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Give postoffice address in lull. Including county and state. 1'oslage Kates 12 to 16 pages, 1' cent": 18 to 32 pages. 2 cents: 84 toW8 pages. 8 cents: 60 to U0 pages. 4 cents: 62 to 78 pages, 6 cents: 78 to 82 pages. o cents. Foreign post age double rates. Kastern Business Office Veree & Conklin Brunswick building. New Tork; Veree & Conklin, Steger building, Chicago: San Fran cisco representative, R. J. Bldwell, 742 Mar ket street. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis patches credited to it or not otherwise cred ited in this paper and also the local news Published herein. All rights of republication of special dis patches therein are also reserved. PORTLAND, ' THURSDAY, NOV. 22, 1917. SURPRISE. ' A monopoly of military brains is not held by Germany, though at times it would seem so. For certainly the superior achievement of the German army lies largely in the skill, boldness, resourcefulness, unity, initiative and intelligence of the higher command. It is the very A-B-C of high strategy that the enemy should al ways, if possible, be taken by sur prise. It has happened many . times since 1914, mainly to the advantage of Germany. The great Italian "drive was only partly anticipated by the allies. Its enormous force and power gavB it the element of novelty and suddenness. Now the tables are reversed on Ger many by General Haig. The onslaught toward Cambrai, over a thirty-mile Iront, was unexpected by the Ger mans, and, therefore, not adequately prepared for. Largely on that ac count it was a success. Clearly, the Germans,, relying on their tremendous physical defenses, have taken the risk of depleting their lines on parts of the western1 front. in order to supply troops for the Italian enterprise. Probably the greater masses have been taken from Russia for the primary movemerUrj but obviously, as the onrush into Italy' developed into an apparent rout , of the Italians, the plan was conceived of sending a new wedge into the Italian flank, through Trent from the north. For this secondary project, many men were quickly needed, and they were brought from France. The British have been pounding "away in Flanders (Belgium) on the theory that here is the hardest nut to crack, and the sooner it is cracked, and the more Germans killed, the quicker the war will be over. For, after all, the chief military object of war is to destroy the enemy's armies. A few inches of territory won or re gained may not mean much; but Ger man man power decimated, or several times decimated, means final collapse and sure defeat. . The British transferred their acute offensive from Flanders to a sector sixty or seventy miles from the coast. Here the Germans were holding, be hind their great fortifications, with comparatively few men.' They had the notion that the Hindenburg'line was impregnable, though they have been several times undeceived, as re cently by the French near Laon. The ordinary tactics of an advance in force were abandoned by the British, and the Germans near ' Cambrai were caught napping, and their defenses "were penetrated to the last reserves. Now a partial new formation of the German line on the western front may sbo.. expected. It is a reverse, but not a. disaster, nor likely to be unless the British go clear through, and threaten the whole German position and cause a "quick and complete re-formation. It is a consummation devoutly to 7 be wished, but it is not likely to happen now, because it will be necessary be fore further progress can be made to Wing up the artillery. But the flrst result of the success ful British surprise attack will be probably to cause a hasty return of German divisions sent to Italy, and thus to relieve the pressure there. A second result will be to shake the German confidence in the integrity of their western defenses and the in fallibility of their strategy. A third result will be greatly to hearten the allies, and the millions behind them, who have long hoped for a decided turn in the tide of fortune. AN UNWILLING TRIBUTE. Award to North Pacific Coast lum bermen of contracts for material"' to complete ships under construction at Eastern and Southern yards is a be lated and unwilling admission that this section is the only source of this material in large sizes, such as are re quired for vessels of the tonnage now adopted. Not until many contracts had been let to builders in the East and South for ships to be composed of the lumber grown in those sec tions, nor until the contractors had failed to deliver the goods, thereby delaying for at least six months the most necessary work of the war, did tjie Shipping Board acknowledge the facts and act in accordance with them. This action is a practical acimission that the material can be obtained no where else, but the Pacific Coast lum bermen did not take advantage of that lact to get the highest price for their product. They sell lumber at the equivalent of $33 per thousand feet less than the Southern men receive, although the latter pay their work men lower wages for longer hours. This is a proof of patriotic self-denial Jn the ace of discrimination which went to the length of drawing specifi cations to suit the smaller size of Southern yellow pine. It is the higher testimony to the merits of .Douglas fir because it was given grudgingly. The question naturally arises: Since the Pacific Coast produces the timber, why should it not build the ships? Why should