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8 TTTE MORNING OREGOXTAK", TUESDAY. AUGUST 21. 1917. FORTLAM), OREGON. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postoffice. second-class mail matter. Subscription rates Invariably In advance: By Mail.) rally, Sunday Included, one year .$8.no Iatly. Sunday included, six months ..... 4.25 Iaily. Sunday Included, three months ... 2.25 Dally. Sunday Included, one month 75 raily, without Punday. one year R 00 Ially, without Sunday, six months 3.-o raily, without Sunday, three months ... 1.7." Iaily, without Sunday, one month 0 Weekly, one year.. ..................... l.f0 Sunday, one year ...................... 2.50 Sunday and weekly 3.50 (By Carrier.) Iatly. Sunday Included, one year ..$9.00 tiaily, Sunday Included, one month ..... .75 Dally, without Sunday, one year ........ 7.S0 Dally, without Sunday, three months ... 1.0?"i Daily, without Sunday, one month 6.1 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. Give postoffice address In full. Including; county and state. Postage Kates 12 to 16 pares. 1 cent: 1 to 32 pages, 2 cents; 34 to 4S pages. 3 cents: 60 to 60 pages, 4 cents; 62 to 76 pages, 5 cents: 78 to S2 pages. 6 cents. Foreign post age double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree ft Conklln Brunswick building, Xew York; Verree A Conklln, Steger building, Chicago: San Fran cisco representative. R. J. Bidwell, 742 Mar ket street. PORTLAND, TTTESDAT, ACGCST 1, 1917. OCR FIRST GREAT FAILURE. Secretary Daniels permits the public to have the information that "no addi tional submarine chasers are to be built for the present." .The chasers, it Is said, are valuable as harbor and shore patrols: but destroyers are su perior even for these duties, and they are besides the one foe which the U-boat fears. Secretary Daniels also graciously gives out the Interesting and significant information that the output of destroyers Is to be doubled and trebled in the next eighteen months. Behind this brief announcement from the Secretary lies the wreckage of the first great failure of the war. The Oregonian Is no admirer of Secre tary Daniels; but it has no thought of placing on his shoulders the whole re sponsibility for the expenditure of some $30,000,000 In the so-called chas ers, with consequent loss and waste of time. It was a year ago a popular Idea; and the Secretary's specialty Is popular ideas as opposed to the advice of experts. But a successful war can not be conducted by political Journal ists, or mass meetings, or grocery store strategy boards. It Is a business for experts; and experts In war out side the Army or Navy are most rare. It may be well enough to review the history of the grand rush to put the submarines out of business by the ob vious device of building, equipping and turning loose an enormous number of chasers. These little boats were to be of wood and steel, to be 110 feet long and fleet enough to overtake hostile submarines when their periscopes ap peared above the surface. The Idea of dotting- the ocean with a fleet of these little craft, speedy, quick of action, readily steered, and each manned with a grun sufficiently large to puncture a periscope or con ning tower, appealed to the popular Imagination. The practical construct ors of the Navy and the experienced fighting men frowned on the proposal. They could see the difficulty -of aiming a gain accurately from the deck of a frail craft that would bob around on the surface, especially when the target to be hit. If a periscope, would be no bigger than a man's arm. They could not see how to get enough speed out of these boats to enable them to cope with a modern submarine. They understood their limited steam ing radius, and recognized the futility of using such boats against subma rines when the sea was at all rough. Secretary Daniels found himself In accord with the plans of the amateurs. Casting aside all objections raised by his official advisers and disregarding the advice given by naval men of the allied countries, he ordered this grreat fleet of submarine chasers built, 835 of them, and they are now beginning to come into service. Two hundred of these chasers have been or are being built by private contractors and 185 are being turned out by Government Kavy-yards. The first of the chasers to be tested out have proved at least partial fail ures. Though they have cost from $90,000 to $100,000 each, they Lave failed to develop anything like the speed expected of them. They are slower than the submarines or some of them they were built to "chase," and they draw more water than It was Intended they should, thus bringing them within torpedo range. Their decks have proved not sufficiently staunch to bear gains of a caliber and range to enable them to engage a submarine In a gun fight. Aside from these vital defects. It has been discovered that they are suitable for use In inland waters, or for any waters that are calm, and where a hostile submarine will float near the surface and allow Its periscope or con ning tower to be used as a target. Against the obsolete types of subma rine, the chasers, according to Navy men, might be effective In protected waters where there "Is no sea rolling, but as weapons to use against