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I'oHtage Kates 12 to 18 pages. 1 cent; 18 T " pages, a cents; 34 to 48 pages, 3 cents iu ou pages. 4 cents; 62 to 70 pages, i, cents: 78 to S2 pages. 6 cents. Foreign y postage double rates. W Jtern Business Office Verree & Conk Iln, .Brunswick building. New York: Verree e onKiin. bteger building, Chicago; San FranMufi mp...1.t.ii... z t ih.i 1 1 " . .1 ftnrnei street. MEMBER OK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press la i-teliinlvulv n : titled to the use for republication of all . news credited to it or not otherwise credited mis paper and also the local news pub llshed herein. All rights of republication of sneclal dla. pmcnes tnarein are also reserved. 1 labor, too. The farmer is. perhaps. I wioi. unciiuer in mis respect, loo cAciiciu implements iaii to wear as long as they ought to do. be cause of simple carelessness and neg lect. It does not matter that the owner has had a prosperous year and can "afford" to buy new tools. Money cannot replace wasted labor. In the larger sense. We do not make Na tional prosperity by causing unneces sary employment. And it is conceiv able that the time may come when we shall not be able to replace our worn-out implements at any price. THE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1917. U"ORTl.AND, SATURDAY, OCTOBER , 1917. ".Irrm- JiELP YOURSELF AS WELL AS YOUK COUNTRY. , The buyer of liberty bonds helps his '(country to win the war and thereby benefits himself by helping to preserve his own liberty. But he benefits him . . eelf far more directly. He gets an in ; -vestment, backed by the best security in the world, which pays 4 per cent . Interest and which rises in value. sometimes immediately, certainly when war is over. But he gets further t-wenents. He provides the Government TVith money for the purchase of his Jjown products or to employ him at nigh wages. He practically sells his products on credit, receiving a note which is gilt-edged security, readily accepted anywhere as such. There are great business institutions which are ,'o solid, which pay their debts so promptly, that their notes are termed "gilt-edged" and are good for their rface at any bank. But a Government rJbond the promise of the Government ; to pay -surpasses all these in Quality. for it is secured by all the taxable wealth of the United States. When the farmer buys a liberty -Bono ne in one sense lends Uncle Sam . money with which to buy his wheat. ' The woolgrower lends money with f wmch to buy his wool to clothe, and ; His sheep to feed, the soldiers. The ; cattleman lends money to buy his cattle, that the soldiers may have beef - and good shoes. So with the lumber. . man, the dairyman, the fish canner. Call it a loan, and the money comes pack to them. Call it a sale of their products on time, and they receive in . terest-bearing paper which, is as good . as money in the bank. It is the same with buyers of Hb ; erty bonds who are employes of all ' these classes of men. They lend to the Government money which is to he . repaid to them through their employ ' ers as wages for work done' in pro . ducing goods and ships for war pur- poses. By lending the money they make steady jobs for themselves. The ' more closely they follow the exhorta ' tions of Mr. Hoover to practice econ- omy, the more money they save to invest in more bonds and to be used in turn to give them more work. They " help to make an endless chain which ' helps them to earn a living, to accu ; mulate a fund for their old age and at the same time helps their fcountry to win the war. Little, if any, of the . money subscribed to the liberty loan in Oregon is likely to leave Oregon. . It, and probably much more, will be paid out to buy war material and ships ;in Oregon. It may even be simply ; transferred from one account to an - other in the bank where the bonds are ; Dougnt, soon to be paid out in pur. ( cnasing materials and meeting pay ; rolls of Oregon industries. Much of the loan is to be lent again , by the Government to the allies, but little or the sums they borrow will go out or the United States. They win do paid out for goods bought in this country. The allies do not want our money in Europe: they woum not Know wnat to do with it. They want the goods which they will buy with It, and which they can get nowhere else. It is estimated that these loans to the allies will amount lo half a billion dollars a month. They . Decome ootn our customers and our debtors to that amount. WHAT TI'OHEN CAN DO. A soldier's mother, in righteous wrath, asks today what she and other mothers of men can do to force set tlement of the shipyard strike. The eloquence of this mother, which is set forth in another column, needs no addition from The Oregonian. The purpose herein is to answer the ques tion. The suggestion that women take the places of the men in the yards s hopeless as a solution. Ships are not built by untrained hands, and train ing is not accomplished in a week or a month. But the mothers of soldiers can do much to influence public opinion. For one thing they can write, as this mother has done, words