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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.
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"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.