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THE 3IORX3XG OKEGOXIAN. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1G. 1917.
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PORTLAXD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 191".
EIGHTEEN BILLION DOLLARS.
As values go, $3,000,000,000 (or even
"$5,000,000,000) for trie second liberty
loan is a small amount. The farmers
of the country alone could subscribe
It out of their increased earnings, and
not miss it greatly. The farmers of
tho United States -will get for their
products in 1917 about $18,000,000,000.
Let us repeat $18,000,000,000. In
3900 the aggregate was about $5,000,
000,000. The wheat farmer doubtless will say
that he is not doing so well thi.s year
as the plutocratic agriculturists of the
Middle West. The price at terminals
Is $2.20 per bushel (mark the figures,
$2.20), but the crop is short. It is
only about 400,000,000 bushels or
thereabouts, -and the farmer, who will
probably average about $2 a bushel,
will get only about $800,000,000. Just
about one-half is profit. In these days
a. dollar a bushel above cost for wheat
la a mere bagatelle.
But look at the corngrowers. The
yield for 1917 in this country is up
wards of 3,000,000,000 (three billions,
count em) bushels. We find this
paragraph in the market report of the
Chicago Tribune for last Tuesday
(October 9): -
Corn Weak, 65?10e lower. Sales: In
tore, mixed lots, 15.000 bu. Track, sample
grade, $1.90; No. 6 mixed, $2; No. 3 mixed,
S2; No. 2 mixed. Jit !.o.'); No. o yellow,
sl.ftOifc; No. ." yellow. SJ.02; No. 2 white.
92. o5. Illinois proportional billing: No. "1
mixed, $-'- No. 4 yellow, S2.il'.!; No. 2
yellow, ill.OSli f 2.04; No. 2 white, $-.'.u5L
S.OS.
Corn for $2 a bushel! There are no
reports now of feeding the golden ears
to the flames for fuel, or of the yellow
treasures rotting in their bins.
But we doubtless give an exagger
ated notion of values when we talk of
$2 corn, for the December option
ranges about $1.20. The new crop
has not come in, and the visible sup
ply is low, and $2 is paid for cash
corn. But any one may estimate for
himself the wealth to be made out of
tliiee billion bushels of corn at, say,
$1.25 per bushel, against about one
half that figure, or less, in an ordinary
time.
Consider oats. The crop is a record
one, about 1,580,000,000 bushels, and
the price at Chicago is about 60 cents
a material advance over 191S. The
grower of oats will lose no money
these days.
Let us not drop the subject of the
plethoric farmer until we have said a
word or two about cotton. The yield
in 1917 is about 12,000,000 bales, and
the price is 23 cents against 15 a year
ago. The value of the cotton crop will
thus be nearly $2,000,000,000. Vet,
when the war broke out, there was no
market for cotton, and the stricken
grower was appealing to the Govern
ment for help, which he got.
So we say that $18,000,000,000 is
quite a tidy sum for our agriculturists
more than they ever got in a single
year before. These are largely war
values, to be sure. Does the war mean
anything in a material way to our
farmers?
We wonder if any grower of wheat,
or corn, or oats, or cotton, or any
raiser of beef or hogs or mutton,
thinks that the freedom of the seas
means nothing to him? What if the
United States had accepted the ulti
matum of Germany to get oft the seas?
The farmers of America owe their
prosperity directly to the determina
tion of the United States to stand up
for its right to trade with the world.
In war as in peace. If we had cravenly
yielded to Germany, they would have
been today rapidly approaching bank
ruptcy, if they were not actually bank
rupt. The war means, then, something
more than a battle for an ideal. It
means an opportunity to live and en
Joy the fruits of one's labor.
, BULGARIA DISHEARTEN KD.
It is probably true that Bulgaria is
sincere in seeking an opportunity to
get out of the war. The report that
the German Kaiser has been making
a visit to that country with the pur
pose of stiffening the backbone of its
leaders lacks full confirmation, but it
is at least colorable. But it seems
that Bulgaria will be compelled to
wait a while.
The Bulgarian proposal that is most
credited is that it be permitted to
abandon its Teutonic allies, retaining
part of the territory it has won while
In their company. Minister Pana re
toffs recent statement that Bulgaria
till along would have preferred to join
the entente allies, but could not make
terms with them, reveals the absence
of high principle in all of that coun
try's negotiations. Bulgaria looked
upon the war as a chance to drive a
bargain. She is now finding out that
the bargain she made was a bM one.
Nobody win sympathize much with
her in her loss.
- All that Bulgaria now asks is part
of Serbian, Roumanian and Greek ter
ritory. As to Greece, now that the
former King is out of the way and
German sentiment has faded, she may
yet enter the war on the side of the
entente, so that in any event it is im
probable that the allies will make
Bulgaria any promises In that direc
tion. The allies, including the United
States, are practically committed to
the restoration of Serbia, so Bulgaria
has no chance there. Rou mania, who
suffered from betrayal by internal
enemies, and whose poor sho-ring was
not due to Inherent weakness or
cowardice, will not be abandoned.
