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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATTJItDAY. SEPTEMBER . 2. 1916. PORTLAND. OREGON, Intered at Portland (Oregon) Postoffice as coiid-cJasa mail matter. Subcriptlon rates Invariably In advance. (By MalL) Pally, Sunday Included, one year J8.00 Xaily. Sunday Included, six months..... .25 Xaily, Sunday included, three months... 2.25 Xaily, Sunday included, one month..... .75 paily, without Sunday, one year 6.23 XaUy, wiLliout Sunday, six months a. 25 ljaily, without Sunday, tnree months.... 1.75 lastly, without Sunday, one month 30 W'ltl, one year 1.60 Eunday, one year 2.50 faun day and Weekly 3.30 (By Carrier.) Pally, Sunday Included, one year 8.00 JDaily. Sunday included, one month 73 liow to Remit Send postoffice money order, express order or personal check on your Jocal bank Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Give postoffice address In full. Including county and state. Postage Kates 12 to IS pages, 1 cent; IS to 32 pages. 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, S cents; CO to 60 pages, 4 cents; 62 to 76 pages. 6 cents; 78 tc 82 pages, 6 cents. Foreign postage, double rates. Eastern BUMixtess Office Terree 4b Conk Un, Brunswick building. New York; Verree Ac Conklin, Eteger building, Chicago. San Francisco representative. K. J. Bldweli. 742 Market street. rOBTUAXD. BATCRDAY, SEPT. 2. 1318. ! LAWMAKJSQ BY LAWYERS. Point Is given to the declaration by Elihu Root that lawyers should view jurisprudence more In the light of Its public effect than as a merely con venient vehicle for settlement of pri vate disputes, by a lawsuit in Illinois, Just decided by the Appellate Court, over damages of $10 alleged to have been caused by one farmer's cattle to another farmer's cornfield. The liti gation was begun before a Justice of the Peace, and it was appealed first to the Circuit Court and then to the Appellate Court, which has reversed the original verdict and sent the case back to be tried all over again. Costa thus far amount to $133, without tak ing account of attorneys fees. Nu merous witnesses have been called from productive employment and have lost much time which conceiv ably could have been put to better use. There is nothing particularly new or strange about the Illinois case. Every lawyer is familiar with dozens of lawsuits over nothing of any great material value that have been carried up and up, because of the "principle Involved." It is well known that there may. be as much "law" in a suit for damages over a $3 calf as over pos session of a railroad. This is one ar gument, we believe, that has been advanced in favor of legal training In a small community as compared with the more highly specialized practice of the cities. But there is little doubt that cases of the class mentioned Il lustrate aptly this tendency of Anglo Saxon to put undue emphasis on what he calls "individual rights." It would seem, as Mr. Root Intimates, as If the law had been made primarily for the Individual litigant, rather than for the greater benefit of the community as a whole. That we must look to the bar Itself for reforms In this matter is indicated by the predominant position now held by lawyers In our legislative assem blies. The United States Senate has ninety-six members, of whom no fewer than fifty-three are frankly classified as lawyers In the almanacs; but there are twenty-two others set down as "public officials" In this list, and close examination of the careers of these Senators shows that seventeen of them have been admitted to the bar and most were actively prac ticing In the profession before they began to give their time exclusively to their public duties. This, then, makes Beventy lawyers In a lawmaking body of ninety-six surely a proportion large enough to enable them to ac complish any legal reform upon which they might unite their forces. The House is almost as well provided with lawyers. Of Its total membership of 440 there are 240 recorded as mem bers of the bar, while the "public of ficials" number seventy-five and prob ably Include at least fily who are lawyers. There are, thus, lawyers enough In Congress even to muster a two-thirds vote if one conceivably should be required to accomplish a drastic reform. The proportion of lawyers in other legislative bodies is also large. It Is quite clear, therefore, that the lawyers themselves can reform the whole system of litigation If they hon estly desire to do so and can agree. The lay public naturally hesitates In the face of so technical a task. Mr. Root's warning is timely, and It serves notice on the profession that It must undertake the job If it does not want to see it done by other and perhaps less competent hands. ADVANCE IN AIR STGHTIXG. No small measure of the destruction wrought by the artillery of the French and British on the western front is due to their development on an im mense scale of the battle aeroplane, which, although the war Is little more than two years old, possesses only a general resemblance to the aircraft that were In use at the beginning. In no phase of warfare has there been a greater advance than in the air. As recently as in August, 1914, the scout aeroplane was a relatively sim ple affaie-. The aviator ascended alone, and his defense consisted of nothing more than his sidearms. Later he was provided with a rifle, although his ability to make use of the weapon and operate his