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8 TIIE MOITXIXG ORKGOXIAX. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14. 1015. FOKILAXD, OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postotflce as second-class matter. Subscription Rates invariably la advance: (By MaU. Dally, Sunday Included, one year. .... ..18.00 Illy. Sunday Included, alx month.... e.W X'ally. Sunday lneluded. three months.. Pally, Sunday Included, one month. .... .15 Zaiiy. without Sunday, one year 8 IX) iJajly, without Sunday, alx moo the..... X5 lJaily, without Sunday, three months. . . Iaily. without Sunday, one month..... .eo Weekly, one year l.& Sunday, one year .......... 2.60 Sunday and Weekly, one year.......... tBy Carrier.) ally, Sunday Included, one year...... 9.00 Xjaily. Sunday included, one month..... -T3 ilow to Remit Send Postoffice money or der, express order or personal check on your local bauk. Stamps, coin ..r currency are at sender's risk. Give postoffice address In full, including county and state. Postage, Bates IS to 18 paces. 1 cent; 18 to 32 pages. 2 cents; 84 to 48 paces. S cents; CO to AO pases, 4 cants; 62 to 7 paces, 6 cents; 1 8 to i2 pages, o cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Kasteni Business Office Verree A Corne lia. Brunswick building, New York; Verree t Conklln. Steser bunding. Chicago; Btn Francisco representative. R. J. Bidsell, 742 slarket street. rOBTLASn, WEDNESDAY, JX'LY 14, 1014. BRAINS EN THE NATION'S SERVICE. Appointment of Thomas. A. Edison cs head of an auxiliary board of civil ian inventors to advise the Navy De partment is important both in itself and in the policy which it shows the Department to have entered upon. At last the department has become high ly receptive to the advice of experts in mechanical and chemical invention. If Mr. Daniels will continue in the path a good start will have been made to overcome our deficiencies. When former Secretaries of the Navy have been in accord with the General Board on policy of new con struction, they have encountered ob stacles in the committees of Congress. These committees adopted as a guide In recommending appropriations not nvhat the Navy needed, but what Con gress could spare after provid ing for other expenditures. Many of these expenditures were far less nec essary, many others were highly wasteful and many were dictated by considerations of local political gain rather than of the public good. Un der the present Administration the General Board has not even had the backing of Secretary Daniels, and that gentleman has punished officers like Admiral Fiske who dared to testify before committees of Congress to the insufficiency of the Navy. If the new spirit animating Mr. Daniels should lead him to accept the General Board's advice and if that spirit should be communicated to Congress, we shall have entered upon an era of naval efficiency which will allay alarm for our National safety. Kxperts the General Staff should in like manner be taken as guides in regard to the strength, organization and equipment of the Army. Unlike the trained brains of the Navy, the General Staff has had the support of several successive Secretaries of War for its plans for improving the Army, but it has encountered the same diffi culties in securing the adoption of its plans by Congress, and for the same reason. The best hope of a more receptive attitude on the part of both Congress and the departments to new ideas on the subject of National defense lies in healthy public criticism and the free expression of public opinion. Mr. Daniels' new enthusiasm for increased efficiency in the Navy may be traced to the running fire of criticism to which he has been subjected. It is most significant that his interest in the subject quickly followed the 'res ignation of his political idol, Mr. Bryan. The fact that he remained in the Cabinet suggest that he has turned from his idol's dream of peace-at-any-price and has set to work in earnest to strengthen the National defenses. The importance of this new move of Mr. Daniels cannot be over-estimated. The most impressive lesson of the present war is that modern wars are won, not by the Nation which has the most men and . ships ' engaged, but by the nation which makes the fullest use of the inventive and industrial skill of its people. Bat tles are won in the laboratory, the gun foundry "and the machine shop by chemists, steel workers and other skilled mechanics. Germany was the first to act upon this truth and to that fact is due the measure of success she has had. Britain and Russia have been slow to realize it, hence their efforts on land have been barren of results and they are only now mobiliz ing their scientific and industrial forces. France was quick to recog nize German superiority in this re spect and was first to overcome it. If the United States should unhappily go to war, our Army and Navy ought to be equipped with the latest weapons which men like Edison can design and our factories should turn them out in abundance. Splendid though they are. the bravery and skill of the soldier and sailor are ineffective against mod ern science. AN A XXI-SWATTER. The perennially interesting subject of flies elicits some sensible remarks from Dr. John B. Huber in the cur rent number of Collier's. To demon strate the gifts of the fly in the germ diffusing line Dr. Huber Imprisoned one of the creatures under a bell glass. where it was compelled to walk abouM, on a sheet of clean gelatine. In prep aration for the experiment the insect had been allowed to bedaub its feet in the sputum of a tuberculous pa tient. In a short time colonies of tu berculosis germs sprang up in the tracks left by the fly