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1DRTI.AND, SATURDAY. NOV. 10, 1917.
SUFFRAGE IN NEW YORK.
55ne may obtain considerable amuse
nent from a discussion intended to be
serious by perusing the arguments on
woman suffrage presented in New York
Trior to the recent election. Discus
sion, as is quite the rule, turned on
the qualifications of women to exercise
the vote.
In the Times, which openly opposed
extension of the franchise, Mrs. Ger
trude Atherton published a letter con
demning the idea that the loyal, think
" ing -women of New York City would
vote for Hylan or Hillquit. 'They
would turn out en masse for Mltchel,"
"wrote Mrs. Atherton, "whether they
liked him or not, whether they were
Democrats or Republicans."
But George W. Wickersham, former
1Tnited States Attorney-General, who
followed with a reply the next day,
thought that the reverse would be
true. With addition to the electorate,
lie asserted, of 1,700,000 voters, "un
trained to take part in public affairs,
unaccustomed to the exercise of the
franchise, unaccustomed to think seri
ously of political problems, the chance
of the election of a Hillquit or a Hylan
would be greatly Increased."
The election is over and it is im
possible to say positively that Mrs.
Atherton was right, but we believe
ehe was. But the way the voters who
were accustomed to think seriously
of political problems did not swarm
to Mitchel, but elected the Tammany
candidate and ran up the Socialist
Hillquit to a strong third place was
marvelous to witness. If adoption of
equal suffrage will increase Tammany
ism, Socialism and disloyalty, New
York is beyond regeneration.
But aa already remarked, we be
lieve that Mrs. Atherton was right.
Observation of woman suffrage in
Oregon strengthens belief that in mu
nipical elections women do direct
thinking. It is difficult to convince a
woman that partisan prestige, Na
tional policies in the abstract, or de
sire that some good fellow get an
office, is of more importance than a
clean, economical city government.
That the last is the single purpose of
a municipal election is the reasoning
of the average woman, annoying as
that reasoning may be to the profes
sional politician. So she votes for a
Mitchel because he stands for morality
and decency and economy.
It Is also Mr. Wickersham's opin
ion that woman suffrage does noth
ing much except introduce an
emotional element which at times
results in adoption of some reform
which responds to an emotional ap
peal. Mr. Wickersham probably has
prohibition in mind, though that it is
essentially an emotional reform will
be questioned by many. But he also
remarks, in effect, that the wives and
daughters of Socialists are likewise
Socialists, so, perhaps, he has in
mind the old theory that Socialism
carries an emotional appeal that in
fluences women.
That precious standby of the anti
euffraglsts was Introduced and nur
tured in early suffrage campaigns in
Oregon, but what are the facts? In
the Presidential election last preceding
adoption of woman suffrage in Ore
iron, Debs, the Socialist candidate, re
ceived a total vote in Oregon of 13,
343. In 1916, the first Presidential
election following adoption of woman
Buffrage, Benson, the Socialist candi
date, received a total vote of 9711. In
the permanent registration up to .May
of this year the Socialist party is the
only political party in which the num
ber of females registered is less than
one-half the number of males. Since
adoption of woman's suffrage Demo
cratic registration figures in Oregon
liave more than doubled: Republican
figures have nearly doubled, while
Socialist registration has increased less
than 8 per cent.
All the old fears and cherished
antipathies concerning woman suf
frage have gone much the same road,
with possibly one exception. Women
liave not become political gossips to
the injury of home environment: they
are as strong militarists as men when
necessity for militarism arises: they
are not more tenacious of prejudices
than men. But they are, in the main,
opposed to the liquor traffic. That
was the pre-suffrage belief. It seems
to have been substantiated by their
vote. They are also in the main - op
posed to vice, so their newly acauired
right to vote in New York does notJ
offer a pleasant prospect to Tammany
or the saloons. Possibly it was self
conscious failure consistently to do the
light thing that impelled the men in
New York to accept the assistance of.
the women.
GERMAN PATENTS.
A captured German submarine, re
cently exhibited in Central Park, New
York, as an aid to the liberty loan
campaign, has revealed the fact that
the German government has had no
hesitation about utilizing American
patents to suit its own purposes. The
vital principles of the German sub
mersible were found to be contained
in the Holland patents, which had
been duly filed in the patent office at
Berlin. The sdbmarine in question,
which was captured by the British,
had been built before the United States
entered the war.
The United States, now that war
lias been declared, has authorized
utilization of patents taken in this
country by Germans upon articles of
their own invention, but upon a far
different basis. Licenses for manu
facture of these articles will be granted
only conditionally. Applicants will be
required o keep a strict account and
to pay a royalty fixed by competent
authority. The money thus collected
will be held in the treasury of the
United States, and paid to the private
owners of the patents after peace has
been made.
