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IDEAL.'
The proposed meeting of labor
representatives in Chicago or "Wash
ington next month, it is announced
in a news dispatch, "will effect a
powerful alliance between farmers
and workers to reduce the cost of
living, and formulate a general econ
omic and political programme that
will include government ownership
of the railroads and coal mines, gov
ernment control of the' packing in
dustry . . . . and increased taxa
tion of big incomes."
An interesting programme, most
ftteresting indeed.
But how is the cost of living to
e reduced further by the alliance
between the workers and the farm
ers? Less production and less work
y the workers, of course, and more
work and more production by the
farmers.
Under government control, too, a
toplan policy for the railroads may
easily be continued. It will be short
er hours and more pay for the work
ers, and higher fares, both freight
and passenger, for the public, in
cluding the farmers.
The farmers and the public gen
erally should be delighted, too, with
the prospect for government con
trol of coal mines. The demands of
the miners, who now threaten a
strike, could then be easily realized.
They Involve a five-day week, six
hours a day, pay and a half for over
time rfnd double time on Sundays.
We don't know yet precisely what
is proposed about the packers. But
if, under government direction, there
is a five-day week and a six-hour
day, as doubtless there will be, it is
easy to see that farmers everywhere
will be the gainers.
It will not be difficult, under the
new regime, to maintain the stand
ard six-hour day for the farmers
six hours (or more) before noon and
"six hours (or more) after noon
and the seven-day week.
THE FEDERATION AND THE REDS.
Determination of congress to tol
erate no divided allegiance among
the police of the city of Washington
was expressed by the passage by an
almost unanimous vote of a bill for
bidding membership in any organ
ization claiming the right to strike,
or which affiliates in any organiza
tion claiming that right. The affilia
tion clause was taken to be aimed at
the American Federation of Labor,
and some members. Representative
Kitchin among them, protested that
the federation did not claim or ex
ercise power to order strikes.. The
answer was that it is composed of
organizations which do strike, and
that affiliation with the federation
would be affiliation with all its mem
bers.
In the course of debate the pro
ceedings at an inquiry by the District
of Columbia commissioners were
read, at which President Gompers,
of the federation, said that it had re
fused charters to police unions until
the convention at Atlantic City last
June voted to lift the ban. Since
then charters had been issued to
thirty-three unions in as many cities
with a total of 2265 members, and
applications had been received from
tnree or iour more. ine list was
made on September 3 and included
Boston with 975 members, but since
that date the strike has resulted in I
' discharge of all who struck, practi
cally extinguishing the union. The
list also includes Portland with 124
members.
It devolves on the federation to
reconsider its action of last June if
it wishes to be known as opposing
mutiny under the guise of strikes
among the police.- It is useless for
the federation to say that it does not
itself order strikes, when the fact is
well known that it is composed of
unions which use the strike as their
principal weapon, and that it exists
for the purpose among others of en
listing the support of all unions for
any one which is on strike. It has
opposed every movement .to prohibit
strikes among railroad men, and it
has end6rsed the steelworkers' strike
No man who desires . industrial
progress wishes to see the federation
fall to pieces. It has within itself
capacity to become the great stabil
- izing force of American labor. It
has done good service in resisting the
attacks of socialists and communists
and in extending the practice of col
lective bargaining. It did patriotic
service during the war, resisting the
tiisloyal elements which strove to
embarrass industry by inciting work
men to strike for extravagant de
mands. But during the last year it
has been too ready to yield to the
revolutionary forces against which
it has hitherto contended. The lead
ers of the reds have made no secret
of their purpose. It is to secure ad
mission to the federation in order te
destroy the organization by "boring
from within," if they cannot control
it and make it an instrument of rev
olution. If the federation continues
to yield to the reds, it will arra
i.gainst itself all the great majority
of Americans who stand for Ameri
canism as against every shade of
socialism. If it will take a stand
ogainst all revolutionary schemes
and their advocates, it will enlist in
its support all who cling to American
democracy, and will have their aid
nti'- : progress of Ameri
Vile hand are bol
j shevism and ruin, on the other be
I neficent power and progress toward
the goal which the federation set
before it at its foundation.
HARBY1NG THE GOVERNOR.
The .governor of Oregon is a polite
man, and. no doubt he will bear with
patience the newest demand of a
traveling representative of the
Woman s party that he call a special
session of the legislature to ratify the
national suffrage amendment. She
notifies the world, through an inter
view in The Oregonian, that Gov
ernor Olcott offers an "astonishing
affront" to '"western voting women"
when he fails to respond to their de
mands. Western voting women, as a class,
or in numbers, are making no de
mands. Once in a while somebody
shows up from headquarters of some
organization in Washington, or else
where, to tell the governor of Ore
gon what his duty is and western
voting women what . they are de
manding. The constant badgering
of the governor about a matter
which is the business of the people
of Oregqn is the only affront offered
from any source in the campaign to
force him to do what he should not
do. He cannot be justified in con
voking the legislature now to take
action which it will take under the
constitution, in due course. There is
no representative and responsible
call upon him to do it.
Moreover, it would be sheer pre
sumption for Governor Olcott to as
sume that other governors are wait
ing for him to act. They have not
told him so and doubtless will not.