the mod ern German submersible boat they are pronounced utterly worthless. It was the dream of many citizens shared by the facile Secretary of the Navy that we would see the North Sea dotted with little American sub marine chasers, each flying- the Stars and Stripes, each mounting- a gun for ward, each skimming over the water at a speed far greater than the bulkier German undersea boat could develop, spreading terror throughout the Ger- . man U-boat fleet, an5 Slaking- It next to Impossible for a. submarine to shove Its periscope above the surface. We all looked forward to the day when the chasers literally would "put out the eyes" of the German submarines. Instead, we find on our hands a dally growing accumulation of naval Junk, which has cost the United States sub stantially $30,000,000, and which, for war purposes, is worth very little. HavlnK, at this great cost, demon strated that submarine chasers are not feasible. Secretary Daniels has at last turned an attentive ear to the real men of the Navy, and now announces that the Navy will concentrate in building torpedo-boat destroyers, the one type of craft that has proven an efficient engine to use against the submarines. From torpedo-boats the U-boat cannot run away, once they rise to the surface within range. The destroyer Is not a new thing, either In the American Navy or in the allied navies It has been tried by all, and Its efficiency has been demonstrated. It Is fortunate that this initial mis take has not proved more costly. But It has Its value. It has taught both the Secretary of the Navy and the pub lic that war, on land and sea, must be left to the men who are equipped by experience to devise plans and exe cute them. BLOT AND BLUSTER. The ugly I. "W. W. bogy collapses when It is seized by the strong hands of the United States Government. It is mainly bluff and bluster by loud mouthed bullies, who use strong-arm methods on unoffending workingmen to coerce them Into acts they are un willing to perform. Now of course we will find Rowan and his fellow-agitators standing on their constitutional rights. The law ful right of the farmer to reap the harvest of his fields and the fruit of his orchards they repudiate: and the constitutional rint of the operator to run his sawmill without interference from outsiders and the constitutional right of the workman to work without molestation or intimidation by idlers, ne'er-do-wells and mischief-makers are not encouraged by them. We don't find sabotage in the Constitution, or breaking contracts, or upsetting the wage system, or coercing courts to release prisoners, or making systemal tic But there is a distinct definition of treason, which is described as giving aid and comfort to the enemy. One way to aid the enemy Is to embarrass, hamper, annoy and discourage your own Government. Mr. Rowan knows all about It, and has known it. He Is too late with his pitiful pretence of patriotism. . DEBT AXD GOOD ROADS. There are now twenty-one states which spend money directly on the construction and Improvement of roads, and Oregon Is one of them. Several others apportion sums to coun ties and municipalities to be expended on roads under their direction. These statistics, which are from a forthcoming- report of the Bureau of the Census, reveal that nearly two fifths of the total state outlays for per manent Improvements in 1916 went into roads. The forty-eight states In that year expended more than $33, 000,000 for highways. Oregon. In this report, which Is for the year 1916, Is classified as one of six states that has no net indebtedness. We shall not be In that class another year, for Indebtedness has been au thorized and partly Incurred for road bulldlng. Under the provisions of the legislative act providing for co-operation with the Government on road work and of the $6,000,000 bonding act. we shall within the next few years acquire an indebtedness of about $10 per capita. At that we shall still be considerably below New Tork's record, which Is more than $14 per capita. Lack of state indebtedness provides a sort of spiritual gratification but does not counterbalance the more ma terial hardships of poor roads and ar rested development. We do not look for repining, once the roads for which we have gone Into debt become a reality. THE FUTURE OF AVIATION. That the development of commercial aviation to a high state of perfection will follow restoration of peace is not doubted by thoughtful men who are now planning for the future. When It Is considered that the automobile has been practical only about fifteen years and in that period It has come Into universal use, no prediction as to air travel will seem extravagant. The automobile has attained Its pres ent status without the incentive of a great war, such as Jias given a mighty stimulus to the airplane. The past three years, however, have witnessed progress in the Improvement of air craft comparable to that of the auto mobile In fifteen years, and the busi ness is only In Its Infancy. It is of first Importance that. Inter national law governing rights in the air should be crystallized at the earli est possible time. Aviation, in its very nature, is likely to become an inter national question from the start. High speed and