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A WORD TO THE BENIGHTED EAST.
New Jersey's rejection of woman
suffrage probably presages a like re
sult of the vote to be taken in New
York. Massachusetts and Pennsyl
vania. Those states have the largest
proportion or the iwould-be American
aristocracy, which corresponds to the
British- Tories, who oppose all change
because it is change. They also have
a larger proportion of foreign-born
people, who adhere to the traditional
belief that woman is an inferior be
ing, to be held in subjection by man
as unfit to share the responsibilities
of government. There the woman's
anti-suffrage organization -probably
has its greatest strength and influ
ence. In opposing woman suffrage, the
New York Times draws a comparison
between those Western states which
have adopted it and those Eastern
states which are called upon to decide
for or against it. It lists ten suffrage
states, omitting California, for no bet
ter reason than that,, "according to
the testimony of a woman suffrage
advocate, it adopted woman suffrage
in 1911 against the wishes of a major
ity of the women of the state, and
Illinois, where since 1913 women may
vote for all offices not created by the
State Constitution." The Times then
compares the total population of
5.8J7.918 in these ten "sparsely set
tled" suffrage states with the 22,
6 81.973 people in Massachusetts, New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
and asks:
la it from this handful of people that
these four great states ara to learn the art
of "Ideal democracy" and Improved govern
ment'.' The Times then proceeds to charac
terize the suffrage states in this lan
guage: Kansas, with all Its virtues, has had from
the first an emotional temperament, a dispo
sition to shuilck-r at imaginary "calamity."
to get wild over crank political specifics, to
worship and then break grotesque political
Idols. For many admirable things can the
sunflower State be praised, but not for sound
JtHlcment. The peace and orderliness of
A'olnrado and Idaho haw not begotten envy
in thae parts. Nevada as a state Is a monu
ment of a supposed political necessity of
the Civil War. Utah's long devotion to
plural feminism is not forgotten. Arlaona
wouldn't make two New York Aaiembly dis
tricts. Oregon i the experiment station of
all sorts of bewildering and bedeviling
whimsies.
The answer to the Times' question
is that it is precisely from these and
other Western states that the East has
learned all that It has learned in
many years back of "ideal democracy
and improved government." Practi
cally every progressive step in govern
ment that has been taken in the East
has been imitation of an example Bet
hy the West. Jeer at the "crank po
IttW-al specifics" of Kansas as it may
New York has not had the courage
which Kansas has shown to try and
to discard new devices in government,
and the general movement of that
state lias been onward and upward.
It ill becomes New York with its
pangs and gunmen. Massachusetts
with Its Irfiwrence strike riots, or New
Jersey with its massacres of strikers
by gunmen in the pay of employers
to refer satirically to the "peace and
Orderliness" of Colorado and Idaho.
Vt-ih long ago abandoned formal
polygamy, but New York's idle rich
still practice informal, progressive
polygamy by stealing or swapping
wives. Arizona's practice of self -gov
crnment in its infancy as a state will
compare favorably with that of New
York after a century and a quarter's
experience.
As for Oregon, we long since passed
the experimental stage of our new
governmental devices. We have voted
limn the cranks and their theories so
persistently that we have about rele
gated the initiative and referendum to
their proper place as "a gun behind
the dour." to quote President Wilson.
We have the recall, but we use It
sparingly, and we have never recalled
a .iu-lge. run even tried to do it. Colo
rado is the only state, which has
ari ptod the recall of judicial deci
sions, and it found provocation in
questionable decisions by judges which
it inherited from the time when the
methods of nomination and election
w hereto New York showed the most
tenacious devotion were still in vogue.
Pass in review all the successive re
forms of consequence for thirty years
railroad regulation, anti-trust legisla
tion, the secret ballot, direct primary,
suppression of corrupt practices, the
short ballot and various social better
ment measures and we find that all
had their origin in the West and have
been.. taken up last by New York. If
New York had bad its way, the West
would have been a mere tributary
province, feeding Wall street and the
get-rlch-quick financiers who hang
around It, and New York would con
tinue to be bled in turn by first one.
then the other of two rival political
machines of which Tammany is the
typo.
As to the population, that is the
poorest possible basis of comparison
between states. The East has quan
tity, but consisting mainly of a self
created aristocracy and a horde of
unasstmilatcd immigrants from all
nations, who have been drafted into
the sweatshops, slums and padrone
R;tngs. The far West lacks quantity,
but it has quality, consisting of a
larger proportion of real American
stock than any other section can
bemst. The cream of the Eastern pop
ulation settled the West and has
more completely Americanized the
htm.ll forelgn-)oru population than has
the, crowded East. The West is still
Imbued with the genuine spirit of '7
and Is chiefly instrumental in keep
lnc democracy alive In the republic.
fiy condemning woman suffrage as
a failure on the ground that it has
not improved the character of politi
cal candidates and on the score of
mistakes luaue by women voters, the
Times betiiros Its ignorance or the
motive which caused the Western
states to enfranchise women. The vote
was given to women, because that is
their right. In general women voters
have divided on the same lines as men
were divided, but they have given a
decided impetus to social betterment
work. Their mistakes have been those
of inexperience; and they will live and
learn, as even New York does, though
at a much slower pace.
