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Give postofflce address In full. In cluding county and state. Postage Bates 12 to 18 pares, 1 cent; 18 o 32 pages, 2 cents: 84 to 48 pages, 8 cents; CO to 61) pages, 4 cents; 62 to 74 pages, 5 cents: 78 to t2 pages, 6 cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Business Office Verres Conk lln, Brunswick building. New York; Verree & Conklln, Ptoger building, Chicago: Verree & Conklln. Free Press building. Detroit. Mich.; Pan Francisco representative, R. J. Bldwoll, 742 Market street. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Associated Press 1s exclusively enti tled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication ef special dis patches heroin are also reserved. PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1018. AY ILL, TURKEY BREAK AWAY? Recent news about friction between Turkey and Germany inclines one to give credence, to the report of a defi nite break in their relations. The rulers of Turkey have abundant causa to believe, as the world in general has believed from the "day of that coun try's entrance into the war, that they have been used as a cat's paw to pull German chestnuts out of the fire and that, if German plans should succeed, Turkey would lose, while victory for the allies would mean extinction for the Ottoman Empire. Conflict of ambitions has come to the surface through the victory of the central powers over Russia and Ron mania. Germany aimed to take pol itical and economic control of Turkey in order to exploit its resources and pse them with Turkish man-power in further Asiatic conquests and in seiz ing the Suz Canal and Egypt and in extending her empire- through Africa. "With Ukranla in her power, Ger many moved on to occupy Transcau casia, rich in minerals, grain and wool, to seize the Baku oil field and to make the Black Sea a German lake. Brit ish conquest of Mesopotamia having blocked the Bagdad road to India, a road thither would then be opened around the Caspian Sea and through Central Asia, and from this road the reconquest of Mesopotamia might be attempted. This ambitious scheme comes into direct conflict with the desire to es tablish a Pan-Turkish empire which is harbored by the chauvinists of Con stantinople. They aim to add to the present empire not only that part of Armenia which was annexed by Rus sia in 1878 and was ceded by the Bol sheviki but the whole of Transcau casia, Northern Persia, the Baku oil fields, the Crimea and adjoining main land of Rtissia which is chiefly peo pled by Tartars, and an indefinite area of Turkestan, whence their an cestors migrated westward on their career of conquest. - They claim all people of Turanian race as Turks, and hope to gather these people into an empire of 50,000.000 of one race and creed, exterminating all non-Turks who refuse to embrace Islam. The massacre of the Armenians, though encouraged and perhaps instigated by the Germans, was part of this pro gramme. They aim to make the Black Sea a Turkish lake, as It was when Ottoman power was at its height; hence their demand that, the Russian fleet be handed over to them. Inflated with the idea of the ser vice they rendered to Bulgaria in van quishing Roumanla and in obtaining for that country the southern Do brudja, the Turks demand compensa tion by the recession of the strip of country which they gave up with the Dedeagatch railroad as an inducement to the Bulgars to declare against the allies. Germany is the less disposed to support this claim because she an gered Bulgaria by not obtaining for that country the whole of the Dobrudja, with the Danube as its northern boun dary. The motive for this rebuff was that a Bulgarian frontier on the Dan ube delta would interfere with the plan to hold Roumanla in subjection and to control the Danube from source to mouth. That plan is con nected with another to connect tho Danube by means of ship canals with the other navigable rivers of Germany and thus to establish a system of waterways from the North and Baltic Seas through the heart of the two em pires to the Black Sea. Unfolding of the German plans may well have awakened both Turks and Bulgars to -the fact that they have been duped. Angered with each other as well as with Germany, they may have made a new survey of their sit uation in the war and may have medi tated on the prospects of final victory for the central powers and on their own fate In the event of defeat. Their pride has been wounded, by the arro gant, domineering manner in which the Germans assume command over their armies and dictate their policy. and their fears for their future may have been awakened both by their own situation and by their knowledge of what Germany is doing in Russia. They see the promised victory de ferred farther into the future, and In formation must have reached them of the great army which the United States la putting In the field, and of the great array of other nations which has joined the allies. Turkish and Bulgarian statesmen see little profit in standing by Germany, and they may apprehend losing all through defeat in her company. Hence there may be a secret race between the two countries to be first in making peace with the allies. A straw pointing that way is the formation of a new govern ment in Bulgaria and the journey of Czar Ferdinand for a long stay In Central Europe on the stale pretext of ill health. Probably