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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. TUUIISDAT, SEPTEMBER HO. 1915. W$Bw$&ntmx IHJRTUND. OKEtiON. Entered at Portland, Oregon, Foatofflca a second clasa matter, bubecriptioa Kates Invariably In advance. (By Mall. TiatJy, Funday lneluded, ona ear H.UO Jjally, Sunday Included, aix montha . .... 4.25 rally. Sunday Included, three montha . . .-5 I'aily, fcunday Included, one month 75 J Hiy, without Sunday, one year ........ W.Uu ral;y, njthout Sunday, six montha lal!y, ttbout Kunda', three months ... Iiaily, without unday. ona month ...... . Weekly, on year .............. l.uo Sunday, one year ......... 2.00 fcunday and Weekly, one year (By Carrier Tlally, Sunday Included, ona year ""9 Dally, bucdsy Included, one month ... How In Remit Bend postofflca money or der, express order or personal check on your lo ai bank, stamr". coin or currency are at renders rtek. (iiva poatoffice addreas in lull. Including county and atate. Pnalage Kate 12 to 16 pases. 1 cent; IS to 32 pace. 2 eonta; 3 to 4$ pases, 3 cents; 6(i to Sd raea, 4 cents; 02 to 14 paaes. 0 tents; 78 to 2 raes, 6 cents. i"orelgn postage, double rates. Kastem Buatnes Office" Verree Cvnk lln, Prunawick building. New York; verree Cc.nk.lln. Kteaer building, Chlcano; Kan .Vranclfcco retrsentalive, K. J. Bldwell, 42 Warkft street. PORTLAND, THTRSDAY, fciEI"T. 30, 1915. , NB FLAG. A school for Americans an Amer icanization school is to.be established In Portland. It is a good idea, for It has a great task to perform. It -will not end with persuading foreign-born citizens to drop and forget their hyphens. It will have achieved Its hjghest aim only when it shall have taught Americans all Americans of both sexes, native-born and foreign horn, that it is a privilege to live under the Stars and Stripes, and It is a duty, if there Is need, to die for them. It will be well to teach in the School for Americans that it is a Nation of one language, one flag, one loyalty, and one destiny. Jt will be worth while to show that a wise preparedness is far nobler and far safer than an effeminate surrender to a soft and complaisant Pharisaism which assumes and says that nothing will happen to us if we but turn the other cheek. A true work will have been per formed if it be taught that war is not the greatest National curse, but in difference to or neglect of National duty is worse. So is a pretended Amer icanism which gives lip-service to this country and heart-service to another country. If it shall be shown that patriotism is not a mere word, and freedom not a mask for secret connivance with enemies, actual or possible, and liberty not license to defame the American Government and its President, and to defile American ideals -and their real meanings, the American school will have more than paid for itself. If the belief can be well grounded In all minds that the perpetuity of American institutions and the preser vation of the American idea is the most important thing in all the world, the country will be in no danger from any foe, without or within. It is more Important than the exaltation or down, fall of empires or kingdoms, or mon archies, or dynasties, or states; more important than the triumph or failure of emperors, or kaisers, or czars, or sultans, or kings, or potentates. An Americanization school to teach a real Americanism! Good. It is aside from the question to say that it should not be needed. But if it shall not be done, here or somewhere, God save the Republic! AS TO KEEPING A DOMESTIC. It would be interesting to know how many books of advice have been visited upon a patient world. Copious draughts appear in every known tongue, from Sanscrit to slang. Cer tainly there is not storage space in the whole city of Portland for all the volumes that have flown from the pens of sages and near-sages telling us just how to regulate our lives and direct every phase of our activities from cra dle to grave. Do we contemplate mat rimony, a career, or death, huge vol umes of advice leaning from the heavy shelves grasp our halting shoulders and turn us into the straight path that leads direct to our goal. Of course no one ever accepts any of these noble ministrations to our untutored souls, tout that fact does not deter our eter nal advisers. The latest seer to unravel one of the tangles of mortal existence has settled the complicated servant problem. Treatises, essays and dissertations on this complex topic have been evolved Without number, but this is the first novel-size incandescent that has been turned into the cellar of our darkness on the subject. The author, a New TYork matron, enters into the servant problem with a zest, thoroughness and attention to detail worthy of Darwin In his quest of our origin. She tells all about servants from the fact that they are female biped mammals, on down to a description of their favorite amusement of quitting the job at din ner time after from one day to one week of service. Whole chapters aTe devoted to the stimuli that incite them to this last named activity. The principal consid erations are described as long hours, Jack of sympathy, small wages and a general lack of appreciation of their finer sensibilities. Their work is never lone. Kveryone in the household adds to their normally multitudinous du ties. They are treated in many homes sis serfs, rather than free and inde jiendent