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Newspaper Page TextlO THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1917. Stye (&t$amnn rOETLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Fostofflea as second-dags mail matter. Subscription rates invariably ' la advanee: (By Mail) Pally, Sunday Included, one year S0? .Uaily. bunda) included, six months... 4. "3 lJa.ii. Sunday included, three months. -..25 Uttlly, isunitay included, one month.. .75 Llally, without Sunday, one year....... S.oO lJaily. without Sunday, mx months.... 3. 25 Liaily, without Sunday, three months... 1.T5 Uaiiy. wltliout tiuuday. one month.... .40 Weekly, one year l.'J feunuay, one year Si. So feuadiy aud weekly .5U (By Carrier.) Dally. Funday Included, one year $.00 tiaiiy, Sunday Included, one month..-- .73 Lially, without bunday, one year ...... Laily, without Sunday, three months... Daily, without Sunday, one month S3 How tu Kemit Send postoffiee money or der, express order or personal check on your local bank, stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. (ilve postufflce address In lull, including; county and atate. 1'ostage Katea 12 to ltt pages. 1 cent: IS to il:: pages, & cents; m to 4 pages, !i cents; O to 00 pages. 4 cents; to tt pages. S cents; 78 to b2 pages, U cents. foreign postage double rates. Katern Uuslsrat Office Verree A Conk Iln, Brunswick building. New York; Verree Je Conklin, iitcger building, Chicago; ban Francisco representative K. J. Bid w ell 74 Market street. UEMBEB OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub. hshed herein. All 'rights of republication of special dis patches therein are also reserved. I-OKTI.AXI). THIRSPAV, OCT. 11. 1917. SECRETARY McADOO'S SUMMONS. If any man or woman who claims to be an American had a doubt that he or she is morally bound to lend money to the Government for the pur pose of crushing Kaiserism, that doubt should have been removed by the speech of Secretary McAdoo at the Auditorium. He asked the people, first, to buy liberty bonds because the money is needed for a purpose which every true American should have at heart to enable our men to win vic tory at the smallest cost of life, limb and health, and by that victory to make the American democracy safe, to establish democracy the world over, and to restore permanent peace on that foundation. Most convincing to any mind ex cept that of a 1a Eollette was Mr. McAdoo's statement of the American cause for war. The German govern-, ment has broken every promise made to this country, and, in the face of patience without precedent, has slaughtered our people at sea in vio lation of a right which has never hitherto been denied. He could scarcely have used a more telling illustration than that of comparing the slaughter of a ship's passengers and crew to the indiscriminate massa cre of the civil population of a town by an army immediately upon occu pying the place. In the latter case there is some chance of escape; in the former there is none. But Germany went on to order us off the seas within 600 miles of the allied countries on pain of death. Compliance would have meant not only surrender of our independence but ruin to our com merce "and industries. To end the government which commits such crimes is the work to which the lib erty loan is to be devoted. Hut Mr. McAdoo showed that, aside from this purpose, which should win the aid of every patriot, liberty, bonds are a good investment. The bonds bear 4 per cent interest, and both principal and interest are free from all taxes except estate or inheritance taxes, income surtax, excess profits and war profits taxes. All of any per son's holdings of these bonds up to $5000 is exempt from even these taxes except the estate or inheritance tax, hence the large majority of subscrib ers will net 4 per cent. When the deductions for taxes to which other securities are subject are taken into consideration, the- yield of liberty bonds will equal that of other bonds bearing as much as 8 per cent. Further, a Government bond is the best security in the world, having behind it the credit of the L'nlted States. The holder of liberty bonds need never worry as to whether he will get his interest; he need only cut off a coupon every six months, take it to a bank and get the money. Being as good as gold, they can al ways be turri'cd into money, or used to pay debts in place of money. Other securities, not as sound, have not been within reach of the $50 subscriber; but not only can a man with that sum invest, he can buy on monthly in stallments of a few dollars. One of the uses to which the liberty loan is to be applied is the indemnity to soldiers and their dependents, which Mr. McAdoo showed to be without precedent in any army or navy. The Government takes half of a man's pay and adds to it sufficient for his wife and for each child and for each other dependent to insure them absolutely against want. It makes similar and more liberal provision for them in case of partial or total disability by wounds. It also sells to the soldier or sailor life insurance up to a maxi mum of $10,000 at the rate of $6.60 per $1000, or $65 for a $10,000 policy, though no private company would sell it for less than $594 for $10,000, and the Government makes good the dif ference out of the treasury. This is part of the bargain under which men enter the fighting forces. They can fight with minds free from worry as to whether their families are provided for or as to whether they and theirs will suffer from want if they should be crippled in the service. The war can have no aftermath of pension agitation and legislation, such as followed the Civil War with all its sci.nda.ls, for