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6 THE MORNING OREGOXIAX. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1915. PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered et Portland, Oregon, Postofflco as seoond-class matter. Subscription Kates Invariably in advance. (By Mull.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year. SS.00 Uaily. Sunday included, six mouths.... 4.5 pally, Sunday included, three months.. 2.25 Daily, Sunday included, one month 75 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.0H lially. without Sunday, six months 3.2.! Daily, without Sunday, three months... 1.70 Daily, without Sunday, one month u Weekly, one year 00 Sunday, one year 2.o0 Sunday and Weekly, one year S.o" (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday included, ono year 9.00 Dally, Sunday included, one month 73 How to Remit Send postoffi'ce money or der, express order or personal check on your local bunk. Stumps coin or currency are at senders risk. Uive postoffice address in full, inclodlr.g county and state. I'osluge Kates 12 to lc; pages, 1 cent; IS to a:; pages, 2 cents; 34 to 4a pages, 3 cents; CO to oo pages, 4 cents; 32 to 7tt pages, 5 cents; 7S to U2 pages, a cents. Foreign postage doublo rates. Eastern business Office Verree & Conk lln. Hruns-.vlck building. New York; Verree A Conklin, steger building, Chicago; Kan xrancisco representative, K. J. Bid well. 74 Market street. PORTLAND, MONDAY, SEPT. 20, 1915. A GREAT ISSUE NEAR DECISION. J on the Dardanelles. The allies are . pouring troops to the Gallipoli Penin sula by sea, determined to extinguish Turkish rule in Europe and Western Asia, with or without the aid of the Balkan states. TJie Teutons are plan nine a drive throne-h Sprhia tr trie Turks' relief. The outcome depends on several questions. ' , Can the allies force the Dardanelles, conquer Constantinople and practically extinguish Turkish military power in time to turn the undivided attention of their Mediterranean army to the relieving Teuton hosts? Will Bulgaria give the Teutons free right-of-way through their territory, or will she resist them? If Bulgaria takes the former course, will Greece and Roumania oppose the Teuton ad vance, or remain neutral? If Bulgaria opposes the Teutons, will Greece and Roumania align themselves with her. and bar the way to the Dardanelles, with a combined army of about 1,000, 000 men? Will a British and Italian army be sent to aid Serbia in opposing the Teuton advance and will it succeed, not only in blocking the way, but in invading Hungary from the south east? Can Germany and Austria spare enough troops from the Russian, Franco-Belgian and Italian fronts to overcome resistance on the Serbian front? May they not so miscalculate that, in their anxiety to relieve Tur key, they will so weaken themselves in other quarters as to enable Russia to stop their further advance east ward and to resume the offensive; enable the Anglo-French army to drive them back in the west, or the Italians to do likewise in the south, pr all three? If, before the allies overcome the Turks, the Teutons should reach Tur key, the former would find themselves between two fires or confronted by an allied Turkish-German-Austrian army, which might either- drive them Into the sea or form a line of defense as immovable as that which has been formed in the west. If the allies should succeed In block ing the Teuton drive southeastward until they have overcome the Turks, the Bulgarian people might overpower the pro-German tendencies of some of their rulers and, with Greece and Rou mania, help the allies in carving up the remainder of the Turks' posses sions and in repelling the Teutons. In that event, the carving-up process might be extended into Hungary by Serbia, Roumania and Montenegro. Unless substantial aid is given Ser bia, it is doubtful whether that little kingdom, with forces already depleted by three years of war, could alone withstand the Austrians, who would probably be reinforced by Germans. A Serbian statesman says Austria would require 450,000 men to attempt the task, but that number could prob ably be spared. A large force with ample artillery might prove irresisti ble by the Serbians and Montenegrins alone. It is inconceivable that the allies can have overlooked the neces sity of holding the Teutons at bay In this quarter. . . Several recent events have lifted the veil covering allied strategy. One is the sailing of a large fleet of Italian transports from the Adriatic. It prob ably carried an Italian army to the Dardanelles. Americans returning from England tell of extensive troop move ments to unknown destinations, which are not sufficiently explained by the lengthening of British lines in France; In fact, the comparative inaction of the allies in the west, except in artil lery duels between French and Ger mans, belies the supposition that the bulk of these troops go to that quar ter.. Frequent hints by British states men that the allied army at Gallipoli is on the eve of a decided success, and statements that the allies are landing reinforcements with heavy artillery, imply that most of the British troop? go to the Dardanelles. Sinking of a British transport in the Southern Ad riatic indicates that it was one of a fleet bound for Albanian ports to de bark troops for Serbia. The latter country's occupation of Northern Al bania was probably prompted by the desire to open the way for these rein forcements to debark and march In land. Hopes of the allies that victory is near on the Dardanelles are based partly on the resentment shown by Turks against German domination, on Turkish shortage of ammunition and lack of new guns to replace those worn out in action, on their success in de stroying or driving into refuge Turk ish ships, on