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lO THE MORNING OltEGOXIANY BATTJEDAT, JUNE 23, 1918. 'Y'l'iY'l I PORTLAND, OREGON, Entrd at Portland (Oregon) Postofflce a second-class mail matter. Subscription rates invariably In advance (By Mall.) Dally, Sunday included, one year ...... lially, Sunday included. Fix months ..... Dally, Sunday included, three months ... -.-? Jaily, Sunday included, one month .... Daily, without Sunday, one year ....... 7a liy, without Sunday, six months .. Tally. without Sunday, one ruontn . . .. "Weekly, one year Sunday, one year buuday tnd weekly 73 .. 6.O0 .. 3.23 . . ,. J-OO . . 2 fill S.iU ..$9.00 (By Carrier.) Tlallv Rnni m v tnr luderi AnA VMt Dally, Sunday Included, one month . - . . . Daily, Sunday Included, three months ... Daily, without Sunday, one year ........ Daily, without Sunday, three months ... Dally, without Sunday, one month. 60 How to Remit Send postofflce money or der, express or personal check; on your local (jink. Stamps, coin or currency are at own er s risk. Give postofflce address in luU, In cluding county and state. Fotaire Rate 12 to 16 pages. 1 cent: 18 to 32 pages. 2 cents; 84 to 48 pages, H cents; 60 to tD pages, 4 cents; 62 to 76 pages, 5 cents; 78 to 82 pages, 6 cents. Foreign post age, doublo rates, . Eastern Bnsiness Office Verree ConX lln. Brunswick building. New York; Verree ft Conklin. Steger building; Chicago: Verree Conklln. Free Press building. Detroit, Mich ; Fan Francisco representative, R. J. Bldwell, 342 Market street. JUMBUl OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press Is exclusively enti tled to the use lor republication of all nw dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper, and also tns local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. rORTLAVD, SATURDAY, jn.TB.t9. 1B18. 8. O. S. Many reasons may be given why Portland has not subscribed to its $6,000,000 quota, in War Savings. But none of them are good reasons. All are excuses. The only test of patriot ism nowadays is results. Nothing else counts. Nothing else will defeat Ger many and her allies. Nothing else. Results at home; results at the battle front. Failure of ammunition may defeat our Army: failure of money will equally defeat the Army. In this case the menace of failure shadows the American Army. If a soldier deserts he is shot; if American citizens desert American soldiers but It Is Incon ceivable. The War Savings Stamps have been offered as an investment. They are a good investment, the best in the world. Tour money is given back in full, with 4 per cent in terest compounded, in five years or less. Or it is given back at any time (on ten days' notice), and 3 per cent interest is added. No other invest ment compares with It either In safety or in fluidity. But it is more than an investment. It is a duty, an obligation, a necessity, a test, a demand, a loud and impera tive call upon all American citizens. There is no way to turn a deaf ear, and to keep your conscience quiet, and be a 100 per cent citizen unless you buy, provided, of course, that you have the money or can get it before January 1, 1919 any amount from $4.17 to one thousand dollars. , The idea is prevalent that "War Savings Stamps are for children. True. The war, too, is for the chil dren, and for their children after them. But it must be fought by men and women. The money to fight It must be furnished chiefly by men and women. The children are doing their part in buying the stamps. The rest must be done through a deliverance by American manhood and woman hood, unlocking their pockets to meet the emergency. The War Savings Stamps are for men and women all Americans and their allies alike. The 6tato of Oregon is evidently doing well. But Portland is far behind. The day may be saved only by men and women of liberal means as well as other men and women of moderate resources. A Limit Club is being or ganized in Portland, by which every one who is able will subscribe to a $1000 bond, for himself, and aa many other $1000 bonds as he can for the members of his family. There are hundreds - and thousands of citizens who are able to respond, by joining the Limit Club. If they do, the $6,000,000 Portland quota will be raised. If they do not, Portland must have, for the first time in its entire history of patriotic endeavor, the word "failure" written across Its brow. If Portland fails, other American cities may be expected to fail; and the war will be a failure. It is up to ' Portland to win the war. f EXPANSION OF THE NAVT. , Information as to the degree to which the American Navy has been expanded In the last year and is to be expanded in the coming fiscal year is carefully concealed, but some in ferences may be drawn from the in crease in the enlisted force asked by the Navy Department and authorized by the Navy bill. There were in the Navy on April 1, 191S, 87,000 men, of whom all except 3625 were actu ally aligned to duty. The proposed Increase to man ships, which will be completed before July 1, 1919, is 44, 485, or about BO per cent, which im plies that the fighting force of the Navy will be increased to that extent during the coming year. As the 1-111 provides that work be re turned on the three-year expansion programme on July 1, 1919, a large further increase of personnel may be expected in the succeeding year and there may easily be 200,000 enlisted men in the regular Navy two years hence. The division of the new men among the several types of