On the contrary, an inquiry by the
governor of California as to the atti
tude of other western governors
brought a prompt declaration from
the chief executives of Wyoming,
Arizona, New Mexico and Washing
ton that they had no intention of
calling their respective legislatures
together now for any purpose.
All this little fuss and flurry is
stirred up now and then because
somebody somewhere else is in a
great hurry. The women of Oregon
have the ballot, and they are not to
be held accountable for the des
perate plight of the women of Massa
chusetts and a few other states be
cause they are not to be enfranchised
until about 1921. The amendment
has been adopted by congress, and it
is unfair and unjust to the people of
Oregon to charge that they, through
the non-action of the governor, are
withholding any right or privilege
om women anywhere. - The amend
ment will be ratified when the legis
lature convenes in regular session,
or in any special session called to
meet any .state emergency. The
obligation of Oregon to the nation
will then mature, and. not till then;
and any statement or insinuation
that the people are repudiating their
debt because they do not rush fran
tically to Salem to pay it before it
is due is nonsense.
WHEN
Recent
A TEACHER STRIKES.
events having indicated
rather conclusively that the public is
not in a mood to tolerate strikes by
policemen, since the latter are in a
cjiffc-rent relation to society than the
ordinary worker in industry, new in
terest is given to the ethics of the
teachers" st.-ike, which is the end
toward which affiliation with a body
which claims the strike as its chief
weapon would lead them, and which
would involve them not only in
strikes for their own advantage, real
and imagined, but also in those
"sympathetic" strikes which could
only work injury to the public as a
whole. The point that teaching is
a profession is lost sight of by those
v. ho advocate the strike as a weapon
for teachers, and these also disregard
the traditional attitude of American
professional men and women, the
common reverence for whese serv
ices is due in large measure to the
admitted nobility of the motives
which inspire them
A writer in The Times educational
supplement makes the point in a re
cent article that "the relation be
tween a teacher and a pupil is not.
comparable with that between a
shoemaker and leather; it is a moral
relation." That a teachers' strike
is not a mere matter of economics,
that it does " not concern Himself
alone, or even that part of the public
alone which pays his salary, would
seem so clear as to require no sus
taining argument. "When the leach
er strikes," says the writer in ques
tion, "he not merely stops work; heiwho,e educational enterprise.'
vndoes the work ho has already
done, and ruins his chance of doing
good work in the future." The mere
matter of diminishing influence is
a serious one for teachers to con
sider. It would be an irreparable
loss to vocational idealism, of which
we now stand so greatly in need, to
deprive it of its present leadership.
The writer finds it true that some
educational authorities are to blame
for the conditions which have made
it possible for the strike idea even
to obtain a hearing In educational
circles, yet he reminds us that it is
a sorry remedy to force such pur
blind authorities to share the oblo
quy of the moral degeneration of the
pupjls that inevitably results. "The
truth is that self-sacrifice Is of the
essence of the bargain made by ev
eryone who enters the profession."'
The teacher is entitled to do every
thing he can to improve his position
if the pupils do not suffer in conse
quence. But '"when nothing but the
strike is left, then comes the call for
sacrifice."
But there are other remedies.
Teachers may not always, or long, be
called on to wea. the martyr's
crown. The anticipatory strike, the
strike against entering the profession
at all, "is at present in full opera
tion, and is producing a salutary
effect by its significant statistics of a
failing supply." No state is free
from the problem of filling its
schools with competent instructors.
Unseemly quarreling is avoided, with
its consequent moral shock to the in
nocent victim?, but the necessary
rurpope of stimulating inquiry by
the public into the merits of the case
is achieved. The public can be
trusted in the long run to be fair.
It was one of the significant revela
tions of the policemen's strike in
Boston that this is so. And by so
much more as there are more per
sons intensely interested in the edu
cation of their children than
In the regulation of traffic and
the details of police protection im
portant as the latter are it is to be
expected that the public, once
awakened to the necessities of the
case, will be fair to its teachers. The
strike os a weapon not only, in the
case of the teacher, lowers the ethi
cal standard of those who employ it,
but it is unnecessary. -
That the public is beirg educated
n trie importance of improving the
financial donditiou of the teacher i
without question. " Schools which
have not opened for want of teach
ers, and others which are without
adequate staffs, are not likely to be
tolerated long without a mighty pro
test. Nor need the teacher be con
tent with a passive part in the educa
tion of the public. It is not the or
ganization of teachers which is now
arousing- a tempest of discussion.
j largely in the form of protest, but
the implicaUon that they shall com-
mit themselves to the strike policy,
either in their own interests or in
sympathy" with other quarrels with
which they nave only remote con
cern, and in which the pupil suffers
whether the strikers win or lose.
But there are ways of organizing in
vocational fellowship which do not
detract from the professional spirit,
and through which teachers can con
vey their met sage to the public and
at the same time maintain the in
dependence which ought to inspire
them if they expect to inculcate tho
spirit of independence and idealism
in the youth whom it is their priv
ilege to serve.
RED, NOT WHITE.