that must bring the blood of shame to the cheeks of every man whose willful idleness may mean a toll of human life in France. They can do more iii the way of moral compulsion. "When men of Britain who should did not rise to de fend their country, British women went into the streets and pinned the white feather of cowardice upon the slacker. We suggest no ignominious emblem for the men on strike. We but an swer the Question. If the women of Portland who have sons imperiled by the shipyard strike decide that the time has come to act, they can devise a wonderful tag day. They can pin a badge of patriotism upon every man wno can give an account of labor per formed. The lack of such a badge win speak loud enough for all to hear. The English women have pointed me way. if their Portland sisters want to follow it they can end the strike in short order. old wounds, or the harrowing of pri vate feelings, or the fostering of clasn hatreds. Reunited Americans will not expect their children to fight the Civil War over again on the platform. There would be a prompt and justi fiable outcry against any purely de nominational religious topic. It would be argued that some denomination or other was trying to obtain an unfair advantage. Just now it would seem, to judge by the subjects of some of the school debates that are coming to notice, as if there were a definite attempt to inject tne "isms" and fantasies of the day into the programmes. Thus .we hear of single tax, abolishment of the btate Senate and the like introduced to puzzle youthful minds. They meet the requirements only in the respect mat they probably never will be set tled finally, but they do not answer the demand for tact and sound judg ment in education. There is plenty of time for them in the higher institu tions. They are not appropriate in the lower grades. All the educational purposes served by debates and they are many can be served n other ways. JUNK. The revolution in our attitude toward thrift is illustrated by the substitution Jn certain commercial circles of the term waste material" for "junk." This particular form of savin s is he. coming fashionable, and calls for a s more aristocratic name. It would be ; better for us if it never had been otherwise, but it is not too late to mend. "Junk" in the good old days of spending and throwing away was despised by everyone, and deprecated ; even by the man who bought it at a xraction or its real value. But "waste material" Is something else. In the . markets of the United States it has come to be worth a billion dollars a ; year. Certain metals are practically inde etructible. The countrv has hAn ! tered with them from Maine to Cali- lornia, wniie miners were employed ; In digging new ores out of the ground. Certain far-sighted collectors have been made rich, but no one will be grudge them their wealth who annre- ciaies tne vaiue or the lessons they .nave taugnt. jnildren who have helped to collect waste paper will be interested in learning that this once despised business is now estimated to amount to $100,000 a year for every million of the population. The rusty wagon tires that used to decorate the scenery in the vicinity of every coun try blacksmith shop are being picked up and put to use. They always were : as valuable as they are now, but we j did not know it. Decrepit wagons no ! longer adorn the wayside and- the , fence corner. Even the tin can. once . the distinguishing mark of the vacant , lot, is becoming scarce. Here in the ' Northwest, as in other localities, we have seen railroads sold as "waste material" for more than it once cost to build them. But we will not have learned the lesson fully until we have learned not only to save the junk, but to prevent good implements from be coming junk, so far as possible. "When we return a piece of machinery "Ho the melting pot. we save the mate rial of which it is composed, but we ptill sacrifice the labor it required to fashion It. We must husband our ARE YOU HELPING ? America has been sending 88.000.000 bushels of wheat to our allies. We are asked to eat less wheat bread and other wheat foods, using cornmeal and other substitutes, so that America may snip 220,000.000 bushels. The question naturally arises. "Whv should we eat rye bread and cornmeal mush in place of sending our corn meal abroad?" Unfortunately, corn meal cannot be shipped in large Quan tities, as it spoils. The corn could be shipped without damage, but there are very few mills in Europe prepared to grind the corn into cornmeal. Euro peans, with the exception of the Ital ians, are unfamiliar with cornmeal It would take a long campaign to edu cate and to teach the residents of Europe to prepare and eat cornmeal bread. For generations they have de pended upon wheat, and it is up to America to see that the soldiers and non-combatants of Europe secure suf ficient wheat to keep them in fighting trim. The struggle to make the world safe for democracy is going to be won on the bread line as well as the battle me. Someone has said that the founda tions of democracy lie in individual initiative of the people and their wil- ngness