depression in Constanti nople over heavy losses and on scarc ity of food and fuel in the Turkish capital. Reports to this effect leak out by means of travelers who have come from Constantinople to allied and neutral capitals. The Roumanian embargo on shipments of war material to Turkey prevents replenishment of the supply until a relieving Teuton army arrives, and home production is very insufficient. Should the allies' hopes be fulfilled and the ' Dardanelles be forced before a Teuton army arrives, the former would have practically eliminated Turkey as a factor in the war. The Balkan states might then join thein to finish the work. Most of the allied Eastern army would be free for use in aiding Russia by crossing the Black sea to Odessa, or in pushing hostili ties in the Alps and In France, or in vading Hungary. Should the Teutons crush- Serbia and drive through to Turkey, and should they and the Turks then overpower the allies, the latters Eastern army might be wiped out or driven to its ships. At least 500,000 Turks would then be free' to renew the attack on Egj-pt, to drive the British from MmhtuiIk, mia. to intimidate Bulgaria and Rou mania into giving free passage for an invasion of European Russia from the south. A Turkish Brmv miobf trn am allies of 'Austria to Vienna, whither in me seventeenth century a former Turkish army advanced as enemies. Such a Turko-Teuton success would go far to equalize the two contending forces and might give the Teutons the advantage in numbers actually in the field. One of the decisive battles of the war will be fought near the Sea of Marmora. THK GEORGIA 8PJR1T. - The outburst of fury which swept over Georgia When Mary Phagan was murdered and Leo Frank was ar rested' did not subside until the wretched Frank had been taken by force from the state penitentiary and lynched. Since then it has simmered and bubbled and muttered, resentful of outside criticism and secretly proud of its lawless method of wreaking a ureaaiui vengeance. Why was Georgia so fearfully aroused over the murder of Mary Phagan, a poortfittle factory girl liv ing on pitiful wages, and unnoticed by any except her immediate companions until she was dead? It was because the chivalry of a sovereign Southern state had been offended. The virtue of their' women is the pride of every real Southern gentleman, -as we so often hear, and something had to be done when it developed that the per son of a little white girl had been vio lated and she h.d been slain. . The honor of Georgia had to be vindicated by lynching somebody. This time It was 'not a negro, but a Jew. A remarkable letter from a South ern man, printed in the New York Sun, on the real story of many Mary Phagans, is reprinted today by The Oregonian. It gives a revealing in sight into the real Georgia situation, j "The trouble with Georgia," he says, "among other things is that she thinks toq little of Mary Phagan alive and too much, f Mary Phagan dead." Georgia goes on defending her deed of vengeance for Mary Phagan dead and utterly ignoring any Mary Phagan alive. IS WILSON ALONE RIGHT? President Wilson should remember the fate of Cleveland and beware. He undertook to "bull things through" Congress, and, though he succeeded there, he split his party and sentenced it to twenty years' purgatpry under Bryan's leadership. Mr. Wilson may bull his ship-purchase bill through .Congress, but his party is very likely to split on the question,-and both he and his party will surely be punished for the fiasco which will as surely fol low. There is no escape for a Presi dent and a party which go directly counter to public opinion. .. That public opinion is opposed to the Bbip-purchase bill is "proved by the overwhelming adverse vote of the Chambers of Commerce of the United States. These bodies are no mere handfuls of leaders in business. They are composed of the great body of business men of their respective com munities, as is the Portland Chamber with nearly 5000 members. These men are of all parties. There is among them doubtless as large a pro portion of Democrats as there is among the population at large. These Democratic business men would natur ally incline to support a measure fathered by the leader of their party. Their busines sense, applied to pub lic affairs, compels them to oppose that measure. Do the President and the Secretary of the Treasury presume to say that they are right and that the composite business sense of the country is wrong? Are they the repositories of all the wisdom in the country? The political Bupport which they have re ceived in Congress has no significance as a guide to the public Judgment, for it comes from thethick-and-thin sup porters of the Administration. A safer guide is the opposition of those inde pendent Democrats who refuse to be bllnde to the inherent folly of ship purchase and whose Judgment cannot be swayed, nor their voices silenced, nor their votes controlled by party dictation. OUR ANAEMIC MEXICAN POLICY. In the light of not quite the' latest developments of President Wilson's Mexican policy. Colonel George Har vey returns to the attack In the North American Review. He reviews' the whole miserable story from the first summons to Huerta to "step down, through all the turnings and twistings of the attempt to Impose a ruler on Mexico without using force in a land where force is the only arbiter. But the Colonel wrote before the latest turn of the wheel. He quotes a dispatch to the New Tork World," dated March 9, announcing a purpose to. eliminate Carranza, and says "re cent events indicate the correctness of this report." Perhaps they did at the time he wrote, but the most recent events indicate a purpose to recognize Carranza. . Colonel Harvey, who was booming Mr. Wifsoh for President before other men had