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kingdom, a province or art ally aa her
dowry. Their practice of sacking
cities Is a return to the methods of
their General. Tilly, who sacked and
burned Magdeburg arid massacred
20,000 of the inhabitants in 1(31. They
are three centuries behind the pres
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NOT PKAD.
The Fresno (California) Republican
edited by an eminent Progressive, late:
chairman of the state Republican com.
mittee (in the fateful year 1916, when
California tried to go tor Hughes, but
didn't), has now found new and abso
lute proof that the Democratic party
is finally dead.- Starling with, the
premise that it is in California a mi
nority party, and that the don't-cares
and band-wagon boys are all Repub
lican, leaving an irreducible minimum
of real Democrats for the Democratic
primary, it is shown that the Demo
crats concerned themselves at the re
cent election n the nomination, of a
Governor, and the candidates were a
half-Democrat (Heney), a Republican
(Rolph) and a Democrat (name not
important enough to remember). The
primary voted nearly two-thirds for
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'.PORTLAND. TCESDAY. SEPT. 3. 1918.
- SHALL JdOONEV HAXGT
' A conspicuous feature of the Labor
slay parade yesterday and elsewhere,
according to reports was the Mooney
eTEanners and badges. Some protested
I against the hanging of llooney; others
asked that he be set free; and others
demanded a new and fair trial. Ob-
viously, labor or, rather, union labor
has made Mooney's cause its own.
It is inconceivable, of course, that
any responsible group of men and
women in America should insist that
J a murderer be not punished. If he is
t guilty, fie should sutler lor nis crime.
I If he is innocent, he should be exoner
' ated. - So, if Mooney is guilty, not any
r American citizen worth the name
J would for an instant take the position
that the due processes of law should
e make an exception for him. it must
be so, then, that the many champions
"of Mooney in the ranks of labor think
he is innocent, and have no thought
of asking leniency for him on any
7"otTier ground.
; -YVhat is the basis of their opinion?
'ferould it not be well for them to make
' an impartial investigation of the case,
so as to determine its merits on the
bonis of the facts judicially ascer
tained? On the one hand there is the
t verdict of a jury of twelve men the
J American method sustained by the
unanimous judgment of the Supreme
Court. On the other hand, there is
J the unceasing propaganda of Mooney's
friends and sympathizers who have
; set about to show that there has been
a miscarriage of justice, and that an
, innocent man is being sent to the
gallows. The disinterested citizen who
! cieota to believe the latter necessarily
J assumes that the agents of the law are
n a diabolical conspiracy to railroad
; a"Mctim to a felon's death. The par.
ties to such a plot would include the
officers of the law, the prosecuting
' witnesses, the jury of twelve men, the
judge, and now the entire bench of
, the Supreme Court of California. It is
not a reasonable assumption. The
probabilities are all the other way.
President Wilson has been persuaded
kto make an appeal to the Governor of
.California for Mooney. , It appears to
"be taken for granted that the Presi
dent has convinced himself of Mooney's
innocence, ine Oregonian has not seen
annj-where an authorized statement that
President Wilson has interfered be-
-oause he was seeklnr to save a man
tG ongfully accused and .convicted. But
there have been widespread reports
thut he thought it a mistake to hang
uooney, for reasons of public policy
-Titrectly related to .the International
eJiluation. If Mooney is to be pardoned
i?cause there are high and pressing
nionsiderations of state, very welL But
!2t may be hoped that the reasons-may
be . clearly understood and, at the
T roper time, given to the world.
Z Mooney is. or was. a "direct action"
narchist with a bad record. He is an
-J W. W. and he belongs with Haywood
"mil his kind. Not a voice is raised
Ton Haywood, who was convicted for
2-hat he said, and for what he inspired
aanthers to say and" do, and not for any
cific crime of destruction or sabot
age, or disloyalty. Mooney. who was
ypenly and defiantly against the Gov
. ernmcnt, against social order, and
;,cven against law, was convicted of a
heinous crime, committed by some
Clipdy, in the assault on the San Fran
cisco preparedness parade, resulting in
tHa death of many persons, against
tfhorn the perpretator of the infamy
eonia have had no possible personal
iuievancs. Does not the utter absence
st motive except that there was a
treat public demonstration and that
tta participants were merely indicating
their adherence to a certain Xational I
policy add to the wickedness and
wantonness of the deed? If Mooney
ciid not do it, surely somebody, inspired
t- a roul and awful malignity, con
ji.ceived and executed It.
" ; No credible or tangible suggestion
";as to who the criminals are, if not
-Mooney and his accomplices, has yet
-oen made, so rar as we have noted.
Snrely. an effort to uncover the real
.murderer, if he is not Mooney. should
'. be made by those who assert ilooney's
J Innocence. If they succeed, a wrong
wui have been righted in absolute
; fashion, and another wrong an out-
right and awful murder will have
been requited.
and one-sixth for the Democrat. There
fore, the Democrats voted by a major
ity to deliver themselves to the Re
publicans, by more than one-third to
the Progressives, and by less than one
sixth to stay Democratic If a party
is not dead when it votes to go out of
business, what is it?
