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PORTLAND, THURSDAY, NOV. 30, 1916.
MILITARY TRAINING FOR ALL.
Congress will not be able to escape
consideration of the question of com
pulsory military training at the ses
sion which begnns next week. The
Hay Army law has utterly failed. The
number of recruits obtained under it
has fallen short even of the number
secured prior to its passage. It has
not avoided the necessity of employ
ing the National Guard for what is
purely police duty on the Mexican
border. It has repelled men from in
stead of attracting them to the Na
tional Guard, for it has shown that
membership in that body subjects men
to service which imposes sacrifice of
business or employment a sacrifice
which they should be required to make
only in time of grave National peril,
and then in common with their fellow
citizens. The Hay law has greatly
increased the Nation's military ex
penses without increasing its military
strength or efficiency. It is such a
law as Could emanate only from a
provincial-minded, pork-grabbing pa
cifist. Failure of the Hay law has added
much to the weight of public opinion
in favor of universal compulsory train
ing, which is the purpose of the bill
introduced by Senator Chamberlain
and to be pressed at the coming ses
sion. It is reported to have turned
President Wilson in favor of compul
sion. That bill would put in prac
tice the idea that National safe
ty requires that every able-bodied
man be trained for the defense
of the country, and that it is
the duty of every man to undergo
that training. The bill is founded on
the principle that the duty to be
equipped for military service, and in
time of war to render such service,
is just as binding as is the duty to pay
taxes. As taxes are necessary to main
tain the Government, so are military
training and service necessary to the
survival of the Nation. This Nation
is exposed to risk of war, as a house
is exposed to risk of fire. The Nation
must guard itself against the risk of
war by training its manhood and
maintaining an army, just as a city
protects itself against risk of ffre by
training and maintaining a fire de
partment. There is absolutely no case against
military training. Those who oppose
It can maintain their position only by
holding that the Nation is not worth
defending. If it is worth defending,
we cannot defend it without prepared
ness and we cannot be sufficiently
prepared without military training. If
we attempt defense without training,
we expose the men whom we send
against an enemy to certain massacre
and the country to certain and crush
ing defeat.
Modern military methods require
forces so large that nothing short of
universal training will suffice. Though
not all trained men would probably
be required in actual war, justice de
mands that the question which shall
serve and which remain at home shall
not be decided by the individual. The
men of military age should be divided
into classes, as was proposed by Wash
ington soon after the Republic was
founded, and the selection within any
class should be by lot. Parents do
not hesitate to give their sons to their
country, when all take an equal
chance of being called; they protest
only against a system which takes the
willing and patriotic, but protects the
shirk. That is the inherent weakness
of the voluntary system, and it goes
far to explain the present failure of
recruiting. The undergoing of mili
tary training and the rendering of
military service should no more be
voluntary than the payment of taxes.
Both are dufies which the citizen owes
to the Nation and both should be legal
obligations of the citizen.
The Chamberlain bill recognizes this
obligation in the same way as do the
Swiss and Australian systems. It re
quires that boys begin physical and
military training without arms in the
public schools at the age of 12, not
less than 90 hours a year to be de
voted to it up to the age of 18. Boys
of 14 and 15 would also be trained
with the rifle, while those between 16
to IS would also spend ten whole
days yearly in camp at field exercises
and target practice. At 18 boys would
pass into the citizen army, and until
they reached the age of 24 would
have not less than 120 hours' training
each year, ten whole days to be con
tinuous in camp. The training of
boys would be carried on in conjunc
tion with their school work and that
oi citizen soldiers without interfering
with their civil occupation. Employ
ers would be forbidden to discriminate
against men on account of their liabil
ity to training. Service would be re
garded as a duty, and no compensation
would be paid for training time,
though the Government would bear all
expense of camp instruction. Each
Congressional district would be a reg
istration and training district in
charge of a regular Army officer with
a corps of Instructors.
This plan accords with that recom
mended by Washington in his -first
message, when he said: "A free peo
ple ought not only to be armed but
disciplined." He proposed that all
citizens between 18 and 60 be organ
ized in classes and disciplined, and
that military training and service be
the price paid for the right to vote
and hold office. President John
Adams mads a similar proposal.
President Jefferson in 1805 drafted a
bill providing that "every free, able
bodied white male citizen" between
18 and 4 5 should be "of the-militia."
and that all should be classified. His
advice was not followed, and in 1814
he wrote: "Our people are too happy
at home to enter into regular service,
and we cannot be defended but by
making every citizen a soldier." The
humiliations of the war of 1812 were
" the penalty of not following the ad
vice of the first three Presidents, and
their recommendations were renewed
by Presidents Madison, Monroe and
Jackson, but Congress remained su
pine. The voluntary system proved
inadequate for the Civil War. Presi
dent Lincoln resorted to conscription
in face of a storm of abuse, and he
won.
