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THE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1917.
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1DHTLAND, TUESDAY, JUXTE 11. 1917.
SERIOUS.
Germany makes war a national in
dustry. The) German nation as a
whole la at -war. All the units of Ger
many's resouces, power, life, strength,
prowess, kultur, are employed to
make) the war a success. It is serious
business, a vital service, an exclusive
duty, for Germany and all Germans.
The United States Is at war with
Germany. The Nation officially has
cone Into the war with due delibera
. tion. but the citizen has not taken the
duty of doing1 his part home to him
self. Somehow we hope to muddle
through without really hurtful conse
quences. The war Is not only the Nation's
business, but every citizen's In It. He
5s going1 to find, before the end, that
he is in it, for Germany is not beaten,
nor even nearly beaten not so nearly
els uio suiies. iut is uis uituu auu
'blunt truth.
Some of us thought that the walls
of the German Jericho would fall
when we tooted our horn. But they
did not: they will not. There is some
thing to war besides noise. "We are
going to find it out, too.
Let the optimistic citizen who thinks
Germany is done ' for read the sum
mary of Germany's sources of strength,
reprinted in another column. It is the
truth, and the whole truth. We shall
be better off as citizens when we learn
not to despise, but to appreciate, our
enemy.
FOB A GREAT EVENT.
The Portland Festival Association
announces a programme for its pre
mier event opening of the great Port
land Auditorium that ought to at
tract the gratified attention of the
entire public, music-lpving and other
wise. For it is obvious that the oc
casion Is to be celebrated In a way
suited to its Importance. Distinguished
artists of international reputation are
to be brought here for participation in
the oratorio, "Klijah," a classic and
memorable production of Mendelssohn,
and of the "Golden Legend," the beau
tiful work of Sir Arthur Sullivan, and
of the miscellaneous song and orches
tral numbers.
It Is true enough that there has
been a sentiment that Portland ar-
occasion, which marks the high tide
of Portland's enterprise in cultural
pursuits: but undoubtedly a wise de
cision was made in the arrangement
for other talent. Portland has indeed
many high-class soloists of both sexes;
-but their employment would have
made it a purely local affair, while the
true policy Is of course to give Port
land a rank among the great musical
centers of the country, which select
their talent for their annual festivals
on merit, without regard to sectional
or racial preferences and with a view
to the finest results. It Is to the credit
of the local musicians that they have
agreed heartily to this plan, and that
they will co-operate to make the
three days' Festival a mighty success.
The names of the artists are among
the most celebrated in America for
oratorio and concert work, it hap
pens that the two sopranos are Port
land women, but their professional
reputations have been made principal
ly elsewhere. The others have not
. previously come here, but the reason
doubtless is that they have not here
tofore been offered a proper vehicle
for their appearance. It is to be added
that the oratorio will be sung by more
than 200 of Portland's best voices, in
-.- support of the principals, and that
. the Portland Symphony Orchestra, of
which the city may well be, and is,
proud, has a prominent and worthy
. part in the programme.
The Auditorium will seat 5000 or
more people, and the prices for the
. three days' events have been made so
low as to insure very large audiences.
The Auditorium was built so that the
people might enjoy at the least prac
ticable cost entertainment of all suit
able kinds. The Festival management
has understood perfectly its duty to
the public.
SOUTH COSTING TO ITS SENSES.
Good is resulting to the Southern
negroes who remain in the South from
the migration of many of their race
to the North. Whites recognize that
the attraction is not only high wages,
but better treatment by the whites,
better schools and better living con
ditions. They also recognize that the
negro is necessary to the prosperity
and development of the South, for
that section does not attract immi
grants from abroad.
Accordingly, Dr. W. J. Schieffelin,
of New Tork, says that leading news
papers are pleading for better treat
ment of the negro and - better com
munity feeling because of the de
pendence of the whites on the blacks.
The subject is studied in Southern
colleges, secretaries of the T. M. C..A.
are lecturing on it and hundreds . of
', young whites are studying the living
conditions, health, sanitation and
training of the colored people. The
conclusion is that the negroes should
be given better opportunities and en
couraged to have homos of their own,
and that greater respect should be
shown to their women. It Is. being
realized that the South needs an in
telligent, able-bodied laboring class
for the development of its great wealth
in agriculture, timber and minerals,
which cannot be developed without
It. As the negroes are the only avail
able source for this labor, there will
grow up a better understanding, bet
ter treatment, better living conditions
and better schools. Public opinion
is forming in favor of education of the
negro In higher as well as primary
schools, that they mav have well
equipped ministers and doctors and
may be efficient in farming and trade.
The truth is coming home to the
South that, though the negro cannot
fight back against lynchers, depriva
tion of the ballot and general race
discrimination, he can get up and
leave, and that the South cannot get
along well without him. The level
headed whites may, for their own pro
tection, rise up to protect the negro
against the mob spirit. 1
STUCK IN THE MUD.
