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13 TIIE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAN. . THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 101G. ill fl..t PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland Oregon) Postofflco as iecondclaas mail matter. Eubscription rates Invariably In advance. (By Mail.) Xily, Sunday Included, one year. . . ... ,$S.00 Xaily, Sunday included, six months..... Xaily, Sunday included, three montba.. 2.25 Dully, Sunday included, one montli .73 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, six months t -S J)aily, without Sunday, three months.... 1.78 X)ally. without Sunday, one month .60 Weekly, one year...................... l.-" Sunday, one year. ...................... 2.50 bunday and Weekly 3.30 (By Carrier.) Dally. Bunday Included, one year 9.00 Paily. Sunday included, one month..... .73 How to Ketnit Send postoffice money crder, expresa order or personal check on our local bank. Stamps, coin or currency ar at sender's risk. Oive postoffice address In full, including county and state. Postage Rates 12 to 18 pages, 1 cent: IS to 83 pages, 1 cents; 34 to 48 pages. 3 cents; ISO to CO paxes, 4 cents; 02 to 76 pages, 6 cents; 7-S to 82 pages, 0 cents, Foreign postage, double ratea. Eastern Business office Verres & Conlt lin, Brunswick building. New York; Verree A Conklin, &teger building, Chicago, San Francisco representative, R. J. Bidwell. 742 Murket street. ' PORTLAND, THURSDAY, AUG. 17. 1918. facturer and municipal colitician of I place in appreciable degree in Austria, Chicago, a large source of our yearly normal The Minister to Ecuador was Mont- immigration will be closed. Italy, even gromery J. Schuyler, Jr., a graduate of now, is making; large concessions in Columbia and a scholar in Oriental the way of freedom from taxation and languages, who had been secretary of other special privileges to induce her legation at Petrograd, secretary of le- leaders to build up manufactures to pation and consul-general at Bangkok, employ people at home. Slam, and in Roumania and Serbia in American consuls report that Ire- turn, secretary of embassy at Petro- land last year enjoyed a period of un grad, Tokio and Mexico City succes- precedented prosperity, marred only sively. He was crowded out by Charles by shortage of ships, which will be S. Hartman. who with a oublic school remedied later. While it is not wise education practiced law and served as Probate Judge at Bozeman, Mont., then rode into Congress on the free silver wave in 1893 for two terms. The chief embassies in Europe have been filled by the President with dis tinguished men, according to prece- to venture a prediction as to what Ireland will do politically at any future time, there are many who believe that its industrial and commercial awaken ing will contribute largely toward eventual contentment with home con ditions, and that the movement away DDPXOMATIC POSTS AS SPOILS. At no point has the application of the spoils system to appointments by President Wilson been more apparent than in the diplomatic service. To the ability of our diplomats, ripened by knowledge and experience which can be gained only in actual service, we must trust for the safety of our inter ests abroad and of our good relations with other nations. As our intercourse with the world becomes more intimate with improvement of communication, with expansion ot commerce and with the possession of island territory, pos sibilities of friction leading to war be come more nunferous and more se rious. The President has made closer and more friendly relations with Latin American nations one of the chief aims of his Administration. That has been the motive for the Colombian treaty and one of the motives for his various Mexican policies. A trained, experi enced, able, diplomatic service at the South American capitals would be of the highest value in attaining that end. But at the beginning he turned over that part of the diplomatic serv ice to Mr. Bryan, who proceeded on the theory that civil service principles do not extend to diplomats, that the system of a nonpartisan diplomatio corps is not adapted to American party government and that none except men who take active interest in party af fairs should receive such appoint ments. This theory should be judged by its fruits. Having permitted the selections to be made by his Secretary of State, the President cannot escape responsibility. As one of his staunch est supporters, the Springfield Repub lican said: "No Cabinet officer can be thrust forward to play the part of a scapegoat." From Colombia Mr. Bryan recalled James T. Dubois, a law graduate of Cornell and Columbia, who had been continuously in the consular and diplo matic service since 1877, and sent T. T. Austin, a Texas rancher, with no particular educational equipment. He sent Dr. B. L. Jefferson, a legis lator and state officer, to Nicaragua to replace George T. Weitzel, a Har vard graduate who" had practiced law for twenty years, served in the Span ish War, entered the diplomatic serv ice by examination in 1907, was secre- ' tary of legation in Nicaragua and Pan ama and finally Minister to the former country. W. E. Gonzales, a newspaper editor end Spanish War veteran without diplomatic training, was sent to Cuba In place of A. M. Beaupre, who after examination began his career in 1897 and served as secretary of legation in Guatemala and Colombia and as Min ister to Colombia, Argentina, Holland and Cuba. E. J. Hale, who was appointed to Costa Rica, is an editor and Confed erate veteran, served a short term as Consul