THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, APRIL 25, 1915.
BISMARCK SCION
IS TYPICAL FARMER
Practical Idealism Shown in
Systematic Efforts to Save
Soil From Wasting.
BRAVE ENGLISH WOMAN DECORATED BY KING ALBERT OF
' BELGIUM.
BRITISH WASTE AMAZES
Great Tracts Reserved for Hunt
ing Regarded as Degradation.
Attention to Minute De
tails Is Characteristic.
ST JAMKS ODONNFXr, BENNETT.
ICopyHBht. 1!15. by the Chicago Tribune.
Published by arrangement).
(JRAUDENZ, Germany. March 30. I
don't know that you could call Von
Bismarck of Jarchlin nephew of the
famous Chancellor typical of the class
of Junkers, or young gentlemen farm
ers, of Germany.
Perhaps ha is too poetic and fine fi
bered to be wholly representative of
those hale and intensely practical
squires, but one may consider him tne
highest type of a class that with her
soldiers and manufacturers is the bul
wark of modern Germany.
.,t i (Ti however. when I od-
i hi. upfiirArv of statement, his
passion for method, and his quiet. ex
ecutive ways of performing the mill1
o-.. u.rvira to which he has been as1
signed I wondered whether it were not
the sensibility of Von Bismarck and
i, .. Miii rcK like him that
makes these men so emphatically ere
atlve factors in the scientific develop
Bient of German agriculture.
It r elect Hold Profanation.
They have a sensitiveness for the
oil. The neglect of It they regard as
ort of Drofanation and consider
themselves as in some sense consecrat
tn th jisk of reserving its fecund
ity by the most careful rotation and
fnrtlllT.ntinn.
'-Hence a practical man of affairs, this
cadet of the house of Bismarck; knows
rnnntriia Hnd men and methods, and
n h mm a horizon.
England he knows thoroughly, hav
ing visited there for considerable peri
ods: knows her in her strength and
her weakness and in her contradictions
in her spirit of dauntless pioneering;
in her superciliousness, her flabby love
of comfort, and her fatuous wasteful
ness: in her boundless resources and
her dreadful poverty. .
Beggars Arc Not Seen.
Such poverty, even in these rigorous
war times, does not exist In Germany
I have been in the country nearly four
months out of the six beginning last
September, spending hours and some
times days in 15 of the large cities of
the kingdom of Prussia, and I have
never been accosted by a beggar. No
man could spend 15 minutes any even
ing in Piccadilly without being way
laid by one.
The class in which Von Bismarck is
a high expression are gentlemen farm
ers in the sense that many of them are
men of gentle birth.
But they emphatically are not dllle
tante farmers. They have factors and
head farmers, but they know as much
about cattle breeding and the working
of the soil as their factors and head
farmers know.
An eight years' course in agriculture
is part of their preparation for taking
over the lands of their ancestors.
Heavy Responsibility Accepted.
Land that an Illinois farmer would
not plow they make to produce with
amazing bounty by a system of liberal
and scientific fertilizing, and when they
discovered that the war would reduce
the imports of fertilizer to almost noth
ing they turned with confidence to the
German chemists, and the German
chemists are producing fertilizers out
of the air.
These men acknowledged a heavy re
sponsibility to their lands and to the
people who work for them. Most of
them try to live up to that responsi
bility. Forty-three men on the Pommeranian
farms of Bismarck of Jarchlin have
jrone to the war. So has he. Of the 43
three or four have fallen In battle. The
master of Jarchlin continues to pay the
wages of the living, and the dead in
full.
"All of us do," he said, seeming to
take It as a matter of course.
These proprietors are men of large
. fortune and when they turned them
selves and their automobiles over to
the empire to be incorporated into
the imperial volunteer automobile
corns they brought the German "Ideal
- ismus" as well as a great amount of
proficiency to this important branch
of the military service.
Thousands of them brought their
chauffeurs along with them, but if in
an emergency a chauffeur is lacking
they run their own cars. Isext to
playing the pipe organ in a cold
church during an off duty hour, Mr.
von Bismarck would rather run his
own car.
So when these men take the cour
iers' brown portfolio under their arms
' and Jump Into their cars for a 150-
mile ride through a snow storm in the
enemy's country they constitute an
extraordinary trustworthy set of
couriers, men not always as hardy as
trained soldiers but of the highest
probity and purpose and of more than
average resourcefulness. I have seen
them swaying on . their chairs with
sleepiness after a long, night's drive
and I have also seen them shake them
selves together in an instant when or
ders came.
