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PORTLAND, Tl'ESDAV, OCTOBER S3, 1917.
GET DOWN TO BUSINESS.
JCow that work is being fully re
sumed at the shipyards, it is timely
for the people, not only of Portland
but of the whole Pacific Northwest, to
get certain facts clearly before their
minds and to settle down to work in
accordance with those facts. It is in
cumbent upon us to do this as a duty
to the country and to those men who
have gone from among us to light its
battles; as a duty to ourselves, our
city and state and the entire Pacific
Korthwest.
We have started to build up a new
industry which may prove of great
assistance to the Xation in the war
and which may prove a great and
permanent source of prosperity to this
section. A great effort is being made
to bring back the wooden ship, and it
has merits which justify that effort,
but certain obstacles must be frankly
recognized and overcome if the effort
is to succeed.
Some of the first ships launched on
the Columbia River proved flat fail
ures, and the facts got to Washington.
There is a scarcity of skilled ship
wrights, and the industry has only
reached its present extent by scatter
ing them very thinly among green
men, who may have built houses, but
who never had a hand in building a
hip and who are less than half effi
cient, yet who demand and get skilled
men's wages. In consequence the cost
of labor on a ship is almost trebled,
and now equals the former cost of
labor and material combined. The
cost per ton of a wooden ship now
nearly equals that of a steel ship, and
one of the main points in favor of
wood economy in lirst tost is thus
eliminated.
The odds are said to be against es
cape of any ship slower than sixteen
knots from submarine attack, and
Ixn-d Korthftliffe, representing the
British government, therefore opposes
permitting any ship of less speed to
enter the danger zone. Fourteen
knots is about the best speed that a
wooden ship of the new type can at
tain. All of these points were urged
at Washington before the strike which
has now ended. When work ceased,
all who s-nght further contracts were
met with the crushing reply: "FinLjh
the ships you have under "contract be
fore asking for more."
Further, the reorgun ized Shipping
Board is even more unfavorable to the
wooden ship than was General Goe
thals. It is going ahead with the pro
gramme for building steel ships to
the exclusion of wood, and when a plea
for the latter is entered, it can truth
fully reply that all the yards on both
the Pacific and Gulf coasts are already
loader with contracts, and that more
contracts to new yards would only re
sult in further competition for labor
with enhanced cost and no quicker
output of vessels. As the Hoard has
commandeered all the ships which
were building for allied nations, these
nations are out of the market for
more. Private ship owners would not
readily contract for vessels at war
prices when the Government has. com
mandeered all existing craft and lias
placed a limit on their monthly earn
ings, for they would have to operate
under the l.a Follette law, which en
hances operating cost.
The lumber situation is also un
favorable to more ship contracts. The
strike in the sawmills and logging
camps reduced output to such a de
gree that the logs are not being cut
for the ships now under contract, and
the logging season will soon end.
Spruce is produced for aircraft so
slowly that the Government is build
ing training planes of 11 r, although
they are four miles an hour slower
than those built of spruce, the expec
tation being that spruce will be avail
able for battle planes. The Southern
lumber regions are also slow in turn
ing out ship timbers, and have been
buying fir.on the Pacific Coast.
All of these objections to wooden
ships can be overcome. The failures
of ships already built are no argument
against building more; they are an
argument for skilled construction on
approved lines. The British royal
yacht Victoria and Albert, built in
1S50 and still afloat, is proof, but she
lias steel straps and diagonal sheath
ing. Ships now being built in Port
land are of that (resign, and should
prove almost as staunch and durable.
Constant work and increased efficiency
Of new hands will reduce labor cost,
and turn the balance in matter of cost
in favor of wood. Though wooden
vessels now continue too slow for
safety in the danger zone, they can
replace other vessels on routes which
submarines cannot reach. There would
be ample work for them in bringing
wheat end woo from Australia to the
Pacific Coast for shipment across the
continent. Speeding up in the logging
camps and sawmills will be' necessary.
if work is to continue without inter
ruption through the Winter. k
There is good cause to believe that
the Government has blundered sadly
in its calculations as to possible pro
duction of steel ships. It is likely to
discover that nearer eight than four
months will be consumed in building
the new yards, and Its programme for
transports will by no means be has
tened by crowding the yards with new
contracts for destroyers. The expected
one steel ship a day may prove to be
an optimist's dream.
The possibility that the Shipping
Board may fail far short of turning
out its expected ten million tons of
ships before the end of 191 should
nerve the people of the Pacific Coast
to do their utmost to make good any
deficiency. We owe this to our coun-
try, to make up for the milk that has
been spilled by the strike. It may
prove of vital importance to the cause
of the allies. They have beaten the
Germans on land and are confident of
their ability to continue the beating,
provided supplies from America do
not fail. The thing they call for is
ships, ships and more ships. We must
build for them and for our own Army
Let it never be forgotten that for
every transport carrying troops we
, , . . ; . .i.,.
must provide fie freighters carrying
supplies. We must not be deluded by
diminished sinkings into the belief
that the submarfiie is beaten. We have
had warning that the Germans are
even
5000 tons, able to fight destroyers on
the surface, with protected armor and
with greater stability, which gives
accurate fire. Reports of increased
captures of submarines and of de
creased damage wrought by them are
ground for hope, but not for relaxa
tion of effort through overconfidence.
