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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1915)
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Th Joint appeal of th United State and of the lx Latin American republic to the people of Mexico to Bet together and organize a govern ment wbh ail will obey bears a fam ily resemblance to the appeal made to Hoerta to set oat. There la no In timation that any effective mean will be adopted to back op the government lhkh may be organised or to restore peace In caae the faction fall to acre on a government which the Pan-Amer-Iran conferee can recognize. If the leaders ahould not accept the Invita tion within ten d.y. the conferee will meet ajrln and consider what to do next. An embargo on arms against all fictions except the recognized government Is the only plan suggest ed, but what If no government should be organised T We tried the embargo against Ilurrta and thereby helped Carranxa and Villa to eliminate him. but the out come was that these two chiefs quar reled and each grabbed all that he could reach of the munitions Imported through our favor. What reason have we X't suppose that this process would cot be continued ad Infinitum or until our patience became exhausted and the trued State alone Intervened? Kr there Is g'd gTound for the belief that the Latin American states which President Wilson has taken Into partnership In bearing responsi bilities resting on the United States alone would never consent to forcible Intervention, either Jointly or by the United States alone. The Latin Amer ican republics are Jealous of armed In terference by the United State with the Internal affairs of any other coun try, probably one motive of the alx republic In Joining us In the present effort to pacify Mexico Is the desire to prevent armed Intervention. They do not wish to establish a dangerous precedent. They take our assurances of unselfish purpose with a liberal seasoning of salt. If, as Is extremely probable, the Joint appeals of the seven Pan-American conferee should be as barren of result a the eloquent appeals of President Wilson and Secretary 3ryan. and if the threatened embargo should also fall, armed Intervention might be the recourse. Thla would no sooner be troooed by the United States than a ehoru of protest would go up from our new partners. If w-e Insisted on adopting that expedient In spite of their protests, a state of irri tation agulnst the United States would be created In Latin America compared with which the present suspicion Is un important. The six diplomats whom Mr. Wilson has called to his aid would become active propagandists of this feeling and would spread It throughout South America at the precise time when we are striving to cultivate com nana alth that continent. If we Intervene after having asked their, aid and lunored their protests. we shall have given them a right to r.r t and shall have added the mor tinratloa alwaj felt by the giver of rejected advice to the distrust wnlcn alwats abide In the South American mind. Hy merely talking and trjlng 1 avoid doing something, the Presi dent has added to the dltllcultlcs wnlcn IM en.-nmpa.-s him If the time comes when action can no longer be deferreo THR AI-Mf-tr rot MTEKSTROne. Ilclnforccmcr.t of the allied army cn th- Dardanelles and the aggressive mov. merit which It has begun are the eountemtroke to the Austro-CJerman tuccrs In Poland. With Russia con tinuously on the retreat. It has become trior than ever necessary for ner ai lie to retnfor.-e her with artillery ammunition and aircraft and probably ith artltlrrvmen and avtators. The Muscovite" reverses are attributed on alt hands to her deficiency In these arms. Their allies cannot supply these r.e,-eartrs fast enough or regularly enough by the routes now open via Archangel and Vladivostok: In fact, the obstacles are such th.it the allies are conducting two distinct wars, ths armies of Ilrttaln. France and Italy being almost entirely cut off from those of Itussia. Ptrect. raj-Id com munication by way of the Purdanelle Is imperatively necessary to complete co-ordination of their campaigns. Victory on the Pardanelle Is also necessary to force the hand of the Kalkan states and to anticipate a new Teuton atta. k cn Serbia. Positive re ports sre abroad that an Austro-Oer-man army la massing on the Serblin frontier for the purpose of finally crushing that country and forcing Bulgaria to Join the central empires or at least to give their armies right cf way through Bulgaria for the relief of Turkey. Teuton succes In this move mlxht Intimidate Greece and Koumanta Ir.to neutrality and mixht deaaroy all hope entertained by the quadruple alliance that- the Balkan states would unite with It and of forc ing tn straits. To anticipate this move the quad ruple alliance has been bringing pressure to bear on Greece and Serbia to cede the disputed section of Mace donia to Bulgaria. The present Greek .Premier, who Is susceptible to German Influence, replied to the four envos that Greece would not cede one Inch ef territory and has delayed the meet ing of the newly elected Parliament In order that the war rarty headed by Yeneteloa may be excluded from power as long as possible. Mr. Veneseloe Is known to favor concession to Bulgaria In order to win that country aid In war. and Serbia Is reported to be wilting to cede the territory she won In the second Balkan k,r The Bulgarian Premier ha said Bulgaria would remain neutral unless grven Macedonia, cut wouia join ner ..it-fcor strains Turkey If her claims w,r, granted. Roumanla (till shows tuu--y: to si XsutscJi X wut liberal offer for free transit of war material to Turkey. The deadlock may be broken when the Greek .parlia ment put Venemelo In office, and It decision to grant Bulgaria- demands and to Join the alUea may be hastened by allied ucce against Turkey and by Teuton attack on Serbia. Reports of Italy coming participa tion In the Dardanelles campaign abound. On report had It that lo.