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THE MORNIXCr- OREGOXIAX. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1915. PRINCE FIGHTS FO TWO VIEWS OF SECRETARY OF REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMIT TEE. WHO SEES REPUBLICAN SUCCESS IN 1916. FORCED SERVICE IS BEFORE CABINET JOB, SAKS KIPLING Thousands Fall in Argonne That Succession to Throne May Be Preserved. Asquith Admits Consideration of Conscription Is Pending . and Urges Patience. FRENCH CORPS JN REVIEW Wri t e r Sees Vetera ns on Pa ra de ; Men Whose Records of Pitched Battles Would Hare Satis- , fled Napoleon. ..... 'Continued From. First PageT) i through the window hole behind them, : talking and laughing the while. j A cart had to be maneuvered out of i "what had been a farmyard to take the hops to market. A thick, broad, fair-haired wench of a sort that Millet drew flung all her weight on a spoke and brought the cart forward Into the street, where she Fhook herself and, hands on hips, danced a defiant little jig in her sabots. As she went back to set the horse, another girl came aoi oss the bridge. Fhe was precisely of tile opposite typ'e, elender, creamy skinned and delicate featured. She carried a brand-new broo:r. over her shoulder through that depolation and bore herself with the pride and 'grace of a Catalan. The farm girl came out leading the horse, and as the two young things passed they nodded and smiled to each other with the delicate tangle of the hop vines at their feet. GunH Are Heard In Xorth. The guns spoke earnestly in the jiorth. That's the Argonne, where the crown prince was busiiy getting rid ot a few thousands of his father's faith I'ul subjects in order to secure to himself the reversion of his father's throne. 1 No man likes losing his iob, and, .when at the long last the inner history of th is war comes to be written, we may find that people we mistook for principals and prime agents were only average incompetents, moving all hell to avoid dismissal. For it is absolutely true that when a man sells his soul to the devil, lie does it for the price of half nothing. It must have been a hot fight. A vil lage, wrecked, as is usual, along this line, opened on it from a hillside that overlooked an Italian landscape of care fully drawn hills studded u ith small villages; a plain with a road, and a river in the foreground, and an all re vealing afternoon light upon every thing. The hills smoked and shook and bel lowed. An observation balloon climbed up to- see. while an aeroplane, which had nothing to do with the strife, but was merely training a beginner, ducked and swooped on the edge of the plain. Two rose pink pillars of crumpled masonry guarding some carerully trimmed evergreen on a lawn half hur ried in rubbish, represented an hotel where the crown prince had once ttayed. All up the hillside to our right the foundations of houses lay out like a bit of tripe witn the sunshine In their square hollows. Band Plays Among Trees. Suddenly a band began to play up the Kill among some trees, and an officer of the local guards in the new steel anti-shrapnel helmet, which is like the seventeenth century sallet, suggested that we should climb and get a better view. He was a kindly man, and, in j speaking Knglish, had discovered, as I lo when speaking French, that it is simpler to stick to one gender. His choice was the feminine, and the Boche was described to us as -she" through out. He made me think better of my self, which is the essence of friend ship. We climbed a flight of old stone steps, for generations the playground of little children, and found a wrecked church and a battalion in billets recre ating themselves with excellent music nd a little horseplay on the outer edge of the crowd. The trouble in the hills was none of their business for that day. Still higher up on the narrow path among the trees stood a priest and three or four officers. They watched the battle and claimed the great bursts! of smoke for one side or the other, at the ?ame time as they ke--t an eye on the flickering aeroplane. "Ours,' they said, half under the breath. - Valley Swells Sounds of Guns. "Theirs. No, not ours, that one was theirs. That fool is hanking too steep. That's Boche shrapnel. They always burst it high. That's our big gun be hind such and such a hill. He'll drop his machine in the street If he doesn't take care. There goes a trench sweeper. Those last two were theirs, but that lit was a roar) was ours." The valley held and increased the rounds till they seemed to hit our hill side like a sea. A change of light showed a village exquisitely penciled atop a hill with a reddish haze at its feet. "What is that place," I asked. The priest replied in" a voice as deep as an organ : "That is so-and-so. It is in the Boche lines. Its condition is pitiable." It happened about that time that Iord Kitchener with -General Joffre reviewed a French army corps. We came on It in a vast dip of ground un der gray clouds as one comes suddenly on water, for It lay out in misty blue lakes of men mixed with darker patches like reed beds and an under growth. of guns, horses and wagons. A straight road cut the landscape in two. Along its murmuring front it was as though Cadmus had sown the dra gon's teeth, not in orderly furrows, but broadcast, till, horrified by what rose up. he had emptied out the whole ba? and fled. But these were no new warriors. The record of their mere pitched battles would have satisfied Napoleon. Their regiments and batteries had learned to achieve the impossible as a matter of routine, and in 12 months they had scarcely for a week lost direct contact