on the gelatine. Just as they spring up in the lungs of an infected person. This Illustrates vividly what an un fortunate fly does when it falls into the milk jug. As it scrambles about in the liquid it sheds germs by the thousand and thus sows a harvest of disease In the bodies of the family who partake of the contaminated milk. In this way and a thousand others fa miliar to everybody who has watched the antics of the fly it spreads not tuberculosis alone, but typhoid, diph theria, tetanus, glanders, infantile paralysis, scarlet fever and so on. Many of the "Inevitable" diseases of infancy would vanish from the world in short order were it not for the fos tering attentions of the files. Dr. Huber has but little faith in the "swat-the-fly" campaign which has made so-much noise in the world of late years. This campaign would have appealed strongly to Mrs. Partington, who tried to dip the ocean dry with her tea cup. It is like the efforts of an aging beauty to rid her head of gray hairs by deracination. For every one she pulls out a hundred new ones appear. It is a pleasing and not alto gether useless process to slay flies with a swatter, a trap -or a newspaper. but it has little effect on their num ber. A solitary mother fly can repro duce her kind by the billion in a few weeks. The only effective -way to get rid of the pest is to starve it. Flies breed in every sort of refuse and when we cease to leave refuse about where they can reach it they will disappear. "Clean up" is a far more useful slogan than "swat." AJ.DEX t. BLETBEX Colonel Alden J. Blethen, editor of the Seattle Times, possessed a ari combination of attributes. Grasp of intricate details, -usually found in the plodder, was accompanied by bound less energy? so rarely found in the analyst. He was an unusual figure in the larger field of journalism, for he was editor as well as publisher. He knew his newspaper from the bottom up. He understood and helped solve the problems of the mechanical, cir culation, business, news and editorial departments. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he directed their solution. Rarely does an owner more thor oughly express his personality in a newspaper than did Cotonel Blethen. It reflected his temperament to the last item. Impulsive, generous, opti mistic, patriotic, energetic, intolerant of obstruction, the Times was Colonel Blethen and Colonel Blethen was the Times. In it he put his heart and soul and he upbuilt it from a bankrupt property purchased when he himself was bankrupt, into a wealthy and In fluential publication. In the course of events Colonel Ble then made enemies. It was inevitable. He never entered upon a campaign or adopted a policy half-heartedly. What he thought he said and did not mince words about it. Outspokenness is not conducive to universal friendship. But while he made enemies he also made friends. And of his enemies he also often subsequently made friends. Rancor against those who opposed him in an issue did not abide with him after the issue was settled. He was always willing to make peace if no sacrifice of convictions was entailed. The death of Colonel Blethen closes a remarkable career. He had made one fortune and lost it before he ac quired the Times. He did not take up journalism until he was 35 years old, yet he mastered it. His demise is the end of a man, energtic, resource ful, intelligent, by some thought ec centric. Seattle and the , State of Washington will miss his practical loyalty and journalism his unique accomplishments. BIG PAT. BCT ETTA CEMENT. While it cannot be said that there is yen a faint note of pessimism in an article by Richard S. Chllds on the city commission-manager plan of gov ernment, there is found therein the in formation that it does not always ob literate politics, patronage quarrels or strong criticism of municipal policies. Mr. Childs, who is secretary of the National Short Ballot Organization, writes in the National Municipal Re view of the progress of the plan and tells of some of its accomplishments. It is related, along with the good, that the plan is under attack in Dayton. O., where he predicts that an attempt to spoil the charter will be defeated, but that a politician or two will be elected on the commission; that the commis sion in Phoenix, Ariz., has discharged its manager because he was not amen able to suggestions as to appointments, and that at Niagara Falls the "mana gership is viewed by some as a prize plum for some local politician." But of more interest Is his advice to city managers. The spirit of the plan will not be carried out if the manager attempts to do any of the speaking, explaining or glorifying. That must be left to the commissioners who hire the manager, and he must never differ with them in public. The manager, in short, must be content with a high salary and the modest consciousness of work well done. The trouble in Dayton, it appears, is that the manager has been so much in the limelight that he has become a political issue. While, as already observed. Mr. Childs reveals no pessimism, his ad vice is likely to create some doubt in the minds of others as to the practi cability of the managerial system for cities. If it3 success depends upon the unobtrusiveness of a man content to let his own abilities shine through a group of figureheads, it Is founded upon a quality that rarely exists In human nature. And how long will the average electorate be content to pay the city manager's ' fancy salary when all the credit for efficiency Is publicly assumed by the commission? IN SEARCH OF A CANDIDATE. The announcement that Republican state leaders agree that their party's candidate for President in 1916 should be a