- 00 troops were massed at Otranto and other tell of the withdrawal of Ital ian consuls from Turkey a a pre sumed preliminary to a declaration of war. Italy, as the nearest allied pow er to Turkey, can beat send troop to the straits, bat the force she can spare are limited by her operation against Austria. A Italy maaes prog ress toward Trieste and Trent, larger armies will be needed to besiege those cities and the Austrian will strength en their southern armies. While these Austrian reinforcement would be di rectly Intended for self-defense, they would Indirectly aid Turgey oy occupying Italian troop which might otherwise be sent against me Ottomans. The next few weeks will proBemy see a general clearing up of the situa tion In the east of Europe. Operations on the Dardanelles are likely to Pe Bushed with redoubled vigor, and. should the Balkan states Join the al lies. Roumanla may give Russia di rect relief by attacking the Austrian flank. Russia may be given a much needed rest by diversion of her en emy's attention to other fields of hostilities. rnoTAms tumrty. Th. learned opinion of Magistrate Joseph r itch, of Jamaica. Long Island, has attracted mor attention than It deserves. Msglstrate Fitch rule that a person ha a legal right to swear to his heart' content In his own home. provided he doe not swear so noisily a to annoy his neighbor. There la sometime a ast difference between legal right and the ability to do. The family may object. It gen erally does. There are countless men who cannot break themselves of the habit of swearing away from home who are quite chaste In the choice of language when In the family domicile. One of the mysteries of human nature that ought to be studied by philoso phers and psychologist la the fact that man Is often a helpless slave to profanity when anything goc wrong at the office, but has a ready fund of mild and perfectly proper ejaculation when he stubs his to in the presence of his wife. It certainly Is not aouDi as to his legal right that control his tongue, so It Is not Ukely that Magis trate Fitch will become nernauj famous for having proclaimed a new and valued liberty. BIXNDERES'O SHIFTISO LAWS. Withdrawal from American register of the Dollar line of steamships, fol lowing upon that of the Pacific Mall liners, goe far to remove the Ameri can flag from foreign trade In the Pa cific. The reason is mat unuer m seamen' law it would cost I3Z.U4 a year more to operate the Robert Dol lar under the American than unaer tne British flag. The purpose of that law was to ameliorate the condition of American seamen and to increase safety of life at sea. In fact, it accomplishes neither purpose. The Dollar win De operated by non-American seamen, or, if American seamen obtain employ ment on her. they must work under British law. If I more likely tnai Asiatics will be employed and that the American seamen will be out of a Job. Since there will be no ships crossing the Pacific under the American flag, the new American law will not have made life any safer at ea. The law accomplishes nothing except to put American seamen out of a Job and to drive American ship from under the American flag. It Is useless for Congress to attempt a amend this law In the hope or rem edylng Us evil effect. It would prob ahlr onlv blunder again. That is a reasonable conclusion from the fact that almost every ehlpplng act It ha paased within the last twenty years has proved to be a blunder. It blunder ing I due to Ignorance, and it can only leeislate wisely after searching Inquiry. To that end It should appoint com mission, as proposed by the United States Chamber of Commerce, to ln nnira Into all our shipping law and to report a revised code to Congress for adoption. A permanent commission should then be created, slmilsr to the Interstate Commerce Commission, to administer the new law and to propose further legislation as experience proves it necessary. THE HASTY JUEADF.lt. A correspondent, whose letter is pub lished In another column, finds a ser mon In the peculiar construction neirhbor out upon a sentence of an editorial published In The Oregonian. Why read at all. If one must read as a mere automaton ana not aa a ra tional hatnsT" he inquires. The quotation misinterpreted is th following: "For we can a man woo takes onlr a single glass of whisky a dar a near-teetotaler. We doubt If he exists. In a literal sense; but there aea men who do not average more than one dally drink." It Is possible to understand how a hasty read ing of the foregoing might give the Impression that The Oregonian doubt the existence of the man wno uocs noi drink more than a single gins or whisky a day In other words, that It believes everybody dring at leas mi much. Tst it Is difficult to unaersiana how one with his mind on his reading could construe the sentence to mean other than that the man does not exisi -h. ran or does make a regular prac- ti.