the fact that the airman does not need to await the construc tion of roads removes the limitations Inherent In other forms of transporta tion. Lord Montagu, of Beaulieu, In a recent address to the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain predicted that flying- around the world would become common so soon as to Justify Imme diate action toward establishment of lanes of travel and agreement among tho nations as to private and public rights in flying. Under the law of England, upon which our own laws are based. It Is held that private property extends "ad usque coelum" that Is, that posses. sion carries with It right to the sky above the same area. Efforts of cities to limit the height of buildings do not run counter to this phase of the law. but are based on considerations of safety and convenience in restricted localities. The right to the sky is now presumed to extend In the case of nations to all the air above their ter. ritory and above the three-mile limit around the coast. So far, the Issue is clearly drawn. But rights to the air above the oceans are not yet deter mined. No one nation would be quali fied to prescribe levels to which the aviators of other nations would be bound to confine themselves. Flying around the world will be made easy when a sufficient number of landing places have been estab lished. Incentive for development of these will be the great saving- of time, which will be especially Important In the transportation of malls. It now takes, under normal conditions, fif teen days for a letter to go from Eng land to India, and thirty days to- go from England to Australia. Mail by aircraft would be delivered In India in four days and in Australia in six. The saving- of eleven days In the one instance and of twenty-four In the other would represent a commercial advantage that will be appreciated by all business men. Lord Montagu thinks that passen gers will travel by air as a matter of course, but that night flying will not be popular for a long time. He pre diets that there will be two daily periods of flying-, of 600 miles each, made at the rate of 120 miles an hour. and that travelers will be content to spend their nights on the ground. The world will become more luxurious again, and there will be few, apart from enthusiasts, who will care to face tho discomforts of eating and sleeping In what must necessarily be a cramped space. But at 1200 miles a day, they will be traveling faster than anyone even dreamed of doing only a few years ago. It is assumed by this authority that the first 2000 feet above the earth will be prohibited to aircraft In general, but will be reserved for private own ers In rising from and descending to their own landings. It Is suggested also that 2000 feet would bo a reason able distance to meet the demands of the owners of land for privacy of their premises. There might be above that a 2000-foot strip usable only by slow speed planes equipped with silencers. "Slow speed" is defined as 80 miles an hour or less. Next would come a level for fast planes, and all above 10,000 feet would be reserved for the official craft of each nation. Control of the 'various levels would be exer cised by "speed cops" of the air. The world so long ago ceased to be amazed by wonders that It is in a mood to consider seriously the early pros pect held out by Lord Montagu. It does not seem impossible, or even im probable, that flying long- distances will be common within a decade. In hastening- this day, the United States will play a most important part, as it is now doing- in obtaining for its allies the mastery of the air on the battle fronts. LED ASTRAY. The lumber manufacturers of Wash ington have made a reply to Governor Lister's proposal for a settlement of the strike that is not to be considered lightly in the forming of public opin ion. Governor Lister suggested estab lishment of the eight-hour day on the basis of nine hours' pay. The millmen reply that they are not opposed to the eight-hour day, but that if It Is established In Washington and not m- the pine districts of the South their business cannot survive. There Is no responsible head among the strikers with whom to negotiate. There Is no assurance that the offer would bring- the men- back to work, or that If it did they would remain at work or keep any agreement entered into. The latter statement they base upon the assumption that responsibility for the strike rests with the I. W. W. That organization boasts that it will not keep an agreement as to wages or working conditions. The lumbermen also assure the Gov ernor that Government -contracts al ready entered into will be kept to the letter and that future contracts will be fulfilled. Working- conditions in the Southern mills offer an argument against imme diate establishment of the eight-hour day In the Northwest mills that has not yet been answered. Fir and pine are in active competition. Mills In the pine belt pay lower wages and their men work ten and eleven hours. They also have a freight differential be cause of nearness to market that must be overcome by their Western com petitors. A wage and hour agreement that would make it Impossible for the Western mills successfully to compete would be no settlement at