The Chamberlain plan is favored by
the General Staff of the Army as
practicable in connection with the
public schools, and the cost is esti
mated by Colonel Edwin F. Glenn at
only $25,000,000 a year. An almost
identical plan was adopted in Aus
tralia in 1911 against the opposition
of the mothers. After it had been in
operation for two years, its beneficial
effects on the physical development
and discipline of the boys were so
manifest that Colonel Glenn said:
You cn4 not drive it out of Australia
on accouTft of the objection of mothers.
They all actually insist upon It. and they
insist upon it not from the military point of
view far from it: they insist upon it be
cause of the civil benefits.
Military training improves boys and
men physically, making them more
efficient citizens. It instills discipline,
thereby adding to their efficiency. It
inspires patriotism, wheh inclines
them to defend their country, and to
fight to win. It applies to all alike
and compels rich and poor to submit
to the same discipline, to render the
same service, to eat the same food,
to sleep in the same beds, to rub
shoulders in peace and to fight shoul
der to shoulder In war. It thus breaks
down class distinctions, which are a
growing peril to this country, and for
tifies democracy. It is just to all; it
is wise; it is economical. It will res
cue this Nation from that slothful in
dulgence, that indolent ease, that
shrinking from exertion and danger
which lead to National decadence.
PEACE AND PLENTY.
Some liae meat anrl.raniia eat.
And some would eat that want it;
But we liae meat and we can eat,
fcae let the Lord be thnnkit.
Robert Burns.
The greatest portion of the world's
material comforts has been reserved
for America during several years, and
it has been denied to other nations.
It is not the fault or our people that
peace and its blessings have spread
their wings and left all Europe bathed
In a welter of blood; and it is our high
fortune that plenty has been our share
and safety our well-nigh exclusive
possession.
Let us not deny ourselves the merit
of deserving our prosperous condi
tion, nor let us fail to note that others
who have not been so favored have
not been able to escape the colossal
tragedy of unprovoked and undesired
war. Let us be thankful that the skies
above us are benign and the cloud3
which cover the horizon have not
cast their deep shadows upon us. We
have not. of course, wholly avoided
the dreadful consequences of the
world's conflict; nor do we walk
serenely through a fool's paradise,
fondly dreaming that there can be
for us no dreadful visitation of some
international madman's immeasurable
anger against us. But so far we have
been free from actual embroilment
and, under God's favor, we hope for
continued immunity.
All other benefits fade into insignifi
cance before the incalculable blessing
of peace. Crops have been bountiful,
but there have been many other fat
years; trade has been good, but that
is the National rule; work has been
obtainable at fair wages, with occa
sional spots or periods of depression;
and the daily occupations of the citi
zen have not been interrupted by any
calamity or misfortune or bereave
ment not common to all humanity in
all time. So in this heaving and
straining age we have been able to
keep to our customary pursuits and
to follow our National and individual
aims, paying only the usual price of
endeavor, service and duty. We
should pay now with gratitude, and
should not in our conceit forget the
frightful catastrophe that has over
whelmed others.
LEARNING TI1E LESSON OF THRIFT.
The thoroughness with which the
people of Great Britain aro learning
the lesson of thrift, enforced by. the
war, gives promise in large measure
of atoning for Its belated application.
The economic side of saving has been
deeply impressed upon people in all
conditions of life. No more remark
able change in the attitude of a peo
ple toward an economic question ever
was wrought in so short space of time.
It is seen now that there is nothing
but fallacy in the argument that ex
travagance is good for a country be
cause it "helps trade." It will seem
almost inconceivable to those who
read of the extremes of waste pre
vention that are now resorted to that
only two years ago a wholly different
spirit pervaded the same nation. In
nate patriotism, strongly felt by Brit
ons everywhere, has done the trick.
Maude Radford Warren, who has
written of her observations for the
Saturday Evening Post, point3 out
that the lesson that war has taught in
England is that the services of all
able-bodied people are required for
four primary purposes to fight, to
make munitions, to produce the neces
sities of life and to make goods, for
sale abroad, in order to pay for
what England has to buy abroad. It
is not hard to picture a nation work
ing with these four objects and no
others constantly in mind accom
plishing results' of great economic
magnitude. The task is simplified
so much! There is to be no waste of
coal or light or food. Every unneces
sary servant employed means one per
son taken from the fighting line or
from one of the necessary employ
ments enumerated. Every unneces
sary garment worn means waste of
time in making it that would other
wise be more serviceably employed, or
means the consumption of an article
that if exported would bring money
with which further to prosecute the
war.
The thoroughness of the propaganda
that is now bearing fruit is shown by
other concrete instances. Men are
refusing to ride on trains for mere
pleasure, in the knowledge that if an
appreciable number of men adopt the
same rule there will be more train
service available for the transporta
tion of necessaries, or more trainmen
who can be diverted to work more
directly connected with the war. The
same is true of the man who rides in
a bus when he could walk as well
Every trifle is to be considered, for
trifles Decome matters of consequence
by simple multiplication. Whether or
not they view it In that light, the
fact is that the English are profiting
by a lesson taught by their principal
enemy earlier in the conflict. It Is
not the first instance in which a con
tending nation has gained by the
teachings of a foe.
