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of the efficiency that is possible under
private operation and that "60 per
I cent is about the best we can do."
Kstablished BI HENRY L. FlTTOCK. I Asked whether there was "any fun
damental reason for this deficiency,"
he said: "The task is too colossal."
But when asked whether, assuming
that all government vessels were
turned over to private interests, our
shipbuilders would be able to com
pete with foreign shipbuilders and our
shipowners would be able to com
pete with foreign shipowners, he re
plied: "I answer with strong per
sonal conviction both questions in
the affirmative." "
Experience with public operation
of ships leads to the same conclu
sion as that w ith public operation of
railroads, that" it is more costly, less
efficient and gives worse service
than private operation. There is
need of public regulation to protect
the public Interest, especially to pre
vent ships from drifting away to for
eign flags, but that end can be best
served by freeing ships from many
of the restrictions which now ham
per them and by putting them in the
best position to compete with those
of other nations.
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scripted. The most successful con
quering nation has been Great Brit
ain, which did not adopt compulsion
until the great war had been in
progress for almost two years, and
has now abandoned it. The nations
which used conscription for the pur
pose of conquest are Germany, Aus
tria, Russia and Turkey, and all have
gone to ruin. France and Italy used
it for the purpose of defense, and if
they had not done so, they would
surely have been overwhelmed. If
we wish to avoid the military system
by which an empire has been pot
only conquered but maintained, we
should avoid the voluntary system
of Great Britain and should adopt
the compulsory system for defense,
by which France and Italy saved
themselves.
BETTER THAN SWATTIX THE FLY.
While the fly-swatting campaign
each summer is not to be discour
aged where it is made necessary by'
the presence of flies. Dr. Lincoln
Furbush, health officer of Philadel
phia, points out that there is an even
more logical way of conducting the
war on disease that is disseminated
by flies, and that is by striking the,
pest at the source. The warning is
sued by the Philadelphia health de
partment is timely now because fly
extermination is a work that cannot
be too soon begun. The slogan,
"Swat the breeding places of flies,"
at least sounds logical. The doctor
points out that the fly swatter and
fly paper and poison are indications
and do not remove the cause. They
a.re better than nothing, but that ,is
the best that can be said about them
Health officials all over the coun
try are optimists on the proposition
that a flyless era can be attained. It
practically has been reached In
Havana, where in the years of mili
tary occupation following the Span
ish war regulations were enforced
tnai maae mosquitoes as wen .
'. files things of the past. Military or
' ganization helped, but the lesson was
learned by the people and they are
. profiting by it today. To maintain
themselves in security, Cubans have
found that it is necessary only to re
move rubbish, to cover all other
ICLUSC VI T 1111 U 1 1 1I.H U11M luvn ,uw
feed, until such time as it can be re
moved permanently, and to leave no
liii-ifinw n uppr inr lnsppra riT anv
kind.
Flies, as a matter of fact, are not
the universal pests in this country
that they were even twenty years
ago. The coming of the automobile
with corresponding decrease in the
number of stables within city limits,
and more general obedience to sani
tary laws have made a noticeable
difference, which gives emphasis to
the point that the thing can be done
if people go at it the right way. One
hundred per cent fly eradication is
not too much reasonably to hope for.
The work is best begun in the early
-spring. The efforts of individual
householders count for much in the
aggregate. When the neighborhood
, spirit has developed so that each will
. qo ms snare me ouraen on any one
will not amount to much. And the
pleasure of living a whole summer
long without seeing a fly in the house
will be worth many times the effort
it entails.
rOISOSKD BY HIS PANACEA.
Paul McKercher of White Salmon
makes unblushing confession in a
Portland newspaper that he is a
member of the nonpartisan league
and cites the following outrage as
one which confirmed his faith in
doctrines of that organization.
Last winter Wenatchee apple grower
rocured a vessel to carry a trainload of
pples under refrigeration to New York at
reduced freight by way of the canal. The
null vs.,iiiue muy n iiu ins snip nuc
How did the apples stand the voyage?
They froze crossing the Rockies in the
cad of winter because the railroad flatly
refused cars from Wenatchee to Seattle.
Where was the public service commls-
on ? Where were the courts with those
ndy injunctions? What did state of
ficials do? To answer those questions
truthfully would be to libel myself under
the criminal syndicalism laws.
Tet last winter the railroads were
controlled and operated by the gOv-
rnment. The country had, to the
extent of transportation, the exact
counterpart of that which is the
nainstay of the nonpartisan league
ontroi Dy ine pudiic oi ine means
of marketing arid distributing. The
government railroad administration
proclaimed . itself and therein was
supported by law superior to any
state regulation or rate-making Of
ficial or body. . "
Where were the public service
commissloin arid the courts with
their handy injunctions and the state
officials? asks the .anguished : Mc
Kercher. Sucking their- thumbs, of
course, just as they wefe commanded
and compelled to do by the greater
nonpartisan league that controlled
our destines during the war period,
and just ts they would do under con
trol of the lesser league. The North
Dakota leagues really ought to take
pen and ink away from- McKercher
and lock them up.
NOT ACCORDING TO THE BULKS. -
Man always had the long end of
the odds. Against his superior cun
ning and resourcefulness the beasts
and birds, however fleet or fierce,
could not prevail. -Some of them he
drove to the brink of extinction
and over, down to the abyss of eter
nity. They are the lost species. He
mourns them now with that strange
admixture of sentiment and sincerity
and hypocrisy that is essentially hu
man.
