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10 TITE MORXIXG- OKEGOXIAX, "WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1918. " rOBTLAM), OREGOX. , 3IKMBEB OF THE ASSOCIATED PKES9 The Associated Press Is exclusively enti tled to the use for republication ol all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited to this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of repunllcatlon of special dis patches herein are also reserved. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postofflce as second-class mall matter. Subscription rates Invariably In advance: (By Mall.) Pally, Sunday Included, one year ...... $8.00 Daily, Sunday Included, six months .... 4.25 Laily, Sunday included, three months.. 2.25 Iaily. Sunday Included, one month .... Daily, without Sunday, one year ...... 6.00 iJaily, without Sunday, six months .... 3.25 Iaily. without Sunday, one month 0 "Weekly, one year 1.00 Sunday, one year 2..r0 Sunday and weekly 3.50 (By Carrier.) 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President Wilson has seen through the. deceptive appearances which the German Chancellor created in the hope of making his peace proposal acceptable. The President Is not de luded into granting an armistice to an unscrupulous and still powerful ad versary, but demands evacuation of all invaded territory as proof of good faith. He wants better proof than has yet been given that the Chancellor speaks for the German people, not for their perjured Kaiser, and that the Chancellor accepts without quibble or reservation the fourteen principles on which peace should be Eased. On the face of things Germany teemed to have scored a point in its peace proposals. By professing to ac cept the fourteen principles and by forming a government which Includes leaders of the majority parties In the Reichstag, Chancellor Max appeared to have complied with the conditions preliminary to negotiation. But these were only appearances. The Chancellor accepted the Presi dent's programme only "as a basis for peace negotiations"; he did not un conditionally accept them. The Presi dent said it was necessary for us to know whether Germany's spokesmen speak for "the Reichstag majority or for the military party." The new gov; eminent includes Dr. Solf, the chief advocate of a German empire stretch ing clear across Central Africa in which an army of a million blacks should be organized to conquer the rest of Africa one of the aims of the military party. It also includes Philip Scheidemann, who was in the pay of the military party to organize the In ternational Socialist conference at Stockholm and to put the Bolsheviki in power in Russia as a preliminary to the fictitious negotiation of the Brest-Litovsk treaty between Germany and her hired agents who pretended to act for Russia. These facts go to show that the Reichstag majority and the military party are one, for the leaders of the former have done the crooked work of the latter, helping to promote aims of conquest by corruption. Intrigue and propaganda. Either they speak for the German people, which con sequently must approve their acts and purposes, or the German people is powerless to make Itself heard through the Reichstag. The Chancellor's acceptance of the fourteen principles "as a basis for peace negotiations" means as a basis for diplomatic dicker and bargain. The whole purpose of the allies might be sacrificed by the manner in which those principles were construed. Ger many has pretended to apply the prin ciple of self-determination of peoples to the Baltic provinces of Russia, but in such a manner as to become a mockery of what the allies understand by that principle. This illustrates the danger of assum ing, with regard to Germany, that things are what they seem. Germany is under martial law, the will of the general staff governs in civil as in military affairs, and nothing in re gard to German affairs is permitted to reach the outer world unless it serves the end of the general staff, nor is anything in regard to the outer world or the progress of the war per mitted to reach the German people unless the general staff so wills. When the general staff thinks a peace often sive advisable, it takes the gag from the press and public meetings and gives some latitude to agitators for peace. When it decides on a military offensive, it applies the gag and per mits only talk of victory by force. It aims to win victory for Germany either by force or by peace offensives, or by the two alternately. Failing to win by force, as was the case last Summer because the allies were too strong and united, it strives to divide and thus weaken them with a peace offensive. Peace, proposals like those of De cember, 1916. and like those just made, are merely the beginning of such an offensive, for it is directed at the allied reople, not at their governments. The rulers of the allied nations no sooner reject these proposals than the attack begins against the morale of their peoples. The result of the attack begun in December. 