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u THE MOHMXG OEEGOTAV. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 27, 1915. 10RTLA.ND, OBKtiOS. Entered t Portland. Oregon, Postoff ice, as sccOnd-class matter. Subscription Rates Invariably m advance. (By Mall.) v Daiiv, Sunday included, one year ......$8.00 TJail-. Kundav Included, six months ... 4.25 Xslly. Sunday Included, threw month! ..2. JJailv, Sunday ln:Juaa, one muni.,, .. Iallv, without Sunday, une year. Daily, without Sunday, six month. . Iaily, without Sunday, three months. Taily. without Sunday, one month... "Weekly, one year.. To 6.00 3.23 1.T3 .0 1.00 Sunday, one year - - Sunday and Weekly, one year - a.u (By Carrier.) Daily, Sunday included, dne year. ... .$9.00 Ijatly. Sunday included, one month 7o How o Remit Hend postoffice money or der express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk, olvo postoffice address in lull, including county and state. Postage Rate 1 to IB paces, 1 Cent; 18 to 3-' pages, -1 cents; Si to 4S pages, 3 cents: 60 to tiO pages, 4 cents; b'l to 7J pages. 5 feftts: TS to H-' pases, u cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree Conk lin, Brunswick building. New York; "Verree A Conklin, Steger building, Chicago; ban Francisco representative, R. J. Bidwell, iU Market strewl. PORTXAXD, HXDSESDAY, OCT. S7. 1915. SECRETARY M'ADOO'S SCHEME. No person who has given any thought to the needs of the Navy will disagree with Secretary McAdoo as to the necessity of auxiliary ships, which shall be used for commerce In times of peace, but which shall be immedi ately available for war in times of war. Other nations provide them by arranging that private ship owners shall build vessels adapted to naval as well as commercial uses, officered and manned by citizens who are mem bers of a naval reserve. Those nations make contracts with the owners pro viding that, for a stipulated annual mm in time of peace and for further sums when the ships are used by the Government in time of war, the vessels shall be constructed according to cer tain designs and shall be immediately handed over to the government on de mand. When peace is restored, they are returned to their owners. Mr. McAdoo proposes to reverse the arrangement. He would have the United States Government buy or build the ships, operate them in com merce, or lease them to private ship ping companies in times of peace and take them into naval service in time of war. In support of this plan he : cites the urgent need of ships for com- ' merce, the exorbitant rates of freight exacted by ship owners, the enormous sum in ocean freights paia annually by the American people to foreign na tions and the probability that ships transferred to American register dur ing the war will return to foreign flags when peace is restored. He also cites the excessive prices paid for ships by the Government during the Spanish war and the heavy loss at which those Chips were sold. All of these conditions can be over Come without embarking the Govern ment in business as an owner and operator of steamship lines. Ships to carry American commerce are scarce because our laws impose on them ex Tenses of operation much higher than those borne by foreign ships. Until these laws are changed, no perma nent advantage will be gained from , the registry law of 1914. As Mr. Mc Adoo admits, ships transferred to the American flag under that law will be - lost after the war. The reason is that, when normal conditions of competition are restored, operation under the American flag will be impossible with out loss, if the present shipping laws are retained or if the seamen's law is not amended. If those laws were re vised in such manner as to equalize cost of operation, the ships would re main under the American flag, more hips would sail under that flag and the American merchant marine would be restored without resort to Government ownership and operation. Naval auxiliaries can be provided under that plan by adopting the policy pursued by Great Britain and other nations as we have described it. That policy gave Britain abundant ships for movement of great armies and vast quantities of supplies all over the world. It did not burden the British government with the immense cost of building or buying transports nor with the loss incidental to sale of ships when the war ends. Mr. McAdoo may cry "subsidy" at this suggestion, but the payments made under the British arrangement are most emphatically not a subsidy. They are as truly pay ment for an equivalent of value to the government as would be payment by an individual for the privilege of taking possession of another man's ship or building on demand. Subsidies are payments made to a ship owner to enable him to do 4 a profit busi ness which lie could not otherwise do without loss. The Oregonian always lias opposed ship subsidies and still opposes them. There Is, however, no valid objection to payment of the fair value for the privilege of taking over a ship on demand and of dictating certain details of its oonstmiction and operation. Such a payment Is the same in principle as that which is made to railroads for building mail cars and placing them at the Gov ernment's service Mr. MrAdoo's plan, however", simply subsidy in a now guise, but just as vicious in principle as the subsidy schemes which The Oregonian has consistently opposed. He pro' poses that the Government buy 400,000 to 500.000 tons of ships at a cost of ' J60.000.000. Assuming that he could luiy the larger amount for that sum, this is equivalent to J 100 a ton. Foreign vessels can, in normal times he bought for littl more than half that sum. If the Government should operate ships