machine at the same time was limited. Then came the two-passenger car, with its pilot and observer, and then followed provision for protection against the bullets of the enemy. After this the battleplane was built. But the light planes were Hot abandoned, having their special uses, and aircraft began to perform their duties In large squadrons. The protected planes were sent into the air first and If they obtained a pre ponderance the scout machines went Into the air afterward, obtaining needed military Information and sig nalling to the gunners below the suc cess or failure of their hits. The scout planes, thus relieved of the necessity for doing double duty, were able to devote their entire attention to the special work at hand. Both sides have made material ad vances In the art of aerial war, but recent reports have Indicated that for the present the advantage on the western front Is with the entente allies. In the east conditions are reversed, the Russians not having as yet suc ceeded in obtaining the ascendancy. This is due In part to the Initial lack of aircraft, but more largely to the neglect of the Russians to train a suf ficient personnel. The aviator is not made in a day. or a week, or a month, and Russia has been notoriously slow In meeting the aviation situation, even under the pressure of necessity. Speculation as to the future of the aeroplane in war would be more In teresting if It were not futile. No one two years ago would have ventured to predict what already has come to pass, and it Is not Improbable that the strides made in the next two years will be equally long. It would hardly be surprising If an aeroplane'as much superior to the present one as the battleship is in advance of the nght cruiser would by that time have been perfected. THE HOME-COMING. The Third Oregon has entrained at the border and will soon be home. The Guardsmen will find a welcome that exceeds the temperature. While a fatted calf will not be killed, the steaks will be cut of an extra thick ness and the pumpkin pies will have record filling. The boys have been gone long enough to realize there ia no place like home. As the Third Oregon was the first to mobilize, it is meet it should be the first to return. Why it was sent to the border Is a problem that does not need solution, now that it is re turning. It is made up of a brave lot of young men who cast aside all ties, ready for a fight; and if the journey south ended in a frolic It was no fault of the men. They are all the better for the experience If there should be need of them later. There Is comfort in knowing the casualties have been few and trifling. After a month In Camp Withycomb they will drop Into their old places in civil life, better citizens than ever. JOHN P. ST. JOHN. . Thirty odd year ago the name? of John P. St. John was familiar In every American household where the ques tion of liquor or prohibition appeared important; but of late years little had been heard of the man who was con spicuously Identified with the temper ance agitation in Kansas and who was Governor of that turbulent state dur ing the crusading days when the ef forts to expel the Demon Rum had their beginnings. St. John was a Republican and he was made Governor of Kansas In 1878 and re-elected in 1880; but he was defeated for re-election in 1882. He had made the Republican party re sponsible for prohibition and the party could not indefinitely carry the load. Then St. John became a political Prohibitionist. In 1884 he was nomi nated for President of the United States by the Prohibition party. He polled 151,809 voes but says his biographer naively "he failed of an electoral majority." It is said that during fourteen years. Governor St. John traveled over 300,000. miles by rail, and he never had an accident, nor was sick a day; and he made 4000 speeches. The record shows also that he was a believer In free trade. Gov ernment control of railways, free and unlimited coinage of silver, election of President and United States Senators by direct vote, and enfranchisement of women. He lived to see some of the reforms he advocated adopted and others definitely rejected. Prohibition Is a fact In many states, free trade is finally in the scrap heap of all parties, free silver is an unpleasant memory, election of United States Senators (not the President) by the people Is ac complished, woman suffrage Is here and Government control of railroads is on its way St. John was a characteristic Kan sas product. He antedated Peffer, Mrs. Lease and Jerry Simpson, and he belongs in the grasshopper era. He was an effective speaker and a per sistent advocate. He lagged super fluous, perhaps, but the millions of supporters of present-day prohibition have reason to remember him grate fully. HAVE A HEART. When the pioneers, and children of pion eers, have settled through the columns of The Portland Oregonlan, the origin of the name "Rickreall," there are other phases of the state's nomenclature demanding- at tention; for Instance, the origin and signif ication of th words "Slustaw," "Shanlko" and "Scio." Pendleton Tribune. , Help! Help! The columns of The Oregonian are many and the space given to discussion of all subjects is large; but have a heart, have a heart. Don't start anything like that. Xet The Oregonian will say that there is nothing more - Interesting to intelligent and discriminating readers than nomenclature. Reference is not particularly made to