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THE SUNDAY OTtEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 1, 1914. 5 OREGON HALLOWEEN PARTY BIG SUCCESS rounding Lille have been taken and retaken time after time. Event at Panama Pacific Ex position Building Is Dis i tinct Novelty. While the larger ships of the German navy remain under the protection of their harbors, the submarines continue to show activity, and another British cruiser has been sent to the bottom as a result of a raid by one of these de structive boats. The official announce ment of the sinking of the light cruiser Hermes in the Straits of Dover gives no details except that she was de stroyed by a German submarine and that most of her officers and men were saved. SPECIAL FEATURES MANY Officials or Fair, Mayor Kolph, o( San Francisco, and Loyal Ore gon lan s Join in Enthu siasm of Occasion. BAN FRANCISCO, Oct. SI. (Special.) Oregon was first tonight In the hearts of 800 guests who crowded the Exposi tion building as guests of the Oregon 6oclety of California at a Halloween dance, which was pronounced one of the greatest social successes and one of the most distinct novelties in the form of entertainment ever given here. Exposition officials. Mayor Rolph, of the city government, members of all other state societies and every loyal Orego nian within the city limits joined in the enthusiasm of the occasion and en Joyed to the utmost the unusual pro gramme of special features which in terspersed the regular canclng pro gramme and came as a surprise to those present. With the exception of one Oregon frirl. Miss Dorothy Epplng, of Hood River, who did especially clever dance interpretations of Halloween legends, these features were all provided by professionals from local playhouses, and were the pick of the talent available. Even A amber Bright. "Slivers, the inimitable clown, gave one of his performances worked up along1 the Halloween idea which con vulsed the guests. Every number was bright, clever and snappy, and each came as a surprise, unannounced. Under the masterly hand of the as Blatant director of exhibits, W. E. Ben ton. a carload of cornstalks, arranged in huge shocks about the supporting columns of the main floor and In lanci ful design against black backgrounds on the walls, became artistic and beau tiful. A life-sized black witch, weav ing in and out through the air all even ing astride the legendary broomstick, and a pumpkin which had to be cut in half before it would be put through the big double doors of the building. were the objects of much comment. Society Is Represented. Alfred Holman and the other Orego clans on the reception committee were assisted by Mayor Rolph and the ex position officials in receiving guests. Many beautiful costumes were worn. and San Francisco society was well represented by many leaders of the ex clusive smart set. The reception committee included: Alfred Holman, Ernest H. Palmer. W. H Herrin, H. B. Little, George L. Walker, Claud Gatch, Walter S. Thompson Henry Ach, G. W. Boschke, Director Frank L. Brown, Gay Lombard, Judge J. M. Troutt, L. F. Weaver, James J Black, Mrs. J. W. Howard, Mrs. Frank Gregory Todd, Mrs. C. J. Crawford, Mrs. . westaanl, Mrs. John iimnger. Mrs, William Hume, Mrs. M. O. Winch, Mrs. it D. Hume, Mrs. Theodore Little. Mrs. ?(. A. Melvin, Mrs. Eugene Holber. Mrs. D. .Fountain. Mesdames Hallon. Kane. jvmte and juoyd. The East Prussian frontier is again the scene of a big battle. The Germans fo,r five days carried out heavy offen sive movements, but, according to the Russian reports, were repulsed with immense losses. In Poland the Ger mans are reported to be falling back to new positions near their own Iron- tier, while in Galicia the fighting con tinues without any material change. The British government correspond ent with the Russian army. Professor Bernard Pares, in describing the de feat of the German forces near War saw, ventures the opinion that there is little likelihood of a further German aggressive movement in that region before Winter. Russian official reports tell of prog ress in several districts on the Eastern Prussian frontier and the repulse of the Germans, after five days of fight ing, who had been endeavoring to RICH TAPESTRIES SAVED Historic Weaves From Rheims Pre' served From Destruction. PARIS. Oct. 16. (CorresDondenc'e of the Associated Press) Forty-two pieceB of tapestry of great value were saved from the Rheims Cathedral, Including 17 pieces representing the history of Christ, by Daniel Peppersock. a gift from Henri of Lorraine, archbishop of Rheims from 16JS to 1641, and 17 pieces representing the life of the Holy vir gin, given in 1530 by Robert de Lenon court, archbishop of Rheims. There were among them also two pieces, considered the best produced by the Gobelin manufactory, represent ing the