itself in competition with foreign vessels, it will suffer a loss equivalent to the interest on the extra cost of purchase and to the extra, cost of operation under American law. If the Government leases the ships to operating companies, it will be able to do so only at rates which will in volve approximately the same loss. The money to meet that loss will come out of the United States Treasury. It will be a subsidy paid by the Ameri can people to enable American ex . porters and importers to have their goods carried under the American flag. Mr. McAdoo dismisses this ob jection to his scheme by saying the loss ""will be a email price to pay for preparedness and National safety." but he ignores the fact that it would be a : subsidy. " By calling his proposed Government - ships naval auxiliaries, Mr. McAdoo simply takes advantage of the popular demand for National defense in order to win favor for a scheme which has already been condemned by public opinion. We can provide naval auxil- ... iaries by tearing down the obstacles to investment of capital in ships and by adopting the British policy. Those obstacles are ux- siEaiUaciei fcbj ping laws and those provisions of the seamen's law which harm the ship ping business without benefiting the seaman. Remove those obstacles and capital will voluntarily flow into the shipping business without any arti ficial stimulus such as subsidies, either in the form proposed by Mr. McAdoo or in that proposed by Senator Gal linger. Irritated at the almost unanimous condemnation of the ship-purchase bill by the Chambers of Commerce of the United States, Mr. McAdoo accuses them of being intimidated by ship owners who would deny them freight space if they ran counter to ship Owners' wishes. That accusation is a product of the political fanaticism and Pharisaism which cannot conceive of opposition prompted by any but sor did motives. It is of a piece with t.he attacks which Mr. McAdoo's for mer associate, Mr. Bryan, makes on the integrity of all who disagree with him on peace-at-any-price and Na tional defenselessness. Such assump tion of a monopoly of all the virtues provokes only disgflst and stimulates inquiry into the purity of motive in those who make them. All the hottest and wise men are not in the Demo cratic party. PRSD)EXT1AL HEDOLINti. Engrossed in the felicities of his approaching marriage and the daily entertainment of his lovejy bride-to-be, beginning with breakfast at the Gait home and ending with dinner at the White House, President Wilson has not forgotten his self-assumed po sition as the "leader of the Democratic party." He sat down at his desk the other day and dashed off a letter to his friend, Senator James, expressive of his immediate personal interest in the success of the Democratic nomi nee for Governor of Kentucky, Mr. Stanley, and saying: The. White House. Washington. Oct. 20. 1815. My Dear Senator: I have been follow ing with the greatest interest the progress of the campaign In Kentucky and am very much interested to observe what Just ground of confidence the party has of suc cess in your great state. My own associa tion with Mr. Stanley has given me an im pression of strength, capacity, intelligence and integrity, which makes me feel that his election as Governor of the state will con stitute a triumph .to which the party can look back with special pride, because It is always a matter of prid to serve a great state by putting the very best man at her disposal for public service. Vv ill you convey to Mr. Stanley my warmest good wishes and my confident hopes for his complete successT Cordially and sincerely yours. WOODROW WILDON. Thus the White House takes a di rect hand in the progress of the Ken tucky campaign and expresses a purely partisan concern for the triumph of the Democratic nominee and the de feat of his opponent. In the early days of his incum bency. President Wilson made a lofty appeal for the support of all "forward looking men." He has had it in a measure granted to few Presidents. But how about him? Vt H V DISCORD.? - A few days ago a representative Jf the Portland Chamber of Commerce, In course of an address at Medford, freed himself of the following rather remarkable appeal for harmony be tween Portland and Southern Oregon: Ton accuse us of trying to hog it all. We plead guilty. . We realize that Port land can only grow and prosper as every community grows and prospers. What helps you ne,ps us, ana wna- neips us neips juu. Xnthinr can he accomolished by a continu ation of the spirit of antagonism and enmity. Anything can oe accompusjiea it vt uur the hatchet, get together and united put our shoulders to the wheel for a better and more prosperous state. We shall assume that the confession of Portland's exclusive culpability was intended chiefly to be rhetorical, or was due to the enthusiasm of the mo ment, or perhaps to atmospheric pressure. Let it go. But let us see how it was received at Medford. The Sun, among many Other things, says: -Vfltitnllv we lire for Medford. first, last and all the time, but we are not for Med forJ alone. We are also for the .togue j.iver Valley, for Jackson -county, for southern Oregon, and. in the words of Joshua Perkins. th whole aum state. wiiat wc cu eci we want; what we cant get. we want our neighbors to have. No one can or will find fault with such an attitude. It is proper for any community. But it is a little discon certing to find the Mail-Tribune mat ins this satirical comment: Knnris v.rv ftne TCverv little while 1 similar burst of hot air from the metropolis cheers the small towns. livery little while we are discovered anew by a glad-hand junket and sad e-xperirnce has taught us that