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PORTLAND, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1918,
UNDER 21 AND ABOVE SI.
Five robust youths, all around the
ages of' 18 to 21 years, were noticed
yesterday idling their time in a For
Hire automobile on a prominent busi
ness street. Apparently they had
nothing to do but wait for some one
to come along with money enough to
take a trip to the Columbia Highway,
and one of them would then have a
job. What the four others were then
to do is a question not here to be an
swered. Perhaps they were drivers
of other cars, similarly unemployed
at the time. Or perhaps they were
friends of the car-owner, only tem
porarily engaged with him in passing
the time of day, and later to disperse
in their respective employments, if
they had any. Or perhaps all had
nothing useful to do, and found a
vacant motor car a convenient place
to do it in. I '
The thought impressed on the way
faring man was that all were prob
ably fit for service in the Army or
Navy, and that they were under the
draft age. and that there are many
others like them. When they reach
their majority, they will have to go,
unless they can give good reasons for
staying behind. How many young
men, physically fit, have now any
fair irrounds for exemption? Not
many.
The draft age is from 21 to 31, and
there are thousands and even millions
of American citizens outside the limits
both over and under who have no
special ties or duties or obligations at
home sufficient to exclude them from
classification among those who should
serve their country in Army or Navy.
There is nothing magical about the
ten years in the eligible group only
their vouth. and assumed pnysicai
superiority, moral enthusiasm and
nrobable freedom from family or pro
fessional responsibilities. But the
Government accepts volunteers
18 and above 31. Why does It not
make them eligible for conscription?
The other day the police busied
themselves with tho case of a rich
young vagrant who would not work,
and who would not serve his country.
He had been spoiled by wealth, and
he had never had a serious thought
or a definite duty, and he concerned
himself only with keeping his unsteady
footsteps on the Primrose Path. That
lie would make a good soldier is in
deed questionable; but that he should
be coerced at the point of the bayonet
Into doing some useful work is quite
clear. There are others in his class
who may be reached by extension of
the draft, and no time should be lost
about it.
But the policy of raising and lower
ing the conscription period does not
rest upon the argument that the idlers
of all kinds should be made to go to
' war. An army of loafers at 4 home
cannot be transformed into an em
cient force in the trenches. But some
of them can be. There are many men
above 31 and below 21 who belong in
class 1, except for their age dlsquall
fication. The National Army has been
so rapidly mobilized that it is obvious
that the men in the first class are
about exhausted; and the Government
has the alternative of resorting to de
f erred classes, or reaching out for new
eligibles. The great and vital work
of creating a sufficient Army should
not be slowed up by failure to move
promptly in either direction; but, first,
it is obviously fair and just that class
1 be heavily recruited from older and
younger men. The number of exempts
of ages above 31 will normally be
greater than at present; but there are
many others who may not reasonably
ask to be excused.
The Secretary of War now favors
a new conscription limit running from
19 to some unnamed figure over
31 years. But there may be train
Ing for boys even younger. The
Government, has in mind the fact that
it may not be wise to send all young
men to the front immediately, and
has formulated a plan for a Students'
Army Training Corps where college
boys above 18 may be enlisted in the
military forces of the United States,
It is realized that many students in
college are now fitting themselves for
service by joining classes in. engi
neerlng, medicine and surgery, chem
lstry and the like. It is not desirable
nor is it designed, to Interfere with
them, up to the time they reach 21
but, on the contrary, such minors are
encouraged to stay in college and
nuallfy themselves for work when
they are called. But Just now, where
one is in training at college, ten others
are not students, nor are they other
wise engaged in any essential occupa
tion. It is to be expected that soon the
dragnet will be applied to all who
are able to carry a gun, and who are
physically vigorous enough to stand
the strenuous life at the front. It is
sound policy to extend the draft age.
It may be true that young men are
for war and old men for counsel; but
not all the vigor and power of the
Nation lie between 21s and 31.
A French official estimates that
ionly about a dozen German subma
rines are now at sea, though formerly
the usual number was twenty. . As all
authorities except those of Germany
agree that they are being sunk faster
than they are built, they are a van
ishing quantity. The raid on the
American Atlantic coast is branded by
Admiral Sims as a confession of
weakness, "because it is a violation
of the fundamental military principle
of concentration of effort." Allied
strategy in combating; the U-boat by
concentrating around the British Xsles
and- Gibraltar is a. vindication of that
principle, for it has succeeded, and is
winning:. Between 4000 and 6000
vessels are employed against U-boats,
and only a small percentage of these
is American, but the completion of
the new destroyer fleet will give this
country the largest number of the
most deadly foes of the U-boat.
. GERMANIZED.
An American professor of German
in the University of Maine, concerned
about the attitude of his professional
kindred in thowar, wrote a year ago
to one hundred of them on various
phases of a subject suggested by the
suits in the New York Sun. He re
ports:
Twenty-nine still believed that the war
was forced on Germany.
