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TITE MORNING OREGONIAN. fUESDAT. FEBRUARY 13, 1917.
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let on the subject and has-enlisted the
aid off several patriotic organizations.
Even at this crowded session Congrress
should find time to provide for its
purchase and preservation. By thus
honoring one of its great men the Na
tion would honor itself.
CONSTRUCTIVE ROAD PLAS.
The proposal to issue state bonds
for $7,900,000 to build roads sounds
formidable; but it is nevertheless clear
and comprehensive In its essentials
and altogether promising" of a satis
factory solution of the perplexing and
costly road problem.
Let It be recalled. In any consider
ation of roads and their cost, that the
sums expended In Oregon in any given
year mount to a gigantic total. It
is hardly credible, but It is true, that
the average outlay in state, county
and district for the past ten years
has reached the staggering (estimated)
maximum of $5,000,000 -aer annum, or
$50,000,000 for the decennium. By
comparison, then, the sum of $7,900,
000 to be expended by the state, not at
once, nor in any stated time, is not
beyond bounds. With the limitations
of the Government assignment for
post roads to five years, and of forest
reserve roads to five years, the major
portion of the authorized sum of $7,
900,000 would be spent In the period
of five years.
It has been understood that the
state is for some unknown reason
committed to a financial policy which
permits the issuance of state bonds
for no purpose; but it is not true. The
people last November, by a large vote,
authorized the issuance of $18,000,000
rural credit bonds, and the Legisla
ture is actively at work devising the
machinery to make the $18,000,000
plan effective and advantageous to
the legitimate borrower..
So $7,900,000, divided, say, into
units for each of five years, is not a
stupendous sum. Nor is it likely to
prove a burden on the taxpayer. A
feature of . the $7,900,000 project
which commends it strongly to the
citizen is the simple and easy finance
by which the annual interest is to be
paid and the bonds to be completely
retired by amortization over a twenty-five-year
period. It is astonishing to
note, but it is demonstrably true, that
the whole issue may be cared for by
the quarter-mill state tax (as. at pres
ent) and by the proposed automobile
tax. '
The plan is that the amount raised
from motor cars is to be appropriated
to hard surfacing of roads, now ready
or to be made ready by the counties
for paving. It is the era of hard
surface roads. It is imperative that
main-traveled thoroughfares be built
to stand the heaviest traffic. The mo
tor car is the greatest contributor to
road deterioration. No road, unless it
be paved, will long withstand the se
vere attrition of speedy and weighty
automobiles. The road must be built
to withstand the friction of heavy
traffic, or the annual cost of upkeep
must continue to be enormous. It is
fair that the automobile, which makes
road paving necessary, should bear the
expense, or the large portion of it.
That is just what the new plan ar
ranges. It is impossible to deny its
equity; and we do not think that the
automobile owner, who will certainly
make a large saving in gasoline and
in wear and tear on his car and tires
by better roads, will offer any ob
Jeotion.
It is to be noted that .the measure
provides for. the construction of post
roads and forest reserve roads, meet
ing the Government appropriation,
throughout the state; and provision is
made by which the more remote sec
tions will be reached and aided. It
in hard to see how any section, or any
Interest, can offer, serious and valid
criticism. The city, and particularly
Portland, is to get nothing at all, ex
cept the very great and undeniable
indirect benefit. The country is to get
It all. ' The bond plan, constructive ..nd
equitable as it is. and giving a great
and needed impetus to road construc
tion in Oregon, deserves the immediate
and attentive consideration of the
Legislature. In its fundamentals The
Oregonian thinks the consideration
should be favorable.
THE SAME BRYAN.
Mr. Bryan's newest illustration of
the supreme merits of a turn-your-other-cheek
pacifism is stated thusly:
It Is no surrender of a right to postpone
enforcement of it. For Instance, if I am on
the sidewalk and see a drunken chauffeur
running his car toward me I know he has
no right to come up on the sidewalk, but
I would prefer to step aside and settle
with him when he is sober Instead of
standing on my rights and leaving my
widow to settle with htm.
Any American citizen worthy the
name, other than Bryan, would not
step aside but would take summary
measures to apprehend a drunken
chauffeur running amuck, in order to
save the lives of inhocent women and
children, and men as well, jeopardized
by his lawless recklessness. Bryan
would wait until the mischief was
done and then reason with the mad
man. The New York Sun revives recol
lection of a speech made ry Bryan in
Omaha, June 14, 1898, where he ap
peared to have other ideas. He then
said:
Universal peace cannot come until Justice
Is enthroned throughout the world. Jehovah
deals with nations as he deals with . men,
and for both decrees that the wages of sin
is death. Until the right .has triumphed
tn every land and love reigns in every heart
government must, as a last resort, appeal to
force.
As long as the oppressor la deaf to the
voice of reason, so long must the citizen
accustom his shoulder to the musket and his
hand to the saber.
Having differing notions at differ
ent times, he's yet the same Bryan.
SAVE THE FISHERIES.
