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J c-m. 3a tv 49 pja-a. a coot: ! f pasa. cvnta; J to i paaaa. 3 ffnt: ft lo ,J paca. a casta a'araisa po-. douM rat lCTn Haalaw-a tltTV Varrae a Can to ll a. rrunari a butlriina. Now 1'ork: Yarro 4a Coak.in. Mac-r auiMlns. rhli-afo; Var-r- I'nnalln. 'rr IT a building. Lftrolt. an! : pan Fran-ica rapraMauuva, H. J. lluw:i. 142 aiarkn etraau the National anthem, bat In that event a future. Congress could change the taw. At tbla time, when there are manr disloyal people In the country, the law should require all public as semblages to rise on hearing' the air or tke aonir. and that men uncover their head on hearing-It on the street. That would be one means of Identifying- the disloyal and of Inflicting: pen alties on them. cled through the threat to comman-land probably millions of dollars were deer either roods or entire factories, consumed in making- tools, gauges. MKMREat Or TRI AaSOCIATKO rttESS. Tha Ao-fatt Pro t aoiulrfy an -(itixti to ih u for rapub.ication of all aaa d.aaatoaaa cr. lited to ll r nut athar ! crlital l ifcia par. aad alao lb local tni publbad. hria. A-l runta r-puhliration of special dla pafrha haretu ar a.ao rard. rORTUMo SATCKOAV. ATEIL IS. 11. VOVT ro A 1 A RTT CONTEST. The entrance of Oswald West Into the Democratic primary as a candi date for Senator Is a sign of the times. jNi'on-partisnnsblp Is no lonaer fash ionable. The day has arrived when a man may be a Iemocrat end not be ashamed of It or afraid of the po litical or personal consequences. The UeniocratiC party Is to be congratulated- So Is the state of Oreson. The Ions; masquerade Is over. Men re willing- to be what they want to be. politically, and not to pretend to be something: rlae. The other night the Jackson Club went on nword for parttsanshl outrlfht. profrsaed. unquestionable. It did not hesitate to express Its scorn for any scheme of non-partisanship, real or bocus. It may or may not have had In mind the fact that th IV moors. tie party In Oreron had suT fered through the readiness of un worthy leaders to traffic and bargai for their personal ends with the He publican party, or a faction thereo It may or may not have had I mind that Presdlent Wilson had never hesitated to proclaim him self a Ixmocrat. to practice par tisanship, and to assume the Job o "leader." with resultant benefit to th party as a whole. Or It may merely have had a revelation all Its own of political duty. We do not know. Furtce It to say that the Jackson Club had somehow seen the light. A distinguished visitor to Portland the other day was the chairman o the Republ.ran National Committee, Mr. Hays. He came avowedly on political errand, but he mide patriotic speeches. The two things are wholly consistent. Support of the war. pub licly proclaimed, by the offlcial head of the Kepubll'-an party was a proper anl worthy sertlce to his country Mr. Hays struck the keynote cf po li'lcal action bv the citizen when he said that the I'ntted Plates Is a Na tion governed by and throuch politl ral parties; and that there ts not too much politics, but not enough atten tion to politics. The man who com plains that the rountry. or state, or rlty Is Illy governed, but says he Is not Interested In politics, or In party. Is chiefly to blame. Yrt there are many such, every one of whom Is all the time "riding on another ticket. It Is bo mis citizenship. Th non-partisan l th self-right eous citizen who ba-lleves politics Is corrupt, that parties are necessarily used and controlled by "bosses." and that higher and better results may be achieved by Independent action. Is that so? It Is true, too true, that poli tics Is often low and sordid, that poli ticians are often venal and that parties are frequently wrong and deserve re buke and defeat. A yellow-dog parti sanship Is a mistake. It Is equally mistake for a citizen to support party when ha differs with It In principle, or when he knows, or even fairly sus pects, that Its leaders are mercenary. or It candidates unfit. Put what If every citlz.-n of the United States were to Insist upon the uniform and persistent practice of non-partisan- ship? What then? Knormous con fusion in public affairs and resultant demoralization of Government and its administration. No man may go his own way po litically and achieve success for him self or his followers. Anrou Burr tried It and failed; Millard Fillmore tried It anil failed; Theodore Koose relt tried It and failed. It cannot be done: or it may be more nearly accu rate to say that It has not been done. There are two great currents of political thought In America, and they are represented by two political par ties. It has been so from the btgtn pinr. There are citizens who will Identify themselves with neither or who will not s'.iy lone with either. They are led away by their belief In their own Infallible Judgment and Impeccable virtue. They cannot aarree with the great body of their fellow men as to the prime Issue of the day or th prim duty of the hour. They form a little party of their own. It re mains a little party. It must be said that both the Re publican party and the IVmocratlc party of Oregon have wandered far from the tyis-inal and fundamental principle of party organization in the I'nited States. There are a Repub lican rarty