COJibCmjiCB MONEY.
The people of Portland adopted the
commission charter with their' eyes
open at least to its salary provisions.
They approved that section of the
charter which fixes the Mayor's salary
at $6000 and Commissioner's salary at
$5000, with the expectation and Intent
that there should be a (6000 Mayor
and four $5000 Commissioners.
Times may have changed Kmewhat
in two and one-half years, but the
public, we fancy. Is still quite willing,
even anxious, to dig up 16000 for
$6000 worth of service In the Mayor's
office, and $5000 for $5000 worth of
service In the office of. each Com
missioner. The city is not an object of charity.
If Mayor and Commissioners are giv
ing full value for their salaries there
Is no call for thorn to make a refund.
Of course, if Mr. Daly or any other
Commissioner feels, after having been
in office for some time, that he is not
capable of earning his pay, a con
science contribution covering the past
would be entirely proper. But as for
the future, the $4000 Commissioner
would much more properly resign and
let there be appointed a $5 000 man.
1004 1908 1913.
The Democratic party has long
been gravely agitated over the obvious
trend toward centralization of govern
ment at Washington and the growing
weakness of the states as units of po
litical power in the Federal union. The
fight for state rights was lost in 1861
65, but it has been renewed in the past
decade in an effort to stay the Federal
authority in its effort to encroach upon
the legitimate and constitutional re
served rights of the states. For ex
ample, we And , that as long ago as
1904 the Democratic National, plat
form contained this sharp rebuke of
the Federal autocracy which was seek
ing to gather for itself Control of the
forty-eight states:
We favor the nomination and election of
President . . . who will set his face
sternly against executive usurpation of leg
islative and Judicial functions, whether that
usurpation be veiled under the guise of ex
ecutive construction of existing laws or
whether it take refuge in the tyrant's plea
or necessity or superior wisdom. -
In 1908 the Democratic party was
even more eloquent in its alarm over
the drift toward centralization and the
insidious and stealthy schemes of the
bureaucracy to undermine the states: .
We assort our confidence in and admira
tion for the wisdom of the fathers in so
organizing the Federal Government as to
secure rule to the people of each state
and we pledge ourselves to combat with in
creasing vigilance the efforts of those who
are striving by usurpation to selzo the.
powers of the people of the state for ex
ploitation by the Federal Government.
W e are opposed to the centralization
Implied In the suggestions now frequently
made that the powers of the general gov
ernment should be extended by executive
and legislative action and by judicial con-
tructlon.
But the Democrats were beaten
and the wicked Republicans contin
ued ruthlessly their systematic as
saults on the sovereign states. So in
1912 we find the Democracy returning
to the attack in the following:
Believing that the. most efficient results
under our system of government are to be
attained by the run exercise by the states
of their reserved sovereign powers, we da-'
nminoe as usurpation tho efforts of Our
opponents to deprive the states of any of
the rights reserved to them, and to enlarge
and magnify by indirectness the powers of
the Federal Government.
The long battle for the states was at
last won in 1912. In the intervening
years what has the Democracy, firmly
in the saddle at Washington through
control of the Presidency and of Con
gress, done to defeat the wiles of the
plotters -who were by indirection seek
ing to enlarge and magnify the pow
ers of the Federal Government?
1XSP1BATION IN COLOR COMICS.
Those prudish critics who discern
eternal ruin for rising generations in
every bounteous joy that seizes upon
the juvenile affections should find re
buke in the discovery made by a Chi
cago Art Institute official. The foun
tainhead of American art has been
laid bare to his searching view and he
has located this hope of our artistic
future vn about the last place it might
reasonably be looked for the comic
supplement.
If we are producing artists in large
numbers, then we have the funny pa
pers to thank, or blame, as the case
may be. For here is where young
America gets -the idea of drawing
pictures long before the matter is
taken up in prosaic class lessons. As
the discoverer gauges the situation,
little Willie acquires that enthusiastic
interest in the comic which stimulates
imitation. There comes a time when
he is no longer satisfied with being a
mere spectator. Ho must reproduce
Out come pencil and paper and If eaid
Willie has any inherited talent he
startles the old folks with his por
trayals. Oftentimes doting parents dis
cover artistic genius where it doesn't
exist. Anyway, Willie is encouraged
to draw pictures, and this interesting
pastime absorbs his idle moments, im
proves his artistic instincts and, better
still, keeps htm out of mischief.
By the time Willie gets into the
drawing classes at school he has ac
quired quite an exalted opinion of
his draftmanship and, he struggles
through the mazes of perspective and
first principles with the true artists
disdain of mere technique. If the art
virus is not eliminated by inter
ests which appeal to his youthful-en
thusiasm more powerfully, he gradu
ally enters upon the second stage of
the affliction and goes to art school.
If persistent, he eventually becomes a
real artist. -
So far we have evolved an amazing
quantity, if not quality, of artists and
illustrators. Some have added to the
world's truest-art. Some have written
their names in large letters on the
scroll of fame. Some few have oven
achieved a livelihood from their
brushes. So it is not too much to
hope that in due tim from al! this
number we shall produce a Raphael
or a Michaelangelo. And when that
day conies we shall be at something
of a loss to know whether Polly and
her Pals or Old Doc Yak should re
ceive the credit.
