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TIIE OREGOXIAX, THURSDAT, OCTOBER 25, 1917.
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rORTUNU, THURSDAY, OCT. 25, 1917.
FAILURE OF TIIE ZEPPELIN.
The disaster which befell the Zeppe
lin fleet in its raid on France and
England proves the final, clinching
argument that dirigible balloons are a
failure as offensive weapons of war.
There seems to have been a simulta
neous attack on both the southeast
coast of England and on the heart of
France, with London and Paris as the
main objectives. No more than one
airship appears to have penetrated
the aerial and artillery defenses of
England . and to have dropped bombs
on London. On its return over France
the fleet was scattered by airplanes
and by anti-aircraft guns, and five of
its units were either shot down or
forced to descend, and their crews
were killed or taken prisoner. Of the
100 Zeppelins built by Germany, two
thirds have been lost in the war, while
probably six more were wrecked by
accident or In experiments.
Great as may be the uses of the
dirigible airship in peace, it is useless
for offensive war. Unlike the air
plane, it is a large target for artillery,
and cannot maneuver fast enough to
avoid shots fired from the earth,
airplanes can fly all around and
above it, piercing its envelope with
machine gun bullets, while quickly
dodging shots from its guns. It is as
clumsy as a crocodile against lighter,
smaller, quicker craft.
The Zeppelin has proved useful for
scouting in advance of a fleet of bat
tleships, but no more so than hydro
planes, which cost only a fraction as
much and are much quicker and safer
from attack. For observation in land
operations, stationary balloons serve
as well, and can be hauled down to
safety when hostile airplanes appear.
For raiding operations the Germans
themselves have proved airplanes to
be more deadly and less likely to be
shot down.
Their defeat must be a bitter humil
iation to the Germans, especially after
the boast that "for every brick that
falls from peaceful German homes
whole rows of buildings will be over
thrown in Paris." That threat put the
Prussians once more in the position
of the wolf which accused the lamb,
drinking downstream from him, of
muddying the water, for they made
the first air raids on undefended towns
and on civilian population. It proves
the Prussian to be not only a brute
and a braggart but a bungler also, for
his boasted invention has proved his
own undoing. Where it has served
Its purpose of spreading death and de
struction it has failed of its other pur
pose to inspire terror. Houses wrecked
by bombs In England were chosen as
the best places at which to win re
cruits, and enlistment always boomed
after a raid.
Germany has not Anally made good
with any of the new military devices
which have been invented in forty
years of preparation. The seventeen
inch gun battered old fortifications to
pieces, but has fallen into the back
ground in the last year and has been
surpassed by larger guns of the French
and British. The Germans started
with superior airplanes, but the French
and British have excelled them in that
particular also, and now dominate the
air. They may claim whatever credit
Is due them for poisonous gas, but
have suffered effective reprisals. In
three years the allies have attained
superiority in all these particulars,
have been superior as riflemen
throughout, and with every other In
dividual weapon. The British and
Americans introduced the tank, a
brand-new invention, and the Ger
mans have failed to match it. The
pillbox fort, Hindenburg's latest de
vice, was no sooner adopted than the
British learned how to destroy it. The
greatest German success has been
with the submarine, an American in
vention which Germany has improved,
tout the allies have learned how to
cope with it so well that 99 per cent
of the ships which traverse the danger
zone escape.
So much for the boasted German
efficiency. The brains of the free na
tions have learned in three years how
to nullify forty years' work of brains
enslaved to autocracy. The inference
is plain that a government which
forces the minds of its people into the
narrow rut of military aggression un
restrained by good faith, law or hu
manity, cannot produce asjiigh scien
tific and inventive results as are pos
sible under free governments.
r BUTTER CAMOUFLAGE.
The gullibility of a certain section
of the public, which persists in ignor
ing nature's laws of compensation, is
railed to attention by a recent bulletin
of the California State Board of Health,
which has found it necessary to warn
the people against putting trust in ad
vertised machines which are being
Fold to housewives with the promise
that they will "make two pounds of
butter grow where only one grew be
fore." The time chosen for the ex
ploitation of this absurdity is pecu
liarly fortunate from the viewpoint of
the promoters, because everyone wants
to save food, especially that which
commands the highest prices. But the
notion that nourishment can be de
rived from some other source than
soil and sunshine dies hard. Some
people continue to rely on magic to
take the place of hard work.
The newly advertised scheme is not
a. novelty to professional butter-makers.
It consists of a churn-like appar
atus In which one places a pound of
butter, a pint of sweet milk and color
ing to suit. A few turns of the crank
does tiia rest, Ilie resultant product
is a double quantity of "butter." But
all that has been added to the original
pound is the negligible amount of
butter fat contained in the pint of
milk and the excess milk and water
which the pure food laws of most
states require shall be eliminated by
the creamery men. Some air has been
added, as a contribution to mere bulk,
but that is all.