Twenty-one Insisted that the stories of
Teuton brutality were greatly exaggerated
citing In protest the Germany they knew
years sgo).
Fourteen preferred to see Germany win
rather than Kngland.
Forty bewailed the Irreparable loss" to
American scholarship entailed by the war.
Eight defended the German system even
with Its apparent rigors ss against the
ooseness and inefficiency of democratic gov
ernment.
The great majority "deemed It inexpedient"
to make a public statement.
A year has passed and a great si-
ence has fallen over the German pro
fessors in our American schools of
higher instruction. Though there are
exceptions, a few have spoken out in
no uncertain words, and others have
gone to war for their country
America.
Perhaps the showing disclosed by
the Maine patriot accounts for the gen
eral distrust of Germanic instruction
given by Germanized professors in a
country which has harbored them and
which they owe much, but do not in
tend to pay.
THE VOICE OF ANARCHY.
When the people of Oregon take -posses
Ion of their state government, as they will
some time, this inherent power (viz. to reg
ulate public utility rates) may be used for
the general welfare. Its use thus far has been
to Inflate the already sufficiently Inflated
wealth of a clique of millionaires. But that
can be changed when the people want to
nange It.
The state has a good many 'Inherent
powers" which only wait for the develop
ment of the people's brains to become of
mmense utility to the common man and his
family. As long as the contents of our skulls
remain rudimentary the big buccaneers will
get the -benefit of all such powers snd the
people will be squeezed by them.
This is not a frothy emanation of
the Appeal to Reason, nor the mouthy
outgiving of the I. W. . W. Sabotist.
There is only one other possibility.
and it is the Portland Evening Journal,
whose lapses into the jargon of the
class-haters and apostles of black
anarchy are more than occasional or
casual.
The incentive of this incendiary
outburst is the decision of the Su
preme Court in the six-cent fare case.
If the Supreme Court is not a legiti
mate and constitutional arm of popu
lar government, what is it? It con
sists of seven justices Moore, Mc-
Bride, Bean, Burnett, Benson, Harris
and Johns and all but one were
elected by popular vote, some of them
by practically unanimous vote, and
the one exception, after due nomina
tion at a popular primary, was an
pointed by the Governor to fill a
vacancy. The Supreme Court had
affirmed a decision made by a united
Circuit Bench of Multnomah County
Kavanaugh, Morrow, Gatens, Ganten
bein, Stapleton, Tucker all of them
but one again the people's choice; and
he, too, has now been nominated to the
Judgeship at the primary.
Here, now, ig a court ruling to
which thirteen judges on their oaths
have subscribed; and not one among
them has dissented in any particular
from the common judgment that the
finding of the Public Service Commis
sion was correct. That body, too, is
the product of popular government.
The people are not fools, though
that paper has the Insolence to say so,
Nor are the Supreme Judges nor Cir
cuit Judges the pawns and servitors
of buccaneers.
HEROES, ALL.
If anyone supposes that unguarded
statements which reflect upon the
courage of American troops will not
reach the men overseas it is time he
was relieved of that impression. Tho
first anniversary number of the Splker,
a newspaper published by the men of
the Eighteenth Engineers, Railway,
U. S. Army in France, Is enough to
disabuse any person's mind on that
score.
We had not heard it here, yet the
Spiker hears in France that Adjutant-
General Borree, of California, has
stated that "out. of 250 men who
enlisted from San Francisco, it is an
actual fact that less than fifty of them
volunteered for active service on the
firing line."
There are. In fact, 250 volunteers
from San Francisco in the Eighteenth
Engineers, Railway, most of them
over draft age. As the Splker re
marks, "every man enlisted to build
railways right up to the firing line."
Certainly engineers have no berth of
safety. Almost the first, if not the
first, stirring news of engagement of
Americans at the front concerned en
gineers. It was at Cambrai, last No
vember, in a German counter attack,
that American engineers turned picks
and shovels Into implements of war
and gained a .lasting glory. Again in
March, when the Germans were driv
ing on Amiens, American engineers
were called on to plug a gap In the
British line, and they plugged it.
But the Borree statement is not all.
The Spiker learns that the Dixie
(CaL) Tribune printed the following:
Since the adoption of the questionnaire
system those young men, who have waited
for the actual draft have probably shown
the best spirit, as they are willing to be
placed In any department of the service, and
that is generally the Infantry. As the Ad
jutant-General points out a large number of
those who enlisted, when they saw that
the dTaft would take them, tried to pick
places as far from the firing line as possible.
Place me where I 11 be the most useful" is
the Hobson spirit. This is the open eeason
for backbone. 1
The quotation is not a true state
ment, but it is a fact that frequently
young men were led by those
who had a small conception of the
selective service principle to believe
that to wait for the draft savored of
disgrace. Now it appears other mis
guided critics are attempting to pin a
I similar disgrace on those who volun
teered. Under such circumstances one
can readily sympathize with the
Spiker's remark that "the editor who
draws Invidious distinctions between
different branches of the service is a
sower of discord and a friend of
Junkerdom."
