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Postage Kates 12 to 16 pages. 1 cent: IS to 8 pases. 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 3 cents; 60 to 60 pages, 4 cents; 52 to To pages, b cents; 78 to 02 pages, 6 cents. Koreign postage, double rates. Eastern Business Offices Vcrree & Conk Jln. Brunswick tullding. New York; Verree Conklln. Steser building. Chicago; San Francisco representative. K. J. indwell. 142 Market street. JTOBTLAND WEDNESDAY, OCT. 6, 1913. WANTED: A WILL-BALASCED NAVY. Decision of President Wilson, Sec retary Daniels and Chairman Pad gett, of the House Naval committee, to recommend the building of battle cruisers for the Navy "bigger, faster and more heavily armed than any warcraft now afloat or building" is a reaction from the proposal of some amateur Navy men. In Congress to entrust our safety at sea chiefly to submarines. After the first startling successes of ftie German submarines in the early months of the war the hall of the House of Representatives resounded frith declarations that the day of the battleship was past and that the day of the submarine had come. This was in face of the opin ion expressed by the General Board of the Navy 'that command of the sea can only be gained and held by vessels that can take and keep the sea in all times and in all weathers and overcome the strongest enemy vessels that may be brought against them." Since then we have learned that Britain has perfected devices by which scores of submarines have been captured or sunk and by which the underwater menace to British com merce has been made negligible. "We have seen Germany modify methods of submarine warfare and deprive it of some of its terrors in order to comply with the rights of neutrals. We have seen several old-style battleships torpedoed in and about the Darda nelles, where narrow waters crowded with shipping gave the submarine every chance, and we have seen one, perhaps three, transports torpedoed there. But a British squadron led by battle cruis ers has destroyed a German squadron off the Falkland Islands; other Brit ish battleships and battle cruisers liave chased a German squadron to the shelter of the mine fields, sink ing one and damaging two vessels. The Audacious has been damaged by a torpedo, but is again in service and the British grand fleet is still in tact. Probably 2,000,000 men with all their equipment and supplies have been moved to France and the Medi terranean and have laughed at the new terror of the deep. The battles of the Falkland Islands and the North Sea have proved the tisefulness of battle cruisers in over taking and destroying swift cruisers of inferior gunpower. A fleet needs such ships to run down vessels like the German commerce-destroyers. It needs them for scouting, that they may be able to crush an inferior or to escape a superior foe. After a battle is won it needs a few such units to chase and dispose of the enemy's surviving ships. But the Administration would do well to profit by our own experience and not to plunge on any type of ship possessing the special qualities of battle cruisers or any other special qualities.' A warning against this er ror is contained in the article of Rear Admiral C. F. Goodrich in the North American Review. He seems to re gard the battleship Michigan as the forerunner of the dreadnought, hav ing its chief merits with some points of superiority. It has no inter mediate battery and its big guns are concentrated in four turrets on the ship's middle line. After having tried various freak placiugs of turrets, other nations followed our example. Then came the dreadnought, which spread panic in Naval circles and caused all previous battleships to be regarded as outclassed, but Admiral Goodrich says: "I am not alone in believing that the Michigan is more formidable than the dreadnought, though the dreadnought Is two and one-half knots faster." The Admiral suspects Britain of having fostered the impression that oJer ships were ob solete "for a purpose," as that coun try has scores of exceirent craft of older types, some having heavier gun fire and being more effective hitters than the dreadnought. These ships "constitute a reserve of immense value." But the United States went with the crowd and strove to excel the British monsters with the Dela ware and Utah, paying for more and heavier guns and higher speed in greater length and weight and thin ner armor. The same is true of the Pennsylvania and Arizona, but the Nevada and Oklahoma are of the Michigan type. . While we are in creasing size and nre varying classes of ships, the British do not go to ex cessive size: they build four to eight ships of a class where we build two and their later ships are similar to the Michigan. Tho Admiral recalls certain essential facts which, he says, "have been almost universally over looked" and which are: That single ship actions are a thing of the past; that naval battles in the future will be settled by fleets; that each ship should be so designed as to take hi;r place in the line as one unit in harmony with the other units; that general similarity of these units in tactical qualities (turning power and speed) and battery disposition are essential to effective handling and em ployment of the fleet as a whole; that a couple of leviathans, in spite of their great rower, may hinder rather than help: that even a fleet of lovlathans might not pre vail over a fleet of smaller vessels of a well-balanced type mounting; a like num. bet- of trims; that practically the same amount of money would buy more Miehl gans, for example, than leviathans, botn I'ringing an equal number of guns into the line of battle; thnt a Michigan could be better spared from the lleet for coaling or