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THE MOItXIXG OREGONIAX, SATURDAY. JUNE 22, 1918.
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rOBTlAND, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1918.
t KITCHIN THE OBSTACLE.
If Secretary McAdoo expects to get
Trom Congress a workable war tax
law which will equitably distribute
the burden of war, he will have to
Induce the House ways ancL, means
committee to place the preparation of
the bill In the hands of some other
man than Its chairman, Claude
Kitchln. The reasons may be summed
up in the remark of the Duluth Kews
Trlbune that Air. Kitchin's "chief
characteristic Is the number of kinds
of an ass he can make of himself."
He continued the cry of militarism
against the necessity for preparedness
right down to the declaration of war.
He voted against war, and after it
was declared he said: "You news
paper men forced the war, now you
have got to pay for it." He proceeded
to make good his threat by forcing
throufeh the House the worst mon
strosity of a revenue bill which Con
gress ever produced. It was so not
only because it penalized publications
of Nation-wide circulation, but be
cause, while purporting to tax war
profits heavily, it allowed a large pro
portion of them to escape and taxed
out of all proportion the earnings of
men's brains and energy as distin
guished from the income of accumu-
lated wealth.
He persuaded the House to insist
on these absurdities in conference, so
that they are included In the law as
finally passed over the opposition of
the level-headed men in the Senate.
He wished to let this law stand not
withstanding its defects and the ne
cessity of more revenue, his plea be
ing that the weather in Washington
was hot and Congress wa-nted to go
home early. When Mr. McAdoo said
a new law was necessary at this ses
sion and when President Wilson made
a practical demand for it, Mr. Kitchin
accused the former of yielding to the
Influence of a publishers' lobby and
made new threats against the pub
lishers. The falsity of his charge is
exposed by Mr. McAdoo, and he is
condemned as severely by Democratic
as by Republican newspapers, South
as well as North.
The war revenue law Is the second
Important war measure which has
fallen into the hands of a man who
was not only incompetent to handle
It, but was out of sympathy with its
main purpose. The first was the se
lective draft law, which was opposed
by Chairman Dent, of the House mili
tary committee, because he had
scruples against conscription. The ma
jority of the committee voted him
down and he handed over manage
ment of the bill to Representative
Kahn, the ranking Republican mem
ber, who had been a staunch cham
pion of preparedness. But Mr. Kitchin
carried the majority of his committee
with him, and thus was able to make
Iv botch of the revenue law.
Mr. Kitchin is eminently unfit to
e the chief framer of financial legis
lation at any time, much less at a
time when financial genius is needed,
for his intellectual horizon is no wider
than the limits of Scotland Neck,
N. CX, his home. He is a living dem
onstration of the absurdity of the
seniority rule, by which a member,
once on a committee, steps up auto
matically as long as he can secure re
election until he becomes chairman.
It was that rule which raised Repre
sentative Dent to the head of the
military committee and the late Sena
tor Stone to the head of the foreign
relations committee, although he was
opposed to the war. That rule is one
of the causes of the decay in the in
fluence of Congress. It pushes little
ynen up and keeps big men down.
f MENACE OF THE FOREST FIRE.
The present season in its menace to
the valuable forests of the country is
distinguished from other seasons in
the respect that the danger looms
earlier in the year. The very first
campers, who usually are the most
careless, are charged with a special
responsibility. Fortunately the For
est Service has started its campaign
In time, and ample warning has been
given. It is to be expected also that
offenders against the forest regula
tions will be dealt with rather se
verely. It may be found necessary to
make impressive examples of some.
The two elements which always
contribute most to fire losses in the
timber are drouth and wind, and these
exist in unusual degree this year. To
them is now added a shortage of help
for fighting fires in their incipiency.
Formerly the employes of the Forest
Service have been able to call in
emergencies upon the neighbors, and
fires which ' might have covered great
areas have been checked after bum
Ing over small tracts. This source of
labor has been greatly curtailed. Most
of the able-bodied men are in the
Army ov sire employed in other re
gions. The Forest Service itself is
depleted as to personnel and its mem
hers are working without watching
the clock.
Most of the destruction caused by
campers is due to their lack of knowl
edge of the manner ii which fire will
run along the ground. They often
think they have exercised due pre
cautions, when as a matter of fact
they have overlooked smouldering
embers which will burrow their way
through the forest mold, and perhaps
days afterward, be fanned into flame
which will sweep the district. Camp
fires should be built only in open
spaces, and then should bo completely
ncircled by a clean strip, from which
every trace of vegetable material has
been scraped away. This precaution
alone would prevent most fires at
tributed to careless campers. But
every other necessary measure should
also be adopted. Utmost care is
called for from now until the Fall
rains begin.