The Oregonlan says that Linn. Lane and
Clackamas counties have, by their votes, an
nounced that they do not want good roads,
least of all a. good trunk line through the
state, and hints that we are likely to get
what we voted for. What mistake for The
Oregonlan to make. We do want good roads,
every man of us up this way, but we have
our Ideas, and though they may be many
and varied, nevertheless they are our Ideas.
We want so many good roads and so many
kinds of good roads, and we wanted to
provide the funds necessary to construct
these good roads In so many ways that we
could not make up our minds to take the
kind Portland was willing to help us get.
Eugene Guard. '
The late Colonel Patrick Henry
Winston used to tell about a deplora
ble failure of the inmates of an Insane
asylum to seize one of many golden
opportunities to find the way out and
escape. The doors and windows were
all open, the guards were often asleep,
and there was nothing in the way of a
grand outpouring.
But the poor deluded charges of the
state never could agree how to go
by day or night, singly or in groups,
through the windows or the doors.
"And do you know," the Colonel
would add impressively, "the poor fel
lows are there yet."
It looks to us as if some of our
misguided friends In the recent elec
tion were unanimous for any kind of
a road except the road, or roads, it
was immediately practicable to get.
DOING WITHOUT GERMANY.
The United States has already gone
far toward independence of Germany
for a supply of dyestuffs. It also has
learned to make photographic paper
and Is making optical lens glass. For
merly all the potash fertilizer used in
this country came from Germany, our
Imports of 1913 having been 1,000,000
tons, worth $40 a ton. Under pressure
of necessity and a price of $450 a ton,
we are now producing potash from
the kelp of the Pacific Coast, and may
obtain our entire supply from that
and other domestic sources.
Kelp contains 25 to 30 per cent of
potash, and grows in great beds off
the coast in water 100 feet deep. One
corporation Is cutting it ' for the
acetone It contains, and two others for
the potash. The Agricultural Depart
ment has built a floating reaping ma
chine for the purpose of experiment
to determine whether the potash can
be extracted profitably to use as fer
tilizer. The machine cuts 200 tons a
day, which yield about five tons of
potassium chloride, and the weed
grows so quickly that four crops a
year can be harvested, as with alfalfa.
Practice of efficiency equal to that
of the Germans may make kelp-cutting
profitable by using all the in
gredients. It is proposed to distill dried
kelp In retorts, by which ammonia as
well as potash can be recovered, char
coal and tarry products are obtained
which can be used as fuel, while com
bustible gas Is yielded which will serve
as fuel for the retorts and evaporators.
The necessities caused by the war
have put all nations on their mettle,
and one result of Germany's folly in
attacking the civilized world prom
ises to be the permanent loss of sev
eral valuable branches of trade, to say
nothing of the good will of nearly all
nations.
PATRIOTIC SONGS.
Writing of a patriotic song is clearly
not a task that can be done to order.
This Is shown by the experience of the
National Arts Club, which offered a
prize of $250 for the best song con
forming to certain requirements, and
which, after having completed exami
nation of some thousands of manu
scripts, has Just announced that the
prize will not be awarded. No song
of sufficient merit, in the opinion of
the committee on awards, was sub
mitted. Similar lack of success, it would
seem, has attended efforts to obtain
a substitute for "Dixie" one which
would nationalize that Inspiring song
and avail Itself of the prevailing pop
ularity of its music. At a service of
patriotic self-dedication In New Tork
the other day a new "Dixie," called
'A Battle Cry of Freedom," was of
fered, but it is extremely improbable
that it will be heard from further.
Sung by a trained choir, it aroused
moderate enthusiasm, but one some
how cannot conceive a crowd spon
taneously breaking "into song, the
words of which run this way:
Lo, for blood, for fire, seven stripes of crim
son Heaven's cup of sacrifice o'erbrlms on
Ever-pllght
To the white
Of pure light
A re unfurled!
The field Is square sky blue, unclouded
With five-rayed stars of white fire crowded
To unite
For the right
All the might
Of the world I
It Is quite impossible to define the
requirements of a patriotic anthem.
They do not go by rule. All we know
Is that the vast number of attempts
now being made are unacceptable and
that more that will be made in the
future probably will be. And at the
same time it may come to us at any
moment. The real genius may be In
our very midst. We can only go on
trying not too consciously. The song
that is finally adopted by the people
Is quite unlikely to be inspired by the
offer of a money prize. It may be
born overnight and be so simple .that
every other genius will wonder why
he did not think of it long ago.
BIRTH RECORDS.
The high importance of complete
ness of vital statistics is pointed out
in a statement by the Federal Census
Bureau, which takes the experience
of the country in registration for mill
tary service as its text. Lack of birth
records has complicated the National
task In many ways and in innumer
able Instances will operate to the em
barrassment of individuals.
