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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1915)
TIIE MOHXIXO OREGOXIAX. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1915. 8 3fje (Dssrnmmn latar. at Swiss. Or..a. l-vanaftle aj BZngm Ri.a-iaru.:r la tHT. Staa.tar aa. ' - ijii !:. .!. . "v-tfc -; s.:i.-a.. au -' !.,. oi "' " " M i 1 , . 1 ' ..... .Ju. OM , l . IT. a ?sar ......---""' ih4a, n lr ii.,i4i-:i."i' ,p, l.rr.r l I ai:r. '.. a, rt "? "t,; .t -7r j.sr..i ... - .. ..aa.r . riaa. .1 trt-tr-. l- tu.:. lo . ...it. eoaaij a s;a.a. - . l ta l ra'- I La-. oTWv v.rr. Coah-if..'.-. n(.tu u. J. ii -"- i r - atr.l- roiTUMh antPtY. Atn. ' r rr AuikMt or ntoorrKitv. Business prosperity la at almost full tld In the East. here manufactur ing and mining predomlrratc; alio In the Middle West, where agriculture is the chief Industry; also In the Kovky Moartala and Intcrmountaln state, where attention Is divided among; mining, airrlculture and live tock. On the racirie Coast esrUultur. dairy ing and horticulture thrive, but lum ber, the premier Industry of thta aec tlon. har.g back. W ht prospect U there that the activity prevalent in a:l other Industrie Kill extend to lum ber, and how aoon will It be realised? Manufacturing activity la largely due to the abnormal cVmand for war material, which may b cut off by peace. Wall street estimate con tracta place.1 by the belllirerenta lh year at t l.StO. .0. but the total may be only hair that amount, and pavmcnu are to be apread over three )eara. Should peace come before the end f IIS. aome of three contract wouM be canceted by aasent with rompenaatton on an acreed ecale. but reot of the contract are not to be canceled, the altlea Intending to keep e, good aupply on hand hereafter, and delivery mill only be d'tayed. One :lm.f la that fmm ). 00.0 to 1 10. . will be pold In thla coun try f r munition during the next a'.x Biontha. fneertairty t ho lur.k the munition bulr.e ltl continue ha prompted caution on the part of mer chant and manufacturer mho. ac cording la a iot.n letter to the New Tork Kvenlng Pnet. "are Intent on dolrg no nvr than meet tie-i of customer." The ame writer , -In the matter of ordinary evpetidl turt the greatet economy prevail; In the matter of extraordinary expendi tures economy ha apparently gone to the wind." and he draw Ihl gratify ing conclusion: CraunIM wMltl H t--o4 ntmoi'i f m "r l.ai 10 t.itnn prmmmnt -.om tre re m t e a.; erodwn fte a ' l.nM t cava ah.y jpr- But the properlty of frmln atatra has at leant an eiual hare with war order In making the manufacturer prosperous, and their ?roperity I of mere stable, permanent Kind than that prod'ired by war. It haa been enhanced by war price, but that la all the effect the war has produced. The Wt t harvesting the accord con secutive banner crop of m heat and oat, mhlle corn promise the second largret crop on record. A lndon authority estimate a laro morld stir plua over rcUtrement. fT the whole world took to when rrowtng after last year' b"m, but niu h of this aurrtua will bo In Hiu and cannot enter the world m.irkct unlc the trdanetlea are opette.!. ThouKh the tvrmem are nt likely to receive as high price for wheat as they realized last year, the price will urcly Jleld a g.wl pr.rflt. and corn. o.-j and live it.x k mill smell the total. Weetern merchant-, therefore, are uvtnr Itb-raily. In anticipation of free buMn by their customers, and some from Kansas City are going di rect t. New York for the latest stylos. Kansas "lty tells the Kvcnlng Pest: With t'rh bUl"C rotltnrnry It - mr: a u" t "'i" eon- 4it 'I'is. sn.l t?l- wr.-hnls sr.- 'n tt t. th itiitj or iic trc-!r iras tfe ,n-f la ! -n a l ot... I'll !' I'""" -nifisung M- r hill ar tti'T r- rrtu.pun n a .. a e""e u libsri qMBUl) an I ' l'iJ ril. From Abilene. Kansas, cornea Ihl report: T'adMmig re e-ontlne ssr.jletr ee . . . i. ia m M e o .ra- . , A p.aja la tae i.trss m( NsKra'ka -! Ka. Cht.agj tells the effect of this soirit. .ilrg: Ail In s.t. t- !"!-f CT-S rr.pt k" bunt-wi tirrl'S, T3 W-l AH tbiftAI 'f .sin. r'&r, Sr4 ta f feotn--. Is rin Macula. I urs . s R3 m-r. BkH.,l eil sr. i.W f'--r l I e tr rn.-r. U.i'i 'rt . th-jr oUP'lt :: Ctl Wsrs a?Vl"l I ii. ir-ro Is a i'ra ,!pill.. w-n... nt.r.si to to aaoaa and d- t.n.. This condition la the East and Ki Idle West la reflected In Ih busl sa cf the. railroads, the Post say ing: Tre are t" 1 l'"'! '" ,ft ta-1 - fat I.t,l bof.'ro in sory af o ral .oo.l. h 0 ut.owa .'-e lhal Induetrj a.. a mor pruui'Sin The "Ume ducks" ha been ptared tn receivers' hacis; Investigation or tfartd by Congress have been com pleted; there Is a better understanding betacen the ra;:ro! and the public than ever before; rate have been Ins-T'osed; the turning point for the brt r lo both gross and net earnings ma reach"! In Way: bostr.es ronrtr-tlor-s sre rapidly Improving: finally, the crop outlook promises th great est harvests in th history of th country. The brighter outlook fcr th ra'.l n4s ha combined mlth war orders to cau-s great activity In th steel In dustry, the mllla running to full ca-j,a.