Bulgaria is too late repenting;. If
she is really sick of war. she can
quit, but it is not at all probable that
she will be able to collect pay for
doing so.
NO PACIFIST. .
The Boston Transcript carries promi
nently on its editorial page a letter
from Dr. Stephen S. Wise, the distin
guished rabbi (formerly of Portland),
wherein he makes it clear that he is
not a pacifist, and tells why. Says the
letter:
On July 2S yon published an editorial In
the course of which you mentioned my name.
I had before that ceased to be a member of
the executive committee of the American
Union Against Militarism. 1 became a
member of It at a time when I "believed that
it was the business of the country, as far
as possible, to avoid any such extravagant
preparation as would make inevitable our
going to war. Irrespective of the merits of
the case or our own will. I have been a
supporter of the President from the begin
ning of the wsr and believe as do most
Americans that we must save the world be
fore we can free it from the curse of war.
It is wholly consistent for an Ameri
can to be against militarism, and for
peace, but yet for righteous war and
against a German peace. There is
where Dr. Wise stands. It 'is where
other Americans have stood, who were
for peace when it might have been L
attained with honor and without sac
rifice of right or duty, but who are
now vigorously and whole-heartedly
for war to end war and to save civili
zation and humanity.
BASEBALL AS SUE IS AND WAS.
Baseball ain't what it used to be in
the days of real sport, when they
played for blood, and not. for money,
and when success was measured by
the score in the high aggregate of
runs, and not by the number of spec
tators in the grandstand and on the
bleachers. Once the winning team
won because it piled up tallies; now
it wins by preventing the other team
they used to call "em "nines" from
getting any runs at all. They would
improve the game as at present played
if "they permitted one side to hold the
batter's hands and penalized him for
hitting a fair ball to a spot where
nobody could get it.
The other day in the "Fifty Year"
column. The Oregonlan had a real
item about real baseball. It took five
lines to tell about a historic contest
betveen the Pioneers (Portland) and
the Willamettes (Salem), when the
Pioneers batted out a victory, 92 to 25.
Them was the days, them was the
days.
Xow the world's pennant is won by
a miserable score of 4 to 2, and the
reader must fairly wade through
columns and pages to llnd out what
happened. What mostly happened
was the runs both sides didn't make,
and the outs they did make.
They keep up the old familiar form
of baseball, but not the essence. They
have a diamond, and nine players, and
a ball, and a bat, and three outs to an
inning, and nine innings. But there
the resemblance end?. They have a
pitcher who doesn't pitch, but throws
a crooked ball, and a catcher who is
nothing but a padded back-stop, and
four balls instead of nine, and two
foul strikes, and a single free strike,
and a called strike every time you
ought to have hit at the ball- but
what's the use? Baseball is a game
now to look at, from a safe distance,
in a comfortable seat for which you
pay, where once it was a game for you
to play. Now they hire players from
everywhere or anywhere, so that a
Portland team, for example, is made
up of a large number of gentlemen
who would have been playing for
Seattle, or San Francisco, or Chicago,
if they had got more money for it.
Their loyalty is purely commercial,
but when the Pioneers went up to
Salem to play for the championship,
they bore with them the honor, the
chivalry, the fair name and fame of
Portland. What they brought back
was tingling memories that have
lasted for fifty years.
WOMEN AND THE FARM MOVEMENT.
There is little doubt that the res
toration of peace will be followed by
a renewal of the back-to-the-land
movement on a larjje scale. It has
needed the impressive lesson of a war.
ft would seem, to show how important
the farm really is in the social scheme.
What was only academically realized
a few years ago has now reached the
stage of practical comprehension.
Hi-rher prices for farm products,
which are quite likely to continue for
some time, will furnish 'a valuable
stimulus, too.
There is, however, a good deal that I
the women of America can do to make
the revival of interest in farming per
manent. This was pointed out by the
speakers at the convention of the
Woman's National Farm and Garden
Association at Chicago recently. It is
a good time to suggest that woman's
pre-eminent place as the maker of the
home gives her exceptional oppor
tunity to turn the tide in the right
direction. It is a grave question
whether inadequate reward for their
labor is the chief reason why many
farmers have become discouraged, or
why their sons leave home. Good
farmers on the whole are nearly, if not
quite, as well fixed as city men of the
same grade of industry and ability.
But the social disadvantages that at
tend rural life have never been fully
overcome. Isolation does not appeal
to human beings. It is trite to say
that farming as it is usually conducted
is too monotonous, but it is true. Boys
and girls like their play, and women,
who have the worst of it in the farm
scheme, grow weary of the endless
round of tasks.
