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r08ILAD, TCE&DAY. ATJGC8T 8, 1818.
types should be left to men of ex
perience like Admiral Dewey, who
have calmly measured the capabilities
of each type and who accord to each
its proper place in the organization
of a complete fighting fleet. Had the
United States stampeded to building
submarines and battle cruisers to the
exclusion of battleships, our next war
might have found jus practically de
fenseless at sea.
- 1
sembled from Dallas and neighboring
towns, listened to music by an or
chestra and to a sermon and partook
of the contents of lunch baskets. There
were no sports for diversion, and they
were not needed In enjoying the day.
FIRST STEP IS IXIXATIOJr.
An amendment to the Federal re
serve law has been proposed -by the
Federal Reserve Board and has been
introduced in Congress by Senator
Owen which seems to be a beginning
of currency inflation and a radical de
parture from the original purpose of
the law. The amendment provides
that member banks may count as part
of their own reserve Federal reserve
notes of their own district to the
amount of 5 per cent of their net de
mand deposits.
These notes are not nioney; they are
promises to pay, secured by 40 per
cent of their amount in gold deposited
with the Federal reserve bank. The
gold is already "counted as reserve.
The proposal is In substance that one
twentieth of this gold be counted two
nd a half times in calculating reserve.
The actual gold reserve held in the
vaults of banks in central reserve
cities would be reduced from 11 to 6
per cent: In reserve cities from 9 to 4
per cent; in country banks from 7 to 2
per cent. The other 5 per cent in
each case would be notes secured by
the 7, 6 and 5 per Cent, respectively,
held in the Federal reserve bank. The
part remaining in the member bank
would not necessarily be all gold; all
or a part might be legal tender or sil
ver certificates, which are also mere
promises to pay.
The purpose of the Federal reserve
law was to make gold ultimately the
sole reserve of our National banks.
It was further to issue notes secured
by this gold to the amount of 40 per
cent and by commercial paper to the
face value, these notes to be redeemed
as the paper was redeemed. The aim
tof this redemption was to ensure that
the volume of Federal reserve notes
would always expand and contract as
the volume of business expanded and
contracted. The purpose of the
Board's plan appears to be the keep
ing of these notes out indefinitely, re
gardless of the requirements of busi
ness, to issue them in unlimited
amounts and keep them permanently
afloat.
The Board appears to have become
Impatient of the slowness with which
the new notes have come into use
through rediscount of commercial pa
per. The reason for the limited use
of rediscount facilities Is quite con
sistent with healthy business. The
process of liquidation before the war
had gone so far and the volume of
money poured into the banks during
the war has been so great that larger
use of Federal reserve notes through
rediscount has been unnecessary.' That
facility will be used when needed and
its use will be normal and healthy
failure to use it more extensively is
a result of the abnormal conditions
growing out of the war. No attempt
should be made to force its use.
The proposal of the Board is the
first beginning of building an Inverted
pyramid, consisting of a large volume
of paper currency on an apex of gold
It is the first step in Inflation. Such
devices may be excusable for a na
tion which faces the necessities of
war; they are Inexcusable for a nation
which is at peace and which is so
financially strong as the United States.
AVAIXABLE FOR ONE PURPOSE.
It Is remarked by the Eugene Regis
ter that application of Government
funds to construction of the Mount
Hood loop would be a crime against
Oregon; that the state must put up
dollar for dollar of Government mon
ey; that the crying need is for gen
eral utility roads.
The statements clearly are founded
on lack of understanding of the new
Federal road law, and It therefore
seems proper again to call attention
to its provisions.
The money for the Mount Hood loop
would come from an appropriation
available only for roads within Na
tional forests. The law does not re
quire the state to match Federal
appropriations for that purpose. Nor
is the money appropriated for forest
roads available for market roads or
any other roads outside of the Na
tional forests.
The same law contains another eec-
tlon providing for Government aid for
roads not within the National forests.
which must be matched with state ap
propriations. It is not our understand'
ing that application for the latter al
lotment contemplates use of It on the
Mount Hood loop.
If there is any question at all about
the Mount Hood loop, it pertains to
comparison of its advantages with
those of other roads within the Na.
toinal forests, and not as to compari
son of its uses with those of market
roads or other highways within settled
districts.
TOT GTAKDSMEX MAT NOT TOTE.
Mobilization of the National Guard
presents the strange anomaly under a
democratic form of government that
the men who go from home to - the
border to defend the country may be
disqualified from voting at the elec
tion, while those who stay at home
in comfort and safety are free to ex
ercise the franchise. An attempt was
made in the Senate to remove this
absurdity, but Senator Williams de
feated it-
Senator Reed moved that qualified
voters in the National Guard be per
mitted to vote for National officers.