The contrast between the two meth
ods is marked. Germany resorted to
confiscation from the citizens of a
Nation with whom she was not then
at war. The United States proposes
compensation to private owners even
though we are at war. Postponement
of payment until actual war is over
is a justifiable measure under inter
national law; outright theft is ex
cusable only upon the German theory
that might makes right.
UNFAIR.
The Federal . Wage Adjustment
Board, in its determination of the
issues in the shipyard strike, had
nothing to say about unions or union
recognition: yet. of course, it decided
several things for which the unions
were contending, in their favor. But
the board did not hesitate to express
its opinion about one weapon which
the unions at times use a boycott on
"unfair" materials. So far as it af
fected shipbuilding, said the board,
the boycott would be "discrimination
interfering with the defense of the
Nation in time of war," and it would
be "intolerable."
It appears obvious that the Gov
ernment is deeply concerned over the
Pacific Coast telephone strike, since
the strike interferes with free com
munication within the Nation and di
rectly affects the National defense.
The Government has been moving
toward mediation, with partial success
in California, but with no success in
the Pacific Northwest.
Now the strike in Portland has pro
ceeded to the boycott and the black
listing of the telephone company as
unfair" by the Central Labor Coun
cil. Obviously, every resource of the
unions is to be employed, after the old
fashion, war or no war.
It is difficult, and usually Impossible,
to win a strike without popular sup
port. We can think of no more effec
tive way. just now, when the public
mind is engrossed with the war and
the public will is concentrated upon
a determination to win it, at any cost
or hazard, for the unions to alienate
public sympathy than by the boycott.
CRITICISM OF THE WAR TAX.
One duty of the citizen who intends
to do his share in the winning of the
war is to pay with due cheerfulness
the taxes levied upon him by the Gov
ernment. The perfect system of taxa
tion never has been devised and prob
ably never will be. The present sys
tem has its defects, as others have
had. But just now it is the law and
the Nation cannot carry on the fight
without the money.
"The principle of the tax," says one
complaining victim, "is nil right but
the amount is unjust." He protests a
certain levy upon theater tickets and
believes that at least a portion of it
should have been added to chewing
gum, which he does not uso. Or he
thinks that incomes bear too heavy a
share of the burden and proprietary
medicines too light a portion. Or there
ought to be a higher tax on negotiable
instruments and a return to 2-cent
postage. Or cotton and excess profits
have escaped too lightly and some
thing else has been hit too hard.
Pending the coming of the millen
nium, or the next session of Congress,
or some other promising agency, the
war tax is with us, and it will add to
the comfort and good feeling of all con
cerned those who pay under the par
ticular schedule as well as those who
are so fortunate as to escape if we
accept the Inevitable in the sporting
spirit. It may not be what we would
have made it, but, then, our plan prob
ably would have raised a howl, too, if
howling is to be the fashion whenever
things are not precisely to our liking.
The thing to do now is to pay and for
get it, and go on with something else
that will help shorten the war and
hasten the day of war tax repeal.
THE TIME FOR UNIVERSAL TRAINING.
There is a disposition to regard the
draft as a substitute for universal
military training, when, in fact, it is
but the first step. Recent events ad
verse to the allies warn us that the
war is likely to be prolonged indefi
nitely, and its end the kind of end
which alone will, satisfy champions of
democracy can be hastened only by
hastening preparations to throw our
entire available manhood into it.
Of the nearly ten million men who
have been registered for draft, only
687,000 art undergoing training,
though half of them would probably
be available. In addition, many young
men who are now below the draft age
will reach that age before the war
ends. Their training should begin now
in order that the period of training
after they are drafted may be short
ened and the date when they will be
ready for active service advanced.
Lack of uniforms and arms need not
stand in the way, for much prelimi
nary training can -be given without
them.
Presence of a million and a half
young men in uniform will Incline the
people to support the principle that
every man should be prepared to fight
for his country, for the public looks
with growing disfavor on men of mili
tary age who are still engaged ii civil
occupations. The Army and Navy
Journal notes that, in deference to
this sentiment, theatrical producers
have abandoned male chorhses in
musical plays, and it truly- observes
that now is "the psychological mo
ment to press in the need for having
a man trained to be a soldier before
the actual time comes when he must
do the work of a soldier."