Acts of the Apostles. WAR'S ENORMOUS WASTE APPARENT Labor of Century Destroyed in Weeks Where Armies Have Fought Each Other. EFFECT IS FAR-REACHING Toll of Human Life So Great, Says Richard Harding Davis, That Dis asters Less Appalling Are Easier to Understand. J Continued From Vlrst Face.) driven from home and the homes de stroyed. No churches were bombard ed. Men in this country who after HOOD RIVER GIRL WHO WAS FEATURE OF HALLOWEEN DANCE IN OREGON BUILDING AT SAN FRANCISCO. j -J j r " - -In. . V 1 f I 1 1 I 4? $"4 h " 4 ' A ' break through the Russian center the Bakalarzewo region. in ITALIAN MINISTRY OUT QUESTION OF MILITARY PREPARA TION CAUSES RESIGNATIONS. BANK ROBBERS IDENTIFIED Four Slain Sedro-Woolley Hlghway- men Were Russians. BELLINGHAM. Wash.. Oct. 31. All the four highwaymen who held up the fiedro-Woolley bank and who were killed later at Hazelmere, B. C, and Ferndale, "Wash., were Russians, ac cording to a letter received today by Sheriff Thomas from a private detec tive agency in Seattle. The two men killed at Ferndale were identified as Gambo Mizoroff. of Se attle, and Kezel Bigeoff. The two others were said to be Jambobot Kadi ft and Kslan Jizeloff. The fifth robber is still at large. 2 JAPANESE NOW WATCH Cruiser Joins Ilizen Off Honolulu Where German Gunboat Waits. HONOLULU, T. H., Oct 31. The Japanese cruiser Hizen, standing off this port for several days, watching for German ships, was joined today by another cruiser of her nationality. The name of the second vessel could not be learned tonight. A third, vessel in the offing is believed to be a col lier. ' The Hizen has been watching for the German gunboat Geler,' which put in here for repairs October 14 and. is etlll here. . Neutrality Approved But Difference Exists as to Measures for Press ing Nation's Claims. LONDON, Nov. 1. The Italian Cabi net has resigned, according to a dis patch from Rome to Reuter's Telegram Company. The Italian Cabinet has suffered from the same division of opinion as exists in the country at large. Italy's neu trality has been approved by the whole Cabinet, but there existed among the Ministers two opinions, as in the coun try, the one favoring military prepara tions at any cost, and the other sup porting the Idea that the risk of Italy's becoming involved through these meas ures was disproprotionate to any ad vantage she might gain. By those holding the latter opinion it has been pointed out that Italy would become strong daily and would be able to push her claims at the right mo ment, possibly without recourse to arms. A definite decision regarding the Ministerial crisis awaits the return of King Victor Emmanuel, but the general opinion is that Premier Salandra's task will not be limited to the appointment of new Ministers of the Treasury and Foreign Affairs, the latter office made vacant by the death of Marquis Dl San Giuliano. It is argued that a Ministry thus reformed would still lack homo geneity, the absence of which caused the resignation on October 9 of General Grand! as Minister of War and then the resignation of Signor Rubini. The belief is held here that the King will entrust Premier Salandra to or ganize a new Ministry. In this way the Premier would be free ,to select Min isters of a mind to meet the present situation with unanimity. ITALY OCCUPIES SASENO Admiral Patrls Seizes Island Com manding Avlona Harbor Entrance. LONDON. Oct. 31. A Stefanl Agency dispatch from Rome says: "A semi-official note has been Issued saying that the Island of Saseno was occupied yesterday by Admiral Patris of the Italian Navy, who disembarked one battery and a company of infan try. The ownership of this island. which commands the entrance to the harbor of Avlona, Albania, long has been - a subject of dispute between Greece and Albania." WAR MOVES OF SATURDAY tContlnued From First Page.) has been evacuated by the Germans lack confirmation, and are considered premature, but around the former city fighting of a desperate character has been going in. and the villages sur- ALLIES ORDER WARM COATS Four St. Paul Firms to Supply Sheep-Lined Garments. ST. PAUL, Oct. 30 Orders for a larger number of sheep-lined coats have been placed with four local firms by the English and French govern ments through banking houses, accord ing to an announcement tonight. The four concerns are expected to turn out 6000 coats a week. GALVESTON. Tex.. Oct. 31 Several officers of the Greek army arrived here today, saying that they were com missioned to purchase 3000 . head of horses for use in the Greek army. They will leave tomorrow for Oklahoma, where, tney sam, purchases are to be made. Xew Zealand Buys Canadian Wheat. LONDON, Oct. 31. A dispatch from Melbourne to Reuter s Telegram Com pany says that the government of New Zealand has arranged to obtain million bushels of wheat from Canada before a