10 TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUUUSDAY, MAY 0, 1918. tyt (Dwjrtmtan's roBTUtXD. oircox. Kalr4 at Port iaad Or.oa Paatarrica as earaaa-Iaaa Kail guinr. sbacnpuaa rat Inartaary la aOaac: i Br Mall IHIT, Ssafay tacluu.d. ana 7" r. ....... f r! y. Mualay lnw-li. ala maatha..... 4-3 jr. un! y lrr.al-Hl. tarae montoa... S2i Isa.. jr. auniiay lnctutft. aaa aootb ;.. . it noul fanr1y. aaa y.ar.. C y. vnrtnut oal. a DiAntrit 1 -j I'ai,. without tuaday. aoa bobia wiy. an jr.ar Sund?. aaa yar .....-----. - Sdada aa4 Hifk: a.bv I By rarr1ar. Pallv. Piarlay ln-.ull. ana yar $9 Ial y. Sunday tnclvda-1. ana month. .... -f Ihi t. OundAjr lnr;u l4. thrf moalM... . - rl y. a- it haal funHAir, on. yaar. ...... . T 2 -a, jr. w it nout tuaur. thraa montha.... 1 Va: . y. wltboat "unUay. aaa month ...... .a3 Haw aa Raaatt ft.nd paatofflca iron.y K.r. iism ar paraoaal chacs ' o your kxal aai. Stamp, coin or currancy ara at tvitfa rise. ;ia aoatafflca addraaa la full. lAciadiaa cavatv and acute. r-.aa ftmaa IS la i MM, 1 eaat: II l: aaxaa. 3 casts. la para. S casta: H li W saa. casta. S3 to T aa.a. a caata: n ta J pafaa, casta, Foreisa poat. aaa. eaub.e retaa. EaMra Baaiaaaa OffVe Vrra Coak lis. Hraaawtek aalldlac. N Tark; Varraa at Casta. la. etvaar hui:dmc. Chicago: Varraa A rank: In. Fraa JTaaa bui.Jina. lalroll. Mich.; Aaa rraitrlat-a raaraasntatlta. it. J. Bldaall. Taj Jlarkat (traat, XZMBt or THE aMOCllTTO rKKSS. Tha Aaaaclatad Praaa la ascloslvelr atl Had la tba Baa (or republication af all Ml aiapatchaa crvd'tad la It or Dot otbarwlaa rraditad ta thla papar. sad a.aa tba local saam pubtiabad karats. A:i rlahta af republication af apaclal dls patabaa barala ara alaa raaartrad. through which the country la now passing It la worth a good deal thus to have our confidence In ourselves restored. The prophets of gloom are confounded by the facts. The Nation In not disorganized. It has not been disunited. It needed only the emer- rORTLAXD, TaiX.HD.iT. MAT t. Itlt. committee of the Senate as the which should seek out the truth, body has fearlessly and Impar tially unearthed the deficiencies of the War Department, and Its chairman, Senator Chamberlain, has displayed courageous patriotism In conducting former Inquiries. In Indicating canses gency to fan the smouldering fires. of failure and la proposing- remedies. For that reason his declaration that "the committee proposes to put its finger on the men responsible, with out fear or favor" and "doesn't pur pose to engage In any whitewashing process" should be taken at Its face value, especially as the majority of the committee, without regard to party, has shown equal Independence by backing hi an up. The committee's former strictures on the conduct of the war have been Justified by events and by the action of the President and Secretary of War. after Mr. Wil son had denounced them as unjust. Congressional Inquiry should come first, for the further reason that the men under suspicion are accused of having squandered much money out of about a billion dollars which Con gress had appropriated for aircraft. and It Is the business of Congress to ascertain whether the money has been properly expended, and if not to dis cover the culprits. Tet another rea son la that Congress Is now asked to appropriate another billion dollars, and should be guided In Its decision by the use which has been made of the first billion. If. as the facts Indi cate, former appropriations have been wasted. Congress would not be war ranted In voting more money until TOO 'tfTAGGXRING A LOAD. The greatest financial achievements of any nation In any time are the three Liberty Loans, aggregating about $12. 000.000,000, floated within the past year by the United States. The most 'responsible and stupen dous industrial task in the world is the management and operation of the consolidated railroads of the United States. Tet these great burdens are loaded on one man Secretary McAdoo. Un questionably his capabilities are great; but there is a limit both to human endurance and human capacity; and It Is neither fair to him nor to the country that so much should be de manded of a single person. The news reports are that the Sec retary Is back at Washington. Ill, after his strenuous labors In the recent loan campaign. It Is not surprising. Yet he finds there . problems calling for Immediate action, which have neces sarily awaited his return. For example, he must render the final decision In the. wage dispute, be tween the railroads and their em ployes. The wage commission Tias made an exhaustive Investigation, and heavy stocks, which could be greatly reduced under the Improved system. No one would suffer Inconvenience If a few hundred bolts were made to do the work for which several thousand are now required. . We have passed the stage where It Is thought desirable to multiply com plications In order" to make more work for more men." There will be plenty of work when the physical restoration of the world Is begun. The pressing need will be a System under which every man's work will be made to count. . a GET TUB TBCTH A BO IT AIRCKArT. The American people's blighted hope of an air fleet this year, which would make life a constant torment for the Germans, has brought about an out burst which threatens to surpass the embalmed beef scandal of the Spanish war. We were assured that the Lib erty motor had stood every test, com bined all the good points of all ex Utlng motors, was the result of pa triotic service on the part of Inventors and manufacturers, and was being produced In quantity. We now are In formed that It is an Improvement on the