to Manchester, England; has written and traveled much, but does not compare with Lewis Einstein, whom he supplanted. The latter, who is a historical writer, had served ten years as secretary of embassy at Paris, London, Constantinople and Pekin and as secretary of the American commis sion at the Moroccan conference. In place of H. G. Knowles, 'who had followed thirteen years' service as Con sul to Bordeaux with five years as Min ister to Roumania, Serbia and Bui paria, to Santo Domingo and then to Bolivia, Mr. Bryan sent J. D. O'Rear, a Missouri lawyer of no training or experience. After gaining experience since 1897 as Minister to Denmark, Switzerland and Norway successively, L. S. Swen son was recalled to make room for A. u. Schmedeman, a Wisconsin insur ance man and broker. The most disgraceful of the Latin American appointments in its conse quences was that of James Mark Sulli van, a lawyer, political spellbinder and close ally of certain exploiters, to Santo Domingo to replace W. W. Rus- sell. The latter had become familiar with Latin America as a civil engineer when he entered the diplomatic service in 1895 as secretary of legation at Caracas. He served as charge d'affaires at Panama and as Minister to Colom bia, Venezuela and Santo Domingo, The Haitian Ministry was held for eight years by H. W. Furniss, who had won the consulship at Bahia on the merit system. He was supplanted by Madison R. Smith, a teacher, lawyer, editor and one-term Representative. The important Ministry to Panama was held by H. P. Dodge, whose ex. perience began in 1899. He was sue cessively third, second and first sec retary at Berlin, secretary at Tokio, Minister to Honduras and Salvador, Morocco and Panama with an Interval as chief of the division of Latin-Amer ican republics in the State Depart ment. He was supplanted by W. J. Price, a Kentucky lawyer. C. I. White, a graduate of Prince ton, Berlin and Jena, had won the mission to Honduras after serving as secretary ot legation at Buenos Ayres, The Hague and Christiania. He was driven from his chosen career to make way for John Ewing, an Alabama law yer, bank teller, land agent and cus tom-bouse clerk. R, S. R. Hitt, who was removed as Minister to Guatemala, had graduated of Vala an tlia Warvowl Inn. --..!-. l and had held subordinate places in the embassies at Paris, Berlin and Rome before becoming Minister to Panama, Venezuela and Guatemala in turn. His successor is W. H. Leavell, a South Carolina preacher. The difficult position of Minister to Roumania, Serbia and Bulgaria was held by J. is. Jackson, after he had served thirteen years as. secretary of legation at Berlin and then as Min ister to the Balkan states, Persia and Cuba successively. He had returned in 1911 to the post in the Balkan states, where be was succeeded by Charles. L Vopicka, a. banker, tuauu- dent. but not until a storm had been from home, already diminishing in re raised over tho selection of the utterly cent years, will be altogether checked, unfit Pindell of Peoria for Ambassador t begins to look as if the people to Russia did the President withdraw now in America would do well to" pre the appointment. George Fred Will- Pare to do their own work in the years lams was sent to" Greece, where he I to come, gratuitously meddled in the Albanian imbroglio. Myron T. Herrick's splen did service at Paris during the first months of the war did not prevent his displacement by Mr. Sharp, an Ohio mannffltiirAr wVi Yio c c t- i-1 in (Con gress. There, as elsewhere, the public guard the Nation, against dangers from service was subordinated to partisan I abroad Is no new thing, ine men wno considerations. I foresaw and prepared for the Civil War were regarded as alarmists and hughes. I were the objects of sarcasm from, -tne The greatest service Mr. Hughes has shallow pates of their day, performed in his campaign tour is to An example has recently come to himself, for he has dissipated com- light through the publication by his niotoi,, o rv, wii 'hot , u daughters of a letter Irom James stiff, formal and distant. The mind's Prentiss Richardson, a Cambridge, Mass lowvoi wrhr, 1 n rl a frtmrnv of eye of the public pictured in Hughes a th0 piftn R'egiment to Baltimore. uage seaate. circumspect . ana cau- where it drew the first fire of the tious; but it has been learned that he I rebels on -Union troops. After the has a sparkling and attractive person- (election of 1860, when the Republican ality, a normal instinct for the society leaders said there would be no war, of his fellows, a gracious and simple Mr. Richa.rdson made a public speech manner and an entirely human out- saying he proposed to prepare for war look upon the pleasures and problems and was greeted with uproarious of life. Withal, he conveys the idea of laughter. His friends expostulated with earnestness and power. him for taking such an absurd posi- The Hughes audiences know speedily tion, but he advertised in January, that they are facing Hughes the man 1861, his Intention to organize a com and not Hughes the judge. He has pany and invited volunteers to call at abandoned wholly the atmosphere and his office. He hired a hall and de- even the traditions of the bench, which I voted his evenings to drilling three for six years surrounded and re-1 score recruits, enduring the .raillery strained him, and has plunged into the and sarcasm of nearly all who met him campaign, with his coat off and his on the street. But Governor John A. armortm. There is no condescension I Andrew believed with him in pre- about his acceptance of the nomina- I paredness, told him to keep right