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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1915)
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Postage Hates 12 to le rases, 1 cent; 18 tn 32 panes, it cants; 84 to 48 pages, 8 cents: to t 60 pages, 4 cents; 5ii to 70 pages, 6 rents: 78 to 2 pages, 0 cents. foreign postage double rates. Eastern Business Offices Verree & Conk lln. Brunswick building. New York; Verree Conklln. steger building, Chicago; Ban Yancisco reprebentative, K. J. Bid well, 12 larket street. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, SEPT. SW, 1915. PACIFISM AX EMOTION. Discussion between advocates and opponents of military training In the schools on Tuesday evening resolved Itself into a debate between those who have actually experienced the neces sity of National defense to the point of having fought for their country, and those who through lack of the experience are unable to realize the xieceseity. We do not doubt that if the women who oppose military train ing had lived at the time when Gen eral Anderson,. Dr. Cllne. Mr. Pratt and Mr. Orton went out to fight and If those men had shirked instead of fighting, many of those women would have been loud in their expressions of contempt. The explanation is that the pacifists are ruled by emotion; advocates of National defense by reason. Both alike dread war and would do their utmost to prevent it, for it is an in famous slander to accuse those who favor National preparedness of a de sire to involve their country in war. Through never having had brought home to them the dread necessity of striking a blow for their country, and through the supremacy of emotion over reason, pacifists are unable to realize that necessity or to perceive that by being prepared the Nation may be able to avert It. The men who have fought have made the choice between staying at home in at least' temporary security and going out to face war's hardships and dangers. They have taught other men to view the alternative as they viewed it and to reason calmly on their duty to de fend home and country. Prevalence of unreasoning pacifism in this country is the product of our long immunity from foreign war, and of a sense of false security, which can 1)6 dispelled only by nvar' imminent menace. Thst menace has been-ever present in Europe and has trained women to regaTd readiness for war as a duty incumbent on their husbands, sons and brothers. There the same emotionalism which causes American women to declaim against prepared ness prompts European women to urge men to fight. "Were war to come upon us these very American women would probably be the first to send their men to the front with tears of pride. The only argument which can convince such' pacifists of their error Js war. Those men and women who clearly see the Nation's need can but proceed to meet it without regard to raclflst protests, confident that, the ' pacifists of America will admit the need of defense when a crisis comes, PS have those of Europe. TKOPI.K ARB THE LAW EXTORCERS. ; From our Newport friend, Mr. Durkee, has come a letter in which lie asks the following questions: Did not the overwhelming- dry majority In Oregon prove "a great preponderance of 1'iibltc sentiment" in harmony with prohibi tion? Ts It not a fact that a preponder ance of puMlo sentiment Is in harmony tvltli prohibition in many other states? .And Is It not the cry everywhere that pro hibition is a fsllure In theso several states? J have too much faith in The Oregonian to 1'ellev that it will answer these questions other than In the affirmative. Standing alone the foregoing para graph might give the hasty reader an impression that Mr. Durkee is not a leliever in prohibition. We hasten to pay that the affirmative replies to the questions he propounds are sought in support of his theory that prohibition will not prohibit until its enforcement is placed in the hands of party Pro hibitionists. For further information on that point see his letter on this page. Now to the questions: The Oregonian does not believe that there is a great preponderance of pub lic sentiment in Oregon in favor of the kind of prohibition that the Pro hibition party advocates. The prohi bition amendment carried by a large majority but we think it would not have carried without the votes of that great body of men and women, who want a brand of prohibition that will abolish the pronounced evils attendant upon drinking and yet not interfere with their own liberty to acquire and use Intoxicants in moderation. That is the trouble with prohibition enforcement in every dry community. Each has its three elements: One would wipe out use as well as manu facture and sale; one believes in pro hibition for those who need it and for no others; the third is opposed to prohibition. It has been pointed out more than once that the diligence of police officers and the impeccability of magistrates are not the only es sentials to law enforcement. In the end the Jury says whether the law fhall be enforced and the jury, as a rule, reflects public opinion. Hence it happens that in West "Vir ginia where the prohibition law pro hibits importation of intoxicants the police officers are diligent, but convic tions are difficult to obtain. We ven ture to say. that if tho cases taken to court were analyzed it would be found that In those in which it was shown that the smuggled liquor had got 4nto