The average citizen will not be In
clined at first to consider seriously
the simple question, "How old are
you?" Of course, he Is of a certain
age, and he knows it, or thinks he
does. But it may be that he has just
"turned thirty-one" and bears his
years exceptionally well, "and the
neighbors suspect him of unpatriotic
evasion of military duty. It would be
convenient for him to be able to put
his finger on the record, in some place
where statistics of that kind are kept
on file. How many can produce real
proof that their age Is what they say
it Is? The number of those who would
fail is surprisingly large, for three de
cades or so ago provision for keeping
the records was not as general as it
Is today.
The Census Bureau relates the story
of an American arrested in London
as a German spy, who was unable to
obtain a birth certificate because his
birth had never been recorded and
because the doctor had died, and who
was saved only by the timely discovery
of an old letter describing the event.
But this is only one of the possible
occasions upon which official records
would prove valuable. They are
needed to prove men of voting age,
to establish claims for pensions and to
set forth rights of inheritance. So,
too, they might become necessary to
establish the claim of a traveling
American to the protection of his own
Hag.
Call to the colors of -every citizen
between the ages of twenty-one and
thirty has served to emphasize again,
as has been said, the importance of
recorded vital statistics. Men who
have not registered will not be put
down as slackers if they can prove
their immunity, which can be much
more conclusively done by citation of
book and page than by common hearsay.
EARLT RISING.
One need not wait for the slow
operation of the daylight-saving laws
In these times in order to get a good
deal of work done on his own account.
We are rapidly approaching the long
est day of the year, and it is a fact
that the average man is wasting two
or three perfectly good hours of light
every morning by lying In bed. They
are hours that he. cannot atone for
at the end of the day. The garden
calls him, and the early morning
hours are fittest for the task. Put
ting "off until evening what can be
done in the morning is not good prac
tice in the present emergency.
There is a peculiar charm in early
morning work. Somehow, one accom
plishes more out of doors before the
sun has grown too old. Any farmer
knows that the early hours of the
dawn are the ones in which to swat
the weeds, and every other man who
has tried it knows that, while an hour
or two in the garden is the best kind
of preparation for a business day, the
rule is not by any means reversible.
At least until the harvest is in, it
would be a good plan to make early
rising a custom, for utilitarian reasons.
It is a habit that grows on one, be
cause It has so many manifest advan
tages. It is particularly a good thing
for men approaching middle age. We
waste too much daylight, anyway, for
our own good.
THE MASTERY OF DIPHTHERIA.
News of the death of Dr. Emit
Adolph von Behrlng, which has only
recently reached This country, owing
to interrupted communication with
Europe, although it is probable that
he died as long ago as March or April,
deserves especial comment, because of
the debt the world owes to this sci
entist for depriving diphtheria of its
terrors. Many scientists reprard this
as the crowning medical achievement
of the nineteenth century. It is cer
tain that its importance was very
great. More than any other single
discovery, that of Von Behrlng re
duced the rate of infant mortality.
Not only' has occurrence of the dis
ease been checked by preventive treat
ment, but the number of fatal termi
nations has been reduced from about
40 per cent to 6 per cent.
Von Behring, however, was not the
discoverer of the bacillus of diph
theria. This was the work of Kebbs
and Loeffler, working independently,'
and in their honor the name Kebbs-
Loeffler bacillus was given. It was
Von Behring, however, who made use
of the discovery by his predecessors
to develop the blood serum, or anti
toxin, which is now employed in com
bating the malady. The bacterial
growths In diphtheria produce certain
poisonous chemical substances that
permeate the cellular system and cause
death. This automatically sets up in
the human body a process of pro
ducing "."anti-bodies," which fight the
toxic bacteria, and patients who re
cover owe their lives to the achieve
ment In time of mastery by the anti
bodies. It was Von Behrlng's mission
to aid nature, which he did by estab
lishing a technic for reinforcing the
anti-bodies. This was done by injecr
tion of treated blood serum from im
munized animals.
Announcement of this epochal dis
covery was made in 1894. .While
statistics are lacking for all sections of
the country, and while the serum has
not been employed in some ' of the
remoter districts, it is believed that
the estimate that three-quarters of a
million of youthful lives have been
saved in America in the past twenty-
three, years does not overstate the
case. The number may be consider
ably greater than that. ' ' Formerly
diphtheria was the scourge or tne
young. Now its ravages are negligi
ble, and It is recognized that a cure
is probable If enlightened treatment
is begun In time, while those who have
been exposed to Infection and who a
quarter of a century ago would have
been In serious danger fare now prac
tically always saved by preventive
treatment.
