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1 . THE MOnXIXG OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1917. PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland (Oregon), Fostofflce as second-class mail matter. Subscription rates Invariably In advance: (By Mall.) Daily, Sunday included, one year .......$8.00 Daily, Sunday included, six months ..... 4.25 Daily, Sunday included, three months 2.25 Daily, Sunday Included, one month 75 Daily, without Sunday, one year ........ 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, three month ... 1.75 Daily, without Sunday, one month 60 Weekly, one year 1.5' Sunday, one year ...................... 2.50 Sunday and weekly .................... 3.50 (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year 9.O0 Dally, Sunday Included, one month ..... .75 Daily, without Sunday, one year ........ 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, three months ... 1.75 Daily, without Sunday, one month ...... .60 Weekly, one year 2.50 Sunday, one year 2.50 Sunday and weekly S.50 How to Remit Send postoffice money or der, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Oive postofflce address In full, including county and state. Pofttaxe Rates 12 to 16 pases. 1 cent; 18 to 32 pages. 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 3 cents; 50 to 60 pages, 4 cents; 62 to 76 pages, 5 cents; 78 to 82 pages, 6 cents. Foreign post age double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree & Conklln, Brunswick building, Nenr York; Verree & Conklln. Steger building. Chicago; San Fran cisco representative, R. J. Bldwell, 742 Mar ket street. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1917. mind. Tell, William the Silent, Hamp den, Washington, Grant were in the same class with Alexander, Attila, Genghiz Khan, Napoleon and Suvar rov. As we view ravished Belgium, nationalism is once more sacred in our eyes, while to us internationalism signifies a Prussianized world. This war has not destroyed our ideals of liberty and justice, but it has made them more precious by com pelling us to fight for them, and it has opened our eyes to realities to which many of us were formerly blind. Our hatred of war is no less, but we know it now as a fiery trial by which a nation must prove its worthiness to live and its right to be free. We have restored to their pedestals the martial champions of liberty and are prepared to add to their number our leaders in the pres ent conflict. Our devotion to peace is greater because we are learning at what cost a peace worthy of the name must be won. We now see the whole picture. BELGIUM. The history of the world in the past three years would have been vastly different except for Belgium. The otory of the deeds of the valiant Bel gians, written in blood and sacrifice and suffering and death, will live for ever. Its valiant and unconquerable spirit has been, and ever will be, a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night for all freedom-loving peoples everywhere. The Belgians lost their lands, their homes, their men, their women, but they saved their souls. What shall it profit a man or a nation if it gain the whole world and lose its soul? Who would have had Belgium meet the invader at the border, three years ago, and bend the neck in token of submission? What then would have been said of Belgium? What would Belgium have thought of itself? What would Belgium have had if it had bought its present safety by opening its g-ates and inviting the conqueror to take what he wanted and to do what he pleased provided he would pay afterward in gold, as he said he would? Belgium could not stain its hands with dirty gold, the price of its betrayal of its friends, the lo'ss of its self-respect, the downfall of the very edifice of civilization. It had a duty to perform, a duty tog itself and free nations everywhere, and Belgium did not fail. It faced with calm cour age the overwhelming strength of marching Prussianism, on its way to conquer and destroy. It lost a battle, but it served mankind. There is no greater" glory. Belgium sought and seeks no mar tyr's crown. But it has thought that there were worse things than the loss of fortune, or even of life, and among them were to play the coward's role, to violate one's word to his neighbors. to forfeit the approval of one's own conscience, to be spared to an igno minious existence because a Kaiser had deigned not to slay. Belgians preferred to walk the earth in the pure air of freedom as free men and free women rather than to pollute their lungs by breathing the conquer or's air. Belgium has sacrificed and suffered not in vain, for the impartial voice of justice will render the world's ver diet for it and not for kultur and f rightfulness. The decision is delayed but it is certain; and the triumph of Belgium will be acclaimed as the final victory of right over might. Hail Belgium! Hail to the men who are here In Oregon to tes tify to the fact that Belgium still lives through its heroic sons and daughters. Portland and Ore gon welcome them and will fra ternize with them today. Tomorrow they will go on, but Belgium will not be forgotten here or wherever truth, duty and justice still survive. THE PIONEERS. Next week the members