The wooden ship, now despised at
Washington, may fill the void in the
allies' and our own supplies which
will make the difference between vic
tory and defeat, or a stalemate which
would be as bad as defeat.
The shipbuilders should get together
for concerted action in placing their
cas'e in the proper light before the
authorities at Washington and in
averting further friction with labor.
The legislatures should pass . com
pulsory arbitration laws which will
make strikes impossibleduring war.
The Governors and Mayors should give
ample protection to any man who
wishes to work against insult and as
sault, and in so doing they should
have the active, aggressive support
of all good citizens. The future of
the states and cities immediately con
cerned is at stake, but far more than
that the fate of this Xation and of
freedom the world over may be de
cided by our efforts.
A PEACE PLAN.
Restoration "to Belgium of her ancient
frontiers and compensation for her losses
frum ah international fund.
We take this perfect gem of im
partial justice from the peace plan of
the Russian Council of Workmen's
and Soldiers' Delegates, conveyed in
their instructions to their representa
tive to the Paris conference of the
allies.
Without stopping to inquire where
Belgium's ancient boundaries begin or
end, or how the lives of dead men,
or the sanctity of outraged women
may be restored, it may be said that
in essence the scheme is to let Ger
many escape the righteous penalty for
its misdeeds, and let its enemies pay
for them. Germany does the wrong,
and the world repairs it.
A marauder from the Cave of Fright
fulness and Kultur invades a peace
ful household, slays the husband, vio
lates the wife, enslaves and starves
the children, burns the home, steals
the cattle, and devastates field and
orchard. He then notifies the neigh
bors that the price of peace with him
is that they assume joint responsi
bility with him for his atrocious act.
AVe wouldn't think much of the
neighbors if they accepted the "com
promise." A I.OVAL AMERICAN DIES.
The tragic death of Senator Husting,
of Wisconsin, is a positive loss to the
country at large. In sharp contrast
to his colleague. Senator La Follette,
he was a staunch supporter of the war
and all measures for its effective pros
ecution. To him is due the exposure
ot the traitorous, pro-German pur
poses of the men who control the
Socialist party and who engineered
the special convention at St. Louis.
He was a Democrat of the right kirtd,
while his colleague is a Republican of
the wrong kind.
Mr. Husting's successor will doubt
less be a Republican, for Governor
Philipp, who will appoint him, is of
that party. He will, however, be a
loyaDAmerican, for the Governor has
set his face firmly against every dis
loyal tendency.
Mr. Husting is the second Democrat
who has died since the Sixty-fifth Con
gress was organized and who is to be
succeeded by a Republican, the Demo
cratic majority being thus reduced to
eight. But far more important than
the effect on the relative strength of
parties is the fact that no addition is
to be made to the forces of sedition
in Congress.
THE FIGHT ON THE MOSQIITO.
1 he fiht on the mosquito, an es
tablished part of the general sanitary
campaign, will not be won by magic
as some persons who hope to avoid
hard work have -professed recently to
believe. It still will require the taking
of infinite pains. The established
method of cleaning up the country
side, draining standing pools and per
manently removing all stagnant water,
whether in naturnl or artificial con
tainers, has found no practical sub
stitute. It is important that this
should be known at this season when
the harvest is nearly over, because in
the milder climates laying the founda
tion for mosquito extermination is
essentially an odd-time job. The open
days of Winter and the occasional pre
Spring periods when the ground is
workable can be employed advanta
geously.
There was inaugurated recently a
plan to import from Kngland a num
ber of dragon flies in the hope that
they would exterminate the mosquitoes
without the help of man. But the
scheme is frowned upon by scientists,
among them Archibald C. Weeks, of
the Brooklyn Kntomological Society,
who points out that if the dragon
fly were efficient for the work, the
mosquito would have been eliminated
from our calculations long ago. The
dragon fly breeds only in stagnant
pools which are favorable for the de
velopment of the mosquito, and, says
Mr. Weeks, these conditions have been
existent for ages without any diminu
tion of the latter. But the mosquito
also breeds in many other places
which, because of their transitory
character,, are not hospitable to the
larvae of the dragon fiy.
Nature has provided the mosquito
with other means of protection which
make the battle unequal. He is chiefly
nocturnal in his habits, while the
dragon fly is not. He conceals him
self in the daytime in dense vegeta
tion where the dragon fly cannot pos
sibly discover or capture him. And
the process of covering stagnant pools
with oil to destroy the mosquito larvae
also destroys the larvae of the pre
daceous insects, which breed only once
a year, while the mosquito is on hand
to deposit new eggs and rear new
broods as soon as favorable conditions
are restored.