There is no law that prohibits a
person from watering his own milk,
or sophisticating his own butter;
statutes are directed to protecting him
against fraud on the part of others.
There is no reason why he should not
buy one of the new-fangled butter
machines if he does so with his eyes
open. But the problem of keeping
alive is still one of ingesting the neces
sary number of units of heat and
energy, and these are not going to be
obtained by turning the handle of a
machine. The diluted product of the
new contraption would be more than
half water, while butter itself carries
less than one-sixth of its weight in
water, and the housewife has her
added labor for her pains.
WHAT IS A SOLDIER WORTH?
Eighteen million dollars ($18,000,
000) is a lot of money for a state with
less than a million people; but Ore
gon will raise it, just as Oregon raised
more than twelve million dollars
($12,000,000) for the first liberty loan.
The total for the two loans is thirty
million dollars ($30,000,000) a huge
sum.
Why are thousands in Oregon, and
millions in America, pouring out their
money in such colossal totals? Be-.
cause it is up to them to do it. The
war is a fact a great and tragic' fact
for them, and they know it.
Or most of them know it. After a
while, there will be none who can re
fuse to make the war his personal
business. There are financial slackers
now a-plenty, but the day is coming
when names will be named and an
accounting required by an aroused
and patriotic public. -
America must go through. It is the
greatest task, the mightiest duty, the
highest service ever undertaken by
America; and there will be no falter
ing. How much is an American boy
worth? He is worth more than all
the money in America. America will
prove It to itself and to the world.
MARY AND HER FAME.
The Portland rpgon!an headline writer
better take a course In elementary geog
raphy. Under the heading "Kannas Editors
Indicted" he quotes the case of Ralph Stout,
of the Kansas City Star, and K. Raber
hard. of the St. Louis Republic, both of
which papers are published in Missouri.
Corvallls Uazette-Tlmesr
An elementary course in geography
is indispensable in any well-regulated
newspaper office, to be sure. We
should say that it is quite as impor
tant as a course in grammar. The
point of this 'ere (latter) remark lies
in the application of it, as Bunsby
would say.
There is a Kansas City in Kansas
and another and greater Kansas City
in Missouri. A slip by a telegraph
editor, worrying daily over the gro
tesque orthography of Russian. Turk
ish, Polish, German, French and other
strange foreign names, is both under
standable and excusable. He might
reply to his critic that Kansas City
has no business to be in Missouri, any
way. Names and their origins are a
puzzling and interesting study. No
doubt our Corvallis friend who is par
ticular to have Kansas City placed
exactly where it belongs though it
doesn't belong there has solved all
local historical problems, and pur
poses to regulate Kansas and Mis-
souri geographical and historical mat
ters. We should like to know from
that source a little more about Cor
vallis than we certainly know.
It is easy to tell how and why, Cor
vallis got its name. But how about
the original Marysville (now Corvallis)
located on Mary's River, near Mary's
Peak? Who was Mary and what be
came of her? Was there one Mary,
or more than one? Was she Indian
or white? Who was it that gave her
permanent fame by calling a town, a
river and a mountain for her? Is she
living or dead? Did she ever marry?
Or was Mary a myth?
No doubt there are many at Cor
vallis, and elsewhere, who can tell us
all about her, but what we want is the
authentic and indisputable tale.
A NEW ERA IN COMMERCE.
There is a disposition among Ameri
cans, as among the allied nations who
have suddenly been made aware of
Germany's practice of making com
merce a tool of her aggressive policy
and of her system of espionage and
outrage, to advocate hostile commer
cial measures against Germany after
the war. These men would exclude
foreigners, especially Germans, fronf
control or even stock interest in Amer
ican industries and shipping com
panies. They would have American
industries owned by Americans, Amer
ican commerce carried in American
ships, American resources developed
by Americans.
Men who take this position forget
several things which are extremely
pertinent. We are fighting to destroy
German autocracy as the first requisite
to a democratized Germany, which
would denounce militarism and aggres
sion and would live at peace with
other nations, respecting their rights,
and we are determined to go on until
we have won. As Germany would go,
so would go Austria, Turkey and Bui
garia. The motive for a hostile or de
fensive commercial policy against
these nations would then be removed.
and we should be under obligation to
treat them as we should demand that
they treat us. That would be the only
possible basis of a durable peace. Com
mercial discrimination against a re
formed Germany would keep alive the
animosity which we wish to extin
guish. We wish to destroy the gov
ernment which has aroused that ani
mosity, and receive Germany back
into the family of nations on the
terms which the democratic nations
will lay down.
