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THE 3IORXIXG OREGOSIAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, r 1918.
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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, JCNE 10, 1918.
TOO MCCH GOVERNMENT MEDDLING.
Already a revulsion lias set in
against the extreme measure of gov
ernment control over . business which
prevails in Great' Britain as a result
of the emergency created by the war.
An organization called-" the Imperial
Association of Commerce has been
formed with branches throughout the
United Kingdom to protect trade
against undue 'government Interfer
ence and to procure) representation on
committees whose deliberations affect
trade. The motive for the organiza
tion was thus stated by the president,
Xord Inchcape:
Unless the mercantile community of this
country organizes Itself and shows & strong
Jrnlit nrttinsr thA riiMnnstttnn which in hulni?
evinced in government offices to nation
alize everything for all time, it will find
itseif In a sorry situation and the com
mercial supremacy of this country, which
hitherto has been the envy of the world,
will disappear.
Having been Minister for Marine
artrl TVnrlo nf TSJw 7pnlnnrf K AT T?
Fisher spoke with knowledge when
!he said that he had never known
Estate control to be completely efficient,
-and it remained for the people of this
country to devise a means whereby
they could impart some intelligence
"to the controlling factors of the coun
try. Large numbers of men who knew
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ployed by the. government, and they
were telling business men what they
ought to do to make business a suc
cess. Those words describe the situation
whlch is growing up in this country.
r AH recognize that, while the chief
i occupation of every industry c6Si
tlnues to be service to the Govern
. ment for war, a much larger measure
V' Government interference and con
i trol must be endured than in times of
C,' peace, but already certain drawbacks
v-have appeared, notwithstanding which
attempts -are made to fasten direct
" Government management of business
permanently on the country. Advo
cates of Government ownership of
railroads boastfully predict that the
roads will never be returned to their
owners, and some persons calmly con
template, the possibility that the great
fleet ot ships now building for war
service will remain in the hands of
the Government.
We have had several evidences dur
ing the last year that the Government
in business is not efficient, and that
private business becomes less efficient
in proportion to official interference
beyond a certain minimum. Ship
building was delayed by a row be
tween a civil engineer who had never
built a ship and an Admiralty lawyer,
and results did not appear until a
man took charge who had succeeded
in that business through his own in
itiative. Months were wasted and
plants stood partly idle while bu
reaucrats fiddled away with changes
in designs of rifles and machine guns.
More months were wasted and more
- plants stood partly idle while a group
of inventors tried in vain to produce
the ideally perfect airplane and while
fussy inspectors rejected work because
of imperceptible defects. Secretary
McAdoo is probably the best business
man in the Administration, but he has
tried to force a standard locomotive
on railroads which have every varia
tion of condition.
- The Government now achieves a
measure of success in ' war business
because it lias put business men on
J' the job, but they would get better re-
suits if they were running' the eame
t business for themselves or for private
corporations. These men have only
taken public office to render a pa
3riotic service in war; they would not
" take it in peace, when they would be
Subject to all manner of political
meddling for partisan advantage or to
3 test theories on the American people.
5 Nor would the politicians let them,
-for men like Bryan and Schwab could
vpot work together in the same Admin
istration. It is necessary to put up with a
large measure of Government med
dling in business as long as the war
lasts, and its evil effects are reduced
to a minimum by patriotism and the
suspension of politics, which is en
forced by public opinion. But it is
not necessary in time of peace, and
its inherent evils would burst out in
full flower when the restraints of war
were removed. American industry
and business have grown to their
present wonderful proportions by the
private initiative of individuals and
groups of individuals, not under the
cramping influence of regulations,
politicians and bureaucrats, nor un
der the suspicious eye of Federal in
spectors. Business cannot again be
come as it was, but it cannot remain
as it now is. The present time is not
too early for effort to restore its nor
mal freedom when the necessity for
existing restraints shall have passed.
The Society for the Suppression of
Useless Giving will extract a good deal
of satisfaction out of the declaration
just made by the Council of National
Iefense as to its attitude toward
Christmas gifts. The council believes
that Christmas giving which involves
purchasing gifts should be discouraged
as relieving to that extent the burden
placed upon labor, transportation and
other resources. The announcement
Is made this early in the year as a
guide to manufacturers of and dealers
in holiday goods. The simple Tact
that this is practically an official re
quest will influence many persons to
refrain from buying presents during
the war, but it remains to be deter
mined whether its effect will be last
ing. Nor has it been demonstrated-
that a permanent subsidence to the
basis of making only "useful gifts'
would be altogether desirable. There
is something to be said in normal
times in favor of gifts which reflect
sentiment in a way entirely foreign to
morris chairs, barrels of flour and im
proving books. But as a war measure,
of course, economy must be the watch
word of the hour.
FIGHT TO A DECISION.