-. of drinking one glass of whisky rr dav. no more, no less. N'ewsoancrs constantly are in receipt of letters of criticism inspired by more unreasonable perversion ot unoer- standir.g than that men-.ionea oy .nr. i'r,i Aa an example, a farmer's wife writes to dispute a statement which she rreolta to The Oregonian -tnai xarm er live mainly on salt pork and soggy potatoes, that they are anon-iivea ana not riesn In their personal habits." The charge is so preposterous that It required considerable search through The Oregonian' file to determine Just what comment had been construed into such a hornoie ianaer u m f 1 111 .r The Oregonian did say that "too often" fried pork (not salt pork), sour Kr.,,1 .na aorcr potatoes take the i,a f fresh vea-etables on the farm' er-s table- Elsewhere The Oregonian h.rf eomraented briefly on Dr. Woods u..ehinann's statement that city dwellers live somewhat longer than farmers. As for the farmer's unclean tines, that charge was probably de- a renm a statement that he l neg lected." But the neglect plainly re o his facilities for recreation. social diversion and literary, p until u, THE MOKXTXQ OREGOIAX MONDAY. AUGT7ST 16, 1015. as compared with those of his city brother. With Mr. Ford, we exclaim: "Why read at all. if one must read a a mere automaton?" HXNS FOB EGGS. The Oregon hen's entered In the lay ing contest at the Panama-Pacific Ex position are still far in the lead. The three pen entered by the Oregon Ag ricultural College now occupy first, sec ond and fourth places, and the third place Is within sight for the pen now occupying fourth place. James Drj'den, professor of poul try husbandry in the Oregon Ag ricultural College, la one of the fore most men In the country In his chosen field of labor. Indeed, he Is looked upon by many expert poultrymen as standing really at the head of all breeders of poultry for the production of eggs. He had. before the present test, reared a hen that surpassed all other records: now It seems he has three pens that will surpass all others entered In the world's contest at San Francisco. Thla 1 not only cheering news for Professor Dryden and his college, it Is good news for every citizen of Oregon who takes any note whatever of the value to us of the poultry Industry. It may be said by ome that It Is not an Important matter to produce a breed of hen that are world beaters In egg production, but It really Is a matter of prime Importance. The poultry business Is ono of the greatest of all Industrie connected with the farm. The egg supply of the country comes from the farmers hens, not from the hens of the fancier and exclusive poultry breeders. The official of the Oregon Agricultural College nnder atand this, and their aim. is not only to produce a breed that will surpass all others In laying, but to encourage the farmers to enlarge their flocks, to take better care of them than formerly and to breed with an eye single to egg production. If the farmers generally will carry out the wishes of the college officials. relr unon Professor Dryden methods of breeding and selection and adopt hia plan for bousing and feeding, men we soon shall see Oregon exporting large shipments of eggs. Thus will much money be brought Into the state annually In place of that sent to Kan sas Iowa. Nebraska and otTler states, and even to China, to supply our tables with eggs- THE CHOCOLATE APHRODITE. Like a peach In the mild August sunshine the soul of John D. Rocke feller stow wavory and mellow In the warm glow of public aamiratiou, Long and long ago he forsooK tnose adventurous practices which laid the foundation of hi fortune. A the peach tree toward the end of Sum mer cease to depend upon the de based contents of the ground for its nutriment and turn heavenward for light and color, so the heart of Mr. Rockefeller, weary of struggle ana ao cumulation, turn to love for higher and sweeter consolations than gold ran afford. The sunshine la not more oervaslve than Mr. Rockefellers love The volcano is not more eucp getlc. In the sunken garden of his palace, among the Pocontlco Hills, he has erected a temple to love, uie now anddeaa of his adoration, aa the re pentant Voltaire In his old age built a temple to God at Ferney. No ex pense ha been sparea to mane mo edifice worthy of the deity It Is built to enshrine. Window miraculously stained shed soft radiance upon the altar of the goddess. Chaste columns In solemn array guard the approach to her sacred seat- Rut the seat stood empty. nero In all the -world was there a sculptor whose hand had the cunning to chisel an Imae-a of Love? Whose brain could conceive the soft beauty of her countenance or the suave outlines of her formT The RocKetener miuioua could erect a lempio a- but they could not evoKe irom reluctant marble a statue to body forth her glorious charm. So there was nothing to do dui go 10 mo Greeks for help, the ancient Greeks, not the moderns, who are too busy with diplomacy to make statue of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. In diplomacy there Is as little love as there 1 in business. Mr. Rockefeller having gained all he wanted from both had forsaken both, and naturally he would not Invite the modern Greeks, who live In a turmoil of trade and Intrigue, to supply hi desirea statue. It was to the ancients that he betook himself In his extremity and to that generation of the ancients whose brain wa most fertile to conceive celestial beauty and whose hand was most cunning to embody It In marble. Praxiteles waa the sculptor whom Mr. Rockefeller decided to honor by enshrining one of his divine produc tions In the temple of love at the D.ontio Hills Praxiteles whose soft and amorous creations have all the technical perfections