patents owned by one manufac turer. we are In doubt whether It has yet stood final tests and are told that It Is merely one of the four or five best motors extant. We were led to believe that airplanes were being pro duced In quantity, but we learn from manufacturers that they no sooner got ready to produce than designs were changed, new tools and other devices had to be made and old ones scrapped, and that production has been continuously blocked by new changes. . The one bright spot In the entire sordid picture Is spruce produc tion, which has steadily Increased since the Loyal Legion put the L W. V. to rout and set to work. A multiplicity- of Investigators has made a multiplicity of charges. Gutxon Borglum. whom some describe as the l"rsldent's representative, while others regard him as representative of an aeronautical society to whom the ITeatdent gave facilities for investiga tion, said In his letter to the New York Times: its report is ready; yet the Secretary the men who have wasted them have muvrev?ew finding, and decide been removed and brought to Justice. Prompt action Is urgently needed, and though It should not be taken until the farts upon which it should be founded are known. It should not await the result of either a grand lurw Inniiltv and a irlmlnil trial nr of a military Inquiry. Evidence dls- J"e"d whether thousands, and even millions, of men. in many branches of railroad service, shall or shall not have higher pay. "Strong pressure, reports the Associated Press, "Is said to have been brought to bear on the Director-Gen eral to modify some of the commls Thara fcara baas aaraa aaparata in r jura tion s of tha aaronaatle ronditlona, baaidea lit pattr ravlawa of farlorla ralatad to tba maanfactara. not eoaattns tha apaclal ilro tnatloa of tha alrpiaaa production apanmod tally carriaU ca by 1'adarai latallisaace braua Thara baa baan tia proper Judicial In esirr. with poa-ar la aubprna. alaa and ar raat. by tba Fadaral lantramtnl. and thara will fea In eooiaqwnrt no Jut apprahanainn f. tha raal culpriia aor raai atljuatmant of lxapropar obligations votll acA Inquiry la Imatllatad. These seven Investigations Include one by Snowden Marshall's commit tee, one by the Senate military com mittee and one by the Aeronautical Society. It Is now proposed to have another Inquiry by the Senate com mittee, yet another by the Department of Justice which may lead up to a grand Jury, and a military court of Inquiry has been demanded by General aMjuier. who has been removed as chief signal officer. If Mr. llorglum's charges be true, there Is occasion for criminal prosecution, for he says: Tha chtf slirnal efflrar waa tba official rnbbar atamp for s group of American Jankara. sacaaaary to tham lo ralaaaa naarly billion, which, tbay placad prat-lap I y aa thay. In thatr nnlnformad advlaory capacity, cboaa sad dlatrtbutad ta thalr awa or af- flitalad Intaraata. all to aarva a common plan and purpoaa and sll sndar a contrart aatam ao Ingvnloua that It conld in tlma staorb tha antlra appropriation and not da liwar a aarrtcaabla plana and this, la fact, it baa largely accompliabad. Mr. Borglum's charge that "his work was systematically blocked, to the ex tent even of threatening witnesses." as stated by the Associated Press, sustains the conclusion of the Times that there waa "an organized con spiracy, bold, powerful, numerous, made up ot men able to formulate a great plan and embracing within their number men sufficiently high placed and influential to have the ear and confidence of the Secretary of War." Their motive in deceiving Mr. Baker xoay have been to cover up their fail ure, at least nntil they had secured their gains, or simply to gather In many millions without regard to the consequences to the country, but there may have been among the conspira tors some agents of the enemy who worked deliberately to cripple the American Army by preventing produc tion of aircraft. Jn view of the volume of evidence combining to. prove that he has been shamefully deceived by men who stood In his confidence. It is astonishing that Secretary Baker should persist in his optimistic statements and should have been able to persuade the House com mittee that there had been "no crimi nal liability for delays and deficien cies In the past, and that the present status of War .Department plans was satisfactory." In view of the great ad vantage to be derived by Germany from such a conspiracy as Is charged to exist. It Is still more astonisbixur that Mr. Baker should endeavor to hash inquiry by ascribing criticism to pro-German propaganda. If all Is well, proof Is the best means to defeat propaganda: if all Is not well, the truth is necessary to 'defeat the con eptratora, and. with them, tha Ger mans. - . There Is already danger that among a multitude of investigators the men who have betrayed their country may find safety. At least some of them hold high office and others may be influential in the business and finan cial and. perhaps, the political world. The revelations to be made may reflect oa the official superiors of the men c2trectly implicated not on their In tegrity, probably, but on their vigi lance and executive wisdom. Tbat possibility suggests that there might be a disposition to shield some of the culprits. It militates decidedly against an initial Inquiry by either the Depart ment of Justice or a military court, for a fellow fee' In g may be presumed to exist between Attorney-General Gregory and Secretary Baker, or be tween the military officers who would compose a court and the officers sub ject to Investigation. The circumstances point to tha