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Newspaper Page Texts THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1916. Entered at Portland (Orogon Postoffice second-class mall, matter. y Eubscribtion rates Invariably In advance. (Br Mall.) - Dally, Sunday Included, one year " 2 JXally, Sunday inclflvled. six months..... -25 I-taily,. Sunday Included, three months.. 2.25 " Daily, Sutidav Included, on month '3 Daily, without Sunday, one year g'S! Daily, wltoout Sunday, six months...... Daily, without Sunday, three months... i.- Daily, wirhout Sunday, one month.. .. .- -0 Weekly, one year. . Sunday, ona year 2.50 Sunday and Weekly 3.50 By Carrier.) c Dally, Sunday Included, one year. ...... .nn Daily, Sunday included one month 15 " How to Remit Send postoffice money order, express order or personal check on v your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency ? are at sender" risk. Give postoffice address in full, including county and state. Postage Rates 12 to 16 pages. 1 cent: 18 . to 32 pages, 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 8 cents; &0 to t pages, 4 cents; 62 to 76 pages, 6 cents; 7s to 82 pages, 6 cents. Foreign postage, double rates. Eaetern Buslnna Office Verree & Conk- lln. Brunswick building. New York; Verree Conklin, Steger building, Chicago. San Kranclsco representative, K. J. Bidwell, 742 . Market street. 'PORTLASD, BATt-RJttAT, OCT. 7. 1916. TirK STAINED DOLLAR. Mr. Wilson says that, because the Increase of our National wealth In re cent years has been twenty times the Increase In our foreign trade, the ac cession to our wealth is not the re sult of war but of "real business legis lation." He surely knows that such an increase of business with other nations, combined with the resultant increase of domestic trade, is amply , sufficient to account for a twenty fold increase in National wealth. Our $2,000,000,000 balance of trade has in creased our annual profit and has added many times that amount to the value of the plant which has yielded that Increase. The distinction be "tween capital and income is plain, and the effect of 'increased income in en hancing capital value is equally plain. As compared with the effect of the war, Mr. Wilson's "real business legis lation" has had as much part in pro ducing1 our present prosperity as has the proverbial "fly on a wheel" in making the wheel turn. s We saw the effect of such legislation before the war began; it was industrial depres sion, shrinking- exports, swelling im ports and daily parades of unem ployed tariff experts in every city. The prosperity of which Mr. Wilson boasts Is not the product of his legislation; It is the price -of the blood and tears of three war-torn continents. Human ity, the primal instincts of decency, forbid that it should be the cause of self-gratulation. The appropriate at titude toward it Is that of the .man ; who has set aside his entire war prof its for the relief of French sufferers by the war. To boast of war pros perity and to prate of service to hu manity in the same speech is to be guilty of the grimmest possible para dox. en i owing now not to do it. .; Experience has already proved that as a measure of preparedness the Hay Army law is a failure, that in fact it is an anti-preparedness law. It has failed to strengthen the regular Army, for it has failed to bring in the lim ited number of new recruits for which it provides. Mobilization has shown that a Federalized National Guard is useless as a second line of defense. In defiance of expert military opin ion, the House yielded to the militia lobby by passing the Federalization bill, and the Senate yielded to the House in substituting the Hay scheme for the far superior Chamberlain bill. Against the advice of the General j Staff, the National Guard was rushed to the border without preliminary training in state mobilization camps. Whjen criticism Was heard of the poor provision made for the troops, the Administration tried to cover its blun ders by crying "mollycoddle," thus im plying iiLct.1 nit? uiuieeeEttstiry ji.runipa which its inefficiency imposed were "part of the hardening which makes soldiers. But other nations, even in the presence of actual war on a most gigantic scale, do not suddenly plunge '" green men Into severe conditions. There was far more urgent need of British troops In Flanders two years ago than there was of American troops on the Rio Grande in June, but the new British army underwent long training in home camps before being sent to the front. Although more than three months have passed since the militia was mobilized, cavalry are Just getting . horses, and poor ones at that; artillery have no horses and the fleldpieces are dragged by the men; infantry go on guard patrol without cartridges and have been in camp for weeks without firing a shot at target prac tice. The Adjutant-General of Illinois protests egainst discharge of a con tingent "because the regiment had al most completed the fatigue work and was Just ready "to get some good train ing." If the National Guard was mobilized to protect the border while General Pershing's army went to "get Villa," it has not gained that end, for Pershing is not permitted to go after Villa, though that worthy's activity has notably increased. If it was sent to get field training, it has not gained that end either, for it is being with drawn just as the real training began. , A naive defense, which Is