obscure origins of names, like Oregon; nor to con troversies like the interminable Rick reall row or the old dispute over Wil lamette (Walamet); but. to the stories of the christening of well-known cities, towns, valleys, mountains, bays, and so on, of the state. Not long ago someone raised the question as to how Josephine County got its title, and it was answered; and there was another story about Mary's River and Mary's Peak, which brought out the fact, familiar to all pioneers, that Corvallis was originally known as Marysville. Who knows why the great ocean inlet of Southwestern Ore gon is called Coos Bay? Why North Bend ? Why Coquille ( which the new comers say Is Cokwill and the old timers say is Cokeel)? What about Bandon? Or Wedderburn? To this day there are sundry citizens who refer to it as Spokane (long a) Falls, and they resent the dropping of the descriptive "falls," which . tells why the town Is there "and what there is to make it a real city. It Is easy enough to tell why Crook County was named for a great Indian fighter, yet it is not a pleasant caption. And Mal heur! Perhaps the man who first thought of the Frenchified Corvallis and Willamette invented Malheur. No doubt we shall hear from George Himes that he did not, and we know better ourselves; but the suggestion is nevertheless pertinent. Why did the Indians once refer to whites as Boston men? Anybody who has been in this country twenty-five years can tell or should know. The subject lends Itself to Indefinite consideration, and reflection. We stop before we get the whole population stirred up to ask questions which It wilf take pages to answer. HOW TO HOLD OUR GAINS. Since the middle of June the allied nations have borrowed $425,000,000 in the United States. Their total bor rowings of American money since the war began are more than $1,200,000, 000. Thus in the last two and a half months they have borrowed fully a third of the total.' Canada, its prov inces and cities have borrowed $225, 000,000 and loans to neutral Europe and South America total $135,000, 000. Our entire foreign loans aggre gate well over a billion and .a half dollars and the total continues to swell. This is one of the means by which other nations have paid our balance of trade, which exceeds three billion dol lars for two years ending June 80. The rest has been paid in gold and by return of our securities. The. balance of trade promises to continue growing, for purchases of war material con tinue heavy and are not likely to abate as more nations enter the conflict. For July the trade balance was $263. 000,000, or at the rate of $3,156,000,000 a year, as large as that for the two fiscal years IS 15 and 1816, Much more money is likely to be borrowed from the United States, and many more American securities will be un loaded until the close of the war may find this country with as large a total of investments abroad as other coun tries formerly had in the United States and with as large annual sums flow ing westward In payment of interest and dividends as formerly flowed east ward. But this torrent of wealth pouring into the United States may be com pared to water In the bottom of a boat, which rushes from side to side as the craft rocks in the waves. In the absence of means to retain it and yet to balance the boat. It may rush away from us as rapidly as It rushed to us. Our industries now have a commanding position in the world's commerce, but in the absence of leg islation and administration which will protect it, they may lose that position as quickly as they have gained It. Such legislation and administration can be expected only from a Government which believes In an economic system founded on facts; nothing is to be hoped from one which-Is guided by abstract reasoning or which has sud denly forsaken such a guide in an ef fort to adjust its policy to facts. That Is the difference between the Repub lican and Democratic parties as safe pilots of the Nation in the next few years. AS TO PROHIBITION'. The Impression la given by the let ter of Mr. Curtis P. Coe. which is pub lished In another column, that the little band of professional prohibition ists conceive themselves to be guard ing the public morals. On the other hand, the Impression is created by promoters of the brewery measure mat tney, in their own opinion, are protecting the public's economic wel fare. In between are Will Wa and numerous other supporters of the ary measure, who assure us that the present law is both an economic and moral success. Indeed, thev nrc.wnt statistical evidence and reputable tes timony to prove it The beer consumed In Oregon un der present limitations and restric tions would hardly Rive that well- known sour odor to one small brew ery vat. With Washington and Idaho dry, Montana likely to be and Cali fornia over-SUDDlied with breweries. the export factor does not lend eco nomic significance to the opening of Oregon breweries. On the other hand, the state has had a great moral baptism, if advocates of prohibition are to be believed. Mr. Coe does not deny this, nor does any other advocate of the new prohibition measure deny it, so far as our knowl edge goes. It strikes us that if the Prohibition ists admit that the present 1 law is working well, it is neculiarlv I sequential to say that the brewers' weaK ana easily combated measure drove them Into submitting a dry amendment. GOINa THE WRONG WAY ABOUT IT. Construction of merchant ships