But when man takes to the chase
of fowl with an airplanehe is vio
lating: the danons of ordinary de
cency and outraging every tenet of
the creed of sportsmanship. It doesn't
need explanation. - It is so plainly be
yond the pale that a federal law
prohibited it almost with the advent
of tbe airplane.
Wherefore, in the arrest and con
victlon of Kenneth Jaquith. wealthy
Chicago aviator, for the killing of a
goose from an airplane near Atlan
tic City, every friend of real sport
and lover of nature will rejoice. It
Is of passing Interest that Jaquith
was also one of the first advocates
of the law banning airplane hunting
for fowl.
SELL THE EMERGENCY FLEET.
Disposal of the vessels of th
emergency fleet will be decided by
the action of congress on a bill which
is being prepared by a senate com
.mlttee. The majority of the commit
tee is opposed to government owner
ship and operation, but its inclina
tion to recommend sale of the emer
gency fleet may be restrained by the
protest that was made aga-inst sale o
the seized German ships. That pro
test was founded on belief that
number of the vessels were to be
auiu lu Lit--; ju icniiiLiuiJiii iuci ui.iiiii-
Marine company and that that com
pany was owned by the British.
How baseless was this belief was
shown by the testimony of Chairman
Payne of the shipping board before
the senate committee. He said that
--. the company "is an American cor-
. poration, is officered by Americans
and is entirely controlled by Amerl-
- cans." It ownstwo British subsidi
ary companies, ofwhich the direc-
- tors are English, but they operate
' wholly from the English side.
Thorough investigation proved the
" ownership of stock to be "wholly
American." But the clamor raised
and the injunction obtained by W. R.
T. Hearst against the sale of these ships
blocked their sale, and they lie idle
at a cost of $12,000 a day besides de
predation. While the American people doubt-
."J 1 V nil II liio A VITIT 1 1 1 1 ti 1 1
' DV,lr.a .1 A ,hAi.A .. - Y. i .. 1. V 11 1
- omua 1. 1 1 1 1 .1 .1 in ill. ii n .1 1 1 1 , I I v
the shipping board under the Amer
lean flag and are in American hards,
uo iiuv v. tin l ine government to
remain in the shipping business. Con-
gress would be supported by public
opinion if it were to enact laws pro
viding for sale to American citizens
.-or to corporations owned by Ameri
cans, with precautions against their
passing under foreign ownership. In
some cases it might be of advantage
to the American merchant marine to
permit sale to foreigners, but such
sales should hot be valid without
close inquiry and express authority
of the shipping board.
The shipping board itself Is so im
pressed with the immensity of the
task of handling this vast fleet that
-it advocates sale to private owners.
Contrary to the provisions of the law
creating it, the board has only one
y its members. Asked whether he had
I any experience before going on the
I board. Chairman Payne answered: "I
I never had; have not had much yet."
The composition of the board has
changed so much that the mem
bers have not had time to master
' (Kul. n,nhlnni f .- .. I : . J
in -1 ,i v.ii!iii, i.v 1 1 uiiio a, j j ii 1 1 1 y
to follow it. In the three years of
T its existence there have been ten
changes among the members. The
. most experienced operator in its
service was J. H. Rosseter. former
director of operations, and he frank
, ' ly admitted that the board could not
eet "much better th;n 50 jci- cent"
DRESSED IN BORROWED REGALIA.
There has arisen in Chicago, pre
sumably from the environs of the
packing house district, a bard admit
ting that he is worthy to wear the
moccasins of the late Mr. Longfellow,
who once wrote a poem known as
Hiawatha."
The mystery of now-a-days poesy
remains precisely as it stood in Eli
zabethan times where do the poets
and poetesses, and bulk of 'em raise
the money to pay the printer, the
grasping, ink-smudged, highly tech
nical descendant of Cadmus, whose
price scale would have mantled the
ruddy cheek of Ralph the Rover with
envious shame?
John Fremont Kyger of Chicago
has written his Indian romance in
the meter of "Hiawatha." Unless it
be deliberate desecration, the poem
which so presumes must wear the
livery of genuine genius. Interpolated
in the metrical measure of the death
less poem, as imitated by the Chicago
bard, one finds the following banal
but refreshing departure:
Once a star was in love with a flower,
-And for days he continued to woo.
Ev'ry evening he gave new assurance
That to her he would always be true.
tend to draw them into the treasury,
but it drives them to investment
tax-free securities. How strong Is
this temptation is shown by the
statement that "a person in the high
est taxable class would have to make
nearly 17 per cent upon a corporate
security or in his business in order
to get the same return which he re
ceives by Investing in a tax-free 4U
per cent bond."
These taxes were imposed in the
belief and with the intent that the
rich man should pay them. He
does not pay them; be either escapes
them by investment in tax-free se
curities or he passes them on. Each
man all along the line from the pro
ducer of raw material to the manu
facturer, the wholesaler and the re
tailer, adds the tax to the price of his
commodity, then adds his profit on
the larger sum, so that the consumer
pays all of these taxes with the profit
on each of them There is no diffi
culty about passing the taxes on, for
demand exceeds production and con
sumers have become accustomed to
high prices and pay them almost
without a murmur. The sure way to
prevent this piling up of profits on
y, I BY-PRODUCTS OF THE, TIMES
in
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's) Kitten, After 13
Tears la Jail, Killed by Ante
Care once killed a cat. And it was
either care again, or else too much
curiosity, that killed another the best
lored tom-cat in all the world, says
the New Tork Globe.