The pity of it all is that a people
should require the pressure of a great
war to impress so obvious a truth as
that waste hever made anybody per
manently prosperous. The silly no
tion that the man who spends his
earnings recklessly for useless things
is thereby contributing to the welfare
of his fellow-men because he "makes
more, work" for them persists In more
quarters than some observers would
believe. Improving the standards of
living is a different matter. "Coal
Oil Johnny," who made himself no
torious half a century ago by dissipat
ing a fortune or two with total disre
gard for economic principles, is an ex
ception only in degree among a large
number of men who "cannot stand
prosperity." It is the individuul of his
t?re who sows the seeds of hard times
in the midst of an era of prosperity.
What a wonderfully" rich people Amer
icans would be if, in time of peace and
war profits, they would put into ef
fect only a small fraction of the
fundamental economies now being
practiced, in face of sheer necessity,
by the people of the nations at war.
HONOR CAPTAIN DUFFY AND HIS MEN.
The story of Captain Duffy and
the crew of the Chemung stands out
as a bright episode in a gloomy rec
ord of tame submission by Americans
to what should have been held in
tolerable wrong on both sea and land.
When a German submarine summoned
them to leave their ship and to sub
mit to its destruction, they were pow
erless to resist, but they refused to
lower the American flag. They were
determined that, if the ship must go
down, it should go down with the
American flag flying at its masthead.
and they had their way. They still
honor that flag, and they would not
haul It down. To them it stood for
liberty, justice and the supremacy of
law over brute force.
Of Captain Duffy's crew of 2 4 men.
only ten were Americans, the rest be
ing Greeks, Spaniards. Russians and
Mexicans, but they all stood by him
in his refusal to lower the flag. All
were worthy to be Americans, for all
venerate that noble symbol of all that
Americans hold dear. All are imbued
with the same spirit which animated
Perry, Lawrence and Paul Jones at
sea, and in our own time animated
Captain Boyd and Lieutenant Adair
on land. It Is a spirit which scorns
the safety-first policy of watchful
waiting and keep out of war. It is
for the time suppressed, but it still
lives, and the time will yet come when
t will burst into a flame of patriotic
unity and resolution.
All honor to Captain Duffy and his
crew. They have shown that In a time
of National humiliation and indolent
ease the spirit of Americanism is not
dead.
1-NFREPAREDNF.8S.
The bitter voice of an anti-pre
paredness crusader, finding expres
sion through a letter to the papers.
utters this familiar taunt:
Those who want war shnuM he drafted,
Ittto service at tlx? first sign of war and'
placed right up close in front where pow
der Bmeiis the stronpet. That will take
the flrfht out of their systems.
Let us agree that those who want
war for war's sake ought to be willing
to swallow smoke and eat powder
and live in trenches all their unnat
ural lives.
Hut who wants war? No citizen
who values peace and plenty and who
hopes to have them by minding his
own business and leaving his neigh
bors free to mind theirs.
The fire-eating disturber of Na
tional ease and comfort is not the only
undesirable citizen who should be
made first to face the enemy's guns.
Along with him should go the peace
at - any - price soap-boxer, who is
against preparedness in any form. He
denounces war, and as a means to
avoid war he makes war on every
plan to prepare for war. A favorite
weapon in his propaganda against pre
paredness is vituperative denunciation
of all who would prepare against war
as the avowed and confessed advo
cates of war.
Yet, when war comes, with a Nation
unprepared, he is the public enemy
who is responsible for the colossal
butchery that will follow when un
trained soldiers are called upon to
meet the seasoned and disciplined
troops of the opposing force.
ROIMAXIA'S FIGHT FOR LIFE.
The most impressive fact of the
present stage of the war is the Austro
German invasion of Roumanla. With
out weakening their lines on the main
east, west and Italian fronts so far
as to permit any dangerous pushing
back, the Teutons have organized a
new army which has swept the Rou
manians out of Transj lvania and
through the Carpathians and which
has seized the western end of the
Wallachlan plain, with the possibility
that' large Roumanian forces around
Orsova have been cut off and will be
captured. Roumanla, with green
troops and with German artillery for
which the annunition supply cannot
be replenished, has made a valiant de
fense, but is being overpowered by
weight of superior artillery and num
bers of veteran troops. Its best hope
is arrival of sufficient Russian troops,
particularly artillery, to block the in
vasion. This new Teuton offensive has falsi
fied all the confident assertions of the
allies that the central empires had
used up their reserves before Verdun,
on the Somme, in Galicia, on the Carso
plateau, and in the abortive Trent
diive. The allies seem to have for
gotten the vast number of prison
ers taken by the Germans. The ratio
of fighting men to population is great
ly increased by employment of the
conquered people at peaceful and non
combatant military work. Every pris
oner captured by the Teutons is not
only a man lost to the allies but a
man gained by the captors to replace
one. of their own people, who can then
bo sent to the front.
