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TTIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1918. POKTLAD, OREGON. JIKMBKK OF TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dis patches herei are also reserved. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postoffice as second-class mail matter. Subscription rates invariably In advance: (By Mail.) rally. Sunday included, one year ......88.00 lialiy, Sunday included, six months .... 4.ii I.aily, Sunday included, three months.. Iai!y. Sunday included, one month .... ." Xiniiy. without Sunday, one year ...... 6.'0 Laily, without Sunday, six months .... rai:y, without Sunday, one month '" "Weekly, one year l.',u Sunday, one year ........... -."' Sunday and weekly o.ou ( By Carrier.) rsily. Sunday included, one year ......$0.00 I'mly. Sunday included, one month .... .'' 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Clear understanding of the German peace proposal demands that full weight be given to the past conduct of the rulers of Germany, who are rulers of Prussia, to their aims in beginning the war, to their aim in making this proposal and to their aim in estab lishing what Prince Max proclaims to be a government representative of the majority in the Reichstag. Whep we have considered . all these points, a sound conclusion can be reached as to the reception which should be given to Prince Max's pretended acceptance of President Wilson's fourteen- condi tions. The past conduct of the Hohenzol lerns and their governing caste, both as rulers of Germany and as rulers of Prussia, proves them unworthy of trust in their dealings either with other nations or with their own peo ple. Consistently throughout their history they have broken treaties when their interests seemed to demand, they have suddenly attacked their neigh bors in war and have annexed prov inces against the will of the inhabi tants, and they have resorted to the most oppressive, means to Germanize the people they have conquered. Their violation of the Belgian and Luxem burg treaties is simply the last of a long series of similar acts of perfidy. There Is no truth in them, no mercy and no respect for the rights of any people. The same policy has been followed In government of the German people. The peasants of Prussia were not emancipated from serfdom till 1807, and all efforts for representative gov ernment have been thwarted in Prus sia in the old German confederation and in the new German empire. Prom ises were made only to be broken. A revolution broke out in Berlin in March, 1S48, and won from King Frederick William IV the summons of a national assembly to draw up a constitution. A proposal that the King should no longer be said to wear his crown "by the grace of God" was vio lently opposed, the assembly was or dered to remove from Berlin to Bran denburg, and on December 5, 1848, says an authority, "the King dissolved the assembly, granted a constitution about which it had not been consulted, and gave orders for the election of a representative chamber" which is not representative and has power only to talk. That is how the Hohenzollerns keep faith with the Prussians. The constitution of the empire is autocratic, for under the forms of representative government it concen trates power in the hands of the Kaiser. It is a federation of ruling sovereigns, not of democratic . states. Treitschke said that "the will of the empire 'can in the last Instance be nothing else than the will of the Prus sian state," and the will of the Prus sian state is nothing else than the will of its King, who is also Emperor of Germany, for he is even more ab solute as King of Prussia than as Emperor of Germany. In the im perial government executive power is exercised by the Kaiser through the Chancellor, who is his personal ap pointee and cannot be deposed at the will of a majority in the Reichstag, as a Premier can be dismissed on b ing defeated in the British Parliament. There is no Cabinet, for the minis ters are the Chancellor's subordinates, not his colleagues. The upper house of the so-called Parliament, the Bun desrath, is composed of the ruling sovereigns of the states or their per sonal delegates, and Prussia has twenty of the fifty-eight votes, while fourteen votes decide. Almost all laws must originate in this body, and all must be approved by it after passing the Reichstag, hence the latter is but a debating society. The army and navy are tinder command of the Kaiser and must render unconditional' obedience to him. lie has sole power to declare war if the empire is threat ened, he decides whether this is the case, and immediately martial law prevails and he becomes military dic tator. The KaiFer used the power which he has fortified by this form of gov ernment to weld his empire into a war machine, and he has used that ma chine in a war designed to conquer Kurope, Asia, Africa and, ultimately, America, by an alternation or combi nation of military offensives and peace offensives. Above all things hehates democracy, and his one hope is to destroy it. Those were his aims In beginning the war. Are we to believe that he has abandoned them as either evil or impracticable? His character, his family traditions, his frequent ut terances and his conduct go to prove that, according to his perverted view of right and wrong, he still believes them right. So long as he could find any means of any kind to attain these aims, if not in whole then in part, he would not abandon them as imprac ticable. In that light we must view Prince Max's declaration that Germany ac cepts President Wilson's fourteen con ditons of peace as laid down on Janu ary 8. They are essentially democratic. they