Now conies the Government with a
plan to manufacture munitions in or
der to reduce the cost. The question
arises as to whether any saving will be
made. It may be assumed that any
such activities would be conducted by
the Ordnance Department of the
Army, and it is a well-know n fact that
Armv officers haven't the tame expan
sive idea of one man's allotment of
daily energy that pervades civilian
directors of workmen. Theoretically
the plan is excellent, but we surmise
that the Government, while assured
of an excellent grade of munitions.
will lose money in the field.
TWO OBSERVERS.
We all forget. We have forgotten
the
the
old conflicts between the Mayor and
Council. w e hare forgotten the stormy
scenes that used to be enacted at the City
Kail, due to prejudices, the differences, the
Jealousies, the disposes and the controversies
between the Council, or factions of the
Cotmcil. and the executive. ... In con
trast with this wild-animal show, we have
a system of direct and efficient simplicity.
Portland Journal.
One would fancy from the antics at the
City Hall that economy in the making; of
a city budget was a- proprietary privilege,
and that the right to be called the "bull
economist" waa Invested with a certain
political value neither to be overlooked nor
neglected. It would not seem possible to
pick five men. for a duty similar to that
of budget-making, and applicable to private
business, who coufd make such a cater
wauling spectacle of the Job aa the City
Commissioners have clone of this. Evening
Telegram.
Some contrast, what? 1
FOR ABUSED JX. STICK.
There was a deep, though gently in
flicted sting in the remark by Lord
Reading to members of the New York
Bar Association that their English
cousins seek to administer law In the
full understanding that it is really sec
ondary to Justice. He did not elabo
rate nor elucidate nor launch into
comparisons and criticisms. Nor did
he need to. The gentle impeachment
hit the broad mark it must have been
aimed at, for he put his finger on the
weak point in American jurisprudence,
the raw spot in American administra
tion of law. It is pleasant to know
that somewhere on earth the courts
have released themselves from the
hopeless fetters of technicalities and
the clanging chains of rigid precedent.
It is pleasant to be told that'some-
where the evasive thought that Jus
tice has a real place in the law pene
trates to the understanding of magis
trates. Such encouraging and hope
ful spectacles, even though viewed
from afar, inspire the hope that we
may share one day in their enjoy
ment.
It may be that in some states and
some courts of this land of freedom
and higher humanity, abstract justice
isn t measured by the micrometer of
precedent and procedure. But they
are the exceptions that prove the rule.
Trigonometry is not more prescribed
than the hard and. fast rules of law
which govern many of our courts. Jus
tice is not the kernel of the case. It
turns on what may be found in the
tomes which contain the fond tradi
tions of the bench.
In due course of time perhaps this
dark habit will vanish before the light
of truth and our courts may come to
see that their function is not so much
to unravel the tangled skeins of tech
nicalities as it is to perceive the truth.
When that light dawns justice will be
come the spirit of the living law and
our magistrates will deal in Justice
rather than in the performance of
legal gymnastics. Bench and bar
should take Lord Reading's mild re
buke very much to-heart and co
operate in rehabilitating simple Justice
as their professional ideal.
OVB NEW NATAL PROGRAMME.
The programme of naval expansion
which is contemplated by Secretary
Daniels and apparently is approved by
President Wilson would carry out the
plan recommended in 1903 by the
General Board of the Navj', provided
new ships were also built to replace
those which became obsolete. The
Board then proposed the building of
two battleships a year, with the addi
tion of a third every three years to
replace obsolete ships, in order to
attain a strength of forty-eight mod
ern battleships in 1919. The Board
assumed in this calculation that a
ship becomes obsolete twenty years
after completion.
The navy now has built and build
ing thirty-five battleships less than
twenty years old. As Mr. Daniels pro
poses the building of sixteen ships in
the next five years, this would give us
fifty-one in 1920, if none became ob
solete. But in that time provision
should be made for replacing seven
ships, on the principle laid down by
the General Board that "it is neces
sary to lay down a replacement ship
twenty years from the time of the
laying down of the original ship.'
These seven ships and the year in
which their keels were laid are: Ala
bama, Kearsarge and Kentucky, 1896;
Wisconsin and Illinois, 1897; Maine
and Ohio, 1899. Thus by completing
twenty ships in the next Ave years we
should attain the strength of forty
eight modern ships, which the Gen
eral Board held to be necessary in
order to "provide and maintain at al
times a fleet equal to or superior to
that of any nation likely to challenge
our policies." The Daniels programme
falls five ships short of the General
Board's plan.
Had the General Board s recom
mendations been followed consistently
by Congress since 1903, it would not
have been necessary to build at this
accelerated pate during the next four
years to attain the requisite strength
in 1920. That end could have been
gained by building two ships yearly
and an additional one every three
years. Congress fell in arrears by
voting ore ship or none at all in
some years, and the Board, sticking
consistently to its programme, simply
proposed three or four new ships a
year in recent years in order to make
good these arrears.