repairs than e leviathan: that it is not always wise to put many eggs in one bas ket. Admitting the advantage of speed. Admiral Goodrich warns us that it "may not be worth the price paid for it," for if the enemy wants to fight, "quick, hard hitting and the ability to withstand his return blows will determine the result not speed," remarking that "of all the qualities in a ship none Is so fickle as speed." He says the actions off the Falkland Islands and in the North Sea only "show the value of speed in escape- something never in question," but did they not also show the value of speed in pursuit? Of the battle cruiser he says: It is legitimate to contend that, if A has heavily armed and very swift vessels. E, "his possible enemy, ought to have some of . the same class -with which to meet their attacks. The battle cruiser is not such a vessel asshoald ordinarily be called upon to lie in the line of battle, how ever useful, on occasion, and as a scout at all timas. A few we may well covet, but not at the expense of the real monarch of the seas, the battleship. The war is admitted by the Ad miral to be between the battleship and the submarine, and he says the latter "has certainly come to stay." Conceding its vulnerability, he yet says it makes the battleship "de pendent on external means of de fense and hampers its free movement in fleet action." He doubts whether ships can be built to survive being tor pedoed, but says minuter subdivision of the hulls may minimize t,he risk of Admiral Rrlrh', nhSpr,AtinM i-nmhiiu. xcit tho cvonf. the. -clt- I to put the Nation on its guard against hiiiirtino- a Tavv trial- la riisnrrnr.rtir,r.. atelv strong in anv one type of shiD. Thourti we need more battleships. we are more deficient in other ' respects and while we should con-1 tinue to build battleships we should build other ships faster in order to provide a well-balanced fleet. Among these should be a fair proportion of battle cruisers, but only enough to do the work required of that special type of ship. TICE WEBSTER MYTH. Albert Bushnell Hart, professor of government in Harvard University, performs a genuine service to the truth of history by exploding again the canard crediting to Daniel Web ster a speech which expressed a con temptouos opinion of the Pacific Coast and the great West. Professor Hart, in an article on "American Historical Liars" (Harper's Magazine), disposes of many other myths, among them the famous cherry tree adventure of George Washington, and clears up the record as to Daniel Webster by' show ing that his so-called denunciatory remarks have no kind of authenticity. The statement said to have been made by Mr. Webster is as follows: "What do we want -with the vast, worth less area, this region of savage and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put thes great deserts, or these endless mountain ranges. Impenetrable, and cov ered to their base with eternal Bnow? What use can we have for such a country? Mr. President. I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific Coast one Inch nearer to Boston than it is now. 1 The time of the apocryphal speech was 1S44, when the question over the Oregon boundary was acute. Webster was then United States Senator, but had lately been Secretary of State for President Tyler and had arranged the Ashburton treaty, by which the north eastern boundary of the United States was fixed. But he was quite indiffer ent to the merits of the dispute over the western boundary. Professor Hart traces the spurious Webster quotation to a periodical called Our Western Archipelago, ed ited by Henry M. Field. Mr. Field says he got it from George L. Chase, of Hartford, Conn., in 1896 and Chase says he retrieved it from a vagrant article he saw while on a trip to the Pacific Coast; and there the trail is lost. Daniel Webster cared nothing for Oregon nor the Oregon question; but he did not make that speech. ONE DAT IN SEVEN. The saloonkeepers of Chicago are naturally in a state of mind over the Mayor's order that they obey the state law by closing on Sundays They have utterly ignored it for forty odd years and they had come to the conclusion that they - were vested with a certain permanent immunity. To be sure, the saloons have been shut up Sundays in practically all the large cities of the United States for years, including New York. The de vices a thirsty citizen must adopt in New Tork to tide over the dry spell from Saturday to Monday are not particularly mysterious nor ingenious, for they do not need to be; but it is true that the padlock is placed on the saloon. But the prohibition sirocco has raged all around Chicago for a long time and it has left that flowing oasis entirely untouched un til now. The saloons are making the usual threats at reprisals against drugstores, milk deliveries and the like. If they close, all others must do the same. They ought to know better. That game has been tried elsewhere, and it has done the saloons no good. It is unquestionably true that the harder the saloons fight, the less headway they make. It will doubtless be the same in Chicago. A city which in these days permits" saloon to run six days out of seven is making a concession. If the Chicago saloonkeepers are wise they will be thankful for what they can get and will say so. But the saloonmen as a class areUented to the doctor calls for 120 nnn never wise. They want to lay down the conditions on which they may do husiness. The time when that may be done is long past. The public in sists on prescribing tho terms in its own interest and not in the interest of the saloon. The complaint of the Chicago Chief of Police that it will take his entire force to make the Sunday law effec tive sounds familiar. It is tho excuse