Von Bismarck commented on agri
cultural matters. I had noted the
fact that the fields were in many places
tilled to the edge of the highway no
waste or clutter anywhere.
"'Yes." he Bald, "we German farmers
respect the sou too much to waste it.
He spoke of the great tracts reserved
for shooting in England ond of places
which their proprietors look upon only
as luxuries to be enjoyed in tne Sum
mer.
"We call that a degradation of the
land," he said, adding: "It seemed tc
me a dreadful thing when an English
man who had lived for BO years In
Yorkshire and also had 40 farms in
Ireland sold IT of those farms at
stroke of the pen without ever having
Been thorn.
""That must be a fine country my
English friend said to me after th
sale was completed.
"'But surely you know,' I said.
" 'No,' he replied, 'I have never been
there."
"And yet my friend had been in Af
rica, Asia and Canada."
Von Bismarck said the same science
and system which make German farm
ing so profitable were applied to Ger
man forestry. The publicly owned
tracts are a source of great revenue
to the state and the cutting of' timber
from the privately owned tracts is con
trolled by the state. No owner is al
lowed to slaughter his woods.
As fast as he cuts he must plant and
each year he Is allowed to cut only a
certain proportion of the various
growths of timber. Thus his forest Is
'" constantly renewing itself, the rainfall
is not diminished and the water courses
are not dried up.
.
HFERIIO CREATED
III WOOD OFAILLY
MISS Hl'RIEL THOMPSON.
Miss Muriel Thompson, of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps, has
been personally decorated by King Al bert with the Order of Leopold II for
bravery in the field in rescuing wound ed from the trenches under heavy shell
fire. . '
Intensive Bombardment, Pre
paring Way .for Advance,
Plows Every Inch of Way.
SOLDIERS ARE DRIVEN MAD
VESSELS ARE SUNK
Submarine Activity in North
Sea Is Renewed.
DANISH VESSEL CAPTURED
Two Norwegian Barks Carrying Pit
Props to Scotland Destroyed, .
Swedish Freighter Torpedoed,
Norwegian Strikes Mine.
China number 51 and that Yuan Shl
Kai has acceded to all but seven of
them.
Li Sum-Ling, a representative of the
Chinese Minister of Finance, who is
here on a financial mission, said he
seriously doubted the veracity of the
dispatches.
'SCANDINAVIAN DAY' OCT. 1
State Fair Board Member
nounces Plan for Feature.
An-
LONDON, April 24. The Norwegian
teamship Caprivi. which sailed from
Baltimore April for Christiania by
way of Ardrossan. Scotland, struck a
ine at a point 15 miles northeast of
Tory Island, last night and sank, ac
cording to a dlspatcn received nere to
day by Lloyd's Agency from Inishtra-
hull. Ireland. Tne crew 01 me cap
rivi was landed at Inlshtrahull today.
The Swedish freighter tutn was suna
by a German submarine on Wednesday
when about 100 miles east of may
Island, in the North Sea. The crew
was rescued and landed at Lelth, Scot
land.
The Ruth left Leith with a cargo of
coal for Gothenburg. Captain Andre-
sen reports that the first torpeao ais
chaged by the submarine missed its
mark. The second struck the Ruth
amidships, wrecking the vessel.
The 16 members of the crew were
all Swedes. They drifted in small boats
12 hours before being picked up.
The crews of the Norwegian paras
Oscar and Eva were landed today at
Drury Island, Scotland, by the Danish
steamship Anna, flying the Danish flag.
A German submarine overnauiea tne
barks about 170 miles northeast of the
Longstone and allowed their crews 10
minutes to board lifeboats. The sub
marine then shelled the abandoned
vessels.
Subsequently the German suDmarine
stopped the Anna ana oraerea ner io
take aboard tne crews oi ino yjaixi
and the Eva. The barks were oouna
for a Scottish port aad were loaded
with pit props.
COPENHAGEN, via London. April 24.
The Danish steamship Nldaros, 613
tons net. has been captured by a Ger
man warshtn In he Nortn toea, and
taken into port at the Island of Sylt,
one of the North Frisian Islands. The
Nldaros sailed from Aarhus, Denmark,
for England with a cargo or agricul
tural products.
STOCKHOLM, via London. April 24.
The Finnish steamship Frack has been
torpedoed and sunk in the Baltic by a
German submarine. It Is believed the
members of her crew were saved. The
Frack carried a-cargo of iron ore. and
was on her way to Abo, Finland.
