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Vmmm Rn.h.Ma nrflj-M VITM A CO Ilk .In, New York. Brunswick building. Chi io, Steger building. San Francises Office R. J. Bldwell Co, T42 Market street. "OKTLAXD, SO'D.iV, JVXJS 8, 1814. ABOLISH THE FORK BARREL. A demand for investigation and sys .emization of river and harbor ap propriations is made with such force y leading- newspapers and by force ful men in Congress that it cannot be much longer ignored. It has been voiced by such newspapers as the Jhicago Tribune, the Washington rimes and the Saturday Evening ?ost. A denial that the river and larbor bill is a pork barrel has been nade in the Post by Representative iumphreys of Mississippi. This has :alled forth a more severe denuncia ion of the bill by Representative .rear, of Wisconsin. Mr. Frear stated that the total ex Denditure for rivers and harbors in curred at the present session of Con-,-ress, in cash and new projects au horized, will exceed .$100,000,000; hat the total for the five years end .ng 1914 will be J236.232.926. He stated that the total of past appro priations has been $884,465,489, to which must be added $273,000,000 for projects heretofore adopted and begun and $92,500,000 for projects adopted but for which no ap propriations have yet been made. He said that this year's appropria tions include "scores of private and vicious projects," such as the Kisslm mee, "which is dry eight months In the year and gets $47,000 for a real estate project, or the Oklawaha, which gets $750,000 to help out some orange-growers and real estate inter ests," or the Ohio River canal at Louisville, which he denounced as uselesss, only 10 per cent of the river traffic in 1906 having gone through the canal, while 99 per cent could have gone along the open river. Attention was called by Mr. Frear to the fact that increased expenditure on improvement of the Ohio, Missis sippi and Missouri Rivers .- coincides with a great decrease in traffic on iiiu rivers which he styled "desert ed, muddy, valueless ditches a last ing monument to the grim, relentless progress of railway traffic." The Oregonian cannot agree with him that money spent on river improvement is wasted. .We hold that much of it has been wasted because injudiciously ex pended. . To admit that all has been wasted would be to admit that we are incapable of doing what Germany has done with eminent success make our rivers into economical arteries of traffic co-ordinated with f the rail roads. We should not cease to im prove our rivers, but we should make a radical change in our methods. The decline of transportation on our navigable rivers and on rivers which can be made navigable at rea sonable cost is due to our neglect of water traffic during the era of rail road construction. Free from Gov ernmental control, the railroads con ducted a competitive war not only against each other, but also against water lines. They bought steamboat , lines in order to kill them and they bought water terminals in order to prevent their use as such. Facing uch conditions, owners of steam boats, instead of keeping pace with the 'march of Improvement, as have German water lines and as have American railroads, are still doing business with the facilities of forty years ago or have retired from the field. Having to meet the relentless, exterminating competition of the rail roads and being deprived of the best sites for, water terminals, they can not procure the capital to bring their vessels and port facilities up to date. They are in the same position as a railroad which should attempt to haul 'traffic today with the "Puffing Billy" of primitive railroading days. At the same time the clearing of forests has brought alternate periods of flood and extreme low water, with the choking of channels by the alluvial soil washed down from the hills. The Government so far has done .nothing to remedy these conditions except to improve those channels on behalf of which political pull was exerted. Those Congressmen who sought funds to improve actually navigable rivers could not succeed unless they agreed to vote funds for rivers which never could be made navigable or never could develop traffic enough to Justify their im provement. The Kissimmee and the Oklawaha, to which Mr. Frear allud ed, are examples. When the rivers have been improved their port facili ties are either non-existent or anti quated; in fact, they resemble a rail road without terminals. Competition In rate-making between railroads has ceased with the tacit consent of the Government, but not between rail roads and water lines. The litter are therefore shunned by investors, and, having out-of-date facilities, cannot compete. Governmental lack of pol icy, having reduced them to this plight, holds them responsible for Its causes, and such' men as Mr. Frear mould seem to favor abandonment of the whole policy of river improve ment as the penalty to be visited on the victim. There is an opportunity for the great rivers of the United States to become as crowded with traffic as are the great rivers of Germany if we go about their development in the same businesslike way. Senator Newlands has proposed a plan for utilization of the Nation's water re sources for all their varied purposes, which will gain this end if wisely and