It is to be expected that a great
outcry against this movement will be
made by the pacifists, who will term it
an attempt to fasten militarism per
manently on the country, but the in
fluence of the soldiers and their rela
tives will be enlisted in its favor, for
they will be disposed to regard as
slackers those who do not prepare for
service. "
The same journal sees in the suc
cess of the two liberty loans and in
the readiness with which manufac
turers, bankers, railroads and profes
sional men have gone to work for the
Government "signs that a self-imposed
National discipline is deepening and
broadening among the people." This
service of patriotism is welcomed as
"a concrete sign of the feeling that
the country is above the individual,
which is the ultimate logic and tri
umph of National discipline." The
discipline to which the American peo
ple are voluntarily submitting them
selves contrasts with that of Germany
in that it springs from the people,
while that of the Germans "is im
posed from 'on high " . Universal
.training which the people imposed on
themselves by the will of the majority
would, therefore, be the antithesis of
that to which, the Germans are sub-
jected, and, therefore, of militarism
itself.
The work should begin now of train
ing the boys In the high schools and
colleges and the young men. who have
already passed into active life from
those institutions. There can be no
more powerful influence in uprooting
sedition and hyphenism from the minds
of the people and molding them all
into a united, patriotic, self-disciplined
Nation.
BRAZIL'S PART IN THE WAR.
Intervention of Brazil in the war
reinforces the allied nations with a
navy of no mean importance. It in
cludes four battleships, four cruisers,
five torpedo gunboats, two river moni
tors, seven gunboats, ten destroyers,
four torpedo-boats and three subma
rines, besides many' auxiliaries. These
vessels come to the aid of the blockade
immediately, but Brazil can bring to
the aid of the allies a considerable
army, raised under the system of uni
versal training, which will constitute
a valuable reserve. It would rely
chiefly on the United States to supply
transports to carry it to Europe, a
fact which will delay its entrance into
active service, and should hasten and
enlarge our building of ships, but the
interval before ships are provided can
be used in its training and equipment.
The possibilities held out by Brazil
are an example of the powerful fac
tors which have worked against Ger
many from the first. Haste to crush
Krance drew Britain into the war;
when Russia suffered disaster in 1915,
Italy came in; when Russia was weak
ened by revolution, the United States
came in, followed by China', Siam and
Cuba: before the revolt of the Bol
shevik! ' apparently eliminated Russia,
Brazil had come in. Though these
newer enemies cannot at present put
armies in the field, they can add to
the economic pressure and their
armies constitute a great reserve which
can now be trained and equipped in
readiness for the time when ships will
be available. As the war widens its
scope, ships become a more vital ne
cessity. QUITE THE CONTRARY.
The feeling which survives from the
Russo- Japanese- war would probably cause
the sending- of a Japanese army to drive
Russians to the support of the Bolshevikl.
Here Is what The Oregonion said
yesterday, but not what it should have
said. It is a first-rate Illustration of
unintentional double entendre. The
writer meant to say one thing; quite
clearly the reader thinks he said and
meant another. It all comes from the
questionable practice of using the
participial form for a noun. Many
good writers do. Indeed; but other
writers avoid it as they would a split
infinitive with results sometimes, we
fear, quite awkward, if entirely cor
rect. The intention was to say that the
feeling which survives from the Russo-
Japanese war would probably result
in general Russian support of the
Bolshevikl, if the Japanese army were
to be sent to Russia. It would be uni
versally resented. Indeed, it is clear
that Russians would not regard with
favor the appearance of any foreign
army in their midst, however friendly
its mission.
A writer in the Outlook, who had
closely investigated Russian conditions
and who was obviously predisposed to
the opinion that if Russia was to be
saved to the allies it must be through
an American or Japanese Army on its
soil, interviewed many leading states
men there on the subject, and all ad
vised against any such plan. "Let us
have money, arms, munitions, pro
visions," they said. "We have plenty
of soldiers."
The Russians would regard the In
troduction of on American Army
within its sacred boundaries with less
disfavor than any other; but the op
portunities for misunderstanding are
so great, and the distances are so vast,
that it is evidently a doubtful and even
dangerous project. Evidently, too, the
Japanese must stay away unless one
revolutionary faction or another allies
itself definitely and aggressively with
the Germans, and causes the opposing
faction or factions to get help wher
ever they can.e
LA FOLCETTE EXCEEDS THE LIMIT.
The most glaring example of the
abuses connected with the printing
and franking privileges of Congress
men is furnished by Senator La Kol
lette. At the time when the Govern
ment Printing Office was flooded with
work connected with the liberty loan
and with other war business, the
Senator placed rush orders for hun
dreds of thousands of copies of his
recent speeches, which reek with
veiled sedition, and kept the Senate
folding and mailing-room at work day
and night for several weeks.
When other citizens are required to
pay an increase of 50 per cent in
postage on their letters, the mails are
swamped with this stuff, carried free.
