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CONTROL,
The Democratic platform of 1912 is
a poor old tattered remnant with none
so poor as to do it reverence. Even
the Jackson Club of Portland an or
ganization of Democratic statesmen,
with its eye to the present and not to
the past has repudiated it. Else how
can the action of that eminent organ
ization in indorsing the Ferris bill be
Interpreted? For the Ferris bill has
brought the National Administration
Into direct support of the old Hamil
tonlan idea of a centralized power in
Federal government. So recently
as 1912 the Democratic party at Balti
more went on record as follows:
nights of the statea: Believing that the
most efficient results under our system of
government are to be attained by the full
exercise by the statea of their reserved sov
ereign powers, we denounce as usurpation
the efforts of our opponents to deprive the
states of ,-ny of the rights reserved to them,
and to enlarge and magnify by Indirection
the powers of the Federal Oovernment.
. . It Is necessary that the Federal (Jov
ernment rhall exercise the powers reserved
to them, but we Insist that Federal remedies
for the regulation of interstate commerce
and for the prevention of private monopoly
shall be added to and not substituted for
Sl&te remedies.
Ah, the poor states. Now the Presi
dent and his Secretary of the Interior
have brought the whole machinery of
government to bear for the passage of
the Ferris bill, which purposes to sub
ordinate the states to the Federal
power.
The issue over the Ferris bill Is Fed
eral control or state control. That is
the fundamental contention. There are
some who, realizing the weakness and
inconsistency of their position, deny
it. But Clay Tallman, General Com
missioner of the Land Office, had the
frankness to avow it at the recent
water-power conference, when he said:
The purpose of the charge (Federal tax
on state water powers) is control.
So it is. Sr it is. It is nothing else.
It is dishonest to say that it is not.
The states are not trusted, and nothing
but the strong right arm of the Gov
ernment will do. It must control.
Let us hear again from the Jackson
Club.
I SEAM UN'S LAW 1'LNDS DEFENDER.
A defense of the seamen's law from
the criticisms of ship-owners is made
by Peter B. Kyne in the Saturday
Evening Post, but he admits thatmany
of the practices which it forbids have
already been abandoned. He admits,
but tries to explain away, the fact
that after the law comes into opera
tion on November 5 no American
chips will ply across the Ps.cific.
His explanation of the Pacific Mail
Bale is that the Panama Canal has di
verted much of the traffic which the
Southern Pacific formerly hauled
eross continent for transfer to trans
Pacific steamers, and that the law ex
cludes the Pacific Mail's coast liners
from the Panama Canal. Therefore
- the Pacific Mail seized a good oppor
'tunity to sell its ships on the Atlan
l tic, when the shipping business on
1 that ocean was booming. That does
J :not prove that the seamen's law was
not a powerful argument in deciding
' the Pacific Mail to abandon trans-Pa-
clflc trade; it only proves that that
i company chose a good time to sell,
j . Mr. Kyne then fastens on section 13,
1 'Which requires that at least 75 per
cent of a ship's crew shall be able
J to understand any order -given by their
' officers. We do not know by what
"warrant he says that "the owners have
translated this to read: 'who shall
epeak the English language,'." though,
, English 'being the language of Ameri
; cans, who usually command American
ships, it obviously means that the crew
Bhall understand orders given in Eng-
lish. Since trans-Pacific steamers
; have been operated ' for years with
Chinese crews and with reasonable
t safety and since the Pacific Mail tried
. ' in vain to teach its Chinese crews the
.English equivalent of orders in Chi-
nese, it is not easy to see the necessity
J : for this section. It does not substi-
tute one American for one Chinaman;
j, . it simply transfers the traffic to na-
tions like Japan which can comply
; with it without increasing expenses.
- "With the exception of the owners
" operating trans-Pacific lines, no ship
owner who flies the American flag has
any legitimate kick coming on the ef-
, feet of this bill," says Mr. Kyne. The
Pacific Coast shipping men are the
'..only ones who have occasion to "kick
on" the language section, for others
can easily comply with it. "The other
sections on which they kick are but
; few, but on them all ship-owners kick.
- He practically admits this by citing
one section after another to which he
' says they do not object or to which
the majority do not object.
As to the section giving a seaman
. the right to payment of half his wages
.' at each port, Mr. Kyne'says:
If the vailor demands some spending
money under this section and the skipper
refuse his request, on the ground that the
sailor intends to go ashore and get drunk,
thus delaying the ship, then the sailor has
the right to bocome offended and quit his
1 job: and the master must pay him off in full
then and there. Captains and mates quiver
. under this eection, because on them the
blow falls heaviest. They figure that the
a&ilor has no right to oelebrate until the
, vo'at-3 is ovr: but Andrew Furuseth figures
. that even a sailor has a right to the pursuit
J of happiness. . Still, a great many people
" ob.lect to anybody getting drunk; so why
pick on the eallor?