One of the obvious duties of the
farmer's wife in the future, and of all
women who contemplate entering on
the rural life, will be to insist upon
giving proper emphasis to the com
munity features. The era of the mag
nificent barn and the tumbledown
dwelling is passing. The old adage
that the barn would build a house but
the house would never build a barn
has been construed too literally, and
there has been too much procrastina
tion about home building. First one
thing and then another arises to fore
stall purchase of the "homey" things
that women and children need. Some
farmers are beginning to realize the
fact, but not enough of them.
A speaker at the Chicago convention
who said that she proposed to set
tiside a twenty-acre woodlot for a
picnic ground for the family struck
the keynote. The cattle, she said,
would henceforth take second place to
the children. And while it is true
that livestock converted into cash do
he;p to buy comforts, they do not re
store youth after it is gone. Farmers'
families have the right to live as they
go along. The picnic-ground sugges
tion is only an indication of the gen
eral drift. Flower gardens, books to
read, better and better schools, good
roads and more leisure to enjoy the
blessings of civilization are a few of
the things the women of the future
will insist upon.
By holding fast to their purpose,
farmers' wives will do as much to en-
courage the agricultural movement,
and to dignify it, as the scientists.
Farming should be made universally
tolerable, and not left to the few who
do not mind becoming hermits. Our
people at heart are still tillers of the
soil; they do not require that impos
sible things shall be done for them to
induce them to continue the work at
which their forefathers excelled.
Women will exert a powerful influence
in shaping the course of events.
THE MARCH OF PROHIBITION.
We of the dry states may look with
equanimity upon the mounting cost
of bar whisky. But New York finds
it a sad, sad world. Information has
just transpired from a meeting of
wholesale and retail liquor dealers in
that city that the new price of 15
cents straight for bar whisky will go
up to 2 0 cents as a sort of Christmas
reminder, and that the advent of the
New Year will be celebrated, if cele
brated at all, with two-bit drinks.
The increase in price has been
brought about by the enforced cessa
tion of distillation of spirituous liquors
and by the new war taxes. The esti
mated quantity of "hard stuff" in the
country is 200,000,000 gallons. Under
normal consumption this supply would
last but two years. But the 200,000,
000 gallons will pay a war tax of more
than $1,000,000,000, and that tax will
be passed on to the consumer.
It is calculated that the consumer
will, therefore, consume less liquor
and that the supply will last two and
one-half years. Early in 1920, there
fore, unless the war has in the mean
time ended, and Congress does not
make prohibition of manufacture per
manent, there will be no open sale of
whisky or other distilled spirits. Many
retailers are now going out of busi
ness. Since October 1, 600 in Greater
New York have closed their doors and
2000 have dropped out in the state,
as a result of the burdens of a new
state law.
While dealers profess to believe that
manufacture of whisky will be re
sumed after tho war, the naive state
ment is made that they would like to
see a more general use of light wines.
It is quite clear that the dealers fear
the worst, and realize that the salva
tion of the retail business depends
upon the present whisky consumer's
becoming accustomed to a substitute.
GOOD COLLATERAL.
Liberty bonds, within a few years,
will doubtless be in demand at a pre
mium. They will always be good col-'
lateral security.
One use of Government bonds in the
latter particular has been generally
forgotten in this state. The Oregon
law permits the State Land Board to
lend permanent school funds on Gov
ernment bonds. If rates of interest
on the school fund were not fixed by
statute at not less than 5 per cent the
state could purchase liberty bonds out
of available school money.
But it may lend money at 5 per cent
up to 80 per cent of the face value of
the bonds. These loans run one year,
but are never called under ten years
if the interest is paid. The bond in
terest exactly pays the interest on the
loan.
The state has never done much of a
lending business on Government bonds
because Government bonds were not
generally in the hands of the people.
That condition will now be changed.
Every man is a bondholder.
These facts ought particularly to
interest persons who have saved cash
for a rainy day. We know of one
uneasy individual who has $800, but
is afraid to invest more than a small
proportion of it for fear sickness may
overtake him.
It does not do much good to re
mind such persons that the history of
all Government bonds indicates that
a day will come when a liberty bond
will be better than cash, because it
will bring a premium. But here is a
good, substantial law, already on the
books, which fixes their value as se
curity for a loan.
HOW TO RELIEVE FTEL SHORTAGE.
The chickens of Plnchotism have
come home to roost. The demand for
fuel tb generate power has outrun the
supply, although the latter this year is
expected to exceed that of 1916 by 10
per cent and that of 1915 by 25 per
cent. A coal shortage exists in Ohio,
one of the greatest coal-producing
states, and Mayors of towns are seiz
ing coal in transit to the great lakes
and apportioning it among the ln-
habitants. An embargo on coal ex-
ports to Canada is in force. The re
serve supply of petroleum decreases
at an alarming pace, and gasoline has
risen to unheard-of prices.