given him much thought, epi grammatically entitles the article: "American or Anaemic?" Entertain ing not a doubt of the sincerity of the President's purpose to serve Mexico, he attributes Mr. Wilson's blundering to "misconception of his own func tions," due to "his unprecedentedly quick elevation from a college profes sorship." He says of Mr. Wilson r He unconsciously but inevitably assumed the attitude ot one divinely appointed to conserve humanity In new and striking ways and forgot for the. moment that he was a quite fallible and far from omnipotent being. Colonel Harvey recalls his own warning sixteen months ago of the danger that "persistence in a course which, in common , with everybody else, you must know to be wrong, will be attributed to no kind of reasoning whatsoever, but to your own stubborn pride." He recommends that "our Government turn jver the whole busi ness of settlement to the more compe tent, more sympathetic, racially relat ed and fully trusted envoys from South America, with assurance of our unqualified support of any plan which we must not of necessity disapprove." He quotes as describing past policy towards Mexico these lines: Promise, pause, prepare, postpone. And end by leaving things alone. . If the President shall finally recog nize and morally suport Carranza, as' dispatches from Washington now de clare to be his purpose, he will prove these lines no longer apply and that his stubborn pride has at last yielded. It would be a preferable course to the one suggested by Colonel Harvey, for the latter would be an abandonment of our duty and an abdication of our position as- the leading American Naion. But the same reasons which now dictate j-ecognlUon of Carranza sug gested the recognition of Huerta two years ago. He was. in as full control of the country when Carranza started his rebellion as Carranza now is. All that Mr. Wilson has accomplished by his two years of ineffective middling and indecision is to inflict on Mexico two years of murder and misery and to lower this Nation in the estimation of the world. It remains to be proved whether -Carranza is a better ruler than Huerta. His callously brutal methods of warfare and his sale 'of food for lack of which Mexico City was starving do not encourage hope. His vanity and his frequent defiance of this country do not Justify the ex pectation that, in, view of our display of weakness, his relations with the United States will be devoid of friction. Nothing has been gained and much has been lost by our-two years' delay in recognizing the actual ruler of Mexico, whoever -he might be and however he attained power. CANADA'S GOLD-PLATED RAILROAD: Having been given to understand that the transcontinental railroad built by the government' of Canada from Moncton, N. B,, to Winnipeg, Man., would cost a total of $61,415,000, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad Com pany agreed to equip with rolling stock and operate it after completion and to pay the government 3 per cent on its cost for the last forty-three years of a fifty-year term. On September 30, 1911, after construction had begun, the estimate of cost was raised to $161, 300,000. By the end of 1914 this figure had been raised to $173,000,000 Neither of these figures includes in terest, whfeh would raise the cost to $234,651,251 in 1922, when the com pany would have begun to pay inter est.' The Grand Trunk has refused to undertake the Job and Canada is left with a railroad on its hands which has cost nearly four times the original es timate. , Now that the monpv is e-nne. a. com mission has been inquiring where, it went, after the manner of the man who locked his stable door after his horse was stolen. It finds that at least $40,000,000 was needlessly expended. It also finds that.no member of the directing commission had had any ex perience in railroad building or oper ation. The commission's report says this aggregation 'of geniuses first de signed the road and its standards and then "proceeded to find a country to fit the design." They assumed that it would "at once receive the maximum business it was possible to carry over a single- track, low-grade road." They spent millions on facilities which a corporation would add as traffic made them necessary. The result is that op erating expenses will equal the com bined operating expenses; interest and dividends of -competing roads capital ized at one-third to one-half as much, but there are no earnings in sight and rolling stock is still to be provided. Canada has made a Tecord in rail road high finance which could not be exceeded by the most frenzied, wildcat promoter the United States "ever pro duced. Fortunately, there are some railroad men and engineers on the Alaska Railroad Commission or we should fear being saddled with a quarter-billion-dollar -oad, worth one fourth as much and devoid of cars and engines. But if Postmaster-General Burleson has his way, we may yet ex cel Canada's record. COLLEGE HARVEST HANDS. Eastern college boys who go to Kan sas to help in the wheat harvest do not find the experience altogether pleasant, if we may believe the Topeka State Journal. The long working day of 14 and 15 hours strikes them as excessive. . The total lack of baths is another inconvenience which may rise to the dignity of a real sorrow. Kan sas farmers, we are told, bathe but once a year. The performance is regarded as highly perilous and is pre ceded by a prolonged conference with the local minister, who prays with the daring adventurer and helps him set tle Tils estate. He then goes out to the barn with a tub and accomplishes the sacrifice. It is said by papers almost as reliable as the Topeka State Journal, that in the course of his an nual ablution the firmer not infre quently, as he penetrates from stratum to