of the Ore gon Association of Pioneers will be with us. The date is later than cus tomary, but has been set to meet con ditions of a late season. The) wel come will be a big bit warmer than the weather. The usual programme will be fol lowed. George H. Himes is attending to that; he does it every year. In one respect, however, there will be change. A while ago somebody made an unauthorized statement that the big feature of the meeting, the an nual banquet, would be omitted. No banquet, forsooth! He may have sup posed the women who have done the work of preparation for years were too busy with warbags and other stuff for the soldiers. Perhaps they are, but that counts for little. The Home Industry League has taken upon Itself the pleasurable task of providing this feature. It is called a banquet to be high sounding, but every man and woman who made the big talk knows it is the dinner of the year. They may not admit it. but all of them know of its strong pulling power. Where else does the boiled ham have the flavor and when does a salad taste as good? And in the height of the discussion of the choicest edibles this big city can pro vide, where else can be found the amusement in seeing Thurston Geer and Honorable "Bill" Galloway in rival endeavor to eat the more Where else can it be shown that Julius Caesar Moreland still has the capacity of his hungry youth, or where else does George Himes show the partiality for the breast of chicken that he learned sixty years ago on the trail between here and Olympia? The pioneers will be welcome next week. They were here before there was thought of war, liberty bonds, Red Cross or the schoolma'ams. They will get the best we have, for it is their right. If it had not been for them, we would not be here, and that is everything. perform with energy, we must keep ' ourselves efficient. There has never been a year in our history when so many people have put much energy into their work as Americans have done since last Sum mer. We were in a state of prepara tion for war before war was actually declared. Our industries have been working at high speed. Everyone has been employed. The strain has been tremendous, whether we realize it or not. And the coming year promises to be even more exhausting and ex acting. Better a vacation now than breaking down of National efficiency when the critical period comes. The Government's invitation to visit its great playgrounds ought not to need to be repeated. But here in the Northwest we need no formal call, and no especial designation of time or place. Our Summers are always de lightful and there are woods and mountains and seashore on every hand. Change is the essence of men tal and physical rest. Those in the mountains will seek the lower lev els and those in the valleys will climb to the higher altitudes, and both will be equally benefited. It is chiefly a matter of obtaining a new climate, a new point of view, and new associa tions, and of. leaving care behind. Vacations as usual" is sensible ad vice, any way one looks at it. TWENTY-FIVE i EARS' SCHOOL GROWTH It is worthy of remark that Port land's material and educational growth to the point where the city is of suf ficient importance to entertain a great National convention of educators has been accomplished in but a few years. A great contrast is found between the Portland schools of today and those of twenty-five years ago. Then the enrollment was about 9000; today it is 36,470. Then Portland had twenty school buildings, only one of which was a high school; today it has seventy-two school buildings, eight of which are high schools. While much of this increase may be accounted for in the growth of population, there still are elements which indicate more than a proportionate increase of in terest in educational betterment. Whereas school enrollment has in- reased in the period fourfold, the number of teachers has increased al most sevenfold, or from 182 in 1892 to nearly 1200 in 1917. School buildings are much finer and equipment is much more elaborate. Interest in the schools is alert and keen. For examples, the enrollment in Portland high schools 20.5 per cent is the largest in any city of more than 100,000 people; the night school enrollment 64 30 is among the largest in the country, and Port land has the largest parent-teacher organization in the United States. Portland schools have twice been surveyed and given a certificate of health. The city is proud of the edu cational advantages offered its youth. BOTH SIDES OP THE PICTURE. Most significant is the outbreak of criticism of the public schools for having put to sleep the very patriotic spirit which they now are foremost in the effort to arouse. The dominant sentiment at the convention of the National Education Association is service to the Nation in war, and ex altation of those who are ready to sacrifice life in that service. While it is in session, we are reminded that in former years it had urged that teachers "inculcate sentiments of peace and principles of justice," had demanded limitation of armaments, had opposed compulsory military training, and had declared that there had been "too much talk of National honor and rallying to the defense "of the flag" and had slighted the Na tion's