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WAR ANGLICIZES
-BIRTH OF A NATION" IS ONE OF PRODUCER'S GREATEST WORKS.
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FRENCH SEAPORT
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Havre Enormously Congested
you give them the chance
With War Traffic, but Peo
ple Are Getting Rich.
The President of the National Council of Women writes
ENGLISH SIGNS PROMINENT
January 20, 1916
Dear "Sirs:
THE MORNING OKEGONIAN, FRIDAY, A PR 11 28, li)16.
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Great Plies of Cotton on Docks Give
"ev Orleans Aspect to Town.
Civilian I'rom Abroad Has
Small Welcome.
HAVRE, March 30. (Correspondence
f the Associated Press.) Havre has
always been the most cosmopolitan
port in France, but never before the
war would you get three British half
pence and a. Belgian sou in eight cents'
worth of small change. That triviality-
Is symbolical of the Havre of today
only half French, three-eighths English
and an eighth Belgian.
It Is the Influx of the British that
has doubled the traffic of the port
during the past 19 months and con
gested the docks until scores or snip
are at times seen lying for days to
gether in the offing waiting for a spot
to become vacant at the quays. The
quays themselves are piled with bales
of cotton, giving to the port a resem
blance to Sew Urleans.
The cotton sheds, covering 20 acres
ef grojnd and fitted with 20 electric
cranes, have become insufficient and
the bales are rolled upon the- quays
everywhere that a ship from New Or
leans happens to find a berth.
Harbor Much Consitil.
The traffic of the Tort -of Havre,
which amounted to 5.400.000 . tons In
1913. was less than haif that of Rot
terdam and only a little more than a
third of that of Antwerp and Ham
burg. The reasons for it were largely
lack of docking facilities and the lim
ited railroad communications with
Paris and the centers of France. Even
before the war ships were sometimes
held up. in the roads waiting their turn
to dock, and a new basin called the
'Tidal Basin" was planned and partly
finished with the view to relieving
congestion.
The congestion of traffic now Is not
only a hindrance to commerce but a
dancer to navigation, which greater
vigilance on the part of the French
navy against German submarines may
obviate but which is considered suf
ficiently serious at the present time to
Justify consideration of the temporary
use of the uncompleted Tidal Basin as
a refuge for vessels waiting their turn
to dock.
The town itself is far more animated
than in time of peace, and is unavoid
ably getting rich from the vast ex
penditures of the British Commissary
Ifpartment and the Individual trade of
officers and soldiers. English shop
signs are seen everywhere alongside
the French, for "Tommy Atkins" is
alow in learning the language.
British SlKnit Are C'onNpleaoas.
One of the most conspicuous things
one sees in the Rue de. Paris, the prin
cipal street in the town, is "British
Bar" in big, brave British red on the
window of a saloon. A little further
on a sign points the way to the "Erit
ish Soldiers' Club.-' another sign post
directs men to the "British Officers'
Club" while there are tearooms every
where and restaurants that conspicu
ously advertise "ham and eggs." "The
right shop for British." "Come in and
demand for i.11 the things which you
want," "football boots," are among
some of the appeals to th: soldiers.
British transports have the right-of-way
over all other ships in the harbor
and at the docks, and the British pre
vail everywhere on shore. Some peo
ple at Havre have inquired whether
the British occupation is going to last
forever, an inquiry inspired by the
seemingly permanent character of the
installations for the different services
of tha British army and for the British
troops. Most people at Havre will be
glad if it does, because they are get
ting rich all except the fishermen.
The herring catch has diminished 50
per cent, while all the other commerce
cf Havre ha. doubled.
City Vnder Naval Rule.
Havre is under naval insteal of
military rule, despite the occupation
by the British army. Khaki is the pre
vailing color, but the French Admiral,
Biard. is the king of Havre and
"Tommy Atkins" must submit to his
authority. Ho must quit the saloon at
9 o'clock and must not be found in a
restaurant after 10. Patrols look for
him through all the narrow ways and
by-ways and in the corners of the
dorks and pick liim up sharply if
found after hoirs where he should not
be.
A to the civilian, he looks in vain
for any sort of considerat ion in Havre
those that live there content them
selves in taking British money in ex
change for the best rooms, best apart
ments, and best tables in the restau
rants. The civilian from abroad gets
in with so much difficulty he feels as
if he had broken in and almost in
sensibly tt ie.s to sneak out; this, too.
is difficult, for the man from Scotland
Yard considers every civilian guilty of
spying until he has proved his inno
cence: if he happens to speak English,
the presumption against him Is so
much the stronger.
COAL COST STILL HIGH
'Kvorjthinjr That Goes Must
Come Down Sinjr Minncnpolitans.
MINNEAPOLIS. April 2.'. Coal buy
ers, who have been waiting patiently
for the price to sag. may just an weii
step forward and take what is coming
to them.
Coal is not going down.
On the contrary, it will probably
go up.