Either German principles of right, free
dom, . honor and morality .must be upheld,
or . Anglo-Saxon principles, with their Idol
atry of mammon must be victorious. From
the latest speech of the German Emperor.
' True, quite- true, as lo the results
of a German -triumph; not true as to
an anti-German victory.
If Germany wins, the ideals and
practices of Kultur will prevail
throughoutthe world.
If Germany loses, it will not be an
Anglo-Saxon world; nor French, nor
Italian, nor Russian, nor Grecian, nor
American; but a free . world, where
all peoples, little and big, may fulfill
their respective destinies.
From the beginning Jt has. been a
war of German conquest. Now ,the
Emperor of Germany proclaims it.
There is no reason for any nation,
large or small, or for any citizen of
any nation, to be mistaken about the
stake. It concerns all, down to the
least important. . "
German principles of right, free
dom, honor and morality are only too
well understood. They cannot be up
held, and will not be outside of Ger
many and its vassal countries.
It is a fight to a finish. Everybody
knows it, and accepts it.. It will be a
German world, or it will not be a
German world.
THE COUNTRY THEY PREFER.
Secretary Baker voices the senti
ment of a good many Americans when
lie proposes that "undesirable citi
zens" of foreign birth or parentage
who refuse to perform military serv
ice for the United States be "returned
to the countries of their preference"
after this war is over. Meanwhile, of
course, they will be imprisoned.
It is safe to predict, however, that if
full freedom of choice shall be given
these men after the war is over, the
country of their preference will be
America. They or their parents came
here because they saw in it a land
of opportunity, a chance both for
material advancement and for indi
vidual expression such as existed for
them nowhere else in the world. They
have not been Inhospitably treated.
There are minor defects in our sys
tem of incorporating aliens into the
body politic, but It is a good system,
upon the whole. In any event, it is
undoubtedly true that they were glad
to come and have been glad to stay.
The trouble with a considerable
clas3 of citizens la that they are not
conscious that privileges entail respon
sibilities. But in all ages men worth
while have been willing to make sac
rifices for the privilege of freedom,
which is the highest of them all.
These cuckoo aliens want to make
homes In nests already built for them.
They demand all the advantages which
America has to offer but are unwilling
to help maintain the institutions which
attracted them here.
There are obvious military reasons
why they will not be sent across the
Atlantic at once. It Is not that they
would fight any more willingly for
one country than another, but that
the central empires probably would
find a way of compelling them to
serve. They know this well enough,
and the prison terms to which they
are being sentenced constitute mild
punishment by comparison with de
portation to the countries of their
origin.
GERMAN PLANS FOB POLAND.
The speech by Premier Wekerle,
of Hungary, in regard to the future
of Poland, is both a hypocritical pre
tense of care for the freedom of that
country and a confession of the impo
tence of Austria-Hungary to move
without the consent of Germany. Not
Hungary nor Austria but Germany will
decide the fate of Poland, if Germany
should not be defeated. That is the
inference to be drawn from the state
ment that "the liberation of the Polish
nation is due to the co-operation and
arms of our allies." Count Wekerle
gives it to be understood that the cen
tral powers intend again to make
Poland an Independent nation, for he
says: "It is for the Polish nation it
self to decide definitely its future
destiny," but he intimates that the
dual monarchy must await the pleas
ure of Germany by saying:
The question has not yet arrived at
a stage at which we or Germany can
describe our attitude, while Poland has
not yet been In a position to declare
Its own standpoint.
A bright light is thrown on the
"stage at which we or. Germany can
describe our attitude" and on the time
when Poland will be held-to be "in a
position to declare its own standpoint"
by a speech which was made by F. C.
Walcott describing what he saw and
heard ' on a tour of Russian Poland
before the United States entered the
war. After telling of the widely
prevalent famine, he quoted these
words of the German General von
Krles as defining German policy:
Since It is here, starvation must serve
our purpose. So we set it to work for
tiermany. By starvation we can ac
complish In two or three years in East
Poland more than we nave In v est Poland,
which is Kast Prussia, in the last 100
years. With that in view, -we propose to
turn this force to our advantage.
This country is meant for Germany. It
is a rich, alluvial country which Germany
has needed for some generations. We pro
pose to remove the able-bodied working
Poles from this country. It leaves it open
for the Inflow of German working people
as last as we can spare tnera. xney will
occupy it and work it.
Can't you see how It works out? Br and
by we shall give back freedom to Poland.
When that happens, Poland will appear
automatically as a uerman province.
That is why Germany compels Aus
tria to wait before deciding the future
of Poland, and of Galicia, Austria's
Polish province. When "the able-
bodied working Poles" have been re
moved, when starvation has done its
work among the rest of the popula
tion and when "German working peo
ple" have occupied the country, the
time will be ripe for Germany and her
obedient vassal, Austria-Hungary, to
"describe our attitude" and when
Poland will be "in a position to de
clare its own standpoint," for then it
will have become "automatically a
German province."