As the laws of some states make reg
istration a necessary qualification,
Senator Jones proposed that the right
to vote be not denied to a Guardsman
because he may not be registered un
der the laws of his state. Mr. Will
lams objected that this would set
aside the literacy test of some states.
saying: "Nothing Is more precious
than the conservation to the states
themselves of the right to fix the
qualifications of suffrage within their
limits." He raised a point of order
against the Jones amendment. Mr,
Jones thereupon made a point of or
der against the Reed amendment to
the Army bill, both amendments were
ruled out and the soldiers must not
vote if they are still on the border on
election day, while the stay-at-homes
will vote.
Of course there was a "nigger In the
woodpile." If both amendments had
been adopted, the entering wedge of
Federal regulation of elections would
have been Inserted. The restrictions
by which negroes are prevented from
voting In Mr. Williams' state of Mis.
sisippi would then have been In dan
ger. Mr. Williams was alarmed and
blocked the way. As none of the Na.
tional Guard from his state or from
any other black belt states had been
sent to the border, according to the
latest reports, no Southern whites
were deprived of votes by his action
Rather than risk Federal interference
with elections, he prevents any pa
triotio Guardsmen who have gone to
the border from voting.
LIFE'S TTVCTRTAIXTTES.
What shall we say of man's chances
of'llving his allotted span, in the face
of the evidence around us? Only the
other day a distinguished missionary
bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church was electrocuted while fishing
n a Pennsylvania stream, when his
fishing pole came In contract with a
high-tension electric wire from a pow
er plant. Now two Philadelphia scien
tists have pointed out that the postage
stamp Is a carrier of vast multitudes
of bacteria. Of fifty stamps taken as
the basis of several painstaking tests,
forty-eight were found to be carriers
of germs. Not all these germs were
harmful, but the disturbing part of
the report is the statement that they
might just as well have been. An ex
ceedingly small number of pathogenic
microbes is sufficient to start a long
train of evils, if conditions happen to
be favorable for their multiplication
To make the test as nearly complete
as possible, the stamps were bought at
random at fifty different places. Most
of them were taken from sheets and
a few from stamp books. Notes were
taken of the condition surrounding the
places where they were sold, and
among other things it was observed
that more than half were presented to
the customer with the sticky side up,
This might not have been important
on some occasions, but if the air had
been filled with dust and if health
conditions had been anything but ex
cellent in the city at that time, this
might have been an important factor
in the growth of an epidemic.
Also in Pennsylvania, as It .hap
pened, a group of playful boys made
a dash for a hanging wire. The wire
proved to be alive with electricity, and
the boy who was first on the spot fell
dead as he grasped it. Some of the
others had narrow escapes.
The Cleveland waterworks tunnel
disaster seems to have been caused by
the tapping of a vein of gas far under
the surface of the lake. This hap
pened in a natural gas country, but
even so it does not appear that the
workmen were culpable for not having
foreseen the possibilities, especially in
view of the fact that they had worked
In apparent security so long.
It appears that a good part of the
perils that beset us are due to the
'modern conveniences" which we in
sist on having all around us. So long
we demand the swiftest kind of
transit from the city to the country
and back again, we cannot complain
If there are high-power transmission
lines, even In unexpected places In the
woods' and along the banks of fishing
streams. We insist on the conveni
ence of buying our stamps within
few steps of our homes. If we will
group ourselves in large cities, we
must furnish them with supplies of
water, no matter 'what the danger to
the vroikman.
These widely varying dangers are
mere types of those that surround us
every day. . No one of them is of a sort
that would exist in a more primitive
form of civilization. It is not easy to
see how any one of those cited could
reasonably have been avoided, bishops
and boys and the everyday public be
ing what they are no more and prob
ably no less thoughtless than would be
expected. It will be easy to avoid
repetition of the particular accident.
but It is Impossible to foretell what
will come next.
overcrowded professions although It
would seem that there are plenty of
vocations in which war victims will be
unable successfully to compete.
Censorship of our amusements and
diversions, public and private, appears
not to be a new thing. Even so harm
less a pastime as golf had Its share
of trouble in the early days of its In
troduction into the United States. Ac
cording to the veracious chronicler, a
writer in the New York Evening Post.
golf links was laid out la the early
80s in a region in the Allegheny
Mountains that had commended itself
because of its strong resemblance to
the scenery of Scotland, and as there
was no place in America then where
golf supplies could be bought, some
clubs and balls were ordered from
abroad. The best clubs of that day
had solid brass heads and the customs
Inspector at New Tork refused to pass
them. It was explained An vain that
they were used in playing a game.
The official maintained stoutly that
no game could be played with such an
implement of murder." It was sev
eral weeks before a reversal of this
decision was obtained from the high
Federal officials at Washington.
DREADNOrOHT PROVES SUPREME.