-t:y"oo order from both quarters. Comtrg westward t the Hoeky Mountain, th war haa caused an un precedented demand at high prices for copper, lead and alnc. Low grade .era carrying ths metal tn com bination with tha precious metals are pat on a patr.g basi by prevailing (rtces. The mtclr.g Industry Is thus extremely actlv and highly prosper ous. Th intermouniam country and th agricultural sections ef the Pa etric Coast enjoy th same happy con tilt Ion aa th Mlddl West. It de not seem possible that the favorable conditions prevailing in all ether hcU"M of the country nd in H ether Industrie of thla ectoB can lorg fall to pr.1 to th lumber tn dostry. Foreign market ar hungry for our lumber, but -rct:y of Tesse: aj high freights limit sale. Th prosperity prevailing In all other part of th ttitcd States, homever. should construction, ror which they would J a...! im-ruxwl auantitle of lumber. I On straw pointing this war la th I :.umi-nl from Roston mat mrui rren are -unusually busy." A rall roeda have r'autnrd buying their pur chiwt should Include lumber aa well aa atee-l. Eoth the railroad and coast wise trader should won begin to mow Improvement. The chief question are. How long will thto Improvement b. 'delayed and how fast 111 It pro C res? BI.INO. The OrrgonUn haa received from a cltiien mho subscribe himself "A Democrat" a letter which bears In trinsic evidences of genuineness, and mhlch seem to deserve a place on this pnge as a contributed editorial: Slierrton. vr . Ana. II Te the Editor.! 1 iir s r mskln a rmi fcl Hjt The utcsiii sni4fie lo p.unBe ihs c -untrr into r. I d..n Ilia Ibl vie" of ta stand The ur.iw.an at all. d n' I bs.l- Tfi r..r.lB stnia r an .rs ibao snbof i:fter sat roaoro;, ps. ar.J I Host MMi il f..r that. IC r " to l.o J"-l't-h nl liarr to run orr Ms. snd a Utl.e rsiioe l;k Mrslo to shske hr fist In our r.. s 6a osttsr rsis. the "hue flaa id be done ith It. The more cry for ln in sons lr l.4 t'ir tnimhs m .v-r our hssas. t "oo!d rothr die on lh n;s-IlM thsa to Ue la a '";" ' tr. A DtalJ-KAT. It might be tolerable to live in a cowardly country tinder a whit flag if the aggressive and belllecrent na tions of the world would let us alone. Hut alas! they would not. any more than they have kept their hand off China. It is conceivable, and Indeed It may to many thoughtful mind appear pro tab I o, that a great military power will some day arise In Rurope and proclaim Its dominance of the world over the prostrate bodies of Its enemies. If It should happen that the United State should have been llsclf t odds mlth the conquering nation, and if it should happen also that It had been running Its fnctorlea day and night to furnish munitions and other supplies to the defeated nations, what then? Is It. or is It not. within the range of possibility that, after the trl tt .phant nation shall have exacted em rmoua Indemnities from Its foe the Drice of their defeat, it may turn II attention to the Vnlted Plates and demand a money tribute from this eountrv? It might declare that by our practice of selling munition and food and various contraband articles lo It enemies we had greatly pro longed the war and Involved the victor In Isrre additional expense, hi uo- Ject In much grievous suffering and his oldtcr In needless losses. of life. The man mho thinks that we can summon the spirit of peace from the (i.iv deeo be the wave or an un armed han.l. and who that there are no tragic and overwhelming pos sibilities for us In this war. I blind. fntiXKM rAKCMT. It is an affecting and terrible story which come from a remote part of Idaho. John Tooth and his wife lived on a farm tniriy-nve muea souineri of Twin Kails. They had four chil dren ranging from two to eight years, and there mas a little visitor from a neighboring home, an eight-year-old girl by name Harrison. The Tooths, father and mother, had arranged to go to a party the other night, and they locked the children in the house as a part of their prep aration. Whether the unwise parents sought to keep the little ones from running awsy. or to shut out chance intruders, or both. l not clear. Hut whatever the reason. It mas a aenscless and Inexcusable act. While the father and mother were gone the house caught fire, perhaps from an oil lamp, or perhaps from a defective chimney, and wu de stroyed. TTie terrified children ouht to eacape. but they could not. The house mas a trap, and they mere burned to death. Without considering the moral right of parents to leave young chll drra alone anymhere. or for any rea son, for a protracted period, it In obvious that It is criminal stupidity to pen them In a hous? without a chance to Ret out In case of accident. These Idaho parents had confidence enough In a small daughter to put the younger children In her charge, and It would seem that she sought heroically to meet her responsibility, for the smallest child was found dead In her arm. If It was safe to trust her with the care of her little brother and sisters. It was safe to let her have the house key. The lessons of such a dreadful tragedy are so obvious that It is strange they are not universally heeded. Tct the world"s quota of foolish and Jieedles parents seems never to diminish. rKW.WATlSM A Nil t;RAwlAlt. A correspondent of the gentler sex. who write from t.rvlll. Is dls majed that The Orcgonlan should "defend th man who believe In a progressive, or at least a liberal In terpretation or grammatical ruies. She I horrified at the vision of what would happen "supposing eacn 01 ui should give a liberal drop from con ..miibi v t-it 1 1 h " -Where." she ex claim, "would our pur language be In a few years. in oregonian is not by any means so tolerant of linguistic laxity a this correspondent Imagines. Wo believe in Interpreting th rules) of language a all the great writer of English have done. Gram mar ma made for these authors, not they for grammar. In fact its rule ara deduced from their usage and from bo other source. What they do It is correct for other to do. and . k t . ratee end. In HO field of human affair doe Ignorance disport Itself gt!y and confidently as in that of grammar. In no other field la ther o much