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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.
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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.
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