A local contemporary is publishing
daily letters from one W. T. Goode
correspondent .of the n Manchester
(Eng.) Guardian, in defense and vin
dication of bolshevlsm as he saw it
n Rusoia. It is a somewhat surpris
ing feat on the part of the Portland
paper, in view of Goode's antecedents
and connections and the history of
Ms Russian Investigation. The
Guardian, it may also be explained,
is a pacifist newspaper, and has said
that if Russia wanted to be bolshe
vik, that was Russia's affair. j
The Guardian sent Goode to learn
the truth about Russia. It sent along
with him a Mr. Keeling, a labor
leader, who knew Russia which
Goode did not to see that its cor
respondent was not misled. The bol
sheviks detained Keeling at a fron
tier town, and let Goode go on. The
Helsingfors correspondent of the
London Times is convinced that
Keeling was murdered. But Goode
was not.
The Times correspondent also tells
the following story (heretofore
printed in The Oregonian):
Mr. Goode stayed a month at Moscow
and lived in a special flat In the Povars
kaya, one of the best streets, ' his food
being sent in from the council of people s
commissaries. The Lettish guards con
tinually accompanied him and he was
driven about everywhere In a soviet motor
car and personally conducted by commis
saries, as he himself aid. It should be
added that Mr. Goode does not know Rus
sian or Russia. He was shown a model
factory, a model stud farm and model
offices all obviously stage-managed for
his benefit. Asked concerning the prisons,
he answered that he had not seen them,
he had been too busy.
He said he had already strongly sus
pected that the accounts of bolshevist
tyranny were lies, and these suspicions
were strengthened by his stay In Finland.
Now Mr. Goode has returned ready to
vouch that "everything in Moscow Is the
exact oppostie of what it is painted." He
has become a thorough-paced bolshevist
agent, and declares that there le no hunger.
no tyranny, no opposition, and that the
conditions are so admirable that "the peo
ple of Moscow go for a holiday to Fetro
grad." He has brought proposals for peace to
the Ksthonian government and intends to
agitate in Finland, where the red agents
already expected him. He boasts, accord
ing to the words of an intimate friend.
that he will create a red revolution within
a month after his return to England.
With all the red record of the
bolsheviks, confirmed by many hor
rible atrocities and from a thousand
and more mouths, there are yet gul
lible, or dishonest or foolish, propa
gandists who will swear that red is
white.
TESTING THE TESTS.
That the attitude of the 'colleges
toward the proposal to apply the
"army system" of intelligence tests
to prospective students is as yet un
formed, as is stated by Professor H,
T. Hunter, of Southern Methodist
University, in School and Society,
has been made clear in all the dis
cussions which have followed the
announcement that the plan was to
be tried at Columbia. The aim has
been, as the writer says, rather to
"test the tests" than to measure the
mentality of the students. The lat
ter can wait. It is seen that it might
be a tragedy to deny educational op
portunities to an ambitious youth on
the strength of a mistaken experi
roent in psychology. Yet the writer
offers an interesting suggestion when
he says that one cannot read -the re
ports of the experiments being made
without "a conviction that there are
yet unexplored possibilities in them
in the way of throwing light on the
The purpose of substituting an in
telligence test for the present method
of examinations which chiefly deal
with the quantity of Information
which a student has acquired in the
lower grades Is, of course, to ascer
tain in advance whether the aspirant
is likely to be wasting his time and
that of the college (including his fel
low students) by pursuing studies
which will lead him to no goal. If
the physical resources of higher edu
cation are taxed to their utmost to
accommodate the worth-while stu
dent material, as It seems they are.
it is of course desirable to find a re
liable means of eliminating those up
on whom college education will confer
no benefit. Yet the essence of any
such test will be its reliability. If It
fails even in a minority of instances.
as undoubtedly it did in the army, it
is not. applicable to college needs.
The country at war could afford to
Ignore individual cases of injustice
which it cannot afford while it is at
peace.
Difficulty in even so relatively
small a matter as standardization of
the tests themselves is Illustrated at
the outset by the effort of Southern
Methodist university to make "com
parisons of its students with those
of other institutions. : As is known
to the .thousands of young men in
army camps who were subjected to
the psychological process of weeding
out, time was the important factor
in many of the ratings. After care
ful consideration, the professors and;
two army lieutenants were unable to
agree on the following point:
Whether the Instructions at the top of
the pages of the examination sheet were
to be read by the examiner himself or by
the student: and If read bv the examiner.
was the time allotted the student for filling
out the page to begin after such reading of
tne instructions oy me examiner? or,
should fhe time taken to read the instruc
tions be taken out of the time allotted the
students?
The issue would seem to the lay
man to be trivial, yet upon it might
hang the future of the aspirant. The
lieutenants, who had taken the test
themselves, and the professors
agreed that the examiner should
read the instructions, out the war
department's "Examiner's Guide"
said no, and the plain implications
were that the time should be counted
from the time the student began to
read. But unless there were abso
lute uniformity of practice, there
could be no hope or establishing a
standard. The point is especially
significant in connection, with coin-
parisons ' of student bodies and
much more significant from the
technical point of view than that of
the young man merely seeking an
opportunity to obtain an education.