It is almost as Imperative for Russia
as for Roumania that the Austro-Ger-man
advance be stayed. A continued
advance of the invaders eastward
would give them possession of the oil
fields and of great food supplies, but,
far more important, it would expose
the flank of the Roumanians who
still hold the western Carpathian fron
tier. If this part of the line were
compelled to withdraw, the Russian
flank on the western border of Buko
vlna. where it looks down on the Hun
garian plain, would be endangered.
Should Von Falkenhayn make his way
across the country to a junction with
Von Mackensen in the Dobrudja, their
combined forces would be in a posi
tion to push northward through both
that province and Moldavia to the
Russian frontier of Bessarabia, and
Odessa, the chief Russian port on the
Black Sea, would be in peril. The
Germans would be so far east of the
Russian line in Bukovlna and Galicia
that the Muscovites might be forced
to abandon all the ground they have
gained this year at immense cost. The
whole western coast of the Black Sea
from the Danube to Constantinople
would be under Teuton control. The
gap between the Russians and Rou
manians on the north and the allied
army In Macedonia on the south would
be doubled In width, and the prospect
of junction would become still more
remote.
When Roumania declared war, Rus
sia was so slow in sending troops to
the Dobrudja, and that country has
since been so slow In sending aid for
the defense of the Carpathian front,
and the troops sent have been so in
adequate for the task, that the Czar's
government is largely responsible for
his new ally's misfortunes. Unless a
powerful army with abundant artil
lery is soon sent to support the demor
alized Roumanians, the Teutons may
quickly force their way across the
country eastward to Bukharest and
then to the Danube. They are now In
the great plain which, offers no nat
ural obstacles. Although the Winter
temperature often reahes 20 degrees
below zero, there is little enow, hence
Winter may prove no hindrance.
Roumania's urgent need of help may
explain the new energy shown by Sar
rall's army In bringing Greece to sub
mission and in pushing the campaign
in Serbia. Allied troops have occupied
the northern districts of Thessaly, thus
to some extent protecting the allies'
rear. The food blockade may be 're
newed in order to force Greece to sur
render arms and ammunition and thus
to make their rear secure against at
tack. The British have slowiy pushed
their way east of the Struma P.iver
and are approaching Demirhissar and
the Rupel defile, the gateway to Bul
garia. Before they could safely move
in force northward, it would be neces
sary to regain from the Bulgars all
the country between Seres and the
coast, but no progress has been re
ported since the British were reported
two miles from Seres. Roumania's
necessity dictates that a Winter cam
paign be undertaken In Macedonia, but
there the allies must fight in moun
tains and away from railroads, while
in Roumania the Teutons are now In
a plain penetrated by railroads. The
most that Sarrail will he able to do
in aid of Roumania Is to force the
fighting so vigorously that the central
powers' ability to reinforce Von Fal
kenhayn will be limited by the neces
sity of protecting Bulgaria from in
vasion on the west and south.
Roumanla may yet prove a sacrifice
to that initial blunder of the allies in
not landing an army on the Gallipoli
peninsula when they made the naval
attack on the Dardanelles and to the
whole subsequent series of blunders
which have marked their diplomacy
and strategy in the Balkans.
The statisticians have no trouble at
all in finding figures in support of
the "safety-first" movement. It has
just been shown, for example, that in
the past two decades the number of
persons killed on railroad tracks in the
country was 86,783 and the number
of injured 94.646. Of the total of
killed and injured, more than 25.000
were under the age of 25 and many
were under 10. Only 36,27 6 were
tramps or hoboes, while more than
120,000 were residents of the neigh
borhood in which the accidents oc
curred. Most of them were wage-
earners. The total represents an aver
age of more than 9000 a year of ac
cidents, nearly half of them fatal, in
which the element of the unavoidable
is almost altogether lacking. Victims
are often technical trespassers, and
yet the laws against trespass do not
reach them, even to save them, for
local authorities are unwilling to
prosecute and juries slow to convict.
n view of entire absence of moral
turpitude.
The growth of our exports of staples
is due to a large degree to the ad
vance in price, and in a much less
degree to an increase in quantity. This
is illustrated by wheat exports in
October. The number of bushels de
creased nearly 6,000.000, compared
with October, 1915, but the value de
creased only $535,468. With regard
to cotton also, exports decreased over
1,750,000 bales, but value Increased
over $43,000,000. Our accession of
wealth arises rather from the fact
that we get higher prices for our
goods than from an Increase in our
sales, at least as regards staples. The
bulk of the increase in quantity has
been In munitions, of which our sales
will fall off after the war.
Roumania's plight is ascribed in
largo part to the inefficiency of its
aviation corps.-- Without air recon
naissance an army is blind, as Russia
learned when its army blundered into
Von Hindenburg's trap in East Prus
sia. With abundant, efficient air
craft, an army is almost all-seeing,
as the Germans proved when they
fcpied out the Russian positions in
Galicia a year ago last May. and as
the British and French have proved
by their advance on the Somme, which
they ascribe largely to supremacy in
the air. Our War and Navy depart
ments cannot make too much haste
in building aircraft and training air
men, for in war we should be help
less without them.
