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6 THE UTORXIXO OREGOMAN. SATtrRDAT, SEPTE3IBER 11, 1915. PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at I'ortiand, Oregon, Postofflce a second-class matter. Subscription Rates Invariably In advance. (.By Mail.) Daily, Sunday Included. OD, year. . . . . .8."0 lJally, Sunday included, aix months.... 4 25 l-'ally, Sunday included, three months., lastly, Sunday included, one month,.... ,'3 IJally, without Sunday, one year. ....... 6.00 iJally, without Sunday, six months..... .ilo iJatly, without Sunday, three months... Xjaily, without Sunday, one mouth...... -tl'J Weekly ono -year.. .................... 1.O0 Kunday. one year...................... 2-50 feunday and Weekly, one year 3.50 (By Carrier.) Daily. Sunday included, one year 9.00 Xraliy, Sunday included, one month..... .75 How to Ke-mlt Bend postofflce money or der, exprebs order or personal check on your 'cal bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Ulve postofflce address in lull, including county and state. Pottae-fl Kates 12 to Its pages, 1 cent; IS to 42 pages, 'J cents; y- tu 4b pages, 3 cents; oh to tto pages, 4 cents; 3a to 7tJ pages, a cents; 78 to lt2 pages, a cents. foreign postage double rates. Eastern Business Offices Veree & Conk lln, Hrunswlck building. New York; Veree & Conklin, steger buildlntf. Chicago; San i'rannsco representative. It. J. Hldwell. 742 Market street. Mexico and making the lives and property of Americans in that country secure. rORTT.AJ.-D, SATURDAY. SEPT. 11, 1815. EIT TIME? Germany's defense of the sinking of the Arabic is- ho trifling an evasion that our - boasted diplo matic triumph becomes no dip lomatic triumph at all. Germany recognizes the principle for which we contend. The right of unarmed, un resisting ships to immunity from at tack without warning is admitted; but it may fairly be suspected- that German submarines will continue to sink ships as before and will then excuse their action with explana tions which insult our intelligence. If not, what do these repeated shift ings and dbdgings mean? The Arabic had seen the Dunsley sinking after having been torpedoed and turned to rescue the Dunsley's crew, steering an erratic course in the eTfort to escape a like fate. A tor pedo struck her in the stern, yet the submarine commander has the au dacity to say he feared the Arabic would ram his boat. Did any man ever hear of a ship backing to ram another vessel with her stern? In the light of this explanation Germany has made no real conces sions whatever to the United States. AVe are flouted repeatedly and are held up to the scorn of the world as a Nation that cannot or will not up hold the right of its citizens to travel the seas on peaceful errands, free from danger of slaughter or mutilation. It the President holds to his an nounced purpose to sever diplomatic relations with Germany next time a liner is sunk he will have shown ex cess of patience. Before the Arabic was sunk he had informed Germany that another such act would be re garded as "deliberately unfriendly." The Arabic affair was such an act. "Waiting for the next will only en courage Germany to believe that the limits of our patience have not been reached. SESf OR FORMS? The people of Portland are solemn adjured by the Spokane Spokes man-Review to go slow in their pro posal if they do propose to aban- on the commission form of govern ment. The city of Spokane, too, has sought the higher municipal life through the helping hands of five commissioners, and it is fairly wall satisfied with its experience. To be sure, Spokane is not quite so large as Portland, bt its problems re not greatly different from ours. and the material from which com missioners are made is probably about the same. At every election there is the same grand rush for the job of ommissioner, and there is the same large proportion of slow-paced can didates who fall by the wayside. Says the Spokesman-Review: Commission ftrovernmont at Portland may seem from financial appearances to have been a failure as reaards municipal econ omy thus far. But even if it has failed in some wave, failure at thoso points does not prove the method to be a failure. It has ucceeded almost everywhere else. It will probably succeed at Portland rf the right Kind or uommlBsionMS is found. At bottom the success of the system depends upon tho managers instead of upon tne mechanism. These are encouraging words; and Portland will foot the bills of com mission government, and hope for the best. It is true. Quite true, that no system is better than the men behind it; and it may easily be worse. Long ago a great man said: or forms of government let fools contest hate"cr is best administered is best. Tour reformer is not necessarily a reformer because he says he is; nor is his adversary a reactionary because the reformer says he is. THE PAX-AMERICAN VIEW. "When the Administration invited tho ABC powers to mediate between It and Huerta. it doubtless believed it was paying a compliment to those powers as well as giving evidence of Its disinterested purpose toward Mexico. But Charles M. Pepper, writ- lug for the Boston Transcript, says the A B C powers consider that they were magnanimously helping Uncle Sam out of a hole. They were flat tered, they desired to see Huerta elim