Morning Oregonian., July 15, 1916, Page 8, Image 8

THE MORNING OltEGOXIAN, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1910.
POBTLAXD, OREGON.
Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postofflcs aa
second-class mail matter,
subscription Rates Invariably In advance:
Daily, Sunday Inclu'ded'jno' year fS.OO
Paliy, Sunday Included, six months.... -25
Pally, Sunday included, three month.. 2.25
pally, Sunday Included, one month 75
JJaily. without Sunday, one year 6 00
IJaily, without Sunday, six months 25
-'!. y. without Sunday, three month.. 1- 5
pally without Sunday, one month .go
vveekly, one year 1.60
Sunday, one year -50
Sunda-y and.Weekly. one year 8-50
(By Carrier.
Bally, Bunday Included, one year., 9.Q0
Uaiiy. Bunday Included, one month
How Remit Send postofflce money
order, express order or personal check on
your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency
are at sender's risk. Give postofflce address
in full, Including; county and state.
Postage Kates 12 to 18 pases, 1 cent; 18
to 32 pages. cents; 84 to 48 pases. S cents;
60 to 60 pages, 4 cents; 62 to 76 pages,
6 cents; 78 to 2 pages, 6 cents. Foreign
postage, double rates.
Eastern Uasiness Office Verree & Conk
lln, Brunswick building. New York; Verree
& Conklln, Steger building. Chicago. San
Francisco representative, ft. J. BidweH, 742
Market street.
POKTLASD, SATURDAY, JVI-Y 15, 1916.
A CONTRAST.
If the two Senators from Oregon
had worked for the Columbia River
naval base as Representative Hum
phrey, of Washington, works for pub
lic enterprises in his district, the naval
appropriation, bill today would prob
ably contain an appropriation to lay
the foundation for the Columbia River
naval project. A mere statement of
what Representative Humphrey ac
complished will suffice to show the
basis for the foregoing statement. ;
When the House committee on pub- i
lie buildings began preparation of an
omnibus public building bill. Repre
sentative Humphrey went before the
committee and urged that an appro
priation of 5275,000 be made to build
an immigration station at Seattle. The
committee told him to go to the Sec
retary of the Treasury, who has Juris
diction over the erection of all public
'buildings, and to the Commissioner of
Immigration and Secretary of Labor,
m-ho has charge of all immigration
matters, and get their indorsement.
Mr. Humphrey carried out the In
structions of the committee, bo far as
was within his power, but the Secre
tary of Labor and the Commissioner
of Immigration. 6aid they felt com
pelled to report adversely on his prop
osition, because, they said, there is
today very little Immigration, and
therefore little need for a station at
Seattle. The Secretary of the Treas
ury, hearing of the adverse report of
the other departments, told Mr.
Humphrey he could not recommend
the immigration, station, and further
more, he insisted he would recommend
only those buildings which, are ur
gently needed.
Did Mr. Humphrey throw; up his
hands and quit? He did not, even
though he is a Republican, a member
of the minority party In. the House,
and not a member of the public build
ings committee. He went back to the
committee on public buildings, laid
before them the adverse reports of the
two departments, and then he en
deavored to show the fallacy of the
reasoning of those departments and
to justify the appropriation he was
asking.
Admitting that immigration has
dwindled at the present time, Mr.
Humphrey said there would toe a re
vival of immigration after the close
of the war in Europe, and may bo an
unprecedented rush of immigrants to
this country. He showed them that
it takes a year or two to build such a
station as he was asking; he told them
the city of Seattle stood ready to pro
vide a site for the immigration sta
tion, if Congress would authorize it
now, and he said the only way to
equip the Port of Seattle to handle
the rush of immigrants, when it
comes, is to provide the station in ad
vance. After listening to his argu
ments, the committee disregarded the
adverse reports of the two Cabinet
officers and gave Mr. Humphrey the
appropriation he was seeking.
But what of the Oregon Senators
find the Columbia River naval base?
They, too, had a proposition where
the local community offers to provide
a site, but as regards the naval base,
the Secretary of the Navy did not go
to the extent of the two Cabinet offi
cers concerning the Seattle immigra-.
tion station; Secretary Daniels did not
report adversely on the naval base
bill; he simply made no report. But
"when members of the committee told
the Oregon Senators they must have
the Indorsement of the Navy Depart
ment, In order to have their project
considered, they quit; they did not go
back to see Secretary Daniels; they
saw him but once, in fact, on the naval
base bill; they did not see other offi
cers of the Navy; they did not go be
fore the naval committee and make
a fight, such as Mr. Humphrey made
before the House committee.
Tet there was the same argument to
he made in support of the naval base
es was advanced with good effect by
Mr. Humphrey in support of his immi
gration, station bill. While the two
Navy-yards on the Pacific Coast today
may be adequate to care for the ves
sels now on the Pacific station, it was
testified by Secretary Daniels and
other naval officers hab the Pacific
fleet is to be enlarged, and the naval
bill itself authorizes a nunrber of new
ships, some of which are to be built
upon and stationed on the Pacific
Coast. Therefore, the time is fast
approaching when there must be ad
ditional naval stations on the Pacific
Coast.