woflld dismember Germany's autocratic and obedient vassal, Austria-Hungary, they would surround Germany on three sides with inde pendent, democratic 6tates and they would thereby erect a bulwark against German conquest. The Kaiser would not become a party to such a revision of the map of Europe until his mili- tary and political power had been utterly destroyed. But Mr. Wilson said, referring to Germany: It is necessary as preliminary to any In telligent dealings with her on our part that we should know whom her spokesmen speak for wbe,n they speak to us, whether for the Reichstag majority or for the military party and the men whose creed is military domin ation. Apparently for the purpose of sat isfying this condition of negotiation, Prince Max has called to office lead ers of the Center and Socialist par ties in the Reichstag, which carried the no-annexation and no-indemnity resolution of last July, and he said: I am convinced that the manner in which imperial leadership is now constituted with co-operation of the Reichstag is not some thing ephemeral, and that when peace comes a government cannot again be formed which does not find support in the Reichstag and does not draw its leader therefrom. The formation of a majority means the formation of a, political, will, and an indis putable result of the war has been that in (iermany. for the first time, great parties have .Joined together in a firm, harmonious programme and have thus come Into position to determine for themselves the fate of the people. But the autocratic constitution still stands the only change proposed is to permit members of the Reichstag to hold executive office and the con viction that this arrangement will be permanent is only the personal opinion of the fourth in a scries of four Chan cellors who have held office during the war. This so-called Cabinet and the Reichstag majority have no more power than was exercised by former ministers under former Chancellors or than former Reichstag majorities. Nor does its composition justify con fidence that the military party is not still in control, behind the scenes pulling the strings. It includes Solf, who demands return of the German colonies without regard to the wish and interests of their Inhabitants, which Premier Lloyd George has said should be first consulted. It includes Scheidemann, the Socialist who was go-between for the militarists in deal ing with the Bolsheviki. These .are mere puppets, like their chief, of the military party, and the show of de mocracy which has been made, can be cast off as easily as was that of 1848. The Kaiser's will has given this seem ing power to the Reichstag majority and his will can take it away, and as suredly will do so when it has served its purpose. Then what is the prospect? We need only go back to December, 1916, for the answer. Having been defeated in a military offensive at Verdon on the Somme and on the Isonzo, Ger many sought victory by a peace offen sive and she almost won. Though the allied governments rejected her overtures, that peace, offensive dis solved the armies of Russia and Rou mania, it shook the nerve of the French army through the agency of the traitors, Bolo, Caillaux and Duval, it threw the Italians back to the Piavc and it revived pacifist agitation In Britain by Lansdowne. and Henderson. It won greater victories than the Ger man armies won between March 21' and July 15 of this year. When Ger many fails to defeat the allied armiee iu battle, she tries to divide them and to weaken their will to fight by resort to a peace offensive. If the proposal should be rejected by the allies, as it certainly should be, and if it should fl to shake the de termination of the allied nations to continue the war until Prussian mili tarism is destroyed, and Kaiserism with it, the peace offensive will still have served another purpose of the Kaiser. He may then turn to his people and say he has accepted the enemy's terms, he has entrusted power to make peace to a representative gov ernment, and still they persist in war. He may say that their purpose is to destroy Germany, to take revenge on her people, and. adopting the pose of a hero-patriot-Kmperor, he may rally his people to defense4 of the Father land. Thus he may hope to silence the malcontents and to save the throne of a Germany shorn of all its con quered "territory. THE 1XTCKE OF ORCHARDING. It will be plain to any observant man who motors over our country roads these fine Fall days that many orchards are being neglected. The reason is not hard to find. Help is scarce, of course, and spray material is much more costly than it used to be. Then, too, the mind of the owner is occupied with other matters. It all tends toward a certain sloveliness which is to be deplored. For the signs point to greater profits in the orchard business after the war than it, has yielded since it passed the "boom" period and began to adjust itself to a sane, commercial basis. It seems likely, too, that for a good many years there will be practical cessation of new planting. The rea sons why nurserymen of America are already feeling the pinch of war are both internal and external. They are under the same disadvantage that be scT.s other industries at home, and their foreign supplies have been cut off.. Formerly, for example, they im ported the greater portion of their seedlings from France, only a neg ligible number being produced in the United States. The severity of last Winter was fatar to many millions of young peach trees and other millions of freshly-budded nursery trees were destroyed. Planting of new orchards has not kept pace with the destruc tion of old ones since 1914. Charles A. Green, of Rochester, N. i., one