The Government having once built
up to the standard of forty-eight mod
ern ships in 1920, it would suffice from
that date to replace ships which be
came obsolete, unless some nation
likely to challenge our policies should
put on a spurt with apparent purpose
to overtake us. Whether that is
likely hinges entirely on the outcome
of the present war. Even if the victor
should get a stiff indemnity and
should engage in a navy-building race
with us, we could stand the financial
strain bettef than he, for any Indem
nity he could exact would probably
not exceed his own war debt, while
the United States will have been
vastly enriched by war profits and
new foreign commerce. This would
be so obvious to any rival that, if we
showed a determination to maintain
naval supremacy over him. he might
despair or success in surpassing us
and might not enter the race. ,Wc
might then content ourselves ith
replacing capital ships as they be
came obsolete. We need then only
lay down one new ship In 1920 to
replace the Missouri, one in 1921 to
replace the Georgia, two In 1922 to
replace the New Jersey and Rhode
Island, two. in 1923 to replace the
Connecticut and Minnesota, and so on
In addition to capital ships we are
also greatly to enlarge our fleet of
cruisers destroyers, submarines and
auxiliaries in order to make a- we!l-
balanced navy. Destroyers are placed
1 the General Board, and its judgment
has been vindicated by the feats of
such vessels in running down subma
rines. On the face of the returns we
have a largT fleet of the latter vessels,
but the fate of the F-4, the rapid
progress in improvement and the sen
sational achievements of the German
divers prove that many of the older
vessels of this type are hopelessly out
of date and that we must make large
additions in order to replace obsolete
vessels, adequately to protect our
coast, to co-operate with the battle
fleet and to prey on an enemy's com
merce. The ten proposed scout cruisers are
urgently needed, none having been
provided for eleven years; so also are
gunboats to navigate shallow waters,
nearly all of our present flotilla being
utterly out of date. More fuel, supply
and repair ships are needed, for with
out them a battle fleet may become
impotent; the same statement is trite
of tenders- for destroyer and subma
rine flotillas. A Nation so deficient
in merchant ships as the United States
should also have a fleet of transports
to carry troops, as our experience at
Manila proved. The most urgent need
of all is a naval air fleef such as Brit
ain used on the Dardanelles and such
as we entirely lack. For the first time
in our history there is a prospect that
we are to have an adequate Navy,
complete in all its parts.
Were the General Board's pro
gramme followed out, as now seems
to be the disposition of the Adminis
tration, the permanent addition to our
naval expenses would consist in main
tenance and manning of the additional
ships and in expenses of enlarged and
additional Navy-yards. There need bo
no increase, - and there might be a
decrease, in construction expense, for
this would be limited to replacement
of obsolete ships,- unless some nation
snouia Degin a navy-building race
with us.
Reference to the Progressive party
as the creation of dissatisfied Repub
licans has been embodied in a history
used by the Boston grammar schools,
only to bring a storm of protest from
Progressives, who demand that the
history be-discarded. Their theory
must be that history should not deal
with facts. But perhaps such state
ments should not be embodied in
a history of events. The apprqpriate
place for recording the party might
be in our natural histories as a sub
division of bull moose.
With the spectacle of Belgium
trampled down by the invader and
Ser'Ma undergoing the same treat
ment, the allies cannot blame Greece
for hesitating to invite a like fate. They
came too late to save Belgium, they
are coming too late- to save Serbia;
might they not come too late to save
Greece? The allies have destroyed
confidence in them among the small
states by always being laggards.
The American Forestry Association
did well to re-elect George M. Corn
wall secretary. It is the secretary who
always does the bulk of the work in
an association, and Mr. Cornwall is
obsessed with forestry and the one
man on this Coast to handle the propa
ganda.
Serbia, bleeding' from the onslaught
of multitudinous foes, is so hard put
for men that wounded soldiers are
being sent to the front, to fight again.
The women and chitdreh will be next
in line if the grim Serbian spirit of
resistance continues unabated.
According to a high German official
peace will come in the Spring tit the
German price. Still his assurance is
no more certain than that which
Jfitchener once gave us that the war
wbuld begin" 'May last.
Britain would give Cyprus for the
military help of Greece, while Russia
would cede an island to Japan for
munitions. Which would appear to
indicate a realization on their part
that help is needed.
Munitions manufacturers are not
getting all the business. The Illinois
Central has placed an order in Ohio
for fifty-nine locomotives, to cost
$1,500,000. The good times are mov
ing westward.
Observers report clouds of s.noke
ssuing from Mount Hood. Which
leads to speculation as to whether it
was Mount Hood or the observers
which did the smoking.
According to the decision of an Illi
nois magistrate the law against hazing
is rank class legislation. Under-class
legislation, he probably means.
If Wilson, a widower, thinks this
has been a year of discipline, as he
says in Jiis Thanksgiving proclama
tion, let us wait for the next.
An Italian drive is announced, and
in the absence of details we assume
that the commander end his staff are
out in their limousines.
The cranks are threatening Gov
ernor Spry, of Utah, and the pity of it
is one of them may be crasy enough
to try to "get" him.
At last the American flag has been
saluted at Vera Cruz. But not, you
will observe, until we had saluted the
Greaser flag.