1916, was the elimination of Russia and Roumania, the temporary defeat of Italy and the failure of the trench offensive of April, 1917. Those were notable vie tories. far more cheaply won than would have been possible by military means. When the fruits of that at tack on the allies" morale had been garnered, peace talk in Germany ceased and the great drive of last March began. The .military scales having now been tipped against Oer many, a new peace offensive has been launched, more elaborately staged. If It should win Germany might make a nominal peace, but it would only be preparatory to renewal or the war after an interval of rest, recuperation and intrigue designed to prevent the formation of so powerful a combina tion as now exists against Germany. Kvents have proved that the Presi dent erred in his speech of April 2, 1917, calling for a declaration of war, when he drew a distinction between the German military caste and the German people, for the people are powerless to act or speak Independ ently of their government, and all of them are. in some degree Infected with the militarist delusion. He erred again in Implying that the- Reichstag majority could be regarded as speak ing for the people as distinguished f from the military caste, for it does the bidding of that caste and the general staff can dress up a Reichstag majority as skillfully as it made fake guns in the St. Mihiel salient. The President's errors were pardonable, for only by degrees are we coming to understand the nature of Germany and the depth of her depravity, and they are more pardonable than some errors of the allies in the earlier stages of the war. It is essential -to the safety of the allies' cause that the President and ail the allied governments should read the German proposals in the light of what has happened since he made tha speech of January 8 and of what he has learned of German perfidy since that date. The treaties at Brest- Litovsk have been made -and it has been discovered that the men who professed to act for Russia were hired and placed in power by Germany. After recognizing the independence of the Ukraine and Finland. Germany has assumed control of them and has ravaged the Ukraine with fire and sword. Russia has been delivered over to the red terror and famine, and Roumania has been trampled into sub jection. The Italian defeat has been traced to forgery by wholesale, and French defeatism has been proved to have had German origin and to have been financed by Germany. These revelations of German turpi tude and of the Reichstag as a mere instrument of miltarism justify Amer ica and the allies in declaring that de struction of the military power of Germany is a necessary preliminary to the sort of peace they are deter mined to establish, and that the Presi dent's fourteen principles must be put in operation by the allies after they have won complete victory, without negotiation or consultation with the criminal rulers of Germany or with the representatives of their willing tools, the German people. Froscrip. tion of the Bolsheviki should be ex tended to the arch-criminal3 in Ber lin, Vienna and Constantinople, and they should be hunted to death or cap tivity. This does not imply repudia tion of any pledge given by the Presi dent or the allies; it implies only that they will execute the will of the civil ized world, unhindered by the outlaw nations. OPEN CONFESSION". No more striking confession of the unrepentant attitude of the Huns can be found than that which is contained ia a recent denial by a German news paper that the submarine campaign has been a failure. This newspaper. the Deutsche Tageszeltung, says: Lloyd George and Geddes falsify the losses of ships plying in the military service, ig noring so-called naval losses, auxiliary cruis ers, guard ships, hospital ships and probably also troop transports and munitions steam ers; that is to say, precisely that shipping space which is particularly exposed and at tacked by U-boats. "That Is to say," a hospital ship is merely so much shipping space, which will require replacement from other vessels In hand, and,- consequently, will hamper the allies in the transporta tion of men and material, so it is re garded by the Germans as entirely legitimate to sink them. "Shipping pace." of course, takes no account of the humanities involved. Tho word goes out to sink ships, and no ships are to be spared. Happily, not many hospital ships have been sunk. That they have been too carefully guarded is the only rea son. It is a nation with such a policy as this which presently will hold up its hands in virtuous indignation and pained protest because its enemies do not take it at its word when it pro fesses to desire an honorable peace. It is a curious demonstration of the state of mind of the Germans that the effort to prove the U-boat campaign a huge success should take the form of insisting that hospital ships be enu merated among their victims. COMPOSITE PICTURE OF AMERICANS. It is natural that we should hear nothing but good of ourselves from the countries of our allies, and due prudence, if not modesty, would lead us to discount the fervid praise of our character and accomplishments which is heard on every hand. It is gratify ing, therefore, to obtain the opinion of a neutral nation, which is as com plimentary as it well could be, and credits us with turning the tide of the war and putting the seal of doom on German hopes of world domination. The Politiken, of Copenhagen, re cites the deeds of Americans since we entered the war and analyzes our "almost explosive development of strength." It finds its answer in the compositeness of our racial develop ment. We are "an extract of Euro pean youth, which, melted together in some generations, has produced a race of incomparable health." In a fine natural setting for the develop ment of our abilities, we have acquired whatever is necessary and whatever we found most useful of the technique and culture of the world, and (being Americans) we have added our own Improvements. Thus we have, says the. Politiken, "tho British world outlook, the Gallic logic, the Slavic imagination, the Ger man power of organization, the Scan dinavian broadmindedness" all this transplanted to America's fertile soil, where it blossomed into a growth of exotic abundance. The product, however. Is something more than ethnical. Our imagination, for example, can hardly be attributed to actual drops of