conservative must not be taken to mean that they favor the old stand pat leaders as against the pro gressives. To nominate such a man .would be to court defeat. It should rather be takei to mean that the choice will fall on some man who has remained true to the party without subserving to the old guard and also without inclining to radicalism. The progressives who remained with the party in 1912 could probably be count ed upon to support such a man, but those who went out to form the Pro gressive party might find their newly revived loyalty to Republicanism chilled by him. The circumstances forbid the at tempt of any element to dictate the nomination, for reconciliation of the estranged factions is so recent tha great care must be taken not to -re open the newly healed wound. It must be conceded, however, that adherence of the third party men is necessary to insure Republican success, and a nom ination repugnant to them is thereby excluded from consideration. Ex-Senator Root, having passed his 70th year and having discouraged con. sideration of his name, may be elim inated as a possibility except in some unforeseen contingency. Senator Weeks is strong with business inter ests, but is too conservative to appeal to the progressives. Ex-Senator Bur ton is much more their type of man and might be considered a safe man by all elements. Senator Cummins l noted as a progressive and might be too much so to please the conserva Uvea. Senator Borah has won golden opinions throughout the country as sane progressive, but he comes from so small and ur Influential a state that he cannot be considered in the run nlng unless the convention should cast off the habit of picking a man from a large doubtful state In the hope that he will carry it. This habit has been broken in the past only when some man had become a great, outstanding figure, like James G. Blaine, of Maine. The other men so far men tioned have such strictly local sup port as to be little better than favor ite sorts. This situation presages a deadlock in which the convention would be hopelessly divided among a dozen can didates. The possibility of a break to any one of these candidates would be diminished by the . fact that many delegates would have been nominated at direct primaries . with instructions from the people to support one partic ular man. They would not feel free to change to any other among the men who were originally in the race. The only chance of a break when - the deadlock had become hopeless would be to turn to one who had not sought the nomination and who had not been seriously considered. In that connection the name of Charles E. Hughes immediately comes to mind. In fact, discussion of Re publican candidates always comes back to Justice Hughes in spite of all he has done to prevent it. He has forbidden the use of his name and has plainly Intimated that he considers his position on the supreme bench a bar to candidacy for- elective office. Yet such a situation might arise in the convention that it would nominate him in spite of himself. He would be the bond to unite all elements and factions, for he is a progressive con servative and a conservative progres sive. After a weary convention had cast about on all sides in search of a man on whom it could agTee. the purpose might form to do the' unprecedented thing to force the nomination on an unwilling candidate. Justice Hughes might then be called upon to recon sider his decision. He would have to deliberate whether the greater good was the preservation of the tradition he cherishes that Supreme, Judges should renounce all political ambition ir restoration of unity in a sadly divided aid perplexed party. It is quite conceivable that in such a case he would take it. Under any other conditions there Is no probability either that he would be nominated or that, if nominated, he would accept. THE DECI.INE OF THE KITCHEN. Many an astute observer of social conditions in the United States has remarked upon the progressive disap pearance of the American kitchen with its adored cookstove. its lethal pies and sour bread. Some have be wailed Its decline. Others have glo ried in it. Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gil man utters a shout of Joy whenever she hears of another kitchen gone to destruction. In her opinion this ven erated institution is a mass of waste and woe. It makes housewives miser able and depletes the breadwinner's purse. A writer in the Brooklyn Eagle is somewhat pf the same mind. His family, he says. long since gave up the kitchen and cookstove habit and he finds himself a goo 4 deal richer for the xevolutlon. Besides that, his wife is happier and blooms with' more rugged health. She is emancipated from the cook, that pitiless tyrant of the kitchen. Restaurant meals are cheaper and better than those con cocted at home. Time is saved and life expanded into a glorious freedom This gentleman lives In a flat. At first his family supposed that they. positively must have their own kitchen, just as each household In an cient Babylon had to have Its private images of Baal. . , But one day the sudden rebellion of their cook lady drove them willy nilly to a restaurant for dinner. To their amazement they discovered that the meal they got there was cheaper and better than anything they were used to at home. Necessity turned Into a delight and they have dined outside ever since. Breakfast has be come a simple function of fruit juice. mush and coffee. Luncheon is eaten at the most convenient spot. Dinner has become a Jolly family reunion in some hospitable resort free from scowls, worries and bills, except of course the waiter's inevitable check. But this Is. far more reasonable than the