The National Shoe Retailers' Asso
ciation has appointed a committee to
investigate possible substitutes for
leather in the manufacture of shoes.
Well, if the American people could
be induced to wear wooden clogs out
doors they might wear paper-soled
shoes indoors, but we have not come
to that yet.
Champ Clark does not go far
enough in advising people to keep -a
few hens. A little more labor will
care for a cow, with a pig to fatten
on the surplus milk. Being a Mis
sourian. Champ Clark knows a wife's
time is not fully occupied.
The people who observed the first
day of Thanksgiving in this country
were content with a modest feast.
So, too, were the early settlers of the
Oregon country.
A San Francisco hotel will today
serve whale meat, which must be as
palatable as muskrat stew when you
do not know what you are eating.
California "drys" are figuring on
1918. and 6lnce November 7 the coun
try can expect anything from the
Native Son.
When father asks the blessing to
day, he will have, perhaps, a mental
reservation about the carving.
Many a man can be thankful today
that the wife of his youth abides with
him.
It is the spirit and not the cost of
the feast that makes for apprecia
tion.
One feels pity for foreign nations
that do not know a Thanksgiving day.
The dyspeptic has the best of It
today, if he only knew It.
This Is the bachelor's day of solid
comfort at hotel or club.
Holiday for all but those who work.
Stars and Starmaker
Br Leone Case Baer.
WILLIAM ("BILLY") PAN'GLE may
not be a weather prognostleator,
but he says he'll bet money that even
if it rains all over Portland and pours
down at the f oibail sane, it will be
"Fair and Warmer" at the Heillg. with
sunshine in t'.ie box office. "The only
shower we're going to see la a shower
of coin." predicts Billy. The show opens
tnis afternoon and has only one other
matinee, the one on Saturday. There
are two night performances tonight
and Friday nigM.
Just 10 years ago it was that a
pathetic-looking young man dropped
off the Cleveland Express In Jersey
City. He was tall, blonde, pale and
disconsolate, and wholly unknown, but
he waa ambitious. He Immediately in
vested the savings of Itard years as a
reporter on the Cleveland Leader in a
New York hall bedroom and a type
writer; and made four carbon copies
of a rlay he had taken with him. He
sent It to four managers at once. Brady '
got it because he telegraphed his ac
ceptance, while the t:iree others wait
ed to write theirs. The play was
Clothes." the author was Avery Hop-
wood. Oh, yen, such things do happen.
He Is still tall, but no longer quite o
path-tic. "Clothes" made money for
everybody connected with It. even to tie
author. His share of the loot he spent
in doing the gentleman adventurer act
all over the market, from Paris to
Wlessnichwo. buying himself learning
and experience. His "Seven Days" (in
collaboration) . was the first of the
year-run type of farce. Now when he
ffniln In a farce such as "Fair and
Warmer." the manager verifies his sig
nature, reaches for a contract blank
and says, "Fine! Great! Sign here,
pleuse." '
Hopwood'a greatest claim to drania-
turglc consideration Is his ability to
construct quick-stepping. amusing
farces without using the eternal tri
angle as his theme. While not written
necessarily for children, t'.iey still
move In a healthy atmosphere. The
characters are always likeable. Avery
Hopwood Is an Influencing figure In
a decade which has practically freed
the American theater from the nuty
French farce.
Answer to Mrs. F. J. L.: Oliver Mo-
rosco can be reached at 405 West For
tieth street. New York. He has an
nounced that he plans to establish a
play producing bureau In New York.
with a field of activity similar to his
producing theater In Los Angeles.
Here'g a cute kiddie tory. and I'm
not going to hang it on any actress or
actor, etiher. for a little Portland girl
Is responsible, and if I knew her name
she'd get the credit. It seems that a
wee little school miss of 7 came rush
ing homo greatly excited and told her
mother that the teacher had said If any
little hoys or girls were tardy again
she'd throw 'em into the furnace.
The mother called upon the teacher
to find the source of the child's Idea.
and the teacher was truly perplexed
for a moment. Then a great light
dawned. What she had said was that
If any more little boys and girls were
tardy she would drop them from the
register.
Headlinlshly I read where an actress
named Myrtyl Shaw has been wedded
to a man named Donald W. Ohe. And
the headline read.
"Ohe-fc'haw."
P.ay Samuels gave great big fat
turkeys to a half dozen stagehands at
the Orpheum. Guess that's what you'd
call a meet reward.
In "The Miracle Man" nrit week At
the Baker Will F. Llovtl has n line
about drinking Bass ale for that tired
feeling.
And what Will wants to know Is
if I'm voinJ to refer to his work as
a bit of baa relief?
Uh-uh-meaning no-no Will. I am
not. I shall call it a spirited bit of
acting.