beings. When the thermom eter registers below zero the servant must light the furnace, while the lan guid, luxurious male head of the house hold keeps to his warm comforters. She must split wood, carry coal, cook, wash, care for the children. Small wonder she falls victim to the eternal Ptory of Utopian homes where her labors will be lighter, and thus is kept moving from home to home in quest of the Holy Grail of pleasant servitude .which she never finds. But it is all our fault that she does not linger. The book says so, after harrowing our souls with the servant girl's woes. It points the way to an equitable adjustment, one satisfactory to all concerned. The servant girl merely needs intelligent consideration end tho application of business meth ods to her work, we are told. Pamper ing is not necessary. Give her regular working hours, say from 7 A. M. until S P. M. Then let her go for the day, Let her have one full day off a week. Encourage her by occasional promo tion and increase of wages. Tou will have no further difficulty keeping a Kirl if you try these simple remedies. Fine ideas for application by those yrho hire their servants in shifts and relays, men me aiternoon gins could come on duty as the forenoon girls went off. Memoranda might be left behind by tho cook who had ordered the dinner for use by the -one who .would prepare the meal. But the trou. Ible is the average family cannot afford H.O hire its help in hordes and since It is the average family that hires most of the domestics, and since the average family has gotten hopelessly into the habit of loading all the work and chores upon the servant girl, we fail to see where this latest proffer of helpful advice benefits anyone very much. We are inclined to fear that the servant problem Temains unsolved, even in tho face of a whole volume of elucidation. We fear that the millen nium will find It unsolved unless in vention takes up the cause where vol umes of gratuitous advice leave off. IN AN E.MJTT HOUSE. Patrolman Long was perhaps a lit tle quick on the trigger, but it is better to be safe than sorry- Ho and his fellow officers had at the peril of their lives undertaken to capture a danger ous criminal a murderer, an outlaw, a demon of hate and ferocity who was at bay and who was at war with so ciety and all its agencies. He had slain on sight Warden Minto, and he had all but killed the town marshal of Jefferson. There are persons who will say that Officer Christofferson was needlessly reckless in entering that empty Albany house, in the dark, to seek his quarry. It is not to be doubted that Hooker, if he could, would have slain him in stantly. Yet it was a risk an officer had to take. It is the American way to hunt the desperado in his lair, and give him no possible chance either of escape or to take any other ad vantage of opportunity and delay. It is true that the officers, if they had known it was Hooker who was in hid ing, might have been justified in sur rounding the house and waiting for daylight, or have driven him out by whatever weapons were handy, or even in subjecting him to volley fire after a summons to surrender. But what would have happened then? Warden Minto called "You wait!" to the apprehensive and ready fugitive and forfeited his own life through the time given him to shoot. Yet it ap peared to the Warden unjustifiable to shoot down a wild beast without warn ing, and he- took the fateful risk. If there be any disposition to criti cise Officer Long, let the circumstances of the midnight capture and arrest be considered the savage and treacher ous criminal, the half light, the grue some and terrible surroundings, the knowledge of Hooker's deadly facility with the pistol, the remembrance of the fate of Minto and Marshal Benson. Any suspicious movement called for Instant action. It may be deemed sur prising in the circumstances that any kind of overt act by Hooker was awaited. Who would have taken the chance, knowing or believing that his own life would pay the penalty for any lacri of celerity or watchfulness? Can anyone wish that Hooker might have been spared ? To what end? A liv ing death in prison, despised by offi cers and scorned by his fellow-prisoners? For his devilish exploit has not done even the meanest of the convicts a service. He is better off. WHAT CONSTITUTES A CRIME? "What la Tho Oregonian's judgment of public opinion in Idaho, which has an enactment that goes so far as to make it felony to possess liquor, whether used or not? This law must represent "a preat pre ponderance of public sentiment," for It was passed by an overf lowlngly wet Legisla- lure ! Is public sentiment cast in a different mold in adjoining states? Boise Statesman. The Oregonian; thinks the public attitude toward liquor and the saloon is substantially the same in all the Northwestern states. It is doubtful if there is in Idaho, or in Oregon, a fanatical and vengeful general wish to send a man or woman to the peni tentiary for mere possession of liquor, whether used or not. The way to reform the drinker at least the mod erate or casual drinker is not to put him behind the bars and keep him there. It may b& said that the policy of the Idaho law is not reform of the individual, but purification of a state. But if a state is first pure, its people will then be peaceable. So the public good is, after all, the great object of the law, as it ought to be of any law. The