The Legislature has importunities
from many sources for appropriations,
and a rreat part of them are worthy.
Yet unner the .barrier of the 6 per
cent limitation it is impossible to
meet all demands and even some de
mands which otherwise would and
should receive favorable consideration.
On that account. The Oregonian has
refrained from urging the Legislature
to make specific appropriations. Yet
it feels justified in departing from its
practice to call attention to the great
importance of several fisheries bills.
Some of them are:
House bill 234. by Mann Relating to im
provements at Bonneville hatchery.
House bill 208. by Bellland Relating to
Improvements at Clatskanle hatchery.
Mouse bill- llta. by Lane County delegation
For Oregon City fishway, and Upper Wil
lamette and McKenzle hatcheries.
House bill 212, by P.owe For hatcheries
n District Two and their operation.
fcenale bill 135. by Handley For work, of
juasier isn warden.
What can be done to promote the
fishing industry in Oregon ought to be
done. The maintenance of hatcheries
is indispensable, for without them
there will soon be no fishing. To
neglect the hatchery, then, will be
ruinous.
onstrated that with this percentage
added the total cost is less than that
jf ships built at Government yards.
Private enterprise has proved the abil
ity of the country to provide merchant
ships, and these ships will remain un
der the American flag if Congress
will make it possible to operate them
at the same cost as under foreign
flags. Prix-ate enterprise will supply
all munitions of war at a fixed per
centage over cost. It gives us far
more efficient telegraph and telephone
service under Government regulation
than any nation has - nder govern
ment ownership. Mr. Daniels' policy
has served only one useful purpose
as a demonstration of Governmental
incapacity to do these things prompt
ly, efficiently and economically.
TEACHERS IX ' LOCK-STEPT
Not only is efficiency of the schools
menaced by the Senate bill to amend
the tenure law but the welfare of
the teachers is adversely involved.
The law in its practical operation
would prevent transfers or dismissals.
The history of hearings- under the
present .system reveals that they vir
tually turn into a trial of the superin
tendent or one of the members of the
School Board under direction of a
skillful lawyer. A self-respecting su
perintendent cannot be expected to
make himself the frequent target of
th pique-inspired criticisms that in
variably assail a successful man in
that position.
Erection of a new authority over
dismissals and transfers of teachers
means that there will be no dismissals
or transfers. Lower efficiency would
consequently follow. With low effi
ciency there is slender prospect of
better pay for teachers. The best
teachers would be kept in lock-step
with poor teachers. There would be
fewer promotions because there would
be fewer vacancies.
The tendency of such a law is to
lower the teaching standard and to
compress all teachers into the gauge
of the least fit. The OregoAian speaks
out of a high regard for the teacher's
profession. It cannot believe that, if
there is a demand by teachers for this
law, It has been well considered.
Surely devotion to the cause of edu
cation and pride in efficient service
have greater weight with teachers as
a class than license to an individual
here and there to kick up a public
disturbance over the Judgment of the
Superintendent or School Board.
CCRATITE POWER OF WORK.
The therapeutic value of work is
well illustrated by a series of experi
ments made in the past two years In
the Connecticut Hospital for the In
sane, and by the practical application
of similar principles in other institu
tions for the care of those afflicted
with mental disorders in more or less
serious form. Recent development of
the work idea in Connecticut has in
creased the proportion of patients who
are usefully employed from 38 to 48
per cent, without compulsion. The
beneficial effects upon the patients,
while not capable of being stated in
figures, is believed to have been even
greater.
It is not strange when one consid
ers how men of sound mind de
teriorate under enforced idleness that
it should be concluded that employ
ment is a palliative. If not a cure, for
many forms of. so-called insanity not
complicated by Incapacitating physi
cal degeneration. The public at large
has been accustomed to regard the
hospital for the Insane as a purely
custodial institution, which it is not.
Its still more important function is
to restore mental health and where
possible to fit the patients for useful
economic lives. Employment, first for
the hands and then, by natural devel
opment, for the mind, is found to take
first rank among the agencies em
ployed. Occupational education de
velops mental power; it also has an
Indirect effect by takjng the patient
"out of himself," by creating a new
interest to take the place of the ex
aggerated ego that aggravates insan
ity. Those who are suitably employed
thrive encouragingly, and there are
many Instances in which the process
of awakening new interest has re
sulted in restoring mental health. .
An instance officially reported in
the institution to which reference is
made illustrates the point. No com
pulsion to induce the patients to work
is exercised, but there are various
methods of coaxing them. Seasonable
entertainments are given for those
who" are engaged in some form of
work, and on one occasion a bazaar
was held. One of the women patients
who had persistently refused to do
anything but sit In her cell, surprised
the authorities by prerenting herself
for admission, offering as her ticket
of admission a piece of fancywork
that she had done secretly. She had
caught something of the spirit, but
there was a curious mental twist that
had prevented her from surrendering
openly until the last moment. It is
of scientific value to know that her
malady has shown signs of continual
improvement ever since.