- A sailor is hired to help navigate a
j. ship to its destination. Then why
should his employer be required to
supply him with funds after only five
days' service to get drunk, "fall down
n the job" and leave the captain in
J the lurch? No other employer In like
f circumstances would be under such
-compulsion; why should a ship-owner,
1 whose profits depend" on his ability
j to move his ships without unreason-
B-ble delay? Employes on land are
paid not oftener than weekly, often
every two weeks or every month. Why
should a sailor be more privileged?
One section after another is cited by-
Mr. Kyne as the object of criticism by
ship-owners, but those of the Pacific
Coast raise no objection to them. They
are willing to see imprisonment for
desertion abolished, flogging forbidden
and punished, miserly masters com
pelled to feed men well, advances to
seamen, whereby- crimps live, forbid
den. They do, however, object when
Mr. Furuseth creates the impression
that inhuman practices which have
long since been abandoned by the
great majority of ship-owners are still
common. They frankly accept the
safety provisions, to which Mr. Kyne
seems to assume that serious objec
tion has been made. They ask for
repeal only of those provisions which
aid seamen in delaying a ship and
in violating their agreement and which
increase the cost of operation under
the American flag to such a degree as
to render it impossible, while provid
ing no equivalent gain.
OLD-FASHIONED DR. H1BBEX.
Dr. John Grier Hibben, president of
Princeton University, has placed his
finger upon what he considers the
greatest defect of the undergraduate of
today. Procrastination is the curse of
the modern schoolroom, says he, add
ing that the student is aided in this
grievous affliction by the attitude of
the average teacher, who is inclined to
pander to his laziness by helping him
out of his difficulties. The doctor per
sists that the student should be left
to his own resources and compelled to
find his way out of his schoolroom
dilemmas.
Dr. Hibben really amazes us by such
utterances. We might have expected
such statements from a teacher of past
generations, but surely he, doesn't ex
pect any of us to be so old-fashioned
as to agree with him. Why, to put
the student of today on his own mettle
would be to subject him to a barbar
ism which our fathers were compelled
to suffer, but which we seem to have
outgrown in this generation. The new
idea is that the student should do as
little as possible on his own initiative
and resources. What are the ample
staffs of hard-working instructors for
if not to pamper their charges, pre
digest their lessons and ply them with
wisdom in capsule form? If anyone
works, let the faculty do it. They are
paid to wrestle with the knotty prob
lems that the schoolrooms once per-'
spired over. Their chief function is to
make is as easy, pleasant and comfort
able for the student who so shortly
must go forth into a harsh world.
There the misguided youth will have
to flounder about attempting to re
adjust himself to the new status of
affairs, and finding himself handi
capped by schoolroom pampering. But
no matter. He will have enjoyed him
self immensely at school anyway, and
of course it is not expected now-a-days
that there should be any relationship
between preparation, for the battle of
life and the battle itself.
FOOTBAIi AXU HEALTH.
Now that the football season is at
hand we are beginning to hear more
or less from timid people concerning
the roughness and dangers of the
game. Anon we shall read of broken
bones. If we attend the games we
shall see rugged football heroes lying
stiff and mute after each scrimmage.
Of course these concrete evidences of
the hardness of the game may not be
quite so strong as might appear to the
naked eye and unenlightened -mind.
We have long suspected something
more than a coincidence in thefact
that the hero who gets laid out mest
often in.variably has his best girl in
the .grandstand as an observer of his
lion-hearted valor.
But let that all be as it may. We
are warned that there is a grave dan
ger in football, although it is not at
the point where we have been wont to
look for it. Dr. W. Franklin Jones, of
the University of South Dakota, has
had the game under scientific investi
gation and as a result of his observa
tions he raises the danger flag aloft.
The dangers he has unearthed with
the aid of esthesiometer and other deli
cately adjusted instruments are the
product of exertion. Not the mere ex
ertions of vigorous movement, but
those produced through the almost
superhuman efforts in critical mo
ments of the game whe'n some star
takes the ball for a winning gain or
touchdown and throws his all into the
breach. Urged on by the mad cheers
of the sidelines and the stress of play,
every atom of his energy, every fiber
of his being, is cast into the wild exul
tation and exertion of the moment.
Perhaps he reaches the goal unhin
dered and unscathed. But the dam
age is done. Dr. Jones follows him
off the field at the end of the quarter
and takes stock in the training quar
ters. Not a bruise. But the blood
pressure hovers about the 150 point.
