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THE MORNING OREGONIAX TnURSDAT, AUGUST S. 1916. POBTtMD, OHrW. Entered at Portland. (Oregon- Postofflcoi mm second-class mail matter. Cubsorlpclon. Hares Invariably- In advanw (By Mall.) " Dally, Sunday Included, one year. ;....- ",!? Daily, Sunday included, six monthr..,.. 4-5 Daily,. Sunday Included,, three months.. z.-jj Daily, Sunday Included; one month. ... Daily,, without Sunday., one year. o-0 Daily; without Sundays sij& tnontn. zJ Daiiy. without Sundav, thremontba I ally, without Sunday,, ono month--.-..- Weekly,, one year.. .. - IJ" Sunday; una- year. f-' ' ' buaaay and. Weekly. . . . . ... -ijU (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year ... . S- Daily, jujidjiy Included, ona month..... -' Hour to Ronjt Send, postorflce momj order, express order, or personal Chech on your loowt- bank. Stamp coin or currency are at vender's risk. Give- poatof rice- address la full, Including- county and. state. Postnnw Rates 12 trj 18" pasw, I cent: 18 to USA paKea, li cents; 34 to 48 pages, 3 cents; 60 to 60 pases, 4 cents? 02 to 76 paftee. 6 eents; 78 to 82 pages, 8 cents. Foreign postage, double rates. Wwtenr Business Office Verree Cfirh lln. Brunswick building-. New York-; Verroe si Conklln, Steerer building, Chicago. San Krancisco representative, a. J. Btdwell,. 742 Market street POirnAje-D, ththsdai. Are. s. mis. I THEY CANNOT A.NSW1TB HUGHES. The effectiveness- of Mr; Hughes' speech of acceptance may fairly be, measured' by the reception, which Democratic newspapers give it. Since- he haa entered a contest for the Presi dency with the man. in possession, his position i3 naturally one of attack and, his policy ia defined largely by his ex pression of opinion as to what his op ponent should have done. Had he made a. weak case against President Wilson,, had he offered a readily- as sailable alternative to the latter's pol icy, the President's champions might have been expected to defend Mb. Wil son's actions and to strike at weak points in Mr. Hughes' affirmative pro posals. On the contrary, the New York World, chief organ of the Democracy, attempts no reply to Mr. Hughes -unanswerable - indictment, of the Presi dent's policy on foreign affairs and on National defense. Ignoring- the plain intimations given by the Republican candidate of the course which should have been pursued, the World asks what he would have done with. Mex ico and with the Lusitanla- affair; it asks whether he would have gone to war with Mexico or Germany. This is an old trick. Called to account for long persistence in. blundering, in re sort to merely temporary expedients for avoiding the only safe course, the confounded bungler angrily exclaims: "What would youi have done?" Mr. Wilson cannot thus avoid mak ing reply to Mr. Hughes indictment. He asks the- people to re-elect him in order that he may continue the pol icies which he has pursued. Mr. Hughes challenges the wisdom, and success of those policies-, in contend ing that Mr. Wilson should not be re elected. Ref usa.1 to. discuss that ques tion is. an admission of & weak case. Had events proved its wisdom and suc cess, discussion would have been, wel comed. The attempt to divert atten tion from the damning record of fail ure in foreign affairs is tantamount to- confession. The President's apologists persist in assuming that war was the only alter native to the coarse he took with Mex ico and Germany. The truth is that war has twice resulted from his Mex ican policy and in both cases our Army has- failed to gain that which It was ostensibly sent to get. The pol icy which Mr. Hughes recommends would have avoided the Vera. Cruz fiasco and would probably have averted the three years of revolution, the bandit raids and hence the neces sity of the Pershing expedition. The success of Carranza was due to the "off again, on again" arms embargo, which Mr. Hughes denounced. No man can truthfully say that Mr. Wilson's policy has placed Mexico in any better condi tion than it would have been in under Huerta. The danger of open war has been much greater from the Wilson policy than it could possibly have been nnder the Hughes policy. "Would Mr. Hughes have gone to war ever the Lusitania or would he have sought first to exhaust all the resources of diplomacy?" asks the World. On this point Mr. Hughes said: . . Had this GoTeniment by the nse of both informal aad formal diplomatic opportunities loft no doubt that when we said "strict accountability." we meant precisely what we said, and that we should unhesitatingly vindicate that position, I am confident that thers would have bees no destruction ot American Uvea by the sinking ot the LtUsl- taaia. After submarine outrages and inef fective note-writing had continued for a year, Mr. Wilson did substantially what Mr. Hughes says he should have done at the beginning of that yea gave Germany to understand that he "meant precisely what he said" and the outrages stopped without war. The event justifies Mr. Hughes' conclusion that, had as strong words been used in April, 1915. without the impression that they were not to be taken serious ly, the entire series of submarine out rages could have been prevented with out war. All of this talk about war as the only alternative to the Presi dent's policy sets at naught the fact that diplomacy owes its greatest tri umphs to knowledge that force will be used to back words and to unwill ingness to provoke its use. Hence the diplomat who conveys the impression that, if his demands are rejected, force will not be used, is throwing away his most convincing argument. He there by invites aggTession which finally renders war unavoidable and brings upon his country the evil which he is most anxious to avert. The force of Mr. Hughes' strictures on the President's