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TIIE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAN, WKDXESDAT, JULY 25, 1917. PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland (Oregon). Postofflcs aa second-class mail matter. Subscription ratea Invariably la advances . (By Mall.) iftlTy. Punrtay Included, one year Ially, Sunday Included, six months .. Ially, Sunday Included, three months taily, Sunday incluaed. one month .. Daily, without Sunday, one year Daily, without Kunriav thrH mantbl ..ts.oo .. 4.25 ,. 2.25 .. .75 .. e.oo .. 1.75 Dally, without Sunday, one month . ... Weekly, one year Lot) Sunday, one year 2.50 Sunday and weekly S.SO (By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year ....... .JJ Dally, Sunday Included, one month ..... Daily, without Sunday, one year J Dally, without Sunday, three months ... 1-J5 Dally, without Sunday, one month -J Weekly, one year ...................... 2.50 Sunday, one year .......... .M. 2-J?? Sunday and weekly 8.50 How to Remit Send postofflce money or der, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Give postofflce address In lull. Including county and state. Postage Rates 12 to 16 pases. 1 cent: 18 to 32 pages. 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages. 3 cents: 60 to 80 pages. 4 cents; 62 to 76 pages. o cents; 78 to 82 pages, o cents. Foreign post age double rates. Eaitern Business Office Verree & Conklln. 13runswick building. .New York; Verree Conklin, Steger building, Chicago: San Fran cisco representative. H. J. Bldwell. 74B Mar ket street. 1'ORTL.l.ND, WEDNESDAY, JILT 25. 1917. i TIIE WAY CLEAR TO BCILD SlUrS. ' President Wilson's settlement of the wrangle about shipbuilding is the most encouraging event that has hap pened since war was declared. In the eyes of those millions of citizens whose eole desire is that all energy be con centrated on getting on with the war. There is no time to waste on quar rels between men of no super-eminent ability who claim autocratic powers and other men whose official dignity has been hurt by the would-be auto crat. Nor is there time to waste in reconciling the radically conflicting ideas of such men as to what should he done and as to their respective au thority in doing it. When this waste begins, the best thing to do is to make a clean sweep of all the contentious spirits and make a fresh start with new men. By getting rid of General Goethals, Chairman Denman and Cap tain White, of the Shipping Board, the President has cleared the way of men who had become obstructions and has opened the prospect of real progress With shipbuilding. General Goethals has proved unfit to manage the Emergency Fleet Cor poration, particularly to manage the construction of ships, which was his first duty. He had no special knowl edge o ships. His life has been spent chiefly in improving rivers and har bors as an Army engineer. His great est work construction of the Panama Canal was of like kind, and it is the foundation of his fame, but it had been well begun before he took charge. He was given undivided au thority on the Canal Zone, and that fact has spoiled him for any task in which he must carry out plans subject to approval by a body like the Ship ping Board. He insisted on being, and assumed that he was to be. the "boss." That is apparent from the tone of his ship building programme. It is full of such phrases as "I shall," "I will," and "My plans." He found the Board committed to an extensive programme of building wooden ships, and he con demned that programme before com . mittees of Congress, ridiculed it in public speeches, discharged the men who originated and defended it, and tossed it in the waste basket. When the Board insisted upon discussing and amending or approving his pro gramme before he executed it, he balked. The more he balked, the more critical Mr. Denman became. Obviously, the President could get progress only by throwing the whole cantankerous crowd into the street. When one man is bullheaded, and the other bristles up With offended official dignity, no other course is open. The course and record of the men whom the President has appointed give promise that hereafter things will move in the shipbuilding business. Admiral. Capps has been engaged in ship construction during nearly the whole of the last thirty years, with intervals of sea service, and he rep resented the United States at the In ternational Maritime Conference in London in 1913. His experience has been with steel warships, but he should be able to adapt it to both steel and wooden merchant ships. Mr. Hurley is one of Chicago's big business men, was the strong man of the Federal Trade Commission while lie was its chairman, and his effi ciency methods should prevent Ad miral Capps from carrying any red tape from his Navy Department Bu reau to the shipbuilding business. Mr. Colby, who succeeds Captain White on the Shipping Board, is a progressive Republican who followed Colonel Roosevelt in 1912 but returned to his party in 1916, and is what the President would call a "forward-looking man." At last we are in a fair way to get ships built without lost motion ships of either steel or wood, as material. labor and construction facilities be come available. The entire capacity of the country for the work, not only developed but latent, should be put in service. No more should be heard of rivalry between steel and wood, when