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POBTLASD, HXDXSDAT( JUT-IT tl. 1815.
TOO MUCH KFFICrEXCT.
The City of Portland has been un
der the government of, a commission
a few days longer than two years. The
commission form was advanced as
productive of economy, efficiency,
freedom from politics and as a means
of centralizing authority and fixing
responsibility. It appears that the new
charter has so far fallen short of mak
ing good all the fair promises and
hopeful expectations offered in its
behalf.
Efficiency, it is true, may have more
than one meaning. The city has en
larged the scope of its official activ
ities, and by some that may be looked
upon as a measure of efficiency. For
example, we have Jitney inspection,
which we never had before. There is
the new office of fire marshal. Health
and hygiene inspection has been en
larged. We have a market master, a
public defender, a traffic engineer,
traffic checkers, a purchasing depart
ment and a park architect. These are
all new positions, and there are many
others. Each department head has a
private secretary and some a stenog
rapher, or two or three, that he may
give his undivided personal attention
to the arduous duties of his office.
And by no means should be overlooked
the efficiency clerk, appointed to keep
track of employes' efficiency.
It is pleasant to think of the City
Hall as a beehive of industry work
ing for the physical welfare and moral
uplift of the people as well as trans
acting the commonplace duties of mu
nicipal administration. But it seems
that efficiency does not go hand in
hand with economy. Inspectors, sec
retaries, stenographers, clerks, public
defenders, market masters and the
like' cost money. A purchasing " de
partment cannot be run for nothing.
Portland's costs about $10,000 a year
for clerical help, and it has even been
disclosed that expert supervision over
city purchases of supplies has occa
sionally resulted in the city's paying
more than it ever did before for things
it had to have.
In 1912 and 1913 the City of Port
land expended from its general fund
more than $900,000 less than it will
have expended from the general fund
in 1914 and 1915, unless the prevailing
cost of government for 1915 be re
duced during the ensuing six months.
In the matter of personal service (sal
aries), the increase in the last two
years over the-preceding two years is
nearly $347,000.
The people in adopting the new
charter knowingly accepted a bigger
salary roll by discarding poorly-paid
Councilmen for highly-paid Commis
sioners, but it was assumed that this
higher cost of government would be
offset by savings due to better busi
ness Judgment. But we have Increased
the- overhead cost of government and
got nothing for it except a little closer
supervision of private affairs. Dur
ing the administration that preceded
adoption of the commission charter,
large sums were expended for visible,
permanent, needed improvements.
The commission has spent but an in
consequential amount in comparison
for such purposes.
As heretofore indicated, the ex
penditures mentioned are from a gen
eral fund. The water department is
maintained by water rentals. There,
a. superficial showing of economy has
been made, but, in part at least, by
neglecting installation of equipment,
such as fire hydrants. An inexcusa
ble extravagance by this department
in the purchase of water meters was
checked only by action of the people
through the referendum. Openly ap
parent ways to reduce the adminis
trative cost of the water bureau have
been neglected or ignored.
Centralization of authority and re
sponsibility has been a partial success.
"We know who is responsible for mis
takes in a general way, but the spirit
of the charter is not wholly carried
out. The cure for continued errors
In Judgment is left wholly to the peo
ple to be imposed at election time,
whereas the charter contemplates that
the Mayor shall, if conditions demand,
shift heads of departments or trans
fer assignments of duty. Instead of
one Mayor we have five.
The promise of elimination of party
politics has been fulfilled, but politics
of another form has shown its head.
Faced by the coincidence of an elec
tion year and the wiping out of $300,
000 in liquor license revenues, a ma
jority of the commission, of which two
were candidates for re-election, cut
the tax levy to popular proportions,
regardless of, effect upon the treasury.
The result is the prospect of a depleted
treasury by December 1 and the neces
sity of conducting municipal affairs
on credit for several weeks.
, What has been said herein has been
related in good spirit. The Oregonlan
has a deep interest not only in an eco
nomical conduct of municipal affairs,
but in the success of commission gov
ernment. It is by no means ready to
admit that commission government Is
a failure, but it does believe that the
time has arrived for introspection on
the part of the city administration.
Business is not particularly good. Prop
erty owners do not find it easy to pay
taxes. Probably they are not worry
ing nights about the quintuple charac
ter of the city government or the ma
nipulation of the tax levy for political
purposes. But they would Joyfully
accept a little less "efficiency" and
profoundly appreciate a little greater
economy.
The latest . increment to the "con
science fund" in the Federal Treas
ury comes from a man whose re
pentance is highly remunerative to the
Government. In his letter transmit
ting $10,000 to ease his soul he says
he had already paid twice what he
stole, but felt obliged to make fur
ther expiatory offerings. This is a
epecles of repentance which, means
something. We trust the excellent
man's conscience will continue to sting
him, for the Treasury needs money.
COMMON' DUTY. '
Colonel Roosevelt talks contemptu
ously of "mollycoddles" and sissies."
His epithets are merely the by-play of
a vigorous and martial mind.