ship warrants the Inference that at least four battleships are to be completed in the next year. As three times as many men are wanted for destroyers as are now in service on that type of vessel, we shall liave within a year about four times jas many as we had last April. That (should fulfill the promise that the JJnited States will soon have the great est destroyer fleet in the world, and H should assure the early extermina tion of the U-boat. In addition to the Increment men tioned. Admiral Palmer informed the house naval committee that the Navy would need 17,000 men In training, a permanent aviation force of 4000, a further force of 13,000 for vessels now building but not Included in his tables. end 8000 for vessels authorized but not laid down. Those figures total 42,000 men. Additional officers would bring the total officers and men close to 200,000. To these must be added the naval reserve and naval militia. !jPAlE4A &Uy& gervicft a transort, many men -will be in the American naval service as the British navy counts. FROM OCR BOYS. Mr. Mac Rae, of The Oregonian, Just back from France, delivers for the Oregon and Washington soldiers a re markable message to the folks at home. It tells of health and hope, work and willingness, sacrifice and satisfaction, duty and determination: but never a. word of discouragement or dismay. The boys who went blithely away to the grand adventure have become men, strong in faith and will to serve and save. There are no heroics about it all. If war seemed to them a chance for glory, they have learned that it Is but the stern and terrible test of manhood performing itssublim est task doing and dying, if need be, that others may live in peace and honor and safety. Not many of the Oregon boys have given up their lives. Not many, it may be hoped, and, indeed, believed, will be called on' to give them up. But they are ready and even willing. To untaught youth death is ever awful; but to men transfigured by the miracle of brotherhood, it is easy. For, face to face with its many manifesta tions, the men in France nave learned that there are a thousand worse things. One of them is the overpowering con sciousness that, in this climax of hu manity's perils, one may have failed to meet every test. So all is well with the boys. They are there to war for the right, and to defeat and crush wrong; and they are ready. If we have failed at home in moral or spiritual preparedness for whatever may happen, our boys have now supplied the true Impulse to for titude and resignation. AN UNEXHAUSTED TOCABCXABT. Those persons who are acquainted with the volubility of Mayor Hanson, of Seattle, will be surprised to learn that there is anything whatever that he has never said. Tet today over his own signature a statement of things more or less important that he has never uttered is printed In The Ore gonian. He has never said, for one thing, that he will be a candidate for the United States Senate in 1920. Why he should go to the pains to make that known is mystifying, unless It be that the cataloguing of anything he has never said is a matter of public Importance. But If it be the Implica tion that The Oregonian has ever said that Mayor Hanson has ever said that he would be a candidate for the Senate in 1920, let us now and herewith heatedly deny that we have ever said that he ever said it. All In all, we pride ourselves that we are Just as good a never-saider as Mayor Hanson. Therefore it is averred that we also have never said that the Mayor had never forgiven Senator Jones for defeating him. Nobody should accuse Mayor Han son of refusing to forgive anything or anyone. A defeated candidate who has sufficient self-appraisement to ad mit that defeat was his own fault is too broad-minded to bear ill-will. And what a wonderful thing it is to find one of that type. The common run of defeated candidate loses because of the machinations of political bosses, or the conspiracy of the newspapers, or the expenditure of vast sums of money by the wicked corporations. The exception has a humility deserv ing of better reward than mere mu nicipal office. Those who admire self-effacement will, therefore, take courage from the fact that Mayor Hanson has also never said that he will not be a candidate for the Senate in 1920. AMERICAN LABOR IX WAR. Most valuable service to the allies has been done by the American labor mission to allied countries, for it has imparted to the minds of their work ingmen the clear view of war issues which is taken by the union labor of America. Unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor have never been deceived as to the foreign Influences which control the Socialist party in this country, and since the outbreak of war they have recognized the inspiration of that party to be pro-German. They have seen that the movement to bring about an interna tional peace conference of labor was made in Germany, and was designed to help Germany by causing division on class lines in countries that fight Germany. That Internationalism of labor which is an offshoot of Social ism has gained a far stronger hold on the British and French unions than on those of the United States, where Socialist efforts to win control of the Federation have always been defeated. Hence British and French unions have been inclined to heed German over tures for a labor peace conference, while American unions promptly rec ognized them as intrigues of the enemy to divide the allies. That is the view