Seattle offered, a site for the immi
gration station; Astoria has offered
several sites for the naval base.
Humphrey went before the House
committee facing the adverse reports
of two Cabinet officers and a bureau
chief; the Oregon Senators would have
faced no report at all; they made tout
one feeble attempt to get a report
from the Secretary of the Navy, and
after repeated neglect, one of them re
fused flatly to make any effort before
the naval committee, and the other, by
his manifest indifference when he did
go before the committee, injured
rather than helped the legislation he
had voluntarily sponsored.
The two Oregon Senators are Demo,
crats, they are members of the party
in power; Mr. Humphrey, a Repub
lican, and with far less prestige than
Is accorded Senators, by diligent work
won his fight. The Oregon Senators
laid down.
Revolutionary though it may seem.
the idea is advanced in all seriousness
by a professor in. a Missouri college
that the potato may be made to yield
sugar instead of starch. By a to
arrangement of the carbon-hydrogen'
oxygen -elements in starch and with
certain additions produced by ferments
it already is possible to convert starch
into sugar, but the professor intends,
he tells the world, to do this while
the plant is growing instead of in the
' chemical laboratory. His plan is to
geedi tha. arrowing (potato with) format-
Idehyde, which, with the aid of the
sun and other natural catalytlcs, would
cause the change desired. The pos
sibilities are not so startling from the
prospect they offer for commercial
potato sugar as for the picture it con
jures up of the potato as a sweet
meat that does not need to be smoth
ered with salt to make it "wholly pa
latable to men of every taste. Potato
preserves will have been realized
when the Missouri professor has
worked out the details.
PAYTXG FOR BALLOT PLACE.
It is doubtful if Dr. Patton would
have gained much comfort from the
decision of the Supreme Court on the
primary law, even had that tribunal
declared the -candidates' fee law of
1915 invalid.
How a condidate obtains place on
the ballot is a formality to be ob
served and enforced at the time he
offers his name to the Secretary of
State or other officer having in charge
the preparation of the ballot. Had
the new law been found unconstitu
tional it is likely that the court would
not have upset the plain expression of
the . voters as regards any candidate,
no matter how he had obtained ballot
place. The effect would have been
merely to preclude use of the fee
system hereafter.
But the court upheld the fee law,
which ought to be a matter of satis
faction to the public. The petition
system of nominating, by and large.
Is but a roundabout fee method
through which a petition "peddler gets
the fee instead of state, county or city.
The candidate who now pays legal
fee to have his name printed on the
ballot contributes just that much to
the public treasury.
It is a pleasant little theory that the
requirement that candidates shall be
nominated by petition means that
there is demand for their candidacy.
It works out so only occasionally in
practice. The crook and the unknown
were not, previous to enactment of
the new law, kept off the tickets by
necessity of filing a petition.
THE BOOZE FALSIFIER.
No thoughtful person will deny that
elimination of the liquor traffic from
a community in which it has been
long and generously established will
cause at least some economic disturb
ance. But that adoption of prohibi
tion could have accomplished all the
detrimental things in Portland charged
against it by the California Grape
Protective Association i3 preposterous.
Even if conditions were correctly
stated by the G-rape Association's ar
ticle and they are not no intelli
gent person would credit them wholly
to adoption of prohibition.
The agent who prepared the cir
cular or advertisement reflecting on
Portland visited this city. The most
cursory investigation would have re
vealed to him the absurdity of charg
ing against prohibition some of the
things he falsely put into the mouths
of prominent Portland citizens. The
reference to one large building which
is partly empty was - particularly
atrocious.
This building was Increased in
height and remodeled several years
ago to accommodate a large furniture
store. The store failed long before
the saloons were abolished. The build
ing since then has been fully occupied
part; of the time as an annex by one
of Portland's department stores. Later
that firm vacated it to occupy a much
larger structure which it had added
to its own building. Thereafter the
first floor of the building In question
was rented by a clothing firm.
Most of the Portland mercantile es
tablishments which have use for a
twelve-story building already occupy
Stheir own premises or axe otherwise
permanently established. New insti
tutions of that type do not often come
into a city even so large as Portland.
The owners of the building have not
yet seen fit to remodel the upper floors
for office purposes, but that is said
to be their intention.
Prohibition has no more to do with
the condition of this building than has
the prevalence of sharks on the Atlan
tic Coast or the increased number of
sun pots. But this la but one par
ticular In a mass of fiction, most of
which is so absurd as a purported
consequence of prohibition that it can
not fail to react in California upon the
interests that perpetrated it.
FRENCH LIBERTY'S BIRTHDAY.
In the midst of the most desperate
struggle in the nation's existence.