mill- covered by the committee " would be available for judicial and military pro ceedings. The President again displays aver sion to Congressional inquiry into Ex- can be placed upon the haste WiUi "e decision, when rendered, w which he has ordered an investiga Iton by the Department of Justice oa the very day on which the Senate committee announces Its purpose to dig to the bottom and on which Mr. fectlng the four great brotherhoods.' When, where and how has Secretary McAdoo made a study of the complex issues constantly arising between operators and men, so that there may be the necessary public confidence ill be correct The muddle in which the plans for Liberty Loan campaigns have been constantly involved through want of sound and thorough preparation, and Baker assures the House committee " ,ZZ. . uiq .0.1 iuub omio auu iuuu uuiuitiii- that everything Is all right. Mr. Wil son's action on this occasion is con sistent with his denunciation of past tees, is traceable directly to snapshot rulings at-Washington calling for con- Congressional inquiries, with his re-l8111 regalement, revision and even Jectlon of any scheme of Governmental reorganization emanating from Con- reversal. Clearly, Secretary McAdoo should ...... . I ba rlivarl of a rjnrtinn nf hln itiirrpr. gress and with his insistence on aaop- . t Inn Via own ayham m-ithnilt tha I change or a material line. He ignores Congress as a co-ordinate branch of the Government, pushes it on one side and insists on doing everything him. self. In his own way, paying no heed THE LEPERS' COXTRIBCTIOJf. News that the lepers of the colony on ' Molokai, Hawaii, have bought $6000 worth of thrift stamps gives a to the advice of anybody. A man deeply sentimental interest to the war whose fallibility has been often proved I financing campaign. It also recalls by the frequency with which he has one of the heroic figures of history. been compelled to revise his own Judg-1 Father Damlen de Veuster. without ment, but who. nevertheless, assumes whose devotion this colony of sorely so dictatorial an attitude, is riding for I afflicted people long ago would have DOW! to BrsrxE(s OX SHIPS. The shipbuilding programme has Just emerged from the stage In the midst of which the aircraft pro gramme still is. It passed from a state of bombastic optimism into a state of apparently hopeless muddle, but in the last six months It has been dragged out of the mud and it has now been set on firm ground. It began in an atmosphere of dreams and theory, but it Is now In an atmosphere of reality and practice. We now know that we are not only getting ships, but that we shall continually get more ships, and we have cause for confidence that they will be built better and faster as we go on. It is eloquent of the practical busi ness sense of Mr. Schwab that he no sooner got in harness than delay In shipment of plates for steel ships began to be cured, and contracts for a definite number of wooden-ships were given out. Although he Is a steel man, he saw that the situation re quired ships of wood and concrete as well, and he set about getting them built. He saw that the Pacific Coast was delivering the goods and allotted half of the 200 . new wooden ships to this Coast, the political pull of the South being at a discount. He sees that supply of ships to the allies Is only second in Importance to Amer ican needs, and he permits fifty ships to be built for France. His action be speaks a man of broad vision and quick perception, who promptly grasps the essential facts and acts upon them. Present progress In turning out ton nage and the masterly way in which the shipbuilding business Is being ban died justify confidence, that the pre diction of 10,000,000 new tons next yeaa will be fulfilled. The perform ance of the Columbia River district In the last six months shows that it can easily produce one-tenth of that total, and If concrete ships also should be built, a larger share could be turned out. With plants for all three types of ships, this district would be equipped to establish the industry firmly and to build for private owners when the demand for war purposes slackens. Stars and Starmakers. Pr Leone Cans Baer. . See where - Margaret Illington Is fathering, or mothering, a movement to promote and foster. a love, for dish washing among women In their homes. Well, if Margaret or any other woman succeeds in making dishwashing popu lar among women as a collective sis terhood she will have done more than any other woman since dishes were made. a The managers of the overseas ex pedition of American actors who want to cheer up our soldiers over there have decided to weed out and discard all rotton stunts. In which case, being "over there" will have its advantages. Wish they'd weed 'em out oven here. too. aaa The billing "of Gertrude Hoffman on the walls of the Orpheum Theater, St. Louis, announcing her return engage ment, reads as follows: "Miss Hoffman has appeared before the royal court of "London and the Municipal Court of St. Louis." aaa A bulletin from the Paris headquar ters of the Y. M. C. A. tells of a fur ther Cxplolt of Elsie Janis In making hen appearance before 3300 soldiers on the cowcatcher of a French locomotive, Miss Janis Is now on her second trip TOO MICH FOR ONE JUS TO DO Great Tasks Imposed on Secretary of the Treasury. Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Dem.) While the Secretary of the Treasury is spending several weeks of bis precious time touring the country in the heroic effort to sell liberty bonds, important matters of business are be ing held up in the office of the director general of railroads. The war finance corporation, of which the Secretary of the Treasury will be the chairman, is still to be organized, although there ought to be no delay. As Secretary of the Treasury Mr. McAdoo is properly making liberty loan speeches throughout the United States. But, as director-general of the rail- j roads of the United States, he ought to I be in Washington, where urgent ques tions wait on his decision. The com mission appointed to revise the wage scales of railroad employes filed its recommendations at least a week ago, but they cannot be acted upon by the director-general of railroads while the Secretary of the Treasury is campaign ing for the loan. The contraois be tween the Government and the rail roads providing for compensation for the roads during Government operation are still in the air, it is reported, be cause certain difficult points bearing on the precise definition of net Income must be settled by the director-gen oral. Negotiations for the merger ot the four big express companies so that they may act ac the Government's agent In express business of the country are also held up until the liberty loan cam In Other Days. palgn is ended. T 1 .. nA. V. -J .Ua. nlonlnir nf for the T. M. C A., covering areas In the contracta for new cars and locomo- tno cemr&i pan ot r ranee ana one 01 tlve- been delayed on account of the port cities. One of the central the action ot the director-general of camps Is an Important railroad center, I railroads devoting all of his time dur which has a large railroad shop with a ing the loan drive to the duties or the a bad fall. abandoned Itself to despair. It is interesting to recall that Father Damlen was a Belgian, born at Lou vain, which only recently has borne a conspicuous part in the world tragedy. He was appointed a mis- Ex-Speaker Cannon had anothe birthday yesterday, and, like the real old man of the day. Is proud of his age. Mr. Cannon s public life covers a period of fifty-seven years, he hav. ing been elected a State's Attorney in 1861. three years after admission to the bar. If there is another man with like period of clean political life ex istent, his name is not recalled. ARTT and THE OIOX. The Sclo Tribune, a thoughtful con temporary.' has deliberated for sev eral weeks over an Inquiry from The .ionary to the Hawaiian Islands in Oregonlan as to whether or not in its igg3 and ten years later was sent at opinion the great questions of slavery I hi- own reauest to the leoer settle- ana states ngnts mignt nave Deen ment which had been established 1 settled by negotiation, or compromise, ttvr rears oreviously bv tha island eov and without an appeal to arms; and eminent. He found the lepers lnde has evidently decided not to answer, scrtbably wretched, lacking in the fun It is to be regretted. We should like I dasaental necessities of life. Forthwith to have our own harassing doubts on he organized them, obtained good food a perplexing academic question imany 1 suitable dwellings and medical assist resolved, one way or the otner. ance.' established schools and restored nut tne TTinune evolves anotner in- religious worship. Above all, he re terestlng article on "partlsanlsm." and vived hone. After ten years he dls- insists again that it waa the direct covered signs that he had contracted cause or tne civil var. me evidence 1 the disease and could begin his ser appears to be chiefly that the Demo- J m0ns with the words, "We lepers.' cratic party was in power, ana it was He finally succumbed, but not until committed to slavery and states rights, h. worked a complete transfor and resorted to rebellion rather than mation In the physical condition and submit. So, asks the Tribune, "is It the spirit of the colonists. It Is these not true that the selfish and uncom- people of whom an inspired newspaper promising parusanism or tne rouin poet has written a in. m . slavery iru8B. vu .x.ncI.M - .a .huoB,a by man. wa'd share. tne tivji nir: The slave power, with the Demo cratic party as the vehicle of Its ex pression, sought to break up the Union. Incidentally, It wrecked the party, for many of its members aban Brothars-at-war. with you. And from our moaner plttanca sir a As happlar comrades dot Not ours to shoulder armathouffh wa. God knows, are soldiers, too. Thus, after nearly half a century. the lepers of Molokai ar,e repaying a doned it and the NaUon repudiated it. am thav owe to a Belrinn hero, who The defenders of nationality, the apos- we tjimk, lf he were living, would lies 01 equal rignu lor an men. ana orier jt Jn no other way. tne iocs or state rig n is, ail togetner saved the T'nlon. Tha Renuhllran nartv was tha instrument, so far as STANDARDIZED TOOLS. the cause needed and had political Th commercial economy board of support and action. ! the Council of National Defense has Let us say. then, that the loglo of undertaken a study of the agrlcul onr Sclo friend will drive him to ad- tural Implement Industry as a war mlt that lf "partlsanlsm" of one sec-1 measure, with a view to determining tionol group all but destroyed thePhat varieties may be dropped by Union.