Oregonian is reluctant to ex press its views of the iracticability of the Idaho law. But it will not hesi tate to say that it has no great con fidence in the intent of a wet Legisla ture to pass a perfectly dry law or, rather, a workable dry law. If the Idaho law shall be enforced to the letter, prison is destined to be a popular resort for many citizens. who may be bibulous or merely un lucky. But we do not look for so un happy an outcome. UNEMPLOYED ON tOCCED-Ol'F LAND. There is good sound sense in the criticism which City Commissioner Baker made on the plan of providing work for the unemployed, submitted to the Chamber of Commerce com mittee by the Oregon Society of En gineers. A man should not be asked to work for less than the going rate of wages merely because employment is offered as a means of relief to the unemployed. The going rate of wages for common labor is iot as high as $3 a day, as was assumed by the Cen tral Labor Council when the county paving bonds were under discussion, nor is it as low as $1.25 a day, as the engineers seem to assume. Fixing of I such a rate brands the scheme as char ity, not as business. The unemployed do not ask charity; they ask work that is worth doing at wages that are based on business, not on charity. I Another objection to the engineers' plan is that it treats the clearing of logged-off land as a temporary expe dient to provide employment in a time of depression. That work should be undertaken and prosecuted continu ously as a business matter, on its merits. It should be undertaken on a large scale with proper machinery for cheap removal of stumps and for util ization of their many useful ingredi ents. Experiment has shown that many commodities can be produced from stumps and that they should realize enough money at least to pay the cost of clearing, if not to yield profit. Surely the time has arrived when the possibilities demonstrated by these experiments should be tested in practical application on a business like scale. Neglect to clear the great areas of logged-off land is a reproach to the West and is a violation of the theory of conservation about which we have talked so much. The occasion suggests a broadening of the field of the logging industry. Instead of confining his attention to cutting off the timber and leaving the land unfit for either agriculture or pasture, the logger might well extend his operations to include the clearing and settlement of. the land. If the logging crew were followed by a clear ing gang and that by a third crew which would extract from the logs their useful ingredients, the entire process would be carried through, more economically and it would no sooner be finished than the logger would have agricultural land for sale, ready for the settler to plow and put in crops. In the work of colonization a leaf might be taken out of the book of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. That com pany did in irrigating great tracts of arid land in the Canadian Northwest precisely what .we suggest with regard to the logged-off land of the Pacific Coast it prepared the land for settle ment. It then sought out in Eastern Canada and the United States desir able settlers and backed them finan cially until they had a crop which made them self-supporting. A logging company with ample capital could do the same thing. It could secure many settlers from among its employes by arranging to apply a portion of their wages as a payment on land. By pur suing this policy It could make two profits one on the timber and one on the land and instead of leaving an eyesore and a blight on development, it could leave a prosperous settlement of independent farmers. TABBY ODER SUSPICION. Charges of a most appalling, char acter have just been .lodged against Tabby and Tommy. Our purring little house pets are an economic waste greater than war if wo may believe the heinous charges lodged against them, and which charges are now un der investigation by the National As sociation of Audubon Societies. Half a million lives a year are charged against pussy that and the loss of enough money every day to run our city for a year on an efficiency-crank basis. We have always known of pussy's penchant for birds. Who has not watched Tabby stealthily approach Robin Redbreast with the blood lust in her eyes? Yet we supposed that it was exceptional for Tabby to accom plish her fiendish mission. Now we are advised that 500,000 little feath ered victims fall each year into the gory claws of Felis domestlca. Data have been gathered to this effect and if substantiated, something will be done about it. For it is not a mere matter of senti ment. Our economists, horticulturists and entomologists have been checking the situation over and find that a total damage to trees and crops of $600, 000,000 is done each year in this coun try by insects. As everyone knows, the bird is the one sworn enemy of tke insect at least the only one that gets results. We humans have a habit of mixing our sentimentality and our own interests so that while we rejoice when birds eat insects we weep when something eats the birds. The birds are the protectors of our crops as well as the beautiflers of our femininity, so they must be safeguarded at any cost. Tabby and Tommy may prove to be innocent of the charge. Or the accu sations may turn out base exaggera tions, wholly unwarranted by the facts in the case. The trial has not