which the Ameri can labor mission gave to British labor, as explained by William Short, president of the Washington State Federation of Miners and a member of the delegation. His answer to the plea that there could be no harm In representatives of British labor meet ing those of German labor was that the German laboring men would be "representatives of no power what ever." He proved this by recalling that at an international conference of coal miners at Carlsbad in 1913 It was proposed that all coal miners' unions throughout the world should agree, in the event of war, to refuse to work. The British. French, Bel gian and' Italian miners agreed, but the Germans "were stampeded," and Mr. Short continued: They bo freed us not to make them even consider the proposition. They said that If we so much aa made them vote on it their leaders would be Imprisoned on their re turn home and their property confiscated. Now, if the authorised representatives of German labor hava no power to deal with you In times of peace In a neutral country, of what value do you think would be their conversation now In time of war, with their autocratic government more powerful than ever? No. Tou hava a voice in your gov ernment. They have none In theirs. You can be heard in your government as we in America can be heard In ours. No German laboring man can bo heard In his govern ment, and therefor wo can have no direct dealings with him. That argument went right home to a British labor audience, for it knew that labor had so much influence over the British government that Premier Lloyd George's last speech defining tfie allied war aims was made to a labor delegation, while such a body in Germany could not get access to tne unanceuor, ana tne answer to a strike is court-martials by wholesale. An old miner said after hearing Mr. Short: Those Americans have Ideals. If our peo ple had thought as they do from the be ginning the war would be over now. Of .the sentiment toward America Mr. Short said: Bverywhar In England and In Franca I jgot jds that we Americana art putting the punch In the war. They are looking to to win It, They don't expect to stop, or to slow up, but they feel that we hava the power. . It is up to Americans to live up to the expectations they have raised, both for the sake of their own country and for the sake of the people beside whom they are fighting, for they come fresh and strong into the fray, while the allies are worn by nearly four years of fighting. GOOD MACHINES. BUT NO TEAMWORK. By recent reorganization and ap pointments. President Wilson has brought about efficiency and speed in the several parts of his war admin istration, but he has not got them in the Government as a whole, for he has not brought these parts into co ordination to form a smoothly-working organization. He can do so only by establishing a war cabinet. That is the opinion of the anonymous writer in the Outlook, for whom the editor of that publication vouches and who evidently knows his subject. A synopsis of his article is presented In another column. The Improvement which the Presi dent has made In his Administration during the' last few months is great. He has put the chief agencies for supplying the Government In the hands of roeiiTvlio do things and he has given them authority within the limits of their respective departments, but he has not brought them to gether to carry out one general plan, he has provided no body to devise such a plan and to keep his various machines from getting In each other's way and doing the same things In dif ferent ways. There is nobody besides himself to decide questions as they arise, to revise plans as necessity re quires or to plan ahead. The Presi dent is trying to do it all, and it Is more than any man can do, even a superman. The new engineers have speeded up their machines Immensely, but by so doing they have added to the danger of collision, and they are running a go-as-you-please. They need to be worked together into a team, and to be kept running as a team. This can be done well by nothing but a war cabinet, exercising authority over all as delegated by the Britain tried to run the war without a war cabinet for more than two years, and it floundered from one blunder to another. During the year after the war cabinet was formed it won success In every field except one Russia and there its allies must share the responsibility for blunder ing. In producing munitions, food and ships and in raising armies it did wonders. There is good reason to doubt whether the British army could have withstood the shock of this Spring without the great effort of Lloyd George's first year with a war cabinet. A similar body in this country is inevitable. The only question is how much experience will be needed to convince the President, and how much will It cost In life, money and exten sion of the war. He can learn by experience and by criticism, for the Improvements made during the last six months prove that, but will he not learn further by the experience of other nations rather than that of his own? INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA. All of the great crop of news and unconfirmed rumors from Russia and all the statements of Russian leaders who have fled from Bolshevik ter rorism to allied and neutral countries point to one conclusion that the sit uation in that country is already ripe, and may soon become overripe, for allied Intervention. The report that the Bolshevik gov ernment has