The little-Navy men of the House
will have difficulty in combating the
logic of Admiral Dewey's conclusions
from the naval battle off Jutland. He
concedes that the British battle cruis
ers "succeeded partially in their pur
pose" of holding the German fleet un
til the British battleships could come
up and that, though three of them
"went to their death early in the
fight, they inflicted losses upon the
enemy that made their sacrifice worth
while." Yet, he says, the lesson is
this:
Battle cruisers, with the weight of their
armor sacrificed to speed, with fewer big
guns than have dreadnoughts, cannot give
and take with the latter class of ships.
In grips with dreadnoughts they are pretty
sure to be sunk.
Of the performance of the squadron
of four dreadnoughts of the -Queen
Elizabeth type he says: I
They appear to have found a fleet that
greatly outnumbered them. They unques
tionably came in for a tremendous amount
of hammering. Every vessel waa struck
many times. The Waraptte and the Marl
boroush both suffered many serious hits.
Th Marlborough was torpedoed. Yet neither
of these chips sank; both found their way
back to port.
Of the Warsplte in particular, which
he compares with our Texas and New
York, he says:
Sh plunged Into the midst of the enemy
fleet. She drew the concentrated fire of
six enemy battleships at one time. She
ran amuck and sought to do all the execu
tion possible. Her every gun worked to
the maximum.
Yet she stood her punishment and came
through. She served the purpose for which
a big ship is created. Fhe proved the fitness
of herself ..and her class to perform the
purpose for which dreadnoughts are built.
Admiral Dewey by no means under
rates the value of destroyers in tor
pedo attack on battleships. He says
that their "usefulness in a great strug
gle is regarded as having been dem
onstrated," but he comments thus on
the fact that the Marlborough sur
vived being torpedoed:
The impression that a torpedo is sure to
prove the undoing of the dreadnoughts has
not yet been demonstrated, and the survival
of the Marlborough tends to prove it.
The lessons of the Jutland battle
are taken by Admiral Dewey as the
text for a warning against "a constant
' tendency on the part of the public to
; go off at a tangent in its enthusiasm
for the class of ship that at a given
time is attracting wide attention."
Congress is very prone to yield to this
tendency. When the submarine came
into the limelight. Representatives
made speeches in favor of building
submarines by the score but no battle
ships. When the battle cruiser dis
tinguished itself in the battles of Falk
land Islands and th North Sea, there
was a rush to the battle cruiser. The
conclusion to be drawn from all these
battles is that the decision as to the
types of ships to be built and as to
the proportions between the different
AOQCTRFN'G A PIRATES' I. A lit.
Unless the Danish Senate blocks th
plan at the last moment, the United
States is about to acquire, along with
a naval base and coaling station in the
West Indies, one of the most romantic
pirate strongholds in all history. This
is at St. Thomas, where many bucca
neers held forth In the early years of
the eighteenth century, but especially
where the most famous cutthroat of
them all, Edward Teach, made his
headquarters for many years. He was
the famous Blackbeard of those days,
and It is said of him that he attained
the highest distinction in his profes
sion. Although a pirate, he believed
in being a good one while he was
about it. Historians write him down
as the world's greatest in his chosen
line.
It was about Teach that' the lines
were written, "The mildest-mannered
man that ever scuttled a ship or cut
a throat." His stronghold is described
as one of the show places of Char
lotte Amalie. It is not asserted that
Teach built the fort-like stone house
on the top of a high hill which tradi
tion connects with his name, for he
was as much averse to work as any
other terror of the Spanish Main. It
Is supposed that he appropriated the
house some man of peace had built.
But there it stands, as it has stood for
200 years. Those who disbelieve the
tales that are told of Edward Teach
have only to look at the house.
The suppression of piracy in Amer
ican waters was due chiefly to the
efforts of Great Britain, which sent
some of its best men to Caribbean wa
ters, charged with the task. Britain
in those days, as now, was Jealous
of her mastery of the sea; and devoted
tiie naval resources of the country
wnoienearteaiy to me xasK or ciear
ing the way for her own trade. Her
possession of Jamaica was a factor in
her success, for that island was
highly important naval base, from
which for years there - sailed expe
ditions charged with running down
and punishing the lawless rovers of
the southern seas.
It is curiously interesting, also, that
a good many or tnese same pirates
were Englishmen, men of real talent
and high ability as fighting men, who
would have shone as particular stars
in lawful pursuits. But the way of
the transgressor was hard, then as
always, and with few exceptions they
were overtaken by the majesty of or
ganized society and died tragic or
shameful deaths. Teach, whose strong
hold now is in the way of being ac
quired by the United States, was killed
in a fight on the deck of his own ship,
and his head was cut off and carried
as a trophy to the American coast by
the English naval officer who slew
him.
In Other Days.
MARXIAJf THEORT IS SOT SOUND
Mr. Fraeer Asserts That Sapplr ul
Desuiad, Xat Laber, Centre! Value.