In the main the country agrees with
Roosevelt. It is no time for a weak
ling and craven expression of a Little
Americanism.
It is patent that the United States
must play a part in the great world
movement that has involved nearly
every other nation There is no es
cape from the fact that America must
assume and discharge Its internation
al responsibilities. We have become
accustomed, in a short year, to the
fury and clamor of a gigantic war, and
we have got to thinking that we are
to be exempt from its perils and pen
alties. But it is not true. Even a
steady hand and a clear and resolute
will may not be able to hold us away
from actual participation and we can
not avoid the consequences of the con
flict, even if we are not Involved as
a belligerent.
But. Mr. Roosevelt voiced what was
in everybody's thought when he sug
gested that he will be able to shape
his own course In 1916 when he
knows the conditions of 1916. So will
all other Americans. There are clouds
on the horizon of the immediate fu
ture, and every thoughtful person sees
them. It may be true that all domes
tic issues, which heretofore have
seemed important, will sink into in
significance before the vital problems
of swiftly-coming days.
Undoubtedly Colonel Roosevelt will
do in 1916 what every other patriotic
American will do. He will not shrink
from his duty, nor cavil at other
Americans who are doing their duty.
There is a duty common to all citi
zens, and It is to put the Interests of
their country above all other con
siderations. SOME MASHERS AND OTHERS.
The "street masher" is an odious
and contemptible fellow. He is dis
gusting as an individual and harmful
as a social factor. No village Is too
small to escape his artful wiles. Every
city is Infested by his kind. He, Is the
familar target of the scorn of good
women and of the disgust of most men.
Why is he tolerated?
He is tolerated for the reason that
the "masher" is, after all, something
of an abstraction and he is not so
easily picked out from the average
run of every-day mankind. He Is
popularly supposed to frequent the
streets, lying in wait for unsuspecting
and unsophisticated young women.
But in reality he is found in nearly
every walk of life in offices, factories,
stores and at the theaters, amusement
resorts and the like everywhere. He
has no distinctive dress, or manner,
or mien. He even goes to church,
and covers up his hideous designs with
a sanctimonious dress of piety.
If the "masher" were readily recog
nizable, he could as easily be put to
rout. No girl would listen to him,
and no man would associate with him.
But he has so many fair disguises and
he works in so many various ways that
he is not always discoverable until
the mischief is done.
A speaker at the San Francisco
Purity Congress roundly denounced
the "street masher" as the cause of
much Immorality, and likened him to
a devouring wolf descending upon a
lamb. But the simile Is faulty, for no
lamb would have the slightest trouble
escaping a wolf upon the public
streets of any American city.
The truth Is that the "masher" is
a generalization for the great class of
men of lax morals who seek congen
ial association with women of similar
inclinations or of susceptible natures.
He does a great deal of harm, and he
deserves no consideration from right
thinking men and women.
But little of good will be accom
plished by confounding the real
"masher" with the comparatively rare
type of street mashers, and warning
young women to avoid him. They
rarely fail to ignore him when they
recognize him. The real harm, or at
least the greatest harm, is done by the
"masher" who does not Infest the
streets.
COLLEGE INNOVATIONS.
Moved, we suppose, by the current
troubles of Scott Nearing and other
college -teachers, the Minneapolis
Tribune makes some remarks on the
higher education which, in a paper
published at the seat of a great unl
evrsity, are of astonishing banality.
The Tribune says: "Sensational pro
jection of novel theories in govern
ment, sociology, finance and religion
are not among the functions or priv
ileges of thcte men whose profession
and whose duty require them to dif
fuse knowledge." The word "sensa
tional" gives this piece of asininity
whatever point It has.
Sensationalism of any sort is out of
place in a college. It is no more tol
erable in teaching archaic tradition
alism than . In announcing a "novel"
scientific discovery. Had there never
been any of those novel theories which
the Tribune so much dislikes the
knowledge which it regards as safe
and sane today would not have come
into existence. The most antiquated
maxims of tradition were once novel
ties and most of them were denounced
in their day as dangerous Innovations.
The Tribune's attitude toward
knowledge is exactly that of the In
quisition. Galileo might have taught
accepted theories in all his days with
out falling into trouble. The moment
he began to exploit new truth he was
persecuted. Fortunately there have
always been men brave enough to
imperil their fortunes and even their
lives for the sake of promoting scien
tific knowledge and we hope there
always will be such.
The duty of a college teacher is not
fulfilled when he has stuffed his stu
dents' brains with traditional knowl
edge. He must also labor with the
pioneers to expand the boundaries of
the known and when he discovers a
new truth he should feel perfectly free
to teach It to his classes. If he is
overhasty in promulgating mere fan
cies for truth his colleagues may be
depended upon to check his rashness.
Truth has a wonderful faculty of tak
ing care of itself.
THE TROJAN WOMEN.