of the oldest American nur serymen, furnishes food for thought in his statement that "plants, trees and vines are likely to be higher in price in the immediate future and in the years to come." Turning to his tory Tor enlightenment, he recalls that many nurserymen were ruined during the Civil War of 1861-5, and that after the close of the war fruit trees sold at $1 apiece and other nursery prod ucts at similar prices. This, however, was not the most serious phase. For some years it was impossible to- ob tain trees at any price, demand being largely in excess of supply. Nursery stock cannot be stored, un fortunately, so that the excess of one year can be made available In future seasons, and it takes considerable time to get the business back to its former footing. Meanwhile the war continues and neglect of old orchards goes on It seems reasonable to suppose that in the interval consumption of fruit will more than overtake production, espe cially in standard varieties, and that the orchardist of the near future will be assured of commensurate returns for his labor. It probably will be all the better if there is not a. period of excessive profits such as would result in another overdoing of the business. Fair return to those who exercise skill and diligence is the reasonable prom ise of the next few years. It is for this reason that the orchard owner ought to consider adopting a programme of conservation during the Fall and Winter.- The present weather is ideal for application of the spray called for in orchards threatened with the. eo-called "canker," or "anthrac nose,""and a general cleaning up now may save a, lot of grief next Spring. While It is true that some seasons are more favorable than others for pruning. It is permissible in times like these to adopt the policy of "pruning when the knifev is sharp." It is bet ter, perhaps, to have the work done and out of the way than to postpone it until March and end by not doing if. n ., it n-i. .. ,i -. . . v. ; . . v. : ' it at all. The sooner the rubbish is. cleared from the orchard, the better, and Winter is a good time for the burning of all infected limbs and twigs. It Is far easier for' the man, and better for the tree, to do a little work each year than to try to restore an orchard that has been abandoned for a period of years. Pruning and spraying are not eso teric mysteries. They can be learned by anyone who likes .that kind of work, and It is surprising how much can be accomplished by making use of the bright middays of Winter. It is better to keep the old trees clean than to pay $1 apiece for new ones later on and wait several years for them to come into bearing. Intelli gent work on the orchard now will pay dividends. 1 CENTS' WORTH OF MISERY. Sympathetic attention is called to the sad case of a Salem banker "one of the best-known bankers In Oregon" and "head of one of Marion County's solid financial institutions," as related by a contemporary. This banker, under a provision of the law which It is now proposed to repeal, was required to pay 21 cents additional on his taxes because he had neglected to pay the taxes at the stated time. The 21 cents so cruelly extracted went to pay for publishing the notice of his delinquency. This heart-rending story is given us by the Portland Journal, which would do away with delinquent tax publica tion and rely solely on notice by mail. We are informed by the not always accurate Journal: Instead of mailing Mr. B inker a notice of hia delinquency, which would have cost but 2 cents, the county charged him 21.8 cents to serva notice upon him by publica tion in four editiona each of the Capital Journal and the OrwM Statesman. The cost of publication was approximately 0 per cent cf the amount of the tax. The mall notice would have been nine-tenths of X per cent. Now why did not Marion County mail that notice and save the banker 21 cents? Truth is it did mail the notice. It was required by law to do so. Will anybody accuse Marion County of violating the law when the Supreme Court sits in the middle of it and the penitentiary is hard by? We guess not. Mr. Banker got his letter notice. It was not enough. He dallied and for got. But when he saw his name in the paper among the delinquents and realized that somebody might buy a certificate of delinquence on his prop erty he hastened to the courthouse and paid his bill. Without publication the county would have been deprived for the time being of tax revenues the banker should have paid, for he would have had no reminder and no notice would have been given to tax lien purchasers. The wise purpose of the publication law is to get in revenues which with out publication would be uncertain or delayed. It had the desired effect in this ca"se after mail notice had failed. The story, in spite of its 21 cents' worth of misery, is the best argument for continuance of tax publications that one could find in a day's search. BOXING ON A NEW PLANE. The Students' Army Training Corps gives promise of putting the fine art of boxing on a new plane. Formerly this sport has been confined mostly to a few athletic clubs and to the pro fessional ring. i'or some reason, noil quite apparent, it has not had the place in college athletics which it de- served. It has never before been made compulsory, as swimming has been in recent years. Now a bulletin from Oregon Agri cultural College, which Is typical of institutions in which the S. A. T. C. if organized, announces that "three thou sand young men will box at school this year.". The War Department de mands this, and the War Department will be obeyed. There will be boxing by squads, by platoons and by companies. As many as three hundred at