neglect to provide adequate military strength for the emergencies produced by his Mexican policy and by the European war is shown by the World's flagrant mis representation of its purpose. The mobilization of the half-trained, half- equipped National Guard as the only force available to protect the "border against bandits was mentioned by Mr, Hughes as a striking example of the President's neglect its necessity was not denied but the World accuses him of condemning it. By such shifts do the Democrats attempt to shield themselves from the unerring accu racy of Mr. Hughes' logic CONGRESS MC8T DEUYER THE GOODS. The aggregate appropriations for National defense for the year 1917 will exceed $685,000,000, which is more than the entire revenue for any year preceding 1911. Congress has voted this outlay upon demand of the people that their defenses be strength ened. The people will not grudge the money, provided they get value for It. That is the real question at issue between the people and Congress. The people are called upon to foot a big bill for the Army, yet they get only a paper increase in the regular forces, a paper reserve and a National Guard which Is willing to become an effi cient arm of the Government but is denied the opportunity, efficiency be ing attainable only through sole Na tional comroL .We were shown, five years age-Bow fa.S-OO'.OOO a year could be- saved and the efficiency of the Army vastly increased oy disposing of mo3t of the Army poets, but Congress still holds "them and sperf ds money on them. .. ' .. ...'.' So with: the Nayy. Congress is voting- money to build many mew ships, to buy much ammunition, and to add many men, ' but those are merely the ;raw material of a. navy. ;In order to be of actual use for -defense the ships must be manned and ready for active service, the crews must be trained and .the 'guns must be sure of a high per centage of hits. In just tttese particu lars Secretary Daniels, has, failed. He has. had a high proportion of ships laid up, he has- stinted ammunition for target practice so that marksman ship has run down, he has neglected practice cruises and when a. ship" has been ordered out hx a hurry it has gone with- a short-handed, scratch crew. Also Navy-yards are kept open which are of no practical use except as pork consumers, while obstacles are interposed to the establishment of new Navy-yards where they are needed and would be of value-. The people are willing to pay the price of genuine preparedness, and they take no stock in the pacifist flub dub about militarism, but they look to Congress to- deliver the real goods. not gold bricks. - . , BOV VOYAGE. The Deuisehland sails away with the fervent hopes of a neutral Nation for a safe voyage. It is not necessary to , write oneself down as 'pro German or pro-anytbing. except pro-humanitarian, to. wish good for tune to the Deutschland. It is not in any sense vital to the cause of the allies- that she be caught and de stroyed; nor- is it vital to the central powers that she run the blockade. To be. sure, there are certain moral and sentimental considerations to be weighed by both sides; but it is im possible for America to ignore the wholly human factors involved in the Deutschlanefs wonderful exploit. For the minds which created the Deutsch land ant the hands which directed her course under perilous seas to a harbor of safety, there may be admiration without prejudice and praise without bias. The American Government has ac cepted the Deutschland as a peaceful merchantman, and no serious consid eration is given to the British conten tion that she is a potential warship. Any vessel is a potential war vessel, just as any citizen is a potential sol dier. Yet, however diaphanous the British argument, it is to be the basis of an. outright attack upon the Deutsch land by ally war vessels. No at teotion is to be paid to the American view that she Is not a warship, but is a merchantman, and that, although she belongs to a belligerent power, she is entitled to. the right of visit and search. There will be no visit and search and no pretense thereof. The ensuing complications between Great Britain and the United States are regarded with, complacency by the Mistress of the Seas. Nothing more serious is expected from President Wilson, of course, than another note or two. A RASH CHALLENGE. Unabashed by the knowledge that many pledges in the Baltimore plat form had been broken, the Democratic party said in the St. Louis platform: We challenge comparison of our record. our keeping- of pledses and our constructive legislation, wttn mat or any pariy ot any time. The very convention which issued that challenge violated a pledge by renominating President Wilson, for the Baltimore platform bound it to the single-term principle. The Democratic party was pledged to' adopt the Presidential " preference primary, but it did not. Exemption of coastwise vessels from Panama Canal tolls was promised, but the law already ineffect was re pealed. Economy in public expenditures was promised, but extravagance surpassing all known records was practiced. Reduction in number of useless of fices was promised. Nearly 1.8,600 additional offices have been created. Protection to American -citizens in any foreign country was pledged. Hun dreds of Americans have been mur dered in Mexico, no protection having been afforded them. The . note of a man who has re peatedly defaulted is held worthless. Of what value is the pledge of a party which has broken so many of its promises? IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. Imprisonment of a man in' Oregon In a case growing out of a debt, the litigation over which is still pending, does not furnish an uncomplicated ex ample of the old form of imprison ment for debt, because in this instance there are certain