The temperature is high, the whole
mental and physical equilibrium dis
turbed. The human body cannot stand
many such strains and escape perma
nent injury injury which may de
velop immediately or in later years by
reason of a weakened power of re
sistance. However, we doubt very much if Dr.
Jones' discoveries and warnings will
frighten very many of our pigskin
gladiators off the gridiron. Health is
valued little by the man who has it in
abundance. The average robust youth
is as careless of his strong young body
as the spendthrift with his inherited
millions. Disaster alone brings them
to their senses and then, in the case of
the athlete, it is often too late. There
is no physical wreck quite so wretched
as the athlete who has squandered too
much of his energies in over-exertion.
A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE RIVERS.
It is high time for those commu
nities which are interested in the gen
uine improvement of genuine water
ways to unite for defense against their
several enemies. The Burton filibuster
against the pork-barrel carried Con
gress to the other extreme. The en
gineers were instructed to re-examine
projects under way or authorized to
report upon them "without regard to
local influence and local sentiment
Smarting under criticism for having
been swayed by such influence, they
are going to the extreme of conserva
tion. Thus we have an adoption of the
Burton view that a river of which the
channelNoas been improved yet does
not now carry enough traffic to jus
tify the improvement is not worthy of
further improvement. He ignores en
tirely the failure to provide water ter
minals and railroad connections, the
neglect to prevent , railroads from re
ducing rates for the express purpose
of killing water competition or to
compel pro-rating between rail and
water lines. These conditions have
prevented capital from Investing in
water lines, from building modern
vessels and wharves; in fact, from de
veloping all the possibilities of water
transportation as they have been de
veloped in other countries. Tet It is
proposed to condemn the water lines.
They are denied a square deal.
An example of this purpose Is the
report of Colonel Herbert Deakyne
against continuing the project for a
six-foot channel in the Missouri River
from Kansas City to the mouth, on
the ground, as the Kansas City Star
expresses it, that "the river improve
ment isn't "worth, the cost." The Star
continues:
To abandon the Missouri River improve
ment would mean the abandonment of every
other river project in the country, too. t
Is believed, as the Missouri is the one river
here r.avirttion is farthest advanced. In
land navigation supporters see in the fight
a dearh struggle between river traffic and
tiie railroads. They have realized some time
that the Missouri River boat line "was be
coming too big, too much of a menace to
the railroads. Consequently, the news of
the r iport has brought a Nation-wide pro
test. The old railroad vendetta against
river competition is to be renewed, for
the Star says:
The railroads have admitted In recent
hearings- before the Interstate Commerce
Commission that they were seriously con
sidering meeting the low rates of the boat
line from Kansas City to St. Louis.
Bryan Haywood, "the alfalfa meal
king," is quoted as saying that the
West will have to eat its alfalfa if
the river is not saved. The Pacific
Northwest may not have to eat its
wheat and fruit if the improvement
of the Columbia River Is not con
tinued, but it will get less for them
and will have a more restricted mar
ket for these and all other products.
The policy to which Congress has
switched from the pork-barrel is as
unjust to genuine waterways as the
pork barrel has been. Inland water
ways have three enemies to contend
with. One is the railroads, which
strive to prevent, full development of
waterway facilities and traffic Another
is the pork-barrel Congressmen, who
load down the rivers and harbors bill
with appropriations for streams which
can never be made navigable or will
never carry any traffic and who there
by prejudice the whole cause of river
Improvement. The "third is the ex
treme economist, who condemns the
rivers as unworthy of improvement
because they carry" little, traffic when
only the channel is made, when no
terminals and no railroad connections
have been provided and when no en
couragement is given to construction
of modern craft.
Friends of the waterways need to
combine for a contest against all these
enemies in order that water transpor
tation may survive as one of the chief
elements in internal commerce.
FAIKLV REPRESENTED.
The loud and insincere local com
plaint of the fact that several bankers
and lawyers interested in water pow
er and water-power finance were in
vited by the Oregon delegation to ad
dress the recent Western States Con
ference was based wholly on the prin
ciple of one-sided consideration of the
water-power question. That is the
Pinchot idea. Every National Con
servation Congress ever held has been
systematically packed with Govern
ment employes, and diligent care has
been exercised to exclude any speaker
not (wholly committed to the Pinchot
policies.
In its preliminary arrangements for
the recent Water Congress the Oregon
delegation sought to hear from all
sides, particularly from Secretary Lane
and Secretary Houston, who declined
invitations to come. In its final form
the programme of speakers included:
Clyde C. rawson, lawyer, Denver.
Clay Tallman, Commissioner of Public
Lands, Washington, D. C. N
George K. Chamberlain, United Statea Sen
ator, Portland.