Ginger, the pet of the criminal
courts. New Tork, was killed by an
automobile In Centre street. Tou can
never tell any one who has anything
to do with the criminal courts build
ing that there is, was. or ever will be
another living creature on four legs
that could have "licked" Ginger in a
catch -a a -catch -can battle.
Ginger once fought a bulldog. The
bulldog came out second best. Ginger
stopped a bullet once in a pistol duel.
Ginger kept right on living. Ginger
fought many a cat who later regretted
the encounter that Is, if they lived.
But, it remained for a mere automo
bile,
Those Who Come and Go.
Throughout the east ts a feeling
that readjustment of financial con
ditions with the revision mainly
downward is due within 0 days,, ac
cording to". W. R. McDonald, insur
ance broker of Portland, who has re
turned from a 30-day sojourn in the
east. Mr. McDonald attended a gen
eral conference of agents of the Gen
eral Accident company in Philadel
phia. "Traveling salesmen are re
porting light sales throughout the
east and attribute the failure to tell
goods to the general feeling that pre
vails in the east that a general re
adjustment of financial affairs is due,"
said Mr. McDonald. "Just how this
readjustment is to be brought about
no one seems willing to predict, but
everyone you talk to is certain that
the creet in high prices has been
finally reached."
How much is brotherly love worth?
I TKnmaa Kinnlr,n 4t , , A mi U fnrnt
a common piece or mans nanai-i - ,,r,
wurn, iq iinun uiiiftci vi mi ........
is worth at least a dollar, but Rom
time, and forever. I Finnigan of the Benson has his
They are going to give Ginger a fit- doubts. Benson finnigan had a pat-
ALL "V ALU liS ARK INFLUENCED
ting burial. In the prison yard, dl-
taxes is to increase production. Tha I rectly beneath the Bridge of Sighs, the
ent wrench which he couldn't use on
his automobile, so he sold it to Port
land Finnigan for It. Portland Fin
nigan has gone all over his car and
can't find a place where the wrench
can be used, -so when he paid the
Bsnson Finnigan he wrote out a little
receipt like this: "For wrench. It; by
cash. $5: by brotherly Jove, $1."
Benson Finnlgan's attention was
distracted when he rimed the re-
means have little, if any, surplus to 1 for killing Stanford White, brought ceipt and when he discovered the de-
requires investment of more capital,
which must come -from surplus in
come. This surplus of the rich is
either taken in taxes or driven to the
refuge of tax-free bonds. Prices are.
pet will be laid to rest by those who
will long remember him. He was yel
low in color, but In color alone. He
was in his sixteenth year.
Fifteen years ago Mrs. Evelyn Nes-
so high, largely as the effect of the bit Thaw, during the second trial of
tax laws, that people of moderate I Harry Thaw, who was on the stand
invest.
One of the foundation stones of the
pyramided prices is a system of tax
ation which adds to them at every
stage of production- and distribution
and which by withdrawing capital
Ginger as a kitten to Harry Thaw in celt he yelled louder than Jacob did
the Tombs. It was against the rules when Esau slipped one over a good
f the Tombs to permit a cat there. ""
so he was turned over to airs, ireo-
Twa eAtinti 4n O,- -r Kawa aw
erlck Coppers, wife of the superin- i unenviable reputation as divorce cen-
tendent of the building. Later he be- ters. declared Francla Minor Moody
from production or by preventing it came tnc, property of Walter Fay. one of Chicago as he was checking out
rrom Demg tnus employed, prevents of the operators in the building.
mo natural law oi competition irom He nad frce entry to court rooms,
reducing them. Another foundation even when tho judfje- were charging
stone is inflation of the currency, ..., to the
J. 1 M - . . i. "
district attornev. Freauently on a
CONCERNING THE SOAKING POTATO.
There have beenseasons when the
potato clambered aloft and perched
at the pinnacle of the vegetable price
list but folk didn't complain a great
deal. The indispensable "spud" was
still within reach. It was only with
the present season that potatoes
broke all altitude records, and vied
with alligator pears as luxuries.
The suggestion of restaurant and
cafe proprietors, and of many indi
vidual householders, that a public
boycott be instituted until the price
is forced down, to a reasonable level,
seems, foundationed upon common
sense. Not even the law of supply
and demand can be cited in extenua
tion of plunderbund prices that now
prevail. There are those who 6ay
that the situation is not brought
about by present profiteering, but is
actually caused by shortage. Against
this excusal must be set the half
formed resolve of the restaurant men
to boycott. They are certainly in
touch vHth the situation, and their
attitude would indicate that plenty
of potatoes are yet available.
With elaborate official mechanism
against profiteering the price of po
tatoes continues to aviate targeted
at with verbal pop-guns. The hue
and cry against the high price is
mere vocal music. Only the boycott
suggestion seems to have force. It is
definite, and its effect would be defi
nite and educational.'
In the meantime the spring gar
den, which ought to be planted heav
ily to "spuds," will probably germi
nate a future shortage, because of
the excessive cost of seed.
but expanded production would auto
matically deflate the currency by
giving1 it a larger basis of commodi
ties. A small percentage tax on all
goods when they pass Into the hands
of the consumer could be made to
raise as much revenue as the present
surtaxes, it would take the place of
the taxes now collected at each stage
of production and it would eliminate
the profits which are now added to
those taxes. It could be made
heavier on luxuries than on neces
saries, and thus could check extrava-
Wonderment seizes the reader that
Amy Lowell and Harriet Monroe
have not indorsed Mr. Kyger's poetic
plagiarism, or that it has not ap
peared in "Poetry," that forum of
fearless freakishness, so conveniently
published in Chicago. To be so
frankly plagiaristic Is to be original
and to -be original, among our little
group of serious thinkers, is' to re
ceive the accolade.
