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THE 3IORXIXG- OREGONIAN. TUESDAY, APRIIi 24, 1917.
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POKTl-AND, TUESDAY, APKIL 14, 1917.
AFTER TEN YEARS.
By the time the first quarter sec
tion of remaining land in the Oregon
& California Railroad land grant la in
possession of an actual settler more
than ten years will have elapsed since
the Oregon Legislature first took steps
to 6ecure enforcement of the terms of
the grant. For a long period prior to
1907 the railroad company had held
this property from sale or had sold in
quantities and at prices in excess of
the covenants entered Into when it
took over the lands from the United
States Government.
It is with some satisfaction that The
Oregonian recalls that It was an in
strument in inducing the Legislature
to memorialize Congress ten years ago
on this subject. Its news-gathering
resources were utilized to determine
the extent of reservation from settle
ment and unlawful sales of lands with
in the grant. These violations .were
given prominent publicity. In Its edi
torial columns it vigorously called
upon the Legislature to act. The final
outcome is written after lapse of a
decade.
About a year ago the United States
Supreme Court rendered its first de
cislon in the case instituted by direc
tion of Congress as result of the me
morial of the Oregon Legislature. The
Government had sought forfeiture of
the grant and had won in the lower
courts. The United States Supreme
Court reversed the lower courts in an
opinion which, as a news agency per
tinently says, nobody understood.
The Supreme Court held that the
lands were not forfeitable because of
violation of the covenants of the
grant; that the railroad was entitled
only to a value in the land of $2.50
per acre; that there had been an ab
solute grant" of the lands to the rail
road company, subject only to the lim
itations of the settlers clause and with
the rights of selection of time of sale
and choice of settler. Tet the court
also held that granting acts were sub
ject to amendment. It enjoined the
railroad company from making fur
ther sales until Congress should make
further provision for disposition of the
lands.
The railroad company then laid
claim to "use" of the land, and de
fined "use" as the benefits accruing
from standing growths of timber and
minerals underneath the land. It also
contended that an "absolute grant'
gave it vested rights which could not
be purchased by the Government with
out its consent.
Congress meanwhile had passed the
Chamberlain-Ferris law revesting title
in the grant In the Government and
providing for payment to the railroad
company of $2.60 per acre as the lands
were sold to settlers and the timber
to lumbermen.
The second decision handed down
yesterday by the court seems to clarify
the former decision. It denies the
railroad's claim to the profits from
timber and minerals and specifically
confines its Interest in the land to
$2.50 an acre. It upholds the validity
of the Chamberlain-Ferris act, resting
that phase of the decision upon the
former ruling that a grant Is subject
to amendment by Congress. Thus It
disposed of the confusing contradiction
In the earlier holding that an absolute
rant was subject to amendment.
From the public standpoint, the part
of the later decision which denies the
railroad's right to the full timber and
mineral value, is probably the more
Important. With the railroad irrev
ocably limited to a value of $2.50 an
acre in the land. It is hardly concelva.
ble that the company would not have
accepted the terms of the Chamber
Iain-Ferris law, even had the court
held that Its acceptance was necessary
to put the law into effect. The law,
while not as liberal to Oregon as jus
tice seemed to demand in its distribu
tion of land-sale proceeds, was more
than liberal to the railroad company.
bearing in mind that the company's
value in the land is only $2.50 an
acre.
The Congressional act relieves the
railroad company of all expense Inci
dent to sale of so large and so widely
scattered tracts of land, and It pro
vides for payment to the company of
the full maximum of $2.50 for every
acre, good or bad.
Had the company been forced to sell
under the terms of the grant it would
have had to conduct Its own sales and
It would have received but $2.50 an
acre for the highly valuable timber
lands within the grant. On the othe
hand. It would have been unable to sell
that portion which Is unfit for either
timber or agriculture, while for that
$art which, because of scant utility
Is worth less than $2.50 an acre.
would have received only the nominal
price the purchaser would have been
willing to pay.
Relieved of the scab land at the
maximum price and relieved also of
the cost of sales administration, the
company would have shown small
business acumen had It refused to ac
cept the terms laid down by Congress
had It been given that option.
At the time The Oregonian first
' called attention to the reservation by
the railroad of the lands In 1907 this
newspaper expressed the opinion that
forfeiture to the Government because
of the railroad's violation of its cove
nants would not be an undue penalty.
At that time the people of Oregon
had no cause to doubt the good faith
of the Government's administration
of the public domain. Bureaucratic
rule had not yet arisen in Washington.
Government ownership of agricultural
and timber land was then deemed
equivalent to putting it promptly at
the disposal of those who would devote
it to Industrial use. The reservation
policy was not In flower and the pub
Jlo mortmain had only begun to 4TrQ:"r7
Later, forfeiture to the Government
caused misgivings as to the ultimate
use or lack of use to which the land
would be put. These perfectly nat
ural misgivings gave legitimate cause
for a resolution adopted by the Legis
lature of 1915 providing for participa
tion by the state In the litigation in an
effort to have the terms of the grant
enforced. Neither the Legislature nor
anybody else wanted another forest
reservation in Oregon, but It did desire
that the lands be opened to settlement
and timber manufacture.