actually the severest condemnation, of the Hay law is made by Charles W. Eliot. He says in the Atlantic Monthly: From the point of view of those Amer icans who desire that their country should have always at command an army com petent to resist any possible Invasion, and so visibly formidable that It will prevent even the strongest military nation from at tacking the United States, the present Ad ministration has done a great service to the country by demonstrating on the Mexican border that the federalization of the mil itia is not the right way to procure a competent National force. By the same process of reasoning President Wilson did a great service to the country by proving the lneffi cacy of notes to prevent submarine outrages, or Of watchful waiting and ineffective meddling to restore order and enforce respect for American rights in Mexico, or of a Democratic tariff to bring prosperity to American industry. In short, the Wilson Ad ministration has given us a demon stration of how not to do it. The entire effect of the Hay law has been to fortify the indictment against Mr. Wilson for not preparing the country to defend itself. Although the world is at war and every other neutral nation is on a war footing, although a conflagration has been raging at our doors throughout his term and although we have had grave controversy with both groups of bel ligerents in Europe, he denied the necessity of preparation for any con tingency which might grow out of this situation. When public opinion forced him to act as a matter of polit ical expediency, he gave us a demon stration by the Hay law of how not to prepare. Our entire experience under the Wilson policy of preparedness has served to strengthen immeasurably the case for compulsory training. The AS voluntary system has utterly broken down as a means of providing an ade quate Army. The cltiaens' training camps have proved beyond dispute the value of such training for civic as well as military purposes. Every citizen who has attended them has returned enthusiastic for their continuance and extension. The boys' training camp on Hamilton Island, N. Y., has brought about a movement for a Nation-wide organization of 1,000,000 boys to undergo training. The Nation presents the strange spectacle of a people eager to' become qualified for its defense and dragging behind it a Government reluctant to do that which It demands. A VISION. The- extraordinary circumstance is that for the next decade at any rate after that it -will be a matter of our own choice whether it continues or not but for the next decade at any rate we have got to serve the world. That alters every commercial question, it alters enry political question. It alters every question, of domestic develop ment. The men who insist upon going on to do the old things In the old way are go ing to be at the tall-end of the procession. We -want always to hold the force of America to fight for what? Not merely for the rights of property or of National am bition, but for the rights of mankind. Noth ing that concerns humanity, nothing that concerns the essential rights of mankind, can be foreign or indifferent to us. Hut in fighting for these thing we ought to have a touchstone. We ought to know whenever we act what the purpose Is, what the ultimate goal la. - A noble conception of Greater America' by the apostle, prophet, and guide of a Little America. 6 ENGINE TAX, 807 NO. The title which the sponsors origin ally gave the measure designed to con fiscate all land and establish a class loan fund was "People's JlAnd and Loan Law." It was a title intended to be attractive rather than accurate. For"" reasons known to everybody, "single tax," for ,which this amend ment provides, was deemed too blunt, too informative a term to be included in the phrase used to Identify the measure. ' But when the measure reached the Attorney-General he apparently con sidered the alluring designation too obscure. So on the official ballot the amendment is identified as the "Full Rental Value Land Tax and Home Makers' Loan Fund Amendment." Plainly this is too much of a mouth ful for the man who engages in dis cussion of the amendment. "Land and Loan Law" is not only pretty but short, and so that title has stuck in the popular mind. There is danger of confusion as re sult of this by-play of the promoters and the efforts of the Attorney-General to define a complicated and revo lutionary measure within the compass of a few words. A "Rural Credits Amendment" and a "State-Wide Tax and Indebtedness Limitation Amend ment" occupy other places on the bal lot. The single tax amendment might be mistaken for either. Practically, the- single tax amend ment is without a title. It has a pop ular name while its official name is unknown except to the close student of the voter's pamphlet. . The voter should, familiarize him self with the ballot number of the sin gle tax amendment. It is 807 No. BASEBALL. When the championship baseball teams play In Brooklyn, there will be among the thousands of spectators the Honorable Charles Evans Hughes, Republican candidate for Presient. It has been arranged that Mr. Hughes shall have a front seat over near third base, and that he shall throw out the first ball. Doubtless the design Is to Show just how much of a real "sport" the can didate is. If the ball goes unerringly to Its mark wherever that Is it Is a reasonable estimate that Mr. Hughes will win 10,000 