the expectation that some combination of circumstances might detach Turkey or Bulgaria, or both, from the Teuton alliance led Presi dent Wilson to oppose a declaration ' of war upon them. But what chance has either country to break away? German officers are in command of the Turkish and probably the Bui gar ian armies and of the Turkish navy. The German ambassador Is practically dictator at Constantinople and the country is so full of his spies that he would discover and defeat every anti German move at its inception, and open break with Germany requires organization and armed force, which could not long be kept secret. What have the Turks to expect from the allies? Their two chief ministers. Talaat and Enver Pashas, have noth ing to gain and all to l06e, personally, for the British and French have an nounced that these worthies will be held personally responsible for the Armenian massacres, if they should be captured. The allies are pledged to liberate Armenia, Mesopotamia, Pal estine and Syria and their principle of national right may award a large part of Asia Minor's coast to Greece. They hardly dare violate their pledges in order to win Turkey over, nor could they consistently make a separate peace with the Turks, for they have bound themselves to a gen eral settlement among all nations. Nor would the enlightened opinion of the civilized world welcome a ces sation of war on Turkey, much less the enlistment of that country with the allies. The existence of Turkey and of the group of small, weak states which have broken away from Os manli rule is correctly regarded as the chief cause of the war, as it has been of most of the European wars during the last century. The world wants to see the end of Turkey as a breeding place of wars. Consent of President Wilson and Premier Lloyd George that Turkey should retain Constantinople and Thrace as their national home is condemned by many, for the Turks have consistently acted as a band of murderous, oppressive, robbing intru ders; they have not established their right by amalgamation with the na tive population or by giving the least approach to decent government; and they are a bare majority of the popu lation of their capital. They should be driven from Europe, back to their real ancestral home, which Is Anato lia. There would be greater Joy at an American declaration of war on Tur key than at that country's secession from the Germanic league, for that might clear the way to extinction of a curse to the world and to regenera tion of some of the world's richest territory. AS UNEVEN RACE. A well-intentioned proposal Is made that another state department, headed by a "commissioner" be created, and it is supported by an alluring but not uncommon argument: The general public will be protected from losses and the institutions most benefited will pay the entire cost, without re course to taxation. Most of the state's multiplicity of ponderous departments commenced in a small way. They began business with the assurance that a small work ing force would be required and the expense, therefore, would be small, or they were to be self-supporting. Now, we have a commission at work, with an eastern expert employed, trying to discover ways to simplify state gov ernment and reduce the cost. The new proposal is for a commer cial department. One may infer from the list of duties assigned to it that it will at once become an extremely busy place, for it is stated: The Commissioner of Commerce would be required, among other things, to compile all business statistics of the state. require everybody contemplating entering .business to submit to a simple examination touching on his qualifications, collect a small annual lcense from all established business con cerns In the state, act as arbiter in all commercial disputes, have supervisory con trol over all collection agencies and adjust ment bureaus and collect an annual license fee therefrom, give expert assistance to busi ness men and furnish expert Information to those contemplating engaging in business and publish an official state pamphlet re garding business conditions and opportuni ties in the state. Another duty of the commissioner would be to collect a complete list of property statements for use only for statistical pur poses or to be furnished merchants upon payment of a small fee and upon their affi davit that they have a bona fide account not paid or a new order not filled. All this nformation Is to be regarded as of a con fidential nature and to be furnished only those entitled to It in the ordinary conduct of the department. It will also be made the duty of the com missioner to Inquire into the causes of ail failures and to apply failure-prevention methods wherever possible. It is no one man's Job that Is there in outlined. But w-e shall probably have to go either backward or for ward in the matter of commissions. The corporations have their commis sioner; the public utilities have three commissioners; the state banks have a commissioner; the fisheries have their commissioners: labor has its commissioner; hazardous industry has its commissioners; the insurance bus iness has its commissioner; the dairying industry has a commis sioner and there may be a few more hiding out in the brush that we have lost track of. But the mercan tile), business, as such, has no com missioner. Just how much better off we are now than in