to serve the interests of the Nation with complete self-effacement in times of emergency. Europe has been fighting our battles against -the menace of world domination by Ger many. It is time that we did our part. Millions of men in Europe have left the reaper and the mowing machine to handle the machine gun and help reap death's harvest. We can hasten the end ofthe carnage by helping to urnisn food-to our allies. One wheatless meal a day, two meatless days a week will do .the work. This is a battle in which every one of more than one hundred million people can bear a part. By doing so we shall help to win the war. SPECULATION. Truth and fiction run neck and neck in a story which has just appeared in a popular weekly and in the real life of a Seattle jurist who has Just passed away. J.n the story a hustling young real estate agent discovers value as a shipbuilding site in a tide land tract owned by an old lady. The owner has grudgingly paid taxes on it for many years, and is ready to part with it for her actual outlay. In the end it is sold for enough to make the fortunes of both. The Seattle jurist also made a com petence out of tide lands. When young in the law practice he served a needy client. The client had noth ing with which to pay except tide lands. Tide lands then were m n ro of a liability than asset. The client was determined to unload on the young lawyer. The young lawyer was determined to have the small amount of cash represented by his fee. The controversy ended with the lawyer taking under protest that which he could get. and that thing was" tide land. The tide lands clung to him like a poor relation. Then, one day, Seattle awoke to the value of tide flats as industrial property. The lawyer cleaned up a fortune on the despised fee. though native ability rather than wealth gave him eminence and respect in later life. It is the exceptional incident such as this which supports the adage that truth is stranger than fiction. It is, therefore, not related as an encourage ment to speculation in real estate. For every couterpart of the fortune-yielding tide lands of the Saturday Evening Post story there are a million counter parts of the Tennessee land of Mark Twain's "Gilded Age." How many men and women have clung through life to a forlorn hope of fortune from" lands that the public persisted In despising only an all-seeing providence could tell. But many there are who oatimte comiorts, pleasures, even things that others consider necessl ties, to cherish and maintain a specu lauon. mere are but a few of us who be grudge the fortune to the exceptional one or them who finally attains It But, as all should know and as few seem to comprehend, the best chance of success in the long road is bound up with energy expended in construc tive industry. If all the deprivations made to maintain speculation were used to build up substantial works wnat wonderful progress the world would make! take their place in the line next Spring the armies of the four chief nations should drive the Germans back with brief cessation until the back of German power is brok'en. This situa tion is the more impressive because Russia has practically dropped out of the war and because all the mobile German and Austrian troops are free to fight in the west. Still,, they cannot stop the western armies. Attention has been so centered on the field of operations where our own Army is to fight that justice has not been done to the wonderful achieve ments of the Italians. It has been assumed that they were striving onlv to capture Trieste and the east coast of the Adriatic for themselves, with small regard to the general purpose of the alliance to break the mllitary power oi tne central empires. Diver sion of their main attack to the Bain sizza Plateau supports the opinion that their objective is Laibach, thirty miles due east. It is a rugged, moun tainous thirty miles, but if they win Laibach they will have cut off Trieste and will control the railroad which joins not only that city, but Flume and the great naval base of Pola, to the heart of the dual monarchy. In striking at that point Italy is carrying out the general plan of the allies, which is to destroy the armies of the enemy. She has taken up the task originally assigned to Russia, which was to wreck Austria's militarv forces, to penetrate to the heart of that country and to put it out of th ngnt. With man power far less re "SHOW US WAY," SAYS THIS WOMAN Mothers of Soldier Are Ready to Force Settlement of Strike. PORTLAND, Oct. 5. (To the Ed itor.) Is there any work in the ship yards which may be done by women? Not merely clerical or office work, but is there labor of any kind within their power the performance of which will help to break the present strike? If there is anything which they can do, if they can be used in any way, there is in Portland a body of women, large in number. Intelligent, serious - minded, strong and active, who are ready and anxious to be of service, and who will respond Instantly if they are called. Or, If It Is not feasible or to advan tage that they should work In the yards. Is there any way In