Germany doubtless reserves the same
fate for Lithuania and the Baltic
provinces of Russia. Like treatment
Is probably in store for the Slav
provinces of Austria-Hungary, and
perhaps for the Ukraine. General von
Bissing admitted that such was the
policy in Belgium. The native popu
lation is to be deported or starved out.
The German proletariat the breeders
are to be encouraged to increase and
multiply and occupy the lands made
vacant. Then there will be no Slav
question in Austria, no Belgian ques
tion in Belgium. It will have become
extinct with the starvation or deporta
tion of the people by whom alone it
can be kept alive.
When this Is admittedly the diaboll
cal scheme which Germany Intends to
work out and when Austria is the tool
of that country, bound to it by control
of the army and by a load of debt,
what hope is there to liberate the
subject peoples of the dual monarchy
by a separate peace or by any other
means than military defeat of Ger
many? And what a crime would be
a "peace by understanding" with Ger
many, since it would hand over entire
nations to the ruthless Prussians for
extermination by slow starvation or
for deportation into slavery.
SAVE THE FRUIT.
The plain duty of the day, for all
who can spare the time, is to save the
fruit crop of the Northwest. De
mand, it appears, is only limited by
supply. It is a question only of ob
taining pickers enough. As Mr. Brew
er, the farm help specialist, said in
his address before the Portland Cham
ber of Commerce, it is pleasant work
for women, girls and boys.
Residents of the smaller towns up
the Valley, who are in close touch
with matters horticultural and who ap
preciate the value of their crops,
have set a good example of organiza
tion. Formation of clubs for the han
dling of fruit on certain tracts gives
a social aspect to the enterprise. It
assures the workers that they will
have congenial company, and adds a
family touch to a Summer adventure.
The plan is capable of indefinite ex
pansion.
But the smaller towns have well
nigh exhausted their available labor
power. Portland Is a great and al
most untouched reservoir. There are
some thousands ' of school children
now released from school, and the call
from the Valley should not fall on
deaf ears. The . desirability of this
form of employment has been set
forth in detail many times; It remain
only to emphasize Its patriotic phase,
and to repeat that the resident of the
city who goes out to aid In gathering
the harvest not only will receive ben
efits himself, but will be doing a real
service to the country.
There is another relatively minor
source of fruit which ought not to be
neglected, the isolated trees and
bushes on city and suburban lots. In
former years these have been neglect
ed because their owners were pre
occupied with other affairs and the
yield in individual Instances was too
small to warrant special attention to,
It. These trees and bushes should be
picked clean this season. Owners who
are patriotic will not pursue a dog-in-the-manger
policy. This particular
phase of food saving requires no elab
orate organization. Almost any owner
who is considerate will be able to
solve his own problem. But this crop,
together with other crops, should be
saved if possible. The members of
the Women's League for National
Service who picked the cherries from
one of these city orchards and canned
them for use in Army hospitals
showed what can be done.
Every pound of every edible prod
uct in America should be harvested.
WHY A set
The cloak and suit manufacturers
are finding It difficult to find enough
'perfect thirty-sixes" to serve as
models for the season's new modes.
and they are blaming Hoover for it.
All the models answering to this de
scription have become more slender.
due to a combination of moderate diet
and war garden exercise, and the ques
tion will naturally be raised. Why
should a thirty-six be considered the
acme of perfection, if a more health
ful system of living produces thirty-
twos or thirty-fours, instead?
The Greek sculptors realized that
one of the highest functions of art is
to record nature in her best moods,
and nature is always at her best when
her laws are being obeyed; If Hoover-
izing and war work result In reducing
the average American female figure, it
is a sign that thirty-six has been a
mistaken standard all along, and we
are lucky to have found it out.
The new paradigm, whatever her
dimensions may be. will be the pat
tern of efficiency, up-i which too much
stress cannot be 'I in times liko
these.
OCR GREAT MERCHANT FLEET.
That is a most impressive prospect
which Chairman Hurley, of the Ship
ping Board, holds out before the
American people. This Nation, which
four years ago was among the least of
ocean carriers, will two years hence
rival the greatest if his predictions
shall be fulfilled, and the figures as
to shipbuilding which he gives are a
strong assurance of their fulfillment.
Before this year ends the monthly
output of tonnage will be greater than
the entire output for the years 1916
and 1916 combined. In 1919 we ex
pect to launch three ships from each
of 751 ways, making an estimated to
tal of more than thirteen and a half
million deadweight tons, exceeding
Great Britain's output for any five
years of her history. In less than a
year the number of men employed In
shipyards has grown from 45,000 to
S00.000 plus 250,000 in allied indus
tries, and in -the third year It will
grow into an army of a million men.