expenses of the primeval kitchen with its savage surroundings and bar barous despot. This same gentleman has emanci pated himself and his family from the Summer vacation at a boarding-house. He takes his instead in an automobile flitting ragariously about on twilight roads and getting back home for a comfortable sleep In his own bed. LITERATCRE AND WAR. Most of the literature inspired by the European war has been pretty sad stuff. The poetry has, naturally been worse than the prose. Poets cannot sing to advantage when they are excited. The heavenly melodies come when the excitement is over. "Poetry," explains a sage. is passion remembered in tranquil lity." It will be a long while be fore tranquillity regains Us sway over the minds of European literary people and In the meantime they find a kind of sorrowful entertainment in speculating. on what the war will do to their art.' A British writer In the July North American Review figures out with some degree of fancied precision 'just how a defeat would affect the geniuses of Germany. France or Russia, as the case might be. If the Prussian hosts should be defeated, he believes. It might happen that the whole German empire would lapse into a mood of depression. Their great god of mil itarism would have proved false and the universe would look dull and empty to them for a long time to come. Life without the power to dom inate the rest of mankind would hard ly seem worth living to them and their literature would be full of dust and ashes. It would repeat "Die Leiden des Jungen Werthera" in a million variations. But victory over the Prussians thinks our author, would fill the Rus sians and French with boundless Jubl lation. The Russians would burst Into books -distinguished for brevity directness and common sense, quali ties which he finds miserably deficient in such writers as Tolstoi and Dostol evski. The French would go back to the hilariously romantic spirit of Dumas and give us fiction like "The Three Musketeers" again. If this should really happen It would help to mitigate our sorrow over a German defeat, for one page of D'Artagnan is well worth a million Hohenzollern plumes and prayers. The excessive literary Jubilation of the French and Russians is looked for as a natural reaction from the gloom they have felt over the occupation of their terri tory by the invader. The tyrant's heel has been on their necks and they will be Inordinately glad to see the last of his retreating back. We can hardly expect any such gladsome literary outburst in Eng land If the war finishes with victory for the allies, since she haji not felt so much of the bitter poignancy of the fighting;. She has not been invad- ed and is not likely to be. except by fugitive airships. Hence Britain will pour less exultation into her post hel ium literature, but perhaps more san ity. Our author hopes that the war will extinguish the futurists and Ber nard Shaw and bring in their places a more healthful school of writers. So much for speculation. That in the North American Review is as valuable as any. In other words it has no value whatever. Nobody knows what effect the Eu ropean war will have on the literary genius of mankind, for a thousand In calculable factors enter Into the prob lem. Take Russia for Instance. De feat for the Czar's armies would be quite likely to be followed by a popu lar revolution and a great outburst of highly optimistic poetry and fiction. France gave us the hilarious Dumas stories when she had been chastened by defeat and was a cipher in Euro pean diplomacy. The train officers comfort them selves and us by describing that stone throwing affair near Walla Walla as a "prank" of small boys. The young chaps would not have thrown stones at the Liberty Bell If their elders had not set them on. We might as well admit to ourselves that there is a good deal of disloyalty In the United States. Some of it is loud, some quiet. The latter is the more dangerous. Spies are, upon the whole, rather less shrewd than the spyatcbers. The forty-nine who set forth for an auto mobile ride In London In British on cers' uniforms were nicely Isolated and trapped by an order to the genu ine officers to stay at home. In the lonr run man's defensive Ingenuity excels the agencies of destruction. If It did not, the race would have been extinct long ago. If out of every million dollars tha Czar borrows to arm his troora a mil lion and a half is grafted, how long will it take him to whip the Germans? We hppe some high sohool mathema tician will solve this problem for us. We have puzzled ourselves Into a head, ache over it without the faintest glimpse of a solution. With both Chlcagos of the big leagues playing in first place, with fair prospect of staying there, the world's scries may lose flavor. The Chicago Federals may, however, move up a peg and give them the double dog-dare to show what they can do, in which event random will be standing straight in the air. Commissioner Claxton's opinion that boys of twelve should be "partially self-supporting" rends like good sense. But what boys does he mean? Should Lazarus' von be taught to earn his liv ing while Dives' learns the feelings and habits of a parasite? If it l good for some boys to work, why not for all? Mr. Justice Hughes, of the United States Supreme Court, says a boy gets the best training In practical ethics by playing with his comrades. Boys teach one another to be honest, out spoken and to "play fair." Mr. Hughes thinks we Americans need some vigorous lessons in fair play. When a man leans his chin on the muzzle of a sbotgun and touches It off. there la no doubt of his intent to commit suicide. That is what a Lu Grande man did Sunday, and the In