provision of this kind is made in advance. These payments have no stigma of charity: they will be made as of right, as part of the compensation for the man's service to the country. Every person will recog nize the justice of this indemnity and insurance, and will more readily do his part in providing the funds by buying liberty bonds. psTo nation has done as much, but no nation should do less, for the men who offer up their lives and limbs for their country. After all this has been done for the American fighting man. he does in finitely more than the person who stays snugly at home and draws in terest on liberty bonds. Police Commissioner Woods, of New Tork, has set a good example by mak ing preparations to keep in touch with all former members of his department who have entered the National service. He proposes, by facilitating corre spondence between the men and their friends at home, and by finding corre spondents for those who are lonely in the trenches, to "show the boys at the front, that they carry with them our good wishes, our full confidence in thplr rnnrarp. tpnarltv of mirnna.. and loyalty, and our high hopes that they may be spared to join the force again." What is being done by the head of the police department of "New York can well be done by every group of men from among whom numbers of associates have entered the war. It is a work for the stay-at-homes that is unlikely to be overdone. It includes thoughtful consideration of their little comforts, but, most Important of all, will be the demonstration, that the men in the field have the folks at home behind them. WISE . WORDS. It has always been my belief since I have been old enough to think about such matters, that arbitration is the best method of set tling a difference between capital and labor. It 1h better to ettle points in controversy by arbitration than to see a strike result. When there is a strike it Is not terminated until the questions are settled, usually by arbitration, so I believe It Is better to arbi trate in the first place, and this gives the men n. chance to earn a living while the matter Is belnff decided. Arbitration Is bet ter than a strike any time. From a state ment by President Walker of the Street Carmen's Vnion. These wise and patriotic words, from an influential representative of labor, are commended to the seven thousand men who have been led into a hurtful strike in the shipyards. No greater disaster can befall in dustry, and particularly labor, to strike first and think afterwards. . No greater disaster can happen to the Nation short of defeat on the land or the sea than a strike for any cause in an industry identified with the war programme. LET ALL SERVE ALIKE. The Oregonian hears again today from its friend the Forest Grove clergyman. It has re-read Mr. rat ten's original letter, and is quite un able to see that it either misunderstood or misinterpreted him. It was clearly a complaint that the employers were mainly responsible for the shipbuild ing strike, an argument for recog nition of the unions, and a plea for mutual concessions, which, it was plainly implied, the employers had not been willing on their part to make. Perhaps our correspondent would differentiate between the "closed" shop and recognition of the unions. It is sometimes done, yet the expressions are used interchangeably, and in or dinary parlance mean the same thing. We should like to see a clear and authoritative explanation of the dif ference, if there is a difference. Brother Patten thinks there is a mutual responsibility on employers and workmen. True, quite true. There is the same duty to Government from men. as there is from operators. This country belongs to no single class or group, but to all classes alike. If it fails in the war, it will be a tremen dous disaster to the workmen as it will be to the capitalist. Everything that' has been gained in freedom and in opportunity in a hundred years will be lost. Can any laborer or builder, or any other, look without trepidation upon a situation which Prussianizes industry, by conscripting capital and pauperizing or enslaving labor? Yet these things will surely happen if the war is not won. The great duty of all alike, then, is to work in the common cause for the common aid. Let the men who are at work in vital pursuits for the Na tion's welfare be persuaded to stay at work and let the operators make every reasonable or possible conces sion to them to keep them at work: but let good men like this Forest Grove clergyman understand that their chief duty lies not in partisan ship in any such controversy, but in helping to get done at any cost or sacrifice of individual or class interest or sentiment the things that must be done. EFFECT OF CHINESE INTERVENTION. Great events have crowded so closely one on another that little attention has been given to the effect of China's declaration of war on Germany and Austria. . Yet the consequences cannot fail to be great for the benefit of the United States as well as China, regard less of any active aid which China may give in the war. China severed relations with the central empires, and, after an inter lude of civil war, declared war upon them at the instigation of the United States. Although the Oriental repub lic has suffered grievous wrongs from Germany, which might well prompt it to seize so favorable an opportunity to obtain redress, its prompt action on American initiative is eloquent testi mony to the strong influence of this Nation as its disinterested mentor and guide. This is the fruit of the enlightened policy of the open door proclaimed by John Hay, of the refusal of the United States to join in European concession-grabbing, of the