March prices are still being quoted
by all the local retail dealers instead
of the 50 cents a ton lower basis that
usually is established after April 1.
"It is all a question of how the
pending anthracite strike comes out,"
said Joseph L. Holmes, assistant to
the president of the Pittsburg Coal
Company. "If the strike is called,
doubtless coal will go much higher.
Meanwhile it is not any lower than It
was in March."
MAD HOG ATTACKS FARMER
Vicious Animal Tears to Shreds Cn
fortunate Victim's Ieg.
TOTVANDA. Pa.. April 18. W. C.
Allen, a farmer of Albany Township,
is at the point of death from wounds
inflicted by a vicious hog. The hog at
tacked him and tore one leg into shreds,
severing cords and rupturing blood
vessels, baring the bones in several
places.
Mr. Allen was able to crawl away
after the hog had satisfied iUs lust for
tlood tad cuoiiea -away.
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DAVID W.tRK GRIFFITH, DIRECTING ACTION.
Don't act! Live!
It was a tall man who waved his arms and shouted as the grinding, click
ing cameras took in the pictures of "The Birth of a Nation," which opens
Sunday at the Heilig Theater. The man was David W'ark Griffith, the great
est genius that the .world .of . motio n pictures knows. And it was this
command, asserted time after time, that he constantly hurled toward his hun
dreds and hundreds of actors.
"Don't act Live!', he shouted time after time. "I don't want acting.
I want real life. I want everyone of you personally to undergo the pains
and trials and anguish and happiness that this picture is supposed to rep
resent. And when you've done that. I'll be satisfied, not before!" And so
it was that other directors who watch ed the staging of the pictures walked
away with desires in their hearts that their own actors could work as won-.
derfully. as faithfully and as true to life.
FREAK PLAN BEATEN
Senator Lane Would Have Re
serves Digging Ditches.
2,000,000 ARMY PROPOSED
Two Jiiys a AVcck of Military Train
ing, Four Days of Manual La
bor, Sundays Off, and "Go
ing Wage"' in Scheme.
OP.EGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ngton. April 26. When the Senate was
about ready to take a final vote on the
Chamberlain Army reorganization bill.
Senator Lane, of Oregon, came forward
with an elaborate amendment proposing
o create an Ariny of "ditch-diggers,"
2.000.000 strong, in lieu of the volunteer
and reserve army proposed by the com
mittee measure. The Senate was tired
of freak proposals by the time the Lane
amendment was brought forward.
Senator Lane proposed to strike out
the entire volunteer army and to sub
stitute a "National Defense Army" of
2.000.000 men "capable and fitted to per
form manual labor in the construction
of roads and reclamation or other pub
ic works. His army was to be en
isled in units of 200,000. serve six
months under regulations prescribed by
he Secretary of the Interior, and then
be discharged.
Army to Be Put to Various lira.
Members of Senator Lane's army
wouUl be employed by the Secretary of
the Interior "constructing storage and
service reservoirs for the protection of
ands from overflow, for the drainage
of submerged lands, the irrigation of
arid lands, constructing military and
other roads, and used generally for
ne protection, reclamation and cultiva
ion of lands and works necessary for
he improvement of the rivers and har
bors of the country," etc.
The Lane army plan would have car
ried joy to the jobless, for it provided
hat the members of this army "shall
receive steady employment for the full
period of enlistment," and further pro-
ided that while so employed they
hould receive the prevailing wage in
he locality where they happened to be
working.
-or two days each week, or 02 davs
during the six months' period of enlist
ment, men la the Lane army would re
ceive military training, and on those
days these enlisted men would consti-
ute a part of the United States Army
and be exclusively under the control of
he ar Department. Four days of each
week they would be under the control
of the Secretary of the Interior, and on
Sundays would be free agents.
Rank Not Provided For.
The Lane amendment was defective In
one particular; it made no provision for
rank and merely stipulated that "offi
cers of said reserve shall be appointed
and shall rank the sarre as officers in
he regular standing Army." How they
would be appointed, when and where.
was not specified, '-ut the omission
makes no difference, for the Lane
amendment had as much show in the
Senate as the proverbial snowball had
in hades.
Senator Lane did not offer his amend
ment in a spirit of levity. He believes
in the kind of a reserve outlined, and
he submitted his proposal in all seriousness.
good authority that close to S00 per
sons, mostly women and children, lost
their lives in this theater. Two of
the bombs struck the stage and one
the auditorium. Had all three landed
among the spectators, the loss of life
would have been greater. The cours
of a bomb dropped from a Zeppelin is
not directly perpendicular. . It falls in
a slanting direction, and apparently
has greater force.
"The stories that the Londoners are
more amused than frightened at the
Zeppelin raids are not true. That may
have been the case In the beginning
but since these monsters have done so
much damage and killed so many per
eons they have filled the people with
a terrible fear. There is insistent de
mand for reprisals, but the Knglish
aeroplanes are not capable of com
peting with the German air engines
of war.