Slavic blood which flow in our veins. This particular branch of the family is not much rep resented in our ancestral composition. It would be interesting if we could de termine how greatly opportunity and environment have influenced us in our making, and the extent to which the process of selection has figured in the whole. We sprang from a stock which at least had the hardihood to break away from the old conditions, and this in itself was a guarantee of in dependence and Initiative. A broad, unsettled country furnished the field for adventure and compelled organi zation. And one who has tasted free dom is never satisfied with anything less. It is the spirit of the' pioneer in us that has made us resourceful and self-reliant, and which we hope makes us deserving of the estimate of our Danish friends. Europe is amazed by onr acceptance of the vast task before us and the manner in which we are performing it. "The community," says the Politiken "is organized for war according to one will, capital is rationed, factories placed under state control, prices regulated and tax systems worked out as if they were matters of course." It is these facts which have made the deepest impression of all. That a free people should understand so well the price of freedom and be willing to pay it. and that they should not confound liberty with license, is the surprise of the century to those who have been taught that great power Is inconsistent with a democratic form of government. Responsibility is upon us so to con duct ourselves as to popularize, and Justify democracy In the femqtest corners of the earth. Example is bet ter than precept In matters like these. By proving that a free people may also be a strong people we shall re move the last prop from under the tottering platform of autocracy. KKBUKB THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. "Is he (tha President) entitled to the support of a Congress that Is with him on the 100 per cent basis, not only on war matters, but on his other pro grammes?" Tha foregoing appears with other material In a circular slgned-by W. D. Jamleson, assistant treasurer of the Democratic National committee, and countersigned by Vance C. McCormick, chairman. Let the word be hastened that It Is not a rebuke of the twenty-two Demo crats who opposed tha President on the equal suffrage amendment. Dear, no. The President earnestly asked for adoption of the amendment as a war measure, and. to be sure, the refuge is erected that it was not, in the honest opinion of the willful twenty-two, actually a war measure. But even giving them the benefit of the doubt, it was one of the President's "other programmes." Yet, as already said, the quotation is not a rebuke by Mr. Jamieson and Mr. McCormick. of the Democratic National committee. It is part of a campaign circular urging election to Congress of Democrats only. Call it "war matter" or "other pro gramme," tho latest measure upon which the President has urged united action is the suffrage amendment. Twenty-two Democrats opposed it and only twelve Republicans joined them. On all preceding war measures the President got 75 per cent support from the Republicans and 73 per cent sup port from the Democrats. There is good reason for the Democratic com mittee to adjourn politics. They ought to do it. WET-FARE OF THE MERCHANT SAILOR. In the effort to minister to the needs of young men who are serving their country, it is well that the sailors of the Merchant Marine using the term sailor in its broadest applica tion should not be neglected. The soldier in every branch of the service, and his compatriot in the Navy, are better known, and, consequently, more often thought of, in the plans that are made. The forecastle on a long voyage Is at best a lonesome place. Whether young men so situated shall have the current of their thoughts guided into desirable channels, or whether they shall give way to homesickness and be left to their own resources may de pend largely upon the measures which are adopted by the people at home. Their need of entertai intent is at least as great as that of the soldier in camp, for their opportunities for recreation are fewer. It seems peculiarly appropriate that the Red Cross in Portland, adapting the "slacker record drive" to tho de mands of a particular occasion, should have seen fit to endeavor to gather these unused phonographic discs for the brightening of the atmosphere of the forecastles of the ships which are leaving Portland to supply food and miinitons to our men overseas. Prob ably no better use could be made of them. It is the desire of the local chapter that every ship which leaves this port shall be supplied with a phonograph and a suitable variety of records. It is here that the "slacker record" can be put to excellent use. Like the first book drive, the new disc drive already has developed a number of donors who seem to believe that any record is good enough to be given away. Early donations have included discs so worn, or actually cracked. as to possess no value whatever. But the spirit of the movement is that the gift shall give pleasure to others, and this, of course, a cracked phono graphic disc cannot be expected to do. The gifts ought at least to be in sound condition. Of these there cannot well be an oversupply. The advantages of distribution under supervision by a central agency are obvious. Balance is preserved, duplications are avoided and it Is arranged that In each col lection there shall be music for every taste. TITE CRAY-HAIRED JOB HUNTER. Many of the troubles of those in dividuals of both sexes whose gray hairs, symbols of years that have passed, have proved obstacles to find ing employment are doubtless genuine, and we have already