yet been completed and will not be until all the evidence can be collected. But even if Tabby and Tommy are cleared on the murder charge and are able to es cape the inevitable muzzle, we would come forward with a misdemeanor charge that ought to be prosecuted vigorously. Pussy is notorious as a disturber of the midnight serenity. Corroborative evidence to this effect can be gathered from ninety million witnesses. Hence if the Audubon so cieties do not recommend laws muz zling pussy for the welfare of the feathered tribes, they should not fail to urge Maxim silencers in the inter ests of the long-suffering human family. ARTILLERY PREPARATION, Artilrery preparations for the great forward movement of the allies on sev eral important sectors of the German line must have proved a prodigious and expensive task. According to the French official dispatches weeks were spent in paving the way for the in fantry to move ahead. While details are lacking, it is plain that the French heavy artillery was put to the necessity of fairly unearthing the German ad vance elements from their under ground .fortifications. Thousands of tons of explosive shells must have been hurtled from the rear of the French lines into the German sectors in order to dig the enemy out. With deep, heavily protected intrenchments, ar ranged in continuous lines and having a breadth as great as 4000 yards, a veritable hail of huge shells would be required. These shells, of necessity would have to be confined to pre scribed areas of the German sectors, since all the artillery in the world would prove unequal to the task of unearthing a firing line 300 miles in length. Artillery fire alone cannot succeed in driving the enemy out. The func tion of the artillery is to prepare the way for an assault. When the French heavy guns had torn out several acres of trenches in a selected sector it then remained for the infantry to press the charge, supported by the smaller guns of the field artillery. The climax must be achieved by assault, by tho deter mination to enter the hostile position regardless of the volume of resistance. Where the heaviest of modern guns loave off, the primitive knife thrust of the bayonet steps ii. It must have tried the courage of the staunchest and most seasoned vet erans to move forward in such a charge as the French lines made. The French commanders having chosen the psychological hour when their artillery had gained the fire superiority and partially demoralized the enemy could not hope to fall upon a routed foe. The artillery preparations necessarily would draw heavy infantry supports from ad joining hostile sectors. The heavy artillery could not bo expected to unearth and destroy the whole in trenchments of the enemy. Hence the infantry would be forced into a death zone of leaden hall rained from shielded rifles and machine guns, de pending upon their field artillery be hind and their own fire between rushes to beat down the enemy's fire volume. At the short ranges of as tai'.lt in the present trench fighting they must have sustained considerable losses from their own artillery. It is inevitable that a short, low burst of friendly shrapnel will mow men down, but the competent commander pays no heed 'to this, as he knows his losses from such a source are trifling com pared with what he would be com pelled to sustain' were the artillery to cease firing prematurely. The psychology of the charge against a capable and intrenched enemy is comparable in a measure to that of making a run from one shelter to another during the course of a down pour of rain. One knows he is in for a wetting, but other considerations render the wetting of lesser conse quence. The commanders know in ad vance that they must sustain horrible losses, but then human life must re main a secondary consideration in the grim business of war. The life of one soldier or of ten thousand men may be far less important than some definite objective which their- loss may achieve. Such is the stern philosophy of the battle zone. So the border raids were the work of a forgotten, but now new, Mexican party, which the Mexicans may call the Magonistas. In deciding which leader to recognize, the Pan-American conferees have an embarrassment of riches the Carranzlstas, Villistas, Zapatistas, Huertistas, Magonistas, to say nothing of the Cientificos, who may j et rise again. Georgia recently executed legally a 14-year-old negro for the customary crime. His victim was an 8-year-old white girl. His offense was great and deserved fit punishment: but in hang ing him tho-State of Georgia appears to be playing with child murder. What that state and many others need most is a penalty that can be administered by a surgeon. The mothers whose countries have become great and free are those who give their sons for the nation's defeame, though "agonized continually with fear for them," as "An American Mothqr" writes. Mothers who did not raise their boys to be soldiers find too often that their countries are divided, im poverished and conquered. From London comes the smug an nouncement that the British have put an end to submarine warfare. Wash ington strongly hints that it was our matchless diplomacy that did the feat. But wo more than suspect that sub marine warfare has been modified be cause it was productive of no really important results. If those men who had dynamite in a wagon hit by a train at Bend had dropped