Various check tests therefore are
Interesting as showing that the pro
posed method is not on the whole
much more reliable than others
which might be devised. For ex
ample, an effort was made to form
several special groups. By secret
ballot the students themselves were
asked to designate fellow students
whom they regarded as especially
promising. Members of the faculty
were also asked to designate those
who they thought were likely to
make high scores. From the result
It Is deduced that both students and
faculty are able to make, selections
with a fair degree of accuracy. Se
lection by the faculty was more re
liable than that by the students, but
only slightly so; and both these
methods were shown to be attended
by sufficient errors to "call for more
scientific methods of selection where
important issues are involved." This
is precisely the determination reached
some time ago in tests Of the army
tests themselves, which indicated
that about 4 per cent were unre
liable.
Comparison of school markings
with the psychological scores also in
dicated that the army intelligence
tests "afford a pretty reliable basis
for prophesying what the student
will do in school." But a "pretty re
liable" basis is hardly enough, as has
been intimated. The most interest
Ing fact in connection with the whole
subject Is that an effort Is being
made seriously to make the college
a 100 per cent educational institu
tion. It may be that it will prove
sufficient to devise a test of the
earnestness of the applicant. The
college can better afford to carry a
little dead wood in the form of mis
guided but intense young men than
to be burdened with a number who
have utilized it as a social conven
lence, meanwhile disorganizing the
whole educational plan; and it cer
tainly can better afford to carry a
dozen earnest deficients than to deny
its facilities to a single student whom
a misapplication of the psychological
test would reject.
THE HEALTH OF OCR MEN.
Reports on the health of American
men were so much subject to exag
geration during the war that it is a
comfort now to have access to more
reliable figures, which show that the
picture is not as bad as it has been
painted. The actual statistics do not
bid us relax our efforts to obtain the
highest possible physical efficiency,
but neither do they warrant belief
hat the race is degenerating.
Notwithstanding the influx with
In a generation of a large number of
immigrants who were below the
standard of the native American
stock, the army mobilized for the
war in Europe made a better show
ing than the armies which fought the
civil war. Of 10,000,000 men regis
tered for the draft, about one-third
were subjected to physical examina
tion. Of these 70.4 per cent were ac
cepted and 29.6 per cent were re
jected by the draft boards, and o
-ithose sent to camp a further 8.1 per
cent were rejected. But even this is
an improvement over rumored con
ditions, the proportion of unfit in
some instances having been irrespon
slbly set as high as 60 per cent.
A further basis for optimism
is
discovered by examination of the
causes for rejection. Three of the
commonest of these, defects of vision
bad teeth and "flat feet," may not be
serious disqualifications for a useful
civil career. The first may be suf
ficiently remedied in most instances
by spectacles, the second by dental
attention not practical in the time al
lowed for mobilizing the army, and
the last is a negligible handicap- to
most individuals not called on to
make long marches under heavy
loads. To these may be added incip
ient tuberculosis, most frequently oc
curring among registrants of foreign
birth or parentage, but offering in
the light of modern scientific knowl
edge a hopeful prospect of cure.
The percentage of sickness in the
army, after deducting the effects of
the exceptional epidemic of ipflu-
enza, was only 2.2 per thousand, or
hardly more than that of peace times,
in spite of the additional exposure
to which soldiers were subjected.
Improved health of the soldiers as a
whole pVobably has offset the effects
of sickness. The figures help us to
recover confidence In ourselves. On
the score of health, we still have
plenty of reason for self-congratulation.
Thomas B. Llttlg, who died in
Baker the other day at the age of 87,
is about the last of the old-tlmn
miners who made that region
famous in the last half-century.
Tom" Llttlg never got rich, but he
mined with the persistency of faith
in his diggings and left the reputa
tion of a square, all-round man. He
lepresentod Malheur in the session
of 1S91, a position thrust upon him.
for never was he an office seeker.
Procrastination Is to blame'for the
small amount subscribed to the
Roosevelt memorial fund. Then, too.
nobody knows just how much he
should give. He doesn't care to stick
out like a lighthouse among fel
lows of his class, and awaits being
told. A check for a fraction of a
day's pay will do the business, if it
is attended to today by everybody.
If-lccal traction officials were to
use street cars instead of their auto
mobiles, the plan would not help
much, for they would "deadhead
the rides. They would set a good
example, or ratner, would -avoid a
bad one.
A Canadian who sued a Texas
'woman for breach of promise got a
verdict for "no damages" yesterday
and Is "hot" enough to appeal. The
lucky brute does not know when he
ii well off.
Do not turn backward the minute
band tonight; that jars the system of
the clock. Just stop it and make 4
guess in the morning. Being Sun
day you can be late only to church,
which may be the excuse you seek.
A good way to "hand" it to Ger
man opera is to stay away, which
New Y'ork seems to be doing.
A driver with two killings to his
discredit would better seek another
occupation.
Snow is welcomed east of the
mountains and they can have it all
of it.
Two months to Christmas,
that fund growing?
How's
BY-PRODUCTS OF" THE PRESS, t
Former Loadoa Newsboy Now Fills
Polplt of John Wesley.
Rev. Walter H. Armstrong, who oc
cupies John Wesley's own pulpit, once
sold papers in the London streets. He
earned about 10 cents a day as a
newsboy. When 11 years old be left
school and became a telegraph mes
senger and later a postman. Then he
began to devote his evenings to
studying for the ministry. After serv
ing as a missionary in the far east.
he returned to England and conducted
the largest men's religious meetings
In London, with an
attendance of !