Economy for the other fellow ap
pears to be the theory of the City
Commissioners in their budget cut
.ting.
The war tangle is getting worse
Women window cleaners in London
are wearing men's apparel.
Albert of Belgium virtually tells the
Pope he has not been whipped enough
and does not want peace.
If Greece takes Cyprus for helping
the allies, Turkey will take it away
on the first opportunity.
Woodbu'rn is to have a city election
next month, but. alas, the old-time
issue is eliminated!
Meanwhile Russian wheat is stay
ing where it is doing most good to th
American farmer.
St. Louis wants both big convention
next year. She really is worse than
Seattle.
Mount Hood's janitor has consulted
the calendar and Is stoking up.
Islands have become the current
coin of belligerent commerce.
Suppose this city goes one year with
out the band concerts.
The path of the Land- Show will be
' bluze of' glory.
European War Primer
By Rational Geograsslcal Society.
Monastir. picked as the latest war
capital of Serbia, as a stronghold where
the enemy is never expected to arrive,
is the last place in Serbia, hard upon
tne ureek rrontier. and defended by
lesser mountains on every hand. It
was one of the most prized acquisitions
made by the Serbians after the war in
l12 of the Balkan League with the
Ottoman Empire. By means of schools,
propaganda, Serbian committees and
Serbian priests, the people of all this
southern territory were long carefully
prepared for an ultimate union with the
little kingdom. The Serbians pursued
the same tactics here that the Bulga
rians and Qreeks pursued for years in
their endeavors to win the upper hand
in the Turkish provinces of Macedonia.
Monastir was to the Serbian ambitions
what the port of Saloniki was to the
Greeks and the Bulgarians.
Monastir. was the second city of
Turkish Macedonia. It did a thriving
business, even under Turkish rule, and
the Serbians entertain great hopes for
its future. Moreover, this mountain
city is one of the important strategic
points in the Balkans, and. when under
Turkish rule, it was made a base of
military defense and offense of the
same rank as Adrianople. Here were
located the headquarters offices of a
Turkish army corps: for the roads from
the port of Saloniki, on the Aegean
Sea: from the port of Durazzo, on the
Adriatic Sea: from Nish) the ancient
capital of Serbia, and from the impor
tant fortress, Adrianople, met and
crossed here. The Serbians have
strengthened the defensive works of
the city since their occupation, and it is
today an Important factor in the keep
ing of ways open between Serbia and
Greece and Serbia and Albania.
The jcity nestles in a bowl scooped
in the mountain clusters at altitude
of 2019 feet. To the-west the mountains
rise to a height of more 8000 feet. All
the mountain country around Is heav
ily wooded, while the broad valley is
carpeted, with fruitful fields. The port
of Saloniki, where the allied troops
landed. Js but 85 miles distant in the
southeast. Constantinople is 400 miles
to the east. Belgrade is 260 miles to
the north, and Nish 155 miles. Tho
nearest point of the Bulgarian frontier,
at Strumltza, is only 65 miles away.
A railway line connects Monastir and
Saloniki, with' which city -most of the
Serbian town s trade is done. The ex
port products of all Southern Serbia
are assembled at this place and sent to
the Grecian port, while the imports are
distributed from the same center and
from Uskup. The city has a population
of 60,000 and an annual trade of the
value of $2,000,000 during normal times.
Considerable gold and silver work. lor
export is done here, but the staples of
Monastlr's commerce arc flour, grain.
cloth, skins, tobacco and carpets. The
town has large barracks, a military
hospital and a number of progressive
educational Institutions.
CONVENTIONS HINDER MATRIMONY
Common Sense Methods Would Result
In More Domestic llarmsny. .
PORTLAND. Oct. 21. (To the Ed
itor.) Your editorial page will become
more popular than ever if the "lonely
ones" keep on "speakin" right out in
meetin'." 1 am also "one of them."
A few years ago a number of such
letters appeared in The Oregonian and
I have cften wondered if any "two
souls with but a single thought" were
brought together as a result.
It. is a really sad thing for both men
and women to long lor congenial com
panionship, more especially so after
they have reached the age when mor
tals realize the true meaning of
home." If we would adopt the same
common sense methods in this "busi
ness of life" as we do in other ven
tures. I believe there would be more
domestic harmony than there is. I
have frequently met women on the
streetcars, attending lectures, etc., for
whom I felt an attraction, and, after
"breaking the ice," have entered into
conversation and, in any number of
cases, have formed warm friendships.
In my journcyings about, alone often
times and in company with a girl or
lady friend, have seen men with whom
I would enjoy talking and I have often
studied their faces and seemed to read
written thereon a "loneliness" such as
T was experiencing. But. dear me,
"one das'ent speak to strange men."
Someone has said, and very truly,
that one is never so much alone as
when in a crowd of strangers. We pass
each other on the street, scarcely rec
ognizing our fellow man as one of our
kind. We go to church, lecture, mu
sical or show alone, and how much
more real good we could derive from
what we have seen and heard if we
had a congenial friends to talk things
over with. It is a real calamity that
so many real men and women are to
night sitting melancholy and alone, al
though they may be among people in
boarding-house or private family
roomer.