When the present programme is com
pleted in 1920 the United States will
have 25,000,000 deadweight tons of
shipping, almost equal to Great Brit
ain's pre-war merchant fleet and ex
ceeding her present fleet.
This is America's answer to Ger
many's, insolent demand that we get
off the sea We turn our energies to
a new industry which In three years
is to occirpy every sea and carry our
flag to every port. Falsely pretend
ing to champion freedom of the seas,
Germany has provoked us to the wid
est exercise of that, freedom. -Sending
out marine assassins. tc enforce
her edict, ; Germany sees us build a
Navy far surpassing tjiat of the Kaiser
a Navy which kills off the assassins
faster than they can be turned out
Boasting of its efficiency, the Teuton
empire stirs a giant to a demonstra
tion of that quality which makes its
own achievement puny by compari
son. Military necessity drove America to
undertake this gigantic task, for the
primary purpose of the new fleet is
to carry our Army and its supplies to
Europe, but even while the war is on
we employ many of our ships in com
merce, and when it ends, all of them
will become vehicles of commerce.
At present Its chief use fs to form the
bridge over which our troops pass to
France In monthly growing numbers,
but when the Germans have been
driven from the lands which they
have despoiled our ships will be scat
tered to carry 'American products to
every land and to bring materials to
our Industries and food to our people.
Then we shall have bridges of ships
not only across the Atlantic to Eu
rope, but to Africa and through, the
Mediterranean to the near east, also
across the Pacific to every country of
Asia, to the South Sea Islands and
Australia, across the Caribbean Sea to
the West Indies and Central America
and down the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans to all parts of South America. 1
Our merchant marine will draw the
whole world into fellowship with us.
The relations which we expect thus
to establish will prove the wisdom of
our policy and the insanity of Ger
many. Enjoying such complete free
dom of the seas that its commerce
overcrowded its ports, that country
sought mastery of the seas and tried
to steal her neighbors' porta by vio
lence in order to gain a monopoly of
the trade which had been shared with
competitors. By this resort to force
Germany forfeited that good will
upon which her commerce-was found
ed and cut off the supply of raw ma
terials which is necessary for her in
dustries and commerce. By taking
up arms for the true freedom of the
seas and for. the freedom of all na
tions the United States wins the good
will of all nations and acquires the
ships which will carry the commerce
that is destined to grow out of that
sentiment. Germany will come out
of the war stripped of raw materials
and of much shipping and hated by
her former customers. America will
come out of the war abundantly sup
plied with both ships and materials,
with industries developed to the high
est point and with the friendship of
the world she has fought to liberate.
By brutally and selfishly striving to
gain all, Germany will lose all. By
unselfishly fighting for the freedom of
all, Wnerica will win a generous share
of that commerce in which she is
willing that all shall equally partici
pate. The prospect which (Mr. Hurley
spreads before us imposes upon our
statesmen and business men the duty
of performing much careful labor In
orderi that it may be realized. Sim
ultaneously with tho building of the
great ocean fleet, ports and inland
transportation systems must be Im
proved, a shipping policy must be
adopted, the navigation laws must be
revised, genuinely American seamen
must be recruited, foreign trade or
ganization must be extended and per
fected, tariff laws must be recon
structed and the youth of the Na
tion must bo educated in the lan
guages, business methods, products
and customs of other nations. The
building of our great merchant fleet
opens out a broad vista to us which
extends to all lands and peoples and
includes all sciences and industries. It
brings home to us the discovery that
our participation in tho war has lift
ed us out of our isolation and has
thrown us into close intercourse with
the whole family of nations.
Horses are to have gas masks In
the Army which will be odorless, yet
will have a greater defensive value
than any known type, and they can be
secured to the horse's head when he
is not harnessed. A special factory is
producing them at the rate of 6000 a
day.
It Is Just as well that every potato
grower in the land cannot produce 825
bushels to the acre like that Mormon
In Southern Utah. It's mighty hard
work to make people eat what we
have, not to consider four or five times
as many.
If the garage men K Yakima will
agree to go to Sunday school and
church and not compel others to work
in waiting on them, nobody will ob
ject to closing the garages on the
Lord's day,. There's the rub, how
ever. ' x
With bo many young men In olive
drab and the older fellows In the home
guards, the comnfon civilian is limited
to buttons, but each represents a war
duty. By and by, perhaps, each can
sport a feather in his hat.
Those berries must be picked,
though It shall cost more than usual.
Better the consumer pay more than
the crop spoil and none be had. It all
comes out of the consumer, anyway.
Reports of the "doings" of Ameri
cans are not "bunk" nor publicity
dope. The Tank is a trained fighter
with the spirit that Inspired "when
George Washington led."
This generation does not know how
to pronounce the name of the town
Tuolumne, wiped out by fire Monday,
but In the "days of gold" it rolled off
the tongue like a ripple.