been overthrown and that Lenin e and Trotzky have fled is cred ible, for recent events, so far as they are positively known, have tended to that result. Anti-Bolshevik delegates have been elected to the Soviets, and German support appears to have been given to Lenlne in "residue Russia" only until German penetration had progressed so , far that the Kaiser's hold on the country was firm, for in Finland and the Ukraine German troops have crushed or are fighting the Bolshevikl and German policy would not tolerate a republic. Reports . that ex-Czar Nicholas has been murdered are repeated from so many sources and such a deed would be so natural an outcome of revolu tion that they seem credible, but the rumor that General Korniloff, sup ported by German troops, has captured Moscow is Improbable, for his march on Petrograd last September was begun for the avowed purpose of re newing the war. Equally improbable is the story that Grand Duke Nicholas has been pro claimed Czar, unless it has been done without his consent, for he proved the ablest and most determined General in fighting Germany. The only theory on which his acceptance of the crown from Germany could be explained is that he has set the interest of the Romanoff dynasty above his patriotic disposition to free Russia from for eign domination the motive which controlled his actions before the revo lution. , One fact stands out clearly above the confusion that Russia as a whole is powerless to make ' its wishes known through any single agency which could speak with au thority, but there are many signs that Russia wants to be rid of the Lenine gang and to have the military aid of the allies In driving out the Germans and establishing a democratic govern ment. Cities elect anti-Soviet dele gates to the government. ICatherine Breshkovkaya, grandmother of the revolution, calls for allied interven tion. Alexander Boublikoff, a leader of the progressive party and member of the first provisional government, makes the same call in an article in the New York Sun. So does Peter Platonof f, representing hundreds of in tellectuals, in a letter to the New York Times. So does the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce of Moscow. That is the deBlre of Colonel Semenoff, whose band of Cossacks is the chief obstacle to German penetration to the Pacific. A delegation of the Cadet party calls on America for aid for the same end. Kerensky appears In Lon don, proclaiming that Russia desires help to renew the war. Every word that comes from Russia or Russians, exclusive of Bolshevik or German sources, is to the same effect: "Come over and help us." Any move for allied intervention is branded by the Bolshevikl as a move for counter-revolution, implying that it is either for the purpose of restor ing monarchy or of establishing bourgeois republic That is a Bolshe vlki -German lie. The only force In Russia, outside of the Romanoffs and their .retainers, which aims to re establish monarchy is the Germans. The desire of those Russians who call for allied intervention is declared by Mr. Platonoff to be "that the Russian people shall by their ballots determine the form of government under which tiiey. Hlsb, tf Jive.'t md lis, expresses on behalf of his group a preference for a federal republic similar to the United States. If the people desire a Socialist republic, they would be free to establish one, for he says there are Socialists in his group who told him that, when the American commission visited Russia, "the counsels of Mr. Root and of Mr: Russell were not far at difference," though one. is styled 'a capitalist and tho other is a Socialist. The essence of their thought was that "Russia should present a unified pha lanx to the common foe and settle without foreign complications the in timate, family question" whether Con servatives or Socialists should rule. Those Americans who'oppose armed intervention by the allies permit aver sion to interference in the affairs of another nation to blind them to the plain facts of the situation. One of these facts is that there is already armed foreign intervention Ger man intervention which is spread ing rapidly eastward. There is also armed Intervention by a Czecho-Slovak army, which is fighting its way through Siberia in the hope of taking ships to France for the purpose of fighting Germany. The question is not whether there shall be intervention; it is whether Ger man intervention shall continue un opposed or shall be met by allied intervention. The effect of the one is to enslave Russia and to extend German power throughout Eastern Europe and Northern and Western Asia; the effect of the other would be to set Russia free to arrange her own affairs with the economic aid of the allies, to drive the Germans back within their own boundaries and to deprive them of the resources which they even now use to subjugate West ern Europe. When we consider the consequences which would flow from German dom ination over Russia, which would carry with it control over Northern Persia, the Black and Caspian seas, and power to drive the British out of Turkey and practically to add that country to a German Empire stretch ing from the North Sea and the Arctic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, also eastward to the Pacific Ocean, we can realize that Germany could afford to abandon all her conquests in the west and all her colonies in order to consolidate this vast dominion. Thence she could penetrate China another