persistently followed. He proposes to Intrust all branches of the wort to one commission and to appropriate a fixed sum of $60,000,000 a year for the purpose. He asks an initial ap propriation of $500,000 in the pend ing bill to begin the work. Under his plan the commission would care for water resources In all ways for nav igation, power, forest and soil con servation, irrigation, drainage and urban consumption; would guard against pollution and would co-ordinate river with rail transportation. His scheme is broad and statesman like. If it should be sanctioned, that fact will "take the curse off the present bill. KOOSEVEXT AT FIFTY-SIX. Theodore Roosevelt will be fifty-six years old on October 27, 1914. He Is In the maturity of his intellectual power; but he has passed the summit of physical vigor. Yet it is a remark able fact that in the past five years- after he had passed the half century mark he has successfully under taken feats that might well have de terred a younger man. Within a few months after he retired from -the Presidency in 1909 he went on a long hunting trip in Africa, traveling thousands of miles and enduring many hardships under the blazing equatorial sun. Within the last year he has completed an eight monms exploring tour through the wilds of South America. From the time when he "was four teen, and with his father made a trip up the Nile, to his most recent hur ried Journey to Spain, Colonel Roose velt has been a great traveler. He has been more. He has been the most conspicuous apostle of the strenuous outdoor life in all the world. He is horseman, boxer, - wrestler, hunter, pedestrian, traveler, explorer, natur alist, soldier. He is many other things too. What a man! What a life! Now at fifty-six, with traces of Jungle fever in his system and the deBnite symptoms of laryngitis to warn him. against the free use of his voice. Colonel Roosevelt is told that he must rest. Probably he will not, but it may be imagined that he will slow up somewhat. He has reached the period when he must conserve his vitality by inactivity, after a long and consistent campaign to build it up by constant activity. Other men at forty-six are less vigorous than Roosevelt at fifty-six; but even he has learned that the human machine can not go at high speed forever. ' We are told by a great philosopher that "all men deem all men mortal but themselves." So it has been with Colonel Roosevelt. He is immensely surprised, no doubt, to discover that he is subject to the universal law of decline and decay. So it is. Tet he is not an old man. But be must cease to regard himself as a young man. HOW TO SATE MONET. A onsDlcuouslv learned Democratic contemporary offers the argument that because Democratic Governors a record of vetoing a greater total of appropriations than Republican Governors, it is a measure of economy to elect a Democratic executive. Tes indeed. John D. Rockefeller saved more out of his income last ooi- than rUrl Ttieodore Roosevelt. Mr. Rockefeller is a Baptist; Colonel Roosevelt is not. Therefore, if you would save money become a Baptist. If the illustration be not ciear, just recall that the last two Democratic Governors have been In office during the period of the state's greatest de velopment and largest appropria tions. In the eight years of Chamber lain and West the appropriation bills passed by the Legislature, Including those vetoed, exceeded the appropria tions for the preceding eight years by about $12,000,000, and were two and one-half times as great. The last Legislature appropriated more than $6,000,000, including con tinuing appropriations and hew mill age tax levies. Approximately one third of this total was recommended specifically by Governor West. The $2,000,000 in appropriations he recom mended exceeds the total appropria tions of either the 1899 or 1901 ses sions. In 1905 the Democratic candidate for Governor was a member of the State Senate. In that session Dr. Smith voted for every law that specifically carried an appropriation, or slanted or squinted at one. His record in other sessions is the same, substantially. Great is Democratic economy! But It seems to be of two kinds. Is It now offered as the Smith type which winks at everything or as the West type which vetoes for spite only and counteracts with gross exec utive extravagance? OUR ' GIFT TO CANADA. . The attention of those "who Imagine labor derives no benefit from the Republican tariff policy and suffers no injury from the Underwood Dem ocratic tariff Is Invited to the condi tion of affairs In the shingle industry of Washington and British Columbia, ..n..iiv.iv Th situation Is forcibly stated in a report of a committee to a meeting of Washington smngie man ufacturers. In 1909, when the duty on shingles was 30 cents per thousand, about 580 carloads of shingles were shipped from British Columbia into the United States. In 1910. 1911 and 1912, when the duty was 60 cents per thousand, innrt. wore nnlv about 200 carloads a year. In the first four months of 1914, when shingles entered auty-iroe, nnn.