It is obvious that nothing, there
fore, will yet take the place of the
old-fasliioned methods. It is impor
tant for us to realize the situation
because of the habit we are in danger
of forming of relying upon vague
remedies when we ought to be at
work. It is incidentally interesting to
know that progress has been made,
and that the mosquito pest has been
materially abated in the last few
years. The same is true of flies, which
are not the menace they were a decade
or so ago. There is still room for
exercise of the ancient virtues of per
sistence, thoroughness and zeal.
PAVI, JONES ON IK HE SPEECH.
John Paul Jones was not only a
lover of liberty, and a fighter, but a
practical man. He realized that even
in the freest of republics there are
times when insubordination is a crime.
It is unlikely that he would have ac
complished much for the cause of
freedom if he had not been a stern
disciplinarian. These words, attrib
uted to the intrepid naval commander
of the Revolution, have especial signi
ficance in the present times:
True as may be the political principles
for which we are now contending, tbey can
never be practically applied or even ad
mitted on board ship, out of port or off sound
ings, rhis may seem a hardship, but it is
nevertheless the simplest of truths. While
the ships sent forth by the Congress may
and must fight for the principles of human
rights and republican freedom, the ships
themselves must be ruled and commanded
at sea under a system of absolute despotism.
What was. then said as to a "ship
out of port or off soundings" is as true
of the Nation, which poets and orators
like to call the ship of state. The
people of the Nation are the crew,
and their ship is on a perilous voyage.
Until It has found anchorage in the
port of peace, there must be no mutiny
or insubordination.
This would seem to be a truism. To
the-vast majority it is one. But there
remains a small minority not yet
wholly instructed in the difference
between the situation of a ship in
harbor and one breasting the stormy
waves. These will profit by considera
tion of the words of Paul Jones.
BEAT 'EM A IX.
The - Oregonian notes a suggestion
directed to the "larger press" of the
country by its highly valued neighbor,
the Willapa Harbor Pilot, that the
people of the United States be advised
to let next year's Congressional elec
tions go 'by default," in cases where
the Representative has shown his
patriotisns been "right," as the Pilot
tersely expresses it. The proposal is
also advocated that in cases where the
Congressman has not, been all right
in support of the war, both the major
parties unite to defeat him.
The Pilot is a Democratic news
paper, and the broadness and patriotic
disinterestedness 4t its view are illus
trated by the fact that a majority of
the Washington delegation at Wash
ington, and four-fifths of the Oregon
delegation, are Republican. It miti
gates nothing from the value of the
plan that there is no probability that
any of the Republicans can be de
feated for re-election, provided that
they shall run the gauntlet of the
primary, as most of them can. .
Without indicating any other diffi
culties in the way of any quasi-coali-tion
of the parties for 1918, there is
the matter of the Constitution and the
laws. The one provides that the
members of the House shall be chosen
"every second year by the people of
the several states," and the" other pro
vides how, when and where the elec
tions shall take place. Will the Pilot
inform us just how the plain require
ments of Constitutional and statutory
law may be evaded, even for a worthy
object?
A better plan, it seems to The Ore
gonian, would be for every citizen of
every party to resolve to defeat for
re-election every candidate for Con
gress, Senatorial or Representative,
who may not have loyally stood by the
President and the Government in the
vital war measures, and to aid in the
election only of those candidates about
whose attitude there can be no doubt.
Let us agree with the Pilot that
it is no time for partisanship, so
far as the war is concerned.
We hope a marked copy of the Pilot
has been sent to the White House and
the Capitol at Washington.
AN OREGON AMAZON.
The romantic drawing power of the
Amazonian legend persists, and it lias
been revived by the recent appearance
on the Russian front of Madame
Botchkareva at the head of her fa
mous Battalion of. Death, but women
leaders in war have not been as com
mon as some suppose. The National
Geographic Society, in an official bul
letin, expresses the belief that the
only authentic instance of the kind
in North American history was that
of an Oregon Indian woman, known
as Winema, a member of the Modoc
tribe.
Harriet Chalmers Adams, the ex
plorer, is authority for the statement
that Winema, otherwise known as
"Toby Riddle," rode a war horse at
the head of her Indian column in a
battle with the Pitt River Indians of
California in a brilliant cavalry charge
that completely routed the enemy.
She had previously received the title
of "kaitchkoma Winema," or sub
chief, for other acts of dauntless
bravery and she possessed uncommon
qualities of leadership.
It is interesting to know that for
this Oregon Amazon peace had its
attractions no less than war. The
Modocs were a self-centered, vigorous
and belligerent tribe who scorned
alliances, who maintained their, war
strength in the face of war and pesti
lence, and were in a chronic state of
warfare with the surrounding tribes.
They carried on a persistent slave
trade by selling their captives to other
tribes in exchange for ponies. But
Winema seems to have been among
the first to realize the advantages of
an understanding with the whites.
When the Modocs quit the Klamath
reservation, because of trouble with
the Klamath Indians, and because of
the inability of the Government at
that time to maintain order, it, was
Winema who acted as intermediary
and who warned the members of the
American peace commission not to at
tend the famous conference with Cap
tain Jack's men, knowing that Captain
Jack, who was her cousin, content
plated treachery.