votes, more pr less. If he fails, and fumbles or foozles, the day is lost. Thirty thousand fans will know that ha is there for politics, and not for sport, and they will gov ern themselves accordingly. But, withal, whether his muscle Is firm and his aim is straight, or whether his arm is weak and his eye Is bad, we'll wager a shaving set that he can put 'em over as well as Woodrow Wilson can; and the President is some base ball "bug" himself. The world's series begins today at Boston. Among thofce-present will hot be Hughes or Wilson, but there will be others, many others. It is the great American game, and the world series is the annual climax. Nine men wearing Boston uniforms are to play nine otner men with Brooklyn uni forms. They are hired men, and it may not be easy for the unsophis ticated absentee from the diamond side to know what difference to any body it makes if Boston wins or Brooklyn wins. But it does make a difference to the millions of Ameri cans who faithfully tenant grand stand or bleachers; or who follow ea gerly the veracious chronicles of the sporting reporters in the daily press, The players are not mere mercenaries, for they play hard and on the square. So the best team always wins, or should win; and the game's interest lies in finding out which 1b the best team and who are the best players. The "fan" -always knows, for he's a player himself, and not, like the prize fight devotee, a mere rooter. That is the reason that baseball is the great American game. THE I"OI.KS FED OX PROMISES. There is one point upon which the central powers and the entente allies are substantially agreed the restora tion of Poland as a self-governing kingdom. Beyond that point there is no agreement. Russia desires a Po land with the Czar as King. Hungary would put a Hapsburg on the throne. while Count Monts, a German diplo mat, urges that Poland must depend on Germany rather than on Austria. Liberal journals in Russia urge that a declaration by the government of its purpose to establish an autono mous Poland be no longer delayed. A Moscow paper says Russia must fully satisfy the desire of the Poles for a nation of their own and warns the Czar that "the Germans are trying by every means to win over the Poles to their side," by giving the cities self government, by using the Polish lan guage in the courts by reviving edu cation In the Polish language and culture. Russia, counting on victory, hopes to annex to Poland the Austrian prov ince of Galicia and -the German prov inces of Posen and East and West Prussia. Germany will not hear of giving Up any territory, pronouncing possession of the territory mentioned "a geographical necessity to Ger many." Count Andrassy, the Hun garian statesman, proposes that Ga licia be added to Russian Poland un der the Hapsburga and that the dual monarchy be transformed n?o a triple monarchy. While all these varied, bright but conflicting prospects of political bene fits are held out to the Poles, they are concerned with the more imme diate questions of food, clothing and shelter. With a third Winter of war at hand, they are starving by hun dreds of thousands, seeking shelter in holes in the ground and in ruined buildings, clothed in foul rags, while hosts of them have accepted offers of employment in Germany or have fled Into the interior of Russia." They are not occupying their minds with restoration of Poland's ancient glory; their thoughts are on .how they shall sustain life from day to day in a de vastated country. DCTT FACED AND DOVE. The Oregonlan has a vast respect for the veterans of the Civil War, for they saved the Union, re-established freedom and equality and made pos terity their everlasting debtor. They know what it means In effort. In sac rifice, in blood and in "treasure to fight for the flag. But they know. too, as others ought to know, that the deeds they performed, the strug gles they endured and the difficulties they overcame were not In vain; and that only in that way could the Na tion be saved. We wonder what these brave-men. conscious of the high rectitude of their purposes and of the inestimable value of their services to their coun try, would have thought of Abraham Lincoln if he had made it his chief aim and boast at any cost to avoid an appeal to arms, and if in 1864 he had offered as his principal achieve ment the slogan, "He kept us out of war"? We wonder If these valiant and heroic old men, contemplating the troublesome and exciting history of ante-bellum days, now regret that they were called to the colors and think an easier and better and less costly way could have been devised to avoid the irrepressible conflict? Do they think that by facile twlst ings, by ingenious turnings, by sudden reversals, by long delays, by strange contradictions, by bold talk and timid action, by eloquent apostrophies to humanity at large and by utter in difference to human slavery at home, a great wrong could have been righted and the Union could have been pre served ? Do these fine gray men, once yie boys in blue, think that a compromise which evaded, and postponed the war, and half settled the great questions of secession and slavery, should have been sought and made by Abraham Lincoln? Or do they revere the name of Lin coln because he saw his duty, faced it fearlessly and performed it resolutely and nobly? We are led to these reflections by a letter printed elsewhere today from a G. A. R. veteran, who has somehow