military heroes in school his tories. All good citizens, teachers foremost among them, now recognize that we must fight to maintain the principles of justice, that this is what is meant by preserving the National honor and rallying to the defense of the flag, and that peace without justice is not worth having and is in the end il lusory. Educators no longer deplore that "Nationalism has been pushed to the front and emphasized rather than internationalism" or that "the heroes of each nation's history have been those who have done the greatest in jury to other nations." We now fight for the principle of nationality and with pride we review the roll of our National heroes. The error of the past came from recognition of only half the truth, but it was not peculiar to the teachers. It was expressed by many writers and speakers. It was in the minds of all except the well informed and far seeing. The mind of the general pub lic and the mind of the educator acted and reacted upon one another. The delusion was produced by a long peace. Watching other na- j tions' wars across the barrier of our broad oceans, we fondly im agined that war could not reach us and we assumed an air of self-righteous superiority, thanking God that we were not as other nations were, even as these Russians, Japanese, Brit ons and Boers. Enjoying blessings for which this generation had not fought, we esteemed them lightly and belit tled the noble men of the past by whose sacrifice they were won. We saw only one side of the picture, and failed to see, in our indiscriminate condemnation of war, that by war our liberty had been won and the Union preserved, and that by being armed and vigilant before an ever-present danger France preserved her liberty. In horror of bloodshed, the gentle pacifist failed to discriminate between the military tyrant and the man who shed his blood in defense of life, lib erty, and. the honor of family. To his THE OTHER SIDE. Multnomah County can afford to be a little more magnanimous and a lit tie less technical regarding division of interstate bridge profits than two of its Commissioners advocate. Besides, there is room for argument in behalf of the Clarke County contention. That county paid two-fifths of the cost of the main bridge but only two- sevenths when the cost of the Oregon approaches i3 included. Clarke Coun ty asks for two-fifths of the income Multnomah County Commissioners in sist that Clarke is entitled to but two- sevenths. The income Is derived from tolls. Tolls are charged only for use of the main bridge. One may now travel over the entire Oregon approach with out paying a cent. True, the practical benefits of the bridge have been en hanced by construction of the Oregon approach, yet it was possible to do without it by utilizing the old ferry approach. The income is not greatly enhanced by the Oregon approach be cause few now go to Vancouver unless they have to, and that is solely be cause of the tolls. The traffic would be increased probably tenfold if the bridge were free. A large share of the bridge income comes from the charge made the streetcar company. The streetcars use only the main bridge. At least. regarding streetcar tolls, it is hardly fair that Multnomah County should exact a percentage of them on ac count of the cost of an approach not used at all by the company. Clarke County is much smaller in wealth than Multnomah. The differ ence between two-fifths and two-sev enths of the bridge income mean much more to it than it does to us Let us live in peace and good will with our neighbors. Let us try to get their point of view as to any questio which concerns us both, even if it does cost us a few dollars. VACATION AS USUAL. There is wisdom In the counsel given officially by the Department of the Interior, to Americans not to fore go their vacations this year In the mistaken notion that by doing so they will be able to throw additional energy into the war for liberty. The National crisis, as a matter of fact, calls for the creation and conservation of en ergy, not for its destruction. We gain nothing in the end by exhausting our selves, physically or mentally, in ad vance of the time of greater strain The war has only just begun, and we must keep ourselves fit. Secretary Lane takes advantage the opportunity to call attention to the fact that the many National park afford many advantages for recreation and health-building. Recreation indeed, re-creation, and this is pecu liarly true when it is sought out of doors. Much of our vitality as a peo pie we owe to our habits in the pa of seeking open-air diversion. The popularity of baseball as a pastime is a minor but typical manifestation of our appreciation of the restorative value of life outside the walls of our houses. No people are so committed to hunting and fishing and boating and automobiling. We come by the instinct naturally. Our ancestors were explorers and adventurers and pio neers. The balsams of the forest and the nerve-toning lullabies of seashore and lakeside have done much to make us the vigorous people we are today. It is well established that the begin ning of Summer, as Secretary Lane points out, finds workers everywhere at a comparatively low stage of effi ciency. Winter with its short days and its