SIX COMPANIES APPEAL
SALEM, Or., April 24. (Special.)
Mrs. Edythe Tozier Weatherred, member
of the State Fair Board, announced to
day that one of the features of the
meeting this year would be "Scandina
vian day." She has arranged with Rev.
John Ovall, of the Methodist Church,
Pacific Swedish Mission Conference, of
Portland, to make the preliminary ar
rangements. -
October 1 will be "Scandinavian day,"
and Mrs. Weatherred and Mr. Ovall be
lieve it will be one of the most lUk.
cessful of tire fair. Efforts will be made
to induce Scandinavians attending the
Panama-Pacific Exposition to return
to their homes via Portland and Sa
lem. so they may attend the State
Fair.
TRIBUTE IS PAID TO WOMEN
Mr. Withycombe Answers Request
for Advice on Clean-TJp Week.
SALEM, Or.. April 24. (Special.)
Governor Withycombe paid a tribute to
the women of Oregon in a telegram to
the clean-up committee of the Port
land Chamber of Commerce in which
he said:
"I am delighted that the Portland
business men are taking up clean-up
week. My only cuggestion is that you
officially ask every commercial body
in the state to appoint an active com
mittee to co-operate locally. I also be
lieve that women s organizations will
be leaders in the work and deserve the
fullest recognition. They are our best
house-cleaners and state cleaners."
The Governor was asked for sugges
tions by the committee, and the tele
gram was in response to tne request.
"Clean-Up week oegins Aiay .
HAG LIS TRIBUNAL ASKED
CHINA IN CRISIS.
TO AID
In 90 Minutes on Front of 400
Yards, 2 0,00-0 Shells Are Fired.
Mines, Bayonets, Grenades
Are Used in Engagement.
PARIS, April 24 An official eye
witness describing the operations by
which the French are menacing the
German positions in the wedge of St.
Mihiel says:
"All the Ailly woods, which consti
tuted a strong and well-fortified sup
port for the Germans, is now entirely
In French hands, conquered for the
most part by troops from the center of
France, after several days of sys
tematic preparation by a heavy fire
from three-inch and big guns and by
aerial torpedoes. At certain points the
Germans had constructed, in front of
moats 12 yards wide, spiked barriers
extending about six feet above the
level of the earth, surrounded by
barbed wire entanglements, which
were so intricate as to make them im
pervious to any tools. r
Breacbes Made In Defense.
"A concentration of artillery fire
oneneri larsre breaches in this defenee,
parapets were sent crashing to the
ground and dismembered bodies were
blown into the air above the clouds of
smoke. The earth was ' strewn with
overturned trees and branches.
"After five hours of intense fire five
mines, laid under a parapet adjacent to
the principal fort holding the position,
exploded, annihilating the garrison and
spreading: panic in the trenches.
"An attack with fixed bayonets then
besran in three lines, preceded by
detachment with nand grenades. En
gineers followed with little bridges
which had been prepared In advance to
facilitate the passeage over the network-
of trenches. The order had been
given not to stop in any trench, but to
pass over and take the enemy in the
rear.
Entire Earthwork Collapse.
'Three lines of trenches were thus
cleared of the Germans. Those who
sought refuge in the underground
shelters perished from suffocation
throusrh the collapse of the entire
earthworks.
"Toward 3 o'clock on April 5 the
enemy attempted to counter-attack,
supported by a heavy artillery fire,
which was neutralized by our batteries.
Our attack was renewed the following
dav. and developed into a furious hand
to-hand struggle with grenades and
cold steel in the narrow lines of
trenches. The enemy offered such re
sistance that the order was given to
evacuate part of the ground that had
been gained. This was then bombarded
until the enemy was obliged to retire.
We then held the three main line
trenches of the Ailly woods.
"The enemy's losses were heavy. We
counted 200 dead on the evening of the
5th and on the evening of the 6th we
found the dead piled in three rows.
Every Inch of Ground la Ch.on.
Durlne the 7th and 8th we repulsed
elKht counter-attacks. The enemy suc
ceeded in entering one trencn. Dut was
unable to hold it. Of the Ailly woods
there remained nothing but a few
hacked trunks and not an inch of
ground in it that had not been turned
up by explosives. In the strange chaos
stones corpes and debris of limbs lay
mingled.