labors of American missionaries, of our devo tion of the Boxer indemnity to edu cation of young Chinese in America, of our remission of the balance due on this Indemnity and of our aid in winning the co-operation of other na tions in suppressing the opium traffic. By seeking no material advantage for ourselves we have won the voluntary offer of the greatest advantage to be gained from Chinese aid in war. An example has been set for the nations which they may follow tn-their deal ings with backward countries. We have shown them that more can be gained by good will than by force. The advantages gained by China are so greSt that her entry into the war may fairly be hailed as a feat of the highest statesmanship. It justifies her in canceling entirely Germany's claim for a share of the Boxer in demnity, amounting to $110,000,000. It gives her a right to ask from her allies relief from the whole' of that indemnity, which now amounts with deferred interest to $550,000,000. It puts lier in a position to ask. in re turn for military aid, relief from re strictions on Import duties which have kept the Chinese government poor and which are an invasion of Chinese in dependence. The allies have already agreed to suspend payments on ac count of the. indemnity and to permit an increase of import duties. With drawal of the foreign legation guards at Fekin, surrender by the powers of jurisdiction - over their Concessions at treaty ports and -of extra-territorial rights may be asked, and as a result of the war- China may- become as com pletely independent as any other na tion. More important is the effect which Chinese intervention in the war will have on relations with Japan. ' The Russian revolution has already re moved the pressure of imperialist aggression in concert with Japan. China then established a. claim on Japan, as an ally, to the same respect for her rights as is shown to the other allies. Already the Terauchl Cabinet had realized the. blunder of coercion which had been committed by Count Okuma in forcing the twenty-one de mands on China, and had begun to show more scrupulous respect for Chi nese sovereignty. Okuma felt safe In his course so long as China was neutral and the United States was weak as a. military power. The situation changed radi cally when . this country became in effect Japan's ally and began military and naval expansion. When China declared war. further Japanese intru sion in China became impossible, and troops were withdrawn from Shantung province, and Tsingtau was put under civil administration. By this single move China established a claim to the aid of the allies In causing withdrawal of Japanese pressure, and to the vol untary withdrawal of that pressure, which could not be ignored. These changes in the Oriental sit uation are of great moment to the Pacific Coast. The door to China, though nominally open, has been ac tually closed. The United States now has a claim upon the assistance of the European powers to open it and to keep it open, and to hold Japan to the fulfillment in spirit as well as let ter of Viscount Ishit's assurances that it shall be open. The Russo-Japanese entente having been ended. Japan can not play the lone hand she expected to play, and the rights of other nations can no longer be Ignored. All of this will facilitate the general readjustment of the world's affairs and the general growth of trans-Pacific trade which are expected to follow the war. OREGON" WEATHER. What a blessing it would be if the scientists could discover a method of transporting weather! While Oregon is enjoying the delights of its typical Indian Summer, the soldiers of the entente are wallowing in the ooze of Flanders and France. During the re cent advance, the news accounts say, the atmosphere resembled a shower bath. No garment could resist the penetrating qualities of the rain. Yet, despite these handicaps, the enemy was defeated. It would be idle to speculate upon what a season of Oregon weather might do for the cause of world democracy at this juncture. Such weather as now prevails along the western front is ideal from the view point of the defenders; clear skies and moderate temperature, such as we are now experiencing at home, would be a godsend to the troops on the offen sive. It would not only make it physically possible for them to gain more ground, but it would inspire them to the highest endeavor. The man who is always thinking that distant fields are greenest should go out one of these fine mornings and fill his lungs to their capacity with crisp Oregon air. take a long look at the sk3 reflect on the time the sol diers are -having in Europe, and be glad he is alive and in Oregon. rt'Et ECONOMY AM) FRESH AIR. There is danger that in obeying the injunction to save fuel wherever pos sible a duty that is fortified by the rising prices of coal and wood that we shall make the mistake of closing too many doors and windows in the notion that we are thereby effecting an economy of heat. Unless we stop to think, we are likely to ignore the fact that health is still a National asset, and that it, as well as fuel, must be conserved. One does not need to be a fresh-air crank to know that the close and overheated atmosphere of a hermetically scaled room is not good for us. But it is questionable whether, even from the point of view of comfort, there is any real saving in the tightly closed room. It is a fact that fresh air does not require as much hot air to make it comfortable as does stale air. There is something more to the feeling of bodily warmth than degrees of temperature. Air that contains the right proportion of oxygen, and that is slightly in motion, imparts a feel ing of sufficiency