Euripides' Trojan Women, which
has been playing at the Heillg, is not
the first Greek tragedy that Portland
has seen. A- year ago last Winter
Reed College gave us Sophocles' "An
tigone." And it was in the original,
too, not In a translation. Most of the
spectators might have enjoyed the
lines quite as Intelligently had they
been translated by Gilbert Murray,
but that is a delicate point on which
we do not care to hazard a positive
opinion.
It is very certain that Murray's
translation Is the life and soul of "The
Trojan Women" as far as American
audiences are concerned. He not only
modernizes the speeches of the char
acters, but, in a way, he modernizes
the thought aa well. It la true that
such a poet as Euripides speaks for
all the ages, but the symbols of his
thought lose their virtue under the
dust of time and It is necessary not
only to rehabilitate them, but, to a
degree, to imbue them with new life.
This Gilbert Murray does in his won
derful translations.
He is himself a poet, but without
the slavery to tradition which turns
most poets Into dull fetish worshipers
when they confront a Greek tragedy.
He sees the life under the form and
cares for nothing, but to make It
bloom again In its old vigor. His
verse is free and mobile. By the de
vice of rhyme which Murray habitu
ally uses he secures something of the
artistic effect of- the Greek meters and
actually gains In rapidity of move,
ment. In the hands of a good poet
rhyme forces condensation, while It
makes a bad poet diffuse and point
less. "The Trojan Women" is the great
anti-war play of the Greeks. In the
awful fate of the women of fallen Troy
It presages the destiny of Greege.
which militarism finally reduced to
slavery and desolation. The tragedy
of the 'Trojan Women" Is the pro
gressive extinction of all that Is hu
man, In the victims of war. This
also, as Euripides knew with a poet's
prescience, was the tragedy of Greece
and of every other country that wastes
its vigor In everlasting warfare.
WHAT WILL THE GENERALS DOT
A Progressive friend by which we
mean a survivor of the late lamented
Progressive party writes to find fault
with the first-page cartoon, printed
yesterday in The Oregonlan, wherein
it was gently intimated that Colonel
Roosevelt had reached Oregon In time
to discover that only the Generals are
left at Armageddon and that the high
privates have vamoosed the ranch.
The correspondent encloses, also, for
some inscrutable purpose, an editorial
from the New York American, dis
cussing the sad fate of the Progres
sive party, and appealing to Mr.
Roosevelt s followers to stand firm.
One might assume that Mr. Hearst's
disingenuous address to the Progres
sives was not altogether Inspired by
altruistic motives, for is It not obvious
that the more Progressives there are
the fewer Republicans there will be
and the better chance therefore for
the Democratic party to be dominant?
That theory, however, is knocked Into
a cocked hat by the following from
tnis seir-same Hearst article:
For with the increasing evidence that the
Wilson Administration is dominated by the
railroad and reactionary element In the
Democratic party, the radical forces In that
party are left without a place of refuge,
without an organization with which to co
operate for the undoing of the two old re
actionary parties next year.
So Hearst does not yearn for Demo
cratic success. If Mr. Roosevelt drops
the reins of the progressive gocart. our
candidate for the progressive leader
ship Is William Randolph Hearst. The
Republican party is returning to Its
standpat idols and the Democratic
party to its corporoatlon flesh pots.
Where will Hearst go? Obviously he
must have a party of his own. What
better opening than the leadership of
the personally-conducted party which
Mr. Roosevelt owns and is clearly anx
ious to dispose of?
All of which, it may be agreed. Is a
trifle remote from a humorous por
traiture of Roosevelt and his Generals.
But couldn't they also be Generals
under Managing Owner Hearst?
CHOOSING A COLLEGE PRESIDENT.
The Pacific states and their neigh
bors are suffering from a dearth of
college president. The University of
Washington at Seattle has Just In
stalled an Incumbent from whom
much is hoped, but there was a long
interval of .waiting before he was dis
covered somewhere in the East and
the Interregnum could not have been
good for the Institution. Washing
ton's other state college, that at Pull
man, still hungers vainly for a Presi
dent. The universities of Montana
and Idaho are In the same distressing
situation. There Is a storm in prog
ress at the University of Utah which
portends changes before a great while.
Indeed it has already made changes.
Some seventeen faculty members have
been eliminated from the institution
with terrific thunders of agony. We
shall be surprised , If the revolution
stops there. Such cataclysms usually
overturn the entire administration be
fore they cease their rumblings. The
Utah Board of Regents has given the
public formal notice that It has no
concern with their autocratic pro
ceedings and the public is more than
likely to accept this as an invitation to
make things as hot as possible for the
board.
Even Stanford University, that cho
sen home of wealth and scientific
calm, has not discovered an Ideal
president since Dr. Jordan forsook its
shades serene to spread peace through
the world. His successor has resigned,
if reports are true, and Stanford has
been obliged to Join with Idaho, Mon
tana and the rest In the mad hunt for
Presidential timber In the East.-What
they are all looking for is some man
of immense learning and world-wide
fame who will give prestige to the In
stitution over which he presides. The
favored candidate must have written
a book or two, nothing frivolous of
course, but some weighty volume on
history or philosophy. And naturally
his volumes must be free from all In
cendiary or revolutionary doctrines.