Yet, according to Senator ' Jones,
only 5,500,000 of the 60.000,000 water
horsepower in the United States has
been developed. Of the total, 40.000.
000 Is in the West, and of this only
2,500,000, or 6 per cent, has been de
veloped. When a ton of coal or a
barrel of oil is burned, it cannot be
replaced: our stock of those fuels is
permanently diminished. When a
stream is harnessed, it continues to
produce power as long as rain and
snow feed it. It perennially renews
itself. Unlike coal, which requires the
labor of pejJiaps a million men to
mine and transport it, waterpower re
quires the labor of comparatively few
men an important point when the
Nation needs to make the best use of
every pair of hand.
Congress is responsible for this ab
surd waste. While it has passed
drastic laws to impose on the people
conservation of food, it has obsti
nately refused to permit conservation
of fuel, for that is the effect of its
neglect to pass laws under which
waterpower can be developed. In
blind obedience to the dictation of the
fanatic. Gifford Pinchot, it has, to use
a familiar saying, saved at the tap but
has wasted at the bunghole.
Two bills are before Congress which
would remove obstacles to develop
ment of waterpower the Shields bill
relating to navigable streams and the
Walsh bill relating to power on public
land. The public is carefully pro
tected by both' bills, and the rights of
the states are safeguarded as far as
is practicable. Both bills provide for
leases for fifty years, at the expiration
-of which period the Government may
acquire the plant at actual value by
giving three years' notice. The Shields
bill requires lessees to build and main
tain free of cost -locks and other aids
to -navigation, and to pay rent for
any public land they use. The Walsh
bill requires payment of rent for
power sites based on the amount of
power developed, half of the amount
to be paid to the state for its rights
in the water. No restriction is placed
on the use which the state may make
of this fund, as was the case with
former bills. No charge is to be made
for leases granted to states or munici
palities, or for power used in develop
ing timber resources in National for
ests or for small plants for domestic,
mining or irrigation purposes. Kates
and terms pf -service are to. be regu-
lated by state commissions within the
states; by the Interstate Commerce
Commission between the states.
These bills should receive the united
support of all reasonable men in and
out of Congress. Mr. Jones says that
Eastern and Southern Congressmen
have assured him that they are ready
to vote for any reasonable bills upon
which Western members unite, and
that Western members, particularly
those from the Middle West, are
chiefly responsible for the failure of
Congress to act. Some members, like
those from Wisconsin. Nebraska and
Oklahoma, which have relatively lit
tle waterpower. have been badly in
fected with Pinchottsm, and raise the
anti-capitalist howl whenever it is
proponed to grant any rights to cor
porations, no matter how well the
public interest may be guarded. It is
time that members from the Far
West, which has two-thirds of the
waterpower, got together and made
the will of the majority effective
against the few obstructionists.
Congress has been so closely occu
pied at the special session with laws
directly connected with conduct of the
war that there is some excuse for
deferring action on this and other
legislation, but action should be taken
at the regular session which begins
in December. It may be possible to
develop power only at those sites
where construction is easiest and most
rapid before the war ends, but the
way should be cleared now for exten
sive development after the war. This
Nation will then enter upon an era
of intense commercial rivalry with
other nations which will call all our
resources into play, for economy in
production will be the first requisite
for success. If we cannot produce
power for use during the war to make
good the deficiencies in coal supply,
we should be ready for its full use
after the war.
Some of the larger cities of the
country are only Just awakening to
the fact that the practice of dating
all leases of flats and apartments on
a certain day such as, in New York,
October 1 is a cause of enormous
waste. The result is that most of the
moving that is done by an entire com
munity is crowded into a few days,
requiring the services of many vans,
motors, horses and workmen, who
are not so employed at other seasons.
If the owners of- the vans were not
compelled to hold them nearly idle so
many months in order to be prepared
for the annual riot which attends the
festival of Lares and Penates, they
could employ their capital In other
and more useful endeavors. No cure
for the "moving habit" in cities has
been devised. It is idle to suggest
that home ownership would accom
plish the desired result, because
ownership of part of a house in lo
calities where real estate is too high
to permit the average dweller to own
the whole has not yet been made
feasible. And the urban population
is inclined to be restless, anyway.
Indianapolis papers are hailing the
arrival of cheap pawpaws on the
market as a relief to the food situa
tion. Somehow the standard works
on nutrition have failed to give the
pawpaw a rating, but if It is anything
like pigs' feet it ought to be all right.
It is still an unsettled question
whether the couples who were mar
ried on the 12th of the month, or
those who got their decrees on the
13th, have the best right to say that
they are not superstitious.