quest "developed nothing of conse quence." What could the Coroner ex. pect? The leather deal proposed by the French government is an example of a tariff concession which would be beneficial to both parlies. If we had a tariff commission vested with some discretionary power. It might make many such agreements. Watch the officers who leave the Army for better pay in ordnance fac tories endeavor to sneak back into the service when the strenuous days are over. The retired list has a drag. In these days when publicity has dried up many sources of campaign contributions Dallas' offer of 1 100.000 for the Democratic National Conven tion Is not to be despised. Acordlng to Mr. Bryan's theory. when stagerobbers were abroad, trav elers should have allowed the robbers to designate the stages on which they could safely ride. When the saloons go out of busi ness in a few months, Portland will realize its need of more comfort sta tions, and the movement to provide' them is timely. Announcements of victories by rival claimants to American recognition as ruler of Mexico are as abundant as pre-election claims of presidential candidates. Safe from Invasion, the German harvc&t has begun and Indications point to heavy crops. The German farmer is behind a mighty wall of steel. 'New York has grown half a million or 10 per cent In five years. Pretty good for an Eastern city. . Portland's rate of growth is greater.' however. Disregarding the fact that the water wagon soon will be a popular convey, ance, this municipality is about to dis pose of five of this kind of vehicle. While Inspectors are stopping the sale of beef from diseased cows they might os well stop, the sale and serv ice of pork from hogs fed on fish. In a case like that of Sam Krasner what other witnesses could be found than those of the underworld? That is a poor reason for leniency. Troop A. of the Oregon National Guard, would be dangerous men to an enemy which sought to penetrate the Oregon woods. The small boy who hit the Liberty Bell with a rock will have -something to blow about when he gets over fear of arrest. All of the German navy outside of port and the Baltic Sea Is now sub marine, but It does not always re main so. If the censors object to the movie posters, what won't they do when the circus comes? . Was that thunder storm a warning of the approach of Colonel Roosevelt? Koumanla ic on the teeter-board. European War Primer By National Geegraefclcal clcty. Where romance and Industry, beauty and squalor, the greatest In art and veriest quackery run riotous patterns through the sub-AIplne lands of Italy. Invasion Is threatening again, and such of the rich heritage of civilization as has weathered the many storms that hare gathered and broken over North-' ern Italy, is again In danger of war's ruthless destruction. Some of Italy's richest treasures and memories are contained In her northern cities, and here. too. lies the weight of Industrial, commercial and political Italy. An in timate description of these provinces abutting upon the latest battle-frontier has been prepared for the National Geographic Society by Florence Craig Albrecht, whose understanding of Italy Is that of a long-time, sympathetic friend. She writes: "The "fatal gift of beauty. which is Italy's dower, la that of each of her children, as their history Is hers. The unified Italy, which our generation has .known. Is no older than us. The penin sula bounded, roughly speaking, by the Alps, the Mediterranean, the Adriatic and the Tyrrhenian sea. has been oc cupied from the dawn of history to our own time oy countless rival states; has been In turn both conqueror and con- qured; ruler of half the world, vassal of petty kings. Each of Its ancient cities presents a shield so dented with soars, so overwritten with words and deeds, that no casual tourist may de cipher It. Its loveliness, however, he may nonetheless enjoy. ir Italy's pages in hlstorv are drenched in blood, they are gilded and Blowing also with music and poetry and song, with valor and love and art If she were not a nation she was tha home of many; a bit of earth so lovely that the coolest-headed geographer must admire: a place that gave birth not only to wondrous fruits and flow- era, but to marvelous children of men. w hat our debt to her may be In architecture. In sculpture. In painting. in music, in poetry, in all that raises life from dull necessitous routine none may measure. Her political past we may criticise; her artistic, never. "From Genoa northward to Pavla Is but a little way, but that way la over me iiKurlan Alps, all green and gray with vineyards and olives, and noisy with swift little rushing rivers and mlllwheela clacking around a lovely way that eventually brings us Into the plain of Lombardy. And here there are many rich cities and much of art and of history, for In this great fertile plain, between huge mountain chains. armies have ever gathered, looking up toward the Alps, to great victories over the pagans beyond them, or, themselves pagans, rejoicing In the luxuriance lrnii before them, as they faced Joy. ously the Apennines and Rome. "Northward the snow peaks of the Alps form a natural barrier. It would seem, to the nation tenanting t.n peninsula; but soldiers h.tve little sympathy with geographical boundnrls. nave for strategic purposes, and diplo matists none. The western chain of Alps bends southward to the Mediter ranean, ending presumably In the great headland between Nice and Monaco. Across this physical boundary Una Italy's western limits have been thrust back and forth through centuries, reaching once far beyond Nice, at pres. ent not quite touching Mentone, which Is IS miles to the east of It. In the