TORTLA.VD. Aur. 7- (To the Edi
tor. Since he calls for them, a few
simple fact may suffice. I hope, to
show Moses Bar! tx that Marx's theory
of value la false. I am (lad to supply
the proof for my statement that "aclen-
New York. Aug. . The cholera ha I title socialism Is -pure notion. It ex-
not seemingly abated. For the I hours lsts only as a fixed idea In the brain
of propagandists and tn the history
From The Orsgonlaa of August s. 186a
Several ex-Confederate officers have
arrived in Galveston from Mexico. They
report the country to be too dangerous
to live In, robberies and murders being
ally occurrences. m
to 7 o clock last evening, z official
cases and nine deaths were reported.
New York, Aug. 6. Austria has ac
cepted the preliminaries for peace as
ubmltted by Prussia. Plenipotentiaries
ave assembled at the Prussian head- I soclally-neceaaary labor power put In
quaratrs to negotiate an armistice. I to commodities determines the rate at
which they exchange In the open mar
We are pleased to meet again Dr. Ikt. Aa Vail nuts it in his "PrlnciDles
H"t' bo has peurned from Montana. of ecenUfj0 Socialism." page : "This
. , v,. w.hi... th. .. brings ns to one of the fundamental
moat generally true in all cuts. Cer- postulates of socialism that labor Is
talnly there is no better country than tn source of all al"- This sweep.
Adaptation by the granges of Hood
River County of the Chautauqua Idea
to their Summer meetings this year
shows appreciation of one of the fun
damental ideas of the Chautauqua
movement, which is the creation of
an atmosphere especially suited for
the mutual purposes of those who at
tend. The grangers will camp in a
pleasant grove, where the beauties of
nature will add to their enjoyment.
and they will be far enough away
from the distracting influences of
those who are not in full accord with
the serious educational purpose of the
gathering. Perusal of the programme
shows a nice balance between outdoor
sports and study of topics of Interest
to farmers and fruit growers, and
there is a measure of other entertain-
ment But as was to have been ex
pected and Is proper, consideration of
the graver problems of everyday life
will consume most of the time.
Oregon.
A half-mile track Is to be constructed
near the White House for trotting pur
poses. J. H. Perry Is preparing to do
the work, which is sufficient guarantee
that it will be a first-class track.
In addition to the regular treasure
Japan has profited by the munition
trade In only less degree than the
United States. Since the war began
It has sold to Russia about $200,000,-
000 worth and has Increased Its gold
holdings to 1270,000,000. A consider
able part of Russia's payment for mu
nitions has been paid Into Japan's ac
count In London and another part by
the sale of $25,000,000 of Russian
bonds In Japan. A further loan in
Japan may be made to settle the bal
ance. Japan aa a lending nation la
a decided reversal in form, for we
had come to regard it as so poor and
burdened with debt that it could bare
ly pay Interest and must borrow
abroad for new enterprises.
How would you llk to live in Sioux
City, where a high wind at nights does
damage amounting to $100,0007 When
you heard the chimney bricks roll
down the roof and the sidewalks slap
against the house, you would wish to
give that place the absent treatment
by moving to Oregon.
The Trafalgar Square demonstrators
would do well to bear in mind the
old adage and to catch the Kaiser be
fore talking of hanging him. Such
talk only exposes the talker to ridicule
when there are several million fight
ing men between It and its object. .
That is a good idea in Sunday ob
servance advanced by the Christian
Church of Dallas In holding a com
munity picnic After Sunday school
was over mors than 1000 jpeogia as..
WORK FOR WAR CREPFLES.
There necessarily will be a marked
readjustment of industrial affairs aft-
er peace is declared in Europe, and it
is safe to predict that for a good many
years a controlling motive in assign
ing men and women to the tasks o
the world will be to reserve for th
cripples of the armies work which
they can do. It will be well for the
younger generation, in planning its fu
ture, to avoid those pursuits in which
the competition of the maimed is like
ly to be encountered. Society will be
compelled to care for its cripples.
Rather than maintain them In Idleness
in "institutions" at public expense, it
is certain to fall into the way of giv
ing preference to such In the kinds of
work they are not disqualified from
performing.
Thus, for some years it seems prob
able that a great proportion of simpl
clerical work, accounting, and the like,
in Europe, will be done by men who
have lost an arm. In England and
France schools are already in opera
tion to teach one-legged men to be
chauffeurs. There is no reason why
they should not be efficient, especially
those who have been good soldiers,
and training under fire will have de
veloped presence of mind to a high
degree. Many sedentary pursuits will
be reserved, more or less as a matter
of course, for men who have lost two
feet or have been otherwise crippled
so that they move from place to place
with difficulty.
Typewriting, machine work at the
bench, selling tickets in places of
amusement and at railway stations
and a host of other occupations are
fitted for men in various stages of
mutilation, and it is natural to sup
pose that national tenderness toward
men who have made the sacrifice, as
well, as appreciation of the economic
necessities of the situation, will oper
ate naturally to produce a process of
matching men and Jobs. This will
mean readjustment of the work of the
physically sound, and on a large scale,
for the number of cripples is exceed
ingly great. It will be held that the
man in possession of all his limbs, as
well as with his faculties unimpaired,
is sufficiently blessed in being able
to "look out for himself," which he
may be. though not always. Adapta
bility is not the gift of everyone, and
some of those who find themselves out
of work to make room for crippled
soldiers will have hard going for a
while.