When that time comes nations will
be drawn together in closer inter
course than ever. The mutual aid
which they will have given in war
will impress upon them their mutual
interdependence and will incline them
to continue the interchange which they
now practice. Removal of the dis
trust which prevailed before the war
will clear away a serious obstacle to
Closer intercourse. The central pow
ers will realize the advantage of close,
friendly commercial relations with
other nations the more keenly because
they have suffered intensely from hav
ing been cut off from the world by
the blockade. The disposition is likely
to be for nations to lean upon one
another commercially and industrially
more than they ever did.
There is much talk of carrying
American commerce on American
Ships, s-ftvl doubtless tie great fleet
now building and the revival of ship
building will give us a far larger share
of the world's carrying trade than we
have had since the Civil War. But
we must remember that our commerce
is only half ours, for our commerce
with Britain is as much British as it
is American, and that the same rule
applies with other nations. They will
be as unwilling to have all their goods
carried In American- ships as we are
to have all our goods carried in for
eign ships.
In the end the bulk of the business
will fall to the nations which can do
it best. Americans retired from the
shipping business as much because
they found better opportunities in de
veloping their own country as because
their shipping laws were unwise and
because Britain got the start in build
ing Iron and steel vessels. If our lead
in steel production, in mechanical skill
and in standardized production should
mark this Nation as best equipped for
the shipping business, the chief place
will fall to us under the new dispensa
tion, provided we abolish our fool
laws.
All of this may seem to hint at free
trade, but much time would pass and
many changes come before that Utopia
would be attained. All nations will be
so heavily in debt that they must im
pose high tariffs to raise revenue. A
gradual adjustment must be made be
tween the varying economic conditions
of different countries before the basic
principle of free trade could be ap
plied, for the majority of Americans
would have to be convinced that one
$4 a day American could produce as
cheaply as forty 10-cent Chinamen
before they would consent to unre
stricted competition. But the com
mercial relations of nations would be
governed by the conviction which lies
behind Cobden's theory, and they
would steadily work toward the ideal
condition at which he aimed.
NO TIME FOR SENSITIVENESS.
The Oregonian has received several
letters from soldiers who have been
offended by the publicity given to the
anti-vice propaganda and by sundry
suggestions as to how the boys may
be protected. They think that the
reports of the spread of the social
evil are greatly exaggerated, and that
the chief consequence of the agitation
is to brand the American soldier as
morally unclean.
The typical American soldier Is not
unclean. It Is to keep him clean, fit
for the society of the fairest and
purest of the world, that an organized
effort is being made to surround him
with wholesome influences, and to
have him understand the possible and
even probable penalty of a moral
lapse. Let him know the dangers that
lurk in his path, and he will meet
and conquer them. It is a campaign
of education as well as prevention.
Secretary Daniels, of the Navy,
made an address at Chicago the other
night, in which he used plain lan
guage. We shall not repeat what he
said; but if his statements are true
and we must assume that he speaks
upon authority they cannot and must
not be ignored by the American pub
lic, least of all by the soldiers them
selves.
It is a delicate and sensitive subject.
and we do not wonder that the pride
of the soldier is hurt; but it is no time
for sensitiveness, or even for delicacy
if a delicacy based on prudishness
leads to denial of facts and ignorance
of conditions but it is a time when
the strong in the Army, aware of their
own rectitude, may help the weak.
PRODUCING MORE FOOD.
The patriotic duty of every Ameri
can to increase the food supply of the
country is called to mind again by
imminence of a bond election in the
north unit irrigation district in Jeffer
son County, Oregon. Owners of re-
claimable lands in this district will
vote on October 29 on a proposal to
issue bonds to the amount of $5,000,
000, the sum regarded as sufficient to
put water on a total of 9 9,300 acres.
This is a charge in round figures of
$50 an acre. The practical value of
irrigation of the rich soil of Central
Oregon is too well established to re
quire extended comment.
The north unit is another of those
ambitious, but wholly practical, proj
ects the effect of which will be to put
Oregon on the food map. It is con
structive in the highest degree, be
cause it contemplates a substantial
increase in the productiveness of a
large area. Whether the land when
reclaimed is devoted to the raising of
hay, to be fed to livestock, or to the
production of grain for direct human
consumption is a relatively unimpor
tant detail. The country as a whole
will be benefited in either circum
stance, and the state will be made
richer and all citizens will reap a di
rect profit. .
A really momentous question will be
settled by the coming vote of the
property owners, whose action will be
watched by all the people of Oregon
About six hundred owners are quali
fied to vote, non-residents as well as
residents of the state, and aliens as well
as citizens, but all voters must go to the
local polls. Direct responsibility for
the outcome, therefore, will fall chiefly
upon those who live on the land or
near enough to it to perform their
obvious duty. There will be wide
spread hope that none of these will
fail to view the situation broadly and
consider not only their individual wel
fare but that of the state and Nation,
to whom every productive enterprise
is a matter of profound interest.
THE MEASURE OF. SUCCESS.