shortage occurs there. The government purposes selling wheat slightly below its cost. Otherwise famine prices would prevail in New Zealand, many years had cuilt up a trade in Europe were not forced to close their mills and turn Into tne streets hun dreds of working men and women. Most Innocent Suffer. It is in the "by-products" of war that the waste, cruelty and stupidity of war is most apparent. It Is the most innocent wno suffer and those who have the least offended who are the most severely punished. In Belgium and France the vacant spaces are few and the shells fall among cities and villages lying so close together that they seem to touch hands. For hundreds of years the land has been cultivated, the fields, gardens, or chards tilled and lovingly cared for. The roads date back to the days of Ceasar. The stone farmhouses, as well as the stone churches, were built to en dure. And for centuries until this war came they had endured. Honsea Made Famous by AVar. After the battle of Waterloo some of these stone farmhouses found them selves iunous. In them Napoleon or Wellington had spread his maps or set up his cot, and until this war the farm houses of Mont Saint Jean, of Caillou, of Haie Sainte, of the Belle Alliance re mained as they were on the day of the great battle a hundred years ago. But a hundred years after this war those other houses will not be shown on picture post cards. King Albert and his staff may have spent the night In them, but the next day Von Kluck and his army passed and those houses that stood for 300 years were destroyed. In the papers you have seen many pic tures of the shattered roofs, and the streets piled high with fallen walls and lined with gaping cellars, over which once houses stood. The walls can be rebuilt, but what was wasted and which cannot be rebuilt, is the labor. the saving, the sacrifices that made those houses not mere walls, but homes. A house may be built In a year or rented over night; it takes longer than that to make it a home. The farmers and peasants in Belgium had spent many hours of many days In keeping their homes beautiful, in mak ing their farm self-supporting. After the work of the day was finished they had planted gardens, had reared fruit trees, built arbors; under them at meal time they sat surrounded by those of their own household. To buy the horse and the cow they had pinched and saved; to make the gardens beautiful and the fields fertile they had' sweated and slaved, the women as well as the men; even the watch dog by day was a beast of burden. When in August reached Belgium, between Brussels and Liege the whole countryside showed the labor of these peasants. Unlike the American farmer, they were too poor to buy machines to work for them and with scythes and sickles in hand they cut the grain, with heavy flails they beat It. All that you saw on either side of the road that was fertile and beautiful was the result of their hard, unceasing, personal effort. Then the war came like a cyclone and n three weeks the labor of many years was wasted. The fields were torn with shells, the grain was in flames, torches destroyed the villages, by the roadside were the carcasses of the cows that had been killed to feed the invader, and the horses were car ried off harnessed to gray gun-car riages. These were the things you saw on every side from Brussels to the German border. Peasant Like Gypsies. The peasants themselves were hud dled beneath hedges. They were like vast camps of gypsies, except that less fortunate than the gypsy, they had lost what he neither possesses nor desires, a home. As the enemy advanced the inhabitants of one village would fly for shelter to the next, only by the shells to be whipped further forward; and so each hour growing" In number, the refugees fled towards Brussels and the coast. They were an army of tramps, of women and children tramps, sleeping in the open fields, beneath the hayricks seeking shelter from the rain, living on the raw turnips and carrots they plucked from the aeserted vege table gardens. The peasants were not the only ones who suffered. The rich and the noble born were as unhappy and as homeless. They had credit, and In banks they had money, but they could not get at the money; and when a chateau and a farm-house are in flames between them there is little choice. Three hours after midnight on the day the Germans began their three days' march through Brussels I had crossed the Square Rogler to send a dispatch by one of the many last trains for Ostend. - When I returned to the Palace Hotel, seated on the iron chairs on the sidewalk was a woman, her three children, and two maid-servanta, The woman was In mourning which was quite new, for though the war was only a month old many bad been killed among them her husband. The day be fore at Tirlemont shells had destroyed her