the stuff, there would have been a disastrous result: but as the wagon was hit first and the explosive thrown out, it did not go off. Dyna mite is full of this kind of Idiosyn crasy. At last we have the explanation of the Welsh coal miners' strike. They only followed the unpatriotic example of their employers, who paid bonus dividends with money gained from their country's need. They should be pilloried. Possibly Gaffney, Consul-General at Munich, talked too much In criticising the Administration. At any rate, they got him, and that is the point. There is a good Democrat somewhere who needs the job. By decision of the United States Court at Detroit, the up-to-the-minute grocer now can give bargains in break fast foods. This is one instance that shows how the anti-trust laws help the consumer. Allies and Teutons each are claim ing victory in the latest drive. It's all a matter of viewpoint in the early stages of such a battle. We must wait some time for the net results. Flynn's advice to fast when ill is based on fact. Did you ever see a sick hobo? The knight of the road not only misses many a meal, but post pones several of the others. Poor, big, blundering Russia is bor rowing everything from money to sub marines from her allies. The only military resource In which she excels is raw material for soldiers. We hope that the Pope's suggestion of a truce may be accepted. After fourteen months of war we onlookers need a breathing spell. Every time the Turks lose a trench on the Gallipoli Peninsula they com fort themselves with an Armenian massacre. Your taxes will be higher by 10 per cent if you don't pay them today. And goodness knows they are high enough as it is. Distance alone prevents many Port land people from attending the fair at The Dalles, which, as usual, is "just ripping." Those Cape Cod cranberries show nerve in coming across the continent to compete with the Ilwaco product. One needs a map of the Balkans, dividers, adding machine and divining rod to digest the new war situation. But let us have "efficiency" In our city government, even if we have to pawn our jewels to pay the bill. Remembering exploits of other con victs who escaped, Valley people will feel easier with Hooker dead. Bids for TJ boats have been called for by the Government. Henry Ford should get his bid in early. If you cannot get away to Salem early this morning, go later; but, of all things, come home early. Stefansson's now-found land might be an excellent place for tho next Russian capital. For a fact, the number of fires has lessened since alleged arsonists have been in jail. Berlin says the French have been stopped. But then they may start for ward again. The Czar has wired congratulations to Paris. Not too fast, Nicholas, not too fast! Nowhere can a fellow- go to escape the danger of explosives and other dis asters. Re-electing Mayor Rolph has be come a habit in San Francisco. Where is Queen Sophie of Greece in these latest movements? The call to the Greek colors will affect the shine industry. State Fair people put the charm on the weather this year. San Francisco stmply stand for Schmitz. could not Tour taxes will be higher if you forget to pay today. That cough cost Hooker his life. Stars and Starmakers By Leone Casa Baer. ACTRESS who has Just wedded a war correspondent frankly ad mits that she "wanted to get into the war . zone." Well, there aren't enough war correspondents to go around, girls, but any of us can get into tho war zone all right all right by Just marrying anybody else. The account says that after a court ship covering three years Eleanor Flower, actress and dancer, and Greg ory Mason, war correspondent and magazine writer, were married last week in New York City and left on the steamship Kursk, of the Russian American line, for Europe. The bride is going to study dancing in the Fine Arts building, permission having been granted by an imperial order of the Czar himself, which Is considered quite a distinction in these war-ridden times. Mr. Mason is sailing , to Europe as correspondent for the Outlook. When Miss Flowers returned from Canada, where she had been rlaylng. she told him that she was going to Russia and he persuaded her to accompany him to tho altar first. Gregory Mason is the brother of John Mason, now playing in "Common Clay" at the Stuyvesant The ater. Mr. Mason's grandfather was the founder of the Mason & Hamlin Piano Company. George Mason's commission to go to the front came rather abrupt ly and this was partly the reason why the marriage took place sooner than was expected. While his wife studies in Moscow, he will fulfill his mission with the Russian army. m m Frances McHenry telephones to ask what has become of the Boy In Blue we all used to write something about. Dunno, Frances. The lad in khaki has taken his place and not even Kipling can rhyme that word with anything. " A former combination of several years ago was revived lately, when Florence Roberts passed again to John Cort's management. Under Mr. Cort's direction she will be seen in a comedy entitled "The Claim," by Frank Dare. The story is a romance of Arizona. Miss Roberts' last previous appear ance here under Mr. Cort's management was in "The Strength of the Weak." and she made a pronounced personal success. Since then she has been ap pearing in vaudeville and in stock. Laura Hope Crews has a mind of her own and she speaks it occasionally. Hers are a