of the officer who expects to fail. All that is really needed is a genuine notice to the saloons to put up their shutters. If the police pistol is loaded they will know it and govern them selves accordingly. TOLEKANCE OF, LYNCHING. Editor Hamilton, of the Augusta Herald, has perhaps unconsciously hit upon the real basis for all sober criti cism of Georgia as regards the lynch ing of Leo Frank. He says truthfully that lynching is not peculiar to Georgia or the South. But what about toler ance of lynching? In his letter, published in The Ore gonian today, Mr. Hamilton criticises severely the lack of protection given by Georgia to lifp prisoners. He, with others, has called upon the Governor to discharge the employes of the pen itentiary from which Frank was taken without resistance of officers or guards. But not one official or em ploye has even been suspended. It is not to be doubted that there are some good citizens in Georgia who condemn the lynching of Frank, much as they believe he deserved to hang. But the retention in their jobs of the penitentiary employes who in effect abetted the mob is sufficient proof that the weight of public senti ment in Georgia is either indifferent or supports the deed of lynchers and penitentiary guards. Did the Georgia public condemn the lynching, there would be a clean-out at the peni tentiary. . Corroborative of this state of public sentiment is the failure of the legally constituted investigators of crime to obtain identification of the lynchers, although newspaper report ers succeeded in interviewing one or more of them. Mr. Hamilton expresses some curi osity as to Oregon's record on lynch law. Lynchings have been committed in Oregon; so has murder in other forms. We do not claim to be perfect. We have our criminals. But public sentiment demands their punishment. The last lynching in Oregon had some of the elements of the Frank case. The deputy sheriff who permitted the mob to take his prisoner was convicted of murder, saved from the gallow's only by executive clemency and went to the penitentiary. That is one dif ference between Oregon and Georgia. SOLICITING SUPREME ASSISTANCE. Just whether or not the Lord should be ;"ecl upon in song to discriminate against the enemies of Canada and Great Britain generally is a ques- Uon ich is stirring up consid- erabIe difference of opinion in the auivuiu. v,n Pr- styles itself the General Synod, has been delving into the moral aspect of national music and has concluded that there is something radically wrong with the second stanza of the Brit ish anthem. In fact, the Synod con cludes that the stanza is little better than the German hymn of hate, which has been theyiubject of much criticism among clviliaied folk inside and outside of Germany. For that reason the stanza was voted out of the books used by such devout Christians as come under the Synod's sphere of in fluence. No longer was the Almighty to be called upon to participate in the petty quarrels of his children of earth in such words as these: O Lord, our Grod. arise. Scatter our enemies' And make them fall. Confound their politics. Frustrate their knavish tricks; On thee our hearts we fix God save us all. Plainly enough these conscientious souls realized that such supplications could not meet a full measure of fa vorable response without violation of that strict impartiality and fairness which are currently attributed to the Infinite. With rare discernment they took cognizance of the true Christian spirit which discourages hate rather than encourages it. Apparently they saw the monstrous Incongruity of in vesting the supreme power with pro pensities for hate and partiality such as would be implied by favorable re sponse to the invocation: Scatter our enemies And make them fall. But the Lord was not to escape further pleas in any such fashion, for the Canadian House of Bishops leaped into the breach at this juncture and marked the legend "stet" in big black characters at the point where the Gen eral Synod had blue-penciled the an cient and honorable second stanza. This was accomplished with a great deal of enthusiasm, concluding with repeated singing of the contested stanza by all present. They rein vested the Lord with special interest in their national woes, redirected his activities against the knavish tricks of their enemies and adjourned with the smug satisfaction of having saved the country from disaster. . But we suspect that the patriotic zeal of the House of Bishops might have spent itself to better advantage at the recruiting office, for instance. Doubtless Britain's enemies are equal ly busied in calling upon the Lord for sustenance, and if we may judge from the concrete results to date, they are meeting with better response. The General Synod set an example that argued well for the intelligence and discernment of the Canadian people and would have provided a forward step in true Christianity. Despite the persistent bids for his sympathies, we are inclined to believe with Bonaparte that the Lord is on the side of the heaviest battalions. WHAT IS A COMFtEXIOS WORTU If, as we have been reliably in formed, beauty is one of woman's chief assets, then it might be well for those members of the sex who are duly organized for offensive and defensive purposes to turn their ener gies in the direction of Maryland, where a serious issue is at stake. The monetary equivalent of a wom an's complexion is to be defined short ly by the courts of that gallant state and there appears to be a widely di vergent opinion on the subject at bar. A Maryland woman who was deprived or the translucent glow of her peach like cheeks and alabaster brow has raised the issue. Through the mis calculations of a physician she was stripped