- 14 89 carloads, and In April alone were more than in the flrst four months of 1913. tseiore ino duty was removed many British Co lumbia shingle mills were either closed or running half Urns. Now practically all are running full time and many are running night and day, and from 125 to 140 new machines have been Installed. British Columbia shingle manufac turers pay 12 cents per thousand for Oriental and 15 cents for white sawvers and 90 per cent of the saw yers are Orientals. In "Washington sawyers are paid 17 to 19 cents per thousand. British Columbia pays packers 6 cents per thousand and they nail their own bands. Washington pays 9 cents for packing and 2 cents additional for nailing. British Colum bia pays laborers $1.60 to $1.75 per day and employs Orientals; Washing ton $2:33 to $2.50 per day. Washing ton pays $80,000 for a section of tim ber on which Interest at 6 per cent is $4800 a year and pays taxes aver aging $1500 a year on each section. British Columbia issues timber licenses requiring a yearly payment of only $150 per section and a charge of 60 cents per thousand feet when timber Is removed, this to be Increased to 80 cents on January 1. Washington manufacturers say that a reduction of wages is necessary to enable them to compete with British Columbia and will make it effective July 1. The union will resist and threatens a general strike in the entire lumber Industry. The net result of the Underwood tariff is to force American shingle manufacturers in self-defense to re duce wages to the Oriental standard maintained In British Columbia. We THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE are fairly successful in excluding Oriental labor, but if we admit Its products free, our labor must accept the choice between Oriental wages and no job. An attempt was made by the tariff reformers to console it with the prospect of lower cost of living, but any reduction in that par ticular has been so small as to be im perceptible. Had the United States gained any advantage at any other point by ad mitting Canadian lumber and shingles duty-free, there might be something to say for that policy, but we have gained nothing. We have literally handed over the shingle industry to Canada without receiving anything In exchange. Reciprocity would have been an exchange of openings In each other's markets, but the Canadians re jected It. They apparently foresaw the advent of a Democratic Administra tion and reasoned: "Why should we pay for what Uncle Sam offers, when, by iwaiting a few years, we can get it for nothing?" If so, their reasoning proves to have been eminently sound. DEFECTS OF PRONUNCIATION. A suggestion Is at hand that Ore gon's now famous spelling bees should Ha flnnnUmAntAH rtv omnrjAtitlonS in pronunciation. It is pointed out quite rightly that such contests wouia ao much to prevent useless cruelty to the English language. Who is 'there but can spell many words he does not dare attempt to use in conversation? Who is there but has an Infinitely hlo-cpr vnrAhulArv when seated at a writing desk than when conversing with friends? - The trouble is that the average per- enn 4a n it BlwflVS nhlA to rACOCnlze his limitations in this regard. This is particularly true or a certain type oi public speaker who takes hideous lib erties with a word that he feels he has mastered through continued use in reading or writing. With a dozen or two of these errors in his speech ho mav aneerillv train a refutation for being illiterate and uncouth. How can he blame such errors upon his stenographer? TPrnniinHiirtnn !. a. real test- of a person's polish. The correct use of words the giving to each letter its proper value and to each syllable its mnnr RtrAM 1s as rare as it is magnificent. The person who speaks n mm?-? until hA has mastered the sounds that go into its proper con struction will speedily gain a reputa tion for erudition. How many of us pronounce in a proper way sucn simple words as rinse, alias, recog ntflnA attache, echelon. asDaragus. collision, fete, fiancee, boudoir, exit, not to mention a thousand and one even simpler words of common use? Even those who feel that they com mit no offense with .the simpler words might experience an occasional shock by checking up. It Is on such shoals that persons of superficial polish often wreck the bark of their pretensions. - The other day an Important citizen mAntinnnH in trm riresence of many hearers the President's "pischologlcal depression. EVOLUTION OF THE BATTLESHIP. rAntAnfirlp ire always interesting and useful in that they serve to take us back through the vista or years anu emphasize the progress being made by the human animal In working out his destiny. This Is peculiarly true in the matter of inventions, If not in some of the fine arts. No more ef fective exhibition of man's wonderful tnmnttitv run tia found than in the evolution of the modern steam-pro-Kottiachin Th cAntenarv of this gigantic creation Is at. hand to morrow and a glimpse or tne super dreadnought of today and of the first American steam battleship of one offers a striking contrast. It may not reflect especial credit on man as a moral creature that he is still building these engines for destroying human life and prop erty. But the contrast does show that vviat -hA iam tArinv is done on a big ger scale than could have been dreamed of a century ago. The building of the first fighting Dtflm omff wiu lnsoired in much the same manner as is that of modern armored leviathans. The noDsons oi 1814 knew nothing of the