are in camp 15 miles west of Fort Mitchell who were supposed to be friendly, but yesterday morning they attacked tho guard, killing Captain Fonts and four men and wounding seven. Quite a num ber of Indians were killed. The Indians crossed over to the north side of the Platte River. Brock Johnson, agent for Ward &. Son. San Francisco, paid us a call yes terday. Messrs. Ward & Son's adver tisement of "Perfect Fitting Shirts" has appeared in our columns lor some time. General If. W. Halleck probably will soon assume command of the military forces on the Pacific Coast. He takes the position"now held by General Mc Dowell. Halleck is one of the five Major-Generals of the regular Army and is senior in rank. Meat of Tubercular Com. TILLAMOOK. Or.. June 20. (To the Editor.) Please inform me if meat from certain parts of a tubercular cow may be sold after inspected? C. E. E. The regulations and restrictions as to, disposal of the carcass of infected cattle are voluminous. Write to State Veterinarian. Salem, Or., for the spe cific information you desire. MIms Cayenne's Answer. Washington (D. C.) Star. "A statesman is supposed to be fa miliar with all public questions. "Yea," replied Miss Cayenne; "but not neces sarily with all the answers." The Summer Luggage la everything in readiness for the Summer trip? Is the trunk built to stand wear and tear? Are the satchels presentable and serviceable? Perhaps you will find soma suggestions for the things you want if you will glance through the advertising in The Ore gonian. Many new devices have been designed to add to travel com fort. The advertisers are telling about them. The good stores sell them.