one or tnese ouve nram-n iMrnBiuiio precedes some new activity to dwarf the development of the stato for Portlands bcnetlt. There is an opinion in Portland that Portland cannot and will not grow un less the state grows. Any lack of pros perlty in Southern Oregon, or any part of Oregon, is certain to rind its direct reflection here. It is not true that Portland dwarfs the activity of any part of Oregon for its own benefit. Yet undeniably that is the belief of many good citizens at Medford. It is unfortunate for them, for Portland and for the state that it has a news paper like the Mail-Tribune, which has deliberately and continuously sought to foment discord with Port land and practically rJl of Oregon out side the Rogue River Valley. It might bo well for Medford to indulge in a candid survey of the situation so as to determine how much of respon sibility for the ill-r'eeling, if any, in Medford toward Portland rests with its own vicious little newspaper. It will discover that there is no similar ill-will here. There is no reason why there should be. FICTITIOUS F.COSOMI. We have no doubt but that oc casional crimes are perpetrated In the holy name of economy. Perhaps many are not committed that should be. Possibly we could not find the heart to prosecute the- official for almost anything done in the interest of re trenchment these days. But the head of the New York bureau of statistics, in suggesting that the purchase of fic tion for the public library be discon tinued, has.gone over the boundary line and. attacked the one exception. Cer tainly New York, if it comes to a test, will prefer to save the salary paid to the head of the bureau in question. It seems incredible, even in these relatively enlightened days, that such a suggestion should emanate from any intelligent source. JBut perhaps it is not so strange after all that the idea should find origin in the unimagina tive mental domain of a statistician. Facts and figures are his forte. Any thing that can't be added, subtracted, multiplied or tabulated is mere va cant babbling. A comparison of this year's budget with that of a year ago is the most splendid literature such a mind can know. The imaginative meanderings of such creatures as poets and novelists must seem a prodigious waste of time. Encouragement of such panderings to culture not only leads to waste of time, but waste of money. when thousands of dollars are spent for mere works of fiction. "it i -a. JjOsa-idc," ss-is, ii. ie!en-o Of fiction Which the library organ .has found necessary to make. "It is a false idea of the library's purpose to think that it exists only to own and circulate books of fact. The failure to understand the importance Of books of imagination in the reading of every man, woman and child is the failure to understand what culture really means The writer might as well have rallied to a defense of sacred mu sic in the churches, so needless does it appear to the average normal and enlightened person. No doubt we shall hear next that the New Tork bureau of statistics favors abolishing the ex pensive paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in order that the gal leries may be hung with the .architec tural designs of New York's buildings. THOSE SOUTHERN CHAIRJIEN'. The Oregonian has a note from a nameless "Friend of the President" who is disposed to challenge its statement that the Southern Briga diers dominate Congress through control of the committees. "Have we not seen that the real influence in Congress is Wilson himself?" he asks. The Oregonian does not underesti mate the power of the President with Congress, though it has failed at critical times; but it insists that if it be conceded that Woodrow Wilson tells Congress what to do, and Con gress does it, it is through the South ern Brigadiers, who have an almost exclusive monopoly of the House chairmanships and a majority of the Democratic caucus. The list is worth perusal by everyone who is interested in knowing how completely the polit ical power of the Government has swung south of Mason and Dixon's line. Here are the House chairman ships which, the Southern Democrats have: Agriculture Asbury F. Lever, of South Carolina. Banking and currency Carter Glass, of Virginia. Accounts -James x. Lloyd, of Missouri. Census -Harvey Helm, of Kentucky. Claims-"-Edward W. Pou. of .North Caro lina. District of Columbia Ben Johnson, of Kentucky. Education Dudley At. Hughes, of Georgia, Election of President. Vice-President and Representatives in Congress William VV. Hunker, of Missouri. Foreign affairs Henry D. Flood, of Vir ginia. Immigration and naturalization John I. Burnett, of Alabama. Indian affairs John H Stenhen. Of Texas. Insular affairs William A. Jones, of Vir ginia. Interstate and foreign commerce William C. Adamson, of Georgia. Irrigation of arid, lands William B. Smith, of Texas. Judiciary Edwin Y. Wsbb. of North Car olina. Labor- David J. Lewis, of Maryland. Library James L. Slayden. of Texas. Merchant marine and fisheries Joshua, W. Alexander, of Missouri. Military affairs- J amea Bay, of Virginia. Naval affairs Lemuel P. Padgett, of Ten nessee. Patents William A. OMfield. of Arkansas. Postoffice and postroads John A. Moon, of Tennessee. Public buildings and srounds Frank Clark, of Florida. Public lands Scott Ferris, of Oklahoma. Railways and canals Martin Dies, of Texas. ' Reform In civil services-Hannibal L. God win, of North Carolina. Revision of laws John T. watklns. of Louisiana. Rivers and harbors -Steohen M. Snark- man. of Florida. Roads Dorsey W. Shackelford, of Mis souri. Kules itoDer l.. nenry, or Texas. Territories William c. Houston, of Ten nessee. War claims A. W. Gregg, of Texas. Ways