the days of simplified government would make an interest ing study for someone who had unlim ited time and vast resources. Cer tainly taxes are much higher. But let this not be understood as condemna tion of the proposed state commerce commission. If everybody else is to have commissioners why should not the merchants? The question that in terests most at the moment is this: Can the Consolidation ' Commission hope ever to catch up with the com mission makers? ORGANIZER OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION. John D. Ryan, head of the Air craft Production Board, is a man of the type which Portland delights to honor, for he does big things and gets them done. That was the reason for his selection to straighten out the air craft muddle. He is an organizer and a reorganizer, and he has accom plished feats of that kind before which other men quailed. He knew nothing, particular about aircraft when he was appointed, but In nine days he had mastered the essential facts and had arrangements started to get production going. After learning the elements of bus lness In his uncle's store at Hancock. Mich., he went west at the age of 2 b and got a job as salesman of lubri eating oil and soon became manager of an important branch. In his trav els he caught the eyo of Marcus Daly, gained an insight into the opportun ities offered by Montana and after Daly's death In 1901 went to Butts to reorganize the Daly chain of banks. That success led H. H. Rog ers to make him manager of the Amalgamated Copper Company, and upon Rogers death he was elected president. In that capacity he did another work of reorganization, tho consolidation of the various copper interests affiliated with the Anaconda and the seemingly impossible task of settling the feud with Heinze by buy ing the Heinze Interests. He suc ceeded in that too and made the Anaconda producer of one-fifth of the world's copper. He developed the smelting of zinc, which had been re garded as the pest of copper miners. kept the peace with labor and kept the Butte mines running while the Miners" Federation and the I. W. W. had the city In a state of civil war. and turned his attention to water power. He consolidated several power companies into one and by electrify ing the Butte, Anaconda & Pacfiio Railroad he proved the economy of eleotrio power so conclusively that tie Milwaukee electrified its mountain lines. Accused of having a power monopoly in Montana, he admitted that his company had a monopoly of the market, not of the power resour ces, "because the service It gives la good and the charges are so low that there is no possibility of any compe tition." The ability which Mr. Ryan has shown was Just the kind that was wanted to get manufacture of aircraft started In quantity by means of com mon business sense applied to the direction of the wranglers and rainbow-chasers who had it in hand. lie has got things going, for the output grows week by week, as the Boches are beginning to discover. He will find that spruce production, one of the essentials to his product. Is going as he would wish, being in the hands of a man of his kind, and that Oregon is doing its part. That is the kind of man upon whom America relies to prove how far su perior Is American efficiency to the much lauded efficiency of Germany. THE BUILDING OF THE BRIDGE A fine new bridge of Bteel and con crete has Just been opened for travel across the Willamette at Salem. It was dedicated with appropriate cere monies; yet it cannot be said to have been regarded as an event of state wide importance. The time has not long since passed when spanning the broad Willamette anywhere in its lower reaches was an enterprise which would have excited, and did excite for year3, general Interest and every-day discussion. They're going to build, I feel it yet. A bridge across ths Willam-ette was a piece of current doggerel and mispronunciation which was coined out of the dreams and needs of the growing population. And the new structure at Salem is the third at that approximate location. The first was finished about 1888, after prolonged agitation, and was shortly washed away by a Winter flood; the second soon took its place and it too became inadequate; and another has been substituted, and will doubtless serve all requirements for many years. It is Interesting to note that the bridge is built Jointly by Marion and Polk Counties, tho former paying much the greater share of the cost. It is obvious that the bridge is thought by the ruling powers in Polk County to be mainly a Salem asset. Few large cities In America have a river of the width and importance of the Willamette flowing through the center as at Portland. Yet it is true enough that in the beginning there was no plan to build one city on both banks. All of Portland was on the West Side until 1891. when the flour ishing suburbs of East Portland, Al bina, Sellwood and others had grown on the East Side. ..So it is true that the Willamette did not then split Portland in half but separated it from other embryonic cities. Far- seeing men were sure that a bridge, supplanting the old ferries, would not only contribute to convenience of com munication and traffic, but would tend to make of the several units one great municipal -Whole: and they were right. The first bridge an affair of tolls was finished at Morrison street in 1887, and the consolidation of Port land