Von Behring had all the enthusiasm
of the true scientist. He was first to
receive the Nobel prize for the great
est discovery in medicine, a prize hav
ing a cash value of $40,000, and he
was the recipient of prizes worth $15,-
000 bestowed by French scientific
academies, but he gave this money
back to science and continued his
work. In more recent years he had
been making further investigations of
tuberculosis, continuing: thus the work
of. Koch, and he collaborated with
Ehrlich. who also was an associate
of Koch. These three men repre
sented a real democracy of science,
profiting by one another's discoveries.
and all together doing more for the
world than can be computed. It Is pe
culiarly distressing that Von Behring
should have been taken at this stage
of our history, when the problem of
tuberculosis promises to be one of the
most serious ones of the reconstruc
tion period.
We are, not yet, however, at the end
of our work as to diphtheria. Within
only a few years there has been
developed a technic known as the
"Schick test," which makes It possible
to discriminate between immune and
non-immune persons, especially nurses,
children and others who may be ex.
posed to diphtheria, thus rendering It
unnecessary to administer prophylac
tic doses of serum to those who are
found to be immune. It Is also of
high value In detecting "carriers,
who may aid in the spread of the dis
ease, while not themselves seriously
attacked. It has also been determined
only recently that the percentage of
children under 15 years old .who are
not Immune is between 40 and 50, and
that immunity conferred by prophy
lactic serum Injections is entirely lost
within four weeks. All of these facts,
while they mean most to the physician,
are of the highest importance to the
layman also, who is chiefly affected
by the ravages of disease. It 18 good
to know that the work is going on.
but this does not lessen the loss the
whole world has suffered in Von
Behrlngs death. - . -
Ot the many wiles and minor strat
egies -of .war, none is more Interesting
than the device reported to have been
adopted by German submarines v to
elude pursuit by creating a false im
pression that they have been sunk.
This ruse, news of which comes from
Denmark, consists of the discharge of
a quantity of oil to the surface, by
use of a special apparatus. OH on
the water being accepted as evidence
that the vessel has been hit, the pur
suers draw off and the U-boat escapes
at leisure. Thus the race between
the destructive agency and increased
measures for defense against it con
tinues,, as it has done ever since the
war began. It is comparable with the
announcement that with the construc
tion of heavier nets for trapping sub
marines the latter ' have ladopted pow
erful" buzz-saw adjuncts to cut them.
It is plain 'that no nation can stand
still and win. and it seems more and
more probable that the decision may
yet go to the one possessing the great
est Inventive genius.
While the British army under Gen
eral Haig is driving toward the Ger
man submarine bases on the coast of
Belgium,- the army of inventors striv
ing to .solve the U-boat problem in
other ways continues to multiply. The
genius who proposes that ships dis
charge a "thick viscous substance
which a torpedo cannot penetrate to
reach the vessel's side" is not the least
visionary of them, it would seem. An
other has been bombarding the news
papers with the suggestion that "since
electricity is generative," it by all
means ought to be employed. He would
generate on board 'every ship electrical
currents of sufficient force to estab
lish a wall which would explode a
torpedo harmlessly. Another inventor,
also utilizing electricity, would create
a powerful whirlpool about the ship,
which would draw the submarine to
its destruction. And Btill we .used to
laugh at the ' fantastic ideas of the
Chinese!
For years and years, since he suc
ceeded the lamented John P. Jones,
Willis H. Jenkins has gone up and
down the state of Oregon as chief
traveling passenger agent of the
Southern Pacific system, interesting
people In his line and getting them
acquainted with it. .He has had, so
to speak, the front and backdoor keys
of all the newspaper offices. Now
that he has been promoted to head of
the advertising bureau of the road,
he has a working capital that is in
valuable. The '. "personal" columns
will miss him.
China is getting: some sound advice
from Uncle Sam, who does not propose
to dictate the form of government the
people shall adopt,, but knows- that
agreement among the people is essen
tial to progress; The people who can
not govern themselves sooner or-later
will find the Job taken off their hands.
Now see what's coming in the evo
lution of dress. eEngland is. talking
of kilts instead of -trousers for men,
of course. With women, the costume
of today approaches the bathing, af
fair of the past, and nothing further
need be looked for in that line. .
Principal Draper was a man who
knew boys and there, are many glad
they knew him. His influence had a
practical side . for ' their betternxent.
The world was better because he lived
in it, and his. end, at 52, is altogether
too eoon. - . - .
That, painter whose trousers were
stolen while he was at work, causing
embarrassment . when he essayed to
leave, . is not resourceful.- He might
have striped 'his legs and passed as
something novel, even if freakish,
Portland will miss the letter-carriers
if they do not parade, but they must
be consulted before being ordered out.
If they do not care to march, Port
land will not .feel offended. They do
considerable "marching" every day.
The International Typographical
Union has subscribed fo $50,000 in
liberty bonds. Individual - subscrip
tions of members will aggregate ten
times that amount.. Printers' are pa
triots and earn good money.