In American shipyards during the year 1916 is expected to total 672,106 tons almost as much as that of all other maritime powers combined. On July 1 our shipyards were building or had under contract 1,225,784 tons, a total surpassing all records. Of this total 175 ships of 900,000 gross tons were foreign-going ocean cargo steamers. When American industry Is thus splen didly rising to the occasion of the shipping famine, when all shipyards are crowded with orders which will occupy them till the end of 1917, the Administration proposes that the Gov. eminent enter the field by buying or building $50,000,000 worth of ships. That sum will not provide over 600,000 tons. It is a mere trifle., when an In vestment of $750,000,000 to $1,000, 000,000 is required to provide enough ships for control of our ocean carry ing. Where is the Government to get the ships? Every vessel now afloat is em ployed at rates paying a profit in one year equal to Its cost. If the Govern ment buys on that basis. It will face a tremendous loss when the time comes to sell. Its ownership of these ships is limited to five years after the end of the war. By that time the boom in ocean freights caused by the war and the subsequent period of re construction in Europe will have passed. Those five years will doubt less be a period of unexampled ship building activity throughout the world and the close of that period will in all probability be marked by a slump in shipping values. If the Government should contract for the building of ships, construction cannot begin until present contracts are fulfilled about the close of 1917 and they would. not be completed until the Spring of 1919 at the earliest. Few expect the war to continue more than another year. Before the keels of the Government ships are lld the slump In freights is likely to have begun and It will surely continue as idle ships return to serv ice, as new ships are built and as ocean commerce returns to Its normal vol ume. The ships would be built at or near war cost, would enter the market when freights were declining to the peace level and would be sold at the close of the five-year period at peace prices. The Government cannot get its ships into service until the pre tended cause for its engaging in the business will have passed away, and it plans to buy at or near the top of the market and to sell at the bot tom of the market. It stands to bar an Immense loss. These vessels are to be sold, leased or chartered to private persons for operation on defined routes and, if there are no offers, a corporation is to be organized by the Shipping Board to buy, build, lease, charter and op erate them. The Government is to hold 51 per cent of the stock, and 4 9 per cent Is to be sold to private In vestors. What probability is there that any person would Invest In the stock of a corporation control of which was permanently fixed In the Government and which is engaged in an almost surely losing venture? The directors and officers would be dummies, actual control resting in the Shipping Board. The event would almost surely be sub scription, of all the stock by the Gov ernment. . If -the ships should come Into serv ice before the end of the war, they would almost surely be called upon to take freight for the non-blockaded ports of the central empires and to taket contraband for the ports of the allies. In either case they -would be liable to attack and capture. German submarines might sink them on sight, perhaps after giving the crew a few minutes to take to the boats. The provision in the bill that all vessels purchased, chartered or leased from the Board shall be subject to all laws and liabilities governing merchant ves. selax would not apply to vessels op erated by the Government. If such vessels should be .captured or sunk, dangerous complications with the na tion attacking them would arise. Should the vessels not come Into serv ice during the war, they would escape this risk only by not meeting the emer gency for which the Government pur chased them. The Shipping Board is to be given power to regulate the rates of com mon carriers by sea. This Jurisdiction could "-not be exercised over foreign vessels or over American tramp ves sels open to charter by a single shipper; it could .only extend to Amer ican vessels operating on fixed lines. Deprived of their freedom to make rates in competition with tramps and compelled to continue service regard less of the volume of business, these liners would be placed at a disadvan tage, though they are precisely the) ships which should be encouraged In order to foster foreign commerce. The United States may be able to exercise a limited authority over foreign ships while they are in American waters, but the result will be to repel them from the service of our commerce. They will com only for those com modities which are necessary to their countries and will shun employment in expanding our commerce In com petition with their own people. The United States is still a small factor In the ocean-carrying trade and is main ly dependent on foreign ships. Until our merchant marine has grown to proportions which enable us to do 60 or 60 per cent of our own carrying, we oannot expect to enforce laws dif fering from those of the great ship owning nations without injury to our selves. The Administration has tackled the shipping problem at the wrong end. It should encourage private enterprise by thorough revision of our