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THE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, MAY 29. 1917.
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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1917.
roads will have to be rebuilt and an
era of development will set irr which
will stimulate construction of many
new roads. The same prediction ap
plies to Russia and to all of the Ger
man colonies. t
Many of the steel mills which are
now turning: out artillery and armor
plate will be reconstructed to make
rails and structural material. Many
munition plants will be converted Into
car shops, engine shops and factories
for making: other railroad material.
The demand will be so great .hat the
factories of Europe will be unable to
supply it, and the resources Of Amer
ican industry will be drawn upon for
many years to come. When we add
to the needs of the rest of the world
the urgent meeds of our own country
to bring: our railroads up to the re
quirements of our rapidly expanding
domestic and foreign commerce, we
can foresee a period of unequaled
prosperity for our basic industry.
ment to increase interest in utilization
of the by-product the stubble and
roots that remain in the field after
the seed la harvested. This will be
done partly by using them as Fall
pasture for livestock and partly by de
vising: a method of grinding and dry
ing the product for use in combination
with other feeds to make a balanced
ration. To be successful in this way.
the beet-seed grower will need to di
versify, to buy more cattle, sheep and
bogs and to provide other food mate
rial for them. This will be another
step toward the mixed farming which
we so greatly need.
FRANCE'S CALL TOtI ROOSEVELT.
The French are greater masters of
the finesse of the spirit than we are.
and hold In deeper reverence the sub
tleties that we In our growing mate
rialism Ignore. So It is that Oeorges
Clemenceau, former Premier of France,
In his open letter Jo President Wilson,
has comprehended the whole psychol
ogy of the situation in words so deftly
chosen and so pregnant with understanding-
of underlying- values that
every American writer who has advo
cated the sending- of Colonel Roosevelt
to France must wish in his heart of
hearts that he had been able to say
the thing so well.
It is true that popular leaders do
"influence men by the intangible at
mosphere of legend which has formed
around them." It is true that the
name of Roosevelt typifies to France
the American fighting spirit. It is true
that "the name of Roosevelt has in
this country (France) at this time a
legendary power." "Intangible atmos
phere," though it may be, as M. Clem
enceau so aptly phrases it, it Is none
the less an atmosphere. It Is a force
to be reckoned with, a factor that
ought not to be ignored, if we are to
give the greatest possible aid to
France.
Joan of . Arc was an inspiration to a
people, though she undoubtedly would
have been a failure as a bureaucrat
. or a member of a general staff. Her
Influence was one of those phenomena
which M. Clemenceau mentions, and
which we, no more than he, shall not
attempt to explain. One will not make
the ridiculous error of attempting to
compare the personalities of Colonel
Roosevelt and the Maid of Orleans, but
there is ar distinct similarity In the
underlying principles. It is in the re
sponse that will be created by the
Colonel's arrival in France.
Roosevelt can well leave strategy
and tactics to the professional soldiers.
It is the magic of his name that is
wanted to give heart to France. The
poilus already are disappointed be
cause they have not seen him; Gen
erals hope that iie will be there to
help: Frenchmen who know their
people join In the plea that he be
sent.
These are questions not of military
technic, nor of local politics, but of
helping France. There may be times
when a presence i3 worth more than
munitions and more than mere thou
sands of men, and M. Clemenceau
makes it clear that this is one of them,
BETTER THAN NOTHING.
The Oregonian thought well enough
of Daly four years ago to commend
his candidacy for Commissioner. That
was before the days of the $500,000
water-meter grab, before the delivery
of the public streets to the unregulated
jitney and before the hazardous and
reckless D jly project of throwing away
$1,777,000 of the public moneys in a
$3,400,000 (double the cost estimated
by Daly) light and water plant. That
was before Daly had surrendered him
self wholly to the radical and selfish
interests which are seeking to run the
city.
The Oregonian has no apologies to
offer for the transformation from the
Daly that was to the Daly that is. It
is not responsible. The Daly of 1917
is not the Daly of 1913. The public.
or the greater part of it, fears and dis
trusts him because of his public per
formances between 1913 and 1917.
Meanwhile, the Dary crowd is wel
come to make what it can out of the
1913 commendation by The Orego
nian. It leaves unexplained why the
things he has done since 1913 are not
approved. But to some people a good
word from The Oregonian four years
old is better than nothing at all.
EUROPE MUST REBUILD RAILROADS.