The act of Congress now sustained
follows the spirit of the legislative res
olution of 1915. It provides for dis
posal of the lands. Unless there be
bureaucratic interference the lands
will soon be in possession of farmers
and the timber will be sold to men
who will convert it Into lumber and
thereby open more lands to agricul
tural development. There Is still
bureaucratlo interference to guard
against. Complaint against the reser
vation policy of the Government has
not extended so much to the laws as
to their administration. If Oregon
does not have to call upon the Con
gressional delegation to protect It
against Pinchotism In disposal of the
grant, then there Is Immediate prog
ress In sight.
LAUGHING AT THE UW.
Escape of Logan Billingsley from
prison does not speak well for the
men in whose custody he was. His
record has proved him to be a danger
ous, lawless man, familiar with many
tricks for violating the law and evad
ing its penalties. He was known to
have plenty of money and many con
federates who would help him to
break jail if given the opportunity.
Nothing except official laxity or cor
ruption can explain his possession of
the saw with which he cut the bars
of his prison.
Just such Incidents as this explain
the greater prevalence of crime in this
than other civilized countries. The
machinery for law enforcement seems
to have been perverted Into a device
for testing the ability of officials In
securing the conviction and punish
ment of criminals. It is a net set to
catch Judges, prosecutors and Jailers
In a web of technicalities and tricks,
though It should be set to catch crimi
nals. From the capture to the im
prisonment of an offender, the law is
under a series of handicaps, mostly of
the lawyers' making. Not the least of
these Is the power of stolen money to
save the thief from punishment. A
man who has acquired a fortune by
wholesale murder may use It In de
feating the law.
The American people now stand
forth as champions of the law of na
tions. When they have vindicated It,
they would do well to simplify and re
pair their own laws, that men like Bil
lingsley may not slip through the fin
gers of their guards and then tele
phone their defiance from a safe hid
ing place.
EVIDENCE FROM ONE WHO KNOWS.
The fatal defects of voluntary mili
tary service are forcibly stated in the
New Tork Times by an Englishman
who fought in the early days of the
war and later was In recruiting serv
ice. He says that hundreds "were
willing and anxious to do their bit.
but refused to give up their jobs when
they knew hundreds of slackers were
preying around ready to fill them." He
further says:
Men between 80 and 40 felt It was unjust
that they, having made their positions.
6hould go before the younger and more
active had been called. Married men were
willing to make the sacrifice, but not before
the single men had been mustered in. Many
of those engaged in responsible work, or
holding Important positions, or with heavy
family responsibilities felt that It was "up
to" the government to decide their duty for
them.
That disposes of the plea that com
pulsion would give us an army of
slackers which would be worthless. It
would fill the Army with men the vast
majority of whom are willing to serve
but who under the voluntary system
hold back because they realize the in
justice of letting others stay at home
who may have no domestic duties and
whose duty to their country Is as bind
ing. Under the draft system these
slackers would be compelled to serve,
and the others would then respond
readily to the call.
In his regiment were numbers of
civil, mining and mechanical engi
neers, many of whom were killed or
maimed as privates, though they would
have been a much greater asset as
officers of artillery or of engineers.
He cites three instances. An electrical
engineer was killed as a private in the
infantry. An analytical chemist, who
was needed in a laboratory in connec
tion with explosives, was wounded
twice as a private before he was trans
ferred to the place where" he would
be most valuable. An expert in arti
ficial limbs, whose services were
urgently needed, had enlisted as a
private, but it took four months to
secure his discharge.
The voluntary system not only
wasted thousands of such men but it
proved a deterrent instead of an In
centive to enlistment, "and pleased
none but the despicable wretches who
sought to save themselves under Its
cloak."
Tet the system which produces such
results Is defended in the name of lib
erty. It defends the liberty of none
but the slackers.
RED CROSS PREPAREDNESS.
Whatever may be said of our Na
tional preparedness in a military sense.
It is good to know not only that we
are more ready for war, so far as the
Red Cross organization can make us
ready, than we ever have been in our
history, but, more than that. In this
respect we are In better condition than
any nation ever has been. The offi
cial organ of the society asserts that
preparations are so complete that at
the call to action more than 7000 com
pletely trained nurses can be put In
the field enough for an army of a
million and a half men. Because of
this we need have no fear of repeti
tion of the sanitary horrors of .the
Spanish-American War. The science
of prophylaxis has made great strides
in the past two decades, and the Red
Cross organization has kept pace with
the general progress.