It is a somewhat common fancy of
the unthinking that heaven is a place
where no one has anything to do. As
a matter of fact, a place where any
appreciable number of individuals are
doomed to unemployment soon de
velops into a condition quite the re
verse of heaven. This has been shown
by the penal experience of ages, and
the world is getting away from it as
fast as it is able to do so. Without
work, preferably of the kind in which
the worker can take a lively interest,
any man soon decays. Old-time ship
masters believed in the adage that
Satan finds mischief for idle hands to
do and strained every effort to keep
their sailors employed on long voy
ages, but they grasped only half the
truth when they set them at doing
and undoing the same things over and
over again. Futility has no part in
the scheme. But work in which prog
ress is being made is not only a rem
edy for mental disturbance but a val
uable preventive of mental, moral and
physical decay.
other peoples, even of the same re
ligious faith as themselves. v
Dr. Herrick points out that -eventually
a solemn duty will fall upon
Americans in. this connection. He
would not stay the trend away from
physical government by Turkey ever
others, but he pleads for sympathy
for those Turks who are striving at
the same time to raise their own peo
ple. He says that, contrary to popular
belief, there are many of these, nd
he cites instances. They are at the
parting of the ways. Their govern
ment and their religion both have
failed them. He beileves the time
will soon be ripe for extending them
a practical helping hand. This will
not take the form of food ships and
industrial investments, but of sym
pathy and understanding. Through
this, it Is predicted, wHl come In the
next century an even greater regener
ation of the Turk than there has been
destruction of his .temporal, power in
the last 100 years. It indicates that
a large share of the work of the mis
sionaries in the near future will be
concentrated in the dwelling places of
the Turk, under whatever rule the
map makers after the present war
may leave him.
Gleams Through the Mist
By Dram Collins.
DESERVING OF GREATER REAOWJI
Popular Knowledge of Ore Ron's Great
Senator and Soldier Lac-klns.
EUGENE, Or., Fe"b. 10. (To the
A VALEXTIXE. Editor.) Mr. Beck's letter and your
Babykln. Babykin. with big, bright editorial of this date embolden me to
. i aua sometmng to toe senator naivi
Elfish and Impish and soft and pink; th- r-ivti wr mv .Mention was
Hither and listen, who art so. wise, called to the ereat speech made by
While I tell you the thoughts that I Senator Baker. August 1. 1861. The
think, think, think.
There Is a wind that whistled through
the street.
A tiny wind, a tricky wind, and
mirthfully it blew.
Touselling the petals of the daisies atl bold denunciation of those Southern
my feet; Senators that still retained their seats
A gusty soul of Joyousness a soul in cur Congress, his zeal for the Union
like you. .
fact that Baker was a friend of Presi
dent Lincoln and was chosen to Intro
duce him at the time of the first in
augural, that upon the day of the
speech he was dressed in uniform.
booted and spurred as he came from
the field of military operations, his
In Other Days
The success of a subterfuge in the
introduction of a new and Important
food supply is shown by Secretary
Redfield's report that packers of the
newly renamed grayfish are already
unable to meet more than one-tenth
of the demand for the product, and
that the Department of Commerce is
being flooded with requests for de
tailed information, coming from points
from Maine to Oregon. Experiments
have shown that the fish Is entirely
free from uric acid, and the value
of a little hocuspocus tn matters of
this kind is indicated by the state
ment that while the presence of this
substance in small quantities in all
meats, in other fishes and in all poul
try has not the faintest significance
from the standpoint of public health,
the fact nevertheless has had a prac
tical effect in reassuring many pros
pective consumers who always hesi
tate to try new things, however low
priced and nutritious they may be.
Investigations along the line of find
ing uses for the by-products of the
grayfish cannery also promise to have
an important bearing upon the eco
nomic future of the fish.
A MEMORIAL TO JEFFERSON.
No partisan motive should interfere
with the purchase of Monticello by
Congress as a National memorial to
Thomas Jefferson. He stood second
only to Washington among the found-;
ers of the republic. He was the author
of the Declaration of Independence,
which has taken its place In history
side by side with the Magna Charta
of England and the Declaration of
the Rights of Man of France. By the
Louisiana purchase he made the lar
gest single addition to the territory of
the United Statss and he cleared the
way for the extension of the republic
to the Pacific Ocean. As the third
President, he did much to solidify the
structure which Washington had be
gun.
Mount Vernon has become the prop
erty of the Nation as a memorial to
the man who won victory for the Na
tion in the field. The Hermitage has
been saved by women who raised by
public subscription the funds for its
purchase, and it is now preserved as
a memorial to Andrew Jackson, the
victor of New Orleans. Arlington has
been purchased and made a National
cemetery for the soldier dead In mem
ory of the chivalrous leader of the
Confederacy. The Lincoln cabin in
Kentucky has been handed over to
the Nation by Its purchasers as a
memorial to the martyr President who
saved the Union, while the Lincoln
home at Springfield, III., is owned by
the state and is maintained by an as
sociation of women. It Is fitting that
equal honor be done to Jefferson, who
was Washington's co-worker in diplomacy.