the hands of minors, or habitual drunkards or had Inflamed men to commit crime the bootlegger was con victed; but that where there was a mere Illicit transaction unattended by aggravating circumstances, the Jury disagreed or brought in a verdict of not guilty. So it will be In Oregon. Th la-wr will have the measure of en forcement that the public desires, no more, no less. Mr, Durkee also asks: "Did you ever Mow of party success before it was given power to succeed?" In reply, we quite cheerfully subscribed to the old nxlom that nothing succeeds like suc cess. The Oregonian's remark Which called for the question was that the prohibition party had been historicslly unsuccessful even In dry communities. Mains Km had prohibition law longer than, another state. It is fre-1 quently charged that the law is not enforced; yet the people refuse to re peal it. Twenty-five years ago the Prohibition candidate for Governor of Maine received a total of 2981 votes. Last year the Prohibition candidate for Governor polled 945 votes. In Kansas the Prohibition party vote for Governor reached its highest point In 1886. The total polled by the party in 1914 was several hundred less than that of 1886, although the voting pop ulation of the state had doubled. What The Oregonion meant iwas that the Prohibition party had been historically unsuccessful in obtaining a strong following even In dry com munities. We return to the thought heretofore expressed. The majority in the dry states do not want the brand of prohibition that the Prohibtion party stands for. And if the time ever oomes when the prevailing sentiment in a state is for rooting out the use of intoxicants to the last drop, it is extremely doubtful that that senti ment will be expressed through elec tion of a particular party's candidates. When an inflexible law has been writ ten by a people in deadly earnest the police officers, magistrates and Juries will automatically respond to the pub lic will. Ol'R GIFT TO JAPAN. President Asano, of the Japanese Trans-Pacific steamship line, calls the trans-Pacific trade "the gift of the United States to Japan through the passage of your new seamen's bill," and states that Japan will continue to develop that trade. Let the men take this to heart who forced upon a cow ardly, ignorant Congress those few provisions of an otherwise helpful measure which take jobs away from American seamen and take trade from American shipowners in order to give them to Japanese sailors and ship owners. By Just such legislation the United States has enabled Japan to grow from a nation with little or no ocean commerce to the fourth in ocean tonnage, excluding the United States and Germany, which include in their total3 lako and coastwise shipping. This growth of Japan's commerce has been particularly rapid within the last few years, especially since the sea men's bill was passed. In 1918 Japan had twenty ships of 84,725 tons In the Pacific trade, but this year the number has increased to forty-five and the tonnage to 145,176. During the same period the number of European com manders has decreased from five to three. The law which has brought this re sult was passed ostensibly for the benefit of American seamen at the instigation of an organization purport ing to be composed of Americans, but ninety per cent of its members are not even naturalized citizens. It has benefited no Americans and has done Inestimable harm to American com merce. JITNKY SCBttARINTIS FOR DEFENSE. Henry Ford proposes that the United States build "jitney" submarines as a defense against Invasion and as a means of dispensing with dread noughts. . He expresses confidence that iwith "a pill at the end of a pole" they could "hoist the mightiest dread nought ever built out of the sea," and he says "that will be a heartbreaker for the armament people." Germany began the war with a fleet composed chiefly of "jitney subma rines," and not until she began to sup plant them with swift, wide-radius vessels, corresponding to the heavy touring cars which Mr. Ford does not build, did the daring German tars be gin to make frequent hits. Notwith standing all their efforts, they have made no serious impression either on tho British battle fleet or on British commerce, and Germany is effectually shut off from the sea. If the United States were to pin its faith to Mr. Ford's jitney submarines for naval defense, we might, provided we had enough of them, prevent an Invasion, but with no other means of defense we should be as completely shut off from the world as Germany now is. So long as an enemy's fleet remained in being, we should be con stantly exposed to the danger of its breaking through our long line of de fense. The only effective means of breaking a naval blockade and of mak ing ourselves immune from invasion would be to provide a superior battle fleet, capable of pursuing the enemy's fleet, forcing it to an engagement and destroying It, or of driving it to its harbors. In naval as In land warfare the most effective defensive is a vigor ous offensive. Like other pacifists, Mr. Ford as sumes that the National defense move ment springs from the greed of men who are interested in shipyards and munition works. If he does not, he ought to, know better. That move ment is the spontaneous product of patriotic concern for our National safety, among men and women who, without prompting from armament makers and without interest in such