the timber be carried to yards thousands of miles distant to be framed into ships, occupying other chips or freight cars when both are Jn urgent demand, though it could be made into ships at the point of pro duction and though' these ships could then be used to carry traffic Eastward ? Use of Pacific Coast lumber to build ships on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts is the very reverse of that efficiency and economy of which we hear so much. This absurd situation cannot Jast, if th shipbuilder and workmen who are interested in permanently es tablishing their industry on this Coast work together to make production of tonnage cheaper than on other coasts. They have an advantage in cost and quality of material which should be decisive in their favor, if they do not throw it away by unduly enhancing other costs. GRABBING THE TILLER. , . The Oregonian takes this public method of expressing its poignant re gret that it is in great danger of losing a long-time subscriber, who dates a letter of protest against some of its recent expressions from the flourish ing town of Pilot Rock, in fat and contented Umatilla. He says: I am a Republican, and I paid the price of a Republican paper. But you are leading out pretty atrong for Roosevelt, who is a Bull Moose. It will take a pretty, good pony to trot Roosevelt and Bull Moose down my neck, for they defeated the greatest man that ever sat In the White House (Mr. Taft). - . . No; give us a Republican platform or I quit. The old guard still lives, and it neither surrenders nor forgets. Well, The Oregonian has other thoughts than either the rancors of 1912 or the issues of 1916. It will not test a man's fitness to serve his country by what he did or said in times long past; .for the, war between Taft and Roosevelt now seems , a puny affair. But, whether it was or not, whatever is, is. There is a President who has three more years to serve, and the fate of America rests with him. A hundred million people are in an open boat, with Wilson as pilot, rap idly approaching the Niagara of ruin and chaes. Yet some people would leave the laboring oar, where they belong, and grab the tiller, meanwhile raising their voices above the roar of the rapids in futile whinings about the crime of 1912. REAL WHEATLESS DATS. The wheatless day recommended by the heads of the food conservation movement is as yet only dimly ap preciated and only partly observed. It will have been noticed by the ob serving that some persons still persist in regarding anything but the white bread to which they have been accus tomed as "wheatless." Even whole wheat flour, by some peculiar vagary of reasoning, seems to have found its way into the "wheatless classifica tion." But the purpose of the wheatless day is to save wheat, primarily in order that the surplus may be used for supplying our soldiers in the field and the armies and peoples of our allies abroad. It was not intended to be merely a white-breadless day. , The chief breadstuffs available as substitutes for wheat are corn and rye, and in lesser degree barley and oats. Until this is realized and acted upon, we shall hot be doing our full duty; It would seem trite and unnec essary to reiterate that whole wheat flour does not meet -the "wheatless" requirement, for example, but restate ment would seem to be required as a matter of general information. GERMANY'S STOLEN IRON FIELDS. German tenacity in holding out for Alsace-Lorraine is explained by that programme of economic conquest which is a main feature in the general programme of military and political conquest. Success of militarism re quires great quantities of iron and coal, and Lorraine contains deposits of iron "ore second only to those of Lake Superior in extent, as well as considerable bodies of coal land "When Moltke in 1870 insisted upon and Bismarck against his better judg ment assented to, the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine," says Sydney Brooks in the North American Review, "the main thought in their minds was that of securing a strategic frontier." Un knowingly, they secured this iron de posit which has been the basis of German industrial prosperity and without which Germany could not have waged war for six months. Because, the ore is phosphoric and because the Thomas process of smelt ing such ore had not then been dis covered, it was regarded as worthless, and the peace treaty of 1871 left more than half of the field in French terri tory. The annexed, part of Lorraine yielded only about 500,000 tons of iron ore in 1871, but in 1913 the yield was over 21,000,000 tons, and during the war "from three-fourths to four fifths of Germany's output has come from that province and the occupied district of French Lorraine. The an nexed territory has five-sevenths of the iron ore in all Germany. More ominous for France is the fact that the Briey basin, now occupied by Ger many and which that country is de termined to hold, yielded in 1913 nine tenths of the entire French output of iron ore. In .that year the pig iron output of Alsace-Lorraine equaled the whole French output, and the steel product was only one-third less than that of all France. If Germany were to annex the French half of the deposit, she would be able to produce 46,000, 000 tons of ore a year to France's,jbare 4,000,000 tons, but if Lorraine were restored to France, that country could mine 43,000,000 tons to Germany's 8,000,00 tons. It has .ever been the policy of Prus sla