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1 OKI I V(). 1UIKSDAY, SEPT. 6, 1917.
LOYALT OR DISLOYAL?
The strong arm of the United States
Jhas set out to exterminate the Ir.dus
jtrial Workers of the World, a treason
able organization which has flourished
most in the Pacific Northwest. Next
we shall expect to see the Federal
power directed toward the foreign
language press, forbidding publication
by any newspaper, at least for the
period of the war, of articles on cur
rent tODics In any text but English.
It would seem also that the unpatri
otic and hurtful activities of sundry
ocieties masauerading as peace bod
ies ought to have vigilant attention
primarily from Washington ratner
than from the various states or cities.
so that their status as patriots or
traitors may not be a variable quan
tity depending upon the whim or
fancy of some treason-fostering Mayor
or upon the sturdy Americanism of
some courageous Governor.
It is a time of war, and not of
peace: and the Nation is fighting for
its existence. It is not necessary yet
to suspend the constitutional guaran
ties of any citizen: but it is neces
sary to repress sedition and treason
covering its actions under the broad
privileges of free speech: and it is
necessary to exercise a rigorous su
pervision over all avenues of com
munication, including the newspapers.
to the various elements of our popula
tion.
There is no question about the pur
poses of the Industrial Workers of
the World. They have preached rev
olution at all times, and fomented
open treason at various times, and
have contributed whatever they could
to industrial and political unrest, and
liave defiantly resisted the author
ities in their effort to uphold the law,
The organization has not disguised, or
Bt least it has only thinly disguised.
its hostility to America's cause in the
present war by a pretense of opposi
tion to sfU wars. It has opposed con
scription and has incited resistance
to the draft. It has served the cause
of Germany, intentionally or unin
tentionally, it makes no difference
for' the result is the same. The prov
erbial patience of the President has
been exhausted at last, and he has
undertaken to break up the various
I. W. W. headquarters, seize their
literature and disperse the members.
A twin of the I. WW. in trouble
making, but' in different channels,
find by more adroit and dangerous
methods, is a certain section of the
foreign-language newspapers, mostly
German, but not all. They pretend
a loyalty they do not feel. They print
occasional articles on the common
duty of standing by America, In order
to keep the record straight, but in
11 thousand ways they show their.sym
jiathy with the . public enemy. They
criticise, directly or by innuendo, the
acts and policies of the Administra
tion. They attack Great Britain and
other American allies. They publish
conspicuously with approving com
ment, from day to day, or week to
week, the speeches of a La Follette,
or a Gore, or a Reed, or a Gronna.
They emphasize the importance of
every German victory and every allied
defeat, and they talk peace, peace,
peace, when there is no peace, and
can be none, until the safety of the
republic is assured by defeat of Ger
many or by concessions which obvi
ously it will never make except under
coercion. These papers are forever
In the twilight zone of a dubious or
more than dubious loyalty, and they
ought to be brought into the light.
They misconceive their own position
of suppositious immunity when they
fancy that the Government may act
only in cases of known or proved
sedition, or treasonable utterance and
.conduct
We repeat that the country is In
war, a war. for its very life, and it
should and will resolve every ques
tion in its own favor.
Why should there be any dispute or
doubt about any citizen's or newspa
per s loyalty ? it is observed that a
member of ,the Oregon Legislature,
who has several times taken a public
oath to support the constitution and
laws of the state and the United
states, is present in Chicago as a
delegate to the so-called Council for
Democracy and Peace, and that he
protests the high and virtuous pur
poses of that body. Vallandigham
and every copperhead that sought to
pink his poisonous fangs in the throat
of the Union also proclaimed their
patriotism. They merely said that
they wanted the President and Con
press to do something else than the
things They were straining every
nerve and muscle to do to save the
Union. Every voice raised for a pre
mature peaoe is a help to Germany;
and to that extent at least is pro
German. Every effort or movement
tr plan to dissuade and prevent the
Administration from making the most
complete plans for war, or to dis
courage the people from a vigorous
and effective part in the struggle, is
a help to Germany; and every word
and sentence tending to show dissen
eion in America, or want of hearty
and effective support of a real war
programme, is a help to Germany.
It is true, and will be shown every
day to be more and more true, that
ell who are not for America are
ogainst it; and it is sadly true that
Kouie wlio say they are for America
are against it, or are serving the
cause of those who are against it,
jwhicli comes to the same end. I
War is war, and can be carried on
only as war. Let us apprehend and
accept our common duty to support
the war and the proclaimed and well
understood plans of the Government
which is responsible for the success
of the war and therefore for the future
of the republic Let us know these
things, and then we shall know also
that the fate of America is the per
sonal concern of every citizen and the
disloyalty or lack of loyalty of one's
neighbor is a direct menace to every
American. '
OREGON LEADS THE WAT.