taken occasion to enjoin upon employers the desirability of readjusting their employment sys tems to the needs of the times. But a certain measure of responsibility rests also upon the job seeker. Mutual mis understandings are always unfortu nate, but they are seldom the sole fault of. one 'side. The employer is hardly to be blamed for doubting the capacity of an applicant, for example, who manifestly distrusts his own abil ity, or fails to Indicate that he pos sesses qualities that may make a good workman. . One of the commonest causes of failure to find employment and this is true of the young as well as the old is the applicant's own hazy notions of the kind of labor for which he is fitted. The phrase, "willing to do anything," which is so often encoun tered, is essentially non-descriptive. "Can do anything" la not only non descriptive also, but It belies Itself. "Any kind of clerical work" indicates utter lack of comprehension of the nature of clerical work in general. "Handy with tools" is apt to betoken the kind of jack-knife, cut-and-trj carpenter or blacksmith whom nobody wants to hire, whether he is young or old. Employers are likely to be most impressed by the candidate who can do some one thing well, and who gives evidence that he can do it well. It is not a jare experience to receive mis spelled letters applying for "clerical work," and it is not strange that such a letter should bring either a courteous rejection or no reply at all. Self-analysis, if it is not carried to the extreme of excessive self-consciousness, would be profitable to the job seeker. If one will ask himself in all candor, "What is there in particu lar that I can do well?" he may be surprised by the difficulty of finding a convincing answer. . It will be all the better for him to avoid self-deception. There are a really considerable number of persons who have gone through life without acquiring any skill at any definite thing. They are now paying tha penalty, as it is probably their almlessness of purpose rather than their gray hairs that counts against them. They are put on the defensive, not by age Itself but by tha fact that In all the indicated years they have not made a better showing. There exists In tha employ er's mind that which the lawyer would term a "reasonable doubt." It Is not such a -doubt, to borrow one legal definition, as would be created by rea sonlng for tha sake of a doubt, but it requires positive evidence to remove It. This the applicant will be fortunate If he is able to furnish. The fact remains that a good many persons- are not as competent as they tbink themselves to be. It is hard to confess failure in middle life, but a little frankness may save deeper heart- burnings. And if one la determined to try to atone for the omissions of the past, it will be helpful to recog nize one's limitations, and adapt one's self to circumstances. There are lines, if not of least, of lesser resistance. The woman who all ber life has been an excellent housekeeper In her own home may be wasting her time in "taking up" stenography, that fancied haven of the Incompetent. There are other profitable fields for one of her talent and experlenoe. This Is true in principle of a good many lines of en deavor. The number of gray-haired men and women who are employed, some of them at good salaries, indicates that not all gray hair is a bar. But they have by this time acquired a rather definite aim in life, and when they seek new Jobs they know precisely what they have to offer. Complaining that one is misunderstood does not do much to remedy the condition. It is part of the game of Job-hunting to make oneself understood. If the em ployer will meet the applicant half way, so much the better. COTTON PRICES. The cry against fixing the price of cotton, raised by the South, which has been glad enough to see wheat prices regulated, makes interesting a glance over the record of cotton prices in the past. Before the talk of price fixing began recently, the staple was selling around 38 cents. There have been only six years in the last forty in which the price was not below 1 0 cents at some time in the year. There were only four years when it was higher than 15 cents. It was as low as 5 cents one year. The South fears that a price below 30 cents will be fixed, but this would rep resent a far greater proportionate in crease than has taken place in cost of production. Secretary Houston's re ported estimate that 25 cents would be a fair price will be indorsed, at least as plenty high enough, by most persons not in the cotton belt. Congress has given the President power to requisition and operate mines and smelters in order to increase the production of a large number of the less common metals, important among which is chromium, and has appro priated $50,000,000 for the purpose. As there are in Oregon large deposits of chrome oro and of other ores men tloned in the bill, the Government may be Induced to hasten their develop ment and to build roads to them, lack of transportation- being a serious ob stacle to increase of their output. Sergeant Reidar Waaler -has quail tied for citizenship in a far more effective manner than by taking the oath, though he has only declared his intention. By enlisting in the Army he has proved his loyalty, and by crawling through shell fire to rescue wounded men he has proved both his courage and his humanity, which are eminently American qualities. Some provision should bo made by Congress to admit men of that kind to citizen ship out of hand, dispensing with the three years' probation. Advice to farmers to use milking machines and conserve man power, by this one and that one. is very good and to the point, but the milking machine is something that