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I'oataice Rats 12 to 16 pages. 1 cent; 18 to iz pages, 2 cents; 34 to 44 pases, a cents; (U to 'l pages, 4 cents; 02 to 71 pages, 5 cents; Ts to bii pages, 6 cents. Foreign post age double rates. .' Eastern Business Office Verrea & Conklln. Brunswick building. New York; Verree & Conklin, Stager building, Chicago: San Fran cisco representative, R. J. Bidwell. 742 Mar ket street. PORTLAND, B.11TRDAT, JUNE . 1917. KO CAUSE FOR SHIP CONTROVERSY. I By engaging In an open quarrel witn advocates of the building of wooden ships, General Goethals has started controversy 'where there was no room for controversy. Mr. Eustis and Mr. Clark, who originated the plan for building 1000 wooden ships, proposed them as a supplement to, not as a substitute for, steel ships. They made the proposal because they realized that a great emergency confronted the Na tion, to meet which it needed the largest number of ships of any kind which could possibly be built in the shortest possible time. They did not make a suggestion that the yards which are equipped for building steel ships should build one fewer than they are capable of turning out with the utmost diligence. That would have been absurd. They proposed that, while steel shipyards were worked to their utmost capacity, wooden shipyards should "be enlarged and also worked to their utmost ca pacity. These men saw that a condition, not a theory, confronted the country. That condition was that in the first four months of this year the Germans had destroyed about 3,000,000 tons of ships the same amount which General Goethals proposes to turn out in eight een months. They foresaw that, while this destruction might not continue at the same pace, it still would continue and would imperil the ability of the United States to provision and muni tion the allies and to send troops to Europe. They therefore proposed that, as the most expeditious means of foil ing the Germans, we should build a tnousana 3uuu or souu-ton wooaen ships to be propelled by steam or motors. Their programme would have given us at least 6,000,000 tons in place of the 3.000,000 tons the steel men are ready to turn out. This would have given a larger number of smaller, cheaper vessels which would have made worse targets for the subma rines and would have caused the Ger mans to expend more torpedoes with less chance of a hit and with smaller results in the shape of destroyed ships and cargoes than if we built only large steel vessels. General Goethals closed his eyes to the plain facts and to the common sense reasoning from them and be came an obstinate devotee of a theory. This was that standardized steel ships could be fabricated by the hundred at interior mills and assembled at shipyards with incredible speed. He got this idea from steel manufacturers and from his experience in having caissons for the Panama Canal locks built in this manner. At the same time he got the idea from survivors of the old clipper-ship days and from designers and builders of pleasure yachts and other small craft on the Atlantic Coast that wooden vessels could not be built of the desired ton nage, and that, if they could, seasoned timber could not be procured for them, that they would be racked to pieces by their motors and that they would break In two in mid-ocean on their first voyage. He did not go for in formation to the Great Lakes and the Pacific Coast, where the wooden ship still survives and where men have been designing larger ships than were dreamed of in the clipper-ship days and have been adapting them to steam or motor propulsion. He seems never to have heard of the yacht Victoria and Albert, which did good service for the British royal family for forty years and which is still serving the Brazilian government after a life of Beventy years. General Goethals is not a ship builder or navigator. He is an engi neer of river and harbor works and canals. He has learned what he knows of ships from the steel men with whom he has hobnobbed, and . from the Atlantic Coast survivors of clipper-ship days. His head filled with their ideas, he has with char acteristic military dogmatism refused to entertain the wooden-ship pro gramme of Mr. Eustis and Mr. Clark which was adopted by the Shipping Board. He has jeered and sneered at every suggestion of wooden ships, and has not spared the Shipping Board, saying that "all boards are long, nar row and wooden." He has demanded autocratic authority in deciding upon the entire shipbuilding programme, wishing to treat the board as a mere dummy. He has placed every obstacle in the way of carrying out the greatly diminished programme which has been adopted, objecting to the designs and terms of men who know more about ships than he knows about a rowboat While the need of more tonnage Is urgent, while submarines mnu t.acAA UUI1J IUU dull WUUQ X11U.I1V shipyards are kept wholly or partially i 1 - . V. 4 ntl- 11 -J 1. II lalo by order of the Shipping Board awaiting contracts which do not come, he obstructs action with his imperious will There are men who have staked millions of dollars and their -reputations for business sagacity on their conviction that ships can be built of wood which will live for many years They are backed by the Judgment of men experienced