LATEST FORD JOKE.
Henry Ford ran for President in the
Michigan Republican primary, two
years ago. though he protested that
he was not a candidate, and carried
it and became the choice of the state
delegation in the National convention.
It was the greatest of Ford jokes. Now
the President of the United States
calls Henry Ford to the White House
and gravely asks liiru, nominally a
Republican, to submit himself to the
Democratic primary in Michigan as a
candidate for United States Senator.
It is the greatest Presidential joke.
But whether it is on the Democratic
party, or the Republican party, or the
Senate, or the Nation, or Mr. Ford,
or all together, we will not now seek
to determine.
Mr. Ford is a mechanical genius,
of highly benevolent instinct, who hus
no taste for nor knowledge of public
affairs. He fathered a Quixotic scheme
of world pacification in his peace ship,
three years ago, or less, and thus
demonstrated his peculiar ineptitude
for practical statesmanship. That
he showed himself to be zealously
desirous of doing good, and also
his readiness to spend his for
tune in that cause, is aside from the
question. The project was little more
than a burlesque, and the self-delegated
commissioners to the warring
powers were not even able to keep
peace among themselves.
The Michigan Democratic organiza
tion, which has no hope of electing a
Democrat for Senator, solemnly pro
poses to the Republican organization
to nominate Ford, and the Democrats
will do the same. They will nomi
nate him anyway, whatever the Re
publicans do. If Ford on his own mo
tion becomes also a candidate before
the Republican primary, he will likely
be successful there, too. The pros
pect of Ford for Senator is exceedingly
good.
Now Ford, who is a patriot. Is en
gaged in exceedingly important war
service in the manufacture", at his
great Detroit plants, of needed war
machinery. When it comes to auto
mobiles, tractors, airplanes and the
like. Ford is no joke, but just now he
is the most useful and indispensable
private American citizen.
Yet, for political purposes, an Ad
ministration which has "adjourned
politics" proposes to take him away
from his gigantic work, where he is
needed, and put him in a political
job, where he is not needed, and
where he will be useless, or worse.
WEALTH'S VICTISL
A bereft orphan, 17 years old, the
daughter of -a millionaire, made her
appearance before a. court in Phila
delphia, the other day, and complained
that she was unable to make both
ends meet on a miserly allowance of
7500 a year, and asked that It be in
creased so that she could maintain a
suitable social appearance. The hard
hearted judge greatly alarmed the
guardians and sponsors of the young
woman by Intimating that he might
desire to cut down, and not increase,
her allowance for the period of the
war, whereat a budget of her neces
sary expenses was submitted as fol
lows: Clothing, manicuring, shampooing and
hairdreRsing .....................$ 3.000
Household bills 4,000
Kducation and church contributions. . 2.0O0
Kntertalnment, dinners, dances and
hotels , 2.000
Physicians, opticians, dentists 1,000
Upkeep of automobiles, insurance and
clubs 5,000
Bonds, etc 850
Social duties at school and elsewhere 3,ouo
Total $20,850
Let us not hastily say that the poor
orphan had extravagant ideas of liv
ing, and that the money thus spent
was wholly wasted, and might better
have been invested in Liberty bonds
or devoted to charity or philanthropy.
All that is obvious. Yet the girl had
been reared in luxury, and the estate
which was left her by her dead father
was legally hers, and the proposed
expenditure was In harmony with the
established way of living of others
with like wealth. Is it better to de
prive her of the normal income from
her principal, and let it accumulate,
or .to let her have it and distribute it
among the clothiers, dressmakers,
manicures, chauffeurs and the like?
It is not easy to decide. There are
many who will give an off-hand judg
ment, but such decisions do not settle
anything.
The palpable fact is that the young
woman is being badly educated and is
the victim of her wealth. If the judge
had required her guardians to put her
to work, giving her, say, two hours
a day in the kitchen, and two hours
at sewing, and two other hours daily
at other useful occupations suitable
to her capabilities, and had said that
he would give her all she asked if she
could show a record of faithful per
formance of her tasks, he would have
done much to make her worthy of her
responsibilities; and a fortune in her
hands would in all likelihood be wisely
administered and its income safely
spent.
SIXGLE-THOrGHTERS.
In the present state of "adjourned
politics" the Oregon public, which
likes its politics with the regularity
of the morning cup of coffee, will be
refreshed to learn that the National
party is attempting to organize in this
state.
The National party should not be
confused with the National Non-Partisan
League. Both are going after
much the same things in much the
same way. But the officers are dif
ferent, and one is a partisan political
party, and the other is a non-partisan
political party. The reader will doubt
less pardon the .paradoxical figure of
speech in his gratitude at having the
distinction between the two move
ments made clear.