half tight that take Itself for the full radiance of th sun. Iormatti are more groasly dogmatic about grammar than even about theology, which I laying a great det. The correspondent of whom we are speaking exercised about the "his torical present." ?he 1 down the poaitlve rule that "it I not gram matical to s-iy I c by the paper unless the paper In question Is tight at hand, because th word 'ee- 1 In lb present tense." Although thl correspondent ha been a teacher, by her ow n account, she doe not eem to know that It I perfectly grammatical la English, and every other language for that ma'.ter. to use the present tense for th past. Goold Brown, for Instance, remarks In hi famous "Grammar of Grammars" that "In ani mated narrative the preaent tens 1 often substituted for th past by the f'.rure ensilage." and h add that In ! such ciisos past tenses and present may occur together. Now the only authority that Brown has for this . . v m ii-ee. He has found that our writers use the h'stortcal present . . i. .. -v and he therefore Justly Our correspondent finds the usage Il logical. If ret positively Olsnoneat. v that does not matter. In question 01 language usare triumph over logic every time they clash. W hile we cannot help admiring, the self-confidence of the one brave schoolma'ara who sets up her authority agnlnst that of every great writer of English. Including the translator of the Bible, still we must beg leave to decide, with regret, that she 1 wrong. Her notion of "correct English" sadly need revision before she is entitled to erect them into a standard for the world to follow. There is another point in English usage that often bewilder half-educated people. It is the trick we have of expressing future time by the pres ent tense. Many determined logi cian cannot satisfy themselves that it Is correct to say -If John goe to town tomorrow he will be shot." It Is the usage of Milton, Shakespeare. Chaucer and the Bible, but that doe not convince them that It Is proper. So they have ct about reforming the language. Some of them say, "If John shall go to town tomorrow he will be shot." Other plunge still deeper into absurdity by saying. "If John will go to town tomorrow he will be shot." But they are all In the wrong. The only correct expression Is. "If John goe to town tomorrow." The English lang-uBs. expresses future time not only by the verb form but by con junction and adverbs, and no writer is thoroughly educated until he o understands. The Chicago newspaper railed The Public Is a hideous sin ner In this regard. Its editorials sel dom express the conditional future correctly, but almost Invariably intro duce a Bolestlcal will or shall. Our Cot-valll friend will perhaps gather from these observations that we are as solicitous as she can possibly be for the welfare of the English language, but we must beg to be excused from accepting her misinformation, or that of anybody else, as the standard of usage. KKW YORK FARMS. New Tork produces more apple than any other state In the Union. In cidentally the state that comes next is not Oregon, but Missouri. New York ha o many farm and farmers that a comparatively small product from each one of them makes a huge total. It stands at or near tne neaa In many other lines of agriculture, having, for 'example, the largest hay crop in the country and nevt to the largest pear crop. In New xorg rruu- groming la merely an Incident In di versified farming. The producer would never think of depending upon apples alone for his livelihood, but puts hla agricultural eggs In many different baskets. He has a dairy, keep a flock of sheep, raises a few acres of wheat, and. of course, keeps as rt.any swine as possible. A letter received lately from a woman farmer In New York speaks of a doxen different sources 01 in come, so that she Is largely Independ ent of market fluctuations. In the course of time we shot.Id not be surprised to see fruit and nuts count ing as two among many equally im portant products of Oregon farms. TUB POiTll-8 opinion or COTTOS. Tn nf tha allied declaration that cotton Is contraband, figure Just Issued by the Iepartment of Com merce on imports and exports ot mat staple for the years ending July 31. 191 and 1I5. are instructive. ioii exports for 191 S were 8.54 3.573 bales csalnst .150.S01 balea in 114. but there has been a large Increase In recent month,, the figures for July. 1915, being Z4J.O-.S oaies ubuiiidi 126. 211 for July, 1914. In distribution of American exports nmong our custom ers shows the effect of the war. To Great Britain the total for the year Increased from S.45.5 to v... i.. .. u-hMa tn riormanv there was a decrease from I.7S5.963 to 242.661 bales and to France a decrease irom imiS'7 to 6S2.630 bales. To Italy there was an Increase from 5 15.180 to 1.109.541. and to all other countries u InrmuM from 1.307.2S6 to 2.737.