of her normal color and since the hapless doctor can't wholly undo the harm the victim turns to gold as her one adequate balm. It is no small price she places upon Vl 1 T- AVt 1-Vl 11 A Villa Dtnna V. Will That professional person must have experienced some of the sensations frequently enjoyed by those who re ceive his statements for medical aid. but he failed to remit, contending that the price was exorbitant. So the courts must settle the difference in viewpoint. No doubt the defendant will be able to show that a good substantial and serviceable complexion can be procured for a quarter of a dollar at the druggists. French chalk combined with extract of carthamin and cochi neal has been simulating the bloom of youth in woman's cheeks these many centuries. Before that berry juices and ancient concoctions did heroic service. It would appear that woman was addicted to cosmetics long before she adopted skirts. Nevertheless the Maryland woman is right in declining to accept the druggist's price list for up-to-date complexions as an adequate return for her loss. For no one was ever fooled to any considerable degree by the wiles of the makeup. By the same mental processes that we exult at the matchless beauty of nature's superb art in a healthy woman's face, so do we revolt at the artificiality whereby she seeks to appropriate that which she does not possess. We can not fix the value of a woman's com plexion, nor can the Maryland jury. In short we feel that it is a jewel be yond price and even if the Maryland woman gets a verdict for the full $20,000 she will have received trifling recompense for a prodigious loss which no wile, artifice or work of magic can restore. We may awaken in due course of time to realization that we haven't so much of an asset as we thought in the Panama Canal. Its closing for re- pairs until November 1 is now rec ommended, following the latest slide. Just what this will cost is not stated, but we have no doubt but that the bill will be ample. If these mishaps continue their effect on commerce may prove of more than passing conse quence. Vessels may hesitate at starting through a canal when there are prospects of being delayed sev eral weeks or months. We can only hope that time and experience will provide remedies for this condition and 'that eventually we will have a 100 per cent effective canal between Atlantic and Pacific. GETTING ACQUAINTED. Latin-American dislike of us is proverbial. The folk of the Southland not only have no affection for us, but they experience a marked distrust and believe that our intentions toward them are not honorable. They regard us as a greedy people who will over run their provinces when opportunity presents. So" far as our Monroe Doc trine is concerned our policy of protecting them from the predatory nations of Europe they bear no ap preciation of our solicitude, apparently interpreting this as meaning that the plum is being safeguarded for our own plucking when it is ripe. As pointed out by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, of Harvard University, in a recent paper on Pan-American relations, the Latin-American need only come in contact with us as we are in order to change hfs views. He discovered this in observing students and travelers from South and Central America, who grew quite in sympathy with Americans, their aims and ideals. Professor Hart suggests that the ap parent remedy for Latin-American distrust and dislike should be applied on a broad scale. We should get better acquainted. If they really knew us they would think better of us. Hi suggestion is sound and this is the proper time to put the idea into practice. The seeds of mutual under standing might grow at this time un interrputed by outside influences. Eu rope is too busily engaged in other pursuits to interpose any obstacles, moral or actual too busily engaged in other pursuits that may be de scribed as having their origin in lack of understanding. In gauging the difficulties between North and South America, Professor Hart has laid his finger upon the cause of most hu man strife and dissension. If people understood one another friction would vanish from the world. Reports from the British front tell of the usual heavy loss of officers. Will the British ' leader never learn to keep under cover? Will he never learn nis true value and accept the fact that he is too valuable to expose him self and sacrifice his life in spectacu lar bravery? If, as currently charged, the British "officer is inspired by a wish to earn the Victoria Cross, then mat decoration is a menace to the service rather than a help. In mak ing the awards the true value of the deeds performed should be taken into account and no officer be decorated for mere foolhardiness and spectacular daredevlltry. An inventor having devised a vest pocket wireless outfit, we shall now await the buttonhole dictaphone. When it comes such a device will have an immeasurable benefit in cor recting the laxity with which many individuals handle the truth. What politician would dare make false promises into our dictaphone? What insincere lover would risk saying things he did not mean did he know his utterances were being indelibly recorded? Mailcarriers have been given per mission to use bicycles on rural routes. There may be sections where this au thority can be taken advantage of, but there are more where an aero plane or motor boat would be more serviceable in Fall and Winter. The promotion of Orin B. Coldwell to high place in the affairs of the electric corporation simply shows what any Portland boy can attain, if he is the right kind of a boy. London is about to restrict the hours when alcoholic liquors can be sold to short periods ir early after noon and