PITY MADE VOLUNTARY,
By voting for voluntary military
training .the senate concedes the
benefits accruing to both the man
and the nation, but by rejecting com
pulsory military training it denies the
duty of every qualified citizen to fit
himself. to do his part in defense of
the natioji, or it shuts its eyes to the
teachings of the war. These are that.
when-a nation resolves to attack an
other, it trains all fit men of military
age to fight, and that any other na
tion must do likewise in order to
withstand the attack. It cannot be
expected that enough men will train
voluntarily to insure successful de
fense, hence they would be sacrificed
for those who shirk their duty.
Not only would this system cause
the loss of many men imbued with
the highest patriotism and save those
of inferior moral quality, but
would be otherwise wasteful. Modern
war requires employment of every
citizen in the way he can serve best.
either in the army or in support o
the army-. The voluntary system
takes a man of high mechanical skill
or scientific knowledge and puts him
at work which can be as well done
by a man-who has neither. Yet the
first man may be able, by application
of his special capacity, to contribute
as much to victory as a thousand of
the other kind. This fact was so
well realized by the British govern
ment that it recalled thousands - of
men from . the army to their civil
cccupations. Yet congress refuses to
learn. - '
When at a loss for reply to these
reasons for fitting every citizen to
do his duty in war as in peace, dp
ponents of military training fall back
on the idea expressed by. Represen
tative Garrett of Tennessee, when he
said: -
judge's bench in one of the court
rooms even during the progress of a
trial, he would stretch himself, yawn,
and proceed to take a nap.
Prof. Earnest W. Brown, formerly
of Haverford college, now a member
Of the mathematical department at
Tale university, will be awarded the
Bruce medal of the Astronomical So
ciety of ths Pacific.
The meual was established 30 years
.ICn. 1 . ., , -r,
trance and encourage thrift. It would ao y tnc ia.te wCrii. -
be simple and certain, and would New Tork- " Is to be '
t i a mark of distinction to those who
mous cost of collection with Us army nav maae emlnenl contriDunuu-
of employes. - I astronomical science. irirteen per-
By seizing the savings out of In- 1 BOns have thus tar oeen awaraea ine
rnm o nH rfoviiieirx tvm in tv, I medsiL Those to receive it are Be-
of government, the present tax laws
commit tne same lolly as would a
farmer who sold or ate the wheat
which he had reserved for the next
season's seed. The savings of one
lected upon the recommendations ot
directors of six of the largest ob
servatories in the world.
Doctor Brown is the seventh Amer
ican scientist to receive the award.
of the Hotel Portland for Los An
geles. Mr. Moody is secretary of I
society which is inquiring Into the
divorce problem and has been gath
ering statistics. According to Mr.
Moody, Clackamas county is a holy
terror to matrimony and more dl
vorces are granted in that county
than in a I moat anv other 1n tbe coun
try. Mr. Moody may be going to Los
Angeles to obtain a close-up view of
the divorced people of filmland, al
though he did not admit as much.
Anyway, divorces are entirely too
common In Oregon in tbe estimation
of Mr. Moody.
Word was received at the Perkins
yesterday of the sudden death ot
Colonel H. O. Newport of Hermlston.
Colonel Newport made the Perkins his
headquarters for many years and was
registered there a few days -ago. He
was in the contracting business and
built many miles of irrigation ditches
and was one of the founders of Her
miston. Of late he has been interested
in a contract on the Columbia high
way in eastern Oregon.
Feaalatlon Affeeta Wages Int-
rwTententa as Well as Laaa.
PORTLAND. April IS. (To the Edi
tor.) In The Sunday Oregonian April
Mr. L. Bowerman's letter on tne
stnglef tax Issue read in part as fol
lows: "Land value, rental value, ts
made by the people jointly, and
should be-used for and by the people
jointly. It attaches not to land but
to the people. Let the population
abandon Portland, and they will take
the rental value with them."
What values are not created by the
people? True, there must be Indi
vidual effort, but individual effort
alone without a population to create
values, would amount to nothing.
Business site values, whether In the
retail, wholesale, banking or manu
facturing district, depends entirely
upon whether there are enough peo
ple to make such business profitable.
The values are not created by the
workman alone in such business es
tablishments any more than the land
values or rental values are created
by the holders. of land alone.
The farmer who has his land locat
ed the nearest to a good market has
his land enhanced in value the most
for that reason, but the manufacturer
has his plant Increased in value for
the same reason. From the fact of
good market and a population to con
sume or buy the goods manufactured.
the laborer is employed' at a remun
erative wage, and neither the em
ploye ner the manufacturer has cre-
ted this value alone, but for th
population or consumer, the plant
would have no value and the laborer
no employment, values are not cre
ated by one class alone, whether it
be In land, merchandise or labor, but
all values are created jointly by all
the people. The single tax would not
help labor. It would be a gradual
confiscation by the state of land own
ership, should the single land tax to
the exclusion of all other forms of
taxation be adopted.
Is It right to ask the farmer who
toils from 10 to 12 hours a day. every
day in the week, to vote himself out
of his land ownership, by voting for
the single tax, in order to benefit a
certain other class who demand a
six-hour day and a five-day week?