stratum, comes upon lost pairs of stockings, missing shirts and so on. The reader may take these stories for what they are $vorth. College boys who have been used to a bath every day conform to the Kansas custom with great difficulty. After a 15-hour day in the harvest field they natu rally long for a good shower but they long in vain. Some historians say there is not a shower bath in - the great state of Kansas, but perhaps they have overlooked one or two in the larger cities. One Eastern college boy went 12 days without a bath and then walked three miles to take one in a muddy river. The State Journal Jeers at his effeminacy. Nobody but a mollycod dle of the most debased description, thinks that paper, would think of taking a bath after only 12 days of exertion, heat and' sweat. Anoth college lad lost 11 pounds weight after three of these 15-hour days Jn the Kansas harvest field. None of the boys who got back home alive ever want to see Kansas again, if we' may believe the State Journal. We can't, for our part, see any particular reason why they should love the state. Is it really necessary to work the same crew of men or boys 15 hours a day? Isn't there such a thing as putting two crews on the Job? And, we ask to know, like Hashimura Togo, isn't there water enough in Kansas to allow of shower baths on the big wheat farms? Or have baths been prohibited with other sinful liquid dalliances? PRINTERS' INK AND PCBLIC HEALTH. "Printer's ink," said a member of the New Tork State Charities Associa tion, "Is saving more lives than any dther single agency employed by mod ern health -workers." And he Went on to tell how-it prevents tuberculosis, saves the lives of children and keeps smallpox under control. "To cure the public of its ills, he concluded, "you must get into the newspapers." Printer's ink as a medicine is not ad ministered directly to the patients. It goes to them through the columns of the newspapers. . What this very sensible charity worker meant was that the newspa pers are taking an extremely active part in disseminating knowledge about health and disease. Concerning some diseases, such as cancer, the papers give their readers real "medical knowl edge. Concerningothers, like typhoid fever, their instruction is almost whol ly preventive. The charity worker whom we have quoted was speaking at the-Rochester meeting of the Amer ican Public Health Association. It is pleasing to record that there was no dissent from his remarks. Recognition from this authoritative source of the good service they have been. rendering to the public health is particularly agreeable to the newspa pers. It breaks the somewhat tiresome monotony of criticism. Newspapers are not much worse in their intentions than other human agencies. They prefer to be truthful. Just and pro gressive' and usually are so, but how ever much they may struggle to de serve the approbation of good men, it commonly comes as a surprise when they get it. Everybody feels perfectly free to find fault with his newspaper. He may smooth over the faults of his pastor, excuse the remissness of his doctor and even overlook the short comings of his wife, but with his daily paper he is a perfect Rhadamantlvus, keeping ever on the side of severity and mingling no mercy with his Judg ments. Really, kind reader, the news papers mean well, and if they fall be low your own exalted standards of virtue it is due to human frailty, not to evil intent. The Oregonian reports the praise accorded to the press at the Public Health Association with some little complacency because it has borne a part In disseminating knowl edge useful to the public health and hopes to continue the good work. .The old philosopher who said that disease was a sin and might even come to be looked upon as a disgrace had a fair share of truth on his side. The . Ore gonian aspires to help bring in the glad day when his saying shall become an article of our daily creed. An example of the stupidity of Con gress is the provision of the naval re serve law that men shall spend two months of each year in active service. How could any man pursue any regu lar occupation when he was obliged to drop it for two months for four suc cessive years? He could not get a Job on those terms, nor could he run a business. He might find himself com pelled to loaf ten months in order to work" during the other two months. Congress continually tacks such im practical restrictions on laws and thus wastes its effort. Yet it asks the West ern states to subject a large part of their internal affairs to its laws. Mr. W. E. Smythe, of San Fran cisco, repeated at the Irrigation Con gress the old hoax that "more than a living can be made on two acres." It can if every crop is tilled to the high est productivity and everything grown is marketed at good prices. But neither of these conditions can be fulfilled as matters stand. The. prob lem of markets forbids most attempts to make a living from two acres as long as it remains unsolved. There is a reason why Reed College students do not "mutilate furniture and apparatus the way they do at ordinary colleges." Reed students go to college primarily to improve their minds. They are chosen for ability and character, and learning Is their first object. Sports are subordinate to study. In such a body of students silly and brutal college traditions find no favor. Captain "Greenleafs will, written 28 years ago in script, is an odd looking document now when everything is typed. Typewriters were fairly com mon then -but . the pen was still a favorite Implement. One of the largest banks in Portland used no typewriters till well towards the end of the cen tury. The president was a fine pen man, an accurate accountant and no friend- tq newfangled contrivances. Horses are like some men. When the horse is down he does not care or try to arise. He seems content to lie there. His relative, the mule, is dif ferent. He "makes a stab" at it. In that he is like other kinds of men. Some people call it stubbornness, but if the truth could be fixed it would be found to be spirit of endeavor.. Extension of automobile service on rural delivery routes in some parts of Oregon will be a blessing in one re spect. Roads that are barely passable for horses cannot be traveled by car and service must cease until improve ment is made. Non-delivery of mail might inspire residents to do some thing. On O.