The members of the commission
were General E. R. S. Canby, Rev. Dr.
Thomas, Colonel A. B. Meacham, the
Indian superintendent, and Judge
J. A. Fairchild. They disregarded her
warning, but she accompanied them
Captain Jack shot General Canby for
refusing his demand that the Modocs
be permitted to remain on Lost River,
and Rev. Dr. Thomas was killed by
other Indians, but Winema is credited
with having saved the lives of the
other two members of the party.
Meacham was wounded.
The policy of reprisal prolonged our
Modoc difficulties. The Modocs had
not hesitated to massacre white imm
grants, and were visited with terrible
punishment by a body of miners led
by one Ben Wright, who invited them
to a feast and slew forty-one of the
forty-six who responded. This was
meeting the Indian at his own game.
but it did not break the Modoc re- J
sistanee, and the Indians continued
to be a source of much trouble. But
Winema's later days hare been peace
ful enough. She married Frank Rid
dle, a Kentucky frontiersman, and now
enjoys a pension of $25 a month from
the United States Government-
Individual instances in which women
bore firearms in the West to protect
themselves against attack by savages
were common enough. Our soldiers
in the Philippines have encountered
women warriors in the Sulu Archi
pelago. South American history re
cords a stirring episode more nearly
parallel to the Russian situation, when
Paraguayan women fought desperately
in the Five Years' War with Argen
tina Brazil and Uruguay. This was,
perhaps, the most ferocious war ever
fought in the Western Hemisphere.
The population of, Paraguay was re
duced from 1,337,000 to 220.000, of
whom 106,000 were women above the
age of 15. It was due to the surviving
women, say the historians, that the
commercial and industrial life of the
little country eventually was re-established.
LOOK THEM rP.
The Oregonian has heard of a
woman of moderate wealth, careful,
frugal, provident, who has for years
been laying away a certain sum an
nually to provide a fund of $20,000
to meet a contingent liability several
years hence. She. proposed to take
no chances. A friend persuaded her
to buy liberty bonds with her sav
ings. The woman was unable to re
sist the appeal to duty, and equally
unable to answer the statement that
her investment was safe., and could be
at anytime Instantly converted into
cash.
Another case has been cited to this
office of a thrifty farmer who had
money on hand from last year's sale
of wheat. He had expected to lend
it to his neighbors at a satisfactory
rite of interest; but his prospective
clients were also quite prosperous. He
was induced to buy liberty bonds an
investment he readily made when he
was shown its attractive nature.
Every citizen knows some one, or
knows some one that knows some
other one, who has money put away,
awaiting something to turn up, or for
definite future use, or for mere sav
ings. Every such .person ought to
make himself a Committee on Public
Service, to see that such moneys are
placed where they belong in liberty
bonds.
Pressing need of ships of every kind
is having stimulating effect on salvage
schemes, and there is a prospect that
the world will soon see many deter
mined efforts to raise some of the
vessels lost during the war. The bed
of the ocean never has offered so rich
a reward to systematic search, and it
is regarded by practical engineers as
certain that a considerable proportion
of the thousands of sunken vessels
can be-recovered, if sufficient energy
is expended. It will require vast capi
tal and machinery more powerful
than any heretofore employed, but the
possible dividends are proportionately
enticing. Many of the hulls now at
the bottom of the sea will require
little repair, once they are floated, and
a good many of their cargoes are prac
tically imperishable. With ships sell
ing at hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, the number of those who will be
attracted by the new "gamble" Is
quite certain to be large.
In November, 1915, after having
been at war for fifteen months and
while their best manufacturing dis
trict was in the" hands of the invaders,
3,130,000 of the French people sub
scribed for bonds aggregating $2,934,
5 5 7,09 7. The American people, two
and a half times as numerous, five
times as wealthy, their country unin
vaded and only six months at war, are
asked for a loan of five billion dollars,
slightly more than the French raised
in twenty-one days. If we raise the
money, it will be no great feat by com
parison; if we do not, we shall be dis
graced. ,
There are thousands of. wives in
Oregon who handle the family money,
or at least the bigger share of it. Now
is their time to subscribe for liberty
bonds, for they can save the amount
necessary by week or month and no
stint the table.
It's a pretty healthy, harmful germ
that own remain alive on peddler's
goods. The merit in the scare lies in
stopping patronage to make the ped
dler go to work. Buy the goods in the
stores that sell them.
It being the fashion this year to do
the Christmas shopping early, why not
buy a liberty bond for the youngster
and put it by for the glad holiday.
Now let's put in this week a little
of the spirit of the Methodist minis
ter who says the debt must be raised
before dedication shall proceed.
Oregon's quota of the new loan has
been raised to $18,000,000, but what's
a million and a half more to Oregon?
Five days left for speeding.
George Cornwall knows lumber
from timber to sawdust, and it was
proper to re-elect hm secretary of
the congress.