cannot be stuck on a bunch of cows and left to do the work. Installation of one unit costs some money and everybody can not run one, though they are made almost fool proof. This war should bring one change that is desirable. That distinctly American fowl meleagris galiopavo must no longer bo compelled to mas querade under the name of "turkey." There is nothing Turkish to It, except. perhaps, the annual decapitation late in the year. Here is a Job for the bird "sharps" of the land. There would be poetic Justice in compelling Germany to acknowledge defeat at Versailles, where tho Iron was. put to the heart of France In 1871, but wny not compel the Kaiser to do penance by submitting to the allies' terms In the shattered ruins of Rheims cathedral? Causing evacuation of conquered territory by force instead of negotia tion is somewhat slower, but far more final, for It leaves behind no boches but the dead ones and the prisoners. Military evacuation of Russia would probably leave behind any number of secret agents, spies and propagandists. The Socialist candidate for Gover nor of South Dakota has been given four years in Leavenworth, and the candidate for Lieutenant - Governor gets two years. The fool who shoots off his mouth Is worse than the brother with a gun. An armistice would give the German army a rest, which is Just what it wants but should not have. The order should rn out to all the allied Generals to keep hammering away and to send the boche across the Rhine a very tired beast. A 918.000,000-bushel wheat crop Is something of a disappointment, but If we all Hooverize nobody in America or the allied countries will go hungry. As for the Germans, fasting will be good for their souls. That was an Ideal location for moon shiners, on the Snake In Baker County, but there is a lot that goes with the making of white liquor, and one thing is the brotherly spirit that does not tell to the "revenuers." .1 "Pass the prunes." eh? Tes, in deed, you'll pass the prunes and take a substitute, for Government must have them. France can be assured that a peace conference will be held at Versailles. The conquerers will owe that ta France. Though the wheat la short of esti mates, we'll eat potatoes and like them. AltruVtio routing of streetcars would drop a fellow at his door. Let us have It and be happy. (. The Kaiser may release Ltebknecht, but will ha release Liebknechfs tongue? Soma Yankee, 'Is 'Wilson. He an swers with a question. Foeh, iralg. and Pershing continue business at the. sew; giAnrta. ; Those Who Come and Go. Vacating his Loi Angeles, -offtca by telegraph and bavins Ked Cross work era help him move was the aovel expe rience of A. V. A. Vlbert, who was at the Multnomah yesterday. Ills office In the bouthern city has been located be tween two suites used for Red Cross work. The war workers asked by wire If Mn Vlbert would give trp to their purposes, and ha answered to go ahead. ao long as they did not put him out in the street, Jlr. Vlbert is a Canadian by birth and an American by adoption and says he will do anything; to helualong a war causa la either country. Dr. W. H. Lytle. atate veterinarian. Is In the city on a business trlD and Is registered at the Imperial. Mr. and Mra E. F. Sinclair, of Venice. CaL. are making a tour of tha Pacific -Northwest and at present they are domiciled at tha Oregon HoteL Archbishop Ilanna. of San Francisco. passed through Portland yesterday morning on his way to Baltimore. where ha will be tha preacher at the somen juoiiee or cardinal Ulbbons. While In the city ha was tha truest of Archbishop Christie. C. E. Gates, of Medford. Or. was In Portland last night on his way from amp Lewis, where ha has teen visit Ing his son. Lieutenant Roy Kesl. who, was pri vate secretary to Mayor Baker before Joining tha colors, was a visitor yester day rrom Newport, Or. Archie Phillips. County Commission er of Coos County, leaves this morntnc for Hood River with State Highway -engineer Herbert Nunn. Sir. Philips, who was a guest at tha Benson, is studying road construction. C. M. Emery, the Blue Book man. who Is known everywhere on tha Pacific Coast where an automobile road Is maintained, has been at Emanuel Hon pltal for a week or more, but returned yesterday to the Multnomah, where he will lounge around until his recovery Is complete. Mr. Emery Is the scout who marks tha roads and makes tho maps for the Blue Book, i.nd is on his annual tour of the Northwest. He reached Portland three weeks ago and has had to undergo treatment. W. L. Thompson, a Pendleton banker, and member of the State Highway Commission, arrived at the Benson yes terday. He Is here to attend a session of the commission. Robert A. Booth, of Eugene, also a member of the com mission, is among the arrivals at tha Imperial. Motoring from Eugene. Mrs. Adelaide Lilly and Mra F. A Page arrived at the Imperial yesterday. They will spend a few days here before returning. Mrs. W. B. Hester, of Lincoln. Neb., is at the Multnomah HoteL Mrs. Hes ter Is a sister of H. J. and J. F. Tracer, of this city. F. C. Harley. Mayor of Astoria, is a guest at the Hotel Portland. L. J. Simpson, after a strenuous tour for. the liberty loan, wl.l.