shipping laws to enable shipowners to operate at equal cost with foreign competitors and by keeping out of the field with Government-owned ships. By so do ing it would permanently hold under the American flag the new ships now building and would attract to our flag more of the American-owned ships sailing under foreign flags. As the restrictions of our shipping laws have only been temporarily suspended by the law of 1914, owners of such ships have no confidence In their ability to operate economically under America register. Consequently only 600,000 of the 2,500,000 tons of American owned ships under foreign flags have been transferred to American register. The shipping laws should be so re vised that it will be to the interest of all these owners to naturalize their ships. If that were done, the Ameri can merchant marine would grow nat urally to such proportions that we should control the carriage of our own commerce and we should gain a pow erful voice In shaping the shipping laws of the world. The eight-hour day was first put into effect in a considerable way in the celebrated New Lanark cotton mills of Robert Owen, the Scotch free thinker and social reformer, though there are persons who give credit to the "good King Alfred," who seems to have been Impressed with the wisdom of dividing the day Into three parts and giving as much of the time to recreation as to serious employment. Robert Owen, however, was moved by considerations of efficiency of the workers and did not make any effort to attain a legislative eight-hour day. Statisticians say that the average workday has been shortened less than an hour in the past quarter century and that a large number of workers who have control of their own time show no disposition to cut down the length of their day. Farmers and small storekeepers are conspicuous ex amples of classes who have made lit tle or no progress In this direction. That good roads are absolutely es sential to the development of the au tomobile Is shown In Portuguese East Africa, where until recently the town of Lourenco Marques, though an im portant trading center, was without motor transportation. The reason, ac cording to our Consul, has been that the settlement is an isolated oasis in the center of a sea of mud, and al though there Is a vast continent, high and dry, for a hinterland there has been no means of reaching . it on wheels. Building of a long bridge over the mud flats has linked Louren co Marques with the high veldt of the Eastern Transvaal and Swaziland, and now the automobilist has a verita ble new" world before him, a world in which he can explore to his heart's content. The Engineering Record proposes a scheme to satisfy both parties to the interminable Niagara Falls contro versy the nature-lovers and the utilitarians. It proposes that a dam be constructed a mile above Goat Is land to shut off the water from the falls and divert It to a series of great power stations. The power stations would be operated only at night, the water being permitted to go over the falls by day. This would work very well until the demand for power out grew the capacity of the generators by night. Then some slot-machine arrangement might be made by which tourist agents could gather up enough tourists at so much a head to make it pay, then deposit the money and turn loose the falls. When Mr. Beals balanced his books yesterday he found eleven inches of excess rainfall for the year. The of fice force at once began proceedings for a new record and "it looks like rain" now. It was a clever scheme to label as soap boxes packed with whisky, but, as usual, a good thing was done to death, for It was a suspicious quantity of soap. A strikebreaker was shot to death at Tacoma yesterday, but, as he was a negro, use of the Southern formula of a verdict of suicide may be in order. In juggling their jobs as Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, the execu tive and deputy of New Mexico act enough brotherly to pool the pay. Entrance in the war Is the only way to stop the rebellion lii Greece. If the Greek must fight, he would better have a foreign foe. The plan to edit the Ten Command ments Includes the first five. The vital five are let alone. The city will sell the municipal cord wood before more is lost by "friction." Roosevelt has begun telling cold blooded facts In Maine. Henry Ford can afford to indulge in notions. Lay in the supplies of watermelon today. Ahoy, Astoria! Is the Admiral on deck? FIRST ASCENT AGAIN QUESTIONED North Slater Has Two Peaks, Which Explains Conflicting Claims. PORTLAND. Sept. 1. (To the Edi tor.) On returning from my vacation and looking over my back numbers of The Oregonian I find August 16 a let ter from Beatrice Toung claiming first ascent of North Sister for Mr. Prouty In 1910, and in the Issue of August 19 a letter from Gertrude Metcalfe saying that Messrs. Rodney Gllsan and E. H. Loom la ascended North Sister years be fore Mr. Prouty. Having been a mem ber of the Prouty party of 1910. I can explain these conflicting claims. North Sister has two distinct peaks, one higher than the other by some 200 feet. During the Mazama outing of 1910 I climbed the lower peak alone and on It found the record left by Gllsan and Loo mis. say ins; that there was a still higher peak to climb, but that on account of the lata hour and an Impending; storm Its ascent would not be attempted. Afterwards the highest V'nnacle was ascended by Mr. Prouty atone and on August 22, 1910, a party of seven, consisting of H. H. Prouty, leader; Jack "Beneflel. H. H. Rlddell. Edgar E. Coursen. Gerald live Coursen. Jeanne Stewart and Louise Almy, all of Portland, climbed the high est pinnacle. These seven people and four more. L. H. Weir.' Ed Peterson, Art Peterson and Tom Jones, who have climbed since then, are the only people who have ever stood on the actual sum mit of North Sister. The Oregonian of August 27. 