overheated houses has ex hausted a considerable measure of our vitality. Mental and physical weari ness go together. The sound mind requires a sound body, and vice versa. To plan Intelligently, fea well as to he census bureau will mean that fewer Portland young men will b" drafted for military service. Except for operations far behind the lines, and for the preparation of positions against the eventuality of retreat, which is not just now an important part of the strategy of the allies, the splendid and effect ive trench-digging machinery which American manufacturers are capable of producing is useless, and that is why we are reading nowadays of the "trench stage" of instruction at the various Army training camps. The work of "digging in" and strengthen ing the hasty fortifications thus con structed, although usually done by hand, is so often necessary under fire that every short cut becomes impor tant, and so the use of pick and shovel and sand bag has developed Into a science, knowledge of which is as es sential as ability to shoot straight. This is one instance in which no ob jection is raised by anyone to the study of efficiency, and the training would be worth while, war or no war. if it helped to extend the efficiency spirit throughout the country. Gleams Through the Mist, Br Dean Collins. The bow-legged man has a year of grace. Kilts will not De worn in America in 1918. Sartorial endeavor will be confined to bringing out the beauty of the male form. By that time there will be a surfeit of visible attractions of the other sex, if revela tions increase at present-day ratio, and something different must be shown to jaded eyes. If it is in the male form, however, it will be a wonder. ACOUSTICS HAVE LIMITATIONS New Tork has a fire engine which threw a stream of water with sixty seven pounds pressure to the fifty eighth floor of the Woolworth build ing, 79 6 feet above the ground. Chief Kenlon says: "We could have gone 300 feet higher with the same hose and I believe with another hose we can pump a stream 1200 feet high." New York may yet succeed in putting out a fire in an airship above the clouds. Many thousand men will be needed to dig trenches for sewers, water pipes and military practice at the new Army camps. Why not draft the I. W. W., the anti-American Socialist party and the conscientious objectors and make them do the job under guard of soldiers with loaded guns? That would be a fine opportunity to make them acquainted with real work. Suspicions of secret service men have been aroused by the fact that certain persons travel on trip after trip of the steamers between New York and Scandinavian ports, and they are believed to carry information about American military movements to German agents, not by letter, but in their heads. Why not shadow them to their destinations? WILD MATHEMATICIANS. The busy guessers in the census bu reau go from one extreme to the other. In the preregistration period they attempted to estimate how many men from 21 to 31 years of age were in each community. They ap plied the ratio of population increase during the decade from 1900 to 1910 to the subsequent seven years. That decade was a period of great popula tion growth in the Northwest. Every one in this district knew that the ncrease had not been maintained. Consequently registration fell far be low estimates in Oregon and Wash ington. An injustice was worked upon the Northwest because ill-advised persons elsewhere assumed that the Northwest was burdened with slackers. Investigations by the mili tary officials and district attorneys. however, revealed that slacking was almost negligible. Registration was practically 100 per cent of the men of military age. Now the census bureau guesses that instead of a great increase in popula tion there has been a falling off in every large city in the Northwest, except Seattle. The preposterous estimate is made that 16,000 persons have left Spokane since 1910 and that 13,000 have left Tacoma. Spokane in 1910, If the bureau's actual count was ac curate, had a population of 104,400, and Tacoma had a population of 83,000. A loss of 13,000 to 16,000 in a city of the size of Spokane or Ta coma would cause it to look like a deserted village. Neither one has that appearance. The census bureau Is a little kinder to Portland. Our loss is placed at about 3000. Yet there is every ex ternal evidence that 1 the city has grown in population. Postal receipts, school attendance, number of names in the city directory, number of pa trons of the various public utilities are all greater than ever before. In none of the three cities named is the population of a fluctuating char acter as a whole. Portland and Spo kane, in the past, have been marts for the recruiting of trailroad con struction labor. Railroad laborers are more or less transient, and railroad construction in the Northwest has fallen off. All the cities have lost. too, a comparatively small number of persons directly dependent upon the sale and manufacture of intoxicants. But investigation has shown, as to Portland, that while the cheap lodging-house districts are not so popu lous as formerly, there has been a large increase in population in the residence districts. Growth of ship building has undoubtedly