industries, have applied the lessons of the iwar to our own case. Greed did not cause that movement, and slander cannot kill It. WHIMS OF FASHION. Exit the slender woman, she who had a small diameter in proportion to her height and so was pleasing to the eye of the esthetic soul of man. Enter the plumped woman, thick of aspect, distended, rotund, corpulent one and the same woman, yet so strangely altered as to seem but little like unto her former self. Still other bewilder ing physiological changes are mani fested as we examine the apparition. Her waist line has risen to the vicinity of her arm pits; she has an amazing thickness when viewed from the side lines that suggests deformity but proves to be nothing more serious than that artificially produced by the an cient and honorable bustle. All of which is the latest product of the Fashion League of America, con structed according to plans and speci fications as "laid down by our own Ingenious designers. No matter how much grief It may bring to those of us who merely pay the bills, the get-up will be hailed with undiluted joy by the less symmetrical sisters. For, if we read the fashion plates aright, the art of Nature is wholly effaced by the art of designers.- Symmetrical plump ness no longer Is a gift of the gods, but a mere matter of sewing-room skill. Of course the expediency Is only tem porary, bo there Is no occasion for in tense feeling 'on the subject. As one high priestess of American fashion frankly admits, fashion Is merely a state of mind which is kept shifting with the seasons. Hence Spring may bring mental representations that will restore to us the svelt lines of graceful slenderness or, In such cases as Nature has so decreed, the straight-lined frailty of beanstalk skinnlness. The I waist line, for -its part, may flutter down to the ankles or find Itself abol ished entirely. AH depends upon the whim of Dame Fashion. But no mat ter. Long practice has made us profi cient in adjusting our tastes to any atrocity that may be perpetrated In her name. THE SPIRIT OF '15. Let us make a hypothetical return to those rugged days when George Washington was a youngster at school. Let us imagine him under the tutelage of a feminine instructor who preaches mollycoddleism to her plastic young hearers. Let us picture the wholesome and red-blooded George quitting the schoolroom careful lest he fall in step with other pupils and thus simulate the well-ordered cadence of marching soldiers. Let us fancy the impressionable young minds of Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock and Richard Henry Lee in the same class feasting at the same board of feminist idealism. It isn't difficult to follow their development and determine their conduct In later years when we find them face to face with the tyranny of a whimsical mon arch. While the countryside burns with righteous indignation at the heavy accumulation of outrages, we can hear Richard Henry Lee no doubt he would have spelled It R. Henry Lee voicing not a. resolution of Independence but a proclamation of strict neutrality. We can see Thomas Jefferson retire not to pen the im mortal Declaration of Independence, but a series of diplomatic notes warn ing King George please not to do it again. We can hear the piping voice of Patrick Henry, a musical treble, chanting the motto, "I love my liberty, but oh you peace." George Washington, of course, might have served a most valuable purpose at this juncture, for by reason of his early training at school he would have been useful in organizing a Continental Peace League to combat the rising wrath of the sordid countryside at long-endured oppression. With the others he might have shaped the diplomacy of 1776 so as to have pre vented the bloody sacrifices of those who founded this Nation of freemen. How different it all might have been, how different the pages of American history might read, had the spirit which is becoming all too prevalent in 1915 dominated the patriots of '76. RURAL TRAVEL MADE EASY. Those who at times have lost hope of ever arousing the necessary degree of popular enthusiasm to make some of our rural highway and byways nav igable during the AVinter months should find cheer in the announce ment from Vienna that a hydro-auto-mobilo has been perfected. This am phibious vehicle traverses land and water with equal facility. To pass from land to water a shift of gear to the propeller screw suffices. While the contrivance was inspired by the exigencies of war its value in peace is unlimited and particularly in those communities and regions) where) an ultra-conservative temperament pre vents the development of usable roads. Who would fear to venture any where with a hydro attachment on his vehicle? The city limits (would become purely theoretical so far as travel was concerned. Emerging into those dis tricts where the good roads serum has not yet fully operated to extirpate the ravages of inertia and hook worm, a shift of gear would set the vehicle churning smoothly along the sub merged way. Nor does that exhaust the happy possibilities. Whoever at tempted to traverse one of our bridges in a hurry but that a maritime pro cession was in full progress 7f Here again a shift of gear, a change of course, and the conveyance would as sume its aquatic propensities. An hour saved. However, tho hydro-auto must not be set down as the perfect medium of travel. Invention must go one step further