Furthermore where d'ye reckon he
got It?
New vaudeville act Is billed In New
York as "The Coal Strike." Grate hit.
I predict.
Harry H!nc.. the 58th variety, only
he's a nut instead of a pickle, over at
Pantages. Is compiling a book on "How
to Play Poker." He has asked me to
suggest a title. Ransacked what I am
happy to refer to as my mind and only
thing I can think up Is "Chips That
Pass In the Night."
Close-race note.
Harry Lauder has purchased the
estate of Clenbranter and the lands of
Balliniore. Argyllshire.
The estate, which Is at Loch Eck,
about six miles from Strachur, con
sists of about 14.004 acres.
As yet, to all accounts, there is not a
bishop on the vaudeville stage, but
there la a bishop's cousin or two and
one of these Is to be with iia next
week. She is Madeleine Harrison, one
of the featured dancers with Ivan
Bankoff and Lola Girlie, who with a
ballet of a dozen beauties will grace
the Orpheum show at the Helllg for
vaudeville's part of the week In that
theater beginning next Sunday after
noon. Miss Harrison Is a cousin of
the late Bishop Henry Codman Potter
and although she had selected a stage
career she was the prelate's favorite.
She waa born in Pittsburg, but made
Brooklyn her home for several years
and it was there that she was "dis
covered" by Loie Fuller, who Induced
her to take a thorough course In
dancing. Success came to her quickly
and when she was recruited for vaude
ville she was the feature danseuse in
John Cort's "The Elopers." In the
Orpheum act which puts her name In
big type she dances "The Dance bf the
Dream," with Ivan Bankoff and dances
to the music of the "Valse Fhan
tastlque." Bankoff and Girlie, the
stars, are well known In Portland, as
they have appeared here as a duo on
two occasions via the Orpheum. Now
they have surrounded themselves with
Miss Harrison and a ballet and the
act is under the direct management of
Martin Beck. Besides being cousin to
Bishop Potter Miss Harrison Is a direct
descendant of President William Henry
Harrison, the hero of Tippecanoe. Oosh!
Jane Cowl has closed her season in
"Common Clay" and in so doing has
deserted the A. H. Woods banner. When
next seen she will be starred tinder
Shubert management In "The Fugitive."
December 11 at the Palace. New York,
Marie Tempest is to appear In a con
densed version Of "The School for
Scandal
WORDS THAT GO IX COUPLES
Nothing; Added to Clearness by Practice
Yoklnsr Them, Says Mr. CHne.
PORTLAND, Nov. 29. (To the Edi
tor.) While listening the other day
to an excellent sermon by one of Port
land's prominent ministers. I made no
tation of what may here be called a
chronic yoking together in couples,
words of similar meaning with a view,
probably, of adding strength to what
he was saying. "Null and void." "forms
and ceremonies," "peace and quiet."
"weak and feeble." "mild and geutle."
"rules and regulations." "righteous and
good." "trust and confidence."
Time was when the use of a brace
of synonyms like the foregong was
considered good form, but not now.
They add nothing to clearness of expression.-
while they contribute to the
bulk of labor, both in speaking and
hearing.
This piling together of qualifying
words la only so much dead weight,
making the speakers stylo drag, no
matter how solid his material. In
laboring to be clear he tansies his
thought.
I sometimes think it would be a Rood
thing for public speakers and writers,
too. if there were no such things as
adjectives and adverbs.
C. E. CLINE.
THANKSGIVING OF THE AGING.
Lord, we thank thee for length of days.
For rich bounties of the years.
For hearts attuned to grateful praise
And for penitential tears.
Yea. for the sweetness of thy Word.
That the .sun. moon and stars Mill
shine.
For the mellow music of the bird
And the love that doth entwine.
For joyful company all the way.
The silver cord unbroken.
For visions of effulgent day
For good-byes yet unsrokn.
That In us Is the boon of here.
Where unfading flowreta grow.
Sweet fragrance of the sunset slope
Whence Joys rerpetual flow.
Life within Is of golden Mend
As the Autumn time draws near.
And the trees to the east wind bend
With their fruit of Autumn cheer.
How soft and varied are the hues
That play on the sunset clouds.
And on the sky of changing blues
Are the ana-els' snowv shrourts.
DKXXIS ALONZO WATTEP.S.
Wilson's Relations With Villa.
SPOKAXK, Wash.. Nov. 27. (To the
Editor.) (1) Was Villa Carranza's
commander-in-chief at the time Presi
dent Wilson officially recoxnlzed Car
ranza as head of the Mexican govern
ment? (2) What date was the split between
Villa and Carrania?
(3) Did. or did not. President Wilson
at one time deal directly with Villa.
In that way practically admitting that
ho was the strongest leader In Mexico.
R. E. P.
1. No: at that time Villa was at war
with Carranza.
2. Villa declared war on Carranza
September "3, 1914.