2000 Sunday after Sunday. According
to the British press, his virile per
sonality is bound to leave an im
press on the life of the famous church
which was the center of Wesleyan
Methodism.
"It is not my intention," he said,
to start anything sensational? My
belief is that the church exists not
to set Its sail for every wind that
blows, but to raise the whole standard
of life. I believe In the application of
Christian principles to every aspect
of modern life. A narrow Chris
tianity is no Christianity at all."
One of the highest prices ever paid
for a modern American painting was
received recently by the Macbeth gal
leries when they disposed of Winelow
Homer's masterpiece, "Coast in Win
ter," for $33,000.
The painting has an interesting his
tory. It was originally purchased di
rect from the studio of the artist by
Thomas B. Clarke and was sold to
Chauncey Blair of Chicago by the
American association for $2625 at the
dispersal of the Clarke collection In
1899. It was acquired by the Mac
beth galleries from the Blair estate
shortly after the death of the Chi
cago connoisseur.
Coast in Winter" is described in
the catalogue of the Clarke sale as
follows:
A terrible angry sea dashes up
against some rocks half covered with
snow, the swirling eddies In the fore
ground conveying an Idea of its force.
The surf la thrown high, and the
fierceness and dreariness of the rocks
present a scene of utter desolation,
which the painter had powerfully ex
pressed. There Is a yellow gray sky,
which enforces the Illusion."
It may be added that there Is an
indescribable beauty and harmony of
coloring. The work was painted in
1892. when Homer was at the very
zenith of his power. It is 80 inches
high and 48 Inches wide.
Lord Dunsany, the Irish poet and
dramatist, is lecturing throughout
New England on "My Own Lands"
the imaginative countries of his plays.
"It seems to me that a play that
is true to fancy is as true as one that
is true to modern times, for fancy
is quite as real as more solid things
and every bit as necessary to men.'
Lord Dunsany carries out his theory
most delightfully in his talk and
journeys beyond the edge of the world
Into what he calls his own land. To
the reading world Dunsany is the
third of that trilogy of dramatists of
the Irish renaissance, the other two
being Yeats and Synge. It was for
Teats, who initiated the Irish literary
movement, that Dunsany wrote his
first play, "The Glittering Gate
which was produced In Dublin in
1909. Some of his best known nlays
are "The Gods of the Mountain," The
Golden Doom," "A" Night at the Inn
The Queen's Enemies," ets. Stuart
Walker has produced Dunsany's plays
in New York in his Portmanteau the
ater and the amateur players of
Northampton have given several of
them successfully.
In addition to literary interest, the
fact that Dunsany has one of the old
est titles in Ireland and Great Britain
and Is a Plunkett makes him prom-
nent in Irish affairs today. He en
tered the great war as captain of the
royal Inniskllling fusiliers and saw
service in France and Gallipoll, being
twice wounded.
The story of the Potter-Pryor duel.
the famous challenge of civil war
times, whereby a Wisconsin con
gressman by ridicule put duelling In
disrepute, now recalled by the recent
death of one of the participants, is
told In Interesting style in the Wis
consin Magazine of History, quarter
ly publication of the State Historical
society.
Roger A. Pryor, the Virginia con
gressman who figured In the episode
died In March in New York City. It
was he upon whom John Fox Potter
of East Troy, Walworth county, then
representative of the first congres
sional district of Wisconsin, during
April. I860, brought nation-wide ridi
cule In answer to a challenge to
duel. Many Wisconsin residents still
remember Congressman Potter's reply
and offer to fight with bowle knives
at a distance of four feet and
Pryor's refusal because they were
"so demnition vulgar."
Most of Mr. Potter's bowle knives,
including the one he purchased for
the duel and others sent to him after
the affair, are now on exhibit in the
state historical museum, Madison.
"Russia Crucified.' a remarkable
painting by a Russian soldier, has
been presented by General Deniklne
commander-in-chief of the army o
south Russia, to the American Red
Cross. Artists who have seen the
painting pronounce It a work of
singular power and Imagination. I
represents a female figure In peasant
dress, nailed to a cross, while a circle
of scarlet devils dance around her.
Through a cloud which half obscure
its features leers the face of Trotxky,
General Deniklne has expressed th
wish that the picture may be repro
duced as a poster in America.
A strong arraignment of churche
for maintaining high priced choirs
was voiced by Dr. Henry E. Foote o
Harvard university divinity school
the general conference of Unitarian
societies In New York. Dr. Foote de
clared that the custom of man
churches in having expensive singers
was wholly wrong and blamed th
congregations for It, rather than the
members of the choir.
And where Is the man who comes up from
the throng
Who does the new deed and who sings
the new song.
And who makes the old world as a world
that Is new?
And who Is the man? It Is you! It
you !
And our praise Is exultant and proud,
We are waiting for you there for you
are the man!
Come up from the Jostle as soon as you
can :
Come up from the crowd there, for you
re the man
The man who comes up from the crowd.
SAM WALTEK iUS3
Those Who Come and Go.