"What Oregon Has Done New York
Can Do" is the heading over an arti
cle in the official weekly bulletin of
the Department of Health of New
Tork City. Oregon is thus praised
for having eliminated fake medical
advertising from the pages of its
newspapers and periodicals. The edi
tor of the official bulletin has before
him a copy of a publication which he
says "reeks with medical advertise
ments which probably represent as
choice a collection of fakes as can
be found anywhere." In contrast, he
has before him also, a copy of the
"international edition" of the same
publication, in which none of the ob
jectionable advertisements appear.
Investigation discloses that the ex
purgated "international edition" was
printed for circulation in Oregon,
whose laws the publishers have de
cided to respect. Claim to the desig
nation "international" is not quite
clear, but Oregon will appreciate the
compliment implied by those pub
lishers who purify their columns be
fore sending their periodicals into the
state. It also will value highly the
opinion of the New York health offi
cials that its action "illustrates what
a forceful and enlightened health cru
sade can accomplish."
Oregon leads the way again. New
York now has a law patterned after
ours, which went into effect on Sep
tember 1. Other states, no doubt.
will follow the example. It was
needed only that inertia should be
overcome and that we should get over
the notion that a thing "can't be
done" just because it never has been
done before. Someone must blaze the
way and the pioneer spirit is part of
the heritage of the West.
6OLDIERS' LIFE INSURANCE.
The feature of the bill for insur
ance of the lives of soldiers which will
be most widely discussed when the
measure comes up on the floor in
Congress will be the provision for the
issuance of policies up to $10,000 at
the flat rate of $8 for each $1000, in
addition to the other benefits which
it is proposed to grant without cost
and in lieu of pensions after the war.
There seems to be general agreement
upon the desirability of granting in
demnities to the men, of providing for
their families during the war and aft
erward, if the soldier is incapacitated.
and also of making tire family the
unit of compensation, rather than the
soldier himself. But upon the ques
tion of additional insurance there is
wide divergency of opinion, which is
likely to delay enactment of the meas
ure. There is opposition by insurance
men, as was to have been expected
but also by others, who see in the
plan a far-reaching experiment in
state socialism, the end of which tan
not be foreseen.
The pending bill contains elaborate
provision for indemnities in case of
death or incapacity, for the re-educa
tion of war cripples, and for the
care of dependents in various circum
stances. These are designed to su
persede all pension legislation and en
tall no expenditure on the part of the
soldier. The added provision for in
surance at assumed cost was inserted
upon the theory that the Government
was in duty bound to protect the men
against "loss of insurability," by rea
son of their service to the country.
It - is therefore provided that upon
payment of the specified rate the sol
dier may insure his life in any amount
not exceeding $10r000. The $8 is the
net mortality table rate for one-year
renewable term insurance on men of
the average age of the soldier. It is
a rate based upon peace statistics, the
Government assuming the war risk
itself.
But there is also a section of the
bill which permits the conversion of
these policies, at the close of the war,
without medical examination, into
such other forms of insurance as may
be prescribed by regulations. This,
the New York Spectator, an insur
ance organ, regards as indicating that
the Government will embark in the
general business of life insurance on
an immense scale, and it is feared
that this will be done without scien
tific provision for meeting its cost
Actuaries estimate that, ' assuming
that half the men in our new Army
apply for the maximum amount, the
cost to the Government for the first
year will be $184,000,000 and for the
second year $900,000,000. Beyond the
second year they decline to estimate
They fear that in its efforts to avoid
an unscientific pension burden, the
Government will establish a condition
even worse.
It is certain that in coupling a gen
eral insurance provision with the
measure for the payment, of specific
compensation the authors of the meas
ure have opened the doors to inter
minable discussion which will greatly
delay, if it does not defeat, the grants
which all are agreed are desirable and
just. It may be found necessary to
separate the two proposals and to in
troduce a bill for each. Conercss
could thus proceed promptly to pass
the measure which ought now to be
in effect, because just indemnity is
as much a part of the soldier's pay as
his regular monthly wage, and it could
debate at its leisure the intricacies of
the whole insurance question, which
will consume time without end. It is
most important that some provision
for our men and their families should
be made at once.
OREGON'S QUOTA FOB BOOKS.
In calling on Oregon to subscribe
$40,000 to its fund for .the purchase
of books for our .soldiers, the Amer
ican Library Association has not set
a mark that will impress patriotic
Oregonians as too high. It is about
5 cents for each inhabitant, and the
money ought to be forthcoming at
once. But since we know that a good
many will not give their nickels, even
for so good a cause, those who are
impressed by the plan should be as
generous as their means will allow.
Distribution of the funds is in good
hands and the money will not be
wasted.
This effort to provide for the men
tal well-being of the men in the Army
serves as a reminder again of the
great strides we have made -even since
the Spanish War, less than twenty
years ago. As we improve in such
matters as camp administration, sani
tatlon and prophylaxis, so, too. we are
giving more attention to the spiritual
welfare of our men. Truth of the
adage that Satan finds mischief for
idle hands to do is being borne in.