Central Alps tha southern slopes he. long to Italy, although, of course, the greater portion of the chain lies In Switzerland: but the Eastern Alps, to the south as well as north, are Aus trian." Of beautiful, romantic Austrian Ty rol, at present a warpawn, the writer ays : "Occupied at the dawn of Its history by a wild Critic tribe the Khaettans tamed by all-conquering Home Into the tributary province of lthaetia. the northern part of Tyrol was Herman izcd as early as the fifth century. On thn other hand, the southern part re mained Itoman. even to the extent f Komanlzlng the Teutonic Landgobardt. who swept up Into It from tha plains of the I'o. The southern part, like Italy itself, conquered Its Teutonic conquer ors. Imposing upon them Its language, its customs. Its life and thought, even while submitting to their laws. In part at least this much disputed. Ital- ian-speaklr.c. Italian-looking district was long ruled by Verona and by Venice: a hundred years of Austrian rule have not made of Trent, the most prosperous little city of South Tyrol, or ltiva. tha picturesque port upon Lake Uerda. anything but Italian towns. Natural sympathies and geo graphical boundaries combine to make the Trentlno most desirable to Italy; yet no one may wonder that Austria Is reluctant to yield It- - Milan, the rich, modern, metropolis of the north, where. Industry la con tlnually throbbing and where tha life of a steadily strengthening; commerce pulsates, not many tnlUs removed from the Austrian frontier. Is thus described by Mrs. Albrechl: "Milan Is today such a half-way house for people rushing up and down the earth, from the Mediterranean to the Alps, from Venice to Como; it Is so very well known, so very crowded, so busy, so bustling, one feels there Is nothing more to be told of her. Per hsps I -cause she seems so entirely modern, because she bears so (ew traces of her earlier years, one feels she does not appreciate her past. This, however. Is not so. She has been lit erally trampled Into the dust so often she would have nothing but scars tw show but for the Invincible courage which made her Instantly build on her rules the foundations of yet greater things." And Milan, the last restoration, the monumental modern city of business, has again been brought upon the baitlefront, and the struggle, aa It has been through tha centuries for Milan, is again between the Teuton and the Latin. CIIIA8 AftCKSDIXO ITFORT ItEAt. Flaaaelal Accosapl isksarw t la Pretest Aaalatat Politic! H t lact !. The last IS years in China have been In particular one steady course of con tinuous and ascending crises, a drama of unsettled forces driven from with out by complicated currents of political adventure and economic greed. - Yet In tho face of all these humiliations, which have comprised the deliberate policy or our generation to capitalize and per petuate her feebleness, look with un prejudiced eyes on the China of this year ll&. and what do you find? Not merely a new patriotism and a new nationality born In ths self -revelation of the revolution, but a firmer and bet ter consolidated authority over the It provinces than ever before In the his tory of China. A year has Just passed In which China hat done two araszsng and abso lutely unprecedented things, which no one who does not know of the Sisyphus like handicaps against her ran possibly appreciate. On her own natlonsl credit and among her own people she hss raised her first substantial domestic loans, a financial Initiative which has brought her a fund of almost flo.ooo. 000. And she has come through the last financial year not only with the staggering burdens of her foreign In debtednesa paid up on the nail to the last penny, but with an actual surplus of cash In hsnd that has been helped by no foreign loan. Such achievements are not due to mere clever financial management: they are the moral answer of a people protesting againet the extinction of their political life. Gardner L, Harding la July Century. WHY HAND OK CHARITY IS ft LOW Writer Saggeeta Rrsssis fer Tardy HnsaiM te Basra's As sea la. PORTLAND. July 11 (To the Edi tor.) If the Associated Charities are In sesrch of a resson for the tardy re sponse from the public to their appeal for ISovu to be expended In Summer time chanty. I can suggest one, by simply turning the mirror on my own mind. I. as a taxpayer, am wondering why we support a county, home and hospital for the needy. It people are not to take refuge there when In need. This same question. I do not doubt. Is In the minds of thousands of Port land a taxpayers. If the home we offer the destitute is not acceptable to them, we should burn It down, and stop squandering our money on Its support. I wish to say further that a goad many cases cited as needy by the As sociated Charities do not "ring true" In the ears of the practical, hard working, often self-denying people who constitute a very Isrge proportion of Portland's taxpayers. For Instance, case No. I. reported In The Oregonian of the 2th Inst.: . Young couple with two children. ht rae teeo l.v.ng in furet:il rvms. have evened to buy t. .il:le home at tfce ia: c.f S.:-o a !. TV snan maa lit'.., tuun as a s-r.