Another advantage in owning a lib
erty bond is that one needn't worry
about a reinvestment before 1942,
while there i3 a chance of being able
to sell them at a premium long before
that date. v
We may be a little short of that
brown October ale of which the poets
sing, but all the other delights that
go with the month are present in un
usual profusion In Oregon this season.
The Department of Agriculture re
ports the output of onions, cabbage
and beans as enormous, and if Hoover
will loosen a little Bide meat, what
more can man desire?
The occasional protest against tak
ing steps to protect soldiers against
temptation only shows that there are
people in the world who simply will
not agree to anything.
The man who buys the greatest
amount of bonds is not the biggest
patriot. That title belongs to the man
barely able to buy one and who
buys it.
Getting down to actual figures, that
is a rise of 50 per cent in letter post
age, and the man who neglects to in
close a stamp will be less likely to get
a reply.
The edibility and food value of the
mushroom are no "secrets, but the price
seems likely to continue to keep them
out of the diet of the average citizen.
A farmer has been caught mixing
cheat with his wheat, and probably
will Justify himself with the claim
that he did it to avoid being cheated.
Von Tlrpitz Is candid and boastful;
meanwhile, Lloyd George is arranging
the table of compound interest.
Seattle and San Francisco will note
that Portland sets the pace on solv
ing carmen's troubles.
Arm the Seattle women, but put
them under bonds to respect a close
season on husbands.
Practically, Germany orders Den
mark to take potatoes for something
more valuable. ,
Dr. Hillis is not given to hysterics,
and what he says of atrocities can be
taken as fact.
Conservation of the wild oats crop
is also doing much for the man power
of the Nation.
Let us make a snowball affair of
the liberty loan today, growing bigger
as she rolls.
There's only one Ben Selling, but
there's e lot to him.
- A liberty bond will not wear out.
Buy one today.
Hurry those hats made of Oregon
jackrabbits.
It's a fat suitcase that holds twenty
quarts.
McGraw paraphrases Chicago:
wilt!"
Is your name in the liberty, bond
Ust . . -
" The Peripterous.
Farlpterous A Structure Having R
of Columns on All Sldea Dictionary.
(Synopsis of preceding chapters.)
The Oregonlan. a great morning news
paper, employs a distinguished literary
architect to construct a peripterous.
He does it. It has rows of columns on
east, west, north and south.
The Peripterous becomes m Free Audito
rium for the expression of incompetent, ir
relevant and immaterial opinions and for
publicity of news and verse denied admis
sion to a free press and the Pubile Forum.
The Peripterous discovers four wonders
of Oregon and gives the first authentic ex
planation of the presence of Professor U.
Heep, lecturer on Appreciation of Bathtubs
at Ouff University, with a party of train
robbers.
Free use of the main auditorium of the
peripterous is extended to devotees of canned
music.
Comlns; 1 A Literary Novelty.
In the Interests of space The Perip
terous will shortly publish, as a synop- I
sis of preceding chapters, a synopsis !
of synopses. It has never been done
before.
OX POLITICAL- ETIQt'ETTE,
A great organization, aware of the
absolute freedom of speech In the
Peripterous, seeks opportunity to pro
test against repetition of the historic
Incident in which one county officer
called another county officer a "boob."
The organization is the Proportional
Representation League. The league de
sires that it be distinctly understood
that it expresses no opinion as to
whether the county officer so called Is
a boob or not a boob. Its protest Is
founded on much broader, patriotic
grounds.
"Boob," It is asserted by the league,
is a term of reproach for an unfortu
nate but unavoidable mental condition.
It Ib not a dignified word, yet In Its
meaning It would fit a great number of
people who are not aware that they
are boobs.
The league, as it s name Implies, be
lieves In the representation of all
classes in the councils of government.
The boobs, by right, are entitled to
elect as many boobs to office as the
total number ofeboobs is in proportion
to the total number of officers elected.
Any indiscriminate application of an
obnoxious term, such as "boob," to the
men the boobs elect to office is likely
to cause the boobs to elect men who
are not boobs, and thereby destroy the
great principle of proportional repre
sentation. Solely to prevent an unthinkable dis
aster, the Proportional Representation
League is permitted to Intrude these
serious thoughts into a space not or
dinarily given over to seriousness.
The Teat Is the Thins;.
G. I. B. writes to ask whether the
prohibition law of Oregon is a farce.
The surest way to find out, G. I. B., Is
to violate It and see what happens.
NOT SO FREE AS THAT.
PORTLAND, Or.. Oct. 13. (To
Architect.) It was with a shout of
the
ap
proval that I read that the Peripterous was
to be an absolutely free medium ot ex
pression. I submit herewith fund of anecdotes
which I have bean unable to persuade the
so-called Free Press of any part of the
country to print, and whlcb 'have been de
nied a hearing; in the Public Forum.