A tremendous amount of repairs
and new construction will have to be
done on all the railroads of Europe
after the war. ' In countries which
have been Invaded they have been
torn up and relald on new routes In
many cases to suit military necessity,
while their engines and cars have been
hauled away to other.countries. In all
the belligerent countries they have
been subjected' to abnormal strain,
Germany was best equipped for war
In this as in other respects, but the
United States Bureau of Railway
Statistics in its report, for 1916 says
that this strain, "without pause for
repairs or replacements, is telling se
verely." Of the prevailing deteriora
tion, the report says:
.Germany, which started the war with
shortage of rolling stock, is experiencing
great difficulty In getting trucks for ordl
nary needs of traffic. Of an order for 1600
locomotives. 1700 passenger cars, 400 bag
gage cars and 38,000 freight cars, placed
In 1015, only 15 per cent had -been executed
at the close of 1016. - French and Belgian
prisoners have been Impressed Into the rail
way workshops. There has been ' no new
construction except where needed for mili
tary purposes. ' Thousands of Belgian rail
way cars are found along the long line from
Berlin to Constantinople and even In Syria.
The British government has made a
fairly good showing by retaining the
private managers as an executive com
mittee to administer the roads backed
by state authority, but, we are told:
It has only been able to make a respect
able financial showing by practically .stop
ping all renewals and handling all the in
creased traffic of 1916 with the depreciated
roadway, rolling stock, signals, telegraphs,
to., of 1013. The British government Js
simply operating the railways on the "vel
vet" of yesterday. The day of reckoning
will come.
WHAT IS THE REAL QUESTION?
'It is not," says Attorney-General
Brown, in his letter to the Emergency
Board, making- a request for $3000 to
prosecute the cases against the Pacific
Livestock Company, "it is not a ques
tion of authority but a question of
right."
We do not understand that the
Emergency Board, or any state officer
or institution, is under any kind of ob.
ligation to ask or to heed the Attor
ney-General's opinion as to what is
right, or expedient,, or wise. We can
find nothing in the constitution or the
statutes setting- up the Attorney-Gen
eral as the custodian and mentor of
anyone's conscience,
The Attorney-General is the legal
adviser of the Emergency Board. He
has been asked to Interpret the law
defining the Board's functions. He
responds in an opinion distinctly
avoiding an answer, but admonishing
the board that it must not consider
whether it has authority to give him
$3000 to do something he very much
wants to do but to do It because it
is the right thing to do.
The Emergency Board was created
by the Legislature of 1913 to act in
cases where the Legislature had dis
tinctly failed to act specifically to
churia. Corea and Annam. The East
and West News says that It is abso
lutely necessary for the Nation to Jook
to the future, because industrial ex
pansion will curtail food production.
It would seem to be in the interest of
the United States for Japan to acquire
peaceful possession of the rich islands
she now covets, and which will give
her wide opportunity to utilize her
surplus energies for years to come.
GREAT STUFF.
Free use of the city streets for
either pleasure or profit is proposed
by one of the charter amendments
now before the voters.
We would have an interesting- city
under the wfcle-open privilege pro
posed if the people cared to take ad
vantage of it.
A horse race would be permissible
on Washington street. The annual
public auction of fine livestock held
at the Union Stockyards could Just
as wll be conducted at Fifth and
Alder. The hotels, when overcrowded.
could put extra cots In the street.
Vendors, hawkers and peddlers could
operate at will, even without paying
license, tax. Many kinds of business
could escape, rent by moving into the
street.
The only restriction would be that
none ' of these enterprises would be
permitted "unnecessarily" to obstruct
traffic. What "unnecessarily" means
is not very clear, but presumably it
means, for example, that no hawker
of suspenders would be permitted to
erect a 10-foot booth if he could ade
quately display his wares in a ix-foot
booth.
All these liberties are proposed in
order that the purpose of permitting
jitneys to . operate unrestrained, un
regulated and in defiance of public
safety and convenience may be ac
Vote 107 no.
In his speech at Chicago on be
half of the liberty loan Secretary of
the Treasury McAdoo said:
A few days ago a patriotic citizen walked
Intte my office In Washington and asked me
for a pad and pencil. 1 handed him by
accident a torn piece of papei In fact, 'a
scrap of paper.' II Immediately wrote the
following:
-I hereby subscribe for , $5,000,000 of lib
erty loan bonds and agree to pay for them
whenever called upon bythe Secretary of
the Treasury to do so."
It was a thrilling Incident to me. because
there was the answer to the German
Kaiser's defiance of tha aacred obligations
of a treaty.
That Is a hint for every citizen. We
cannot each subscribe for $5,000,000
of liberty loan bonds, but we can each
subscribe according to our ability and
can smother under our scraps of paper
the government which regards treaties
as scraps of paper.
If wooden ships are so uneconomic
as General Goethals says, why did the
Norwegians begin to contract for them
on the Pacific Coast long before the
Government thought of it? They have
been In the shipping- business long
enough to make their Judgment worth
something. General Goethals, Who is
not a shipping man, seems to have
fallen under the spell of steel manu
facturers and steel shipbuilders who
are not satisfied with the rush of busi
ness which the war has already given
them, but want to "hog it all." The
General does well to come to the Pa
cific Coast. He may learn a few
things which he cannot learn on the
Atlantic Coast.