few spade words from the brilliant dramatic star: "If there Is any one thing more than any other that gives me a large sense of fatigue, it is the fool advice given to women about how to make round places out of flat, and straight lines out of curved, the drawbacks being a part of their estate of flesh and blood. The girl who is shy in length is told how she can add an inch or two by stretching. She who is rotund in front or back, where fullness has a right to be, is provided with a straight jacket that keeps her as stiff as a poker the rest of the day. If her chest is maiden ly timid, oils and rubbing are suggest ed until the poor thing is sore and hopeles3. If her neck and arms are pipe-stemmy, out of doors for her from sunrise to sundown, and work and food that would make an ox an anar chist. What with putting grease on their faces, splints on their sides, stilts on their feet and fool notions in their heads, the wonder is not that so many give up hope and fall into despair, but that so few do. The fact that some body gets good money out of this kind of writing does not relieve the matter either way. Frequently the suggestion Is an indirect advertisement for soma article of supposed help, and therefore more blamable. "One might suppose that women with as much brain as a fishing worm would know that fresh air, sunlight, exercise and cheerful thoughts, with energy making sleep, ore what they must find to keep and make health. To talk to women who try to make one wrinkle grow where two are entitled to time, and who think straps are going to make them willowy atid happy, would be as useless as to argue with a tree box." What do you think of that, girls? Miss Crews is one of the five-star aggregation (the other four stars be ing William H. Crane, Maclyn Ar buckle, Thomas W. Ross and Mabel Taliaferro) presenting "The New Hen rietta," at the Heilig this week. Because she wanted to do something out of the ordinary a Chicago actress and. a Kankakee. 111., man, were mar ried In a cell at the Joliet prison. They should have been taken directly from there to the state asylum. A cable dispatch Informs that "Lon don wants good plays." 1 For that matter so da we all. Mrs. Paul Armstrong Catherine Calvert of the stage does not propose to allow the name of her late husband to pass out of the theatrical world. She retains his offices and gives dally personal attention to the business re lating to plays running on the circuit, as well as to several unfinished pro ductions, for the benefit of her own lit tle boy, Paul. Junior, and the three children by a former wife who are to share in the estate. The play that Mr. Armstrong wrote for Miss Calvert and which was to have been produced this October has been postponed until early in the coming year. English folk may take their pleas ures sadly, but they are taking them, anyway. In spite of Zeppelin raids, all tho theaters in London are doing good business, some arc playing to ca pacity and the American plays and players are in the lead, A new Pinero play has Just made a brilliant failure at the St. James. In Paris, once the home of the drama, the theaters are doing nothing, only one new play hav ing been produced this season. Portland is a milestone in the careers of two actresses who are at the Or pheum this week. They are Bertee Beaumonte, formerly with "Miss No body From" Starland." 'and Bessie Browning, who was featured here in "The Land of Nod." Miss Beaumonter is remembered as Nina, the Italian girl, a role she played at the Heilig for the first time three years ago and at the Heilig a second time a year later. Bes sie Browning, who specializes in imi tating Eddie Foy and Eva Tanguay, was ambitious to become a school teacher, failed In examinations, tried the stasre and was a success from the start. "I'm part German and part Eng lish," said Miss Browning. "That's why I am at war with myself." Some time ago, when a New York publication listed the college girls who have won success on the stage. Miss Browning's nam was well up in front. W. C. T. U. "SAFE AND SANE" BODV President of Temperance Warktra Maya Remark on. Tobaceo I'aers m .leaf. rORTL.X0, Sept. 29. (To the Edi tor.) The W. ,C. T. U. is a perfcctly safe and sane organization carrying on its work along educational lines, and helping to enforce prohibition by cre ating public sentiment in favor of it. I always supposed the American audience knew a Joke when they heard it. but the dead seriousness with which my jesting remarks were received was a surprise. If such a scheme -was practical It would never have boon mentioned un til the law had gone into effect, and cases hnd come before the court for decision. Public mention marked it as a joke. As to the ground for the rrmark: The only printed form for nn affidavit contained in the bill Is the one to be signed by the purchaser of pure ethyl alcohol from a pharmacist. He must make affidavit that he is not addicted to the use of any narcotic drug. The physician who writes a prescription cannot be a tiser of a nar cotic drug. No one who is addicted to the use of narcotic drtiss can pur chase any ethyl alcohol for medicinal, mechanical, scientific or pharmaceuti cal purpos.s, or for external applica tion. Jf the use of narcotic druses debarred one from purchasincr pure ethyl alco hol for external applications. what miaht a court decide in regard to the purchase of spirituous, vinous and malt