before all the difficulties of travel on some of our country boule vards have been solved. There are roads which defy the devices of land as well as water transportation. It remains for some crowning genius to add a flying attachment to the hydro automobile. Then all our roads would be open to travel. HONOR IN THE CLASSROOM. Honor as the sole guardian of ex amination day ethics in our high schools and higher schools is coming to be Installed quite generally if we may judge from the latest data that have been compiled. Recent compu tations reveal that some 123 colleges and universities have superseded the old proctor plan with the newer honor system. "Cribbing" by the students has practically vanished in schools where the classes are on an honor basis, ad vocates of the idea aver. Just how they know this to be the case is not explained, since no direct effort is made to detect culprits; yet we are perfectly willing to accept the conclusion without concrete evidence. The putting of students on their honor not to cheat at examinations has an Importance that reaches beyond mere rules. As a factor In character build ing it is certain to have a broad ef fect. At the impressionable age of college years the average student leans to ideals. His soul is as plastic as his mind. In the past he has had the notion that cribbing was wrong, yet the fact was not dilated upon. Rather, the keen eyes of faculty sleuths were for ever upon him to see that he did not cheat. Obviously It was assumed that one would cheat if he could, else why the careful and continual vigil ance? It was merely student's wits against those of the guardians. His -better nature was not appealed to at all. If he did not cheat it was because of in herent virtues that had been matured elsewhere than in the schoolroom, or because he had no need to cheat. If he saw fit to crib, then it was a matter of struggle not rwith his own conscien tious scruples so much as with the hawkish watchfulness of the class room sentinel. The erring student sharpened his wits and resorted to subterfuges. He Jotted memoranda on cuffs, or fingernails or on the sides of hia hexagonal pencil. The soles of his shoes were brought into use. In ex treme cases he was even more adroit and resorted to such deep trickery as rolling memoranda strips around pen cils and consulting these notes by ro tating the JJencils. Not even the case of his watch escaped. It was difficult Indeed to locate all such daTk and wily ways. Such practices, in addition to being difficult to detect, are more or less demoralizing. It must have been as a last resort that someone or other hit upon the honor system, which met with an amazing success when in stalled as an experiment. The lnhlbi tion of conscience proved harder to overcome than the vigil of the faculty wheit tha matter was put squarely up to the students. There was something to appeal to the youthful better nature In such an Idea. No longer might the student crib with the thought that he need only outwit his observant In structors. He had his own better nature to escape, which proved a far keener sentry so far as the average wholesome young man was concerned. The widespread application of this idea is not surprising. The honor sys tem, carefully worked but and regulat ed, would seem to be peculiarly suited to the needs of the examination room where average wholesome young men are dealt with. As already sug gested the least value is the solution of the problem of honest examina tions. The higher value is the stimu lation of permanent honesty and a higher sense of honor in the new generations. i , - In a (wholly mischievous and un truthful article the Portland Journal asserts that the conference now in ses sion was conceived and called by power people and politicians. That statement and the following are pe culiarly characteristic of that news paper: The first sten in the nroeramme iraa the condemnation of ths Ferris bill by the Leg islature, a body that vas entirely Ignorant of the provisions of the amended Ferris bill. o copies of the but were available at tne session, and it Is doubtful If any legislator knew its provisions. The real facts, easily confirmed by public records, are as follows:" Consideration of the Ferris bill was initiated in the recent Legislature by the introduction of a memorial by Senator Dan Kellaher, trust baiter and professional "friend of the people," praying Congress to pass the bill. The resolutions condemning the bill and calling for this conference were pre pared and offered by the resolutions committee s a substitute for the Kel laher memorial. Before the memorial or the substi tute was considered 500 copies of the amended Ferris bill were printed, and a -copy of the bill was laid on the desk of each member. The railway train at the crossing of the county road Is on Its right of way, and so, too, is the vehicle that essays to cross the track. Both have rights, but there the equality ceases, for the train is the heavier and speed ier body and cannot, overcome its momentum as can the vehicle. The engineer or motorman is vigilant, for that is part of his duty, but the burden of greater vigilance is upon the man who crosses the rails. There are places where the track is obscured by more or less high banks, but in these the railways generally have placed bells. Some day there will be a gen eral system of semaphores, but until then it Is well to heed the