- the "partlsanlsm" of another manufacturers without hampering group saved it. rorrxARrTY or the third i.oax. The great number of subscribers to the third liberty loan is fully as sig nificant as the fact that the loan waa other tillage implements, farm work. It will not surprise most farmers to learn that the number is exceedingly large. Four divisional com mittees representing various branches of the Industry have made recom mendations concerning steel plows and grain drills largely oversubscribed. It Indicates and seeders and farm elevators. Each that there not only is wide diffusion recommended various styles for eliml of wealth throughout the Nation, but nation, representing altogether nearly also that there is an even more gen- S00O. eral diffusion of patriotism. It shows It would seem. Indeed, that the that city and country, nd field, work- country is approaching nearer to the shop and store, are awakening not system of standardization in all forms alone to the fact of war. but to the of machinery which Is so well fitted need of sacrifice to win It. to our National temperament and to It . seems that when the complete our economic needs. If there Is one returns have been tabulated, Oregon thing In which Americans ought to will be shown to have made 149.800 excel, that one thing is the economical Individual subscriptions to the loan, production of vast quantities of stand The whole number of subscribers in ardized goods. The French delight in the United States will be upwards of the fabrication of Individual products, 17.000.000. From any angle it is 1m- nicely tooled by hand, the parts of possible to take a gloomy view of the which are not Interchangeable with situation.- The forthcoming amount those of other machines. But we have of money is wholly satisfactory, and neither the time nor the patience for the participation of more than one such work. When our implements person in every six of the population, break down, we want -to repair them It .will bear repeating. Is an earnest quickly and get on with the work in that the people are united in demand- band. ing prosecution of tha war to final There is little doubt that the suc- vlctory. cess of a standard make of automobile If a detailed story of the third lib- was due largely to the facility with erty loan drive could be written, it which "parts" could be obtained, and would make a mighty Interesting bu- lit is highly significant of the drift of man document. The major part of I events that this same manufacturer Is the credit should by no means be I now engaged In turning out war craft given to those who bought the largest I built on the same principle. The amounts of bonds. A good measure I standard implement and the standard ot patriotic Intensity of purpose is the ship are necessary where quantity sacrifice of the individual. The local I production and speedy replacement are canvassers could tell a good deal about first considerations, that. We have heard. for,example. It will not be necessary, however, of a claim holder In a remote region to stifle competition, or to put a check in Oregon who borrowed enough upon Initiative and private enterprise, money from a storekeeper to buy a to accomplish a great deal in the bond, and then, shouldering his pack, direction of standardization. The mul left his claim to go out and work for ttpllclty of sizes of bolts and screws, the money with which to discbarge and the further variety of their the debt. The merchant in question, threads, are said by competent me operating upon limited capital, de- chanlca to be unnecessary. Some day serves mention also for his part in the there will be a great National house transaction. Indeed, the spirit of co- cleaning tn this regard,, and it will operation throughout has been gen- save the labor of hundreds of thou eral and generous. The incident In sands of men which Is needed In other question la only a type of perhaps I productive fields. The ramifications hundreds of thousands in the United of possible savings, it is pointed out States. 1 I by experts, are almost bewildering. On an average each family In the I The amount of capital released, for country now owns at least one liberty I Illustration, would be large. Jobbers bond. It la a remarkable experience and retailers are now required to carry 1 Senator Kenyon's plan to wipe off the slate with France has one bit of merit having all the money in the world, we may not miss a billion or two; but Great Britain and Italy might wonder why they do not get in. We may lose the debt of Russia, and with that for a start a financial potlatch ought to make Uncle Sam the best fellow on earth. Elimination of special names of trains necessitates study of timecards to learn the numbers. With the, un derstandlng that even numbers apply to north and east bound and odd num bers to the others, the study is simple matter of mnemonics, as easy as the multiplication table. Germany may not consider the dec laration of war by Nicaragua of any consequence, but when the United States has transports to spare the little republic may supply the last ten or twenty thousand men needed to win the final victory. It would not be amiss if the men ho draw the jury list paid more attention to; quality. If they should, there might be less danger of disagree ments when pro-Germans, slackers and other disloyal people are on trial. Omaha's "cowboy" Mayor, "Jim" Dahlman, was defeated Tuesday for re-election, after twelve years In .the office. He was a good official, but the voters thought it was time for a change. , In questioning the veracity of Pre mier Lloyd George, General Maurice risks a charge of plagiarism from a certain distinguished American who started the Ananias Club. When great stores of wheat and meat burn at St, Louis, it is evident there are Hun incendiaries at large nd that a strong Home Guard is needed. Secretary of the Treasury; that matter appears to have been disposed of. But the National Coal Association has is sued a statement concerning the pro ductlon of bituminous coal for next Winter that is alarming. The coal situation, as the country learned last Winter, is essentially a coal car and railroad