I now feel that the ambition of a life
time is to be realised and that the entire
public will be permitted to enjoy the fruits
of researches until now enjoyed by small
and occasional audiences. C. 8. J.
e
The anecdotes submitted by C. 8. J.
are so rotten that If one holds his nose
he cannot read a word of tbem. C. S.
J.'s understanding of the word "free"
must have been gained from La Fol
lette's war speeches.
LIBERTY IV VERS LIBRE,
An "American Marsalet" has been
written by Mr. J. C. Stira, of Knappa,
Or. Mr. Stira Is one of our untrara-
meled poets:
Let's dismiss our domestic in politic
races.
And forget all different partisan in
past;
Let's prepare In necessary places
To face the storm and thunder blast.
Stand In union with our Uncle Sam;
Bear the collar, while our power lasts;
Hold on strong to his sleeve, for he
holds you
And the holdeth Is strongest and best.
To arms! To arms!
March! Brave sons of land of free.
For our glory is dear.
And our liberty.
Red and black clouds from east, west
ward drifting.
Swiftly progressing toward our shore;
Death Is harvesting fruit of misruling,
So let's close for him our door.
Let's get ready prepared to face him.
Then his route will surely miss our
shore.
Stars and Stripes when once bravely
raised
Then will break the clouds of war.
Fellow foreigner, you came here for
shelter.
Escaping hand that been pressing
you.
Made your home with our Uncle Sam,
Got your share of freedom in you.
But the hand that you have left behind.
Are tnrea-te-ning you again;
So if you men you must not be sleepy,
As you see it and understand.
To arms! To arms!
To protect your home In land of free.
Join the brave sons of liberty.
Not a power on earth will invade us.
So Jong as we seeing the light;
Nor our flag will be ever insulted.
So long as our hearts are beating
alive.
Then our spirit will never be frightened
'Till the enemy's knees once be weak;
Invaders finds themselves badly mis-
laKen,
'Cause may realise the same too late.
To arms! To arms!
, March! Brave sons of land of free.
For our power is strong.
To their misery.
Lackr u re sob calms Anotner Fs-sana
Mas.
Wlllapa Harbor Pilot.
Peter Kyle, who has worked here
for a number of years as a restaurant
cook for Casey and Zack Tabell, left
Wednesday morning for Brookings, Or.,
to take the position of cook for the
lumber company there at $100 per with
sleeps and eats thrown in.
Peter Is a direct lineal descendant ot
the Peter of sacred history. Is possessed
of an impediment of speech and is
probably the fastest scratch pool player
In the great Northwest.
What He Called and Found.
Topeka Capital.
"Bobby, did you take that message
to Mrs. Turner, as I told your'
"Tes'm." "And what did you find out?"
"Mrs. Turner."
TRADES UNIONS NOT SCIENTIFIC
Barriers Against Membership Invite
Open Snap, Says Write.
PORTLAND. Oct. 15. (To the Edi
tor.) Trade or craft unions fail to
recognize one of the basic principles
in unionism namely, the open union.
When, therefore, trades unions de
mand the "closed shop" they demand
the Impossible, for the economic law
of supply and demand is bound to as
sert Itself either through the open shop
or the open union, or through both.
If the closed unions could only suc
ceed in winning a "closed shop," what
a picnic they could enjoy all to them
selves! But the employer, backed by
an economic law, can be depended upon
to spoil all such picnics by running an
"open shop."
The methods that trades unions em
ploy to keep their unions closed are
many and varied. The financial bar
rier or high initiation fee is found to
be very effective, especially when
backed up by other barriers and dis
couragements, such as unnecessarily
long apprenticeships, bosslsm in the
union, etc
It should be very plain to anybody
who has given the matter the least
thought that trades unions are behind
the times reactionary and a hindrance
to the progress .of the workers. In a
word, these unions are unscientific
Trades unions cannot throw down
the bars and take all the workers In,
for then they would lose their power,
become useless and cease to exist al
together, owing to the fact that their
power depends upon limiting their
membership. This narrowness and
mental bankruptcy on the part of the
trade unions brought industrial union
ism into the field. I am not referring
to the I. W. W., for that organization
can scarcely be called a union at all.
It is rather an association of rough
necks, fatheads and soreheads, whose
sensational stunts are injuring labor's
cause.
Trades union psychology predom
inates In the I. W. W. That organiza
tion, owing to Its lack of education,
would gravitate toward trade unionism
but for the fact that very few trades
men Join the bungling outfit.
PATRICK O' HALLO RAN.
APPLE PRICES PUZZLE CROtVFJJ
Orchard 1st Asks What Producers Get
Out ef Bnalneaa Men's Vfntnrr.
TRES PINOS ORCHARDS. Lyle.