How it must warm the cockles of
the hearts of Americans to read the
appreciative estimate of a distin
guished Frenchman who is able to
see beneath the surface, and to dis
tinguish in the commercial spirit
which some have decried and which
we ourselves do not disclaim the ideals
which in fact do animate our people!
In an address in Paris recently, Henry
Bergson, member of the French Acad
emy, declared that "only onco in the
history of the world was a. nation
built upon considerations purely
ideal" and that was the day when
the Nation was founded which was to
become the United States of America.
And the people who came to America,
not to enhance their material interests
or to find ease, but to find liberty of
thought and conscience, have not be
come a Nation of nere money
changers in the period that has elapsed
since then. M. Bergson adds, point
edly: Because Americans have had to clear a
new continent, to struggle for their existence,
we have come to believe that they were men
with pelftsh ldean, occupied above all with
material interests. What a mistake! He
who has lived in America realizes that there
is no country In the world where money
means less. It in only necessary to see how
they spend it. how they arive and for what
they earn it. They earn it and they seek
it only that they may give proof that they
have made every effort possible. Money
over there, I said, was a- certificate of ef
flclency.
There is. pq doubt that Zl. Bergson
is right. In the main. If we are a
Nation of money-makers, we are also
a Nation of spenders, as the ordinary
observer will be able to satisfy him
self by a moment's considerations "It
is not the dollar but what the dollar
will buy" is almost a National motto.
We are as much given to scattering
largess as we are prone to accumulate
wealth- In no country In the world Is
there a deeper sense of the meaning
of the maxim that there "is no pocket
in a shroud." There is reason for
believing that even those of 'our citi
zens , who have given most of their
time to piling up of riches are secretly
wishful for the better opinion of their
fellow men. Vast sums given in bene
factions of every kind constantly point
to the manifest desire to do real serv
ice. It is undeniable that as a people
Americans do not hold the merely
rich in high esteem, or even envy
them. In proportion to our wealth,
the number of our misers is negligible.
We are now engaged in a war which
Is distinctly not a fight for our com
mercial supremacy, and which is not
measured by the dollar standard, and
into which we are pouring our billions
because, having made up our minds
to enter it, we have determined to win.
When the Prussian leaders get as clear
a sense of our underlying purpose
and our capacity for sacrifice as has
the representative Frenchman whose
words are quoted, they will see the
futility of fighting on.
HINDENBURG'S FLANK ATTACK.
How vitally important to the suc
cess of the allies is the provision of
abundant ships, both to fight the sub
marines and to neutralize the losses
they have caused, is recognized by H.
Sidebotham in an article on "British
Tactics in the War" in the Atlantic
Monthly. He shows that "Von Hinden
burg's plan in the retreat from the
Somme was the same as that which
he followed in defeating the Russians
on the Masurian lakes and in the in
vasion of Roumania to draw back
his center until his enemy was in
volved in a bad country he had left,
then to throw forward his flanks and
catch the enemy in a trap. These
tactics were defeated when Haig
smashed Hindenburg's flank at Arras
and Vimy ridge, putting him on the
defensive where he had intended to
attack.
But the submarine campaign is
termed "one of Hindenburg's flanking
movements" and "the chief danger of
the whole war." It is "a raid on the
communications by which supplies
from England and the United" States
reach the arnry that is attacking him
in France." American troops are not
needed at present, "nor will they be
until next Spring," He says:
The first necessity Is to repel the attack
that the submarine campaign is making on
their (the allies') communications. That
cannot be done by an army. It Is not even
solely the business of the American Navy
co-operating" with the British. The most im
portant contribution that the Ijnited States
can make to the success of the allied of
fensive is in her workshops, in the studies
nd laboratories and. above all. In the vigor
and Independence of thought that distin
guishes America's industrial system.
For the people of Oregon that
means that our most valuable contri
bution to the war in the immediate
future is ships, spruce lumber for
airplanes, wool for soldiers' clothing
and blankets, and food, with economy
in our own consumption. The man or
woman who works faithfully in these
ways is not only helping, but is
helping in the way which the men who
are fighting say is most effective.
Those who work diligently in Oregon
are fighting the Kaiser; those who do
not are as truly deserters as If they
ran away from the battle front.
Pennsylvania has adopted a pleas
ing custom which could be extended
to other states with esthetic as well
as material profit to the people, that
of planting shade trees along the
highways on Arbor day, and of giving
preference to fruit trees when the sit
uation is such that there is proba
bility that they can be looked after.
The State Commissioner of Highways
of that state has found that certain
varieties of cherries are desirable, but
those who intend to follow the Penn
sylvania example should use care to
select the self-pollenating kinds and
those which grow to good height.
