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THE SUNDAY OltEGONIAN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 20, 1914. K CAUSE " ANSWERS CAMPBELL MacCULLOCH .X V V SSI t ' - jt i iris ; Children in Costume UavSng.VinaoSchoL 5H:- f1rf BlaoK-White-Greei ReoimcnL Drillma of Girts. PImw kr- CVirt Tk(ea. N. T si fi""'. THOUSAND men hava a thou sand differing' opinions as to the cause of the European con flagration. Many incline to the Opin ion that it all la du to the prideful lust of the KalBer to display his bat talions In battle; others Trill assever ate that the German war lord has gone mad with militarism and can not be restrained, while still others are convinced that the Teutonio Em peror Is a much-abused individual, who has been thrust into a corner and a saber forced Into his unwilling hand. All are wrong and none is right, for the war is not a military display; it la not based on anger and hate; It Is not the product of one man's energy or folly. The blase that has arisen in Europe is an economlo situation without parallel in many years, for it is due entirely to the Ger man babies. The German babies 9,000,000 of them arriving yearly have brought about a struggle that cannot but re sult in geographical changes. The pink and white infants have sent bat talions. Into the firing sone, the dreadnoughts Into the deep. Many nations are locked In a death struggle all because the German baby must have room to grow. Ten million men are at war with one another on land and 2,000,000 more upon the sea all because a chuggy German fist is reaching yearly for more land to spread Its blanket upon. In a word. It is land hunger terri torial greed if you like that has pre cipitated the greatest war modern centuries have seen, and no man knows where it will end nor what it will involve. Japan has already en tered the war as an ally of Great Britain, and Italy may move for war any day. The German Empire has no history hack of 1871. In that year, and later after the Franco-Prussian war, be- life m itefesfeisBu. tell XM rw ihiirTwriT Till Photooraph Shows the-Emperor and Empret ol Germany at the Opening of the Beach Resort at Ahlbeck. EstatRsHCl fqrihe ?oorr Nounsnea wireren 01. me weax ciue qi uermanyv continued to arrive, steadilv. contlnu- an the causes that have led up to ously. And they stretched and crowed the present horror. Germany Is the and grew up and when there was little youngest of the nations. The genius more room for tnam tney emiRrated. of Bismarck welded United Germany; it WOuld seem that this emigration was the mailed fist of the Iron chancellor tna sofution of the problem. English took the fragments of the confedera- babies grew up and .emigrated; French tlon and forged an empire. The dim- babies grew up and did likewise; Ital- piea iisi oi mo ucrmn.u d.oj uma lant Spanish, Dutch babies crossed th "- seas and made new homes, so one t,on- might ask why the German baby Jf Territory for Expansion. should have been a problem at all, and When Germany came to the point of why the land hunger? peaoe after the Franco-Prussian War xh problem lay In the colonies and recognised herself as one of the again. As before stated, England had Powers of Europe she naturally . r " Klanoed about her to see what should be her next step. Obviously a Euro pean Power could not be a Power when hemmed In ' by other countries and a short two hundred miles of open sea board. Other nations were expanding. so why not Germany? Unfortunately, 000,000 Germans in 1900, and the babies dealt largely at the colonial bargain counter, France had taken her share, so had Italy and Spain, all quite some will continue to remain a German sub ject. In fact, the statistics show that he doesn't. Of the 1,278,679 Germans time before there ever was a United resident In the United States, accord- Germany in Europe. When those Eng lish and French and Spanish and Ital ian and Dutch babies grew up and emigrated they did so largely to their ing to the last census and this refers merely to males of voting age 70 per cent had renounced the Fatherland and had become American citizens. They own possessions over seas, and those were lost to Germany; they had no that did not came to the United States, part In or of her; they contributed Now, it Is plain that an Englishman nothing to her and could not be ac- emigrating to Australia or New Zea land or Canada continues to foe a Brit ish subject, but it is not so positive that the German emigrating to any of those countries or the United States counted longer her children. To what extent the same condition exists else where would be mere guesswork, though, as the German is by Instinct a good citizen. It is to be presumed his thrifty consideration of his property lltillllSiS -'-- : : II .vM.iv; H,. , , ' J If ::fe.;r --Vi-;::. I If mmsfmnLB .,-.-v. .., i fgf- :.-VKmaaMJt mmmLm'Mt.Kt9tvfmu.m!i i.nniyn-j""" ' HmmHsxJ? 