Lloyd George reiterates it is a fight
to a finish and no possibility of an
armed truce. The Premier is a little
bulldog.
Those new draft rules arc not satis
factory. The married man dependent
upon his wife should be the first
taken. "' .
Old-fashioned cookies with aromatic
seeds in them will be fine fillers for
the soldiers' lunch boxes.
Sixty-seven lives were lost on the
Antilles. Liberty bonds will help stop
any more "sixty-sevens."
Lots of young men who have sub
scribed for a $50 bond can as easily
take another?
Loss of sight of one eye does not
affect Roosevelt. There's a huge lot
of him left.
The most cheerful music today Is
the harmonious noise of the shiryt
yards.
Every woman with a few hundred
jars in the basement should own a
liberty bonds are legal tender.
Try one on the stork.
Last week in. the loan campaign!
Step on 'er!
Better dig those potatoes.
The Peripterous.
Pertpteram A Structur Raving Row
of Column on. All bides Dictionary.
(Synopsis of preceding synopses.)
The Oregonian. a great moraine news-
psper, employs a distinguished literary
architect to construct a peripterous.
H does it. it has rows of columns on
east, west, north and south.
The Periptaxous become a Free Aualto-
rium fur the expression of incompetent, ir
relevant .and immaterial opinions. news
ens a n.1 anecdotes.
The Peripterous discovers six wonders of
Oregon.
The Fes-fptermm becomsa headqaarters ox
the hesgue for Protection of Colenols by
Courtesy.
Tltlei la Immortal.
At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the League for Protection of
Colonels by Courtesy, held in this free
auditorium, the following authentic
ncident was recited to encourage the
humanitarian work of the organiza
tion: " , I
Fifteen years ago Mr. Charlie Dalton
was plucked from a perfectly Inoffen
sive civil life and made Judge-Advocate
on the staff of Governor McBrlde.
The position carried with it the title
of Colonel and. its duties were to buy
a $100 uniform and decorate stats oc
casions.
Colonel Dalton promptly compiled
ith tha first requisite and his first
opportunity to comply with tle second
occurred when President Roosevelt
visited the state capital.
The military turnout consisted
wholly of .Colonel Charlie Dalton and
his superior, Brigadier-General Jimmle
Drain, Adjutant-General of the great
State of Washington.
Brigadier-General Jimmle Drain.
who was somewhat of a decorator him
self, observed at once that Colonel
Dalton's uniform was more brilliant
than his own find promptly ordered
him under the grandstand for the en
tire speech to watch out for anar
chists. That same day Colonel Dalton shed
his $100 uniform and also his office, but
in all the 15 years that have elapsed
since that distressing experience has
never been able to shed his title of
Colonel.
Recitation of this veracious Illustra
tion that the title of Colonel by Cour
tesy can never die was received with
loud cheers.
Any Question Will Be Settled.
In response to tremendous pressure
there has been herein established a De
partment of Scientific Investigations.
It is generally recognized that there
are many problems to the solution of
which no responsible agency is now
directing its efforts.
A number of distinguished scientists
have already been engaged and it Is
hoped that arrangements can be made
to head them with Professor TJ. Heep,
late Saturday Lecturer on Appreciation
of Bathtubs at Guff University.
The department already has nnder
scientific exploration these Important
questions:
(1) Submitted by A. Father: Is It pos
sible to put enough hooks on a home
hall rack so the Old Man can have a
place to hang his hat?
(2) Submitted by Old Timer: Why do
all the fans profess to like air-tight
baseball and then yell their heads oft
when the visitors' errors let In three
runs?
(3) Submitted by Mrs. Commonplace:
Why did the exclusive Mrs. Senator
Glnten cease to be exclusive as soon
as woman's suffrage was adopted?
War Gardes Note. No. 4.
K. G. F. writes to say that In re
sponse to patriotic demands he planted
his first garden last Spring.
He harvested his potato crop yester
day and had it for breakfast this morn
ing. Scrambled Metaphor Seasoned With
Simile.
l.ots of people hitch their wagon to a
stationary planet and devote a great many
years of valuable time toward a realisation
of their desires only to find that when the
hand is dealt, played and tho pot won, they
are like the man who Is hanging onto a
bear's tall. Seattle Argus.
Clear enough that If you hitch your
wagon to a certain star in Ursa Major
you have a bear by the tail. -but where
does the poker game come in?
Weather Prediction That Palled.
. Chinook Observer.
Mrs. W. B. Donaldson. Mrs. Hope
Creiger and son, William B., left for
Portland last Wednesday and will take
in the sights as long as the good
weather lasts. They may return on
Saturday or Sunday.
Things Oldest Inhabitant Remembers.
Bank presidents and cashiers who were
willing to accept cash deposits without put-
tins you through the third degree to ascer
tain If the money was really your own.
Kictfon bound in attractive yellow covers
and the works of Gunter, Ouida, George
Sand and George Moore were hidden from
view.
Girls In their teens who always asked
mother's permission before a young man of
their acquaintance was permitted to call
upon them In their homes.