attracted as many additional workmen to the city as the city lost in railroad la borers. No information is given as to the basis for the census bureau's latest population estimates. Possibly that basis is the military registration. If so it is well to recall that population conitucnts are not the same in all cities. Published census reports do no disclose the number of men from 21 to 31 in the Northwest cities in 1910, but they do disclose the number of men from 20 to 34. Their per centage of the whole population in Se attle in 1910 was about 22; in Port land about 21; in Spokane about 19; in Tacoma less than 19. We shall not now speculate on why the number of young men should be greater in Seattle than In any other Northwest city. But that was the con dition in 1910 in cold figures of the census enumeration. While the dif ference between Seattle and Portland is only 1 per cent, 1 per cent of Se attle's population is more than 2300 and of Portland's population about 2000. A difference of 2000 in ruili tary registration, when turned into a population ratio, accounts for 20,000 inhabitants. But while misrepresented as to population from the everyday busi ness point of view, Portland can per haps find a grain of comfort in the fact that the wild underestimate of The explosion at Mare Island may have been accidental and may not. It would best be treated as done pur posely and all the force of Govern ment be employed to run down the perpetrator. This is not the time to consider everybody innocent until proven guilty. Chairman Denman, of the Shipping Board, compresses a great truth into small compass when he says that "we need wooden ships of both slow and fast speeds." We need ships of every kind and the material of which they are made is a wholly secondary consideration. Everybody cannot today meet the members of the Belgian commission and tell them how he feels, but each distinguished visitor is assured that everybody is with him and his cause, spiritually, physically and financially. The iron cros3 is promised, after the war, to all German prisoners who can prove that they did not sur render voluntarily. It is horrible to contemplate what may happen to those who cannot furnish such proof, Herr Ballin said the submarines would starve England by July 1, but there are still some million people alive in the hated country. Has Herr Ballin changed the date without no tifying the world? ballade: op representation. (Ella Flagg Young made a remark in her speech Saturday that suggested the following pome, so we have dedicated it to her and we guess she will have to stand it.) Unto the N. E. A Convention bid The educators' troop, and lo, 1 Bee Them everywhere my glances chance to skid Teachers from New Orleans to Kan kakee, Detroit or Denver, maybe Tuskegee Some have reports of which they would be rid; And yet, and yet, this thought occurs to me Where are the ones who represent THE KID? School supervisors; principals amid State normal representatives there be; Grade teachers; college profs with sol emn lid; Principals two; librarians two or - three; And city superintendents, . running free; Brick upon brick in that vast pyramid, The great School System; yet, point out to me Where are the ones who represent THE KID? All of the things that educators did Since antic man first clambered down the tree. They will dissect and place upon the grid; i System and method, plan and policy, They will consider with scholastic glee. And myriad hobbles new will be bestrid. But through all this, one thought oc curs to me Where are the ones who represent THE KID? L' ENVOI. From education's ev'ry branch I see The delegates to this convention bid. Save only one. This thought occurs to me Where are the ones who represent THE KID. "Sir," said the Courteous Office Boy, sweeping in on a blast of righteous in dignation, and dragging the Junior As sistant Office Boy by the collar. "Yes, my son," I encouraged gently. What is it?" "Joab here has uncorked another of those imaglst pomes," snarled the C. O. B., shoving the J. A O. B. and his manuscript to the front. And this is what the J. A. O. B. had on his manuscript: OPUS 2. THE RED SCHOOLHOUSE. Symbolic little Red Schoolhouses Stand on the corners Greeting the N. E. A. delegates. They have bells in their belfries Which is not what I feel That some of the delegates. Though, 'of course, only a few, Have in theirs And the bells are silent. And the little Schoolhouses are red, Red clean up to the eaves. Why is this thus? Efficiency Has put the little Red Schoolhouse methods Far in the background: It now has about the same relation To modern school systems. That a popgun has To the latest model In Krupp kultur. Its bell is silent. Because it now requires hundreds Of electric buzzers. And annunciators And gongs Etcetera To make vocal the efficiency of edu cation. Beat Results Had In Auditorium If Speaker Stands in Stage Center. PORTLAND, July 9. To the Edi tor.) I have closely followed the erec tion of the Auditorium and was an in terested member of the great audi ence that filled it on July 4. It may not be out of Dlace to call public attention at the very outset of its use, in the interests of the best pos sible results, to the matter of the acoustics of the Auditorium