which this same) Doay or women can so influence public opinion as to compel concessions from either or both of the opposing forces in tne strike, and thus bring about Im mediate resumption of operations? To these women the questions of open or closed shop, of an adequate wage, of living conditions, of profits, large or small, of any and all of the mooted points of friction between cap ital and labor, howsoever great in im portance in normal times, deserve now absolutely no consideration. War Is the great, the only question to be considered. Those who know tell us that every day's delay in prepara tion adds to the enemy's strength, adds to the list of the toll of dead which must be taken from America's best. Haste in ship building is most vital. Knowing this, as all must, how dare any set of men, with insufferable im-j puaence and selfish hardihood, hold tin pruBress in tnis industry and declare PUTTING WHOLE LOAD ON WOMEN noiuevrue wants Dealers to Sign flenses Not to Waste Food. il,wauo. Wash, Oct. 4. (To the xaitor.j it seems to me that most of the patriotism and saving is loaded on the housewife's shoulders while the men ao the talkiner and rhi-wine. The latest 1 see is that we are going to sign pledges to save and save still more in our pinching business to get ootn en da to meet. why not let the wholesalers and jobbers sign pledges npt to let so much gooa rood go to waste as they do? Household wastes are nothing: com pared with all the food which decays in stores because merchants will not sell it at prices which we can afford to give. Rather than sell fruits and vegetables one cent cheaper per pound it goes into the garbage can. It is a shame. Where is the patriotism or humanity in such policy? We shall simply not get the habit to have anything cheap. There has been complaint about good food being tnrown away, but I thin:; it is about as bad to let good food decay instead of selling a little cheaper and thus lighten the burden for poorer people HOUSEWIFE. THE QUESTION FOB DEBATE. One who scans the list of questions presented for consideration . by the average debating society will be struck by the ineptitude of a good many of them. There is singular lack both of originality and aptitude, and also of the finer considerations that would be expected to control. The purpose of tne scnool debate, it may be assumed is educational. There is no particular design to "settle" the issue before the house: enough has been done if the debaters have been put on their met tie, their resources tested and their ingenuity and thoroughness stimulated l' or the rest of it, it matters not a whit whether the affirmative or the nesra. tive prevails. A question, therefore, that meets all the requirements is the one now be ing discussed with much warmth In New York: "Do the parents who sent their only son to war make as great a sacrifice as the parents of two. or more, all of whom are in the serv ice? There is so much to be said on both sides that it ought to serve to shorten many a long Winter even ing, without exhausting it at all. I parental affection more concentrated on one child than on more than one? is grier over the loss of one out of several more poignant than that caused by the death of the only one? Is not the anxiety of the parent who has given his all in each instance equal? Do the mathematical chances that where several have been conse crated to the Nation at least one of them is likely to survive atone for the feeling that, on the other hand, there is a greater chance that one is likely to be sacrificed? All the psychology of parental love. and the mathematics of chance and gamut of human affection in sreneral are involved. And the factor that stands out, and makes it an ideal sub ject for debate, as has been suggested. is mat, no matter what is said, or how it is said, there never will be unan imity of opinion. There still will re main the points that can onlv be de termined by individual experience, and those who approach the matter only academically can but theorize for themselves and never be quite able to judge for others. There are certain other subject which, by common consent, do nt lend themselves to the school debat ing society. Matters of theoloev arnl among mem. uood taste and com mon sense would Indicate that certain issues be left to the mature. ani rr. other times and places. The very democracy of our schools and the fact that the pupils come from all walks of religious and partisan political lif would point to the desirahiHtv avoiding, for example, the opening of SIGNIFICANCE OF ALLIES' GAINS. In their resistless advance on t Ypres front the British troops have won more of the range of low hills, possession of which would relievo mem of the necessity of holdiner rjosi- tlons in swampy ground to the west and of the risk that they might b9 flooded out of this low ground by the damming of the River Scheldt near ftent. They hold the whole of tho Gravenstafel ridge, but thev will nor. De sare until they have won the main ridge extending from Passchendaele to Gheluvelt. They have only about a montn or good fighting weather be fore Winter will