When every citizen is exhorted to
practice economy, when paper is at
famine prices an.d.when a threatened
paper famine causes tire size of news
papers to be reduced, reams of paper
are wasted in circulating this Sena
tor's disloyal utterances.
Mr. La Follette has done the people
one good service by his conduct, and
that has been unintentional. He has
proved the utter absurdity of the
leave-to-print and franking privi
leges. They permit him to circulate
at public expense speeches for mak
ing which he should have been ex
pelled from the Senate. When Presi
dent Wilson is pleading for the sup
port of a united Nation, this Senator
is allowed to spread abroad at public
expense pamphlets designed to divide
the Nation. When billions are being
raised by taxation and loans, money
is wasted in this manner. When Con
gress is passing laws of revolutionary
character to prevent waste, that body
Itself Is guilty of most shameful waste.
The abuses in question have sur
vived so long because lt'.has been Im
possible to arouse the people to de
mand their removal. The spectacle
of the Government Itself as the in
strument for spreading sedition should
stir up the people to compel Congress
to abolish the privileges and to drive
the offender from the Senate.
INTTLUENfiJC OF COTTON IN WAR.
How great an Influence the supply
of cotton may have on the duration
and result of the war may be judged
from the statement of Francis H.
Sisson at the Cotton Manufacturers'
Association convention that every time
a twelve-inch gun is fired a bale of
cotton is blown away, and that even
a machine giyj riddles a bale in three
minutes. Germany obtained large
quantities of cotton in 1914-15 through
neutrals bsf ore the blockade was
tightened and through Italy before
that country declared war, and prob
ably accumulated a supply. It has
been stated that substitutes have since
been used, but in the Fall of 1915
Germany opened the corridor to Tur
key, and since then has pushed cotton-
planting in Asia Minor, which was al
ready one" of the minor producing
countries, though it could yield only
a fraction of Germany's war needs.
If the present convulsion should re
sult in separate peace with Russia, the
supply of that country would be
thrown open to Germany. The yield
of Turkestan has been growing rap
idly and has made the new republic
fourth among the producing coun
tries, and some is grown in Trans
caucasia, but the combined output of
Russia and Turkey in 1914 was only
1,24 6,000 bales, which would not be
sufficient to supply all the needs of
the central powers for ammunition
and clothing. Turkish production in
the last two years may -have been
greatly increased by employment of
enslaved Serbs, who have been sent to
Asia Minor by thousands.
By comparison, -the United States
and the allies have at their disposal
all the - rest of the world's crop, of
which the United Statas, India and
Ef?ypt produced four-fifths in 1914.
The allies have under their control all
the well-developed cotton-growing
countries, with a field for unlimited
expansion.
One of the collateral aims of the
allies will be to keep cotton out of the
hands of the enemy. This end would
be served if the British armies were
to push on through Asia Minor. Should
Russia end by becoming an active ally
of Germany, the British would have
cause to advance into Transcaucasia,
but the quantity of cotton grown there
is too small to be an object In itself.
The Turkestan supply could be cut off
only by a military expedition from
India, which is impossible. Thus, If
the Turkish supply should be lost,
Germany would still gain considerably
more than a million bales a year of
this indispensable commodity by the
intrigue with the Bolshevikl, and
would have the opportunity to In
crease the quantity by stimulating pro
duction.
Increasing mobility of the scientific
units of the armies in France is Illus
trated by successful employment of
well-equipped laboratories on motor
vans, which perform work which
would be impossible or would be
greatly delayed if it were necessary
to operate from a base far removed
from the point where its services were
required. It is now possible to make
searching examination into the sources
of all forms of disease as soon as an
epidemic makes its appearance, and
the conclusions of the chemists and
bacteriologists are made available on
the instant of need, time being of
great value in the initial stages of a
fight, for example, on enteric disease.
These motor laboratories, which are
the first to be employed in peace or
war in the history of the world, have
played an Important part in preserv
ing the health of the men; some en
thusiasts credit them with having
saved as many lives as . the famous
"tanks." which did their work in a
much more sensational way.
Kansas is forehanded with its plans
for speeding up food production In
1918, and is already organizing boys'
wheat clubs, the leaders of the move
ment concentrating their energies
upon the counties in which little or
no wheat was produced this year.
Corn clubs have been, popular in the
past, and the methods which made
them successful will be tried in the
formation of wheat clubs, and study
of seed selection methods will bo en
couraged with a view to a permanent
increase in yield. Each boy who joins
a club Is supplied with five bushels of
carefully selected seed, and is required
to give his note for the purchase,
price, with interest at 6 per cent, pay
able when the crop Is disposed of.