It is desirable also that the candidate
should possess a stately mien, with a
brow of imposing altitude and a
stomach gravely hinting of learned
leisure and aristocratic associations.
Formerly it was deemed best that a
college president should have been a
preacher at some time in his life, but
this requirement has been relaxed
since the thirst for endowments be
came so violent. Ministers have not,
as a rule, a highly developed capacity
to extract gifts from the rich. Some
of them possess It In admirable In
tensity, but It Is commonly taken to
be Incompatible with deep piety and
must be sought, for the most part, in
young men who combine the scientific
with the commercial type of mind.
Such are very rare, but they exist and
occasionally a university is lucky
enough to light upon one OT them and
secure him for president. The need
for more business acumen than min
isters commonly possess induced Tale
at her last presidential election to de
part from her ancient custom of
choosing a candidate out of the pul
pit. Arthur Hadley, a comparatively
young man of secular pursuits, was
fixed upon Instead, and It must be
confessed that the university has
thriven under his leadership. Har
vard also broke with venerable tradi
tion when Dr. Eliot was made presi
dent at the comparatively tender age
of 35 years and elevated, not from the
pulpit, but from a classroom In the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
There was a great commotion
among the owls and bats of Harvard
when Dr. Eliot was Installed. Even
so sensible a man as Dr. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes sputtered a good deal
about the "overturning of sacred
usages." but the overturning went on
serenely, much to the advantage of the
university. James Russell Lowell, a
far wiser but less witty man than
Holmes, warmly approved of the in
novations In hla letters written at that
time. Dr. Jordan was a rather young
man when he became President of
Stanford and not perceptibly Imbued
with sacred traditions. His adminis
tration was as eminent In Its way as
Hadley's or Eliot's. In fact the uni
versities which have tried the experi
ment of seating comparatively youth
ful men of outstanding promise In
their presidential chairs have seldom
had reason to repent of it.
The country 1 full of these young
men. .They have not yet quite won
their spurs, but they burn with ambi
tion to do so. All they need In order
to achieve greatly is an opportunity
to exercise their abilities. Such a man
at Pullman or at the head of the uni
versity of Idaho or Montana would
not, for the moment, add much luster
to the Institution. But hia capacity
and his ambition would be in the na
ture of an investment from which tre
mendous returns would be realized in
the future. The university would be
come life of his life. His whole soul
would be absorbed in its welfare and
year by year he would work out its
problems royally, winning fame for
himself through the success of his ad.
ministration. Dr. Anngel, of Ann
Arbor, and Andrew D. White, of Cor
nell, became great men largely be
cause, beginning In their young man
hood, they built up great universities.
There are many men of the same
stamp on the Pacific Coast. It seems
a pity not to give some of them the
opportunity for which they thirst.
Why rake over the ashes of the East
for college presidents when we have
plenty of live brands at home? The
best plan the boards of regents could
follow in Montana and elsewhere is to
fix upon some young man of splendid
promise and give him a free hand. Let
him choose his professors, regulate his
departments and establish standards
to suit himelf. The years to come
will see him grow great In the great
ness of his university.
A Portland evening paper remarks
that "making implements for whole
sale killing of humans is a miserable
business." Too true. But how about
making implements to defend hu
mans from wholesale killing? The
latter, not the former. Is the situa
tion of our American munition mak
ers. It Is bad to sell a burglar a
Jimmy to break Into a house with. Is
it equally bad to sell the householder
a. gun to keep him out? Is there any
real difference between common sense
and mental mush?
By grabbing at everything In sight
the Welsh coal miners stand to lose
the advantages they can justly claim.
Patriotism seems to count for noth
ing with them. If the government
takes over the mines the workmen
will be subject to military discipline.
A strike will be mutiny and sum
mary punishment will teach the men
how much better it Is to make a mo
derate sacrifice voluntarily than to
lose everything by .pig-headed obsti
nacy. During the Summer holidays boys
in outlying Portland sections gather
In groups, or gangs, to find amuse
ment. Their sports are Innocent
enough, but they lack something In
bodily development, for it Is rare to
see one of these boys walking with
erect shoulders and head. They
slouch along humped over like feeble
old men, hands in pockets and heads
thrust forward. Where did the boys
learn these bad habits?
Out of the thirty-four lynchlngs in
the first six months of 1915 Georgia la
credited with eight, which is barely
short of a quarter of the whole. Mob-
law seems to be Indigenous there.
Lynching Is no longer restricted to
"the great- crime." It Is meted out
for stealing cows, cotton and hogs. Its
prevalence Is one among many signs
that civilization in some parts of the
South is not so much archaic as semi
savage. , There Is an appearance of concert
in the strike at American munition
factories. Unhappily, some labor
leaders are venal. A moderate sum
judiciously distributed among them
can work wonders. Since it is to the
manifest interest of some of the bel
ligerents to close down the factories,
one can guess where the cash comes
from if it exists.
