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8 THE aiORXIXG OREGOXIAX, 3IOXDAY, APREL ' 8, 1918. (Dropttitn PORTLAND, OREGON. Entarad at Portland fOrewoai Foetofflce u ond- la mall matlrr. SaDecrlptloa rates Invariably la advaaca: (Br ila.) Tal!y, Sunday Included, on year .......ys.Oo la!lr. Sunday Included. six raontha .... 4.25 Xai.y. Sunday Included, tbraa roontha . 2 " Ialiy. Sunday Includad. ona tnuntb . . . .. .75 Iai:y. without Sunday, oaa yaar.. ...... .) Iai:y. without Suaday. aia months. ..... .23 Tiiy. without Sunday, aaa maata...... . "Wkly, oaa year ............. l.ou Ktsadar. ona year. .............. ....... 2 SO tiuaday and Wskly a.ftO Br "arrler. Dally, Sunday Included, ona yaar. . ., .t.ls.00 Iallr, Sunday Included, oaa nontn .'4 Iai;y. without frundy. on year T.iHl rai:v. wit houl Sunday, threw months... 1. Iai:y. without Hundav. ona montl-l . .. . . .63 Haw la Kraal t tiend poetofflce rder. sxpraaa or personal chock on your local bank. fltampa. aola or currency i at owner1 rtaL otva postofflca addraaa full. Inciuclnr countv and it.t. footaaro Hlr ill to 1 pages. 1 coot: H to mcm. 2 centa: 34 to 4S aaa. 3 canta SO to pagca. car.ts: 15 to 74 pagea. 3 cents: 7 to 02 paara. a canta. Jrorslga bmuii. donM rtM fctrra BadofM IMTV Varrea at ronl Itn. HruBwi- bulling. Now Tork: Verrea a, Cnnk.ln. Slew-r building. hicao: er- ra 4s Conklln. Krea I'rese building. Datrolt. 34;--h. : San ranruco representative. It. J. iia":u its trtnl. XT.VllEK Or THE ASSOCUTIJ) PRESS. Tha Associated Prsaa la exclusively en- atrlMd to tho us fur ranubllcatloa of all aa dtspatchea credited to It or not other wise credited to tr-la paper, and also the IocaI aws publln-d nerein. All rights of republication of special dla patch herein are a.ao reserved. roKTUND. MONDAY. APRIL S. ISIS. be done. Bat, he points oat, the law I powerless for lack of ammunition if Hons. One comes when a' magazine requires the Farm Land Bank to lend only on first mortgages. If the Attor ney General holds that the state law legally gives seed and feed mortgages a priority over Federal farm mort gages, neither he nor the Farm Land Banks nor the Farm Loan Board can 1 do anything In the matter. The present prospect Is that North Dakota, must suspend any farther de velopment that Is dependent upon farm loans pending repeal by the Legislature of its novel law. Such ac- not supplied by a constant stream of of rockets explodes. "A fresh and bearers. Thus the limit of effective- I volatile perfume escapes from a com. ness of the new rifle and machine gun may become a question of transport under the most difficult conditions. WELT WATS. The scheme adopted by L A. Kent Is commended to the attention of dis appointed litigants generally. The plan in a nut shell Is to thrash the court over the shoulders of a news- tinn ravrmiroo iimA th. T.o.Huiat-ura Paper reporter. does not regularly convene until next A decision was given In a mining jann.p. The, fruits nf .hi. Towmi.v case me outer day, ino cecision scheme are to be gathered somewhat officially transcribed from the short- icy velveU nrlinr than I tho nrmnul no thT-I Hand notes. 1116 Oregonian got IIS resumed Its ra-iv " h r-nncluries. the, money financial and economic weeds which Information from the written opinion. lncjdent, "wonders and smiles at these he is Inducing the farmers of North 11 appears mat me decision was a nocturnal dialogues." Dakota t now e,h.in stnm I disappointment - to air. jvent, BO with most of the subscribed capital I wrote. letter charging that the news groin for nromotion of oolitlcs. which article was iuu.in.ums, ''" is one of the Townley ventures, gives I unjust.' promise of a little longer life. But the passionate hawthorne, swirls through the vapors and the chemical scents Joyous, enchanting note, in the midst of a tragic and debilitating spectacle." Again a shell bursts on one of the pieces of the battery. "We remove the mutilated with raging and poig nant haste and we cover the dead with tent cloths The dull light of a lantern falls on a decapitated non-commissioned officer." And the third time the conferees are inter rupted by the breaking of the dawn. The air caresses the Lieutenant with "My reason, which has farmers are certain to endure penal- ties for placing their trust la a bank rupt adventurer. He had heard all the evi dence, and how the court could ar rlvje at the conclusions as reported was beyond his comprehension. There had It would seem as if these hallucina tions had a, beneficent effect. One who can note (he perfume of the "com passionate hawthorne" in the midst of an upheaval that must have made VALUE OF ALIBI AS TESTIMONY Writer Seems to Admit Accused Is Lucky to Have Something Else. PORTLAND, April 6. To the Edi tor.) In your discussion of alibis it's your half unconscious cynacism in saying that an alioi often suggests un pleasantly certain Implications of prob able guilt that lea me to question your remarks. You admit that a good alibi is a perfect legal defense, but say the man who has to depend upon it is un fortunate, to say the least. If that is true, it is because the best possible defense has been counterfeited and supported by perjured testimony, in all countries for many generations in the attempt to clear guilty men. It is Just because an alibi is the only perfect de fense that it has been counterfeited so often and for so long a period. That is the thing that is unfortunate, and not that the alibi itself is an un fortunate defense to depend upon. How ever, the public don't get that angle of the problem. Let me illustrate: I have known a number of cases GREAT POLITICAL DISCLOSURE.' the very earth rock, and can observe I where a terrible crime has been eom- the resemblance of a hell of exploding I. W. W. ATTACK ON ATBY TRIAL. Admitted tampering with prospec- live Jurors in the trial of