persuaded himself, or been persuaded, that Mr. Wilson is another Abraham Lincoln. ENFORCING TUB NARCOTIC LAW. Striking evidence of the value of tact in enforcing a drastic law is pre sented in the experience of an Eastern city in which efforts of the Federal Goverivment to curtail the sale of habit-forming drugs have been rather conspicuously successful. The city is Cincinnati. The cosmopolitan char acter of its population has made the problem unusually difficult. Yet the Federal Inspector assigned to super vision of law enforcement there has done so well that almost all of the drug habitues who were unwilling to be cured and who were able to leave have gone away to other localities. This Is not a mere shifting of the bur den, because it has served to demon strate what can be done when the authorities are intent on theiq main purpose and go about their work in the right way. ' " The essence of the Federal narcotic law is the record it provides through which restricted drugs may be traced from their source to the approximate consumer. The manner In which the Inspector operated, as described in the Pharmaceutical Era, was first to ob tain information from wholesalers as to all purchases made by retail drug gists, and from the books of the latter he was able to learn the names of physicians who were buying in ex ceptionally large amounts. The next step was to examine the record of each physician and separate the sheep irom me goats. ins inspector, ur. Stier, was able"-to list the confirmed drug users by indtvldoal' examination. A large proportion of these'were im mediately classified as curable, and physicians prescribing for them were required -to show results within a rea sonable time or be subject to punish ment; it was not permitted that they should be mere purveyors of drugs. City health officers were called upon to prescribe limited amounts of nar cotics when the true welfare of the patient demanded it. The result has been a surprisingly large number of cures, and this in turn has added many former victims to. the number of the inspector's friends in that city. Through these he has been able to trace still other cases and extend relief. It is a fact that the greater number of so-called "drug fiends" owe their downfall not to the prescriptions of physicians, as has been carelessly stated, but to the blandishments of other habitues, who seemed to take a perverted delight in pulling others down to their level such is the debasing effect of the drug habit. Now a curious reversion is seen, in that the habitues who have been cured are among the most active assistants the inspector has in seeking out and aiding other "curables." The chain thus created is one of the most hopeful of all signs of the future, Evidence that ".friends" are being cured by hundreds gives an optimistic aspect to the whole gigantic, under taking of enforcing the new 'Taw. One conspicuous triumph Is to the credit of the inspector. A vaudeville actress and her husband, both of whom had been addicts for years, went to Cincinnati and, being unable to procure their favorite drug, ap pealed in desperation to the Federal authorities, where they were, received sympathetically and obtained counsel that resulted In their undergoing ef fective treatment. - A letter received afterward by the Inspector from the actress is a decidedly human docu ment. For example, it said: Words cannot thank you. If you had been where my husband and 1 have been tor the past nineteen yuars you would understand. We have lived in the professional world for seventeen years, a world in w-blah sympa thy and affection are- only spoken of and felt from the mouth ont. We have never had any real aid or sympathy. We have been lonely, poor mortals, weak and subject to all the temptations that mind and body know. We feel that, if the other fellows had the same temptations we have had, they, would have fallen even more easily than we did. . . . My heart goes out to those pooj human derelicts. I couldn't see this In the past, but I do now, vividly. You do them an incalculable injury when you , give them even a small prescription. Take It away. The suffering la only tor a short time. Don't give it t4 them The Harrison law is the greatest law ever made by the mind of man. 1, who have been a fiend for nineteen years, say thla in all truth. It probably is not true that the evil has been wholly eradicated even in Cincinnati, but such a beginning has been made as to give, complete justi fication to the law. The results ac complished have been almost marvel ous. It is certain that the next gen eration will be happily without the number of new addicts that has char acterized the past. But the point is that the result has been brought about not only by the enactment of the law, which was a highly --important step, but by the exercise of tact and mercy as well as thoroughness in its enforcement-, y Whether the child who rides to school In an automobile is setting a bad example to his classmates or not is being widely debated by educators, and since there is no court of last resort no decision has "been reached. It may be true, as some contend, that a few youngsters employ the motor car for the purpose of "putting on dog," as their critics say, but in this they are only following the example of their elders, and allowance should be made for them. The fact stands out, however, that we are - living In an automobile age, and so long