liquors for Internal application? rso prophet has ever been wise enough to forecast certainly how the court would interpret any law. At the present time yawyers are wrestling with tho question whether "or" spells "and" or not. An eminent attorney stated in a public meeting that all affidavits must be kept on file, open to the inspection of any officer or citizen, but he was mistaken. The original draft of the bill permitted this, but the, amended measure, as passed by the Legislature, eliminated the word citizen and only an officer has the right to inspect the files. Having converted the majority of the people in Orecon to tho theory of pro hibition, we are now going to do our best to make them full in love with the practice of it and we are going to do it in a perfectly womanly way so let no one be disturbed. MATT1E M. SLEETH. President Multnomah County V. C. T. U. SlFKRAliK TILT CASTS SHADOW It rsivea Hint of What to Expert In Politic of Future, Soya One. PORTLAND. Sept. 28. (To the Edi tor.) It is enough to make an angel weep to see the members of the Con gressional Union washing their dirty linen in public, as has been dono re cently. Who would have thought that the lady voters who were heralded as about to inaugurate a millennial era in which all double-dealing, intrigue and connivance were to be forever banished from political life could themselves have been guilty of using tricky methods in conducting the in tern:il affairs of their organization methods, which if attempted in a regu lar political campaign would have ren dered them liable to prosecution under the corrupt practices act? It is a sad day of disillusion for us male idealists who thought we were giving this wicked old world a boost upward by presenting, with our best compliments, the vote to the ladles. It seems that the ladies are. after all. just like other people. 1 fear we shall have to look for just as -much chi canery and subterfuge in our politics with tho women -oting as without them. We misguided idealists mitrht indeed have foreseen this, for in not all history full of Instances of the craft and guile of female Intrigue in political and diplomatic relations? re pend upon female cleverness to devise means of indirection of brilliant orig inality. And yet this littlo tempest in the Congressional Union has its interest iner and valuable side. It reveals the shining goddess of woman's suffrage by Federal amendment in decided dis habille, with her hair down and her rouge off. ONE MOTHKH'S SON. MOTHER FOIl MILITARY TRAININO It Will Teach Pojm Many Thlnim I'arenta Have Failed to Impart. PORTLAND. Sept. 28. (To the Edi tor.) I am not a mother of boys, but a mother interested in the welfaro of all children an interest deeply em bedded ia my heart. I wish the moth ers who are crying out against the military training in the schools would stop and think a moment of the good the training will do her boys. The stoop-shouldered onea will have to straighten up. She has been calling to them for years to straighten up. The sloppy walk will be changed to a manly one. The discipline is worth more than all the rest. Let us look at the good it will do to the boys and be glad that the oppor tunity is afforded. Many mothers are wishing they could afford to send their boys to military school never thinking of oreparing them for war, but of making fine, good men. better able to fight in life's battle. As one mother l'.u said, "the preparedness will never make, war; never mind war, think only of the interest of your boy's health. These officers will teach the boys many things that their fathers and mothers have failed to tell them and many boys the -e are who have no one to teach them. It will help the moth ers and help the teachers. I say let the boy be taught to begin the day with a pledge and a salute to the grand old Flag and go back years and tell them why they do it. MOTHER. TRAIN' THE ROYS AM) GIRLS, TOO Other Nations Seeing Us United Would Be Slow to Avtaiconise Ua. PORTLAND. Sept. 28. (To tho Edi tor.) I most heartily approve the sentiments of "Anna Read" and "An American Mother" to train our boys in militarism. Most mothers feel the same way about going to war as an "American Mother" does. But no doubt we, would feel worse if we were in vaded by a foreign power, if we were not prepared. So I say yes, train our boys for de fense and also train our girls to do everything to help In time of war. Other nations seeing us so united nnd prepared would not be so ready to attack or declare war. MOTHER OF THREE GROWN-UPS. Maelc Art. HILLSBORO, Or., Sept. 28. (To the Editor.) Will you kindly inform me through Tho Oregonian whether or not there is such a thing as magic or sleight of hand and If so where can I learn the same? AN OLD READER. "Visit sny well-equipped book shop or novelty store and you will tlnd nu merous pamphlets, books and equip ment telling of and instructing ' in magic art. sleight of hand, etc. They may bo bought for a few cents. Advice From a Philosopher. Washington (D. C.) Star. "Alius speak de truth." said Uncle Eben, "but befo' you stahts in, make sure that de particular truth dat's on yoh mind happens to be any of yoh business." From an Old l-'amily. , 'Judge. ' "Your wife came from a fine old fam ily, didn't she?" "No; she brought them with, her," ... - Twenty-Five Years Ago From Tho CreKonian. September SO. 1SPO. Merchants are complaining of the inability to