I. W. W. leaders at Chicago shows to what lengths that organization will go in appeared, ho continued, in some of the fireworks to the "dazzling birds of newspapers references to the case that troplca.1 islands," and "chatoyant were so far from the facts as to bo I snravs linnnv 1a spinlillntn snd tn hurn ridiculous in the extreme? and it would I out j,e Batufled desires," is mercifully seem tnat me reporter naa nis tuior- 8Dared the terrors that sane reflection mauon rrom sucn sources. mieht be expected to insnire. Bar. mitted and where there was no direct testimony. Such affairs constitute news of greatest value. Your report ers get as much of the story as pos sible from all sources, but usually they have to depend upon rumor and hear say concerning the probable criminal. In that way the irresponsible guess of Mr. Kent 3 virtuous letter was nrsi husse emphasized the brutalitv of war. noma evil-minded trnssin Is nrinted and offered to xne uregonian. ine news s,rainerba 6eea th nicturesaue. even snread broadcast. The printed story the effort to escape punishment for Its arUcl h it purported to criticise , brutality. No doubt his view carries a weight that the individual crimaa. an . aV,iw not an isolated one. His book. h'no siart?d Jt ,cou,ld neYer nPe to se" rOI0 OVER THE TOP. Dregon commemorated the first an- uiuiea. soo, in so doing. 10 aiscrean ,, ..,mH m h an.talned in and destroy our institutions. The right every important particular. He was to Jury trial is the oldest and most ,n notified, and. of course, the letter cnensnea or democratic institutions, was dened publication. and any man or Institution which at- i5ut r. Kent was resourceful. He Judged by the detached extracts which , - -;- a eiXZ nave reacuea Aiusra:, txKnxa tu ue not discovered and our Sheriffs are important as a psychological -Study, I elected, as a rule, because thev are no less than as a marvelous descrip- popular men, and not because they Blversary of America's entry into the I7rn,7.. rTnl, . . Y..,. h uut resourceiut. tion. of the most terrible conditions know anything about crime or crimi- . . tempts to Influence a Juror by argu- took his jetter to another newspaper oAuceO. bv war in this or anv other nals why, then this irresponsible gos sip creaxes a puoiic seniimenc inac may easily convict an innocent man. In the recent murder trial at Che ... , ... .. , . I - j o--iook nis letter to anowier uewapapor rjrodi war with a splendid practical demon- ment ihreat, or bribes Is an enemy and there u published on a face ft. straUon which gives promise tfc&t with of democracy. I showing that The Oregonian had done i mo acuon or tn i. w. vr. is ai- .j, injustice which It refused to rectify. the third liberty loan It will continue the proua rord of Oregon first. On "ctly in line witt i , ts enUre policy Att of litigants to retrythelr Bmphonlr and clost friend ot f'ZTS TcLlSt the first day for subscriptions tne I - - ' - cases in me newspapers are uoi a i ,-, RT,tnrff wn nprhnn. I i. .r,.. m. hi. ii total for the entire state was almost Vr. 0' I- hm!f; it' novelty- but the Kent Bcneme more active as an enemy alien than alibi. Luckily for him. he belonged to For I " m " i naps, unique. t. sv. w. committee. we nave seen one-third of the state's quota. . V, & . a e u.Hl.n Is woo mArs than one-third, and for the rest of the state that. pol.'Cr ""?ed Xl Ua I1 ,c?a it was almost 29 per cent, with prac tical certainty that unreported sub scriptions would bring the total up to the same percentage as has been realised for the city. The moat significant fact, as show ing the spirit tn which the people are standing by their Government in the war. is the number of rural counties and small towns which exceeded their quota on the first day. Seven coun ties went "over the top." and town after town has doubled or trebled its share of the loan, rowers having soul tiplied Its allotment twenty times. Farming and cattle counties have sprung to the front, removing any doubt that they are fully awake. Lum be ring towns have rivaled them, eras ing the last trace of the stigma which the L W. W. had put on them. No less strong proof of the depths to whlcls the patriotism of the state has been stirred lsthe eagerness with which they came forward to lend their money to the Nation. In many places they scarcely waited for the campaign to open, but subscribed as soon midnight was past. In Portland, and doubtless In other places, they did not elusion in Russia, where the Bolshe vikl the I. W. W. of that country dispersed by force an elected assem bly which opposed their will, mur- xie ii as succmueu m , h.,i)ll.nrnn,ln.nini saying puouciy wua. u i " to emphasize the earnestness of the of- court U1U 111 o hi i a. way wia. io probably not liable for contempt. The matter Is not of great impor tance. It Is cited here merely for the remarkable benefit It may confer on ficlals in their efforts to put a quietus on plotting against the Government, and also to remind him and others that an unusually prominent family, and his wife's and friends' testimony was accepted at face value, and the jury acquitted him. If the reputation of his family had been bad their testimony as to the alibi would have been re de red or imprisoned all who resisted other litigants and to call attention to their tyranny, and yielded only to the thft IaPt tho.. whenever a statement superior force or oermany. I .Dnears that The Oreeonian has re- Tne I. w. w. wui forfeit Its right flls-d to correct an error it is a safe to a Jury trial for its leaders if it Pnnrliisi.in that no error has been com- . . . i persists in me attempt to prevent se- i mitted. lection or a lair, impartial jury, it will force resort to the alternative of martial' law, which would make short work with the propagandists of an archy. hen the prevalence of such they may be dealt with