inated, but they considered that it was primarily the business of the United States, hence the favor was done to us. Latin America objected to Huerta "because he did not come up to its standard of culture and because his , aruiudry acts uranuca mm as a usurper. .It wishes to see Mexico pac Hied, not because it objects to revo lutions, for revolutions are regarded as necessary steps in the process of evolution toward self-government tout because Mexican anarchy reflects on Spanish-American culture and ca pacity for self-government. Like the United States, the six republics now In conference with Secretary Lansln desire to see new men in control of Mexico, for they regard Villa as i bandit, have been offended by Car ranza's rejection of their friendly overtures and consider Zapata merely h. product of political and economic circumstances." They think well of the Clentificos, but believe that tho latter made mistakes and must take the consequences. They hold that Mexico needs a period of tranquillity after five years of revolution and are ' willing to help the United States in bringing it about, but if their media tion fails "the United States will have to shoulder tho blame." They will not share responsibility for interfer ence in Mexico's internal affairs nor countenance armed intervention which is not included in Presiden "Wilson's plans. Under these circumstances, what real help have the Pan-American states rendered, what help can they render, in settling the Mexican im broglio? They debated so long on th elimination of Huerta that about the time they reached a conclusion that worthy had already been eliminated on the too of Carranza's boot. Th present movement to bring about conference of Mexican chiefs sooner began than Carranza spurred - his Generals to action. They hav made such progress that before conference can be arranged Villa an Zapata may also have been eliminat cd Carranza, the strongest force in Mexico, informs the Pan-Americans that he is in control and will brook 110 meddling In internal affairs. H may no sooner establish himself in power than Obregon or Gonzales ma rebel and add one more to the endles: chain of revolutions. The long and short of the matter that we have got nowhere by our in . effective meddling in Mexico and by our calls for Latin American aid in performing a duty which devolves upon us alone. We have incurre the ill-will without winning the re spect of any of the series of revolu -tionary chiefs. We are back where we were when the refusal to recognize Huerta initiated the policy of watclr ful waiting, but Mexico is much far ther along the road to anarchy starvation and bankruptcy, and man American citizens have paid with their lives and fortunes for their mis placed confidence in the protection of their Government, The Administration's action i Haiti shows that it can follow a vig- - orous course w hen it starts right Having started wrong in Mexico, lacks the courage to confess its erro toy changing to the right course. Un til it does make that confession there is no prospect that it will accomplish anything toward restoring peace in the people and befriended the royal family. He was particularly loyal to Queen Marie Antoinette and if she had not betrayed his confidence her fate might have been less tragic. But the shallow queen could not under stand men like Lafayette and Mira beau. She put her trust in the dull reactionaries and they led her to the gnillotine. In the prime of his life iafayette passed five years in an Austrian prison. Twenty-five years after his release he visited the United States upon the invitation of Congress and the country took him to its heart with shouts of grateful joy. He named his son for George Washing ton. "Lafayette's fame suffered transiently from the sneers of Thomas Carlyle, who admired no men but those of the conquering hero type. But he was greater than any con queror and his deeds will live forever in the. memory of freemen. THE TEEP-1IOLE VINDICATED. Sundry valorous officers of the city administration Jeeringly described as the moral squad have just emerged from a sweaty trial in the state Cir cuit Court with a certificate of char acter that spells also vindication for peep-hole government. They appear to have established the great princi ple that a couple who elect to live together must have been married longer than three weeks ere they are free from the midnight intrusions of the virtuous police. The facts in this celebrated case appear to be that the aggrieved Inger solls were peacefully sleeping in a lo cal hotel of minor note, which was ubjected to a raid by the moral squad. Their room was broken into, and, although they produced a bright new document showing that they were duly married, they were taken to ail. They had been .arrested on a 'John Doe" warrant, rubber-stamped with the official signature of the po lice judge. Then they sued for dam ages; but the jury found against them. The finding of tha jury was evi dently based on the instruction of the trial judge that the police were acting within the authority given them by the warrant of arrest, and that it was not for them to determine the guilt or innocence of a person accused and arrested. The responsibility rests evidently with the "higher-ups"; but they seem to have had only a casual nterest in the