The Republican is confronted by a
situation long familiar in Oregon. The
Democratic party thrives best here
when it controls Republican nomina
tions in the Republican primary, re
serving its own organization to a small
and exclusive group. It is not dead here
by any means. In California Democrats
carry the process a step farther by
voting for a Republican in their own
primary when they cannot, or do not,
vote for him in the Republican pri
mary.
But the Fresno paper will learn that
tha Democratic party in California -is
not dead, nOr even five-sixths dead.
It will come to life in November, when
it will line up solidly behind any can
didate for Governor who has the
Democratic nominatidn, however pro-
cured.- It is the only American party
that uniformly has more votes than it
has members who are willing to pro
claim publicly their allegiance thereto.
The fact ef the congestion ef the pectedly in need of ready money and
railroads has been impressed upon are compelled to part with their bonds
every one. Ho far aa passenger auto- should avoid strangers and deal, if
mobiles are used for .travel which possible, with business men with whom
otherwise would' be made upon rait- they are personally acquainted. ,
roads, thqy are relieving the pressure 1
upon the latter. Thero is a general "So . people who had, perhaps,
shortage of freignt cars and of crews scarcely glanced at the poetry of their
and engines to haul them. The motof tongue betook themselves to poetic
truck is performing enormous service forms to state their new emotions,"
in the handling of local freight. It is says a writer in Chambers Journal in
hardly conceivable that manufacture an effort to account for the great re.
of trucks will be discontinued except vival of production of verse since the
as a last resort. Rut manufacturers war began, although it might be going
who turn out both passenger cars and too far to assume that increase in the
truck will be confronted with the I number of . poets Indicates an equal
necessity of turning from one to the I increase of interest in poetry gener.
other. Probably when the final choice I ally. It would seem that writing of
is made, the passenger car will take verse has outstripped the reading of
second place, in spite of its undoubted I it, for a vast quantity is being written
claims where it is put to reasonaDly I that can have served no other purpose
Utilitarian use. . I than to. relieve the pent-up emotions
Of course, every automobile owner of the author. It is this fact of "emo-
knows that our first duty is to win the I tion" that makes so many would-be
war. If it seems necessary to stop poets. They lack ideas and coherence
the manufacture of automobiles ror which would be necessary to the pro
any other than strictly military pur duction of readable prose, and quite
poses, all will acquiesce, while they eften are without the tedious technical
will continue to hope that this will not I preparation whieh the latter would re
be necessary. But there is one way ip. quire. So they burst into "poetry.
which every owner of a car can help, I which is primitive and knows no rules.
and be forehanded in doing so, and and if they do not become famous at
that is by crnserving the car which fie once they attribute this to lack of in.
now owns. Small repairs, which if I sight in the reader who does not ap.
neglected run into material deprec'.a- predate them
Ucn, should not be neglected.- The
proverbial stitch in time which saves I The feat of Lieutenant Edmund G.
nine should be taken. There should Chamberlain holds the palm so far
do an ana to speeding, wnicn places among performances of airmen, and
disproportionate burdens upon engines the story of it makes those of the
and running gear. There may, witn knights of old seem tame by compari
propriety, be" some curtailment of un- son. The age of chivalry has come
necessary driving, governed largely by back, or rather has never ended, but
the conscience of the individual. In has only awaited occasion for disnlav
other words, owners will do well to of its qualities. There is. reason for
bear in mind that economy is destr- gratification in the knowledge that
able not only because it is economy, some of the most brilliant knights of
but because the car when worn out the twentieth century knights were
may not be replaceable at all. Sensible found among the dollar-chasing Amer-
restramt in tcis regard is a patriouo leans.
duty. .
Neutral Subjects and the
Draft.
One point in General Mahgin's mes-
SCHOOL AGAIN. sage oi congratulation at the perrorm-
Pnrtinnri enhnnix rosiima, thn nrdprlv ance of American troops in battle is
course of their business today, mind- Pen to criticism; , that is his sur
ful of the necessities of the future, as Prise tha 'troops comparatively new
well as the demands of the present. " conducted tnemseives wun
- ... . . i I Rnrh rlnah nnrl Hrillia ntv " YtTVnr it
m every city ana town ana oauiiei i ; - ....j
and every rural district in the land, Pse r Americans were not surprised.
for they expected it, though they were
gratified at seeing their expectations
realized. -
at about this time of year, school simi
larly "takes up," War or no war,
education of our youngsters must
am nn
"Keep tlie' schools going" is the As men are withdrawn from one oc
message which has come to us from cupation after another which requires
overseas. England and France, not
ably among our allies, have given tes
timony that it is a mistake not to keep
education to the fore. The message of
little muscular effort, we discover
how much potential male muscle has
remained undeveloped which might as
well have been replaced by female
muscle, 'in future years we are likely
SBEEB WASTE.
s.,OTAea matr J T- nn mi, iAn FranrA hrnii fh t hart hv Dr. John H.'
VVUA 1 J VI l.w 1 ' I . , , , . , . .. .
little; but, much or little, the official iey, commissioner oi aticauon oi - - - - - . ",J ' r h. -T-
record of Congressional sayings and tne slate IfteT orK on nis return
doings should be a -report of actual lruui u "ulcliu lrli' auruau,
discussion, and a bona fide record of D not ' tha needs of the hour, how-
, . I over demanding, or Its burdens, however
proceedings, no more, no Jess. heavy, or lta oerlls. however threatening or
The. other rlav five rintrp rf thst I its sorrows, however heartbreaking, make
rnna.A0etnnni xAAn , j . I you unmindful of the defense of tomorrow.