Apples become a nuisance unless
sprayed regularly, and the pear is not
regarded as a desirable roadside tree
because of its shape. The objection
that fruit trees would be subject to
raids by vandals is met with the pre
diction that this will not be true when
such trees become common and are
accepted by the people as a matter "of
course. The first to be planted are
expected to partake of the hardships
suffered by the pioneers in most enter
prises. ,
The Government should have been
able to bring about settlement of the
Arizona copper miners strike in less
than four months. Such delay plays
into the hands of the enemy.
The boy or girl who can name all
the Generals who have commanded
the Russian armies in the last six
months and who can spell their names
should have a gold medal.
Medford never has accepted second
place in Jackson County, and Jack
sonville's fine showing on the liberty
loan may be expected to have a stimu
lating effect.
Commissioner Mann gives assurance
that, despite the war in Europe, rates
on Bull Run water will not be raised.
It's a wonder that Statue of Liberty
did not wave the torch around her
head a few times last night.
There is patriotism of sublime de
gree in the girl who tells her best
fellow to cut out the candy.
Judge Rossman started something
for imitation when he sentenced
speeders to buy bonds.
It is a pity the sugar hoarded In
Buffalo by would-be profiteers cannot
be confiscated.
If you and your family enjoy good
health, take a chance on one more
bond.
There will be an honor roll for Ore
gon counties that go over the top.
An Irishman who won't fight! It is
a contradiction in terms.
Up-state folk, put your city ia the
100 per cent list today.
General Beebe never
glory than yesterday.
had greater
Call again. Woodrow. Come often
Wilhelm. did you hear that noise?
fprtlajia loves a liberty parade,
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leone Cams Bser,
LORA ROGERS, character actress of
the Alcazar Players, is going to
have a birthday on Friday that's to
morrow. She says she's going to take
a day off and celebrate. Which is
unique, because the average woman
wouldn't take off only a day. She'd
take several years off. Lor a is the
youngest character-woman in captivity.
She is not knitting for "the" soldiers,
but is knitting for "a" soldier in whom
she is greatly interested.
The soldier Is her young brother, a
big Texan boy who leaves in a fort
night for France, and Lora's heart goes
with him. She Is putting the last
stitches in a lot of knitted garments
she has been making for him to take
along. Besides which she bought two
liberty bonds, one for herself and one
for a little sister.
P. S. Lora says if she had thought
of it in time she would have had a
surprise party on her birthday.
P. S. No. 2. She wears number 5
gloves, number 84 hose, needs some
handkercheifs. Can always use flowers
or fruit or perfume and her address is
the Multnomah Hotel.
An interesting and an Interested
visitor in Portland is Charles W.
Meakin, special representative of Klaw
& Erlanger. He comes ahead of "Here
Comes the Bride," which opens at the
Heilig on November 1 for a three nights'
engagement. This is Mr. Meakin's first
visit since seven years ago, when he
was here with Denman Thompson on
his last tour in "The Old Homestead."
Fifteen years ago he came to Portland
with his father, John Phillips Meakin,
who organized the Modern Woodmen
of the World In Portland. Mr. Meakin.
who has been in the theatrical busi
ness 23 years, has further distinction in
being the husband of the celebrated
Ruth Eldrldge Meakin, interpretative
recitalist, whose art is best known
throughout the East.
Rita Boland, Orpheum headliner, has
announced her engagement to Captain
J. Hunt Reaney, U. S. A. The wedding
will take place January 2 at the St.
Francis Hotel, San Francisco.
Captain Reaney is a West Point
graduate and expects to leave in the
Spring for the front. After his de
parture Miss Boland will return to the
stage.
Sophie Tucker, the "Mary Garden of
Ragtime," and Frank Westphal, her
former accompanist, were married in
Chicago October 13, surprising every
body, though their romance had been
more or less generally recognized for
several years. estphai now has a
turn of his own, but has been booked
Jointly with Miss Tucker on the Or
pheum this season, and has "walked in'
on her act with laughing success.
Both acts laid off the last half of
last week to Jump from Madison to
Winnipeg, via Chicago, which is West
phal's home and Miss Tucker's garden
spot of popularity. For once neither
of the two favorites was seen about
the College Inn or Sherman House and
their closest professional friends did
not know they were in town.
After the regular day had closed In
the County Clerk's office. Bob Sweitzer,
the license official, opened the office
and wrote a contract, thereupon per
forming the ceremony on the spot. A
dinner at Cafe Royale followed, where
the bride and groom were the guests
of Garry Herrmann, president of the
National baseball commission. A jazz
wedding march was played as they
entered, to the conspicuous annoyance
of Ignace Paderewski, who was dining
in the place.
Miss Tucker was recently enabled to
remarry when her husband, Sam Tuck
asked for a divorce that he might re
marry. Until then Miss Tucker, though
many years separated from Tuck
whom she married when a girl, had re
frained from forcing the issue. Her
maiden name, as it appeared in the
license, 13 S. Belle Arbuza, and her
home was given as Hartford, Conn.