chateau and she was on her way to England. She had around her neck two long strings of pearls, the maids each held a small handbag, her boy clasped in his arms a forlorn and sleepy fox terrier, and each of the little girls was embracing a bird-cage. In one was a canary, in the other a parrot. That was all they had saved. Innocent Are Trampled. If it confined itself to destroying forts and cats' cradles of barbwlre, then it would be sufficiently hideous. But it strikes blindly, brutally, it tramples on the innocent and the beau tiful. It is the bull in the china shop, and the mad-dog who snaps at children who are trying only to avoid him. People were incensed at the destruction in Louvain of the Library, the Catholic College, the Church of St. Pierre that dated from the Thirteenth century. These buildings belonged to the world and over their loss the world was rightfully indignant, but in Louvain there were also shops and manufac tries, hotels and private houses. Each belonged, not to the world, but to one family. Those individual families made up a city of 45,000 people. In two days there was not a roof left to cover one of them. The trade those people had . built up had been destroyed, the "good will and fixings." the stock on the shelves and In the storeroom, the goods in the shop windows, the portraits in the drawing room, the souvenirs and family heir looms, the love letters, the bride's veil, the baby's first worsted shoes, and the will by wnich . someone bequeathed to his beloved wife all his worldly goods. Beer and Church Goods Destroyed. War came and sent all these posses sions, including the will and the world ly goods, up into the air in flames. Most of the people of Louvain made their living by manufacturing church ornaments and brewing beer. War was Impartial and destroyed both the beer and the church ornaments. It destroyed also the men who made them and it drove the women and children into con centration camps. When first I visited Louvain It was brisk, clean, prosper ous city. The streets were spotless, the shop windows and cafes were modern, rich looking, inviting, and her great churches and Hotel de Ville gave to the city grace and dignity. Ten days later, when I again saw it,. Louvain was in darkness, lit only by burning buildings. Rows and rows of streets were lined with black, empty walls. Louvain was a city of the past, an other Pompeii; and her citizens were being led out to be shot. - The fate of Louvain was the fate of Vise, of Ma- lines, or Tlrlemant, of Liege, of hun dreds of villages and towns, and hv th nme mis is printed It will be the fate of hundreds of other towns over all of Europe. War Horses Are Wasted. In this war the waste of horses is appalling. Those that first entered- Brussels with the German army had been bred and trained for the purposes of war, and , they were magnificent specimens. Everyone who saw them ex claimed ungrudgingly in admiration. But by the time the army reached the approaches of Paris the forced marches had so depleted the stock of horses that for remounts the Germans were seizing all they met. Those that could not keep up were shot. For miles along the road from Meaux to Soissons and Rheims their bodies tainted the air. They had served their purposes, and after six weeks of campaigning the same animals that in times of peace would have proved faithful ser vants for many years were destroyed that they might not fall into the Hands of the French. . Just as an artillery man spikes his gun, the Germans on their retreat to the Aisne River left in their wake no horse that might assist in their pur suit. As they withdrew they searched each stable yard and killed the horses. In village after ' village I saw horses lying in the stalls or in the fields still wearing the harness of the plow, or In groups of three or four in the yard of the barn, each with a bullethole in his temple. They were killed for fear they might be useful. Automobiles Soon Worn Out. Waste can go no further. Another example of waste were the motor trucks and automobiles. When the war began the motor trucks of the big department stores and manufac turers and motor buses of London. Paris and Berlin were taken over by the different armies. They had cost from $2000 to $3000 each. and. in times of peace, had they been used for the purposes for which they were built. would several times over have paid for themselves. But war gave them no time to pay even for their tires. You saw them by the roadside cast aside like empty cigarette boxes. A few hours tinkering would have set them right. They still were good for years of service. But an army In re treat or in pursuit nas no time to waste in repairing motors. To waste the motor is cheaper. Between Villers, Cotterets and Sois sons the road was strewn with high power automobiles and motor trucks that the