It is impossible now to keep the
farmer boy on the farm under the
present system of land ownership, as
the farmer boy would rather go Into
the labor market where there are
fewer hours and less drudgery.
If the single-tax system were
adopted, and the farmer reduced to
merely a renter of the state, there
would not be farmers enough who
would stay on the farms to produce
the necessaries of life for society,
and the laboring man would be the
first to suffer. A. P. ADAMS.
607 Lumbermens Bids, City.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Mmmt,
LITTLE MART I OSES ADMIRER.
THE BRAVE AND THE FREE.
Come, brethren, let's join in the usual
song;
Hooray for the brave and the free!
No tyrants shall dare drag -us 'round
by the hair;
We'll never be vassals, not we.
Although just at present, when pay
day has sped. .
There's nothing remains ef on
rolls.
Though to bold buccaneers that w
call profiteers.
We've mortgaged our wagea and
souls.
Americans never were horn tw be
slaves
Or to cringe to monopoly's- sway.
And though we may bow to the food
- hogs just now.
They'll cease to oppress us some
day.
Let's elng of the manhood that's al-
ways been ours, m
Since that earliest Fourth of July.
Our rights we'll assert; never mind
who Is hurt;
The great god of greed well defy.
Though labor and capital go ia
cahoots.
Putting prices wherever they like.
Audi if we complain, make it painfully
plain
That they'll make us dig tip with
a strike.
Americans never were born to submit.
Ne dumb, driven cattle are we.
And though for a while e shell oat
- with a smile.
Some day we'll be utterly free.
So join in the song of the free tut
the proud.
That our forefathers ones loved to
sing.
We're as brave and as bold as tha
heroes of old.
When they shook off the rule of a.
king..
It is true we are nicked for whatever
we buy.
And that prices go up every day
We are also awape that our hair we
will tear
Yet always we'll walk wp and pay.
But Americans never were bora te
. bow down,
, When tyranny raises its head;
Oppression will cease' and we'll find
our release.
No doubt about that when we're
dead.
Iaanaasiale.
No astonishment Is equal te that ft
the presidential candidate when he
discovers that somebody is spending
money in his behalf.
Ten Kisii Wne.
And swearing she would ne'er re
wed, rewedded. .
year should' be applied to increase I He has recently completed the task
the production of the next year, if I of defining the motion of the moon
the world Is to move forward. Taxes I after a quarter century of study of
should be so Imposed that, while they the subject.
raise enough money for the expense
of government, they encourage in
dustry and investment in productive
Industry and penalize sloth and
waste. On that principle the present
tax system stands condemned. It is
also guilty of that monstrous hypoc
risy of pretending to tax the rich
when it actually taxes the poor.
"The cold weather did more dam
age than was at first supposed," says
Mrs. M. L. Meacham of Hood River,
who is one of the few residents of
that district not in the apple -business.
"A friend of ours lost ten acres
of apple trees. Of course, there hasn't
been much talk about the damage.
After the December storm, as soon
as we could get away we went to
John D. Rockefeller Jr. has gained J-nicago. x am just returning, and
iiuiuo 1,-ci lainiy iookb gooo. Jtara.
Meacham Is at the Benson.
the reputation of being the busiest
man in New York. It was because of
his manifold activities that he was
fined $2 the other day for failing to
report as a member of the third panel
Of the sheriffs jury.-
Mr. Rockefeller intimated that he
Once upon a time Ed Russell used
to be In the newspaper business in
Portland, In the business end, and
later he Invaded Astoria for a time
and then headed for Alaska, where
ne nanaied a couple of newspaper
It has been the history of everv great
nation that has existed in all the tides of
time which entered upon compulsory mill
tary training that that nation had become
imbued not with the ideals of justice but
with thoughts of conquest. m
Compulsory service was a feature
of the feudal system, butthe greatest
conquering armies of modern times
began to be formed in the reign of
Louis XIV of France, when that sys
tem had fallen into decay, and the
period of modern conquest dates
from that time. Except that of Prus
sia, those armies were not cou-
A CLUMSY TAXATION SYSTEM.
While many members of congress
condemn the government for spend
ng too much money, there is re
markable agreement between men
who look at the matter from very
different viewpoints that the govern
ment collects this money in the
wrong way or rrom the wrong
sources. Secretary of the Treasury
Houston, who administers the pres
ent revenue laws, in a letter to Chair
man Fordney, of the house ways and
means committee, makes many of
the. same criticisms as are made by
Otto H. Kahn in a pamphlet on "Two
Years of Faulty Taxation and Their
Results."
Mr. Houston declares the laws too
complex, when the liability should be
certain and definite. Complexity is
a source of irritation, labor and ex
pense to the taxpayer and, when
conjoined with heavy rates, "becomes
major menace, threatening enter
prise with heavy but indefinable fu
ture obligations, generating a cloud
of old claims and potential back
taxes." "The latter he estimates at
more than $1,000,000,000. He urges
simplification and modification or
repeal of the excess profits tax, be
cause it is "so complex that it has
proverftimpossible to keep up to date
the administrative work of audit and
assessment ana Decause it is con
fined to a small fraction of the busi
ness concerns of the country." Two
irreconcilable systems of taxation are
applied to business income one to
corporations, the other to sole pro
prietors and partnerships. He cites
the case of one partnership which
paid nearly $1,125,000 more than it
would have paid if it had been a cor
poration. He condemns surtaxes be
cause they penalize saving and in
vestment. They cause investment in
tax-iree securities when there are
thousands of millions of -them in the
market, instead of in expansion of
industry or foreign trade. He pro
poses to reduce taxes on that part of
income which Is re-Invested, but he
would make"no reduction in respect
of Income spent for unnecessary or
ostentatious consumption."
