TIIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN'. WEDNESDAY, SEPTE3IBER 25, 1918.
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mean placing: responsibility for dis
obedience of orders where It belongs.
Rank Is Impersonal, and In the mili
tary establishment it gets results. That
is the reason for the nurses' request,
which is not accompanied by demand
for officers' pay or other allowances
or emoluments. It is a request that
may well be granted If acceding: to It
will insure the sick and wounded bet
ter care.
CITE rS MORE HATE.
In the Plane News, the air service
newspaper of the American forces In
France, is an interview with a French
soldier who recently escaped from a
prison camp In Central Germany. This
la the report he brings back of the
treatment of American prisoners:
They treat our prisoners In brutal fashion,
becauae they contend that we have no right
to be In ths war. They are worked during
reat hours and given the hardeat kind of
labor, and when unable to work because of
Illness or weakness they are struck with rifle
butts and are continually taunted and Jihed
at. The slightest Infraction of any rule
brings the most rigid punishment and In
many cases, deatn.
The food Is entirely Insufficient v for the
heavy labor they perform and the parcels
of food from the A. It. C. only rarely reach
a
that Is Just beginning- to be appre-1 tlon grew faster than gross revenue
elated. The needs of our military es- ! and where Improvements were more
tablishment will increase rather than
diminish during the coming Winter,
and It is desired to keep every pos
sible avenue of transportation open
The War Department under the bill
would summarily take charge of and
make repairs to highways which were
part of a general system and which
the states refused to mend. Its action
would, serve not only to emphasize
the Importance of the motor vehicle,
but also to call attention to the need
in all seasons of good roads.
STEEDrXQ FP LABOR.
The South has had a special call
to organize Its labor resources because
of the large number of negro workers
who in the past have been content
with a bare living, and were not moved
by considerations of thrift or ambi
tion to accumulate substance against
the proverbial rainy day. Nature
smiles on its children in the South
land: food grows without much help
and requirements of food and shelter
are at a minimum. With wartime
PORTLAND. WTDNESDAY. SEPT. 13. IBM.
METZ NO- EAST NTT TO CRACK.
The most serious danger that Amer-
lean success In the war will not be
'.- won comes not from the German army
but from overoptimism among the
S American people. The native" buoy-
2 ancy of our spirits causes us to over
estimate the value of initial success
' . . j .i . ,v. A , 1. .klnii
w ana to underestimate uio won wi,,.,,
we have yet to perform. This fault
is aggravated by prevalent ignorance
i i of military problems a grave part of
- the unpreparedness with which we en-
1 tered the war and a failing not found
in nations of which the men have had
J . military training and often have had
I Z. actual war experience.
' An example of these failings is the
; glib way in which some persons talk
of the early capture of Metz by the
I American Army as probable. Met is
; the key to the defense of the GermaD
frontier, and is surrounded by the
' best and most complete system of
J fortification which modern military
science could construct. It has a ring
2,- of forts several miles from its center,
J and it is linked by a defensive system
. with the neighboring fortress of Thion-
' . ville. There is no probability that It
" could be taken by direct attack more
I easily than Verdun could be taken
from the French. The Crown Prince
. ' sacrificed 600.000 men in the attempt
' to take Verdun and failed. Neither
r General Pershing nor Marshal Foch
f Is likely to risk such a failure at such
cost.
' The strategy of the allies has been
' not to attempt to take strongly de
! fended points of this character by
I direct attack, but to work their way
' forward to the right and left until thje
Germans voluntarily withdrew in fear
of being surrounded and besieged.
! That is the manner in which the allies
took Combles in the first battle of the
' Somme. the Germans took Armentieres
- last April and the French have since
'. taken Noyon and Roye. In that man-
- ner the Germans hoped to take Rheims
in their unsuccessful advance on July
" 15, the British squeezed the Germans
out of Lens, and the British and
French are now closing in on St.
" Quentin.
It is not the policy on either side
to hold to any point after It has be
come certain that the result will be a
: siege and final capture of a large
number of men, for trained men and
their equipment are worth more than
almost any piece of ground. Great
sacrifice may be made in preventing
. encirclement of such places as Tpres
and Verdun, but the former was so
near the English Channel that its re
tention came to symbolize in the Brit
ish mind defeat of German efforts to
- reach the coast, and the latter also
rame to have a symbolic value to the
French people far exceeding even Its
trreat strategic value.
It is to be expected that the Ameri
can forces will push their way near
enough to Metz to keep it under heavy,
continuous artillery fire, and that they
will by widely extended operations cut
it off from Thionville and work their
way to the north and south until they
sire on three sides and are well ad
vanced toward completely surrounding
It. The Germans would then evacuate
the city rather than sacrifice a large
. 'number of men and much material,
which by that time they could ill
spare, for they are less sentimental
than the French were about Verdun.