There is, in truth, no real distinc
tion. The great Inspiration of Ameri
can youth is to do its duty, to aid its
country to the best of its ability. The
Nation has specifically requested at
frequent times the enlistment of men
of certain qualifications in certain
branches of the service. The response
has been an honest one. It has been
indicated, too, that others not specially
qualified should await the draft. They
have done so with, equal honesty.
There are no soft berths la Army
or Navy. No man knows when he
may be called Into actual combat. As
already related, engineers have turned
tools into weapons. The death on the
field of an officer in the medical
branch, a dental surgeon, has already
been recorded; a physician is num
bered among the prisoners captured
by the Germans; the chaplain gets
into the thick of the combat; the man
in the quartermaster's, or ordnance,
or forester's department has no spe
cial immunity. He who wears the
uniform does what he is told to do.
Not one is there who has not sac
rificed more than have we who re
main at home. No one who has not
gone when he could go is worthy to
impugn the motives of any man who
has entered the service by one avenue
or the other. And we doubt that
there are any among the over-aged or
decrepit who have acquired a special
right to criticise.
STILL, ALARMED.
If it were not for the annual re
minder issued by the Committee to
Oppose the Judicial Recall one would
almost forget that such a recall
existed In Oregon. The committee, a
National organization which reports
regularly to its superior, the American
Bar Association, this year continues
to view with alarm the suggestion
that Judges be put on the removable
basis that seems to be satisfactory
enough for other public officials. Tet
the judicial recall has stood in Oregon
for ten years, and throughout that
time its history has given practical
proof that it does not endanger the
Independence of the judiciary and that
Judges are not overthrown at the whim
or caprice of the public.
This year, as heretofore, the com
mlttee in its report links the recall
of judges with the recall of Judicial
decisions, finding between the two a
similarity not apparent to the mind
unused to the intricacies of legal logic.
But, worse yet, it seeks to fasten on
the principle the stigma of Town
leyisrm.
The average Oregon citizen will not
quarrel with the committees con
demnation of Townleyism, which
would eliminate the primary functions
of courts of justice, nor will he quar
rel with its criticism of the recall of
judicial decisions. But the recall of
Judges, as he conceives it, is as proper
as the recall of Mayors or Sheriffs or
Governors.
The sanctity with which the com
mlttee clothes the judiciary has not
prevented election to Judicial office
of dishonest and incompetent men.
The recall power is reserved for the
purpose of ridding the bench promptly
of those who are unfaithful to its
traditions, and not as a means to
compel decisions contrary to law.
It will not be suspected that the
committee opposes removal by some
process of dishonest judges. One can
but conclude that it holds the law to
be so complex and mysterious that
common folk cannot know when it is
dishonestly interpreted and are, there
fore, likely to accuse an honest judge
wrongfully. If so, it is time the law
yers lent their efforts to simplify the
law. A class of intellectuals who
alone are competent to say when one
of their number transgresses are out
of place in a democracy.
THE SPIRIT WHICH CCTS SPRCCE.
Concrete evidence of the new spirit
which rules the lumber industry of
the Pacific Northwest is to be found
in the Monthly Bulletin of the Loyal
Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen.
It is no mere, dry record of official
orders, but has all the characteristics
of a live newspaper, yet one with a
mission, and shows the work of first
class newspaper men. Its mission is
to carry to the minds of the 100,000
members of the Loyal Legion the im
portant part which spruce plays in
winning the war and to give express
sion to the patriotism which fills the
hearts of the members.
The first article is a graphic de
scription by Colonel Brice P. Disque,
father of the Loyal Legion, of a flight
which he made in a De Haviland ma
chine propelled by a Liberty motor at
Dayton, Ohio, and .of the plane and
motor. His description of the com
plete equipment and wonderful per
formance of the machine will form in
the mind of the reader pictures of the
deadly execution which it will do
among the Germans, but his confi
dence does not blind him to the hard
work ahead, as will be seen from the
following, which is his concluding
paragraph:
The ease with which the motor handled
this large airplane, weighing something over
thirty-three hundred pounds, and the rapid
ity with which It traveled and rose to Its
height convinced me that we have solved.
beyond doubt, the problem of producing
planes of this type. After we landed and I
left the machine I felt confident that It
was a mere matter of producing such ma
chines in vast quantities in order to secure
such supremacy over our enemies as will
assure a prompt termination of the war.
I am confident that we are on the road to
such production, but that it will continue
to be the "most difficult problem that the
American people have ever had to face and
it will require long and hare work on the
part of everybody to produce the essential
parts of these machines before we can pro
vide them in such numbers as to completely
overwhelm the German armies.
There follows an article which
should remove from the mind of every
spruce worker any last doubt that he
is fighting Germany as effectually as
are the airmen who fly over the battle
line. An air fighter tells of having
crippled a German machine by break
ing a wing and of following it to the
ground behind the German line at the
risk of death or capture, in order to
learn what caused the wing to break.