France on July 14 celebrated the 127th
anniversary of the storming of the
Bastille, the act by whieh the nation
threw off the despotic yoke" of the
Bourbons. Though monarchs of sev
eral dynasties have si nee ruled France,
the French people have never since
that,event become a submissively sub
ject race. Bonaparte, Bourbon, Or
leans and again Bonaparte rulers were
driven out and in 1870 at last France
achieved full liberty.
The storms and trials through which
France has passed since the revolu
tionists destroyed the ancient citadel
of tyranny have proved the indomita
ble resilience of the French character,
Invaded by the leagued monarchs in
1793, France hurled them back and
with Napoleon as leader humbled
them all except Russia and Britain
Invaded again in 1814, France ac
cepted the Bourbons only for a time
at foreign dictation. Crushed in 1870
through the corruption and incom
petence of Louis Napoleon's govern
ment, the people established a repub
lie, paid a huge indemnity, eman
cipated their soil from the invader
and have since grown to the financial
and military strength which has en
abled them to bear the" chief burden
of the great conflict which is now red.
dening French soil.
No partiality to France as a be!
ligerent is shown in paying homage to
French valor on the natal day of the
nation's liberty, for we warrant that
in their hearts none do more ready
homage to the brave men of France
than the brave men of Germany.
JIOKK SHEEP.
In a recent issue of the Salem Cap
Ital Journal there appears an article
under the caption, "Valley Must Find
Right Crpps." The first sentence of
the article, "There is no disguising the
fact that for the" past two or three
years the Willamette Valley has not
been, nor is it now, as prosperous as
it should be," states a condition which
must be acknowledged by all who are
familiar with the conditions of the
Valley.
This is not as it should be. With
the splendid work done by the Oregon
Agricultural College, supplemented by
the work of county agents, not only
the Willamette Valley but every por
tion of Oregon should be making
rapid agricultural advancement. But
we all know that many sections are
not. It is a condition and not a theory,
and it is a condition we should look
squarely in the face, as does the writer
in our contemporary.
Many remember when, the .Willam
ette Valley was the most prosperous
agricultural section in the Northwest,
Perhaps in all the West. In those days
one of the principal crops was wheat.
But wheat prices were higher here
then than now by practically 100 per
cent, and the price of land iwas lower.
As the Capital Journal says, one can
not with profit raise 80-cent wheat
on $200 land.
A member of the "Portland Union
Stock Yards Company recently re
marked that a generation or so ago
the best meat products received in
the Portland" market came from the
Willamette Valley and that in par
ticular sheep shipped from Valley
points were exceedingly fine. In those
days nearly every farmer had a band
of sheep running loose in his pastures.
How Is it now? Why did they get
away from the muttons and the
lambs? Simply, we take It. because
the sheep market suffered a depression
along in the '90s, the farmers with one
accord said "there's no money in
sheep," and most of them sold out
and quit.
But for several years now, and par
ticularly this year, the farmers' sheep
have been giving him a better return
than any other product of his labors,
and the outlook is still very rosy. In.
stances may be cited where small
bands of sheep,' kept in enclosed pas
tures, have given net returns of $10 a
head. Would it not be well to look
into that industry?
Late Government figures reveal that
the number of sheep in the United
States is diminishing. As prices con
sequently mount higher, sheep grow
ing will revive. The community that
is best and first prepared to greefa
rising market profits most.
"DON'T PICK THE FLOWERS."
Southern California may be credited
with knowing a thing or two about
getting and holding the tourist, and
its example therefore will be worth
considering in any plan that may be
entertained by the Northwest m fu
ture years for getting a share of the
annual pilgrimage to the Pacific
Coast. It has been pointed out that
the chief attractions the West has to
offer are its natural beauties. Cli
mate is among Its advantages, but it
is not the only attraction. We are
prone to believe we are rather nearer
to a "state of nature" than our neigh
bors in the East, and considering that
the average tourist comes from the
city, perhaps we are. At any rate, the
beauties of our country need no addi
tions to carry their appeal to him.
They need only to be called to his at
tention.
Pasadena Is about to Inaugurate an
Innovation the cultivation of wild
flowers for the express delight of vis
itors. Instead of the usual signs,
"Don't Pick the Flowers." that appear
in so many parks, tourists will be told,
in large letters, "Help Yourselves."
The landscape' scheme embraces prac
tically a solid field of flowers, all na
tive to the state. Propagation of the
flowers has been made possible by
foresight of residents who for some
years past have been collecting and
saving the seeds. A good many acres
have been sown and more seeds col
lected. There has been real prepared
ness for the new influx of tourists that
is confidently expected. The city now
is to enter upon the ambitious project
of establishing a wild flower park, the
outstanding feature of which, as has
been said, will be that the flowers will
be there for the enjoyment of the peo
ple In every sense of the word.
California has not copyrighted the
idea and will be flattered by imitation.
It has not hesitated to adopt and
adapt the ideas of others in the past,
as well to originate others of its own.