Chances of recovery of the wounded
also have been enhanced to an al
most incredible degree within only a
few years. This has been due not so
much to increased technical skill of
surgeons as to more nearly universal
I recognition of the 'part played by sep
ticity in wound disasters. The name
of Dr. Alexis Carrel, an American, is
closely associated with this Improved
attitude. In addition to his utilization
of the antiseptic solution developed by
his colleague. Dr. Dakin, he has done
yeoman service by demonstrating that
at least 70 per cent of amputations
have been necessitated, not by anato
mlc lesions but by Infection. This sin
gle discovery has marked an epoch in
the battle-wound treatment. .Surgeons
not only save lives where once they
lost them, but they keep men whole.
The number of war cripples Is smaller
in proportion to the number of
wounded than It ever has been.
Real significance of Red Cross pre
paredness lies In the factalso that
there never has been a time when so
high a, degree of techrical efficiency
was required as now. War nursing
may have lost some of Its romance,
but It accomplishes vastly greater re
sults. There is not now much room
for the young woman whose concep
tion of nursing is feeding broth to
hero-convalescents and fanning the
wounded soldier's fevered brow. The
work is exacting, and preparation for
it is correspondingly thorough. Red
Cross nurses are graduates in theory
and experience. Their scientific equip
ment is equal to that of many phy
sicians In previous wars. And their
work Is backed by an organization the
number of lay members of which Is
growing by leaps and bounds.
THINGS WE CAN EAT.
Americans have undreamed-of food
resources In food, which have not even
been tapped but which would go far
toward augmenting the supply if real
famine threatened. As a Nation we
know little or nothing except by hear
say about the desperate struggles of
peoples to find food enough to keep
the spark of life in their bodies. We
have been unmoved by the tragedies
of India and China because there never
yet has been a time when we could not
go to the grocery and buy. However
much individuals may have suffered
temporarily in hard times, the country
always has raised enough for us to
eat.
But Horace Kephart has made a list
of things that we could eat, and prob
ably would eat, as a last resort. He
mentions prairie dogs, which he says
are as good as squirrel, which is true.
The prairie dog, which is not a dog,
was once eaten quite extensively by
people free from gustatory prejudices.
Ground squirrels, especially in the
grain-growing districts, are tender,
Juicy and nourishing, and every West
erner knows the merit of rabbit, the
bane of the farmer once It gets out of
bounds. The Indian is not above din
ing on lynx, wild cat and panther.
though we probably should need con
siderable preparation before we would
accept any of these. And there are
many forms of wild game with which
we are familiar, and which we would
sacrifice in a serious extremity.
Most interesting, however, of all Mr,
Kephart's list are the foods of the vege
table kingdom which we are neglect
ing. Acorns are plentiful and highly
nutritious, and when freed of their
tannin are even palatable. The roots
of the arrow-head are good when
boTled. Wild hyacinth will go far to
ward sustaining life. So also will the
roots of the yellow pond lily. Mr. Ken-
hart says, as well as Jack-ln-the-pulpit
root, but this needs previous treatment
to rid It of Its acrid taste.
There are, too, numerous pot herbs.
which, while not so nourishing, might
rind a place in the famine scheme,
Among these are the dog-tooth violet.
wild kidney bean, bellwort, wild sue
cory, crowfoot, dandelion, marsh mal
low and marsh marigold, Solomon's
seal, shepherd's purse, wakerobin
milkweed, pokeweed and milk vetch
The Jerusalem artichoke is mentioned
as a neglected wild plant, but it is not
so very long since it was grown as a-
soup vegetable by many persons, and
it is even now regarded highly as a
stock and hog food. Pigweed also Is
on the list. It, too. has had a place
in the dietary of many a pioneer. It
was once fancied by people of Individ
ual tastes, who stoutly defended it as
far superior to spinach, or even turnip
tops.
Doubtless there are many other wild
ana semi-wild vegetables, growing
above and below ground, that are bet
ter food than we now realize. At any
rate, we would try a lot of them be
fore we gave up and starved. Bu
with a fractional part of the effort it
would require to gather them In their
native places we could grow plenty o
the foods we like and that have stood
the test. We have land in plenty
enough to feed ourselves and all the
belligerents, too. In farming methods
we lead the world. But the onlv sure
insurance against an ultimate diet of
trilliums and evening primroses is the
planting on the largest possible scale
of the standard food crops without
delay.
WORLD MORALITY.
Marquis Okuma, former Premier of
Japan, is unduly alarmed over what
he regards as the low stage of the
world's morality. It is surprising to
note that he arrives at his pessimistic
conclusion as a result of the study of
Prussian conduct which brought about
the present war. He is gloomily im
pressed by the fact that international
treaties became nothing more than
scraps of paper as soon as the time
arrived, when Germany believed it to
her interest to break them. "Ger
many's bad faith," he says, "was such
as would have made Macchiaveli open
his eyes with wonder. It was nothing
but brigandage on a large scale."
Still, no one, much less a statesman.
should reason from an isolated In
stance. The magnitude of the crime
of Prussian absolutism has truly set
the world aghast, but the fact that
so great a proportion of the world's
democracies is now united in revolt
against this vast conspiracy is an even
more impressive earnest of the real
tendency toward a higher international
standard.