Wash., Oct. 13. (To the Editor.) I
read in The Oregonian that the busi
ness men of Portland are conducting a
market for selling "seconds" in apples
and pears at cost, and in the news
item, printed on October 8, they put me
price at from 50 to 75 cents per box,
these apples shipped from Medford.
Now how long since the state of Ore
gon has had a grade of apples known
as seconds? Are they not what is
known as "cookers," or culls, and in us
ing the term "seconds" are they not
violating the law made to prevent un
truthful advertising? Mr. Bei g has had
some experience lately along that line
with silk stockings. I believe.
Now if they are really selling a
packed box of apples in Portland.
shipped from Medford, for 50 cents, I
would like to know how It can be done.
Boxes cost this year about 15 cents,
paper 8 cents, packing 5 cents, sorting
4 cents, picking 3 cents, making 35
cents. I presume they pay freight Irom
Medford and that there Is some expense
in getting the apples from the freight
yard to their place of business. What
I would like to know is how much does
the man who cultivated. sprayed
pruned and otherwise cared for these
apples up to the time they were picKea
get out of them. This is not idle curl
osity on my part, but I am trying to
make a living raising apples ana tis
Information 1 am after."
F. E MANCHESTER.
The apples sold by the Progressive
Business Men's Club, of Portland, are
what is known as picked culls. They
are not wrapped) and packed, but are
tossed into the box and the lid nailed
on, which is otherwise known to the
fruitgrower as the jumble pack. The
apples that were sold on the Portland
market brought 65 to 80 cents per box,
while the pears were sold for 60 and 60
cents.
BEAN PROFIT IS NOT FINANCIAL
Grower Figures That Club Merely Add
ed to Food Supply.
BEAVERTOX, Or., Oct. H.--lTo the
Editor.) I read The Oregonian's edi
torial relating to the 16 acres of beans
planted by the "Live Wire Club," of
Oregon City, and having had a little
experience myself growing beans last
season would like to ask how a profit
to the "Live Wires" can be figured
with a yield of 327 pounds to the acre.
Beans at planting time were worth
20 cents per pound and as it takes
about 80 pounds to the acre the seed
cost $16 per acre. The price lor a man
and team at that time was $6 per day;
it would take two days to plow and
thoroua-hlv r-reoare and nlant one acre,
making $12 more. Then the land Itself
is surely worth $7 an acre. Those three
items foot ud $35. or within $9 of what
the beans would bring at the market
price. But out of the $9 must be de
ducted the cost of cultivation, harvest
ing, threshing and hauling to market,
so that the Live Wires' profits consist
mainly In having added 5261 pounds of
beans to the country's supply or iooa
which of course can be looked upon as
a profit.
If there is anything wrong in these
figures please set me right, as I am
only writing from my own experience
J. GREENE.
ON OCR WAY.
We will raise an army strong
Who will fight against the wrong
That is done
By the monster o'er the sea
Whd"says that God and he
Are as one.
Then we'll take our little ship
And we'll give the subs the slip
On our way;
And we'll march right to Berlin
And we'll ask if Bill is in
His lair today.
We'll be deaf to what they say.
For their sins they'll surely pay.
Every one.
And with Uncle Sam's new sword
We will put the heathen horde
On the run.
Then for the world's example,
Prussian colleagues we will trample
On as well.
And we'll fix that Kaiser Hun
So his blood drops one by one
Fall to hell.
C. W. G.
A m Vncertalia Compliment.
Everybody's Magazine.
They were dancing the one-step. The
music was heavenly. The swish of her
silken skirts was divine. The frag
rance of the roses upon her bosom was
really intoxicating.
A sudden dizziness seemed to seize
him. It was as if he were floating in
a dream. When he had sufficiently
gained his breath he spoke:
"Which one?"
"Oh, any one." she replied. "The feet
are mixed In all of them."
National Anthem.
PRINEVILLE. Or.. Oct, 13. (To the
Editor.) Some discussion has come up
in school as to what is the National
Bong. Some say "The Star-Spangled
Banner" and some say "America."
Please tell me which is right.
A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT.
"The Star-Spangled Banner."
In Other Days.
Ball at Ceutsnry Agra.
From The Oregonlan of October 16. 1S67.
The assessed value of property la
Albany foots up about $600,000.
Dublin. There are apprehensions of
another Fenian landing should all tho
war vessels be withdrawn to the east
ern and southern coasts of Ireland, ex
cept one or two Ironclads.
The Circuit Court for Washington
County will begin its Fall term at
Hillsboro on Monday, next Judge Shat
tuck presiding. For the accommoda
tion of attorneys and others attending,
Mr. Jamison will run an extra express
coach on Monday as far as Hillsboro.
Chicago. By late advices from Mon
tana, Captain Hughes and two com
panies of mounted militia have turned
highwaymen and are committing dep
redations on the road between Mon
tana and Colorado, and $1000 is offered
as a reward for the capture or nugnes.