It seems as if a new element were
about to be Introduced into the prob
lem of vocational education In the fu
ture. A young man choosing an oc
cupation will nave two things to con
sider his own probable fitness and
the question whether the work could
not equally well be performed by a
man maimed in some way. This will
be full of perplexities, but, like most
situations that are taken in time.
doubtless it will be met.
So far as the professions are con
cerned, they will not be so much af
fected. It will be more or less true
that professional men will continue to
compete on their merits in the ab
stract. Doctors and lawyers will not
be made by the crippling of carpenters
and' machinists, and persons employ
in? professional men will be moved
rather by the desire to be cured by
the physician or kept out of trouble
by the lawyer than by patriotic will
ingness to suffer for the sake of help
ing the unfortunate. Possibly this fact
will cause another rush to the already
If he survives, the man who had hi
legs blown off and eyes put out while
experimenting with a time bomb in a
suitcase at Colorado Springs should
be asked the reason for the expert
ments. Time bombs are not an every
day necessity.
Anything is good enough for an ex
cuse to keep children at work in the
industries of the South. Senator Over
man, of North Carolina, declares the
proposition Is an infringement upon
state's rights the old argument in
new setting.
books that record dead and disproved
theories.
Briefly, the Marxian theory of value
asserts that the average amount of
ing statement is evidently untrue, for
demand (with its correlative supply)
is the cause of value.
Are apples valuable because men
raise them? Is it not rather because
there la a demand for them? Diamonds
and pearls have a value out of all pro
portion to the labor expended in get
ting them. Do they possess their value
shlpmentsNlast evening, we have added I becauae men dig- and dive for them?
$36,000 taken by two gentlemen, in coin.
from sales of Montana dust.
From The Oregonlan of August S. 1891.
Complaint Is made of the lack of a
sidewalk on Third street In front of
the Chamber of Commerce property. It
claimed that the man who was al
lowed to put up the fence promised to
lay a walk, but has failed to do so.
Astoria, Aug. 7. Diligent search Is
being made at Long Beach for the
bodies of Nellie Boise and Willie Steel.
but hope of recovering them at present I pended on the different classes of ap-
Manifestly not. but becauae there exists
an extraordinary demand for these
things out of proportion to the sup
ple. If diamonds and pearls could be
made synthetically by a machine' pro
cess In large quantities that price would
immediately sink because of the In
creased supply.
Take the case of apples again. If
labor and not demand in relation to
supply is the cauae of exchange value,
how cornea it that fruit raised on the
same tree is not all of the same value?
Tet the same amount of labor 1;
Regulations may bar the white
troops at - the border from eating
watermelon, but nobody will dare Btop
the colored regiments. Taking the
heart out of a melon is a ritualistic
proceeding with the soldier of color.
The Mew York Guardsmen must be
dainty fellows, to need protection of
bags to keep off fleas. However, the
insect is not particular andvwill find
something Just as good and perhaps
better.
Have the submarine flotillas of all
the belligerents come over to the
American coast to fight it out or have
the lookouts on the Maine coast been
dallying with a Jug of bootleg whisky?
has been about abandoned.
A large dock is bains- erected at the
North Pacific Lumber Company's mills
on which the company will erect a large
dry house for drying lumber for ship
Washington, Aug. T. It was stated
at the Navy Department today that the
Charleston, which arrived at San Fran
cisco yesterday, would be sent without
delay to San Francisco. There is at
present no American war vessel at that
point.
Paris. Aug. 7. A telegram received
here today from Buenos Ayres states
that Chile will declare war against Bo
livia because the government of the lat
ter country has recognized the govern
ment party of Chile as belligerents.
STATE'S BEST BLOOD IX GUARD
Form err Alabama Officer Tells of .nick
Mobilisation In Ilia State.
PORTLAND. Aug. 7. (To the Edi
tor.) In The Oregonlan Saturday you
referred to the National Guard of sev
eral states, among them Alabama, as
being purely "on paper."
Within an hour after the call of
the President Alabama began the
mobilization of her National Guard. The
call was issued on Sunday night. On
Monday morning S100 members of the
National Guard of Alabama responded
and within a few hours were en
camped at Vandlver Park, Montgom
ery, the state capital.
They are there now and have all
been mustered into the Federay Army.
They embrace the best blood of "our
state. In Battery C, from Birmingham,
there are 21 practicing lawyers, and
in another company of 76 there are
only three men who are not graduates
of a university.
On the morning after the President's
call the Southern Express Company,
of Montgomery, Ala., could not open
Its place of business becauae all of
Its force had responded to the call and
were members of the National Guard.