uermans naa Deen lorcea to destroy. Roads Rendered Useless. Motoring from Paris to the front these days is a question of avoiding Visit the Manufacturers and hand Products Show at the Armory It's Very Much Worth Your "While The Blanquette Model-- A new model, having strong . popularity. The coat is cut so there is no seam at the shoul der, and it automatically ad justs itself to the wearer. Cut full and draped with a very pleasing effect of easy, roomy comfort and swagger style. A. very distinctive model in several attractive fabrics. "Warm, very comfortable to wear, and of rich stylishness, which brings instant approval- Balmacaans $15 to $35 Main Floor ''' BEN SELLING LEADING CLOTHIER Morrison Street at Fourth roads rendered useless because a broken bridge has cut them In half. All over France are these bridges of iron, of splendid masonry, some deco rated with statues, some dating back hundreds of years, but now with a span blown out or entirely destroyed and sprawling In the river. All of these material things. motorcars. stone bridges, railroad, tracks, tele graph lines can be replaced. Money can restore them. But money cannot restore the noble trees of France and Belgium, 80 years old or' more, that shaded the roads, that made beautiful the parks and forests. For military purposes they have been cut down or bv artillery fire shattered into spun trs. Thev will again grow, but 80 vears Is a long time to wait. Nor can money replace the greatest waste of all. the waste In "killed. wounded and missing." The waste of human life In this war is so enormous, so far beyond our daily experience that disasters less appalling are much easier to understand. The loss of three people in an automobile accident comes n&arer home than the fact that at the battle of Sezanne 30.000 men were killed. Few of us are trained to think of men In such numbers; cer tainly not of dead men in such num bers. We have seen 30,000 men to gether only during the world's series or at the championship football matches. To get an idea of the waste of this war we must imagine all of the spectators at a football match be tween Yale and Harvard suddenly stricken dead. We must think of all the wives, children, friends affected by the loss of those 30,000, and we must multiply those 30.000 by hundreds and Imagine these hundreds of thousands lying dead in Belgium, in Russia, in Alsace-Lorraine and within 10 miles of Paris. Ambulance Service Swamped. After the Germans were repulsed at Meaux and at Sezanne the dead of both armies were so many that they lay intermingled in layers of three and tour deep. They were buried in long pits and piled on top of each other like cigars In a box. Lines of fresh earth so long that you mistook them for trenches intended to conceal regiments were in reality graves. Some bodies lay for days uncovered until they had lost all human sem blance. They were so many you ceased to regard them even as corpses. They had become Just a part of the waste, a part of the shattered walls, uproot ed trees and neias piougned oy sneiis. What once had been your fellow men were only bundles of clothes, swollen and shapeless, like scarecrows stuffed with rags, polluting the air. The wounded were hardly less piti ful. They were so many, and so quickly did they fall that the ambulance serv ice at first waa not suriiclent to nandli them. They lay In the fields or for ests sometimes for a day before they were picked up, suffering unthinkable agony. And after they were placed in cars and started back toward Paris the torture continued. Some of the trains of wounded that arrived out side the city had not been opened in two days. The wounded had been with out food or water. They had not been able to move from the positions in which in torment they had thrown themselves. The foul air had pro duced gangrene. And when the cars were opened the stench was so fear ful that the Red Cross people fell back as though from a blow. For the wounded Paris is full of hospitals French. -English and Amer ican. And the hospitals are full of splendid men. Bach one had been physically fit. or he would not have been passed to the front, and those among them who are officers art finely bred, finely educated, or thej would not be officers. But eact matched his good health, his good breeding and knowledge against I broken piece of shell, or a steel bullet and the shell or bullet won. They al ways will win. Stephen Crane called a wound the red badge of courage. II is all of that, and the man who wean that badge has all my admiration. Bui I cannot help feeling also the waste ol It. I would have a standing army foi the same excellent reason that I in sure my house; but, except in self defense, no war. for war (and I hav seen a lot of it) is waste, and waste li unintelligent. 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