The combination has been successful,
as shown by results. The Northwest
has rather the best of it when it comes
to indigenous flowers. There is no
place outside the humid tropics where
flowers grow in greater profusion out
of doors. Permission to pick them in
the parks need not mean permission
to destroy the plants, and under wise
regulation it probably would not be
abused. Gardens that have begun to
run down could "be withdrawn from
the operation of the privilege at suit
able intervals. Just as the grass is kept
from destruction in certain parks that
are accessible to the public nearly all
the time. Of the hundreds of beau
tiful flowers that grow In this section,
there are enough that lend themselves
readily to the plan to make its prac
tical working easy.
It Is little to be feared that tourist
travel will be diverted at once to
Europe when peace Is restored, de
spite the efforts already being made
by certain communities within the
battle-scarred areas to prepare them
selves to receive visitors. It is said
that villagers who have been beset by
contending armies have taken meas
ures to preserve a good many of their
ruins and other sad mementoes of
havoc and destruction, with a view to
capitalizing them in the reconstruction
period, iwhen money will be much
needed and every cent will count. But
It may be a long time before travelers
will feel entirely safe on seas that
have been strewn with derelicts and
drifting mines, and meanwhile the
"See America First" movement ought
to gain real headway. This will be
one of the opportunities of the West.
ITALY AS A CrSTOMEB.
While our business men have been
talking in glittering generalities about
extension of foreign trade, real op
portunities have been neglected. This
Is strongly Illustrated by the complaint
of a -New York importer of Italian
goods, himself an Italian, who points
out that, inasmuch as the United
States is a large buyer of Italian prod
ucts, it is in an ideal position to enter
the Italian market with its own goods.
This it has done to only a limited ex
tent It is selling only a fraction of
the amount to Italy that it should sell.
Italians need our goods; they are send,
ing their own products; nothing would
be easier than for us to pay in goods
instead of gold. But it seems that
Americans have been neglectful at the
very time when a practical, concen
trated effort should have been made.
There has been much talk of build
ing up a trade with the Latin-American
republics. One of the obstacles
to be overcome Is that Latin-America
requires extensive development before
we Bhall be able, if we extend our
sales largely, to take a good part of
our pay in the things Latin-America
will have to Bell. That point has been
empnasized in all the talk there has
been on the subject of Latin-American
trade. In the case of Italy, the obsta
cle does not exist. We already are
buying heavily from Italy. We need
only to go after the business in the
right way.
The importer in question complains
that we do not offer the merchants of
that country the goods they want. We
have a way, It seems, of expecting
people to like things because we like
them. Now it may be possible to
educate a people to our way of living
and doing, but it takes time, and it is
less likely to succeed if in the mean
time, we iave. competitors who. assume
from the beginning that the customer
is right. Such has been the attitude
of Germany, and the result has been
that although Italy and Germany's
ally. Austria, are at war, German and
Italian merchants are still managing
to keep up a good semblance of trad
ing by way of Switzerland. Germany
has not permitted the war to inter
fere with the observance of a cardinal
business principle.' "Find out what
the customer wants and sell it to him"
Is e essence of high-grade sales
manship. Creating a demand for new
and previously unheard-of goods is
a separate matter. But it is charged
that American manufacturers have
contented themselves with offering
such goods as they happened to be
making for their domestic trade and
letting it go at that. They do things
better in Germany and they get the
business.
Italy meanwhile. In anticipation of
the period immediately after the war,
and realizing that there will be much
reconstruction work to do, has left
the door at least part way open. By
royal decree it has granted exemption
for a period of five years from cus
toms duties and local dues to "con
struction material." This includes
machinery and probably will include
lumber, which the Northwest especial
ly Is In-a position to supply. The idea
seems to be to build up as many in
dustries as possible at home, but it
is realized that while this Is being
done the best and cheapest way is to
Import the material freely. We should
be in a position to sell Italy large
quantities of machinery, as well as
building material, while the decree is
in effect. Further incentive to buying
is found in other provisions of the de.
cree. Plants so constructed are made
exempt also from the Income tax on
their profits, and extensions of exist
ing plants axe to have the same ex
emption for the full peried of five
years.
It shows that Italy is an anxious
customer. " It Is not every day a sales
man is practically sent for and asked
to enter a market (with his goods. But
it remains for us to study the demand
and meet It, not to content ourselves
with an effort to cram our own styles
and patterns down the other fellow's
throat.
Ability to hit the mark is not the
only thing in naval gunnery, impor
tant as it is, and this fact is recog
nized in the construction of the new
United States battleships, the Califor
nia and Tennessee, which are to mount
sixteen-inch guns, the largest in use.