on. tion; he has said that he responded to promised to call upon him when the the imperative call of a great party time for action came and obtained to be its candidate; and there is not from the Legislature appropriations the slightest doubt that he speaks the for munitions, overcoats, shoes and precise truth. If he shall be defeated, blankets. there will be no reproaches; if he shall News of the firing. on Fort Sumter be elected, he will discharge his great came on April 16 and the members of trust as a patriot and a statesman and the company gathered at Richardson's not as a partisan nor a Little Ameri- I office at Cambridge full of excitement. can. I inquiring if orders to march had come. The deepest impression Mr. Hughes As hours passed with no orders, they leaves behind him is of his sincerity dropped off bitterly disappointed until and of his competency. He will do as I only half a dozen remained when the President, so far as he can, what as orders came about 10 o clock at night. candidate, he promises to do. There They assembled at daylight next morn. will be no violated pledges, no double- lng- and marched through streets twistings, no facing both ways, no eat- I crowded with the very people who had ing of words, no swallowing of prom- I Jeered at them, a flag waving from ises. Not at all. He i3 a doer, and I every window. no. mere talker. I The same story has been re-enacted in Britain. Roberts' advice fell On deaf ears, and the newspapers which erave heed to them were called scare- ine enterprising town oi Asniano, iu mone-ers. The foreseeing oatriot can- eoutnem Oregon, nas expenaea some- not attention when he erives warn thing like $200,000 in creating a park lng. ot danger: the counsels of the man a rendezvous for young and old, who oroDhesies smooth things and rich and poor, happy and unhappy, talks grandly of a million men rush- gay and sedate for all alike. It is a jng f0 arms are more agreeable. But beautiful site for a park, upon the when the storm breaks, the people in- banks of a sparkling stream, with stinctivelv turn from the man who has trees, vines, moss, grass, water, flow- fea them on soothing, flattering false- ers, rocks everything there to invite hood to him who has told them un- the artist and the utilitarian to join pleasant truths. nanas in the arrangement ana use or PREPAREDNESS 1ST 1861. The blind confidence of pacifists I that there is no need of preparedness and their ridicule of those who would this ought not to ,bo impossible, when we consider relativo difficulties to which reference has been made. It is shown that if Oregon's percentage of 4 covers all necessary absences, for sickness, for assisting in the support of the family and for other causes. other states ought to do at least as well. The farmers of other states are no more under the necessity of saving their crops than the farmers of Ore gon, and farm life ought to be about as healthful in the one place as the other. If Oregon can do it, is the word sent out to rural districts throughout the country, other states should reach the same standard. Ore gon enjoys no especial advantages, ex cept, seemingly, the determination of the pupils themselves. Figures as to the lack of opportunity of rural pupils in some other states do not tell the whole story when confined to averages. It appears that there are some districts in California with only fifty-day term, in Florida with only a thirty-day term,Jn Georgia with only a twenty-five-day term. The children in these districts have virtually no op portunity at all for education, since little can be accomplished in the time mentioned and it is next to impossible to obtain qualified instructors for' so short a period. It seems that "what Oregon can do the rest of the country ought to be able-to do" is to become an important educational slogan in the next few years. Yet it would not be fitting for Oregon to be too complacent about it; the average, however nearly it ap proaches to excellence, is still capable of improvement. There should be, and doubtless there will be, no cessation of endeavor to attain not only the high est standard Relatively, bilt the high est standard possible to attain. ATTRACTIVE TOWN LIKE. nature's offerings. They have done these things and more; for there are children's playgrounds, gymnastic de vices, comfort stations, band stands, swimming pool, dancing pavilions. camping grounds and many other con veniences and attractions for the resi- RURAL SCHOOL TERMS. It is flattering to Oregon's pride to note that this state is accepted by the United States Bureau of Education as a model in its discussion of the desir ability of obtaining a longer school dent and the wayfarer. It has all been lernl Ior tne average rural pupu oi most exrellentlv TilannM and most the United States. Oregon leads in Kkilfiillv P-rennted. Ashland is rrourl percentage of rural attendance, which of its park, and it should be. 13 ""D tIle nearest to it m umi What Ashland has done others may vuuueuuuut, wmi oo.