a time will be seen in the workouts. One hundred and fifty boxing matches all going on at once ought to bo an in spiring sight to one who Is proud of. Young America's ability to take car of himself. A deep sense of the psychological value of boxing was possessed by the. man who first called it tho "manly art of self-defense." It is a peculiar fact that it does not often make bullies of men. Knowledge that one Is well able to take care of himself in emer gency makes for self-restraint rathel than undue aggressiveness. It puts a premium on skill rather than brute strength, placing the emphasis just where it belongs. The boys are learning td box because they need the knowledge In the job of thrashing the Hun, but this is not because they are expected to go after him with their bare fists. Boxing is at the base of other exercises. It helps mightily in bayonet practice, for illus tration. But chiefly it promotes co ordination between hand and eye, and puts pep into tlie soldier and gives steam to his blows. It teaches one how to receive' as well as to adminis ter punishment. The rules are essen tially fair. It will be a good thing to get rid of the notion that it is a busi ness exclusively of pluguglies and make it one of the universal sports of the youth of tho Nation. THE EXCESS OF MEN OVER WOMEN. American women who are disturbed by the news that "hundreds of young American soldiers are marrying in France" will be comforted by study of the census reports, which show that the excess of men over women in the country as a whole is quite sufficient to provide those hundreds of French girls with husbands and still leave a good margin to spare. Nor is there even a remote probability that this advantage will be swept" away by the war. There were in the United States proper when the census was taken in 1910 47,332.277 men and 44.6S9.983 women, an excess in favor of the men of 2,692,2S8; and it was a greater ex cess by more than a million than was noted in the census of 1900. If the ratio Increase has been maintained in the last eight years and there is no reason for byieving that It has not been this wonld mean Jhat there are now nearly 3.500,000 more women than men in the United States. Of course, no American girl wants to see her particular sweetheart captured by a French woman, but it would seem that American women as a whole might view the situation with equa nimity. With so many men to spare, why waste them in bachelorhood un necessarily? Somewhat more than one-half of the population of the world has been enumerated with distinction as to sex. .and the result shows a slight excess for males. Out of about 894,000.000 counted in, 1900, there were a little over 4,000,000 more males than fe males. Kurope was the only continent to show an excess of female, and this is' attributed largely to emigration to otner continents, but it does not, on the other hand, entirely account for the excess of men In the TJnitAl States .. .. i. . . : . i. . , . .. . . . a ii. iuini. ere expected to uo. mere is in the United States an altogether puzzling excess of males In the most important class of the population, the native whites of native parentage. In 1910 the ratio in this class was 104 males to 100 females, as com pared with 108 males to 100 females for the population as a whole. It is Interesting and also Inexplicable that the numbers of males and females among those born here of foreign parents were almost Identical. In Europe, however, the ratio of about 96.7 males to 100 females has been maintained ever since agencies of enu meration were perfected. Our own tables show an excess of males at every census. Even the Civil War did not wipe this out. The absolute amount of J. he excess was greater at each census than at. the one preced ing except in the census of 1870. which followed the war, with its loss of sol dier lives and the falling off of immi gration. It seems that riot only French girls but France itself welcomes our boys into the family. Charles Edward Rus sell thus interprets the sentiment of the country: France welcomes them because she has lost so many young men in the conflict. It Is the sustnm, and has been so for generations, among buntnesa men that when their time of retirement cornea they turn over the business to the son, and in case where there is no son or when he hts been killed in battle the business is turned over to the son-in-law. Frenchmen who will nat he able to marry their daughters to their own countrymen, and who are aollcltous that the business be kept In the family, are glad to get In telligent young Americana aa mcrabera of their families. It is uncomplimentary to mademoi selle to assume that she needs the added attraction of the "dot," and wo are bound to defend our young men, of course, against the charge that they are mercenary In any degree. There are many other ways to account for the international marriages which are now taking place. Propinquity, which precipitates abo'ut nine out of ten of all marriages, probably has a good deal to do with it. But the feature that strikes us Is that a few hundreds of them do not constitute anything to worry about. We have Bhown by the census figures that we have the men to spare. Let the French girls make the most of their opportunity. In recruiting for the Women's Land Army in the United States an English woman familiar with the problem overseas has told American women that their sex has proved itself the equal of the French and English, and may even rival them, because in addi tion to splendid physiques they have the virtues of adaptability and elas ticity. Initiative also counts for much, even In such prosaic jobs as planting and hoeing corn. Thus