- 091 bales. As Italy was neutral until nearly the end of May there la gooa i-Anion to believe that a largo part of shipments to that country were destined for Germany and Austria, and that Is certainly the reason why exports to other countries more than doubled. The increase in exports to Italy was even more marKea in jui, when trade with the central empire was shut off, namely from 22,758 to 51.969 bales. France showed a ten fold increase in that month, from 2.522 to 27.209 bales; Great Britain an increase from 43.777 to 58,944 k.t ana. all other tountries an in crease from 15.863 to 104.400 bales. but Germany which Imported ii.zsi bales In July, 114, imported none last July. All-of the Increase imported by the neutral could not have been applied t luni-otul uses. Much, if not all. of It must have been used in the manufacture of explosives, of which cotton is an essential Ingredient. That fact also explains tne increased im nnr. r tha allies. As the new muni tion factories of Britain and Russia get Into full operation the consump tlon by those countries promises to in Britain is said to have hesitated to .uur entton contraband lest the Southern state should be angered by h.irr rienrived of their German and Austrian market. It is estimated that since the war began those countries have received 2.000.000 bales of imriinn cotton, chief tv through neu tral countries and some direct from England. Britain Is said to. have feared that the United States would retaliate for a cotton embargo mlth an embargo on exports of food and mr munition to the allies. Tet Brit ish newspapers have Insisted on the vital necessity of stopping the Teu tons supply of cotton In order to shorten the war. Germany is said to have now a reserve of 1.000.000 bales, but In the shape of explosives she Is shooting It away at the rate of 800 to 1000 tons a day. At the former rate they could not continue fighting beyond the first week In February: at the latter rate not beyond January 1. In order to stop the supply It Is proposed to allow no more cotton to enter neutral countries adjoining Ger many than would supply their normal need. A thl would amount to only 200.000 bales. It would only supply the Teuton with explosive until the end of March at th latest, if the neutral old all of it to Germany. The plan t that the British govern ment mollify the Southern state by buying at 10 cents a pound the sur plus cotton not needed by the Ameri can mill or for the allies' and neu trals' home consumption, storing It and agreeing not t sell It until after the mar. This, it Is estimated, wouid coat about $1S0. 000.000. but If it J shortened tn war oniy ten aay am ain would have saved that amount and would recover at least part of tne investment on selling me reuo. rrtit the Sooth seems bv no means alarmed at the prospect of absolute stoppage of cotton exports to the central empires. They calculate that, even cutting out the Teuton empire's market, there will not be much, if nr aitrnina tn he stored. The present 'surplus was caused by the phenome-1 naj j,uvv,uuu-Daie crop oi un by the demoralization immediately following the outbreak of war. This year' crop was estimated at 12.000. 000 bales on the basis of the Govem- mant rennet nf AnetlHt 1. and has since deteriorated. That is about the amount of Britain s normal consump tion, much of which, of coarse, comes from nthar rnnnfriM. Britain con sumed In the year ending August 31, 1912. 13,957.000 Bales. uompareu with British production of cotton piece goods, American production Is trifling, the figures for 1912 being 7,000.000.000 yards against 400,000 000 yards. After allowance is made for the depression In Britain's export trade on the one hand and for the increased consumption In explosives and for cargoes sunk by German submarines on the other hand, Britain and her allies may consume nearly the entire American surplus and leave little for their governments to buy. Then why worry, argues the practical Southerner. The Southerner has another reason for his equanimity. The five great allied powers have 79.526,000 spin dles, of which 56,000.000 are British, against 16,300,000 in Ger many and Austria, and none in Turkey. It follows that the cotton growers consider themselves fortu nate, since they must lose some of their customers, that they should keep those who use five times as much cot ton normally as those they lose. They do not question that-Hf Germany and Austria controlled the sea, those powers would absolutely stop the al lies' supply of cotton. Then why ob ject, say they, when the allies do precisely the same thing, are their best customers and will probably buy all they have to sell? The cotton growers are not troubling their heads about the question whether Inter national law permits cotton to be declared absolute contraband. They take a business view of the situation and are not agitated about Britain's qptton embargo. The Walnut Growers' Organizing Committee which meets at the Im perial Hotel next Saturday afternoon will no doubt lay the foundations of prosperity for a great Oregon industry. Experiments have provea mat una region is admirably adapted to wal nuts. Thriving groves are in bearing at several points and many trees will be planted next Winter. It la well for the growers to protect tneir inter ests by a timely organization. hha rnnsnlrarv of the politicians against Warden Osborne of Sing Sing prison has failed for the present, but, of course. It will be renewed. He is a man of ideas who believes in treat ing the stnte's wards like human be ings. He had stopped tne arug irai flc within the prison and cut off a score of petty grafts. For reasons of this sort the politicians nave iouna expedient to get rid of him a soon as possible. Oreeonlans smile complacently to read the complaints in the Eastern papers of a great mosquito plague this Summer. Scarcely one of the little nests has been heard or felt out here. Among our many oiessings wnicn excite the hopeless envy of visitors immunity from mosquitos is one of the choicest. It may be only tempo rary, but while It lasts It Is glorious. Th nrlsnn shlD has gone, and many who visited It are thankful they did not live In England when the vessel in enmmission. Thev overlook the fact that If they had lived there they would not have been Americans in full possession .of liberty, freedom of speech and a lot of other things that go with present-day lite. T?nnrta of work In Belgium that in dicate Germany intends to hold the be believed in view of Great Britain's inability to dislodge her. Retention or .Belgium win cer tainly be one of the Items in the peace terms, if ever mere oe peace. n.u .it.niinn of Colonel Hofer is Alio .i.vl i.i.w.