We have not banished the dramshop
from the vicinity of the cantonment
without offering a practical substi
tute. Clean sport, outdoor and indoor
athletics, motion pictures and' other
forms of entertainment will minister
to the social instinct instead.
The book has its place in the leisure
life of every man. Gifts of libraries
In the present situation are peculiarly
fitting. There should be a generous
response to the call.
IS LUMBER REALLY DEARER?
It is pretty generally understood
that the lumbermen of the Northwest
have had a tough time for quite a
umber of years, but there are few
people, aside from those interested in
some branch of the business, who un
derstand fully, or even partially, the
great slump several years ago and the
prevailing unfavorable conditions at
the present time.
It is estimated by Government offi
cials that in normal times about one
million people are employed in the
lumber industries in the United States,
and that one-quarter of these, or 250,-
00, are employed in the Northwest
regon, Washington and Idaho. But
uring several years, up, say, to the
first of July, 1916, 25 per cent of
these men were idle.
When the loss of wages to over
60,000 people is added to strikes, car
shortages and the low prices of lum
ber, it can be seen that the lumber
men have had theif worries. But
many think, since war orders began
to pour into the mills and dealers.
that once more the lumbermen are
profiting. Is that true? Is it not
fact that lumber comparatively is
today one of the cheapest commodities
on the .market?
An advertisement of the Tum-A-
Lum Lumber Company in the
Deschutes Tribune, published at Cul
ver, makes, the following statements
In 1914 a Tum-A-Lum barn cost 40
hogs: in 1917 same barn costs 24 hogs.
n 1914 a Tum-A-Lum house cost 480
bushels of wheat; in 1917 same house
costs 225 bushels of wheat. In 1914
Tum-A-Lum silo cost 220 bushels
f corn; in 1917 same silo costs 110
bushels of corn. In 1914 A Tum-A-
Lum machine shed cost 20 tons of
alfalfa; in 1917 same shed costs 10
tons of alfalfa."
Nowhere have we seen the facts as
to the present comparative prices of
umber so tersely stated.
SKATES AND HUCKLEBERRIES.
It is a long way from the European
battlefield to an Oregon huckleberry
patch. A prominent magazine several
weeks ago ingenuously illustrated that
fact in an anecdote. It concerned an
ndian who had year after year ped
died huckleberries in Oregon at a
fixed price a bucket. This year, so
the story ran, the price was up.
"Are huckleberries scarcer this year
than last? Does it require any more
work to pick them? Do you have to
go farther for them?" and similar
questions were asked of the Indian by
an interested housewife.
Then why do you charge more?
slie inquired.
Huh! Dam big war in Europe,"
was the Indian's reply.
We all laughed over the story. But
why did we laugh?
The price of a shave is now about
to go to 20 cents. It takes no more
time for the barber to shave a man
than it did a year ago. Every man
may be bristling with righteous in
dignation over Prussian ruthlessness,
but his bristling does not dull the
azor. Rents have not yet gone up.
Soap is still firm.
The carpenter can saw a board in
two just as quick as he ever could
It requires no more labor to drive
nail than it ever did. The shipyard
employe can rivet a steel plate with
out more than the accustomed exe
tion, ana the motorman finds it no
more difficult to grind the controller
or throw on the air than in the status
quo ante.
The grocer, the butcher, the milk
man, the shoe merchant and the
clothier have just rendered their
monthly accounts. It is a touchy sub
ject. It grows touchier every month.
It is only a short while ago that we
were rejoicing that the farmer was
getting such high prices for his wheat
and cattle and sheep. It was all right
until the increase was handed down
ts the ultimate consumer. The ulti
mate consumer was not working any
harder than he had before huckle
berries were just as plentiful. Bu
he had to have more money with
which to buy flour, and meat, and
shoe leather, and milk for the babies.
It spread into every branch of in
austry. jjven the farm laborer now
is getting more, although he handles
the plow and the binder with the
same facility as of yore. The circle
has got back to the farm in the shape
of high wages and higher cost of
everything the farmer uses. There is
no longer much money in $2 wheat,
To what heights of living cost we
would rise were it not for food con
trol nobody can say. Probably buckle
berries would sell by the dozen and
every man would require the company
of a bank messenger when he visited
the barber.
Few persons would work for money
if it were not for the things they need
or want that money will buy. W
cannot consistently measure the wage
rate on the old standards. It is not
a question of what a man once did
for a dollar, but one of the purchasin
power of the dollar. When that is
upset the economic system is upset.
Let us fondly hope that the ifew basi
has now been reached and that each
employment will soon get its just dues
without recourse to disorder. There
is work to be done. There are armies
to maintain and munition. The Na.
tion is spending billions for war, and
meanwhile it must keep itself in pro
ductive trim. We cannot do that on
starvation wages. There is a "dam
big war in Europe."