Interest on the British war debt is
expected to reach $972,500,000 by the
end of March, 1918. This is almost as
much as the principal of the United
States' debt before' this country went
to war. ' - ,
Don't laugh when an up-state visitor
chases. .belter skelter after a cat. . If
you. watch, you'll see him make it
It's a way those people have of suc
ceeding. : '
The murderers of.the'Keet baby
will.be found if it is necessary to comb
Missouri.. Not all rtiemjiers of a gang
can keep quiet on a crime of that
kind, i , ': .
The Middle Columbia needs straw
berry pickers. The work is light, the
air is fine, and the picker has choice
of the crop when hungry. . .
.. The $15,000,000 in liberty bonds is
not' half the comfort to Rockefeller
that the $50- bond is to the man Of
small means. '
The firemen will not be censured
this year if the apparatus does . not
appear as units of bloom in the big
parade. " -
Certain young men who failed to
register are likely to be cured of the
cigarette habit, at any rate.
The altitude of everything' has hit
the grandstands, and you'll be done
two bits more for a seat.
Rose Festival visitors are appearing
on the streets. Let each citizen be an
Information bureau. - '
" Does anyone suppose Pershing asked
the Queen to pass the butter at lunch
eon yesterday?
. It was high time somebody "called
down" Jane Addams in a gentlemanly
way. -. " - ,
Buy a bond for your wife and make
her the -envy of the neighborhood.
- The bells do not toll for your funeral
If you buy a bond.
A liberty bond is better collateral
than a diamond.
If the baby wants a bond, let him
have It. .
Gleams Through the Mist
Bx-Desa CalUna.
ROSE FESTIVAL.
White are the clouds on a field of blue.
Red, bright red, is the rose's hue
This is the flag we fling and fly.
Thus to the world we make our cry:
"Called from play, to the country's
weal:
Festival song, to trumpet peal;
Say, have our roses thorns of steelT"
The City of Roses answers: "Aye!"
Death is laughter and loss Is gain.
And tears are sweet as a gust of rain.
When 0-eath is dared and tears are shed
To keep unsullied those bands of red-
Red as the rose. In sunset blown;
Red as the brands of battle thrown
Red as the blood of heroes sown
The brave, red bands of our flag out
spread.
This is our fairest feast of flowers
Fair, though the blackest war cloud
lowers
The flaming red and the white and
blue.
Shine in a symbol rich and new;
The thorn ot steel In the rosehedge
runs;
And her richest flowers, her fighting
sons.
The City of Roses gives, nor shuns
To offer, O Freedom, her best to you.
So. In the high hour of our pride
We offer our flowers, whate'er betide.
Rosea and sons, to floom or die.
And thus to the world we make our
cry:
"Called from play to the country's
weal;
Festival song to trumpet peal;
Say. have our rosea thorns of steelT"
The City of Roses answers: "Aye!"
see
"Sir," said the Courteous Office Boy.
blowing In on a breeze of festive spirit.
I'll bet the Hohenzollern Head envies
the king and queen of our Rose Fes
tival." "Why so, son?" I queried.
"Well." said the C O. B., "they're
In no suspense about when or how their
reign will end."
"And no misgiving? about where
they'll go when It does end," I am
plified.
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" THE POTE HOUND.
G. Pythagoras Bimelack, our es
teemed pote hound, has dispatched an
other free verse blurt from his latest
capture, Aloyslus Smyths (rhyming
w.ith lithe). . - -
"I can't tell - from the evidence
whether he is genuine or not," he
writes. "Please read this and try to
figure it out.
"He say) it is another of his moods
of nature and is about the Multnomah
Falls.
"This Is It":
" " OPUS 81.
A black, shining witch
Lives in the .whirlpool.
She reaches foam fingers.
Endlessly, endlessly
Dragging down a single silver raveling
From the clouds that sleep on ' the
cliff.
Endlessly she drags it down;
I see her wind it ,
Round "and" round and round
A great. - whirling silver ball.
Turning ' Id the shadows
Under the black whirlpool.
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THE SEARCH FOB THE LAST
"-ANALYSIS.
Last Friday didn't -write a
colyum for' Sunday. ',
And this was because we had started
on a trip to the LAST' ANALYSIS all
by our . lone. . "
We took the BACILLUS ROUTE and
we had got as far as the Good Samari
tan Hospital, going strong, when Doe
Brooks came up and called the trip off.
We are still open to suggestions as
to the most feasible route to the LAST
ANALYSIS.
The route we started on will,- we are
convinced, take one there very expedi
tiously, tout we advise nq one to take
that specific method -unless he enjoys
swallowing a thermometer every time
Miss Leslie goes by his bunk, or thinks
he would enjoy reaching the LAST
ANALYSIS in a rosewood sport, suit.
trimmed with silver buckles and, lined
with soft, mauve velvet.
Communications should still be ad
dressed to us at -the PRESENT
CRISIS. . ...
LGGE5D OP THE ROSE..
In the garden of Eden the fairy queen
Found a flower as perfect as ever was
. seen.
She cultured it dally with infinite care.