we need all that we can produce of both materials. No more should be heard of the durability of wooden vessels, when the immediate need is ships that will outlast the war ana when it is known that wooden ships remain seaworthy for at least twenty and as long as seventy years. The President's action is a summons to get busy. It is fervently to be hoped that the President will display similar firmness in ending obstructive jangles at other points in our war preparations. In his" opposition to the division of Mr. Hoover's authority over food with two other men and to the creation of a committee on conduct of the war which would be nothing but a body to lias at the executive officers he has the support of the House against the Senate. With only five opposing votes the House passed the bill substantially as the President submitted it, and It should not permit the Senate to make a botch of its - ork. Since the Presi dent, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, is responsible for the conduct of the war. Congress should accept his initiative in devising laws needed to win it. The President should take the in itiative, whether Congress is willing or not, and should tolerate no Senate muddling. Let him handle the Sen ate as he has handled the shipping business, and the people will back him. They don't care a fig for the dignity of the Senate; their minds are set-on Winning the war. In one respect the United States is in advance of Canada la its war prep-I arations. Government action in for bidding purchase of mares for cavalry mounts has caused our neighbors north of the border to wish they had thought of a similar measure before, for a shortage of horses for farm work is already foreseen, and this would have been prevented in considerable measure by such conservation of breeding stock as we now propose. Canada is on the verge of beginning a serious campaign to atone for its mis take, and in addition to amending its army purchase regulations will import from England a number of draft sires, which will be disposed of to associa tions of horse breeders on favorable terms. A PATRIOTIC DUTY. The average citizen which is the public concedes the right of labor to organize. The average employer also concedes the right of labor to organ ize, but the average employer not in-i frequently insists on having a voice in the method of organization. The invariable result is trouble; the usual result is a strike. The average citizen and the average employer alike believe in arbitration of labor differences; and the average employe also is for arbitration, though his method is often to ask for far more than he expects to get. In the belief that he will thus get about what he ought to have. So arbitration has often worked. But the employe is not always for arbitration, If he thinks he may prevail without it. Witness the peremptory refusal of the railroad brotherhoods last year to arbitrate anything. Now in Seattle the spectacle Is pre sented of the workingmen asking for arbitration, and the employer appar ently standing against it. The street car company there, through its man ager, bluntly declares it will not rec ognize the union organized by the car men. The corporation says it has no objection to unions. It merely will not have anything to do with the only union the carmen want. It is not dif ficult to discover the basis for the em ployes' charge that the employer Is against union labor. The men make a formal offer to arbitrate. They will submit all ques tions to arbitration except that a con dition precedent is named in the re quirement that certain discharged men be reinstated. The men were dismissed because they Joined the union. It would seem that the men had not suggested an impossible, or even an unreasonable, stipulation. Aside from this requirement, the men are willing to leave all issues, even their union, to a board of conciliation. If the company refuses, it will be be cause it will not consent to recognition of the union on any terms or for any reason. In the present situation the position of the company Is unjustifiable. The greatest question before theAmerlcan people today employer and employe, all citizens, all classes is the preser vation of the republic. All other is sues or problems fade into insignifi cance beside the mighty emergency of the war. Every interest, every indus try, every occupation must yield its own immediate affairs, and its own individual prejudices or methods, or even principles, to the one high duty of promoting the National safety. A streetcar strike in Seattle and Ta- coma, threatening a general paralysis of shipbuilding and of other industries, is of moment in Portland and else where in the Northwest and in the Nation. If there is failure to reconcile the differences between employer and employe in Seattle, there is consequent loss and injury to the Nation and there is special and particular damage to all industry in neighboring cities. The plight of the Nation has In duced the carmen to leave their case with an impartial tribunal. Are the employers any less patriotic? RUNNING AWAY. Premier Kerensky's warning to the armies of Russia that he will put end to desertions in the face of the enemy closes the. last avenue of escape in this war to the soldier who would escape duty by running away. There never was a time in the history of the world when the coward had so little choice of places of