to rob her neighbors of their most valuable territory, and then to develop its resources and use them as the means of further aggression. . When Frederick the Great began his career of conquest, he took from Austria the upper province of Silesia, which con tains great coal fields and extensive bodies of iron, lead and zinc ore, as Jan J. Kowalczyk states in his pam phfet on "Prussian Poland." That province in 1911 produced 36,622,969 metric tons of coal, and the output of its steel industry was $30, 000, 000, while it -yielded 61,971 tons of zinc and 45,000 tons of lead, but the iron mines are "slowly nearing exhaustion," says the writer heretofore quoted, and in 1910 more than 70 per cent of the ore treated was imported or brough from Western Germany. Hence ac quisition of the Briey field is doubly important. .If this Polish writer's figures are correct, Poles form the majority o the populaion of Upper Silesia, al though the Germanizing process has been in progress for more than six centuries, and the principle of na tional right to which the allies are pledged would award the province to a restored Poland. By depriving Ger many of Silesia on the east and Al sace-Lorraine on the west, they would not only rescue conquered peoples, but they would also render Germany pow erless for further aggression by tak- ing away the iron deposits, which are her most essential material of war. The potash industry of Nebraska is one of the industrial romances of th times, as a result of the stimulus o high prices which followed cutting off of the German supplies. One enter prise is now paying monthly dividends equal to the entire original invest ! nieut, and another ia yielding &70. to. each of two men who started with a capital of $2500. The product is being extracted from the water of lakes, and work is being pushed with all possible dispatch, in full realization of the fact that present values are abnormal and will be diminished when peace is de- clared. But the most interesting fact of all is that the entire industry is the result of the investigations of two students of chemistry at the Univer- sity of Nebraska. Having analyzed, as a -part of their school work, sev- eral specimens of soil sent in by farm- I ers, they detected the presence of I Germanized. Almost all Turkish rail potash, and when the war broke out I roads are absolutely controlled by Ger- realized its value. As a result of their I subsequent success in devising meth-1 ods of recovery of the salts they are now receiving half a million dollars a I year in dividends. ' LAST OF THE AMERICAN POILUS. ' Devotion ' to one's country and its ideals.has many forms. Take the re markable case of John Philip Sousa, bandmaster and composer. Who re members Sousa without his famous whiskers? Can - he be Sousa the same Sousa of the marches and the baton withoutthat impeccable beard? Yet the tale is told that Professor Sousa, who has joined the Army and tr..V,J " " ' " . . ' ' patriot 'while" they" fightand to fight . . . . , . . ' too, when occasion arises has shatrt clean. " War is all Sherman suid it was. The modern American soldier is as smooth as to his lips and cheeks Times change. Let any one take rr.r w-XT Q "'"I' r X; the subject of facial adornment in the '60s. Evidently a barber had no place in the war zone, and razors were a luxury. There was no time, appar ently, to lather one's face and give it the once over. Now we have the era of the safety razor. It will speedily make its debut in France, where it will do the world of beauty a rare turn if it makes a conquest of the "Poilu" (bearded one) It has invaded the American Army and achieved a complete triumph. Sousa was almost the last survivor of the old order. LABOR'S STAKE IN THE WAR. The" attention of those American I worklngmen who are deceived by the ry of pro-Germans that this is a rich man's war into interrupting war work by striking when all just claims could be adjusted by mediation or ar- bitration is invited to the following extract from a speech made by Harry I Gosling, president of the British Trade Union Congress in 1916: I W hope for the complete defeat of I ivaisensm lor trie sake or me uerman peo- pie as well as for the sake of the world at aree. The victory of Kalserism would mean for Labor the death of liberty. Regimented, drilled and exploited, trade unionism un- u r r uio control 01 a inunipiiani merman i mint.rv Trtv wo,.ii hav v,rv ntti n fm' f i Labor would be organized not for free- dom and for the betterment of its lot bat for its more thorough exploitation. Kaiser- ism and lemocracV .do not mix. The labor movement as venow it la wholly demo- cratlc. I am convinced that one of the f AeJB inf'ue;c.ne 'hert KlZ .h'!! world into war was the -fear of the rising I democVatlc movement among their own peo- I r, ln. t ii " ,1 , ,? They saw great .Erenvth ot unrest which 1 might well, if allowed to go on. threaten I the imperial throne itself. They diverted the energies of the people from examining 1 their own conditions of life to war. tm- i,w Aiio A,4.jk iia-j uccit a mtuxjm. lt.ivuv & for twentv-five years, was chairman of the strike committee in the great London dock strike of 1911, and is now president of the Transport Work- I ers' Federation.' He sees that the war I is a conflict between the free labor of democracy and the German capi- talism which has joined forces with militarism to reduce the labor of the I world to practical- servitude, and he save: I t. rv,- f