here and a Democratic party, because there are National parties; but in Orearon neither Is In any true sense a unit of the National organization. There is no recognized or authorized system of declaring- the party faith, or formulating and defin ing the partv policies. No one may speak for either the Democratic or Kepublican rarty in Oregon. There Is no way for it to speak for ttclf. It lias form and. rrhaps, substance, bull no voice. It Is an anomaly which ttme and further experience will correct. THE AH FBI TAX'S CIIED. There Is not much originality in the American's Creed." for which a prize of $1000 was awarded recently In a contest Instituted by the city of Balti more, with the primary idea of laying emphasis upon the duties and obliga tions of citizenship, but.lt is a time. no doubt, when we serve every need ful end by reaffirming the Ideals of the patriots who founded our republic and labored to make it great. This is the creed for which the prize was given: I bailor In tha Tntt4 States of America aa a sovvrament af tb peopl. hr th poo pi, for tbS poopl. who Jtutt powan ara d-rivd iron tn conarnt or Lb governed: a democracy In a republic a sovereign na tion ar many eoveroiaa atate. a perfect anion, on and lna-parhle. establlahed upon Ino) prtnrlplra of fratrtrtm, equality, Jua ttr and humanity for which American patri ot earru-lred thlr Uvea and fortunea 1 thrfor buve it la my duty to my roanlnr to lav It. to support Ita constitu tion, to obey Ita laara, to respect Ita flag aad to dfad It acalnst a tntmlaa The "perfect union" I as desirable now a when the preamble to the Constitution of the United States was written; "consent of the governed." not only here but elsewhere, as vital aa it was to th framera of th Decla ration of -Independence; and a gov ernment "of the people, by the people, for tha people" as potent an Inspira tion as on th day of the Gettysburg; address. The new creed Is a mosaic, but so Is tha American Ideal. The Declaration, the Constitution, the fare well address of Washington, the words of Lincoln, the "Man Without a Coun try," "The Star-Span gled Banner." the (Treat seal and the War Department's flag- etiquette regulations have cov ered the ground so thoroughly that It would be difficult to add to them. Nor Is It necessary to add to them, we think. It will be sufficient If we live up to them. which is within the lepal power of the Government, and throush tho power to refuse fuel and cars. The same prices must be made to the Govern ment, the allies and the public The policy is to allow a generous proSt, bi t to stabilize prices. As higher prices cannot increase the supply, there Is no Inducement to grant them. Power Is also exercised to suspend the less essential industries, not by throwing capital and labor Into idle ness but by diverting labor, material and even plants to war industries or those which are deemed essential to National life. Ettablithment of new industries is also regulated, and they are diverted from the already con gested East to the Middle West, i'ar West and South. Execution of these plans has already gone so far that the effect of passing the Overman bill will be simply to legalize an accomplished fact, by which Mr. Baruch, with the co-opera tion of Mr. McAdoo and Dr. Garfield, has become the Czar of American in dustries for the period of the war. THE SrBMARINE OFKKXSIV1S. News from Washington that offlcial opinion attributes the falling off of submarine attacks in the past two weeks to German preparations for a drive on American transports would be more disquieting than it is if we did not know that In this 'instance forewarned means forearmed in even greater degree than usual. For ob vious reasons, Washington Is not tell Ing what measures It has adopted to combat the submarine, but undoubt edly the Government Is not idle, and there Is no thought of discontinuing the sending of troops, now said to be crossing the Atlantic In numbers three times greater than a short time ago. There have been hints from abroad about an American device which had helped materially to rid the sea of U-boats, but extreme secrecy has been enforced in official circles. Mean while the British depth bomb has given reasonable assurance of effec tiveness, and it Is not a secret that it is employed by aircraft. This, It would seem, would make It a truly terrible weapon. It has also been permitted to become known that the Bureau of r.KitMAM PKEs nnvn nrr. I ieam r.ngineenng, unaer i.car-Aa- Th Friends of German Democracy, mi1 1Grlffi"' fch" put ln.t0 0Peratton a society established for th avowed purpose of promoting the establish ment of a government responsible to the German people after the Hohen zollerns have been overthrown, has made a survey of the German-lan guage newspaper of the United States, and has found that they are becoming crr In number. Readers and ad vertisers are patronizing them lees and less. The statement seems signifi cant that within a fortnight more than a dozen liav suspended publi cation and that others are "just struggling along, leading a, precarious existence, Th heyday of th foreign-language newspaper came In the time of great est Immigration, and the German newspaper flourished most in the years after the exodus from the fatherland following the revolutionary movement