There were five out of six book
keepers of the First National Bank of
Montgomery who did not snow up at
the bank on Monday after the call
on Sunday night. Most all of the em
ployers of the 'members of the Na
tional Guard who worked for salaries
announced that the salaries of their
employes who had gone to the colors
would be continued so long as they
remained in the service.
The reason I happen to know these
things is because I live within ten
miles of the camp of the A N. G. and
because I held a commission In the
National Guard myself for seven years.
I am personally acquainted with
large number of the enlisted men and
nearly all the officers. I visit the
camp often and pass by it every few
days.
How many men did Oregon furnish
for the war in Mexico? Did you fur
nish 8100? How many employers of
members of the National Guard of Ore
gon are paying the enlisted men their
salaries yet?
I ask these questions, not In a spirit
of criticism, but in self-defense of my
native state. Alabama.
I am here as a visitor attending
the supreme lodge. Knights of Pythias.
' . FRANK W. LULL
Wetumpke, Ala
Gleams Through the Mist
By Dms Collin.
plea Or bow la It with a last year a
bonnet? It may have required a good
deal of skill and labor In designing
and trimming, but it Is worth very
little as a finished , product after the
lapse of 11 months, because the dear
ladles will not wear old-fashioned bon
nets. Obviously, demand and supply
determine value and not labor.
What Is the result of this funda
mental misconception? Simply th'.s: If
the Socialists had their way and could
apply their theories for a short time
we should all be living under a sys
tem of regimentation or slavery. They
would undertake to establish value in
economlo goods by using a false stand
ard (labor), while ignoring the baslo
fact that human wants primarily regu
late the kind of labor that Is to be
expended on raw material. Only mil
itary despotism could maintain the
false standard. Their system would
inevitably collapse, with much attend
ant confusion and misery for society,
for It is as contrary to natural law
as a bridge built without taking Into
account the force of gravitation.
Incidentally I cannot refrain from
saying bow astonished I am to see a
Marxian Socialist like Mr. Barltz giv
ing such strong evidence of mental
confusion as to say that "to disprove
the theory of value, one must be able
to show the absurdity of the material
ist conception of history." Has ' not
Mr. Baritz yet learned. In the course
of his study of Marxlai "classics,
that t.iere la no necessary connection
whatever between the Marxian theory
of value and the economlo (or ma
terlallst) interpretation of history? I
have read all the Socialist writers of
authority and find nowhere that the
theory of value is an integral part of
the materialist conception of history
This latter theory Is as completely ex.
pressed in the Communist Manifesto as
anywhere else, and nothing Is said
there about any labor theory of value.
A man may accept the economic Inter
pretatlon of history In its true, non
Marxian sense while rejecting both
Socialism and the labor theory of
value. Socialists too often claim that
Marxian Socialism Is a necessary eorol
lary of the economlo Interpretation of
history. In fact, there Is no connection
between the two at all
It Is surprising that Mr. Barltx has
not yet discovered this Important fact
No doubt he has been busy denouncing
his "comrades" of the Socialist party
and has not had the time. An after
noon's careful reading of his much
vaunted socialist "authorities" in a se
eluded spot In the City Park, away
from the noise of factious strife, ought
to bring him much light.
T. W. FRASER.
BALLAD OF THE BABY BANDITS,
heard the yells of the bandit band
And clattering hoofs rang down the
street.
Arm Villa galloped with gun in hand.
Straight through the city is his
retreat.
There was a laugh on his round, red face
And he grinned at me as he speed
ed by.
And shook his sword, aa he turned In
the race.
At the following troop with Its hue
and cry.
Hoi and ho! for the cavalry troop!
They follow the trail with a yell and
. whoopl
Their sabres flash
And their weapona clash
And their swift hoofs drum as they
onward dash;
And Villa rides, on the wings of flight
Straight through Portland in broad
daylight.
I heard the bang of the troopers' guns.
Ringing loud on the morning air;
But Villa ran as a wild deer runs.
He doubled back like a hunted hare;
He galloped back round another block.
And I saw him grin from the alley
clear.
As ha peeked round the eorner and
shied a rock
And caught the cavalry In the rear.
Ho! and ho! for the cavalry troop!
They turn their steeds with a yell and
whoopl
And quick they rally
And back they aally
And charge Intrepidly Into the alley;
While Villa gallops with aabre drawn
Through the geraniums on my lawn.
And round and round with a shout and
yell
The troopers harried the bandit bold;
And many a gallant soldier fell
But jumped right up ere his corpse
was cold.
But the Iceman paased. they ceaae to
shoot.
And check the bandit who swiftly
flies.
As they cry to the object of their
pursuit:
'Ta-hoo, Villa! Ya-ho-o-o-o! Ice! ! !
Ho! and ho! for the cavalry troopt
The Iceman talks by the kitchen stoop!