vr,.r.A v- ,v. If all our sacrifice is not to be in vain, there can only be one end, and that Is the com- pieie overtnrow ot uennan tyranny. ror that we are willing to go oa fighting: Just as long: as necessary. I This Is th snirit in which American labor should act, for it would lose far mnr hv defeat than would anv other class " PAN-GERMANY ALREADY A FACT, The season is near when Germany may be expected to maite a new Did for peace backed by a more intense propaganda. As soon as military operations slow down for the Winter, Germany renews these movements. At this time the Kaiser's statesmen have been reinforced by the Russian Bol sheviki, a faction of the French So ciaiists ana tne American socialist party led by Morris Hillquit. but from which the genuine Americans have seceuea. adopted . A new slogan has been : 'No annexations and no in- es." In order that we may demnities.' judge rightly of this slogan, we must consider wnax wouio. oe eneci as applied to the existing military and economic situation. uiiiiLuiy map biiows ran-uer- many to do an accompiisned tact, as printed by the Atlantic Monthly in connection with. a series of articles by Aiiuio v.uwautuit! im ills raiuuy uu a .i - i .1 , rv . T'.. , i a a German Peace," it shows thatthe .rau-vrci ximua xiavo an raujr aiucu their immediate aim and the allies still hold or have- won back only a narrow strip of France and Belgium a corner of Albania, the kingdom, of Greece, a third ofRoumania, a strip of Russia, Northeastern Armenia, . Mesopotamia, a corner or Palestine and Egypt, out of the area which Ger many sought to annex or control. It is an indisputable fact that "seventy- three million Germans,, aided by twen ty-one million vassals Magyars, Slavs and Turks have reduced to slavery eighty-two millions of Latins, Slavs and Semites, belonging to thirteen differ ent nationalities," and that "Pan-Ger many consits of one vast territory containing about 176 million inhabi tants and" natural resources of the greatest variety.' If. in accordance with the principle of "no annexations and no indemni - tiae ' ' riarmanv wpro trt withdraw fpnm all the territory of her enemies now occupied, and if accounts were to be called square with no reparation for injuries done, Pan-Germany would clii lio a f ! r-f Rv InjiTis. not of erild hut. of German credit represented bv siina of naner. Germany has reduced to vassalage her three nominal allies and is eirnloitinsr them for her mill- tarv iiilvantflee. A monooolv of the n.nnri-ps nf Austrla.Hunearv. the Bal- kans and Asia Minor has been secured "a territory large enough to, include militarv and economic resources en- tirelv sufficient to nrovide for the needs of the population in time of war, and to assure its rulers in times of oeace the domination of the world." This control is complete by the suprem acy of the German General Staff over the armies and by treaties signed last January establishing "the strongest kind of German protectorate over the Ottoman empire." Trade treaties have been arranged which "make a single efipnomis unit fit .Germany, afld Au - tria - Hungary," and which ''make "a close economic union" between those powers and Bulgaria and Turkey, Racial control has been assured by massacre of the Serbs and Armenians, who were obstacles to the programme, Agricultural control' has been won by sending hundreds of experts and thou- sands of implements, not only to the conquered territory, but to Asia Minor, German, Austrian and Hungarian banks providing the capital. Thou- sands of young Turks are being edu- cated in Germany and are becoming many, and a gigantic system of canals has been projected to connect the Danube, the Rhine, the Elbe, the Vis tula and other rivers, by which water transportation could be carried on throughout Central Europe, avoiding the long voyage through the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, All of these things would remain facts, if peace were made without an nexation, except that the remnant of the conquered peoples, reducqd to physical wrecks, would be returned to their . devastated countries, and "no annexations" means that Germany would retain all of the plunder in money, machinery and material, and those peoples would receive no com pensation wih which to make a fresh A feat belt Jf country, under the absolute power of Germany, would . t- i . t - t 1 - f -V .i n -il- o TTnrina 1 n Acta f paim theu North Sea to the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, selfscontalned and . self-sufficient as regards nearly l11 e essentials of war and peace Rustfia and the other nations east of that belt would be completely cut off from the advanced democratic nations to the west, and, owing to their back ward economic, military and political development, would inevitably' fall un der the power of Pan-Germany. Peace under these conditions would be a German victory. It would be i"". V"3 J, 7 m trained empire which would surpass the wildest dreams of Alexander, Caesar or Napoleon. With the Kaiser as its ruler, America, to use his own words, "would better look out," for he would "stand no nonsense" from America. For the preservation of their lives, all the democracies of America and Western Europe would need to be constantly armed to the teeth, every man a trained soldier, and all our laws, industries, resources. education, sciences snapea 10 comDat the subjugation which would con stantly threaten them. Yet it is such - a peace that the muddled fools who miscall themselves pacifists would have us make. Agriculture has made such strides in Western Alaska that fifty-eight tons of turnips grown at Matanuska have , .. . . ... . . . ucc" "l'l,cu .Jmc, ni.ot.