3. Paul Fuller, a personal emissary
of President Wilson, conferred with
Villa early In September. 1914. In an
effort to prevent a split between him
and Carranza. During the subsequent
war between the two leaders, other
agents of the President conferred with
Villa, but dealings with him ended
when the Pan-American conference de
cided that Carranza was the strongest
man. Carranza was recognized Octo
ber 19. 1915.
A Time to Think.
The Christian Herald.
This is a good time for us to think
about our country. The great war gives
us the spectacle of millions of men
marching forth to suffer and to die for
their country. Who can look upon such
a sight without thinking of his own
country and asking himself: "What
am I willing to do for it?" We Ameri
cans do not think as often of our coun
try as we ought to think. We are toq
busy, and too prone to criticise. It la
easier to find fault than to work to
eradicate the Imperfections of which
we complain. We should study our his
tory with greater real, and fix more
firmly in our mind our National Ideal
and read more often the speeches of
our greatest rtatesmen. and the poems
of our greatest poets, and" give our
hearts more fully to the work of mak
ing It Impossible for government of the
people, for the people and by the peo
ple to perish from the earth.
When -V Is "V."
Printer's Ink.
Why do modern architects assvine
that U is V. and carve In stone that
palpable and bold absvrdity?
Now that we possess the U with soft
and gracefvl cvrve. of vnexcolled doeil
ty and willinaness to serve, why do
they carve Vnlted States and pvb;ic
school and sveh. and make the English
langvaee look as fvnny as the Dvtch.
with restavrant and Pvllman car and
vnlversity and other marks of edvca
tional perversity?
The V Impresses some of vs as
cheap and savdy blvff. which par
venvea may pvll In place of more svb
stantial stvff, bvt people who are fash
ioned ovt of vnpretentiovs dvst iew
all sveh affectation with an vnassvmed
disgvst. Sveh exhibitions a'.waya make
me very glvm and blve. Now. honest
Injvn. don t they have the same effect
on yov?
Voting: In the District of Columbia.
CORVAI.L13. Or.. Nov. 29. (To the
Editor. (1 Can a resident of the Dis
trict of Columbia vote for President?
(J) Cnn a person own property In the
District.
1. Residents of the District of Co
lumbia do not vote for President. Per
sons in the Government service who re
tain residence In the states from
which they were appointed must re
turn to their homes to vote, unless the
states n question have provided other
wise by "absent voters' -laws." I. Prop
erty is owned by individuals in the Dis
trict under the same conditions as
prevail generally in the states.
Another Charily Reform.
PORTLAND, Nov. 23. (To the Edi
tor.) I recently read a newspaper re
port on the proceedings of the City
Council in refusing a permit for a tag
day to certain people.
1 think they should go further and
refuse strangers who travel from one
city to another from working up enter
tainments for the benefit of charitable
Institutions, of which the promoters
receive the greater part of the funds
raised.
No one should be allowed to promote
a proposition of this kind or have any
interest whatever in the money raised
unless he or she is a registered voter
of the city of Portland.
A VICTIM.
Two Pig.
A piggie named Wilson was Fent
To a place where he nver had went!
But he grieved for the mule
Till he died (like a fool.
Thus upsetting the Joke that was meant.
But the plegie named Marshall waa
game.
And he said. "I'm so glad that I came."
So he eats all the swill
On the fare they call bill.
Thus adding each day to his f(rme.
T. T. GEEK.
Foreign War Primer.
By National Geographic Society.
The announcement of the formation
of the "New Kingdom of Arabia" a few
days ago failed to elicit in America
the interest which the vast extent of
territory Involved would seem to war
rant. The area of the Arabian penin
sula, including that region known as
Arabia Fetraea and the Syrian desert,
is about equal to the area of all the
Cnited States oast of the Mi.-sissippl
River plus Texas and it extends through
more than i'l degrees of latitude, so
that if transposed to this continent its
northern boundary would coincide with,
the northern parts of Arkansas, while
its southern tip would reach far be
yond the northern border of Nicaragua
in Central America.
Having a maximum length equal to
the distance between Montreal and the
southern extremity of Florida and a
maximum breadth corresponding to the
airline distance between New York City
and Omaha. Neb., this great south
western extremity of the continent of
Asia la very sparsely settled, the esti
mates of its population varying more
than ltn per cent. One authority
places the number at 7. POO. 000. which Is
conceded to be excessive, while an
ultra conservative figure is 3.500,000.
Fully one-third of the Arabian pen
insula is a waste of sand, the most ex
tensive of the barren regions being
the Oreat Nafud or Red Desert, the
Syrian Desert ar.d the Pahna Desert.
And in addition to this wholely hope
less area there Is a vast extent of ter
ritory where the upr' of water is
so sporadic that the l.uii cannot sup
port a settled population. The Inhabi
tants are divided into two great classes
the noii.adi- Redouins. who move
from place to place as pasturase for
their flocks of sheep and goats and
their ht rds of horses and camels is ex
hausted and the FcLJahs. who follow
agricultural pursuits in the small
fertile areas and where wells and
cisterns are i.-li.-d upon to btore up the
rain water of the wet season.