all of labor difficulties and would hamper Govern ment needs more than does the present state of partial disorganization of the Industry. It may be that the responsibility of the I. W. W. for the lumber strikes in Washington has been overestimated, but if that loose organization should turn out to be the real factor In the trouble it is not now likely that the intercession of the Governor or the suggested Federal interposition will be needed. The I. W. W. preaches solidarity of the working classes, but its own solidarity has been thoroughly discredited by the failure of the strike called from Spokane. The tactics of that organization in its Invasion of every plant or camp are said to be based on exaggeration and misrepresentation of its own power and following. Its organizers begin their campaign with the bald fiction that 25 per cent or more of the workers In that plant or camp are with them. The effort operates something like a run on a bank. The Individual approached may be thor oughly satisfied, but he is afraid of what his neighbor may do... He does not want to be hailed as a scab or harassed by pickets. Those who have gone out in panic can have no more wholesome lesson than that given by the failure of the I. W. W. call for a g-eneral strike. Its organizers are mere windbags, who have but a small following of dupes. It is an organization that neither workers, employers nor Governor need fear, once a few of Its most pernicious leaders are in safe custody. The strike ought now to settle Itself on a reasonable roasis, it it nas no firmer foundation than I. W. W. Inter ference with industry. OUR NEW MERCHANT MARINE. If the present plans of the United States Shipping Board are carried out. there is good reason to believe that this Nation will have the greatest mer chant marine In the world after the war. This organization now expects that through the requisitioning of ves sels already built or building it will have under Its control by the end of the year at least 1500 vessels, of a total carrying capacity of 5,000,000 tons. It is estimated that our shipbuilders will be able to turn out at least 4.000,000 tons of shipping in the next twelve months. Our building capacity will Increase progressively, and if the war lasts two years the output In the sec ond year should be at least 6,000,000 tons. Allowing for probable losses In the submarine zone, this country would have at the end of that period, in the opinion of officials, not only the great est merchant marine it ever had but the greatest possessed by any nation in the world. This would be part of our immediate compensation. Our export trade mean while has been growing by leaps and bounds, and unless we except Japan we would be the only country ' In position to handle its own trade under its own flag. British shipbuilders will be fortunate if they are able from this time forward to make good the losses caused by submarines. Other allied countries are not making progress in shipbuilding, and we shall have far outstripped anything Germany will be able to put on the water. In the first years of the new peace we shall be In a position further to build up our trade because of our ability to deliver the goods. It will be a long time before we are overtaken In ship capacity. With such a flying start, our business men ought to be able to do more than hold their own. The effect of our newly stimulated building policy upon British suprem acy is already causing philosophical concern in England, but this will not change the programme. It Is a curious illustration of the fortunes of war, While we are fighting with our allies, and building ships to insure their sup plies of munitions and food, we are at the same time entrenching ourselves against them for the coming renewal of competition for the trade of the world. The American flag, which at the beginning of the century had al most disappeared from the sea, now gives promise of flying over the great est commercial fleet any country has ever known. Purchase of a railroad by a Junk dealer for more than the original cost of the road is the most graphic pos sible illustration of the upward trend of prices of all materials. And it shows the Importance in these times of saving everything. "Second-hand" goods are likely to come in handy almost any time. , CENSUS OF WOMEN. A feature of the census of the women of Oregon, which will be taken in September under the call of the Governor, Is the wholly voluntary na ture of the registration. There is to be no conscription of women prin cipally because everyone knows It to be unnecessary. Housewives, women wageworkers and business women have been offering their services con tinuously ever since the -war began: that more of them are not actually engaged in war work is due only to the fact that there has been lack of organization and no one to tell them what to do. Individual effort, how ever well meant, cannot take the place of teamwork. Registration is only the first step. The data thus obtained, it is promised. will be taken over by the Government, and in the fullness of time instructions will be issued to the registrants how to help, each according to her capacity. in winning- the war. This is precisely what every woman in the land has