The National Parks arc more used
this Summer than ever before. Good
roads account in part for the rising
tide of visitors, the European war for
another part. After August 1 auto
mobiles will be admitted to the Yel
lowstone Park, a new privilege, and
It is expected that the roads will be
thronged. -
Enough dirty linen has been flour
ished in the Geddes-Eccles case and
the heirs are wise In acquiescing Id
the verdict.
Hot weather diet: Cants for break
fast, watermelon for luncheon, with
Bull Run water ad libitum.
These are the days when the house
wife who owns a tireless cooker is cool
and serene.
A Standard OH strike should be
easy of settlement. Raise the price of
gasoline.
When it is only 100 In the shade,
there Is not enough shade to go
around.
Lloyd George broke the strike.
Welshmen listen to htm and are
proud.
Parcel post packages that go in a
roundabout way will have to pay more
soon.
Now that pet cats are biting people,
how can the animals be muzzled?
The Kaiser Is about to pull off
something In France.
Great harvest, mother. "Where's
that Jug?"
St. Johns wants Bull Run. No
wonder.
Observe the sprinkling law as to
days.
About time to muzzle the dogs.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
From The Oregonlan ot July SI. IS90.
London. July 20. Sir Richard Wil
son, former member of the House of
Commons, is dead.
Chicago At a large meeting held
here yesterday resolutions were
adopted calling for the closing of the
World's Fair on Sundays. The Chicago
Y. M. C A. Is behind the movement to
obtain a quiet Sabbath.
The New Tork Press la out with the
announcement, which seems quite of -
nciai. that President Harrison la out
for the renomlnatlon.
Dresden The Nachrlchten carries a
denial from Bismarck that there Is any
hostility between him and the Emper
or. He was always a loyal Hohen
zollern although he differed with the
Emperor on the question of Socialism,
The Emperor was for Inducing the So
cialists to maintain" a peaceful atti
tude by means of concessions, but Bis
marck believed in fighting them as
blackmailers.
London Er. Parker, the eloquent
pastor of City Temple, has resigned
from active leadership of the Peace
Society because that body declined to
open Its sessions with prayer. The
peace movement la gaining through
out the continent and England as
result of the society's work.
W. H. Galvacl. of Spokane Falls, de
livered tie address at the Portland
celebration of the 101st anniversary of
the fall of the Bastile. The French
residents of this city had arranged a
fitting observation.
George L Thompson, day clerk of
the International, has an Interesting
rello in the ahana of a hill rt avchanra
calling for $10 In standard milled coin
or in goia or silver, issued In 1778 in
Virginia.
Joanne Hugo, a grandchild of Victor
Hugo, is betrothed to Leon Daudet,
son of the writer, Alphonse Daudet-
Chairman Edward Casey, of the com
mittee -arranging for the reception of
the Oregon Press Association, la meet
Ins; with much success in getting co
operation In entertaining the visitors.
Fred Bullock, a conductor on the
Second-street electric line. was
thrown from the car and seriously
hurt yesterday by a protruding wagon
tongue. N. F. Sargent, popular assist
ant steward of the Arlington Club, who
was a passenger, was also hurt.
W. J. Scanlan. America' represent
ative Irish comedian, will present
"Myles Aroon" In Portland soon.
Among the songs he will sing will be
"You and I. Love." "My Maggie."
"Live My Love, Oh Live" and "Peck
A-Boo "
The following will appear In "Pas
sion's Slave" at Cordray's tonight:
Theodore Roberta. F. Cleaves. Wilson
Deal. Georse Cain. Sam Morris. Edwin
Young. John Lowell. George Baker,
Esther Lyons. May Nanuary and Vir
ginia Lampert-
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonlan of July SI. JSS.
Philadelphia. July C. The subscrip
tions to the Government today were
13,000.000.
We learn that Hon. W. C. Johnson,
of Oregon City, has been appointed by
Mr. Cushing (Counsel for the United
States) to the Important position of
Attorney for the Government. In taking
and preparing the testimony for the
Government In relation to the claims of
the Puget Sound and the Hudson Bay
companies.
New York, July 6 Ex-Governor
Vance was released from the Old
Capitol prison today to return home
subject to the President's orders.
New York. July . More than 10.000
French soldiers for Maxmilian arrived
at Vera Crux and pnssed to the Interior.
New York. July 11. The World's
special says that it la now regarded aa
quite certain that a special military
commission will be constituted In a
short time for the trial of Jeff Davis
on the charge of complicity In the mur
der of President Lincoln.
A new wharf is being built below D
street. It will furnish accommodation
for the barrel and stave factory.
Yesterday the gentlemen whom we
are entertain .g In Portland, from the
East, accompanied by some of our citi
zens, made a visit to the White House.
They were very much gratified with
the scenery along the road.
A party of workmen engaged In the
grading of Fifth street, near Clay, yes
terday met with a serious accident. The
bank caved In. covering three men, two
of whom were each named John
Dougherty, and the other Chris Tooth.
Two of the men were taken into the
hospital of the Sisters of Mercy and
the other to his residence on lamhlll
street.