Old age pensions are popular in
New Zealand, declares L. B. St. John,
who arrived at the Multnomah yester
day. An attempt to put John Barley
corn out of business has failed once,
but about the first of the year three
questions will be submitted: continua
tion of the liquor business as It exists;
prohibition, with compensation to peo
ple having money invested In It. and I
the third is straight out prohibition
without compensation. Mr. St. John
predicts that the latter two measures
will be defeated. An apple grower,
when at home. Mr. St. John Is visiting
Oregon to see how the Hood River
and Rogue River orchards are oper
ated. The Australian and Tasmanian
style of cutting trees is in vogue in
New England, this style being the
very opposite of the method of trim
ming used In Oregon and Washington.
If the American system of leaving the
main stem grow Is better than the
New Zealand fashion, Mr. St. John
wants to adopt It. as he says he has
an open mind on the subject.
Snow has hit Oregon in spots, judg
ing from the reports which hotel ar
rivals brought yesterday. A man who
had a check cashed at the Multnomah
says that when he left Pendleton there
were six inches of snow in the Round
up town and more coming. Asher Ire
land, of the forestry department, who
has been surveying the pine forests
near Bend, arrived at the Multnomah
yesterday and said that when he left
Bend the snow was flying.
Where are the largest mills manu
facturing paper and where are the
largest sawmills? I want to make a
personal Inspection of these plants
while I am In Portland," declared I.
Brodtkord. who registers from Kris-
iania at the Benson. Accompanying
im are his wife, Mrs. Ragulied Brodt
kord. Calla Wril Nilson and Tuieria
Nilson. The party took . a trip over
the highway in the forenoon and in
the afternoon Mr. Brodtkord visited
the big paper mills at Oregon City.
E. F. McDaneld, formerly assistant
manager of the traffic department
in the spruce division. Is in charge
of large ranch near Sherwood. Or.
Mr. McDaneld enlisted as a private and
was a rookie at the time Ray Clark
was in the same classification. Mr.
McDaneld informed Mr. Clark yester
day that the most popular garden
produoe 'But of his was garlic.
Sweden has a good roads boom on
and wants information, so C. Kllnt-
berg and Genmar Borgendahl of
Stockholm came to Portland yester
day to look Into road matters here.
They were taken out by E. L. Kropn.
a road implement man, over the high
way and nearby roads. The visitors
are gathering data on the best types
or road .rollers, scrapers and similar
necessary equipment.
King of the bananss Is T. F. Rvan.
who registered at the Hotel Tort
land yesterday from Seattle. Mr.
Ryan has a string of houses scattered
throughout the northwest and part
was across the country. He spe
cializes In bananas and buys them by
tne shipload. The yellow fruit is
then distributed to his stores. Mr.
Ryan Is said to be the largest banana
buyer in the west. .
Today J. B. (Dusty) Rhodes leaves
for Washington. D. C, to attend a
conference of railroad men. Mr.
Rhodes, who Is in charge of the
grievances of railroaders in this sec
tion, has received a telegram to be
at a meeting to be held next Wednes
day. "Don't know where the people are
coming from, but business is cer
tainly good in our town," reports R.
C. Atwood, manager of a hotel at
Wasco. Or. Mr. Atwood is at the
Hotel Oregon.
Henry J. Schulderman, corporation
commissioner for the state, is regis
tered at the Benson. Mr. Schulder
man has been mentioned as a possi
ble candidate for commissioner of
public service.
Charles B. Stillman. president of
the American, Federation of Teachers.
or wiimette. III., is at the Multnomah
with Mrs. Stillman. His mission here
is to address local school teachers.
Thomas Mack, a well-known stock
man from Baker. Is at the Imperial.
Mr. Mack is In Portland to visit his
daughter, who is attending St. Mary's
academy.
Dean A. B. Cordly of the Oregon
Agricultural college, and Mrs. Cordly,
are among the arrivals at the Im
perial.
Having had a profitable season
t. BJorge, a salmon packer of
Altoona, Wash., is at the Hotel Ore
gon, accompanied by his wife.
Mr. and Mrs. A E. Webber of Alr-
ee. Or., are at the Hotel Oresron.
Mr. Webber is a stockman, who is in
the city on business.
t
Los Angeles is noted for its real
estate agents. One of them. B. F.
Bailey, has arrived at the Multnomah.
Albert Anderson, a road contractor
with headquarters at Grants Pass,
is at the Perkins.
J. D. Kelly of the Yacolt Lumber
company, is one of the lumbermen
registered at the Perkins.
THE KD Of IT ALL.
Has the seed implanted failed,
the harvest gone astrav.
has
Has the dawning dimmed and paled.
never mounting into day?
Have the hopes of youth beeii blasted,
shriveled In the sun.
Have the nou.-a of life been wasted,
and no -worthy action done?
Have the years of long devotion srone
for naueht and less than naught;
Has each rising swift emotion been a
snare with ptril fraught?
Is life itself a. problem we must ren
der up upsolvcd?
Is the question more than human in
this day of ours Involved?
Or have we wrought the best we
knew n all these rassing years.
Or Is the star we kept in view a gleam
that disappears?
Answer, soul, from out, the silence:
answer, life, from out the durk.
Do the toilsome, hilly highlands lure
us by a fatuous spark?
Mist and cloud and shadow thronging
fill the exit with despair.