Samuel II. Piles, ex-United States Senator
Seattle.
Henry S. Graves, chief United States
Bureau of Forestry. Washington, D. C.
O. C. Merrill, chief engineer Bureau of
Forestry, Washington, D. C.
- John H. Roemer. ex-chairman Wieconsil
Railroad Commission.
John C. Ralston, engineer. Spokane, Wash.
John H. Finney, American Institute of
Electrical Engineering, Washington, L. C. -
Thomas J. Walsh, Unlter States Senator.
Helena, Mont,
Clarence D. Clark, United States Senator,
Evanston, Wyo.
Reed Smoot, United States Senator, Provo,
Utah.
S. Z. Mitchell, public utility banker. New
York.
Frank H. Short, lawyer and water-power
authority, .Fresno, cal.
It requires only casual inspection
of the list to see that every important
interest was represented. The Gov
ernment case was strongly presented
bj' able and informed men. The case
against the Government was in equal
ly capable hands.
It appears to be a particularly silly
and senseless assertion that the late
conference, or any such conference.
snould pave refused to hear from' a
public utility banker or any others
identified with the water-power inter
ests. No body of men, anxious for
practicable .water-power legislation
could refuse to hear from them and
from any others, interested or disin
terested, who had information to im
part or counsel to give.
WAR LOAN IS GOOD FOR ALL.
The great loan of $700,000,000 or
$800,000,000 to the British and French
governments which is now being nego
tiated is not likely to produce any
perceptible reduction in the supply of
money for the conduct of American
business. Contrary to the fears of
Senator Lewis that the loan will cause
this large sum to go out of the United
States, not a dollar of it is to be taken
out of this country. Much of it will
not even leave the banks from which
it is borrowed. It will be used by the
borrowers in buying goods in this
country. The several amounts will
simply be transferred by the banks to
the credit of the borrowing nations
which will in turn authorize transfer to
the credit of those from whom they
buy.
The transaction will resemble the
case in which Smith, an exporter, says
to Brown, a banker: "Lend me $100,-
000 to buy goods from Jones." Jones
is a manufacturer and a depositor in
Brown's bank. Brown knows that
Smith will pay, that Jones will re-
deposit the money with him, that the
bank will profit through the circula
tion of the money among Jones' em
ployes and among firms from which
Jones buys material; that when Jones
draws out the money it will return in
various ways and that the bank will
earn the interest. That is the kind of
a deal which the American bankers
are making with the allied nations.
Money is so abundant that It could
probably be spared without injury" to
American business, were it carried out
of this country'. The surplus revenue
of New York banks alone increased
$107,000,000 between January 1 and
September 18. While the country's
available capital is proportionately
greater than in recent years, the home
demand .is much less. This is shown
by the new issues of stocks and bonds.
New bonds listed on the New York
Stock Exchange in the first half of
1915 were $330,000,000 less than in
1905, and new stocks were $359,000,000
less than in 1901.
The United States has absorbed for-
elgn bond issues before without expe
riencing scarcity of capital. During
the Boer war in 1900 and 1901 this
country bought 1330,000,000 of British
bonds. In 1898 when our own Gov
ernment called for a loan of $200,000,
000, it was offered $1,500,000,000.
Our supply of capital has increased
immensely since that time by ordinary
means. It has been swelled further
by the process of liquidation which has
continued for several years, and still
further by the expansion of credit,
amounting to $2,000,000,000 to $3,000,
000,000, effected by the Federal re
serve law. The United States can lend
the money several times over without
any adverse effect on business.
The loan will have a most beneficial
effect on business. The topheaviness
of our favorable trade balance has so
deranged the foreign exchange market
as at times to have added as much as
7 per cent to the cost of our products
delivered in Britain and France. If
the same goods wheat, for example
can be obtained in Argentina, India,
Canada or Australia at the same price
without addition of this 7 per cent,
either"the United States loses the busi
ness or it must cut its price 7 per
cent. By making the loan, the United
States brings exchange near a parity,
holds the business and saves the 7
per cent." What is true of wheat is
true also of other commodities which
the allies wish to buy. excluding sales
of war munitions, which are to be
financed by other means. Whether
those who are lending the money are
pro-ally or pro-German has nothing
to do .with the case.' By making the
loan the banks earn interest, help their
customers to sell goods, promote the
prosperity . of the country, of which
they get their share, and are therefore
simply pro-American.