and means Oscar W. Underwood. of Alabama, who was succeeded at the close of the session by Claude Kitchen, of North Carolina. Of the remainder. New York has one and Ohio another; and New York is about to give way to Ken tucky. If the country takes Woodrow Wil son, it must also take Southern dom ination. THE PORT'S BEM.ittK.tBLE RECORD. In the faint hope of enlightening those who believe that the unsatisfac tory showing of Portland's total water- borne commerce is due to a falling off n grain shipments, the following fig ures, already published in the news columns, are once moro printed Portland has not lost grain to Puget Sound. In bushels its water shipments last year exceeded those of any other year but one. The percentages in the statistics are Portland's proportions of the total shipments from the Columbia River and Puget Sound: Bushels. O 3" -f ( p a i SEASON. 2 2 1914-15 1S1S-14 1912-13 1911-12...... 1910-11 1909-10....... 1S,0T.710 13.3K0.3B6 14.752.221 9.793.351 11.033,222 9.723,31 10.2S0.S9 1R.?44.790 8,204.988 9.892,656 60.5 65.3 65 65 56. g 0 49 58.4 4 5.4 59.1 9,803,944 7,096.000 7.816.79 5.029.586 5.820.944 7.693.158 6,705,836 16.190.686 1908-09 1907-08 190S-07 5,841.019 1905-0 Av.. 10 yrs. . The figures tell another story to those who are conversant with local history. It will be observed that whereas Port land has shipped for ten years an av erage of 5 9.1 per cent of the grain of the Northwest, in the four years pre ceding 1914-15 it shipped from 63 to 66 per cent. Last year this percent age fell to 60.5 per cent. It will be remembered that just be fore the cereal year of 1914-15 opened. three different and disastrous fires de stroyed grain docks and warehouses, in portlana. A temporary iacK or dock and warehouse facilities resulted in diverting to Puget Sound much grain that would otherwise have come to Portland. The quantities and - percentages, moreover, corroborate anotner tact also known to grainbuyers and ship pers. For several years Portland's grain territory had had more bountl ful crops than the territory tributary to Puget Sound. Its farmers were un usually prosperous. Then came the European war and a consequent pros pective rise in wheat prices. The farmers in , Portland territory were better able to hold their grain, and many did so. Yet, in spite of these detracting ele ments, the port of Portland more than held its own. In wheat shipments by water for the year it exceeded the av. erase for ten years. It is perhaps not known to every body, but it is, nevertheless, a fact that Portland now ships more wheat than it did in the days when all the grain grown in the Northwest went through this port. This in itself is remarkable record. The grain terri tory that ships through Portland con stitutes the. older wheat fields of the Northwest. Whereas the State of Washington has enjoyed a period of railroad build ing culminating in three railroads traversing the wheatgrowlng section of the state and terminating at Puget Sound. Portland's record has been de pendent largely upon more intensive cultivation of territory already served by railroads. Little new grain country bu besot s&aed railroad tba have terminals here in comparison with the new fields invaded by the more northern railroads. The great potential grain country of Eastern Oregon is still a blank space on the map. It is quite probable that Portland would handle more of the grain grown in the Northwest if Portland had a more attractive rate than Puget Sound. But to produce an appreciable gain, that is, one that would make a noticeable difference in the number. of grain ships in harbor, extension would bo required by railroads termin ating in Portland into territory now exclusively served by the northern roads. Whether a common grain rate to As toria in itself would promote, wheat shipments via the Columbia River or cause a diversion of some of Port land's present traffic to Puget Sound is a matter of dispute between the grand army of volunteer rate experts and the practical grain buyers. The grain men hold the latter view. But we fancy we are expressing a like sentiment on the part of a majority of those who are advocating the com mon rate when we say that if it will result in giving Portland a better grain rate than Puget Sound under the lorig- and-short-haul clause, we are for it. But the whole effort is one to force or entice away to Portland's benefit the business of a competitor. It is a business axiom, we believe, that it is always more profitable to build up one's own neglected opportunities than to try to forge ahead by tearing down a rival." Portland has a number of glowing opportunities which, if seized, will build up the port faster and more per manently than any tampering with railroad rates. There is Mr. Stra horn's proposition to build a network of railroads in Central Oregon, if given proper local support. The Cham ber of Commerce is endeavoring to es tablish , industries that will bring im ports to the port. It is attempting to Becure the co-operation of the rail roads and shippers in the transaction through this port of the local and transcontinental business which right fully belongs to the port. We have no" grave cause to be en vious of Puget Sound's grain ship ments. We are doing pretty well in that line ourselves. What Portland most needs just now is a united de termination to go after and get the business in which Portland is really deficient. Governor Withycombe's military staff, which is accompanying him to San Francisco for official Oregon day at the Fair, is in striking contrast to the average staff of a chief executive. There are no gold-'braid Governor's staff officers in the lot, but active offi