SPENCE OR LOTALTYT
Oregon has been named by the Sec
retary of War as an area of possible
military activity. He urges that in
such areas a network of through roads
roads connecting- population centers
be constructed. The Council of Na
tional Defense makes similar recom
mendations, and names the Pacific
Highway as a road of first importance.
The only way we can get money
enough to construct at once any
th.ough highway system is by passing
the $8,000,000 bond bill on the fourth
of next month.
Mr. Spence, as the mouthpiece of
the gTanges, says we do not need roads
(any roadsj "leading from community
center to community center." The
Secretary of War says we do, and that
no share of the Government funds
designed for post roads shall be wasted
on side roads. At least no other infer
ence can be given his letter.
As loyal citizens of the United States,
whose advice should we follow that
of Mr. Spence or that of the Secretary
of War? Who is best prepared to
know the needs of the Government
Secretary Baker or Farmer Spence?
Who is likely to have the firmest grasp
upon the situation as it exists and as
it is likely to exist in the future the
spokesman of the Administration at
Washington or the spokesman of the
rrari ? -
After all, it comes right down to
We are In a fair way to build all
the ships we need, but where are we to
g-et the sailors to man them? The
descendants of the hardy seamen wjo
used to sail out of the New England
ports have become landlubbers, and
most of the men on the ships we aN
ready have are foreigners, hailing
from Scandinavia. We may be able to
g-et Chinese and Lascars for the crews,
but there are not enough officers to
go around. It may be necessary to
borrow from John Bull.
Wade Killen is a son of the editor
of the Hillsboro Independent. He was
recommended for the officers' training-
camp at the Presidio, but was one
of the 3000 that could not be taken.
So he went to Vancouver and enlisted
a private. That is the Yankee
Doodle spirit that developed more than
40 years agq and that keeps this
country at the top ;of the list of nations.
It Is well enough in this food con
servation to advise cleaning up at each
meal to avoid waste, by which is meant
cooking Just enough: but it will not
work out. The man accustomed to
going to the pantry late at night will
make his "holler" If he Is conserved
out of his cold bite.
authorize the creation of a deflciencv
bv a nublic officer, and "for the ex- question oi loyalty ana noming eise
penditure of moneys not specifically We are given our choice of taking the
provided for by law." Clearly there advice of Secretary Baker and the
was no intention to establish another Council of National Defense and up-
Legislature I holding our Government or of taking
The Legislature of 1917 turned down the advice of Granger Spence and
the requests of the Attorney-General I withholding our aid from the Govern-
f or an appropriation to prosecute the I ment
livestock cases. Now the Emergency
iJoara, creature of the Legislature, is I CHILD LABOR.
asicea to reverse the Legislature, be- l The proposal pending in Congress to
cause me Attorney-uenerai ana tnose suspend the National child labor law.
to whose appeals he is responding-
notably ex-Governor West think it is
right. What's the constitution between
friends ?
On the French railroads has de
volved the tremendous task of carry
ing everything for an army of 4,000,-
000 men on a front of 600 miles. As
the army moves forward, the whole
railroad system has to move too. In
order to keep touch with it. Sir Doug
las Haig is quoted as saying that "our
railway system behind the lines was
notoriously Inadequate," that British
railway managers went to France to
see the requirements and gave more
than he asked, even tearing up from
their tracks the rails that were needed
and sending locomotives, cars and men
to man them. Rails from this side of
the Atlantic have even been requisi
tioned for France. , That country is
handicapped by the advance in the
cost of material, coal having gone up
300 to 400' per cent, steel 200 to 300
per cent and some structural shapes
1000 per cent. Even with the addition
of military revenue, French railroads
showed a deficit of nearly $88,000,000
In 1916 as compared with $8,000,000
in 1913.
Of Russia the report says "there are
no railways at least, where they are
wanted for military purposes," that
"where there Is a battle that battle
unfolds itself along- a railway line" and
that "the roads are both small in
number and poor in quality." Both
the Siberian road and the new line
from Petrograd to Kola on the Arctic
Ocean havo "proved utterly inadequate
to handle the war supplies."