The American wheat grower is not
in the independent position with re
gard to his foreign customers which
he occupied a year ago. Then we had
a banner crop, while most other great
cereal countries had short crops. This
year the wheat acreage has been in
creased all over" the world, several of
the great exporting cereal countries
have a large surplus, and there is no
such keen demand as existed a year
ago. Our wheat growers have compe
tition, which may be increased by the
breakdown of Turkish resistance to the
allies and release of the Russian sur
plus. By .making the loan, the banks
are making money not only for them
selves but for the farmers and for all
who sell goods to the farmers. The
loan Is good business from every
American's standpoint.
The spectacle of sire and son at the
same college is not usual. It might
well occur with greater frequency.
How else may the Eire hope to retain
his dignity when his erudite offspring
returns from a seminary of higher
earning gorged with such .data as
have been gathered in the course of
human progress?
If Austria calls all her subjects out
of American munition plants it will be
up to Francis Joseph to find them new
jobs or to feed them. The United
States will not support unemployed
armies of foreigners whose sovereigns
forbid them to work.
The judgment yesterday for the
death of a victim of a stray bullet
from the revolver of a city official es
tablishes a roofl precedent. It fixes
a principle, and, although small, is
likely to grow with the years.
Contemplating the attempt at sui
cide by a woman of forty-six, whose
regret was that she had not married,
how many wives, happily mated and
comfortable in life, realize how well
off they are?
The West did well to contend for
state rights. Federal control of state
functions has a pleasing ring in ora
tory but it doesn't work out at all
satisfactorily in practice.
The British vessel laden with horses
from America, sunk by a submarine
yesterday after a chase of seventy-
eight miles, certainly had plenty of
notice of intention.
A Denver doctor declares that tuber
culosis will soon lose its terrors. Seems
to us we have heard of some such
statement from Doc Friedman, of tur
tle-serum fame.
Governor "Mose" Alexander will not
miss the shots that failed to go off In
his gubernatorial salute from the
Boston. He may consider the warship
a joke.
A Walla Walla man has gone to
Washington, to show Secretary TJaniels
his invention of a personally conducted
torpedo. It's a long way from Steila-
coom.
Persecuted Armenians .will ask
America to help them. Don't they
know we don't even protect our own
citizens any more?
The ten. Japanese newspapermen
who sail from Tokio today to study
this country will find full hands In all
the press clubs.
That loan to the allies has been re
duced to half a billion. Not quite as
good a risk as it might have seemed
a year ago.
Teach market Is rioodea. . says a
headline, which should bring fresh
grief to the man who feels he picked
a lemon.
Constantinople is reported
dark at present. And with
prospect for a dark future.
to be
a fine
The young American doctor has his
opportunity now in the British army.
He Is needed.
Greece is mobilizing for defense.
That's what Germany said more than
a year ago.
Mr. Taft will enjoy unbounded popu
larltv so long as he does not ask for
anything.
A German army of 800,000 will eat
the Serbians alive as it forces passage.
The Beavers will do better next year.
This year they worked like welldlggers,
The Dollar rested comfortably yes
terday and Is convalescent today.
Don't
you are
overlook the dahlia show
a lover of real beauty.
if
That Dollar day sort of gave us the
habit.
Fair weather for the Fair season.
On to Pendleton!
Let 'er buck!
Twenty-Five Years Ago
TVom The Oregon lan of September 25. 1S0.
New York, Sept. 24. The arrival of
the first complete fruit train from Cal
ifornia to come east of Chicago has
caused much comment. Long notices
are in the afternoon papers, coupled
with stories of big prices already re
ceived throughout the season for Cal
lfornia fruit.
Port Townscnd. Sept- 24. A high of
ficial of the company says that the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road
has a contract to transport 40 cars
of iron for the Astoria & South Coast
road that was recently ordered by tele
graph from Eastern rolling mills.
Sydney, N. S. W., Sept. 24. The labor
congress finished work today, after
deciding to make a final appeal to
employers to hold a conference with
the men. The congress adhered to the
decision to call out the employes of
the wool trade. It is doubtful, how
ever, if the men will respond.
Columbus. S. C, Sept. 24. William
Ellicott, who was unseated by the
House of . Representatives yesterday,
was renominated by acclamation by
the Democrats of the Seventh district.
Hay is selling in Harney County at
!.75 per ton.
The river and harbor bill has been
signed by the President, but those
three small sandbars in the Willamette
still prevent navigation from Salem to
the sea, says the Salem statesman.
Following is a list of the delegates
selected to represent this state
In the convention of newspa
per men to nes neia at. bi.
Paul. Minn., next June:- 11. W. Scott,
of The Oregonian: L. Samuel. West
Shore; Charles Nickell, Times, Jack
sonville; O. P. Mason. Farmer. Port
land: S. M. Yoran, Journal. Eugene;
J. Mitchell, Mountaineer. The Dalles;
K. C. Pentland, West fcld.e. lnnepena-
ence.