illustrated by that performance. This is done in no other spirit than to see the best results attained. Without doubt the matter of acous tics was given as careful consideration by the architects who planned the building as was given to any other feature of its construction and with such splendid results that there is without doubt a theoretical point some where on or over the speaker's plat form where a pin dropped in any part of the great auditorium could be plain ly heard to strike the floor. At any rate there is without question a proper place for a speaker or singer to stand if it is desirable for everyone in the In Other Days. Half a Century Afo. Prom The Oregonian of July 10, 1867. Washington The Austrian Minister telegraphed to know if Maximilian's execution was confirmed. An affirma tive reply was sent. Toronto The government, having learned that the Fenians intended mls chief on July 4, stationed gunboats at different expected points on the fron tier. New Orleans Santa Ana was shot on the morning of the 25th of June. The Wide-Awakes play baseball this afternoon at half past 5 o'clock sharp. His Honor, Judge Shattuck. intimated that, owing to hit relation to the par ties in the matter of the petition of William Brown, colored, for a writ of mandamus, directed to the School Di rectors of School District No. 1, to show cause why the children of said Brown should not be received intc the audience to hear distinctly, and that school, that he would transfer the case place Is on or very near to a medium line drawn down the central aisle and extended across the stage; any other position will not, in a scientifically constructed building of this size, give satisfactory results in the very nature of the case. It must be borne In mind that this is a concrete building and there is nothing in the building itself to assist in reinforcing or carrying sound; that it is not a small church or hall audi torium; that it is not possible to build such a building to accommodate small town performers or speakers of the Billy Sunday type who run back and forth on the stage. It should be borne in mind that the center of the stage" is the only place for auditorium speakers or singers. and all bands, orchestras and choruses must be grouped as was the band on the Fourth, every note and tone of very instrument of which was heard distinctly in every part of the Audi torium and their combined harmony was most pleasing. vhen Mayor Baker asked In his or- inary voice, "How are the acoustics? nd was answered from all quarters, Fine," he stood exactly in the center f the stage, where also stood Hans Pederson, the builder; Bishop Sumner nd Mn. Riley, all of whom were heard with great clearness away up in the pper gallery on the south side, where t. But the male quartet and Maa- ame Valair and Prime Minister Vin cent, the announcer, all of whom stood on one side near the piano or some 20 feet to one side of- the center line, were unable to reach us with more than the general effect of their music or voices and no words could be distinguished. It should be distinctly understood- at the outset that side work will not get best results in such a building. All of which may be easily demonstrated if doubted. doubted. O. G. HUGHSON, Manager Builders Exchange. Brzezany, near which place the Russians dealt the first blow to the Germans in their new offensive, is not an easy name to pronounce, but it must have sounded like buzz-saw to the Germans. Dr. Van Hise advises to consume less sugar and eat more beets and carrots, which, he says, contain a lot of the saccharine substance. A good way is to try them on the small boys of the family. Plant peas for a succession, but soak the seed a day and firm the ground in the row. Peas and potatoes are great fillers any time. Pershing hardly needed to advise his men to show courtesy to French men. "Sammy" is not a Prussian. Charley Chaplin will get a million dollars for eight pictures; yet boys are ambitious to go to college. ' Air raids on London show what might happen to New York if the distance was not great. Portland ought to have a Hazen J. Titus for its elaborate functions, but. alas! he's not a twin. A food embargo will make the neu trals yell, but not because they are hungry. These visiting school ma'ams are not all brains. Many are really hand some.' One of the horrors of war is that bromide about its being a "grim real ity." America will revel in hog and hom iny with a 3,000,000,000-bushel corn crop. Speed up the marriages. Only two weeks more for the war brides. In breaking up I. W. W. meetings, they do not break enough. Visitors are assured this is the real Oregon Summer weather. Buy your bread and pastry early or you may go without. - Time and place 3 P. M., Twenty- fourth and Vaughn, The little Red Schoolhouse Has become a brother to the dodo. And the archeopteryx. And the megatherium, And all those other lovely animals That used to be all right, in their class; But hadn't the speed To keep up with evolution. Maybe the realization of all this. As it stands with silent bell Upon the street corner And sees Education witha capital E Seething all around it. Most efficient And highly differentiated And intricately organized Maybe this is why the Little