summarily In garded as suggesting "unpleasantly time of war. He is held simply as an certain Implications of probable guilt," 'enemy alien," which does not carry I and the Jury would have convicted him. with It even the privilege of trial, the suspicions of the authorities and his own citizenship of a nation with which we are at war being all-suf ficient. Later, if the evidence war- I know of a case of the kind In Ore gon, and the actual criminal Is still at Large and he will probably read this communication (if you print it). He is bold man and a very shrewd one. but he is never at peace, for he cannot Eugrene Man Announces What Orego nian Han Will Do Politically. EUGEXE, Or., April 6. (To the Ed itor.) The news article today on the rumored candidacy of Oswald West for the Senatorship left no further doubt as to The -Oregonian's opposition to Senator McNary.. I would like to inquire what there is in Senator McXary's record that is wroni. Where has he failed in the measure of patriotic or other public service given to the state of Oregon in the short time that he has been in the Senate? What vote has McXary cast that the Millionaire Stanfield if elected would not have cast? What could McNary have done that his opponent would not have done? Is The Oregonian simply opposing Senator McN'ary because there la a re ported friendliness between him and former Governor West? If I were to reach my conclusions in the same manner I would at, once de cide to support Olcott for Governor on the basis of the prejudice that this morning's gas attack on McNary by The Oregonian arouses within me. Stanfield and his friends prate i great deal about the "need of a busi ness man in the Senate" from this state, but tell me, what is there about the experience of accumulating per sonal wealth that especially fits Mr. Stanfield to represent the people of this state? Does he not know that there are farmers and laboring men in Ore gon who are entitled to representation as well as that class he terms "business men"? We are seeing a great deal in the newspapers about how some wealthy man has offered to donate so many thousand dollars to the Stanfield cam paign and there are evidences of large expenditures of money in behalf of this millionaire candidate, and -how much he is spending himself I do not know. AS to that. . I want to congratulate Senator McNary on the faet that I have never found any evidence whatever of any attempt on his part to influence the election by the use of money. His In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. From Tho Oregonian ot April 8. ISM. New York. Warner Miller, president of the Nicaragua. Canal Company, ad mits that trouble is brewing in Nicar agua over the canal proposition and that an open rupture is about due. San Francisco. The Right Rev. Will iam Ingraham Kip, bishop of Califor nia for the Episcopal Church, is dead here. When trying to report to headquar ters from box 26, at Tenth and Davis street, last night. Patrolman Endicott received a severe electric shook. "East Lynne" is booked for Cord ray's next week. The East Side Railway Company is putting in .double tracks on Hawthorne avenue to Sunnyside. " Half a Centory Ago. From The Oregonian of April 8, 1S6S. There was a heavy southwest wind yesterday, which generally upset things and made signs unsafe. A petition is being circulated, askintr that D and E streets. Couch's Addition, be improved by grading and crosswalks. In all of the gardens about our town. peach trees are in bloom and shrubbery is everywhere giving abundant evi dence of Spring. We learn that Jacob Kamm has Dur- chased the steamer G. S, Wright, at San Francisco, for use in service, but where we did not learn. WE FIGHT FOR CONCRETE THINGS War for Love of Democracy Is Lofty Sentiment, but May Be Over-Talked. ROSEBURG. Or.. April 6. (To the Editor.) Your North Yakima corre spondent, writing under date of March 39, places much stress on the traits of campaign Is as clean as his record in optimism and love in the American na me Senate, and there will never be any ture, as we have always fought for rants It, he may be placed on trial for I forget. He is in bell all bis days on specific acts in violation of the es- account of his secret and because h pionage act, but meanwhile he can aoea not know now mucn someone else be interned without formal process knows. VISIONS IN BATTLE. A new trend In French war litera- arcny. vtnen me prevalence or such ture is dpiupo oy tne latest wura. However, this is a question about a conspiracy prevents free operation receive the prize of the Academy of and appeal to the civil courts will not anbis. It is true, as you say, that the of civil law. tha Ponsl itiitlon nnrmita I UOnCOUrt. wnicn a year ago gave IIS avuu iiii". juiciiiiuciii. ui muts iiuuu olibl Is a ornfesa onttl dofenite. and that the military arm to crush the con- I grand prize to Henri uarbusse s "La association wiui auj prejuuice uewusi lt is the frequent resource of the know SDirators. When the American Ka-1 Feu." The latest book to be thus tion Is at war with a powerful enemy, 'honored Is "La Flamme au FoingK- who has manv adherents within lt by Henry Malherbe. Malherbe when German music, but is due entirely to malefactor;. If iuderea skilled in welzb belief in high quarters that his con- I ing evidence passed on tnibls offered own .borders, domestic disturbers can avert use of military measures only if they submit in good faith to the civil courts. A GREAT FIGHTING SPEECH. the war broke out was an Important contributor on literary and musical subjects to magazines and reviews, and also to the daily newspapers. He enlisted as a private, but rose rapidly duct has not been such as we have a right to. expect of any alien whom we permit to remain in the country In times like the present. this discussion would be uncalled for, but