cers picked from various parts of the state where troops are located. . Gov ernor Withycvome is fortunate in hav ing no gold-lace staff, the last of these flowery gentlemen having been dis missed by him shortly after he was in augurated. The officers who give Be--I rious work to the National Guard the year around are entitled to these tours. which in so many states are reserved for political pets. At last a religious prophet has blos somed who foresees a long era before the end of tho world. Usually they delight in foreseeing the end of mortal existence at an early date. This par ticular prophet makes his prediction from the ancient biblical prophecy construed to mean that the Turks would be driven out of Europe in a war wherein they would be unaided. Hence another war must materialize, sinpe the Turks are being aided at present. Nevertheless, the Turks have shown no need Of help up to the pres ent time, nor has the aid been much more than "psychological." The OreffOhlan worries over Dcmocrarv abandoning the doctrine of "states rights.-' At the same time our big contemnorarv is abandoning its old stand and is becoming trie i-aaing cnampion or rnc old uemorratlo doctrine. Surely it should be broad-minded enough to grant to others the same privi leges It takes for itsclf.Salcm Capital journal. .The Oregonian has long been the only true exponent of sound Demo cratic doctrine, and it wants to see the states something more than petty provinces of a great central autocracy at Washington. But where, oh, where ao you hnd a Democrat nowadays who stands for state rights. The vandal who would "get even' by poisoning a man's dog has a coun terpart in Linn County, where he sawed so nearly through a number of apple trees about to come into bear ng that an extra high wind broke them. He will bo discovered. In gloating some time he will tell of it. A woman has again won the world's championship operating a typewriter, in a contest lasting an hour. Only a woman can do that: a man would have to stop to light his cigarette or bite his plug, set his tie or part his back hair. Men are so frivolous! The institute of anatomy of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania may be doing goodwork in some lines, but when its researches lead to suggestions as to marriage of blood relatives, time and money are thrown away. , in mis war, wnenever ones own towns are bombarded, they are open towns and the act is barbarous; when ever the enemy's towns are bombard ed. they are fortified and the act is simply war. The New Haven road wanted it all, according to Mr. Mellen, and almost went bankrupt, which is a warning to all hogs. Hereafter American boys who land in Britain on horse boats and want to join the army will be spanked and sent home. A rainbow by night in Oregon is an unusual phenomenon, yet this' is the land of rainbows as well as of realiza tion. Activities of German spies and plot ters are no sooner stopped at one place than they break out in another. If A. P. Bateham is not proud of the agricultural exhibit at the Land Show he is an extraordinary man. That "1916 bar" at the Land Show is just in time for the man who needs practice after December 31. Secretary Garrison yesterday ap proved plans to make the Chicago River run uphill. The ' Canadian steamship Donna Conna has been torpedoed and is gonna. Poor Tabby has a gloomy outlook. J ileal fuxa iiave Advanced 10Q pet -cent. Twenty-five Years Ago (From The Oregonian of October 27. 1S80.) Konaout, . y.. Oct. 26. The Hudson River today showed the highest tide in 40 years. Brickyards suffered enor mously. Millions of brick were lost. It is estimated that 4,600.000 brick have been lost in the Kingston district, A Dartv of fiiirvprnrs pn7Ml In locating Huntington's proposed road between Portland and eiilverton are camped just below the Clackamas hatottery on the Clackamas River. It is understood that the greater portion of the road is already surveyed, but the exact route is as much of a mys tery as it ever was. A bridge is to span the Clackamas River just above the hatchery. The body of the dead Vnion Pacific engineer, John O'Brien, was "Shipped to Carey, Pa., yesterday by Coroner River after beinT embalmed. It was accom panied by Engineer Robert Hunter, of Aibina. The Mendelssohn Quintette Club of Boston give their concert at the Unita rian Church this evenmsr. under the auspices of the Ladles' Society. All those who had the pleasure of hearing Rev. W. H. Milburn, the gifted blind orator, when he was here some 10 years ago, will embrace the oppor tunity of hearing his lecture on Sar gent Smith Prentiss tomorrow evening at Grace Church. Moses" Hull will lecture tonight at Elks' hall on "God's Revelation: What It IS Not, What It la" The Interesting drama. "Forgiven, the work of the well-known play wright. Clay M. Greene, will be pro duced at Cordray's Theater tonight, and will run for the week. Thfl fntnnnrtlntf Af t i tr-tv-Act will give a dance next Thursday evenina;. Invitations can be procured from any lexnDer ot xne circle. RELIGIOIS LIBERTY SOT IX ISSUE: Writer Holds Suaday Closing; la Matter of Health Expediency. PORTLAND, Oct. 26. (To ' the Edi tor.) Now, as in times past, since the Very beginning of time, I judge, there s someone to bring forward that plea of "religious liberty' and "freedom of conscience" in opposition to Sunday closing. , - The saloonmen of Oreeon emDloved the same hackneyed argument. Eo did they of Chicago. It is their only am munition. They have no reasonable defense and must rely upon emotional prejudice to carry the day for a com mercialism that is at variance with all religious doctrines. In this day of highly organized so ciety it