ot rniuioa. without his virile strength. It was not strength that Mr. itocaeieuet -..nteri it was a statue thai snouiu expres the aromatic mellowness ot his ripened soul, while, at the same time. It provided him with a standard of love toward which he might ever strive. Such a statue -raxneieo caned In the golden days of his prime, when he had at nis service tnc .oiuntuaus outlines of the incom parable Kratlna for' a model. Kratlna belonged to the same tribe as Aspasla, the life-long friend and counselor of the great Pericles, to say imi bhk was no better than she should have been would be to slander one 01 tne . e.nnnoa women of the Greeks. Hard necessity drove Kratlna, as It did Aspasla, to earn a living by her beauty, but we have no warrant to h.i lev that the traffic debased her soul. If Mr. Rockefeller could come ,.1 and white through tne ex perlences of his earlier life, why should not K-rauna reman. pure, even If ber body vaa somewhat besmirched? The Grecian beauty was therefore entirely proper for a model of Aphro dite and nothing could be more be coming than that Mr. Rockefeller's burning love for his fellow men should ha tvnifled by the image of a prosti tute. Praxiteles made two statues modeled after Kratlna's surpassing rharms. One of them, as history tells ... .u draDed. The other displayed all the enchanting voluptuousness of the model as Zeus created ner. me draped Aphrodite was purchased by the city of Cos, tne Dirxnpiace m narntaa the father of all physicians. Some author allege that In the day of Praxltele Cos was numea oy An- thnnv Comstock In one of ma lor- mer Incarnations and that It was his baneful Influence which prevented his fellow clllrens from, purchasing the ..ndraneii jtohrodlte. At any rate that priceless possession went to Cnidus and was there worshiped, as ardently as it will be In the temple at the Pocanrico Hills. Aohrodlte. or Love, "was the prin cipal deity of the Cnidians, as she is of Mr. Rockefeller, and the pious In habitants of that city preferred "her naked beauties," as Byron said or tobacco. Cnidus In her devout araor built three temples to Aphrodite, eacn standing on a promontory over looking the deep, blue sea, wneuce the goddess was miraculously Dorn. In one of these temples was enshrined the undraped masterpiece of Prax iteles. Its fame spread tnrougnout the ancient world anrl many copies were made and sold. One such copy has survived. It Is known as the Medicean Venus and critics unan imously admire the chaste way in which it calls attention to charms usually left unnoticed. This pleasing feature may have drawn Mr. Rocke feller affection to the statue, since he Is known to prize virtue even more than art. The orlrfnal Aphrodite was taicen from Cnidus to Constantinople In the rage for decorating that city when it became, the world's capital and there she reposed until she wa lost In a srreat fire. Historians upposea uie statue had been destroyed, but It ap pears not. Marble usually turns to quicklime under the action of great heat, but ' Providence saw to it that the Aphrodite should escape. What became of her nobody knows. She lay securely hidden for fourteen hun dred years and was then suddenly brought to light by some person in New York, who dyed her with muri atic acid and thus colored her a beau tiful brown to suit modern outdoor taste. From thla Incident she nas gained the title of th Chocolate Aphrodite. Evidently Praxiteles Aphrodite In all her undraped loveli ness had been preserved, like Shadrach. Meshach and Abednego, safe through the fire, for a great purpose. The Rockefeller temple would not have fulfilled Its part In the divine plan of the universe without this work of the inspired Praxiteles to inhabit Its sacred shades. Although we may not believe it, all of the belligerents believe they are fighting for their national existence. Germany and Austria believe the allies would dismember them, partition Tur key, shut them out of foreign com merce and the Mediterranean, and take away all German colonies. France believes Germany would annex the richest of the territory of the re public and its colonies, including Mo rocco and reduce it to military impo tence.' Russia believes that Austria would extend the Hapsburg territory to the Aegean Sea, grasp Constantino, pie next and close Russia's outlet to the Mediterranean forever, and that Germany would make the Baltic a German lake, annex the Baltic prov inces, make Austria a gateway to the Mediterranean and practically annex Asiatic Turkey. Britain believes Ger many would destroy her navy, seize all colonies, hold her in terror by oc cupying the French and Belgian Chan nel coast and make the British Empire a mere memory. Italy fears reduction to a position of subjection similar to that which prevailed before the war of liberation. If Italy does not win the unredeemed territory, the kingdom stands to lose Venice and much more of that which has been redeemed. The Hi liferents are fighting not only to prevent fulfillment of their fears, but to render Impossible such fulfillment by crippling their adversaries tor iu ture aggression. The Armv shoe must have merit. as it led to the undoing of a deserter who da-stroved all his clothing but shoes and would have escaped If a sharp-eyed peace officer naa not lis tened the brogans. Tndiuttrlal unrest seems to have ex tended to the commission appointed to inquire Into it, for there are tnree re et. avnialnina- its cause and the commissioners are "saying tnings uu. u. , . about each other. re Fmriiuid turns