encouraged, the women of this country ought to flock in large numbers to the standard. The movement, however, has passed beyond the experimental stage, for several organized units made good last season in the northeastern states, and development of the land army camp system has removed one of the most serious early difficulties, that of hous ing the workers and furnishing them with recreation for their leisure hours. The issue is not local, but Interna tional. Upon the success of the Amer ican land army depends in large meas ure the amount of food that will be eaten In Kurope next year. The, unkindeat act of Rulearla toward Germany was to put the Idea of de- m.rii. unconditional surrender In the ailies. minds. It is so simple and 'satisfying that they are Inclined to make it unanimous on the part of all ass' skin The best way to escape Spanish In fluenza Is to live sanely and to keep out of crowds, where there may be people who live otherwise. There's much to be done before peace can be declared, the chief thing being to get the Hun thoroughly "licked," which he Is not. A dairyman who profiteers easily is caught. That's tho difference be tween him and lots of others, rawer yet smoother. A most powerful objection to the German peace proposal is that the Kaiser evidently docs -not yet know ho is llckeri.- Schools which do not see fit to dis continue the teaching of German will classify it among the dead languages. Nobody seems to be quoting Lloyd George in all this. The little Welch- man is spitting on his whetstone. It had to come. The waste of good "booze" In Salt I.ako was too shock ing. The rest will bo denatured. Indefinite extension of tho daylight saving plan is of advantage, with most of the stores opening at 9. The 6 o'clock closing plan Is left to a fellow's conscience, which, at times. is mighty elastic. The Kaiser says his navy Is holding its own. That's a fact. It's hugging tight to its hole. A reputable Jeweler knows when stolen property is offered him and de clincs to buy. With but three ounces of radium In the world, a workable substitute will be a blessing. A Socialist is now recognized as a militarist lion masquerading in an ass' skin. Despite Maximilian, the Hun can not make an honorable peace. It isn't in him. Restaurant men need have little worry. Simple cleaning up will fill the bill. "Ask Foch," says Senator Kelson. That's right. Lee. treated with Grant. Hun, gun, run, fun what a "pome" an Inspired idiot could make! Mr. West's campaigning will get into the quaint and curious column. Another rat leaves the ship, denburg has resigned. Hin- Keep your eye on some of these fel lows talking peace. Keep going on the fourth loan. Make the Hua bee-, Woodrow, Your Boy in France. What He Is DolasT sad Ttilnklnar A boa f . aa (.leaned From The Mara aad stripe. Official Newspaper of the A. h K. ITS a pretty little story that comes from the Red Cross committee charged with supervising the expendi ture of funds collected for the A. K. F. war orphans through the Stars and Stripes. Little Luclenne, aged ft, whose father fell fighting for France, was selected as the mascot for Company C. En gineers and 40 franca about IS a month paid over "to the mother to be used wholly for Luclenne's support. The Red Cross representative called to see if the pact was kept. Yes, the money was all spent for Lucienne-well, part of it was spent for a school lunch that I.uclcnno shared with her brother Jean, a year older. And then the mother made a full con fession: Jean wouldn't eat his share of the lunch, but cave it away, and he often talked his sister out of her share and gave that away. too. Every day Americans marched by the school on their way to the front and Joan pave the soldiers his lunch eon, and often his sister's very .. Nothing the mother could sty cou'i stop him. "They must be hungry, for they al ways eat it." was the boy's unanswer able argument e e "Is there any man on earth too good to be a K. P. In Cook Harry C. Rlck efs kitchen?" as a the Stars and Stripes in a leading editorial. Cook Rlcket has received the D. S. C!. which was accompanied by this citation: lie maintained his kitchen at Chatean-de'-la-t'orel during a bombardment so Intense as to drive all other kitchens out of the village. When hia stove had to be taken to the rear he Improvised a fire In the (round and continued his work until or dered to leave. He carried water from a spring- which was repeatedly shelled, when others would not approach It. Unaided, of his own volition, ha conducted a first-aid station for wounded and exhausted men at hia kitchen. Constantly In extreme personal dinner, Cook Rlcket devoted hlmseir en tirely to the needa of othera and made possible the care of several hundred wounded, exhausted and hungry men. e Sergeant David Proctor, of New York, actcr and song writer, at present with the Military Police In London, has written a hymn entitled "The Kingdom of God." A permit being necessary to mail it to New York, it was submitted to an officer and the title page. now reads: "The Klnrdom of God. Censored by Second Lieutenant Joseph Pruegent, Q. D." From feeding the fires on one of those freight hogs which go pounding past the snow lines over the divide of the Rockies to "he throttle of an Army locomotive bouncing along the Valley of the Loire this is the change war brought to Roger Bowers, of Laramie, Wyoming, whose life had been bounded by the Mississippi and the U-eat Salt Lake until the time when he came to France a year ago. ' Roger Bowers has a friend at every crossing and every siding stop. Kvery Frenchman in the railroad yards and on the French trains knows the tall and thin "chauffeur Amerlcaln" with the sandy