-h carried him over a large part of Oregon, arrived here yesterday and registered at the Portland. Mr. Slnipson says hn thinks ha will rest a couple of days before taking up something else. Professor E. T. Itessler. of the Ore ton Agricultural College, is at the Im pcrlaL HOUSEKEEPING IS SKILLED WORK View That It la Degradlaar la Jlela to Be National Misfortune. PORTLAND. Oct. 8. (To the Editor.) Why should household work be looked upon as degrading and menial, as a recent writer In Tha Oregonlan views lt! Why should it signify a lower social statua for a womman than work as stenographer or accountant? No sound reason can be given. More responsioiuiy involving the present health and future well-being of human beings is assumed by an expert house keeper, whether, as mother, wife or paid assistant, than by any sort of business or professional woman, with the possible exception of a physician or nurse. To be a really expert house keeper calls for more trained skill and intelligence certainly than to be a stenographer or bookkeeper. It ia a National misfortune that American girls take the view they do regarding paid housework. An oc cupation as vital and essential as that needs to be put on a sounder basis and receive every social approval. At the very least, it should be classified as a highly skilled trade. At lis best. It may fairly be regarded as a profes sional life career, requiring intelligence and training not a whit inferior to that of teacher, -preacher or lawyer. Certainly from the point of view of racial survival as ultimate a standard as we can get a Nation of good house keepers and cooks will outlive by a good many thousand years a nation producing merely good stenographers ana DooKKeepers- Perhaps In the years to come women themselves will help to give a higher standing to household work. That they have not long ago done so Is regret table. Ida M. Tarbell used this fact as one of her strongest arguments against woman suffrage. She pointed out that In the work which women have for many centuries made their most direct, personal concern, the least progress has been made In training, organization and management. That argument still has force. But let us trust that as women succeed in improving the statua of housework and the household worker, it will gradually come to have no validity whatever. K. K. NAPOLEON'S INDECISION DENIED Correspondent Believes English Ao thorlty Misrepresents His Character. SCIO. Or.. Oct- 7. (To the Editor.) Permit me to call your attention to what Beams to me to be a grave error In the quotation from Britannlca con cerning Napoleon. In an editorial 'The Penalty of Indecision." The quotation Is used by The Orego nlan as follows: Although Napoleon usually displayed de rision in great crises, his will power failed him at some critical times. When on No vember n. 1799. the Council of Five Hun dred resisted the "violent change of the con stitution to establish the consulate and pro posed to outlaw him. tha Britannlca says of Kspoleon: "He lost his nerve, stammered, nearly fainted and was dragged out by tbs sol diers tn a stata of mental and physical col lapse. The situation waa saved solely by the skill of his brother Luclen, then presi dent of the council." One should look to the true biograph ers of Napoleon for a true and un prejudiced rating of his will and ca pacity and, ao tar as I have beenabla to find, outside of English authors, they have Invariably condemned your quotation from the Britannlca above, as a misrepresentation for the purpose of belittling Napoleon, a trait not un common among English authors of the times. His French biographers stamp It as false in toto and In a thorough search for the truth of tha matter, years ago, I decided that they were correct. -iio the I fev. character and capacity of Napoleon himself stamp It as false. It would be well for the reputation ef the Britannlca to revise, though late, that estimate of tha greatest leader and military genius ef his ass and possibly any other. W. W. BAXLZX. DUTY EXPRESSED IX TWO WORDS f Wholly I p la I" reseat Day la Saexlfleo ana rrrW." PORTLAND. Or.. OcL 8. (To tha Editor.) It has been said that, until the creator of the universe decides to reveal tho Infinite to man, all human wisdom Is summed up In these two words: "Wait and Hope. Voder nor mal conditions there nilisht be a good deal of wisdom tn that statement; but. under conditions existing In the world today the sum of all human duty, as well as wisdom. Is embraced in tha two words; 'Sacrifice and eervlee." The depths In Infamy to which tha Imperial German government and Its allies have descended calts to every right-thinking person In tha world to make every needed sacrifice and to render every possible service necessary to the overthrowing and utter destruc tion of tha power of tha unclean beast known under tha general term of Prusaianism. There should be no aced of the foui tribe left In all the earth. The Hohenzollern. the Hapsburg. tha Turk and all who have actively or passively aided in their unheard-of atrocities with which the world la now made familiar, should be absolutely cast out and destroyed, and any citlxen of our country who ia not whole heartedly In accord with tha efforts ot our Government and its allies in the work of destroying "Hunism" : ia ' Hi- j worthy of the name of American citi zen and should not be tolerated inkny community of our country. To be' in sympathy merely with the efforts of our Government is falling far ehort of the plain duty of clttsenship. No high er privilege could be vouchsafed to any one that that of making sacrifice for one'a .country; and. when to duty to one'a country is added the privilege of aiding tha cause of - liberating the world from the curse of tha doctrine that "might makes right." as Is urged by"" the - German war lord and his satellites, and typified by Prusaianism. who Is there among us who would not gladly sacrifice all In the cause of freeing the world from that curse? And who of us would fail to render any service which we might be called , upon to render in so holy a cause? Sacrifice is defined as something given up or surrendered, tn order to the accomplishment of some necessary or desired end. and it Is In this sense that we are now called upon to make sac rifice, to surrender