wanted to know for months. A certain amount of red tape is the Inevitable accompaniment of so vast an enterprise as that In which we are now engaged, but it ought to be re duced to a minimum. There is a fine chance to do this in the organization of the woman power of the Nation, be cause there are no technical or legal questions involved. Wnere so many women want to be doing, and are ready to answer the call on the In stant, it ought not to take months to find out what they can do best and let them be doing- it. Time is the essence of the conduct of every de partment of our war preparation. The census of the women of the country will be interesting and valua ble for the revelations It will make as to the number of women who are tech nically equipped for special war work. It was brought ou at the recent Na tional Business Women's Convention in New York that women in increasing- numbers are entering- the professions of engineering, marine architecture. electrical engineering- and factory man agement. The fact that of 100 engi neers who Inspected the factories in Detroit to determine which were fitted to take war contracts three were wom en will surprise many. The women engineers, however, made good and their reports became the basis of con tracts let subsequently. In this and many other ways American women have already shown that they are not slackers, and if the proposed census is followed by prompt assignment to duty our war-waging- capacity will be Increased enormously. When the House passes the mi gratory bird bill recently sent to it by the Senate, It will bring to a climax a long and persistent campaign for the protection of. birds so necessary to overcome the ravages of Insects which menace the crops. The law Is necessary to keep our part of the treaty with Great Britain. The Cana dian Parliament acted several months ago, but Congress delayed action ow ing to the bitter efforts of Senator Reed, of Missouri, to defeat the meas ure. It Is now believed that a similar treaty with Argentina will be sought. since many of our most valuable birds migrate to the southern hemisphere, and Argentina's Interest in the preser vation of bird life, because of the growth of Its agriculture, is almost as great as ours. Portland people who contemplate attending the State Fair will be pleased to learn that Campbell's American Band is to furnish the mu sic. For two years Mr. Campbell has directed the Summer concerts in this city and the appreciation here Is as surance of good music at the fair. Report on the condition of crops la Oregon is pessimistic "except where irrigation Is provided." That's Just it. The man who has a little pumping plant or who utilizes the creek Is not complaining. The man who does not will have time for planning this Winter. With 3.200,000.000 bushels of corn promised, and only some 650,000,000 bushels of wheat, it would seem to be easy to make converts for the corn bread diet, but the price of corn obsti nately refuses to come down to an at tractive basis. Isn't It about time to cease persist ent urging of economy on the part of the housewife? At present prices of everything she must buy, advice is the last thing she needs. Why not pump it into the men folk a while? Tacoma is calling for dish towels for American Lake. Government supplies only six for a company, and every woman knows what that means. Those Canadians bucked machine guns at seventy yards and in places it was bayonet to bayonet. One can not help admiring the Colonial. Keep your eye on Bernstorff at Con stantinople. That Is not promotion, and something may be loked for at the Turkish end of the conflict. The man who claims exemption on the ground of membership in a hu mane society ought to file his applica tion with the Kaiser. Two hundred strikebreakers on the way to San Francisco raided Rawlins. With that reputation, the Bay City will be prepared. What the food-control people should do with sugar is to fix a maximum price for retailers. Jobbers and pro ducers. A schoolteacher who claims exemp tion on the ground of his profession exhibits a shocking "crust." It must be because everybody is busy with bigger things that Mexico has ceased to trouble. Government buys 100,000 tons of sugar and fixes the price. Lucky Government! War bread is healthful and filling. In one respect it differs from saw dust. Make the men call for and carry home the wash. The expected strike struck in. 1 Mobilize your umbrellas. Gleams Through the Mist. By Deal Collins, THE DRY FARMER. For fifty days and fifty nights The weather did not stop; For fifty days and fifty nights It' never rained a drop: And I, the weary farmer man. To Mr. Hoover cry: "How many crops d'ye think I can Conserve when 'tis so dry?" A little rain, a little rain Would do a world of good; A little rain, a little rain In this here neighborhood; Our sense of humor's on the blink; We're not responsive to The query of the mirthful gink: "Is't hot enough for you!" A little cloud, a little cloud, No bigger than your hand: A little cloud, a little cloud Would help to beat the band; 'Twould give us hope of near relief. To say the least; but oh. There's such a lot of withered grief To be soaked up below. The weather man, the weather man. He must have