The National party was, we believe,
originally an attempted coalition of
Socialists and Prohibitionists. It has
acquired the discontented membership
from both and also the single-thought
political groups from the other par
ties. A single-thoughter is. as the
name implies, one who will submit
to the inclusion of almost anything
in a political platform so long as his
favorite remedy for political woes is
made sufficiently prominent. So it is
there is to be found in the party's
statement of principles:
Public ownership, prohibition, sin
gle tax, direct legislation, woman suf
frage, proportional representation,
seats In Congress for Cabinet mem
bers, short ballot, and a little of this
and a little of that which may find
a response in labor and farm circles,
all seasoned with freedom of the seas,
abolition of secret diplomacy and
abolishment of discriminatory tariffs
by world agreement these and a few
other things.
It is reported that one of the earnest
workers in the party has remarked
that it will be well satisfied if it
merely succeeds in Impressing the
major parties with the importance of
its own proposals. It is not a promis
ing purpose. The people do not flock
together to attain an abstract political
victory. But it has a- prospective vir
tue in the assemblage in one camp of
all those who cannot get along with
the parties with which they have been
affiliating. 'Let us hope that they can
get along better among themselves.
GOOD OCT OF SEEMING EVIL.
It looks as though the first allied
counter-offensive will be made by
Italy against the ragged, hungry,
dispirited army of Austria. With ample
food and munitions and with the aid
of British, French and American artil
lery and airmen, the Italians should
bo able to drive back the army of the
Hapsburgs unless the Germans should
reinforce them. Failure of the latter
on the Oise and before Rheims sug
gests that they have no troops to spare
and any weakening of their forces in
France might be the signal for Foch
to take the offensive in that country
also.
The brighter outlook for the allies
may be ascribed directly to tho pool
ing of their forces and to tho single
command. They have been able to
strengthen every weak point promptly
and to time each movement for the
attainment of a common end without
waste of days in conference. The
mingling of troops of the several na
tions has inspired comradeship and
confidence which have greatly stif
fened morale.
The allies were driven to unite their
armies under a single commander by
the danger arising from desertion by
Russia. That event also enabled them
to concentrate on the western front
all their munitions and material, much
of which had been formerly destroyed
or treacherously surrendered to the
enemy by Russia. The perfidy with
which Germany and Austria have
treated Russia, the constant penetra
tion of the anarchic country by their
troops and the terrible consequences
which . would flow from their con
tinued control of it have removed the
last trace of disunion among the west
ern -allies and have hardened their
determination to fight to a finish.
Thus Russia's desertion may prove
to have been a blessing, rather than a
misfortune, to the allies, while it may
be Germany's worst defeat, since it
has undone the effect of years of
laborious propaganda on the minds of
the allies. Russia is a great object
lesson, which closes their ears to Ger
man peace-talk.
MILK.
It is unfortunate for those who de
sire to obtairj a full understanding of
the milk situation that this industry,
like a good many other branches of
agriculture, lacks data of the com
pleteness that could be desired. The
Portland City Milk Commission has
recently been making some investiga
tions of costs of production and distri
bution and' so forth, and the one fact
that seems to stand out most clearly
is that few producers have precise in
formation on the subject. Commonly,
they know only that If they do not
have a balance in the bank at the end
of a certain period they are not mak
ing money.
This, of course, is obvious enough;
but it does not tend toward intelli
gent reform. How can a man mend
his business ways unless he knows
where the fault lies? And how can he
put his case convincingly before the
consuming public unless he is able to
marshal the figures? For the buyer,
however willing he may be to do the
fair thing, is so accustomed by this
time to being exploited In one way
and another that he insists on being
shown.
The waste In milk delivery, by du
plication of effort, is rather familiar
to everyone. It is not difficult to sug
gest the remedy in the abstract, al
though the application of it calls for
a- high degree of co-operation, which
means organization. But the problem
of the dairyman, both large and small,
is not so easy as that. If it be true,
for example, that 50 per cent of the
cost of his milk is In feed, 25 per cent
in the labor and 25 per cent in "other
fixed charges," which the professional
accountant would call "overhead," it
is not so easy to determine how. even
by a high degree of co-operation,
either the cost of feed, or the wages
paid to hired hands, or the investment
in lands, renewal of plant, etc., can be
largely reduced.
The dairyman deserves a sympa
thetic hearing, but he ought to be
prepared with statistics, not only as to
present costs, but past expenditures,
in their relation to the price of a
quart of milk. It is no secret that
mill feed has advanced enormously in
price; it has quadrupled as to certain
items. It is not determined whether
the question of substitutes has' re
ceived the scientific consideration it
ought to have. The present season
has been unfortunate for the pastures.