in the business. . But for General Goethals' opposition,- the Shipping Board would long ago have set these men at building vessels which might have been ready to cross the Atlantic next Fall and Winter, What if their expectations should not be realized and if their ships should go to pieces after a few voyages, the vessels will have served their pur pose toward winning the war. Their loss would be no greater than that of the costly concrete gun emplacements and trenches, and the laboriously con structed dug-outs which have been wrecked by a few hours' bombard ment. The General acts as though he were building ships for peace-time instead of for war-time, when any lawful expedient is Justifiable to de-1 feat the enemy. I The net result of General Goethals opinionated obstinacy is that several I precious weeks have been wasted in a I barren controversy in which he has I been egged on by the steel manufac- turers, and that much more time is I likely to be wasted before we get down to the work upon which we I much about his deafness, nor are oth should have been engaged long ago. I ers who see life's possibilities unfold- He has set up his opinion above the interests of the Nation when it is fighting for its life and for the life of European democracy. .r- v,, i Mayor. With due deference to the , City commission, it is wnat me peo- i pie want and what the cnarter pro- uirlao Tha ftrn ftf lhA five little vr The Commissioners are not to be mere chief clerks, assigned to definite rested on his laurels as the builder work, with only a limited authority. or, rather, the finisher of the Pan They are members of a common coun- a ma Canal. He completed what John oil, in which is vested exclusive legis- lative power; and they are the execu- tive heads of departments to wnicn the Mayor assigns them. So they will have plenty to do, and to say, and abundant opportunity for individual glory. But the controlling hand and the directing head should be, and will be, the Mayor. The policies of his admin- l istration are his own, after due con- I sultation with, and advice from, his cabinet. I The Commissioners all manifest an earnest and evidently a sincere pur- pose to work with and through the Mayor for the general benefit. The outlook for harmony is excellent; and if there Is harmony there will he em- ciency. The promise Is that commls- I sion government will be vindicated. HIS PLEDGE. struggle between the capitalistic class an d I T iiTirlnr.l.n. ,--n c nt.lnr ti. plo me wornin class, anu me necessity oi in. I working class constituting themselves Into I a political party distinct from and opposed a dII nnt-tlcta fminiloH hv tliA ponitaliBtlr class, hereby declare that I have severed I my relations with all other parties, that Indorse the platform and constitution of the Socialist party, including (he principle of political action, and hereby apply for ad- mission to said party. The furious denials that Mr. Daly is, or was, a Socialist continue. The Oregonian is bitterly reproached be- cause it reprinted the hurtful accu- satlon. Just before the election, "too late for reply." The first publication of the facts by I The Oregonian was last Sunday, June 3. There was ample time and oppor- tunity for reply, in the issue for Mon- day, but none was forthcoming. There was evidently nothing to say. The record was authentic, complete and final. The Oregonian has no kind of de- sire to heap humiliation on Mr. Daly in his defeat. Not at all. But the noisy and tell-tale squealings of his friends are persistently poured into the public ear. They are doing no- body any good, particularly Mr. Daly. The Daly pledge is reprinted in full. I He signed It with his eyes open. Un- doubtedly it was in accord with his probable, at any rate, that communi convictions. But, whether it was or cation with Germany has been pretty not, he signed it. Where does it leave effectually cut off, except by the most Daly to say that he formally sub- scribed to a declaration of faith in which he did not believe? The truth must be added that the Daly pledge is an unanswerable refu- I tation to the claim made that Daly I represents no class, but all classes, There It is, with all its jargon and patter about the "capitalistic class" and the "working class." Daly defi- nitely enlisted under the class banner, The best that can be said for him is I that he deserted. I Now, of course, Daly all this time was a "registered" Republican. To be sure, to be sure. So are thousands of others who never vote the Republican ticket. Not how he registers but how he votes, is the real test of a man's politics. Withal, The Oregonian feels quite AV.nni.fnl -fTAa V. j-i .ni1 a n n , ..AT1 , , , , , . . , I if TL h h?