They would not repeal) the mistake of
. Marshal Bazaine in locking up an
army of 120,000 men oily to be forced
to capitulate in the end. Operations
against Metx may be expected, to con
tinue for months, rather than weeks.
r When they have been crowned with
success, the way to the Rhine will be
o nearly clear that the next deter.
mined German stand is likely to be
on its banks.
wages, many of the laborers found
them, being stolen in most casea When they that they could easily earn a living,
are.taken to the hospital or operating table . .. .,..,, ttl- number of
they are allowed no anesthetics and If the . 7 , ' .
pain forces a cry from them a blow renders Working days in due proportion. This
them unconscious. Tissue paper Is used moved a justice of the Supreme Court
Is Arttwm vnuniti him', . clnf h halna vprt - . ,. " . .
scare. In Germany 7 i., prTMnir, recelv'e Borgia to write a letter T.O tne
no medical attention until It Is too late and I Atlanta Constitution in Whlcn HO said:
death often results Tha prisoner's mall re-1 w K--n ...Hiiw nnnn thm nnlnt
celves only careless attention and It rarely that the negro must understand that he is
rescues mem. i not elmoly to labor until he has acauired
Cli,.T vinM evvA n t., enougn money to isai mm two or inree uaji
Such things as these will not be . . knrlc ., h. D.nd, lt. DUt
atoned in smallest part they cannot that he is to labor six days in the week re
be atoned in full If there is an in- gardless of whether he needs ths money,
rnni.ln.ln no.. Tk. ,!. Ih.l ll oecauie- MO uovernmeni neeu. uis
I ! ti n--ful labor. Eauallv lmDortant with th
certainly make for an Inconclusive is to teach him the value and sanctity of
peace is failure of the people at home I bis contract which h has made with his
to support the men at the front 10 -
There is no apathy, no complacency, I The point that the Nation needs the
no willingness to lei ueorge uo it i labor or Its men, regardless 01 mo re
among the men in France who them- ouirements of the men themselves, is
selves have witnessed atrocities orlnne that cannot be too strongly em
heard the tales of those who have suf- phasized. It must be understood that
fered. the ambition, or lack of it. possessed
And what of those who have suf-1 by the Individual has-nothing to do
fered themselves? Major Brandon, of I with the" case. It may be permissible
Portland, lately Invalided home from I in peace times to exercise one s right
France, tells of the spirit of the first to cut down one's labor by the simple
Americans who were gassed- One hun- process of reducing one's desires, but
dred and fifty of them lay in a nos- when the life of the Nation is at stake
pital, gasping for breath, eyes pro- private desires cannot be consulted.
truding, and, in some Instances, flesh I This is fundamental, and it ought
falling from the burned portions ofto be easy of comprehension by 'any
their bodies. I man of common intelligence. Produc
Their cry was not of anxiety to get tive work is the only thing that counts
home, to leave lt all. It was to get it makes not the slightest difference
well again and get back at the Hun. whether the worker thinks he "need
What are we in Portland going to I the money" or not. The problem
do about it? Are we going to withhold I seems to be most acute in the South
the dollars needed in the fight to just now, for the reasons mentioned,
make repetition of such agony forever but other parts of the country are not
impossible? I without their thriftless and unambi
I A little more hate "would do us good. I tious contingents. In . the North, in
It would make this and succeeding! deed, it is whites and not negroes who
liberty bond campaigns easy.
ECICTDE.
Thoughts of suicide, Charles E.
Chapin. New Tork editor and uxor!
cide, told the police to whom he sur
rendered after killing his wife, haunted
him constantly. It was with the full
are the offenders. But all must make
up their mfnds to work full time, and
take whatever risks may attend upon
a forced prosperity,
BREAKING THE CAMEL'S BACK.
The hearing of protests against th
recent flat advance of freight rates
Intention, no doubt, of ending his own which has been held by Interstate
life that he shot his life partner as she Commerce Commissioner Aitchison and
slept; for it is known that he loved the decision which will follow are of
her devotedly. Infelicities had not the utmost import to the industry and
marred their happiness; the troubles development of the Pacific Northwest,
which unsettled his mind were'exter- for to this section the alternative is
nal to their domestic affairs. He had between healthy growth and arrested
speculated heavily and lost; he feared development between access to large,
poverty and disgrace; and when he distant markets on equal terms with
contemplated ending it all he coulS competing districts" and a struggle
not bear the thought of leaving his against handicaps which may make
wire To face the future alone. There weaklings of young industries. Ques,
is no evidence of anger, no motive of tions of broad policy are raised which
revenge for a fancied wrong. will surely enter into discussion of the
Plainly, when Chapin fired the fatal future railroad policy of the Nation,
shot he believed that he was prepared and, therefore, concern every section
to carry out the programme to the 0f the country.
end. He burned his last bridge behind Loudest complaint comes from the
him. JLife, gloomy as It may have fruitgrowers and packers from both
seemed, with creditors Haunting mm I growers and packers because they con
on every hand, would hold even less aider the recent flat advance of 25
hope when his wife was gone. Still per cent to be practically prohibitive
he stayed his hand. With that pro- against their entrance to Eastern mar
crastlnation which so often marks kts, from the packers because the
men on the threshhold of an appalling new rates on containers from the East
decision, he performed various routine unduly raise the cost of their product.
acts with unusual precision. He bathed xhe flat advance of 25 per cent bears
and shaved, wrote letters and lingered m0st heavily on those sections of the
over a breakfast. New resolution for- country which ship the longest dis
tifying him. he found a secluded bench tance to market, and, therefore, im-
ln a Brooklyn park, drew his revolver, noses on the industries of those sec
pressed it to his temple and tha ap- tlons an undue share of the war bur
pearance of a policeman in the dis- den which must be divided among the
tance caused him again to reconsider, whole Nation. Hence it is heavier for
It would seem that a strange fear the fruitgrowers of the Pacific North
that he would be arrested If he killed west than for those of the Middle
himself possessed him. For. a day and I West, East and South.
a night he wandered about, and at But this is only the last of three
length surrendered to the authorities.