A. CONTRAST.
While Belgian relief ships are being
ruthlessly sunk by German subma
rines and hospital vessels bombarded
and the crews of inoffensive trawlers
abandoned to the fury of the seas by
he modern pirates of the U-boat
campaign, it is interesting to recall a
contrast that takes us back to our
own revolutionary times. France was
engaged in a war with England, in
which great animosity had been
aroused. Meanwhile, Captain Cook,
an Englishman, was making his third
voyage of discovery. Ambassador
Jusserand, writing in the National
Geographic Magazine, says that Tur
got, the statesman, wrote a brief me
morial to the King, in which he said:
Captain Cook Is probably on his way back
te Europe. Hie expedition haviner no other
object than the progress of human knowl
edge, and interesting, therefore, to all na
Ions. It would be worthy of the king's
magnanimity not to allow that the result be
jeopardized by the chances of war. Orders
should be given to ell French naval orncers
t abstain from any hostile act against him
r his ship, and allow him freely to con-
inue his navigation, and to treat him in
every respect as the custom Is to treat the
officers and ships of neutral and friendly
countries.
The King assented, 6ays M. Jusse-
rand, and the French cruisers were
notified of the sacred character which
they would have to recognize in the
hip of the enemy. It was a small
fact in itself, but, adds the Ambas
sador, it showed the difference be
tween the wars in those days and in
ours, when we have had to witness
the wanton destruction of the Lou
vain Library, the shelling of the
Kheims Cathedral and the destruction
of the Arras Town Hall.
The difference is not, however, bo
much in the times as in the funda
mental character of the leaders.
Prussian militarism is might gone
mad. It is significant that not even
the ruthless barbarity of Prussianism
has provoked its enemies to mane
reprisals in kind. The Kaiser has
recently exhibited a .strange touchi
ness about the treatment of German
prisoners in France and has demanded
punishment of a Frencti General, who.
the Germans say, called the Germans
pigs." The French have been able
to prove that the accused Geperal was
not even in the part of the country
where the incident was reported to
have taken place.
Meanwhile, indignities heaped upon
their prisoners by the Prussians are
common occurrences, and "schwein"
is by a curious coincidence the Ger
man term for their enemies, particu
larly the English. This is interesting
because it shows total lack of per
spective in the Prussian leaders. It is
mpossible for them to see that any
act of theirs can be wrong even if
it is the same act of which they com
plain in the enemy. It is enormously
difficult even to discuss with one in
this state of mind an issue of funda
mental importance.. There is no com
mon standing point.
This contrast not between the
methods of warfare of 1780 and 1917,
but between the Prussian attitude and
that of Prussia's present foes will be
clear to the man who will try to
imagine what would happen to Cap
tain Cook, if he were now engaged "in
no other object than the progress of
human knowledge," and were to en
counter a German submarine. Does
anyone doubt what would become of
his ship? Even his life and the lives
of his crew would not be worth much.
It is an instructive contrast, because
it helps to show what it really is that
the civilized world is fighting for.
The Esperantists are trying to make
the sending of our troops to France
the occasion for reviving propaganda
for the spread of their "universal lan
guage," it being urged that the men
could learn it in a fraction of the
time required to master French and
that there are "several thousand'
now in the latter country who already
speak Esperanto. But several thou
sand are not many among millions,
and the purpose of our men is to
make themselves of real use, which
they would not be doing in learning a
language that only they could un
derstand. The American' Esperant
ists assert that one man learned to
read in Esperanto in six hours and
to speak it in six weeks, but even this
genius would find he had wasted his
time if he were in a trench in Franco
where his comrades and allies had
neglected their own education in the
same respect.
Raising hares to supply the family
with meat is commendable if one does
not buy the feed. If the feed is to
be grown in the back yard or on va
cant lot, care must be used. Most of
the clovers are excellent, such as
white, red, mammoth red, sweet and
crimson; but what is called Eureka
clover is more of a weed and likely
to become a pest.
Freak growths of vegetables are
valueless. The elongated potato vine
bears few tubers because of growth
above ground, and the much-knobbed
potato is hog feed. Corn that is most
ly nubbins is- fit for the silo, with
the stalk. A three-way tomato can be
eaten, of course, but not with the
relish of the fair-size, smooth escu
lent.
Kaiser Wilhelm's new slogan, "On
ward with God!" applies, seemingly,
only to the Riga front. He does not
say whom he is traveling with in the
opposite direction in Flanders and
France.
Since one whale yielded 14.000
pounds of meat to an Aberdeen
whaler, the man who owns a small
pond ought to look into the industry.
There might be money in whale veal.
New York's "singing conscripts"
show the true American spirit and
help to demonstrate that there is
honor in being drafted under a sys
tem of really universal service.