-W. R. & N. pay day at "La Grande last week, 545 checks were handed to employes. A large num ber are high-salaried men and in the amount of money that is bound to be come a revolving fund is seen one source 'of La Grande's prosperity. What sot of patriots are men who put their loyalty to their labor union bove their loyalty to their country by threatening to tie up the railroads which carry supplies to their country's defenders? That is what the British railroad men have done. The' country will be relieved to learn that the time limit for. reports from the -'Industrial Relations Commission has passed. The more .'reports we have the less aid they will give in set tling anything. Congratulations are extended to the men who ran the Gresham fair this year for the good show and the good weather that prevailed. A bouquet also is due Mr. Phil Bates, who made things go. .Twelve per cent of scaled examined In this city have been found incorrect. As the advantage must have been to the dealers, it was about time, "the cus tomers got relief. There Is a man hunt on in TrlttVin for a double murderer, who was a sheepherder. When caught it will be easy to prove him crazy because of his occupation. When Great Britain gets ready for conscription, enforced service will be the order, and strikers will gaze Into the muzzles of rifles. The little chaps who are guests of the big corporations on picnics and excursions will never forget the bright days in their lives. , The Arrowrock dam in the Upper Boise River is one of the big things In the- world, and Idaho needs a press agent to exploit it. ' The party of beautiful women from Ohio in Portland yesterday had a beautiful day for the exhibit. - It seems to be easier to dispose of a worthless check than it is to pass counterfeit money. Another "big", battle is due in Mex ico if the movie men are ready. Why not send the unemployed East. where there is work; lor all?. Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oregonian September 20. 1S90. Washington. Never before during the present session of Congress have the Democrats resorted to extreme tac tics of filibustering that they have in dulged in on the Langston-Venable contest now pending. They would, not resort to such extremes were it not that Langston is a mulatto and to scat a colored man is more than they can stand. Democratic Congressmen refused to be locked in when they endeavored to break the quorum and broke down the door to get out. While Speaker Reed has broken the precedent of 100 years in counting a quorum, the Demo crats broke one equally as old to break that quorum. New "Eork. Dion Bouclcault, the great Irish dramatist, died here Sep tember 18. "London Assurance," "The Octoroon" Colleen Bawn" and "Ar-rah-na-Pogue" were among his works. San Francisco. The order for 10.000 pounds of type for the "new dress" for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer was awarded to Pawner & Rey, type founders, of Portland, Or. Salem. Fully 10,000 were present at the "big day" of the Oregon state fair at Salem yesterday. Portland's grerft industrial exposi tion opens September 25 and remains on until October 25. Liberatls Militarv Band will provide music at this "World of Mechanics in Miniature" and fat livestock show. There will be reduced, rates on all transportation' lines. ' .' William C. Wells, formerly m the employ of the Union Pacific,' has sur prised his friends by taking Laura B. Giegor, of Forest Grove, as his bride. Rehearsals of the characters in "The Temple of Fame" will be held this evening. Miss Halite Parrish will por tray Jenny Lind. Mrs. Wetzell will be Christine Xllsson and Mrs. Walter Reed will be heard as Miriam. 'Love & Watkins will' keen their dru store at Fifth and Morrison open all nigni alter octoDer 1. Washington. The President has signed the rivers" afrd harbors bill, which has been much criticised in the East, but which is advantageous to the west. The "census officials have decided to recount, the. State of Oregon. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian. September 20, 1S6.". Richard Hildreth, the eminent his torian, late Consul at Trieste, is -dead. He was born in Deerfteld, Mass., in 1807. His last editorial charge was on the Aew rork Tribune. He wrote a dozen or more volumes on subjects embracing pontics, nistory, nnanca and social and Lpolitical economy. The active energy now displayed In the matter of making improvements around the falls at Oregon City Is not surpassed or perhaps not equaled by that witnessed at any other point in Oregon. The Willamette Falls have al ways been a serious obstruction in the way of trade in the Valley. The Peo ple's Transportation Company is spend ing large sums in Improving matters up there-and in removing the obstacles. A Washington dispatch says the Union delegates to the state convention have been defeated at Charleston. Wade Hampton, an original secessionist and nullifier. noted rebel cavalry chief, is one known to have been elected, but whether he ever has or will be par doned by the President is another matter. David G. Terry, Dan Showalter, Colo nel Kennedy, Duncan Beaumont and other noted rebels, including Rtdgeley Greathouse. are