charges of fraud in volved and still in the process of be ing determined; but the case serves to call attention to the interesting facts that the custom of holding the debt or's person for what he owed dates far into antiquity and that its abolish ment has been more recent than many suppose. It was not abolished iaJew York until 1831, while it .continued in England until 1868. The attitude of society toward the debtor has changed at various periods There have been times-when the for tunate and the provident regarded it as a duty to help their unfortunate or improvident neighbors, in which event aid commonly took the form of out right gift, or alms, with only a re mote expectation, if any, of repay ment. The opposite extreme was the theory that making a loan carried with it every right or remedy essential to In sure repayment. Thus, the creditor being held absolutely entitled to re payment, for a long time he possessed the right not only to seize property sufficient to reimburse him, but, in the event that the debtor had no prop erty to demand his services instead The right to claim service involved control of the debtor's person. An ciently, this became slavery. In mod ern times and in a country such as Mexico, for example, it is called by some such name as peonage. The Bible records numerous in stances of debt bondage. In Leviticus there is the commandment, "And if thy brother be waxen poor and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant," Evidently our ancient forefathers had been press ing the debtors' law to the limit. Giv ing of children as pledges is referred to in Job, and in the second Kings a widow complains that a creditor is about to take her two sons as bonds men. Certain exemptions made, such as the upper millstone, and the re quirement that the creditor wjio took a garment as a pledge .should return it by nightfall, testify to the exactions of creditors in remote times. It seems that the selling of debtors ha3 been a custom of most nations. Greece and Rome gave the creditor a claim, on. the person of .ihfcdebtor. on the theory that the debt should be "worked out," and frequently the ab sence of -provision for public debtors' prisons made the creditor virtually the jailer of the man whose person had been seized. , There was relaxation of the severity of these laws for a period, and curious ly enough this came with the growth of the obligation of military service In feudal times it was deemed incon sistent with a man's duty to fight to permit him to be imprisoned over a mere money affair. Then trade began to expand, and the commercial spirit led in 1282 in England to the enact ment of a Statute of Merchants, under which the creditor was entitled to a warrant by which the creditor was cast into the Tower of London. In 1829, 7114 debtors were thus sent to the tower, and at the close of it hat year 1545 were so in custody. The law was not repealed In England until 186 8, some years after ,-the United States had abolished human slavery. What is termed in the law books a "limited right of coercion" still exists in the United States, but this is not to be confounded with the unem bellished imprisonment for debt that existed in the world for so many ages. It is based upon a wholly different principle. Our modern laws have shown a marked tendency to mercy for the debtor who is merely unfortu nate. Numerous exemptions from the process of attachment are illustrations and the bankruptcy act is a notewor thy example. The right of coercion to which reference is made applies to the dishonest debtor and to cases in which there are elements of fraud, misrepresentation or concealment. Modern statutes presume to provide penalties not for nonpayment of the debt itself, but for the fraud, and though intertwined with the civil law they are criminal statutes in effect. But there are persons still living who were alive when men were placed be hind bars for debt, both in England and in the United States. PREPAREDNESS AGAINST KIRK. Fire prevention, a practical form of preparedness, has had remarkable ex emplification In Portland. The story is told in the figures of fire losses within the city limits during identical periods of the past three years. For the seven months ending July 31, 1914, the losses by fire were $1, 581.578.57. For the seven months ending July 31, 1915. the fire losses were $968, 754.70. For the seven months ending July 31, 1916, the fire losses were S459, 476.68. These astonishing results are di rectly due to the intelligent and vigor ous campaign carried forward in Port land under the direction of Fire Mar shal Stevens. It is a new science, but the principles of fire prevention are so well understood, and their appli cation so obvious, that it is amazing that so little progress has heretofore been made in safeguarding a com munity against so familiar an enemy uncontrolled fires. Damage from fire can be, and is, avoided by reducing fire hazards in the factory, in the business building. in the home, everywhere. That is ail there is to it. A determined prosecu tion of incendiarism has been inci dental ta the general p'an and has been quite beneficial. No amount of care in mere physical prevention can, of course, suppress incendiarism alto gether; but, systematic' watchfulness before fires and persistent investiga tion afterward tend to make the crime unprofitable and unsafe. 