- - . called to this prolonged dry spell. Is the big meaicme man smu ui noms his state, and nas ne Become o to a dry Oregon that his rainmaking power has been cast into ine uku u ; A Democratic Administration can not help favoring the South, which is Ita stronghold. So McAdoo's plan for relief of "the cottongrowers is nrnner as a National measure with party bias. to nan la not slow to avail herself of the gift the United States -made her bv passing tne seamen s mw. aiie un n t hoetiora will build more liners and take possession of the Pacific Ocean. . -Rendine- between the lines of the order to place all rolling stock of Roumanian railways at the disposal of th. minister of war. one can see that Germany will receive the 1915 crop of grain. Interning German civilians in Can ada is something that may work to disadvantage of CanaSian troops that happen to be taken alive. The desire of "getting even" is mnerent. The foreign adviser to the King of Siam has quit the Job, but iorniorooK dragon ta over there at John Barett's old rolltop desk and the king cannot suffer r:armon snolosies for attacks on British vessels In neutral waters are jokes. The Teuton gets tne truisner. and that Is the main tning. Where are the big flocks of turkeys that should be getting plump on grasshoppers in the Eastern Oregon fields? One need not be surprised to see hopplckers going to the yards in auto mobiles this year. Japan will give Russia all the aid she needs and take a first mortgage on something. Rain is due and is coming soon, for the hops are nearly ripe. Fowls are livestock and ahould not run at large In the city. Time to begin mobilization for the Astorl Regatta, European War Primer Br Kattomal Ceasjrapaleal Soeter. CHARLEROI is among the highly im portant forge-and-foundry cities which have been brought behind the invading German lines. Charlerol, captured by the Germans at the outbreak of the war. was the center of the Belgian iron industry. Situated In the midst of a district rich n coal and Iron, where there was an abundance of cheap, thrifty, industrious Ubor. the little city made its products known throua-hout Europe. &ouiu America and the Near East. More than 400,000 people found support in a sur rounding area of 190 square miles. while 40.000 men were employea in tne factories and foundries of Charlerol. Aralnst its broken skyline the smoke ot its furnace fires ascended day and night and, close behind one another, freight trains sped over the thick net work of railroad in the hill country with an unending stream of metal ma terial and manufactured ware. The highly developed railway net was, how ever, insufficient for the transport oi the district's goods, much of whlcn found Its markets over the canals from Charlerol to Brussels and to Mons, thence through the main arteries of the Scheldt basin to the port of Antwerp and to Northern France. The coal mines around the city were operated at depths of 5000 feet and more. The coal belt reaches in a long, narrow band, northeast-southwest, from Northern Belgium into France. The basis of the industry of the Char- erol district were its smelter ana iron- working factories. Here, within two miles of the city, the iron works of Coulllet turned out one-third of all the cast iron produced in Belgium. Large nail factories. glasS work both for blown and plate glass, and a num ber of lesser industries throve. There was a large increase of immigration from Northern France Into the region, and the famous forest of Caesar's time was fast shrinking to a mere classical memory. Charlerol was founded in 1000, una named after the willful sovereign, Charles II of Spain, by its Spanish Governor. Roderigo. It lies upon me Sambre, and, its communications wim France and with the commercial cen ters of its own country are excellent By the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle It became French, and was fortified by the renowned Vauban. The little city twice withstood the might of William of Orange. There is a strong rrencn element m the city's character. Many Frencnmen were In its mills and factories, and French peasant families grew much of the Charlerol produce in the compara tively thin soils of the region. In 1794 it fell again into the hands of the French, later to become uuicn. nnu flnallv Belgian. Wellington, the Desi- remembered war lord among the Bel gians, directed the refortiiicauon oi the city in 1816. The Germans found the city's defenses negligible when they swept over the place in August. 1914. ALTRUISM LOST IS EDICATIOX Present-DST System Falls In vnai Pblat, Say Crv;sondent. LENTS. Or.. Aug. 23. (To the Ed itor.) Soon another school year will have begun. Soon many thousands. yea, millions oi Amencin jruum " Portland, the state, the Nation, win take up their books and other educa tional paraphernalia and betake them selves to the countless thousands of primary, secondary and tertiary schools of the country. Some 600.000 instruc tors will be ready to receive and di rect more than 20,000.000 children. young men ana young women. i total cost tor teacners. jaimoio, wwao. clothing and miscellaneous supplies will exceed the billion mars., a ar gentic investment tnis, ana mere- turn snouia oe enormous. While almost every siaie cmnus superior educational system, mi " content ourselves in the belief that the Portland, the Oregon schools rank hisa, sufficiently nign. as raum, theoretical instruction goes. It is not the purpose oi tnis rutin to nnestion or criticise tne i-oriian-u or any other school system, but, rather, to point out a lack, a shortcoming which. In tne opinion ui ." might be added suppnea. me i.i- books, so iar as iney go iuu thinking educators well taow that n far enough, too far), are right and proper, but tnere seems to be one particular phase oi numau uuuu want ing that has Deen saaiy, umciiii' r..cri..