is Imperative that all business men be bound by certain rules. To bind all, the rule must be prescribed by a supreme authority, we look to the state. The business man who ex ercises freedom of conscience by open ing his store on Sunday denies to his competitor that precious privilege. seven-day competition cannot be met by six-day competition. Those who break the rule take advantage of those who observe it. If the statutes fixed Wednesday as the weekly holiday there would be those to say it interfered with their religious liberty. bunday has Ions; been designated as a day of rest. It should be given an atmosphere of quietude. As nearly as might be the wheels of commercialism should be stilled on this day. Those who demand rest phould not require others to work. Those who would work should not be allowed to inter fere with the business, pleasure or comfort of those who rest from labor one day in seven. The man who can not compete on equal terms must perish. - Kurely, he Is unworthy of place in organized society. Sunday opening of business houses is a special privilege to a very small minority. It places many lines of mer chandise at a disadvantage. A day of rest is impossible for business men unless all observe the rule. No one would be injured except those who take an unfair advantage merely for pecuniary gain, and not to satisfy the demands of conscience or protect re- Iiigous liberty, statements to the con trary notwithstanding. There is not one sensible theory to be advanced in favor of religious lib erty or freedom of conscience with reference to commercial pursuits unless we state flatly that a weekly holiday is unnecessary and tends to retard prosy-ess. 'litis cunaay ciosinx nas no bearing on liberty, conscience or religion. It is purely a question of expediency in maintaining the physical condition of the people, and should be brought un der the police power of the state. ROBERT G. DUNCAN. VISITOR IMPPKF.!iKD BY HIGHWAY Portland to Heap Larcte Bene-fits From Boulevard Alontr Columbia. ABERDEEN' Wash.. Oct 25. (To the Editor.) It was the pleasure of the writer on Sunday. October 17, to view the Columbia River Highway leading from Portland along the south side of the river, as far as the road is now completed, a distance of about 40 miles. I accepted an invitation from Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Dabney, of Port land. Mr. Dabnr-y's car carried eight of us on this trip and tho entire day was taken up viewing this wonderful road construction and the greatest scenic route I believe in the United States. About 23 miles out from Portland we stopped for lunch at Dabney Park, which comprises some 50 acres of land on the Sandy River just across from the Portland Automobile Clubhouse; after this we proceeded on to Crown Point, a most picturesque spot and from there to Dabney Cliffs where the crowd seems to enjoy spending the most of their time. It surely makes one dizzy to stand at this spot and look over the perpendicular walls onto the railroad tracks directly below. distance of 725 feet. At this point I was told that the Columbia was visible for a distance of more than 30 miles. It seems to the writer that this i perhaps one of the most costly roads to be. found anywhere in the Pacific Northwest, the great amount of ex cavation from the hills of solid rock and all the bridges being of concrete constructum. There are a hundred spots alonsr' this most beautiful high way where one would be content to stop and camp for days and never tire of looking at the river, high moun tains, wonderful waterfalls and the throng of people all the time travers ing the road. I was impressed by the law-abiding way in which the automobile drivers obeyed the traffic laws. It was esti mated on this day that 2010 cars trav eled over this highway and not an ac cident occurred. There was no speed ing and the drivers at all times kept on the proper side of the thoroughfare. w ltn the proper advertising. I can see where Portland will benefit to large degree by having this wonderful thoroughfare and pleasure drive. Ore pon has been asleep from Its Infancy as to road building but it is plain that new blood has been born to the com monwealth and a highway like this is the direct result. Tourists should not miss the opportunity of seeing the Columbia River Highway when it is their pleasure to visit your beautiful city. FRANK O. DOLE. The Other Way Around. Birmingham Age-Herald. "Miss Sereleaf tells me that she tends to take up settlement work. "Then, she doesn't intend to get mar ried? "I'm well a man waiting fo a train can't get aboard if it fails to The Mollycoddle. Br J It- Kendall. My friends, do you know What a "Mol lycoddle Isr Well, they say that it won't bite; Nor kick, nor scratch, nor fight; But is just so goody-good That it seems to' have Bo blood: As for turning t'other cheek, it will offer the whole phis. The 'possum, of my boyhood, was a hamming nypocrite. Playing "sure" dead to cave its life, Without a sign of defensive strife; But a "Mollycoddle" could never be that. For it seems to act on "standing pat." With the door unlocked, in a sort of fiszle fit. But Nature sure declares it must either fight or run; If Its lege are like the hare's It bas no cause to fear the wars. Because, as you see, though it couldn't climb & tree. Nor wield a flaming sword nor loud artellery. Yat could beat a warring Kaiser to a "place in the eun. And it could not be a tortoise, with its armor on its back. Though its gait is very slow. And its carriage very low. Yet its case is not so bad; It's a walkinar ironclad. And prepared for any Kaiser in the pack. 4 Nor a tiger, nor a cat, nor yet a long- tailed rat -For they're