4 The benefits of efficient fire pre vention should not accrue wholly to the insurance companies." If there are fewer fires, there are fewer losses, and therefore less risk. Reduction in in surance rates is not only Justifiable, but inevitable. THE "GRANDFATHER UW. Oklahoma seems, on the face of the early returns, to have rejected the proposal to disenfranchise the greater proportion of the negro voters of the state by an amendment to the consti tution that would hav been in effect a re-enactment of the famous "grand father clause," which was declared un constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States. The proposed amendment was devised by Democrats of Oklahoma in pursuance of their frank endeavor to deprive negroes of the ballot by a literacy test that should not at the same time react upon the whites of their own party. The sub terfuge it employed -was not dissimilar to that of the "grandfather clause. It was provided that there should be exempt from the specified literacy re quirement all those who were engaged or whose ancestors were engaged In any "war which the United States ever fought. Ostensibly, it applied to whites and negroes alike. Practically, it Is easy to see how it would have operated. . There were some thousands of ne gro soldiers in the Civil War, and it is entirely probable that many of their descendants are now living in .Okla homa; but the difficulties in the way of proving the military records of the ancestors, as compared with the facil ities that would be possessed by those illiterate whites who were similarly situated, would appear quite obvious The amendment was cunningly de vised. Although it was said by some lawyers that it would no more stand the test of the highest court than did its predecessor and prototype, there always was a strong chance that these lawyers were mistaken. The trainers of the new amendment were not work ing in the dark and there were among them some of the ablest lawyers in the state. A nicely calculated disadvantage which the opponents of the amend ment had to overcome was the man ner in which the amendment was stated on the ballot. Only the afflrma. tive side, was presented. Those who desired to vote "for" the amendment needed only to mark their ballots in the appropriate place. Those who would vote otherwise were required to strike out the word "for" and write "against" in its stead. If the early returns are borne out by the complete figures, it will appear that the sense of fairness of Oklahomans in general has been so great as to overcome even that handicap. Meanwhile the intent of the scheme is palpable. If the amendment adopted there will be litigation over it, and this will be prolonged, as In the case of the "grandfather clause.' It seems to have been the hope of the framers of the plan that even if did fail ultimately it at least would be in force and would deprive a. great many negroes of their votes in th election next November. Texas newspapers see in the result of the recent primary in that state a distinct triumph of the tate rights' men, whose opponents have been known as "Nation-wlders" in the po litical vernacular of the state and day. The leading candidates in the race for Senator vera Colquitt, Culberson and Henry, all three avowed state rights men, and in the contest for Governor the issue was sharply drawn between Governor Ferguson, a champion of state rights, and ex-Governor Camp bell, an outspoken "Nation-wider." The outcome is hailed with much sat isfaction by the state-rights advocates, and the emphasis placed on that issue will be a revelation to voters in the North. It is predicted that the fight will be reflected two years hence In the suffrage and prohibition cam paigns, when it ia said lines will be drawn between the National and the local methods of accomplishing results in each instance. - 7. COYCMOX ATMS. The Pendleton Tribune reads a lec ture to the business men of Portland because they are dissatisfied with the Astoria-Puget Sound rate ruling and it invites them to see with a "broader vision," to "become part of the citizen ship of the "whole -state" and io aid other sections of Oregon, to increase in business and population." Says the Tribune .also: The men' on the Inside of the political same In this state for the last half century. are mown that rait land was) cllnslnr to the possession of both the United tates Pen- tors, in the hop and expectation that their Influence in Waahlnrton might retain for the Willamette metropolis its special artl- riciai advantages. The time-has now come wnen retrlbutloa Is at the door. The day f rewards has tt-ona bv. Perh.m tb riav 01 punishment has arrived. Who shall say 7 The Legislature of Oregon In 1903 elected a distinguished citizen of As toria for its United States Senator, and he served . six years without achieving or even seeking to achieve. so - far as The Oregonian knows, any change in the "special artificial ad vantages" said to be enjoyed at Port land. The people of Oregon in 1914 with a fair and clear opportunity to confirm or reject Portland's possession of two Senatorships, chose to elect a distinguished citizen of Portland and to defeat a distinguished'-citlsen of the Willamette Valley. ' It would appear to be clear that the state determines for itself and does not leave to Port land the question as to where the United States Senators shall come from. If there are men in Portland so lacking in "broad vision" that they think Portland will grow, whether the state grows or not. they are quite suc cessful in concealing their ideas. Of course Portland will not grow unless Oregon grows; and - Oregon will not grow unless other places, other cities, other sections grow. That is self-evi dent. It would be folly for Portland to desire aught but prosperity for Pen dleton, or Astoria, or Medford, or any other town in Oregon. But Portland is Justified in seeking with- all its might to realize its own natural destiny. Let us quote again from the Tribune: Its location naturally Is commanding;. -To It from north, east and south all roads lead with downward rrada. It Is the natural trade center of a region majestic In scope. burdened with untold wealth. The efty some day ought to be one of the