4 A ENGLISH AUTHORS, THEIR MARKETS GONE, SEEK TO HELP THE COUNTRY Children Near Frankfort. for a year that the Germans might ris at any minute and claim the two statet for Germany, throwing the Monroe Doc trine to the winds. In Pearson's Msga slne during ltll apppeared two articles by Theron Lowell Brant In which it was argued that Germany's war prepa rations were not directed against Eng landas feared at that time but against the United States, with the ob ject of smashing the Monroe Doctrine and taking what was needed of Brazil. The German babies needed room to move. It may be asked why Germany ehould worry so about her babies. Othjer na tions saw their children depart and be come citizens of other lands without grief. The answer lies in German pride. In the spirit of patriotism that the Kaiser has striven so continuously to foster and increase. "Once a German always a German" has been his slogan. There is no profit in training soldiers to fight and then release them to become effi cient cltlsens of one's neighbors across the sea. Teaching Germans to wave flags for the Fatherland and then by economic pressure to see them depart to wave flags for Borne one else Is neither gratifying nor expedient, espe cially when one has a vast reserve corps that must be counted on, and large, parts of which cannot he called back to the Fatherland once citizenship Is renounced. It has been argued that Germany can stand a much greater increase In popu lation without alarm; that her arable land Is amply sufficient for the needs of a hundred million. In the commer cial reports a question rises of Itself. Germany Imported nearly a billion and a quarter dollars' worth of food stuffs in the last year. Why, If there Is all that arable land? The situation Is solely one of terri tory. The statesmen of Germany have known since their empire was born that eventually they must come to fights would lead him to take citizen- are of recent origin. The former haa grips with some power or powers and ship wherever he might be. never struck a blow, nor for that mat- carve out for themselves new territory. Germany's navy and merchant marine ter felt one, yet it ranks second alone To those that doubt this It may be to Great Britain and is regarded as said that every move made by Germany newspapers. As he seemed to have highly efficient. Ostensibly it is or- has been In preparation for territorial nothing In particlular In mind to Write ganized to protect German commerce expansion In the last 25 years. Soma it was suggested that probably this on tne high seas, yet one cannot go day she knew she must fight if she line of effort would not be fruitful, but aniong the politicians of Europe with was to remain among the first powers that it was unaersiooa snori stones such a Btatement and find genial ere- of Europe. At Bpandau nas Deen Kepi having a war flavor were In demand aence Qn the oontrary, grins and open the war treasure, 1SO.000.000 In gold. s .- i -I?i1r Jisef !;tii jr. Vfrr'-i - S v r: - - . . . School Children Out for a Walk, the colonial bargain counter had been . ONDON. Sept S.-epecial.)-Eng- tremely practical suggestion for the Hampton Court, has started working ma 0 Appeared Instantly, and on the 'V" nelv" tnat theTer.on -h. Id not be hampered by having to all too well picked over by the time Hsh authors, big and little, are be- Immediate erection of a town of wood, parties there to make garments for the nt day informed me triumphantly " ts .T, , ,w ' . .I ask the country for money so she took Germany began to look about her for lng Wd hIt by the war whlch hut. at Porto Santa Venefe for the forces. This authoress, who really .3 That he had wriUen two complete short M7t otrtLl"a!n o? he7FrInTh war indemnity foreign possessions. She had little , or hag practically killed the publishing accomodation homeless victims. Mrs. Theodore Cory. ha. made quit, stories, one of 2000 word, and one of ttlement. Jlo o Euro,. No on. a. a nucleus for the emergency fund. " mnT noDt raoote'of land Sat l trade here- but tne orlt of thea1' wk V??, ' "Bherlock Hoime."- a mint of money out of h novels. 3000 word, in the previous 24 hour. "m nTr with 1h. tr.nd of Euron "e to " every year since, of and not a loot of land that lay which sleuth Is so soon to make his re- which now number 30 odd. She began E W Hornung. the author of "The lamulr wlln lno trena oi turo,pean d fop years without her own borders until 1881. instead of whining about their post- appearancha. of ooura. alway, by writing child stories, and was a -in rl, nZZ " ut nuMiXd here and -Womaey believe, for one moment that She h" b?.e "dy 5 A.J Then she found Borne corners of poned volumes and raoldly-vanishlng Africa Togoland, Cameroon, a bit of royalties, are devoting themselves to Southwest Africa, and a spare bit of figuring out just how they can help the East Coast. In the next fifteen best In this hour of national need, years she found some of the islands of Among the first to do something the South Paclflo and that has been definite are Robert Hlchens, E. W. all, with the exception of a bit of Hornung, Winifred Graham, who wrote China, Kiau Chow, which is but a "Ezra the Mormon," and, as one would pocket handkerchief in size. been an advocate of Belief of Teuton People. The babies have forced this war. It rifle-shootlna. of 18 with her hair down hr hitc n ... r "R.ffi.." la Germany is content with her position Now he write, to the press from Win- in fact a "flapper." a. they call them sending hi. only child, a fine young among the nations All. on the con- UD" out a slice of Ru.