set in and force sus pension of anything beyond raids. Sir Douglas Haig may be expected to make the most of the time remaining ana to strare tne Germans unmercifully. Possession of the main ridge would give the British great strategic ad vantages. Not only would they be on higher ground, with drainage away rrom tnem. xhey would have a posi tion looking down on the country .to the east of them, and would be within four miles easy range for their heavier artillery of the railroads and highways which run from Ostend and Bruges to Lille. . They would have deepened the bulge m the line to thn point where the German positions. nonnward by way of Dixmude to the coast and southward east of Armen- tieres and west of La Bassee would be endangered. Another German retire ment like that from the Somme mie-ht then become advisable. An advance to a maximum denth of a mile and a half on a front of eight miles may seem small reward for such tremendous effort, but that is not a fair measure of the result. The Germans were powerless to re sist, and practically every objective was gained. The captured hills have been occupied uninterruptedly by the Germans for three years, . and have been covered with every defensive work known to military science, as practiced by those who have studied it most deeply and who claim to be Its greatest masters. All of this crumbled under the overpowering British cannonade and fell into the hands of the British infantry after a few hours' struggle. The Germans were so cnmnlrtein in the dark as to their enemies' plans that they began a counter attack at me precise time of the British attack, and five of their divisions were de stroyed by the storm of shell. The morale of their front-line trooos was so utterly broken that they ran out, screaming, to surrender. This, in con junction with the French advance to the Chemln des Dames, their defeat of the Crown Prince's hereul pan ef forts to recapture the lost ground, and ineir reconquest of almost all the ground which they had lost north nf Verdun in the titanic battle of last year, and with the Italian storming of almost vertical heights in their ad vance into Austria, proves conclu sively that the initiative - has finally passed irom tne central empires. The Teutons are not only incapable of gaining more ground or recovering, that which ttfey have lost; they can not hold that which they have. The allies hold the commanding positions in the west; they have the superiority in artillery, aircraft, munitions and man power. When tne Americftris uu.-cu iija.u ul me omer western worn goes on tneir real or allies and strenirtheneri hv Rrlttcr. ... lancieil wrongs shall be rlehted? tillery, ammunition and fuel and bv Tnls ls the question which these American money and food Italv Is w?mn who are offering their services : . anger is just. i'or these women are iupta.ua is sunenng rrom lack of food the mothers and wives and sisters of w.j iua.u uermany. l tne roniana Doys and men who have Defeat of the Germans must finally I Rone from their homes and are now at be accomplished through failure of S"6 varlus training camps and sta- man power. It is calculated on the. I ,,t ",tl"-lnB tnemseives fit for the basis of estimates made by the French 0( . ey are the mothers and General Staff that the German reserve VJT "d. 1f" ?. the .b..8 and will have .nk by next April to less trlTscouleT.T. will" , ,"U man 50,000 men, while the British distant places which " still form the probably have double that number, outermost line of the defen c .. the Americans will send at least half cuntry, there to defend with their a million and the Prpnoli liavo lives mat ireedom of sneeoh nH notion class of 1918. By striking at the heart wh'ch these other men, safely sheltered or me two monarchies and by using license l"'""'s "ni ireeaom into tncir man power, tne allies will i who wr(r. th1a . progressively weaken their resistance now ln tTf S '"'J"6' j"' ?n and compel them to shorten their far- United States Navy. Let me ten w.,; extended front. That imDlies with- that living conditions in , drawal from the Balkan peninsula, camP are not luxurious. No, life there leaving Bulgaria and Turkey to their Is cut dwn to its barest essentials. An fate, nnrl itsii wut.n. .v.j. I unwarmed tent houses mv Th . ' - .n.cwii6 ui mcir t ,,,,. . , : - lines m Russia and Roumania until bae in whirh Vne canva" those countries can resume the often- arf its orl?v ff.vf.8 hiS cloth sive though Russia might abandon training "camp'Tegfn'sIt .So' A M ""c"""' ujocuu- Kiiuing worK, constant, monoton - " IllClimi I .1 K M f 1 r Yxraatl.n. -. ut.iu ix yj l liiis DiRn nns rtnivi viuiukk cook nr th p begun, and will require furious fight- PliciliB their quarters, these, without ing, wnicn will involve unremitting r,"r . " P me days or the en exertion by all of the allies. It may Btraln UV Vk prepari" himself for the not be completed in one year, or even "'n r can I ffret lool k v ' - (.uiuiiciiwii -ucr tne lengtn or the day when for his losses in men. and when th work was to be dnno v T Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs finally remember