Congressional Record were devoted to . thos. discioiines through which the m-
a report Of the renomination Of Rep- I dividual may have freedom, through which
T?lo-,t T-.. n-in, i I in efficient democracy Is possible, through
.vUu.,..0 '"'. vurcu whlcn tha Intltutlona 0f civilization can be
uuuer lilt? CAicuaiou ui rcuiiuas I perpetuated ana sirengmeneu. i .native, 1, . , ,j . . . , .
Drivilere Said Mr Walsh of Massa- ondure taxation and privation, suffer and kindness to many of them, to tax away
...... -j v. i. . . orouxnfc iniQ luo wwuu wi.il U BUKII MW.
Tk. ,. . . ..-,.,. ,a I only a sals nut a nappy, piacs lor tnsm.
Information ss to the returns at a recent I The counsel of England is embodied
primary held in Comanche County and varl- I - t ... -j x.'; ..i M ri.n
ous other communities in th. great Stats "l a 1 " x 1. "
of Texas. It is a personal exultation over I English Board of Education, in a State-
political victory, m view of the shortage ,,.. rncentlv civen out bv the United
States Bureau of Education. President
Fisher said:
men will have fewer opportunities to
hold "soft snaps" and easy lobs.
By Imposing an extra tax of only S
per cent on unearned as distinguished
from earned incomes, the House com
mittee is extremely merciful to those
who live on the profits of their fathers'
land grandfathers' toll. It would be a
so that they might be driven to work
for the comforts of life.
DrinL naoer it seems to me that such an
extension ought cot to bs passed by with
out comment.
The Record on the same day had
eight pages taken up by Mr. Treadway,
of Massachusetts, in a reprint of ex
tracts from speeches made by him
during the second session of the Sixty-
fifth Congress.
These are. not exceptional instances.
but are a common practice. It is sheer
waste. It is more; it is a gross impo
sition on the people who want in the
Record a real, transcript of the actual
processes of public-law-making. It is
bad enough for a Congressman, to
whom is assigned on request the privi
lege of editing his copy, to interpolate
cheers" and "applause" through the
report of a speech by him as has been
done but it is worse to devote the
Record to an elaborate accounttf
speeches not made at all.
At tho beginning of the war. when first
tne Shortage oi iitDor oecame spparenw
In passing out honors, a big bunch
is due the Multnomah Guard band,
which led the procession yesterday.
The members are giving their time
freely in patriotic affairs. It is of
record that they refused pay for serv.
raid was ma le upon the schools, a great ices yesterday,- and, when 1t was forced
larzA bodv of unreflecting opinion. Tho re
sult ot that raid upon the schools has been
that hundreds or thousands or ennaren in
this country have been prematurely with
drawn from school, and have suffered an
irreparable damage, a damage which it will
be auite impossible for us Jiereafter ade
quately to repair. That is a very grave and
distressing symptom.
I on them, gave it at once to a worthy
i cause.
Having been cuffed on the right eai
by the French and. on the left ear by
the British, the- bocha is wondering
where he will hn hit next ft 1b tri
Our irrational responsibilities win not Americans' turn, and we may be sura
end with the war. The vast work of
reconstruction which lies ahead of us
demands trained minds. And so it is
decreed that, at whatever cost, tho
schools must go on.
that General Pershing is not organiz
ing his first Army for nothing.
REPORTS that neutral subjects are
being- forced to serve in the
American Arrny.. have caused con
siderable excitement abroad and es
pecially in Sweden. ' Borne of this ex
uitement has been based on misinfor
mation. Mostly it has sprung from a
complete misunderstanding of the sit
uation. ,
" When somewhat more than a year
ago this country began its prepara
tions for meeting- German militarism
on Its own grounds by the Congres
sional enactment of a "draft law," all !
men of military age (2i to si) were
required to register, regardless of their
being American citizens or not. Such a
provision is clearly within the rights
of any nation and roust not be con
strued as' an attempt to force military
service upon foreigners. In Sweden,
for- instance, every person, whether a
citizen or a foreigner, has to register.
Taking it all in all, the registration
caused little difficulty, the great ma
jority of the foreigners within our
borders understanding it by reference
to home conditions and obeying? it un
grudgingly. The few exceptions were
mostly traceable to syndicalistic or
pro-German agitation, based on a com
plete misrepresentation of the objects
underling, the law. .
As the registration was followed by
the actual drafting of eligible men into
the Army, neutral aliens of military
age were placed apart in a class by
themselves, leaving them outside the
workings of the law. In this connec
tion, however, there arose a difference
of opinion as to the proper distinction
between foreign subjects and American
citizens. In other words, we had, and
have, among us a class of men stand
ing half way between those who owe
no allegiance whatsoever to this coun
try and those who have completely
transferred their original allegiance to
the United States. These are the men
who have taken their "first papers,"
but who have not yet obtained their
second or final documents of nat
uralization.
SWINDLERS AM) LIBERTY BONDS.