There's another text for Dr. Boozer,
up at Grants Pass, in Government
taking over all the Busch breweries,
which It must operate to avoid de
terioration. Though the name suggests other
wise. Christian Girl is a man and is
manager of a motortruck factory.
There is nothing girlish about that Job.
The next liberty loan In October
means about a dollar a day now until
then for the ordinary man, with a
few on the side for the stamps.
As it is not a Jail offense to slur
the "Star-Spangled Banner," Just bump
the offender, by accident, of course;
but make it a good bump.
The head of the Western Union for
gets he will get the worst In a run in
with Wilson, who has a peculiar way
of his own of winning.
The Kaiser is counting on much for
the thirtieth anniversary of his ascen
sion. Perhaps, but more likely it will
be "thirty" for him.
The Indian war veteran made Ore
gon safe to live in. Let us make the
city safe for him to visit, and make
him welcome, too.
Wherever a sawmill that makes ship
timbers Is burned, that is a good place
to look for I. W. W. and other camou
flaged Germans.
The average Montana man just
loves water, which may be the reason
he's getting so much of It in spots.
Tou don't buy ice in Winter, If you
are wise, and you don't buy fuel In
Summer if you are foolish.
Great Britain's "investment" In war
is nearing $36,000,000,000. every dol
lar getting its worth.
An office boy above 60 should be put
In short pants, so he will not be mis
taken for the boss.
Those Italians are fighting as if they
did not need help. That's the glory In
being an Italian.
Probably until the end of time the
circus will be the democratic show of
the world.
Cherries are reddening and the
Fourth two weeks off.
The war is coming home to Port
land. .
A Line o' Type or Two.
Hew to the' Line, Let the Quips Fall
Where They May.
A religious sect, believing that the
end of the well-named globe la Im
minent, Is said to be hoarding food
stuffs. A friend of ours, who belongs
to a religious sect called the Antl-
Prohlbitlonists, Is hoarding gin and
vermouth, perfectly assured that when
the world goes dry it will have reached
the end of Its usefulness.
If we were running for office this
Summer, and were casting about for a
winning campaign issue, the very last
word we should select would be Gov
ernment ownership of railroads.
I'robahlr One ot Those gasdstonns.
(From tho Albuquerque Journal.).
A summary of local weather condi
tions for the 24 hours endiner at S P.
M yesterday follows: Maxl-ko-d wll9 vu
zcGskMropJrtaidel fnott.
t
To a Snore r.
No matter, stranger, who you are,
Tou put me In a passion;
You're snoring in this sleeping car
In most outrageous fashion!
Tt is the habit I most hate
Jn fact. I quite despise it.
'Twill bring you trouble, soon or late.
Why can't you realize it?
Such racket does my feelings Jar
And set my nerves a-flutter;
Just-give a thought to where you are.
And don't lie there and splutter.
When Peter meets you at the gate
He'll turn you buck iustanter.
Or like as not he'll bump your pate.
And watch your downward canter.
F. B. T.
A number of alert readers have risen
to remark that Aunt Fannie Is putting
one over on Aunt Annie if she is
trimming her bonnet with cornflowers,
as the cornflower la the national bloom
of Germany.
The Plpesmoke Carry.
V.
But now the North wind ceases.
The warm South-West awakes.
The heavens are out In fleeces.
And earth's green banner shakes."
How one travels on the Plpesmoke
trail! A pinch of tobacco will take
me 20 miles. "Here," say I to another
"intern tsearcr. as we rjore over the
chart of some wild township, "here we
snail ne by nightfall: and here" five
squares away "by late afternoon of
the following day." Five squares poohl
a move on the chessboard; we may do
even better. To be sure, there is no
trail, but we travel like the moose.
stepping lightly over windfalls and
making: no account of cedar Jungle,
tamarack boir, or rushing river. My
maps represent, ninny of them, lands
mat I shall nevor set foot in, but they
are pin-pricked with plpesmoke camps
and overrun with niDesmcke trails. And
the squares holding for me the great
est fascination are those that disclose
oi.ly white paper townships unsur
veyed. uncharted as the perilous seas
on which the magic casements open
At one side of a blank square a lake
leaves off most tantalizlngly : at an
other side a stream emerges from noth
ingness; the sources of the river Alph
are not more mysterious. I recall
with what thrill of anticipation I
grasped the hand of a timber cruiser
who had "looked pine" In a certain un
mapped township that had especially
riled my imagination. Ha was a rough
man, he swore as terribly as the Eng
lish army In Flanders, and the lantern
dangling from his arm. as he leaned
against a frontier bar. was not symbol
leal of a recondite pleasure, but a
light to none too steady feet. But this
man had been In "63-6" or whatever
the mystic number was and In my
eyes he became, therefore, a person of
uncommon Interest. His recollection
of the topography of 63-6 was disap
pointingly hazy. There was perhaps
a plateau here and very likely a swamp
there, this stream did not amount to
much and that lake was a "lonesome
hole" what did it matter? Nothing,
of course to a man who Is marking
pine for destruction.