all her private game preserves and parks Into wheat floiHa aha M.n stow enough grain for home use; but -will the nooiuty- stanu for such desecration 7 Importation of the Scotch thistle Is pardonable in the Scot who hungers for sight of the Teal article; but the same hunger years ago gave us the dandelion. Malheur County has produced for exhibit at San Francisco a steer that weighs 3000 pounds, never fed grain. He is but one of the big things of that big county. General Wood' opinion that a citl- ..n'a dutv is to fight for his country will cause shudders In the "didn't raise my boy to be a soldier- party. Mayor Dennis Conner, of Albany, has the right Idea. The best way to break the "Friday the 13th" hoodoo Is to et it openly at defiance. Nothinr slow about Roseburg. The $300,000 bond Issue for a railroad is followed by a proposal to issue 3250,- 000 for water and light Standard Oil did not send the right man to China to secure oil -concessions In the republic. An Americanized Jap Is needed on that Job. with the certainty of higher city taxes, all prospect of a lower tax levy goes glimmering. What the state saves the city spenas. It is eminently fitting that the am bassador of peace in the Republican party should hail from the City of Brotherly Love. The Pan-American appeal to bellig erent leaders of Mexican factions has not got the punch that will fit condi tions. Wet weather has decreased ' the Clarke County honey crop, but made the grass better and assured more milk. The managers must retain the man who plays the big fiddle, for the audi ence will miss the roiling tnunaer The dull season Is the right time to thresh out the musicians: and mani' gers troubles The rear Seat of the motorcycle is a lure to destruction that often gets its victim. The local machine-gun company re quires men of nerve, and they are here. Keep your eye on the elephant. nd the wild kangaroo In the praa igaay, European War Primer By Katleaal GeearapWcal Bolety. Vilna is one of the most Important Immediate objective of th Teutonic drives in Russia, for its capture and re tention by the Germans would not oniy threaten the communication of the Czar's armies, but would also cripple the second line of Russian defense. along the Bug. or the Brest-Litovsk line. The holding of Vilna wouia prac tically cut the northern communica tions of the powerful fortress and mili tary entrepot upon the Bug, and bring with it a more startling change in the eastern campaign than even the cap ture of Warsaw. - Vilna is a city of 170.000, an Indus trial and trade center, situated in the midst of a region of tangled forests, almost impassable marshes and low lying lakes, at the intersection of the railways from Warsaw to Petrograd and from Llbau, the Baltic port, to Rostof. at the mouth of the Don. It lies nearly midway between the cities of Grodno and Dvlnsk, two other points upon the Warsaw-Petrograd Railway threatened by the German Invaders. Petrograd lies 436 miles away to the north-northwest of Vilna, and the coun try in between is a labyrinth of lakes, morass, woodland and wet meadowland. t. i. n,ne than 110 miles from the German frontier, toward which It is guarded by the rortress ot aoo the northwest. The city is an ancient one, of wmcn .,. it .nnearance bears every testi mony, for its Irregular , ground-plan straggles among, around and over the knot of low hills upon which the city is built in accordance with the tradi tional almlessness or tne rniaaie igra. Its streets are narrow, and not espe- i.iiv well kent. It wears, however, a ...,. e.i ale of comfortable prosperity, for Vilna senas large qunuu goods to the Black Sea and to the Baltic It handles a very extensive business In grains and timber, articles rhieh it e-rnorted before the present war In great quantities to Germany, to Holland and to tngiana. j.i Important textile aad leather industries. Vilna manufactures con3iaeraDie to bacco, knit goods, doming, iruuan flowers and glovea. a a a tri. niA town fa rich In memories. A mass of ruins that were once a bril liant castle of the Jagellons is here. Vilna was probably founded in the early part of the 10th century, but Is first mentioned as the chief fortified town of the Lithuanians In 1128. It was the nucleus about which the great Llthunian power grew, and a capital In which the ancient religious service was continued until the ena or me xttn century. The goa reritunas nou here in a splendid tempie ana pro tected his people in-their swamp and woodland until destroyed ruthlessly in 1387 by Prince Jagiello, alter nis con version and baptism. War. plague and destructive fires have played havoc with the city's pros perity and growth. It was nearly ruined -altogether in the 17th century, during the struggle between Russia and Poland, ltussia nnany toon, iiraraaivu of the city In 179 i, after Poland's par tition. The Poles of Vilna aided the uprisings against their Russian over- ords In 1831 ana isoe, ana un.ir juii- ishment was administered tor mis uy the Czar'a government. The native Russian element in the city is small. It is estimated that more than BO per cent of the population is Jewish, while the Lithuanians and Poles make up the greatest part of the remainder. VIEW FROM LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN Range of Vision Front Summit Is TJn- aurpaasrd. Says Mr. Bufnr. pnRTT.AVD Aug. 15. (To the Edi torsIn one of the Portland papers of 8 I saw a graphic description of Lookout Mountain as a scemu nu . l -1 asset, written by Judge M. u. treorge. Thla article is of especial