The further fact stands out that this
Is the first great war In which the
forces directly to blame for it have
regarded it as necessary to deny re
sponsibility. Aims of conquest in past
ages were quite frankly avowed, and
armies and people were fed upon them
as a stimulant. Now Prussian Junker-
dom faces the stern reality that if
ever Its blind Instrumentalities become
undeceived as to their underlying pur
pose, the whole enterprise will collapse
for want of support at home. The
mass of Germans fight on because
they have been led to believe that the
world is in a conspiracy to crush
them; It Is pretty well conceded that
their chief allies are kept in line by
force of military conditions plus a
similar misconception on the part of
the people of the purposes they are
striving for.
The political morality of France is
as different from the morality of a
century ago as day Is different from
night. Belgium, fighting to maintain
not only her national integrity but the
inviolability of her treaty of neutral
ity, is another Inspiration for the
whole world. No people have shown
a more Intense spirit of self-denial, or
capacity for repression, considering
their lights, than those of Russia. Eng
land, whatever may have been her
mistakes of long ago, is undoubtedly
united as one man today by an un
selfish motive and would not be so
united in any war for sgoila, Italy.
repudiates the Immoral cause of her
former allies Serbia fights for free
dom. China is awake to the meaning
of the new-world doctrine of democ
racy. South America is seeing the
light. While as for our own America,
every American knows that If It were
not that we are determined to uphold
International law. and to make It as
applicable to the weak nation as to
the strong, we would not be in the
war today. No less exalted purpose
could have enlisted the practically
unanimous support of the hundred
million people within our boundaries.
The outstanding fact that all the
minor issues in this great war have
been absorbed in the dominant issue
of international morality, that the war
is being prosecuted on that issue
alone, and that It will be fought to a
finish along those lines, calls for op
timism, not pessimism. It is shallow
to argue that "human nature is al
ways the same," and that the present
struggle will mark no progress toward
ultimate world peace. Nor is human
nature so constituted as to give ground
for discouragement. It makes a pretty
good showing when it can find free ex
pression. The spread of democracy.
now indicated on every hand, gives
renewed promise of a day when inter
national morality will be the domlnat
Ing spirit of the people of all the
world. We are making definite prog
ress In the right direction.
In two and a half years the United
States has become self-supporting as
regards chemicals and dyestuffs, and
has chemicals to spare. In the seven
months ending with January we ex
ported $107,000,000 worth, or 450 per
cent more than In the same period two
years ago. The new industries are a
valuable asset in war, for which we
must thank the Kaiser.
Fortunately the United States has
ample time to organize an army by
selective draft, for the allies need help
from us in every other form before
they will need troops. We can safely
take the three months needed to start
the new system. During that period
we can provide money, food and ships,
and keep munitions flowing across the
Atlantic.
The car shortage Is a question of
how you figure, as far as the Southern
Pacific and the Public Service Com
mission are concerned, but the main
thing the lumberman knows about it
is that he does not get the cars.
If permission is given for free use
of water for gardens It should have
a time restriction. The tendency to
sprinkle a lawn too much will prevail
to greater extent with the garden, and
too much water will work injury.
Naturally we wish our distinguished
visitors to obtain as good an impres
sion of the country as possible, and so
it is In some respects unfortunate that
they should have come over while
Congress was In session.
While raising five billions for the
war, the United States can still spare
thirty millions, a mere trifle, to build
a 250-mile railroad In Peru from the
Pacific Coast to the rubber district on
the Amazon.
Grand Duke Nicholas Is an embar
rassment to the new government of
Russia, and It Is suggested that Presl
dent Wilson relieve it by finding em
ployment for his great military genius.
Too much "bunk" Is being peddled
to the people of Germany of early vic
tory and early peace. Douglas Haig's
arrival on the bank of the Rhine syill
give them a rude awakening. ;
It is respectfully suggested to the
Judges of courts of domestic relations
everywhere that they make the sen
tence for lazy husbands a term of
servitude on the farm.
There are at least six sailors who
no longer believe in the hoodoo on
Friday, the 13th. They were rescued
on that date after being adrift on the
Atlantic for three days.
The bride of a Chicago slacker has
been abandoned within a week by
her husband, who took with him $300
of her savings. The deserter is also
a bounty Jumper.
As Senor Sagasta would have put It
in the time of the little unpleasantness
back in 1898, these are sad but glor
ious days for Von Hlndenburg on the
western front.
Bryan is touring the land appealing
for mre food production. His pres.
ence will draw crowds, but he cannot
say more than has appeared In print.
The boxing matches extensively ad
vertlsed for tonight should demon
strate whether there Is anything in the
charges made of unlawful contests,
Les Darcy having set the example, it
Is the obvious duty of numerous other
followers of the ring, who can quite
easily be spared, to get In line.