The Associated Advertising Clubs of
the World are rendering timely service
in exposing a class of get-rich-quick
promoters and swindlers who are now
The Germans probably realize by
this time as well- as does General
March that 4,600,600 American sol
diers can go through the German line
whenever they please. They have had
a foretaste of what a much smaller
number of Americans can do.
Passenger traffic by air across the
English Channel is only a forerunner
THE LOT OF THE SLACKER.
The slacker who has any remaining Paying upon a new class of investors
doubts as to tne universal contempt in " . " of what we mar exriect in the not dig.
which he held will future. The immense develop-
J1 xT"'! 'r -5 rff; their livesrind wh.tu.ve patriotically nient of the airplane industry during
. . . T..T. . T. Itnvcf.H r.art nf thi.fr snrnliis in b- """"" i" " enect
states. XNor is mis au. tm macninery ---' --- --- I after Deaca is restored
.. .. . . I --r Vii.i ,1 u o ra avcnAr-inllv markprl fori iler pcc. in icniureu.
of the War Department for the detec
tion of those who shirk their duty is
being perfected to a degree that bodes
111 even for those who have thus far
escaped the dragnet.
Remaining at home, the slacker is
sure to be caught; fleeing, he faces
the taunts and jeers of a contemptuous
populace wherever he may be. it is
not likely that he will be able to get
passport for a voyage across the
Atlantic; over the border on the north
erty bonds, are especially marked for
h- attontinn nf this eentrv. The ap
peal is plausible enough; it is made Collision or an airplane with an
to fit into the thrift scheme that is ; p"- "" mo
enjoined upon. us. .The prospective "gnts oi a large pan oi jNortnern
investor does not want to sell his lib- California, shows the need of a right
k,. r,r rnnrso for natrintic. of-way law for the air. We may yet
reasons; so the shark is ready with nave imaginary fences reaching miles
exchange" ,nla we
the suggestion that he
them for the wildcat shares which he
is offering and which are bound, he
says, to make their owner rich. The
and south there is no asylum for him. 8eller- lf tj16 deal goes through, con
. ; AtrSTRIA DIVIDES THE LOOT.
J In its extreme need of money to
J carry on tho war the Austrian gov
i ernment has' offered loot captured
J from the enemy us premiums for sub-
scrip tions to the eighth war loan. A
J proclamation describes the immense
; quantity of booty taken on. the eastern
front and. admitting that a catalogue
is impossible, promises that every bl
i will be distributed among subscribers.
J The booty Includes all kinds of cloth-
ing, crocKery. machinery and supplies.
"-atored up waiting to be transported to
-Austria. The proclamation says:
everything er which a man can think Is
-i idv uiposai or suusrnoers to tns eighth
, loan, sverything from a cup to a shirt, from
. aa automobile nail to a threahsr. from silk
, g-icds to furnfture. from a can of paint to a
: railroad: in short, everything abounds- snd
In large quantttie. This supply of goods,
i which cannot he depicted, will be offered
soisiy to subscribers to the eighth loan.
1 These are. frankly the methods of
the bandit and buccaneer, whose
(chiefs held their bands and crews to
"irether by the promise of rich plun
der to be divided among them. That
-was ever the character of the Haps--Jiurgs.
They annexed province to
province by force and fraud, and they
-hired mercenaries, of whom Wallen
jtfitn was the greatest chief, with the
promise of spoils. When they mar
ried they followed the precept of Ten.
r jiyson'a "NorUx Country. Farmer," tot
Canada will invite him to submit to
its draft law or go away from there.
Mexico, none too friendly to thetlnited
States, has even less use for him. Even
the wealthy ones who have. established
a kind of slacker colony In Mexico
City are completely isolated. Aristo
crat and peon alike regard him as less
than the dust beneath their feef.
A few thousand men without a coun
try who are being smoked out by the
present crisis have the prospect of a
whole lifetime of misery before them.
verts the bonds into cash at such dis-
The printing fraternity was well
toward the end of the line, but Mult
nomah 68's members remember when
they won first prize seventeen years
count as may have been created by aso. and are willing the laurels should
the dumping of large quantities on the pass iromra.
market. .
The nroblem is 'not to be lightly Much power is wasted in the erup.
dismissed with the statement that it is tion of volcanoes. It is up to some
the business of the individual what he body to harness Kilauea and make him
does with his liberty bonds, when he run trolley lines all over the Island of
has bought and paid for them. Our wawau.
erowine- tendencv to enact and enforce
laws for the protection of investors The big elephant confided to his
gives recognition to the principle that keeper last night that he could have
snows some or tne marchers a few
fancy steps lf he had had the chance,
the unsophisticated are entitled to
They will never be able to rehabilitate some Protection. There is, however
themselves in the favor of their neigh- an even morf important aspect, and
bors and former friends. The day will that is tne effect of such unrestrained
k,n .,i iji "exchanges" upon the value of the
th.ir. iiv t rLr. liberty bond in the open market. It The submarine commander may have
-. - a.-vauw.w vsiJ otiauisV, WW. I , . - . -V(,A, I t A.
it will come too late. Their declining eu" . , i 5 1.
Wilt -WO luiiucmicu "J wiiaiuciauwn
of patriotism, and that he will convert I Perhaps it was the red head of
Suppose they try filling the return
Ing steamships with captured Huns.
years will be one long tragedy of vain
regrets.