refuge. No country that he can reach offers asylum. Egress is cut off everywhere. Registration systems are nearly perfect. Passports are requisite to travel, where travel is permitted at all. It would be almost useless, for ex ample, for a faint-hearted American finding himself selected under the Federal conscription law, to attempt to evade it. It would be impossible for him to obtain permission to go abroad, and next to impossible for him to hide. He would need to be singularly footloose to begin life all over again in another community, and if he tried to do so he would be sub ject to all sorts of embarrassing ques tions. It is not so apparent now as it will be a little later. When our men are being called to the colors there will be scrutiny of every slacker. Fair ness is the essence of the draft. The friends of those who serve will not have much patience with those who are avoiding duty. Even the old subterfuge of being taken prisoner is losing its advantages, particularly in the case of the allies. There is multiplying evidence that the central powers are neglecting their captives, being in serious straits about the care of their own soldiers. Even the Russians seem to have heard the news, for they fight when they are stiffened up behind their lines. The fortunes of battle are. preferable to detention in a German camp. French and British continue to report a mini mum of prisoners lost. Roumanians are learning the lesson, and it is a long time since many Serbians were taken alive. There will be almost no running away in this war because there is no place to which to go, from which one can return again to face his neigh bors; but it is pleasing to believe also that there will be less inclination to evade service than there ever has been. So far as Americans are con cerned, their moral courage never was higher, nor their sense of justice more highly developed, nor their cause more righteous. The innate fairness of the system under which they have been chosen has disarmed all bitterness The moral forces count for much. The hopelessly neurotic will be weeded out by the Army surgeons, while the phys ically timid who are capable of being cured will be benefited by associations hwith the braver men around them. Once they have felt the stimulus to action they are likely to surprise themselves. And investigators say that the "reformed coward" quite often is a giant, when he has found himself. IFOR HIS GOOD LOOKS. President Wilson has selected a most handsome person to be Ambas sador to Japan, if the veracity of cur rent newspaper photographs is of any account. We cannot discover any other reason why he should have been preferred to our own William D. Wheelwright, who is not lacking in personal pulchritude and who has never sought political office for that reason. The name of the new diplomat is Roland S. Morris, and he hails from Philadelphia. The available record has it that he "is a lawyer, 44 years old, and was for several years Demo cratic state chairman and one of the Pennsylvania leaders who stood stead fastly for President Wilson at the Bal timore convention." It might be supposed that the Presi dent had sought to reward his loyal friend because of political service; but Baltimore is five years in the back ground of past events and the chair manship must have preceded the in cumbency of Vance McCormick. There are many Democratic chairmen in states which went for Wilson in 1912 and 1916 who have not been given dis tinguished diplomatic posts. So it is, too, with those faithful delegates at Baltimore. They voted for Wilson some of them without hope or desire of earthly reward. It must have been Morris' good looks that yielded so rich a plum. Mr. Morris has had no previous diplomatic experience and he is being sent as America's Ambassador to a nation which Is full of punctilio and sensitive of slights. It is a critical period in the world's affairs and a delicate time in the relations between America and Japan. Just what an nexperienced Ambassador, though a Philadelphia lawyer, may do for his country in his contact with the bril liant and astute Nipponese diplomats remains to be seen. He may easily make a mess of everything. CHASCE FOB A SEW INDUSTRY. There is almost a famine of rabbit fur among American hat manufactur ers. Australia is their principal source of supply, but the government of that country now fosters the hat industry and gives its own manufacturers the preference in sales of furs which it buys from trappers. It sells to them at 44 cent3 skins for which exporters would have to pay 66 cents. The Brit ish government also buys thousands of rabbits and ships them, furs and all, on refrfigerator ships to feed the soldiers in France, where the furs are lost. Add to this the loss of the usual supply from France, Germany, Aus tria, Italy and Russia, and the hat makers are up against it. The result is an advance of about 300 per cent in the price of rabbit fur. This should be an opportunity to develop trade in Oregon jackrabi bits, as proposed by Representative Sinnott. Little has come of his for mer moves in this direction, but with fur at a premium and with rabbits slaughtered by thousands by the farmers, it should bo possible to se lect the best skins and to perfect the method of preserving them so that they will be salable. Saving of freight from Australia should add to the sel ler's price while reducing the