followed soon thereafter as matter of course. Facility of transport contributed greatly to enlargement and unity of the municipal outlook. It was not long until the old Madison street bridge, the old steel (railroad) bridge, and the Burnside bridge were erected. The last to be finished was the state ly, elaborate and expensive Broadway bridge. For the entire length of the Will amette valley, there was no bridge across the river prior to 1887 except at the railroad crossing near Junction City. Now there is a bridge at Al bany, and there Is one at Corvallls, there are two at Salem (one a rail road structure), one at Newberg and one at Oregon City. Even the great Columbia river has succumbed to the advance of the bridge builders and there Is both a railroad and a public bridge at Vancouver. It is not easily conceivable by tho present generation how to get along without such necessities. Perhaps they will give way In their time to newer and better devices. We shall not let our imagination dwell on such inventions as a flying pontoon or an escalator; but who knows how soon a great tunnel under the Willamette at Portland may be a reality? A NATIONAL EOO DAY. The Chamber of Commerce of Pet aluma, California, presents the subject of a National Egg day, a day devoted to the lowly hen and her output. In furtherance of the proposition, the Dally Courier, of Petaluma, has this to say: . "If Uncle Sam, through Mr. Hoover, has asked the people of the U. S. to raise more poultry, and pro duce more eggs to win the war, what better Impetus could be given to such an accomplishment than to start it with a National Egg day? To make it more Interesting have the Retail Grocers' Association Instruct every re tail grocery store In the U. S. to sell eggs on that day 'at 10 cents a dozen below the regular price." The Courier, of course, is speaking for Petaluma,' the great poultry cen ter of the United States, If not of the world j It is said there are more than 20,000 people in and adjacent to that city dependent upon the egg-producing capacity of the hen. There are five million hens, says The Courier, in that neighborhood, laying normally fire hundred and twenty-eight million eggs a year, valued at twelve million dol lars. In the entire country It Is said there- are hens to the value of a billion dollars. These statements are perhaps not overdrawn, nor are they news to those who have studied the subject; but the question of a National Egg day ap peals to us more from a consumers' than from a producers' standpoint. It is true the poultry business as a whole, and especially the egg-producing branch of it, is of vast Importance. But to our mind the egg is of para mount Importance at the present time because it cannot enter largely into the food for our men at the front, but by a large, consumption of eggs at home we can largely increase the meat and wheat surplus to be sent to the trenches. People as a rule do not comprehend the great food value of eggs. They eat them because they like them and be cause they have been brought up to eat them. But how many consider the value of a dozen eggs compared with a pound of the best beef? At the present time the price of a pound of choice beef is about the same as that of a dozen eggs 50 cants in the vicinity of Portland. As a matter of culinary economy, to say nothing of the adaptability of the egg for recon ciling us to the use of wheat substi tutes in the many ways the frugal and intelligent nousewiie understands, a dozen fresh eggs are worth more than two pounds of the best cut of any meat one can buy. Whether a National Egg day would advance us in the knowledge of this matter and increase the consumption of eggs we do not know. But we be lieve, with the Petal u ma Courier, that it lies within the power of Food Com missioner Hoover largely to Increase the consumption of eggs by means of the methods of publicity he has at command. It would be wise for him to give biddy and her multitudinous owners a good, strong push to the front. That Germany is prepared for the worst is proved by the statement of John Erlckson, a Swede,- of Rice Lake, Wis., who says he worked for five years on the defenses of Berlin. He says there are three lines of defense, respectively seven, 11 and 15 miles from the outskirts, and that they are armed with guns, some of which are 200 feet long, mounted on granite blacks seven feet thick in pits deep underground," and throwing shells 25 miles. Railroads running through subways which extend to the heart of the city supply men and ammunition and electricity operates trains and guns. A screen roof hides the guns and is covered with grass, gardens and trees, but this covering can be thrown off. Guns to outshoot and destroy the Berlin monsters may be built at the monster factory now building at Ne ville Island, near Pittsburg, and the Government apparently has a siege of Berlin In view, for the great plant will not be finished until Spring. By the time the allied armies reach the German capital, they should be well provided with monsters which will demolish the defenses with as great ease as that with which the famous 42-centimeter howitzers wrecked the forts of Liege and Namur. Linnton's experience should convince any person open to reason that a choice must be made between regular bus service according to schedule at a fixed fare and unrestrained jitneys running any time they