CONSERVING THE ACTOMOBILK.
The order of the War Industries trated by the statement of Carl Hunt,
Board to automobile manufacturers, I director of the extension division of
his own bond? into cash whenever this I Victor Murdock which -got the Fed
best serves his purpose. The extent to I eral Trade Commission into so much
which this might be carried on is illus- trouble.
Driving to church behind a pair of
to be prepared to place themselves on the Associated Advertising Clubs, that handsome bays saves gasoline, but how
a war basts by January 1, 1919, does an -investigation recently showed that about hay and oats?
not mean that there will be no new in one county where , T30, 000,000 of
automobiles for private use after that liberty bonds had been sold, wild-cat I Spain grows decidedly cocky toward
date, but It does point clearly to the I promoters had- already traded their I Germany as it sees the Hindenburg
propriety ot conserving to tne fullest worthless stocks lor sib.ooo.oou oi line begin to fade.
extent possioie tne automobiles now these bonds. It is amazing that even
in use. The War Industries Board in an era of unaccustomed prosperity
doubts that there will be sufficient for many persons, so many should be
supplies of raw material principally found who were utterly unable to pro
steel for private use. Nevertheless, tect themselves In an ordinary finan
thece may be, and probably are, some cial transaction. ' '
manufacturers in possession of partly The desire to amass a competence
against the proverbial rainy day is
both understandable and commend
able, and those who are now being
made-the victims of sharpers need and
deserve protection. It will not be pos
sible to teach them all there is to
fabricated material which could not
profitably to any industry bo recon
verted to other purposes. These, per
haps, will continue to build automo
biles until the supplies referred to are
exhausted
Xienine imitates the ex-Czar in hav
ing to be killed several times before
he stays dead.
Organized labor starts work on the
call of "Time: Starts parading, too,
Those not in the parade were work
ing because it was labor day for them,
The thought . which is impressed know about investments, but a pre
upon us by the new order is that the cautionary campaign will not be amiss,
automobile has distinctly passed the The inexperienced investor will find it
luxury stage and that it is becoming a rather safe rule to view with sus
more and more a necessity. . This does plcion all propositions which promise
not refer, of course, to the ear which abnormal returns. Enterprises yield
is used only for "pleasure," but, after ing from 20 to 100 per cent a year
all, there are not many such. We I on the invested capital are not begging
liave come to the point where pleasure for the driblets of small investors. It
is incidental to the main purpose. I is a good rule, in fact, to hold fast to
There are said to be 6,010,000 auto-1 the liberty bond, which is as good as
mobiles in use in the United States, I the gold itself, both as to principal
or about one to each twenty inhaM-1 and interest, and is sure to be
tants, and by far the greater propor-I redeemed at par at maturity by the
tion are employed for utilitarian pur- I Government which issued it. Above
pos.es, a par nt most, of the time, Jal.. those, .who find- themselves, unex-
There is everything-in a good start.
and the parade yesterday had it.
Twenty thousand contented workers!
No strikes in Portland! "
Probably they are killing more Huns
than they capture, too. v.
Tired this morning?
working, isn't it?
Worse than
The man who plays the calliope had
a day off.
The tractor
wheat,
belongs with $3.S0
Roughly speaking, our laws provide
that, to become an American citizen,
the former subject of a foreign power
must first of all file a "declaration of
Intention." which, after a certain num
ber of years and the fulfillment of cer
tain conditions, entitles him to obtain
a final decree of naturalization. The
binding character of the initial declar
ation is not generally understood. It
constitutes, in fact, an oath of alle
giance which, in Itself, should suffice
to change the legal status of the man
taking it. Administered to a Swede,
for instance, it runs in this way:
I hereby declare, on oath, that I ab
solutely and entirely renounce and ab-
ure all allegiance and fidelity to any
foreign prince, potentate, state or sov
ereignty, and particularly to Gustavus
V, the King of Sweden, of whom I have
heretofore been a subject; that I will
support and defend the Constitution
and laws of the United States of Amer
ica against all enemies, foreign and
domestic, and that I will bear true faith
and allegiance to the same."
Nor Is it enough to reeckon with the
wording of this formula. Its practical
effects, in the past must also be taken
into consideration. In most of our
states all the rights of citizenship ex
cept that of voting at public elections
ave been bestowed on every man sub
scribing to this "declaration of inten-
ion." Until quite recently most of
the Western states gave him even the
ight to vote on the same simple con
dition. There are still six states where
man having only his "first papers" is
as much a citizen as one tullv natural
ized as long as he stays within the
state. States like Minnesota, which
have only recently changed their suf
frage laws, are full of men who- have
lived there a lifetime and enjoyed every
right of citizenship without having be
come fully naturalized.
-...-....
Under such circumstances.it seemed
only just to those , who framed bur
original measures of military prepared
ness that men who had readily for
sworn foreign allegiance in order to
obtain the principal rights of citizen
ship might also be expected to accept
the duties incumbent on everyone hav
ing become an integral part of the Na
tion. In other words, men having pb
tamed their "first papers", were made
subject to military service under the
draft law.