signs which tell to stop, look and listen. Citizens who are learning to be field marshals and Army commanders in the War Department's tabloid in struction course at Chicago are get ting a real touch of field lire. The Q. M. department neglected to provide steam-heated tents, the thermometer went down to freezing point at 6 A. M., the hour of reveille, and our embryonic Army leaders are experiencing a genu ine chill of their military ardor. In common with the coal miners, we doubt if young John D. has the ability to earn a day's wages. But he needn't worry. Papa continues to have enough to support him In tho luxury to which he has been accustomed. Roosevelt may try for the Repub lican nomination next year. If ho hopes for a chance he'll have to get the last remnants of that Bull Moose notion out of his head. The American Red Cross will take care of Teuton prisoners in Russia. Which is a much simpler taBk than taking care of the Russian prisoners in Germany. Rockefeller, Jr., is not compelled to work for a living In a mine, which makes all the difference In the world when he goes into one and fusses like a miner. War costs are falling heavily on Switzerland. With us, Switzerland must pay for a war that it is not con cerned in. Perhaps the railroad agents had seen Portland before, but surely they might have given the city another glance. The school director who tries to play both sides of the game In this military matter will end up with the most grief. "Man's estate only $2,979,933," says a headline. Such abject poverty. No doubt the victim died of innutritio'n. Whenever the Germans defeat the Russians the latter avenge themselves by bagging a few thousand Austrians. The movement to send 100,000 boxes of apples to the trenches is feasible, but the fruit should go to both sides. Fire prevention fday has an ironical sound to the man who has to get up and light the fires these mornings. In meeting war expenses John Bull would like to pay as he goes, but even his purse Is not long enough. That careless navigator Is lucky at losing his license before he lost some thing more valuable to him. Is there a living man who can fill the place of Anthony Comstock as cen sor of public morals? Did you leave a. dollar in your trousers pocket last night for your wife to find? - Order is Ordered In Mexico and dis order is substituted in filling the order. Has Johfi D., Jr., blisters on his hands from digging coal? There Is considerable fire in the water-power conference. The Balkan kaleidoscope has been given another twist. The Ferris bill appears to be get ting its feet wet. Eight twins in one class. Some neighborhood! If Henry Ford only knew of our Dollar day! The date is apropos for the dollar to skiddoo. Beath stalks vy where In city and country. Stars and Starmakers - Br XaoBa Cass Boar. More argument for suffrage Is fur nished In the demonstration by another life-saving actress who hauled a 200 pound man from in front of 'an on rushing automobile over in Ioway. She was a strip of a 20-year-old lass too. according to the story. Which only proves again that the only reason woman may not be classed as man's equar is that she Is his superior. Henry Ford is quoted as saying, "I never yet have met a really bad man," which proves to me that Henry has never met any of the vaudeville folk who make Jokes about his cars. Answer to G. M. C. (1) Ralph Stuart tried out "If I Were King" for George Ia Baker, and presented it while under Mr. Baker's management in Los An geles, following his eight weeks' en gagement in Portland in the Fall of 1901. (2) Frank Sheridan was member of the company. (3) The author of "By Right of Sword" was Arthur Marche mont, an English publisher and writer. He came over from London to witness the play's production. "A pragmatiat believes," says a writer, "that what Ms" is right." A lot of us won't agree with him. A pragmatist is a philosopher, and a philosopher should be a well informed person, and a well-informed person should have heard at some time or another of the war. Well the war Is, and it also is wrong. Venron Steele, originally in . "Love Watches," and Janet Dunbar, for many years David Warfleld's leading woman, will be members of the company sup porting Otis Skinner in the new play by Henry Arthur Jones. The play is to be called "Cock of the Walk." According to Now York dispatches the Park Theater where May Irwin is playing was closed one night all be cause that comedienne is growing skinny. Ever since the beginning of the hot spell. Miss Irwin, whose jtirth Is her fortune, sir, she said, had ob served with horror that she was, little by little, growing to be less like James Lackaye and Irvin Cobb and more and more like a section of spaghetti. The heat was shrinking her right out of her Job. On last Wednesday morning when shs arose she stepped on the scales, and shrieked when she discovered that she was 20 pounds under weight a scant 240, to be exact. At that rate, she figured that by October she would be reduced to a shadow, and one of her principal assets would bo lost to the drama. She omitted the matinee per formance, but appeared as usual on Wednesday night. Then her physician ordered her to quit, and" she has de cided to withdraw "33 "Washington Squaro" until the weather moderates. . It's mighty hard to work up sympa thy for the performer who "gets bit" when putting his head in tho lion's mouth. "Where have I seen those srirla