subsequent proceedings. It is difficult to say now how a married couple, lawfully passing a night at any Portland hotel under possible police suspicion, may be sure escape a physical invasion. Pos sibly it would be well to post their marriage license, if sufficiently aged, outside the door, or leave it with the clerk. It would be a sad happening ndeed if some aroused citizen, not used to the ways of the moral squad, should in his excitement at discover- ng a body of strangers breaking through his door, shoot one or more of them .dead. But it might indeed happen, if he should not be warned in time that a man's home and its privacy are no longer his own. JUST JiESENT.MEXT OP OUTRAGE. President Wilson's demand for the recall of Dr. Dumba, the Austrian Ambassador, is a proper act of re sentment at flagrant and outrageous violation of the proprieties of diplo matic intercourse. He could have done nothing less. The defense made for Dr. Dumba's attempt to intimidate Austrian sub jects, real or alleged, into leaving their employment is only an aggra vation of the offense. Even though tho men concerned were still sub jects of Austria they are living In the United States, subject to our law and pursuing a lawful vocation in muni tion factories. A threat by Austria to punish them upon their return to Austria unless they quit their em ployment is an invasion of American sovereignty and a disturbance of the peace of this Republic. This is true of Austrians who have not been nat uralized, but it is more glaringly true of those who have become American citizens. As to the latter, the United States holds that Austria has no further claim on their obedience to her laws, but Austria claims them as her subjects still and therefore as amenable to the empire's laws. Hence when Dr. Dumba called upon Austrian subjects to quit work in munition factories, his summons ex tended to a large number of Ameri can citizens, as well as to those whom American law recognizes as Austrian subjects. The President's resentment for such outrages on American sovereignty should not stop with the expulsion of Dr. Dumba. It should extend to Mr. von Nuber, Austrian Consul-General in New York, and to Captain von Papen, military attache of the German Em bassy, who have offended in the same manner. It should also extend to all other agents of foreign governments who have been distributing 'is'.ush funds" for the purpose of molding American opinion, influencing Ameri can policy, hampering and destroying American industry. We should no more tolerate these devices for carry ing the war to our territory than we would permit a British and a German warship to fight a battle in our ter ritorial waters. There is one flaw in the message which Ambassador Penfield was in structed to convey to the Vienna gov ernment. That is the expression of the desire to continue "the friendly relations which exist between the United States and Austria-Hungary." Since Dr. Dumba acted on instructions from Vienna in warning Austrian sub jects to leave their employment, the attack on our industries originated in Vienna and friendly relations were ruptured there. The President's re sentment should extend right to the source of the offense. been conservative or indifferent in regard to direct legislation, the re call and woman suffrage, but cer tainly not as to centralization of au thority and responsibility. It would be difficult to conceive of a sterner means to compel a state executive to observe care in appointments and to keep in close touch with the needs and workings of all branches of state government than the plan adopted in Xew York. Responsibility for ex travagance or inefficiency in any exec utive department may be traced un erringly to the Governor. Moreover, ho is made equally responsible with the Legislature for general, and mis cellaneous expenditures of the law making body. In the face of all this there ought not be objection to the increase in the Governor's salary from $10,000 to J20.000 a year. It will require a bus iness manager of superior ability to conduct satisfactorily the affairs of a commonwealth with such immense and varied activities as those of the state of Xew York. An efficient Gov ernor will certainly be worth the salary proposed. European War Primer By National Geographira Soviet y. The electrician's dream of invasion of tho -kitchen will be but the be ginning. Its use must extend to other parts of the home. When the wife hears the customary burglar, "John" will not be compelled to crawl down stairs and risk death. He will push a button on an independent lighting system that will illume the house from cellar to attic and scare away the marauder. When the hired girl's company leaves at an unseasonable hour a trap in the backdoor step will register on a clock that the "missus" has installed for the purpose, and in tlje same manner she will know by another register the actual time when the old man gets home "just after 11." Even the baby, when he short circuits from croup, colic or other trouble, will be able automati cally to arouse the household. Yes, the era of "juice" has not fairly begun. Belgium, whose identity as a pro ducing unit has been more utterly de stroyed than its Identity-as a nation, hel-d a most important place in the pre-war world of industry and trade and a place, too, out of all proportion to the country's size and its population-Belgium's contribution to interna tional business was distinctive and the volume of its trade was large and growing. This little corner of Eu rope contributed largely to the stabil ity of the markets of the world by its wonderful ability for meeting tho fierce competition of modern foreign trade. Organized for the last degree of ef ficiency, a small land, overcrowded with factories and with workers, in no corner of which one might escape the smoke of chimneys, the throb of machinery and the rattle of freight. Belgium sent its products, much as London sent its money, to whatever market in the world that might show some little deficiency by a slight rise in price. Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oregonian of September 11, ls'.'O. New York, Sept. 10. The Faclnc Mail Steamship Company's shipi New port sailed from here today 1 with 1.500,0"0 cartridges and 6000 Reming ton rifles for the government of Nic aragua. Ithaca. N. Y-, Ec.pt. 10. A steady downpour of rain all last night and today filled tho streams here and cov ered the fairgrounds with a lake of an average depth of three feet. The fair had to be declared off. Numerous valuable cattle . and hogs were drowned. Melbourne, Sept. 10. Thera are signs of a collapse of the strike in the shipping trade. The men at Mel bourne and Brisbane and the New Zea land ports are applying for reinstate ment. New York, Sept. 10. Richard Cro ker. tho well-known Tammany chief tain, arrived this morning on the Clty of New York. He was met at the dock by a number of Tammany lead ers and was warmly welcomed. He said he was in excelent health, but re fused to talk respecting his intentions in the Fall campaign. Half a Century Ago Negligible in size, it yet stood eighth on the list of the wealth of na tions and sixth o the 'list of national totals of foreigtr trade. Commerce and industry pervaded- every nook and cranny in the land, with the single ex ception of one sleepy city, Louvain, a university city and art center, a me dieval place. Belgium was storekeep er, shipper and middleman for the countries of Europe: niantif acturer for all the continents, and, by reason of its remarkably high industrial and ag ricultural organization, its world beating system of internal communi cations and its low margins of profit, it rendered important service as regu lator of world trade. Antwerp fought neck and neck with Hamburg, New York and London for shipping honors. Besides the products nf its nwn mi,aaanr inrinnipv I ? . 1 ginm's great seaport drew a mighty i the country on tho bill. stream of Uerman business and a large ail, iiie Biup-piiiB tiiiu imports ui France. It had more than 40 miles of quays, more than New York, and considerably more than its first Ger man rival. Scientists urge us all to discrim inate between heredity . and in heritance. The whole of civilization, or as much of it as our conquering heroes spare, is inherited by each generation from its predecessor. Heredity transmits the racial traits which are latent in the germ , plasm. We can increase our inheritance but not our heredity. We can squander the former but not the latter. A "simplifyd speling" magazine which has reached us from England prints an article on the war which starts off thus: "A yeer haz paast sins this grait wor began, and hoo kan tel when the end wil be?" The rumor that this magazine has been hit by a dirigible bomb lacks con firmation, but since it has not been contradicted there is still hope. The horrid ogres who improperly pet their typewriter girls will get their come-uppances If Mrs. Charlotte Smith has her way. She would en close the too fascinating girls in cages. where they could receive neither candy nor kisses. Mrs. E. W. Page would redeem the ogres by mak ing their wives love them more. This seems severe on the wives. 1X1XKLY WIVES. It seems odd that women should complain of the lonely lives they lead in city flats. And yet they do. Neigh bors in the same building are so near at hand that if one knows them at all the acquaintance almost unavoidably becomes intimate. In the country a person, may "neighbor" with a great many people and still keep them at a convenient distance. But it is not so in a flat. There i3 no choice between refusing to know one's neighbors at all and taking them into the bosom of the family. The consequence is that many women whose circum stances oblige them to live in flats are without society of any kind. This fact adds a new terror to the loneliness of the big city of which so much has been written from Gold smith down. A person who seeks ut ter solitude can find it better in a crowded street than anywhere else. The units of the hurrying throng re gard one another as mere posts to be shunned. Nobody stops to ask what is going on in the heart or head. The practical Christianity of our day has attacked this problem of city loneli ness in a highly intelligent way. The Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations have provided wholesome recreation and companion ship for their clients, and, taking the year through, they reach great num bers. Other societies have taken up a similar work. But this does not help the married woman tvith a family on her hands whose husband is away from home all day and