please and charging whatever the traffic will bear. Those who insist on unre strained jitneys care nothing for regu lar, reliable service at a fixed fare, and they prevent those who do care from obtaining these most desirable things. That is about all there Is in the controversy, and the talk about corporations and monopolies is all flubdub to conceal the utter irrespon sibility of the free-lance vehicles. A Eugene man had a hen that laid an enormous egg. He gave the egg to an editor, who, of course, ate it. Next night the hen was stolen. If this happened in a small town, rather than Eugene, solution would be easy. The rival editor would have had a chicken dinner. The suggestion of somebody In a local organization that all smokers abstain one day a week is probably made in kindness to the dealers, who might want to go fishing. The smoker saves nothing by abstaining; he'll burn 'em up next day. Lots of "boys" above the draft age are showing the spirit that moved "when George Washington led" anil are Joining in one way or another. It's all war work, whether shooting or driving nails. Colored people, being more demon strative, appear to be prouder of their soldiers than white folk of theirs, but it Is not so. All are Americans, black and white, and the word "pride" does not explain it. Texas vindicates the state's good name by throwing out McLemore, author of the notorious resolution. The November election will be a fine opportunity to complete the purging of Congress. A drunken driver is a menace cot to himself, more's the pity but to all others. If able to buy liquor at cur rent rates he can pay a fine. Why not Jail him as first aid to a cure? Sight of the American war machine In operation may give Holland enough courage after a while to defy the Prussian bully and stop the use of her railroads in hauling munitions. When an army merely "shifts its position," It does not leave great stacks of shells behind. But we should not forget that Baron Mun chausen was a German. Another fire that did not Just hap pen was that of the woolen mills at Provo, Utah, yesterday, with loss of half a million. Such loss cannot be result of mere accident. ' Ferdinand of Bulgaria is reported "gone foreign" for his health, but the best health resort for that fellow does not contemplate a round-trip ticket. With 27 ships launched in July, Or egon averaged more than one each working day, and may make the August average include Sundays. With state officials resigning to take more lucrative private jobs, the people will have to fall back on the "also-rans" of former elections. The marines in Santo Domingo are keeping their hands in by shooting bandits, in the . hope of getting a chance at bigger game. The Germans who hoist a white flag and then fire on Americans do not re peat the offense, that Is, the tamt Germans. The young man who falls to carry his ticket is liable to all kinds of trouble, including, a few hours In Jail. There 1b no significance in the death Monday night in Berlin of the Turk ish ambassador. He was Just sick. Query for the individual: Here Is Summer two-thirds gone and what has been accomplished? Junior Scouts and Boy Scouts are different organizations, but both have the right ideals. Americans whipped the crack corps, did they? Humph! Americans can Whip anything. Bennett Thompson is of the dispo sition to get what he deems revenge. If the Kaiser desires a turkey dinner he must try Constantinople. At War With Ansfrla. EUGENE. Or.. July 29. (To the Edi tor.) State whether the United States has declared war on Austria. T. D. CAMPBELL. The United States declared war 01 Austria-Hungary Deoemker J7. JJlf, A Line o Type or Two. Hew to the Line. Let the oln Fall Wker They May. BT B. L. T Published by arrangement with Chicago Tribune. There Is a striking similarity between the headlines these days and those of last March. The difference Is that it la the Germans who are doing the fall ing back, stiffening, resisting, escaping from pincers, and the rest of it. For this difference much thanks! Ah, That la Something Else Again. Sir: Why the gorgeous posters ad vertising the "Women of the Ages," when nothing is said vice versa? Sni derlus. Concerning the military expedition into Russia, our quondam correspond ent, Hon. Dam LI. sends a word of ad vice. "Load the cannon with sand wiches," says he. DEAR. DEAR, WON'T THEY BE DREADFULLY SUNBURNED? From ths Ohio Stats Journal. Membership in the Y. W. C. A. enti tles girls to become privates In the mil itary department. The uniform will consist of an arm band and trench cap. "Buy your Thrift Stamps, show them to the family. Point out the picture of George Washington in the middle of the stamp." The accomplished Evening Journal. That gets a larf out of Collier's Weekly. May we not also point out the Teehee in the Liberty Bonds? Among those recently bitten by the golf bug is Old BUI Byrne, and he is making, as he was bound to make, in teresting discoveries. "A man isn't a good player." series, "until he can make his drive sound like the wind storm in "Way Down East.' " A HOMEY AFFAIR. Sir: Lieut. M. W., lately command ing negro troops in France, now in valided home, springs this: A party of Huns raided a trench held by the negroes, who snatched the bayonets from their rifles and used them like knives. The Lieutenant ordered them to take their guns and fix bayonets, whereupon one large colored person called back: "You keep out o' dls. man! Dls am a home folks' fight." S. M. F. "This is a question of decency, mor ality, and honor." remarks Maximilian Harden, concering Belgium. That, then, lets out Germany. THE REWARD OF PERSEVERANCE. (From ths Plattevllle (Wis.) Wltua. At last we have finally broken Into the "Line-o-type or two" of the Chi cago Tribune. We knew some sucker would bite, and "B. L. T." has really swallowed the bait. Poor fish! THIS WAS THE BAIT. Christian Yearous of Potosl was ar rested and taken to Madison Thursday on the charge of molesting the espion age law. The army of 6.000.000 planned by Mr. Baker will be needed, as the Berlin official reports have killed off nearly all the Americans In France. "Wanted First-class dressmaker to assist fashionable dressmaker. 