The Instinct to live is so deeply in
grained In our natures that lt is al
most impossible for the normal man
successive advances which have been
made within two years. Those of the
Pacific seaboard first suffered a flat
advance of 10 cents per hundred, then
to conceive the violence of the mental an advance to an equality with the
wrench which Is necessary to over- intermountain rates when the Inter
come it. The spirit may be willing, state Commerce Commission held that
but the flesh is apt to be weak. The water competition had been elimi-
slightest impediment diverts the mind nated. Then came the general ad-
from its professed purpose. There vance of 25 per cent, which, being on
are innumerable Instances of this. A I a percentage basis, bore more heavily
would-be suicide once climbed to the on this section which had already
top of a tower of the Brooklyn bridge, borne two advances than on those
Intent on throwing himself into the which had not. This is calculated not
East River; he was checked, by anl0n the rate prevailing before the two
intrepid policeman who pursued him I former Increases were made, but on
and threatened to shoot him if he that rate ulu's these increases. Many
RAT FOB THE ARMY KURSK,
The request of Army nurses that
. Congress grant them "relative rank'
- is based upon experience. The soldier,
; " drilled in obedience to orders given
' . by his superipr, is constantly instructed
; ' at the same time that it is the rank
and not the individual to which he
,' ' owes his obedience.
v Thus, when Private Jones, who In
civil life was the proprietor of a bus!
r- ness, "takes orders" from Captain
Smith, who formerly .worked for him
. dm driver of a delivery wagon, he suf
fers no loss of dignity, because it is
Z the bars on Captain Smith's shoulders
f. . to which Private Jones is giving recog-
" nltion, and not Smith's personality.
This has been hammered into our sol
diers upon every occasion. It was well
r threshed out in the beginning of our
mobilization, when the propriety of
. the salute in a democracy was under
4 consideration.
Now the nurse in an Army hospital
Js frequently in a position where in
i" Ftant obedience to her orders means
life or death to the patient. Among
enlisted men acting as orderlies
there frequently are numbers who
" ' are expected to obey such orders,
"V and would do so unquestioningly
ZT it they came from a superior offi-
cer, but do not feel compelled to
mm do so in the case of the nurse. This
develops friction, human nature being
what it is, and Just enough friction to
X cause alarm. It is true that some
nurses possess so much tact, and some
-" orderlies are so imbued with the spirit
- of service, that open hostility is
" t avoided, but, unfortunately, lt is .not
,', always so. In the latter instance it is
' the Innocent who suffer.
While we are waiting for the raillen
" nlum to arrive, it seems practical to
obviate all difficulty by extending the
Y, principle of rank to the nurse corps
la the hospitals. ' This does not in-
tried to drown himself. He only
thought that he wanted to die. In his
heart of hearts he. was fond of life.
The part of him which still was sane
revolted at the Idea of self-destruction.
conditions were also attached to the
last Increase which had the effect of
a still further Increase.
Thus it comes about that from De.
cember, 1916, to June, 1918, the west
Perhaps no man wholly in his right bound rates on steel from Chicago to
mind ever mied nimseir. The case the Pacific Coast have been raised
of Chapin "even more Impressively 104 percent; on canned goods from
illustrates now tenacious of life we the Atlantic seaboard to the- Pacific
are. Mad as Chapin must, have been I coast 83 1-3 per cent; on bottles and
when he slew the woman who had iars from Ohio territory to the Pacific
ministered to him, and helped him coast 66 2-3 ner cent. The attached
overcome his craving for drink, "and conditions have made the increase in
patiently endured mm in periods of I many cases 125 per cent and in some
alternate frenzy and melancholy for cases 1000 per cent
thirty-nine years, he was not even The 25 per cent is held to have been
then insane enough not to shudder at necessary to enable the Federal Rail-
the idea of'suiclde. For him now to road Administration to advance wages
welcome death In the electric chair to the war standard prevailing in
is another matter. The responsibility other industries, to nav increased cost
will not be his. Whatever the end I 0f material, to make needed improve
may be, he will always-feel that he I ments and-to nay the railroad com-
has avoided the greatest crime of all. panies the compensation provided by
aien may not always De aDie to the Federal operation law. But the
define the reason for their existence, percentage needed for these purposes
but they know, if they are normal, was not equal on all roads, and was
that they were put here to make the less on the Pacific roads than on those
fight They endure the agonies of of anv other section. The Pacific
hopeless illness rather than shorten roads had made improvements out of
their time on earth by a single hour earnings for several years prior to
by an act of their own hand. The Government operation and needed less
soldier shows his disregard for his f0r this puppose than those of other
life as such by charging Into the sections. The famine of ships and
very cannon's mouth, but undergoes consequent cessation of water compe-
every torment rather than seek relief tltion had diverted to them a volume
In death from a torturing wound. So 0f traffic greater even than that which
contrary to every primal instinct is otherwise have been carried through
the idea of self-destruction that we the Panama Canal. Their ratio of
needed.