who "has not a solitary neighbor to speak to from morn ing till night." Why can we not organize a Lonely Mothers' Christian Association? There is a thoroughly good horse story in the current Saturday Evening Post. It is not too horrifying and it is not sloppy. Best of all it ends happily, as all stories should. As a specimen of a capital short story without any "heart interest" we com mend "Blue Blazes" to the grateful reader. Ban Francisco. Sept. 10. II. B. Shackleford. chief engineer at Sena tor Stanford's vineyard, in Tehama County, places the probable output oi' wine this year from the 400 acres of bearing vines that constitute the vine yard at 1,500,000 gallons. Washington, Sept. 10. Senator Allen says that the tariff bill is as satisfac tory to Washington as it could be made. The industries of that state are well protected and there are few schedules that are in any way inimical to the people of the Northwest. He claims the Republicans can go before Dr. C. W. Cornelius came down to his offico on crutches yesterday after noon, the first time he has appeared on the streets since his accident. From The Oreffonian. September 11, l-r. Lewis B. Cleaver, of Albany. Or.. flas killed when struck by lightning September 7. He was on the road leading to Brownsville when the bolt hit him. v William Ilnle, who came along in a wagon, took the body to Albany. New York The Times' Washington correspondent says the President re ceived within the last few days nu merous letters from prominent citizens of Mississippi. North Carolina and Vir ginia expressing apprehension of an insurrection by the freedmen of those states. The letters have been referred to the Freedmens Bureau. St. Paul The Union state conven tion, after much animated balloting, nominated General W. 11. Marshall for Governor of Minnesota on the 22d bal lot. Washington Brevet Ma jor-General J. F. Fuller has resigned his commis sion in -the Army and will leave in a few days for his home in California. A letter addressed by J. M. Mason, rebel agent in England, to the London Times, dated August 20. says he sent orders long since to the pirate Shenan doah to cease hostilities, go into port, disarm and discharge her crew. Savannah New constitution meet ings are being held every evening. The tenor of the meetings is to become a part of the Union In every way. Washington The President declines to release Mallory, rebel Secretary on the Navy, but permission has been given his family to visit him. The tax roll for this county for this year shows an assessment of $4. "00. 000. Tile tax for school purposes has been laid at 2 mills; for military purposes, mill; county purposes. 8 mills, and building purposes. 8 mills. The usual poll tax of $4 for slate, county and military purposes was levied. LAFAYETTE'S BIRTHDAY. Lafayette, the friend of America, was born September 6. 1757, so that he was 19 years eld when the Declara tion of Independence was signed. He came over to help the colonies the next year. His mission was wholly unselfish. He was moved by the loft iest love of liberty and by no other passion. When he sailed for America he left a young wife behind him and gave up the attractions of high social station. His family was ancient and his estates were large. But he cared more for the rights of man than he did for domestic happiness or social prestige. While Lafayette) was in the United States he. was Washington's intimate friend, sharing the sorrows of that great patriot and aiding him with untiring fidelity. Toward the close of the Revolution Lafayette rose to high command in the Colonial armies. It was he whom Washington sent to oppose Cornwallis in Virginia and his maneuvers finally compelled the Brit ish general to shut himself up In Yorktown. In the early years of the French revolution Lafayette counseled mod erate measures.. He sympathized with A STATE MANAGER FOR NEW YORK. If the short-ballot amendment adopted by the Xew York constitu tional convention were applied to city purposes the chief distinction between it and the managerial form of gov ernment would be the manner of choosing the manager. In man agerial municipal government the law-making body, which is elected by the people, selects the manager. In New York, if the new constitution shall be approved. The people will elect the manager. Probably under the accepted form of managerial gov ernment the manager would select his legal adviser and chief accountant. In New York the-people will elect them under the official titles of Attorney-General and Comptroller. But this is an unimportant distinc tion. The managerial system does not begin and end with the short bal lot. If it did the name might be ap plied to our National form of gov ernment. An important essential is the responsibility placed upon the Chief Executive. New York has piled high the responsibilities of the Governor in the matter of an eco nomical and businesslike admin istration. The four elected offi cials are to be the Governor, the Lieutenant-Governor, who is but pre siding officer or the State Senate and next in line in ca.se of vacancy in the Governor's office, the Attorney General and the Comptroller. Four teen executive state departments, ex clusive of the education department, are to perform all other functions of the state government. The Public Service