- Ve An in tho Havolnnmont tholn niim aim waasacnuaeiuj, Willi SD. J. lie ir.iH.ini 1 mni.ir.!.i Bnomoa fni-1 mere figures, however, do not do Ore parks or public utilities. Jt is not long f on cniiaren run justice, oecause tney since the idea ot pleasure grounds , , for the neonle was a noveltv in Oretron. ditions under which the country youth T?nt tliprA heen a crfint iviin tut) MUics meuuuucu aiwuu bcuuui n town ltf In thn nast twnt.v veara. of o me remuve cost oi maintaining auiiuuia, xju Lil iuuutjuut'Ul, auu Jiabau chusetts, by comparison with Oregon, have almost urban conditions. Roads are better established; trolley lines cover the land like cobwebs; distances are short. The facts are brought out in the course of a series of short talks on rural education by J. L. McBrien, school extension agent of the bureau. i Now there are public libraries, paved streets, social centers, community ac tivities of all sorts. Some towns are more energetic than others in promot lng enterprises for the common wel fare; but all are doing something. The example of Ashland may well be cited To be sure, there are not available for every community the famous Ash land lithia springs nor the lovely Ash lnH Ktronm- but M.nh has som ro. the purpose of which is to call atten source of its own and it should be de- tion to the brevity of the rural school veloped. term in the United States, as compared Montana Mutterings Br Leone) Cass Baer. ON OREGOX'S BEE POPIXATION. SEE' where an actress has created a sensation at one of the Eastern beaches by wearing a batMng costume mad of gram. Appropriately, she Is a divorcee. Actress saved from drowning at a beach resort is now advertising for the hero wno rusned. In t and saved her. Probably wants to propose marriage to him. Ann Haddon Murdock in book, "Sane Mating," splash "Never encourage a young man who fails to look you in the eye when he Is talking to you and never marry a man who is not a good listener." In short, girls, be sure to make sure of the last word. All reports to the contrary notwlth Gtanding, Florenz Ziegfeld. Jr.. does not approve of the ' cigaretting. cock tailing chorus maid. In proof of it this well-known connoisseur in girls of tho Apiarist Says Number Is Kr Greater Than Has Been Stated. CORVALLIS, Or., Aug. 15. (To the Editor.) Knowing that the Oregonlan wishes to be as nearly correct as pos sible on information printed in its columns, I wish to correct a statement or two made under a Salem date line, that a colony of bees (estimated) con tains 2000 bees, and that Oregon's bee population is about 120,000,000. Now, as a matter of fact, a prolific queen, will lay more than 2000 egrgs daily, and will continue to do so for several months, if weather conditions and nectar flow are favorable. It fol lows, therefore, that about 2000 bees her new I are hatching daily and as the natural thuslv: I lite of a bee during the active work ing season is aDout ou aays, a boou strong colony, presided over by a pro lific queen, must contain many, many more thousands of bees than stated in article referred to, A pound of bees contains about 5000, and it would indeed be a small colony that did not weigh three or four pounds. I have many colonies in the mountains on the Santiam that have 40,000 to 60,000 inmates and a few with more. Two thousand bees would not gather a pound of surplus during' an entire good season. It prob ably takes 10,000 bees (estimated) front row has come forward with "the properly to carry on the activities in- best chorus girl I have ever known." Blde tle hive, such as carrying water. Her name is HaselXewis. and she is in "U"n5 ,'e 'f-l-f fo . . . , . . ,fi, . ' I transferring pollen and honey, etc. w.B ialeiIl. eaition oi "ine monies." lf that was tn population of the Hazel has never tasted a cocktail, and hive, no surplus would accumulate. en nas never smoked a cigarette. I But it is the duty of the queen so either in public or private. 1 to populate the hive that there are "KYi la not in onx, I many tnousanas more man neaessary about town would call 'some chicken.' " h ,s. " - .h- SmZ w. " ami yet x pay ner i that gather the nectar. more than any other girl in my chorus I Fifteen pounds per colony may be an The cotton plant, which German chemists have newly announced is to be made the basis of paper manufac turing on a commercial scale, ' is said to have a tougher fiber as an external coating than any other bultivated plant except flax and hemp, but an impor tant factor, it Is said, in paper-making, if the process shall be proved finan cially successful, will be the undevel oped cotton bolls left after picking is completed. These run from 15 to 35 per cent of the entire crop, and though they have not reached the stage that would warrant picking them, they con tribute quite effectively to strengthen the paper made from the stalks. The same is true of the unpicked cotton, of which there is- a not inconsiderable proportion. The United States Gov ernment had been experimenting with cotton-stalk paper for some years be fore the announcement was made by the German chemists, and had built some costly machinery for the pur pose. It demonstrated fully the theo retical possibilities of the industry, but was discouraged from continuing the experiments by the cost of gathering and transporting the waste material, and other expensive considerations involved. Who knows how to milk a bean? The Chinese, under the pressure of economic necessity, are developing this new industry. Bean milk is made from a small yellow bean that grows prolifically in a wide area of the coun try. The fat content of the fluid prod uct is said to be 3.105, as compared with about 3.9 for good cow's milk in America. The specific gravity is near ly the same. It is not likely to be come popular in the United States un til the people have cultivated a liking for the taste and odor of raw beans, which is said to dominate the beverage, and until that improbable day arrives American dairymen will have nothing to fear from the competition of Chi nese bean growers. A member of the family of Li Hung Chang has Btarted a factory in ranee in wnicn uean milk is made as one of the by-products, and Is seeking