Dreams of hope and eager longing
vanish Into vicant air.
Is there niusht In all endeavor
worthy of the workman's hand? ,
Art or craft that lives forever, deeds j
that time's assault withstand? '
Listen to the living voices of the !
great ones passed before.
He who suffers nye" rejoices In tho
weight of work he bcre;
If the deed w;re worth the doing, if
the sen? jvera bravely sung.
Others etlll that work pursuing keep
the world forever young
Ours n. frutrment. part and portion of
the mighty tide of life:
Ours a wave npo.-i the ore&n, oury a
conquest In the strife.
Be content, oh heart of mortal, step
on biavelv up ahead:
Just beyond awaits the portal whence
the great undying sped
Into outer ether fiyinir. part of God
and Life nnd Thought,
A part of all that Is, or Was, or evei
Will Be wrought.
- EVA EMERY DYE.
TRUTH AS TO WILSON'S 1L.L.NKSS
No Brain Lesion or Organic Ailment
Exists, Bays Newspaper.
(Philadelphia Public Ledger.)
This statement regarding the ex
act condition of President Wilson
may be accepted as authentic. The
Public Ledger can vouch for Its au
thority In the matter. The text,
presented Just as it came Into the
possession of the Public Ledger re
porter at Washington follows:
First. At Pueblo he (the presi
dent) became confused, lost thread of
his speech, was unable to finish as
he had prepared it and was obvious
ly not In complete control of his fac
ulties. Second. This situation, which Dr.
Grayson had been fearing, was due
to no specific cerebral attack, was
not caused by any brain lesion or
hemorrhage, but was due to a gen
eral nervous and physical breakdown
growing out of his trip and the re
sult of a series of contributing
causes immediate and of long range.
Third. For one thing, when presi
dent of Princeton, he had a some
what mental and physical collapse
due to overwork and to a situation
which he was fighting against a
large group of people, but, as In the
present case, there was no apoplectic
stroke then.
Fourth. The immediate cause of
the breakdown on the trip was due
to the physical strain of the trip and
the mental strain of his controver
sial speechmaklng. In the first place
he had a nasty cough resulting from
the influenxa attack at Paris. A cer
tain focal bronchial area grave him
trouble and his coughing, which was
aggravated when he lav down. keDt
him from sleeping at night. On top
of this the traveling on the train
brought on dysentery alternating
with constipation, which weakened
him very seriously and quite lowered
his. general resistance to the strain
of the journey. Then, thirdly, the
shifting from high to low altitudes
in traveling through Colorado af
fected him very unfavorably just at
the time he reached Pueblo.
Fifth. These complications brought
'on severe headaches with continu
ing cough and a twitching of the
muscles about the mouth on the left
side, due to the nervous strain. With
all these continuing symptoms com
ing to a crisis at Pueblo. Dr. Gray
son saw that a much more serious
attack could be avoided only by a
return to Washington with complete
rest under expert observation.
Sixth. On reaching Washington It
was feared at first that the bron
chial trouble might call for a surgi
cal operation, but on . examination
mis was not found to be necessary.
All these things, however, plus the
mental depression by reason of his
failure to carry out hla plan, brought
about quite a collapse when he
reached Washington, which led to
the calling In of the family. There
were marked alternations in his con
dition the first week of his return,
and it was not until the second week
that he was more fully in control of
the doctors, and the upward turn to
ward complete recovery began.
The specialists called in found no
serious c rganlc troubles. Dr. De
Schweinitz found no trace of any
retinal hemorrhage or suffusion and
his familiarity with the president,
who has been his patient for years,
led him to make a very reassuring
diagnosis. Dr. Dercom, also familiar
with the president for years and In
friendly relations with himself and
his family, found the president clear
minded and simply in need of care
and rest and freedom from strain.
At the end of the second week the
condition of the piesident was such,
aside from the slight but painful or
ganic trouble mentioned in the dis
patches, as to warrant a very opti
mistic report, the recovery being so
steady and sure. But all the experts
agreetl that the daily bulletins must
be of a most conservative character,
and hence, even in the face, of the
Improvement, the phrase indicating
that the president's convalescense
would take "a long period" was sent
out.
Since the close of the second week
the case has been going on along
normal lines, and to the experts has
presented no unforeseen complica
tions. v
The denial of any cerebral attack
is positive just as the denial that the
president has any chronic serious or
ganic trouble, such as diabetes or
Bright's disease. That he will have
to take care of himself in the future
is, however, admitted by all who
have been in touch with the case.
State of Supreme Court's Work.
MILWATJKIE. Or.. Oct. 23. (To the
Editor.) Please state in the Orego
nian how far behind the supreme
court of our state is in its work.
A. D. S.
The supreme court Is about ten
months behind In Its work, according
to Arthur Benson, clerk of the court.
Combing the City in Search of
Dwellings
Hunting a home is the popular American' pastime. It was a
similar quest that threaded the unknown prairie trails, made light
of the desperate passes of the Rockies, and settled the Pacific slope.
Home-hunting in Portland is at the zenith of its open, season. Rents
and leases are small game nowadays, with the family heads looking
for a rooftree of their own; bought with the family funds. In the
Sunday issue, by De Witt Harry, appears an illustrated article on
this phase of Portland's prosperous activity. A good yarn, reflect
ing the tide of local affairs infallibly.