hat maker's cost. But why not do as the Australians do, and make hats in Ore gon out of Oregon fur? Here is a chance for a new industry. UNLOADING. Immediately following overthrow of commission government in Denver, the new Mayor made sweeping reductions in the number of city employes. The incident led to the hasty conclusion in some quarters that it was always necessary to change the form of gov ernment in order to obtain reforms. But Commissioner Barbur has demon strated that this is not necessarily true. He has dismissed more than fifty employes out of a total of 122 in the Bureau of Public Works. A good deal of the high cost of city government in Portland is found in the city's overloaded payroll. While there has been more criticism on that score of the department. of which Mr. Barbur has lately become the head than of any other, it is quite probable that the example he has set could be pursued with advantage to the public in several other departments. It is always unpleasant to suggest dismissal of private or public emploj-es, but the condition of the times has relieved discharge of much of its hardship. Other positions are not now difficult to obtain, though they may not offer the easy hours and light work popu larly supposed to enhance the desir ability of public employment. It seems to be a general practice in city department work to attack a job in mass formation. An instance has been called to our attention where the department, just curtailed, sent seven men to lay four square yards of cement in repairing a sidewalk. No. 1 planned and laid out the work No. 2 hauled the materials; No. 3 built the wooden barricades; No. 4 mixed the cement; No. 5 laid it; No. 6 smoothed it down and No. 7 inspected the job. The city has many inspectors, but until now it appears that Commission ers have not been diligent in inspect ing in person to ascertain just what the men under them were doing to earn their money. Further inspection of that kind will be looked upon with public gratification. NO VACATION FOR THE GARDEN. Approach of the end of July does not mean that there should be any abatement of vigor in cultivating the home garden. The early vegetables that have been gathered have only made room for another crop. It should be borne in mind that every pound of food that can be grown will be needed and that this will hold true to the end of the season. The forehanded gardener will have his cabbage plants ready to set in the ground from which he took his let tuce, or early peas and beans. If he has none, he may be able to obtain a supply from his neighbor. There is time in which to plant more turnips and carrots and beets with hope of success, and successive sowings of beans and peas are still in order. For that matter, potatoes have been known to prosper in favorable situations in Oregon when planted as late as the first week In August. Early varieties for late planting is a good rule. Experienced gardeners will modify it to correspond with their own experience. But in any event it is too early, to begin, to think of letting land lie idle all the rest of the yea r. By this time the owners of back yard gardens will be divided into two classes. There are those whose en thusiasm has waned, and those who have only begun to experience the joy of the work. The former should be spurred by the argument of patriot ism; the latter need no further incen tive. For it is perfectly clear that whatever befalls us we are never go ing back to the old. old ways. For years to come we shall be planting truck patches at home, sometimes be cause the economic side of it appeals to us, but more often because when the born agriculturist has once been introduced to the hoe, the acquaint ance then and there formed is bound to ripen into friendship. The call of the land is like the call of the wild; t is irresistible when it falls upon the ear of the right animal. The kindlier trend of reminiscence. particularly as it concerns authors, is one of the hopeful signs of the day. This was shown recently in the dis criminating care with which the let ters of Algernon Charles Swinburne were edited by their compiler, as coim pared with the ruthless invasion of the privacy of Stevenson. Carlyle and others In former times, and it is newly illustrated in the recollections of Will iam Sartain, the painter, of Edgar Allan Poe, published in the Art World. Mr. Sartain was a little boy when Poe was killed, but his father, John Sar tain, was an intimate of Poe, and tes tifies through his son that the stories of Poe's intemperate habits were gross exaggerations. It is strongly denied that Poe was a drunkard and it is as serted that he drank only moderately. except on a few occasions. He was exceedingly punctual in the perform ance of tasks assigned to him. On the whole, the impression that the poet was a dissipated man is declared to be unjust. His sorrows and his Ill ness weighed him down, but his new biographer gives us to understand that he bore his cross manfully to the end. The relative poverty of the former Czar of Russia has been exposed by application made in his behalf for a grant from the provisional govern ment to help pay his living expenses. Nicholas Romanoff, the private citi zen, has a scant $500,000 that he can call his own, while his wife has $550, 000 in securities but Is not expected to help her husband much in his hour of trouble. Much of the $8,000,000 