In Mazatlan, Mexico. Forest Grove The new Academy building here Is completed. The con struction of a big, new college building is begun. A draft drawn by Bloch, Miller & Co., of Dalles City, for the sum of $18.04 on J. F. Bloch, of San Francisco, in favor of Camp & Co., has been lost. Dwtght & Bacon have organized an express business to and from the Black foot country, making regular trips from Walla Walla via Lewiston to Virginia City, Helena, Ophir and Black foot City. A large and enthusiastic meeting of Irish patriots was held in the hall of the Fenian Guard last night. W. J. Butler was chairman, and among others who spoke in the interest of aiding the mother country In the interest of greater liberty were S. J. McCormlck, J. II. Egan and Amory Holbrook. W. L. Adams, lately appointed U. S. collector at Astoria, has executed his bond of $5,000. r- v. -1 . . . ..u. ...j ex. i tii, ui mis cny, was badly wounded by a gun in the hands vi. n. wineiiiiuii wnne nunting several days ago. It is doubtful if he will live. INDUSTRY" IS OF" GREAT PROMISE One Poor Year Need Not Condemn I.o franberry Growing. POPRTLAND. Sept. 19. (To the Edi tor.) In The Oregonian you publish a letter on the loganberry question by Mr. W. L. Bentley in answer to communi cations from Mr. McCusker and myself. I am willing to admit that the logan berry business has its disadvantages as have all businesses, but the advantages are so much greater that my contention still stands that the loganberry offers a solution to the logged-off land ques tion. It is true that this season loganber ries have been a. drug on the market. They do hot slrlp well on account of the excess of Juice, and the arrange ments for preparing and marketing evaporated fruit and juice have not yet been perfected. But I know at least one case where a cherry orchard did not pay this year, owing largely to low prices. But would that be Justification for condemning cherry growing for all time, and cutting out the trees? It is regrettable that the grower of any product should not do well, but condi tions for the whole State of Oregon are not governed by any one man's un fortunate experience. Everyone knows the wonderful pro portions that the grape Juice business has reached. Everyone who has tried both will readily admit that loganberry juice Is much superior to that squeezed from the. grape. Is it not reasonable to presume that the loganberry product can reach the same proportions as that of the grape? Of course this result will not com in a day. and several things are indispensable If it is ever to come. The Juice must be put up right. If possible standardized by tire State. Then just as efficient publicity must be given as has made grape Juice a National drink. At least one company is putting up a loganberry juice that is high grade in quality and appearance. They are put ting In hard work Introducing It In all parts of the country, and the Industry will owe them a big debt for all time. I for one expect that the demand will outrun the supply in the near'future and it will outrun It for many years to come. " G. WVNN WILSO.V. Both Side of a Qurxlion. Judge. Simmons Isn't Barker always will ing to hear both sides of a question? Kimmons Not unless you let him do all the talking. . . HOSTS OF MARY PHAGANS ALIVE Bat Georgia Thinks Only of the One ho Is Dead. New Tork Sun. To the Editor of the Sun Sir: 1 lived ten years in Augusta, Ga, and I know that city as well as I know my front yard. The letter published In the Sun of September a from Thomas J. Hamilton, of the Augusta Herald, about the Frank, case and Georgia's culture and humanity and so on deserves a reply from somebody who knows Geor gia as well as Mr. Hamilton does. After reading this reply Mr. Hamil ton may assume that I am a Northerner or a Jew, or something else that he considers to be instinctively and natur ally hostile to Georgia. Nothing of the kind: I am a Southerner with six gen erations of Southern ancestors, among whom there is not a single Jew. Mr. Hamilton says that "Georgia, with all her troubles, does not send young girls to perdition through the white slave route." I am one of those who do not take much, stock In the hysterical reports of widespread, white-slavery in vestigators. Some girls are bad and some are not, and it does not take much incentive to start a naturally bad girl' going wrong, no matter whether she lives in Georgia or New York. But so far as Georgia and. particularly, Au gusta are concerned. I am sorry that I must take Issue with Mr. Hamilton. The resorts in Augusta's red-light dis trict are filled with mill girls who were Induced to enter the life through meth ods almost Identical with those em ployed by the white slavers of New York's East Side or which' were ' em ployed before New York's white slav ersere sent to the penitentiary. It Is well known In Augusta to well informed people that the population of these resorts is recruited in this way. Prostitution in Augusta is organized and wide open, as it is In most Southern cities. There is not the smallest protest on the part of anybody there. The newspapers in Augusta are too high toned to print anything but society news with wordy descriptions of Mrs. So-and-So's toilet, .and the doings of the Rotary Club, a local organization for self-praise. Augusta's pride Is her power canal and her gigantic cotton mills, which line Its river banks. Her cotton factory operatives, thousands of them, live in houses owned by the manufacturing companies and in conditions of squalor and neglect which would not be toler ated for a day by the self-respecting workmen of any Northern city. There is no child labor restriction in Georgia to amount to anything, and the result is that hundreds of undersized, poorly nourished and ignorant little children