of ISM. They were not then the product of the special propa ganda which has since sought to Im pose "kultur" upon th world. They were read by the first generation of Germans, who found It easier to read printed matter In their own language, nnd who were Interested in news from the localities which they had left to come to America. A survey made several years ago showed that these were diminishing In number from natural causes. Karly German Imnil grants were) seekers for liberty. The second generation, largely assimilated failed to continue Its patronage and the hyphenated newspaper died out. There have been indications th the German press In America In more recent times has rested upon a dif ferent foundation. As has been not ably true In Ilrazll and In other coun tries. Its mission has been openly to exert a counter Influence against assimilation of the Immigrant and his children with the country of their adoption. This type Is symbolized, in he opinion of the Friends of German Democracy, by a German-language newspaper In Indiana which recently announced that Germans "should read It because it Is fighting undismayed for Germanism and its sacred rights." These "sacred rights" are obviously In opposition to the Interests of the American people, because the same newspaper opposed defeat of the Ger man military autocracy an Issue that in the United States has now reached a stag beyond that of debate. CZAR Or AMERICAN ISprSTRT. By appointing Bernard M. Baruch chairman of the War Industries Board President Wilson has already exer- ised the authority which would be given to him by the Overman bill. At he same time he has created under another title the Director of Munitions proposed by one of the Chamberlain Ills. He had already made changes l the War Department which have much the same effect as would have been produced by establishing a WW Cabinet, as proposed by the other Chamberlain bill. By calling into conference with him at frequent in tervals the men In charge of railroads, food, fuel, war industries, the War nd Navy Departments, he has gone still farther In that direction. He has gone ahead to reorganize the Govern ment for war without awaiting action by Congress. He has thereby Justi fied all the criticisms which have been made on war activities. Most tremendous power ara vested In Mr. Baruch and taken away from he War and Navy Departments with out legal authority, but they will be. n fact are being, exercised most effec- ally through co-operation with the Director of Railroads and the Fuel Administrator?" Any person who re fuses to submit will get no fuel and no cars, without which he might as well shut up shop. Mr. Baruch will exercise all the purchasing powers of he fighting departments and of the railroads, for. though those powers re still legally vested In the officials ho have hitherto exercised them, all j contracts will be arranged by him as regards quantity and price, and will be satisfactory results against submarines under actual war conditions," but is now in use by destroyers and other craft in the war zone, so far as its limited production has made possible. No claim Is made that It will work miracles, but It Is said that It will Increase offensive power against sub marines by several hundred per cent. Meanwhile the number of snwll American warcraft has Increased by leaps and bounds since, the first Amer ican destroyers appeared in British waters on May 4 last, nearly a year ago. The destroyer programme is said to have taken precedence in the Gov ernmeut shipyards, and there is little reason to doubt that our original strength has been greatly augmented The German boast that tram-port service between the United States and Europe would be cut off has not been made good. There Is less reason now than ever to believe that It will be. Any U-boat raid that Germany may be planning Is morally certain to be a highly expensive, If not a wholly futile, enterprise. After a while It will be seen that party respective department ught not to be the mere personal . nr?aj &9 . matter of course. He will asset of the candidate. On petition of tha American Loyalty League, composed of about 40.000 school chiliiren. Representative Dyer, of Missouri, has introduced a bill tn Congress declaring that "The Star Spangled Banner" 1 the National an them and reciting th words of the song. It Is well that any question as to which song Is th National anthem shonld be ended and that th render ing of th song should be accompanied by th proper demonstrations of loy alty, but to make the Job complete the music alao should be Included. It may be, though at present we cannot fore see that at some future time some other socg will com into favor aa also direct their execution. , Each de partment will have a representative on a committee on requirements, which will make requisitions on the War Industries Board, and the latter body will decide claim -to priority, will apportion contracts among pro ducers and will fix prices. Power to grant cr refuse priority in supply of fuel and cars Is In practice power to permit factory to run. to expand or to close. A committee of th board fixes prices, from which ther is no appeal except to th President. Nona of Its members has any connection with sale of the commodities to b purchased. Congress has