The work of putting the stone on
Front street commenced Tuesday.
AT GKARIIART,
O. great, wide Sea! O. great, good Sea!
Mountains may beckon. 1 still face
thee.
Charm upon charm thou dost reveal.
Joy upon Joy la mine to feel
While strolling along thy sandy beach,
Meeting halfway thy friendly reach.
ft. great, wide Sea! O. great, good Sea!
Sandpipers lead me on with glee;
Now skimming the beach with footstep
ugnt.
Now making a snowy cloud In their
night;
Bird and mortal today agree
To join In Neptune's Jubilee.
O. great wide Sea! O. great good Sea!
If Ocean Pacific, prove it to me;
Bring me a balm to quiet unrest
And the pearl ot patience to wear on
my breast;
Then I shall know thou art true to thy
name
And will add another line to thy fame.
SARA A. DAVIS.
Hood River. Or.
DEAR LORD, TEACH CSI
Oh. great Omnipotence! Thou who dost
know
Thy children's every woe:
We beseech thee hear our prayer!
We do not beg that there be peace
Nor yet demand that war shall cease;
We crave but that, through alt this din.
Death, anguish, hate, war, rancor, sin,
Thy love shall penetrate, and to us
show
That still we are the objects of thy
never-ceasing care.
Oh, great Omniscience! who dost behold
Thy children's every need;
We entreat thee hear our prayer!
We dare not claim to know the right.
Nor question thee In all thy might;
We wist but that. In thine own way.
Till through the dark shall dawn the
day.
Thy strength a..-., us sustain, thy
hands uphold.
And daily stronger grow our faith that
thou art God Indeed.
HORACE WILLIAM MACNEAL.
Woe of a Card Player.
Houston (Tex.) Post,
"Sitting up with your sick friend
again, eh?" "Exactly, my dear." "Now
tell me the truth, is that friend really
sIckT" "He's sick this time, all right.
He held aa ace-full against my four
sizes."
THEM WAS THE HAPPY DAYS"
Property Osier Make for Tlsses ef
Mere) Tenants.
GLADSTONE. Or, July IS (To the
Editor.) The reader of this letter. If
he has been a resident of Portland
during the past 10 or 10 years, will
remember "them happy days' and
prosperous as well, we used to hare
during the rule of the 'old regime."
The "old regime" was an awful com
bination of money-setting politicians,
so the good people tell us. and we
speak of It with bated breath In these
glorious days of reform.
Yesterday I stood In the middle of
one of Portland's beautiful streets.
From the point where I stood until the
atreet wound Its way up the hillside It
was lined with stately shade trees
now luxuriant with the splendor of the
Summer and touching their branches,
tip to tip, making one gtgant : ver
dant hedge on either side of that beau
tiful thoroughfare. It was Indeed a
wonderful sight, and I atood long and
marveled at it- It la "no doubt one of
the streets upon which the, officials
of our present administration ride each
day in their automobiles on their way
to Inspect the new sewers, the water
mains, the municipal workshops, the
wonderful changes now being made in
the grades by the city's engineering
department, the magnificent city barns
erected here and there, and the other
great works of progress and inciden
tally lasting monuments to the build
ers, our present administration: it is
without doubt that It is through his
lane of beautiful trees that our Com
mlssioners drive In their automobiles
as they go to supervise the worthy
works of the meter Inspectors, the
leak inspectors, the Jitney Inspectors,
the film Inspectors and the scores of
other Inspectors with whom they are
burdened to supervise. It is indeed
beautiful, this spacious thoroughfare
and these magnificent trees.
And then I stepped from the middle
of that street and through that row
of beautiful trees to the sidewalk and
I was surprised to see what I could
not see through the gigantic hedge,
and what our Commissioners cannot
see In their automobile rides in their
pursuit of progress. I saw houses that
stand close together, houses that were
built for people to live in. and that
people have lived In. but now empty.
I counted a dozen rent signs in a block
behind those beautiful trees. I saw
rent signs there, bleached with the
suns of many months, windows grimy
with the dust of many more.
From there I walked down to the
City Hall and paid Mr. Daly's depart
ment 14.65 for digging a three-foot
hole In one of thoso beautiful streets
and shutting off a leak in a three,
quarter-inch water pipe at a point 110
feet from my house, receiving his item
ized bill as follows: Foreman, two
hours at $4 a day, $1; service man. four
hours at 13.60 a day. S1.7S: laborers,
four hours at $3 a day, SI. 60. and su
perintendence and use of tools. 40
cents, which Mr. Daly said I would
have to pay. I suppose that 40 cents
helps to pay the leak Inspector's sal
ary. Incidentally my tenant advises
that she Is entitled to another cut In
her rent because everybody else is
getting It. tihe la a poor woman and
I am going to let her have I, even If
I have to put another mortgage on
the old homestead to pay my share to
ward the maintenance of the Jitney
Inspector.