are working In Augusta's cotton mills. In Winter the children, a forlorn and sleepy little army, start to work he fore daybreak and come home after dark. Only white people are employed In the mills, and while the factory white children are stuntins their bodies and growing up In ignorance, the negro children are out in God's sun shine and going to school. It Is a posi tive fact that the negroes aro progres sing faster In Augusta than the poor whites. I can only lodk with horror on this and the results that are suro to come from It. You can hardly imagine the poverty and sodden misery .of the average fac tory hand's home. In this limited space I will not attempt to describe it. but the Harrisburg factory hand (Harris burg is the mill district of Augusta) Is the true white slave, though he is too ignorant and illiterate to know it. Has the Augusta Herald ever written of these conditions? Never. Why not? The Southern people have such an exag gerated and false idea of local patriot ism that they cannot tolerate criticism; they are all blood relatives of the house keeper who swept the trash under the bed and called the house clean. The consequence is that the Augusta Herald pursues its innocuous and puerile way, filled with patent medicine advertise ments and society fol de rols. while the greatest problems that confront the American Nation are staring it In the face. Mr. Hamilton asserts that Georgia does not have thugs and gunmen, the intimation being that Georgia is fur holier than New York in Its considera tion for human life. The figures do not bear him out. The last year for which I have any homicide statistics is 1912. In that year there wefe 67 murders tn Atlanta: I haven't the figures for Augusta. That same year there wera 274 murders in Sreater New York. In New York there are 5,000,000 people: in Atlanta 150,000. On the same homicide ratio as Atlanta New "ork should li'ivc 2200 murders a year instead of 274. 1 have known men in Augusta who would kill for money, gunmen nlp.in nn-1 simple. One of them was hanged a few years ago for killing his wife. Several years before this crime he told nie that he would kill a man for $50, and offered to do It if I would produce th-j money. For years he went his criminal course, protected by a political pull. f Mr. Hamilton will go to the neighborhood of Hick's Hall, a Well-known place in A i gusta, or send a reporter, and take the trouble to get acquainted with the habitues of-the vicinity, he will soon meet a well - established ward heeler who will Introduce him to gunmen who .will beat, kill or steal for hire. ' The trouble with Georgia, among other things, is that she thinks too lit tle of Mary Phagan alive and too much of Mary Phagan dead. In the mill dis trict of Augusta Mr. Hamilton will find whole battalions of white-faced, thin and anaemic little girls working for wages which would be scorned in New York. They are the Mary Phagans of Augusta. I I and scores of Southerners In New York condemn Georgia in the Frank I case because she convicted Leo Frank on evidence that would not hang a dog. I As a born Southerner I would never have believed that any Southern com munity could sink to such a level that It would convict a white man on the virtually unsupported evidence of a negro criminal, liar and perjurer. Yet there are lots of fine and noble people in Georgia! hundreds of thou sands of them, men like Judge Henry C. Hammond, of Augusta. But if they have raised a voice of protest against Georgia's plunge into barbarism it has so tar iauea to reacn rsew lorK. EDWIN W. WALKER. New York, September 9. Focl'iardlnen and Courage. PORTLAND. Sept. 19. (To the Edi tor.) Should one attempt to rescue a drowning person if he is a poor swim mer and there Is no other means of rescuing the distressed one except by going to his assistance? Would it be considered an act of cowardice if you did not make the at tempt? I have noticed many attempts made during the Summer where both were drowned or the would-be rescuer was drowned. Is it foolhardv to attempt it or a man's duty to make the effort. whatever the result? A SUBSCRIBER. Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Courage does not include fool- hardiness. An honest effort to save another is commendable and to be ex pected. But no sane man or woman would consider it an act of courage for one to go to certain death and drag the other with him, but no doubt would suspend judgment were the imperiled one a close relative, friend or such. The double tragedies usually result where the would-be rescuer honestly believes he can be of assistance, or where he believes he can save the other at the cost of his own life. Common sense and the circumstances govern. Returned From the M ar. London Punch. rioclnr A . . . . - , Colonel Oh, not so bad. How do you? European War Primer ny National :roKrnhlcnI Society. Mount Ararat, where there has hard ly been a moment's peace since Noah and his ark grounded upon its massive shoulder, is at present the huge, trou bled boundary mark between the Otto man Empire and Russia, and under the shadows of the histoiOo peak the fight ing line of Osmanlt and Russian havo been swaying back and forth, never far beyond the lines of the frontier. Ararat is the hub of Armenia, of tlie original home of the Haik people. It is also the center of what has ever been the most troubled area on earth. Tribes of Europe and of Asia have fought each other here from the dawn of historv. and the remnants from the battles have settled as neighbors, hating, despoiling, massacring ono 'another. Caucasian history lias always beei of blood and destruction, of savagery and sudden death, of blackest treachery and heart less cruelty a book whose everv page Is written full of killings and desola tions. Dramatic horror