Till the angels in heaven pronounced it
moat fair.
Then, dipping her' wand in a morning
sunbeam.
She tinted . ita leaves with a roseate
crleam.
And, distilling the dew from the sweet-
scented air.
She srave It a fragrance exotic and rare.
Then she said to her nymphs: J'Go and
seek out a Dower
That will nourish and prosper this
beautiful flower.
Plant It In profusion and give It a name
That will mark well the spot in the
annals of fame."
So they hied to the East and they hied
- to the West.
The Holy Ora.il had no more earnest a
quest. s
And when they sucoeeded, returned to
the Queen.
Inspired with love of the place they
had seen.
And recounting: to her where wander
ings led. '
And the fortunes they'd met. they hap
pily said: ,
"We have found where this flower In
excellence grows.
And have Joyously named it the 'Port
land rose.' "
S. C. E.
Children of William Penn. -
BAY CENTER. Wash.. June 10. (To
the Editor.) Can you tell me who
William Penn married end how many
children they had. Some folks who
claim to be descendants are trying to
trace their lineage. A READER,
William Penn's first 'wife was Gull
elma Maria, daughter of Sir William
Sprlngett. She died In 1694. In 1696
he' mprried Hannah Collowhill, of Bris
tol. Penn bad two sons, Springett and
William, and a daughter.' Letttta. by his
first wife. Letltia was married to Will
lam Aubrey.' Two other daughters died
In infancy. Springett died soon after
his father's second marriage. There
were three sons by the second mar
riage, John, Thomas end Richard.
Positions In Munition Plants.
PORTLAND. : June 11. (To the Ed
itor.) Will you tell me where to write
to 'get information concerning positions
open to women in munition plants? Or
will you give me the names and ad
dresses of munition plants employing
women? READER.
Write for Information to Adjutant
General. Washington, D. C, where In
formation bureau Is maintained.
Soldiers Extraordinary.
By Hakibnnc I. lobe of the
Vljtllantrs.
I 'saw all these fine warriors In one
day, during a drive of 25 miles, and It
made me glad to call myself a Tennes
sean; it made me proud of the people
of this section . of the Old Volunteer
State. I have no doubt thet the peo
ple of the other states are doing Just as
well, you understand; I'm telling you
this in order that you may know that
Eastern Tennessee is trying hard to do
her bit.
Before I left town I saw the park
way around the home of one of our
best men in Irish potatoes. Yes, Irish
potatoes instead of the usual grass
and prettily bordered canna beds. More
than that, there were Irish potatoes
in the flower beds of that man's lawn.
Also he had had bis back yard spaded
up. and that, too, was filled with pota
toes. The man who was with me was a
Dollar American. If you don't know
what that is. It's a sort of a cross be
tween a polecat and a hornet's nest.
He raid to me as we drove by:
"Why. everybody's planting potatoes;
they won't be worth 50 cents per
bushel!"
I hope to God they won't. Get me?
I hope they won't be worth 20 cents per
ousnei. r or it s hard to starve a peo
ple or a family that has plenty of po
tatoes. Leaving town, I saw a half-blind,
rheumatic old man down on his knees
hoeing an acre lot of potatoes. I know
him; he Is fairly well-to-do; he didn't
have to do that, really. - As I passed
him on my way home late In the af
ternoon he was still down on his knees
to that potato patch and therefore
serving the Almighty and the American
flag to the utmost of his ability. Man,
woman, whoever you are that reads
this. I gay to you here that that old
man Is a patriot and a soldier extraor
dinary; and lesser men have worn a
Colonel's shoulder straps and been ban
queted as conquering heroes. Down on
his knees to hoe potatoes! It was finer.
In this our time f desperation, with
hellfire stalking footloose over the
world, than being- down on his knees
to pray.
Back In the hills I saw an old gran
ny woman and her daughter and her
daughter's two half-grown daughters
all at work In a field that they had lit
erally wrested from the mountain wil
derness. On Inquiry I learned that the
younger woman's husband was dead.
"We're a doln' all we can, shore," the
granny woman told hie, "acause the's a
goin' to be war. I went through wl'
one war. sonnyf and I know that men
folks cain't do much good a fightin' on
a empty stummick. Acause the belly
and the heart, sonny. Is closter akin
than most o folks knows."
Amen and amen, say L And again,
amen. I've been In the trenches and
I've fought on an empty stomach, and
I tell you I know.
A few miles further on I saw the wife
of a railroad section foreman cultivat
ing a part of the railroad's right of
way. And less than two miles from
that point I came upon a remarkably
pretty 15-year-old girl plowing off fur
rows for corn. Now listen! She didn't
have on Star-Spangled Banner hosiery
and she didn't have an American flag
tied to. her mule's head and she didn't
have a small metal edition of Old Glory
pinned to her anywhere but she was
plowing for corn. Get me? She was a
soldier In her trench, doing her bit.
Aye. nobly doing her bit.