At 5:30 o'clock on April 8 an In
tensive bombardment by the enemy
was beeun. In 90 minutes on this cor
ner of the woods, over a front of from
350 to 400 yards deep. 20,000 shells
were fired. They included all calibers
from four to eight-inch. The entire
hill disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
All communications were cut during
this time, and when tbe lire ceased
manv men were mentally deranged
They had to be removed and required
several days lor recovery.
'Asrain on April 10 and April 13 our
attacks were renewed, resulting in the
gain of the remainder of the position in
Ailly woods. six lierman companies,
besides the garrison in the fort, were
annihilated In these engagements."
"You Can Do Better for Less on Third Street
Boycott by Salem Band Cnion Pends.
SALEM. Or., April 24. (Special.)
Heads of Salem Musicians' Union today
announced that unless the band com
posed of employes of the Portland. Eu
irene & Eastern Railroad discontinued
competing with the Salem Union band,
the union would boycott the railroad.
It was reported that the railway band
probably would affiliate with a frater
nal order and not charge for music In
future.
Monroe Now Has Jitney Service.
MONROE,' Or., April 24. (Special.)
The jitney has invaded Monroe and no
less than half a dozen autos now are
at the beck and call of the public for
trips' anywhere at reduced rates, much
to the chagrin of the railroad people
and liverymen.
President of Republic Declared . to
Have Accorded to All But Seven
of Japan's SI Demands.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 24. An ap
peal to The Hague tribunal to aid
China in resisting the 21 demands
made by Japan is to be cabled tonight
by the Chinese Six Companies, accord
ing to leaders of the organization..
The message was drafted and adopted
at a recent secret mass meeting of
Chinese. It purports to represent the
sentiments of . the Six Companies
throughout North and South America.
The translated message sets out that
the Integrity and sovereignty . of
China is at stake, that there is at
present in China no . representative
government and that the President of
China is keeping the Chinese people
in the dark as to the number and the
nature of the demands.
The cablegram relates further that
the President of China is taking no
one into his confidence In the Japanese-Chinese
negotiations and charges
that Yuan Shl-Kal is ready to accede
to the Japanese demands which the
cablegram says are 21 in number. The
appeal, which Is signed by the six
separate presidents of the Six Com
panies, -characterizes the present Japanese-Chinese
situation as a "crisis"
and pleads for the help of The Hague
tribunal. .
Dispatches received today . from
Pekln by two Chinese newspapers hee
.say that the Japanese demandsfan
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FAC
ULTY MEMBER TO SPEAK
TO PORTLAND MEN.
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F". G. VoDBff.
"Manufacturing in Oregon" will
be the topic on. which Professor
F. G. Young, of the University of
Oregon, will speak at the Thursday-
meeting of the Progressive
Business Men's Club.
Mr. Young Is an expert student
of the manufacturing problem,
now one uppermost In the mind
of the business man who sees
what Portland needs greatly now
and in the future is manufactur
ing plants. W. J. Sheehy will act
as chairman of the day.
Her Chief Glory.
Exchange.
Next to war, the worst thing
frowzy-headed woman.
Is
Hart Schaf fner & Marx
Varsity Fifty Five in the
New Glen Urquhart Plaids
YOU'D expect that these great
clothesmakers would have all the
best things in fabrics; and you can
choose your clothes from a great vari
ety of good weaves.
Fine imported English and Scotch
cloths, as well as the best from Amer
ica; and the new patterns in tartans; in
club and shepherd checks; in regatta
stripes; and the, popular Glen Urqu-harts..
You"1 Learn the Economy of Paying $25
if You Pay It for One of These Suits
Sam'l Rosenblatt & Co.
Capright Rrt ScWfwt Ji Mrs
The Men's Shop for
Quality and Service.
Northwest Corner
Third and Morrison.
CENSORS STIR IRE
German Socialist Protests
Against Unjust Acts.
GRAVE DANGER FORESEEN
Even Reprinting of Attack on Eng
lish Censors by Ixndon Paper
Is Forbidden Criticism of
Czar Is Ruled Out.
rnPENHAGEN. April 3. (Corre
spondence of the Associated Press.)
ti,. n.ini)en here have" obtained
of the official report of the de
bate in the German Keicnsias un "
imnertal budget, including the text of
...h maria bv the Socialist uep
t,. ciadihucen. which the military
censors refused to allow the German
n9Mra to publish. The speech
deals entirely with the German press
censorship. Stadthagen said in part:
"From all parts of the country come
i-nr,n- nrotests against the severity.
the inequality, ..the Injustice, the inef
: A tHA cpriMnrnhin. The mill
. hove made the whole of
v,. nr-inint nress a. target for their
malicious attackswhich are not Jn
...H m nr.BPTva military secrets,
but to suppress the free discussion of
miutinni in reeard to which the peo
pie of Germany have the fullest right
to express ineir opmiuu. i
Price Protest Brings Suppression.