without any other aid. That this is generally realized is shown by growth of the custom of using sleeping porches and piazzas, and by the managers of theaters, who find that they cut down their fuel bills by furnishing the best possible means of ventilation. It is probable that as a people Americans overheat their dwelling places, anyway. This is partly due to the increased number who live in apartments and boarding - houses, where the connection bctwen the ther mometer and the fuel bill is not al ways appreciated. But it is not nec essary, nor even desirable, that we should try to maintain a temperature of 85 degrees. It would be better for all concerned, except, perhaps, in valids and the most delicate children, if the 'standard were placed at 65. Wise use of fresh air will make us all stronger and save money besides. RUSSIAN" FREEDMEN. No doubt the Russian people will work out their own salvation if time is given them, and if they are not con quered by their enemies and placed under a yoke as oppressive as that of the Czar while they are quarreling among themselves about their rights as individuals, but only maudlin dis regard of the facts can explain the tendency in some quarters to com pare the Russian favorably with our own forefathers who fought for their liberty in the War of the Revolution. We have testimony of Russians them selves that the moujik must undergo a long process of evolution before he will even approach the status of the early American patriot. For example, there is Anton Tchekoff. famous for his short stories of Russian life, who says: Wlia does a Russian peasant's life consist of? He spends his time in Isverns. crying for revense on those who are better off thun be. He lives In filth: his children live in filth: he takes his potatoes out of his soup with his fingers: drinks a black beetle with his kvass because he won't trouble to take It out. Nor is. his situation due to poverty, primarily. There are rich peasants in Russia, "too. and Tchekoff finds them no more pleasant to dwell among. "Look at Larion of Dubechnia," he says, mentioning one of a type. "Ke is rich, but all the same he barks the trees in-your woods just like the poor; and he is a foul-mouthed brute, and his children are foul-mouf hed, and when he is drunk he falls -flat in the mud and goes to sleep." Incidents illustrating the dimness of the Russian peasant's conception of the duties of a freedman could be multiplied innumerably. In one case the workmen at a mining plant waited on the engineers and informed them that henceforth all hands must take turns at their work, and that the en gineers must begin by going down in the mines. "How will you manage with the engines?" they were asked. "We will do the same as you do sit around and sharpen lead pencils," they replied. The employes of an other plant demanded the dismissal of -the superintendents and directing heads in all departments. "The peo ple," they said, , "are the real-bosses now." A band of soldiers in an ex treme case pulled up a net set to catch fish, "because fish are creatures like men and have the same right to liberty." So it goes, all over Russia. It is such problems as these that make the task of the enlightened pa triots and real leaders of the new Russia indescribably difficult. Mil lions of Russians have a long road to travel before they will have even an inkling of the spirit of '76. Mean while, their extravagances, their fan tastic notions of liberty, and their fail ure to comprehend that in any state of society worth living in there must be mutual concessions and recognition of the rights of others add to the burden of the people of the United States and of all the allies. A united, wholly intelligent Russia could do much to shorten the war; but if we are disappointed as to the help we re ceive from this source, we shall only be called upon to redouble our efforts to win without it. The United States Department of Agri culture and the various agricultural colleges are finding great difficulty In securing a sufficient number of men trained in agricul tural work. From the correspondence we have had It is evident that both old and new students appreciate this situation and that probably a very satisfactory number will be enrolled in the School of Agricul ture. Statement by Dean Cordlcy, of Oregon Agricultural College. There is, moreover, no sound reason to believe that the demand for men trained in agricultural work will be abated in the years immediately " be fore us, so that it will be well if the boys in the lower grades could be im pressed with the value of such an edu cation and begin now to plan for and look forward to it. Addition of mili tary studies to the curricula of va rious agricultural schools is a guar antee that the student who wants to be prepared to serve his country i:i the field will be able to lay the foun dation of a military education, while at the same time performing an even greater service by equipping himself to help feed the world. The great American habit of chew ing gum is being further cultivated by New England factory owners as a means of stamping out the practice of chewing tobacco .and snuff, which among a certain class of foreign work ers had attained a magnitude which threatened to embarrass factory or ganization, especially where extreme cleanliness was essential to the pro duction of high-grade goods. Warn ings having failed, even when followed by the discharge of offenders, diplo matic managers worked by indirec tion and by installing gum-vending machines in convenient places led their employes nto paths where they could not drive' them. The demand for candy, especially chocolates, also indicates that the