granted no authority to fix prices, but tbat authority la sxax- PELATTD AIRCRAFT PROnCCTION. Revelations made In the New York World by Frederick Uphnm Adams about the failure of the Government to carry out its -aircraft programme show that President Wilson should have effected long ago the reorganiza tion of-nlrcraft production upon which he Is now engaged. As the World is the staunchest supporter of the Ad ministration, the criticism to which it has given publicity cannot be as cribed to any desire to discredit the Government from partisan motives. Its only motive can be a patriotic de sire that the Government attain the highest production and efficiency of an Important means to victory, which this country Is In a position to supply In great quantities. Failure to live up to expectations has been due to departure from the programme originally adopted and to over-refinement of manufacture in search of Ideal perfection which has caused great waste of labor, material nd money, and, above all, of time. At the outset the Government recog nized that the ability of this country lay In standardized production on a large scale. Having before them all the models which are the result of other fighting nations experience, the Aircraft I'roduction Board and the Signal Corps made this announcement on June SO: Four or flva months will find us nulldlns nuantity motors at-rvlceabl for battle ma chines. . . We hav no ambition of attempting the manufacture of the htfrhly specialized llsht fighters which the allir-9 ara turning out. Wa can province In VHjt quantltlea thn training plHnoa and the heavier and less aperdy haul typo, which ara Just aa e.-ucntitl e.nd wtili-h will leave the Brltit-h atid tho French free to devote more attention to th faster type. In announcing the completion and successful test of the Liberty motor. Secretary Baker reaffirmed this policy on September 12. Raying: French and British machines, as a rule, are not adapted to American manufactur ing method. They are highly specialized machtnea. requiring much hand labor irom mechanic who are In fact artlaana It would require a year or mar to teach Amer ican manufarturera to turn out such highly apecialtsed machines. Thorough investigation of the ac tivities of the Signal Corps In the plant of one manufacturer has con vinced Mr. Adams "that six months of Invaluable time has been squan dered and tens of millions of dollars thrown away because of an attempt to change the original simple, prac tical and easily constructable Liberty motor into one containing more re finements than any of the foreign types, which were properly rejected as models because of such undeslred- and absolutely unnecessary refinements." This has been done in face of "over whelming evidence from a number of witnesses of the splendid perform-1 ances" of the Liberty motor last Sum mer that there then existed no real and vital reason why work should not have been prosecuted with vigor In carrying out the announced pro gramme of building these Liberty motors by th tens of thousands." At the same time experts could have suggested Improvements and refine ments worked out and tested in some plant not Involved In making the first 20.000 planes. The story of the manner In which those six months were wasted is posi tively exasperating to a people who are watching daily in agonized sus pense the struggle now going on in France and who think what a differ ent story there might have been to tell. If the American Army had been there In force with full equipment of aircraft, machine guns and artillery. "Almost from the start," says Mr. Adams, "changes In the drawings and specification began." Weeks of time dies, jigs, stamps and parts of the ma chines. Then order came to scrap all these things because of some change In design, and the entire work of preparation to produce had to be done again. Quantities of special material were bought only to meet the name fate for the same reason, after they had been tested, analyzed and approved by Government Inspectors. Structural changes "are far in excess of 600," and "a competent authority" estimates them at over 2000. A minimum ac curacy on some parts of the motor of one-thousandth of an Inch and of a fraction of a degree has been fixed. Four months after work was started specifications were Issued requiring the use of forty-two different grades and classes of steel, of which chemical analysis was given, each of which has Its own problems of manufacture and some of which were unknown, so that manufacturers "have been -forced Into the unknown paths of steel chem istry." Weeks and months have thus been spent "on expensive and often fruitless experiments with unfamiliar steel composition." A pledge was given that "the plans and specifica tions of December 1, 1917. could be considered as final," only to be broken by the making of 700 more changes. While all this was going on the public was kept in the dark by what the investigating committee of the Aeronautical Society calls a "very vig orous censorship" which "has been o no military value whatever." It was also lulled Into false confidence by statements from officers of the Gov ernment which the same committee condemns as "untrustworthy and as misrepresenting the situation in a mis leading and over-optimistic manner. These