- dlesham hi. home In Sussex, to sug- hera-when first she attained th. dig- fellow of .19. off to serve hi, country h h" 'Vw V LVlov lt raen wno can una no omer uy oi pnni. - and i, ,0 distresses tnat ne nimseir ,V thJ ih w.f. French soil to add to Alsace-Lorraine, way of serving their country shall An English woman novelist whose cannot go that he is unable to get on "";rl"me P,Ve?: tn ' M It she can drive England from Africa form themselves into local bodies, name is even better known In the with the novel he had contracted to no 8hlP. and wtntg to own the ports retaln her hold on Belgium, she which shall drill and learn to shoot. United States than in England and one write for one of the American maga- to which many of them steam. m b content for tn8 babies can organizing themselves and forming a of whose books ha.d a sale in A tnorln zlnes. In Southern Brazil, in the State, of j . ... have confidently predicted. Sir Arthur reserve without worrylnsr the author!- of over no fino Mni h Amnnni all ' Hallia Ermlnle Rives is also UDset. Sao Paulo and Mlnas Gerares. are many ,i ... At first the situation wa. not visibly Conan Doyle. Hlchens. who now live. tie. In any way. llterarv work, denied herself of everv She and her husband. Post Wheeler. Germans, most of them unnaturalized. ,i w .. -iri. i In this small town," writes Sir Ar- possible luxury and given her whole had started off, via St. Petersburg, for because they find It possible to hold Brazil, and they will still be subject serious. Immediately after the war the near Whltstable, where the best Ens whole population was but 42,000r000 or llsh oysters come from, has taken on thereabouts, and in the next three years it had progressed but a few hun dred thousand; then it began to grow vigorously, and the babies arrived promptly and continuously, grew up, stretched and - looked about. The special constable's duty there. He and the Town Clerk were the first to offer their services. The author of "The Garden of Allah" should make a use ful constable. He 1. active and ath letic and stands 6 feet 10 Inches In their business to call to the colors, still will an- thur. "we have raised 200 such men. time to training as a hospital nurse. Toklo, where Wheeler was to resume property and conduct who are hard at work drilling and at No American magazine can hop to his old post of first secretary of the without the necessity of renouncing awer the Fatherland In her hour of tha butts. We have had 250 appllca- have, another short Story of hers for American Embassy and where the nov. their German allegiance. Three years neea for those babies will grow up tions from other centers as to our months to come. ellst was to finish a novel she had all ago Brazil was in a ferment. It wa. German citizen.. method of organisation. Another novelist well known In laId out. They were turned back by known that 500,000 German, were in Te Kaiser has dreamed a dream. "No one can tell," he adds, "the America how ona wishes the names the war, however, and after losing their those provinces and that practically the. and whether he has had a Daniel to course of this war nnr Tirwiii-t how far could be elven. but It wouldn't ha fair servants and their luggage and their, whole of them were trained soldiers: it i.t Fatherland wa. beginning to get height, with a pair of shoulders like a in a few months' time the existence of informed tha writer that hi. entire money turned up in London this week, was known that German officers had or whether the vision will be fulfilled, cramped, and there was no room for "gym" Instructor. All his hobbles are BOme hundreds of thousands of addl- patrimony and savings hava been In- everything except what was in been brought over to officer th. Bra- That dream has been the Teutonic dom- expansion. Less than 209,000 square open-air ones. He plays lawn tennis tlonal men who have some elementary vested in speculative Russian securities their handbags. They will have to silian army, presumably, and It was inance of Europe. William II has cast miles of territory In Europe, with and rides and drive, even In these mo- military training may affect tha situ- on which he was unable at present to tay here until they can get a steamer weu established that Brazil was might- his eyes across the seas. He has seen boundaries as fixed and immovable as toring days. He was in Italy at tha ation." realize a penny and the value of which fr home and no one knows how long ,iy uneasy in her consciousness that she vast territory most of it red and it steel bands, and In that constricted time of the Messina earthquake, and In Meanwhile. "Winifred Graham." ha1 nldenlv dronned to nraetlall tha.t will be and then will have to set .- . , vi. tu tt- that crisis, as in this one. was among whose best-known book after '.'Ezra nothing. He had become almost pennl- ir'ounthe world to the greldea? efficient, than her own. within her bor- be satisfied. The destiny as he be the first to offer help. He contributed the Mormon" Is, perhaps, "The Vision less, and wanted to know If he couldn't Cf tha looked-for novel. ders. lleves of the German people drive. Z500 to tne. relief iuno, ana an ex- at the Bavoy," and who lives out at "write something" for tha American HAYDEN CHURCH. area barely the combined size of Mis souri and Montana, which shelter ap proximately 00,000 babies were ST.- There was a rumor that persisted (Concluded on Face 6.).