get freight cars to handle their business. Senator Polph says he had intended to spend the recess of Congress in Orpcon but the session hs been so prolonred that he will remain In Washington. Spokane is assured of the baseball pennant a the result of yesterday's garo with Seattle. Taeoma. Seattle and Portland finish In order. Portland having won 15 games and lost 62. Seattle J. bought the here. F. Cordrav, of Portland. Madison-Ptrect Theater London John Morley scored Balfour and tho government Inst nieht In an address, in which he said the Tipperary prosecutlons have cruelly blisrhted the hopes of the Unionists. The bonds for the railroad to Astoria are almost disposed cf. The Rummcl mine on Klamath River is turning out ?500 to $600 a week. "Two Nights In Rome." featuring Joseph Grismcr and Phoebe Davis, played at the Marquam Grand last richt and "Ten Nichts In a Barroom" held forth at Ojrdrny's. The matter of publishing a paper In the interests of the Christian Church of the Northwest took definite form last night when the Northwest Chris tian Publishing Company was organ ized. An electric pifno Is creating much Interest at the Exposition. T F. Campbell, the contractor. Is a proud father today, a 13-pound boy the sixth in succession, having arrived yesterday. W. M. Killingsworth. in a published statement, criticises the art exhibit at the Exposition as vulgar and obscene. I-ittle Frnnkle Warner, a search for whom has hern Instigated through the entire Northwest for many months has been found and returned to Portland. Hah a Century Ago From The Oresonian. September 30. IRKS. The Copperhead newspapers continue to draw parallels between the great revolutionary movement whereby we ncniiirAtl rti.v InnnAnil.m-a n n.l tli cent attempt on the part of Southern conspirators to aivine our country. North Carolina furnished 118.160 men to the rebel cause. Of this number 80.000 are disabled or dead. W. If. Newell has disposed of his In terest in the Mountaineer, the news paper at The Dalles, to Messrs. Hal loran and t'owne. of that place. A ccn.H5 of Cleveland. Ohio, shows Its population has Increased from 43. 350 to 53,65(5 in the last five years. F. R.-irtels and A. Rreynian have published notice of dissolution of part nership. The following telecrrnnt came from ,r.lcm signed by J. 1. Mitchell: avinir clause heirt goori; s-unaay law sustained. Gold taxation sus tained." The decision on the saving clause re verses Judge Shattuck's decision in the Circuit Court of this county. Tho gold taxation refers to laws for the collection of taxes in pold. Those pa triotic citizens who wanted to pay their taxes with greenbacks after nine tenths of their neighbors had piild theirs In gold, will be disappointed. Spencer Hall, the collegiate institute and boarding school for young women at Milwaukle, Or., has becun Its 13th session. Miss Jane Gray is principal. TEACHES LOVE OE roiXTRV Mother Want: Son Trained So He Can Reapond If Country Needs Him. PORTLAND, Sept. 28. (To the Edi tor.) May I have a little space to thank you for your splendid editorial September 2S. headed 'Tatriotic Moth ers"? Your article and the letters from "Anna Read" and "An American Moth er" express Just the true condition of many a mother's mind on this ques tion. "I did not raise my boy to be a soldier," but it has been my earnest endeavor from his earliest childhood to instill into his mind and heart a strong fteling of true patriotism. I havo tried to teach him to love his country as he does his mother and to be ready to protect its honor as he would hers. Motherhood speus sacrifice and service just as much in 1H15 as it did in 1776 or b I ; and should his coun try need him, I would proudly give my son. my most priceless possession; nnd should he not respond willingly to his country's call I should feel that 1 had failed utterly in lny tusk of making of him a desirable citizen. Let us have marching in the grade schools, military training in the high schools, or any other legitimate meth ods of preparedness and self-defense, to the end that our sons, should they be needed to defend our country, may go forth equipped for the task. MRS. PERCY STOWELL. S34 Corbctt street. Opportunity for Sons; Writers. PORTLANI. Sept. 28. (To the Ed itor.) Noting your frequent allusions to the song entitled "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Bo a Soldier." as an American, whose ancestors served in the Conti nental Army in our war for indepen dence, the War of 1S12, the Mexican War and numerous relatives in the Union armies, during the Civil War. and in the Spanish-American Wur, I would like to suggest that the serv ices of some of our song writers be secured to reply to the above namei sonsrwitli one under the caption of "I Didn't liaise My iSon to Be a Loafer." AMERICAN. Definition of an Optimist. Baltimore American. "What's an optimist?" "A man who tells other people not to worry when tb.ires are eominar his way." "Yours for Increased Busi mess Mr. Storekeeper, make up your mind that you are goinc to do more business this year than last year. Resolve to take advantage of every opportunity to attract cus tomers. Decide to advertise If you can. and. above all else, resolve to take advantage of the other fellow's advertising. When a manu faeturer Is adver tising his brands in the news paper push those particular brands. Get the benefit of the manufac turer's newspaper advertising.