With pattering feet
t-'p the paved street
Villa retraces his swift retreat.
And trooper and bandit with happy
heart
Join in a raid on the Iceman's cart.
There Is nothing out of the way
when a woman supposed alone In the
house screams at sight of a burglar.
Many a man would duck under. the
blankets, too nerveless to squeak.
By beginning with a course in pro
fanity in Esperanto, the rest will come
easily. This Is based onthe fact that
the untutored foreigner or aboriginal
learns' first to swear in English.
The Turks made far more rapid
progress than the Israelites made
through the desert. The difference
was about that between forty minutes
and forty years.
Yes, that shower was rather unsea
sonable, but how glad Chicago would
have been to have it with the accom
panying temperature!
camps, wnony mciaeniauy ana witn-
out invidious comment reference was
made to the apparent disclosure by the
table that some states had no National
Guard. The correspondent refers, how
ever, to an anawer to an inquiry which
resulted from the article mentioned.
Inasmuch as the assumption that
some of the states have no National
Guard is incorrect. The Oregonlan
takes pleasure In setting out the facta
The Turks who were going to cap
ture the Suez Canal are hotfooting it
back to Islam and the protection of
Allah.
About the only thing In Europe that
is free is air. and that is liable to be
mixed with poisonous gas or powder
smoke.
You can distinguish the man under
the ninth spell of Venus by the re
trospective smile in his eyes.
The Mazamas will soon leave noth
ing to discover and no more mountains
to climb in the Cascades.
American railroad cars spread the
"Made In America" sign clear across
Siberia and Russia.
. The purpose of a shower in August
is to distress the wearer of fine mil
linery.
When aviation is easy and common
a railroad strike will have few terrors.
That may be the Bremen off the
Maine coast, with a whale for a chaser.
If going somewhere, be sure of
good way to return by water.
It la a vote to strike by a large ma
Jority . . . ,
a SACRILEGE OF nOSEERS' GRAVES
Bones TTnearthed by Road Builders and
Left Exposed to Wind and Rain.
STEVENSON, Wash, Aug. 6. (To
the Editor.) In the year of 1915 the
state of Washington was having labor
done on the Pacific Highway, near
Rands. While at work the men era
ployed unearthed the bones of Mrs, A
E. Bell, wife of Dr. Bell, and one
Palmer, who was her brother. Today
those bones are lying to bleach in the
weather.
At that time I read a small artlcl
In the Skamania County -Pioneer about
the bones being plowed out and wen
at once to where the gravestone had
once stood, but all that could be seen
was some pickets of the fence scattered
here and there. The gravestone that
had stood for so many long years and
on which I had read the Inscription so
many times lay scattered In fragments
over the ground.
Those people were ptoneers and were
old acquaintances and friends of my
father, who was also one of the early
'Sir," said the Courteous Office Boy.
brushing aside a tear as he stole into
my sanctum.
"Tea. my son," I said expectantly.
"T'jls Is Buyers" week Is It not?" said
the C O. B., and I could see that a
merry Jec was forming Itself In the
back' of his head.
"Yes." I eald shortly. "Proceed with
your burst of humor."
"I only wanted to say that when the
Buyers were here last year there were
more cellars." said the C. O. B. shutting
himself up In a non-reflllable bottle
before I could reach blm with the
paperweight.
It seems .necessary to state that The
Oregonlan on August 1 published a
table taken from the Chicago Tribune
purporting to show the number of Na
tional Guardsmen at the front and In
home camps by states. The table waa
published aolely for the purpose of in
quiring why the National Guard in -o
many Southern states waa kept In home I ploneera and fought In the Indian war
The C. O. B.. by the way, submitted
the following pome sometime ago, after
having extracted my promise to publish
it when space offered:
WHAZ1AT, POPE?
Whatever la. is right!" sang Pope 1
Which may have been the truthful dope.
But If It is. how must we take(
The present price of T-bone steak?
"I gotta "nother," cried the C. O. B.,
popping out of his bottle Just as I fin
ished transcribing the above, and be
fore I could Interrupt, he chanted It,
thus:
"Whatever Is Is right!" sang Pope,
A guy plumb full of faith and hope
Did Pope ere ask the Ed. about
A baseball pass and hear: "They're out!
"Whatever is. Is right!" sang Pope.
But still In clouds of doubt I grope
"Don't answer!" 6o the Central said
When she'd Just cut me off instead.
"Whatever is, la right r sang Pope:
Let's give the poet lots of rope
But did he ere observe a gink
Who left quids In the Benson drink?
t
"Whatever is, is right!" sang Pope.
Greasing life's path with nice soft soap.
But did it ever, may I say.
Rain when it was his sprinkling day?