has ever stalked around Ararat's broad base, and the border warfare now in progress forms no hiatus in the land's normal life. - Ararat is one of the most impressive of earth's mountains, for it rises sheer to the clouds out of an immense plain, with no neighboring peaks to soften its Isolation and to take from its majesty. A mighty Mount Everest is set well w-ithin a massive, sky-touching range of mountains; Mount Blanc Is' merely one of several imposing fellows, but Ararat stands up. with only a back ground of sky and plain and a frame of little mountains, a splendid thing with out a peer. The dominant mountain is split into two peaks. Great' and Little Ararat. Great Ararat rises to a height of 17.000 feet above the level of the sea. Little Ararat, where the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire, of Russia -and of Tersia meet, reaches an altitude of 12, 840 feet. Though the snow line here is very high 14,000 feet the dome of Great Ararat is covered with glittering fields of unbroken white. Pasture be gin little below the snow line, and be low the pastures runs a belt of. for the most part, sterile land. Purplish-blue Ararat rests its foot in a golden plain, a plain of golden sands, splashed with vivid greens and reds, which shimmers like a Persian carpet. - A vast wealth of legend surrounds the mountain, which has always deeply impressed the imaginations of the peo ples who havo wandered, passed or set tled beneath it. The Armenian priests long believed that the wonderful mys teries of its summit niight never be sur veyed by human eysfnnd all thought of scaling Ararat was considered almost in the light of sacrilege. The Armenians have also held that they are the first people after the flood, the immediate descendants of Xoah, so to speak, for the first village that Noah founded after abandoning the ark was Xakhitch- evan, so Armenians think tiiat his peo ple were the first race of memto grow up In the world after the flood. The name Ararat means "high." Tho Persian name for the mountain, Koh-i-Nuh, means "Noah's Mountain." It has beon determined by the natives that the Garden of Eden was placed in the Valley of the Araxes, a valley which at the present time enjoys blessings that go far toward strengthening it wonderful claim. Noah's wife was buried in this valley, near the moun tain, and srapes'are still grown there whose vines are the direct descendants of the vines planted by Xo;ih. Ararat was first ascended by the Ger man, Parrot, in lS'.'H. The success of his undertaking is sniil to have given a rude shocl to tho Armenian church men, who strongly advised against the prying into the sai led mountain's sum mit secrets. The climb has been made, by quite a number of "hicrh tourists" since, among them being James Bryce. the noted F.ritish diplomat. The ascent is said to be an easy one for tne experi enced mountaineer. Ki:co(;xnio. of jii sical evksts CllMtom Followrd In Portland t,Pe culinr to Thin Commnnlty. PORTLAND, Sept. 19. (To the Edi tor.) May 1, not so much as a fellow student as a I'ortlander, protest at the neglect or method pursued by the pa pers in Portland in not giving imme diate recognition of the work Tues day night of Mrs. Pope, of Oregon City, and Miss McMillan, of New York? In cities of dignity and size reporters do not wait for a Sunday edition following a mid-week performance to give rec ognition. Those interested have grown, through long habit, accustomed to look the following morning or evening for a criticism, and I had a feeling of cha grin today in bidding Miss McMillan good-by that she of National reputa tion had' to leave my home cltv with- ,out one word of her work a courtesy our musical critics should have paid a stranger of her musical worth. For Mrs. I'ope, a product of our community, a serious student and her first ap pearance it was more than due. If critics realized more fully the hard path musicians are forced to pursue. I am sure the unnecessary neglects would he spared both the student and the artist. Belated eulogies do not make up for a timely word. FRANCES LAKSON PL ATT. The Oregonian's method of reporting musical events is not peculiar to Port land nor this paper. It cannot agree with its correspondent that the criti cism Ehoul'd be written for the eves of the artist, and immediately. The primary duty of a critic is to inform formance, or lack of it. Whether tho criticism appears on the day following the artist's appearance, or is held for the Sunday music page, depends on the extent of public interest In the matter. Henry Ford's Addrena. - RAINIER, Or., Sept. 19. (To the Edi tor.) Will you please give me through the columns of The Oregonian the ad dress of Mr. Ford, of the Ford Automo bile Company? How many men are in his employment? A SUBSCRIBER. Henry Ford's home address is Dear born, Mich.; his office address. Wood ward avenue. Highland Park, Detroit, Mich. Mr. Ford f employs about 24,000 men. Escs for the Neighbors. Juge. The Customer See here! These egRs you sold nie aren't fit to eat. The. Market Man Certainly not. Why didn't you tell me you wanted eating eggs? I thought you wanted eggs to lend to the neighbors. Living In the Past. Exchange. "Why live in the past? Why not for get it?" "The bill collectors won't let me." Standards of Living Higher and better standards of living prevail on the American con tinent than anywhere else on earth. This is as much due to the educa tional value of advertising as to any other factor. Ir" What were luxuries years ago are necessities today. The advertising has not only reached wants but it has so enlarged distribution as to bring down prices. Wise shoppers avail themselves of the advertising in .their favorite newspaper and consider it one of the most helpful features of their daily visitor.