He says:
I wanted to see what made his machine
go down. That wing broke short off snap!
Just like tnat. It shouldn't do It, yon
know. I've been seeing them go that way
before. Our own do not, but they might
some time.
Part of the reason why he wanted
to know was contained in a letter he
had received "from the forests ol
Oregon," and in pictures ft "giant
firs, masts and spars for the greatest
ships that ever sailed the seas; tall,
stately spruce, clear of grain and al
most without a knot for 200 feet; sol
diers in mackinawa and spiked boots,
with axes, pikes, saws, tugging, sweat
ing, working like men who have a
great cause back of them." Describ
ing the work of the airman at the
front, he says that "may seem like tie
only war," and he continues:
But I want to tell you that the real war
begins back there in those forests and I d
almost be willing to trade my part here for
the chance to serve In those woods.
He tells what he found in these
words:
One burst of my shota had struck his wing
beam three bullets close together. The
wood looked sound, but it was brash, life
less and without strength. It was heavy
enough, but It was brittle) It had little more
grain than a piece of coal. That's why three
Lewis gun bullets broke It it was brittle.
like glass, and the shock of even those little
bullets ended It. Tou t seen It happen be
fore you know what It means.
He took the dead German airman's
papers and among them found a letter
addressed to a brother in Berlin. In
that letter the opinion was expressed
that "we are going to lose in the end
because "we have believed in a mate
rialistic God" ana "the materialistic
God has frowned upon us." The letter
continued:
Take the wood for our wings. In all Ger
many there does not a-row a single stick
of the light, tough spruce that we should
have for our planes. It is short of grain.
knotty, lifeless. A hundred planes I have
seen, wing-broken, helpless, their men drop
ping to their death because the material
was not right. The men are brave they will
fight to the last. Perhaps they are skillful as
the enemy of that I am not certain; but cer
tainly they lose far more heavily. The ma
terial and the worleananshlp that goes Into
our planes is not the Damascus-blade qual
ity that we had thought; It is a mockery.
menace, a defeat. Our planes will not
stand before the enemy.
I have not fallen yet. Ftlll. I know that
I shall, and every ether German who trusts
his life and his cause in the air. Our
armies failed to capture Paris; they lacked
the aupreme Quality. Our planes fall reg
ularly, and the enemy Is now bringing them
In thousands from America, where the moat
marvelous plane wood In the world grows
In unbelievable quantities. I saw it. years
ago. In the great woods of the Paclflo and
oh, what a marvel It wasl They will sweep
from the air; they will hover over Ger
many In clouds to burn and destroy like
the plagues of Egypt. For America can
supply the wings that Germany ran not
grow, can not secure anywhere, and with
out which ahe cannot hope to win even a
humiliating peace. I have seen these Amer
ican spruce planes; they are marvelous
marvelous! In them I see the doom of
Germany.
Such stories as that are typical of
the strong spiritual appeal whlrh is
being made to the timber workers,
which is drawing into their ranks men
who are moved by devotion to freedom
more than by the thought of wages,
men of high education and imagina
tion. From these men they call forth
a response such as the following poem.
the author of which modestly conceals
his identity under the style: "Member
62.333. District 5, Local 73. Cosmo-
polls, Wash."
rRCCK.
Because they could build of It wing-beams
And teach It to float through the air.
They hewed It that Liberty's sunbeams
Might dawn on the night "over there."
Then, mid the groaning and dying
For the Vulture of kultur and gold.
A flash showed that legions were flying
And Liberty's message was told.
"For you I have only compassion:
Your rulers must answer to me.
And out of war's horrors we'll fashion
A. peace where all men shall be free.
"It was I that captured the lightning
And taught It to work and to play.
Taught elves of the bubble and kite-string
To drive a world's commerce today.
"And T built the gin and the reaper,
I floated the turrets of fire;
A highway I laid through the ether.
And girdled the earth with a wire.
"O'er yesterday's forest, primeval.
For miles upon miles o'er the plain.
O'er Rockies, on wings of the Eagle.
From ocean to ocean I reign.
"Now I pledge my sons and my daughters.
And all of the wealth I have won.
That rights which a monarchy slaughters
Shall live for the peoples to come."
The Bulletin is the kind of propa
ganda which wins, because it gains
one's attention, grips the heart and
prompts to acts of unselfish devotion.
By comparison with it, the work of
the German propagandists is clumsy,
it is ineffective because It is false and
appeals to the baser Instincts, and,
therefore, it is doomed to fall.
Incidentally, the submarine raid on
the Atlantic Coast has boomed the
scheme for a series of canals to con
nect inland waterways from New Eng
land far into the South. It Is a good
talking point for river and harbor
appropriations which will not be over
looked. There will be no fat men in Amer
ica at the end of the war. Those dis
posed that way will be spare from
sane feeding. The smaller portions
will do the business.
When the manifold uses of cottage
cheese shall have been shown to all
and the campaign has closed, somebody
must begin on hulled corn, a dish
that aided in building this Nation a
few centuries ago.