Monticello was bought at auction by
Commodore Uriah P. Levy, who be
queathed it to the Nation, but the will
was broken by his relatives and passed
to Jefferson M. Levy, his nephew. The
wife of Representative Martin W.-Llt
tleton is now leading the movement
for Its purchase, has written a paraph
There should be no difficulty about
nacting the bill placing all postmas
ters under civil service rules, provided
both parties play fair. The most valid
criticism of the practice followed by
former Presidents, of covering a host
offices into the classified service.
has been that it gave permanent tenure
to partisan appointees. On this plea
Postmaster-General Burleson subjected
incumbents of fourth-class postoffices
to examination In competition with
ther candidates, but Impartiality de
manded that. If they passed creditably,
they should be retained. Instead, he
picked one othe three highest and.
If there was a Democrat among them,
picked him, though the Incumbent was
among the three. Though he had
some ground for charging that former
Presidents had used the civil service
law to keep Republicans in, he used
it to turn them out ami to put Demo
crats in.
The best thing done in a long time
Is the order made to bar small boys
from the boxing matches. Not that
it is not a good idea to keep them in
terested, for the boy who is "handy
with his mitts" is the lad who gets
along; but they are out of place at
events for men. In a few years their
time will come and they must be con
tent until then. Exception might be
made, however. In the case of a boy
who accompanies his father. Sport
ing blood Is "good stuff to develop
in the family.
DANIELS' POLICY FAILS.
The strongest condemnation of Sec
retary Daniels' policy of building naval
vessels in Government yards, also of
his general policy of haying war ma
terial manufactured - by the Govern
ment. Is his own record in that re
spect. Congress authorized construc
tion of many vessels for the Navy in
the last four years, and the public was
caused to nourish the fond delusion
that many of these additions have
actually been made. In fact, the only
actual- additions to the Navy during
that period have been four destroyers.
Ships, even of the smallest type, which
were authorized as long ago as 1912,
are still under construction. Our na
val preparedness is still on paper or
on the ways.
Mr. Daniels' policy has already
failed. ' Congress has contributed to
its failure by vetoing the efficiency
system which "has succeeded at pri
vate plants. The leisurely methods
and official red tape of the naval
bureaucrats do their part. Yet Mr.
Daniels proposes to carry it farther
by -equipping more yards for Govern
ment construction, by having armor,
projectiles and nitrates manufactured
by the Government. He classes pri
vate corporations which are engaged
in munition manufacture as grafters.
Whenever he encounters an obstacle
to getting work done by private con
tract on his terms, he exclaims, "Let
Josephus do it!" - - .
This, policy is not peculiar to him;
it is common to the entire Adminis
tration. When we need merchant
ships. Secretary McAdoo wants the
Government to build them. Postmaster-General
Burleson wants the
Government to operate telegraph and
telephone lines, and gives a further
illustration of the workings of bureau
cracy by proposing to scrap' the pneu
matic mail tubes in the great cities
and use thousands of automobiles in
moving the mails, thus providing fat
contracts for automobile manufactur
ers and many jobs' for "deserving
Democrats." Secretary Lane proposes
to hold the West under perpetual
landlordism and make more jobs by
leasing the public land.
' It is time to call a halt on this
wholesale .extension of bureaucratic
socialism. Private enterprise is ready
to build warshjps at a fair percentage
over actual cost, and It has been dem-
DECLINE OF TURKISH POWER.
Striking figures showing the rapid
decline of the power of Islam as a
physical governmental force, compiled
by Dr. George I Herrick, who has
labored more than half a century as
a missionary In the Turkish empire
are given In a recent article in the
Review of Reviews. It Is not a cen
tury since Turkey, in addition to its
great possessions in Asia, controlled
the territory now held by all the Bat
kan states, including both Greece and
rtoumania, ana neia dominion over
Egypt and almost all of Northern
Africa, and over the islands of the
Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediter
ranean. Turkey was then a formid
able' power In Europe, and on the sea
was far from negligible. But her
navy was shattered at the battle of
Navarino In 18 27 by the united fleets
of England, France and Russia, the
same nations now taking the lead in
an effort to complete the destruction
of Turkish power on land. There aro
men still living who witnessed the sev
ering of Greece from Turkey in 1832
of Roumania in 1861, Serbia in 1867
Montenegro in 1878. Egypt in 1835
Bulgaria in 1879, Bosnia in 1908
Tripoli In 1912 and Albania, Mace
donia and the island, in 1913. Now
the same powers that once crushed
the Turkish power on the water have
set themselves to the task of pushing
the empire over the line into Asia.
No such momentous events ever have
occurred to one nation in a single
century.