The dreadnought Pennsylvania ia con
tent with fourteen-inch guns and it
is said that these will shoot accurate
ly nearly as far as the larger weapon,
or about ten miles. But the- advan
tage in the new big rifle Is that its
projectiles will pierce armor at the
greater distance, and by reaching a
vital spot can inflict supreme damage
on the enemy, which is the object
sought. Meanwhile we shall be called
on to brush up on our marksmanship,
according to Secretary Daniels' own
figures, recently submitted to Con
gress, which showed that there is a
wide field for improvement.
Street railway authorities are specu
lating on the effect the new daylight
saving laws of Europe will have on
their business, and the Electric Rail
way Journal arrives at the conclusion
that the best that can be expected
will be the addition of an hour to the
busy part of their day. About the
same amount of fares will be col
lected, it is pointed out, but although
people will start, to work earlier it is
doubted that they -will return to their
homes much before the usual time.
It Is not believed tnat theaters will
open; an hour earlier, despite the nom
inal change in the clock. The addi
tion of an hour to the period of active
service on the part of the cars, how
ever, is not regarded as an evil, as
the flattening of what carmen call the
"peak load" of the afternoon and
evening will make operating econ
omies possible.
The accident to children coasting
in Laurelhurst shows the need of more
than level playgrounds. The sole rea
son certain paved streets cannot be
closed t.o traffic during certain hours
on specified days Is the objection from
delivery men, which need not be con-
sidered; for the delivery vehicle can
just as well stop at the corner. In
the matter of coasting, Portland does
not have enough snow, and If the
children wish to enjoy the sport in
Summer it is somebody's official duty
to see that means and places are pro
vided. Some men exercise perfect self-control.
A real prohibitionist would pass
up a. brewery in the middle of Sahara.
They are scarce, however, and very
likely none ever rides In an automo
bile where he can watch thex indicator
record the lawful rate of speed with
out wishing the machine would go
faster. Fines and imprisonments will
not cure the evil, for It Is a natural
weakness.
Bring home the troops, for "war"
now will be of vaudeville character.
Roosevelt has abandoned recruiting
a division, and you must give him
credit of knowing what he is doing.
Equal suffrage Is peculiarly a
Northern institution, which may in
part account for its defeat in Geor
gia, where legislative action postpones
anything more until the next session.
Snakes are reported in greater num
bers than usual in Grant County and
it may be they have heard of the frog
colonies and want something choice.
Municipal playgrounds are in dan
ger of closing for lack of funds, but
it doesn't take money to make a small
park of a, section of street.
There is little hope of dress reform
while a woman of 40 or more knows
she looks like a girl when viewed from
many angles.
The Information will be "news to
many that cherry stems have value
and are being shipped to Europe to be
made Into deadly gases.
Germany is waging war outside of
her own territory and while eh con
tinues that she is far from losing the
game.
"Soldier Bill" Hadley has a perfect
alibi in the double-murder case, which
ought to relieve him of much suspense.
The general dam bill of the Senate
was amended by the House, but not by
taking off the "hen."
All is quiet at San Diego and Mc
Laughlin is in command of the Third
Oregon.
Have all forgotten this is a City
Beautiful and that the weeds are rip-
entng?
European War Primer
By" National Geographical Society.
If historical associations inspire to
brave deeds, the British forces In their
offensive against the Germans along
the Somme River should be heartened
to extraordinary acts of valor bythe
thought that they are fighting in
Picardy.
This anelent province of France,
now divided into four departments the
Somme, Oise, Pas-de-Calals and Alsne
has two battlefields whose very names
quicken the pulse of Englishmen, for
it was at Crecy that the Black Prince
won his spurs and at Agincourt that
Henry V, commanding his yeomen with
their cloth-yard bows, utterly over
threw the flower of French chivalry.
Picardy is a treasured name In
romantic literature and in French his
tory. It had a literature of its own
in the 12th century and its soldiers
were among the most valiant in France,
being known as the Gascons of the
north.
The province was a natural battle
ground for the French and English
during the Hundred Years' War. for
its shores extend along the North Sea
and the English Channel, from the
River Aa. above Calais, to a point below
Dieppe. Fifteen miles north of Abbe
ville, one of. the principal cities of
Picardy. is Crecy. where until late in
the 19th century there still stood the
old windmill from which Edward III of
England in 1346 watched his beloved
son. the first Prince of Wales, at that
time only 16 years of age, triumph
over Philip of Valois. On this occasion
the English were outnumbered four to
one, and they wrought terrible havoc
among the enemy, the losses of the
vanquished being variously estimated
at from 10,000 to 30.000. One of those
who fell in this fight was the chivalrous
John, King of Bohemia, who, although
blind, led a heroic charge for his French
ally. Some historians trace the Prince
of Wales' crest of three ostrich feath
ers and the motto "Ich dien' (I serve)
to this battle, the Black Prince adopt
ing them from the fallen John in
memory of the event.