v Comparison between earnings of ln
dividual roads under and before Gov.
arnment operation is impossible, for
diversion of traffic in accord with the
policy of unified operation has re
moved the basis. In each region
freight is concentrated on the road
having the lowest grades and lightest
curvature to the" limit of its capacity,
while passenger traffic Is concentrated
on other roads. Effect on earnings
of any individual road is held-to be
immaterial, for all goes into a com
mon fund out of which the roads re
ceive compensation. But the railroads
by their opposition to the advance in
transcontinental rates to an equality
with intermountain rates admitted
that they did not need the additional
revenue, and there Is no cause to be
lieve their need is greater now, except
from causes arising since the United
States declared war.
The law requires that rates fixed by
the Railroad Administration shall be
Just and reasonable, and the duty de
volves upon the commission to amend
them when they are not so. While
the law does not forbid discriminative
or preferential rates, they may logic
ally be held unjust and unreasonable
and may on that ground be. amended
by the commission in confidence that
the Supreme Court will uphold it
Provided that the rates as amended
by the commission still yielded ade
quate revenue, there would be no
proper ground fof conflict between lt
and the Railroad Administration, and
public opinion would be likely to sup
port the commission if lt made a
courageous stand.
The shippers and manufacturers do
not protest against such an increase
in rates as is necessary to meet war
expenses of the railroads, but they are
Justified in opposing an increase which
is added to and increased by those al
ready made within the last two years,
especially in opposing a percentage
increase which inevitably bears more
heavily on products hauled a long dis
tance and imposes on them an unfair
share of the load. If a flat advance
of 10. cents per hundred pounds of
fruit to Eastern markets were made,
it would probably meet their war obli
gation, would permit their industry to
prosper and would provoke no protest.
This controversy does not concern
the fruit industry or the Pacific North
west alone. I, raises basic principles
which concern every industry In every
section' of the country, as they will
sootier or later -discover. Any injus.
tice' which might be done In the de
cision would Inevitably react to the
prejudice of other industries and
states.
PRES. WILSON met the peace offer
half way. That is, he declined it be
fore he received it It saves a lot of
time and talk.
THERE is much virtue in If. But
when peace bluffs are put forward
there is more virtue In Nol
THE biggest of the Met fortifica
tions is Fort Prinz August Von Wurt
temberg. The American gunners ought
to be able to knock part of that off.
A TIDAL wave off Japan was caused
by a volcanic eruption on Urup Island.
Trying to keep up with the other Urup.
Small Town Stuff.
(From the Prophetsville, I1L, Echo.)
Mrs. J. M. Rigdon was a passenger
to Cannon Falls, Minnesota, last week
for a two weeks' stay with relatives.
In the meantime Mr. Rigdon will have
the house all to himself, and if he sees
fit to throw his shoes in the corner of
the room and his coat on a chair, his
hat on the table, leave his bed unmade
and have a place in the front room to
pile his soiled linen where it is handy
to be disposed of, also to leave the
dishes go until Mrs. Rigdon returns, he
will have the privilege with no one to
find any fault It will be easy for him
while she 1b away anyway.
TOtJ may laugh your head off over
the Information, that Trimmer and
Trimmer deal in real estate and loans
in Kirksville, Mo.
LET IXQUIRt" BE MADE,
Sir: Should not inquiry be made as to
the group of neutral correspondents
who were invited by the Huns last
March to visit the western front and
observe their offensive? It may be they
are old like some of us and in no con
dition to run. Also could not some of
our film companies be induced to run a
when Lentne nas killed all tne kus- goose-step film backwards? w. L. B.
fiiflnK who rifl va brains. t.h Oprmana I
nrlll tr-,r f i 1 1 t . o. -l, n-TV. a r, IlUJIlJiOi rriCCJ III XllSlUI JJ J
bYa.' That' U the conc. of M?ffS T
leveling down Instead of up, as we do 1
in America by developing the brains THOU DOSTS YOU MAX HAVE MISSED
of all the people. The Thunder Storm.
(Belle Castleman Carroll.)
The number of registrants who I Thou trlescent, hydro, nitric oxyde,
eagerly-walve a.11 claim to exemption :'XUItant decoction or earth and sKy
measures the rising tide of patriotism. ThA,n "r'Tv.nitJ
Men view with dread the possibility Blorious bequest of divinity.
that they may not have a- part and Thou dost cool the parched lips.
Thou dost lave the burning brow.
A Line o' Type or Two.
Hew to the Line, Let the Quips Fall
Where They Slav.