"Father" Blckerton was too eager
in his search for a new wife to think
of his boy's future. The proverbial
weakness of widows seems to extend
to widowers they can't, have enough
of matrimony.
If Government can reach to San
Francisco and grasp the man who
sells liquor into Oregon and bring htm
here for trial and punishment, the
traffic soon will cease, and it looks
that way.
There is some gain to the Hun when
he torpedoes a transport boat on her
return trip, but the loss in tonnage la
slight in comparison. The Hun sub
mersible cannot get one loaded with
troops.
The accident that happened to a
student motor-woman might happen to
a male student as easily. It is not a
score against the sex on the platform.
Oregon names given to many ships
building in this district will give
touch of home to the Oregon boy
abroad and afloat when he sees one.
The Junk given to the Red Cross
will save many a life In Europe, and
will teach many an American the-
value of seemingly worthless things.
The Council of National Defense
opposes Christmas giving, meaning to
grown-ups. No civilized peoples will
omit the children's Christmas.
"We are all right." say the Ameri
can wounded. None can beat that
spirit, and only the others of the
allies equal it-
It is all very well to make public
holidays special splash days for the
shipbuilders, but every day is splash
day.
America greatly enjoys the punish
ment it receives from the Kaiser for
daring to ship munitions to the allies,
The allies will dictate the terms of
peace and Germany will accept them.
Any other proposal is persiflage.
In all wars of civilized peoples there
are grafters and profiteers, and there
are courts and Jails as well.
The stove that was not taken down
in the Spring Is as useful as orna
mental these days.
I
A rain that adds to the misery of
the vanquished is welcome if the loser
is the Hun.
Stop and salute and cheer that draft
contingent as it passes today.
Only in war time is there an all
day rain in July in Oregon.
As between umbrella and overcoat.
the latter has it.
Don't forget that today is Forxet-
Me-Not day.
"Forget me notl
Stars and Star-makers.
By Letne CasafBaer.
Lora Rogers writes postcard ishly
from Tacoma to observe that elevator
girls seem to be much In the limelight
and remarks Miss Rogers, who Is a bit
of a cynic sometimes, "they are not the
first women to give a man a lift."
e e
Lora, by the way. Is playing charac
ters at the Liberty Theater, Camp
Lewis, and last week she and Walter
Gilbert, who Is directing the company.
appeared as the two ancient caretakers
of the hotel in "Severn Keys to Bald-
pate." Eleanor Parker Is leading
woman, and Claire Sinclair, who played
seconds with Catherine Countess In
her Helllg stock season a few Sum
mers ago. Is also in the company. So
are Henry Hall and Walter Selgfrled.
e "
i". a ward Everett Herton, who Is to
be leading man at the Alcazar next
season, paused in his patriotic work
t'other day to observe that somehow
the baseball statistics, what there is
of them, make pretty dry reading now
adays alongside the batting average of
the ship riveters.
Joe Howard has bobbed up serenely
again, not matrimonially but profea
sionally, which Is not so frequent nor
am interesting. Joseph has about com
pleted the cast for a production he Is
making called "In apd Out." He isn't
going to appear In It himself but ha
written the words and music of the 15
numbers In the piece.
In the company are Lew Hearn, Zoe
Burnett. Peggy Coudray. Patrice
Doane, Charlie Warren (formerly
Sheen and Warren). Arthur Deagon
(Portlander). Billy Hart (formerly
Billy and Marie JIart). James Adler
(son of Felix Adler). South American
Dancers (Dlka and Sadler), with Mrs.
Nat M. Wills (May Day) a possible
addition to the cast. It will mark Mrs.
Wills' return to the stage. She last
ppeared with "The Follies." just be
fore her marriage to the late comedian.
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An Interesting and pertinent letter
from a patriotic girl, Henrietta Harrl
on. In vaudeville, appears In Variety,
written from Indianapols. She says
Do, you think It is fair for our finest
young men to be fighting in France in
rder to make America '"Safe for Ger
man acrobats ?
I have been on several bills with an
acrobatic trio, lately; one claims to
be an Austrian. American-born; one
proudly admits being a German Ger
man born and reared,
says he Is Russian,
heard a Russian say:
while the third
I never before
"Ve von't vait
for you."
None of the trio speaks even fair
English and all three refused an offer
of S5 a day and found, to work in the
Kansas harvest. The offer was made
by the owner of the theater (where we
were playing), who also owned a farm
The offer was refused, the work being
'too hard" for these husky young
giants, who no doubt can lift 300
pounds or more with small effort.
Perfect specimens physically, while
our young men are being maimed "ove
here" that such as these may not
work too hard!" over here.
HENRIETTA HARRISON.
Charles Withers, the comedian who
put on "For Pity's Sake" at the Or
pheura last season, appearing as a rube
who ran a theater and got all tangled
In the ladder and the props, is now
soldier, stationed at Fort Slocum, New
York.