But the question now is whether, if
the entente allies are victorious, the
process will stop with the exclusion
of the Turkish government from Eu
rope. Russia is reported to be mak
lng some progress in Asia Minor and
the British are holding territory in
the region of the Tigris territory that
will not be abandoned in the event
of anything resembling complete vie
tory. .. There are 90,000,000 Moslems
under British rule in India and 80
000,000 more -subjects of Russia,
France. Holland and other non-Isla
mic powers. There are not more than
27,000,000 Moslem subjects of Moslem
rulers, and these are In Turkey, Per
sla and Afghanistan. In he main the
Moslems have proved loyal to their
later rulers at least, efforts to in
duce them to rise agaii.st these have
failed. It would seem that this has
been due in large measure to th
greater material advancement possible
under non-Moslem rule, to superior
forms of justice administered and to
the greater capacity for government
manifested by the Christian nations
The facts Justify the assertion of Lord
Bryce recently that the Turks have
shown utter Incapacity for ruling over
cause, and his tragic death so soon
afterwards at Ball's Bluff, all this
. i . i , . . i. . . i ..
rr.1 i . i . si ! .H irreauy impressed my juuuiiui
I flrnmat Ytut rtnf or tn most aervice-
A wrinkly beam, a twlnkly beam of aDie the North that occurred in Con-
dancing gold on blue, 1 cress during that wonderful period, in
That flashed upon the willows where fact, much reading since has not great
. v - vu. i 1 iy ensnared toat eariy impreasiuo.
iaao nunc JCCfcWGO L. . . , I - . T
. , . , , . . . I oiuld M. Qiliu t w VJ p, -
A boui Ql llgnt ana iibuiouhiccoi. v..-,, .nrnrlserl that so little was popu-
a soul like you. Urlv known here of Baker. Perhaps if
ia r f mihltf declamation
There was a baby faun that skipped Btm obtained, our young people might ?$ou.rf- upon which the Board of
among the reeds. know more of him. With a view oi i jreeieraay. is increas
Piping on a tiny flute, and merrily trying to keep green tne memory oi
it blew,
Twenty-five Tears Afo.
From The Oregonian of Feb. 13. 1S92.
Chicago. Feb. 12. The Marquette
Club celebrated the birthday of Abra
ham Lincoln with a banquet at the
Auditorium Hotel tonight, at which:
covers were laid for over 600 persons.
Guthrie, O. T., Feb. 12. Boomers to
the number of 20.000 are making ar
rangements to move to the Cherokee
strip March 22, unless Congress takes
action toward opening it before then
French's Park Theater will reopen
next Tuesday evening with that inter
esting play. "Captain Swift." Arthur
Forrest is the star, and he is supported
by a strong company.
Everybody who has read the poetry
or novels of Sir Walter Scott has seen
the throstle or mavis frequently men
tioned in them. A number of these
birds were among those imported here
from Germany. Last year' they made
nests and reared young tn the large
trees at Ninth and Main streets.
New Yorki Feb. 12. The typhus
Till all the world about it danced, as
light as thistle seeds, .
A soul of heedless happiness a soul
like you.
And once there was a kitty-cat with I
oft, soft fur
That purred and burrowed at my
riAclr as hahv Vlttena do;
I held her gently In my arm, and liked With highest "Tthen'renwneS?
this brave and patriotic Oregonian. I
nrrntn the following lines. ODC6 OQ &
time:
EDWARD DICKINSON BAKER.
O Oregon, dost thou forget
No longer vaunt his name
Nor treasure up hie tame
N'nr stir ai Ions ago.
When first the word came alow
But sent hot blood to cneeic
And made the full heart speak?
ing hour by hour. No man can tell its
extent at this writing.
to hear her purr.
A cutey, cuddly, kltteny thing,
soft like you.
And all the things In all the world that
seem so soft and bright.
In counsel wise, in eixon iree.
AnA L-ha in eloausnt as he?
But with his country's flat; assailed ,
His pleasure In debate had failed.
Forth from the senate men no urw.
Brave, eager, . in our Federal blue.
-m,v 17 " ... iu 1 or roos alert ana irienas so siow.
the kitty that I knew.
It seems to me, the while I make this
little song tonight.
Are round me to remind me. O, so
prettily, of you.
Of doubt and treachery everywhere.
Our good great Lincoln near despair!
I only name one fatal day
When treason dared its boldest play,
For untrained seal Its worn had done
Half a Century Ago.
From The Oregonian of Feb. 13. 1S09.
A private letter from Prnrnp
Agasslz, the famous scientist, to a
tnena in ban Francisco states he will
probably come West early next Spring
for the purpose of visiting the Yo
semlte Valley and other natural curi
osities of the Pacific Coast.
The town of Lewlston. In Idaho T.r-
rltory. has been lncornorated aa n f-tr
A Mayor, four Councilmen. a Recorder,
a. i reasurer ana a Marshal are to be
elected in March.
Several flags were at tonmmf
terday in this city in honor of the an
niversary of the birth of Abraham Lin
coln.
We notice that several persons on
Front street, toward the upper end of
So elfish. Impish Babykln. who listens
unto this.