craving for tobacco might have been induced by hunger which had not been satisfied by a hasty breakfast. It is pretty hard at times to draw the line between overzeal and mis carriage of justice. If a Sheriff could at all times tell what a jury would do, ho could sit in his office and adminis ter the law without resort to legal machinery, thereby saving much ex pense. For example: A doctor left Polk County for Chicago a few weeks ago. The next day the wires burned until he was taken off a train in Idaho and brought back to answer the charge of illegal operation. The fact that he returned willingly might have indicated; his degree of guilt, or, rather, the lack of it. A jury last week said he was not guilty. The ex pense bill has been fattened, however, and that is something. Mutiny in the German navy sug gests that German propaganda in the Russian army has proved a boom erang. It instigated Russian soldiers to kill officers who tried to enforce discipline, and it led to formation of soldiers' committees. The attempt to form sailors' committees on German warships may lead to like attempts in the army. Then some of the soldiers may turn on their brutal officers. A disposition like that is contagious, and, if it should spread, discipline would be at an end and the long-looked-for revolution would be on. We only hear faint and highly censored hints of what is going on in Germany. A light sentence of eight months has been given a woman for a grave offense, that of sending poisoned candy to a suspected rival in her husband's affections. If death bad resulted, her situation would be shocking. Yet there may be others who believe their grievance is great and the fate of the wife who now goes to jail should be warning. No man is worth it, and revenge is not worth the cost. Jabez B. .Nelson was a newspaper man who entered the "game" through the composing-room, which assured him the loyalty of the floor, and he never offended it. His idea of life was work, and he revelled in it to the superlative degree. Genial disposition and kindly spirit made him friends of subordinates, helpers and associates, and he died young as ages go, which, alas, seems to be, the way. If Argentina should finally declare war and should then commandeer the leather which has been bought by German speculators, the latter would lose their anticipated profits. Then there would be curses for Count Lux burg. But the Germans seem to have the ear of President Irigoyen. Translated into plain American, the speech of Chancellor Michaelis means that Germans are free to think as they please, provided their thoughts do not leak from their tongues. In that case the jailer would get 'em. The streetcar men and the company agree to leave decision of the conten tion to arbitration. That is the common-sense way, and, just now, the pa triotic. It is a pity the idea does not prevail elsewhere. Switzerland's fears of being drawn into the war are not groundless. She may become the asylum of stam peding higher ups. whom the allies will be obliged to take. It must be that some of the fellows who have on hand small stocks for "medicinal" or "family" use talk too much and are raided. The Kaiser will need do more than fight to save his crown. Saving his face will be the harder job. How about the makin's for the sol dier boys? Are you doing anything? Count your money this morning and see how big a bond you can take. Mr. Yeon's barrage was too much for Mr. Holman's camouflage. The war bread looked good yester day and tasted that way. Stars and Starmakers. Br Ireon Case Baer. A nice "pitcher" card, with a big old stork carrying a wee H'l' bundle. all done up in a satchel, with only a pink toe and a smiling eye peeping out. came to -my desk this week. The postmark said Zancsville. O., and the lines all filled out Informed me that Miss Joy Bliss had arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Bliss; that she weighed nine pound?, and penciled note at one edge of the card says further that she la without doubt the most wonderful baby the world has ever seen. Naturally, some of us will take this last assertion with several grains of salt. Ea.eh of us knows to our own satisfaction and happiness where the most wonderful baby in the world lives. But of course we're all broad and generous enough to allow the other fellow the privilege of thinking his baby the greatest ever. Anyway, little Miss Joy Bliss and that's a gladsome name, isn't It? arrived on September 30. and in case any of the Portlanders who remember her daddy and mother of two seasons ago with the Baker Players want to write to her, the ad dress is S23 Market street. Zanesvllle, O. Baby Joy's daddy is director of a stock company in St. Louis this sea son. Her mother Is known profes sionally as Marie Palmer. - F. W. Jordon is in Portland ahead of Eugene Walter's newest drama. "The Knife." which comes soon to the Heilig. Mr. Jordon wag here last season ahead of "The Blue Paradise." In "The Knife" are two folk well known on the Pacific Coast. One is May Buckley, who cre ated the role of little Tui Sing in Belasco's famous production, "The First Born," which had such a vogue In San Francisco a dozen, years ago. Norman Hackett is another player In "The Knife" whose work in Shake spearean roles and in "Classmates" and "The City" is well remembered. Another Portland visitor for a day or two is Leroy Drug, an ex-newspaper man, who is here as one of the advance guard for the La Scala Grand Opera. Reply to B. P. E. (1) You are cor rect. Henrietta Crosman spells her name with one s. (2) It is her own name. (3) When quite a young girl her voice gave evidence of being a particu larly fine singing one and she went to Paris to