IF THE DRESS MODELS STRIKE! My gracious! but the capital
ists are a crafty lot! When milady buys a gown she sees it first
in action on the svelt lines of the mannequin, otherwise the dress
model. And what a national calamity, particularly distressing in
Gotham, it would be if the mannequins mutinied and formed a
union! Well, the contingency has been arranged for, says Ethel
Thurston, in the Sunday magazine section. There are wonders
of wax and rubber to serve as fashion models instead of the
flesh and blood and peaches of the stubborn mannequins if the
strike should be called. Illustrated.
POOR, UNHAPPY PRIN'CESS YOLANDA ! Called the "most beau
tiful princess in Europe," the lovely daughter of King Victor
Emanuel of Italy has a romance in her heart though she has but
passed her 18th birthday. A feature story in The Sunday Oregonian
tells the inner secrets and gossip of the Italian court, and re
cites the unhappy lot of Princess Yolanda. Was she in love with
the prince of Wales ? Barbara Craydon leaves you to draw your
own deductions.
HIDING THE SCARS OF FRANCE. On the field of Chateau
Thierry, where American heroes watered the soil of France with
their blood, and balked the Hun almost at the gates of Paris,
the pitted landscape is covered with the kindly green of nature.
Vines and grass and flowers have sbothed and smoothed the scars
of that titanic struggle. In the Sunday issue, by Asa Steele,
with photo scenes, appears a splendid article on the topic
THI? VICTORY AT SEA. In Sunday's installment of his tale of
American participation in the naval operations against Germany,
Admiral Sims devotes a chapter to the destroyers the deadly,
swift and patient little gray ghosts of the fleet, whose missions
were nameless snd whose daring and efficiency balked the sub
marine and kept the sea lanes open.
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE The big Sunday issue is both
newspaper and magazine. Not only is the gossip of the world
flashed at the hour of happening, straight to the waiting presses,
but the dozens of departments and special features provide a
wealth of enjoyable and instructive reading. Whatever your
hobby is, you'll find the Sunday issue holds a niche for you.
ALL THE NEWS OF ALL THE WORLD.
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. '
Epitaphs.
By Grace K. Hall.
What would you have them say ea
marble white.
That marks your lowly earthen bed
some day?
What U the final epitaph you'd write
Ere you had dried the pen and gone
away?
When strangers pass, what words
their gaze to meet, t
Would you record, their curious eyes
to greet?
If yours to choose, what deed would
best illume
The somber pall enveloping your
tomb?
Pile
up your gold
sky-high 'twill
only fail
To lift one single fold of death's dark
veil:
And would you care to have your
marble say:
"He was a rich man?" Others, In their
day.
Shall make the world forget your
paltry store.
By hoarding up like quantities and
more.
Would you, in planning what you'd
best indite.
Enumerate material things in sight?
Better the simple slab with fewer
lines
A rose bush clambering up through
tangled vines.
The misty eyes of eld friends as they
linger
And trace the blurring name with
gentle finger:
Better the modest stone, where
atrangers find
The eulogy that says: "This man
was kind!"
Then shall they, pondering, pass with
thoughtful tread.
And take a lesson with them from
the dead.
In Other Days..
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of October 25. 1801.
Philadelphia. Exercises attending
the unveiling of the statue of General
George B. McClellan were held. here
yesterday.
Washington. President Cleveland
spent much of his six weeks' vaca
tion in chopping wood on a piece of
timber belonging to him and returns
much benefited in health.
A report gained circulation on the
river front yesterday that the coast
ing steamer W. H. Harrison had been
lost between Astoria and Nehalera.
The United States coast defense
vessel Monterey steamed into Port
land harbor yesterday on her second
visit here.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of October 25. 1869
Hartford. A distinct earthquake
shock was felt yesterday morning
over much of New England.
As the steamer George S. Wright
approached the landing yesterday
the cannon which announced her ar
rival burst Into several pieces, one
of which injured the second officer.
Mr. Niblo.
Mrs. Benjamin Todd lectured last
evening at the Oro Fino on spiritual
ism. Position ss Caretakers.
Ll.WNTON. Or., Oct. 23. (To the
Editor.) I wish to enroll for census
work, beginning in January. Please
advise me where to apply for the ex
amination, etc.
MRS. C. E. MORRISON.
All applications for positions as
census takers should go to William
D. Bennett, on- the fourth floor of
the Fcnton building, at Sixth, near
Oak street, Portland. The examina
tion does not take place until late in
the month, but applications should
be submitted as soon as possible.
Place Not Listed.
PORTLAND, Oct. 24. (To the Edi
tor.) I have Just received a letter
from my brother in Siberia stating
that they are to march to Dlamede.
Will you kindly tell me In what part
of Siberia this town is located?
N. M. HEGARDT.
The name of the place is not listed
in available gasetteers.
Wife ' of Shakespeare.
PORTLAND, Oct. 24. (To the Edi
tor.) Who was Anne Hathaway? I
have not been able to find out in the
different histories. SUBSCRIBER.
Anne Hathaway was the maiden
name of Rhakespenre's wife.