Less than 20 miles northeast of Crecy
Is Agincourt. where the- English
archers, nearly 70, years later, after
letting fly their 'clouds of arrows
against the heavily armored nobles, at
tacked them with hatchets as they
floundered helplessly in mud. Five
thousand Frenchmen of noble birth, in
cluding their commander, d'Albert, con
stable of France, fell in this battle,
while the estimate of English losses
was astonishingly low. some chroniclers
giving only 13 men at arms and 1)0
foot soldiers. .
Several towns of Picardy Amiens.
Soissons and Beauvais owe their
names to the ancient tribes which in
habited this section, known as Belglca
Secunda when the Romans maintained
armed camps along the valley of the
Somme. In the third century Chris
tianity was introduced and St. Quentln.
from whom the important town 20
miles east of Peronne gets its name,
was martyred at that time.
Picardy was the heart of Merovin
gian France In the fifth century, for
Clovls named Solssonsv as his capital.
while Charlemagne designated Noyon as
his principal city and the lesser Caro-
lingians in turn similarly honored
Laon. .
By the, treaty of Arras in 1435 the
royal towns of the Somme Valley were
ceded to Burgundy, but 42 years later,
after the death of Charles the Bold.
Louis XI regained them. During its
brief eras of peace the province thrived
as a center of the weaving Industry,
Flemish immigrants having Introduced
the art.
HAPPINESS IIIS BEQUEST TO ALL
Asxlum Inmate by Will Leaves Joys of
Llfo to Seven Ages.
Some years ago Charles Lounsbury
died an inmate of an insane asylum at
Chicago. Among his effects they found
what purported to be his last will and
testament. Having been executed in
due and legal form, and as no harm
could follow. It was admitted to pro
bate and spread of record in Cook
County. -It reads as follows:
"I, Charles Lounsbury, being of sound
mind and disposing memory, do hereby
make and publish this, -my. last will
Land testament, in order as Justly as
may be to distribute my interest in the
world among succeeding men.
"That part of my Interest which is
known in law and recognised in sheep
bound volumes as my property, being
inconsiderable and of no account, I
make no disposal of in this, my will.
"Sly right to live, being but a life
estate, is not at my disposal; but these
things excepted, all else in the world
I now proceed to devise and bequeath:
"Item I give to good fathers and
mothers. In trust for their children, all
kind little words of praise and encour
agement, and all quaint pet names and
endearments, and I charge said parents
to use them justly and generously, as
the needs of their children may require.
"Item I leave to children inclusively,
but only for the term of their childhood,
all and every the flowers of the fields
and the blossoms of the woods, with
the right to play among them freely
according to the custom of children.
And I devise to them also the banks of
the brooks, and the golden sands be
neath the waters thereof, and the odors
of the willows that dip therein, and the
white clouds That float high over the
giant trees. And I leave the children'
the long, long days to be merry in, in
a thousand ways, and the night and
the moon and the train of the milky
way to wonder at.
"Item I devise to boys Jointly all
tha useful idle fields and commons
where ball may be played; all pleasant
waters where one may swim, all snow
clad hills where one may coast, and all
streams and ponds where one may fish,
or wherp when grim Winter comes,
one may skate; to have and to hold
the same for the period of their boy
hood. And I bequeath to them also all
meadows with the clover blossoms and
butterflies thereof, the woods and their
appurtenances, the squirrels and birds,
and echoes and strange noises, and all
distant places which may be visited,
together with the adventures there
found. And I give to said boys each
his own place at the fireside at night,
with all pictures that may be seen in
the burning wood, to enjoy without let
or hindrance and without any incum
brance of care.
"Item To lovers, I devise their im
aginary world with whatever they may
need as the stars of the sky, the red
roses by the wall, the bloom of the
hawthorn, the sweet strains of music
and aught else they-may desire to fig
ure to each other the lastlngness and
beauty of their love.
"Item To young men Jointly. I de
vise and bequeath all boisterous. In
spiring sports of rivalry, and I give
them the disdain of weakness and un
daunted confidence In their own
strength. I give to them also the
power to make lasting friendships, and
of possessing companions, and to them
exclusively I give all merry songs and
brave choruses, to sing with lusty
voices.
"Item And to those who are no
longer children or youths or lovers, I
leave memory, and I bequeath to them
the volumes of the poems of Burns and
Shakespeare and of other poets, to the
end that they may live over the old
days again, freely and fully, without
tithe or diminution.
"Item And to our loved ones with
snowy crowns, I bequeath the happi
ness of old age, the love and gratitude
of their children until they fall asleep."
B. Fay Mills Is Dead.
ABERDEEN, Wash., July 13. (To
the Editor.) Kindly' .state If B. Fay
Mills is aeaa. subscriber
Rev. Benjamin Fay Mills, lecturer
and revivalist, died May 1, in a hos
pital at Grand Rapids. Mich. H was
6 years old.
TIME SPKXT AT MVSIO SOT LOST
Study ( It Imparts Refinement and
Arouses Interest la Kindred, Arts.