Business methods are Insisted upon
throughout, all flavor of "charity" is
avoided, and the clubs are expected
to have a good influence apart from
the stimulus they may give to wheat
raising. Among the twelve Federal land
banks the one at Spokane has lent the
largest sum of money to farmers,
namely, $11,000,000 out of a total of
$640,000,000 lent by all the banks. That
the farmers are taking readily to the
new system is evident from the fact
that 1200 farm loan associations had
been organized on September 17, and
40 00 were in process of organization,
the amount borrowed by each associa
tion averaging about $40,000. A seri
ous obstacle to loans is the require
ment that borrowers provide abstracts
of title, which many farmers have
not.
A railway system that hauls the
cereal is advising people to "eat more
corn." Despite the traffic part of it,
the advice is good. The corn-fed hog
is the symbol of greatness, and the
corn-fed turkey is that of gastronomic
delight. Nature abhors anything
"skinny" she reclothes the limbs of
trees at first opportunity. So, too, do
people look with pity on the slim man
and with sorrow at the bean-poley
woman. Corn fattens quickly and can
be served in many ways to please.
Let this people eat much of it and be
fat and happy.
Again the Navy uniform gets the
best. In New York a young woman
is getting naval recruits with kisses.
The "beauty" of a kiss is that it does
not wear out in fact, practice per
fects it.
There will be little grief for the city
employe able to buy who refuses to
take a liberty bond. This is a free
country, to be sure, but the gates
swing outward for some fellows.
Billings, Mont., knows how-to ad
minister heroic treatment to pro-Germans
"without violence." the man
compelled to kiss the flag gets off
lightly.
Reports are afloat of "too many
potatoes" in Oregon, but they are
wrong. There cannot be too many
potatoes anywhere this year.
Perhaps if the Italians had a ship
load or two of good American to
bacco they would put up a better fight.
Prohibition will follow equal suf
frage in New York, which may be the
reason the male sex granted it.
Oregon has an assessed valuation
of $807,917,191, around a thousand
dollars a head.
When the new depot at Salem is
completed there will be a real cele
bration. How would you like to live in Berlin
and be allowed one ounce of butter a
week?
Prohibition in Ohio Is enough in
doubt to be considered lost.
The better "farmers" win today at
Corvallis,
ODD ORIGIN OF" OREGON NAMES
Nomenclature In Cottage Grove Vicin
ity Sometime Deceptive.
COTTAGE GROVE. Or.. Nov. S. (To
the Editor.) The Oregonion and the
Corvallis Gazette-Times have been
having quite a discussion concerning
the peculiarity and derivation of the
names of places, mountains and
streams of Oregon.
The Cottage Grove country probably
has as many peculiar names as any
place on the coast and there la au
thentic information as to the deriva
tion of all of them.
Steamboat Creek, for example, does
not get Its name in the manner one
would expect. There never has been
a steamboat anywhere near this little
mountain stream. . In the early days
gold was discovered along this creek
and there was a stampede to stake out
claims. W hile gold has been mined
there ever since, the early prospectors
were disappointed. The country did
not come up to the advance notices and
in mining parlance that is called be
ing "steamboated." The creek has ever
since been called Steamboat-
Row River, pronounced with short
o, was originally called the east fork
of the Coast Fork. Two neighbors who
lived along Its bank were continually
quarreling and gradually the name was
changed to. Row River.
Horse Heaven Creek was named In
the early '60s. At the head of the
creek, which is in the Bohemia mining
district, was a sunken prairie where
grass grew several feet high in the
Summer time. There was but one way
in and out of this valley and a pole
placed across this trail securely penned
in stock put in there to graze. The
early miners called this sunken prairie
a horse heaven and that name was
gradually adopted for the creek that
had its source there.
Silk Creek was originally Hazelton
Creek, but many years ago the wife of
a farmer living there became dissatis
fied with her lot and wanted better
clothes, so she brought a cow to town
and traded it for a silk dress. Since
then the name Silk Creek has stuck.
Frank Brass Creek was named after
a prospector of the early days. While
he and Dr. Oglesby, still a resident of
this city, were trailing it Into the
Bohemia district looking for the source
of gold flakes which they had found
In the larger stream below, Mr. Brass
fell into the creek and his companion
thereupon named the creek after Mr.
Brass. The right fork of the river
they named Oglesby Creek, but this has
since been changed to Sharp's Creek,
being named after old Bohemia Sharp,
early prospector and road builder, now
an inmate of the county farm.
Lynx Hollow, now one of the finest
farming sections of this vicinity, was
named In this manner: One night after
dark one of the early settlers was fol
lowed by a neighbor's dog. He thought
the bright eyes showing in the dark
were those of a lynx and that name
was gradually saddled upon the com
munity. Adams Mountain was named after
O. P. Adams, an early prospector who
died a few years ago. June Mountain
was thus named because the snow re
mains on it until that month of the
year.