situation. The Federal Fuel Administration has late- lv hpan hArr frnm tn much the same o ', song- writer ana ittrraer effect as this Rational Coal Association track running through the center of the building for Its entire length. It was aboard the cowcatcher of locomotive on this track that Miss Janis made her entrance before the large throng of soldiers assembled tbene. Then she sang, danced, told stories and gave imitations. husband of Cecil Cunningham,- lias been married again. His wife was Ebba Ah 1, a vaudeville singer. The ceremony took place last Wednesday in Jersey City. Miss Ahl, who is a New York girl, went Into vaudeville three years ago after she was gradu ated from high school. aaa A cable message to Hilda Spong, of although it may not have spoken out so plainly. Here is a big Job for tne director-general of railroads and there la no time to be lost in tackling it. An other coal scarcity next Winter would be inexcusable if measures can now be taken to Drevent it. Mr. McAdoo is one of the ablest aa ministrators the Government has had In many years; his record proves it, It Is astonishing that he has done as r.11 aB v.,. V. , a with hnth thA TrflaslirV Henry Miller's company, has brought Department and the railroads since last her the sad news that her brother has I December. But the indications are that been killed In action at the front. The one man is being given altogether too young man. who had been an actor, much to do. It is an unsafe risk to was an officer In tha British nrmv. continue the present arrangement per- " I . 1 .. n , ir.lAA a,. ,rh , nlplr mailtSULljr. .'11. HI -li 1-" " vub". -v """ either finance or railroads and devote A bulletin to a New Tork exchange himself exclusively to one or the other, from Frank C. Payne, who Is Mrs. Leslie Carter's husband and who Is in CANXOT OREGOJT Fl'KXISH OILt London, bears upon the calmness of players in the theaters during an aerial Inquirer Wants to Know Why State la attack. 'Last night, with every theater pack ed." he writes, "there was an attack. But the players were all brave, as well as Jolly. When the bombs suddenly not!- Not Petroleum Producer. PORTLAND, May 8. (To the Edi tor.) In The Sunday Oregonlan, under the heading, "Oil Will Be Scarce." you quote from a letter written by Secre tary Lane in which the Government's fied us what was coming, the actors deep concern over the oil situation is turned it Into a Joke. apparent. Other articles appearing re At the Strand the 'Cheating Cheat- cently In your paper have pressed tne era' star, Shirley Kellogg, snapped her fingers at the crackling overhead and ill kept to their seats and applauded when she said: T should worry. Soon you'll hear our lion roaring At tne savoy A. J. Matthews, ap- same subject upon the attention of the people. Director of Petroleum Mark L. Requa in his speeches before oil men has said production must be in creased and every encouragement giv en to the opening up of new fields. The impending oil famine, the rapidly I , KMany .1.a rtnnatiin.lV peering in 'Nothing but the Truth, "..'"Iw.r AV .na on. onHiderea smilingly remarked: 'Don't go. Help us aionicslde of tne Prosperity that oil carry on or I'll lose my bet. Hlght-o.' production brings to a state, make shouted a voice in the gallery and the pertinent the inquiry: "Why Is not play went on. Oregon in the oil-producing class? Who . . . 1 is competent to niibweii xcw us uco.. aiiu ou it waa at tn a otner do tne- I him aters and music halls in town. The In connection with a reply to the spirit displayed in the theaters Is one Question a short review of the oil in of the best backbone stlffeners the na- dustry of California, showing what it tlon has to command. Ita ii,fin.n. has meant to the state commercially. can hardly be measured Whenever the Z?3 air raids start everybody shouts 'Carry teresting to know what Oregon's con on, carry on.' And they do. It's a tribution to California's oil prosperity wonder some English George Cohan or has been in the last 15 years, Twenty-five Years Ago. (From Tba Orc.onl&n ot May . 1S9S.) The electrocution of Carlyle W. Har ris, which took place at Sing Sing, New York, yesterday, was pronounced to have been highly successful. City of Mexico, via Galveston, Tex., May 8. General Gonzales, ex-President of the republic of Mexico and Governor of the stats of Guanajuato, died here this afternoon. A meeting of the Oregon State Base ball League will be held at the Hotel Willamette at Salem Thursday aad a schedule and constitution will be adopted. Washington, May 8. The - serious aspect of the revolution In Nicaragua will probably result in the United States sending a war vessel to the west coast of the perturbed country. The Republican city .convention has been called for May 19 at 2 P. M. at Turner HalL The work of electrifying the Portland & Vancouver Railway is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible, In spite of the unfavorable weather. Irving Berlin about it." doesn't write a song A. C. BURROUGHS. Information Abont Naval Enlistments. A "Thrift Stamp Tipping Club" is WALTON. Or., May . uo tne Jioi- nAnrt--j . v. - ik..t.i..i , . 1 1 nr. J jvmuty ton 1110 tne umicoi au- I -I--.- n,hA-- nna mflv nand fftv liters. with its members pledged to tip only ture concerning the different branches witn war savings stamps. .v.