-k? t0,b weary of humbug and hugger-mugger, And it has no use for a whiner. OVERCOMING A HANDICAP. Another hopeful indication that the world is growing better is found in I the modern treatment of those who They are not even asked to give it; suffer under a handicap in life be- they are asked to lend it to the Gov cause of deafness, sometimes attended eminent, secured by a first mortgage by absence of the power of articulate on the United States the richest speech. This is emphasized this month I by the occurrence in nearly every state 1 In the Union of the commencement exercises of public schools for the afflicted, and in Oregon by the state- ment made by a writer in the Oregon I Statesman, Mollie Runcorn Brunk, I that while the Oregon State School I for the Deaf at Salem is closing Its I year's activities this year with a pub- lie exhibition, many of the older boys have not waited for the end of the term, but have been called away to I fill the unusual demand for farm I labor arising from the war. Thus I these youths are performing their pa- I triotlc duty as fully as any young men fully possessed of their physical fac- I If the slacker does not lend his dol ulties. lars to the Government, it will take This is in sharp contrast to the ancient days. The old Roman law held the deaf to be Incapable of giv- Sam had to raise all the money to pay ing consent in the matter of a civil this year's expenses this year by tax contract, and France a few centuries ation, he might so cripple the industry ago kept them secluded from the eyes of their neighbors, as if there were something shameful in what is no longer regarded as very much a short- coming and is rapidly ceasing to be even a serious handicap. We cer- talnly are progressing in comprehen- sion, as well as in benevolence of spirit, Advance was slow at first, but it is becoming rapid. The Venerable Beds tells of a mute youth in the seventh century who was taught by a bishop to repeat words and sentences, but the fact that written characters and ideas could be associated without the inter - vention of sound singularly failed to be understood until nine centuries later, and it was not until 1816 that the first public school for instruction was established. This was in Con - necticut. The precise methods by which edu- cation to fit the deaf for happy lives of social usefulness, wonderful as thev are, are not more inspiring than the spirit in which they have been de- veloped. The science of teaching has been exemplified In no better way. Much is due to the devoted pioneers in the field who labored long and faithfully and for inadequate material compensation. But advancement has been remarkable. Even the "sign language" of a few years ago is glv - Ing way to the more satisfactory arti- cular method. It will be noted with especial interest by those who are not familiar with what has been done that oral instruction has almost sup- planted the more primitive system, entire hemisphere to a tributary prov It seems almost a miracle. Practical ince. In order to prepare for this results are being accomplished. New attack, the United States would have vocational opportunities are being to build a huge Navy to overcome that created. It is worthy of note that these students are "particularly thor- ough and efficient in their work, hav ing specialized in almost every in- stance in one subject." It is clear that what once was re- garded as a grave affliction is not always in the present day a handicap, Thomas A. Edison is not worrying ing before them. Realization of the necessity of training comes early to the students in these schools, and in- tensity of purpose and patience mean much. They account for the fact that progress than their fellows, who. with I oil r rioli tansaa H r nnr owalrAn t r 4-Via mDort-nee of 'flttine themselves . for ufe - B struggle until it is too late, A NATIONAL MENACE "-roncrat uu8. - pm Stevens began and put fairly under way before he retired and turned the j0b over to Goethals. The engineer ng and orsraniziner srenius was Stevens The military drive to ero straight along defined lines to the end was given by Goethals. Goethals is an autocrat. It is a good thing to have, in a great emergency, when the autocrat is right. But when he is wrong, and refuses to be shown or convinced that he Is wrong, the autocrat is an appalling menace. The remedy is to put Goethals out. He may lose the war for America. When the need is ships any kind of cargo ships that will float and make headway he would build only one kind. There should be all kinds. Goethals quarrels with everybody around him.' A military engineer, he sets up his opinion against the expert judgment of naval constructors and the common sense of every patriot. Goethals has lost his head, and he may lose also the Nation's lire, PERSUING ARRIVES. R-f arrival in an Entrlish rjort of BaI arrival in an Jngiifcn port. oi General Pershing and more than fifty . , . . . . Army officers who accompanied him on M voyage across the Atlantic, to- trether with the civilian force of as- slstants necessary to accomplish an Important task of preparation, Bhows that the voluntary censorship is a success. The departure of the expedl- tion was unannounced, "and first news that it had left the United States comes with the description of the Joyous welcome accorded to it by the British people. Similarly, the various units of the American fighting forces will make their way, in their own good time. either to British or French ports. without the blowing of trumpets or the playing of hands on their departure. For all that is known to the world at large, some of them may even now be on the ocean. It is possible that the perfection of the German spy system in the Tjnited States has been exaggerated; it is quite roundabout way. The fact that Can- ada has sent nearly 400,000 troops across the Atlantic without the loss of a man indicates that we are likely to do as well It is worth noting that suppression of the news of our military movements has required no club. The newspapers of the country have co-operated loy- ally and will do so until the end. un doubtedly some of them knew that General Pershing was on the way, or could have ascertained the fact If they had tried. But the silence was well kept. THE PRICE OF I.IBERTT. We have heard much in the last few days about slackers who tried to shirk V.,!" 