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THE UTORXIXO OREGOMAN. SATtrRDAT, SEPTE3IBER 11, 1915.
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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.