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Frank Bacon, veteran actor of th
Pacific Coast, is to open in a play
which he wrote in conjunction with
Winchell Smith. It Is called "Light
nln.' " Its title ought to be good fo
a few Jokes.
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One of the best known of the stand
ard vaudeville blackface turns. Fay,
two Coleys and Fay, has dissolved. The
separation conclusion was arrived at
In a friendly manner.
The two Coleys next season will do
blackface double turn. Frank Fay
has already started as a single turn.
Mrs. Fay will look after their farm.
Harry Adler and Anna Arllne were
remarried June 17. following a recon
ciliation, and Miss Arllne will retire
from professional life.
Adler has joined professionally with
Dave Lerner, for the former Adler and
Arllne turn originally called "A New
Idea."
Adler and Lerner are In the came
unit and expect to go across under the
auspices of the Over Theater League.
Joe Welch, comedian, who Is suffer
ing from paresis In a Connecticut sani
tarium, was adjudged incompetent last
week, this proceeding being gone
through to protect his wife and daugh
ter, who through a protective Insur
ance policy will receive $514 monthly
during his illness.
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The recently married two two-acts
of vaudeville, Montgomery and Perry
and the. Allen sisters, have decided
they would prefer traveling together
over the vaudeville circuits, if their
agents can arrange it and the man
agers don't want them, "to cut to be
together," auuding to tne salary de
mands for the acts.
George Perry married "Jimmy" Al
len and Billy Montgomery was wedded
to Minnie Allen. Both couples are now
on honeymoons, but will be back In
time to each appear with their respec
tive acts the week of August 5, at the
Riverside, New Tork, with Montgom
ery and Perry revising their billing
of ''Bachelors of Art" for that' engagement-
Billy Montgomery's former wife was
Florence Sloore. and George ferry's
was Lee White.
Minnie Allen was a widow, a Mrs.
Wllstach, and her sister. "Jlmmle." Is
launching Into matrimony for the first
time.
Emily Ann Wellman will not appear
professionally next season, she devot
ing her efforts to vaudeville produc
tion. In association with Jack Morris
Miss Wellman will put on at least five
playlets.
One, "Where Things Happen," Is
now playing and "White Coupons" Is in
rehearsal.
To follow will be "A Raft of Trou
ble" comedy, with five people. "Wish
en." a fantasy, with a cast of two, and
"Woman." dramatic, with three per
sona All of the turns will carry pro
Auctions.
Miss Wellman has also written a
"song cycle" for Kan Halparin, music
by William B. Frlendlander. It is due
around the first of the year.
Through differences with Edward
Eisner. Miss Wellman has refused to
appear In "The Toung Mrs. Stanford'
and the act will probably not be seen
next season.
Mlnnette Barrett. Portland girl, is ap
pearlng in "Pack Up Tour Troubles,'
a group of amusing anecdotes of our
soldiers In our camps and over there.
Arthur Guy Empey la featured and la
the supporting cast la Rose Btanu
CALL FOR BIEX IS TO 21 YEARS
How They May Serve Their Country
In students' Training; Corps.
WASHINGTON, D. C July 10. The
War Department authorizes the follow
ing announcement:
The details of the plan prepared by
the War Department to offer to able
bodied college students over the age
of 18 the opportunity to enlist In the
military forces of the United (States
and to obtain training In the colleges
which will prepare them for the more
exacting forms of military service have
now been completed. The plan was
first announced In the letter of May
to the presidents of all educational
Institutions of collegiate grade, and
the details are explained in a circular
sent to the colleges under the date of
June 29.
The purpose of the plan Is to pro
vide for the very Important needs of
the Army for highly-trained men as
officers, engineers, doctors, chemists
and administrators of every kind. The
importance of this need cannot be too
strongly emphasized. The plan Is an
ttempt to mobilise and develop the
brain power-of the young men 'of the
country for those services which de
mand special training. Its object Is to
prevent the prematura enlistment for
ctive service of those men who could
by exterfdtng the period of their col
lege training multiply manifold their
value to the country. If, however, the
need arises for the services of these
men In the fighting line, the terms of
their enlistment are such that they can
be called by the President on a day's
notice. But for the present it will he
the policy of the Government to keep
them In training until their draft age
is reached.
This Is a war In which soldiers ure
not only marksmen, but also engineers,
chemists, physicists, geologists, doc
tors and specialists In many other
lines. Scientiflo training is Indispen
sable. Engineering skill Is needed by
the officers who direct every Important
military operation and who control our
lines of transport and communication.
In the same way chemical and physical
knowledge are In constant demand at
the front as well as behind the lines,
while the task of saving the lives ami
restoring the health of hundreds of
thousands of wounded calls for the
service of regiments of military physi
cians. Tho scientific training which
prepares a man to fulfill one of these
highly specialised duties and the more
liberal training which helps to develop
the qualities of leadership needed by
the officer or administrator are essen
tial elements of military efficiency.