1910. contained an account of the ascent of Nortlo-Sister, written by me. which ended with the following sentences, evidently as true now as they were when written: Owing to the difficulties and dangers of tno ciimb It win probably be many years before the ascent ef Prouty Peak will be at tempted again, and it Is not likely that any woman will ever set foot on Its summit again. The men of the party speak with tho meet unbounded admiration of the nerve and grit shown by tho three girls. Whether crawling along rocky ledges hundreds of feet above a safe landing place, hanging on with fingers and toes to holes cut in the Ice or clambering hand-over-hand up or down cliffs on a rope, they never opes lost their courage or their cheerfulness. EDGAR E. COURSEN. ITS LEGISLATION' TTJiTJER DURESS So Mr, Chapman Characterizes Proposed Railroad Elght-Honr Law. PORTLAND. Sept. 1. (To tho Edi tor.) Many citizens are aghast at presS reports that Congress will submit tamely to dictation by any group of organized Interests who demand favor able action on their terms within fixed time limit under threat of plunging the Nation Into a transportation strike. This insult to our country should be resented with high courage Instead of being accepted with pitiable, abject complacence. Far better endure a strike, which will last only days or weeks, than submit to the outrage of enacting legislation under duress. If a foreign nation presented such an ultimatum all America would rouse to arms. Supporters of a cause so selfish that they will not submit it to arbitration should not be permitted to bullv onr Congress into drastic legislation grant ing their demands at expense of fellow employes, producers and the country at large. Through the columns of The Orego nian I would like to appeal to all citizens to telegraph to Senators and Representatives at Washington urging that no legislation be passed on this subject without mature deliberation and hearing for all people affected. Such telegrams should be sent as early tomorrow (Saturday) as possible, unless the legislation Is already passed and approved before this letter appears. C. C. CHAPMAN. HOW BIO DICK WAS TAMED. Big Dick Lyon, of Bobcat Gulch, you've heard of him, hain't you, stranger? Six foot high in his stockln feet an' mebbe a trifle more; The people'd always hunt their holes quite apprehensive of danger When Dlck'd accumulate too much booze an' claim the right to the floor. He ust to boast when his Jag was on that be feared neither man nor devil. An' ria free to say thr he had no fear of the Ruler up thar on high: But he stumbled agtn a snag at last that could sartinly hold him level. A little Salvation Army gal with, a tender streak in her eye. Dick cams to town fur to have a time, a frekent custoit o' hls'n. Filled up on booze that'd choke a goat to open his Wild West show. An' said that the fust blue-coated cuss that'd try to land him in prison 'D take a fly with a punctured hide to the rendyvoo cown below. He shattered the air all through the street witit yells that'd queer au Injun. Announced In language I won't re peat that he'd come, an' he'd come to -stay. An everywhere you coud see the folks with hleached-out faces a cringin' Into the safest spots they could find an' wishing he'd go away. The sound o' slngln' attracted him an' he paused a moment an' listened. An' down the street In the usual way the Salvation warriors come. An' the d-vll lightnin' in ol' Dick's eyes in terrible manner glistened. As he hollered "Glory!" an' kicked a hole iu the head o" the big bass drum. Then the little lassie that led the band walked up an' she called him "brother." An' asked him somethln' about his soul, how the same was a-stack-in' up. An' hit him a settler that called him down with a reference to bis mother. An' the terror weakened an' got as meek as a. cowardly klote pup. She tuk hts hand an' she led him off, an' you'd ort to have seen him tryln' In his drunken state fur to ketch the step to the tap o' the busted drum. An' she fired him Into a lodging house, the overgrown cuss a-cryln' An' sayln" they'd never again ketch him a floodin' himself with rum. Net' mornln' as soon as he hit the street that lassie was thar a waltin, , An' she shook his hand with a wln nln' smile in a sisterly sort o' way. An' she give him a social game o' talk 'bout a standin" in with satan. An' led htm off to the barrack room, wbar the warriors meet to pray. I ain't no piety chap myself, but. stran ger, tbar's no deny-in' That I'm plum full o" the right rs Epect fur that little Salvation band. Fur when It comes to makin' a saint of . a feller like big Dick Lyon. I'm free to admit thar's somethln" thar that I never kin understand. Ol' Dick turned out fur to be a mn with a right smart cargo o" learnln'. He jlned the army that uses prayer Instead o' the sword an' gun That's him there now, a-tellin' the crowd he was snatched as a brand from the burnln'. An I guess you kin see by his earn est face