School- house Is red clear up to Its eaves. Joab, the J. A O. B., explains to me that it Is not, as the C. O. B. believes, an imaglst pome. You can understand partly what It is about, though not all. said th J. A. O. B., "and according to my corre- spondence course In pome writing, that makes it merely futurist and not im aglst." So I have decided to let the J. A. O. B. off this time. THE DASH FOR. THE LAST ANALYSIS, PRESENT CRISIS, July 9. (Special to th Colyum.) While other expedl tions to the LAST ANALYSIS are still organizing, an Intrepid party of edu cators started from this point yester day, in a gallant dash for that mysterl ous territory about which we hear so much and about which we know so little. The purpose of the expedition of ed ucators Is to ascertain the most effect ive methods of education in the LAST ANALYSIS. As Peary did in his dashes for the pole, they have made expeditions al most annually, with unflagging zeal, and each year seems to bring them nearer their goal. Whether their dash this year will bring them to the LAST ANALYSIS or not, remains to be seen. The expedition Is headed by Robert Aley. and is traveling on various TRAINS OF THOUjHT along certain profound LINES OF INVESTIGATION. They belong to a permanent organ ization, just like the Mazamas, only the aim of the N. E. A., which Is the name of their organization, is slightly dif ferent from that of the Mazamas. The other expeditionary parties that are forming to make the dash by other means are far from sanguine over the prospects of the N. E. A expedition. It is predicted that, while they may .get pretty close to the LAST ANALYSIS, any may even secure some specimens of education in the LAST ANALYSIS, it is doubtful if they will be able. to get their specimens home in a sufficiently good state of preservation to be of any immediate practical use In the PRES ENT CRISIS. to Judge Boise'-s district. Judge Shat tuck is, we believe. School Director. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oregonian of July 10, 1892. The People's party followers of this city held a ratification meeting in Turner Hall last night. Portland had a fire yesterday after noon that entailed a loss of about $17, 000. The two-story frame building at the corner of Sixth and Davis streets, owned by John Catlin and George Gray, was about half destroyed. J. H. Ackerman, the new County School Superintendent, will hold his first teachers' institute in Portland, commencing on the 5th of September. New Westminster, B. C. The news from Victoria last night concerning the smallpox epidemic caused a profound sensation here and the health authori ties lost no time in taking precau tions to prevent the spread of the dis ease to Westminster. Denver The various labor organiza tions of this city have held meetings at which resolutions were adopted se verely denouncing the part taken In the Homestead tragedy by the Pinker-tons. MONEY SAVED IN HOME BAKING Bread, Cakes and Muffins Cost More Tien 50 Per cent Less, Says Writer. LONG BEACH, Wash.. July 7. (To the Editor.) Since coming to Long Beach, Wash., I have been doing all of my own baking and have kept track of exactly what one 49-pound sack of Crown flour will make. Thinking it might be of Interest to some of your readers at this time, when the main password is economy, I send the list. Of course we picked up our wood on the beach, so the fuel cost was notn ing. This is what it would have cost f bought ready-made: 65 loaves of bread at 100 per loaf. $5.50 126 biscuits at 10c per dozen 1.05 6 cakes at 3.1c per cake 2.10 SO muffins at 15c per dozen 37 46 corn meal muffins at 15c per dozen C-y cups of wheat flour) 4- Total $9.47 This Is what the same articles actual ly cost: Flour. 49 pounds ..... ....... .$2.35 Sugar for bread and cake 50 wesson oil (used Instead of lard or butter). 1 can 3 Yeast 1 -alt o. Eggs for cake 20 Total $3.5S In town It might cost 50c for gas..... .50 Grand total $4.08 Amount average woman would spend In buying above $0.47 By making It herself 4.08 Bavins; $5.39 When you consider how much better everything is for the family, the expe rience is worth while. Don't you think so? E. S. ROUTLEDGE. Opening of Land Grant. i PORTLAND, July 9. (To the Edi tor.) In understand the Government has taken over some of the Southern Pacific Railroad lands and will throw same open to the public for settlement- Please tell me where this land Is and when it will be open to settlement. Also the price of land. R. R. KIMBRO. There are about 2,400,000 acres scat tered throughout Western Oregon and some sections in Klamath County east of the Cascades. The Government is now classifying the lands. The agricul tural lands will be sold to actual set tiers at $2.50 an acre on terms. Date of opening for settlement has not been announced. WAR SLOGAN INVENTORS BUSY Short Expressions of America's Alms In) War Are Suggested. CANBY, Or.. July 8. (To the Editor.l I was much interested in your augm gestion editorially, "Wanted A Waff Slogan." I had hoped there might hav been by this time a good many suggest tions. Having seen but one, I am moved to make at least one suggestion, which, by the way, is not to myself satisfactory. I find, as you suggest, that the pres ent world war, is so unique a thing