Don't blame the weather altogether
if your potatoes don't show well. Did
you give them the care they needed
on all those lots you cultivated, this
year?
-Thirty-nine young Oregonians rep
resent this state in the selective serv
ice not many, but fighters all and
more of the kind will join them later,
There is nothing in the attack on
American sailors in Cork Sunday
night. The Yankee tars "copped" the
girls and the Irish boys got mad.
if hunters, campers and others have
been as careless in, the woods as some
lot owners have in the city no wonder
the fires have been bad this year.
If this thing of commissions to
probe continues, the garbage men will
have a "holler" . to fix responsibility
for the shortage in their stuff.
Any barber can spot the man whose
hai is cut by his wife. It is called
the bowl style, as she trims what is
left exposed by the edge.
Defective ammunition is more noi
some than the embalmed beef of
twenty years ago, but the offenders
Will get off as easily.
The Southern Pacific and the broth
erhoods show-real community of in-
terest in adopting arbitration.
Yesterday seems to have been a
Federal snake day, with I. W. W.
nests the objective.
If the bear could meet a bulldog
in his path, the skedaddle would stop
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leone Caaa Bter.
MV
Y IDEA of nothing on earth to do
contained in the announcement
scattered broadcast in tha theatrical
world that Oliver M. Saylor, dramatic
editor of the Indianapolis News, has
obtained a leave of absence from his
paper to make a, visit to Russia, to
obtain first-hand information regard
ing the new theater movement In that
country.
Who cares? But the worst of it
is that Oliver will possibly get the
first-hand information he la Eeeklng
and some paper will publish it and
we'll have to hear all about it.
e
Thrilled I read further that the "new
theater movement has been in opera
tion throughout the entire revolution
ary perjod. Its plays are written half
in novel form and half as plays. A
chapter out of the novel is read to
the audKence and at its conclusion the
players take up the action from where
the book leaves off. After an act has
een completed another chapter is
read, and so on until the play is fin
ished." Well, the life of a dramatic critic
may not be as exciting as chasing
across darkest Russia to get first-hand
information concerning? the new the
ater movement, but at least it's a bit
more safe.
One of the Karber sisters is always
getting married. Or unmarried. -This
time it is Constance. She has become
the bride of Eddie Carr, known as the
'nut comedian" in vaudeville.
They became acquainted last season
while both acts were touring- the
Orpheum on the same bill.
e
Trlxie Frlganza will remain in vaude
ville, on the Orpheum circuit. It means
she will not return to "Canary Cot
tage." with which production she ap
peared last season.
Miss Frlganza has received the May-
hew and Taylor route on the Orpheum
time, Billie Taylor having gone into
the service.
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Charles Compton, who was Juvenile
man last season with the Alcazar
Players, is scoring a big personal suc
cess in the leading role of "Oh Boy"
in a special company reorganized for
Boston and vicinity. It is planned to
bring thj3 company to the Pacific Coast
later in the season. Mr. Compton has
six musical and danca specialties and
is being given all sorts of nice atten
tions from reviewers in the Boston
papers and in Atlantic. City, where
they opened. Naturally, in stock one
doesn't have much opportunity to war
ble, and so only a few folk out here
knew that Charles Compton is pos
sessed of a delightful and well-trained
tenor. He studied in Europe for sev
eral years, and prior to appearing in
the dramatic field he was a light opera
favorite in the East.
George E. Hunt, who has been Oliver
Morosco's right bower of publicity for
years, is in Portland ahead of "So Long
Letty" which comes to the Heilig "the
last part of next week. Mr. Hunt has
the distinction of being-' the husband
of Arline Hackett who is William
Faversham's leading woman. Mr.
Morosco, by the way, has accepted
another new play, which makes a
dozen at least which he is to produce
this season. The newest one is
"Mary's Way Out" by Ashton Stevens,
dramatic critic of the Chicago Ex
aminer.
.
Speaking of "So Long Letty" the
entire chorus is made up of California
girls and one of the principals, Halley
Manning, who plays the role of "Chita"
is a Californian. Her first stage ex
perience was as a member of the
Morosco stock. Charlotte Greenwood
who is featured in the production is a
Philadelphian. She is married to Cyril
Ring, a brother to Blanche Ring.
Blanche Ring, by the way, is featured
in one of Morosco's musical produc
tions "What Next," which is now play-
ins at the Cort in San Francisco. Her
husband, Charle3 Wenninger, is In the
cast also. Flanagan and Edwards.
Dainty Marie and the Du For boys, all
former Orpheum stars, are prominent
n the entertaining.
Josephine Victor, who played the
Hen Pheasant with Maude Adams in
Chanticleer," is to be starred in "The
Verdict," presented by John Cort
John Mason has been engaged by A.
H. Woods to appear in "The Target"
by Samuel Shipman.