A single woman asks about' the
statement often made that men prefer
the butterfly or fluffy ruffled girl or
woman. My observance leads me to
believe that is the case with not a few
otherwise sonsible men. and if they get
a "lemon, whose fault is it? A girl
or woman can dress neatly and in good
taste and yet be able to keep house and
prepare a well-cooked meal and in
other ways make a home, but the fluffy
ruffled, pink-cheeked sort nine times
out of ten either can't or won't. Our
brother man knows It, yet they are the
kind that have the easy time, and when
friend husband wants a steak he can
enjoy he goes to his favorite grill. And
so the sensible girls and women, who
long to meet the sensible man, will
keep on longing and being sensible.
And tnere you are.
Such letters as have appeared in The
Oregonian 1 believe are from men and
women of good morals and high ideals.
They ore not seeking "just someone. '
but the "right one.' The thought of
proper mating is in the air. Our min
isters' preaching upon the subject has
started something that may result in
an increase of work for them.
Keep on writing, friends, and who
knows but we may yet form a sort of
mutual admiration society?
MRS. ELINOR W.
War In Europe.
WELLS. Or., Oct. 20. (To the Edl
tor.) (1) Kindly publish specific
causes for the present European war.
(2) Under whose rule waa Servia gov
erned? (3) Please name the countries
now engaged In the war, and state
w-hich country each one is helping.
AN INTERESTED READER.
The specific or concrete causes of the
war were in fact the remote ones. Un
derlying them fundamentally were the
influences of divergent racial and po
litical interests of the Slav and Teu
tonic peoples. The conflict long feared
was precipitated by the assassination
of the Austrian Archduke Francis
Ferdinand and his wife at Sarajevo.
Austria ascribed the deed to a pan-
Slavic conspiracy, centered in and coun
tenanced by Serbia. Diplomatic ex
changes occurred culminating in an
ultimatum by Austria to Serbia, only
partly complied with. Austria declared
war on Serbia and the other nations
have been drawn in by racial and polit
ical ties, treaty alliances, territorial
and commercial aspirations, fears of
aggression or perhaps other elements.
(2) Serbia is an independent King
dom.
(3) On one side sue allied Germany,
Austria-Hungary. Bulgaria and Tur
key: on the other, Russia. Serbia,
France, Great Britain, Belgium, Monte
negro; Japan and Italy.
TERM ORIGIXALLY BOOK
TITLE
France of 191-f Born Ta-orouanly A:
es
From "As Pays de In Revanche."
MOUNT ANGEL, Or.. Oct. 19. ,To the
Editor.) I send you this answer to
the following question- of "A Student":
"Tell me the source of the metaphor
"Pays de la Revanche." used by "A
Reader."
"Since the war of 180 the French
have looked forward to a war of re
venge for the recovery of Alsace and
Lorraine, and apply this phrase to those
provinces." The Oregonian, October 14.
The cession of those provinces to
Germany was the result of an accord
between Thiers and Bismarck. In the
sessions of February in and March 1,
1871, the French government ratified
that bargain. Among 800 representa
tives. 546 pacifists "at any price" voted
this dismemberment. Germany having
taken nothing, France had nothing to
retake nor to revenge.
The idea of revenge was born from
the defeat of Sedan (September 1,
1870). This was' the nucleus for the
spirit of revenge. From 1875 the
French realized the impossibility to in
vade Germany. It is therefore an in
sult to them to name France the "Pays
de la Revanche."
in i3.) tne pacinsL propaganda, or
ganized by the occult society for Ger
many, had completed her work. No
more patriotic enthusiasm nor civ
energy' in France, the national defense
is Impoverished. The author cham
pion publishes his "Army Without i
Head"; Ferdinand de Lesseps is ac
cused with immunity by a clerk of the
newspapers of Paris to be "a phantas
tic worthlessness." The powers refuse
to take French diplomacy seriously.
The Cincinnati paper. Commercial, de
nies the civilizing influence of France.
Another publication, the Inquirer, sug
gests "to wipe out that country from
amongst-the nations." But the crush
ing of France would mean Germaniz
ing the bordering nations, and Switz
erland is alarmed.
To all admonitions and warnings the
French -f 1885 are deaf and blind.
Who will cure them of their short
sightedness, show them, how to return
to their national traditions, to make
good, use of their colonies, to clear
themselves of f unctionarism and bu
reaucracy, to transform their public in
struction, to undertake their moral re
form that must influence the other re
forms?
Three Swiss of French and Catholic
lineage took the chance. Up to that
time, in order to be read in France,
you had to have a German name and
to possess the title of Doktor. The
three Swiss filled the conditions and,
moreover, knew how to infuse them
with German idiosyncrasy. They wrote
290 pages of Irrefutable facts, figures
and proofs under this title: "Au Pays
de la Reavanche, ' and signed "Dr.
Rommel."
During 12 years this boclt and its
autnors were Jeered at ir. Germany,
abased in Switzerland and reviled in
France. But, on March 10, 1898, the
celebrated writer, Jules Lemaltre,
member of the French Academy and
president of the Ligue des Patriotea,
published in the Figaro his famous es
say, "The Profitable Enemy." Here are
Ilia conclusions.