For the purpose of developing men
who shall have this combination of
military and . Intellectual training a
new corps has been created In the
Army to be called the Students' Army
Training Corps. Voluntary enlistment
in this corps is open to all able-bodied
students in the Institutions of col
legiate grade who are not under IS
years of age. Students under 18 can
not be legally enlisted, but they may
enroll and thus receive military train
ing until they reach the age when they
can legally enlist.
The boy who enlists In the Students'
Army Training Corps will be a member
of the Army of the United States. He
will be provided by the War Depart
ment with uniform and equipment, but
will be on furlough status and will not
receive pay. He will undergo regular
military training as a part of his
course during the college year, will
attend a six weeks' camp for rigid and
intensive military instruction with pri
vate's pay and will be subject to the
call of the President for active service
at any time should the exigencies of the
military situation demand it. The policy
of Vie Government, however, will be to
keep members of this corps In college
until their draft age Is reached, and the
War Department will have the power
to order such men to continue In college
even after their draft age is reached
whenever their work Is such that the
needs of the service, e. g . for doctors,
engineers, chemists and the like, are
such as to make that course advisable.
The Students' Army Training Corps
will be administered by the committee
on education and special training of the
War Department, which will function as
a section of the training and Instruction
branch of the war plans division of the
general 6taff. Competent officers end
non-commissioned officers will be as
signed to the various Institutions to
carry on the work or military instruc
tion. To supplement tne onicers as
signed by the War Department three
special Summer training camps are De
ing held to train a limited number of
picked students and members of the
faculties of the various Institutions so
that they will be able to assist In the
work ' of military instruction. These
camps will be held at Plattsburg. New
York: Fort Sheridan, Illinois, ana i're
sldto, California, for 60 days, beginning
July 18.
The importance of this plan lor com
blned military and collegiate training.
If we are to meet In the future the urg
ent needs of the Army for highly
trained men. Is so great that the War
Department earnestly requests the col
leges, councils of. defense and other
patriotic societies to co-operate in
bringing It to the attention of the
young men of the country and in urg
ing them to do tneir part to mane 11
success.
Approved:
(Signed) NEWTON D. BAKER.
Secretary of t ar.
In Case of Separation.
UNION. Or.. July 23. (To the Editor.)
(1) Does the wife receive the allot
ment by the Government if she and the
husband have been separated seven
months but not divorced? If so, when
does she receive It and how much does
sne receive?
(2) Is the husband allowed to make
his insurance rapers In favor of any
ono or is he compelled to make them
In the wife's favor?
(S) Can the wife get a divorce from
the soldier or can he get one from her
while serving his country?
INTERESTED.
(1) Make application to the Bureau
War Risk Insurance. Washington.
D. C giving soldiers full name and
military assignment and stating wheth
er there la any written agreement or
court order for separate maintenance,
and If so the amount
(2) He can name any one of a per
mitted class as beneficiary to the ex
clusion of the wife.
(I) No court would grant the divorce
without giving the husband an oppor
tunity to appear and that would prob
ably delay the ' ease until after the
war.
"
Rural Carrier Sabjeet to Draft.
GUEDANE, Or, July 23. (To the
Editor.) At the, time I filed my
questionnaire I had been driving the
mall stage for over six months and had
my bid in for the contract for the next
four years. I received my classifica
tion as class four. Since then I have
received the mall contract and have
also received word that I am changed
to class two. In case I am called what
shall I do? If one is already In the
emplo'y of the Government Is he re
quired to enter the service?
SUBSCRIBER
If you are called you will have to
go. Rural xnallcarrlers cannot get ex
emption on the ground of employment.
Itallway Mall Clerks Not Exempt.
PORTLAND. July 24. (To the Edi
tor.) 1. Are railroad mall clerks ex
empt from military duty?
2. Would a newly-appointed mail
clerk of class I be given a deferred
classification? READER.
1. No.
. . No.
In Other Days.
Half a Century Ago.
(From The Oreaonlan. July 25. 1S )
Washington. Adolph Sutro has ap
plied to Congress for a loan of 6.0no,
00 to build Sutro tunnel in the Corn
stock lode. Nevada
Jacob Stetzel and J. B. Upton have
opened a land office In Carter's build
ing. Work on th Vancouver water
works is being pushed to completion.
A "Never Swear" Society has been
orcanixe.l in Portland.
There Is to be a pacing race today
over the track at the White House.
The stakes are $100 for each race.
Tumtr-flvr Yearn A mo.
(From The Oreaonlan. July 2.1. 1!3 )
Rome. Italy has asked England to
protect Italian subjects in Slain.
Berlin. Germans expect acute rivalry
to develop in Eastern Asia between
France and Great Britain.
Chicago Senator Manderson said
that Congress Intends to keep every
silver dollar and every paper dollar
on a parity with gold.
Washington. Naval officers report
that Naples. Italy, is Infested with
cholera.
Brooklyn.
have closed.
-Arbuckle's coffee mills
due to trade depression.
TOBtrro HEi.n ot xecf.ssity
Unlit Sacrifice Would Release Home
('round for Production of Food.