These are already drying up, a good
deal earlier than usual. Oats planted
for hay is beginning to head close to
the ground. The aphis captured the
vetch that some counted on for hay
and also for early silage. The same
pests threaten other succulents. It
takes labor to plant root crops, and
labor la scarce.
Tho dairies -which depend upon
hired help for the most of their work
are paying some of them, at least
from $85 to $90 and board; and board
is considerably more costly than it
used to be. Farm machinery costs
more, and so on. Undoubtedly milk
production is a more expensive enter
prise than formerly. The small dairy,
in which the labor is performed by
the owner 'and his family, has the
tame difflcuities as to feed and over
head, and is relieved only in the res
pect that the problem of the "hired
man" is not so pressing.
But the public is not in a mood to
acquiesce in a price advance based
upon Inefficiency. It will want to
know whether the dairyman Is em
ploying th most economical methods
reasonably possible. Does he know
the relative values of the high-priced
mill feeds, and does he rely too greatly
upon .them? Some dairymen know
more about these things than others
do. A few follow the hit-or-miss plan,
and know little or nothing of under
lying principles. Some are trying to
Improve their methods, with varying
degrees of success.
It is a question embodying too many
elements of fact and too many figures
to be discussed in the heat of par
tisanship. It is clear that we must
have milk, and that dairying will not
be long conducted at a loss. Raisers
will sell their stock to the butcher
Already they are disposing of calves
and yearling heifers to an extent that
menaces the future. There seems to
be a mutual duty in the premises on
the part of producers to reduce costs
If possible, and on the part of the
public to pay what shall be determined
to be a fair price based upon efficient
production in existing circumstances.
But if the people shall be called upon
to pay more, it will greatly lessen the
accompanying friction for the milk
producers to be able to show in a way
that all may understand that the in
crease is wholly justified.
GREAT IS THE DUST Ml I.CII.
It will be worth while for the ama
teur war gardeners In this season of
drouth to make a careful study of
the principles of moisture conserva
tion. For moisture is absolutely nec
essary to the raising of a successful
crop, and the first step in the conser
vation of food is the production of it.
It should be th ambition of every
owner of a garden to prevent the for
mation of a crust on the surface of
the ground. The Department of Agri
culture Is performing a timely service
In reminding the people again of the
value of tho "dust mulch." A dust
mulch has nothing mysterious or
technical about it. Is Is simply a
blanket of fine soil on top. which
operates as a check to evaporation.
When the ground becomes hard,
cracks appear, and these cracks invite
the evaporation that It Is necessary to
avoid. The dust mulch is produced
with a hoe or a rake, but the Imple
ment employed is not so important
as the energy which the gardener put-i
into "it. Nature demands compensa
tion. She docs not give us our garden
harvests for nothing. We must work
for them. The fact that the ground
Is clear of weeds is not an excuse for
discontinuance of cultivation.
The Department is at pains also to
inform us that every-day sprinkling
of the surface of the ground is not
approved irrigation, where water -is
available. Thorough soaking at inter
vals of a few days is better. Super
ficial irrigation encourages shallow
toot growth, and also spoils the dust
mulch.
The home garden movement Is con
tributing in unexpected ways to our
enlightenment. Some millions of men
and women now talk with easy famil
iarity of the dust mulch who even a
year ago did not know whether it was
a kind of silage or patent duster. But
the test of this newly acquired know
ledge will lie in the application there
of. More power to the elbow of the
man with the hoe as lie labors to
make one dust mulch grow where
there was none before.
The children's year campaign inau
gurated by the woman's committee of
the Council of National Defense has
aroused more widespread Interest
than its most enthusiastic supporters
counted on, according to recent of
ficial reports. It was at first In
tended to limit the number of regis
tration cards to 5,000,000, but the
number called for already has exceed
ed this by nearly half a million. The
Federal children's bureau is now call
ing attention to the necessity of "follow-up
work" if the campaign Is to be
made a complete success. Weighing
and measuring tests are of little value.
It Is pointed out, unless they lead to
corrective measures where these are
Indicated. Too much stress may be
placed upon the 99 per cent babies,
whose parents have pardonable pride
in them, but which need little or.no
help. It is the babies below par uiat
the movement Is designed to reach.
One effective way for the parents of
perfect children to show their grati
tude for the bounty of nature would
be to devote some of their time to
helping those not so fortunate.