statements can be excused only by the explanation that the men who made ahem did not know what was being done and assumed that the original programme was being fol lowed with the expected results, though It was their duty to know. The announcement Is welcome that all this time-wasting search for ideal perfection In utter disregard of the urgency of war is to be ended. All the active functions hitherto per formed by the Aircraft Board and several of the duties of the Signal Corps and the Board of Naval Officers are to be combined in William C. Potter, an engineer who Is said by the World to be "an organizer of un usual ability," and the Aircraft Board is to be merely an advisory body. No more drastic changes are to be made, but the new official will go ahead on existing plans. The only serious criticism to be made of this plan is that it ought to have been adopted a year ago, and that the delay n adopting it will surely cause the death of many men In the American and allied armies and will prolong the war. It seem that the United States must prove by costly experience the inefficiency of each old official and organization before forming effective organization directed by competent men. You Poor Fib, Al. By Ring; W. Lardnter. LV CAMP, Feb. IS. Friend Al: Well, Al. I am sorry to hear about you get ting milked put of that money, but still and all you should ought to be thank ful they didn't get you for .the whole 100 instead of just 50, and I don't see how anybody only a -wit could Invest H of their saveings in a gag like that and if a man really dial in vent a maggot that would draw U ! MOLES YIELD PROFIT TO lOtTH Bay Makes S4S Fram Traps aai Claim State t vtaaaipia-asala. BRUSH PRAIRIE, Wash.. April 11. (To the Editor.) I noticed in The Sun day Oregonlan that Glen Bailey, of Dak- ridge, is the champion mole catcher of Oregon and caught 00 moles in a year. I guess this is true enough, but If 1 lived in Oregon, which is 20 miles south of here, he would lose his championship. I caught 25S moles in six months in 1917. using eight traps part of the time. I could have caught more, but I trapped )ui,t, n tn . ,e . ...- ,n,,l,3 sell it to President Wilson and Frank ' for other animals and caught quite a The former courtiers of the Ro manoffs now have the novel expert ence of a healthy appetite produced by honest work and of gratifying it on four rubles a day. A Bolshevik ruble is worth about 10 cents. By comparison with a Russian nobleman an American shipworker is nothing less than a grand duke. The Germans have changed their tuno about American participation in the war. They no longer pretend that we have no Array and could not send It to France for lack of ships if we had. They use President Wilson's threat of force to the utmost, without stint or limit, as a good campaign cry for their war loan. There Is likely to be a hot demand from Kaiser William to Kaiser Fran cis for explanations of that dispatch to Prince Sixtus de Bourbon which will not improve their relations. Evi dently Francis la willing to give up all that Germany wants out of the war in order to make peace. The fellows In the State Printing Office who want Saturday afternoons off to work in their gardens should get it if they will lend their cars to fel lows who have none. Daniels for a trillion dollars cash money and they wouldn't have to hot foot from house to house like they was trying to pedal a ball-bearing potato peeler or something. But listen Al. If I was yon. I wouldn't go hireing no atty. and try to get your money back because that would be just like throwing good money after bad money as they say because by this time the guy Is probably hideing in Russia somewberes and has growed a beard so as he will look like everybody else and even if you was to go over there and see him you wouldn't know for sure if it was him or Kerensky or this here Don Cossack. But instead of that Al I would just forget it and if you want to keep the U-boat elevator stock or whatever you call it for a souvenir why O. K., but you better do something with that other $50 before somebody else comes along and sells you a season ticket to the postofice. and if I was you, AL I would do what I told you to do last Fall and that is buy one of these lib erty bonds with the $50 and if you had of took my advice you would of sank the whole ,100 In them last Fall and now you wouldn't be crying over bout milk as they say, but you would have a safe Investment that you don't only have to think about It twice per annum and that's when you go to the bank and collect the Int. money and the int. money is money you can spend on something you want and not something you got to have, because it comes like a kind of bonus from the gov't for helping them out when they needed It. Buying a liberty bond, AL is some thing like buying a ticket to the ba-tl game only they's a whole lot of dif ference. When a man buys a ticket to the ball game he is helping to pay the ball players their salary but he don't get no pleasure out of thinking about that but all the pleasure he gets is setting up there and watching the! game and If his team has a bad dav and he is disgusted with them he can go down to the box office and get his money back and if he even asked for It he would be lucky if they didn't bus him in the