as citizens without experience al ways have to decide, it is a misfortun that you should insist that it is unfor tunate, to say the least, for an accused person to have to depend upon an alibi. If it is true, it carries a cynical Impli Coming of sixty-one recruits from to the command of a battery of 75's. I Anchorage, Alaska, who were prompted I cation, because a genuine alibi is not He has served with distinction, snow- to ennsi Dy reading mat tne xuscama i , j as President Wilson delivered a fighting ,n, that hls literary aspirations were had been sunk, causes one to specu- admlt but u ,3 ""e on'y Perfect de ns-s I w L a x . j . A a a I I I fan ca 11 tn I Ofi nnnrnni ssAsemn Aon hi speech on the day when the American people demonstrated by the great wait for solicitors to call, but swarmed Initial success of the third liberty loan to the Liberty Temple and handed that they are in a fighting mood. On over their money. This Is not the I the anniversary of the day on which manner of people who have calmly I we entered the war he summons us considered liberty bonds as a business I to consecrate ourselves anew to the Investment; It, bespeaks willing sacrl- I great cause to which we have devoted See on the altar of country. I all that we are and all that we have, This magnificent response warrants I and we are responding with billions the confident prediction that in a much I of money to put millions of men in shorter period than the twenty-nve I the field. business days which the Government This is the reaction of the Ameri- has allotted, probably In less time I can people to the boasted victories of than the seven days which the Oregon I autocracy In Itussla and to the en committee has set for the completion I forced submission of Roumania. Pres et Its task, the state's quota will have I Ident and people unite in sending been secured. Hut that Is no cause I words of cheer to our soldiers in for relaxation of effort- The drive I France, whom we expect soon to see should go on at full speed not only I at grips with the enemy; also to until the mark has been reached, but I our unconquerable allies, who have fense unless another person can b shown to be the criminal. No human being can show that he did not com mit a crime, which is why the laws of evidence require that the testimony should prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he did commit it before a convic tlon is found. GEORGE A, THACHER. Mr. Thacher seems to be using our far beyond it- The seven banner coun ties and the many towns which ex ceeded their quota on the first day have set a new mark for the state as a whole to strive for. Oregon can do it, and Oregon should do It, thus prov ing that distance from the battlefield stemmed the Hun tide in its westward surge. To France. Britain. Italy and all other nations in arms America exclaims: "Stand fast. We are put ting our might behind you, and will quickly put it beside you. The Nemesis which pursues the incidental to his ambition to serve his I late how many others have been drawn country as a soldier. I Into the war by the same event, and A sharp contrast between La I how much money it has caused to be Flamme au Poing" and "La Feu" lies I subscribed to liberty loans. If the in the avoidance by Malherbe of den- totals could be made up. It would nite, harrowing descriptions of the .probably be found that by sinking the horrors of war. These he does not I ship Germany has raised up many attempt to deny, or to minimize, but times as many enemies as were killed he makes them appear to be minor I on that occasion. There is even room Impressions upon the mind of the man for doubt whether the United States own argument. In the Chehalis case, if preoccupied with his patriotism. It is I would have become involved in the Mr. Main had been a man of bad reuii- true that he mentions them by way war if Germany had refrained from tation. and if his friends and relatives of artistic contrast but he does not I Damarity at sea. fostenty may ce-had been untrustworthy, and if a motive dwell upon them. Instead, he con- cide that submarine war was a mili- I nad been proved, he would have been tary Diunaer second oniy to tne in- asion of Belgium, for without those two crimes the central empires might have had to fight only France and Russia, and that the- very acts upon which Germany reived for success proved the instruments of failure. cerns himself with the states of men tality which the shocks of battle pro duce. These are quite illuminating in themselves. Ho speaks of the hallu cinations of the combatants of which he has had his share. The book is remarkable also from the circum stance that It was written, rewritten and put into final form for the printer entirely at the front. Lieutenant Malherbe was at Ver unfortunate In having only an alibi to rely upon, and he would probably have been convicted. But such was not the case. This discussion began with the Mooney case, where it was sought to sweep away with an alibi possible of manufacture, a bad reputation and di rect testimony sufficient an tha eyes of the.Supreme Court to convict. The only intensifies our devotion to the I Hohenxollerns and Hapsburgs is that cause la which the country has en-1 every success which they gain in the listed. This This Lora C. Little, under arrest in North Dakota for opposing vaccination in the Army, is a case of a woman's dun. This was. perhaps, the most I energy anci activity going in tne wrong i --,oiauii1 .... t..cu ....,0 ,t ;iwr terrible sustained experience ever un- direction, for weeKs a year or two i "ois am ntn so ricrenne bv anv armv in anv war He aB ne niiea a department or mat uiutu men- vouue as evidence says that after the battle has raged in the paper at Lents, and. fail- a rnrtnln leneth of time the soldiers ""S to enect reiurai as sue aw it. east calls forth new opposing forces I k ,.