-sh!f :-r Tht ar la neeA of tarnl-i""-. !. is :y chairs sad a tab., and can. oee allord t buy them. As I read that appeal my thoughts traveled backward to a certain late Autumn 81 years ago, when L with my parents, arrived In Oregon, from an Kastera stale, by .way of the Old Emi grant road. The little money we had when we started westward was in greenbacks, and at the end of our five monthe Journey we came un against a 40 per cent depredation. Flour was selling at IT per sack, and many other necessaries at similar prices. We had no "furniture." except the few poor things we had used throughout our long overland Journey soma blankets and buffalo skins, a frying pin, coffee pot. tin plates and cups, snd a wash tub. Yet we asked no help, and ehUl would have been the reception of any one coming to offer us charity. We pitched our weather-stained tent In a core among the foothills of the Blue Mountains, four miles from a lively mining- town. Before th first snow fell father had constructed a comfortable log cabin, with a wide fire place of rough stone, and "built-in" bedsteads or unplaned ixt lumber. My brother end I built a rustic "settee" at one side of the fireplace, and made a table and soma stools with the boards from a large packing case. And throughout that long snowy Winter how cosy and happy we were, and best of all how Independent. So now. to that young couple who are going- to buy their first little home, and think they need furniture. I say: Oo ahead, but go It alone. Do not ac cept so much at a toothpick from any man. Make the little furniture you need ' with your own hands: stand on your own legs. Hold fast to your In dependence, and to the everlasting re spect cf your children. C It. M. I.IQtOR un COILU BE f.RK 1TF.II -Prafclbltlaw Nat lateaaed Prw.lblf a C barge Ag-atwat Orrgaa Law. I-Ol-lSVTLLr:. Ky.. July 7. (To the Editor.) I read with pleasure vour editorial putting Into plain English for laymen the effect of the recent de cision of the Supreme Court of the I'nlted States In the Kentucky rase In volving the legality of shipments of liquor Into prohibition states. One point seemed to me to be of special Interest, not only to the people. vi regon. out to the people of every state In the Cnlon. and that Is that un less the state shall decree otherwise the W'cbb-Kenyon law will not Inter fere With the shipping- of liquor for personal use Into prohibition territory. It Is not established that the state has now the constitutional power to deny to Its rlttsens the rlaht to u liquors, but this question Is now be fore the Supreme Court In a case that went up some time, ago from West Virginia. Meanwhile. It Is rtranga that tha Prohibitionists, with a l of their al leged hatred for "turn" and with all the vol. s at their command at the pl!a and In legislative halls, have not seen nt to legislate against supplying liquors to residents of prohibition ter ritory. The law on this point In Ore gon offera an excellent example of prohibition that la not Intended to pro hibit, as It permits the cltlxens of Ore gon to rrceiva six gallons or disti:ied ! Irlts or "J gailina or rermented lluuors per capita per annum. Tha consumption of distilled spirit In the aholt country Is only about a gallon. and a half per capita per an num, and the consumption of fermented liquors Is only about 21 k a I Ions per capita per annum, and Ihreviore the Oregon prohibition law advocated as a temperance law actual)- provides for an enormous Increase In the con sumption of vth:sky and beer. If Oregon shou.d live In accordance with her prohibition law the would be the wettest spot In the world. For this privilege she has forfeited large revenues and has confiscated, without compensation. en Immense amount of saloon and brewery prop erty acquired lawfully by !ax-patii clt I sens. If Orrgon la to use a large amount of liquor she surely could arrange for the lawful local manufacture and li t In some form acceptable to the people. T. M. GlLMOrtl-:. President National Model License League. tub i.oi:r An Tin: viotT. "Lady, may these vloleta 1 tease thee; i'lraslng thee is all I ask." Lover looked to her he longed for. Violets In bis outstretched hsnd Lo. the lady passed beyond him; In the dust the violets lav. With emotion, white as snow drift. Choking at each painful breath. The lover stood as one In deatb. Slowly moved he, knowing naught Save that death giv-a pain no greater Than those vlolj-ta In the dust. The Isdy moved: looked right nor left; Psssed the lover as be stood. Oslly moved hs not for long Then aghast she stood and thought Thought she beard the vloleta calling. Calling to her Inmost heart. Oh. the woes In moments given. Oh. the woes of blighted troth. All the woes of hearobroke lovers To this lady cam aa one. Clutching wildly throat and bosom Oh. to still those violets' call. And now the lady backward sped. Stooping where the violets lay. She picked them up and with her tears Washing all dust stains away; The lover passing by. he saw. He heard his violets calling. Wllj tear-dlmmed eves. with tut- stretched hands. With longing 'heart he came to her. "My violet, dear, what have yo'j doner Two hearts beat fast, two souls en trial; Was It to live? Was It to die? The violets called and answered thus: To live and love and never !ie. Itelea 1- Tom'.lnsaa and Julian I'. Scott. I-eascst la c:ralta(loM. Stray Stories. "Did your watch stop when it dropped on the floor?" asked one man of his friend. "Of course." was the answer. "Did you think It would go through?" Lklag Far-ward. Ituffalo ( N". Y.) Courier. "For II I will foretell your future." "Are you a genuine soothsayer?"" "1 am." "Then you ought to know that I haven't got II." Twenty-Fire Year Ago From The Oresantaa of July 14. 