204 E. Central." Albuquerque Journal. A distinction with a sizeable differ ence. AN IMMORTAL IMPROVES HER VISION. (From ths Kswsnes star-Courier. Lost my nervousness and headache since wearing a pair of Torlc glasses made by Dr. N. Klein. Mrs. I. C. Good. In a Toledo, O.. district Charles It. Barefoot Is running tnr state senator. The R stands for No; guess again. The Intimation of craft In connec tion with army contracts for raincoats reminds us to inquire. Why are fail ures In raincoat concerns always "dis astrous"? OX CLIXGMA DOMl'. (Ollvs Dargan In the New Republic.) The balsam buds are bluer. From leaning on the sky; With faces nearer, truer. The stars pass cousinly. And here on moss like heather. As fragrant and as deep. Safe in the tender weather. The baby angels sleep. They curl and tumble near me. Like little laughing flames; They nudge and do not fear me. And whisper me their names. When with the dawn I waken, I hear them scurrying. And stars Just half mistaken Where, leaves shine like a wing. God's truants, but forgiven; For all day long I see A silver door in heaven Lean open coaxlngly. We take It that the German Major GeneraL Hell,. Is related to General Otto von Below. In declaring war against Germany the president of Honduras declares: "We must have a strong peace." Sticking Close to Ills Work. Sir: I see where a wronged husband killed a Major, and what struck me as odd was the dispatch stated that the Major was a designing engineer. J. U. H. In Oklahoma district oourt: "'Charles V. Termini vs. Myra M. Termini; di vorce." A finish fight Is predicted. "The Germans left numbers of ma chine gun nests In the path of the al lied progress." There are no Huns in last week's nests. Oh, Two or Three Yean More. 61r: How long must we be at war before some dear souls atop talking about "the costumes of our boys"? F. L. O. "Drive of Italians. British and Al binos Has Important Political Aspects." Wisconsin State Journal. Obvlouoly, as it puts the Albinos on the map." We are surprised to read that Will iam Bayard Hale and George Sylvester Vlereek are being questioned by Fed eral agents. We supposed these two birds had been interned long ago. From a asparagus. bill of fare: "American 40 cents; asparagus, 7S cents. The Kaiser's shock troops fall to shock the Yanks. They have their absorbers on. A Texas Heroine. From the Marshall Messenger. I am 11 years old and want to sell my goldsn hair, 14 inches long, in the braid. Just as cut from my bead on the 3rd. I want a war savings stamp and 15 for the Red Cross. FRANCES JENKINS. A Twilight Fear. Now that the sun has departed. Over the land. Slyly vapors reach out Hand after ghostly hand. For whom are they searching? And will they take hence My love, the wilding rse. Bjr the old "tone fence? LAURA BLA.CK.BURN, MEAT COXSrMERS ARE PROTECTED. Frs-nres Are Given To Show Efficiency Of City Inspection Burns. PORTLAND, July 30. (To the Edi tor.) In the Oregonlan appears the following editorial paragraph: An Albany man was fined $100 for shipping a diseased hog to Portland. This leads to the belief there is mors of that practirs and Portland people rat the stuff and do not dis because of Ignorance of ths factQ. Your conclusion that "there Is more of that practice" Is undoubtedly true, but that does not Justify the belief that "Portland people eat the stuff. On the contrary they do not eat It. thanks to that efficient and conscientious set of officials in the Health Bureau in charge of Meat Inspection, headed by Dr. Chase. 1 The very fact that the man who shipped the hog from Albany was caught and fined $100 for the offense should be sufficient evidence that the Portland people are protected so far as diseased meat goes at least. If further evidence is needed I think the following figures from the June report of the Health Bureau-Meat Inspection Department should suffice: 7304 car casses Inspected and passed as fit for human food; 4 beef cattle condemned: 6 hogs condemned; veals condemned; lis hogs headfs condemned, tubercular: 4(47 pounds various kinds condemned, (sour); 69 organs (livers, tongues and hearts), (diseased): 61 chickens, (tu bercular); 4 hogs retained and taken In charge by State Dairy and Foori Commissioner. These latter I learned were the Albany hogs. In view of the above facts it Is only fair that the public should know that the men whom they pay for protection are giving them service and good ser vice too. " E. 11. DEERT. PROPER TIME FOR ALL THINGS Mr. KUer WIU Yodel Oaly After Work ing Honrs While War la On. ALBANY, Or. July 29. (To the Edi tor.) We would like it very