Yellow crii ThAn TCne-ia.nd iwas the coun try's bugbear and with some little reason. English men-or-war, pro pelled by sails, were wont to send New Torkers into the shivers on frequent occasions, and when Robert iTnirnn NireAstRd a steam fighting craft that could wipe out a whole sail ing navy he was hailed with cries of joy and embraced as a deliverer. It was a wonderful boat that was then laid down on the banks of East River, New York. The people of that day looked on in awe as the big craft grew into being. She had two hulls, v.) tn nrnivt tri wheels with which she paddled her way into action. Thus two keels were required imu r,riro Hpr boiler, or "caul dron for preparing her steam" as it was then olliciauy aescnoeu, rai in one hull. Her engines were in the avia KhA vu nrovided with an ar mor four feet ten Inches thick this of stout wood. In those primitive days such a coat was sufficient to Dtt tit a ntff-flAat pjurnon ball. Such destructive subtleties as high explo sives and armor-piercing shells had not been conceived, .tier cost wm $320,000, her length 167 feet, her horsepower 120 and her speed 6.4 knots per hour. An AvnArtAncArl naval officer who was detailed to command this formid able monster of the sea insisted on supplementing her horsepower with sails. He does not seem to have been the most progressive man in the world. At least no nan uouuus oui that new-fangled steaftn apparatus and was' not Inclined to take any chances. But when the craft was launched she made her trial trip un .tAom sm afterward succeeded irf getting along admirably without sails. This, of course, gave the sail ing game a blow from wnicn n nas rnlttr nunnKd. Bv Way of armament the new terror was pro vided with some thirty tmrcy-iwo- pounders and a couple or pivotal suo marine guns which Fulton had per fected. That she never had occasion to use thAcA iin A-rr-ont for firing salutes: may prove a disappointment to naval historians and observers. A combat with this craft, which bore the un gainly name of Demologos, but was popularly known as the Fulton, would have enriched the History or nava. warfare vastly. But peace settled over the country at this period and the 1814-model dreadnought passed Into decay a few years later, and was at last blown up by an explosion of her magazine. However, she served to set a new .(-.ia rf fiehtine- craft which has steadily advanced with feverish activ ity in preparedness for naval warfare, j Today one battleship could sink a whole fleet of Fultons without losing a man or incurring the slightest risk. The new type American dreadnought is at least three times as long as the first one, more than three times as fast, has thirty times as much horse- power and costs twenty to thirty times as much. But the trend of events seems to show that the battleship will never see more than this one centenary. There are Indications that It will not endure another hundred years of growth. If It should the dreadnought of today doubtless would be a mere plaything for the monster of a hundred years hence. Aerial navigation bids fair to do away with the super-dreadnought before the lapse of another century. Or perhaps man will have outgrown such murderous and senseless devices by that time. Who knows? THE KM 11 RE BUILDERS. There is only one possible com plaint that a reasonable auto-traveler can make against Klamath Falls. The asperities of the road between that city and Ashland are readily forgiven for the sake of the view of Mount Pitt which refreshes one at every urn Tha Whltn TAllMLn Hotel is AS wonderful in Its way as the lakes, the mountains and the lava Decs. Ana as for growth and general progress Klamath Falls holds its own with any tnm aA Waatam fireo-nn Tint tTlA inquisitive visitor naturally looks around first for those mementoes of the Garden of Eden which nave maoe the city famous and he does not find them at least not in plain sight. No doubt they are sacredly treasured in Am a Iririnlnhla Arvnt til A orlfrlnal fig leaves that Adam and Eve wore at a critical moment and a scale from the Arch Enemy's back, but it wouia be pleasing to travelers If they were more accessible. Over the 100 miles which separate tTlmtti TTnlln frnni T.fl.ltevlaw a car runs smoothly. The last twenty miles of the road are especially good and visitors therefore enter Lakevlew in a pleasant frame of mind prepared to make the best of conditions in a town where railroad connections are poor as yet and freights excessively high. jfni- a rinvAn mtlpx before entering Lakevlew the Journey Is cheered with the company or an irrigating oucn which winds around the mountains to imTm.i. wtftAv tn th a Gooi Lake country. The dam and reservoir for this project are twenty miles boutn of Lakevlew. The dam spans a chasm in thA Hvinir rock and forms an arti ficial lake some thirty miles In cir cuit, which has naturally riooded a good deal of arable land. One of the homesteaders whose farms have thus suffered went Into that region about five years ago and nnHartnnlr to raise, crona without irri gation. He built his cabin and barn with culled lumber obtained cneapiy vATn tnA rittfh rnmnuiv. which has a sawmill near the dam. A well twelve feet deep gives him plenty of ice-cold water. To clear orr tne sageorusn ana plow his land cost him about $10 