"We'll need It." she told me. "The's
a goln' to be war. It's all right to trust
In the Lord." she went on. quoting from
the inscription on the monument to
King's Mountain men. "but it's also a
good thing to keep the gunpowder dry."
"Trust in the' Lord and keep the
powder dry " is a good motto for any
nation.
When I think of women doing their
bit in times of war. I like to think of
them as God's brigade. And God's bri
gade it certainly is. It 4s this that
makes war so insufferable: for the
shadow of the sword is always a cross,
always a cross, and It always falls
heaviest on the hearts of women.
TOO FEW SEE NATURE'S WONDERS.
Scenery, Like Prophet. ' Is TVIthout
Honor In Own Country.
PORTLAND. June 11. (To the Edi
tor.) We say a prophet has no honor
in his own country. We might say
neither has scenery. It is safe to say
that not more than 80 per cent of all
the people of Portland have seen the
wondrous beauties of the vicinity of
Multnomah Falls.
When. I state that not more than 80
per cent of the people of Portland have
seen the falls or seen the greatest pan
oramic view in the world from the top
of Larch Mountain. I base it from ask
ing people. As high as two persons out
of 20 have made the trip. These per
sons . owned automobiles, as did also
some of those who had never been able
to make the trip.
If some of the people coming to our
city during the Festival could only be
induced to make this trip, they would
have every reason to know why we
boost the locality of our city. The total
cost would only be -about $3.00 for the
round trip, as the trip can be easily
made In a few hours.
To the person who lives Inland
and does not have the opportunity to
see waterfalls hundreds of feet hierh.
tumbling cascades of creamy, foamy.
rivers, falling sheer down the. sides of
a mountain it Is surely an awe Inspir
ing sight. To the man from the prairie
country, the view from Larch Moun
tain up and down the Columbia is a
sight he will surely remember as long
as he lives. It is an awful thing to
move away from a part of the country
where you have been living and have
others tell you how they had traveled
several thousands of miles at great ex
pense, to see something you lived with
in 50 miles of for 10 years and didn't
take enough interest in to visit. I my
self lived within oO miles of the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado for seven
months, when I was 20 years old. I
would give a good deal now, if I had
taken the opportunities to have seen
this s.cenlc marvel, but should I desire
to make the trip now, it would cost
many hundreds of dollars.
GEORGE W. S A., BORN.
INVESTORS PLEASED BY RESl'LT
Contrratalatlons en Election Come to
Portland From Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.. June 6. (To the
Editor.) I am In receipt of your tele
grams in response to my request for
result of last Monday's election, and
for which I thank and congratulate
you most sincerely, ' not alone for the
splendid fight you have made in be
half of the candidate elected, but also
on the great principles Involved. ,
Surely this election is the beginning
of a new era in the history of Portland.
Sane and wise counsels have prevailed
and one can now look forward to the
upbuilding of Portland rather than the
drag of the last few years that Port
land has suffered. The result of this
election is not altogether watched lo
cally. -There are people outside of
Portland who have interests In your
city that have been most anxious re
garding the outcome of same.
It seems whenever some bheap poli
tician wants to attain office he tries
to ride in by some propaganda, notably
against public service corporations;
once it Is for 3-centfare and another
time for a municipal lighting plant,
etc. It seems "you can fool some of
the people all the time and all the peo
ple some of the time, but you cannot
fool all the people all the time," and
this your election showed.
I again thank you and congratulate
the people of Portland.
M. S. KOHLER.
Real Estate, 1610 Inter-Southern Bldg.
In Otherays.
Half a Cem Asst.
From The Oregonlan June 12. 1MT.
Omaha Three an die-fourth miles
of track were laid rthe .Union Pa- ,
clflc Railroad on the h. and the feat
is unparalleled In thiistory of rail
road building.
Paris All powers Mnsr diplomatic
relations with Austriixcept America,
will be represented aho coronation
of the Emperor Framjoseph tomor
row. An amnesty w be proclalir ;d
to all Austrian subje charged with
political offenses.
An Indian, says theiumbta Press,
has announced his witness to sh- w
where gold can be fou in abundance
in the Blue Mountains.0ut 150 miles
from Umatilla. His rorts are fab
ulous and the rock he duced is said
to be very rich. Wherle obtained it
Is not so certain. (
Walla Walla Mr. Chs Russell, of
the Pioneer Mill, in ims us that
within the rst week. , has shipped
1000 barrels of flour to in Francisco.
Chicago Sherman h withdrawal
his troops to he soutlside of the
Platte, between Forts iagwlck and
McPherson. 7ha stages have been
withdrawn fron that se.lon. Sher
man will probahly abandi the expe
dition to the hetrt of thendlan coun
try and concentmte the tiops to pro
tect the Etasres irtd rallrols, deeming
that the more imjortant. ,
Twcnry-ft Years karo.
From The Oregon,, f jun 12 1S9C.