Commissioners, the Conserva tion Commissioners, the Civil Serv ice Commissioners and the Labor and Industry Commissioners are to be ap pointed by the Governor with the ap proval of the Senate. The heads of the ten other executive departments are to be named by him without ap proval of the Senate. The Regents of the University, w ho are elected by the Legislature, will preside over the Department of Education and elect the State Commissioner or Education. But the Governor's responsibility does not end with intelligent exer cise of the appointing power. All ap propriations for executive depart ments are to originate With the Gov ernor and be submitted early In the Legislative session. The Governor may revise department estimates be fore they are adopted, but will not have power to veto any item after the budget has been .passed by the Legislature. The Legislature may strike out or reduce items. This sys tem applies to all departmental ap propriations, except those of the Leg islature and judiciary. The Govern or will not have authority to revise the latter preliminary to adoption but he will have the item veto power as concerns them after their pas sage. The ordinary Legislature's trend toward extravagance is to be curbed by another provision. The budget appropriation bills must be passed be fore action may be taken on any mis cellaneous appropriation, and each of the latter must appear in a separate bill, subject to the Governor's veto". Th. Xew Tort convention may have The plan to make October 7 "Riley day" in the public schools is a good one. James Whitcomb is an honor to the whole country as well as to Indiana and he has written plenty of verse that school children can memorize avith profit. October 7 is his birthday. There are many men of many minds, tempers and dispositions wear ing the uniform of a patrolman in Portland. Why not fix up a room in the municipal building where the little feuds can be settled at stated intervals in the good old fashion? With. a population of about 7,000.000 and an area of les3 than 12,000 square miles, Belgium, in 1912, was able to do $1,719,531,000 worth of business, or a considerably greater business than that done by the proud dual monarchy or by vast Russia. This mite of a nation was fighting for place and fight ing with the bravest show of form, among such trading giants as Great Britain, Germany, the United States and France. To meet the strain, to keep up the pace, every particle of its strength had to be kept in play. Its I mills were a ceaseless hum from boun adry to boundary and even its sandy wastes grew vegetables and fruits. Belgium was frugal, industrious, ef ficient. It was wealthy and progres sive. It had more railway mileage per unit of territory than any othei country in the world It was among the lands least afflicted with drones. It was a country in which nothing went to waste and with but one na tional luxury its capital. In Brussels money was spent for things of pride; in all the rest of the land beside It was put into the soil, raw materials and labor. More than 35 per cent of the country was under cultivation. About 18 per cent .vas forest lsnd. The remaining area was a Pittsburg of industry and upon it people lived about 1300 to the square mile. The foundations of Bel gium's marvelous success lay in its re sources in coal and iron, in its stores of materials for making good glass, in its thrift, in the intenseness of its de velopment, in the ir-lernal facilities of water and rail communication, in short haul ind in its highly skilled labor. More than ono-s.vent.h of the popula tion of Belgium were wage earners be fore the war, tin ee-fif ills being em ployed in factories. The wage scale of these worlterj was slightly lower than those in both France and Germany. Steady and unsensational. as the people back of it. the trade of Bel gium grew year by year, always doing just a little better than merely meet ing the increasingly keen competition of other lands. The staples of this trade were machinery, iron, steel, coal, glass, electrical appliances, cutlery, llax and textiles. Every year the population has grown, and the increase has mostly all been held at home. Bel gians have not emigrated as a rule. but havo met tho problems of greater population by greater productivity at home. Considerable Belgium capital, however, has heen sent abroad, an im portant sinking fund or surplus created by this small nations energy. Cyrus W. Field has raised an acre of sunflowers on his estate, Ardsley, near Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson. He has 2000 chickens, 600 ducks and 60 geese and he feeds the sunflower seeds, mixed with other feed, to the poultry. Iotereat on Bonded Lien. PORTLAND, Sept. 10. (To the Edi tor.) Under the present law govern ing water mains can the city force payment of either interest or principal on bonded liens, whether or not the main" pays an income of 6 per cent? F. J. ROGERS. Yes, payment can be forced, but is not where mains pay 6 per cent. The mains are bonded under the Bancroft bonding act and are property liens the same as liens for paving and sewers. The act provides that the city may col lect during the full 10 years' life of the lien, but the Council has canceled all such liens where mains pay 6 per cent in revenue. Where they do not pay 6 per