him, a little fellow, rising at realize the firm purpose of the allies 4 'clck every day through his high to make an end of them and their ecno1 years to deliver the morning entire militarist system they will drive t,fL-T; x remember that he clothed their Deoole on to fie-ht wlri, r""r" "a. Dugrnt his books and - - - ,M enouern monev In th. .. or ierocny. we can see the eroal onlv to nav th. v..".,".'" in the dim distance nH fw. i. vp aU t Vr" college ,. . . - " - ' , L, "-""w now ne nas worked - oi m ttf uivei ueiore we """i "t ouurning any honest employ 'u iu ...ci. iu earn nis education T irr,. ai sacririce is that he mak If thn Oroe-nn n.i miiui. i. ni . ".'",es nlB college a year be around Buenos Aires it mi.ht ha lo ao ms duty by hi to hunt the rflidflra in ih. h..i, c mri t .?,, I -Is so mucn anl so TCI" . 1Y .v,," no- even mention hi mem to roruana. we &oimy as based on salarv i. oco a. real live I " """s last vacation, nor com aiuei loons iiKe. it would add real- I - " wnat ne now recelvon ism to our reading of "The Lives of U , . me' P'ease. I am voicing tne cuccaneers. ' !, no complaint on h:"'' ou"1. 'ihe reat emergency T.or.,,i..i.j i . t , j . . " '""- u wnat ne can. lot ..r .. ..x .. ... t ior am ci Acti ua uut ui war win nave pleasure now in paying two taxes on their income. They can find comfort in knowledge that we would be in the war anyway. DOORS SHOULD BE OPENED EARLIER Snsrsestlon Made (or Avoiding Danger ous Consecutions at Auditorium. PORTLAND, Oct. 5. (To the Editor.) I have been present on four occa sions at our public Auditorium when there was a jam. So great was the crowd that lives were endangered. The thought has come to me that all this danger and inconvenience might be obviated by the doors being opened at the hour of 6 instead of 7:45 for even lng entertainments whenever a great throng of people are expected to be present, thus enabling any one quietly to enter tne building upon arrival without fear or confusion. Then, when all the seats are taken, the doors should be closed. Our city fathers -who are in control of the building seem not to take into consideration the hardships entailed on many elderly people who are obliged to stand on the outside for an hour or more waiting for the doors to be opened. The present regulations for admitting the public to the Auditorium bring about a severe ordeal for many wno are not well able physically to endure it. rnu BONO PUBLICO. -"""""B my son nn . enorcr l . i perseverance, in Industry An,TaFt- 1 Can think Instantly dozens of boys who have done the sa or of - ...... . im Bailie YOU knOW thom ... , fh.m mi " 0.1L KnOW ...... . iiu our rra ni as he But, because I have this boy in serv . ce, because I know what his nr. rpv. -n ..in.. - , , .Di-msn aominions are so de- '-. oecause I know -n, v.s ' i;i , . th. n ,-,Y "" me ana vuLii;i mat uiey noia eiec- ms leiiows have been be tions in me midst or war. Australia , -nw me greatness of their has had one and Canada is about to "1' the, present strike becomes a nave one. At least it gives a new v..J" .? lo me. Do not ask slant to war talk. nn7hiJ enif w,th those re- tlrrn Anere 18 0nly Wonron t - i i to taVo .J. . 1 . " " Bee ,r. -v.. " rattrni,. ...ZfJ. .r ."" present issuing tnat tney merely : -f 1 . 'urlOOT tneir own inter are practicing, getting the range, so to say, for the time when Lloyd George win Degrn collecting his "compound interest. till T vr men h,n W. . th enlisted WIln lu lt ,a traltor A MOTHER. Tolls on Interstate Brldee. . FOREST GROVE, Or Oct A t r-driven apparatus has at- the Editor.)-(i) A number f . ( such size that Chief Dowell's h'vlng on Tillamook Bay htv? Power . n ! . 1 ... "lut:u BUl;" mat unier Doweir3 J,vns on Tillamook Bay have wi l request must be heeded. Safety de- duS within a hundred feet, more or awful" machines pass. iVentv It V13?3 in the welIs have - I pienty or water, hut- i Iiij t-i-ia. v w iixs ii rne county fairs ever nold In rnh I rising 0a ,m. 1 "iat tne west" this year, friendly emulation is effect whatever on the amount of w coming to ha a Maiinnoi tni ter in the wplla r"o ",,.-,; " "- information i rri' ,ve me any milt, vivii a.s wen military. I o csal to inis; -""i.v puousn tne rates charged It grows constantly harder to be a for nT7. leam.s and automobiles neutral, and it is hard to R t.- n twn ZJi.s.1? riage be nation in J. .C . 7; ""a Washington ... - va. ti3 uuiiuuk, can 1111(1 lt advantageous to cast its lot with the central empires, C. L. LARGE (1) If the owners of the wn have them under observation everv cannot agree, we do not know how we tan.Bettie tne question at this distance. Some of those people who brlner in 11niinr mnv asilz-kiivn r .t.i. . J a. Wlllio tll AVtC- I TWA..l.. mm. v.. Neil's Island, to ponder on the vicissi- rr?bat,lv 1 true of some wells and tudes of fate. not or otners. K) Pedestrians, including all nrn. If there ls one thine- wn 7 vears of age and over, 5 cents eaohr other, lt ls spoiled Ash. and orouerlv I " cen: passenger vehl the man who sells It Is fined heavily. ."'""s "eats tor two persons. 