derelict na tion bring it under German control and force Japan to make terms. Then preparations could begin to conquer the rest of the world with armies and navies with which those of the present day would not compare, in a war which would make even this war seem insignificant. Both duty to Russia and the highest self-interest in fact the other duty to make the freedom of mankind safe from a fu ture menace to Its existence dictate that America should head the allies in going to the rescue of Russia. There should be no watchful waiting In this case, for every day's delay is a day lost to Russia and to the allies and is a day gained by Germany. Coincidences are not all happenings. For example: Just as the Seventh Day Adventists in three big confer ences In the Northwest concluded their camp meetings came the call for tents that could not be supplied from Camp Lewis and shipments were made to Cle Elum the same day from Port land, Tacoma and Walla Walla. These are hard times for matri monial slackers of all kinds. If they don't marry the draft catches them. If they get divorced or fall to support their wives, it catches them again. Their only escape Is the straight and difficult path of conjugal fidelity. Ain't It awful. Archie? Senator Borah Is an able and con vincing speaker, but his words will have more weight with the Russians if well interpreted, and the interpreter would be an American Army taking food to the hungry and guns to the Russians who want to fight Germany. In a divorce suit a day or two ago the evidence showed the couple had lived in apartment-houses nine years. and, of course, wtihout a baby. What other result can be expected In such a case? The person who works a fake war charity is as bad as one who grafts on war necessities. Petty statutes provide the punishment, and wide publicity will spread the disgrace. We are prepared to believe that the Liberty motor is a marvel, but it did not become one until many months after its perfection had been pro claimed. Every thresherman this year should take a portable coop and a lot of chickens as he makes the rounds of his "set-ups." Not a kernel should be wasted. Mars never was noted for chivalry. He pushes woman aside in the Senate and drives her into slavery at the battle front. He is an unmannerly old brute. Real Summer begins next week, the time of the popular band concerts by Mr. Campbell's American band. Musi cal memories of last Summer linger. Before the United States will have equaled the achievement of Canada, it must have more than 7.000,000 men under arms. We have Just begun. i Not a week passes when the British airmen fail to give tho Rhine cities a touch of high life. Germany pays dearly for bombing hospitals. It is to be hoped men will not take up some of these new outing fashions that Include breeches buttoned at the sides. If Russia is to be enlightened on America by propaganda. Dr. Galvanl is hereby nominated for chief. Von Kuehlmann pays the penalty which awaits every German who In advertently tells the truth. Every day or two an I. W. W. stum. bles over the espionage law. It Is a trap with sharp teeth. If the big parties in Wisconsin fuse this Fall it will bo to beat the pro Hun balance. They were gentle winds yesterday. and next must be gentle rains. Tho "rare" days are passing, and they have been the best. Next month for thunder, lightning and rain. Portland does not know how to laejt, .-- . . TOO MIST INDEPENDENT BOARDS. Administration Ises Motloa for Lark f War Cablaet. The second article in the Outlook, making an appraisal of the Adminis tration, by a man who has "a position of responsibility In tho Government service," tells the lack of co-ordination among the many bureaus and commis sions engaged with the war and how they may be organized Into an effect ive machine. The author says that, when the United States declared war, the heads of the 10 departments, who compose the Cabinet, and the various independent bureaus and commissions were left in their places and the Gov ernment was expanded by formation of a 'number of special administrative bodies. Most of them were made re sponsible to the President, but "their chiefs were not given Cabinet posi tions." The Cabinet "could rarely meet more than twice a week or give more than passing attention to the general prob lems of mobilisation and strategy," so for this service "the President depend ed upon the Council of National De fense," headed by six Cabinet officers. But this body "did not take Itself seriously as a policy-forming body," did not decide the policy of depart ments, did not co-ordinate them and had no authority over the numerous other executive bodies, some of which deal with such important matters as finance, shipping, food and fuel. An attempt to add to It the heads of all the war-making executive bodies came to naught and its influence has steadily diminished. Here is the situation: A group consisting of Mr. McAdoo, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Hurley, Mr. Baruch. Mr. McCor mlck and Dr. Garfield, now mets with the President every Wednesday afternoon; but that is as near aa wo hava got to a general policy board. Each one of our twenty or thirty depart ments and administrations has. therefore, gone Us own way. Duplication of work and conflicts of policy and authority between these executive bodies can at present be set tled only by the President. He is the single arbiter. "No man on earth could settle promptly the innumerable