great distribut ing marts of the world. The business In- teres is of Portland have Its future In their own hands to make or mar it. Exactly. For that reason, Portland dissents from the scheme to tie it up in a rate group with Puget Sound, separated from the great interior by a chain of mountains, and demands that it be permitted to have the natural advantage of a down-river haul to its site 100 miles on deep water from the sea. What would help Pendleton and the Inland Empire more? The Canadian munition maker who returned $720,000 in profits to the government is an embarrassment to those who accuse men of his trade of promoting war for profit. He does not even see anything remarkable in his act. saying: It Is merely an effort to do my "bit. I don't see any reason why a man. shouldn't make cartridges for his oountry at cost when so many of tits fellow citizens are giving- up their lives for it. Nor would he suggest that others should follow his example, for ha said Every man must do what seems rlrht to Mm in such matters. What the other fellow does is none of my. business. Mr. Bryan and Mr. Ford to the contrary notwithstanding, The Ore gonian . believes there are American munition manufacturers who would do likewise. The Democrats are trying to rush Mr. Hughes. The New York Herald insists that be name his Cabinet i and thus give assurance that he will have better advisers than President Wilson has. That is taking Hughes' election for granted, a throwing up of the sponge rather early in the campaign Mr. Hughes will name a Cabinet all in good time, and it will include no such 8mall-calibered men as McAdoo, Bryan and Daniels. - The President did the Nation a serv, ice when he pitchforked James Hay out of the House, of Representatives onto the Court of Claims bench. - Mr. Hay is the man who made -pork' out of the Array bill with his scheme for Federalizing the National Guard and with his Joker to provide a job for a constituent. The President would have prevented much mischief by finding him a soft job a year ago. There must be plenty of food gravel in Josephine " County. A placer that has been worked -by hydraulic process for fifty years has produced three bricks valued at $9000 from a run of thirty-four days. Gold ailninsy in uregon is a real nome industry.. Park concerts are a popular means Of entertainment of the - people and when the fund ia exhausted they must cease.'-' If more can be appropriated, good. " If not, the people must" seek entertainment elsewhere," of which there ia plenty at nominal cost. ' ; . A Roseburg man who returned from Hornbrook with fifteen dozen bottles of beer in his automobile is held for conducting a nuisance. The average man with a seven-months thirst would call it worse than a nuisance. A Nation-wide strike of 'streetcar men simultaneously with a strike of railroad men will make this country gaze through a mighty big hole in tha doughnut. The municipal labor bureau is find ing difficulty in furnishing men at tne going rate of $2.25 a day. Unskilled labor knows its value, just now. If the strike" of 100,000 garment workers in New York lasts awhile, there will be more business for mer chant tailors all over the land. Restaurant and hotel men in San Francisco must be prepared for all kinds of trouble when they lock out all the help. August 16 wUl.be a great data for Portland. The next President will be a visitor that day- Why not slot machines to purvey food in the. Baj; Cilxi SENATE'S CONSCIENCE AHOCSED Attack est Oliver Cause Revelt A a; alas t ' Printing; Craft. A resolution to print as a public ocument an argument of the Bethle hem Steel Company against construc tion ot a Government -armor plant tarted the Senate on a grand washing of its own dirty linen. Senator Oliver obtained adoption of the resolution by unanimous consent and thereby stirred the wrath of Senator Reed against this use of public facilities to advertise the cause of a wealthy corporation. Some bitter recrimination between tne two Senators followed and led to a general discussion of abuse of the printing, and franking privilege. Although Senator famoot is liberally denounced by Democrats as a reaction- and as one of the old guard, he has checked the abuse by objecting to requests to have documents printed by -unanimous consent. Senator Ken yon expressed surprise that he had not done so in this lnstanca and tha Utah Senator explained that he had remained silent because Senator Tillman, who was in charge of the bill to which the document related, had made no objec tion. Mo. Smoot then made this mourn ful statement: v In tha past I hava tried hard to stop this rowing- and costly practice, but I became discouraged. Senators would glva me to un derstand that my objection, appeared to them as an unfriendly set I had some figures in my desk that I wanted to call the attention of Senators to to show the Senate how wild we are going la printing tha hundreds of thousands of dol lars' worth of next to useless matter at Government expense. It la getting so now. Mr. President, that any crank In the United States can prepare an article upon most any subject, send It to some Senator, and ask him to request to have it printed as a pub- no document, and in most cases It is done. It is of no earthly good for the use ot the Senate or for anyone etea, but wa print them. Senator Overman, from the Demo cratic aide, confessed and condemned the abuse. The rules permit 1400 copies of a document to be printed at Uovern ment expense, but any number ot ad dltional copies may be printed by re quest of Senators at privata expanse and are then sent tree throusrh tha mails under the frank of soma Senator, who thus grants a favor at no cost to himself but at great cost to the oov- ernroent In carrying the mails. Ha told of ona document of which 1,000.000 copies were sent out at a cost of 160. 