with death. We went down the line and looked into the eyes of those men with the ust-d buy oners and rifles, the packs that could almost stow themselves on the shoulders that would be strange wtitiout them: at tae splashed guns o their repaired wheels and the easy working limbers. One could feel the ytrensth and power of the mass as one feels the flush of heat from off a sun baked wall. i When the Generals' cars arrived there was no loud word or gallop in about. The lakes of men gathered into straibt-edged battalions; the batteries aligned a little; a squadron reined back or spurred up; but it was all done as ewtrtty and smoothly as the cen tainty with which a man -used to t pistol draws and levels it at the re quired moment. A few peasant women saw the Generals alight. The aeroplanes, which had been skimming low as swallows alons: the i front Pt J-h.e. -lineIheira piuat have ft z. Va - -j f. :-y it" Ml A . : if ARMY MEMBERS RAPPED been a superb view ascended leisurely and waited like hawks. Then followed the inspection, and one saw the two figures, tall and short, growing smaller side by side along the white road, till far off among the cav alry they entered their cars again and moved along the horizon to another rise of the gray-green plain. There was nothing else in all that great plain except the army: no sound but the changing notes of the aero planes and the blunted impression rather than the noise of the feet of men on the soft ground. They came over a slight ridge, so that one saw the curve of it first furred then grassed with the tips of bayonets, which immediately grew to full height, and then beneath them poured the wonderful infantry. All the while the band on the far headland was telling them and telling them, as if they did not know of the passion and gayety and high heart of their own land in the speech that only they could fully understand. To hear the music of a country is like hearing a woman think aloud. The note behind the ridge changed to something deeper, as "Our guns," said an artillery, officer, and smiled tolerantly on the last blue waves of the line already beating toward the horizon. They came 12 abreast, 150 guns, free for the moment to take thA air in company behind their teams. ' and necct week would see them hidden singly or in lurking confederacies of two or three by mountain and marshes, forest, or the wrecked habitations of men. When the big guns followed them with that long-nosed air of detachment peculiar to the breed, the gunner at my side made no comment. He was content to let his army speak for itself. But when one big gun in a sticky place fell out of alignment for an instant I saw his eyebrows contract. Cavalry Follows Guns. The artillery passed on with the same Inhuman speed and silence as the line, and the cavalry's shattering trum pets closed it all. . They are like our cavalry in that their horses are in high condition, and they talk hopefully of getting past the barbed wire one of these days and coming into their own. Meantime they are employed on vari ous work as required, and they all sympathize with our rough rider of dragoons who flatly refused to take off his spurs in the trenches. If he had to die as a damned infantryman he wasn't going to be buried as such. A troop horse of a flanking squadron decided he had had enough of war and jibbed like Lot's wife. His rider we ail. watched him ranged about till he found a stick, which he used, but with out effect. Then he got off and led the horse, which was evidently what the brute wanted, for when the man remounted the jibbing began again. The last we saw of him was one im mensely lonely figure leading one bad, but happy, horse across an absolutely empty world. Think of his reception the sole man of 40,000 who had fallen out! 'EST ASKS CHANGE James B. Reynolds Says Re publicans Will Win. DEMOCRATS' PLAN BARED Secretary of Republican National Committee Says - People Will Force Consideration of Need of Nation Tor Prosperity. (Continued From First Page.) GRIEF KILLS STATESMAN LATE BE MS I AX STATE MINISTER. LEAVES EXPLANATION OK DEATH. Note tilven Son by Louis Horimnni Contains Fervent Farewell to Kins and Conquered Countrymen. HAVRE. France, Sept. 14. Louis Huysnians. late Belgian Minister of State, who died here Thursday last, left in the hands of his son, Eduard, an envelope marked: "Not to be opened until the day after my death." The envelope was found to contain a fervent farewell to the Belgian statesman's king and country, written in the conviction that he would never see his own land again. "In spite of the generous welcome given us by the great, noble French nation," the letter concluded, "in spite of the solemn oath of the allied peoples to avenge us and return to us inde pendent and sovereign Belgium after having driven out the last barbarian; in spite of the hope that I maintain that this word of honor shall be ful filled. I feel I shall no longer be of this world when the hour strikes. "Sorrow consumes me, kills me. It is in the land of France that my body will be buried, and I ask that over my tomb be planted a simple cross with my name and the words, 'Died for the fatherland,' because It is for it that I shall have died before my time." Arabic Passengers File Claim. BUFFALO, Sept. 14. Formal claim egrainst Germany for indemnity has ben filed with Secretary of State Lansing by Fhiiip W Collier and his wife. May belie, of this city, who lost all their possessions in the sinking of the Arabic, on which they were passengers Presidential battles are fought cannot be created by any man or any set of men. Such issues are greater than any man or any political party. They are determined by the citizenship of the Nation. They are the questions the voters wish to have decided by the casting of ballots. They are" the sub jects on which there is radical differ ence of opinion, and subjects in which the result of the election will make a great difference. 