much if you would put something in The Ore gonlan about our well-known Albany yodeler. Harry A. Riser. He Is known as a good and straight young man. He has lived in Albany for nearly two years. His voice is simply great Mr. Kler has done some yodeling at the Globe Theater and Saturday evening he did his bit for our soldiers boys at the Albany Armory to help out the Red Cross. Mr. Riser Is working for the Southern Pacific Company as a section man. He does his yodeling after working hours. When we asked him why he did not go on the Gtage to yodel and make easy money he said he would not feel right If he did not do a day's work In these times. He is single, a native of Switzerland. He has been In the United States for seven years and he does all he can to help win the war for us. He tried to enlist in Portland In De cember last, but had no chance. Then he went to California and was put In class S. His eyes are not very good. Well, here is what we think will help you do a good piece of work. PEOPLE OF ALBANY. Comparison of Casualties. PORTLAND. Or.. July 30. (To th Editor.) According to thepapers ths British lost over 12,000 men last week, which seems a lot and more than we appear to have lost In the lsit two weeks, although we have been doing more of the hard fighting than the British, at least we have been told we have. Please explain where the heavy British losses come from? There la no account in the papers of any hard flsrhting on the British front, but they must be keeping the Huns busy iu some sector. READER. The Americans were engaged In In tensive fighting on a front of from 15 to 20 miles. The battle Una In France has a length or about 600 miles. In numerable minor operations, such as local thrusts, trench raids and patrol conflicts, are In continuous progress The losses In these may be more In ths aggregate but not so great In propor tion to the number of men on the fir ing line as the losses In an Important offensive on a narrow front. More over, British casualties Include those of the Canadian. Australian. New Zea land and Indian forces and embrace losses In Mesopotamia, Palestine. Italy and Macedonia as well an France. Provisions of Draft Treaties. SOUTH BEND, Wash.. July 29. (To the Editor.) (1) Under the new treaty for drafting British and Canadian sub jects, what Is the last date when they can volunteer for the British and Ca nadian armies? (2) If a Canadian does not enlist in the British or Canadian armies, will he be subject to Canadian draft? (3) If a Canadian (in the U. S.) Is In class 4 because of dependents, will he stay In class 4 or be transferred to class 1, or will he be drafted into the Canadian army and given no further opportunity to get Into the American Army Instead? C. F. JOHNSON. (1) September 2S. 191S. (I) If he remains in this country he will be subject to the American draft. (3) The treaty will probably not change his status. Packages far Soldiers. FREE WATER, Or, July 29. (To the Editor.) (1) May a person having a dear friend In the Army wear a serv ice pin? (1) May a person having a cousin in the Army wear the service pin? (t) May a person send a present such s sweater or socks to a soldier and la the soldier allowed to accept such, or do these things have to be sent through the Red Cross? If. E. S. (1) Not with propriety. (2) Not with propriety. (3) Packages for soldiers In France are not accepted for transmission un less aocompanled by a written request from the soldier approved by a Major or higher commanding officer. This restriction does not apply to soldiers at cantonments in America. H. A. R. rTzcaralon Rotes. PORTLAND. July 29. (To the Edi tor.) Under the order granting the reduced fare to veterans do they have to belong to the CAR. order, and would an old soldier staying here tem porarily be entitled to the reduced rate to return to his home after the encampment? OLD SOLDIER. In the language, of the order It Is de fined that the rate shall be "confined by certificate of identification of the membership of these organizations and members of their Immediate families.? The rate Is made for the round trip only. Sb.lpwork.em anal Draft. PORTLAND. July 29. (To the Ed itor.) A young man of draft .age who has been working in shipyards about six weeks Is in class 1. He Is married, has unborn child. Will he be called in August? He is a bollermaker and considered neeessarv. , SHIPYARD WORKER, Until recently class 1 men employed as mechanics in shipyards were placed on the Emergency Fleet Hat. Regis trants on such list are not subject to draft call. Asji'ou are a recant em ploye, your status can be learned only from your loosj board. In Other Days. Twenty-Five Tears Ago. From Ths Morning Oregonlan. July 31. ISM. Delegates to the silver conference which opens Tuesday arrived today. Among those in the party are Represen tatives Bartlne, of Nevada: Sweet of Idaho. Shoup of Idaho. Dubois of Idaho and Gallagher. Pope. McConkey and Mc Pherson of Montana. L. A. Clarke, of the Seattle Athletic Club, arrived on bicycle at noon yes terday having wheeled from Tacoiua, about 175 miles,- in 33 hours. A hotly contested game of baseball between the picked nines from the employes of Meier & Frank and Olds & Ring's stores resulted In a victory for the latter by a score of 12 to 11. The batteries were: Olds & King. Fav, Allstock and Coffey; Meter & Frank. Meyers and Flymale. Among Portlanders at Ocean Park are the Misses Emma Wagner. Eugenia Kern. Edna Chown and liamie liazel tine: Mrs. Hardline. A A. Smith and family. Mrs. Kern. Jr., and family and Mrs. Edward Cornell. San Francisco Claus gp '-T'- x t. " ehuii u"i no was concerned In shipping rifles and revolvers to Hawaiian Islands. A Half Centary Ago. From The Oregonlan. July 21. ISM Eugene, Or. J. I.L Gale reports work In progress on two arastrae at the Bohemian mining camp. About 40 men were reported to be at work. Pf, Louis. Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheridan had an enthusiastto re ception at Macon. Mo. They will reach fct. Louis today. Mr. Kelly, proprietor of the sawmill on the East Side of the River was ar rested on the charge of cruelty to ani mals, for having driven a yoke of oxen attached to a double-seated spring car rlase faster than the law allowa. Justlc Tralnor refused to admit a view of the oxen as evidence In the case and assessed a fine of 13 and costs. St. Petersburg Tbe Emperor Alex ander has called a conference of II members to meet August 10 at St. Petersburg for the purpose of arrang ing the details of an International con vention, pledging all the great powers, to abandon the use of explosive bullets In time of war. The roads leading to and from the Iron works at Oswego have been fenced up by the proprietor of the town. This action has put an end to the work of the lron company Tor the time being. WHF.RR SOCIALISM 1 EXEHPLII IEII Those Who Uealre the Real F.xnerlenre Should io to Rnaala. TORTLAND. July 30. (To the Ed itor.) The Oregonlan. which is noted for pertinent editorials,' has Sunday, under the title of "What Is Government for?" one that is especially appropriate to the present times. Socialists of the type of Barzee should go to Russia snd experience the al leged government of the Bolshevlkl, which comes about as near to the form of government he attempts' to describe as the one he "wants or thinks he wants" as he will probably be able to find this side of hades. It is not out of place to remark, at this point, that the necessity for the Government to "assert its sovereign authority over industry and over Its citizens, revolutionizing former meth ods and affecting profoundly all ways of life and schemes of livelihood." is largely due to the -failure of ths Ad ministration properly to prepare for this war. of which It had ample notice, before entering the war. or promptly to make amends for Its former over sight along preparatory lines. A nota ble example Is the delay In increasing the sge limit of the drsft law. recently held up by the War Department, as a result of which It is now reported by the War Department that class 1 will probably be exhausted by the quotas called In each state during the month of August, Including the men regis tered In June. 1918. "The people are greater than their Government, and must be; but now the Government Is. and must be. greater than the reople." And it Is up to the people to see that the Government fills these specifications to the letter. FREDERICK JOSEPH, nOLT WILLIE' PRATER. S. S. In New York Evening Post. 0S (The author wishes to express his obliga tion to the late Robert Burns of Alloway. near Avr. Scotland, for all of the title and some of the metre of the following Inspired 'ines. ) Thou. Gntt. sum Croesen Haupt-Qusrtler, Whose flaming sword. I greatly fear. Is givlnir signs of wear and tear late dispatches. Despite Rspsume snd Armentleres New trouble hstches. Peruse, oh Gott. without delay. The stesther msps from U. . A. With Winter wheat from dsy to' dsy Booming snd swelling. A billion bushels on the way Hear Hoover yelling. Pour forth thy wrath on Ahllene. Its long hot dtrl with rain between. Or hurl thy blaat on Moorhead. Minn. Temp, above norma). Not like my crops from the Ukraine, More or less formal. It fall thy bolt on Keokuk. Its Isotherms in best of luck. Its bormetrto pressure cluck Clucking snd chortling. Much livelier. Gott. than thst Von Hertllng. lame duck nd forth thy blast on Tstoosh. Wash. Where horses o'er the landscape dash And autoa sell for ready rash: Whest at two-twenty! On Fenn Van let thy anser crash. Crssh good and plenty. What Teuton skill wrought sn the Somm, Wreak thou, oh Gtt. on Yankee scum. On orchard, meadow, clay, and loam. Ashes and oba'ff spray. Or Ludendorff will pack the boras Retired on bait par. Volnntnry Enlistments Clooed. SALEM. Or.. July 29. (To tho Edi tor. Can a person in class 3 of the draft enlist In the Quartermaster De partment, with permission from the local board? S. R. W. J Registrants cannot volunteer for that branch of service. ' Change of S tarns. PORTLAND. July 30. (To the Edi tor.) Registrant having wife and baby to support was placed in class 4 by lo cal draft board. Since than baby died leaving only wife dependent. Should he notify board of change? SUBSCRIBER. Yes; at once. Kxraaotion of British tnhleels. INDEPENDENCE. Or, July 29. (To the Editor.) Please tell me what a British subject, aged 3 years, holding exemption certificate from the British array, dated December 31. 1911. issued by Lieutenant Simpson. Portland. Or, Is supposed to do under the new law. A READER. Regulations have not yet been Issued, but presumably the circumstances which gave you exemption will continue you in that status, although you will prob ably be required to register aad make a shewing before a local draft beard.