The Battle of Gettysburg, exhibited
on Third street, between Pine) and Ash,
is certainly the great attraction oi tne
city.
Tk farleton Onera Company gave
Its third performance oi the week last
evening at the Marquam Grand in
Strauss' glittering musical worn. mo
Queen's Laco Handkerchief.' Y larjce
audience attended, despite the counter
attractions.
AT
THE
ROVNDl'P,
gay bunch of
Yes
I'm one
of a
boys
That belongs to the Bar X ranche,
And we'll give you the best
We can find in the West
At the Pendleton Roundup and dance.
Myself having once been a onort-
llorn.
I'll put you right onto the game.
Of playing the part
In a "thorough-bred's" art.
When your nerve and your legs have
gone lame.
If you get an invite from ine puncnera
To attend a "party or Ban.
Just wear your old clothes
And look full of repose
With a free exhibition of gall.
And when the crowd gathers in lorces.
Make believe you don't give a nang;
But bluster and joke.
Chew tobacca and smoke.
When "Big Johnson" blows in with
his gang.
If the ballroom looks shy as to females,
And "Shorty" should asK you to
dance.
Don't stop to inquire
If they mean to fire.
But to miss all the bullets. Just
prance!
If voir get into deep conversation
With a good-looking chap named
"Jim,"
Don't mention a "skirt."
For one- did him dirt.
And it's no double harness for him.
There's a fellow
so gruff he might
"Black Willie, the
scare you:
Thev call him
Wild."
But he's perfectly tame
They just gave him that name
Why! he'd eat from your hand he's
so mild.
In that little white house over
younder
Lives the dandiest girl in the land.
But the boys never stay.
When she gallops this way;
For she's roped and she's wearing
my brand.
Our broncos? Well
they are some
horse-flesh;
We're all proud of
"Royal Prince
Hal":
Well. I'll see you again.
Thanks, I hope I will win;
"Let her buck" is our motto old
Pal. VIRGINIA DRAKE.
SWISS CHEATERS PAY BIG PENALTY
Public Looks With Bitter Disapproval
on Eznoaed WelKht Shaver.
MOUNT ANGEL, Sept. 21. (To the
Editor.) "Twelve per cent of scales
examined in this city have been found
incorrect." Morning Oregonian, Sep
tember 20. 1915.
This fact is less amazing than the
jone wnicn it suggests to your paper.
In Switzerland, that fashion of rob
bery is sternly censured by the press.
It sends the culprit to the pillory. The
more influential or redoubtable he is,
the more despised he is. Public disap-
proDation ioiiows as long as the case is
remembered (case of John G .)
A single contravention of the police
pronounced against a great dealer of
fuel conducted his wife to the grave.
He himself became the disgrace of hie
family, his club. his party (Demo
cratic), nis district, his city, his na
tion. After wallowing in the yellow
press and fraudulent elections, his life
was of short duration. Yet he had only
oeen sentenced to a nne or 60 cents.
VY e are very fair, are we not, from
your humorous reflection?
A READER.
Marriage Law and Custom.
PORTLAND. Sept. 23. (To the Edi
tor.) Will you please tell me if there
13 a law in Oregon forbidding Amerl
cans to marry Japanese girls?
A READER.
No. The law forbids the marriage of
whites with negroes. Kanakas and Mon
golians, however, it is broadly defined
as including nil the yellow races of
Asia, and under this definition mar
riage licenses are refused to white and
Japanese.
Cheap Politics.
Medford Sun (Progressive).
The Portland Journal's attitude
toward Governor Withycombe and the
state administration is one of cheap
and petty politics. Building up men
of straw and then knocking them down
may please partisan Democrats, but it
only lessens the newspaper's influence
with fair-minded citizens throughout
the state.
Lionel A. Johnson's Address.
PORTLAND, Sept. 23. (To the Edi
tor.) In The Sunday Oregonian Au
gust 29 there was an article on Alaska
by Lionel A. Johnson. Kindly give the
address of the author in your question
and answer column, if vou have it, and
greatly oblige, A SUBSCRIBER
Lionel A. Johnson's address Is 52 San
Diego avenue, Long Beach, Cal.
HAKI.VG CAPITAL OF PATRIOTISM
Mawkish Devotion to National Spirit
Prompted In Theaters Resented.
PORTLAND. Sept. 25. (To the Edi
tor.) In the name of sanity 1 appeal
to The Oregonian for a few lines of
space in its correspondence columns.
The psychology of a deluded patriotism
is becoming painfully evident so much
so that I cannot resist what I feel
to be my duty in writing you.