Gertrude Langtry, the American ac
tress known as Gertrude Vanderbilt
(not the same Gertrude Vanderbilt now
in "Maytime at the Shubert, New
York), was married last week in Eng
land, at Seaford, Sussex, to Lance
Corporal Locquell, of the Canadian
army. He is the son (of a professor
in Oporto University, Portugal, and was
invalided home to London from France.
Miss Langtry met him there.
,
Mr. and Mrs. George Damered have
a new baby boy, who Joined them In
Chicago last week. Mrs. Damerel is
professionally known as Myrtle Vail,
and with her husband is one of the
big drawing cards in the musical-
dancing world. The Damerels have one
other child, a little daughter.
When Harry Lauder starts his next
American tour in October, under the
management of William Morris, the
Scotchman will devote the proceeds of
three performances weekly to the Red
Cross fund.
One of the Lauder Red Cross shows
will be on Sundays, a day previously
reserved by him for rest. The other
two benefit shows will be given at ma
tinees.
Included in his Red Cross perform
ances will be recruiting appeals by the
singing comedian. The Red Cross and
propaganda work were made a condi
tion by Lauder in his contract with
Morris. All the receipts of the special
performances will be turned over to
the funds.
Morris has routed Lauder for 20
weeks, to cover, the South and Coast
as well as other sections, including
Canada.
"Katinka." with Howard Langford,
opens at Atlantic City this week on
its road tour. '
George Randolph Chester, Jr., 21, son
of the author of "Get Rich Quick Wal
lingford," has enlisted in the First
Regiment, O. N. G., and is temporarily
stationed at Fort Thomas, Ky.
SCANT RESPECT SHOWN FOR FLAG
Only Two Veterans! Bare Head aa Sol
diers and Colora Pass Throner.
HOOD RIVER, Or., Sept- 4. (To the
Editor.) In tha Literary Digest I find
two very striking photographs. On page
30 is the picture of an anxious mother,
with a small child and an infant babe
in her arms, anxiously waiting and
watching to get a last glimp&e of her
soldier husband as the Sixty-ninth New
York marches by. The picture is in
deed pathetic, and is only one of the
hundreds of thousands of tragic dramas
that will be enacted throughout this
land of ours.
On page 31 is a view of the Sixty-
ninth marching down one of the streets
of New Y'ork with colors unfurled.
Only two old men in all this great
throng can be seen showing any mark
of respect for the' flag, and they no
doubt are Civil War veterans.
This is a sample of the reverence
shown in the greatest city in the Union
for the flag of our country. It is not an
uncommon scene, for similar lack of
respect has marked the conduct of the
citizens of every city where troops have
marched. Now don't point the finger of
criticism too straight at the big city.
lor tne smaller ones are equally guilty.
to my mind, this spirit of indiffer
ence is a National weakness and needs
to bo corrected, lest we forget that
we have already sent an Army to
France to cross swords with the most
powerful and despotic military nation
the world has ever known.
Now, Mr. Indifferent Citizen, never
permit a body of soldiers to march past
you again on the streets without show
ing them some mark of respect.
As they file by with heads erect,
with a steady tread and a smile on
their faces, as they go to the battle
scarred land of Northern France, don't
you think that you owe it to them to
take off your hat?
It is not asking much that you re
move your hat as a mark of respect to
those marching soldiers. If you do
this little act the pack on the backs
of the soldiers will seem lighter to
them. Try it next time.
I know how this will work, for I
have been in the marching columns
and also have stood on the curb. We
owe it and it's a small and just debt.
Let us all pay it as it comes due.
I think that the remedy for this
lack of respect to the flag can be cor
rected most readily by the teachers In
our public schools. The teacher is
fitted for this work. Let Oregon be
first again in this matter of teaching in
her schools the proper respect which
should be rendered at all times to the
flag of our beloved country.
ROY D. SMITH.
CONFUCIUS' RULE RECOMMENDED
Writer Thinks It Better Than Universal
lteliarloa for Price Promotion.
PORTLAND. Sept. 5. (To the Ed
itor.) Please permit a courteous reply
to letter of James S. Sheely in The Ore
gonlan of September 3.
A. universal religion that would find
an echo in every heart and brain is a
consummation devoutly to be desired."
but, alas! it is Utopian and Impossible,
as there are "many men of many
minds," and religions come under
God's immutable law of growth and
change. Mr. Sheely's universal religion
must, necessarily, be one that appeals
to him and suited to his intellectual
growth and capacity, otherwise h
would reject it, apd rightfully so if he
was honest and sincere in his convic
tions.
Again, a universal relisrion. like uni
ersal German Kultur. implies the
power to perpetuate and enforce same
through. If necessary, violence and
force. All such attempts in the past
nave proved a negation of the truth
and a blight and curse to mankind. My
Protestant ancestors on my father's
Ride delighted in burning witches: my
Catholic ancestors on my mother's side
took equal delight in burning and ex
terminating heretics. Even Socialists
have Xnnss since given up utopiatiism
as an Idle dream, however exalted said
dream might be.