-teri- a study, acquisition, accom- plishment that snouia uc i! - . . i i ...... V. ,Via hii.l throneh his nome llie; in ins pupli through his scnooi me ana iu youth, through his college life; and. this, broadly speaking, is altruism -a love for others as well as ior hioiku, practically acquirea anu Mwl'u ..i.h.j man v. womanly uaeiuineso hi-h .-m extend not only for and to ward his or her chums ana imui"" friends, but one that will emorace a.iu envelop all humanity and the lower )...!., n the flowers and woods and all that is beauuiui auu goon. my boy. my girl this inexpensive, this exalted accomplishment, auu away the rest. The so-called educated, book crammed, text-graded young man or young woman who has not learned the reverence, tne swu, i.... altruism, has not yet begun his or her educational career regardless oi me grade of the institution vuua v..... may have been "finished.' Altruism, genuine altruism, would supplant irreverence with reverence, hate with love, wrong with right, and war with peace. Altruism, learned, .".j nracticallv applied, would dethrone the dollar and enthrone the man When genuine altruism snail nave attained its true place in the mind of mortal man, our reformatories. Jails and penal institutions may be con verted Into nans ot Love is the most harmless, the most potent and helpful factor in human affairs. It is as capable f dispelling malice, greed, envy revenge and sin as the August sun is able, to melt the hanging icicle-. ' Our public school system Is too magnitudinous. too expensive, too op portune not to be utilized fully for the greatest good, benefit, possible to the present and future generations. When I speak pleasantly to a school boy and receive a scurrilous answer. If any answer at all. I led to be lieve that A greater discrepancy, rle- nqoenry. exists in that boy s train ng than many parents and teachers JL,.i ra to admit. Mentally, I tell myself that manners, morals altruism ' rarcllesslv sacrificed to grammar, .arithmetic and history. Now. f k the reader, which is of greater L"f.r . himself and to humanity, the uneducated text-book) gentleman or the educaiea t !.;....-". rogue? c LOUIS BARZEE. tint BE OLD AT B0 Why should yon worry because of your Or why' grow old at fifty? If you live a you should, while on life a stage Ton would remain quite thrifty. But if you grieve and complain, every time it may rain ,rmirh when the wind Is shifty Tou will br.ng on yourself both trouble and pain Knd sure become old at fifty. " F. M. Dillon. 1138 Minnesota avenue. The Oaly War He Cowld. Rocky Mountain News. Howler I made qnite an impression with my voice last night. Hinkey What did you do? Sing into a phonograph eomewherel Aa Old-Time Frlemd at Port I ara d Man Write Tribute ra Htm. Alfred Holman In Sab Francisco Argonaut. A few rears ago Simon Benson was a hard-working and only an intermit tently prosperous "logger" of Colum bia County, Oregon. The editor-of the Argonaut well remembers the time when there was a modest limit to Mr. Benson's credit in the one general merchandise store in the village Of St. Helen's. Benson was a man of moral hardihood, and he had a good headpiece. He saw what others did not see, that there was coming a day. not very re mote, when "timber land" would have high commercial value. Whenever he got $500 beyond his immediate necessi ties he bought standing timber. Today Simon Benson is many time a millionaire a magnate, if you please, and one of magnitude. Now when the ordinary man of . plain history and simple habits finds himself possessed of millions he turns tail upon all his tradi tions, and in the process he usually loses balance and stability of character. Not so with Simon Benson. He did not buy a yacht or a private car. nor set up a stable of race horses, nor betaken hirhself t6 champagne and high society. He was just the same Simon Benson that he was before, with the same sense of the realities of life, with the same spirit ot responsibility, the same simplicity of personal habit. He did not set up as a superfine gentleman or pose as a patron of art or a devotee of sports. He looked about with an in telligent eye. and under the inspirations of a sound-hearted human sympathy for ways in which the millions at his disposal might b employed to better the conditions about him. He gave to Portland a fine hostelry. He set up all over Portland drinking fountains. A lover of beauty in its best sense, he sought to open up the beauty spots of Oregon and make them available; and to that end he gave his judgment and his genius for administration, with goodly sums of ready money, to the opening up Of road. Now, still In the vigor of life, Mr. Benson is not so much a patron as a co-operator in every good enterprise in Oregon. Really Mr. Benson seems to be neglecting his opportunities. Here he is. active in wholesome works, ap parently content in habitual simplicity of life, when he might be climbing his way into society, buying a seat in the United States Senate, demoralizing councils and legislatures by briberies and cajoleries, and