The degree to which this Is a war
of specialists Is indicated by the fact
that down to June 7 240,000 men had
been transferred from one unit to an
other in Army camps as a result of
occupational qualification. These
transfers have numbered 40,000 a
week recently, and 200 trained inter
viewers are employed in some camps
to ascertain men's qualifications, oc
cupation, education and experience.
Various branches of the service con
stantly call for men of special skill.
Colonel R. R. Greene, who died at
Hood River last week, was one of the
men who helped in the making of
Kansas. Companion and friend of
John J. Ingalls, he was an Implacable
In the early days of the Republican
party when men's souls were tried.
Locating in the valley of the Columbia
in the fall of life, he brought wise
counsels and practices that bora fruit
It was good to know him.
True to Its habit of subservience to
any person claiming to speak on
behalf of labor, the House restored to
the Army bill the prohibition of pre
miums and bonuses for efficiency of
workmen, which tho Senate had cut
out, and the men who are willing to
do their best are to be paid no more
than those who soldier on the job or
are slow and incompetent. Yet the
war cry is "Speed up."
Women station , agents will be an
improvement. Instead of sitting
around, smoking an old pipe, they
will see that everything is tidied up
and that there Is something to drink
In the water cooler.
Members of a Methodist Sunday
school up the Valley are going into
the berry fields today and tomorrow.
The followers of John Wesley are
leaders in much of everything.
Pershing Is picking his commanders
for merit, and he knows best. That's
the. way "Old Man Grant" had, and
there never will be better.
The "Y" drives for $115,000,000.
closely following the fourth loan of
$6,000,000,000, will be easy picking for
their very smallness.
Listening to Tom Marshall in a
Democratic convention is like know
ing the clown in a circus. Everything
he says Is funny.
French Canadians active in opposi
tion to the' draft will change their
minds before the British spirit is done
with them.
The express monopoly will tilt rate;
10 per cent, but the parcel post will
continue the business of the common
people.
Just as people are getting accus
tomed to saying "Mayor Bigclow"
comes news of soon return of Mayor
Baker.
Twenty-five pounds of sugar will
put up a lot of fruit; most of tho
glassed stuff Is too sweet, anyway.
The Illinois Staats Zeitung and Its
evening annex hung on a long time,
but their suspension was certain.
Mustard is hot stuff for Summer
consumption, snd its advance in price
worries few people. .
Old Sol threw off a few calories
when he hopped the line yesterday.
Some of those fellows at Salem find
setting out easier than getting in.
AID TO RUSSIA IS DIFFICULT
American Array Would Be Confronted
by Enormous Obstacles.
PORTLAND. Juno 21. (To the Edi
tor.) C. K. Ganong writes to Tho Ore
gonian of June 18 supporting your edi
torial of June 11 regarding the dis
patch of troops to Russia
Permit me to reply to hla letter In
regard to the subject.
It Is very true that the average Rus
sian la easily led and as easily misled
and as a fighting man he knows no
superior. But as tor sending Ameri
can or allied troops to Russia, where
would we land them? What would be
our means of communication to those
troopa providing they entered Russia
via Vladivostok? How many American
officers know the Russian language
sufficiently to effect a reorganization
of the whole or part of the Russian
army? What guarantee of protection
would we have for the rear of our
forces, who would be continually har
assed by the Austro-German prisoners
at large in Russia, the Bolshevists and
the disintegrated victims of German
propaganda?
I do not think It would be advan
tageous to the entente to attempt to
place forces In the Ukraine, Great
Russia or South Russia, either mil
itarily or politically, for every sol
dier and every officer that could
be placed in the east would be in con
stant peril of their rearward communi
cations. Anglo-French forces have
been placed In the north of Finland
to protect the Finnish porta from out
lawry, but their leaders know that it
Is Inadvisable to attempt an advance
Inland for any further protection of
allied Interests.
True enough. Great Britain has
placed armies In Palestine Hnd In
Mesopotamia to strike against Turkey,
not directly against Germany. But
what was the reason of these armies
being placed there? General Allenby's
army Is the same army that defended
Egypt, a part of the empire, against
the Turko-German assaults early In the
war and Is now firmly established well
up In Palestine to make permanent
the protection of Egypt and the Suez
Canal. The purpose of the army be
yond Bagdad is analogous. Those
troops, xomposcd largely of Indians.
are there to impede any Turko-German
effort aimed at the Persian oil
wells, as the immediate objective, and
to India as the ultimate. Therefore it
Is quite Tjeceasary for British forces to
be operating In Palestine and Mesopo
tamia, regardless of what the military
plans of Allenby and Marshall consist.
If the United States and her allies
csuld have placed an army In Russia
when there was in realty an eastern
battlefront and before the fall of Riga.