an acre. Since frost is to be expected avat-v month in the year in that ele vated region, he sowed no grain but rye, which thrives rainy well upon the natural moisture. Two years after this man took up his claim a lad from the Willamette Valley settled on the nTi nnarter section and built a cabin near the common boundary of their land. They are near neignoors, eacn without a family, and there are no other dwellings ror mnes arouno thAm Nnlther of them had any cap-" Ital to start with but sturdy muscles onrf o H.torminpil will. Thev have earned something every season by working in the Ditch company's saw mill and upon the dam. This Bum mA tViAv -TaaI rich because thev have a contract to make five miles of new road through the sagebrush, which will bring them in $500 in a lump, with thin nm at their command they can buy a team, the implements they need and perhaps a cow. x neir ianu now produces enough to keep a few head of stock through the long, cold Winter. They begin to feel, there fore, as If they saw victory ahead. Tha imn urairi nf thA surroundine mountains look friendly to these young empire-builders and tney reao In the desolate expanse of sagebrush the promise of home and comfort. What courage Is theirs, what will power, what Invincible hope! No hardship daunts them. Solitude, toil, unkindly nature cannot discourage them. It was such as they that founded the commonwealth of Ore con fn nfnneer times and thousands like them are laboring inconspicuous ly In the eastern counties of the state to make farms and cities where Na ture made nothing but a barren des ert. The tract around Summer Lake has been particularly attractive to ambitious young men. Artesian wa ter is readily obtained in this extra ordinary region, so that farms can be irrigated inexpensively. The supply of subterranean water is so aounaani that in nnA nlfloe it burst UD in the midst of the arid sand, forming a con siderable stream, the Anna River. cifviTiA nf tiA flow from this remark able spring has been conducted upon the neighboring land, cut most or it goes to waste. Snmmnr Lak is fed by innumer able small streams which Irrigate the farms upon its DanKS. it la tnore fore surrounded by a border of vivid o-r-AAn Tha farmhouses are well built. Orchards are seen in sheltered coves. Schoolhouses are well cared lor. J.ne QiivnmAi. TiaIca communitv has the comfortable air' of an old and pros perous settlement. Tne traveler mi ting along the road is obliged to turn mt fF mnv Nil automobile and a group of machines at a baseball game between two local ciuds on oununj afternoon Beemed to suggest that here man hart fmind the old. historic struggle with nature neither severe nor discouraging. Summer Lake Is a beautiful sheet of water shut in by lofty mountains. The white Incrustations which follow the shore In a line almost unbroken aua it' a sininiiar asDect. Thev must contain thousands of tons of alkaline material which, if it la useful for fer tilizer, will some day be a source of rrn wAnltri. The wonderfully good highway between Paisley and Silver Lake skirts Summer Lake ior many miles. It then crosses the divide to Silver Lake, whose shore it follows through wild mountain ecenery al most to the village of that name. All through this part of Oregon the peo ple are building roads. Great sums of money have already been spent upon them and they are spending lav ishly this Summer. The road ap proaching Silver Lake is a fine exam niA nt irnnH Ancrlneerine. The bed Is smooth, the grade Is easy, the track gives ample space for teams to pass. Here and there the highway is shored up with lofty retaining walls, which remind one of the" scientific road building In the Swiss mountains. 23, 1914. When the traveler compares the small area of tilled land in this re gion with the vast expanse of sage brush and mountain forest, he won ders where the money comes from to do all this fine work. No doubt the people have mortgaged their future for it, and they have done wisely. The worst roads of Eastern and Central Oregon run through the for est land, much of which lies in the National reserves, where It Is no body's business to see to the high ways. The heavy freight wagons drawn by four, six or eight horses, which still traverse this interior sec tion, wear the roadbed into deep ruts. The numerous automobiles Tying along make matters worse. The strong Summer winds carry on the work of destruction by scooping out the dusty soil tons at a time. Every body who rides from Lakevlew to the northeast must Join in wishing that the Forest Service would catch the good roads fever t HEALTH, CLIMATE AND 1JOHTNING. Dr. Rossiter discusses today (Fifth Section, Sunday Oregonian) the im portant and Interesting subject of climate and -health; and he tells in his usual clear wfay why Portland Jias a nearly Ideal climate. It Is because nearly all the factors for an equable and healthful climate are present. There are no extreme temperatures; great humidity is practically un known; rains are gentle and rarely severe; there Is much sunshine; cloudy days are not oppressive; there are few wind storms; and so on. The condition Is quite perfect. It is to be noted that Dr. Rossiter says nothing about the tender sub ject of lightning. Well, we have no lightning In Oregon