Every Lantern Bearer good and true
must be a lover of maps and share
the passion for atlas voyaging. And
I am sure that If a good chart of the
Narrow Vale were to be had we should,
when the summons came, fare forward
on the last long carry with a lighter
step and a braver heart.
Mr. Bogan, the organist, arrived at
church last Sunday in a new crash
suit. "You won't have to use the full
organ this morning." remarked one
of the choir.
Another British Problem of Conduct.
(From the British Weekly.)
Mrs Benham takes a but on the
beach at a seaside place, where she
and her children sit most fine days.
To her horror the next hut Is taken
by some very common people called
Strong, who have a little boy evidently
Just recovering from whooping cough.
Little Cyril Strong continually ad
vances upon tho Benham children,
wishing to play with them, and hangs
about the door of her hut. Mrs. Strong
denies the faot that Cyril has been ill
at all one day when Mrs. Benham tim
idly mentions it. What should Mrs.
Berham do?
As Its constant readers know, this
department never criticises, but, like
T. R.. merely states facts. Yet the mis
anthrope at tho adjacent desk inti
mates that our Idea of tho Klyalan
fields is a tin roof stretching to infinity,
with us the only woodpecker on it.
To a Nova.
(Had John Keats been In lronlo mood.)
Bright star! would I were steadfast as
thou art
Not In lone splendor hung aloft the
r.lght.
And watching, with eternal llda apart.
Like Nature's patient, sleeping Eremite.
Tho moving waters at their priestlike
task
Of pure ablution round earth's human
shores.
Or gazing at tho new soft fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the
moors
No yet still steadfast, still unchange
able. PUlow'd upon my fair love's ripening
breast.
To feel forever its soft fall and swell.
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest.
Still, still to hear her tender-taken
breath.
And so live ever or else swoon to
death.
Small Town Commodloaaneas.
(From the Momence. 111., Progress.
Charles McMann improved his already
cr.ramodlous residence this week with
a cement gutter and a walk from the
curb to the sidewalk.
"Mr. Taft will be conveyed at once
to the home of William Butterworth
. . . . Mr. Taft will be conveyed to the
Auguetana gym." Mollne Dispatch.
Conveyed is the verb.
We Should Love to Hear Him.
Sir: Dad says you should hear Kuss
the Butcher of Kouts. Ind., kun the
Kaiser. LOUISE MARIE.
"To avoid mistakes pleasa pay cash
ier or waitress," requests tho Mealey
cafe in Oelweln, la. But it sounds more
like a threat.
The business of the Marines is to
"clean up," and they certainly are the
original Dutch cleanser.
The Huns will have to sink more
than a few sugar ships to sweeten the
ocean they have contaminated.
OUTBntST OLE TO HOOLIGANISM
Finnish lasne Neither Pro-German Kor
Anti-German, Says Writer.
PORTLAND, June IS. (To the Edi
tor.) At last newspapers and lettera
begin to arrive from Finland, and we
have means of forming an opinion of
what has really taken place In that
unhappy country.
It is perfectly clear now that the
issue between the Red and White
Guards was not pro or anti-Germanism,
nor was it pro or anti-socialism, as the
representatives In this country of the
Finnish Kcd Guards have tried to make
the American public believe. The re
grettable civil war in Finland waa
caused by the roost glaring outburst of
hooliganism ever known in history.
The orderly elements among tho Social
ists have been eager to make a stand
against the red robbers, and there is no
reason to tu.pect that they had any
part in the outburst. Tho Swedish Social-Democrats,
who were first de
ceived by the high-sounding phrases
used by the Reds, sent a commission to
Finland to find out the truth. Tho coin
mission consisted of tho secretary of
the Swedish Social-Democratic Party,
a member of the Riksdag, Gustaf
Holler, and the secretary of the Social
ist country organization, Arvid Ther
bcrg. Mr. Moller haa given a long in
terview to the Swedish Socialist press,
where he describes the situation In de
tail and arrives finally at the follow
ing conclusion:
It is my conviction that anything; more
Insane than the happening- in Finland could
hardly be imagined. Whatever may he the
final result of the civil mar, Finnish incial
democracy la goluff to lose Immensely. From
having been a powerful party with the
greatest possibilities of making; its Influence
felt for the benefit of the working class, it
will Surely suffer a set-back for tho next
couplo of decades. And the longer the
civil war lasts, the more terrib'.e the con
sequences will be even economically to Hie
Finnish people.
Mr. Moller also pointed out that tho
Finnish Social-Democrats are divided
and that a group of very important
men among them took from the very
beginning a firm stand against the
Reds.