our all to the end that the world may be freed from tha blight and curse of Prusaianism. To make auch supreme aurrender or aacri fice is the highest privilege that could be accorded to any people, and tha American people are now favored above all peoples of the earth in that It has been given to us to provide the means for the prevention of the destruction of the civilisation of the world, and in that behalf we should go to every sac rifice and to 'every service merrily as to a marriage feast. There i-, In reality, no sacrifice without Its full compensation. That which seems to us Is such only In the seeming; the reality being the end to be attained, which, in this case. Is the freedom of the world a compensation so Immeasurably beyond any sacrifice which we can make In its attainment that wo should rejoice In the privilege accorded t. without once thinking of anything we may be called upon to do an a sacrifice, but regarding the glory of It ilk our sufficient reward. It. no doubt, is In this spirit that 13.000,000 of Americans have recently registered for their country's service.- and In the same spirit the men and women of America all who are not tinctured with pro-Germanism will endeavor to be first to subscribe to the fourth, and every subsequent "liberty loan," as well as to gladly do rvory service that any of us may be caTled upon to do. There is no sacrifice without its full compensation, nor any service without Its Just reward; therefore, let us Joy fully sacrifice and serve, for great shall be tha glorv of IC LEWIS C CARRIGUS. DYE AND ROl'CEi BEFORE HUNGER AU Right a "(.tew Oracefnlly Ola" If Ton Don't Hire to Work. rORTLAND. Oct. 8. (To the Editor.) I have been much Interested In tha drscuHsion in The Oregonlan tn regard to gray hair. The editorial last Fri day was good. Indeed, and treated the subject fairly. Prom personal experience I can truly say: "llcre'a to tha woman who makea herself up." We had often thought she was vain and foolish, but at last we know the true reason. She has learned that the woman who does not heed well her personal appearance playa a losing game in life. We used to think the "made-up woman did that to try to catch a hus band, but 1 note that most of them have had husbands, and many have found that also "a losing game." The woman who fighta tha marks of age because she knows they are a hindrance to her getting work is a wise person. What difference does It make to her If every one knows the lovely complexion cost only -5 cents a bottle, that the pearly teeth came from the dentist, and that the wrinkles and "crow's feat" on her face are regarded as great an enemy as the Kalaer himself? If aha gets too fat she goes In for exercise, if too lean she builds herself up. I know of women aged about 60 who are holding down good, positiona It is not necessary for them to explain that they uae hair tonic and pay more each month to keep up peraonal ap pearance than for fine clothes. It ia all very well to "grow gracefully old" If you are absolutely certain that you will never have to work for a living. We have all heard the good creature express herself on "being content to leave herself Just as God made her" and yet did you ever stop to think what the world would be like if we remained Just as we were when the good Lord put us here? A man would never shave: his beard would drag on the ground; we would, none of ua, wear clothes; no one could read and write; we would also leave our lands and for ests in the primeval state.- Altogether the old earth would be inhabited with a set of savages. Wo were given braina and intelligence above the beast of the field to use. When we refuse to make the best use of them we are a failure. Again I Bay "Long live tha woman who successfully weara tha makeup." A WORKING WOMAN. SOLDIER'S PRAYER TO LIFE. Lead me not in quiet waya Nor grant ma coward's peace; Brighten not my lusty days Let not the battle cease. Confront me day by day with stress That I may honor thee The strength that's in me tortures less When battle calls to me. The anguish of death becomes a song With battle's music nigh. Not lite with easy years or long. But just to fight and die. Judge thou me a worthy foe And thou wilt feel my dauntlesi power. Thus and thus only may I know The fullest Joy of llfe'a short hour. GEORGE E. PINTO. Enlistment I Navy. NEWPORT. Or, Oct. . (To tha Edi tor.) Ja there any possible way in which a person can enlist In Ola Navy? t not. Is there likely to be an opening before long? I am.a registrant in tha It tn 4b draft and have had aoma ex perience In fugling. Can you tell ma whether or not I would atand a very good chance of Immediately becoming a bugler? bLBiCRIBEIt. The correspondent la referred to a newa article en thle subject printed an paga 1? ot The, Oregonlan. Oe tenor j. In Other Days. Twent y-flvs Tears Age. From The Orerealen, October a. 1993. New Tork. Tha Herald's Berlin cable says It la learned from a military source thaX tha Kaiser, after having as- ! slated at tha Austrian nianeuvera. is no longer so enthuslastlo about tha display made by his own army In Ketchsland. NEW YORK- A Montevldio special ays that crews of tha foreign war ships In harbor there will only be land ed to afford protection to peraona of thslr own nationalities. There will be no attempt to Interfere between Pelx ette and Melle. Despite the storm, fully 1000 people turned out yesterday afternoon to bear the second of the aeries of sacred con certs being given In tha Exposition building. Today will be one of solos and special music The Willamette waa bringing down a large amount of drift yesterday. One man caught about fZO worth of saw logs and another picked up a very good -boat floating down among the drift. The water commutes on construction has authorised the purchase of halt an acre of land at Lasteds. on which a standpipe ia to be erected. They have received proposals for furnishinr a site for a low service reservoir tn East Portland, but no selection haa been made. Negotiations for the sale of tha 8100.