Let's make a little bargain 'twlxt
your little heart and mine.
And witness it and seal.lt with a
aticky baby kiss.
That each of us to each of us will be
a Valentine.
e e
Sir," said the Courteous Office Boy,
dashing breathlessly into the -sanctum
have the bards begun to twitter yet In
the Spring saengerfest?"
"No yet." I said, "but soon."
"The geese are flying North," said the
C. O. B., bitterly, and, it seemed to me
Irrelevantly.
'But before they begin to twitter, I life outwelgha the cause of right.
would twit you further about the sea
son myself, if I have your permission.'
'You have," I said, "but you must
understand before you sing a note that Sweeps ever to a greater tide:
T 1 nnf woEtili. vou as a Bard." An1 that vast flood the river meets,
"Barred, so to speak," retorted
C. O. B., and before I could take fur- Or thundering tears at Tillamook,
ther measure, for self-protection, he darlnd hVh end.U,r.
tuned up nis Aaara s tippie tiuvi ucbuu And to tne dauntless liberty
a continuation of his campaign of Of the wide, unconquered sea.
frightfulness which he had launched
Sunday.
Spring; Pome ton tinned.
went outdoors last night, and tried
In vain to get once more inside;
I beat the door
With roar on roar.
But could not bore
Inside once more.
What made the door to do this thing?
Correct you are! It was
And" shattered ranks proclaimed Bull Run. town, are setting shade trees along the
Our senate rang with traitorous boast borders of the sidewalks. Mor
UT tnose wno praised wio truot ; . ( . , . "
tu oe paid to this item or
Of those who on
And urged acceptance or demands
That made our sections separate lands.
Aghast men heard and held their breath.
It seemed the Nation faced Its death.
ornamentation
city.
in every part of the
The fatalities attending the flro in
the second-class hotel at Minneapolis
show the danger that is always pres
ent in that kind of hostelry; but all
cannot pay a high price and many
must take the chance. One thing can
be done, however, and that Is to pro
vide enough fire escapes to save
guests.
Germany tells of the "kills" made
by submarines, but John Bull only
smiles and says nothing about the
number of U-boats he has killed or
captured. What's the old boy's game?
Has he caught any of them or does he
enjoy keeping Germany worrying and
guessing? I
If the United States can impress
the world with the idea that we have
new devices for destroying all the
new weapons that can be used against
us, they may be afraid to fight us. In
that class would fall Admiral Fiske's
airplane torpedo.
Those optimistic Hood River fel
lows are counting on this year's apple
crop. Hood River is one place where
one can count the chickens before
they are hatched and tally even.
A .man at San Jose says he has a
device that will locate the presence
of gold. That's nothing. In Portland
a man can stand on any business cor
ner and point to hoards of it.
Then, suddely. aa soldier clad
He stood, our man, our Galahad.
No glittering armor dazed the sight.
But flamed he with Indignant right.
"What here, from very Senate seat.
Men glory over our defeat?
And here propose a craven peace .
That agony of war my cease?
Why, in the Senate of great Rome,
When liberty had there her home.
Who there had made such words his own.
Had from Tarplean rock been thrown."
And so he spoke and traintora feared.
He spoke and patriot hearts were cheered.
Then turned he where death's arrows speed.
Like Warren and like Wlnkelreld.
To prove that in earth's endless fight
O, Oregon, dost thou forget?
Thy mountains, that so well he knew.
Still thrust themselves to cloudless blue;
Thy river, uncontrolled and wide.
See advertisement of Rmltv. TrtoV.
Market. He has just received the first
smelt of the season.
SEWARD D. ALLEN.
QUERIES IS INTERNATIONAL LAW
"TOBACCO IS A FILTHY WEED"
Grown Men Onsrhe tn TihM Y - -1.
of Hoys. Says Writer.
PROSSER. Wash.. Feb. 10 (T tr,
Editor.) In The Oregonian Saturday
vie Hammer says he cannot undorstoml
the reason for so much Dreludica
against the cigarette. If Mr. Hammer
will get the text book on physiology
and hygiene used in our public schools
and read the chapter on tobacco and
narcotics he will find amble reasons
for tabooing the cigarette from civ
ilization. But if he should still lack
conviction let him read what David
Starr Jordan, of Leland Stanford Uni
versity, said to the toliacro users and
especially to the cigr.rette smokers.
On going home at the close of school
last June they were requested to give
up this harmful habit or not return
to school, as education and the repu
tation of a great university are of too
serious concern to be endangered by so
harmful and useless a habit.
Henry Ford made a statement con
demning cigarette smoking which the
American Tobacco Company asked him
either to prove or take back. Mr.
Blockadrr May Sink Neutral Ship Un
der Certain Conditions.
CORNELIUS, Or., Feb. 11. (To thelrrd replied by publishing a 70-page
Editor.) Under the heading "Why We
THE SPRING.
I Strove last night to sleep. In vain;
My dreams were of unease and pain;
Wires gouged my back.
All blue and black.