cent the city can force payment both of principal and Interest when due. Rcgislration of able-bodied men in Great Britain has been completed, and Lloyd George's appeal to Hie Trade Union Congress may prove to be the last word before the government adopts compulsory service. Casualties among British officers the last fortnight in August numbered 1G02, of whom 407 were killed. The Briton in command is a fighter who leads his men and never thinks of the consequences. Norway has lost so many ships by mines and torpedoes mat sue may be said to suffer the penalties of war without the excitement of having a hand in the game. Zeppelin raids boom recruiting in England and will be welcome for that reason, provided .they do not become serious enough to massacre the ma terial for soldiers. One never considers weather or calendar for the close of the beach season. When the old reliable T. J. Potter makes her last trip, that set tles it. MR. rOl'M'KR l-:Xrl,AIS RKMARK Statement About Wage Workers Rein? Kunltt Im Made Clear. PORTLAND. Sent. 10. (To the Ed itor.) In The Oregonian Sunday. Sep tember 5, under a head "Worker Termed Fool," reviewing the proceed is of the single tax meeting at the Library on Saturday night, you make me to say: A man is a fool and a mor al degenerate if lie works for wages.' Vviule that Is quite true and must be admitted by any thinking man who takes into consideration the conditions the wage earner must face today, it is not what 1 said. Your correspondent only partially quotes me and thereby destroys entirely the fitness and sense or what 1 saiu. First, the heading is absolutely men dacious. Instead of saying the worker is a fool, 1 maintain that the man who works with his hands, at the thing he loves to no, is the only wise lnan u nat i actually said was that 1 was not Interested in the so-called labo la, vs. for the reason that any man who undertoox to live his life working fo wages today was a fool. Aye, more, he labored at a thing he did not love to do. merely for the dollars and cents he got out of it, he was a moral degen erate; in no way better than the wom an, his sister, who sold her body to any man that asked. The one is the moral and ethical counterpart of the other. FRANK E. COULTER. When Lincoln, the confessed spy, returns to England it is safe to as sume that a more serious charge than that of forgery will be made against him. The belligerent woman will vanquish the dogcatcher with a kettle of hot water and never think of the conse quences. The Germans have surely left the Austrians to fight it out alone in Galicia. Hence those . Russian vie tories. , Is there any kind of a regulating ordinance against which the jitney drivers would not seek an injunction? The automobile and motorcycle will alter the standing fcf cities that have ranked low in death rate. So far the only one of the bel ligerents which knows it is. licked is Belgium, so why talk of peace? As usual Secretary Daniels plays politics by giving Annapolis hazers a chiuice to avoid punishment. Judging by the kind of mules sold to the British army, any old thing, on fourlegs is good enough. Dumba will b dumber iiereafter. About Hadlej f Sept. 10. (To the What PORTLAND, Sept. 10. (To the Edi tor.) Seeing an article on candidates for the Presidency and noting tho name of Hadley, of Missouri, was not men tioned among the list, I would inquire as to the reason. On account of his prominence at the last convention and the fact that in the crisis of the contest his nomina tion was favored by many of the dele gates as the best solution of an un fortunate situation, it was supposed he would come up next time or play some part at least in future proceed ings. S. A. JOHN'S. Haven Cor Household l'eta. PORTLAND. Or., Sept. 10. (To the Editor.) There has been so much in terest shown of late as to the condi tion of stray cats and doss in our city and the alleged cruelty prueticed upon them in their helplessness that I have, been urged by my friends and patrons to voice some sentiment in regard to the matter. As an ardent lover of ani mals, to the care of which I have de voted my life, and, knowing them as I do, their capacity for love and grati tude, their faithfulness and devotion, I see a growing need for- some haven of protection for them. In many cities insttutions are main tained where they are housed and fed. doctored or humanely put away, as the case deserves, and homes found for them. I am sought almost every day by persons desiring cats or dogs for their homes, in the city and country. Some philanthropic people have urged me to establish such a place and have offered to start an endowment fund for the purpose. If the people of Portland would humanely interest themselves in this matter, and a suit able place could be procured, I ant sure I could make it self-supporting in connection with my kennels. I am not seekiir notoriety or inflat ed with mercenary ideas, but I am a friend of all dumb animals and I think the time has come when something should be done for them. MRS. S. B. ADAMS. irl of Many Admirers. Exchange. It is also possible for a girl to have so blamed many admirers that none of them think much of her. Marrjlne for Money. Atchison Globe. More men would marry for money if Ihpv felt continent of getting it. Discovery nu Accident. PORTLAND, Sept. 9. (To