questions which come up for settlement," there fore "only the most critical and disas trous conflicts have been referred to Mr. Wilson," and the Government Is "a congeries of practically Independent bureaus." Appeals to Mr. Wilson of ten mean a delay of weeks while he studies the problem from written mem oranda. There is no machinery to an ticipate problems and to formulate a policy which shall bind the whole Gov ernment, An example of the duplica tion that results Is publicity. Each department and bureau, to the number of probably SO, sends out publicity ma terial. Mr. Creel is supposed to co ordinate these activities, but he has no authority and ' each department head resents restriction. Hence "tons of paper are wasted" and editors pro test against being swamped with mat ter which goes Into the waste basket. But the author continues: Duplication and eonfllot are not even the most serious defects of our present almlnls tratlve machinery. More serious Is the fact that ours la a governmental body without a brain. We have no war planning board. We have no general staff to study and deter mine executive policies and make a business of foresight. Wa are making war at ran dom. The professional training and expe rience of the War Department's gen eral staff unfit It for this work, for it "looks at things from a soldier's point of view," and "we need men who can see the whole picture." The workings of the British War Cabinet are cited to show what is needed. It is composed of six men, only one of whom has any other duties, and it meets every morn ing and almost every afternoon, in vites experts to give special informa tion, determine policies and has its own executive staff to see that its de cisions are carried out. With such a group of advisers for Mr. Wilson, meeting every day and all day, "our food, fuel, shipping, ord nance, aviation and railway policies would at last be developed Into some thing like a single policy." Such a body could have saved months in air craft work and could now have been consulting on farm labor and on fuel for next Winter and could In two days dispose of a situation which occupies the President for a week. Mr. Wilson's objection to a War Cab inet is attributed to his belief that coalition government is impracticable in this country, to his wish not to dis place his present Cabtnet find to his "fear of loss of control of the Na tion's policy if a War Cabinet took hold," for "he wants our foreign policy absolutely in his own hands." He does not like to work orally, but "calls for written reports and makes written de cisions." The Overman law "adds vast ly to the burden" of his responsibility, for it makes him responsible "for a continuing adaptation of Governmental machinery to changing needs." It gives him "authority to appoint a War Cabi net without further legislation: it makes its appointment all the more necessary." The author says: When will Mr. Wilson overcome his nat ural human reluctance to the plan, and realize what he will gain by having him hands freed for the great task of Interna tional statesmanship? The war cabinet Is inevitable: better have It now than after six. twelve or eighteen months more of hanhas ard government have disastrously proved the need of It. A War Cabinet "might maintain a closer touch with Congress" than is possible to the President, who has be come remote from It. Department heads resent intrusion of Congressmen, who consequently show Ignoranco of our administrative machinery. A War Cabinet could give them "a closer un derstanding of administratis pro cedure." Secretary Baker has learned this, for by inviting the committees on military affairs to sit in his War Council he has made them "his useful friends instead of his foes," and his Innovation is giv ing them "a more practical understand ing of the problems for the settlement of which they share responsibility with Mr. Bawer." A War Cabinet by simi lar meetings with Congressional lead ers could educate Congress and secure a measure of the results expected from giving Cabinet members seats in Con gress. It could also keep in touch with Governors, state councils of de fense and local leaders generally, who find on going to Washington that "there is no one place where they can go to discuss treneral policies with re sponsible officials." This much is said for the Adminis tration as a whole: The Administration, take It all In all. Is not doing badly. Its achievements, although uneven, are substantial. It has accumulated considerable speed since Its recovery from at,! of nartlal paralysis during last De cember and January. It Is doing bettor work every day. It Is always months ahead of concrrrsa. Still, when everything Is said on Its behalf, there remains to the observer at the capital a certain general impression of slowness. Delays are the trouble. This thing was wanted la.t July and we got it this May. Another thing was wanted last May and we got it In April. Noth ing Is done till It is long overdue. The Administration should lead public opin ion, but it followa This Is the conclu sion: It the Nation Is to play a winning- part In this war, the Administration will have to display more foresight and be more fearless to discard dead Governmental forms and methods for those dictated by the necessities of victory. Cautions in Choice. Kansas City Journal. "I wish to look at some fountain pens." "Tea, sir. Now. what do you wish in the way of a fountain pen?" "Well. I'd prefer one that throws