'So far as the European war situa tion is concerned, and the part of the United States in it. the election of 1916 will make no difference. Whoever is elected President will strive with every power that is in him to keep this country out of war. It makes no dif ference which political party triumphs, nor which nominee is elected, the re sult will be the same so far as tne striving for war and peace Is , con cerned. There can be and there will be no such issue before the voters next year. Fight in Open Demanded. "But there are issues upon which the campaign will be fought issues upon which the parties differ, and the nom inees as well. These involve questions vital to the United States and its pros perity. They cannot be veiled and kept from sight by the pushing of a ficti tious question to the fore. The Ameri can people have no patience with the constructing of a man of straw as the basis of a Presidential election. They themselves will bring and keep to the front the great economic questions upon which the future as well as the present of the country depend. 'Mr. llson and his party cannot run away from thee issues, much as they desire to do so. They must face these questions in the open, and they can not hide behind a foreign war cloud and so escape the result which It is evident they plainly foresee." Mr. Reynolds explained some of the changes that have been made by the present Republican National Committee in the seating of delegates to the Na tional convention. Convention Lineup Changed. "In the first platie," he said, "the committee has reduced the representa tion In the convention so that in the next convention the delegates who sit there will represent Republican votes and not merely geography. , "Instead of having two delegates from each Congressional district, whether that district has four or five Republicans or tens of thousands, it will only give those two delegates to a. district that has 7500 Republican votes cast either at the election in- 1914 or in 1908. That will reduce the conven tion about 100, and as I have figured it over roughly, about 80 of that loss will come from the so-called Southern States. "There will be a slight loss in some of the Northern States, like the East Side districts of New York, but about all of them will come from the South ern States, where the Republican vote is not one of the principal things in the world." With Mr. Moores. Mr. Williams and Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Reynolds will leave Portland early this afternoon by elec tric for Salem, where Mr. Reynolds will meet Governor Withycombe, Arrange ments have been made for the Shasta Limited to stop for him there later in the afternoon. From Salem he will go to San Fran cisco, thence to Nevada, Utah, Wyom ing, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Indiana, re turning to Washington October 18. At noon yesterday Mr. Reynolds and his stepson, C. T. Hearin, were guests at a luncheon at the lArlington Club, given by Ralph Williams, Others at the dinner were Edgar B. Piper, Rep resentative C. N. McArthur. C. B. Moores and E. A. Baldwin. Premier Reminds Officers in Com mons That They Represent Con stituents and Xot Military. Air Defense Talked. LONDON, Sept. 14. That the British Cabinet is considering conscription was admitted ofilcially today for the first time In the House of Commons. How ever, Premier Asquith figuratively rapped the knuckles of the offlcer members of the House of Commons who recently returned from the front and stjrned a memorial urging that the gov ernment hasten to adopt conscription. The Premier denied any desire to close their lips, but he added that "they ought to feel themselves under the strictest sense of responsibility." "Let them remember," said the Pre mier, "that they sit In the Commons not as representatives of the army, but of their constituents. It would be most unjust that because they happen to be in the army they should pretend to come to the House with any mandate from the army.. That would be an evil thing for the army and a bad thing for the Commons. It is a contention I would never admit." Atqulth Deplores Controversy. The Premier was induced to speak only after opponents and advocates of conscription had made themselves heard.' He then said: "This is not a matter which has es caped -the attention of the government. When the government, without undue delay, and with the due deliberation which Che gravity of the subject de mands, has arrived at its conclusions, they will be presented to the House and will tnen become the subject of Parliamentary discussion." The Premier expressed regret that the question of the best way "in which this country- shall make the call to bring the war to a Successful conclu sion" had become a matter of public controversy. He hoped there would be no further debate on this subject for the present. The question of defense against air ship raids was brought up in the Com mons, an attempt being made to in terrogate Thomas J. McNamara, finan-. cial secretary of the Admiralty. Mr. McNamara replied that it would be im proper to give any information in re gard to what was being done. Defense of London Pressed. The member who questioned Mr. Mc Namara desired strongly to know whether the government at this late date was seriously considering for the nrst time