I attended a performance at one of
our vaudeville theaters the other even
ing and a pleasing musical number
was rendered by an aggregation of
women. Suddenly (vaudeville like) the
medley resolved itself into our National
anthem. Then over three-fourths of
the audience arose. Before some of
them got to their feet, the medley
broke into something else. A few like
myself did not rise not for lack of
reverence but as a matter of good
taste.
Now, I, too, am an American with a
true and real devotion to the prin
ciples and traditions dear to every
American heart, but I protest against
the mawkish sentimentality connected
with tho rendering of our National
anthem. Why cheapen this beautiful
sentiment? Why allow (as I have ob
served for so long) some 10 and 20
cent vaudeville artist to exploit his act
and compel the audience to rise? Should
we rise when tho National anthem Is
rendered? Should we bare our heads'
Yes, we should rise, but onlv rise when
the occasion is fitting, an event akin to
the memory of Lincoln. Grant. Wash
ington, our National holidays, our his
torical symbols and all such events
that have to do with our National i'f
but to
capital
have a vaudeville act make
out of public patriotism well
I protest.
AN AM KR I CAN.
FARMER IIKSE.NTS HUE AXD CKY.
"Laborer" M ho Won't Work, on Pans
t;et Mo Sympathy In One Quarter.
PORTLAND, Sept. 23. (To tho Edi-tor-
I think it is time for the poor
laboring man to give us a' rest. No one
hears a farmer complaining and yet he
ia expected to sell cucumbers at 5 cents
a dozen to a man who sleeps until 7
o'clock and even later and belontrs to
a class who never raised a mouthful of
anything he has eaten in his life. No
labor can exist without the farmer and
yet no laborer will farm. -but continual
ly howl about the high cost of living.
Ills associates mob and drive out the
Hindu; often dynamite the employer
and then turn around and say that the
Japanese and Chinamen who always
sell to us and buy nothing shall he
competitors of the farmer. It seems to
me that the city laborer is becoming a
public nuisance and dictating to every
one. The rich man is a necessity. If
he does not receive some helo and en
couragement, he will certainly become
discouraged and do nothing. Farmers
and laborers are not empire builders.
Iet us all help the rich man to progress
and then if he does not deal squarely
there is a law. I hare lived on a farm
half a century, always worked hard, am
not rich and am not envious of the man
who has genius and energy enough to
manage and succeed in big business or
any business. If he Is to he harassed
at every turn by lahor and the law. cu
cumbers will be even less than r cents
a dozen. Civilization will not stand
still. We will either progress or de
generate. PRODUCElt.
No.
PORTLAND. Sept. 23. (To the Edi
tor.) Is it unlawful to make wine or
distill alcoholic liquors for your own
consumption in the United States.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Series of Remarkable Crimes
Reported in
The Sunday Oregonian
Recent history does not record another such remarkable series of
murders and robberies among; persons of preat wealth as those
which have occurred in the Eastern part of the United States since
the bejrinninp of the present month. Some of the best-known people
in the East have fipured in these sensational episodes. Several of
the most important cases will be described in full in The Sunday
Oregonian.
WAR PROPHESIED IX PAINTINGS In some of the famous Paris
ian art galleries are paintings and mural decorations which bear
almost uncanny prophecies regarding the present war. Many of
these works of art were produced as early as a century ago. Some
of them, in the light of recent events, bear a startling intimacy with
the events of the last few months. These pictures will be repro
duced in The Sunday Oregonian and a complete descriptive story
will accompany them.
SKETCHES FROM LIFE The artist Temple will present three of his
inimitable drawings to The Oregonian readers tomorrow. As the
title indicates, his subjects are drawn from real life.
DONT MAKE FACES In her regular page of advice to the women
readers of The Sunday Oregonian Lillian Russell points out the er-
, rors of twisting the face into unnatural positions through force of
habit. She shows how the expressions formed through habit sooner
or later become permanent deformities. She also answers another
series of questions from her readers.
HOW HOUSEHOLD PETS ENDANGER HEALTH Dr. Woods
Hutchinson, the well-known authority on medical subjects and
former resident of Portland, will tell in tomorrow's big Sunday paper
something about the ill effects that accompany attempts to raise
dog3 and other domestic animals in the city. The story will be il
lustrated. BERNARD SHAW ON THE WAR As a usual thing George Bernard
Shaw can be expected to do something unusual. This time he has
broken out on the subject of the war especially the attitude of the
so-called neutrals. He has some very advanced ideas on the subject,
which will be printed in The Sunday Oregonian.
CHILDREN HAVE HALF PAGE Another half page will be devoted
tomorrow to the entertainment of the children. It will be filled
with bright stories, pictures, jokes, puzzles, poems "and other fea
tures of interest to the little folks.