PORTLAND, July 14. (To the Edi
tor.) In reply to the writer of the
letter published In The Oregonlan of
July 14, who asks whether the time
spent in acquiring the skill to play
the piano Is not In most cases wasted.
I beg the privilege of saying that I do
not think so. In the case cited which,
unfortunately developed as it did no
one can say that the time spent in
studying was of no worth. Who knows
but that the girl developed into a bet
ter and more refined woman? It is an
acknowledged fact that music has a re
fining influence on all who become
associated with It in any way. Thinjt
wnat an influence study of the great
masters must have exerted on the girl
just at a time when she was budding
into womanhood.
What a great help a mother with
musical appreciation can be to her
children, instilling in them the desire
ror better things, not only in music,
but in the kindred arts, for the study
of mu.ilo will raise the standard of
appreciation in all the arts. Does it pay
parents to' know that they are making
it possible tor their children to know
and appreciate all that is true and
good and beautiful? Does it pay to help
them to think thoughts that the great
er minas have thought and expressed
in beautiful melodies? Music has Its
place in the home. No- matter how
boisterous the song and its accompani
ment, or how loud the chorus, there Is
an Insensibly wholesome and refining
Influence in the gathering together for
one purpose, in the lending of voice
and instrumental skill for the mere
sensuous enjoyment by the children of
the home or of several homes It Is a
form of enjoyment to guide them. Mu
sic In the home will rise to a higher
plane and the finer sensibilities of the
child will be touched. It is a means of
enjoyment that all can enter Into,
whether old or young, and if pursued in
the right way there is nothing that
will bind so closely a group of people as
music
Parents owe It to their children to
help them to understand and to enjoy
what is good and beautiful in art,
whether it be poetry, painting or mu
sic. One might as well sk what is
the value of friendship as to ask what
Is the worth of time spent at music.
Each makes man happier, enables him
and helps him to realize a higher in
tellectual, moral and spiritual stand
ard. It is what the perfume Is to the
rose; It is what the song is to the bird;
it is what love is to life. It cannot
have a market value; It is beyond quo
tation; It Is that which helps to make
life worth while.
FRANCK EICHENLAUB.
Hoir United States Would Raise Army.
PORTLAND, July 14. (To the Ed
itor.) (1) Do you think anything of
astrology and a horoscope, and are
they reliable enough to go by?
(2) In case of a big war like the one
In Europe, could or would this country
limit Itself to the regular standing
army of peace time and volunteers or
would naturalized and unnaturalized
(with no papers at all, but who have
been In the country long enough to
have done it twice) men be drafted; is
there a law for this and what are the
ages?
(3) Do you know where young men are
needed with a fair knowledge of Rus
sian, German and American and a high
school education; Is there any rthool
here on the Coast where a business
training can be had, or should one con
nect with some firm dealing with Rus
sia? Where are there any?
H. LORENZ.
(1 No.
(2) Residents not naturalized would
not be subject to draft or conscription.
Military age limits in the United States
are IS to 45. In event of a great war
volunteers would be undoubtedly called.
Other methods of enlarging the Army
would be adopted only it necessary.
(3) The Oregonlan has no means of
ascertaining the need for linguists of
schools or business enterprises. Prob
ably one's best course would be to ad
vertise in one of the large Eastern
Industrial centers.
Enlarged Homesteads.
BORING. Or.. July 13. (To tha Edi
tor.) Will you kindly let me know If
the 320-acre graxlng- bill for home
steaders has become a law or not.
J. W. HILLEARY.
Write to United States Land Office.
Portland, Or., for circular 414, which
contains all Information required.
Feeding Uncle Sam's Soldiers
Read It in
The Sunday Oregonian
With more than 100,000 men on actual duty on the Mexican
border, the problem of clothing and feeding them is an important
one. But even this difficulty is :worked out to the satisfaction of
all concerned. How it is done will be described with pictures:
in tomorrow's Oregonian.
SONS OF WARRIORS IN THE ARMY Many of the country's
famous fighting men are represented in the Army of the present
day by sons and grandsons. The descendants of some of the lead
ing Confederate Generals are working side by side with the sons
of Union officers. A brief sketch of some of the most distinguished
of these, together with their portraits, will be printed tomqrrow.
OREGON BOYS ON BORDER One of the big attractions in tomor
1 row's Oregonian will be pictures of the Oregon troops now on the
Mexican border.
OTHER MEXICAN SCENES Another page, will show pictures of the
men in General Pershing's army now in pursuit of the Villa forces
in the mountains anl plains of old Mexico.
NEW HEAD DRESS FOR WOMEN Styles in the manner of dressing
the hair are changing. Tomorrow's Oregonian will show the latest,
by means of pictures and story, too.
BIRSKY AND ZAPP Montague Glass eccentric characters express
alarm over the volume of expense that confronts Mr. Hughes, the
candidate.
TEMPLE'S SKETCHES Three pictures from real life, drawn by
Harry Temple, add to the worth and interest of the Sunday paper.