And the C. O. B. disappeared into the
bottle again with a loud pop, as I was
turning in the riot calL
of '56. It was he who built the second
steamer that piled between the Upper
Cascades and The Dalles for Bradford
& Company, it being known as the
steamer Wasco, built by the late Felix
G. Inman. who is my father.
Now, It may be right for the state to
put roads through our house or his
mill, or dig his grave out. but It Is cer
tainly wrong for the state to allow those
bones to be scattered about In the wind,
rain and sun for the swine to root
about. If they chooae to. aa they now
are.
Tr wn claimed . that th rmilni
WHY SOT AUTOMOBILE FACTORY! were put in a box at that time and laid
newly made grade, but with all
Writer Proswies Subsidy to Be Raised
by Popular Subscription.
PORTLAND. Aug. 7. (To the Ed
itor.) I have seen It stated that 2.-
000,000 has gone out of our state for
automobiles. These are unproductive
and consuming. We go in debt to
build roads for them which are also
non-productive.
Since people must have automobiles.
why not manufacture them here and
keep the money at home? I should like
to know what people think of con
tributing a small sum toward Inducing
There was a tag pasted on my last
electric light" bill which said in large
letters, "Keep cool!"
But It did not Indicate whether the
advice was to be taken before or after
I looked at the total of the bill.
P. S. I have ascertained later that It
was talking about electrlo fans all the
time.
my search of the ground over which I
had played In boyish days, I failed
to find one spot that looked like a
grave. I doubt very much if they ever
were put in the new grave, aa I was
told only a day or two ago that the
skulls of one of those pioneers was
stoned at as a'mark by a young couple
and some of the teeth broken out.
GEORGE W. INMAN.
Facta ne to Brldsre.
DALLAS. Or.. Aug. . (To the Ed
itor.) (1 Please print the length of
some enterprising Oregonlan to start a I the Interstate bridge across the Colum
mammoth plant on the Peninsula, not) bla River. (2) the length of the longest
second to another. A portion of $24.-1 bridge on the Columbia River Highway,
.000.000 would do this. I (1 and where la the longest bridge In
We Dlan street extensions wnlch I the world, ana wnat la us name ?
produce nothing. If each lot owner MRS. CLEM CLEA V ELAND,
contributed voluntarily a small sum
toward a factory where something
would actually be made he would re
ceive direct benefit. The plants which
start are too mall. Too much of our
business Is a branch of somewhere
else. Our people easily take up large
collections to be sent away without
knowing much of its worthiness. We
are like spoiled children. We look to
pleasure and leave someone in Seattle
or San Francisco to do the worrying.
If 20,000 people gave each one dollar
or more this sum would surely inter
est some real business men. I asked a
Yankee laborer, who la not a tax payer,
if he would give a dollar for such an
enterprise. He said: "Yes. If it looked
like business." But this sweet work is
soon finished by forelgnera.
What do others think of this plant
SUBSCRIBER.
The Interstate bridge, proper, over
the Columbia River has 12 truss and
one girder spans, and Is 3521.5 feet
long. With filled approaches and In
TOCRJSTS PROXOrSOSG CAIETEER
I've often seen some bold buck win a
Big stake in poker at Yaqulna.
Another local verlant on the pro
nunciation might be rendered:
I saw a small black plckannlny
Play In the sands about Yaqulna.
Or still another Is submitted which
runs aa follows:
The hunters oft with their pack win a
Big bag of game about Yaqulna.
THAT'S WHY!
I cannot alng the old songs
I sang long years ago.
For "Lum-tl-iddle. le-de-lum
Are all the words I know.
Which rrmtndi'me of the following
Tired Buslnese Man's Version of a pa
triotic song, which I heard at a meet
ing last week:
Oh. Columbia tha Oem of th Ocean!
Th hom of th bravefand th fre-t
Th shrln of aeh patriot' dovotlon,
Th world offers rum-dum-dlS.
Lah-d-dh. lump-tl oodle I never could
. sine anyhow
Da-de-dah. dumptl. doodl 6ay, Gorg.
whaddya know about th
Soand-o Company going busted
eluding th 11-span bridge over the.Beea on my vacation and didn't bear about
Oregon Slough and four-span structure
over the Columbia Slough, the work In
connection with this bridge Is 17.258.1
feet long, and extends from the city
limits of Portland to the city limits of
Vancouver. Wash. (2) The longest
bridge on. the Columbia River Highway
Is the McCord Creek bridge at Warren
dale, which Is 260 feet long. (3) Bo
far as Is known locally, the 14-span
structure over the Columbia River is
the longest large spaa bridge In the
world.
it till th other day
Course It won't hurt anything; very body's
been expecting it for a long tlm
Always knw h couldn't get by with those
method
Tumpy-too-oo-doodl doo-ooh, her brav
crew
-Where yah goin' tt dlnnr tonight.
John? Better drlv out to tth Chaa
tlcler with m. what?
Dumpy-dum They oughta b mora patriot
ism displayed with thla Mexican stuff
on Ilk It Is nowadays
THREE-EE CHEERS FOR TH1 RID.
WHITS A.NO BLOO-OO-0el