a Jet rather than a spray." He Lives la Fear. Gargoyle. Woman Does your father live In the fear of the Lord? Kid I reckon ho does leastways he alius takes a gun with hlra when he out pa euadajL, . SHIPYARD PATRIOTISM WELL PAID Navy Man Names Claasea That Should Re Work-in for Mick Waaea. PORTLAND. June JS. (To the Edi tor.) The latter of O. V. Badley. in The Oregonian June 25, criticising Corporal Hollister'a remarks at the Liberty Theater two weeks ago. regarding the slackers In the shipyards, is wrong. In the first place Corporal Ilolllster said that all skilled mechanics belonged in the shipyards, but by skilled mechanics he did not mean those whose skill con sisted of pushing a billiard ball around a green-topped table. Perhaps In the ehlpyard where Mr. Badley works there are no slackers, but it strikes me that almost every yard in Portland has been mentioned on this page of The Oregonian in the past by some one wondering if because he is in the shipyards he is liable to be kept from class 1. Mr. Badley states that the shipyards are manned by loyal and patriotic men and that they are as necessary as the soldiers and sailors. Surely we will all agree with him on that point, and God bless the man who is working there for patriotism's sake only. It has been my privilege to be in a store in a suburb of Portland, when pay checks were cashed, and one niarht shortly after Washington's birthday a fine looking specimen for the Army came in and cashed a check for $60 and said that he had made $22.50 on Washington's birthday. Did the soldiers in the trenches, the Bailors on the At lantic or the marines get $20 for the work they did on that day? No, they did not"and no doubt some of them worked a full 24 hours at that. Let the shipyards be manned with married men with families, with flat feet, with color-blindness and physi cally disqualified for the Army. If the Government was paying a dollar a day for shipyard workers do you think we would have such a "patriotic" army of shipbuilders as we now have? You Just bet we would not. The average young man who has a trade and Is married would like to Join, so he says, but he Is afraid his wife and children cannot live on the wages he will receive as a soldier or sailor and he Is afraid to find out different. If the man with a trade will Join the Navy, he will be given a rating that will give his wife, coupled with the Govermental allotment she will get, more than she is getting now. For further particulars inquire at any re cruiting office We need you. But then again. It will be much nicer at home this Winter, sitting in front of the heater reading The Ore gonian, than it would be to be on watch In the crow's nest and expecting every minute to be Introduced to a torpedo in no uncertain manner. That's the way I thought last June, but I have been there and I have seen, and there Is nothing like it. These stay-at-homes don't know what they are missing. I have a great feeling of contentment when I look into the not too distant future and see Kaiser Bill and his chlnless wonder of a clown prince as prisoners of the Belgians, together with various others of his appendages. And when my kids ask for war stories they will get the real dope and I won't have to tell them how patriotic f was by working Washington's birthday and only getting $22.50 for it. A NAVY MAN. INTERESTING BUT NOT SPECIFIC Mayor Ilanaoa Denies He Has Ever Said Me Mould R for Senate. SEATTLE. June 27. (To the Edi tor.) A few days ago you carried in The Oregonian a news story in which your correspondent makes the state ments: 1. That I will be a candidate for United States Senator against Hon. Wesley L. Jonea In 1920: 2. That I have never forgiven Mr. Jones for being my successful oppo nent in 1914; 3. That I have said I would sell the bonds for developing the hydro-electric plant over tho counter, whether we secure permission from the capital is sues committee or not. In order to correct any misapprehen sion in relation to your news atorv. I wish you would correct tho same. The following are -the facts: I have never said I would be a candidate for the United States Henate In 1920; aecond, Mr. Jonea Is a good friend of mine and I have never had any hard feelincs against him in any way. I lost my ngnt in lsii Decause I did not receive enough votes; my fault, not Jones' And, third. I never said I would sell the hydro-electric bonds over the counter. I shall appreciate your setting me right on this. OLE HANSON. Mayor. The Hone Bank Wilts. Boston Transcript. Neighbor Got much money' in your Dank, Bobby? Bobby Gee, no! The depositors have fallen off somethin' fierce since sister got engHgefl. r THE AMAZING VISION OF LIFE AFTER DEATH TOLD IN The SUNDA Y OREGONIAN You have read the Sherlock Holmes stories, of course, and the gallant adventures of the White Company are also yours to remember. They were written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. You feci that you know him. Nowadays Sir Arthur has turned to new adventures searching the mysteries of the hereafter. He is a convert, whose sincerity is unquestioned, of future life in the spirit realm. ' Take up Clive Marshall's account, in the Sunday issue, of the proofs that the famous author and other notable men, assert is substantiation of immortality. NATIONAL DISHES THE WORLD OVER Gather around, all vali ant trenchmen, for here is a yarn to your liking:. Compiled by Jeanette Young Norton, for The Sunday Oregonian, it is drawn from the