tne defense of" London, and whether the Admiralty had studied carefully the steps so successfully taken for the protection of Paris from air attacks. Beyond saying that he could not ac cept th3 proposition that the govern ment was not prepared to defend Lon don and announcing that Admiral Sir Percy M. Scott had already assumed his duties in charge of the gunnery de fenses of London against aircraft, Mr. McNamara declined to -be drawn out. The vote of" credit which the Pre mier will move tomorrow, will, it is understood, be at least 150,000.000 (5750,000.000) and probably more. In the House of Lords Field Marshal Earl Kitchener will review the progress of and explain, the present state of re cruiting. LAND MEASURE FRAMED CONSTITUTIONAL ' AMEXD.MENT AIMED AT MONOPOLY. Proposal Prepared by S. T. Richardson to Be Presented First at Land Grant Conference at Salem. SALEM, Or.; Sept. 14. (Special.) Aiming at a permanent solution of the evils of land monopoly in Oregon, an amendment to the state constitution will be initiated for adoption at the next popular election in Oregon. Pre liminary to the submission of the pro posed amendment to the people, the measure will be presented at tne ses sions of the Oregon & California Railroad land grant conference, which convenes here Thursday, by Colonel E. Hofer, in an effort to obtain the in dorsement of this body. Colonel Hofer is head of the conference delegation from the State- Press Association. Announcement that the proposed amendment would be submitted to the conference for consideration was made today by Colonel Hofer. The measure was prepared at- the Colonel's request by S. T. Richardson, dean of the Ore gon Law School. Under the terms of the proposed "actual settlement" amendment, as it is described by its author, the State Land Board will be reconstructed, making the board's personnel appointive by he Governor. The measure declares the taking over of the tillable land now held as part of land grants or in laTge holdings for speculative purposes, to be a-"public use and a public purpose for the state to acquire full title to. The State Land Board, it is contein- ! plated, would have the power to ac quire such tillable lands in the name of the state by agreement with the owner, or by1 condemnation, and --vould have the right to dispose of them to i actual settlers for purposes of cultiva- tion and residence only in tracts of from 10 to 16 ac;ts. "In many of its provisions the pro posed amendment is revolutionary," said Colonel Hofer, "but it will accom plish the desired purpose of opening the lands to actual settlement. It makes the State Land Board removable for cause or by recall cf the voters, and provides for the lending of state funds to actual settlers upon such lands at 5 per cent, and three years .without iu- I terest to enable such settlers to make improvements on the lands. xnis amendment does not touch the question of Congressional action, nor the dis position of other than tillable lands in this grant, but it is a far-reaching ef fort that applies to : all grants nd large holdings equally with the Oregon & California grant." When Jeremiah Dir.Rman'E estate was aa mitted to probate in Richland Center. Wis., it was learned that he waited until he was 200 years old bfor inakinf his will. lie liv4 io tos morft-jthaa 10L G. E. Stewart Hikes to The Dalles HOOD RIVER, Or.. Sept. 14. (Spe cial.) G. E. Stewart, purchasing agent of the First National Bank or Port land, passed through the city'today on a hike from Portland to The Dalles. Mr. Stewart left Portland Sunday. He Is armed with his kodak. He will spend his vacation visiting friends at The Dalles, where ?0 years ago he was court reporter for Judge A. S. Bennett, now president of the Oregon State Bju AarQciation, i Today We Announce An Opening Display of The Season's Newest and Most Authentic Styles in which are presented in a varied and in teresting showing of smart models, in terpreting the prevailing mode correctly and in a manner that places them apart from the commonplace. An air of elegance radiates from these models thai cannot be defined, and they tvill be, without doubt, the most talked of hats in Portland. Women who desire exclusive and novel conceptions are cordially invited to view this exhibit. Rawafg models sell as low as $15.00 and as high as $35.00. Third Flooi i " Front Lvosd j For Fall, 1915. The secret of combining all the things that a corset should be an ex ceptional result in correct designing and producing will be plain to you the moment you try on a Modart corset in our fitting room. 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The small English organization main taining the hospital, according to the dispatch, is feeding 3000 people "-daily, but this charity is totally inadequate. It is asserted that the authorities are unable to cope with the situa tion, as they already have taken car of one-third of the total of Russian wounded. It is suggested that a fund be raised in London and turned over to the American Consul-General. "The distress is frightful says the appeal. "Women and children are in their Summer clothing, with IVinter coming. Immediate preparation . rout be taad-to proyido aup4. shelter, and. warmth- The' English community is doing its utmost, together with the Princess Bariatinsky fund, but this la not sufficient to meet the awful dis tress. - "Moscow already has received one- third of the total wounded and the authorities are overwhelmed by this tremendous new influx of refugees. Outside assistance is vital to cope with the terrible destitution." 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