be fore?" There are three answers to that question if you havo asked It about the Navassar Girls. Seven or more of them were at the Oaks five years ago with the Navassar Band In a three weeks' engagement, tome played here as the Vassar Girls at the Orpheum later, and more recently umvrn mso wore seen at tne Orphaum as the Navajo Girls. The combination of both acts is lesponsible for tlio name, Navassar Girls. When the girls were at the Oaks, Miss Augusta Dial waa their directress and she atlll wields the baton for them now in their Or pheum tour. Miss Dial has four sis ters in the act. They are Anna Hall, trombonist; Janet Hall, who playa the bassoon; Blanche Hall, flutist, and Mrs. Martha Hall Conwell, clarinetist. The Vassar Girls and the Navajo Girls were assembled in an act at the Roof Gar den in New York a few years ag-. and Alan Dale's praise of the girl instru mentalists, with the suggestion that the acts "remain together for all time for the benefit of music-lovers" led to the booking of the two-in-one act for "big-time" vaudeville. . . Answer to E. V. (1) Willard Mack's real name Is McLoughlin. (i) His pres ent Wife is Marjorie Rambeau. (3) Yes, she played at tho Lyrio years ago. (4) They are preparing an act for vaude ville and will appear here. See where a chorus girl has had a bonnet made Out of crossbones and skull. Seems to me a cheap setting for solid ivory. Dr. John Stewart is another perfectly nice person who has Joined the only-thelr-hUBbands club, If reports are to be believed. The rumor has gained cir culation in New York that Dr. Stewart, who, besides being a prominent phy sician, is the husband of Olga Petrova, has had controversies with her man agers. Of late he has been looking after her business affairs, and when E. F. Albee wanted to switch one or her dates lately, hubby objected. As a re sult Madame Olga will not be given further bookings in the Albee time. Eugenia Kelly is back in New York, and the beautiful young actress, 'who gained so much notoriety because of the charge of "incorrigibility" which her mother brought against her last winter, admits that she will soon be come the bride of Al Davis, the vaude ville tango expert, and former partner of Bonnie Glass. Miss Keily with a party of convivial friends was seen lunching one day last week in a leading uptown hotel, appar ently in the gayest of moods. She ad mitted that she would marry Davis and received many congratulations from her friends. g The wife of Davis recently secured a divorce, naming an "unknown woman," but the decree does not become final until November 1. A few weeks ago a report from the West, where Miss Kelly spefnt the sum mer, "told of her horseback rides with Davis and stated that she would marry the dancer. She and her mother made a denial. Title by Prescription. PORTLAND. Sept. 21. (To the Edi tor.) A buys a lot 50x100 feet of B. It seems that C's house is 12 inches over the line on A's lot, and has been for more than 10 years. Does this fact give C any title to the'Strip? C has never paid taxes or assessments on tne strip. What will be the procedure to get C's house oft? READER. C has title by prescription if he built the house In good faith thinking It was on his own lot and has kept it there uncoattsUd for 10 years. - WHY DRY LAWS SOT ENFORCED. Prohibition Party Man GWes Three Reasons and the Remedy. NEWPORT, Or, Sept, 20. (To the Editor.) I thank you for publishing my letter of September S, when I said we have four political parties in this country all of which are too cowardly to say prohibition out loud. I did not Intend to include the rank and file of them, for they Include thousands of the best men and women, but the party as a whole is responsible for the acts of its agents, its leaders. Its conven tion representatives. When the convention representatives of the Republican party sold out to the brewers more than 40 years ago the rank and file of the party knew noth ing of it, and I doubt if one in a hun dred really know the facts about it to day, yet the party as a whole must shoulder the crime. Your statement: "The doctrine that prohibition is an issue to be forced Into politics, etc.." seems to carry the Idea that the Prohibition party is try ing to force the liauof question into politics when the fact Is that by the bargain and sale above mentioned the brewers forced the issue into politics and it has been there ever since 1872. Now we are determined to keep it there and that is puzzling to some. Again you say: "Until a great pre ponderance of public sentiment is in harmony with prohibltiou, all the en forcement pledges of party candidates or party platforms will be of no avail." I ask: Did not the overwhelming dry majority in Oregon prove "a great preponderance of public sentiment" in harmony with prohibition? Is it not a fact that a preponderance of public sentiment is tn harmony with prohi bition in many other states? And is it not the cry everywhere that prohibition ts a failure in these several states? I have too much faith in The Oregonian to believe that it will answer these questions other than in the affirmative. Again you say: "When public senti ment is in harmony with prohibition It will bo enforced without party pledges." Now in view of the fact that public sentiment is In harmony with prohi bitlon, and the law unenforced, we should search for the why. I have searched honestly and diligently and I believe I