study for grand opera, but illness cut short this career. (4) She made her debut as Betty Lee in "The White Slave" at the old Windsor Thea ter in New York City on August 13 in 1883. (5) The play in which Miss Cros man opens tonight at the Heilig is "Erstwhile Susan," in which Mrs. Fiske starred last season throughout the East. It has a Pennsylvania locale, and the local Pennsylvania Society has sig nified its intention of attending on the opening night. Dorothy Jardon is convalescing in a sanitarium at Colorado Springs fol lowing an operation to relieve a nasal and throat trouble which threatened a complete loss of voice. Dorothy has a big glory voice, too. William Hodges has started on tour in his new play, "A Cure for Incura bles." It is a comedy, dramatized by Earl Derr Blggers and Lawrence Whit man from a story written by Corra Harris. The whole world doesn't know it, but Lawrence Whitman is Mr. Hodges himself, who modestly hides under another name when he works. Valeska Suratt is preparing to re turn to vaudeville in a dramatic play let, marking her debut on the speak ing stage. Heretofore Valeska has al ways decorated the musical comedy stage or been a film. A Cincinnati paper says that while David Warfield was In that city re cently he turned down an offer of $1,000,000 for one year's work with a picture company, during which time he was to produce his great successes, "The Muslo Master" and "The Auction eer." "I am not playing 'The Music Mas ter' to make money," he declared. "The public wants me in my plays the same as it wanted Joe Jefferson in 'Rip Van Winkle.' " A moment before Warfield made the statement, standing in the lobby of the Grand Opera-house, he saw an old woman painfully climbing the stairs to the gallery to see him. War field assisted her. "That's one of the main reasons why I continue to play 'The Music Master,' " he announced. "I almost weep when I think of that old lady climbing the steps to see my play." In a theatrical exchange Henrietta Harrison, whoever she may be, but who signs herself "yours for clean shows and good English," says she'd like to offer a reward for the discovery- of a singer, male or female, and of any age or color, who pronounces Tennessee as it is spelled. So far as all the warblers I've heard are con cerned, Henrietta observes, "there ain't no such state." Many seem sure there Is a "Ten-neh-see," a great many have heard of "Ten-nay-see," but the great, very great, majority stand forth and deliver their sentiment regardinj dear old "Ten-nuh-see." e Wonder why Henrietta overlooked Indiana, invariably warbled as Indy onna or Inda-awna. Or Oklahoma, and Colorado snd Missouri given as many pronunciations as they have vowels. Seems to me If I had to slng'a state ballad in my act I'd pick North Da kota. m m m Reply to J. M. (1) Ethel Barrymore Is not English. She is of American stock and was born in Philadelphia In 1SS0. (J) Valerie Bergere was born in Metz, Alsace Lorraine, In 1872. By the way. Miss Begere has just married her leading man. I've forgotten his name, but it's of no Importance, for he'll be known as Valerie Bergere's husband. anyway. (3) Hazel Dawn is an Ogden, Utah, girl. She was born in 1891. (4) Vernon Castle halls from Nor wich, England, and his birth year was 1S87. Elsie Ferguson . is of Scotch descent and was born in New York in 1S85. Alma Gluck is a Roumanian and was born in 1S84. Eva Tanguay hails from Marbleton, Canada, and made her arrival In 1878. P. S. What on earth do you want their birth year for? Curiosity? Or are you embroidering m a quilt? War Tax Sreauldes. PORTLAND, Oct. 10. (To the Ed itor.) Please inform me where I can get a list of everything to which a war tax has been applied, stating the amount of tax on each article REGULAR SUBSCRIBER. The Collector of Internal Revenue. Customa-House. will have copies of the law for distribution in a few days. PASSI.VG OF AX UISTOIUC CUVBCU Cornerstone of Structure N'ovr ' Betsg Razes. Contains Relies. PORTLAND, Oct. 9. (To the Edi tor.) Taylor-Street Methodist Church, which is giving place to a new struc ture, was dedicated September 4. 1S70. The cornerstone was laid August 1, 1867. This church building was a most Im posing one 40 years ago. Its spire pierced the sky to a dizzy height. Its finish, inside and out, though plain now. seemed then very beautiful and elaborate. The ring of the steeple bell sounded the call for many miles around. When the cornerstone shall be opened a collection of interesting relics will he found as follows (The Oregonian, August 2, 1867); Paper containing the names of the trustees, the building committee, the architect of the building, the principal subscribers to the building fund, the presiding elder. the preacher and the official list af the charge. Discipline of the M. K. Church for lSi',4. Methodist almanac for 18ft7. minutes of the Oregon conference. IRC.ft. catalogue of Port land Academy and Female seminary, 1M17. Dally Oregonian. August 1, ISti". Pacific Christian Advocate. July 27. 1SC7. Dally Herald. July 31, 17. California Christian Advocate. July "o. 1SK7. The Christian Advocate X. T.), June 6. IS'17. Western Christian Advocate (Cincinnati). June 5. 1SS.7. Zion's Herald (Wesleyan Jsurnal), Janu ary 2. Itl7. A sealed envelope from Mertorem Craw ford. United States Collector, containing frac tional currency, 5 cents, 10 cents. cents and 50 cents. A sealed envelope from Thomas Frssar. United States Assessor, containing schedule of articles taxable under the excise law of 1817. Ordinances of the city of Tortland, Hfi5. The Methodists seem to have made the beginnings of their society at Port land in 184S. Soon afterward they or ganized a Stindav school under the j Rev. J. S. Smith, In a cooper shop, west side of r ront street, north of Morrison (Mrs. M. . Gihbs. widow of Oregon s Governor, in The Oregonian. October 13. 