- 000 of school bonds issued by district No. 1 have beeu consummated by County Treasurer C. A Malarkey. It 11 goes well the board will soon have cash to - pay all outstanding claims against the district. Fifty Tears Age. From Tbs Oregonlan. October I. ISM. New York. Herman Sherman haa rittcn to the autboritios for mora troops to aid In subjugating the In diana He la said to complain bitterly of the delays in sending reinforce- menta Washington. The published state ments that, owing to the revolution in Spain, this Government Is Interesting itself about the purchase of Cuba, If Itogetner untrue. The subject has not been mentioned In the Cabinet. The report of the pilot commission ers shows that the total tonnage of ves sels which entered the river from Sep tember 30. 1S64. to September 10. 1S6S. waa 117.740. Last week articles of Incorporation were filed tn the office of the Secre tary of Stata by the Astoria & Salem Railroad Company. The company pro poses to build a railroad from Astoria to Salem, but by what route we have not learned. We learn that It 1s the purpose of the Oregon & Washington Improvement Company to improve the navigation of the Columbia River by removing tha obstructions at the Cascades. DR. JORDAN'S LOYALTY I'PHRLI) Former Pacifist Dex-lared to Stand Oat Strongly for Decisive 1 lctory. PORTLAND, Oct. 7. (To the Editor.) This continual nagging of Dr. Jor dan would b most exasperating to fair-minded people if It were not so petty and unfair on the face of it. for our country has not a man that is more loyal to the American ideal than he, in the true sense of the word. Never wan autocracy, in all It dehumanising effects, shown up with such fearless accuracy as was the case In his lecture In Portland Friday even ing. October 4. which was delivered In the same spirit as his address in Tacoma, and anyone with any men tality at all cannot help but feel that this bounding has been started by some one who has a political or ecclesiasti cal ax to grind, or some one who wants to get into the limelight by attacking an individual who has the confidence of all thoughtful people. Dr Jordan stood out against war. as did our President and hundreds of other earnest men. until ho realised that a lasting peace could not be obtained without a decisive victory, and these self-constituted Peters have made themselves ridiculous to students of world democracy In the hasty attitude they have taken toward a great and far-seeing American, who knows more ahou,t Internationalism than 99 per cent of the statesmen in the United States and all the nations. And people need be reminded with all the force that is at our command that if they want to save the boys of the next generation from being slaughtered in another world war they must encourage such men as Dr. Jor dan, who will fight to the last ditch, not for American imperialism nor for a group alliance, but for a real In ternationalism auch as President Wil son stands for. and which alone will bring the aecurtty of a durable peace. At present we have men of all types of religious faith co-operating In th tasks of International statesmanship that have nothing to do with religious reconstruction in the same spirit as Mr. Taft and President Wilson are working together, because we still be lieve that the state and church should be kept separate; and we also have many people like Jane Addams, the President and thousands of others who were formerly pacifists loyally work ing for the overthrow of autocracy, and among them there ia none more loyal In his demand of a decisive victory over Germany and support of the American ideal as the world ideal than Dr. Jordan. And. in the name of fair ness, in the name of the Western spirit which stands for a iqutre deal, is it not about time that the Shylocka should cease to cry for another and still another pound of flesh, having eecured far more than what was duo long ago? A man like Dr. Jordan, who dared to lecture all through Germany, crit icising her own government as un democratic, stands for the American ideal and world democracy beyond the pcrarl venture of a doubt. Only two months ago he wrote me for a letter which might ba used for publication, requesting; ma to say just what I thought Unci Sam would say about International affairs. And it is a gross injustice even to Infer that a man who wants you to write as you think that Uncle Sam would talk to tha world is anything but sound to the core. Men who can hardly get beyond county and state lines, who have never en gaged in National activities nor had a vision of international co-operation, would become more useful Americana if they could catch hla spirit. ROBERT W. ROGERS. Clvo Tkeaa Their Owa Medicine. PORTLAND. Oct. 8. fTo the Editor.) The Germane would never have stopped their drive on Paris for an armistice or peace. Why not remind them of that fact and drive on, for Berlin until tha autocracy is killed past recovery? Delegated employes of tha following general frelsrht departments: E. H. McAvoy, C, M. & Ft. P.; G. M. Bremer, Great Northern; Vfheeler Rick sec coe Northern Pacific; C C. Beach. O.-W. R. & N.: W. M. Gray. Southern Pacific; E. Brltton. S.. P. A S. All m One Side. Washington (D. C.) Star. I understand you have quit playing politics." "1 never playact polltica," re plied Senator Sorghum. "When I went into a campaign I never left the other fellow enough ef a chance to warrant caUlns U any kind of a Eame,"