- Navy a young; man ma v enlist in. Marcus Loew Is heading the move- SUBSCRIBER. ment, and when the club is formed in ew York City branches are to be es tablished tn the theatrical profession throughout the country. Jack Lait has agreed to promote a similar club for his native village, Chicago. The United States Navy Recruiting Station, Dekum building. Portland, Or. Whose Carrier Plgreont FORT CANBY. Wash., May 8. (To tha Editor.) A carrier pigeon lit in Mr. Loew, besides devoting himself our Daclc :ard n exhausted crid- to many other side Issues which ' go "on j ' if . i.t caught and a copper band on its lert toward promoting any step taken by ieg wa9 engraved with the following: the Government as a war measure, (a 1917. O 1656). The poor thing has thought out that show people In their lost its right foot, evidently some time n...w nr. ni.Ki .,t innv nnn .v. ie-o. tha stump Da neaiea over Fifty Years Aaa. (From The Oregonlan of May 8. 1S68.) Advices respecting the Arkansas elec tion say that the district commander extended the time for holding the elec tion several days in consequence' of se vere storms and high water, which prevented voters from reaching the polls. The directors of the Sues Canal ara pushing the enterprise with great vigor, and declare that It will be fin ished next year. The Appletons offer Charles Dinlcana. the noted author, $25,000 for the ad vance sheets of his next novel. The New York Tribune has over 200 editors, correspondents and reporters. Mr. Bartholomew's Great Western Circus will perform this evening for tne last time in Portland. The tide of emigration now eettinc- toward this Coast la unnracednntol since 1852. Governor M. F. Moore, of Waahina-tn Territory, arrived here by the steam ship George S. Wright this morntng. He is on his way to the eastern por tions of the territory on business con nected with his office as Governor. SALVAGE FROM CITY'S GARBAGE Materia Recovered Does Not Pay for Incineration of Remainder. PORTLAND. Mar 8 fTo th -Tai lor.) A communication unnHpln. In The Oregonlan of May 7 relative to the free collection of garbage, signed by Mrs. Alice Madorls, states: "After the first year the fund from the salvage should be sufficient to take care of the collection and practically elimi nate all tax for carrying on the system." 'Tis a consummation (nf rhni devoutly to be wished, but such a ben eficial condition would not result. The city of Portland Is now salvaging prac tically all the garbage collected and it does not pay the expense of Incinerat ing the portion that has to be de stroyed, to say nothing of the cost of collection. The free collection and disnnsal of garbage cost tha city of Seattle for the year 1915. four years after the adop tion of the system. 1239.792 25 and" verything was salvaered that it was possible to salvage, practically nothing being incinerated. If we should ex periment with the same nlan our ra. suns would be the same as theirs. It has' been but a few years since a law was passed placing a limit on the tax levy and now one-half of the measures submitted for the next elec tion provide for a tax levy over such limit. It is surely not as essential that we vote a tax levy for free collection of garbage as that we vote to raise sufficient revenue to conduct the af fairs of the various branches of city government that we now have. It is not a time to experiment with new affairs or to create other depart ments of city government that reauire additional tax levies. BRUCE C. CURRY. Portland is reaping the reward for having delivered the goods In the shape of ships. In war achievement has stronger pull than politics. The nervousness of the novice air man is nothing by comparison with that of the men who know they are guilty of the aircraft scandal. Nobody should welcome revival of the Ku Klux Klan, but the best pre ventive is prompt, severe penalties lor spies and traitors. With the Ad Club on the watch for deceptive pictures, circus "paper" that comes this way cannot contain ma usual thrillers. The rise and fall of funds In the L W. W. treasury followed closely the growth and decline of enemy activity. The President and Mrs. Wilson went to the circus the other night, and what further precedent is needed? A revolution in Austria with Its seventeen languages must recall the sounds at the tower of Babel. There are fine openings in the ranks for defeated candidates who will want to take it out on somebody. Mr. Purcell found it cheaper to bribe one bandit than to pay a ran som to the whole gang. One of the greatest potatriots in the United States is the railroad of the great big baked potato The Boy Scouts will find the black walnut trees, but they could do it easier in the Fall. A rise in water rates may come, hut air must continue to be free. tamp as a savings Investment. With the stamps retailing at 25 cents each and so many professionals often tipping that amount, the Idea struck the vaude ville - manager that the show people could comply with the Government's request to purchase war savings tamps and make practical use of them through the tipping distribution, a a . a Henrietta Crossman is rehearsing in a vaudeville act called "For Our Boys, In which Frank Evans is her leading man. e Picture four houses, two facing on Fifty-sixth street, two on Fifty-seventh street (New York, not Portland), with backyards adjoining. Lilac bushes nicely, and it manages to hop around very well on Its peg leg. The boys here at the station have already put ud Kood-slsed birdhouse for Its ac commodation and it appears to be quite at home. I would like to hear from anyone who knows anything about this pigeon, should this come to their notice. Alr tt&u 1 V 1 -VL r. iv, U. S. Coast Guard Station, Fort Canby, Wash. Women in h'avy. PORTLAND. May 8. (To the Ed itor.) Please publish the branches of service women can enter In the United States Navy and also the requirements. a ELIZABETH