Many of these schoolboys going Into
the Navy will become the new Amer
ican Jack tars In the merchant service
after the war.
It is all right to raise a corps, and
also on the other hand the same let
ters spell crops, which are almost as
useful.
Oregon has done nobly In enlisting
men; now let it enlist dollars by buy.
Ing war bonds.
The divinity student who enlists will
find himself qualified to serve In the
other army.
The patriotic housewife will be
known by her battalions of jars this
Fall.
The lucky farmer ls the one with
an early crop of almost anything to
sell.
Only one hit in nine suggests that
the tong gunmen need target practice.
Somebody ls Jobbing the Cubans In
discounting American paper money.
An equipment of brickbats will do
the home guard for riot drill.
As the Chinaman might say, Logan
Billingsley "him flea."
First thing to
sharpen the hoe.
learn la how to
Umpires must not be killed on open
ing day.
Make lt 20.000 this afternoon.
Can the smelt.
Gleams Through the Mist
By Dean Collins.
MAUD MILLER MODERN.
Maud Muller on a Summer's May,
Raked the meadow, sweet with. hay.
Maud Muller raked the meadow, for
Her brother, John, had gone to war;
And dad had Joined the warlike band.
And also Zeke, the hired hand.
Maud Muller raked the meadow sweet.
And also dug the sugar beet;
And, so the fodder might not fall.
She went and hoed among the kale
She milked twelve cows, all sleek and
brown.
And dally hauled the cream to town;
And. to uphold the soldier's arm
To make it brief she ran the farm.
The Judge came by In hla oar one day
And stopped to pass the time away.
Maud leaned on the handle's of her plow
And said: "How's things a-comln' now?"
Fine," said the Judge. "When Sum
mer's gone,
get some crop from my front lawn.
"Until one tries one never knows
How many spuds a park strip grows.
My golf course has some striking
scenes
Since I have planted It to beans."
CTep," answered Maud, "you never know
Till you get at It what you can grow;
Unless some mishap comes to bother,
11 raise more crops this year than
father!
For now, since we must feed the Na
tion,
I've put more land In cultivation.'
Well." said the Judge, "I must go back.
ve got some garden truck to pack;
"Since I can't go and tote a gun.
'm doing the next best to be done;
It helps a bit If you and I
Will stick and swell the food supply."
Maud Muller wiped her sunburned brow
And answered, "Yep, and turned her
plow.
But ere the Judge drove from her land.
She said "good-bye,' and shook his
hand.
"More worthy blisters, lass, I ween
On hand so fair I've never seen,"
So said the Judge. With cheeks aflame.
"Oh," answered Maud "part of the
game!"
Hooray for the maiden, hooray for the
Judge.
As over their garden lands they trudge 1
Hooray for them both, and hooray for
all
Who come to the mark when the bugles
call; ,
And howsoever that It may fit.
Turn cheerfully in to do their bitl
The Chancellor gave his head a scratch.
And showed the Kaiser a new dispatch
In spite of our propaganda. Bill,
They seem to be fixing to trim us still
'On land and sea our strength they
match
And even in the potato patch!"
And the Junkers scratched their heads
and thunk:
We are slated soon to Jae scrapped as
Junk!
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen.
The saddest are these, 'We're stung
again r "
"Sir," said the Courteous Office Boy.
hep-hepplng to my desk to bring me
the morning's mall.
What now?" I brusqued.
Have you noticed what a lot of min
ute men are springing up to answer the
country's call?" asked the serious C.O.B.
"Minute men?" I puzzled.
"Yep willing to give a whole min
ute to patriotic whoopteree and then
go back to their own affairs imagining
that they've done their duty by the
country."
And Just for that I cranked up the
phonograph and put on a repeating at
tachment on the "Star-Spangled Ban
ner" and let 'er run until the C. O. B.
was blue in the face from standing up.
BULLETIN FROM THE POTB HOUND,
Dear Col. Ed.: I almost got a pote for
you yesterday. It happened this way:
I was going by a place and I heard
a voice through the second-story win
dow saying. Just like this:
One two three! Free verse! One
two three; one two three Free
verse!"
And I flew upstairs, because
couldn't see what a free verser could
be counting feet for.
And when I busted in the door it was
a dancing teacher, and he was saying
Re-verae" Instead of "free verse."
But you've gotta admit that I was
getting close. Yours on" the scent.
G. PYTHAGORAS BIMELACK.
Pote Hound.
e
CAPSULE BALLAD OF" THE PACIFIST
The battle bugles summon clear.
And patriots begin to go;
On every side they do appear
Even Doc Jordan fronts the foe.
And Bryan Says, "I told you bo!"
And as I watch them far and near.
Where are they gone, I'd like to
know
The pacifists of yesteryear?
17 ENVOI.
A talon's on the peace dove's toe.
And eagle's quills on lt appear;
Where In the dickens did they go
The pacifists of yesteryear?