as people own these machines they prob ably will continue to let Willie and Jennie ride in them, especially when the weather is a bit rough, no matter how much the reactionaries may rail. In rural districts, especially, the auto mobile has had the effect of increas ing" the percentage of school attend ance, which all will concede Is a good thing. There is force in the argument that many ride who would be all the better off physically if they walked, but this problem will have to be met with a new system of calisthenics or something else. The automobile undoubtedly has come to stay. It is said that the waste of food in America annually amounts to 11, 300,000,000. This is something more than $12 for each man, woman and child in the land not a matter of life and death, it would seem, when viewed as $12 only, .but certainly so enormous in the aggregate as to war rant reflection. But it would be un just to the housewife to charge all or even the greater part of the waste to her. People who "eat out" are by far the" greatest offenders. They1 habitually order more than they can eat, and only the lower classes of restaurants make much use of what is left. It takes four or five years to grow a steer, and yet the man who dines on high-grade steak in the res taurant customarily leaves from a fourth to a third tf It on the plate, and other foods are wasted in propor tion. It Is said by students of domes tic economy that if all the potatoes that are cooked were consumed there would be few seasons of excessive prices.' Waste prevention would do much to remedy the high cost of liv ing. News that the Carnegie Founda tion's compilation of the contributions made by America to the relief of European war Bufferers' is to be re vised is welcome. The original esti mate of $29,000,000, it appears, may be nearly doubled when all the re turns are In. That is to say, instead of having given about 12 cents apiece a .year, we may be shown to ha e con tributed a matter of two bits, or so for each of us. Millions sound big, but in this instance the story does not Dear dissection, for our average -ifts as individuals have been pitifully small. And, by the way, have you given your 25 cents? The Roumanians have succeeded as invaders against Austria only, the country which , every allied nation finds it easy to invade. Serbia and Montenegro did it before Austria got Germany and Bulgaria to help in turning the tide. With eggs at 70 cents, sugar at $7.20 per hundred pounds and flour at $7.60 a barrel in New York, war wages must rise very rapidly to keep pace with the cost of living. The sympathetic strike in New York has reached the inevitable cli max riot when the sympathy failed to eventuate in a strike of any conse quence. President Wilson's Ideas are fas cinating, but his execution of them Is disheartening. He is living example of the gulf which divides words from action. The number of cases of blackmail ing and swindling which comes to light suggests that some persons' war profits change hands rapidly. Has Great Britain undertaken a blockade of all the seas in the world as a legal rover for seizure of Chinese mails? The speaker yesterday Is not the only woman In Oregon wearing a last year's dress. There is a large Bister hood. Fairbanks likes Oregon and Oregon likes Fairbanks. The demonstration will be given one month from today. Business will be suspended around noon today to watch the boards. If a man is wanted, he can be located A . There are a few things not hit by the high cost of living, such as news papers and streetcar rides. President Wilson may be sorry he stirred up .Jeremiah O'Leary. - Jere miah sticks like a burr. Why should not the Princeton alumni be against-'President Wilson? They know him best. James J. Hill left more than $2, 000,000, accumulated from a standing start with nothing. AdvfScacy of a plan, to consolidate city and county overlooks a lot of geography. The"10-cent loaf will lead to thrift. None of It will be wasted at that price. A once popular saying has been re vised to read: "Let Goethals do It." Local sleuths are entitled to credit for solving the latest murder mystery. The recent State Fair was worth all it cost, and the profit is satisfactory. Money paid for school playgrounds is not misspent. One day to register and two days for br-sebalL, LC'REVS ANSWERS DO.VT SQUARE Mr. Gordon Compares Previous) ft a teg menta Wftk Reply to Mr. Feawlck. PORTLAND, Oct. . (To the Editor.) I notice n The Oregonlan that W. 8. URen in answer to Melvin , Fenwick's letter in regard to the effect of "the full rental value land tax bill," mora commonly known as "single tax meas ure." states that it will not raise taxes on improved farms but that city prop erty will be affected. I have had the pleasure of a short acquaintance with Mr. U'Ren and had formed the opinion that while vision ary he was sincere in his desire to help some certain class of people, but the Lord only knows what class it could be by this bill. However, after read ing his statement I am sorry that I am almost forced to conclude that Mr. U'Ren Is straining the point of real political honor In order to capture votes. When addressing -the Realty Board a few weeks ago Mr. U'Ren stated in answer to a question put by J. O. Elrod that the proposed measure would raise taxes from $3 to $10 an acre on East ern Oregon wheat land. - Also in an swer to a question I put to him a few days ago when 1 asked If the