1 i
J Those Who Come and Go. I
1 1 I 1
(By B. L. T. By Arrangement With Chicago
lrinune. )
IDYLLS OF THE SKILLET FORK.
The Labor Situation.
"Don't hardly seem fair," said Bill with
a hitch
Tew his gallus the other was bust
ed "For the papers an' all, the public an'
sich"
An' I seen he was kind o' disgusted
"Ter praise up the workers ter home an'
not fitin'
An' gittin' all kinds o' big pay.
An' 'en strlkln' fer more Whoa thar!
Quit yer bitin'l"
He ' was combin' and breshin ol"
Gray -"When
the boys "over thar give up
thet they hed
Ter fite fer thirty bones per"
An'-I couldn't ezzao'ly tell what 'e nex'
said,
Fer 'is comb hed ketched in x burr.
P. S. W.
"Men of my age, who are active, will
be in demand next year, I believe," says
Henry Blackman, of Heppner. And men
of Mr. Blackman's age are far, far
beyond any draft that the Government
of the United States will ever Issue.
Mr. Blackman, who has eschewed pol
itics for years, albeit at one time a
shining light in Oregon Democracy, is
at the Imeperial and will leave Tuesday
night for San Francises). Mr. Blackma
has three sons In service. Heppne
Blackman named after his nativ
Eastern Oregon town was a wll
known cartoonist until he entered th
Army and became a Captain. The sec
ond Blackman boy was a mining en
gineer in Chile, but he heard his coun
try's call, and traveled 6000 miles to
join the Engineer Corps last May in
Baltimore. He is In active service toda
-nlin France. The youngest son Is
.ensign uziu it is to meet, nijrt tnat ,ur,
Blackman and his wife are Reaving fo
(jauiornia.
When a red-hot rivet landed beneath
his shirt and his back, slipping down
inside his collar, John Scinerowsky
decided it was time to leave the Seattl
shipyards and come to Portland. Thl
decision was reached after Scinerowsky
stood on his head so the rivet would
fall out. He arrived in Portland in tim
to register and today received his ques
tionnaire.
"I claim no exemption, but I make a
request," says Scinerowsky, who is
Russian Pole. "My request Is that If
I am to be sent anywhere that I go
with American troops to Siberia."
Several years ago Scinerowsky";
young brother, a student at .Warsaw,
became Involved in some political move
ment and he was exiled to the lead
mines of Siberia. Since that day John
has never received any information
regarding his brother and does no
know whether he Is alive or dead. It is
John's hope that if he sees service in
Siberia there is a bare possibility tha
he will find the long-lost brother or
obtain information as to his fate.
In Other Days.
may, therefore, be under a cloud in
future life.
Thou dost mount the wings of Iris
And ride In her chariot of power.
Thou dost clip the wings of vulcan.
Thou dost quench the living fire;
Every child with a missing hand.
every woman with a breast cut off.
every girl with years of misery behind Thou dost yield thy restive nature
and, aneaa, appeals to America to put
over the fourth loan. Can you con
template them and bei a slacker?
The cavalry have come back. They
were the arm which completed the
rout of the Turks in Palestine after
the Infantry and artillery had begun
lt There, will yet be a chance for the
new American Rough Riders.
At the syren's soothing lyre.
Shake thou the slumbering clouds;
Let all of them be risen.
Rend their scattered fragments loud
With the thunderbolts of heaven.
Then the earth will be decked with
green.
The flowers will drink the dew-
All nature will sing a song serene
Of the love that's born anew.
AS an example of the Insidious Influ
ence of Kultur, it has put "straf" Into
the. English language. But probably
Tha criminal always overlooks a
little item that leads to detection. For
exam rile: The Astoria importation of
liquor in barrels labeled two kinds of only r "the duration of the war.1
oil was suspected because the barrels I MILITANT IMMORTAL.
were not greasy. sir: I invite attention to Dr. Charles
A de Camp of Lexington avenue. New
The men who .were feasted on
York. I trust he is eligible for ap-
chicken at Vancouver will always have Pmtment to the staff of General Is
pleasant memories of the city, for a 8 m0- ,
man going into the Army is sure to THE Germans have their Kultur.
remember the last good dinner he had The thjrd and Fourth Army Corps,
as a civilian.
U. S. A., kt9 commanded by
iGenerals Read and Wright
Major
Judd S. Fish, a pioneer hotel man o
The Dalles, is in the city.
Representing the department of agrl
culture of Tasmania, John F. Ward ar
rived in Portland this morning and is
registered at the Oregon. Accompany
ing him from Tasmania are Mr. and
Mrs. Kelloway. Mr. Ward's mission in
the United States is to gather certain
information of value to his country.
For the purpose of taking up matters
connected with the training camp at
Eugene, Colonel John Leader was in
Portland yesterday, establishing his
headquarters in the assembly room of
the Hotel Portland. Dozens of men
wanted to see him to talk over train
ing-camp prospects and among them
was a policeman, who has been in
formed that he will go as class 1-A man
next month:
Captain T. E. Y. Seddon, of New Zea
land, Is another military man at the
Portland. The Captain has been speak
ing for the liberty loan.