BARD'S SPRJXG TWITTER,
Dear Ed: I want to twit you with a
twitter before the Spring season ls
closed. Here 'tis:
Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate
sings.
And costs of living rise;
And spuds begin, as Springtime springs.
To ope their little eyes.
With all things shooting up the chute
Why don't my wages rise?
Why don't my wages rise.
Arise; arise.
Why -don't my wages rise?
Tours truly. Q.
ED.
Sleep tor Boys.
PORTLAND. April 23. (To the Edi
tor.) How many hours sleep does a
healthy boy past 13 years need?
A MOTHER
Amount of sleep required depends
somewhat on habits of life, state and
rapidity of growtn, and apparent in
dividual needs not definitely defined.
A boy of that age should generally have
at least nine hours' sleep.
In the Streetcar.
The Lamb.
"I went down in the war panic of
1914," said the big man, as he hung to
a strap in the crowded streetcar. "But
now I am e-ettlng on my feet again.
""In that case," ventured the little man
Just behind him, "perhaps you wouldn't
mini getting ofj mlneVi
The Blunder.
By Theodore Msrbnrc, of the
Vigilantes)
(Mr. Marburg was formerly United
States Minister to Belgium.)
In the whole course of history no
man has ever made so srreat a mistake I
as the German Kaiser. Milton pictured I
such a mistake on the part of an angel I
when he described Satan's revolt In
heaven. But the annals of men will
be searched In vain for a parallel.
If there was anv nation which al
ready had a place in the sun and which
It was Germany. Her flag was found
in every port. Her foreign and do
ti- rtr-
mestic commerce were arrowing by
leaps and bounds. Not only was there
no discrimination against Germany in
the tariff laws of "protection" coun
tries, but unusual opportunity for
trade was hers in the vast area where
the liberal spirit of Great Britain wel
comed the foreign trader on an equal
footing with its own national. Only
the self-governing colonies of Great
Britain had set up small preferential
tariffs In favor of the mother country.
The German language clothed such
treasures of literature and of knowl
edge, historic and scientific, that men
of other tongues everywhere must
needs study it. In the application of
science to Industry, In the government
of cities. In the successful struggle
against poverty, in that battle which
brings lasting gain not the battle
of man against man, but the battle of I
man against nature Germany
was i
setting an example to the world. The
same may be said of her In respect
of at least one department of art that
highest expression of human emotion
music. True and permanent con
quest conquest by the spirit was
hers. She need only have sat still arm
everything that was worth while would
have come to her.
A warped Judgment, further weak
ened by deadness to the moral law.
has brought all this down in ruins.
Typifying: and accentuating the ten
dencles of a ruthless military class, it
has brought untold disaster on the
world. Did ever lack of gray matter
in one brain and dearth of human feel
ing in one heart bring such a flood of
misery upon men as this? If the world
does not actually forbid the contin
ued existence of a system which per
mits the accident of birth under auto
cratic rule to decide the happiness or
ruin of millions of men. surely it will I
at least deny to this one individual I
and to his unhappy heir, wno nas out- i
Caesared Caesar, further possibility for I
evu. 1
The rreat war does not indicate a
general breakdown of decency and
ncnt motive. it was uruu&ui. wu
one nation. Drobably the only great
nation that still believes In war. I
Not Nietzsche nor Treitschke nor
Bernhardt but the successes of 1870.
are responsible. And it is the duty of
the whole world to show Germany mat
she cannot repeat the trick.
The new movement toward better m-
ternational organization. Initiated by
Russia's call lor the first Hague con
ference, has made marked progress in
Great Britain, France and the United
States. Germany alone has designedly
blocked It.
The need of the hour Is to beat Ger
many. But running side by side with
this task is the duty of being reaay.
when this war is over, with an intelli
gent and practical plan to discourage
future war. The latter has high and
endurlna- imnortance. It must not be
overlooked even in the midst of the
stern business rn which we are now
ensraced.
At any hour may come that next
srreat event, the throwing down by the
German people of their own rulers. All
the strife would then be stilled and
America would at once be confronted
with the question: "Are you ready to
assume your share In a world organi
zation to prevent a return or tnis caii-
clysmr
SEVES CAPTAINS ARB FROM RASKS
Fourteenth Infantry, Formerly at Van-
Maver, Illustrates Oportnnltt
YUMA. Ariz., April 17. (To the Edi
tor.) I am Inclosing an order read
to the recruits of this regiment at
escort of the color, thinking it might
be of interest to some of your readers
in view of the fact that the Fourteenth
Infantry was for many years stationed
at Vancouver Barracks. It left there
in 1898 and went to the Philippines in
the same expedition as the Second Ore-
gon infantry, it was again biauuuru
t Vancouver Barracks from 1905 to
1908. Among its officers, well known
In Portland, were Brigadier-General
Thnmaa AT Anderson (retired). Lieu
tenant-Colonel H. C. Cabell (retired).
T.intennnt-Colonel C. H. Martin.