From those immediately concerned
few protests were heard. The issu
thus raised was taken up with consid
erable determination by the Swedish
government, which, it must be admit
ted, made out an excellent case on the
basis of the old treaties between owe
den and the "United, States. The legal
correctness of its contentions was
granted at Washington and awhile ago
the draft law was amended by Con
Kress in a manner designed to meet all
protests.
Under the law as amended liability
to military service still falls on men of
military age who have filed their
declaration to become American citi
zens, but such liability can he escaped
by a withdrawal of the declaration
In other words, a Swede of 25, say, who
has previously obtained his "first pa
pers." need only report to the proper
authorities that he wishes to return to
hls original status as a Swedish citizen.
He Is then automatically placed outside
the provisions of the draft law.
But If he avails himself of this privi
lege, a record of his case is taken and
filed for future reference, so that, if he
should ever again try to obtain Amer
can citizenship, it may be used against
him. Under an additional provision of
the draft law no man who has escaped
it by a withdrawal of his original
declaration of intention" can ever be
come an American citizen.
There can be no question about the
ustness of this provision. The man
whose oath has proved of. so little
worth in the past cannot be expected
to prove more faithful in the future. A
man who is not willing to stand by this
country in its hour of need cannot hope
for any consideration when the crisis
is past. -
Here and there a voice of protest has
been raised among the naturalized
Swedes of the United States.- It does
not represent the feelings of the over
whelming majority of the race in
America I have more than my own
feelings to offer as basis for this opin
ion. Since the beginning of this year
have visited our largest Swedish set
tlements. ' I have talked with Swedes
of every possible class and trade and
type and position, from leaders like ex
Governor John Llnd. of Minnesota, or
Chief Justice Harry Olson, of Chicago,
own to obscure but clear-minded and
honest-hearted workmen and farmera
I have asked them what they thought
of these young men of Swedish blood
who a little while ago were so eager
to be classed as Americans and who to
day at this moment of supreme Na
tional emergency have suddenly dis
covered that they prefer to remain
Swedes politically as well as racially.
While the answers received have dif
fered widely in form, their spirit has
been identical in every case.
'The statements of tne other men
with, whom I talked were to the same
effect. It all goes to show that . al
though 'there may have been a few de
faulters among the Scandinavian peo
ple in America, men of -the-same -blood
as themselves have straightway risen
up In wrath to purge themselves of the
reflected discredit.
TOUCH z'-OF INTlSf ATK COIRTESV
Portland Omtdld All Others la Its Re
ception ( Grand Arsay Men.
TWIN FALLS. Ida. Aug. 30 (To the
Editor.) All the cities that have en
tertained annual gatherings . of the
Grand Army have been abundantly
hospitable, especially during the later
years; but it remained for Portland to
add certain touches of intimate and af
fectionate courtesy of an almost per
sonal character that have been hith
erto unknown. The way in which the
incoming guests were met at the trains,
sorted from the crowd, escorted to
waiting autos and taken to their re
spective hotels, or to the wonderfully
manned (and womaned) headquarters
of the local committees at Liberty
Temple (itself a happy Innovation),
was one of them. Another was the
opening to them of the delightful
homes of your city and their prompt
assignment to quarters therein, with
Boy Scout or other immediate convoy
thither. Another, the presence at
Liberty Temple . and in hotel lobbies of
sweet-faced bearers of baskstjt of beau
tiful roses and other flowers, for which
Portland is famed, and which were
continuously and lavishly distributed
among your visitors. Another, the con
stant service of private autos, volun
teered, most frequently with the lady
owner as driver, for that purpose. Still
another, the attendance each day tn
the lobby and upon each floor of the
hotels a bevy of pretty girls and a
sprinkling of men and women wearing
a badge with the cheerful query, "Can
I do anything for you?"
Considering the fact that the head
quarters of five different organizations
from each of 40 different states, to
gether with a national headquarters
for such organization, were scattered
through "the numerous floors of the
various hotels, this looked mighty en
couraging to the stranger especially
When, on stepping from the elevator
at the nth floor, the badge was em
phasized by the musical voice of the
smiling lassie who wore it, saying, "Is
there anything I can do for you?"
Taken altogether, the visit to Port
land, with its shipbuilding and spruce
lumbering Interests, Its charming drives
and magnificent scenery and, above all,
its warm-hearted and hospitable women
and men, is likely to make the 62d en
campment of the Grand Army a red
letter event in the mind and memory
of every one who had the good fortune
to be present during the few remain
ing years allotted.
c. I longlet,
- Co. C, JUh Iowa VoL Inf.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Year Ago,
From The Oregonlaa September S, 1893.
WASHINGTON. O. C. Sept. 2. The
Senate passed the day in discussion of
Senator Dolph's bill appropriating
SSOO.OuO for the execution of the Chi
nese exclusion act.
Graduates of the Keeley Institute of
Oregon held a reunion last week at
Forest Grove. The graduates were
noticeable for the neat blue badires
that adorned their coats and thlr
happy and smiling countenances. W.
H. Roach was elected permanent presi
dent, Mra M. S. Burrell has issued invita
tions to the marriage of her eldest
daughter, Miss Helen Strong, and Lieu
tenant Gordon Voorhees. U. S. A., on
Thursday, September 14, at the Church
of Our Father.
The regular opening of the Mar.
quam Grand dramatic season takes
place tomorrow evening, when , the
Charles Frohman company will play
"Aristocracy." William Faveraham.