7., ll " ,Z uatVJLO J A. a u- a c v, j s w vxwav another kind of slacker among us the man who shirks the duty to lend money to the United States for the equipment of the men who will do the fighting. Many of the men who will be drafted Into the Army will give up their lives; those who stay at home are asked only to give up some of their money. country on earth to be repaid in gold and to pay 3 per cent interest. The man who dies In battle gives up his life beyond hope of recovery; we are asked only to give our money and get it back with interest. The man who stays at home has much the better of the bargain. He is called upon only to provide the soldier with the means of victory; the soldier will endure all the strain and strife of trench war, while the buyer of liberty bonds stays comfortably at home drawing Interest Our boys. will go through a curtain of fire to take the German trenches. while the buyers of liberty bonds will I clip coupons and collect interest. I them in taxes, pay him no interest and I never give his money back. If Uncle I and business of the country as to de I stroy the source from which taxes are drawn. Not enough money might then bo raised by taxes to pay the next I year's bill. That would mean defeat, and defeat would mean a huge indem- nity to be paid by the United States to Germany. Then we should have to buy indemnity bonds instead of lib- erty bonds, under a threat that Ger- many would occupy our ports and col I lect our import duties till the money was paid. There is no room for doubt that 1 such is Germany's purpose if she should win, for the Germans th em- 1 selves have said so. One of their motives in drawing this country into the war was to collect an Indemnity 1 if they Bhould win and to get easy ! terms if they should lose. They know I Uncle Sam is rich and they think he I is "easy." They mean to "work" him, I whichever wav the war ends. But the consequences . of defeat would not end with payment of an Indemnity which would load the American people with an intolerable burden of debt and taxation for gen 1 erations. Germany would certainly annex the rich industrial regions of 1 Belgium, France and Poland and use I them to Increase her military strength, 1 She would probably take over the I British and French fleets in place of 1 the cash indemnity which they would I be unable to pay, and then would prepare to use them in the next war" I to conquer America, or to reduce this of Germany and to become an armed Nation for defense of its liberties. The liberty loan is the price which the American people must pay for that victory which will make the world safe for democracy and which will be followed by peace established on the sure foundation of world-wide democracy. " It is insurance of liberty. It is the price we must pay to secure the United States from being made the scene of such barbarities as have taken the lives of thousands of women and children in France, Belgium, 6er. bia, Poland and Rou mania, have en slaved tens of thousands, brought mil lions to starvation's verge and reduced 1 the fairest regions of France to a des olate, ruin-strewn wilderness, or at least to secure the United States from having to fight another .war, unaided, to prevent such a catastrophe. The $2,000,000,000 to be raised by the liberty loan, all of it, will be spent in the United States. It will be poured Into all the channels of trade in this country to buy everything required to feed, clothe, house, arm and generally equip the Army and Navy. It will add a new flood to the flood of pros perity which has come to the Amer ican people. It will be our own money spent among ourselves. It will be re distributed among all the workmen and workwomen, farmers, merchants, manufacturers. It will all come back to us, and those who buy the bonds will have 3 per cent a year added. Every man and woman who can raise $50 or more should become the owner o'f a liberty bond. Every man who can save a fewdol!ars a month out of his wages should buy a bond with the aid which every employer and every bank is willing to give. Every man of wealth should invest a large part of his fortune in liberty bonds in order to protect the whole from being assessed to pay a German indemnity. Every man who has saved money should invest a large part of it in liberty bonds and should save more, that he may buy more bonds. Every man who has not saved should begin to save that he may do likewise. New Tork will follow the Govern ment's military census with a more complete census and inventory of mili tary resources on its own account. Be tween June 11 and 25 all men and women between 16 and 50 will be listed by 50,000 volunteers, and the total is expected to be about 6,600,000. Here is a good example for the pa triotic organizations of