One of the first tasks to be under
taken after the war will be the recon
structlon of many railroads In Eu
rope, the complete overhauling of all
the rest, and the re-equipment with
cars and engines of nearly all. If
Asiatic Turkey should pass under con
trol of the western powers, its existing
enacted only last September after a
bitter contest and a filibuster that
had defeated It at the preceding ses
sion, will not have much sympathy
from people in the East, North and
OUR NEED OF SEED. West. It is a Southern movement
Broadly speaking, the United States an1 tbe South has been notoriously
is not a seed-producing country, a fact slow to g-et In line with the rest of
that is being- impressed upon us to our tno country on progressive legislation
embarrassment now that trarln rnndt- for the benefit of the children. The
tions are so disturbed. We like to get present Federal law was enacted prl
large results quickly and most of our marlly for the purpose of putting
growers are temperamentally unsuited I manufacturers la other states on a
to the patient detail work and the basis or fair competition, it was seen
waiting attendant on the seed business. tha those who were operating under
Besides, the relation between land area restrictive state laws, or who were
and man power Is the reverse of that 1 restrained by their own consciences
in Europe. So we have been content from exploiting- children, were en-
to let the Danes and the Hollanders titled to protection.
and the Germans supply us with manvl Just because there Is a" war, we are
important commercial seeds, particu- unaer no iignter ODiigation to eaucate
larly of vegetables, and we plant them I our cnuaren, or to guard tneir health
and harvest the crop. and lives. The need is. Indeed, more
This policy has put us at a double pressing man ever, war at its best
disadvantage in the Important matter l terrible; its losses are not easily
of sugar production. A pathologist of made good. We shall require In the
the Federal Bureau of Plant Industry, making-over -process alter peace is
O. Townsend, has found that the restored stouter hearts and clearer
seed requirements of the beet-sugar brains and better equipped young men
industry of this country are not lessand young women than If the current
than 16,500,000 pounds, to produce r our National life had not been dls
which 16.000 acres would be retmired. turbed. We shall not have them if
Less than one-fourth of this area was I m addition to taking an army of men
harvested In 1916. Meanwhile seven from industry we sacrifice another
new mills were erected and prepara- I army that ought now to be In train
tions were made to build more. No lng for the work of reconstruction,
one seems to know where the seed to I Switzerland, surrounded on all
meet requirements is comlnit from. sides by belligerents, and. her own
We find ourselves consequently In Ilre shaken to its very foundations,
a serious situation because of lack of 1 has not found It necessary to repeal
seed and worse off In another respect the enlightened laws governing- child
we have been unable to build up a labor that were in force before the
strictly American strain of acclimated 'war, and Switzerland's temptation
sugar beet. In a field of a given va- must have been great. England tried
riety of wheat, for example, practically I the plan early in the war, but found it
every plant resembles every other I a failure. More harm than good, came
plant. With beets In America It is I from It and It is being abandoned.
different. Mr. Townsend says that in I W have not come to the pass; and
any beet field from Michigan. to Call-I we shall not come to It, when we are
fornia. without reference to the name compelled to empty the primary
of the so-called variety, there can be schools to prosecute a war. Every
found from half a dozen to twenty schoolmaster knows how difficult it is
distinct types. Scarcely two beets to Induce a youngster to return to
growing side by side can be found school after he has left it to take
that have closely related character- outside employment. Child labor
istlcs of leaf or root, and the quality must still be reasonably restricted and
of the roots varies widely both in compulsory education laws enforced if
sugar and purity. - I the next generation is to have justice.
This Is at least partly due to chances I we must not become hysterical and go
caused by the struggle for acclimatlza- I to extremes. We are fighting- a war to
tion, in which the individual beet ex- make the future more secure and it
erts itself In a myriad of ways to adapt would be rankly Inconsistent to imperil
itself to its new surroundings. In I tnat future by undoing the child wel
ideal seed production, those Individ- are work that it has taken half a
uals which best weather the change I century to accomplish.
would be chosen for perpetuation, the I .
weak ones would be eliminated, . and I For reasons even more cogent than
eventually we should have a distinct those which Induced the United States
Gleams Through the Mist
By Dean Collins.
BULK HANDLING IS WIDEJPRK
Australia and New .'.rslssd Turainjc to I
Grain Klevator Syatrma.
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE.
With the war breaking on us. the Sen
ators spoke:
A serioua crisis is this, and no Joke!
But ere a gun's loaded or company
stirred.
Let's seize the occasion to put In a
word.
Come, fill up the time. In emergency
sore.
And pad the Congressional Record some
more.
Confirming our earnest convictions as
how
We ought to get ready to do something
now."
With glee do they speak, the wise
makers of laws.
'Mid thunders bracketed, (cheers and
applause!).
Insisting- we should, at this time, for a
fact, , ,
Prepare to get ready to start in to act.
"Come, fill up the time. In emergency
sore,
There's many another who's seeking
the floor.
To tell us we ought to begin. In this
row.
To prepare, to commence, to perform
something now.
"We ought to begin to consider," they
say,
"To plan to appoint a committee, some
way.
To commence to get ready, to frame
some devices
To start to prepare things to use in
this crisis.