to fill the demand caused by the war. Nothing as to the possibilities of bean butter has been developed. Twenty-five Tears Afro. From The Crcgonlan. August IS. 1891. Tacoma, Wash.. A use. 15. Profes sor John E. Parker, well known aero- aut, fell from a parachute at South Park today and broke both legs. The arachute careened when 100 feet from the ground. Since Seattle and Tacoma have been unable-to decide with harmony on the name for the mountain which looks so proudly down on both cities, the Spokane Spokesman-Review suggests it be called Mount Harrison, the name given by the early American immi grants to tho Northwest. As Wash ington came into the Union under President Harrison, what could be more appropriate, the Review asks. A. A. Cleveland. Grand Chancellor of the Oregon Commandery, Ivnights of Pythias, and State Fish Commissioner F. C. Reed, both of Astoria, are at the St. Charles. The youngest member of Congress next session will be Mr. Bailey of Texas, who is not yet 80. Herbert Johnson, son of J. W. John son, president of the University of Oregon, will occupy the pulpit of the First Baptist Church at Fourth and Alder Sunday. Miss Anna MacNeill and David G. Burness were married Tuesday even ing at the home of the bride s oarents. Mr. and Mrs. Flnlay MacNeill. London Rudyard Kiplins is not the literary lion here that he was last summer. His later, works seem to have shown a falling off in strength. average surplus, but if so there must bo hundreds of I had almost said beekeepers persons who keep bees that receive no surplus whatever. have colonies today that have four supers filled, and each super will yield 40 pounds of extracted honey. F. J. CAltTAN and the little pay envelope always goes weekly home to mother. "In the five years that Hazel Lewis has been a member of one of my choruses I have seen innumerable girls come to New Tork'aa fresh and sweet as the country air in which they were bred and I have thought often here is a find. for. strange as It may see. hope THOUGHTS IXSPIRED BY HIGHWAY springs eternal in even the producer's breast, but. alas! a Winter in Broad- v,"or imagines iimneu Lnaer speii way; cafes, cocktails, cigarettes, chap- I of Great Oratorio, pies and then these girls are gone as I PORTLAND, Aug. 15. (To the Edi far Into the past as the snows of yes- I tor.) We had the inexpressible pleas- teryear. I ure of going over the Columbia High "It is not necessary for a girl's face 1 way Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. A. H. to be seen frequently in the cafes and IMaegley in their seven-passenger car, cabarets to become a popular member I Coming down from our home on Coun of one of my companies. Indeed the I cu -rest. 1160 leet above the level ot e-lrl with h .n-vt.n j , ... I tho sea. going across tho Willamette -. - - - . bu..& a.. .11 &, GILO I . i , , , , . , , . , . v,avft t i, .. , , , , I i. i v tr, wnicn runs centrally tnruugu habit, I have found, lasts only about tnA moHt he,ltif, oitv i th world- two seasons." rt. pn.tl.n,l Ti-t air. z,iegieia says Hazel has a brain. Side viewpoint. Mount Tabor, then ove and uses it, good sense and applies It, I the Base Line to Sandy. There we and he wishes he could find a lot more I threw down our top ana swung ou like her. Which is all verv b-oo1 of lntt tne beatific grandeurs of the firs r.r.xrua K.,t t j , - , " ,.' lOlvision or the highway, taking in tn . ' . " " 8. naM1 scenery along tho Sandy to tho club .. jvu in mo ironc row or tne chorus house. We could feel the genuistio umjr uccauso sne nas a Dram ami good power of that masterful engineer. Mr. sense, i na- me doubts. 1 Lancaster, and the inspiration of honored citisens, Benson and Yeon Then on over the ascent from club house to tho open gateway which sepa rates Oregon from our sister state, Washington, the Indescribable Colum bla Gorge blown out so perfectly by the breath of God and baptized with th Among tho members of tho Wash- I laughing waters of the Columbia River, ins-rnn Rnimre pinv... . standing in ecstatic awe on trow ho Trixh',. t -,r I r-oint. loosing up tue river unu uun :r.,Z , r: r . . -'UU"B the rock-ribbed gorges, listening to th "e "as Deel amoiuous ror a theatrl- buzz of automobiles on the highway cai career ever since he was old enough and the wind throusrh the trees of th to appreciate the important poeltion I mountains commingled with the laugh his father held upon the stage. He is ing waters of tho river, wo imagined K Gail Kane, who has been playing In . . . tne movies, has been engaged to play leads next season with John Drew in his new play, "Fendennls." now 18 years old. When he decided upon his future he had his name changed from GIbbs Mansfield to Rich, ard Mansfield, Jr. Mansfield is at pres- ourselves under the spell of one of the oratorios. Then on through the winding an artistio curves under the eternal roc domes, with chiseled and picked touc ent a member of a military training I that makes one imagine himself stand camp at Fort Terry, near New London, Conn. Isadora Duncan, pioneer in the great sisterhood of undraped dancers, has wended her way to South America and Is giving a three weeks' series of ine- amid the amosphrre of a MIonae Angelo just finishing St. meter s, ine amid the rythm of dome, whistun wind, laughing waterfalls and basonl Columbia River, we stand reverential under the Indescribable panorama, liu one wonders when and where this wl Tho opinion Tnav v. v,ntnrpd that with the advantages enjoyed by city Ashland would not part with its park bla and jrla- The average length for ten times its cost. VL Lcrm 111 LuQ vny buuuuis ui uit? wiiuiu unitea states is is 4.4 aays, wniie tn average of all the rural schools is onlv CHECK OX IMMIGRATION. 