The "Pava de la Revanche" is one of
the best books published on France. You
must medtta-te that ferocious text. N o
German has shown himself to he so ma
licious, wlttv and outrageous. Each para
graph ia a slao or a knife-thrusl. The
style Is slavering with drivel, and reeking
with gall. Hut tnt observations are accn
rate, the diagnosis Just: the author dips
his hand in the fcrench abeese. As a wnoie.
this book is truo. Let us humble ourselves.
We are at the lowest stage. I confess that.
L.et ua read the abominable but beneficent
book of Doctor Rommel; let us buy it; let
us distribute It: Ut us make the fortune
of that man. lie deserves it.
Jules Lemaitre was listened to. The
French followed the advice of the three
Swiss authors, A. L, magistrate; A. P.,
financier; L M., satirist. Their book
was surnamed "The Missal of Sar
casm."
Recently a writer of Berlin declared:
The France of 1914 was born thor
oughly armed from the book of Dr.
Rommel.
Such is the genuine source of the
metaphor "Au Paye do la Revanche."
A READER.
Vae for Pine Pitch.
BEND. Or.. Oct. 20. (To the Editor.)
Can you advise me the uses of pine
pitch and if there Is a market for the
pitch taken from Central Oregon yellow
pine? P. B.
Pine pitch is sometimes distilled for
the- oils and the turpentine that can
be obtained from it. Most turpentine
taken from pine pitch comes from the
Southeastern part of the United States
and Georgia and Florida have many of
such 'distilleries. There are none in
this part of the country.
Desertion of Relatives.
Birmingham (Ala.)' Age-Herald.
'Why are you asking me for help?
Haven't you any close relatives'." "Yes.
That's the reason why I'm appealing to
you."
A Rattled Rancher's Plaint
By James Barton Adams.
I'm worried an' rattled an" flustered, my
brain's in a sort of a whirl.
Like every wheel was a-buzzin' ac
count o' that notionate girl.
An' mother she says that she reckons
when God in his infinite grace
Was flllin' his orders for babies he left
the wrong kid at our place.
We're common an' plain an' ol'-fash-
ioned, an' mightily sot in our
ways.
While she is high-toned in her notions
an chases up every craze;
She seems to regret she's related by
blood to her mother an mc
Since Mariar got back from the city an'
eays we must call her Mah-ree.
Afore I was struck with the notion.
that, now seems the dream of a
fool.
Of sendin' her off to be finished in a
big edicational school,
There wasn't a girl on tho ranches
could down her in all-around
work
In washin' an' sweepin' an' milkln her
ma never kno'ved her to shirk.
She'd' help her ol dad with the feedin'
an' my bosom with pride ust to
swell
To he"ar her sweet voice all a-rlngin'
with song in the barn an' corral.
But now Jes' the smell o' the cattle '11
make her as sick as kin be.
Since Mariar got back from the city an'
says we must call her Mah-ree.
She uses big words in Iier talkln' in
vented since I went to school.
Linked up like a log chain together an'
spoken accordin' to rule.
An' slings in some French as a dressin'
to flavor the flow of her talk.
Till nobody ever'd think her a chip from
'this family block.
She talks of a glorious futur', of tri
umphs she's goin' to git.
With talents she calls hlsteronic. an"
says she is goin' to flit
In glory acrost the ho-rizon o' fame, an'
it's worryin' me.
Since Mariar got back from t:.e city an"
says we must call her Mah-ree. .
She sasslly calls me her pawpaw, when
sho knows I'm her nateral dad,
A name she regarded as sacred afore
she got hit with the fad.
But now she allows it is vulgar, an'
says it's an ol-sylete word.
An' "mam" is a horrible utt-rance, in
excusably rude an' absurd.
You'd think from her ilighty-like no
tions an' hearin' her high-ciaddy
talk
That she was a thorrerbrc-d heifor cor
raled with the scrubbiest stock.
An' that is tho painful reflection that
worries her mother ar.d mo.
Singe Mariar got back from the city cn'
says we must call her Mah-res.
Twenty-five Years Ago
From The Oregonian, October 23. ISsO.
Odessa, Oct. 21. In accordance with
he Czar's enforcement of the anti
Jewish law ttll .ltwa in XT ! - W -
. - -n.iii, iicii wcro
today ordered to leave that city. Also
..t oc-ws in AKtrnan. ;s miles from
lore, have been ordered to leave that
.own.
Vienna. Oct. 21. A oroijosal ha. k.
submitted to the lower Austrian Diet
' intense ine amy on American
weavers' spools in retaliation for the
aiijit:) Dill.
Paris, Oct. 21. Bernhardt'-! nrnihir.
tion of "Cleopatra" has been postponed
until Thursday.
Chicago. Oct. 21. Anarchists .re
making arrangements to commemorate
with appropriate service tho anniver
sary of the hanging of the Haymarket
anarchists on November 11.