Bishop W. O. Shepard, of Wichita,
Kan., who predicts a great religious
rebirth after the war. Is at the Seward
Bishop Shepard is in Portland to at
tend the Methodist conference. Other
delegates to the conference who are
guests at the Seward are Rev. II. J. Van
Fessen and wife, of Ashland, and Rev.
T. B. Ford, of Salem.
The best eggs to be had are the
'henneries," fresh from the yards,
and they fix the price. The dealer
who sells storage eggs as the best
a swindler, but the trouble is in vour money.
catching him.
The Prudent Tradesman.
Sir: A candid grocer, on Detroit's
Woodward avenue flaunts the sign
Samuel E. Smith, the man who saves
MRS. SIB,
The estimate for Oregon in the Sep
tember 12 registration, was 84,404.
The actual number is 106,'883. More
of "going over the top." Keep it up
with another bond.
CAMOUFLAGE (the word Is getting
out of use) observed in an Escanaba
restaurant: "Chickhen Hash
NOTE to make-up man: Hold this Una
for further orders
"We have Metz the enemy and they
are ours!"
ANY peace today? No! GIddap!
"Just the first touch of Autumn In
Long ago the saloons were closed on
SiirMnv thpn thA RtntA TTPnt. "rlrv."
tt th mlr cinro. fait r,f rlnsine- the wind at night" cables Phillip Glbba
is a hint of Autumn in the air." Or did
he say "touch"? We never can remem-
that day. This should encourage the
anti-tobacco crowd.
One result of the Russian revolution I
that the allies must capture the
Austrian and German prisoners all
over again. A case of war's labor lost
ber.
An Oregonian will be. proud of his
fourth liberty bonds. They will mean
something to him perhaps a sacri
fice that has a bite tp it
Having gone over the top with draft
registration, Oregon must not fail to
live up to its record with the fourth
liberty loan.
The devil will torment inils dreams
the man in Oregon who fails in his j
duty this week, and may he do the
Job well!
The more cruelly Burlan is snubbed
the more hopeful he is. He is the
grand chief optimist of the doomed
empire.
IF WE WOULD BE FREE.
Yes, war. has brought keen, agonizing
sorrow.
And bitterness that shall remain for
years;
Yet peace, such peace as we might have
tomorrow-
Would it be pregnant of less hateful
fears?
Somewhere, would there not be
smouldering ember
To kindle once again a holocaust?
What led to this mad war? we can
remember!
TH that is crushed in quitting we
were lost
Sheath not the sword go on we dare
not falter.
Think you 'tis meant that such
thing should be?
No. Bring the sacrifices to the altar
We must God help is! 'Tls for lib
erty! JEAN B. STEWART.
Aberdeen, Wash,
If you were a Frenchman in France
you would squeeze your everlasting
soul to buy more bonds in a time like
this.
The man who continues tp work at
non-esseauat joo uiai can oe miea
by a woman is to be held up to scorn.
would seem to be warranted in assum
ing that every suicide is insane.
operating expenses to gross earnings
had Increased in the years 1915 to
1917, but in a less degree than that of
The effort to empower the War De-1 Eastern roads.
partment to take over weak sections! Probably the most prosperous of the
of the public highways, as provided Pacific roads was the Southern Pacific,
in the JChamberlain-Dent bill and in- which earned a net income of 17.65
dorsed by the officials of the Ameri- per cent in 1917 and 12.63 per cent in
can Automobile Association, Is a reel 1916. and increased its net operating
ognition of the growing importance revenue In 19r7 by 21.60 per cent
of motor truck transportation. It is while its operating expenses increased
the" desire of everyone that there shall
be no interruption of traffic in needed
supplies for the Army during the Win
ter, and the railroads are already
taxed to the utmost Motor trucks to pay higher wages and eost of mate
volve making Generals, or even Lieu-I have relieved the situation during the! rial, it should be much less than that
tenants, of all of them, but it does j period of good weather to an extent! of other regions where cost of opera-
only 16.99 per cent. Other Pacific
roads made good, though less favor
able, showings. Though some increase
of revenue may have been necessary
There is no miracle in going Over
the top Saturday. It's just a matter
of honor. Buy one more, at least
Moss Gathering: Gratuitous.
PORTLAND, Sept 24. (To the Ed
itor.) Please Inform me whether the
collection of sphagnum moss is secured
through donations alone or whether it
can be contracted for and who has
charge of this work.
A SUBSCRIBER.
The collection is being achieved en
tirely through volunteer and gratui
tous effort It is one of the department
activities of the Portland Red Cross
Wilson went home to vote in the Chapter' 204 Corbett buildi"g-
primaries yesterday as became a good
citizen of Democratic persuasion.
That new passenger depot In Salem
is proof of limit to hope deferred.
"Bulgar"' looks like "Burglar,"
amounts to the same thing.
and
Enlistment in "Quartermaster's Corps.
HUBBARD, Or., Sept. 23. (To the
Editor.) Would a business man with
special salesmanship abilities (above
draft age) be eligible tor special staff
work in Quartermaster Corps? What
Is the pay and does the Government
make allotment to dependent wife? -
INTERESTED READER
LACK OF APPRECIATIOX , SIIOWX
Worth of Multnomah Gnard Band Dt
serves Greater Public Acclaim.