187.7 days. Thus it appears that the Various signs point to a falling off country pupil labors under a serious in immigration to the United States in disadvantage from the very beginning years soon to come. Aside from the of his career, a disadvantage that ap obvious needs of the countries now at I pears more strongly in percentages war, whose people win find plenty to than it does in days. In. other words, do in the way or reconstruction, neu- the country youth has practically trals are beginning to find themselves, third less schooling than he would and stay-at-home propaganda is gam- have if he lived in town. This is ing ground nearly everywhere. This is serious situation, and all the more so particularly true or scanamavia. JSor- because it has no compensating in way has gone so far as to foster a fluences. Rather, it is the reverse, for movement, naving tor 11s purpose tne in the United States as a whole, return of its sons and daughters who the quality of instruction is lower in have gone abroad. This propaganda the rural schools, continuity of the is taken seriously; it is expected to term is often interrupted, technical have the effect at least of checking facilities are below standard and there the outward movement, it is said there are other points of inferiority. are 400,000 Norwegians in the United This seeming discrimination against States. the country pupil has not failed to ex- Industrial development is the cause cite comment and. as is customary, to of the new turn in affairs. Norwegian result in an investigation. It appears. emigration never was the result of from the latter, that the ques persecution. or in the main of dissatis- tion is not wholly one of lack of op faction with political conditions. The portunity; that is to say, such rural Scandinavian peoples have been of a schools as there are, with 6uch terms self-governing type, and though re- of instruction as they now provide, are taining the forms of monarchy,, they not appreciated at their value in a have enjoyed most or tne substantial good many parts of the country. The benefits of democracy. They left home average attendance, even under com- largely because of industrial condi- pulsory education laws, is lower, in the tions; because there were coming to country than in the city. In Maryland, be too many people for the soil to sup- which is at the bottom of the list, at- port. At the time when this emigra- I tendance on the country school is onlv tion was at its height, there was also 51 per cent, Delaware comes next, a rather extensive land boom in the with 51.4 per cent, Colorado is third United States. from the bottom, with 53.6 per cent. Possession of enormous quantities of Thus, it appears that Delaware is 39.6 water power, as yet hardly developed, per cent below Oregon in the average makes Norway a great potential factor of attendance country schools being in the manufacturing world, while referred to in each instance. The aver- European markets are so near at hand age attendance upon the rural schools than transportation will involve a of the entire country is only 67.6 per minimum cost. This is the real reason cent. Oregon has twenty-three more for the "home to Norway" movement, children in. each 100 attending classes An immense demand for men in manu- jn the country every school day than facturing ' is confidently predicted the average of the whole Nation. The there. figures become even more impressive Count Apponyi, an influential states- -when it is shown that this means a man of Hungary, predicts that his full third more than the average, country will turn from agriculture to The figures are used to show that manufacturing in the next decade. His the rural school term can be increased, opposition to a trade treaty with Ger- then, without addition of a single mill many is based on his' faith that this of taxation or tho employment of an will be the outcome; he wants a free other teacher. All that is necessary field for the products of Hungary's is for the country at large to attain industries, If ttie same change takes' the standard get by. Oregon, Surelx Men who have farmed and driven all kinds of teams with care over the bad places appear to forget caution when sitting at the wheel. The spirit of speed gets into the blood with fatal effect, as in the case of the Wasco man who was killed while negotiating a hairpin curve. Had he been driving horses, the animals would have taken it on a walk. Mrs. Strahorn's "Fifteen Thousand Miles of Stage" is in its third edition The book tells of experiences during the first five years of Mr. and Mrs, Strahorn's married life, during which she accompanied her husband in all his development work in the region loetween the Rocky Mountains and Puget Sound. If good will for Mr. Strahorn would build his railroad, he has the necessary capital in abundance in the Central Oregon towns, and that sentiment will certainly go far to provide the actual capital. The chief reason for tho slow re cruiting in the National Guard is the small prospect of active service. When the young American goes soldiering, he wants action. The allies are wondering whether Von Hindenburg has set another trap for the Russians since he took com mand on the front south of the Pripet marshes. Even a game leg may not check Villa's raiding propensities, which are stirred to activity by the possibility that Wilson and Carranza may get to gether. There is love's youns dream blasted. A Lane County woman of 68 is suing