Mr. Kahn is of one mind with Mr,
Houston in holding that the excels
profits tax causes the rich man to
Invest his surplus income in tax-ex
empt bonds. The rich man therefore
"has little to squeal about on the
score of the income tax, provided he
will join the ranks of the idle rich,"
that is, invest his savings in securi
ties which Involve no effort and no
risk, in preference to enterprises
which expand industry and trade but
which require personal effort and in
volve risk or loss together with lia
bility to heavy taxation. Mr. Kahn
Is emphatic ia his support of "an un
sparing war profits tax," but he con
demns the present excess profits tax
in these terms:
The sultan of Turkey urges his
subjects to fight the nationalists,
with the promise that "all Mussul
mans who fight nationalists will be
blessed by Allah and all who die
fighting the rebels earn eternal glory
hereafter." However, we doubt if
there will be any great rush of the
boys to profiteer in heavenly futures.
Because the sheriff of Walla Walla
made a patriotic speech to the Jurj
trying three men for syndicalism
during the noon hour, they get a new
trial. Where blame attaches to the
sheriff Is hard to see, but any quibble
looks good enough to a guilty man
and a hair-splitting attorney.
Another deal shows the value of a
down-town corner. Which reminds
that if every fellow's father had
come here early arid bought a corner
lot and held it, all the fellows would
be coupon clippers, a nice dream,
indeed.
had been "detained by work in behalf properties with financial results. Mr.
ot the interchurch world movement,
in which he is taking a leading part.
He denied that he had shirked his
civic duty.
A friend In telling just how busy
Mr. Rockefeller is these days, said:
"The other day when I called at Mr.
Rockefeller's office I found him giv
ing an Interview to a caller. While
thus engaged he was not losing any
time, as a barber was shaving him
while a bootblack was polishing his
hoes and a manicure shining iis fin
ger nails." New York World.
It lava a heavy ana elumsy hand t
successful business aetlvlty. It is gross
inequitaoie in its effects and. to a large
extent., tne greater or lesaer degree of Its
burdensomeness l determined bv nnrw
1 fortuitous circumstances. It puta a fine on
-ner enterprise ana- erriciency. It leaves
uniuucnea ine man OI wealth who nelth
er works nor takes the risks and responsl
bilitles of business, but merely clips hi
coupons.
The same objection is made to th
surtax on large incomes. It does no
A new and Improved method of de-
llverlnsr mall by airplane to out
bound ocean liners is described in a
recent .number of the Scientific Amer
ican. To abbreviate, the mail is car
ried In a leather container held by
friction in a sort of socket or chute
underneath the airplane body. To
the container a long line Is attached.
having on its end a 7-tailed grap
ple designed to become entangled in
the rigging of the steamer. When
this is accomplished the line draws
taut, the mail bag is jerked out or its
The issues are pretty near joined.
with Starkweather out to beat Cham
berlain and Mrs. Aleck Thompson chute fans lnto the sea, and Is hauled
, , ' respect- aDoard tne liner. The airplane re-
luujr icicucu lu ur. juurrow, wno
knows more politically than he lets
on.
turns to shore.
-
Turn back the pages of time 80
Russell, who now registers from Seat
tle, ts at the Hotel Portland while
comparing Portland as It is today
with Portland In the time he was
chasing advertisements.
Joseph Patterson, formes Portland
newspaper man, more recently of
Newport, is at the Hotel Oregon. Mr.
Patterson is anxious to see a goodly
portion of the standing timber in
Lincoln county laid low and converted
into money, for Lincoln county is par
tlcularly "long" on timber. The port
or Newport commission Is now ar
ranging to buy one of the spruce
built railroads, and the terms of the
contract are now being drawn up In
Portland.
Charles Bacon Hodgkin. publisher
and editor of the Tualatin Valley
News at Sherwood. Or, is among those
present at the Multnomah. Mr. Hodg
kin has the proofs to back the asser
tion that the valley ot the Tualatin
is one of tbe garden spots ot the
state, in fact, the garden spot.
Possibly It haa been the railroad
strike. Anyway, the hotels are crowd
ed In Portland. Only a small number
of the patrons are checking out, pre
ferring to remain in Portland rather
than be. caught somewhere on the
road in esse of a tie-up. One of the
leading hotels yesterday had a check
out of only ten people.
Now there's propaganda on foot to
substitute peanuts for potatoes, the
lo,wly goober being rich in nutritive
values. We have a feeling that this
must have started with some potato-
peeling squad on kitchen police.
President Wilson has canceled his
plans for summering at Wood's Hole
because of the prevalence of fog
horns thereabouts. They'd remind
him too much of the senate.
To date, Watson, or Huirtt, haa
had twenty-seven wives. He has
what might be called a matrimonial
mania, a free-running definition of
which is plain crazy.
The strike is lost now and verv
soon will dwindle intoV guerrilla af
fair. Once more it may be said that
the strike that does not win in forty-
eight hours is lost.
Gaby Deslys was a thrifty dame.
Her jewels are valued at $5,000,000
francs. They cost more, but the men
who put up are not grieving.
One cannot lose faith in mankind
while there are people like Miss
Miner to find a roll of money and
return it to its owner.
In anticipation of the construction
of The Dalles-California highway
fiery through Jefferson county, Maupin i
steed In the batt,le of Cerro Gordo as brand new. commercial club and
commander of a Mexican unit against arranging to establish a camp
years.