-o 'n0,-,ihroi I sought a wider field. - She found it in is the effect of the loss of In the west and nerves the western I sibility." The army becomes a big North Dakota, a state that has other hundreds of young Americans on the I peoples to greater effort- The deadly I family' of "halluclnes." The men iuacavniis, si tua .irauuy icnfuicuuiis I acid ot meir guile destroys opposing .Mj r,rr,nlltv to nil casualty lists which have come from I armies in the east and clears the way France, of the news that all Eastern I for ruthless force, but the spirit of r.urope Is under the heel or the Hun. I freedom which is Imbred among the Far from causing us to cringe before I western nations is proof against that the barbarian that Uvea may be saved I acid. Love of liberty is a primal in- and that disaster may be averted, the I stinct with them, and as the peril death of our sons causes new armies I grows greater this instinct moves them to spring up arfd carry on the battle. I to exert "force, force to the utmost. and the downfall of nations hardens I force without stint or limit, the right our wtll that neither this nor any I eous and triumphant force which shall other of the battling nations shall go I make right the law of the world, and under. It portends utter defeat for I cast every selfish dominion down in the Hun. even while his legions are I the dust.' battling their way yard by yard across Those are brave, noble words, in France. which the President expresses the The spirit of Oregon Is speaking this fighting spirit of America. By putting week. It will be heard in a volume them into action we shall conquer the of sound which Is the voice of Amer- I forces of evil against which we con- Ira. That sound will be heard across I tend. the Atlantic, and will hearten the sol diers of democracy, but will make the leagued Kaisers quail bugs" than get into the grain. BOOMf.st.tNG. The plight of farmers of North Pakota have got Into as a result of their peculiar Socialistic state of mind Is related by the Corvallis Gazette. TtmesL and has been previously re- I field, and fires a burst of twenty shots corded in the Government s Official I Id two and a half seconds. It cools Bulletin In the form of otlicial corre- I so quickly that it can fire 350 shots O'CI.E SA.M-S NEW WEAPONS. If all that is said In favor of the Browning automatic rifle be tru and it has been supported by tests at the target the new weapon will be a machine gun in the hands of every soldier. It weighs only fifteen pounds. or half as much again as a Sprlng- pondrnre. The Non-partisan lawmakers, it ap pears, desiring to show their lnd pendence of capital and "Htg His. without a atop. The refleman carries six magazines of twenty cartridges each, the weight of a magazine being one pound seven ounces, and two made provision for lending state money I bearers carry twenty and twelve maga- on farm mortgages for the purchase I xines. respectively, making a total of of seed and feed. The novelty of the I 760 shots for each rifle. If the rifle. law is the provision that such mort- I man fired his whole supply in bursts gages shall have priority of lien over I without interruption, which, of course. mortgages previously recorded, I is Impossible, it would last one hour It was probably a nice thing for the I and thirty-five minutes, farmer who had already mortgaged! Tha force of men holding a trench. his property. The mortgagee could If every post were held by a man with swallow his objection. B.it the one of these rifles, should be able to farmer who desires to borrow new spray No Mans' Land with bullets so money to build a barn, or purchase I effectively as to annihilate any ad livestock or provide other inrprove- I vanclng wave of Germans. If half of menta has found It a bar. Investors I them had been put out of action by are loath to lend money on North I the preliminary artillery fire, the sur- Ihikota farms, knowing that the farm-1 vivors should still be able to cover era can go to the state for more money every yard by moving the rifle to left and thereby convert the original first and right as a man moves a garden mortgages into second mortgages. hose. But the worst blow was when the The Browning machine gun. which Federal Land Bank shut down on weighs only !2H pounds without the rural credits pending receipt of an waterjacket and is fired from a tripod, opinion from the Attorney General. Is far more deadly, for it fires 10,000 This means much to the state, for on shots In forty-eight minutes from cot March 1 North Dakota had applica- ton belts earning 250 to 1000 cart tions pending for Federal loans aggre- ridges. rating tl.0Sl.500; further loans to the The difficulty which has been ex sum of ITSS.SDO had been otherwise perlenced with some new types of approved. The February business of gains, both machine guns and light loans closed was in further addition, cannon, is to keep them supplied with 11. 13:. 700. Whether the latter money ammunition in an advance across a I. as been paid over has not been dls- shell-torn field where wheeled vehicles cloned by Government reports.. cannot travel. The tendency is for But farmers, tinkers, organizations them to devour it faster than they and the Governor have been telegraph- can be fed, especially as the soldier Ing Secretary McAdoo. who ts head Is tempted to use their rapid-fire ca of the Farm Loan Board, for relief, pacity to the utmost. They may make Sir. McAdoo hassent a long telegram a trench Impregnable against infantry expressing sympathy with the plight attack until it has been destroyed by of the farmers and assuring them that artillery, but a force advancing far anything that caa be done legally will into the enemy's territory may become sorts of objects, to the mutilated, dis consolate, drooping trees, to the roads that mount and