10 i ; "" mure man eight persons, 15 With half the country on a "drv" t-c"lo moro tnan eight persons, 25 basis, the Brewers' Association in- Cen 3' one vehicle drawn by one anl creases the pay of all employes. ma1, 10 cents; by two animals, 16 cents; j tui animals, ao cents; by four anl- Free transnortation annul mals, 35 cents: by six animals. 50 cents: anybody's right, much less privilege. ouu"'"a' venicie m tow. 10 cents ine man sitting next pays for it. uuititiin animai, t cents. I That's n. nl.mn.intin. j Weight of Water. ing out the highway this morning, but f I?.'! ct' ?(To th Editor.) appearances are deceDtive. L....: Bleel sn'Ps. lt may v - ic as ignorant as OUr hlinfh TV lh . ... T. W W ara ,..!. ... a snips " " mj lllciIltlCUL Ber. I of'o.i. cuivil t. i tne ivaiser Decause they can- I i' inaiy advise amount of air not Keep tneir mouth shut. space wnnin an iron cylinder weighing pi.c iivuuuo nctpo.nry lo make it float. When the 20,000 American olarM rLJf?,' tAB f-esh water weigh to are working, Germany will be too busy " aoaging to protest. (1) A floating object displaces it ex act weight of water, and a cubic inch The McCredies will be pleased to ' water weighs .03617. rounds The meet you at l wenty-f oirrth and Vaughn amount of air space required to float a iotid.y. live-pound iron cylinder dennnd. nn how buoyant vou want th oviin- no Japanese navy will eniov th be. It must disDlace nMriv hi ,m-. fun of capturing raiders in the Pacirlo inches of water in order to float Tn live pounds or steel there are about xi. a cudic inches. The minimum air space would therefore be about 126.5 cubic inches. More air space would cause the cylinder to float higher out of the water. (2) A gallon otdistilled water weighs 8.3389 pounds: a gallon of sea water weighs about 3.5 ounces more. CARRY ON! For Freedom's battle once begun. Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son. Though baffled oft. is ever won. Sir Walter Scott. For the honor of his conscience and the cause of Liberty Young Jonathan, our Jonathan, some centuries agone Set out to win a freeman's heritage for you and me. Did he fail or carry on? Why, of course, he carried on! There's a place in fair New England wnere ms conscience and his sword Were one day dedicated to the service or the Lord. We call upon the nations of the world to record That the good work still goes on! vvny, or course. It still goes on! For the glory of his heritage, the honor or his name, Toung Jonathan. our Jonathan. across the sea has gone. The cause Is still the selfsame cause, the blood is still the same! Will he fail or carry on? . Why, of course, he'll carry on! There's a place in far-off Europe where the morning dew lies red On blighted fields that yet shall bloom when tyranny has fled. For Freedom's harvest yet shall crown the labors of the dead That the Boys still carry on That, of course, they carry on! Oh, Jonathan, our Jonathan! say, could you ever guess The pride that thrills us through and through the pride and thank fulness? A nation's love encircles you, a na tion's blessings bless, you bravely carry on As you proudly carry on! N. A. MacDonald in New York Herald. Mllngavie, Scotland. In Other Days. T Trent? -five Years Ago. From The Oregonian, October 6, 1S92. London. Alfred Tennyson, poet lau reate, died at 1:35 A. M. CofTeyville, Kan. The Daiton gang has been exterminated wiped off the face of the earth. The members were caught like rats in a trap. They were tooay snot down, but not until four citizens yielded up their lives in the worn or extermination. The law school of the TInivrjltv nf Oregon was formally opened last even ing by an address upon the subject "The ' Lawyer as a Citizen," by Hon. S. Bean. Ralph R. Duniway. who recently graduated from the Cornell law school, returned yesterday from Salem, after passing the examination for admission to the bar of Oregon. The Democratic clubs nf Portland will open the Presidential campaign with a big mass meeting at the plaza tonight. Before the meeting there will be a parade, and all the local adh erenta of Cleveland and Stevenson will be in line. The Hiishes-Hnlnuti -n-rn.riin. election contest will come up for hear- ng before Juds-e Shattunk thl. mnm. Ing. Outlaw of Accounts. PORTLAND, Oct. 5. (To the Editor.) What is the length of time in which a book account may be collected In this state? LLOYD LEMERT. The statute of limitations on open ac counts expires in Oregon in six years. House Carpenters in Shipyards. KELSO. Wash.. Opt 4 tTr. Trai tor.) (1) I presume the shlnhniMin strike will soon be settled and I would like to know your opinion as to wheth er a first-class house carpenter could pass muster as a shin nnfnontA. to Also publish a list of wooden-ship "yards in anu aoout Portland, so that I can get in touch with them by mail. READER (1) Numerous house camenters liuva been taken Into the shipbuilding busi ness, being trained for the work, as they are not usually regarded as capa ble of "passing muster" at first. (2) Following is a list of wooden- ship building plants at Portland and near by. which maintain offices or plants In. Portland: Standifer-Clarkson Shipbuilding Com pany, Northwest Bank building: Guy F. Standifer Construction Company, Northwest Bank building: Columbia Engineering Works, Linnton: Penin sula Shipbuilding Company, foot of SIc Kenna avenue; Kiernan & Kerns Ship building Company, foot of Market: Coast Shipbuilding Company, 504 Con cord building; Supple & Ballin. foot of East Oak; Grant, Smith, Porter, Guth rie Company, Multnomah Hotel build- ng; foundation Company, 530 North west Bank building; American Ship building Company, 727 Corbett build- ng; Motorship Construction Comnanv. 