gone to play; The weather man, the weather man. Vacation calls away; And meanwhile roundly he Is cussed Out In a neighborhood Where wagons flounder in the dust We'd rather tackle mud. i My little farm, my little farm. I hardly know it now; My little farm, my little farm Nor yet my horse and cow ' For they have warped within -the sun And twisted up some way Till wrinkled hills and hollows run Where placid meadows lay. And in the sun, and in the sun. Warped the potato patch; And in the sun, and in the sun. Too fast for me to catch. It warped and writhed across the way And didn't even stop. And now "my neighbor owns today My whole potato crop. The little cow, the little cow. With hair as soft as silk; The little cow, the little cow. Is giving scalded milk; And warping likewise In the heat, As sure as you are born. She has. It pains me to repeat. Achieved a crumpled horn. The little pigs, the little pigs, No longer can aspire. The little pigs, the little pigs. To wallow in the mire; There is no cooling mire today- 'Tis hard - baked through and through And if there were, I'd almost say I'd wallow in it too. This Hoover man. this Hoover man. Won't let them corner food; This Hoover man, this Hoover man And I would not be rude This Hoover man. I think, should stoop And grab, and rope, and tether That shameful, blameful rascal. Jupe, Who's hoarding the wet weather. e "Sir," said the Courteous Office Boy, "whadda they mean when they say that the engineers' unit Is to go into oamp for 'intensive training before being sent to Europe?" "Well, my son." I began, but tha Junior Assistant Office Boy held up his hand. "Please, sir," said the J. A O. B. tim idly, "as nearly as I could gather from Ed Sammons and Jake Kanzler and some of the other boys who Just brought back their shoulder straps from the Presidio, 'Intensive training" means to work a fellow so doggone hard from reveille to taps that he'll be crazy to get over Into the battle line where he can have a nice rest." SONG FOR. LITTLE FOLKS. (Without desiring to give aid or comfort to the enemy, we have revised the old Sunday school song that we used to sing in the primary classes, as It has occurred to us that it might be adapted to the propaganda somewhere In Germany.) Up, up in the sky The little Zeps fly. Down, down from their flight They drop dynamite. With a bomb on the left And a bomb on the right. And if they hit London Good night, GOOD NIGHT! Then back to their base The little Zeps fly. Hoch! Hoch, for the Zeppelins!" The Junkers all cry: "Trot out an iron cross! Not a hospital stood? The aims of our Kaiser How kind and how good!" Si Speaking of f rightfulness, while the court plaster scare was going good, we are surprised that someone didn't dis cover a plot on the part of the Bulga rian baclllll In the buttermilk to give their consumers indigestion for the glory of the fatherland. PROVERBS OF JUNKERISM. A ditch in time saves? Nelnl It's hard for an empty stomach tu stand a tough fight. A province In the hand Is worth two in the peace conference. A rolling tank gathers no prisoners. Where the Zeppelins are, there are the buzzards gathered together: birds of a feather flock together. The higher the flight the harder the fall. Better a well-fed "kameral" in an allied prlso.n camp than second In Ber lin especially where there s only ra tion for one. Through to the line; and let the men fall where they may. While they ask for bread, we'll take a loan. IN THE GARDEN. From the dusted hollyhock Sinks the heavy bumble bee. For the dial upon the rock There beside the hollyhock Says the sun Is well past three. Softly sinks the bumble bee From the dusted hollyhock. For he bears the magic key And his burly hands unlock Every day the four o'clock. Pay of Congressmen. FOREST GROVE, Or.. Aug. 18. (To the Editor.) How much salary do United States Senators and Representa tives draw each session of Congress? CAPTAIN GEORGE W. PETERS. A Senator or Representative receives a yearly salary of $7500. ALAMORT. By Guy Fitch Phelps. Volcanie forces which uproot the plain. And sow the universe with dread dis may, Blow wide their ashy chaos and send forth Their livid streams of molten desola tion; Yet all of these subside, their craters cool. The spicy air returns bewitched with musk. And the wide blackness yields to ten der green. Fruits, flowers, and the dance of streams. And the sweet song of birds and lov er's lutes. And gardens bright with roses, per sonate Of all that love or sentiment might wish. So comes the gay train of cedarn woods. And grasses which forgive all scars of earth. And cover them with sprayed forget- fulness, Till where the red hells roared and the earth Cracked wide and vomited its wrath along The shuddering drunkenness, at last will rise The tents of shepherds, the cottage, and the tilled field. So shall It be with man. The trails of war Are purple with the prints of wounded feet. And where they wind by all the haunt ed lakes In which the blood of Nations has been caught. And where the skulls of deadmen show as white As chalk banks or the tops of highest peaks At last shall rise the Taj Mahals of love. There comes a time when guns no more shall crash. Nor charging hosts encounter, when the sun In all his flight through