General
Santa Ana rides a
the Americans. One leg hangs limply
on the side of the horse. Why? 'it
is artificial. Yes, the great general
issimo has but one good support.
Comes a dash from the Americans.
General Santa Ana retreats in haste.
I
Site
for motor tourists. C. U. Fargher o
Maupin is among the arrivals at the
Hotel Oregon.
When John McKee is at home he I
a police magistrate, but he does no
disclose the fact generally. Mr. Mc
Mrs. McKee, he is on his way acros
the line from a sojourn in California.
in the disorder off comes the artificial Kee's home where he magistrates
i wh th. smoke of battle Is t Ladner. B. C. Accompanied by
cleared away two buck prfvates of
Company B, 4th Illinois infantry, dis
cover the leg ana oring it dick to George T. Myers, salmon packer,
the American lines In triumph. Later with headquarters at Seattle, but for
It is sent to Springfield, 111., where it merly a Portlander, Is registered
reposes, in the state historical library.
?! More Standia In Line Tfcat Site
May See America's Sweetheart.
PORTLAND, April 13. (to the Ed-
tor.) I read with Interest the article
written by R. H. B. in The Sunday
Oregonian in regard to the Fair-
banks-Pickford marriage, and agree
with the author, as all other Amer
ican mothers should do, that our chil
dren will not be allowed to visit the
movies where these two are playing.
What a shame! Little Mary, the
sweetheart of the movies, could not
have peeked Into the future when she
ventured forth In the wrong path. In
he past I have taken the children
and stood In line hours in order to
see Mary. But can you imagine! The
children even are discussing Mary's
atest life reel.
I wonder if she will pay the price
as so many others are paying? It is
said that she loves Douglas, but the
surprise of it all Is that she herself is
of the Catholic faith. She ignored her
own church. How can she truly be
happy? I am not a Catholic, but do
not believe in divorce, which I think
Is America's menace. A divorce se
cured on such grounds as Mary's is
truly a very bad example for a popu
lar star. I wonder if she followed
her mother's advice? Surely not, for
any mother would look into the fu
ture.
Had Mary gotten her divorce In
California and waited a year and then
married, we would gladly have joined
In the chorus "God bless you, my chil
dren."
There is only one love and heaven
forbid if humans venture forth to find
the second, which is an impossibility.
Not only that, but think of the chil
dren that suffer through divorce
oourts. Mothers true mothers cling
to their children of course, where
father may go away and marry agrain
and forget his children. But sutely
he will some day feel the presence of
a crying conscier.ee.
AMERICAN MOTHER,
He's BTas Exnerienee.
Secretary Daniels is getting ready
for a Japanese offensive, but be prob
ably will not put Admiral Sims in
barge of his preparations.
There are trails in the golden morning
That wind to tha mountain rim.
And some lead out through the val
leys-
Brown ribbons that catch the brim
Of smooth fields sweet with clover
To the crown or the roughened hill.
While the thrilling notes from a mil
lion throats
The whole world seem to fill.
Each soul fares forth in Its seeking
Oh the trails of the world are broad?
But the voice of the ages, speaking.
Pays tribute alone to God;
For the song birds die in a season.
And the voices of mortals cease.
And each man grieves o'er his empty;
sheaves.
For in Nature alone Is peace.
Now comes a request from the Mex
ican government for a return of the
leg. It would have the tropny as a
memorial, says a communication to
the state government.
the Hotel Portland. For about half
a century the Myers family has been
canning, salmon, the original George
T. being one of the pioneers rff the
Industry on the Columbia river.
J. B. Hanna, who bought the S.
Benson interests in the logging busi
ness at Clatskanie, is at the Benson.
story on himself in the, Boston Tran- Dakota, before the Non - Partisan
script. He was making a speech at league affliclted that commonwealth.
A banqueter tells this rather good
a dinner and in the course of his re
marks he said, "America has pro
duced three great men Washington,
Lincoln and I myself" At this point
He is
poses.
in Portland for business pur-
Rest assured, the money will be
available to purchase the naval, base
PARTY COJfDBMXATIOX RECALLED
Johnson Aerasrd ef Ahuaing Body
Front Whleh-He Nnw Seeks Firer.
PORTLAND, April 13. (To the Edl
tor.) I have read several Items in
The Oregonian in regard to patriotic
Hiram" Johnson. Where did Johnson
stand In 1912 election? He wss
Bull Mooser, a member of a party
formed to break up the republican
party. He said then that we must
have an army and navy to protect
our people at home and abroad, and
that the two old parties were corrupt
and rotten. I want to ask his ad
mirers why he is back in one of those
old parties now. He could not get an
office In the Moose party. It died
but Johnson didn't.
He now is not in favor of an ample
army and navy. At any rate he said
when he spoke in Portland last fall
that the way the league of nation
read we would have to maintain
great army and navy, so he is no
in favor or an army and navy. Neithe
is the I. W. W. in favor ot them. H
said in 1S12 that we should build
least two battleships a year. Now
how can you tell where a man like
that stands?
Probably before the convention
over Johnson will want to bolt
again and the republican party a
well. But he had to come back to
that rotten old republican party,
he called it. to get into office
senator from California and. now h
wants those same people to elect him
president of the United States. Now
wouldn't he make a fine president?
He will stand just as good a. show as
I would. The Moose party died, but
Johnson didn't, A SUBSCRIBER.
Attorney - General Palmer should
worry about the switchmen's strike.