Oregon to fol low. The necessary stationery could be provided by subscription, the work could be done by the Patriotic Service League, the Girls' Honor Guard and other organizations, and probably the use of offices would be. donated or provided in county courthouses and city halls. There are not too many people in the United States to do the civilian work of the war, and every person should be put to work at that for which he or she is best .fitted in order that it may be done. Private Miller, who probably fell asleep while guarding Mosier tunnel and was hit by a freight engine, will very likely get his heaviest punish ment in dismissal from the service. If there 5an be one mitigating excuse for his conduct it Is that guard duty during the night in -a railway tunnel s a lonesome Job. Two guards would help each to be vigilant. It takes a mighty strong-willed man to do some thing he dislikes, but which he knows he must do, when "the boss" is not looking. " v . Another argument for the loan, pre sented by Theod6re H. Price in the Outlook, ought to clinch the case. He points out that, since the Civil War, no loan of the United States has failed to go to a premium. It ought to be unnecessary to make an appeal to cupidity, but if there are some so con stituted their last objections are there by removed. Portland is like the emergency man always ready. This time it is dishes and other paraphernalia ' that . go with serving food. All her table crockery is needed to feed one of the new armies. Local domestics must ease up on smashing china, for it cannot be replaced for a while. Mr. Baker's confidential advisers are named Frankfurter, Keppel and Lippmann. They are good Ameri cans, all, and they show how com pletely successful America has been as a melting pot. Oregon's registration Is so close to the estimated 10 per cent of popula tion as to show that Oregon has the actual number of people within her borders. 'Hot air is not an Oregon asset. Conserve the suply of staples as much as possible by using green veg. etables in season. There will be plenty of use for the more nearly imperish able goods later on. The Germans knew the drive was coming, but they evidently had not counted on that million pounds of high explosives the British set off at the last moment. "Billy- Reidt. who supplied the big hot-water tank for the Third Oregon at Clackamas camp, is too big and old to fight, but has efficiency down to a science. v Rest assured every woman enUtled to vote will go to the polls the day of the school election. It's an abnor mal woman who would miss that chance. The seriousness of the failure of Russia is shown in removal of Aus trian troops from the eastern line to meet the Italian advance. While a lot of big subscriptions are needed for the liberty loan, it must not be forgotten that the little ones also count. The tax on stogies will not be in creased. It would not be fair to tax vegetables at this stage of the pro ceedings. Salvador is in one of John Barrett's republics, and he is the man to han dle relief if it is-needed. Sixty-cent wool reminds one of the dollar hops of long ago and the psy chological time to sell. The $50 liberty bond is as pretty as a $50 bill, and a good deal more patriotic. The graduating class that bars flow, ers fits Itself to circumstances this Summer. Testerday developed into another rare day in June very much under done. Support Hoover. By Porter Kmrrnon Browse, of the) . VlKilantca. What makes Herbert Clark Hoover a popular leader is the adventurous qual ity which he can give to the humdrum business of feeding the world. It isn't only because he fed Belgium, but the way he did it that appeals; the way he stood off the Germans, persuaded tha Pope, dodged the English, picked up ships in unlikely ports, loaded them under the nose of bureaucratic prohibi tions, went over, around, and through the biggest war that was ever waged without once falling afoul of It. That Is what appeals, the genuine American manner, the peculiar possession of tha American people. It is perhaps, because he shows signs of becoming a great popular leader that opposition has developed In certain quarters. - And what bur-eauerat could be blamed for quaking n little before tha swift forward rush of this young world ad venturer? Hoover facing the Boxer Rebellion, holding himself the rank of Mandarin. Hoover in South Africa, Hoover handling a whole Russian prov ince with as much ease as the average man runs a farm. Hoover in Belgium any one of these pictures is enough to make the everlasting reputation of an average man. 