Berlin The meting bcween the
Czar and Emperor Ynilam i the lead
ing topic of convrsatlon here this
week. Comments e the lewspapers)
show It is felt therets nttl room for
congratulation over ne resilt of the '
meeting, since It had e app.arance of
the Emperor running fter te Ciar.
Washington The veland forces
are packing their prlps;.k8 for a move
on Chicago. The frequtt conferences
between Hill and Gorma, have given
rise to the suspicion tha Hill is pre
paring to make the sli Maryland
boss the residuary legateecf the New
York vote In the conventloi
Cincinnati Harrison's omlnatlon
was celebrated here tonight lr the Lin
coln Club with fireworks, speches and
a brass band. Arrangemns were
made to meet the Blaim. Csji on Its
return from Minneapolis tomorrow.
Colonel Mitchell, of the etlosltlon,
was made happy yesterday bi We re
ceipt or a letter from Direct Sousa,
of the Washington Marine Barll, com
plimenting htm upon his selecon cf
the American band, of Providence, R.
I., for the exposition.
The high water is a great blessnar
for the East Side. It covers the low
lands and flows under the roadway,,
where there Is an accumulation oV
refuse of Averv klnri. and carries m rtnt
of the stuff away. It would be almost
impossible to live and do business on
Union avenue but for this periodical
overflow.
Hfndenburg's Mighty Pen.
By Jimfi Barton Adams.
When Haig assaults the boches' lines
with his resistless might mows down
a host of kaisermen and puts the rest
to flight, repulses the return attacks
and holds his captured ground, while
cheers of his brave warriors through
smoke-charged air resounds. Von Hin
denburg with firm set Jaws gTabs up
the waiting pen and tells the people
God has brought him victory again,
and all the German masses shout and
toss their hats on high, believing he's
Infallible and cannot tell a lie. The
not be gainsaid, cn many a sanguinary
field herolo hands they've played, and
stubbornly they yield the ground. In
Hlndenburg confide believing that, he
yet will stem the fierce onrolling tide,
and as they battle and fall back their
chief in written words tells how they
made a ghastly wreck of French and
English hordes, and all save German
people will agree with one accord the
pen in hand of Hlndenburg is mightier
than the sword.
WHY GERMANY' IS YET UNBEATEN.
Summary of Reasons for Empire's
Great Frowns.
F. W. Wile in London Dally Mall.
1. All the men, women and children
in the Empire regard themselves as be
ing at war and are conducting them
selves accordingly.
2. The Empire has a Government
which governs with no other consider
ation whatever than that of waging
and winning the war.
3. The Government leaves absolute
ly nothing to chance, anticipating con
tingencies and not temporizing with
them after they have arisen. ,
4. The nation's food suddIt. thouarh
disastrously low, has been organized
since November, 1914, on a basis which
makes "starvation" impossible.
5. Failures in public office mili
tary, naval and civil are ruthlessly
relegated, no matter how high-sounding
a name or brilliant a reputation re
quires to be sacrificed.
6. The industrial classes realizing
that their own existence as well as
that of Germany is at stake, are work
ing tooth and nail in the national
cause.
7. Strikes tre mercilessly dealt with
and broken ,'fore they have had time
n -1. 1 .1 Kv rutfnc vnnlH.hA stllrnra
and their leaders as common enemies
of the state
8. Despite their failings and dis
agreeable qualities as a nation, the
German people are thrifty, frugal,
highly patriotic, and endlessly willing
to sacrifice for the Fatherland.
9. The German armies, after 84
months of fighting, are still in occupa
tion, with minor exceptions, of the vast
territories which their superior prepar
edness enabled them to conquer and
hold.
10. The German fleet Is still Intact,
numerically more powerful than ever,
capable of risking daring sorties Into
mined British waters, and Is sinking
hundreds of thousands of tons of allied
and neutral shipping per month.
11. German man-power, which rests
on a pre-war population of roundly 70.
000,000. is no nearer "exhaustion" than
the man-power of the United Kingdom
with a pre-war population of 46,000,
ooo. .
12. German statesmanrhlp. eschew
ing "war measures" like the stoppage
of racing to save oats, doals with buinv
lng necessities like rat'onlng of bread
stuffs. The perman Government wlU
not shrink from rationing the air mail
breathe if tt will promote the winnins;
of the war. And It will not wait until
the nation has no more breath left be
fore issuing breath-cards.
Money In ClrcnlnUon.
RAINIER. Or June 11. (To the Btf
itor.) What is the amount of Kjgney
in circulation in the United States of
America and what is the amount of
banking capital. C G. THATSsR.
(1) In 1916 the total of money In
circulation in the United States, in
cluding currency, was $i.018,04$,555.
(2) The capital of National banks was
$1,067,481,000. The capital stock paid In
of reporting state, savings, private
banks and loan and trust companies
was $1,159,052,115.