armed for instant strife To protect their young or life; S9 you can plainly see A "Mollycoddle" couldn't be E'en that mammal bird With teeth. called the bat. Where're I look I see. In animal or tree. That defense has made them what they are: That the peace of life means armed for war. . Munition shops must never close. And sentinels must 'never doze On land or sea this is the price of Liberty. In the forest grand, those splendid firs that stand Straight and tall without a limb. In the woods so deep and dim. Stripped to run the race of life Born and bred in jungle strife Are victors of the race, a Marathon band. In the head and breast man is some thing best, His lust for human flesh has changed Since his food is wider ranged; His taste is rather Belgic now It's what you HAVE that makes the row; For this he'll pray and fight you can have the rest. The lock upon the door does hot invite to war. Nor does the farmer's defensive fence Invite assault in any sense. Would you have the crawfish take off his crust As an invitation to hunger lust? All Nature is averse to such an open door. While life was very young, just start ing on a plan. It made the defenseless jelly fish. For the rest of the sea an ever-ready dish; The "Mollycoddle" of the salted deep That can only moan and wail and weep. In a sort of Bryan strain, up to man. Gold Hill, Oregon. WHAT FIGHTING SPIRIT HAS OOXE Treasured Institution I.lve Only Be mom of Pant Military Organisation. PORTLAND, Oct. 26. (To the Edi tor.) When over 30 years ago I cast my first vote for women suffrage, I had a fear that an emergency might come. when women from 'a mistaken philan thropy might oppose .the taking of measures necessary for National secur Ity. The women of Oregon have recent ly been admitted to the suffrage. The constitution imposes on the National Government the duty of taking measures to secure domestic tranquil ity and to provido for a common de fense against all enemies foreign and domestic. Kvery citizen should share these obligations, and since women have been given all the rights of citizenship they cannot escape their share of responsibility. nut we are told by our sentimental sisters that the danger of militarism weeps aside every other considera tion. And yet without the militancy of Cromwell and hia Puritan warriors England of today might be a despotism. Many claim that without the mllitar am of Gustavus Adolphus Kurope might still be under the blight of reliKious intolerance, There ia an historic jest that when the Puritans landed on the coast of New England that they first fell on tnetr knees and then on the aboriginals. Without the Puritan fighting quality sachem of the Narragansetts might nave his wigwam where Faneuil Hall now stands and a Pequod medicine man might be healing where the Temple of Christian Science raises its marble front. Certainly history gives instances where military organizations have been made to sustain unjust privilege and despotism, but it also tells us of many instances where mili tancy has successfully resisted these attempts. Such was the militarism, of Washington, Green and Wayne, and of James Monroe and John Marshall. Such too, was the naval militancy of Perry, McDougall and Farragut. But we are told that such dangerous precedents must be cut out of our National history And our flag which we have loved and cherished, which stands with us for the honor of men and the security of wo men shall be tolerated only as a bundle of colors. But by the same token, the Bible also should be expurgated. Our girls should not read of Judith and Holofernes of Jael and Sisera or of the mother of the Maccabees. But I would hope to spare the pages of Roman history that tell of the mother of the Gracchil and of Volumnia the mother of Coriolanus. Was it a misfortune to our country that the mothers of Grant, Sherman and Thomas raised their sons to be soldiers? I would also beg to retain that! page in our history that tells how 72 years ago a Provisional government was formed and how the women of that day approved the militancy of the men who laid the foundation of this state. Let us retain another page of our history, I beg, tht which tells how Oregon soldiers were present when Manila was taken and the portentous banner of Spain came fluttering dow like a wounded vulture and our banner of beauty and glory went up in its stead. When have American soldiers proven so false to their trust that they should be compared to the Pretorians of Rome or the Janissaries of Turkey? Yet I lately saw a lot of women teachers clapping their silly hands whenever a socialistic sentiment was uttered. It would be sad to see the honorable record of Oregon, women marred by weak sentimentality, women whose de votion has transformed this western wilderness into a paradise of homes Whom would you trust to defent you foreign mercenaries or your sons When your boys come to you for you permission to strengthen their arm for this sacred duty send them forth like the heroines of history with you Ibiessln Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian- of October 27, IStio. The New York Times, which is sup posed to be in the confidence of the Administration, says: "It is now set tled that Jeff Davis will be tried for treason and as soon as practicable. Ample time has been given for all popular excitement to subside so that his jury may be as dispassionate as possible; and for the complete prepara tion by his counsel of every available defense in law and the facts." The Government at Washington is determined to put a stop to the prac tice ot selling captive Indians Into slavery in New Mexico. The superin tendent of Indian affairs in that terri tory has given