Blanche Walsh and Maurice Barry
more are to be in the cast.
Fifty Yrars Ago.
From The Oregonian September 3, 1SS.
Memphis, Tenn. The editor of the
Memphis Appeal tells ex-rebels In an
article of July 80: "Go on, boys; swear
to murder Northern Huns. Arm your
selves and organise. Be ready to re
spond promptly when called on."
The farmhouse of Sol Durbln in Sa
lem, valued at S1000, was destroyed by
fire last week. ,
The City Council granted a petition
to Kd J. Ryan for the use of a part of
Third and Oak streets for building pur
poses. (
Atlanta, Aug. 31. The Georgia Sen
ate has unanimously passed a resolu
tion authorizing tha Governor to Issue
a proclamation disbanding armed re
sistance throughout the state.
WHT SPLPIHRIC ACID IS KI.VCJ
OBJECTS TO OXE-TVAf TRAFFIC
Writer Cannot See How Congestion
WUI Be Reduced by Proposed Flan.
PORTLAND, Sept 2. (To the Edi-
tor.)j It would seem from observations
during the past 20 years that whenever
our city authorities are out of anything
else to do, they then proceed to "regu
late" the street railways. So we have
had stop "after the crossing," "before
the crossing," and now we have a com
bination of both. Also we have a
scheme to thin out traffic by sending
it along two streets instead of one.
Just how this will reduce the amount
of traffic Is not clear. If four and four
make eight en one street, how can we
add them and make seven or six on two
streets? If It requires four cars on
Morrison street and four on Washing
ton street to carry a given amount of
traffic under the present system, will
it not require eight cars to do the
same when run around the loop? lf
when there are four cars running the
same way on a street, and the first one
is delayed unduly by the exigencies of
the traffic, it would delay four cars.
If eight cars were running in like
manner, would not eight be delayed?
Would this add to or lessen the con
gestion of traff.c?
Another matter that fails to be no
ticed is that the collective man who
pays his 6 cents to ride Is entitled to
something for his money. Speaking of
the Mount Tabon-Sunnyside line, which
It is proposed to run around the loop
through, the ruck of the public market,
we wisn to can attention to tne. tact
that the present routing was adopted
alter, many protests against such
routing as that proposed. A great
many of the patrons of this line are
employed-during the day in business
iud.I nf Thir4. In.ot -Itiaf hnnriit will
help congestion of traffic to put several sulphuric acid, The factor which best
thousand neoole off at Third and Mor- represents the economic prosperity of
Light Also Thrown Upon Importance ol
Platinum In This War.
When the chemists clamor for mora
platinum, and the Bureau of Mines
says we are starving for platinum, and
the person who wears a platinum-set
jewel is branded as a slacker, the
Inyman naturally sits up and asks,
"What's all the talk about platinum?
What Is it used for?" And the an
Bwer is, "Sulphuric acid," says J. J.
Willaman, a prominent member of
the Minnesota section of the American
Chemical Society.
Now platinum is a many-sided metal.
It is not corroded in moist air; It is
not oxidized by electric sparks. Hence
II is used In contact points In
many electrical instruments, as tele
phones, telegraphs, radios, signal in
struments on shipboard, etc it Is not
affected by most chemicals or by high
temperatures; therefore it is ur.'.l in
certain parts of big guns, in chemical
analyses. In electric furnaces. t is
very costly, therefore it is in iK uind
for Jewelry by persons who i not
know for what else to spend ! iiuir
money.
But all of these uses are overshad
owed at the present time by its use
in the manufacture of sulphuric acid.
Platinum is absolutely essential in
making sulphuric acid, and sulphurio
acid is absolutely essential In making
high explosives, textiles, war gases,
dyes, many foods and medicines; in
fact, hardly a substance can be named
in the manufacture of which sulphuric
acid does not have to deal directly or
Indirectly. The '.ate Robert Kennedy
Duncan, founder of the system of fel
lowships in industrial chemistry at the
University of Pittsburg, speaks of it
as "suiphric acid, oil of vitro!, the
king of chemical products."
Very recently,- a French authority
in commenting on this chemical said:
"If called upon to decide Which of all
the manufactured products; the in
dustrial creations,- has been- the most
necessary and useful to the country
since the war, without which defeat
would have been rapid and inevitable,
I should answer without hesitation.
rison every morning and evening, either
to transfer or walk: to their destina
tion, does not seem plain to those -who
are by such regulation deprived of the
transportation for which they pay. We
believe that it would avoid a congestion
of traffic to let. the present routing re
main.
Just how it will" lessen congested
conditions by running some 20 extra
cars per hour through the street mar
ket from Third to First on Yamhill
street does not appear. -
... X. G. ROBISON.
829 Belmont street
nation is -Its consumption of sul
phuric acid. True, in time of peace.