Jaw. And Qf course If it's a good game and he enjoys it he don want his money back and wouldn't get it u he did. But when you buy a liberty bond, Al you feel good because you know you are helping to keep Uncle Sam's play era irom siarveing to death and you also know they will be up on their toes all the while and doing their best and you know your team is going to win, ana taen alter the game is over no matter how much you enloved watching your team win. Uncle Sam refunds your money besides givelng you int. on It all the time he has got it. Can you beat that, Al? I'll say you can X So don't be a sucker. AL but take mv advice this time and get a hold of one of these bonds before the wise alecks hogs them all and don't throw away that other ISO on a patent electric flee chaser or something. Your pal. JACK. In Other Da7. few minks, skunks and znuskrats. 1 was going to school all the time and had to work on the farm, leaving very little time for trapping. I was 14 years old at the time. I made about $45 on trapping of moles alone. This Winter I have trapped moles with six traps, and have caught 150 al- I ready in about six months, which makes I 40S moles in 12 months, or a year's time. I am going to trap them this Summer and I know I will catch a lot. They go about 45 cents apiece this year. Glen Bailey stretches his moleskins round; I stretch my moleskins square. They stretch much larger this way and I get larger prices also. I caught 13 skunks, six minks, one coyote and sev eral muskrats besides moles. a Moles are wise, but not so wise as minks and coyotes. I have caught as high as 10 moles and over in one run way. One man here caught 17 tn one runway. I have caught two moles a day many times. I use out-o'-sight traps and put sticks on the sides of the jaws when the moles go around the trap. A person can never tell how many moles there are In a field. Some fields are almost full of mounds, with only a few moles, while others are full of moles with few mounds. In trapping moles one should visit his traps quite often. Moles are getting to be a very high-priced fur. The large skins are worth 70 cents apiece. I have received 15 cents for skins much smaller than the palm of a man's hand. Well if Glenn Bailey Is champion molecatcher of Oregon I must be of Washington, or at least arrrimd here, for I believe I have them all beat. I could have caught more If I had not trapped for other animals. VIVIE RISTO. Tweary-Flve Years Ago. From The Oregonlan. April IS. 1S!.1. Kansas City. As the telegraph lines are opened, word comes from all over this district that there was great loss of life in the big cyclone which swept over this part of the country early yes terday. The Presbytery of Portland opened Its sessions in the Third Presbyterian Chnrch, on the East Side, yesterday morning, with a large attendance. Secretary Keenan reports 19 babies at the Baby Home, all doing nicely. Superintendent Ackerman will attend the Arbor day exercises at the Mount Tabor Villa tomorrow and will make an address. The steamer Orient lies at the bot tom of the Willamette River, foot of Stark street, as the result of a col lision with a pier of the Morrison street bridge. nnlf a Century Ago. From The Oreg-onian, April IS. H68. The Fenian Guard will attend the ceremonies attendant upon the break ing of ground on the Kast Side for the Oregon Central Railroad next Thurs day and will be In full uniform. Pearl Lodge. No. 72, of Oswego, will give a concert Thursday evening as a benefit. The coal oil lamp at the corner of Fourth and Alder continues to burn only by day, as the circumlocution com mittee has not yet been able to arrange for a wick. It can be positively staled that V. M. Arnold will not be a candidate for Sheriff. General Smuts' "Tea or no" must have been highly disconcerting to the highborn Austrian, who probably never made a direct answer to a ques tion in his life. STATE LINE SHOULD BE MOVED Correspondent Would Take In Part of Washington River Counties. PORTLAND, April 12. ITo the Edi tor.) The three counties north of us in Washington are having a hard time to get their Just allowance from the State Highway Commission for building good roads. They were also turned down when they asked the state of Washing ton to help build the Interstate bridere. n fact. It is Impossible for them to get anything from the north part of the state that would be of any benefit to Portland. On account of Portland being so close to that part of the state, I contend that the north line of Oregon should be moved north to take in Clarke County, the south half of Skamania and that part of Klickitat and Benton counties lying south of the north line of town hip 6 north. This would extend the line in Eastern Oregon where It crosses the Columbia Biver due west to a point where It In tersects the Columbia River just west of Kalatna. jsow that we have a bridge across the Columbia River, all those people come to Portland to do their business and I believe that nine out of every ten would sign a petition to come Into Oregon, where they would get the benefit of good roads and more atten tion than tbey get now. GEO. C. FLANDERS. The Loyal Legion of North Bend proves that it is well named by voting to work on the Fourth of July and donate Its earnings for that day to the lied