Automobiles that were cranked from the
side and controlled by a .long lever like
well sweep.
Brides who added . to their stiver ohests
by purloining "souvenir" spoons engraved
with the names of the hotels at which they
were guests on their honeymoon.
Hooks by Jules Verne on submarines.
which people considered "queer," and Jack
Wright was a popular airsnip nero ot the
dime novel. v
Ping-pong as a parlor game required con
siderable skill to avoid breaking the furniture
or knocking over te ornaments. Louisville
Courier-Journal.
To which may be added:
Streets that were safe to cross.
A two-bit piece that would buy a
sirloin steak.
World's champion prizefights.
Betting on horseraces.
Pocket knives with corkscrew at
tachments. Pants without creases.
Strange beings who advocated woman
suffrage.
Lakes and marshes that were not
private shooting preserves.
Mince pie with meat In it.
Where Sheep Bite the Shepherd.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Alleging that on September 30, 1917,
he was maimed by Richard Lilly, one
of his parishioners, T. J. Lewis, pastor
of a Baptist Church at Anchorage,
yesterday filed suit against Lewis to
recover a judgment of $500.
The minister avers that his left band
and little finger were lacerated by
Lewis using his teeth thereon, and that
in addition he was assaulted by the de
fendant. The petition recites that the
trouble occurred on the Sabbath day at
the church at Anchorage and that as
a result of the biting the plaintiff lost
a great quantity of blood and suffered
much pain and humiliation.'
Wonders of Oregon, No, 7.
The Peripterous.
Chance for Cnt-l'pa.
Scio Tribune.
The Tribune man, having been wished
Into the office of Justice of the Peace,
will make a wedding present of a set
of kitchen cutlery to the first couple
who present themselves to him for
marriage.
FACTS AND DOCUMENTS IN
CaasUttN a Fufttile Inferasatlosi Take
Pruaslamtsm as Text for Mass
Th Indictment of th German govern-I
ment which was made by President Wilson I
In his Flag day speech Is proved by
overwhelming mass of evidence by tho Ad-w-in
iet ration In tho latent pablkratton by the
committee on public information. Thia is a
pamphlet entitled "The President's Flag Bay
duress. With Evidence of Germany's
Plans." Each count in the indictment is
supported by a footnote citing the facts
supporting it. and the facts are massed la
aticst formidable shape as to prove tho
crime and evil deoigus of Germany to any
open mind. It Is a crushing answer to thoo
who say that the tTnfted states la fightiug
merely for the light to travel on munition
ships.
SeeeJMl Installment.
In proof of the President's state
ment that the military masters of Ger
many "have regarded tho smaller
states. In particular, and the peoples
wno could be overwhelmed by force as
their natural tools and instruments of
domination." reference is made to the
-Xlcky" and "Willy" dispatches, which
have been published in The Oregonian.
particularly to the Kaiser's scheme to
occupy Denmark.
A long series of quotations is made
fiom German books, pamphlets and
newspapers in substantiation of tho
President's declaration ' that Germany
aimed at world dominion. These writ
ings glorify war as a good thing in
itself, and they openly advocate its use
in annexing parts or all of neighbor
ing countries. The Kaiser and the
Crown Prince are quoted to the same
effect.
In substantiation of the President's
statement that the rulers of Germany
hare been "filling the thrones of the
Balkan states with German princes,'
the pamphlet says:
In Boumania tho honso of Hohenzollera
Sigmarmgen; la Buliraria tho houso of Sxe
Coburg and Gotha; in Albania the inglori
ous kiso of Wied. What the late Queen
of Greece, tho Kaiser's sister, accomplished
for the German cause Is sufficiently known.
In Montenegro the heir apparent Is married
to a Gorman princess. Only tho Serbian
royal house is without German connections.
The President's reference to Ger
many's "putting German officers at the
service' of Turkey to drill her armies
and make interest with her govern
ment, developing plans ef sedition and
rebellion in India and Kgypt. setting
their fires in Persia." Is the occasion
for a summary of German activities
in the Orient. General von der Golts
reorganized the Turkish army.
equipped it with new artillery and for
tified strategic points. The Bagdad
railroad concession- was obtained and.
though capital of other nations was in
terested. Germans maintained control.
Armenian- massacres were treated with
Indifference, and German officers as
sisted the Turks in the Balkan wars.
All these moves were parts of a general
plan, which is thus described
For two decades' German policy has been
to create In Turkey a strong but subordi
nated military ally and to bring her within
tne Uerman economic system. rtlcn terrt
tories In Asia Minor and the Meopotamlan
Valley might thus be developed, an all-
German route to tho oast assured, and Brit
ain's routes to India and her position ii
Kgypt brought within striking distance.
"A secret German document bearing
data of March 19, 1913," which was ob
tained by the French government-
shows that for years before that date
Germany had been stirring up revolt in
North Africa. This extract is quoted
VVe must stir up trouble in tho north of
Africa and in Kussia. It Is a means of
keeping the forces of the enemy engaged.