that he isn't talkin' fur fun. JAMES BARTON ADAMS. I NOT EQUAL TO RAILWAY CRISIS Practical Man In Presidency Would Have Soon Settled Matter. PENDLETON, Aug. Jl. (To the Edi tor.) It seems to the writer that the President has utterly; failed to grasp the vital Issue In the current strike situation, and. however well-meaning he may have been, that he has lost a great opportunity to distinguish him self as a wise statesman. The occasion has demanded neither the diplomacy which he has attempted to use, nor any reference to Congress. The problem presented for solution would have been solved by a practical man in the Presidency in 48 hours. Cleveland or Roosevelt would have gone direct to the crux of the case and the Nation would have found the result Just to both the contestants. The forum of operation at all times has been the chambers of the Interstate-Commerce Commission. That body possesses ample authority to act in the premises and ought to have been re quired to act long ago. The law de clares that "Tho Commission may con duct its proceedings in such a manner as will best conduce to the proper dis patch of business and to the ends of Justice." The demands of the men are just and the terms of acceptance made by tho railroad managers are reasonable. The men have been ready to accept an eight-hour day. with their other de mands held In abeyance for Investiga tion. The managers have been ready to grant an eight-hour day, providing the roads were permitted to make a & per cent raise In freight rates to meet the expenses made necessary by the shortened day. A strong, alert, practical executive In the White House would have seen to it that there was placed before the Interstate Commerce Commission, a petition from one side or the other, praying for such Increase. No great amount of evidence would have been needed. The Commission in an emer gency like this would promptly have rendered a decision allowing the In crease and the whole controversy would have been ended. Courts sometimes act in emergencies upon tho sole ground of public policy. If tho Interstate Com merce Commission cannot do so, the body had best be abolished. The eight-hour day La better for the workmen, better for the railroads, bet ter for the public Eight hours to work, eight to sleep and eight for mental and physical improvement, is a fair division of a day. Tho train serv ice would be more prompt, more effi cient, more safe. If the hours of its operating force were shortened. Those are the basio factors in which the public is interested and in the last analysis the public pays the bill. STEPHEN A. LOWELL. Reasons lor Dry 'Amendment. M'MINNVILLE, Or, Aug. SI. (To the Editor.) Tour editorial which ends, practically, "let well enough alone," August 29, is timely. That was what the liquor people said in 1914, after four years had elapsed since the pre vious campaign. They added to the cry "the time is too short since we had a prohibition campaign; let well enough alone." Their consistency is shown In the fact that the liquor men are wholly respon sible for the present prohibition avia tion this year. No one had any tn.t.-n-tion of bringing before the people an amendment or a law on the subject until the brewers forced tho Issue by the brewers' amendment. An offensive campaign Is often the best means of fighting and so the tem perance forces initiated the amendment to prohibit importations. The Prohibition party was In no way responsible for the present law and its weaknesses, but It was willing to give it a full and complete trial. It was willing to let the present situation remain indjsturbed. Not so the brewers. They now want the privilege to "sell to any person or In dividual.'' Just such plans and schemes will continue so long as the least tolerance is given the traffic and for protection against continual appeal to the voters for change, we need to support the "dry amendment." CURTIS P. COE. Mall for Civilian Corns. PORTLAND, Aug. 30. (To the Edi tor.) Please tell me how to address mail to the business men's mJH'.a.ry camp at American Lake? How does one get there from Tacoma? SUBSCRIBER. Address letters in care of Civilian Training Camp, American Lake. Wash ington. Camp Is reached by train from Tacoma, from which It Is distant about 17 miles. OF INTEREST TO YOU in The Sunday Oregonian WAR IN THE BIBLE King Josiah, the great reformer, fought and died at the battle of Megiddo, from which the Scriptual prophecy of Armageddon is derived. The Sunday magazine section of The Oregonian reproduces pictures of the pottery for which archaeolo gists delved and on which are crudely drawn the warriors of that ancient strife. The Israelites, after possessing Palestine, were har ried by the Philistines and the Moabites until they learned the les son of preparedness. A story with the ring of strange weapons in every paragraph. WHAT IS FEMINISM? Charlotte Perkins Gilman, noted interpreter of the reform, answers in the Sunday magazine section LEADER OF 100,000 WOMEN Captain of an army that is launched in the van of many notable reforms, Mrs. Frederick Schoff, presi dent of the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers Association, tells of the work of these organizations. An instructive feature of the Sunday magazine section. THE "AMERICAN NILE Such is the term aptly applied to the Colorado River and the fertile delta of all-year-around crops, in Northern Mexico. An illustrated article in the Sunday magazine section. LABOR DAY AND LABOR'S BIG ISSUES A timely article dealing with the discontent of the railroad workers. Exact information from the viewpoint of labor on a National issue. Written by Rene Bache for The Sunday Oregonian's magazine section. WITH THE BUCKAROOS AT THE PENDLETON ROUND-UP An illustrated article on the Pendleton Round-up, appearing in The Sunday Oregonian, tells the tourist or the former stay-at-home of the thrills that await in this actual portrayal of Western ranch life.