state should pass a measure whereby all the rental value is to be paid in taxes, how will the farmer pay the interest on a $6000 mortgage due a widow, he hesi tated, and then said that the widow would be unfortunate and that such cases could be taken care of by an old age pension. Mr. Fenwick in his letter spoke of the retired farmer who rented his farm and depended on the Income. If this bill passed he would have to go to the poorhouse. Now, It strikes me that the widow's old age pension would be prac tically the same as going to the poor house. While I don't want to censure Mr. U'Ren in an unjust way, I think It is a very serious thing , for any man to frame a bill so deceptive that voters are liable unknowingly to vote away ownership or income (which Is the same thing) of property that they, by years of industry and toil, have ac cumulated. If he is in earnest and feels that "single tax" is the solution of all evil, he should frame his bill ac cordingly and give it such a title, then fearlessly no out and argue It on its merits. But this repetition of the same thing each election in a different form in hope that the public, without full knowledge, will vote it through is not what I think strictly honorable and should be frowned down on by the community. HERBERT GORDON. MOVEMENT WORTHY OP SCPPOHT Dr. Alan "Welch Smith Indorses) Mar tun Gulch Project. PORTLAND, Oct. 6. (To the Editor.) In South Portland a number of ladles are trorkins; hard for a noble cause, the idea being to utilise Marquam Gulch for a children's playground. This gulch Is located in the V-shape drive al the head of Sixth street, or beginning of Terwilliger boulevard. It Is about 50 feet deep and will have to be filled with earth taken from the surround ing hills. This work Is expensive, re quiring time and money, which can be readily furnished, provided the public is willing to assist these ladies in their strenuous effort to serve the people of that community. , The gulch is the dumping ground fof tin cans and garbage, unsanitary and unsightly. It should be changed into a beautiful playground, where thou sands of children, now playing In the street, may go and develop little bodies into healthy men and women. Certain ly no locality in all this beautiful city presents the urgent need of play grounds as South Portland and I feel that all citizens, whether living In that community or not, who are Interested in the many needs of those unable to help themselves, will freely give his or tier innuence to this worthy cause, ' . ALAN WELCH SMITH. Interest on Taxes. PORTLAND, Oct. 6. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian I note the follow ing item: "After today interest of 1 per cent a month, or 12 per cent a vear. must be paid on delinquent taxes. After nuvemoer an aaaitionai e per cent payment will be required." I am a voter, taxpayer and subscriber of your paper, and will you please an. ewer through the columns of your pa per how the state of Oregon can charge 12 per cent when the Oregon stale law forbids a charge of over 10 per cent? It seems to me they are breaking their own law. Also, does the 5 per cent additional mean per year or month? - MAY PFERDNER, 702 Overton Street. The Legislature In passing a law Is not bound by any law passed by a pre ceding Legislature. The .interest on delinquent taxes Is fixed by state law. Usury Is defined by another law which does extend to delinquent taxes. The 6 per cent chargeable against unpaid taxes Is not a -recurring inter est charge, but la a single penalty. In teVest at 1 per cent a month, however, against unpaid taxes continues to run, No Doubt of I) d rant's Guilt. FOREST GROVE. Or, Oct. 6. (To the Editor.) A number of years ag one Durant was hanged after having been convicted of the murder of two girl II- a shurch building In San Francisco. Since Durant waa executed there have been a number of alleged confessions by different persons, who it is said have confessed they were the murderers. Has there ever keen any one of these confessions that was given credence by tbe authorities? There is a story to the effect that a man on his deathbed confessed that he was the guilty man and that his con fession appeared to be so plausible that one of the Jurors In the case was so disturbed over the matter he made the statement that he would never again convict a man on circumstantial evidence. Is there, any truth in thla story? C L. LARGE. There was never Information re vealed that raised doubt in the minds of the authorities as to Durant's guilt. On the contrary, subsequent revelations are said to have strengthened the case against him. American Lives Lout In Mexleo. PORTLAND. Oct. I. (To the Editor.) Please publish the actual number of lives lost in the Spanish-American War after war was declared by the United States against Spain: also the number of American lives lost since the begin ning of the Mexican revolution. SUBSCRIBER. The number of American soldiers killed in the Spanish-American War waa 306. There is no definite list of Americans murdered In the Mexican revolution. Senator 'Fall cites an in complete but authenticated list of 267. while estimates go as high as E00. These were all civilians and do not in clude deaths in the American Army 'or naval forces at Vera Crus, Parral. Cair rizal, or in border raids and border sniping. Citizenship of Married Women. PORTLAND, Oct. . (To tha Editor.) (1) If an American woman marries an