cookbooks of scores of widely varying races and na tions and from those who are guileless of the printed recipe. Strange dishes are many of these but they are as distinctively national as the flags or habiliments of their devotees. FOURTH OF JULY SCENARIO Along came the glorious day of American independence, in the realm where days and dates are not namely the shadowy valley and the dark river, where floats the Houseboat on the Styx. They held discussion on liberty, did the departed great, and the faithful report of their observations on the Fourth of July have been chronicled for the Sunday issue by John Kendrick Bangs. VAUDEVILLE SHOW IN WARTIME Here's another page from the facile crayon of America's foremost illustrator W. E. Hill as drawn for the Sunday paper. Humorist, gentle satirist, and laughing tiltcr at shams and foibles is Hill. Tomorrow's page is one of the best of the series. TRAINING MACHINE GUNNERS At Springfield Armory a certain old gent, familiarly known as Uncle Sam, is training specialists in the use and understanding of the new machine guns. When they graduate the students are able to put a Browning together while blindfolded, and to turn its rpray of death at a given target with the accuracy of a garden hose in the backyard. This is an article by Frank G. Carpenter whose name is the guarantee of interest and information. GETTYSBURG THEN AND NOW At Gettysburg, where once the North and South struggled as foemen, today they are training the Bona of the Blue and Gray for service overseas. It's a new Gettys burg, that historic field, and its accomplishments will weigh in the balance when autocracy is judged by fire and sword. IT'S ALL THERE Somewhere in the Sunday issue, well-written and authoritative, youll find the special department that fits one of your hobbies. And always, as rapidly as cable and wire can deliver, the pages keep pace with the news of the world, at home and abroad. A Nickel and a Nod Buys THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN In Other Days. Twfsly.ftTe Years Ago. (From The Oregonian. June 29. 1R93 ' James Lotan. collector of customs for this port, was relieved of office yester day by Secretary Carlisle. His Chief Deputy A. L. Pike took charge. Comedian DeWolf Hopper and Edna Wallace were married at Newark, N. J .. yesterday. Chris Miller the worlds fair city newspaper pedestrian, who arrived In Portland 10 days apo on his 13000 mllo hike, will leave today for Tacoma. "The Black Crook," is the attraction at Cordray's. Stephens addition had a genuine mad dofr fpare yesterday. The entire com munity fouarht the animal to a final death with stunts. Half a Crstuary Ago. (From The Oregonian June 29. ISf.S.I Idaho City, again, for the third time, was the scene of a very disastrous firo June 20. There can be little doubt that some diabolically inclined wretch caused the last conflagration. NEW YORK Western Union Tele graph stock Is quoted at 34 H. A distillery is to be put in operation at Eugene City in a short time. B. J. Pengra. who has been at Wash ington for several months laboring for the Humboldt Branch railway, reached ' his home In Lane County a few days ago. The new Board of Directors of the Oregon Central Railroad Company met here and elected Joseph Gaston, presi dent: E. W. Haines, secretary; W. S. Ladd, treasurer; J. B. Underwood, Eugene, a director to succeed J. W". Nesmith. Drawing; of Will. PORTLAND, June 28. (To the Ed itor.) Under the Oregon law, what are the essential points to be included In drawing up a will? Does any partic ular legal form have to be followed? INQUISITIVE. There is no form prescribed by stat ute. Every will must be in writing, signed by the testator or by some other person under his direction, in his pres ence, and must be attested by two or more competent witnesses, subscribing their names to the will, in the presence of the testator. If the testator's name is signed by another at his direction, that person must subscribe his own name as a wlness and state that he subscribed the testator's name at his request. How to Trace Soldier. TOUCHET. Wash., June 27. (To the Editor.) Please tell me how I may locate my eon or to whom can I write for information. I havo received no word for five months and I am uneasy about him. WILLIAM GR1GSBY. Write to Adjutant-General. War De partment. Washington. D. C, giving full name, military unit and last ad dress of your eon. Will of Married Woman. MOLALLA, Or., June 27. (To the Ed itor.) Wnen the wife has children, her own by the first marrlace. can she. If she wishes, will those rhlldreii her part of the land deeded to hrr and her heirs, at her death, leaving the husband out entirely? 11. I'. L. She cannot by will deprive her hus band of his courtesy rights in her es tate. -e l-RnTKCTYOCR GARDKV KBO)I ITS MANY INSECT K.NKMIES. Free book to every reader of The Oregonian. This book guards the horn vegetablo garden. It Is written . in simple language lor quick action. A few minutes a day given to following the instruc tions given in thta book will pro vide many extra dollars' worth of food. CONTROL OP DISEASES AND INSECT ENEMIES OF THE HOME VEGETABLE GARDEN. The largest farmers' bulletin ever Issued by the Department of Agriculture. Seventy-two pages, 181 pic tures. Send your name and address to The Portland Oregonian Infor mation Bureau, Frederic J. lias kin, director. Washington, D. C. Inclose a 2-cent stamp for re turn postage and ask for the Gar den Insect Book, free of charge