- The Round-up will be held September 21, 22 and 23, and the hard-riding, roping aristocracy of the cow country will hold the dusty stage. The Sunday story gives an intimate glimpse of the approaching event. PORTLAND'S PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDS Pictures and paragraphs of Portland's children at play on the cool and spacious playgrounds. An attractive news story. REVIEW OF PROGRESS AT REED COLLEGE The well-told story of successful revolution in college conduct, written for' The Sunday Oregonian and New York Time3 by Dr. W. T. Foster, president of Reed College. How one institution of learning dispensed with inter-collegiate athletics and fraternities and found no cause for regret. THE TRIP TO COOS On the journey over the new-laid rails to Marshfield and North Bend. Illustrated. THE BUGLE ON THE BORDER How the boys of the Third Oregon spent the last few weeks at their posts on the boundary. A special yarn in the Sunday issue. SOME OTHER THINGS He who hooks the valiant swordfish. knows every thrill that angling is heir to, with the spice of desperate dan ger added. Cities may fall as prone as the walls of Jericho by the terrible destructive power of a subterranean torpedo, the invention of an American engineer. With Frank G. Carpenter, special writer, on the inland sea of the Yukon country through the heart of Alaska. In Other Days. Twetity-F"l"ve Years Agio. From Tho Oregonian ox September 2, ThVl. At its meeting this afternoon the Council will consider the ordinance In creasing the salaries of city officers and Councilmen. The total Increase over salaries paid when there were three cities is so great that there is a strong undercurrent of opposition to the ordinance. The Columbia River Lumber and Fuel Company has opened a large lumber yard at North Front and Sixteenth streets. Rev. T. E. Clapp, pastor of the First. Congregational Church, returned yes terday from his (Visit to London. The Willamette Athletic Club Is the latest aspirant to honors in the ath letic field. The club was organized several weeks ago and already has a membership of about 80. General Manager McNeil, of the Union Pacific, has returned from a trip over all the lines of this division. "Grain Is coming In rapidly," he said, "and we are loading 60 to 60 cars a day for Portland and expect within a week to be loading 100 a day." Wednesday morning about 10 o'clock the tage on route from Canyon City to Long Creek was held up near the head of Beech Creek, within a quarter of a mile ef tho ranch of R. G. Frakea. in Lower Fox Valley, and relieved of tho letter sack containing the reg istered mall. Last Saturday evening Dr. O. D. Doane, past grand master, assisted by a largo delegation of Oddfellows from The Dalles. Cascade Locks and Latour ell Falls, organized a lodge of the order at Hood River, with 6 charter and 10 initiate members. , MAX IX OUTSKIRTS IS ALARMED Clrt to Jitneys of Traffic- Oram May Impair Ills Streetcar Srnir. PORTLAND. Sept. 1. (To the Edi tor.) In reference to Jitney franchise now under discussion, will say that I have no ax to grind other than my own as a property owner out In South Mount Tabor. It may be that in the future our car service will be Impaired In this and other outlying districts: that is. If a franchise is granted to Fiftieth street and Hawthorne avenue only, which any simpleton can see will take the cream of the business from the company that has stood by us In fair weather and foul and helped us to build up the outlying districts. We surely do have a narrow-gauge Commissioner that would propose to hand over a valuable franchise for little or nothing to Irresponsible inter lopers. After the present car company has invested and spent millions of dollars in bettering their service, they certainly are not getting a square deal if any such franchise Is granted. It is time for the people in the outlying districts to register a strong protest before their service is ruined. The car company cannot be eftpected to furnish the same excellent service to those long-haul districts if tho cream of their business is handed over ab solutely as a gift to these irresponsible Jitney people, who are liable to be on band today and somewhere else tomor row. It does oertainly seem agreeable to Mr. Daly to have those Jitney fellows lead him by the nose and have any thing they want granted them. CITIZEJf. Tho Cascade Monntalns. The silence of a million years Abides hero In this mountain rangs. Erosion since that time remote Has scarred, but caused no other change. Its canyons, deep and vertical. Give forth no sound from depths '. -ow; But. year by year, bring down to eea The waters from the mountain snow. Far o'er their peaks the eagle soars. Nor moves a feather in its flight: Eacn day succeeds another day. To be entombed in silent night. P. G. REYNOLDS. A Straight Tip. Exchange. "Toll me. how did you come to marry your second husband?" "My first one died."