interest to me, as I have been acquainted with Lookout Mountain and its beautiful scenic views for a number or years. r,.Hnr the years of 1898. v and 1901 I was forest supervisor ui i... .nr(hFii envision oi tne wtttu" Forest Reserve and of the Bull Run reserve. My work called me to all parts of the reserve from the McKenzie road, which was men " boundry of my work, north to the Co lumbia River. I have been on nearly every mountain peak and observation point In the Cascade reserve, as well th Run Run reserve, and can cheer fully luc-orse all Judge George has said in favor of Lookout Mountain as a scenic asset to the proposed road e-nm Kirlnw road round the east side of Hood down to iooa rtiver. i-ei say to those that nave mis in tua.iB. no ail meana Incorporate Lookout Mnnntiln in this erade work. It fur nishes the tourist with tne grandest view in the forests oi uregon. During my work on the reserve I used this point as a fire lookout for my rangers statronea near me ntu i Fifteen-mile and Eight-mile creeks and nn- River. In the Fall of 1899 when Superintendent S. B. Ormsby made his annual inspections, i iook mm iu ui nnint which was vet without a name. Said he, 'This Is the most beautiful and wonderlul view point u mo v Mountains." He then gave me the honor of giving It a name ana x cauea it Lookout Mountain. in tha Summer of 1900. Ranger H. S. Richmond, of Upper Hood River, took th elevation and reported It as ouv feet. Mr. Richmond is now living at 1274 East Ninth street North. From the summit of Lookout, looking south over the Cascade Mountains, can ha seen Mount Jefferson, the Three Sisters. Mount Washington. Snow Butte. Three Fingered JacK. uiauie rsutie tine Indian name for Berry uuiiej. bucb Rntte Maden Peak and Diamond Peak. From the southeast can be seen Tygh Valley, the wheat plains of Maupin. Wamlck and Waninitia, the Warm Knrlnir, Indian Reserve. Mutton Moun tain on the Deschutes River, the plains of the vast grain fields of Central Ore gon, while Pilot Butte stands in all its grandeur as sentinel of the farming dis trict near Bend. Looklna- to the east and northeast can be seen the great farming district of the Dufur Valley and plains, friend, vinirsl and Dufur. while farther east can be seen the vast wheat fields of Sherman and Gilliam counties, tne eanvon of the Columbia, with tne iiood' nough hills on the Washington side, and farther west the mouth of the Des chutes River, Fall Bridge and the ueliio Canal. To the north and nortnwest. is tne vast mountain range on the north side of the Columbia, while the city of The Dalles show up in all its beauty as the great commercial center of Eastern Orearon. The Grand Canyon of the Columbia is a beautiful and inspiring sight from here. In the distance can be seen Mount Adams. Mount St Helens and Mount Rainier while you look at the lovely valley or liooa iiiver ana its surrounding; country. To the west stands our grand old sentinel in all its Klorv Moun Hood, with its glaciers of White and Hood rivers. T loin with Judge George in saying, "The highway should unquestionably be along the magnificent crest ridge lead ing from a little beyond Government Cimn to Lookout Mountain and around to either Hood River. The Dalles or Dufur," I would say to all. It Is a grand scenic asset, and a revelation to the practical business man looking from Its summit over tne vas territorv of Eastern and Central Ore ton. It rives him an opportunity to see the great possibilities awaiting the careful Investor. It would be a great business asset to the eastern part of tfee. state, .W, H. H. PUFUB, CITY HALL, KXPERIMENT STATIO" Cosassissloners With Fads Combine to Pwt Each Other's Scheme Over. PORTLAND. Aug. 15. (To the Edi tor.) When the municipal charity bu reau, alias the city government, enters the fuel business with public funds and cuts prices, and starts a green vege table market in vacated streets in an attempt to bankrupt business men and landowners it would seem there Is little left of our boasted guarantee that our property shall not be taken away without due process of law. When we come to the point where no man's investment is secure from in vasion by municipal experiments, and a small coterie of foreign-born public market hucksters publicly propose to regulate 130,000,000 of Portland invest ments, there is very little left of our boasted right to life, liberty and pur suit of happiness. Illustrating the jeopardy in which fuel dealers And their investments, wit' ness the announcement of our govern ment with reference to selling $6.25 wood at 34.60. Here we have a lovely spectacle the city using public funds to make it impossible for business men to make a profit. Isn't that a great inducement to investors? Would any man think of planting a payroll In a city that will not permit a reasonable profit being made? Will men invest in realty in a city well knowing the street will be vacated to prevent them from renting their property? Hasn't Port land gone stark mad with experimental benevolence? The City Hall is nothing else than an experiment station. A majority of the Commissioners have some govern mental theory they wish to try out at the expense of taxpayers and Investors. One must solve the unemployed prob lem. He cuts wood, stores It on rented land, hires salesmen to sell It at cut prices and ruins the fuel dealers. . Another must solve the high coBt of living question. He vacates a street, erects unsicrhtly sheds, gives 10-cent rent ' shifts the established business streams to favored property, employs