"Vera Mlchelena has Just divorced her
husband, Paul Schindler.
Louis R. Reid, formerly with the
ahuberts press department, and now
on the "Dramatic Mirror" staff, has
been married to Helen Scott Dickey
newspaper woman of New York.
Robert Hilliard's son is
an officer in
His rank is
the United States Navy.
Lieutenant-Commander.
Austin Mack, formerly pianist with
Eddie Leonard, is with the 308th In
fantry band. Headquarters Company
Camp Upton, L. I.
Theodore Roberts, the actor, was
married in Los Angeles this week to
Florence Smythe, formerly in his the
atrical company and who was named
as co-respondent by Mrs. Lucy C.
Roberts in her successful action for a
divorce.
While Roberts was taknlg the oath
to love, honor and obey his second
wife, his first wife was appearing be
fore a local court asking that he
alimony be increased from $75 to $200
monthly.
Oliver Herford has written a liberty
loan campaign song, sung to the tune
of "Over There":
Johnny ret the mon,' get the mon, get the
men',
Help to down the Hun, down the Hun,
down the Hun;
Money talks, let money shout!
Turn your pockets Inside out!
Hurry, buy a bond, buy a bond, buy a
bond.
Help them over yond', over yond', over
yond,'
Let your sold flow in a stream.
Let them hear the eagle's scream I
Chorus:
Over here, Blre a cmserl
Tell the lads over there not to fear:
That the ranks are swelling;, and the scouts
are yelling;.
And the bonds are selling; over here;
Never fear, never fonr.
We are all on the Job over here,
Tell the Kaiser, he'll be wiser
When be meats the troops we're raising;
for him over here.
Julian Eltinge recently said that he
was making so much money in films
that he would never again talk a line
on a stage. Now Geraldine Farrar's
press agent says Miss Farrar is urging
him to abandon the screen and go
with her into grand opera. Just how
she discovered Eltlnge's operatic pos
sibilities in a film studio Is not re
vealed. Richard Carle Is to have a new act
In vaudeville called "What Made Tou
Crazy." It was .written by Willard
alack, . - - .
ixkept grave: of vallandigham
Conditio Contrasted With Shrines of
Country's Honored Patriots.
ROSEBUKG, Or., Oct. 23. (To the
Editor.) Permit me as an Ohioan to
add a paragraph to your editorial on
Clement L. Vallandigham.
In the '90s 1 was employed as t lad
as one of the caretakers of the beauti
ful Woodland Cemetery at Dayton.
Ohio. I was told some of the early
history of that arch copperhead. After
the close of the Civil War he returned
o Dayton and engaged in the practice
of law. Much as we may despise him
for his conduct he was said to be a
good lawyer, especially in pleading. It
- Pty that with his ability, genius
and eloquence it all went into undi
rected paths. Otherwise his monument
would be far different from what it is
plain marble slab with birth and
death on a gently rolling hillside.
His end came in court. It was a
murder case. He was explaining to
court and jury how the thing could
have happened. He shot himself. It
was the old story. The gun was loaded
and he did not know it.
Lots, unless specially paid for, re
ceive no extra care outside one or two
mowings with the scythe during the
season. As far as I know Clement L.
Vallandigham's last resting place is
forgotten except by the caretakers of
the burying ground.
Washington was abused and vili
fied, but his last resting place at Mount
Vernon remains a shrine to our Amer-
can patriotism. The world has wor
shipped there in. the last 12 months.
The Conways and the Arnolds are for
gotten except for the loathing and
odium we have for them.
Lincoln, the sorrowful, still lives and
will continue to live, while the copper
heads who struck at him will remain
forgotten except in contemptuous
memory.
It is too early to say what measure
history will place on President Wilson
with all his mistakes. Much as one
half of us differed with him in ante
election days, I think his address in
which he delivered his indictment
against the Kaiser and proposed mak
ing the world safe for democracy will
assure him his place among the world's
Immortals, while the Eatons, Thomp
sons and La Follettes will remain for
gotten, unloved and unsung.
A. HOWITZER.
PLENTY OF ROOM LEFT IX HEAVEN'
Writer Answer Question Asked by Boy
In Sunday School.
PORTLAND, Oct. 24. (To the Edi
tor.) The new city spoken of in Rev
elation xxvii is measured by the fol
lowing astounding figures:
And he measured the city with the
reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The
length and the breadth and the height
of it are equal."
Twelve thousand furlongs, equal to
.290.000 feet, which, being cubed, is
469.793,088.000,000,000,000 cubic feet, the
half of which we will reserve for the
throne of (lod, and the court of heav
en, half the remainder for streets and
the remainder, divided by 4096, the
cubic feet in a room 16 feet square and
16 feet high, will be equal to 30,321,843,-
7o0.0U0.oUK rooms.