His boom for the presidency is al
ready side-tracked.
Governor Lowden suggests lower
ing taxes as the great panacea for
present-day evils. - Very good idea.
but how?
With the perversity of youth, the
lad who always said "Naw!" when
potato was parsed 'cannot get enough
now.
a burst of laughter drowned the rest site," declares W. P. O'Brien, a'lum
of his remarks. He had intended to
say "think Theodore Roosevelt," The
laughter got his goat and he sat down
without saying anything more.
T have my doubts about this league
of nations, remarlted. tne prouo
parent. ,
Why?"
I understand they propose. to go
ahead and, settle It without paying
any attention to what my daughter
has written about it in her school ex
amination eesay." Houston Post,
As yet Mrs. Wilson has not been
heard from as to whether she wants
a second term.
Sympathy, being cheap,
wasted on the undeserving.
oft is
They'll be putting potatoes
pie if this continues.
into
If you ask for post cards, and get
some old looking cards of the vint
age of ten years ago do not be sur
prised. The postoffice departmenthas
ordered postmasters to rummage
through their vaults for all the old
cards and stamps and put them on
the market, so acute has become the
shortage of paper. This activity is in
addition to the reBtamping of 400,
000,000 2-cent post cards Issued dur
ing tne war.
berman of Astoria, who is at the Ben
son. "Astoria will not let money
stand In the way of establishing the
naval base there."
"We are starting a Portland branch
and will make Portland our head
quarters Instead of Seattle, as at pres
ent," declared E. A. Mitchell, presi
dent of the Mitchell Tractor com
pany, who is registered at the Mult
nomah. F. R. Pendleton of Everett, Wash.,
and H. S. Gilkey of Minneapolis,
Minn., of the firm of Pendleton &
Gilkey timber lands, are at the
Multnomah.
Foster C. Glaspell, general mana
ger of the Oriental-American Com
mercial corporation of Seattle, is at
tbe Multnomah.
L. A. McClintock, head of the firm
of McClintock & Simpson, dealers in
farm implements at Pendleton, is at
the Multnomah.
N. J. Drew, chief Inspector of the
state highway department, passed
through Portland yesterday.
Peace,
By Grace E. Ran.
In OtLer Days.
Twenty-five Years At.
From Tha Oregonian ot April 14. 1896.
London Nicaragua has given a
satisfactory answer to the British ul
timatum and it is understood that
action threatened by the government
for next Monday will not be taken.
Berlin Fmperor William will re
move to his new palace at r-otsoam
next week. Later he will spend a
few days at his chateau in Alsace-
Lorraine.
The frame buildings at the north-.
east corner of Sixth and Morrison
streets are being vacated preparatorv
to their removal for the erection of
the new Stearns building.
San Francisco 'The body of a yerunsr
woman. M innre Williams, was round
In the pastor's study of Emanuel Bap
tist church. A young dental student
is suspected.
A LEAP-TEAR PROPOSAL. .
Has yo' cogitated, honey, on de prob
lem of love?
Is yo' looked at de subject from befo'
, en above? ,
Does yo' know de rithmetics of a
little turtle dovln'?
Kin yo' spell economics in de new
kind of lovin'?
Has yo' calculated 'spenses of de new
home lire?
Is yo read de late requirements fer
providin' fer a wife?
Is yo' 'ware of de subtraction of a
bit of pleasant strife?
Kin yo" roid de multiplication when
it cornea to a wife?
When yo' knows de college answer
to de high cost of love.
Den I'll 'cept of yo' money 'en be yo'
turtle dove.
When yo' learns de word equality in
connection wid yo' gal.
Den I'll 'sent to de wedding' 'en be
yo' lovin' pal.
FLEMING COLLIER.
. Fifty Years Am.
From The Oresonlan of Apafl 14. 1870.
Washington Southern coast steam
ers will begin carrying mail between
San Francisco and San Diego and
way ports May 1.
Washington Members of congress
from the gulf states have agreed t
support the Southern Pacific railroad
charter for the road to terminate at
Marshall. Tex., with right of other
roads to connect at or west of Mar
shall. Seattle Workmen today began con
struction of a rajlroad from Lake
Washington to the coal mines. Com
pletion - of the road within three
months is promised by the company.
Sheriff Al. Zeiber yesterday made
returns to the county court on collec
tion of the tax assessments for 1869.
A total in excess of $80,000 has been
collected, leaving a little more than
$13,000 delinquent.
Date ef Hotrtrs Birth.
NEWBERG, Or.. April 12. To tha
Editor.) Can you give the exact date
of Mr. Hoover's birth?
A READER,
August 10. 1S74. West Branch. Ia.
That's What She Ik.
Baltimore American.
"She's a wonder, that quiet little
woman over there." "Why, what's
she done?" "I told you; she's quiet,"
IX THE REALM OP WOMETS
ACTIVITIES.
Time was when mother and
sister and Cousin Alicia used
to stay at home the whole
enduring day and bake, and
dust and sweep and sew and
quilt and cook and any num
ber of other tasks.
But the day came when sens
ible folks admitted that this
division of affairs, however
pleasing and satisfactory to
the male members of the fam
ily, was nothing more nor less
than a moderate serfdom, and
not so all-fired moderate, at
that.
Nowadays the activities of
woman range a wide and use
ful field. Her kitchen as spot
less as ever it was of yore, her
men folk fully . as well cared
for. mother finds time to bear
her share of citizenship and
bear it ably.
Follow the course of women's
activities in the special sec
tion of The Sunday Oregonian.