hair, freckled face and wide mouth, whose Adam's apple Is the won derment of the countryside in the frankness with which it roams about on his neck above the Army shirt. They like his smile and the way he has grafted his Wyoming drawl onto the French language. The men In the fields and the women in the farmhouses know the time when his big engine will come rolling along, and they wave their hands to him, and he waves back or answers with the whistle. Or, may be he starts, the whistling far back from a curve, and madame In her kitchen and all the garcons and les petitea hastily come out of the doorway and start down for the siding with their arms fall of apples and pears and cakes and bunches of grapes. It's a lucky fireman who travels with Roger Bowers! m m m Many stories of German treachery are published. A Lieutenant, crawling up to a machine gun 'nest, covered Its five occupants with his automatic "Kamerad," they shouted, and threw up their hands. The officer lowered his weapon and went forward. The Ger man in command fired, hitting the American In the shoulder. From where he fell the American shot and killed three of the Uerman soldiers. The fourth in the meantime killed his officer and surrendered to the American. Among the prisoners who have fallen to the Americans lately was a youth who had lived in tho United States, who has a mother in New York and a sister in South Dakota. He had been sent to school In Germany about the time the war started and was Impressed Into the army two years aco. When lie found himself opposite the Ameri cans he surrendered. He was in a cave with 48 other Germans and he persuaded them to come, too. "The best thing you can do Is to give up." he told them. "Those guys opposite you are fighters they'll get you." When this lad came before a long string of prisoners to be listed he an nounced that he could talk English. "fan you say "To hell with the Kai ser?" asked the officer. "Sure." said tho prisoner. "To hell with the Kaiser." a Two young officers In the trenches we to keeping a watchful eye out for the enemy and thinking of home, when one of them chanced to spy. far out in No Man's Iand, some beautiful blue flowers nodding in tho breeio. Despite the danger, they crawled out and picked the flowers and later sent them home In letters. One of the letters went to far-off Texas, and this is tho reply that came back from the dear mother at home: Blue columbine from far-off France, tient me. my poa, by you; It takes me overseas, lad. This bit of blooming blue. I see you now 'mid battle scenes. My heart keeps close to you. It forms another link between Tills bit of blootning blue. And now when skies are riownrav With clmda gray through and through, I'll still have thia from out the past A bit of blooming blue. Machine Gun Pei'geant Soil Monsky writes from the hospital: "We've been through beaucoup hell, and now we're spending a short vaca tion in heaven; yet m soldier must grumble. He always longs to be where he ain't, and when he gets there it's 'Where do we go from here, boys? ' Cargo-saving Is the great aim of the Q. M. C. They're leaving the seup bones behind In the United Htatea now. and refrigerator vessels are brinaing tons OI ooneiesa oeei to r rauce. l ne experiment has worked very well, saya Stars and Stripes, although " dubious cooks think tile next plan may be to send all fresh-ground Hamburger steak. uS.la.ru&dx ddir-arrimq'Betaoi taoi aoi Swift Justice rmsaes Hub. Forum. Just why It Is possible to enjoy kill ing a man is explained by Hamilton M. Wright: "I met an old-time newspaper friend 1n a Paris hospital who has risen from the ranks of newspaperdom to that of corporal in the service. This is one of the things my friend told me: "I saw a dirty Hun deliberately shobt a little Red Cross stretcher-bearer; I got him with my bayonet, and had to shoot the gun to get It out of him. I never believed I could kill a man but, ear, I enjoyed that!' " Those Who Come and Go. rown at the Panama Canal the I United States Navy not only hopea that i Wilhelm of Germany will send over nia warsnips. Dut the rellows on guard at the big ditch have organised a recep tion committee to go out snd meet tho Hun fleet. Sergeant Charles Blitch fays ma and he has just arrived from Panama. He stopped yesterday at the Multnomah, en route to Fort Stevens, wiiere he will spend five months and then will ba retired from service after 30 years in vhe ordnance department. No enemy fleet will ever land at the canal. Is the prediction of Sergeant Blitch. Sam Fox, music publisher, of Cleve land. O., Is at the Benson Hotel and Is especially enthusiastic over the fact that he has been selected by John I'hil'p r-ousa as the publisher or Sousa"a new American wedding march. "Heretofore, American girls have had to walk to the wedding altar while or- ;anlsts played Mendelssohn a "Wedding March, which Is a cierman niarcli writ ten by a Clerman," said Mr. Fox. "In deed, it has been said that American girls could not have secured permis sion to be married except by leave from viermany, on account of this same (icrman wedding march. Now. with -jura's new march we m ill change all .ha'. I expect the march to be pub lished In about three weeks." Georges Musaphl. an expert on camouflage for the Government, ar rived at tho Tortland yesterday. He Is registered from New York City. Wearing his Scotch kilts. R. F Douglas is down - from Canada and. with his wife. Is staying at the Mult nomah. The Highlander has been In charge of Y. M, C. A. hut work In London and Mrs. Douglas Is an artist of reputation In England. The Bcots- n was at one time known aa My Lord" Douglas and held a champion ship in weight lifting: Miss Blanche