"Come, fill up the time. In emergency
sore,
In Other Days.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. May 17.
(To the Editor.) The method of
handling: grain In Australia heretofore
hai been in bagi, the same as has been
carried on here in the Northwest. This
system has been found so expensive, in
efficient and wasteful that the various
states of Australia have developed a
plan by which the elevator system Is
to be established generally throughout
the whole country.
New South Wales has decided to in
stall a system of elevators and the gov
ernment has committed Itself to spend
for this purpose $9,733,000. This sys
tem Is to be developed until it is capa
ble of handling: 16,000.000 bushels. In
cluding elevators along the railways,
as well as terminal elevators on the
sea. It has also been decided by the
government of South Australia to ex
pend $4,866,600 for the construction of
elevators.
The government of Victoria, like
wise. Is looking very favorably upon
the proposition of establishing the ele
vator system. The Minister of Rail
ways In the state of Victoria has urged
that the proposal for bulk handling of
grain in this' state be immediately
pushed through.
The Farmers' Union In New South
Wales has passed a resolution unani
mously requesting the state govern
ment to push with its utmost vigor the
scheme for handling wheat in bulk.
The Australian plan Included the
building of elevators in the wheat
growing districts, as well as large ter
minal elevators. The public works com
mittee's report claims that the grain
can be handled In this way so that the
entire cost of putting it on board ship
including transportation by rail, to the
growers, to the time the wheat is put
into the country elevators, is less than
the cost of the bags which are used atJ
present. This entire handling system
is to be carried out by the various state
governments of Australia. By co-operation
among the states competition
transportation will be avoided and the
I, entire system wy 1 be pooled.
In New South Wales the plan is to
Twenty-five . Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of May 29, 1SJ2.
Chlcafto Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll.
who is in this city on business, stated
in an interview tonight that he is in
favor of the nomination of Uresham
for President.
A more representative audience than
that which filled the Marquam Grand
Opora House last night never gathered
in this city. It was a mass meeting of
Republicans under the auspices of the
James A. Garfield Club.
Spokane The Great Northern Rail
way reached Spokane tonight. The
first through train arrived at 11
o'clock.
Tomorrow will be observed as Me
morial day and an attractive pro
gramme has been arranged.
The work of ballasting the Chicago
A Mount Scott Railway was completed
last night to within about 50 yards of
Lents postofflce. The work will be
finished next week, when the road
will be put in operation.
The case of the United States against
the Willamette Valley and Cascade
Mountains Wagon Road, to recover the
forfeiture of the land grant of the
company, will shortly come up again
in the United States Circuit Court.
Commence to begin to get ready some construct 120 elevators in the country
more.
To start to explain how Important 'tis
there was something I wanted to ask
you
Ask on, my son," I said.
This chap, Claudius, In Oakland, who
objected to conscription on the ground
that it violated the constitutional pro
vision against involuntary servitude.
you know?" said the C. O. B. "Well,
Tacoma might find consolation for
its failure to change the name of
that mountain by having the great
camp at American Lake named Camp
Tacoma. As the county gave the land.
it has established some claim.
sade."
"Joining his crusade?"
"Yes, but there's Just one little point
wanted cleared up before I go to
bat on It "
And what is that?" I asked.
Can Claudius guarantee that the
German government will abide by that
constitutional provision, too,, in case
we take it literally and, quit raising an
army?" pondered the C. O. B.
And. come to think of it, that's Just
the point I should want cleared up be
fore I would be prepared to Indorse
his protest against conscription as "In
voluntary servitude."
.
IX THE FIRELIGHT.
Lisp of the light flames flying.
(Whispers that were never said.)
Deep bloom of the. embers dying.
(Flowers unblown, already dead.)
One "J. Kelly, of Portland," has
been wounded "somewhere, in France,
It Is characteristic, of the Kellys (or
Kelleys spelling is mere matter of
style) that theyare always in the thick
of the fighting.
Germany and Austria have agreed
on the disposition of Poland, but the
deal lacks a certain ratification that
is quite unlikely to be given at the
peace conference.
Cranberry, Juice as the basis of a
soft drink is something new, but the
crop must greatly be Increased to get
away from the holiday demand for the
berry.
German successes are accounted for;
the armies are being fed on an abun
dance of fish. Fish is brain food, and
brains win. Please pass the herrings.
The German airship that cannot kill
a soldier gets as much credit when
it kills a civilian. It is anything to
kill an Englishman, woman or child,
The man who begins by breaking
the Tenth Commandment, eventually
working back a few. Is bound to get
into print soon or late.
What would people do on a day like
tomorrow If It were not for the street
car service? The Jitneys could not
handle the traffic.