501-2 Selling building; St. Helens Ship building Company, 913 Yeon building. Diplomacy and Wood Sawing;. Philadelphia Bulletin. Jerome S. McWade said of the man gement of children in n renenf Sun day school address: "DiDlomacT suc ceeds best with the little ones. A lad r s came purring and rosy in out f the cold the other night and said: " 'Pa, I'm tired. I've sawed ennncrh wood for this evening, ain't I? I'm wiui urea. " 'Tired!' cried his father! lookine nn rom his paper with an air of sur prise and disappointment. 'Why, I bet your mother a quarter you'd have the whole pile done before supper.' '"Did you?' shouted the boy, taking up his hat and mittens again. " 'Well, you'll win your money if the saw holds out. Nobody ever bet on me and lost.' "And he rushed back to his hard task again, his eyes flaming with enthusiasm." Test for Eyesight. Puck. Recruiting Officer (testing eyesight) Take this newspaper and read it. Recruit What for? You don't sup pose I'm going to have time lm a bat tle to sit down and read the editorials, dp you? Germany, too. is calling for a loan, but not one with "liberty" in it, Seattle has added a Jack the Slugger to other evidences of progress. The ' man ' who now puts on 'smoke armor" is a patriot. the Rheumatics will observe that horse chestnuts are dropping. All eyes a tie gsoreboard!. Dog and a Storm. Baltimore American. -My dog can scent a storm hourr off." "Then his nose must be something of Bloiin-sceuter.'i Not Safe at Home. Washington (D. C.) Star. "Do you think your boy would be safer at home than in the Army?" "Not a bit. Every time there Is a ball game In the neighborhood they make him the umpire." A Veritable Library of Good Things to Read THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN WILL THIS BE THE SEA-TERROR OF THE FUTURE? A unless monitor, swifter than a charging shark, with batteries of dealy torpedo tubes a veritable gray ghost of the ocean, elusive and terrible such is the craft that Vice-Admiral Sims, of the United States Navy, believes to be the logical naval development of the near future. THE LAST ENTRY IN VON TUEBINGER'S DIARY With the in stallment appearing in the Sunday issue, the memoirs of Captain von Tuebinger, one-time commander of a Prussian submarine, come to a finis. Shortly after the last graphic sentence was tran sribed the U-boat commander cast himself into the sea and paid a suicide's forfeit for the terrors of his cruise. As human docu ments run, this authentic personal account of submarine warfare has never been surpassed. KAUFMAN ON SOFT SOAP The sensitive nerves of the nose, says Herbert Kaufman, never fail to detect soft soap. Its aroma can not be camouflaged. The same holds true in the application of "soft soap" to the affairs of life. Read Kaufman's leading edi torial in the Sunday issue, on his own page. "SAVE THE BABIES I" We have conservation of food and iron and fuel, but it has remained for Julia Lathrop, chief of the children's bureau of the Department of Labor, to discover that the impera tive need of the Nation is the conservation of children. America has 30,000,000 less than 16 years of age a tremendous asset the prospective manhood and womanhood of the country. HOW TO DANCE THE "SAMMY" This is distinctively the new , dance, jolly and delightful, and it has been named for the boys who are claiming precedence at a thousand farewell parties ' throughout America before they watch the shells burst over a front-line trench in France. Nina C. Marbourg, in The Sunday Oregonian, tells how it is danced, and the story is illustrated with pictorial examples of the "Sammy." MOBILIZING THE RUBBER INDUSTRY Frank G. Carpenter's newest topic, discussed in the Sunday issue, treats of the great rubber factories of Akron, Ohio, and of the progress of rubber from the tree to the tire. Rubber holds high place in the indispensables of the great war. The Carpenter story is timely and well told. THROUGH THE CAMERA'S EYE Click! Far off in France the sensitized plate transfixed a picture of ruin, the smoking desola- ' tion that was a French hospital before the Prussians "strafed" it as an offering to frightfulness. This, and a half dozen other scenes from all the world, appear in the special pictorial page of the' Sunday issue, with explanatory paragraphs. IT'S ALL THERE Whether you are looking for some particular item of the latest news, or are bent on finding pleasant reading for an idle hour, the big Sunday issue will not fail you. It's all there and all authentic. ' To Keep Pace With the World's Events READ THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. i