can point you to three good, undeniable whys. First, no party has been elected to power as an enforcing agent; second, the parties elected to power were elected as defeating agents; third, we have failed to elect to power a party pledged to enforce the prohibitory law. Get these three "whys" well settled In your mind and you will see a valid "excuse" I think, for a prohibition party special. Lastly you say: "As a means of getting the law, it (the Prohibition party) has been but a minor influence in the numerous states that have adopted the principle, and it has been historically unsuccessful as a party even in dry communities." Now Mr. Editor, did you ever know of pRrty success before it was given power to succeed? Let's suppose a case. Suppose you (being small), fell Into trouble, with half a dozen bic strong bullies that overpowered you. and thumped you up one, side and down the other, and then told you that you were "historically unsuccessful." What would you think of them? All we ask ts a fair chance to do something under commission issued bv tho electors of the. I'nitod States of America. -We promise then to change our history of unsuecess to success, or plead guilty. E. W. DURKEE. I DBA 1,8 DI E TO BE TRODDEN BOWX With Anaemic I'oliry We vi III Not n Able to Lhuld Them, In View. DALAS, Or.. Sept. 21. (To the Edi tor.) Again our ubiquitous peace- at-any-prico advocate. William Jennings Bryan, has launched another verbal quietus ir.to'the camp of those normally sane people who advocate military pre paredness as the safest preventative against war. He Is quoted as saying In his Dravefleld speech that "if any of the madmen of Kurope should chal lenge us. our Nation would be justi fied in saying. 'No, we will not battle with you: wo have 100.000.000 of people to guard; we have countless ideals to preserve, and we will not go down and wallow In tho mud of war with you.' " Yes, but if this anaemic spirit should prevail among the American people "our countless ideals" would soon be trodden under the war-shod feet of these "madmen of Europe." and tlio lofty political programme laid down by our revolutionary forefathers would be trampled under the same iron heel. This is the sumo peace-at-any-pr!ce spirit which animated tho anaemic souls of the cowled monks and lm It erated anchorites of the Byzantine Em pire when the "unspeakable Turk" was hammering at thj gates of the capital of that decadent nation. In reply to their Emperor's frantlu appeals for mil itary assistance, historians tell us, they said. "We don't believe in armed re sistance to an enemy, but we are giving you something stronger than battle axes: we are appealing to the saints and giving you the benefit of our pray ers." The indomitable Turk prevailed, and when these deluded Byzantine subjects saw the heathen smltinr the shrines and images of the saints with his but tle ax. they burst out In wild walla of despair. Mr. Bryan and all who ad vocate his anaemic peace policy would, unintentionally, of course, but inevit ably bring upon tho puissant Amer ican people the same spiritual condi tion that prevailed amongst the de cadent Byzantines. J. T. FORD. COST OF LOGANBERRY GROWING Woodburn Man Say It I Not Yet Proposition for Small-Means Man. WOODBURN, Or.. Sept. 22. (To the Editor.) In the recent Issues of The Oregonian I have noted letters from Mr. McCusker, Mr. Wilson and W. II. Bently on loganberry production, and I would like to say I agree heartily with MnBently, only he does not BO deep enough into the question. Mr. Wilson wants our logged-off lands cleared and set to loganberries. Now the class of people who . would buy these lands are generally the wage earners with a few hundred hard earned dollars saved. It will cost him at least J40 an acre for the land, 100 for clearing, and another $110 to plant, cultivate, train and wire the berries before he receives any returns. In favorable seasons he may expect from one to four tons per acre, but he will do well If he gets two and one-half tons. Now, even on a long-time contract of $30 per ton where does the small grower get off? It has cost him $2S)0 an acre, independent of a house to live In, barns, sheds, livestock, etc. It will cost him $20 a ton to pick the berries, not counting the boxing and handling to market. To one who has grown loganberries it look3 like this: Interest upon $290 at the low rate of 6 per cent. $17.40: cost of pick ing, $20 a ton; at a -yield of two and one-half tons at $50 per ton he would receive $125. minus $67.40 would leave him $57. out of which comes the cost of yardmen, boxing, haulina, cultivat ing for a year, cutting off the old vines and training up the new. Will the small grower have anything left? I am figuring upon tho assumption that the grower will receive $50 a ton, of which no grower is assured of for yoars to come, and favorable seasons, which no one can forecast. I regard It as a sin and a cryins: shnme to Induce people with a small capital to go into tho business until there is a market. M. W. nowi.EY. Splrm-e In Tb! Wr. Baltimore - ino !c ; n. "I suppose in the Uiassiar: t-aii'i'ulr. the German scientists lnobiliK- ! thu "e n tomologists." "What for?'. "For ac tion on the Bug River." Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonian of September 23. 