We will now suppose that the World
always did and always will contain
900.000,000 of inhabitants, and that a
generation will last 32 1-3 years. 2.700.
000,000 every century, and that the
world will stand 100,000 years, equal to
240.000.000.000.000. Then suppose there
were 12.000 such worlds equal to this
in number of inhabitants. Then there
would be a room 16 feet long, IS feet
wide and 16 feet high for each person.
and yet there would be room to spare.
This is in answer to a boy in Sun
day school who wanted to know if
there was room in heaven to hold all
the men killed in battle.
JAMES CUMMIXG.
594 Couch street.
INCREASE I.V I'ENSIOS AUTOMATIC
No Fee or Application Necessary From
Widows of Civil and Spanish Wars.
PORTLAND, Oct. 24. (To the Ed
itor.) This office is in receipt of In
quiries regarding the increase of pen
sions of widows of soldiers of the Civil
and Spanish-American wars now on the
pension roll of the United States, or
who may hereafter be placed there,
provided by the act of Congress ap
proved by the President on October 6
1917.
The widows mentioned are entitled
to a pension increase to $25 per month
and no application is needed to secure it.
This statement is made upon authority
of a letter from the. Commissioner of
Pensions, dated October 9, 1917.
It is reported that persons in this
city are charging these poor women
for making application for the amount
to which they are entitled by the act
of October 6.
Those whom it may concern are in
formed an application for the said in
crease will have absolutely no effect in
hastening the allowance of the pension
to which the widow is entitled and is a
total waste of labor and money.
C. A. WILLIAMS,
Assistant Adjutant-General, G. A. R.
Old Soldier Protests New Practice.
PORTLAND, Oct. 24. (To the Edi
itor.) I am an old soldier and con
sider myself a patriot, so I want to
protest against that latest fad by Port
land police judges of "sentencing'
various lawbreakers, vagrants, speed
ers, wifebeaters and bootleggers to
buy a war bond and to wear a liberty
button! One man was sentenced to
pay $5 or buy a bond. He went out
subscribed for a $50 bond, paid $1, got
the insignia and then said he had saved
$4, as he would go no farther.
Is the liberty bond the expiation of
crimes against the state or Is the but
ton a badge of disgrace? For Govern
ment's sake, cut it out.
ST. D. MARTIN'
New A'erse for America.
PORTLAND. Oct. 24.--(To the Edi
tor.) The following verse is being used
in many cities of America, having been
just adopted in Canada and sung to
"God Save the King." The verse was
sent to me for use in Portland. The
sentiment is fine and reaches every
loyal home in the United States. The
verse is:
Cod bless our splendid men.
Brine; them safu home again.
Ood bless our men.
Mnke them victorious.
Piitlent and chivalrous.
They are so dear to us.
Uod bless our men.
MRS. L. B. D. BARTLETT.
Meaning; of Camouflage.
PILOT ROCK. Or., Oct. 23. (To th
Editor.) Kindky tell us the meaning
of the word camouflage.'
MRS. J. A. STRAUGHAN.
"Camouflage" is from the idiom of
French actors and is equivalent to our
"make-up," as that word Is used by
American actors. Camouflage has now
become a war word and signifies any
disguise of artillery, roads, ships or
other war material or war agencies.
In pronunciation the word is divided
into three syllables, cam-ou-f lage. the
"a" in each syllable having the sound
of "a" in far.
Hand In Crlhnasje.
PORTLAND, Oct. 24. (To the Edi
tor.) Please answer a question in
cribbage: A played 10, B played 3, A
played 4. B played 2. A played 6, B
Dlaved 3. A played 2 29. What does
the run count? A SUBSCRIBER.
B pegs a run of 3 on playing his first
deuce 3-4-2. A pegs a run of 4 by
playing his 5 8-4-2-5. B pegs another
run. of 1 oa playing the tray 4.-2-3-5
In Other Days.
Half a Century Afro.
Ftxim The Orepsnian. October 23. 1SBT.
Wilkes' "Spirit of the Times" says
In a recent article that war in Europe
is inevitable. Those who place any
faith in the assurance of peace forget
Talleyrand's remark that speech often
is the concealment of thought. All
great wars in Europe have begun with
proclamations of peace, says the Times,
and adds that the nearer the war the
more earnest is the protestation of
good wilL
The lady who writes under the name
of '"Otiida" Is said to be a Miss Redden,
who lives in a pretty cottage near
London. She is not pretty, but she has
a large following because of her con
versational powers and her great
learning.
Corvallis. We learn from Frank
Stanton, driver of the Yaquina stage
line that the Indians on the Alsea
reservation are about to break out.
Meteors have been prevalent recently
on clear nights. Mr. Hudson reported
a fine display between 1 and 3 o'clock
the other night.