training his children in license, idleness, arrogance and so cial insolence. PHOXE INTERCHANGE HELD EVIL Public Service League Answered a to Physical Connection Proposal. PORTLAND, Augg. 23. (T the Edi tor.) Ih reply to a letter and card recently issued by the Public Service League, suggesting interchange of telephone service as between the two telephone systems, I wish to publish, in the interest of citizens of Portland, the following information: Interchange of service, by physical connection of the telephone systems, will not close an office or reduce the investment of either telephone com pany, but will increase the investment in amount necessary to make physical connection between the two systems and add to the cost of operation and maintenance. Moreover, the additional connection will injure the service of each system. Calculating that the total amount being paid by the citizens of Portland to the two companies for local service at the present time, is the exact amount necessary to pay a fair net interest on the valuation of both systems in addi tion to cost of operation and mainte nance; that by interchange of service patrons will discontinue the use of the telephone of one or the other system at every place where both are in serv ice, and thereby lessen the number of rental paying stations, it will be neces sary to make a general increase of charge for service on the telephones re maining in service in order to continue payment of the same fair net interest on the same unchanged or Increased valuation of the two systems. In other words, the few patrons of both systems will realize a reduction of rate for 'complete service and the many patrons of one system will realize an increase of charge for complete service apply ing the law prohibiting discrimination. I oppose interchange of service by physical connection or any other plan or scheme that will serve as a protec tion to a telephone corporation against loss at the expense of the present and future citizens of this city. As a result of a recent investigation of telephone charges and service, along the Coast from Canada to Mexico, I find that where one company (Independent or Bell) has the united support of all telephone users the service is much better and charge for same much lower than where opposition or so-called "competition" is permitted. Any law providing for interconnec tion or interchange of telephone serv ice by physical connection between two systems, representing duplicated in vestments, is unfair to the telephone company owning the more extensive system and permanently detrimental to the public. ED WORD. P. O. Box 2104. City. Forelno; Chattel Mortgage. PORTLAND, Or.. Aug. 16. (To t Editor.) What can be done on a chat tel mortgage given on my furniture tr.-o years ago? I wish to move to another state and cannot move it with out consent from the party holding the mortgage. Can he be forced to fore close? Also, what can be done on the promissory note given with the same mortgage? I hive nothing and cannot pay the amot X. Kindly advise me. Is there an attorney In the city who would give me other advice free? 1 am unable to pay for such advice. SUBSCRIBER Unless you can pay the note or ob tain the consent of the mortgagor, you cannot move your furniture. If you do, you will lay yourself .liable to a criminal charge. The mortgagor cancer be forced to foreclose, but if he does not do eo within six years from the date the note was given. It will be "oat lawed" and cannot be collected. Try to get the consent of the mortgagor to move your furniture. Almost any reputable attorney will give you legal advice free, at least tem porarily, if you are in straitened cir cumstances. a ( Improvement of Laurelharst, PORTLAND. Aug. 23 (To the Edi itor.) Kindly inform me whether the public improvements in Laurelhurst, cons isting of grading, paving, side- u-aiks. curbing, water and sewer, for which the poular security, known as "Portland improvement bonds" have been issued, which constitute liens on the Dronerty, were paid tor to tne con tractors in lots in said tract And if they were so paid for, as I have been informed the grading at least was so paid for, let the interested public knpw how it was aone. j. n. As far as the records in the office of Commissioner of- Public Works show all Laurelhurst was improved under dtv contracts and payment made in regular way by warrants, cost assessed aeainst property-owner. Ihe city not aware of any deals of the kind the correspondent suggests. A Pirate's Brutal Remark. New York Sun. rnntain Kidd buried his treasure. If I were Mis. Kidd I would hide it in the toD bureau drawer." ha as serted. Twenty-five Year Ago From The Oregonlsn of August 15, ltWO. Milton Pa.. Aug. 24. The tempera ture, that was in the 80's Friday after noon, changed shortly after midnight and by 3 o'clock Saturday morning there was a quarter of an inch of snow on the awnings of the stores In the business portion of the town. The handsome engine house on Fourth street, between Yamhill and Morrison, will be ready for occupation In about a week. The hook and lad der boys are not sorry that their new quarters are ready, for the old tent they have been in all Summer iS getting leaky and they have had a picnic long enough. No. 1- engine, the hook and ladders and supply vasron will all be in the new buildins. which has three entrances. Deputy Sheriff Horner made his first arrest at the ball grounds yesterday. The prisoners, were two boys, who stole a ball apiece. The miscreants took flight the moment Mr. Horner put his eye on them, but he gave chase and finally overtook them at the oil ware house. They were promptly put In the County Jail, where they will have the opportunity to meditate upon the error of their ways and furnish an example for their fellows to profit by. The noble courtesy and winsome soft ness of our doorplates commend them to the palace and cottage alike. 