Dvlnsk and Lutsk and the complete
collapse of the loyal Roumanian army,
then success might have resulted.
But that day has passed forever and
the only front that will prove de
cisive is tho western front, whatever
may be the wishes of others.
EDWIN' F. DREHER.
I LOVE THEM ALL.
Sometimes In the street 'tis I meet one.
Again In a city bound car;
Perhaps in long ranks they are march
ing by.
But I claim them wherever they are.
For I love every lad In the service.
Grave or gay, dark or fair, short or
tall:
They don't all call me mother.
But they are mine and I love them
all.
I sent my own boys O, so proudly.
And sm!!td as I watched them de
part. Not a tear did I shed when I kissed
them
And I crushed every doubt In my
heart.
There are two soldier boys and one
sailor.
Who went at their country's first
call.
And soldiers and sailors, whoever they
are,
God bless them, I love them all.
'Tis the mother heart of the Nation,
Beating warm in one mother's breast.
My own is out there among them.
My dearest, mjr bravest, my best.
It Is my country,' my flag, they're de
fending; For me they roust stand or may fall.
My arm reaches out to enfold them;
God bless them. I love them all.
MRS. NELLIE A. WARNICK.
Wedderburn, Or.
'o Invidious Distinction.
SEASIDE. Or., June 20. (To the Ed
itor.) I enlisted In the regular Army
last December and was rejected at
Vancouver Barracks, my discharge
stating that I was disqualified for serv
ice In the United States Army on ac
count of right inguinal hernia.
1 have been examined by the local
board for this district and placed in
class A -1 and have been informed that
I will be taken and will have to sub
mit to an operation.
I am willing and anxious to serve
my country In any capacity that the
Government sees tit to use me. but don't
you think It only fair under the above
circumstances that I be allowed to en
ter the service as a volunteer Instead
of being conscripted?
A SUBSCRIBER.
Except for the fact that the volun
teer may choose tho branch of service
which he believes he will like best,
there Is no difference betwen voluntary
and selective service. Yet the drafted
man may state a preference and if his
past experience Indicates that he is
peculiarly qualified for that branch, he
Is likely to be so placed whenever men
are needed therein. The drafted man
has all the privileges of the volunteer.
His treatment, chance for advancement
and opportunity to distinguish himself
are just as great. As registrants are
not permitted to volunteer, tho Gov
ernment has effectually forestalled any
effort to elevate volunteers above others
who are serving their country with
willingness and with equal valor.
No charge Is made by The Oregonian
for answering questions. As you have
not given an adequate address, the
money you enclosed has been turned
over to the Red Cross.
Figuring the Monthly Payroll.
PORTLAND, June 21. (To the Edi
tor.) -Please publish In your paper tho
answer to the following:
How Is overtime figured In making
up monthly payroll?
Is It figured on the basis of the) actual
working days In the month, or Is it
figured by taking the calendar days of
the month?
If an employe should leave before tho
month Is out, would his monthly salary
be divided by 30 or 31 days In the
month to get the average per day: or
would his salary be divided by the
actual days he has worked In the
month? AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
Each individual business has Its own
system of figuring payrolls. Tho most
widely used plan, however, where a
monthly salary Is paid. Is to base It
upon a 30-day month, and the wage
per day Is found by dividing the amount
of tho monthly salary In dollars by 30.
Overtime Is then figured upon that
basis.
In format Ion on Land Opening.
ASTORIA. Or.. June 10. (To the Edi
tor.) Kindly inform me where I can
get Information about the lands In
Oregon to bo thrown open for home
stead settlers. I am a soldier's widow
and would like ver., much to make use
of my rights. SOLDIER S WIDOW.
Write to United States Land Office,
Portland.
O.XLY ISSIB IS WASTES OF FOOD
Rev. Mr. Boozer Insists Consumption by
Brewers Is No Mere Trifle.
GRANTS PASS, Or.. June 19. (To the
Editor.) A closing word to Mr.
Churchill, with your kind permission.
Why this fervent and repeated defense
of the brewer by a food administration
official when prohibition' Is not an
issue at all, but food conservation only?
Cannot the American brewer defend
himself without the help of men in
Federal positions?
Why. Mr. Churchill, persist in raising
an Issue that no one else haa raised at
any time, the'matter of wheat used in
brewing? Some, good people are neith
er fools nor Ignorant
Why ask the brewers to testify today
as to the sugar content of beer, when
to establish its purity and food value
they In 1911 testified that It did con
tain both cane and beet sugar? See
Brewers' Yearbook for that year. Never
until the use of susrar was condemned
as a waste did they come out with
their defense that none Is used. Ask
the manufacturers of candy what has
happened to the price of glucose since
It has been made a substitute for sucar
by order of the Food Administration.