'No wonder the people feel him tha representative of their own urgent need to express the genius of Democracy in the medium in which we as a people commonly work. Hoover is the man who more than any other redeems us from the common misapprehension as a people Incurably material. All the old ideals make it necessary to express National virtue in military terms, but bera is a man who can put greatness Into the buying of a shipload of wheat, into corn and onions and potatoes. In appointing him Mr. Wilson has again demonstrated how closely he is In touch with the instinctive choice of the people. Most of the work of this war has got to be dona in Just such crude materials as wheat and onions and potatoes; most or Its victories must ba won by har vesters and planters, by shipping clerks and manufacturers of oanned goods and breakfast foods. The man who can make campaigns of that kind worth while to the men who fight them is tha man ror America. Hoover Is such a man. And Hoover is tha man whom certain sinister forces in Congress and the Na tion are trying to push aside. When Roses Are in Bloom. By Jaaae Bartoa Adams. Would you see a spot of beauty un excelled in all the land where tha ver nal hills majestically rise, a picture of rare Deauty most superlatively grand that delights tha soul when mirrored n the eyes, the most allurlnsr BDot in all the beauteous world-famed West, where the air Is redolent with sweet perfume and the heart of every tourist throbs with pleasure In Its nest, coma to Portland when the rosea am in bloom. Would you gaze on masterpieces or rare architectural skill, the embodi ment of majesty and grace: in eye al luring beauty they ara seen on every hill where the hand of man has smoothed old nature's face; homes from which through open windows float the breathings from the soul of floral treasurers lining every room with a delicate aroma unexcelled from pole to pole, come to Portland when the rosea are in bloom. To this favored earthly u.aen every gateway stands alar and the light of welcome Klows In everv eye, every nana is reached in greeting to tha strangers from afar aye, from every iana beneath the arching sky, Come and revel in our beauties breathe Our health-promoting air when 'tis laden with the earth's premier tier. fume, and you'll vow no spot UDon the old earth's surface can compare with our -ortiana wnen the roses are In bloom. In Other Days. Twenty-Five Years As;o. From The Oregonian, June . 1S92. Election returns continue to comet in slowly. Hermann has rolled ud a hie- safe vote and Moora for Supreme Judge is aaieiy in ma clear. The race between vveDsierana unamberlaln for Attorney General is close. in . . . . luiuiicuuuiiB tenner m ir I n n Harrison has enough votes in sleht yet. Silver was'the rock on which tha piatiorm committee nearly split, but compromise solution seems to have been found. Unlimited coinaare was defeated by the strong New Enerland ana XMew lorK delegations. Dumas won't write for Americana His remembrance of what he lost hi Camllle has embittered him too much to lorget or forgive. J. H. Beckley, of Drain, who waa reported nearly killed by a kick from a horse, was not so badly hurt as was at nrsc supposed. A. H. Fletcher and bride, of Vrfnv are in the city on their wedding tour. Count Mairri and Con ntAaa Ma vrl (Mrs. Tom Thumb) are stavlnar at th Portland. Manager Iceland stood up at their wedding several years ago and gave the bride away. The Countess was In Oregon In 1869, almost a quarter of a century ago, and staged It all over tha Pacific Coast at that time. WILD OATS ARB NOT NECESSARY Idea Some Prrioaa Hold Is Contrary to Moral and Spiritual Laws. PORTLAND. June 8. (To tha Edi tor.) Some people seem to imagine that It Is a legitimate thing for a young man to "sow his wild oats." This is not only a mistaken but a very dangerous Idea, for the laws of moral or spiritual nature, like those of the material world, are inevitable. One cannot sow one kind of seed and reap another kind of grain for a harvest. If one Indulges In pleasures, reckless or right, tha penalty consequent on such acts must ba paid. If not to day, it will be later in its own time and way, but It will be sure. Of course, it Is possible for a wild, dissipated young man to reform and become exemplary In his more mature years, although it is not so very prob able, and soma scars will be left on his character, some memories that ha would forget if he could, and some remorse for evil done. Did he young man but know It, an upright life of Integrity brings more est and. hap piness, is far more satisfying than all the so-called pleasures of "sowing wild oats." Young man, do not be led to invest In this kind of crop, not even a mild form of it. There are abundant pleas urea that leave you with no regrets, no sting or stain. And this need not make you a weakling, or effeminate, or the "goody-good" sort we were told of In tha old-fashioned Sunday school books who always, "died young." 'Be manly, be cheerful, be Jolly and enjoy life; the young should do so. But do not sow what you would not wish to reap. M. W. WAITE. I ' When Keglatered Ma Travels. PORTLAND, June 7. (To the Ed itor.) I have registered. In a few days I leave for Chicago. Please tell me if it is necessary to obtain a passport? ANXIOUS TO KNOW. The address should left at registra tion headquarters at the Courthouse, so that If you are called you can ba found. No passport is necessary. I. W. W. ARK PARASITES ON LABOR s Freedom Without Ednratlon Declare Mere "KiKmut of the Bra Is.." PORTLAND. June i (To the Editor. We invariably find that sympathizers with and members of the Industrial Workers of tha World ara sadly lack- ng in education along economic and political lines. Not one in 20 of these deluded ones was born in this country, while not one in ten can read English intelligently. Yet they all presume to understand the labor movement of America. The tactics of tha Industrial Workers of tha World, however, prove that It Is an Importation