Prayther Creek was named after an
early settler who had his home there.
Layng Creek was named after George
Layng, still living, and thus the his
tory of the naming of Cottage Grove
places, mountains and streams might
be carried on indefinitely.
Perhaps the most ravishlngly classi
cal name the Cottage Grove country
has is Rujada, the lumber camp at the
end of the O. P. & E. Railway. This
is a word taken from a telegraph code
meaning a considerable body of stand
ing timber which is available. -
The name of Cottage Grove itself has
quite a history. In the early days there
was no postofflce in this part of the
county. Finally one was established at
a point east of what is now Creswell.
Postmaster Pierce had his home in a
cottage in a beautiful oak grove, and
named the postofflce Cottage Grove.
Later a man named Hamilton got the
postmastership and moved the post
office to a place near what is now
Saginaw. Later a man named Martin,
father of N. 1L Martin, now a resident
of Portland, was named postmaster and
he moved his postoffice to Slabtown,
now a part of Cottage Orove, the
peripatetic postofflce retaining its old
name. ELBERT BEDE.
The Sorrows) of a Skipper.
(Popularity of a Jolly poem on worry over
possible disasters, written by Wallace Ir
win ten years ago. has been revived, par
ticularly among; seafaring- men. It appeared
In the Century, May, lUOi, and Is printed
here by request.)
"I hates to think of dyin'," says the
Skipper to the Mate;
"Starvation, shipwrecks, heart disease,
I loathe to contemplate.
I hate to think of vanities and all the
crime they lead to."
Then says the Mate
With looks sedate,
"Ye doesn't reely need to."
"It fills me breast with sorrer," says
the Skipper with a sigh,
"To conjer up the happy days what
careless has slipped by.
I hates to contemplate the day I ups
and left me Mary"
Then says the mate,
"Why contemplate.
If It ain't necessary?"
"Suppose that this here vessel," says
the Skipper with a groan,
"Should lose 'er bearin's, run away, and
bump upon a stone:
Suppose she'd shiver and go down
when save ourselves we
could-n't"
The Mate replies.
"Oh, blow me eyes!
Suppose, ag'ln, she shouldn't?"
"The chances is ag'ln us," says the
Skipper In dismay,
"If fate don't kill us out and out, it
gits us all some day.
So many perish of old age, the death
rate must be fearful"
"Well," says the Mate,
"At any rate.
We might as well die cheerful.''
"I read in them statistic books," the
nervous Skipper cries.
"That every minute by the clock some
feller ups and dies.
I wonder what disease they gets that
kills in such a hurry"
The Mate he winks.
And says, "I think
They mostly dies o' worry.'
"Of certain things." the Skipper says,
"me conscience won't be rid.
And all the wicked things I done I sura
should not have did.
The wrinkles on me inmost soul com
pel me oft to shiver"
"Ter soul's fust-rate,"
Observes the Mate,
"The trouble's with your liver."
Outlawed Doctor's) Bill.
PORTLAND, Nov. 9. (To the Ed
itor.) Please Inform me if a doctor's
bill eight years old is outlawed.
INQUIRER.
The bill Is outlawed unless payments
have been made on account within six
years or a definite promise to pay made
within the same period.
Provision for Soldier's Wife.
PORTLAND. Nov. 9. (To the Edi
tor.) I Intend to marry a soldier be
fore he goes to France. What Is the
protection from the United States Gov
ernment? SUBSCRIBER.
The Government requires a married
soldier to allot a part of his pay at
least $15 a month to his wife, and the
Government adds $15 a month to this
toward her eupport-
SOUNDNESS LIES BELOW PRANKS
Y. 51. C. A. Campaign to Prove That
Boys' Bllachlef Is Only Skin Deep.
PORTLAND. Nov. 9. (To the Editor.)
Food for thousrht ift fminrl in the
slogan adopted by the boys' division of
the Army Y. M. C. A. campaign, which
is coming through on schedule time
next week.
"Undo Sam's best bet." What is it?
From our high schools and our gram
mar schools comes the answer "an
Oregon boy."
Ofttimes we think of Oregon's Young
America as our chiefest pest. He'll tie
cans to a cat's tail and perform other
acts of seeming depravity, but what
else will he do?
The same boy who smeared coal tar
over your front porch last Halloween
will stand ready to work his hands off
in correcting his misdeeds when he Is
shown how he can square himself. The
same boy who created a reign of ter
ror In your neighborhood will go to
any limits of serving you when you
get his confidence and show him your
appreciation.