But stick to the issue before us,
which never was sugar, until you
thought you had caugtit the preacher
asleep. It's food grains that are con
fessedly being wasted every day. You
talk as if it were a mere trifle that is
so wasted. Let me Introduce you to the
Brewers" Yearbook for 191T. published
early In the present year and on page
11 let the brewer testify for himself In
his own defense. He uses for brewing
the following percentages of the crops
named amounting to the total amounts
indicated:
"Corn, used In brewing-. St6.5T4.527
pounds, 5S per cent; barley, used in
brewing, 1.S61.254.9S0 pounds. 22.5 per
cent; rice, used in brewing, 141.249.292
pounds. 12.5 per cent."
If the Food Administration can
justify this waste and is wlllinir it
should go on with their knowledge,
sanction and defense, the while scrap
ing the flour bins and denying all
wheat products In Just four states ex
cept there be others of recent date.
closiiiK four mills In the wheat country
and telling us of the terrible food sit
uation of the allied forces, warning us
to be careful where we throw spikes,
tools, etc., if these are the facts in the
case haven't some of us poor mortals a
rlghUjto lift our voices In good-natured
and earnest protest?
Come. Mr. Churchill, there are mil
lions of .us good Americans who will
match your undoubted patriotism in
every self-denial you can impose and
more than that, we invite It. but In the
name of that patriotism won't you
please be logical, and stick to the text.
If the Food Administration is going to
admit this waste of food and defend It.
say so and quit,
I leave the verdict as to the merits
In this controversy to the great number
of readers who have patiently followed
us during the past few weeks. Since I
had the first word you are welcome to
the last. My position Is supported by
our Representatives and Senators from
this state, as letters In my hands show.
Let us drop the non-essential things
and both get down to the business of
saving every ounce of food, whether we
have to take It out of the housewife's
flour barrel or from the brewer's bins.
L MYRON BOOZER.
German Tyranny Painful.
Atlantic.
German tyranny does not consist
simply in an exorbitant application of
the dogma of might. It has special
mortifications, peculiar to the race,
which make it even more painful. If
that Is possible. It is not inspired
solely by the systematic despotism and
Immorality cynically adopted by Ger
many: it Is not an unadulterated ap
plication of any doctrine: it springs
from & genuine lack of morality, and
from a welllspring of vicious animal
ism, which psychologists have often
detected I nthe German blood. Not that
I am so foolish as to maintain that all
Germans are low. malignant and
brutal: but is can be said without hesi
tation that such Is generally speaking,
their psychical type, more or less em
phasized: that such are their racial
characteristics, as appears from in
numerable facts gathered from the lips
of our repatriates of every locality.
Mail for A. K. F.
HOOD RIVER, Or.. June 20. (To the
Editor.) (1) Please tell me how much
postage to put on letters to soldiers
In France.
(2) May we send small packages,
such as cakes of sweet chocolate, can
dles, to them without permission ot
their Captain?
(3) How long does It take to get a
letter from the United States?
INTERESTED.
(1) Domestic rate 3 cents for ordi
nary letter.
(2) No.
(3) From IS to 30 days, if the sol
dier is with his command that is if he
In not on detached duty.
AMERICAN MACHINE GUNS EFFICIENT TOLD IN
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN
Frank G. Carpenter, special contributor to The Sunday Oregonian,
goes poking about all over America wherever war activities are on.
When his articles appear they have the facts, easy of assimilation,
and accurate to the 'nth degree. Read in tomorrow's issue what he
has to say of the muchly discussed Browning machine gun, both light
and heavy, which is to spray death on the victorious road to Berlin.
THE AMERICAN RAINBOW Exiled from their homes by the
brutish advance of the field gray of Prussia, it was the refugees
of France who learned how American mercy heals and comforts.
Here is a Sunday yarn that brings hardship and deprivation even
worse near to the ken of the reader, but brings as well the
knowledge that men and women and children are not altogether
forgotten by their kind.
WHEN THE WOUNDED ARE BROUGHT IN To the uninitiat the
hospitals of the war zone are vaguely located places, where nebu
lous nurses move through the wards of pain. Over all is the glamour
of romance and mercy. In the Sunday issue an American woman
who served with the ambulances of the French army lends light
for the understanding of what actual hospital work is.
LAST OF THE CALIPOOIAS Jake Fern, last of his ancient tribe,
has joined the phantom hunters beyond the spirit lake. Curiously
enough, Douglas County mourns his passing not as one of the
picturesque people who held the land in the long ago, but as an
Indian whose soul was white. R. A. Booth writes of Jake Fern
in the Sunday paper. ?