never; or, rather, hardly ever. All the authorities tell us so; and all the pioneers are united in their testimony. But, of course, there are exceptions. It is difficult to understand why, in the divine economy of things, it should have been ordained that there should be a thunder and lightning storm at the time .of the recent balloon ascen sions at the Rose Festival. The usual chorus of complaint that comes to The Oregonian, and to the Associated Press, after a great local news event, that you rarely see a Portland head line in the Eastern papers, was silent on that occasion. The Eastern press gave adequate attention to the lost balloons and the thunder and light ning. But we digress. Oregon is one of the healthiest places, with the most nearly perfect climate In all the world. There are more centenarians and near-centenarians In Oregon than an other state of like population. There are also more healthy young men and rosy-cheeked maidens. We are fortunate, indeed. WHICH POLICT SHALL WE CHOOSEf When President Wilson announced that his purpose was to uplift the op niwH ft s nor i-mt of Mexico, he by implication confessed that the Tam- pico Incident was a mere pretext iur interference in the Internal affairs of Mxieo. He has since been exposed to fire from two directions from those who demand that intervention be made effective by armed force and frnm thnsa who hold that he has no constitutional power to Intervene on behair of the peons. Among the latter class Is the New TnrV Sun which Quotes section 8 of article 1 of the Constitution, giving Congress power to -provide ior tne common defense and general welfare of the United States," italicizing the words "of the United States." It quotes article 10, which reserves to the states respectively or to the peo ple all powers not delegated to the United States nor prohibited to the states. It also quotes the preamble, which specifies as among the purposes of the adoption of the Constitution "to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity," italiciz ing the last four words. The Sun suggests that an amend ment Is necessary to protect us against such complications as have arisen with regard to Mexico. It out lines an amendment which would bind every candidate for elective of fice, as a condition of - having any votes counted for him, to file an oath declaring that he has studied the Con stitution and is In mind to pursue its purposes. This amendment would disqualify as a candidate any person who had advocated warfare for any purpose other than those Indicated In the Constitution, or who had advo cated application of taxes tp any pur pose other than the common defense or public welfare. The Sun says such an amendment "would .automatically vnpir a a atnnner UDOn all such de signs as that of 'extending the bless ings of liberty to tne citizens or any other country than the United States, nr that of imuroving the system of government In any other country than our own, or that or more inorougniy carrying out a system already there prevailing." It continues: It would also automatically put a stop per upon every scheme for constituting the United States . "suzerain of the Western Hemisphere," or of attracting to us the honors of a suzerain, or of subjecting us to ni.ifi.i. mawI anv fnrAlm nower bv reason of wrongful sets having been com mitted against tne suojacie oi iuuu turcica power outside the dominions of th United States but within this hemisphere and mot punished by us. Tn contrast with the Sun's "mind our own business" policy is that pro posed by Charles F. R. Flint, whose irnnwiAriirA nf Latin-America is de rived from diplomatic service and ex tended business relations. He advo cates Joint - intervention by the TTnttAri KtatAc Brazil. Argentina and Chile. He argues that this course would quiet any suspicion among Mexicans that as-B-randlzement was the aim, and would avert resistance, while Intervention by the United States alone would provoke resistance. Ha AVAn hAllAVAA ths constitutionalists might welcome Joint Intervention, for he regards their final victory as cer tain and he says that, when they have taken Mexico City, their aimcuities nil tinvA inRt hpnin. Thev will not retain any of the Huertlstas In their government and thus exclude all of thA xiAntirlcos who alone have experi ence in governing the country. Few of Carranzas ioiiowers nave hj knowledge of business and govern mAnt and thpv will need somebody's aid. The A-B-C nations understand th. MATlcnn mind as we do not ana would render us a real service by act-in- in concert with us. Having achieved power, Madero failed to or ganize a government in race or eoum ern Mexico's opposition to a North u..ian ruler Reform of the land system must begin promptly after the capital Is captured, ano outsiae nia will be needed. Mr. Flint has aided .mAAArA rf c.