notice that all his ef forts will hereafter be employed in abating and preventing the traffic con trary to law and incompatible w-itJs Republican institutions. The late pirate. Bennett O. Burler. who as confined in the jail at San dusky, O., succeeded in prying open a window and making his escape on the afternoon of September to. He left a note for the jailer, saying, "I have gone out tor a waix; perhaps I will return shortly." All the Union papers of California are advocating the passage of a reg istry act for that state. We need the same kind of an act for Oregon and we trust that the Legislature will see to it that we have one. Hon. E. D. Holbrook. delegate to. Con gress from Idaho Territory, called upon. us yesterday. Mr. Holbrook is en route to vvasnineton Uity and will take his departure from this place tomorrow by steamship Sierra Nevada. He is a yourtsj mart ot considerable acauirementa and. outside of his political proclivities, worthy. The dredge lighters are Undergoing repairs. New and more substantial falls for the bottom are heincr nut in by Mr. Bruce at the wharf, foot Of Pine street. MIL,WAtKIJE LANDMARK'S HISTORY Known as Veranda Hotel, and it Built Until 1S51. PORTLAND. Oct. 26. (To tho tor.) In his communication to The Oregonian in regard to the early his tory of the old' building at Milwaukie now being torn down. George H. Himes corrects some erroneous statements. but makes others equally erroneous. uet me say that durinsr the whole Of the year 1850 my parents and their lamny uvea at Milwaukie. I was a boy of 12 years then, and my memory is still pretty good. ine building mentioned by Mr. Himes as having "been built in 1850" was really built in 1851. It was intended to be the best hotel in Oregon. It Was three stories high, and had what was considered the best hall for dancing In Oregon. Those were pleasant social affairs and were attended by people irom baiem to Astoria. It was named the Veranda Hotel. It had a wide veranda clear along the west front, but I cannot say whether the owner gave it that name because he had built the veranda or built the veranda because- he had given it that name. Mr. Himes says this, house was "called! the Milwaukie Hotel," and that "W. R B. Cotton was its first lessee"; tbat he advertised as such in the Western Star November 21. 1850. It is true that at that time there was a "Milwaukee Hotel." It was built in 1850 by Samuel I.. Campbell, who came from Massa chusetts in the year 1849. -I was In Milwaukie yesterday looking over the ground and found, to my satisfaction, that the old house stood probably 300 feet to the southeast of the "Veranda Motel," and in the next block south. There is now a good two-story house of concrete blocks occupying the site or the old Milwaukie Hotel. Neither did the Western Star news paper office occupy any space in the "Veranda Hotel," as that paper was moved lo Portland before the "Ver anda" was built. The paper occupied the small buildlnf lust south of the 'Veranda." It may be that there were others interested with Mr. Whitcomb In building the "Veranda." but he was surely the leading spirit in its con struction, as he was in nearly every thing else around there at that time, but he did not build the hotel in 18."0. He did. however, build a real steam boat that year, and named her "Lot, Whitcomb." Neither the "Veranda Hotel" nor tho steamer "Lot Whitcomb" was a paying venture, and Whitcomb died poor soon after their completion. ED C. ROSS. WORK, NOT REST, IS GREAT NtSEU Correspondent Is Suspicious of Intent of Proposed Sunday Lin, 'PORTLAND. Oct. 26. (To the F,di tor.) 1 feel many of tis will be pleased to see Mr. Tufts' bill. The introduc tion of such a measure st such a time suggests to us there may be behind said bill a motive other than the wel fare of suffering humanity. The introduction of any measure, at the present time, which tends to lessen employment may be looked upon in the same light as would furnishing an extra supply of Ice to a polar ex pedition, or furnishing fur coats to those who depart this life and are ex pected to be subjected to a superheated atmosphere in the next. Can one be sane who contemplates laying off 26.000 (Mr. Tufts' figures! persons one dny each week, when un der existing conditions they can barely hold the soul contiguous to the body? What we need is work, not rest- 1 have no desire to be judged, therefore no Intention of judging; yet despite this there comes to me the feeling that behind this measure is a scheme to force us to attend church through legislative enactments. J. HAROLD. fbrlntlsn Science Practitioners. PORTLAND. Oct. 26. (To the Kd itor.) U) Kindly inform me if a Chris tian Science healer is required to reg ister, as other practitioners are? The one who has given her services when requested has done so without asking anything for her services and was only doing good wherever possible. (2) Is there anything wrong about such work? MRS. R. (1) No. (2) We think one has a moral right to seek any relief from illness that is honestly rendered, pro vided he docs not thereby endanger the health of others. Any remedy that cures is a good thing. When Wife Is Away. Life. "What do you do with your car when your wlfe is away?" "Everything." Pedigree Merchandise is increased in value by the good, name of its progenitors. Pride of ancestry carries with it assurances of good buying from posterity. Pedigreed merchandis is ad vertised because advertising is not only profitable, but helps in the upbuilding. People turn towards adver tised goods because they have faith in them. - Pedigreed goods can be made known through newspaper ad vertising with greater efficiency than any other way. .4