disappear on the hill crests, to the mangled earth, to the smoking weapons, to the cannon that roar and repeat perpetually the same movement, like black, whirling der vishes." The quiet citizen has often won dered what his boys at the front were thinking about. Trying to put oneself in the place of another who has been called to face a special ordeal is com mon enough. It Is difficult to imagine a great inferno when .ono has never experienced even a little one, but Mal herbe's book is a powerful stimulus to the imagination. After fifty-five days of Verdun, the Lieutenant, in the : intervals between crashing shells and ' other diversions. Is able to set down this description of events which are coming to pass: . . . Those of us who have survived hava harsrard. burned and polKnant visaces. Katlpua Xevara and parches them. Irreducible lleremen or a traffic caus or which we reel obscurely tho uraeticy and the arandeur. Strauss landscapes, gasnea and D,oald. Our hollow haa a certala stale, conceutrated. artificial and abstract character. It re sembles a laboratory, peopled with relent less and resistless savants and cumbered tth alomblcs and pulverizing; apparattii Fharmacautlea! odors Impregnate tha ampu tated treea and trail over tha blackened and pockmarked soil. All the afternoon tha enemy lambastes us with. Iticrymogenous thells that Durst witn tna rattle or dang Ing tinware, deploy scarfs of mephitlc va por and disseminate Insinuating and pungent odors or mustara incensa anu aanuaiwooo. Other days pass after this fifty- fifth. It Is not strange that the par ticipants, brave as they are and con tinuing to serve their guns, should begin to "see things." Malherbe, as level-headed, one can well believe, as most men, has his hallucinations. Three strange personages pay him a visit. "They appear very tall and majestic, yet my low, cramped hut holds them." He feels their presence quite as much as he can distinguish it. He cannot describe them, "dia phanous but authentic, chimerical but apparent, shadowy but breathing. Since the war began he has encoun tered so nis-v strange characters that this meeting is no surprise. He ac cepts It quite as a matter of course. and goes on: la It my languor that evokes these entitles with tha fire and color of life and of some- hing other and stronger than Hie? V have been so long on tha frontiers of humanity that wo may cross over from one moment to nother. Beyond tha border everything Is stripped of superfluities. Is reducad to Its lowest terms. Ideas diminished and dis persed still ratals a raw and blinding light ha altulgenca oc a crystal aiiama witn tne sotting sun.f In this collapse of animate mattac to .srblch ail our reitow creatures seem doomed, wa naturally attributa less ltal force to tho organism that Is so quickly shattered than to tha thought that abldea There ensues an all-night colloquy. The apparitions were Memory, Love and Death. "And." says' Malherbe, since we fear nothing any more and nothing can astonish us any more, I talked to them as to new comrades in battle." There are three interrup- Indiana certainly has its share of op timists. The state went dry only a week aco. and It is already figuring how many more liberty bonds it is going Newspaper Scored That Tried to Hake when well supported as It did the un fortunate predicament of a man who is suspected of a crime because of bad reputation, bad associates, and coinci dent acts, and who, therefore, has no reliance except an alibi. IMPORTER PRAISES STANFIELD ACT to buy with the money it otherwise would have spent for intoxicants. The London Daily News correspond ent in France says that American aviators are "numerous and always brilliant," but candor compels us to admit that not as much can be said for American aircraft over there. The man inspired through melan choly to commit suicide uses gentle means to efface himself, while the man's man, really temporarily insane, is not content unless messing himself realize thousands of dollars more, - Political Capital of Wool Offer. PORTLAND, April 7. (To the EdI tors) Learning that the Government needed wool, and I being in a position to Know the scarcity of woolen goods t tnis time, i read with satisfaction of Robert Stanfield's handing over to the Government of 1,000,000 pounds of wool ana nis promise to urtre others to do likewise with their holdings. Anybody who knows anything about the wool market today knows full well that this act of Mr. Sanfield was both generous and patriotic and with no taint whatever of profiteering. For by holding his wool Mr. Stanfield could over everything. Yet comes an evening newspaper of Portland so low-minded as to turn this patriotic act into a selfish proceeding for political effect something that The local citizen who petitioned to ha. a hla Tnntnnlf, rt n m a lnn.ro tn - ...i . . ,. f . ,. every business man in the state knows something American could not have t h- ryiat if made a better choice. Travis stood for something in the days of the Lone Star Republic. to be false. The paper that printed it knows It to be false, but would rather be false than honest. When a newspaper of this sort will stoop to misrepresent the acts Intended If Germany tries to invoke her peace f r the country's good at this time, it is about as cheap a performance as one could imagine. Mr. Stanfield, In offering 1.000,000 pounds of wool to the Government in this crisis, was not animated by higher rate of Interest nor by commer ciallsm, and every sensible man knows, How about the dead trees in the but the cheap-skate newspapers that orchard? Why leave them an eyesore will go to any lengtn to malign a man in the Spring scenery when a little treaties with the alleged Russian gov ernment, she will be reminded of the well-known principle of law that agreements made under duress are void. suspicion that he