- tation arrangements in that territory are so defective that Dart of the Ship r , . . . . ment was resold at the latter city and shipped to Cordova, Valdez and other Alaska ports. Those turnips traveled ,qnc miiPS between Anchoraee and --'oi miles Detween Ancnorage ana Valdez, though the distance between fh two norts bv water is onl v 382 miles, but they were sold so cheap by the grower that they paid the freight. When Portland finally establishes an Alaska steamer line, vegetables from that territory may be sold in competi tion with the products of Multnomah county. This in spite of the fact that , , , , .. , . have only heard of Matanuska in connection wnn coai Concrete evidence of progress with construction of the Alaska Govern- ment railroad is the publication in the Alaska Railroad Record of time cards for trains which run on alternate days from Potter to Anchorage, 13.8 miles: from Anchorage to Houston, 60.5 miles; on the Matanuska branch to Chlckaloon, 37.7 miles, and on the Eska brancn to .timery, z. i miles 'mis is a totat oi ii. t mues or roaa in actual operation. It is time to pre- I pare for import Of Alaska coal to Portland I I A Clackamas man suing for divorce alleges that his wife declared she ilKea a poodle aog Detter. oome aogs lean show more affection than many men, but the man who cannot nna a way to get rid of an objectionable ani mal needs his decree. Tt o be exnected that threaten Jnf, letters would go to the Texan who offered his son on the western front $500 apiece for Hun scalps, but what cares a Texan for threats? A man of the Lone Star state is afraid of no body but his wife. Anybody who suggests abandonment of christmas festivities in the home Bhould be eiven the maul. The years ln which the llttle chaps live tinder the deiuslon are altogether too few to b in curtailinff them. The hokey-pokey fellows in session here ,istened yesterday to an address .Tv, vQi r Knnwin v mo-inlnc- ir- rroam. That knowiedse however, should even more concern the consumer. Vallv o-rw.-a will pot 9fl rontg ld the city consumer wiu pay 40 cents for Thanksgiving turkey. Father would better study the methods o the cafeteria carver before he essays to cut up the bird. Eastern people content with catfish I and rarn will find dlicht in doc: . , t baiuiua itiiu snuuiu get lu i.ua.Tt yew pie, however, want the royal Chinook and get it, too. Any political Job that pays from $3000 upward has a fascination that fails to work out. How many office holders retire with money in the bank? Contemplation of some of the ani mals at the Livestock Show leads many a fellow to think of reincarna tion and ' its possibilities for a lazy 1 man- Portland is to build 2500 more freight cars, and before long this city wiU bo on tho maP 68 a center of all ui "'""a"'ca I " The Lane County budget includes "war emergency" fund, and that' what most men need in their pockets me58 . uajs. Captain Hardy has had an oppor- tunity to tell the Mikado allabout ms honorable ancestors of sixty years I aB The motorman who charges delays in schedules to women kissing one another gopd-by is merely envious, A mercenary American is worse than an unnaturalized . German, and should be kept in a special bullpen. I This is Eastern Oregon day at the I Land Show, and the best on hand is J elder, Stars and Starmaker. By Leone Cass) Baet, MR. AND.JHRS. WILLIAM CRANE celebrated their 47th wedding, an niversary on November 13, at the Clar ldfre Hotel in New York. Lilian McCarthy has obtained a di vorce from Granville Barker on the grounds of desertion and miscorMuct. I've met Granville. He was here tear ing the life out of the American drama and American institutions of amuse ment last season. H found fault with everything we find humor in from Charlie Chaplin to pie for breakfast. Personally, I think Just being married to him waa sufficient grounds for Miss McCarthy's divorce. I'm for her. '. Frank Fay, erstwhile husband of Frances White, is a conservationist de luxe, and believes In making use of all the little odds and ends of life. T'other ay, rather than pay little Frances $140, ue on past alimony, he obeyed the call f the Sheriff and spent some 40 hours in Ludlow-street Jail and seven of these 0 were In a room where even the sun light couldn't penetrate because In a thoughtless moment he had slipped a aughty right on the keeper's facial projection. When he was sufficiently satiated with his own company, Mr. Fay paid his dues and no sooner had he stepped from the friendly shelter of the Jail than little Frances, through her attor- ey, caused another notice for contempt to be served upon him that he still ran back four weeks, or $100, on the court's order. ? All of this gave Mr. Fay his idea for. some pleasant publicity. On the theory that all is grist that comes to his mill he donned a convict's .suit when he went on for his act at the Winter Garden show last Sunday night and travestied Frances White's popular ong, "Mississippi." Instead he sung A-l-i-m-o-n-y, Why Do They Pick on Me?" All of the rest of the material in the act savored of Ludlow, and now Mr. Fay has had a sweet and subtle revenge, with headlines In all the theatrical news telling about it. Speaking of "Old Kentucky." which is the Thanksgiving attraction