Don't got too vociferous about the
sunshine. You might disturb the
atmosphere and bring down a shower,
Between shakes in California they
may say they do not mind 'quakes, but
a tremor always starts a stampede.
Aliens who have for years neglected
to become citizens until the time has
passed are due for sorry days.
But one week left in which candl
dates can shoot up each other. This
is a desultory campaign.
The Chinaman will be forgiven if h
grins when he learns the German must
have a "chock chee."
Sister Rankin spoke to a "stand
ing-room only" audience yesterday 1
behalf of women.
Credit for this grand weather must
be given Mr. Cordray, who picked
the right date.
for
s to plan to begin to take part in the
war."
to 60.000 bushels each. The total cost,
Including rolling stock and all mate
rials necessary, will be $5,000,000. This
complete plant will handle 30.000,000
bushels of grain. .
In the state of Victoria they are pro-
Sir, said the Courteous Office Boy. vldlnfT an flevator system which will
... . - . ... take care of a crop of 35,000.000 bushels.
Stations that produce from B0. 000 to
76,000 bushels will have lS.OOO-bushel
elevators; stations iproduclng from 75.
000 to 100,000 yearly will have 25,000
bushel elevators; stations with 150,000
to 225,000 bushels yearly will have 80,-000-bushel
elevators. The estimated
cost for Victoria is (7.500,000.
These different Australian states
ve been thinking of Joining his cru- have made a very thorough and com
plete examination of the grain elevator
systems and have concluded that that
system must be adopted in their coun
try. They are now proceeding actively
with its inauguration. There is scarcely
any difference in the conditions under
which it is handled in the Northwest.
It is clearly evident that the North
west must adopt the elevator system to
meet the progressive methods of wheat
handling throughout the world.
H. B. MILLER.
Director School of Commerce.
PORT LAX U NEEDS OWN VESSELS
Traffic Profits fiat so Important
Rehabilitation of Port.
PORTLAND. May 28. (To the Ed
itor.) In The Sunday Oregonian, May
iJ, i read with a great deal of inter,
est the articles contributed by S. E
Holcomb and "Portlander" and one by
H. H. Newhall. practically along the
same line, which, if favorably acted
Light kisses that were never kissed upon, would result in great good to the
Unseen ghosts In the ashes stir. OI rori,lana as we" as to the state
I. there less glory In a glory missed; ir';' " " "
Are they less sweet because they buelne of thla pol ni one wU1 n
never ncioi neiloer Will invona denv that Portland
Half n Century Ago.
From the Oregonian of May 25, 1867.
Copenhagen The Danish government
has informed foreign powers that
Prussia continues to disregard the
Schleswlg treaty of 18 65. The Paris
Press complains that Prussia has
strengthened the fortification of Ra-
stadt.
Kansas City Our banking house was
entered at S o'clock P. M. by IS or 14
men, who killed three persons in the
bank and robbed it of $4000. The mur
derers fled. Citizens of the city have
gone in pursuit.
New York Dispatches from Ottawa
announce that the union of the prov
inces will tal i effect on the first of
July.
Chicago A private letter from Gen
eral Sherman says that, owing to the
Indian troubles, he will not make the
proposed European trip this Summer.
Omaha Special dispatches say 40
miles additional of the Union Pacific
Railroad was accepted yesterday and
the track is laid 60 miles beyond North
Platte. Indians are attacking work
ing parties on Lodge Pole Creek.
The Speculator Ghouls.
By Jnnn Hart on Adams.
THE POTE HOOa
Dead Ed. 'Scuse me If I drop Mr.
Smyths (rhymes with blithe) for a mo
ment among his vers Iibre pomes and
go coursing off in full cry after "Incog."
("Incog." is a lady pote, I. think, and
she has penetrated my disguise.)
as a distributing center without water
transportation is not only seriously
handicapped, but with the present par
ity of rates with the Sound cities. Is
practically out of the running.
Most all will agree that there is only
one way- left for this port to take ad
vantage of what we have boasted of as
the port's superior geographical loca
tion. Water-level haul, etc., and that Is
to supply the port with sufficient ships
The grasping ghouls who boost the
prices of needed footstuffs at command,
who at this great momentous crisis
play into Kaiser Wilhelm's hand, who
sneer at public condemnation, official
threats treat with disdain, and gloat
with soulless exultation while grasping
their ill-gotten gain, will meet a day of
retribution when their mad schemes
have been laid bare and In a penal
Institution they through the steel
barred windows stare. They care not
if they bring starvation into tha homes
of needy poor, care not a tinker's impre
cation If wolf should howl near many
a door; they're lost to patriotic feeling,
care nothing for the Nation's weal,
their conscience is so dry 'tis peeling,
their hearts are hard as tempered steel.