EUGENE. Or.. July 23. (To the Edi
tor.) I have read Mr. De Veils letter
In The Oreconian. and while I admire
his patriotism, including that mani
fested by his forwarding tobacco for
the use of such soldiers as are so far
subject to the habit of using It that
deprivation of 1t would be a hardship
to them, I think mankind would be
happier If the brakes were applied to
the tobacco habit more forcibly than
they are or than is suggested by any
thing in his letter.
Very few uba tobacco for a period
of years without using more of It than
is good for either their health or their
purse. It Is not a necessity. There
are many efficient men in high places
In the world who do not use it. as well
as many more who do. There are boys
In the trenches who were forbidden
the use of cigarettes at home hv our
laws, for reasons which our lawmak
ers evidently considered good, and who.
if they do not acquire the tobacco
habit "over there' or anywhere else,
will be sweeter to their sweethearts
when they come back, and cleaner,
more desirable companions for many
other people than if they come back
squirting tobacco juice and emitting
tobacco odors.
Mr. Le Veil Is sarcastic about
"planting tobacco land to wheat," but
it could be done to advantage If some
of otir tobacco users would retrench
little on that weed as we are all
doing on wheat flour, pork products.
meals and other good things. Some
very good wheat land Is devoted to the
production of Connecticut seed leaf to
bacco, and potatoes, which Just now
are held at almost prohibitive prices.
could probahly be raised on any good
tobacco land, for both plants belong to
the same family solanum.
But I suspect that the gentleman Is
more stirred up over the communica
tion which he criticises because it
smacks of prohibition than because It
points at tobacco. He sings the old
free-liquor song against 'invasion of
human liberties." Every criminal law
invades a liberty which somebody
possessed before Its passage. Iaws
prohibiting the settling of personal
quarrels with fists and clubs, or the
marketing of opium or poison without
restriction, when first proposed were
denounced as tyrannical.
In the world democracy of nations
which may result from the present
war there may be a prohibition of the
making of such wars., and the nation
seeking a '"place In the sun" by the
Prussian route will probably consider
them tyrannlciil.
The voters of Oregon have indicated
that they favor certain restrictions of
human liberty in dealing with the
liquor question and some others, and
I think It will take a very powerful
propaganda to Induce them to change
those views. WM. H. WHEELER.
Our Little Patriots.
It brings to me a wealth of glee, as
I go 'long my-way, to have some little
lad or lass look up at me and say,
"Have you a twenty-f ive-cent piece a
war thrift stamp to buy, to help our
brothers o'er the sea to keep our flag
on high?" "w meet these little pa
triots each day from morn till night,
and they are doing their small bit In
freedom's holy fight. Yes. truly as
the khaki hoys, those lads and lassies
brave, all add their mite to freedom's
fight their country dear to save. These
little girls with golden curls, these
lads with eyes of blue, bring thrills of
patriotic seal each day to me ami you.
Hail to the kiddie patriots who sell the
war thrift stamp, who seek to keep
alive the flame of freedom's blessed
lamp. When once again o'er peaceful
scenes Old Glory's folds are flung, by
cheering crowd in voices loud their
praises will be sung.
E. L. SHARrE.
Enlistment In Xitj.
ALMOTA, Wash.. July 23. (To the
Editor.) (.1) Is It permitted that a man
who is registered, hut is at present in
class 2. enlist in the Navy if he rte
slres. or will he have to wait for the
draft and go'lnto the Army?
) Where would he apply for a per
mit. If that is necessary?
(3) Can a man take out Insurance
In the Navy the same as In the Army,
and what is the rate per thousand?
A P.
(1) He can enlist in the Navy if he
can obtain from his local board a cer
tification that he is not within the
current draft quota.
(2) Apply to local board.
(3) Yes. The rates run from 4
cents a month for each J1000 at the
age of IS to SI cents at the age of 40.
War Service Snargestlona.
LINNTON. Or.. July 23. (To the Edi
tor.) I have a few war suggestions
which I hope you will publish.
1. That the Boy Scouts and other
children under working age be paid a
bounty on the bloom-heads of the
Canadian thistle. They will soon be In
full bloom and are certainly no friend
of the U. S. A
2. That the Red Cross print stamps
that could be appropriately used any
time of the year.
S. That a smllage book coupon ad
mit our soldiers and sailors to any
theater. L. L. L. L.
FVderal Farm Loan.
PORTLAND. Jtily 24. (To the Edi
tor.) I want to get a Federal loan on
my 60 acres of land. How do I go
about it to get It? Please tell me to
whom to apply. M. R.
Apply to the Farm Loan Association
nearest the land. If you cannot Identify
such an association write to Federal
Land Bank. Spokane. Wash.
Address of War Worker.
PORTLAND. July 24. (To the Edi
tor.) Flease let me know the address
of Mrs. Alice Benson Beach, who is
active In the State Council of Defense.
A READER.
Her home is at 1015 Qulmby street,
Portland.
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