As on a rack
Or tn a sack.
Protest, E. M. Clark asks some rather
pertinent questions, and it is in regard
to your answers that I am writing this.
You make the following statement:
America Is not Interfering with Ger
many s treatment of .England or with
Britain's treatment tf Germany, but ls
protesting Germany a treatment of
America. The seas are the common
property of al!.'
If such Is the case, please answer
the following: Why. in case the seas
What made my mattress do this thing?! are the common property of all, does
not America Insist upon sending cargo
ships to Germany? Why Is it so neces-
pamphlet, giving scientific, sanitary.
economic and other kinds of proof,
which ought to satisfy the tobucco
company, and would If It were not for
the huge profits it makes. It seems
very unfortunate that the Indians
taught the white man this use of the
weed.
No athletic manager will allow a
member of his team to smoke. Our
boys need worthy and wholesome ex
amples. Why can't we "full-grown
men voluntarily taDoo.inia naon ior
the sake of the boys?
GEORGE K. MOORHEAD.
There's just one answer, sir
THE SPRING.
A friend of mine gave me, last night.
A big. plump, trick cigar to light;
I lit It, too.
The tip burned through.
And. pouf! Hurroo!
The ashes flew.
I sought to learn about this thing.
And found the cause it was
THE SPRING.
TUB V. S. LIMITKD.
sary to break the German blockade and The TT. S. Limited now rides a wet rail.
not the English? Suppose two cargoes The grade-a uphtll and the roadbed's
of wheat were started from New York,
one for Hamburg and one for Liver
pool, the one for Hamburg being taken
into a British port and the cargo con
fiscated, while the one for Liverpool
was sunk, both acts being committed
on the high seas. Which is the worst
offense? Suppose there was loss of
frail.
The headlight's out. no tail lights be
hind.
The hoghead's bewildered con's going
it blind.
Past the station of Safety with a grind
ing screnm.
life on the ship designed for England. The semaphore-) set, but its red's un-
ouppuMS turLucr mak u;3 uiaaier ut iuq I Seen
light with smotn-
(Note At this Juncture we muzzled other ship Insisted upon going to Ham- So through Destiny's night
it . , . , , burg, do you doubt that that ship would erp-i r0ar
the C. O B. to prevent him from over- be fired consequent loss of Move, the IJ. a Limited,
exerting himself, but from the way he llre moves tne i. .
burbled Inside the gag. we have
hunch that he has some more of the
same dope in his system.)
BARDS' SPRING TWITTER.
As announced last week, we have
forevermore.
In case Germany Is "Interfering with I In COaches luxurious, with blinds pulled
down.
Ride full-fare passengers on
heads we frown;
Unconscious of danger, where
minions roam.
We're aboard the Limited, to abide till
we're home.
dead-
hell's
American rights," why is It that If you
were to write a letter to a friend In
Norway for Instance, the English would
be allowed to take this letter from oft
the "high seas" and do as they please
with If T a Vi 1 In t Tf Arl n cr with Atrier.
thrown open these coiyuras to an potcs ,can rlfrhts or not? Isn't tampering
who feel that they must write Spring with United States mall on the open
pomes. , sea one of the much-discussed "overt The fuel tank's full and there's plenty
R-u- thla iinselnsh net we. feel that we acts'? lou state mat ijermany is at- of sand.
are offering the potes a means of get- temp.t'n? to make rules for the world. But we're looking above for a Guiding
7. ,' , , l . .. and that it is as unwarrantable as in- Hand:
ting ii otx men tucoio, terfering with the internal affairs of
time are in a position to hold the neutrals. Very good, but Is England
mania within sufficient bounds to pre- interfering with the affairs of neu-
vent it from becoming as frightful as it trals, us included, or not?' How about
nrHinriv , their telling tne Hollanders to Whom
VVwU . 1 ,, . I I I J
.Hand;
With his touch on the throttle and a
full head of steam.
Let war's rumors rumble, and its light
nings gleam.
If the Government should dig that
canal Into Humboldt Bay to salve the
Milwaukee, the waterway - might be
maintained as a valuable permanent
addition to the harbor.
People who recollect that a 6hip
was brought overland into deep-water
down at the Columbia's mouth won
der why the cruiser Milwaukee can
not be saved.
The road over Siskiyou Mountain
will be negotiable in a month and
every day in the week will be as good
as Sunday for a few hours' Joyride.
The raise of 1 cent an hour In car
men's pay is not big, but it means a
bit of money figured by the year.
Local Socialists are opposed to war
with Germany, The Socialist idea of
fighting is with the vocal organ.
No woman Is too old to experience
pleasure on receipt of a valentine.
Today is the time for mailing.
Get your throat in condition to
make a noise when the returning
troops are on parade.
That little girl who persists in run
ning away needs , an old-fashioned
spanking.
Edison Is 70 and still at work. Yet
a lot of fellows just above 45 are in
a worry.
Great Britain is spending nearly
$30,000,000 a day and is not wasting
a penny.