a year which it cost the Czar to main tain his establishment under the old regime was derived from mines and forests which have been confiscated by the new regime, but his personal fortune has been left intact. It is a curious fact that Nicholas in his own right was one of the poorest members of his family." His sisters were more thrifty and accumulated fortunes ranging from $ 1, COO, 000 to $2,750,000. The necessity for dismissal of fifty- odd employes in Mr. Barbur's bureau has not arisen since election day. It was in existence then, and Mr. Bar bur simply has the new broom that is sweeping clean. Perhaps some of the other gentlemen may wield one. Cocchl cannot be brought from Italy for murder of the Cruger girl, but he will always want to come back to this country and some day will sneak in and be caught. No murderer can help revisiting the scene of his crime. A lighted cigarette, falling from the mouth of a drunken logger, started a fire that destroyed a hotel at Bend. Bend is a "dry" city in a "dry" county of a "dry" state. Where did the man get . the liquor? There is an opportunity for eome enterprising American newspaper-soldier to start the American Trench News in France. It would have a largo circulation in the United States. The Kaiser says that the United States will not decide the war, but he must admit that the decision is likely to be influenced to some degree by the steps we are about to take. If the Bisbee I. W. W. had been de ported to California instead of Co lumbus, and had been put to work on the farms, the labor problem would have been at least partly solved. That is a good proposition to or ganize ten or more regiments of Amer ican Indians for service abroad. As decidedly irregular cavalry, they will put the Hun on the run. Germany and Austria are said to be planning an economic union to fol low the war. Economy and economics are what they will need for 300 years while paying the debt. Austria has announced that she is fighting for the unassailable right of her peoples to decide their destiny. This will be news to the Bohemians. Commons stood by Lloyd George by a 3-to-l vote in what was thought a critical case the other day. "Little old Lloydy" has 'em well in hand. All the grocers in the association re ligiously shut up shop today for the picnic and all not in it just as solemnly keep open. Pro-Germanism is stirring Ecuador. Ecuador, by the way, is a kind of gore in the Pacific shore of South America. , Say, boys, it will be a disgrace If the Third Oregon has to be filled from the draft. Only a few volunteers are needed. Suffragists are still picketing the White House, but the Wilsons have the doors and windows screened. War is costing Great Britain $45, 000,000 a day and the bill will be sent to Berlin for collection. Wilson'3 war way of settling an af fair is to wipe the slate clean, and it works out beautifully. German aviators who seet to find the American camp can wait a bit, then watch our smoke. Billy Sunday cannot come before the middle of the year after next, and that's a long time off. With an army of a million In France, the Kaiser can get the num ber by calling for it. Soaring prices for food are the con sumers' cost of Senatorial oratory and obstruction. Prospective war brides hav& A few more days of grace. How to Keep Well. By Dr. W. A. Evana. Questions pertinent to hygiene, sanitation and prevention of diseases. If matters of gen eral interest, will be answered in this col umn. Where space will not permit or the subject is not suitable, letters will be per sonally answered, subject to proper limita tions and where stamped addressed envelope Is Inclosed. Dr. Evans will not make diagno sis or prescribe for Individual dlstases. Re quests for such services eannot be answered. (Copyright. 191(1, by Dr. W. A. Evans. Published by arrangement with the Chicago Tribune.) TWO TYPHOID LESSONS. In April seven cases of typhoid fever were reported f-om one house in Brook lyn. The health department found that there were two families in this house, one on the first and one on the second floor. On March 22 a child in the' first floor family developed typhoid fever. The diagnosis was made on the 26th. On the 27th this child and two others who were developing typhoid were removed to the hospita' Nearly a week later the mother came down with the disease. By this time the health department was aware of the necessity and they started vaccination against typhoid. The re maining members of this family es caped. But the family upstairs began with theirs. On April 11 one of the second floor children was reported as having typhoid. Investigation showed that this child and two others had the disease. They were removed to the hospital. The remaining members of the upstairs fam ily were then vaccinated, whereupon the epidemic stopped. The health department Investigated to find out what these two families had or used In common. It was possible to rule out water. The milk supply was not the cause. No other food was Jn the list of possibilities. It was ivlarch and flies were not abroad. Therefore, the two families did not. have a common supply of flies. It was found that a toilet lo cated In the basement was used jointly by both families. The bed pans and chambers were taken to this toilet and there emptied. v There was an Interval of one week between the time the first downstairs child got sick and the making of