evening, with exceptions for emergency cases. The most foolish people, in America are the cut-glass workers in Connecti cut who are on strike. The world is not rushing itself to buy cut glass just now. It shows an unfeeling trait, to be sure, but many people lauch when they hear of a Jitney accident, and then hop the first that comes. With an army in Russia's front- yard Germany says: "What right have you to send ultimatums? Come and take- another licking." Heavy frosts in the Middle West will ripen the chestnut if they kill vegetation. There is compensation in everything. If that city woodpile had legs, tusks, trunk and tail it would not be as much of an elephant as it is now. Failure of the city to conduct its wood business is the final answer to the municipal Ownership idea. With prunes selling off the tree at 6 cents, the. boarding-house Joke will be a Sunday supper luxury. The world does not think harshly or a woman who shoots her husband when he is fighting drunk. The "drive" of the allies is over and the net result is the great loss of lives on both sides. Excursion trains from surrounding dry territory will run to nice, moist Minneapolis. Snow-laden South Dakntans are in vited to Oregon to enjoy the sunshine. Bulgaria must do one thing or the other and either means destruction. A "dry" Sunday in Chicago will put more cecency into a deficient city. When health officers differ, bacilli come into their own. th Snow is making the Black Hills in Dakota white. On to Minneapolis! European War Primer By National Geographical Soetey. Jalta, the Newport of Russia, to which even such favored regions of the world as the garden lands of Califor nia and the Riviera must yield when climates are compared, is today a stronghold of society utterly eclipsed by war, a lonely, unvisited little village whose prestige and fame have depart ed overnight, a Newport untenanted, forgotten by the press and by all the people, who, in peace times, eagerly read about all the social splendors there. Jalta. normally, would just be entering upon the height of its sea son, its gayest, most important two months of the year, had not a world war closed it, together with Monte Carlo, Karlsbad, Interlaken and scores of other places of "good tone," beauty and amusement. The imperial court, the statesmen, diplomats and members of the great Russian command, now carrying the intolerable burdens of war. would be gathered there in times of quiet, and social Russia would fol low in their course. Jalta is a beautiful place, built on the shelf of a mountain, whose foot bathes in the bluest and mildest of waters to be found all around the coast of the Black Sea. This little sea port, in the government of Taurida, on the southern coast of Crimea, thorough ly deserves the distinction of being the vacation home of celebrities. Be hind it and between it and the north the solid mountain greens, which merge into deeper and deeper shades until at the bare summits, they are greenish-brown, rise to heights of from 2500 to 3000 feet. These are the southern fringe of the Jalla Mountains. The tops of these peaks are often cov ered in icy mists, while in Jalta and on its bay rests the mildest of Spring weather. Snow never falls in Jalta, which boasts an annual mean temper ature of 66 degrees Fahrenheit. Its climate is said to be superior, to that of Nice. Its Summers are not so op pressively hot, there is less rain in Autumn and in Winter, the cold is less crisp in Winter, and the sunshine of Autumn is said to fall balmier here tban anywhere else in the world. The scenery at Jalta. from whatever direction, is completely satisfying. Its Deauty is an intimate beauty, with which the stranger is soon upon easy terms, not the stand-offish, cold beautv of the major Alps. The town is a gem of white houses, set into the dark green nountains, and climbing by steps to me shelf upon which stand some of its most sumptuous villas. Its bay is very open, and the beach along the waterfront Is narrow. The hotels and pensions are mostlv in the lower town. the Jevel which spreads just back of the beach and quay. Some of the homes higher upon the hillside are the magnificent estates of the foremost of the Russian nobles. The present Tsar, his father and his trrandfather. had palaces in Livadia, near neighbor or Jalta s. There is no industry and little trade carried on by tne people of the vil lage, who live almost entirely b catering to vacationists and regular visitors. Smoke and soot do not deface the picture, and even the rai road does not approach the town. The guests come by steamer from Sevasto pol, Kovorossisk and Odessa. Living, of course, as bents a fashionable re sort, is expensive. Hotels and board ing-houses charge high, and the well-to-do Russian is generally a free spender. October and November are tne first months of the year at Jalta. although peqjle come to enjoy its beauties and its climt.te throughout all twelve months. Jalta is not much sought by people outside of Russia. for the reason, perhaps, that it takes generations to win the fame amonr distant people such as is that possessed oy tne uerman and Bohemian baths. tne rtiviera ana lyrol. Jalta has a population of 14.000. It is an ancient city, and is thought to have been a place of great importance in a remote past. The history of the place commences in the 12th century. when it was mentioned by the Arabian geographer, Ibn Edrizi. At one time it belonged to the patriarchs of Con stantinople. It began its career as playground and recreation paradise for wealth and fashion in 183S, when it was made the chief town of a district. PREVENTIVE DBIGS VS. WARNINGS Physician Dlncnsaes Way to Eradicate Infectious Diseases. PORTLAND. Oct, 6. (To the Editor.) Just how