And merrily the City Commissioners
speed up and down that beautiful
street, between those rows of beauti
ful trees, unmindful of the little ham
mers that go tap. tap. tap. tacking
up the rent signs of red. blsck and
blue. But In "them good old days"
when we didn't have autos and the
streets weren't so well paved, the
Councilmen of that awful "old regime"
walked on the sidewalk on the other
side of tho beautiful trees, where
they could see the houses, and stopped
and scratched their heads and thought
a little when they came upon a new
rent sign. But of course In "them good
old days of yore" those beautiful trees
were not quite as tsll as they are now.
ABRAHAM NELSON.
DISTl HBXCK AT G. A. R. MKKTIU
Oie ( Those Prraent Telia What llap
sesH at Orchards. Wash.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. July 19 (To
the Editor.) In The Oregonlan July
IT appears a special item of news from
Vancouver. Wash., relative to the dis
turbance of the Clark County U. A. It.
meeting at Orchards last Thursday af
ternoon. Your correspondent evidently
was not present at the time or the nu
merous errors contained in the Item
would not have appeared.
Mr. Arnold's mother Is an honored
survivor of that corps of patriotic
young women who left their homes and
went to the front as nurses. Mr. Ar
nold's father waa also an active par
ticipant in the suppression of that
great rebellion and for these reasons
Mr. Arnold was Invited by the W. It. O.
to make a talk on "Woman's Work
in War." In his talk he gave an In
teresting history of the sanitary and
Christian commissions and their
work. lie also branched out into sta
tistics of the terrible loss of life the I
has been war's exactions. He took the
position that in this age of civilization
war should be unnecessary that all
differences should be settled by arbi
tration and tnat as the burdens ot war
fall so heavily upon the. women, they
also should have a voice in the ques
tion as to whether war should le de
clared. His appeals were along the
lines of peace and harmony. His cover
ing of historical facts was scholarly
and Interesting and only ignorance
could have prompted such a move.
Mrs. Butts, from Bremerton, who did
not seem to agree with Mr. Arnold's
peace policy, arose and moved that the
speaker be asked to cease. Mr. Arnold
immediately left the platform. The mo
tion waa not put- The chairman was
too much taken by surprise to declare
the motion out of order and ask the
disturbers of the meeting to retire, so
the programmme was continued, not
withstanding the fact that several left
the hall.
Personally I felt that this was a di
rect attack upon our American liber
ties. If there Is anything that our
flag stands for it certainly Is for lib
erty of conscience, a free press and
free speech, and such actions should
not have been allowed to go unre
buked. After talking to a number of G. A.
P.. men. W. it. C women, sons and
daughters ot veterans and others
present, I found that the sentiment
was over helmingly against such ac
tions and that Mr. Arnold should have
been invited to finish his talk.
OSCAR MBRIDE.
WHO WILL C A R E f
Who will care If my hair Is gray?
Who will care what I have to say?
Who will care If I go or stay?
Who will care when I'm SO
Who will care If I'm fat or thin?
Who will cm re If I frown or grin?
Who will care If my toes turn In?
Who will care when I'm SO?
Who will care If tears I shed?
Who will care if my nose Is red?
Who will care If youth Is fled?
Who will care when I'm SO?
No on will care, so I've been told:
No one will care If my feet are cold;.
No one will care my hand to hold;
Oh. I'll Just hate to be SO.
Jane.
(ourtahlp and Rorcdoaa.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"I don't see how you can tolerate
that man." "Oh. but he la a foreign
nobleman, my dear." "I don't care."
said the American girl. "I'll be Jig
gered if I'd marry a man who does his
courting with a bored air."
European War Primer
By National Geographical Society.
The Russian government of Lublin,
the rerlon where the Austro-German
forces were brought to a halt In their
campaign in Southern Poland by the
first determined Russian stand. Is of
the nature of an elevated plateau,
scoured here and there deeply by rivers
and hea..y wooded with forests of oak.
beech and pine. In belts the land la
severely torn, a complex of hill and ra
vine. Over much of Its area It is thin
ly populated, and presents a -etches of
wild. unkept. trackless forest and
thicket. There is plenty of natural
cover for armies operating there.
Lublin Is the aoutheastrrnmot gov
ernment of Russian Poland. It Is con
tained, east and west, between the
rivers Rug and Vistula. The River
Rug divides Lublin from the Rut .Ian
government of Volhvnle. while the
River Vistula divides It from the
Poland government of Radom. Gallcia
bounds It upon the south and the gov
ernment of Sielloe upon the north.
Thus the war reports that announced
the Intended withdrawal of the Rus
sians to the line of the Bust were look
ing forward to the abandonment of al
most all of Rusian Poland. The Rug
River flows In a wide arc to the north
east and north of Warsaw, joining the
istula River near the powerful Rus
sian fortress. Novo Georgievrk. about
40 miles north-northwest of the relish
metropolis.
The government has an area of SS00
square miles and a population estimat
ed at about 1.400.00 . It la a rolling
plain. Interrupted with knots and belts
of hills. J i the northern part, where
the Lublln-Kholm Rilway. of strategic.