Cross. It is time and proper to shut up the dogs and pen the hens. There will be trouble In the neighborhood either way, -but the war garden must be saved. Coos loggers are right. A three-day celebration of the Fourth is too much. After the war we will make it a week and catch up. When the men of the allies get don killing Huns they never in all the rest of their lives will want to kill anything. Civilization runs apace in Alaska. Two men are dead as result of i quarrel over a school election Mon day. All old styles have not departed. A Mexican was hanged at Billings yes terday for murder of a policeman. Mayor Harley, of Astoria, has shaken the cards from his sleeve and put them face up on the table. Grover Cleveland Alexander, like his illustrious namesake, waited to be drafted and Is in the ranks. There will, of course, be showers tonight, for this 1 showers time, but what of it? Portland has gone over twelve mil lions, while Los Angeles is struggling with nine. Fighting a woman is disagreeable work, though eh be advised by an attorney. THE SERVICE STAR, I love the star of the morning bright. The evening star that glows at night And all the stars that give forth light; But the star I love the best of ail Is the star of the lad that answered the call. The stars of the sky are fair and white. Tinged with a twinkling, golden light. Making a glad and beautiful eight; But dearer to me is the bright blue star That points where the men In the serv ice are. The star In my window gleams afar Through a rift In the cloud of a mighty war And shines where the sailors and sol diers are. I love with all my human might The star of the lad that's in the fight. And all the stars declare at night That he who gives the stars their light v ill guide my darling boy aright; That he who gave the world a cross Will save that world from utter loss. EDGAR JL MTJMFORD. Vancouver, Wash. Provision of Draft Treaty. PORTLAND. April 12. (To the Edi tor.) Can you say what the terms of the proposed alien draft agreement be tween .Britain and Canada and this country are? READER. The last report was that the treaty had been withdrawn from the Senate by the State Department for purposes of modification. As originally drawn it would give to persons under the con vention the option to return to their own country for military service within a certain limited period. After the ex piration of this period such persons were to be subject to military service under the laws and regulations of the country in which they chose to remain, provided that for British and Canadians in the United States the ages for mili tary service were to be 20 to 40 years, both inclusive, and In respect to Ameri cans In Gaeat Britain and Canada the ages for military service were to be limited to those of the United State selective service law. As already in dicated the treaty has not been ratified and is subject to alteration before it takes effect- Boost the Liberty Loan. By James Barton Adams. WHY f Why do we strive to cover from view The best that is In our heart? Why do we smother our words of praise Till our dearest ones depart? Why do we chatter of trivial things v hen we have thoughts well worth while? Why do we wear a frown of -care Instead of a cheery smile? In every mind there are lovely thoughts That should grow into vital force. In every heart there Is tenderness that Could change the old world's course; In every Boul there is good somewhere. Whatever the race or class; And It's tragic that we. In our apathy, Should let the blessing pass. We should give a hand end say "hello!" With a spirit that thrills and cheers; Nor scorn the lowest along our path. For they have enough of sneers; It's the jovial smile and the friendly look That are easy enough to give. That brighten each life 'mid the care and strife. And encourage a man to live! GRACE E. HALL. Hip! Hurrah, for Grand Old Glory, Flag that's famed In song and story. 'Tis the fairest flag that ever gemmed the skies; 'Tis a glorious inspiration To the patriots of the Nation As in Freedom's air it beautifully flies. In a distant land 'tis waving Over patriots now braving Death in battle as they stand behind their guns. And beneath that starry banner In a most emphatic manner They will teach its meaning to tho cruel Huns. While for us the lads are fighting. While their loyal hands are writing Deeds of valor on our Nation's scroll of fame. We who cannot share their glory On the battlefield so gory Stand behind them as their backers in the game. As the ever hungry chickens In their energetic pickin's Nab the grain thrown to them h a shower profuse. Every patriot is nabbing With enthusiasm grabbing Liberally Uncle Sammy's L O. U.S. Every dollar that we puff In Helps to knock the royal stuffln Out of Kaiser Wilhelm's mad ambitious brain. Helps to show his bloody demons That the Tankee eagle's screamin's Are the "taps" 'twill sound o'er auto cratic reign. For the dollars that are needed Future calls will all be heeded. Every bond appeal we'll give a willing boost. And when tyrant rule Is bested Every dollar we've invested. Like the wandering chickens, will come home to roost. FREE SERVICE AND 1XFOR- MATioar. The Oregonlan has established a bureau of information and serv ice at Washington City fo- the benefit of its readers. No charge