much good do such plays do as uamaged Ooocs," now running at a local film house, is a question occur ring to many. It is well that the bad effects of venereal disease should be known among the people, just as the evu consequences or eating unwhole some foods or excessive drinking should be understood. But I have in mind rather the ques tion as to Just what extent such a play as "Damaged Goods" is really effective In, reducing the amount of venereal disease in the world. This Is onlv another way of asking to what degree tear of infection may be relied upon as a deterrent. This is an old mooted question. Too many people are influenced in answer ing it rather by traditional prejudice than by facts, if facts were allowed to guide us we should have to conclude that fear is quite unreliable as a factor that really makes for the extertnlna tion of venereal disease. Physicians generally know this, for tney nave numerous cases where the same person takes risks repeatedly and is infected anew, even after suffering great discomfiture and pain by previous experience. Also it cannot be denied that the evil consequences of venereal disease nave been Known a long, long time in the world. Yet we find a creat deal of it today after all these centuries of warnings, both oral and visual. Prac tically speaking, fear of infection might operate among 10 per cent of the popu lation. In my opinion that would be quite a liberal estimate. The other 90 per cent fear would not deter at all. It is tney wno constitute the real problem. fcyphills seems to have been Intro duced into Europe from the newly dis covered continent of America toward the end of the loth century. It is re corded that it spread rapidly and was of a particularly' virulent type. Over 400 years have passed since then and certainly time enough has elapsed to test out the value of fear as a preven tive. What grounds have we for assur ing ourselves, if we depend upon fear alone to stamp out the three venereal diseases that 400 or four years hence the situation will not be as bad as or worse than today? Judging by the in dubitable record of the past, the out look is discouraging indeed. The only hope lies in the annllcalinn of science to the problem. The greatest obstacle to this programme la the prejudice against boldly facing the facts. Happily this attitude is craduas- ly disappearing. Intelligent persons are now coming to see that while there is a moral question involved In many cases of venereal disease, the moral aspect afreets only the unfortunate suf ferer himself. The wider question of safeguarding the innocent and the Puduc in general requires the co sideration of practical health measures entirely apart from the moral issue if we are to make real progress and not repeat the sad history of the past four centuries. Preventive medicine alone Is capable of providing means for genuine .ex tirpation of venereal disease. The futility of relying upon any other metnoa nas been completely demon strated. MEDICUS. Helen Gonld's Name. VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash.. Oct. 4. (To the Editor.) Kindly print the name and address of the former Miss Helen Uould. A SUBSCRIBER, Mrs. Finley J. Shepard. "Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, N. Y. LYNCH LAW IS NOT MONOPOLIZED Bat Gears! Onsnrable for Failure to Protect Life Prlaonera. AUGUSTA. Ga.. Sept. 30. (To the Ed itor.) Inasmuch as you published the letter of Edwin W. Walker from the New York Sun describing alleged con ditions in the City of Augusta. I would appreciate your publishing my reply to air. waixer in tne isew lork Sun Sep tember 28. Mr. Walker, seemingly an expatriate Southerner, does not tell the truth about Augusta or Georgia, -My first article in the New York pa per was a reminder to those fanatics of the North that lynchings are not peculiar to Georgia, because they occur in Pennsylvania. New Y'ork. Ohio and every state In this section of the United states. You may not have lynchings in Oregon, and if you do not your people are not like the people elsewhere. 1 am against mob law and I think that the lynching of Leo Frank was very wrong indeed, eut wnen public senti ment is aroused against a man like it was against Frank an attempt, at least, would be made to lynch him whether in Maine or California. The fault is with the State of Georgia for not safeguard, ing her life prisoners, and the saddest part of the entire affair is to have to admit to the world that a mob of za men can go to our state penitentiary. taae a man out ana lynch htm without a word being uttered or a shot being fired in protest. I have advocated that the Governor of Georgia drsmiss every man con nected with the state penitentiary. However, despite the suggestion that this be done made not by me so much as oy many prominent Georgians, for I am just an inconspicuous newspaper man. he has failed even to suspend the superintendent, warden or any of the guards. I do wish to protest nraln mnaf em phatically at the outside interference with Georgia in the Frank rnnn In. stead of allowing the law to take its course, as in other cases. Detective Burns was brought here, and everv possible method to get Frank a new triai, iair means and foul, were used. Even a poor old preacher was paid to make an affidavit that the negro in the case, Jim Conley. confessed to the deed. Georgia is not against the Jews as a race. There are thousands of them in tne state and they appear to be pros perous and associate with their Gentile neighbors on free and friendly terms. We are not different in any radical particular from the people of other states and the great Injustice to us has consisted in the pusillanimous attempt of certain people outside of Georgia to appear as outlaws and incapa ble of self-government, i ou may Dublish this tf vi nv i cicie in tne bun. THOMAS J. HAMILTON, Managing Editor. Augusta Herald. Mr. Hamilton's letter as nrintd in the Sun follows: To the Editor or tyi c ei. .... . , the slanderous Statement hn.. a In particular, and Georgia and the South In eeneral. made by Edwin W. Walker an alleged Southerner. In the Sun of Septem ber JU, lne wnter would not ask lour in dulgence again to say a few words in be- U: . nu state. It is very evi dent that Mr. Walker v... . 