Kitrhteenth Infantry, and Major John
J. Bradley, Twenty-ninth Infantry.
At present it has among its oiiicera
many men who rose from the ranks.
and in this connection i wuuiu '"
Bay a few words to dissipate tne sen
oral belief that sucn corninioi"
exceptionally ainicuii. 10 -
the 10 Captains on auty at
tion seven rose from the ranks, two
were commissioned from civil i "
but one is a graduate or the military breezes of a foreign land your whis
Academy. Of the Lieutenants one-hair pered iuuaby, just think, as I once used
. . V, m . t a frnm the ranKS. tne OlllC'O
from West Point, so it can do eauny
seen how unrounaea is mo
referred to. I have Deen asueu "-
, n. rirnurn socially asrainst men
. " n. -v such s. Question is
iruui lih, -
, nhsurd to reauire an an
swer, but for the satisfaction of those
who have namoreu -
will say that it is without tne
foundation lnvract. " ""id
democratic army today in the world
Anv young man oi suou -----
h nhv-Kloue with a morouBu """
i"''vl'"- , m oh-
tion in the common urii-
tain a commission aner a. ia.. - -
Ice in the ranks or a naturo
warrant his Captain in .,.' " Ti,.,
Ll. .J!Hnn. that
Him. unui f'" - The
per oa win i" u i- . -
P.. nt !. rlirht now. Most of
time i i
our recruits are from the laboring or
coueRe vi utr" c - a
chauffeurs, mechanics, etc . are at a
premium. A recruit n . and Rfn.
Army can be sure his heai It from
i,inr with oiaer
for this emer-
ments are ho Wants
gency only so
boh'-j j so Tnere aro
to volunteer may u res,ular
about 18"00. hranches of the serv-
A rmV. With SI! l' 1 11 11
ice to choose from
tl irtRDAN,
. jtarit Fourteenth In -
CM' l.r.rivate Second Oregon
lanti . i
Infantry.
The order re - Yuma. Ariz-
Headquartersl4tt No 85:
Xorll 18. 19"
tw. ,-r.mony which you b.v. Ju
as the escort of the olJ
ed and presented "
,. in la known
The color escort
regiment Is tne Na'ona ,meor;inontai color
eai
". -iiu Roth National ana res"""-""
of
lore are carried during occasion! '
col
mrnv
ony and in battle
. v. resrlment.
our country being at
,or r.-: . to defend wltn our
which we "" -,,,- which
of yoTmeo have ".cenUy Joined has
Lany.?.lKU,ord It served with credit
i rivll War numerous Indian campaigns.
Phiupplne insurrection, Spanish-American
War PaPnd in the Boxer China,
Z", ,11 wail in the assault on Pekln,
assault on "rv...-
It ls enjolnea op ,nives as to be
regiment : to . "fc '.v, c "-hl.b
have been presented to you. and to take a
naA-, --1- ir, the effort to uphold the
rTd d .m. of the 14th Infantry
and the regular Army.
By order of Colon.. Wilson .
Captain and Adjutant, ieta Infantry.
eral weiiaro " -. nfficers and tee to puDiisn daily or weekly menus r
the start by MPer'e"" The busl- I am sure the dally papers would be
non-commissioned 0"Je"Tthl- else, glad to give the necessary publicity
ness of soldiering, V iTly througrh as- and that the people generally would be
ls learned more quicK-iy v.nllst- clad to follow the suRsrestions con-
In Other Days.
TncBtr-flTe Years Ago.
From Ths Oregonian of April 24. 1892.
Tacoma, April 23. The Portland
baseball team won from the Tacoma
team here today by a score of 16 to 12.
Tacoma was beaten in the third lnnlnar.
In that inning nearly every man on the
team made an error, while Portland
brought In eight runs.
Hon. J. W. Howard. Mayor of Grants
Pass, who attended the Democratic
state convention, was seen at the
Perkins yesterday, and in response to
an Inquiry about the fruit outlook of
tne Kogue ttiver valley said: "W
have had some frost in our section of
late, but the result Is not so -serious
by any means as has been reported."
An attempt is being made to secure
funds with which to build a public
hall at Mount Tabor, and something
over $1200 has been subscribed.
Mr. John Barrett, city editor of the
Evening Telegram, leaves tomorrow
for the East on a political and busi
ness trip.
The pool tournament at the Manhat
tan closed yesterday. Warner defeatlnar
Harrison and winning the champion-
snip or Portland.
Joseph B. Marshall, a former Port
lander, now in chartre of a farm on
Columbia dough, was accidentally shot
in the leg Friday while cleaning an old
.j. -caliper revolver.
Fifty Yean Ago.
From The Oregonian of April 24. 186T.
Posters are OUt In this eitv nnnnnnn-
ing the annual meeting of the Wash-
tne election or officers and the trans
ington County Agricultural Soeietv for
action of the usual necessary business.
The meeting will be held at Hlllsboro
on May 4.