Chicago. The Southern journals are
unanimous In the opinion that the re
construction policy of Congress will be
modified in consequence of the late
elections, and negro suffrage left out.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Orc-fonian of October is. 1S82.
Washington. President Harrison
this afternoon issued a proclamation
opening to immediate settlement the
surplus lands on the Crow Indian res
ervation, in Southern Montana, aggre
gating 1.800,000 acres.
Chicago. The election commission
ers have decided that women are en
titled to register and vote at the com
ing election, but for trustees of the
State University only.
The business men of Morrison street
are becoming justly Indignant at the
disgraceful condition of that thorough
fare. It is simply a sea of mud.
Colonel W. W. Chapman, the well-
known pioneer of this city, is danger
ously ill at his residence on Jefferson
street. He is upward of 84 years old.
The East Side Railway Company Is
building an extensive carhouse at Mil-
waukle. The walls will be 20 feet high
and the structure will cover half a
block.
What Ailed Poker Johnson
By James Uarlon Adams.
Poker Johnson got to droopin" in a
most peculiar way.
Sot around the jag emporiums hair
a-sleepin' every day;
Didn't have a durned ambition or a Im-
oulse. 'cent to snooze
An" occasionally brighten his vitality
with booze.
When we'd ask about the trouble he
would say he didn't know
What the dickens was the ailment
a-collapsin' of him so.
An' his woman got uneasy that he'd fly
the mortal track
Cot to askin' other wimmen if ehe d
look all right in black.
Dr. Slaughter diagnosed him, but It
baffled all his skill
To locate the innard trouble, so he sent
to Deadman'a Hill
Fur a medico to hold a consultation on
the case
An' endeavor to discover what had
knocked Poke off his base.
After much deliberation they agreed
without a doubt
That his uniform appendix was
a-knockin' of him out.
An' to place him in position fur to hold
a cinch on life
They would have to go prospectin" fur
the trouble with the knife.
Not a-havin' sleepin' dope they filled his
system full o nooze
'Till his sensitiveness vanished in a
paralytic snooze.
An' they both was somewhat rattled
when they laid his innards bare
Fur to find that the appendix they wus
huntin' wasn't there.
Then they thought it was his liver, an
they took a squint at that.
But 'twas healthy, an' his heart was not
degeneratin' fat.
An they monkeyed with his stomach
an' the organs round about.
But they couldn't find no ailment that
demanded cuttin' out.
When the Coroner come over fur to set
on what was left
Of the mangled late lamented, an' to
sort o' feel the heft
Of the evidence submitted, he had
deemed It wise to bring
A medicinary expert to investigate the
thing.
After hearln" all the symptoms an"
a-lookin" 'round Inside
Of the physical construction of the
corpse he testified
That the trouble was spring fever, an
he"d lost what life he had
Through a brace of ig'nant butchers .
chasin' up a modern fad.
Regrets for Taylor-Street Church.
FOREST GROVE. Or., Oct. ' 14. (To
the Editor.) It was with a great
heartache that I stood a few days ago
and watched the tearing down of
Portland's old historic church.
In the East such edifices are cher
ished and made much of, Wesley's lit
tle old chapel in London is visited by
thousands of people every year. Why
could not those high In authority in
the church realize what that building
meant, not only to Portland, but all
Oregon? Not only the children of pio
neers, but thousands of later comers
loved and revered the place sacred to
the pioneer history of Oregon.
A church is like a home. It Is only
brick or stone or mortar until human
life has been lived within its walls.
Oh. the beautiful memories which
cluster around a church used for the
worship of Ood for one-half a century!
What a pity some rich man could
not have bought and preserved our
church, and let its faithful congrega
tion worship within its walls.
JENNIE A. REEHER.
Recruiting Officers Have Seen Service.
rum iAij-, uct. jo. (To the Edi
tor. State whether the Rrltish nffi.
cers now recruiting in Portland for the
British army have seen active service
in the present war. SUBSCRIBER.
The British recruiting officers now
In Portland have seen active service.
They are men who are on leave recov
ering from wounds or nerve shocks in
almost every Instance. It is one method
of utilizing the officers who are not
yet sufficiently recovered to return to
the trenches, or are officers who went
Into the fray early and are being al
lowed a rest from actuil fighting
while the newer and fresher men go to
the front.
Judgment Moat Be Renewed.
PORTLAND, Or.. Oct. 14. (To ths)
Editor.) A has a deficiency Judgment
against B, taken in 1878; B has ac
quired a home In this state and prop
erty in another state since the taking
of the Judgment and has never gone
through bankruptcy. Can A still col
lect on the Judgment, or is it outlawed?
The judgment was taken in this state.
INQUIRER.
The statute of limitations runs
against the judgment unless the
Judgment has been renewed within the
period stated.
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