It la also interesting to read what
the famous Swedish Socialist leader.
HJalmar Branting. uttered in the Swed
ish Riksdag on February 20 about the
Finnish situation. It is good to re
member that Mr. Branting is passion
ately pro-ally besides being a Social
ist of world fame, and it is therefore
hard to imaglno that his words could
bo dictated cither by pro-Germanism
or by anti-Socialism. He said:
we must not forget that there are
things which explain the Finnish revolu
tion, but we do not excupe It by pointing
at the hunger and at the mistakes made
by the FiunlHh bourgeois clattees, or at the
fact that the social democrats lost their
majority In the lict. Those things do
not form an acceptable excuse for the use
of revolutionary weaponn when they were
not necessary. I ask you (the socialists
of the left), if you think it Is right to act
as the Finnish social democrats have act
ed, by rising: against a democratic Diet,
elected by general suffrage? It would be
good to get a clear answer now to the
quustlon. If you really consider it right
to resist the inaiority of tho people, and
place might against right. We protest
against every attempt to leg.ilir.o minority
rule. Independent of who tries to Intro
duce It. There was a moment, when the
Finnish bourgeois parties in the rlet
wished most eagerly that the socialists
w-ould lorm a coalition government with
them, which, of course, would have been
of the very greatest importance to the
new state. If the Heda have among them
tho bent men of the Finnish working class.
as they assure us. those best men ought
to be able to keep In order the trouble
some elements. There Is reason enough
for tho leaders of the Finnish social dem
ocrats to try to find out If they them
selves are without fault. The tone of the
propaganda, carried on for many years
by the main organ of the party, tha Tyo-
mles. haa been too fierce and often urging
violence.
In Finland and In the Scandinavian
countries all self-respecting people
have taken a clear stand against the
Red terror, independent of parties, and
It is only to be pitied that ruthless
agents of tha Red Guards, who do not
care about the means they aro using,
have managed to deceive many Ameri
can citizens, so that hlg mass meetings
give their enthusiastic support to the
hooligans which are disgracing Fin
land and Imperiling Finnish Indepen
dence. JOHN ItKNTTA.
Clyde Hotel.
FOLLY IX SiniXO WITH GERMANY
Irlah-Dorn American See Hope for
Ireland Only In Allies)' Cnnae.
SALEM. Or.. Juno 17. (To tho Edi
tor.) Thank you heartily for the
straight, clean-cut pronouncement you
make in the editorial headd "O'Leary
and the Sinn Fein." 1 am one of the
comparatively few Irlsh-born Ameri
cans in this part of the world. 1 was
17 years old when I left the dear old
land. I am fully cognizant of and 1
deplore as deeply and condemn as
heartily as any person on earth the
blundering diplomacy of Great Britain
for hundreds of years in dealing with
Ireland and the Irish, but I have never
recognized since the great world-war
began that the past attitude of Eng
land toward Ireland or toward the
United States, for that matter, should
have any influence upon our thought
or action in this struggle.
There should be no cause so dear to
an Irishman's heart as the struggle of
humanity to be free from tyranny and
oppression, the effort to make inde
pendent existence possible for small,
peaceful nations and the most intensely
aggressive Irishman for his country's
independence could not possibly take
a more decisive step against his hopes
and aspirations than to side with Ger
many in the present struggle.
Oppression or enforced ruling of
small nations and peoples will be an
Impossibility after tho defeat of Ger
many and its world-conquering war
policy and It la only through such de
feat that countries like Ireland, Poland,
Belgium. Roumanla. et al.. can hooe for
existence and recognized entity. On
tho other hand, should Germany suc
ceed in this war there is scarcely an
excuse and there is certainly little
hope, that those countries and their
like should have existence or voice in
the governing affairs of the world.
Hence, as a matter of policy for his
own country, an Irishman is the worst
kind of a fool to take any step that
tends to favor or encourage Germany
or that will in any manner weaken the
cause of the United States and our as
sociates in this war. But, laying aside
the matter of policy for Ireland. I have
no patience with tho person of Irish
blood in the United states who Is not
heart and soul In the fight on the eldc
of Uncle Sam. No matter who Is with
this country or against it on the firing
line, every man who is worthy of the
name of man and who Is living undor
tho protection of our flair should give
his whole force, cheerfully and with
out reservation, to its defense when It
Is assailed from any quarter.
There must be no compromise on this
question and I think I can assure The
Oregonlan that there Is but a very
small percentage of the Americans of
Irish blood who can be classed with
the O'Leary and other Sinn Kelners.
Most of them aro ready with heart and
hand and purse to aid tho United States
to win tho battle of the free.
FRANK DAVET.
Registrants in Shipyards.