&xTkTii. In studying municipal government. Jurisprudence and land tenure in mis country, xne constitutionalist chief proposes to change-the whole fabric of govern- Imtnt. and friendly Intervention would help him. Here we are offered two extremes or policy. One, based on strict construc tion, holds that we must leave Mex ico to stew In her own Juice. The other, based on broad .construction, would have us form a concert of America to aid Mexico first, and then other American nations which need help. In establishing Just, stable gov ernment. The severest criticism to be made on Mr. Wilson U that he has consistently followed neither policy, nor that of Intervention by this country alone. He has Intervened by moral suasion when force alone would be effective. He has drawn back from using force after he had begun. The imbroglio Into which he has been drawn bids fair to force the Nation to a choice among three poli cies mind our own business. Inter vene for other nations' welfare, or form an American concert to main tain the peace of Amerlca. Wtth a state of high tension exist ing between Greece and Turkey, the Greek reserves are ordered to the colors. At last accounts it did not appear likely that a conflict would ensue at this time. But the pains and expense of such a mobilization r Justified by the requirements of pre paredness. Reserves are yver any too effective and practice in mobilisa tion is valuable where a country has to fall back on Its citizen soldiers in time of war. The United States would profit greatly by seizing op portunities to mobilize the reserves, or National Guard. But then we do not seem to care especially about pre paredness, prefering to await actual hostilities when our unwieldy fight ing machine Is lumbered out unolled and unready. Thls most pungent analysis of the Administration's-Mexican policy has already been printed in The Oregon ian, but it ought to be repeated and emphasized. It is the exact truth: The present Administration haa. with re gard to slexico, pursued a course waver lng between peace and war. exquisitely de signed to comblno the disadvantages ot both and feebly tending flrst towards one and then towards the other. l:-unlly it hns per mitted the free Ingress of arms Into 14 both from this country and from others. Occasionally, however, It has undergone spasms of understanding that these arms might ultimately be us'd against our own troops, it has then prohibited the landing of arms, sometimes wobbling bsok again to its original position, as when it took Vera Cms to prevent the landing of weapons and munitions of war and shortly afterward per niltted the very same arms and munitions to be landed. That is Colonel Roosevelt's opinion. It Is the opinion of a great majority of the American people. General Huerta says he has not the slightest Intention of attacking Funs ton at Vera Cruz. That bears out our theory of why the Mexican federals were getting chesty around the Amer ican outposts ' Inasmuch as we Intend doing noth ing about Mexico, why not quit our diplomatic meddling and give that country a chance to siraignien out the mess we've helped make? Of course when the Japanese see our marshalling of military force t ftnarhart next month they will never so much as give another thougrlt to the Idea of retaliation. Don't let the attitude of Japan make you the leust bit uneasy. The Administration still has Hawaii, the Philippines, Alaska and the Pacific Coast to dispose of. An Albany editor at a wedding proudly proclaimed that he had worn his necktie to a hundred other wed dings. He was discreetly silent re garding the shirt. It is now found that the Colonel has enlargement of the spleen. When he recovers from this dire ailment he may be able to see things In a dif ferent light- French noblemen flocked to the big Aht An maasA Amnnn thOSA DTeSent were the Dukes of Moran and John son, but the Count or Ten couia not make it SUU those who want the battleship Oregon to head the procession through the canal will admit that the good ship Piffle haa some rights In the matter. The latest weather rampage In the Middle West suggests that the Inhabi tants should add life belt to the equipment of their cyclone cellars. Army officers are resigning In con siderable numbers. Spineless diplo macy will eventually kill what patriot ism there is left In the country. However, a strong police detail should be provided when the Huerta and Constitutionalist delegates get to gether at Niagara Falls. Never mind the flag. After spend ing eighteen American lives to en force a salute to Its folds we've changed our mind. One of our nisiono irigates us now to be sold, despite protests. Need the nAnA., fn, thA nnrlr hsrrsl. vou know. If these militants keep outwitting the royal guards King George will have to do his moving about incog. A French balancing device Is said to make aeroplanes absolutely safe. Must keep them on the ground. Bryan's Commoner protests that un limited Congressional debate delays legislation. Yes what? With Japan spouting, Hi Johnson ought to be able to work hts way back Into the limelight. Sixteen saloons have been dropped In Portland. We'll manage to strug gle along. The doctor says Teddy must have a rest of four months. Is this a con spiracy? The vacationist vanguard Is al ready getting back for a much needed rest. Columbia oarsmen won after twenty years. Persistent as the Democracy. Anyway the Washington crew was saved from last place by Wisconsin. Except for exploding auto tires It will be a tranquil Fourth. The June bride season Is rapidly growing to a close. Wonder If Japan will resort to watchful waiting Gleams Through th Mist By Dean Cejlllaa. A stork, a rooster en. pup War oa tha lake a-salllag Within a tue: "twss filling Aad there was aead ef balling The pup. with paws fleag te and tra. To ball It did aeeay; The stork aad roaster said: "he, set We kaosr better way. (This tale, of rears, snar be tr 1 aasraly frame It P for yea.) "see." aa!4 Ibe stork. " bole I grill. And then, beyond a doubt. The tub will promptly ceaea t fill The water will ran eut." 1 fear yeur plea.