1S9S, p. 11). This building was made of poles. In the Sunday exercises preaching preceded the juvenile serv ices (The Rev. Harvey K. Hines. in The Oregonian, October 11, 1898. p. S). The first record of Portland as a distinct charge appears in the affairs of the Oregon and California mission confer ence in 1849. according to Mr. Hines. "It was the smallest and weakest charge at that time." It had seven members, one Sunday school, three of ficers and teachers and 31 pupils. Salem then had 105 members. Yamhill 147, Oregon City 61. Tualatin Plains (Forest Grove) 16. Mary's River (Cor vallis) 81, Calapooia (north of Rose burg) 3fi. The Methodists erected their first church building in 1850. at the site of the present structure, and dedicated it in October of that year. The dedication preceded, by some two months, the is sue of the first weekly number of The Oregonian. December 4, 1S50, Thomas J. Dryer, publisher. These facts are cited in the belief that they may be of interest to many of our people. They are much ex panded in frequent issues of The Ore gonian in October, 1S9S. LESLIE SCOTT. OPEX SHOP ISSUES SHOULD PASS Foiest Grove Clergyman Assert Ills First Letter Wan Misjudged. FOREST GROVE, Or., Oct. 10. To the Editor.) Your editorial of yester-da$- rather misjudges the import of my letter to you which you published. I did not and would not advise at this time that the men strike for the open shop. I certainly should ad.v?se them now rot to continue the strike on that g round. Your editorial states that I wrot-? my letter to say that the solution of the rhlpbuilding strike Is in the em ployers' hands." I tried to make it clear that 1 thought it a mutual responsi bility. Again you use these words: "The issue of the closed shop, for which principle the brother thinks every other question should give way." But 1 did not say all that. In fact. I said that both sides should be ready to concede much in this crisis. I would make the question of our National duty para mount. Both sides must come together on a platform of patriotism. But there is the "preferential" shop. Might this not have furnished a solu tion, by mutual concession? In fact, such & solution was effected in the Autumn of 1910 between the Manu facturers' Association of New York City and the Garment Workers' Union. Let me quote from the agreement: "Each member of the Manufacturers' Association is to maintain a union shop, a shop where union standards as to working conditions, hours of lithor and rates of wages prevail, and where, when hiring help, union men are ) re ferred. Employers shall have freedom of selection as between union men and shall not be confined to any list, not bound to follow any prescribed agree ment whatever. The manufacturers declare their belief in the union and that all who desire its benefits should share its burdens." ARTHUR B. PATTEN. I Civil Service Examinations. HEPPNER. Or.. Oct. 9. (To the Edi tor.) (1) Please inform me when the civil service examinations are to be given and where in Portland are they held? (2)- Also, please tell me when one answers, by letter, an advertisement for a position in The Oregonian, how do you receive an answer? Is it in The Oregonian or by letter, or not at all? A SUBSCRIBER. (1) Some sort of civil service, exam ination is held every few days. Write to civil service clerk. Postoffh-e build ing. Portland, stating kind of work In which you are interested. (2) Answers to any advertisement can cither be by blind number or by glviag the address. If a blind number and the advertiser lives out of town, answers will be mailed and the ad vertiser's name not made public. If living in town, the advertiser calls for answers at The Oregonian business office. A BABY'S BIT AXD YOURS. My daddy left his little girl And mama dear to go And fight for one America, Because he loved us so. He went to save our native land From ruin and despair: To keep our flag upon the mount Of honor, bright and fair. My daddy gave you all he had He could not give you more; He went to conquer ruthlessness And keep It from your door. Now won't you buy a liberty bond And help him while he's gone. To win the fight for what Is right, And help the work along? And show that you are grateful for The sacriili-e he gave: 'Twill give him courage, strength and might To help our country save. ELIZA R. BARCHUS. I'ne for Old False Teeth. PORTLAND. Oct. 10. (To the Edi tor.) There have been agents going from house to house buying old false teeth. What is there in these teeth that they use? SUBSCRIBER. The teeth in some cases contain an imitation pearl substance which is used for making beads and settings for rings. In Other Days. Half a Century Ago. From The Oregonian of October 11. 1SG7. New Orleans. A tremendous gale oc curred at Galveston recently. Tho damage is estimated at ?1, 000,000. John R. McBride has issued a state ment in reply to the unkind criticism in relation to the United States branch mint established it The Dalles by act of Congress in July, 1864, In which he says that Western Oregon should not con sider the measure as an Oregon measure alone. Mr. McBride e:plains his efforts which conserved for tho state the appropriation for the mint to be erected. A. J. Dufur has been elected presi dent of the State Agricultural Society. J. W. Nesmith has been elected presi dent of the Oregon Pioneers' Society. A buggy made by W. E. Ccoper & Co., of this city, is on exhibition at the State Fair. John T. Scott, the Assessor of Wash ington, has compiled figures showing the real value of the county at f640, 000. Twenty-five Vcars) Ago. From The Oresonian of October 11. 