the diagnosis. There was ocular evidence that the process of emptying resulted in a good deal of soiling. The health department was convinced that the use in common of this toilet was the means of spreading typhoid. The first lesson is that vaccination stops typhoid. A division of this lesson is that there are many people who think themselves safe enough who should be vaccinated against typhoid. The second is the mtre Important. It is that where several families have a toilet as com mon ground a place where the paths cross the spread of contagion in these families is almost inevitable. In every city where there are many tenement houses there Is a high conta gion rate. At one time it is typhoid; at another, diphtheria; at still another. scarlet fever. It is well-nigh Impossible to stop contagion quickly, where the paths of several h uscholds cross. Not Likely to Return. B. O. K. writes: "1. After a goiter has been removed, is It likely to return, and how soon? 2. My father is 52 years of age, and has had hemorrhoids about 10 years. Would an operation be safe, or could you suggest something which would help him? 3. Wiiat causes hem orrhage of the nose, or is it natural? It is mostly at night, and early in the morning. Very often on waking I find nose filled with clots and strings of blood." REPLY. 1. It Is possible but scarcely probable. 2. Yes. The probability Is that nothins but operation will Improve his condition. 3. There are several causes of hemorrhage of the nose. One cause Is polyp or other tumor of tho nose. Another is ulcer. Some times nose bleed is associated with ' the monthly function. It Is sometimes asso elated with a tendency to dizziness and so called full-bloodedness. Nose bleed that is only moderately bad does no harm. EITHER OR IIOTIL Mrs. A. writes: "A man of 43, height 5 feet 10 inches, weighs about 180 chews tobacco excessively, also smokes weak, irregular pulse, no morning appe tite, lower eyelids puffed sometimes, limbs jerk severely du-.n,g sleep, com plains of insomnia, cannot walk fast for even a short distance without puffing has occasional short attacks which be gin with burning In pit of stomach; was obliged at one time o st.p chewing by order of physician. Is there serious trouble?' REPLY. I think there Is. Either he has tobacco poisoning or orfianlo disease or both. Old-fnshloned Remedy. C. A. G. writes: "Wha: is good medi cine for a person a little run down? have been told that the old-fashioned remedy, sulphur and molasses, is very good. How is this prepared?" REPLY. I have been Informed that sulphur Is added to the molasses until th mixture is about as thick as a thick Kruel. Of this a teaspoon- ful Is taken three times a day for three days. Then one dose of physic a day taken for three days. The best feature of this treatment Is the purgation. . MOTORIST VISITS SHIP PLANT Portland Man Drives to Seattle, Where He la Impressed by Activity. PORTLAND. July 24. (To the Edi tor.) My wife and I have just returned from a trio in our auto to Seattle. We crossed the Columbia River on the In terstate Bridge, and proceeded to Kal ama, where we took breakfast. We found the road between Kalama and Kelso very chucky, full of holes and dusty. At Tenino I met a man who advised me not to go by the Olympia road, so I went and came by the town of Roy, and found the roads good. On an average about one-hair or the road is excellent, the other poor. At Seattle my son, W. L. Davis, is timekeeper for the J. F. Duthie steel ship plant, where they work about 2200 men. He took me through the plant it was a great sight for us to see these men and the machinery at work. Everything moves like clockwork on time, and they are turning out huge steel vessels 427 feet long. Four of them are nearly completed. One is ready for launching, and the other will soon follow to make room to build others. We were Introduced to Mr. J. F. Duthie. president of the plant, a other officers, and I want to say they are a fine lot of American-Scotch pa triotic citizens, who fully understand shipbuilding. Everyone of them is gentleman. They seem delighted to show visitors through the plant and explain to them its workings. Their plant Is certainly a beehive. It was an inspiration to us. and we hope to Bee our Portland plants equally good and prosperous as they seem to be. There is no reason why we should not be, if our people" will put the same push, energy and ."set there, etc." la their work, I iL DAVIS. The Kaiser Dreams a Dream. II y J ameM Barton Adams. Hindenburg Good morrow, sire. What means that cloud of care You're wearing on your royal frontis piece? Hast heard bad news, or did Insomnia Camp with you through the watches of the night? The Kaiser O. Hindenburg, a fearful dream I dremp That might be called a visionary scream! It started every nerve within me housed To dancing In wild spasms of affright! I dreamed I stood In sunken submarine. One royal eye glued to the periscope To note result of a torpedo fired At stately steamer ploughing through the deep. And as I lamped the doomed vtctim there Came from Its deck a belch of fiery smoke. And ere I'd time to lip a hasty prayer A shot crashed through the bowels of the tmb And played der duyvll with Its inner works. I next stood on the bottom of the sea Anear the Lusitanla's mangled form. And hideous skeletons before me rose. And almost In the twinkling of an eye The bones were hidden