It Is still more so in modern war
fare." What does this king of chemicals
do. in the process of making explo
sives? The chemist says it is a re
hydratlng agent That is. it has a
tremendous affinity for water. It will
abstract water from the air: it will
take' water from anything with which
it comes in contact. If water is not
to. be had already formed. It will take
from some available source the ele
ments which go to make, up water
and combine them. It is this lat
ter act which is utilized In explosives
manufacture. Glycerin and nitric acid
are rather harmless after tney are
mixed. But if sulphuric acid Is added
to the mixture It will Immediately
take an atom of hydrogen and-one of
oxygen from tne nitric acia, una an
atom of hydrogen from the glycerin.
combine them Into water, and then
take the water unto Itself. This leaves
the nitric acid chemically united with
the glycerine and we have nitro
glycerine. Similarly we have nitro
cellulose, or guncotton, and trinitro
toluene, the famous T. N. T. of the
present war.
Sulphuric acid is made irem air.
water and the fumes from burning
sulphur. These are all cheap, com
mon materials, but they won't unite
without strenuous provocation ordi
narily. Platinum furnishes a mild
provocation, the mere presence of a
trace, of it causes the oxygen, water
and sulphur to Join hands chemically,
and the king of chemicals is horn. At
the present time in tha United States
more than half a million tons a month
is being made.
' His Opinions Regulated. ;
Washington (D. C.) Star.
"There are bound -to be differences of
opinion." "Yes," replied Senator Sor
ghum. "It is an. unfortunate fact thst
a man's opinions are largely' regulated
by what happens to be good for his
own particular business."
TRUE CONSERVATION OF SUGAR
War Mother Telia How She FUls Jars
Notwithstanding Restrictions.
CORVALLIS,-Or., Aug. 30. (To the
Editor.) I notice, in . The Oregonian
that Reader, having a family of five,
has already used 100 pounds of sugar
for canning purposes, and wants more.
It seems to me that the true spirit
of conservation must be lacking .in this
case.' Many of 'us did not happen , to
get sugar during the few days that
we were allowed to have 100 pounds.
When we went to get it we found that
we could have only 25 pounds. Now,
I am filling my jars just as rapidly as
ever before, but hot using a third as
much sugar. I have made several
quarts of jelly, and measured very
carefully, never using more than three
quarters as much sugar as juice (after
the juice has been boiled down a little).
I have made both jelly and marmalade
by substituting one cup of light Karo
syrup in place of one cup of sugar. It
a true that Karo costs a trifle more,
but it eaves sugar. We find either
TTarn nr tinnnv nerfectlv natisfactorv I
on breakfast food, and have finally HOME HEWS OJT THE FRONT LINO
learned to enjoy our morning coffee
without sweetening. . I'Serions Want Appreciated by All Who
My main way oi saving sugar is in I .
the drvlne- of fruits and vegetables. I " Xj'Kr
Our drier (an apple box with four I To no oerson who has ever Deen
shelves), occupies one end of the range stranger in a strange land" will a move-
and is now in daily use. Jast year I ment now under way. to supply Amer-
drled apples, berries, peaches, pears lean fis-htimr men on land and sea with
and prunes; also green beans, peas and I newspapers from their home towns
corn. in using: uneu. iiuu tiierw ja H I seem trivial, says a. ...
great saving in both sugar and cans. I The very fact that our soldiers on the
Try canning pears this way, and you other side in camp, trencn and noepitat
will prefer them to the old-time rich are constantly appealing for "more
preserves: Wash and halve the pears. I home newspapers" indicates a seriou
Remove Btem and core, but do not! want that should be supplied, livery-
pare them. Bake in a pan In the oven, bodv realizes how necessary it Is t
Prepare a kettle of syrup by boiling to- sustain the morale of the Nation's d
gether three quarts water, half a cup fenders. Nothing has been more potent
of sugar, half, a cup of Karo and one! to this end than cheerful letters from
pound lemon Juice, tms quantity tor i fatnilv and friends.
six quarts . of pears. Put the baked I gut many soldiers and sailors are not
pears into Jars, fill with the hot syrup hiessed with inspiriting correspondence.
and seal. I and to tbeee newspapers, either the
Our family numbered five, too, for 1 dailies or weeklies, from the localities
many years, and now, for the sake of 1 n which they have lived are an excel
the) two dear boys in tne service, x
want to urge Reader and others to be
more thoughtful and considerate in
their use of sugar.
Let us be glad that by these self
denials we are helping our boys to
win over there. A WAR MOTHER.
lent substitute. And even those who
receive letters regularly find in the
home papers many bits of interesting
news which the letter-writers do not
cover. The "Home raper service." ini
tiated by Colonel William Boyce
Thompson for men who have entered .
the Armv or Navy from Westchester
County, New York, is thus a most com-
PORTLAND. Aug. 3L(To the EdI- Von has. on h7s' own sponsThi,:
ity. undertaken to provide over blOO
men In the service with home news
papers and expects to lengthen the ros
ter. This enterprise might well' become
Nation-wide.
In every community committees made
Pension of Soldier's Widow.
tor.) If the widow of a soldier of, the
Civil War marries again and her sec
ond husband dies; can she obtain a pen
sion on account of her first husband?
AN OLD PIONEER.
There Is said to be an Instance in
this state where a pension has been I up of business men, club members and
granted under the conditions named, parents of soldiers and sailors could
You would better write to tne Commis-i ce rormea ana tnese, witn tne co-opera-
sloner of Pensions, Washington, D.-CI tion of the local publishers, would see
stating particulars of the case you havej that the "boys" lrom their vicinity got
in mind. : I copies or the local journals.
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