her husband of 82 for a decree. They have been married three years. "The foremost publicists and lit erary men" including the muckrak- ers will be found to be Democrats when their backs are scratched. dances at the Municipal Theater in Rio end. We hope not until the Rocie de Janeiro. She calls 'em the Tschal-kowsky-Cesar Franck series of dance and will permit New York to pass Judg ment on them in the latter part of Oc tober. After which she will tour the West, including us, of course. have been united in eterna: wedlock with our sister mountains, hills an rivers by the Atlantic. W. A- L'XDSEr. George and Wilhelni. both at the west front, might step out in front of the trenches and settle it like gen, tlem'en in four-ounce gloves. The Summer has not been so sultry that the Mazamas needed to climb mountains in order to cool off. Hapoleon Direct, driven by "Pop" Geers, made the mile yesterday in 1;59, without gas. The Philippine bill has passed, with the elastic string of self-government. "Tes!" or "No!" Mr. Hughes: Did you use Bears' soap this morning? Something must be done today in the" strike affair. It is losing flavor. Yesterday Portland. was Elephant day In Miriam Elberta Hubbard, daughter of the late Elbert Hubbard, master of Roycroft, is studying the fundamen tals of the drama in the Harvard Sum mer school.' Miss Hubbard in -1912 was proclaimed the most perfectly formed woman that ever entered the Univer sity of Michigan. She plans to become a playwright. ' Stock will flourish again at the Al cazar Tbeater In San Francisco next Winter, if the hopes of the producers aro realized. Already a company is be ing engaged for the season and the house will begin activities about the middle of November, according to the present plans. Jack Haliday and Eva Lang have been signed to head the company, which will stick closely to tho dramatic stage, no musical offer ings being considered. In Other Days. Fifty Years Ago. From The Orosonian, August 17. 1866. James W. Goff heads the list of in comes, in Cinci-inatl with $103,957. Madame Josephine d'Army. the vocal celebrity of New York, San Francisco and Europe, will give a concert at the New Hall early next week. S. L. Stone, formerly of Front street at the corner of Alder, has re-estab lished his headquarters at the north east corner of Washington and First streets. Colonel Larrabee, who has been spending some time at Owyhee, re turned last night. A. G. Bradford also has returned from Owyhee. In the preseit state of affairs of Eastern Oregon and portions of Idaho, almost any means that could bo sug gested to offer tlia people relief from the predatory Indian warfare, would be worthy of a trial. Question in Parliamentary Law, PORTLAND. Aug. 16. (To tho Ed tor.) Please publish the technical dif ferenco between adopting and accept ing the report of a committee by an assembly. SUBSCRIBER. The question is answered In tho fol lowing quotation from Roberts' Rules of Order: A very common error is. after a report ha been read, to move that it be received. whereas the fact that It has been read shows that it has been already received bv the assembly. Another mistake, less comT mori, but dangerous. Is to vote mat tne re port he accepted, which is equivalent to adopting it. when tho intention is only to have the report up for consideration ana afterwards to vote on its adoption. In another section tho same author ity says that "motions to adopt, to ac cept, etc., are often used Indiscrim inately, and the adoption of any one of them has the effect of endorsing or adopting the opinions, actions. recommendations or resolutions sub mitted by tho committee." MR.BrCUTEL'S SPRIM'IMG RECOHD Old Krlend Calls Attention to Error In Published Statement. EUGENE. Or., Aug. 15. (To tho Editor.) On page 11 of The Oregonian last Friday, in your write-up of tho life of Joseph Buchtel. I find soino statements I am impelled to challenge. In those early days I had the pleas ure of playing baseball opposed to 11 r. Buchtel, as I was in the Occidental Club of Vancouver, Wash. I remember on one occasion, when we worsted his club in a series of games, he gener ously and magnanimously inado the pictures of our club and also gave us a banquet, neither of which had been agreed on as a penalty by tho losers. I have been pitted against him in several speed events and it was about even with us, so, when I read that statement that "he once ran 30 yards in 15 seconds from a standing start," I am inclined to doubt it, as I could not do it and I don't think there is a man on earth who ean, or ever did. He had a brother. Sam Buchtel, who was a faster man than ho was. I saw Sam win -a cup in a firemen's tourna ment given in a circus ring by a cir cus company showing in. Portland. I think it was Robinson's circus, about 1S67. Sam wasn't in it with John K. Buff or the California Slough Boy, who were in their zenith about that time and were making the hundred in about even time. Letting my mind run back over those halcyon days bring3 back many amusing reminiscences. In all, we ap preciated Mr. Buchtel's many sterling qualities. F. A RANKIN. Tho statement on which Mr. Rankin comments contained a typographical error. The figures should havo been 160 yards in 15 seconds. The authority for the correct figures is Joseph Gaston's "Portland; Its History and Its Builders." Among the changes wrought by the war because of change in public opin ion Is doing away with the promenade When Woman Beromf of Age. NEWPORT. Or.. Aug. 13. (To the Editor. 