O'L'ON.NOii. Women may serve in the ravy as nurses, telephone switcnDoara opera tors or yeomen, The latter must be errew In each yard, the same washday stenographers. At present all service was observed In each home, but the performed by women Is ashore. Write families were not neighborly, having decided that the safest way to keep ing neighbors' friendship was to leave them, alone. Each family la these four houses had a son. Each set of parents believed to commandant of Thirteenth Naval District, Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Wash. urses In Army. PORTLAND. May 8. (To the Ed itnr 1 To whom do I aDDlv for infor their particular son was the greatest mation concerning Army nursing for mbryo President ever brought into the rvices In France not Red Cross? world, but. to the dismay of all the Would like to enlist from State of New parents, who would have liked their sons to follow classical careers, these boys developed strange tastes in music. making weird syncopated noises, such as the parents had never heard before. and, for the first time, doubts came to them as to Presidential possibilities. York. - J- P- M. Apply to Miss Dora Thompson, Army Nurse Corps, War Department, Wash ington, D. C. Women as Yeomen. WALLA WALLA, Wash., May 8. (To h TCriitnr l Tn what address should a These youngsters were not Just what woman writ6 for Information regard- they should be, so they gave up In despair, and left' them to their own devices. Now, these pareifta, whose backyards overlooked each other, are quite as proud as though the White House had received their sons, for each of the four boys is as well known In his way lne examination for yeoman? it. j. nw i.n. Write to commandant of the Thir teenth Naval District, Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Wash. Whereabouts of Sailor, n.TT nlT.T.lTQ Or Mnv a Tn tV, . as the President in his. for the names Edltor.) Tell me how to ascertain the or uie lour are j aroma .ern, onvio I whereabouts of a certain person who Heln, Bert Grant and Lew Hlrih. Answer to Doll, Salem (1) Cyril Maude and Arthur Maude are no rela tion whatever. (2) Arthur Maude and Constance Crawley appeared in Salem about five years ago In rn English play called "The Broken Law," but they did not play it In Portland. aaa May Irwin Is vacationing at her farm on one of the Thousand Islands. I enlisted In the Navy In April or May at Portland, Or. A SUBSCRIBER. Write to Navy Department, Wash ington, D. C . When Soldier Harries. SHERWOOD, Or., May 6 (To the Editor.) Does a soldier have to have a permit from bis company commander to get a license to be married In Vancou ver, Wash.? G. NEWMAN. He does EARLY HUSBANDRY IX OREGON First Twelve Potatoes Planted at As toria In 1811 Yielded 100. PORTLAND. May 8. (To the Edi tor.) At this time, when products of the soli occupy a large place In publio consideration. It may be worth while to note the starting point of the same in Oregon. The sea expedition of the Astor party left New York on the Tonquin September 6, 1810. Among tne stores of food were a lot of pota toes. Upon arriving in the Columbia River March 24, 1811, a few days were spent in selecting a place for a per manent establishment. The present site of Astoria was chosen and landing there was effected on April 12. As soon as the land could be cleared gar den seeds were planted, including po tatoes. Only 12 of the potatoes grew, yielding 190. Of the garden seeds, only radishes and turnips grew. Of the lat ter there was one which weighed 15 pounds. The crop of potatoes for 1812 was five bushels and In 1813, from two bushels at planting, the yield was 60 bushels. Goats, sheep, fowl and hogs were brought to Astoria from Honolulu on the Tonquin and landed near what Is now Fort Stevens on March 27, 1811. In March, 1825, Dr. John McLoughlln. the chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company, began his operations at Fort Vancouver. In the Fall of that year he caused to be brought overland from Canada one bushel each of wheat, oats, barley, corn and a quart of timothy grass seed. These cereals and tha grass seed were planted In the proper season, and all yielded well except the corn. The foregoing fixes the dates whan, husbandry began in Oregon. GEORGE H. HIMES. I'njuat Law Affects West. CANBY, Or.. May 6 (To the Ed tor.) On the first page of the Wom an's Home Companion for May is an article by Rex Beach, a noted author and writer, entitled "Will You Sanc tion This?" It Is a timely word against the new postal law fop all magazines and periodicals which goes into effect July 1. 1918. As this is an unjust and discriminating law, especially to Western peopie. It ought to be repealed and will be lf the people of the West and South get busy at once and send in as many protests against this law to their Congressmen as possible. Every organization, great or small, should send in a peti tion for repeal of such a law. AH who read this letter and are unfamiliar with the new law" on magazine postage to go into effect soon should make an effort to read the above-mentioned ar ticle. MRS. JOHN M. EVANS. . Solution of Farm Labor Problem, YAMHILL. Or., May 7. (To the Edi tor.) In solution of the farm labor problem I would suggest that after May 17 the defeated candidates be giv en a chance on the farms. They now appear anxious to get close to the farmer. The fact that they are seek ing office is a self admission that thei can be spared from their regular llnl of work(?). I can .use a dozen here in a 50-acre prune orchard. It would be only fair to the Demo crats to state that the family pork" barrel is empty. O. W. HAl'NKS,