The qualities of manliness and pa
triotism are supposed to be unknown
In the dirty-faced, scrapping young
hoodlum who puts burrs under a
horse's tall and whose soul (If he has
any) seems to be solid ice of 100 per
cent frigidity."
Frankly I think some of these trou
blesome pranks lend zest to the at
mosphere and ofttimes help to put
needful spice and variety into a life
which might otherwise die of slow rot.
Then, too, I remember that George
Washington was once upon a time a
boy and that he had to he a boy before
he could he a man. Abraham Lincoln
was also a boy, and so was Woodrow
Wilson.
It's my notion that each one of these
boys had conFiderablo history in the
making. Each in his turn doubtless
had his battles, black eyes and diffi
cult situation- to squirm out of. Can't
you Imagine Theodore Roosevelt trying
to content himself with just ono Hal
loween per year? Some job, that, for
Theodore,
But can't you also imaglno that
these boys had their lessons to learn
and that the higher standards set be
fore them as boys made them reach
for higher places as men?
The job which takes nerve and good
heroic sacrifice is good medicine for
full-blooded American boys. They are
the hope of our Nation, and as such
we want them trained to the highest
point of efficiency.
To be one of Uncle Sam's best bets
is no small honor. "Be a best bet" Is
Good. A. B. C.
Federal Employes and Draft.
PORTLAND. Nov. 9. (To the Edi
tor.) Will you kindlv nnhliah in Th
Oregonian answers to the following
questions:
(1.) Are all Federal emnlovra ex
empt under the draft? If not. can you
enumerate those not exempt?
n.j vnat Is the status of the plan
announced recently placing eligiblcs for
draft in classes? Will this rule apply
to the next draft or does it have to be
approved by Congress?
lours in doubt. SUBSCRIBER.
Persons holding office specifically cre
ated by constitution or Federal law are
exempt. Discharge of a Federal em
ploye from draft la in a way discretion
ary with tne exemption board, but claim
of exemption must be supported by affi
davit of the head of the department In
which the claimant is employed stating
that such person is necessary to the
adequate and effective operation of
such department
2.) The plan is merely tentative. It
has not -been finally adopted for the
naixt draft. Act of Congress will not be
necessary unless the plan finally ap
proved should conflict with the cxistinir
conscription law.
Colonial Dame la Witty.
Christian Herald.
The women of the olden davs In vonr
country were not lacking in mother
wit. A host who was carving a pig at
a dinner more than 100' years ago took
iiu oi tne pig and, Holding It up be
fore the ladles, said:
Ladies, I believe that thl i u.hnt
the first of your sex was made of."
"Yes, It was," calmly replied one of
the ladles, "and from very much the
same kind of a critter."
Steel Platen In Demand.
Liverpool Post.
"John," said Mrs. Jenkins, looking
up from the evening paper, "you know
how many dishes Kate has broken
lately?"
"Yes." said John, "what of it?"
"Well," continued the lady, "there Is
something in the paper about steel
plates. I don't know just what they
are, but I should think they might be
indestructible."
HE IS ARMED IN ARGUMENT
AFFAIRS
The Sunday
AMERICA BUILDING WORLD'S GREATEST GUNS The great war
is a titanic strife of cannon such as have never before hurled death
across any field. When the United States entered the lists for
democracy, the Nation lacked guns of super-caliber. With grim
determination she now is building cannon that will speak for her in
the day of recokoning with Prussia. A special story, replete with
amazing statistics, in the Sunday issue.
HELPING ALONG WITH THE WAR It remains for the artist, who
brings the terror and glory of battle home to us, to draw from the
hopper of wartimes bits of human humor that save the situation
by a tonic smile. Such is W. E. Hill, whose sketches from life are
features of The Sunday Oregonian. Regard the bevy of characters
he depicts in wartime activities.
UNCLE SAM'S LUMBERJACKS What of the men who are now in
the forests of France, the so-called "lumberjack" regiment," other
wise the Tenth Engineers? A special contributor to the Sunday
issue declares them to be the finest types of outdoor men America
produces, and tells of their work in the war.
CHURCH AND SCHOOL. If one would know what general progress
the young American is making at school, with reference to Port
land, or where to attend Sunday service, The Sunday Oregonian is
offered as his reference guide. Each week a page apiece is given
to the work of Portland's schools and churches.
REPORTER THAT NEVER ERRS Not a rare bird, by any means,
but the common camera, such as daring photographers carry into
the war zone, and wherever there are views of action and interest
to be had for the snapping with peril thrown in for good measure.
. A special page of such pictures is one department of The Sunday
Oregonian.