1 fll T)n a wnmun i retra in the music halls in London. All tho gon become of age upon marriage? Can music halls on the Continent of Europe she register and vote or must she wait and in London have always had a prom- I to bo 21. enade. where great licence was per mitted women unaccompanied by male escorts. In London this will be abol ished in the future, and the women of tho night Ufa will not bo permitted to solicit in the theaters as they al ways were in tho past. That eminent Shakespeare scholar, Frank Harris, has been appointed edi tor of Pearson's Magazine. Mr. Har ris has had wide magazine experience having been editor and publisher of the London Saturday Review, the Lon don Vanity Fair and tho Candid Friend He is one of the greatest authorities on the life and works of Shakespeare. Ho is the author of "The Man, William Shakespeare." . published in 1898, and has lectured throughout tho United States and England on the poet. Though he ha lived most of his life In Eng land, Mr. Harris is an American, hav. lng been born in the Middle West In 1856 (2) What is tho law in tho state of Washington concerning mortgages? Does a mortgage expire in 10 years from date of making? A mortgage made for three years Is allowed to run upon payment of interest. How may tho validity bo continued, and can it bo continued over ten years. MRS. II. H. II. (1) A woman must live II years be fore sho can vote, though a minor marrying becomes legally of ago for all other purposes. (2) A mortgage is void six- years after no Interest or part of principal has been paid. Validity may be continued by a written acknowledg ment. Tho mortgage niay be continued more than ten years. Viewers She-aid Re Appointed. M'COY, Or., Aug. 14. (To the Edi tor.) Has the County Court of a coun ty of this state the right by statute to buy a right of way and locate a county He was educated in American and flied for the establishment of tho road oi viewers being sent out to appraise tho damages? A says the County Court could legally buy the right of way out right, if it was thought to be a good Investment for the county. B says they could take It oyer if offered without viewers sent out. SUBSCRIBER. German universities. Ring W. Lardner "you know mo Al' author of the famous bush league baseball stories, has broken into the big-league circuit and is now a song any cost to the county: but if any mon wrlter. "Old Bill Baker, the Under- ey was to be paid for the right of way. taker." the work of his typewriter then a petition would have to bo pre- . w..in h hn ari-:ri in -vrr I sented. and a.uu. ... - - -' 1 Good Eddie," tho musical comedy. Jerome Kern wrote the music to the No. Rights of way can be bought undertaking oaiiaa. ana. aitnough this outright, but viewers should be ap is the first time Mr. Lardner has writ- pointed in any case, according to Coun teu for tho stage, F. Kay Comstock was ty Surveyor R. C. Bonser. so pleased with tno nit maae oy "Old Bill Baker" that ho has commissioned I Government Has No Pension Attorney. Lardner to write tnreo more songs. ST. HELENS. Or.. Aug. 13. (To tho Editor.) Is there an attorney in Port- Blossom Seeley, wife of Rube Mar- land who is paid by the Government nlllH. is rehearsing a new vaudeville to set pensions tor oia Boia.ers? If so. - . : " , . can you give me ais address? act, in conjuiitHwo who t 1 4 . Slj;SCRIBJSR. - . I Cisco aancers anu bihbcd, cauof 1 Oresron will clinch it in Kovftmhftr. I a nd Lvnn Cowan. . ' OX THL2 KAIIM. There Is tolling in tho hayfield, there is plowing up the sod. There its thirsting in the noon's heat, but there is golden rod. There is harvesting or planting from dawn to sun's decline. There is weariness at day-close, but there's tho columbine. There Is pruning in the orchard and piling up the brush. But you sometimes stop and listen to tho music of the thrush. There i. weeding in the garden, and tying up the vines. But don't you lovo the "old man' tho kitchen path that lines? There is fencing in tho pasture and "stumping" the back lot. There is rising in the morning before the sun is hot. There Us searching through the marsh land for yearling gone astray. But how the sweet winds greet you at the calling of the day! There is driving up the cattle throush the dew-wet pasture lane. There is gatherins fruit in season, but there is Mary Jane. She wears a gingham apron and a gingham bonnet, too. But her hair is gold like cornsilk and her eyes are heaven's blue. There la ecannins of the home field3 and finding where they're thin. But there's a bunch of bluebells whero thistles might have been. There's plotting the destruction of those birds that never sing. But across vour line ot vision there s the flash of bluebird's wing. There is cleaning up the harness that hangs across the beam. There Is loading for the market, there is hitching up tho team. There is figuring on prices ana MA profits of the sale. But you ceo the whirring pheasants and you hear the call of quail. There is driving back at sundown, with plenty still to do. But how the purple asters nod a Wel come home!" to you! Then Mother's in the doorway, with a smile that's like tho sun. nd you know whate'er your fortunes, sho is sure to say "Well done!" There is sleeping In the attic with tho broken window-pane. But across the moonlit meadows is tho home of Mary Jane: And when you hear tho wood-dovo talking softly of tho night. You plan another mating as you blow out the light. Thus it is with all your labor you have joy and beauty, too. And you take them and absorb them till they're a part of you. You absorb and radiate them, ever mingling love -with toll. And thf noblest crop yon harvest Is not yielded from the noil. MARY Ht FORCE,