from Europe without any historical basis in this country and that Its adherents are foolishly and mistakenly applying European methods to American conditions with sad results to themselves and to workers in Ken- aral. Revolutions in Europe must of necessity be accompanied by violence, planned, of course, in secret. Now the I. W. W. by its open repudiation of political action, the only peaceful solu tion to the problem, and by its con tempt for voting as well aa its appeal to sabotage and direct action, "shows itself to be an ignorant and retrogrres. slve organization, placing its faith upon such an absurdity as a mass conspiracy and is therefore mora dangerous to tha working class than to the capitalist class. Tha Wabblays have painted tha figure of a man, wearing wooden shoes. on the windows of their new spacious hall in this city. The figure Is shown grasping an arm full of factories and steamships, ete. This is to emphasize tha fact that they believe the workers can get possession by tha use of sabotage (destruction of property, etc). The I. W. W. is not in reality a labor union at all. but merely a sort of church or mission that furnishes an easy living at tha rata of $3 a day to idlers who use their feeble wits to escape work by exploiting a portion of the workers through the labor senti ment. These unscrupulous "leaders" deftly extract the coin out of the pockets of common laborers and deposit it shame lessly In their own "Jeans" and in the fat purses of big capitalists. Tha paying of $110 a month to some capitalist or property owner for hall rent. $90 a month to a financial secre tary, $90 a month to an "orator," $2.60 for initiation fea, SO cents a month dues and sundry other charges without taking into account tha eternal hat passing in tha streets will neither Nsolve the high cost of living nor better in any wuy iur waa; woraers ot -tort land and vicinity. Tha Wabbley outfit is a snare and a delusion and its leaders parasites upon the backs of labor. Like the I. W. ,W. the rank and file of tha Socialist party are Imposed upon by a craity officialdom and press. A large majority of the "leaders" In the so-called Socialist party ara not interested In the welfare of labor; they are simply traffickers In Socialism. The worker, unless he Is sura of his way, should quit following brass bands. rreeaom witnout education Is a mere figment of the brain. PATRICK O'HALLORAN. TAKE THE LOAN. (Written by Edward Everett Hale in May, 1861, at tha outbreak of the Civil War.) Come, freemen of the land. Come meet the great demand. True heart and open hand Take the loan! For the hopes the prophets saw. For the swords your brothers draw. For liberty and law Take the loan! Te ladies of the land. As ye love the' gallant band Who have drawn a soldier's brand. Take the loan! Who would bring them what she could. Who would give the soldiers food. Who would stanch her brother's blood. Take the loan! All who saw her hosts pass by. Ail who heard the parting cry. When we bade them do or die. Take the loan! As ye wished, their triumph then. As ye hope to meet again. And to meet their gaze as men. Take the loan! Who could press the great appeal Of our ranks of serried steel. Put your shoulder to the wheel. Take the loan! That our prayers in truth may rise. Which we press with streaming eyes On the Lord of earth and skies, Take the loan! Foreword of the Eleventh Annual Portland Rose Festival IN The Sunday Oregonian To the uninitiate, as well as to those who have known and loved the Rose Festivals of other years, this Sunday story about the beautiful Summer frolic of the Oregon country is addressed. In complete detail it presents to the reader the forthcoming Festival, striving with words to paint some portion of the joyous season just around the corner. WAR SPIRIT IX SCULPTURE. Some there are who write of war, whose literary torches flame when the call to battle comes. But the sculptor, with clay and chisel and stone, creates monuments to the inspired moment, and his heroic figures of soldiers, sailors and the mothers at home remain for all time. A special Sunday story, with illustrations. HERBERT KAUFMAN PUTS IT OVER. Swift a a thrown javelin and fair to the target center, Kaufman launches his apropos ob servations of the times. His Sunday page in The Oregonian never lacks for readers, or for new converts to the sturdy philosophy which is bo originally his own. He dynamites fallacy read him. UNCLE iSAM'S NEW RICE FIELDS. Be of good heart. When the wheat is all gone which it wont be there will yet flow into America's granaries a food supply that is ceaselessly on the in crease. Consider the rice fields of Louisiana, submerged in water on the fertile flats a going answer to any shortage of grain Read every word of this Frank G. Carpenter story- CHURCH AND SCHOOL. Two pages of the Sunday issue, one each to Portland's churches and schools, weekly resumes of progress and bulletins of announcement. The weekly sermon appearing in The Oregonian is by Dr. W. B. Hinson, pastor of the East Side Baptist Church, formerly pastor of the White Temple. NOTE OF BUGLE -IN THEM- The Old Poems page was long one to celebrate the idylls of peace bits of old gardens, and faded sun sets, and memories of school days. But now, through it all, the note of