AMERICAN MEN MAKE NEW RECORD Now comes an expert on
the subject of men's clothes and declares that American men are
better dressed than their European cousins. In tomorrow's paper
this student of the sartorial art will present a review of his observa
tions, together with photographs calculated to prove his point.
AMERICA HAS MANY WOMEN FARMERS Did you ever know
that there are in the United States more than 800,000 women who
actually are engaged in the occupation of tilling the soil. This is
a fact and tomorrow's paper will explain where these women work
and how, and will tell something of the results attending their ef
forts. SUNDAY MOVIE PAGE The Oregonian continues to offer its page
of moving picture news to its Sunday readers. This page will be
up to the minute tomorrow, with a picture of one of the newest film
stars, gossip of the players and a lot of answers to questions from
the movie fans.
OTHER SUNDAY DEPARTMENTS The regular Sunday features
will be more prominent than ever, including Donahey's page of
drawings and fairy stories for the children, the sporting section,
several pages of dramatic and local moving picture news, real es
tate, automobiles, society and the activities of women.
HANDSOME COVER PAGE As this is the season when the dahlia
blooms in its greatest glory, The Oregonian will offer tomorrow a
cover page in colors, illustrating the profusion of this attractive
flower, which has been declared the rival of the rose.
WATER-POWER SPEECHES State control versus Federal control
of the water-power resources and development of the great West
This was the big issue at the Western States' Water-power Confer
ence, which went on record by overwhelming majority for a National
policy of state control in Portland this week. Both sides of the dis
cussion will be presented in Sunday's Oregonian, in which will be
published in full the address of United States Senator Reed Smoot,
of Utah, leading advocate of state control, and of O. C. Merrill,
chief engineer of the Department of Agriculture, an advocate of
Federal control. The question from an engineering viewpoint solely
will also be presented in the address of Henry J. Pierce.
Kali a Century Ago
From The Oregonian 0f September 2 is5r..
Washington. Sept. 21. Judge Jame3
Steel, acting clerk of the Indian Bu
reau, leaves tomorrow to attend a
council oT Indian tribes now on the
Platte F.iver, to be held October 4.
There are indications that treaties of
a. very desirable nature wiU there bo
ratified.
New York. Sept. 21. The special
Mexican correspondent of the Times,
under date of August 20, says military
operations will be actively resumed in
October. The country is rapidly going
to destruction, between the French.
Liberals and guerrillas. Cortinas had
made a haul of $100,000 In silver. Juarez
is still in Chihuahua. There are many
reports of arbitrary arrests by the
Maximilian government. The Liberals
are mas'ers of Durango and have cap
tured several hundred Belgians. Max
imilian promises a line of steamers be
tween Vera Cruz and New Orleans.
Washington. Sept. 22. The Govern
ment today Is in receipt of voluminous
dloatches from our Consuls at Smyrna.
Port Mahon and' Barcelona, giving fur
ther information of the ravages of
cholera in various parts of Europe.
Tho reports from Canstantinople are
most alarming, the deaths from Uiis
disease having reached tho number of
2000 per day.
It is some time since we have had
any excitement about old Mount Hood
belching forth, but on Saturday last
the actual puffs, in dense black smoke,
were witnessed by hundreds of persons
In this city. The fumes appeared to
rise from the deep gorge in the south
western side, and were so thick as lit
erally to obscure the view of the sum
mit at times. It may oe. that this i3
but the venthole of an immense fur
nace firing up in Mexico or South
America.
Common consent is emphatic, now in
the city with regard to the Nicholson
pavement, since the late decision of
the Supremo Court, and it Is impos
sible to meet anyone who will not
say "Down with the pavement."
I'pon the arrival of the Rescue from
Montieello on Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday evenings, fresh trout may b
secured by applying on board.
Question of T)unl Allrsinnrr.
rORTI.AXi). Sept. 23. (To the F.di
tor. ) Will you please advise m
through The Oregonian if it is the con
tention of the Austro-IIunstarian min
ister. Dr. ruimba. that all residents of
the United States, born in Austro-Hun-piirv.
and their immediate descendant",
borr. in the United States, are still
subjects of Austro-Hungary. even
thouch the parent may have been
naturalized and become a cittren of
the United States. A HEADER.
Austria - Hungary contends that
natives of that country cannot re
nounce their nllcEriance by naturaliza
tion and are still subjects of Austria
Hungary. As to whether the empire,
takes the same position with regard
to descendants of such persons, w
have no positive information, thonch
probably the situation is legally the
same with no effort to make It good
in practice. France claims allegiance
of American-born sons of French
parents, and probably Austria does
likewise.