heaven shall never see A battlefield sown with Its shapes, nor glint On sword or bayonet, but where gushed forth The living founts which leap in human breasts. The vine3 shall mantle o'er the gentle wall. And home, and peace, and twilight, and the sound Of children's voices and the drone of bees Shall calm the memory and heal the heart. For man was made for liberty, his soul Can never wear a chain and rest, he must Shake off his shackles and go forth unbound. His voice his own, his altar stones firm set With prlestless mortar, and his creed as pure As streams which flash o'er beds of polished quartz; His citizenship uncensored by a prince his hearth Unshadowed by the ghosts of greed and force. Thrones then must fall and despots bite the dust. And hoary crimes though frocked in saintly train Sink back Into the pits from whence they rose: For reason claims its own and living faiths Suppress the modes of vast idolatries And crowns and miters are but so much chaff When weighed with manhood and De mocracy. Salem, Or.. Aug. 18, 191T. WHENCE SLACKING SPIRIT COMES Writer Traces It to Over Indulgence In Frivolities of Life. PORTLAND, Aug. 20. (To the Edi tor.) It is noticeable that people who go through life never observing, never studying, cultivating their prejudice's, are the ones who have the strongest ideas about things. Their complete ignorance bars any one of Intelligence from arguing with them. They have but one source of information their own narrow observations. This permits their slothfulness of mind and body. Today a crisis appears In the lives of these people. They find themselves thrown upon the resources of a life loaded with worthless ambitions and frivolous Ideas. They are incapable of deciding what Is the best for themselves, let alone the whole world. They base their views upon their dis taste for bodily sacrifice and upon their love fit ease. These people talk of freedom. Free dom, Indeed! As though any man were free. These men of all men talking of freedom! They are veritable slaves to the slothful ease of their brains, more so than the body of the galley slave, chained to the oar in the Roman days. Man from the cradle up must sacrifice his freedom for the good of the whole. When he talks of freedom he can speak of it only as belonging to the whole of mankind and not as an in dividual thing, not as of a state, not as even of a nation, as this country has found In this latest attack on the world's freedom. The little freedom gained can only be perpetuated by the greatest efforts and by the greatest sacrifices. The most gigantic onslaught against freedom's progress is being made. The worst attacks have been received and repelled by the countries who are the closest to this latest enemy to free dom. Incidentally it is but Just that these countries should receive the brunt of this attack. It was their diplomacy and intrigue that failed, not ours. Men are responsible for their rulers and not to them. The tide has turned. Victory for freedom is nearly in view. America has stepped in to hasten the glorious day but our ragtime boys stop to argue. They seek to interpose their puny safety and pampered slothfulness between America and her duty. They chatter and argue like a bunch of high school seniors deciding the class colors. Their arguments are about as weighty, their heat as petty, their confusion as silly. . America, through her mothers and fathers and through them her sons and daughters, is reaping the harvest of too much ragtime, too many stepping parties, too much Robert W. Chambers, too much seeking to please the vani ties and ape the follies of a giddy society world, too much striving to copy the idle rich, too much trying for earthly position without working for better conditions among men. i STANL.tiY CilAKBlTl!,. A. Mother'a Prayer. Dear God, I pray on bended knee That thou will come and comfort me; I'm old in years, but far from strong; I need thy help In this mad throng. No power I ask. but Just thy hand To guide me through this lonely land; Teach me to help the wayward brother. Do thou comfort every mother Whose heart is aching o'er the sea. And bring us closer. Lord, to thee; All nations need thee in this fight For thou alone canst make things right. Don't comfort me, but comfort all Who suffering in the trenches fall; Be near to all, on land and sea. For then, dear Lord, van nomfort me. J. B. C In Other Days. Hnlf a Century Aeo. From The Oregonian of August 21, 186T. St. Petersburg. The American squadron, with Admiral Farragut. has arrived at Constrandt. The usual sa lutes were exchanged. Florence. Carlotta Is In better spirits and her mental condition is slightly Improved. She knows that Maximilian is dead, but fancies that he died from fever. The railroad excitement ut the Val ley is not so great but that the citi zens have time and opportunity to de vote to other exciting topics. At Eu gene tjity they are talking auartz and finding it, too. Two or three rather exciting horse races were run yesterday on the track below town. At a late Union meetiner at rhino. Cal., Bidwell introduced Gorham to the audience and proposed three cheers for nim as the future Governor of Cali f ornia. In mailing the Greenville, S. C. En terprise recently Confederate bonds of the denomination of $1000 were used as wrappers. Twenty-five Yeara Ago Today. k From The- Oregonian of August 21. 