One remedy occurs to me, to-wit:
Enlightened promulgation of the Con
fucian rule "Do you unto others,"
etc. Adherence to this rule, divorced
from all creeds, and same impressed
on the child mind by careful, . loving
teaching not preaching would. In my
humble opinion, in the fullness of time
create a new world of right-thinking
peoples, resulting in right acting and
eliminate all rancor, strife, religious
bigotry and hatred. A J. MARTIN.
The correspondent has more nearly
quoted lsocrates than Confucius. The
Isocrsites rule Is, "Do not do to others
what angers you If done to you by
others." The Confucius rule is, "What
I do not wish, men to do to me, I also
wish not to do to them." Neither, be
cause each is negative in its terms, is
as comprehensive as the affirmative
Golden Rule of the New Testament:
"Therefore, all things whatsoever ye
would that men should do to you, do ye
even so to them."
Psyche and the Tenderfoot.
By Jamea Barton Adams.
With admiring eyes the tourist
Gazed upon the all right figure
And the eof fee-colored features
Of the sylphlike Indian maiden
Known as Psyche Bull-That-Bellows
As she strolled along the river
Near the village of her people.
He was from the cultured precinct
Of the ancient town of Boston,
And when he observed her closely,
Noted that the nose she carried
As the vanguard to her features
Showed no saddle marks denoting
That it ever had been straddled
By a pair of rimless glasses.
All his heart went out toward her.
For the change was so refreshing
From the cultured maids he'd ogled
In the town where he had happened.
Little dreamed the tenderfooter
That the wild appearing beauty
Clad in skirt of Army blanket
And in bright red flannel limbing
Had with honors graduated
From a female seminary
Where they make refined young ladies
Out of wild, untutored Injuns,
And for personal amusement
He concluded he would give her
What the classics call a "Jolly."
Stepping forth, he raised his dicer.
Smiled until the bright gold plating
Of his teeth flashed in the sunlight.
And addressed her thus:
"O. peerless
Wild flower of the trackless forest, ,
Fair untutored child of nature.
Slickest jaybird in the jungle.
Never have mine eyes encompassed
Such a fascinating picture.
Such a stunning tout ensemble.
All my soul is thrilled with rapture.
And the heart housed in my bosom
At its pritson bars is beating
Like a captive bird "
Then paused he.
For a sidelong glance fired at hira
Called him down. -And thus she an
swered: "Aw, come off. -you buggy snoozer.
With your phonographic prattle!
Pull your freight and do a skiddoo.
For you make me very weary
With youi?' vocal demonstration.
Executed in a manner
That arouses my suspicion
You have rats up in your belfry.
Right abdut and hit the landscape
Till the echoes of your footsteps
Are immersed in yonder distance
Or I'll holler for my papa.
Call old Colonel Bull-That-Bellows,
And he'll use you for a duster
On a patch of terra firma.
All knocked out he quick obeyed her.
And when he had been quite swallowed
In the dim and distant yonder
Gave she him the merry ha-ha.
And. unto herself she munnurmed:
"Say, that tailored freak of nature
Must have thought this bunch of girlie
Was a product of Missouri."
In Other Days.
Half a Centarr Acs,
From The Oregonlan of September 6, 186T.
A New England woman, writing in
the Portland. Maine, Transcript, after
a visit to the Pacific Coast, pays some
pretty compliments to Portland, As
toria and the Tillamook Head ccantfr,
particularly being emphatic aDout tne
"Summer House" at Tillamook Head.
John Blount, said to be the oldest
man in Illinois, died the other day. He
was reputed to be either 100 or 110
years old. He never used spectacles,
and was married at the age of 61.
The Russian Grand Duke Alexis, the
Czar's hird son, is about to visit the
United States.
Edward Quackenbush and Anna
Hasty, of this city, were married yes
terday. Senator Williams and wife were ten
dered the compliment of a serenade last
night by the Fourteenth Infantry Band.
Rev. E. W. Foster, of the Washington
conference of the Christian Church, has
begun a series of lectures combatting
the influence of modern spiritualism,
l
Twenty-Five Tear Aco.
From The Oregonlan of September , 1802.
New Orleans Jack McAuliffe
knocked out Billy Myer in 15 rounds in
the great lightweight fight here.
Washington President Harrison, in
a letter to William McKinley, responds
to the notification, accepting the nomi
nation, reviewing the work of the Re
publican party and outlining reasons
why the Republican Administration ,
should be continued.
New York Standard, founded by
Henry George, went out of existence
Saturday.
Philadelphia Daniel Dougherty, the
"silver-tongued" Democratic orator,
died here yesterday.
Nellie McHenry began a week's en
gagement at the Marquam Grand last
night in "A Night at the Circus."
Members of the First Methodist con
gregation assembled last night at the
church to bid farewell to their depart
ing pastor. Dr. Kummer. Rev. M. C.