Louisville. Oct. 21. World's cham
pionship games: Louisville 9. Brooklyn
The 125 box cars and 73 flat cars
purchased for the Oregoniau railway
in anticipation of the change of the
track from narrow to standard gauge
are now arriving from the East. As
the track of the Oregonian road has
not been changed, the cars as they ar
rive will be turned over to the South
ern Pacific and will be used by that
company till the Oregonian is ready
for them.
The work of paving north Front
street will be begun this morning. The
contractor, John Burke, has a very
fine lot of stone blocks on the grounds,
but he has had some difficulty in se
curing a force of pavers.
LIFE ONE BIG GAMBLE, ANYWAY
Marriage Often Reverses Character. So
Why Not Take Chancer
INGL1S. Or.. Oct. 20. (To the Edi
tor.) I didn't know the world was
burdened with so many sensible single
men and women with a grievance.
Some males desire a "cute, pretty but
terfly" for a wife, says one writer. But
all men desire a companion and help
meet. Sometimes the most flighty butterflv
makes the best wife. And sometimes
the shiftless and spendthrift boy makes
an A No. 1 husband.
When a man marries and becomes a
father, that unsatisfied aimlessness
usually disappears. The responsibility
of raising a family brings out the best
in a man or, in some exceptional cases,
the worst. How is a woman to tell
which will develop? Search me! The
only way I know is to take a gambler's
chance and find out by experience. Life
at its best is only a big gamble.
The trouble with a great many peo
ple is in their own mind. They estab
lish an Impossible ideal, and then com
plain because it cannot be realized.
Ideals and realities never correspond.
it will soon be leap year. My advice
to these people, male or female, is:
Make love to the first unmarried per
son of the opposite sex that you can
get within speaking distance. At least
you will have gained some new experi
ences, and that spells life in big letters.
As for training our girls to be good
wives. I say Impossible. Will your
daughter marry a banker, merchant,
farmer, salesman or anyone of numer
ous others? The duties would be en
tirely different in each case. Cooking,
washing and other accomplishments do
not make a good wife. They may help,
but they can be acquired. Go into the
home of a successful man. The wife
may not be working, but everywhere
you will find the effeot of her person
ality. Two heads are better than one.
Lives of great men all remind us
tYhat a lot we owe bur wives.
. Little women get behind us.
And make something of. our lives:
So take a chance and put your hand
in life's big grab bag, and "If at first
you don't succeed, try, try again."
A MARRIED MAN.
THE TRAPPERS' BONES.
(In The Oregonian October 19, 1913, an
Item from Canyonviile, Or., related how a
trapper, with his leg caught in a big bear
trap, perished alone and miserably in tv.o
forest 17 years ago, as revealed by '.he
finding of a skeleton wilti a bone he-M in
the rusted trap.)
Aa dauntless as the game he sought,
(His fate we'll not forget)
A trapper unawares was caught -
In a trap that he had set
(A grim, inglorious death to die)
Where none could hear his moans:
A score of years have circled by.
And now we find his bones.
, i
Perhaps the searchers came that way.
Up nearly to the place
Where dead, or dying, there he lay,-
Yet saw they not his face.
The stately firs waved high o'erhead
And swished their spines and cones
Upon the bosom of the dead.
Where now we find his bones.
Mayhap a sweetheart vigil kept
Whene'er the postman came:
Mayhap a mother sat and wept
And murmured o'er his name;
But no one e'er that silence broke
In glad or sadder tones.
Until at last that silence spoke.
Disclosing his poor bones.
The roots he clutched in either fist,
The grass whereon he lay.
Like cheeks he'd kissed ere he was
missed.
Have faded now away.
Perhaps his claim to earthly fame
(One of the great unknowns)
Is that we're guessing at his name
Because we found his bones.
If wild beast can. perchance e'en yet
They whine a Haman story.
Relating how the trap he set
Redounded to their glory;
While human kind will have In mind
His sufferings and groans
When thinking of the gruesome find
The finding of his bones.
We know not whether well or ill
His earthly course he ran
(He must have sinned, as mortals will
Because he was a man).
If there's a chance again to live.
If heavenly love atones,
O God, the sins of him forgive
Whose life was in these bones.
SDGAR MANLY MUM FORD.
Not Question of Race.
PORTLAND. Oct. 21. (To the Ed
itor.) (1) If my grandparents came
from England and my parents were
both born In the United States, what
nationality am I?
(2) What is an American? Some
claim the Indian is the only real
American. E. A.
1. American.
2. American nationality concerns po
litical solidarity rather than ethnolog
ical extraction. In that sense an
American is one who was born in or
owes allegiance to the United States.
Ethnologlcally, the Indian is the only
true American. '
Pay-lp Day Prenowed.
PORTLAND. Oct. 21. (To the Ed
itor.) We have had various tag days,
apple days, peach dayi and dress-up
days, and now 1 would suggest that
we have a "pay-up day." On that day
we should all pay up all the rent, in
terest, grocery bills, drug bills, cloth
ins? bills, c-t al., and we would oil b-a
happy. 1 aope the Chamber of Com
merce will take up this matter and see
that it goes. R. M. TUTTLE.
Aparfmeiit-Hiaise fT'facnarr.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Many change:? in your apartment
house this October?" "Ve. vir. me
chanical piano-players have rean moved
out"