MINES AND OUR ARMY In the gTeat iron mines of Northern Min
nesota are men whose uniform is the rough garb of the miner,
smirched with close contact with mother earth. They are soldiers
as surely as are those who hold the .front-line trench, for iron is
a weighty 'industrial sword in the present conflict. Frank G.
Carpenter writes about them in the Sunday issue.
WHO IS NUMBER ONE? Wow! but this is a story that makes the
pulse race like a rabbit on his way somewhere a genuine, sure
fire, center-shot serial story of mystery, such as only Anna Kath
arine Green can write. Moreover, as the story appears in the
Sunday paper, it is also screened for the movie minions.
HAVE YOU SEEN THEM, SISTER ANNIE? Any number of nice
things to wear, smart hats and furs and Winter fixings, are de
scribed by special writers and pictured in photographs appearing
in the Sunday issue. Two pages that will prove indispensable to
the woman or girl who wishes to follow the mode.
A Nod and a Nickel Will Buy
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN.
In Other Days.
rwenty-f Ive Tears Ago.
From The Oregonian November 10. 1P3.
The returns for Oregon chow Harri
son is gaining as the count progresses.
The count now is: Harrison 27.5t:,
Weaver 20.972 and Cleveland 10.212.
Throughout the country, however, there
is no doubt of Cleveland's election. As
the count reaches the final stages ho
continues to gain.
Turkey is said to be negotiating a
loan of $30,000,000, of which $10,000,000
will be used for reinforcing the fortifi
cations of the Bosporus.
H. C. Bowers, manager of the Hotel
Spokane at Spokane, is in the city and
is registered at the Gilman.
E. Werlein, clerk in the office of the
City Treasurer, while handling coin
recently scratched his nose, with the
result that a slight abrasion on that
delicate part of his face, apparently
became Infected and is now calling for
the attention of three physicians.
George Spencer Churchill. Duke of
Marlboro, died yesterday in his bed,
apparently from an overdose of chloral.
The Duchess, formerly Mrs. Hammers
ley, of New York, now finds herself
bereft of her palace as well as her
husband. She spent great sums of
money on rebuilding and furnishing
the castle, but row under the law of
England the castle goes to the Duke's
first son by his former wife.
WHY
"CHINAS"
AHE
SCARCH
Too I.lttle Protection and Too Much
Inbreedlns. Says Correspondent.
PORTLAND. Nov. . (To the Edi
tor.) Having read in The Oregonian
on several occasions articles written by
Carl Schoemaker. Game Warden of
Oregon, relating to China pheasants. I
wish to say that I cannot agree with,
him. I have since the open season
hunted in the Counties or Douglas.
Lane, Yamhill, Washington, Clackamas
and Multnomah; have conversed with
many farmers and sportsmen, and all
agree with me that the China pheas
ants are fewer than for many years,
owing largely to the poor protection
they have had. Several days before
the open season the Game Warden pub
lished in the newspapers that all
Deputy Game Wardens were dis
charged, owing to the fact that there
was no available funds to pay them
for their services.
I cannot understand where all the
funds have gone' to, after raising the
license to $1.50 for hunting privileges.
Another very serious reason for the
scarcity of the China pheasants is that
there has been so much lnbreedlna
that they are not as prolific as in for
mer years. My personal information
this season has fully demonstrated this
fact.
I saw early in the season in . our
garden in Mount Tabor in this city
five female and two male birds, and
have since on several occasions during
the Summer seen them. In the months
of September and October I saw In the
same place no more than five or six
young birds with the old ones, while in
former years one would see as many
as 12 or 15 in each brood. Then, again,
the birds are much smaller than in
former years.
I think these facts should fully con
vince our Game Warden and Game
Commissioners that something must be
done to protect and increase the great
est bird that ever flew.
L P. W. QUIMBT,
Former Game Warden.
Frre College Instruction.
PORTLAND. Nov. 9. (To the Edi
tor.) On or about the first of Novem
ber a news item appeared In The Ore
gonian. stating that the expenses of
students were- to be paid by the Gov
ernment at Harvard and Columbia,
providing that they specialized in mili
tary work. Kindly inform nie where
I may obtain further information on
this subject. A SUBSCRIBER.
Communicate with United States
Navy recruiting station, Dekum build
ing, Portland.
Three Birds Are Married.
Exchange.
The wife of a Methodist mtnlster In
West Virginia has been married three
times. Her maiden name was Part
ridge, her first husband was named
Robins, her second husband Sparrow
and the present Quail. There are two
young Robins, one Sparrow and three
Quails in the family. One grandfather
was a Swan and another a Jay, but he's
dead now and a bird of Paradise. They
live on Hawk avenue, Eagleville,
Canary Island., and the fellow who
wrote this is a Lyre and a member of
the family.
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