officers, gum-shoe men, inspectors, jani tors, scavengers, clerks and auditors, and proceeds to bankrupt the retail crroeers who nay taxes. Still anotner wants water merers iu make more work and save water that is overflowing Into the sewer. And so it goes. Each fadlst helps the other fadlst to fasten his expert ment on the people. And then comes a coterie of public market brokers with a proposal to regulate the taxpay ers' business. This last is Insult added to Injury, and reveals the gratitude of the people whom we have provided with 10-cent rent for choice locations, free lights and first-class janitor service. If anyone doubts the attitude of the truckgrowers' agents toward the tax payers let him read the lithesome let ter of "A Producer" in The Oregonian last Friday, -wherein that polished Dlanter says: "The farmers and pro ducers and their agents selling on the Carroll public market are resolved, 'That the grocers in the City of Port land, In general, and their representa tive body, the Retail Grocers' Associa tion in particular, need regulating.' " Isn't that the very limit of lngratl-: tude? Isn't it Insult on top of injury? Do we need a city manager? Yes, and we need him bad. Get a manager, auick! Get one with horse sense, it possible, but get a manager, for most anything will help a little bit, and no sort of manager can do worse than fiddle while we burn our money, and even that would Improve upon our ex periments in demogogy and lofty at tempts to perpetuate the unnt. Tea. by all means give us a man ager; otherwise it is the poor farm or the padded cell. ROBERT G. DUNCAN. Manager Retail Grocers' Association. SERMON On CARELESS READING. Even College-Bred Are .Often Slovenly in Perusing Literature. DALLAS, Or., Aug. 14. (To the Edi tor.) An editorial comment in The Oregonian has raised a query in my mind, or more accurately speaking. It was the cause of an interesting query being brought to my mind. You say: "Now we hear that moderate imbibers who take more than two glasses of beer or a single glass of whisky die off much more ranidly than compara tive teetotalers. For we call a man who takes only a single glass or wntsKy a day a near-teetotaler. We doubt if he exists, in a literal sense; but there are men who do not average more than one daily drink. They are occasional. and not regular, drinkers." Now the Item to which I wish to animadvert is the editorial "doubt." A friend at my elbow disputes your statement "for." says he, I never drank that amount of whisky in all my life, and I know hundreds of others who never did. " 1 told mm to -reao. th- statement over again, and read carefully." He did, or thought he had and replied, "I stand Dy wnat saio. This little circumstance oniy liius. trates how thoughtlessly most people read, even when cautioned to reaa carefully. Is there any wonder that so many people in their reading of litera ture get a perverted Idea of what they read? And again, they often put into what thev are Teading some precon eeiveiT llea of their own which Is dia metrically the opposite of what the writer intended to convey, wny aon t nennle trv to read understandlngly Why even hich school and college hred students occasionally fall into this slovenly habit of loose leading, an nnw and then a university gradu ate rtoes the same thing. Really, it wnnlii seem they consider that it re quires too much mental enort to use their thinning iacumes wiieu scau.ue Why read at all, if one must read as a mere automaton, ana not as a ra tional being. J- T. FOHD. THEY CAME TO SEE; WILL STAY Writer Tells of Alabama Family and Dlscnsaes Prohibition Party. BEAVERTON, Or., Aug. 14. (To the Editor.) A Montgomery, Ala, ramuy received The Sunday Oregonian the past year, friends in Portland mailing it to them. The Montgomery family . read, dis cussed and finally bought tickets, com ing, across the continent to see for themselves If it were all true. They are now on the way back South to sell out, and will return to Portland to live their days out. It was all true and they are delighted to get into this splendid Northwest. Regarding the plea of the Prohibi tionists for a party to enforce the dry law: My father and grandfather were both party Prohibitionists. In view of this I feel Justified in putting in a word, although a Republican myself a dry Republican. I feel that the Pro hibitionists often defeat the dry cause. Instances come to the front that show a close run between wet and dry can didates for old party nominations, and the Prohibitionists putting up a candi date who draws enough votes from these other drys to let in the wet. You can always depend on the wets voting solid. It seems that the drys are will ing to split among themselves -to keep the Prohibition party dragging along. This in spite of the fact that it hardly appears in Kansas, -where the dry Re publicans have done so much to clean up the state. LIFELONG REPUBLICAN. Ralph Cannor'a Name. HUBBARD, Or., Aug. 1-4. (To the Editor.) Please inform me what is the correct name of Ralph Connor, the author. PERRY 6PENNY. Chariot WiUian Gordon, Twenty-Five Year Ago From Tha Oresonian ot August IT. 1890. New Tork, Aug. 16 The Sun con firms the fact that John D. Rockefeller endowed $20,000,000 for the establish ment of a Baptist university In York, and thinks that Professor Harper, of Yale, will be its first president. Boston, Aug. 16. The United States war vessels Atlanta, Kearsarge, York town, Petrel. Dolphin, and Cushing left their ancnorage this morning for Mas sachusetts, where an interesting series of ocean maneuvers were performed.