They worship at the shrine of Mammon,
before that god they bend their backs.
and grin with ghoulish glee while
crammln' more gold into their money
sacks. Beneath Old Glory's folds they
gamble, a flag they should with
plaudits hall, but soon with abject fear
they'll tremble, for Uncle Sara Is on
their trail, and soon God speed the
day each viper in ranks of soulless
cormorants will be compelled to pay
the piper for their voracious song and
dance, and when with heads bowed low
In sadness on tha repentance stool they
sit we'll shout hosannas in our glad
ness until the echoes have a flt-
'Vm, will - - r-nm tit. nnmm Vi at,
. . . . , to handle the business with despatch
s on to my disguise, and that this will I . r-.Mt,h.h w.tr .,..nnH..in
matte ner capture an mo morn mm- to the end that our Jobbers and manu
cult. Her pome goes thus: Ifacturers may have an advantage over
A slick and slippery sleuth has come to I their competitors. The question would
nwn thev av then seem to De ny what plan can
To scare up all the rhyrosters 'fore the
such ships be secured and-operated for
thA heat nri van t A b-a to the nnrt T f at f m a
Aius can sup away. then ia auch a. demand for monev for
He's quiet as a pussy cat. In gum shoes other Interests that private capital will
O so smooth; I not come forward in financing a fleet
If you make a rhyme he'll grab you ' ships, and If they did. they would
for. vou've Jvardlv tima to move: naturally cease to operate out or tnis
So if you grow poetic, don't shout it I J, i .-,.,.,-,
loud and clear. ' It wouii. therefore, annear that, all
For that peeking, prylng-.huntsman may things being considered, a fleet of ships
be somewhere very near; owned and operated by the port would
Ha'i lisfnln' everv minute. In his -nev- "e the most advantageous, as business
men couia ucyouu on mat aucn iieei
was a permanent acquisition and one
not at the beck and call of more money
elsewhere. In fact, it would be of little
consequence if such fleet made much
or little money. The main considera
tion should be to carry the products at
low a rate as possible, commen
surate with safe business, in order to
bring back to the port its deserved
prestige as a distributing center.
fully indorse the method recommended
by Mr. Holcomb and Mr. Newhall to
secure such fleet of ships, and know
that the little each taxpayer would
contribute to the building up of such
fleet would not be felt, but the bene
er-ceaslng scout,
And the Pote Hound'll git you
If you
Don't
Watch out! '
Spring Is here and flowers sweet are
blooming everywhere.
The chirp, chirp, chirp of birdies 8h-
h-h! I think' he's over there.
From 'neath the soil Spring violets and
daffodils so bold.
To bathe their pretty faces In the sun
shine's brilliant gosh.
It's hard to keep from rhyming when nt8 derived would add greatly to the
the Spring is in the air, I value of such taxpayers' property and
But for fear of that detective. I really would place Portland. Or., on the map
wouldn't dare;
If your head Is full of poetry that
you're dying- for to spout.
The Pote Hound's goin' to git you
If you
Don't
Watch out!
as The City for manufacturers and big
business to locate In.
E. T. PETERSON,
1615 East Main street.
TO DEPARTED COMRADES OP '61-'e5.
Comrades on the other shore.
In the peace of evermore.
Now your grandsons, too, must fight.
As you fought, for God and right.
Europe, from fields drenched with
blood.
Calls them now to stem the flood:
Bleeding France, with struggling
breath.
Prays that we save her from death.
She. our friend of years ago.
Grapples with a monstrous foe.
Who would take her virile life.
Make her vassal by the strife.
Comrades, you have shown the way;
Your example lives today.
Leading youth to noble deeds,
Succoring a people's needs.
Yon would warn us freedom's lost
If we wait to count the cost;
That Its foes will never sleep
While there's chance for intrigue deep.
You would say. If despots still
Wage grim war to have their will.
We should Join the holy cause.
Which seeks now to end all wars.
You, who died to make men free.
Proved for us that liberty
Is a nation's anchor sure.
And without It none endure.
Comrades in the great beyond.
Yours our homage deep, profound!
May our sons as noble fight
As you fought for God and right.
Jane Copley Strain.
Const Guard and Naval Reserve.
BULL RUN. Or.. May 17. (To the
Editor.) Please state if they are re
cruiting for the Naval Coast Defense
THE SEARCH FOR THE LAST AVAL- Reserve, and where the recruiting of
YSIS. - fico Is located at present.
I . a imp. . ,
trom inuor, svw vjv iaib. wnicn , Xaval Coast Defense Re
suggests a staunch and seaworthy ves- ,erve but recrulu for tne Nava, Re
sel for charter for our voyage of dls- ,erve may enroU at thf) tj. s. naval re
cruitlng station, Dekum building. Third
covery and exploration to the LAST
ANALYSIS.