PORTLAND, Sept 24. (To the Edi
tor.) Since taking up my residence in
this city some three months ago, I have
had the great pleasure of hearing the
splendid aiultnomah Guard Band
.they passed at the head of many of the
numerous patriotic parades recently
.field, and I cannot help but notice the
apparent lack of appreciation on the
part of the public of their efforts.
I am not directly or Indirectly ac
quainted with a single individual of
the band so I speak impersonally, but
I have had the privilege of listening to
almost every one of the finest military
bands In existence, notably 4hose
throughout Europe, and say without
fear of contradiction that this great
band could hold lt3 own in competition
with them, not only from a musical
point of view, but also from the view
of precise military bearing, and yet
time and again have I seen them pass
(every man doing, his utmost to uphold
the dignity of his band and give real
pleasure to the public) with scarcely a
word or movement of applause from
that public.
The newspapers style them, and Just
ly bo, "The Pride of Portland," and I
really believe the general public takes
the same view, but would it not be
better to remember that these boys are
after all but human, and give them all
the encouragement and applause we
can wnenever tney ajfear on our
streets In pursuapce of their patriotic
duties a duty which they at all times
cheerfully undertake, and which cannot
be performed as near to perfection as
lt is, without a considerable amount of
application and time being devoted by
each one?
This does not mean that I speak
derogatively of any of the fine bands
we have here, but they have evidently
striven hard for their courtesy Ilk
"The Pride of Portland," and they
richly deserve our warm appreciation
at all times, which speaks louder than
dollars and cents to the average man
who Js striving to please. Incidentally
let us remember that it is the splendl'l
personality and morale of this band,
and like military organizations which
have helped to make our mothers, wives
and sweethearts proud to be seen on
the arm of their soldier or sailor lad
die, whereas lt Is only a few short
years ago when a man In uniform was
not quite so welcome as he is now, in
every class of society.
Surely then we should not be back
ward in giving them all the applause
we can as opportunity occurs.
BRITISHER
Twenty-live Year Ago.
From The Orsronlsn .September 25. 1803.
i Henry Irving's special train returned
from the Sound yesterday morning
wicn an nis people aboard. It was held
at the Lnlon Depot about a couple of
hours while arrangements were being.
maae to give It clear headwav east
over tne union Faclno. The passen
gers wno appeared were in negligee at
tire. The men wore pajamas and sIId-
pers and smoked short pipes andthe
women were costumed in close-fitting
wooien wrappers and wore mob caps.
The Oregon Vegetarian Society held
another of its successful meetings last
evening and vegetarianism was cham
pioned with all the zeal Mr. Galvanl.
president of the society, Is capable of.
In fact the hermit of the Coast Range
cares no longer for any other Isms and
does no lorrger intend to trouble his
head with any other schemes.
About 400 men are employed at tho
Cascade Locks and work is being
pusnea very rapidly. There are 75 men
now at wtirk in the pit of the canal.
idu in the quarry. At Dresent indica
tions the canal will be completed by the
time named in the contract and perhaps
uciuie.
An old settler, but not the oldest.
says the weather has now settled for
keeps and he expects to see six weeks
or fine weather. The equinoctial storm
is over and the weather has nothing to
ao uui db one indefinitely. But doubt
ing people will do well to consult the
Weather Bureau before throwing away
umureuas ana macKintoshes.
The fourth of the series of sermons
on tne second advent will be preached
by Rev. R. G. Grant In the First Baptist
Church tomorrow morning. "The Na
ture and Reality of and Necessity for
the Lord's Coming" will be the special
topic ine evening discourse will be
on tne labor question.
Fifty Year Ago.
irons Tha Oreronlan. 6eDtemb 25. ISM.
The presence of the Legislature st
the capital gives a good run of local
items. The following from the Union
ist is a sample: "Yesterday some ur
chins tore up the sidewalk esst of the
express office and neglected to redrive
the nails. A Democratic member of
the Legislature was going alonr and
stubbed his toe. nearly measuring his
length, wnteti was about six feet on
the sidewalk. After righting himself,
he hurled enough anathemas at lt to
have sunk the nails entirely through
me pianKs, lr they had only hit"
We have received the first number
of the Echo, a weekly paper published
at Olympia. W. T., and mainly devoted
to the cause of temperance. It Is is
sued by a committee of the temperance
organizations of the territory.
The "Merry Monarch" and "A Dead
Shot" were done in an excellent manner
at the New Theater last night. Some of
our theater-going citizens may have
given but little attention to the fact
that the company now playing in Port
land is not one made up of second or
third-class actors, but one composed of'
talented ladles and gentlemen, who
rank high in their professsion and
ought to be encouraged by all who wish
to retain the presence In our midst ef
first-class company. Tonight fins
comedy of "Still Waters Run Deep"
and the laughable farce of "Rough Dia-
nond" will compose tha entertainment.