has violated the state corrupt practices act, even by having his money spent through that familiar camouflage institution known as "campaign committee. I am as staunch a Republican . as The Oregonian, but I pick my candidate on his personal merits and am not In. fluenced by my dislike of some of bis friends. I was for Lenroot for Senator from Wisconsin both before and after the primaries. The man who is elected to the United States Senate from Oregon should rep resent all classes, and Senator McNary Is doing that ably and conscientiously right now. G. T. SAUNDERS. The article which has given so much annoyance. to the gentleman at Eugene was a discussion of the probable en trance of Oswald West .Into the Demo cratic primary as a candidate for Sen ator against Will R. King, with inci dental reference to its effect upon the Republican nominee. Only to the perspicacious eye of the correspondent, a friend of one of the candidates, was there evidence of The Oregonian's Intent to oppose Senator McNary. There are others who think that the large space given by The Ore gonlan to the activities, official and publicity, of Senator .acNary at Wash ington discloses a purpose to favor him in the primary. To all of them It may be well to say that it Is not the practice of The Oregonian to attain, or seek to attain its ends, political or journalistic, or otherwise, by any kind of indirec tion. They are needlessly ,woirled. Meanwhile it is well to say that It would have been more pertinent and Interesting for the Eugene writer to indicate wherein there was any error of fact in the article in which he saw much that wasn't there. We wonder if anyone thinks The Oregonian ought to seek to please any candidate, or the partisans of any candidate, by refusing to print current political news and gos sip? giant and a few minutes' work will remove them? for political effect who doesn't dance I to their political tune. LARRY SHANAHAN, The boys whose inquiring minds led to blowing up the tank of an automo bile at Freewater were big enough to know better if able to run a car. A deficiency is an insidious affair. and that may account for the rainfall of this season being two inches behind normal before it is noticed. "Bullets talk!" says a local seeds man, which is a fact; and potatoes, onions "and sich" are great shrapnel. The enemy infantry continues its mass attacks, showing how cheap the enemy holds German lives. First Sunday after Easter, and the rainfall was just enough to spot the trimmings of the bonnet. This is not a war of hate for us. nor of vengeance, but the line is get-v ting faint. The Chinaman, by racial instinct a fatalist, must make the best aviator. It's lust a question 'of which town goes over by the biggest percentage. - Do not say "if the Kaiser shall win, when you know ha will not win, Hard on Satan. McMINNVILLE, Or., April 6. (To the Editor.) Anent your question in a re cent editorial, "Do we sblaspheme when we say that the Kaiser regards Divin ity as his junior partner" I submit the enclosed answer: Not long age one of the students in one of my classes in public speaking connected the Kaiser closely with the devil, and was criticised by "smother student for doing so. The criticism was couched in these words: "Don't you think, professor, that it is . pretty hard on the Kaiser to connect his name with that of the devil?" I replied emphatically: "No; I think the reflection is on the devil; you ought not to be so severe with him." GEORGE R. VARNEY. TIME FOR POLITICIANS TO RETIRE Ther Should Get Behind President Instead of in Front of Him. ST. JOHNS, Or., April 6. (To the Editor.) I wish to acknowledge my appreciation of Mr. Gerard's good work. It is an eye-opener for all those who understand and believe in what de mocracy means. It also shows quite clearly what democracy is up against. The- war will determine whether humanity still needs the banerul direc tion of kings. Takine the war. all in all, the allied forces have done very well considering the handicaps they have had through politicians. Mr. Gerard does not tell us what factor Influenced the Kaiser most to start the war in 1914. I am inclined to believe that it was the legions of politicians in England and the United States. What better military data could he desire than that these two countries had more politicians than Germany had soldiers and about as many soldiers as Germany had pollti- ians? Such data would justiry any Caesar In seeking world dominion. He could lick half the world before the politicians ceased talking. There is no doubt that politicians are serious handicap to the democratic cause. It was politicians wno released the etId of the British navy and re duced England to her present critical condition. Nearly all of the allied blunders can be charged to politicians. While the British army was waiting for this inferno to commence the politicians kept on talking and nothing ut the magnitude or tne crisis seemed able to choke them off. Since tne bat tie of the Marne, England has sorely needed an Oliver Cromwell to take pos session of Parliament, throw out all the members, lock the door and put the key in his pocket till the war was over. It is to be hoped that we shall escape many of the blunders of the allies. And to do this it is essential that our poli ticians get behind th President instead of in front of him. They should give the President all the powers necessary to prosecute the war to a successful finish and then get solidly behind him to the end. Just as General Pershing has set an example to the allied ajtnies by getting behind General Foch, so all politicians should get behind President Wilson. When they do this the war on Germany will really begin. JAMES G. CLARKSON. the love of something or othr, and not because of hatred of the enemy. Now, this is all very well when viewing war at