The message follows:
"The good ship EVOLUTION, sailing
and Washington streets. Portland. For
the Coast Artillery. Oregon National
Guard, recruits are being received at
Every day will be Friday by and
by in Germany If the supply of Baltic
flsri holds out. n
If you can't set a hen, set the clock,
and set it an hour ahead and get up
and dig.
type fitted In every way not only to I to acquire the Danish West Indies. Ja.
produce heavily In tonnage but to yield pan is looking seriously toward the
a high percentage of sugar. Both are Dutch East Indies. For one thing,
highly important factors If beet farm- Holland has been unable to maintain
lng Is to be made profitable. Heredity their neutrality during the present war.
and environment must alike be con- The Islands also are strategically sit-
sidered painstakingly if substantial re- uated and are an Important source of
suits are to be obtained. rubber and foodstuffs which Japan
The problem has also an intimate needs. Japan is not agriculturally
relation to our future meat supply. In self-contained, producing only about
order to Induce American growers to 250.000, OOObushels of rice a year for
become seed producers also, efforts a population of 55,000,000, and Is now
are now being made by the Govern- Importing cereals from Formosa, Manv
French rank and file are ready
to begin: "Teddy, Teddy, we want
Teddy!" ,
All right. Summer, If you wish to
crowd the calendar go ahead.
Do the buying today;
a general holiday.
tomorrow is
No more "booze"
is welcome news.
to men In uniform
The "June rise"
this, year.
will arrive In June
for the LAST ANALYSIS, brought us " FUUl "it,7,et- rmrjr r
and will touch en voyage at the PRES
ENT CRISIS. Can guarantee that she
will reach the LAST ANALYSIS by the
mint direct route, and suggest you
charter her.
"(Signed) OUR FOREFATHERS.
We are considering the addition of
Bishop Sumner to our party, because
Where to Reglater.
CLACKAMAS, Or.. May 28. (To the
Editor.) I am subject to the coming
Army draft and am undecided where
to register. Last Fall, at the Presi
dential election. I cast my vote in a
precinct In Portland, but about three
months ago I moved to the country. To
register must I go to the voting place
at the Civic Lea sua recent! v w heird where I voted, or shall I register at
him declare:
"THE CHILD. In the LAST ANALY
SIS "
And then the waiter brought our cof
fee and we missed the rest, but If he
knows about THE CHILD. In the LAST
ANALYSIS, we feel that he will be an
invaluable asset to the scientific corps
in our party.
Communications should be sent to us
In cars of the PRESENT CRISIS.
the voting poll of my present resi
dence? I have not registered for the
coming election. PUZZLED.
Register In your present residence
precinct.
Rations nt Barracks.
PORTLAND. May 28 (To the Edi
tor.) Kindly state what rations are
actually served to soldiers or recruits
at Vancouver Barracks, and whether
there is a strict rule governing the is
suance of rations or do the cooks serve
whatever they wish? W. 1L BRITTS.
This bill of fare of the Headquarters
Company mess is by no means a spe
cially selected one. Each company
commander or his mess officer (usu
ally the Second Lieutenant) must In
spect the mess of the soldiers every
day before it Is eaten, and such officer
Is given a printed copy of the food to
be served to the men In his company.
It is a part of the Army regulations
as much so as any order Issued by the
War Department.
The menu is that of May 24. 1917:
Breakfast Bacon, oatmeal mush, hot
cakes and syrup; coffee.
Dinner Mashed potatoes, canned corn.
beans, fruit, bread, tea.
Supper Bacon, creamed carrots, creamed
peas, prunes, bread and butter, tea.
It so happens this menu does not
contain beef, but It is a rare day when
fresh meat is not on the bill.
Hint That Fsked.
Boston Transcript.
Caller (wilting for an invitation)
Two o'clock! I fear I am keeping you
from your dinner.
Hostess No, no; but I fear that we
'are keeping you (from yours.
Pension nnd Charity.
DOTY, Wash, May 27. (To the Edi
tor.) Is there a charitable institution
In Washington which would take an
almost helpless woman and her 2-year-
old child? If she went to such a place
would she continue to get a widow's
pension? MRS. M.
There Is no such home In Washing
ton. Such a woman could go to the
county poor farm In the county where
she lives, but the pension would be
withdrawn If she went there.
Ilea In Ambulance Corps.
PORTLAND. May 28. (To the Edi
tor.) I have enlisted in ambulance
corps reserves. Will It be necessary to
register on June S?
You must register. Ambulance corps
reserves not exempted.
For Army Only.
CARLTON. Or.. May 27 (To the Edi
tor.) Can a person choose between the
Army or the Navy after he has been
conscripted, or is conscription for the
Army enly? INTERESTED.