IMPORTATION OF LABOR APPROVED
st
no
S. A. T. C. In Ohio.
CORNUCOPIA, Or.. Sept 23. (To the
Editor.) I would like to procure a list
of the educational institutions in Ohio
at which Students' Army Training
Corps are to be conducted beginning
September 30. Can you furnish me
with this Information or advise me as
to where I can get it I would also like
to secure a list of the institutions In
Portland where the training corps will
be conducted. E. J. STULTZ.
For the list of Ohio Institutions com
municate with the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, Columbus. O. The,
institutions In Portland which will have
the training corps are Reed College and
the North Pacific College of Dentistry.
Here are text and sermon:
your subscription.
Double Write to Colonel W. G. Austin, Quar
termaster-General's office, Washington,
D. C, for Information. Army pay
Wow! What happened at an early I scale prevails; family allowances are
hour! - " I made. . .
Date of Seattle Exposition,
DILLEY. Or.. Sept 23. (To the Edi
tor.) (1) Please tell me what dates
the fair was at Seattle. Wash., In 1909
(2) Also what date Good Friday fell
on in 1908. I am asking these ques
tions so I can fill out my question
naire correctly, for when I came to the
States it was during the fair at Seattle.
But I don't remember the date.
JOHN WEST.
(1) June 1 to October 16, 1909.
(2) April 17.
Animal Kingdom Named.
Baltimore American.
Visitor Now, Willie, let me see how
much vou know. What class or tha
animal kingdom do I belong to? Willie
Well, pa says you re an old hen and
ma says you're an old cat.
Anto Penalty Exacted.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Justice Ten for exceedin' the
speed limit. Comin' back this way?
Tha Victim No. The Justice Then
it's twenty.
Writer Wonld Have Chinese Clear Land
L'nder fovrrnment Regulation.
PORTLAND, Sr-pt. 24. (To the Edl-
or.J I note that Mayor Haiiey, of As
toria, has taken up tha fight for the
mportatlon of Chinese labor to supply
the deficiency In certain lines, where
under present conditions work neces
sary to the future welfare of the coun-
ry must go undone and work necessary
for present welfare, as in food produc
tion, is boing done only nndr great
difficulties at present and will be under
a far greater handicap by the time our
National Army has reached its full
trength.
If Mr. Harlcy can succeed In lining
up the people of Oregon for this mat
er of emergency labor Importation he
will have accomplished something that
will make his friends, his enemies and
himself grateful that he did not suc-
eed In his efforts for the Gubernatorial
omination.
In order that American labor shall
ot be adversely affected, such lmpor-
atlon of Chinese should be managed
irectly by the United States Depart
ment of Labor and with such restrlc-
lons as will prevent their employment
any line where they would come
into competition with white labor ex.-
ept in food production work. In this
tate the greatest field for this emer
gency labor is in tne clearing and de-
elopment of land.
There are tens of thousands of acres
of land within the state from whlch
the timber has been burned or removed,
or . in unused portions of our farms,
that without such help as the Chinese
6an supply us will never be cleared,
for at the present cost of white labor
this land, even at the present high
prices of products, will not produce
enough to pay interest on the cost of
clearing.
With a lessened demand for labor
following the war and the return of
our boys from .Europe, the problem of
uncleared land will still be unsolved.
Farm products will decrease in price
if wages are lowered and certainly no
American wants to see our returned
men put at such work at the wages that
work will stand, If, however, the Chi
nese are kept busy while our men are
in Europe in preparing land that will
be available for use on their return,
what will be the result?
For every Chinaman kept on land
clearing work for three years there
will be an area prepared that will keep
an American family, to supply whoss
wants roads and phone lines will be
demanded, lumber for houses, furniture,
clothing and agricultural Implements
will have to be supplied and a demand
be created for hundreds of well-paid
American workers at a time when use
ful work of some kind must be ready
for several million released men.
Tn nrevent exDloitation and specn-
t.itinn. rec-ulatlons covering the sale
of land could be made and agreed to by
land nivne.rs before the uovernmenc
allowed the use of Chinese for clear
lng. For farm work, where there would -necessarily
be some competition with
white labor, the Chinese could be let to
fh farmers at an agreed price, the
difference between the contraA price
between the Government and the Chi
nese and that between the Government
and the farmers being the profit of the
Government in the transaction. These
profits should care for all the expenses
incurred in the importation and the
returning of the Chinese to their honfoe
when their term of service was over.
One hundred thousand Chinese work
ers in Western Oregon on land clear
ing and reforesting for a term of three
years at far better wages than they
could possibly earn at home would cer
tainly be of the greatest benefit to the
state. As many more as are necessary
in food production work would guar
antee an abundance for ourselves and
our allies. What valid objection can be
raised to their employment?
W. G. BROWN.
1322 Yeon building.
Polite Manner Taasht.
Buffalo (N. Y.) Express.
Slavln (outside movie theater) Wor
there any eddicational Qillums shown,
Martin? Conlin Faith, an" there wor.
Terrence. I learned, among otner
things, how to act toward-rds me but
ler: how to inter me club properly an'
how to hang me coat and car- on th'
ar-rra lv th' gintlemanly attii.
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