PORTLAND. June 18. (To the Edi
tor.) Please Inform me If a man In
class 1-A is to be drafted if he has a
responsible position in a shipyard and
has a service flag from the Shipping
Board. v DAILT READER.
There has been no new regulation
affecting class 1 men engaged in ship
building. At present they are omitted
from the draft calls. The Government
has power to change this rule but we
cannot In for"" vnu as to likelihood of
change.
In Other Days.
Twenty-live Year A co.
From The Oregonlan Juno 19. 1893.
Correspondent enters protest against
storage within the city limits of 15
tons of dynamite after tho removal of
tho explosive had been ordered by the
Chief of Police.
Northern Pacific announces cut rate
of J:t5 from Portland to St- Paul as its
contribution to the rale war now on.
Six-year-old daughter of George H.
nimes seriously Injured when thrown
from buggy on the East Side.
Rev. T. L. Colo, of Portlnnd. delivers
baccalaureate scrr.ion before graduat
ing class of University of Oregon.
Seattle. First passenger train over
Great Northern, leaves on schedule tlm
with complete equipment which arrived
only two hours prior to train's depar
ture. Halt n Century Acs.
From The Oregonlan June H.
With returns from Raker County
missing. Smith leads Loan for Con
gress by a majority of 97?.
Washington. Senator Sherman in
troduces bill to promote commerce
among the several states and to
cheapen the transportation of malls.
munitions of war and naval stores.
The ancient and honorable society
bearing the name "Honoritioablliludatri
tatibusquc" announces meeting at tho
council chamber to arrance for a suita
ble celebration of tho Fourth of July.
New Tork. Convention of the Wom
en's rights organization discloses tho
employment of three women reporters
on newspapers In ditfercnt I-arta of tho
country.
Exhibition ef a cured ham weighing
60 pounds at the Union market attracts
considerable ttentlon.
WHAT nmrWF.RIES COST COIMBT
Uae of Grain, Coal. Labor and Toatasc
Appears la Statistics.
PORTLAND. Juno IS. (To tho Edi
tor.) lti Tho Oregonlan Monday aro
two articles defending tho manufac
ture of beer.
I woulu liko to give some statistics
prepared by Mr. R.illitiger, of Rallln
ger & Parrot, architects and oncmeers,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Beer uses r.o wheat, but last year
did consume C8, 000.000 bushels of
grains usable for food. Tho submar
ines sank 8.000.000 bushels.
Beer does not now ti so any cane r
beet susrer. hut last year did use 64.
000. 000 pounds of grape sn?ar, and Mr.
Hoover had been appealing that tha
pcoplo should use this grape sugar as
a substitute
The brewers last year used 3,000.000
tons of coal.
The total tonnage of raw materials,
coal and beer moved last year re
quired 200.000 freight cars and many
hundred locomotives, besides tho teams
and trucks.
Thore are 65,000 men employed by
tho brewers and altogether SOO.OOO In
the brewing and distribution and sal
of tho beer and every one needed in
essential industry.
Are not thesn things enough to con
demn the traffic?
Hut what is tho total result of that
traffic? Is It not decreased efficiency
by all who use it? Is this a time to
rarley with such a deterrent ot the
best effort of the country?
The camouflage of the beer drinkers'
turning to whisky and wine can be
avoided in the same manner. Stop tho
whole traffic and let the manpower
of the country havo a chance to win
the war. E. G. JOHNSON.
Sll Lumber Exchange.
When One la Slandered.
KERRY, Or.. June 17. (To tho Edi
tor.) If a person tells that another
person Is a pro-German, when tho lat
ter was born and raised In the United
States and never been out, what Is the
penalty. If any? A SUBSCRIBER.
There Is a civil remdy for slander
and there is a law defining criminal
libel. Tour statement Is too indefinite
to warrant a conclusion that It comes
under either head. A person who feels
that he has been libeled or slandered
should see the District Attorney or a
lawyer in private practice.
Rights of Aliens.
PORTLAND, June 18. (To the Edi
tor.) (1) Can an alien who has his
first papers buy land from an Indi
vidual and get a clear title under tho
Washington laws?
(2) Does the seizure of alien enemy
property apply to n'.len enemy land
owners who havo their first paper and
aro residing In the United States at
all times. OLD SUBSCRIBER.
(1) Tes.
2 ) Not unless such persons are In
tho custody of tho War Department-
Canadian Enlistments.
PORTLAND, June IS. (To tha Edi
tor.) Please Inform mo as to how I
can find out if my nephew has Joined
tho Canadian troops?
A SUBSCRIBER.
Write to Minister of Mlllt'.a and De
fense. Ottawa. Canada.
Common Labor on Farms.
MORO, Or., Juno 17. (To tho Edi
tor.) 1 notice The Oregonian stated
that the common wages as set at Pen
dleton should bo $3.o0. The people
here decided on t3.
C. C. CALKINS.
County Agent.
-o
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