A dead gunman is a Joy forever to
the rival tong.
who come to our Twitter are:
1. Make 'em short.
2. The shorter the better.
Whereupon arises D. H. B., who sang
In the late Saengerfest which we are
not permitted to mention any more,
and he wreaths daffodils In his hair
and cuts him a willow whistle and
opens the Spring Twitter as follows:
Spring Song.
Tra-la, tra-la. tra-la, tra-la,
The birds act silly.
And frisks the filly. .
Tra-la, tra-la, tra-la, tra-la.
I hear the notes
Of the bleating goats;
So I rise. I rise, and I lift my eyes
To Sing of the Spring and to get the
prize, ,
For It would be hard
To find a bard
Whom you would think fitter
For this Spring Twitter.
Tra-la, tra-la. tra-la. tra-la.
The sap is running.
And men go gunning.
(Tra-la, tra-la. tra-la. tra-la.)
Gunning for what?
I can tell you not.
But I toot my flute and I whoop and
sing.
Like a blooming birdie: " 'Tls Spring
Tls Spring!"
Where Spring potes are.
Let me be the star.
With the brightest glitter
In this Spring Twitter.
(Note D. H. B. has five other stanzas
In his Dome, but, in accordance with
the rules enunciated above, we have
made.it short, and the other three
stanzas are probably on their way to
the pulp mill by now.
Who's the next?
February 17.
PORTLAND, Feb. 11. (To the Edi
tor.) In order to settle an argument.
what date did Ash Wednesday fall on in
the year 1S64? REGULAR PATRON.
Is track blockaded? Shall we hit an
open switch?
Will some head-on collision pile our
train in the ditch?
While the seas are the common prop- Will some deluge of Fate wash our
even what they shall get for them?
L. LONG,
erty of all, all have assented to certain
regulations affecting treatment of neu
trals, known as International law. Un
der International law we would have no
ground for protest if an American ship
attempting to enter Hamburg refused
to heave to upon demand of a British
warshlr i nd was thereupon d upon
or sunk. Instances have gone unques
tioned In which American lives" have
been endangered by fire of German
submarines when the vessel was at
tempting to escape a summons from the
submarine to stop. '
The new Oerman policy gives no
warning; it provides for no inquiry as
to destination, character of cargo or
nationality of ship. It Is sink on sight
If you appear In certain waters of
broad area. Crews and passengers may
escape as best they may, if not killed by
gunfire or the explosion of a torpedo.
All of which Is contrary to interna
tional law, to freedom Of the seas, and
to humane obligations.
We shall probably claim and receive
Indemnity for violation; of property
rights by any belligerent. Loss of prop
erty may be compensated. Lives cannot.
roadbed away.
And a mass of tangled wreckage greet
the light of day?
Watchman, what of the night? Is It
war or play?
Good old Union, we're with you for aye.
Come weal or come woe, we're true to
the core.
On the U. S. Limited, forevermore.
OIAF OSWALD.
Coat of Philippines.
KELLOGG. Idaho. Feb. !.
Editor.) How mnch did the
States pay Spain for the Philippine Is
lands? The encyclopedia says that the
friars' lands were bought for $7,000,000.
Was this money or more paid to the
Spanish government?
AUUL61 Mt,l..tit,. '
The United States paid Spain $20.
000.000 for the Philippines. The $7 000.
000 paid for friar lands was a separate
transaction with the Dominican, Angus
tlnian and Recoleto orders negotiated
, with Pope Leo XIIL
A TOUCHING TALE OK WOE.
There are many sad faces In Port
land today, there are many now mourn.
ing who erstwhile were gay, there are
many who into the future now peer,
their erstwhile high spirits knocked
plumb out o gear. The law making
Oregon dry as a bone, without an oasis.
a bibulous zone, has felt the imprint
of the Governor's quill that left his
illustrious name on the bill. He felt
not a Jolt to his conscience as he at
tached his proud name to the cruel
decree, and not a regret was housed
under his lid as he threw down the
pen and exclaimed: "It is 6d!". He
gave not a thought to the sufferers
who were robbed of the product of still
and of brew, who'd tramp through the
city or loaf 'round the house bereft of
the makin's to build up a souse: who'd
hurl maledictions 'twould paint the air
red at his unfeeling gubernatorial
head, and swear by the witch that air-
planed on a broom he'd officially dug
his political tomb. But great as their
(To thel,orture of soul now may be a greater
United I awaits mem wnen sorrowiuuy . mcy
drain tne last crop irom tne pacnage
they got ere the cruel law hit them a
poul-crushing swat; entomb the last
gulp from the Juice of the grains till
naught b-it the breath, of the bottle
temains. and oft they may sniff at the
fragrance of rye till the bottles, like
Oregon, all are bone dry. Diplomatic!
relations with Germany they in their
dry throttle state and their "painful
dismav will hold as a movement less
srlously than severing relations with.
Barleycorn, see?
. JAMES BARTON ADAMS.