000. Another cost $71,000. but the pri vate beneficiary made a slip by chang ing the matter after it bad been sub mitted and thus gave an opening for a suit for postage, which Is now pend ing. A bill regulating printing Is now be fore the Senate, which Senator Fletcher said would correct many abuses, but he said that "over and over again ob jection to its consideration has been raised." though It would save the Gov ernment $700,000 to $800,000 a year. As Senator Reed expressed it, "the bug under the chip is the. franking privi lege. Having by a -unanimous con sent resolution secured for soma speech. magazine or newspaper article or pam phlet tha status of "a public document." Senator with funds supplied by the interested party has an additional num ber of copies printed and haa them ailed under hia frank. His colleague having been severely arraigned for working this graft on behalf of "an enormously rich corpor ation." Senator Penrose struck back with the familiar "you're another ar gument. He said that 3.000,000 copies of "art alleged speech" by a member of the House on "The World-Wide War Trust" had been franked: - also sev eral million copies of another Repre sentative's speech on "The Navy League Unmasked." A rank advertisement 01 Dr. Friedman's fake cure for tubercu losis had been circulated. So had many speeches of President Wilson and speeches delivered at the democratic National Convention. fo also had re ports of the cotton and silk manufac turers. Mr. Penrose ended uy with drawlntr his request to have the docn ment printed and by asking to nave 11 referred to the committee .on rules Mr. Smoot announced his intention to poll the Senate on the question of allowing nothing to ba printed in the Record by uanlmoua consent and of requiring that all requests go to the committee on printing. He warned Senators that he would renew the practice of objecting to every unani mous consent request. Mr. Penrose ap proved this course and said he would stand by Jdr. moot "ana prevent sucn ridiculous performances as tha account Of a visit ta the tomb of someone over In Scandinavia, and documents merely full of epithets and abuse, being in serted In the Record or in Senate docu ments. NEEDS OP SOLDIERS AT CALEXICO Mr. Cllae Sara Government Cares for All Wfce Osgst to Be There. PORTLAND. Aug. 2. (To the Ed itor.) Mr. Haffenden evidently labors under misapprehension concerning-the needs of our soldiers at Calexlco. It is worth remembering that the United States Government furnishes her troops in abundance everything necessary for health and comfort in tha way of food and clothing, and all this cry for money from home is, to say the least, auperflu ous. True, a soldier can spend any amount for extras that as a rule do him more harm than good, as every military man of experience will testify. Recent reports show that some of our men had already taken up all their wages at the "canteen." so that the paymaster, after such soldier had signed the payroll, handed over every dollar of his wages to the "canteen" man, who furnished him with such whims as he atook the notion to buy. It was so in tha Civil War, the "sutler" getting rich from the wages of thought less enlisted men, who laid not a few of them the foundation for chronic diarrhea by stuffing themselves with goodies. , Chaplain Gilbert, not long since, said tnrougn the city press that the men where ha is ara furnished with a great abundance of food of the best quality and it may ba taken for granted that this Is true at Calexlco. As to tha destitute families at home, it should be remembered that tha War Department Issued some weeks ago an order that any enlisted man with -one or mora dependents upon him at home mlght- on application, ba promptly discharged and furnished transportation to his family. For one. 1 am unable to see any great amount of patriotism in lying around camp at Calexlco. or any where else down that way. at present. wttn a family at noma for somebody else to look after. To the men in Portland, and there are a number, who know what war is. tha whole proposition Is ludicrous. There Is therefore no stigma" resting upon Portland because of neglect of her sol diers or otherwise. C. E. CLINE. Servaatitla Cored In TRnclaad. Wall Street Journal. England has no more servant trou bles, for there ara no servants to ba obtained. With the exception of a few old retainers most c tha maids have become munitions workers, in which occupation they receive throe or four times tha remuneration they got in doing housework, with the added satisfaction that "they are doing their bit" and helping fathers, brothers and sweethearts in the trenches. This sit uation haa its pathetio aide. too. Many middle-class people in England, who actually need a servant because of sickness In tha house, ara suffering, their sons being at war or at home wounded and daughters working in munitions factories or hospital con tingents. M ill 5re4 Not Bo Reesrded. CLATSKANIE. Or.. Aug. 1 (To tha Editor.) Is a will legal if attested by a notary public, with twoewitneasea, and without being recorded, or does it need to be recorded? READER. . Tha wllj teed, not be recorded. Montana Muttering By Leaaa Caaa Baer. t TT ALT-WORN costumes" screams a Xa. headline in a theatrical paper. . I read half way through it before I discovered it referred to those laid aside before they have dona much service. I thought it op'ry togs. was soma scandal in Or something about tha chorus, see Or the beach bathers. Justice Kelly rises in tha Brooklyn court to observe that "brides should have sharp eyes." Well, no one before ever suggested that they haven't. Cleveland bachelor advertises for a "nice, slow, quiet. Jolly widow." He must be contemplating bigamy. "To gasa upon an animated