"The Volkszeitung. our local organ
at Danzig; was suppressed for Baying
that thr was no danger of a famln
but that the price of manj
npcfisirlra of lifer was too high for
the working classes and Imposed con
siderable hardships on them. At io
nie-Rhere our local daily paper was
suppressed for saying that the vlcto
ries won by the German army were
due to the fact that universal manhood
suffrage exists In Germany and to the
right possessed by German workmen to
combine in trade unions or in political
associations.
"At Kattowltz our paper, the Frele
Presse, had always appeared at
o'clock In the afternoon, but the mil
ltary censor there insisted on seeing
all the proofs before publication and
then declared that he had no time to
read them before 3 o'clock, with the
result that the publication of the paper
had to be oelayed until some hour of
the evening, sometimes later, accorq
lng to the whim or tne august om-
clul who wieiaea epwi.w " - j
those regions.
Reports of Atrocities Protested.
"The Vorwaerts received a warning
from the military authorities Decauso
it protested against wildly sensational
reports of English atrocities on Ger
man prisoners, on the ground that
such reports stimulated public en
thusiasm for the war and hence to
discredit them meant diminishing en
thusiasm for the war. When tne vor
waerts protested against the publica
tion of a report that tne merman arms
had captured Belfort and seven b rencn
nrmv corns (about 350.000 men) at one
stroke, the military authorities in Ber
lin warned the editor tnat ne was aoin
a puollc disservice arm idu
paper to the penalty or suppression.
The Vorwaerts was not allowed to re
ply to attacks made on it by another
Berlin paper, the Neueste Nachrlchten.
which Is a Conservative organ, al
though this Journal has been permitted
to libel the Vorwaerts In the grossest
terms of abuse.
"On another occasion tne vorwaerts
was not allowed to publish a speech
made In the Berlin Town Council by
Herr Wurum, in which the authorities
warn ured to prevent the prices of
necessary commodities of everyday life
from being raised above a certain level.
Attack on British Censor Forbidden.
"We were even forbidden to reprint
an attack on the Bnglish censors pub
lished by the London weekly paper,
Truth. The Vorwaerts was forbidden
to nubllsh an article saying that the
destruction of the despotism of the
Czar would be a blessing to the Rus
slan people; doubtless our astute cen
sors thought this was an indirect h
at the German Emperor. The Vor
waerts was not allowed to publish
speech made by the English member
of Parliament. Ramsay Macdonald. In
which Macdonald spoke against the
war. and other anti-war utterances
made In England were likewise sup
pressed. Why?
"These are only a few cases selected
from many of which we know, but
they suffice to show that the censor
ship is badly administered, inefficient
ly conducted and unjustly balanced, so
that energetic measures should be
taken by the supreme authorities to
remedy what Is really a grave danger
to the welfare of the German nation.
boats and a motorboat were at work
all day today, making a syttteniatiu
drag with barb-wire. The boily of
Charles Cole had not hern located at a
laie hour today.
M'KENZIE VICTIM FOUND
Body of H. A. Tronson Regained,
but Companion's Vet Is Missing.
EUGENE, Or.. April 24. (Special.)
Th bodv of HagKbert A. Tronson, the
19--year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. O,
Tronson. 107 North Lawrence street,
wo found In the McKenzie River to
day. and was brought to Eugene late
this afternoon for burial in Eugene.
Tronson was drowned Thursday with
Charles Cole, of Coburg. when their
hnat cansized in the river two miles
. from CoburK.
j A crew of BO men with severs 1 row-
how Your.
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Mora! Backbone
Commercial depressions are Caused by mental sus
pense. Fear and mental suspense among business men
come from decreased business.
Decreased business comes when YOU reduce your
purchases.
This country established for five centuries isn't
going to the bow-wows in a day nor in a decade.
Show you've got moral courage, backbone, faith in
your country, your fellow men and yourself and Buy
Now instead of hesitating and help business pick up.
Then will return the time of smiles and sunshine.
uy-It-Now
B
Tula 1m the time of all times
for the V. S. A. to make vast
strides. Let's all get busy.
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