is made for a reply to any ques tion relating to Governmental af fairs or for procuring any avail able Government publication. For reply send 2-cent stamp. Address Frederic J. H a s k 1 n, director Oregonlan Information Bureau. Washington, D..C. Do NOT write to The Oregonlan at Portland. "German Measles" Not Measles. PORTLAND, April 12. (To the Ed itor.) Please tell me what German measles Is. Is it the black measles? And which Is the worse, black or red? CONSTANT READER. "German measles" Is a name applied to a contagious eruptive disorder hav ing certain points of resemblance to measles. Its medical nam Is rubella, or rotheln, or epidemic roseola. Fever and catarrh, which accompany measles. are either wholly absent or exceedingly slight and the rash lasts only about one day. There is an absence of compli cations and liability to subsequent Im pairment of health, such as appertain to measles. Black measles Is a name given to malignant form of true measles, occur ring usually in circumstances of bad hygiene, both as regards the individual and bis surroundings. It is rare. Fortunately the clocks were put ahead, that tonight will last longer. "Oregon First!" this time. Print U In red Ink Aren't you proud to be gon ian ? an Ore- Tonight is Jubilee night. And thou, too, OsT Independence Well Over Top. INDEPENDENCE. Or., April 11. (To the Editor.) I notice In The Oregonlan today under a Dallas dating. Inde pendence district is given credit for but $20,000 third liberty loan bond sales, with a quota of $40,000. This is an error. Tha quota is correct, but our sales to date are over $50,000, or 125 per cent. It you care to make an Item of this, please mention Bethel School district as selling bonds to the amount of $4500; West Salem, $5050, and Buena Vista, $4400. These are all In the Independ ence territory. C. W. IRVINE. Chairman Liberty Loan, Independence. HOW WOMEX ACT UNDER SHELL FIRE, TOLD IN The SUNDA Y OREGONIAN Down upon the little farm in France hurtled the huge Prussian shell, roaring like a train on a trestle. It struck, burst in flame and fragments and scattered destruction broadcast. A few mo ments later an old woman hobbled from the battered hut and busied herself with bandaging the family cow. "Nothing but a wound from shell fire," she told the American ambulancier who paused to sympathize. High and low, born to palace or hovel, the women who face the terrors of war are alike brave, declares W. B. Seabrook, citing many instances, in The Sunday Oregonian. JUST A PAGE OF PICTURES But the guns were coughing death where they were taken, these pictorial bits of history from the great war. They have a full page in the Sunday issue, and several show the American troops in camp and trench and on their way to the firing line. "America's stone wall" is a remarkable photo graph of men who have gone to Picardy. MAKING US STAND ON OUR OWN FEET Less than in any other country, the mailed hand of war crushed commerce in America. But American industries rallied, caught up new devices and carried on as boldly and resourcefully as the boys in olive drab. Read the interview with William Cox Redfield, Secretary of Commerce, in the Sunday paper, Shoe3 from shark-leather, beef roasts from Pacific Coast whales and a hundred instances where ingenuity opened our eyes to unguessed resources. " UNCLE SAM'S WOODEN FLEET Of more than passing interest to Portland, where many wooden ships are being built for the war time merchant fleet, will be Frank G. Carpenter's article in to morrow's issue of the scores of great yards where 100,000 work men are building and launching the staunch wooden hulls of vic tory. Each Carpenter industrial story cleaves straight to the fundamentals and is told so entertainingly that the reading thereof is as pleasant as it is profitable. CAN WOMEN SWITCH TRAINS? They were wont to switch them, to the scandal of bacteriologists, in ballrooms and along the streets. But the task today differs vastly, for the trains they have under taken to switch are the bumping, j'olting, grumbling strings of cars that carry America's commerce. They are "making good," asserts Clive Marshall, in a special Sunday story. PERSHING SENDS A CHEERING MESSAGE In fine fighting fettle are the American troops in France, clean physically and spiritually, ready to go forth as so many Gideons against the Hun. Of course General Pershing didn't say it exactly that way, but such was the drift of his statement to Edward Marshall, correspondent 'with the American Expeditionary Forces. "Fathers and mothers at home need not worry, as their sons are clean and every possible moral influence will be brought to bear to keep them so," declares "Black Jack" Pershing. His is a message that all who have sent a lad across should read. TWO SPECIAL FEATURES THAT WIN In the special features . section of the Sunday issue sails the renowned "Houseboat on the Styx," creation of John Kendrick Bangs, on a new and novel cruise. The immortals discuss the liberty loan tomorrow. W. E. Hill's page of crayon drawings, depictions of everyday folk as we know them, ranks among the finest work of this distinguished artist and illustrator. Tomorrow he sketches the story of "The Home Guard." A Nickel and a Nod Buy the Best, THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. 1