face Is a great privilege," sighs Ellawheelerwll cox. It is. Ella, unless tha animated face is too expectant and worn by a tramp at the kitchen door. Peggy O'Nell Is to Play the leading rola in Richard Walton Tully's newest play, "Tha Flame." and it ia not one that calls for Peg's natural Irish brogue. From New York, where she is rehearsing. Peg sends word that she is realizing tha dream ot her heart, and that is having a fling at soma sort of rola where she has to act. Peg In "Peg o' My Heart" was easy for the little O'Nell girl because it was a role fitted to her personality and national Ity. - She didn't have to exert her his trionio art to any great extent. In "Tha Flame," however. Peggy O'Nell aad her brogue ara to ba divorced. An American play, written by an American girl and acted 'by an all American cast," ts the way "Our Coun try First" Is described In Its adrertis lng. A Miss A, N. Ranee wrote it, and It is based on tha theme of National preparedness. In the company are two once Baker players. Ethel Grey Terry and Thurlow Bergen. Mr. Bergen is tha husband of another ex-Bakeronlan, Elsie Esmond. The drama was pro duced last Monday night in Atlantic City and is said to have been sue oessfuL e Loudon Charlton's season announce ment for ltlf-17 reveals tha same list of well-known artists who have been under this management for a number of years, together with several lmpor- nt additions. Heading the list, as usual, is Johanna Gadski, who haa been a Charlton artist for 11 years. Follows then a list ot notables, including Julia Claussen. tha Swedish prima donna Helen Stanley, soprano; Caroline Hudson-Alexander, and Nevada Van der Veer, contralto, tha wife of Reed Miller, the tenor, and Tom Dobson. who oecu pies an Independent and unique place of his own in the musical world. This paragraph relative to him will interest Portland friends of the young artist: A singer to be mentioned, ens who has foa a wholly unique place among present day recitallsts. Is Tom Dobscn. 1 name familiar to moat metropolitan concert- goers, as wll as to many cities in the East- Mr. Dobson not only sings unusual song's, such as the Carpenter children's songs, musical settings ot Tagore and other mod ern poets, etc.. but plays bis own accom paniments and offers many diverting selec tions of his own composition, lie Is on artist among the newcomars of recent years who haa woa aa exclusive following, partic ularly, in New fork, where six recitals war given last season at tha Punch and Judy Theater. Other artists under the Charlton ban ner for next season are the .'cellist. Pablo Casals, and Madame Metcalfe Casals. Harold Bauer. Osslp Gabrllo witsch and his wife, Clara Clemens: Ernest Hutcheson, tha Australian plan. 1st; George Copeland, and Miss Guiomar Novaes, a Brazilian pianist who cap tured New York last season. The vio linist, Eddy Brown, and Jacques Tht baud, tha French violinist, who ob tained leave of absence from the French army to permit him to make another tour; tha FlonxaJey Quartet, and a dosen mora ara mentioned. The Billy Van. minstrel veteran, who died recently, has .been confused in identity with Billy B. Van. who has often appeared in Portland on the Or pheum vaudeville stage, Billy Van was a black-face comedian, aged 63, and he had been on the stage since he was 14 years old. Ha appeared on the Pa ciflo Coast in his younger days with III Henry's minstrels. Barlow. Wilson. and Primrose and West. James J. Corbett will be starred next season in a company of "Hlt-the-Trall Holllday," to tour tha South, according to present plans "of Cohan and Harris. Since ha left ha pugilistic' arena. Mr. Corbett has appeared ia several stage productions, notably those of "Cashel Byron's Profession" and "The Burglar and the Lady." Ha has also played In vaudeville and motion pictures. A third company of "Hit-the-Trall Holllday," headed by Frank Otto and Lola Merrill, will coma to the Pacific Coast, The New York" company, with Fred Niblo, will play tha principal East ern cities. Mr. Corbett was last in Portland as a monologlst on Pantages circuit a year ago. Leon Bakst, tha famous Russian, art ist, whose work in designing costumes and scenery haa revolutionised stage production in Europe, is going to open a studio in New York and haa desig nated H. B. Marlnelli as his agent to accept orders for costume designing, scene painting and interior decoration. Elsie de Wolfe, and the other cele brated interior decorators, who have been making enormous incomes by fix. ing up tha homes of millionaires, will find a formidable rival for business in Bakst. Although the fame of the Rus- sian in America rests principally cm the costumes and scenes ha provided for the Russian ballet, in Europe ha is even better known as an interior decorator and painter. Marlnelli wished to hold an exhibl tion and sale of Bakst painting in New York, but he was advised that the Rus slan artist, will not sell any of his paintings., although he has no objec tion to thalr being exhibited. Marlnelli has made arrangements with the Law Studios to give Bakst studio room with in which ha can make a complete theat rical production ana haa syit out a circular letter to managers soliciting orders. The first commission Bakst re ceived was to make several scenes for ttHjNew- York Hippodrome show. In Other Day. Half a rratary An. From The Oregonian ot Acgost S. 1866. New Orleans, August 1 The Con vention meets again tomorrow and it is believed that martial law will be spei-iiilv rescinded by order of tha President. Richmond. Virginia. August erai Terry, commanding at Richmond. ' has issued an order forbidding, during the existence of martial law, all mil itary organizations for the purpose of drill and military instruction, other than the militia organized by the Gov ernor of Virginia, This