the bugle thrusts, for its contributors have mailed hun dreds of martial poems. "A Japanese Dirge," the decorated poem of the page, will enter many a scrapbook. FLOWERS OF COLUMBIA HIGHWAY. Many have marveled at the wild bloom that girds that scenic triumph, known as the Co lumbia River Highway. There are the dear common flowers of lang syne, and certain shy strangers of the hills, in winsome beauty as the fairies are. And Albert R. Sweetser, of the Department of Botany, University of Oregon, who is on greeting terms with all of them, has written them into a Sunday story with lots of il lustrations. LOOK FOR IT, AND FIND. In the ranks of columns, marching down page after page, the multitudinous items of the world's af fairs are chronicled from Smith's baby, across the street, to the last stroke of war, across the world. Look for it it's there All the News of All the World THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN FIVE CENTS. They Can't Fool Benton. Corvallls Gazette-Times. AGAIN have we demonstrated the superiority of the people over the Legislature and showed to the world that Benton County at least is wide awake and not to be humbugged. w e proved In a ratio of two to one that nobody can hand us anything and that when we pass, wisdom will un doubtedly die with us. We had a. chanoa to swat the Interests, tha pav ing trust and Portland at one fell swoop, and you bet wa improved our opportunity. To be sure. less than half of us turned out. which left only 35 per cent of us to punch Portland, but we punched her all right. We even tried to save her from her own folly, at least nearly 1B00 of us refused to let her have the right to tax herself to im prove her harbor If she wanted to. The poor fool town! If it hasn't sense enough to look after itself, it can trust good old conservative Benton to help take care of her. Even though it was none of our business and wouldn't cost us a cent even, yet we felt that It was our duty to oara for defectives, and so. In the interests of humanity we re fused to let Multnomah "Put the Port in Portland." We didn't know why. but you bet your life we exercised our inalienable rights and demonstrated the glories of the referendum! Alpine voted for the port, but we are informed that It was only on condition that ocean, liners come to Alpine for supplies and freight. But the thing we swatted ortenest and hardest was the bill to increase the pay of legislators. We knocked her seven to one. A legislator geis more than he earns now and we, the people, know It! Why is a Legislature, anyway Let the people make the laws say We! Didn't we demonstrate our ability this very week? We say so. Another thlnsr wo hit strong was tne amendment to prevent single taxers from slipping one over on us at every election. To be sure, we hit single tax good and hard last Fall, but we have a right to change our minds, haven't we? And you bet we did it, too. And we will vote the other way tomorrow if we choose and It's nobody s business. either. One thing on the ballot we didn t swat, and that was the holding of state and city elections on the same day. And neither would we let the rest of the state slip any good roads on us If we could help it. We don't want good roads. Good roads raise the price of land and the higher land is valued the higher taxes will be. They can't fool us, we refused to be corrupted. Other counties may want good roads, but not us. Our fathers and grand fathers didn't have good roads and they got along. Our roads are like the old-time religion, they're good enough for father and they're good enough for us. Of course, they are going to be forced onto us. because of a state ma jority of some zO.000 poor benighted fools who aren't satisfied with the mud and who want to put on airs like Washington and California. But the conspirators didn't fool us. not a whit! We could smell asphalt and corrup tion all over the ballot, and if they try to bring their old paved road across the border of our county wo may en Join them. In fact we would, except that some lawyer might make some thing out of it. and we are dead agin anybody making anything. But there is one consolation. By voting against the bonds in this county we have at least most likely succeeded In preventing a paved road between Corvallls and Albany. The road is not nmniiimrv there, but the commission had decided to build It anyway. They know now, though, that we don't want it. so they will probably build only what roads the law compels them to build Tha commission also had in tended a graveled road from Corvallis through Philomath to Newport via Blodgett. but after seeing the returns from these precincts they won't dare defy public opinion, but will leave us alone in our glorious mud and soli tude. Slo semper pavitls. Hock the Kaiser and also Viva la Referendum Confederate Veterans' Pensions. YACOLT. Wash.. June 7. (To the Editor.) I have been told that the old soldiers who fought for the South now draw a pension from the Government, the same as those who fought for the North. Is that true and how does a person apply for a pension? SUBSCRIBER. The Government does not pension Confederate veterans. Some of the Southern states have made limited pro vision for those of their residents who foujrht on the side or tne tonner.y,