The small child of J. H. Barrett
was badly burned Wednesday, when, on
finding a match on the floor, it pro
ceeded to light it. Its clothes were
ignited.
Twenty-five Venn Abo.
From Th Oregonian, October 3S92.
Spokane. Seven were killed and 11
hurt when a Great Northern train went
through the temporary bridge cross
ing the Wenatchee River yesterday.
Washington. Mrs. Harrison. wlf of
President Harrison, died this morning
at 1:40 o'clock. It was the, second
time in the history of the country that
President s wife died in the White
House.
J. W. Hodson and Georcro E. Good.
of Salem, have leased the New Perkins
Hotel for a term of 10 years.
F. A. E. Starr and M. M. Harris, nres-
ident and secretary. resDeet ivel v. of
he Tammany Society, have called a,
meeting for tonight.
In local Republican circles there, la
quiet exultation over the substitution
of Nathan Pierce, a Populist, for
Colonel Robert A. Miller, on the Demo
cratic electoral ticket. It is taken as
sign of weakness in the Democratic
ranks.
Solomon Ilirsch. ex-Uhlted States
Minister to Turkey arrived home last
night.
HER DOXDS OF LOVE.
Last night my love she came to me.
And pressed her lips against my fevered
Drow
She looked at me with eyes of lova
divine
With dulcet words, she soothed my
tired brain.
She told me thn- her bonds were love.
The coupons there attached were peace
Ana mat equality would reigu in every
land
On every ocean, and in space.
Your bonds I'll buy to srive me strength
To fight for freedom and for peaco.
Ana neip to succor those in need.
A.t home, abroad, in every sphere:
I told her I would be her sturdy ship
And she would bo the compass of my
soul
To indicate my course through life
Lntii we reached that unseen shore of
gold.
She raised my thoughts above this plane
Of avaricious greed and gain,
Above the turmoil of today
Where angels guard and lead the way.
And then to me she did unfold
Her plan to make a better world
By moulding in the minds of men
A universal freedom lor us all.
It is up to everyone to nut forth
special effort, not for the consideration
of the dollar, but for our homes and
country, as Washington's army did dur
ing the Winter at Valley Forge, when
they left their blood-stained footprints
on their march to freedom. When
Patrick Henry said. "Give me liberty
or give me death": when Rarham
Fritchie waved Old Glorv in the rra
of the enemy and said. "Shoot, if vou
must, this old gray head, but spare
your country's flag": that is the spirit
everyone should put forth, rich and
poor alike.
FRED R. ALEXANDER.
Cicnrette Law of Oregon.
SALEM. Or., Oct. 23. (To the Ed
itor.) (1) Under what age is tho sale
of tobacco permitted in Oregon?
(2) Under what age are cigarette
sales prohibited?
(3) Is a minor allowed to use either
tobacco or cigarettes?
4) What is the penalty to dealers
violating the above? READER.
(1) Excepting cigarettes, tobacco
products may be sold to a minor over
IS and to minors under 18 upon writ
ten consent or order of parents or.
guardian.
(2) Under 21.
(3) It is a misdemeanor for a minor
to smoke or be in possession of a cigar
ette; it is unlawful for a minor under
18 to smoke or use tobacco In other
forms in any public place.
(4) For selling cigarettes to minors
one may be fined not more than $100
for the first offense, $25 to $500 for the
second or (and) imprisoned 30 days; a
jail sentence must be Imposed in addi
tion to fine for subsequent offenses.
Unlawful sale of other forms of tobacco
to minors under IS is punishable by a,
fine of $5 to $50.
When Cows Have Not licrn Tested.
DRAIN. Or., Oct. 23. (To the Ed
itor.) Please tell me if there is a re-
cent law that cows have to be tested
for tuberculosis before one can sell
cream orbutter. If so, who is tho
proper authority to apply to and what
ia the fee for testing such cows?
READER.
It is unlawful for the producer to sell
milk direct to consumers from cowa
that have not passed the tuberculin
test unless such milk shall have been
pasteurized, but this regulation does
not apply to deliveries to creameries,
or cheese or condensed milk factories
or in bulk to the wholesale trade. It
is also unlawful to sell any product
from milk (except cheese) from cows
that have not passed the tuberculin
test unless the milk product shall have
been pasteurized before, during or sub
sequent to the process of manufacture.
For further information write to
John D. Mickle, Dairy and Food Com
missioner, 511 Worcester building,
Portland.
Depends on Terms of Contract.
CARLISLE. Wash.. Oct. 23. (To the
Editor.) A sells a piece of property to
B and takes a sum of money down. B
agrees to make yearly payments and.
after making the first year's payment,
fails to make any more. Under tho
laws of Oregon, can A take possession
of the land without returning to B
any part of the money paid.
SUBSCRIBER.
Depends entirely on the terms of the;
contract. Usually not.