1SUO. Washington. Sept. 22. Twenty-five business firms in Chicago, who hereto fore protested against the passage of the Torrey bankruptcy bill, have with drawn their names from the protest and requested the immediate passage of the bill. Senator Cullom today pre sented petitions. St. Petersburg. Sept. 22. The Viedo mosti says China has secured so much Trans-Baikal trade that the governor of the district has petitioned Russia to prohibit the immigration of the Chi nese. Lisbon. Sept. 22. The government has given orders to stop all telegrams, both domestic and foreign, which refer In any way to political disorders in Portugal. Calcutta. Sept. 22. A revolt having broken out in Cambay Guzer&t agalnat taxation, troops were sent. In the en counter 13 persons were killed and 20 Injured and 200 made prisoners. Yom Klppur services at the Temple Beth Israel, corner Tenth and Main streets, will be held this evening at 6:30 aod Wednesday morning at 9. President Osborne, of the Chamber of Commerce, returned yesterday from tho session of the Pacific Coast Chamber of Commerce. He sees no reason why Portland should be recounted, but If the Government Insists upon It he has no objections, and thinks the city will be able to make a still better showing. A coal bed at Mountaindale, Ne halom. owned by Portland parties, caught fire last Friday, and at the lat accounts was burntstjr fiercely with little hope of extinguishment. Lane County people are much excited over the recent discoveries in the. Ann Ninle, Bohemia district. The ledge h.is been traced to ths distance of three miles, rinding very rich ore tho entire distance. Union. Or.. Sept. 22. Th Circuit Court convened here today with Judc" Clifford on the bench. There sre mora than 100 cases on the tlockt, besides 15 divorce caips. Hali' a Century Ago From The Orrcenian of Frtmher 2S. 1SR-V The lime shipments from Sacramento to San Francisco are said by the Union to averace 2000 barrels per month. The lime Is procured from Placer County, a few miles from the railroad. Washington The United States Con sul at Constantinople in a letter to th State Department, dated August 1. says it is estimated tlio deaths from cholera number 20.ft"l. The number of deaths in a slnsrle day has reached 1000. It Is said that perhaps 200.000 of th terror-stricken inhabitants have, left the city. Washington Tho iron-olad Monad nock, the steamer Vanderbilt and Tus carora, will leave, on thsj firet of Oc tober for the I'aclflc. They are to be attached to the squadron on the Pa cific The vesels will bo. accompanied to their destination by Commodore John Rogers. Washington Of f Icial informs tion ha been received here that tho Bra zilian government has accepted as en tirely satisfactory, the explanation and reparation of the United States Govern ment for the unauthorized seizure; of Ihe rebel pirate Florida In Brazilian waters. New York The Herald's Brownsville correspondent says an imperial waaon train bound from Monterey to Mata moras was driven ba-k by the. Repub licans. It contained $250,000 in gold. Colonel Parlor, who accompanies General Grant. Is a pure Seneca Indian, and a grandson of the. celebrated Red Jacket, chief of the Six Nations. H is a larsre, robust man at least six feet in helRlit. On his breast may be seen th broad silver medal presented to his distinguished ancestor by General Jacltson. The Mechanics' Institute will be or ganized this evening In rooms In I'arrlsli's bulMlnp. The object of the association will be for a better knowl edge cf the mechanti-s of the city among themselves, for the cultivation of a 'social feelinfr among the crafts men. A pood attendance should be made by that class of our cltliens. PASSENGER PIGEON HERE DIFFERS EnMern and Western Fowl Not AHXc, and Dr. Ilornatlay RlKBt. WOODLAND, Wash.. Sept. 21. (To the Editor.) In your issue of Friday, Sept. 17, F. 1. Wagner, of Vancouver. Wash , takes issue with Dr. Jlornaday In regard to tho extermination of the passenger pigeons. Dr. Hornaday Is correct, as I have hunted the passen ger pigeon in the East and South, and will say the coast pigeons are not the same birds. The coast pigeons are larger and darker, with square-cut tail feathers; while the passenger pigeons are n dun color, pointed tall, with bronze on the neck and bust. I have also hunted the native plgeon.8 a few miles from Pljr eon Springs on the Kalama River, and have had a good opportunity to observe them. H. B. CROUCH. FOR THE SAKE OF EVERYBODY. The light that I bear is not very large. It fiares and dulls as the -winds sweep by. But to give out cheer the best that I can 111 swing my little lantern high. A light may t-3 borne so near to the ground. And with such a dubious sway. That Instead of helping a darkened life It works in the opposite way. So, lacking the means to Increase my light, (My powers fail though hard I try) This I will do with all of my might I'll swing my little lantern hisrh. SARA A. DAVIS. Hood River. Or. What the User Thinks Advertising analysts before preparing copy always try to find the "viewpoint of the user." It is the first step towards making a successful appeal. But do they always search for the user's point of view when they come to place their advertising? If they did, the newspaper would be the one great uni versal medium. The newspaper is the place where the consumers as natur ally turn for the advertising message as they do for the in formation as to current events. The secret of the -success cf newspaper advertising is the fact that it reaches "the view point of the user."