Ws learned yesterday Mint kdhi.. i.
this city are getting up another base
ball club and that it villi be organized
and have a name within a ehort time.
ine fioneers will then have something
to spur them up. They were out for prac
tice Monday afternoon and hrnlr nil
their bats, but whether it was by newly
uoveiopea muscle or oy "main strength
and awkwardness" is not stated.
The Good Temnlars of this -ltv. n
ing resolved UDon celebrating th
of May. the several committee nf tvi
looses, constituting in the aggregate.
a general committee of arrangements
met uii iuonaay evening and elected a
May Queen, the choice falllnir nnn
Miss Sallle White, of Portland Lodge,
-kiu. v.
A dispatch from Senator Corbett.
dated New York. April 19. w"as rncpivsH
! in this city yesterday, announcing that
he would sail from New York on the
I touowing "day ror Oregon. A similar
dispatch from Henry Falling, an-
i nounces that he will return at the
same time.
Workmen were vesterd
the P. T. Co.'s wharf, in "laying down
a top flooring of two-inch plank, for
me purpose or strengthening the lower
floor. The work of movintr the work
house and enlarging it, and enclosing
mo enure wnarr will De proceeded with
at once.
Oregon is represented on Senate
wiiuiuiicea, namely: Williams is a.
memDer or the committee on finance,
committee on public lands. Joint oom
mittee on retrenchment, and is chair
man of the committee on private land
ciaims. oroett is a member of the
committee on commerce, the committee
on the District of Columbia, and the
committee on Indian affairs.
Grandad's Old Canteen
By James Barton Adams
Go get that old canteen, m v bov.
that's hangln' on the wall, where it has
hung since '65 a waitin" for a call, and
have your grandma scald It out: it's
rusted now, perhaps, from idleness 'long
with the rest of my old army traps.
Its sides are somewhat batterej up, its
cover faded some, like that old uni
form of mine I wore when I came
home, but it can do you service vet, just
as it used to do your granddad in the
days o' war when he was young as you.
A dying comrade's heated lips have
sometlme9 pressed its mouth on smoke-
enveloped battle fields down yonder in
tne faouth, and eyes almost obscured
by death have looked up into mine and
thanked me as I corked it ud to tret
back into line, and to your granddad's
parched lips it often has been raised
when battle fire on every side in hell
ish -fury blazed, and now that you brave
soldier boys may see hard fighting, too.
,t ls my wjsh that lt may be a comforter
tQ you -vvhen in your bivouac at night
rolled in your blanket bed with this
0id battered up canteen a pillow for
your head, remember that your grand
dad once used lt In that same way as
thinkln' of the folks at home he often
used to ay. atld wnen you're lyln' there
at night a-lookin' at the sky,- the
U ,1 , o f Ias. nr ha,1r at hnm
arft asifin God to bless you, boy.
wherever you may roam,
IXSTRICTIOX IN WHAT TO EAT
Public, Which ls t'nlnformed on Food
Valnes, Xeeds Advice.
PORTLAND, April 23. (To the Ed
itor.) Having read in The Oregonian
the appeal of Herbert C. Hoover, head
of the American Food Board, for econ
omy in food supplies, it occurs to me
that the need of economy is much more
----- . " .," i" ' " r
i urgent tuan tne average person reai-
lzes, ana mat to accompiisn anyiains
worth while along: this line we must
have "team work."
I am firmly convinced that tne people
of Portland and Oregon are ready and
willing to make any possible sacrifice
for the purpose of conserving our sup
plies of food, but they need a leader.
Would lt not be possible for Mayor
Albee or the president of the Chamber
of Commerce to appoint a committee on
food conservation and for this commit-
tained.
The committee would be able to give
me niaiiur ueriuus uunyiuf raiiuo,
,ng heed of availabi9 supplies
changing conditions. Most of U1
.nii K..-
and
are
willing to economize, but not being
familiar with relative food values do
I not know the best way to go about it,
b. W. GRAHAM.
Both Sldea Ajcalnzt It.
ATTrSVILLK. Or.. Anrll 23. (To the
Editor.) In The Oregonian April 22 Is
I an interview with B. S. Worsley con-
cerning among other things a meeting
I t Am.wiil Or., on the bond finest Inn.
He gives the count as 52 negative and
tv amrmative votes.
I. aS master of Aumsville Grange,
want to say that th
y that the meeting was not
la meeting of the Aumsville Grange, but
tne Marion uoumy r-omona tnat met at
Aumsville on April IS. 1917. There was
not the number present that Mr. Wors
ley mentions as being the number of
votes cast on the two sides of the ques
tion, and I wish to state further that
the vote was put and all who voted on
either side voted against the bonding
bllL The master put the vote fairly and
asked for the nearativand affirmative.
The latter failed to nilke even a hand
ho against the resolutions, it was
stated.
Now if that ls the way the bonding
bill is to pass I hope and trust that lt
will be snowed under so deep that it
will never come out again.
A. B. DARSTi