1690. London. July IX. David Duriley Field wl:l preside at the universal peace conference which opens at London to morrow. Colonel Charles F. rtcebe Is buck from bis New York trip. He Is feelinc and looking greatly improved, after a much-needed vacation. Chicago Herald A silver dollar saved the life of a your.g lady at St. Louis a day or two ago. A rejected suitor fired at her. the bullet striking a com and glancing off without dolnc a particle of harm. Probably In the next debate on the silver question the free coinage Congressmen w :11 cf iue out with eloquent fervor on the l:fe savlng qualities of the silver dollar. At East Tortland yesterday the Mason & Khrman team defeated tha Closset A I'trtn team by the score or :o to 1C. Considerable progress hss been mads on the foundation for the new ore gonian building, and the stone for the walls has been quarried and will be gin to arrive In a few days. San Francisco, July 1J. Daniel Holmes and wife, of Hrockport. N. V registered at a downtown h'otel yes terday. Mrs. Holmes Is none other thsn Msry J. Holmes, the fsmous nov elist, whose story of "Lena Livers' has been read all over two continents. She Is the author of novel, many of which have been translated into for eign languages. Mra. Holmes bas Just returned from Alaska, having gone as far north as Chiles. This I her sec ond visit to the Coast, aha having- so journed in San Francisco for several weeks five years a Co. In about six weeks about the biggest b'sst that has tvra been fired in the Northwest will be act off at Kort Crescent. This blast will consist of ten tons of powder and will be w-ell worth traveling hundreds of miles to see. Men are now st work driving a tunnel Into a solid formation cf rock for a distance of 10 feet and will run a gnllery each side of the main tunnel a dii-ianoe of 0 feet. In which the powder wi'.l be placed preparatory to tho blast. We are informed that rep resentative people from all over the country, together with reporters from different papers on the Sound, will be present to witness the explosion of this vast quantity of powder. It wll". be a sight that cannot be witnessed every day and no one should miss seeing- U. Due notice of the time will be given In the columns of this paper. Water In the t'pper Willamette. Is still al a good boating stage. The four steamers that have been running since last November, the Modoc. Champion. Wm. S. Hoag and the N. S. Bcnt!ey are sli:l making trips between 1'ortlsnd and Corvall.s. the water not yet l inr low enough to prevent any of them doing so. The frelKht that Is being moved Is mostly from Portland for up river points and a large jnwum of It during the past week has been htr v. stint machinery. Half Century Ago From The Orccnnlin of July 14. 13. The following imrresslve thought Is taken from one of the recent utter ances of Itev. Dr. Bushnrll. of Hart ford. Conn. He Is speakinc of the majesty and strenuth -f our "lovern ment: "We did not know how lrvng 11 was b tore. Nobody had any con ception or ti.e Immense strain It rould bear. How bright Is the future of such a Oovernment and Nation". Hal lowed by so many battle I.eJOs. and these by the trihute of to many histo ries, and sung by so many utsi of the great poets of the future, l-o ler and l-.ow glorious It wi'.l be. A no. thank ood. It waa our privilege to live In this ly Of crista, thii always to he called the heroic age of the tci'Uhlic." Northrup 4k Co. advertise in another column "'powler that speaks lor tlecif." We recommend the artlcie to the Washl.tiilon ArKlScry iVn-.).ny. It may prove rfflcacioua lo t-em in nrlr: Mlulrt u.th ll.fct brass cannon brought from J-.vlem. The 1 pounds cf rock from tho While Hi:!! ledge, on the Sanliam. J r.i diced gold to the amount cf fjlyf:. aa shown by an asay ma.'.e jfin.:v by Tracy A: t"o. Tha gold is ." Tne. showing a large rercent of silver. The result Is Very satisfactory snd proves beyond the cavil of a jbt that we have bear hoir.c mines t:.st outrival tha most famous can. r-s on tho Coast. There la now neatly ;0(0 l.r. of r k at the mill s-te ready for crushing as locn as le maihln-rv can ba gotten into the Icier. wi-.:ci will be In about t:.r weeks. A liii,nllty cf aierace rock has been ml for and will be tested when H arrives, by the same process through which these have been worked. Judge K. D. Shattnck. Dr. A. J. Chapn in and S. B. Parrish. 1(J, left )eierda' for i-alem and the hanllam mines. So far this year we l.ave not beard anything about the Front -street Ini-proven-enl s below i'lne street. What la to be rtor.e with that fart of the avenue? It is certainly wors-e. includ ing some or the cobblestone javemrrt. than any other portion of the city and Is used one-third more 1'ian any other street in Portland, i This morning we rresenl 'o our readers tha annual exhibit of financial matters for the County uf Multnomah for the hsnal year emiin on the first Monday in July. This statement show a a balance of lis.stl II In the treasury, of which sum IM72 la currency and the sum-of f;i.ll0 I) In gold and sil ver cola. ' The huge Husslan bloodhound. Hero, kept by the rebels to pursue tha t'nion soldiers who ma.de their escape from the Hichmor.d prisons. I la New York, In charge, cf I. Is kecjcr. Tho pup Is over three feci hlsh snd ran gat aaay with elcht pounds of meat at a meal provlo.ng that his me.-U-. come often er.outh. ,. A Washington dispatch of June " says that Secretary Seward still u (erlrnrri gnat difficulty In speaklnc and eating, hla lower Jaw being fas tened so aa to t-a Immovable. The lo er part of his face is completely envel oped In a mechanical contrivance for keeping h'.s Jsw In place, so that it may heal. The Summer Hammock Many a romance began In tha hammock swinging under the trees. And most certainly a mighty lot of warm-weather comfort for old and young hat been furnUhed by II. So why not give It due consider ation In making your Summer pur chase? The hammock Is typical of many other things which make the warm weather a season of delight. Perhaps the sdvertlsing In The Oregonian will suggest some of ihem to you. The sdvertlsing has a plessirg 1-sbit of keeping Its suggestione seaaonabie. 1