Englishman before he has taken out his final naturalisation papers, does It affect the woman's status an an Ameri can? (2) If a child Is born to them what nationality would It be? PORTLAND. (1) Yes. She acquires the status of her husband. (2) The child becomes an American citizen it he la born la this country. WELL. MAKE A GITCSS. There Is no calamity which a great nation ran Invite which equals that which follows a supine enbnilaslon to wrong; and injustice, and tbe t-onne-qnent Iom of National self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and tlrfended n people's safety and greatness. The foregoing are the words of a distinguished American. Who waa he? Under what circum stances were they uttered? What was the result of their utter ance? How much do you know about American history? Can you answer the foregoing questions? The Oregonlan has Invited sub mission of essays on this quota tion, but its authorship is plainly a puzzle. Iyet us now make It a guessing contest. Who said it? Whom does It sound .like? It ought to be asy. MAN" OF DEEDS. NOT WOROSNEED Therefore, Strangely Knouah. This Man la for Woodrow Wilson. 6AN FRANCISCO, Oct, I. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian September 28 one of your correspondents, Charles A. Johns, states that "Mr. Lincoln never waa a Democrat." He Is techni cally and. as worda go. right in his dictum. Shakespeare' has well said: "What's In a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would -smell as sweet." While It la true that Mr. Lincoln, whose memory I revere, and I am by no means a hero worshiper, was not nominally a Democrat, he was from the people, of the people and for the people, and I venture the as sertion that if he were living today he would align himself with the policies and practices of Mr. Wilson and his friends rather than with those of his eppontuts and traducers. As to my Republicanism, may I be pardoned if I state that I was a Civil War soldier and voted for General Grant and several other Republican Presidents: and I should still be found lined up with that party If it stood for Lincoln Republicanism. Mr. Lincoln, as you recall, warned his compatriots i tne oangers that would eventuate from undue capitalised interests, condi tions that obtain today, mores the P"y. la It not of more than ordinary sjg nlucance that so many, may 1 say dis tinguished and even illustrious, lifelong itepuoilcana are nocking to Mr. Wll son's standard, among whom are, nota bly. Henry Ford, Luther Burbank, Thomas A. Edison and a host of others? I almost daily meet here in the Me chanics' Institute and elsewhere Intel ligent, shrewd and farseeing men who are patriots rather than partisans and who tor years have voted the Repub lican ticaet, wno assure me that they win support Mr. Wilson. What does It Indicate? Let us put principles above men and parties and select for our Chief Magistrate a man of deeds rather man one of words. I am firmly convinced that If Mr WilBon la re-elected It will hasten the solution of the Mexican muddle as wel as more speedily end the transatlantic woriawide war. I assume that The Oregonlan's wel established record for love of fair play win cause it to give this counter-irrl tant space. S. T. ADAM8, 6S8 Pine street. Free Kittens. PORTLAND, Oct. 6 (To the Edl tor.) Other persons had met with suc cess in disposing of kittens through your columns. I have a 6-months-old maltese kitten, female, that I would like to get a good home, where she would be petted or where they have another kitten. Would also like to get a good home for the mother cat. Phone East 877. I. Real Story of American "Tanks" in Europe's Battlefields RENE BACH TELLS IT IN THE BIG SUNDAY PAPER OTHER FEATURES. Walking forts have startled the warring armies of Europe. In vulnerable metal monsters that walk straight into the enemy's forces without damage to themselves but dealing death as they advance from rapid-firing machine guns, seemingly monsters as implacable as any Frankenstein, these are new problems for military experts to overcome. They are described and pictured in The Sunday Oregonian magazine. 200 YEARS OF YALE This great American university will cele brate its founding two centuries ago at New Haven on October 21. Sons of old Eli will make a great pilgrimage to their alma mater at that time and will view a pageant that will show the historic greatness of thia institution. FOR YOUNG FOLKS There is a page in color with a Donahey drawing showing an adventure of the Teenio Weenies, the tiny people that children love. -They discover a hickory tree and hit upon a way to crack the huge nuts. There are puzzles and a comic supplement, too, for the delight of the younger generation. CARPENTER'S ALASKA LETTER rThe trade of Alaska is de scribed in an interesting letter from Fairbanks by Frank G. Car penter, the noted traveler, who has girdled the globe for newspaper readers. He describes the merchandising business of the great territory that borders on the Arctic. THE nERO FACE Is bravery the distinctive quality of a type? Can one read courage in the eyes of the truly heroic ? Pictures of heroes in the present war are shown as helping to solve this riddle. The text tells of the task of picking brave men by their faces. VICTIM OF KIDNAPERS Little Countess Gixycka is perhaps the most kidnaped child in the whole world. She was captured and recaptured by her divorced parents and is now held by her