It is. therefore, absolutely necessary that
we ahould open up relations, by means of
well-chosen agents, with Influential people
In Egypt, Tunis, Algeria and Morocco, In
order to prepare the measures which would
b- necessary in the case of a European war.
Of course, in case of war we would openly
recognize uiese secret allies, and on the con
elusion of peace we would secure to them
the advantages which they had gatnea,
These aims are capable of realization. The
first attempt, which was made some years
ago. opened up for us the desired relations
I n fortunately these relations were not suf
ficiently consolidated. Risings provoked in
time of war by political agents need to be
carefully prepared and by material means.
They must break out simultaneously with
the destruction of the means of eommunl-
Y. W. C. I'XDERTAKBS WAR TASK
Wosnea'a War Council Outline Plana
anil Will Ralae 93,300.000.
PORTLAND, Oct. 22. (To the Pub
lic.) At the meeting of the Women's
War Council held In New York at the
National Headquarters of the Young
Women's Christian Association on
Tuesday, October 9, a finance campaign
was voted on to raise a budget of
$3,500,000, which sum It is found will
be necessary to carry on the war work
of the Council. This is to include the
$1,000,000 already voted on and now
being raised throughout the United
States.
Work is under way, as far as pos
sible, at all the large cantonments pro
viding hostess houses, which are now
recognized by the Army as the places
where wives, mothers, sisters and
friends can meet with the soldiers in
comfortable environments and where
the soldiers themselves can find a wel
come, comfort and cheer, in other
words, a touch of home.
Special work is being undertaken
among the non-English speaking peo
ple in this country. At one of the large
cantonments nearly half the men do
not speak English, and one may be
sure that none of the women are able
to speak it. Interpreters will be neces
sary. Then there is the work to be done In
wholly industrial centers, such as
Lowell, Mass., and Bayonne, N. J. This
will now be possible and the women
will have the meaning of the draft and
other matters connected with present
American conditions explained to them
in their own language. A staff of
workers speaking the various groups
of foreign languages will be necessary.
Another phase of the foreign commun
ity work will be that of the foreign
language Information and press "bureau,
giving out to the foreign press and in
the foreign languages information to
immigrant women which is given to
American women at present from our
Government, but which cannot be got
ten to the foreign women because of
the barrier in language1. Food conser
vation, meatless days and so forth,
with which we are so familiar, are un
known to the vast numbers of foreign
speaking .women.
The establishment of a refugee bu
reau is also considered in the plan,
whereby women in this country hav
ing relatives In Europe will, through
this bureau, have someone in Russia
and other European countries, look up
the whereabouts of their relatives and'
make reports through authorized
channels.
The Bureau of Social Morality Is go
ing to take care of the expense of
many women physicians who are en
rolling to help in tne educational cam
paign in these crucial times.
Work in colored communities af
fected by the war is also to- be taken
care of.
Nearly $1,000,000 will be necessary
to meet the demands made upon the
association by the countries in Europe.
Already workers and money have been
sent to France and Russia and as soon
as possible we are pledged to help in
Serbia and wherever work for girls
and women Is necessary, and ' also in
canteen work at the front. The con
ditions in France among the women at
work in munitions is pitiable and de
plorable beyond words. Billeted In
barracks, where no attempt at cleanli
ness nor comfort is possible, underfed,
hopeless and physically exhausted.
these women toil on, month after
month, year after year, doing their bit
for their country and so that true de
CASE AGAINST GERMANY
Prwaidvat Wilson's lakBeat mt
of Vaincpeacaablo EtIOsc,
eatlou ; thev nut tiav - ,.tran(..
to bo fouad among tho influential loaders.
religious or political. The Kxyptian school
is particularly suited to this purpose: mora
and more it serves as a bond between tho "
intellectuals ot me Mohammedan world.
The story of conspiracy between
Germana and Hindus on the Pacific
Coast to foment revolution in India.
wntcn was oroKen up bv the indict
ment of 98 persons, including German
consuls, is cited, a evidence of the
same kind, with this statement con
necting it with Berlin:
Emissaries were financed by the German
agents here and Immediately dispatched to
Uetruany. Shortly thereafter what is
known as tha India committee, a adinsrt
of the German Foreign Office, was created
in tternu. This India committee had tho
personal attention, of Alfred Zimmerman!!.
rman becretary of Foreign Affairs. There-
alter the operations of the plotters In tho
cntten &tata were, directed from Iterliu.
A mass of proof Is furnshed for the
President's statement that -the de
mands made by Austria upon Serbia
were a mere single step in a plan which
compassed Europe and Asia, from Ber
lin to Bagdad." The Alldeutsche Blaet
ter. the organ of the I'.m-Germatis.
said as long apro as December 8, 1895.
that German interests demanded as a
minimum that Asiatic Turkey should
be plnced under German suzerainty and
it said on December IT. 1S9. that "the
Bagdad lino can become of vast politi
cal importance" to Germany. Professor
Spiethoff, of the German University at
Brague, was quoted last March u nav
ing said:
Tho establishment of a snhere of eco-
nomio Influence from the North ea to tho
Prussian Gulf has been for nearly two de
cades tho silent unspoken aim of Uerman
foreign poiK'y. Our diplomacy in recent
years ... only becomes intelligible when
regarded aa part of a cousieteut eastern de-KtKi-
. . .