at the Eleventh-street playhouse. It is inter esting to record that Julia Arthur (now Mrs. B. P. Chaney) was the original Barbara Ilolton, Louis James the origi nal Colonel Doollttle, Frank Losea and his wife, Marion Elmore, also were In the company and Miss Elmore was the first Madge to swing across the chasm and save her lover's life. George Ede- son, father of Robert Edeson, was the original hero. Alfred Horton, leading man with the Alcazar Players, had a delightful se ries of reminiscent visits with Emily Ann Wellman. who headlined at the Orpheum this week. Both Miss Well- man and Mr. Horton were members of Louis Mann's company for three sea sons and the three have maintained a close personal friendship wholly out side professional activities. Mr. Horton gave a dinner party for Miss Wellman at the University Club Monday night and on Tuesday night, following the performance. Miss Wellman was hostes at a beautifully-appointed supper at the Multnomah Hotel in the Arcadian Gardens, her guest list including mem bers of her own company and of the Alcazar Players. Lora Rogers, too, has been renewing acquaintances this week. Winifred Burke, who played the adventuress other woman" In Emily Ann Wellman's playlet, was for one sjrason in stock back East with Miss Rogers. Henrietta Crosman's company, "Erstwhile Susan," closed last week ln Los Angeles and MIsa Crosman has gone East to join her husband, who is in the Army. Aphie James, widow of Louis James, with whom she appeared in many plays, became a bride again November 14, when Bhe was married to Henry C. Tuxbury, cashier of the Waldorf-As torla, in New Tork. . Miss Dear Miss Baer: Tou have answered inquiries from correspondents in your col umn, and I wonder if you would be so kind as to answer a few for me. Please tell me when Mr. Oliver Morosco will return to Los Angeles. If you do not know right now, could you find out and answer some Thursday, the earliest time convenient for you? It Is very Important to me. Also, could you tell me what theat rlcal managers have offices ln California, either San Francisco or Los Angeles? Have K. & E. a branch ln California T - A VISITOR IN PORTLAND. (1) I do not know just when Oliver Morosco will return to Los Angeles. His home is still there, but he is mak ing his theatrical headquarters in New York, where his activities are centered. You will get the exact information you desire by addressing your inquiry to his offices in New York or to the Morosco Theater, Los Angeles, where he has a representative. (2) Other theatrical agencies in Cal ifornia are Gottleib & Marx, of San Francisco, who are representatives of Klaw & Erlanger In the south, and George Davis, who may be reached at the Alcazar Theater in San Francisco, There aue any number of concerns of lesser magnitude and field of en deavor, and if you care to write me more definitely f your interests and the nature of the information you are seeking at the address, I may be able to advise you fully. (3) Klaw & Erlanger's New Tork address Is the New Amsterdam Theater. You will find them punctual in replies as is also Mr. Morosco. Richard Mansfield. Jr.. who Is attend ing college in Pittsburg, appeared at the Pitt Theater on Saturday night, when he took the part of Captain At kins in "The Man That Stayed at Home," Gordon Ruffin, who had the role, being taken suddenly ill. Fritz Krpisler, the violinist, was re fused a concert license to appear at Carnegie Hall, Pittsburg. A number of protests had been received from nu merous patriotic organizations and from ' many Individuals protesting against .the Kreisler concerts. They took the ground that since Kreisler was an officer in the Austrian army, it would be unpatriotic to permit him to appear at a public entertainment. a Chauncey . Olcott is appearing ln a new play needless to say of Irish fla vor ln Atlantic City. He has doffed the romantic hero roles with velvet and ruffles and Is a 1917 hero. The play Is "Once Upon a Time," and Chauncey has some jew. Irish sonsa. , . - BIOLOGICAL BALANCE IS SHAKEN Writer Says Cat Protects Insects and Thus Incarases Cost or Living;. PORTLAND, Nov. 21. (To the Edi tor.) Will you give me space to an swer the lettet of A. Cowperthwait, of the Orejron Humane Society, headed "Cats Fight to Live"? On the 13th inst. I wrote the society asking about a cat ordinance matter referred to the Orepon Humane Society for recommen dation by the City Commissioners some six or eight months ago. if anything had been done or was going to be done or if the matter was going to die for lack of serious consideration, and ask ing If a matter that would save the people of this city and country thou sands, if not millions, of dollars an nually should not receive serious thought and prompt action. As a matter of courtesy I expected an answer direct instead of through the columns of The Oregonian: hence this letter. The statement in his letter that "I am anxious to see all our cats killed oft" Is untrue and shows that he has not taken the trouble to read over the matter referred to him. which was a request that an ordinance be passed for the regulation (not extermi nation) of the house cat, namely, to pass an ordinance to license and bell cats, kill the stray, homeless ones and require that cats be kept in at night. His statement that "selfish people who begrudge animals food are not worth being called humans" is uncalled for and not borne out by the facts in this instance. He wouldn't think of