Importance, crosses the government on
Its way between Warsaw and Kiev. Is
the densest forest growth. Also. In
the northern neighborhood Is the Cltv
of Lublin, the third manufacturing
town of Russian Poland. The Vistula,
the Rub:, the Wleprz. San. Tanev rivers
drain the district, A treacherous re
gion of lakes and marshes and black
quicksands occurs In the enst. reaching
Into Ualicla. A marshy lowland also
extends between the Vistula and the
Wleprx.
Heavy. black earth, of rich fertility
Is found parts of the government and
this Is mostly under careful cultiva
tl.ii. Rye. oats, wheat, barley and po
tatoes are the principal crops. A good
deal of the Lublin grain harvest is ex
ported. Flax, hemp and beet root are.
cultivated on the larger estates .and
stockralslng is carried on. The sugar
beets are worked for their product In
mills within the government; spirits,
flour, leather and lumver are other of
its manufactured products. There are
some horse farms In the district whoso
animals have a European reputation.
The character of the government in
distinctly agricultural. There are few
cities and very little railway mileage,
espvclilly are the railways lacking in
the south and central parts.
...
At one time German Immigration
threatened to o' . run ml region, the
Teutonic .-ottlers being attracted by th
rl. h. promising soils, and the rreat con
sumers' markets easily reached from
Lublin. In 1N7. however, this Immi
gration was effectually stopped. There
were, probably, mo j than IS.ooo Ger
mans In the district at the beginning
of the war. It was the Influx of Ger
man settlors that largely brought about
the adoption of modern methods in this
part of Russian Poland for the culti
vation of the soli. The roads running
north are of indifferent lualitles and.
taken together with the almost entire
lack of railway facilities, the maneu
vering of armies through this terrltory
must be surrounded with considerable
effort and difficulty.
HOME CAX.MXU OK VEGETABLES
Small Qaaatlty of Cider Vinegar In
Each Jar la Secret of Sacceaa,
OOrtVAlXIS. Or.. July It. (To the,
Ed r.) As the time la now at hand
when garden vegetables are in their
prime, and as my nelghboi are fre
r -ntly looking at my rows of canned
peas, beans, asparagus, and asking.
"How hnve you accomplished this all
alone and done all your far - work be
sides?" I think a few directions as to
my simple and successful mode of can
ning vegetables might prove helpful to
the readers of The Oregonlan.
There Is no vegetable which cannot
he canned by simply boiling until ten
der and canning as ordinary fruit, pro
vided at the last and final moment of
sealing enough boiling hot elder vine
gar Is placet on top of the boiling fruit
to supply acid to stay off the germs
In the air until the can is properly
sealed.
I will give the receipt for peas here
with and the same may be applied to
any other vegetable, such as green
L :n, -orn. asparagus, cabbage, spin
ach, etc. Roil the peas from ;o min
utes to a half hour (according to the
toughness of the outer kln) and fill
In any kind of glass Jars which have
good rubbers, first placing a sliver
knife in the Jar to absorb the heat and
insure the jar from breaking. Have In
another vessel (preferably granite
ware) some boiling cider vinegar, and
to each quart of fruit add. right on
the hot fruit, one dessert spoonful of
this vinegar. Seal as any ordinary acid
fruit.
In opening the can for using do not
drain the water off. as the vinegar
will never curdle milk or cream used
for seasoning. The skin of beans, peas,
etc., is rendered tender by Its rresencc.
but never sour. I have never 1- st a
can when put up this way.
WIDOW FARMER.
OREGON' IS WELL REPRESENTED
Mr. Krlede Kinds Fair Banding Appro
priate mmd Exhibits Good.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 19. (To the.
Editor.) On leaving home for this city
to visit the fair I waa prejudiced as to
the Oregon building and its exhibits by
reports from returning travelers.
It Is a pleasure to say all such re
ports are not worthy of consideration,
and any of our citizen-: who may visit
the fair wl . soon realize their Injustice.
Our state appropriation haa been
wisely expended: our Parthenon struc
ture, with Its massive logs, is a fit rep
resentation of our timber Interests and
is gaining great admiration and praise
from sections where timber is scarce.
The interior exhibits are tastily ar
rang d and likewise set forth the prod
ucts of our soil. Other state build
ings, with but few exceptions, are en
tirely devoted to social gatherings for
their respective state citizens, and In
no degree set forth the purposes of
state exhlbita Rut our building and
exhibits set forth the riches of our
state and its products Und yet supplies,
to a subordinate degree, the social
factor.
No Oregonlan need blush at our rep
resentation at thla fair.
LEO FRIEDE.
Your Wife Asks?
How often have you found a de
lightful dlh waiting for you at the
dinner table and after you tasted
tl your wife has asked:
"Mow do you like that? I got the
recipe from the newspaper today."
This Incident la common.
It Indicatea that not only Is wom
an a newspaper reader, but a'.so
find the newspaper a close and
helpful friend.
The manufacturer with an article
appealing to women makes a great
mistake if he falls to advertise in
the newspapers.
He misses his "short cut to success.
fl.