mother in dread of another separation. Little Leonora has been rushed frantically from one place to another in Europe and America to escape further kidnapings. PORTLAND BABIES ARE PRETTIEST You will say so, too, when you see a page of Portland tots pictured in the Sunday paper. There is a lot to admire and to love in this feature and it is a page one wilr.linger over. It's worth the second look. HERBERT KAUFMAN'S PAGE This noted writer brings more of his inspiring philosophy to Oregonian readers this week. FAVORITE OLD POEMS There are many of the good old rhymes on the page printed Sunday and some you haven't seen for years. PORTLAND SCHOOL HAPPENINGS The news of the schools is given a special page, where the young folks chronicle their accom plishments in study and sport. THE ARCHERY GIRL, The bow and arrow, almost the oldest of weapons, is coming in for a revival; not in its primitive uses, but as one of the most graceful of sports. The bow and arrow are no longer to be left to Cupid, for society girls of the country have adopted it as an outdoor pastime that allures. It is not only good exercise, but it adds grace and suppleness to the carriage. A page of archery, with colored pictures. AN AWKWARD SITUATION What is the correct way to break an " engagement? This has tried many a maid who tired of the uneasy , fetters love had placed upon her. A pretty grand-niece of President Buchanan tells why she broke her engagement and a page article by Allen Sinsheimer describes the circumstances of this odd case. WOMEN'S WORLD PICTURED Fashions have a lot of space in the Sunday paper, where milady can see the very latest turn of the , ever-changing picture. There is an auction bridge department that will be full of interest to patrons of this fascinating game. MANY OTHER DEPARTMENTS Temple has his interesting sketches that depict real human nature; 6ociety'B latest doings are told in text and picture; there is a sports' supplement that will tell all about the world's series, now in the limelight, the approach of football, shooting, golf, chess and checkers and all the other prov ender for the sport devotee. The church page records what is hap- pening among the city's congregations, and there are ever so many other interesting things, in addition to the full report of the latest political developments and all the world's news. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years At. From The Oregonlan Oct 7. 1891. Terre Haute. Ind. Hal Pointer and Direct paced two heats before a crowd of 12,000 in the mucn-talked-of event today. Each horse won a heat. Direct won the first in 2:13 and Hal Pointer the second in 2:11. Sam Thall. advance manager for Jo seph Grismer and Phoebe Davles, who will play at the Marquam next week, arrive! in town yesterday. John W. Hickman, after a tour of Washington and British Columbia. aa returned to his work with Messra U. Arata & Co. The Portland baseball club and visit ing players will go to the theater as guests of Manager French tonight to see "Oliver Twist." A Washington dispatch says that J. B. Montgomery, of Portland, has ar rived there after a tour .of Europe, in which he studied tbe grain market con ditions. He reports that a shortage is Imminent in all big centers. . W. H. Bagley, of Salem, special agent and adjuster of the State Insurance Company and a brother-in-law of E. C. Pentland, secretary of the Oregon Press Association. Ws in the city, with Mrs. Bagley and Is visiting the exposi tion. Wall street gossip, says MIseonrI Pacific directors, are dissatisfied, with Gould's management. Oregon has produced a possible Tlval to Thomas Edison, the world-famed electrician, in the person of F. J. Crouch, whose home is In Eugene. He has produced a harmless dynamo which even a child can handle without dan ger. Rev. Alfred Sommers delivered tho "occasional address" at the German day celebration yesterday. Others who took part were: Miss Maude La Belle, Mws E. Schacht. Henry Bellman. Mrs. E. J. Fink. . John Ryan. Newton Green. Claude Parks. Charles Dillon. Joseph Seltzer. William Biles. H. M. Ryan and J. M. Ryan. Miss Mary Belguth. Miss Herman Sommer. Mary Nouke. Profes sor Joseph Stebinger and Mrs. John. Gschwander. Blue l la Bnntlnsj. M MINNVILLE. Or.. Oct- 6. (To the Editor.) In The OrenoViian of this date I notice an Inquiry regarding the proper placing of red. white and blue bunting for decorating being used. I take It, as the National colors. For years past I have taken Interest In the matter, and I recollect seeing. In print, a statement from an official of the Government at Washington to the effect that while there was no ruling by the Army or Nay or Congress on the subject, the blue should be up, end on many occasions. Fourth of Jujy. etc.. I have directed that It should be so placed, and have the majority of Civil War veterans. Grand Army of the Re public, with me In this contention. (I am not a veteran.) The blue field of stars In the flag Is at the top. and there is no reason for the "logical arrangement" of red up, that you mention. AN "OLD GLORY" ENTHUSIAST. Senate Vote en A damson Bill. PORTLAND, Or.. Oct. 6. (To tne Editor.) (1) How many Republicans and how many Democrats are mem bers of the United States Senate? (2) What was the vote on the Adam son bill in the Senate by parties? A. G. W. (1) Democrats, 66; Republicans, 40. (2) For the bill. 43 Democrats. 1 Re publican; against. 2 Democrats. 28 Republicans.