ZEPPELIN HORRORS BIG
Xot Half of Tales Told in Damage
Done and Lives I-ost.
WASHINGTON. April 20. "Not half
the horrors of the Zeppelin raids on
London have been told in the cable
dispatches to the newspapers in this
country," said H. von Linde, of Paris,
at the New Willard. "I happened to
be in London on the occasion of the
visit of the Zeppelins in December. The
reports sent abroad and the accounts
of the raid in the London papers were
to the effect that the total number of
lives lost did not exceed 50. As a mat
ter of fact, there were nearer 1000 per
sons killed or seriously injured. At a
theater near Kingsway three bombs
from the Zeppelins struck the place
while a Red Cross benefit perform
ance waa la prosresa, I was told u
EGGS THREE YEARS OLD?
Sterilized Product, Now tcrved in
Hotels, Jteported 'l-'rcsh."
PHILADELPHIA, April 20. You're
liable to get eggs served you at some
of the hotels and restaurants in town
that are two and three years old. But
don't worry about it. A scientist has
invented a machine for "sterilizing"
eggs that makes them almost as good
when they're three years old as when
they are a few days old. and there need
be no apparent worry about eating the
eges. .
Professor Charles II. La Wall, chem
ist of the State Dairy and Food Com
mission, has looked over some of the
eggs that were labeled as having been
laid in 1!13 and 1914. and he says
he found them to be first class in every
respect. The eggs were solid, looked
very much like the fresh product, and
when candled they were found not to
have shrunk.
Further investigation led to the dis
covery of a machine which had been
used in the process of "sterilizing the
eggs. All that Professor La Wall could
learn of the process was that the eggs
were placed in the machine and dropped
first into hot and then cold oil. The
pores closed, the shells were strength
ened and the eggs sterilized.
"That's all I know about the meth
ods of sterilization." said Professor La
Wall. "The eggs were turned over to
me for examination, and I found them
in good condition. They were labeled
as having been laid two and three years
back, and I learned that they have been
served in some of the hotels. From a
food standpoint, they are in good shape,
but how the sterilization is done I
haven't the least idea."
LANE WOULD LABEL HOPS
That all hops when imported shall
have the name of the packer or grower.
Senator Offers Bill to llcquirc Xante
of Grower.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington. April 25. Senator Lane, of Ore
gon, has introduced a bill proposing
to amend the Underwood tariff law
by requiring more complete labeling
of hops imported into the United
States. The bill provides:
en impo
packer
and, beneath the same, the name of
th place where packed, the name of
the particular hop district, as commer
cially recognized in the country of pro
duction, where the hops were grown,
and the year of production of the hops,
conspicuously and indelibly stamped or
printed, in letters not less than two
and one-half inches high, upon each
inside and outside container, covering
and wrapper; no hops shall be deliv
ered to the importer unless marked in
conformity to this direction, and all
hops falsely labeled when imported
shall be seized and forfeited under the
provisions of the customs laws.
"Section 2. That this provision shall
become effective July 1. 1916."
EPITAPH? NO, IT'S DIVORCE!
Couple Are Married, Grow Tired and
Quit Within Three Months.
NEW "FORK. April 20. Married Jan
uary 18, 1916; first error by bride, Jan
uary 22; divorce suit begun, February
2; divorce granted. April 14.
This is the brief marital record of
William Ferdinand Busch and Babette
Busch, his girl bride. He was granted
a decree against the latter by Supreme
Court Justice Newburger.
"Married, separated and divorced in
less than three months," commented
Justice Newburger.
"That is the speed record in this
court, if my memory serves me right.
That's coins p.eno one better,"
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If War Doesn't Prevent oted Star Is
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BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
PARIS. France. April 20 (delayed.)
"Singr in Chicago next season?" ex
claimed Mary Garden today. "Certain
ly I hope so. I just love Chicago;
everybody is so prood to me there, Cleo
fonte Campanini cabled asking- if I
would come and I replied, naming a
pretty large figure. He answered that
it was perfectly satisfactory. That is
the way things stand. I have signed
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Chicago. I really haven't any definite
plans. I had a handsome offer to ap
pear in Buenos Aires next Winter, but
I can't bear the thought of a sea
voyage of 21 days each way.
"Besides, they wished me to sing in
Carmen' and 'Traviata.' If those old
things are all they are giving down
there I can't say much for their
musical culture. Lots of women can
sing 'Carmen.' If they had asked me
to sing in 'Salome' or 'Pelleas' I might
have considered the offer. Those are
wonderful operas, aren't they?
"Really, you know, I haven't had any
inclination to sing since the war be
gan. Somehow I can't bear the thought
of entertaining people while all this is
going on. Besides. I am looking after
so many soldiers. It seems to me that
everybody ought to do something to
help and it is so much nicer to do
something personally than simply to
give money, which you never see again
and don't know where it goes. I sang
In ten performances at the Opera
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