the Edi tor.) It was wltii interest and agree ment of sentiment that I read your article concerning Paul Ehrlich, tho eminent German chemist and discov erer of the syphilis cure, 606. There is one thing, however, in which I must beg to differ 'with you. and that is the method of the discov ery. I think you will find that Pro fesor Ehrlich was devoting his re searches toward "sleeping sickness" and not that of the dread disease you mention, and quite by accident real ized he had ccme upon a far greater thing than that he had set out to dis cover, resulting in a scries of experi ments culminating in the now famous 606th. This would hardly be then a "life work" of Ehrlich before the time of tho accidental discovery. There are many hats raised to the passing of the great specialist, a very humble ad mirer of whom is G. L. G. THOMAS. Anceatry of General Goetlials. PORTLAND. Sept. 10. (To the Edi tor.) It seems I did not make myself clear In my former communication. If one looks at a list of our Presidents in the World Almanac one reads, "Pa ternal Ancestry, English, Scotch-Irish," etc. Now, what is the paternal ancestry of General Goethals? T.VAfA 1 h-K In an interview some time ago Gen eral Goethals stated that he was of good old American stock, probably meaning that for several generations back his ancestors were Americana. Ancient Treasures Unearthed in France t Described in The Sunday Oregonian Coincident with the present war in Europe numerous excavations have been made among some of the buried cities of ancient France. Remarkable discoveries have been made. Treasures that have been buried for 1500 years to protect them from invasion by the Germans have been unearthed. Many of these ancient relics are associated with the early history of France. In The Sunday Oregonian a cor respondent, who recently visited the scenes of these excavations, will tell of his experiences and describe the discoveries made. HOW MUCH EXERCISE IS REQUIRED? Dr. Woods Hutchinson, the well-known authority on medical and hygienic subjects, in to morrow's big issue, will discuss the various forms of exenclse that folks nowadays seem to think they require in line of sawing wood and other healthful occupations. Dr. Woods, in his own original way, discusses the "dangers and benefits of exercise," pointing out the certain harm that follows over indulgence and advising on the good results that come from moderation. HOW GERMAN SPY FOOLED THE FRENCH Many stories of the thoroughness of the German spy system have been brought to light in the present war, but none is more interesting than the account of the faitfiful German schoolmaster who communicated to the German army the position of the enemy by manipulating the hands of a clock in a church tower. The story was written by a French officer who discovered him at his work. TRUE STORY OF MUTNIY AT SEA Tales of mutinous crews on sea-going vessels frequently have appeared in fiction, but tomorrow The Oregonian will present one from real life. The story was writ ten by the captain of the vessel and is about as full of thrilling de tails as the best of the fiction writers' creations. PAGE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE The usual page devoted to the little folks will be printed with its usual array of games, puzzles, short stories, poems and pictures. Of additional delight to the children will be the four-page comic supplement, including the antics of "Bobby Make Believe," "Mamma's Angel Child" and all the other favorite characters of the Sunday supplement. FOR THE MOVIE FANS Since The Sunday Oregonian started to print a full page of moving picture news every Sunday the movie fans have begun to look there every week for the latest information regarding their favorite film stars. Their search invariably is re warded, as this page is kept timely and up to date by experts who are constantly in touch wjth the situation. LILLIAN RUSSELL'S PAGE OF ADVICE Women folks who are interested in the art of preserving perfect palms and well-rounded arms will find a page of interest in The Sunday Oregonian. Lillian Russell, who is an accepted authority on the subject, has prepared this information. Supplemental to this special article will be Miss Russell's weekly reply to questions asked by women readers. SCHOOL GIRL STYLES A subject of timely interest tomorrow will be the half-page pointing out the latest and most practical designs for school girls'-dresses. On account of the recent opening of the Fall term of school every school girl and every mother of a school girl will be interested. SOMETHING ABOUT FRENCH LEGIONARY In these warring times almost any story concerning the military or naval develop ment of any of the belligerent nations assumes unusual interest. Here is a tale that has not heretofore been told. It deals with the fame of the Foreign Legions of France. OTHER SUNDAY ATTRACTIONS Prominent among the other bright features of the Sunday paper will be Temple's sketches from life, Donahey's fairy tales and drawing to entertain the children, a front cover page presenting a picture of one of Yellowstone Park's beauty places, the customary sport section, several pages devoted ' to the drama and the moving picture shows in Portland, society, real estate, automobile, church news and numerous other departments.