- the pap did rata, "With terror asset pprrslTe." HtllL- said lbs stork. "It avsM U Tb achsm seems a pregreaelea." The rooster aald as wead ta earb. Tor b waa working ea a speech. Then rows ef boles lb stork did dslll T let the water eut. But la a greater torrent still The liquid la did epoal. "Osr said th pup, wub tearful blteh. "Cms drilling helea I pray. Or by and by th tub will aim " Tb tall stork answered: "WarF "Oh what eare t tha retr crew, "Chautauqua season's aim est let" Th water gathered In apae Ana on ini ' ,. . . And spread throughout the narrow And Dlgnt sunmervea in pup. "Ceass us, and belt." the eanln cried. "Yo knew I ranaot swlas." Thea don't," the sad -eyed Stork replied. And coldly looked at him. (Tor. Ilk th rabbet or th erk. Water doe net aaeey a etork "t'nleea some measare soon w lake. I'm lost." exclaimed the pap. "I fear wa'r all doomed te th lak Th tub Is nigh tilled up" Then came the aoleaia stork's reply I "Csss worrying, my pall Tour fear f wet Instead of dry Is psychological. Th rooster Interposed t say: "Chautauqua ssasen ea tedey." Th moral: which by everyone should well be understood). Thst many an awkward thing Is Deelgned I end I good. And If It aeeme to work out III, And ra se the very dear One finds psychology Is still A very good esruee. This makes ths fsbla clear; aad yet Wet nater doea eeem doggone wet. see Sir." said th courteous office bo. "If you'll bend your ear. I'll toll yew a good on I'v Just heard. I bant my ar. . of whispering by th C. O. B. "My on," I gald. "why yen out to lunch with those men from th oopy desk?" "But It strikes m a good story SI that" he parried. 'True, perhapa. my in." t retortad. "but who could put It ovar enywher outside of vudvlll or on cf our pro gresslv popular msraslncs without being pinched?" And then I hld him under th faucet and sprinkled chloride of Urn ups his young and untutored mind. e e e Soloes Twang!. Milady's gown grew lees and less. But aftsr all Is e er. The ratio Is about the eame e e e ReSlrrtluaa f Heart we Klfta. Moat snyons rsn plln bow sssr it 1 for you to break a bad habit thst they ain't nvr formed themealvee. "Nature sbhor m straight lln or s square." I heard an art lecturer say. "and sh tends to curves and crooks. ' And X sot to thlnkln" how Matur mad man, and. 1111 must bo a plumb amorphous pUc; I har so many peopis rnntlo eo many thins that It Is Ilk. a a If Teaojeaa Were ea Third asre-s. Half block. Half a block. , Half a bloik onward. into a maze at light Suddea I blundered; Arche t right f tne. Arches t left of me. Krlgnt liks a chrisima tree. Mora than six hundred. There bow it oeemed ta as There, whll I wondered. Crowds to the rtsht ef see. Crowd! to the left ef me. Crowds all In front of tne Bellowed nd thundered; All down the buer ay. it wae as bright as dav. Thst was sure some display. And It's e wonder That 1 stood and wondered, e e e AppiwxJssal niatwry. 13.211 B C. Jam KharVfln breaks his father's will and Inherit tha ontlr estate; th head of the othr lr hav ing been th Instrument on which tb will was broken. 110 B. C First Roman Conaul take office and t one begins to Interpret to th publlo what ho meant In bis campaign plodgea. HIS A. I. Kins John, threatened with th recall. grant Ih English Barons a few of ths rudiments ef di rect legislation. ITU A. D. BnJmln Franklin, fly ing a kit In a thunder storm, lsys th foundation for all our prnt woe over telephones, telegraph and the electrlo meter that goes round so faal. 1SI0 A. D. National rrohlblttoh party nominates Neal Dow snd H. A. Thompson. Thr hsvs slo nominate a number of other prominent cltlsens sine that year. 1SS A. D. A psychological condltloa of depression Is mildly appsrant. 1111-11-11-14 A. D. Mx. sit. In statu aufl. which Is great stuff for VlUs and th revolutionists. Mediation com mission still stalled st th fourth Ut ter of th alphabt- Th Investor ef Steel Ralls, Milwaukee Sentinel. Th first modern steel rail of the . 1. 1 w . . .1 . hlh eneed railway operation poeslbl wr dlnd by Pltmmon Henry lmlly. who was born at Freedom, Ohio, vt years i. - i i m r,A tviAtallurfflral n 1 ner. and after four year as chief en gineer of th City Ol Aaron, vuite. -. hi. t i n n (a railroading and transportation problems. Dudley's Hist invention, th synsgrapn, w.. ..- . r..-A the track Indicator In li0 and thr yar later designed th first flv-lnrb stl rail " . i - mi ha Introduce! th first glx-lnch 100-pound rail. Another of hi Inventions wnn-n iiiu- ...1....." a tndsv Itoeslbla w S moua iij ci- . th trmmatograph. an Instrument for obtaining and regieienne, e. rails under moving tralne. nasbaad sad trill. Ktrhang. Tou rn 111 bow a man treat hi wlf by th manner la which b ear. "How do you IQ" Veteea ef tb rewele. Atchison Oloh. On th other hnd. eom choagee aren't md because th poopla, who get mad, can't tay mad. Oenalet tar . Eicbanga. If on Is young enough. It I oy ta) find om oeeaaloo for a calibration. 1