1802. Having been on a rampage last-j night, several of the nine reckless' young men comprising the Portland baseball club were hors de combat to day and dropped a miserably-played game to Tacoma by a score of 15 to 4. Rev. Ward McAllister has been hit ting his chosen flock hard raps be cause of their extravagance. He calls It vulgar, which ought to settle It. But vulgarity dies hard, and extrava gance is fast coming to be a National characteristic. The rewsboys organized a union to day, and no one will be allowed to sell papers except members of the union. The boys will pay 50 cents per month dues. About a year ago the boys or ganized such a union, and the treas urer was the only one benefited. The steamer Haytlen Republic ar rived last night from British Columbia. Amonr her passengers were 22 Chi nese, who were refused a landing by the collector of customs. BRYANT'S POEM HOLDS PROPHECY Present-Day Condition Are Foreseen In His "Song of the Sower." PORTLAND. Aug. 20. (To the Edi tor.) There have been numerous com ments during the war on Tennyson's prophecy ending with the lines: airy navies Grappllnr In the central blua. The following lines, which I found In William Cullen Bryant's "Song of the Sower," may be of Interest to Amer icans as showlni? that an American poet prophesied with equal pertinence some of the conditions of the present struggle: Ha! Feel ye not your f lngers thrill. As o'er them. In the yellow grains. Glide the warm drops of blood that fill. For mortal strife, the warrior's veins; Such as, on Solferlno's day. Slaked the brown sand and flowed away Flowed till the herds, on MInclo's brink, Snuffed the red stream and feared to drink; Blood that In deeper pools shall lie On the sad earth, as time prows gray, When men by deadlier arts shall die. And deeper darkness blot the sky ' Above the thundering fray: And realms that hear the battle-cry Shall sicken with dismay; And chieftains to the war shall lead Whole nations, with the tempest's speed. To perish in a day. Bryant's words are doubly Interest ing in the light of the regulations we are now undertaking, from their fancy tnat as we sow the wheat we are lit erally sowing the blood that gives our warriors life. Would our speculators be needing regulation if their sordid minds were capable of even receiving such a thought? F. LACK OF CITIZENSHIP IS BAR Englishman Contrasts American With Foreign Army Regulations. LENTS, Or., Aug. 20. (To the Edi tor.) I am a British subject, not hav ing as yet taken out my final papers of American citizenship. I have lived lt years In the United State, went to American schools, and this country has my undivided loyalty. When the United States entered the war I immediately took steps with a view of getting a commission in our new Army, but found tl.at I am de barred from any rank on account of my citizenship, regardless of any oath of allegiance I might take. I know of one American citizen, a personal friend, now In training in the aviation corps of the French army. He will not become a French citizen to get his commission as an officer in the French armyi Kermlt Roosevelt is a Captain in the Canadian army. I would be surprised to hear that he had renounced his American citizenship to obtain this office. We hear continually of Americans re ceiving commissions in foreign armies. Have they all renounced America? Or Is it a fact that our army regulations demand more drastic requirements than others and that the same opportunity for capable men of foreign birth to strve in an official capacity accorded by our allen3 is not permitted by us? G. O. BLACKBURN. Jobs In Monitions Works. BAKER, Or., Aug. 19. (1) Could you advise me as to the opportunity and method of securing employment in a munition factory? (2) Could you also advise me as to the proposed factory in which the employes would enter into such work for a period of ten months and be under contract Tor that period of time -without outside communication? Jk . g. itY f. 1. Hundreds of factories are engaged in various phases of munitions manu facture. It is Impracticable to publish a list of them and we have no knowl edge as to their need for employes. The nearest powder works Is that of the Du Pont de Nemours Powder Company, Du Pont, Wash. The way to get a Job in a factory is to apply. 2. A report has been circulated that the Westinghouse Electric & Manufac turing Company, South Pittsburgh, Pa., desired men on such terras, but we cannot advise you as to the accuracy of the report. No Fixed Rnle. BROWNSVILLE, Or., Aug. 19. (To the Editor.) Is a man exempt from draft at all times who has the left arm out of place at the wrist, also elbow, but has since formed new sockets and can now use It. A READER. It is for the examining- board to de termine whether the arm lncopacltates him for military duty. There Is no fixed rule as to some physicial defects. Horses for Government. ASTORIA, Or.. Vug. 19. (To the Edi tor.) Kindly advise me how I can get in touch with buyers of horses for the United States cavalry. A SUBSCRIBER. fjf Write to Captain Sauer, I. M. R. C, 516 Worcester building, Portland. Or.