Hammel. proprietor of the hotel at Corvallis. is on a brief visit to Portland and is a guest at the Im perial. A motor rarty consisting of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Purdy, Mrs. C. A. Murphy and children, and Miss Mary Al en drove down from Corvallis and are at the Seward. Splashes of Oriental color enhanced the Multnomah lobby yesterday when two little Chinese girls. In nstlve costume, were installed as pages. They are Alice. Wong and Margaret Wong. The girls call in perfect English and their low voices are a contrast to the average American youngster who hunts up guests. Benjamin Brick, formerly practicing law in Portland and active in politics and welfare work, returned to the city for a visit yesterday and is at the Port land. He is now living in Tacoma. W. F. McGregor. ex-coll.etor of cus toms, of Astoria, pajscd through Port land yesterday on his way to Spokane. Mr. McGregor Is one of the owners of the Astoria Box Company which was among the first concerns to furnish airplane stock to the allies shortly after the war broke out In 1914. Mrs. Henry C. R. Akins and children, accompanied by Miss Montgomery, are at the Seward from Sheridan, Or. Mrs. Akins' husband is a Captain of artil lcry. George E. Ixve. formerly a dancing teacher in this city, but now a mem ber of the aviation section, is on a fur lough and was among the Hotel Port' land arrivals yesterday. IL L. Emerson, of Los Angeles, who has been connected with the sugar refining industry for many years, is registered at the Oregon and will re main here for a few days. Alphonso M. del Campo, of Guadala jara. MVxico. is on a trip through the Pacific Northwest and registered yes terday at the Imperial. C. P. DeReamer, a prominent raer chant of Walla Walla, is at the Oregon. He is making a business trip to the city. John Hampshire, a mining man. In terested in chrome and copper, la at the Portland. He registers from Grants Pass, near which point are some of the largest chrome deposits In the state. Clll'Rrn WANTS ONLY HEAL PEACE StethiMllat Con srreg-a flow Caaalmeoslj Favors Vacondltloaal Sstrreader. SALEM. Or., Oct. . (To the Editor.) Upon every hand I find In this sec Hon sentiment unanimously agains anything like a negotiated peace and the news this morning to the effect that even Germany, with the other n tions on her lde. is reported willing to consider peace on the basis of Presi dent Wilson's platform, teimii to have augmented this feeling until it sp parently has become a settled determl tiation on the part of the people to de mand an unconditional surrender. This morning at the First Methodls' Episcopal Church with a congregation in the big edifice filling the structure to the very doors, the pastor. Rev. it N. Avison stated that he felt the Na tlnn and rivllixrtion to bo facing the greatest temptation since the i v lieiran. For our children and our chit iren's children's sake he hoped the country would not fall Into the German snare which now appears In the form of desire for a negotiated peace. Tho audience applauded the fnln lster's words whereupon President Car Grecg Donev. of Willamette University, arose and moved that the congregation send to the President a telegram ex pressing the above mentioned sent! ment anr! demanding no peace except that which follows unconditional sur render. The entire audience to a man arose snd thus voted unanimously for the motion. This afternoon the mes iage from the big. old htstorlc First Methodist Episcopal Church of Salem to tho White House demanding there l.n no peace talk until the uneonfll tional surrender of Oermany Is won, was sent to Washington. E. H. LOCKHART. ray la Loggias; Csunpa. DEE, Or, Oct. 6. To the Editor.) rieasc "state If it is compulsory for all logging companies to pay me mini mum scale of wages (or more) adopted in Julv. Are there penalties If a com pany does not pay the scale? A SUBSCRIBER. The wage scales promulgated for the lumber Industry of the Northwest are maximum and not minimum. Employ era are forbidden to pay above the scale, but may pay any rate under the up to the maximum. ftrBoola of Electric EagineerlBg. SILVERTOX. Or.. Oct. 7. (To the Editor.) Please tell me where there i- . school of electrical engineering. I am In this draft and would like to take up such a course. SUBSCRIBER. The Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, and the Portland Y. M. C. A both offer courses in electrical engi neering. Car Noise Criticised. Buffalo Express. Irritable Old Man ciay'a does this car always make this racket? Chauf feur No, sir; only when its running. In Other Days. Fifty Tears Ago. etom The Oregonlsn. October 8. 1AS. Washington. Ow ing to the failure of he contractor to transport the I'nltcd States mail between the terminals of le l nion and Central Pacific railroads. Wells, Kariro & Company are now car rying the malls under a temporary ar rangement, c. Spades, or Chicago, was the accepted bidder for the service, but before the contract was fi'.led Congress repealed that portion of the law which provided that no newspapers should be sent overland without prepayment of letter postage, thus very largely In creasing the bulk cf matter. Walla Walla The tnwn c Wall Walla has two school districts with an average daily attendance of 61 scholars. The assessable nrnnnrte nt Ttnnrlia County for IS6S amounted to 1.47.1S. ine lax levy i mllls amounts to $23.R24.:S. poll' taxes. ?1J. At the commencement of the fiscal year July , wo county debt was (420. 