feeding a sku'nk, owl or rattlesnake, yet these poor creatures," per his letter, "are all manifestations of the cne God who created us all and they have some right on this earth. Do they get It? If he will "wise up on the cat s de structiveness, compiled by reliable au thorlties. he will be better able to see the poor bird's right to live instead of the cat. The Chicago Humane Society months ago sent out a Nation-wide plea to bell the cat. Cats will not keep rats off a ship, as is proved by plate XII in a book on the house cat ent the society for their information As to his statement "cats have a com mercial importance in certain lines of trade; marine insurance does not cover damage done to the cargo by rats un ess it can be proved that there was a cat aboard," I will state that two .of Portland's best-known marine lnsur ance companies say they never heard of such a thing and don't know any thing about It. As to his statement Cats have won out in China, I will say that doesn't concern us. They may be short of meat over there. As to his statement that "the cat will under favorable conditions de velop a strength of affection not de void of demonstration that is equal to the dog's," I will say that no one but a cat crank will believe this, and good authorities won't bear out his state ment. In conclusion I will say that the cat, an introduced-animal, is not need ed here outside of buildings. It has disturbed the biological balance and has become a destructive force among native birds and mammals, indirectly costing the people of one state in our Union $7,000,000 to $9,000,000 annually. The cat protects the insects by killing off the birds, thus increasing the cost of living to every citizen. L. S. WRIGHT. ROOSTER HAS RIGHT TO CROW Law Docs Not Itcsmlate Hint; Action for "Maintaining; Nuisance Only Remedy. PORTLAND, Nov. 20. (To the Ed itor.) Will you please Inform me whether there Is an existing law reg ulating roosters in this city. I have a prize Plymouth Rock bird. the pride of his large family, which, in keeping with his native instincts, sounds his clear voice at 4 A. M. My neighbor objects on the ground that he gets home from work about 12:30 A. M. and cannot sleep to the tune of Mr. Rooster. The bird generally quits crowing about 7 A. M. and minds his own busi ness the rest of the day. This neigh bor Is the only one who finds fault with the bird; in fact, the other neigh bors are proud of him. Dr. Parish was on the scene of ac tion the other day and pronounced the stronghold of the chicken family in every way sanitary; ln fact, good. What I want to know is: Do I have to kill my prize cock to satisfy a cranky neighbor? Joe Singer says "No," so long as the chicken doesn't crow. A pacifist neighbor has suggested that said rooster be interned on Rooster Rock, where he can enjoy to his cock heart's full desire the action of Gray's memorable words: The cock's shrill clarion on the echo ing morn." RICHARD FLANIGAN'. There is no law against roosters' crowing. If the coop Is sanitary and the chickens are kept from running at large, nothing can be done outside of action for maintaining a nuisance. THEFT OF AITO IS SO JOKE Victim Thinks Llgrht Sentences and Pa roles Encourage This Offense. PORTLAND, Nov. 21. (To the Ed itor.) I thank you for the notice of the theft of my automobile from Taylor street. The police found the car. I will pay 150 reward for the arrest and conviction of the thieves who stole the car provided they are properly punished. I feel that Oregon courts and Judges are largely to blame for auto stealing in Oregon, for the reason that they are too lenient with the criminals and seem to regard the crime as a joke. The owner of the car cannot.see it in this way, often paying a large bill for" re pairs to put the machine back in good condition. It never can be made as good as it was before the theft and had usage. If some poor man steals a chicken to feed his hungry babies and is con victed of the theft, chances are he will get a jail sentence. If he steals a cow or horse and is convicted of the crime, the chances are he gets a term in the Oregon "pen." The auto thief, when convicted, usually gets some small sen tence and Immediate parole. This is the second time my machine has been stolen from the streets of Portland. Like many others. I'm tired of it and want to see the thieves cinched good and hard. It is no Joke for those who lose their machines. DR. L. M. DAVIS. WHY HOSTILITY TO CIGARETTES f Non-Smoker Thinks All Tobacco Would Be Alike to Htm If He Smoked. PORTLAND, Nov. 21. (To the Ed itor.) Why so much more hostility to the cigarette than the cigar? Are they not both made of tobacco? I do not smoke at all. but If I did I think I would as soon smoke the cigarette as the cigar. And how foolish It Is for anyone to attribute his stature to use of or ab stinence from tobacco, as did a certain man a few days ago attribute his 6 feet 7 Inches to his abstinence from tobacco. I never used tobacco in any form whatever and I am only S feet 6 inches talL I know a number of men over 80 years old who have never used tobacco and I know as many that age who have used It from childhood. K. Froceeds From Benefit. PORTLAND. Nov. 21. (To the Ed itor.) If a benefit is given for a cer tain purpose, after the proceeds have been received can they then be divided among other benefits? SUBSCRIBER. Tt !s a matter for the judgment and conscience fit t&a iadividu&lg iu charge, In Other Days. Half m Century Alto. fnun The Oregonian November 22. 