1, , murderer who ahot his paramour while " " wors in tne cotton mill and was hanged for the offene vi- . IO,r..a.cfinl8 not nearly so hideous as com mitted by one Hans Schmidt, of New York, who has never even got close enough to tho electric chair to t .inH here thought he was crazy, but the courts u suiljt commission decided ha wasn't, and be went to ih vaiiA. . v, : , Can you make objection to our treatment of this "runman"7 ine grossest misstatements In xr- tr.ib. er article are In reference to our mill dis- uu.1. icn is not ideal by any means, yet om which la better than many cotton mill districts and Is constantly ... Cotton mill operatives are" not classed as skilled labor and the wages are compara- j tatting men, women and children above 14 warm oe n in gusta, the average mill wage Ms 1.10 per J ' """'"i, wire ana sons ana daugh ters In a single family work and the income "ura ineir iaoors is a emwf v The Board of Education spent $135,000 eight years ago In constructing in the beart , l"e mm district a magnificent school building, the largest grammar school In the South, and tho attendance opening day this Fall waa 1012. The ladies of the First Bap tist Church have a large mission In ths mill district where nursing babies and other little children are kept free of charge for the mothers who work In the mills. Free night schools are provided for boys and girls who have to work In the dav. movement Is now on foot to establish a branch of the Young Men's Christian Asso ciation In the mill district, and a branch of the Young Women's Christian Associa tion is sure to follow. Mr. Walker says that Georgia thinks too much of Mary Phagan dead and too little of her alive. We feel that though she is but a poor little mill girl she deserves the greatest protection that our Government and our civilization can throw around her. As to mill girla being induced to enter tne red light district by methods almost identical with those employed by N'ew York whlto slavers, nothing is mors absurd or more far away from the truth. That a por tion of the habitues of the red light district are products of the mill district is true litre as In every other place where there are mills. It is no worse here than else where. Augusta hsndles the problem of fallen women by segregating them. Instead of letting them scatter all over the city, and this Is a problem which . has baffled the most thoughtful minds of all ages. I have lived In Augusta ten years and have never heard of a person being mur dered for money, thouch I havQnbeen In the vicinity of Hick's Ha:i many times myself and have sent reporters to that section where Mr. Walker asserts men will steal, heat or kill for hire. There are no Ro franos in Augusta, no men of the type that have politicians who stand In their wa "croaked." How many men did those wit nesses tell the nistrlct Attorney Rofrano hsd murdered? Have the murderers of the big poultry dealer on tho East Side ever been apprehended? While statistics show, as Mr. Walker says, that In 1912 there were 274 murders in Greater New York and 7 In Atlanta, Ga., still he did not go far enough. He ought also to have said thst the homicide rate among negroes, as compared with- whites !n the South, waa 3Vi to 1, while In New York all the homicides are among Cau casians. A newspaper stated a few months ago that 30 people disappeared in Greater New York every day and were never heard from again. I do not know that this is true, and neither am I writing a quasi philippic, so to speak, about your city, the greatest of all the cltiea or the world. In Georgia we do not have Ideal conditions existing In all things, else we would be readv for the mllk--nntum. and Mr. Walker could Join those "six generations of Southern ances tors." We are all struggling along to make our communities as decent as possible and to leave a heritage of which our descend ants will not be too much ashamed THOMAS J. HAMILTON. State Game Laws. AURORA Or., Oct. 4. (To the Edi tor.) (1) I have my place posted against hunting and trespassing. If I catch trespassers, how must I proceed lawfully to have them prosecuted? (2) Must one have a license to hunt on his own or his father's estate. ad Joining? (3) What is the law as regards car rying a loaded gun on the highway, or shooting therefrom. INQUIRER. (1) Take up the matter with the Prosecuting Attorney of your county. (2) One may hunt on his own land without a license. The same privilege extends to members of "his own" fam ily. If you are the head of a family probably a lice'nse would be required if you hunt on your father's land. S. It Is unlawful to discharge a gun at any game bird or game animal from or while on a public highway or rail road right of way. Carrying of a gun on a highway is not prohibited. Tie Worat of It. Judge. "The- worst of coaxing people to sing," said Gaunt X. Grimm, "Is that they usually yield to the earnest solici tation of their friends and accept the nomination." T'nnrcrssa ry Exertion. Judge. Pullman Porter Next stop is yo' sta tion, sail. Shall T brush yo' off now? Morton Morose-No; it Ts not neces sary. When the train stops I'll step off. Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oregonlan of October , 1S0. Newark, X. J.. Oct. 6. Herr Most had been liberally advertised to ad dress a Socialist meeting here tonight. At the appointed hour a crowd, mostiy composed of Russians and Germans, gathered in the hall and greeted tho anarchist with loud cheers. The po lice then entered and. to the discomfi ture of the crowd, escorted Most from tho hall and gave him half an hour to get out of the city. Ho complied. Paris, (jet. B. Alphonse Caudet. tho novelist, is seriously ill. St. Petersburg, Oct. 5. Thirty ar rests have been made' here in connec tion with the workmen's political movement. Many other arrests vert made in tho interior. Madrid. Oct. 5. A rumor is current that tho Spanish government intends to enter Into negotiations with tho United States for reciprocity conces sions touching Cuban and American products. St. Helen's Hall will open the Win ter term at Tenth and Main streets this morning at 9 o'clock. Customs Collector Earhart has not received an official copy of the McKln ley tariff act. which goes into effect today, and is therefore without the means or classifying imports. The Willamette Falls Electric Com pany has very commodious and hand somely furnished offices in its new quarters at front and. Montgomery streets. The Greek symposium, under tho di rection of the ladies of the Unitarian Church, will be held at the residence of Mrs. Burrell. corner of Eighth and Madison streets, Wednesday evening. October S. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlan of October 6, 16t5. The election of officers of the Ore gon State Agricultural Society has re sulted as follows: John Douthitt. of Lane County, president: J. C. Peebles, of Marion, corresponding secretary, and John Barrows, of Linn, recording secretary. New York, Oct. 2. A private letter from a prominent official at Houston. Tex., says of military operatfons in that quarter: "The Army is changed, into an immense Sheriff's posse chas ing jaynawkers. In fact all our duties are the most inglorious, only troops enough being left to take care of tho negroes. Everyone is getting anxious for war In Mexico or some place else.'' Dr. Prettyman, living a few miles east of tho city, has favored us wita a specimen of the Lawton blackberries, which for size and llavor are of the superior quality. We notice that the sufferers by the recent tiro in East Portland are busily engaged in rebuilding the burnt dis trict. Fort Monroe. Oct. 2. Jeff Davis was removed today under a strong ruard from his casemate prison to quarters assigned him in Carroll Hall. New York, Oct. 2. A di.-patch to ths Savr.nnah Herald says: "The Geor gia state convention has unanimously adopted an ordinance declaring the act of secesssion null and void. The time has at last arrived when money has become a drug in the finan cial marKet. The rate of interest, it is said, has not been lower for years. Statesmen and Where Born. GREf HAM. Or., Oct. 3. (To the Ed itor.) Please settle following dispute in Tho Daily Oregonlan: A claim Austria only sent a protest about American neutrality to the Govern ment. B claims Germany also pro tested officially. (2) Please state also if President Wilson's hot' parents were born In England. (3) Is it true that his father was a landowner and slaveholder before our Civil War? (4) Kindly- give the birthplaces and names of tho President's Cabinet. A. BAHL. (1) Austria has protested against American shipments of arms and mu nitions in quantities to the allies: Ger many has not. C) Woodrow Wilson's paternal grandfather came to America front Ireland. Tho parents of the President were born in this country. (3 - Our records do not disclost whether tho President's father owned land or slaves, but as he was a preacher and college professor, it is not likely ho accumulated much, if any, property. (4) Tho Cabinet officers and places of birth: Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, New York; Treasury, William Gibbs McAdoo, Georgia; War, Lindley M. Garrison, New Jersey; Attornev General, Thomas Watt Gregory, Mis sissippi; Postmaster-General, Albert Sidney Burleson, Texas; Navy, Jose phus Daniels. North Carolina; Interior. Franklin K. Lane, Prince Edward Island. Canada; Agriculture, David F. Houston, North Carolina; Commerce. . William C Redfield. New York; Labor. William Bauchop Wilson, Scotland. Proposal to lanndate Holy Land. Christian Herald. Travelers in the Holy Land journey ing northward along the beaten track; from Saramia to Nazareth must cross the Plain of Esdraelon. called also the Plain of Jesreel, and almost invariably pass the ancient site of the city of Jezreel. A little north of the present village (Zer in) a deep valley slopes downward to the Jordan, and through this valley runs the railroad between Haifa and Damascus. It was once pro posed to cut a canal from the Mediter ranean to the Jordan Valley, filling up the trough of the Dead Sea and paral leling the Sues Canal by a second route. If such a project wero ever carried out the inner or eastern end of the canal would be within a mile or so of Jezreel. The same stream that would have turned Naboth's vineyard Into a "gar den of herbs" for Ahab's delight now waters rig orchards and forms a little oasis among the mounds of rubbish which cover the ancient site. Saved Life by Advertising An Eastern railroad, the scene of many automobile grade crossing accidents, has found a new use for newspaper advertising. It ran a strong series of an nouncements warning motorists to be careful. At the end of the past Summer season it had a record unbroken by xny serious disaster. Automobile owners are newspa per readers and they were "sold" on "safety first" Just as they are "sold" through the same advertis ing source on merchandise articles.