ENGLISH WAYSIDE CROSSES Travelers in the British Isles fre
quently meet with peculiar crosses and monuments set up at way
side places. A story tomorrow will explain all about them.
THE IRON CLAW This is another installment of the sensational
story now running simultaneously in The Sunday Oregonian and
in some of the leading motion-picture theaters.
PAGE OF POEMS Has your favorite appeared in The Oregonian's
i Sunday poem page? It may be there tomorrow. Better watch
and see.
DAWSON This is Frank G. Carpenter's description of the famous
Alaskan mining town 20 years after the big rush.
HERBERT KAUFMAN Readers of The Sunday Oregonian are en
tertained as well as instructed by reading Herbert Kaufman's edi
torial comment, original verse and quaint philosophy.
FOR THE YOUNGSTERS The Ballooning Spiders is one of the at
tractions for the children. Another ia Donahey's weekly page de
scribing the maneuvers of the Teenie Weenies. The comic supple
ment will be there, too.
USUAL SUNDAY SPECIALTIES Up-to-the-minute sporting news,
society and dramatic news, reports from the motion-picture world,
automobile gossip and many other Fo-tland activities will be fully
reported in tomorrow's paper.
In Other Days.
Twrentr-nve Years Asa.
From The Oregonlan July 15. 1891.
Chicago Robert J. Ingersoll. in
speaking of the likely candidates for
President on the Republican ticket,
said here that McKinley was the com
ing man.
C. F. Wheeler, of the South Bend
Herald, and Miss Fannie Todd, of Lake
Superior," Mich., were married last night
In the parlors of the Perkins Hotel.
Henry George is hard at work on his
answer to the Pope's recent encyclical
dealing with the land question and
socialism.
The City Hall Commission has not
made much stir as yet. but they have
elected W. M. Ladd president and C. E.
Hugglns secretary.
The medical college of the Unlverstty
of Oregon will sooa have a building
of Its own.
J. H. McPheeters, of Goldendale. met
with a serious accident at the Oregon
Packing-House yesterday when he fell
down a shaft, breaking a thigh and
otherwise Injuring himself.
J. R. Gallan Is putting up an elegant
residence In Peck's addition. It will
cost about 32500.
Guido's remarkable turf performance
at Chicago, when he did the mile In
l:41',i and repeated In 1:41, Is viewed
with no more satisfaction hy anyone
than by his owner, R. S. Perkins, of
this city, and C. V. Tupper. his former
owner, who is now in the city.
J. K. Romlg, the mining man of La
Grande, is In town and reports that
plans are under way for rebuilding the
town from the devastation of the re
cent fire. "
French residents of Portland yester
day celebrated the French holiday in
honor of the fall of the Bastila. C. B.
Fety was president of the day and H.
F. Tyson, French Vice-Consul. was hon
orary president of the day. Mme. E. E.
Coovert sang "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner." Full Measure Due to Mr. Gill.
PORTLAND. July 14. (To the Ed
itor.) I am always Interested in any
thing appearing In The Oregonlan writ
ten by Addison Bennett for the reason
that it is uniformly spicy and generally
correct, but when I looked through his
article a day or so ago in which he
graphically pictured the pleasure of
seeing T. B. MePevitt and J. K, Gill,
"eating their usual anniversary din
ner" on July 10, in celebration of their
arrival In Portland 60 years ago, towit.
on July 10, 1SG6, I could not repress the
recollection that I was going to school
with J. K. Gill at the Willamette Uni
versity in the Winter of 1S64. and eas
ily recalled that one evening a lot of
the students met in one of the class
rooms and organized a literary society,
calling It the "Alka Society," and elect
ed J. K. Gill its president.
Of course they are young-looking
young bovs, but it Is not fair to lop off
two years from their attainments In
that line without finding out who did
It they or Brother Bennett.
T. T. GEER.
Walking.
From John Burroughs.
Man takes root at his feet, and at his
best he Is no more than a potted plant
in his house or carriage, till he has es
tablished communication with the soil
by the loving and magnetic touch of his
soles to it- Then the tie of association
is born; then spring, those invisible
fibers and rootlets throusrh which
character comes to smack of the soli,
and which make a man kindred to the
spot of earth he Inhabits. The roads
and paths you have walked along in
Summer and Winter weather, the fields
and hll!s which you have looked upon
In lightness and gladness of heart,
where fresh thoughts have come into
your mind, or some noble prospect has
opened before you. and especially the
quiet ways where you have walked in
sweet'eonverse with your friend, paus
ing under the trees, drinking at the
spring hencefortfl they are not the
same; a new charm is added; those
thoughts spring there perennial, your
friend walks there forever.
Aa Old Contention.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
"How did she happen to decide that
he was her soul mate?"
"He was demonstrating a new dance
at her house and broke a costly vase."
"1 don't see how she figured that
out."
"Neither do I. but there Is a great
deal In the philosophy of women that
can't he fisrured out."
0