a great distance, but I Imagine that if the correspondent could have a taste of war as the French and Belgian wom en have experienced It she would not feel quite so lenient toward the enemy. For my part, I hate the Kaiser and all the rest of the Hohenzollern spawn with a hatred that defies all powers of expression; and I am happy to be able, to state that all with whom I have come in contact feel the same Intense hatred toward - that unspeakable oli garchy.. As to Germans as a class, whether I hate them or love them depends alto gether on what kind of Germans they are. The genuine American German one who Is essentially American, though born on German soil is plenty good enough for me; while on the other hand, for the German-American who, whether having sworn allegiance to this Government or not. Is Btill at heart essentially German, I have no use whatever. If I had my way, one of that Ilk caught in a treasonable act toward this country would have cause to regret It the. longest day of his life. I have a good many acquaintances of German extraction whose friendship I value very highly, but they are not of the kind'who are giving aid and com fort to the Kaiser. Another point 'which your corre spondent brings out quite prominently Is that we are fighting for the love of democracy and all that it stands for. This is a very lofty sentiment, and one to be highly commended; but harping on one string becomes monotonous after a while, and when that occurs it s time to take up something different. To many this means nothing very defi nite, but when the fact is pressed home to everybody that we are fighting for our mothers and sisters, wives and sweethearts, to protect them from the fate of -thousands of French and Bel gian women,- the necessity for winning the war is pressed home to all. That spirit of optimism which your correspondent commends so highly might easily lead to our undoing. We are too cock-sure of ourselves. Some, on whom the country Is dependent for those products of labor without which our every ettort toward maintaining our status as an, independent power is futile, lay down their tools and cease work at any little provocation, regard less of the fact that they are playing directly into the hands of the Kaiser. Besides, if nothing'else were at stake, there are too many precious American lives at stake for those at home to fail to put forth every effort to crush the Hohenzollerns In the shortest possible length of time. F. M. SEBRING. Land Grant Pamphlets Delayed. ROSEBURG, Or., April 6. (To the Editor.) Please publish, as an item of news the fact that the pamphlets describing the Oregon & California Railroad grant lands, to be opened to entry in Jackson and Josephine coun ties, will not be ready for distribution until about April 12 on account of de lays in printing same. As soon as the ramphlets are re ceived at this office they will be mailed to all requesting same, a list of such requests being kept aa they are filed. W. H. CANON, Register, U. -S. Land Office, Town Elections Under New Law. FOREST GROVE, Or, April 6. (To the Editor.) At municipal elections held in smaller cities and towns In Ore gon, the recognized political parties have not as a rule put up candidates for election to municipal offices. In the small cities, where party lines are not drawn, how will the candidates get on the official ticket for the primary election in May? CONSTANT READER. The charters and ordinances of towns relating to elections are not affected except as to time of holding them. Elections may be conducted Just as they have been in the past- If the local law provides for a non-partisan election or it Is desired to follow a non partisan custom, such town will ignore the primary and proceed in the usual! way in tne general election. How One Home Is Ruled. Boston Transcript. Heck I suppose you always let your wife have the last word? Peck Yes, and I m tickled- to death when she gets to it. Women In France. WENATCHEE, Wash., April 5. (To the Editor.) Could you give me any information as to how I mignt gel to France and to what headquarters 1 might write for particulars? I can drive a car, in fact I have one or my own, and have motored all over Cali fornia this Winter. I have passed the civil service exam ination and received my appointment at Washington, D. C, e I would llKe to use my education in such a way as to enable me to reach tne "Otner side. Any information will be greatly appre ciated. SUZANNE BROWN. There is only a limited opportunity in France for women and that for pro fessionals or specialists. The Oregon ian Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director," Washington, D. C, makes a specialty of giving definite In formation to women seeking patriotic work. Write to the bureau fully as to your qualifications. Inclosing stamp for reply. OREGON. We sing of thee, fair Oregon, Where mighty forests grow; Where stately mountains tower- And peaceful rivers flow; Where Winter touches lightly The hills with coat of snow, And Summer gives rare roses No other clime could know. Oh, proud Willamette River, On, stately fir and pine, Oh, Oregon, fair Oregon, - Your Oregon and mine. Mt. Hood stands like a sentinel, Majestic, brave and true, So rugged ia its. grandeur Outlined against the blue. St. Helens like an angel When haze veils off the view; Then closer seems to hover As sunlight filters through. Oh, proud Willamette River, Oh, stately fir and pine. Oh, Oregon, fair Oregon, Your Oregon and mine. MRS. DWIGHT EDWARDS. FREE SERVICE AND INFOR SIATION. The Oregonian has established a bureau of Information and serv ice at Washington City fo- the benefit of Its readers. No charge la made for a reply to any ques tion relating to Governmental af faira'or for procuring any avail able Government publication. 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