1S6T. V ashinKton. he President n1 i Cabinet, including General Grant, fully unaerstanu ana appreciate the results of the recent elections. Th:y under stand that the elections were Kained by conservative men, and the President will act accordingly In readjusting his uaoinet. A most noticeable instance of news paper enterprise and the advantages derived from oceanic telesrraphy may be instanced in the fact that the New York Tribune obtained and published the news of Garibaldi's arrest before it was known to a sinele person in Lon don or EnRland. The fact was trans mitted ln cipher by the Tribune's cor respondent so that the operators them selves did not know what tho mes sage contained. The Republican papers throughout the state a"re almost without exception pronouncing for General Grant for the Presidency. E. M. Waite and Henry Denlinger have announced that about January 1 they will publish a directory of the cities of Salem, Eugene, Albany and Corvallls. A telegram was received in this city yesterday saying that Rev. Mr. Eliot or Elliott would start from New York en route to Portland to take charge of the First Unitarian Church of this city. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oregonian, November 22. 1S02. Superintendent Baxter, of the Union Pacific, who has been at the landslide at Reed's ranch for the past week, re turned to the city yesterday. Mr. Bax ter says that in all his 20 years of railroading this is the largest landslide he has ever seen. The slide is still continuing, with displays once or twice a day; at times great masses, each as bifr as boxcars and carrying trees and great boulders, come rolling down. Paris. By a unanimous vote of the Chamber of Deputies it was agreed that parliamentary inquiry be instituted Into the affairs of the Panama Canal Company. Thomas A. Edison, who sleeps but a few hours a day himself, says that the man of the future may do without sleen entirely. J. R. Haseltine. II. E. Dosch and R. S. Howard have been appointed by Presi dent Osborn, of the Chamber of Com merce, to be delegates to the Nic aragua Canal convention, the expenses to be borne by the Chamber. C. F. Beebe, D. M. Dunne and R. B. Knapp were appointed a special com mittee to prepare suitable resolutions on the death of . Captain Flanders. LET WORTHY THEME CONTROL. Let worthy theme control our lives From childhood through old age. Each marks a single path along; He can t retrace to change, if wrong: He causes Rrief. or cheers by song While making history's page. A teacher plunges Into work To better humankind; Counts every study course a boon. May measure planet, sun or moon; Solves problems difficult quite soon Displaying master mind. The preacher opens sacred book, Instructing rich and poor To give up selfishness and sin; A fruitful Christian life begin; Have faith and hope and love within; Go forth to rescue more. Inventors labor earnestly To lessen toil and pain. They claim the JJghtnlng. bottle steam. Compress the air and harness stream. That we in comfort thoughts may deem Our lives of worth and gain. Unnumbered parents children, too Have Just as worthy theme. They labor long in loving deed. Supporting kin or sick in need; Long days, far into nights they speed More comely than a dream. Right purpose moves all faithful ones To yield their talents all To sweet control of truth and art. In choosing wiser, better part Of training body, spirit, heart. For duties great or small. Pray, qualify to edify Our race in need of love; Drink deep of truth's eternal springs, Apply the vigor that it brings. 'Till earth, redeemed, in rapture sings With chorus from above. L. D. WESTFALL. Carlton, Or., Xov. 20, 1917. SONNET FOR THANKSGIVING. When man shall hate his brother man no more. And all the flames of battle have burned low; When It is given each of us to know The terror and the tragedy of war; When frras3 shall spring anew and cover o'er The earth's scarred bosom and the wild flowers blow Where lately barked the cannon at the foe. While mocking hills sent back the hellish roar Then paeans of Thanksgiving shall arise For love and life, with hope and freedom blest. And all the promise which within them lies; For peace, which folds her wings at last to rest. Like purpling grapes which hide the broken wall, God's mercy shall forgive and comfort all. MARTHA HOUGHTON JONES. 569 Hawthorne Terrace, Portland. Red Cross Not Government Organisa tion. ALBANY, Or.. Xov. 20. (To the Ed itor.) Please tell me If the American Red Cros3 Society is run by the United States Government or if the Govern ment only approves of the work done by them. READER. The Red Cross is sanctioned by the Government and by international law, but is administered as a private insti tution and Its funds are obtained by voluntary subscription. Making of Intoxicants I'nlawfnl. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Nov. 20. (To the Editor.) Will you state through the columns of The-Oregonian whether It is lawful to make your own beer in the State of Washington for your fam ily only. OLD SUBSCRIBER. It is against the law to make any kind of alcoholic stimulant in Wash ington for any purpose. Unfavorable Symptoms Reported. Leisure Hours. Physician (to Mrs. Col. Blood, ot Kentucky): How did your husband pass the night, Mrs. Blood? Mrs. Blood: He seemed quite com fortable, sir, and asked for water sev eral times. Physicfan (with a grave look): Hra say, iiisutji . ..