TROUBLES OF A TALL GIRL She has a difficult time at the busi
ness of being "divinely tall," for her knees hunch up when she sits
down, and the dressmaker gasps at her skirt length, and her
progress is beset with difficulties and embarrasments. Ada Pat
terson's brief for the tall girl is worth reading. She says that joy
is not necessarily the portion of girls of the Gibson type.
NINETY IN THE SHADE The ardor with which the orb of day went
about his Summer wooing passes not unremarked by W. E. Hill,
foremost American illustrator, whose page of crayon in the Sunday
issue is apropos. The woes of all who brave the superfluous
geniality of the fir6t warm day are intimately depicted.
LITTLE STAR FROM PORTLAND This is a story from New York,
where Mildred Keats, formerly of Portland, is winning plaudits
and renown as an artistic dancer. But Mildred is the same jolly
little girl that Portland knew, asserts the correspondent, and her
charming disposition is unspoiled by adulation. With photographs.
A Nickel and a Nod Will Buy
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN.
In Other Days.
Titf-riTe Tears Ago.
From Tho Oresonian June --. J $93.
Washington. The shipment of gold
from London to New York la looked on
as having shown that the tide has
turned. There has been no gold ex
ported in three weeks.
For the second time the Northern Pa
cific has slashed transcontinental rates
and made a reduction which for sud
denness and extreme lowness Is calcu
lated to throw the Great Northern's
cut into the shade.
Washington. One of the sad sights
of Washington during the past ten days
and which was made more sad be
cause of the loud guffaws of John
Markley and Dan Murphey was the
figure of lion. Asahel Bush, sitting
without the "presence" chamber argu
ing with Thurber as to whether ho
should be -admitted to see the Presi
dent. Hiram E. Mitchell and Maud Som
mervllle were married last night at the
First Congregational Church, Rev. T. E.
Clapp, officiating.
P. Chapell-Brown has changed Ms
resilience from the heart of the city
to University Park.
Half n Century Ago.
From The Oreronian Juno -J2. 1S.
Washington. As the National cur
rency bill now stands it allows the
issue of $20,000,000 of National cur
rency to the banks which have less
than $5 In circulation to each Inhabi
tant and provides for the withdrawal
to the same amount from those states
having a surplus within one year.
New York. Tlic wife of Manton
Marble, of the World, died yesterday.
Liverpool. George Francis Train at
tempted to make a speech last night,
but was hissed off.
Advices from Grant County state
that the mines are turning out well
and business of all kinds Is successful.
Amonsr the recent marriages are.
Albert II. Bullock and Martha A. Bell,
of Oswego, and John T. Medcalf and
Mrs. Annetta W. Woodward.
HONORING THE PASSI.VO FLAG
Writers Think Portland People Fall to
Show Respect for Colors.
VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash..
June 20. (To the Editor.) Friday
evening my wife and I had the pleasure)
of watching the Flag day parade and
we made it our business to see It In
several places In order to see for our
selves how many real patriots thers
are In this city, and we were surprised
and ashamed to see how many slack
ers (that's what they are) almost re
fuse to remove their hats or acknowl
edge In any way the passing of their
country's Hag. Is this a good example
of Portland's patriotism? I am a vol
unteer myself, not a drafted man. I had
as much to leave behind as any man In
this city, but I saw my duty, as every
other man should see it. and the quick
er that more of the city's young men
see it the sooner the war will end.
In this time of our country's great
need one man is no better than another.
Let every man come forth and do his
duty.
In the school that I was brought up
fh. w-hich was in New York, we were
taught that our flag stood for every
thing that was right and good and that
we should acknowledge it wherever
and whenever we saw it by some form
of salute. Therefore It would seem
that some of you Portland people have
anything but the right feeling toward
your flag. I would like to hear from
some of these so-called patriots.
JOHN L. YOUNO.
PORTLAND. June 20. (To the Ed
itor.) Why Is It that at parades and
reviews hundreds of red-blooded Amer
icans refuse to lift their hats in salute
to regimental or organization colors
passing In review? Can't It bo put up
to every American that he is offering
silent disrespect to the flag and Insult
to the men marching under it when he
refuses to uncover while the flag
passes? OLIVER HELFRICH.
Classification of Pharmacists.
MILTON. Or.. June 20. (To the Edi
tor.) Will a registered druggist, now
employed In a drugstore, who Is classi
fied In 4-A. come under the head ot
non-productive employe?
A SUBSCRIBER.
If your work Includes filling pre
scriptions It will probably be held that
you are engaged in a productive em
ployment. The classification of clerks
as non-productive employes applies to
those holding positions where minor
skill or tratntner is required.