will put a slop- to the nishtly drill of nedroes. which has caused so much excitement in Richmond. New York. July II. Business ro-s- saires are being transmitted over tha cable to Europe. , Four thousand words were transmitted through the cable in hours on July SS. The following have been tha fixed rates for Atlantic Telegraph from America to Great Brit ain; For 29 words or less, including name and address of aetvdee and re ceiver, 20 pounds in gold; every addi tional word not over five letters, -o shillings sterling per word. The State Teachers Association was- In session at Oregon City from Tuwday morning till last evening. The members of the Institute are mostly men or standing In the educational world, but the prooeedinKS struck us upon a brier visit yesterday morning as rather prosy and not precisely what the- shotild be to perpetuate a deep interest in tha success of the association. Chicago, August I. The President today presented General Sherman hi commission as Ueutenant-General of the Armies of the United States. Gen eral Grant was present when the com mission was signed and delivered. Twenty-five Yean Afo Today. From The Oregonian of August 3. 1VJ1. London, August 2. The question of wearing jewelry is causing a great stir in the Salvation Army ranks. In many cases singular survivals of the old superstitions in favor of ear- . rings ara found to exist, not having been driven out of slc;ht by the en lightenment of Christianity. Orders were issued last evening forbidding further infringement of tha rules on this point. London. Ausrust S. The publie pledge of the Grand Duke of Luxem burg to defend the freedom of tha institutions of his country, is inter preted in Franca as meaning that tha Grand Duke means to keep aloof from Germany. The whole course of the Grand Duke, however, points to a desire to enter Into intimate terms with the German Empire. The grand duchy today is virtually a German state and the Grand Duke Is said to be willing to enter the Federation. Berlin, August !. A dispatch from Drontheim says that Emperor William conducted divine service on board the Imperial yacht Ilohenaollern. Later In the day the Hohenzollern sailed from Drontheim southward. City of Mexico. August S. The con gress of economists is discussing plana looking to a reform In Internal taxa tion. St. Petersburg. Autust I. Queen Na talie is making thing: very disagree able during the visit of her son. Kinaj Alexander of Fervls, to Russia. 8he has made frantic arrteals to the Czar for permission to see her child, as she calls him. The Czar is powerless to interfere, aa King Alexander is in cus tody of the Chief Regent, M. Ristich. who accompanies him. SCHOOL. CI-ERIt MIST BIS A VOTER Haabaad and Wilt Owning I'ropertT Jointly Are Entitled to Vote.' STRAY, Or, Aug. 2. (To the Ed itor.) A question haa arisen whether. woman could be a clerk of a school district without having taxable prop erty In her own name that is. if the woman and her husband had property taxed. G. 8. School clerks must be legal voters of the district in which they are school clerks? It makes no difference whether the clerk ia a man or a woman. In districts of third-class legal voters are those who have prop erty in their own name or are heads of families. In districts of first and second-clasa, only those who have property In, their own names can vote, at school elections. Property qualifi cations also include the holders of stock In corporations or other tax-pay ing bodies which have their names on pay rolls. When husband and wife own prop erty Jointly, as shown by the assess ment rolls, eeeh is entitled to vot. Neither dower nor curtesy rights give tha right of franchise at school elections. INFRACTION'S OF SCHOOL. LAW. School Directors Forbidden o Have In terest la Contracts. AMITY, Or, Aug. 1. (To the Ed itor.) Is it Illegal In this state for a School Director to furnish building- ma terial, such as lumber, sand, cement, etc, for a new school bull. liner, or sell wood upon contract, draw pay as Janitor and for working his own tnam cultivating school grounds, delivery of wood, etc? Should this be an infraction of the law, what, if any, is the penalty at tached? For how long a time after the performance could action be brought? SUBSCRIBER. Most of the things In the first para graph are declared by section 4032. subdivision 19, ef Lord's Oregon Laws, to be contrary to law. Tha penalty, as provided in section 4063, is removal from office, or the same might be de clared a misdemeanor. Upon -t-vlc-tlon a fine of from $20 to $100. or an Imprisonment of not less than six months, or both, might bo imposed. For misdemeanors, actions must ba brought within two year- n'trr tha performance of the act. Asceat at Mount Tblelsen. PORTLAND. Aug. X. (To the Ed itor.) Dispatches from Klamath Falls, published in The Oregonian. claim for Charles F. Stone, of that place, the first ascent of Mount Thielsen. If Mr. Stone had searched, carefully the small cairn, easily found on the exceedingly limited summit, be would have found records of other ascents, unless they have been destroyed during the last five or six years. In the Fall of 1910. in com pany with Eugene Compher. then liv ing at Klamath Falls. I climbed Thiel sen from Diamond. Lake, which lies at its eastern base. We had been told It was uncllmbable, and were expecting a first ascent, but found records of sev eral others on the summit. The last few hundred feet of the "cowhorn" is a pinnacle, but once you And the proper route ief not as difficult to climb as some other Oregon mountains. Tha view from the summit is certainly magnificent. H. II. rnOUTT, Mazama. Date ef Heppaer Flood. BIGGS. Or, Aug. 1. (To the Editor.y To settle an argument please publish the date ot tha Heppner flood: tiUBSCUIBER. June 14. 1903, '