- San Francisco. Aug. 16. Lighthouse tender Manzanita has been undergoing extensive repairs and will shortly sail for the North to carry supplies to lighthouse stations in the Thirteenth District. Paris. Aug. IS. Sardou will -write a play for Stuart Robson. Gervais merchants shipped 10 cars of grain last week. On Monday. Aoruit 18. the Standard Theater, under the sole management of Jack Letcher, will reopen with very strong attractions. The leading feature will be the Lester and Williams London Specialty & Gaiety Company. New scenery has been added, and the In terior of the building has been thoroughly renovated. City Electrician Coffee has stretched the 15 miles of wire for the police call box system, and would have the apparatus in operation by September, if the booths, that were ordered six weeks ago, were on hand. There will be 24 regular stations and an extra one at the Union Depot. It will take three weeks to put them in. The following persons were granted marriage licenses yesterday by County Clerk T. C. Powell: William H. Calvin and Emma Houston, John Annand and Clara Baker Ward, Chris Christiansen and Mary Daly. Half a Century Ago 'From Ths Oregonian of Aug. 16, 1865. The Arena says that every rebel who desires to vote In Oregon "ought to vote and will vote." We shall see. Mr. Charles Bacon was severely In- - jured yesterday by having a horse run away with him on tne nottom norm ot the city. The collar bone was frac tured, one of his thumbs dislocated, and his head bruised considerably. The horse was captured without being In jured, but the sulkey to which it waa attached was smashed. The hills southwest of the city have taken fire within the two days past, anil adds its volume of smoke to ob- scuie the already oppressive atmos phere. Albany Democrat: The new Court House edifice is now nearly finished. The workmen are now engaged in putting up the massive columns in front, and in giving tne iinisnins fn tha whole building. It is without doubt the finest public edifice in Ore gon. The San Francisco Examiner de nounces President Johnson as a mur derer for not pardoning Mrs. Surratt. This Democratic "organ- says mat " she "was guilty at all she was in fluenced by a sense of duty lor wnat she did." This was the view Booth took of the atrocious deed. Almost his last words were: "I thought I did my duty." Kan uvonplseo. Amr. 15. We learn that as soon as the dispatch reached Acapulco giving the news of the de struction of our whalers by the rebel pirate Shenandoah, the commander of the Englien war steamer ut.su.uii, then lying In the harbor, sought an interview with Capt- G. P. Scott, of the U. S. S. Saranac, and informed him that he should set sail immediately with the Devastation in search of the Shen andoah, and should treat the Tebel cruiser as a pirate and capture ner wherever she might be found. He left fort as soon as his ship could be got under way. Property Sold on Contract. TILLAMOOK, Or., Aug. 14. (To the Editor.) If A buys city property from B on the installment plan and has the contract recorded Immediately, will the money be refunded that has been paid in, except the interest, in case A cannot make all the payments? And would there have to be a certain amount paid in before anything would be refunded? A. L. S. Court decisions recognize that the purchaser has an equity in property bought on the installment plan, but it is subject td'the original owner's right to the full amount still due him. In other words, if the contract were fore closed, and the property bid in at a price higher than the sum still due on the contract, the excess would be applied on the purchaser's equity. But there is no fixed "refund"; it is dependent on the salabillty of the property. Record ing of the instrument would not alter the situation. Another Thing We Might Do. PORTLAND, Aug. 15. (To the Edi tor.) In discussing our course toward Germany following a deliberately un friendly act, you mentioned a number of things our Government could do aside from declaring war. Permit me to suggest one other decisive thing we could do: It is to convoy an American merchant ship to a friendly port with one or more or our dreadnoughts. As a precaution against submarines our men-of-war might be accompanied by destroyers or biplanes. Britain might resent this as a challenge to her sovereignty of the seas. But why not? As a world power and sea power why not assert our rights against all enme.rs? G. A. R. Biography of Henry Ford. WALLA WALLA, Wash.. Aug. 15. (To the Editor.) Please inform me at what date and year Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer, was born. D. P. SHEPHERD. Henry Ford was born at Greenfield, Mich., July 30, 1863. He was educated in the district school at Greenfield and learned the machinist's trade in Detroit. He married In 1888, and was chief engi neer of the Edison Illuminating Com pany prior to the organization of the Ford Motor Company, in 1903, of which he Is president. His home is in Dear born, Mich., with his offices In Detroit. Via the "Best Friend" Mr. Manufacturer, if your product could be Introduced to every possible user by a "best friend" your sales would jump, wouldn't they? That is just the sort of Intro duction you do get when you use newspaper advertising. Few men or women have a more intimate or constant friend than their newspaper. It is a day in, day out com panion, they read it and have faith in it. When you advertise In the news paper you reach the people and reach dealers at the same time.