Wire presided and Dr. fc'tratton, of the
University of Portland, was among the
speakers.
William H. Sherwood, the eminent
pianist, will give a recital tomorrow
afternoon at the Marquam Grand.
There was a pleasant social gather-
ing last night at the rooms of the
Portland College of Music in the Good
nough building. Among those pres
ent were: t'olonel and Mrs. John ' Mc
Craken, Major and Mrs. B. B. Tuttle,
Rev. Thomas Cole. Professor and airs.
R- K. Warren, Sirs. Walter Reed, Mr.
aand Mrs. Bowman. Mrs. Geisler. Mrs.
A. B. Clark, Dr. and Mrs. Hockey, Mrs.
J. G. Warner, Dr. and Mrs. b'Arcy
Power. Mr. and Mrs. Guillixson. Miss
Gullixson. Miss Fenton, Dr. Walker and
Miss Walker.
WOMEN TAKING PATRIOTIC PART
Former Skeptic Now Convinced That
Self-Denlal la 31 ot Slake-Urltrre.
HOOD RIVER, Or.. Sept. 4. (To the
Editor. I always read important press
dispatches never miss one of Gerard's
articles, nor do I see how anyone who
desires to keep himself well informed
can afford to pass by the Interesting Sir
"Jeems." I always read the heavy edito
rials and some of the "feathorweiBlits."
revel in "the poets' corner," with heart
aches and cherished memories (bless
ings on the heads of the contributors ;
dip liberally into Kaufman's anolheems
and strings of pearls; regularly fre
quent Dr. vac's "medicine chest" for
my fast-vanishing dyspepsia, and I oc
casionally dorice in to see how "Pa.
Perkins' is gettinK along with the
"Hon. Ma" and lovely daughter. But
the beautiful, blue-ribbon chapter in
The Sunday Oregonian is the one given
to the several reports of the devoted,
sacrificing, patriotic housewives of
Portland is one of the most important
efforts to aid in a much-needed and
practical way the overshadowing cause
of our country and of the world today.
It does not escape my attention that
many of these women are wealthy
enough to "fare sumptuously every
day," yet they prefer to obey the be
hests of our President, exercise self
denial and set a worthy example for
those of us to whom It means much
financially, as well as from the view
point of patriotic duty. I havo no
doubt that all those ladies reporting
and many others fully realize with an
eminent American that "duty is the
sublimest word in the English lan
guage." Let us now be favored with a like
report from the other good housewives
all over the state as to their butlers
and chefs and gardeners. I once said,
because I thought it, that all this sacri
fice and reform was commended by one
to another around a circle of make
believes but that no one was' prac
ticing It himself. I am happy to ac
knowledge my error.
A history of the noble and patriotic
part women are playing in this un
paralleled world war will of Itself
make the famous five-foot library of
rarest reading.
"Honor to women! To them it is given
To garden the earth with the roses of
heaven." W. J. P.
R. R. No. 4, Box 17S.
HIS REVERENCE IMMORTALIZED
Irish Peasants' Religious Customs Pre
served In Sons and Painting. '
PORTLAND, Sept. 5. (To the Edi
tor.) As a Catholic priest may I state
that I have nothing but Christian good
will for the rites, symbols and belief
of Dr. Samuel J. Reid's church, but I
observe that in relating his experience
in carrying the message of the gospel
through the streets and market places
of Ireland, In the Sunnyside Congrega
tional Church Sunday evening, the
Jokes at the Irish peasant's lifting his
hat at noon when the chapel bell rings
and on mention of the name "Jesus."
The custom has been immortalized by
a master brush In the famous painting,
"The Angelus," and in so far as the
upper classes and alleged intellectuals
of Ireland are concerned, one of Brit
ains' most beloved of poets, a Protest
ant, has written:
Kind hearts are more than coronets.
And simple faith, than Norman blood.
There may be people In this world,
and many of them, who do not revere
the name "Jesus" in the same manner
and spirit as the Irish peasant, but
what man among them who knows
whereof he speaks does not respect the
life and the teachings of the gentle
Nazarene and what man among them
would ridicule the faith and reverence
of those who love him and worship
him?
How many in this hour are going -t
their deaths on the far-flung battle line
with his sacred name on their lips
men who have in their simple faith and
love of country given their all for th4
welfare of their fellows and in order
that the principles that "Jesus" lived
for and died for shall save mankind
from the hell of a godless world ani
of governments who turned away from
these teachings?
The childlike faith that asks not sight.
Waits not for -wonders or for fIeii,
Believes, because it loves, aright.
Sh-iH see thine Kretter. things divine.
Heaven to that sale shall open wide.
Al! brightest angels to and fro
On mes.safis of love shall (?!ide
Twist (iod and Christ below.
REV. E. P. MURPHY,
Pastor St. Patrick's Church.