192 Fourth street. Waitsburg Times Oregon folks what few there are in that old fogey mossback state, grow hotter and hotter over the census returns. Poor Oregon, she is too close to Washington to ever amount to much. In fact, a resident of the great and prosperous State of Washington never says "Mister" when speaking to or of an Oregonian. We can't afford to waste so much breath on the inhabitants of an inferior state. Half a Century Ago From The OOregonian of August 25, 1S65. The Quebec's Canadian correspondent says the Canadian debt exceeds $75. 000.000. Political affairs are repre sented to be in a very critical condition. D. Freedman was arrested yesterday on a charge of riding a mhle in tho street at greater speed than six miles per hour. Richard Thompson was also arrested for being arunK ana lyins Be tween buildings on Front street. The frame Is up and will be In closed in a few days for the new schoolhouse In the Third Ward. It will be a fine structure, quite creditaDio to that section of the city. A force of workmen is engaged upon it sufficient to have the building ready for use in side of two months. We learn that Colonel Curry has or dered Captain Lafollett's company to the mouth of the Crooked River. They will proceed over the new road from Lebanon via the Three Sisters. An occasional jorresnondent of the New York Times writes from London as follows: "It will be a satisfaction to all true friends of honest dealing to know that, in a business point of view the London Times has felt the folly of its rjosition on the American question. and the current rumor on the streets is that the "American correspondent, who has done more than any living writer to embitter the relations or tne two nations, and to spread false views of our affairs, is to be recalled. New York. Aug. 16. A special dis patch to the Commercial from Leaven worth. Kan., says that the Pacific rail road bridge over the Kansas River, to gether with the bridge over the Stran ger River, were carried away by a rise In the streams. LIBERAL GRAMMAR IS OPPOSED Corvallls Woman Denies Propriety of the "Historical Present." CORVALLIS, Or, Aug. 23. (To the Editor.) In your editorial, More A" iut Language," which was printed August 21, you seem to defend the man who believes in a progressive, or at least a liberal, interpretation of grammatical rules. Supposing each one of us should give a liberal drop from conventional English; then from that another and another, where would our pure language be in a few years, and how long would it be before each community would be spealung a nngo of its own? Although Mr. Dunne, tne autnor ot the Dooley dialogues, is an educated ' man. it is not likely that even he ever meant the Irish dialect in them to be criterion. It is really too Daa ior the gentleman who, in the rasnness of youth, married a school ma am; j-ei we feel that the present generation of children might be speaking less of the Hooligan it a lew more men. in their choice of mothers, had-also been rash. One should be a protessor at any trade or else not follow it ana an honor to the ex-teacher who still gently corrects one who liberally de viates from the rules of correct Eng lish, even though that one happens to be the liege lord of ner nousenoiu. It is not grammatical to say "I see by th nawr. unless tne paper m question is right at hand, because tne word "see" is in the. present tense. Grammatical errors should not be tolerated any more than those of math ematics. What do you suppose would happen if "Reader's" wife should make a progressive, or at least liberal, in terpretation of the rules of addition while handling the family exchequer? WIDOW-FARMER. Tiny Feet Fad Passing. Little feet are no longer the fashion in the aristorcratic circles of China; and it has come to pass that the Chi nese ladies, on the rebound from an cient customs, are proud in proportion to the largeness of their shoes. So savs Gardner U Harding, author of "Present-Day China." which the Cen tury Company will publish early in the Autumn. The woman suffragist hi abroad in China, Mr. Gardner goes on, and there are vast cotton mills that run night and day, child labor, soldiers in the most modern khaki suits, and oil fields covered with countless der- . .- . ...... u.l V... tip Hnrrf- ricks. xne Lnina icricu j ..... ing who returned irom mot cumm? early this year, is said to be not at all the China that is in the minds of most -Americans. Can-nine Corn. CORVALLIS. Or., Aug. 23. (To the Editor ) In answer to "Subscribers request for canning corn, will say that my recipe for canning vegetables, printed in The Oregonian. mentioned and included corn, which can be suc cessfully canned by exactly the same process as that given for peas p WIDOW-FARMER. "Register a Motion," Mr. Storekeeper The moving pictures have a phrase, "register a motion." It means the show action that the camera can catch. It is a good phrase for enterpris ing retailers to remember. Just think about it when you see some standard goods advertised in this newspaper. "Register a motion of getting them into the public eye, so passers by will link your s ore up with the newspaper announcement Registering these kinds of mo tions will make interesting motions on your cash register. j decide that U I correct to do ao. Uapl t Popi oniieri w f A