as with mortal form. Not of the living flesh, but as they were The disembodied sprits of the dead. There were men bent with age and aged dames And men In youthful form and maidens fair And little children .yet of tender years. And babes clasped close to mothers' spirit breasts. All eyes gazed at me with reproachful look That chilled me until every royal slat Seemed as but bars of ice in osseous cage In which my Innards were in prison held. An aged patriarch spake: "Thou art the fiend Who brought to premature and tragic death These innocents who never did thee harm. Brave men and women and their off- spring all Were victims of thy paid assassins, who Obeyed thy royal will to put to death All who would dare traverse this watery waste At thy forbiddance; sea 'twas placed here by Creative hand of him who rules above To benefit mankind of every race. A thousand times a murderer art thou Of those wiio exercised God-given right To sail at will upon the rolling seas. And to God thou It answer for thy deeds And from his lips will hear thy awful doom! Tn terror I awoke, from every port In my imperial hide was oozing sweat As cold as if from frigid icy source. O, Hindenburg, mein lieber Hinden burg, Thlnk'st thou 'twas ominous of future fate? Hind en burg- Well, sire, it was dead sure a rocky dream. A peacherino of a movie show. But heed it not. I feared on yester night The lobster salad and the limburg kase You ate so piggishly might serve to put Your royal stomach on the beastly bum And bring you dreams you might pre fer undremp. Dismiss it from your royal mind as but Hallucinatory work of overfeed Of heavy fodder at unseemly hour. Brace up. your majesty, and let us skate To breakfast; I'm as hungry as a wolf. PRIZE IS OFFERED FOR CREED 100O Offered for Bent Short Expression of True Citizenship. Considerable interest is being shown in a citizens' creed contest being con ducted by educational foundations, sup ported by President Wilson and backed by The Vigilantes. This contest calls for a brief creed on what constitutes the true American citizen. The City of Baltimore has offered a prize of J1000 for tho best answer. Here are the conditions of the con test: The creed should be the best sum mary of our civic beliefs and duties, to be adapted for general circulation in convenient form and for use in public and private schools throughout the country. It should be based on the principles and the ideals of American citizenship as shown in . our history, laws and customs. The briefest possi ble creed that is sufficiently compre hensive is the one desired and should not exceed 300 words. The contest is open to all who have been born in or who have become nat uralized citizens of the United States. Any contestant may submit more than one creed. But the writer must use only a private mark on the manuscript or manuscripts submitted. The manu script must be accompanied by a small envelope containing both this private mark and the full name and address of the writer. The envelope containing the private mark and the name of the successful competitor will be opened only when the judges have made their decision. Manuscripts should be type written, on one side of the paper only. The contest is open to. and inclusive of, September 14, 1917, the date of the 103d anniversary of the writing of the "Star Spangled Banner." To the author of the successful creed a prize of $1000 will be given by the City of Baltimore, as the birthplace of the "Star-Spangled Banner." All manuscripts are to be sent to the committee on manuscripts, citizens' creed contest, care of Educational Foun dations. 31-33 East Twenty-seventh street. New York City. The committee of manuscripts, head ed by Henry Sterling Chapin. Hermann Hagedorn and Porter Emerson Browne, assisted by editors representing the leading magazines of America. The committee of award, consisting of seven judges. These judges are Matthew Page Andrews, Irvin S. Cobb, Hamlin Garland, Ellen Glasgow, Julian Street, Booth Tarkington, Charles Hanson Towne. The advisory committee, consisting of Governors of states. Senators and Representatives, heads of patriotic or ganizations and other Americans In public and private life. Dr. P. P. Clax ton. United States Commissioner of Ed ucation, is the chairman of this com mittee. Hoapitula for Children. KELSO. AVash., July 23: (To the Kd itor.) Please inform as to the location of the principal nrst-class hospitals for children only in the United States and on the Pacific Coast. A SUBSCRIBER. The three leading hospitals for chil dren are located in New York City, Rochester, N. Y., and Philadelphia. San Francisco has a small hospital for chil dren and this is thought to be the only one on the Pacific Coast. GIFT GRATEFULLY RECEIVED, CLACKAMAS. Or., July 23. (To the Editor.) May I, in your columns, ex press appreciation of $50 entrusted to me as a chaplain fund by the Portland Heights Club? This fund will be kept for such uses as I may find necessary In months to come, and will be ac counted for when spent. WM. S. GILBERT, , Chaplain, Third Oregon Infantry. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Abo. From The Oregonian of July 25, 1892. John J. Monyhahan. superintendent of the Gem mine, located' about three miles from Wallace, Idaho, has re moved with his family to this city. Owing to the late unpleasantness In. the Couer d'AIeno mines, he found it advisable to leave the country tem porarily. London Pattl has at last decided on her final absolute farewell tour of America, The new electric cars manufactured out of the old one-horse streetcars are very fine. They will be used on the Kast Sid lines of the City oi Subur ban system. The cornerstone of the new St. Da vid's Church will be laid about August 10 with appropriate ceremonies. The people of Woodlawn are aspir ants for metropolitan advantages. They are working energetically for a policeman and lor fire protection. The building of more houses Is go- Ing on uninterruptedly in all parts of the city. At tho corner of Park ave nue and King street T. B. Wilcox is putting up a very handsome residence of red sandstone with basalt basement. Half a Century Alio. From The Oregonian of July 25, 1867. Albany, N. Y. The amendment to the suffrage clause, giving women the rieht to vote, was lost in the conven tion tonight by a vote of 50 to 21. Chlcac-o The President has nomi nated Horace Greeley as Minister to Austria, but the single objection by Tipton of Nebraska carried it over un der the rule to the next session ot Congress. Tipton would not consent to confirm a man who went bail for Jeff Davis. Bishop Thompson and ex-Governor Gibbs start this morning for Salem by stage to attend the commencement ex ercises of the Willamette University. Omaha The Pawnee scouts are do ing active service. They have killed numbers of Sioux In recent encoun ters. General Augur has gone to Fort Sedgw ick. New York Alaska Is added to the Department of Washington Territory and General liosseau is assigned to the command. Paris Admiral Farragut has arrived and was received with distinguished attention on all sides. A larsie num ber of American ladies and gentlemen gave him a cordial welcome. Strategy From the Trenches. Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. A tired Tommy, burdened with about five tons of equipment, climbed wear ily into a bus outside a London rail way terminus. There were no vacant seats and no ono offered tho weary man a seat. He was dead tired and so resolved to get a seat by strategy. He flashed from his haversack a small bomb. "This is one of the things we use out there, you know." he remarked to the interested passengers. "See this pin here? When I pull it out like this it should explode fifteen seconds later. They're pretty deadly, too. If 1 put it back again tlie thing's harmless." Then, beginning to search frantically, "Gosh! Where on earth did I put that pin?" The passengers rose in a body and scrambled for the door, tumbling over one another to get off. Tommy watched. them go. Then, putting tho bomb back In his haversack, he stretched himself full length on the cushioned seat. The Fighting Race. By Joxepu I. C Clarke. (A Popular Sponlsh-Amerlcan War Poeni.) "Read out the names!" and Burke sat back, . And Kelly dropped his head. While Shea they call him Scholar; Jack Went down the list of the dead. Officers, seamen, gunners, marines. The crows of the gig and yawl. The bearded man and the lad in his teens. Carpenters, coal passers all. Then, knocMng the ashes from out hla pipe. Said Burke in an offhand way: "We're all in that dead man's list, by Cripe! Kelly and Burke and Shea." "Weil, here's to the Maine, and I'm; sorry for Spain." Said Kelly and Burke and Shea. "Wherever there's Kellys there's troun ble." said Burke. "Wherever fighting's the game. Or a spice of danger in grown man's work," Said Kelly, "you'll ffnd my name." "And do we fall short," said Burke, getting mad. "When it's touch and go for lifer' Said Shea. "It's thirty-ottJ years, ben dud. Since 1 charged to drum and fife Up Ma rye's Heights, and my old can- tern Stopped a rebel ball on its way: There were blossoms of blood on our sprigs of green Kelly and Burke and Shea And the dead didn't brag." "Well, here's to the flag:" Said Kelly and Burke and Shea. "I wish 'twas in Ireland, for there's the place." Said Burke, "that we'd die by right. In the cradle of our soldier race. After one good, stand-up fight. My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill, And fighting was not his trade: But his rusty pike's in the cabin st'H, With Hessian blood on the blade." "Aye, aye." said Kelly, "the pikes were great When the- word was 'clear the way!' We were thick on the roll in ninety- eight Kelly and Burke and Shea." "Well, here's to the pike and the sword and the like!" Said Kelly and Burke and Shea. And Shea, the scholar, with rising joy. Said, "We were at Kamillies, We left our bones at Fontenoy And up in the Pyrenees. Before Dunkirk, on London's plain, Cremona, Uille and Ghent. We're all . over Austria, France and Spain. Wherever they pitched a tent. We've died for England from Waterloo To Egypt and Dargai: And still there's enough for a corps or crew; Kelly and Burke and Shea." "Well, here Is to good honest fighting blood!" Said Kelly and Burke and Shea. "Oh, the fighting races don't die out. If they seldom die in bed. For love is first in their hearts, not doubt. Said Burke: then Kelly said: "When Michael, the Irish archangel, stands. The angel with the sword. And the battle-dead from a hundred lands Are ranged In one big horde. Our line, that for Gabriel's trumpet waits. Will stretch three deep that day. From Jehosuphat to the Golden Gates -t Kelly and Burke and Shea." "Well, here's thank God for the race and the sod!" Said Kelly and Burke and Shea. j