and America's part in it so singularly unique, that It becomes difficult to find a term of a few words sufficiently expressive and at the same time prop erly captivating. However, if no one begins the work It will never be done, so as an incen tive to better effort I humbly suggest: Americas war goal the freedom and friendship of the world." A. J. JOSLYN. M'MINNVTLLE, Or.. July 8. (To the Editor.) I've just finished reading one of your editorials, "Spirit of the War tologan," and It seems to me that "Swat the Kaiser" would fill the bill. We are not in this war to kill the German people, although no doubt some of them will be killed and are being killed: we are in the war to do away with Kaiserism, which is Prussianism. Therefore we must and will swat the KaiBer. Why not use it for a war slo gan? . J. A. TRUELOVE. PORTLAND. July 9. (To the Edi tor.) Here is a suggested war slogan: Lop off the "mailed fist" 'Way up, above the wrist. Or, if we must to win. Just 'neath the Prussian chin. RUSSELL SHAVER. ALBANY, Or., July 8. (To the Edi tor.) Inclosed find two slogans. Per haps they will appeal to you. W. C. T. We are in this war to down the Kaiser; When we get through, he'll be the wiser. " "We are In this war to knock out autocracy. And in its stead establish true democracy." OAKLAND, Or.. July 9. (To the Edi tor.) 1 make the following sugges tions as war slogans: "Death to Kaiserism." "Kill Kaiserism to free democracy." "Kaiserism must die that democracy may live." "Kaiserism , destroys home and mother." T. B. DAVIS. MILWAUKEE. Or., July 9. (To the Editor.) "Freedom for all, forever." That's a slogan big enough for the job. If not, wh; not? R. M. PHILLIPS. Sprlnsr 'Water and Lung- Trouhle. PORTLAND. Or.. July 9. (To the Editor.) Several years ago I read In The Oregonian about a spring near White Salmon, Wash., whose values are very beneficial for the treatment of lung trouble. I have been unable to find out at the present time any more concerning the spring. Any in formation that you could give ' me about the name of the spring or the parties who own it will be greatly appreciated. OLD SUBSCRIBER. We are unable to identify the article or the spring. It is Inconceivable that mineral water alone could be beneficial to lung trouble, although one might find at a spring resort a regimen of outdoor life and proper diet that would be helpful. Postal Employes and Draft. PORTLAND, July 9. (To the Edi tor.) Are postal employes exempt from draft? . T. W. B. The law provides that men engaged in transmission of mails may be ex cused or discharged from draft by the President. While this is not an auto matic exemption, such as applies to other classes, announcements from Washington imply that they will not be taken for military service. NO BAND AT LITTLE BIG HORN Soldier Who Helped Collect Cnster'a Dead Saw No Musicians. VANCOUVER, Wash., July 8. (To the Editor.) I noticed an article on the editorial page a few days ago about A betting B that the Seventh Cavalry Band played "Garry Owen" at the Cus ter fight on the Little Big Horn June 25, 1876. I can tell A that there was no band In that fight. I belonged to the Mon tana Battalion of the Second Cavalry under Colonel John Gibbons, Seventy ninth Infantry. We were the first to see the battlefield. On June 27 I count ed the dead men and horses under the direction of Lieutenant Johnson, aide-de-camp for General Terry. The next morning we were about to bury the dead when wewere sent to get Major Reno's command out and bring his wounded to the steamer Far West. I saw ejery dead man on Custer's battlefield, but no bandsmen. There were only ten troops of the Seventy ninth on that trip. . Two troops (were left helping, as also was the band, at Fort Abraham Lincoln. At the time of the fight five troops were with Lieutenant-Colonel Custer and five with Major Reno's Seventh Cavalry. I was glad when you said that there was no record of the band being in the fight, although somebody's "his tory" says there was. It was In the Black Kettle fight on the Washita River, I. T., where the band played "Garry Owen. JOSEPH DAVIS, Late of the Second U. S. Cavalry. He Is Not. PORTLAND, July 9. (To the Edi tor.) Kindly let me know whether a German who has taken out his first papers only is subject to draft? E. H. Yes. PORTLAND. July 9. (To the Edi tor.) Is a man, born jn the United States of foreign rarents who have not been naturalized, a citizen of the United States? SUBSCRIBER. Found Out. Puck. "There are a lot of girls who don't ever intend to marry." "How do you know?" "I have proposed to several." Chevalier Kntscn Calls Home Guard TANGENT, Or.. July 8. (Dear Re dacteur.) Will you please do us a fa vor? Be patriotic; not reckless; you never have anything to hope or regret As an ex-officer of cavalerie I feel it my duty to invite every man of and surrounding Tangent to come on Sat urday, July 14, afternoon, to the Odd fellows' Hall. The purpose is to form a home guard. My aim is to teach any men of value the manual of arms "drille" just like the soldier does it- In case of need you will be very satisfied to know how to handle a gun or sword, saber, in i company. " Everything will be explained to you on that day and every question prompt ly answered. JOHN KUTSCM.