1S02. Washington. Solomon Hirsch. of Pnrll'jnil ( I,- f . - -. , States Minister to Turkey, has tcnd. reL itaisunLiwii. ins worK nas I'Ccil hiffhll Mticfooln.i. . k- T 1,1 . but Sir. Hirsch has business interests i. oLiTrnti ii, and ne says no ieeis n wonts to fcive up the diplomatic serv ice. Baltimore. The house of bishons of the triennial general conference of tho Kpiscop.il Church is considering a iiru marriage canon which will prohibit marriages in the church whore tha contracting parties are under IS. unless the parents consent. No minister shall solemnize a marriace of a divorced person where the wile or husband is living, except where one shall have, been an innocent party. The canon shall not apply to divorced rersons seeking to remarry. In "The Junior Partner." scon to ar rear at the Marquam Crand, will hi round in the cast May Irwin. Mis. M -Kee Rankin, Henry Miller, Emilv Bancker and Phyllis Rankin. Inice, Ina May and Lester Coutreo. of Cornelius. Or., won the prixe as tho best triplets at the exposition vester day. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. .Stark's sou anil daughter won the prize as the best twins. The prize trirl was Liirilo Varum, of Kuf-enc, and the prixe hoy the son of Mr. and. Mrs. George Siior.er. The year-old daughter of Mrs. E. X. Soule won the prize as tho best baby of either sex. JUST WAIT TILL HllllK-( (1111 (i Soldiers Mother Tells Striker What la in Store When War Ik Over. PORTLAND, Oct. 10. (To the Edi tor.) Four weeks ago I stood on a hill leading to the great shipbuilding plant in St. Johns and watched tiOd happy looking men wend their way past n:e. joshing-, jostling, hurrying. They w , ri fine-looking men. human-looking men. and 1 had no idea as 1 looked aC them that such a thing as lying idli when our country needed their work: so urgently could have been aoeorde-l to them. Rut we see that sierht no more. The loud noise of their hammers has been silenced. By whom and why? The President urged them to remain at work. The strike leaders, encour aged by the stand of the Portland News, said: "Quit." Whom have they obeyed the President of the United States or the editor of the News? Oct the. News of Monday, October 1, and. see where in great letters it tella these men to "stand pat." When, our boys marched away, leav ing every comfort and. everything that makes life most dear, they expected :i certain co-operation, by the ones left at home. And this is the reply tu hit them in the spot most vulnerable. The situation reminds one of a hon. afire and the firemen fighting over who should carry the hose. The wholi world is afire and the men railed upon to do as urgent fa. business as tho.-ft that go to the front are haggling over a silly thing, the closed shop. Men, let me ask you, how would you like it if your house wern afire and someone came along and cut the hos just because something did not please, him? What would you think if yoit read in the dispatches from the front that the nurses and the doctors re fused to go ahead with their work .iu-'t because something did not go as they wanted it to. .lust as astonishing this would seem to you are your ac tions in holding up one of tho main arteries to keep our boys alive. These boys are coming back semi day. Can you look them in the face anil say: "1 did my best for you while you were away?" This war will be over some day and there are going t' be years in which you can be pointed out to them and to their children as the ones who failed when the test wa.l given, who failed to do their duty ii this great crisis. Stay off the streets when the great throngs gather to welcome them home, for von will not be wanted. On. gather in one great division and label your selves: "We are the ones who held tin the one great industry of the war." You should be proud of it. so why not get out badges now and wear them. And now. while we are about it. why not have the pl.-tures of these strike leaders put in the papers and thrown on the screens at. the theaters? E know some of us mothers would like to get acquainted with the faces oC those that are endangering the lives of our hovs. We do not even know their names. Start a. gallery of worthy traitors. Who will be the first to m uert his picture? MOTHKH F TWO SOLDIERS. ' Sale of Firnt Liberty Bonds. PORTLAND, Oct. 10. (To the Ed itor) i notice in this morning'u Ore gonian that you say there is a bank in town that will take the old liberty bonds at par. Will you kindly print in your columns the name of the bank. A SUBSCRIBER. The Lumbermen."! Trust Company will sell liberty bonds of the Hrst Issue, bearing 3 is per cent, at the market, without charge to customers who want the money to reinvest In the second loan. The company will await the most favorable opportunity to sell the bonds and will secure a premium If possible. Other bond dealers will do the same for customers or for the gen eral public. In case the money Is de sired for purposes other than reinvest ment in liberty bonds, holders should see their bankers and make such ar rangements as are most favorable. A rortland bank that was buying bonds at par last week is not now doing so. Butter and I ream W ith Corn. PORTLAND. Or.. Oct. 9. (To the Edi tor.) Have you ever seen an Ameri can eating cornbread or corn on cob without butter or cornmeal without cream? Where are the poor of Europe to get the butter and the cream? O. U. SEE. Corn is eaten extensively without butter or cream by the Italians. But if we will eat our corn at home, thus saving wheat to be shipped to Europe, that imaginary difficulty will be wholly removed.