Because Serbia lay "across the path
of this railway to Bagdad" and was
'an independent country whose sover
eign alone atnon; those ot Southeast
ern Europe had no marriage connection
with Berlin" and "looked toward Rus
sia," Germany resolved to crush her
and forced war.
The President's denunciation of the
German "plan to throw a broad belt of
German military power and political
control across the very center ot Eu
rope and beyond the Mediterranean into
the very heart of Asia" is backed by
many quotations. Frielrtch Naumanix
in "Asia" proposed "a sort of amicable
dictatorship" over Turkey. Paul de
Lagarde. in Deutsche Schriften pro-
ipesed that Germany "create a central
Europe" by driving "the Russians from
the Black Sea and the Slavs from tha
south" and thus conquer "large tracta
to the east of our frontiers for Ger
man colonization." The manifesto of
the six German industrial associations
issued on May 20, 1915, proposed to an
nex the Baltic provinces of Russia in
order "to strengthen the agricultural
basis of our national economy." to ex
pand German agricultural settlement
and to increase the population able to
bear arms. As to the effect of the
Middle Europe scheme the pamphlet
says:
The projected Middle Kurope would. .
throug-h its hold on Constantinople, close tho
chief outlet for tho exports of the Russian
republic- It would, through the erection of
a kingdom of Poland, united to Middle Eu
rope, take nway from Kussia almost its en
tire manufacturing nrea. Such an empire
would do little less than bring the Russian
repuhlio into economic dependence upon tho
Teutonic powers. And this economic de
pendence could be used as a club to briux
political dependence us well. Tho results of
this for the future of Kussia are easy to see
Even Maximilian Harden, who now
denounces- the war, was enamored ot
these visions, for on July 29, 1911. hoi
wrote in Die Zukunft:
All Morocco In tho hands of Germany!
German cannon on the routes to Egypt oud
India; German troops on the Algerian fron
tier this would bo a goal worthy of great
sacrifices . . . AVhen we can put 5.000.
0(M German soldiers into the field we shall
be able to dictate to France the conditions
upon which she may preserve the empire
ot Northern Africa, -Mew Prance.'
mocracy may live here and elsewhere
in this war-worn world, and to such as
these we plan to carry relief and as
sistance. MRS. WM. MACMASTER.
Chairman of Northwest War Worlc
Council, Portland. Or., October 22.
Meaning of Camouflage.
ABERDEEN. Wash., Oct. 21. (To the
Editor.) Kindly tell the meaning of
the word "camouflage." which has been
frequently seen on the editorial page
of The Oregonian.
We have the latest edition of Web
ster's International Dictionary, but are
unable to trace any semblance of the
afore-mentioned word.
MRS. A. E. VAUGHX.
Camouflage Is a word from the Idiom
of French actors, meaning "make-up,
and has lately come into general use to
designate any form of disguise or con
cealment of the agencies of war from
the eye of the enemy.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago. .
From The Oregonian of October 23. ISM.
Astoria Tho barge Columbia sank
at the Union Pacific wharf at 3 o'clock
this morning with 550 tons of wheat
on board, and Captain Marshall Short,
of the steames Ocklahama, and a deck
hand, August Peterson, were killed by
the accident.
Berlin The ceremony of christening?
the infant Princess, born to the Ger
man Emperor and Empress September
13, took place this evening in tho
Jasper Palace with great pomp. The
names bestowed on the child were
Victoria and Louise.
The United States National Bank has
removed into its new quarters, corner
Second and Stark streets, in the Con
cord building.
Regular trips will be resumed on the
Madison-street electric road today. The
transfer car will connect as usual with
the Mount Tabor and Mount Scott motor
at East Sixth and Hawthorne.
The great Portland Exposition closed
last night in a blase of glory, and tha
question many asked was who made
the best and most striking exhibit.
Half at Century Ago,
From The Oregonian of October 23, 1067.
A Spaniard, while herding cattle on
Trail Creek, in Jackson County, was
shot by Indians last week.
The steamer Hunt brought down yes
terday a large number of miners from
Idaho and Eastern Oregon. There are
already a good many of them herer-Und
some of the hotels are absolutely
crowded.
John S. Kinkead is the name of the
person appointed postmaster at Alaska.
He was formerly of Salt Lake City, re
cently of Virginia City etnd still more
recently a resident of San Francisco.
The board of trustees of Albany Col
lege held a meeting last Saturday,
when it was reported that the building
contract was completed, at a total cost
of J7557. The grounds have yet to bo
improved, which will be an additional
outlay. This edifice is an ornament
to Albany.
The performance last evening of the
Congo Minstrels, at the Willamette
Theater, was an unusually good one
for that line of entertainment. The
audience was a fair one, and it fully
appreciated the humors of the Inter