W'hile the eirly dispatches from
Mecca, the cnplt.il of the newly formed
kingdom. wer silent on the sublet, it
Is probable that the Grand Shereef
Hussein Hen All is buildin.g his hope of
empire chlelly on the three provinces
of He'az. A.-lr and Yemen, which extend
from the S.nai peninsula along the
northeast shore of the Hcl Sea to the
Uritlsh protectorate of Aden. In these
provinces are the largest cities of the
peninsula Mecca. Jiddi. Horleida, Me
dina and Vanihu. Both Hejaz and
Yemen are vilayets of the Turkish
Empire and are governed by officials
sent out from Constantinople. Aslr is
the home of a war-like, mountainous
tribe which has successful! v opposed
numerous attempts of the Turks to
subjugate its members. Aslr ilea be
tween HeJ.az and Yemen and Its val
leys are anions- the most fertile In
Arabli.
Several important political divisions
of Arabia doubtless wi.l be unmolested
by the Grand Shereef. Among these are
the Sinaitic reninsula. a dependency of
Egypt which extends into the Red Sea.
between the Gulf of Suez on the west
and the Gulf of Akaba on the east;
the British protectorate of Aden, oc
cupying the most southerly extremity
of Arabia and extending along the Gulf
of Aden, its area being about 900Q
square miles and the independent state
of Oman with a coast line of nearly 1000
inlles along the Persian Gulf and the
Gulf of Oman, and embracing an area
of S2.00') square ml!e..
The provinces of Hejar and Temen
have a combined area about equal to
the states of New York. Pennsylvania.
Ohio and Indiana, but with a popula
tion scarcely exceeding a million,
whereas the equivalent American area
supports more than 21.000.000 lnhabl
tsnts. In those restricted sections of Arabia,
near the mountains, where the torrents
bring down a sufficient supply f
water the soil yields abundant crops
of wheat, barley, tobacco, sugar. Indi
go, cotton and coffee, while the date
palm and the banana flourish luxuri
antly. The flocks of she p and goats
and the famous Arabian horses are the
chief resources of the country, while
from Oman come the hiishlv prized
Oman dromedaries. noted for their
speed and strencth. The mineral wealt h
of the new kingdom is somewhat
doubtful, although iron, copper, basalt,
lead, coal and asphaltum are known to
exist, while the precious stones In
clude emeralds. onyx. carnelian and
agate. The pearl fisheries of the
Perslun Gulf are among the richest in
the world and these waters also yield
quantities of sponses.
Travelers ascribe to the Arabs many
virtues. They a re a proud and earnest
people, sharp-witted, courageous, tem
perate and hospitable. but when
wrontted are bloodthirsty and vengeful.
One of their most strlklna- characteris
tics Is their great love for poetry. The
children of the nomads as well as the
offspring of the fellahs are early
tausht to read, write and calculate, as
might be expected of the descendants
of that race which gave us our Arable
numerals."
In Other Days.
Tnrnty-flre Years Aaro.
Prom The Orodonlar. November SO. 1!1.
Seattle. Nov. :9. At 3.30 this after
noon the city was visited by the most
severe earthquake shocks ever felt
here. No damage was done, but great
alarm was occasioned In the tops of
several six and seven-story bulldlnts.
M. Slchel and family left last night
via. the L'nion Pacific for New York.
He will Join there Sol Hirsch and they
will ;o to Europe together.
William Ladd. Frank T. Dodge and
Thomas Farrell made quite a successful
( huntinir expedition to W. S. Laud's farm
on Bachelor's Island, returning Satur-
I .. .. ..-..I. i. - .lnn'.-c 1 i, t . i .I H m - m n
Ua . Y1UII . O V. ' . , V v aui wv. ...
Inspectors of Hulls and Boilers Mc
Derniott and Edwards yesterday in
spected the boiler of the Telephone,
which with her engines lias Just been
overhauled and put into condition for
the Winter work.
ro (. Illsennhlpi Canal Toll-.
BORING. Or.. Nov. 2S (To the Edi
tor.) Our c1hs would like to know if
the Constitution does not give the
negro a rlaht to vote and If not. Why?
Also if nations are charged toll to go
through the Panama Canal and if so
which ones? LEO MILAN.
1. The 15th amendment to the Consti
tution of the United States provides
that "the right of the citizens of the
United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States
or any state on account of race, color
or previous condition of servitude." 2.
Ships of sll nations, including our own.
are required to pay tolls for use of the
Panama Canal.
Training for the Lin.
Boston Transcript.
Hepsy That boy of ours seems
michty fond of tending to other folks'
business.
Hiram Guess we'll have to make a
lawyer of him. Then he'll )tct paid
for doing It.
Mttlna- With m Friend.
Detroit Free Press.
"I've Rot to sit up with a 6ick friend
tonight." he said. "Well." she re
torted. "I hope you do him good." and
from the wey she said it he knew that
he hadn't "got by."