20. London. Enclajid Tl.s new rieen iuii submarine cable direct from Malta to Alexandria. Egypt, waa aucceaarullv completed on Saturday. Articles Of inrnrnnraHA t . & XCIt- lamette Hallway Company were filed yesterday In the Secretary of State's office, with A. M. Laryea, Joseph Nixon and John Crawford aa Incornnratnra Capital stock. ,3.500.000. The company proposes io puna a road from Tortland. on the east side of the Willamette, and connecting with the Oregon Central Railroad at Albany. Ttventy-f Ive Years Aae. From The Oregonlan. October s. less. New York. The Yankee yacht Vigl ant won the International yacht race n competition with Lord Dunraven'a ' a 1 k vn e. The Viffilant won r,v five minutes and K$ seconds. The new Quarters of the Commercial Club on the ninth floor of the Chamber of Commerce building were thrown open to the members and Invited guests tor ine rirst time last evening. The opening was entirely informal. Each clubman was permitted to invite a single guest. Washington. Owlrg to difficulty in preventing the smuggl.ng of opium and Chinese on the Pacific Coast, the Treas ury Department has decided to send two cutters of the revenue service to aid the customs officers In enforcing- the laws. A much more rigid system of inspection will probably bo Instituted for merchandise shipped to Faclfic Coast states. New Tork. William J. Morton, a spe cialist cf this city, sailed today on the ?orth German Lloyd steamer Swailo for consultation concerning th case of a "dignitary of high rank" J.t Ger many. The dignitary is stated to be Prince Bismarck. JO NEGOTIATIONS WITH KAISER Abdlcatloa of Imperial Cliaae la First Step Toward Peace. PORTLAND. Oct. 7. (To the Edi tor.) Every true American, irrespec tive of political affiliations, will say amen and amen to the promptness and firmness shown by President Wilson in his treatment of the peace proposals coming from Germany, but what pur ales me and doubtless millions of other watchful and more or less apprehensive citizens. Is the failure to say in un mistakable language that until the Kaiser abdicates or is deposed no heed will be given to any proposition what ever coming from the nest of reptiles now infesting Berlin and Vienna. To be sure. President Wilson has re peatedly said that no faith can be placed in any suggestion or promise which may be made by those now in authority in Germany, which is equiva lent to notice that until that authority is thrust aside nothing coming from that nation will receive attention, but in the answers recently given, admir able as they are, why avoid declaring in plain language that when Germany not only unconditionally surrenders, but puts the Kairer and his Immediate supporters In the scrap heap and hands them over in person to the allies, there will be nothing doing in tho way of considering peace proposals? Surely there Is no thought In the plans of the allied governments which contemplates permitting the ivaiser or any of his family of murderous outlaws to remain In authority under any sort of promise or restraint. Not to mention millions of young lives already sacrificed by the allied European governments the United States will give scores of thousands of Its best men to defend our own people against the assaults of the Insanely egotistic, murderous eavage of Berlin and his degenerates, any one of whom was worth more thsn the entire gang of cutthroats, women despoilers and baby killers. Why not say to the German govern ment "in the very plainest of English that when the Kaiser aud a goodly bunch of his satellites are handed over to the allies, first, and an unconditional surrender Is made, consideration of peace proposals will be given? Since we declared wsr against Germany every word President Wilson has spoken on rubjects relating to the war has been deeply patriotic and intensely American. Nevertheless, there Is a wide-spread apprehension, given vol-e bv tho common people, lest at the last, after all this enormous sacrifice whose burdens will be with our people tor a century to come, some degree of "hu manity stuff will be permitted to im pair tho glory of tho victory. T. T. GEER. JTDCE Mint PHY MOPS OFF AAD OS Sklpa From Tralm o Usd aa Backs of MoltBomak Ceaaty Iseaaoerata. PORTLAND. Oct. (To the Editor.) Today I hopped off the train for a few hours to have a look at the old town. . , . lt a the ssnie old town. God Is good to It, and Its leaders, political and would-be political, are good to them selves, and Cell with the rest. Of course I met some astute Demo crats. Thev were contented and hope ful with a grin like a Jackass in clover and like the jackass sgaln. every time they opened their mouths you could see what was Inside Of them. They were all of them strong for the Rig Man back In Washington snd what have they to do with the Big Man or the Big Man with them. The story of how Oregon wss lost to Wilson wllb forever be a sterquillnous stlnkua In the political history of Oregon. And still they are mushy, sleepy and stoppy-mlnded. While they are genu flecting to the goat tails of the Big Man at Washington, the county Chair man of the Republican party of Marion County put another one over on them by placing the photograph of Wilson In the Republican headquarters. The blithering boneheads are actually cheerlng the Republicans. They never could see a hole in a doughnut, for under the law of attraction doughnuts attract doughnuta. Anyway. It cornea to this, that anybody can put anything over on the fat-heads who are running the Democratic party of Multnomah County. J. HENNESSY MURPHY. Ilty the gleaegrspher. Washington (D. C) Star. What is It that makes you find so much fault with your stenographer?" "Well, she's the best stenographer I ever bad. and I don't want to lose her. So I've got to shout around a little so as to convey the -impression to any stenographer scouts that she wouldn't suit the Government." i